Hotel Batam View Resort

Preparations: Because its my first overseas trip and I believe I shouldn't bring so many things, I took out my old wallet and put in S$150, my pink NRIC, EzLink card and 2 safety charm. I even changed to my old T610 mobile phone to bring to Batam, therefore, all my pics are proudly sponsored by Ian. My bag contains toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, shower foam, 3 sets of clothes, towels and 1 LED touch light.

Departure at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal: I woke up at 5 AM on Saturday morning, had my little breakfast of BreadTalk then meet set off to meet Ian at AMK MRT taxi stand at 6 15 AM. When Adel, Ian and I reached the ferry terminal at about 6 40 AM, the place is already full of golf craze people wearing polo tee and their golf equipments.

While waiting for the ferry to Batam.

Hotel Batam View Resort: I had my first experience on riding the motor boat. It's a very expensive water sports at S$50 for half an hour. It dam fun at the beginning but after going round and round I felt giddy and asked WeiKai to take over. LOL

Lunch at Nagoya Shopping Mall: Traveling to Nagoya Shopping Mall takes about 35 min. Because the shopping mall only accept Indonesian Rupiah, we had to go to the money changer. I exchanged for S$15(Rp90,000), the rate was S$1=Rp6,000.

Lunch at A&W! Look at my root beer!


Cant remember what burger is this, But it taste great!

The things are considered quite cheap compare to Singapore. I really felt richer shopping in Nagoya because of the zeros on the Rupiah notes. LOL

Massage at Level 5: I decided to give it a try for the first time. It cost around S$35 for 1 hour of message. WeiKai really enjoy the massage but not for me, LOL. The message make as if my bones are going to crack and its a painful process for me, however, some parts where they massage your head are quite "shiok". LOL

Dinner at Kelong SeaFood Restaurant: Dinner is at the Seafood restaurant within 200m walk from the resort, however there is a long flight of stairs you need to "overcome" upon walking back from dinner.

Seafood is Yummy!

Music listening at the Lounge Area: After the dinner, Adel, Ian & I decide to go down to the lounge area and listen to some songs. The singer will actually ask for you to dedicate a song and interate with the people.

They sang nice songs.

Day 2 Breakfast: We woke up at 7 45 AM and wash up to meet for breakfast at 8 AM. Its a buffet at its restaurant within the Resort's lobby.

Closed up at my breakfast! Look the egg
similar MacDonald's, it really taste great!

I'm ready to have my breakfast!

Back to Singapore: When we arrive at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, the sun has already set. As we walked out from the main entrance we saw a row of Limousine Cab waiting for "Carrot Heads" to be chopped, their "pimp" leader, will stand at the main entrance to look and "pull" for "Carrot Heads". Limousine Mercedes cab is S$35 per trip.

The Human queue for Taxi at the Taxi Stand,
then...


The Taxi queue for "Carrot Heads!"

I was kinda irritated at the moment I saw the situation. However there is nothing I can do but to wait for my cab. One more thing, the "pimp" that talked to us sounds quite desperate. LOL

Conclusion:Batam's timing is 1 hour before Singapore's, meaning, if we are 9 AM, they are 8 AM. Within the resort, food and services are traded using Singapore dollars. Unless you go to town area, which they only accept Indonesia Rupiah. It was an overall enjoyable trip for me, despite some irritating incidents here & there. I spent around S$250 altogether, it’s a bit overspent, but it’s OK since it's my first overseas trip.

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WeiKai & Eddice Wedding

Congratz to WeiKai & Eddice on their wedding. Its the first wedding among all my frens. We reached abit earlier than the stated timing, then we found out that more than 90% of the people are late. Therefore we waited for more than an hour, during the hour, I really enjoy the talking nonsense with my Deyi frens and Mr Chia, lol.

Photo with Mr Chia!


Table 21 with WeiKai & Eddice


My favorite humor photo!

I wanted to upload the video also. But the quality is very bad, for a better quality video, you can refer to Ian's Blog. Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Settlers Cafe

Met up with my Deyi frens on Saturday evening to go Settler Cafe at Holland Village branch. It kind of a mind's cafe look alike, where all of us can gather and play some board games, with free flow of drinks. Time really flies at Settler Cafe. After the package ends at 8pm, we went to have our dinner at a Cheese Prata Shop near west coast area. The cheese prata is not bad, but the Nasi Goreng is abit tasteless. Below are some videos and photos where I took it for the evening.

Pine Grove condo, where we wait for
frens first, before going to Holland V

Talk Cock King? LOL

Order for himself... LMAO

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Remove a cork trapped in the wine bottle

Below has a video to show your how to remove a cock trapped in the wine bottle. Without breaking the bottle, you can take out the cock with a plastic bag! lol

Durian

Meet up with my friends just below my home on 14 July 2007 (Saturday Night). Then after some discussion we are going to their home to eat durians and watch a movie. We went over to 22 Yio Chu Kang Road to purchase the durians at Highland Centre. Before reaching the stall/shop of about 50 metres, you can will start to smell the goodness of the durian. lol. When I reached there then I know that place is famous for selling durian puff/cakes.

Each box cost $25. They will open

up the durian in front of you.

Close up! It look delicious! LOL

Poster of Movie 300

As all of us are eating the durians, we also watched the Movie "300". The stereo sound system is great! lol. This movie is memorable and worth a watch. But the durians are even better. lol.

Microsoft Surface Computer

Mac has its touch screen phone known as the iPhone. Now Microsoft also has its own touch screen computer. wow! It's a computer, its a coffee table. You gotta see the video! lol

Kong Ba Bao

Kong Ba Bao, known as 扣肉包 in chinese (pin-yin:Kou Rou Bao). On Wednesday afternoon, I went to AMK Hub NTUC to buy some chocolates and potatoes chips and saw the center stage got a small food fair and decide to walk around. As I walk with my fren around, there are usual "Pasar Malam" foods. But this one got something new, which is the Turkish ice-cream, where the ice-cream man will play around with your ice-cream before your can get them(where we used to see it on TV). After walking I only decided to buy a "Kong Ba Bao" which cost $2. (Not the large one below, its the size of 2 opened hands! lol)

This the extreme large "Kong Ba Bao".
Which is on the display tray. Not for sale. lol

The meat of the "Kong Ba Bao" is very tender and juicy. The juice oozes out of the stewed pork as you chew s-l-o-w-l-y, biting into the meat and the fats, tasting every bit of it. lol. It has been quite some time my grandmother hasn't made this. Maybe I can make a small request to my grandmother? lol