My biodata

I am currently a third year undergraduate pursuing my Chemistry degree at the National University of Singapore. I was a student of Jurong Secondary School and completed my 'A' Levels course at Jurong Junior College. Being committed and enthusiastic, I was appointed to take up the leadership role as the chairperson of school choir and served as a choir sectional Leader in the college choir. As an active member, I represented my school and college in Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging in 2001, 2003 and 2005, as well as in National Day Parade performance in 2002. In recognition of my commitment and contribution to the school choir, I was awarded the certification of merit in 2003.

Reflecting on the Research Project Experience

I am pleased that the research project is near to completion. For the past four weeks, my group had to work on the report almost everyday due to the packed schedule given by our module coordinator. Nonetheless, I had a good learning experience doing the project with my group members, Chiew Yen and Wen Jie.

I learnt that, it is important to build good working relation and the key to that is to have effective communication among the members as it would allow the members to have a mutual exchange of ideas and prevent conflicts among them. At the initial stage, probably the group members were rather reserved, hence the first meeting was not a spontaneous one. Fortunately, we managed to communicate better in the subsequent meetings after getting to know each other better through the communication with each other online. For convenience purpose, we often fork out some time to 'meet' online and hold our discussion on msn messenger which i feel is important in following up with the progress of our project report. Besides holding meeting on msn, we also meet up for face-to-face discussion to edit the report and discuss the problems we faced together, which helps in clear communication.

With coorporative and responsible members in my group, it definitely makes the project experience a pleasant one. We always try to assign the work equally and finish up on time. This is crucial so that we are able to meet our deadlines and hand in our work on time. I hope that we can do the same and be well prepared for our upcoming oral presentation.

As a whole, communication among group members is clear and I am glad that we have built up our friendships in this way.