20.02.2015 - 2nd day in Batam
Next Morning had breakfast with my girl at level 1 of hotel. There was a very long queue and we waited for about 20 mins or so before we can have our breakfast. Occupancy rate for Goodway was likely to be 99%,so it seems like every staffs there wears a Justice Bao face today and most of them were "not walking",hehehe...they are zooming around...lol.
After breakfast,my girl asked me to book her for another night since she knows i will be staying 3D2N....i gladly obliged,pass her 800k and 200k tips and off she is gone at around 10am. I pass her one of my room key too,in case i will be out shopping around as i need to help bro fishingman check on his room for 3rd day of CNY at Formosa. Anyway,my girl turn up in my room less than 2 hour later before i can leave for my errands. i ask her to stay in room 1st while i walk over to Formosa and also to buy MORE toiletries,hehehe...i used up all CDs ma,need to buy a lot more.
At Formosa,i was surprise that 3rd day of CNY has available room and even my favourite ROOMS were also available,so decide to GRAB them and to extend my stay for another night till 22nd. Damn! I almost forget i already confirm ferry ticket to go back on 21st at 715pm,if i extend ,will i still have ferry to head back to Sillypore on 22nd? So i head back to Goodway 1st....while on my way,saw another unreliable driver having coffee with his friends,so decide to stay to have some tcss which i practically dont understand what they are talking...lol. They speak bahasa,i dont...they do help me to translate here and there tho.Anyway the unreliable driver volunteered to send me back to Goodway and i hand him 50k thereafter. I dont usually pay such high price for short trip,well...its CNY so...hehehe...btw,the taxi drivers were chatting about joints having runaway girls. Many girls take as many as 5 overnight booking and OKT dont accept complains from customers.
It was about 2pm,still relatively quite early and i call my unreliable driver that i booked for the whole day to bring me for lunch,asked my girl to join me,but she says she's tired and wishes to sleep (for obvious reasons,hehehe...),so i just leave her alone with 150k inside room table drawer for her to eat whatever she likes from hotel. (Goodway's meals are 33% more expensive than Formosa.)
After lunch at A2 (the super fabulous bak chor mee),we head to the 2 Tua Pek Kongs before heading to Harbour Bay to get my ferry ticket date changed. Bad news,ALL tickets for 22nd Feb were sold out except those with odd timings. No choice gonna pull my last stunt,i asked for Business Class again and surprisingly,tickets for all timing for 22nd suddenly become available...LOL.
It was then about 5pm when i reach Kaha to get the room voucher...now this is where the WHOLE DRAMA STARTS which makes me feel this trip is a TOTAL BAD LUCK TRIP!! When i reach Kaha to get my reserved rooms,they tell me Formosa NO MORE ROOM....seriously,i was totally STUNNED!! I called Formosa and they tell me the guy who says help me reserved my rooms already off duty etc etc...grrr....and they cannot allow me to have the room i want. But being their regulars,they told me they will try their best but no promises until the next day 10am....lol.
Ok,the rest of time was just travelling around Batam sourcing Hotels for an available ROOM,before heading back to room at around 530pm. My girl was asleep when i returned and she had use the 150k which i left behind for lunch. The good thing about her is,she returned my change. Thumbs up on this one.
Planned to have dinner at 8pm,but didnt know where to head to as most of the shops are closed. Hmm...decide to try Kroepoek Food Hall along Nagoya City Walk since in my last trip ,my Muslim bro who joined me in my last trip gave me a top up card which still contains about 50k plus of cash in it. For those who miss out my last trip's summary,
Kroepoek Food Hall along Nagoya City Walk DO NOT take cash upon food order from the store. I need to top up cash in my store value card in order to order food from the store.
Now,here is my 2nd drama for the day....its also the 1st time i kick a fuss (small one tho) with the Food Hall manager,hehehe...maybe becos of the whole day's ordeal ,i have been pending up and stomaching the frustration all to myself that result my fuse to blow in the later evening.
I arrived at the
Kroepoek Food Hall,i try to top up the store value card that the Muslim bro gave me ,guess what? They told my card EXPIRES!!! All these while we were not told that the card actually expires in a month. I told them since its expire,can i get my money back? They say no...and that i have to get a new card. And re-top up a fresh amount of $$$ in it etc etc. There was a small argument,until the manager came...still,i am not getting my money back even if i buy and top up a new card,instead i now have a VIP card...lol...which will NEVER expires...hehehe...total amount of money lost in this dinner on 20th Feb 2015 is 5k for the last card,another 5k for the new card and the last 50k plus in the last card,in exchange for a VIP card that will not expire. Still not very happy,but i need to be honest here,as i REALLY enjoy my meal there. Reason,the food was good and it was the cheapest meal i had in CNY (20k to 30k/meal) and most importantly, the ambience is superb with a live band playing music. 3 person eating 4 person share of meal plus drinks cost about 120k in total. And i still have about 75k in that VIP card since i top up 200k.
Anyway,i feel my whole day on 20th Feb is just crappy....lol
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