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Hisham Albakri

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  1. Any updates on this story Pieter? I can't find anything more even at airliners.net
  2. Wow ... Adam Air also flies into PEN ... may have to bring my son Adam spotting at PEN soon
  3. I also read this news in The Star (not the online version - newspaper version lah!) this morning ... does this mean that the GB shop will no longer be in KL?!? I'm not going to Subang or KLIA to buy my models ... then again, I can 'kill 2 birds with 1 stone' by going spotting as well ... hmm I personally doubt they could find serious buyers for their building ... for rental, maybe ... supply for office space have actually exceeded demand nowadays!
  4. Frustrated and sad to read Kelvin B's posting ... So guys ... still wanna fly MH huh?!?
  5. Finally ... a comment from someone south of the border! Thanks KC I know these are all in the past ... but I still think MH, and not SQ, should have inherited MSA's old colours ... irrespective of all the historial facts and arguments
  6. I'll happily fly via SIN if it's cheaper Sing Yew As for MH suffering GA's fate, perhaps we should wait and see ... give Idris Jala a chance lah!
  7. I'm a proud Malaysian and love to fly MH than any other airlines ... but some of the stuff that's been going on, MH's digging their own grave, IMHO! In all instances that I have flown in my life, the only reason I've not flown on MH was due to economic factors ... make their ticket cheaper and you'll get me and my family to happily fly MH, no questions asked!
  8. Guys! This is a free world, free market ... ditch MH and fly the alternatives available ... AK, SQ, OS, QF, NZ, KL, LH ... all ok what ... also, perhaps MH would want to reconsider their A380 order! Hmm ... my DW MH's A380 model could really fetch a good price from eBay ...
  9. Back for your hols in mid Jan ... seems a bit late considering uni reopens in late Feb/early March? I only did my Year 12/Form 6 in ADL back in 1983. It was at Norwood High (now Norwood-Morialta High I understand) in Magill. I (and a few others) stayed in Gilbert Street in the south-east corner of the city (house was infront of a pub). In 1984 onwards I transferred to MEL (where the action is ) to study Civil Engineering at uni
  10. Hi Sing Yew - it was exactly a year ago! Arrived ADL on Xmas Day 2004 and left ADL on New Year's Day 2005. You still in ADL or back in IPH (my kampung!!!)
  11. Urgh ... sorry for asking you Sandeep ... you've really got some bad ones with those Ozzies! Seems a bit wierd though ... for all the good part of the 1980s that I spent in Melbourne (plus 1 year in Adelaide) as a student ... it wasn't all that bad! Even during the last 7 or 8 odd years when I've travelled to Oz ... not too bad lah, with the exception of one or two incidences which I've shared here before. Perhaps during the 1980s, all the unnecessary suspicion wasn't really there, and in my later years, I've always travelled with my wife and kids ... but then still no justification for the pathetic behaviour
  12. Liam, Walter, guys ... A New South Wales Waratahs Super 12 Rugby jersey bought in Queenstown (New Zealand)'s Canterbury of NZ Shop was made in .... yes ... you guessed it ... China! A British & Irish Lions NZ Tour 2005 Rugby jersey bought at Rebel Sports in Adelaide's Myer Centre in Rundle Mall was made in ... yes ... you guessed it ... China! Me ... out of topic again ... as usual
  13. No joke! Is this a 747 or 777 flight? Would it be nice if the AKL airport authorities replaces the flight with a NZ 747 or their brand new 777 Cheer up Nicholas ... you'll reach home in no time! Be patient bro!
  14. Fitri - serunding is a big NO NO! It's beef lah bro!!!
  15. This is definitely off topic ... personally I find the Customs officers at Perth to be biggest a-h's ... followed by (in order) ADL, BNE, MEL and SYD. This is coming from someone who travels regularly to those cities in Oz for the last 7 years. So Sandeep, what did the Customs officers do to you that made you totally pissed off ... story, story lah!
  16. Ok, noted! The point here is that SQ had the 1st choice option to do whatever they wanted to do to the 'image' that was in existence since the late 1940s. The sad part is that it appeared that MH didn't do much to object either! So which airline can claim that they are alomost 60 years old now ... MH or SQ? To me, looks like MH is only about 33 years old then!
  17. The issue here is not so much the colours Sandeep. I suppose you did sort of mention what I had suspected all this while; i.e. SQ had the upper hand then ... so I reckon they had the 1st choice of using MSA's colours!
  18. Guys - I need you feedback on this. Looking at the original colours of SQ, it appears that SQ has inherited the colours of MSA. However, in the case of our own MH, our original colours were red and white. Going by the flag colours of Singapore, don't you think MH's red and white is more appropriate for them rather than us? In the case of SQ's original colour of yellow white and dark blue ... hey ... that's 3 of the 4 colours of our Jalur Gemilang! Also, MSA's colours were inherited from it's predecesssor, i.e. Malayan Airways. Am I missing something here or does anyone know the history why MH didn't adopt MSA's colours, thus allowing SQ to adopt those colours? Or is this the classic case of MH being 'arm twisted' by the more 'dominant' partner?!?
  19. Doing what they say and giving them what they want is the worrying part for me Liam! I have this bloody bad habit of arguing with those 'with authority' especially when I find them being unreasonable in exercising their authorty I once argued with the Customs officer (quite a junior guy going by his facial looks) in your good old PER airport when I arrived for my family hols from KUL in 2001. He wanted to confiscate my Maggi instant noodles from my luggage stating that it was not allowed into Oz. I duly reminded the guy that the same stuff went through ok at MEL just a year before. His reply was, "this is Perth mate and not bloody Melbourne!" Lucky me his supervisor observed the whole heated incident between this particular Malaysian tourist (and his family) with his officer; and the supervisor duly told his officer that this particular food is ok! You should look at the guy's face ... he was pissed to the max!!! Ok! Ok! Ok! I need to control myself ... that's all I need to do in order not to ruin the whole thing for everyone else right
  20. Apprehending suspects too?!? What harm can innocent spotters like us do? Suspects of what? Alamak ... now I'm worried
  21. ... and if I may ask Pieter; which ones are painted using KLM Asia's livery?!?
  22. So if one gets caught at the hill behind Petronas, what can MAB's police do? They do not have any so-called 'police powers' do they? They can't even request to view our ICs, can't they? I somehow prefer this hill more than the Weather Station.
  23. Guys - I posted the message below on Dec 27 2005, 09:00 AM under the topic "Spotters as Security Agents (instead of as pests)" which was originally started by Bro Attan. Unfortunately there was no response as I suspected I may have posted it under the wrong topic. Could someone comment whether the hill behind Petronas is now permanently out of bounds?!? My posting on 27/12/05; "Whilst on the topic of spotting; me and my son Adam went spotting yesterday. I realised that a barricade (removable fence) was placed on the entrance to the road leading up to the hill behind Petronas Even though I could remove the barricade (as it was not that heavy), I decided not to proceed to the hill out of fear! Is this area permanently out of bounds now? We however proceeded to the hill at the Weather Station and spotted loads of take-offs We bumped into Jonathan (well, I think it was Jonathan - recognisable from various photos of him here) and said 'hi' just as when I was about to leave and him arriving."
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