MH 199 HYD-KUL
my first brush with an international flight... and i was greeted by airhostess's dressed in greeeeeeeeen.... all of them.. even the interiors of the malaysian airlinesflight were predominantly green.. making me wonder, am i travelling to Indonesia or malaysia... (those of u who dint get that one.. indonesia has the world's largest muslim populationso... green is the color of that nation,, )
anyways.. moving on.. i first went through the business class.. man they have some luxuries..but i was shown seats at the back of the aircraft.. as mine was economy class. There were7 seats in each row.. and as expected, the window seat was mine.. 3/4th of the flightwas empty.., so i slept on 4 seats fully stretching myself.. thank god.. else it would have been similar to a painful Volvo bus journey.. just the difference being.. we are spared of the bumps.. (had a few though on the Hyd runway!!) and somewhat better looking ppl to take care of you.
they started serving all kinds of stuff.. had chicken curry for dinner,, err.. i alreadyhad dinner at home.. so i should call it a mid night meal.i spilled some coffee on theblanket,,, but covered it well.. :) There was some not so interesting program beingshown on the big screen in the flight.., "how to defy the ageing process..!!".. huh and i had to go thousands of Km above the earth to see that.. :(Eventually that got over.. and there was this option of music which i never even heard of.. even the names of the artists.. strange.. may be these artists sing onlyfor malaysian airlines.. The bathroom was small and i will leave it to your imagination.
4 hrs got over pretty quickly and the pilot was announcing in some strange language,that we will be landing in KL shortly.. well.. they call Kuala Lampur KL with love..that is what the pilot made us believe. It was raining out there.. and pretty cold.
The airport was awesome.. it is like eons ahead of indian airports.. got to see a lottapeople of different nationalities.. could make out with their accents..!! The US,UK and aussie ppl stand out. Was searching for the gate into which i have to check into to board my plane to Melbourne..
got to know from a map that i have to travel to another terminal in a tram and catch the flight there.there were lotta ppl... and yeah, its not only in mumbai and chennai thatppl hustle their way into the train.. it happens everywhere.. :).My hand baggage was killingme.. i desperately had to get a trolly for it. wanted to call home.. so went to buy a calling card.. hmm but i dint have malaysian Ringets.. so exhanged the aussie dollars for a few ringets and bought a card. Had a tough time figuring out how to use the card..
There was some problem at the checkin.. i dint have a boarding pass,, mine was a throughcheckin from hyderabad to Melbourne.. so i dint get a second brdng pass.. but the lady insisted that i show my pouch to her.. she dint believe that i dint have one.. i still cant understand why she was thinking i was hiding the boarding pass from her andplaying some kinda prank on her.. i hope i dont see cleverer staff.. :)
Took some time out to roam about in the KLIA (Kuala Lampur International Airport.) got to see Versace,Christian Dior,Gucci,Bvlgari outlets for the first time.. good that i dint have much money and time...
my first brush with an international flight... and i was greeted by airhostess's dressed in greeeeeeeeen.... all of them.. even the interiors of the malaysian airlinesflight were predominantly green.. making me wonder, am i travelling to Indonesia or malaysia... (those of u who dint get that one.. indonesia has the world's largest muslim populationso... green is the color of that nation,, )
anyways.. moving on.. i first went through the business class.. man they have some luxuries..but i was shown seats at the back of the aircraft.. as mine was economy class. There were7 seats in each row.. and as expected, the window seat was mine.. 3/4th of the flightwas empty.., so i slept on 4 seats fully stretching myself.. thank god.. else it would have been similar to a painful Volvo bus journey.. just the difference being.. we are spared of the bumps.. (had a few though on the Hyd runway!!) and somewhat better looking ppl to take care of you.
they started serving all kinds of stuff.. had chicken curry for dinner,, err.. i alreadyhad dinner at home.. so i should call it a mid night meal.i spilled some coffee on theblanket,,, but covered it well.. :) There was some not so interesting program beingshown on the big screen in the flight.., "how to defy the ageing process..!!".. huh and i had to go thousands of Km above the earth to see that.. :(Eventually that got over.. and there was this option of music which i never even heard of.. even the names of the artists.. strange.. may be these artists sing onlyfor malaysian airlines.. The bathroom was small and i will leave it to your imagination.
4 hrs got over pretty quickly and the pilot was announcing in some strange language,that we will be landing in KL shortly.. well.. they call Kuala Lampur KL with love..that is what the pilot made us believe. It was raining out there.. and pretty cold.
The airport was awesome.. it is like eons ahead of indian airports.. got to see a lottapeople of different nationalities.. could make out with their accents..!! The US,UK and aussie ppl stand out. Was searching for the gate into which i have to check into to board my plane to Melbourne..
got to know from a map that i have to travel to another terminal in a tram and catch the flight there.there were lotta ppl... and yeah, its not only in mumbai and chennai thatppl hustle their way into the train.. it happens everywhere.. :).My hand baggage was killingme.. i desperately had to get a trolly for it. wanted to call home.. so went to buy a calling card.. hmm but i dint have malaysian Ringets.. so exhanged the aussie dollars for a few ringets and bought a card. Had a tough time figuring out how to use the card..
There was some problem at the checkin.. i dint have a boarding pass,, mine was a throughcheckin from hyderabad to Melbourne.. so i dint get a second brdng pass.. but the lady insisted that i show my pouch to her.. she dint believe that i dint have one.. i still cant understand why she was thinking i was hiding the boarding pass from her andplaying some kinda prank on her.. i hope i dont see cleverer staff.. :)
Took some time out to roam about in the KLIA (Kuala Lampur International Airport.) got to see Versace,Christian Dior,Gucci,Bvlgari outlets for the first time.. good that i dint have much money and time...
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