Cafes in Batam spoil their customers with Free WiFi

If you are a new comer in Batam, and you want to go to one of cafes in batam, you probably get confused which cafe you want to visit. It’s because there are so many cafes you can find here. Although almost all of the cafes offer the same menus both drinks, meals and even snacks with competitive prices but the competition in this field is still quite high. Nowadays, many of the cafe owners try to attract the customers to come to their cafes by offering them a free WiFi. So the customers who bring laptop can use this wifi to enable them to connect to internet while they are drinking or eating there. As we know together that there are many business man who likes spending their lunch time at cafes. So this free wifi becomes an advantage for both sides, customers and the cafe's owners. Good for customers, because they are able to use the facilities for their own sakes. As many business man in batam choose cafes to continue their works while they are having lunch. And good for the owner because there are many customers come to their cafes because of this sevice. There are many cafes that we can find in batam, namely: Bistro Godiva Café (Mega Mall), CoolJuz cafe (BCS), Godiva café (BCS), Godiva Cafe (Nagoya Hill), ICBIC Cafe (Pelita), Van Hollano Cafe, Olala Cafe (Batam center sea port) and many more. For this opportunity I just want to discuss some of them.

If you go to Mega Mall Batam Center, you may find one of famous cafes in batam there. The name of the cafe is Bistro Godiva. This cafe is located at the second floor of the building. If you use the elevator to go to the second floor, just turn right and you need to walk about 15 meters to reach this cafe. This cafe has already have so many members. Based on the data I collect from one of the workers there, there are few hundred members of this cafe. Why should become a member of this cafe? You probably ask me this question. All the members of this cafe will have 20% discount from the total cost they spend. For example, if the total price of your drinks and meals Rp. 200.000, you just need to pay Rp. 160.000, as the Rp. 40.000 is the discount. This 20% discount is aimed for the members only and for non members there is no discount at all. So if you guys always come to this café, I suggest you to register yourself to become a member, so you can save 20% of your total cost anytime you buy something from this cafe. There is another reason why people especially they who like using the wifi service are fond of coming to this café, that is because the connection speed of the wife is very good. If the connection is slow, I am sure many of the customers will leave this cafe.

Another cafe that becomes a favorite cafe in batam is Cool Juz Cafe. This cafe is located at the third floor of Batam City Square’s building in Baloi area. With special menus such as Fried Chicken Wings and fries, Mikkusu Furai Bento, Oxtail Soup, yakitori and bakso, this cafe can attrack many customers to come. This is one of the cafes that offers some Japanese, Korean, and Thailand’s foods in batam. That’s why many foreigners come to this cafe to try the special menus offered by CoolJuz. Besides spoiling the customers with a free wifi, the owner of this cafe also provide 6 desktop pc for the customers to use. The main intention of providing these computers is because the owner of this cafe realizes that not all people or customers who come to his cafe always bring laptop. That’s why for those customers who don’t bring their laptop they are still able to enjoy the facilities by using the desktop pc. Many activities are conducted by the CoolJuz Cafe’s owner and staff to teach the customers or batam people to know the cyber world. One of the activities is BLOG CLINIC thas was held by this café a few months ago. In this event, they taught all the members to build or create a new blog. There were around 20 people joined the competition at that time and the event was quite success. So for all of you who want to try the meal and drinks here, come to this place and I am sure you will like this cafe and will visit this cafe again when you have spare time.

In Short, the free WiFi provided by the owners of the cafe really can attract people to visit their cafes. High Internet connection speed is also being a consideration for the customers in choosing which Wifi they are going to use. The lowest prices and best services also becomes some reasons for the customers to choose which cafe they will visit. So for all of cafe’s owners, if I may give you a suggestion, Besides offering best menus to the customers, if possible please provide high internet connection speed to the customers, and giving them the best prices as well.

Motor Communities in Batam Island.

Most of my friends who stay outside this island do not believe that in this small island, there are many motor communities from many types of motor. They ever asked me few questions about these motor communities. Some of them are: Where do all of these motor communities go for touring? and what contributions do these communities give to the Batam citizens? There are many motor communities in Batam. Some of them are: 1. Motorizations Club, 2. Batam Mio Club (BMC), 3. Bikers Tiger Batam (BTB), 4. Batam King Club (BKC), 5. Batam Thunder Motor Community (BTMC) and many others.

It is not easy to become a member of a motor community in batam island. Every community has its own rules in recruiting new members. Let’s say in Bikers Tiger Batam (BTB), if you want to register yourself to be a member of this community, you have to pass some of the requirements applied in this community. The requirements are: 1. a new member must have a Driving License. 2. a new member must have a motor cycle typed: Tiger 2000 with a complete and legal document. 3. a new member must be passed for a riding motor test conducted by a special team from Bikers Tiger Batam. 4. a new member should follow all the regulations applied by the policeman including the usage of helmet while he is riding a motor, and never break the traffic light. Until now this community has around 56 members that spread out in Batam Island.

Different from Bikers Tiger Batam, Motorization Club’s requirements to be a new member are easier to fulfill. Even if you don’t have a motor bike you still can be a member of this community, but remember you should have a helmet. Another easiness for a new member in this club is; this community accepts any types of motor bikes to join. So there are so many types of motor bikes available in this communities. If one day you come to see this club, you may see some types of motor cycle there, just like Thunder, Smash, Shogun, Supra, mio, cs 1, and many others. For your information, all of the members of this communities stay in Cammo Industrial Park Batam Center because all of the members of this community are employees in some companies in Cammo Industrial Park Batam Center. Though this community is still new, but the this club has already have so many members. The chief of this Motorization said the community now has more than 113 members.

Well, you probably ask me just like my friends questions as I mentioned above. Where do all of these motor communities go for touring? The answer for this question actually is simple. For Bikers Tiger Batam, there are three types of touring. The first one is City Touring. Training Touring, and the last one is Free Touring. The City touring means that we do the touring at the main roads in Batam Cities, just like Batam Center, Sei Panas, Pelita, Nagoya, Jodoh, Penuin. The aim of this City touring is to campaign the safety riding to all batam citizens.As we know together that some of batam citizens still do not understand that the safety riding is very important for them.

Therefore, we do this city touring at least once in two months. Second, Training touring. Training Touring is held to train a new member to be a tough riders. Having a good health and being able to ride the motor bikes for hours are really needed by a good biker. The route for this touring is from Barelang Bridge to Melur Beach. This touring is held once a month and usually spends 3 hours to do this touring. Once again, we only do this touring when we want to train some new members. Third, Free Touring. Free touring means we are free to bring our families, girl friend, boy friend or all of our friends to join the touring. And the destination for this free touring is not in Batam Island. We usually go to other island to hold this free touring, such as Tanjung Pinang, Tanjung Uban, Lagoi and all parts of Bintan Island. We usually take at least 2 days in doing this touring. From some free touring that we have conducted, there were at least 15 motor bikes that used to join this touring. This touring is usually held once in 6 months.

Back to my friend’s second question, what contributions do these communities give to the Batam citizens?. As a member of a motor bike community in Batam, I am able to let you know some contributions that some communities give to batam citizens. You probably know that all of the communities have their own programs in a year, including Bikers Tiger Batam. The first contribution given by Bikers Tiger Batam is to let batam citizens know how important to use safety riding while they are riding motor bikes. The second contribution is The social services that is conducted by Bikers Tiger Batam once in two months. The Social services could be doing some mosquitoes fogging in some areas in Batam Island, or visiting some mosques and churches in Batam and give something that probably needed by them. The third contribution is to give batam citizens knowledge about the importance of following the traffic regulations that is applied by the policeman. So if you guys stay in batam, and you have your own motor bike, don’t hesitate to join these communities. You can choose which community you want to join. If you have a tiger motor bike, you may join the Bikers Tiger Batam Community. If you have a thunder motor bike, you can join the Batam Thunder Motor Community (BTMC), and if you have a mio motor bike, you can join Batam Mio Club (BMC), or you can choose other communities that you think you are suitable to join.

In addition, although some people probably don’t like of the existence of motor communities in Batam, but these motor communities have taken some important parts to make batam citizens realize the usage of the safety riding while they are riding their motor cycles as well as the importance of following traffic regulations for their safety. However, sharing about some modifications of the motor bike and finding some motor’s equipments with low prices become another advantage for all the members of community.

Shopping Centers in Batam

If we are talking about batam, like or dislike we will talk about the Shopping Centers in Batam. Why do I say so? It’s just because For foreigners especially Singaporean and malaysian, Batam Island becomes the best place to do shopping. The main reason is because Batam is just nearby Singapore and Malaysia. Everybody knows that it only takes around 45 minutes from Singapore to reach Batam by ferry, and around 1 hour 30 minutes from Malaysia. Not only the distance becomes the reason why Singaporean and Malaysian prefer to do shopping in Batam, Low prices also become the second reason why they always come to batam for shopping.

There are some famous and big shopping centers in Batam. And I am sure that all of us who stay in Batam know these Shopping Centers. Let us say Nagoya Hills Shopping Center, BCS, DC Mall, Mega Mall and Panbil Mall. If I don’t mention some shopping centers that are available in Batam here in my post, it does not mean that I don’t like those shopping centers, but it is because I only choose the famous and big Shopping Centers in Batam to discuss.

The First Shopping Center I would like to share with you is Nagoya Hill shopping center. This shopping center is located in Nagoya. It only takes around 2 minutes from Nagoya Hotel Plaza to reach this shopping center. Although this shopping center is quite new, but many people come to do shopping at this place. The strategic area could be the main reason, why people choose this shopping center to do shopping and it’s also the reason why many tenants rents the room at this shopping center. If you haven’t come to this place before, I suggest you to come here. Many things are offered at this shopping center, and the price of the products selling here is also reasonable.

Not far from Nagoya Hill shopping center, there is also a big and unique shopping center in Penuin. The Shopping Center’s name is BCS. BCS itself stands for Batam City Square. The type of the building of this shopping center is so unique. The first time I saw this shopping center, a luxurious impression really came out in my mind. As I said before that this shopping center is located in Penuin, so almost all of the people who stay in Penuin Area choose this shopping center to do shopping. If we go inside the shopping center, we may see so many electronics counters there, especially mobile phone. Many types of mobile phones are offered here, and of course with low prices. If you are curious of this shopping center, you may come and check by yourself. I am sure you will like this shopping center.

Taking around 20 minutes from Batam City Square to Jodoh area, we will find a famous shopping center there. The shopping center is also quite big. People in this area are also fond of this shopping center. The name of this shopping center is DC Mall. The letters “DC” here stand for Diamond City. Different from Batam City Square, most of Diamond City Mall’s tenants offers many types computers to sell. Not only the new computer or laptop are sold there, the second hands computers are also available there. Many people choose this place if they want to buy computer as the price offered by the sellers are quite reasonable. For your information, besides selling computers, many of the tenants also provides reparation service for all electronics stuff, including the computers. So if one of your computer’s component spoils, you may come to this place for reparation.

If we go to Batam Center area, there is one shopping center there that located just nearby Batam Center Sea Port. The name of this shopping center is Mega Mall. Mega Mall becomes famous and always visited by buyers because of some things. The first thing is the strategic location. Especially for Singaporean and Malaysian or all foreigners that just arrive at batam center sea port, they just need two minutes to reach this shopping center. Many of them who have just arrived come to this place to have drinks or meal. After that they go to their hotel, and in the afternoon or evening, they come back again to this place to do shopping. This shopping center also becomes famous for all people in Batam, because many cafes that available at this shopping center provide some wireless internet connection freely that enables people to do all activities that has relationship with internet. But don’t get me wrong, if you enter one of cafes in this area, please make sure you order some drinks or meals, because if you only come to this place and use the service, it is also not fair for the owner of the cafe.

The last shopping center I am going to let you know is Panbil Mall. This shopping center is located at Panbil Area. Panbil area is just nearby Muka Kuning. Panbil Mall is the biggest shopping center at this area. Not only people who stay in in muka kuning come to this place, but many people from other place come to this shopping center to do shopping. Let’s say from Tanjung Piayu, Pancur, Tembesi, and Batu Aji. So no wonder, if you go to this place on Saturday, you surely find so many people inside this shopping center. The owner of this shopping center also applies a secured parking for all cars and motor cycles of the buyers. We only need to pay Rp 500 for motor cycle and Rp. 1000 for car for the service of the secured parking. And don’t worry, your cars and motor bike will be safe at the parking area. So for you who haven’t known this shopping center before, please come and enjoy to shop here.

It is so obvious that there are so many shopping centers in Batam Island, and each shopping center offers different advantages to their tenants. And the tenants also sell different stuffs to the buyers with reasonable prices. But all of the shopping center in batam island give the best service to the buyers, it can be proved by many of the buyers feel comfortable while they are doing shopping in these shopping centers. So if you guys are planning to come here, and confused which shopping centers are you going to visit, just try all the shopping centers, I am sure you will feel satisfied and can enjoy yourself in this city.

Hotels in Batam

Batam Island which is known as one of industrial cities in Indonesia becomes a favorite city for all foreign investors to make some business in this city. There are so many easiness in conducting the business offered by the Government that enables all the investors to expand their business here in Batam. And it is not a secret anymore that there are many expatriate works in Batam. Most of them stay in hotels, and some stay in many houses in Batam. Besides the workers, Batam also becomes one of destination cities for foreigners to do shopping. That’s why sometimes we can see there are so many foreigners come to some plazas or malls in Batam, and they will stay in some Hotels to stay over night. I don’t know exactly, is it because of this reason that some of local investors invest their money in Hotel.

It goes without saying that there are so many hotels available in Batam. Each hotel provides the best service that can attract the guests to come to their hotel. For this chance, I am not going to list all hotels in batam here because I realize that there are more than hundreds hotels here, but I just explain some hotels that I think very famous and always visited by foreigners or local guests who make business in batam. There are some hotels I would like to discuss here, namely: 1. Planet Holiday Hotels, 2. Good Way Hotel, 3. Harmony Hotel, 4. Novotel Hotel, and the last one is Nagoya Plaza Hotel.

1. PLANET HOLIDAY HOTEL

The Planet Holiday Hotel is located in Jodoh. It just takes 5 minutes from Nagoya to arrive at this hotel and takes 7 to 10 minutes from Harbour Bay Sea Port. This is one of a well known hotels in batam, and many batam visitors stay in this hotel. Though this hotel is considered to be a new hotel, as it starts the operation in 2003, but the facilities and the services of the hotel can spoil all the guests, that make them to stay there again anytime they come to Batam. The price that’s offered by this hotel is also reasonable. I will not explain all the facilities that offered by this hotel, but If you are interested in this hotel, and planning to stay here, please don’t hesitate to open the Web Site Here PLANET HOLIDAY HOTEL

2. GOOD WAY HOTEL

The Good Way Hotel is located in the centre of Nagoya. This hotel is also famous and has so many guests daily. It just 10 minutes to get this hotel from Harbour Bay Sea Port, and around 30 minutes from Hang Nadim air port. For your information the management of this hotel has just renamed the hotel become Good Way Hotel from Mandarin Hotel. This Hotel offers some easiness in shopping because there are so many shops we can find at this hotel. Besides that from the Hotel we can easily go to restaurant, banks, karaoke and discotheque. If you wan know more about this hotel, you may check the complete information from the Official Website at GOOD WAY HOTEL

3. HARMONY HOTEL

Located at the heart of Batam, Nagoya, The Harmony Hotel is one of the best hotels in Batam. Though this hotel ever got fire incidents twice within a year, but most people still like this hotel to stay. There is no reasons to be worried to stay in this hotel, one of my friends from Singapore explained. He told me that he always stays at this hotel anytime he comes to Batam. About the fire accidents that happenned a few years ago, it was just really an accident, he added. Attracting the guests with good services and fasilities make this hotel can compete with other famous hotels in batam. The advantages to stay at this hotel also because this hotel area is closed to some interesting places in Batam, just like Nagoya Shopping Complex, Diamond Mall, Centre Point Mall, and Lucky Plaza. More information about this hotel, including the services and facilites, you may check the Hotel’s Website at HARMONY HOTEL

4. NOVOTEL HOTEL

The Novotel Hotel Batam is located at Jodoh. It’s quite near to Harbour Bay Sea Port, and will take around 15 minutes from Batam Centre Sea Port. If you come from Hand Nadim Air Port, it will take about 25 minutes to arrive to this Hotel. This is a four Stars Hotel with so many pleasant facilities and services. The competitive prices offered by the Hotel also make people always come to stay at this hotel. If you are the one who likes going to discotheque I suggest you to stay at this hotel, as the place of this hotel is very near with the Pasific Discotheque. As we have known together that the Pasific Discotheque is a very famous discotheque in Batam. If you are curious to know about the offering given by the hotels, you may check it completely at the website at NOVOTEL HOTEL BATAM

5. NAGOYA PLAZA HOTEL

The Nagoya Plaza Hotel Batam becomes a favorite hotels in Nagoya for some foreigners, especially for Singaporean. The area which is just at the centre of the Nagoya, make people easily get this hotel. From some conversations that I made with some Singaporean, they prefer staying at this hotel because of the strategic place. It is just located at center of the town, so the guests can easily go everywhere they want to go without spending a lot of money for taking cabs. If we want to have lunch or dinner, it is easy to get it out side the restaurant if we really want to have dinner out side the restaurant. This Hotel offers reasonable prices for every type of the rooms, that makes guests choose this Hotel to stay. To know more about this Hotel and to check its facilities, you may check at the Website at NAGOYA PLAZA HOTEL BATAM

As I mentioned before that there are so many hotels available in Batam Island and since I am unable to describe them one by one, I just take some famous hotels to let you guests know. So for all of you, whoever you are, if you are planning to come to Batam Island, and want to know more about hotels in Batam, you may check those websites I mentioned above. I hope the information above can give a short explanation about Hotels in Batam. If you have any questions or find an unclear information at this post, please don't hesitate to send me an email at rimmeld@gmail.com.

Batam from my point of view

It was on September 2000 when i came to this City. As the plane that flied me from medan landed at Hang Nadim air port, the first comment that came out from my mouth was “Wow Batam is Great”. I said “Batam is great” because I saw the Hang Nadim air port is quite big. I could see more than 9 planes were available there and ready to fly. I was also told by one of my friends who fetched me from the air port that Hang Nadim air port has become an international airport and it made all of batam citizens proud, he added.

On my way to the place where I wanted to stay, i became more saluted to this city. The street from air port to orchid park was very good. My friend explained to me that he was really happy if he was asked by the bos to fetch someone from the air port. It was just because the Street was really good. There was no one hole all along the street, and there’s no traffic jam at all. “This is Batam Man”, he added, of course different from Medan. At that time I thought he was right, and until now I also still agree with him.

One day after I arrived here, my friend asked me to visit Muka Kuning. And that was my first time to see so many companies were located in one big area. My friend said that most of companies there produced Electronic equipments. And each company at least employs one thousand employees. After visited Muka Kuning, then we went to Turi Beach. It took 40 minutes away from Muka Kuning to this resort. I got surprised when we arrived there. The resort which was located at the northeast part of batam island was very beautiful. There were so many resorts available at this place. And the views were so amazing. You could see the sun sets from this place clearly.

Getting tired from Turi Beach, then we went to Nagoya to have dinner. At first I was confused with the name of “Nagoya”. I thought my friend was joking when he said that there was one place in Batam Named Nagoya. And I realized that he was not kidding after I reconfirmed to one of the servant who served us at that time. It was not difficult for us to find the place to eat as there were so many restaurants available in Nagoya.

It was more than 8 years ago. And Now Batam Island has changed a lot. From all aspects this city has changed. For some people, Batam Island is the heaven city, as they can find and get everything here. If they want to stay in resort, they can choose the resort that they like, as there are so many resort available here. If they want to go to Singapore, they just need around 40 minutes away to arrive there. If they want to shop in Batam, then can choose the mall that they like, because there are so many malls here.

In Short, there is no point for all westerners or other people not to come to this City, because this city provides everything to the citizens and visitors. As long as you have enough money, you can try everything here, from food, shopping, sports, hotels, cafes, or pubs. I suggest you all to come to batam and enjoy yourselves here. This is my point of view about Batam in General, and for the next post i will describe all the interesting places that available in batam one by one.

Logging in Yahoo Messenger with many Ids / Usernames

I am always asked by many of my friends of how to logging in Yahoo Messenger with many id. Explaining step by step to different person is very hard to do, therefore, I post this explanation in my blog, so for you guys who need this information can read and follow the steps. Watch the steps carefully, and I believe that if you follow it correctly, you will succeed to logging in Yahoo Messenger with more than one id. But it’s necessary to remind you that if you logging in too many id or usernames in your computer or laptop, the Cpu will be working slower.

How To Do It ?

Click Menu Start, then choose RUN, after that there will appear a new tab and you type REGEDIT in the empty box then click OK. The next step you have to do is to choose HYKEY_CURRENT_USER, then click SOFTWARE. After choosing the SOFTWARE you then choose YAHOO, then go to PAGER and choose TEST. At the right side of the TEST you do right click then click NEW after that you choose DWORD VALUE. After doing that, you should rename it to PLURAL then press ENTER. Double click the new Folder with the name of PLURAL then at the Volume Data, you just fill in to 1 and at the right side, for the base you choose DECIMAL, then click OK. After doing this, you may test to logging in Yahoo Messenger using all of your id. I do believe if you do the given steps above, you will be able to logging in more than one id in your computer. Good Luck.

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