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October 21, 2007
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Malaysia’s First AstroNOT

I don’t get it. It’s brilliant that we’re able to send the first Malaysian into space by throwing a billion taxpayer ringgit at the Russians, but why is everyone and the local media calling him an astronaut, or angkasawan, when he’s clearly a space tourist?

That was a rhetorical question, because I couldn’t give a shit if they decide to call Mr Sheikh an Angkasawan, Angkasatwo, or Lou Ferrigno.

I’m more interested in coming up with nicknames that mock his farcical status as an astronaut, such as astroNOT, astronaught, asstronaut, and space satay delivery boy. Because God knows, if we don’t do it, the rest of the world will.

What nicknames do you have for Mr. Sheikh?

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20 Comments

jokeserv
October 21, 2007

nah.. he dun even deserve a nickname. what a waste of time and money. might as well just spend the money to stop corruption here or something.

Andy
October 21, 2007

Another blog called him Can-or-not. ANyway, to me, our national space programme is all but a gimmick to show the world that we can (boleh). Its like another Twin Towers just to show that we dont live on trees and that we can. But, how ABLE can we? Sending a doctor-cum-model to space is seriously dont make sense. Of all the people that wentto space, they are mostly experience flight engineers or PhD holders with years of experience in aerospace engineering. Im very sure those who took this course, our Msian boys themselves, must be very frustrated with the G for not selecting them as priorities to send to space.. What is the G trying to prove to the world and its rakyat??

suertes
October 22, 2007

actually, I think the world don’t give a damn that we have a so-called hero in space – only us Malaysians and our inbred media seem to be excited about the whole thing. so no need to have a race to nickname him something what.

jokeserv
October 22, 2007

just like how borat says it, ” AStro NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT”

jasonphoon
October 22, 2007

lol, lots of angry msians here.

let me join the fray:

“They wanted to make teh tarik in space for squid’s sake!”

Infectioner
October 22, 2007

AngkasaGAY

heard that he’s a gay :D

jokeserv
October 23, 2007

then i bet he had some zerogravity fun up there if you now what i mean.

jasonphoon
October 23, 2007

hi kurt. i decided to put up a poll on the space programme. check out the results … lol

poll here

Roll
October 25, 2007

1 teh tarik from space and 2 roti canai space style please!

Sylvanna
October 25, 2007

Completely useless load of watchmacallit. The government of Malaysia today has proved themselves unworthy of doing something faceless like this. The space technology is not even ours and yet it seems like we have already achieved something remarkable.

I rather be known as a Malaysian who lives on a tree. Do not discriminate tree-house people. They are actually more cool than a angsaguy in space. Yeah. Houses are trees are the fad.

jokeserv
October 26, 2007

my tree has elevator. how about yours?

FA
November 1, 2007

ARSEtronut.

because he’s gay.

trojan
November 1, 2007

thanks 4 the pingback…

rajaletup
November 2, 2007

if u all call him space tourist ker astronout ker angkasawan ker … it is very important that he is more good than u all cause he is flying more 300km above than u all pernah pergi … n he can see the great of God creation … about bazir ker useless ker … u all tak tau ker … when our G by sukhoi … Russia give us hadiah to bring our msian to try space … itu bukan bazir … itu amik peluang … org dah bagi hadiah … kita amik la …. org bagi duit rm 1 free pun u all amik …. aparaaaa

Na
November 2, 2007

a BIG waste of taxpayers’ (OUR) money!
they should have used the $ to help the rakyat in a more beneficial way..
first..petrol price went up…Now…bread price also went up…aparahhh…
be careful of who you vote for during the next elections…

rajaletup
November 2, 2007

Is ist big waste? u do know ka? Buy sukhoi is for our defence and also for u, ur parent, ur gilfren, ur husband, ur wife, ur nenek, ur atok n so on … defence is the most important … msian want u to defence our country … piiirahhh … baru nampak pistol dah cabut …. takder semangat jaga negara langsung … semangat juang … lagi la …. tau nak kondem jer … kalu camtu jadi warga bangla lagi bagussss

mademoiselle
November 3, 2007

阿屎偷懒

YEEN
November 13, 2007

Is doctor Sheikh Muzaphar cute or handsome ????? NOT

BLACKMAIL
November 13, 2007

I HATE SOMEONE CUTE AND HANDSOME LIKE HIM Y’KNOW. JUST CAN’T GET OVER HIM !! ARRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!! HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP ! FEELS LIKE HELL !! DAMN PRECIOUS !

York
November 18, 2007

he cute and hansome

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