Bintan! I wasn't very excited in the morning before I left home 'cause I felt a little sick and I had a bad feeling. And true enough I was down with fever there! Ughs what a loser. The resort is quite an ulu resort with not many facilities but still we managed to have fun! On the first day after we took a little walk around the resort we went to the 'beach'. I was so disappointed! The beach was.. not a beach. We wanted to snorkel but there was only one snorkeling set! Sigh so we decided to do whatever was the most fun and decided to take a boat out to another island where there was actually a beach. It was a lousy island too but i thought it was cool that we had the island to ourselves. Haha. We floated around in the water with our life jackets drifting further and further away from shore. On our way we lost the snorkel. Oops. We did manage to see a FEW fishes though. And when I say few I mean few. I saw three haha. I was freezing in the water and I guess that's how I got even more sick. We took the speedboats back after that and our trip back was very fun! The guy driving our boat purposely drove very fast and um, just made it more exciting haha. Oh there was this guy in charge there wearing a striped polo tee with dark blue and yellow stripes and we called him bumblebee. Haha. Stupid jokes about him kept coming up throughout our stay in bintan. Back at the resort the rest went for a swim while I got attacked by MANY MANY mozzies. Then we had bathes n went for dinner. Think that was when I was officially down with fever. Felt like CRAP. Bleah but luckily for me I had my verryyy caring friends taking care of me especially kellie who was changing towels on my forehead. So I pretty much slept for the rest of the night. The next morning I thought I felt better but I still couldn't make it during breakfast so I thought i wouldn't join them on the trip to the city for shopping le :( But after a few minutes of rest I felt better so I decided to go. But somehow I felt like crap again when I reached the first shopping mall. So i didn't shop much there. Yep fortunately i was better at the next shopping place. Our bus went past many small villages and at one there were so many kids and they were very friendly! We kept waving at each other heh. Too bad we didn't get to go down though, so I didn't take any photos of the village and villagers :( We went fishing after we got back! Not very succesful though. Kexin caught quite a small fish which we released, I caught an even smaller one which we released it too and xinyi had a rather big one on hook! But it escaped heh. Anyhow it was a nice experience since it's the first time I really fished. After dinner that night we sat around a bit, played a little mahjong and cards and xinyi and kellie sang karaoke. Heh. The next day we went buggy driving! Xinyi almost drove into the pond 'cause she didn't turn this knob and the buggy reversed instead of going forward! Scary! But quite funny heh :P Chao was very worried about us driving us the buggy after that. There was only one buggy left so all seven of us hopped onto one buggy! It was moving reaaaallllyyy slowly uphill and even stopped when I was driving once. Maybe I'm just lousy. Heh quite exciting driving the buggy 'cause I've nv driven one before. But I suck at it. The most freaky+exciting incident when was chao purposely tried to make a sharp turn [with only four of us on the buggy la] and the whole buggly tilted to one side! Almost flipped. Haha thrilling :P Sadly with had to leave soon after that! Although the resort was a bit lousy, we still didn't want to leave! Guess it was still fun afterall. Oh and I must mention that all the staff at the resort are EXTREMELY nice! EVERY ONE of them! :)) If I ever go back again, it'd be 'cause of them.
Photos! Xinyi and I on the ferry to bintan! :D Kim and I (: Our island! haha The sea (: horsey! the bintan gang! The very cutesy guys haha Driving the buggy! I think this was taken just before I screamed. The four who were on the buggy during the stunt by chao! Me! Us :) Xinyi, me and where our rooms were! Xinyi reanacting the incident :P Pretending to drive the becak!
Love, ja
11:23 PM
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First I shall play the uhm, 'you are tagged' thing since eileen tagged me.. Quite long ago whoops.
Rules of the game:
1. Post 5 weird/random stuff about yourself. 2. At the end, list the names of 5 people whom you want next to do this, and leave a comment "YOU ARE TAGGED!" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.
So here goes..
1.When I was very very young, I insisted on going on the viking ship in Genting. And after the ship started swinging for a few seconds I was wailing so the people had to stop the ship for me to get down.
2. My feet are size 3 or smaller.
3. I get mixed up between my sister and dog. So sometimes i call my doggie minghui!
4. I'm prone to losing ONE side of my FAVE earrings :(
5. I'm more scared of hamsters compared to dogs.
Yup and the five people I'm tagging are:
1. xian 2. xiaoxinyi 3. wen 4. huimin 5. hengqing
But people just don't do it if you don't feel like k. Heh.
Love, ja
9:01 PM
♥ Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry Christmas everyone :)
So today's 25th December, Christmas Day but there's no festive air around my house now. Oh wells my family does not celebrate christmas. Though I'm not christian, I try to 'celebrate' christmas in my own little way, by sending out christmas cards. Not so much to celebrate the birth of jesus, but just taking this chance to attempt making my friends smile.
Speaking of cards, it was such a rush this year! Can't believe I only mailed all the cards yesterday. Some friends got my card already but I think they might be late for others. Sorry! To those who didn't receive a card from me sorry too! Lack of time! But still merry christmas and a veryveryvery happy new year with lotsa nice surprises! Guys, good luck and have fun in army! I'm sure it'd be a really cool experience :D Girls let's enjoy our holidays! I know everyone's getting a job, and some are getting rather serious ones too, but don't forget to play ya!
I got very few cards this year and I'm a littttle bit disappointed but still this makes me appreciate the people who sent/gave me cards even more! Thankyou xuanwei, geri and jingting for your VERY SWEET cards, xian for the dvd with all 6H's memories, xinyi the effort you put into making the sweet card of yours and the very pretty necklace and wanxuan for the ecard :)) Oh I kind of bought myself a present too! Although I didn't actually pay for it, my mum did. It's a book titled 'Kira-kira' and I reallllyyyy loved it! Now I love it a teeeenyyyy weeeeeeny bit less 'cause I realised this book might be for children. It got the Newberry Medal for the most distinguished contribution to american literature for children AND the words are pretty big. The book was wrapped up so I didn't know! I loved it so much 'cause of the very pretty cover, the very pretty title [kira-kira : glittering; shining - in jap], and the touching storyline! Oh yes and a little 'cause of the not very costly price. Heh. Hope it'd be nice to read. I'm leaving it til I finish reading my borrowed library books though. Must wrap my pretty book immediately after I get back from bintan. :))
I would have liked to buy christmas presents for a few exceedly special darlings but I didn't :( Kind of broke and guilty from getting so much money from mama. Giving presents make so many people happy! The receipient and the giver. Oh wells. Sorry next year okay!
Papa, mama, minghui and I walked up and down orchard road last night and it was a spraying experience. Strangers were spraying foam at other strangers and it got a little scary sometimes. Mama was majorly pissed off heh. I got my share of stuff sprayed on me but I was defenceless since I had no spray cans. =X So that was how I spent my very boring christmas eve. Lazing around now too but glad I'm meeting kaijie [drooloo] and waisan [guru] for dinner later on. Too bad I don't have presents for them. Ought to since it's christmas! :( Spirit of giving?
