Hello everybody ! Sorry for all the delay in updating the blog.

Well anyway, we had a big and interesting visit from Pasir Ris Secondary School on the 11th of June. The students brought along a huge level of excitement, although they didn't really open up for any queries or questions. Haha. But they were an interesting bunch.

Together with Amalina and Ms Natasha, the three of us were made to 'entertain' our groups of students in the specialist labs. They went through a series of websites like the TP IMI website, yeap, this exact proud blog of ours ! and plus the iMinds website as well as a couple of games produced by our very own students in IMI.

We are very sure they left with the 'constant echoing' of the name IMI aka I AM I ! Haha. Had a good time indeed :)

A treat of photos for you !

Botaks!

Clarence and Kim Choon came by to visit and "show off" their new hairdo (after much persuasion of course). Yo, IND alumni, if you have photos to share, esp the botaks one, do email us ok :)

Labels: alumni

Before I start today's post, I would like to announce that yours truly, Zul, along with three other IMI juniors, Valenisha, Kok Peng and Tian Seng, have emerged successful and is now a part of the main committee of IITSC! :D

Well, sorry for the topic drift. Today, primary six students from Pei Tong Primary School, (if you don't know where it is, neither did I, it's somewhere in Clementi) gave IMI a visit and boy, were they a fiesty group!


Assisted with the October Intake Freshmen, Edward and Eendra. They met the kids way earlier than I did so from the looks of it, Double E did a great job! Kudos, boys!

Well, the kids were a loud bunch but one can't help but notice their shyness and unwillingness to open up. What did the army of IMI lecturers to do?

Call the most gregarious IMI student and demand that he make a fool of himself.









So finally got the kids to participate by showing them indeed it was fun. Most of them answered, "oh I know this one! I play at shopping mall before!" proving that what we do at IMI touch lives. AHHH.

Getting the kids to play together was fun. It was amazing how even though they're young, they manage to spread work. It was evident that teamwork was there.



Love,
Zul

Say hi to St.Hilda's Sec :)

Graduation 2009



The '06 cohort of IND students (currently known as IMI) graduated today. IIT school was honoured to have Ms Grace Fu, Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Ministry of National Development, witness the event and gave a meaningful speech to the graduands. Amongst them are our regular bloggers – Alastair, Raymond, Alvin, Shellen, Wanqi.



To make the event more meaningful, Kevin Lee’s ambition of completing the course has finally come to fruition today. Kevin was featured in The New Paper on 17 May 2009. Kevin suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (rapid muscle degeneration) since the age of 10; he would attend lessons on a wheelchair and is usually accompanied by his mom. His condition deteriorated over the years but his sheer determination and perseverance only serves to prove one point: Nothing is impossible. Congratulations!!!

The New Paper : 17 MAY 2009

From all the IND/IMI lecturers to the '06 Cohort: Best Wishes to all of you!

Labels: Graduation

Hi guys

You probably have been asked to sign a petition to save TP squash in school just today.
If you have facebook, would you be so kind to join the Save TP squash group??

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80908947098


THANKS A MILL!

Alastair

Being a Global Citizen



38 students set off to Cambodia from 29 Mar to 5 Apr. Some went as part of their Cross Disciplinary Subject called Global Citizenship. Others went for Overseas Community Project, doing their part for the Cambodian students.



No matter how tough the life may be, the Cambodians always smile from their hearts and welcome you dearly.


Not only new friendships were built, the IMI students found they grew closer to one another and got the opportunity to know the freshmen, juniors and seniors.

Practising hard for their cultrual night performance. Watch it here!!!

Labels: Cambodia, Global Citizenship, IMI, IND

Hello~
Yes since the blog is rather dead I've decided to come and help save the day!

There have been super alot of questions about camps and laptops. Its really been rather long ago since i attended camp but i'll try my best to help.

1. Do try to attend the orientation camp as it is going to be somehow of like a bond you're gonna make with people ur most likely gonna stick with for 3 years. You never know what good friends you might make which will help with projects and stuff. haha Oh and thats where you learn the basic things around Tp, like your student id and password and stuff. You'll know when you go =)

2. Regarding laptops for this course, yes this course is rather graphic intensive, so it would be best to go for a higher end laptop, with graphics by Nvidia. Why Nvidia? Cos it can support most games very well. heehee.

A higher end laptop to ME would mean
- Intel Core 2 Duo (and above if have)
- 2GB Ram Minimum
- Nvidia Geforce (preferbly 8000 and above, minumun 256 mb)
- A nice to type keyboard. (Trust me. You'll need this for ******* programming)
- Windows Vista ( I have heard rumors saying Windows 7 is much much much better than Vista, but since no one is using it lets play safe. ) (( Thank God im still using Xp. whahahha!))

And of course lets not forget about the weight, since you'll be carrying it to school rather often.
Battery life too. Make sure you get a good one and dont destroy your battery life until its left with like 5 mins at 100% full battery. =.=

Notice im not talking abouts Macs cos
1) Im anti Mac
2) I know nuts about Macs, aside from them being white and have irritating functions.
3) I lazy to type somemore. I wanna bathe.

For Mac users: Dont worry. Mac CAN be used, but you gotta have the Mac version of the softwares that you are gonna use.

One word of advice. DON'T get a Mac and install Windows in it. Thats just plain dumb, and its spoiling the Mac. You want Windows get Pc, dont want Pc get Mac.

With all these said I hope it helps and i really hope to see you guys in school.






To your granny: Nice timing on the last post sia. 4.44 am. hahahaha

Hello guys :D

Blog's been rather dead, but no matter, I've come to save the day! :P
Anyway I'm not here to answer the many questions about camp, its way too long ago. Don't actually remember much now. Haha as for laptop decisions, can't give much advice either since the one I chose is currently the butt of jokes when talking about laptops.

Just here to welcome the new FRESHIES! HEREBY STARTS YOUR POLY LIFE! STUDY HOR.
YAY.

For the second years, GPA GOOD NOT?! YOU'VE SURVIVED A YEAR IN IMI!
YAY.

and for the people in my batch... WE ARE THE SENIOOOOORS. WE CAN ORDER FRESHIES AND JUNIORS AROUND!~
YAY.

for the graduating people... uhm.
BYEBYE.

Hey Guys! Wanqi and Shellen here. We've been asked to help update the IMI blog by Alastair and Alvin ages ago, but we got too wrapped up with our activities over here that we only got round to doing it now. *Grins*

Anyway, 18th Feb, our last day of work in UQ. It has been a busy day for us here, since we had a meeting and presentation of what we have been working on in the morning, and another meeting with the school clerk about administrative matters later in the afternoon. For those of the people who may know us, Shellen and I have been here for close to four months now, and both of us have been assigned to work on individual projects. Below is a brief description of our projects:

Shellen – [AirBiff]

The project, AirBiff, aims to promote awareness among people around us by enabling to send and receive information about each others' current activity. The concept of designing and evaluation of the AirBiff system allows users to freely create, share and use a variety of activity indicators (biff application) to create awareness to people.

Currently, one of the biggest problems which AnyBiff (Version 1 built by Markus Rittenbruch) faced was to support distributed groups to develop for multiple platforms such as Windows, Macintosh. The deliverables for this project will be building the application using Adobe Air and Flash Actionscript 3. The Adobe AIR platform provides a way to develop cross-platform applications which simplifies the process of developing collaborative tools that can be used in real-world settings.

Wanqi – [UQ Equipment Booking System]

During my stay here, I have been working on re-writing the equipment booking system that students have been using to book equipments for the various school projects. In the beginning months, I have spent much of my time doing research and also gathering user requirements for the new system. To achieve this, Dr Viller helped me in arranging meetings and interviews with the students and staff, and has also held many meetings to brain storm about how the system can be made as efficient and user friendly as possible. Besides conducting interviews, I have also done up class diagrams and the site structure to help me better understand how the entire site would work and link together.

In the process of developing my application, I have incorporated the use of Spry data, PHP, Javascript and CSS to achieve some interactive features such as live! Search. Ultimately, the main aim of my project is to allow for students to book equipment easily and conveniently, while enabling the admin office staff to retrieve the equipment in the easiest way possible as well.

This is our supervisor, Dr Stephen Viller. He was the one guiding us through the duration of our projects, and encourgaed us to do a lot of research and understand the concept of the projects, what users wanted before jumping to programming.

We also had another working partner called Andew Dekker, who was our go-to-guy when we needed help with programming. 

Besides working at the UQ five days a week, we have also planned various outings here during the weekend, which usually takes us to activities like hiking up mountains, theme parks, a little shopping here and there, and group outings to beaches and overnight camps out in the nature. While here, we also made many friends from all around the world, etc, Sweden, Germany, China, Taiwan, Peru, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Australia, and to our very surprise, Singapore. It was great as we managed to forge a close bond through our 4 month stay here, and had many memories together which we would take with us as we move on with life.

Shellen and I would also be extending our stay here for a week to travel to Tasmania for a 6 day outdoor adventure trip. We will be going with Robin – our friend from Germany – and two other girls. Our stay here in Aussie will end on the 26^th of February, where we would be flying back home to Merlion City.

 

 

 

Hello everybody ! Sorry for all the delay in updating the blog.

Well anyway, we had a big and interesting visit from Pasir Ris Secondary School on the 11th of June. The students brought along a huge level of excitement, although they didn't really open up for any queries or questions. Haha. But they were an interesting bunch.

Together with Amalina and Ms Natasha, the three of us were made to 'entertain' our groups of students in the specialist labs. They went through a series of websites like the TP IMI website, yeap, this exact proud blog of ours ! and plus the iMinds website as well as a couple of games produced by our very own students in IMI.

We are very sure they left with the 'constant echoing' of the name IMI aka I AM I ! Haha. Had a good time indeed :)

A treat of photos for you !

Botaks!

Clarence and Kim Choon came by to visit and "show off" their new hairdo (after much persuasion of course). Yo, IND alumni, if you have photos to share, esp the botaks one, do email us ok :)

Labels: alumni

Before I start today's post, I would like to announce that yours truly, Zul, along with three other IMI juniors, Valenisha, Kok Peng and Tian Seng, have emerged successful and is now a part of the main committee of IITSC! :D

Well, sorry for the topic drift. Today, primary six students from Pei Tong Primary School, (if you don't know where it is, neither did I, it's somewhere in Clementi) gave IMI a visit and boy, were they a fiesty group!


Assisted with the October Intake Freshmen, Edward and Eendra. They met the kids way earlier than I did so from the looks of it, Double E did a great job! Kudos, boys!

Well, the kids were a loud bunch but one can't help but notice their shyness and unwillingness to open up. What did the army of IMI lecturers to do?

Call the most gregarious IMI student and demand that he make a fool of himself.









So finally got the kids to participate by showing them indeed it was fun. Most of them answered, "oh I know this one! I play at shopping mall before!" proving that what we do at IMI touch lives. AHHH.

Getting the kids to play together was fun. It was amazing how even though they're young, they manage to spread work. It was evident that teamwork was there.



Love,
Zul

Say hi to St.Hilda's Sec :)

Graduation 2009



The '06 cohort of IND students (currently known as IMI) graduated today. IIT school was honoured to have Ms Grace Fu, Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Ministry of National Development, witness the event and gave a meaningful speech to the graduands. Amongst them are our regular bloggers – Alastair, Raymond, Alvin, Shellen, Wanqi.



To make the event more meaningful, Kevin Lee’s ambition of completing the course has finally come to fruition today. Kevin was featured in The New Paper on 17 May 2009. Kevin suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (rapid muscle degeneration) since the age of 10; he would attend lessons on a wheelchair and is usually accompanied by his mom. His condition deteriorated over the years but his sheer determination and perseverance only serves to prove one point: Nothing is impossible. Congratulations!!!

The New Paper : 17 MAY 2009

From all the IND/IMI lecturers to the '06 Cohort: Best Wishes to all of you!

Labels: Graduation

Hi guys

You probably have been asked to sign a petition to save TP squash in school just today.
If you have facebook, would you be so kind to join the Save TP squash group??

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80908947098


THANKS A MILL!

Alastair

Being a Global Citizen



38 students set off to Cambodia from 29 Mar to 5 Apr. Some went as part of their Cross Disciplinary Subject called Global Citizenship. Others went for Overseas Community Project, doing their part for the Cambodian students.



No matter how tough the life may be, the Cambodians always smile from their hearts and welcome you dearly.


Not only new friendships were built, the IMI students found they grew closer to one another and got the opportunity to know the freshmen, juniors and seniors.

Practising hard for their cultrual night performance. Watch it here!!!

Labels: Cambodia, Global Citizenship, IMI, IND

Hello~
Yes since the blog is rather dead I've decided to come and help save the day!

There have been super alot of questions about camps and laptops. Its really been rather long ago since i attended camp but i'll try my best to help.

1. Do try to attend the orientation camp as it is going to be somehow of like a bond you're gonna make with people ur most likely gonna stick with for 3 years. You never know what good friends you might make which will help with projects and stuff. haha Oh and thats where you learn the basic things around Tp, like your student id and password and stuff. You'll know when you go =)

2. Regarding laptops for this course, yes this course is rather graphic intensive, so it would be best to go for a higher end laptop, with graphics by Nvidia. Why Nvidia? Cos it can support most games very well. heehee.

A higher end laptop to ME would mean
- Intel Core 2 Duo (and above if have)
- 2GB Ram Minimum
- Nvidia Geforce (preferbly 8000 and above, minumun 256 mb)
- A nice to type keyboard. (Trust me. You'll need this for ******* programming)
- Windows Vista ( I have heard rumors saying Windows 7 is much much much better than Vista, but since no one is using it lets play safe. ) (( Thank God im still using Xp. whahahha!))

And of course lets not forget about the weight, since you'll be carrying it to school rather often.
Battery life too. Make sure you get a good one and dont destroy your battery life until its left with like 5 mins at 100% full battery. =.=

Notice im not talking abouts Macs cos
1) Im anti Mac
2) I know nuts about Macs, aside from them being white and have irritating functions.
3) I lazy to type somemore. I wanna bathe.

For Mac users: Dont worry. Mac CAN be used, but you gotta have the Mac version of the softwares that you are gonna use.

One word of advice. DON'T get a Mac and install Windows in it. Thats just plain dumb, and its spoiling the Mac. You want Windows get Pc, dont want Pc get Mac.

With all these said I hope it helps and i really hope to see you guys in school.






To your granny: Nice timing on the last post sia. 4.44 am. hahahaha

Hello guys :D

Blog's been rather dead, but no matter, I've come to save the day! :P
Anyway I'm not here to answer the many questions about camp, its way too long ago. Don't actually remember much now. Haha as for laptop decisions, can't give much advice either since the one I chose is currently the butt of jokes when talking about laptops.

Just here to welcome the new FRESHIES! HEREBY STARTS YOUR POLY LIFE! STUDY HOR.
YAY.

For the second years, GPA GOOD NOT?! YOU'VE SURVIVED A YEAR IN IMI!
YAY.

and for the people in my batch... WE ARE THE SENIOOOOORS. WE CAN ORDER FRESHIES AND JUNIORS AROUND!~
YAY.

for the graduating people... uhm.
BYEBYE.

Hey Guys! Wanqi and Shellen here. We've been asked to help update the IMI blog by Alastair and Alvin ages ago, but we got too wrapped up with our activities over here that we only got round to doing it now. *Grins*

Anyway, 18th Feb, our last day of work in UQ. It has been a busy day for us here, since we had a meeting and presentation of what we have been working on in the morning, and another meeting with the school clerk about administrative matters later in the afternoon. For those of the people who may know us, Shellen and I have been here for close to four months now, and both of us have been assigned to work on individual projects. Below is a brief description of our projects:

Shellen – [AirBiff]

The project, AirBiff, aims to promote awareness among people around us by enabling to send and receive information about each others' current activity. The concept of designing and evaluation of the AirBiff system allows users to freely create, share and use a variety of activity indicators (biff application) to create awareness to people.

Currently, one of the biggest problems which AnyBiff (Version 1 built by Markus Rittenbruch) faced was to support distributed groups to develop for multiple platforms such as Windows, Macintosh. The deliverables for this project will be building the application using Adobe Air and Flash Actionscript 3. The Adobe AIR platform provides a way to develop cross-platform applications which simplifies the process of developing collaborative tools that can be used in real-world settings.

Wanqi – [UQ Equipment Booking System]

During my stay here, I have been working on re-writing the equipment booking system that students have been using to book equipments for the various school projects. In the beginning months, I have spent much of my time doing research and also gathering user requirements for the new system. To achieve this, Dr Viller helped me in arranging meetings and interviews with the students and staff, and has also held many meetings to brain storm about how the system can be made as efficient and user friendly as possible. Besides conducting interviews, I have also done up class diagrams and the site structure to help me better understand how the entire site would work and link together.

In the process of developing my application, I have incorporated the use of Spry data, PHP, Javascript and CSS to achieve some interactive features such as live! Search. Ultimately, the main aim of my project is to allow for students to book equipment easily and conveniently, while enabling the admin office staff to retrieve the equipment in the easiest way possible as well.

This is our supervisor, Dr Stephen Viller. He was the one guiding us through the duration of our projects, and encourgaed us to do a lot of research and understand the concept of the projects, what users wanted before jumping to programming.

We also had another working partner called Andew Dekker, who was our go-to-guy when we needed help with programming. 

Besides working at the UQ five days a week, we have also planned various outings here during the weekend, which usually takes us to activities like hiking up mountains, theme parks, a little shopping here and there, and group outings to beaches and overnight camps out in the nature. While here, we also made many friends from all around the world, etc, Sweden, Germany, China, Taiwan, Peru, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Australia, and to our very surprise, Singapore. It was great as we managed to forge a close bond through our 4 month stay here, and had many memories together which we would take with us as we move on with life.

Shellen and I would also be extending our stay here for a week to travel to Tasmania for a 6 day outdoor adventure trip. We will be going with Robin – our friend from Germany – and two other girls. Our stay here in Aussie will end on the 26^th of February, where we would be flying back home to Merlion City.