It's the end of a week and the start of another. Time really flies and I have been back to Singapore for almost a month and a half already. Lab for the past one week has been rather successfully and I have managed to synthesize what I wanna make, except probably for the final product, whose presence remains elusive. For the next one week, I can start to really synthesize what I wanna make in my project proposal; I hope that it'll be successful.
For the next week onwards all the way till the beginning of exams, I have a series of deadlines to meet. My project literature review presentation is on 27/28 Feb and I gotta prepare the slides befroe that. Immediately after that, I'll have to prepare slides for NUS Open House on 11 and 12 Mar. In the same month, I'll have to prepare for presentation for Bioorganic Chemistry, the module that I look forward to most. Advanced Coordination Chemistry presentation is somewhere during that period of time too; the good thing is that we are doing this in a group of 3. For my ongoing project, I hope to finish most of my proposed stuff by the end of June; this is to allow me to have a solid presentation for the Progress Report at the end of June. Of course, this is possible provided all my planned reactions go the way it should (most of the time, this is not the case). If it does, I'll be able to work on more series of compounds. That will be plan after I am done with my current work.
In addition to all the above, I have an interesting ongoing project with Prof. Wu and Alice. We will be coming out with the powerpoint slides and lecture notes for the Advanced Organic Chemistry course. This is great as it is my dream to plan and come out with a series of notes and slides for organic chemistry. I was asked to begin with "Pericyclic Reaction" as I was told by Alice that Prof Wu mentioned that I am an expert on that. o_O Actually I was shocked and at the same time, flattened by that comment. I am seriously no expert in that topic as I have not done any real lab research on that topic. In addition, there is so much to know about this topic that I feel my knowledge is only a small fraction of the whole body. Having said all that, I am happy as it is my most favourite topic in organic chemistry (think Prof. Wu knows and probably that's why I was asked to do it first). I'll definitely do my best and come out with a set of really solid notes for "pericyclic reaction". This will be helpful not only for this course and for other courses as well. For example, I may be asked to teach organic chemistry again for this year's International Chemistry Olympiad and I can thus use it for my presentation.
Academic stuff aside, our Macau friend Suzana came to Singapore for a visit. Together with Teck Loon and Emily, we brought her around to palces like Singapore river, Orchard, Esplanade, Geylang etc.
We had a wonderful time and all of us enjoyed ourselves very much through travelling and chatting. This is one of the advantage of going for exchange as it allows you to make friends from around the region; when you are there, they play host to you and when they come, you'll be their tour guide. This makes life much more interesting, memorable and fulfilling.
For the next week onwards all the way till the beginning of exams, I have a series of deadlines to meet. My project literature review presentation is on 27/28 Feb and I gotta prepare the slides befroe that. Immediately after that, I'll have to prepare slides for NUS Open House on 11 and 12 Mar. In the same month, I'll have to prepare for presentation for Bioorganic Chemistry, the module that I look forward to most. Advanced Coordination Chemistry presentation is somewhere during that period of time too; the good thing is that we are doing this in a group of 3. For my ongoing project, I hope to finish most of my proposed stuff by the end of June; this is to allow me to have a solid presentation for the Progress Report at the end of June. Of course, this is possible provided all my planned reactions go the way it should (most of the time, this is not the case). If it does, I'll be able to work on more series of compounds. That will be plan after I am done with my current work.
In addition to all the above, I have an interesting ongoing project with Prof. Wu and Alice. We will be coming out with the powerpoint slides and lecture notes for the Advanced Organic Chemistry course. This is great as it is my dream to plan and come out with a series of notes and slides for organic chemistry. I was asked to begin with "Pericyclic Reaction" as I was told by Alice that Prof Wu mentioned that I am an expert on that. o_O Actually I was shocked and at the same time, flattened by that comment. I am seriously no expert in that topic as I have not done any real lab research on that topic. In addition, there is so much to know about this topic that I feel my knowledge is only a small fraction of the whole body. Having said all that, I am happy as it is my most favourite topic in organic chemistry (think Prof. Wu knows and probably that's why I was asked to do it first). I'll definitely do my best and come out with a set of really solid notes for "pericyclic reaction". This will be helpful not only for this course and for other courses as well. For example, I may be asked to teach organic chemistry again for this year's International Chemistry Olympiad and I can thus use it for my presentation.
Academic stuff aside, our Macau friend Suzana came to Singapore for a visit. Together with Teck Loon and Emily, we brought her around to palces like Singapore river, Orchard, Esplanade, Geylang etc.
We had a wonderful time and all of us enjoyed ourselves very much through travelling and chatting. This is one of the advantage of going for exchange as it allows you to make friends from around the region; when you are there, they play host to you and when they come, you'll be their tour guide. This makes life much more interesting, memorable and fulfilling.
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