刁曼島=刁難島 (quoted by my mum)

Tioman Island

刁曼島=刁難島 (quoted by my mum)


It's been a week after my trip to Tioman. Okay, i'm tired, busy and most impt, nothing much to blog since it's juz 3D2N short weekend getaway. Beri long and painful journey...I mean, the place is not that bad after all. So far I've heard many good feedbacks abt that place, but i seriously think that unless u wanna go for diving/snorkeling otherwise Bintan is a much better choice. 60 mins ferry and u can wave happily at the beach @ Bintan & nice white sand too.

Day 1

- Gathered outside DFS @ 6am and ready to set off ard 7am...things went off smoothly & we reached the jetty by 10am. Then, we were known that the next ferry will be set off at 1pm. U noe...it's really the "DE" feeling. Y should we wait at that area w/o any place to shop and rot till 1pm? Chatted or gosipping abt cols with my ma juz to pass time....Ard 130-145pm, we were still Q outside the entrance, worrying the ferry might not able to cather everyone. -_-"

Once we got into the ferry, it took us 2 hrs to reach our stop of resort. And, we waited again as our resort shuttle bus cannot transfer everyone to the resort so waited the 3rd bus to reach our resort. Wait wait wait....and we waited to check-in ard 4pm. And we waited again for another shuttle bus to bring us to our chalet room, which the guest officer just won't us go by ourselves since we duno our way. So we waited...i can say, i nearly say out the Fxxx word cos the shuttle bus din drop us directly outside our chalet, meaning we still walked and figure out where is our chalet is.

Luckily, we bought giant cup noodles and eggs to fill our stomach while seeing more bad news- TV abt Jackson's death. We rested awhile and off to the beach to catch the sunset. The sunset and the wind seem like a treat to us after the long hard day & we are happy to find ourselves occupied with the long chairs and shelter. After eating dinner, that's my day 1.

Day 2

- Went for our foc breakfast buffet. The buffet is not bad, wif quite a variety of chinese food and bread but i prefer the porridge. After that we went to register snorkeling. It's my 1st time and kinda anxious abt it. Alot of pple and ang mohs went too....as we onli got foc 30 mins, i bcum abit kiasu that i cant wait anymore. The people there are juz spending too long just to go down the stairs down to the sea...& still holding the stairs or stay ard that area.

Seem like it's gg to take me sometime to get dwn the sea, i juz go to the side of the boat and jump down. Yes, i shld jump down but i din jump dwn...i wanna get down slowly & quietly. B'cos i'm holding something before i get down, the force is too fast and i went down already & i hited my arm against the boat. Sharp pain...i knew immediately tt it's gonna be a big blueblack. Okay, besides my painful arm & hard to use gear to breath, i managed to see the corals and nemo fishes, many small fishes. We are on top of the sea so quite a distance to close-up these creatures. In the end i realised they did not keep track how long u are staying in the sea.

We went to swim awhile in swimming pool and beach and went back to chalet. After bathing and go watching the sunset again. We decided to eat outside the resort and have some bbq food to retreat ourselves. But the dinner is not worth mentioning. Most of the dishes did nt turned up and we cancelled our order. Not beri nice food anyway. Bought Hooch and beer to drink and i've tabao hooch since we onli drank the Qingdao beer.

Day 3

- Packed our things and have our breakfast ard 8am. Our resort shuttle bought us to jetty at 10am and again, we waited. The officer announced ferry will delayed till 1130am and we rot again with lousy feeling. Hot weather and sour bland coconut juice that we bought din cheer us up. After the ferry and coach journey, i'm gettin worried abt the hooch which might not be legal to bring into SG custom. So we decided to dispose once we reached the customs, and....the moment i'm struggling with my towel wrapped with hooch, i saw one of my fingernails flipped up completely. Blood come out immediately...2nd shock of my life. Luckily, the pain reduced when i reached home ard 8pm.

Conclusion
- If you have read carefully, u will fully agreed that day 1 & 3 is mainly taking transport + waiting. Y wait? Y take such long journey juz to "have a break"? I missed Bintan so much along the holiday. But if diving / snorkeling is part of the activities, okay, fair enough to go....or else, i dun think i will go again unless i'm taking flight there (within an hr journey).