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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Batam Part 1 - Early MORNING

6am: time to wake up and get ready!
7am: reached Harbourfront via cab! cos we were running late. Bought some sandwiches and milk from 24h Cheers. Check in and waited for our turn to board the ferry - and it was called Jet Raider...BATAM here we come!

about 45 mins we reached the island. The customs took blardee long. Very very crowded and so many people were cutting queues! so rude! can u believe these people! argh. Anyhow we opted for a city tour and i did ask the tour agency what did the city tour include but that coke-bottled spekkie dwarf cant even tell me what the city tour comprise off!
Dwarf: eh..got some tour, lunch included. Let u buy some local products...tour again...er er *shifts his specs*
Me: hmm...okie.
Dwarf: So how?
Me: okay we take the city day tour.
*$7 more just for the tour, why not man i thot to myself*
and what we tot of a half day tour turned out to be a FULL day! from 10am till 8pm!!!! and we didnt realise it until after lunch and the tour guide was still suggesting more activities for the rest of the day! then we were like 'HUH' cos we were so tired and the whole purpose of this trip was to R&R at the resort which we paid so much for!!! not for shopping and shopping and more shopping! and we even booked a spa for ourselves at 8pm at another resort!!! Gosh. so after lunch, we took a cab by ourselves to the resort.
so here's us at our lunch destination. Quite a sumptous one with lotsa seafood! (chilli crabs, gongong, tofu soup, fried fish, crispy cuttlefish, butter prawns, sambal kangkong and choice of drinks = coconut, teh, kopi, soft drinks)
okie, will blog more when i have the time to compile more pixpix together....
and the story continues....

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