9th to 11th Dec Trip to Batam
09/12/2014
Early morning on the 9th of Dec,we all agreed to meet up at outside Horizon Ferry Counter (aka ex Prima Ferry counter) at Harbour Front. Had send every chosen ones in this trip the link to book ferry hence everyone should have no problem knowing how to get to the meeting point. Initially had planned for a 3 + me to Batam,but last min there was a 4 + me and a few who plans to link up with me awaits at Batam.
Like the 10th trip,4 + me all met up at the designated meeting point,purchase our ferry ticket (the economic class) and all of us went for a smoke, at the same time had a little briefing on whats to come in this trip. After which all of us proceed to board the ferry. Surprisingly,there was quite a lot of people heading to Batam at this early hour of weekday,a little more people than during my 10th trip.
This is my 11th official trip to Batam. 2 bros,bro A and bro S from the previous 10th trip joined me and 2 new bro,bro F and bro S2 who were 1st time to Batam,and lastly me. In the ferry,as usual,lots of getting to know each other better conversation,filling up the white card and tcss. We were lucky we were riding on the new Horizon fleet of new ferry,hence we reach Batam really fast. Well,time really flies when everyone is talking...lol...and in no time,our ferry already docked into Harbour Bay soon after we disembarked.
I guess everything proceed the same as my 10th trip below :
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As most part of the 11th trip are similar to that of my 10th,i shall skip the unnecessary portion and come to the parts where there are some difference. One of the bro was a drinker,so while waiting for the unreliable driver to fetch us at Harbour Mart,i brought him to the other corner shop to see if he could grab himself some DFS liquor. We changed our 1st S$100 at Harbour Bay becos we all have zero rupiah with us and we need to grab a room voucher from Kaha 1st where payment is required before we all head to Formosa Hotel. At this point,
everyone begin to tell me,they DO NOT want to stay in room 207...lol.
Bro A is only gonna stay 2D1N,the rest all at 3D2N. And voucher each night cost 455k/night. Make our payment and head to check in to Hotel. Only 2 rooms are ready,so we check into one of the 2 rooms 1st to settle down our belongings before heading to opp Hotel to change our remaining sin $ to rupiah. I didnt bring them around to bargain for a better rate,as i believe all bros will believe me that they already have gotta the BEST rate in town as i have shown them the online forex rate for that day (just before stepping out) versus what they eventually got.
Simple theory here,i went to one of the regular money changer since beginning of some of my trips,i told her "if i were to one day find any money changer around Batam giving a better rate than you within the same hour,i will NEVER come back to you EVER again". And i believe she wouldnt want to lose my business as at most time,i bring online/offline friends with me and in this trip,there are 5 of us,each of us changing an average of S$300,which can easily numbered to about S$1500 and more.Even if i were to only change S$50,i want the same good rate too. A few of the neighbouring money changers around those shops were also calling out to me,but i didnt bulge. Good to see them drooling for my business. Checking the exchange rate at Nagoya Hill Mall area is only 2 phone calls away as 2 of my ex colleague's relatives own 2 of the money changer shop there.And the price there and the ONE that i changed with (opp Formosa) is the almost the same. I am also following the internet Foreign exchange rate between SGD to IDR very closely too.
Special thanks here to bro Authenticanie and bro Goforit on how and where to get the BEST exchange rates in Batam.
After making the exchange,we head to Meximo Pub nearby Wan Tan Mee store for lunch,before heading to booking joints. We visited basically all booking joints on the list :
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Except we didnt go to Memory.I kind of totally forget about this place,hehehe... Dolly was confirmed closed Memory tho i didnt visit it in this trip,it is still opened. Most girls from Dolly has went back to Memory. We also located a new joint called Paradise Night :
plz note i censored off the address and tel no. of the namecard
Paradise Night is at the left building of Goodway (coming out from hotel front door),it can be located easily once you find Goodway Hotel entrance,step in and step out again,turn left. 5 mins walk from Goodway Hotel,it is as close by as from Formosa Hotel to Queen8933.
The vehicle was cramp as i had overly-taken the number of bros to visit Batam with me due to bad coordination on my part. We had brunch at nearby Meximo pub's wan tan mee store at 125k for 5 person,inclusive of drinks,still the usual stuffs but all in Local UPSIZE,hehehe...after brunch we head to visit booking joints.
As the vehicle was really cramp,i had to give up the vehicle commander seat to a taller bro. Bad move too,as it disallow me to show them where we are and where we have passed by. We pass by Newton,A1 food court,windsor food court etc and quite a handful of prominent places,but i guess i got too squeezed up at the back seat to show them. Again,my bad here.
Bro A picked a girl from MM,Bro S and me both picked a girl from New Berry new place,and bro S2 found his in Indah2. And bro F got nothing as he finds nothing he fancies after visiting all joints. We all arrange for our girls to come to MY room at 530pm where we shall all gather later. As it was only about 3pm+ and everyone was relatively quite tired after making so many trips to so many joints in a cramped up vehicle in a short frame of time,we all goes back to hotel,got the other 2 rooms from the reception and all head back to their respective room to rest up before the girls arrived.
Well ,20 mins upon stepping into my room,ding dong...my room door bell rang,i opened up and saw Bro B,one of the bro from my 10th trip whom i am suppose to link up with. He was in the same hotel as me and has arrived Batam a day before me. Good to see a bro who joined me in my last trip who is now solo-ing Batam regularly.Slowly within an interval of about 20 mins each time ,all bros who joined me in this trip arrived to my room...one at a time....lol.
Time pass fast when there is a lot of TCSS among bros,and before long its 530pm and our girls arrived in my room and everyone bring their respective girls back to their room,except bro F who is going back alone. He says he'll walk around formosa area before meeting us up later at Hotel Lobby for dinner. Nearly 2.5 hour before dinner,i bet there should be enough time for everyone to go for round 1.
745pm,dinner time...there is always an allowance of 15 mins in case anyone is late. Well,some bros can really last super long time...who knows,right? Anyway,we manage to gathered everyone up at around 815pm,all bros brought their respective girls for dinner except me and bro F. Bro B has joined us for dinner too. So we now have 6 guys and 4 girls,and i decide we should all walk to the nearby zhi char store close to New Berlian for dinner as the vehicle will not be able to accommodate all 10 of us to head to other venue. The place for dinner isnt what i had initially planned,its suppose to be somewhere close by yet not so close. Will save that for next trip.
Dinner was quite alright,and at the end of it we were all guessing the bill. During my last trip,dinner was about 700k with 7 person (if i dont remember wrong),so this time round as there are more food on the table,most of us guess it will be doubled or close to that amount. Turn out its 750k,and including myself,everyone...none of us were right...lol. 750k was shared equally among 6 men. There was a gigantic steam fish,i see prawns,some shell like food and a few stingrays on the table that day. No crabs this time.
About 930pm,we all head back to our room and the rest of the time is OTOT and all bros eventually met up at bro B's room for some beer and chilling out. Everyone appears to find that other bro's girls are better than what they have originally chosen from my view. I didnt joined them tho,but as my room was just beside bro B's,they do make hell lot of noise.I can only hear them if i open my room door,otherwise my sound proof room works pretty well for me if i am in-room. Later next day,i hear them saying they were all playing some strip poker thingy...lol. I am kind of sure they enjoyed themselves thoroughly that night,hehehe....
While i didnt joined the other bros in chilling out in bro B's room,I linked up with another bro at around 1030pm for a drink who also happen to be staying nearby too. Thanks for the mini-supper,bro.
End of day 1
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