Matthew has skills in creative writing, basic skills in Photoshop and InDesign, and is able to use SPSS for basic statistical analysis. In projects, he is a creative planner and logistics organiser. He enjoys travelling, reading and the arts in his spare time, and hopes to be able use his experience and knowledge in education and psychology to help young people reach their full potential.

Having been a participant of a YEP to Yunnan China, he subsequently led a team of 18-strong NUS peers, under the same project title, to carry on the good work done for their overseas beneficiaries. Having a passion to empower youths and make a difference in their lives, he is keen to participate in projects with sustainable impact on youths. He does not think that he has any skills worthy to be mentioned, but enjoys playing the guitar and meddling with the camera in his free time. He participates in at least 2 long distance ( > 8km) run a year, and will be running in the annual AHM in time to come.

She is a fashion, books and music lover.

Alvin is a trained first aider who has had come into contact with blood a lot of times. He knows a bit of basic Photoshop. He is trained in basic photography, and has been taking photos of fireworks for 9 years. He has done some video editing before, and enjoys creating stopmotion videos. He is interested in stargazing/astronomy, and is proud to have observed more than 30 shooting stars from Singapore in his life  (in just 4 years), and the recent transit of Venus (which will not happen again until 2117). One useless fact about him is that he can memorise 25 decimal places of Pi.

He was actively involved in UNDP projects in the Maldives some years ago, where he helped in the construction of infrastructure on a rural island, taught economics and also coordinated a piano education program on another slightly more developed island. He worked heavily with Maldivian teens and children during these projects.

He is a photography enthusiast, but is hopeless with Photoshop, and hopes he will never need to resort to that program. He is also capable of running physical training programs to teens if required, given his background as best physical trainee in NS, although bits have sagged and ballooned quite badly since those glorious days. He practises basic Yoga on the Wii, and may be able to get away with instructing others in this area.

Sharifah is a cheerful and friendly person (or at least she thinks she is la). She believes very much in staying positive no matter what the situation. Sharifah only has working/volunteering experiences centered around children and youths. Other than the teaching stints, Sharifah has volunteered in the Singapore Children Society and AWWA school. She has also worked in an indoor children playground where she had to interact and play with children while ensuring their safety.

Sharifah does not have any special skills unfortunately but she has emceed a couple of hall events that include formal hall dinners and talentime competitions. She has also acted in one hall theatre production where she was part of the main cast. That's about it!  Sharifah believes that she is a good team player too. She works well within a group and she enjoys collaborative environments! In addition to that, she loves having specific instructions to follow. Sharifah is willing to learn new things and at the end of the day she just wants to have new and meaningful experiences! :)

Passion

It did not come cross in his mind that he would finally get the opportunity to study what he wanted to do ..., in 1995, he enrolled himself for a diploma in Fine Arts - (painting) with NAFA. He was nominated to be a class monitor for the 1st semester. he did well for his roles though he did not have the leadership quality as he dislikes to get people to do something they dislike.  He stepped down from a class monitor, however, he remained a very supportive class mate in his class. For example, there was a need to raise funds for producing graduation show 1998 art catalogues a month before the assessment period, he went to look for and meet those potential sponsors in their companies. He managed to help the class to raise substantial amount of funds to publish sufficient quantity of catalogues. In 1996, he led a group (22 students from sec year fine art dip) his fine art classmates to paint a huge mural (Stop smoking) along the Esplanade on the Bay. From 1999 to 2002, he occasionally volunteered himself in curating group art exhibitions and doing some administrative works.

He tried to stay true to his fine art training and practice. He did some freelance jobs such as mural painting, on-the-spot portrait sketching at World Trade Centre Singapore, medical illustration for SGH, and commissioned paintings. He was quite a conservative minded person until he went to Paris in 2003 for his 3-month Artist-in-Residence programme in the Cite International des Arts (CIA).  Where he met great artists, internationally famous musician, famous architects, writers, ... who lived in CIA. Paris is where he opens up his mind and began to see things in different perspectives, since then he has become a more open-minded person though there is still introvert in him. He fell in love with Paris at the first sight. That's why when he returned from Paris and curated a solo (3rd solo) for himself which entitled 'Poh Lai Fell in Love with Paris'.  Those great people he met, things and environment he observed in Paris has somehow influenced his thought and the way he sees things in this world. He wishes to learn French language, and re-visit Paris again in a near future.

In 2004 - 2006, he studied a BA in Fine Art (major in Painting, and minor in art history) in Falmouth University.  During his studies in Falmouth Uni he was one of the student Ambassadors for the Uni. He also initiated a jogging club in the Uni, jogging together in the evening with a group young joggers/runners. He experienced that he could get along with young people well.  After returning from UK in Aug 2006, he did what he used to do in freelance jobs, and focused more on art coaching from 2008 to 2011. He developed his love for teaching gradually and took on more art coaching programmes in Primary and Secondary Schools. In mid May 2011, he applied to MOE for becoming a full-time art teacher. He was posted to a secondary school as a contract teacher in Jan 2012. He was one of the teachers in charge in Guitar CCA, though he cannot play guitar, but he hopes to learn how to play some days.  He hopes to inspire his art students to reach their goals.

Interest

Jogging, running, singing, travelling, listening to music, drawing and painting.

If you like to know more on his past professional site, plz visit www.limpohlai.com

1)introvert

2)quiet

Experiences:

1)Education: Chinese education background in Malaysia(for primary and high school studies)

Major in Chinese in NTU

2)Service learning: help out in an orphanage in Malaysia during High School

Skills and abilities :

1)writing in Chinese, research in Chinese linguistics(include Archaic Chinese,Singapore Mandarin)

Interests:

Photography ,Music

Her most memorable teaching experience had to be her 6 months relief teaching at her alma mater in which the children that she met has made her walk down this road of being a teacher; part of her feels that she may one day return to becoming a primary school teacher. She has participated in various volunteering programmes that involve children between ages 7 to 16. An ongoing volunteer programme would involve tutoring children coming from under-privileged families. Most importantly, she hopes that through her action, everyone may come to see the beauty in every child.  

Being in Community Involvement Council in Junior Collage, Tongtong has relevant experiences in organizing schoolwide or even national wide community involvement projects, camps or fundraising events.

Tongtong loves meeting new people. Although she has no relevant artistic abilities, she believes that she is street smart and her forte lies in communicating with people.

As for Gui Fang's skills and abilities, she can do beading and painting of chinese mask and also hanna tattoo. Other than that, she has adequate skills in communication in chinese and also simple hokkien.

Her interest is sing K and watch Korean variety show(especially Running man!). She would also like to learn Korean language and Malay language.(:

She has an interest in sports, especially tennis and badminton. She isn't very inclined in art but is willing to learn how to make crafts, and enjoys making simple friendship bracelets. She loves playing with children and dogs (but is terrified of cats). She enjoys interacting with people and listening to them tell talk about random parts of their lives.

She has graduated from NTU (Linguistics and Multilingual Studies). During her university days, she was involved in translation work such as assisting in field research in Makassar, worked with WALHI (Indonesian NGO) in Jakarta and A*Star communication research dept. Among her various volunteering activities: She was actively involved for 2 years with NTUSU Students' Fund as Head of Publicity and Publications, doing fund-raising events such as Goal! For Fund and Dunk! For Fund. She also tried something new in learning basic sign language and became a facilitator for an overseas camp with Deaf youths (Camp Outreach). Prior to the above, she volunteered as a youth mentor with Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) as well as being a Mentoring Executive with Progress Class under Bukit Batok East CC with MP, Mdm Halimah Yacob as advisor. Wani has since retired from the above volunteering activities.

Skills and Abilities

Joining AIESEC has further developed her skills in networking, making various connections with people from around the world as well as Singapore. She is also resourceful through her connections who work in various industries locally . As a result, she has unofficially become a headhunter for job vacancies as well as ambassador for Singapore, hosting foreign friends who come by our shores. Lastly, she has prior experience in event planning, canvassing and fund-raising through sponsorships.

Interests

Traveling is her life-long passion. She loves photography but is not a pro. Has an obsession with clouds and the sky. Besides being a movie buff, she loves learning languages as much as making new friends. A gadget queen she is, but still has yet to explore Photoshop, AfterEffects or Premier pro.