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Batam Trip

30 Mar 2010 by Bei

Another Batam Trip. This is the third in half a year. Seriously, there is nothing much in Batam. But it’s the company that matters, right?!  It was a very impromptu trip as we were chatting suddenly we said “Lets go Batam!” Anyway, it was a last minute thing la, so the 4 of us went. Played my new fave game BANANAGRAMS many times during the trip! IT was fun! haha…SPA and Massage were super cheap too. We went for SPA/MASSAGE for 4 hours for only S$56!! Then knowing me, I went for Jet Ski as well.

Jiajia had a surprise when Bobby brought in the cake to the hotel room!! Haha …what else, otherwise, the trip was basically eating, eating and eating non stop. All of us gained about 2kg within 3 days!! WTF! hahah

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Batam Getaway AGAIN!

24 Sep 2009 by Bei

Seems like we really enjoyed Batam, because we went there again after two weeks!

Haha, one of the main reasons we went there this time was because my group of 32 french guests were there. I wanted to go and take a look and also made sure that everything went well. And of course, we are just a bunch of people who really love to enjoy and relax!

So yup, Batam again! This time we didn’t stay in town. My guests were all at Batam View Resort. Batam View was really nice. We wanted to stay there too, but it was full for the weekend because of Hari Raya Holiday. Went to Turi Beach Resort. It was nice too. Batam View is more for people who want to have fun, lots of activities plus KTV and a pub, lounge. Turi Beach is really for relaxing as there is NOTHING except sea sports. But it has really nice view. The rooms were great too. Think it is more for couples. Anyway, this time we meant to go and have fun!

The first stop we went to is the BALONGLONG stop as my mum wanted to get her fave snacks! hahaha. Then we went for lunch at this indonesia restuarant which serve CHINESE food! haha…as least all of us thought that the dishes tasted CHINESE. After that, we went back to the hotel for check in. As usual with all my oversea trips, there were bound to be arguement with either the hotel or the airport. haha..And yes, we did that again! Shan’t not elaborate further :P but the result was expected :) We WON of course. HAhahaHAhaha! After that, we went for our massage at Sawadika. Was a great session. Plaza 100 was just beside and we went in and brought enough cheap food to open a mama-shop. hehe…Bobby brought us to a very nice place for dinner. I mean, its not nice, but the food was good! It’s called Windsor FoodCourt. It looked just like the food court in SuanLum Night Market in Bangkok. The food there was delicious and cheap! Check out the photos for the food! :) We went to explore Batam View for a couple of hours as well. There was a great magical show with FERI and then we also checked out the ESCAPE pub there.

2nd day we went for Jet Skiing after breakfast. It was so fun! DEng, Cam and me got onto one Jet Ski but as we didnt balance well, all of us fell into the sea! hahaha…it was a very funny sight. Mum said she screamed from her room’s balcony when she saw us falling into the sea.  And mind you, she was like a couple hundred metre away! hahaha It was deng’s first time on a Jet SKi. Sorry for scaring you! But she soon became expert! We had a great one hour! it was $100 per hour! Then we spent a very relax afternoon in the room, eating and playing cards. Went to Batam View at night to take a look at my groups’ BBQ dinner. The BBQ dinner was great too. IT was really a tiring day and all of us fell asleep almost immediately after cleaning up!

3th day was “unusual” for us! All of us woke up before 7am to get ready because we wanted to enjoy Jet Ski one more time before coming home. It was like sooooo unusual for us as we all love to sleep so much! hahaha…This time we were greedy! We hired TWO Jet SKI for TWO HOURS! IT was fantastic! hahaha. Even mum and dad went with us (I rode slower with them of course!). Mum and I were really really LUCKY as we saw THREE DOLPHINS right in front of our Jet Ski in the middle of the sea!! ADDED BONUS!!! Two hour flied and we rushed to wash up and check out of the hotel. Wanted to go for massage but ended up with not enough time, so we went for lunch at Nagoya Mall instead before coming home.

This trip was so fun and tiring. :) We were all burnt and aching all over. I am STILL having muscle ache and cannot move properly :P

GREAT TRIP!!

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Back from Batam :)

09 Sep 2009 by Bei

Hey!

Batam trip is not as bad as I thought it will be! It is actually quite fun and interesting to me :) Hahaa

Here is my report :P Just a short one!

Woke up about 6am on Saturday, feeling excited! Although it is just Batam, we were all excited about the 2D1N weekend getaway! It is the company that matters actually! We were all going with our favourite people! :P

William came by to pick us up at 7am and after all those hi-ha-ho, we reached Batam at about 930am(Batam Time). Looking forward to my Soto Ayam, we made Indras took us to breakfast. He brought us to this local kopitiam. Food looked good and there were many different stores. I know this is ridiculous, but..hahaha…almost all of us ordered two orders of food. We had 7 adults and 2 childs(they had their own food). We ordered 6 bowls of Soto Ayam, 2 Laksa, 1 Lontong, 1 Prata, 1 Nasi Padang, 1 prawn noodle and 3-4 cups of coffee. Like a bunch of ‘yao-gui’!! hehehe

After finishing all the food, yes..we finished everything, we proceeded to drive around the island for some sightseeing. There wasn’t much to see, but it was really really much better than what I had expected. Batam in my memory is supposed to be like a small, dusty little village with nothing. So I was surprised by the buildings and malls. It was really NOT BAD at all! ANd there were a lot of toy stores ‘lurking’ around, all over the place! Naturally, Andre and Ashley were so happy. They got themselves 2 rocker toys and 2 hammer toys and 1 ball. Actually I have no idea what the toys called, just anyhow named them! :P

Then , we went to the Authentic Baker’s Centre. The moment  you stepped into the store, you will be memerised by the thick aroma of Kuey Lapis. We watched for a while how they baked the cake and then proceed to their little cafe to try out the cake. Man, we were really greedy! They served coffee/tea and kuey lapis there for free. Once again, we displayed our Singaporean Kiasuism and drink, hmm…let me count…12 cups of coffee/tea for us! hahaha …and two plates of kuey lapis..actually there was only one piece..hhaha..but we thick-skinned and got Indras to get us another plate! hahha…But not paiseh la, because we bought 3 big cake from them too! :)

After all those food, we couldn’t possibly eat lunch right? So yup, we skipped lunch and went to IndoThai for massage! We dropped off Honey and the kids at our hotel, Planet Holiday before that. The massage prices were really low as compared to Singapore! No wonder a lot of people come by for day trip frequently! All of us had full body massage for only S$20 per 90mins! That is like 30% of Singapore rate!! However the massages werent fantastic and I was aching all over at the end of the day!!! >_<

After that, we went to BCS (Batam City Square) for a tea since as skipped lunch. We stopped by Bakso, a local cafeteria for their food. It was really good food!~ We ordered 3 Bakso(Beefball + noodle soup), 1 catfish rice, 1 Nasi Goreng, 2 Mee Goreng, 1 dunno-what rice. We ordered a lot for TEABREAK right? hahaha Poor Deng didnt have any appetite so she did not order anything. However, under constant pressure and questioning from us, she decided to order a Nasi Goreng in order to shut our mouth! Things didnt turn out good for her though, because after she ordered her rice, she realised that we did have an extra rice. So that was too much food!

In the end, we tabao-ed the Nasi Goreng back to the hotel for Honey. Lazed around and played with the kids for about 1.5hr until DINNER TIME! So you see, Batam is all about FOOD and MASSAGE right? :P

Night time was really relaxing. We went to 933 for the seafood dinner. It wasnt fantastic but was ok. Ashley had a whole steamed crab by herself! Amazing! (It was really good) After dinner, we were too tired to go shopping so we ended the day and wen back to the hotel.

2nd Day morning was short as we need to get to the ferry terminal before 3pm. Had a long breakfast from 8am at the hotel. Planet holiday serves pretty good breakfast. Indras picked us at the lobby at 10am and we went to Nagoya Hill Mall for some last minute shopping. The mall is supposed to be the biggest mall in Batam, but it wasnt so big la! Hahaha, like what I said before, it was already good because I didnt expect to have mall like that in Batam! As we need to leave the mall by 12.15pm, we decided not to have lunch and just have some snacks at Coffee Town (Dad and Indras were chatting there while we shopped).  In the end, our snacks included coffee/tea for everyone, 2 Laksa, 1 KuayTiao, 1 Nasi Padang, and 1 curry rice! That is our idea of “don’t feel like eating!”!! hahhaha ..anyway, poor deng AGAIN! Her curry rice didnt come even after all of us finished our food! In the end, we found out that the waiter missed out that order. AWW…that was not all, he went in to re-order, coming out 5 minutes later telling her that it was not available! WTH! hahaha!! So yah, we ordered a peanut butter toast to make it up.
Really Poor DENG! Yesterday she didn’t want to eat and end up with 2 plates of rice. Today she wanted to eat but not available!! hahaha

Of course our program was followed by MASSAGE! AGAIN!! YEAH!! :P This time we went to SAWADIKA. Remember we were in Batam? We all didnt understand why all the massage palour we went to have Thai name..haha..anyway, this time the massages were fantastic. Initially we wanted to go for foot massages only. Cam realised in time that all the massage people were male.  Not a single female. Not wanting men to touch us, hahah, we opted for body massages again. Upstairs. The place was really big and nice. Parents on the left side (just beside only actually) and the 4 of us together. This massage session was really funny. Why?? Because Ashley was in there with us. She was really funny! She was learning to sing Cantonese song and keep disturbing us. She kept massaging us together with the massage ladies. Then she even asked the massage ladies to “do the same like her”…hahaha…anyway this time, the massage was REALLY GOOD!! We felt really good and comfortable this time. Think this Sawadika is much better than IndoThai! :P

We had to rush to the ferry terminal after massage and it was less than 30mins to the departure of our ferry! hehehe…had great fun!!!

think this entry is not so short after all? haha :)

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7-Nov-2007

07 Nov 2007 by Bei

Back from Kunming and Hongkong….so much happened in one week….

Kunming Day One
– Ate Fungus HotPot(All wild mushroom) – very nice….but almost got poisoned coz the person said MUST COOK for at least 15 mins to clear the poison but me and Chris started drinking the soup after 5 mins…and i had headache after that…maybe really got poisoned..

Kunming Day Two
– The people there dun eat…We walked for  more than half hour before I spotted a restuarant for brunch….luckily that place is quite ok….very very crowded but we managed to find a nice spot and have our lunch (Big bowl noodle). Then got to know a couple over lunch. This couple is amazing…they are supposed to have just met each other last night after communicating online for almost two years but they are loving like hell. Then after lunch, we decided to go on their jeep to sightseeing in the tourist places.

Kunming Day Three
– This day was crazy. We went to CITM (China International Travel Mart) and discovered that the CITM is only opened to public on the 3rd day! that was crazy coz we were supposed to leave Kunming on the 3rd day. We managed to cheat our way through the first security post by forcing our passport on the police. He let us in after our numerous begging and telling him we came from Singapore just to attend this fair. Me and Chris were so happy coz we thought we managed to smuggle ourselves in. God knows there is another more strict security post further inside.  This one need ticket and pass and need to go through X-ray machine. This is just like going pass the immigration where you need air tickets, passport and the scanning. And of coz, we do not have the passes, nor the tickets. We went to the registration counter and realised that one ticket cost 800RMB. that is hell. totemo takai! that is equivalent to my faye wong’s concert ticket. (S$160) and we need 2 tickets! So we decided not to buy and be shameless and start asking those people who had come out to see if they can smuggle us in..haha…AS there are many other shameless people there, these people ignored us! hahhaa…..so shamelessly i have to call my friend who is exhibitor in the CITM. Luckily she managed to got me 2 passes. But hor, got pass and no ticket no use! ONCE AGAIN, we had to be shameless and force ourselves on the security. haha..the security was very strict and said he cannot let us go in. BUT when i took out my passport and he saw its Singapore Passport. then he look at me for half a second and pretend not to see me and step one step forward. We knew we did it. We got in “behind” him for FREE! hahhaa…ok…we are very shameless! The Travel Mart was very big, with 6 Halls and DAMN COLD inside. We walked around and start networking for the next 6 hours until the whole thing ended. Carrying more than 10kgs of things EACH, we were almost dead. We dragged ourselves back to the luckily-it-was-just-across-the-street-HOTEL and order our LUNCHNER(Lunch and Dinner – room service). That was our day! Tired but satisfied.

Kunming Day Four
– Poor both of us. We wanted so much to get the hell out of Kunming early (Chris to CTU and me to HKG). Mine was full fared business class, so i can change my time anytime i want. But Chris got discounted fare, so cannot change time. So bo bian, i need to stay also and be a friend mah! So we decided to explore the city a bit. But the city itself was really small and we shopped around a little only. Then we meet our new friends again for dinner. This guy was very nice and wanna treat us to a very local/traditional roasted whole lamb in a  village. We ordered a whole lamb but Chris was very scared coz this guy is a Kunming local and the place is very ulu. Like very rural place. Then she made him send us back to the town to take taxi by lying that we need to rush back hotel to sign a contract. The excuse was very lame but the guy did not expose her la..he was quite a gentleman to send us back to get a taxi while leaving his girlfren alone in the village to wait for the lamb. Anyway..this was a long long story and i dun wanna write down everything coz it will take pages..haha….you can just say that we are very very bold and not scared of death..hahah

Kunming Day Five / HongKong Day One
– Nothing to do. All packed and waiting to get our arses out of Kunming. As this time i bought business class ticket, i dun have to wait in line for boarding mah. So when the guy said we can go and board first, we walked straight to the gate. Then there are a few c-lai queueing in front of the queue. Then the stupid c-lai very rude and spoke to me ” WE QUEUE FOR LONG TIME LE” (in mandarin)..then i ignored her and she repeat again “WE QUEUEUE FOR LONG TIME LE” (in mandarin)…then her friend talked to her “THEY WILL NOT LISTEN LA” (in Cantonese).
– Got to Meiki’s home. Damn nice place, i would love to stay there myself too. We took a long rest and took Misu up to the peak and have a very nice dinner. Initial plan to have a nice dinner and take some nice photos. But Mrs Alfonso keep scolding us for being late. Haha…so in the end, we did not manage to take any photos. Just dinner and rush to Mr Alfonso’s chicken shop and have our 2nd dinner. haha..his fried chicken is really good…a lot of people stopped by and looked into the shop…coz misu is very big inside..haha..then at his shop, i also met a lady whom i met on the plane.

HongKong Day Two
– Woke up in the morning and brought misu out for a walk and breakfast out. One thing i like about Hongkong is during cool weather, you can sit outside for dining-Alfresco Dining.Used to do that in Boston, but Singapore is really too warm and humid for that coz you will melt anytime. After brunch, we went home and then went to hotel to meet mum and dad. Stupid taxi driver tot we are from mainland China and detoured us!! Spent 20 mins on the taxi while it should only take about 10mins. We also went Element for shopping but the mall was nothing. Dinner at Aqua was very nice. Nice place and nice food too. At night we brought misu down to park to play. Misu was soo funny. In the middle of the night, probably 2am. He was sleeping and i tihnk he accidentally touched his toy that made squeky noise. Then he thought I threw him the ball, coz he took the ball and threw on me and wanna play with me (but i was sleeping and it was in the middle of the night wor!! haha)..then he realised i was sleeping and he came and slept with me.

HongKong Day Three
– Met my business partner in Excelsior for a very nice lunch. Half the day was gone and by the time I met up with Meiki again, it was already almost 6pm. Then went for dinner again! damn..too full. After dinner, Meiki went home and accompany Misu while I accompany mum shopping. Shopping was damn tiring and boring as i dun really shop mah! then went home and went jogging with Meiki and Misu. Misu come and play with me in the middle of the night again. Then he climbed on the bed and slept with Meiki. He is sooo cute. I wish i can clone his soul and put into Kuro..wahhahhaa..then kuro will become very demure, obedient…hahhaa

HongKong Day Four
– End of my one week trip. Lunch with Serene and Meiki at Feng Sushi.

* Know that mimi is sick now and meimei is very worried. Meimei, please take good care of yourself and I am sure mimi will not wanna let you worry so much too. Mimi will be fine coz now the medical technology is good. Plus mimi’s life is fortunate and good coz he has you. So God must have already planned a good long way for him and you. Always be here for you.

 

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28-Jun-2007

28 Jun 2007 by Bei

havent had the chance to update here for a while….

hmm..back from barcelona and paris…generally speaking i like barcelona people more…they are so much friendlier! even the police officers are so much cooler! hahah….i would put up photos but i am so lazy…i played very hard for 9 days and didnt study there at all even though i brought my notes along…i was glad though..haha…i wouldnt have done well in the exams even if i did. anyway..i came back, exam, got sick, exam again. but i am glad to be done of all of them! thinking of studying again? yah, maybe i will…haha…i am thinking of getting a tour guide license now..i think i would love it..haha…

i am leaving for hongkong this week for just 4 days…after which i will try to work hard like a cow…i will be missing my friends and in a few months time, i think i will have a nephew!!! :P Its not confirmed yet but the doctor said 80% my sil is giving birth to a boy…i certainly hope its a boy since she already has Ashley..it would be nice to have both a boy and a girl mah….usually big sister will take care and dote on little brother..but i dunno ashley coz she is so active…she is more like a guy..but anyway the seh family’s females are all like guys…we are strong..hahah :P

i am so still in holiday mood now…i wondered when can i retire…hopefully by tonight…ahhaha….coz i bought toto and if i got all my 6 numbers, i will be a 3-millionaire..ahhaa…but the chance to win that big prize is so much much slimmer than me getting knocked down by a car ….kinda sick har..hahhahaha

 

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