The Weekend Hiatus 2: The Obligated Cruise—All Aboard!

The ferry embarked on the Batam terminal and we hopped on another ferry. Then in the middle of nowhere, we boarded the LeisureWorld cruise...


Sure, I looked happy. Keyword: LOOKED

In the words of Lou quoting Andy in Little Britain, the cruise 'had a maudlin quality to it, rendering unsuitable for a holiday destination'.

And that pretty sums up what I thought of the bloody cruise.

Stepping in, it instantly hits you how claustrophobic the place was. It was quite dark and gloomy. And it definitely looked as though the cruise got distastefully sucked right out of the 80's and then haphazardly spat out onto the Indon waters.

Apparently, my whole interpretation was wrong. I didn't got no balls snapping shots of random people, but what I got does just fine. Illustrates really well how off I was in interpreting the cruise idea.



Now you see how terribly off I was... I looked like a complete jackass.

Turns out, as much as a cruise it was, it was more 'casino' than 'resort'. MUCH TO MY DISMAY.

Frankly, I was bored stiff. Idil suggested I 'take a dip in the pool'.

Surprise, surprise! THERE IS NO POOL. Well, I would have expected a nicer deck with lounge chairs or something too. But got disappointed lah...

So we were at the karaoke instead.



But me, I DO NOT, CAN NOT and WILL NOT sing for nuts. So I just sat and watched lor. And it was barely lunch time. I knew for sure it was going to a looooong trip.

Sheryl was damned happy, obviously. Because she basically CAN sing her lungs off. And so can her friends. I just played Sudoku and camwhored by myself.




Then I realised how foreign and dated the place looked. With all that rattan and—fuck it—a Marlboro star hanging vaingloriously on the ceiling!





Like seriously, what's up with the faux cloudy sky ceiling anyways? I mean, if I really wanted to see the sky, I would just look out because we're on the freaking deck of the cruise?!?!

For the whole day, I just lazed around, wandered everywhere and coming to terms to the fact that it was indeed a really boring cruise.