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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Pictures uploaded! (Bintan trip)

I'm feeling better today so I'll take this chance to update on the Bintan trip ok?

I'll not upload ALL pictures as it'll be really tiring.
100 over leh!

1st day :
We reached there and were told that we can't check in yet as the previous person hasn't checked out.
Still nevermind.
We walked to the beach to kill time.
God! The seawater there is so clean!!
You can see the sand and whatever's in the water!!
I've never felt such clean seawater before.
So much different from Singapore water la.
Haha.
The following two pictures were taken before Zoe's camera went swimming.

Then later came the almost big thing.
Zoe's camera DROPPED into the WATER!!
Strangely, it didn't affect her mood leh.
If I were her, I would've went emo the whole of the trip.

We went to check out the what-to-do there.
Seems like there's a lot la actually.
But I guess our main motive there was to try out the water sports.
We settled for kayaking (day) and Fireflies (night).

Waited for quite long, still can't check in.
Like so long la!!
My patience is not high so I guess I was a little pissed.
Moreover they don't want to go eat yet.
And I was starving.

Finally, they gave in and we went to this "restaurant" near the beach.
Had to walk pass this mini-zoo to get to this other beach.
After dining,
we had to obviously walk back.
Then here comes the BIG THING!!

While walking, I heard a loud crack at the top.
Looked up, and saw something like a BIG log coming down.
It was huge ok!
Of course I was freaked out.
I don't want to die.
So I screamed and ran forward.
But later, I realised that the log isn't tumbling down anymore.
I guess it was stuck up there.
Thank goodness.
But hell!!! Seconds later, I see bees coming!!!!
LIKE WHAT THE HELL!!!!
I'm terrified of bees ok!!
Of course not as terrified as for cockroaches.
So anyways,
I shan't elaborate further as it'll soon be a grandmother's story. Lol.
You can come and ask me if you want. I'll fill you in.

After countless screams from Zoe,
Zoe got one bee sting on the head and Daxi got 5. Not all in the head for him though.
Jonah and I were lucky to not kana bee stings.
It must've been god damn painful as it was swollen soon after and they both experience headaches.

We 'rushed' them to the hotel staff and they brought them to the clinic.
Luckily, they were given medication and were better after the pain subsided.

They were feeling better to even go for the Fireflies!!
Hehe.
It was so dark at the mangroves.
I was so afraid of snakes can!
The guide made me more afraid by saying there'll be snakes.
Argh!
Lol.

We were lucky to get a super friendly guide.
He was cool too!!
We were allowed to catch the fireflies with our bare hands.
Darn cool lor please!!!
And we got real close to the fireflies too.
So here are the pictures taken at the Fireflies trip!!

before setting off

jonah and i

zoe and daxi

getting ready

our oh-so-cute guide

the black speck is a firefly. cant get a clear picture of it. it's too small!

after the trip

heading back to the resort!

So that's the end of day 1!

2nd day:
We got up early to have breakfast, swimming and then head over to SNORKELING!!

So obviously we had to take this boat with a few other tourists to get to our snorkeling spot.
Terrible ride!
Ok it wasn't so bad.
But when the boat is stationary, I will have seasick.
Sheesh I hate seasickness!!

I thought the snorkelling spot would have colourful corals.
Little did I know, the corals are about to die.
So other than brown and orange, I saw none other colours.
And the fishes ain't very spectacular either.
Disappointment.

There are no pictures during snorkeling to show as we can't take any.
We don't have the water resistant camera or the underwater camera or something.

this is one adorable jap baby!!

i know i got tummy. just shut up ok!

heading over to snorkeling

yes she's carrying my bag. it was heavy! =/

sitting at this very big platform while waiting for the time to come.

NO DAXI NO!!! lol

i know i look dark and terrible. I WAS SUFFERING FROM SEASICKNESS and
'cos of the snorkeling, i become like a malay.
grrr...

We were dead tired after the snorkeling and decided to head back to the room to rest.
That's where the above picture come from.

tsk. jonah keep playing DS.

i had to put this! LOOK AT ZOE'S LEG!!
look like she's taking some whatever picture hor?
LOL!!!

zoe demanded for a second picture.
so this is the last best shot!

daxi emo-ing. haha

DS STILL!!

Later in about 3+pm, we decided to go jet skiing!!
Unfortunately, we're not allowed to jet ski as the sea is choppy.
It'll be dangerous if we were to still head out.

So, we had to postpone it to the 3rd day morning. Before we head back to Singapore.

As we still had time left, we climbed to the rocks and sat there for a while.
Frankly speaking, I was so afraid that I would fall off.
If I had proper shoes and not carrying a bag, I would climb with ease.
I was wearing slippers la!

Luckily, nothing happened.
To me that is. Haha.

When we were about to head off, Jonah asked Daxi to get onto this particular rock.
Daxi si beh kan jiong la!
He walked down so fast, stepped on the algae on the rocks, then SLIPPED!!
And he got his whole body wet.
Shiok eh?

Daxi then asked Jonah to join him.
Little did he know, Jonah slipped and fell as well.
There you go! Two wet brothers!

I think Daxi just loves to ka jiao Zoe.
He was pulling Zoe to the sea, wanting to make her wet.
Well, obviously he succeeded. Haha.
Zoe was shouting and screaming la.

Seriously, this is the first time I heard Zoe scream and shout so many times. Lol!

this look is flawless! lol!

jonah took this. it looks like a small river or something right?
it's not!
in fact, it looks more like a "lang gao" in reality.

zoe : "let's go and wash our legs at the cat!" (points forward)
us : (look ahead) "that's a frog leh!!"
it doesn't even look like a cat!!
Haha!!

zoe and the 'cat'

since the frog is a 'cat', every animal statue there is also a cat.

look at my arms! so red liao!!! kns!

ultra cute jap baby!!!!
this is another jap baby. not the previous one we saw.

i'm a good photographer! right zoe? haha

i seriously love this flower

they said that there isn't a lot of pictures of me.
so they insisted i take a photo with the flower.

jonah went "ARGH!" when he saw the picture.
cant see his face!! LOL

resort surrounding

these lizards are there for i dunno what.
but they're so GREEEEEENNN!!!

this is a real dragonfly.
taken by jonah.

Since it's the last night in Bintan, we decided to drink. Hehe.
We were allowed to use the karaoke room FOR FREE!!

Gosh! I thought the songs in there would be updated or something.
It's all old songs!

The list says "Latest Songs".
But it seemed to me that they're the quite old songs leh.
However, we did enjoy ourselves that night.
Luckily we know how to sing some of the songs.
Hehe.