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Never in my life I bought so many cameras. Wakakaka..

These are all for friends, except 2 of them, which is for me. LOL. Damn tamak right I know.

Some of the cameras.

The Lubitel. It is so clear when you look thru the view finder! It is like crystal clear! Simply love the mechanism.

I told the guy to load a 35mm black and white film into my zenit and I was snapping away in the Metro station and outdoor. But each press is like so precious I only managed to snap 9 pictures.

This row of film will be my first experiment. I’m not really sure of all those shutter speed that i need to set while taking outdoor with black and white film. No matter how, hopefully they are not too bad. Will do some research online.

Going back to Volgograd today with the certs and coming back to Moscow with train the very next day!

Cheers!

Half way through med school, I got inspired by my Oncology teacher and decided that I would try to get into surgery.

On my graduation day, I was kinda disappointed when they start to alter the Profs who are going to give us our degree.

I wasn’t really happy to be getting my degree from the Medical Law Prof. The pictures came out funny. We were both not ready for the shots. It is very clear that we don’t click. Haha.

The other Prof that I got my papers from is - Prof Maskin. Main surgeon of Volgograd City.

Advice for juniors for graduation - this moment of you going up to get ur cert is really very important. Because it happens only once, and it happens for less than 10 seconds. And if you didn’t smile, or look at the different camera, or your cape is not in place and your hat is not correct, or you are standing at the wrong place, your pictures will turn out bad, and you would end up living WITHOUT ‘that moment’.

Luckily my moment is considered good by my standard.

=)

To get something from the main figure in Surgery of this city is indeed very special. Main surgeon of Volgograd, head of department of hospital surgery. Can’t imagine how important is him? Err.. he is the head of grandpa, grandpa’s boss. And to think grandpa is already like immortal to me.. LOL

Even thou I didn’t have the chance to shake my hand with Prof Babaeva (my examiner, Internal med), Prof Zharkin (the famous handsome O&G Prof) and Prof. Lidyaev (Pediatric Prof), I’m happy with this picture.

If I ever become somebody in the future, this pic will follow me into my office. Okayyyy I should stop day dreaming.

I graduated!

Some other pics.

Can see a fatherly figure standing in front of the anak-anak. LOL. Future vice-rector?

All of the Malaysians. My head is too small but hopefully these 2 pics will keep u entertained.

p/s - With this post, I’ll be on a hiatus for 6 days. I’ll be in Moscow and will later land in Malaysia on the 6th of July. Well, hopefully I wouldn’t be abandoning this blog for the whole 6 days, will try to update as often as I can if I have connection. Worse, come to worse, follow my twitt!

Try to spot me. Nga haha. I look like a small boy with the graduation cap lah.

We are all crazy about jumping.

Same style, different time.

And throwing things. Muka Cerap bersemangat.

A more decent one to cover up all those not so decent ones up there. Hahaha. By the way, our grad gown seriously looks like Harry Potter’s. -__-’

Clarissa came in to my room and said good night. I just noticed that this is the last time she is going to see me here sitting and facing to my com like a nerd. She will be leaving tomorrow evening so this is actually the LAST time she is going to see that scene.

So I went to her room, haha, and this is the LAST time of me going in with Jenna and Clarissa inside.

So many first time and last time :(

A very complicated post.

Bad time passed (I hope so).

Meet up with vice rector today and he gave us a few options. Well, he tried to explain that it is impossible to give us our result transcripts because if the committee come and check, he would be losing his job. We of course understand the depth of the situation.

We tried to convince him that we are going to ‘borrow’ the transcripts (result for the whole 6 years) for a few day so that I could get it to Moscow and get them stamped. He refused.

But later on we came up with a solution. The university is going to send our degree and transcripts by themselves to the embassy and to get them stamped, and immediately sent them back to the university. This is actually quite a good way, since I would be 6 certs lighter (I’m the one who is going to send all the certs to Moscow).

So by 4th of July, hopefully I would have all the documents I need to apply for my HO-ship.

OYY, sorry, you wouldn’t have the chance to be my senior HO if I’m going to get all my certs in time.

Anyway, due to the coming Puasa and Raya, I speculated 3 months of holidays.

Plus, now what the university would want us to do is produce another cert to be attached to the laminated SPM result. We would need to go to the Ministry of Education, issue a cert, get it to Ministry of Foreign Affair for certification, and send it to Russian embassy to translate, and certified by the Russian Notary. Speculate the process to be around 1 month or even faster. And by the moment I send the needed documents to Russia, my Vice-rector is going to let my transcripts off to me thru Russian Resources.

I think all this can be done during July and would be done with around August and latest September.

Anyway, I would be successfully applying to SPA and MMC on July or August and the worst and latest September.

Not too bad I think!

Before today, this thing had already successfully kill off all my holiday mood, I didn’t feel like a med student, I didn’t feel like I graduated, I didn’t feel that there is anything happy about graduating. But it is coming back slowly now. Maybe 10%.

Anyway, wouldn’t expect to be 100% thou. It is still a very lengthy and troublesome way to graduate!

Thanks for those who prayed and care for me. Thanks to Pa that later on tell me not to stress too much. Thanks to Ma that told me not to stress but tell me to do everything fast fast (how can that be possible? LOL).

Guess more happy pics coming up.

Even thou still stoning here. I think pictures gotta come up no matter what. I had been trying to occupy myself as much so that time pass faster and I gotta go talk to the dean faster on Monday.

Anyway..

Before entering the hall. With housemates.

Don’t try looking for me. Half of my face is blocked.

With the med student who still has 1 year to go. Johan, another 2.

I think I threw my cap too high.

More pictures to come!

Seriously, no joke, super stress when people call me that.

First of all, I think I don’t fit that title yet. Secondly, come on lah, I don’t know about other field but seriously this is so big, and even thou I graduated (actually graduation is this Friday), it doesn’t mean I possess the required experience or knowledge to really live up to that name (that’s what I felt personally -lah).

MY seniors had been laughing at me and welcoming me to the club. That I would soon be like a zombie hanging around, being scolded, ridicule and laugh at. Zombie who doesn’t have time to eat, stand a lot and always worry about not being competent enough.

And all those factors make this 1-3 months of holiday a bit hard to enjoy.

My mind starts to wonder whether I would want to start that life fast or try to prolong it to the maximum. I do have the fear of registering myself too early, and later on get posted before Puasa. That would be a disaster. A disaster that I don’t know how to avoid!

Most of the seniors or current House Officer says that there will be no more free time in life, zero social life, zero eating time, loads of standing time and run around time. I believe in what they told me. I agree that there will be no more student life, no more relaxing time (especially in the first few years) as I’ll be busy sucking in knowledge and experience, busy adapting to the system and busy upgrading my brain RAM and brain space and THAT makes me think that this holiday is really very very important!

I remembered envying my friends who graduated few months ago from HUKM. And now, they are working already! So fast! 2 months only! Gosh, 2 months fly just like that, and I want my 2 months / or at least 3 months (due to Raya this year) to be good, intensive and meaningful and most importantly, PUAS!

Yes, I’m not going to shake legs, I’m going to kick ass. Whose - I don’t know; where - I don’t know, but I need to rest ACTIVELY.

The need of a list to constantly remind me that this kind of free time will not come again. I need a plan.

I think the first step would be to make my parents understand that this will be the only big free time left that I’m going to have. So hopefully they are going to approve me for going here and there with friends, approve all my trips, approve all my greed for gadgets, granting my wishes. LOL.

I seriously pray and hope that they could understand that. (Will tell them to read this post later). My wish list would not involve any trips to oversea or anything by flight, just around Malaysia and meet up with friends who I lost contact with and meeting new ones whom I think is interesting. And maybe go around different states hunting for food and sceneries and etc. H1N1 is not really helping on that but anyway, it is still Malaysia and I think I would be okay.

If that can be done, I think my holiday would be good enough, and I wouldn’t regret while looking back.

Currently, what I’m busy-ing with.

1. Finished with invitation card designing and getting them tomorrow.
2. Getting ready for graduation.
3. Packing, double check on souvenirs, double check on books, weight.
4. Gotta distribute stuffs to people who can help me carry.
5. Plan for Moscow trip. Going there on the 1st.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT…..

6. PRAY THAT I WOULDN’T KENA LELONG TO OTHER STATE WHILE APPLYING FOR POSTING!

p/s - sorry to friends, now I know why you all scolded me when I say you will di-lelong to ulu places.

Actually I’m not as free as I wanted to be. New things pop up from time to time and since I’m not doing anything special, I would must well make myself as busy as possible.

Took over the graduation invitation card project. A bit last minute because the Uni is only telling us the finalized date and program time today at 4pm. Gonna have some intensive graphic designing and etc and put it into print by today. Hopefully we can make it. And it must be readied by at least Thursday afternoon. Friday is my graduation already.

Anyway, woke up around 10am today.

Tried out this new ‘Polarized’ iPhone app. It framed the pictures I take and allow me to write a 14 characters tag under it. Pretty cool huh. There are must more cooler one. Introduce them to you next time.

And then Jenna came back after missing from the house for like… 1 month. LOL. We went to Blin House to have some Russian Blin aka. Russian pancakes.

Very hot today. And I’m eating high fat and cholesterol stuffs. I think I better cut down on that because I don’t want to have a fever when I’m travelling back. No intention to get myself quarantined.

And then after that went to Uni to get something stamped, and when to Alley Giroi for some souvenirs.

And walk up to the library opposite my house for some price scouting for that printing. And walk to the nearby planetarium for a picture. This would be my first time there after 7 years I think. I went there when I was still in Pre-med. LOL. And it is actually just less than 1km away from my house.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better. The weather is still too hot and I’m wearing long sleeves outside to prevent myself from being sun burn. My arms are all brown now. Guess my face is not far from that.