RG's Reality in Dream

Again… the date on calendar reached 25 March… The memory of last year birthday when I celebrated this wonderful day by watching ‘I’m Not Stupid II’ in Sunway Pyramid and followed by trip to Ipoh was still clearly in my mind, but here come my 20th birthday!

Well… This year birthday was my first birthday outside the land of Malaysia… but I think it was the most eventful birthday so far in my life …

Right after the end of 24 March, my JPA 1st year friends did a small party for me… Actually this has become our tradition already as whenever anyone of us birthday, 11 of us will gather together at midnight of that day… Actually this gives just 11 of us the opportunity to gather and chat together as we have been separated into 2 different classes and thus have different daily activities… Whenever we gather together, I felt that we lay a heart of appreciation and gratefulness as all of us had gone through together the tough 1 year college life and difficult time during our Indonesia university crisis… Oh ya…this time I got 2 birthday cakes …one is the halal cake as usual…and a senior bought me a cake with alcohol content…He meant I’m 20 and grow up already wo…

At noon, our first year course mate, Bahani did open floor party for celebrating New Year in her religion (don’t know how to spell that religion name, is a minority religion in Malaysia I guess)… and she said sambil celebrate my birthday too… So, have the chance to eat a nice lunch… the chicken and vegetables they cook were really great…

Then, at tea-time hour, 7 other first year coursemates from Penang (plus me is 8, 7 Chinese and 1 Indian who is my roommate) went to Rivera (a Russian fast-food restaurant here) to celebrate my birthday… very full after that… and I’m sure all guys had enjoyed a good moments of crapping there…

At night, my another roommate, Bala together with my classmate, Sayleni cooked dinner for my birthday… The meals were sambal prawn and spinach… Thanks both of them…

Another special thing occurred on my birthday was this day was the beginning day where Russia’s time adjust from GMT +3 to GMT +4 due to daytime in Spring and Summer is longer… It means that we lost 1 hour today…implied that my birthday was actually 23 hours long only… and today was the first match day of the brand new season VSMU Malaysian students’ Football League too… I didn’t join the competition but went to watch the league as spectators lo… Interesting matches today…and the start of the league means we will have a little bit more entertainment in our boring Sunday life here…

That’s all for what happened during my birthday…The best parts were I ate 4 times lo… and I received 2 very great presents… My classmates bought me a Nike Man Utd sports accessories’ bag... while another JPA class friends bought me a Reebok cap… Thanks lots guys…I really like the presents very much!
I will try to upload some pictures of my birthday after my first 3 hectic days in this week…

Well… except thanks, I really don’t know how to express my appreciation to all of you… Thanks a lot my JPA friends for the midnight party… Thanks Bahani for her lunch… Thanks Ivan, Boon Ping, Kok Xian, Shin Ling, Fong, Heah and Ramesh for inviting me out and treating me the meal in Rivera… Thanks to everyone who wish me for my birthday, whether through coming to me, sms, msn message, or calling… I’m really very touched with everything you all had done… This was really a very warm birthday though I’m in a foreign country… It's great too that my 1st birthday here fall on Sunday...

Due to my birthday, for every seconds of time u all had spent, for every money you all had spent, for every wish you all had sent, for every happiness you all had shared and for every sincerity you all had given… once again, a very very THANK YOU!

Currently in my mind have no any huge hope for my 20 year old… Just wish I can go through this year smoothly, happily, peacefully and full of wonderful memories…

So so sooo fast, it’s March already…but it means that I’m moving nearer to the day I can go back to home…Another 4 months to go…

It had been quite a time that I didn’t update my blog already… Actually it doesn’t mean that I don’t really have free time in between of this hectic 2nd sem, but sometimes just don’t feel like to write during the spare time…

Everything still goes on well, and perhaps, getting better and better… Those not really in satisfactory and expectations, we have no choice but must try to adapt it…

Well…8th March was Women’s Day… Last time when in Malaysia, this day was just like a normal day… But it’s totally different here…It was an official Russia public holiday… and Russians, particularly guys have the tradition to give female flowers, cakes and gifts on that day… Flowers were sold everywhere since few days before Women’s Day… As an appreciation, today my class bought a cake and some drinks to celebrate this special day with our current Russian Language’s teacher, Olga Petrovna today...(actually this was also our tactic to waste some time as our Friday’s Russian class is 4 hours long! hehe…) Our class also prepare some ‘kanflets’ ( a kind of Russian’s chocolates that are packed like sweets) as gifts to several female lecturers…

During the half way of Russian class, teacher brought us together with two other classes to Planetarium… Erm… the images that were projected to the screen on the roof were attractive and nice, but the main problem was we can’t understand the description that spoken in Russian… It made this trip ended up in a very boring feel…

Oh ya…Chinese New Year had ended…and the major celebration here which was Malaysians’ Students CNY Celebration that took place on 24 Feb ended successfully… The food that all was cook by Chinese students was good… Our ‘Tang Yuan’ taste nice too… The decoration and performance were very interesting also… That celebration was really great and fun!

By the way, the date of Malaysians’ Games has been announced…It will be held on 29 April and 30 April where Russian State Medical University, Moscow will be the host… The line-up for the table tennis team has been decided…it means that end of next month I will go to Moscow again! This time go with the whole sports team and under the name of my university… I knew that past results of VSMU table tennis team in previous Malaysians’ Games were among the worst in all sports, but I think this time we have a better team compared to past few years, and we really hope we can get something great back this time… Anyway, it is still about 1 and half month to go and we need to continue our training consistently…

Lastly, after waiting for almost half an year, the last group of my KUTPM JPA course mates finally flies to Manipal India tonight to begin their twinning medical programme there… There are quite many friends among this group whom I had lots of fun together with during our college time… Wish u all good luck and all the best there! Heard there have the convenience of online, so…see u all on MSN lo…