what a hassle!

the university asked us to do some stuff back here in Malaysia, but the instructions kept getting confusing eventhough it was actually not that complex.all they asked was 2 or 3 things,

1. the original SPM certificate, stamped by

a) ministry of foreign affairs and

b) the russian Embassy in KL

and then translated into English, then Russian, and a few certified photocopies of these..



2. NOC (no objection certificate) from our ministry of higher education

for students with only SPM and no A-level certs



3. Maybe a certificate of completed secondary education, which more and more sounds like SPM to me, (Pn wan munirah from MARA seems to think so), or maybe a cert from INTEC , according to Ms Roline (who's doing it for private students for a fee), and Pn Azliza (who's doing EVERYTHING for JPA students- lucky them)

anyway the question about this third thing keeps going back and forth, in my head and around...funny thing is, the list i got from the embassy didnt mention anything about it, eventhough what i understood from my seniors and the university was that it was supposed to be legalized in the embassy too (making the process exactly like SPM). the letter from my university also makes the "document for completed 2ndary education" sound more and more like SPM..i even got scoffed at for getting this done



what i did (i followed kakak aida's instructions)..



1. i(or rather, my parents) asked LPM for a translated SPM before i came back to Malaysia, i also asked for the NOC beforehand.

2. in Malaysia- i translated my school-leaving cert anyway, and got all 3 documents certified by Wisma putra.

3. at the embassy I asked for legalization stamps but found out they werent cheap, so i got 3 stamps- 1 for NOC (which might have not been needed in the first place) and 2 for copies of my english SPM (since both my SPM certs are laminated)



and i couldnt find anything about the complete 2ndary edu cert stuff,so i left it at that

something very fishy was the really expensive stuff at the embassy. why is that? 1 stamp costs a whopping rm128 per stamp. in comparison the stamps at wisma putra costs rm10 per certficate..who gets the money?some malaysian individuals 'helping out'?the officials there?

my own personal guess..the costs were in roubles but someone didnt take the trouble to see the exchange rates, and instead changed just the symbols..

all together, you'll need rm1000++++, and I'm not kidding..

here's the list

Beware of zam/usen

They were sleeping in the living room this evening, when either zam turned and ended up on usen or usen fell from the chair and fell on zam.
Either way, beware!

It feels a little breezy nowadays, especially since our kitchen door glass was taken off (the one facing our balcony), kene hempas byk sgt, dah longgar. So now it's windy outside, and inside. Like not wearing undies

At least it's fun to watch syphi's fear of thunder - boom and she's gone.
She's an annoying orange furball who hates being hugged and scratches people. But i guess love is blind and hurts a little. We'll hug her anyway. That's her purpose, not lying around all day coz it's hot and she's furry and can't do anything about it.

I had a headache again:( unfortunately
Must be from walking in the rain and under the hot sun for too long a few days back. So now i gotta study like hell to catch up on infectious diseases. And this stuff is really tough - too much information to absorb in one go..

mase utk study bukan main game atau tgk movi

nah scratch that, i kept playing those flash games, watching movies, sleeping, cooking, eating..
wish me good luck,
btw, speaking of scratch, can u see that cute kitty sleeping under the covers as if she's the one studying for the exams? she did something uncute
ouch

changes

Some changes were made for this blog, coz of that upgrade template thing..
and then i changed it some more now,

ITS WIDER

AND I ADDED SOME PERSONAL VOLGOGRAD ADS HERE-->

AND THAT'S HOW I PROCRASTINATED USED WASTED MY TIME TODAY

The VeCtOR

zyryx vector#18

This is bad. The exams session starts on the 4th, the scramble for zachot signatures and attestatsias starts right about now, the study group notes' deadline is next monday, and I spent my last 3-4 days making this vector of myself. Yeah, it's cool. It's awesome! I got a bit too excited doing it - and now i'm gonna pay.
By the way how's the vector?
I recently read about it somewhere (yeah, i procrastinate a lot), and tried it myself (yup, one procrastination leads to another)
I made about 18 variations (mostly it's the nose and the shadows), made a lot of mistakes at first, and didnt even finish the hair part well enough, but it can pass off as a vector- at least I think so- and i really should get back to work...real med-student work



Like I said,I spent a lot of time doing it, eventhough I could either
1. Search for a program to do this
2. Find a photoshop which could do this for me; or finally
3. Dont do this at all and concentrate on your exams demmit.
But yeah, it gets some pressure off (like doing hobbies& blogging ), and the feeling of accomplishing something (no matter how pointless or time-consuming) is indescribable (which is contradictory, since using the word 'indescribable' is already a description in itself, and probably an exaggerated expression now and most of the time).

To my sister nur ain dont follow this part of your brother, study well, doa n solat hajat banyak2, and good luck for your SPM this year. You'll do fine, insyaAllah


the early, ugly stages, quite a messy start, some who watched got quite a good laugh..huh



PS: bye bye extra pics

stray thoughts about food again

I was eating in the (then)recently opened culinary behind our university. As usual our lunch here would consist of bread, or some other flour-based food like piroshki,buns, pies and cakes.

this is a khachapuri with cheese = one of my favourites (among cheap, easy-to-eat Russian food)
Our conversation was suddenly turned to what happens with the extra food the culinary here, or any other places selling food commercially when the day ends. There must be a lot of it. The most logical thing to do with them, especially those which cant be kept for long, seems to be to throw them away.
Somehow my thoughts wandered to the poor people i met here in russia, who live on the streets, and generally about these people without a place to live. It seems paradoxical, that these restaurants and other food establishments throw away their food every day while others (i dont know how much of this is true, maybe it isnt,but The pessimistic part of me says it's unlikely that it's not)
Well, maybe not all the time. My friends tell me of their friends who work in kfc or some other food franchise, who after work bring the extra food to their family&friends.
But then, if everyone could get the food you for free at the end of the day, wouldnt that be bad for business, right? Maybe the restaurants could send those food somewhere a bit further away,where people need food.
Maybe somebody could buy these food at a lower price at the end of the day from these restaurants,or even get paid for taking them, if not given for free - a company made solely for the purpose of avoiding waste of food that i imagined.
Thinking about this, i remembered that cartoon episode of Yakitate in which the main character re-cooked his friends' bread (he works in a bakery) and gives them for free. Think about the barakah he gets from such deeds, if it was real,hehemy orange shirt,got nothin ta du wif duh entry

the 100th

It's been so long since I last entered anything in here, I don’t think it’s appropriate anymore to ask forgiveness, or tell about that long past Moscow games, my dad’s birthday or anything past in my absence on my own blog. or maybe i should, i guess anyone who actually do check this blog must have been bored already, waiting in vain for me to add something.
In a way, that's much better, since I don’t like feeling obligated to write everything here, even if I can write anything.
I’ve been reading other blogs, occasionally adding a comment or 2, but mostly I’ve been silent.
i made some projects of my own on the way, maybe I can say that I did everything but update here..no I’m not closing down this blog, but probably I wont be blogging much either, since the exam sessions are in about 2 weeks time. And I wont have much time.
Btw, I’ll add some articles I wrote but didn’t publish
This might sound lame and is just another excuse, but I didn’t post them because I felt that I shouldn’t post anything until I finished all my unfinished work (patient reports, projects)
It would be too early and too much to post them just yet, insyaAllah in the next following days I’ll post them. In the meantime, please enjoy these pics of Volgograd’s spring I took and edited. I’ll add some more in the upcoming entries, insyaAllah, and I’ll prove to u that this is not a ‘janji kosong’
Please consider the 100th post not as an end, but as a new start..