CFS students persevere to achieve success

The team’s final successful attempt- resulting in a soft, pliable, stretchable and homemade white slime.

From left: Asureninns Chang, Goh Pui Ling, Chan Yin Yi, Ng Kai Xuan, Lim Zhan Feng, Douglas Ng, Parveeinesh, and Tan Yu Fan.

A group of CFS science students from the Chemistry Practical class displayed true grit and perseverance in carrying out their Chemistry practical project. They were given a practical assignment on how to make something from their knowledge in Chemistry.

The Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS) in Science students, consisting of Asureninns Chang, Goh Pui Ling, Chan Yin Yi, Ng Kai Xuan, Lim Zhan Feng, Douglas Ng, Parveeinesh, and Tan Yu Fan, decided to choose How to Make Homemade Slime Using Home Ingredients as their practical project.

According to Tan Yu Fan, the project team leader, “Thinking it would be a simple and straightforward process, we decided to do some research before proceeding with the practical experiment. We went on google to search for the formula and gathered all the necessary home items and daily used ingredients before we proceeded with the experiment.

We started mixing the ingredients the first time, it didn’t work. And then we tried again the second time. It didn’t work either. We tried again with a slight variation of the formula and that failed too. We searched and googled at least 20 times for the ingredients and process but somehow, none seemed to work.

Our work table was filled with corn starch, flour, baking soda, liquid detergent, make-up remover, water, various hair shampoos, bath gels and soap. It was a white mess of powdery stuff and sticky glue all over the table but no slime. We must have watched more than 40 YouTube videos but none of them worked.

Each one of us, tried to make slime using various variations of the formula and various ingredients. We tried more than 50 times in total to make slime and spent more than RM150 but none worked.

We were desperate and all our efforts seemed futile, and at one point we wanted to give up and change our project to something more workable and easier.”

However, the team decided to sleep on it for a day, and then continue again. They did not want to give up so easily.

Then, the team sat down to try one more time- this time, using Asureninns Chang’s Shokobutsu shampoo, white glue, boric acid and a spray of make-up remover. They applied the formula of 15 drops of shampoo, 3 tablespoons of while glue, 3 ml of boric acid and a spray of make-up remover. Asureninns had brought from her home the shampoo, make-up remover and the boric acid which she used as a facial cleanser.

Hurray, it finally worked!!

White, pliable, soft and stretchable homemade slime was formed. The group was elated. They had spent more than a week experimenting, watched more than 40 videos, tried more than 50 times and spent more than RM150 – and finally they succeeded in making slime from daily home ingredients.

Yu Fan and the team stuck to the selected project, persevered through trials and error, resulting in disappointments after disappointments, learnt from their mistakes and failures, sat through the arguments, and yet they put in even greater efforts to ensure success.

They displayed true grit and determination.

May this same learning experience be the basis for all their future endeavours.

Well done!!

The mess from earlier attempts that were unsuccessful

Asureninns Chang, Goh Pui Ling, Chan Yin Yi, and Ng Kai Xuan stretching the pliable white rubbery slime

Tan Yun Fan is finally satisfied with his homemade slime, which can also act as computer keyboard cleaner and stress reliever.