Back from Batam

I’m back. Its so not dead yet Mavis…

I went to Batam yesterday. Actually we ‘missed’ the ferry because it bus that fetched us from my mom’s school was extremely late! But the tour guide managed to pull a couple of strings to get us on the ferry that we were supposed to board. Kudos to Audrey!

Once there, we had a pretty smooth bus trip to the resort were we were to experience some family bonding games. There was this tele-tubby to greet us. I think his name was Po… Cute red fella… And I took two photos with it… It fell down when it wanted to give my brother a hug…Haha! So cute!

The staff gave us glasses of orange juice to refresh us… Apparently the elders were very thirsty ( or greedy). Then we proceeded to the ‘beach’. Well the beach was FAKE! They used imported sand because you could just tell from the quality of sand and the type of distribution of sand…. So obvious!

We were divided into two groups and play three games: Funny Bones, Murderer and Sale. I won the Funny Bones with my father. Very Fun. Should try it with other soon! I had to sell my brother for Sale, so I created some fairytale story about him and to my disbelieve, they bought it… So I won again!! YAY!

I did so well with my charisma and talking ability that the Game Master let me run the second round of games for the next group! I received plenty of praise from people! Yay ME!

We had lunch. Great lunch. Buffet lunch. Carbo-overload lunch. But it was worth gaining a few extra pounds… Then we went on a city tour… Basically we went to shop at two shopping malls. GREAT BARGAINS! I cant believe that things were so cheap there, except that the money was counted in so many thousands that my mom had to carry around a calculator to factor the numbers to get the value in Sing. I bought hell lot of things, nearly couldn’t stuff everything in my bag…HAHA!!

On the boat back, my mom, Tim and Tom and myself went up to the upper deck. We offered this Caucasian man a couple of potato chips and in return, he offered us a CIGAR! Haha! Me and Tim thought it was a chocolate stick, and wanted to take it but our mom stopped us… Phew… Cant imagine chewing on tobacco…

Will talk more about cat class in the next post. Kinda dumb to separate them, but yup, that is me!