Blog Post by Desiree, MB0704
I had finished my attachment at Lonza a month ago. I must say that although the working environment was a little stressful sometimes, it was overall a fun and nice experience. The colleagues are all very nice too. As part of my training, I had learnt how to sample air particles as we were told that the sampling of air particles is important in an environment where drugs is being manufactured.
I miss the people very much.
Blog post by Nurdayana, MB0702
POL-ITE 2009 has finally come to an end. The competition had been going on for the past three weeks. Nanyang Polytechnic came in as champions after beating Singapore Polytechnic 2-0 in the finals.
NYP:NP 5:1
NYP:TP 1:0
NYP: ITE 15:0
NYP:RP 2:2
NYP:SP 2:0
I feel so happy! It’s like a dream come true for all of us as we waited three years for this day to come. For some of us, four. It was a really tough fight. All of us had a common goal, to win Gold. We felt that this is our year; the year we grab that trophy away from Temasek Polytechnic, defending champions for the past god knows how many years. I’m proud of all my teammates. All of us played our very best for every game. Our hard work and trainings paid off. With an optimistic mind, we can do it! So.. good job Blaze!
Blog Post by Esther Cai Jin Huan, FS0703
WELCOME TO AMSTERDAM!
Change your time to 6 hours before Singapore time : )
Our hostel bunks…… About 12 to 20 people sleeping together in a classroom! Dusty place to stay in though……
We settled down at Kerkrade, a peaceful town in the Netherlands where World Music Contest (WMC) flags and posters could be seen in every shops and houses! We spent most of the time on grocery shopping. AWESOME sausages. The following photographs were taken on the way to the C1000 supermarket. Friendly neighbours would wind down their windows in their cars to greet us: HELLO THERE! How’re you?
Blog Post by Pou Lijuan, FS0703
Not a temple but a school. JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY, located in Jiangsu province, Wuxi.
This is where Kimmy and I, Lijuan are attached to for our 3 months attachment, from the 9th March till 29th May 2009. We are already halfway through and slowly, we gain a better understanding in the Chinese language and environment.
The school compound is relatively clean and well maintained, as they have only moved to this campus a few years ago. Since we are from the Food Science course, we are posted to their School of Food Science. Both of us decided to work on their Bakery and Ingredient Research Department. We are to work with the Year 4 students who are graduating research students. Kimmy’s project will be on Angel Cake while mine will be on bread. Both of them will be having additional ingredients added.
After staying here for the past 6 weeks, we are always looking forward to the weekend outings that consist of a 45-minute bus ride to Wuxi downtown. It is a place where you can find shopping centres, and it resembles Singapore’s Orchard Road.
A Chinese student, who welcomed us from the airport when we arrived, introduced us to a few Indonesian friends. The hostel we are staying in is especially for international students, and over here, we get to meet and make new friends. Our new Indonesian friends introduced us to the shopping area during our first official Sunday outing.
Saturdays have become our cleaning-up-the-room cum laundry-wash days, while Sundays become our outing days. Even though it is always the same walk to the same place and same route every weekend, we are not bored of the place at all, as it is better than cooping ourselves in the hostel room for the whole day. Also, it is only during the weekends when we get to eat REAL GOOD FOOD as compared to what we eat during the school days! We could not accept their type of food initially. However, eventually, we have found food that suits our taste buds but there are limited choices. Surprisingly, they do not eat with a spoon but with a pair of chopsticks or a fork. Most importantly, their food is really very cheap! An average meal would only cost S$1.50. Although it does not look appetizing, it is actually rather edible.
Delivery can be ordered through phone calls to restaurants and they would send it to your doorstep, without any delivery charge!
Many of you should have heard of the astounding amount of pirated items sold in China, such as CDs, VCDs, and branded goods. Guess what? We learnt from my partner that real computer CD-ROMs are hard to get! At only S$1.25 each, these pirated stuffs are super cheap!
Complaints of the unruly China Chinese are commonly heard but when we meet them individually, they are actually polite, friendly, helpful and easy to get along with. Sadly, when we are walking on the road, people of all appearance and ages clear their throats loudly and spit onto the ground. Littering is also a common sight. On one occasion, while we were waiting for the traffic light, a woman who was right in front of us flung her tissue paper up the air and pretended to tidy up her hair.
The weather here is unpredictable. It can be scorching hot one day (29˚C), with its heat stronger than Singapore, and freezing cold the next day (11˚C), with wind blowing at full blast, so strong that we have problem walking. When it rains, it rains the entire day. Nevertheless, we have grown accustomed to the coldness here. It was actually extremely freezing cold on the day of our arrival with us having only a plain jacket on, thus we were asked to shop for warmer pieces of clothing, and we bought a coat each.
In China, with Chinese as the main language, English being uncommonly spoken, our Chinese has improved tremendously, and may unintentionally bring their accent back to Singapore, therefore spreading the use of perfect Chinese…
40 students from Nanyang Polytechnic studied at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Semester One, 2008. Students from Nanyang Polytechnic have taken the different cultural expectations and challenges of studying at a foreign university in their stride to achieve outstanding academic progress at UQ.
During Semester One, 2008, students from Nanyang Polytechnic achieved exemplary results, and five received the distinguished honour of a Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement at The University of Queensland (UQ). Among them is Zhi Jie Keith Low, who has a Diploma in Chemical & Pharmaceutical Technology from NYP.
Toh Wan Nee, 1st year DMB student shares about the NYP Adventure Training
Lim Yin Ci, a 2nd year DPS student tells us of her love affair with Frisbee
Carellynn Lim Hui Li, 1st year DFS student shares her experience about representing Singapore at the Hanyu Qiao Competition in China
They patiently guided their young charges and helped them with the finer points of research and development. For School of Chemical & Life Sciences (Life Sciences) [SCL (LS)] lecturers Nilar Zhang and Dr Guo Xu Ming, their efforts were certainly worth the while. Their secondary school charges went on to excel in their projects at MOE’s 14th Youth Science Conference.
Low Khee Yang is a Quarter Master of the NYP Symphony Orchestra. The team was recently in Vienna for the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music festival, where they won top honours in the Symphonic Band category. Khee yang shares his experience.
