"No boarding pass required. Seatbelt optional."

I'll have to admit. I rarely read Malaysian-made stories. The only other time I bought a book from a Malaysian author was "Sweetheart from hell" by May-Zhee Lim. Her vocab is indeed powerful, but plotwise? Errr, not so much. =/

But then my bro-in-law bought this book:


I thought the cover was pretty cute. And then I realized that the book was a short-story compilation about the author's days of being an air stewardess.

I like short-story books. Somehow they make you feel all quaint on the inside. =P

Madness Aboard is actually the sequel to this:


But bro-in-law bought the books in the wrong sequence. Which totally doesn't matter 'cause all the stories are unrelated to one another.

Both books feature stories like how the stewards might prepare the passengers' food (especially when you are nasty to them), how they handle a situation when someone passes away onboard, whether a plane is haunted or not, etc.

Yvonne also explains how the job of a stewardess is not all singing the "coffee-or-tea rhapsody" (as she puts it).

These books are awesome in that they showcase the life of a stewardess and what actually goes on in aeroplanes (and off).

Awesome reads. Especially when you're travelling on a plane and was thinking of being nasty to the air crew. =)