Pooi San's Biodata

My name is Wong Pooi San and I am currently a year 3 undergraduate student in National University of Singapore (NUS). I am a student from Faculty of Science, majoring in Life Sciences with concentration of Biomedical Science. I will be graduating in June next year with Bachelor of Science (Honours) and I hope I can enjoy my life and score for good grades for my modules in the remaining one more year in NUS.

I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I completed my primary, secondary as well as my pre-university education before I was admitted to NUS for my tertiary education. Before coming to Singapore to study, I was quite worried whether I could cope the pressure here. However, after three year of studies in NUS, I am glad that I am can cope the life here and I am satisfy with my academic results as well as my CCA achievements here. I was studying in a Chinese-based school for my primary and secondary education, thus my English is not that proficient. So that's why I took ES2007S to improve my English!!!!=)

I join Red Cross Humanitarian Network - National University of Singapore Chapter (RCHN-NUS Chapter) since two year ago and currently I am the Vice President of this society. As a Vice President, I am responsible to guide and advise my Management Committee members for various activities such as Blood Donation Drive, Charity Bazaar, First Aid Awareness Workshop etc. Besides that, I was the team leader for International Humanitarian Mission Trip to Hunan Province, China to help the mentally disabled orphans in last December. As a team leader, I led 13 volunteers and make final decisions with the advices of President as well as Singapore Red Cross's staff who followed us to China. Before the trip, I was responsible to liaise with the China local contact and Singapore Red Cross for administrative matters as well as chair the weekly meeting with the volunteers.

I find out that we, normal healthy people are very lucky people if compared to those beneficiaries that we helped during the humanitarian trip. Thus, I strongly feel that we shall appreciate the things we have now!=) Besides, through various co-curricular activities that I have participated from year 1 till now, I have gained a lot of experiences and skills such as time management, leadership, teamwork as well as emotional management. I wish these experiences and skills can aid me in my future career.

I wish to become a teacher after the completion of my undergraduate studies as I have the experience as a relief teaches. I hope I can nurture the future generation by teaching them knowledge that I have learned from my education. Besides that, I have a goal which is to involve in oversea humanitarian and volunteer trip once a year to help the beneficiaries as I feel that helping people is meaningful for me!=)

That's all about me!Hope all of you know me more after reading my biodata!=)

Are they still friend???

There is a Chinese saying that we depend on our family members at home while friends are the one we dependent on when we are outside. Thus, friends play important roles in our life as we need them for helps, advices when we have problem etc. However, miscommunication and conflicts often occur between friends and these problems will affect the friendship. I would like to describe a hypothetical scenario that shows conflicts between friends.

The characters involved here are Andy and Mandy. Both of them were in the same society and they were really good friends. They used to stay overnight in clubroom together with other friends to study for examination. They like to flirt with each other and in their friends' eyes, they looked like buddy instead of lover.

Mandy was a very stress person when she was in mist of preparing examination since she had high demand on her result. Andy knew about her stress and encouraged her as well as tried to help her destress during examination period. Mandy felt thankful for Andy's action and was glad that she have a such a good buddy beside her.

However, as time went on, Andy has developed a special feeling toward Mandy. He was struggling at that moment of time whether he should tell Mandy about his feeling. Finally, he made a decision to tell about his special feeling. Thus, on the day Mandy treated Andy for a meal as a thank you treat, he asked Mandy for a date while they were waiting for bus. Mandy was shocked, terrified and uneasy when she heard about it as she only treated Andy as her buddy. So she decided to reject Andy's request to avoid any confusion and told him that it was better to be friends instead of go to further relationship.

From that day onwards, Mandy tried to avoid Andy as she thought it was better for them to not meet or talk to each other. Although sometimes they were accidentally bumped up, there was a weird environment surrounding them. However, after a few weeks, Mandy felt regret as she did not want to lost a good buddy but she did not know how to approach Andy to avoid confusion. So people, what you think Mandy should do??