[Life] Master of Business in Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERPs)

I cant believe myself that I will still think of further master study !!! Maybe because of this course interested me make me have the motivation to go for it. Actually been thinking through quite some times already, coz this will be my part time study. Need to work and study, I also not sure whether I can stand it or not. No matter how, have to go through it.

What is this program about? Basically, about ERP system and with this SAP modules came into picture to supply to make ERP a complete system. ERP is a platform that need SAP to integrate with. There are total of 12 subjects in this master course. The duration, well i can say it's flexible, min 1 year, max 3 years. Depends on how you plan it. If you want to take less subject in a semester can plan to extend, and good thing is the fees will remain. Out of 12 subjects, include few SAP modules which are SAP FICO, SAP HR, SAP ABAP, SAP BIW, SAP project. Upon completion of the master course, there will be total of 8 certificate. 1 is the master certificate and the 7 are the SAP module. Upon completion of the subject with pass of cause, will receive the certificate. The certs are jointly from Victoria University, Australia and SAP.

The fees for this course is about SGD26k. Now waiting for the reply from VU for the admission letter. Then the semester is about to start. The 1st semester i will just take 1 subject which not required for exam. because currently work have many things to do. By next sem, Sept, then will plan to take 2 or 3 subjects as that time project should rollout already. Hope everything will go smoothly for both work and study. Is gonna be tough but I will be more tough to go through it.

[Travel] Batam Trip Free And Easy

It was my 1st time to Batam Island. It is an island in Indonesia and located near to Spore. Is place for Sporean to gateway to here.

Spent 2D1N over there on 9 May - 10 May 2009. Things there are cheap especially the food. Seafood not to mention, is pretty cheap.

Here are some of the informations and things I did over Batam.

Depart from Harbourfront Ferry Terminal at 11.00am to Batam Centre Ferry Terminal. Journey to Batam Centre took about 1 hour. For 2 ways ticket - SGD47 (include seaport tax). I booked the tickets in advance via fax ( coz i got the form from my company, hehe). Alternately, can book and check the time via their website http://www.batamfast.com/index.aspx . If you are buying return tickets, when collecting tickets at horbourfront, will have to pay SGD40. The moment you reach Batam Centre, go to the counter to book for return tickets. They will assign you the ticket and collect SGD7 from you.

(**Note** Batam time is 1 hour later than Spore time)

Once arrive Batam Centre, opposite is the Batam Centre Shopping Mall. Since the hotel i booked can only check-in at 2pm, so we went to the shopping mall to walk around. Actually nothing much over there and the crowds is very little. To me it is a small shopping mall.

We are staying at i-Hotel, which located at Nagoya. It is a new hotel. For reservation, may visit http://www.ihotelbatam.com/ .

From Batam Centre to Nagoya by cab is about 15minutes. The charges will be Rp45000 (SGD6.4) . We tried to negotiate the price but they not allow, they just showed us it s fixe price with the printed paper. Anyway it is save, they will assigned you a receipt before you got to the cab. Once the taxi driver sent you to the destination, just paid him accordingly.

The room is big (coz i stay executive room) and clean.

The Room The Bathroom with bathtub


i-Hotel nearby there is a new shopping mall - Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall. It is just a walking distance from i-Hotel (in fact there has a short-cut to go the shopping mall from the hotel).
This shopping mall is much more bigger than Batam Centre. Can find many restaurants over there and the price is cheap.

There are quite many clothing shops at the mall, but I didnt really buy any of them, because not nice. Those nice the price not that cheap though. There is a shop name 61, the clothes are cheap. 1 t-shirt cost about SGD2-5 bucks.

After walk around, we then went for massage. This is the main reason that attract me to Batam. Isabella Massage House is the place i visited. It is located at Nagoya as well. Walking distance from the shopping mall. I made appointment with them over email before went there. We went for 2 hours Combination Massage (Bali + Thai massage). It was nice and it cost about SGD22.
The have a very good service. After the massage, we wanted to go for Seafood dinner, they offer to send us to the place for free and fetch us back to Hotel after we finished our dinner.
Here is the info :
web : htt://www.isabellamassagehouse.com
email : info@isabellamassagehouse.com
Tel : +62 778 749 3692
Operating Hour : 9.30am - 10.15pm
If you happen to go Batam, can go here for massage !

Next is the Seafood dinner. Is about 5 minutes drive from Nagoya. It is called A1 Seafood Foodcourt. Most of the stalls are selling seafood. Manyare chinese owners. Before order, must ask them the price of each of the item you wanted to order. If you fell is reasonable then can give a try. We ordered 6 dishes : 2 plates of vege, lala, sotong, Prawn and Crab. This cost about SGD25 (cheap huh?)

Hai San Seafood stall



The Crowds

Sotong - RP25000 (SGD3.60)
Vege - Rp15000 (SGD2.10)
Vege - Rp15000 (SGD2.10)

Crab - Rp50000 (SGD7.10)
Lala - Rp25000 (SGD 3.60)
Prawn - Rp45000 (SGD 6.40)

On top of that, if there is any nice movie, go and watch it. Trust me, is pretty cheap. The movie ticket is only cost bout SGD3. The cineplex is not bad (of coz no as good as cathay, but i think same as Shaw at least). The popcorn and Nachos also cheap. Is really enjoying watching movie there.

The restaurant at the Nagoya Hill also cheap. We went to 1 of the restaurant for lunch. Cost us about SGD15 for 1 vege, 1 whole fish and prawn.

The only draw back i would like to comment about Batam is - > ppl can smoke everywhere. In shopping mall, inside restaurant, even in hotel restaurant. Although there is sign for no smoking, ppl there just ignored and seems like common over there. Is pretty smelly ok. Guess the cigrattes there are selling cheap, that recommend ppl there to smoke more.

Just the short weekend hangout. Basically go there to relax, eat and shop and of coz massage. Will consider to go back there once a while for massage and eat.