made longer by our first MDO on Thurs.. so that’s 4 days of break!

plans to go to a proper island were shelved but managed to get myself out of this island still – 2D1N batam tmr and sun with min & the MAs..

harrowing experience with this travel agency. i didn’t know it was an agency! haha… just book online from googling, so i tot it’s just some internet company, everything can b done online. so convenient rite! wrong! firstly i booked on fri nite and their reply on sat morn was sent to my spam (bad sign) so not seeing anything in my inbox i called them on mon. they resent, and i replied with the necessary details on mon evening. tues and wed were spent chasing for the confirmation – i totally understand u need some processing time but the best part is the hotel (holiday inn, not some shabby place) had said rooms were available so we din understand y cannot confirm leh? but apparently the agency person also duno y. she say the hotel manager was now handling it personally, give him till thurs morn. so ok it was confirmed n she told me to go her ofc to make payment, n i was like har cannot funds transfer meh.. den ok lo go down lo.. n she said hotel voucher not ready so will email me.. n i paid 20 bucks extra cos i refused to walk to nearest atm to withdraw cash cos i was in HEELS n FORMAL wear and had walked freaking a lot in the morn – so i’d rather pay 3% to use cc. pui. n until tis morn stil nothing in my mail.. till 15mins ago when she called frm home (in msia) and said she just sent over.. and apologised for the delay due to technical errors in batam..

PHEW. very relieved i finali see the voucher. lesson learnt, should have just booked directly with hotel and gotten the ferry separately. cos she couldnt get the timings i wanted also.

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so, that’s batam. v v v short getaway tt was like harder to plan compared to taiwan! bleh. hope it’ll b good. and i can think through things as well. i’m told to write down the lists of pros and cons before making any decision. i’ll try that!

anw yesterday was qt eventful with me waking up early, leaving hse early, but timing got changed and i whiled time away taking buses.. then gg with sq to sign her letter b4 gg to the travel agent and finalli to mar’s hse where i could finalli change out and switch to casual. i like! best part was, she was on last min half day.. i <3 spontaneous!

we were supposed to go vivo.. no idea y but we were aredi waiting for the bus when she suddenly said wan to go do fish spa.. n so we went ulu fish farm! i happily said we can cab in den take shuttle out.. then when we arrived the first thing i saw was the shuttle bus banner with VIP words “on weekends and public holidays only”. roar! but anw dun care, we had a fab time with the fishes haha.. cos it wasn’t crowded so we had all the fishes to ourselves!

supposed to go vivo after tt.. but on the train i suddenly remarked “i haven’t gone to the new jurong point!” and so.. we went to jp! OMG i totally can’t recognise the place! i was trying to visualise wat it was like last time.. but failed miserably. so invariably, i was very lost. hahaa.. there’s a lot of food there lor if i were still in cs now i tink we’d go crazy with all those food choices.

by 7 i was VERY tired liao. felt like a super looooong day.. i also realised i spent like 6 bucks taking buses and trains the whole day. omggg

ok it’s 510pm now.. time to bathe n go meet the lamers.. but i duno how we r gonna eat at gluttons bay when it is raining… n i’m lazy to upload pics so pardon the wordy post.. if u read all the way here it’s either u love me or u r too bored or u r just kpo wahahhaah.. nvm i will still <3 u!