28 November 2006

First Ever Time Playing Real Snow…

Trees in the snow

our own-made Snow man!
Last night it was snowing non-stop whole night…Therefore, today, 28 November 2006, Volgograd is officially ‘conquered’ by SNOW! This certainly is the first ever time in my life to witness totally white snowy scenery everywhere…
Today I played snow two times! Just now after class finished in the evening, I joined MARA 1st year friends to play snow together… and at night, there was electrical shortage for around 1 hour in our hostel…so we all decided to go down to play snow outside…at night! Throwing each other with snow…and we made a small snow man too… However, it’s so cold! Hands feel very painful…the feeling is like holding freeze ice for a long time…
Yup… It’s really fun…I’m very touched to have this opportunity to see and play real snow…really, how I wish I can share this memorable moment with you guys all…
Anyway…though today was just first day, but I already realize how much we have to suffer in winter… Walking on the snow is not easy…and It makes your shoes and long pants very dirty…and of course, the super freezing cold weather just make you feel uncomfortable…nose, ears and hands are the normal part that you will feel very painful when you are at outside…
But isn’t that I should suffer in appreciation and gratitude...
(Can’t spend too much time to resize my pictures during school days…I will do it during weekend…More snow pictures will be coming…)
p/s: If want to read more bout this snow day, can link to Ivan's blog... I have include his blog's link in my friends' blog section

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 11:38:00 PM |

26 November 2006

Hectic Study Life begins…

Just wanna do a brief update… as begin on this monday, it’ll be another brand new beginning in my life as a medical student here…

Our 2-month intensive Russian classes plus Chemistry had over…and now onwards our real 1st year medicine programme begins… There are 9 subjects in our first semester time-table! (Biology, Anatomy, Chemistry, Physics-Maths, Latin Language, Russian Language, Russia’s History, Physical Training and Computer Informatics)

Study life sure will become very hectic and lots things to study... It’s a real tough challenge… I need to control myself and throw away my ‘slumberness’ in studies over past few years la… I really hope that I can do my very best even if I still incapable to get best possible result here…At least I must put effort on studies…

A little bit update bout the weather here also…It’s transition period of autumn and winter now… Recently most of the time the temperature is around -2C… But I still manage to cope with it by wearing more layers and gloves…Volgograd still not ‘occupied’ by snow yet… Here got snowing 2 times before… and the first ever time that I saw real snowing was on 12 October (Sunday) morning… However, the snows were very soft and when they dropped on floor, they melt immediately…

Actually I just came back from watching Man Utd vs Chelsea outside at a cafe with few other friends… The match was exciting and it was an interesting outing too…I think this is only the 2nd time I went out at night since coming to Volgograd… The night in Volgograd is quiet and leisure… However, it’s always not advisable to go out at night, especially if alone…because lots of Russians have the habit of drinking heavy alcoholic drinks and you don’t know what’s problem you will get if you face up those people…
Good Luck everyone!

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 11:44:00 PM |

18 November 2006

Finally… Change Room

Now I online in new room already…
There are some Russian doctors who are coming to take their post-graduate course here and they will move into our hostel…and the problem occurs when university arrange them to stay in 3 rooms in 4th floor here including my room!That means we have to move into other room…
Very unfortunately, the section for Malaysian students in this hostel is very congested and there is no any empty room for us to move in but we have to move into any 3-person room that still have vacancy…
Of course… I’m not very happy with this movement…I’m so reluctant to leave my previous room…I already assumed that nice room is near to paradise standard already…But what to do… However, I don’t know how my feeling next time is whenever looking over to my previous room…

In the end… we move into the 3-person room opposite…So, now my room number is 48…and when reach the hall of 4th floor, my room will be at the right entrance…

My new roommate has a desktop computer in this room, flat screen…and has wireless keyboard, mouse and remote control…got sound surrounding system also…Some more has a hardware that can play PS2 ( don’t know what it’s called la…)

Huh…hopefully I no need to survive in a noisy music, gaming and movies environment… I will try to tolerate but hope the others will be considerate also…

First night in this room is not as bad as I thought… with these two roommates are quite ok… Hope no problem in future…

So…basically, problem has solved…What will happen in future is not under my full control again…But I will be optimistic…
Haih… Bad days seem like begin to fall… Life is beginning very busy… Chemistry has lots to study already... Russian Language is more and more complicated as we are learning its grammar…Russian has so many stupid rules in their grammar…
Just wish: New room, new hope…
(written on 18 November, Friday's night)

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 1:04:00 AM |

11 November 2006

Real Look of My hOsteL!

This time... Proudly present the pictures of something that very important in my life in Volgograd, Russia -- My Hostel...
This is My hostel - Medical Hostel 4, Hiroshima 8
When you reach 4th floor, you will first enter this hall...
My room is at the left entrance...
There is a large freezer at the right side of the hall for us to keep our food...
The door of my room...No.42
The look of my room from the door...
Double Decker in my room...
My bed is the below one...
My bed!
The blue blanket is actually called comforter...It is able to keep us warm in cold weather, especially winter...Sleeping in it is really very nice and comfortable...
My table...
Beside the table is a shelf...It's supposed for us to place our books...but for temporarily, we keep our clothes there...
Above my table, there is another shelf and we keep our food material inside...
Closer look of my table.
Many things and very untidy leh...hehe...
The shelf for us to keep our clothes
The internet hup in my room that enable me to online, chatting with you and let you see all these pictures!
Notice the blue colour carpet in my room too!
Water tabs that situated outside the bathroom... There are 4 of them...
We brush our teeth and wash face here...
One of the 2 toilets. To me, this is the worst place in my hostel.
It's so narrow and looked not comfortable...
One of the 2 bathrooms... It's quite narrow too...

Corridor outside my room

Electronic stoves and water tabs in the kitchen

Tables in the kitchen that located opposite the stoves
(we prepare our raw materials here before cooking)
Closer look to the stoves

2 Refrigeraters located in the kitchen

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 10:03:00 PM |

05 November 2006

Pictures with Friends here...

My class current members after an india classmate change class
From left: Nadia, Sayleni, Me, Suraj(india), Siwajit(standing, india) and Sofwan

5 guys in my class before rearrangement (2nd from right is Atul, the india guy who change to another class begin on next week)

Picture with Atul after our last class activity with him - watching circus
(ЦИРК，pronounce as cirk, means circus in russian)

Picture with my curator, Elena Viktoravna (2nd fr right) and her daughter (2nd fr left). The other are my 1st year coursemates. 1st fr left is Boon Pin(a.k.a Chai), 1st fr right is Heah; Back row fr left is Xin Ning(a.k.a Lee), Me, Xiao Hong(a.k.a Nicole) and Mahani

Chai and Lee are my jit sin seniors (green name tag) , but now we are doing 1st year here together. While Heah is a Penangite also, from Nibong Tebal.

Picture with another lecturer, Olga Petrovna. She is very tall, and heard most probably she will take over as my Russian class lecturer after our 2-month intensive Russian class.

The guy at the right is another 1st year friend, Wen Fong. He is Penangite too.

This is some different views of my classroom. The picture with Atul is taken at the entrance to the classroom, while with Suraj one is at the window. Here still use blackboard in class, so lousy rite...

Pictures of JPA dinner at Intourist Hotel, when Vice-President of JPA visit Volgograd on 17 October. The difference of 2 pictures at the top is the person who stand in the left picture is Kar Wei, while the right picture is Jeremy. The guy sit at the left is Chong Zuo Lin, 4th year senior and is my jit sin senior too (red name tag). The below pictures are some food that had been served during the dinner.

1st year and 2nd year non-malay JPA students (without Kar Wei, because she took photo). The guy on right is Poh Yih Chew(2nd year). The guy 2nd from right is bala (1st year), who is my roommate too.

Actually these 3 chinese 2nd year JPA students are same age as me... We get scholarship in the same year. But that time they get offer to Russia, so they directly come here last year to study 1st year.

I will try to post some pictures of my hostel soon... Just now I busy taking some pictures on toilet, bathroom and everywhere of this hostel... until got friends say I crazy...haiyooo...

By the way, today Malays hold their Raya Party here... Just came back from attending it...Ate lots of food lo...

(p/s: sorry if got any wrong spelling in name because I not very sure with some of the names.)

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 5:31:00 PM |

03 November 2006

Pictures...

Since the demand to post the pictures is increasing... So I decide to use this short break to do 'operation' on some of my pictures (resizing them la...), and since my internet credit not yet reach my monthly budget, so I post few of them on my blog now... Unfortunately, As I can't remember the name of each site in the pictures, so I won't write any description for most of the pictures lo...However, hope u guys enjoy having a look of the scenery of Volgograd, Russia...
This is Volga River

This place is called Marmayev Kurgan







This is the trademark of Volgograd
Few pictures taken when in Moscow
Top Left: Entrance to the boarding room at KLIA
Top Right: My breakfast in MAS on the way to Frankfurt
Below Left: Taken at Frankfurt Airport, Germany
Below Right: Luftansa, the flight company that we take to Moscow from Frankfurt
Huh... Just now when uploading the pictures, don't know what the hell happen on blogger... causing me lots of trouble to post these few pictures... so I post till here for this time first... sure will post some more pictures (my university, my hostel, my classmates, friends here, and many more...) in the near future... feel so relieve as I discover that uploading pictures to blog actually didn't consume much Megabytes...
(p/s: as my internet setting has been set to 'don't show picture', so if got any problem with the viewing of pictures on my blog, kindly inform me ya... thanks...)

Posted by Ren Geng任耕 at 7:32:00 PM |

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