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Ｗｅｌｌ，today is public holiday in russia , we’re all celebrating this big events-Labour day on the Red square of Kursk, which is capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people in the open space. I was too lazy to get up early in the morning and trying to sleep back when the dean hostel came to wake me and the others. We all gathered at the lobby of our hostel and it took about 20 mins to walk to our university. Many different flags representing their own country in the entrance of our university, but geography wasn’t my best subject, I couldn’t recognise them! Haha! After waiting for 20 mins, we started moving to the street into the team. The weather was superb nice^^ I thought this labour day would be very boring one but it’s not at all! We could see people from all over the world participated in the marching for this great event! There were marching band, soldiers, students etc in the marching team. We marched around 25mins to reach the Red square.. Then, it was 1st the opening ceremony followed by marching band performance, releasing thousands of balloons and russian performance.. Besides there was street performance by Russian.. it was fun XD..

after that we went to the food stall nearby . There was a park and funfair. I ate the lavash pork with tomato sauce and cotton candy… it’s so nice !! and because of the spring season here, I was able to see the red and yellow tulips near the park.. they have a short blooming period..

　　After visiting the Red square, we went for shopping at puskinski and I bought a new adidas bag in the adidas shop.. it costs about rm 190.. but I like the bag very much because it was my 1st adidas bag.

After shopping, we organised a small BBQ party with our seniors at their house, which is 3-4mins drive from our hostel. We BBQ outside the apartment and unfortunately we were unable to finish all the things we

bought because the sky was so dark that we　couldn’t see anything.. so we moved all the things back to the apartment and cooked them under the stove.. haha! But it’s indeed my wonderful day here in kursk．．

Squeeze out some time for yourself to relax your mind during the exam week.. sometime it would be good to let go of yourself　for awhile … it help in refreshing mind ^^

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Yiruma - Kiss The Rain (Full Version)

A beautiful Spring

Hii everyone, how has life been treating you? I guess you guys are very busy with the final exam and so am I.. I’ve been busy preparing for the never-ending class-test of all subjects since the starting of the 2^nd sem . The 2^nd sem schedule is too compact!! Every day we shall study many different topics for different subjects and sometimes, you’d be able to finish them on time, but most of the time you can’t ! Owing to the lack of time for preparation, some of them skip the class. Sometimes you couldn’t get up early and missed the class. But, the saddest thing is, you need to come up to the lecturer and repeat the missed class because the attendance is compulsory and none of us can make excuse from attending class. Everyday our class finished quite late and it would be 9-10pm by the time I finished my cooking and showering..So sometimes I skip my dinner and maggie could be my best friend in that situation.. ^^

Now my final exam is coming up very soon!! I’m so nervous that I can’t do well in the exam because it covers all chapters we have studied before and it would have oral test for some subjects like latin.. omg!! I hate Latin (latinophobia) hahha!! Probably because of that latin teacher, without which I’ll be so relieved…. But anyway, I still have to sit for the latin final .. :( today my class finished quite early and I’m having 1 day holiday for the labour day so I have time to write on the blog... it’s a quite boring life here in kursk and every day I repeat doing the same thing. Usually I sleep quite late and I always feel sleepy during the lecture… sometimes go to the market or supermarket to buy some stuff for cooking .. it reminds me of the Russian class that all of us have to write Russian essay about my free time etc.. Russian is very confusing especially when it comes to cases of changing the ending..

Tomorrow we be going out for shopping and I wanna to buy a new bag for myself because my old bag is terribly damaged… lolz. Gonna spend lots of money again.. here the stuff are quite expensive.. 2 days ago I went for a prayer walk with my cell-group friends.. we prayed for the unity of all the churches, for the hormony among the Russian, for the church leaders and everything could be run smoothly and successfully.. Thanks to the mighty Lord of his great creation from which I found that kursk was indeed a beautiful city.. I like the spring season very much which is not so cold like winter time. It took about 20mins for us to walk to the Kursk gates, I could see people were chatting around, playing kite, cycling, playing games with the children so on .. Home sweet home – was appeared in my mind at that moment.

Anyway, it left 2 months before going back to Malaysia.. wow! I think I will bring lots of stuff along .. Wishing you guys who are busy with exams, all the best, and take better care.. remember to pray before exam, pray for everything that goes well as we are facing new challenges in every second of our life, pray to get stronger and to become a better you!

My First Winter Break

After several months of study, I can’t resist my excitement about or expectation for my 1 month winter break. FB, PPS, MSN, Skype, Shopping and travelling around are all in my mind and for me, that’s what the pleasure of holiday about. It is absolutely our right to enjoy them, taking this opportunity to relax our soul, mind and body. However, I’ve experienced something that I never come across with and have different views over holiday. That’s why I’m here to write a new post today.

One of the articles that I read was about “our parents”. One man said if your parents only left 30 years lifetime and you are only going back home once a year, then you would only have around 30 time to meet with them before their departure from earth. I was depressed and felt helpless at that moment as I was reading them. My world has become so narrow suddenly that I couldn’t do anything to let go such unhappiness in my heart. I realized that I’ve started to miss home and I considered myself a lucky one as I only left them for 6 years time. Being in Kursk has both good and bad side, the average costs of living and the low crime rate contributed to the positive side whereas poor entertainment was the other side of it. Besides going to class, we stayed inside our room for the rest of the time. Due to the languages barrier we faced in university, there is no interaction or any relationship between the local students and foreign students and of course less speech or talks are given by them. In our hostel, we have no activities to participate in as there is no so-called society or club to be formed. So normally I join church activities and their service although their practice is different. So when I was alone inside my room, I was bored and felt the emptiness deeply in my heart. I started to recall the moment to be with them was so precious and priceless. I was trying to escape from it and making me to be used that situation but this is reality and we have to face it one day. As a whole, God has given to each of us a life which we should treasure, as well as the time with our family.

Sometimes all we need is a little patience and grateful !!

My new life in Kursk

“Zdras-tvui-tyeh”(hello) everybody! Finally I have arrived at Kursk and never before had I travelled to such far places in my life. It took me about 20 hour’s time in all travelling from Malaysia to Kursk. I was wondering whether I’d chosen the right way of spending my next 6 years in Russia to study medicine. Anyway God has brought me here and wants me to learn something new but of course, this is my own decision. Being here at Kursk is really far from home and everything is new for me because they can hardly speak English. So we would be having troubles in communicating with local people especially when shopping or taking a bus. So we have to learn their language in order to survive. When the 1^st day we arrived, I’d already expected how the hostel will be and I’d been arranged to stay with girls on the same floor whereas guys would be staying at ground floor and here I met back my old classmate, Alexander, my old friend, Stephanie and some La Sallian as well. Since most of them did their pre-med in Malaysia and only some like me did STPM, I have to try my best to get to know them as we would need to form a class group of 12 soon. Luckily they are friendly and the good thing is that most of them are Sabahan. But there are lots of Indian here.. haha~~

After I settled down all my stuffs, we were brought to our uni which was about 20-25 mins walk from our hostel. We also need to do our own cooking, so there’s a lot of things to buy like heater, water filter, adapter, Russian sim card, winter clothing &medical courts, cooking utensils, mineral water etc. Owing to high calcium contents in the water, we have to filter the water before consuming but nothing is 100%.. so it’s advisable to buy or order mineral water outside. Besides, some food like “lap-cheong” or Malaysian curry-source cannot be found here and one hanger can costs up to few ringgits. So we have to bring them from Malaysia.

Kursk is very big that all of the buildings are far apart from one another but there’s no tall building here. All fast food restaurant like MacD., KFC is not available yet in Kursk and there’s also no English movies at cinema. Lol.. Thus we prefer self-cooking rather than eating outside which is more costly. Russian people are not friendly. They cannot stand people who are noisy. They hate people blocking their way as they walk super fast. They hate people eating while walking. If you’ve done one of these that I mentioned, they will shout at you in russian or just push you aside to show their anger. They like spitting around so you shouldn’t ever walk close to them.

We also have entrance exam (Bio,Chem,Eng) for all the new students. I am taking Bio, Chem, Biophysic, Anatomy, Russian etc and would be very busy in my studies. The 1^st 3 years will be pre-clinical where we are spending most of our time in class and the next 3 years will be clinical where we have to start attending to the Russian patients. My class starts on 15 of October so now I am very free to do what I want to like shopping and sleeping.. haha

I hope I can adapt to it as fast as possible as this will be my second home for my next 6 years life in Kursk. “Da-svi-da-ni-nya”(bb)

Hello, everybody !!

Hello, greeting to all my friends by maxi, I’m back here, my lovely hometown Sabah.. haha.. Since there are still many of you are wondering about my whereabouts, just kinda write this post to let you guys know about my situation for the time being..(I was coming back here last Monday’s evening)

So I had a great time with my buddies during my 1-month life in UM. I could hardly stress out how much I was going to enjoy playing and gathering with them day and night. My 8^th college was considered lucky in the sense that we have had around 100 plus Chinese out of the total of 300 freshy staying in the college. Most of them were quite friendly and helpful. But there was a few you would find them just sitting and doing their stuff quietly and had been isolated to stay inside their rooms. Everything in KL was just the same as in KK except the interesting thunder which can make you deaf and heart-attack, air-pollution happened elsewhere, and traffic congestion happened even inside the campus. So we had to be-careful while crossing the road as most of the motorcyclist won’t stop for you!

About my Geology department, we had the most “lc” tutor and yet the only one prettiest Chinese girl among the tutors. Among the 1^st-year juniors in the department, there was only 5 Chinese including me, 2 of which were taking pure Geology and the others were Applied Geology and I am the only Chinese “guy”. Geology covers the subjects like Intro to Earth, Rocks and Minerals, Geological Mapping and Graph study etc and it took me 18 credit hours. The part that I like best was during practical time where we were allowed to examine all different samples of rocks and minerals. It took us about 2 hours for that and I was dreaming and did nothing during that time... so relax nia ^^ Good time flew quickly when I realized I had to sit for a test of all this minerals. Nevertheless, I still don’t know my result because I was coming back here..

I had been hanging out with friends for movie or window shopping when I was there during weekend. I was free from Friday to Sunday and we would rather go to Mid-valley as it’s the closest shopping mall to UM. But it’s quite boring there because all things were so expensive. For other part of Kl, we just need to take a bus around 2 mins drive from the campus to the LRT station. So it’s very convenient (not meant to cars) and thus I can go so many places I want to.. I also met the orang putih from USA who wanted to get to know our culture and to connect with the local students and the true story behind this was that they were here to complete their mission by finding someone to be their mentor as being told in bible. So I joined them and went to some famous places like “French town and Selesa hills”. I also went to Penang with my friend during weekend and I got to eat all the best food in Penang, pretty nice food and nice place ^^ (but quite disappointed to the Penang bridge laRh..)

Apart from the activities in UM, i also joined CLC, an off-campus unregistered body which has been purposely established for Christian students in UM. So I go to Methodist church at Damansara every Sunday and sometimes we went to 1Utama for our lunch. I also went to pasar malam in SS2, just few km away from campus.

So nearly a month later, my Russia’s agent has confirmed me my seat for medicine course in Russia which will be commence on early of September and my scholarship has been approved, so I decided to travel back to Sabah to do some preparation for my further studies at Kursk, Russia and scheduled my departure from Sabah probably after Raya. So the entire medical degree course is 6-years and bonded by government for 10 years after graduation. The return flight fares is around Rm4000++, so I might be coming back once a year most probably my summer holiday from June to August. The place I will be going to is called Kursk, few hundred km north from Moscow, the capital city of Russia. So far the person I know is Alexander Alvin (5 Vega).. haha Nel ^^, 1 UM Sabahan friend & my Technics Music school friends, we are all going for the 1^st years on this coming September...

So I quit UM starting from 9/8/10 and I didn’t receive any payments or bills yet from university J .. hehe

Well, so now I am pretty relax at home and can wake-up at 11 the next morning... haha By the way, Good luck and best wishes to all my friends whether in Uni or in college and take care ^^