went with some other classes to batam last thursday! jeremy's dad was so nice, gave me a lift to harbourfront. met there and set off by ferry. we had, in my opinion, a bitchy tourguide. she rolled her eyes when i smiled at her and she talked to us like we were in some boot camp. bad first impression(and many to follow).



watched the incredibles on the way there and basically camwhored alot. but not with my cam tho:p thought of getting some history tips from ms wong and mrs cross sitting beside us but thought against that in the end. enjoy enjoy don't think about work.

went there and got separated into groups. barbra was being so sarcastic when i heard her wrongly and almost went up the other bus with the others. then we went to this harris hotel and i found out that she actually works there? kept referring to it as 'our hotel, our hotel..'. it just sounded wrong on her lips. ok other than the times when she was yelling at us to shut up, she was ok i guess. did learn a few things like about hotel business and stuff. but sadly, i can't remember much about that now.


at their local school


this is barbra. i do not like barabra.(maybe thats why janrick looks pissed too)

so then we dropped by this shop and everyone went nuts buying snacks and stuff. had lunch at the place beside it. 'twas ok seafood and i got salty coconut water. back on the bus we had a new tourguide. some local chap who was quite entertaining.

then we were allowed to shop at this mall for.. 20 minutes! which is like totally insane. you'll see mad pasirians running around all over the mall. mdm mariamah told us to get some stationery for the local school with the donations we'd collected. yea we had difficulty finding a stationery shop and when we did, we had a hard time trying to count all the pencils and erasers and stuff. the cashier was super slow and in the end the three of us were late. the coaches left without us. we were left behind with another one of the stupid tourguides who has zero zilch nada sense of humour. he tried to scare us that we'd have to wait for the next ferry at night and he scolded me when i said something... hmmm. i don't like it when people raise their voices at me like that. in the end, i just felt like punching because the ferry terminal was like what? a 5-minute walk over this bridge connected to the mall. he seemed so smug at almost succeeding to scare the hell out of us.

heard brabara was saying something like let's just leave and don't care about those late people. i mean hello.. maybe less 'professionalism' and some concern please?

she looked so disgruntled anyway when mdm mariamah passed her the stationery we'd brought. her ooh... thank you sounded so ingenuine too. if body language tells alot about how a person is like, i definitely know what kind of person she's like.

while waiting for the ferry we tried to capture shots of The Two Worst Tourguides Ever and we kinda succeeded. they noticed and scrammed. onboard ferry Worst Tourguides kept looking over to make sure we weren't doing anything we weren't supposed to. sniggers.

anyway, 'twas overall not that bad a trip. not when you've friends to laugh things off with!



counting down the days<3