Alternate Dating Ideas - The National Planetarium

Following on from the previous post, you may have guessed I was researching the Planetarium because i actually intended to go there. So i did, and without further ado, i present to you the Planetarium Report.

The Planetarium would have been disappointing if i had any expectations of it (fortunately no) but it was particularly disappointing because:

a) the English was actually WORSE than the website

Hi, this the awful translation to keep Malaysia look crap

On Earth, we goes school to get knowledge to keep us in job

b) it took 20 minutes to slowly walk around as most of the place was under renovation

Well, i should at least get some photos out of it...

There's a cool anti-grav machine! Too bad noone was manning it so i don't know if it's still working

c) our astronomical pride *shakes head* Malaysia's contribution to the space age:

A batik shirt with Saturn on it! *gasp*
Freezer packed rendang tok and chicken satay! Incredible!

Vacuum sealed Malaysian made cookies, preserved ginger sweets, dehydrated mango and fried tempeh! Amazing!

By the way, can you note the disdain I feel about what i think is a really costly waste of resources? We spent billions of ringgit and committed goodness knows how much more in defence deals just so we could send a space tourist up. Fortunately, he shared his food with his fellow astronauts, just so they could sample our fare and realise what generous people we are.

Well, the upside being the Planetarium has free admission so I guess if nothing more, at least it was cold and indoors, away from the scorching hot sun. With that, we went outside to look for the 'Ancient Astrology garden'

The stairway leading to the main entrance is actually quite pretty... Note the Islamic architecture

Okay, i'm allowed one mushy pic, right? And yes, i realise this is the baju that makes me look naked

I think this was in the aforementioned garden. Regardless, it is a beautiful scuplture of space and time (with Arabic numerals) A pity noone really knows it's here!

This freaky little creature was around the fountain probably as an example of what alien life could look like. Personally, I was scared. And i can only imagine what nightmares children will get from it

Do i want to be an angkasawan? Lots of government money that could be spent on welfare and education poured on me under the pretense that I will help science and technology in Malaysia? Hell yeah!

That's the Dilly-o, yo. At least you feel me, Galileo (i think). Yeah.