on this day we remember Neil K. Armstrong, who will always be a significant person in history being the first man who took the first step on the moon which is more famously now known as the first giant leap for mankind. note that his middle name starts with k. and he did the moon walk in July 20, 1969, which a 9 years and a day later would be my birthday. today Aug 25, 2012, he passed away. and this day is for remembering.
imagine that! in the hippie sixties, they put a man on the moon. it must have been amazing watching that live television feed and hearing and seeing for the first time, how a human stepped on another celestial body other than our planet. that was the benchmark for science, the unwavering totem of discovery, invention, and genius enveloped by the triumph of the human spirit.
and now in 2012, 43 years later, another leap. we put a rover on the surface of mars! that is just remarkable. not only did we develop the machine, the artificial intelligence, and the powerful computer that make up this wonder, we managed to actually study, expound on theory and calculate risks and manage them, to make it possible to send this invention of genius to land on a planet we know nothing about. to see that in my early lifetime is a treat because i know that a few more years from now, another human will step on that new planet. aptly named `Curiosity`, this marked our first venture to explore and eventually conquer space.
as a tribute to this amazing event that will be forever etched in our minds and history, i named my new blog `k for curiosity`. i am definitely rooting for it to succeed. not only to bring us all the only fresh new data and thousands of photos, samples and test results on mars but somehow in the deepest recesses of my gut, i want it to prove that other beings live there too. that somehow in this day and age of the internet and social media that proved the earth to be`a small world`, Curiosity will be our first try of being paparazzi to the martians. haha.
i feel like in this point in my life, i am like Curiosity too. 2 years ago I embarked on a long journey and traveled trans-Pacific to move to a foreign land. i left my love, my family, my home country and my comfort zone, to try out something new and to try what it was like living at the other side of the world. and 2 years later, i still struggle to belong.
this blog will be my companion on this journey. like Curiosity, i will slowly and timidly ease out and explore the facets of life here, i will take thousands of pictures and run all kinds of tests. i will inch my way into better knowledge and understanding on similarities and differences. i will venture out to make a footprint and experience things that were once deemed impossible. every day i will learn and i will share what i learn. there will be triumph to find and mistakes to be made. some days i will be wide-eyed, happy and amazed. some days i will feel lonely in my solitude from being thrust upon a cold, unfamiliar place. Like Curiosity just slowly moving along a red, barren, dry land, not knowing what it will find. and what i find, i will write about. as so too will Curiosity some day bring home all the answers.
as always, the common denominator is hope. and faith. hope in a new beginning, faith that this happened for a reason. there is always a belief in me that is strong.
i do believe they put a man on the moon. and for me that can only mean one thing: i shall live my life and push it far and wide. there are no limits.
thank you mr. armstrong.
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