Cloud Nine

Not many of you know but there was a new addition to the Spanish royal family (!!) last month. The Crown Princess Letizia gave birth to her second child which was yet another daughter. The delivery was done at Ruber Internacional which I can proudly say I've been to and where my mum went for her check-ups while in madrid.

Infanta Sofía de Borbón y Ortiz was born at 4:50 pm on the 29th of April by means of a caesarean section. She weighed 3.3 kg and was 50cm long at birth. Infanta Sofía was named after her grandmother, Reina Sofia. She will most probably be given the additional name of de Todos los Santos (of All the Saints), at her christening making her Infanta Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz.

It thus remains a question as to whom would assume the throne in time to come. Unless Infanta Sofia's elder sister becomes Queen Leonor, Crown Princess Letizia would have to conceive again to produce a male heir. I give my upmost respect to the simple Spanish royalty who are loved and admired by their people. The difference between them and the British or Japanese royal families is so obvious. Crown Princess Letizia didn't even suffer from any stress related disorders unlike Crown Princess Masako who could not bear a male heir to the Chrysanthemum throne or face the media. Maaflah tapi saya tidak berapa suka akan keluarga diraja di Malaysia.

Video of Infanta Sofia's first appearance outside Ruber

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark also welcomed their new daughter who has yet to be named on the 21st of April. It is a Danish tradition that the royal babies only be named during their official baptism. A very 'perasan' tradition if you ask me since news of Infanta Sofia's birth was announced in Spain through SMS. By the way, Crown Princess Mary is actually an Australian who met her husband in a bar during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Sounds like every girl's dream fairytale but it is true ..

Enough of royalty and babies, I will now move on to my favourite subject - airplanes. If you think i'm insane, you might as well skip the next part. Don't even bother letting the pictures load .. haha

These are some of the new airline liveries I so absolutely love ..

Cathay Pacific's livery to celebrate the delivery of its 100th aircraft. This B777 has surely flown a lot as it has been spotted at many airports.

This specific livery doesn't look permanent but it's aim is to promote Hong Kong. Well, it does state "Asia's World City". I guess it's similar to MAS's 'Freedom of Space'.

Qatar's new one is one hell of a eye-candy to me. This new livery comes at a right time when they are rapidly expanding their network. Their old one looked really outdated. I like how the fonts are now much bigger and that their antelope-like logo gas been enlarged. Thumbs up for QR. Most probably gonna fly QR to beirut at the end of the year.

This Jet Airways livery was launched about two weeks ago and this is the first aircraft with it. Definitely looks better than their old livery. Much more modern-like which makes you wanna fly with them.

United Airlines livery ain't very new but I just like the different shades of blue. The logo on the tail looks fantastic too. I feel that they should do something like extend the words "UNITED". Very empty body towards the tail.

This one here is dedicated to jiam since she was uberly excited when I first mentioned how the outside of the Aer Lingus plane was coloured. I'm not lying and this ones from Ireland. They were asked to fly to KLIA but had not enough aircraft to do so.

Another golden livery to entice travellers. Belonging to Gulf Air the proud-est sponsor of the Bahrain Grand Prix. I guess they copied us since their circuit is located really close to the airport that you always get a picture of their planes together with the track. Sad to say that their livery does not attract enough passengers on their flights.

LAN's livery is really nice too. I guess i'm easily attracted to bluish liveries. Funny thing is that this livery only looks good on certain aircraft (my own opinion of course) ..

Last but not least, we have Finnair which is supposed to have started their Helsinki flights via Bangkok to KLIA last week. There's no news about it on their website or our local news. Perhaps they decide to postpone the launch ?! Many have enjoyed Finnair's advertisements over the past few years. My favourite is the ad promoting their business class lie-flat seats which includes an animated panda travelling. You can watch it below ..

-adios y hasta luego-