Sydney: Day 5

welcome to University of Sydney

Today, we met Dr. Tim Langrish who is an associate professor and Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering School. We were introduced to University of Sydney and inquired him on the requirements that are needed to enrol University of Sydney. After the discussion, we showed Dr. Tim Langrish the university corporate video and he showed interest to collaborate with UMP in terms of academic partnership. Professor Tim also brought us touring around the university.


Chemical Engineering Building


aeronautical engineering


mechanical engineering


engineering library


Graduate memorial










tray dryer: Build by Dr Tim Langrish

























After the tour inside the university, we went to UNSW to catch an appointment with the Chemical Engineering Department representative. After we arrived at UNSW, we met Mr. Cheng Chin Kui, another UMP FKKSA lecturer doing his PhD in UNSW apart from Encik Sabri. After that, we met Professor Adesoji A. Adesina. He explained about UNSW and he also brought us toring along the Chemical Engineering building and he showed us the laboratory used by the student to do the experimental work. Part of the equipments inside the laboratory was invented by the students.







Overall, the university is provided with adequate facilities in terms of leisure, convenient study environment and variety of food.

In terms of learning facilities, the equipments used were self-built by the students and lecturers while in Malaysia we buy the equipments from manufacturer.

Even though the university is situated far from the city, it can easily be reached by public transportation.

The building structures in UNSW are modern, state-of-the-art and have identically aerodynamic patterns.

Sydney: Day 4

Today we planned to explore more of historical side of Sydney. We went to Anzac War Memorial, Museum of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, State Library of New South Wales, St. Mary Cathedral, Hyde Park, Australian National Maritime Museum and Art Gallery of New South Wales.







In Anzac War Memorial, our eyes were brought to a statue situated in the middle of the building. The statue showed us a dead soldier holding the quality of the armour by caryatids which represent his mother, sister and wife. The statue had been created by Rayner Hoff.



Museum of Sydney is one of the symbolic buildings of Sydney. The true fact is that the building is built on a ruin building of the first Governor of New South Wales. The building age is about 200 years.





The only thing that gets into our mind when we tried to memorize Sydney Conservatorium of Music is the piano. The piano that we saw was unique where it is arranged in stages assembling a stair.



State Library of New South Wales is the largest library in New South Wales. We saw that there were so many books and so many people were studying in the library.

St. Mary Cathedral is one of the glamorous buildings apart from Museum of Sydney. It is the largest church in Australia.





After we have finished navigating around the church, we stopped by Hyde Park. The clean environment of the park made us all laid down on the grass to take a break for a while.







We continued our exploration to National Maritime Museum. There were so many type of ship. We were surprise to see one of Malaysian ships disembarked at Sydney Harbour.

Last but not least is the Art Gallery of New South Wales. From our own perspective, Australia is the home of many great artwork and all the masterpieces can be viewed at Art Gallery of New South Wales.





We learnt about the history of Australians in World War 1 and we learnt to appreciate the army for sacrificing themselves to serve the country.

We observed that all the tourist attractions in Sydney were clean and the society have a solid awareness on the cleanliness.

We observed that the historical places in Sydney did not charge any entrance fee compared to Malaysia where mostly we have to pay to visit historical places like the National Museum and the National Planetarium.

Most of the historical attractions in Sydney were strategically located whereby it can be reached within walking distance.

Sydney: Day 3

opera house, sydney


Shell shape of the Opera House, Sydney

On this day, we visited a lot of tourist attraction places. The Sydney Opera House has shape like a shell. This building houses theatre and orchestra performances. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the icon of Australia as it connects the Sydney Harbour with the Sydney Central Business District. This bridge has also became the fourth longest iron curve bridge in the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens is the most important garden in Sydney.


In front of Harbour bridge,Sydney


Botanic Garden, Sydney

From our visit Australia iconic landmarks, we learnt the importance of having iconic landmarks as acknowledgement to the country existence to the world. With its unique and state-of-the-art architecture, we were impressed with these landmarks and hope to adapt the idea to Malaysia so that the world will recognize Malaysia from these landmarks.

We feel that Malaysians should utilize the existence parks in Malaysia more diversely where we suggest that public activities like sports, self-defence, health and music are conducted and participate by Malaysians. From our visit, we observed that these activities are a successful tool in uniting Australians.

Sydney: Day 2

Today, all Muslims celebrate Eidul Adha and in morning, Muslims will perform prayer at mosque. We prepared ourselves for the prayer at our accommodation while waiting for Abang Mat to pick us up and drive us to Malaysia Hall Sydney in Kensington. Once we have arrived, we performed the prayer together with the other Malaysians. Then, had a light Raya feast at Malaysia Hall where Malaysian food were served. In afternoon, we went to Kak Nani’s house which situated just three blocks from our house. We also visited one of UMP FKKSA’s lecturer, Encik Sabri house in the evening.









On that day, encountered problem as it was Friday and the males need to perform Friday prayer but we were unable to find the nearest mosque. Luckily our neighbour is Malaysian too and he was willing to bring the males together with him to perform Friday prayer. We were so grateful to have a Malaysian neighbour since we were not familiar with the neighbourhood yet.

It was our first time celebrating Hari Raya outside Malaysia and without our families, everybody seemed not in good moods. We went to Malaysia Hall to perform our prayer and celebrate Hari Raya with Malaysians. During the feast, we get to befriend with Malaysian residents and students staying in Sydney and learnt that even the celebration is not as merry as in Malaysia, we still celebrate Hari Raya happily and all the moody faces were carved with smiles.

We learnt that even we were far away from Malaysia, we can still have the same celebration atmosphere in Australia. In this celebration, we saw Malaysians gather together during the prayer and visit each other in open houses. This showed how unite Malaysians are.