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That's ME!

Photobucket         - Wendy Neo
        - 20.01.1986
        - Yr 3, NUS Chemistry

b0rn to be childish.. caring.. timid..
gr0w up to be stubb0rn.. impatient..
learning to be understanding.. brave..
trying not to be a CRY baby..
that's me, myself and i..



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- Passion -

= Learn to communicate better
= Expressing myself clearly
= Confident in presenting myself
= Building up my patient
= Be an active listener
= Understanding others well
= _________________________


I Thankyou

- Altan d.o.o. for HTML SnowDrops Script.
- Aisha Sherazi for The Poems.
- MyFlashFetish.com for The Music Player.
- YouTube.com for The Posted Video.
- L.Louis for the HTML BaseCodes






Thursday, September 25, 2008


Blog Post #4:
An Intercultural Scenario I personally faced

One of the intercultural scenarios that I shared with my group is about my friend, Cindy, during her 21st birthday party. Friends and relatives were invited to her birthday party, which was held at her apartment. Since Cindy was the limelight of the day, she dolled herself up beautifully.

Being her good friend, Cindy told me that she secretly invited her pen pal, Joseh, to her birthday party who is from the United States. Cindy is meeting him up for the very first time. Not long after, Joseh arrived, dressing up in a full-blacked old-fashioned way. Cindy's mum being more traditional is rather agitated as she find black is not an auspicious colour. This make Cindy kind of frustrated. After greeting Cindy with "Happy Birthday", he went on passing her a birthday present which was a huge clock with her favourite cartoon character Minnie Mouse. She gave him a hard stare, right into his eyes, and shouted at him, "What kind of present is this!" And went up to her room, slammed the door hard behind her. All of us were stunted about what had happened.

Cindy's Dad quickly reacted to the situation by asking the guests to continue the party. I approached Joseh on behalf of Cindy, telling him that he should not wear black-coloured clothing as it is inauspicious in Chinese Traditional Culture. Furthermore, giving a gift like clock, means cursing someone to die. Joseh was pretty sorry upon hearing what I said; he went up Cindy's room and apologized to her. Telling her about his ignorance about her cultural norms, hoping she would forgive him. Cindy did forgive him in the end and received a huge Minnie mouse jigsaw puzzle as her present instead. Both of them are still pen pal until now.

That incident was indeed a memorable one. Moreover, being a NUS student, frequently we have to communicate or do projects with people from different countries. Thus, I find that interacting between different individuals from different cultures is quite important. With a better understanding of the different cultural norms, it will make us communicate more effectively.




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Saturday, September 6, 2008


Blog Post #3:
Research Project Topic



Hectic working lifestyle and stressful educating system are what most Singaporeans faced recently. As a working adult, they need to cope with stress that arises from example, submitting of project’s report on time. However, from my point of view as a student, stress starts to pile up when exam is near or handling with relationship problems. All these factors mentioned tend to make one feels completely breakdown emotionally.

According to Singapore Channel NewsAsia’s News, although Singapore is a small country but according to social workers at a workshop, there is an increasing number of teenagers turning to self-mutilation to deal with their problems. Knives, lighters and pens are just some of the objects that teenagers use to hurt themselves.

In the news, Wu Mei Ling, centre director, Student Care Services, said that some of the teenagers need to mutilate to externalize the emotional pain as the pain is too excruciating. Some of the reasons why teenagers self-mutilate are mainly because of coping with divorce, low self-esteem and relationship problems.

Being a science student, giving a presentation in front of the whole lecture hall or even voicing out answer is something that will tend to make me feel stress. And yet, the courage to self-mutilate myself is not there. Question is, is there more reasons to why teenagers are self-mutilating themselves? It will help to solve the problem easier by knowing the main root to the problem on why there are an increasing number of teenagers self-mutilating themselves. Social workers said that more girls than boys tend to self-mutilate because female teenagers tend to be more emotional when dealing with these issues. Is it true?

It’s been an issue concerning about Singaporean’s teenagers that is brought out nowadays, I personally feel that a survey has to be carry out to find out what are the reasons that Singapore teenagers are self-mutilating themselves as well as to find out why do female teenagers tend to self-mutilate as compare to male. The objective of this report is to inform all teachers to bring across the awareness of increasing number of self-mutilation cases in Singapore to the student and to organize programme for teenagers on how to reduce their stress. Hypothesis: Do teenagers self-mutilate themselves under great stress?




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