Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
First of all, I would like to congratulate Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor on his success of becoming Malaysia's first cosmonaut to go to space! *claps* You did the nation proud homie!!! The launch was set to take off at 21:21 pm Malaysian time. For those of yo some of the other shuttle launches carried out before, you could still feel the tension and suspense as it readied fu who didn't watch it, it was truly an amazing site. Although not as 'spectacular' asor take off. Was watching all of it on channel 3 and it was pretty funny because the announcer on tv was saying: " Okay, hanya seminit sahaja sampai take-off"...and then 1 minute later you hear "1 minute till take off" by the actual announcer at the launch pad lol. All the while i was praying that the shuttle wouldn't blow up or anything like the Shuttle Columbia disaster on the 1st of February 2003. Thank goodness everything went smoothly. Watched till the dudes pen started floating in the shuttle, then went upstairs.
Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor minutes after the take off of the space shuttle.
Some interesting facts about a Space Shuttle:
- It takes only about eight minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 17,000 miles (27,358 kilometers) per hour.
- The turbopump on the Space Shuttle main engine is so powerful it could drain an average family-sized swimming pool in 25 seconds.
- The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine, but delivers as much horsepower as 39 train engines.
- If water, instead of fuel, were pumped by the three Space Shuttle Main Engines, an average family-sized swimming pool could be drained in 25 seconds. Each of the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters burns 5 tons of propellant per second.
Anyway, back to my ramblings for the day. Woke up at 11.30, thanks to someones sms ;)... Had Nasi Lemak for lunch which my mom bought while on her weekly market trip. It was actually pretty good, she had to buy a different one as the usual Nasi Lemak seller wasn't there today. Did i mention how much i love Nasi Lemak...hmm gotta make an ode to the Nasi Lemak one day...
After lunch, came online for a while but had to leave to get my new contacts and...glasses!!! (Okay so its never a good thing getting glasses, but my eyesight is bad anyway)... My previous glasses proved to be too under powered for my eyes... darn it im slowly going blind! >.<. Power's 275 now... was 250 6months before T_T. Anyway, we were supposed to go yesterday but the owner of the shop, a friend of my dad was at Taiwan for a holiday. His shop is located at the Tropics shopping center at Damansara Perdana.. the shopping center is virtually dead with almost no sign of people around. Almost 80% of the shops have closed down due to bad business in the area. His wife passed away a few months ago after a long hard fight with cancer. When we met him again today and i was really surprised to find that he had remarried again! His new wife is nice. She's from Taiwan and can speak English pretty well. We stayed and chatted with them for a while before leaving.
On the way back, my parents decided to go look at the showroom for the new and upcoming semi d's in the area. The guy who showed us around was a man name Daniel Low. He was really funny... kinda looked like a bear too. He showed us the showroom for the semi d and it was simply awesome. Starting at 1.3 million for the mid-sized semi d, 1.9million for the bigger sized one, 830 000 for the condominium and 5 million for the bungalow!!!. It was really really awesome. Very spacious and very very well furnished. The semi d was three floors, with the master bedroom occupying the whole third floor. Chuntedness...
We left at around 5 pm and stopped by a roadside stall to buy some rojak. A few guys came to eat some rojak there and i thought one of them looked familiar. Minutes later, on the way home i get an sms from Jo-Ann and she asks me what i was doing at the side of the road. Turns out the guy i thought i recognised was one of her church friends, Michael. Sorry Michael for not recognising you!!! Was a bit blur lol.
Reached home and had a chat with Amey. Hide and Seek is fun!!!...Lump under the bedsheet lmao...
Now, it's time to do Sways tag!!
The title for this tag is... THE AGE THAT I WISH TO GO BACK TO.
First of all, this is going to be pretty short unlike sway and Adrian's uber descriptive ones. I would say the age where i have my best memories so far, is during secondary school. Many memories, good and bad have been shared there. Honestly, I don't really have a specific age i want to go back to thought the idea of going back to standard one with the brains i have now seems appealing =/. Anyway, if i absolutely had to choose one i suppose it would be during Form 4. Many a time was spent chatting and being extremely random! Really got to know Sway well in the mid of Form 4. She's been one of my closest friends ever since. Very sincere, honest, helpful, fun to talk to, hyper and "tall" ^^. Back then in 4M, Naim, Ann and Angie were the people i hung out with most.( Still do today). They have been great, Naim with his "God Bless You", Okaayyyyy (in deep voice), diamond-habib-sign thing he does with his hands. Angie with her uber dancing skills, techno pal and man-magnetism. Ann with her rubbing nose ,sarcastic laugh and "Yea mannn" trademark :P. Oh yes i forgot to mention Daryl, who dances really well too... gah ill have to blog about all you guys later or something... hand pain!!! lol.
Angie & Jo-Ann.
Angie & Sway.
Siu Fong, Jo-Ann & Naim.
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Instructions:
Title: The Age That I Wish To Go Back ToRequirement:
Write about the one age that you wish to go back to and why?
Tag Mode: 5 bloggers
1st -You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
2nd - Let the blogger you want to tag know they been tagged by comment in their blog or etc.
The Age that they Wish to Go Back to:
Amidrin wishes to go back to age 22 to correct back some mistakes in life.
Lemonjude wishes to go back to age 6 to enjoy kid’s life.
Sean wishes to go back to age 7 to find the lost memories,
Cbenc12 is happy at the age she is, but sometimes reminiscing back the earlier age
~SWei wishes to go back to age 15 to relive pre and post PMR memories all over again!
Snaim wishes to go back to 15 too to laugh more
Eugene wishes to go back to 16 ...now wondering if that was such a good idea lol.
Hmm so many people have been tagged already... I tag... whoever is reading this.
2 comments:
YOU'D BETTER READ THIS!!!!!
Ooooo.. If only Jo Ann was there to buy rojak too... *grins*
And speaking of the astronaut, he's going there as a space tourist la actually. Nothing so fancy... He just happens to be a rich dude who went for training earlier than everyone else & managed to get to represent Malaysia first because of his model looks. ;) There's another candidate too but he's so UH-GLY.
That is why i don't get what the big deal is all about.
btw, so mean la u, describing ppl bear. haha.
How was your study group thing last tuesday? ;)
And you did the tag! Good one. :D You put up the pics we camwhored on the other day using your camera! Wheeeeeee... I look good in the picture, thank you thank you! *mind me, even daryl says i've been having too much of my "syok sendiri" moments.
ps: My worst year is your best year. haha.
Shit la Gene, I almost failed bio, hvnt told my mum yet and she jz caught me in front of the comp typing this. T.T If only you were in school last Wednesday, i won't be so emo. Naim thought i was hyper pulak when in fact, i was trying to be like you. ok ok, got plans, will call. do hope i getta shop with amelia again. :) i need to de-stress in the shopping malls while getting kumar's bday present and maybe the autograph book that u have to b one of the first to sign!
ok enough rambling. buh bye.
Lol, the other day was like a few months ago hehe. Don't worry Sway, you will do better! Hope you are feeling better now!!!
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