You have all read my previous journal on our beloved and 'HUGELY' unsupported space programme. If not, read it The Man on the Moon here.
As I was surfing around the blogsphere, I found a link to this blog by a blogger called idlan zakaria who took the 'Malaysian on the Moon' to its second phase. Idlan created a website called Afundi Angkasawan
that allows audiences the chance to vote for their favorite astronauts
wannabee. Of course, his site is not affliliated to any space
programme, Malaysian or the other.
 
It's a great satire on the joke we call 'Vision 2010: The Malaysian on the Moon' or more appropriately 'Vision 2010: The Malaysian sipping teh tarik and eating roti canai on the Moon'.
Check
it out and cast a vote! Idlan had after all pledged to contribute a
minimum RM5 plus 1 sen for each votes casted to charity. At least some
money goes to improving some other people's lives (unlike the
$25million spent to hitch a ride to space).
I
love the pics of the astronaut wannabees there. I'm trying to enlist
myself as well. It's only the RIGHT patriotic thing to do.
I'd bet if they found the polling concept embedded in the Afundi Angkasawan
site, the people who hold the seats to the power of deciding which
lucky (but still unfit) Malaysian gets bumped up to the Moon, would
knock their heads against the wall, crying 'oh
why didn't I think about that? Mengapa tak difikirkan itu? Boleh SMS
contest somemore. Banyak duit tu. TV spots. Publicity untuk karier
saya. Mengapa mengapa?'
EVERYONE!
Don't vote yet. I'm enlisting to join the poll too. I've already sent
in my picture to Idlan, so get ready to vote me off planet earth yea?
Will post further updates once my lovely pic and profile is up and running. Cheerios.
 | ooooooooooooo! What a brilliant idea. If the Msian government had thought of this, instead of using the tax payer's money, the revenue generated from the show could have sent the Msian to the moon! ngah hahahahaha |
 | it's just bloody hysterical in my eyes.
send people here, to the moon, to the top of the mountain, to the bottom of the deepest oceans, into a huge steaming pile of shit...
none of this matter. making a difference here and now in this country where it matters is what vision 2020 should really be about. we still have many mountains to cross before then. if not we will never reach there.
Only the truth will set you free!
& too many things are hushed up in this country. Recognising where we are right now, is the only way to change where we will be going.
If you dont know where we are, we wont know where we are going...
Cheers,
Surind |
 |  Recognising where we are right now, is the only way to change where we will be going.
If you dont know where we are, we wont know where we are going...  Surind, I agree. It's just a tactic to detract attention away from things that matter, things that are happening and affecting us. Typical Sun Tzu tactic - confuse your opponents with many a things, so they lose focus and forget the primary strategy for victory - only in a less sophisticated scale.
Though laughable, I have to say this tactic works. Each week there are new dramas, new news, etc - and after some time, we forget what we were frustrated at 2 weeks ago. AP, what AP? Is anyone talking about the Chin Peng book cover that has been photoshopped and featured in the Umno Youth website? What about the highway that fell down? I bet one month from now, everyone will forget about that teacher who pass away, from falling through a termite infested floorboard.
We humans have a short attention span. And that COUNTS in maintaining the momentum of such things happening. Over and over and over again.
It's a vicious cycle and a culture that is long established. It's not just the gomen, it's the opposition, it's the public, it's everyone including myself that I hold to blame. ALL OF US ARE AT FAULT HERE! |
| nah, blame is for the weak.
simply, in a detachmed manner, everyone doing their part, making a difference and having a common vision. ask many people what vision 2020 is and they only have a slight tinkle of what it is. the details and spcifics are left out.
excellence is in the details... not in the name... |
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