Malacca Part I ( Budget Trip )

Like what I've shared in my previous post, last semester break, not more than two weeks ago, my friends and I went for a budget trip ( Malacca-JB-Singapore). Our trip was one meaningful experience and it needs to be documented hence, the existence of this post :) Our first stop was the historical city of Malacca and I must say that Malacca really live up to its reputation as one of the popular attractions in Malaysia. 

From KLIA2 we took a bus and went straight to Malacca. It took about two hours and 20 minutes to get there. I was practically bone tired ( slept at almost two the night before and went to the airport at 5.30am ) and fell to sleep along the way. It's almost four when we reached Melaka Sentral. From there, we took a taxi and went to Jonker. The moment we entered the Jonker area, I was in awed seeing all the old buildings and the vintage feels really excites me. I'm sure if you see my face at that time you can really tell how I cannot wait to explore the place.

After we got off from the taxi, we went for a hotel/hostel/guesthouse hunting. We actually didn't have specific plan on where to stay. Hotel, hostel or guesthouse? No. As long it was nice and cheap, of course. I think that we were very lucky because even without early reservation or proper planning we managed to get a really nice place to stay with affordable price. 

The hotel receptionist suggested us a place to eat for halal food (since one of us is a Muslim) and she showed us the way and even provided us with a map. Turned out, map confused us even more. I think it took us about an hour before we finally found the place we're looking for. After we've done feeding our hungry tummies, we continued on walking and 'wowwing' at the every details of our surrounding.

We got back to our hotel, washed up and continued exploring the place. We're actually looking forward for the night market at the Jonker Walk but sadly there are no night market at that time. We don't know why. My friend said it is supposed to be held every night. Is it? We don't know. To make up for our disappointment, we decided to go for the river cruise. It costs us only MYR10 per ride. I have to say that Malacca River look even nicer at night. We got back to the place we stayed in after that and ate instant noodles accompanied with instant coffees ( It's a budget trip, alright?).

KLIA2

Notice the uneven skin tone? That's the result of camping under the scorching sun.

1. Jonker Walk

2. Malacca River Cruise

3. River Song Residence

Till then :)

Pantai Dalit, Tuaran

Beautiful sunset. Friends. Good laugh. Calm mind. This is how I want to spend most of my days. I wish.

School Based Experience - Insight

This is a long overdue post. 

On our first day

I miss the foods at the school's canteen :)

Last day

My first SBE happened early last month and I've been wanting to write a post on this but couldn't find the right time. Apparently, today is the day :) Sneak peak over HERE and HERE. I chose SK. Delayan, Sook, Keningau for the first SBE along with my three other friends. You can read their thought on this HERE, HERE and HERE. 

On our way to the school on the first day, I can't help but to be nervous. Butterflies all over my stomach. It's my first time coming to a school as a trainee teacher, future teacher so the atmosphere was completely different. Luckily, the nervousness ended as soon as we arrived and all the teachers welcomed us with a smile on their faces. With friends around everything was easier. We finished the task and had the chance to interact with the students. Some are very good students. They listened to us tentatively and gave their full cooperation while some are really hard to handle but that's what made this profession challenging and fun at the same time. In short, everything went well and we came back to IPG  with new experience and broader perspectives on teaching profession. 

School Based Experience

Being called 'Cikgu' is awkward. It take times to familiarize myself with that term.