Week Zero : Welcome to Hangzhou!

Hello there! My name is Alex, and I'm a Freshmore destined for the Engineering Product Development pillar. I've been given the incredible opportunity to fly to Zhejiang University (ZJU) under the Temasek Foundation International Leadership...

Last post on ALP!

I’m sadly back in Singapore as ALP has ended for me. Since I need to make another blog post tomorrow, I shall make this post short. Yesterday was the ALP final presentation. It went well...

DATE 2019 Week 4: Canteen!!! Food!!! Need to Improve our Canteens!!!

The Zhenjiang Canteens For the university’s canteens in Singapore, the way how canteen stores are layout and sold their food are somewhat similar. However, the canteen in Zhenjiang has adopted a different from what I...

Week 8: More Smart Home Products

Designing the problem Breaking down the smart home products This week has been an intensive week of research and problem finding. We started to pace up on our project and meeting twice a week to share...

WEEK 9 – Half Way There!

Hey guys! My turn to blog again! We are taking turns to blog and it is now my turn! So we have moved towards creating an app and we have only spent a few weeks on...

Building a Mechanical Keyboard, Part II

Post continued from previous post.   So building the keyboard actually begins with you placing the switches in the desired through-hole, um, holes in the PCB. This way, you’ll know the layout you want. I’d recommend...

From Streams to Numbers

If you've come to be entertained by beautiful pictures of Hangzhou and stories of my adventures to far away places, I regret to inform you that you won't be getting it here this week....

Building a Mechanical Keyboard, Part 1

Currently on exchange in China, don’t know if I was being too sedentary or whatever, but I was having neck and back strains while sitting at my desk, and I realised I was sitting...

SOOO MUCH FOOD (ALP 2018)

Hi! Welcome to my first blog of the SOOOO MUCH/MANY series. The reason why I am using this title is because I wanted to keep an ongoing theme throughout the trip and I didn’t want...

An Empowering Beginning

Before I begin, I am thankful foremost for the opportunity to come here, without which I would hardly find the opportunity to explore another culture - especially the Chinese culture which I love. The...

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