Malaysians in space

Some Malaysians are blasting into space on a Russian rocket. Guess they finally worked out how to put Nasi Goreng in a tube. If they can do the same with Guiness the irish will probably wanna go.

Tobago. Missing out at Miss Universe?

So last night I met a guy from Trinidad at my local. Apart from cricket and Miss Universe I didn’t really know about the place. Back when people gave a toss about Miss Universe I remember thinking it was odd that there wasn’t a Miss Trinidad and a Miss Tobago. Instead they shared a lady. I assumed that maybe the ladies from Tobago were really ugly and in a strategic move they decided to throw their lot in with the spunks from Trinidad so the world didn’t laugh at them. But my new mate from Trinidad, Kurt told me that the ladies from Tobago aren’t too bad. Apparently ( and we will segue into a quick geography lesson) Trinidad and Tobago used to be one land mass but an earthquake separated them. I cant remember is Kurt said there were people around when that happened but I imagine that at the next meeting of the Trinidad Miss Universe committee when the subject of the earthquake came up they just said ‘What the hell, why don’t you guys stick with us.’ I am sure some people were concerned about the length of the name. For instance, does a long name look as good on the sash? A shorter punchier name like Miss USA is more eye catching. But the upside is you get more airtime from the presenter as they call out your name on stage and that has to count for something.
There is an upside for the contestant. Miss Trinidad and Tobago would be within her rights to point out to the committee that if it wasn’t for her dual country representation skills the committee would have to pay for two ladies and that would mean two air tickets and two hotel rooms. Surely there is a case to be made that the lady deserves a seat and hotel room upgrade? An quite possibly double pay.
I discussed these things at length with my new mate from Trinadad last night……but for some reason he started making little coconut trees out of beer bottle labels. I asked him if that was one of the skills that Miss Trinidad and Tobago pulled out in the talent section of the Miss Universe pagent. But it wasn’t. Turns out Kurt was doing it because he was bored. I mentioned the only other thing I have ever thought about Tobago and that was that they could easily change their name to Tabasco without too much fuss or sign writing expense and earn valuable advertising money from the sauce company. I think Kurt gave the idea some serious thought because he didn’t talk to me after that.