Ipoh Roadtrip

Jyeah, my first time to Ipoh! Thanks to Adib and Sarah for bringing me to this fun and exciting road trip.

Started our journey at 5am on a Wednesday (Deepavali holiday), reached Ipoh around 730am.

We went to New Hollywood for breakfast. Ordered variety of food, chee cheong fun, roti goyang (my first time trying it), and char kuey teow. 

~delicious food~

After that, we went to Taiping Zoo. Since it was a public holiday, there were lots of people haha

 ~we-fie with the elephants~

We spent almost 2 hours in the zoo. Hmm, the zoo was not really well maintained, haha most of the animals are kinda hiding in their own "cave" LOLZ

We stopped by Marrybrown to have some snacks then we headed to Istana Kenangan in Kuala Kangsar. 

~at Istana Kenangan~

Didn't get to enter as it was under renovation. So, many people came to take pictures from outside huhu.

~Ipoh chicken rice~

I've also tried Mee Kicap, Ipoh Chicken rice and Ipoh White coffee. Not bad, quite delicious.

The 3 of us really ate non stop hahah.

Our next stop was Concubine Lane.

~posing sikit~

~old buildings~

 ~beautiful background~

We just strolled along Concubine Lane, taking pictures and observing the different buildings around it.

We wanted to go Kellie's Castle but it was kinda far and was getting darker, so we decided to stop by a mall to chill.

~Korean mart~

Stopped by Ipoh Parade, and there was a Korean mart! Bought a cup of tteokboki, just to try (very spicy, but it was good). We then chilled at Starbucks before heading home.

Twas a good and fruitful roadtrip with le friends, really had a good time catching up with them after a long long time. 

Work?

Yes work?

Took up the offer to teach Geography at an International school as the syllabus they used was Cambridge English. It's been few months there?

Well, teaching Geography was kinda fun and straightforward compared to English HAHAHA.

The working environment in the school is not so conducive. Quite a lot of issues going on there. Yes it may be challenging, but I thanked God for opening my eyes to many things (people who are genuine, who care about you and people who wear "masks", act well in front of you but at the back, they'll be a different person). I don't plan to work there long, this time I'll not rush in taking up any jobs. Oh well, it was kinda a rush taking up this position also huhu

I miss working in TJC! 

I miss the people and the working environment there and of course my cute lil kids!

~Last day of work in TJC~

Bryan left for Japan already!

He will be there for a year T_T.

Before he left, a few of us met for the last time, 1 year is long haha

~grateful for them~

We had lunch and matcha for dessert and a great time of fellowship with one another.

It was also a good "outing" for me too, coz ever since i started work in that school, I had no time for other things T_T

Take care zai! See you a year later =D

It's been a year!

Yes, it's been a year since I went to Korea! Missing Korea weyh. (i'm gonna go there again!!)

2 weeks there was really fast. Wished if I can stay there for few months? haha

Anyways, few things had happened for the past few weeks.

Submitted my thesis for exam (yeay) but my convo will be next year (sad right?)

Who takes freakin' 2 months just to read and approve a title (that is why i need to wait for another year to convo, sigh)

On a happier side, managed to meet up with Vivian for few hours (coz she transits in KL before going to Korea)

~us at Mamak restaurant~

Twas a great catch up, it's been 5 months (macam 1 year). Glad she's enjoying her life in Aussie.

~with Huong and her friends~

Met up with Huong as well (we met when we were in Korea). Had a good time with her just jalan jalan in the malls.LOL 

~helped out in a conference~

Yeap, helped out with a conference. I'm not the presenter, just the penjaga.LOLL

And my new SV (dressed in pink), Dr Grace. She's such a friendly person! 

~with the props team~

And oh yeah, working part time in TJC while waiting for a permanent job. I thanked God for this job although it's just a temporary one. I believe God has something great in store for me. 

In the midst of waiting for a permanent one, He wants me to be patient (yes, I know I can't wait for one, but I should put my trust in Him)

Goodbye Sung Hyun!

Time flies~

One of my Korean exchange friend to UM is now back in Korea. 

Sent him to the airport with Bryan, Eric and Laura. It was an emotional time for us, he had been a very close friend to us. And we'll definitely be missing him. Yes, people come and go, but memories remain.

Before sending him off to the boarding gate, we had our last dinner with Sung Hyun.

~dessert at MCD~

~our last we-fie together~

 ~one last pic before he left~

All the best in your future undertakings and do keep in touch Sung Hyun! =)

Final Year Party

Final Year Party of FYP, we have it every sem for graduating seniors.

This time, it was my turn! (finally, I'm graduating, after so long)

The theme for this semester was Grammy Awards, so we were asked to dressed according to the theme. huhu

As usual, we have performances from both seniors and juniors, testimony sharing and after that Makan! ahha

~performances from the juniors~ 

~performances from the seniors~ 

~all of us~ 

 ~graduating seniors~

~with Ric and Sung Hyun~

~omo, he will be flying back to Korea already =(~ 

~with my Li Wen jie~ 

~with Hoey Yu~ 

~was asked to share my testimony~ 

~with bro Ric~

~compulsory picture, with Elphis CG~ 

~with Laura jie~ 

~with Jo Kor, Naomi and Bryan zai~ 

~with Pastor Sii~

Above all, Soli deo Gloria.

Thank God for everything that He had blessed me with.

Hope to graduate in October! (hope that they will process everything and approve everything soon!)

First experience in a Private School

Like what i've mentioned before, I worked in a private school for 2 months (supposedly 3 months but I needed to complete my final stage of thesis writing and presentation).

Actually, I went for an interview for a secondary school teacher post (had to do mock teaching in front of the principal and a ketua bidang *gulp*) and I kinda did it badly.

I thought i did not get the job coz they took quite late to reply, but few days later, the HR team called me and asked if I want to worked in the primary school instead coz they needed teacher immediately. I said YES! 

Went to school the next day to meet the principal and discussed about what I need to do and etc. Started work one week later.

...fast forward..

End of April was my last day of work.

Well, first 2 weeks in school was a bit crazy huhu coz getting used to many things, I had to teach English for 2 Primary 5 classes and Music to Primary 1 to 6 students. It was quite challenging because I had to teach them recorder (learnt it during my primary school days but don't really remember). Every week I had to think of new songs and how to make the class fun.huhu

Finally, it came to an end, and oh well, it was not so bad after all.

It was Sports Day which was also my last day. Early in the morning when I came to school, the kids flocked me with gifts and they hugged me and begged me not to go.huhu (kids, when you're older, you will know why I have to leave). 

 ~mixture of 5 Orchid and 5 Lily English and Music class~

~picture collage by them~ 

~the kids did this~

 ~the Music class~

~with my 1 Lily kids, Jaron is so cute!~ 

~5 Lily class~ 

~with 5 Orchid class~ 

~during Sports day~ 

~thank you for all the love and messages (idk how to rotate the picture)

Working in a private school isn't that bad after all. One thing I liked is the class size was between 20-25 students unlike public schools, and no paper work in the school.wohoo

But oh well, there's pros and cons working in both sectors. 

Anyways, I had a great experience teaching them, and I think I would wanna teach primary school in future instead of secondary school.huhu

Teacher loves all of you =D

CG Kayak

We had combined CG outing (Kayak) at our own Tasik Varsiti on one of the Saturday mornings.

It was my first time trying out kayak and it was fun!

 ~posing for a picture~

 ~coz we love water huh?~

 ~Alquin and me in one kayak~

 ~the combined CG's~

~us who came~

It was quite tiring especially for my arms LOL, coz you have to know how which direction to kayak.

Would love to try again another time!

Bello!

Bello! It's been err ages since I last posted. hehe

And wow! It's been half a year!! Time flies weyh.

Few things happened for the past few months.

Worked in a private school for 2 months (supposedly 3 months), went for a 7km run, had final year party (finally, my turn to grad!)

Gonna blog what happened for the past few months~

And my blog will be flooded with pictures.LOL

Signed myself up with a few of the PKV peeps for a 7km run. Everytime after signing up for it, sure regret, like what am I getting myself into again. HAHA

 ~me halfway thru~

~PKV-ians~

~posing with our medal~

It'll be my last run in UM, before I grad. Would love to participate in other runs outside of UM, coz UM is so hilly, very tiring lor.huhu.

Anyways, we made it to the finishing line!

 ~supper at Dal Komm~

Tried their bingsu in Dal Komm,not bad but quite expensive, so we shared.

This place is famous in Korea (where DOTS was being filmed)

Had a great time of catching up with one another =)

Havoc-ness

Few things had happened for the past 2 months.

We had CNY celebration with PKV Chinese Ministry. We did steamboat this year. 

Helped them to cut and wash the steamboat food in my house before bringing it to church that night haha, i've never cut sooo many food before.LOL

~CNY Celeb with PKVCM~

Then, we sent Vivian off to KLIA 2 as she was going Aussie for 9 months for her twinning programme. We arrived early and had our dinner there. 

Gonna miss you for 9 months! Take care there and enjoy Aussie!!

 ~we-fie with Vian~

We also had our housemates outing and celebrated Yvonne's bday at Lat Tali Lat cafe. Played some pirate games and we had to do the dare game as punishment. 

~our fake laugh~

Had our 2nd housemate outing at Strangers at 47 before Lavi moved out to her new campus in Saujana Putra. 

~all of us~ 

My RA contract ended in January, and I was looking for a part time job. Went for an interview at Sri UCSI Secondary school as they were looking for a temporary teacher.

Kinda screwed up my mock teaching, so I thought that I won't get the job anymore, but one day, the primary school called me if I can come in immediately, so I agreed to it.

And here I am now in Sri UCSI Primary School teaching English to Year 5 kids and Music to Year 1 to 6 kids. New experience in a private school. My first week there was kinda crazy, coz I had no idea what I had to do, everything was kinda messed up LOL. I was kinda stressed marking so many books left by the previous teachers.

It's my second week now, things are kinda getting better, but I thanked God for providing someone who looked after me in school. I need not pay for food, but we had the leftovers from the canteen, and some of the teachers were concerned about my safety, so they sent me to the nearest LRT station after school instead of me taking Grabcar. 

Was reflecting back on many things, and I and grateful to God that he is always there taking care of me no matter where I am. I know I had complained so much the past few weeks, but He never fails you =)