Who else but ME?

Pictures: Me, myself and I [Long time ago though =) ]

I am Danny Wong San Liang, a 23 year-old Malaysian male student who is currently pursuing an Honours degree in Chemistry at the National University of Singapore. Having a background in Chemistry enables me to develop good analytical and critical thinking skills that can be integrated into many aspects of life including in my future workplace. I am a disciplined, principled, determined and organized individual who constantly seeks self-improvement. I firmly believe in lifelong learning as this constant upgrading of personal knowledge, job skills and transferable skills allows me to compete effectively in the fast-changing world. Besides that, I believe that good communication and leadership skills are vital to a person's overall growth and I actively participate in the Toastmaster Club to improve these skills. Being an avid traveller, I am also interested in exploring new countries and making new friends. My ambition? To become a successful entrepreneur that focus not only on profits but also on environment sustainability issues. I am certain that with my personal traits, communication and leadership qualities, I will be able to realise my ambition of becoming a successful entrepreneur and thus, achieving financial independence in the near future.

It's time for REFLECTION

*This picture was taken during one of my vacation trips on my Student Exchange Program (SEP) in New Zealand.

It has almost been a month; a month of hard work and perseverance which has been put into making a successful survey report. It started out when our "shifu", Mr. Brad Blackstone, made random selections among the students in Group 3 to form their respective groups for the survey project.

Honestly speaking, I had no preference on who to work with because I enrolled into this class by myself with the goal of becoming a better communicator. Furthermore, I wanted to make new friends and to learn to work with others more efficiently. Hence, it was finally decided that Jia Hao, Sharon and I would be working together on this project. I had known Sharon a week earlier than Jia Hao since Sharon was my blogging buddy.

The three of us hit it off pretty well from the start. We began to know each other better through class discussions and meetings outside of class. Even though, Sharon, Jia Hao and I are studying different majors, we managed to find common time to meet up and discuss details of the project. The journey we went through—from deciding on a topic, researching on the topic, designing and finalizing the questionnaires, compiling and interpreting the survey findings, and finally coming up with the complete survey report—was not easy.

It took our collective hard work, good job allocation and efficient time management to produce our near complete report draft for peer reviewing on Monday 6th October 2008. Presently, we have completed the survey report after editing 11 drafts. The remaining step now is the final scrutiny before the submission deadline on Monday 13th October 2008.

During this time, we had progressed from total strangers to good friends. I am glad that we are able to bond with each other without any interpersonal conflict. Furthermore, I have gained new exposure to the process of conducting a survey and writing a survey report. As a Chemistry student, previously I had only been exposed to writing laboratory reports.

All in all, it was an enriching journey. I have learnt new skills related to conducting research and improving my communication skills. Most importantly, I have gained new friends from this project and from Group 3. Cheers.