Tuesday, June 24, 2008
6/24/2008 01:59:00 PM
Someone reminded me today that I have not updated for my Batam trip yet. Haha. =x So I'm back to update on a few interesting stuffs.
It's only a 45 mins ferry trip from Harbour front to Batam. Much faster than the trip to Genting, where I named it the Deadly Bus Experience. But nonetheless, the ferry was not much better. Swaying right and left, back and forth making me quite giddy. Duty Free things there are very cheap, Baileys selling at only $30+, Absolute Vodka at $36 and other goodies there.
Upon reaching there, bp's aunt came to fetch us with her car, and around 10+ people were squeezing in a 6-seater family car. That was a very classic thing. =x And there are no HDB like house in Batam, houses there are all Bungalows or terrace house. So we reached her aunt house and settled down in our room, and we went for lunch. Service attitude there was much more better than in Genting, food was nice and cheap, service was good, 2 thumbs up. =D
And at night, we bbq at bp's aunt house to celebrate bp's sis 21st birthday. The scallop on that night was delicious, have you ever tried bbq-ing a scallop still moving when you are bbq-ing it? Well, on that night we tried and it was simply delicious. And on this occasion, alcohol drinks are always present. And without fail, all sat down and started playing games. The drink of that night was Martell Cordon Beau, mixed with sprite or plain water. We spin a bottle and whoever it points to must drink the mixed drinks, and sing a song or dance. The ultimate loser that night was yiuhei I guess, and vincent. The 2 of them are sitting next to each other, I wonder who brought bad luck to either of them. Lol. And yiuhei almost couldn't take it and I helped him to drink some. Overall experience was fun and hot. After bathing was shiok and tired. Haha.
2nd day went to a shopping centre that's quite high class, planning to watch a movie there but too bad, no new shows and some shows are in malay. So went to a place where we can play pool and sing karaoke in a room, in Singapore, this type of room is very expensive, but in Batam, it's cheap and better quality as compared to Singapore. Went around buying food and snacks to eat, food in Batam is really very tasty and cheap. We had seafood for dinner and it cost only about $3+ per person, and we went to buy oyster egg, fried kway teow, pancake with cheese and choco for supper. All these stuffs are better than Singapore's one 500x more. Haha. We had drinking session on the 2nd night as well, but this time round it's red wine. Lol. And some cocktails mixed by Bp's aunt, some were nice and some were too strong. Yiuhei drank quite a lot and became drunk. Haha. The aftermath of him being drunk is.... Talking nonsense and laughing to himself.
But danger is lurking all around in Batam. Bp's aunt told us that a few months ago there's a Chinese indon girl who's studying in the Uni near her house, and one night she had lessons until 9pm+, so she wanted to take a cab home. But the cab in Indonesia is different from SG, the driver can pick up more passengers on the way. SO the girl shared the cab with 3 other guys in order to save money, cos she's supporting the whole family. But she's found dead a few days later, naked in a forest, limbs were chopped off. The people in the cab raped and killed her, but were never caught.
We were all stunned by what we heard, and conclusion is that...
Batam's food is nice, Singapore's security is still the best. =D