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Meet Vivien Wee ! She is a year 1 student in Nanyang Polytechnic, studying Mass Media Management. She got into NYP through the Early Admissions Exercise (EAE) before she finished her O levels! If you are considering applying for EAE, why not hear from Vivien herself? 1. Tell us more about yourself and why did you choose to join NYP through EAE? I was a Normal Academic student from Beatty Secondary School and I completed my O levels in 2016. I was in the National Cadet Corp (Air) in secondary school. Since young, my friends and family have been telling me about NYP. My closest cousin, uncle, and my secondary school seniors and friends were from NYP. Personally, I feel that NYP is like a family. NYPians are accepting of people and will not judge others based on looks, disability, studies and family background. NYP has this family warmth and I feel loved by my peers in NYP. Additionally, NYP is conveniently located near Yio Chu Kang MRT station, which is 5 stations away from my home. So i...

Though the falls of Douglas are striking and dramatic, there are many more falls on the North Fork as it makes its descent into the Blackwater Canyon. Indeed, an intriguing entry in Philip Pendleton Kennedy�s Blackwater Chronicle led me to look for one of them. In Kennedy�s description of his scramble down the North Fork below Douglas Falls, he wrote: �This level of the stream, however . . .  leads you to a second large fall, a clear pitch again of some forty feet.� When I read that, my eyes widened. A second large fall as high as Douglas? I had neither read of these falls in any modern travel guides nor seen photographs of them. Was Kennedy exaggerating�merely caught up in the thrall of the cascades?  Kennedy Falls Following in the Footsteps I had to find out, and the only way to do so was to follow in his footsteps. With the help of some kayakers who ran the North Fork, I found the falls. I�ll call them Kennedy Falls after Philip Pendleton Kennedy, the man who first wrote of...