Our 1st Week in New Place and How We Spent the Weekend

[ramadhanight]

Introduction

Hello everyone, i've been less active for past few months, and the reason is because there is a reshuffle and i had a new working place assignment from Batam city into another place called Moro. Today i would like to share to you a little about Moro and how i spent my 1st weekend here, let's check it out !

About Moro

Moro is a subdistrict on the Karimun Regency. It's located in the southwest of Batam. There is no airport here but you can reach this island with a small ferry boat from Batam in a hour. It cost Rp. 150,000 which is around 10 usd. Don't expect the ferry boat that comfortable like the Batam-Malaysia, Batam-Singapore or Batam-Tanjungpinang route, because this ferry boat don't have air conditioner. As soon as arriving in Moro, you have to get out from the ferry ship because Moro is not the final destination on those ships. I had a one day job here 3 years ago but skipped Moro once and ended up on the next island called Durai 😂, and you better not skip it because you have to wait another ship that could bring you back to Moro. Fortunately i was there with early ferry, so there is another ship on the same day to get back to Moro (there is not many ships, i had to wait 1 hours that day !).

Since moro is a little subdistrict, you won't find many public transportation here, only some auto ricksaw which called "becak motor" in local language that is operating on this area. There is not many cars as well on this area, i think it's countable as the cars are only for ambulance, cargo pick-up, and some organization cars. You won't find big hotel as well, just some inn but they still got the air conditioner :)

My new place is not far from the jetty. Located beside my office, we could reach my place in less than 3 minutes with motorcycle from the jetty.

Moro is a quiet place, there is no cinema and mall/ shopping centre, only local shops are available here to provide our daily needs, and sometimes it's hard to find the fresh vegetables because it's come from other island once a week or 10 days (based on the seller description in the traditional market). But i loves this place because i feel more relaxed here, beside there is less working pressure, the people is friendly as well. Feels like those harvest moon set place 😊

Our 1st Weekend in Moro

To spend our 1st weekend, Me and my Wife decide to take a walk because the road is relatively quiet than big City in Indonesia that is having lots of vehicles and their pollution so i think the Moro's air is healthier. We walk around 1,3 km from my house into the local shop to buy some goods, but before shopping, we decide to stop in a landmark named Pantai Moro which is translated as Moro's Beach to get a little rest and some picture.

We also stopped at small stalls to get some breakfast. We decide to get some Satay there (it's not common for us to eat Satay in the morning because it used to served for Dinner, but it looks delicious and we already hungry 😂). The price is cheap, just Rp. 10,000 (around 0.65 USD) for each portion of satay which contains ketupat (rice cake packed inside a diamond-shaped container of woven palm leaf pouch) and 4 skewers of meat satay, it's not much, but worth the price, and we feel enough of it. There is 2 kind of sauce you can choose, the padang sauce which called kuah tepung (flour sauce) here, that taste a bit spicy, and there is a peanut sauce that taste a bit sweet (i love it)

After we got our breakfast done, we decide to shop for some items, such as cleaning tools to get our new house clean. We get back by the ricksaw (because we carry lot of stuff), and paid around Rp. 30,0000 (around 2 USD) for it.

Next we decide to spend our time to clean some part of the house. Our main focus is to clean the window on our bedroom, because our children would have more contact with it, and the condition is seems like the windows haven't cleaned for years 😅 , and we tried to get our 3 years old son, Ahnaf, to help us as well, and he loves to spray the windows just like he loves spraying the shirt if we ironing. And it's a good activity for our son, for his motoric development, and for his sensibility to help people, especially his family 😉

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Final Words

Thank you for kindly read my post, i hope you guys enjoy this post and get some information about Moro. If you ever been on this place, please let me know by comment on this post.
All pictures are my own property taken with Samsung A50

And just like usual, I Set beneficiary to @indonesianhiver to help support all Indonesian hive blogger. See you !

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Comments

[ispeak]

Moro seems quite neat. And for that delicious meal at only $0.65, must feel so great 😃

[ramadhanight]

Yeah, i feel blessed having placed on this place :)

The food is delicious and cheap :)