Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor returned safely from Gaza 3 days ago on his second humanitarian mission there. According to him the situation this time was much worse compared to his first visit in January 2009. He said that there were bombings and gunshots everywhere and they had to evacuate after only spending 4 days in Gaza. One of the buildings that got bombed was located some 400 metres from the hotel where they stayed in.

Dato’ Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor left Kuala Lumpur this evening heading towards Gaza on a humanitarian mission. His last visit to Gaza was in 2009, whereby he conducted surgery on war victims there. His mission this time will take approximately 10 days leaving behind his 3 weeks old baby daughter ‘Bella’ and wife Dr. Halina. We pray for his safe return and wish him every success in Gaza. God bless…

We had a great time at the buka puasa event held last Friday on the 12th of August 2011, at the Golfers Terrace in Kelab Golf Negara Subang. The Ramadhan buffet had a nice spread with the usual nasi minyak, satay, rojak, ice kacang and other mouth watering goodies. Hope to see you guys at the next one in Rebung soon. Wishing everyone “Selamat Berbuka Puasa” in this great month of Ramadhan…

The Malaysian Space Agency and Japanese Space Agency had chosen the microgravity experiment of Universiti Kuala Lumpur for a parabolic flight at Japan. 13 universities from Malaysia, public and private universities, competed in the selection process and two universities were chosen to present their experiments. Universiti Kuala Lumpur was one of the two universities that were chosen. A parabolic flight is a flight where microgravity condition exists during a predetermined period of the flight. Microgravity

On the 29th of June 2011, I gave a talk to 400 primary school children on my experience with the astronaut programme and later spoke to a classroom of children as part of their ‘Dreams do come true’ programme. All together now!!! Taking questions See you next time!!!

It was a great event and we were glad to be a part of it. Do enjoy the pics, hope to see everyone there again next year!!!