Thank God !--> Mid September 2010

As I searched of the suitable title for this article, I found none. Still, I wish to summarize this blog into 2 words, Thank God.

As the week progressed, fatigue has once again crept over my shoulders.

For the first microbiology class, I successfully smeared my first microscopic slide. Such is a taste of acheivement as all those years of theorectical studies has come to some hands on practice at last. Praise be to Jesus that I may be able to prepare the slide on first attempt.

There is a morning that I purchased my breakfast pizza at the university's kiosk and requested for packaging in a plastic bag. As I lifted the pizza from the counter, the bag bursted and the pizza fell with a splat. For a few seconds, all in my mind was: "there goes my pizza', only to be halted by the cashier's generousity as she packed a fresh pizza, and shoved it to me. I returned the spoilt one with a big thanks. The very same afternoon, I paid a very large note to the supermarket's cashier for things that costs less than 100 roubles(around 10 Ringgit) and the cashier lady was irritated by this act. The reason is that her cache does not have sufficient notes for the change probably is lazy to have my big note fragmented at their office. She seems rather annoyed and I thought my shopping could end without buying anything. Then, 2 Russians who queued up behind me started to question the cashier's attitude and lead to a small quarrel that resulted in the cahsier walking to the market's office to have my bill fragmented. I am not very good at Russian but the conversation goes a bit like this:

Customer 1: Why don't you have small notes?
Cashier:        I don't have them, why doens't he(me) have them(small notes)?
Customer 2: What is your problem here? You are supposed to break the note for the change.
Cashier      : What's my problem? It's his(me again) problem that he didn't bring any small notes for shopping! Customer 2: That's your responsibility to break the note!
Customer 1: And that's your problem!
Customer 2: And that's your job too!
Cashier      : *silence and put a sour face, mumbles and walks to the office* 

As the cashier returned to be with my balance, I offered those 2 helpful Russians a big thanks and left the market. I must thank God because I may not have being able to handle such a situation myself due to my limited ability in Russian and the stuborn cashier might simply refuse to have my grocery checked out. Additionally, helpful Russians are few and far in between and I met 2 of them just queing behind me on an evening course to the supermarket.

I hunted for 2 items during the weekend, 1 portable tv, and a food blender(processor). Didn't manage to find the ideal tv but did manage to get the food blender. WIth the food blender I tried it out with mushroom soup, Thank God! TAAASSSTYY!!! muahahahahahaha.........

Well, this week's therapy class wasn't too bad, well, in the sense that bad was being, ermm....I mean, buying a bottle of coke for just 15 roubles and then a second one for just 4 roubles from a faulty machine at the hospital(hospital N.3)? So it's still being bad right? hmmm...


Such a sad thing to ponder upon, as one of my JPA sponsored colleagues in RSMU had to leave Moscow tommorow because the the govrenment has revoked his sponsorship to study aboard to be replaced by studying at a local university for reason unknown. why? Why has this happened? Has there being financial issues in the gocrenment? Has there being biasedness in revoking this offer that was granted? Or was this only a reason given by the subject as he was like many of us displeased with the particularities of life and study in Russia? Whatever it is, such is something I could never understand in my life. Imagine the life here in Moscow, suddenly being changed to nothing, if this happened to me without a substansial reason, I might succumb into madness. Maybe this wasn't a sad thing, but a mad thing. It's not hard to expect, the bn is mad.


Praying is the key, I do know and hope.
0355 +4 GMT Moscow.