Escape from Monotony

After a few months of hard work, me, my brother, and his gf decided to have a few days off from the often monotonous life in Singapore. We took a whole day leave last friday so we can hop on a ferry going to Bintan Island, Indonesia, where the waves can cause concusions, the wind never stops blowing, and the hammocks are so damn irresistable!

view of Bintan from the ferry

Mayang Sari beach resort where we stayed for 3days and 2nights

View of the beach from the reception area

Our cottage

Being a usual tourist spot, the prices of items are really aimed at tourists... Rich tourists, that is. The currency they use is Singapore dollars, not Indonesian Rupiahs... Weird e? The prices of things are the same as that in SG, if not more, which is crazy. I mean, this is Indonesia! It's supposed to be much much cheaper right?!

Bintan is outrageously close to SG, so it has a lot of visitors from there, mostly the Caucasian expats who earn 3x the normal wage. Man, if I had their salary, I'd probably be here every week too!

And to add to the list of things i've done for the first time, I braved the waters and went on body-boarding. Here's my fantastically gay body-board which I bought a few days back.

The waves were amazingly strong! How strong you say? It was able to push me around with not much effort! Go figure!

no f-ing clue who these people are...

But my favorite part of the Bintan trip, I must say, is definitely this...

The best invention known to man, after the computer... the seaside hammock

Nothing like the sound of the ocean, the cool breeze, and the mild swinging of the coconut leaves while lying peacefully on a tree-shaded hammock thinking of absolutely nothing. Ah! the life!

Sidenote: this entry was written while I was lying on this particular hammock...