Finally the 3 days 2 nights stay at Pulai Desaru Beach Resort ended. Was it a spectacular weekend? Hmm…It is a good way to spend a weekend but it was not  a great one. We have not stayed there before so we appreciate the experiences. Luckily, it was a trip that was part of my wife’s work, that we don’t need to spend a flux of cash. Sometimes, these people need to get away out of the routine to entice new ideas to emerge and creative thinking to pop up. When everybody is relax and their family is happy, the motivation and drive to work smoothly flow. In short productivity and efficiency increases.

How true is this? I don’t know! Maybe it is true up to certain extend because everybody is placed in one place outside of their normal routine. Sometimes, I think it is a waste of money to do such activities. But when I think positively, there is some truth that the employee needs something different, something to excite and rejuvenate them.

Me and my love ones partially under water

The kids really enjoyed this swimming pool. Alya, the youngest is jumping into the pool while the others are searching for gold fish.

OK, enough about my musing. To make my story easy, let me share my experiences in a more straight forward manner.

Good Stuffs about Pulai Desaru Beach Resort:

• Great mattress. So far the best mattress that I have ever felt compared to other hotels that I have stayed.
• Spacious. The hotel room is large compared to other standard rooms.
• A separate bath tub and shower. That is a plus point for me. I prefer shower and the kids will dive into the bath tub.
• Swimming pool is one of the best pools I have visited compared to other hotels. They are large and provide generous space for adults and kids to swim or play.
• Free carom game set, ping-pong and other games. However, we need to pay for other games like pool and arcade.
• All the TV channels are clear. That’s good even if it is an old TV. I also managed to watched my favourite team being trashed away from the FA cup in the ESPN channel.

Not So Good Stuffs about Pulai Desaru Beach Resort:

• The floor is covered with tiles. It is very cold to sit on it. There are chairs and beds, but sometimes we like to sit on the floor.
• Food is not that good. Some of my colleagues (attending the workshop in the hotel) said that the chef life in this hotel is easy and not challenging. They are not a great job in presenting and serving fantastic meals. Something need to be done to improve the food quality.
• Stingy. This is related to the towels. For a standard room, the hotel only provided 2 bath towel, a hand towel and a medium size towel. That’s all. When I asked the room service boy that sent us the additional hand towel and medium size towel (that were not in the room at the first place), they said, that is the normal practice. This is the first hotel that sadly limits its towel to the hotel guess. Why? Why?
• Stingy II. Paid internet service. This is one thing that I hate from a hotel. I expect a hotel to give at least a free wifi service in the lobby if not the entire room. The last 3 hotels that I visited in the last 2 months provided free internet/free wifi – minimum in the lobby. I don’t care if we need a password as long as they provide the password free of charge to the guess. To make things even worse, the internet that I used is not stable.
• Interruption from hotel staffs. This is really weird. This is the first time I experienced staffs requested to enter my hotel room to do some stuffs. The first one was a technician who wanted to replace the 4″ florescence bulb at the bath tub area. The second one was somebody who wanted to take the serial number of the old TV in our hotel room. Both happened in the same day. Even though I allowed them to enter the hotel room, I strongly believe it is not appropriate at all for these people to request to enter our hotel room unless we requested them to do something like repairing stuffs or making up the room. They should to it when the room is empty!!!

Well, those are just few plus and minus points about Pulai Desaru Beach Resort. Will I come back here? Not if I have to pay myself. This is mainly because I live in Johor Bahru area and the hotel is Desaru which is just 56 minutes away from my house. There’s no solid reason for me to spend a night or two in this hotel.

However, if you are from outside Johor, this hotel can be a good option for you. It has the swimming pool and beach. There are also nearby local restaurants and food stalls within 5 km radius for you to dine should you choose not to dine inside the hotel restaurant.

Finally it comes to Cyza Sector Hotel Rating. Based on my overall 3 days 2 nights experience, I give this hotel 3.0 Stars. I’m not a professional reviewer. I just provide my honest view based on my experiences.

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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

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In my previous entry, I have stated that I want to see a sad movie that can make me cry. I’ve watch one and it was a really good one. I bought the DVD last Saturday and I watch it with my wife yesterday.

The title is Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.

I don’t want to say more. At the final end of the movie, tears slowly emerged from my eyes and I cried silently, not wanting my wife to notice my outburst. It was such a sad emotional movie of a very loyal dog who waited his owner who died. If I review more, it will spoil your mood later.

After the movie, I still cry heavily for 20 minutes and my wife was very surprise!!! She won’t allow me to watch any sad movie after this. Then I read the review from IMDB site and I learned that I’m not the only one who cried.

I think more man cried then women…

Do yourself a favour. Get the DVD and watch it with your family and do not read the synopsis. Just watch it.

Here are some selected reviews that I took from IMDB site of Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.

Be sure to take tissues!, 16 August 2009

Author: lectrolux from Tokyo, Japan

Well, I just came back from seeing this in Shinjuku earlier and I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen so many people crying at the end of a movie…. it really is a sad story.

However, it’s also a heartwarming tale of loyalty, about how people and dogs are more than just friends and, I guess most of all, about how a dog’s love for its master never fades – even after his/her death!

Richard Gere was fantastic in this movie, he bonded really well with the dog and it never felt like watching an actor at all – it genuinely seemed to be a movie with his own dog!

I highly recommend this to people of all ages. There are enough bits to laugh at (seeing Richard Gere teaching his dog to play ‘fetch’ was brilliant!) and the story is portrayed really well (even if there were some changes made to the original Japanese tale)

Here is another one…

So Touching and Real!, 17 August 2009

Author:

I just saw this movie today, and I’m so glad I did.

It is based on a true story and it’s only natural that the movie is great because the real story itself is very touching. One of the things that sets this movie apart from the other movies that involve animals is how they stuck to reality instead of throwing in some a-little-hard-to-believe elements here and there just to make it more entertaining.

Sometimes they show things through Hachi’s eyes as opposed to human eyes, which helps you relate to him and understand how he felt and what he thought then, as well as emphasizes that Hachi is the main character of the movie.

This is not just a kids’ movie. In the end everyone including myself was crying because we were so moved. It is a must-see.

Here are more reviews:

Enough to make a grown man cry!, 23 August 2009

Author: JapanGaijin from Japan

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Hachi is a movie based on the true story about a dog in Japan, Hachiko, who would wait at the train station every day for his owner to arrive even after the owner passed away.

I have never seen the original Japanese version of the movie but know the story well as I have been told by many people here in Japan. There is a statue of Hachiko that stands outside of Shibuya Station in Tokyo. Now the statue is the most popular place for Tokyoites to meet their friends before going out shopping or dining in Shibuya.

Unlike other Japanese remakes, this movie actually gives credit to the original story so that you don’t get the sense that Hollywood wants to call it its own. All actors/actresses in the movie do a superb job in making you feel as if you were a part of the community embracing the dog. Compared to the original story, people were more accepting of Hachi rather than considering him a nuisance. Of course this is going to be released in the U.S. as a holiday movie so the goal is to make it uplifting.

Just a warning, do take many tissues. I am a grown man and can honestly say that I have never really cried during a movie. I think the score of the movie plus the dog being so adorable made me lose myself. When I looked around the theater though, every single person was crying and I saw a lot of red eyes as I left the Men’s restroom. Any movie that can make me do that deserves a 10/10.

And another one…

Extremely Emotional, 2 February 2010

Author: surfer-lancealot from United Kingdom

Well what can i say. I’m a guy i don’t cry about movies i know its fake but i gotta say this one caught me by surprise even tho id watched the trailer and read a few reviews already. by the end of the movie i was in tears absolutely broken down crying my eyes out. and saying that i probably haven’t shed a tear in about 8 years for anything but i love dogs and this is the most amazing story I’ve ever seen this is probably the best movie I’ve seen in about 10 years and i have seen almost everything.

as u can prob tell i would advise everyone to see this and stop and think for a moment if we all cared for each other like we know we should like this movie teaches us wouldn’t the world be a better place?

OK. Enough reviews. See it yourself and share with me what you feel. I’m a guy and before the

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This is a new movie that has just been release and are currently available in major cinemas but with maybe no promotions at all. Not like transformers, 2012 and Avatar which were massively promoted like nobodies business.

We (me and my wife) coincidentally walked to MBO in Giant Pulai Utama and spotted a new movie casted by John Travolta. The title reads “From Paris With Love”. I thought it was a romantic comedy movie, but the poster suggested it might be an action pack movie because Travolta was holding a bazooka while the other co-star was holding a Beretta  92. Well, let’s watch this movie… My wife told me. We looked at the show time and the timing is just perfect. It will be showing in the next 10 minutes. We bought the ticket and at the counter we saw that there were only 3 people including us buying the tickets.

I’m not going to tell you the story line because you can read it here. But I’ll just share with you what I feel about the movie.

It was initially unclear what is happening. James Reece appeared first but I was unsure whether he is the good or bad guy. But soon after that we know he is one of the good guys but still unclear who is he reporting to.

Then, Travolta came in the picture as Charlie Wax. He looks like a crazy guy and he is the partner of Reece.

Reece is new in the business but Wax is very impressive. He knows the strategy and game plan. He is very good in martial arts and likes to use various types of weapons. Travolta looks very cool. I think I also want to be as cool as him .

There are definitely lots of shooting, drugs and killings. The story is not that complicated. It’s the type of movie that you want to watch to relax from your busy and tight schedule. After the movie, I can get back to my work as usual.

However, I don’t really like the storyline because it, again, involves terrorist and shows the bad side of the Muslims…the fundamental hard core…

But Travolta is such a cool macho guy… one of my favourite actor

Overall personal rating: 3.5 star

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