Well, the semester is coming to an end. To be honest, I feel this semester going very fast. I still remembered the first day in ES2007S class. Everyone didn't know each other and Ms Lim guided us to play an ice-breaking game which was the survivors on the island. I and Fahmi were assigned to be the belly dancer and we really did crazy funny things ^_^.
Going through the semester, I've adopted a lot of skills which will be essential for me in the future such as: writing cover letter, resume, preparing for an interview, writing a proposal, etc... However, the most important skill I learned from this class is the way how to communicate with the others. It's really a need for us to survive. You can be very smart, a genius but unless you can communicate with the others, you are nothing. Having said so, though, I haven't practiced it very well. As Aoyun mentioned during our last class, professional communication is not such a thing you can get only after a semester, it's a process and we must practice frequently to get it.
Our class is the first class with such a small size which I've ever taken. In the big lecture, I've never known all my mates' names but as Elaine said, at least now, I could know all of your names :"). I really feel the sense of family and belonging in our class. I did peer teaching together with Weelee and Chen Yan, proposal with Terence, Aoyun and Desmond, chit chatting with Hui Ting, Chen Chen, Akash, Shawn, Mark,...Well, it's really fun as after two years in NUS, I eventually had the feeling like in the school years.
It would be a big mistake for us if we didn't talk about our dear teacher - Ms Lim. You are among the best, most caring and most thorough teachers I have ever known. I remember the way how you observe us discussing during class, how you comment on our work, how you help us point out the problem we face during the peer teaching or doing the proposal. You always come to class early, at around 7am when most of us are still in bed (at least me :")). The enthusiasm and passion you put in teaching us is obviously huge. When we come to class late, it's OK, you don't blame on us. When we are energy-less in the early morning, you let us play some games. There are many things about you that I cannot list out all here. Well, having such a teacher like you, every student would have motivation to do well for every homework, project and assignment.
I am very pleased to take this module. I wouldn't have done that unless Terence has posted on Applied Chemistry facebook page. Thanks to it, I make friends with such interesting people like you. Thanks to it, I learn a lot of surviving skills. I love all of my classmates and Ms Lim. Wish you revise hard and get the best results for your final exam.
P.S: will we have outing after final exam, people ^_^
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Reflection on oral presentation
Well, today I finished the oral presentation with team Energy. I felt really really relieved. At last, after 2 months, we - team Energy have already submitted proposal and presented our project for the whole dear class.
Firstly, I want to say the word thank you to all of my team for great effort put during two months. I would like to say thank you to Ms Lim and all of you - my classmates - for very very precious comments and support for us :X. Without you, we cannot do all of those things in a correct and good manner.
Now, let's go through the milestone in our process.
1/ First meeting - 12 Feb, 2011:
Only me and Terence came for meeting in Science canteen. A bit disappointed, though, I thought that maybe that was Sunday, Desmond lived quite far from campus and Aoyun was busy with hall activities. We pointed out several problems that were able to be our project's topic. A minute was done quite roughly and the work was divided. The meeting lasted for only half an hour.
2/ Progress of doing proposal:
Actually, we have changed the topic from building a solar power plant to PV-LED module for street lamp and traffic lights after being persuaded by Desmond. There was about one meeting per week, hundreds of emails, sms, wiki updates. We did a lot of researches about solar energy generally as that was all we could do. Desmond was assigned for the technical part.
I don't know how many times I have to say "thank you" to my teammates. Terence is extremely proactive in all of the group's activities. He did research, survey and compiled the survey questionnaire. Then he spread for us and asked us to spread on facebook for our friends to do. After that, he collected the results and did the result analysis. The design and some parts of the proposal were done by him. You are really a good team-player, Terence.
About Aoyun, she did the questionnaire for interview, tried to look for the professor for interview and conducted it. The questionnaire has been changed for several times but she was patient to change it from nearly a page to only a few lines of concise content. Also, as a coordinator, she emailed and sms everyone for a meeting. You did really a good job - Aoyn.
Desmond, I was grateful for your support about technical part - PV - LED module for the proposal. Without it, we couldn't have an impressive and persuasive model to present with our class.
Haha, about me, what have I been doing? I was lucky to get the trust of everyone and was assigned as team leader. I did researches about solar energy, divided the work, did the proposal, updated through wiki and NUS email. Also, I played the role of Aoyun sometimes, as well, it is to arrange the time and venue for our meeting.
However, there was one thing I felt very bad whenever I remembered. It was Monday two or three weeks ago, when Aoyun let me know that Terence stayed up till 4am to finish the proposal as he was the person to combine and compile all the detailed parts in the proposal that we sent. That morning, I felt really guilty.
3/ Power point slide and presentation preparation process:
The power point slides were divided to each of us. Terence sent us the template first and each of us had to make the slides ourselves. We did change a lot. If taking a look at the original one and comparing to the current version, wow, I don't think that I can recognize it. It has been changed from the design to the content of each slide and the order. In the last day, Terence made a big surprise to us with a video. He introduced it as an awesome video. However, when we watched, we didn't understand what was going on till the last several lines. What was funniest is the Team Energy Present and title of the presentation.
I also remembered it was extremely funny when we did the rehearsal. As you can expected, we were all laughing and didn't remember the content, said the wrong things and got stunned, especially when I didn't know how to use the USB mouse of Terence to control the slides and I put it on the thigh in a lame posture =))
We also tried to find some features common for our team. At last, we agreed that all of us wear white T-shirt and black pants, Aoyun would wear black skirt. When I introduced, everyone would stand up and look at the audience. In addition, the question would be answered in order, me, Aoyun, Terence and Desmond. As everyone knew each other part, that was not a hard job to do. However, as each of us focused on one realm, if the other couldn't answer completely, that person would help. The overall purpose was everyone can take part in the Q&A session.
4/ Oral presentation:
I went to bus stop quite early but no bus A1, therefore I had to go to Science through KEVII Hall in a formal dress which made me inconvenient. Some troubles happened as the mouse was out of function. Anyway, we tried to do the best for our presentation. It was really different from the peer teaching. I was a bit worried and introduced my teammates in wrong order. This time, I tried to say slowly and emphasized on each point because that was what I got from your response when I did peer teaching lesson. Overall, I felt good. However, my teammates told me that I've made several grammatical mistake. Quite sad but I will try to overcome it.
Terence and Aoyun did a good job. Every point was conveyed smoothly. However, there were some of the points that they forgot what those were, maybe they were too nervous.
Desmond did a good presentation except the last one. There seemed a portion that he forgot so the flow was not that smooth.
Anyway, today's present has been overcome. There is only one session for this ES module left. To be honest, I feel that this semester going too fast, I couldn't believe that this comes the end of the semester.
Hehe, I will have a separate post for our class. One last word I want to say is, I love everyone in our class, I really love my team, my lecturer and my classmate
Firstly, I want to say the word thank you to all of my team for great effort put during two months. I would like to say thank you to Ms Lim and all of you - my classmates - for very very precious comments and support for us :X. Without you, we cannot do all of those things in a correct and good manner.
Now, let's go through the milestone in our process.
1/ First meeting - 12 Feb, 2011:
Only me and Terence came for meeting in Science canteen. A bit disappointed, though, I thought that maybe that was Sunday, Desmond lived quite far from campus and Aoyun was busy with hall activities. We pointed out several problems that were able to be our project's topic. A minute was done quite roughly and the work was divided. The meeting lasted for only half an hour.
2/ Progress of doing proposal:
Actually, we have changed the topic from building a solar power plant to PV-LED module for street lamp and traffic lights after being persuaded by Desmond. There was about one meeting per week, hundreds of emails, sms, wiki updates. We did a lot of researches about solar energy generally as that was all we could do. Desmond was assigned for the technical part.
I don't know how many times I have to say "thank you" to my teammates. Terence is extremely proactive in all of the group's activities. He did research, survey and compiled the survey questionnaire. Then he spread for us and asked us to spread on facebook for our friends to do. After that, he collected the results and did the result analysis. The design and some parts of the proposal were done by him. You are really a good team-player, Terence.
About Aoyun, she did the questionnaire for interview, tried to look for the professor for interview and conducted it. The questionnaire has been changed for several times but she was patient to change it from nearly a page to only a few lines of concise content. Also, as a coordinator, she emailed and sms everyone for a meeting. You did really a good job - Aoyn.
Desmond, I was grateful for your support about technical part - PV - LED module for the proposal. Without it, we couldn't have an impressive and persuasive model to present with our class.
Haha, about me, what have I been doing? I was lucky to get the trust of everyone and was assigned as team leader. I did researches about solar energy, divided the work, did the proposal, updated through wiki and NUS email. Also, I played the role of Aoyun sometimes, as well, it is to arrange the time and venue for our meeting.
However, there was one thing I felt very bad whenever I remembered. It was Monday two or three weeks ago, when Aoyun let me know that Terence stayed up till 4am to finish the proposal as he was the person to combine and compile all the detailed parts in the proposal that we sent. That morning, I felt really guilty.
3/ Power point slide and presentation preparation process:
The power point slides were divided to each of us. Terence sent us the template first and each of us had to make the slides ourselves. We did change a lot. If taking a look at the original one and comparing to the current version, wow, I don't think that I can recognize it. It has been changed from the design to the content of each slide and the order. In the last day, Terence made a big surprise to us with a video. He introduced it as an awesome video. However, when we watched, we didn't understand what was going on till the last several lines. What was funniest is the Team Energy Present and title of the presentation.
I also remembered it was extremely funny when we did the rehearsal. As you can expected, we were all laughing and didn't remember the content, said the wrong things and got stunned, especially when I didn't know how to use the USB mouse of Terence to control the slides and I put it on the thigh in a lame posture =))
We also tried to find some features common for our team. At last, we agreed that all of us wear white T-shirt and black pants, Aoyun would wear black skirt. When I introduced, everyone would stand up and look at the audience. In addition, the question would be answered in order, me, Aoyun, Terence and Desmond. As everyone knew each other part, that was not a hard job to do. However, as each of us focused on one realm, if the other couldn't answer completely, that person would help. The overall purpose was everyone can take part in the Q&A session.
4/ Oral presentation:
I went to bus stop quite early but no bus A1, therefore I had to go to Science through KEVII Hall in a formal dress which made me inconvenient. Some troubles happened as the mouse was out of function. Anyway, we tried to do the best for our presentation. It was really different from the peer teaching. I was a bit worried and introduced my teammates in wrong order. This time, I tried to say slowly and emphasized on each point because that was what I got from your response when I did peer teaching lesson. Overall, I felt good. However, my teammates told me that I've made several grammatical mistake. Quite sad but I will try to overcome it.
Terence and Aoyun did a good job. Every point was conveyed smoothly. However, there were some of the points that they forgot what those were, maybe they were too nervous.
Desmond did a good presentation except the last one. There seemed a portion that he forgot so the flow was not that smooth.
Anyway, today's present has been overcome. There is only one session for this ES module left. To be honest, I feel that this semester going too fast, I couldn't believe that this comes the end of the semester.
Hehe, I will have a separate post for our class. One last word I want to say is, I love everyone in our class, I really love my team, my lecturer and my classmate
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