In Singapore we came acoss some nice food!

Last week I visited the Singapore National Art Museum.

With the Student Pass, I entered the museum for free.

Before coming to Singapore,I ‘ve seen this special building because it is a successful case for refreshment of historical building.But I did’t realize it is just Singapore national art museum until I came here.

In the museum , I appreciated a lot of precious art work.

It is a good memory for me in Singapore!

Entrepreneurship is an elective course, designed and deployed by Professor Jianxi Luo, at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD). 30.111 is the course number. 30.111 nurtures student startups based on their actual hands-on design projects at SUTD. It works as a 3.5-month pre-seed accelerator with a structured academic and theoretical foundation. Experiential learning is aided with lectures, readings, classroom activities and guest panel discussions. Entrepreneurial students learn social-technical factors and forces affecting the entrepreneurship process and the principles for designing products, processes and people organizations under extreme uncertainty. This course has been supported by a large international network of 100+ entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, design and manufacturing experts. 1/3 of the course projects and teams have become actual startups and entrepreneurs.

 

Students learn knowledge and skills for design-centric entrepreneurship, by starting up a new venture based on their design projects, which ideally should leverage existing design prototypes and ideas from prior courses, fifth row, UROP, etc. Experiential learning is aided by lectures, readings and guest sharing. Via integrated experiential and theoretical learning activities, students are expected to understand the fundamental characteristics of the entrepreneurship process and the fundamental principles that underpin the integrated product-process-people design decisions under extreme uncertainty and resource constraints. The venture projects are supported by an “ecosystem” of entrepreneurs, innovators and venture capitalists.

 

We have to attend classes twice a week. One is lecture and the other is cohort class. My team is working on a project called Boxwaay, and our main product is frozen meat subscription. One of our teammates, Augustine, is a young entrepreneur himself and owns a company called UglyFood. He noticed that there are always tons of edible fruit being discarded every day, simply because they are not that pleasing to the eye, so he collected them from fruit retailers and make them into juices and sorbet popsicles. So we wondered: is it possible to project this idea into the general food market? We tried to go with meat. Meat is definitely something a lot of people can’t live without, from people who work out and require protein intake to Chinese people that enjoy hotpot. Augustine knew some meat retailers so we can have access to frozen meat supply. We made pretotypes of our products and so far it seems to work just the way we planned.

Last month, my friends and I took a trip to the Singapore zoo.Here we saw a large number of different animals. The most interesting part is the architectural style of the zoo that shows south-eastern culture.

In conclusion, the zoo is really worthwhile!

 

 

Before leaving we went to the underwater world on Sentosa for a visit. Before going in, I think it’s just a small museum with underwater animals, but in fact, it’s far bigger than I have expected. There are so many rare animals in the museum and the dolphins are really cute!

I’ve always had the preference for sunsets, oceans, coffee shops and fine little bistros by the street. That probably explains why I love the East Coast area so much.

East Coast is about 20 minutes away from SUTD by bus. From time to time I’d get bored with the simple food choices provided at the school canteen, so I often visited East Coast just for a switch. From fancy diners to low priced street food stalls, East Coast satiates most appetites.

There are plenty of cuisines to choose from here on the East Coast. Katong 328 Laksa, Apollo Char Kway Teow, and Sinpopo Brand cakes are my personal favorites.

Last month, on 17th Octobor, we were fortunately to be invited to attend the 2019 Young Asian Leaders Forum.Here we listened  many successful young leaders to tell their stories about their work to create a peaceful and sustainable future.

Nowadays, every country have complex connections in economy, social life and many other aspects. Not a country can become prosperous without corporation with other countries. Therefore, friendship between two countries is very precious and it can surely boost the development of two countries toghther!

In this project we raise funds on the street and the money will be used for children suffering from diseases to cure and go back to school.

Though it is not compulsory to do something else to attract people to donate, it is still tiring just standing on street for about 4 hours. Through these experience, we became more cherish our opportunity to go to university to study. And what is more valuable than money is people’s selfless love.

One challenge is that I am not very sure how to collect money from the strangers. But when I stood on the street, I found that many people would donate money on their initiative because when they see the logo on our collecting box they knew it is a trustworthy program held by a standard organization.

This fact moved me very much that because such program is regularly held in Singapore, habitants here are familiar with such program then they can donate their money with trust.

In a word, kindness is just a habit and it can be a habit!