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For us as students, deciding what to do after we complete our diploma is normally a vexing duty. Thankfully, for Diploma in Social Science (Social Work) students, there is an annual career and education talk organized by the programme-planning module students. After 8 weeks of planning  our career talk , titled Unleash 2015, was executed on the 25th of May, by a group of only 6 students, and 27 volunteers assisting in controlling human traffic, putting up decorations, taking pictures, and more. The team The talk attracted an audience of 120 students from Year 1 to Year 3. In the first segment, UniSIM introduced its new degree programme - Bachelor of Social Work. This programme begins next year, so we would be the pioneer batch if we decide to join it! Following the informative session by UniSIM, we had the opportunity to hear more from a youth worker and a social worker from Fei Yue FSC�s YouthGO programme. They told us how they engage youths under their care, which was highly insp...

Gary (centre), with his grandmother (left) and auntie At first glance, Gary Lau Hwei is intimidating. He is heavily tattooed from head to toe, has asymmetrical eyes and 1.5cm wide ear lobe piercings. Of course, few would want to approach him. But nobody would expect that he had a perfect GPA of 4.0 for almost every semester in his studies at the Institute of Technical Education East (ITE East).  Gary was also a recipient of 12 academic awards, including the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Model Student Award. What is more remarkable is this young man�s tenacity despite the many trials and tribulations he faced during his younger days.  Gary�s parents divorced when he was 3 years old, and he was separated from his two elder sisters, who went to live with their father. His mother had custody of him.  Not having a proper father figure in his growing up years was tough enough for young Gary; but he also had to live without much monitoring from his mother who held two jobs due to fin...

If you love technology and travelling, you have to check out Triplynr. Triplynr (pronounced �trip-liner), wants to streamline trip-planning and help users discover new places through peer reviews. Users create their travel itinerary on Triplynr, and share it with the rest of the community. Once the itinerary has been created, users can book hotel rooms and their flights with integrated links to Expedia and Skyscanner. When Triplynr launches its iOS and Android app in June, users will also able to take their itinerary with them on their phone. This includes maps stored locally in the phone�s memory, eliminating the need to download the data with expensive, overseas mobile data plans.   Trip-planning made easy Co-founders Leo Tan and Sean Yang love to travel. The duo have taken over 50 trips in total, but when Leo started planning a post-graduation, 21-day backpacking trip to Europe, he saw an opportunity to streamline months of planning. Now, instead of planning for 6 months, Triply...

 Today, we take a peek into final year Food Science & Nutrition student Nicole Lim�s bag. What are the essentials that Nicole has curated to get her through her Final Year Project days? Let�s find out! Wallet It may not be evident from this picture, but Nicole�s wallet is really small. Defending her wallet size, she explained that she did use to own a �normal�-sized wallet. However, that proved to be too big for her back pocket, thus she opted for a smaller and more convenient wallet. Her miniature wallet contains things of utmost importance, like her ez-link card, debit card, and waffle loyalty card for the waffle stall in North Canteen. Sweets Sweets are for chewing on-the-go. They help Nicole relieve boredom when she�s working in the laboratory or moving around the campus. They also work well as a breath refresher and the sugar rush helps her to curb sleepiness.  The candy with the little blue pencil on the wrapper (shown above) is the �best candy on earth�, as proclaim...

SIDM Movie Night, an annual event for NYP�s School of Interactive and Digital Media (SIDM) students and alumni, was back for another year. This year�s movie pick was Avengers: Age Of Ultron, sequel to The Avengers which premiered in 2012. I attended the event with my fellow Write Stuff member, Nauli. The event was held on 30th of April at Filmgarde, Bugis+.  It was a great opportunity for students to hang out with their friends, and alumni to catch up with their former schoolmates, lecturers, and network with each other. Before the screening, our guests mingled at the box office. It was great to see many SIDM alumni still keeping in touch with their alma mater. A Chat With Several SIDM Alumni While waiting for the movie to start, we went around the box office to talk to some of the moviegoers and guests. Muhammad Farhan and Cheryl Lim  The first alumni we talked with were Muhammad Farhan who graduated in 2014 with a Diploma in Game Development and Technology and Cheryl Lim, wh...

On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, from 9am to 5pm, more than 70 NYP students, including myself, attended the Standard First Aider and CPR & AED Workshop at Block E. I heard about this workshop through the Student Affairs Office, which sent us an email encouraging us to go for it. I thought it would be beneficial to learn more about first aid and life-saving procedures, and decided to sign up for it. The fully subsidized workshop was organized by the People�s Association Emergency Preparedness Division. It was open to all students, but I noticed it attracted many students from the Track and Field team, and Sports and Wellness diploma course. The Standard First Aid Workshop was held concurrently with the CPR + AED Workshop. Hence, the students were split into two different groups, and switched groups later. The first workshop I attended was the Standard First Aid Workshop, conducted by Mr Safaruddin Bin Haji Aliyas, a facilitator from the Singapore First Aid Training Centre Pte Ltd. At the...