Unwind A Little

Taking a week off from this cold and mundane city of Moscow is definitely worth it. It's so nice to unwind a little, breaking off to being a tourist and not a student for a change, even if it's just for a week.

Just a teaser to where I travelled to, :)

Just so you know, I am not much of a fan of travelling.

Travelling, is hardd. Like super-friggin-memeningkan kepala punye hard.

It's a very challenging process, which drains and sucks out your energy to make you always feel anxious and wanna pee all the time :(

You must have all skills in your pocket if you wanted to travel.

Everything has to be polished beforehand. You have to be smart with every single skill; like map-reading skill, communication skill, tolerance skill, adaptability skill, gadget-y skill, planning skill, you name it.

It involves all skills mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. You have to be good, kind and approachable, but don't hesitate to be heartless and cunning at times in need. Clumsiness is a no go, and attentiveness to the details is something you just HAVE to have kot kot mana pun.

And you have to think awfully fast too in case something suddenly went wrong.

As for me, I am mostly terrible in everything. But whether you like it or not, the show must go on once you set your foot the soil which isn't yours. You gotta do what you gotta do since there is no option left than trying to survive, even when its reaching your limit to do so. It is the time where you have to step out from your comfort zone and test your limit as eventually, sooner or later, the time will come too no matter what. Now or never, ready or not...you have to be at your very best when the moment came...

Well, as crazy as it sounds, I did experience the worst in this trip. We could plan all we want but God is still the better planner than us. However, it was still a fun experience though. especially when we managed to pull it through. And at least you got something to remember from your journey.

Alah, this is life. Bad experience, good experience, all are the spices in life, toughen us up for upcoming battles in life.

Lagipun kalau rasa susah hati sebab travel tu susah, ingat ayat ni;
"Dialah yang menjadikan bumi itu mudah bagi kamu, maka berjalanlah di segala penjurunya..."

al-Mulk, 15

So yeah, some comments on what I felt of my '13/14 winter trip. Hopefully the pictures will follow up later on separate posts (if I could make it). I am sorting them out while recovering from jetlag and flu which I caught upon arrival home.

Till then, A.

Winter Trip '12 - Part I - Poland (i)

OMZYXG the pictures are here guyssss as promised :)

First destination : Poland. In Poland, we visited two places; its capital which is Warsaw, and Krakow. Dua dua tempat ni merupakan dua tempat yang Malaysia hantar students study medik di Poland, dan di Poland jugak I met with my schoolmate yang study kat sini.

Since it was our first day, of course lah the gambar were not so many. Lagipun we are all guys kot, takleh nak camwhore sangat hehe.

Tapi ada lah jugak seciput.

Keep in mind that it was winter, so the view tak lah cantik sangat as in spring or summer. Tapi at least the whiteness of the snow made us look quite cerah in most of the pictures :P

So we all arrived in late evening, and while searching for halal restaurant for dinner, we walked around the town a bit so that tak kalut-kalut sangat tomorrow. Lagipun it's not really that late, it's winter time and pukul 6 ke atas dah gelap dah.

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saw this building while walking, dunno what is it but I like the architecture

This is National Theater (Teatr Narodowy)

Gate of the tombs of unknown soldiers

...and our picture in front of it

And this is one of the guards who guard this place.

Agak lucu sebenarnya sebab bila difikir-fikir balik, we visited kubur malam-malam buta. Nasib baik nothing spooky happened. Anyway, keep in mind that it was winter time, the weather was super cold and we had been outside for too long, so we didn't take pictures much.

OLD TOWN

not so many people, sejjukk

loving the angle here, with the light and all

I lupa on sequence to where we went first the day after we arrived, tapi agak banyak jugaklah tempat that we visited, like;

WILANOW PALACE

Church in Wilanow

besides the church

random benda yang caught my attention. in summer i think ada anggur bergayut rasanya

Wilanow Palace with us. Wah macam budak-budak sumenye!

loving the angle here!

LAZIENKI PARK

See, even the pigeons were shivering!

The Floating Palace

as usual, us in front of it :)

smizing

Giving food to Mr. Peacock

PALAC KULTURY I NAUKI

In Russia we have this building too with same architecture, called the Seven Sisters 

Us in front of the monument

with some old friends studying there

and we even left our "momento" in there too hehe :P

Ish vandalism ni

WARSAW NATIONAL STADIUM (UEFA EURO 2012)

the stadium

Le us

and finally...

IN OLD TOWN AGAIN (last night for souvenirs hunting)

when we arrived..

then..it's snowing so bad, so not taking much pictures

the old town, love the effects and hue and all

So basically that was it, sungguh tak teratur kan post ni? Well I did my best in selecting pictures and whatnot, so biorlah. Next one's gonna be in Poland too, but in Krakow, so stay tuned. 

Later :)

Request; Winter trip - Intro

I completely forgot to upload my winter trip's pictures on facebook, padahal i've been specially requested by my dearest friend kot sebab dia nak tengok. It's been like almost a year dah, yet I haven't do anything. Haihs maafla, I completely lupa. Medik student la katakan, busy memanjang hehehe.

So anyway because uploading photos on facebook is way beyond mainstream nowadays, I chose to post them here instead. Lagipun tak terasa macam nak post kan kat facebook lah, sebab most of the photos diambil oleh my friend who is using big DLSR camera, and he already uploaded the album and done all the taggings...so kiranya kalau upload through my account pun rasanya akan jadi repetitive je kan. Buat menyemak laman sesawang orang cakap :P

So to my dearest friend(s) who specially requested this, I'm doing this for you :)

Hmmm, macamana nak start eh?

Okay...firstly, before this hassle-photo-crazed begins, meh nak gitau how I gonna do this. Since the photos are kinda banyak as we went bagpacking to five different countries, they will be splitted into five different posts, this one excluded. Dan memandangkan it's been like almost a year had passed, my memories were kinda rusty. So I am not going to explain in details on what did we do there, where did we visit bla bla bla, it gonna be five posts crammed with lots of pictures and few explanations based on the pictures. Lagipun I know you guys love seeing pictures right?

Just for the information and disclaimers, most of the pictures are dicilok from my friend's camera, my SII's phone camera dan banyak lagi sumber yang orang upload kat facebook. So basically I'm not the photographer lah. Various sources punya. And if somehow I didnt manage to find the pictures, yelah mana tahu ada orang privatekan/block me etc, dalam satu post tu akan ada seket je lah gambarnya. Nak buat macamana kan?

So....here some lil bits of info here and there about my winter trip the other day.

Well we went to five different countries, iaitu Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic and Germany. Memandangkan I have said earlier that it was a bagpacking trip, memang we all guna pengangkutan darat merentas negara bermula dari Poland sampai ke Germany. Tapi, untuk first trip ke Poland tu kitorang guna flightlah tapinya, dan balik ke Moscow pun guna flight. Waktu jalan-jalan rentas negara tu je yang guna pengangkutan darat seperti keretapi dan bas.

Duration masa rasanya dalam 3 minggu kalau tak silap, dan we all went cuma to the capital city of each country je, kecuali dua tempat di Poland sebab dari Warsaw nak ke border tu kena singgah dulu di Krakow. Tak kisahlah singgah satu tempat ke, dua tempat ke, as long as we can say that we already visited that country hewhew.

Matlamat utama jalan-jalan ni? Well sebenarnya saja je jalan-jalan, nak tengok beza negara masing-masing. Me personally tak suka sangat melawat negara Eropah sebenarnya apart from its cleanliness dan senang untuk navigate arah kalau sesat, I am more to a cultural-tradition person, tapi alang-alang we already are studying in Europe, apa salahnya merayau di sekitarnya untuk tengok suasana.

Lagipun memang ada banyak beza kot antara lain-lain negara. Jauh perjalanan luas pemandangan orang cakap, and it's an opportunity furthermore, rugi kalau tak grab. Lagipun kita boleh lah observe apa yang bagusnya pasal orang putih yang selalu dibangga-banggakan tu. Yang baik jadikan teladan, yang buruk dijadikan pengajaran, dan yang cantik dijadikan isteri wahaha.

So basically that was it lah, just wait for the pictures in my next post. I'll promise there will be quite a lot (or not)...and some will be posted with my face in it lah jugak unfortunately T_T. Takpelah...demi you yang requested and for others yang mungkin interested. Err...I mean not interested in me, tapi interested on the trip. Tapi kalau interested in me pun boleh jugak :)

So ciao all, till the next post. Later.