Going Overseas for A Social Studies Project

I remember the time (1999, I think it was) when DDIT gave us the opportunity to think outside the box. Creativity in training approaches was what she wanted to encourage, so an hour each Friday afternoon was put aside for this particular aspect of the SrITI's professional development. ADsIT were strictly advised not to encroach on this holy hour of generating innovative ideas, but to allow us some time to breathe freshness into an otherwise stifling routine of IT training .

One such afternoon, Simen, Suat Hui and I decided that the best way to teach Project Work was to really get out of our constraining little red dot, and go overseas (to Malaysia-lah, where else? - our hinterland) to get fresh ideas on how a Social Studies Project should be carried out. (Actually we felt jealous of the praises DDIT had heaped on Anthony Cheok's PowerPoint slides on "A Trip to Malacca". ) So armed with a map, (Simen was the navigator), equipped with a Sony Mavica, (I was the digital videocam-man), and tolerating Suat Hui's hotrod driving in his Hyundai jalopy, the three of us set out the following Saturday morning and headed north. Our noble aim was four-fold:

1: to reach the southern-most tip of the Asian continent (ie: Tanjung Piai) and view Marine Parade from there

2: to observe real estate (bungalows, in fact) built over the sea (ie: the Kampung Laut of Kukup)

3: to see a real-life fishing village

4: to inspect a Johor fruit plantation with its many varieties of tropical fruits

Here's the result, in pictures of course: