Social entrepreneurship

Posted: 17:43 hours (GMT+8)

I was nominated for the Poly Forum 2007 by the DJ club officer. I spent the last week attending a few of their meetings. I actually had no idea what this whole thing was about before I turned up for the initial briefing. What happens is that us students from the 5 different polytechnics in Singapore (SP, TP, RP, NP and NYP) discuss issues and think of solutions for them.

My initial thoughts were that this was going to be the most boring thing I’ve done yet. I changed my mind when I found out my sub-theme was Social Entrepreneurship, which is something I actually have some interest in.

Who knows? Maybe in future I might be more involved with these sort of things. I can’t tell yet if I simply have an interest or if I have a passion for this.

I’ll cover that in a different post some other time.

2 weeks ago

Posted: 17:26 hours (GMT+8)

I thought I’d better update a bit since I’ve been rather quiet for the last couple of weeks.

2 weeks ago, I attended the SPDJ outing at Sentosa. It was actually quite okay. I guess a bit of sun once in a while isn’t that bad. I talked to some people that I hadn’t really interacted with before. Some of the new members did seem more comfortable at the beach than they had been back when we barely knew one another.

Kudos to the sub-comm., you all did a great job!

I left a little earlier to have dinner with Marian and AJ. AJ mentioned he was going shopping with his friend the following Saturday to take advantage of the Great Singapore Sale, so us girls decided to tag along.

So Saturday came and AJ ended up spending the most out of all of us even though they were there to revamp the other guy’s wardrobe. Haha. Eventually, we headed down to the Heeren where we spotted an event going on, the finals of Singapore’s 1st B-Boy Championship 2007.

It was cool to be able to see the judges Mouse (winner of the UK Championships 2006) and Unico (of the famous Rock Steady Crew) demo a bit before the actual competition.

Guess who, of all people, was playing the music? DJ Rattle! He was as surprised to see me as I was to see him. AJ’s friend was a little star-struck, since this was the first time he was seeing him up close.

Marian had to leave early but another girl joined us later. She was a little hyper and I was swept along with it, going on a little shopping spree of my own. She didn’t join us for dinner, so just the three of us headed to Timbre on AJ’s suggestion. Although the food was great, I felt really broke after that. Everything felt triple-priced (a main course costs around $15-17!).

What made up for it was that they were having Power Jam 2007 auditions while we were there, so we got a free show. We got to sit directly in front of the stage due to some tactical seat-switching. Heh heh.

Halfway through the event, it started raining really, REALLY heavily. The hosts joked about how everyone needed an umbrella, ella, ella, ay, ay, ay (I really hate that song). The rain only got heavier by the time the event was over. Being the young and crazy (and broke) people that we were, we ran through the rain all the way to the MRT station. I dropped my slipper halfway while crossing the road and had to go back for it. It was strange to realise that I was actually having too much fun to actually care about being embarrassed that I looked like a mess.

I’m looking forward to going out with them again (to a cheaper place though). I hope we can arrange something sometime soon.