Exchange Programme with Batam Raya Mosque Part 1

Last Weekend, I had fun at Batam. I had x-change programme with the youths at Batam. Name of mosque was Raya Batam.

Day 1 (Saturday)
I met with the rest of young sultans at harbourfront at 8am Those that went were sis nisa,sis faza,sis daya,me,bro rizal,cik fuad & cik zoso. We board the ferry at 8.30am & reach at 9.30am (Sin time). We were greeted by them at the Batam Ctr. They brought us to the mosque. When I reached there, i was amazed by the view of the mosque. It was huge & spacious. We had the opening ceremony by both spore & batam representative.
Then, it's time to meet with the youth there. by the way, i'm the only bro besides bro rizal went for this programme. I make friends with them. Some of them were still schooling and some are working. The names that I remembered was Rio,Westra,Iwan,Beni (leader),Roberto,Zaman,Budi,Amin etc. We had some games conducted by them too !!! It was fun. Then, we have zohor prayers. The azan was very loud & has a echo, which i like it. It's like the whole batam ctr can hear it. Then, I alos hear another azan somewhere ard the area too. I was told that there's another mosque nearby, the smaller one. As is aid, the prayer hall is about 3 times of sultan mosque. Woman pray at the back w/o partition !!! The interior was nice too with some of the rare decorations.
After that, had lunch. If I remember correctly, they served me quite a number of dishes, which is rice with kangkong, asam pedas fish (actually not the spore type) and fried shredded chili potatoes ( tot it was french fries !!!). After that, the real programme begins. Each rep present about the backgrond of the mosque. After that, Asar prayers follow by continuation of this. Then dinner, NAsi Rawon !!! damn nice. different from singapore style.
At night, the programme was a discussion by encik Fuad. the topic was youth in islam. After that, comm members meet to exchange views & gave suggestions on how to improve as well as sharing on the activities that we had done so far. we slept at ard 1am (Batam tme).

Day 2 will be continued tmr... =)