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As I mentioned on the Part 1: Singapura, the universal synonym of fun, Part II would be a tale about our Indonesia day tour on the day of our Lord August 17, 2010. The nearest City in Indonesia from Singapore is the Batam City which is a 45-minute ride from Harbourfront. But before that day came, I requested my cousin An, to arrange a tour for us through the website she suggested, http://www.batamholidays.com/ . Well, I tried to book it online but it did not  push through since they required an address in Singapore and by default, I typed my address in Davao, Philippines. The whole day tour package was SGD 42.00 but it excludes the fuel charge, SGD 20.00 to be paid at HarbourFront - BatamFast Ferry Counter upon collecting the boarding cards, the Batam Tax, SGD 7.00 and the Tour Guide tips, SGD 2.00 per person. So all in all, that was SGD 79.00 for each of us. So after a good first night Singapore sleep, we went down to take our complimentary breakfast, which was a couple of to...

Flying abroad for a vacation was one of the things me and labsy look forward to... Last year was Hongkong and Macau, this year, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand... Four countries with BIG fun and great love... But hey, I won't drown you with all four stories at once. Let me tell you the first stop-over, Singapore, the "fine" city... :D The tickets for the trip were purchased last year through the Cebu Pacific Airlines website ( http://www.cebupacificair.com ). They had a very low fare promo last October 2009. We bought Davao-Manila-Davao tickets, Manila-Singapore and Bangkok-Manila for a total of more or less Php 3,500.00 for two. Imagine how low? It was I think  piso or zero fare promo if I recall it right... Since we went to Batangas last Aug. 14, side tripped to Puerto-Galera, Mindoro on Aug. 15 (see http://donandji.blogspot.com/2010/09/batangas-puerto-galera-beach-breakaway.html for details), then we headed early from Batangas to Manila through a b...