"The sun goes down, the stars come out, and all that counts, is here and now. My universe, will never be the same I'm glad you came, I'm glad you came" is currently playing on the radio now. Totally fits this blogpost right now! Totally glad this batch of girls stayed in my life even though we have quarrels, we come through it as friendship is more important then anything else! And people always ask me why my blogpost has so many photos (P.S this post has 150 photos) it's because whenever i blog, i try my best to convey my joy and feeling to my readers so they can feel me when i'm "there" and also some might disagree, but looking back at the photos we took, it always puts a smile on your face. Also i always come to my blog when i'm having a bad day/night and although i'm embarrassing to say this, but i think i write some good post hahaha at least to myself *sorry self entertaining*
Every trip with this 3 girls always brings utmost joy and craziness i'll or i've ever feel/had! It somehow became a habit that every year we have to go somewhere if not it'll just feel weird, anywhere with this girls will do, so after our bangkok trip on april, we hadn't had much craziness. Impromtu booking to batam had never been a more awesome choice! We came back more bonded and with more memories that we can talk about 50 years later haha
With our excited hearts, we pack our bags, prepared our mini christmas exchange and it was off to batam we go!!! Cabbed down in the morning to pick up meixuan tzeying and huishi before we reach harbourfront! This trip was kinda weird in a sense as this is the first trip where we did not rush for anything at all. Like miracle like that! We even suggested making troubles for ourselves if not it'll be too weird that we had a smooth start off or ending haha!
Took wavemaster this time round and to be honest, everybody trust me it's the best best best ferry compared to the others available! The seats were comfortable the whole place was clean it was more then i could ask for! If i would to compare, it's like wavemaster is Singapore airlines and the rest are like airasia or tiger airways lmfao! we 4 got seperated no 4 seats together was available so me and huishi sat together in the middle row while tzeying meixuan sat in the 1st row with extra legroom but aircon was super cold for them! Played tons of games, listened to music, ate in the ferry and just when i was about to fall asleep, we reached batam lmfao #verygoodtiming
BTW IT WAS RAINING WHEN WE REACHED AND RAINING WHEN WE WENT BACK! HOW SUAY LA! The same thing happened last month with jiaying they all hul how nice of the weather!
As usual, the hotel i always book, HARRIS HOTEL BATAM CENTRE! Always up to standard, never dissapoint me! It's the 5th time i've booked that hotel and in these 2 years it always feels the same whenever i visit batam, like the service, cleanliness, comfort is still up to standard! Though i would like to try montigo resort 1 day haha! Welcome with a welcome drink and check in was fast, wrote in to request for connecting room and early check in and our rooms were already prepared when we reach at about 11:30 batam time?
Already taking tons of polaroid the moment we step into our room! I still think instant photography is a great and happy way to keep memories! It's like the anticipation when the instant photo pops out and how it will turn out that kind! Took many many photos, get ready and it was down to mega mall! continue reading for our cray acts that happened that day!
And the first thing to cross off our list is......... declaring our arrival in batam by feasting at pizza hut!!!! LMFAO seriously the family sitting at the table beside us only ordered 2 pizzas for 2 adults and 2 kids and we totally ordered too much but end up finishing everything anyway! We order drink x4 large pizza x1 cream pasta x4 chicken wing x6 fish fillet x6 and everybody that walked past us and the table bwside were totally shocked by our super filled table la! YOLO ONLY and the total bill came up to less than $10 sgd for each person! hahaah i rather save some food money in singapore then 1 time eat all in batam damn worth also!
Sorry meixuan but you're not the main person in this photo hahahahahahah!!!
Then the insane event happened! WE TOTALLY SPENT 4 HOURS IN THE ARCADE AHHAHAHA UNTIL WE'RE LIKE SO SICK OF THE ARCADE! CAUSE THERE WAS A PROMO! TOP UP 200,000 RUPIAH FREE 200,000 RUPIAH It's like only $20 sgd for $40 worth of credit! And guess the best part! 1 game cost only like 3,000 rupiah (30 cents) LMFAO! We totally went crazy!
First off the list, we started with basketball! only 3,000 rupiah! while singapore need like $2 a game i can play 8 games here la! but it was a bad decision to play so many games of basketball my arms were sore like crazy the next day! Tzeying always win hulllllll!
had an ultimate showdown with tzeying and i lost nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
THEN we went to play this kill the bug game where you throw balls at the screen to kill the bugs and kazuas before they eat the food! we were all shouting and throwing like crazy and i bet everyone was staring at us like "singaporeans" make so loud noise everytime lmfao!
We played like so many times of driving cars lo singapore 1 game cost $2 here only 5,000 rupiah super cheap and the machine was advanced and fun and i win! i think it's kinda cause i'm a real licensed driver so i know how to control the car well compared to last time when i came here to play and didn't have any driving experience yet lmfaooooo
see how stress meixuan is lmfao!
i'm totally relaxed lololol while the 2 so stresss!!
SEE! The difference when you operate real vehicles before infront of the car machine lmaoooo!
Then this new machine in the arcade, deal or no deal! Wah i swear this is the most stressful but relaxed game we play! Contradicting aren't i haha stress because the prize consists of real tickets that can be exchanged for gifts then we always dunno whether want accept the banker's deal anot but relaxed cause can sit down and not jump around hahaha
The entertaining but expensive game was the bumper car! We waited till nobody was playing and we chion-ed in to play with just the 4 of us haha it costs 20,000 rupiah per game so it's like $2 sgd per game but come on, it's still way cheaper then in singapore! Kept avoiding the girls form bumping me and i realise that the car runs on "bumping" if not the engine totally stops
THIS BLUR RANDOM PHOTO OF ME WAS JUST TO BOAST THAT I CAN DRIVE SMOOTHLY WITH 1 HAND! THANKS TZEYING FOR CAPTURING THIS BREATHTAKING PHOTO LMAO
On and on and on we played until.......
We were so sian and tired of arcade and still have money to spend that we spent our remaining money on this like jackpot machine sure win one! there were 2 chance that we almost got 100 tickets but i still think machines are a scam sure wont give you 100 tickets one!
It was already late night and we were still full from the afternoon pizzahut, we decided to make the "at least 1 night must eat cup noodle" night on the first night! haha everyone seriously only grabbed cup noodles wtf and i ended up with full basket again i also dunno why i buy so much!
Our dinner: Jco donuts, Alcohol, Cup noodle, A&W chicken! Fulfilling!
Had j.co, alcohol and mini christmas exchange to celebrate our first night in batam and we totally talked till 4am in batam which was like 5am in singapore, like that night was crazy i found out so many new stuffs and inner feelings which i didn't know about! I'm glad i can share my feelings with people i trust that won't spread or anything
Totally surprised by how much the 3 girls prepared this year for christmas! Like it was good gifts with a touch of personalise and unique la! SUPER LOVE! And also i told the girls to hold their expectations for my gift i was damn sure they will like it so much they can cry lmfao! But i didn't know it made them so stress when picking out the gifts! mi an neh!
SEE THEIR DAMN SHOCK AND WANT TO CRY FACE WHEN THEY RECEIVED PERSONALIZED ONE OF A KIND CALENDER FROM ME!!! I LOVE THE CALENDAR TOO LIKE OMG DAMN NICE
So we ended our night and woke up like 5 hours later i think? 2nd morning we headed down for the always awesome breakfast at harris cafe! (p.s just wanted to take a photo of the insane long receipt of things i bought in batam but only for like $30) lmfao!
AND this year i really learnt to eat alot of things which i did not dare try like eggs and pork! how can i have missed out such good stuff in the past 19 years of my life lol they're awesome! and harris's egg roll surprised me like seriously how can egg taste so good omg it was delicious totslly!
Tzeying's new favourite! some coconut pancake? not to my liking though!
After a sumptuous breakfast, we went to explore around the hotel and to digest abit!
We were the only people who wore hotel slippers down to the lobby everyone was staring. COME ON IT'S YOLO!
Prepared, changed and headed down as the driver of isabella massage came to fetch us to the massage place with the biggest shopping mall in batam, nagoya hill shopping centre! Me and meixuan didn't go to the massage this time round their price really increase like crazy la 2 years ago 3 hours massage was $22, then last year $42 this year $60 no way man! but still it's cheaper then singapore!
Me and meixuan was walking around but we came by the arcade and notice the pool place! Spent like one and a half hour playing pool which only costs 30,000 rupiah? but the downside was the pool place fucking smells of smoke like omg batam should ban smoking in aircon place seriously i almost died of lung cancer but the desire of playing pool overpowered it la if not i won't tolerate smelling smoke at all
With like 30 minutes prior to our meeting time with the other 2 girls that went for massage, selfies and yoghurt at enjoya! Nice but not that cheap yoghurt but still cheap if you wanna compare to singapore! It's nice too really!
AND OH YA I FORGOT TO MENTION BUT I HAVE TO SAY THIS! It's just ONE TIME that meixuan got my approval of her photography skills that she went crazy just cause of my 1 comment and start thinking that she takes very good photos and acts like a professional lol but seriously the skills improve alot hhaahahaha
Slacked at J.CO and i think the logic of this place is very funny buy 1 green tea 9,000 rupiah free 1 glazed donut that costs 11,000 rupiah means there was a negative -2,000 rupiah lmao!!! Anyway slacked and headed back to Isabella massage for our ride to the seafood place!
The driver drove 2 family of people down to weywey seafood, the food was good but the ambience, atmosphere was really bad! Like I'd rather you dabao back hotel eat better!
Nontheless, as we have a 5% discount voucher from the massage place off total bill, we ordered like people who never ate for like 1 month! We ordered cereal prawn (only the cereal is nice) vegetable sorry idk what veg that was, hot plate tofu was gooooood will order 2 servings next time I swear! And the waiter told us the crab was small so we ordered 4 crabs end up the whole plate damn big filled with "small" crabs which were of big size lmao! The total bill after discount was $50 sgd around there? So freaking cheap!! Oh ya and I saw kalisha sureen Chloe even at batam! They came to the same seafood place I was shocked that in can meet my friends even in batam haha
Singaporeans trying to get a good Instagram photo lol! Huishi taking photo tzeyingx shining the light!
The worst thing happened after we paid the bill!! Me and tzeyingx already dying to pee and the toilet at the seafood place was insanely dirty ok idk how dirty it was because I never went I'm but just by judging the cleanliness of the dining place that the toilet will be worse.
So we agreed on the 9pm timing that the driver will come and pick us up. The driver was prompt he told us that there's another people staying in the same hotel so he can fetch all together but this fucking lesbian couple I forgot the name, Rachel? Made us fucking wait for 45 minutes fuck them la the driver also like keep finding them but they still happily slowly sipping their food. Fuck them make us wait 45 minutes then when they came towards the van, not even a fucking word of sorry. Typical lesbian couple. Don't even wanna think back about this la
When we reach the hotel we Walked in damn piss and also never wait for that lesbian couple when we saw them coming towards the lift lmaoooo! We closed the lift on them AHAHAHAH! Anyway happy mood again back in the room! This was the stuffs that we exchanged after spending 4 hours $20 in the arcade
Day 2 night meixuan and tzeying were dead tired so they went to bed early but the energetic huishi and me decided to talk and watch appa odiga and yolo till like at least 3am but I didn't Realise how tired I was that the moment huishi played appa odiga on the ipad, I was dozing off every minute but huisni's just kept waking me up! But yeah in the end I just fell asleep and let huishi laugh on her own!!!
Day 3! The sad day arrived where we have to head back to our bored life in singapore! Went down again to harris for breakfast and walked around the hotel we went to the fake beach to take Polaroids and 1 trip there made me have like 12 mosquito bites!!! 2 on my face that became scar that I had to go buy this cream that will unscar it! Won't ever step at the fake beach again lol
Oh ya we wanted to sleep till late one like skip breakfast but at 6am there was around band and loud music going on downstairs to celebrate harris turning idk how old and also that day got bike day so at 6am already so many people downstairs
OH YA THIS PHOTO IS DSMN FUNNY ITS THE AHLIAN ANGLE PHOTO THE CAMERA MUST BE DSMN HIGH UP ANGLE AND THE FACE MUST BE DOWN ANGLE AND ONLY EYES LOOKING UP SO FUNNY WHEN WE TRY TO IMITATE THAT
Lol and after requesting for late check out, we went for like a 30 minutes swim me and huishi while tzeying and meixuan went to gym!!! Lol not even 30 minutes swim it's just 30 minutes dipping in chlorine hahah! And we totally tried to dry the swimming suit as much as possible with our human clothes dryer duo!!! Damn power energy haahahah
Confident face with the I can dry anything action lol!
Checked out of our hotel at 1 and tzeying was like damn emo about it she was literally patting the harris sign HAHAHAH and didn't want to leave! But the worst thing happened again it rained like mad so we had to deposit our bag in the hotel and with the remaining hours go shop and est at megamall! Bought a bag I think and nth else and had our last meal at black canyon coffee! Food was not bad but I think the salmon was nice! Will not choose the steak next time
So like we were late to our ferry terminal and it was raining damn heavily we had to take a 10 seconds can back to the hotel, 5 seconds can from the hotel to the ferry terminal just so that we can avoid the rain and waste our remaining rupiah lmfao seriously our hotel, shopping mall and ferry terminal was just next to each other like a triangle hahahahahahaha best thing we did! Then it was off to the ferry and back in singapore! Dad came to fetch again thanks!
OMG took like 2 days to blog about this post! I swear I will continue Bangkok next ok!
