The year 2012 just started and January just ended few days ago. That means my kids have been schooling for 1 month plus already. The interesting point is my daughters’ school bags cannot be used anymore. Marsya’s bag has torn apart while Alya’s bag has several holes at the bottom.

I’m not surprise with Alya’s case because she is still small (standard 1) but at the same time her load are too heavy. There are too many books that she has to bring to school. As a result she pulls/drags her bag on the floor and tar. We only realized that she pulls her bag on the floor on the 4th week of January. Her bag is not the one with the wheels. Her bags was a gift from my parents for her birthday and Alya wants to used it for school. We don’t know the cost of the bag but it seems to be of good quality.

Marsya’s bag in the other hand is also heavy, thanks to the heavy load of the books. She carry her bag all the while but one of the strap could not cope the weight of the bag. It torn apart and as a result Marysa could not carry her bag properly. Marsya’s bag is quite cheap and we do not expect the bag to last until the end of the year. But, we also did not expect for the bag to last for only 1 month!!! The bag cost was RM25.

Marsya checking out her new bag.

This is Alya's new Power Puf bag with tripple wheel. She now can pull/drag her bag easily.

What is the actual case or issue here?

Alya with her new bag and her angry bird purse bag. Looks pretty satisfied.

For us the parents, we think that there are too many books per subject. Just imagine for a single subject, there are text book, activity book and exercise book. The text book and activity book are bigger and thicker. Those books are subsidized by the government. That’s good in one aspect, but in the aspects the students have to carry all these books to school. If there are 6 subject in a day, multiply 3 books with 6 subjects. You know the answer! The cute and tiny students have to carry the bag themselves.

Yes, there are bags that come with wheels, but the school are not flat. There are staircase and there are slops. At some stage the students need to carry the bags and not pull or drag their bag. Poor them.

Our action

We purchased a relatively better and more expensive bag with hope that it can last until the end of the year. If these bags still cannot last till the end of the year, we will allocate some money to purchase cheap bags every month!!! Such thing never occurred to us when we were primary and secondary school students. We will at least use a bag until the end of the year. Some will use the bag for 2 or 3 years.

Let’s hope that this time the bag can be used until they end their schooling this year.

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My sister is struggling alone with her study now in UK...Happy birthday to you!

Today is the birthday of my one and only sister, Rina. She is 9 years younger than me and still single. She is always away from the family. She has more experience traveling overseas compared to me. After working for 4 years, she decided to continue her masters degree in Bradford University, United Kingdom, the same university as me (for my undergraduate chemical engineering degree). She studied Mobile Engineering, a course which is very rare. The course is not offered in Malaysia and surrounding region. That’s why she went to do the course in Bradpitt Bradford University.

Here is my birthday wish to her: “Rina, Happy birthday. Hope you are doing fine and healthy in UK. Study smart and live your live. Remain faith with your iman and protect your dignity as a Muslim. Hope you get a good soleh husband soon. Ameen.”

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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…

General First Impression

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…

The beach. Looks quite nasty with fierce wave stamping its edge. This beach may not be suitable for my kids to play. Oh, I would like to bring them to a crystal clear sea water and a white sandy beach… but not now. Soon… Maybe Tahiti, Hawaai… Any suggestions?

The view of Pulai Desaru Beach Resort from the beach. This was taken at about 6pm. The sun was ready to set…

Another good indirect view of the ocean from the swimming pool area. The hammock that you can see on the far right corner of the above photo is very comfortable and peaceful for relaxing. I need that in our new house. It will be a good way to seek for serenity. But I will need to find out where to buy that hammock? Any idea?

The Most Important Facility – Internet / Wifi

Regarding the internet, it is a pity that this hotel charged RM5 per hour for the internet. There is no free internet or wifi even in the hotel lobby area. That is very disappointing.

I was very close to securing my daily celcom broadband to get access to the internet. “Fortunately”, it failed. I don’t know why it failed but that’s good because soon after that my wife get an internet pin from her workshop. However, she have to share the same pin with another 8 person. That’s fine, at least we can use the internet for a while using that pin.

To my surprize the internet speed is quite poor and not constantly stable. Luckily I did not purchase the RM5 per hour internet facility. Yes, I did not intend to buy the internet service but it will be a frustrating experience to those who purchase it.

Early Remarks

In overall the Resort environment was clean. I did not interacted directly with the staffs so I cannot assess that part. AS this post is written I have no idea yet what the room rate was. I’ll make Part 2, a follow up for this to conclude my overall experience here. Hence, the Cyza Sector Hotel Rating will come later.

Nevertheless, if you are interested to check out further on this resort, which is a family member of Pulai Spring Resort, near my house, you can google it yourself or go straight to:

The Pulai Desaru Beach Resort
PO Box 29, Bandar Penawar, 81900 Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia.
Tel: +60-7-822-2222 • Fax: +60-7-822-2223
Email: reservation@thepulai.com.my

Read Pulai Desaru Beach Resort Part 2.

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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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If you are Malaysian, chances are you have already seen an advertisement almost similar to this video showcasted few years ago. However, that doesn’t matter. This video is really a lovable and heart touching story between a father and his son. It maybe different from the Dog Story movie that I shared few years ago which resulted me to cry (real man cry) for almost one hour. OK, this video simply shows that parent’s love is better than other’s love. Love your parents while they are still alive. If not, pray for them. If you like this amazing video and want to share it with others, why not LIKE the video.

Another morale of the story is keep a diary or a record on your child/children growing up. It is good to look at it back again and flashback some good memories. It this era, you can record them by digital cameras and camcorders, and then post them in your own family blog or Facebook or somewhere… The choice is yours…

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