GLORY GLORY MAN UTD .. happy mother's day!

What a great day today is :) Well.. where do I start? Today, it's the mother's day! Wishing my mama and all the mums out there - a merry mother's day! U r my sunshine... my only sunshine.. u make me happy... :) Thanks a lot mama for everything! Only God could repay u for raising me up. I LOVE u mama!
Therefore , the best gift for this year mother's day is......................MAN UTD won the PREMIERSHIP! So long chels**t! I told u rite that man utd will win the league this year. Cant wait for this coming 21 may to see man utd beat chelsea ass in moscow !
The only downfall for today is - i need to sleep early tonite because I need to wake up very early tomorrow morning. No time for celebration I guess. Even so, I'm sure I'll be sleeping with a big smile. Let's hope for a great day tomorrow!

Moscow Beach Volleyball

Little to my knowledge that there is a beach volleyball court at the park :) We went for a picnic yesterday and han brought the volleyball ball along. Then, after eating we decided to go and play volleyball. I knew that there's a volleyball court somewhere at the park , but I didnt know that it was the beach volleyball court. We were so hyped and really had a lot of fun. A group of russian came and join us for the game too. What a lovely day out.I'm extremely tired now. After having played the beach volleyball under the sun and cold windy breeze in the evening , I went for basketball training later on last nite . Now , as I woke up in the morning - I have all kind of aches all over my body now. Just found out that beach volleyball is a really tiring game. It's NOT easy to run on the beach sand and it's pretty tricky. Plus, the sunshine added the extra fatigueness. Anyway, enjoy the photos!
Our team against the russian team. Well, we lost coz that was our 1st beach volleyball game :P hehehehe.. next time babe! We'll be back!
" that wasnt me serving the ball - just catching the ball " Our team did the jumping serve.... :PLeeLee won the fair play award while her bf watching from far ( with another girl! - it was Por to be exact)
The blonde in the red shirt was checking my ass.... damn..
"Where's the ball.. where's the ball? " .... and we lost... :P

Victory Park

9TH May - Victory Park - Too tired after a very long walk around the park. It's a really big park. We didnt even finished exploring the whole park today - maybe just half of it. Nevertheless - enjoy the photos! The big bigboard in the photo above is the word "pobedi" meaning victory. The lower wording - made by the tulips - is moskva. Russian called moscow as moskva. The russian hardly called moscow as moscow. The prefer moskva instead.

Por, Me , Keng Yew and Suren in front of the arch de thriumph. It's located just outside the park pobedi metro station. Basically, every europeon city has this arch. I'll make one special entry in the future about the arch de thriumph all over europe.
The superstars of today big celebration are the war's veteran. Above is the photo of 2 ladies who were involved in the WW2. So, technically - they should be about 70-80 years old now. Funny thing , in Russia - 50 to 60 years old isnt considered as old ages. These 2 ladies were really excited telling the reporters about their ww2 experience. Maybe there were the G.I Janes at that time.... Should have asked them about that... I mean.. look at those medals they were wearing...
The tall tower behind us is the victory tower. I'm not sure what's the real name :P will check later. This is the center of the victory park.
So happened , today at the park , there was so called " the vintage russian car gathering". These are the antique russian cars that were built during the ww2 era. However, frankly speaking - u could spot some these cars on moscow road everyday.

Look at the medals that this "pakcik" got. That's like everything the army could offer rite? hahaha.. he must be one of the general of the ww2....
the funniest thing I found out today was - Keng Yew has never been to this park before. When por mentioned that to me , I was like... "what the **** dude... 6 years in moscow and u never been here before? " Well... maybe that's the price u have to pay to be the best student. FYI , keng yew is the best student for the whole final year foreigner batch of my university. Take that....

It was the only day in the year when women had the chance to give flower to the men. It's a russian tradition to go to the victory park on the victory day with flowers and give them to the ww2 veterans - kinda "appreciation" symbolic. That's a good one...
The was a huge crowd at the park today. There was a concert at the park later in the evening but we couldnt be bothered to stay there until the concert started. Plus the weather also was a bit gloomy and windy , not a good idea to stay outside for too long. I was a bit shivering toward the end and started to sneeze. Hopefully I'll be fine.


So, that's all for today. I need to go to sleep now. Tomorrow gonna be a very busy day for me. Need a good rest tonite :) Happy weekend everyone! Enjoy!!

Victory Day

Who's this cute little baby ? If u do remember , I did write about this little boy here sometimes ago. He's my baby nephew Umar Alamgir and he has his own blog now. Well, he's not the one writing it of course - the mother does ( my sister in law) Therefore - I would like to invite everyone to take a peek at his blog! Click Click Click!
As I wrote yesterday - today is a public holiday for Russian Federation as a celebration for the Victory Day. Ok - what the heck is the Victory Day? Victory Day ( in Russian День Победы ) marks the capitulation ( surrendering ) of Nazi Germany to the USSR in the World War 2 commonly referred to in the USSR as the Great Patriotic War. This capitulation was signed late in the evening on May 8 1945 ( May 9 in the Moscow time zone), following the original capitulation Germany signed earlier to the joint Allied forces. The Soviet government announced the victory early on May 9 after the signing ceremony in Berlin....... bla bla bla... boringgggg

Well - in short , today - u'll see a lot of the WW2 soldiers walking around the city wearing their soldier uniform complete withe thousand of medal on the shirt. It does looked funny at times , but the russians are very proud of winning the war and they should....

Therefore , I'm thinking to spend my day off today at the victory park - where the celebration will be held. Well - actually the official victory day march will be held at the kremlin park early in the morning - but the real celebration will be held at the park pabedi ( meaning victory park ) as the park was built as remembrance of the victory day itself... lallala.... boringg again.. yes i know.. :P

If u noticed , I updated my blog quite late today. What happened was - I felt asleep quite early. I slept at 11pm last nite. I'm actually not feeling very well for the past few days and it made me very tired lately. Last time - I slept without switching off the lamp and even my laptop was still online until the next morning. Maybe I should take a good rest during this long weekend. However - there are already lots of plans made for this weekend... adoiii...

Sing A Song ~

Unsuprisingly, the weather gone crazy again this morning. After a few weeks of warm sunny weather , it went down to nearly 0 degree again. Cold windy breeze woke me up around 5 am this morning - the windows was slightly opened and I was nearly frozen on my bed. I locked the window and I saw the thermometer showing it was 2 degree celcious. Well, with the current global warming - I kinda expecting this kind of weather changes. Let's see how long this cold weather will be continuing. Needless to remind here that - technically it's way past winter season and summer is just around the corner here in moscow - and yet , the weather seems to be disagree with that. Therefore, this morning , I had to reopen my winter jacket's box again. Thought that I'd never use them again... Well.. never says never I guess... it might even be snowing again soon :P

They said the whole artic would be gone by 2100. Well... nothing much we can do rite? :P Life goes on! hahaha.. Yeah, enjoy the moment! Yesterday , I bought this baby salmon from the market. They were actually frozen , imported from finland. I was quite amazed that the fishes looked pretty fresh after I thawed them. Even the eyes arent red at all. Cant remember exactly how much it costed me , I reckon around 90rubles ( rm 12 ) for 2 salmons. Which - I considered as damn cheap. However, these fishes are very small - around 20cm long.
After a long thought , I decided to grill the salmons :P Yeah, Jamie Oliver style! A bit of rosemary, thyme , basil - add some extra virgin olive oil - few pinches of salt and black pepper and lemon juice! Wallaaa... 15-20 mins in the oven and ready to be eaten!

It has been a very tiring week for me. But, it's gonna be a long weekend too :P Yes, this friday is the VICTORY DAY. What the heck is the victory day? It was the day when USSR won the war against the Germany during the WW2. It's celebrated on 9th of May every year. It's actually kind of a really special celebration for Russian since some of soldiers who fought the war are still alive and the victory day is like their biggest and the most important annual celebration! Will write more about the victory day later on. Rite now - I need to find my pillows! Yeah, I'm gonna miss my moscow's pillows. I wish I could bring them back to malaysia - but it's as ridiculous as it sounds. But, it would be nice if I could bring back the whole room back to Malaysia.... if only ..

If only ... ... However , I believe - it's time to let go :)

Hungry Docs

The sun was shining, wind blowing softly -such a lovely day out. That was we did during our break time. It's not everyday we can sit down outside the hospital just wearing the white coat. So far , I'm not crazy enuf to sit on the bench at the hospital garden, during winter time - just wearing the white coat. But, the weather was super nice and we just cant resist the temptation to do a bit of camwhoring during our lunch time. Actually the photos was taken yesterday - today the sky is a bit gloomy and it looks like it's going to rain pretty soon.
U must be thinking - what kind of doctors eat instant mee rite? The broke one :P ... hahaha... Well, to start with , we are not doctors yet and the instant mee is actually the best thing we can buy from the hospital kiosk. Remember the photo of the small kiosk in the hospital ( somewhere in my previous entry.. ) ... .. Therefore , the instant mee is pretty much our nasi lemak here in moscow!

Here are a few more photos of the massad dinner , taken by Juani's DSLR.

From left - Erina , Aliah , Juani, Han Teo, Suren, Me, TKY , Kartik , Jeya , Por. We are from different races, different cultures, different religions, different states - the only thing that we share is - we are Malaysian. It's been a great 6 years for us - studying together here in moscow. Races - isnt an excuse for friendship and we proved it !

Some of my russian frens asked me , how we malaysian - malay , chinese, indian , iban, kadazan + + + , could live happily together in the same country. To answer that , I invited them to meet my felllow malaysian frens. As they saw - how we ( malaysian ) speak the same language , eat the same foods, enjoy each other companies , respect each other sensitivity - they were really amazed and they quickly understood how we all could live happily together.

I'm not trying to prove here that everyone is happy in Malaysia. Yes, there are a few racial issue back home and we all knew it. But, instead of trying to find all the differences we have , why cant we treasure and celebrate what we have in common rite? They might be a thousand reason to start a war , but there are million of reason to live peacefully..... something for ur own thought... this community service is brought to you by xhansx.blogspot.com :P

Selamat Hari Lahir WenKt!

6 May - Happy birthday to a very good fren of mine - Mr Syazwan Zanini! Most blogger known him as wenkt or syawan Lille... or whatever :P - I wish him all the Luck in the world... happiness and success ! A great guy he is and I'm sure he'll achive what he's dreaming of. Syazwan is actually the person who made me blogging! Yes, he helped me a lot when I started blogging , he was the one who encourage me to write here in this virtual land , he was the one I turned to when I stumbled into problems in this blogging world. I do owed him a lot. Now he owns his own domain at www.wenkt.com. Wan, thanks a lot for everything!
Back to my current boring life. Well, it's actually not that boring anymore because it's spring time and flowers are blossoming everywhere. Such a lovely sight :) You can see tulips are being planted all over moscow city. I'm planning to go for tulips cam-whoring in the next few days. The boring part of the tulips are - they dont last that long. After few days of blossoming - there are dead! . Therefore , I need to be quick! Come on guys , bring ur DSLR to class! Unfortunately I dont have one. Just a mini digicam and a phone cam.
These 2 photos above were taken outside the hospital compound. I'm not sure what the real name of the yellow flowers that grown on the grass. Grass flowers ??? It's not manually grown - it's natural. Whatever....

Another fairly good day for me since there's nothing much happening today. No news means good news. The fact that chelsea won the game against newcastle earlier ,didnt really bother me because there's nothing much chelsea could do should MAN UTD wins against wigan this sunday.

Nevertheless , life without problems -isnt a REAL life. Few things have been bothering me lately. I've been getting this pain at my chest - heartburn is the correct word. However, I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with my cardiovascular or pulmonary system. Maybe a little problem at my esophagus. Hopefully the pain will be gone soon. Should it continues , I'll be going for check up...

PLUS.. I had nightmares for the past few night.... end up to be a few sleepless nite for me.. sigh...

MASSAD dinner 2008 - part 2

More and more photos from MASSAD dinner :) It has been a fairly good sunday for me. Yes, it was a working sunday as a replacement for holiday on friday. Reached the hospital quite late today but I was lucky enuf to be on time to draw blood from my classmate vein this morning. Suddenly our teacher offered us a free FBC & BMP test ( blood test ) , and I asked her permission to do it on my classmate and she was fine with it. Well , we havent received the result yet , but I'm pretty sure my glucose and cholesterol level will be up to the roof due to excessive consumption of lamb and orange juice during the dinner the night before!
from left is sue, abuya and thina ( me n shida sitting down of course ) The JPA scholars! To all malaysian tax payers - thank you in advance!
My tablemate :) sue , elyn and iqbal. Yes, we got the front table - just 5 seaters , next to the honourable vip table. Had a very good view of the performance :) Owh yeah - the magical stars are the souvenier from the dinner :)

Thai airways is one of the big sponsors of the dinner. There were quite a number of sponsors for the dinner actually and it amazed me how the organizer managed to get them. Lovely job guys! On the photo above , was our vice dean giving his speech.
Me, waiting my name to be called upon for to get my special souvenier from the massad commitee. Well , actually the commitee gave all the future graduate a special souvenier as a final remembrance.... :) Nice touch!
From left - ameer, iqbal, faiz n anwar. It was nice to dress up once in a while rite? hahaha.. yeah. we all gonna be doctors soon - better learn to dress up well everyday! Anwar was my roomate for 2 years and he's currently my virtual roomate! Faiz, my classmate for 6 years. Iqbal , my junior - we've been playing football together for quite sometimes. Ameer ? hehehe.. he's a great guy of course..
me and beloved juniors - vina and karina :) Enjoy ur next few years in moscow! Would be great if i could hang out more with u all , but - I'm leaving first. Play time is nearly over for me! Gonna miss u guys a lot !

On left , me and kai voon - on the right me and joyce :) U both u looked great last nite! It has been a wonderful 6 years for us here in moscow. Well, there are of course some downhill moments , nevertheless - those "unwanted" moments made the good times taste better!

MASSAD dinner 2008 - part 1

I just came back home from the massad dinner. Massad dinner is actually our university annual dinner , traditionally organized by 2nd year students every year. This year, during the dinner - they made a special tribute to all the final year students ( yes , that's me! ) Really appreciate that. I enjoyed myself at the dinner. A big "well done" to the organizer ! U guys did an excellent job! There are a lot of photos taken during this event! hundreds of them. Thanks to the digital photography which made unlimited cam-whoring possible! In the photo above - from left iqbal, suren ( thanks for this photo! ), Por, Keng Yew , Me, Jeya and Han. All are final year student except for iqbal! We were waiting for the bus to go to the hotel.
Me with the final year ladies ( but Elyn! ). From left - Erina , Elyn , Me, Juani and Sue. If I take this very photo and compare it with our photo 6 years ago - I'm sure everyone will laugh like crazy to see the transformation we all been thru after all these years!
The dinner was held at the Sputnik Hotel, located at the Leninsky Prospek - not very far from my apartment. In the photo above - me and shida , han teo and leelee. LeeLee was the Massad Queen last year and last nite , she was in the final 3 too - but unfortunately , she ran out of luck this time around! No worry leelee... u have 2 more massad!

Wait for more and more photos of massad dinner on my next entry! Rite now, need to do a bit of revision for tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow is sunday - a working sunday - a not so fun sunday! I need to go to the hospital tomorrow... sighh... Fun time is over, back to business.. study .. study .. study...

xhansx breakfast!

My sore throat is still intact when I woke up this morning. Another episode of sleepless nite. Still refusing to take any medicine - hoping that my body could produce the immunity itself from any incoming flu/fever infection without any help from the medicine ( PLEASE DONT DO THIS AT HOME) - take meds when u are sick! hope we are clear on that. I'm just currently doing a crazy immunology experiment on my own body. Since I cant really sleep last nite, woke up this morning with a very "bad mood". Therefore , decided to do something that will cheer me up for the rest of the day - and I made my special trademark breakfast , using all the left over ingredient that I could find in the fridge. I only needed - sandwich bread , butter , some left over tuna and a bit of sausage.
The typical tuna on the bread is pretty much boring for me. I did a bit of "tweaking" on the recipe and made some variety - just to please my painful throat ( it could be harmful at the same time too! ) .Start by spreading a thin layer of butter on 6 pieces of sandwich bread ( u can do on 1000 pieces if u want to) . The 1st one, I used the leftover tuna - added with some salsa sauce and mixed with 1000 island mayo! The 2nd sandwich , cut the sausage into small pieces and shred some canned pineapples among the sausage. Finished it with a few squezes of chili sauce and cheese spread . The last one is the strawberry jam. It's more like the desert :P
Put all of the sandwich on the baking pan and throw them in the oven for about 7 mins - high temp. The bread will come out crunchy and the salsa sauce really bring out the good tasty smell! If u too lazy to use the bloody oven , u can use the microwave and the bread toaster. Toast the bread , and just heat up the tuna and the sausage in the microwave - same thing!

That's pretty much my breakfast nowdays. Well, actually - on the normal weekdays , I only do the one with the strawberry jam :P hahaha... faster and easier!

Going to get ready to go to the massad dinner a bit later.. well.. it's gonna be a very long dinner.. how I wish that tomorrow is still a holiday. Working/ going to hospital on sunday is gonna be very depressing!!!! Sigh...

Sore Throat

Had a sleepless nite yesterday. Yes, it was nothing more than just a sore throat. Funny how a simple disturbance in our body for instance the sore throat - could cause so much "uneased" in our daily life. One thing I hate the most about the sore throat is - it made me eat a lot. When I eat something , the sore seems to be gone for a while. When I eat a lot, it went away a bit longer. Therefore, I've been kept eating and chewing for the whole day. Not a good habit.....

Plus, the weather for the past few days has been pretty much unpredictable. It was hot and sunny yesterday , but later in the evening today - it had been raining. One of the factor that may have caused my sore throat. Yupp... let's blame the global warming...
Really not feeling well rite now. My finger is still swollen - it has been worse than I thought it would be , but not that serious. When I injured my index finger last time ( when I was in school ) - I had to write using my left hand for the whole week. It wasnt funny at all bcoz not everyone can write with both hand and I belong to the "right hand only" category. Imagine how bad was that week for me.

The pix above is a sneak preview of what I'll be wearing for the dinner tomorrow. Hopefully no more sore throat when I wake up tomorrow morning - which I really doubt it :P . Nonetheless, always hope for the best aite? Going to sleep now.. it's already nearly 2 am here...

... I've been meaing to call my parent for the past few days - however , even thou I'm in a "so called" holiday - amazingly , I just kept forgotting about that and apparently I was too busy doing nothing.. sighh...

P_S - mummysyafie - will do the "tag" when i get better... cant remember anything with my current health issue.. :P