Thursday (06/08/2009)
a) Why are there multi-racial people here?
Only 2 people said because their grandparents came from China. Indigenous people (orang asli) were the first group of people residing in Tanah Melayu. Later, came some Javanese and Malay people from Indonesia. These people have resided in Tanah Melayu much more longer before the arrival of Western’s power. Then, Tanah Melayu became the colonies of Portuguese, Dutch, British, Japanese and finally British again. They came here to conquer the trading route of the Asia. They could obtain many items such as tea, cinnamons, silk and many more. Pulau Pinang, Melaka and Singapura were the 3 popular areas. These western powers had guns and canons to conquer Asia easily. Thus, Indians from India and Chinese from China came here to trade too! Some of them later married the locals. Thus, we have Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Indians, Malaysian Portuguese and also Malaysian Baba Nyonyas. Surprisingly, the kids were anxious about this history!
b) Independence Day
We discussed about this briefly last year. During the British monopoly, the locals attended English schools. Thus, some even went abroad to study. Then, Malaysians realized that they want to attain independence and rule their own country! Thus, three intellectuals of 3 different races went to England together for this matter. The trip was headed by Tunku Abdul Rahman who then became our first
c) Prime Minister.
Malaysia achieved Independence day on 31st August, 1957. “MERDEKA”! Because of them, Malaysia is able to prosper until today!
d)Video Clips: More about Malaysia.
We saw how photos of Punjabis, Indians, Baba Nyonyas, Ibanese, Indigenous people. We also saw the main commodities of Malaysia namely rubber and tea.
Then, we watched the 6 Prime Ministers of Malaysia from the first to the current one. They were Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi and our current sixth Prime Minister is Tun Abdul Razak.
Jen Ning: Who is more important? The King or Prime Minister.
Teacher: The King is more important and even Prime Ministers bow to them. However, some matters are to be dealt by the Prime Minister while some matters by the King.
Tourism Promotion: Rasa Sayang Sayang Eh.
It’s a song of all Malaysians and sung in mixture of the three languages namely Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil. The clip promoted Malaysia to the world! Wow……
e) Traditional game: Congkak.
One of our attraction is Malaysia’s traditional game such as Congkak. It’s originally played by the Malays but today all races play together as 1Nation.
I explained to the kids and they started playing it by taking turns.
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