YURISTIARY: ENJOYING WEEKEND (Yeyen Coming Part)

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It has been long time I never update any info regarding me, myself, my family, and everything about me.

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I have moved to Batam since 2015 November. Now I am working in one of MNC here.

In this article I'll tell you some of my agenda while I spent my weekend in this tiny island.

As you know Batam is a small island. We can roaming around in this area in 1 day. Just only need around 1 hour to go from another side to another.

Yeah. Even this island is quite tiny... But you'll found many things in this area. Mostly Batam people is not a local people. They coming from many places from all of part of Indonesia. When you visit Batam you'll found Sumatera people, Java people, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Irian Jaya, Bali, Lombok, Kupang and many other people. Many foreigner also in this small island. You can found every ethnic in this area. You can found European, American, Indian, Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many many more.

Okay. Better we finish to talk about ethnic. Now I want to tell you how to spend weekend in this island.

Mostly people in Batam will spend their holiday by going to beach, cafe, shopping mall, and some of them will go to Singapore for some purchasing or recreation place. If you're quite lazy to waiting in que at immigration places, better you spend your weekend in Batam only. Otherwise you can visit Bintan Island (around 1 hour from Punggur Port or in Bahasa Indonesia you can call it Pelabuhan Punggur).

There are many beaches in Batam. Some of them is really crowded on weekend. But if you have adventure spirit, you can found secret beach in nearby Barelang area. Ok... Before we talk to much, let me tell you about Barelang. Barelang is acronim for Batam Rempang and Galang. This is name of the small-small island nearby Batam. All of that small-small islands connected by Barelang Bridge number 1 until 6. If you have car, riding is the best option for exploring this area. From my place, Batam Center to Barelang Bridge number 5, we need around 1 hour driving.

Nearby Barelang 5 bridge there's a beach name Mirota Beach, Melayu Beach, Melur Beach, Airnanti beach and many more. You can choose beach as you need. For example when you want to taking a cute picture and good landscape, you can take from Melur Beach. When you want to swimming on the sea, you can choose Mirota Beach because the depth is quite OK for swimming. If you want to eating only, you can visit many seafood restaurant after 4th bridge. Price of the food is OK and taste is yummy over there.

Like last week, my sister (Yeyen) coming here from Pekanbaru. She is a student from Jogjakarta and she took semester holiday in Pekanbaru. Before she take off to Jogjakarta, she visiting me in Batam and we go roaming around in this small island.

Thursday night she reached here. I pick her in airport. We go to Morning Bakery for drink some coffee and eat cheesecake. After that we go to Tiban Center, meet her bf and get dinner over there.

The second day, I have to work, so we can't bring her roaming around. At that day she just stay back at home. On Saturday I also working. We work like a horse, so that can't bring her again. But lucky her bf not working at that time and they go roaming around to Mata Kucing Garden (it's old zoo here), Nongsa Beach and watching movie on Nagoya Hill Mall.

After work, I again try to catch up with their schedule. So at that time we met her in Coastarina. We reached around 8.30 in coffee shop at Coastarina. But it's too late. They said it's already closed and lucky we ate ice cream outside that coffee shop at that day.

On Saturday I was late because I have to go market to prepare barbecue party for us. I go market nearby Batam Center and I buy chicken, beef, fish, and prawn. But, on barbecue party we just do barbecue prawn and fish only. First because of is quite difficult to on the fire. Second is all of us already tired while do barbecue because no time for take a rest.

We go to Barelang 5th bridge at 10.00 p.m and reach there around 11.00 p.m. At night time, Barelang 5th bridge is very beautiful. If you come when there's no cloudy, you can see so many stars above you with the sea beside bottom your place and wind blowing softly. With barbecue things nearby you, you'll feel so comfort over there. This is some of my picture in Coastarina and result of our barbecue.

Fig.1. This is the barbecue prawn and fish we had.

And the next day, we went roaming around to the beach after 6th bridge. Before going to the beach we ate in Special Noodle Riau Island, go ate seafood at the end of Barelang Bridge, after that we go to new beach, Ayora Beach.
From the owner of Seafood Restaurant, he informed us about the small island nearby and we can go camping over there.
Soon, we will go there for bonfire camp. Ha.. ha.. ha...

There's some of our picture when going roaming around.