Asal-usul nama bandar Ipoh

Do you know the history behind the name of Ipoh city? The name was actually derived from a tree named "Upas". Long time ago, the Whites who came to Ipoh pronounced the "Upas" tree as "Epuh". Therefore, after years, the name has became Ipoh. I learnt this fact during my 2 days vacation in Ipoh last week.


Yes, I am a Tesl student from IPG Ipoh but since last yearsI had never went to any proper vacation in Ipoh. This time, my friend and I went to visit Ipoh and checked some places of interests here. We don't have any vehicles, besides, my parents had told me earlier not to rent a car. Therefore, we went to a place from another place by using public transportation service. Oh, I hope the quality of it will be upgraded soon.

In addition, we preferred to walk instead of using the public transportation service due to several reasons such as it is more efficient and to cut the budget as well. Mhohoho.

Gunung Lang

We began our journey with Gunung Lang Recreational Center. We went there in afternoon and it was so hot. There, we spent our time for almost two hours by looking around the island (is it?). In order to get into the island, we must go there by boat. It costed us RM 3 per person. Idk if people can arrive there by using land vehicles or not. The place is attractive and calming. It will be perfect for a picnic activities for family and friends. The place also offers us with some animals such as ostrich and deer.  We can give food to those animals.

Bila tengok ostrich, aq teringat puteri. Pertandingan memasak. haha

Then, we headed to Japanese Garden. We should feel like we were in Japan because the landscape is beautiful. However, the place will be better if the maintenance is upgraded. The place should be regularly checked in order to keep it in a good condition.

taken from HERE

After that, we walked until we saw Heritage Hotel. At first, I wanted to perform my solat there, however, after thinking deeply, we made a decision to stay there. Therefore, we checked in and had a good rest there.

@heritage

Later, we walked to Ipoh Parade to buy some clothes for the next day and food to accompany our nights. We had a tight sleep after that.

The second say, we continued our journey after taking a heavy breakfast. We walked to Ipoh Railway Station. Then, we took several photos there.

We kept walking and only stopped after noticing some beautiful garden or monuments. It was quite funny
because we stopped almost everywhere just to take photographs. Haha.

Pokok Upas

After several miles walking, we found another place of interest which is Darul Ridzuan Museum. Thus, we excitedly entered the museum and spent time there.

In evening, we took a taxi to Kinta City. At first we wanted to go to Nasi Ayam Puziah, however, we changed our minds later.

Bhaha. That was how we spent our weekend last week. Hopefully we are able to visit other interesting places after this.

Lawatan Sambil Belajar ke Gua Tempurung '11

On last July twenty second, K12 and K13 went to Gua Tempurung. This outing had been organized  by K12 and it was an honour for K13 as we had been invited to enjoy the blissful day together. Our beautiful kind-hearted tutors, Mdm Hasni and Ms Jen were there too.

I had gone there last 2008. Gua Tempurung does not change much I guess. I've been undergone the same adventure. However I found the second trip presented me with less exhaustion rather then my first trip there. Maybe I had grown stronger? Haha.

There we could see miracles such as thousands natural rocks that look like they had been carved to form shapes like horse, crocodile, woman, a pair of legs and many more. Plus, our friendly guide told us that we will feel a chill in the air when we arrive at a special place there. Definitely he's not lying or making untrue story as there's a cold and windy place until many of us claimed that we're sitting in a room that had been provided with air-conditioner. Hmm, I think I didn't go to that place in 2008 as I can't remember that place? Were we there Yui92?

I kept my phone in bag that had been put in Mdm Hasni's car. Thus, pictures could not been taken. I forgot to bring my helpful camera that had been used to take photos in the cave last 2008. Unlucky me, all the photos from my camera is no longer exist. I had transferred them to my previous PC and unexpectedly everything was gone. No more recorded memories that are able be printed. 

Adventurous activities are never being my in my list-to-do activities. However, I'll participate to them if there is any chance offered. At least I'll get the experience though it's not a pleasure for me. xD

 p/s: tajuk mcm buat laporan kan? hihiks.

Language Camp TESL IPGKI 2011

Yay! Finally the camp is over. Hehe. Though it was kind of tiring but it is worthy. We gain so many experiences here and there. I've learnt so many things directly and indirectly. From the matter of academic purpose like how to learn English efficiently in a fun way or how to become a good speaker until to some non academic purpose but more to life things like the matter of trusting and believing people. I've found many people are very awesome. For example, some can sing and act very well, dance brilliantly, good speakers, conscientious planner, extremely creative creator, and so on. Oh, all of them are very talented teachers. I am glad to meet them here. But in contrary with that, although this camp should be a platform for me to mingle with my college mates but I think I am not really into it yet. Hehe. I am sorry but I am the kind of people me who used to build a wall instead of bridges. I may take five years to break the walls. But once I love, I'll love forever. And I know I love my friends here..heee xD
Okay, leave the story here, because I want to share some exciting and interesting stories during the camp.weee!

Day 1

name tag and telur given :D

We started the registration at 3 p.m. The name tag was given. Basically I did not arrived there at pulako on time. Uuu. Then randomly we had been scolded by Mdm Hadzra. Not really being scolded but she just reminded us to be punctual. Phew~ I thought the registration will be held on 3 until 5. So I can come anytime that I want. Hehee.. Moreover, we also had been given an chicken egg for each of us to kept. It is called as a 'responsible thing'. So I must keep an eye towards it until the last day of camp.

Day 2
We began the day with a session of aerobics. Wee..I like to move it move it. xD

i sanggup wake up early in the morning if they wajibkan kami every day buat bnda ni xD

Then just like the other camp, we are were having an ice-breaking session. We were assigned to create our own logo, jingles and motto. My group which is group five chose the name G5 to emblazonedt our motto which are glorious, gorgeous, gay, great and genius. The motto might looks hardly to be achieved but we are planning to get over there. Hehe, as saying tells us that those who are never plan are those who plan to fail. I like the jingles of my group. It is more less sounds like this : we are the B-E-S-T. Among the R-E-S-T. So Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Then la la la la la ( I forget the next line, xD). But the tunes still stuck in my mind.

In progress!

The time to explain everything! hehe

Then we continued with session NIE. NIE stands for newspaper in education. Yeah, I love newspaper as it  can turn to be as one of the most effective tools for teaching, really! Kids absolutely can gain many benefits from it. Hmm, now I'm in the stage of finding some other material that can be used to make learning English becomes fun and interesting. And if I get them all, absolutely I'll write them here. :-)

Oh, for this NIE session, we were given a topic for each group. Our group got the topic of tourism. So we decided to cut eye-catching pictures from the newspaper and arranged them to be an advertisement of our tourism island. We named it as English Language Island as only English language is permitted to be used there.  

I just become tukang pegang kali ni. lenguh jugak ye xD

After that, we had an opening ceremony. I was one of the choir members. Hehe. The theme song, 'We Believe' is created by Mark, one of my friends here. Some lyrics to be shared, : we believe we can fly  in the sky up high, where our dreams are the biggest of all kind, our love has put us at the top of the world, so let us show off what we have~~

my sora is langsung x sedap, tapi i x kisah :-p

The day continued with another session of language games. For this session, we were divided into new groups. We played at four station. My group lost two times. Hehe, so our faces had been 'conteng2' by the group one members that organized this language games.

this is before kena contiang. I wonder why I'm not smiling...heee

 Then at night, we were having a school visit rehearsal as our lecturers want to know what activities will be done by us at school. Yeah, at day 4 we went to visit a school. I'll tell it later yeah. xD

discuss and practise

Then the night was proceeded with a skits practice. My group was the organizer for the skits competition. Yeah, we were having some problems to find juries for the competition. Pheww~~ Luckily, Ms Jen, Mdm. Zalilah and her daughter Miss Diyana agreed to become juries. Thank you so much!

Day 4
A day that I think most of us get really excited about it. It was the day of school visit. We were divided into three big groups. I was chosen to go to SJK(T) Tanjung Rambutan. Another two schools are SJK(C) Changkat Kinding and SK Pakatan Jaya. I was very nervous. But children there are very supportive. Hey, I mean, they were very actively participated in our prepared activities. Wow, the children were very energetic! And they showed full of respects towards us. I am very grateful as some experiences of handling with kids when I was one of the members of friend's guidance organization at school do help me very much. Kids love songs, especially a short song accompanied by some movements. So, I taught them the 'Pizza' song. ;-). Moreover, it really touched me as they said good morning teacher, thank you teacher, I love you teacher, teacher, please come again. Uuuuu~ The greatest feeling!

I have the videos of them singing the love song from Barney but I couldn't transferred it in my PC. Haish!

Then at afternoon, we have our session of puppet show. Oh, we just finished our puppet just couple minutes before we had to present it. Ohoho. I could not find any pictures too...Hmmm. Aha, okay, I know Chan Chan will love this. I nearly fall after giving the reflection for puppet show. So, in order to make myself become not too ashamed, I just walk like nothing happened. Err, but I made a kind of gestures like 'lalalala'. Do you get it? Ehm, it perhaps looked like this:

At 5 p.m, we were having a forum session. There were eight participants. Two of them are representatives from my class, who are my good friends Evelyne and Thevika. They had done a very good job. Actually I came a little bit late for this session, then I xdan dengar the first participants talk. This forum was interesting because they need to tell us their own experiences. They were discussing about, "make peace with the past, don't screw up with your future".

At night, we were having our skits competition. Seriously, I like all the performances. The performances were very entertaining! I dare to say it looks naturally fun more than tesl night. Yeah, really. But perhaps it can be improved next time. I hope in having fun too, we won't leave the rules. Yeah, for Muslim, we must be aware and make sure don't terpegang lain jantina. We can have fun together but we still have the limit. :-)

Eh pictures is in my handphone. So I couldn't share them yet. :C

Day 5

redah hutan itu

The jungle trekking day. Hmm, jungle trekking was fun. It was not so tiring. I just dislike the pacat. Hehe. So, I will always look down at the ground and miss the chance to enjoy the nature because I was too busy protecting my leg from becoming the pacat's target. I still have the parut that pacat had gifted me when I was a form 2 student. I went to English camp and pacat gigit me. Haish! I was crying like crazy and I remembered Ainn always teased me for that incident. :-p

my group, i wonder jugak knapa setiap kali aktiviti fizikal msti i kena duk blkg ja...haha xD

Then we proceeded with exhibition activities. Hehe. I went back to hostel to take a bath and change my clothes whereas I think perhaps we are not allowed to go back because I didn't see anyone else coming back too. Hmm. Actually I always tend to break rules and it will be more safer to do it senyap2, sorang2.... *wrecked witches laugh*

ada mcm2 aktiviti kat sini. bagus2

At 3 p.m. we had our closing ceremony. Myself was involved in choral speaking and choir performances. Hehe. I love all the dances. Pretty dances from pretty dancer. ;-)

After the closing, Zida, Yaya, Mira, Puteri, Yamna and me went to pulako with and wrapped the BBQ's dishes such as chickens, sausages, fishes and corn. It was a rainy evening. Mira and Mr. Lim started the fire. We just afraid that our dishes could not be cook well but Alhamdulillah, everything just perfectly done. We didn't grilled all of them but some of our friends did it. Thank you to them. It was a great night but I can't enjoyed myself too much because I was too sleepy. Haha. xD

Day 6
It was the day to break the camp. Hehe. We were having our gotong royong session at pulako. Me had made the pulako look better than before, isn't it? haha. And before that, we were having a reflection session with Mr. Earnest and Mr. Ruben

at gotong royong session, u can see people are kind of berebut penyapu..hehe xD

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THE END

p/s: I rarely put a 'formal' title just like I did above!

Camp Rock

Yay! It comes to the end! The camp is over :-) Yay finally!

Yay! Last day ;-)

 We did water activities ; I never do any activities regarding to water, even swimming. That's why I'm going a little bit of panic when they ask us to go into the sea. Since I was six, my father never allowed me to swim at the sea. I think it is probably because I had been stung by jellyfish when I was six. Therefore I also don't really like the idea of swimming at the sea. Last year, when my classmates organized a trip to Langkawi I also did not follow them to swim. But how I can escape this time? It's a must! Uhuhu.. And I did it! Although I think it is an embarrassing incident but at least I try. And I won't try it again except it is compulsory. But if it just for fun, it's better for me to say bye bye to these kind of activities.

Haha Puteri n Marry is doing 'titanic' here

The second day at Pangkor. Before breakfast :-)

This camp reminds me a lot about Huda. I miss the moment she cried and screamed when we did abseiling. I wonder how she'll scream when we do water confidence activities together. We might panic together. Haha. At least I'm not too embarrassed because I bet her pitch of screaming will be higher than me. Well, I know you Huda. ;-P

Silent. Because everybody perhaps is sitting in room and studying for this coming exam. Ehmm no examinations for this semester and another semester. But it is not a ticket for just having fun because a lot of assignments have waited for us. Plus, not only assignments but quite a lot of task too need to be solved before this 20th Oct. Then Hooray! Semester break until 3rd January 11. A brand new year with new hopes hopefully :-)

Pulau Pangkor : Heal Me

Tomorrow I'll go to Pangkor. We need to attend a camp for GERKO. Oh, I'll go with sore throat. Hopefully when I wake up next morning, everything will gonna be alright. I'm ready to say bye bye to sore throat...(even never invite 'you' come!)

What kind of activity will be held there? I'm curious since I never like anything involve with camping. Maybe one thing that kind of exciting me is the last night during camping. One is because the next day, I will go back! Yeah bye bye 'memorable' camp. Another is perhaps because of the last night usually kind of cultural night. So, we can act or sing or dance or do anything.

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My friends said that this camp is the best camp that they ever attended. For me..frankly..I disagree..Because I never like CAMPING! But I like the fact that we could assemble together as a big family..hihi..;-)

I don't like it!
Is there any term that could describe how much I don't like camping?
Wonder if I could escape from this...
But I can't..I have to...I need to

“Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi (pula) kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu; Allah mengetahui, sedangkan kamu tidak mengetahui.” (Al-Baqarah: 216)

 Oh my throat, be nice ok..Let's have fun together tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow! ( Camping for 3 days and 2 nights)

:-)