Comments Writing this entry at 36000 feet over the Pacific Ocean in a business class seat that converts to a flat bed. They’re serving drinks now.
Some airline cabin, huh? I wasn’t kidding when I wrote that Cathay Pacific is one of the best – - actually probably THE best airline I’ve ever flown (and I’ve flown ‘em all). Aside from the seat-bed the flight attendants are incredibly gracious, call you by name, and look after you so well that you never have to ask for anything, somehow they manage to stay 1 step ahead. I’ve never seen anything like it before — even on Singapore Airlines, which I flew on the first leg of the tour, which is reputed to be the best airline in the world (they are also excellent, but as Mark Phibbs put it so succinctly — “Singapore Airlines is the girl in high school who knows she’s pretty, and Cathay is prettier but doesn’t know it”).
There’s Mark at the end-of-tour dinner at Wildfire restaurant in Sydney.
So the AsiaPac Production Studio Launch Tour doesn’t end with my return home — no sirree! Singapore-based Marianne Young Ledesma, the Applications Engineer for Adobe AsiaPac, carries the show onward to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, & The Phillipines.
Marianne was one of the great people we got to work with in Singapore — big thanks to Wee Ling Tan & team for putting together a really super event at one of the nicest hotels in Singapore (a city with some of the most de-luxe hotels in the universe), the Intercontinental.
No more planes for me until the March 16 trip to NYC. I’ll be sitting in at a benefit concert on Saturday March 18 at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. It’s for my freind Tim’s nieces & nephews who lost their dad Tom Cloherty 2 months ago to a tragic heart attack. Tommy was only 39 years old and left behind a wife and 4 kids. Tim was the singer in The Rake’s Progress (the band I was in for 10 years) and his band Booga Sugar will be headlining with a bunch of other great bands. The ticket proceeds to to the education fund for Tom’s kids. If you’re in the NYC area please come out and hear some great music — there might be a Rake’s Progress reunion song or 2 . . .