Lol no, I wasn’t asking you to look at the timing in the notices, I meant look at which routes aren’t affected. Those routes that weren’t mentioned meant they were serviced by Brahim’s. Yours not being mentioned meant very likely back then it was one of those covered by that contract, and that explained why it sucks.

Yep - if based on these notices, this is an affected route in the revision = served by the Brahim’s contract - https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/experience/in-flight-offerings/revised-in-flight-meal.html; https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/au/en/mh-media-centre/important-for-you/inflight-food-beverage-services.html

Which route? The ones that’re still with full service are apparently the ones that’s always been serviced by their in-house catering. The rest all under Brahim’s contract which mmg gone downhill

Ello - been away for quite a bit - who wants to baca my short review of the MAS inflight nasi lemak? https://mefi.social/@cendawanita/111271410172539602

A 33mil population is not a small market. Plus if ASEAN could get their act together and negotiate en bloc the way the EU does, you can go a long way in negotiating for more competitive pricing. The one good thing from the Trans Pacific Partnership being blown up by Trump to me in this matter was the fact that US Big Pharma-negotiated clauses with regards to market access got blown up too.

Anwar’s populism only sounds nice but it would eventually doom poor people and the working class most of all. Where’s the taxation reform? The budgeting reallocation? Why is the conversation not at all considering increasing investment in our healthcare system? We’re not poor (yet).

Means-testing on healthcare subsidies is such a regressive idea, not to mention scapegoating rich people for accessing public healthcare in our current healthcare system is close to lying considering:

• most middle class and above tend to be funnelled into using private healthcare anyway, especially with the way the facilities are all counted as equivalent (per the bancian data) ie a location is considered well-covered even if most of it is private (hospitals/GP clinics/pharmacies), so who exactly is “using” public healthcare even tho rich? Hmmm, let’s check on what benefits public servants above certain grades and parliamentarians can access in a public hospital

• the medication shortage is currently being normatively papered over by accessing private health stocks, which themselves are also capped in price. Who exactly is the rich here, if an uncle is being persuaded to access the nearby private hospital by the klinik kesihatan doctor because the kk doesn’t have the appropriate heart medication?

Yep, the actually wealthy have their assets tied up not in personal holdings. By any simple metric that is being thought of, the first impacted are salaried/employed/contracted workers (since taxable income is a usual source of yardstick)

I’ve seen anecdotes (with evidence of emails or a BFM tweet) that banks are starting to charge transaction fee for duitnow transactions. I haven’t seen anything from CIMB but I’ve seen RHB and OCBC. Anyone else?

At this point I feel mostly better (loss of smell though) but clearly get winded very very fast, and considering RTK pun still positive, I might be infectious enough so I don’t know if it’s worth going out. But stress cos sharing space with family members so I really can’t do a lot of the usual chores. Still, impressed by how well my body membiakkan this virus 😑

I’ll try and see - or maybe I’m just very … viral

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Henlo I am still positive on COVID RTK even after a week 😭

Glad you’re safe tho!

Damn a trend I accidentally stumbled into lol

Omg same

Waduh that’s a lot of things to kena you in half a week!

Bukan saya lol

I only disagree because like islamists need another excuse to point to to say see see other ppl agree eye-for-an-eye/old testament laws are tooootally appropriate. 😌

Cicakman is very interesting to me, who likes to overthink movies, because it presents a fantasy where Malaysia is a temperate climate country (ok Metrofulus the city) so you can wear winter wear all the time, and everyone is Malay (ok until no. 2 then you have exactly one Chinese person playing the most Cina Person) and you just want to low-key check if the filmmakers are all right since they hate themselves so much they can’t imagine a superhero existing here, despite the entire schtick.

That said, it’s really too bad animated media isn’t included because Ejen Ali is a frickin incredible series. BoBoiBoy too (and that anime one that just came out) but Ejen Ali is young adult enough I can enjoy it, and is basically a world that’s basically Putrajaya/Cyberjaya/Dengkil lolol.

It depends on the immigration traffic for the day and the inbound traffic. While it shouldn’t take too long, if you’re not on a passport that has ability to use the autogate it might take longer to clear. Luggage is processed quite quickly though. But that should already take an hour.

(This assumes you’ll be getting visa on arrival.)

Into the city takes an hour regardless of your options - if the train is on a good time for you, that will take you directly to KL Sentral and the adjoining mall and the neighbourhood of Brickfields/Little India. Booking a ride into KL via grab is also not that difficult but if you time it badly you’ll hit commuter traffic (for example lunch hour traffic).

So that’s 2.5 - 3 hours. Unless you book a car to Putrajaya (the administrative capital) instead. It’s quieter but more scenic too. You can go to the lakeside mosque area and have a look around. That should take you 20 mins instead. (This option is dicey if you want to do public transport)

Certainly there’s more to do than KLIA currently which is still in a lot of upgrading of shops for either options. The adjoining mall (Nu Sentral) is nothing special but the range of shops is fairly familiar. Go to the lower ground for something a bit more mom & pop eateries, or exit that mall into Brickfields and just pick any indian restaurant nearby.

The secret bonus option is take the train/bus/ride to KLIA2 instead. Despite it serving the low-cost airlines it’s got an actual genuine mall attached to it so you can have more interesting time walking around and getting something to eat, replenish things at the pharmacy/drugstore, or even buy some groceries (to this day I still am trying to understand this) and it should take only 15 mins to get there.

As for luggage, there should be locker/overnight options but I haven’t tested it myself.

ETA: oh yes on the way back - since you don’t sound like you’re not transiting but fully have to do the check-in process all over again, best not to cut it too close. 2 hours from queueing at the counter to the immigration to the gate is just about cutting it fine. And if you’re arriving from the C-gate terminal and heading back there, pls be aware the inter-terminal train is under service and currently you’ll be taken on the shuttle bus. So that might add some time as well (but not too much tbh)

LMAO no worries - I’m barely around until late October too (for now!)