happy bintan trip

last saturday, I went bintan, tanjung pinang.... i think...the city in bintan is called tanjung pinang....bah??

the whole trip cost SGD158.....EX?????

actually NO....

it was a trip package, with return of the ferry tickets (normally it costs SGD40 plus), tranportation, 1 lunch, 1 dinner, 2 days 1 night hotel accommodation, hotel breakfast buffet, tour guide and sight seeing places.....

woke up at 6:30am for shower (due to my newly curly hair and my face T^T), and shit...i suffered insomnia the previous day....stayed awake until 4am......that was really wonderful T_T, i only slept 2 hours.......

took cab to tanah merah ferry interchange...wow...surprisingly, it looks like the airport...very clean and beautiful....(because the ferry interchange in my mind initially is something like pangkor harbour -_-, ) ate my breakfast, which was a dao3 hui1 halfway, jy and wq came..... we started queuing and changed 50SGD to rupiah....the exchange rate is 1SGD:6700 rupiah....so indeed, I was the millionaire....I had 335000 rupiah in hand...hahahaha

9:20am, we can board our ferry, berth 4....wavemaster ferry....free sitting....and surprisingly..... there was no empty seats for 2 people.....and good lor....4 for us sat separately for 2 hours..... luckily i brought my ipod...ate the seasickness pill from jy, (not because of suffering seasick....is due to i wish to take a nap on the ferry =.=") and luckily, i managed to sleep for 2 hours during the ferry trip..... by the way... the toilet was disgusting... o.O

the time in indonesia is one hour earlier than singapore's. therefore, the time we reach bintan was only 10 or 11am plus.... quickly finished my unfinished breakfast and we set off to the day tour.... the tour transportation for us was Toyota Unser...looked great, at least not lokok one....hahaha...this was a 6 people tour.... 4 of us plus another 2....and surprisingly, 1 of them is singaporean, another is malaysian too.... we have 3 singaporeans, 3 malaysians...fair...hahahaha

our tour guide is johnny...he is very kind...and i feel pity for him...he treated us very nice, wished to accompany us for shopping and tried his best to take care of us...... and all of us appreciated his efforts! but maybe, bintan really has nothing for us to shop =__= the bintan mall he brought us was very lokok one.... but i bought a REAL polo ralph tee, and only cost SGD19.2 only lo.....wahahahahahaha....... he brought us to visit the old street (?!! or street??!) in bintan, (which was very similar to our ah fook street)....and he brought us to buy pickle sour plum, (which is always available in our pasar malam), and dried sleeve fish (which is always available in my ahgong's pangkor harbour hometown) -____- and lastly.....he brought us to a not super supermarket for shopping..... he told us that we can buy some food or drinks in the supermarket as around our hotel is being isolated.....ok lo...we bought a bottel of 2 litres pokari sweat...hahahahahaha

lunch was ok...got chicken, fish, crab etc....and 6 of us started to wonder..."wah, so hiong? got crab in lunch liao wor" but hor....no vegetables ler.....hahaha, overall, it was nice...

after that...sightseeing....we went three temples -________________-

kept praying praying and praying....... luckily, we finally had the chances to take our camera out for pictures.....and i can have my coconut!!!!!!!!! the weather of the day was damn hot...and i kept mumbling for a coconut....the coconut only cost 5000 rupiah (if i am not wrong)...which was only few cents in SGD....oh my god~~~~ we sat at the seaside and the coconut meat was so soft....cool~~~~~~~ before leaving, there was a hawker who sells pineapple tart, he let us tried... the pineapple tart was just being baked....still heated...and it was DAMN NICE...it was different from the one we usually eat during chinese new year.... 3 boxes for 10SGD, end up everyone of us bought-_______- and demand exceeded the supply....only left one box for me..... he said the quantity in the tupperware for testing is exactly equal to the quantity of two boxes, he asked me whether can accept the tupperware box.... i immediately replied:"ok, sure" (because i earned one tupperware box ler...hehehehehehe) end up, the whole tray of him...suddenly empty liao....only left some other products, like honey...

after sightseeing...we finally can move on to our hotel....and the journey is about 1 hour from tanjung pinang.... all of us pray that the hotel will not be very lokok -____- as the scenery during the journey wasnt that acceptable.... =p once johnny said, we have reached....everyone of us started to be panic...."har??? where is it? here is nothing...." BUT!!!! after a turn, we saw a extremely beautiful resort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i really have to strongly recommend ANGRO RESORT.....the resort is damn luxurious~~~~~ and it has its own BEACH!!! which means the whole beach is included in angro resort..... the beach is nice, the resort is nice, the building is nice, the facilities is nice, the swimming pool is nice, and the service is nice!!!!!! and the decoration in the room is nice too, every room has a BALCONY..and it faces the sea!!!!!!!!!!!! and another important thing is, the satelite here can receive Singapore TV show..channel U, channel 8 and channel 5...even TV1, 2 , 3 also got lo...wahahahahahahahaahahahahaha (but no 8tv ner...or i never realised??)

after resting, we were brought to a damn beautiful and romantic place for dinner.....sea side dinner!!! and the food there was damn nice.....wheat prawn, crab (again~~~~~~just, lunch was chili crab, dinner was black pepper crab), fish, tomyam soup, chili kangkung etc.... frankly la....this trip was damn worth....hahahaha...(it happened a short blackout...that time we went kukup also like that...i think three of us dai4 sai1~~~~)

after dinner, we walked by the beach~~~ there was an outdoor karaoke, free of charge..but too bad, no new chinese songs provided...the latest chinese song is from beyond +__+ there was a restaurant in the middle of the sea, with the bridge linking..... all of us visited and decided to have lunch there on the next day... there was a live band at 9:30pm...but too bad, i was exhausted, was not willling to wait~~~ (as had to wait till singapore time 10:30pm ler....i only slept 2 hours plus 2 hours ler...hahaha)

four of us decided to play snooker at the lobby... one hour cost SGD4...which was SGD1 for each person..... it was fun, as jy and i dunno how to play....anyhow lar~~~~hahahahahaha.... after showered.... we rent a mahjong set.... 12 hours for 12 SGD~~ then we asked the lobby ppl, what if we exceeded 12 hours? will we suffer a penalty.... he replied " no la~~haha" they even brought one mahjong table, 4 chairs to jy's room......walao~~~ why the ppl in bintan so friendly one? hahahhahaha...... no gambling la~~~~playing while eating chips while watching jacky wu's guess guess guess, it was enjoyable~~~hahaha

we decided to meet each other at 9am the following day.... therefore, we were forced to wake up at 8:30am....TMD...damn tired~~~ we walked downstair to have our poolside breakfast buffet.... the food there was very nice!!! was much better than the breakfast i had in bangkok =_= variety for us to choose... and three chefs were there for preparing roti prata, omelette and noodles.... we waited waited and waited...jy and wq havent reached..... suddenly i looked at the clock on the wall....oh no, indonesia was only 8:30am....... and the previous day we did not inform each other what country time should we follow +___________+ 9am, they reached, but two of us finished....so we decided to go back to rest first, as it was low tide........ no water for us to play also T^T.....we woke up so early so what~~~ wuwuwuT___T..... we waited waited and waited~~~~~~~ waited till 12pm.... sea water still wasnt enough, end up all of us decided to play in the swimming pool first...... this was the first time i played water since 10 years ago....hahahaha~~~~~~ after an hour, we finally satisfied with the sea height..... SGD22 per pax for one banana boat and mable~~~~ mable was something held by the speed boat....damn excited and fun~~~~~~~~~~~~we had to grab tightly, otherwise we would drop to the sea......very very EXCITED~~~~the banana boat was so-so only.... keep being thrown to the sea water....and kena drank a lot of salt water -________-

seasport made us exhausted... we supposed to check out at 12pm, luckily the resort ppl was really very nice... they allowed us to have a late check out after we finished the seasport~~~~~ the agro resort hor..... really damn nice ler~~~~~~~after 2pm checkout, we went to the seaside restaurant to have our lunch.... but i ordered food wrongly...it was a side dishes~~~ not main course.... end up i ordered a bowl of plain white rice +__+ (even the plain white rice got decorated de lo...) the mango milkshake was nice too~~~~~~

after lunch, we left the resort.... we were able to shop in Ramayana before set off back to singapore..... I bought one blouse and shoes there....only within SGD10 each~~~ the bintan ferry terminal indeed was the pangkor harbour's type..... and the funny thing was.. after i came out from the toilet, the person who stood outside asked me to pay +__+ and i didnt bring my bag along... end up i went back to pay 1000 rupiah~~~ we didnt want to sit separetely like the previous day, so we started to queue up at 6:15pm.. (6:30pm ferry suppose to leave) end up...ferry delayed....walao~~~~~ until 7 ferry then reached....... and the terminal was damn lokok....the light wasnt switched on, and the air-conditioned was off :s walao eh~~~ everyone of us were sweating...........

7pm ferry reached...and really walao eh~~~~~ there were plenty of empty seats...... we really did not have to queue like tat lo T_______T

i discovered that, it was exactly the same ferry as we took yesterday.... the toilet was the same......disgusting as the previous day........ T^T

we reached singapore at 10pm plus......it was an exhausted but happy and enjoyable trip!!! =D

next stop... batam??? hahahahaha