Shanghai Enterprise Attachment Programme has always been a fruitful exchange event every year between People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) and Shanghai Youth Federation. This year, 5 delegates were sent over to Shanghai for this year’s exchange.
The group of 5 met with the volunteers at Shanghai Youth Federation (SYF) Headquarters. There was a short briefing of the development of Shanghai over the years, and what is SYF’s mission and vision were being shared in an hour’s briefing.
Wilfred were both posted to the Shanghai Youth Newspapers Company (上海青年报社) and shown the office. The HR personnel, Dai Rong, briefed the 2 delegates on what was the work process of day to day publication and showed them the finished newspapers on that same day. She also shared with them the organizational structure and culture within the company which includes its subsidiaries. The delegates were asked to share with her what were their expectations in this attachment and what was the area of news publication that they were comfortable in. There was a freedom of choice and gladly, the delegates were then posted internally to the various departments that they find comfort in.
Being in the finance news department which suited him perfectly as he is currently an undergraduate in NTU pursuing a degree in Business, specializing in Banking & Finance. The 1st article he published was a translation from Bloomberg which is the article on the purchasing of HBOS by Lloyds Bank onto the newspaper the very next day.
After the success of his 1st article, he went on to publish his 2nd article which revolves around the AIG Bailout incident in US. The demand from him is slightly different this time round. He was required to do online interviews with Singaporeans who are holding AIA insurance policies. This was to give China an overview of the global situation of AIG.
To further make this trip an enriching one, Wilfred took part in the section “Happy Singles” of the magazine subsidiary, Life Weekly (生活周刊). Every week, a male and a female will be chosen from a pool of applicants to be featured for this particular section. In this section, the participants will have a date with one another on that day and be asked questions that are associated with their love experiences and what do they look for in a soul mate. The only condition is that the participants have to be singles. As Wilfred is the SDS Secretary in his YEC, he took the opportunity to learn from this event and how it will be applicable in the context of Singapore. The photo shoot was successful and it is expected to be published during mid October.
Sitting in the office writing articles can be boring after a while if one is not used to it.
Therefore, the finance news department head, Jin Yu, arranged for Wilfred to be attached to their top finance reporter for a day, Mr. Pu. During this day, he visited the finance district which seemingly resembles Singapore’s CBD area. Not only did he visit the finance district, together with Mr.Pu, he interviewed one of the vice president of the investment division of Bank of China. The topic revolves around the financial outlook for the next few periods.
Overall, it was a great experience for Wilfred to be close to what he does best and learn the Chinese perspective of dealing with things.
Around 40 people from all over Singapore came together to celebrate ''World Laughter Day'' with the rest of the world on 3rd May from 3.30pm to 4.30pm at Kampong Glam CC and enjoyed a really good laugh from the experienced and popular Ms Zaibun. The participants were really sporting, spontaneous and learnt different types of laughters from the trainer.
“World Laughter Day” was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga and the celebration of World Laughter Day is a positive manifestation for world peace and is intended to build up a global consciousness of brotherhood and friendship through laughter. This event was organised by Kampong Glam Youth Executive Committee. Ho ho ha ha ha...
The participants were also taught personal grooming tips by a former stewardness in the later part of the workshop and many found the grooming tips very useful and practical. This Workshop was organised by Kampong Glam Youth Executive Committee and supported by Health Promotion Board (HPB).
The participants were spread out into 5 groups to share their views on the possibilities of the regulation of internet from various perspectives such as individual, companies and government organisation. Many questions were asked by the participants and were also answered truthfully by Dr Lee Boon Yang. I believed it was an afternoon well spent by the youth and let's look forward to the next Policy Forum by Jalan Besar GRC!
In addition, laughter is one of the best anti-stress exercises and can help to tone up the muscles of the face and improves facial expressions. People who laugh more will look more cheerful and attractive. Do look out for more laughter Workshop coming your way! Ho ho ha ha ha ...
Our Kampong Glam YEC members enjoying the delicious food!
5000 party revellers turned up at City Hall front for City Alive, the biggest street party in Singapore! The people enjoyed the Funkamania dance competition which started at 10.30pm and there were renowned DJs such as DJ Sassy, DJ Sarasa and DJ Koflow that kept spinning wonderful music. The GOH was Minister Lim Boon Heng and VIPS from SMRT and APB also turned up to support this party. The turnout was overwhelming and unexpected! I am indeed honoured to be the Co-organsing chairman for this year's City Alive 2009 and defintely looking forward to City Alive 2010! 
Posing pictures with Central Youth Council members and DJ Sarasa from Japan
Celebrating the success on the VVIP bus
Primus and his team members fell to the ground after winning the pull !
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