Nang's Biodata

I was born in Taunggyi, the Capital of Shan State, Myanmar. I am interested in Civil Engineering field since young. After completing high school in Taunggyi, Myanmar, I came to study in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. I studied Civil and Environmental Engineering Diploma Course in Ngee Ann. During Polytechnic days, I involved in many CCA activities such as helping out in community services and school events, joined NP swimming team and other clubs.Currently, I am pursuing my Civil Engineering Degree in National University of Singapore. My other interests are reading fiction books, swimming, travelling around, home decorating etc.

Reflecting on the Research Project Experience

I have gained new experiences by doing research project. I have done many reports in the past. But most of them are technical reports. At first, I expected that we can do the reports easily. But in reality, our group faced many problems and I realized that doing report was not as easy as what I expected.

All the three members of us are international students. Therefore some knowledge we have are limited to certain ranges. Whenever we discussed about the project, we all had gone into very details and ended up with unsatisfied answer. As English is not our mother tongues, our communications was also not very effective. We all can communicate well in our daily lives, but come to detailed discussion; we could not mention what we meant clearly. As the result, we took longer discussion time and had to put in more efforts than others to complete the tasks. We divided the tasks equally and take full responsibility to complete own tasks. We have spent long time on doing research and interpreting results of surveys due to many revision and edition.

However, as we all are being good team players, we managed to overcome all the difficulties and finish our task on time as other groups did. I personally feel we have built new interpersonal relationships. Sometimes, we did not communicate verbally, but from seeing the facial expressions during meeting, we were able to find out what our group members wanted to say. We keep contacts with group members through sms and e mail everyday to update our report status.

Therefore, I would like to summarize that although there were some weaknesses like minor disagreements, communications and weak report writing skills, we were able to finish the report successfully. The research projects benefits me in many ways.