1st week of Internship@MOE PDM

Started off the Civil Service Programme Internship Programme (CSIP) with a Welcome Tea at The Treasury=) Got to know more about civil service and know fellow interns from NTU, SMU and even from other faculties in NUS. They were really thoughtful as the music they played before it started was very hip=)

1st week at Projects Development and Management Branch

Margaret is a really super nice supervisor and Mr. Eng is our deputy director. They give me alot of freedom to do my project according to my plans.

PDM has a really cool and helpful group of colleagues. The branch is really relevant to PFM=) The projects they deal with are mainly building of schools, rebuilding them under PRIME, managing the facilities.

I have been attending meetings and functions almost everyday. Really like it! Whenever my colleagues ask me along to sit-in for meetings, I will be super excited! =D Better than having to stay in my work cubicle.

Been working on my rooftop garden project=) Really love it! Interesting! Go green! Hopefully my final presentation and report will go well=)

Every Tue there's Senior Heads meeting which Im very privileged to sit-in. Interestingly, there was a discussion on whether they still need to engage PM for school projects. They even asked me for my view since Im a PFM student. Super interesting! During lunch time, some even reassured me that my course still has future. Haha...

Friday went Yishun Town Secondary School for site visit. Found out from research that they have rooftop garden. Although technically speaking, their rooftop garden is just a garden on a rooftop instead of an integrated greenery on top of roof structure, Im reallyX3 glad!

The teacher in-charge of it is a senior teacher who has totally no background in biology or chemistry, but he knows alot about gardening. Im really inspired by his passion and enthusiasm despite him retiring in 2 years time!=D He even invited me to share my knowledge with the school. Really motivated me alot to do well for my project=)

The smallX2 yellow thing is honeydew! Ooooo~~~ The teacher said when its harvest time it's very beautiful! I can almost imagine that!
Greenery around the school is really so pleasing to the eyes=) Especially on a hot, sunny day=)
Besides the rooftop garden, the school also has an eco-garden and a fern garden=) The principal is really very supportive of greening the school and he even asks me about vertical greening. Perhaps I can include that into my project if I have the time=)

Hope to plan another site visit to another rooftop garden in multi-storey carpark @Queenstown.

Hope I can get to contact the researcher who specializes in rooftop garden in SDE=D