Raspberry Pi (Oh…yay.)

October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 Worih Ilhamanto Leave a comment

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Enough with the playing-around-somewhere stuff. Things getting serious after we went to IDA and Sim Lim Tower to buy materials for our project. We looked around, looked around, looking for stuff we can use to develop our project using Raspberry Pi.

In addition, three days after October 12th was TIRING. We have to develop our project in those three (almost) sleepless days. Seriously.

Of course that efforts mean something. I learned how should teamwork will be. If a part or more doesn’t want to listen to others, that is not teamwork. Something may be done, but it won’t make each members happy or it won’t be as good as if the real teamwork runs.

Of course not only technical knowledge I got from those (almost) sleepless nights, but also this. If you want to earn something, you have to go through hardship and make efforts to be released from that hardship. I mean, look at this after our presentation.

A Week of Fun!

October 23, 2015 Worih Ilhamanto Leave a comment

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So I’m here again to write about my first week in Singapore, which is started from October 5th to October 11th. A week of fun, I have to say. After what I wrote in my post before, at October 8th, we gathered as respective team to do Raspberry Pi project. We were brainstorming, actually, about what is the problem(s) we found the day before in Evergreen and from that problem, we decide what system to make.

After that, in the evening, friends from RP took us to the Woodlands Waterfront Park. It’s beautiful to see sunset from there.

So yeah, my other adventure was in October 10th to Marina Barrage. I learned a lot of how is the system here in Singapore to produce fresh water. From what I heard, it’s pretty hard and thus I know why Singaporeans are very aware of water usage and promote to use water effectively.

And from there, they took us around (a very, very long walk, phew!) and our final destination for the day was the Merlion Statue which is a landmark for Singaporean. I must say that almost everything is useless when you do it alone, right. So that’s why human need others to live. So do I. Without friends, It must be boring to do even the most FUN stuff.

And the next day, we went to Universal Studios Singapore. What’s the purpose? Of course to HAVE FUN!

IMG_20151011_102105 — I don’t know who’s the lady beside me. Let’s just pretend I’m alone here, OK? >.<

So after a week, I think what I learnt is to have a clean, and healthy life. It can be started from ourselves, like to not throwing rubbish away at any place. If we start from each of us (no need to ask others to do so), all people will do the same good thing (like what they do here in Singapore). Oh, and also to use water properly.

To Find Solutions

October 23, 2015 Worih Ilhamanto Leave a comment

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October 7^th is my third day in Singapore. Comfortable, but kind of hard to go outside because of the heat, though. As you see, in Malang our average temperature is 25 degrees Celcius, and I bet it’s higher than that here.

Hmm, our second day…at 8 in the morning we assembled at South Canteen to have breakfast. Not all of us, actually as some of us already have breakfast in our hostel. At about nine we were departed by bus to Evergreen. Evergreen is a place where elderly lives after their retirement here in Singapore. Our intentions visiting there is basically to know how is their daily life there, hearing their story, and thus, understanding which problem of theirs could be helped with the technology we’ll be developed.

They are all very nice, especially one elderly we were talking to. She wants us to call her LK. She is 76 years old, but was still full of energy. She even made jokes to break the gap between us.

And after a bit chit-chat with her, we know that one of their problem is the red-emergency ropes installed inside their room. It supposedly to be pulled every time they need help for emergency situation, such as when they’re falling down, or suddenly unable to move.

This rope installed not in one place. But, Auntie LK told us that one day, she fell down rather far from this rope. Oh, she has problem with her feet, by the way. So, at that time she was unable to move and have to crawl all the way to reach nearest emergency ropes.

Anyway, this is the picture we took with her.

Team 4 with Auntie LK (from left to right) : Nico, Worih(me), Hanif, Adit, Auntie LK, and Jerry

After lunch and afternoon prayer we departed by bus from Evergreen to Bollywood Veggies. It is basically a place to conserve plants. Many kind of plants are planted. Some of them, we already saw them in Indonesia, so the fun part is knowing what is that plant called here. But some of them, we never saw in the first place so yeah, it’s fun also.

And lastly, we were also doing nuts-fun thing, like this.

That day was fun, fun, fun! Tireness was just acknowledged when we were back to our hostel. Phew!

Arrival

October 21, 2015October 21, 2015 Worih Ilhamanto Leave a comment

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So this is what I’ve prepared for this last five months.

I was selected to go to Singaporeeeee!

Well, I was chosen by my school, Politeknik Negeri Malang to be one of our representatives to join TF Scale 2 Program in Republic Polytechnic Singapore. Such an honor to me, selected among others great scholars here. My last five months was basically preparing my departure from Malang to learn a lot of things here in Singapore.

On October 5^th, 20 students including me were departed from Politeknik Negeri Malang at 9 o’clock by bus to Surabaya, as our flight to Singapore will be from Juanda, straight to Changi Airport. It was a long drive, though. Along with the traffic jam we encountered, it took us two hours to get to Juanda Airport. And it took us another two hours flight to Changi Airport.

Here’s a picture of us when we departed from our school, and one from when we arrived at Changi Airport.

Oh, and not forget to say, we were given a very warm welcome from our new friends from RP. One of the point we come here is to make a lot of new friends. Although we came from different country, different races, and different culture, it’s still fun to learn from each other and thus, we have to learn how to respect others.

These new friends of ours are very nice and friendly. After we greeted each other, they took us to walk around Changi Airport. It’s so vast, and a lot of thing to see. After the walk, we went to RP by bus. It took us about an hours to get to RP. As this is my first time to go overseas, especially to Singapore, my first impression is, wow, there are a LOT of BIG buildings here. Yeah, we also have some big buildings in Indonesia but still, it amazes me that those big buildings surrounded by beautiful road. A road that is not only clean, but also jam-free, it seems. Because everybody seems to take public transportation instead of private vehicles. Besides, most of them are very discipline. I didn’t see any rule breaking on the road till now. In Indonesia, we have lots of motorcycle user who are reckless and dangerous to other road users. So, yeah, we have quite a serious problem back home.

I’m so excited imagining any kind of things we can get here in this awesome country!

October 6^th is literally our second day in Singapore, but it’s the first day of our activities here as the day before were used to rest.

I awoke in an unfamiliar room, but where could it be? And then ah, I remember that I’m in Singapore now. In a very nice and neat hostel which is located inside the RP.

One thing that I learn on my first day is. Oh my God, we’re (me and another nineteens student from Malang) late! >.<. It’s a very bad thing to do. So I’ll try not to do that anymore. Anyway, my first agenda is welcome briefing. They arranged our schedules nicely, and it makes me more excited of what will I learn here.

And then, we were guided by some RP students to take a look around RP. My reaction is whaa? It’s very vast. I think I’ll lost if I go around by myself. I think it’s just because I’m not used to it. But seriously, RP’s very big.

After they took us around, we went class to have our first lesson. The thing that we got from first lesson is, we can’t let our very day passed by just like that. We have to learn something new every day. What could it be? It could be anything that improve our self-quality. Oh, and this time we were separated into five teams with mixed members. Some are from RP, some are from Malang, and some are our friends from Politeknik Caltex Riau.

After that, I prayed in the afternoon. This is also one thing I feel thankful, they also give us more than enough time to do our daily prayer. After we did that, we have lunch. We went back to class afterwards to do team presentation of what is our motivation to join this TF Scale Program.

As for myself, I want to join this program to gain more friends, experiences, and have a lot of fun!

I mean, that’s what we do here, right?