The Museum Trip.

Tuesday (23/03/2010)

a) The Police Museum
* In the museum, we saw the modern and older side of police force in Malaysia.
First, we watched a short film and realized that police force was first introduced by the Portuguese when they came.to Melaka. Later, it was further enforced by the British. The locals were trained and together they fought the Japanese soldiers during World War II. After Independence Day, Malaysia had its own Police Force called “Polis Diraja Malaysia”.
l Thus, during the tour we saw the changes of uniforms to the most recent. Shi Jie said, “Look! Girls can also be a police!” This was because we saw many dummies wearing various police uniforms. We also saw the tools they used including guns and boms. Their various transportations included horse cart, motorcycle, police cars, helicopters and also ships.
l We were very fortunate when the police officer gave a brief explanation about their uniform including the badges, guns, belts, shoes. Finally he also highlighted that disciplinary is critical in the police force.

b) The National Museum
After lunch, we continued the trip to National Museum.
* It was exhibiting, the cavemen period or rather Neolithics period. We were so lucky as we were also learning about that currently. There was also exhibition about the Kings and our National symbols. There was also pottery exhibitions.
* Devin called out loudly when he saw cave painting on the cave wall. The others gathered and they they were sketching some animal pictures. The others were rubbing the pieces of wood to make a fire.
* We saw the changes of head skulls from prehistoric till today. The kids saw the difference especially on the jaws. Furthermore, the size was begger than of today’s.
* We saw how statues were carved out from big rocks and the Foo Soon said they must have taken something sharp to carve that and he was fully agreed by Jun Hong.
* Then we saw the various stones from the Earth’s different core layer. They were of various colours. Some seemed harder and they were used for planting, buildings, writing tools and etc.
* After touring, we sat at a place to draw what we liked the most for this trip.

c) School
Upon reaching school, the kids had their tea break and rest. Each was given the McDonalds toys and that made them even happier! J