the 16 million dollar toy

Wednesday, July 15, 2009



firstly i’d like to apologize to all my readers who have been waiting for something new in my blog. Anyway…as u guys may already know….i got the air asia first stage interview which was basically a normal SPM standard and format written test.

I only had like…9 days to prepare for the test and so i got to work right away. 2 days were spent on actually finding my spm books and borrowing the ones i din have… sad i know. as soon as i got that settled. i neglected my form 6 and actually revised all my spm maths and physics frm the first till the very last chapter.

2 years of education cramped in my head in 9 days. And i wasnt surprise when my health wasn't fully 100% when i went for the test…and it got worst knowing i ad to go to LCCT to get lunch….one mineral water bottle and one hot dog made me take out rm 8.90…yes….8.90…hot dog was rm 6.50 and the mineral water was rm2.40….heart nearly failed but then again…no choice..haha… so diam diam makan and went back to the academy for the remaining 2 papers which were english and IQ.

all the papers went well and i was one of the first to finish,….good or bad?…go figure =D…anyway.. after i went out of the exam hall..i decided to loiter ard the academy as they had some pretty cool stuff to see. So i finally decided to go out the front door and catch some fresh air… and so i did.

after loitering outside the academy for a while, one guy comes up to me and asks if i had a lighter cause he’s couldnt work…and so i replied…”sorry sir, i don have a lighter as i do not smoke”… and he goes on saying “oh..its ok…hey arent you here for the air asia written test?”..and so my reaction was like..”yes…do u know about it"?”..and frm that we started talking and i soon found out that i was talking to a captain…lol….

most of my readers know that i’m an avid flight simmer and will talk abt planes for ages if given the chance..and so thats exactly wat i did with the captain…and he ends up telling me….follow me boy…i’ll give you a tour ard the academy..which was funny cause i had already told him that we have been given a tour ard the academy that morning…

he then took me straight into the most safeguarded area in the academy…the simulator training room…and honestly…for me… i saw heaven =D… and so he said..”u know much abt planes..wanna try a 737?”..and which idiot would refuse!! =D…so i was like yeah of course captain…and he took me in the simulator…and actually let me take off with it….a 16 million dollar machine in the hands of a guy who cant take care of a 2 ringgit phone casing…lol…

and so i tried it,….and it was so fkin awesome!!!…i’m lucky enough to have a recording of it…pls do not mind all the warning and alarms will ya?..thanks =)… and so i flew on all the 3 different simulators which were the boeing 737… the airbus a320 and the a330-300.

it was one heck of a day…i just expected it to be another normal examination day but hell no….just goes to show….always expect the unexpected

here are some pics and a video of my new no.1 love… =D

click here for the flight video

~AniL RekhraJ~