Nizhny Journey

Let's start ..

First of all ..

That day was 12/4/2012 ...

We woke up so early ..

Take everything then go to tramvai station ..

Here we were ..

Following story will be written in caption..

Take notes of the caption under all photos .. 

=)

This is me with a hand luggage and a big bag pack ..

2 more room mates, class mates following to Nizhny for Malaysian Intervarsity games ..

Bus with this .. easy for eating ..

Asked Elvis to take photo of me in the bus ..
Can see our luggage ?? Some small one .. on top there ..
Big ones are inside the bus .. =)

Started our journey ..

A lot of waste land .. Wonder why they never use it ..

Very nice day with green grass ..

Big big field with green green grass ..
Real damn big and wide ..

  

I tot it was a tol .. lolz .. 

Felt quite funny when saw that ..
"No duit gang"
Hahahaha ~

First stop
Common stop when going out from Volgograd ..

Everybody resting talking ..

Going out Volgograd ..

Another stop .. Almost there I guess ..

Oops still 608 km to somewhere .. not Nizhny ..

Found some ice .. guess we are near ..

More ice .. See the white colour ??

The cafe shop ..

our bus .. double decker ..

Another bus .. Single ..

Bus plate ..

Inside the bus ..

Petrol station ..

Cafe beside ..

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.. Written on the board ..

Watching the first movie in bus ..

They go and rest while me and Elvis watching movie in bus ..

Up hill down hill .. Many times ~

Clearer ..
Can see the snow beside ??
Its ice actually ..

Houses .. Only see them outside town ..

Didnt know what to bring ..
Coz we are first timer ..
So only brought biscuit and chocolates ..
A senior, Ivan (who we called datuk)
gave me an egg ..
Hahaha ..
Thanks !!
Sorry it was night time ..
Cant reli see the egg ..
but if ur eyes are good ..
U can see something white there in the photo ~
=P

Starting to get cold outside ..

Finally reached !!
After 22 hours of travel ..
Our plan supposed to go back hotel ..
Sleep for awhile then come to stadium ..
But we delayed and reached late ..
So straightaway go to stadium ..
Its early 6smth am .. 

Big one with hostel ..

Talking discussing how ..
Nizhny waited for us ..
Supposed to reach around 2am ..
Waited from 2am to 6am ..
Kesian ...
Remember the white colour shirt girl ..
Haha .. Will see her again later I guess ..

Went back hotel,
quickly put down stuff ..
wash face then come back to stadium..

Big one ??
yea ~

Breakfast ..
Prepared by Nizhny ..
2 bread with 1 packet of juice ..

Waiting hall ..

Went in ..
The arena ..
Opening ceremony ..

All universities lined up ..
30 representatives ..

Design of the year ..
Gorky intervarsity games 2012 ..

VIPs 

Talking and talking ..

Our uni in the crowd..
But the one person looking this way ..
Is Dennis ..
Hahaha..
Accidentally captured his face ..

Aiks ..
Forgot to edit ..
Find yourself ..
The one with light brown colour shirt ..
In front of the blue colour shirt ..
Chinese guy ..
Is the senior i mentioned ..
Ivan ..

Our leader .. for leading our whole university ..
The red and black colour shirt, Daniel ..
Can you see my classmate + roommate ??
Haha ..
Kirubainathan .. =)
Always call him Bai ..

Opening ceremony ..

Cutting ..

Love the zooming of my camera so much ..

Fireworks in the arena ..

Gosh ..
Become so smoky..

Cheer leader team ..
Dancing ..

Closer look and posing ..

After that ..
Went out ..
The first day ..
Coz we are only free at the first day ..
Went out with seniors ..
and their friends in Nizhny..

see 4 girls ??
Brown colour is our senior, Jenice ..
White colour boy is our senior too, Jia Ler ( in chinese)
Then 3 other girls are their friends in Nizhny ..
Also our tour guide ..
Red colour jacket, is the one we saw earlier ..
Her name is Hon Yin

Old clock in the middle of somewhere ..
Thick snow/ice ~

Walking to a nice place to eat ..

Here ..
Read as yakitori ..

Forgot to take picture before eat ..
This is after eat ..
Super full and nice ..
Not very expensive too ..

The menu ..
We enjoyed the salad the most ..
Hahaha ..
others also damn nice ..

Very excited about the snow and the cold weather ..
Volgograd is very hot ..
Haha ..

Many cars and small rain ..

Big long building ..
dono whats that ..

Kremlin ..
Some kind of fort ..

Statue in front of it ..
Forgot the name ..

Dont want to take photo of myself ..
So put Elvis inside the photo ..
Hahahaha ~
He is willing to do so ..

Shakaladnitsa ..
In Volgograd also got ..
Is a place like Starbuck ..
Went once in Volgograd ...
Not bad ..

Beautiful building ..

Aeroplane ..
Fake ~

Tank and all that ..

Elvis and Jenice ..

Back view ..

Long long one ~

Taken from a top place ..
See down there ..
Almost covered by the tree ..
Is the fort earlier on ..
Is very long like China great wall ..

Half frozen river ..
Volgograd's river is no more frozen ..

Look so beautiful ..

Opposite of the river ..

Never try to walk on the ice before ..
This photo can see the ice clearer ..
Half river frozen ..

This bridge.. Is super duper far ..
Using my camera super power zoom ..
Hahaha ~
Just love the zooming lah ~

Again with elvis and the super beautiful view ..

Zooming again ..
Haha ..
3 birds on the ice ..

There the fort ..
See how high we were ??
Very steep..

Tall thing ..
Volgograd also have but ..
Either I forgot I saw it before ..
or I never seen it before ..
Haha

Eternal fire ..
Never off ..
Waste petrol gas ..
Haha ..

I don think you can get to see me in one of those nice views ..
Hahaha ..

Jenice taking photos too ..

See ..
Look like China great wall right ??

Near there,
is a church..
And statue of a priest and a King..
Something like they own this place or whatever ..

Funniest part !!
Hahahahahahahahahaha ~
Sorry Elvis have to tell everybody ..
See that mud ??
Elvis actually accidentally stepped into that mud ..
and he sinked !!
Hahaha ..
He shouted and I tot what happened ..
I only tot he accidentally stepped into the mud so he shouted ..
Who knows !!
He said, pull me out !!
Hahahaha  ..
He was stucked there .. lolz ..
Jia Ler pulled him out and accidentally get some mud on his shoe too ..
Should take photo of elvis before pulling him out .. =P
but he might sink more until left his head ..
HAHAHAHAHA ~
He said he tot it was some kind of ice or frozen mud ..

See the church behind ??

Now we are in a long long street with many statues ..

See how long is the street ??
Oh ya .. Actually the Nizhny seniors left us at yakitori ..
Hon Yin taught us how to go around ..
And so we went by ourselves ..

Many nice statues ..

Monkey statue 

No idea why so many statues ..
Volgograd only have a few ..

I know you might not see the word there ..
But its "BOSS"
Nizhny got a lot of english words' shops ..
Hahaha 

Even got statue sitting on bench ..

PUMA !!!

Continue to walk ..
Long long street ..
Volgograd dont have ..
Moscow have one too ..

Dancing statue ..
I mean look like they are dancing but they dont move ..

Targovi centre ..
In english is called Trading centre ..
Our targovi in Volgograd is much more bigger ..
If you remember ..

Even got stone statue on the wall ..

Columbia and Nike ..

Cinnabon ~!!
Only in KL ..
Only not in Volgograd ..
No idea why ..

Muffin is Jenice's
The shop most popular bun is the chocolate cinnabon
Ordered by Jia Ler..

Look nice taste nice too ~!

I bought some too ..
Taking back to Volgograd ..
On the plastic bag,
is all the branches in Russia ..
Include Nizhny, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk..
Only not in Volgograd !!
WHY YOU NO OPEN IN VOLGOGRAD??

Theater 

Love their beautiful statue ..

Ladies first ~

Subway and sushi ..
Subway is also in Volgograd ..

Second hand planet ..

Theater also i guess ..

Biblioteka ..
In English is library ..
But this is not an ordinary library ..
Its a restaurant with the theme of library ..
CREATIVE !!

Cool ~
Act cool ~

MacDonald !!
Didnt go and eat ..
Wanted to eat KFC but no more KFC ..

Statue in the middle of the park ..

Big clock ..
Just beside shops ..
No idea suddenly appear there ..

Many big beautifully designed building like KL ..
Not in Volgograd ..
Their building are really beautifully designed ...

This is another stadium for our Grand Dinner ..

Inside of the stadium .. Second floor ..

First and second floor ..

Beautiful ..
Creative and beautiful ..

Let's go into the stadium ..
Here is the stage ..

Beautiful lights ..

Chairs ..

Weird numbering ..

Started the performance ..
Total 20+ performance ..
Whoa !!
Malay dance ..

Amcee coming from behind ..

Came same time with Elvis ..
His friend but not so friend ..
Studied some kind of degree for project organizing ..
or something related to that ..

VIP talking with translator ..

Too dark ..

Our room ..
Forgot to take photos when we first came in ..
Just remember that and took photo before we checked out ..

4 beds ..
One more small one in front of right side bed ..

Small corridor ..

Kitchen and living room ..

2 corridors ..
6 rooms i guess ..

Barbecue place and also the house ..
Is our hotel ..

Single decker bus ..

3rd day early morning checked out ..
its like 6.30am in the morning ..
Have to go real early
because basketball start at 7.30am ..

Basketball team ~

Elvis is inside ..

Start soon ..

Everybody running so fast ..
Even the referee also running ..
Cant take a good photo ..

In !!
Haha ..

Defending ..

Whoa ..
So far throwing ..
3 points !!

Thought of using flash so that it wont be so blur ..
Who knows..
Become dark ~
lolz 

Somebody injured ..
Not from our university tho ..

VIPs came ..

Dancing after winning a sport event ..

Gee gee gee gee gee ~

Cheering ..
Happy ..
Nizhny university ..

Basketball referee ..
Again using the camera zooming ..

Winning and the university running towards their team ..
hugging each other ..

Dance another song ..
Whoa ..

Nice ..

Lastly price giving ..

Medals ..

7 universities ..

VIP talking again with translator ..

The old white beard man look like some kind of magicians ..
Hahaha

Chess individual winners ..

The boy is a second year boy ...
From Nizhny university ..
Is a state player ..
Forgot his name ..

Chess team price giving ..

Our university get number 2 ..
Raj and Jiven is up there .. with blue colour shirt ..
The 2 pros in our team ..

Last meal in Nizhny ..

Camera no battery..
Used phone to take photo ..
guess what is the time in this photo ??
Its 8.30pm ..
=)

8.45pm ..
In Volgograd also very bright ..
Sun comes out early go down late ..

Super duper ultra big huge shopping mall
Called MEGA ..
Inside got ice skating ring, and also water ball rolling activity..

Ikea ..
big supermarket in MEGA..
Usually only 1 supermarket in 1 mall
but there are 2 in the mall !!

We came back on the 16th ..

12pm afternoon ..

Unpacked everything ..

Medals won by us ..
Bronze is Elvis's basketball ..

This is mine ..
Silver..

For chess team ..

Oh gosh !!
See this make me angry !!
They had lucky draw 10 numbers ..
none from Volgograd !!
All other universities have get either once ..
And the price given last was ..
Ipod mini, Ipod, and Ipad !!

Souvenir bought back for friends and seniors ..
Kind of remembrance for my silver ..
=P

Look nice right ??
It's a bookmark ..

A pin ..
Wanted to buy this for my friends and seniors too ..
but no more ..
Only bought one ..
For myself ..
=P

Ok now ..

Let's talk something bad about my roommate ..

Of coz not my classmate ..

They are much more better than the one came so late..

Yet still acting like he is the boss ..

Yesterday our stupid room mate ..

Got angry,

He said we were talking too loud that he couldnt sleep !

Guess what??

Its afternoon !!

IN THE AFTERNOON !!

and he want to sleep..

And so we cant talk in the afternoon is it ??

He shouted at us ..

Came down from his bed and throw his bag,

Then kicked the door and slammed the door ..

and went out to his friends or dono where ..

WAD THE HELL !!

Seriously pissed off with him ..

!!!