The Hive - or affectionately known as Dim Sum Building or Xiao Long Bao Building by many students - is one of the newest attraction to NTU. Shaped like a bee hive (and hence its name), it was launched in October 2015 and is the centrepiece of a new learning pedagogy known as a flipped classroom, where students access learning content on their own and spend face-to-face time with professors for team-based learning. Equipped with the latest technologies, the classrooms are not your everyday rectangles but instead are shaped without corners, giving birth to the jokes that the students cannot "lepak one corner", local speak for finding a corner to slack off. The Hive has won many awards too, and you can find more information on the media release.
However moving along, from where the geocache is, you can see a skyline of Singapore that you don't usually see elsewhere. Look to the left, and you can see the HDB (Housing Development Board) blocks that house millions of Singaporeans and their families. Turn your head to the right, and you can catch The Tower of SAFTI MI (Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute Military Institute), beneath it lies a military camp where generations of officers underwent training to continuously build our country's defence. Look straight ahead, and you may spot cranes as they and their operators work hard day after day to push for our country's economical progress.
Enjoy the sights and sounds while you're here, but beware! Muggle students are always in the vicinity, even late into the evening and at night as they mug for their exams. Exercise caution so that they won't call the Campus Security on you. But if you want, you can have a little chat with them. Who knows, maybe you can learn a thing or two from the next generation of our country's little builders, or convince them into this game. Don't worry, we won't bite =)
Trying to build a Singapore geocaching community on Telegram - t.me/sgGeo