3A's Class Blog: Learning Journey to Peranakan Museum

Friday, November 13, 2009

We went to the Peranakan Museum on 13 November. The pupils learnt lots of interesting facts about the Peranakans. They were very well-behaved.

Ifa Syafiqah November 16, 2009 at 1:59 AM: I like to go to Peranakan Museum! It was fun!
Felicia Peh November 17, 2009 at 3:53 AM: I had leart loads of things during the trip.I enjoyed it very much it was fun!!

a few things that I had learnt: 1)Peranakan means:born of... or child of... 2)if the child is a Peranakan, it means that the father is a chinese and mother is a Indian or Malay 3)the Nonyas spent many Hours sewing tiny,tiny beads on shoes for their future mother-in-laws before getting married with her mother-in-law's son which will be the nonya's future husband.once the nonya's future mother-in-law is satisfied with the shoes, she will agree for her son to get married with the nonya which made her(mother-in-law)the pair of beads shoes.4)befor getting married the two families must give gifts to each other

I hope that we could go to such fun places again.
Mrs Tay November 17, 2009 at 4:10 AM: Thanks for your comments. Wow, Felicia, you've certainly paid attention to the tour guide during the excursion!
Nur Aleeza December 2, 2009 at 11:21 PM: I felt happy to learnt about the peranakan people.When someone's father is indian while its mother is malay or chinese, we call their child a peranakan person.Nonyas do a lot of things to make their mother-in-law feel satisfied so that they can merry the men she likes.I wish I can go to any museum which is wonderful like the Peranakan Museum.