By 11.30am we were done playing golf and hit the shower. Southlinks’ ladies changing room is by far the most comfortable for this trip. After lunching on soto ayam, ayam penyet and avocado juice, we were done by 2.30pm.
So what are we going to so? Done for the day? Maybe time to go shopping! And that’s what we will do…
After breakfast, we were on our to Southlinks Country Club but was caught in a jam. Are we surprised? Batam it seems has flourished and there’s a lot of vehicles on the road.
5.42am: Woke up before the alarm rang. I slept better than the first night. Maybe the massage helped or tiredness has kicked in or I ate too much or it was the Glenfiddich whiskey that we had with our seafood dinner. It is day 3 and today, we will play at Southlinks Country Club.
Somehow, this trip, I feel that I don’t have enough time for the food to digest. But it’s not like we’ve been eating a lot. I suspect it could be the late lunch timing. After all, with an eight o’clock tee off and five hours or so later that includes a quick shower and traveling time, lunch is around 1.30pm. Technically, being an hour ahead, my usual lunchtime of 11.30am is 3 hours later! No wonder. And before we know it, dinner time is here and eat again!
And after a short sleep, breakfast time! Eat again.
I should walk more than take the buggy…
Palm Springs Golf & Beach Resort is beautiful but crowded on this May 1st public holiday. When we got to the club, there was a bus load of 90 people coming in to register for their games as well! Horrors!
Thankfully our flights were sorted out and we teed off on time. But we had to separate and not have 6 on the course like yesterday. The skies were looking like they were going to open up but didn’t. Today I played so much better, I must say.
The scenery at this golf club had more photographic opportunity than yesterday. Despite being so crowded, we had ample time to take pictures, silly staged ones too. The flights in front were slow and we were killing time.
After the game and a quick shower, we went for nasi padang. Very satisfying lunch. We then did some window shopping to allow the food to digest before we went for foot massages.
All in all, day two has been equally enjoyable.
I have mentioned before that 5.30am is always the time I have to wake up whenever it is a morning tee off. Well, did I wake up at 5.30am today? Not quite but I did peek at my iPhone at 3.44am, 5.38am and eventually moved at 5.51am.
Groan… The bed is too soft and the pillows were nyeh despite the hotel looking comfy and the bed inviting. Oh well. We’re on holiday and shouldn’t be complaining. Might as well get ready for breakfast because our transport will be here at seven to battle traffic to get us to Palm Springs for our 8.00am tee off.
Speaking of traffic, there’s quite a bit of cars on the island. Took us awhile from Tering Bay to get to dinner and thereafter from the restaurant to the hotel.
Life is meant to be enjoyed. With friends, golf and drinks. We bought 4 bottles of whiskey for this trip. Day 1 started with an hour turned back upon arrival and a quick lunch at Tering Bay Golf & Country Club before teeing off at 12.30pm.
It was an interesting situation, with all six of us in one flight! And all teed off from the white tee box, men and women alike. It was fun. Tering can be considered easy but I fluffed a lot of shots too. Well… There’s good days and there’s better days.
The skies were threatening initially but eventually mellowed to allow us to enjoy ourselves. After the game, a quick shower and we went off for dinner.
The Chivas was the first to be consumed with the choice of Sundanese food for dinner. I’ve never had my whiskey with a straw in a milkshake glass before, so there’s always a first!
How quickly the day went by. By 9.30pm, tiredness has kicked in or maybe it’s the whiskey…
Harris Batam Center is very new and modern. I look forward to a hot shower and a good night’s rest before waking up early tomorrow for our next game at Palm Springs Country Club.
I was not supposed to go; we were not supposed to especially having just returned from Chiangmai not too long ago. But the lure of another golf outing was too strong to resist so here we are again, with the same people albeit a couple less, going off for another trip!
Wheeee……
Farm Heroes Saga had an update recently for the iPad and it’s crappy. Something is not right as my iPad Mini has become so unstable with this version, it keeps crashing. The situation has gotten worse from the initial launch and click of the level I am at before crashing to simply just crash upon launch. Eeesh. Annoying! I have not tended my farm on my iPad for two consecutive days already.
So yeah, my farm is under seige and King.com had better take note of this and fix it soon. Otherwise, the happy looking cropsies will not be happy with my absence from the farm. I could try to play in Facebook at the office, but I have to work too… sometimes.
Sometimes I like to spell things out, literally, for the girls. I’d come home from work and call out to them by spelling out their names. M2 find this amusing and would reply by spelling out her greeting. It’s fun.
However, there are occasions where I’d abbreviate things especially when nagging at them.
“Don’t you M&G about it!” I’d threaten.
No, M&G is not the clothes brand, M&G or Mango but ‘moan and groan’ about the situation, the homework, the predicament or life in general…
It’s interesting to note when one goes on vacation, the level of energy is always high and charged up even though sleep is insufficient and complete rest is lacking during the whole time. The minute one gets home, a sense of the oncoming familiarity kicks in with the thought of an uninterrupted sleep ahead yet the energy is sapped.
I guess when the vacation is over and faced with going back to work, responsibilities and routine, the enthusiasm is at a different level. No wonder people always say another vacation is needed to recover from the just concluded one.
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