Lishan
Email: (link disabled)
Location: Singapore
(website writer/researcher)

Being a Singaporean, I, Lishan, am fortunate enough to enjoy so much luxury and comfort. We have good housing, clean drinking water, well-developed sanitation, easy accessible transportation, proper education, advanced technology, availability of recreation, and a lot more other pleasures. Living in the midst of such luxury, it is hard for me to picture the state of being poor because it has to be experienced to really understand its suffering. However, I happened to come across this opportunity of participating in ThinkQuest, a website project which led me to meet Jason and Jason.

This opportunity drew me nearer to the situation of poverty. As a result, I began to feel blessed and able to realize the other world beyond the "dot" of Singapore. Our objectives of introducing this website are actually to bring out the suffering of the poor and feature on the causes which the people of the world may not be aware of. Furthermore, we intended to reach out to the other fortunate folks in the world so that they will realize the existence of suffering and sorrow in other parts of the world while they enjoy their life in comfort. Hopefully, they can do their part or at least be concerned about them.

Being in the team, I feel I am really lucky. I have a group of wonderful folks who guided this ignorant frog in the well along everything. I am basically the researcher and writer who can’t write really fantastically but always tried to improve myself in organizing information and restructuring the write-ups. In doing so, I believe I have learned a great deal. In the process of editing the write-ups, I have lots of thanks to forward to. They are my Geography teacher, Mrs. Josephine Sherwood, and English teacher, Mrs. Teresa Chan. They have been the most willing to assist me in every hurdle I met. In addition to that, I would like to thank Jason Tablante and his most helpful friends in not minding the trouble of going through the write-ups and correcting any mistakes that I have made. I would like to thank the Head-of-Department of Information Technology, Mrs. Lai Swee Choo, for giving me the chance to attend the talk on participating in Thinkquest before this work ever started. I would also like to thank Mrs Fung Hwee Hua, my most dedicated motherly figure, who has been keeping track of my progress in this project and Miss Lim Tze Mien for assisting me in getting some information. 

Of course, I want to thank my school, CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls’ School, for giving me these opportunities to develop myself and to upgrade myself to such advancements. This can only be possible under the leadership of its most dedicated principal, Mrs. Huang-Lee Poh See. Last but definitely not the least, I would like to thank my family members and especially my parents for providing me with the upbringing and all the comfort that I have enjoyed for sixteen years. Thank you very much to everyone who has helped me in one way or another.