Yesterday I slept extremely early, probably around 9 PM. But later then woke up at 12 AM and found that I couldn't get back to sleep. So I slept at around 2 AM, but still, enough sleep (: Before that I helped Daqi and other Boarders' Council members to carry the painted dustbins from the Dustbin Painting Competition from Hall D to Hall B (or Block B, you could say). I wasn't there to spectate the painting process, but the designs were quite nice.
The dustbin that was painted by Heng Yang and Mr Dennis Teo (Boarding Staff) was completely off-theme haha, it was supposed to be based on "Eco-Friendly" stuff, but they painted one themed with red blood. =D The nicest design, I had to say, was Ms Quah's (Council Mentor) design.
Anyway, today's SMTP (IS) was much more interesting. We had a field trip to Novell Singapore, an international IT company that specializes more on software applications. Pretty much interesting, and I learnt that they were strong supporters of Open Source development as their presentations indicate. All the laptops used for the talks and presentations were running Linux and OpenOffice.org.
We also had a demonstration of the innovative technologies by Novell. There was also a webcast with a university student (who is attached to Novell), who is currently in Germany. I did participate actively in the talks. Novell Singapore does not really have any developers, and the office space wasn't really big. 17 of us squeezed into the meeting room. However the room had a view of the more popular tourist attractions in Singapore (NDP floating platform is one).
Overall it was an enriching experience. (: And I also had the chance to enquire about professional certifications in the IT industry (:
That's it for now. I'm tired ~_~
The dustbin that was painted by Heng Yang and Mr Dennis Teo (Boarding Staff) was completely off-theme haha, it was supposed to be based on "Eco-Friendly" stuff, but they painted one themed with red blood. =D The nicest design, I had to say, was Ms Quah's (Council Mentor) design.
Anyway, today's SMTP (IS) was much more interesting. We had a field trip to Novell Singapore, an international IT company that specializes more on software applications. Pretty much interesting, and I learnt that they were strong supporters of Open Source development as their presentations indicate. All the laptops used for the talks and presentations were running Linux and OpenOffice.org.
We also had a demonstration of the innovative technologies by Novell. There was also a webcast with a university student (who is attached to Novell), who is currently in Germany. I did participate actively in the talks. Novell Singapore does not really have any developers, and the office space wasn't really big. 17 of us squeezed into the meeting room. However the room had a view of the more popular tourist attractions in Singapore (NDP floating platform is one).
Overall it was an enriching experience. (: And I also had the chance to enquire about professional certifications in the IT industry (:
That's it for now. I'm tired ~_~
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