Chatting with MM Lee

MM Lee came to NYP few days ago, on the 5th January 2009 and visits the School of Engineering & School of Interactive & Digital Media. He also had a dialogue session with 10 students from various schools in NYP, to find out more about the students studying here.

Many people are rather interested in what MM Lee talked to the students about. I am one of the representative in this dialogue session, so I would be able to share with you guys about my experience.

First of all, I find that MM Lee is a very gentle and nice man. At first, I felt pretty stressful, especially at the start of the dialogue session when I was sitting right between him and Mr Chan Lee Mun, our Principal.

MM Lee started the session by posting questions to us, the situation is quite tensed up at first, in the sense that everyone (students) are so nervous & excited, the feeling is like as though you're talking to your idol, and much more than that! (Trust me, you'll be sooooo excited. If you're there, you will understand what I mean :D)

MM Lee is very friendly to us, he joke with us, he always has a gentle smile and that makes us feel more relax. Everyone (students) tend to be able to speak more naturally and freely, without being afraid of not being formal enough when we are answering our questions.

First of all, I'd like to say that in my opinion, I find that he asked us on rather personal questions, in a sense that he don't really ask us what is our course about or stuffs like that. Finally, it's my turn. I was very relaxed and natural at first, but the moment he talked to me, I became soooo nervous. My hands start to tremble, not because I am scared. It's because I am so excited that I could hardly control my hands. I normally see him on textbooks, computer screen, television and etc - I have never seen him in person, let alone talk to him.

"AM I DREAMING?" - The kind of unreal feeling comes to me ... Firstly, MM Lee asked me how could he pronounce my surname, "Kong". He pronounces it as "Koh", and "Korr"but I tell him that it is pronounced as King Kong's "Kong". I'm glad he laughed! Okay, that makes me a little bit less nervous. Then he asked me questions like the following:

- Do you intend to go for further studies?
- If you do, do you prefer local university or oversea university and why ?
- How do you plan to finance your studies in university?
- What does my parents work as, at where, and stuffs like that
- To add on to the previous point, MM also asked about things like how many siblings do I have, where are they studying at and stuffs like that.

IMPORTANT: All the above "questions" are what I roughly remembered.

Personally, I'm proud to be a NYP student and I'm proud to be a student studying the Diploma in Multimedia Infocomm & Technology.

Celebrities Watch @ NYP

Question : What is the common thread for these celebrities ?

Jean Danker, Soo & Young, Celeste Chong, Julian Hee, Tracy Tan, Haizad Imran, Shahirah Price, Taufik Batisah and Channel U Campus SuperStar 2009‘s 12 finalists & Felicia Chin

Answer: All coming for NYP Open House.

So, what are you waiting for?

JAE, JPAE, JPSAE & DAE !!!

Around this period, many students thinking about coming to the polytechnics are anticipating their results and starting to think about the options that are available to them. I am sure current students have also gone through this experience before and it can be quite a journey. Many questions naturally arise. What are the many acronyms that gets tossed around: JAE, JPAE, JPSAE & DAE. Ask the 4 Ws. Who, What, When and Where ?

Here is my VERY brief attempt at making sense of these acronyms and aid in pointing any person in need to the right place, hopefully :). Most of these information are extracted from the Joint Polytechnic Portal & MOE site. Please refer to this portal for detailed information.

JAE / JAE (MOE site)
- What ? Joint Admissions Exercise
- Who ? Generally for GCE 'O' level students
- When ? Immediately after 'O' level result is released. Open for 5 days.
- Where ? Online (MOE JAE Site)

JPAE
- What ? Joint Polytechnic Admissions Exercise
- Who ? For ITE, STPM and SPM holders generally
- When ? ITE (9th-13th Feb), STPM/SPM (9th-13th Mar)
- Where ? Check the JPAE website

JPSAE
- What ? Joint Polytechnic Special Admissions Exercise
- Who ? For 'O' level students (With consideration of passion, aptitude & talents).
- When ? Immediately after 'O' level result is released. Open for 5 days.
- Where ? Online. Check the JPSAE website

DAE
- What ? Direct Admissions Exercise
- Who ? For wide variety of qualifications.
- When ? Poly-specific. Check the DAE website
- Where ? Poly-specific. Check the DAE website

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!!