The 3rd week of the Polytechnic Preparatory Programme (PPP) and the 1st week of official lessons has finally ended. I’ll say that I enjoyed all the lessons except for Marketing. The other modules – Innovation, Design & Enterprise in Action (IDEA), Effective Speaking Skills and Understanding Data – are fun and interesting. For IDEA, we have to think of products that we can modify to make it better and present it with a good project title, description and marketing strategies. So, basically, my group for all the projects consists of Shi Min, Jericho and Gavin.

For IDEA on Monday, we came up with an idea to improve the wheelchairs and make it more convenient for the elderly and disabled. I think it’s a great idea. Great job for my group! We were given a project whereby we were asked to do the same thing but we have to think of a new product, then we got to present it the coming Monday. This time, the presentation will be graded and added to our overall grade. Currently, my group has decided on an awesome product and we’re left with doing the powerpoint. I’ll do my best to make it great! I hope we’ll ace this one. Anyway, our lecture ended early before lunch. So, including our lunch break, we had 2 hours and 45 minutes of break! Hahah. So, Jericho, Raudhah, Joevin and I went to play pool at Moberly.

On Tuesday, we had the boring and dry Essentials of Marketing. I think the lecturer didn’t know that it was the General Elective Modules (GEMs) that she was teaching and not the actual module in the business course. But still, how can she not know? :O Anyway, the powerpoint slides were just lots of terms and she talked about many concepts that were too abstract for us to understand. Actually, I think that all the clusters that had this module for their GEMs dislike it and couldn’t understand it. We were given a project to do but it wasn’t well-explained at all. She gave us a handout that included the instructions. But firstly, the instructions on the handout wasn’t very clear. Secondly, she instructed us to do something that isn’t what’s stated on the paper. :O Marketing is so scary. Hahaha. Difficult or not, I just need to ace it too.

Wednesday was our ‘off day’. So, we didn’t have to go to school. That evening, I attended Caspar’s birthday party at his house. There were just a few of us with some people from the zoo and some from Caspar’s school. We ate and joked then played taboo. It was quite a fun party and it was really nice to meet up again with the zoo people, especially those that I usually hang out with! Caspar’s younger brother is also damn cute!! Hahaha. Below is a photo taken at Caspar’s place. We always hang out together at work, including Joyce. From left to right: Benji, Caspar, me. (:

Then it comes Thursday! We had  Effective Speaking Skills and the lecturer was Melinda. It’s a very fun lesson because it’s very lively! We don’t sit there and listen to lectures. Basically, it’ls like English lessons and you get to talk A LOT! My cluster-mates (and myself. haha. ) made the lessons totally awesome! So, we learned a few things about English pronunciations, breathing, loudness, etc. The tests will be pretty much like an oral examination. The first test, you have to read a passage then tell a story. The second test, you’ll have to talk in your groups like a normal conversation. And the last test, you’ll have something like an interview.

Friday! The last lesson of the week — Understanding data. It’s another fun module and guess what we learned? Mean, Median and Mode!!! OMG! They’re so simple! Hahaha. Then we had tutorial whereby we had to complete a worksheet. And after that, we had to present everything to the class. My group did an awesome job! Great job Jericho, Shi Min and Gavin! ((: After lessons, I went to watch Outlander with Joevin, and his friends. Outlander is not bad but the dragon is kind of fake, especially when it gives out light. Anyway, this photo was taken on the MRT train when were heading to our respective destinations. They’re the people I usually hang out with at SP. From left to right: Gavin (hiding behind the laptop), Joevin, Jericho, Raudhah and me!

 

Today, I went to study with Huiling, Bu Fan, Tuan Anh and Huiling’s friend (Mark) at National Library. I was studying marketing and making notes. After lunch, we intended to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But there weren’t any suitable timings and the other movies weren’t very nice. So, we continued studying at Esplanade and then took some photos.

Anyway, hope that the next week will be even better!