The Batam Post

And.. I'm back!

Yesterday me, Szehong, Shimin and Stanford went to Batam for a 2D1N holiday! It was a deal from some groupon type of offer, $69 for 2D1N. Link here
Basically includes buffet breakfast, 1h spa, 1 game of bowling, etc. Got some hidden costs! Like $20 ferry tax, $7 for the return bribe tax from Indo (At the customs you have to pay $7... it's called 'departure fee')

 It's my first ever holiday on my own (not with family.. with which I've only been on holiday ONCE and that was ages ago like primary school or younger) thus must take alot of photos!

I'll leave some pictures out of this post, this will be a more recap based post. If you just want to see pictures and are too lazy to read my words, just go check out my Facebook album.

On the ferry... kena photobomb! lol

With everyone inside.. and shimin's face looks retarded rofl

SH playing handphone games on the 1hr ferry ride... giving me the evil look when I snap a pic haha

The ferry took so long! Zzz. They should give the ferry some speedboat engine or something to let it SPEED across the sea. Anyway after clearing immigrations and all a bus took us to Harris Resort which would be our accommodation!

Upon arrival at the resort, as we queued to checkin, one of the Harris staff came out with a plate of cold towels! For you to cool yourself down and wipe your sweat I guess.
Well, it'd have been useful it you walked the 5-10 minute bus ride from the ferry terminal, but because we were ferried in the aircon vehicle.. not very useful? Haha. I didn't want to use it either because it just seems gross (even though it's probably washed and clean)

While we were still in the queue, Harris staff came out again with another plate of goodies- this time it's our 'welcome drink'! Haha. It was mentioned in the package (the link at the start of this post)
It's some kind of cranberry juice I think. Nice and cold :)

Very pleasant start to the trip. Kudos to Harris Resort!

OMG YUMMY BUTTER COOKIES

These were sitting on the counter when we were checking in! Looked damn yummy but I didn't dare to take lol.

So after checking in and settling all the admin stuff, we went to check out (haha) our rooms!

Harris Resort has an orange theme - e.g. their staff uniform is all orange, rooms also have this orangey theme, and you'll see from subsequent photos that they really stick to it!

View from my room! Quite nice! Can see everything!

Lovely looking resort

Some toilet shots:

The shower head is quite cool! It's like a big flat square/rectangular thing instead of the usual shower head. This allows water to cover a bigger surface area so.. it's cool! hah

So after the oohs and aahs at our rooms, the 4 of us proceeded downstairs to grab lunch at the Harris Cafe! No other choice, that's the only place to eat nearby lol.

Ok so basically there's this 'Lunch Buffet' that was going on, for SGD15$. So we were asked whether we wanted to take this offer, but of course we asked to see the menu first if there's anything else to eat.
However, MOST items on the menu were ABOVE $15.. just for one dish!!! It didn't make any sense at all.
Obviously we will take the buffet!

Artistic shot! With the food in view deliberately! hehe.

We said this was the perfect shot!

Shimin's favourite food was keropok! She kept taking can! She wanted to bring home the whole jar somemore hahaha.
SO this artistic shot (again) captures the keropok and her. 

FOOD!

Ok la the food wasn't very nice at all haha. But it's buffet! so. Haha. whack.

101 dalmations!
Haha ok actually at first only one cat appeared, then we were all like making noises at it and getting it to come.
Then out popped another one from nowhere.. so we lured it over also.
THEN ANOTHER one came out!

So cute la these cats they're like dalmatian colored! We were saying there are 98 other cats we just have to find them haha.

After lunch and some nuaing around, we went for our spa appointment!

Included in our package was a 1 hour Indonesian massage!
which... wasn't that fantastic! Haha. I had this idea that professional masseuses would be super zhai and know how to press all the right spots to make you damn shiok. But mine just felt ok only.
Wa but she cracked every finger and every toe!! Scary haha like yank yank yank yank.

AND. She cracked my neck!! Omg that was the scariest part! Haha. I didn't know it was coming, she was like 'Relax ah.. relax..' then turned my head once to the right gently, then turned it again a second time gently, ... then....
 JERK POP CRACK!

OMG!

Haha ok but I have to admit it was damn skilfully executed like she perfectly cracked it haha. But still, the thought of it was scary! And ofc after doing the left side she proceeded with the right side and naturally I was worried haha. But once again she did it quite perfectly so it was shiok haha.

Yup so it was a full body massage with the massage oil.. but it didn't feel like SUPER shiok or anything leh. Just like ok lor normal massage.
And damn gross cos your whole body has oil afterward and cos the masseuse does a head massage too so she rubs the oil through your hair... damn gross!

Oh and don't go with an opposite gender friend if not it'll be quite awkward! I think. Because you have to strip down to your underwear. And while you're wrapped in the towel thing most of the time, when they massage you at the underwear parts they will pull down one! Like wth mine just lowered my briefs abit to expose my butt when she was massaging my lower back. damn weird.
And apparently for girls they massage your boobs very briefly too LOL. Was told that by the girls.

Showing off our oily hair. Szehong is very angry with her oily hair so she flares her nose

Read 'Ratus V Spa'. rofl gross

After our spa, we went to the jacuzzi.. which was damn gross?
And because it was my first time in a jacuzzi I didn't know the 'procedure'. Apparently there are 2 tubs, one hot one cold and you're supposed to sit in the hot one then go sit in the cold one.
So me and Stanford (it's guys one side girls one side) went into the cold one wrongly at first. Then we thought it's weird so we went to sit in the warm one. But the water really looked damn gross like vomit diarrhea water or something.

ANYWAY. After washing up, we went bowling! Free game included in the package! (we ended up playing one extra game for SGD $3.50)

My gf the bowler (not really)

Me the pro bowler in my pro stance (not really)

Omg this photo took like 5 tries or something to take because SH keep on taking bad pics!! She cannot be a sports photographer all the photos will be fail kind HA. Like just blurs.

My disappointing score!

I started out quite promisingly, you see, 9 on first, next 2 frames got spares. Then after that.. slowly collapse, then last 2 frames only 1 point wth. All gutter balls zzz. Next game was worse so not posting the screenshot of the score.

After bowling was dinner! We took a cab out to a nearby seafood place.

Quite expensive! Who said indo seafood was cheap! Each dish about SGD $10

Next few pictures are all food:

prawns

Sweet/sour fish!

After that we went back and just nua and htht. Didn't plan well ! Next time must have timetable planned out nicenice haha.

Anyway, breakfast was buffet breakfast! Shiok! Western somemore! My favourite haha.

Not intended to be obscene I swear. Took abit only at first cos must test whether nice

Delicious looking things which SH took for me but I didn't really eat haha cos I wanted to eat  my:

omelettes!! yum!

They actually make the omelette for you on the spot! Damn shiok.


And what holiday is complete without... SHOPPING!

We went to NAGOYA Mall to shop! It's the nearest one apparently.. about 30 minutes ride away  :S

I bought a few T shirts because I don't have enough nice ones.

Our lunch was at A&W!! (which btw stands for Allen & Wright, the founders of the franchise) Why did they move out of Singapore!

Their root bear float is damn big!! like the mug is hugeee

Which I suggested to SH that it's actually a business ploy! They give you a super big drink so you get full from that, and they can skimp on the portions! Which is true! Their fries and all damn little lor!

Yup, so after the meal we continued to shop for a bit, and we headed back to our hotel en route home!

Oops no stanford cos he's in the front seat

There he is. Haha this was at A&W

Yup that's all the photos we took! It was an enjoyable trip in general, the service at Harris Resort was REALLY good! I really like it man. Haha. All the staff very polite and courteous and all. I just didn't like the prices of everything! :( Expected the meals to be damn cheap which turned out the opposite.

Anyway, it was a fun time with the girlfriend having our first holiday tog :) and with shimin and stanford. Stanford is the best man! He's damn nice keep on pretending to forget to collect money from us when we owe him because he pays first. We had to push money on him via shimin. And he can speak bahasa Indo so he made our trip alot easier because he can bargain/negotiate/talk with the locals! I think without him we die already lor haha.

ok time to plan next holiday. HAHA. next year ba. School is reopening nooooo. ;(

Anyway, for more pictures, go here.

Bye!

The hardest logic puzzle ever

Wow this is seriously the most crazy logic puzzle ever. If you can solve it on your own, you are really pretty damn amazing.
I'm reading the solution and I'm already taking ages to even understand it lol.

WARNING - this is really mindf-k to the max! Don't embark on it if you don't want to kill 213987 of your brain cells.

The Puzzle:There are 3 people, A, B and C. One of them always tells the truth, one of them always lies, and one of them always randomly decides to tell the truth or lie.
Your task is to ask 3 yes-no questions, each question has to be directed to only one person, and figure out who is which.

Some clarifications:
- They know each other's roles
- You can ask one person more than one question (e.g. all 3 questions can be directed at A)
- Whether the Random person speaks truly or not should be thought of as depending on the flip of a coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely.
- Your question has to have a yes-no answer. (E.g. no 'maybes', paradoxes, etc)






If you solve it let me know what your 3 questions are! :D Contact me for any further clarifications too. 


(DONT GOOGLE FOR THE ANSWER TRY TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF IT'S FUN FUN FUN FUN )

Night Cycling!

Yesterday I went for my first ever night cycling trip with the Arts OG! Seriously love the enthusiasm of the freshies to keep organizing these things.. hope it never dies out! hehe.

The co-organizer Hysen had everything planned out:

‎8pm – 10pm Dinner/Renting of bicyles10pm – 12mn Part 1 of Cycling trip12mn – 1am Supper at East Coast1am – 2.30am Part 2 of Cycling trip2.30am – 4.30am HTHT session4.30am – 6am Part 3 of Cycling trip6am – 7am Breakfast at Macdonald7am – 8am Last leg back to Changi Village 

Wa can be any more meticulous anot! Got schedule somemore! haha.

The general plan was
Part 1 - Cycle from Changi Village to East Coast Park Lagoon for supper
Part 2 - Cycle from ECP to Marina Barrage to chill
Part 3 - Cycle from Marina Barrage back to ECP Macs for breakfast
Part 4 - Cycle back from ECP to Changi Village

The first part was loooong there's this super long stretch of road that seems to run parallel with some airport runway so we kept seeing planes takeoff as we cycled down that long road. I was still with the front pack at this point, and the others were falling behind it seemed, cycling very slowly!
And chipang was such a noob omg whining like a girl! Kept saying tired etc. The freshies kept making fun of him haha was quite funny. 'Eh guards one why lidat ah' (he was from Guards)


So we sat at Lagoon and me simin grace and keryu shared a plate of Roti John while we all just... talked abt random stuff. It was mostly GS and CP talking to the other PJC freshies about PJC.

Anyway, we began Part 2 shortly after this, in spite of CP's incessant complaints and suggestion to just chill at the beach.

We headed towards Marina Barrage, including a detour into this gays carpark where apparently gays go to pick up other gays and they'll make out in the bushes. Didn't see anything interesting though.

Along the way, because of alot of people complaining that they were tired and etcetc we ended up heading to Singapore Flyer instead of all the way to Marina Barrage. However, we still had to clear this crazy :

MONSTER STAIRCASE. It is about twice what is shown in this picture

Our only route across was to go up this staircase which led to a long flyover which connects directly to Singapore Flyer area. So we had to carry our bikes up this stupid staircase before we could take that flyover.
Oh but the flyover was fun though, it had one of the longest slightly steep downslopes that we could glide down.. AND halfway through it starts to bend so you really have to control your brakes and steer your bike down.. but of course you don't want to brake too much if not it won't be fun anymore! haha. adrenaline rush max


We reached the Flyer and sat near the F1 pitstop area and just talked random stuff for abit while resting... I entered the girl's toilet there! Hahaha. Cos i went with simin and baoyue and the guys toilet was closed so we just all took the girl's toilet. It was like 3-4 AM anyway so sure nobody.

And after awhile we decided to head back to ECP macs, and had to clear that bloody staircase again but this time downwards la. But still have to carry bike.

Breakfast was extremely satisfying, relished my customary Big Breakfast (just about the only thing I eat from the Macs breakfast menu), and then it was the long return leg!!

Ok I don't know why for this leg me and simin were all the way at the back now. It's like the people who were previously too tired to keep up with us were now too desperate to get back so they chiong in front. Then I just stayed behind to cycle with Simin la, more fun ma :)

Was super shack can! The last leg back. Our butts hurt like mad from the seat and our thighs were on the verge of cramping also. Had to keep motivating each other to keep going haha. ALMOST THERE ALREADY.

When we finally caught sight of Changi Village.. OMG SHIOK. haha. the feeling of knowing you have reached the destination is awesome.


All in all it was a great experience, but I don't know if I'll want to do it again haha. Very tiring! And I think the freshies just bring a real nice energy that I like to hang around, unlike around certain other seniors... (shh)
It was also great to cycle and chat with simin most of the time, damn fun man! Though my attempt at introducing some philosophical stuff from PH1102E totally failed because I forgot and mixed up the arguments/analogies  xD Was great company nonetheless :)

Though of course I wish certain other people were there, like sang, joann, CANDICE, si en, munch. My usual hangout buddies! Eh and it's not my fault that they're all girls k, the guys are all phantom one what to do. Like wilbur, gary (like almost never see him at all whole year)... noone else sia. PHANTOMS.

Ok this is a very boring post but I just wanted to pen it down so I can read it in the future for memory's sake :)
BYE

P.S. Blogger's new look sucks. Gimme back the old one!