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Friday, October 05, 2007

Crazy guy cycles home from the USA

Click here to read about this crazy guy on a bike who is cycling home to Malaysia, all the way from US of A. His journey began in May from the US West Coast, he arrived in the East Coast 2 months later, flew across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland and is currently getting out of Turkey and entering the Asian continent.

Respek sama dia... really respect. You have to read his journal to see what he's been through for the past few months. Such bravery and tenacity. That's what I call a real journey. A real adventure. And the best part is, he's not spending millions in taxpayers money to do it.

You see, it turns out that our angkasawan is just hitching a ride into space.

Spaceflight participant = Astronaut?
*choke*

God help us if they-who-must-not-be-named decide to bestow a Datukship upon him when he returns.

OK OK, to be fair, if Laika the Dog, Sam the Rhesus Monkey and Ham the Chimpanzee can do it, why not a Malaysian? NASA named them astronauts too.

Nuts.

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Blogger Spot said...

You din know meh? Already very give face didn't call him "Space Tourist"...which is what NASA called the millionaires and billionaires who paid their own way on the last 2 missions.

I guess the purchase of Russian fighter jets in exchange for the ride does give some semblance of legitimacy eh? THough how 11 days can be adequate for "experiments", I don't know.

10:54 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi! i'm glad you came out and said this. everyone else seems to have missed the fact that we, the taxpayers, are being conned into sending a guy into space, piggy backing on someone else's space programme. pfft.

1:47 pm  

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