hitch-hiking to the outer space? masalah di bumi ni pun masih tak cukup tangan

some make it to the outer space, and i don't give a damn about it.

people are really excited about Malaysia's achievement (kononnya saja pencapaian kita) by sending an astronaut to the outerspace, while actually, it didn't really affecting our life.

from the selection to the life-broadcasting, it just like another reality tv, but the cost are mega.

actually, it was not really we are the one who "sent" that handsome orthopedic to the outerspace because technically, we just hitch-hiking.

nothing to be proud of.

Singapore is richer than us, but they are not planning of sending any of their citizen to the outer space, but still, their technology in engineering, medicine, sciences, etc are faraway better than us.

Singapore have very limited resources and don't need to do anything biggest / largest / longest/ smallest / or anything with -est things to be recognized by the world.

why should we? don't we have anything better to do than to be overwhelming with the sense of proud over things that absolutely not affecting us directly and indirectly?
i mean, will our "achievement" having our own 1st astronaut make us become more productive? richer? stronger? wiser? makes Malaysia a better place to live? less criminal?

the world only recognize us as afford in term of 'money' to send / hitch-hike our citizen to the outer space.
walaupun sebenarnya, kita bukanlah kaya mana...

Respect? hurmmm. i doubt it. because it wasn't our own technology.

ulang suara, kita cuma menumpang. MENUMPANG.

however, i still be grateful that the astronaut didn't paint batik or play gasing or make teh tarik while he was up there, as proposed by the government earlier. u  see?
there is a word of wisdom which i really like "if u can't impress people by ur intelligent, then impress them with ur stupidity, if u are average, people won't care"
if u still want to impress people lah. if i were given a choice, i would prefer the 1st one, or just be average.

kalau tak paham, ceritanya lebih kurang begini.

Abu adalah org yg kaya raya. dia ada Mercedez Benz. Abu seorang pengusaha, peniaga, dan penyelidik. dia turut menjual mainan jet plastik.

Ali dan keluarganya tinggal di sebelah rumah Abu. Ali suka sangat dgn jet plastik yg dijual oleh Abu. Tapi Ali tak berapa kaya, hutang pun masih byk
sbnarnya, ahli keluarga Ali jugak banyak yg menganggur, rumah Ali juga bukanlah tempat yg aman, kerana byk juga penjenayah, rasuah, dan sebagainya.

Abu bijak dalam urusan berniaga. Dia menawarkan kepada Ali sekiranya Ali membeli jet2 permainan tadi, Ali turut dibenarkan menumpang Mercedez Abu ke hutan.
Ali akhirnya tertarik dgn tawaran tadi, kerana Ali tak pernah naik Mercedez, apatah lagi ke hutan.

Akhirnya Ali setuju. Ali pun mendapat jet2 mainannya tadi, dan turut menumpang Mercedez Abu utk ke hutan.

Seluruh keluarga Ali berbangga dgn Ali, kerana berjaya juga akhirnya menumpang Mercedez Abu. para ahli keluarga Ali pun sibuklah menonton tv sepanjang masa, kerana ada lintas langsung Ali menumpang Mercedez Abu tadi. Bangganya ahli keluarga Ali.
tapi yg ke hutan dgn Mercedez Abu tadi hanyalah Ali...

Rumah Ali masih tak berubah. begitu juga keluarganya. rumahnya masih bukan tempat yg aman untuk didiami.
ahli keluarganya yg menganggur tetap terus menganggur. yg penjenayah, tetap melakukan jenayah. pemimpin yg rasuah, tetap rasuah.

jiran2 rumah Ali pulak sibuk mengata "haa, baru tumpang dah nak riak, blom lagi kalau ada Mercedez sendirii"

begitulah al kisahnya adik2. dapat ambil pengajaran tak? persoalannya, perlukah keluarga Ali berbangga dengan riaknya kerana ali berjaya menumpang Mercedez Abu?

akhir kata dari saya,

aku boleh berbangga dgn pencapaian org lain, tetapi adalah lebih membanggakan jika  yang dibanggakan itu adalah pencapaian aku sendiri.