Peranakan Museum

As the Barclays Premier League has not started, I will be posting on recent activities like the upcoming YOG torch relay and also the National Day Parade. For this blog post, I would be posting about the recent field trip I had with my class to the Peranakan Museum. The objective of this trip was to have a deeper understanding of Peranakan Culture and also, to understand the book we are reading now, Emily of Emerald Hill.

On 27th of July, we went to the Peranakan Museum after school at 1.40pm. We boarded a chartered bus there and arrived there at around 2.30. Our English teacher briefed us on what the museum had and gave us a worksheet and we were asked to go in pairs or groups. I went with a group of my classmates and the first place I went to was the history of Peranakans. It told us the history of their people. After that, we went to the second floor, where we were required to draw a sketch of a traditional chair and also a table. Then, we got to see Sarong Kebayas and were also required to draw a sketch of it and also, we saw traditional wedding costumes. Then, we went up another level where we saw a traditional table setting of a Tok Pajang. Then, we saw other items commonly used in a peranakan household such as the mortar and pestle and also tengkats, which were tiered containers which are used to store food. After that, it was already around 3 and we gathered back at the lobby of the museum where we waited for the bus to bring us back to school.

From this field trip, I got to understand the culture of a Peranakan and I could better understand the text of the book Emily of the Emerald Hill. It gave me an in-depth knowledge of the book as for example, we understood that making certain recipes like the Babi Buah Keluar is a very tedious and a time consuming thing to do. Thus, we were given a chance to get a insight to a different culture and also the book.