finding a balance….
life in russia here has improved alot compared to the past 2 years, partly because i have something to do almost every weekend, while during weekdays class ends not that late and i could manage my time for studies, apart from other activities like cooking…
in fact, my weekends are never empty this year. since the beginning of last semester, we’d have celebration almost every week…..from hari raya, deepavali, malaysian night, christmas, new year, and recently the chinese new year. not forgetting birthdays of our groupmates as well as other friends here. i’m always occupied…
well, maybe it’s just the change of my perspective of things…i get easily satisfied by simple simple things nowadays….
perhaps all of us are desperately trying not to feel lonely, we’ll try to find activities to keep us mentally and physically busy, so that we do not have time to realise the fact that we indeed lonely….
well, just take the recent cny celebration as example, we could celebrate 3 times…one reunion dinner, one big party with all the malaysians, and one for our groupmates.
i like gatherings. big or small. i like to see people, surrounded by people, talking, chatting, socializing. i like to do other things than to study. i dont want medicine to be my only concern in life later on…
recently there’s a "kopitiam" opened in our hostel by our own students. it’s to compensate the fact that russians do not know how to appriciate such a wonderful place for people to gather around to watch tv, yam cha and chatting….it’s not completely "furnished" i would say, and we have to sit on the floor, but nevertheless it’s a great place to hang out on friday night.
i find myself indulging too much in this new semester in all sorts of activities. apart from normal classes, i took part in surgery club too. apart from that, i play badminton every saturday and karate classes every monday. they are all activities which have just been initiated either by the university teachers or the students….
somehow i find myself very "greedy"…..wanting to put a leg in everything….despite the fact that my normal classes are draining me, enough to make me look like a walking ghost during the day…. maybe because i don’t wanna miss anything that is happening around me… or.more precisely, i don’t wanna feel "left out"…..
for the pass few days, i was overwhelmed by tonnes of works to be done, and thus having only few hours to sleep. i was really exhausted. i was practically dragging myself for all the activities…
i need to find a balance soon, before it consumes me…..
my horoscope says i should get more sleep today….hmmmm…maybe i’ll do just that…
