bintan trip report
friday : mad rush from office -> home -> tanah merah ferry terminal. thank goodness everybody made it in time. went to the customs where we got a rude shock when nicolette was denied entry due to her passport problems. thankfully everything got sorted out and we went on our 45 minute ferry ride to bintan. arrived at bintan where a shuttle service transported us to our destination; nirvana resort. happily walked to our suite to meet up with the other half of the group as they took the earlier ferry over. decided we were hungry so we took a stroll down to mana mana resort where they served really good and cheap pizzas. spent the time there planning out what we were going to do over the next few days. went back to the hotel to chill and organise our sleeping arrangements. took a short shuttle down to bintan lagoon where we played laser quest 8 players free for all! madness in the arena and all of us came out soaking wet after a short 15 minute game. then it was off to this restaurant called the kelong where we had our dinner. we were literally eating above the sea. after dinner, we proceeded to this small hut via the connecting floating bridge to a small bar where we just indulged in our usual crapping sessions while soaking in the sea breeze. they served very interesting drinks as well. headed back for our suite at around eleven where we bathed and sat down together to watch dvd. by then i was so tired i just fell asleep halfway through the show.saturday : all of us woke up real early in the morning to go down to the pool for some sunshine and fun in the water. spent our time there deliberating over activities for the day. headed down to the tracks for go kart-ing! it was damn damn cool. my first hands on experience on those machines and im already craving for more. the andrenaline of flooring the accelerator while skidding round the bends is seriously exhilarating. even the girls matched the standard of the guys on our second attempt. respect man respect. it was then a 90 minute journey to the city centre for some shopping. key highlights of the outing : KFC which served rice for all its set meals. shopping centres that resembles our chinatown shophouses totally. uber cheap one hour long massage. mobile disco and mini ktv session on our journey back to the resort. we heard from the concierge earlier in the day that there was gonna be sort of a mini beach party over at mana mana's so me, clifford, vanessa and candice headed over to check it out. pizzas, live soccer plus our secret sharing session made the night special. it was quite an eye opener watching the much older crowd groove to the music. and they played mambo songs! that pretty much made my night. went back to our suite for dai-dee session. decided we were not going to sleep since it was our last night anyway. so it was dai-dee all the way till morning and i remember dealing a remarkable four 2's to candice during one of our games. ZzZzZz. suffered big time losses for that.
sunday : went over to the poolside again and this time i got burnt. didn't actually realise it till i went back to the suite for a bath. and its not often that i get a sunburn since i don't exactly go tanning usually. therefore it was very very painfulll. clifford had to leave so all of us decided to pack up as well and get ready for checking out. left our bags at the baggage counter and we went down to pasar ole ole. basically it was this village-like setting filled with shops. its a tourist attraction somewhat like the geylang serai we have in singapore. looked around and bought some stuff back. got back to the resort and we went for laser quest round 2! this time i got lucky and i mananged to come in first place! managed a 41:8 ratio. very very proud of my score indeed. haha. and then it was time to go and we boarded the 8.15pm bintan time ferry and headed back for singapore.
that finally concluded our weekend getaway. some of the pictures from our trip can be found here! sorry for bad grammar/spelling/incoherent setences. i just wanted to get this much anticipated update out and im too tired to go edit my post at this moment.
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