Turns out, There's more!

Andddddd in a blink of an eye, I'm actually done with my first year in University when I can clearly remember the day I sat at the exact same spot and being uncertain yet excited about life as a student all over again.

(SIT adopts a trimester basis academic calendar so in a year we have 3 trimesters)
Strictly speaking, I'm done with 2 trimesters into my year one and the third trimester is for my peers who are unable to exempt their internships (due to the different background they came from), which brings me back to the day when my tutor during secondary school days were concerned if the poly that I chose to go, offers advance standing (ie. credit exemptions) to universities. At that time, it didn't hit me cause I thought I wasn't able to study till I end up in a university. But right now as I look back, so grateful for her, if not I'll probably be crying at my study desk all day.

So, I am currently granted a 4-months long 'holiday' cause I was able to exempt my internship. This is the one and only longest holidays that I will ever have throughout my course of study cause between the trimesters, the 'holidays' will only last for 2 weeks and back we are in school! Thus, its my unofficial end of year one and in September, I'll be returning to school as a Year 2 students with no more exemptions (argh). Having said so, university is really really really not easy. I thought I was ready cause I remembered how much I hated work, but studying is another level of effort at your own expense. Taking into consideration that a bigger part of me expects myself to do well and good and that contributes to the stress, but....environmental played a huge role too. Its really "the only easy days were yesterday".

I had my fair share of fun this trimester (I only had three modules and two were electives). Sometimes, when people ask "Why did you choose to study Hospitality for both your diploma and degree" and my answer will always be "Cause hospitality is the only thing that I don't mind studying". Which is true. Cause I really felt I had fun while doing (some) projects. It can be really really really fun and it allowed me to realize that I actually have some interest in videoing. My interest to snap photos and all was just chucked aside cause I thought that was normal, but after projects got interesting and wanted us to film videos to support what we have to suggest accordingly... I wouldn't say I'm good in it (yet) but I believe one day I will be there if I really put in the effort to.

It all started with an elective I chose, Destination management. As suggested, we are supposed to learn how do we manage a destination (i.e a country).  If you're a fellow Singaporean, you will not be convinced cause I'm pretty sure even though I'm super patriotic and I love Singapore, I do find Singapore boring for those with lesser spending power like everything is just EXPENSIVE AND MORE EXPENSIVE if you want something fun. I don't think I can afford a lot of the attractions offered in Sentosa.

Though these attractions are nothing new, but a brand new angle that we tried to propose was Nightfall. Its not the typical clubs at Clarke Quay but what can business travelers do in Singapore after their day in conferences. Very often we hear people commenting that Singapore's nightlife is all about Clarke Quay but in this video we've created, we beg to differ. Because turns out, there's more! 

Simply said, we wanted to promote friendships between nationals and Thai tourist (cause Thais apparently value friendships and families a lot). And coincidentally, one of our recommendations was to adopt a tourist and the local host will provide accommodation and companionship (and there's more to it but i'm not gonna touch more) and we could link it to the synopsis of our promotional video. HAHAHAHHA cause we did our filming even before working on our report. I was glad that our results well reflected our efforts for the project! But most importantly, I really had fun doing late night filming and couldn't care the judgmental glances from the passerby (especially the Little India scene cause we actually did it on a Sunday night gosh). Not to mention the Swee Choon scene...all seemed well but the glances from neighboring tables...they had no intention to judge us discreetly but given that we had 5 teens sitting in a semi circle and 3 cameras, with one huge tripod mounted...alright. And you can see the talents in our course by the related videos...if it works.

Subsequently, I attempted a short video during my trip to Kukup with da family for grand's birthdayy. Turns out it wasn't that bad.

not to mention i only had the idea to start filming cause I brought the tripod, but not the camera. YAY for my brains.




{I have nothing else to say, till then}