{"id":6896,"date":"2009-12-11T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:47:12","slug":"preflight-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/11\/preflight-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Preflight Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Packing for a working and business trip is really different from packing for a vacation. Specifically, the kind of clothes that go into luggage on a business trip aren\u2019t the same as what I\u2019d wear if I was going just to have fun i.e. I\u2019ll just dress as I please, and usually with no dress sense. I\u2019m pretty certain I\u2019ll look really like a sloppy Singaporean, especially when friends like Ann remark about how the Japanese are in general very well-dressed with good fashion sense.<\/p>\n

If the amount of clothes weren\u2019t itself a consideration, my luggage\u2019s packed now also with reference books and lecturing materials and accessories e.g. slides, projection pointers, VGA adapters, mice, thumbdrives, portable hard disk drives, and no certainly not stuff I carried with me when I was in San Francisco, Bali or Phuket. Obviously, something else had to make way: and unfortunately, it was camera equipment.<\/p>\n

This time round, the only lens I\u2019m bringing is the light weight 18-55mm, the vertical handgrip, the Gorillapod<\/a> and ballhead and a single CPL filter. Quite unlike the previous trips when about 3-4 lenses, half a dozen filters, flash guns and the Manfrotto CF tripod would usually accompany me on a trip. This will be my first time putting the \u2018pod<\/a> and the new Lowepro Fastpack 250<\/a> to field use too.<\/p>\n

\"blog-2009-kumamoto-P1010423-packing\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just as well that I\u2019m not going heavy with optical equipment since from Wikitravel, Kumamoto itself isn\u2019t exactly a touris-y city (you\u2019d have to travel well beyond the city limits for the sights) though there\u2019s still one or maybe two spots I\u2019d like to take a look if I can find the time.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah: Ling has reminded me this three times already:<\/p>\n

“Dear, when you\u2019re in Japan, don\u2019t eat McDonalds every day OK? Must try the Japanese food!”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s on account of that during the San Fran trip, I dined on fastfood everyday <\/em>LOL.<\/p>\n

In any case, the flight’s about six hours (I think), the bus trip between airport and city center another 2 hours, and another short cab ride between the city center and my hotel proper. I should be properly settled into the hotel at 1 pm on Saturday afternoon \u2013 hopefully \u2013 after which assuming that I get ready Internet access, my next blog post on arrival should appear.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Packing for a working and business trip is really different from packing for a vacation. Specifically, the kind of clothes that go into luggage on a business trip aren\u2019t the same as what I\u2019d wear if I was going just<\/p>\n

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