From A Little Boy To A Big Boy!

This is it! Many people are normally very excited on the 1st day of university; most kids would eagerly bring their new bags, new drinking bottle (maybe mommy's boy will get a tupperware), new pencil cases, etc etc. Those new kids on the block will put on their best clothing, and honestly most of the time they (incl. me) look nerdy. One look at these kids, you just know who's new and who's not!

My beloved sheep, Mr Lee Qui Yu a.k.a Shawn, has finally graduated last Monday. I managed to 'sneaked' out from school and rushed to DUN building. Thank God the distance was very close. I had to rush back to school again to take the SD card only to find out that it wasn't in my camera when I got there!

We all waited outside of DUN for quite a while and I had to tell everyone that I must be the 1st to take picture with Shawn coz I only had 10 minutes left that time. Remember, I am a teacher??? How can I forget such a noble task! Thank God, all the Big Boys and Girls came out 5 minutes before I had to leave. While we were busy taking group pictures, one man took our picture too! And guess what, we all ended up in the newspaper; not only 1 but 2! Well, we didn't choose to be 'famous' though... :@)

This picture looks more like a engagement / wedding rather than graduation heh!

This is Ah Kiing, who used to stay at my place. His 'wife' graduated that day and their wedding is today... what's the hurry?!?!

Cici Mina has learnt a new technique; how to hide your tummy! She's almost 9 months pregnant by the way.


My sheep & I.

His parents.

It was Ah Pure's Graduation too!

And of coz not forgetting Meyley's too!

This is the picture that went to the front-page!

With all my rushing here and there that day, one of the most satisfying thing that I did, was to take this shot! It's my favourite to capture this 'moment'!

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'Bian Hong' - Turn Red!

Turn Red??? Weird name, isn't it? Last Thursday just before the school closed for Term III break, together with other 5 teachers,we brought 36 primary 4 kids to a place called Turn Red in Bau. In fact many those who have been to Serikin have definitely seen this place before, at least on the outside. You know those fake-rock thingy??? Yes, that's the place. I must say the space behind the fake-rock wall was surprisingly quite comfy. It's a L-shaped restaurant with rotan furniture + a pool table but unfortunately they only serve drinks nowadays. Rumours say that the shoplady was too fierce that she drove the cook away!

Quite a nice place to hang out

We got on the bus and left at about 830am. The journey to Turn Red was quite pleasant. I was amazed at the gadgets that kids nowadays have; handphone, ipod, digital camera, you name them, they got them all! Do not 'small-look' at this Turn Red. Its selling points; the mini zoo & the man-made cave. The entrace fee is not cheap either. Kids have to pay RM4 and double for the adults. There were quite a numbers of animals, most of them were quite nice really. Unfortunately, all of them are in the cage. This is not Bako, so don't expect monkeys to hang around freely there. The kids loved them though. Walking into the man-made cave was quite an experience too. I was surprised by its length. It's quite a distant. There were sensored yellow lights and few of the stalatites are actually real stuff!

Iguana

Otter

Unfriendly monkey!

Turkey

Injured ducky

'Landak'

Wild Boar that went thru Marie France program (can't compare to the one in Bako, this is far too skinny or should I say slim?)

Proud Eagle

Ostrich (can't help to appear to be proud, he's just too tall!)

Let's be Sheep, not Goats! They refused to take close-up pictures!

I love this pose!

Guinea Pigs!

After the cave-walking, we had our lunch there and right after that we took a short visit to the so called 'carving furniture' display area. The shoplady was too excited to see so many of us and insisted us to visit the display. To my dissapointment, there were only some artificial man-made cement furniture (o gosh, i hate those stuff!!!, Jwen, dun u?)

I look up, look down, look left, look right...

Going into the mad-made cave... oooo... Spooky!

This is the real stuff!

Keep walking...

Something interesting? Nah...we came at the end of the route and decided to take a look at few big rocks & stones there.

Good student; always take notes!

Since the kids don't really have chance to walk around the wet market, we brought them to the Bau Bazaar; a place where you smell stinky rotten vegetables, fish etc. Haha, only a handful of kids came down from the bus and accompanied the teachers. They were all scared of the smell and messy floor. That only took uus few minutes and gosh I managed to take a colourful 'stuff' being tied at the metal post. It was so beautiful!!! Wanna take a guess what it was?

Nice Artwork eh!

Before heading to Kuching, we also stopped over Wind Cave. We didn't go in though; just hang around outside at the shaddy areas. The place now is under the care of National Park. We can see that the exterior of the cave is quite properly taken care of.

We then headed to our 2nd last destination; the claywork place@ the 4.5 miles. There were quite a few ladies doing painting and 1 uncle shaping the clay. The kids were bold enough to ask for permission whether they could try to play with the clay. The uncle was kind enough to let ALL of us experimenting it; I was in the list too! It was my 1st time sitting in front of the turner and play with the clay. (You know how much we have learned from the text book during the younger days about all the traditional claywork and bla bla bla and we never had a chance to try it? I must propose to get a turner for the school next year!)

This uncle only spent about 5 minutes to make one pot! (see below)


Time for the kids to experiment!
It's soft!

It's lembik!

It's licin!

Ahem...Here comes the Master Tang

What's wrong with the English here?!?! This was found at the sourvenir shop!

Our final destination; the Sunny Hill ice cream place. Kids' favourite stopover before we reached school again. Most of them ordered extra large bowls of ice cream. They were quite huge, I must say. Few couldn't even finish them.

Going back...

Look familiar? Oh...we all have to pass this BEAUTIFUL street everyday!

Altogether we visited 5 places in a day. It was really energy consuming. I was glad I wasn't the only one who felt tired. We were all EXHAUSTED!!!

Field trip like this really breaks barriers between students and teachers. Overall I enjoyed the trip though it was tiring. The next one will be in October bringing 3 classes of international kids to Permai! Yay... staying overnight in Permai can be quite fun eh!

I love this old bus! It's converted into a storage space!

Such a nice piece of artwork. Don't you think so? I love the rusty tank on the top part.

Remember FLINTSTONES?? The Yabadabadoo people? Those who drive their stoney car and have to use their legs to operate the car? Hehehe...

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