All Ready to Fly

Yesterday we (Me and Darren) were successfully obtained the Japan Student Visa. It is eligible for us to stay for one year in Japan. It is really faster than expected..

Tada! Our visas.

Straight after the collection of visa, I went to China Town to change another sum of SGD to JPY. I am all ready for the flight to Japan in 14 more hours time. It was really a good experience.

Today I will finalize everything I had and I am ready to go.

Confirmed Itinerary

Yesterday, myself and Darren went to Japanese Embassy at Nassim Road to apply for our visa. We went out early in the morning to find the way, and worried that if we go later we will have long queue.

We arrived at the embassy at around 10am and the guard gave us the pass, and took queue numbers, and I was quite impressed by their efficiency. This is Singapore. =) The happiest news that I knew is that, Our Visas will be ready on 18 March (Thurs)! Wow! It is totally unexpected! Thank God for his arrangement.

Now, finally, and finally.. The itinerary is confirmed:
Flight SQ618
Venue: Changi Airport (T3)
Time: 1.10am - 7.20am

Now travelling documents are ready, now what I have to do is to pack things up. Ready for Japan!

Documents arrived!

As stated in Darren's blog, we have received our CESR certificate and we are ready to apply for the visa. We are all ready now and when I arrived at SG on Monday, we could go apply for it on Tuesday.

When we go there, we will take our flight tickets and try to negotiate with the Embassy people to process slightly faster in view of our situations. Hopefully all go well.

Koji has also agreed to accommodate us with the possible change of flight dates. Now we are not so worry about the time constraints already.

Prepare for the adventure and excitement after those mundane stuffs in Singapore!

Finally...

As stated.. FINALLY..... the CESR documents were received by Osaka University!
Ms. Sasaki Yoko has made a call to Darren on Wednesday (10 March) morning told him that she will be sending us the CESR to Singapore and it will take ideally 2 days.

If the letter really reached in 2 days, that means, it will arrive today (Friday, 12 March). Latest will be arriving on Monday. I will be reaching SG on Monday evening, which means we will be going to apply visa on Tuesday morning (16 March), 3 days for visa = 19 March.

However, we will try to ask for special consideration due to our flight ticket, I hope we could really get special attention by the Embassy.

Really want to appreciate Darren who is all the way helping me during the process and also willing to offer his place for me in these few days.

I truly hope after this, we will ENJOY our SEP over there at Osaka!!

Travel plan: 26 - 30 May @ Kyoto!
Remaining days to Osaka: 7 days

Franco

Remaining days to wait before do something...

I have counted the remaining days.
We have 13 days left to Osaka.
If we subtract the 2 days needed for the COE to arrive Singapore (EMS), we have 11 days left;
If we subtract the 3 days of visa application, we have 8 days left;
If we consider the 4 weekends (Sat and Sun), which are the non-working days for issuing of Visa and posting of COE, we have 4 more days left;

Provided that the COE really takes 2 days to arrive SG, if we allow 1 or 2 days offset for both COE and Visa. We have 1 or 2 days left to wait.

We can only wait at most until Next Monday（三月八日） for the CESR..
IF NOT..... SIAO LIAO LA!!!!!!!!
えらいごっちゃや～

The end.

Written with pissed condition,
Franco

CESR Application

Just checked the post tracking today and knew that the my photographs and forms were successfully delivered to Osaka University.

It is now left to decide the date for which I will go to Singapore to do the Visa. All have to wait is to receive the successfully applied CESR Form in Singapore.

Tentatively, the date is 25 February to 6 March 2010. Let's see how it goes...

On 10 March 2010, I will have to check the KOAN System for module timetable, but have to tell Prof. Kawahara so that I could register it manually.

As for accommodation, I am still waiting for a great place with reasonable price, hope I could get it done as soon as possible.

JASSO Scholarship, I am going to get you! You better watch out!


Franco