We were there last week for the "look and see" trip and accomplished quite a few things during our five day stay:
1.) We had our papers stamped by the Ministry of Manpower. The cards for Earl's employment pass and my dependent pass were released this week.
2.) Opened a bank account with DBS.
3.) Found an apartment to rent.
That last bit has gotten me so excited that it's all I can think of at the moment.
To give a brief background, earlier this month Earl's office recommended a property agent, Victor Nai, and I sent him a rather lengthy email describing the type of unit we had in mind. We agreed to a meet up just so that he could give us an idea of what apartments look like in the areas we were interested in. The plan was to seriously start searching for a place next month, so we didn't expect to find one so soon.
Since we are still at the start of the rental process, details of the apartment hunt will be in another post, but here's a picture of the building which I got off the Internet:
