Reach Batam at 130pm indo time. Harbour Bay is quiet,not many people coming out from ferry. A small accident happen during my trip there tho,i am suppose to take the 1215pm ferry,and i guess i have an overly-relax mood this time since i didn't set any "target" for this trip cos of Ramadan...lol...and i was late for ferry boarding...so change to the 130pm ferry. My 1st bad omen...
Taxi as usual was ample,but the weather is hot and becos i need to tread carefully in this trip,so i decide to take a taxi this time. 1st time in all my Batam trip i was quote 60k!!
Reject,reject...the next one,50k...also reject...so decide to walk around and reject almost 10 taxi drivers until i come across one that i manage to bargain to 30k,hehehe...the trip is from Harbour Bay to Kaha,then to Formosa...all in 30k. He give me a very nice black name card and may post it here when i am back to sillypore.
I am prepared that most joints will be close during the day...but still i want to walk to Gold Bird to try my luck...and i was surprise to see it OPEN!! I mean front door open! (i need to be honest here,i cant tell which is the front door & which is the back of Gold Bird) About 20 over girls to choose from,so as usual,pick a "big fat old ugly" one at 600k and was send to my hotel at 3pm indo time. And by the time i am typing this,i have done round 1.So far so good... hehehe...
On my way from Harbour Bay to hotel,i check the rate from along the way,it's between 9350/SGD to 9450/SGD...Harbour Front,sillypore lagi worse...9250/SGD to 9350/SGD.(i still have some IDR during my last trip,so didn't change any yet) I guess after 7pm indo time,will step out to walk walk and see the batam world,for now....it's abt time for BBBJ and then maybe head to Kings for foot reflexology to recoup my strength for tonite...i had a "not-so-good" trip during my 4th & 5th trip...hope this trip will be able to used up at least half pack of my 12s before my girl go back 2morow morning.
Wish me luck! (and wish everyone had a good evening too)