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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...

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...