The name is Leo Melvin Toh
21 this year
First cried 7 May
Currently working at The Fullerton Hotel as a Trainee
Loves music, playing the guitar and drums, food, wine, travelling
Posted on: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Posted at: 7:46 AM
I just came back recently from a trip to Desaru. The place is pretty beautiful and nostalgic but many do not know where this place is. Well, it is situated in Johor itself. To go there, you can either take the coach (bus) or the ferry. We (Cindy, her parents & I) took the ferry to go there.
There were many things that we did there as the itinery was pretty packed. We went to the Desaru Fruit Farm (as advertised and shown on Channel U) and there, we ate alot of fruits and had our buffet breakfast, lunch and BBQ dinner. The fruits we ate include dragonfruit, mango, papaya, watermelon, buah-long-long, banana, rambutan, jackfruit, pineapple, guava, jambu, and a whole lot more. At the fruit farm, we were given a tour of the place to learn about the fruits they grow and even got a chance to feed some animals at their mini zoo. Not only that, we were given an educational talk on bee handling and the medicinal benefits of bee products.
The resort we stayed at was the Pulai Desaru Beach Resort. The place is pretty much like the chalets we have here in Singapore. Our room is a duplex with the bedroom on the 2nd storey and the living room on the 1st. I must say, the resort could have been more improved upon. Having took up a Diploma in Hotel Management, I feel that the resort lack security features for its guests, and its level of service provided to guests is very basic.
Well, i supposed the highlights of the tour were the fireflies and crocodiles. For the fireflies visit, I was not able to capture any shot as it was quite dark. But well, we sat on this huge boat, able to accomodate up to 80 people, and set sail for the river banks where there were alot of forests and trees. Along the river banks, we saw that the trees shone like Christmas Trees with Lights and knew that it was the fireflies. There were many of them and it was quite an amazing sight. As for the crocodile farm, they had so many crocodiles around that it gets pretty boring after a while. What was interesting for me was that Cindy and I got the chance to carry a baby crocodile and even took a photo with it.
And, besides this, we had much fun during this trip and even won ourselves prizes for taking part in competitions. All in all, this trip was indeed a FRUITFUL and enjoyable one.
Well, now that I'm back in Singapore, I do have a lot of things to do. Project deadlines are nearing and we are all tryin get our projects done in time. The killer project would be the Hospitality Sales. It would be useful and helpful if he could actually go through the project brief thoroughly with us and explain the details. But wells, then again he didn't even want to go through the progress test with us.
Cindy's in Pulau Ubin right now for OBS Camp and will be back only this Friday. Lonely, I am so lonely, I have nobody... on my own!! Alright, till the next time i blog then!
ps. Those who wanna take a look at the photos we took for our Desaru trip, kindly go to facebook and look it up under my profile. =)
