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Our Shanghai Trip

cyza — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:05:37 +0000

Following is the real journal recorded by myself in Ipad when I traveled to Shanghai with my wife to attend a conference last month (last year) unless notified otherwise. The kids stayed at home while we stayed apart from them for 6 days. That was the first time both of us were separated from our kids.
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18/12/2011 (Sunday) – 2038 hours – in the clouds (flying)

Today we travel to Shanghai via AirAsia X flight number D7 0306 which took off at 5.35pm Malaysia time. We were expected to reach Hangzhou Airport at 10.35pm local time. The journey takes 5 hours. In the flight we ate some tasty Nasi Lemak with chicken rendang. Our seat number is 32K and 32J. I spent some time reading the 360 AirAsia magazine. One of the content that caught my attention was how AirAsia business evolved after 10 years. Ok….to be continued soon… I want to try and have some brief nap.

Me and my aeroplane. Still in LCCT…

This is the famous Nasi Lemak Pak Ali for Air Asia X (international flight from Malaysia). It looks like a normal nasi lemak but believe me it taste damn good.

19/12/2011 (monday) – 0032 hours – in car somewhere between Hangzhou Airport and Sun Island Resort

We were fetched by Mr. Soh, the driver which the hotel arranged to pick us at the airport. We were glad to see him. But then, we realized that we cannot converse with him. He cannot speak English. So, nothing much to say, to talk. He drove a Volkswagen sedan. It was a pity because we cannot enjoy the scenery. It was dark every where accept some signage or billboard next to the highway. We are so sleepy but we dont want to sleep before we arrive at Sun Island Resort. We are worried if our driver who we believed is in his 50s becomes sleepy while driving. Oh yes, just now after the plane landed, my wife had already text my mother and son that we have safely landed. We also got a new friend in the plane. Who else if not the guy who sat beside me. He is a manager working for a multinational cement company. His a Malaysian chinese who works in China since 2007. Ok enough for now. I want to observe the road to Sun Island Resort. Ending this at 0043 hours.

The guy pushing the trolley in front of my wife is Mr Soh. He was our driver who fetched us from airport. It was really blazing cold. The temperature was probably below 5 degree celcius.

This is somewhere in Sun Island Resort while walking from our hotel room to the lobby. It was really far. For this time only we did not call for a shuttle bus. After this, we always call the shuttle bus. It’s really cold.

We communicated with our kids and my parents using Skype. We skyped using the ipad. So, there’s no need for us to purchase a phone card or use our mobile phone while our stay in Shanghai. The skype is free since I managed to get a one month promotional offer.

22/12/2011 (thursday) – 1030 hours – in hotel room. Resting.

Yeah…i know it has been 3 days since i recorded our activities in Shanghai live. I intended to post this in my blog but due to limited internet access, i cannot do so. Sun Island Resort is a huge resort, maybe can be compared to Afamosa Resort in Melaka. The pass few days were packed, tight and tiring for me and my wife. That’s why i did not write and post in this travelog. Our room is equipped with broadband internet access but my wife’s ipad cannot connect with the wired broadband. That’s why we can only access the internet at the hotel lobby which is 800 meters from our room. With the internet access, we are able to make free Skype calls to our kids and parents at home (Johor).

Our room looks fine and is warm enough. The room is comfortable enough for us to stay for several nights here. No prob. However, the only thing we realize is that this hotel is too far from Shanghai city center. Wait there are more stories to come soon…I’ll try my best to describe our journey as structured and with smooth continuity. Please bare with me ok. From now i may flash back to stories happening on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Then i will continue back to Thursday.
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Journal to be continued…

AirAsia Issue Settled

cyza — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:55:11 +0000

Furious with AirAsia, we went to AirAsia Office at Senai Airport. We kindly explained to the officer in-charge of the situation. She then refered to another person before asking us which date we would like to transfer the flight. It seems that AirAsia has already cut the number of flights from Johor Bahru to Surabaya.

I nicely explained to the officer that AirAsia should have informed the passenger to reschedule the flight to another closer date instead of just letting their passengers wonder about the flight cancellation and/or the refund.

Oh yes… AirAsia do not refund money…

AirAsia Irresponsible?

cyza — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:35:21 +0000

Guys,

Our maid is scheduled to undergo her semester break this coming December, back to her hometown in Surabaya. We’ve booked AirAsia Flight Ticket for her. Then suddenly AirAsia emailed and sms us.

Check out this email from AirAsia:

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Dear Valued Guest,

AirAsia regrets to advise that our flight AK5604, scheduled to depart from Johor Bahru (JHB) to Surabaya (SUB) on 01Dec,03Dec,05Dec,08Dec and 10Dec09 is now CANCELLED.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
We appreciate your understanding of our position in this matter and hope your future flights with us will be pleasant and problem free.

Yours Sincerely,
AirAsia Bhd.
LCC Terminal,
Jalan KLIA S3,
Southern Support Zone,
Kuala Lumpur International Airport,
64000 Sepang, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

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What the hell? We can understand about whatever problem they might be facing. But why nothing is being mentioned about paying back or refunding the ticket price!!! Or even ask us to go to the ticket counter to solve the problem/redeem the ticket money or even help to reschedule the flight.

We’ve tried calling AirAsia just now and we were forced to wait up to 45 minutes, but still nobody answered! We gave up calling them, not wanting to waste our phone bill waiting for their operator to answer.

Have any of you experience such thing? What did you do to solve the problem.

This is our first time facing such a trouble. Before this, AirAsia has been OK, if not satisfactory. But we’re very disappointed, our maid is even frustrated > no wonder she went to bed early!!!

NOTE: We have already settled the problem. Please read my post AirAsia Issue Settled.

Our Kota Kinabalu Expenses

cyza — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:00:39 +0000

What I’m going to present here is our expenses for the entire trip to Kota Kinabalu recently. The cost will be almost accurate. Oh yea…I’m yet to add more photos, please bare with me.

1) AirAsia flight tickets: RM530 – this is for 5 people (early booking and fly from LCCT Terminal).

2) Cost from JB-KL-JB : RM340 (Fuel and PLUS highway tol)

3) Hotel Novotel Kota Kinabalu (5 nights): RM1035

4) Other expanses in Kota Kinabalu which include taxi, food, tickets, car rental, fuel, souvenirs etc: RM1650++

Total expenses in Kota Kinabalu trip: RM3,555

So, that’s it. The overall estimation cost is shown above there. Well, it’s OK. At least we’ve explored some areas in Malaysia and this world.

As I mentioned in earlier post, the next trip to Sabah, I’m targeting to conquer Mount Kinabalu and spend 2 nights at Mabul Island near Sipadan Island.

Mabul Island nearby Sipadan… Nice view…huh… very expansive place to stay as well, but it’s worth it.

For other of my recent Kota Kinabalu trip report, please read:

>Kota Kinabalu trip photos
>Kota Kinabalu, We’re on our way…
>Life mini report from Kota Kinabalu
>JB home sweet home

My Previous Six Days Recap

zaki — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:35:22 +0000

Time is moving super fast. Without realizing it is already another new weekend and I’m glad I don’t have to work this Saturday. That means I can spend more quality time with my beloved family. The past few days was not really a typical one for me. It was slightly different one and we need to adjust accordingly.

Christmas Holiday

While almost everybody on earth was enjoying the Christmas holiday, I have to motivate myself to go to work. The oil processing plant that I’m in charged was on a final piece of maintenance work and need to be started immediately. I need to be there to ensure everything was going on smoothly and according to schedule. Fortunately I don’t have to spend the entire day there. The supervisors, operators and technicians were there to continue the work.

Later the same day, we had sate (satay) for our dinner at our favourite place, Taman Universiti food stall. We loved the sate a lot and recently we eat there once a week. The sate is cheap, only 30 cents per piece (chicken and beef). i prefer this type of sate rather than the one sold at Kajang which is bigger and cost 50 cents. We prefer it smaller and crispier externally.

Boxing day English Premiership Battle

This was another joyous moment for two giant EPL clubs. Manchester United Red Devil demolished Roy Kean’s Wild Cats 4-0 (thanks to the fantastic goals blasted by Rooney, Ronaldo and Saha) while The Reds escaped from a point after skipper Steven Gerard managed to capitalized the mess in the opponents penalty box in dying minutes. Victory for Manchester United and the drawless battle between Arsenal – Portsmouth resulted in MUFC moved up to the top spot.

Rooney scoring the first goal against Sunderland

Ronaldo netting in the third goal from a brilliant free kick outside the penalty box

My wife went to Kuching, Sarawak

I sent her to Senai Airport, Johor Bahru as early as 5.45 AM Thursday morning to ensure she checked in and safely boarded the Air Asia Boeing 737 aircraft to Kuching. She presented a technical paper in the Engineering Conference : Energy and Environment which was held in Crowne Plaza Riverside Hotel. Her absence from home was a disaster because it was not easy to take care of our three kids. The first two were relatively easier to handle as they are old enough. However, the third who just recently turned 2 years old always sleeps with her mother. Without the mother beside her, she could not sleep. She cried all night and it was a scary nightmare for me and the maid. We survived that night with very less sleep.

Fortunately, my wife spent only one night in Kuching. She safely touched down at Senai Airport yesterday night with some flight delay, which made me and my kids spending more than one hour in the airport. Handling three highly energetic physically active kids (with age 5, 3.5 and 2 years old) alone in the airport was not a simple task for an exhausted man like me. They ran and played in and outside the airport. At one point Ikhwan and Marsya wanted to pee. I have to drag all three of them, four including me, into the small toilet, and completed our business inside there! I’ve never experienced being in the toilet with four peoples. I bet my wife haven’t experienced that too…

Some of the crafts and souvenirs bought in Kuching Main Bazaar

Nufflets.com – Asia’s New Online Advertising Network

After reading about Nufflets.com in a few local blogs, i was tempted to sign up and test it out. Signing up was pretty simple and easy. I opted for the 468 x 60 pixels format and positioned the add on the top right corner of this blog with striking red colour. The display format is almost similar as Google Adsense but differs from the other local advertising network: Advertlets and Nuffnang. I believe the emergence of Nufflets.com is very much welcomed by local and Asian bloggers especially those who blog in their mother tongue language. I would like to congratulate Nabil (Nufflets.com co-founder) and his team members for their brave and brilliant effort in realizing the fourth local advertising network. If you have not yet registered with Nufflets.com, do it now. They are giving $15 upon signing up and after you blog about it.

Blogging with a new laptop

After purchasing the new HP Compact Presario laptop last week and after my colleague helped installed Vista, I’m blogging with it now. It’s my first time playing around with Vista and I definitely need some time to get use to it. Some people say using a Window Vista require bigger RAM. I’m using 1 Gb RAM, which is the minimum recommended RAM to run Vista and I found the speed is fast. So far, I’m pleased and happy with the performance of this new laptop.

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