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Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:40 am

⇨ Bintan Day I

WENT BINTAN FROM 19th to 21st JULY. 1st time travelling out of the country without the supervision of parents or teachers. =D *SQUEALS!!

We met at 11pm and yes, the other 3 peeps met earlier for breakfast at long john silver. BOJIO!!! Took the MRT to Tanah Merah interchange and camwhored a bit while waiting for the transfer bus to the ferry terminal.

took a photo with Mr. Shye. I sort of snatched his pair of sunglasses over. =P

Ms. Yang Mehhhhhhhhhhh and I.

Not forgetting Dear old Mr. Chng. =D

We reached the terminal at around 1pm and then went to some Indian Cafe to fill in the immigration cards and eat my lunch (since all abandoned me and had breakfast). I had the worse chicken murtabak ever, with more onions than chicken meat in that prata. =( Well well, nothing can compare to the yummilicious Mr. Prata. =P.

I finished my murtabak in record time, and proceeded to board the ferry. Tried taking some group photos while lining to board it, but FAILED BIG TIME with all our barang barangs. An angmoh lady who was queueing behind us (and mind you, keenly observing us) that time kindly offered to help us with a photo, but the timing isn't right, for the queue MOVED. OH WELL.

1st sighting of the ferry. =D

Peace

Yeap. The very spot where the group pic totally failed.

WHY THAT CHEEKY SMILE?

Boarding the ship. =D

name of the ferry we took to bintan

Boarded the SUPER SHAKEY FERRY and I SO REGRETTED EATING THAT MURTAKAK. I FELT LIKE PUKING THEM OUT WITH ALL THE SHAKING!! Ferry stabilised after a while, and phototaking session resumed. =D

The disadvantage of sitting at the front row while taking pictures. FACE LOOKS BIG!

Yeap. Angle shot makes it so much better. =D

How do we differentiate a ferry ride from a bus ride? Pictures of the sea of course. =D

We kept saying we saw bintan on the other side. LOL

See! BIG FACE.

Took a shot with HuiYi. :)

We asked Tecky to help us take a photo. He took a self-portrait instead. LOL.

Finally!!

Docking! WE REACHED!!!

Hello Bintan! :D

Got the CHOP on my passport and out we go. Passed by a convenience stall but did not purchase any food from there. REGRET LIKE NOTHIN. that's another story to tell. =P

Found the resort transfer bus and took a 15-20 minutes ride to the resort. And then.... we saw raindrops falling on the windows. Real funny, cause we kept hypnotising ourselves that THAT'S NOT RAIN, but leaking aircon. Had no luck cause it got bigger and BIGGER.

Checked in the hotel and booked trips. FIREFLIES SIGHTING AND SNORKLING. WOO!!! We then took the provided transportation to our VILLA.

There were 2 families on the same bus as us, and the resort staff sent them to their villas first. Both families booked the Angsana Villa, the largest villa in the resort. They had a private pool. =( We don't have that. Imagine our disappointment when we saw our tweeny, weeny little villa. haha. IT'S TOTALLY A CHALET CAN?

see? SO SMALL. BUT WE GOT REALLY EXCITED AFTER A MINUTE CAUSE WE SAW THE BUGGY!!

Fully equipped kitchen. how cool is that?

A step down to the living room. =D

GOT REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE VILLA AFTER A WHILE CAUSE WE SAW THE GREAT FACILITIES!!! THE VILLA IS FULLY AIR-CONDITIONED. NO WORRIES ABOUT ELECTRICITY METER TOO!!

THE ONLY WORRY IS THAT WE HAD NO FOOD INGREDIENTS AT ALL. WE TOTALLY FORGOT THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO COOK OUR DINNER AT THE VILLA AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY EDIBLE STUFF AT ALL!!! ZOMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

tecky's "room"

Shye's "room"

girls' "room"

Settled down and rested a while before setting out to the beach to kayak. the rain had stopped by then. HUIYI DROVE US TO THE BEACH IN BUGGY!!! But the timing and weather wasn't right, and so we decided to push the kayaking to day 2 instead, and went around exploring the resort in the buggy.

All of us took turns driving the buggy, and I was the worst driver, with sharp turns and amazing lost of control of the steering wheel. LOL. For the rest of the trip, the rest of them prevented me from being the chauffeur. =( OKIE. I SHALL BE CHAUFFEURED AROUND THEN.

Went to the lobby to look for food. Decided to proceed to the cafe in the leisure centre for early dinner/ late lunch. Drove there from the main building aka hotel lobby, but ended up eating in the cafe at the Golf centre. We did not realise the mistake until much later.

Camwhored on the buggy. =DDDDDD

Shye's not in the pic cause he's the driver.

Main Building and Shye's favourite resort view.

Best Buggy driver of the trip

nice view of the golf course.

Food came. Looks yummy.

Nasi Goreng

Fish and Chips

Mee Goreng

Duck curry with LOTS OF DUCK MEAT. YUMS

Sun Setting

nice ambience. should be attributed to the lack of crowd. LOL.

After dinner, we drove back to the hotel lobby to pick up some freaking expensive cookies, chips and drink for the night. We then drove back to the villa to put our stuff. Rested for like 5 or 10 minutes before once again heading back to the hotel lobby to gather for the fireflies trip.

There were around 10 pax on the trip and the bus drove us out of the resort to a swampy river near pasar ole ole. We sat on a power boat.

Flash ROCKS! Capture images even when it's pitch dark.

The powerboat stopped halfway to the headquaters and they passed us insurance. !!!!?!?!!! IS IT THAT DANGEROUS?

The boat ventured deeper into the swamp and we saw PRETTY LITTLE FIREFLIES!! I hate creepy crawlies, but was still very much attracted to them and caught them on many occasions. No pics cause they can't be captured on film. The firefly light is too weak. They look like lights on a christmas tree.=D

Halfway through the trip, Mr. Shye asked me this question.

"eh.. 你觉得这个浪漫吗？"

I looked at him as if he grew another head, stunned for 2s before answering him..

"erm.. 要跟对的人。。"

*smiles sweetly*

The thing lasted only 30 minutes? and I MUST SAY THE TOUR GUIDE IS MARVELLOUS. HE KEEP CATCHING FIREFLIES FOR ME AND ONLY ME!!! AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA.

MINE!!

THE SUPER NICE TOUR GUIDE!! =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I forgot his name. lol

Pardon me for the quality. It's night time without flash. =P

Returned to the resort and sat at the lobby for 5 minutes, listening to the live band. We then headed back to the villa to clean up, chill, chat, play cards. First in the living room, then in the bedroom. We ended up sleeping altogether in the same room.

I finally grasped the true concept of Hearts.

Shared a joke about smaller than 7, 7 and greater then 7. The game that determined if we could stop playing altogether and just go to sleep.

We slept at 2.45 local time, 3.45 Singapore time.

I woke up 7.30 the next day. Stupid Biological clock. =(