Tiring Day

This morning, I woke up with a shock when I opened my eyes after hearing the alarm on my phone ringing and taking a glance on my watch. I was astonished to see the that I was one hour late from my usual waking time. The time in Russia had its daylight saving turned off on Sunday(27.03.2011) hence we moved ahead by one hour. My laptop detected the change and switched the time automatically and I manually turn the time on my watch ahead by an hour. Though, I forgot about my handphone's time which did not change the time automaticaly, which lead to my late waking.
Being late, I only washed my face and brush my teeth before rushing out to head for my morning lecture. I didn't have a chance to even grab anything for my breakfast which is something I have not done in ages.
After lecture, we had a 2 hour gap till the next class and I decided to go groceries shopping(because I was responsible for cooking dinner this week) and return home for lunch.
Since the lecturer let us off late(she had quite a lot of materials to lecture on), I had to rush through my groceries shopping, rush home, quickly cook my lunch, ate it while studying for the class later.
After classes ended, I was in a dilemma of what to do since I wanted to go vote for our next student body president but I had some groceries that I still need to buy and still need to cook and from what I heard, the voting will only start around 6pm after the debate.
At last, I decided to pass my vote ticket to a friend to help me put it into the box while I head to the market to finish my groceries shopping and return back to cook dinner first.
What I cooked for dinner today was Nasi Lemak in which I cooked another portion of sambal belacan. This time, I remembered to take a photo, so here is the photo of the end product.

Spring Cleaning

With my Operative Surgery cycle going on for 2.5 weeks, it means I will be doing a lot of studies during this period. Also with my sister's computer down, it doesn't make sense for me to keep moving my laptop on a use basis(when I want to watch movie and relax, I put it on my bedside table, and if I want to study,I'll have to move it to my study table)
Hence I decided to do some spring cleaning and at the same time give my room a new look. I decided to do it on Saturday(26.03.2011) Class finished around 2pm that day and I headed to the nearby supermarket to buy some groceries for my dinner. After buying the stuff I headed home to cook my dinner as I would be coming back late after my volleyball training.
As I was trying out to cook some sambal belacan from dried chili and no recipe, I took quite sometime. At first, I planed to cook some sambal belacan as sauce, rendang chicken and a dish of vegetable. Though, after all the hassle of cooking the belacan, I decided to just dump in the chicken and cook them together. The result was relatively nice. (I forgot to take some pictures, so no photos to upload on what the end result look like)
I finished my cooking around 4pm and started to clear up my room and move the furniture around. Since I had to go out around 6(training was at 6.30pm), I didn't have much time and only finish placing everything but not clearing up all the rubbish and cleaning equipment.
Later, I finished clearing up my room upon returning from training before taking my bath and eating dinner. I slept around 12am with everything in a new place.
By the way, it has now changed back to a 4 hour difference between my time in Russia and the Malaysia time. According to my friend, the Russia's current president decided to make it permanent and not to change the time even during winter period.

Operative Surgery Cycle

Operative Surgery cycle, one of the more tiring and tough cycle and subject during the 4th year of studies has just started on Wednesday. Me and my groupmates were lucky to have got the teacher that teaches a lot but the downside (or not) is that she is also a very strict teacher and makes us take test after every lesson rendering us to slave away on our books every night.
I forgot to mention that this cycle last 2.5 weeks and this means for the next 2 weeks I'll have to study a huge pile of notes every single night. To add on to this load, the Moscow Intervarsity Malaysian Games are closing in quickly and all sports captain are having extra last minute trainings which occurs even during weekday nights.
Hence, here I am now, awake at 4.30am since I was too tired to study after a practice yesterday night. With all the cycles and training going on, I have barely anytime to breathe and rest let alone watching movies and series.
I really can't wait for the cycle to end and head to Moscow for the games and some relaxation.
Also, on this blog I would like to send my sympathy to the people of Japan, Myanmar and Thailand as they just went through some devastating natural disasters. I hope that they will recover from it soon.
Back in Russia, the weather has been seemingly odd as it is already the end of March which is the 1st month of spring but the temperature and weather still seems to be more of an end winter type.
With weather changing drastically during the days, (it can be shiny in the morning and all of the sudden during the noon it starts to snow) it is not a wonder why so many are sick. Get well soon all my friends.

08.03.2011

Woke up at 7.30 am today since I know I should be too tired to study after the 6 hours of training I was going to face later today. After heating up my breakfast, I chat with my mum for a while before video calling her for a while. I felt so bad for being so short tempered on my mum (I got all worked up after she kept saying that she couldn’t hear me since I wasn’t speaking very loud into the microphone due to the fact that it was a holiday and most of my housemates were still asleep) Sorry mum!
After finish eating breakfast, instead of studying my materials for the next class, I ended up surfing on facebook and watching clips till it was time to go out for my training. Thus I remained very unprepared for my class next day and once again, did not fulfill my goal.
1st up was basketball training. Today, there were relatively less people. I guess it was because it was still early and most of those senior players who are not joining the intervarsity games were lazy to go out .
Around 1 hour into the training game, one of the university’s star player got himself injured(sprained his ankle) after landing on top of my foot. His injury was pretty bad because as soon as we took of his shoe, we could see the foot had already swell up. I felt pretty bad for injuring their star player as the basketball team were lacking of player due to many of the players are playing a few other sports.
Towards the end of the training, I ended up spraining my ankle after landing on some junior’s foot. Though this time, mine was not as bad as mine did not swell up. I sort of had my feet under running cold water for around 2 minutes and then sat on the bench.
Next up was female volleyball team training and the guys will be doing some basic training at the side. As the captain of the male team already showed his disapprovement of me doing basketball as well because I am the only setter and he doesn’t want me to injure myself in the training or the games itself, I bared my teeth and forced myself to walk normally and act like I am usual. I managed to get a lot of rest due to the fact that it was the female team training and not the male team.
During the male training, I had to act normal while trying to prevent myself from further injuring myself. Hence I ended up not running too much and trying not to put my foot at stress at positions that hurts the most.
After the training ended. I finally let down my guard and started to limp. During my walk back home from the bus stop, the pain in my leg started to intensify and I had to ask my housemate to aid me in walking back home.
I hope that this sprain will heal before the next training and I would be in top shape during the games. I will also ask the teacher of my current cycle (physiotherapy) on methods to aid my sprained ankle to heal faster. Pray that my wishes come true!

06.03.2011

This morning(Sunday) we had classes due the fact that the administration of the university wanting to have 2 consequtive days of holiday( on Tuesday it was a holiday- Women’s day). Hence, all Monday’s class were move forward to Sunday.
I had to wake up at 7.30am for a lecture in the university before going all the way pass the center to the other end of the town to a hospital for a class. Since it was the first class, we did not prepare anything and hoped that since it was Sunday, the teacher would not ask us any question nor let us stay in class for long. Our prayers were heard and we were dismissed after a mere 30minutes of class.
Reached home only to go out around 1 hour later for basketball training. The university basketball team had just started their closed training but I somehow managed to be able to get in although I didn’t play well. Felt so lousy playing with all those skilled players though it did make me want to improve myself badly as I really like this game.
After basketball, I had my weekly volleyball physical training which made my total time of sports for the day to 4 hours. Now here’s a catch:
I have been having a 1.5hours volleyball(vb) training on Friday, 2 hours vb training on Saturday and 2hours of basketball followed by 2 hours physical vb training on Saturday. Then I had 2 hours of vb training on Monday and another 2 hours of basketball training followed by 4 hours vb training( first 2 hours were female training while guys just do some basics at the side and 2 hours of male team training).
This should be one of my most tiring week I’ve had since I came to Russia on 2007.

04.03.2011

Today I woke up at 4.30am and laid on the bed till 4.45am before getting out of the bed reluctantly to study for my class. I had to do this not because of an exam but because I did not do my studies for the daily classes the night before.
Halfway through studying, a friend of mine from UK called me and I ended chatting with him, my sister(who was in Shanghai) while trying to study. Although this made me divide my attention between studying and chatting, I did enjoy it immensely.
After finishing my class at around 12 noon, I had no idea what I was supposed to do as to go back home which was so far from the current hospital (a 45min ride on a mini van) and I still had a lecture at 3 which was also quite a distant from where I lived(a 30 min ride on a mini van as well). Hence, me and my friends decided to go to Mc Donalds to chill till the time was up for our lecture.
At first, I made up my mind to only buy the Chicken burger which was one of the cheapest, but upon arrival, the new roll that they had on the menu(curry roll) was so mouth watering that I bought it as well.
Later only did we realize we actually had more than enough time to go back and rest for a bit before heading out for our lecture. This was the first thing that made me feel that I had a “bad” day. Even after eating, we still had time to head home and unload some of our stuff that were not needed for lecture, we still didn’t go back as it was more of a hassle(though I did really want to go back since I wanted to collect and hang out my laundry)
It then came to the time when our lecture was to start, we were ordered around the hospital as they could not decide which room to use. After finally settling down, the lecture started and from that moment onwards, my anger grew.
Not only was the teacher giving the lecture by only reading the slides( which I personally think is a waste of time as if that is all what the teacher was going to do, she could have just gve us the slides and let us read it by ourselves.), there were numerous spelling errors on the slides that she did not notice, she never stop to wait for us to finish writing notes, and worse, she would just jump some slides saying that we have already discuss it earlier. That just made me even more frustrated.
We were supposed to finish lecture at 4.30pm but were only let off around 4.45pm and by the time we finish clearing up the class room and walked to the bus stop it was 5.00pm. By the time I reached home it was nearing 6.00pm. That just screwed up my schedule for the day as I wanted to cook “Bak Kut Teh” for dinner and it needs some time to be fully done.
Thank god that I somehow managed to whip up the dishes at around 7.20pm and I am proud to say that it was one hell of a dinner.

05.02.2011

Woke up early in the morning feeling a little feverish, though I had to pack up and go down to leave the beautiful town and capital of Italy - Rome. We left Rome around 7.00am and reached back to Rimini town at 11.30am to drop down some of the people down who were not going to San Marino and at the same time pick up some other tourist( the tourist agencies really maximize their resources).
It was the first time I was able to see Rimini town in broad daylight since all these while we left the town at dawn and only return after the sun has set. The place and beach were really beautiful, I could see now why they say this place was packed and overcrowded with tourist during the summer time.
We reached San Marino a little after 12 during noon. The view was magnificent. We were given leisure time till 4.00pm which felt like a whole lot of time at first. I bought quite a number of items here as the price was relatively cheaper here. I even had a cup of Gelato ice-cream as I felt better. Man, did I regret eating it because after I had that ice-cream, I felt my temperature rising immediately.
On the way back, we stopped at what they called a factory outlet which was actually consist of branded goods such as Armani. Me and my friends being students all just walked out of it after 10 minutes and waited for the rest of the group as it was way too expensive to buy anything.
We reached back Rimini town at 6.00 pm and headed back to the restaurant near the city center we had a few days back. After dinner, I tagged along with the rest who wanted to have their last cup of Gelato. I could only watch them eat it as I was feeling very feverish and did not want to risk falling even more ill.

04.02.2011

Today, I woke up at 7.00am feeling aches all over my poor body. Descended down to the lobby for breakfast. I realized after we had ate our hearts content during our breakfast yesterday, we were more civilized today and ate less. Though, in the midst of enjoying our breakfast, the waitress came to us and told us that they found packets of nutella spread boxes lying around in our room which we took away from the cafeteria and kindly reminded us that all foods are prohibited from being taken away.We assumed that this was only their assumption as none of us were that idiotic to leave our stuff lying around.
1st stop today was Colleseum. Upon reaching the destination, the gang were so fascinated with the vending machine that allows us to hand make our penny souvenirs that we spent 30 minutes there making all those pennies( I only stood there and watch in amusement). Then, we broke up into 2 groups and started our journey. Since we decided to use busses and metro for our city sight seeing today which enable us to visit locations situated further from the city center, we took our time walking around and sight seeing Collesuem.
After checking out the entrance fee of Colleseum, majority of us voted not to go in as we weren’t that interested in the “rubbles” that could be found there. So, what we did was snap a few shots of the out rim of the Colleseum and headed to the next spot.
By 3pm, 2 person from our group were too tired to continue and decided to head back to the hotel for a brisk rest before meeting up for dinner. Meanwhile, the rest of us toured the remaining locations. I was happy as I got to revisit my favourite spot- Trevi fountain. Only this time, we did it while the sun was still up. The place was packed with tourist and wasn’t as breath taking as the view at night in my point of view.
Around 6.45pm,we went to the rondevu spot only to receive a msg from the other group stating that they would not be able to make it. We then decided to have dinner somewhere around the hotel area and I would say it was a good choice as we ate in a place similar to our “economic rice” stall back in my motherland. The food were comparatively cheap and very tasty.
Before going back to the hotel to rest, we went to a nearby mall and looked around for a bit. Both me and Han had our eyes on the same jacket but after the gals commented that it didn’t look nice on me, I gave it up and Han bought it. I was a little disappointed as I still have not buy any jackets which was something that I had in mind even before the trip started.
I felt a bit feverish after retreating back into my room in the hotel but took a hot shower anyway. After taking a pill and dressing myself with thicker clothes I went to sleep. I even placed a wet towel on my forehead since I felt really bad.

Yay!

After being emotional for a few days, I finally saw the light and finally got out of it. And to add to that, I somehow managed to get my sister's computer to work for a while and got the blogs out of the computer.
So happy, I'll be posting the blogs in the posts below.

No classes!

Today, I woke up around 6.30 when the sky started to lit up. Lately I have been waking up earlier than the time I set my alarm to ring. As I had an hour to spare before the alarm started to ring, I decided to fall back to sleep but it wasn't very useful because I ended up sleeping but waking up from time to time tossing around the bed.
At last, I decided to wake up around 10 minutes before the alarm rang and started to browse my daily web pages before having my breakfast.
After leaving the house, while waiting at the bus stop near my house, I received a call from my fellow classmate who called to tell me that the university was being secured and evacuated. Not knowing what was going on, I asked her to try using the backdoor and call back later.
During that time, I was all hyped up and told my housemates whom were waiting with me at the bus stop about the news while thinking of the idea that we might not have classes.
Not long after, my friend in the university called back saying that both entrances were secured and the building was being evacuated. We told her to stay where she is and to meet us at the university front door.
Upon reaching there, we saw policemen and fire brigades stationed in front of the university and securing the university only allowing exit and forbiding anyone from entering the area.
After looking around for people we know, we finally got a few versions of what was happening:
1. This was a fire drill (Though I think it was highly impossible as the drill we had last time was in the evening, when all classes were about to end, while this time it was around an hour after classes had started. And every1 were too confused about what was going on while the last time everyone knew that it was a fire drill)
2. Someone crazy called the school saying that there was a bomb planted in the area.
I personally think that the second reason was more likely as everyone did not know what was going on and heard several people saying that there was a bomb in a school.
Anyway, I am glad that classes were cancelled as the subject that we were having today wasn't really very important.

AAHHH !!! SCREAM!!!

I felt asleep while watching movie yesterday as I did not have much to study. Woke up around 1 a.m. in the morning and continued watching the movie till it was 3 something in the morning before I deemed it time for bed as I was to wake up early to go all the way down to the town center to have breakfast in Mc Donalds with my friends.
After waking up around 7.30am, I took a quick wash of my face while dealing with my return air tickets to Malaysia this summer.
I was supposed to reach Mc Donalds at 8.00am but left the house only about 8.15am. After having breakfast, we went to the Physiotherapy center which is located far away from the town where we were to have an "excursion".
We saw loads of hydrotherapy which made us all so excited as we have not been near pools of water and bath houses since we came here. Then our teacher brought us to a room which was called the sensory room which is for relaxation.
Here, the lights were dimmed and the sounds of the waves splashing on the beach were played to give a soothing atmosphere. Due to the lack of sleep, I feel right into sleep not long after resting there.
We were then let off and headed home for a rest before having lecture at 3pm in another hospital. Since I was having lecture at 3pm in a hospital far away from the university and our volleyball training was supposed to be held from 4-6pm. I decided to tell my captain a partial lie so I could rest my leg (which I sprained earlier).
While I am writting this, my whole brain is full of anger as the previous blogs that I have wrote on my sister's computer due to the fact I was lazy to post it up were now all lost for the time being as my sister computer seems to be dead and not working.
It seems to not want to boot up and emits some burnt smell from its fan. Argh!!!! Stupid computer !!! Please work one last time and let me get out all my important documents before you die !!!