Tuesday, August 12, 2008
just came back from my 3d2n batam trip, i brought around 750 there and spent it all, ferry, hotel, cab, food.
7august
met the guys on JE platform, and we took this train, its called MRT, it has lots of doors and windows and moves at 70km/h.
what a wonderful invention.
and we went to eat beef noodles at bugis, and then dear and zx came to join us, and we went to a pub to drink.
lol, dont think i wana go into details here.
after which we went over to lao pa sat and had some pretty shitty chic wings and we cabbed home at 3.
8august
i woke up early at 730 ish and went over to harbourfront.
reached at around 930 and wtf, no more ferry tickets, earliest is at 2pm,
i: !!!!!
anyway i went to few ferry counters and got this person managed to dig out at 1210 ferry ticket for me.
so i went to eat and walkwalk till 11.
and the queue is super long, anyway i managed to cut to the front, lol.
waited inside,
1130
1200
1230
1300
1315
dammit and it finally came. and the ferry wasn't ready, they just let us enter the port so that we'll be nearer, knowing we'r already annoyed at the delay.
so i just stood there, and out came LOADS OF INDIANS, wtf?
the whole ferry stocked with indians, slowly taking their time walking out of the ferry, and 15mins later they cleared the ferry,
and out came their luggages, so i thought its just some bags of luggages,
BUT NO, everyone of them brought at least 2 to 3 luggage bags, WTF?
so we only boarded the ferry alil before 2,
oh, 3 ferries came and left in between.
can see the singaporeans rushing out of the ferry cos of being kiasu, lol.
reached batam and we went straight to our hotel to check in, wow, impressive lobby, but once i got into the room, woah, pretty crappy.
mine is a deluxe room, their 3rd crappiest room they got. and its pretty crappy already. goodway hotel. noisy aircon , toilet door rotting and more.
candy and alvin's room much worse, they have a window, and you can open the window, to look at the scenary, which is a wall, so freaky man.
cabbed to nagoya and i bought our necessities, had my a&w, went to some spas / massage centers, first few that i candy alvin went were pretty shitty, just mattress on the floor, no rooms, n stuff.
so i cabbed to this spa i've read about and it turns out to be much nicer. its cool~
around a millon for our 3hrs spa.
spa ended at 10 and we went to 933 golden prawn for dinner, food pretty alright , didn't really have seafood, price was around 10bucks each, we had cereal prawns ( couldn't finish), gong bao chicken, some oyster veggy and hot plate tofu.
and we cabbed back at around twelve, and i found out i lost my phone,
dammed, all along i was hoping i left it somewhere in the hotel room but it wasn't there,
oh well, i wasn't pissed or anything, cause someone was there to make it all okay~
2nd day
woke up at 11+, batam's an hour slower so its like 10am there, so we managed to have breakfast at the hotel, which is really shit breakfast, i only had eggs and baked beans and some carbonara, and 6 sausages which didn't fill me up abit.
so we checked out since i didn't really like the hotel and proceeded to nagoya shopping centre, looked around and it started raining, decided to check into i-hotel due to dave's constant whining to me that its good.
tried to bargain for taxi, wanted to pay only 10k, $1.50 cause it only takes 1min to walk there, but cos of the rain.
1st taxi said 20, then 15
i said no,
2nd taxi said 15
i said no
3rd taxi said 30,
i said 20,
then ok,
got sick of waiting.
lol
checked into room with balcony, pretty nice and neat room. exact same layout as goodway just that its much cleaner and nicer. walked back to the shopping centre, had our lunch, played at the arcade, i tried the catching soft toy scamming machine.
1st try i hooked the toy up, but it fell when the hook reached the top,
2nd try, i hooked the toy up, and i WON IT.
COOL MAN
i think im talented.
went to have pizza, its some restaurant, selling paste and such.
so i ordered this pizza meal, with drink and some thing else, can't remember.
its only $3 SGD.
then walked around, bought some food and a cake back to hotel.
went for our spa when we reached our room, its another package, for 2hours i think.
thats around 600k, =D
twelve midnight, had cake with candle. and the nicest song ever, solo by dear.
and my magical 24hrs started.
theres always dear with me.
so i = me and dear.
10:19 AM