It’s Oman Air, Not Omar Air.

When I was in Paris, a few hours before boarding Omar, I mean Oman Air, I had so many doubts. I started to think why I even bought the tickets. What is Oman Air? I will spend 15hours above ground and 14 of them are inside the infamous cheap airplane. There will be children running around, 1 small screen at the front for everybody in the economy class. I would be suffering the whole time! Why did I buy those tickets? Why was I too tight on spending my budgets? Gosh!!

I arrived at the airport with 45minutes behind my schedule and with two luggages; I went straight to terminal 2A. I saw the name “Oman Air” at the nearest two counters next to some counters with tons of people in the line. “Not so many people in Oman Air.. Small company...” I thought to myself. I also noticed they put blue carpet in their line, “They are really desperate to attract clients…” I said with a grin. As I was getting nearer, I saw the word “1st class” on the screen, “Ups, wrong line” so I went to the counter next to it, this time, it was “Business class” attached at the front. I uttered “Ups, wrong again” with a silly giggle, the woman at the counter heard me and she point to the side. The counters with tons of people at the front are also Oman Air... That’s the Economy Class…

At the line there are a lot of Indians and a couple of French (they seem to stand out from the rest of the heard...) I started to think if the country this airline belongs to is an Indian country… With these people in the line, I can already foresee my future...

I went straight for the tax free zone to buy some chocolates for my family. I gave my passport at the only passport checker counter available and the officer took it slackenly before continuing to play with his iphone. I then passed the one and only security check point where I took a photo of the officer whose duty is to monitor what’s inside people’s luggage and he was also enjoying a FIFA match game through his iphone:

its blurry, well, i took it while acting as if im on the phone..

What’s inside the airplane is totally unexpected, here’s some photo to do the talking:

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a usb connector and a 3mm jack

Just like MAS

But they have keyboard with joystick at the back!

They have Economy class Menu!

And if u get lucky, u can have a 1st class comfort with ur economy class ticket

Internet on board, the first..

View of Oman

They use foreign stewardess (like Thailand) and they wear that hat when we've landed in Muscat

Before boarding Oman Air, I was not even sure whether it’s Omar or Oman Air, or the country I’ll be visiting for the transit. When people asked me, I just said, it’s Omar on Oman Air and the transit is somewhere in the Arab countries. I was that naïve.

How ignorant I was, Oman is the name of its country and Muscat (not Moscow) is where my transit is, which the capital city of Oman is. I learned a lot, well that’s because I didn’t know much before..

The heat in Muscat was unbearable. The minute I went out, I thought I was next to a machine but even when im down on the ground heading towards the bus, the heat was still there. It was not the sun, no, not like in Msia where the sun tells u it’s hot or not, in Muscat, the condition is the same as we’re in a microwave; it’s the air that’s heating us up.

Inside the airport, I thought I wouldn’t meet any Msian, how wrong I was as I ended up with groups of Msian, also waiting for the same airplane after their Umrah. I get to talk with some folks and share our stories.

I continue my journey back to Msia in the lovely plane of Oman Air, sitting next to Anand, a UK student whom I found to be interesting and easy-going.

In KLIA, I didn’t waste my time to get my first MILO ICE from their KFC before boarding back to Penang. I met another interesting person who told me that anyone can do a research, no need for a good educational background to give a presentation in an international forum.

I landed in Penang at about 1.25am.

The conclusion of my trip is, i saved about RM1000 compared to MAS with a longer trip but not a less comfortable one. i hope this article opens ur mind towards Oman Air.

brinner

It was 11.10pm when i called my friend.

After asking him whether or not he still wants to do his laundry at my place,

he replied in a flabbergasted manner, "U're still at the university??"

"Well, i told u i'll call u once im ready to go back, since i havent called u, it means im still at the university"

Yeah, i have finished all of my exms, come to think of it, i could say that my forth year has finished.. but i'm still stuck, doing late night work at the university. Thanks to the infamous industrial project of course..

i think when i've finished, i'll probably put a few good image here,

juz to show how this stupid-ridiculously-time-consuming tricycle looks like..

About today...

Well, today's not so good,

i missed my mornink lecture bcoz i failed to wake up.

i slept at 5.30am, trying to finish something for the project.

i thought 1 hour of sleep should be enough, but i guess i miscalculated..

i wonder what the lecturer thought about me.

My friends told me he shook his head in despair after i didnt reply to his lovely call in the lecture hall.

Him and me, we have a connection..

even he, doesnt know why,

it started with me, missing one of his lecture, but its the lecture where, for the first time, he noted the student's presence.

He never noted student's presence before or afterwards, until today that is..

Yeah, we have some special connection..

even he said that to me.

I was angry with him for worsening my life for just 1 time absent,

and he..

Well, he seems to get himself closer to students who doesnt like him..

Back to the telephone conversation..

After i spoke to my friend and decided its best that he does his laundry tomorrow, i took off into the darkness outside for a 30-min walk home.

Accompanying me was the rain and continuous song of Lady Gaga's Tik Tok from my mobile phone.

At about 12pm, i found myself at the front door of my place.

i made a call and watched wats the head line on theSun. - Some Najib's plan to turn Msia into a developed country.. - Not interested.

Took my bath,

felt empty in stomach,

remembered that i haven't had my dinner,

took out my kokocrunch,

and m now finishing it while writing this blog.

Tmrw, again, to the university to finish the "lovely" project.

Bitdefender

After 2 years of using Bitdefender for my laptop,

i have 1 thing to say,

DONT USE IT.

It's lagging my laptop with its vsserv.exe

for some occasion, i just ended the program to make my laptop runs faster.

i went to its forum, and to my despair, i was not alone.

Their technical support urge you to upgrade to their 2010 version (wow, what a surprise..)

Alas, upgrading to its 2010 version doesnt solve the problem.

This antivirus program is just too heavy,

and its not that effective too, i still got viruses that i have to manually delete.

Seeing the existence of countless antivirus out there, i advice u to use that money on a much lighter one. Maybe AVS should do it

Does a colonized country always remain weak?

When Msians r being unlawfully captured by Israel, all Msia could do is just lamenting, making demands (like Israel care about it), and asking help from the international community.
They're tryin to act strong, but they know they cant really do anything about it..

Then spend millions for a submarine to make the people feel 'safer' being born as a Msian..

What a lame country.. we're deadly weak!

We need a strong leader!

We keep getting bullied and bullied and bullied, from the beginning till now.
Oh ya.. Msia is a small country.. thts y...
Well the Israelist didnt even HAVE a country before!

All we need is a calibre, strong leader to tell them that they need to show some respect!

our leaders should have a vision to make this country an independent country, more resourceful than a taker,

Its time to be a strong country,
thts the key for the citizen to feel proud of their own country,
they need to feel proud of their country,
i need to feel proud of my country..