Vacation and a Hunk Astronaut

Whew! Two months to go and it's 2008 already! Isn't that too fast?! Anyway, we still have two months to go through. Two months to make 2007 a great year still.

So how did your vacation go? I spent my entire week contemplating the words "Get well." Of course, even if I have some itchy rashes over me I still can't resist going to my grandma's grave, less I earn an uninvited visit from her. Todos Los Santos still went as usual. Usual in the sense people flock the dead's final resting place bringing with them more than flowers and candles --- speakers, chairs, groceries, LPGs, and... beds? I think I saw some in TV. Yeah, the place was really jampacked with people on November 1 (the memorial park administrators saw fit to install a loud sound system to the area. Good thing they didn't obliterate some tombstones to make a dance floor). My uncle and his wife went the following day, and they said it's as if All Saints Day never came to the cemetery --- it's one time big time event. As it seems, we have once again fulfilled our yearly quota visit of one, and the dead can take rest again til next year undisturbed.

My vacation will end (haha, I do have one, though I'm unemployed now) tomorrow as I go back to Manila. Leaving again this place of fresh air and provincial silence, and fill my lungs once again with the arid smoke and poisonous gases of our obnoxious metro.

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While cleaning some of the rooms here, I found a science journal of my brother. There I read that South Korea would also be sending an astronaut aboard a Russian ship to the outer space by 2008. Wow, after a Malaysian went to the space station last month, now another Asian will follow. I wonder why Asians are sending hunks to space? He's stunningly cute, not to mention gorgeous. Here's an excerpt of his little biography on Wikipedia:

"Ko San was born in Busan. His father died when he was a boy, and his mother raised Ko and his sister. A graduate of Hanyoung Foreign Language High School, Ko went on to study mathematics at Seoul National University. He won a bronze medal at a national amateur boxing tournament in 2004 and climbed a 7,546-meter high mountain in China’s Xinjiang Province, Muztagh Ata, the same year.
On December 25, 2006, he was chosen as one of two finalists in the Korean Astronaut Program, set to fly as a crew on the Russian Soyuz TMA-12 in April 2008."

Now that's a hunk, a mathematician and a boxer.

I just hope Filipinos could also send one in space. And when the time comes, don't forget to tell the government to choose a hunk.