My first trip to batam... after hearing sooo much about batam from my dear colleague, huiyi, I decided to venture into batam with my mum and charmiane. We just took a ferry to Batu Ampar(45 min ride) from harbour front center. Took a cab for RP40K to Nagoya Hill shopping center.. As we were a little early, we went to a coffee shop for branch- mee soto.. not too bad.. abit salty and spicy..

Thinking of going there again.. maybe for their water sports and massage and stuff... anyone wanna go? let me noe!!!

Friday:

TRF's D&D (dinner and durian!!)

A lab outing with my boss and colleagues on the same day as our company's D& D... we had our own version of d& d aka dinner and durian..

we book a SMART MPV taxi for the 5 of us... hopped on... and we made our way down to No Signboard resturant at geylang... on teh taxi.. my and hy were a little over-excited... made too noise until teh taxi driver had to on the cartoon to keep us quiet... lol..

At the resturant, we ordered a few dishes... i think the waitress was a little pissed off when we kept changing our dishes as we ordered... and we didnt order seafood dishes in a seafood resturant... we had fun chatting... taking pics... laughing at one another... boss blend in pretty well with us... although he did say that he felt like an "uncle" when he is with us...

After our dinner, we proceed on to our 2nd D: DURIANS!!! I leaded the group down the geylang road... based on the instruction i got from char... even streets are the "u-know-wat" business and odd streets are where u can find all the yummy food...

B4 our trip, boss did request for a short "sight-seeing" at geylang... so we brought him there... a wide range of gals were standing by the walkway: short/ tall, thin/fat, young/old... i felt a little unsafe and uneasy as i walked down those streets.... as i was leading the group, all of a sudden i wished there was someone i can like hold on to for protection sake.. but.. couldnt do that to boss rite.. eventhough he was walking slightly behind me... quicky walked through a few more streets b4 we crossed the road to our dear durian stall....

At the durian stall, we excotted boss a a seat b4 me, by and hy moved over to choose the durins. it was indeed an interesting experience as the stall owner choose the durain for us.. yelling at the durian to make it taste better... a durian with both sweet and bitter flesh..

While we were choosing the durian, the stall owner kept commenting that mickey mouse love to eat durians... it was onli after sometime i found out he was refering to me!! cos i was wearing a mickey mouse t-shirt.... lol...

Honestly, i love hanging out with my colleagues... I can really be myself when i'm with them, no longer having to worry that any words that come out of my mouth would irritate anyone.. my colleagues and 1 are able to take others' comment as it is.. nothing serious... we have nothing in between us.. no back-stabbing... where can i find another group of friends-colleagues like them...

After the D & D, me, by and hy went to white sand Mac to chat... girls talk... i practically shared everything with them.... and they are franked to me too.. giving me their opinions and thoughts about all these issues.... 3 of us cliqued so well since my 1st day of attachment... eventhough i have onli know them for 6 months... I felt that we were like friends who have known each other for ages....