Yesterday, I celebrated my housemate's birthday which is today. Since the house consist of only 4 people, me and the other housemates decided to invite some friends over to make the celebration merrier.
As some of them had came to my place before, we thought it would not be a problem for them to find their way over here. However, they ended up losing their way and was lost on the way here. So I had to go out with my housemate to bring them over.
Anyway, this morning when I was on my way to university I was partially cursing as the roads were filled with water again while it only snowed the night before. That made the roads not only very wet but also very slippery.
This is why I hate the weather over here, it just like to change abruptly without any notice. For example, when i went for classes this morning, the weather was mildly cool and there weren't much of a wind blowing but on the way back from classes, the temperature turned negative and the wind was blowing so strong that the bag on my shoulder was blown off and onto my forearm.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas 09'
It's Christmas today and I am having a white Christmas, just like the one I used to hear in the songs. It is quite a scene to look at if the snow weren't all melting making the roads filled with brown coloured puddles of water.
I had physiology class today, and since the other teacher is currently on holiday so our teacher is in charge of all the students which resulted other groups joining classes with my group.
All of us were kind of anxious as our teacher will get annoyed when people don't answer her questions and the group that will be joining classes with us is quite well known for not studying a lot. Hence, we were afraid that she might be in a bad temper.
Though everything turned out alright. Maybe it was Santa's gift to my group.
So after classes me and housemates decided on the day before that we will be having some kind of dinner celebration in conjuction with Christmas so we started to cook from around 5 and we only finished cooking everything at 7.30pm.(a little note, I cooked the prawns)
Dinner was scrumptious and satisfying.(there is an after photo) It ended with me not feeling like studying for tomorrow's final exam in Nursing Surgery though I haven't really been preparing for classes. (
So lets keep our fingers crossed and hope everything will turn out well. As I am writing this, I am sticking from all the cooking, tired, and haven't started studying and have no intentions of doing so. Please grant my Christmas wish which is passing tomorrow's exam Santa! Thanks in advance.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Scary Town
Today when I was in class, me and my groupmates somehow ended up discussing about the security issue in our town here. We had a meeting with the local police which is held yearly not long ago. The aim of the meeting was for the police to inform us that they will be there to help us.
Though a few days after the meeting some juniors were badly beaten up by the local people here and they were seriously injured and were send to the hospital. Rumors have it saying that one of them ended up in the opthamology department after some of the glasses from his/her spectacles ended up in the eye. Some rumors even say that he/she is currently blind.
Furthermore, i heard that one of my friend who were walking in a group just opposite of the university were surrounded by an amount of 30 people and almost got beaten up as well. Though one of them's quick thinking of running to the university to ask for help from the security guards made it possible to get through the surround without being badly injured. From what I heard, only one of them had a light injury on the head.
Though I can't be certain how much information written above is true as normally when rumors are spread they might get worse after being spread. I hope my parents won't be alarmed by this and do not over react on the situation. There are always bad people and good ones in every town. So please do not worry too much.
While on the way back home today, outside my apartment, there were a bunch of kids with their parents playing with the snow and riding on some small sledge off a small hill. The sound of their laughter rang in the air and made me smile a little while thinking of the nice time I used to have as a small kid. Though as we grow, we gain more freedom and start to notice and understand about more things that is going on around us. Though we also start to gain more responsibilities in exchange for the freedom.
That's life I guess. Ain't nothing is free my friend!
Though a few days after the meeting some juniors were badly beaten up by the local people here and they were seriously injured and were send to the hospital. Rumors have it saying that one of them ended up in the opthamology department after some of the glasses from his/her spectacles ended up in the eye. Some rumors even say that he/she is currently blind.
Furthermore, i heard that one of my friend who were walking in a group just opposite of the university were surrounded by an amount of 30 people and almost got beaten up as well. Though one of them's quick thinking of running to the university to ask for help from the security guards made it possible to get through the surround without being badly injured. From what I heard, only one of them had a light injury on the head.
Though I can't be certain how much information written above is true as normally when rumors are spread they might get worse after being spread. I hope my parents won't be alarmed by this and do not over react on the situation. There are always bad people and good ones in every town. So please do not worry too much.
While on the way back home today, outside my apartment, there were a bunch of kids with their parents playing with the snow and riding on some small sledge off a small hill. The sound of their laughter rang in the air and made me smile a little while thinking of the nice time I used to have as a small kid. Though as we grow, we gain more freedom and start to notice and understand about more things that is going on around us. Though we also start to gain more responsibilities in exchange for the freedom.
That's life I guess. Ain't nothing is free my friend!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Helping is Caring
I do not believe that I am doing such a thing. I have never ever done anything like this before. Since young I have always had my parents(mostly mum), maid or sister to do this for me. Guess what it is. It is something that is always done during Christmas and other occasions similar to it. It is also an action that is not very tough to do.
The action is called gift wrapping. I went to buy some gifts for the upcoming Christmas festival for my friends.(Sorry mum and dad, I spent quite an amount of money on the presents)While I was walking home from the departmental store, I was thinking if I was going to wrap up the present before giving it to them. I ended up doing so.
Anyway, that is not the main topic of the post today, today i would like to say about some feelings I felt.
Today and a few days back, I helped some people and what I did was really nothing. But when they said thank you to me and gave me a smile, I felt something warm stirring inside me. It felt very nice. I think that this is why a lot of people say that helping others is a very happy thing.
I do agree with that statement, but maybe with a little change. Helping others when money is not involved is a very happy thing.(money isn't really a factor if you are very very extremely rich or the money involved is of an insignificant amount)
I feel that the receiver of the help is also very happy as when I receive help from others I would also feel glad for their help.
The action is called gift wrapping. I went to buy some gifts for the upcoming Christmas festival for my friends.(Sorry mum and dad, I spent quite an amount of money on the presents)While I was walking home from the departmental store, I was thinking if I was going to wrap up the present before giving it to them. I ended up doing so.
Anyway, that is not the main topic of the post today, today i would like to say about some feelings I felt.
Today and a few days back, I helped some people and what I did was really nothing. But when they said thank you to me and gave me a smile, I felt something warm stirring inside me. It felt very nice. I think that this is why a lot of people say that helping others is a very happy thing.
I do agree with that statement, but maybe with a little change. Helping others when money is not involved is a very happy thing.(money isn't really a factor if you are very very extremely rich or the money involved is of an insignificant amount)
I feel that the receiver of the help is also very happy as when I receive help from others I would also feel glad for their help.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Frustrated
Today is the rest day-Sunday, I am very happy because i can sleep in longer than usual. In fact I actually slept in till 12pm ! Now that i have fast internet speed I have been using it a lot. Since i got it on last Thursday night, I have been downloading and updating all kinds of software.
But due to my computer's problem, I can't seem to use PPS correctly, most movies don't want to play when i click them. I think this is mainly because I lost my chinese language input when I reformat my computer the last time.
This cause me some frustration but at the same time I am also glad that I am unable to watch all those movies I want to as final exams are coming soon(next month) and i actually still have a lot of movies and series in my hard disc that I haven't finish watching.
Today I am looking for pictures for my project that will allow me exemption for my physiology exam but no matter in what way did I reconstruct the words, I still couldn't find pictures that my professor wants. I hope she will be alright with the photos that i managed to fish out from the haystack which is known as Google.
Oh, by the way, the temperature here has went up. I am kind of glad of that as it is now more barable to go out. The temperature now is about -5 to -10 which I think is kind of alright. Though it has begin to snow more and thus make it harder to walk in the thick pile of snow.
But due to my computer's problem, I can't seem to use PPS correctly, most movies don't want to play when i click them. I think this is mainly because I lost my chinese language input when I reformat my computer the last time.
This cause me some frustration but at the same time I am also glad that I am unable to watch all those movies I want to as final exams are coming soon(next month) and i actually still have a lot of movies and series in my hard disc that I haven't finish watching.
Today I am looking for pictures for my project that will allow me exemption for my physiology exam but no matter in what way did I reconstruct the words, I still couldn't find pictures that my professor wants. I hope she will be alright with the photos that i managed to fish out from the haystack which is known as Google.
Oh, by the way, the temperature here has went up. I am kind of glad of that as it is now more barable to go out. The temperature now is about -5 to -10 which I think is kind of alright. Though it has begin to snow more and thus make it harder to walk in the thick pile of snow.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Cold weather, internet and new place
Sorry for not posting a new post for such a long time. The fact is that I was a little busy as i was moving into a new place(apartment) from my old living area(bungalow) and secondly i was waiting for my internet access to be set up before posting new blogs hence the long wait.
Currently winter has started in Russia, Kursk with the coldest on Wednesday morning with a temperature of -28 degree Celcius. Here are some pictures of my new apartment and since I am in a rush to get to school I guess i will update more in a bit.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Champion
Sunday, November 29 2009
Today is the long awaited semi-final and finals of the intra-university volleyball games. The game was scheduled to start at 1pm today. This morning I woke up at 10 which was already quite late and by the time I finished my breakfast I was already quite late and I prepared quite a lot of food. I was afraid that I couldn’t finish it but in the end I manage to finish it with the fear of having appendicitis for doing sports after such a short time after breakfast.
Never mind that though, we were due to play the first match which is against “Putra” a foot ball team which always participate in the volleyball matches yearly. Although they do not have much experience in playing volleyball their defense is quite good as they can use their legs to save the ball before it touches the ground. After a intense and adrenaline rushing match with them we manage to win them with a score of 2-1 (14-21, 21-7, 15-12).
The next match was against the rumored champion team, “Rambutan Tigers”. This team consist of 3 male university volleyball team member, 1 female team member and 2 housemates. As in our house we train volleyball during our free time so the other 2 also play quite well.
As our aim was to win every match that was against a non-university volleyball team member group and we have achieved it, we were just in a pay the best you can mode. Therefore, we weren’t as tense as we used to be in all the previous matches.
The 1st match started and we were leading at first but the opposite team called time out to break our rhythm. After that they started to catch up and the scores were quite close. When the scores were too close for comfort and they started leading I opted to call for a time out to break their tempo. As time was limited the referee changed the rules and told us that we were able to use only 2 time outs in each game. With that, we played on and won with a very close score of 21-19.
Then upon wining the first match, our spirits were soaring high as we didn’t expect to do so well against their team. And I think as they were rumored to be the champion team they were a little disappointed and had some tension. This allowed us the play better while they made a lot of mistakes. We took advantage of the situation and had a very good lead from the start till the end. We won and became the champion of this year’s volleyball match with the 2nd’s match score of 21-7.
Man, were we so happy that I felt that tears of joy almost fell off the corners of my eyes. I want to apologize here for not trusting my teammate’s ability and would like to specially give my outmost thanks to the team captain Han and the most outstanding player in my team which is David. Thank you for making it possible for us to get the gold medal!
We then had a small dinner outing together though it was a self paid dinner. But me and the captain decided to invite all the players over for a treat on dinner this Wednesday night but that would be a story for next time.
For now, I would just like to celebrate and enjoy this feeling of triumph !!!
Sadistic and Disappointed
Saturday, November 28 2009
Sorry for not writing anything this week, this will be the 1st post of the week. Actually when I was going to classes this morning and thinking about what I should write for the post this week, I was about to say that there weren’t anything that was out of the ordinary or interesting this week that happened but what do you know, as soon as I said it, a few funny things happened.
About this week, I was so happy this Wednesday as it was the first time I passes my major in biochemistry exam this semester. It’s not like I did not study for the exams but for reasons unknown, I seem not to understand anything that is going on. But to say the truth, I didn’t study for the usual classes. So I decided I need to study everyday starting from this day onwards and I hope I keep this promise.
Now for the funny thing that happened. On Saturday, I normally have to sit about an hour ride to a hospital on the other end of the town for my weekly nursing surgery classes. Since it was a long journey, I usually read stuff on the net through my phone while going to classes. Normally we would change from trolley busses to busses since it was hard to get buses from our place and when changing my friends said to go up the bus and then they hesitated as they weren’t sure if that bus would reach our destination and I was left in the bus alone. Man, was I mad at them for leaving me alone and behind.
Next when I finally got on the right bus, because I was too engrossed in reading the material on the net I totally didn’t realize that we have reach the destination and almost missed the stop. Lucky me that the bus driver saw me and stop after moving a little from the bus stop.
After class I went to a supermarket in the central as it was on the way back home, and when I reached home only did I realize that I forgot my shoe bag in the supermarket locker and I had to take an hours ride to and fro the supermarket just to get my bag.
As usual, night was for volleyball training and since I was always asked by the captain to pickup balls instead of training the juniors while another guy trains them by using the ball I pass to him. I really feel that I am being ignored by the captain and am not appreciated. This makes me feel like I really do not want to play volleyball anymore. I try very hard every week, week after week to do my best to please the captain but always my days are always left in vain.
Tomorrow will be the day for the finals of the volleyball competition and I hope that I will play better than last week. Wish me luck
Sorry for not writing anything this week, this will be the 1st post of the week. Actually when I was going to classes this morning and thinking about what I should write for the post this week, I was about to say that there weren’t anything that was out of the ordinary or interesting this week that happened but what do you know, as soon as I said it, a few funny things happened.
About this week, I was so happy this Wednesday as it was the first time I passes my major in biochemistry exam this semester. It’s not like I did not study for the exams but for reasons unknown, I seem not to understand anything that is going on. But to say the truth, I didn’t study for the usual classes. So I decided I need to study everyday starting from this day onwards and I hope I keep this promise.
Now for the funny thing that happened. On Saturday, I normally have to sit about an hour ride to a hospital on the other end of the town for my weekly nursing surgery classes. Since it was a long journey, I usually read stuff on the net through my phone while going to classes. Normally we would change from trolley busses to busses since it was hard to get buses from our place and when changing my friends said to go up the bus and then they hesitated as they weren’t sure if that bus would reach our destination and I was left in the bus alone. Man, was I mad at them for leaving me alone and behind.
Next when I finally got on the right bus, because I was too engrossed in reading the material on the net I totally didn’t realize that we have reach the destination and almost missed the stop. Lucky me that the bus driver saw me and stop after moving a little from the bus stop.
After class I went to a supermarket in the central as it was on the way back home, and when I reached home only did I realize that I forgot my shoe bag in the supermarket locker and I had to take an hours ride to and fro the supermarket just to get my bag.
As usual, night was for volleyball training and since I was always asked by the captain to pickup balls instead of training the juniors while another guy trains them by using the ball I pass to him. I really feel that I am being ignored by the captain and am not appreciated. This makes me feel like I really do not want to play volleyball anymore. I try very hard every week, week after week to do my best to please the captain but always my days are always left in vain.
Tomorrow will be the day for the finals of the volleyball competition and I hope that I will play better than last week. Wish me luck
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Exhausting GameMonday
Monday, November 23 2009
Oh my god, I am really exhausted today. We had the competition from 2.30pm till 9.30 and that really used up all my stamina. Results of the competition? I and my team was able to barely make it into the semifinals without any lost games but it was really though on us.
Now for the details, we had 10 groups competing, and we were broken up into 2 big batches, each with 5 teams. From each batch all the teams are to compete against the other 4 teams in their batch the teams with the 2 highest scores in each batch are able to qualify for the semi-finals. For each win, a team gets 2 points and for a loss they get 1.
With that, let the competition begin!
The captains from each team drew lots to decide on which batch they will be on. Lucky for us, we didn’t have to face the strongest team in the preliminary matches. All the matches were played by best of 3 games method with 21 as game point. My group was the playing the 1st match and that made us very nervous. We were able to defeat the team with the final score of 2-0.
The second match was against the school female team with their group mates. Although they weren’t playing offensive but their defending skills were still good and to add on they had a lot of supporters making so much noise that the whole sports center was filled with their noise gave us a hell of a time but we were able to scrape a 2-1 win.
The next 2 matches ended in the same manner with barely wining results of 2-1. As a setter and experienced player I did badly as I was barely able to serve the balls into the court( I kept serving to the right side) and I didn’t really set the ball for my spikers to have a chance to do their job. I really regret I played so badly yesterday.
I did a lot of diving to save balls and since I am still not very good in diving, I ended up with a lot of bruises and now have contuses on both my knees and a very bad contusion on my right hip. It is so painful and sensitive that a slight touch on that part will make me want to yelp in pain. Though, there is nothing to worry as these bruises will heal over the next few days.
Exhausting GameMonday, November 23 2009 Oh my god, I am really exhausted today. We had the competition from 2.30pm till 9.30 and that really used up
Monday, November 23 2009
Oh my god, I am really exhausted today. We had the competition from 2.30pm till 9.30 and that really used up all my stamina. Results of the competition? I and my team was able to barely make it into the semifinals without any lost games but it was really though on us.
Now for the details, we had 10 groups competing, and we were broken up into 2 big batches, each with 5 teams. From each batch all the teams are to compete against the other 4 teams in their batch the teams with the 2 highest scores in each batch are able to qualify for the semi-finals. For each win, a team gets 2 points and for a loss they get 1.
With that, let the competition begin!
The captains from each team drew lots to decide on which batch they will be on. Lucky for us, we didn’t have to face the strongest team in the preliminary matches. All the matches were played by best of 3 games method with 21 as game point. My group was the playing the 1st match and that made us very nervous. We were able to defeat the team with the final score of 2-0.
The second match was against the school female team with their group mates. Although they weren’t playing offensive but their defending skills were still good and to add on they had a lot of supporters making so much noise that the whole sports center was filled with their noise gave us a hell of a time but we were able to scrape a 2-1 win.
The next 2 matches ended in the same manner with barely wining results of 2-1. As a setter and experienced player I did badly as I was barely able to serve the balls into the court( I kept serving to the right side) and I didn’t really set the ball for my spikers to have a chance to do their job. I really regret I played so badly yesterday.
I did a lot of diving to save balls and since I am still not very good in diving, I ended up with a lot of bruises and now have contuses on both my knees and a very bad contusion on my right hip. It is so painful and sensitive that a slight touch on that part will make me want to yelp in pain. Though, there is nothing to worry as these bruises will heal over the next few days.
Happy Birthday Dad!
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Today is the long awaited weekend again. Can’t really wait for tomorrow to come as it will be the day of competition for the intra-university volleyball games. Though before that, I have a bigger news to announce. Today is my father’s birthday!
Happy birthday my beloved dad. Sorry I am unable to be with you to celebrate this auspicious day but do know that my heart is always there with you. I really need to thank you for bringing me up all these years and giving me the best no matter how hard the situation is. I am really grateful for what you have done for me since I was born.
I am also really sorry that I couldn’t go on the net to even have a webcam chat with you. I was a little busy today and have volleyball training from 5 till 9 pm, and given the time difference I couldn’t really meet without. This is the biggest regret I could have.
To say the truth, we are not that hardworking as you think having training for 4 hours, it is just that I wanted to play and train with the girls together which was from 5 to 7pm. To be exact the guys training was from 7 to 9pm, so that is quite reasonable isn’t it ?
Today’s training was quite usual, nothing interesting nor out of the ordinary happened. But since I was training for 4 whole hours by the time I came back I was exhausted all over. Though I can’t wait till tomorrow’s competition.
Today is the long awaited weekend again. Can’t really wait for tomorrow to come as it will be the day of competition for the intra-university volleyball games. Though before that, I have a bigger news to announce. Today is my father’s birthday!
Happy birthday my beloved dad. Sorry I am unable to be with you to celebrate this auspicious day but do know that my heart is always there with you. I really need to thank you for bringing me up all these years and giving me the best no matter how hard the situation is. I am really grateful for what you have done for me since I was born.
I am also really sorry that I couldn’t go on the net to even have a webcam chat with you. I was a little busy today and have volleyball training from 5 till 9 pm, and given the time difference I couldn’t really meet without. This is the biggest regret I could have.
To say the truth, we are not that hardworking as you think having training for 4 hours, it is just that I wanted to play and train with the girls together which was from 5 to 7pm. To be exact the guys training was from 7 to 9pm, so that is quite reasonable isn’t it ?
Today’s training was quite usual, nothing interesting nor out of the ordinary happened. But since I was training for 4 whole hours by the time I came back I was exhausted all over. Though I can’t wait till tomorrow’s competition.
Beautiful day
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
I have been quite lazy these few weeks, the initial excitation and determination to update the blog every other day has crept away from me. All that is left is the spontaneous feeling of writing about something interesting in my life for the last few days.
On Monday night, around 9pm or 10pm, when I was almost going to fall asleep I suddenly heard my roommate say that it was snowing heavily outside. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a few snaps of the huge amount of snowflakes that have been falling down but unfortunately my camera wasn’t really able to take the way it looks like through my eyes.
On Tuesday morning, the streets weren’t covered with snow as I hoped because the weather wasn’t cold enough but snow was still covering the houses and trees. These were very beautiful. The scenery of all the naked and bare trees now having “white leaves” was so breath taking. But again, I could only try my best to capture photos of the scenery as close as it looked in my eyes.
During the last class on Tuesday, we have sociology. It is a new subject just added and it was really boring. Though, on this day, as our teacher was sick since the 2 weeks ago, another teacher thought us 2 weeks ago. This week was the second class having class with her. Her method of teaching this week was having presentation about cultures and what me and my group did was looking for Malaysian culture (food, education, festivals, etc.)
We all had a nice time talking about our country and was dreaming about the food back in Malaysia when one of us was presenting about the food in Malaysia. All of us were salivating and saying “ohhs” and “ahhs”.
Wednesday was pretty uneventful, like everything was going clockwork and repeating its usual weekly routine except for during the break, almost everyone from the group went to the cafeteria to buy hot drinks from the vendor machine which was having sale! Funny isn’t it?
Other than that, the rest of the day was just a normal one. By the way, the schedule for the interuniversity games for volleyball has came out and it will be held on this Sunday, from 2.30pm till 10.30pm. I am still guessing how far can me and my team make it. I guess I will be coming back pretty early that day.
Beautiful day
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
I have been quite lazy these few weeks, the initial excitation and determination to update the blog every other day has crept away from me. All that is left is the spontaneous feeling of writing about something interesting in my life for the last few days.
On Monday night, around 9pm or 10pm, when I was almost going to fall asleep I suddenly heard my roommate say that it was snowing heavily outside. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a few snaps of the huge amount of snowflakes that have been falling down but unfortunately my camera wasn’t really able to take the way it looks like through my eyes.
On Tuesday morning, the streets weren’t covered with snow as I hoped because the weather wasn’t cold enough but snow was still covering the houses and trees. These were very beautiful. The scenery of all the naked and bare trees now having “white leaves” was so breath taking. But again, I could only try my best to capture photos of the scenery as close as it looked in my eyes.
During the last class on Tuesday, we have sociology. It is a new subject just added and it was really boring. Though, on this day, as our teacher was sick since the 2 weeks ago, another teacher thought us 2 weeks ago. This week was the second class having class with her. Her method of teaching this week was having presentation about cultures and what me and my group did was looking for Malaysian culture (food, education, festivals, etc.)
We all had a nice time talking about our country and was dreaming about the food back in Malaysia when one of us was presenting about the food in Malaysia. All of us were salivating and saying “ohhs” and “ahhs”.
Wednesday was pretty uneventful, like everything was going clockwork and repeating its usual weekly routine except for during the break, almost everyone from the group went to the cafeteria to buy hot drinks from the vendor machine which was having sale! Funny isn’t it?
Other than that, the rest of the day was just a normal one. By the way, the schedule for the interuniversity games for volleyball has came out and it will be held on this Sunday, from 2.30pm till 10.30pm. I am still guessing how far can me and my team make it. I guess I will be coming back pretty early that day.
I have been quite lazy these few weeks, the initial excitation and determination to update the blog every other day has crept away from me. All that is left is the spontaneous feeling of writing about something interesting in my life for the last few days.
On Monday night, around 9pm or 10pm, when I was almost going to fall asleep I suddenly heard my roommate say that it was snowing heavily outside. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a few snaps of the huge amount of snowflakes that have been falling down but unfortunately my camera wasn’t really able to take the way it looks like through my eyes.
On Tuesday morning, the streets weren’t covered with snow as I hoped because the weather wasn’t cold enough but snow was still covering the houses and trees. These were very beautiful. The scenery of all the naked and bare trees now having “white leaves” was so breath taking. But again, I could only try my best to capture photos of the scenery as close as it looked in my eyes.
During the last class on Tuesday, we have sociology. It is a new subject just added and it was really boring. Though, on this day, as our teacher was sick since the 2 weeks ago, another teacher thought us 2 weeks ago. This week was the second class having class with her. Her method of teaching this week was having presentation about cultures and what me and my group did was looking for Malaysian culture (food, education, festivals, etc.)
We all had a nice time talking about our country and was dreaming about the food back in Malaysia when one of us was presenting about the food in Malaysia. All of us were salivating and saying “ohhs” and “ahhs”.
Wednesday was pretty uneventful, like everything was going clockwork and repeating its usual weekly routine except for during the break, almost everyone from the group went to the cafeteria to buy hot drinks from the vendor machine which was having sale! Funny isn’t it?
Other than that, the rest of the day was just a normal one. By the way, the schedule for the interuniversity games for volleyball has came out and it will be held on this Sunday, from 2.30pm till 10.30pm. I am still guessing how far can me and my team make it. I guess I will be coming back pretty early that day.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Blues
Monday, 16 November 2009
Sorry I haven’t been updating for quite a few days. I have been quite busy and was totally exhausted on Saturday night which I usually use to update my blog. So, let me continue from Friday till today.
On Friday, me and my group mates were so nervous while waiting for physiology lecture to start. (our teacher is the lecturer) She is normally punctual for her lectures and has never come into the hall later than 10 minutes till lecture begins. Our friend from another group heard that our teacher wasn’t there when they went to look for her in the morning and it only made us even more nervous.
Finally, when the lecture door from which the teacher normally came in opened and our teacher came in, our whole class jumped in joy and finally exhaled the long held breath. So, in the end we had our teacher giving us the major test with the exception of giving us a computer test. But all in all, we were glad to have her back.
Next on Saturday, the day I have been looking forward the whole week. Since we were going to play a friendly match on that day, I was trembling with excitement. But everything was in a mess as the timetable was mixed up.
Our usual time for training is 7pm to 9pm at the university but since the Malaysian Student Association (MSA) is using the time for competition we opted to have our training at another place from 5pm to 8pm. However, at the last minute, we were told that the MSA weren’t going to use that time slot and we had to use it, so we had overlapping time.
We finally were able to clear things up and this was how it went. From 5pm to 6pm we will have a friendly match, and from 6 to 8 the girls will be having their training at the other center while the guys will have their weekly training at university from 7pm to 9pm.
The changes in schedule made a lot of people confused and I was greatly disappointed when the juniors weren’t able to show up during the match and the training. They are the ones that need the training the most for the upcoming interuniversity volleyball match and were the first to get pumped up, now, they seem to have lost their interest and only God knows why.
On Sunday during the girls training, I found out that we were having the match on this coming Sunday. Upon hearing the news I do not know why but it felt like I have nothing to do with it and when I told my teammate (a experienced player) about it, he said that he felt like we might not even win a single match against the 8 teams that includes us. I could only silently agree and hope that this will not be true as only 4 teams out of the 8 have volleyball players and other teams are just people who wants to have fun.
I guess we can only wait and see while hoping for the best.
Sorry I haven’t been updating for quite a few days. I have been quite busy and was totally exhausted on Saturday night which I usually use to update my blog. So, let me continue from Friday till today.
On Friday, me and my group mates were so nervous while waiting for physiology lecture to start. (our teacher is the lecturer) She is normally punctual for her lectures and has never come into the hall later than 10 minutes till lecture begins. Our friend from another group heard that our teacher wasn’t there when they went to look for her in the morning and it only made us even more nervous.
Finally, when the lecture door from which the teacher normally came in opened and our teacher came in, our whole class jumped in joy and finally exhaled the long held breath. So, in the end we had our teacher giving us the major test with the exception of giving us a computer test. But all in all, we were glad to have her back.
Next on Saturday, the day I have been looking forward the whole week. Since we were going to play a friendly match on that day, I was trembling with excitement. But everything was in a mess as the timetable was mixed up.
Our usual time for training is 7pm to 9pm at the university but since the Malaysian Student Association (MSA) is using the time for competition we opted to have our training at another place from 5pm to 8pm. However, at the last minute, we were told that the MSA weren’t going to use that time slot and we had to use it, so we had overlapping time.
We finally were able to clear things up and this was how it went. From 5pm to 6pm we will have a friendly match, and from 6 to 8 the girls will be having their training at the other center while the guys will have their weekly training at university from 7pm to 9pm.
The changes in schedule made a lot of people confused and I was greatly disappointed when the juniors weren’t able to show up during the match and the training. They are the ones that need the training the most for the upcoming interuniversity volleyball match and were the first to get pumped up, now, they seem to have lost their interest and only God knows why.
On Sunday during the girls training, I found out that we were having the match on this coming Sunday. Upon hearing the news I do not know why but it felt like I have nothing to do with it and when I told my teammate (a experienced player) about it, he said that he felt like we might not even win a single match against the 8 teams that includes us. I could only silently agree and hope that this will not be true as only 4 teams out of the 8 have volleyball players and other teams are just people who wants to have fun.
I guess we can only wait and see while hoping for the best.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Two Shocks and A Hope
Thursday, November 12 2009
Yesterday, I brought my hand phone to the workshop with high spirits hoping that it will be fixed as it was a new phone. But this morning when I went to find out what did the people diagnosed my phone with, I was in for a big shock. The first question that they ask me when I reached the shop was if I bought the phone in Russia or not. When I said no, they told me that they finally understood and gave me an answer of they couldn’t do anything to help me repair my phone. They said that there is nothing they can do and most probably no one here can help and whatever that they said next was unknown as they started to speak in a very fluent and fast Russian language making me unable to hear a word coherently.
When I reached school for my lecture for the day, I got my second shock. My friend from another group who has the same teacher for physiology classes told us that the teacher was sick and hence they had another teacher for classes. Since this week we are having majors for physiology in the gastro-intestinal section, the teacher gave them another kind of exam method than what our usual teacher gives. Upon hearing that, all of my group mates and were praying that teacher would be there tomorrow as we do not want to have another teacher giving us an exam method that we are not used to. But all that I can do now is study hard and keep my fingers crossed.
Other than the two horrible shocks I had a nice piece of news from yesterday. I have been trying to get my group mates who live under the same roof as I do to move out with me as we stay very far away from the university and hence spend a lot of time on travelling to and fro our destination.
While I was watching movie yesterday night, my friend suddenly asked me if I am willing to move out with them. I was filled with happiness and ecstasy upon hearing the news. I have been praying for a long time hoping that I can move out to a better place. This is one of the best news I have heard since a long time and is also one of my wishes while staying here.
I can only hope that this decision is a final one and my friends won’t change their minds at the last minute. I really can’t wait till I move out. Just thinking of the things I can do once I move and the things I can have made me wide awake looking at the ceiling for two hours before I could fall asleep yesterday night.
Go to go study for my major tomorrow. Go Nathaniel!
Yesterday, I brought my hand phone to the workshop with high spirits hoping that it will be fixed as it was a new phone. But this morning when I went to find out what did the people diagnosed my phone with, I was in for a big shock. The first question that they ask me when I reached the shop was if I bought the phone in Russia or not. When I said no, they told me that they finally understood and gave me an answer of they couldn’t do anything to help me repair my phone. They said that there is nothing they can do and most probably no one here can help and whatever that they said next was unknown as they started to speak in a very fluent and fast Russian language making me unable to hear a word coherently.
When I reached school for my lecture for the day, I got my second shock. My friend from another group who has the same teacher for physiology classes told us that the teacher was sick and hence they had another teacher for classes. Since this week we are having majors for physiology in the gastro-intestinal section, the teacher gave them another kind of exam method than what our usual teacher gives. Upon hearing that, all of my group mates and were praying that teacher would be there tomorrow as we do not want to have another teacher giving us an exam method that we are not used to. But all that I can do now is study hard and keep my fingers crossed.
Other than the two horrible shocks I had a nice piece of news from yesterday. I have been trying to get my group mates who live under the same roof as I do to move out with me as we stay very far away from the university and hence spend a lot of time on travelling to and fro our destination.
While I was watching movie yesterday night, my friend suddenly asked me if I am willing to move out with them. I was filled with happiness and ecstasy upon hearing the news. I have been praying for a long time hoping that I can move out to a better place. This is one of the best news I have heard since a long time and is also one of my wishes while staying here.
I can only hope that this decision is a final one and my friends won’t change their minds at the last minute. I really can’t wait till I move out. Just thinking of the things I can do once I move and the things I can have made me wide awake looking at the ceiling for two hours before I could fall asleep yesterday night.
Go to go study for my major tomorrow. Go Nathaniel!
Crazy Tuesday
Tuesday, November 10 2009
I entered the blog very early yesterday but there were a lot of things that happened after I uploaded the blog.
After dinner, I watched movies as usual but for a break I watched some clips on volleyball setting and saving techniques. As I was watching these clips, I was filled with energy and the urge to play well and hope to have some good results in the coming interuniversity games.
Later I received a call from one of my teammate for the interuniversity games. He told me that since his old team asked him to join them, he agreed. Thus I was left with a player short and not to mention a more stable and skillful player lost. At the thought of this I got frustrated and now I feel kind of hopeless for the games. Somehow I have lost the urge to perform well in the games but there is still some part of me that do not want to disappoint the junior. I guess we can only wait and see which part of me will win this internal battle of mine.
Later, I resumed watching the series I was enjoying. It was now at the climax where the main actor has changed from an annoying person to a kind person but was cheated by his friends and family leaving him penniless with no one and nowhere to go to, except for an innocent girl whom he befriended earlier. While watching him being humiliated by his ex-colleagues I felt a pain stabbed into the heart, feeling that the world is such a dangerous place filled with all kinds of people.
Today, after reaching home when I was cooking dinner (boiling soup) I left the cover on the table and was preparing another dish, my friend came in the kitchen and wanted to start steaming some stuff. He then pulled down a pot to use it for the base of the steamer and then he took the cover away without asking me.
I then told him that I need to use it for my soup and he gave me a questioning look. He said that he thought it doesn’t fit the current pot I am using. By then I was already a little angry as I have seen him using the cover with the pot million of times. He then went to look for another cover from a stack of dirty items. He then took the cover I was using again without saying anything and when I asked him what I should be using then, he said that I could use the dirty cover! I was fuming by then. For god sake, I washed the cover till it was clean and he used it and just pass me a dirty one? What on earth was happening? And the reason he was using the pot is because he said to his girlfriend that his wok was too precious to be used for steaming stuff. What kind of reason is that can someone please tell me? You are willing to use somebody’s stuff and let it spoil but not your own? Very good reasoning skills I see.
While writing this I am still fuming with flames thinking back and at the same time I also feel a little childish taking every little thing into account and behave like a child getting angry over everything. I really can’t make up my mind. I want to change for the better and behave more mature and gentleman but I think it is true that it is easier to change a whole dynasty then to change one’s own habit or personality as the saying goes in a Chinese proverb.
I entered the blog very early yesterday but there were a lot of things that happened after I uploaded the blog.
After dinner, I watched movies as usual but for a break I watched some clips on volleyball setting and saving techniques. As I was watching these clips, I was filled with energy and the urge to play well and hope to have some good results in the coming interuniversity games.
Later I received a call from one of my teammate for the interuniversity games. He told me that since his old team asked him to join them, he agreed. Thus I was left with a player short and not to mention a more stable and skillful player lost. At the thought of this I got frustrated and now I feel kind of hopeless for the games. Somehow I have lost the urge to perform well in the games but there is still some part of me that do not want to disappoint the junior. I guess we can only wait and see which part of me will win this internal battle of mine.
Later, I resumed watching the series I was enjoying. It was now at the climax where the main actor has changed from an annoying person to a kind person but was cheated by his friends and family leaving him penniless with no one and nowhere to go to, except for an innocent girl whom he befriended earlier. While watching him being humiliated by his ex-colleagues I felt a pain stabbed into the heart, feeling that the world is such a dangerous place filled with all kinds of people.
Today, after reaching home when I was cooking dinner (boiling soup) I left the cover on the table and was preparing another dish, my friend came in the kitchen and wanted to start steaming some stuff. He then pulled down a pot to use it for the base of the steamer and then he took the cover away without asking me.
I then told him that I need to use it for my soup and he gave me a questioning look. He said that he thought it doesn’t fit the current pot I am using. By then I was already a little angry as I have seen him using the cover with the pot million of times. He then went to look for another cover from a stack of dirty items. He then took the cover I was using again without saying anything and when I asked him what I should be using then, he said that I could use the dirty cover! I was fuming by then. For god sake, I washed the cover till it was clean and he used it and just pass me a dirty one? What on earth was happening? And the reason he was using the pot is because he said to his girlfriend that his wok was too precious to be used for steaming stuff. What kind of reason is that can someone please tell me? You are willing to use somebody’s stuff and let it spoil but not your own? Very good reasoning skills I see.
While writing this I am still fuming with flames thinking back and at the same time I also feel a little childish taking every little thing into account and behave like a child getting angry over everything. I really can’t make up my mind. I want to change for the better and behave more mature and gentleman but I think it is true that it is easier to change a whole dynasty then to change one’s own habit or personality as the saying goes in a Chinese proverb.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Lazy
Monday, November 9 2009
Yesterday was Sunday, and I went training with the university girl volleyball team. Since the captain was absent that day, he passed his job to a fellow male volleyball member. In the end all the male members present helped out in training the girls.
What was funny was that, as it was nearing the Kursk Games (the yearly university games), the committee wanted to do some photo shots and video on the team members, but they chose a day when our captain wasn’t there. It ended up as us who are less experienced and skilled players who took the pictures.
As during this week or the next we will be having the interuniversity games, we decided to allow the new members to try out playing on court and also have a chance improve their serving technique as quite a number of them will be playing.
After training I had to rush through my studies as I had an extra class of physiology today since we didn’t have it on the last Friday. But instead of using my time wisely to study I ended up studying and chatting with a friend.
So I don’t think I can say anything when teacher gave me a B for class today. I really don’t deserve to be treated so well by my parents. I should have been studying but I got side tracked just because of my cravings to chit-chat.
Anyway I don’t want to write anything longer that isn’t interesting and I have my meal to finish so I guess this is about it for today.
Yesterday was Sunday, and I went training with the university girl volleyball team. Since the captain was absent that day, he passed his job to a fellow male volleyball member. In the end all the male members present helped out in training the girls.
What was funny was that, as it was nearing the Kursk Games (the yearly university games), the committee wanted to do some photo shots and video on the team members, but they chose a day when our captain wasn’t there. It ended up as us who are less experienced and skilled players who took the pictures.
As during this week or the next we will be having the interuniversity games, we decided to allow the new members to try out playing on court and also have a chance improve their serving technique as quite a number of them will be playing.
After training I had to rush through my studies as I had an extra class of physiology today since we didn’t have it on the last Friday. But instead of using my time wisely to study I ended up studying and chatting with a friend.
So I don’t think I can say anything when teacher gave me a B for class today. I really don’t deserve to be treated so well by my parents. I should have been studying but I got side tracked just because of my cravings to chit-chat.
Anyway I don’t want to write anything longer that isn’t interesting and I have my meal to finish so I guess this is about it for today.
Improvements ?
Saturday, November 07 2009
It’s finally the weekend again, the time that everyone has been looking forward to the whole week. Weekly volleyball training is being held and this makes me tremble with excitement. But like in everything, there is always a good side and bad side.
Earlier this week when I was chatting with my parents I found out that my mother has some problem with her ears. Pus were forming and the doctor said that her hearing is affected. Thus she might need to use the hearing aid. When I heard this not only was I shocked but also sad. To make things worse, my mother told me that since the hearing aid is quite expensive, she will just try to adapt to her current situation instead of buying the aid. This made me very sad to think that I can’t do anything to help her. The only thing I can do is to study hard and not let all her hard earn money used on my studies to be spend on vain. Mum, thank you for supporting us always and please take very good care of yourself.
Now about the more light-hearted stuff. As usual we were having our volleyball training and this week a lot of people came, they were a lot more juniors that came this week thanks to one of the junior who pulled the others to the training. I really need to thank you for bringing more juniors to play volleyball.
During training, I felt that since I found out the mistake of my setting technique last week, I have finally break through myself and is now better in setting. Though, this is only my personal view and nobody has said anything about my improvement.
After training, for reasons unknown I was very talkative and was babbling all the way home. Maybe I was excited about the coming competition within the university. I really think that my team will lose to the other volleyball player team as they are more stable in their technique than mine. (the usual volleyball players were broken into a few teams and mixed with new players)
I am also doubting the abilities of my team players when my fellow friends from the other team ask me to trust them as they aren’t as bad as I think. I really hope we can have a nice match during the competition as we haven’t been playing in court since we started training after resuming from the summer holidays.
Lets just keep our fingers crossed and hope that everything will turn out smoothly as the competition should be starting from next week. Good luck!
It’s finally the weekend again, the time that everyone has been looking forward to the whole week. Weekly volleyball training is being held and this makes me tremble with excitement. But like in everything, there is always a good side and bad side.
Earlier this week when I was chatting with my parents I found out that my mother has some problem with her ears. Pus were forming and the doctor said that her hearing is affected. Thus she might need to use the hearing aid. When I heard this not only was I shocked but also sad. To make things worse, my mother told me that since the hearing aid is quite expensive, she will just try to adapt to her current situation instead of buying the aid. This made me very sad to think that I can’t do anything to help her. The only thing I can do is to study hard and not let all her hard earn money used on my studies to be spend on vain. Mum, thank you for supporting us always and please take very good care of yourself.
Now about the more light-hearted stuff. As usual we were having our volleyball training and this week a lot of people came, they were a lot more juniors that came this week thanks to one of the junior who pulled the others to the training. I really need to thank you for bringing more juniors to play volleyball.
During training, I felt that since I found out the mistake of my setting technique last week, I have finally break through myself and is now better in setting. Though, this is only my personal view and nobody has said anything about my improvement.
After training, for reasons unknown I was very talkative and was babbling all the way home. Maybe I was excited about the coming competition within the university. I really think that my team will lose to the other volleyball player team as they are more stable in their technique than mine. (the usual volleyball players were broken into a few teams and mixed with new players)
I am also doubting the abilities of my team players when my fellow friends from the other team ask me to trust them as they aren’t as bad as I think. I really hope we can have a nice match during the competition as we haven’t been playing in court since we started training after resuming from the summer holidays.
Lets just keep our fingers crossed and hope that everything will turn out smoothly as the competition should be starting from next week. Good luck!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Post Holiday Feelings
Thursday, November 5 2009
Today was the first day back to university life after a day of holiday. As we do not have a lot of holidays in Russia, I was very happy that I had even a day of holiday after the resuming class from summer break.
As classes were quite late today I didn’t really set my alarm clock. When I woke up it felt as though as it was the beginning of a new week because of the lack of holidays in Russia. As usual, I had breakfast and went to university.
The first class of the day was a lecture, before the lecture started, my friend asked if I had a hair cut and I replied yes. She then said that why did I cut my hair during winter as it would be warmer and a lot more logical for people to leave their hair long during the winter period. After giving it some thought I just shrugged and said that it doesn’t really matter and after having a hair cut I look neater.
After classes when I was on the way back home, I suddenly remembered that I had to inform other members of the volleyball team about the games that is being held on the following week. When I called the juniors, they were so excited about it and didn’t wait for me to invite them but asked if they could join.
I was quite taken back by their enthusiasm but it is not like I am complaining. As a matter of fact, I am very happy to know that the juniors are having an interest in volleyball. When I told this to my class mate beside me , she just laughed and said it was also like this when it was my first time hearing about the games.
Thinking back, I laughed at the statement and agreed. It seemed like ages ago that it was the first time I was playing volleyball official match and to think now that we have all come this far.
I am having my weekly physiology class tomorrow and have a lot of studying to do. Keep your fingers crossed and hope that I can get good results and maybe be able to have no classes as the teacher said she will be quite busy tomorrow and asked us we could change our class time but unfortunately we had class during that time too. So, keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best to happen!
Today was the first day back to university life after a day of holiday. As we do not have a lot of holidays in Russia, I was very happy that I had even a day of holiday after the resuming class from summer break.
As classes were quite late today I didn’t really set my alarm clock. When I woke up it felt as though as it was the beginning of a new week because of the lack of holidays in Russia. As usual, I had breakfast and went to university.
The first class of the day was a lecture, before the lecture started, my friend asked if I had a hair cut and I replied yes. She then said that why did I cut my hair during winter as it would be warmer and a lot more logical for people to leave their hair long during the winter period. After giving it some thought I just shrugged and said that it doesn’t really matter and after having a hair cut I look neater.
After classes when I was on the way back home, I suddenly remembered that I had to inform other members of the volleyball team about the games that is being held on the following week. When I called the juniors, they were so excited about it and didn’t wait for me to invite them but asked if they could join.
I was quite taken back by their enthusiasm but it is not like I am complaining. As a matter of fact, I am very happy to know that the juniors are having an interest in volleyball. When I told this to my class mate beside me , she just laughed and said it was also like this when it was my first time hearing about the games.
Thinking back, I laughed at the statement and agreed. It seemed like ages ago that it was the first time I was playing volleyball official match and to think now that we have all come this far.
I am having my weekly physiology class tomorrow and have a lot of studying to do. Keep your fingers crossed and hope that I can get good results and maybe be able to have no classes as the teacher said she will be quite busy tomorrow and asked us we could change our class time but unfortunately we had class during that time too. So, keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best to happen!
Happy Holiday
Wednesday, November 4 2009
Today is a holiday in Russia that is why I am very happy today. According to my friends today’s holiday is in accordance to the day when Russia changed its name from Soviet Union to Russia Federation although I am not very sure about this.
I had a wonderful night the day before. As it was a holiday today, my group mates and I decided to have dinner together and on the menu was fried chicken, homemade shandy and salad. The dinner was awesome!
During our chat we spoke about the past, about the time when we just reached Russia for the first time. It was fun looking back and realize how much we have all changed and to think about all the stupid things we have done. It is really a wonder how much things have changed only in a short amount of time, as short as only 2 years. After dinner we chatted for quite a bit before lazily standing up to clear the plates and stuff.
About today, because it was a holiday I let myself sleep in without setting my alarm clock. But my biological didn’t allow me to sleep in and I ended up waking up around 6a.m. I had to watch movies to make myself fall asleep again.
But when I woke up, I had a serious headache. Despite having a headache I still whipped myself a breakfast that is good enough for a holiday morning. After that, my friend asked me if I still wanted her help to cut my hair as I asked her yesterday and am usually reluctant to cut my hair.
I did cut my hair and am proud to say that it does look good. I can’t express how much I really want to thank my friend for doing me a favor by giving my hair a trim.
Later in the evening I had volleyball training. During today’s training, I finally realized what was actually the correct way of setting the ball. It was a lot more easier than usual to set the ball this way. Also, during the training the captain said that there will be MY GAMES after 2 weeks. The news of the games was so sudden that it gave all the players a shock though I was also excited to hear about the games.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Laid back Sunday
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Sunday is a day which to some means the beginning of a new week while to others means the end of a week. To me both are correct, it only differs in the point of view. Sunday is the only day of the week when I do not have to set my alarm clock and am able to sleep through the whole day. But as the saying goes in a Chinese proverb, the time in which we have fun is always seemingly short. The ability to sleep in and enjoy the weekend doesn’t last long.
Normally every Sunday evening, I would go to the sports center to help our university volleyball girl team to train. But this weekend, I received a call stating that the sports center that we usually go to had caught fire during the last few days and is currently undergoing renovation. Hence the hall wasn’t able to be used for our training. But little did I know that the girl team had their training as usual because the only that had changed was the location of training.
Though, by the time I knew this information it was a little too late and I ended up not going to the training. Anyway, it is not a bad idea as this gives me more time to rest. Speaking of which the whole day was pretty uneventful as I did nothing in particular except cooking my breakfast for about 2 hours or so.
I should be studying now for my major in Microbiology class tomorrow. But I guess I will have a rest for about half an hour or so by writing this and maybe have a bath.
Sometimes, I really envy other group as they have better relationship among the group. It’s not like my group doesn’t have good relationship but it is just that sometimes I feel that all of us don’t really trust each other and will go behind each other’s back to do something that will help only ourselves.
I do not really know if this happens only in my group while in other groups they look alright or maybe this is just because the grass is always greener on the other side. I really do not like it when we have to talk about something bad about our own friends behind their backs. Of course I do this also but it really do feels uncomfortable talking behind people’s back.
I guess I do not want to write so much today as I still haven’t start studying and my half an hour is almost up. I hope I will have something more interesting to write about tomorrow. And keep your fingers crossed for me and pray that I will get good results for tomorrow’s exam. I will write about the results as soon as I know them. That’s it for today I guess.
Sunday is a day which to some means the beginning of a new week while to others means the end of a week. To me both are correct, it only differs in the point of view. Sunday is the only day of the week when I do not have to set my alarm clock and am able to sleep through the whole day. But as the saying goes in a Chinese proverb, the time in which we have fun is always seemingly short. The ability to sleep in and enjoy the weekend doesn’t last long.
Normally every Sunday evening, I would go to the sports center to help our university volleyball girl team to train. But this weekend, I received a call stating that the sports center that we usually go to had caught fire during the last few days and is currently undergoing renovation. Hence the hall wasn’t able to be used for our training. But little did I know that the girl team had their training as usual because the only that had changed was the location of training.
Though, by the time I knew this information it was a little too late and I ended up not going to the training. Anyway, it is not a bad idea as this gives me more time to rest. Speaking of which the whole day was pretty uneventful as I did nothing in particular except cooking my breakfast for about 2 hours or so.
I should be studying now for my major in Microbiology class tomorrow. But I guess I will have a rest for about half an hour or so by writing this and maybe have a bath.
Sometimes, I really envy other group as they have better relationship among the group. It’s not like my group doesn’t have good relationship but it is just that sometimes I feel that all of us don’t really trust each other and will go behind each other’s back to do something that will help only ourselves.
I do not really know if this happens only in my group while in other groups they look alright or maybe this is just because the grass is always greener on the other side. I really do not like it when we have to talk about something bad about our own friends behind their backs. Of course I do this also but it really do feels uncomfortable talking behind people’s back.
I guess I do not want to write so much today as I still haven’t start studying and my half an hour is almost up. I hope I will have something more interesting to write about tomorrow. And keep your fingers crossed for me and pray that I will get good results for tomorrow’s exam. I will write about the results as soon as I know them. That’s it for today I guess.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Puppy
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Today is a weekend. Finally after a week of “hectic” week, I can finally sit back and relax before starting the whole routine life again. Speaking of cycles, with the decreasing of temperature and formation of ice flakes on the ground, it is safe to say the winter is sure to be around the corner.
The temperature has dropped to below zero degree Celsius, and the trees are starting to turn naked. All I can say is hang in there little leaves as if you guys drop, it indicates that winter is here. I have no idea why this year even when I am wearing thick clothing while walking on the streets I still feel cold even the temperature is still only moderately cold. As compared to last year, at this time of the years I am sure that I was wearing a whole less number of clothing on my body.
After class today, I went grocery shopping which is not really interesting except for when I used my debit card to pay I couldn’t understand what the cashier was trying to say as she was babbling quite quickly in her fluent Russian language. How awesome is she?
During the evening I had my weekly volleyball training. I am very glad that the captain of the team has now take more time to train my abilities as a setter as I still can’t do my job well. But again I disappointed the captain by not being up to his standard. Sorry captain!! I will train harder at home to make sure that my skills will be up to standards when it is time for the inter-university Malaysian games.
Another interesting thing that happened today was my friend who used to live in the same house as I do and had move out bought a dog last week and brought it with him while visiting us today. OH MY GOD!!! The little puppy was SOOO cute. According to my friends who were babysitting the dog for the time being, it had peed in the room about 10 times in about 2 hours or so. But what can I say? It is still a puppy and it is too cute to be angry at it.
Looking at the puppy reminds me of my own puppy back in Malaysia. It is named Jewel( for what reasons I do not know, for this you will have to ask my parents as it was them who suggested it, I just agreed). Anyway this is the second dog we had and this dog is a lot more playful than the last one was. Maybe it is because the whole family spends more time with it than we used to with the previous dog. To say the truth, I actually miss both my dogs, the previous and the current one. I really hope I can have a holiday that is long enough to allow me to go back to Malaysia soon. I miss everyone back there.
I took a picture with the puppy that my friend brought over and when I wanted to connect the camera to my notebook, only did I notice that the connection wire was nowhere to be found. I looked for in high and low for about half an hour but all was in vain as I was unable to locate where I misplaced the wire. So I had to ask my friends for a card reader and I was lucky and was able to get a hold of one. I guess I will have to ask my parent if I left the connection wire back in Malaysia or what.
Friday, October 30, 2009
First Snow of the Season
Friday, October 30 2009
I had a really though day today. Remember that I said that I wanted to study later for my physiology class? I ended up studying it really late. I was almost unable to finish all the material that I had to study for the class. But thanks to the extra time I had from breaks I managed to finish the materials that I had to study and thank God that I was able to scrape an excellent mark.
Today the first class of the day was Russian language class. I had a wonderful surprise by watching the snow fall when I step down the bus. But the beautiful scene lasted for only a second. Before I knew it, the snow had stopped falling. However, I could say that this is the first snow of the season and winter is coming soon.
As I said, the first class was Russian language class. As I am studying overseas, there is without doubt that I have to pay for tuition fees. As the department of Russian Language was having their renovation, the amount of free classrooms were limited and there was furniture all around the place. I have no idea what the workers that are renovating the place doing as they are paid to renovate the department but we as students need to help them to move the furniture from 1 place to another during classes. Isn’t that really funny.
As classes started pretty late today, our lessons ended also pretty late, around 6pm. I know that this isn’t a weird phenomenon in countries that have four seasons. However, since I grew up in a tropical country the sky doesn’t turn dark till it is around 8 or 9pm. It is only autumn now but around 5.30pm the sky is almost pitch black.
I manage to take a photo of myself in the bus station today after class and it was around 6pm. It was freezing when I was standing out in the open waiting for the bus to get myself home. When I pass, what me and all my friends call the temperature building, I saw the temperature indicated was +0.5 degree Celsius.
Since it was quite cold outside and I haven’t been to the washroom for quite sometime. I immediately felt the urge to go to the toilet after standing out in the cold for a while. Lucky me my friend told me not to think of it and help me to distract myself from thinking about the urge to urinate. Thanks to her, I manage to reach home safely without my pants getting wet and add more coldness to my already frozen legs.
The thought of tomorrow is Saturday makes me shiver in delight as it will be a weekend and I can spend time to rest and look forward to the volleyball training that will be held tomorrow night. While I am writing this, I can hear my fellow housemates doing some volleyball training themselves to kill time and to improve their skills. Listening to their laughter and the sound of the ball upon contact of their hands makes me feel like playing some of it myself. Though I have already took my bath. I think that’s all for today. I’ll write tomorrow whether or not I played volleyball with my friends.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lazy day
Thursday, October 29 2009
Looks like I am also writing today but I think I am writing later than usual. While I am writing this I am still watching a series. I am actually supposed to be studying for the physiology class tomorrow. I am really very naughty.
As for movies that I watched today, I guessed I will have to say I do not have any new interesting movie to recommend as I have change back to my old habit of watching series. But the series I am watching now is quite stupid and funny as the same time.
I think I will be writing less today as I would like to take a small nap before starting my studies. And as for my thoughts of the day, I guess I have nothing much to say. I think one thing that I can say is that today in philosophy class I have got my exam exemption project which makes the amount of exams that I need to have during this winter finals 1 out of 3 as I think I have got 2 exemption project.
But speaking of the 1 an only exam that I have to take I actually am very scared of it as I am not really prepared for the exam and have been constantly not studying hard for each individual classes. I really hope that I will have excellent results for the coming exam.
I think that is about all that I have to say for today. Bye
Looks like I am also writing today but I think I am writing later than usual. While I am writing this I am still watching a series. I am actually supposed to be studying for the physiology class tomorrow. I am really very naughty.
As for movies that I watched today, I guessed I will have to say I do not have any new interesting movie to recommend as I have change back to my old habit of watching series. But the series I am watching now is quite stupid and funny as the same time.
I think I will be writing less today as I would like to take a small nap before starting my studies. And as for my thoughts of the day, I guess I have nothing much to say. I think one thing that I can say is that today in philosophy class I have got my exam exemption project which makes the amount of exams that I need to have during this winter finals 1 out of 3 as I think I have got 2 exemption project.
But speaking of the 1 an only exam that I have to take I actually am very scared of it as I am not really prepared for the exam and have been constantly not studying hard for each individual classes. I really hope that I will have excellent results for the coming exam.
I think that is about all that I have to say for today. Bye
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Childhood movies memories
Wednesday, October 28 2009
I am back today again. I don’t have any idea what is up these few days but I feel like I have been watching a very touching and very memorable movie every day. As written yesterday what I saw was fireproof. Today I watched a movie called Coach Carter. As a matter of fact I am still listening to the ending song as I am writing now.
This movie is about a basketball in a high school. The challenges that he faces as he tries to change his players into not only good basketball players but also academically well students. At first the players resist but at the end the players realize what he is doing is for their own good and help him through thick and thin. This movie reminds me that we need not only excel in sports as sportsmen but also stand tall and remain our role as a student.
Speaking of which I have done neither. I had biochemical classes today but neither did I study for today’s topic but I also didn’t go to the gym which I paid for with a whole lot of money and I am also not training my skills as a setter in volleyball as I was supposed to do.
As for how was my day today? I remember that I have something to day this morning on the way to the university but as I am writing this I have no idea whatsoever that what feelings that I wanted to conduct while writing in this dairy.
Sometimes I wish I could be like characters in those movies or series I watch. Be gentlemen, have good academic results, and have a good relationship and so on. But as I said I know all of these are fictional. Most of these characters can only be found in movies or series. However I still can’t help but feel sometimes that I am not doing what I am supposed to do as a child, a son, a student and a friend.
Maybe after playing some ball my mind might have something more to say but as for now I think I will sign off. So long.
Just finished watching a childhood movie. It is called Beauty and the Beast. Watching movies like these sure do bring back memories. Even though we are more or less an adult, but watching movies from the past sure does give us new feelings and reminds us of the old. Like the saying from a Chinese proverb, rereading will help us learn something new. I think it is very true, as in different periods of time we have different perceptions and hence will see things in different point of views and aspect.
It is now quite late over here and I think I have to go to bed already. I haven’t really studied for tomorrow’s subject but I don’t really think that I need to as it is kind of useless subject from my point of view. But to others it might be their major subject that they are studying. I think I will sign off now. So good night.
I am back today again. I don’t have any idea what is up these few days but I feel like I have been watching a very touching and very memorable movie every day. As written yesterday what I saw was fireproof. Today I watched a movie called Coach Carter. As a matter of fact I am still listening to the ending song as I am writing now.
This movie is about a basketball in a high school. The challenges that he faces as he tries to change his players into not only good basketball players but also academically well students. At first the players resist but at the end the players realize what he is doing is for their own good and help him through thick and thin. This movie reminds me that we need not only excel in sports as sportsmen but also stand tall and remain our role as a student.
Speaking of which I have done neither. I had biochemical classes today but neither did I study for today’s topic but I also didn’t go to the gym which I paid for with a whole lot of money and I am also not training my skills as a setter in volleyball as I was supposed to do.
As for how was my day today? I remember that I have something to day this morning on the way to the university but as I am writing this I have no idea whatsoever that what feelings that I wanted to conduct while writing in this dairy.
Sometimes I wish I could be like characters in those movies or series I watch. Be gentlemen, have good academic results, and have a good relationship and so on. But as I said I know all of these are fictional. Most of these characters can only be found in movies or series. However I still can’t help but feel sometimes that I am not doing what I am supposed to do as a child, a son, a student and a friend.
Maybe after playing some ball my mind might have something more to say but as for now I think I will sign off. So long.
Just finished watching a childhood movie. It is called Beauty and the Beast. Watching movies like these sure do bring back memories. Even though we are more or less an adult, but watching movies from the past sure does give us new feelings and reminds us of the old. Like the saying from a Chinese proverb, rereading will help us learn something new. I think it is very true, as in different periods of time we have different perceptions and hence will see things in different point of views and aspect.
It is now quite late over here and I think I have to go to bed already. I haven’t really studied for tomorrow’s subject but I don’t really think that I need to as it is kind of useless subject from my point of view. But to others it might be their major subject that they are studying. I think I will sign off now. So good night.
1st day
Tuesday, October 27 2009
This is the 1st time I am writing my feelings on this document. But this is not the 1st time I am writing something that I feel. I have written my feelings in blogs before. But all those time I have always stopped a few days or weeks later. I hope I can continue to write these feelings for many days, weeks and years to come.
Today, I watched a movie called Fireproof. It is mainly about a couple who has trouble on their marriage and is on the verge of having divorce. The father of the main actor then gives his son a book that state what to do for 40 days before finally giving in to signing the divorce papers. At 1st he was reluctant to do so. But after a few weeks, when his father show him that how religion has helped him in the course of his life and no matter how many times his son rejected the God, He stills love him unconditionally. That is when the main character of the story realizes that how one must learn to love before he can love someone else.
After watching this movie and during I felt like going to cell group. I am not a Christian by birth but my parents brought me up in an environment where we don’t reject other religious way of thoughts. I was born and brought up as a Buddhist but was sent to Sunday classes when I was young. The main reason that I feel like going to it is because that in the cell group one can share their thoughts and feelings with the cell mates, which is what I wanted. Though I am not sure if I am ready to share most of my thoughts with a group of people. What I really want is someone that is willing to listen to my worries and be there for me like what a close friend does (in movies only I guess).
From a young age, I was always dependent on my closest friends. But since I have come overseas to further my studies, I have learned that some friends may not be that sincere as they seem to us. I have poured all my heart and soul to my former best friend but was never quite returned. But as the saying goes, what you give isn’t always what you get. I finally learned how to let go.
Sometimes or probably most of the times I feel very lonely here as even though I have let go of my former best friend, I have not learned to how to deal with my feelings and have not find a way as an outlet for these feelings bottled up.
Recently I have been eyeing on a junior. His name is Nicholas. Today when he told me he is very interested in playing volleyball, I was very happy to hear it. One of the reasons was because finally there are some juniors that are willing to play volleyball. Second of all, I do not know the exact reason as to why I care so much about him but as usually I am really scared that my hostility towards him might frightened him away so as for now I still remain quiet although I really want to share my thoughts and feelings with him.
I think I have been rambling too much for a day. Maybe I should just stop here. I hope I will write soon and hope that it will become a habit of mine to write my thoughts of the day for everyday of my life.
This is the 1st time I am writing my feelings on this document. But this is not the 1st time I am writing something that I feel. I have written my feelings in blogs before. But all those time I have always stopped a few days or weeks later. I hope I can continue to write these feelings for many days, weeks and years to come.
Today, I watched a movie called Fireproof. It is mainly about a couple who has trouble on their marriage and is on the verge of having divorce. The father of the main actor then gives his son a book that state what to do for 40 days before finally giving in to signing the divorce papers. At 1st he was reluctant to do so. But after a few weeks, when his father show him that how religion has helped him in the course of his life and no matter how many times his son rejected the God, He stills love him unconditionally. That is when the main character of the story realizes that how one must learn to love before he can love someone else.
After watching this movie and during I felt like going to cell group. I am not a Christian by birth but my parents brought me up in an environment where we don’t reject other religious way of thoughts. I was born and brought up as a Buddhist but was sent to Sunday classes when I was young. The main reason that I feel like going to it is because that in the cell group one can share their thoughts and feelings with the cell mates, which is what I wanted. Though I am not sure if I am ready to share most of my thoughts with a group of people. What I really want is someone that is willing to listen to my worries and be there for me like what a close friend does (in movies only I guess).
From a young age, I was always dependent on my closest friends. But since I have come overseas to further my studies, I have learned that some friends may not be that sincere as they seem to us. I have poured all my heart and soul to my former best friend but was never quite returned. But as the saying goes, what you give isn’t always what you get. I finally learned how to let go.
Sometimes or probably most of the times I feel very lonely here as even though I have let go of my former best friend, I have not learned to how to deal with my feelings and have not find a way as an outlet for these feelings bottled up.
Recently I have been eyeing on a junior. His name is Nicholas. Today when he told me he is very interested in playing volleyball, I was very happy to hear it. One of the reasons was because finally there are some juniors that are willing to play volleyball. Second of all, I do not know the exact reason as to why I care so much about him but as usually I am really scared that my hostility towards him might frightened him away so as for now I still remain quiet although I really want to share my thoughts and feelings with him.
I think I have been rambling too much for a day. Maybe I should just stop here. I hope I will write soon and hope that it will become a habit of mine to write my thoughts of the day for everyday of my life.
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