VOL 3 2015 GO SERVE SP STUDENTS GET INVOLVED AND GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AROUND SP’S SOLAR CAR THE WORLD WHERE ARE THEY RACING WHAT SP STUDENTS DO OFF TO? ACROSS THE GLOBE HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUESS WHICH SP DIPLOMA TURNS 10 THIS YEAR? FEAR OF MISSING OUT AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOU IT'S 2015, ARTS FIESTA GET READYBACK! FOR A MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION OF DANCE, MUSIC AND THEATRE content highlights 08: 02: Aim for that Scholarship Tis’ the season for SP students and alumni Cover to reap the hard work they sowed. Story Go behind the scenes at Arts Fiesta 2015! 24/32: Globe trekking adventures Across the world we SP students go: studying, exploring and discovering. 44: Reaching out What it means to our SP 38: Solar Cruise Control Youth Community Leaders to Out of the ashes and into the contribute back to society. sun! SP's solar car is heading to Australia. 54: 62: Don’t Fear the Fear of Games Galore Missing Out Bringing back the medals. Evolve from that co-dependant relationship with your phone. The Team Advisor: Yvonne Chan Editor-in-Chief: Andy Kwan Assistant Editor: Edmund Heng Alumni and student photographers: Lee Hong Rui, Lee Jian Wei, Dylan Ting Student contributors: Winnie Goh, Mohd Firdaus, Lynette Neo is published three times a year by the Department of Corporate Communications, Singapore Polytechnic. All rights reserved. No information herein should be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. All information correct at time of printing. For editorial or advertising enquiries, please email to [email protected] or call 6590-2782. Magazine designed by: Sirius Art Advertising Pte Ltd. 01 Feature Story Since my internship has ended, I’ve more time to help out with Arts Fiesta before the next “Sometimes, you have to look semester starts.” Think that’s all for her? Hardly! Even though she’s graduating from Vocal Talents, Annisaa’ back in order to understand the is still designing their Arts Fiesta production things that lie ahead.” poster. Excited for Arts Fiesta yet? Look out for brochures and announcements coming near you at life.sp.edu.sg/arts/arts-fiesta. Keep your eyes peeled for updates on their social media links on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @SPartsfiesta. An artistic war! From left: Kristin Yip (SP Theatre Compass), Ryan Peh (Strictly Dance Zone), BRAND NEW AT Rumchawanwong Charles (SP ARTS FIESTA 2015 String Ensemble) Arts Fiesta Opening, Halloween Outdoor Movie Night SP Multi-Purpose Field (in front of Sports Complex) 30 Oct 2015, 6pm Stunning performances by the SP Strictly Dance Zone. This seems (free admission) UT oddly Disney-familiar… In honour of spooky Halloween, Arts Fiesta kicks PON A off with a scarefest under the stars! Jointly organised by the SP Student Union, sit back and get your heart racing while some Show Me My of the scariest movies ever play on! Bring along Reflection frightfully fun friends, mats and pillows for a scary W! Come November, limbs be poppin’, beats be good time. spinnin’ and tickets be sellin’. Drinks, popcorns and goodie bags galore. For a It’s time again to celebrate all things artsy! SHO Where It All “Aside from planning Arts Fiesta 2014, the bonus, dress to scare and win! Held annually since 2011, Arts Fiesta Begins bulk of my work was designing. I didn’t have Here comes SP’s annual Arts Fiesta, a month-long was created as a platform to support the Meet Nur Annisaa’ Saihah Bte Abdul Latiff. any professional experience prior to the Silent Disco festival of all that’s flamboyant and hip in the arts underappreciated performing arts in SP. Five Third-year Diploma in Integrated Events event, so it was a good platform for me to SP Main Library, Event Space scene. There’s music, dance and theatre performances years on under the care of the Department of and Project Management (DEPM) start exploring and sharpening my abilities as 11 Nov 2015, 4pm to 7pm (free by SP’s performing arts CCA clubs, arts installations Student Development and Alumni Relations student. Graduating SP Vocal Talent member. a designer,” she said. admission) at corners you least expect, and wacky fringe events to (DSA), this festival is now an SP year-end And two-year reigning designer for Arts Fiesta The SP Deejays will be spinning out tunes... enjoy. Basically, it celebrates everything that doesn’t staple, bringing colour and culture to the 2014 and 2015. Without her, there’s no If that wasn’t daunting enough, Annisaa’ still in the library! have to do with studying! campus. Better yet, it’s right before the real collateral for Arts Fiesta. committed to Vocal Talents, as Treasurer and The sickest beats in the quietest places in SP, how festival: December vacation (be still, my in the Arts Fiesta showcase. “I’ve always been will that happen? A little hint: you’ll each get an takes a sneak peep at the beats and splits that go heart!). She sings; she designs; she studies. passionate about the arts coz it’s an outlet individual listening experience, and no one will be into Arts Fiesta, starting with a very key member. What can’t she do? where I can express myself. For Vocal Talents, disturbed. In fact, no one will complain about the This year’s theme is Reflection, an apt title I helped in the planning of the production, from noise level! Intrigued? Come take a look and stay for 2015. Her laugh is infectious. “I get asked that a lot!” scriptwriting, to stage management, and even for the experience. choreography. I was practically running from In light of Singapore’s Golden Annisaa’ (oh yes, make no mistake: that class to Arts Fiesta meetings to CCA production Visual Arts Display Jubilee, it’s about reflecting on apostrophe isn’t a typo) first got involved in all the time!” she recalled. Main Library and Sports Arena our history and celebrating the Arts Fiesta through DEPM’s Integrated Project, 29 Oct 2015 onwards little triumphs that has made us a second-year module where students work in For Arts Fiesta 2015, Annisaa’s sticking What the eye sees, the mind interprets. who we are today; how far groups to assist real-life events. In her case, it to design. “I had my internship during the Arts installations designed and created through we’ve come as a nation and was the Arts Fiesta 2014. initial planning stage, and it was hard to the creativity from the School of Digital Media and a polytechnic - SP’s a whole manage my time. Fortunately or unfortunately, Infocomm Technology and the SP Design School decade older than the nation’s She was literally outed by her teammates, who I got sick and was on MC. I rushed all the will be on display throughout the Arts Fiesta independence, and don’t recommended her design work to DSA. The designs at home. Now it’s more relaxed, as month. Look out for them! anyone forget that! Arts Fiesta team was so impressed with her I can tweak the final designs until we’re all portfolio, that they requested the collateral be satisfied with the overall look. Annisaa’ work from scratch to finish. This is for the main theme alone. designed by her. 03 Feature Story UCK PLMY GS PITCH For Arts Fiesta 2014, Vocal Talents didn’t Solemn and nervous, the String just sing stoically. They acted too, like a HEARTSTRIN Ensemble begin Arts Fiesta 2014. PERFECTED Broadway musical! SP STRING ENSEMBLE It’s also your first time performing hope that Classical Renaissance XVI will not SP VOCAL TALENTS Integrated Events and Project free time for practice, but we always find Classical Renaissance XVI for Arts Fiesta, yes? disappoint the audience, especially the family A Capella Night IV Management (DEPM) student, President of time to study too. We often study together School of the Arts Concert Hall, Yeah, I’m really excited because playing in an and friends that I have neglected during this Singapore Polytechnic, The Hall, 7 the SP Vocal Talents, and Overall-In-Charge of in groups before or after practice sessions in 1 Nov 2015, 8.00pm ensemble and individually is different. When hectic period! Nov 2015, 7.30pm the Arts Fiesta Vocal Talents concert. the clubroom, and this helps us to forge great everything comes together in an ensemble, it’s friendships with one another. Although it’s WHAT TO EXPECT: almost magical…you have to experience it to I know it will all be worth it in the end and that’s WHAT TO EXPECT: Sing for us! tiring at times, it teaches us how to manage Held for the third time running at the School of understand what I mean…haha! It’s not just the motivation that keeps most of us going! It’s a musical match between father and We will, soon! We’re making sure that all our time wisely. the Arts’ Concert Hall, Classic Renaissance XVI performing, the whole journey of Arts Fiesta has daughter. She wants to join the music industry, performances are up to standard and ready to hit the performance stage for Arts Fiesta 2015. returns with a repertoire of melodies spanning brought our whole club together. We practice GET TO KNOW… but daddy knows best and daddy doesn’t GET TO KNOW… together, we eat together, we even go for think she knows enough about the music different time periods. Celebrate the classics SP String Ensemble The SP Vocal Talents group outings and it’s really heart-warming.