Kuala Lumpur Business Lounge
(As the clever ones of you will have noticed the post below was written by Sean in the lounge at Heathrow but has just been posted now when we got wireless connection.)
So much seems to have happened since we left Heathrow. Firstly Business Class is absolutely great. It started with the Heathrow lounge: the Strawberries were good but the Power Supply absolutely topped it.
The actual flight was very different from going in economy - no one could be scared of flying in business: it's just too comfy. You can move your chair around and pull your feet up under you to read. Watching the chair transform into a bed is great. The bed still isn't exactly horizontal and you're not going to get a good night's sleep but it's still pretty cool.
The food on the plane was also not only edible but brilliant. We had satay and some pretty decent beef fillet for lunch before we went to sleep and I had a Malaysian breakfast of some kind of prawn curry with coconut rice this morning.
We went to sleep for as long as we could after lunch. This turned out to be about 3 hours. We were trying to think in Malay time and this meant that we had woken up about 11:30pm. Not good. We persisted with intermittent sleep until about 3:00am and then we called it a day (night?) and then Sean watched a video and I finished "Wealth and Poverty of Nations". It took surprisingly less time than I was expecting.
Then came the best bit - I started reading "Ender's Game". There is nothing better than reading science fiction in a plane; planes are exciting anyway (you're suspended in the air!) and I was sitting in a pretty space age chair.
By the time we got the Kuala Lumpur airport, I was starting to feel a little less excited by everything. In particular, despite brushing my teeth, I was desparately in need of a shower. This has now been rectified by the even shinier KL business lounge which has giant showers in futuristic individual pods. I meant to take a photo but didn't have the camera. I may go back.
Now I'm feeling pretty excited again. I'm feeling confident to stay awake all day and hence slip nicely into Australian time- it's definitely better to arrive and go straight to sleep than to arrive and pretend to stay awake all day. I plan to finish Ender's Game on the next flight.
Too exciting!
(As the clever ones of you will have noticed the post below was written by Sean in the lounge at Heathrow but has just been posted now when we got wireless connection.)
So much seems to have happened since we left Heathrow. Firstly Business Class is absolutely great. It started with the Heathrow lounge: the Strawberries were good but the Power Supply absolutely topped it.
The actual flight was very different from going in economy - no one could be scared of flying in business: it's just too comfy. You can move your chair around and pull your feet up under you to read. Watching the chair transform into a bed is great. The bed still isn't exactly horizontal and you're not going to get a good night's sleep but it's still pretty cool.
The food on the plane was also not only edible but brilliant. We had satay and some pretty decent beef fillet for lunch before we went to sleep and I had a Malaysian breakfast of some kind of prawn curry with coconut rice this morning.
We went to sleep for as long as we could after lunch. This turned out to be about 3 hours. We were trying to think in Malay time and this meant that we had woken up about 11:30pm. Not good. We persisted with intermittent sleep until about 3:00am and then we called it a day (night?) and then Sean watched a video and I finished "Wealth and Poverty of Nations". It took surprisingly less time than I was expecting.
Then came the best bit - I started reading "Ender's Game". There is nothing better than reading science fiction in a plane; planes are exciting anyway (you're suspended in the air!) and I was sitting in a pretty space age chair.
By the time we got the Kuala Lumpur airport, I was starting to feel a little less excited by everything. In particular, despite brushing my teeth, I was desparately in need of a shower. This has now been rectified by the even shinier KL business lounge which has giant showers in futuristic individual pods. I meant to take a photo but didn't have the camera. I may go back.
Now I'm feeling pretty excited again. I'm feeling confident to stay awake all day and hence slip nicely into Australian time- it's definitely better to arrive and go straight to sleep than to arrive and pretend to stay awake all day. I plan to finish Ender's Game on the next flight.
Too exciting!
posted by Zoe at 11:08 AM
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