Stories In Storeys: Sidetracks; I AM BACK! NOW TO LET YOU IN THE KNOW OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE INDOs!

Hey I am back, *groans*, Indonesia was alot of fun, and so I am already missing it! Anyway, here's how the trip began.

Day One:
It all began as I woke up early, around six in the morning, as I got ready, I bid my room goodbye(lame, I know, but I do this kind of stuff), and went ahead to grab the bags that I packed the night before, and headed to school. I left most of my school's P.E. shorts in my school's classroom's cupboard, so I had no choice but to use my old ones, and if you know how huge I was, you should know that when I wore the old pair, I looked like I was wearing a black dress. Anyway, I got to school and people were already there, apparently, we were all just waiting for the bus to arrive at six-thirty. Since I had time, I begged my teacher to allow me to just go up to class and grab a proper pair of P.E. shorts, that she allowed, and so without leaving the ez-link in the key cupboard(that's my school's way of knowing who took the keys and shit), I just grabbed the keys to my class, and got my shorts. The bus arrived just as I came out of the office the second time(to put the keys back in the cupboard), and so we boarded it and was on our way to the jetty. The bus ride was mostly meant for us to catch alittle more shut-eye, before we go into the hyper-mode we were supposed to at Indonesia, but for me, I was still too excited to sleep, and so I sat in the front and chatted with the teachers that were going. In that conversation alone, I was asked by one of the teachers to get the bus driver to stop for us to eat since we weren't going to be able to eat breakfast at Indonesia. We couldn't stop in the middle of the highway, so in the end, we just had to bear with the hunger till we reached the port. While there, we had our breakfast at a very lousy excuse for a coffeeshop, and I ate a sandwich with a taste that I won't soon forget. My friend felt that it tasted so bad, eating it with the pepper and black soy sauce was the only way he could chomp it down at all. After the breakfast, we checked in, and made our way to the boat. The port itself shook and I thought I was sea-sick. I entered the boat, and damn, I lost my balance (infront of the girls!). Anyway I decided not to stay below deck any longer and proceeded to go to the roof of the boat which was awesome. I could feel the sea breeze in my hair, and the sights were amazing. I really felt at peace up there, with the warm sun shining down upon me. The boat trip lasted an entire two hours, so you could tell that when I came down from the boat, my hair looked like it just went for an audition for a Gatsby commercial. We all checked out of the Indonesian Port, and the teachers there, proceeded to cram us all into this really small bus with our bags and everything. The windows of the bus were spoiled and the windscreen was cracked, (so much for five star accomodation, huh?), in the end, we had to suffer an entire hour and forty-five minutes across the countryside, on a small and rocky trail, through a short downpour (which ended up drenching me since my window REFUSED to close itself) and finally we reached the other side of the island. We got off the bus, and came face to face with a nice "resort", complete with palm trees, a sandy spot for volleyball, a beach, a sea, and huts built over water which we were going to stay in...WAIT A MINUTE! HUTS BUILT OVER WATER WHICH WE WERE GOING TO STAY IN?! VAD ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Those were the words that crossed my mind but it wasn't half bad at all once I got a closer look inside the huts. Nice bedding, clean furniture, except for the constant buzzing of the annoying carpenter bees, and the fact that the toilet is right beside the bed...It's not bad. We placed our stuff down, and I was assigned to hut number one, and I thought that we could choose our mates, maximum five, I heard, and so I got my friends, Daryl, Zhengyu, Jun Jie, and not forgetting Jia Hui to form the group called the Dude Dirties, aka, DDs. Haha, it was a lame group that talked about nothing but disgusting stuff, haha. Anyway, just when we got comfortable, the room order was shuffled, and I ended up with my sir, and a few secondary twos. After placing our luggage in the huts, it was time for lunch, the scenery was beautiful, and it was really nice. Anyway, for the rest of the first day of a three days two nights course, we did rock-climbing, (I REACHED THE TOP!), and we were given our own free time later, so I played volleyball till I got a tan. There was an obstacle course that we did as well, and archery too! It was alot of fun. Later that evening after the delicious dinner at the canteen area, (which was also a cool hut), some of them did star-gazing, whilst I tried to catch fish and crabs. Thereafter, I went to sleep...Until he came. From the darkness, he came, he spins webs, he is...Spiderman (Jia Hui). He kept the entire group next door up with his constant web shooting that even they started scolding him, and when they scolded you could hear for miles and as you can probably tell as well, a night of sleep was hard to achieve. Jia Hui became known as Spiderman the next morning.
Day Two:
We had a scrumptous dinner of mee goreng, then we did the flying fox, and my slipper flew off! After lunch, we headed off to do something called "Boomnetting", whereby you jump from the second level of a moving boat down into the ocean and net below! It was awesome, but first we had to kayak ourselves to the boat, which was really a pain, my arms hurt, but it was alot of fun. We had to kayak back after the "Boomnetting" and it was funny to see how this pair, my friends, kayak to another island which was totally off course! Haha, it was so hilarious to see their small bodies over the ocean water. Anyway, when we got back from the "boomnetting" the entire afternoon was spent, and so we just got ready for the campfire that second night, which I emceed for, heh. Anyway, the campfire was short and brief with alot of fun dancing. After the campfire, we proceeded to the star-gazing area right beside the canteen area to tell ghost stories. It was scary yet fun at the same time, then my teacher wanted to play a trick on us, and so they hid a phone with a scary ringtone in my friend's pocket, and asked him to go join us. We would never have expected this friend of mine to have a phone and so when the ringtone began to play and the scary lady voice began to laugh maniacally, we freaked out, but my friend, Rose is his nick, freaked out the most, and we laughed about it later when the truth was out. We slept happily that night without Spiderman's usual web business.
Day Three (Last Day):
The next day, we ate a nice breakfast again with pratas, or pancakes as they call it there. Then we headed off to the beach to fix up our own rafts. The idea was to pile barrels and wooden poles together, but we did that terribly and our raft sank in the middle... Anyway, we did sailing after that, and I learnt how to sail! It was cool. I was actually piloting a real sailboat for myself, and it was awesome. My friends somehow ended up at the rocks, and capsized, it was hilarious, but we had fun. We were sad to go, as after lunch we were to leave the site, and head on to the mall for shopping, so it was another one and a half hour or was it an hour and forty-five minutes? Anyway, we did our shopping and finally left for Singapore. We bid our farewells, and in two shakes of a lamb's tail, we were on the boat ride home. There was a feeling of serenity, and peace in my heart as I gazed at the night sky from the boat's roofs, it was soothing, yet I felt...lonely. Anyway, it was home sweet home after that, (I was so afraid that they wouldn't allow me to put the indonesian fishing rod I brought back through), we all took the bus that was prepared for us back to school, and most of us slept, since the trip had been loads of fun, and we finally decided to rest. I went home after that, all in all, it was an amazing trip that I will definitely remember.

Now THE PICTURES:

The bus trip to the port, damn, I am going to miss Singapore...NOT. :D

The coffeeshop with REALLY bad sandwiches, trust me, you will cry eating, it IS that bad.

Outside view of the port, hey wait a minute, CHANGI PRISON EFFECT! WHAT THE HELL?! CHOY! TOUCHWOOD! xO

Happy faces before eating the sandwiches, my friend's sleeping, what the hell.

See the sign on top? Yup, it's time to depart!

On the boat! Or at least, IN it!

Still holding out, wait till sea-sickness start coming in, these happy faces will be green.

ALRIGHT! ABOVE DECK, FRESH AIR! SEA BREEZE! WARM SUN! SEA BACKDROP! PERFECT!

WELCOME TO INDONESIA, BINTAN!

THE CITY! AND ITS TERRIBLE CONDITION OF AIR POLLUTION! GIVE US HAZE SOME MORE LAH, THIS IS YOUR JUST DESSERTS! >:D

The countryside, peaceful, calm, and peaceful and...calm...and...peaceful...and...

NICE SKIES, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE! THIS IS A DISPLAY OF TRUE PHOTOGRAPHY TALENT! (Photo taken by: Vashon)

MY HUT! WOOHOO!

THE HUTS OVER WATER! (This later became Hut Two, aka, Spiderman's Hut.)

What's inside the girls' hut...heh heh heh... Now the question is, how did I manage to take this picture.

FOOD!

FOOOOOOOOOD!

Wha...? Oh, FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

Another view of the site, nice place, huh?

See those rocks? I will get there someday... *Makes a hero standing position.*

Like I said, I WILL GET THERE!

The rock-climbing activity, prepare for some heavy damage to your arms, friends.

Here we go... One step at a time...One step at a time...

AND HE REACHES THE TOP! VASHON RULES! IN YOUR FACE, SPIDERMAN! WHO NEEDS WEB WHEN YOU HAVE SUSPENSION ROPES AND NICE INDONESIAN DUDES TO HOLD YA?

Woah, what the heck is this?! HELP SPIDERMAN! HELP!

Alright folks...He moves to the center...He takes his position...

...AND HE PUNCHES! WHAT A SHOT!

The obstacle course, think NPCC ropes obstacles at ATC.

STEP RIGHT UP! STEP RIGHT UP! FIFTY RUPEE THAT HE SHOOTS IN! OR OUT! PLACE YOUR BETS!

Alright you guys, I know you placed your bets on me shooting in, but you GOTTA GIVE ME ROOM, I MEAN, COME ON! How's a guy gonna concentrate like this?!