Batam 16052010
This is the 2nd time me and Dear went for a holiday together, well it was quite fun:)
We woke up early in the morning for breakfast to and got ready for our trip. We arrived at Harborfront cruise centre on a search for our tour guide who hand us our ferry ticket. Dear got this online deal where the $94 package includes the ferry tix, 1 day cable ski pass and lunch! it was worth it as the ferry tix is supposed to alr cost us $40+.
We took the one hour ferry and arrived safely at the ski park @ Waterfront City. It was a nice place where they have these rattan seats rest area to put ur stuff, rest, drink and eat. Plus, they consistently played MTV on their flatscreen television. So shiok. First timers were called upon, we started off with the knee boarding. Thought it was quite easy.. Ready, get set, and off —– the cable pull me so hard. I need to gather all my upper body effort to hold on to the ski. It was fun and it feels shiok. But then I still feel terrified whenever I go out. HAHA. Therefore, I did not pluck out my courage to try the wake boarding – scared fall standing up. Cowardly me. lol. Of cos, falling of the ski is inevitable as the turning during the ski gave us a sharp pull. I die die dun let go my hand in order to last till me 2 rounds on the circuit - occassionally. Thereafter, u ve to swim back to the shore, and if u r too far away from the starting point, there is motorbike to pick us up. So cute. Erm but the ground was freaking hot and the board is heavy, think it’s realli training my muscle and hot endurance.
Well, We left at evening and head towards our hotel in their “city”. Novotel – Ken sign up for it’s membership card under the big group of hotels earlier, so we booked using the card. We get discounted rate and 1 for 1 breakfast. The hotel is GOOD. Think it was just renovated. I like the business class interior. So next time I think we’ll stick to the same place and itenary. At night, we went out to the only departmental store we passed by. Nothing much, their clothes are those kind where the maids in sg wear, so, we bought alot of tidbits and some drinks back and ta bao some dinner.
The next day before check out, I went for the hotel’s massage, with the member’s card, I got another 15% discount. So it’s $23. It was veri comfortable. I like this style of massage as compared to Thai massage. This one is gentler. It was good especially feeling straineous after previous day ski.
Then before we left for the holiday, we went to visit Ken’s batam cousin. He own this coffeeshop. Their handmake wanton noodle is so nice… Different from SG one. He also directed us to the spa and seafood that is located near our hotel which we failed to explore the previous night, as the road was dark, drizzling etc. And ironically it seems that all the liveliest shop is faced backwards. Well and I forgot to mention the motorbike on the road keep horning at me. Haa. How to explore.
Well, we truly enjoy this kind of trip and hope to go back soon. Yeah.. Awaiting our Bangkok and Macau trip. Hopefully the situation at Bangkok gets better by June:)
May 19, 2010