# Story : Fork in the road

We made choices in our life -- hoping to make the right choice. But my case was like "wandering around and bump into a tree".  

In my younger days, I was a gamer and top in my region. Without giving much thought to my undergraduate study, I took a programme and realized it isn’t fun. During my second year, out of curiosity -- I took an elective course far differed from the core degree program. It turned out that I had accidentally found a study I wanted to pursue as a career. This elective is natural products chemistry -- mainly focus on discovering new chemical molecules from nature. The last stage of this study involves solving the chemical structures, which is like solving a puzzle cube.

After completing my PhD, an unexpected conference participation led to a rare encounter that has brought me to overseas, Australia-Japan-Singapore. Later I realized how important this overseas experience was my research direction, which opened the door for my next journey to Northern Europe.

In short, I did not design my career path -- I simply following my interests. I believe there is an element of randomness in life -- sometimes wrong decisions can be a positive one -- so don't let happy accidents go to waste. 

Chin-Soon Phan : "Thank you for visiting our group"