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In a few days, I will be 2 months old here in UNIMAS, and in general life here is GOOD… Currently things are running smoothly. But I can’t say that everything has turn out as I have planned earlier. There are a few hiccups and obstacles which are slowing me down…. something NORMAL in life and which I have been practically used to. One of those obstacles is my financial state here.

As coming here is pretty costly with the fact that my only guaranteed source of cash flow are from my PARENTS (something quite embarrassing for a 23 years old
adult such as myself). So securing a scholarship is a MUST and non-officially I have successfully done that. But as my scholar is provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, its taking them quite some time to lay down the agreement… maybe one of the factors contributing to the delay is because of the just recently held general election and the UNEXPECTED results are costing them the EXPECTED delay (and the politician are talking about making government services more people friendly… yeah right!). This has resulting me in a TIGHT regime of financial budget = (

Not so troublesome issue is my current state of emotion…. It’s not I’m not happy here (cause there no REALLY bad things happening to me, yet). But I can’tdenied it can be pretty LONELY at certain times… maybe it just the post syndrome living in a new place, far away from my beloved family and friends (my alter EGO may denied it but yes I miss the people used to be around me back there when I was in UKM). I know it’s not a major problem but when im all alone, it’ll keep bugging me down deep in my shallow heart and spacious mind…And my new friends here are not quite talkative, extremely expressed, ambitious and over confident little NAPOLEONs as the people I used to mix with. Im not making a statement for my new friends or something like that but I need someone who are not afraid to speak their mind off, someone who I can discuss with on world related topics, future prospects for our country and simply about the weather, someone who can give me their honest opinion and argue with me in a creative and intellectual way… (Yeah maybe I should have consider doing my post grad studies in political science and not biotech =P) But when you have been trained to talk nonstop for 3 hours, it’s something like an addiction to speak my mind off… Thinking of it, actually maybe I need to be in control of my old habits. But im still searching for my kind of crowd or just haven’t got the opportunity to discover the unexplored talent of my new friends.

Back there in the peninsular, I have all the things needed for my post grad studiesREADY and set up for my comfort…. actually before I came here, I have alreadyreceive several offers to do my master’s degree in UKM as Graduate ResearchAssistant with secure monthly pay around RM1200. I also have a mass social connection where I know all the important people to get what I needed when I need it!  (sound like Michael Scofield from d prison break drama series eh?) Not forgetting all the friends and people who I know and knew me, the result from my 3 years of hyperactive student life… frankly speaking I fell secure and comfortable back there in UKM, putting me in
a much advantage position to pursue my studies over there….Yet I LEAVE all
that luxury and comfort behind and equipped with just my knowledge, experience, faith and also my alter EGO came here to unfamiliar terrain to GAIN new experience, knowledge, friendship and perhaps love… You as might say I got everything to LOSE or everything to GAIN here in Unimas! But I choose to pick
the latter in my way of looking at it. But that just one of the basic principles in life: to GAIN something, we must also willing to RISK something else. As for me to gain EVERY THING, I have to risk EVERY THING.eeRYTHING in exchange.

Its been quite some time since i last posted my blog with an English material…. and here in unimas the official language is English…. back there in UKM everything was in our national language…. so i need to polish up my English, especially orally. And my newest post will be fully in English.

Here in Kota Samarahan the weather is very unpredictable. It
can be a clear sunny day and a moment later it began to rain,  almost everyday… and when it does, its rained cats & dogs….. You’ll know the sky going to fall down when dark clouds begin to form up above…. then it’ll get darker like the sun is setting down…. the wind started to blow at such high speed that even
the curtain rail hv loosen its grip to the wall. It even made a weird howling sound, like the sound of dogs calling each other, HUUUWWW, HUUUUWWWW (something like that lorr) … soon the rain came after that, began with a light drizzle and then heavily that i cant even see the bridge apposite my room. And the rain will last up to an hour or so…

Because there is no roofing walking alley, an umbrella is a must thing to hv here in UNIMAS…. even for a MACHO men like me (at first i think its quite lame for a guy to use umbrella, but when i get drenched a few times, i changed my mind hehe). So it is a common sight here to see guys sticking to their umbrella…. but i still think we men shouldn’t use it on a sunny day just to protect our perfect smooth white skin (REAL men of course)…. And sometimes u can see people running for shelter if it suddenly rained… something very fun to watch up above from my apartment (sometime we also shout at them as an encouragement so they  run faster as in a race walaulaulau =P)

There also one incident when my room was drenched with rain after i forgot to close my room window before going to the lab… resulting in me cleaning my room all over again (i learn my lesson thought)…. But after quite sometime here and after observing the cloud formation pattern a couple of times, i think i can tell if its going to rain soon or not (pretty good la for a non weather broadcaster eh?) And i even started to like the common rain here., it surely make sleeping such more wonderful pastime activity hohoho =D