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Originally Posted by Soi6
Football is a plus for sure but even Nine Days no have football. Anyway I prefer watch footbal in one of the NED bars.
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Tho formosa hotel do have soccer channel,but i still prefer to watch it outside center point where there is an open air pub with a big screen. Most time in Batam i have my laptop in my "full pack" (full batte order..lol),and most time hotels (be it 2 stars ot 3 stars) has LCD TVs,and all the time,LCD TVs will have either a VGA port or HDMI port,hehehe...connect to the internet and watch whatever channel i wish to watch,hehehe...
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Originally Posted by nescafeGold
Actually bro, this is quite common in north sumatra, a.k.a the land of karo. That dishis actually named Babi Panggang Karo (BBQ Pork of Karo). North sumatra region mostly inhabited by Batak Tribe. This tribe of people does eat pork & dog meat except some minority who are actually muslim.
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Seems rare in Batam. So far in this thread only see bro Micmac post about BBQ pork. And its like so far away...lol.
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Originally Posted by Naka_Timo
Yes, usually all this smaller type one will not have.
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Oh,i didnt know that. City Central Hotel was my 1st 2 star hotel. I guess most people who travels to Batam just need a bed,wifi and their room service's services,hehehe...i was hoping to pay for a 2 star with 3-4 star standard in
my last trip...lol.
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Originally Posted by localbest
Some parts of Indonesia like in Java or Sumatra whereby most of the Indonesian Chinese are unable to converse in mandarin are due to the fact that Chinese language are not allowed to be learnt in school, until recently few years ago.
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Hmm...reminds me why i need to smuggle Chinese Newspaper from Sillypore to Jakarta for my parent's colleague when i travel there as a kid.
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Originally Posted by localbest
However majority of the chinese in riau islands especially the 4Bs like batam, bintan, balai, batu can understand and speak fluent mandarin. The reason is because these places are close to spore and are able to receive spore channel 8. The effect of TV broadcast is very powerful. By watching mandarin TV program, they will gradually pick up the language unknowingly.
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i see,i see...thank you for your suggestion on learning the Indo language. All noted and with thanks.
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Originally Posted by miumiu6464
Very good advice when it comes to learning a foreign language. Songs, may I add, is also another avenue when you can pick up a language, especially those lingo spoken by the people vs those taught in books.
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Songs is a good idea. I think google translate also helps quite a bit. Most time i use google translate to talk to girls. Most of my other friends uses google translate to talk to girls via wechat/watsapp,and when they are able to strike a conversation and over some time they will more or less learn to pick at least a few basic sentences to talk to the indo girls.
Perhaps i should really start learning Bahasa indo language from my next trip onward,hehehe...lets see how i fare in my Bahasa Indo after my 40th Batam trip summary in this thread,hehehe...