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3rd December on Batam Island

3rd December happened to fall on Friday, my off day, so we decided to go batam for spa!

My present to kaycee.

His present to me! The necklace, if you're wondering.

Batam was just 40 minutes ferry ride away, convenient!

We concussed after some camwhoring. But very soon, we arrived on batam island!

We were guided to a bus that sent us to KTM resort!

KTM resort wasn't fabulous and seemed really boring in fact, but it was fine with us 'cause we were just there for spa and lunch!

Walking towards the spa villa!

We were led to a rather huge room that was facing the sea!

First on the spa menu was body scrub! The beds were a distance away from the window, and the masseurs didn't draw the curtains so i wasn't very bothered. But during the bodyscrub i heard speed boats coming pretty near to where we were so i was quite worried. And the body scrub was a little painful at times and the lady scrubbed my whole body at least 5 times I got so annoyed, so i didn't enjoy it much.

Next up was the hydrobath! It's basically a jacuzzi. I was given a sarong, tube dress style, much more practical than those you have to tie on yourself, but the air from the jacuzzi kept puffing up the sarong, it was quite amusing.

After the hydrobath came my favourite part of the whole spa session! Massage! This time i was more conscious and requested for the curtains to be drawn. The massage was not too painful so i could doze off, but enough to make the massage seem worth it! I think the whole spa session lasted around 2.5 hours?

So after spa we headed to the cafe for lunch which was included in the package. We sat at table 17, my favourite number :)

Kaycee and his tasteless indonesian coconut. I'm a fan of coconuts, but only thai ones! If you're wondering how to differentiate thai and indo coconuts, thai ones are the tinier ones and the indo ones are the huge green ones! The thai ones have much sweeter juice and thicker meat :) I sound like a pro. Hurhurhur.

Our set lunch! Quite nice actually, but not enough to fill our hungry tummies.So we decided to order more seafood! Which turned out to be so-so only. We spotted a playground with swings after lunch, and swings are my favourite! So i had to go spend some time swinging :D

There was nothing else left to do at the resort, so we headed to megamall! Had my favourite baskin robbins ice cream!

The guy working at baskin robbins provided such good service he came out and offered to take a photo for us!

After ice cream, it was root beer float and curly fries at A&W :)

We went past the salon where the c block girlies and i did our pedicures and manicures the last time we were in batam. Although i didn't have a very good experience the last time i was there, i was in need of pedicure and the price was so attractive, so in i went! It was much better this time round!

Poor kaycee was uber tired 'cause we had training til very late the night before..

I lent him a fist to lean on! He was genuinely sleeping!

Just 6 bucks for classic pedicure! They only used faceshop nail polish, but i thought it was pretty worth it :)

We walked around a bit more after pedicure, i was hoping to find the place the cblockers (another gang of c blockers) paid $1 to play bumper car at! Think they closed it down though :(

Dinner time!
Kaycee's shagged face hurhur.

HAHA kaycee looks retarded here. Anyway he's holding on to a bag of keropok and fried fish balls(my favourite)! And in the hat were..

Lollipops. Yes he had them in the hat on his head -_-

We spent the rupiah we changed to the last cent, but we spotted a cafe selling S$1 teh tarik! So we decided to sit down there while waiting for our ferry back.

Tired us, but it was a pretty fun trip! :)

Just in case anyone wants to know, we paid ~$140 each for the spa package which includes return ferry tickets, bus service to the resort and a set lunch. Doesn't include some tax thingie on our return ferry though, weird. We had to pay another $7 each. I think the package was pretty worth it, if you're not looking for a very atas spa place, and just wanna spend a day out of Singapore :)

Love, ja
3:03 AM

Jaja's new year resolutions!

Work:

To discuss with my boss about my expectations regarding my current job. If there're no significant changes and the job still doesn't meet my expectations, quit and find another job. With a decent pay, reasonable working hours, good prospects and hopefully, something i'm interested in. No idea what that is yet :(

As long as i'm still working at the gym - To have more patience for all my students.
To start some sort of cheerleading program at the gym.
To learn more from chulaoshi, longwei, deqiang and mrsng wrt competitive coaching. To learn more about business management.

Health:

To sleep earlier and wake up earlier everyday. 8 hours everyday if possible, not too much longer or shorter.
To drink more water and less soft drinks. Hopefully get into the habit of bringing a water bottle around.
To extract my wisdom tooth and take better care of my teeth.
To run, swim and perhaps play tennis more often.

Beauty:

To be more diligent in terms of skincare and haircare.
To own more beautiful clothes HAHAHA. Without over spending.
To get skinnier legs. (This is more like a wish)

Others:

To better utilize my free time.
To spend more time with friends, meet up with those whom i haven't met in a long while.
To achieve new b tosses, stunts and pyramids in cheerleading.
To not let papa and mama worry about me, hence
To be safe and stay injury free as much as possible during cheer.
To achieve some sort of self improvement in terms of knowledge, skills and character. .

That's all i can think of for now. Hope I'll fulfill most of them!
Btw, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
May 2011 be an awesome one for you. :)

Love, ja
1:17 AM