Not Another One

It was a Sunday. The last Sunday of the year. Time for my weekend round. the last call was somewhat busy and I had at least 3 hours of work of reviewing to do. But it was a Sunday. That meant that I could take my time and have an extra time to chat with my patients.

One of my dengue patient happened to be an MAS flight attendant. She was doing very well in terms of her infection, but it looked like she would be missing a couple of flight in the coming days. She was due to be in the Middle East on New Years Night. But due to her admission, she would be on leave.

Then she told me that an Air Asia flight went missing. She was waiting to hear about it. The news were only started giving flashes on TV. Nothing concrete yet.

But it soon materialized that QZ8501. It looked like the weather some something to do with that happened but it could be anything. Praying for their safe return. A swift resolution ....

If somebody were to tell me a year ago that Malaysia would be hit by a triple whammy of aviation accidents in 2014, I would have pointed out that they had had too much to drink. Nobody would've believed it.

Hectic LCCT

An early start this morning. Sending my Mum and Aunt to LCCT. They had to catch the 7am AirAsia flight to Vietnam. That meant that they had to check-in by 5.30, and setting off from Bukit Antarabangsa by 4 in the morning.

Even though the drive in was smooth, the traffic got a lot heavier by the time we reached KLIA. And it was still about 4.30am.

The place got unbelievably crowded by the time I reached LCCT to drop my Mum. Next order of business would be to find a parking slot. Long queue and unhelpful signage made the simple task complicated.

Sunday morning and the terminal was super crowded. Checking in also took rather long. Luckily my Mum was traveling in a group. She didn't have to queue up for the group check-in and everything was sorted out in time.

Wishing her a safe journey, I was just about to leave for an early start for my ward round. On second thought, maybe I just have a breakfast first.

Waiting game

I have just landed at LCCT at KLIA following a day trip marking papers at Kota Bharu. I started off very early as I drove there and parked the car at the airport. The journey was fine, but upon landing, we were greeted with a heavy downpour and had to stay in the cabin until things settle down. We have been on the ground for a good 20 minutes now. To make things worst, the air conditioning system started fogging up the cabin, not to mention the amount of money AirAsia would have lost with the airline lying idle on the runway.

That was probably one of the major drawback with LCCT, as there were no terminal connecting the cabin and the main building. The other was the fact that it took liger to reach the place compared to KLIA proper if you plan to drive there. It took me a good 20 minutes from KLIA to get here this morning, worrying about missing the flight. Finally, upon arriving, I just parked my car at the main carpark, not having the chance to find an alternative one. Maybe in the future, given the choice for a business trip, I might just prefer MAS instead - if I was not paying for the flight o course.