Hey all, i am back blogging, 3 days after i arrived back from bintan. The trip to bintan was very enjoyable (not the ferry trip and the lectures though). The ferry trip to bintan took almost 2 hours! And the lectures are rather boring. To tell the truth, other then the first two days, I didnt attend the remaining lectures. Haha. We had alot of find watching soccer at late night, star gazing, and using the facilities of the hotel. Oh by the way, the hotel, I stayed in was Bintan Permata Beach Hotel.
Ok i shall start from the first day. The first day was a total mess and its started right at the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal! Alot of the tickets and boarding passes had plenty of errors. When it was all resolved at the Ferry Terminal, I thought that was the end of the confusion. But little did i know, after the 2 hours ferry ride and when we reached Bintan, the confusion was back again. And it was even worst then before! Most of the time it revolved around our passport. A lady took all our passport and most of us were doubtful if we could pass through the immigrations there. Well ok we did pass through the immigrations, but the confusion followed all the way to the hotel even until the problem of hotel room sharing! My friend was paired up with guys he doesnt even know twice! In the end, he moved into me and my brother's room. Another friend also did the same as he didnt want to share room with a teacher. So four of us had to share a room for the remaining days. We got settled in and had lectures, dinner, star gazing and watched soccer! (So it was rather late when we finally sleep on our first day in bintan).
For the second day, pretty much nothing happened except that we woke up late for breakfast, and more lectures to attend. And a trend could be seen forming, the food for lunch and dinner was going to be the same for the remaining days. (Just the different style of cooking). Of course, there was more soccer matches to watch on tv and more star gazing.
Ok now the third day, on this day, me and my brother and our friends couldnt wake up in time for breakfast. So we had to missed it but we went for lunch. After lunch, we left the hotel to go town for 2 hours. But when we reached the shopping mall, we took only 10 mins to finish our walk. So we ended up playing pool there ($2 per hour, when u convert it!). Just before we returned to the spot for the hotel bus to take us back, all of us went to buy tibits. (to prepare for our night life!) haha. Oh and the best thing that happened on this day, I finally managed to see shooting stars that i couldnt see in Singapore!
Finally on the fourth day, alot of us woke up late again. but some of us including me managed to go for breakfast. But all of us managed to attend the prize presentation. And i am proud to say NYP won some of the prizes. Including two top prizes (Binoculars!). After the prize presentation, we had time to pack our room and have lunch, after lunch was home sweet home! (Of course there were a few confusions here and there but they were somewhat minor compared to the first day.)
Thats all from me! I will be posting pictures of my trip to bintan once i get them on my friendster. Go view them if you want! Alright peace out! HaVe A nIcE dAy! =)
