BIG Fasa 4, a memorable trip that taught me so many values.

BIG Fasa 4. Yes, so fast time flies, it came to the BIG I looked forward for so long. Had also been looking forward this BIG because we would be given chance to stay in Malay's house as their adopted children. Who knows this time we the Chinese were given precious chance to stay in Chinese family. What a surprise! Many friends of mine were really happy about this news, but I was the exception. I would like to stay with Malays because I can understand them better, the culture, the living style and all. But staying with Chinese would be maybe safer? and confirm to say very familiar for us.

I was overwhelmed with nervousity when those family in Kundang Ulu having lucky draw to pick us as their children. I prayed hard so that I could get a wealthy family. At last I get the uncle auntie who looked fierce and arrogant. I was scared. Looking forward to go back home but my hope to be staying in Big Big house broke when the car stopped in front of a wooden house. My dream to be a Prima Donna Missy still as a dream, a daydream. That night, I didnt join the buffet with friends. My adopted parents brought me to Muar as they got something on in Muar. So and so, I was given a precious chance to go back home! My real home. XD So happy and shed a tear when I back to house and saw my aunts. :") Somehow, one hour flew and I gonna back to my adopted house and continued my BIG.

Breakfast bought by Godfather. Super abundant that I could hardly finished. :)

Walked to school and met my friends like finally I gotta meet them. It was like newly school reopen day after a long holidays. We kept asking where are you staying, how is your parents, and so and so. I gave sweets prepared by my Godparents to my friends. They prepared a goodies bag filled with bread, sweets, oranges, apples, mooncake for me!! That's so sweet of them. :D

I was picked as a teacher/ tutor for the motivation session. This session was just like a tuition for Year 4, 5 and 6 students. Since I am in Chinese Option, I was asked to teach Chinese with another 9 friends while Malay and English were taught by TESL trainees. The session was fun when the students were asked to find the picture card hidden and guess a proverb according to the picture.

During the class.

Thanks to teaching tuition session, I wasnt afraid and nervous.

Keep calm and be a good teacher. :)

Did some practise and rehearsal for the Malam Persembahan. Sukaneka were started at 4pm. I was selected as the team leader in the games to bring the students station to station. Thanks to my seniors who kindly asked me to help in their motivation camp, I had the experience to guide the students well this time and enable to think of an encouraging slogan for my PINK team. 

"Pink, pink, pink, 拼命到底一定赢！Yay~~~" it sounded like this. *\^_^/*

There is Ker Sing and my roomie's Godsister *The girl on right*

There is Poh Choo and Shin Phing's super handsome Godbrother *The boy on bottom left*

There is my sweet neighbour who gave me mooncake during dinner time *The second boy from left*

There is a six-year-old small girl *Spot the tiny!!*

To conclude, the students in my team were sporty and they really tried their very best in 6 stations. This brought us to THE THIRD PLACE!! 

There was a lot of performances at night. I was the drama script writer and so I didnt go on stage. Was touched because my Godsister closed her saloon so that she was able to rush here to support us!!
"姐姐，我们晚上有表演，如果你放工了就来看哦！" I wrote.
“没空都要赶回去啊。” She replied. :")

With Yee Ching the Indian moi *due to the drama*

With le roomie :)

MY FAMILY for 3 days.

My God niece asked to sleep in the same room with us the last night we were there. When I asked her what is her ambition, she said that she wants to be a doctor because she wants to help and save people. Hope she would success in her life! She kept staring at me until I asked her to sleep so that she could wake up and join us the next morning.

Godsister brought us to have breakfast at a shop nearby. I swear that is the best black noodles I had ever tried! I dont like black noodles before but seriously I crave for it now!! Afterwards she accompanied us to the school for aerobic session. Again, I was touched when see Godparents rushed back from Kluang. Because of us, they went Kluang real early around 4 am to send things there so that they manage to back and join our activity. T___T 

After the aerobic session, we were given 1 hour to back to our house for the last time. :(

My God-niece 唐芯 :)

This was the wooden house I stayed for 2 nights. This was the very first time I stayed in rumah papan. It was a rare experience for a town girl like me. I will definitely come back again!

With Yee Xien and Peh Yee

With Choo Choo.

THE GIRLS.

Oops, my batik left at home. >_<

Another photo with lovely family. =)

Thanks for taking care of us these 3 days. I learnt that money and wealth is not everything. I admitted that I used to envy my friends who get the richest family in the village for the first day, I felt sad because most of them staying in normal house, I am the only one stayed in wooden house, I have to share bedroom with sister, but the envious getting lesser and diminished at last when I felt the love and care from my family. 

Though my friends get the richest family, their parents treat them so-so or even robbed by some silly girls due to the wealth. Though my family might not be the richest family, they treat us with sincerity. They treated us like their own child. They sacrificed their working time and come to the school to support us. We did not chat much like some other do, but the action itself is so obvious. That is what called 'LOVE'. 

Because of staying in wooden house, I felt sad and so I learnt that as a teacher we must treat every students same without minding his/her family background. Every family is the same. There is only family with love or without, there isnt any family with wealth or without. A kid can grow up and develop with a healthy and positive mindset depends on how much love he/she gets, but not how much money he/she gets. 

I am so glad that I was picked by this family as their daughter. I learnt so many things this time. This is a trip that enriched me mentally. I promised to come back and visit them whenever I am free. Thank you and I love you all, seriously, sincerely.

I got a boy!

I love this song and the dance so so much. And finally I managed to complete learning it.
Though I am not the best among us because I am short, I am still proud of myself.
Enjoy the video *Credited by our supporting friend Yee Ching*
:)

2 days Singapore trip.

It was really a very very busy yet fruitful week for me to kick off this September. Back from Mersing camp site and the next place to go was Singapore. It had been nearly 2 years since I last landed on this island. And I was there to take part in calligraphy competition this time. I sent my art piece for fun and who know I was selected in this finale. This was my first time taking calligraphy competition in Singapore. I asked myself to keep it simple and not to aim too high because I dont know what is the style the judges there prefer. 

Though I didnt manage to win any prize at last, I felt happy too because there were some people praising me for my writing. I will keep working hard for the next time. Hopefully I can win and earn Singapore dollars next year. (:

The banner.

The competition was held at Waterloo Street. Since it was so near to Kwan Im Thong, how could I *the pious Buddhist* miss out the chance to visit and pray over there? :)

MacDonald for breakfast. McMuffin with chicken and egg set meal which only costs us $4.95.

The chilli sauce in Singapore is different with ours. I prefer ours more.

Grilled chicken for dad which costs around $7.

Mac Aloo Tikki vege burger at $2 and Butterscotch Sundae at $1.50 for me. Have a try on this because there isnt such things on Malaysia MacDonald menu.

I heard KOI is a quite famous/ popular brand in Singapore. Since I met it coincidentally so I decided to have a try too. The milk tea was smooth and the 'pearl' were chewy. Bubble tea at $2.80. KOI is actually 豆 in 90 degree, did you realise that?

Bought Famous Amos at $5.70 *for 100gram* Bought 3 packs of them so that my family could have a try on this cookies.

Bought a sling bag at $20 from Hurs. Love this type of bag and aim for it for a long time. Since my grey sling bag is very old so I decided to buy a new one. 

I so so wanted to go Singapore to work and get high paid! Malaysia Ringgit is so small in value. Personally think everything in Singapore is cheaper compared to Malaysia *dont count about currency laaahhh* , except car, house, petrol.

It motivates me to study harder so that I could work over there in the future. Singapore is always an ideal country for me. Yes, Study hard for a better future!! :)

Random photoshooting in Camp site. XD

It was just another crazy idea that Yee Xien suggested. The flowers outside our chalet were really pretty and so we decided to take photo with it.

We looked quite Hawaiian right?

Start with one flower.

And suddenly she suggested to wear 2 flowers together. Really siao por.

 Pattern a lot.
The chalet we stayed really very kampong style and nice.

Start with one flower. 

Very shy and kept looking around to make sure there wasnt anybody seeing us.

 Act cute with two flowers.

 And then started to add on patterns.

 And started imagine and posing like a model? XD

And suddenly Pn Yeoh saw us. We felt shy but still muster the courage to ask her to join us. You know what, she joined our crazy acts and wore flower on her head and took photo with us somemore!!

The 04 chalet. Bye bye Pantai Penyabong Resort.

Kursus Perkhemahan Pandu Puteri :)

Sem 4 is a busy semester for us coz we have to go for trip twice: Unit uniform camping and BIG anak angkat programme. This is the trip I dont really like before I went because I am not a Gerko lover and I hate sport and I scare of all those istiadat things. But now it could be rated as the second enjoying trip after Asahan trip in foundation. I thought we have to suffer sleeping in a camp and did a lot of tiring work like making gadget, marching and so on, but none of those had being carried out. And we stayed in air-con chalet. Such relaxing huh!

The trip began like this.

Before depart.

It was a sunny Tuesday (3rd September). All the Sem 4 students include KRS, BBSM, Puteri Islam, Pengakap and us (Pandu Puteri) gathered at the astaka and went for different destination to have our own camping. Activities and accomodation for different unit uniform are different. After a 4 hours plus bus journey *include breakfast time at Jentayuh* finally we reached our destination - Pantai Penyabong Resort, Mersing *or is it at Endau? I am not so sure.*

What greeted our eyes when we woke up from the sleep in the bus.

Rest for a while to unpack everything and settled ourselves. We kicked off the first slot which is Suaikenal (Ice breaking session). We sat according to our kad berenam : Cempaka, Melur, Kesidang, Kenanga, Siantan and Teratai. I am from MELUR!! I had to admit that I wasnt in the right mood that time because of the room. I was angry because everybody is so selfish of themselves, they rushed for a good bed without waiting for the others. Then what for saying what wanna to be in the same room, being together? Yee Xien and I then decided to squeeze with another 2 girls on the floor but the space was really quite small. Thanks God we get the offer from our lecturer Pn Yeoh to stay at her room at night. 

Set up a camp. Thankfully we were not going to sleep in a camp this time.

At Pantai Penyabong.

Love this photo. It looked nice. (:

Yee Xien and I.

We got Program Kepimpinan at night by Pn Yeoh. I was the pengacara majlis and butterfly flying in my stomach. Asked myself to keep calm and say every words slowing and clearly. Felt sweet when received a letter from my manito aka the secret admirer, telling me that I was actually doing a good job and I looked cute when I smile. *Sweet & Warm :P* I thought this slot would be boring but I was so wrong because it was a super funny session. All of us were asked to draw a figure of a good leader. 5 out of the 6 groups drew the figure of Pn Yeoh and it was really funny!

Me, being the pengerusi acara that night. Nervous die but keep calm and be a good MC.

Puan Yeoh Cartoon Portrait. It looks 100% alike, dont you think so? XD

Funny hahaha.

Thankfully I got a good night rest in Pn Yeoh's room. Woke up pretty early 5.30am, prepared ourselves for the moral session at 6.15am and senamrobik session at 6.30am. Felt quite nervous when I was one of the girl who lead the senamrobik. It was fun though. Khidmat masyarakat in the afternoon. It required us to pick rubbish along the roadside/ seaside. I found some of the lecturers were simply doing a job telling us not to pick up a really dirty and disgusting rubbish. Erm, weird isnt it? But it was good for us students of course if we no need to pick up dirty rubbish. LOL.

The rubbish.

With the bestie giraffe at the Pantai Penyabong Resort.

Went for seaside to play water after kutip sampah. Enjoying isnt it?

Love this photo a lot. The sea water was still.

BC2 girls.

The gang.

Us.

Yee Xien and I again.

The slot at the night was about making a Solar Energy Kitchen. My group was the last one who finished building up the Solar Kitchen. We stayed till around 12.30am while all the other groups done theirs and back to sleep at around 11pm plus. Somehow, we managed to complete one at last. We were curious to know how Solar Energy turns raw ingredients ready to eat on the next day.

The next morning we done some discussion on the games which would be carried out on the beach before heading to our new distination - Pantai Lanun, which is about 20 minutes walk from Pantai Penyabong. The beach there was much prettier with fine sand and small waves. We mixed the ingredients for example raisin, eggs, bread and milk in a small black pot. The portion was small so that it would be well cooked faster. 

When the girls reached the beach.

They will pretend to be cool.

They will never stop being crazy.

*My awesome capture photo skill Muahaha XD*

They will stay calm and take pretty photo when they were tired.

*Ker Sing non-stop saying herself looked beautiful when taking photo that day*

They will make new friends. :D

The mixture of raisins, egg, milk and bread. *BEFORE*

 Rocks as base in the Solar Kitchen.

Mixture in the black pot, wrapped in a transparent plastic bag and put in the middle of the Solar Kitchen. The food would be well cooked after few hours because of the Reflection of Sun Rays. It is quite a smart way to cook but it is too slow and troublesome.

Melur members and our Solar Kitchen. :D

Some games were arranged so that we no need to wait our food to be cooked without doing anything. First station was passing one paragraph ear by ear. Our group did it badly. The sentence were incomplete and even the name of the main character was changed. LOL. The second station required us to guess something, create a thing using the rubbish that being threw away at the beach. 

 Telephone by the creativity. :P

The third station was Teng-teng.

After 2 - 3 hours. The milky egg bread was done!! We didnt immediately taste it but put it back under the sun more another 1-2 hour when back to the chalet. I found it tasted quite nice actually but most of my friends threw theirs away. I think we are the only one group who finished it. 

Quite free in the afternoon because we were given free time to discuss and practice our performance for Malam Mesra. 

 Make faces

The performances at night were great! I think our class drama was funny but drama by Seni and Math class were really awesome! Everybody burst out laughing! We got Manito session too. That was the moment I looking forward the most because I used to write letter to my Manito and received letter from my Manito throughout the 3 days camp. I love receiving letters because they were sweet. A bit embarrassing coz the present I gave to my manito was a bit erm..erm.. and I didnt wrap them nicely. So sorry for them.

My Manito Nadirah. She is the photographer throughout the camp so I asked her to enjoy photography session in my secret letter.

My manito Eugenia who asked me to smile more, eat more. She looked real cool when she didnt smile but when she does she looks nice. I hope she will smile more often. :)

With my group member Connie. She is a very very cute girl. I am short but I am taller than her and looked very giant beside her. She is the famous singer in our college. She sings really well!

 My group leader Kunga. She is pretty and gentle. I really appreciate when she asked her friends to call me more often when we played 007 game at the beach. It made me feel warm because I wasnt abandoned by others. :)

The room mates in room 4. Haha. 

Me, Pn Yeoh and Yee Xien. I love and respect her more after this camp because she takes good care of us and always gives us advice so that we could do better in future.

 Last group photo with the hamper. Melur Hu Ha HU HA! I hope our friendship never end. 

There was a Perasmian Penutupan on the last day. Back to college at 5.30pm. Superb tired and exhausted. It was a nice camp, very enjoyable and relaxing. It is much better that I thought it would be. I felt bored when I saw the timetable was fulled with theory slot but who knows every slot turned out very interesting with discussion with group members. Experience solar cooking for the first time and know more friends from other races and opsyens. Learn and see lotsa true colours from my own classmates and feel disappointed on them but I realise there is a loyal friend with me during every ups and downs and that makes me glad, at least she is always there for me. Really learn a lot this time. Really appreciate every moments that happened throughout these 4 days. :)

" Tepuk satu kali, tepuk dua kali, tepuk amai-amai belalang kupu-kupu, tepuk ramai-ramai, PPK BOLEH!!!!!"  Woohoo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XD