Monday, September 28, 2009 11:21 am
My Bintan Trip!!
Went to Bintan on the Saturday with my sis, Kelly & her brother & sis..=)
woke up @ about 6am to have breakfast with my mum @ GP..I had roti prata!!
next, we took the mrt to tanah merah where we will be meeting up with the rest..had to checked in 1 & a half hr earlier..
we then took bus 35 to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal..my fist time setting foot on this place.. after checking in, those three haven had their breakfast yet so we sat down & watched them eat..yummy!
we then waited & waited before they finally lifted the gate to allow passengers to board the cruise. the platform was swaying with the sea waves & it felt as if we were floating..lol..the personnel stood @ the entrance to the ferry & held us by the hand cos the whole thing was swaying & there was a hole b/w the platform and the cruise..
took a few pics from inside the ferry..buy everything was quite misty..noted tt we were sailign across the South China Sea.. after tt, i dun know what happen le cos i was already sleeping ...till they announced tt we had reached.. Bintan here i come!!
they had a bus to take us down to our Bintan Lagoon Resort.. i guess the journey down there took abt 15-20mins.. saw Paser Oleh Oleh on the way down... quite far away from our lodging..
the Resort was simply gorgeous.. there were the Bintan gals tt danced upon our arrival & we were given fresh lime juice.. i think cos we looked quite loss when we approached the attendants so she served us personally.. we were sitting @ one side away from the rest of the lodgers who had to queue up to check-in..lol.. it make us looks like we are VIP.. hehe.. she gave us immediate access to one of the rooms while the other room is only accessible after 3pm..
the room is airconditioned with tv, refrigerator, balcony, two beds, and a large sitting area.. the bathroom has a bath tub!!
after lying ard the room, we made our way to explore.. the food there all seems quite ex.. then we decided to book a spa..tt's our main purpose here!!
But, the pricing were all very ex..60 min for a traditional javanese message for $99..so we took out our list of brochures tt we were given when we came out of the Bintan check point... their prices were so reasonable compared to here.. after much discussing, we booked a taxi to drive us down to Paser Oleh Oleh.. chooses a $55 package which includes message, body scrub, suana, body lotion.. for 2 & a half hr..
and so, we had to naked ourselves and only wear the bottom.=) the guy were separated..hmm.. actually he was jus beside the gal except tt a curtain was drawn..lol..
the first step was bodt message.. OUCH!! was what i could describe.. especially @ the neck part.. pain wor..i think tt took abt 1 hr plus.. after tt, the four of us cuddle into 1 suana room..lol.. @ first the temperature was 55 degree & we had to stay put there for 40 min.. but then the temperature was crawling up.. and kelly couldnt tahan so she went out for a breather..the rest of us continued.. kelly went in after 10 min.. & so we decided tt when the temperature reaches 60 degree or the time shows 35, we jus go out.. but when it reaches 59 degree, the gals said tt time's up..haha.. we were like "phew"
after tt, we were bought back to the same room and it was body scrubing time!! with all the sweat tt is..haha..
then they took us for a bath before finally putting body lotion on us.. we were served hot ginger tea thereafter.. it was dinner time den!! the sky was already dark althought it was still 6.30pm.. so @ singapore time its already 7.30pm..
after much discussion, i think one of the person working there offered to drive us to kelong for our dinner FOC & charge SGD 20 to drive us back to our resort.. so good!!
ordered butter cereal prawn, lemon chicken, sambal kangkong, sotong, sotong mushroom.. some of them drank vodka while i drank lime juice.. the total price was $190 which shock us all..luckily we bought enough $$..
since we told the driver tt he can fetched us up @ 9pm, we took a walk ard.. most of it was posing for pics..lol..when we reached our room, we had a good bath again..hehe..playing water in the tub..lala~~
then we meet our late @ night to see the route down to the beach cos we had loss our chance to see the sunset so e need to catch the sunrise..
sleeping time after the route-ing was done..
i woke up @ 5am & called my sis..she told to go brush first but after i returned @ call her again, she said still early since the sun will only rise @ 6am so call her up @ 5.30am instead..hai.. the usual pig..
after the other 2 gals were ready & so is my sis we settled off.. but the sky was already bright le..so .... the sun was already up..hai..
so we contined walking down to the beach and played with H2O.. as we ventured deeper into the water, i suddenly noticed sth moving along the sand.. @ fist i spotted a tail & i thought it was a snake but then as i followed the tail to the body, i realised it was a stingray.. so i quickly called the others up to the shore.. they couldnt see anything cos it has swam away.. but then i saw another 1 gliding thru and the rest saw it too.. so we decided it's time to go back & prepare for our free breakfast!!
t was actually a breakfst buffet with beehoon, kway teow,cakes, sausages, hotcakes, salad, ham, cereals, egg (oh, you had to queue up for it cos it's so popular, took us abt 20 min to get the eggs), bread & many many others.. they have milk too & my fav orange juice! Yippy!!
such a sumptuous breakfast... i think i am gaining weight le..lol.. after our breakfast, we went for some fast souvenir-ring cos we didnt have the time to do tt yesterday..sorry gals.. after some packing up, we waited @ the lobby after checking out & off we go! slept @ the bus again..hehe..
Dad picked us up @ the ferry terminal & drove us for our dinner..had fish soup with rice.. interestingly, i managed to finish te whole bowl of rice which could last me for a week..lol.. & then there were this selling tissue man in his early 40 i think approaching us.. he was initially asking the ppl on the other side of the table but was being refused. then he approaches me.. i didint even looked up @ him man.. i jus shocked my hand.. i jus hate this kind of ppl.. they have hands, they have legs.. they have everything a normal human beings have.. but why did they have to resort to this kind of "pestering" for a living.. they can contribute more to the society by working or approaching the CC for help.. but here they are, wasting their time away & annoying others.. hmph.
anyway, After bathing, i immediately dropped dead onto my bed cos i had a slight flu & woke @ the next day @ 10am..lala
going to start studying le.. macro test coming next week..
sayonara!!