Why do the chicken cross the road?

I just read this email (from Peter) and it’s so extremely funny that I have to post it NOW!!!

Read on!

BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MCCAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because it recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure — right from Day One! — that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me…….

GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

LEE KUAN YEW:
We have installed crossing lights at all traffic junctions. All chickens should follow instructions while crossing the road.

SAMY VELLU:
Gantry points have been set up. All chickens wanting to cross the road are advised to top up their cash cards first.

NAJIB RAZAK:
What chickens? I don’t know any chickens… especially those from Mongolia .

ABDULLAH BADAWI:
We have to be fair to all chickens. Some want to cross over the road, some do not. …….. Zzzzzz …….zzzzzz ……. Now what were we talking about? Ah yes, chickens. We will form a Royal Commission to decide whether it is right for them to cross the road.

MAHATHIR:
Now even non-bumi chickens want to cross the road! How can they disrespect and disregard apa nama bumi chickens? We must be allowed to cross over first. It is our special privilege and no one can challenge that!

ANWAR:
We have enough chickens waiting to cross over in September.

SHAHRIR:
All foreign chickens are welcome in Malaysia but they must not cross over the road within 50km of the border.

‘Winged’ musings

With love’s light wings did I o’perch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold the love out, And what love can do, that dares attempt

-William Shakepeare in Romeo and Juliet

The literary subject can be really funny sometimes.. imagine wings growing out of Romeo’s heart, as portrayed here by Shakespeare, as it wanders over the vast gardens to reach Juliet.

Even in biblical terms, as described in Isaiah 40:31:
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

wings are described as an object with which we can soar, to fly with…

Over the course of history, wings have always been an epitome of intricate, delicate beauty… of a profound conception only heaven upholds. Which explains why angels have wings, or so we believe.

baby+wings = cupids

human+ wings = angels

grandmother +wings =fairy tooth mother

elephants + wings = dumbo

sculptured stone creatures +wings = gargoyles

Note just how easy it is to metaphorically gratify sense of mystique by just giving them ‘wings’!

Angelic cat, with wings sprouting from its sides

As far as human attempts to fly had been since Wright brother’s first flight in 1903, there is stil, however, no attempts of a man physically growing his/her own wings!

Well, something else came up yesterday, admist waiting in quiet rows for our turns to witness a mitral valve replacement and an aorta-femoral shunt operation in the cardiosurgery department.

Looks like King here, has his own wings to grow too..

(It was actually the result of the bony prominences of his scapulas pressed against the white wall through the surgical suit =)

Seems to me that surgeons, after all, do have the ability to soar to great heights.

So, anyone in for a surgery today?

Listen Up Group A!

Good news for group 531-A!!!!!

2 roubles of free photocopy service will be provided when Uncle Lim makes a deep sigh (haih…)

Be attentive and catch when he makes a deep sigh for 2 roubles of free photocopy!!!

Go go shopping…

星期四一早, 我打开冰箱…哗! 只剩下半棵白菜, 葱和祘, 更是寥寥无几…噢! 我的天啊! 又是背着菜篮上街去的时候了…

 

这就是我们在这留学的生活啦! 读书, 买菜, 煮菜, 洗衣, 当然, 还少不了娱乐啦! 有时我也很羡慕那些在祖国就读的学生…吃饭时, 可打包, Mamak挡坐到天亮都没问提. 当然想家时, 就可回家啦…

 

我们…其实还算过得很好. 为了生存, 我们在这学会了很多生活技能…其中, 厨艺, 就是我们的必备条件…嘻嘻! 成功煮到一些美味的佳肴, 那种满足感, 可称得上至高无上啊!

 

下了课, 我们一行人, 嘉杰, 国庆, Rose, Nantha, Farah, 化身为 ‘师奶’, 到我们上课不远的菜市买菜…那天的天气好冷, 打约只有2-3度… 加上衣物又没加厚…没办法嘛! 菜完了就要买啊! 不然, 就得吃西北风了嘛!

 

好久没有一起这样购物了, 买了些蔬果, 我们就浩浩荡荡的回宿舍了. 在一起购物的那个时光, 真让人回味无穷啊!

 

Thursday, early in the morning, I found out that there’s nothing left in my fridge. Gosh! It’s groceries shopping time again!

 

Haih…tat’s our life here…In order to survive, we need to learn lots of surviving skills…Cooking will be the most essential one…hehe! Not like in Malaysia ma, if we lazy to cook o anything, we can go out and eat. But, we enjoy cooking also…it’s not easy to prepare a dish, during the process, we manage to enjoy the sense of satisfaction when we succeeded .

 

After class, we rushed to the market nearby to pick up some goods…5 of us went together, K.K Tan, Farah, Nantha, Kok King and Rose…

 

It’s cold that day, around 2-3c and when the wind blow worsen the condition, smore we din wear thick ma!

 

But we enjoy the time being together, it’s been a long time that we din spent the time together d…hehe!

 

Zhi…

Hari hari raya (^^)y

i would like to invite u guys, readers of this blog to attend my open house this coming weekend… the menu is kind a ordinary but the presence of the guests will make my open house become extraordinary one… so this invitation is for the blog readers and also the persons who know me… come at my room@block 309, saturday from 3p.m. to 5 p.m… the foods are quite limited so dun miss the chance to try them this saturday… owh before i forgot about it, the open house isn’t my individual work only… among them are:

wani (5th year)

shuhaina (6th year)

palima

zaheer a.k.a robo

helmi

azri a.k.a shoi

azizan (1st year)

hairi (1st year)

hafiz ridzuan a.k.a apit

hadee a.k.a adei

aina

rahimah a.k.a imah

and also me pali @ paliki ^^

so meet u guys on this saturday ^^

SELAMAT HARI RAYA

MAAF ZAHIR & BATIN

Autumn dream…秋之梦

When the leaves turn from green to yellow,

our friendship remains the same.

当树叶从绿去黄，

我们的友谊依然不变。

When the leaves fall off from the yellow trees,

our friendship never shred.

当落叶纷飞凋谢，

我们的友谊永不分离。

When the leaves lay on the ground,

our friendship bud is blooming.

当落叶铺盖大地，

我们的友谊花蕊正绽放。

When the weather turns colder,

our friendship strengthens.

当气候变得更冻，

我们的友谊更稳固。

When the chirping birds are busy migrating,

our friendship has never evaporated.

当叽咋的候鸟忙往南迁移，

我们的友谊从不蒸发。

8 of us are just like a small family, clinging on to each other, and share our laughters together.

我们8人就像小小的家，互相依靠，分享搞笑的情结。

8 of us are one and nothing could come between us.

我们8人合为一。谁也阻挡不到我们之间的友情。

I love you, Group A!!

A组，我爱你！！

- Maizatul Farah binti Mahmood（马载猪 花垃 麻木）

- Faiz Najmi bin Mansur （罚一字 拿着米 慢输）

- Rose Ngui Miao Yee （螺丝 魏妙如）

- Mohd Fadzli bin Zahari （末 法治理 炸哈李）

- Tan Ka Keat （陈嘉杰）

- Lim Shou Zhi （林首志）

- Chia Kok King （谢国庆）

- Nanthakumar Nadarajah （难他姑妈 拿他拉着）

Kochi~

高知~

When the leaves turn from green to yellow,

our friendship remains the same.

当树叶从绿去黄，

我们的友谊依然不变。

When the leaves fall off from the yellow trees,

our friendship never shred.

当落叶纷飞凋谢，

我们的友谊永不分离。

When the leaves lay on the ground,

our friendship bud is blooming.

当落叶铺盖大地，

我们的友谊花蕊正绽放。

When the weather turns colder,

our friendship strengthens.

当气候变得更冻，

我们的友谊更稳固。

When the chirping birds are busy migrating,

our friendship has never evaporated.

当叽咋的候鸟忙往南迁移，

我们的友谊从不蒸发。

8 of us are just like a small family, clinging on to each other, and share our laughters together.

我们8人就像小小的家，互相依靠，分享搞笑的情结。

8 of us are one and nothing could come between us.

我们8人合为一。谁也阻挡不到我们之间的友情。

I love you, Group A!!

A组，我爱你！！

- Maizatul Farah binti Mahmood（马载猪 花垃 麻木）

- Faiz Najmi bin Mansur （罚一字 拿着米 慢输）

- Rose Ngui Miao Yee （螺丝 魏妙如）

- Mohd Fadzli bin Zahari （末 法治理 炸哈李）

- Tan Ka Keat （陈嘉杰）

- Lim Shou Zhi （林首志）

- Chia Kok King （谢国庆）

- Nanthakumar Nadarajah （难他姑妈 拿他拉着）

Kochi~

高知~

Selamat Hari Raya…

开斋节快乐…

 

4-10-08 晴

 

今年是我在俄罗斯度过的第5 个开斋节…其实, 在这庆祝, 并不会逊色与在家乡的开斋节.毕竟在这求学的巫族, 也有相当的数量. 也是他们一年一度, 必举办的开斋节庆典, 邀请全部的大马学生, 一起共度!

 

庆典于下午3时开始…很多人, 一早就准备好了他们的 ‘战袍’ 想在这样一个特别的节日里大秀他们的服装…嘻嘻, 也是尊敬友族嘛!  当然, 巫族们更是魅力四射!

 

感谢你们热情的款待, 你们把那美味的家乡佳肴带到了俄罗斯, 让离乡背井求学的我们还有机会大饱口福. 你们那灿烂的笑容, 和睦相处的精神, 和热情… 真叫人回味无穷…

 

感谢你们…! Salam Aidilfitri…

 

 

 Selamat Hari Raya…

 

This is my 5^th Raya celebration in Russia…Actually it’s no different from our homeland, because we have you, our Malays friends. For every year, it’s a big events here just for all the Malaysian to celebrates together after a month of fasting…hehe, and it’s sure an event that cannot be missed by everyone here.

 

Thanks to your kind hospitality, you guys brought the taste from Malaysia here in Russia, just to quench our thirst towards Malaysian food…your rendang, masak merah chicken, nasi himpit, especially the ‘kuah kacang!’ (my favorite)…

 

Thanks for bring us smile, thx… and I’m so happy for having u guys as my friends here…because of u, we have a nice memories from the celebration…

 

Salam Aidilfitri…

 

Zhi

 

Salam Aidilfitri

I’d like to thank the PPIM for organizing the annual Raya Feast. The food, though wasn’t as delicious as last year’s (hehe but seriously), but it’s still tasty and the feast was quite enjoyable. This was one of the days that we get to gather together and take valueble memorable pictures with friends, seniors and juniors. And it’s also a day which amnesty is granted to all who sinned. Meaningful right?

“SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI. MAAF, ZAHIR & BATIN” (EID MUBARAK) to all my muslim friends.

As usual, the 3rd hostel was the venue of the event. All had to go to the 4th floor to get the scrumptious food, go down to the 3rd floor to eat, and the 2nd floor was made as a place for “sembang-sembang”.

Lots of flash lights bursted along the corridor. And the phrases “Ready, 1 2 3 cheese!”, “Eh eh, help me take a picture”, “Please go away, we wanna take pictures” etc could be heard from proximal to distal places.

Here are my pictures :

Dearie grouppie 531-A

Zhi, Me, Rose, Ieja

Lope, Me, Timmy

Joyoki, Jatdin, Efenem, Me, NikKok Khai, Me, SaSa, KaKeat (top), Shyuan (bottom)

Random photos.
Me and baby.

Hui Ming and I.

Me and Shyuan.

So many valuable pictures were taken.
And nothing is more valuable than taking a picture of our MSA President doing this

V

Classic but whacky!

PS. : Anyone cirit-birit after eating Ayam Masak Merah? hehe….

Kochi~

Overpriced pancakes

Remember the post where I introduced about Blinkom, the pancake place? View it here.
It used to be one place where every student likes to go for a pancake treat. But to my surprise, the price shot up extremely crazy after 5 months. When we went in there, we saw just a few people eating inside. 5 months back then, the place used to be full of people. It was so hard to look for a place to sit and we had to pre-book a place.
5 months later, the crowded place was so quiet and the pancakes sucked ass. One treat of pancakes used to be not more than 80 roubles. But now a piece of Snickers pie, a piece of pancake filled with bacon and tomatoes with sauce costing for 159 roubles.

Like Ka Keat always says “Nizhny likes to take away those we loved”. It is indeed really true. Took away my budget price and my favourite place for cheap eating out. *sob sob*