WorldSkills Singapore // Day 1

Good evening guys! 

Day 1 of WorldSkills Singapore 2014 has come to an end and I will be blogging on the Opening Ceremony and the booths I came across earlier today while roaming around ITE AMK.

The Opening Ceremony was rather interesting, consisting of a performance from SP's Daiko Drummers and a song called Shining Dreams, WSS's theme song, sung by Shaffiq Hairi and Eriynee!

Personally, I feel that the best part of the Opening ceremony was when the Guest of Honour, Mr Teo Chee Hean, made a speech and made an analogy between the World Cup and WorldSkills. He mentioned how World Cup is like a zero sum game. There's only 1 winner and the end of the competition is a dead end. For WorldSkills, however, it's a cumulative win. You win in the competition, and continue to win in life at the skill you major in. 

"To win the WorldSkills competition is not just winning a competition, but also a win in life."

After the ceremony, we headed out of the auditorium and was caught in awe of the widespread of food available for us to devour! We were all soooo excited to eat ♥o♥ 

Here are some photos of the Opening Ceremony!

We then headed to the first floor to explore the area and check out the booths available to public. There were many interesting booths ranging from playing games with watermelons to showcasing weapons personally designed and assembled by students. 

One of my favourite booths was the Creative Floral Arrangement where they taught me how to fold a rose with a pandan leaf! 

 A booth that uses watermelons as the buttons for their games! 

This gun is a weapon built and designed by a fellow Singapore Polytechnic student. It is a blind gun that will kill the eyesight of the target for a couple of seconds. In addition to that, the target will also start feeling giddy and thus be unable to walk properly. 

A brilliant innovation, I must say!

After exploring the booths, we went to check on how the competitors were doing. I was taken aback by how they were all so focused and quick on their feet! More on the competitors will be up on tomorrow's post if we manage to catch the competitors and get a short interview with them.

Last but not least, the well-loved milo truck stopped by for a couple of hours to reward the competitors and treat the visitors to some free milo. Hopefully, they'll drop by again tomorrow.

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