Immersion project- trip to muzium org asli

Hand-made shop from Orang Asli villagers

Museum

Library

meeting room

we have visited The Muzium Orang Asli at Gombak

however, the authority closed it because they want to do some changes and revonation.

the village is well-developed 

the facilities is complete

they have a mosque

pre-school 

hospital

and administration office that in-charge on the welfare of orang asli.

near by the office, there is a shop that sell a lot of things made from raw material.

Immersion Project: MALAYSIAN INDIANS

I really interested to know about Indian Culture more because I never being surrounded and imposed from this culture. So,now for my immersion project, I have someone to interview. Her nickname is Gogy and now is studying at IIUM in LLB. She is very friendly and talkatative.  Her character make me easy to interview

 Malaysian Indians are Malaysians of Indian origin. Many are descendants from those who migrated from India during the British colonization of Malaya. Prior to this, Indians have been present in the Malayan archipelago at least since the period of the influential Indian Chola dynasty of the 11th century. Today, they form the third largest ethnic group in Malaysia after the Chinese and the Malay. Malaysian Indians constitute 8% of the Malaysian population.Despite this, they make up a disproportionately large percentage of Malaysia's professional workforce.

I had begin the interview with her background first.I asked her either she can easily mix with Malay or not?  She said that she is easily mix and be friend with Malay because since early age in a kindergarten , she makes a friend with Malay people. And even at primary and secondory she was studied not at vernacular school, but at Sekolah Kebangsaan. This past situation indicate that she did not have a difficulty with other cultures.

She also very excited tell me about her experience during PLKN. She said PLKN really tight her relationship towards other culture. Everybody have a extravaganza relationship!  In my opinion, this program really beneficial to integrate Malaysian citizen. Just imagine, before this you did not have any friend come from different background. However, when entered in this program, you can involve and be friend with them.

Next, we talk about Indian Cuisine. In order to know more, I brings my own laptop and surfing internet. This activity make me become more understand and know their food all about. 

 The contribution of the Indian community in Malaysian cuisine is enormous. Indian cuisine has had a strong influence on traditional Malay cuisine resulting in the popularity of curries in Malaysia. Indian restaurants are well received by Chinese and Malay Malaysians. They have become an important fixture in everyday Malaysian life and is the venue of choice for watching live English football matches. Mamak restaurants and stalls refer to eateries owned and staffed by Indian Muslims. The word 'Mamak' is sometimes erroneously used to describe any Indian restaurant. 

Roti canai, nasi kandar and rojak pasembor are Indian dishes unique to Malaysia. Nasi kandar is sold exclusively in Indian Muslim restaurants and the sauce recipe is kept secret. Unlike Indian cuisine in the United Kingdom and other Western countries which tend to focus on North Indian cuisine, Indian cuisine in Malaysia is largely based on south Indian cuisine as the Indian diaspora here is overwhelmingly Tamil, although some northern dishes such as tandoorichicken and naan bread are common. Southern breakfast delicacies such as idli, vadai and thosai are common. The appam is a favourite breakfast dish in Tamil homes. Idiyappam is known as putu mayam in Malay and usually sold by mobile motorcycle vendors. The murukku is made to mark Deepavali or Christmas. Banana leaf rice meals with various meat dishes and condiments are served in restaurants during lunch and dinner and in Indian households during special occasions. Mutton is highly favoured and served as either varuval (dry curry) or peratal (thick curry). Fried bitter gourd, banana chips, papadam, rasam, yoghurt and pickels are the usual condiments. Deserts and sweets include payasam, halva, mysore pak, palgoa and ghee balls.

Basically,if she want something different, she went outside to eat. Because at IIUM, only have a cafe that sell all the mamak's menu.

then, we have a chit-chat at the language issues. She teach me about the basic sentence of Hindi .

1. Hi>>Namastey! 
2. Good morning! >> Suprabhaat
3. Good evening! >> Shubh sundhyaa
4. Welcome! (to greet someone) >> Aapka swaagat hai
5. How are you?>> Aap kaisey hain?

after that I find the information about the borrowing words....

Borrowings from Tamil include such everyday words as:.

Tamil	Malay	English
akka	kakak	elder sister
kadai	kedai	shop
kappal	kapal	ship
muthu	mutiara	pearl
vagai	bagai	kind

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT INDIAN BELIEF?? THEIR RELIGIOS? THEIR FESTIVALS?? 

JUST WAIT FOR OUR PRESENTATION! 

अलविदा। 

Phir milen-gay.! Alvida!

(SEE YOU LATER..GOOD BYE)

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Immersion project: SARAWAK part 2..

Immersion project part 2..

            Last week i have interview my friend about the culture in Sarawak. A lots of thing i know after make the interviewing with her. This time, i meet her again. I want her to teach me how to cook food that famous by muslim people in Sarawak. But she said she don’t know how to cook the food. We also did not have the ingredient for the food. So, i decide to learn next time about the food. I ask her about what is the traditional attire of Sarawak  people. She showed to me some picture to me. The picture is when she is wearing the traditional clothes of  iban people. The attire is quit interesting. I feel want to tried it but she don’t have the cloth. She also invited my to Sarawak if i want to try the traditional cloth and food of Sarawak people. She said that i can stay at her house. I cant wait to go there because i want to learn more about their culture and i want to try their traditional food. After we talk about the food and the traditional cloth, we decide to back. I hope that i can go to her place some day and try to experienced it by my own self.

Immersion project: SARAWAK part 1

culture of sarawak people..

            Last month, I have interview one of my friends who came from Sarawak. The reasons why I interview her is because i am really interested about her culture. Before this, she always talks about her people and culture in Sarawak. That’s why I’m become interested to choose her. I want to investigate about her culture and what make her culture differ from my culture. It’s very important for me to understand about other culture because it can help me a lot in multicultural counselling in the future. So, i tried to deal with her. She agreed to be interview by me.

           A few days later, i had meet her at the cafe. I ask her to tell about her culture and people in the Sarawak. She shared a lot of story regarding Sarawak to me. She said there are a lots of ethnic group in the Sarawak and each of the ethnic have their own distinct language, culture and lifestyle.The major ethnic group on this land iban ethnic and she is one of them. and it followed by the Chinese, Bidayuh, Melanau and other native tribes of Sarawak.in term of religion, there are variety of religion that practiced by people in Sarawak for example Islam, Christianity,budha and animism. But, the largest religion in the Sarawak is Christian.

She said that most malay people live in village and most of them work as fisherman. Some of them have moved to the city to work with government or private sector. She said that iban people used to live in longhouses but she not live in the longhouse. Her family have moved to the city because her father works as a teacher at the city. After that, i asked her what is the famous food that representative Sarawak people. She said that iban people famous with food that they called tuak. She said tuak is a sweet rice that served during big celebrations and festive occasions.

Besides that, Sarawak also have a lots of festivals such as gawai dayak and gawai kenyalang. I asked her to explain about one of the festival. She said gawai dayak is also known as harvest festival.  they will celebrate this festival every year. This festival is related to their religious belief system. They believe that that ritual is connected with rice cultivation, and with the cycle of life.

after that, i found out that its very interesting to know about other people culture. She also really excited to told about the culture in Sarawak. We decide to meet again in another day in order to discuss more about her culture in Sarawak.

class reflection: GLBT & IMMIGRANTS

GLBT AND IMMIGRANTS




 -all of these is a vulnerable group of people who are the minority that always involved in problems and need help.
-according to pyramid, each people have different roles and function for example
-immigrant- for example immigrant from Indonesia, some of them did not get permission, their children did not have right to get education and they also live in poor condition.
-GLBT- stand for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual. Gay is not our culture but we have been imposed by the society.

lately, we were covered with a news that a young and smart guy from Malaysia was openly declared married with a same gander.


as a counselor,what should you react from this case?? for me ( rusydiah) i am really confuse and considered in dilema if my clients is gay or lesbian; they want me to help them in order people can accept  their relationship.  Should i just ignored my own values which is based on Islamic thought or just being a counselor and separated within personal values and career??

ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS


diversity visa- only selective people will get this. they are chosen in term of the education and many more. for example people from low education cannot get this diversity visa. USA introduced this method. white no longer become as majority.






 I ( Norsiah )  just want to share a story about Indonesian workers in my village. they been hired by one of the villagers that doing the construction business. they actually illegal workers because they do not have permit to come here. for how many years they have to follow the contractor. they even cannot go out to the town because they afraid that they will be caught by police. some of them do not return to Indonesia for many years.


there is also an Indonesian who work for my uncle because his boss do not give the payment to him. he is the leader of the family and he has to give his family money. for 1 year he has to work with my uncle at night and in the evening he will do the construction work. he has to do all kind of works because he want to collect the money in order to go back his home town too.


there is also another story, I still remember during my primary school. one friend of mine in the village is a mix  family. her father is a Chinese meanwhile her mother is Indonesian but Islam. therefore they got married and have 2 daughters. the first daughter is my friend and the second is about 17 years old in this year. I still remember that her mother always run away from her home because she afraid she will get caught by the police. sometimes her mother will go at her friend's house for 1 week.


therefore she and her sister will rely fully to her father. until 20 years they have to live like that and now her mother was sent back to Indonesia.

class reflection: CAREER;7 STEP MODEL

7 STEP MODEL

1- ESTABLISH A CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE HELPING RELATIONSHIP

(shaking hand in African different with Malay method)

2- IDENTIFY CAREER ISSUES

(recognise what is the career issues that client may be concern.~ Chinese more interested to join this career exploration rather than about personal issues)

3- ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL VARIABLES

( must know what is the effect in cultural views. for example, if a Muslim client's choose to work as GRO, is it 

allowed in terms of religion?how about the perception of the community about this job?)

4-SET COUNSELING GOALS

5-DESIGN CULTURALLY APPROPPRIATE CAREER INTERVENTION (TIME LINE, CIRCLE)

-ASSESSEMENT: STANDERDISE TEST, NON STANDERDISE TEST, QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS, LIFE CAREER ASSESSMENT)

6-MAKE A DECISION

7-IMPLEMENT AND FOLLOW UP

Immersion Project: Cambodia’s day time!! Attack!! Part 2

This time I just want to say my opinion when we went to the UMMARIC WEEK  2012. This time around, I made an appointment with Shafiqah, my collegue to have a walk together. Honestly, I am not really excited to went to the Ummatic week but it just because of the immersion project. But then after we take a look a few of the house, I getting more excited because there are some of my friends from turkey, Filipina and also Thailand  take in charge of that house. So I am really excited because of them.

To add the excitement, we went to the Cambodia’s house and they really greet us warmly and full of smile. I feel so great because this is the time where we can learn Cambodia’s culture. At first, I think there is not much different with Malaysia’s culture but actually there was slightly different! First of all their main religion that is Buddha, their  traditional clothes where if a Muslim want to wear it, they has to take off their scarf, and there also has a village that has so many of dolphins. It became the first place in Cambodia if they want to see dolphin for example in our country, we have Terengganu that famous with turtle(penyu).

I also impressed with their relationship between Muslim and non- Muslim. They were really close together. Even their face is quite similar but actually one of them was Buddhist.

I still remember that we want to queue in order to buy an ice cream but there were so many students and also staffs want to buy that delicious ice-cream. Due to the time constraint, we cannot taste it on that time. So we just take a picture by wearing a traditional clothes from turkey. I really want to taste that ice cream because I saw it in one of the Korea’s game show. It looked really tasty! Actually that ice cream, the seller will demonstrate us to put the ice cream in a different way. I don’t know how to explain here but they make fun with the ice cream and those who bought it will really have fun.

So finally I feel really great because I can gain experience, new knowledge and of course I can add my pictures collection.. =)