Weekend Getaway - Batam

just some snap shots of our Batam getaway with de girls over last weekend. A weekend is just nice there, since there's nothing much to do, most of the time we're shopping in super markets! lolx, that's about the most things you can buy there, some toiletries and local snacks, some of the girls are simply crazy over Indo Mie & Sedap instant noodles, they buy in cartons loh.

Massage there is so-so only, or maybe i don't really enjoy the spa kind of massage, prefer the cheena pressure point tui na kind.
on the positive note, the massage is 1.5 hours with 1 hour of massage and 30 minutes of body scrub, you get your personal room with a personal bath tub and option to go into the suana room, all these for a mere SGD30! how cheap that is!

Oh head massage there is damn cheap and good! even better than that spa massage we went to. only less than $10 SGD you get a cream bath (some sort of hair treatment) nd a 45 minutes scalp, shoulder massage.

Total damange for a weekend trip to batam inclusive of spa massage and a personal tour guide cum chauffer: $125 per pax, how worth it right?

ok enough said, this our first meal in batam:

the dragon fruit juice is heavenly la! thick and not diluted like most of de juices in Singapore, food so-so nia lo..

after drinking the heavenly dragon fruit juice, some of the girls went in search of dragon fruits to buy back Singapore, too bad they didn't have the red flesh kind..

here's some of their roadside stalls and the tapioca chips they sell, very sedap~! heard from Naini (bro's indonesian helper) that alot of them grow their own tapioca and make the snack to sell at the road side.

the roadside stalls very colourful hor? looks pretty...ahaha

and so it's dinner time! some pics of the food, not taken very nicely cos we're all too hungry than to be bothered to take nice shots of the food. ahah
the fish ain't very nice but the calamari and the sambal sotong is very yummy!
of cos their ayam penyet is nice as well, 6 of us with so many dishes costs us only SGD40.

oh ya the above teh botoh is very nice too like our teh o ice...



and so in between our free time, we're hooked on MONOPOLY DEAL! quite fun leh, my first time playing hehz..



Supper time!!

Tab strongly reccommended this sweet murtabak where they put tons of condensed milk, taste like our mee jiang kueh but theirs you can choose chocolate or cheese etc.
the chocolate is just lots of chocolate rice on it loh...

the satay is nice though, dun quite like the murtabak, mixture of sweet and salty kind of weird..

that's it, simple weekend over at Batam. quite an enjoyable way to spend a simple weekend if you need a breather away from singapore, pace there is really slow, they take a damn long time to serve you la! so good place to be there and relax..

didn't even feel that tired when i was there but when i came back , i practically slept the most of monday instead of companying uncle des (we both took leave), feel so bad, kind of wasted his leave watching me sleep..ahaha