Leisure and Greeneries: Morning walk in UKM

Hello everybody, Ah Wong is back again... It has been a long time for me to not morning walk in the UKM main campus already. The National University of Malaysia (UKM) is known as an university in the forest. Therefore, I had made use of my leisure time to wander around in the UKM, especially the forest part.

There are two times I morning walk in the woods of UKM in this week. Last few days, I started this "journey" from my residential college, Kolej Aminuddin Baki and went to PERMATAPintar (Foundation School of UKM) via the shortcut of "Rumah Tumbuh-tumbuhan". Here are a few picture there...

Meanwhile, I started my my today's morning walk route from Kolej Keris Mas. I intend to start my "journey" from there because I wanna try different road to reach there. However, the two pathway seemed to be isolated and deserted as the former one was an agricultural research site, while the latter one was a forest road. At first, I feel rather scare to go alone to there, however I eventually able to brave up myself to go through these both pathways. Seriously, internal motivation will let you to be more focused on attaining your targets in academics, in daily life as well as in working life. I have learned something new through morning walk.

This part is today's story already

Upon reaching to PERMATAPintar, I rested there for a while and continued my journey to the further destination. Today's morning walk session is the longest distance of me walking ever in UKM. I walked until an Institution of UKM which is known as Institute of Systems Biology (INBiosis). This biology institution is the furthest building from the UKM centre. Here are a few of photos there.

Encountered a group of students in the forest of UKM

Then, I intended to go on my journey to Bangi Old Town via forest route. Unfortunately, the road is blocked at INBiosis as it is part of UKM forestry department area for forestry educational and camping purpose. Those who aren't equipped with those two reasons will likely not allow to get in. Meanwhile, I perceived the gate there wasn't fully locked, it is partially locked. By right, I can get in there and continue my journey, but I didn't do so. This is because that part of road is more isolated then the previous road that reach to INBiosis as well as no one was in there. Here are a few photos there...

Anyways, these two morning walk journey are fun and stress relieving as you can get to relax your mind and immersing yourself in the mother nature. No doubt I was got selected into the right public university...

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Universitiy life: Stressing out in the midst of the end of the first semester 2018/2019

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again, after a few days. Today I'm going to share with you my life in the end of the first year's first semester. It is the time for me to feel and experience the pressures which are exerting on me already.

It is just left less than two weeks to the study week and less than a month to the finals. Then, some of the subjects' lecturers take the remaining opportunities to give us some workloads to be done. For example, my Management course's lecturer asked us to do group assignment, a report regarding of leadership topics in the syllabus which constituted 10% of the overall marks. It is still fine for me, after I realized the other sets' Management lecturers had decided to ask their students to do a big group project with a huge portion of overall marks (40%) out of the total marks. Moreover, the computer application's lecturer asked us to form a group and then do the access database group assignment which its due date is before the 1st of the January next year, 2019. I am still forced to said it is "ok" for me since it is also a group assignment task. "Not a problem" for me at all... LOL... "I'm speaking the "truth".

What comes the worst are those citra/electives courses' assignments... My citras such as "isu-isu kekeluargaan" and "teknologi maklumat untuk sains social" both have to group assignments. Fortunately, I've managed to finish my part of responsibility fast, if not, I will be succumbed to the stresses and burden of academics...

University life, sometimes, isn't that good as you think.

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Hanging out: Malaysian Chinese Musuem

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again...

After so long time staying in campus, it was time for me to be with family... Today my family and I went to Malaysian Chinese Musuem at Wisma Huazong in Serdang, Selangor. It was nice for me, as I was able to read and recall back our Chinese ancestry history in Malaysia.

Certainly, there required us to pay for an entrance ticket fee before entering into the museum. The museum ticket fee is RM20 for adults, while RM5 is for children and students from all education levels. Here's the picture shows that the price of entrance tickets.

After purchasing so museum ticket we went in the museum, the first part of the museum which we were going to was the early history of Chinese in the South East Asia, Nanyang (南洋). One of the earliest Chinese man reached to Malay Peninsula was Zheng He (郑和), whom he was a diplomat, mariner and fleet admiral of Ming Dynasty of China. His arrival to the then Malay Peninsula had foster a good relationship of Ming Dynasty and Malacca Sultanate. Besides of this, his voyage also made more and more Chinese merchants to do business in Malay Peninsula as well as staying in that region. Those Chinese merchants who were staying in the region tend to marry with the local Malay origin women and later forming a unique descendants in Malaysia known as Baba Nyonya or "Peranakan Cina". The picture below shows the intermarriage of a Sultan from Malacca Sultanate with a princess from China who was known as Hang Li Poh, it is also part of the baba nyonya history.

Intermarrige Malay and Chinese

Apart from that, fast forwarding to the post-opium war history in China. Opium war occurred in China had caused political instability of Manchu Qing dynasty of China in the mid of 19th century. Many Chinese, especially from the south-eastern China provinces of Guangdong and Fujian had opted to migrated to Nanyang (South East Asia, specifically Malaysia and Singapore at that time) to seek for a better life. They whom was most of our Malaysian Chinese ancestors willing to sacrifice anything in order to reach here, Nanyang, Some even sold their sibling or children to Nanyang in order for them to have a better life. However, life at here initially wasn't that good, a lot of Chinese migrants from China at that time were forced to be coolies in order to settle their travelling debt. As soon as many Chinese came in Malaya and Singapore at that time, the bad influence had also bringing in such as Gambling spots and opium stores. Fortunately, they were all disappeared in this era. So, this is a brief story of how the mass migration of Chinese forefathers from China to Nanyang (Malaysia and Singapore) in the 19th century.

Contract of Selling Person to Nanyang

Contract of Selling Person to Nanyang part 2

Opium store's opium addict

On top of that, after many years of our ancestors settling in Nanyang, more and more of them became as businessmen and living peacefully there. The peaceful moment lasted until the tumultuous era which were Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Communist Insurgency in Federated Malaya. These two incidents had caused many casualties of Chinese and the latter ones was increasing the Malays hatred towards Chinese. Fortunately, the establishment of Malaysian Chinese Association at that time proved that not all Chinese were communist and that political party also co-operated with UMNO and MIC to bring the then Federated Malaya towards independence on 31st of August 1957. Then, there were some noticeable Chinese from MCA who were used to be the finance minister in Malaysia who were Tun H.S. Lee and Tun Tan Siew Sin. These two had been involved in making Malaysian its own Ringgit Currency. Chinese in Malaysia had contributed to Malaysia's economy as well as involving in local politics.

Japanese Occupation in Malaya

Communist Insurgency in Federated Malaya

MCA was establish by Tun Tan Cheng Lock

Chinese Political Parties in Malaysia

Singapore state in Malaysia before 8th of August 1965.

RM1 bank note in 1967

After reading through the Chinese ancestry history in Malaysia, I am grateful that we are now we are living peacefully with everything in this nation. They indeed had sacrificed a lot to contribute to the establishment of this nation as well as defending the Chinese well-being as well as benefit here for a long time...

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University academics: Econhunt 2018

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again. University subjects' academics assessment are usually done in examinations and individual or group assignments. Indeed, I believe we may seldom hear of the teaching subject in University opt to use treasure hunt as an academic assessment for the undergraduate students. That's really an innovation of the university's teaching style.

On last week Wednesday, Econhunt was going on at Faculty of Economics and Management of UKM. There was joustled with numerous different set of macroeconomies classes of students whom the students were included with international students. Also, the atmosphere there was so vibrant and dazzling as many people were there chit-chatting while waiting for the activity to begin. I arrived the venue by 1pm after finishing Statistics class with few of my friends. And so, the event registration was began there just few minutes after I arrived there.

Upon finishing registration, I was asked to find and gather all my teammate of Econhunt 2018 by the respective committee of Econhunt. Also, in a meantime, the committee member also assigned someone to be the leader of the group. Unfortunately, I was selected as the leader of my team (team 10) as I was the earliest to settle down myself according to the group sitting. Aiya... No choice lah, I just did my best there...

A lecture room can also be as a clue...

In fact, the responsibility of mine was rather high at that time as I was struggling to ensure all of the members of the team able to search for the questions' clues in a limited time. Normally I don't look at this kind of fun alike treasure hunt seriously, but at that day I took it very seriously as it was accounted for 20% of the overall macroeconomics marks. The faculty's dean had said on the launching of the Econhunt event that this event was to let students to gain knowledge from innovative teaching style rather than from the "dry" teaching style. So, it was the innovative learning process and it was act as "bonus marks" for us, thus, we must take it seriously.

Video of the

There were 20 questions assigned for each of the teams to solve there. However, we were required to garner for each of clues of the questions first by using the HP scanner app. Therefore, we have to wander throughout the campus just to find for the clues by using the scanning app. Then, once we are finishing getting each question's clue, we have to selfie or take photo with the place... Here are few photos of my teammates and me there...

I also took a ride of my teammate's motor to search for the clues.. After searching for clues, we must answer the 20 questions and then handing in the questions to the respective responsible person who were in charged.

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University activities: Going for Pesta Tanglung of Kolej Tun Hussein Onn, UKM

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again... Today I'm going to share my story of KTHO (Kolej Tun Hussein Onn) Pesta Tanglung event here.

I believe each and every of the residential colleges has their own Chinese club which is representing the presence of Chinese group in the residential college. However, the only difference is that only my residential college's (Kolej Aminuddin Baki) Chinese club is being as unofficial in UKM. The difference of official and unofficial kolej's Chinese club is that the official one needs to do a large event for other Chinese clubs as well as other people to go for while unofficial one is just do events for their own members only, so it is less stress compared to the official one.

Yesterday was my first time to attend Kolej Tun Hussein Onn's event. I was really admiring the ability of Kolej Tun Hussein Onn Chinese club to hold an event as it was able to attract a joustle of people and big shot of UKM (Deputy Vice Chancellor) to attend for their event. Besides, there had also a few of local street foods for us the audience to enjoy with. I saw a majority of people there enjoy having their char kuey teow as their dinner. Apart from that, there were also had a few game stations for us to play with. There offered a myriad of game rewards for the audience to play the games. However unfortunately I didn't play the games there... Here are the photos of the event there...

Group photo of the Kolej Tun Hussein Onn's crews and important figures

There were lots of interesting performance... For example, lion dance, 24 Chinese drum perforamce, street dance and Si-Chuan Mask performance were performed there. For me, I found that the Si-Chuan Mask performance is the most interesting one as the performer was able to change to multiply masks in a flash. Here were the photos and short clips of the performance there... Besides of that, there was also a lucky draw session by drawing mysterious gifts from a combination of numbers on our tickets. Unfortunately, none of my friends and I get the present from the lucky draw. Neither me nor them are so lucky, the lucky ones were the others...

I went to this event is just relieving myself from academic stresses and the following day of this event is public holiday, so it was a perfect timing to go there to relax myself.

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University activity: Looking back to EDB minggu keusahawanan

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again. After all these tiring days of minggu keusahawanan, finally I am able to write something here again.

For our knowledge, Minggu Keusahawanan Kolej Aminuddin Baki is deemed as the mega activity of the Entreprenuership Development Bureau (EDB) in the residential college. I'm actually quite fortunate to be taking part in this activity as it had given me a chance to get working experience and enriching my university life.

In fact, we, the biro keusahawanan members had been sacrificing our mid term holiday to go back here to set up for that event and ensuring everything in that event was perfect. Those sacrifices were totally worth it as we get to learn and experience something new when we were working with each other. Although we wouldn't be the perfect one in working, but at least we had all out to give the best. Here are a few of photo of the perkampung week before minggu keusahwanan.

Chinese gang in the biro

Meanwhile, I was assigned with the post of technical and logistics on that few days. It was seemed as relaxing job at the first glance, however, it wouldn't as that post required us to move here and there as well carrying this and that frequently. Besides, few weeks before the event, my biro's felo even asked us to draw a plan properly in order to able catering all the stalls in that place. Drawing and designing a plan wasn't the easy job as that place has lots of obstacles such as rock chairs and tables which obstructing our the set up of the canopies. I felt so fortunate to have a few of members of helping in designing the plan at that time (actually I was struggled at first as I couldn't do it by myself alone). On top of that, that post had given me a chance to play with the public address (PA) and audio system which is seemed to be rather challenging and difficult to utilise it in the occasion. So, eventually I assumed it as the platform for us to learn more about audio and PA system management in an event. Also, there were lots of things for us to learn from that post.

Drawing plan of the event (not my drawing)

 Setting up of the event...

The food stalls view from the PA system counter:

Besides of that, I had poured lots of money in this Minggu Keusahawan. On that few days, there were lots of mouth-watering street foods and delicacies to be sold to us. Obviously, it was not absent with our biro keusahawanan stall. Our stall were selling some appealing yet common street foods such as maggi murtabak, sweet corn cup, skewed fishball and nuggets as well as "air asam boi". Those foods that I mentioned just now were my dinner for these few days. Albeit of being so unhealthy for eating these foods so much, but I had at least contributed my support and income to the bureau.The more income the bureau gets, the more money we can use for member bonding purposes. The other stalls also got their nice delicacies such as the Bro Inovasi one's "roti sausage" and Biro Hal Ehwal Alumni dan Antarabangsa (Hela)'s spiral fried potatoes. Both of them were the ones I liked the most among the food stall there. Thus, because of the dazzling and tasty foods were there, I've spend lots of money on that day.

Alright, that's all of my sharing... I may not be the perfect in doing work, but still I'm still learning new things and gain experience from the bureau. This event has given me a lot of opportunity to gain experience which we barely can obtain from the academics. I used to be a bookworm who loves to study 24/7 and living in my own world. This disillusion has became a reality when I stepped into university, I felt that university is like a smaller version of society where we all are living together in order to achieve our own goals respectively in life. So, I think I want to mingle and blend in with the majority...

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