VOL 1 2014 THE BEST SHOW The pride and joy of SP engineering students on show! GENERATION NEXT! Are there personality differences between students from different courses? FLY AWAY! What SP students do during their overseas trips. IOS VS ANDROID Which is the better platform? 15138_ARC SPirit_Infantry_300x225mmW_FAp.ai 1 10/4/13 9:57 PM content highlights 02. Cover 12. Story Overseas Experience Personality clash, really? The world is their oyster after Find out if SP students going through an overseas from different schools are programme. the same, or different. World Solar Challenge 20. An SP-made solar car races across the Australian Outback. A Courting The Final 52. Campus 50. ONE Blushing brides and Mixed martial arts is dashing grooms – not for women? You newlywed SP alumni got it wrong! framed on campus! The Team Advisor: Yvonne Chan Editor-in-Chief: Andy Kwan Assistant Editors: Benjamin Moey, Valerie Wong Alumni and student photographers: Ray Chng, Lee Jian Wei, Vincent Siow 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 15138_ARC SPirit_Infantry CLC BK W225 x H300mm ISO39L Mandate BK300571 GP4 10.04.13 150# 1 13-013 Feature Story Lee Jian Wei Diploma in Marine Engineering (DMR) Generation Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) Next! Get to know them. What do you like about SP? My SP chillax corner: My fave place to shop for With close to 16,000 students It’s like my second home. I can meet my Besides the classroom, I think it’s the clothes: friends from my class and CCAs anytime food court where I can buy snacks Bugis and Bangkok. Sometimes, I do spread across the humongous SP and anywhere! The choice of food in SP anytime when I feel hungry. online shopping too! campus, have you ever wondered is superb – six food courts plus a few fast food outlets. And we always say SP My fave food court stall is: My fave websites: what makes you different from means SO POSSIBLE and SURE PASS! Food Court 2’s chicken rice stall as I am a Google. Because it’s where I can I always hold onto the belief that I can chicken lover! Chicken is high in protein. search for anything. Facebook for me the rest? Who is the Running Man PASS all my exams with flying colours to stalk my friends on what they do fan and who goes crazy over FC6 and that it is SO POSSIBLE to do any My fave celebrities are: recently. YouTube for entertainment activity within the school. Thus, I always Johnny Depp. He is versatile and can and to search for motivational videos! prawn mee? And what’s hiding boast to people about how great SP is play his role convincingly in different with the awesome acronym! movies. Oprah Winfrey for her charitable What’s in my bag / wallet: inside the bag of an engineering donations and successful career. Cash, coins, EZ-link and IC in my student vis-à-vis a business one? What do you dislike about SP? Taylor Swift for her beautiful and well- wallet. Earphones and a book: The 7 My school’s block, SMA, is located a bit composed songs. Habits of Highly Effective People by SPirit digs into the personalities far from the MRT station, like a 10-minute Stephen Covey to kill boredom. The walk. And sometimes the food court is My all-time fave songs are: most important thing is an external of nine SP students from across too packed during break time and I have I like oldies the best. I loved Backstreet battery charger to charge my phone! its nine academic schools. to queue up for 20 minutes when I only Boys, Westlife, Savage Garden, need 10 minutes to eat. Whitney Houston and Celine Dion back What is it you can’t leave when I was a kid. Backstreet Boys - home without? The boys / girls in SP are: As Long As You Love Me, Whitney My phone and wallet. Both are must- Boys are hot? Girls are hotter? Everyone Houston - I Will Always Love You, have items for me to go to any place. has their own style! Westlife - My Love, etc. And of course, proper attire and hairdo! I wish my lecturers could be My all-time fave TV shows are: more… I don’t really have an all-time favourite Lenient and considerate. Allow us to but I do watch Korean variety show have a break when we feel too tired Running Man for entertainment as I find during lessons. If they put themselves it really hilarious! in our shoes then they will know how many assignments they give My fave hangout outside SP: to us, haha. Hopefully our lecturers Cafés and old vintage shops where I won’t compare us too much with the can find nice food and the strangely seniors. Now it’s the 21st century and vintage smell. everything has changed! 03 Feature Story Daryl John Blackwell Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DEEE) Kaela Chua Xin Rui School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) a.k.a. okay lah Diploma in Music and Audio Technology (DMAT) School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology (DMIT) What do you like about SP? My fave celebrities are: SP is building an awesome sports hall! Miranda Kerr, Adam Levine and Kevin Hart. What do you dislike about SP? What do you like about SP? Gonna be graduating before the sports hall My all-time fave songs are: is complete, too bad I guess. The GOURMET FOOD! Haha just kidding. I like Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns and Roses), how the facilities in SP are very accessible and Payphone (Maroon 5), The Other Side useful to us students! The boys/girls in SP are: (Bruno Mars). The list just goes on. I’ve Cheeky and good-looking. got too many favourites. What do you dislike about SP? Too many people in the food areas during I wish my lecturers could be My all-time fave TV shows are: lunch and dinner time. Just look at the queue more… The Big Bang Theory. The only Seductive, I'm always getting distracted in in Food Court 3 for the chicken rice stall... educational show that I enjoy. class and definitely need something extra The boys / girls in SP are: to help me focus my attention on them. My fave hangout outside SP: Really cool and lovely people to be with! My friends’ houses. The best places to I love meeting people from all walks of life :) My SP chillax corner: "study". Hmm… spending time in the library with I wish my lecturers could be more… friends playing Monopoly, the best way to My fave place to shop for destroy friendships, hahaha. Fun-loving. Maybe they can invite us to clothes: their gigs to chill out or something (Yes, my Around town. lecturers play gigs. So cool!). My fave food court stall is: Food Court 2's chicken rice stall, the best My fave websites: Where I usually hang out in SP in SP! YouTube and Instagram. (my chillax corner): My DMAT classrooms! There's a drum set What’s in my bag / wallet: and keyboards for me to jam with my course Nothing special really. Most exciting thing mates all the time! in my bag would be my phone charger, while my wallet would be empty as My fave food court stall is: always. The nasi padang stall in Food Court 6. What is it you can’t leave home My fave celebrities are: without? Paramore, One Ok Rock, Ed Sheeran. I don't My mum nagging about why saving know if they're singers or celebrities, but money is important… I know right. I look up to them as my top inspirations and role models! My all-time fave songs are: My fave websites: Well, basically, I'd love anything punk rock. Tumblr, the site for the quirky. Introduce some good bands to me? What’s in my bag / wallet: My all-time fave TV shows are: My Galaxy S3, pencils, gummy bears, and Running Man! OMG they're so funny! tons and tons of music sheets that are, sadly, crumpled. My fave hangout outside SP: Esplanade's music library! It's such a What is it you can’t leave home conducive place for me and not to mention, without? there's a jamming studio inside too. Perfect for My trusty ear piece! all music lovers, or if you want a nice place for a date with your special someone ;) My fave place to shop for clothes: BUGIS! And Topshop... but that's for window shopping :( 05 Feature Story Edward Ho Vivien Tan Diploma in Banking and Finance (DBKF) Diploma in Integrated Events and SP Business School (SB) Project Management (DEPM) School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE) My all-time fave songs are: Fix You by Coldplay. It was written by Chris Martin (lead vocalist of Coldplay) for his wife, Gwyneth What do you like about SP? Paltrow (Pepper Potts in Iron Man), after her father The convenience! It’s the only poly linked to What do you like about SP? passed away. Coldplay has managed to delivered an MRT. And I like how people will always It’s really convenient to get to as it’s just words of encouragement to everyone through the say, "SP has a lot of pretty girls and good- beside the MRT station.