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My gifts: Nike Man Utd's bag and Reebok cap

Part of friends who joined Bahani's New Year party

Penangites outside the Rivera Fastfood

(without Ivan who took the photo)

It's 20th Birthday!

Again… the date on calendar reached 25 March… The memory of last year birthday when I celebrated this wonderful day by watching ‘I’m Not Stupid II’ in Sunway Pyramid and followed by trip to Ipoh was still clearly in my mind, but here come my 20th birthday!

Well… This year birthday was my first birthday outside the land of Malaysia… but I think it was the most eventful birthday so far in my life …

Right after the end of 24 March, my JPA 1st year friends did a small party for me… Actually this has become our tradition already as whenever anyone of us birthday, 11 of us will gather together at midnight of that day… Actually this gives just 11 of us the opportunity to gather and chat together as we have been separated into 2 different classes and thus have different daily activities… Whenever we gather together, I felt that we lay a heart of appreciation and gratefulness as all of us had gone through together the tough 1 year college life and difficult time during our Indonesia university crisis… Oh ya…this time I got 2 birthday cakes …one is the halal cake as usual…and a senior bought me a cake with alcohol content…He meant I’m 20 and grow up already wo…

At noon, our first year course mate, Bahani did open floor party for celebrating New Year in her religion (don’t know how to spell that religion name, is a minority religion in Malaysia I guess)… and she said sambil celebrate my birthday too… So, have the chance to eat a nice lunch… the chicken and vegetables they cook were really great…

Then, at tea-time hour, 7 other first year coursemates from Penang (plus me is 8, 7 Chinese and 1 Indian who is my roommate) went to Rivera (a Russian fast-food restaurant here) to celebrate my birthday… very full after that… and I’m sure all guys had enjoyed a good moments of crapping there…

At night, my another roommate, Bala together with my classmate, Sayleni cooked dinner for my birthday… The meals were sambal prawn and spinach… Thanks both of them…

Another special thing occurred on my birthday was this day was the beginning day where Russia’s time adjust from GMT +3 to GMT +4 due to daytime in Spring and Summer is longer… It means that we lost 1 hour today…implied that my birthday was actually 23 hours long only… and today was the first match day of the brand new season VSMU Malaysian students’ Football League too… I didn’t join the competition but went to watch the league as spectators lo… Interesting matches today…and the start of the league means we will have a little bit more entertainment in our boring Sunday life here…

That’s all for what happened during my birthday…The best parts were I ate 4 times lo… and I received 2 very great presents… My classmates bought me a Nike Man Utd sports accessories’ bag... while another JPA class friends bought me a Reebok cap… Thanks lots guys…I really like the presents very much!
I will try to upload some pictures of my birthday after my first 3 hectic days in this week…

Well… except thanks, I really don’t know how to express my appreciation to all of you… Thanks a lot my JPA friends for the midnight party… Thanks Bahani for her lunch… Thanks Ivan, Boon Ping, Kok Xian, Shin Ling, Fong, Heah and Ramesh for inviting me out and treating me the meal in Rivera… Thanks to everyone who wish me for my birthday, whether through coming to me, sms, msn message, or calling… I’m really very touched with everything you all had done… This was really a very warm birthday though I’m in a foreign country… It's great too that my 1st birthday here fall on Sunday...

Due to my birthday, for every seconds of time u all had spent, for every money you all had spent, for every wish you all had sent, for every happiness you all had shared and for every sincerity you all had given… once again, a very very THANK YOU!

Currently in my mind have no any huge hope for my 20 year old… Just wish I can go through this year smoothly, happily, peacefully and full of wonderful memories…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MYSELF… HAPPY ALWAYS!

A little Updates...

So so sooo fast, it’s March already…but it means that I’m moving nearer to the day I can go back to home…Another 4 months to go…

It had been quite a time that I didn’t update my blog already… Actually it doesn’t mean that I don’t really have free time in between of this hectic 2nd sem, but sometimes just don’t feel like to write during the spare time…

Everything still goes on well, and perhaps, getting better and better… Those not really in satisfactory and expectations, we have no choice but must try to adapt it…

Well…8th March was Women’s Day… Last time when in Malaysia, this day was just like a normal day… But it’s totally different here…It was an official Russia public holiday… and Russians, particularly guys have the tradition to give female flowers, cakes and gifts on that day… Flowers were sold everywhere since few days before Women’s Day… As an appreciation, today my class bought a cake and some drinks to celebrate this special day with our current Russian Language’s teacher, Olga Petrovna today...(actually this was also our tactic to waste some time as our Friday’s Russian class is 4 hours long! hehe…) Our class also prepare some ‘kanflets’ ( a kind of Russian’s chocolates that are packed like sweets) as gifts to several female lecturers…

During the half way of Russian class, teacher brought us together with two other classes to Planetarium… Erm… the images that were projected to the screen on the roof were attractive and nice, but the main problem was we can’t understand the description that spoken in Russian… It made this trip ended up in a very boring feel…

Oh ya…Chinese New Year had ended…and the major celebration here which was Malaysians’ Students CNY Celebration that took place on 24 Feb ended successfully… The food that all was cook by Chinese students was good… Our ‘Tang Yuan’ taste nice too… The decoration and performance were very interesting also… That celebration was really great and fun!

By the way, the date of Malaysians’ Games has been announced…It will be held on 29 April and 30 April where Russian State Medical University, Moscow will be the host… The line-up for the table tennis team has been decided…it means that end of next month I will go to Moscow again! This time go with the whole sports team and under the name of my university… I knew that past results of VSMU table tennis team in previous Malaysians’ Games were among the worst in all sports, but I think this time we have a better team compared to past few years, and we really hope we can get something great back this time… Anyway, it is still about 1 and half month to go and we need to continue our training consistently…

Lastly, after waiting for almost half an year, the last group of my KUTPM JPA course mates finally flies to Manipal India tonight to begin their twinning medical programme there… There are quite many friends among this group whom I had lots of fun together with during our college time… Wish u all good luck and all the best there! Heard there have the convenience of online, so…see u all on MSN lo…

This is Moscow... I was There...

First of all…Happy Chinese New Year to everyone…specially greeting from Russia…

Though this was considered quite a long time ago already, but finally this time I post something bout my journey to one of the main cities in Europe and capital city of Russia, Moscow during the semester breaks…

Firstly, I want to thank all the members of this trip, including Ivan, W.Fong, Wei Keong, plus Jeremy, Zuo Lin, Kar Wei and Aruna(seniors who came back from trip to Austria and Germany then meet us in Moscow)… Thanks a lot for inviting me to join this trip… Besides, thanks lots to Ivan’s friend in MMA, Zhi Yang and his course mates Xin Yun and Elisa ( both of them are JPA 1st year students too, from Penang also… the most amazing thing of them is not they get 700USD of monthly allowance, but was they just returned from England where they spent their winter break there…Gosh! I not even have time to go out of this Russia…) Thank you for being our tour guide in Moscow. Oh ya, thanks to Ah Fook too who let us to stay in his large room at Hostel Sportivnaya while we are there… Each of us just needs to pay 100roubles only per day (bout RM15) for this accommodation… Our hostel facilities standard really no way off their standard…

Well…What can I say bout Moscow is this city is fantastic! We went there by bus which took 16 hours to reach…and we went to those famous tourist sites in Moscow such as Red Square, Kremlin and Albat Street… The Albat Street is so nice to have a leisure walk where the street is very broad just for pedestrians and on each side of the street are shops selling different kinds of souveniors and clothes… However, Moscow winter was very cold and we were quite suffering throughout the day as we spent whole day traveling at outdoor in the first day of the trip…

Of course, we didn’t forget to go to hyper shopping complex and IKEA here as there is no such heaven in Volgograd… At that time is still the period of Winter Sales, a lot of things are in sales and we bought quite many stuff, especially from IKEA…We ate quite many times at McDonald too as we had been months never eat McD…Our main transport while in Moscow is the metro train and its system is very good… Furthermore, all the metro stations are built with a lot of special and beautiful crafting and decorations…

We returned to Volgograd by train which took around 20 hours... but it was quite fun traveling in train with group of friends... Before we return, we went to China Street in Moscow to have a great lunch at a chinese restaurant… sooo long time didn’t eat such delicious food already…and the price was very reasonable too…

By the way, I think Moscow study life style won’t really in my favour… too much time-consuming traveling! Some more those shopping complex are quite far away from the hostels and surely it is very inconvenient to buy and carry lots of stuff while need to traveling by metro and walking a lot…

So… I’m not studying in Moscow and Moscow had leave a great impression and memory in my mind forever…

Red Square

The historical Cathedral of St. Basil the Blassed

(situated at Red Square)

Here is the center point of Moscow (at Red Square)




Historical Museum (at Red Square)

This is where Lenin lives now lor...

Behind it is Kremlin...

(Kremlin is adminstration and parlimen building of Russia,
so the guilding is very strict and we can hardly go near it...)

Tower of Kremlin

The Star of Street - Jacky Chan, at Albat Street

Taken at a metro train station
(taking photo at metro station is actually prohibited,
this is the only picture that I took risk to take)


Entrance to IKEA Moscow!

Dishes that we ate at chinese restaurant

The end of the journey -

taken at Volgograd Train Station

2nd Sem is super… crazy…

Well… my 2nd sem here will soon enters its second week…This sem’s time table is really super crazily hectic…Basically, classes are from 8am to 6pm everyday, even Saturday’s class is until 4pm… Not forgotten, we need to travel from one place to another place for different classes everyday…

What to do except facing it with a strong heart? Perhaps this is a great preparation for future as we may need to work much more hours per day as doctor…

The end of first sem has allowed me to realize how’s the uni exam system going on here… It’s something hard to explain because you never know what will happen… Just wanna remind myself that no matter what happen here, it certainly isn’t very harmful, because my life still has a long far way to go, here will never be the end of everything…

By the meantime, I don’t want myself to give up enjoying my life here instead of just lifting the burden of studying… I begin to push myself to have more interaction with people here and try to join any interesting activities whenever possible…

Just went for a trip in the capital city of Russia, Moscow last week during holidays…and Moscow is absolutely marvelous… I will try posting a brief report and some pictures bout Moscow soon…

Chinese New Year is coming soon…but this will be the first ever time that I can't celebrate it in my hometown… No atmosphere of Chinese New Year at all here…

We will have public holidays on next Friday and Saturday (23 & 24 Feb) which is Men’s Day…and malaysian’s chinese students here will organize a party inviting all Malaysian students in Volgograd on 24 February ( Chu 7)… 1st year chinese students have been given the job to prepare ‘tang yuen’…We need to prepare for about 400 persons.... Must be a huge project…and I’m sure all of us will have lots of fun while making this dessert lo…