so my darling girlfriend and i decided to take a quick trip to bintan on 29 jun – 1 jul to spend a few days away from the noise and dust of Singapore, and to take advantage of a pretty good package deal at nirwana gardens. so in spite of a dwindling bank acct, we set off to the little island to have some good destressing / tanning…
checking out the brochure about the island at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal…
a little camwhoring to start
BUT WHEN WE ARRIVED IN BINTAN, WE WERE GREETED BY A STORM! AND IT WAS POURING AND THE WIND WAS RIDICULOUSLY STRONG. The room we got was facing a pond. Well, the whole place looked like a pond because of the amount of rain there was. I was so paranoid during the bus ride from the ferry terminal to the resort cause it was wilderness all around, and if the bus crashed off the road, we would have to survive like savages and feed off corpses…
so we roamed around the resort and met some of the locals…
and ended up going for a grill buffet dinner.
The sun came out the next day, so we explored the beach a little. never watch documentaries on irukanji syndrome before going to beach resorts. especially if you’re a paranoid like me. you’ll end up just looking at the beach and never going into the water.
LUCKILY the glorious resort pool overlooked the sea.
We had some free archery session as part of the package, so we went to satisfy my archery craving. the arrows were all in such bad condition that they could not fly in a straight line. so we had arrows everywhere, all over the board, and even splitting the edges of the target frame. quite terok. must bring her to a proper range and show her how good i really am. hehe
because of her addiction to “THE ULTIMATUM”, we ordered room service for dinner. it wasn’t that expensive, but the chicken wings were pathetic. anorexic chickens i suppose.
it was a fun trip. we got to spend quality time together, talking, making a fool of ourselves and basically just try and forget all the messy stuff that life had in store… and here’s more camwhoring!
• product of the ‘80s • ad man in sgp • major tech junkie or technosexual • twitter addict • amateur petrolhead / photographer • best found on a beach after a couple of dry martinis¶