Application Letter for internship

11^th February 2012

Dear Mr. Veemal,

I had the honor in meeting you few weeks ago in NUS Soc Career Fair, the 3 months internship offered by your company is attractive to me. If your company is still seeking for students with 3 months internship start from May to August in 2012, I would appreciate the opportunity you consider me as a potential candidate. More personal details included in the accompanying resume will illustrate my abilities to fulfill your requirements.

As you will see I am second year student studying in Computer Engineering, Nation University of Singapore (NUS). I have read modules of programming skills and I found myself very interested in web development and making apps, passionate in learning web developing skills like JavaScript, HTML and CSS. During the teamwork of software engineering with teammates, I learned the cooperative skills to work with others and learn from them. On the other hand, I enjoy socializing and have participated in many activities including NUS Karate team, and through the marketing modules that I have token, I have learned the way to market in technological area. 

From reading your introductory leaflet I received in career fair, I have been attracted by the working domain and vision of your company. The question in the leaflet asks “You like beautiful code?” and my answer is yes, I would like to be a part of your company’s internship program and learn skills in working place, as well as make benefits for company. I attach my resume with more details for reference and look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Wang Zihao

Phone: 85102085

Email: a0073222@nus.edu.sg

When Interpersonal Conflict Happen To Me

I was in a project team with my three good friends, I felt lucky that finally I can focus on the work and do have to worried about the way of communication and language barriers. However, things would never  go smoothly and made me treat our relationship not the way as we used to be after the project, like the smashed mirror will never go back.

Girl S is our leader which we voted to be, outside the project, I love to talk and gossip with her and I like the way she talk. In the project, she seemed like holding the power of leading and keep jelling and pushing all of us, gave no scope. We suggested that there was a moderate way to give opinion, but she said that is her way she work, yeah, keeping embarrassing to your teammates.
"Are you listening to me! look at me! What am just said!?"
"You tell me you must finish this before 9pm! Right."
"...I try my best"
"No, you must"
Seems what she said was reasonable for our project, but why no one felt comfortable and encouraged?

Once I said I would like try one part of work which is not exactly my job, I worked over night but still some small bugs cannot be figured out. We were doing project in project room all the day and the rest went sleep.
"Is that what you do over night? seems useless!!"
"...oh, okay, after I get some sleep, I try to fix it, now the brain cannot move"
"what, you leaving? I am about to work"
"..."
Of course you are about to work, you got good sleep when I was working. There is nothing with the sleep, but is the right way to treat you friend, your teammate who volunteer to do the job? You are not Steve Jobs in the early Apple, everyone's work need to be respected.

Last thing made me totally understand we are truly different kind of people and barrier built. In the last presentation, even though we still made some small mistakes, but it was the last for us doing project together, why you still complain to each other? Why can't we return to good friends shake hands and  say "well done, good luck to finals"?

What I can say is the difference in characteristic and goals, I more enjoy the process of doing teamwork and hope to build lifelong friendship through it but not the results. Finally I realized that we can be common friends to talk but not close friends to work. Sorry about my garrulousness here.