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sumantra wrote:Once again, an amazing trip report, with your trademark brand of humour punctuating the lines.
Thank you!
allrite wrote:Your reports on MH do nothing to inspire confidence in the airline, especially maintenance wise. It doesn't bode well for their future if they can't get the simple little things right. Perhaps that is harsh, but they really are an airline that has to prove itself, especially with so much competition (and as I type this a MH A330 has just flown overhead on descent into SYD!).
Have never been to Langkawi (B is a Penang girl, so that's as far as we get), but the food sure made me feel hungry.
juliuswong wrote:Thank you for the amazing trip report, Ryanair!!!. Your trademark punchline is second to none!
Sorry to hear you got their non-BSI/standard leased B737NG. MH currently has few flying around (9M-MLE- 9M-MLJ), these are largely deploy on domestic flight (PEN and LGK are top offender) and occasionally to regional flying; furthest to TPE). Like what you've metioned it is a Russian roulette. MH was supposed to retire 21 B737NG including all these non standard B737NG during Christoph Mueller's time. However recent development to increase flight to China means they will stay for longer period.
Btw, some passengers prefer the non-standard B737NG over the MH's own since the seat pitch in Y is much longer.
Have a safe journey to Down Under!
Ryanair!!! wrote:sumantra wrote:Once again, an amazing trip report, with your trademark brand of humour punctuating the lines.
OMG Julius, you have no idea how some of us watch the MH 737 ops like a hawk whenever we have to fly. I knew someone who flew one of the non-standard 737s to TPE (in JCL some more!!!) and wound up with a window shade that refused to be pulled down. He was provided with a copy of THE STAR to be shoved against the window for shade. He also order the SFML. Think it was the catering kitchen's off day as well. He basically got the same eggs and potatoes brekky, with an added thin slice of fish to denote it as SFML. Sedih right? Poor guy didn't even have a PTV. Instead he was handed one of those Smarties-A330 era portable entertainment devices.
I really have no qualms about MH limiting these birds to domestic or regional flights lasting no more than a few hours. But to see them as far afield as TPE, BOM or even PER is a bit much lah!
So now, tomorrow evening I will be watching with bated breadth to see which rego will fly me SIN-KUL. Hopefully the air con will be working.
Like everyone else, I see MH making strides in trying to better themselves. Just wish the progress was was a little more consistent.
gabrielchew wrote:Nice report Ryan! Nice that MH still have hot catering on these short flights, even if it's not 5*.
Regarding the "veg" shepherds pie, that just just need to go into any decent supermarket, find the veg section, and they will soon find that you can buy pretty any meat based dish sold as veg friendly! So it does indeed exist, and may possibly have been correctly labeled (even if I think it's a travesty!)
mh330fc wrote:Wow.. Making my heart nostalgic now. This route was the first and only route I've ever had to chance to fly first class on. Back in 1995. I remember how incredible it was to be able to sit in the very front of a brand new a330-300. Hence the name mh 330 f.c.
KruegerFlaps wrote:Wow. The presentation of the meal is so classy, not. Sure it's a short flight and a hot meal is welcome. But aluminium foil in business class? A sturdy plastic container could be substituted - maybe the kind that EK used to have in economy. They could be recycled rather than just scrapped, but I know, MH is trying to reduce costs.
That grilled fish looks yummy.
Ryanair!!! wrote:Yeah I agree the aluminium foil looks a little tacky. I just clocked another JCL flight on MH last week and these aluminium cup made an appearance too. But this time it was satay on a very short hop. Satay isn't meant to be classy. Hehehehe...
I've also seen aluminium foils used to hold sauces in American carriers especially when they serve steak.
Not just grilled fish, but anything seafood which is grilled has my vote.
Cheers and thanks for popping by
rttlnsnk wrote:Are you "experienced" enough on these flights (<1 hour) to know what they usually serve, in business class (or "Golden Club Class" as they still like to print on the baggage tags) of course. I have been served satays and the breakfast with sausage and wedges before but I guess the meal served is very random. From my travel experience on MH throughout the years I can say that they are consistently inconsistent, and are a great example of Malaysia Hospitality. That tagline is very apt but in unfortunate ways as the service industry in Malaysia is sometimes inconsistent and unorganized, while being spectacular at another time, ridiculously rigid in some aspects but very lax in others; sums up MH, really.


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Posted Sun 31st of July 2011
There I was busy watching a movie on my laptop on the bus trip to work, when she got on. I had
seen her nearly every day on this same trip. She gets on two stops from where i catch the morning
bus. She is about 5'9", shoulder length red hair, beautiful face and a body with curves in all the right
places. She approaches smiles and takes a seat next to me, I have butterflies. A bit about me, I'm
6'2" short jet black hair, dark brown eyes, muscular frame.
We sit there quietly watching the movie on my laptop, I can feel the warmth from her thigh next to
mine building but now i feel something else it feels like a hand moving up and down the outside of
my thigh, now it's on top of my thigh and I can feel my cock getting hard. I glance down quickly and
it is her hand caressing my thigh and the bulge in the front is clearly visible, i look at her and she is
smiling at me. I can't believe this is happening.
She glances towards my crotch and grins, and then she runs her fingers over the bulge in my pants
which gets a twitching reaction from my cock wanting to break free from its confines. She leans in
and whispers "excuse me " in my ear as she unzips my fly and realising that I am going commando
today is very surprised to be staring at my 9" long 2.5" girth cock. I nearly cum right there when she
wraps her soft strong fingers around it and starts to jerk me off right there in the bus.
She then lowers her head to my cock and licks the tip which causes some precum to the tip, she
quickly laps that up and wraps her lips around my cock and slides down taking half of it into her
warm mouth, a moan of ecstasy escapes my lips. She starts sucking my cock, taking more and more
in with each downwards thrust. I grab the back of her head and push her down onto my cock. I am
balls deep in her mouth and she starts humming. I am not going to last much longer.
She takes my cock out of her mouth long enough to say, "Cum down my throat please. I want it
down my throat now!" So I do as I am told, four more thrusts does it I feel that familiar feeling
surging up from my balls and I spurt stream after hot stream of cum down her throat. She sucks and
licks me clean then leans to my ear and whispers "Thanks for the cream, what number is your bus
after work, maybe you would like to cum by for dinner and dessert, I have the ice if you can bring
the cream" grabbing my cock which is already hardening with the thought. I give her my card and tell
her the 219 at 5.05pm. Before she gets off, she takes my hand and sticks two fingers into her soaking
wet pussy and rides the bumpy section three stops from hers and cums all over my hands. I catch
some and lick it from my hand and fingers. As she gets up to leave she hands me her panties which
are saturated in her juices and asks me to return them on the trip home.
I spent my whole morning at my desk drawing pictures of her on my desk pad and thinking of how great it felt having her hand touch me and her lips around my cock....... and the feeling of that release of my seed straight down her throat........ damn my cock is so hard......." Carol can you cum in here please..... and bring your special pad..."
Did I forget to mention my secretary, 5'7", 32D tits. beautiful tan skin and lips that can suck the paint of a car.
Carol comes in and pushes my chair away from the desk and quickly has my cock out of my pants and in her expert lips, she sucks my cock for a good 10 mins then sit back on the desk and spreads her legs allowing me access to the gates of heaven. I lean in and start to dine on the beautiful pussy placed before me, each lick each taste is better than the last. I start to fuck her with my tongue and shivers surge through her body signalling the first orgasm for the day. I stand and insert my 9" cock into her glorious wet love tunnel and we commence to fucking each others lights out, I grab her ass and pull her fabulous body with more vigor.
She asks me to take her from behind to which I am only too happy to do. She climbs off the desk and turns around presenting her ass to me...... God what a site!. She guides my cock to her pussy and I slide into it balls deep and feel my balls slap against her thighs....... I know she likes it hard so I grab a handful of her hair and start to thrust from tip to balls into her, her pussy clamps down around my shaft to let me know she is orgasming again, holding her ass cheeks part I spy her ass, licking my thumb I start to stimulate that perky little ass whole, I apply a little more pressure and the tip of my thumb pops into her ass, illiciting a moan of pleasure. Getting a little bolder I start to push my thumb further while fucking her pussy, my thumb is now buried in her ass and she is shaking through orgasm number three. I feel the cum starting to work its way up from my balls and within seconds I pull my cock from Carol's pussy and spurt ropes of cum over her ass and lower back. Carol turns and cleans off my cock when she is done, I reach inside my desk draw and grab a couple of wipes to help clean her off, she tidies her clothes and asks if that will be all to which I answer Yes thank You. You can have an early lunch if you want.
First time writer working on the bus trip home......
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WbeOsD Extremely easy by words but in reality�, a lot of things don`t correspond. Not everything is so rosy..!
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2011-09-16 16:28:30
love the idea, got my panties all wet. just cannot figure out all the magic tricks on the bus ride. no one saw, how did you get your fingers in her pussy? was she naked? and then she had tear away panties? crazy, but good stuff. keep writing i want to hear about the bus ride home. still have to cum you know!
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Displays the region between genome landmarks, such as the STS markers RH18061 and
RH80175, or chromosome bands 15q11 to 15q13, or SNPs rs1042522 and rs1800370. This syntax may also be used for other range queries, such as between uniquely determined ESTs, mRNAs, refSeqs, etc. |
NM_000310.3(PPT1):c.271_287del17insTT NM_007262.4(PARK7):c.-24+75_-24+92dup NM_006172.3(NPPA):c.456_*1delAA MYH11:c.503-14_503-12del NM_198576.3(AGRN):c.1057C>T NM_198056.2:c.1654G>T NP_002993.1:p.Asp92Glu NP_002993.1:p.D92E BRCA1 Ala744Cys |
Displays the region containing HGVS term |
pseudogene mRNA | Lists transcribed pseudogenes, but not cDNAs |
p53 | Lists mRNAs related to the p53 tumor suppressor |
T-cell receptor | Lists mRNAs for T-cell receptor genes in Genbank |
breast cancer | Lists mRNAs associated with breast cancer |
homeobox caudal | Lists mRNAs for caudal homeobox genes |
zinc finger | Lists zinc finger mRNAs |
kruppel zinc finger | Lists only kruppel-like zinc fingers |
huntington | Lists candidate genes associated with Huntington's disease |
zahler | Lists mRNAs deposited by a scientist named Zahler |
Evans,J.E. | Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author J.E. Evans |
Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Evans JE, internally it uses the format Evans,J.E..


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08-07-2008, 05:34 PMI feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
TNO, on a side note. What is your avatar from? That has been bugging the shit outta me. I know what it's from, but can't pull it from my memory.
I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
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08-07-2008, 05:50 PMI don't deny I'm not free of angst towards the church (or just religion in general) and it gets the better of me sometimes. And in particular, certain issues push my buttons. What I perceive as a perpetual "crying wolf" on the part of the religious right, and touching on the issue of homosexuality (this thread has both). I personally am happily married to a lovely woman (sorry to disappoint you Megimoo), but many of my very best friends are gay, so there is a personal factor in it here. And believe me when I say, almost all the commentary all over this board on this topic wreaks of that stereotypical false (or what I hope is false) caricature of conservatism (dumb, xenophobic, faith to a fault). I mean... people around here really try hard to live up to the lefts expectations. It's one of the few things that stirs me out of lurker mode and compels me to post.
All we gotta do is figure a way to tie this thread into the evolution vs creationism debate and you'll really see me get 'colorful';)Last edited by wilbur; 08-07-2008 at 05:54 PM.
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The gay and lesbian movement is guilty of the same crying wolf. Every time someone makes a statement that is negative of homosexual behavior they are accused of being "homophobes" and "gay bashers". To many in the gay and lesbian movement disagreement with them is to hate them. I don't agree with their life style but I don't hate them either. To each his own is my point of view, but as the religious right is accused of pushing their morals down the throats of non-believers, gays seem to be guilty of the same thing. They want to legislate their view of morality just like the far religious right tries to do. As you know, I'm about as devout a believer as one can be but I understand that there is the world and the world can do as the world will do. Make same sex marriage legal if it pleases society, but don't force the Church to bless these unions if the Church finds them immoral. Believers don't have to tolerate having their beliefs ruled as illegal, or their values dictated to them because the gay movement wants to join a group of people who find their lifestyles immoral. That itself is mind boggling to me.
Last edited by FlaGator; 08-08-2008 at 08:34 PM.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
I read a really good article recently where the pundit argued that as Christians, we should always fight against the moral issue of gay marriage, but to look at it this way..... If it was not a state sanctioned event and one that was carried out by the church this wouldn't be as much an issue because if gay marriage isn't really marriage in God's eyes then it's no more marriage because the state says it is.
This was probably the best idea about the subject I've read...but I haven't read them all. Links below.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=640Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown
The problem is Empty People, Not Loaded Guns - Linda Schrock Taylor
Christ tells us to be in the world and not of the world so I try to establish a philosophical wall between the two. The way I read Christ's commands in the Gospel, he was establishing the way that Christians are expected to live and behave but that we shouldn't hold non believers to the same standard because they are not capable of living those standards.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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...can sometimes turn into something cute.
I've had this fabric for years and years and my tastes have changed ever so slightly.
My mom mentioned that she needed some new aprons and asked if I had any fabric I wasn't planning on using.
It was a fabric panel and some matching floral fabric.
I just traced one of my other aprons for the pattern.
The fabric was a little thin for an apron, so I lined it with Bella. This was actually much easier than trying to seam all the way around. I think I may line all future aprons.
I thought making the "strings" out of floral fabric may be a little much, so I chose Bella for those too. In orange.
And there you have it. Pretty out of not so pretty!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Even not so pretty fabric...
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Necessity <--> Mother of Invention
I love when something comes of nothing, yet it's so something! Love the idea of lining the apron, it IS easier than folding over, folding over and stitching!! Add to that, an extra layer of protection from my own cooking disasters is always a plus!
Thanks for sharing your creation. I'm sure your mom is tickled.
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Sketch o'the Week- Bond, James Bond
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film, "Dr. No" in 1962, here are small studies of each of the actors to officially (i.e. star in an EON Production) play 007 in the movies: Clockwise from top right: Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan,¬¨'Ć Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby.
Great studies!. What a shame the Oscar producer's could not make the onstage Bond reunion happen. I read somewhere that Brosnan was stubborn about it. In your recent "On the drawing board" posting, you mentioned a Mad- five page parody, that was actually a franchise parody. I might be wrong, but I can't help wondering if there is a connection to these studies.
I like how George Lazenby is at the very top. For some reason that just tickles me.
Were these drawn on Bond paper? Jolly good show!
Excellent proportions of the exaggeration.
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'Concussion' Star Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Talks to Join Gun-Control Drama 'Miss Sloane' (Exclusive)
Jessica Chastain also stars in the John Madden ('Shakespeare in Love') movie.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who stars opposite Will Smith in Concussion, is in final negotiations to join Jessica Chastain in Miss Sloane, the gun-control drama being made by FilmNation and EuropaCorp.
The project, which is being directed by John Madden, is in casting mode and just added Michael Stuhlbarg on Friday. Alison Pill is also on the call sheet.
The script, penned by Jonathan Perera, tells of Elizabeth Sloane, a political fixer with an abused and abusive past who takes on Washington's well-oiled gun lobby to pass gun legislation. The story is set in motion when new legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership gains traction in Congress. Sloane is approached to spearhead the campaign, quickly finding herself pit against the formidable power of her political opponents. Deploying her notorious skills, and driven by a desire to win at all costs, she jeopardizes those closest to her, and puts her own career at risk.
Mbatha-Raw will play a gun-control lobbyist with a secret.
Ben Browning will produce for FilmNation and Patrick Chu will be the executive producer.
The English actress next stars opposite Matthew McConaughey in Free State of Jones, the Civil War drama written and directed by Gary Ross that STX is releasing May 13, and she has a plum role in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast, which doesn't open until 2018.
Mbatha-Raw is repped by CAA, Authentic Talent and Literary and the U.K.'s Curtis Brown Group.


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Fresh To Order Continues Growth Trajectory in Atlanta
Opens franchised airport unit with Concessions International and signs lease for CNN Center
Atlanta, GA (RestaurantNews.com) Atlanta-based, fast fine concept, Fresh To Order (f2o) announces its two new high-traffic Atlanta units – one in Concourse B of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and in downtown's CNN Center. The airport location, now open, is operated by Concessions International (CI), principal concessionaire of foodservice offerings on ATL's Concourse B. The company-owned CNN Center restaurant is slated to open late summer and will be 9th for the brand.
The airport Fresh To Order, the chain's first non-traditional venue, features a quick menu – a selection of popular gourmet sandwiches, salads and soups. Design of the 575-square foot unit incorporates recognizable concept elements that have been adapted to the smaller space.
The CNN Center unit is another highly visible location for the 7-year-old concept. CNN Center is home to the CNN world headquarters, Turner Broadcasting System, and the luxury Omni Hotel.
"These new locations are fresh and exciting territory for us," said Pierre Panos , Fresh To Order founder and CEO. "Our partnership with CI will benefit busy world travelers – and the CNN Center venue exemplifies our focus in driving growth via company-owned operations and franchising."
CI is also invigorated by their partnership with Fresh To Order. Awarded the ATL Concourse B concessions contract last June, the company quickly identified Fresh To Order as a uniquely local concept that would contribute a sense of place for travelers and locals alike.
"We want ATL travelers to experience Atlanta's best," said Donata Russell Major , CI's CEO. "Which is why the renowned and innovative Fresh To Order is our first partner for this program."
About Fresh To Order (f2o)
Founded in 2006, Fresh To Order (f2o), the pioneer of the innovative, "fast-fine" restaurant segment, combines the quality of food found in casual fine dining with the operating platform and price point of fast casual. Founded on the vision of "Incredible Food, Service and Facilities", f2o serves a menu of freshly prepared entrees, Panini sandwiches, soups and salads in under 10 minutes for around $10.
For up-to-the-minute information, join us on Facebook or www.freshtoorder.com.
About Concessions International, LLC
Atlanta-based Concessions International, LLC, founded in 1978, is a dynamic food and beverage concessionaire with operations in eight airports in the U.S. Visit www.cintl.com.