Today i was reli bad luck.... I fall into small pond... Bruises my whole body including my sexy mouth... Haiz..
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This afternoon, i finished my lab early... Around 4pm already finished lab work, so i went to BPPs (Bahagian Pendaftaran Prasiswarah) to obtain the examination remark form... Then on the way back to cempaka hostel, i pass by a fountain with a small pond near Center Language Studies (CLS)... Due to my laziness to go a big round, i decided to take shortcut.. I try to jump over the pond... But at last, i failed...
My right leg drop into the pond and fall down.. My right arm and shoulder hit the border of the pond... Then, my mouth direct kiss the floor... Bleeding alot...
So pain... Now, my mouth got abit bengkak liao... Haiz... Today reli shuai...
Reli not bad... New Government got new policy... Now the penang state government is so care about us who study oversea in East Malaysia... They wanna to be more understand wat are our need since we leave our home town... Hence, they organised a gathering dinner at the Banquet Restaurant in Kuching... In Kuching, Banquet Restaurant had been graded as 5 star restaurant... Quite expensive..
I and a group of my friends taking photo at the hall stage while waiting for YB Penang State Vice Chief Minister reach..
We are served with plenty of buffet style food... Got beef rempah, lemon fish, butter prawn, broccoli, fried chicken, mushroon soup, fried rice, fried bee hon, and many many more... Beside that, we are serve with variety of fruit too..
Taking a group photo with YB Mansor, Penang state First Chief Minister (Blue shirt)...
We are Penang Undergraduate in UNIMAS.. We are proud of Penang...
LIM GUAN ENG !! BOLEH!!! KEEP ON UR HARD WORK AND BRING FAME TO PENANG STATE
On 14 & 15 October, Prof Kopli Bujang organized a field trip to Sarawak Tea Manufacturing Company- Mayang Tea Sdn Bhd. Mayang Tea Sdn Bhd is located about 90 km from the Kuching city. It take us about 2 hours drive from UNIMAS. This project was established on 1982 by Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (SALCRA)...
Mayang Tea is actually the lowland but not highland tea... So the tea is planted at an altitude of around 200 -800 feet above the sea level.. Lowland tea and highland tea different in taste and colour... For lowland tea, it has a very very strong dark brown in colour and strong taste... Mayang tea plantation consists of about 166 hectar areas o Native Customary Right (NCR) and it is owned by 174 Bidayuh families. Every year, Sarawak state government will subsidiary about RM 200,000 -RM 300, 000 to ensure the continuous operation and production of Mayang Tea Sdn Bhd.
We was brought to the plantation.. We are taught which part of tea leaves is the best to be processed... Normally the Mayang Tea plucker will pluck the first 2- 3 shoot of young tea leaves... After some explanation, we are allow to do our own tea plucking !!... Haha... it is really enjoyable...
I and friend taking photo at the tea plantation... I manage to pluck a pack of tea leaves... Haha!!
This is how the plucker usually pluck tea leaves.. The first of 2 -3 shoots of young tea leaves.. According to the officer at Mayang Tea Sdn Bhd, processing the first 2-3 shoots of young leaves taste better...
Every morning, around 6.30am, the tea plucker will begin to pluck the tea leaves... Around 7.30am, they will finished plucking and sent the plucked tea leaves to factory to process.... They are kept inside the guni bag...
At the factory, the tea leaves are sent via the troller (red) in the withering room. The leaves is wilted for about 16 -18 hours...
Withering is done in troughs of 4.5' x 60' each which can hold about 900 kg of leaf.
After 16- 18 hours withering process, the tea leaves is then sent for rolling... In this process, the leaf cells are broken up... The release of the natural substances and flavor is regulated to give tea its aroma to develop after rolling...
The chemical components are mixed with enzymes which are released by cells in rotorvane machines via 3 passes. The rolled leaves are then separated into different sizes using rotary sifters.. After the separation, the leaves were placed onto Aluminium trays for fermenting in next stage. There are several machines which have been developed to achieves rolling process. But in Mayang Tea Plantation, the rotorvane is applied. Other types of machines like orthodox roller and C.T.C (Crushing, Tearing, Curling) machines or the combination of these machines are also used to perform rolling in others plantation.
Fermentation is the most fundamental process in tea manufacturing. In this process, different taste of tea can be produced by managing the fermentation time. In Mayang Tea Company, the crushed tea leaves are put into the tray and let it ferment for 2- 3 hours. They use the room temperature to carry out oxidation process and along this process the aroma is emitted. The fermentation process changes the leaves into different color and favor...
After rolling and fermenting, the tea leaves are transferred into drying machine.. The fermented tea leaves are put on the top of this dryer and were dried inside the machine. The temperature is at the range of 160 0F to 200 0. In this stage, the moisture of the leaves is reduced to 2 % - 3% and the fermentation process is stopped. After this process, the tea is used for grading...
This is the grading machine... Mayang Tea Sdn Bhd graded their tea into 4 different categories which DUST 1, DUST 2, DUST 3 and BOP.
The best category is DUST 3.... Normally, BOP is not used to make tea but manufactured to become fertilizer.
The official is showing to us the different between DUST 1 and DUST 2 tea leaves
After grading, they are separated in to different bag
This machine is used to make small small packing 3 in 1 tea bags... Every day manage to produce 150 tea bags.... This machine is known as Ima C 21 machine...
In the end of this trip, we are served to taste the ice Lemon tea.. So cold... Nice!! Every one of us is taking the lemon tea away by refilling into our own drinking bottle..
All of us crowded at the resting room in order to taste the free and nice ice lemon tea...
This is wat we are served... Cold Ice Lemon Tea...
Before we move back to UNIMAS, we have a photography session with our lecturer, Prof Kopli Bujang
Every year in Kuching, there will be a festival known as Kuching festival where u could taste many different and special Sarawak Local Food.... This festival usually held on the end of Julai till the end of August - Duration for about 1 month... At that festival, u can eat alot of delicious food, unless ur pocket din bring enough cash... Haha
That place crowded with lots of people and lots of stalls... The price of the food is quite reasonable...
Yam sheng !! Yam... yam.. sheng !!
Wah!! This Ikan Panggang is the best of the BEST!!
My friend is taking 'Siew Mai' and "Wo Dip"
Besides having plenty of stall, there are also a park for recreation.
In the mid of September, it is the world biggest Flower Rafflesia Glooming period... So, not to miss out the only opportunity, I followed my friends to Gunung Gading National Park to see such a wonderful and rare flower...
We went twice, the first time miss out the glooming period, so no matter wat we went there again for the second time just to see this flower... This flower only gloom once a year and every time glooming only last for 5 days....
Since all of us are already final year studied in UNIMAS, if not going to view such flower, then probably we don't have any more chances again... :- )
Back view of Rafflesia... Rafflesia is actually a parasite plant. It entangled on others plants for nutrients...
This Rafflesia that we see already gloom for 4 days... It going wilt may be another 1 or 2 more days....
My friends are playing 'hide and seek' upon reach there on the first day...
Three of them is Playing Kung Fu.... Each show different technique of the Kung Fu... The first one (left) is playing ' Kung Fu Praying Mantis". The second one (center) Kung Fu is " Monkey style". The last one (right) is playing " Egret Kung Fu"... Each Kung Fu have its strength and unique martial art.
Sematan Palm Beach is full of jelly fish... Those who went there need to be very very careful... After u coming back from snorkelling, on the shores, we found plenty of jellyfish being traps on the beach and died... It is scary and frightened...
Having our sun bathing in the shores.. Having fun too...
