I arrived in Singapore to work with researchers at NUS for a few days and define and start research in some areas in this August/Sept when I will be here for a longer period.
 Travel on long distance flights is niceer now that they have much better entertainment facilities. I end up catching-up on my movies a bit. This trip I saw a nicely made movie about people like me from India in US. This movie, Namesake, is really well made and is worth seeing.
I am waiting for the day — hopefully soon — when they will offer Internet also as commonly. It is available on very few flights currently. Internet should become common on flights longer than 5-6 hours. That will definitely make the trips less arduous.
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