a long awaited comeback

this sure feels great



(excuse me a moment as i dust myself off of these e-cobwebs)

Hello everyone!
I’m really, really sorry for not updating so long…I missed out on a lot of bday wishes, celebration wishes, things I might have written etc etc
As a matter of fact, I did write some stuffs, but after a while decided not to publish them (writing’s most of the fun anyway, and it’d be boring not to have some mysteries for you guys once in a while, hehe)
I haven’t actively been online (active= uploaded stuff) enough for about a month now, since I tried to prepare myself for the exams and such (I thought it might have been better if I spent less time online)
I wanted to put all my belated wishes that I didn’t upload up, but I changed my mind. Still, I’d like to wish all students of Russian varsities

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!And have a fun and safe journey to those traveling anywhere from the next stop to the next continent you haven’t ventured into.

As for me, I’m staying in Volgograd for the time being, stretching my legs in front of the sofa watching Korean English channels, reading stuff, or just sleeping, hehe…
Things I might do other than that:-

• Blog more
• Watch all (interesting) animes, series or movies left behind in Volgograd by those who left, hehe
• Restart reading, taking pics etc that suddenly stopped since last month(ok, this might have covered up that blog part I mentioned earlier
• Maybe (but it’s quite a slim chance) I’ll go to Moscow to buy books, meet some friends (most went traveling)..err...go to the embassy?(a call away), or some other Russian city(originally I intended to go to Sochi or Kazan[got problems with connections and don’t want to take any tourist agencies])
• Or nizhny @ kursk (same problems with other cities),but it’s a half-hearted wishful thought anyway
• Exercise
• Learn something new (something major, not that ‘everyday is a lesson for me’ thing)

(fun time begins!- maybe i'll put my list of nothing to do's got from the Grinch which I added up over time a bit to this webpage..maybe..just maybe,hehe)

to do, or not to do, that is the question - said this shakespearean wannabe :P

now excuse me for my schedule of nothing to do's awaits!hahahahaha

A belated Happy Birthday Arif & Nur ain!!

sori lambat...pic ni ntah kenapa tak dpt upload...
maybe i'll get an updated/more detailed pic later

impossible is nothing..hehe

a common impossible pic made by the only and only author of this blog..hey everyone!
our winter exam's coming..it's hectic with the zachot and ..err..stuff


thanks to everyone reading this blog for reading this blog...
did u notice my new title bg pic? and the few changes? it's been there for quite a while now..hehe
i been trying to do these things for some time now..thanks neemo for helping wif the pic in BG info
well this is gonna be a short one..i'm not actually into it...am actually here for the pic (which i made myself and really would like to show to someone hehe)
bye!

Photo editing and me – learned something new!

As I browsed through the blogs today, I found some photos which were definitely edited in an interesting way. Then the authors mentioned some hard to get words like ‘leveling’ and raw stuff or other- curiosity didn’t kill this cat, but I knew I wouldn’t be content until I found out how they did it and what those ‘leveling’ terms mean. Faintly I recall Shuk saying something about the modern photographer nowadays editing their pictures with programmes before publishing them (yeah I might have got the idea to put my web address on my pics from that)…so I opened my Photoshop…and -voila!- some exciting, new ,and possibly precious information entered my shapka-ruined-hair-covered brain- and it kept me stuck here for about an hour before I wrote this entry.(ok I lied a bit-I ‘google’d the words and read a bit before I opened the programme)
Anyway here are some experiments I did, though I’m not actually proud of them yet…this might prove to be useful in the future…


PS:(currently i'm in a mood@ state of apparent blogging madness-as u can see,i have made 3 successive entries in the course of 1 night,so uploading these pictures, unqualified as they mightbe, is justified)

clinical pharma: post -mortem

I’ve just finished clinical pharmacology. It’s fun. Twice we went to our rector, Petrov’s lecture for doctors in which I gratefully slept (what? I was tired and needed sleep), and most of the time was a fun 2 way discussion in which Professor Frolov presents a case and we try to guess how the best treatment would be for the patient in different circumstances. Each drug’s side effects, interactions, p/kinetics were taken into account, and our case history report was a bit complicated, but exciting because I needed to explain why I chose the drugs in detail. We even had to make a table for interactions between all the drugs in the treatment course (actually very complicated. I didn’t do that well, but I tried, hehe). Bunyi mcm gempak..and I actually felt gempak too, right until the point I realized it was a bit too complicated, and then realized more could have been done. (As always, I’m a last-minute worker…ask my mom, ask my housemates.they’ll vouch for that, hehe)

Winter’s back!

The ever innocently beautiful,pure white snow, grey sky, and slippery roads are back in town this year…don’t get me wrong, I love it, and I treasure every single moment of it. For instance, here are some of my experiences/ thoughts as I walked down the roads these past few days, though it might not sound like it, it’s actually rather fun:

• Trudging through the puddles of mud like today when the temperature’s positive and the snow melts, jumping past or taking some time to think of a maneuver that could magically keep my jeans (and miraculously, if there is the slightest chance of it-yes, sometimes I pray that hard- get my white sneakers) clear from the mud
  
• Woops… it’s slippery here. But I’m in a hurry. My solution: try beginner street-skating. A skill from years of winter experience,hehe..
  
• The weather’s actually very nice- cool and refreshing. Especially the past few days, since the temperature’s positive. Sometimes I didn’t even bother to wear my shapka (that contraption-thing you wear on your head, which I had never succeeded in wearing without making my hair stick up on ends[even when it’s short like now]-so it’s like a bad hair day everyday, as if I care that much anyway, hehe)
  That also could be the reason why I seem to have a headache every time I come back after spending too much time outside…sometimes a runny nose might keep the headache company for a while…they’re good friends nowadays. But those are minor things. ha-ha…hiccups
  
• I’d like to state a point…winter clothes are almost always never becoming on a person…I try not to stifle a laugh every now and then ever since the 1st time I saw my friends here wear them, what’s the point anyway, I’m wearing the same attire- we’re all ugly ducklings here (point: you’re wearing a cushion to class). The shapka’s always either round, or oval?( in malay I think lonjong @ bujur fits the oval description. But combine the cushion wearing and round/oval caps on your head, not to forget those boots (the last time I remember wearing them, they were uncomfortable to walk in too), and maybe if we’re speaking about comfort you might want to remember the long johns which get itchy in a warm environment…you’ll get the picture of what it’s like to live in this big freezer. Ok ok I’m complaining, but it’s just for the fun of it…hehe...complaining can be a great form of entertainment, hehe…just don’t take it that seriously.
  
  Here are some pics of...

the beautiful Russian winter...
and some of it's uglier points,(a.k.a. the ugly side of Russia)hehe

different times..same road( or actually railway tracks... but in this context,roads)

The end of Syawal and the semester break

Hi! Happy holidays to those enjoying their semester break! We in Russia, on the other hand, are still having classes until late January, as always. Anyway, have fun!

It’s been some time since my last entry. Well, I didn’t have much to say anyway, either that or I just didn’t have the mood or ideas to write, since some things did go on, like the open house, open floor, the start of the AL (Arab Language) classes, the intervarsity game selections, my new surprisingly interesting classes in the жележнодорожный hospital at the end of mashrutka no4’s route, the continuation of the gynae research group… Alhamdulillah things are going well for everyone. At least I hope so.
I have lots of pics, but uploading them would be a headache, and a lot of time for the same reasons.most of them are not people anyway…somehow I seem to take more interest in nature related pictures and care less about taking pictures of others...maybe it’s a phase…
Winter’s coming! Sub-zero temperatures is a daily occurrence, though not reaching below -10(but I didn’t check)…is that why I’m so sleepy all of a sudden? dnt worry it's not dead..it's just sleeping peacefully amid the boring monotonous drone of our everyday lectures..i guess it doesnt just affect the students (the sedative effects of hearing our lectures are amazing!someone should do a research on this- it might change our medical treatments in the near future-i'm talking general anasthesia per acusticus- no needles, no overdosage!hehe)
a long road ahead