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Hi guys.
Hello.
How many years has it been since you graduated from school?
Wait.
Okay, so I never go to university.
I graduated in 2017, from polytechnic.
I graduated from university.
I think it's been about 5-6 years or so.
What was school life like for you?
I love my university life.
I think it's one of the best parts of my life.
Because for me, when I was in university,
it's not that I don't really care about grades.
It's just that for me, I passed with a good grade.
Enough for me to land a job.
I'm okay already.
Then I used my free time to enjoy my university life.
I had a total opposite experience as compared to you.
Why?
I did not really enjoy my 3 years.
Just because I feel that I didn't pick the right course.
But it's somehow related to what you're doing.
Not really.
Visual communications is really more advertising and graphic design.
In today's episode of Singaporeans Try,
you'll be living like a university student for 72 hours.
72?! I thought 24 hours.
You guys will be paired with a student each.
Let's welcome them!
[ Cheering! ]
Hi my name is Peyton!
I'm a year 2 environmental science student at NTU (Nanyang Technological University).
Hi, I'm Kayla.
I'm a year 1 accountancy student at SMU(Singapore Management University).
We were sharing about our school lifestyle right?
Why not you share about yours?
So that we can have an inkling.
Honestly, school is pretty busy.
I wake up around 8am
because all my classes start usually around 9am.
And then usually the rest of the day
is either like classes or meetings or CCA.
After all of that, it's like catching up on my assignments.
Okay.
How about you?
If I have a morning class, so like it'll start at 8.15am,
I'll wake up about 6.45am.
Because I need an hour to get to school.
Any workout routine?
My CCA is dance, so I take that as my workout.
Yes! That's it! Oh my god, nice!
My CCA is dance also.
My CCA is like contemporary dance.
But I teach ballet.
It's very different from what I do.
I do hip hop and street jazz.
I can't do hip hop.
Oh my god, now I'm going to do ballet!
But I cannot do hip hop.
Occasionally I like to do hot yoga too.
Oh yes, okay.
Because I feel like it's like a deep detox.
So what do you all usually have during lunch with your friends?
Yeah, so for me like I'm actually vegan.
So it's a little bit harder for me to find like food options in school.
Okay then, on top of your normal school,
do you have other commitments?
Right now I'm part of a fledgling startup
that me and a couple of other NTU students started.
We use tech-driven solutions to try to tackle environmental issues.
Wow!
I volunteer with a startup called Divert for 2nd Life.
Basically we do like food rescues.
Food rescues?
You know at the end of the day there's a lot of leftovers
you see in shops and stuff.
So we'll partner up with those shops
and then we'll head over there at the end of the day
and then we'll collect their food.
Wow, it's almost the same thing.
They tackle about the food wastage and all.
I think it's a very real problem.
So are you all ready?
Yes!
So good morning guys, it's actually 6.40am.
This is what I don’t really miss from my university days,
to wake up this early.
I am going to get ready for the day
because it's going to be a long day for me.
Hopefully I can survive today.
Day 1.
It's 9am and I'm running freaking late.
My hot yoga class is around 9.30am.
I just booked myself a grab.
I cannot take public transport already.
Alright, so how do we start?
So we do some warm ups.
It's been two years since I danced! Oh my god!
It's okay.
Let me teach you a few steps.
So you do like a lunge.
Then you put this hand down.
Then you tuck under.
That’s it.
Then you just roll it out.
Then you stand up.
Come, we do a chaîné okay.
Very easy.
What do you call it?
A chaîné.
Chaîné.
So you step up.
Turn.
Step.
And this leg, you stick it out.
And this leg, you throw it back out.
Step, step...
Oh my god, she laughed at me!
You're so bad!
Peyton how was the session?
I'm dead.
You know what's the hardest part?
Waking up.
Let's go up.
Okay.
Okay, come down.
Okay, breathe for one more time.
Okay.
Okay, let's go down.
Ahh.
This is good.
Ahh, okay, this I like to do.
You mentioned about your startup.
How did you incorporate technology into it?
As a rescuer, you just take pictures of your food.
You post it.
So whoever's on the app, they can scroll.
Maybe searching by region or something.
Then when they see the food item, they can just drop you a message.
So with all these things that you do,
is there something that inspired you?
I mainly started because of my mum.
It feels good when you collect the food
and you're like this food isn't going to waste anymore.
Like you're keeping it, you're giving it a new life.
Wow.
Yeah.
I think maybe I go with you on one of your food recues,
so that I can see how it goes behind the scenes.
So after the class,
Peyton brought me to this coffee shop
to try some vegan food for lunch.
We got our food.
We got fried beehoon with vegetable rice.
We were talking about your startup.
Share with me more about this startup.
It's called ChangeX and its aim is to create tech-driven solutions
to tackle environmental issues.
So right now the main thing we're working on is developing an app.
It's called PanTree.
So we're using machine learning
and we also use this thing called a Smart AI menu.
Then we'll create custom menu recommendations
to use those ingredients
and then push it out and sell it on our platform.
So it's dinner time and I'm still in the office.
So here in office, we got food from a shoot.
I'm just going to eat this for dinner.
No to food wastage.
I'm walking over to Sheng Siong
hopefully to find a vegetarian instant noodle.
Vegetable.
I'm going to go with this.
I'm too lazy to cook.
Just going to pick this cup noodle.
I kept everything down below $10 today.
Not that bad.
It's day two.
I just woke up.
I'm so tired.
On my way to the office,
the first thing I need to do is to buy my coffee.
So I already spent $1.30 today
but I got cash back from DBS Hawker PayLah.
So I got the full $1.30 back when I bought this coffee.
And as a university student, that's a good deal.
That's a very good deal.
So hi guys. Now I'm with Kayla
and we are here at Expo to do some food rescue.
Right now, we are on the way to rescue some food
with all the other volunteers.
Now I'm with Kayla's mom.
Hello, hi, I'm Eunice.
She will share something about the
food rescue that we are doing today.
Okay, so basically for this exercise, we are working with Food Bank.
And we will go to all the different exhibition groups
to see what they have that they are willing to donate.
And then from there, we will collect everything
and we will send it to Food Bank first
and then subsequently share it with D2L(Divert for 2nd Life).
Alright!
The amount of food that we can take and donate to people.
It's quite busy guys.
To be honest, I was losing hope just now
when we were roaming around the whole Expo Hall
because when we asked people,
they don’t really have something to give.
But then luckily, this store, they are so, so nice.
They gave us all these fresh veggies.
Instead of throwing it away, they are very willing to donate food to D2L.
Oh my god, I'm so happy.
My heart is so full right now, literally.
Thank you for letting me experience this.
It's very heartwarming.
It's quite tiring and quite hard.
But after you do it, it feels so good.
Good morning! This is my last day for the vlog.
Actually, I don't have anything much going on today.
It's just working from home.
Okay, I'm on my way to the office now,
but I have something to confess.
You know, I woke up at 6.40am, but then I fell back asleep.
So I really did nothing in the morning.
I woke up at about 9am to work already.
Now I'm going to the office to do settle some stuff.
What a bummer.
I walked to the market and then the vegetarian store...
Is closed!
So, I got economic beehoon.
Here is my lunch.
I bought vegetable rice and iced coffee,
and it only cost me $5.20.
See! For me as a university student,
we should really know how to spend in a certain way
because you know, our allowance is very limited.
Beehoon, mock goose, chilli, vegetable, and black fungus.
This is as vegetarian as it can get.
It's 6pm and I just finished work and I'm not going to eat dinner
because I ate a lot of leftover foods.
I still have my coffee here, so today I only spent like $6.
Not bad. I saved a lot of money.
Today, I spent a total of less than $7 for my entire lunch and dinner.
Not too bad.
Okay guys, so how was the challenge?
I think it was okay, except I need to wake up
every 6 something in the morning everyday.
It's okay for me also, like manageable.
The only thing that I find it a struggle right, is for 3 days,
I have to sleep at 2am and then wake up at 8am.
So that is like Peyton's sleep schedule.
It's always the sleep, I think.
Because I know when you're working adult,
these kind of patterns don't work anymore.
Ya, cannot.
And we are getting older.
Peyton they all are like 20.
Ya only 20! What the heck!
How was university life different for you
as compared to the students?
There's quite a difference from my university life.
My side hustle before is mostly like school related activities.
Compared to when I was in university right,
I think in the past students were just very focused on graduating.
They're studying, getting good grades and all these.
Enter the workforce and all these things.
But then seeing the students now in university right,
some are volunteering or some are social organisations.
Some like Kayla, she's doing food rescue.
She's the youngest there.
I feel like when they are ready to enter the workforce right,
I think it's really really good.
They already have these experiences.
Cause I feel like it will help them
when they join the workforce in the future.
Very inspired in a way.
Like you know apart from what you're doing on a daily basis right,
you can also do something out from your work.
Or like from your studies and all these things
that can help the society.
One thing I can relate right
to this entire experience is having a passion.
I don't think they are getting any incentives.
Right right.
It's really out of their own willingness
to work on all these for a greater good like what you said.
I think that is quite admirable.
Ya.
Thank you DBS Foundation for making this video possible.
DBS Foundation supports next-gen impact makers
such as youths like Peyton and Kayla,
who are tackling Singapore's food waste issues with their startups.
If you are looking for opportunities to make a positive impact,
check out DBS Foundation's progress
via the link in the description box down below.
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Hot yoga!