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Game Design using Snap
Planet Saviors
Aim: To score points by clicking on the planets. Planet Earth has a centrifugal motion. Its centrifugal force becomes increasingly bigger in size with each click and it bounces off the boundaries. Planet Jupiter starts by moving straight. Its direction changes become more random, and more unpredictable with each click.
Blog Layouts
Since 2006, I started experimenting with Photoshop, fonts and editing HTML/CSS codes for the Blogger format. I used base codes and created templates for my blogs and also made-to-order for friends. I mostly did simple, two columned layouts with a header, sidebar (for profile, links, tagboard and RSS).
These are a few of the layouts:
Graphics modified from Getty Images
How the largest student-organised flash mob in Singapore in 2012 looked like:
Video Credits: Daryl Boey Music: Gangnam Style Location: Raffles Place MRT Station
7th August 2012
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Flag Day Charity Flash Mob: Success!!
Our carefully planned operation included having:
Different orientation groups turn up at the venue at staggered timings after lunch
All students to travel in plain clothes and small groups to avoid suspicion
Borrowed the powerful speakers from Aventis insurance sellers at the venue in exchange for some publicity for their booths at the end of the flash mob, i.e. being open to last-minute win-win deals
As a result, we captured attention from weekend crowds along Raffles Place extending to the shopping district at Dhoby Ghaut and Somerset (nearly 5km) away. This greatly helped with our students' morale and faculty's fundraising total.
Dec 12, 2012 0900 hrs
My main purpose of going to hk fulfilled: Disneyland! It’s been 1.5 years but I’ve finally returned (previously visited Disneyworld Florida), realised that I’ll never be sick of it :> The pictures should speak for themselves.
We took the Disneyland Express and the train...
I am finally getting this travelogue up (and many things on the list to come) because I have finally… gotten enough sleep. To say I’ve been missing out on sleep this December is a gross understatement, have been jumping awake to an alarm every single morning for three weeks. Wouldn’t wish that on...
Poster: Debunking A Nutrition Myth
September 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5.5
References:
1. United States Department of Agriculture. (2012). Nutrient data for sweet potato, baked, cooked in skin, without salt (Data file). Retrieved from http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3274
2. United States Department of Agriculture. (2012). Nutrient data for potatoes, white, flesh and skin, baked (Data file). Retrieved from http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3152
Hernandez, Daniela. (2011, June 23rd). Potatoes can add plenty to waistline. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/23/health/la-he-diet-obesity-20110623
Woolfe, A. Jennifer. (1992, March) The nutritional value of sweet potato roots and leaves (Pg 118 -141). In Sweet Potato: An Untapped Food Resource. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_MWmIDzNMSYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=%22sweet+potato%22+&ots=zXIbLz1r7E&sig=Sgbr91-hQhVl1P8fFVkmNtLJbIg#v=onepage&q&f=false
5. Lindsay. (2011, October 24th) Picture retrieved from http://pinchofyum.com/healthy-sweet-potato-skins
6. Ramsdell, Lindsey. (2012, March). Picture retrieved from http://vinutritionbusinesscoaching.blogspot.sg/2012/03/kids-just-arent-getting-enough-fruits.html
Press Release, October 2012
National University of Singapore Raffles Hall Musical Productions
NEWS
For immediate release
Biggest Student Production Ever Opens This Month
Singapore, 11 October 2012 –The National University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall Musical Productions will open the university’s first and biggest show of the year, “Roulette – The Musical” on 20 October at the University Cultural Centre.
With an unprecedented team of 286 students, the annual residential project at Raffles Hall scales new heights in many ways.
Audiences will enjoy large-scale, dramatic sets visualised and constructed solely by the residents. They will also be in for a treat with the special features planned.
“For one, we will have a live band for the musical’s songs, it has never been done before,” Xiong Ze Hao, the marketing vice-head for the production revealed.
The musical lends much light-heartedness to a serious issue. Adapted from the play “Casino – The Musical” by author Richard Lord, the three student producers have rewritten the script to reflect the thrills and dangers of gambling.
Dixon Tioh, one of the co-producers, said that the musical uses comedy to “poke fun at so-called structured financial products” and “the people who buy them without knowing what they really entail.”
Set in the fictitious Golden Sands Singapore, audiences will follow Everett, a heart-broken young man desperate to get rich fast, on his journey of love, greed and salvation. When the losing streak happens, they will find out what challenges Everett will face and discover who will help him.
This production promises to live up to the expectations of new and experienced theatregoers. Xiong said, “I urge all students to come prepared to be awed by the biggest team and the biggest show on campus.”
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Objective: To persuade at least 250 more students from the current 255 to attend Roulette – The Musical by 20 October 2012.
About NUS Raffles Hall Musical Productions
Raffles Hall Musical Productions, or “Concert”, is an annual stage production produced by a team of at least 200 residents from Raffles Hall. Being the first hall in the university to hold a musical every year, Raffles Hall Musical Productions has always been one to set a benchmark for the other halls to achieve. Find out more and book your tickets to “Roulette – The Musical” at our official website: http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/1213/rhmp/
Exhibiting Passion for the Arts (A profile)
Interview was held at NUS Peranakan Baba House on Neil Road, Singapore Photo Credits to http://wiki.nus.edu.sg/ October 2012
Making a major career change at 41 may be unthinkable for the average Singaporean, but Foo Su Ling has done it and she is thriving in her new job – curating.
Foo, 50, took the leap from engineering to the arts 8 years ago. Setting her sights on the heritage and cultural industry, she left her job as an IT engineer and went back to school to do her Master’s degree in South East Asian Studies.
Since graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2005, she has embarked on a journey that is “very different and very exciting.”
“I was very fortunate to get a job at NUS Museum after I graduated,” she said from the picturesque front hall of the NUS Baba House that she now manages. Foo’s first foray into the arts was in the role of an outreach manager at the university’s museum and she has steadily progressed. Foo is into her fifth year as a curator with numerous exhibitions under her belt.
Notably, she has curated the Sculpting Life exhibition: The Ng Eng Teng Collection, South East Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery and is currently in charge of the Straits Chinese range of collections.
She never thought she would excel in curating because it was considered worlds apart from her previous jobs in the IT industry and her training as a mechanical engineer.
Foo spoke to her batch mates at the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) Engineering Alumni Dinner in May this year on her career change. Martinn Ho, a member of the NTI pioneer class book committee, was impressed. “Many engineering graduates have gone on to work in other fields and excelled, but Su Ling’s switch is unique and rare.” He personally considers such a switch at that age “quite impossible.”
The inspiration for Foo’s career change came late in life but her passion for history has always existed. She recalls her trips to Europe sparking her interest in the arts and culture. “When I started working, I had the chance to travel and it brought history to life.”
“At a particular point, I decided that I should do something about this interest that is a little bit more than just consuming culture as a tourist.”
Now, Foo wears a few hats as a curator, manager and sometimes, a tour guide for exhibitions. She typically splits her time between the NUS Museum and the NUS Baba House depending on her day’s agenda. Among other things, she is currently working on a new Straits Chinese collection to be launched this November.
The exhibition will comprise portraits of Straits Chinese individuals and couples from early 20th century Singapore, such as wedding pictures. They will be used to discuss social life, gender and modernity issues in that period. Foo will display them at the gallery in the Baba House, one of the last remaining untouched Straits Chinese houses here.
Although local curators frequently do not appear at the forefront of their exhibitions, Foo says that they do influence all aspects of its creation. She decides on elements ranging from the theme and content of the exhibition to the nitty-gritty details like wall text designs.
Working in a big museum may allow curators to focus on creating exhibitions, but for Foo, curating is only part of what she does. In a small museum of 20 odd employees, her work is very varied in scope.
Apart from her exhibition work, she is in charge of the administrative duties “that nobody thinks about.” A large part of her time is spent managing the budget, clearing invoices and loaning artefacts for the displays. Her previous technical training helps her in handling these “routine” but “extremely important” tasks.
Poonam Lawlani, a guest relations manager at the Baba House, describes Foo as a “down-to-earth, very good mentor” who “doesn’t think twice about taking on an extra load of work” when the need arises.
After 8 years in the cultural industry, Foo has grown to be in her element. She remains modest, saying, “I might not be young, but I’m very young in curating”.
So what is her key to a successful career change?
“Be fascinated with whatever you want to do, it will help you persevere through the hard parts. Curating still captivates me till today.”
Brochure: Understanding Turner Syndrome
March 2013
Adobe InDesign
Integrated Marketing Communications campaign for Ipanema, Grendene
Video collateral
Equipment: Sony Nex-6 Storyboard: Huiyi Lee Script: Saachi Sharma Actress: Connie Fung Narrator: Charmaine Chan
March 2013
After conceptualising the Integrated Marketing Communications campaign for this Brazillian flip flop brand, our team of 5 set out for a day to sunny Sentosa to film this video advertisement! The storyboard was designed have viewers perceive Ipanema flip flops as suitable for any leisure occasion and hence, an essential part of their ideal lifestyle. The aesthetics of the ad - bright colors, beach music and scenes of nature - create the appeal of fashion, fun and comfort in one package.
Reinventing Volunteering: A Social Enterprise
The Ridge, Published October 2012
Charmaine Chan
Ang Kar Yong was just your average second year architecture major, but this academic year he decided to take the path less travelled – a gap year, and following that he will be starting afresh at NUS business school next August. Two years wasted? For Ang, it is definitely not the case.
“I’ve wanted to become an architect since secondary school,” Ang said, but he took a year off school to reconsider his ambitions and to try out “a volunteering opportunity” that turned out big-time.
That opportunity was being part of the core team of Start Now, an up and coming social enterprise. But this is not your run-of-the-mill start-up. Start Now brings an innovative solution to our local volunteering scene as the first non-governmental volunteerism advocacy in Singapore.
Those may be big terms to swallow. Ang explained simply that Start Now connects schools and organisations to volunteers. They provide an integrated online platform for non-profit organisations (NPOs) to manage, train and engage with potential volunteers. On the website, a cloud system maintains volunteer accounts.
Start Now has worked with youths by powering the 2012 SHINE Youth Festival pledging portal, the National Youth Council's Community Service Marathon and is powering the upcoming International Volunteer Day celebrations here, redefining the use of technology for social good.
Ang is the creative director of Start Now and part of a five-member, all-undergraduate core team. The enterprise was the brainchild of two longtime friends, Keith Tan and Ivan Chang from NUS and SMU respectively.
Through their extensive experience in volunteering, they realized that there was a lack of proper engagement between non-profit organisations and their volunteers. Inspired by Tan’s winning project in 2008’s Students-in-Free-Enterprise National Competition, both co-founders started recruiting members for Start Now last year.
Since their official launch in February, Start Now has been making waves in the start-up scene. Ang said they have gained excellent traction in the volunteering community, with 165 NPOs and approximately 45,000 volunteers registered and numbers are growing every day.
As an enterprise, their business ideas have won them numerous accolades. Amongst them are winning this year’s Start Up @ Singapore Social Enterprise Business Plan competition, the biggest business plan competition in Singapore.
The grants from their winnings have helped them start the business, Ang tells us. “Having capital is really essential”, he said realistically, “We began with the Yes! Spring Singapore Grant in 2011”. Their business capital has come from competition grants and an angel investor thus far.
Now that the enterprise is up and running, plans to expand their clientele to the corporate sectors of Singapore are underway. Ang said profits from their engagement with companies will create sustainable revenue for the company.
Since August, Ang has been taking the helm of Start Now’s outreach and adoption in the corporate sector. Start Now will provide companies with the entire online platform as a privately-hosted solution. Ang added that research will be conducted to customise the platform for each company.
As the creative director of the company, Ang also takes charge of the design work for Start Now, including production of music and their website design.
On the current website (http://www.startnow.sg), students can sign up for an account free of charge, and immediately be connected to NPOs of their choice. Contact details and profiles will be made available to NPOs so volunteers can be contacted directly for current or future volunteer opportunities.
For aspiring entrepreneurs, Ang has some words of experience. “I would say, set a time target for yourself.” “That’s what I did. I decided to give a year of full time commitment to see if it’s really something I want to do.”
His entrepreneurial journey has been worth the leap he took, being with Start Now gave him the opportunity to help others to do good and learn about running a business. He urges students to let go of the mindset that they should prioritise studying. “If there is a chance to do something else, why not give it a try?”
Photo Credits to Start Now
Costa Concordia Public Relations Campaign
May 2012
In 2012, Costa Cruises suffered a blow to their reputation due to the sinking of their ship Costa Concordia and the spate of reports in the media about the causes and ill-handling on the part of the company.
My team decided to take up the assignment of proposing a public relations solution to Costa's big media problem: not through spin, but Management by Objectives - making changes and carrying out concrete initiatives to alleviate the situation, then changing perspectives through the use of media.
Click to view the presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/chrmnchn/2219-finalised-ppt-18353133
Birthday celebration video: A cross-country collaboration
One of my closest girl friends, Huiyi, celebrated her 21st birthday on 9th March this year. She has been in a long-distance relationship and hasn't seen her boyfriend in almost a year. To surprise her, I collaborated with Kenny, a training pilot in Bordeaux, France, to do up three short snippets for her and made a simple video using iMovie. We presented it at dinner to many screams and tears of joy.
Thereafter we coordinated a Skype appearance for Kenny and witnessed a heartfelt exchange.
Such scenes make me feel technology can really bring people closer, no matter I've read about the negative effects of new media and I will also be looking forward to making more videos during the summer holidays!
