Project Love - PC Family Programme

On 26th Feb, our school studies club organised PC Family Programme on campus! This programme works with NorthEast Community Development Council to help needy children learn baisc skills in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint. Informatics & IT school's students have volunteered to help be the 'teachers' and also organise a funfair for the children and their family. Interactive Media Informatics had a few volunteers who set up a game booth for the funfair. The children had to use a pair of chopsticks to pick up a pingpong ball and walk to another bowl to place it there. They had a lot of fun and many of them kept coming back to our booth to play. A successful ball would equals to one ticket and there was a prize redemption booth. Our helpers had fun interacting with the children and teaching them how to use a chopstick! Also Yu Ling, Rina & Dane from Interactive Media Informatics designed all the posters used in this project!

One of the many posters designed by our students!

Group photo of all the helpers with GOH, Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed

Yu Ling & Rina serving food to our guests

One of the families whose children played our booth many times.

Look at his determined face to pick up the ping pong ball!

One of the children with a very focused face and her mother watching behind

Picking ping pong balls with chopsticks at our booth!

SIP Experience from Avril!

Hello all my dear juniors!

Avril here writing on the IMI blog for the first time! The lovely Miss Faridah approached me recently to ask me to blog about my SIP experience and here I am.

For those of you approaching Year 3 and being seniors soon or even freshman and juniors here’s an insight to what it may be like for you. =D

The company I got assigned to was a small company. And when I mean small, its like REALLY small. There was just my bosses and me. That was it. Oh and one other part time admin staff as well.

It’s a tuition centre and a tuition agency. So I was assigned to be their graphic designer. I basically helped to brand the company and give it its corporate identity.

One of the first things I did was to come up with a logo for the company.

And I created many flyers, name cards and helped with the modifications of their websites.

Those were some of the stuff that I did.

During my SIP, I’ve definitely worked hard. Sometimes pulling 12 hours shifts and working on weekends. We’ve had road shows and flyer distributions too!

Being in a small company is a good thing for me. It means that I don’t do just my job scope and that’s that. I had to take the initiative to do things that were new to me and were out of my comfort zone. But I am proud of myself to have achieved that.

So don’t be scared to experience new things during your internship journey. It’s definitely an experience you’ll never forget. Plus you’ll definitely learn many new things during the whole internship. Be it software skills or people skills.

The internship definitely opens up your eyes to the working world and gets you ready for it. But all work and no play makes life and your job a boring one.

During my time with the company, I’ve worked hard and I can definitely say that I’ve had fun outings with the company as well. We’ve gone out for dinners together to shop for Chinese New Year decorations for the office and also to celebrate one of the bosses’ birthday! We’ve even visited pet stores during our lunch break for a little pet therapy!

Here are some of the photos during those fun times.

Playing with one of the cute puppies running around the pet store.

Fooling around the with the Chinese new year decorations while shopping for them.

Standing next to the company’s logo that was created by yours truly.

The birthday boy with his cake

And a group photo of us!

There you go! Pictures of some of the outings we’ve had.

During the Internship, you’ll feel that it’s tiring and tedious to work every day, but nothing compares when you see that you’ve contributed and made a significant change to the company.

So approach your SIP experience with an open mind and embrace whatever opportunities that are thrown to you. Remember to take the initiative and do the tasks that are given to you properly. Make yourself be proud of your work.

Viola!

And with that I’ve imparted my internship knowledge and experience to you and I hope you enjoy yours too when the time comes.

I’m off to watch Gossip Girl now and relax.

Xoxo

Avril





SMU's visit & Admission Talk

Our students posing for the camera during the talk!

Former TP students sharing their experience as an SMU student!

Our students discussing about the course structure!

Campus in town!

Our IMI group photo in front of SMU!

The map that saved us from getting lost!

On 8th February, some of the IMI students went for a trip to Singapore Management University for a visit and an admissions talk.


Upon reaching the university campus, we were directed to a seminar room where we were greeted by three SMU students who were from Temasek Poly. They gave an introduction to university life and shared their experience with us about the courses they have chosen. Some of the sch life they shared was that they have to actively participate in all their classes as participation takes about 20% of the coursework. Each student had their own card with their name to place it in front of them each class for participation marks!

Apart from listening about student life in SMU, we were also introduced to the course structure of the curriculum offered in SMU, and the variety of CCAs available. Students are encouraged to take up many CCAs and one of them had 5 CCAs!

After the short briefing in the seminar room, we were taken for a tour around the SMU campus. The different schools are connected by an underground network – we could have gotten lost if not for the map!

How Addictive are you?

Hey everyone, it is me, Hikaru, again. Sorry for the extremely slow updates that we are putting up. Recently, most of us are busy with our assignments. We will increase our post frequency after the semester break kicks in.

Ok! Let us get into topic nowxzxzxzxz. Well, have you ever thought about yourself being addicted to something?

Here are some information. When someone is addicted to something, he/she will be very agitated about it. This person will also slowly lost patience to anything around them.

The awesome M blogger and I went to listen to a talk hosted by Mr. Puden Tsang, Project Manager of Rie ink company. He gave us a talk on Alcoholic Addiction and Smoking Addiction - alcohol and smoking can be harmful to us if we take in more than expected limits which our bodies can take.

Before heading into the main topic, Puden played a little game with us and let us do a quiz to see how addictive we are. The more points you have, the more addictive you are.

Here is Ms Farida introducing the guest speaker Mr Puden Tsang (on the right)

The Addictive Traits.

In the talk, Puden told us about how drinking too much alcohol will cause many health problems to our body. The average drink per day for female is just 1 glass while the average drink per day for male are 2~3 glasses. He also stated that more and more youths have started drinking recently and the youngest age for a youth to start drinking is 12 years old. That is a very young for a teenager to start drinking. Well this doesn't mean that you can't drink at all. You can, but do it in moderation.

The effect of drinking.

After that, he goes on by telling us the percentage of alcohol that will be in our bloodstream when we drink. Each glass of beer consist of 0.02% alcohol content which are quite high.

Hence, if you want to drink, drink responsibly. Do also take note of your health by drinking less. And also, each alcohol contain almost the same amount of calories as the food we take everyday.
So if you don't wanna get fat, then stop drinking and keep yourself healthy.

It is important to drink responsibly.

Amount of Calories in each Alcohol.

During the talk, we also learned about the negative side effect of smoking. I know that you people already know the side effect of smoking, however, there are still people who are smoking. Some may even take in more than 5 sticks of cigarette per day which is dangerous for the health. Smoking can only make us feel good for a short moment and over do it, you may get cancers such as lung cancers.

In my opinion, I think that everyone wants to live long and enjoy their time with their families and loved ones. If your family members or your friends smoke, it would be best to encourage them not to.

A short activity during the talk.

Well, that's all folks. Stay tune for our next post which is near Valentine Day. =)

The IMI Bloggers and the guest speakers.