It’s time to have a quality time with Raspberry Pi for a week. Yeaahh, I’m so excited to build a project that can be useful for the elderly. To build our project, on the first day we must think and have a list of all stuff we need then shop all the things that we need at Sim Lim Tower. Then we do our project and make it real for the next 3 days and we had a presentation on Friday. On that week I learn how to work in a team, we must know each character of our team member, also help and respect each other, we must be a good listener if someone’s talking, actually communication is the most important thing if we work as a team because without an effective communication there will be miss understanding and maybe it’ll give a bad impact to the jobs. This week’s not about how sophisticated our project, is about how we can finish our goal that we plan with our way and how we enjoy this jobs and every single day together.

As an Indonesian, I used to adapt how to live at Singapore for this 3 weeks. And from 2 weeks I learn how to live there from Singaporean, yaah I’ve already observe how’s Singaporean live ,and that’s the result:

1. Diversity country

Characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices due its diverse ethnic mix of peoples originating from various countries (Malay, India, Chinese)

2. Use Singlish

Based of English that spoken in Singapore that use a particular dialect with its unique intonations and grammar, while English is one of Singapore’s official languages.

3. Walk fast

By the time I live at Singapore and I must walk to go to other place not to ride motorcycle / bicycle / car like in Indonesia, nowadays I learn to be a Singaporean that can walking fast, so I can save my money to buy something not to fill the gasoline for my motorcycle like in Indonesia. I think better go around by a walk then use any transportation because it can decrease the polute and more environmentally friendly.

4. Keep left

In Singapore, the right side just for fast walker. So if you want to stop on the escalator just keep on the left side and let people behind pass your right side. I think that’s like Jalan Tol in Indonesia for car and in there was happen to the people not car anymore.

5. Tidy, discipline(ontime), clean

This part is the most part I want to adapt for my own country, Indonesia. Why I want that? Because actually Indonesia is not tidy and clean enough like Singapore because the government hasn’t be able to firmly curb something wrong in Indonesia. I give you small example like when we’re littering at Indonesia there;s no punishment for it but for Singapore there’s a fine when you littering actually $500. I think that’s good for make the residents more discipline, maybe we can implement Fine too in Indonesia to make Indonesia a tidy, clean and discipline country.

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Oct 10, 2015

On Saturday, we had our second excursion to Marina Barrage. It is a government-commissioned dam built across the mouth of Marina Channel and it’s separates the water in Marina Basin from the seawater. The barrage is dubbed a three in one project as it serves three objectives: 1) Create a new source of water supply, 2) Act as a tool for flood control, 3) Provide a new life style attraction. The guide that brought us walked around Marina Barrage tell us little bit about how does Marina Barrage works, under normal conditions, the hydraulically-operated gates will be closed. When there is heavy rain but the tide is low, the gates will open to release excess water into the sea. When heavy rain coincides with high tide, the gates will remain closed while the pumps will be activated to pump the excess water out to sea.With this system, the barrage alleviates flooding in low-lying areas in the city, including Chinatown, Jalan Besar and Geylang. It also keeps the reservoir’s water level constant, thereby making it suitable for water-based activities such as sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and dragonboating. Visitors that come to the barrage can take a scenic walk on Marina Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that sits atop the nine crest gates and connects Marina South to Marina East. At the Marina South end of the bridge is the Visitor Centre, which has been designed to look like a seashell from the top. So, I think it’s important to have such kind of barrage at least 1 or more barrage for each country to keep and control the water volume, to prevent the flood and also to produce mineral water that can be consume by all of residents in that country.

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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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