Our 'Fun-Some' Class Trip

Good day to all you lovely people on the Internet!

It's us: LouBriTri, and lately we've been given the opportunity to visit a few enthralling places in our local area during our annual class trip. We would la-la-love to share our fun experience with y'all, and though we can't be there to tell you about everything in person-as that would kill the purpose of this blog-we will try our very best to tell you-and show you-every detail through the computer screen you are currently staring at. We truly hope that you guys will find our little adventure as fascinating and enjoyable as we did.

Above: Selfie of LouBriTri, taken at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

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Monday, 22 June, 2015

It was not your typical 'Monday Blues' Monday. Not today. Today was our class, 8 Gamma's, annual class trip. And being your typical high school students, we were ecstatic about getting a chance to skip a day of learning indoors and instead, spending the day outdoors as we educated ourselves by visiting educational places. Not only did this mean no classes for us, but it also meant an elongated deadline for our homework.*mental fist pump*

The first place we visited was our city's chocolate gallery. YUMMERS. We got to taste all the delicious samples of chocolate. They were all so yummy, there is no way we can forget any of the flavours. There was your usual milk and dark chocolate, but there was also white sesame, orange, cool mint, tiramisu and hot chilli chocolate.

WORDS OF ADVICE: Take caution when deciding whether or not to eat hot chilli chocolate. May lead to severe burning sensations on the tongue, which will often lead to looking-like-a-stupid-person-itis.

FUN FACT: Pure chocolate have the glossiest and smoothest surfaces, one can also tell the purity of chocolate by the resistance of the chocolate. If a chocolate is hard to crumble and does not melt easily, then it is 100% pure cocoa.

After our delectable visit to the chocolate factory, we stopped at the herbal shop across the road, which sold herbal tea's and medicine which is commonly used among the Chinese race. We had a quick look as we had little time before we had to head over to one of the main highlights of the trip-The Batik Factory.

Above: Picture of batik in the process of painting

At the factory, we wandered around the gift shop, and Louisa and Bridget purchased a small souvenir each. Then later we were called into the workshop to design and create our own batik masterpiece.
We had a choice between drawing our own design freehanded, or using a template. As beginners (and people who are just too lazy to come up with our own ideas), we decided to use the templates that were prepared for us.




For those who are curious about the traditional art of batik-making, we have listed the process down below.

Steps in batik-making:

1) Draw your desired design on the cotton fabric in pencil. If you are afraid to make mistakes, you can make your own templates on paper beforehand and trace it onto the cotton later.

2) Fill your outline tool, formally known as a djanting, with the hot, melted wax mixture.

3) Steady your hand and outline the sketch you have done on the cotton fabric with the djanting that is filled with the melted wax. If the djanting runs out of wax,  you may refill it with more melted wax to continue your drawing.

4) Once the wax has fully dried, use coloured dye to paint your drawing.

5) Leave everything to dry and, voila! Your batik work-of-art is complete!



WORDS OF ADVICE: Take your time as you are carrying out this process. A good batik artwork is hard to create, it requires a careful mind and hand. The outlining and painting processes, are especially, circumspect actions. Don't let your wax drip onto unwanted places and don't let your dye bleed out too much.

Above: Louisa's Batik Artwork, "I call this, 'When a Flower Doesn't Look Like a Flower'."

Above: Trinity's Batik Artwork, "I'm no artist, as you can see, my attempt to blend the colours failed miserably."

       
Once we were satisfied with our painted designs, we travelled to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre for lunch-or in Trinity's case, for an irresistible mint chocolate chip milkshake. Hands up if you like milkshakes! (Who doesn't? It's basically a drinkable version of ice cream. Tastylicious...)

Louisa & Bridget at the Aquaria KLCC

Unfortunately, the milkshake was too yummy that Tri couldn't resist drinking the whole thing before she could take a picture...Heh.*grins cheekily*

When we had our bellies stuffed with food (and milkshake), we went to the second main part of the trip: The Aquarium!!! (Aquaria KLCC) Yay fishies! ^_^ There we observed may varieties of the fish species, some of them were really fascinating, some were odd, some were adorable and some was just plain funny.

WORDS OF ADVICE: Do not flash any bright lights directly at a fish eye, it will harm the fish as it does not have eyelids and therefore it cannot close it's eyes.

You are most welcomed to take a dive into our photo's below, under the sea. Under the sea, under the sea, darling it's better... Okay, okay, we'll stop. Now, brace yourself for a tidal wave of photo's, cause' we took a lot. Like, A LOT. No kidding.

Spotted Garden Eel

Pirahna

Sea-otter

             

Reef Veno

Living Fossil

Sea-turtle

Above, From Left to Right: Electric Eel, Mahseer silhouettes, Tropical Sea-horse

LouBriTri's Personal Opinion About The Trip

LOU
Like many others, I have already been to numerous aquariums before going on this trip. However, I have to admit that our stop at the aquarium was the best part of the trip. Not only was I able to feast my eyes upon some really weird looking sea creatures, but I was able to enjoy the time that we had there with two of my best friends. Although half the trip actually consisted of us worrying about the pictures that had to be taken for the blog post and how the quality of our cameras and phones weren't good enough, I can say very honestly that we had a tremendously fun day. (Well apart from the slight stress that built up because I was constantly nagging for Tri and Bri to walk faster in the aquarium because we'd be left behind.) One of the best memories during the trip, in my opinion, was when Bri and I walked over to KLCC just to buy some pretzels. Yes, we spent almost 10 minutes walking there, spent 30 seconds buying the food itself, and another 10 minutes back. But that gave us some time to just talk about random things while looking at the inspirational posters that were hung on the wall on the way there. When we returned, Tri, who had been hanging out with some other of our classmates, was very puzzeled to learn that we had ventured such a distance just for a cinnamon pretzel. But heck yeah, it was worth it!

BRI
Since I was the organizer of the trip, of course I thought it was AMAZING. 

Hahaha😂 just joking. Jkjkjk. 

In my opinion, it was a very free and easy trip. It was relaxing and we could spend time outside of the school with our friends. Since last year we had an amazing Picture Hunt around the city in places like The History Musuem, The Butterfly Park and The Bird Park which was just loads of fun, we decided to take it a bit easier this year with a trip to the Batik Factory and the Aqaurium! I mean who doesn't like fishes? Love em. 

I had tons of fun with everyone and it was definitely a time when everyone felt a feeling of freedom from all the rules in school. It was getting a little bit stuffy in there! :0 :D it was actually a very educational trip in my opinion. We learnt many things about batik and fishes. During the fish feeding show, we learnt a lot about the behavior of animals and how turtles are selfish and are show-offs.  One huge one kept on blocking the view of the other fishes by blocking the Aqaurium with it's big yellow body.

 And my aren't they selfish! One even wanted to steal the sharks' lunch!

But most of the time spent in the Aquarium was when Louisa, Trinity and I were watching this cute little spotted pufferfish swim up and down it's narrow tank. We were probably glued to that tank for like 10 minutes and we room another 7 minutes trying to take a clear picture of it. It wouldn't STOP swimming up and down. It didn't STOP. Fortunately, we got one right here. This is a very rare picture and it has never been successfully taken by a photographer ever in history. Appreciate it.

Appreciate it...

Then we had this guy who just kept closing and opening its mouth...

So yup. It was a really interesting trip :D

TRI
This is the second class trip I've been on because, previously in my old school, I never took much interest in field trips as none of my braniac friends wanted to participate, leaving me without anyone to accompany me on the trip. All in all, I'd say this class trip was a fun experience, although, I'm still against the "wearing the school uniforms on class trips" rule. Why couldn't we be like Americans and wear normal day clothes to school? It'd make my life a whole lot easier if I could wake up, already pre-dressed. Oops, I'm going off topic... Anyway, as I was about to say, it was a mega fun experience for me and I'm definitely looking forward to the next trip that some of my classmates have already started planning for. My favourite part of this trip was actually having lunch with my friends because, although we have lunch together every day in school during recess, never ever have I had such a delish lunch... *wink*wink* Then again the chocolate factory, batik factory and the aquarium were also quite enjoyable too. I felt like a professional photographer when I took pictures. had to take them at different angles to make sure I had the perfect one for this blog. My advice to any students or any travellers in general: Remember to always clear up some of your storage space on your phone/camera beforehand, or you'll seriously miss out on taking some fantabulous pics! And of course, for all the rebels out there who have very strict parents: Sometimes, it's okay to break the rules when it comes to a proper meal. *smirks*

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! THANKS FOR READING! :)