The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) is one of the requirements for admission into American Universities.
Scores range from 0 to 800 (full marks).

SAT I
Verbal Score: 670
Maths Score: 800

SAT II
Physics: 800
Maths IIC: 800
English Writing: 790

During my tenure in the Executive Committee of the EC3 (Electronics, Communication and Computer Club), I was primarily engaged in organising and conducting training for the rest of the Club members in topics like Assembly Language programming, C programming and problem solving in programming.

In 1996, I was also awarded "The Most Outstanding Member" for my contributions to the Club and the School.

I was elected into the Executive Committee of the ITS (Information Technology Society) in Junior College; my duties included coordinating and organising activities for the Multimedia SIG (Special Interest Group), which I led, and planning activities for the rest of the club with the rest of the Committee.

The Web Page Development Unit (also known as Sensorium Vale), is a start-up club founded by a group of friends (including me). We were responsible for a complete face-lift of the College's Homepage and it's maintenance.

I was standing in the Executive Committee as the "Director of Technology"; my responsibility was to dispense technical assistance and advice to the club's various departments (eg. use of Java, HTML, JavaScript).

Besides, I was responsible for the incorporation of the most compelling interactive feature in the website: The Online Discussion Forum, "Hiccups".

I coordinated a team of students to design and implement an Online Discussion Forum on my Junior College's website. This Web-based Online Discussion Forum is a first amongst all Junior Colleges, Secondary Schools (and probably even Universities!) in Singapore.

Besides, I wrote the CGI (Common Gateway Interface, an Internet Technology) program at the heart of the Online Discussion Forum. My team and I had to brainstorm on various issues, such as how to encourage and enforce good etiquette, the design and layout of the site and publicity to encourage participation. Besides, I had to reconcile the differences and compromise between my team members' (who have absolutely no programming experience; only web-browsing experience) requests for features and the limitations on the time I could spend on programming these new capabilities.

I was elected to be Class Representative (i.e. class monitor) by my classmates in 1997.

However, I relinquished my position in 1998 (in my second year in Junior College) due to my commitments in the executive posts I held in the Information Technology Society and in Sensorium Vale, and in the numerous competitions in which I represented Hwa Chong Junior College.

Following our victory in the National Software Competition '95, my team was selected to represent Singapore in the SEARCC (South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation) International Software Competition in Bangkok, Thailand.

We did not disappoint, and emerged the first runner's up after Indonesia. We beat teams from other nations such as New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Hong Kong, etc.

The International Competitions for Schools is an achievement test formulated by the University of New South Wales, Australia. Large numbers of students from schools in Singapore and in the region take this test.

In 1995, I was awarded a medal for having the highest score in the Computing Category of the test.

I was awarded the 1997/1998 ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Scholarship by the Singapore Ministry of Education for my Academic and Extracurricular excellence.

In 1998, I participated in the first National Olympiad in Informatics, Singapore.

I solved all the programming tasks with near-perfect runtimes (time taken by my program to generate the output for a given set of test data) and perfect accuracy. Besides, I'm certain that I achieved the best performance in the Competition. Of course, I emerged a Gold medallist.

In 1997, our team, representing The Chinese High School, bagged the coveted Championship "Eyeball" (It is an oval shaped glass sculpture with a coloured disc in the center; we affectionately call it the "Eyeball") and won for ourselves a large booty of software and hardware for the School and ourselves.

In 1998, our team participated again, this time representing Hwa Chong Junior College.
Ditto.

Vicomp (organised by Victoria Junior College) is a computer knowledge cum programming competition for Singapore Secondary Schools. In 1995, I was the youngest member in the team representing The Chinese High School for this Competition. We emerged Champions.

In 1996, my seniors did not participate in the Competition, and I led a new team to retain our Championship.
Ditto.

Besides, I was additionally awarded for Individual Best Performance (This is not originally planned; the judges awarded it impromptu).

In 1998, I represented my Junior College in this Competition again.
Ditto.

TechnoQuest (organised my the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), like Computron, is a computer knowledge cum programming competition. We bested the competition to clinch the Championship trophy.

I was also additionally awarded for Individual Best Performance.

In this particular competition, the highest award given out was the Merit Award. In fact, there were only two teams taking part in this Competition due to its very demanding requirements. We were required to design and develop a multiplayer, Internet-based Othello program.

I worked with one of my buddies to implement a solution with a CGI backend and a Java Client as the frontend. Both Multiplayer and AI (Artifical Intelligence in an opponent the Computer plays) modes were supported. We spend a lot of time and effort writing the server and client components to support mutliplayer gameplay across the Internet.

However, we were appalled to find that the another team was winning the same Merit award, when they actually used Visual Basic to create a standalone application with no network capability. Rightfully, they should have been disqualified, and by virtue of the fact that my team was the only team able to fulfil their requirements (of being Multiplayer across the Internet, as stated by the rules), we should have bagged the first prize straight away ! :)

Anyway, we donated the Merit Award, worth $2000 dollars, to the school.

Because some software engineers working for Sun Microsystems and involved in developing Java system-applications were impressed with the Java Software I've developed, Mailpuccino, one of them put me in touch with the editor of "The Swing Connection", an online Technical Publication about building GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) in Java, and encouraged me to contribute an article about Mailpuccino. (More details about Mailpuccino in an item below)

Of course I did, and my article was subsequently published in the 1999 March/April Issue of "The Swing Connection". You can see for yourself at this link. I am definitely the youngest ever contributor to this online publication.

I individually and independently wrote a CGI program (in C) for Online Discussions. I originally wrote this program to incorporate in my entry in the 1997 Thinkquest Competition (An international educational-website design competition), but eventually, it only truly demonstrated its usefulness when I applied it in my Junior College's Homepage.

Today, it is the soul of my Junior College's Homepage's Online Discussion Forum, Hiccups. It has run without any hiccups (pardon the pun) for a year already (despite a paranoid and uncooperative Sys-Admin's fears).

I have always wished to return to my alma mater, The Chinese High School, to work. This was the least I could do in return for the panorama of opportunities she presented to me to develop my interest and talent in Computers, and ultimately, to excel in this field. I am very, very grateful for that.

I returned to Chinese High on the 20th of December (and hacked away from 3:00pm to 11:30pm, because my teacher needed it the next day, and I was effectively given only a day's notice !) to write a CGI Program which allowed the parents of the newly enrolled Secondary 1 students to verify and update the new students' particulars.

I will also be working on a large-scale Java Project in Chinese High, and besides, I've returned to Chinese High on various occasions before, during the school holidays, to conduct courses.

In 1997, I took the initiative to establish a JavaScript Q&A service within my Homepage. For the entire year that I operated it, I answered many (nearly 150 questions) JavaScript/HTML questions from webmasters and developers all over the world. I shut it down in 1998 due to my numerous commitments and increasing workload in school.

However, I still receive questions, or thank-you emails from people who visit the now defunct JavaScript Q&A Service website (The pages/FAQ are still online, although I've put up a notice urging people not to send me any more questions).

You can view it at: http://www.singnet.com.sg/~kongeuta/q&a/index.htm

In 1997, I returned to my alma mater, The Chinese High School, to organise and teach in a three day Camp about Java Programming. My ex-computer studies teacher had invited me to return and teach students from Secondary 1 to Secondary 3 (Grade 7 to Grade 9).

I taught in an entire spectrum of topics, like the very basic Object-Oriented Programming Concepts, Applet programming, the new 1.1 Event model, AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) Programming, etc. I had to teach, formulate exercises for my students to do, and prepare a test paper to evaluate their knowledge at the end of the camp.

In 1998, I returned to Chinese High again to teach CGI Programming. (I've also returned to Chinese High on other instances to teach, and currently, my ex-teacher wishes me to continue conducting courses for students)

My proudest endeavour yet. Mailpuccino is a Java Email Client I have written. It is the first time I have devoted so much time and effort into a single project, and Mailpuccino is also the first piece of my own software I have posted on the Internet for public scrutiny.

It's been released on the Internet for half a year already, and in this period of time, I've received about a hundred messages from users and developers all over the world expressing their encouragement and support. In addition, it has also been given the highest rating of 5 COWS from TUCOWS (an Internet Software distribution website), and a Top 5% rating from JARS (Java Applet Rating Service). It is also listed in Yahoo! and Gamelan. A few users have even declared that Mailpuccino is the best Java Application they have seen so far. I have even written a technical article about Mailpuccino for The Swing Connection, an technically-oriented online publication about Java existing in the JavaSoft (JavaSoft is the organization governing Java; Sun Microsystems is it's parent Company) website.

For more information, you can view Mailpuccino's homepage at: http://members.xoom.com/konget/mailpuccino/

Immediately after my 'A' Level Examination, I worked as a Temp Programmer at CieMed. It all started when the Chief Software Architect there chanced upon my Java Email-Client, Mailpuccino, and invited me for an interview.

I worked there for a little more than a month to finish a project, after which I accepted an offer of a semi-permanent job from the United Overseas Bank. (see below)

In the time after my 'A' Level Examination in 1998 and before I went to the States for my University Education, I worked in the Singapore United Overseas Bank BSD (Business Solutions Division) as an OO (Object-Oriented) Java Developer.

To make a long story short, I'll just say that I got this job because the Vice-President of the BSD (also) chanced upon my Java Email-Client, Mailpuccino, and was very impressed. He too, invited me for an interview - you can guess what happened after that.

Today, I am the only non-graduate working there as an Java Developer.