Youth Expedition to Cambodia

Hi Everyone, Oma from admin office is co-leading a youth expedition to Cambodia in March. If you are keen to find out more, do attend their informational talk on this Wednesday at 2pm in S305. This trip will be to Phnom Penh and you will be working at an orphanage and a widow's colony. You can help by teaching IT, Maths and English. There will also be sports, games and dances as part of the cultural exchange.

Find out more from their website.

Tips for NAPFA

As a Year 3 MIT student in NYP, I’m going to serve National Service (NS) next year, as do other year 3 students. Guess what? We students tend to neglect our fitness, especially those who are in non-exercising CCAs or worst still, no CCAs.

Here are some small little tips which I like to share with you, they are simple and convenient to do, and could aid you in your NAPFA training:

1. Pretend that your school has no lift - This is what I’m doing now. Every morning I have to go to level 6 to look for my supervisor to sign my attendance (as I’m having my final year project now). I walk up the stairs from level 2 to level 6 and then walk all the way down to level 3 and go to my lab.

2. Control your diet - This is not going to be another “diet meal” or ask-you-not-to-eat-anything tip. It’s very simple. Just avoid eating fast food such as Mac everyday. Or rather, don’t eat them so often! I got friends who eat Mac 3 to 4 times a week.

3. Do a bit of simple work-out during your break, before having your lunch - NO! This is not asking you to sweat it all out and then go and binge. It’s just a simple workout. For example, if you’re in NYP like I do, there are pull-up bars outside most of the lecture theatres. When I walk past one of them during my break-time & before lunch, I’ll go and do some pull ups and try my best to do as many as possible; that’s it! So simple ;D

4. Exercise - If jogging alone is too boring for you, find your friends and play some games! Be it badminton, basketball, soccer or whatever it is! As long as it could make you sweat through you putting in some effort, it will do.

5. Do a number of push ups daily - This is obvious, I believe that most people are doing that already.

By following all these small little tips, you’ll be really surprised when you see the outcome after you actually take the NAPFA test. ;p

If you find that there are actually more things that we could do to aid us in training for NAPFA, please feel free to share it with all others by putting them in the “COMMENTS” section. I will go and approve it, of course. (:

Cheerios!

MIT on FaceBook

Finally got down to creating a group in FB for our diploma. So whether you are a current student or alumni, please feel free to join the MIT family online. MIT@NYP in FB .. see you there :)

MI0605

Always wanted to write a post on my personal mentor group (MI0605), 'MI' being MIT students, '06' being the year they enrolled and '05' the fifth class of that year. These students whom I have been guiding (Hopefully :)), providing support (I did, right ?) & counsel (You know who you are ..) throughout their learning journey have grown and mature from tentative freshmen to confident final year students.

This month, my class rep, Wee Neng, celebrated his 21st birthday ... wow ... reaching 21 years old is indeed a significant milestone in one's life. MI0605 organised a surprise birthday bash for him with a giant 'key' cake. What a loving gesture ! (Heh Wee Neng - "Trust you will remember your friends and yours truly for a long time to come.")

From Outside the LT

Choosing Electives : Choose Wisely

Hi Year 1 Students, by now you have already been briefed on the course changes that will impact you in AY09. In a nutshell, Michael has explained to you that in Year 2, you will be able to select 4 "Prescribed Electives". What this means is that YOU can choose the modules that you would like to study. Isn't that great ? Yeah !!! Here are Michael's slides for your reference.

Hi Year 2 Students, you have also been briefed by yours truly here that it is time to choose your P5 Elective/Specialisation. Here are my slides for your reference.

As I mentioned to you, seek good counsel and choose wisely.

PS: Here are some briefing photos :)

Year 1s around Michael

From Outside the LT

Year 2s

From Outside the LT

Young Hearts of Gold

On November 29, 500 senior citizens from 13 different areas over Singapore gathered here in our own campus at the North canteen. This Senior Citizen Party was a joint effort betwen NYP and the Lions Befrienders.

Activites like Bingo game, dancing, singing and lunch were lined up that afternoon to keep the elderly folks entertained. There were volunteers, NYP staff helpers and student volunteers to facilitate the event. It was actually great to see our young ones getting in touch with the senior citizens. Very inspiring and heartwarming.


Group Photo

Click here to view more pictures and to read the opinions of one of our DMIT alumni. Hope to see more of you students volunteering for events like this in the future. Pass on the love! :D

NYP has talent! You might be one of them!!

Missed out Superstar?? Singapore Idol?? Super Band??
Whining to your friends about how unfortunate polytechnic students
are not qualified to join Campus Superstar?

Well... Fret not!!

Here’s an open opportunity placed right before you! To impress us with what you’ve got!!

NYP is organizing an in-house talent competition..

If you think you are born for singing, dancing, making people laugh,
either as an individual or in a group.. Well, the stage is all yours!
Don’t hide in your bathroom or jamming studio any more.
Join the audition and STUND the judges till their jaws drop to the floor!

All you need to do is to prepare a 4-minute act and join the audition.

Sign up by this Friday (only two days away) 5^th December.
Login to “My NYP Portal” for more registration details.

ATTRACTIVE prizes to be won!!

Psycho your friends along!!

News Flash : DMIT Curriculum

OLT just learnt that the DMIT curriculum has just undergone a significant structural change. This is supposed to take impact in AY09. There seems to be more options now for students to choose the modules that they would like to study. OLT understand that this information would be announced to the student body next week. Stay tuned and stay cool :)

Our FYP Student thoughts... ...

It's the end of the 3rd week for our new batch of FYP students in S.446. In these 3 weeks, i'm sure students here have gotten used to the lab's working environment and they are cleared of what they are supposed to do for their FYP.

The OLT paparazzi team caught up with few of the students and here their thoughts and brief description of their projects. wanna find out more on what they actually have to do for their FYP? read on peeps...

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Project Supervisor: Mr Fauzan

LiMin:
For our project, Yamuna and I will be working closely together to create a website based on the concept of Who Lives Near You online social networking, This new service allows students to interact and get to know their schoolmates better from the different diploma. Here’s how it works. Firstly, users can register for free with their personal student admission number through our Happening@NYP website. Next, they will log in to e-Service to meet other members in their same course of study. From there, others will be able to see which course and specialization you are in.

Users can also customize their personal profiles, search for other members according to interests or hobbies, or chat in a virtual forum with their schoolmates. Apart from that, my project partner, Yamuna, and I will create an e-market garage sales site. This site also allows students to give comments and feedback on the design and the latest fashion trends.


Yamuna:
This is the 3rd third week into my Final Year Project. For the past 2 weeks, I did some research and findings on my project. For next two and the half weeks, Limin and I have to come up with basic applications required in the project. We have done some flash animation that we will be using for later part of the project. As for now, I’m working on the home, login and sign-up pages using ASP.NET. Next week, we will start on the profile page and other features related to the project.

Contributed by Limin & Yamuna

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Project Supervisor: Ms Kau

Madeleine:

After twelve weeks of IAP, went back school to continue another twelve weeks of FYP. I was posted to ISG lab at S.446. I am assigned to Ms. Kau. On my 1st day of FYP, I was given a chance to choose what project I want to work on. And I chose to do a project on PHP. During the 1st and 2nd week, did some reading on PHP as well as get familiarized with the tools in Dreamweaver with PHP. In the project room for the ISG group, we have 6 DTs with us. The project room has a bird-cage structure and all the computers are placed round it, thus to know everyone in the room is quite difficult. Everyone is kind of engrossed in their respective projects. But I got to know a few of the students there as they are my friend’s friend. And through them, I’ve made many new friends.

Contributed by Madeleine

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Project Supervisor: Mr David Tang

Qian Yu:
From the 1st week of my FYP until now, I had been doing some research and practicing on creating several web forms according to 2 NYP website using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition as told by my supervisor, Mr. David Tang. Besides that, I viewed some online tutorial videos which taught me how to use the program, Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I will be using this program to create databases for my project. These online videos are very useful. I am able to learn how to create, manage and connect to SQL Server Express Databases.

Contributed by Qian Yu

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Project Supervisor: Mr Gan

Tong Ying:
This is the 3rd week into my FYP. I am currently working on a project for my supervisor, Mr Gan. I have to create a 3D landscape model using Cinema 4D. The landscape must include features like human artifact. I find this project quite interesting as it is part of my interest in doing graphic related stuff. Now I have started to plan on the landscape and doing more research on related topics. Collecting images to modify from and to think of where to place the water features inside the landscape. Hopefully I am able to finish the planning on the landscape and start to create it next week.

Contributed by Tong Ying

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Project Supervisor: Mr Banson Wan

Xue Cheng:
When I first time reach ISG lab, rules are being told by the DT, as one of the rule of this lab was to inform any of the DT in the lab our whereabouts. My first thought was that the rules of this lab were strict, but it seems that reality is not what I thought in first place.

Then again the rules are just there to make the environment more suitable for studies. Imagine there are no rules for the lab, students might be coming in late or go off early, as and when they want. The DTs here are all friendly and helpful and they will be helping us when we have any problem, irregardless of miscellaneous stuff like configuration of computer setting or problems we encounter during our project.

Apart from the project supervisor we being assigned, they be the one helping us along till the end of our project. We should be glad that they are willing to fork out some time to guide us in our project. During the first week, I had been looking for information on PHP as my project is using PHP to create a Time allocation timetable. In the second week, I start making my website template layout using Dreamweaver. Starting from this week, I had started some PHP coding with guidance from my supervisor Mr. Benson Wan.

Contributed by Xue Cheng

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Project Supervisor: Mr Chan

Yi Ling:
The environment in our lab is kind of intense, because everyone seems to be so concentrated on the work they are being assigned to, but in a way, it also acts as a kind of motivation. We've quite a number of DTs in the lab and they're nice and helpful, at least they're not very strict and don't scold us when we do something wrong.

The project I’m assigned to is related to some video streaming whereby I’ve to capture video and upload it to the server and share it with other users. I’m still at the midst of working on it and hopefully I’d finish it successfully.

Contributed by Yi Ling

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Project Supervisor: Mr Kwan

Soon Tong:
I’m currently undergoing my FYP in S.446, the lab where they have a makeshift surround sound system (I think) in the center of the lab. It was quite a learning curve when I found out that for my project. I'm suppose to traverse into uncharted territory by learning this coding called ColdFusion so as to create a course management system. The designing of the database is massacring my brain cells too, with more casualties to come when I reach the programming phase. Hope I can make it through this project unscathed.

Contributed by Soon Tong

2 week Term Break starts next week

Time flies. Term break starts next week for 2 weeks and it's time to roll up your sleeves and study hard! In the midst of enjoying the break, those who have to take Common Test after the term break should start planning for revision during this break. A good 2 weeks' break is wonderful to catch up with the workload falling behind and to study for the upcoming common test.

Enjoy the break and the studying. Not forgetting the rest as well.
Good luck on the revision.