January 01, 2011

Its new year already

its 2011 now…while others partying like theres no tomorrow last nite in some other places…here we are smashing shuttlecocks till midnite. its getting really cold now at this point of time. gonna post some photos of what it like here in kiyanly…

kiyanly is a small fishing village about 40km from its town turkmenbashy, it a decent town with all neccessary facilities available for them people. For the locals, life is simple and easy. but it is quite tough for us here.

Language spoken in either russian nor turkmen…both are worlds apart. but most can understand ruski. so it is essential to know some of the important phrases in russian to survive..

we have a room for ourselves here..no sharing room, personal business is important…here’s my room

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although it is chilling now, but winter is not at its peak now here..bought a new heater, see that red glowing things…i ought to buy myself a carpet for the room, but since locals knew us expat so they tried to fork out dollar for us…2*2 meter turkmen carpet (machine) could easily damage you for USD100…business is good..

there are no shopping complex here in turkmenbashy…closes would be in ashgabat. we go to bazaar for anything..its like amcorp mall sunday market. anything and everything..mostly are from china.

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compare to ringgit, turkmen manat is stronger. owh, manat is their currency. 1usd = 2.84 manat

cats here are adorable, fluffy. wife asking if i would bring 1 back.. i dunno, maybe yes, maybe no..these two cats are frequent visitor to my room…

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figuring out what the hell are we doing in this blessed land?

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this is what we are building here…

dasdivaniya…

2 comments:

Dils said...

bawak dedua la

Some said...

kene bayar usd300, baik la beli kucing kt malaysia