Phyo's Blog: Onboard Singapore Flyer

Today was a gloomy day. Since morning when I woke up, it was raining heavily, and the surrounding was dark. A good weather to sleep. But woken up by my phone alarm. I needed to attend the National Infocomm Competition 2007 Award Ceremony. But until today, I never received any update about who would be the lecturer in-charge and how was the plan to go. Individually? or Gather at school? Until 12pm, no news. So, contact Hanafi and he said need to go there by ourself. The place was at Seafood Paradise Restaurant at Singapore Flyer.

Reached there at around 3. There were many students from secondary schools, JCs, ITEs, and polytechnics. Registered ourselves and got stickers for a ride in a capsule of Singapore Flyer. Then, went inside the restaurant and watched a video and listened to the speech by the GOH from IDA. Then, the awards were given. I was a bit excited because IDA haven't inform what prize we would be getting in the invitation email, just stated as an award. They awarded 2nd, 1st runner ups and champions from secondary, JC and Poly/ITE circuits, in order. We, Temasek Polytechnic Informatics & IT school won Second runner-up prize! So we (6 students who won awards in the competitions) went up on stage and received the awards. IDA awarded TP the following items:

A Trophy
A cheque of SGD 1,200
6 Ipod Touch!

The pictures follows:

Award Presentation

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Performance by Ling

Followed by Hi-Tea Session.

Then, they called group by group to board the capsules of the Singapore Flyer. We were group number 5, so waited while having a quick bite of food. Around 5pm, our group's turn. There were about 25 people in our group. We went up to level 2 for tickets and security check. And finally, we boarded into the capsule.

The view is very nice. Got the good view. But since it was cloudy and raining a bit, can't see so far. But overall, the experience was really nice. Snapped many photos. Enjoyed the 360' view. The photos follows: