Syle Wedding Batam Trip

Remember I mentioned that my Goddess took part and won the Style Wedding 'My Magical Proposal' contst? Well, they took their prize last Friday - a 2D1N trip for 2 to Batam.

The prize began at 8am in the morning - check-in at Harbour Front Terminal.

The Horny Devil carrying my Goddess' big bag. You can't blame her for the size as there are just some essentials that you can't leave home without - cleanser, moisturiser, toner, make-up, make-up removal, shampoo, contacts, contacts solution, etc. She already brought them in travel-pack size!

Queuing with 49 other couples

Checking out the goodie in the goodie bag - which only had Clear Men shampoo.. chay~ Thought they will give some Style Wedding magazine for our reference.

Waiting excitedly for the ferry to arrive

Going on board!

The Horny Devil getting bored while waiting for their briefing

A tour around the Holiday Inn premises - they have nice spa facilities (very ex too)

Trying to capture a shot of the flying petals - like you would see in some wedding albums

Still unsuccessful

Lunch was a Chinese restuarant called Dragon Inn Restaurant. The food there was not bad, especially the floss fried brinjal and coffee chicken. Luckily my Goddess and the Horny Devil met another couple whom they already knew and shared lunch together. It was so not so expensive at SGD12 per person.

After lunch, was check-in. The hotel staff kept refering to us as MediaCorp people, made me feel like some celebrity.

Check out our suite! It's damn huge given that only 2 people will stay in it. Feels more like a chalet. There's 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, one dining area, one living room and one balcony.

The beautiful view from their room. Can you spot YP's cousin the picture?

After a short rest, the two of them headed down to Nagoya Hill for some shopping.

And they spotted BFC!

Which stands for Best Fried Chicken

Then they had some fun at the Amusement Centre and hypermart called Hypermart. How original.

Their frozen foodstuffs are up for your pick and not pre-packed. Not very hygenic though.

Even though they try to convince us their french fries are fresh. But this ain't no french fries?

Tea Break at A&W. How can they leave Batam without eating this - curly fries, waffle ice-cream and root beer float. Yumz~

Can't stomach down the bill of 51,000, even though that's only SGD7 plus.

My Goddess loves A&W! Why do they have to leave Singapore?

Finally, doing cheap cheap manicure and pedicure. Costs only SGD25 in total! With nail art some more.

See, I wasn't lying to you when I said their hypermart is called 'hypermart'

Because of the manicure, my Goddess and the Horny Devil was late for the bus, making the whole bus load of people wait for 15 minutes! Tsk tsk~ they always have the habit of coming back late and making the bus wait.

Happy with her beautiful manicure

After washing up, they had a Glamour Night dinner with the other couples. This was the only free thing besides the hotel stay. The food was not fantastic though. Not filling at all!

There were many advertisers and sponsors showcasing their photography, bridal gowns, wedding gifts services.

The huge ballroom

During the dinner, my Goddess spotted this girl having a bun-ed up hair. However, she was using something white, thick and weaved. Reminds my Goddess of those wrapper you use to wrap the pears and apples in the supermarket!

Performances before dinner

The not-so-tasty dinner

Weird tasting soup that is placed intricately in a cup

Wedding gowns showcase. The gowns all look very beautiful! The wedding album shots are quite unique too! It's by Voulans Couture.

Evening gowns showcase

Though the food was sucky, they had an enjoyable night.

The night view from the hotel room

Next morning, continental breakfast at the Terrace Cafe! I always love continental breakfast from hotels because you can get to try so many different varieties~ woohoo!

Taking a picture with YP's cousin before leaving

If you are wondering why the picture appears a little fuzzy nad if the camera is spoilt, the camera is nedded spoilt. My Goddess and the Horny Devil tried to take underwater pictures to submit for their Magical Moment contest (there's this contest held for all the couples , to submit their magical moments spent in Batam), and the supposedly waterproof Olympus camera which my Goddess bought less than a year ago, had water entering it, and the battery compartment was soaked!

Thankfully the memory card was still working and all the pictures are still retrievable. Oh well, the camera will be left for another story another time.

Anyway, it was time to make the decision, to move to another resort or stay in the same hotel for another one night. This is because there is nothing much to do at Holiday Inn. There's a water ski place not too far away, but water skiing was not exactly my Goddess or the Horny Devil's cup of tea. They were thinking more of snorkelling which is available at Nongsa beach, at the other end of Batam.

And so they have decided - to shift to Batam View resort. The resort costs $5 less, they will have more time to spend at the resort without having to pay another $26 to travel back to Holiday Inn and 40min travelling.

Checking in at the resort

The resort room, though small, but cosy

There's a balcony

To enjoy the magnificent view

Taking their welcome drink before they go for their seasports activity

Things you can do at Nongsa Beach

Getting ready to snorkel!

That's the banana boat and the speed boat which they had taken

The Horny Devil was sad because he hit my Goddess' head twice and shoulder blade once

After the sea sports activity, it was time to explore the resort.

They had a mini zoo!

Beautiful scenery along the resort

A BBQ seafood buffet dinner by the poolside

There was some face-changing and magic show performance as a group of people were having their golf getaway

Yummilicious spread of food

There was a roving performance where the band went around singing for the guests




Though the quality here is not good, they actually sound nice

After dinner, they sat at the lounge and listened to some live performance, and explored their discotheque, a really cool place, which apparently accept PAssion cards

Then it's back to the hotel room. Beautiful night view.

Another day of continental breakfast!

And some tanning before they head back to SG

It's time to call a weekend

And time to go back home. Thank you Style weddings for giving my Goddess this wonderful getaway!

Style Weddings My Magical Wedding Proposal Briefing

Before our trip to Batam on Friday, all participants were supposed to go for a briefing.

The Horny Devil came from work, and so was very thirsty. They almost wanted to buy drinks at McDonald's. Luckily they didn't.

Because there were free drinks available!

The itinerary

And my Goddess was so excited, and the Horny Devil was pretending to be not

Looking forward to the trip on Friday!!

After the briefing, they headed for a late lunch at Waruku @ Marina Square to celebrate their 5 years 3 months monthsary.

Even though there were 49 other couples, which was quite a lot (it's as though the contest had 51 entries and theirs was nothing special), my Goddess was still very excited about the trip. It's a free getaway after all, something new and exciting for the both of them. And deep down, my Goddess knows for sure their proposal must be the most magical of them all!

Goddess has won a contest!

My Goddess saw an email one day in her hotmail that has the title "Our Magical Proposal Contest - Submit Your Story NOW!‏". Keen to see what the contest is about she read on.

Thinking that her wedding proposal should be quite unique and stand out from the crowd, she decided to give the contest a try. "No harm typing," she thought, and she began to type the whole story.

Today, my Goddess went to check her hotmail again. This time there was an email with the title "Congratulations For Winning The Exclusive Wedding Workshop at Holiday Inn Resort Batam".

No kidding! Her name is listed as one of the winners in the website!

She was so excited! It has been a long time since she has won any contests! Though the prize is just a 2D1N stay at Batam, Holiday Inn, and they need to attend don't know what wedding workshop, at least they can go for a short getaway for free. She was initially planning to go Malacca or some parts of Malaysia during one of the long weekends.

Keep a look out for stylewedding website! Their pictures (don't know which one) will be posted up on the web and their (magical) proposal story shared soon!

Words

There are about two million English and Chinese words combined together, or even more.

Why is it so difficult to pick the right ones at the right time?

Humans are Dogs Best Friend

Humans are really dogs' best friend! They don't get mad at you for long even if you pee-ed on their favourite wood floor, chewed on their belongings or poo-ed at the door of their room so that they stepped on it first thing in the morning.

They share with you really yummilicious food like papaya, watermelon, apple, bak kwa, pork ribs any many more.

They cuddle and hug you every now and then like you are the cutest thing on earth.

They know exactly what you are thinking about when you just need to look into her eyes or wag your tail..

I love you, my Goddess...

You Know You’ve Had a Bad Haircut

You know you’ve had a bad haircut when you look like a cockroach with feelers when you let your hair down.
You know you’ve had a bad haircut when you look like a mad women with so much stray ends falling out of place when you tie your hair up.
You know you’ve had a bad haircut when it doesn't help when you change parting, tie it up or let it down.
You know you’ve had a bad haircut when hair that takes you years to grow becomes one to two inches long only.
You know you’ve got a bad haircut when the short ends and long ends are found all over the head, and I really mean all over the head.
You know you’ve had a bad haircut when you start worrying if your hair will grow in time for you to become a beautiful bride.
And you know you’ve had a bad haircut when you look in the mirror every night and cry over your bad haircut.

Random Happenings

Ok, I know that I've missed out ranting on one of the biggest moments in my Goddess life. But she promised to not say it out to any random people until all her bestest of the bestest friends have heard directly from her on it! It's after a special moment and she wants to share it personally with her friends, and not them reading it off online.

Anyway, just some random updates in the meanwhile.

My Goddess is having some crazy time at work. Work is piling like nobody's business, all because those at the top is trying to push her and her team beyond their limits.

Luckily she still has friends and free parties and the Horny Devil to keep her sane.

Chilling out at this bar called Bar Stop? I think. Nice house converted into a pub.

The Horny Devil happily opening his birthday present...

A Nintendo Wii.. weeeee~

A character created specially for the Horny Devil. See any similarities?

And some hunks oogling at the CLEO bachelor party.

Think this will be the last time she will be receiving an invite. So sad.

And what's better than hunks? VIP treatment with free flow of food!! I love these kind of cheap thrills!

Maybe not.

#1. My Goddess favourite.

Cos' he's got a hot body. But the Horny Devil's HOTTEr. Like the moody kind of hot. Kidding~

In the end the VIP treatment wasn't really VIP as the club was too crowded and the public was allowed into part of the VIP area, where my Goddess and her colleagues found seats. But the servers still have to go to that area to serve VIPs like my Goddess food. Just in the end, the food got eaten by the public in the end, and my Goddess, being surrounded by the public, didn't have much access to the food. So much for being a VIP, and the public at that area really 'zhuan dao' lo.

(My Goddess abit atas hor?)