Cyza Sector

Once again we are away from the comfort of our home. This weekend (starting on Friday afternoon), we are off to Pulai Desaru Beach Resort, Johor. Before I proceed further, let me inform that this is not another vacation. This is another tour of duty (job trip) of my wife. She has some kind of work related to her research alliance. Never mind with that. Luckily all participants or may I refer to as researcher was given a room. That’s so cool. She can bring all of us (the family).

We’ve never been to Pulai Desaru Beach Resort before. So, personally, I was anxious to see how good is this hotel. Let’s check it out…

My first impression… This hotel looks cool. It has a very huge hotel lobby. The roof is high and thus provide great ventilation. Wind from the sea is enough to provide the cool breeze at the hotel surrounding. There seems to be plenty of room available. Our room is in the second floor. We need to walk, perhaps 2-3 minutes to reach our room from the hotel reception counter.

This is the hotel – Pulai Desaru Resort, Johor. I missed to take the photo of the front gate where the hotel logo is clearly visible.

This is our room. The room is quite spacious with no carpets. Instead the floor is decorated with a 2′ x 2′ light brown tile. It’s very cold when we step onto it. Maybe the reason for that is because the hotel is at the beach! We have 2 double beds here, not that big for the 5 of us, but hey, we can squeeze in. Not bad. We requested for additional pillow since there are only 4 pillows. We need the extra one because there are 5 of us.

This is a different view of the room. There is a desk for work and also some comfortable looking double sofa to relax. The sliding doors are quite huge and provide more than sufficient sun light into the room. I consider the room spacious enough for all of us and it is larger than a typical average hotel room. This room is by far larger than the hotel room that we stayed in Shanghai (we’ll be covering that soon).

Another angle of the hotel room. I think this picture completes all the angle needed for you to imagine how this hotel room looks like. The TV is a 25″ Samsung bulb tube flat screen TV. Works fine but the remote control cover is missing!!!

This is the favourite place of my kids – the bath tub. Pretty simple. However, to our surprize, only 2 towels are provided. No hand towel, no medium size towel, not other towels. Only 2 bath towels!!! What the hack! So, we called the receptionist and ask. We assumed the room service guys may have forgotten to place those extra white towels. But, in actual fact after I asked the boy that delivered our towels, one room with two beds are only entitled 2 big bath towels, 1 hand towel and one medium size towel for the floor. That’s it!!! OMG, that is too stingy, I think. Common guys, give your guess more towels. That won’t make you bankrupt.

This is the view at our balcony. No see view, no pool view. We got the football field view…haha…No prob. It is ok. Those lucky one will get the sea or pool views which are nicer paranomically. But as you can see, the plastic table and chairs look to old that it need to be replaced.

This is the view of the landscape of the hotel. It is well maintained, clean and peaceful. I have no complains on this one.

A simple playground is available for kids excitement. However, my kids are not interested at all because they already set their destiny… which is to the swimming fool pool.

The swimming pool of this hotel is fantastic. I like! Thumbs up!!! Superb. It’s huge and creatively designed. There are shallow section for the smaller kids and deeper ones for the big boys. There is also one short slide which is sufficient to make us and the kids happy!!! This hotel knows how to please it’s guess when it comes to getting wet!

Another angle of the swimming pool. This section looks like the beach but it is actually covered with tiny pebbles. No sand what so ever so it maintains clean. However, I can smell some chlorine. Yeah… you cannot escape from that. The swimming pool needs it.

Some entertainment such as the pool tables are made available for those who want to test their sharp shooting skills. Some carom tables are also available. A ping pong table is also prepared for the guess as well as some arcade game which you need to insert some coins. Not sure which coins – old Malaysia coins or new Malaysia coins…haha…

That’s it for now… I have more to cover but I need to get some rest. Tomorrow I need to continue work on my research work!

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We often heard people say that pictures speaks a 1000 words. For that reason, I’m going to continue to share some of the selected photos when we were in Shanghai last month (last year). If you just know Cyza Sector, you might want to refer to my 2 previous post on the introduction of our journey to Shanghai, part 1 and part 2.

I won’t bore some of you with a flux of our Shanghai photos. I will gradually publish some of the photos and a little bit of its description underneath it. There are many interesting stories to be revealed, a bunch of wonderful experiences to be shared and also bad experience for us to warn those who plan to travel to this non-English speaking country. Beware of Shanghai scam! In case you plan to go to any part of China or any country, you better google about potential scam in that country. This will alert you and make you aware of any potential you will fall under a well plan trap.

Me and my other half in the heart of Shanghai City. It is winter and the whether is very cold (between 0 – 6 celcius). The day is a bit gloomy unlike the earlier day which has more sunshine.

Electric bus like this should be introduced in our country. It saves the environment from the pollution combustion from a diesel run bus engine. Malaysia must do something to prevent the release of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from automobile. Otherwise, in a few years time, we will live in a filthy and unhealthy environment. Department of Environment (DOE) and Road Transport Department (JPJ) should do something to lessen the release of those toxic gases.

This is a secret compartment in an underground shop attach to the metro. I forgot the name of this place. They brought us here to show us to some of their quality fake products. The shop owners manage to create some space for this…I think our country also has something like this. Maybe…

This is the underground shopping place which are widely available in Shanghai. It is good to have something like this in our country because it helps to lessen the congestion on the real ground. Real ground means between air and underground…haha…

This is the mosque that we visited to perform our prayer on the first day. The second day, we went to another mosque. They don’t have heater for the absolution water. We were freaky freezing when taking our wudhu’.

If you want to travel to China or other country, please take note of this. Some countries won’t accept Malaysia Ringgit. Hence, RM is useless if you are at those countries. Our money runs out and we cannot change our Malaysia Ringgit because non of the banks accepted our currency. Hence, it is wise to bring US dollars instead as a spare cash if you travel abroad. Some nearby countries like Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei have no problem accepting Malaysia Ringgit.

This is what I consume on my breakfast everyday in the hotel. Is it good? Well, actually this was the first course for me. After that, I had 2nd, 3rd and 4th round…aha… Most that I consumed are vegetarian products.

In the heart of the city again. There are many exits and entrance for the Metro (subway). Hence, you need to know the exact location of where you want to go and get to the right exit. Otherwise, you have to make a long walk!

Me, in front of an interesting arch somewhere in People’s Park, Shanghai. There are a mixed of modern and old architecture in Shanghai city, just like the one in Paris.

This is what I love to see. Solar Panel utilization in the city. This is not the only place solar panel being utilized. There are many more solar panels available in Shanghai city. I hope our country can also start using this type of renewable energy to provide clean energy instead of burning the fossil coal and petroleum for electricity. Don’t you think so? And guess what, I’ll be working on my home solar project soon after I complete my Ph.D.

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I’m quit busy to day and I don’t have all the time in the world to blog….haha… Early in the morning there was already some sort of faculty award event and then I have to make a battle against myself to to some research work. Well, you know after 4 days of Chinese New Year break, it is not easy to start work with full momentum. Actually I don’t want to say that I’m busy, but that’s the actual fact. So, just to fulfill my personal quota of the day, it is my honour to show something to you guys today. Check out the photo which I snapped just now from my Samsung Galaxy Note Ace just now.

What do you think it is? What does it mean to me? What does it mean to you? Some of you may already know what this picture indicate. Some of you will smile and some will be confuse… haha… I don’t care…just say it loud what do you think it is.

By the way, dont’ forget to blog for this blog “Cyza Sector” in the World Blogger and Social Media Awards 2012. So far Cyza Sector has received 10 votes!!! Wow… I’m really touched and I would like to thanks all of you who have kindly voted for my blog. Please let me know. I can return you the favour too.

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