Batam Indonesia

ABBEY: We dreamed for this vacation since we were together in Singapore, but time eluded us. So when opportunity came, I grabbed it and booked for a 2d1n package in batam for only 236sgd. We had a 1hour ferry ride from harbourfront centre ferry station to sekupang ferry terminal. It was a time travel. We left Singapore at 8:30 and reached sekupang at 8:30 also because of the 1-hour difference of timezone. We had our SGD exchanged to rupiah. If u want to be a millionaire/billionaire, come to Indonesia :) we began our day tour. On one of our stop, I became thirsty and bought a can of soda for 15000 :) We went to go-kart racing tracks, temples, factory outlets where I bought my Facebook shirt. We had our lunch at Golden Prawn. Imagine I ordered fried chicken at a seafood restau. Haha. Our last stop for the day tour is a 2-hour massage including a body scrub. The day tour is exhaustive but we had a very good time. Our tour guide, Dennis, gave us tips during our trip. I recommend him whenever you will have trips here. The stay in the hotel is good too. They were very accommodating. Also included in the hotel perk is a set dinner and a buffet breakfast. At 12:30, we left the place, had lunch at A&W in Batam Megamall and hot choco at J.Co while we wait for our return ferry. At 5:30, we reached SG.

WILL: So now, I am in a different time zone and millionaire again. Second time for Indonesia, but this time its for leisure :). And this is my 3rd island. Now, this my very first to be on a guided tour, wala na time magayos ng itinerary. 

Ryan Bang as our tour guide. Haha! Ang kulit nya. Nakakatuwa. Then he always ask us to tip over the performers when we like the shows, anyway, who will not tip over the man who eats fire, glasses and even the masseurs.

The tour took us a whole day. We had a body scrub and massage for two hours. Hotel check in, set dinner at the golden view's beer garden then a more than half day sleep. Terima kasih Mr Lapuz for granting this trip. 

Starbucks Singapore

ABBEY:
I know this is weird. I only ordered less than 10 coffees against the numerous times I went into the cafe. Its not that I went there just to hang out, like others do. Haha. Whenever I go to Starbucks, I buy their signature hot choco or mango passion fruit. I love coming back because of the coffee's aroma. :) Maybe next time I'll try their new "trenta".

WILL: In Philippines, everytime me and my friends meet, coffee will always be in our list. There, we just not only share the different aromas of the different flavors of ordered coffee but we also share our updates in our life. We can stay until 3am, hours of laughing and reminiscing.
So when we get here in Singapore, this was not taken out of us, not that frequent like in the Manila, but glad that I, Chat and Abbey still shares a coffee moment.
Starbucks coffee the taste for me is quite bland. So i always end up adding many cinnamon and vanilla, so i rather have their hot teas.
Love their hot teas specially with yhe mint. Costs only SGD4. 

Dairy Queen Philippines

ABBEY:
This is where we stayed when we were about to meet our "ninongs". It was hot outside the mall, and I'm already sweating. I tried their mango-orange combi juice. It was thirst-quenching. Moments later I knew I'm chilling cold. Haha. I grabbed a bite at Wilma's ice cream sandwich, reminding me of Tivoli's Funwich during my childhood :)

WILL: Blizzarddddddd, this is the fave ice cream of my brother-in-law. But for me, na-a-ah. I rather have their DQ sandwhich. Their flavors are just the same with others the only unique thing they do was to serve it upside down. A cup costs not more than 100 pesos. Their place was too small to accommodate people, so the next best thing is to roam Trinoma with the cup on your hand.