My 30th Batam Trip
(14th to 17th July 2016)
Reference to my
29th Batam trip summary
This trip can be classified as one of my worst over the last 7 months (starting Jan 2017). As shared before,there is no such thing thing as an 'everyday Sunday' in every Batam trip and here I go,finally hitting the nail. And I planned to find a solution to it. (original plan for this is trip is 3D2N but end up having a 4D3N)
The trip start out on an early Thursday morning. Hit Harbour Front,meet up with friend and later head over to the ferry and eventually reach Harbour Bay. There was a slight drizzling,weather seems to look good as it was pretty cooling. Upon reaching hotel,grabbed our room key and learned the 1st thing that there was some management shake up with many frontline staffs resigning from their current position. See,1st sad news in the morning before i even enter my designated room. Yes,almost all the hotel staffs whom I have mentioned previously will be tendering their resignation.
The next thing upon entering my room,checked everything,set up my whole IT system and swapped my phone from Singapore line to Indo line...Ta Da! Another problem,phone suddenly black out and died during the process of swapping sim card. It was working perfectly fine before I swapped the sim card but now....argh!
Nevermind,i shall swallow that...hehehe...still keeping my cool at this point. The next thing after all arrangement done,we head over for early lunch at a2 Food court,then proceed to go cewek-shopping. My friend already have a pre-booked girl from Happy 8 bargained from 1.5 million rupiah to 1.2 million rupiah. Didn't really shop much,i just grab a girl I had in one of my previous trips since she offered pretty much good service. My friend's girl came 1st while mine will be delivered to me at a later time since I am heading to Kings for a foot reflexology.
Finished my foot reflexology,rest a bit, shower and await the arrival of my girl. Everything else hereon was OTOT until dinner time which we decide to try the Acia Ikan Bakar food court beside Nagoya City Walk Mall,hehehe...scare terrorist attack ma (since there was a threat by some terrorist that Batam was one of their target).
Dinner was a simple one,i think 5 pax dinner costing below 200k rupiah. And after dinner,we head over to Harbour Bay Mall for our movie taking the sweetbox seat. Surprisingly,sweetbox cost only 50k for 2 pax...which was lower than the last time I was there.It was my friend 1st experience with Blitz Theatre.
Nearly every trip also go BCS Mall and Nagoya Hill Mall theater to watch movie,this time round becos of terrorist threat I suggested Harbour Bay Mall,Blitz Theater...hehehe... Movie time was 2 hours away, we have to walked around Harbor Bay Mall to explore its surrounding. Harbour Bay was practically an almost dead mall by 830pm. Anyway,it was also a dead mall by day too,just worse during night time. So its a good place to bring my booking for her "shopping" becos there will be nothing for her to buy.
Minimum tourist,minimum shops opened,also minimum terrorist,hehehe...more than 50% of the shops in Harbour Bay Mall has no tenant.
After walking for a bit,we grew tired and have to find a place to rest. So we decide on on this Pounce Café...
...the café also look deserted and we were their only customers at around 9pm+. It is practically just beside Blitz theater. Imagine a café like this with free wifi ,drinks costing an average of 25k,10 steps away from the theater and yet with no one in it (except the waitress/waiter). I bet you can imagine how quiet this mall is. Kind of a nice place to chill out and the best part is,they allow smoking,hehehe...
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