A Quick Bite

Anticipating the terrible inflight meal, I decided to have a second dinner. I already had some rice at home. Guess that wouldn't be enough. Plus I planned to sleep all through the flight since I was still tried from the call last night.

What should I have? The queue at the cafe here was just too slow and long. Only O'Briens looked a bit sensible. So, that was where I parked.

Most of the Doctors in my group had already checked in but I was yet to find them. Hopefully it wouldn't be a crowded flight as I wanted to have some rest.

Ready to Roll

I only managed to spend about an hour at home as I reached home rather late. Busy on call last night, ending up having to redistribute my patients to be looked after by my colleagues. Luckily, they were all very helpful.

As soon as I arrived home, I did some last minute packing, got my chargers and cameras organised. Documents and currencies and all the necessary stuff.

This being a Monday evening meant that the airport was rather empty. Checking in was straight forward. It was all done straight to Milan, so all I had to carry would be my piece of hand luggage. My flight would be via Amsterdam. Just a short stop there to change gate.

Since I'll be flying KLM, I'd better have something to eat before I leave. The food on the flight tended to be atrocious. And that was on business class. I would be flying cattle tonight ...

Killing Time

The wait at the airport made me wonder if I should've turn up a bit later to check in. But the truth is, I hate to do things late. I like things to be nice and easy when I travel. I used to enjoy traveling. I guessed I'm now just older and grumpier.

I spent some time at a cafe killing time. Luckily the internet connection there was blazing fast. Time to blog and surf the net. Boarding would start in the next half an hour or so .....

Entries from my Kyoto trip here.

Taxi Ride Home

My two checked-in items came out unscathed, and rather than take the KLIA Express, I went with a cab instead. Since I arrived late, traffic should be much of a factor anymore. Besides, I was too tired to lug around the two bags. I only wishes that this taxi has a better air-conditioning. I was sweating like a dog!

But the taxi driver was cool enough to offer me a drink. And he listened to Wings on the radio. One doesn't get any cooler than that!

A Day of Rest

Alhamdulillah, we arrived at KLIA just after 1am, took the van with all the luggages and the boys from there, and arrives about 45 minutes later. There were hardly anyone on MEX Expressway at that hour.

Both of the boys were already asleep when we reached home, and they were snoring when we got them changed. They were clearly tired although they were wide awake at the airport on touchdown.

Puan Anita was still traumatised by the whole experience and was thankful that we changed plane rather than taking the original one.

Since the van charge from KLIA back home was expensive, with the midnight surcharges - ending up more costly than the flight ticket! - I decided to tweet @MAS and Tony Fernandes about it. Oh the power of the Internet! I got a reply within 10 minutes and this morning, had emailed them the details of the flight and scanned the limo voucher.

Well done @MAS for responding so promptly and I'm now hoping that they would hold true to the reply and my complains and claim would be attended to, not just some lip service ..... I will blog about the details once the conversation had ended.

I'm at my Bangsar apartment this morning for some repairs, and later would be in clinic for a quick afternoon session. Would be on call tomorrow, and could do with getting my feet up between now and then.

The boys were also absent from school today, and they were clearly tired. so, planning for a day of rest!