I'm too busy studying to be a doctor.

I week to Malaysia

2009-06-26T04:20:00.000-07:00

1 week to Malaysia....
MISS you all.. Anyways.. changing course to engineering, at Swinburne, probably..
HEAR THAT, Jonathon Kuon, Bayu and... whats his name?? >.> :P I'm gonna be your Junior!

Extremely Emo At the Moment

2009-03-03T11:56:00.000-08:00

When I'm supposed to studying for 9 exams in which will be happening in 4 days in a row, I fell asleep and had a dream about the past and something which I miss while being here, and at pre-med. I guess I'll be adding this part to each of my next few posts, which will end up either as a short story or an online novel. The handwritting obviously means that I don't want anyone to copy it and pass it off as their own. I'm using Raymond's laptop right now.

Ps. for those who might be worried, I'm emo not because of the exams but because of the dream itself. i guess i will only be telling the dream at the end of the story.

Random Funnies

2009-02-19T06:03:00.000-08:00

Just half an hour ago, I was eating at a roadside restaurant with Rahman and Aiman, while reading a book. Totally absorbed in the book, I didn't notice anything until I heard (or not) the chatter stop. I looked up and saw the 2 stooges staring across the room at a man who happened to be staring at Rahman with the threatening look. He was signalling in our direction and I heard the receptionist behind me say something, I didn't bother to think too much about it. A woman sitting behind Aiman went to the toilet. Later, on our way back to the hostel...

Rahman : (faces Aiman) See lah, because of you I got scolded.
Me : Hah?? I thought he was talking to the girl at the counter?
Rahman : No lah, he was scolding me. You didn't say what he said is it?
Me : No. What did he say?
Aiman : He said, 'Mui est', 'we are eating.'
Me : So?
Rahman : He was scolding me because Amir (Aiman's name is Amir Aiman) farted so loudly while he was eating. You didn't hear meh? Hahaha, the girl behind Amir cant stand the smell and left.
Me : Erm... No??

Eye of the Storm

2009-02-16T11:40:00.000-08:00

Tedious Tuesday will begin soon, and here I am, typing a blog post. Hmmm.... Well, right now I'm taking a break from studying anatomy so I'll just take the chance to upload more photoes taken from Saturday onwards.

Our Russian language teacher, who teaches a combination of two groups.

Dave trying to figure out how to eat the pizza, and my very first subway.
Do you remember the pancakes sold at the Kuching Sunday market?
This is the Russian version with multiple choices of sauces and fillings.
My Biology class, and my group mates. From left to right, Shirley, Jenny, Amir Aiman, Dave and Rahman. For after Shirley stopped wearing glasses, it's hard for me to tell between her and Jenny. And yeah, I know she looks like a ghost in this picture. Why don't you try take a picture during class with the teacher 1.5 metres to your right? Anyway, the teacher..
is Elena Michailovna. Yeah, she is 1.5 metres away, dare take a chance shot with her staring in your direction?

Then, the now predictable part of my post. Microscope slides!! Yay.
Red blood cells infected with Plasmodium Vivax. The blue represents the infected cells. And you can see some cell fragments from when the cell burst. The parasite is one of the many species which causes Malaria.
Erm, I really don't know what I am supposed to find here, I just know that the slide was labelled Toxoplasma Gondii.
And this one, I don't even know what the label on the slide means.

Friday slides

2009-02-14T02:28:00.000-08:00

Remember what I said about the biology lecture being hellish? SCRAP THAT! Our histology lecturer, Prof. Radaef is even more as Liong would say, 'beyond (godlike)'.
This was part of his lecture.

Cytoplasm and It's Components
A cell is surrounded by plasma membrane and contains organelle, inclusion (including), a cytoplasmic matrix between them. They can be imagined as a little organ of cells doing metabolic synthesis and energy generation and the other functions of the cell. The inclusions are visible non-living material (only in the). They comprise of pigment, granules ...... . The metabolic substances of certain cell types. The cytoplasmic grand substance which surrounds all visible compounds. *Lets break now for not more than 7 minutes* (don't ask)

'philia which means 'loving'(allowing, anything else that doesn't sound like loving. we were kept wondering what the word was for over a minute)'

And many more. Now, for the picture section. In more or less chronological order.

A lot of snow

Beautiful frost murals
My second time in any form of skating ever.

Eating at Mc Donalds later. From left to right, Victor, Liong, and Yun Xi.
A Zamboni. Anyway, everyone admits that this ice skating ring sucks in size.

Protozoa during microbiology class.

Practicing on a model of the brain. There is an actual brain and spinal chord to the left, but we are not allowed to take or publish photoes of them.

A better view of the model.
Remember when I said I was wondering how teacher draws so neatly? This is his drawing.

This is mine, under pressure for speed.
The two stooges, on the left is Aiman, our sacrificial goat to please the teachers, and Rahman on the right.
Our chemistry Lecturer/teacher, observing Rahman doing a simple experiment. He is our goat this time.

Some of our cafeteria food, costing about 50 rubles, or RM 5.
Histology lecture.

My table, hey, you too would need sugar to stay alert in a lecture like this.
Our Histology class.
Neurons of the greymatter.

Muscle cells from the tongue.

Cartilage cells from the ear.

GROUP F

MON
8.30-10.50 RUSS + E
1.00-3.20 BIO

TUE
8.00-10.20 CHEM + A
11.20-12.20 ANAT LECTURE
12.30-2.10 BIO LECTURE
2.20-4.00 ANAT + K

WED
9.00-10.40 CHEM LECTURE
10.50-1.05 RUSS + E

THURS
9.00-10.40 ANAT + A + K
12.20-2.00 PHY LECTURE
2.20-4.00 PHY + A + G

FRI
9.20-10.50 LATIN + E
11.00-12.40 HISTOLOGY LECTURE
1.00-3.20 HISTOLOGY + C + D

HE created a day that students have to study all day.... And HE named it Tuesday

2009-02-11T10:52:00.000-08:00

Wow, I'm still tired from last Tuesday. Lets see... At 7.00 am, we had to catch the bus to reach our Chemistry department by 8.00 am. Then we had to listen to our Organic Chemistry teacher who also happens to be our Chemistry lecturer talk till 10.20 am. Then it is off to the cafeteria for a breather before the real torture begins. 11.20 am till 12.20 pm was the Anatomy lecture, where the teacher expects us to copy almost everything she says for the next hour. Then... Biology lecture. OMG, she lectures continuously from 12.30 till 2.10 and i was unfortunate enough to be seated around the middle of the hall. It's hard enough to hear what she is saying from the front row seats, it is even harder to translate what she is saying. For example, I translated her 'lose the gut' into 'induce a cut' and she is speaking in English. Oh really, who would expect her to say something that sounds so stupid? The correct, final translation was more or less 'In endoparasites, there is a trend to lose the gut and absorb nutrients through the body (she said tegaments later)'. If it wasn't for Adrian who was sitting next to me, I may not have been able to complete the notes. And he himself was beginning to lose his patience. I swear, even normal whispering can drown out her voice. Adrian was going to toss a slipper to whoever was talking when he caught them. And I was prepared to donate mine. So.... that was more or less
1.5 hours of focus on practicals and another 3 hours of hard core writing. And finally, was anatomy, which was from 2.20 from 4.00 (remember this part). Lets see.... I had to talk to the Biology lecturer about something concerning something, and my group mates had to leave for the second floor, where the teacher would find them and bring them to the appropriate classroom. Did I mention that was the first Tuesday of my second semester? Anyway, after I completed my business, I phoned my group mates, only to find that I have run out of credit. 15 minutes wasted knocking on random doors later and I was in the classroom with my group mates. The good news was, this was the first day and our teacher, Andrei was supposed to teach lightly. The problem was, Andrei has high standards. Another 2 hours of looking at the human brain (which is smaller than I thought it would be) and drawing diagrams from the blackboard of the medulla spinalis (It is hard since he only repeated the names twice and used VERY VERY short forms of the names, for example, FIV for Foramen Intervertebralis) and I thought we were free. WRONG. He kept us till 5.00, cancelling my plans with another friend. In the end, my group mates and I arrived back at our hostel at about 6.00 pm. In conclusion, I like this challenge. Bet you didn't expect me to say that. I'll upload the related pictures later, or never, depending whether or not i can relate them to my next post. So, bye for now, I'll be quite busy for the next week or two.

Ps. My next few posts will probably be about complaining about my studies for the next few weeks. TTFN.

Happy Chinese New Year

2009-01-25T16:34:00.000-08:00

Right now, I'm taking a short break while studying, and since all my other friends have/will put up a CNY post, why can't I? Well, the Russians don't celebrate CNY so... they have set up our First Sem exam within 2 days time. So exam fever is running it's full course and we're not in enough mood to actually celebrate. Quite sad really, since firecrackers and fireworks are legal here.

They actually sell them openly at the supermarket during the Christmas/New Year season.

Now that the CNY post is done, time for another Short, True Story from Russia.

Well, last Thursday, after buying my groceries from the supermarket called LENTA, to be pronounced in BM, I was waiting at the bus stop when an middle aged lady walked into view and surprised me. She walked towards the rubbish bin holding a small cardboard box, bent down and started sifting through the snow in the bin. As she was doing so, I was thinking, 'This is the first time I have actually seen a poor person here in Russia. How torturous it must be that you have to search in the bins in the open just to make a living. And I'm here, so far from my homeland to study, with money provided by my parents. I'm not studying hard enough. I must study hard in order not to end up amongst the poor in the future nor to waste my parent's hard earned money in the first place.' I pondered on the morality of taking the picture of a person in such a pitiful situation in order to make a screen saver to give me more studying spirit. As I decided to take out my cameraphone to take a picture of her, she got up, and tossed the contents of her box into the bin, and went back to her shop which was 15 metres away.
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Well, God has many humorous ways to make a good moral story for all of us.

COMPLIED TIPS ON ACMS

2009-01-18T01:09:00.000-08:00

Well, I have compiled a couple of comments from some of my college mates.

A: ACMS is located at an 'ulu' place, thus it doesn't have proper facilities. We have to pay the water and electric bill but beware, the clerk may sometimes be too lazy to give out the bill. My power was cut out for a week. Beware of cow dung. Screw Tajuddin.

B: Show respect to Tajuddin. (SHOW FAKE RESPECT TO TAJUDDIN) Mr. Kam is a cute teacher. Sht to Mr Banoo, I was caught skipping class.

C: There are no mice in the hostel area. It is nice to jog around the hostel area during midnight. Bribe Pn Siti. Beware of Hidayah, she hated us for no reason for the whole year.

On the the other hand, there are some things we all agreed upon.
1) Places to eat
Bertam Seafood restaurant = Expensive, but nice food and provides fast Wi-Fi, but they won't let you stay after you are done. Provides 10% discount card, I think. No download bans.

Impiana = Favourite Wi-Fi hotspot when internet was down. Provides average download speed. Comparatively cheap, will let you stay after done with food. Has pizza
(don't come too late for the pizza or else it won't be as good with lack of ingredients)
20% Discount card. No download bans.

Orkid = Don't go.

RZ = Don't go, unless you wanna watch football.

Chinese stall = To get there, from the ACMS campus (if it isn't Bertam Medical Park) go along the straight road from the ACMS block to the Roti Canai stall until you reach the T-junction. Keep going straight past the farm/garden until you find the Indian coffee shop to your right. The chinese stall is to your left, a little further up. Cheap food. One of the few places there which serves pork.

Hostel cafeteria = Provides delivery service, just get Abg. Faizal's number.

2) Taxi

DON'T USE MR HASRI'S TAXI. WE ALL AGREED THAT HIS SERVICE IS HORRIBLE. I ONCE OVERSLEPT FOR CLASS AND HAD TO WAIT OVER AN HOUR FOR HIM TO CLASS, WHEN CLASS IS 15 MINUTES AWAY BY DIRECT BUS.

FOLLOW MR RAJA, 012-4450033. IF HE YOU ARE WORRIED, JUST SAY THAT YOU ARE RAYMOND'S FRIEND. GOOD FOR TRAVELLING FROM ANYWHERE TO ANYWHERE, IF RESERVED IN ADVANCE. ALSO FOR EMERGENCIES. CHEAPEST AIRPORT-HOSTEL RATE.

3) Shopping Hotspots

AT MAINLAND PENANG

GM aka. Global Minimarket = Most convenient for food supplies.

Pacific Megamall = For getting household products. Has a cinema.Arrange a bus through ACMS, call Mr Raja to send you to and fro direct.

AT PENANG ISLAND

To get to Penang Island, ask Mr Raja to send you to the bus station at Datuk Kailan. Ask him about the bus schedules. Take a bus to the Butterworth Jetty and take the ferry to Penang Island. Mr Raja also provides direct transport to the jetty or the island.

Queensbay = Large mall, has a roller skating ring, sells expensive stuff.

KOMTAR = Since you are from Kuching, its comparable to Seberkas, except bigger. A hotspot for movie and anime fans. Has an arcade. To get there, hop on any bus from the jetty. They all pass through KOMTAR. In addition, there is a straight road from KOMTAR to the UMNO building (Large building with UMNO sign). If you would walk along that road, you would find the famous Jalan Selamat along the way on your left. The coffee shops there are famous for their char kuay teow and in my case, their porridge.

Oh, and three last tips for you guys. First of all, Mr. Kam, Zulkifi and Zainol are the good teachers. Secondly, there may be a large bug infestation due to the plowing season there, which will last for two weeks, and finally and most important of all, there will be a survey given out by the college. they say that it will be annonymous, but don't believe them. Be careful of what you write in them. The teacher can read your hand writting. Last year, the teacher scolded us and refused to teach us for 1 whole semester.

ON AN UNRELATED STORY,

SKIING IS HARD WORK.

Alot of posts today.

2008-12-28T05:19:00.000-08:00

I have been wanting to tell this story for 2 months, so I'll just say it now. One time in the transit bus, I was standing at the entrance when another guy came in. After the bus started moving for a while, I noticed that my bag was vibrating as if the zipper was being puled. I looked down at my bag and noticed that the zipper was opened, with that guy's hand being close to my bag. Since we were jammed together literally like sardines, all I could do was zip the bag back up and hold tighter to it. To add to the suspicion, that guy got off immediately at the next stop... which was 50 meters from the bus stop where he got in. So.. later, I checked if anything was missing. Guess what, even if he wanted to steal something, there wasn't anything worth stealing. In that compartment was a pair of slippers. Even if he unzipped the main compartment, the top 2/3 layer consists of a pair of glove, my lab coat and a scarf. Hahaha!!!!!!

On the other hand, a senior named Soo Yin was unlucky enough to be the proud holder of the record of having 3 handphones stolen in one and a half year. No really, she is proud of it.

This is a picture of her when she went to Moscow.

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On an unrelated account.....

Russian : Friend, lets go see this Kuala Lumpor of yours.
Malaysian: Okay, lets. I think the best bus to choose is number 8.
Russian : There is a number Eight.
Malaysian: No la, that bus is full, you see, got people standing and everything.
Russian : Nonsense. In my country, we can fit twenty more of my people in that bus of yours.

The moral of this story is, that Russians are very very efficient. Trust me, they can fit as many people into a full bus as they want.

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While crossing the road.....

Clement: I like these Russians, they know when to cross the road even when the pedestrian traffic light is red.
Dave : Yeah, the traffic here have a lot of respect for pedestrians.
Clement: But Malaysians are even better.
Dave : How is that?
(Both crosses the middle of a road without traffic lights)
Clement: We Malaysians know both where and when to cross the road.

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20th DEC, The Student's Christmas Party (aka The Great Wall of Pictures)

2008-12-28T02:33:00.003-08:00

Okay, since there isn't much for me to say on these pictures, I'm forced to say something myself. On the 20th, we had a Christmas party since the real Russian Christmas is on January and since 25th DEC falls on Wesnesday, we would have no time to party.

Waiting for the bus at the bus stop.

In the bus.

Walking along 'ulitsa pakrovskaya' aka The Walking Street.
A play.

The choir

Two bands.

One of our many VIP guests.

Singing nuns.

A disco ball.
I have no idea what they call this thing.

Party, Party, Party, Party and more Party.

25/24th DEC, The Midnight Mass (aka. The 2nd Great Wall Of Pictures)

2008-12-28T02:33:00.002-08:00

In the bus, on the way to church.

(From inside the bus) These thermometers are very convenient.

Entering the church.....

... where I accidentally got myself recruited as a choir member.
The 2 words on top are Russian and are pronounced as
'razhdistva khristova' I think, stresses on words, go figure.
The words below it are in latin, 'adeste fideles' im too lazy
to translate them.

The priest.

A nice effect.

Our student representative doing a reading in English.
Ps. there is a cameraman to the left.

Pianist.

Before midnight.

After midnight. Please note that no matter how many times
I took the pictures, they keep shining. Hmmm.....
it gets you thinking, doesn't it.

See, still shining. Hmmm.....

And after the church service, there was the Christmas party, not related
to the previous one.

FOODS GALORE! THE HORN OF PLENTY IS BEING GIVEN OUT.

There is a tradition here that we are given a piece of this bread???
and another person takes a small piece of it and wishes anything
for you and vice versa.

Oooh, the first time I have actually seen them.

Let's see... yup, still glowing.

26th DEC, Autumn festival

2008-12-28T02:33:00.001-08:00

No comments for these pictures.

Some random pics.

2008-12-28T02:33:00.000-08:00

A picture from the 8th floor balcony outside my room.

Remember the man in the middle of the last picture? This picture
is taken about 5 meters behind his position.
Waiting at the bus stop for the first transit.

Transiting from 1 bus stop to another.

Waiting at the 2nd bus stop after the transit, and yes, that is a
Christmas tree in the background.

A picture taken from the Anatomy classroom.

Studying medicine in Russia is better than in Malaysia because
we use real 'preprats' for our studies. But we are not allowed
to take pictures of them out of respect for their owner. I'm not
explaining the term but you can guess what it is from the picture above.

Cheating for exams (not me)

Tired after studying all night. BTW, thats Raymond in the middle.

I caught this picture, those guys were stuck in the lift for 5 mins,
but when the door opened, the 1st guy saw me preparing to take
a pic and well, he has fast reflexes and vice versa for my camera phone
I WANT A NEW CAMERA!!!!

Heard in Aaron's room.

2008-12-26T05:27:00.000-08:00

The other day, I was talking to Aaron in his room when Jeff C. came in. He saw a bottle of vodka on Aaron's shelf.

Jeff : Aaron, I didn't know you got vodka leh.
Aaron : Got. but then after 2 months I drink so little, see, look like still untouched.
Jeff : (opens the bottle and sniffs it) Hey, it smells like the Russians.

Sorry, still too lazy to upload pictures. Mwahahahaha.

Rant Of The Month

2008-12-18T11:11:00.000-08:00

Sorry guys, I haven't noticed that a month has passed since my last post update. Anyway, I'm quite busy at the moment with controls (Russian version of pop quizzes with the importance of a semester exam). So anyway, the line has also been quite... slow and its hard just to load the posting page. I have other pictures, other than the ones which I promised which I would like to share. Unfortunately, my videophone's 2GB memory failed me during last week's Malaysian night. Plus, I forgot to take some pictures of the Cookin Crew, including me, half an hour ago when we were preparing the 20 chickens to be cooked tomorrow for the Christmas open house on Saturday. My next update should be during the 1 week holiday in a fortnight.

Ps. Sorry again for this blank post, tata.

Montage 2, Travels to Russia

2008-11-26T15:15:00.002-08:00

The flight to Russia takes approximately 18 hours.

For most students, the first part was the flight from KL/Penang to Singapore.

In my case, it was from Kuching to KL to Singapore.

This is the picture of most of the NNSMA and Volgograd students who came to ACMS.

A surprise awaits us at Singapore Airport.

However, we only had 45 minutes before we had to get on the next flight.

Then, it was off to India then Moscow.

Arriving for a tour in Moscow.

A random picture taken from my bus during a tour around Moscow city.

P.s, U'm studying in Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, NNSMA,

Buildings in front of the Kremlin.

The white structure on the left side of this picture is a stage where

news are delivered to the public in the past from the Kremlin.

Another interesting fact, the building occupying most of the background is

not full of windows. Those 'windows' are actually painted on.

The largest church in Moscow.

Just another picture, no comment.

A river in Moscow.

A pink Limo. That is Jeff Lee and Becky posing for a different photographer.

A limo-Hummer. Don't believe me?

See. btw, the yellow coulored word is read as limoozinov.

And when 2 other guys posed for a picture here, the rich guy inside took a

picture of them. He must be pissed off.

At Nizhny, we were greeted by the Malaysian Student Council.

The students.
So, this is the end of this montage, look out for my next one this afternoon or tonight.
P.s, sorry for the spelling error from the previous two posts.

Montague Part 1, Malaysia

2008-11-25T05:19:00.000-08:00

My old friends from Penang.

These two stooges are the best friends i have ever seen. note their fingers.

I miss the pet hamster I left in Penang.

Red blood cells under 400x magnification.

Sunset at Putra Villas.

Erm... no comments.

The pretty faced austronaut at a motivation speech.
I like Patrick better.

The warning of divine wrath.
Wei Wen pointing at a police vehicle, we found some tear gas in there.
No, really. I'm not joking. About 20 truckloads of policemen stayed at our hostel area
as a barracks during a general election.

Things I miss.

BEWARE, DUSGUSTING PICTURES BELOW.

Pickled rats anyone?

Lets rinse them before we cook them.

Or would you rather have fresh brains?

END

Where and When

2008-11-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

For those who havent figured out where I am through discreetly added posts from my friends, I am now in Russia. And yes, Russia as in Russia. It have been between 2 degrees and 4 negative for 5 days now, so I'm experiencing the ice life (not much snow around yet).
I will be setting up at least two montague posts soon, so you better hope that my line is fast enough for uploading. Well, I'll try update my contact list now. Hopefully someone is actually reading these two posts.

A New Beginning

2008-11-23T11:04:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone, i know that it has been a REALLY REALLY long time since i have last posted on this blog of mine. So for some of you who still actually check up on my blog waiting for some miracle to happen, you are my best friend. Today is sunday, and it is 10.15 pm right here and now, so all i will say is that everything will be explained on my next post. Right then, lets get back to studying joints and ligaments. P.s, all updating on this blog page will be done soon.

TOMORROW WAS NEVER TO COME

2008-05-29T02:38:00.000-07:00

It is so sad, we just finished our exam half a hour ago and what do they give us for our weekend? THEY CUT OFF OUR INTERNET LINE!!!! Just to let you know, I'm right now blogging from a nearby restaurant. Another bummer for us (mainly sarawakians and sabahian) we wont get to go back since they cancelled our original 1 week study leave and they gave us another present. sorry for the blurness.

Well, to you it may not be scary but to me IT IS! how could you stand studying at least two science subjects daily for a whole month? And for Audiences below the age of 17, look closer.

Hey, I'm not from a private school okay, I went to a normal government school, so I'm still not used to a schedule like this.

A REPLY TO MR GUEST

2008-05-20T00:18:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry, I'm at ACMS, not AIMST. Well, I nearly went to AIMST, until my parents found out 1 crucial fact. There are three intakes a year, and each intake consists of about 100 students. Please note that these intakes are for Pre-Medical Studies. Next, there is only 1 intake for 1st year students next year, for the WHOLE year and they only allow about 50 students in for 1st year students. In addition, their pre-medical course isn't accepted by any ther universities, whether local or overseas. But, if u want to go there, it is up to you. My parents checked out some blogs and the students are quite happy there. So it would be like work very very hard to get in, and when you get in, it would be an easy and straight path to get your medical certificates. I on the other hand chose to go for ACMS because I would get to study and skip a Pre-Medical years worth in my quest to be a doctor in Russia and well, gain an experience of overseas life. Plus, the entrance is confirmed easy though I would have to study harder than those students in AIMST for the next 6 years. Anyway, I've to go now. My mum reads my blog and she sure won't miss this post. SORRY MUM. Okay, back to studying.

BOREDOM AT THE LIBRARY

2008-05-20T00:12:00.000-07:00

I know that this is the worst time possible that I can choose to post a blog but I'm so bored studying at this library for the 2nd semester exam tomorrow and since our seniors are busy studying for their entrance exam to enter a Indonesian University n my other coursemates are studying back in the hostels, the computers here in the library are free and the line fast, for once. So why not release the boredom??? Anyway, I'm having Maths exam tomorrow, which is much tougher than Add Maths and having Medical Ethics and Malaysian Studies for the next two days.

I'M SORRY

2008-05-12T06:12:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry for not updating my blog AT ALL for the last many weeks. Truth is, my life here is quite busy. I just finished a quiz today and am having a semester exam next week. Anyway, i just logged on to add a few links for u guys to see. 1 of them is from my friend Max, and another is my class blog, which will give you a clue on whats going on here at Kepala Batas. Anyway, gratz to all of you who stroke a scholarship. I also have a great scholarship, from FAMo (Father And Mother).

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED.

2008-03-31T23:08:00.000-07:00

I HAVE ONLY 15 MINUTES TO POST THIS SO I'M GONNA MAKE THIS SIMPLE. MY GOLLEGE MATES UNEARTHED THIS VIDOE ON OUR FIRST WEEK AT ACMS. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRUESOME BUT TRUE ELEMENTS. IT MAY CAUSE SOME OF YOU TO HURL. SO PLEASE, I'M POSTING THIS VIDOE FOR THOSE WHO WANNA BE DOCTORS IN THE FUTURE. OKAY?

ACMS

2008-03-29T03:14:00.000-07:00

Well, since my last post, I flew to Penang via Air Asia, the cheapest cheapskate airline in Malaysia. Then, we (Brice and I) took a taxi to Putra Villas, Kepala Batas where we are all staying. We don't stay at a hostel at all as everyone expects but instead, as the name Putra Villas suggest, we all live our lives out at a housing estate, make it private housing estate (we have a guard house and even a clubhouse). Life here is pretty boring as there is no televison or radios (we have to buy them by ourselves) and even worse, we aren't allowed to cook due to risk of fire(??????), though once in a while we use the rice cooker to cook soup. Fast food restaurants are also a luxury here as we cant travel far on foot and we aren't allowed to bring our cars along (as if I can) and everything here is malay, malay and malay food. Well, here is a synopsis of my typical life here at Kepala Batas.

I wake up at about 7.15 am in the morning to catch the 7.45 bus (which is never on time, either late or too late) for a 15 minute ride at our college, if you wanna call it that (explanations in next post). Class begins at 8.30 am

Our house, which is located on the top floor. 5 people per house.

A row of houses here at Putra Villas.

Our bus, which is pretty comfortable, if it is not overcrowded.

The ACMS sign post. Below is the library.

To give you a clue on the size of the ACMS college, this is a picture of a primary school located opposite our college.

The roti canai stall near our college.

Math quiz time. For breakfast, I ordered 2 roti banjir, 2 telur goreng and 1 teh O ais. My friend, Xue Liang ordered 2 roti banjir and1 teh O ais. he paid RM2.20 and I paid RM3.20. If the teh O ais costs 10 cents more than a roti banjir, how much does a telur goreng, a roti banjir and 1 teh O ais cost? Use your algebra people!

This concludes the first part of my life in Kepala Batas. The next post, which I hope I can prepare by tomorrow will be entitled, RUSSIAN 101.

Adopt a Pup Sunday

2008-03-15T09:27:00.000-07:00

Some of you already know that i have a few dogs guarding my house. But shat most of you DON'T know is that one of them gave birth to four cute little pups. Anyway, i have to leave for Penang at 3 o'clock this afternoon, there will be almost no one left to love them (except for my little brother and sister, who have a twisted way to love) and i would have to give them up for adoption. As i dont trust the SSPCA, I am putting them up for adoption, here on my blog itself. Since I respect their privacy, I only know that there are three males and a female in this batch, though which is which i have no clue of. Here are a few photoes that i took of them, once i was able to keep them still for just one second. I am sorry that i have no time to readjust the picture position but i think it makes them look better.

Ps, these puppies are mixed breeds. Whoever wants to adopt them may e-mail me at clempowen@hotmail.com or tell me through this blog itself. Offer available for Kuching citizens only.

A Beginner's First Move

2008-03-13T07:26:00.000-07:00

I am sorry to disappoint you guys but I am new at this. Anyway, I created this blog since everyone in Kuching have been asking how life is like at (Kampung) Kepala Batas, Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang. So, I dedicate this blog to all my friends in Kuching, for my dear friend Ho who unfortunately is unable to make it for the second semester of the Russian Pre-Med Education at ACMS, Kepala Batas (moment of silence please) . Now that the moment of silence is over, **** you (ADD IMPORTANT AUTHORITY) for not allowing my friend to study medicine at Russia with me!. Since this blog is mainly about life in Kepala Batas, and I am still at Kuching, bye bye for now. I will start blogging once I start taking photoes there on Monday, with my NEW HANDPHONE!

It is an LG KE770 and believe it or not, my father won it at a Write and Win Contest at the KLIA.

Oh yeah. to Daniel and Larry, JY for getting 11 A1s for Spm.