We are TF Scholars and staff mentors arrived at Changi Airport at October 5 2015. Republic Polytechnic student helpers welcome us and provide orientation to Changi Airport. It is my first to see Singapore, and it is so cleanness everywhere. Changi Airport is one of the best in the world. After orientation we took a picture together.

After we took a photo, we leave Changi Airport by cartered bus. We went to Republic Polytechnic especially to Campus Height, place that we live until three weeks. And then we arrived at Campus Height, official gave us a card to access in our hostels. And this is a view of our hostels.

Next day, I feel better for today altough I am still tired. This morning, I have a breakfeast at canteen. And then We have been seated in LT – W2. We met all of participant of TF Scholar from Myanmar and Cambodia. Mr. Jason Tey, gave us a nice welcome briefing.

After that all of the participant of TF Scholars divided into group for indoor and outdoor team. Ms Sharmila has said that we have to out from our comfort zone especially if we got another person to be our team. I am as tem three with four people from Indonesia and three people from RP Student. We try to brainstorm, discuss our ideas and our contribution after we have finished TF Scale program. Then one of members of each team must to present the result. I am choosen to presented in front the class.

We back again to LT W2 for the presentation each country, Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia. We can see that every country has their own culture wich different in Singapore. Beside that we presented about our ideas and proposed the project.

After we finished presentation, we went to buffet dinner together.

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Halloo Singapore !!!!!!!!!

That the first word that spill out from our mouth when we came at Changi airport. We are so excited and we are very lucky, since we have a chance to join this program (Temasek Foundation SCALE). We went to singapore from Juanda Airport Surabaya on 5^th October 2015 at 2:00 pm.

And we landed at Changi Airport at 3:30 pm. We were greeted by Republic Polytechnic’s Students at Changi airport. They are very nice, and we were greeted so well since we came at Singapore at Changi Airport. We were invited to ride skytrain and we were very exicited, since our country doesn’t have transportation model like that. After that we went to Campus Heights to rest and prepare for the second day.

 

 

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Third day on Singapore? Let’s do something! We’re going to Singapore not just for vacation. We have a big mission. What is it? Learn something new everyday of course. But what is the main purpose? We have to learn about Raspberry Pi, and how to apply it on real life. If we want to apply it, we need to find the real problem on the real life. So where we going to go now? Let’s look at the picture below to find it out.

( Pic : Wake up girls. Are you to sleepy to take a tour? )

( Pic : There we go, Evergreen Circle. A nursing house for elderly people in Singapore )

( Pic : What? Our client is older people? That’s not a problem 😉 She’s also warm to us )

( Pic : She took us to her small cozy house, but it’s a really nice place to live )

Thank you auntie for your short time to chat with us, we’re gonna miss u 🙁 .

Let’s move to next place. Bollywood Veggie. What place is that? It’s a place where we can find a lot of variety plants in Singapore. Singapore don’t have enough space to grow a lot of plants, so they made a conservation. I think that’s a great idea.

( Pic : They said it’s a paradise. But it’s really a great paradise 🙂 )

( Pic : What a green place 🙂 With some creative marker sign )

( Pic : So creative, I almost belive if that’s real )

( Pic : The sign have a nice joke 😀 )

( Pic : Never forget to show if I’m exist 😉 )

( Pic : At night, we held a small food party to inbound all student from Indonesia and facilitator of TF scale )

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Oct 7, 2015

On Wednesday, we went to Evergreen Circle the place of the elder to do some activities there like dancing, karaoke, and learning some language and other great activity to enjoy the day. We communicate and try to know what problem they usually meet in daily life. I met the oldest one at Evergreen, her age is 91 years old and she has a watch that can detect her heartbeat and it can be her reminder to eat, take her medicine, or some important activity that she need.  She also always use clutch to help her to walk, but she’s still have a strong memories. One thing that make me sad whe she told us about her husband that passed away years ago and now she live alone because her child already have they own life with their family. So her child just visit her once/twice for a month. I hope we can help to make they life easier than before.

At the afternoon, we went to Bollywood Veggies, this location provides a great opportunity to see a fresh side of Singapore, a sanctuary catering to nature lovers – to come close to the unspeakable lives and to learn in depth about plants. We walked around Bollywood Veggies and took a photos together. So excited to see the green side of Singapore.

 

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Oct 6, 2015

On Tuesday, we gathered at teacher auditorium LTW2 with all student of TFScale2. Then we got our shirt, there are 3 kind of shirts and at that day we wore the green one. After that we came to the class and met Mr. Jason Lim for some lessons, he told us about PBL, this kind of system learning that use at Republic Poltyechnic by now, and we must learn about that system learning. Its different with system learning at my college but it sounds good to learn with the different way. At the end of lessons, each group must present the result in front of the classroom about their motivation to go to Singapore. At night we have a buffet dinner together at RP. Still on Tuesday, we spent our night by walked around Woodland Civic Center and bought some meals.

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Oct 5, 2015

Politeknik Negeri Malang student’s and I departed from our college at 8 am by bus and go to Juanda International Airport. We flight at 13.20 am to Singapore. We arrived at Changi Airport Singapore 2 hours later, when we came the Republic Polytechnic student has already there and gave us a warm welcome to us. Oh I am so excited when met all of them, they’re so friendly and invite us to walk around Changi Airport because they tell us that Changi Airport is one of the best International Airport. We also met the other students from Riau, Myanmar and Cambodia. This is the first time I go to Singapore, and I like this country because is has some unique things that make it different. Like it consists of some different kind of citizen (Chinese, Malay, India, European Asian), it also has kind of language and religion but they live with full of tolerants and peace. But the citizen can live in that different way. Back to the story, we went to Campus Heights at Republic Polytechnic and took a rest.

 

 

 

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This is our activity on 2nd day on Singapore. We had a short breakfast because we have to do briefing on the morning. We go to the campus canteen, but because it’s morning, some store still closed. It’s not bad, some store already opened and serve us delicious food. We met new friends from Politeknik Caltex Riau and RP there. We have a pra-inbound activities and share story about ourself country. It’s make me feel excited, because we can share each other experiment while breakfast.

( Pic : Campus Canteen, our first breakfast )

( Pic : Shortcut via library, why not? Pssttt, still in quiet please )

( Pic : Tour inside campus with new t-shirt, feels great )

( Pic : Are you happy? Let’s take a jumpshot picture )

( Pic : RP got swimming pool inside their campus, amazing! )

( Pic : Who want’s to play basketball? 😀 )

( Pic : What a pose huh? )

( Pic : They took a group selfie, you left me behind guys 🙁 )

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Hello there, my name is Rahadyan Anom Dewabrata, you can call me Anom. I’m a student on Politeknik Negeri Malang, majoring at Informatics Enginering. I think I’m a lucky person, because i can join TF Scale 2 student exchange program to Singapore. I’m not alone, with my another 19 friends.

 

( Pic : Me and my friends from Malang )

( Pic : My first flight was amazing )

( Pic : Me and Singa, mascot of Singapore )

( Pic : Student from Republic Polytechnic gave us warm welcome )

( Pic : They also take us on a tour in Changi International Airport with skytrain )

 

( Pic : Campus Heights, beautiful place where we live in Singapore )

I think that’s what i can share with you. Thank you for everybody that support us so we can came here.

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The second day in TFScale program, we visited two places. The first, is toEvergreen, like a nursing home community in Singapore. Evergereen is the place to do training, and care to residents elderly to enjoy their days. There we were divided into five groups to do some interviews with elderly there. Me and my group do an interview to a grandmother  91 years old. Grandma was only able to speak mandarin. Fortunately, in my group there are 2 people from RP and one of them can speak mandarin, so that our group can communicate with the grandmother.We discuss any problems or difficulties experienced by the grandmother  in living their daily lives.Then we collect any problems experienced by the grandmother during their everyday lives so hope we can find solution to the problem using Raspberry Pi technology with my group. I learned a lot about how life in Singapore  based on conversations with the elderly in Evergreen.

Life in Singapore is an independent life. A little socialize with the surrounding community. And most people live in apartments. Very rarely to find people who live in their own home . Especially the elderly who are aged, they prefer to live alone in an apartment rather than stay with their families. So that when they start to ache and their health declines, and few people who care for them. Some of them followed the nursing home community to fill their daily activities.Their activities are in nursing homes Evergreen include health checks, eating schedule, learning, entertainment and art work. Evergreen also provides a tool that can monitor the health conditions of its members, namely like a wristwatch that can detect the patient’s sleep schedule and the patient’s heartbeat. We as a student in the field of IT ( Information Technology ) will provide will make a usefull product to resolve the problems experienced by elderly using technology Raspberry Pi.

After visiting Evergreen, me and my friends visiting Bollywood Veggie. There are many gardens with various types of plants. We can see many kinds of plants such as the types of bananas, vegetables, trees, and a variety of other plant species.

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