One Day in Batam…

Date: 22 Nov 08 Saturday

FAMILY DAY

We were woken up at 9 AM in the morning! So early… We were given 1/2 hour to wash and dress up as JR’s father was already waiting for us downstairs.

9:45 AM Breakfast

We made our way to Victor’s Kitchen @ Sunshine Plaza for breakfast. BUT it’s not open yet! We were too early. It will only open at 10:30 AM, so we decided to have Wanton Mee next door.

My plate of Fried Wanton Mee

We ordered an extra bowl of fried wantons.

The wantons were extremely crispy but there was hardly any meat wrapped in them. Feel like eating the “skin” only. But nevertheless, they are still nice.

Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee House
91 Bencoolen Street
#01-53, Sunshine Plaza
Singapore 189652

JR’s mother went to get the car. We waited patiently for her…

10:45 AM Cars Viewing

COE prices for Category A (Cars 1600cc and below, and taxis) have fallen to $2 in the latest round of COE bidding. JR’s parents are thinking of changing their small Honda Jazz to a bigger car hence we decided to drop by the Honda and Toyota showrooms.

Saw this giant – Toyota Fortuner.

Do I look very funny in it?

Nowhere to go after that…. Let’s go BATAM! Haha, all of us had brought our passports along with us that day. We just couldn’t decide to go or not to go earlier. We drove down to Harbour Front.

12:50 PM Singapore Cruise Centre @ Harbourfront

Not much people in the queue.

PENGUIN – Ferry Ticketing

Our tickets to Batam Centre

12:55 PM Check In

We can check in immediately after getting our tickets. So good, we don’t have to wait.

My Boarding Pass

Our Ferry – Penguin 3

JR’s parents walked so fast ahead of us – too excited….

We got seats at the second last row on the ferry. What a small ferry.

13:30 PM (BT) Welcome to Batam!

Exchanging SGD to IDR

We walked over to Megamall Batam Centre.

13:50 PM (BT) Megamall Batam Centre

JZ taking a photo of me.

We had quick lunch at A & W.

Ordering…

Blurred bear

JR’s Root Beer Float

My 2 piece chicken – very small pieces

Curly Fries

Guess what were we waiting for?

Ice-cream Waffles!

Strawberry

Chocolate

Finished!

We wanted to hire a cab to Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre but all the drivers there refused to drive us in 1 single car. We had to split into 2 since there are 5 of us. We found out that the Megamall provides shuttle bus service for its customers to some of the nearby hotels.

Timings for the shuttle bus

We were required to produce a receipt from any of the shops in Megamall in order to take the shuttle bus.

Hopping on the bus

Waiting for the bus to take off.

We alighted at the final stop – Nagoya Hotel and took a slow walk to Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre.

16:10 PM Nagoya Hill Shopping Centre

We managed to squeeze into a cab on the way back to Megamall Batam Centre for 50K IDR.

18:10 PM (BT) Batam Centre Ferry Terminal

JR & JZ getting the 19:30 PM (BT) ferry tickets back to Singapore. We dropped by the Polo Ralph Lauren stall there and the Indomart before check in. JR, JZ & I bought a Polo Tee each.