Flying high…

I flew to KL on Friday last week on Malaysia Airlines MH2715 from Sibu to KLIA…

…and talking about the warm Malaysian Hospitality (MH), it was so very hot when I boarded the aircraft…

…and it certainly did not help that the flight was slightly delayed by about 10 minutes. Thankfully, somehow or other, we managed to arrive at KLIA on schedule, so it was only a matter of 10 minutes and I was in no hurry anyway. Once airborne, it was not so hot anymore and the flight as a whole was smooth and comfortable.

The in-flight service was good…and I was impressed by this air steward, Clarence – I guess he was Indian but he spoke Mandarin very fluently and was very helpful in assisting the passengers with their hand baggage and what not.

Lunch was a choice between “chicken rice or sweet and sour fish” and from what it was called, I had expected something along the line of Hainanese chicken rice…only to be disappointed when I removed the aluminium foil and discovered this…

It was chicken all right, chicken fried in some kind of sauce and though it was not what I had expected, it tasted quite good. Anyway, I was saving tummy space for the dinner that I was going to have with my friends that evening.

My daughter arrived on Saturday night at KLIA on her Malaysian Airlines flight (MH130) from Auckland, New Zealand. Her flight was on schedule as well and the next evening, Sunday, we flew home to Sibu on the evening flight – MH2718…

Dinner was a choice between beef rendang with rice…

…or chicken kuzzi with tomato rice…

My daughter opted for the former, so I requested for the latter. It turned out that mine was nicer, so I swapped mine with her and I ended up eating the rendang instead. It was all right actually…tasting like what all rendangs would taste like, just that the kuzzi was nicer and it did not come with plain rice.

Along with the main course, we were also given Ferrero Rocher and a slice of fruit cake…

…which my daughter did not want, so guess who had her slice. Hehehehehehe!!!! It seems that for lunch, you do not get these extras – just a bar of Kit-Kat.

Again, it was an uneventful flight…except for the baby that cried all the way from KL to Sibu and thankfully, they were sitting quite a distance away, so it did not bother me much. I seem to notice that sound does not travel as much on MAS aircrafts unlike those of the other airline where a few passengers engaged in a conversation would be enough to create some kind of coffee-shop atmosphere on board. We arrived in Sibu some five minutes or so earlier than scheduled.

Well, we’ll be flying to Penang, transit KLIA and back in December and I certainly look forward to such pleasant flights again then…