of fried chicken and blended ice
Huzzah! Greetings, fellow pink clouds!
I just got back from a short getaway to Batam with a bunch of my lovely classmates - Daniel, Yi Yang, Eileen, Hannan, Siti, Siti’s sister and Ryan, her super cute son!
It was a nice escape, just an hour away and behind Sillypore.. We stayed at Batam View, at the recommendation of Hammy, who I still wished could go along with us.
Batam View is located in a quieter part of Batam, away from the buzz of the town area where most Singaporeans head to when they go there. I like places like that; they let you live in a slower paced environment despite being slightly inconvenient.
The minor inconvenience of being a 45 minute bus ride away from the town area where the malls are was worth it, to be honest. The mall we went to in search of food wasn’t much to shout about anyway, aside from a huge supermarket selling loads of yummy snacks at awesome cheap prices.
As an estimation, a big bottle of mineral water was about 50 cents SGD. Hur hur.
We spent most of our time splashing and shrieking in the hotel/resort’s swimming pool, doing silly things like trying to stand on the rope that runs across the breadth of the pool indicating the deeper end and trying to touch the ground at the deepest end of the pool. Much fun! Haha.
Somehow, we ended up having fried chicken for lunch on the first two days, inducing horrible cravings for fried chicken on the third day. Hahaha!
The staff at Batam View were outstanding, really. They were warm and sincere, spoke English and made an effort to ensure that they understood whatever you were asking about or requesting for.
Anyways, if you’ve been following my Twitter account @rumpledoodles, you’d know that I’ve started work at Kichn!
It’s a really cute cafe just next to my school, serving up awesome food at really affordable prices.
They have an awesome visual identity thanks to Pupil People, a small design house started by one of my seniors hehe. I’m either waitressing or preparing drinks (non-alcoholic lah) there so come by for dinner and say hi!
If you haven’t been there before, come by and check out the awesome concept of Kichn’s menu. Hehehe.
It’s been fun working there, and I can’t believe I’ve only been working there for 4 days! Hahaha. I am going to get so fat working there…..
After my first day of work at Kichn, this conversation with Pinkie took place:
ME: the people there are super nice to me la!!
PINKIE: LEMME GUESS LEMME GUESS! THEY FED YOU!
AHAHAHAHAHA bloody hell!!!! Ok la, but that was what I wanted to tell him anyway. HAHA. Bleh.
O yes - I am selling my 5 month old Nikon D5000. It comes with a complete kit: 18-55mm VR lens, Nikon bag that came with it (unused), extra original battery, screen protector that’s been on the camera screen since I bought it. No SD card with this purchase though.
Drop me a comment or email if you’re interested!
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