FBI Networking Day 2012

FBI Networking Day 2012 has been an extremely memorable experience for me. This event not only gave FBI students the opportunity to put up a performance, but it also allowed us to showcase each and every one’s talents and inner strengths. Personally, I believe that behind every performance, there will be lots of hard work, tears and brainstorming involved. However, for it to be a successful one, teamwork has to be present. During our APEL classes, my class used the remaining time to brainstorm on ideas for our FBI Networking Day performance. After a few sessions of brainstorming, we decided on our performance theme – Street Fighter. To add a little refreshing twist to it, our favourite Aunty Lucy was added into our skit to bring out the “Singaporean” element. Everyone was allocated with a specific role and responsibility so that each of us will be able to participate and contribute actively. Due to the fact that our performance required a lot of materials, we often have to take turns to source for our required materials. The most essential material used in our performance is cardboard and thus, many of us had to help out in collecting used cardboards from the neighbourhood. In order to make sure that everyone were familiar with their roles on stage, we stayed back late after our lessons, a few nights before the FBI Networking Day, to conduct rehearsals and provide support and encouragement for each other. Through this event and the process of preparing for it, my teamwork skills in working with my classmates have been enhanced and I am able to communicate with them more effectively. I have also learnt to apply my time management skills in order to juggle between both school work and the preparation for our performance. Last, but definitely not least, we had lots of fun! During the preparation process, conflicts are unavoidable, but all of us have learnt to put aside our differences and work together as a class to achieve a similar goal - to make sure that our last FBI Networking Day will be a memorable one. Time passes, but the memories created will be ours to keep for long. I hope that FBI will retain its tradition of organizing its annual FBI Networking Day throughout the future years and all the best to the future classes!


Posted by Cheryl Lum, C291

C290’s Performance

C313’s Performance

C311’s Performance

C289’s Performance

C291’s Performance

C266’s Performance

C263’s Performance

C265’s Performance

Audience enjoying the performance by students

Sharing by FBI alumni Benny Chng on Life at NTU

CM presenting token of appreciation to FBI alumni Koh Wei Meng for sharing his experience in NS

TP Campus Relay 2012

It’s that time of the year again. Students and lecturers from all over Temasek Polytechnic gather for some fun involving stretching, short sticks, and sweat. That’s right; it’s the annual campus relay! This year, I was lucky enough to take part to represent my course, Financial Business Informatics (FBI). There were 46 teams from 6 different schools (and the SAA) this year, and since most of the teams each represented one course, one could say this was an inter-course competition. *smirk* Bad jokes aside, this was a serious matter for my course, as we hope to maintain or beat our standing last year. Three weeks leading up to the race, we started training together, and this proved to be essential at ferreting out the best runners. Mr Lim kept making changes to the groups, and in the end we ended up having two teams for FBI, named F1 and F2. We did have a lot of motivation to run though; the pressure of doing well, Mr Lim contacting us to make sure we came, and of course, free drinks.

 

Team FBI F1 with Director/IIT

 

Team FBI F2 with Director/IIT

All that training eventually paid off. Although we didn’t improve our positioning (still 6th place), our overall timing improved by almost a minute! I feel that this was a great achievement, and I think everyone was quite satisfied, especially since we each got a shiny medal!

Our hard work paid off!

In my opinion, this is a great event for lecturers and students to bond, as well as a fun way to exercise. It’s not every day you get the chance to out-do your lecturer. Nor in fact, for your lecturer to out-run YOU!

Posted by Wesley Jace Tan