Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004
BATAM SUCKS BIG TIME. and mind you peeps, this will be a VERY long entry. prepare to read a story! :D
First thing is to board the ferry. Got there and then they ke siao one, want us to wait for an hour before boarding. Fine, so we were waiting and minding our own businesses and then this idiotic horizontally challenge, bald man was there, talking to us. He is so shitty i tell u. He kept on talking for 30 min liddat. I am so angry lor, he was from batam and he keep telling us about batam. About how good and blah blah it was and where to go and everything. PLUEASE!!! this is the first time we go there and how are we suppose to know where is he talking about? Then he keep talking, only my father cared to entertain him, my sis and me were damn pissed and my ma just heck care him. He can just go die now. Anyway, he boarded his ferry and i ran along the port waving goodbye to him. Yep! This is how much i hate him. HE IS SO BRAGGY.
and not to mention NAGGY!
The ferry ride was fun fun fun! Like those pirate ships you get in escape theme park. Bumpy, but really rockin. My brother couldn't stand it i think, he knocked his head on the seats in front of him. lol.
Hotel was horrifying!!! We had to register ourselves and it took such a long time and i was scratching myself all the while coz the amount of mosquitoes there were so much, you would wave them away and still see some more flying by in a second and i got plenty of stings..naturally. Anyway, the register booth was there and then we had to board the bus to another area where we spent ten minutes climbing stairs to reach the hotel since it was on the hill. The hotel was quite alright and was most happy when i found out....there was singapore channels on tv!!! it wasn't very clear..but at least I wouldn't have to miss the champions. Cool eh? Wha hahahaha.
Went out for dinner and i tried not to eat so much coz i was a lil wary of its food. It just didn't seemed very hygenic to me. A lot of houseflies everywhere and my tummy was a little weak. The roads in batam was really noisy. There was like, honking everywhere. You would be standing by the roadside, waiting for the cars to pass so that you may cross the road and taxis would be stopping and honking asking you to board it. And since the road is so busy and we have to stand there waiting for quite some time, so there were alot of taxis honking. Annoying.
The mall was pathetic and only has two storeys. Not nice to shop one lar. idiotic. I was bored to death there. Luckily went back to hotel in time to watch champions. Whoo hoo!
Had tummy ache the next morning. Mom thinking it might be wind inside. Dad says its due to the weather. I say its due to the water. Haa.. Got a tour to go for anyway and so we did and i had a horrible time enduring the bus jjourney. Feel like vomitting alot of times, which i did lah..twice. But i tell myself i had to endure since the last part was ROBINSON SHOPPING CENTRE!!! So endure..so terrible i tell u. Then the horrifying news came. We are
NOT going to the shopping centre. coz the other people got a ferry to catch and we are behind time so we went to a nearer shopping centre which was..none other then the one I went the previous day!!! So we spent another 2 hrs in that boring place. I was bored stiff..not to mention pain. When we went back to the hotel, I caught a fever, cause i think of the stomach ache plus i was really down since i hadn't done any REAL shopping.
Went home on the third day. Can u believe we actually missed the ferry home? We all couldn't stand it so my dad insisted that we take the ealiest ferry ride home. SEE? how bad it is? Then the malays were having their hari raya prayer so the man wasn't at the counter and the thing is really bad cause there was
NO ONE else there so we didn't have an transport to get us to the port. We got there only to see the ferry leave in front of our very own eyes!!! Sho we had to sit there doing nothing for the entire hour until the next ferry comes and my father kept cursing!!! 0.o
Its not really detailed but I guess my hands are worked out typing. Just a tip NOT to go there for a vacation if you ever plan to. I'd rather go malaysia really. I mean...REALLY!