| AWWWWESOME JUNE ! |
[Jun. 11th, 2010|01:45 am] |
JiaQing's Birthday Party
Theme was American Next Top Model, so obviously the guys don't have to adhere to it, thou i try not to dress too casual for it. The party was pretty fun, but I was a bit lost because I don't know most of the people there. The American Club cliques just hanged together throughout the party and went into the birthday girl's room for some card games. The food's good and so was the party. Hope you had a great birthday girl =)
Bintan Trip
Here comes the BOMB ! Bintan trip with my poly mates + 2 strangers. Woke up at 5am in the morning to prepare for the trip when I slept at 3am the previous night, totally shagged. I took a cab and went to 2 places to pick up 3 ladies on the way to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal. We took a ferry ride to Bintan, the journey took about an hour, plus transfer from the terminal to the resort, the entire journey took 3 hours. I'll tell you, the Bintan checkpoint is the slowest checkpoint I've ever experienced, the custom officers were taking their own sweet time stamping the passports and the process was torturous. Upon arrival at Bintan Lagoon Resort's lobby, we tried to check in, but we wait for about 4 hours before we got the house key because the official check in time is 4pm, when we reach there at about 12pm. The first half of the day was spent waiting for cab, ferry ride, checkpoint clearance and checking in, my god !
But but ! The wait was totally worth it, the resort we stayed in was totally awesome. There was 4 rooms in the two storey house, equipped kitchen, 3 bathrooms, a huge living room, two chill out areas, dinning area, private swimming pool, private bbq pits, 4 seater golf-buggy, private garden, 2 balcony. FULLY AIR CONDITIONED and sea facing ! How cool is that ? Absolutely amazing !
We BBQ on the first night with the food we bought along, and we had the food in the chill out room in the house. We played Wii(credits to Eames) after dinner followed by a dip in the pool in the night.
On the second day, we took a buffet breakfast at the hotel lobby and went to do some sea sports at the beach. We played banana boat first, it was my first time taking a banana boat and therefore I was quite excited, but we didn't fall off the boat which I expect we would. Nonetheless it was very fun cruising on the water on a sunny day ! Then we kayak around the sea, but after an hour it started to rain so we went back to the house to have Wii again ! After Wii, we hired a SUV for 4 hours to take us to the village to have more activities. Spa was first on the list, we did a full body massage at a local spa which was very relaxing and it feels great, although I wanted to groan at some point because it feels weird. Secondly up, we had a wonderful seafood dinner at a local seafood restaurant, it wasn't exactly cheap by local standards but the food was pretty good. Lastly we went to a local convenient store to bag some tidbits and snacks, or rather the girls were the ones buying, the guys just stood and watched. AHAHAHA ! Then we head back to our house ! The local road doesn't have any street lights and therefore the road are completely pitch black, so driving require some mad skills, and license cost only $50 with no test required. Everyone was totally terrified during the ride but luckily our driver is extremely skilled and extremely friendly, to the extend that we gave him a $12 tips for his great service ! Then we head back to our house and played Wii and watch a movie till early morning.
Took a short sleep and woke up for breakfast again, and after breakfast we head back to pack our bags to prepare for checkout. BUT ! We wouldn't wanna leave without having our last fun moment in the house, so we played "monkey" and dodgeball in the living room by shifting to furniture to make space. I got too seriously while playing dodgeball and got carpet burned while trying to dodge an attack, part of the skin on my knee got burned off immediately upon contact. Didn't really feel the pain until yesterday when I got home and bath, apparently it was quite bad.
I swear I would visit the island again, the resort and the buggy is too much fun ! And of course I would miss the fun we had, irreplaceable memories of my life =)
Freaking long update ! But I willingly typed everything out because I could reminiscence every fun moment we had. I went with 3 friends, and came back with 5 friends !
As usual ...
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) |
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