“Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try. “

 

 

 

 

This was my last meal with my family before I checked in the flight. Because this is the first time I go aboard so they kind of worry about my trip.

From Vietnam, we flew to Kuala Lumpur to transit for 2 hours. Even though it was a short time, but we still managed to have some fun at the Kuala Lumpur Airport.

We got on the plane to Penang from 5:45pm. At this time, I was so excited to meet our buddies were waiting for us at Penang Airport.

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The second day 3rd Jan: The beginning of new experiences

Our buddies took us to the canteen to have breakfast before we were going to meet the Top Management of the PTSB. At the canteen, we met Ms. Azhani and Ms. Julia who extremely care and enthusiastic with us.

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That was such a pleasure and honor for me to had a chance to meet Ms. Yusma Yusof – The director of PTSB and Mr. Yusaini.

Finally, we went to the Kulim Night Market which is called
Pasar Malam Kelang Lama in Malaysia with our buddies. We ate a lot of food

4th Jan – PolyRace Warrior – The best activity I ever participated

In the afternoon, we went out to find a coffee shop in Kulim, but we found it kind of hard to find a suitable coffee shop in Kulim. Finally, with the dedicated guidance of Mr. Google, we found one.

5th Jan – A trip to Aman Island

I and my roommates (Huy) woke up at 7AM to get things ready for the trip. At 8AM, all the students showed up and we took a picture together.

After that we were divided into 3 teams, each team had a task to do. However, before we embarked on work. Up and I had taught my teammates how to count from 0 to 10 in Vietnamese. It was a memorable memory.

And then here was what we did, paint the wall.

We had lunch at 1:30PM and got some rests til 3PM.

In the afternoon, we had a chance to go sightseeing the Malaysians cooking their traditional cakes. I must say I couldn’t stop crushing these cakes because it tastes amazing.

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6th Jan – Kulim Giant Mall

Today, there is no school’s activity for us. So we’re going to the Kulim Central Mall to sightseeing and buy some personal stuff.

We also wanted to make some dishes on our own and invite our buddies to come and join with us. Therefore, we decided to make spaghetti and tuna salad. We had bought the ingredients when we were at the Kulim Giant mall.

We also had a chance to humiliated each other, because none of us was good at bowling.

I have been waiting that day for a long long time, still feel nervous in the morning. We woke up at 7AM to get things ready for the first day of work.

I was in the HR & GA (Human Resources & General Administration) department, my friends were in the PCL (Production Control Large) department.

In the first two days, they said it is our “honeymoon” days. We took a plant tour around the company and briefing sections to learn about the Do’s and Don’ts at HOEM (Hoya Electronics Malaysia).

https://youtu.be/Uzj8iXXE2PY

 

We also received some essential utensils such as spoon, fork, chopsticks and company shoes as wel as the uniform.

Here are some information that I have learnt from the briefing sections.

HoyaElectronics Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a member of the Hoya Group. Located in Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Hoya has continued to grow around the core business of leading optical technologies. With 100% of the company’s capital is from Japan, HOEM has over 500 employees and the workplace was bought from another company from 2005.

On Wednesday, we were allocated to our department. My department’s employees, they offered me hearty greeting by introducing about each other. I was so honored to be welcomed by this way.

From Wednesday to Friday, I was always in every recruitment interview that the HR department held. I have learned a lot about how the HR dept. work, it was such a pleasure for me.

I also have the opportunity to read a lot of CV and Resúme to withdraw the experience to myself in the future. 

Besides the work stuff, on Wednesday we and our best Malaysian friends went to the MBI Desaku which is a favorite brightly light night time garden attraction.

My roomate he made a clip about our trip at MBI Desaku.

https://youtu.be/q4enorv_O9A

https://youtu.be/XnVHMpVVLtg

 

 

We stopped at a small food store to have breakfast. Because normally Vietnamese don’t eat rice in the morning, so we decided to order a DRINK. According to what we understood from what the owner’s of the store said, it was supposed to be A DRINK. Turned out, it wasn’t a drink, it was a kind of ice shave with some corns and other stuff, called “ice kacang  ” or something. We didn’t even finish that because it was too sweet for us to eat. But anyway, It was still a new experience for us, about what we shouldn’t eat for breakfast. haha.

https://malaysiaintership.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/49812717_1095296960649835_8342310808054661120_n.jpg?w=775

Upon arriving where we had to walk into the forest, it was quite a long distance of about 3km. Come with us there is a tour guide, but unfortunately, he doesn’t speak English much. We arrived in the waterfall and sightseeing around the woods before arriving at the Tree Top Walk. Come along with us, there is a lot of leeches in this jungle.

https://youtu.be/Mi2UFyg_Gx8

 

Today, we have 2 classes to attend which are Digital Entrepreneurship class in the morning and Business Communication class in the afternoon.

Basically, in the morning class, they taught the students how to use social media network to reach to their customers. particularly is via Instagram. Because the most popular social network in Malaysia is Instagram.

It was kind of an interesting subject for me, I also made a lot of new friends. After the class, we also took some pictures together.

12PM – 2PM: Lunch & Rest time.

At 2PM, I participated in a Business Communication class. To review knowledge, we played an extremely funny game which is called Kahoot and the reward for the winner is 10RM. That was the first time I played that game but the most important thing was me and my team still managed to become the winner of the game (I’m so proud of my team haha)

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Thanks to Ms. Azhani for scheduling for us some meaningful and worthy activities.

Because of my nature of work, I didn’t have a particular task, instead of that, I have many different tasks throughout the day which describe how the HR department works.

And this week, I had to prepare the materials for my boss to train other employees. It was a pleasure to work as an assistant of him. 

I had the opportunity to be involved in the interview for Senior assistant position, which I learned and had a lot of new knowledge and experience for my near future interview. 

I and a man are tasked to replace all the whiteboards in the meeting with new ones. Sounds very strange huh?, why HR must do things like this?. But it is what it is, you know. I’m on the field right now, not in the book anymore. I’m still feeling thankful for those tasks that I had.

5 of us went to a 2RM store which is the opposite of the Kulim Central.

Usually every evening after work, I almost spend all my time for my Malaysia Friends, the reason is we don’t have much time left, this internship is coming to an end. So that gave me a really bad feeling.

Located in Penang, it took us an hour to arrive. We have heard that we are going to have some activities with their IT students and lecturer from the English department.

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At 12PM, we had lunch at the most popular store at George Town, Penang.

ICE KEPAL was the second dish that I tried in Penang. It made from ice blended and flavors simple as that, but it was yummy.

After the short time, we had with each other, it’s about time to say goodbye to them. They had to get back to their campus, so the driver dropped us at our hostel at George Town, Penang because we already planned to stay at Penang for 2 days.

We got some rest till 6PM, we went to the Avatar Secret Garden at Tanjung Tokong Penang. You know what? It was so fantastic and marvelous! I dont know how to describe it, please just take a look at these pictures.

Kekloksi Temple was the first place that we chose to go. There’s nothing much to share, you can see how beautiful it is in the following pictures.

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Street art, here we go!

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21st January

For make our trip has more new experiences, we decided to went back the PTSB by ferry and bus. Haha, we were so confused at the first time but we still overcame that.

These days, my mood was bad because I kept thinking about leaving this country, this institute, this company, and these people here.

I went to work as usual. The Chinese New Year was coming close, and the tradition of Chinese in Malaysia is to eat tangerines in CNY.

Mr. Faruizi asked me to design posters for the Fusal Tournament 2019 between companies in Kulim Hitech Park. I asked my friend Up to help me with that. Here is one of the posters that we made.

Those days were the last days of us, so all of us didn’t really work that much. They might be let us enjoy the few last days at HOYA.

On 24Jan, my HR department celebrated a farewell party for me. I was so thankful that I worked in the department that has these people are so hospitable and friendly.

Mr. Fairuzi took me to the Pizza Hut store that they had reserved a table. They ordered a lot of food and told me that you don’t need to diet today, it’s a cheat day hahaha.

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And then we did a sharing session about how I feel when I worked at HOYA. I didn’t know how much thank you I have to say is enough for
their sincere and enthusiastic help for me.

They also gave me a little souvenir gift, it’s so niceee. Some more photos about that night.

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On the last day at HOYA, they gave us the certificate for working as an intern at HOYA.

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That’s all about our work. Every day after work, we came back to our institute and tried our best to enjoy and save the moments that we’re still here. We kept walking around, we kept hanging around the prayer hall, we kept these memories that we had with each other.

My Malaysia friends cried when we said that we’re about to leave this place. I don’t know how about the others, but for me, I actually felt bad on the last day. I made a short video which is made from the memories that we had with each other as a farewell gift of us to say how thankful we are since we have friends like them.

After I sent them the video, they also made a video clip for us hahaha. The ending of their video made me feel depressed.

They gifted me a shirt, a letter that they wrote for us while they were crying. I will keep these things for the rest of my life definitely.

They told us to wear those shirts on the day we left, and we did.

My last word: Thanks to SEAMEO for holding an amazing program for students to have a chance to experience a new culture, new working environment, as well as make a lot of friends and have many meaningful memories.