Another Week in Volgograd and My First Birthday Away from Home

Alrighty then, here's more chronicles in Volgograd. Well, let's see........ This week was a somewhat interesting one. I think it will be better if I used the format I used in one of my other posts, it's much more organised and helps my post not look so pathetically short. OK then, here's how my week went.

Monday: Just another mundane Monday. Woke up in the morning feeling tired > got ready > went to uni > (7 Hours later) go back to hostel> chores, chill, homework > bed time. Told you it was mundane. Pretty much every Monday has been like this here and every monday, I will be wishing that my weekend is a tad bit longer but guess I just have to live with it, Haha!!

Tuesday: Started out like any other Tuesday - boring but much better than monday. My schedule for this morning is more or less the same as Monday~ Wake up > cook > got ready > Go to uni for 7 hrs. After Uni, things got a bit more interesting. At 3 pm, we had a excursion to the city planetarium with our curator (the lecturer in charge of out tutorial group). This trip was rather interesting ( it would've been more interesting if I could understand Russian better or if the tour guide in the planetarium spoke English.). Anyways, we walked to the planetarium as it was not far, it took bout 20 minutes to get there. The planetarium building was way cool ( at least I think so, the pics of the building can be seen in fb in my photos). The tour of the planetarium was nice, got to see all sorts of stuff, ranging from model satellites to meteorites. There's also portraits and sculptures of some people famous in the field such as Yuri Gagarin - first man in space. After the tour of the displays was a demonstration of a simple experiment to show that the earth rotates consisting of a large pendulum, a closed space (which in this case is the room) to prevent air movement from affecting the swing of the pendulum, a scale, and block of wood placed near the pendulum. The pendulum will swing back and forth and after a while it will hit the wooden block. After the demonstration, we went and see a show bout space. It was interesting but most of us fell asleep halfway through. There are a few reasons that happened:

1-We were tired.

2-It was dark and the music was soothing

3-We had no idea what the presenter was saying.

That's it for the excursion. After that, we went back to the hostel and it was business as usual.

Wednesday: Classes start later so woke up later but schedule remains similar - woke up > cook > got ready > class > lunch > more class > back to hostel. Today's chem lecture was better than usual - I could understand the lecturer's English.

Thursday: Just another day - same schedule -had weekly control test (not a big deal).

Friday: Again just another day.

Saturday(Today): Well, this is my first birthday outside M'sia. The day din't really start out too well - woke up late cos my cellphone ran out of juice so my alarm din't ring. I ended up multitasking like heck - reheated food, brushed, dressed, everything in 30 minutes and trust me when I say that I'm no good at multi tasking. Why? Well, my food ended up a bit burned, my hair was messy (hid the mess with my bandanna), nearly forget my wallet and documents and my cellphone still uncharged (thank goodness I had a spare and even that was low on battery.) Hurried to Uni and luckily I wasn't late (pretty sure that this teacher would have had a cow is I was). After that, it was just another Russian Language lesson. During our second recess, my pals took out a cake and surprised me (at least they tried to, I was actually half expecting something like that since they done it on another friend before. ). But still, it was very nice and I was very happy 'bout it but strangely enough, people keep saying I looked sad, dunno why though. It was the most interesting 20 minute party ever and I'm glad that they did it for me.

Well, that's all for this week and I'm sure there will be more interesting stuff to come so more chronicles in Volgograd from this lazy blogger next time.

Another Not Very Interesting Week

Here's more chronicles of this lazy blogger in Volgograd. Let's see, hmm.......... Well, as the title implies, it hasn't been all that eventful this week so it's a bit of a challenge to think of something to write. Well, this week we had one more day of break than other weeks because Wednesday was a holiday.

That day, our seniors invited us to play paintball with them but since I'm such a lazy fella, I refused so now regretfully, I hv nothing particularly interesting to write about. Let's see....... here's something that maybe some what interesting (though I seriously doubt it): we had a small gathering where we ate and chatted together with some of our seniors (we did the cooking....... well, my floormates did most of the work, I woke up late so I ended up only doing some cutting and eating ......... talk 'bout lazy, huh?). Our seniors had quite a some interesting stories to tell, and I laugh so hard when I heard some of them, I had tears streaming out my eyes.

Well, I'm not sure what else to write so this post ends here but if I think of something I will post it so more chronicles from this lazy blogger next time.

I'm Back

Well, looks like I spaced for more than 7 months. I shall give no excuses cause it's a proven fact that my memory is hopeless when it comes to such things. Well, let's see.... quite a bit has happen since I last posted, where to start, where to start. Let's see, I made new friends, missing with old friends, lost an old look and gained new confidence. All in all, feelin' great and ready to tackle what's ahead.

Here's a quick go through of recent events:

April: Warded in hospital. > 1st trimming of skin flap.

May: reentered ACMS to continue Pre-Med. > Made plenty of new friends. > Enjoyed myself.

June: Chillin'

July: Still Chillin'

1st half of August: Study (a bit) > Exam > End of Pre-Med.

2nd half of August: Warded in hospital. > Final trimming of Skin flap.

September: Preparing for trip to Russia. -A hell lot of shopping. > Meeting old friends (felt great).> Trip to Russia (23 Sep) - meeting more new friends. > Arrival in Russia (24 Sep)

October: Life in Volgograd. > Here's where things are now

Now, what to say next........

Well, Volgograd is a very B-E-A-Utiful city (but the airport was quite a let down.) Anyways, I've been here for a month now and I can safely say that I have never in my life seen a city quite like this one. It's quite a big city, 100km long but bout' 5 km wide with a population of bout 1.3 million.

Now for another quick run thru, this time on my life here.

1st week: Touchdown in Volgograd Airport. Believe me when I say that this airport leave a lot to be desired and it does not do the city justice. Why? one may ask. Well the city itself is advanced enough in terms of tech but when you land in the airport, you'll feel like you just landed in a third world country with only the most basic of facilities but once you leave the airport, it's a whole different story. Once out of the airport, we were greeted with a beautiful view of trees with golden leaves. Oh yeah, the temperature was awesome. It was nice and cool like in a air-con room. On the next day, we were treated to a quick tour of the city. I won't bother talking about the tour because I just do not have the words for it, you can check out some of the highlights of the tour in my Facebook profile. The days after that were rather uneventful except for the usual hassle of getting into a new Uni.

2nd week: This week is actually rather uneventful too. Classes have started and we have only two subjects - Russian and Chemistry (for two months, haiz......). Russian's both interesting and a serious pain in the a*** all at the same time. We have 2 Russian teachers, one is great and the other is....uh....uhm...uhh.... well, is there a more polite word for b*t*h? I also have mixed feeling for chemistry. Lecture felt like a marathon, the lecturer speaks fast but not well so some of the words she says becomes unintelligible. The lecturer for our practical part was pretty good and her English sounds a lot more normal.

3rd week: This week is completely uneventful. Getting used the city now.

4th week: Things are starting to get cooler now and its not so refreshing anymore. Got a new chemistry lecturer for a new chapter. This new lecturer seems to be hated by 90% of the seniors I asked and after attending her lecture, I can understand why. She strikes me as a sadist because she seems to enjoy giving out punishments as she laughs when she does so. By the way, the way she speaks English is unusual and its kinda hard to understand what she means.

5th week: I got my first taste of negative temperature. Man, was it cold. Walking out the hostel felt like walking into a freezer but other than that it's still a uneventful week so far.

That's it this time from this lazy blogger. More chronicles in Volgograd next time.