batam

last friday,i escaped from lab, took my passport and took a 1hour long ferry ride to batam. the whole journey started with a bang, thanks to someone who was 40 minutes late and we had to run into the boat just minutes before the departure time when they were announcing our names over the PA system. so embarassing la!!

that's stewed and i on the ferry there, the girl who almost got all of us to miss the ferry!! lousy!! haha
upon reaching, our first stop was none other than breakfast to fill our starving tummies. due to the time difference, it was only around 8am batam time when we reached.
next was the highlight of the trip - go kart. we took a rather long walk there in the early morning sun, quite a nice stroll though, and every taxi that drove past us stopped to ask if we need a cab. not surprising. finally walked past the cable-ski park and reached the go-kart circuit. it looked quite rundown with no water supply in the toilets. 18 bucks for 10 mins. very expensive indeed, but since we were already there just go for it. the circuit was quite uneven and bumpy and why must they discriminate against people with short legs?? i had to tip toe to push the accelerator all the way in la! and i can self declare myself being the safest driver! no stunts, just trying my best to avoid all the puddles of water so as not to get dirty.


after that, we took the most expensive cab ride for the day to nagoya. it's a small town with shopping and food. it was still early for lunch but who can resisit this:

oooohhh so yummy!!!

upsized rootbeer float!!!



we walked around the shopping centre before deciding to split half, 3 of us went to walk incredible hulk, while the other 3 went for massage. the movie tickets were super cheap!! 15,000 rupiah, which equates to less the SGD 2.50!! and the cinema is comparable to those here. did a bit of shopping after that before heading for lunch, or was is tea or dinner? whichever.

that's where we went for seafood, i felt sorry for the cab driver who took us there for SGD6, that equates to 1 buck per person because the 6 of us squeezed into 1 cab.
we ordered a steamd fish, cereal prawn, black pepper crab, sotong, chicken, kangkong, toufu and fried rice, not forgetting the freeflow of white rice. we sure were hungry to finish up every bit of it.

that's only part of the food, fish and chicken were missing.



with stomachs full, it was time to head back. took the same cab to batam centre and got the tickets for 1830 back to Singapore. seems like we have not learnt our lesson to board the ferry early. we went shopping again at the megamall there and had to run back to the terminal and ran up to the ferry!
yup, that's the end of our batam slacking trip!

yummy donuts from jco, and definitely much cheaper than singapore.

erm don't ask me what's up with them. they just had to be funny.