Monday, January 30, 2017

CNY 2017 Chu Er: Batam

Zaky fell asleep while watching TV the night before. It must be too early bcos the he woke up at 7ish Batam time and made a lot of noise and soon Lil Shauna was up. Fortunately, everybody loves watching TV in the bed, regardless of what time it is.
We lazed in bed for a long time before bfast bcos Daddy Lim refused to wake up. Lol. He said that he slept at 2am the night before, watching 3 movies on his own after all of us had turned in. Backside itchy. 

The kids were escatic to have pick and choose bfast. Kids below 12 dine for free!
After bfast, we watched more TV before starting the Batam routine - eat, shop and arcade. 
Daddy Lim prefers to stay next to the Megamall; he thinks that it is less 杂 than Batam City Square Mall (BCS) or Nogoya Mall. The kids didn't care so long as mummy gives them plenty of arcade time and money. 

After round 1 of arcade, we lured the kids back for swimming. I thought it would be good fun but the water was waaaayyyyy too cold for swimming. The kids took a long time to climatise before they managed to get into the water.

At least they got into the pool bcos I couldn't make myself do so. Lol. I was all dressed but didn't get into the water eventually. 
So I was the official photographer instead. Daddy Lim and the kids were happily doing jump shots and I was happily being the photographer, so long as I didn't have to go into the water. Hahaha.


They didn't last long too; it was imhumanly cold. Lol. Daddy Lim wanted to do massage and gave the kids the option to go to the BCS. Zaky was all for it bcos they would get to play the segway and hoverboard. 

BCS was about 20 mins by taxi and we paid INR 75k for the cab. Segway and hoverboard were definitely the 1st on the kids' list. 
We went for massage after that; even the kids. It was the same massage place that e went to the last time and we opted for 60 mins body massage this time. Lil Shauna and I shared a room while Zaky went with Daddy Lim. I was worried that Zaky wouldnt stay put the whole time. I heard him speaking at 1st but he was quiet soon after. I bet he was enjoying the massage as much as I do. 

One hour past so quickly bcos it was pure enjoyment. Then, we realised why Zaky was so quiet; he had fallen asleep. Hahaha. He slept so deeply that we had a hard time waking him up. At one point, I thought maybe he had fainted and I was so relieved when he finally stirred. 

We had dinner at the big foodcourt next to the massage place. I wanted to eat there the last time but didn't have the chance. The foodcourt was like the hawker center we visited in my younger days; we ordered food and it was sent to our table. 

It was crowded and I only remembered to take picture after we finished the food. Haha. We had pork satay! Where to find pork satay in Singapore now?!?!
The kids had round 2 of hoverboard after dinner. Even Lil Shauna opted for the hoverboard this time. 


Then we hit the arcade. For INR 100k, we spent more than 2 hours at the arcade. The arcade uses tokens and it was a lot more fun bcos the kids get to win tokens, which explained why INR 100k lasted us for such a long time. We won quite some tokens but spent all at the end of the day. At the Megamall arcarde, the kids finished INR 300k in less than 3 hours. We finally left the mall at 9.30pm and managed to hire a cab. Phew. We went to lala land while watching TV. Totally blissful. 

Mummy Lim

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