Peiyi's: TOOTIES Batam trip!

June 2013: Went for a 3D2N trip with TOOTIES to Batam! The trip was brought up during CNY randomly during one of the meeting at Macdonalds... And coincidentally, all of us could make it during the period mentioned so we quickly noted it down in our notebooks to book the date for this trip!

But in the end, Bong couldn't make it cause she just came back from Korea and she did not dare to take additional leaves :(

So it was almost full team!

Met up at Yew Tee for breakfast at 8am, then trained down to Harbourfront.

Ahh I got boobs, surprisingly. Cause I've been told I lost them after I lost some weight.

Cover up. HAHA

Bad background. Was rushing for the ferry, no time to retake.

Everyone loves this cute looking toy, so cuddly.

Ready to goooo!

Okay the ferry ride was around 45minutes, and the 'custom' to get our passport chopped only had 2 counters opened and this girl that attended to me is super... I don't know what words to use.

When I went to her, she was just finished with the person infront of me then she took out her phone and started to press on it, totally ignoring my presence. So I just stood there for 3 minutes and waited for her to finish her texting then she didn't even look at me and just took my passport and got things done...

After everything's done, Ahxian arranged a private van to bring us around throughout the trip, so we met this guy, a young & I would say not-bad looking driver, who brought us to our accommodation!

I don't remember the guy's name and we didn't take photo with him.

Yes though I said he's not bad looking but after knowing him for awhile I don't have a very good impression of him. HAHA he's so noisy and kept making remarks about me being fat.

Sorry, me don't like it, we ain't that close for you to make remarks like this :(

But he's still nice afterall, he recommended us to places and even go out of his way to bring us to a pub to chill even after his 'working hours'. But the pub is like a cui... He said there's live band but they play all Indonesian songs MY GODDDDDDD

Okay so anyway, after putting our stuffs down. The plan for that day was to do some water sports and get our A&W cravings fixed! Mannnn I've been dying for A&W's float and fries for I don't know how long.

My complete meal.

So awesome! Totally forget about the calories this had.

It's all worth it, in my opinion ;)

We had their waffles ice-cream the next day, but sadly, it's not nice...

Then we asked the driver about water sports. Then he brought us to this......... pond?

It was at a ulu-place, and the place has no customers at all.

When we reached there, the staff were just sitting around, swatting flies.

I was expecting like you know, sea.............. but it's really just a huge pond.

But since we're there, we just try it.

We did the banana boat and kayaking. Funny thing is, when we were doing the banana boat, the person asked if we wanted to capsize. Looking at the water, we all didn't want to.

But when we kayaked, the girls were splashing water at each other and we all got wet in the end

-_______-

GIRLS.

Us while we wait for the other team to finish the banana boat.

We split our groups as such:

1. People who wash their hands after eating fried chicken

2. People who just use the water droplets condensed on the cold cup of water then use tissue and wipe the oil off.

Make a guess who belongs to which group ;D

Best shot of the trip IMO.

Phil and I trying to train Hao not to be so shy with girls (like, us, cause we are more aggressive, in some ways.....)

Brought our own towels from the place we were living in.

Talking about accommodation, we rented an apartment (Batam Holiday) instead of a hotel cause we had a big group.

Man the apartment is reallllllly huge. It has 3 rooms and a balcony which faces the sea. Damn nice to sit and chill at the balcony, but the mosquitoes start coming out at night so we had to hide inside after 7pm.

Fully air-conditioned, kitchen, hair dryer, fridge, TV, fan, dining table.... Basically just like a house, a very big place (Okay maybe cause I live in Singapore and we all know our house is almost like a shoebox so I am abit overwhelmed by the size of the apartment LOL).

They also had 2 ladies (they say maid but I don't really like this term) who would come in the morning to clean up the place and refill the water dispenser.

We also requested them to change our towels (machiam hotel) cause we dirtied them :p

Oh, and the ladies are very nice people.

Only problem: 2 toilets only, 7 girls + 1 boy. When it comes to shower time, it's pretty much a nightmare. LOL.

Messing around with Xiaobai's cam while waiting for my turn to shower!

After shower, chilling at balcony, without makeup :s

Lying around in the room while dinner was being prepared.

On the first night, the 2 ladies would come over in the evening to prepare dinner for us.

It was nice... But they took so long to cook. They reached around 5.30pm and dinner was slowly served at 8+.. by then we were SO hungry we just kept eating the rice (the dishes came up one by one real slowly......) and snacks we bought from the supermarket earlier...

So by the time they are done with everything, we were very full (from carbs)

2nd day: Shopping!

We went Nagoya mall and another mall I can't remember which..... Basically what they have are what you can find in Bangkok and they are more expensive than say... Bugis?

I bought a top at SGD17 when my friends got it at SGD10 in Bugis.... So yeah.

Before that, we had lunch at a coffeeshop that sells chinese food, just like Singapore's kopitiam.

Like a stupid right? We should have had their Nasi Padang right? Cause it's their local food right?

Ok story goes like this:

Driver: What do you guys wanna eat for lunch?

Ahxian: Errrm we want to try Nasi Padang, is there any place that sells good Nasi Padang?

Driver: Yeap I know a place, I'll bring you guys there, everyone's okay right?

Ahxian: Hey girls, we go eat Nasi Padang okay?!

Us: OKAY!

3 seconds later....

Xiaobai: I want Tomyum Ban mian!

Philana: *act cute (HAHAHAHA) voice* I want chicken rice!

Then suddenly all the chinese food names started coming out...

We just ignored them cause we always do/say stupid stuffs like this...

When we reached, we got down the van and walked with him, to a coffeeshop.

He sat us down and we ordered drinks...

Looked around the coffeeshop and realised "Eh why no Nasi Padang?"

Then driver started saying "Okay there's Ba Kut Teh, Chicken rice here... You guys can just place your order"

So.... he took it seriously.

But we already ordered drinks.... So we couldn't leave... My friends really........

Timx plaiting my hair for me while we waited for the bracelets with our names on it to be done...

Then comes along loads of camwhorings.....

Proceeded to dinner!

Dinner was at this place that looks abit like Newton (except it's 10 times bigger and there's even a stage with people singing) with many Seafood stalls, and Beer girls...

When we reached, the people were setting the table for us (Big group) and I spotted alot of women in their respective beer uniform standing around, crowding around us, waiting.

The moment we sat down, the whole group of them just SWARM to our table and everyone started asking: " (insert brand of beer) for you?"

All of us were damn shocked and just sat in silence.

The driver asked if we wanted to drink beer, we said no. So he went..

"OK NO BEER!"

Then 90% of them just walked away...

Leaving those that sells Fruit juice and stuff......

That's something new!

Anyway food was really good and cheap! But I wasn't full, my friends were all full.

Maybe I am a pig that's why.

Then he brought us to the pub I mentioned earlier as it was our last day......

We were all drained out by then.......

Reached the apartment around 11pm!

It was Phil's birthday that day so we wanted to 'surprise' her.

We made her go shower first while we started making up.........

My friends loved my makeup :D

Made her wear the doggy nose. Birthday cake was the popular Kueh Lapis (??????) from Batam we bought at Nagoya mall..

Actually I think it's overrated. Not very nice.

Or maybe wrong brand... This one was pretty heavily advertised in Batam.

HAPPY 24TH! Wahlao halfway through 20 already.

Messing around while waiting for our turn to shower.

Xiaobai who tried to remove the crazy makeup for me.

She kept laughing and looking away while doing it! So funny meh my face :(

Fail..... They made me do this pose cause I look like Sun Wu Kong.

Okay, messing around before removing makeup.

Then it was drinking time!!!
Actually we drank on the first day too.
The rest of the photos are pretty much self-explanatory......
And we all could see who were the ones who K.O
We let Phil off cause it's her birthday (2nd night) and she hates drinking.

First night drinking.

The only person who K.O-ed on the first night.

2nd night.

HAHAHAHAHHAHA!

Sometimes toilet bowl will be your best friend.

Yeap she's on an imaginary skateboard!

There's actually many videos but let's keep it super private (not as if this blog is not private enough, no one reads, or if YOU are reading anyway, HELLO! DROP ME A COMMENT SO I KNOW WHO'S READING?).

That night. Hao, Wei, Xian and Xiaobai were gone. Hui and Phil slept early (didn't join us).

Only survivors: Timx and I :D Though we were quite giddy.....

Funniest part was when Hao came out from the room into the toilet..... That was the funniest of allll.....

:D :D :D

So third day, woke up, packed our stuff and getting ready to leave!