Jun Yen is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Life Science in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Being highly driven by curiosity and interest on Life and Biology, he highly involves himself in the research field. A member of the Special Program in Science, he is currently undergoing a one year research project (UROPS) on the effect of CDDO-TFEA on Alzheimer induced mice under the guidance of Dr. Sashi Kesavapany.
He was part of the organizing committee for freshman orientation projects for Malaysian students and has no problem in working with strangers. As much as he enjoys his work, he is a strong believer in the importance of a good quality of life and enjoys indulging himself in social gatherings and relaxation. He holds to the quote:
"Life Is A Challenge - Meet It! Life Is A Song - Sing It! Life Is A Dream - Realize It! Life Is A Game - Play It! Life Is Love - Enjoy It!"- Sathya Sai Baba
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Looking back...
I am glad to announce that our project is nearing its completion! With the main part behind us, all that is left to would be checking for language and format details. Allow me a brief moment of relaxation. With a BIG sigh of relief of course :
SIIIIIIIighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................
Okay, now I'm ready to review the entire project. It started out in an awkward situation, I mixed up my group members names while they got mine right. It was quite and embarrassing moment. However after that we got to a quick start.
Throughout my years in NUS, I have only a few chances to undergo a project with students from another major. So most of the times I'm with students of the major doing the same topic, mainly Biology. Since most of the project uses the same format for reports I have become accustomed them. Too accustomed.
Since I have little exposure to other "worlds" I was quite daunted when Brad show us how the report format would be. I kept thinking: that shouldn't be acceptable, the labeling is wrong, shouldn't it be this way? and so on. After awhile though, I began to realize there isn't a strict format on how some letter or report should be.
I guess in a way this is also another cultural experience, albeit its on writing styles. This shows that there is always a norm for something in different places be it location or papers. The experience I gain from this also tells me that I am a little too rigid on my mindset of how things should be. Time to change and be more flexible and adaptable to changes.
Also I am surprised to say how efficient my group mates are. Previously on report projects, I use to have meetings with group mates and for some reason we never progress anywhere. I end up being frustrated as not only no work was done, precious time was also wasted. With Xin Yi and Pei Rong however, we always manage to tackle the issues and most of the time, has extra time to spare. Not to forget Brad's help on issues where we were stuck and confused. Though we had little communication, we always manage to get the point across to each other and therefore leading to the successful completion of the project.
This was a wonderful experience, no other project has gone as smooth as this one. I really owe it to both Pei Rong and Xin Yi to make the project enjoyable. And they manage to do it while having their midterm exams during the process. I would like to take the chance to thank them for the wonderful experience and for their patient and understanding through the project.
SIIIIIIIighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................
Okay, now I'm ready to review the entire project. It started out in an awkward situation, I mixed up my group members names while they got mine right. It was quite and embarrassing moment. However after that we got to a quick start.
Throughout my years in NUS, I have only a few chances to undergo a project with students from another major. So most of the times I'm with students of the major doing the same topic, mainly Biology. Since most of the project uses the same format for reports I have become accustomed them. Too accustomed.
Since I have little exposure to other "worlds" I was quite daunted when Brad show us how the report format would be. I kept thinking: that shouldn't be acceptable, the labeling is wrong, shouldn't it be this way? and so on. After awhile though, I began to realize there isn't a strict format on how some letter or report should be.
I guess in a way this is also another cultural experience, albeit its on writing styles. This shows that there is always a norm for something in different places be it location or papers. The experience I gain from this also tells me that I am a little too rigid on my mindset of how things should be. Time to change and be more flexible and adaptable to changes.
Also I am surprised to say how efficient my group mates are. Previously on report projects, I use to have meetings with group mates and for some reason we never progress anywhere. I end up being frustrated as not only no work was done, precious time was also wasted. With Xin Yi and Pei Rong however, we always manage to tackle the issues and most of the time, has extra time to spare. Not to forget Brad's help on issues where we were stuck and confused. Though we had little communication, we always manage to get the point across to each other and therefore leading to the successful completion of the project.
This was a wonderful experience, no other project has gone as smooth as this one. I really owe it to both Pei Rong and Xin Yi to make the project enjoyable. And they manage to do it while having their midterm exams during the process. I would like to take the chance to thank them for the wonderful experience and for their patient and understanding through the project.
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