Today I pimped my room a little bit by hanging some posters onto the wall. Immediately it looks better :-)

Singapore - My Home

In the afternoon I went to Little India in the center of Singapore. It's full of small colerful houses, dirty streets and it's really busy. Ok, Singapore is busy everywhere, but Little India is like beeing in another place. They have their own shopping malls there, where you can buy Sarees and lots of golden jewels for Indish weddings. It's not the part of the city where Europeans feel comfortable, but it was interesting to see it.

Singapore - Walk through little India and Raffles Place

I've moved in in my new room where I will finally stay till 7th March and it's really exciting. After I packed out all of my stuff I went swimming in the pool and it feels so good.
With my flatmates I watched at America's Next Topmodel (It's even worse then Germany's...) and I think that it will turn out really funny.

At university I did some first calculations and considerations about the project I will join probabely.

And I took some pictures of the campus. Ok, most of them I took of the Design and Art School, but the building is really exciting. And I promise that I will take pictures of the rest soon.

Singapore - NTU Campus

I've got a room! I've got a room! I'VE GOT A ROOOOOOOM! *sorry*

It's so cool. The three guys I wrote about yesterday told me that I can move in tomorrow evening. I'm so happy. It seems, that they are really cool. The Swiss girl goes also climibing every now and then and I will join her next week. (Unfortunately I left my climbing stuff at home, but it should be possible to rent something.) And she will organize tickets for the gratest dance music festival in Asia at 12th December at Sentosa Island "ZoukOut 2009".

And the house itself is even better. It's a so called "Condo" (Condominium), a type of block that is built by private owners. (Normally blocks in Singapore are built by the government and are - normally - really, lets say, basic. These houses are called HDB.) And it has the full condominium amenities like:

• Swimming Pool
• Gym
  
• Fitness Studio
• Tennis Court
• Jacuzzi
• Putting Green
• and so on.

For more details and some pictures of the house you can look at this page.
You see, in the end everything is getting ok.

At university I began with making my presentation about the TUM's underwater project. I was asked to present it within the next weeks.

Students here at the university are very awestruck when they talk about TUM. It seems that it is very famouse for people from Asia.

And I forgot yesterday to enthuse about the fruit juices that are available at every corner of the city and even in the cantines at NTU. They are always freshly pressed and you can choose between about 10 different types of fruit that you can mix as you like. (0.5 liters cost about 0.30€)

Today was my second day at the university and it is my first day out of the hotel.

But everything in turn:
I yesterday came to the university in the afternoon and my Prof was really worrying about my accomodation problem. He told me, that I could stay at another (femal) Profs home till friday in order to having enough time to look for something else. And he introduced me into very kind masters students: One Indian girl and a girl and boy from singapore. The singaporians immediately actuated everything and so we had three visits of rooms yesterday. (Were they accompanied me, so that I won't get in trouble with dangerous men.) One room was very nice with a Singaporian girl and her husband and a girl from Swizzerland living there. They will tell me tomorrow at lunchtime wether it goes ok or not.
Then I was at the International Student Center at my University NTU, and they are also trying their best to find an accomodation on campus for me. They will tell me by tomorrow wether it was successfull.
Today I was the second day here at NTU and people introduced me in the different projects they do at the Robotics Research Center. There's also a Underwater Project and they are quiet interested in the sensory system I built in Munich. Maybe I can sell it to them :-D
The campus itself is SO cool. It's like a own small - well not so small - city with everything you can imagine. There is McDonalds, Subways... directly in the vicinity of my lab and there are a lot of cantines, which are really, really good. You have a choice between about ten different stores in each cantine where you can buy food from all over the world which costs between 1.00 € and 2.00 €, is freshly prepared for everyone and is SO good. I'm really amazed and I don't now why the German Mensas have to be so bad for a higher price.
So in summary I can say, it's becomming better and better here. Keep your fingers crossed that it will work with the room tomorrow.
Pictures of theUniversity will follow when I'm better accustomed to everything.

Today was the great day of visiting some rooms and didn't find any at all. But I'm still confident. Tomorrow I have another appointment. Hopefully that will work.

Besides visiting the rooms I went to Orchard road, the famouse shopping street,where everything is ecorated for christmas. It's a little bit weird to see christmas trees at 32°C. And in the shopps the sell (AND BUY!!!) down jackets. I have no idea for what. Maybe for the skiing-hall...

Below you find again pictures of the day.

Singapore - 2nd day

The first half day in Singapore is over. I'm sitting in my little bit basic hotel room with cold water shower but after all with internet and aircon. And that's what you really need here:
After I landed in Changy Airport and went out to the taxi-lodge I thought someone had hit me very badly (or in German: Es war, als hätt i a Watschn kriegt).

The flight was not so spectaculary as expectet and I saw only 1.5 films instead of 200, the meal was standard-airline-meal and nothing special, but after all I had slept 5 hours during the flight and so the jet-lag is not so bad as expectet.

After I checked in to the hotel I did a walk through the nearby areas of China Town and up to the Marina bay, through some nice parks and along of alot of food. The part of the city I saw till now seems to be a mixture of a traditional Chineese town and a huge construction side. I've made some pictures, but the internet in the hotel is not so fast. I hope I will soon find something faster....
(The pictures then will be available on:)

1st day in Singapore

... what brings me to another thing I did: looking for a room to stay for the 4 months. Tomorrow I have 3 appointments, that all sound quite ok. Hopefully one of them will match.

AND: The city is not the cleanest city in the world. Not at all! You see fags all over the streets and also chewing gums!

(To say it with Ray Wilson) Here I am, sitting at the airport...

.... and am waiting in the security area for bording.

Today was quite thrilling and also a little bit tearful.
The two ladies a thought I can live with in Singapore told me - after I asked wether it is ok for me to come visiting their rooms tomorrow - that they'd found already someone else...

But I got a veryvery lovely x-mas-tree-to-go and now that I've booked a hotel for the first nights everything looks a little bit better and kind of more chilled :-)

The plane I will be on has just landed... nice bird!

I will report you about the flight when I've checked in into my hotel tomorrow. Wish you a nice afternoon.