National Youth Environment Conference 2010
The big day is finally here! After all the weekly meetings at the NYAA office at 5 Magazine Road that lasted hours till 9 or 10pm, we're here at the actual thing! We headed down to SP's audition the day before to do a recce and set up the props, goodie bags, etc. And today, we came down at 6.40am to get the show running! :D

Some of the photos here are taken by Mala. They're smaller than mine but the quality is there! :D


A final briefing by our organising committee chairman and co-chairmain, Peter and Kenneth, respectively.

RUFBL team in action. Supposed to stand for registration, usher, food, logistics.. forgot about the 'B'. And most amazingly enough, the one and only photo Mala took of the participants' registration happened to be people I know from school: Woon Ching and Cheryl. Lol.





Address by Prof Leo Tan, Director, Special Projects, National University of Singapore, Chairman, NYAA Council and Recipient of President's Award for the Environment 2007


Keynote address by Prof Jeff Obbard, Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.


Mr Dorjee Sun, Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Conservation and TIME Magazine Environmental Hero 2009.

Hmm. I really enjoyed their keynote addresses. I reckon Mr Sun's video left everyone awestruck. Cassandra and I got to talk to him a little before our ushering duties began. Last thing I remembered, he was joking that he would send his people after him if we don't email him after getting his eco-friendly namecard, ending by reading our name tags and saying our names, 'Miss Koh and Miss Cheong'. Cass and I got stunned for a moment. Haha!


The emcees from CJC, Julian and Jasmine. The other CJC students served as group facilitators. Jonathan (chief facilitator) is directing the 32 groups to their respective locations for the breakout session whereby discussion for the conference themes will begin.


We found quite a bit of lost-and-found items. Like this cute wallet. Haha. We also found handphones, Apple Macbook, etc. Big haul, I tell you.






The backstage served as our operations rooms (ops room, for short).


I think some of the adults in the committee have interesting jobs. Like Mala's a chiropractor at TTSH, Mark's working in an NGO, Ken's a defence science researcher, to name some. Even those who are still studying have amazing ambitions/careers ahead of them. Like Jonathan who is studying psychology and Gao who aims to be an ambassador for Unicef. I really hope they fly to great heights! I'll catch up to them one day! (:


I'm telling you, this is the calm BEFORE the storm. The data compilation team (Pengru's missing here!) had nothing to do prior to the end of the breakout session.


Cass couldn't resist shooting her hawt hawt purple shoes! Haha!

FOOD'S HERE! This is the first time I've felt that buffet-style catered food can be nice! We requested for melamine plates and metal forks and spoons to be environmentally friendly. (:


DATA COMPILATION TEAM!!

Thinking back, it was simply wow. How the heck did we manage to compile 32 groups' discussion in less than 30mins? Majority of the groups submitted their works way past the given time, which made things even more hectic than it already would be. Kudos to everyone for being cool and rational even when things were explosive in that 30 minutes!


Yes, it is messy. 32 groups submitting their discussions IS messy.

While the discussion summary presentation is going on, we retreated back to the ops room. Wooo, I look like I'm being strangled by Cass. She gave me a shock when she suddenly squeezed my neck for this photo! ><



Currently preparing for the final summary of the group discussions.

These 2 photos are cool. They show our data compilation leader, Mala and our floor manager, Yueqiu in their element! :D


More organising comm peeps. And the entire VIP row.

Dialogue session with Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim. On the panel are Mr Khoo Teng Chye, Chief Executive of PUB, Mr Peter Benson Lee, Chairman, Organising Committee and NYAA Gold Award Holder and the moderator, Ms Zaibun Siraj, Trainer and Member, NYAA Council.


Group photography of the speakers, officials and organising committee.

Prize presentation ceremony for National Youth Environment Projects Competition 2008. Winning project goes to Ms Regina Oon, Project Leader of PACT.






HAHA! Yueqiu forged the entire certificate of appreciation for the organising committee! Anyone needs a forger, look for her, yea! :D


After packing up the stuff, there was a debrief by our chairman. The certificate of appreciation for the organising committee members were also distributed individually, with cheerings and applause and photo-taking by Mala included. Damn grand. Hahaha. :D



We went to Clementi for dinner thereafter. Some couldn't make it as they had other things on. We ate at Ramen Ten, fully paid for by Dr Ken. Thanks for the treat! (:


The other table ordered bowls of ramen. My table (me, Yueqiu, Jonathan, Pengru and Dr Ken) ate from the sushi belt. Felt damn full after that.


Thanks to the staff for helping us take this photo!

We could take the NEWater goodie bag too because there were so many extras. And the water bottle is only for the organising committee. We got it along with the cert. Wheee!



Hope there will be a NYEC 2010 Org Comm. meet-up sometime down the road! :D

CHARMAINE CHEONG.

I’m a somebody and a nobody. I’m rational and emotional. I’m critical but I’m non-judgemental.

I like my things categorized by types and chronologically. I like taking photos to preserve the moments of my life. I like dystopian literature. I like reading Wikipedia articles at random. I like travelling to foreign lands and seeing the world. I like long conversations over good food. I like pop and classical music. I like guitars. I like cats. I like writing random, mushy letters and notes to the people important to me. I have a whole long list of things that I like, but you’ve got to get to know me better to know them all.