Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Bad times are over.....

I thought it would be a good courtesy to leave a long overdue post to say that I am back in Moscow, safe and sound. The reason for my disappearance from the blogosphere is because I lost the interest in blogging or rather I am just too lazy to blog! Well, it has been almost a month or 22 days to be exact, since I landed safely in Domodedovo Airport, Moscow. On my first week here, I had been preoccupied with my room problem, which was the main reason I came back a week earlier than I was supposed to. I had to go through much trouble due to the action of some selfish souls. This is roughly what I went through and it all began even before my summer break. It has been 4 years that I stayed in this room of mine when days before my finals I was asked to move out and find myself a room. Obviously, it was not an easy task getting myself a room, being the 3rd person to squeeze in an already occupied room. Nevertheless, I tried hard but all my attempts were to no avail so I decided to talk to the hostel administrator about it. I was then given an old, unrenovated room and I thought everything will soon be fine after I forked out a few hundred dollars for renovation. Yes, this sound a little absurd but it is what normally happens here in Russia that students have to renovate their own rooms! However, a day before my pathology examination I was told that I will have to live with a Tajikistan!
"Oh, that would be great," I thought. Well, getting a chance to live with people of different cultures and beliefs is not a good thing after all. My, she is unbearable! She never washes her dishes after meals, her dirty clothes are everywhere on the floor and my carpet gets so dirty despite hoovering it everyday! She loves eating salted fish which stinks so terribly and I can hardly runaway from the smell because the room is soooooo small, merely 3m X 4m! Imagine having to be her servant 24/7 if you want the room to be comfortable...Those days were indeed a nightmare and I dread to think about it.
When classes began, I could bear no more and my family members actually did a good deed by lodging reports and my problem was escalated to the "biggest boss" in charged. I was finally given a newly renovated room of my own, pheeew, sigh of relief! Bad times are over and I can fully concentrate on my first clinical year!

I used to get mad with the selfish people who put my life in misery and treated me wrong but after reading one of my friend's blog, I came to realise how true the saying is, "Think not of what your country can do for you, but think what you can do for your country!" How you treat people should be of pure goodwill and it doesn't mean that because you are treated badly, you have to reciprocate! When things are all going smoothly and nice, the world seems to be a better place. =) It's only during my darkest moments in life, I actually see the people who stand by me despite being shouted at and hurt by me yet still continue to stand behind me through my trials and tribulations. Thanks, hon, for all that you have gone through with me, helped me and giving me all the support and strength to go through those bad times. I love you! =)










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A final year medical student who has spent almost all her adolescent years in Moscow, Russian Federation. Happy-go-lucky, bubbly, friendly. Hostile when in bad mood or being irritated.