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So my 8th of May was just normal at first.. for lunch though I was suppose to meet Rema at McDs. So I went to Lubyanka Metro to the Detski Mir ( Children's World) because I needed to buy some coloured paper... on my way back at about 2.00pm, I got to the metro and needed to take one station backward and I realized that there was something wrong with the line! So after waiting for like 10 mins I decided to take a longer way back... Had to change lines like 3 times.. What was like a 3 minute journey took 2o minutes.

When I reached Okhotni Ryad metro, I realized why the line was not working. Somehow or rather, the line was backlogged due to the preparations for Victory Day Parade ( 9th May) @ Okhotni Ryad ( where the Red Square and Kremlin is).

Not only were the trains not working, the shopping mall was CLOSED. So I had to go to the McD's a little further away. Earlier that day I thought that since it was my bday I would wear something a little nicer, so I wore my boots. Haha.. my feet hurt after all that walking while changing trains and walking to McDs.

I got there and.. saw Wak, Hadri, Hannan, Lah, Girish, Rema etc were there. After about 20 minutes, Jijah came! HAha.. she came with my cake(1). So cute of her, she said that she had to carry the cake in the metro with all the congestion ( especially with the line being held back) and she also carried a KNIFE in the train. She said this to me " mayshi, because of you i'm a pengganas dalam metro today!" awww.. so sweet! She also said that in the bus a person asked her : " You like Russian cakes?".

The embarassing thing is that.. we sang a birthday song so LOUDLY in the very crowded McD. ( you must know that McD's in Russia is like a hawker centre, always always packed) BUT.. thanks group 7 and 8! Also thanks to Sally, Yan, Ira, Dya, Ika..

I brought the cake to class and then let some people finish the remainder of the cake. :)

In the evening I had dance practice, so Kenix, Vashni, Ann, and Shoba came over to Kahov. In the middle of dance practice, these people (and more) came...

Dear Mayshi...

Happy Birthday girl! So now you're 19? Old already. And just last year you thought you were 18 and the time passed so quickly. :) Oh well, that's life isn't it.. as you grow older the time seems to move faster and faster. Time waits for no man! Seems like time is being like the 21st century. FAST. How ironic, the faster you do things, the faster time passes.

Anyway, my dear, since you're older now, it means more responsibilities. I hope that you take up the challenge, because once the time passes, it's gone forever. Also, don't be so afraid of new things, don't shoot new ideas down just because you think it's impossible. Be positive and have faith that God will help you through. Remember what you told me? God already has all your successes accomplished, you just need to go out there and grab it.

Just make sure you get your priorities right and plan your time properly. I know you always procrastinate so I hope that you change that too. :) And remember to be good! Don't say bad things about other people, don't take things for granted. Don't expect things to stay the same forever. Be discplined and don't slack. :) Hold on to what you believe in, don't change just because people have different opinions than you, but if you're wrong, take it graciously! Don't be a sore loser.

I hope you take my advice! Take care and talk to you soon. :)

Love you!
-mayshi-

Hey people.. I thought that it was just a couple of days that passed since i last updated. Well, now it's already been a few weeks!

Been busy examing. In the past few days I took my microbe, physio, biochem tests. All good. Oh you should know for my biochem I stayed up the whole night studying, but praise God, when the mcq tests came back i got 92! It just shows that you can do something totally wrong, but God can change anything to his will. In the same way, you could do something exactly the right way, but when he wants, he can make it fail totally.

Yesterday was M nite.. Moscow Rangoli Night. Well, it was a collection of 20 dances. BORING. :P Waste of time and money. I've got some constructive critism so if you wanna know please ask me. :) If not then I shan't even waste my words.

Patho exam tomorrow. :)


Stuff just keeps on coming up lately. Sometimes I wonder, looking at busy people.. do they spend their life just going along doing things.. being pushed by the flow, going along with the current, or are they doing what they WANT to do? Making waves, making a difference. It seems sometimes we are so bogged up with 'life' that we forget that we should be living..

So sometimes when you feel that you're in over your head.... just STOP, and think about life and whether that is what you wanna do. I always thought that now that I'm studying that my life should just come to a screeching halt.

But looking at my seniors and they've given me inspiration to think that... living should not end just because you are studying, or working... work is something that we need to put food on the table, for our physical bodies, but we still need to feed our soul to be living.

This past week I was just thinking that is it worth sacrificing sleep for studying? Well, don't take this as the only example, many times we sacrifice things that are important to us in order to do things that URGENT at the moment. For example, in some families, where parents spend time working, and not with their families. I guess what i'm trying to say is we have to learn to prioritize. When we leave this earth, we will leave ALL of that money, all of the fame, all the glory, all the things we own, we leave the Earth in the same conditions we came when we came out from our mother's womb. Instead what we would bring is God, and all the experiences we gained on Earth.

To me it seems like when we work to hard for things of the Earth, it's like the scene when we hang a stick with a carrot dangling in front of a donkey. And the donkey tries to grab the carrot, the donkey runs, runs, in all directions.. spins around, runs faster, but in the end, he will never get the carrot. He wastes his time, his energy, his life for something that he will never actually own.

On the other hand, we could say - why should the donkey chase the carrot, when if he looks to the things NOT immediately ahead of him ( looks further behind the carrot) he sees something more permanent. Something fixed, something not moving relative to him, say a field of cabbages, planted in the soil. When he runs to the cabbages, the cabbages don't run away from him, the cabbage is the ABSOLUTE. If he runs, in time he will reach the cabbages and have his fill. So now, which are you chasing? The temporary CARROTS or the absolute CABBAGES?

So.. now, maybe we think we maybe looking to the future when we work hard to get money, but try looking EVEN further ahead. WAY WAY down the road, after this life has ended... Maybe we should start preparing now? In my opinion, Earth is just like a prep-school, or schooling years, where you learn and gain all the knowledge possible, to equip you for what comes after.
HEAVEN.

May you make the right decisions in life. :)

Which is worse? To leave of to get left behind?

This week has just been CRAP for me.

Last Sunday I went to church like normal, and then shifted stuff to the new Church building. Spent the whole day out and got back at about 8pm. It was a pretty satisfying day.. I mean.. moving a church.

Until I got back and signed on to MSN. And then.. I saw it...

"RIP Andrew."

I was like.. no... .





That VERY SUNDAY Pastor Kevin asked the church:
"Who wants to go to heaven?"
And the whole church raised their hands.

then he asked...
" Who wants to go to heaven, TODAY?"
Some hands dropped.

Looks like Andrew moved on today.



Damn.

20 years is too soon. TOO SOON.

He never got married. He never got kids. He never got that dream car he wanted. He never travelled around the world.


I know that I am not in a position to write about this, or even feel sad, but I am. I cried in the shower, and then cried myself to sleep.
I don't think I've ever spoken to him.
And i've known him since Standard 5.
I guess we've crossed paths, but just never hit into each other.

But is death the end of life?
Nope. He still lives on in us.

Please don't let him die in vain.

I can see with my own eyes.. the kind of unity we DJians have, it's just so sad that it took a tragedy like this to discover it.

Listening to: Just A Little While- Janet Jackson.
Yay! it's taken sooo long. like about 3 years. So now, I have 10000 views. No biggie actually.

So.. sorry I haven't been updating. Kinda bogged down with studies, esp. biochemistry, which seems to have pending MCQ tests. The best part is today, when I went for Russian class, now I will even need to do a test every class. EVERY CLASS.

Thank God that I finished my surgery class last Thursday.

In 2 weeks though I will have ALL exams together. Biochem, Microbe, Physio. I hope patho will be later at least.

Just now went to Spartive for choir practice. MF will be leading praise and worship in Sunday service and for Love factor on the 12th. hehehe.. the songs are cool. Check out Hillsong's Break Free, from their album Savior King! It's like the kind of song that you can bang your head to. :)

Oh and SADLY, International Christian Assembly (ICA) Moscow will be moving to some place at the far end of the Red Line. You see, in Moscow, property is expensive and the church cannot afford to purchase a building of its own, so they rent hotel halls, or multipurpose buildings to conduct church services. It's kinda difficult because every couple of years or so we move to another place. But it certainly makes for a different experience. So now, the far end of the Red Line is way way way farther than where it usually was.

Hehe. Okay, so I defamed the metro map a little. So let me just show you what i'm talking about.
I live at X. Metro Sevastopolskaya. To travel to Metro Spartivnaya :( where church used to be would take about 40 minutes? Now I have to travel all the way up to CHERKIZOVSKAYA METRO which would take an hour. And just for reference, the red square at the center is.. well.. where the Red Square is. And the Kremlin's there too.

There's this really cute story about how the metro map we see there came about. You see, during Stalin's time there was that metro map there, without the Brown (Ring) Line. And what happened was Stalin was in his room with a cup of coffee, when someone proposed a change to the metro system. So Stalin said he would think about it, and placed his coffee cup on the metro map. So the coffee stain resulted in the Ring Line!! It's not a true story by the way.

OKAY, and finally.. let me introduce to you.. my new FAVOURITE SINGER.
'Sara Beth Bareilles is a singer-songwriter and pianist. She has been compared to Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, and Joni Mitchell despite her lack of formal training in either voice or piano.' (basically meaning she self-taught herself the piano?! is it?)

Goes to show that the most educated doesn't always mean most successful. :) I LOVE HER!




She's so pretty! Her latest album is Little Voice. I so want this album.

She became famous on iTunes, when they put her song "Love Song" as a free download. Can't wait to hear more from her in the future! Love the song Vegas, especially the live one.
Fairytale is so cute too. Her voice is just amazing!

Go check her out!

Got this in my email today.

Pray for him please.

I believe in the power of prayer.

"Dear Brothers & Sisters in christ

please join me in prayer as you read this:

Andrew Yap, SMKDJ, Graduation Year 2005

"Andrew Yap from DJ is in ICU. He fell and hit his head and his brain shifted. He's still unconscious even after the surgery. Docs say he's not recovering, please pray for him."

- Ee Fei

In the name of the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit

Dear Lord,

Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy sick servant, Andrew Yap, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that, with his bodily health restored, May he be healed by the Holy Spirit and May You Shower Him with your utmost love and mercy. May he wake up from his surgery as he has not waken up since then.

Jesus, Your array of miracles, A true manifestation of Your Divinity, Draws the admiration of searching souls. Never let it be said, "Miracles do not exist!". You are the living example of such actions. Bless us with the faith to always believe, To affirm the Supreme Power of Your miracles, Be they of a physical or spiritual nature. We believe that our friend Andrew will wake up and be healed by your healing hand.

In your most precious name, Christ Our Lord

Amen.

* Pls forward to anyone you know and thank you for taking time in praying for him"

i'm PRETTY DAMN SURE Mr XXX's not a virgin.

The funniest statement in years.

And I came up with it. Genius right?

DON'T ASK.