765th entry
It was quite some time that i did not update my blog. Sorry for my MIA.. I was quite busy and procasting my action to update my holiday.
It was good to have a job with long holidays for a month. My previous jobs didnt give such a long holiday to recharge myself or enjoy my personal time. It was tiring to working with total focus with extra hours with kids, admin works and contact parents or teachers. However it feel wonderful to have such a long break with different from the rest of the working class.
Pardon my nonsenses.. During the holiday, i had recharged myself at an island in indonesia called Batam. Due to the overworked and unpaid teacher job, my dear and i really need to recharge ourselves by pampering a good spa package.
We planned to go somewhere further. Thank to the holiday peak season, all tour packages are out of our budgets. We only can opt either Malaysia or Batam. Since both of us had went to many places in Malaysia ( before we got attached), it was pointless to revisit those places where we had gone ample of times. So we picked a relax package - Batam.
We took 3D2N packaged at a budget resort. Despite it was classified as budget, the resort provided a good service. I did my homework and realised that the services was good.
We woke up early on 30 Nov, catching 7.50am ferry. We need to be check in by 6.50am. THerefore, we need to arrive approx 6.20 to get our tickets. After that, we had a quick Mac breakfast.
Took an hour plus ferry to reach Waterfront pier. Dear and i were the last 2 person alighted the ferry. Got stamped on passport and the Harris resort staff picked us up.
Less than 5 min drive, we arrived our resort. The welcome drinks were not served to us due to many ppl checking in. =( I was abit unhappy that i didnt have a drink as i was quite thirsty. Waited a while before we got check in. Service at the front counter was excellent. The staff explained clearly and we booked our next day shopping bus trip and the departure tickets on spot.
Got into our room. It was 10am in SIN time. THe sun was so brightly shine that it made us stay in the resort room to enjoy the air con. Watching tv till noon... Ate cup mee as for lunch.
At 1.30pm, we went for our afternoon spa which we booked at the travel agency. Dear insisted to get a 3 hour spa and it was a good choice. Although it was more expensive than we budgeted, it was still worth the value. We had 1 hour scrubbing, 1 1/2 hour of massage and 1/2 hour of herbal bath. Wonderful is the only word to describe our feeling. 1 cup of ginger honey tea after the service make us feel we are king and queen.
The spa was held at the rooftop of the resort. I felt quite serene and ambience is good. However there were a moment where workers were watering the plants or doing the maintenance. Making me abit uncomfortable when i was totally nude during my scrub. The lady who was serving me, quickly understand my irration and chased them off. Nice. =)
At the end of the spa, we tipped for their good services and we went back to our room. I dozed off while dear was watching a movie in his room. By the time i woke up, it was 6.30pm and i was starving..
I planned to go out to take photos and dinner. However it was raining heavy storm. It was impossible to take any picture in dark windy storm. We planned to take a cab to go nearby seafood kelong to eat but due to the weather, we planned to eat in the resort. Picked a Korean + Jap restaurant. It was reasonable to dear as the price are quite similar to our local mall pricing.
I picked Korean spicy chicken hot plate and order a bowl of rice. Dear order Japanese set meal - chicken kazu udon set. Since i order korean, i got 6 plates of side dishes. Since most were vegetable, dear dun really want to eat. Also dear and i tot that we need to pay and rejected to the waiter. The waiter quickly got panicky and explained there was no extra charges. It was free due to my order. I told the waiter i will try the dishes. End up these side dish were not bad. =)
When our dishes were all placed on 2 person's table, it was totally full of food. The portion were pretty large and it was totally full when we finished all up. Burp when i left the place..
Since it was still raining dogs and cats, we went for our free bowling session. We borrowed the shoes @ 1.50 each and played a match in the empty bowling alley. We were hopeless in bowling and our marks was totally unbearable to see. We vowed that we will not try again in crowded area. The staffs were looking at us how we played poorly!!
1 Dec 2010
It was shining bright and shine. It was our shopping day!! We had our breakfast at the harris resort. We also enjoyed the free internet service at the lobby for 15mins before we go out shopping. We took 10am bus to town area (took approx 45min to reach). Before we departed, we checked the lobby counter if we can take the later bus back to hotel. It was because we were given 3hours to shop including travelling time. The staff was so friendly and nice until he checked for us that there are extra seats @ 5pm, and allocated us at the 5pm pickup time! That mean we can shop from 11am to 5pm!! And we saved on the transportation back to hotel!! Hee...
I shopped till i drop.. many things were cheap. Toiletries, bras and household items.. I wanna to buy alot but quite restricted my budget. At least i got what i needed. Bought bras, toiletries, door mats and body scrub. Also J Co donuts. Dear bought a bag and a spec. Both ate A&W, it was quite expensive. Both spent nearly $20 for our lunch.
We really enjoy ourselves at Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre... Eat, shop and bumped into a grp of aunties which dear was chatting with them like buddies @ our resort.
Took the resort bus back to hotel. Dear was so worried when the bus came late. He tot we missed the bus. However i spotted alot singaporeans were waiting at the lobby, presuming they were waiting the same bus and i was right. It was because i spotted them taking photos while waiting. Singaporean loved to take photos even in the shopping malls. =)
During our way back, dear managed to chat with a mother who was sitting next to her. Asking abt their package and we learnt that we can buy the meal package for the days they needed. Other days they can go town or outside to eat their meals. When we returned to our hotel, we dump our things and went for a drip in their big swimming pool. I loved their pool since the height limit for some areas were low. =)
After the drip, we went for dinner. Planned to eat Monkey Hut but it seem no more crowd there... The Harris cafe provided oriential dinner buffet @ $18 but the meal seemed not appealing to us. Ended up we order their pizza @ $15 and sent it to our room. We bought soft drinks from the supermarket earlier and some snacks. We ate and watched movie in our cosy bedroom... Nice.. =)
Ate pizza, donuts + snack and softdrinks in bedroom was a relaxing method for us... Rot at air con room with foods and movies..
Packing up our luagges as we were leaving on next day afternoon.
2 Dec 2010
Woke up for breakfast. This round, the breakfast was better than yesterday.. I noticed that the resort provided rooms for the staffs at the nearby shipyards. Almost everyday, i will saw the shipyard staffs had their breakfast and their shuffle bus fetch and send them to work and back.
Enjoy the time at the internet corner. Update my status at fb.. esp Colleen. =)
Before we left the place, we planned to go sauna at the spa H. However, it was under maintainance and was unable on that morning. We went to play Go-Kart @ $15 each. Resort staff will drive us there free of charge. We were playing for ten minutes and droving like nuts. Dear enjoyed his ride as he overtake me twice. I got problem to drive and ended up engine failed. The brake was not as sensitive as we played in singapore. I thought i remember the brake and accelerator wrongly.. I stepped harder and it went faster.. I retried to step on brake harder and it started to slow down abit.. Btw, i was already driving on the track and there was a sharp turn. I was still unable to understand how it ran... That's why my car broke down in the early part of the track.. I was horrible in go kart... driving without control and i was so scared that i will died of crashing!!! That ten minutes was pretty long for me...
After the go-kart, the resort staff drove us back. We asked what time the hotel bus will transfer us to the pier. The hotel staff tipped us that we can check out @ 1pm and the bus will arrived at that time. We will not waste any time waiting..
Order our free pizza for lunch.. it was 8pc pizza. We tot it was a 4 pc pizza and we didnt order the nite before.. however the $15 pizza was much nicer than the free one. Request to send it to our room.
Packing and bathing after the go-kart while waiting for the pizza. Ate and quickly do a quick check to prevent to forget our belonging.
Checked out @ 12.50pm and there were a grp of pp came. Free welcome drinks and towels. We got our welcome drink and towel when we got check out... -___-"
Completed our check out and got my deposit back. Collected our ferry ticket n boarding passed at guest counter. Bus came and we were up the bus to the Waterfront ferry.. Since there was ample of time, we did last min shopping at the pier. All were charged SIN dollars. Bought $3 Big back of tapoica chips back.
Waited for check in for 30min plus. Paid the taxes and go through the custom. Up the ferry without realised that i was not eating my motion sickness pill!! Ate and up the ferry..
We sat at the dining corner at the back of the ferry. Ate donuts on our way back.. slept abit on the ferry... sleepy and got nothing to do..
It was raining heavily when we were reaching singapore pier. No one pick us up due to the heavy storm. We dragged ourselves with wines from DFS + luggages and took bus home. Yes... we took public transport home and it was dear's the first time. Lucky i got dear with me.. My wines, beers and luagges were pretty heavy!! Thanks to him, he helped me all the way to back home.
It was good to have a job with long holidays for a month. My previous jobs didnt give such a long holiday to recharge myself or enjoy my personal time. It was tiring to working with total focus with extra hours with kids, admin works and contact parents or teachers. However it feel wonderful to have such a long break with different from the rest of the working class.
Pardon my nonsenses.. During the holiday, i had recharged myself at an island in indonesia called Batam. Due to the overworked and unpaid teacher job, my dear and i really need to recharge ourselves by pampering a good spa package.
We planned to go somewhere further. Thank to the holiday peak season, all tour packages are out of our budgets. We only can opt either Malaysia or Batam. Since both of us had went to many places in Malaysia ( before we got attached), it was pointless to revisit those places where we had gone ample of times. So we picked a relax package - Batam.
We took 3D2N packaged at a budget resort. Despite it was classified as budget, the resort provided a good service. I did my homework and realised that the services was good.
We woke up early on 30 Nov, catching 7.50am ferry. We need to be check in by 6.50am. THerefore, we need to arrive approx 6.20 to get our tickets. After that, we had a quick Mac breakfast.
Took an hour plus ferry to reach Waterfront pier. Dear and i were the last 2 person alighted the ferry. Got stamped on passport and the Harris resort staff picked us up.
Less than 5 min drive, we arrived our resort. The welcome drinks were not served to us due to many ppl checking in. =( I was abit unhappy that i didnt have a drink as i was quite thirsty. Waited a while before we got check in. Service at the front counter was excellent. The staff explained clearly and we booked our next day shopping bus trip and the departure tickets on spot.
Got into our room. It was 10am in SIN time. THe sun was so brightly shine that it made us stay in the resort room to enjoy the air con. Watching tv till noon... Ate cup mee as for lunch.
At 1.30pm, we went for our afternoon spa which we booked at the travel agency. Dear insisted to get a 3 hour spa and it was a good choice. Although it was more expensive than we budgeted, it was still worth the value. We had 1 hour scrubbing, 1 1/2 hour of massage and 1/2 hour of herbal bath. Wonderful is the only word to describe our feeling. 1 cup of ginger honey tea after the service make us feel we are king and queen.
The spa was held at the rooftop of the resort. I felt quite serene and ambience is good. However there were a moment where workers were watering the plants or doing the maintenance. Making me abit uncomfortable when i was totally nude during my scrub. The lady who was serving me, quickly understand my irration and chased them off. Nice. =)
At the end of the spa, we tipped for their good services and we went back to our room. I dozed off while dear was watching a movie in his room. By the time i woke up, it was 6.30pm and i was starving..
I planned to go out to take photos and dinner. However it was raining heavy storm. It was impossible to take any picture in dark windy storm. We planned to take a cab to go nearby seafood kelong to eat but due to the weather, we planned to eat in the resort. Picked a Korean + Jap restaurant. It was reasonable to dear as the price are quite similar to our local mall pricing.
I picked Korean spicy chicken hot plate and order a bowl of rice. Dear order Japanese set meal - chicken kazu udon set. Since i order korean, i got 6 plates of side dishes. Since most were vegetable, dear dun really want to eat. Also dear and i tot that we need to pay and rejected to the waiter. The waiter quickly got panicky and explained there was no extra charges. It was free due to my order. I told the waiter i will try the dishes. End up these side dish were not bad. =)
When our dishes were all placed on 2 person's table, it was totally full of food. The portion were pretty large and it was totally full when we finished all up. Burp when i left the place..
Since it was still raining dogs and cats, we went for our free bowling session. We borrowed the shoes @ 1.50 each and played a match in the empty bowling alley. We were hopeless in bowling and our marks was totally unbearable to see. We vowed that we will not try again in crowded area. The staffs were looking at us how we played poorly!!
1 Dec 2010
It was shining bright and shine. It was our shopping day!! We had our breakfast at the harris resort. We also enjoyed the free internet service at the lobby for 15mins before we go out shopping. We took 10am bus to town area (took approx 45min to reach). Before we departed, we checked the lobby counter if we can take the later bus back to hotel. It was because we were given 3hours to shop including travelling time. The staff was so friendly and nice until he checked for us that there are extra seats @ 5pm, and allocated us at the 5pm pickup time! That mean we can shop from 11am to 5pm!! And we saved on the transportation back to hotel!! Hee...
I shopped till i drop.. many things were cheap. Toiletries, bras and household items.. I wanna to buy alot but quite restricted my budget. At least i got what i needed. Bought bras, toiletries, door mats and body scrub. Also J Co donuts. Dear bought a bag and a spec. Both ate A&W, it was quite expensive. Both spent nearly $20 for our lunch.
We really enjoy ourselves at Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre... Eat, shop and bumped into a grp of aunties which dear was chatting with them like buddies @ our resort.
Took the resort bus back to hotel. Dear was so worried when the bus came late. He tot we missed the bus. However i spotted alot singaporeans were waiting at the lobby, presuming they were waiting the same bus and i was right. It was because i spotted them taking photos while waiting. Singaporean loved to take photos even in the shopping malls. =)
During our way back, dear managed to chat with a mother who was sitting next to her. Asking abt their package and we learnt that we can buy the meal package for the days they needed. Other days they can go town or outside to eat their meals. When we returned to our hotel, we dump our things and went for a drip in their big swimming pool. I loved their pool since the height limit for some areas were low. =)
After the drip, we went for dinner. Planned to eat Monkey Hut but it seem no more crowd there... The Harris cafe provided oriential dinner buffet @ $18 but the meal seemed not appealing to us. Ended up we order their pizza @ $15 and sent it to our room. We bought soft drinks from the supermarket earlier and some snacks. We ate and watched movie in our cosy bedroom... Nice.. =)
Ate pizza, donuts + snack and softdrinks in bedroom was a relaxing method for us... Rot at air con room with foods and movies..
Packing up our luagges as we were leaving on next day afternoon.
2 Dec 2010
Woke up for breakfast. This round, the breakfast was better than yesterday.. I noticed that the resort provided rooms for the staffs at the nearby shipyards. Almost everyday, i will saw the shipyard staffs had their breakfast and their shuffle bus fetch and send them to work and back.
Enjoy the time at the internet corner. Update my status at fb.. esp Colleen. =)
Before we left the place, we planned to go sauna at the spa H. However, it was under maintainance and was unable on that morning. We went to play Go-Kart @ $15 each. Resort staff will drive us there free of charge. We were playing for ten minutes and droving like nuts. Dear enjoyed his ride as he overtake me twice. I got problem to drive and ended up engine failed. The brake was not as sensitive as we played in singapore. I thought i remember the brake and accelerator wrongly.. I stepped harder and it went faster.. I retried to step on brake harder and it started to slow down abit.. Btw, i was already driving on the track and there was a sharp turn. I was still unable to understand how it ran... That's why my car broke down in the early part of the track.. I was horrible in go kart... driving without control and i was so scared that i will died of crashing!!! That ten minutes was pretty long for me...
After the go-kart, the resort staff drove us back. We asked what time the hotel bus will transfer us to the pier. The hotel staff tipped us that we can check out @ 1pm and the bus will arrived at that time. We will not waste any time waiting..
Order our free pizza for lunch.. it was 8pc pizza. We tot it was a 4 pc pizza and we didnt order the nite before.. however the $15 pizza was much nicer than the free one. Request to send it to our room.
Packing and bathing after the go-kart while waiting for the pizza. Ate and quickly do a quick check to prevent to forget our belonging.
Checked out @ 12.50pm and there were a grp of pp came. Free welcome drinks and towels. We got our welcome drink and towel when we got check out... -___-"
Completed our check out and got my deposit back. Collected our ferry ticket n boarding passed at guest counter. Bus came and we were up the bus to the Waterfront ferry.. Since there was ample of time, we did last min shopping at the pier. All were charged SIN dollars. Bought $3 Big back of tapoica chips back.
Waited for check in for 30min plus. Paid the taxes and go through the custom. Up the ferry without realised that i was not eating my motion sickness pill!! Ate and up the ferry..
We sat at the dining corner at the back of the ferry. Ate donuts on our way back.. slept abit on the ferry... sleepy and got nothing to do..
It was raining heavily when we were reaching singapore pier. No one pick us up due to the heavy storm. We dragged ourselves with wines from DFS + luggages and took bus home. Yes... we took public transport home and it was dear's the first time. Lucky i got dear with me.. My wines, beers and luagges were pretty heavy!! Thanks to him, he helped me all the way to back home.
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