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NYAA GOLD AWARD REPORT 1
This report covers the report, journal and self-reflection of my process fulfilling
the different sections in the NYAA Gold Challenge.
Yeo Su-Zann
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Content Page: Content Page No.
Introduction 3
Adventurous Journey (Vietnam - SAPA)
- Introduction - Short Background - Vietnam SAPA Leadership Expedition (With Pictures)
4 - 11
Physical Recreation (Trekking)
- Introduction - Short Background - Reflection (With Pictures) - Training Log Book
12 - 17
Skills (Ukulele)
- Introduction - Reflection (With Pictures) - Skills Log Book
18 - 26
Residential Project (Project Positive)
- Introduction - Reflection (With Pictures)
Log Book
27 - 32
Service (TPNYAA Maincommittee)
- Introduction - Reflection - Meeting Schedules
33 - 40
Final Reflection
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Introduction I joined NYAA Gold in Temasek Polytechnic in 2012 during my first year in
Polytechnic. I came to know about NYAA through my senior who was already in NYAA
herself and got to know more about the award through the CCA fair conducted by Temasek
Polytechnic.
NYAA intrigued me as I felt it was a platform for me to improve myself and train
myself to reach my fullest potential. The process of this award is to develop personal qualities
of self-reliance, independence, leadership and a sense of responsibility to not only myself but
to others. The five components though looks tough, did look interesting and exciting.
Therefore, I made the decision to commit and join try my best to attain the NYAA
Gold Award. As I embark on this journey, it has brought many unforgettable experiences,
provided opportunities for me to interact and help people along the way and lastly, also
self-reflect and groom myself to be a better leader and a better person.
In this report, I will pen down my reflections and my NYAA journey, including
pictures of the experiences and memories. With this report, I also hope I can inspire people to
join this wonderful journey and enrich themselves.
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Adventurous Journey “Its only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing and finding themselves”
Choice of Adventurous Journey: Overseas Adventure Leadership Expedition SAPA, Vietnam
Short Background:
For this component, I have decided to join this leadership expedition, as it is a mountain
climbing expedition. As my fitness has not always been the best, I wanted to challenge
myself to climb a mountain and prove to myself that if I put my mind to it, I can be more than
what I am.
The Vietnam SAPA expedition was a 4D3N in the mountains and another 3 days in the city
of Hanoi. During the 4 days and 3 nights, we climbed a mountain in Vietnam, Hanoi, called
Mount Fansipan. It was a tough but incredible experience, one that I would never forget.
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Reflection: Mount Fansipan Leadership Expedition 2012
Day 1 to 5:
We first took an overnight train to our destination which was a small village in SAPA where
the mountain is located just a bus ride away. The overnight train was a first experience for me
as I have never slept in a train. It was a new and fun experience and surprisingly, we slept
soundly. Below is a picture of my bunk mates.
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After we have reached our destination, SAPA, we embarked on our journey into the woods
and climbing up the mountain. We were all so afraid that we had to use the washroom in the
middle of climbing, thus all of us decided to use the washroom before entering the mountain.
While the rest were queuing for the washroom, the rest were waiting in anticipation of the
exciting journey ahead of us and also preparing their jackets and gloves because it is going to
be cold in the mountains. Below is a photo of my friend (on the left) and I, gleaming with
excitement before the start of our journey.
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So, our journey into the mountain started and it was alright at first. We were still taking
plenty of photos, spirits high and everyone was singing songs and excited.
The schedule was to reach base camp 1 before nightfall, as it was dangerous to climb in the
dark and also have our dinner early. We were fortunate to have porters with us who climbed
with us and carried our tents and also food for the next 4 days. Along the way, I slowed
down, and my energy became depleted. It was only the first day and I wanted to give up
already. However, the rest of the team kept cheering us on and I found whatever energy I had
for the day and continued climbing. By the time we reached base camp 1, we were all
exhausted.
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As the first day was ending, the sun went down and we all prepared our sleeping bags to get
ready for the next day. As water facilities there were limited, we did not get to bathe.
However, during the night, as I was sleeping in wet clothes and wet jacket as it rained during
the day, I was shivering the whole night and luckily, my friend who had a warm jacket lent
her jacket to me for a while to warm up my body. I was really grateful for that because if it
was not for her, I would not been able to sleep at all that night. Day 2 came around and we
woke up early in the morning to do our morning routine and set out at about 6.45am. Thus,
we continued climbing and the schedule for that day was to pass by base 2 by 10am and reach
the peak by noon and then back down to base 2 to stay for the night. Thus, we tried our best
and continued climbing as we wanted to reach the peak by the scheduled timing.
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We were all struggling as our energy from the previous day was already drained. However,
we still continued climbing and trying our best. This was really one of the biggest challenges
in my life so far where I had to psycho myself that it is always mind over body. If you tell
yourself you can, your body will push through. It was a tough experience. There were many
times I wanted to give up but because of the encouragement and also because of wanting to
prove myself that I could climb a mountain, I pushed myself even further than my limit.
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However, it was no help that when we ask the guide how long more it would take to reach the
peak, he mentioned about an hour more, but even after two hours, we have not even seen the
peak, but I guess he was just telling a white lie so as to not discourage us. Finally, after
walking and climbing on wet rocks without harness and wanting to give up multiple times,
we reached the peak. When we saw the peak, all of us started running to it! The peak was not
that big though, it was only a small area of rock with a sign singing the peak of mount
Fancipan. At the peak, we could not see the scenery down below as it was too foggy.
However it was so enriching and so worth it to be able to tell myself, I did it. I climbed a
mountain. It may not be Mount Everest but it was the first mountain I ever ‘conquered’.
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Above is a picture of me at the summit of Mount Fansipan, however it was too foggy to see
any scenery.
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2 Above is when my friend and I posed with the plaque to show that we have reached the
summit!
After, we went back down to base camp 2 and had a campfire that night where we bonded
and sang campfire songs. It was during this journey I saw how my friends encouraged me and
we strengthened our bonds during the climb. They were always helpful and encouraging and
even now in 2014, I still miss them and our climbing days together. It was all in all an
enriching experience. I love the people and how it was such a warm group, all of them were
so sincere in helping and did not blame those people who were slow but thought of methods
to help them, encourage them and push them on.
After this trip, I really agree that ‘Mind over Body’ works and from this expedition, I
knew that I could push my limits and I am stronger than how I think I am. They say sky’s the
limit, well I totally agree as we can always push our way, climbing the highest mountains to
reach the sky. “It is not the destination that counts but the journey.”
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Physical Recreation
Physical fitness is not only the most important key to a healthy body; it is also the basis
of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Choice of Physical Recreation: Trekking
Short Background:
I personally feel that the physical fitness is very important to the body. As I am
overweight and wishes to lose weight, I started becoming more aware of what was considered
healthy and unhealthy and what are the healthy and efficient exercises. Thus, when this
program came about, I decided to join it.
This trekking program consists of trainings and 3 big hikes. The 3 big hikes are to (1)
Kent Ridge Park, (2) Mount Faber and (3) Bukit Timah Hill. Part of why I wanted to join this
trekking is also because I do miss training for climbing mount Fansipan and wish to get back
that momentum. This program was spread over 12 weeks and has training sessions every
week, lasting for three hours per training session.
At the end of these trainings, I got to meet new people and made new friends and also
strengthen bonds with the existing friends. Most importantly, I got to know more about what
kind of exercises are effective and not just a ‘run’ or a ‘jog’. I got to do circuit trainings,
which consists of sit-ups, planking to train your core, Burpees, and push-ups to train my arm
muscles and squats to train the leg muscles. All these trainings were to prepare us for the
hikes and I felt healthy. My mind was clearer and I could concentrate much better. I also felt
better about myself. With exercise, this also made me determined to change my diet, which
means no more fast food and cutting down on salt, sugar or fried food.
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Below table is the schedule for my trainings.
Training session Details
1st Training School Training
2nd Training School Training
3rd Training Sports (Volley Ball and Dodge Ball)
4th Training (Saturday) Hike @ Kent Ridge Park
5th Training School Training
6th Training Obstacle Course
7th Training School Training
8th Training (Saturday) Hike @ Mount Faber
9th Training School Training
10th Training Amazing Race around school
11th Training School Training
12th Training (Saturday)
Hike @ Bukit Timah Hill
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Below are some pictures of the hike and the training sessions.
Our first training session, with full attendance.
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Our training session consist of circuit trainings. This was one of the exercise called ‘Bridge’.
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Our first hike at Kent Ridge park, where we walked and climbed and walked and climbed.
There was a lot of beautiful scenery too!
Our second hike had a lesser turn up rate due to it nearing exam periods. However, it was still
fun and a good exercise!
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Our last hike at Bukit Timah Hill. It was the toughest of all as it was a lot of uphill and plenty
of stairs to climb. Nevertheless, we managed to reach the summit!
Physical Recreation Log Book
Date Venue Number of Hours
30th October 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
6th November 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
13th November 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
23rd November 2013 Kent Ridge Park 4
27th November 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
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8th January 2014 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
15th January 2014 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
18th January 2014 Mount Faber 4
22nd January 2014 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
29th January 2014 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
5th February 2014 Temasek Polytechnic Campus 3
8th February 2014 Bukit Timah Hill 4
Total: 40 hours
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Skills
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I will remember, involve me and I will learn.”
Choice of Skill: Learning the Ukulele
Short Background:
I have always wanted to pick up an musical instrument and play like the bands I
adored and admired. I did learn piano when I was younger but I did not really enjoyed it. I
tried to learn guitar from my father but that did not last either. Finally now, I put my
determination and determined to learn a new skill about a musical instrument.
I thought of going back to piano or to the guitar, but I decided I wanted to learn
something new, something fresh. Thus, I picked the ukulele. Even though everyone say a
ukulele is a ‘mini guitar’, I believe it to be different in its own attributes. The sound that it
produces is always happy and enjoyable and I think that suits my bubbly personality. I would
want to play a song to make someone happy and not someone sad, thus I chose the ukulele.
The first few months was difficult as I struggled to learn the chords and the transition
from one chord to another. Also, the strumming was one more thing to learn. All in all, at the
end of this 18 months, I can play almost up to 20 songs fluently and I found that an
achievement. Some songs includes “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz, “Love Story” by Taylor
Swift, “Counting Stars” by One Republic, “Little Talks” by Monster and Men, “Beautiful
Life” by Union J and even a Korean song “I Wish” by FT Island.
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I was really proud of myself when I could play a song fluently and now, I could pick
up any song easily as long as I have the chords. With a little practice, my friends and I could
sing to it.
Below are some pictures of me playing the ukulele and also for my friends as we have a
‘Jamming’ Session.
Above is a picture of me when I was first learning the ukulele and could only play a few chords.
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This is when my friend and I were filming us playing a song for my friend’s birthday!
Above is a solo picture of me when I was playing the ukulele for my friends.
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Above is a picture when I was teaching my friend how to play the chords on the Ukulele.
Above is a picture when I was playing the ukulele for my friends during our breaks.
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Month Progress
August 2012 I began searching for skills to learn. Some skills I have
considered included dancing hip hop, playing the guitar,
playing the piano, learning French, etc. Eventually, I decided
on Ukulele and borrowed my friend’s Ukulele to learn, as she
was not using it anymore.
September 2012 I started learning chords online. The major chords were ‘G’,
‘Am’, ‘C’ and ‘F’. These four chords were used commonly in
songs. Thus, after I learnt this four chords, I started learning
‘I’m Yours’ by Jason Mraz and ‘Fall for you’ by secondhand
serenade. It took me awhile to master these songs and
especially to transit to a ‘G’ chord.
October 2012 By this month, I was considered ‘not bad’ at transiting from
one chord to another and it was pretty fluent. I could play I’m
Your without much difficulty, however, at this point of time I
was not doing any strumming pattern but only strumming
once. Thus, I decided to learn some strumming patterns.
Some that I have learnt included ‘Down Down Up, Up Down
Up” and “Down Down Down Up, Up Down Down Down
Up”. The whole month of October I was trying to master
these strumming patterns
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November 2012 During this period, I could play a handful of songs and I
played it to my friends to hear. They gave me positive
feedback and encouragement and this made me more
determined to continue on and learn more songs to play for
them!
December 2012 As it was nearing Christmas, I decided to learn some simple
Christmas song and I learnt “Last Christmas”. At this time, I
also learnt new chords such as Em and A. Everytime there
was a chord that I did not know how to play, I would google
and it and self-teach. At this period of time, my parents knew
my keen interest in learning the ukulele and decided to buy
me one, which they did not want to tell me the price. I was
over the moon when I saw it and it was really beautiful. The
wood was exquisite, I named it ‘Keira’.
January 2013 It was a new year and I decided that my ukulele skills could
go one step further and learn more songs and more chords so
that I could play a variety of songs.
February 2013 It was my friend’s birthday this month and she was a Korean
pop fan, thus, I wanted to learn one of the Korean songs she
likes for her. I started to learn ‘I Wish’ by FT Island. On her
21st Birthday, I played the song for her and she appreciated it.
It was not as fluent as I did not get enough practice but she
appreciated that I learnt it for her.
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March 2013 My confidence started to grow with this new found skill and I
realized I was quite good at picking up new songs and
recognizing the chords. However, my friends always teased
me that I always used only one type of strumming which was
the “Down Down Up, Up Down Up”. Well, it was a
strumming that gives out a happy tune, thus I did like that
strumming.
April 2013 April was my holiday period and I started to practice a lot
more as I had more time. I grew more confident and learnt
more new songs like “counting stars” by one republic,
“Sparks Fly” by Taylor Swift, “Beethoven” by Union J.
“Beethoven” was a difficult song to learn as it had a unique
strumming pattern and the chords were played in half-chords.
May 2013 May was the starting of school and I brought my ukulele to
school almost every alternate day or when we have breaks as
usually in breaks, we would have nothing to do. Thus, I
would take my ukulele out and we would sit at a quiet corner
in school where I played songs and my friends sang. It was
somewhat like a campfire in the day and it felt good as it was
a bonding session for my friends and I.
June 2013 At this time, I would consider myself pretty fluent in playing
the ukulele and I was constantly challenging myself to learn
new songs. At this time, my friend (the one who I played a
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the Korean song for her) grew an interest in ukulele and she
asked me to teach her. I was excited to help her!
July 2013 We had a one-week holiday here and my friend and I went to
Sentosa to enjoy the beach, scenery and played my ukulele
because it felt ‘cooler’.
August 2013 My friend that wanted to learn the ukulele finally had the
time to come to my house and I taught her the different
chords first. I started off with teaching her the easier chords
than moving onto the more difficult chords.
September 2013 At this time, I was finding more songs to learn and practicing
it to play it fluently and also teaching my friend the first few
beginner songs that I have learnt and also the strumming
patterns.
October 2013 My friend could finally play the few songs that I have taught
her quite fluently, she could play “Hey Soul Sister” by Train
and “Ho Hey” by Lumineers.
November 2013 It was a very stressful period as assignments and exams were
piling up. My friend stopped her lessons for a while to
concentrate on her assignments. I too was also guilty of not
practicing that often. However, whenever I was stressed, I
would take my ukulele out to play to relief stress as it was
always nice to hear the happy sound of the ukulele.
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December 2013 It was my birthday month, and my friend surprised me with
playing my favourite song “How to Save a Life” by the Fray
and it was a difficult song to play. Even I myself was not
fluent in it. She played it quite well and I appreciate that she
has learnt for me. It was quite funny that just early this year I
was playing her a song for her birthday and now she is
playing for my birthday!
January 2014 My friend and I went to the East Coast Park to play the
ukulele and sang together. It was a great bonding time with
her.
February 2014 My 18 month of skill has come to an end but I will continue
playing my ukulele and may even go on to learning more
string instruments like the guitar.
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Residential Project
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself by helping others and giving back to
society.”
Service of Choice: Project Positive
Short Background:
Project Positive came about when I attended a Youth Mental Health Ambassador
workshop conducted by trainers from Health Promotion Board. We were taught about how
mental health is important and vital to people’s well being and how we should promote
mental health. We ended off the workshop discussing about ideas about what kind of event
we could do to promote mental health. Therefore we came up with this idea “Project
Positive”.
Project Positive aims to share positive spirits with the students in Temasek
Polytechnic and hopefully make them less stress. We decided to hold it one week before the
exam period starts and hopefully, with our project, they would be motivated and study with a
positive mindset. Even if the people are not stressed with exams, we also wanted to let those
in personal turmoil know that they are not alone and sometimes it is good to see the bright
side.
From this project, I felt really good that as a team, we could spread positive messages
to people and you never know who might be feeling down that day and our positive messages
may just lift their spirits up and make them feel optimistic about themselves.
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Project Positive (10th-11th Feb 2014)
The project banner hung in Temasek Polytechnic to let people know about our project.
Some of the encouraging messages that people wrote to hang on our positive tree.
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Our man-made Positive Tree! It is made of dowel poles and twine.
Me promoting the Health Promotion Board items that we are to give out to students.
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Our Positive Balloons that we give out to students to send our positive messages like “Don’t
Give In, Don’t Give Up”
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Promoting this event to my classmates too!
And even asking our lecturers to write some positive messages to be put in the positive tree!
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One of the project organizers and I promoting ‘Project Positive’ at the school’s entrance!
Some items that were given out to the students were:
Positive Ice Cream Sticks!
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Positive Bracelets!
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Motivational Packages which consists of the above plus a few more items.
Service
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.”
Choice of Service: TPNYAA Challenge Maincommittee Member
Short Background:
I joined TPNYAA Main Committee because I saw that I could contribute to
TPNYAA and help plan activities for the participants. I also saw it as an opportunity as I
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on roles I have never done.
After I was accepted into the main committee, I was given the role ‘Head Of
Subcommittee’ where my role was to liaise with the participants whenever there were events
to inform the participants about. Also, when new log books come in, I contact the new
participants to collect their log books and explain to them how to start their NYAA journey. I
am also the person where they can contact anytime if they have any queries about NYAA.
As a main committee member, besides my role of a Head of Subcommittee, I also
planned several events during the AY 13/14. I really learned a lot from my seniors in the
committee and especially from my president as she guided me on doing memos, proposals for
events, all the standard procedures and channels to go through for conducting an event. I have
also learnt to work with people of different working styles and it can sometimes be quite
challenging, but I have came to learn to dealing with those difficult people. All in all, this
main committee provided me an enriching experience.
TPNYAA Subcommittee Camp 2013
In my opinion, this event was one of my most challenging and tiring event I had to
organize. It was a 2D1N bonding camp for newly joined participants to come together to
bond so as to make new friends and embark on the NYAA Gold Award journey together and
hopefully. We took this opportunity to also let the new participants know more about NYAA
and what our interest group does and what are the upcoming events for the year.
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It was challenging as we had a lack in manpower, as some of our main committee
were not free to come for camp, resulting in lacking of manpower for logistics and group
leaders. However, we managed to pull through the camp with the limited number of people
we had and delegate our jobs well. Another challenge was the budget plan where we
underestimated our camp budget. It was the first time that we were organizing a NYAA camp
and we did not have previous proposals to refer to. Thus, our budget was one of our biggest
issue as we did not gave much thought to what were some of the underlying issues that could
only be seen when the actual event was run.
Here is a picture with my group where I was their facilitator.
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Here is where my group was making their group flag!
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The outcome of the group flag! Our camp theme was Avengers and our team name was
Captain America!
Some of our camp activities included team-bonding games. Here one where we all have to
work together and balance on this board.
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As we wanted an adventure theme camp, we decided to sleep in tents for the night!
And here are some sub-commitee keeping the tent the morning after.
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Log Book and Meeting Schedules
Date Venue Purpose Time No. Of Hours
12th April 2013
Student Activity Room 11
Preparation for CCA Fair AY 13/14
4.00- 6.00pm 2
8th May 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Project Room 7
Introducing of Main committee members and talking about the level of commitment
6.30-8.30pm 3
20th May 2013 Temasek Polytechnic NYAA Club Room
Discussion about the upcoming roadshow to recruit more participants
6.30-9.30pm 3
27th-28th May 2013
TPNYAA Roadshow
To recruit more participants to embark on the NYAA journey.
10am-3pm (for both days)
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24th June 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 3
Review about the roadshow that we had and discuss about upcoming events of the year.
1. Subcommittee Camp
2. Physical Recreation – Cycling
3. Residential Project – Adopt A Pen
4. Induction day for new participants
7pm-9.30pm 3.5
1st July 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 3
Discuss about the updated information about induction day for the newly joined participants.
7.00-8.30pm 1.5
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Discuss about adopt-a-pen and dates to be launched and recruitment of interested participants
8th July 2013 Temasek Polytechnic SW26B 01-10
Update the newly joined participants about the upcoming events of the academic year and also introduce the new main committees
7.00-8.30pm 1.5
22nd July 2013 Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 3
Review on induction day and on the newly launched physical recreation, cycling.
7.00-8.30pm 1.5
5th August 2013
Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 3
Updates on adopt a pen (residential project), trekking (newly launched physical recreation) and subcommittee camp.
7.30-9.00pm 1.5
11th, 12th, 13th September 2013
Temasek Polytechnic NYAA Club Room
Preparations for subcommittee camp.
1. Logistics 2. Games 3. Food
1pm-6pm (Each day)
15
16th -17th September 2013
Temasek Polytechnic
TPNYAA Subcommittee camp.
9am (16th) – 5pm (17th)
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1st October 2013
Temasek Polytechnic NYAA Club Room
Review on 1. Adopt a pen 2. Subcommittee Camp
Updates on: 1. Trekking
Suggestions of new events. - Mental Health Ambassador Workshop (New Residential Project)
6.00-9.00pm 3
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23rd October 2013
Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 7
Updates of: 1. Mental Health Ambassador Workshop 2. Trekking 3. Publicity of NYAA
7.00-8.30pm 1.5
18th November 2013
Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 5 and 6
Updates of: 1. Trekking 2. Mental Health Ambassador Workshop
7.00-9.00pm 2
16th January 2014
Temasek Polytechnic SW26B 02-48
Teaching the participants how to write a NYAA report for report submission
6pm-8.30pm 2.5
6th February 2014
Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 4
Review on: 1. Report Writing Workshop 2. Trekking 3. Updates on mental health ambassador project (project positive)
7.00-8.30pm 1.5
10th February 2014
Temasek Polytechnic
Project Positive 2.00- 6.oopm 4
11th February 2014
Temasek Polytechnic
Project Positive 2.00-5.00pm 3
11th March 2014
Temasek Polytechnic Meeting Room 2
Preparation and Discussion for CCA Fair AY14/15
7.00-9.00pm 2
Total Number of Hours 82 hours
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Final Reflection
All in all, I feel that this NYAA journey has taught me many life lessons. I gained
plenty during this journey and I would encourage others to embark on it too. From being
adventurous to learning a new skill and keeping myself health and also servicing the society,
I feel that I have gained a lot more insight to the world and also to myself. I discovered that I
could rise above my self-imposed limits to be even better.
Honestly, the best experience or best component that I have went through would be
the adventurous journey as it really made a huge impact on my life and also on myself. I
gained more confidence and I really believed in the term ‘You can do anything you put your
mind to.’ If someone had just came up to me and told me that sentence, I probably would not
have believed them. However, it was not until I actually went through it and experience that
quote then I started to believe it and believe in myself. I never thought I could have endured
until the peak but I showed myself what I could do and this brought me a confidence that I
never had. I started to take on more responsibility, as I know that I can complete the task as
long as I put my heart and soul in it.
I would never forget this NYAA journey in my polytechnic years and all the friends I
have made along the way. I would also never forget the memorable experiences of my trips,
events and I believe all these skills that I have learnt would be used in the future and these
skills would bring me a long way in the future.
I would like to end this reflection with two short quotes that I personally relate to it.
“Don’t give in, Don’t give up” and “Determination goes a long way.”