For all my fellow friends who are sitting for their finals.

Good Luck my friends, try your best and pass with flying colors. :)
 

10 things to do before you graduate (Leave Ukraine).

1) Pass all your exams. (Obviously, and it is a must!!) ( Passed one, 2 more to go)

2) Sell off your entire room. ( In the process)

3) Use up all your students privilege. (Students prices, student discount, student lunch, student menu...Whatever) ( Apparently this can't be apply in Ukraine, in Europe it works thou)

4) Take pictures of all the touristy attractions at the place you study. (I always took for granted and never realize how time flies until the few months before I graduate , so a picture in front of Lenin square, Gagarin park, Rynok, and all statues over Simferopol is a must.) ( Did for the Gagarin park part, others still on the pending list..)

5) Eat and taste all the local delicacies of the place you study. (In Ukraine: this goes for Ukrainian borsch, Shaslik ( I will miss this the most), Plov, Lagman, Shurpa, Abivnaya – never learned to like this dish and all sorts of Ukrainian salads) ( Done, done done!!!)

6) To take a picture with the post-war veteran. Oh ya!!( Done and got a kiss on the cheek in return)

7) Eat as much strawberries and cherries as you can. ( Trying my very best to stuff as much of strawberries right now. Cherry season not here yet thou..)

8) To take a picture in front of the University and Surgeon Statue ( Checked and done!!)

9) Must at least visit one out of the seven wonders of Ukraine.( Visited a few and gonna visit a few more this summer)

10) Swim at the freezing black Sea ( stupid, but must try the insane temperature, still can't figure out why the black sea water is freezing.)

Krok Is Over..

Krok is over.. A lot of people will be wondering what the hell is Krok? Krok is actually a MCQ exam which compose of 200 question and in fact it is very IMPORTANT that every Medical Student studying in Ukraine would need to pass in order to successfully graduate as a Doctor.

The questions? Uh well, I don't have any confidence in myself but I just hope for the best. I just want to pass the exam.. Oh god, please grant my tiny wish.

No mood ever since the adrenaline pumping tremendous 4 hours,squeeze habis-habis my hopeless brain to answer the questions. I was literally so "kan cheong" until I keep sweating, my palms are wet ...can't think properly already...

Until question 140 or so, I started to feel sleepy already, I think I entered the last stage of the whole stress cycle -- exhausted stage. Now even worse, no mood watch movie, no mood to eat, no mood to go out and play some more. Sien max!


I'll stop now, apathy dunno what to write already. Till then .. see ya. Be sure to miss me..

Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day to the world Greatest Mom... You are the best and we all appreciate what you have done for us since the day we are born.

Just want to let you know that I love you so much and miss you very much too..

A big bear heart to you and hope that you stay happy forever.  Once again Happy Mother's day!!

070510

070510 is the day that marked an end to my student life, an end to med school but not an end to waking up early fml. ( There are plenty more sleep deprived moments in the future for me). Anyway, today ended quite pleasantly despite the fact that I am having a bad headache now. I woke up purposely to blog so that that blogspot 070510 would be marked down and I would remember when I am 90 years old when I read back this post ( If I possibly can read).

My last cycle of the year is Radiology cycle and all we had was a teacher that would only ask us to "copyright or copydraw" the charts on the wall, and leave us in class to rot and die. But, we as usual will talk crap and discuss all sort of nonsense until the teacher cannot stand the noise pollution we are creating and came in several times just to say " students don't talk"..... but what the heck, we are students and after few minutes of quietness, we are back to square one.

Speaking about feelings about last day of class, actually to be honest I don't feel sad/ happy or whatever. I don't know why but all I felt was like arghhh.. school is over and I am so not prepared!

Anyway, holidays starts which is also a public holiday for all Ukrainian as 9/7/10 was theirs Victory day. They won a way which lasted from 1941-1945 and they were very proud of it and make 9/7/10 the day of victorious. Not sure about the year though as this is the year printed in all banners over Simferopol.

Krok is a 10 days away and I better start reading the MCQs.

Short post for now as I am having a bad headache to mend.

My spring break.

Short spring break was over, and these are the 101 things I've done so far:

1) Went to market on the 1^st of May to buy groceries for the week and found out that all eating places are closed on 1^st of May. FML. We ended up eating Shaslik standing. The nice thing to go out on 1^st of May is the entire main street in front of Lenin square was closed and there were music everywhere through loud speaker ( without bass/ subwoofer, it's like the cone shape speaker attached to the lamp post along the streets) blasting Russian Patriotic music. It looks more like a victory day celebration more than a Labor Day celebration to me. Everyone was celebrating: drinking, old couples holding hands walking etc. And this is not my fantasy it really happened in Simferopol on 1^st of May, we didn't know there were such celebration existed on Labor Day and it is really an eye opener. ( More to said, I've taken for granted to rather sleep in such a holiday than walking out of the room for the past 5 years.)


2) I cut Jenq's hair. It's a disaster and he was sad because it turned out to be too short. **guilty**

3) We went to Nikitsky Botanical Garden on Sunday just to catch a glimpse of tulips. I was rather disappointed because most of the tulips was dead (it was off season) already and the garden has nothing more to see other than the tulips part. Other part of the garden is more a like a tropical green forest which I pass by just strolling through, not to mention we need to queue and a 18 grvn = RM 9 just to get into the garden, queue and "fight" to get into the bus driving us to the city center and the bus was packed like sardines with stinky , non bathing Russians. Guess what we all get? Oh yeah, body odors in a generous huge amount. Cut the crap, we went to Yalta.


For you guys who do not know, Yalta is a small seaside town located 2 hours from Simferopol, sad to say it's the no. 1 tourist attraction in Crimea and it was really nice walking by the seaside enjoying the sea breeze and watching  people. It was way better than the garden truly speaking, but what the heck, its tulip and it's once in a lifetime experience (there isn't any chances you get to see tulips in Malaysia) except if there is any flower exhibition or something so as a conclusion, I did not regret. The shopping window shopping was fun with my dear and it was only window shopping because we were too poor to afford any. Crocs, Ripcurl…you name it they got it!


4) The last two days of our holidays were spent in the room resting and watching movies. Finally I got the time to catch up with the movies I haven't watch in ages. Out of the movies that I watched: the stupid ones, the funny ones, love stories etc, there was one that truly capture my heart. "The boy in the striped pajamas" , not going to spoil the movie so if you guys want to know the plot, go watch it your self.

5) Lessen learned when you don't wear sun block . I am a "chocolate" girl with pimples invading my whole face and I truly hate it very much. The best part is grad photo shoot is tomorrow. You will see a ghost tomorrow … damn it.