Japan 11 days 10 nights trip!

Kon'nichiwa,

For those who are new to my blog, welcome to dontworryjustgoyangkaki blog. If you don't understand, it's actually don't worry just goyang kaki (shake legs in Bahasa Melayu). I am glad that you stumbled on my blog to look for information to plan your trip to Japan.

Like what I mentioned in my Korea blog, every year I will make an effort to visit a new country / new place. Please check out my Korea blog post for those who hasn't done so. For 2016, I have decided to visit Japan (Nippon). For this trip, only me and my girlfriend went for the trip. We decided to stay for 11 days in order to cover most part of Japan. Early April is also the Sakura period! Mi Ni Ko I Sakura An E Oh Come and Dance with Me. Our Japan trip includes Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Hakone and Tokyo.

This is my trip in Japan, we flew into Osaka by Malaysia Airlines and flew out from Tokyo. Thanks to the enrich miles I had accumulated during my times in audit and we only need to pay the taxes which cost about RM200 each person. That's a really good deal for a peak timing by Malaysia Airlines. For those who doesn't know about enrich miles, please check out their website.

A summary of what we did during our 11 days in Japan.

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9
Where	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka / Kyoto	Kyoto	Kyoto / Hakone	Hakone / Tokyo	Tokyo	Tokyo
Morning	Touched down in Osaka	Osaka Castle	Endo Sushi	Travel to Kyoto	Kimono rental	Travel to Hakone
Afternoon	Namba	Osaka Aquarium	Nara	Kin-kakuji / Bamboo Grove		Hot spring
Evening	Pokemon Center Osaka	Umeda Sky Building	Namba	Fushimi Inari		Hot spring
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Revision of treat points earnings from Maybank

Hey guys, many of you all should know about the revision of treat points earnings and also the 5% cash back changes.

Some of this news wasn't new as Maybank had reduced their 5% cash back to only weekend dining starting 1st August 2015.

This is the snapshot from Maybank website and shows that currently the 5% only applicable to Weekend Dining Cashback.

That's not all guys, starting 15th April 2016 Maybank will revise some of their treat points earnings. This is mainly affected Maybank 2 Card users as some of their items will revise to only 1x points instead of the usual 5x points on American Express card.

Maybank 2 Gold Card
Maybank 2 Platinum Card

You can click on both links to check out the changes and you might want rethink about your credit card usage for these items.

Flat RM8 Via Visa Checkout

Hey guys,

I need to tell you all about this great news! Especially for movie-lovers like me!
GSC is having a promotion of Flat RM8 if you purchase your GSC movie tickets online at their website and checkout using Visa credit card.

Just take note the following:
1. Visa Checkout Flat RM8 campaign is valid for ticket purchase via GSC website only at the moment.
2. Visa cardholder can only purchase a maximum of 6 movie tickets at the price of RM8 each per Friday, per transaction, per card via Visa Checkout.

Do let me know if you found a way to purchase a ticket cheaper than this price!

*Remark* don't forget about TGV cinema movie club.

2 days 1 night trip to Batam

Hey guys,

It has been some time since the last time i wrote in this blog. Just wanted to wish everybody Happy New Year. It was a rough year in 2015 as I have changed 2 jobs and moved to a new country. Currently I am in a small island just beside Malaysia, know where is it? :)

During Christmas, my girlfriend came over to visit me in the small island. Therefore, out of bored we decided to pay our nearby place BATAM a visit. all this was planned in a very short time as it is a last min decision. we are going for a 2 days 1 night trip to BATAM.

first step is our accommodation, we search for a good accommodation and goes down to 2. Harris Hotel Batam or Turi Beach Resort. The difference between this 2 place is 1 is near the town, another is near the beach. At last we decided to go with the beach.

GROUPON is our next best friend cause most of the hotel in Batam you can have a great deal from Groupon. I picked up the deal for Turi Beach Resort together with return ferry ticket from Tanah Merah Terminal to Nongsapura Terminal. Please take note there are 2 terminal who goes to Batam in Singapore; HarbourFront and Tanah Merah. It all depends where you want to reach in Batam; Batam Centre or Nongsapura.

Everything was booked by communicating with the hotel representative together with our ferry ticket. We are good to go. Please refer to the ferry schedule and plan your trip properly. Remember you can only check in your hotel at 3pm and Batam is on GMT +7 (which is 1 hour slower).
A quick snapshot of what we did during our stay in Batam.

	Day 1	Day 2
Morning	Arrived Batam	Return back to Singapore
Afternoon	Massage and Supermarket
Night	Pedicure and BBQ dinner
Where we stayed	Turi Beach Resort

we booked a driver through the hotel to take us around in Batam. it cost us 400,000 rupiah (approx. S$40) and it is mainly only for half day. If you have 4 people I think it is very reasonable. Since we have very limited time, we decided to go Nagoya hill and do shopping together with massage there. But if you have more time, you can always opt to go to cultural tour, mosque and temple visit and sports activity at Turi Beach.

Sorry didn't have much photo in Batam but hopefully this would give you a good idea of what to do in Batam. According to some people, there are only 4 things to do in Batam.

1) Massage (300,000 rupiah each)
2) Medi/Pedicure (150,000 rupiah)
3) Supermarket (??? rupiah) specially indomee
4) A&W rootbeer (less than 50,000 rupiah)

After you have done all those you are good to go or just find a cafe and chill. Just a word of advise, if you wanted to buy branded stuff in Batam, think before you do. Sometimes when it is too good to be true, it is really too good to be true.

If you want to know more please leave a comment. Till next time~

If you missed my Korea itinerary, please refer to 7 days 6 night Korea trip
If you missed my Hong Kong itinerary, please refer to 5 days 4 night Hong Kong trip