From February 13, 2016 to 22, 2012 Winter SVP (Singapore visit program) Singapore tour project successfully. The SVP team was consist of 23 students in Shantou University. Under the lead of the teacher leader Prof. Dennis Lee and Ms. Lynchie Lin, students experience the real life in Singapore, which has different cultural. This trip broaden the students’ horizons, and increase their own adaptive ability, cooperation ability and leadership skills.
Singapore, also known as the lion city, known as "one of the four Yazhou Xiaolong". Singapore is a multicultural country of immigrants, the promotion of racial harmony is the core policy of the government of the country, Singapore is known for its political stability, clean and efficient government, is one of the world's most international countries.
In a period of 10 days of the program, students not only visited the Marina Bay, Night Safari, the garden by the Bay in Singapore's famous tourist attractions, but also had conversations with the Nanyang Science University (NTU) President Prof Freddy Boey, acorn Asia Group CFO MS ho Kah Yin, Singapore Telecom Co., Ltd. (SingTel) Mr Keith Leong, Singapore Subway) Mr Raphael Chan, Lai Rong Chen (Dr Tan Lai Yong) in NUS, involving business, education, food and beverage industry and the medical topics in the conversation. In addition, students also entered the Singapore people's life, by visiting Land Transport Authority (LTA) and other government departments, understand life of the country. After 10 days trip, students had a relatively deep understanding of Singapore, and learn a lot from it.
The Speech
Prof Dennis invited lecturers from all walks of life. Mr Raphael, executive manager of Subway Singapore shared his experience why choosing working in Subway and some feeling about work life with his two partners. Dr Tan, the president of NUS who has different ideas of teaching shared his experience being a volunteer doctor in Yunnan China for more than 7 years and his understanding of living. The president of SMU showed us what is the modern education concept in the world nowadays and the way they educate students. What’s more, Ms Magdalene used a game to help us to know what types of personality and value we will choose in our deep mind but not the real life. Besides, humor Prof Steven let us have a talk with ourselves and helped us to understand our personality and try to accept it. Ms Jiayan used her career to teach us that Job just one part of our life and we can choose what the type of job we like.
From these lecture, we can conclude what this group of successful people want us to understand. Our life is held in our own hand and we have the very right to choose what type of life we want. Negative is not a good thing; it would let us fail. Why not become a positive one and try to be the best to reach success? Human’s life is not so long and sometimes we need a GPS in our mind to guide us and recognize wrong and right. However, Human’s life is not so short, what we need to learn is the attitude, to fight with the frustration and failure. The key point is that we can be ourselves.
The Introduction of Singapore
Land Transport Authority (LTA) was established on 1 September 1995 and launched by the then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. LTA was formed with the merger of public sector entities, namely the Registry of Vehicles, Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Roads & Transportation Division of the Public Works Department and Land Transportation Division of the former Ministry of Communications.
To meet with the increasing number of commuters in Singapore, Land Transport Authority had to exercise on new changes over time.
The LTA Gallery, located at the main LTA Hampshire Office, offers a learning experience about the evolution of Singapore's land transport system in a fun and interactive environment.
The Housing & Development Board is the statutory board of the Ministry of National Development responsible for public housing in Singapore. It is generally credited with clearing the squatters and slums of the 1960s and resettling residents into low-cost state-built housing. Today, as many as 82% of Singaporeans live in public housing provided by the HDB.
Place of interest
Garden by the Bay, when night fell, a huge tree structures shine, so if we stay in the science fiction film the scene. With team members lying on the lawn, watching the beautiful trees in the glow and a kaleidoscope of colors, then forget all the pressure, was completely attracted them into. In addition, listening to light music, we also follow light music, enjoy the beautiful moments in Singapore!
Food
Kaya toast is one of traditional breakfast in Singapore. Kaya toast is prepared with kaya, a topping of sugar, coconut milk and eggs, pandan, and sometimes margarine or butter. It is generally served on toast, and also sometimes on crackers. It is considered a breakfast staple, and remains popular in Singapore. The dish is sometimes dipped into soft-boiled egg with a little dark soy sauce and white pepper.
Bak-kut-teh is a meat dish cooked in broth popularly served in Malaysia and Singapore. The name literally translates as "meat bone tea", and at its simplest, consists of meaty pork ribs simmered in a complex broth of herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dang gui, fennel seeds and garlic) for hours. Despite its name, there is in fact no tea in the dish itself; the name refers to a strong oolong Chinese tea which is usually served alongside the soup in the belief that it dilutes or dissolves the copious amount of fat consumed in this pork-laden dish.
All of us had visited different parts of Singapore, we knew more about this country and we had learn a lot from it, both the policy and their culture.
