Blog 6: Biodata

My Biodata:


From past experience, I believe I am an organised and maticulous person. One who is able to coordinate and relate well to people, I enjoy organising events and take each problem as a challenge and opportunity to better my social and problem solving skills.

My frankness and openness in relating to people coupled with my cheerful smile has gained me many friends. With my calm and rational personality in facing problems, I have been an asset during stressful times where decisions have to be made.

Other than pursuing my academic dream, I indulge in ice skating, diving and wake boarding. Like most girls, I too enjoy watching movies and shopping to destress amidst my homework and exams.

Blog 5: Reflecting on the Research Project Experience

It has indeed been a memorable and a positive learning experience during the 3 weeks i spent with Pei Yu and Nicole conducting the survey and writing the report for ES2007S.

During this time, I witnessed and learnt the importance of communication as we had to split up of the report that each of us had to complete for the final submission. Clear and detailed instructions had to be communicated between the 3 of us to ensure that the final report was consistent, from the writing style (third party point of view) to the fonting and paragraphing, to enable easy collation of the various parts. Interpersonal relationships played a very important role as friendships were forged during this time and any insensitive word spoken rashly during periods of stress was going to subtly undermine this relationship. Thus, we adopted the ‘group mentality’ when we were working on this project, where we would rally around each other to offer help to others even when that part was not our portion of the report to complete. This helped to ease tension during stressful periods where we had other assessments and reports to submit concurrently. Being a life science student, I was more versed with research and finding research papers. Thus I was able to teach Pei Yu the various methods to find the relevant research papers we needed to substantiate our survey results. Also when she was unable to find the source for the research paper, I went on to assist her to find the sources. This is because I remember how frustrating it was when I was still learning the technique of looking for research papers and sources. During the report writing, I was very encouraged by the enthusiasm Pei Yu and Nicole showed, we were not only able to complete the report but were also able to proof read each others parts.

For future presentations, I would definitely want to keep up the ‘group spirit’ we have but would like to improve on communications especially when stress level is high by asking other group members if they have difficulty in their parts before they come to ask for help. I believe this would help to create a happier team environment.