Wednesday, October 28, 2009

4th Day of AEM Business Course
While on the way to Ngee Ann Poly, I took some photos.
We only need to update on our personal blog, group blog and a new blog.
For lunch, we did not went to Makan Place or The Atrium. We went to the library as we are not very hungry. I had egg sandwich. The hotdog bun with egg was fabulous!
After lunch, we took a short ride to SingTel.



Took the lift to the 32th floor to check out the LTA management. Basically, they would recieve calls and give asisstance to the caller.



3rd Day of AEM Business Course
On the 3rd day of AEM, Mr Chee thought us about database. Creating tables on Microsoft Access.
It's a rainy day.
During lunch time, I had Ayam Penyet at Makan Place.
After lunch, we went to NUS for a satellite workshop. It was kind of boring though.
After that we went to see a satellite which has the diameter of 13.1m. Mr John says that Malaysia wanted to copy us and made a exact copy of satellite but their's has the diameter of 13m. Still smaller than ours.

Monday, October 26, 2009

2nd Day of AEM Business Course
Have been wanting to visit Ngee Ann Poly again during the weekends. So when Monday hits the morning, I'm off to school for NP. I always have monday blues but this time, I can't wait for Monday to come!! On the way to NP, I took some photos in the bus.

We arrive at Ngee Ann Poly and anticipation filled the air. Basically during lecture lesson, we just slightly update our personal blog and our group blog.

We were released for an hour and half for our lunch. I'm not going to have chicken rice this time. I'm having korean kimchi beef noodles. Convincing myself that the noodles will not taste as bad as the chicken rice, I took my first spoon. Indeed it did not failed me!

We returned to our class to prepare to proceed to City Plaza. Some photos before we take flight off to City Plaza.


Mr Chan said it is like a wholesale centre for retailers and a lower percentage for blogshop owners. The multi story orange building look unappealing and furthermore, City Plaza was well known for suggestive clothing.



When we entered the building, Mr Chan took us to the fourth level to give us a short debrief before letting us roam around. We were seperated into our small groups. City Plaza didn't fancy me much though because most of the shops are filled with women's apparels and some, restaurants. I took photos of three shops.

Shopping at City Plaza requires two skills. Negotiation and having a 'thick' skin. The sales lady would either shun you on the way you dress or serve you with their whole heart. But chances are they only wanted you to purchase at least one thing from their shop. Photography are also not readily accepted by many shops. There is nothing much for me to see as I'm a guy and only two shops there sell men's clothing but the clothes are ugly. Strolling many shops and levels later, we played the one dollar machine. I spend $3 on it and got nothing! I want my patrick! :'(

We decided to eat at KFC to end our trip at City Plaza.

Friday, October 23, 2009

1st Day of AEM Business Course.

My first day at Ngee Ann Poly having the AEM business course was great! Everyone seem to be so pleasent and friendly. *Smiles*
In the morning when I'm preparing for school, I was thinking since this is second time I'm coming to Ngee Ann Poly, I should be a little familar around the campus.
Around 8, we arrived at Ngee Ann Poly.

I thought to myself that business courses must be extremely boring and it's going to be a long day but the lecturer with a friendly attitude changed my mind as he welcome us with his cheerful personality and his HUGE collection of sweets.

In this AEM business course, we learn how to make money through blogging. We cannot really make big bucks by blogging about our personal life. Instead, a blog that makes money is through the passion that we have. We can make money through Adsense. Where it advertise, so when somebody click onto it, we can make money. Besides Adsense, I also know Nuffnang. It works the same as Adsense.

We had our tea break at around 10:30am. We had noodles, crabmeat and drinks. I always wanted to go to LASALLE after I graduated but I might change my mind...
Around 11, the students from business & accountancy brought us to have a "Round the Campus Experience". They brought to a lot of place. Ngee Ann Poly was HUGE. The place I love most was OurSpace@72. It offers a large space for students to relax and chat. Gosh, I'm starting to love Ngee Ann.

They also brought us to the field, swimming pool, library and gym. I must say, the library at NP was a few times bigger than that of our neighborhood shopping centre library. There is also a place for us to play tennis with ourselves against the wall.

According to one of our guide, NP have 4 canteens and have lots of interest group to join. Like dragon-boat, water polo and more. Out of the 4 canteens, I can only remember two canteens. One is "The Atrium" and the other is...

Makan Place

Makan Place offers a vast variety of food, ranging from chicken rice to japanese food and from our local delight, laksa to 60 cents dessert. Though it offers a variety of food, I chose a plate of chicken rice as my lunch and it did not came to very nice as I thought it to be. I finished to half way a push it aside. My friend joked that the chicken used was from kampong.

As there still plenty of time after I finished the chicken rice, I make a short distance to OurSpace from Makan place to join my other group of friends. By the time I arrive OurSpace, it was flooded with students. It took me some time before I manage to find my friend. I guess after an hour of lecturing and touring around Ngee Ann, they must be tired.

It didn't took us long before we were back to have our lecture again. I'm actually quite excited about what's coming up. Mr Chan taught us about Electronic Commerce. Commerce refers to the exchanging of goods and services. Singapore's E-Commerce isn't taking place at the moment and it not in the near future as Singapore is a small country. Hence, goods and services and be reached in a very fast time unlike USA where the spread across their country was huge. Thus, they need to use internet to exchange their goods and services. E-Commerce contains 6 sections. Business to Business (B2b), Business to Consumer (B2C), Business to Government (B2G). Between these 3. Business, Consumer and Government.
We learnt different terms on E-Commerce too. For example, commoditylike refers to the same no matter where you buy it. Digital refers to the best of all because of low cost inventory and shipping.
This workshop offers me a lot of information. As we agree to Mr Chan's terms and conditions, he let us off earlier at the time of around 4:30pm. As we exit out of the room, we threw our sweet wrappers on the rubbish bin. Look at the number of sweets we ate. Mr Chan had lots of sweets for us indeed.

We stroll along the fountain on the first level of school of business and accountancy and through The Atrium. I was taken aback to see that NP also have a radio station. The DJ inside was chatting happily as he speak through the microphone. I just can't wait to graduate and enter Ngee Ann Poly now.

We went home by taking the bus. One thing I like about NP was that the convience. The bus stop was located just outside of the school.

I just can't wait to return to NP again on Monday. Made up my mind to come to Ngee Ann Poly after I graduate.