It's Bintan Time.

Finally, I decided to sit here and blog abt the much awaited Bintan trip with family in law.

Total of 6 of us went on this trip. FIL, Sen, Jie, Juan, hubby and myself. MIL din wanna come coz she was saying she has been there before and there's nothing much to do and din want to waste leave. And on hindsight now, I think she made a brillant decision! And boy, am I glad that I only took leave for Thurs and Fri and NOT Wed as well! *phew*

As pre decided, all of them will go there earlier. They (I assumed would have caught the afternoon ferry and reach there at maybe 1pm or so) leaving hubby and me to catch the last ferry.

Was indeed a mad rush for hubby and me. Coz I got a call fm the silly travel agent of the China students. Told him I was in a rush and he still went on and on! Bleh! Sen also called us to get this and that to bring over to Bintan. Goodness.. we were so rushed where got time to go and get? Anway that aside, I must say this trip has improved FIL and my re-ship. While it has made me dislike Sen & Juan slightly more. Bearing in mind that, I have never ever met the girl till Wed night.

But I must say that, whatever that happens is off to a bad start for hubby, me and Sen already.

First was the calls to buy things, bring this and that. Then after we reach the hotel lounge at close to 9.30pm, no signs of Sen. Hubby had asked him to meet us at the lobby so that he can bring us to the villa. Waited and waited. Finally, hubby went to the front desk and a staff gave us a ride in the buggy to the villa, Angosaka 11. End of story right? NO!!

Then we found out Sen and Juan sleeping. Fine lor.. then at least let us know we have to find the way to the villa ourselves! I think it's rude to disappear into the room so we stayed downstairs and chatted wif FIL for a while and I very good girl ok? I cleared up their dinner plates and things.. Then FIL asked us to go and put our things in the room, so naturally we asked which room is for us.

Jie pointed to 1 of the rooms, so we went up and tried to get in. Hubby discovered the door was locked and was trying to open when suddenly the door opened! Sen looked at us sleepy eyed w/o wearing a top. Then he closed the door again while hubby and me pretended to look round at the other rooms and the balcony and then Sen and Juan came out. Both looking sleepy.

My grouse is this.. since Sen has assigned that particular room to us, then y is he and the gf sleeping in the same room? Granted, it's a double bed so more meant for couples? But he can keep that room for himself and gf if he wants to, after all the villa is booked in his name! Y give us the room and then made me feel that we should not have opened that door at all?! Argg... Met the girl straight in the face, granted she's looking sleepy. My 'Hi' could therefore be either not loud enough or she replied but I din hear. Fine.

This was already a bad first impression ok! The gf and him (half naked) emerging from supposedly our room, both sleepy looking and the darn door is locked lor.

Throughout the whole of Thursday, we din talk. The only person I was chatting with besides hubby is FIL. Early morning, FIL already woke up. Hubby and me were enjoying a swim and FIL came out to say hi. After our swim, hubby drove the buggy and the 3 of us went for a short walk at the beach. I enjoyed chatting wif FIL and just enjoy the serene surroundings. Hubby went to take pics.. =) Bf was maggie mee wif dumplings and hotdog, cooked by Juan. Erm.. I'm not used to maggie mee for bf... but anyway... still din talk.

To my delight, I saw an elephant quite near to our villa, went out again. Still with FIL and hubby. FIL was chatting in I think Malay to the keepers of the elephant.. haha.. I was right that FIL is a chatty person. Took a short walk round the estates then went back to the villa.

Shortly after, we all went out again, this time, all the 6 of us went out. I think this is the most enjoyable for FIL. This precious 1 hour. He was playing table tennis against his 3 sons in turn. =) I'm happy for him and the sons too. At least they have some bonding time.

Once we returned to the villa, I napped and I din wake up till like 5pm haha.. Hubby was playing games the whole time.

Dinner was fried rice done by Sen and his gf. Ok lah... Not fantastic. But I din cook so don't complain. But I did the washing up for all of them after dinner. I felt I should do my part since someone else did the cooking.

Then spend the rest of the evening watching TV and just lazing in the villa. And at this point in time, I have still barely spoken to her for more than 3 sentences. hai.. And this was already the end of the 2nd day.

Friday morning... We woke up like 6am... which is 5am in Bintan. And the moment we went out of our room, we met FIL. Invited him to go watch the sun rise with us and he gladly agree. =) I must say my re-ship wif FIL is improving!! *yay* Spent time chatting and watching sun rise (din manage to see much, too much clouds and we were late I think) FIL asked THE question... *sigh* I was not expecting it leh.. Heng, Hubby caught the cue and he promptly answered, study 1st.. heng ar... After that, again we went swimming. But this time, we went to the central pool instead of the small pool in front of the villa. We were so early that we were the only 2 persons in the pool. Water was not cold. Just nice too! Swim, went back ate abit of things and then wait for the time to pass so we can all go back to SG.

Anyway, the whole trip was lazing. Din do anything much. Maybe some light swimming on Thursday and Friday morning. And that's it!

A very boring trip, I must add. And I also feel that I wasted 2 days of my precious leave. But I am indeed amazed at myself. Coz of the $200 SGD that I brought there, I did not spend a single cent! And most of the time, everywhere that hubby and I went, I always make it a point to invite FIL along. Seriously, I don't mind him coming with us, coz this trip is not lovey dovey trip. It's family time. And to be honest, I rather FIL spend more time with me than with her.. =P

ANd it was not till we reach the ferry terminal then we bought some snacks to munch on for the trip back home!