About Me
My name is John Yap, and I am in Secondary 4 student (16 years old) studying in Hwa Chong Institution. I am in the school's Science and Math Talent Programme (SMTP) and am in class 4I3. I love reading almost all good books (fiction and non-fiction), and I particularly like Hercule Poirot mystery stories by Agatha Christie. I admire the author's enormous ingenuity in formulating a mystery that keeps the reader guessing from start to end. When the detective reveals the truth at the end, all seems so simple, but such is the author's craft in disguising vital clues and planting red herrings that make the ending almost always a surprise. The complexity of the plot often belies the simplicity of the author's language, with dialogue and description that makes the mystery come alive. The British television adaptation of the various novels and short stories are one of my favourite television shows.
I also enjoy the Horrible Science, Horrible History and Murderous Maths series, as they present the trivial, the unusual and the unpleasant side of the subjects in a fun way through various comic illustrations. These books were the start of many journeys for me to find out more about many subjects from medical microbiology to ancient Greek history, and have provided many hours of entertainment and enjoyment.
My favourite subject in school is science, and I like all 3 sciences (biology, chemistry and physics) in almost equal measure. I thus have extremely diverse interests within the sciences, ranging from human physiology to modern physics. I am passionate about and love discovering new knowledge in almost any field (especially scientific knowledge), and always have a store of weird and wonderful facts from the wide variety of books I have read. Be it interesting uses of the various elements of the periodic table to how various things such as paper are made, I often read up on knowledge for knowledge's sake. When I was young, I occasionally experimented to find out more, such as using my toy set of wires and bulbs to investigate electricity.
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I also enjoy the Horrible Science, Horrible History and Murderous Maths series, as they present the trivial, the unusual and the unpleasant side of the subjects in a fun way through various comic illustrations. These books were the start of many journeys for me to find out more about many subjects from medical microbiology to ancient Greek history, and have provided many hours of entertainment and enjoyment.
My favourite subject in school is science, and I like all 3 sciences (biology, chemistry and physics) in almost equal measure. I thus have extremely diverse interests within the sciences, ranging from human physiology to modern physics. I am passionate about and love discovering new knowledge in almost any field (especially scientific knowledge), and always have a store of weird and wonderful facts from the wide variety of books I have read. Be it interesting uses of the various elements of the periodic table to how various things such as paper are made, I often read up on knowledge for knowledge's sake. When I was young, I occasionally experimented to find out more, such as using my toy set of wires and bulbs to investigate electricity.
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I am still deciding on my future career, but I hope that in any career I embark on, I can benefit society with the knowledge and skills I possess. No one knows exactly what the future would be like, but I hope in his scientific advancements, man can learn build up on nature, not tear it down, so as to benefit the world.