Last Batch of S435 students

Goodbye to the last batch of S435 students.



All the best to their future endeavours =)

And MIG lab will be shifting to another lab soon...

Cisco Express team in the Philippines

First time in PH, but have heard a lot about how friendly Filipinos are. The traffic here is really bad and you can expect to drive against the traffic in times of emergency.

In Philippines, I have worked with a lot of System Engineers and they are very friendly and helpful. One of my tasks in Philippines was to backup almost the whole of Cisco Express but to do so will require a lot of time. I work closely with them and arrange a proper schedule to do the backups.

The most important thing, welfare of Cisco staffs, was very well look after. I was given USD$60 per day to spend on food and transportation. Of course I wasn’t able to spend that much a day because I’m on-site the whole day. I ordered dine-in breakfast almost everyday and dinner on one of the day.

Apart from working in Philippines, the working environment in Cisco is very good. Cisco is ranked 6th in Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For”. We have free flow of Oreo cookies, coffee and can drinks as and when we like. The working culture in Cisco, at least for me, is that we don’t have to follow day by day tight schedule but at the end of the day, we have to finish our task(s).

In summary, I just enjoy a lot working in Cisco because I learnt a lot here too.

Cheers,
Ivan Khor
DMIT Year 3 student

Kenneth Lum (DECC), Ng Kee Way (our lecturer), Ivan Khor (DMIT)



With the Cisco team in the Philippines



The Cisco Express team from Singapore



Testing for the Cisco Express launch in the Philippines

Come and visit us at our JAE (24 to 28 Jan 08)

Except Sunday, we are available to answer your questions from 8:30 am to 5 pm daily from 24 to 28 Jan 08. Please drop by NYP's auditorium (next to the Yio Chu Kang MRT station).

This is supposed to be a CATCHY title!

OPEN HOUSE 2008 is BACK!!!

From 10 Jan(Thu) to 12 Jan(Sat), you can get your neoprints taken at the DMIT booth, station just outside KouFu. Everyday, we have different sets of background designs just for you.

So what are you waiting for? Come on down and visit our booth now to get your pretty pictures taken and printed out for FREE!

Cya there!!!

Venue: Outside KouFu
Date: 10,11,12 Jan 2008
Time: 11am - 6pm
Official Website: http://www.ibuzz.nyp.edu.sg/OH08/home.html



XOXO,
OLT Team

The "Rat Race" Challenge

The "Rat Race" Challenge Mobile Game is developed by Diploma in Multimedia & Infocomm Technology (C75) students for The Singapore Mint's new collection of products to welcome the year of Rat in 2008!

Download the game for FREE from:
http://www.singaporemint.com/enews/2008_lunarrat/highlights.html

Registration for the competition is still open! So hurry down to our Open House booth now!

PHP Meetup

Date: 9 Jan 2008
Time: 8pm (registration starts at 7:30pm)
Venue: School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

For all beginners out there, if you want to learn more about PHP, you meet lots of cool PHP dudes in Singapore. They can share with you tips and tricks in PHP as well as tools to help you do the tricks.

For those seasoned programmers, you can get to learn many advance features such as Ajax, Design Patterns, frameworks, etc... Best of all, if you are about to graduate and looking for a job, there are lots of business people looking for PHP programmers.

And for those who have lots of freetime at hand, you can embark on a project with the Team. The project may be internal or industrial projects. You will learn as you do, plus it will add to your portfolio that you have done something huge and have a great team backing you up.

PHP is open source and free for all to use. Unlike other proprietory languages, which can be very expensive to get license, PHP is free and easy to pick up. Hey, 90% of web host on the internet are PHP-supported. You can be very sure there's a place for you.

Find out more at: http://php.com.sg/

contributed by shurn heng

29 Year-old NYP Graduate On The Track To Be Millionaire

Danny Tan Kee Chen, a graduate from the Diploma in Multimedia System Engineering (predecessor to Multimedia Infocomm Technology), is on the verge of becoming a millionaire. He is the CEO of Shanghai Mopie Information Technology Co. (Mopietek), and owns 100% of Luckybull Limited.

Luckybull became the target of an acquisition by Enzer, a Singapore-listed company. As a result of a deal with Enzer just concluded, Danny is on the verge of becoming a multi-millionaire - at the age of 29.

Based in Shanghai now, Danny says he will re-invest in another project with higher returns, once he receives his payout.



Click HERE to read more about his story.

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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Contributed by Wee Yew King

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.

Contributed by Cheryl Lim

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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