Logos Hope Penang

Logos Hope offers more than books and features a fully air conditioned deck that is open to the public to explore. The Welcome Experience, will introduces this new vessel through a short movie and various displays. The vessel also offers ice cream, drinks and snacks for everyone to enjoy at the International Café.There is an expanded selection of over 5000 books that covers a range of subjects including science, sports, hobbies on board. This includes children’s titles, academic texts, dictionaries, atlases and more.

After having Dim Sum with Mrs Chiu and her students, Caleb and his brothers, Xiao Ling, , Chenny etc, we departed to Swettenham Pier right at 10am. This is the first time i arrived at Swettenham Pier after being away for Penang for several months. When i was stepping into the Logos Hope ship, a few friendly staffs with their badge smiled and greeted us.I believe the staffs come from all over the world,there are Hong Kong, German, etc which i know.Indeed, there are really a huge collection of books for us to choose, ranging from fiction, biblical, spiritual, gardening, travel,health, transport, etc to even university reference text books. The bad thing is that after we went out of the cashier counter ,clearing our fees,little did we know that there are still university reference books on the shelf after the counter cashier. The university textbooks are sold in RM 40 for any 3. It is really WORTHY!but bad enough, I didn't pay much attention on the offer though there was a signboard stating ' Buy 1 Logos Hope bag for 3', i didn't know it was actually referring to the university textbooks, or else i would grab some of them!

At last, I have managed to snap a few free books and most if not all, have also managed to share some books with Mrs Chiu: The 101 of the world Heroes.Too bad, i didn't manage to get the books which i was desperately looking for: Killing the Mockingbird  and The journey to the center of the earth.

After all, the weather is nice and sunny, unlike yesterday, raining cats and dogs.

On our way to the ship

The ship from far

The Logos Hope Ship

People lined up to go into the ship

the ship is indeed big

Can see Caleb's parents and brothers on the queue

Inside the ship

lots of people inside the ship

The multimedia introduction of the ship

crowded condition inside the ship

People grab for books which is so cheap. Only RM8 for 100 units. ( The easier currency converter)

While going down from the ship

I am glad to have dim sum with my lovely teachers and friends, and the trip to Logos Hope was a nice one=)

Does Penang still remain GREEN?

It has been a while( Nearly 6 month) since i last went back to Penang. Also, the great news is that i have been staying at Penang for nearly 1 month since i step my foot officially on the island on 3rd August.

Well, a lot of changes has been seen here and there, especially the opening of a new international school near my house- Tensby International School of Penang as well as other Three Storey Terrace House aligned in a row. This also signifies lots of tress had been cut down for the sake of this development, a development meant to meet the demand the people of Penang and at the same time taking the environment for granted.

Personally, it has been very hot and heaty in my surrounding housing area compared to the previous surrounding when the development has not been carried out.

The Tensby School compound

The Tensby School Tennis court

The development of high rise condominium at Batu Ferringhi( managed to snap it from Yeap's residence.=)

The Upland School of Penang at batu Ferrighi (near Yeap' residences)

The construction works done at fourth floor of Island Plaza

So, with the rapidly development of high rise buildings in Penang to meet the demand of the people, do we love to live in an environment where we could hardly see any tress and greenery around? I really long and wish to have these environment as below ,still preserved nicely in Penang! 

*Taken from Botanical Garden Penang ( while jogging with brothers and friends)*

What had done is done to mother nature by human. What we can do is have little self awareness by not polluting the environment. This is very important. Whether it is going to reduce global warming by doing so or not? We dont know. But at least, maybe it can help from getting worst.

Please, the government and people of Penang, For the sake of and in the name of GREEN DEVELOPMENT, Please do consider and preserve our natural environment as well. We want GREEN!

 

小学生的天真..

小学生永远都是那么好奇的，总爱问些我们年轻人都觉得似乎不以为意的问题如下：

1）第一天一进4B班（我是他们的代课级任）和3B班(我是他们的国语老师)， 就有学生问：
a) 老师,你会很凶吗?
b)老师,为什么你很高耶!
c) 老师,为什么你教马来文?你是不是马来人? =.=

2)也有一些问题是我们觉得毫无必要问的:
a) 老师,这面不够位写了,怎么办?(下一面啦!) @@
b)老师,这个那个要不要抄?

其实,虽然觉得这些问题是'多余',可是小学生嘛,他们的辨识能力还不够佳.需要时间来慢慢学习,磨练.所以身为老师的,也就要更加有耐心来回答他们的'问题'.

当老师,真不易啊!

Start teaching at SJKC Hun Bin

Tomorrow, 8/8.2011 is a date where i start my teaching at SjkC Hun Bin. Here i come as a Guru ganti for a month and half to teach subjects to 4B class students on subjects of Mandarin and Maths.

An inspiring quote  by Eunice Tan which i will use it as my sole motivation to teach :

A good teacher tells and demonstrates.
A great teacher asks and inspires.
But a great teacher can never be great without first being good.=)
~How to become a great teacher~

Hope everything is perfectly fine!~ =)

Internships Done! Yay...

Saturday ( 30 July 2011) is my last day of intern at Farm' Best Food Industries. Well a mix of feelings overwhelm me, there are happy, sad, worried touched etc... The lists go on and on ..End of my 2 months Industrial Training

First, I wish to take this opportunity to thank the GM of Farm Best Food Industries , Dr Subra, for giving me the opportunity to undergo my internships for 2 months. Yes,you may wonder why he is called a Dr, and No he is not a medical doctor but  he is a vet! He joined Farm Best on the year 2010 as a QA Manager, and currently he has been appointed as the GM of the Farm's Best. When having a conversation with him, i was a bit nervous, this is the first time when i stepped into the meeting room to have the first interview with him. He briefed me a bit about the operation of the factory and i was asked to start the intern as soon as possible. I started a bit late than most of my coursemates who have started right after exam, 16 May 2011 and so i completed it a bit late as well.

Well, the 2months industrial training has exposed to the real operation of food industries. Moreover, SInmah as an intergrated company, have the chain of operation from poultry breeding, livestock , to poultry and further processing. Luckily I have seen with my own eyes the operation of Sinmah Livestock(refer to ), Farm’s Best Food industries, and Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd. The only Group which I haven’t see is the Sinmah Breeder Sdn Bhd which I hope in future I will be able to see the operation.

Below are the persons who I would like to thank. Since I have done my training in 3 different places and meet many different people so I have divided into 3 different places and with each different people that have come to my industrial training’s aids.

Farm’s Best QA Lab ( ALor Gajah):

Puan Maslinda: You are such a good helper, remember the first time when I asked you whether you are able to pick me up on the way to work, and without hesitant, you said Yes! I feel lucky to know you as my supervisor and as my friend. Throughout the whole industrial training you have not only helped me by providing me a transport to work and also, you have taught me about microbiology, the ways to perform a microbiological test on food samples, equipment swab etc. Seeing the facts that I have not exposed in dept to the microbiology field, you have indeed help to shed light onto this area. Not forgetting to thank Kak Chandra , Kak Zabidah, Abang Shamsul, all of you are just nice!=)

1 Malaysia slogan always been with us whenever I went out lunch with Kak Chandra and Kak Linda. LOL

Farm’ Best Food Industries Plant:

2 Senior Supervisors have helped me a lots, they are Hemah and Alina.=)

I thank you two for your generosity in sharing your knowledge the moment I stepped into the plant with zero knowledge. Your explanation is great and it helped me to get a clear picture of the whole operation of poultry and further processing plant. 

Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd( ALor Gajah):

It is a feed manufacturing factory, one of the Group of Farm's Best berhad. In fact, it is the headquarter. Quite a number of accountants and office administrators from various groups like livestok, breeder, working there. The silos are extremely huge! But the production department have fewer number of workers since the whole operation of feed manufacturing is simpler than the Farm Best Food Processing plant where you would expect 500 workers are needed for the whole processing plant. 

I was assigned to QC Laboratory, the so called chemical lab to performe various tests like protein, fat, ash, moisture, sodium, calcium etc on feed and food samples.

 Thanks to Miss Toh, the QA Manager for her generous sharing of knowledge,you have shared with me the feed nutrition and the book which you lend me may be just another good start-up of my learning in poultry nutrition. Pretty much appreciated=)

While on the water treatment plant:

The EQ tank and the SBR tank

The boiler and the chemical tank

Behind me is the huge SBR tank

The huge SBR tank 1 and 2

 While at the Farm's Best Food Industries plant:

Wearing custom inside the plant

Abang Shamsul and me

Abang Shamsul, Kak Bedah and me

1 Malaysian: Kak Chandra, Kak Linda and me

While at the Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd:

Kak Ila , Mr Balan, and me in Simah Multifeed