Sorry guys, for the long gap between the last post and this. Was quite busy, but this post is about my holiday in Bintan. My Uncle and Aunt, Jenkins and Mabel, to be known as Zenyee, came with me and i am sure they will update something. www.zenyee.comBefore the trip, I went to stay over at my uncle and aunt's house. ( Zenyee ) Anyway, we were going the same place the next day. Tanah Merah Ferry TerminalDay one, Bintan Lagoon Resort
We took a large vessel, the Aria Bupala, to Bintan after breakfast at the terminal. There we took a bus to the hotel. Due to the limited seats in the bus, we had to split and sit separately. After the 20 minutes ride to the hotel , we were told that we could not check in to the hotel just yet. As it was still early, we went to Leisure Centre, a place inside Bintan Lagoon Resort which provides a rather wide variety of things that we could do. ( we spent 70% doing the things ) We first went to Laser Quest, a game that requires a suit ( consists of gun that hooks on to the armor and the armor which holds 5 parts to shoot using the gun ) . We paid and went into the map where we were supposed to find the other team in the dark map. As my brother decided not to play, my aunt had to take his place. After that, we went to rent a set of billiard balls to play for an hour as the hotel rooms were not ready. When we finally had finished the billiards game, we went back to the hotel to find out that our rooms were not beside each other. I didn't mind, personally, because we were close enough. After settling down for a while, we went down together for lunch. After lunch, we went for a swim, as the weather was simmering, and it helped me cool down. After that refreshing swim, we relaxed back at the hotel until dinner time, where we ate a mouth-watering buffet by the hotel. As my meals were complimentary, I ate a lot to make full use of the complimentary ticket. After dinner, we were not ready to go back to the room yet, so we walked to Leisure Centre and played Mahjong for an hour. After that we went to the hotel's own version of 7-Eleven and bought potato chips for a party at my uncle and aunt's room. After the party, we ended a day by snoring. Zzzz...
Day two, Bintan Lagoon Resort
We woke up at 7.30am. Surprisingly, my uncle woke up earlier than us. We went down for breakfast. Again, I was complimentary but we ate at Miyako Japanese Restaurant instead because Kopi-O Restaurant ( the buffet restaurant ) was full. Over there we also had a buffet, but smaller. Ray ( my brother ) was eating a piece of bread when we deduced what we were going to do this day. We finally agreed that he could play soccer first ( he brought a soccer ball ) if he finished that piece. He heartily agreed and sure enough, he finished it. We played near the beach after breakfast. Out of sheer luck, there was a mini goal over there as though it had been waiting for us. After that 10 minutes of the ball, we decided to check out the beach. It had a water sports club called Alang-Alang water sports. We decided to go back to the hotel to change to our swimwear. But as we walked, we changed plans. We went to the second swimming pool first, which had two slides ( we found it while walking to the beach ) before going to the beach. At the beach, we played by the waves for a while before renting a kayak and a jetski. After two hours at the beach, we went back to the hotel for lunch. After going to the beach, we found out that we had nothing else to do, so we replayed billiard. Unfortunately, all the tables were being used up, so we had to play pool on a GIGANTIC pool table! we had to play for a hour before we could even finish a game. Tired but happy, we sat down to another round of mahjong, so we could cool down. As my brother, Ray, did not play, he rented a PS2 and played for a little while. My aunt went for a massage midway, and halfway through our last game, Ray ran up and said he wanted to join us, because he said my aunt was supposed to join him, but obviously, did not. And most shockingly, he gave the controller to a stranger to play, and he did not pay. We rushed down after the game, to snatch away the controller ( snatch is a little too harsh ) and played the remaining time. When we looked at the time, we still had about two hours to play, so we rented a basketball and went to the basketball court. At the end, the basketball game turned into a bouncing captain ball's game. When we went back to the hotel to shower and eat, a show that was on channel 5 captured my attention. We ended up eating at 8pm at a italian restaurant. My father ate a chicken kebab. You should have seen how they brought in the kebab! At one point, a caucasian with his female partner walked in and was dining at the same restaurant. It was not a good dinner for us as he,who commented to a waiter that we were too noisy. Either he was too loud, or we were too attentive, because we could hear every word he said. When we were leaving, he heaved a loud sigh as if he had been relieved of a great weight. We didn't care less and left him alone. We went back to the room to see that the show on channel 5 had not finished. We watched the last part and was about to sleep when the Mythbusters show popped up. We ended up watching that for half a hour. Ended another day.
Day three, leaving day.
I woke up to an abrupt start, as we had to wake up a lot earlier to pack. We went for breakfast and then we went to Leisure Center again, to play billiard once again. after that, we went to play Laser Quest again. This time, my brother joined in. After that tiring but fun game, we went for another swim. As time was limited, we could only spend one hour swimming, and then we had to quickly pack, so that we could check out. We ate lunch at a outdoor bar, and when the bus came, we boarded it to the ferry terminal at Bintan. There, we ate nissim noodles, ice cream etc. And at 2.30 sharp, we boarded the Aria Bupala once again, back to Singapore. By how kiasu ( scared of losing something ) the people were, I decided majority were Singaporeans. When we finally arrived back to our native land, I was delighted. We fetched my uncle and aunt home and we went home ourself.
I hope that helps me patch the missing posts, bye for now.
Joncelteo
