Ah
Oldbrigade! Take me back to the times when there were 2 classes of airspace (CTA and OCTA), a friendly briefing officer, an FSO who actually knew the airspace and could tell which aircraft was calling not by the rego but by the sound of the pilots voice. Green screen radars and procedural boards
Sadly though things have progressed. There's no way ATC could handle todays traffic density with the facilities that existed 20 years ago. The SY-ML route is the 3rd most busiest in the world.
p.s Flayva, you are lucky to get a 'g'day' these days. Lets hope she never has an incident...she'll get hauled over the coals for wasting airtime possibly endangering emergency comms and for using non-standard phraseology...