Day three! Same drill, we wake up, then we go get dressed, eat our breakfast, and off to our coach for our first stop. Our destination that morning: Science Centre Singapore in Jurong. It was a roughly 30 minutes of travel from the hotel.

We were introduced to our speaker, Mr. *something*, and he will be our speaker and teacher for the whole day. And later on we discovered he was a Pinoy! So cool! Anyway, I originally thought that we will just be attending a seminar and hearing a talk about robotics, I’m so glad we didn’t, because it would be so boring. What we did is we built a robot called Roborobo! We were grouped by threes, I was with Caye and Valerie. Before we began assembling the robot, our speaker made a short introduction about robots. We’ve undergone three modules in working with the robot. First was building the robot. It was really fun yet frustrating. My group mates and I actually took some time before finishing assembling it, we dismantled it many times because we did not followed the instructions well. Hahaha.

Second module was the programming of the robot. The programming was not the typical programming that we know, with codes and such, the programming was graphical, but the logic is still the same anyway. We programmed the robot to go forward, backward, go left and go right. 

Then, onto the last module, commanding the robot. We now programmed the robot for it to follow a remote controller, because by that, we’ll be having a robot contest. =) The contest goes like this, two robots will fight against each other in an arena and there are two water bottles in each side, the robots must push the bottles all the way to the center, the robot who first accomplishes the task wins! Unfortunately, for our team, we lost because the wheel of our robot was taken out while on his way. We were not able to screw the wheels in, we didn’t know! Too bad, we got a good chance winning our round! Haha!

It was already 4:30pm that time and it was time for us to go and the contest was still not finished, so Mr. *something* decided to end up with three winners—Migs’ team, Choy’s, and Jayson’s. But before we left the place, we first watched awesome demonstrations of the Tesla Coil. And Mr. *something*, our dear speaker, was the presenter. We were told that that particular Tesla Coil is the largest replica in South East Asia. Just judge the pictures below on how cool the demonstrations were! 

The rest of the evening was free to ourselves. We went back to the hotel to take a rest and my other friends went for a swim. At about past 8pm, we decided to go out and go to Marina Bay because we’re riding the Singapore Flyer! =) We have planned this and booked tickets even before we arrived in Singapore. It is actually my third time riding it, and riding it with my friends was so much fun. The whole 40 minutes of ride was so memorable as we view the great skyline of Singapore and as we see the Chinese people below us celebrating the Lunar New Year.

After riding the flyer, we were lucky to see a fireworks display. It lasted for about 15-20 minutes. Goodness, our neck got stiffed a little! Hehe!

Then, we walked down to Esplanade to eat dinner at Makansutra Gluttons Bay. We ordered chicken wings, squid, and satay. So delicious! 

Then, it was time for us to go back to the hotel. But we decided to take advantage of the night since it’s our last night in Singapore. We decided to have small booze in our room. Practically, we just fooled around, had chit chats, drank a little, and enjoyed the company of each other in a foreign country. =)

Thanks to Jhay M Teruel for some of the photos!