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I miss home.
I miss my family.
I miss my friends.
Sigh…

Well, one month had just passed by. Winter is coming, my ‘polar bear’ days are coming. Will soon be seeing nothing but white-colored objects everywhere. Russian winter, here I come! I WILL ‘tame’ you, just give me timeJ

You’re now connected to the freezing Russian bear network.

#1: Excursion around Moscow with all pre-med people
This was quite some time ago but it was a great excursion which made us adore this city we’ll be in for the 6 years or so. We didn’t really know where we went because the tour guide was explaining in Russian with us knowing very little of their beloved language. But we went to a highland, Red Square, toured the Kremlin from the outside, walked in a park etc. Moscow is indeed a very unique city with structures both modern and antique all around. How I wish my family and friends were with me to enjoy this…

#2: Malaysian Chinese pot-luck party
There’re 28 of us here. So, we had a little party where each room had to prepare a dish. Some made chicken, some potatoes etc. My room was to cook egg. Anyhow, anyway we want it. Yes, egg, how hard can that be right? We made omelet. Sounds easy huh? No, it isn’t. Let me give you a SPECIFIC explanation. We fried onion omelet, used the omelet to wrap tuna, cabbage, chicken and sausages. Well, during show time, let me tempt you: we had curry chicken, beer chicken (yes, Guinness Stout to be exact), fish fillet, potato+meatball, veggie soup which tastes like shark fin soup, veggie and my beloved omelet. Superb food I can say! Yummy…

#3: ‘Aidil-vali’ celebration
Aidil-vali, as in Hari Raya Aidilfitri+Deepavali. Haha. It’s a Malaysian students affair, with the ambassador there and I met the astronaut!! Unfortunately we didn’t have time to take a photo with him. Sigh… Felt a little like back home because of the people and the performances. 80% of us were in traditional or formal wear, so judge by yourself-lah.
LOL. Everyone from my hostel was VVIP on that day coz we’re later than the ambassador and all the other dignitaries. Mainly caused by the heavy traffic……and girlsJ

#4: “Hipotesis diterima.”
Remember that phrase? The one-and-only phrase we love to write in our experiment reports back then in secondary school regardless whether we knew the results or fake them etc.. Hmm, I cook over here and my cooking isn’t that bad due to the “experiences” I had back home. LOL. Well… urm… my room mate decided to cook chocolate chicken after eating beer chicken the other day. Milo chicken to be exact. Yes, MILO, the drink that most students back home take everyday before school. She didn’t have a recipe on it. My job was to fry the chicken. It smelt real good and tasted so good and crispy before my dear chicken went into the potion. They were crying when they swam in that chocolate sea. *speechless* I shall not continue any further or my intestines will start their version of tug-of-war.
Moral of the story: NEVER try cooking without a recipe, please…

#5: me, myself and i
Nothing much happening so far except for tests and more tests everyday. Just finished the 1st control for Russian language. Can now understand a bit of what people around are talking. Yay me!
Went shopping for groceries, ended up suffering from backache and muscle pains. Talking bout injuries, I’ve got a few major cuts on my fingers. First was a tiny cut on my 2nd finger. Then, another on the 3rd finger when I tied the plastic bag used to keep the broken glass pieces-blood started oozing out and when I ran back to my room, blood was dripping-that was how serious it was. Few days back, another cut on the 2nd finger when I was cutting bread. I was very careful, but… don’t worry, I’m fine. Currently a fan of a few tv series obtained from friends due to the lack of reading materials e.g. Grey’s Anatomy and Prison Break. Watched Rob-B-Hood last week, nice movie with the super-cute baby. Haha.

That’s all for now. It’s been a super long entry.
To my friends back home, do keep in touch. Really long to meet you next summer. Take care! Da-sweedanya!

photos

Hey!! here are some photos since the first day (7/10)..
Enjoy!

from the plane window overseeing some ocean

one of the buildings in Red Square

same as well, Red Square

St. Basil's Cathedral

my first plate of rice here

MMA Dean's Office

First plate of fried rice :Đ

during Russian class break : Wan Sim, Clover, Caryn and me

take care people! keep in touch

here i am...

Hey everyone! Well, I’m fine over here in Moscow, Russia. Reached here about 2 weeks ago but couldn’t really update this blog thingy here because my room has no internet connection and the rate at the internet café I’m in now is extreme high, it’s 50roubles per hour (RM7+) which really burns my pocket! So, I can only go online once in a blue moon k? So sorry for that..:( Cut the crap. Moscow is a beautiful city! There is a lot to tell. LOL. Firstly, it’s mainly about speed here, everything is fast-going and this includes the vehicles and of course the people. Get to a metro station and walk slowly, there goes your legs! Old people with tongkat will end up giving you a nice whack and tell you to walk faster. Don’t believe me, try it! Luckily, I walk ‘fast’, just ask any of my close friends and they’ll tell you more about my ‘speed’. And, I think there’s no proper speed limit for driving coz people here really jam their accelerator really hard. I’ve seen accidents happen right in front of my eyes! Next, language is a barrier for the moment, these Russians speak nothing but Russian! And, their language is NOT easy, trust me, it requires a lot of time and it can end up getting your tongue tied by the end of the lesson. I’ve got approx 5 hours of it a day, so, imagine how tired my tongue gets and if my English deteriorates when I’m back, please bear with me:P Where have I been to so far? Well, I’ve been to Red Square, which is red as its name reads. Look at the pictures for a better picture. It is an extreme nice place, where the St. Basil’s Cathedral is located, and other very uniquely-architectured structures. I fell in love with the place the minute I saw it. Words cannot express how beautiful the place is, not even photos, but I’ll try to snap as many as I can to show you. I’ll be having field trip around Moscow next Monday, so, wait for the photos. How is my room? Hmm, I’m in a 2 room unit, currently sharing a room with 2 other Malaysians from Kedah and Selangor, both Chinese; the other room is occupied by 2 other Malaysians as well. There’s this cleaner, we call her ‘mama’ who cleans our bathroom once a week. Gosh! She’s super-fussy about cleanliness, about the condition of the room and you can’t even move a thing that is placed in the room! We did a little refurbishment to our room and we got nagged for 2 days back-to-back! She charged into our room and started ‘singing’ coz we didn’t really understand what she was trying to say, and ended up saying “Da, da” (yes..yes) the whole time.. sigh..
Transportation here is pretty convenient, as long as you know where you’re going. Just yesterday, my friends and I were slightly lost when we tried going shopping all by ourselves, without any seniors’ guide. We went to the wrong metro station, but it’s ok coz we found a way, a longer route to get to the destination which required changing of metro lines, from red to the orange line. We knew our plan very well. Decided to go for it. Ended up going to the wrong exits and didn’t dare go out. Turned back, took the other exits, look at the words and colors. This routine repeated a few times and finally... we found the orange line!! We’re laughed our heads off after our ‘adventure’. We realized that each metro station here has different designs. None has the same. Then to get to the shopping place, which has Mega [ΜΕΓΑ] (something like Mid Valley but way bigger), IKEA, Ashan [АШАН] (like Carrefour, bigger as well) and 2 other outlets; which is like a place where you can get everything under one roof, there’s this free shuttle bus from the metro station. Sounds good huh? Ever wondered how sardine fish feel in the can of sardines? Well, that’s how it is in that bus! It’s like survival of the fittest concept where you gotta push your way in, regardless of whether you’re a girl/guy, young/old. Just keep pushing, pushing and pushing. That’s the way! To get back from the shopping place, we decided to get a van with the amount of things we got. And then it’s another ‘adventure’ standing in the cold (3oC) waiting for this 226 bus. Waited…waited...waited. 295, 225, 671, 28, 1 passed. God, where’s 226? The minute we wanted to give up, aha! 226!! Ran up the bus and went back to the hostel.
I think I’ve bore you people enough, so, I’ll stop here for now! Take care people! Love you!

Lotsa love from,
Ђзх Джuен Веu (my Russian name:p)

GOSH!! Today is the latest I've ever woke up in years! Luckily I'm home alone or not..i'm dead.

Anyway, I'm currently very VERY annoyed with the drivers around me-not that I'm a perfect driver but, I do consider myself a pretty safe one. Don't believe, scout around Ipoh for me.

I don't really understand what drivers these days are thinking! The more I see them, the more I feel like bashing them and banging their cars off the road but, I can't do that coz I so love the car I'm driving now, not my own though.
What these stupid drivers do include

• honking for no specific reasons and especially when they're behind a P driver like me and my friends
• simply changing lanes without putting signals
• ALWAYS on the wrong lanes and try to rectify it
• try to show off their Formula One skills
• thinking that the road is theirs, especially people with HUGE cars
• cross the roads when they see a P sticker on the car coming near
• forever thinking they're on the main road
• show hand signals when you're a little slow
• driving on emergency lanes

Listing these really make my blood boils, especially when I've gone through all of them and even got involved in a minor accident when this cranky security guard van came at the roundabout, they were on the wrong lane and their big, old junk kissed my bumper! It's not my fault at all but since I was a lady driver, with a P sticker, the whole bunch of lousy guards came down and started scolding, insulting..all those stuff!

These drivers should really be sent back to driving school, or be punished heavily - tonnes of summones and take the license away! We the P drivers are forced to be ganas at times, thanks to these 'great' drivers as our guide. If we're still as soft as what we were in driving school, driving that Kancil, I'm quite sure that we're gonna be stuck at a junction for a few hours or so, or get honked a thousand and one times etc

So, to the CDL drivers on the road, stop cursing us P drivers coz you people are the main reasons why most accidents happen, YOU people turned us to 'superb' drivers in Malaysia; PLEASE use your signals - they aren't there for some sort of deco in your dear car, stick to the right lane - plan where you wanna go!

For goodness sake! STOP honking, cursing, scolding us P drivers - weren't you once like that? weren't u once driving in a L (lembu) car????

Think for yourself! PLEASE!!!!

I am seriously annoyed with all my other P driver friends..

the LAST is not always bad

~Save the best for the last~

Well, that phrase is seriously true after a great Saturday I had, which marked my last Saturday I'm here till next summer. Although it started really bored and dull on Saturday morning, but things started getting a lil fun-er when I went out with my friends to Ipoh Parade. Although there were only the 3 of us before another 3 came, we had fun! They dragged me to the bowling alley-which I haven't been in ages and made me bowl. As expected, the ball went into the longkang most of the time but my final score wasn't that bad..:) The minute after we finished our game, all of them said they needed to go home coz it's getting too late but it was only 6.35pm! And all of them drove there while I had to wait for dad to come as mom didn't allow me to drive there.

waited...waited..waited..

Hah! Dad is finally here! I was kinda down in the car coz I needed to get some stuff from parkson but didn't had the time. Dad asked if I had dinner coz my family had their dinner already. "HUH?! dinner so early?" I was blur, but kept quiet. Reached home. The other car isn't in. "where did mom go? they had their dinner di...??" still keeping quiet and blur. When I got into the house, my lil sis told me that my aunt gave me a present and it's in my room. I didn't realize that my aunt gave me something few days ago. So, I walked up to my room, wanted to change.

Opened the door...there were dunno how many pairs of eyes looking at me. I was stunned, shocked and speechless! In a total state of shock.. Gosh! My friends, every single one were in there! Including those who told me they're 'busy' etc. I was so touched and surprise! First time I had a surprise party! They expected me to faint on the spot though..lol.

They actually pakat with my mom and my family bout this but yet, I was still that blur. We went down for the food- I saw konnyaku jelly (mom asked if I wanna eat jellies few days back), baked potato with garlic (mom bought a lot of potato on friday night).. Bells started ringing in my head..there were actually so many hints, but..sigh. All of us feasted and chat till bout 11.30pm.

Here're some pics from that wonderful night...

Cutting the cheese cake mom bought with everyone who made the night so special and surprising!

From left : Kit Yin, Siew Vern, me and Li-Shan

Front : Diming, Jason, Arvin (below), Chun Ho, Wai Yew
Back : Murphy, Lip Hyean, me and Wye Hon

Special thanks to the masterminds : DURGA, WYE HON & CHUN HO

And to ALL present on Saturday
Caryn, Kit Yin, Li-Shan, Siew Vern, Charis, Irene, Jonathan, Judith, Lip Hyean, Arvindran, Diming, Jason, Murphy, Wai Yew

And to ALL who knew about this but couldn't make it
Yin Teng, Han, Siew Sin, Yoke Mun

THANK YOU!

I LOVE YOU!

(nothing can express how much I loved that party and how much I appreciate all of you)

Experiment on posting pictures

Objective : to get myself used to the uploading of pictures in the blog.

****** EXPERIMENT SUCCEEDED ******

Since I got the hang of uploading pictures in just a snap..

These pictures are specially dedicated to ALL my friends : -

well, I always hope to give you people a great surprise, some got it, but some didn't. I'm so SORRY for all whom I didn't have the chance to surprise you..but, I will do it in times to come..

When I'm away, I truly hope to get calls from all of you..I know it can be expensive, but I don't mind sms-es :) As long as it keeps us in touch, it's ok.

No matter where I am in this world, I will always LOVE you..Take this picture as a proof.

And, I pray that we can stay together as friends while we take on the next chapters of life, though we might be separated, but, we will still be travelling on the same path in the FRIEND-ship!

>>TAKE CARE<<

outing with my 2 buddies

actually, this happened yesterday, but i'm too bored now so decided to get something to blog..to sharpen my skills of using the blog thingy. so, here's my report on the outing of the week - well, jo,teng and i went to sushi king during lunch.asked yinteng out for 2 reasons: 1) to give her a crash course on the job as the secretary of the school's student council 2) to meet up with her and have sushi. honestly,i don't really fancy sushi but then,i'm ok with it since the 2 beloved friends of mine love em.sushi we ate and i tried some sort of fried sushi-the mushroom is the weirdest mushrooms i've ever tasted! yucky. kept drinking green tea-cold, hot and even mixed! lol. then, came the climax of the day, jo sent me a message telling to get teng a cake! i was like "cake?! where?" so,i decided to go take a stroll and looked around - Starbucks!went in,looked at the bar,3 kinds of cakes..hmm "which will teng like?" tembak-lah and got her a slice of blueberry cheese and ipanema. and i asked that barista to give me a paper bag..i SO want the bag la! so unique and abstract! don't get me started on the paper bag.jo would agree:) yesterday was indeed a great day,dunno when will i be able to spend another day like this with jo and teng..sigh..

me? blog?

haha..i don't think anyone of u would've thought that i'll start a blog..so, here it is, after a my super good friend told me to get one so that it'll be easier for her to keep in touch with me :) and i think it's a great way for all my friends-every single one of you to know my condition over there in russia. for those who are still blur about where i'll be going, well, i'll be leaving for moscow in 18 days. will be studying pre-med for the next 10months in moscow medical academy (MMA). and will be in moscow for the next 6 years of my life..do come visit me or better still, join me there! haha.. urm, starting a new life, in a new place with new people will definitely be an experience for me especially without all my friends with me:( i will, and i seriously will miss everyone of u, regardless whether u're from mgs or acs, my classmate or not..if i were to list all of your names down, i think it'll be too long a list but this list will be in my heart and mind. btw, lemme show you people a picture on mma which i got from the net - how it is over there, i'll keep u ppl updated. so, take a look and do keep in touch! love ya!will upload more photos once i get used to this blogging thingy.