Jolly Happy

I was on my way back from class, at Oblastnaya Hospital. A mashrtuka arrived after we waited for quite sometime and everyone seemed to push themselves into it, as if that was the last mashrut for the day. Anyway, I managed to squeeze in without the need to struggle (Salah satu hikmah baca Yaasin lepas subuh, Allah akan permudahkan urusan).

I entered, sat at the 2nd row and I was just listening to the radio, as there was no much of scenery to be seen - the mashrutka was packed!! After a while I realized that what I heard the driver spoke was the same thing that I heard coming from the radio few seconds later. Felt weird but to lazy to bother. Later, everyone became so excited and talking to each other, creasing their eyebrows as if they are in "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" show. Actually they were! :-D Ok, of course not on that particular show, but the driver was on air and he was answering the questions given. I didn't understand the whole thing but as far my Russian could pick it up it was a quiz on cartoons and old folk tales. All I can hear is Winnie the Pooh, Shrek, another old granny name in Russian. Everybody contributed answers to him including a small boy who was sitting with his mom. Good thing that the boy sat at the front row.

After the driver confirmed that he won, he declared it out loud and thanked everyone.
Everyone cheered and congratulated him.
So much of joy in such a small space packed with so many people.

It's nice to be in such a jovial atmosphere like this, especially when the weather suddenly turned harsh out of a sudden and holidays are in 2days time, so all you wanna be is - JOLLY HAPPY.

Just in case for those who have no idea, this is what we call Marshrutka. A common and more preferable transport over here.