whaaa???

ever since i study in CSMU.. there are many things that i thought ukrainian ways are very different from ours (Malaysian).. from the way they talk, they act, even from the way they sell stuff.. in malaysia, supermarkets give free plastic bags.. but here we have to pay for it.. well, come to think of it, it force the customers to recycle their plastic bags, re-use it instead of buying new ones.. as for me, i never bother to bring a plastic bag wherever i go.. so i end up buying plastic bags each time i went shopping..

there is also the system of you paying your miss classes.. whenever u miss ur class, u have to rework it and show the teacher ur payment slip.. except when u got MC from the university's polyclinic, then u didn't have to pay.. this prevents the students from skipping classes.. good system huh??

but there are things that i thought is just plain WEIRD and i can't find any significants of it.. you see.. Ukrainians love to have lunch breaks around 11 - 12 o'clock or later.. this is not weird.. my story goes like this.. after Traumatology lecture, i rush out from the lecture hall and catch a marshut (a taxi van) to the city centre to withdraw money.. my Hong Kong bank card can only withdraw money in certain ATMs in Simferopol.. so i went to my most frequent withdrawing spot.. after i reach the place i saw a woman standing, as in, waiting in front of the ATM.. i was wondering, 'what the heck is she doing, standing there.. just withdraw your money and go already'.. she kept looking at the ATM screen then suddenly she left.. now i thought, 'that was weird'.. But the weirdest thing is soon to come when i took a peek at the ATM screen.. there was a notification saying, 'Oo nas pereriv'.. which means "WE ARE HAVING A BREAK".. can u imagine an ATM machine having a break? i was so dissappointed, went home, and took a 1 hour nap before going to paediatric class at Titova Hospital..