IAP at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore

The yoda statue is just in front of the main entrance

I was posted to Lucasfilm Animation Singapore for my Industrial Attachment Programme (IAP) after an interview held by the company. There, I was assigned to the IT department as desktop support. As a desktop support, I was required to man the IT helpline, process the back-up tapes weekly and manage the electronic equipment. I was also told by my desktop support colleagues to report problems or mistakes as they will need to correct it.

Manning the IT helpline meant that I would have to consult my colleagues if the caller reported something that was beyond my expertise. But most of the time, with experience, the problems reported could easily be solved.

Managing the electronic equipment consisted of cloning images onto new computers, setting up workstations for new staff and guests, solving computer related problems for colleagues, calibrating CRT monitors according to a schedule and keeping track of the different equipment by inputting their properties and location into an online asset database amongst other tasks. Of which, the last task was related to my IT Service Management specialization.


From left: Stanley(NYP intern), CJ(Desktop support specialist)& myself

It was a real eye-opener working in an informal office environment. Many things intrigued me; like the data centre, the impressive specifications of the workstations when compared to home PCs and the calibration equipment. I also saw how a corporate asset database was like. The working environment was a relatively informal one, with my supervisor chatting with us interns at times and the staff being allowed to dress casually.

The staff was well bonded as we took part in activities during and after working hours. Even some head of departments took part in soccer games held almost every week.

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IAP at Singtel ComCentre

My experience over at SingTel ComCentre has been a splendid one. I was assigned to Marketing Communications department, in short Marcom.

Basically, my department targets on corporate customers. Small Medium Enterprise (SME) targets to capture more customers with advertisements on different promotions of SingTel plans to be catered to the corporate customers. I looked out for advertisements in past old papers to be reviewed again.

Events are frequently organized for our loyal corporate customers. I helped out in two events. They are SingTel Movie Under The Stars and SingTel 10th Golf Day. These two events allowed me to see that business are not only built on just business alone, but also relationship between people. Allowing me to experience a work hard and play hard mentality.

Marcom department is also in charge of designing corporate gifts to be given to customers. During my internship, I help out in consolidating the orders of Moon cakes gifts. During my last few weeks of my internship, my colleagues and I were trying out chocolates and log cakes for the coming Christmas festival. Packaging, chocolates and cakes were revised over and over again to ensure that these Christmas gifts are of good quality to be given to the corporate customers.

I was given the honour to design a farewell gift for the Corporate Business Marketing Vice President. I did a collage with photos of him attending past events, the years he was with Corporate Business Marketing.

I also have created an online library for my department. This online library allows user to search for images. As my supervisor, a Creative Manager purchased a lot of Loyalty Free images CD. My job is to help her to filter the images into different categories and upload it on Microsoft Sharepoint. This allows user-friendly search. It works like deviantart, corbis, etc.

I believe this internship journey of mine has been an enriching one. I look forward to working with them again.

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Dalian's Update on OIPP

On the day of China National Day, we went to the XingHai Square and XingHai Castle. We had to walk up the long stairs which are like the miniature of Great Wall of China to reach the top of the castle. The Shell Museum is located on top of the castle and we had taken a lot of pictures on the mountain. We went to the HaoLeDi KTV at night. It was very grand such that it looked more like a hotel than a KTV. As the English Support Team would start reporting to work on the same week and we are separated into 2 shifts, we had enjoyed ourselves and cherished the time that all the 7 of us had spent together.


Xinghai Castle

Annually, Hewlett-Packard would organize activities for all of the employees. This year, we get to join the full time staffs of English Support Team to go to the theme park in Dalian, Discovery Kingdom. It is located at the north-eastern side of Dalian, which we took around 2 hours of bus ride from company. The theme park is huge and it is separated into different themes, such as green forest, castle, desert, etc. We tried many of the rides and, enjoyed the cooling weather and magnificent scenery. We had such an enjoyable time that the day shift team gets to join their department to Discovery Kingdom for the second time on another week. On the same day, Marcus and Samantha’s mentor, Zheng Ling Cheng, treated us to dinner at a Korean barbeque restaurant. The food was superb and one of our favorite dishes was the black pepper mutton.



Discovery Kingdom

On 28th October, the weather was freezing and we saw our very ‘first snow’ from our own apartment. Actually, it was not snow that was falling but was small, little flakes of ice. The temperature on that day was 1°C with a wind chill of -6°C at 35km/h speed. We also noticed that the hill behind our apartment has changed its colour from green to brown.


The day that it snowed

As the winter is drawing nearer, the weather in Dalian is getting colder and colder.

Let's look forward to more updates from the 7 dalian's oipp nypians.=)

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Dragonboat Tragedy

We are very sad by the news of Singaporeans in the tragic dragon boat accident in Cambodia. Unfortunately, three of the deceased were previous graduates of Nanyang Polytechnic.

They are:

- Poh Boon San (Diploma in Multimedia & Infocomm Technology)
- Jeremy Goh Tze Xiong (Diploma in Electronics, Computer & Communications Engineering)
- Reuben Kee (Diploma in Digital Media Design)

We're sending our deepest heartfelt condolences to their families.

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Last day of FYP at S.446

Students of lab S.446 marks their final day of FYP with presentation and happily ended the day with little gifts from DTs. Wish all the students best of luck at their IAP company. Hope they make good use of the time there to learn alot of new things.

All of them with the manniquin.

That's Charles on the front and Jian Sheng at the back doing their presentation with Mr Khoo (their supervisor).

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The MIG lab - end of project, start of IAP

23.11.07 marks the last day of their attachment and start of their IAP.


Weiqiang, Tionghui, Shurn and Peter with their project supervisor - Mr Michael Wee.



The gals VC the guys of lab s.435 =)



Im sure they left themselves wonderful memories of the lab,
Let's all wish them good luck for their IAP, their last 3 months of industrial experience before they graduate =)

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