Our first workshop was a personality workshop by Mr. Douglas Ng. He is the founder of Thrive Now, a transformation-based education business. He facilitated our first personality workshop. He divided us into six different groups and was awarded by $100 poker chips. He let us played a game which is almost the same as what is happening outside our class room. Our main goal is to earn as much chips as we can in one hour, by figuring things out all ourselves. All we had is a training room,a bank, and a market, and all came with a price. The game actually is learning how to make a balloon and selling it in the market to earn profit. At the start of the game, all the group went crazy at pumping and twisting flower balloons, buying raw materials in the market, selling the pumped flower balloons to the market and to the other group, and thinking of how to earn money more. Some groups bought information in the market, some observed the market, and some just gave up in the middle of the game. Some also borrowed money in the bank, some paid back their credit line, and some forgot. At the end of the game, our group has earned the most chips which was almost $17,000. The lesson of the game was that each of us our own potential and if we have the information which we can have through proper training and education then we start to make money and run our own business as what we have shown in the game.And it also showed us the reality that demand-supply will not always stay at it is and it will change through time, so the price will change, the demand will change, and everything will change. So it is better to start up early and not delayed yourself.
After we had our first workshop, we have our networking lunch also in Plug-In@Blk71. Then, we had our second workshop which is all about creating and formulation idea by Mr. Ramesh Raghavan, co-founder and partner of Tenshi Peak Ventures, a Singapore-based global angel investment, mentorship, and business development platform. After his informational lecture, we had our highlight for the day, Amazing Race.
Our bus dropped us in Civilian War Memorial near the Singapore City Hall, which become our starting point to our amazing race. The aim of the race is to visit five different pit stops in Singapore and to complete the challenge heading to the next pit stop. We presented first our group cheer before starting the race. Our group went first to the Youth Olympic Park which is just across the famous Marina Bay Sand Hotel and the Helix Bridge. When we got there, we needed to name five Olympics sports and took a group picture showing one sport.
Before we head to our next stop, we bought the famous Singapore's SGD1 Icecream then we headed to the Singapore flyer, which is our second pit stop. Our challenge is to ask any tourist to took a picture of us. Luckily there where three kind Hispanic guys who granted our request. Since it was getting late, we had to skipped one of the pit stop, and head to the last pit stop where we will have our dinner. We walked all way through to the Gardens by Bay from the Singapore Flyer. When we got there, we were all amazed by the beauty of the Supertree Grove. It seems like we were in the world of avatar with those large illuminated Supertrees. We had our dinner in a nearby hawker in the Gardens by the Bay and had our free time to roam around the garden.
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