Thursday, 3^rd October 2014

Finally, I’m feeling better to summarise whatever happened the whole week. The students were divided in to four groups and each group was assigned with one instructor. My group’s instructor is Dr. Oscar Pineda-Catalan preferably known as Oscar or Sir Oscar. For the past four days, we were able to form a strong bond with him. Learning from him was extremely fun. He was a knowledgeable person and he is very encouraging at all times. If a student does any mistake, he pushes him or her to do better and encourages very well. I am definitely happy to get him as my instructor. In the program, we were able to meet young scientists from Malaysia itself. They guided us very well on how to do research and shared their experiences as well. Tonight, we had a dinner with some VIP. Most of them were from KPM and some of them were sponsors from bodies like Petronas and Sime Darby. The program organized by Permatapintar Negara ^TM in collaboration with New York Academy of Science is a wonderful one.