We had a bad spate of fights and no matter how hard Gabriel tried to repair it after the storm, I would remember that he was the instigator and the source of all my pain and I'd fall back into a small rage and be unable to forgive him.
I was worried this trip would fall flat on my face because all everything that happened prior to it but as we inched nearer and nearer to the trip, he became more and more loving and everything settled after the dust sooooo I was happy again!
We took the Bintan Resort Ferries service from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal at 11:10am.
It was my second time visiting Bintan with him and so I brought along my pi, this baby cloth I've held dear since I was 2, and snuggled with it because my blockhead fell asleep two minutes into the ferry so I had nothing to calm me when there were rough seas NOTHING.
In hindsight, I should've just woke him up and made him pacify me instead of holding onto my pi for comfort. I ended up losing it on the stupid ferry. STUPID FERRY. STUPID ME. HOW DID I LOSE MY PI.
To give you an idea of my attachment to this pi, I actually declared to my grandma (when I was 7) that when I die, I wanted to be buried with it. And now it's somewhere lost at sea while I'M STILL ALIVE. This is making my preferred burial more tragically poetic than it has to be.
But I didn't know I lost it till much later in the day so I was still cheery.
We reached at around 11:10 Indonesia time and were greeted by the cheerier staff of Bintan Lagoon Resorts. Gabriel stuffed himself silly with cigarettes while I remained blissfully unaware of my pi's loss and continued to annoy my baby.
We checked into our gorgeous room and begun to unpack.
To give Bintan Lagoon Resort credit, their staff were mostly polite and kind to us. I was supposed to leave a scathing review because we were not told that all sea sports were suspended due to the monsoon season and that the ATV weren't functional either over God-knows but oh well.
I don't have photos because Gabriel took off his shirt and threw his socks everywhere and it is not a sight I want anyone else to see because it's too sexy. Some might call that scene gross. "Some" might refer to my sister. Gabriel's laziness extends from Ang Mo Kio to Bintan and to the room I share with my sister.
View from our balcony:
We headed down for lunch after that!
I already knew the local darts restaurant Terrace would be my haunt for the rest of this trip.
If you know me, you'd know I am fanatically obsessed with Western food. My love for all things Western is severe. I want to die on a movie set. But food-wise, Indian food comes pretty close but I'd still fuck a Western meal any day. Hmm that came out weird.
Cheesy tourist photos!:
I thought I edited them to make my face stand out. Oh well.
Anyway the view wasn't as magnificent as I had hoped because the island was going through some construction at the point of our arrival. No sea sports due to the monsoon season and no ATV rides due to shitty construction roads.
Gabriel was ridiculously angry to hear all the cancellations at first, saying Bintan Lagoon Resort is guilty of false advertising and that I should write a shit review. But when I told him we could go to another nearby resort's leisure center to try our luck and he went, "Oh. But I wanna chill and nua."
Whaaaaat a sham.
I'm hungry again.
The fish and chips and sriracha fish tacos, along with my hot chocolate and his mango smoothie, set us back an outrageous 500, 000 rupiah. I was unaware I was eating gold! Actually I was, it tasted pretty good, just my luck that this year is my turn to plan and pay for Valentine's.
I love the series of photos. I love how I look at him. I truly am in love.
Anyway, we finished our meal and headed over to claim our free photo-shoot session. We had to wait for a bit so Gabriel happily sat me down on a swing and tried to froce more Code Geass on me. And because I am a perfect girlfriend, I only fell asleep after 15 minutes.
Our view from the lobby:
Our photo-shoot session started and our photographer brought us around.
We had three locations - pool, grass and beach. In each of these locations, he would direct us where to put our hands and where to pose etc. Some of the poses were revoltingly cheesy but Gabriel was having such a happy time that it reflected off me too.
We were in the middle of a shot where I had to wrap one arm around him and he whispered, "I don't mind spending to buy more photos," even though this trip was supposed to be fully on me. And I smiled giddily and now I have that moment on camera!
The final set was the beach and after a while, the session concluded. The photographer was about to leave when I asked for two final photos with my phone, to which he happily obliged.
They turned out so.. old school.
Gabriel likes the slanted angle but I like military straight so he has the slanted one uploaded while I have my straight. But God, isn't the scenery breathtaking.
We walked along the beach.
I wordlessly pushed him into the position to photograph me in and after a while, he understood I was trying to do the "bring me to.." pose.
He then suggested we should do this series of pose for every trip we take and I gave him an unimpressed face. He was the one who came up with it when we first went to Gold Coast and now, he's forgotten all about it! Again!
My forgetful man.
I love the way he holds me. He mades me feel like I'm mighty dear to him.
He was supposed to take photos of me but:
Idiot.
And then me:
So glam!
After that we went back to our hotel and watched more Fullmetal. There really weren't much else to do with all the activities down. I can't imagine living here beyond two days. We ordered room service, this fantastic meat lover's pizza, and finished Fullmetal and started on Code Geass.
We took a long bath and I fell in love with him and all his stupid little antics again, the way he does silly things to make me smile. I gave him a head massage and then we headed out to the balcony for him to smoke.
We were about to leave for dinner by the beach when I came across the surprise booklet I was supposed to give him. I wanted to wait till the night but I got excited so I sat him down at the balcony and gave it to him.
He read every page and smiled and laughed at the parts I love most, and halfway he made me do the reading. With each page, he kissed me and held me closer. At the last page, where I asked if he'd have me forever, he looked at me and whispered he would.
He told me to wait there and I did, while he walked into the room. When he came back out, I tried to give him shit for leaving my booklet in the open and he just wordlessly led me into the room and sat me on the bed.
He went on one knee and told me about how he always knew it was going to be me. He told me how much he feared his 3-month sail because he was afraid I'll leave. He told me how when he first heard I could be pregnant, and when I asked, "Are you going to run away?", he was surprised that he said no, and that the rock in his chest lifted because it meant I was finally his, forever. And that was when he knew I am the only one for him.
I started to cry and he started to tear and he made me close my eyes. He scratched the surface of the mystery gift he was holding and made me guess what it was. And I knew it was a ring box and I kept crying and I said, "No, it's not supposed to be now.." just as he told me to open my eyes.
And when I did, I was swept by the immense relief that it was an empty ring box.
He gestured to the empty space and said one day, he'll fill in. And I was thankful there wasn't a ring yet but a little mad there wasn't a ring anyway and I was ready to start humph-ing him, saying, "So there was never a ring huh-" when he pulled it out from beneath the box.
Spongebob has an episode where he has a secret box, hidden from Patrick. Patrick tried to get the box and when he did open it eventually, it was empty except for a string. He told Spongebob was an idiot. But at the end of the episode, Spongebob pulled the string and revealed an embarrassing photo of Patrick at a party.
If Gabriel had gone down that same path and pulled out an ugly photograph of me instead of a ring, I might have just thrown him over our balcony into the sea. What a thought!
But he didn't.
It was a ring.
He said this was a stand-in ring to secure me from now till he comes back from his sail. And I said it was pretty smart of him to give this to me now that my office is getting a new male editor and with the influx of people I'll meet when I start my degree in Birmingham (cross fingers). And he looked mighty pleased with himself and told me to blind every man hitting on me with the ring.
I stopped crying after a while and he continued to stroke my head, telling me how he hates it when I ask, "Don't you remember you love me?" when we fight because to him, it's a stupid question since I'm supposed to know he loves me with everything he's got. And he says he always remember he's marrying me even when we quarrel. And I smiled stupidly.
But of course, love cannot feed stomachs and after a while I complained I was hungry and we headed out to dinner.
We had a tiny dessert at the dessert bar because I had a craving, but it turned out I wasn't that dessert-hungry anyway. I tried to throw away the rest of my uneaten doughnut sneakily because I was still hungry but it's the "warm food" section of my stomach that was hungry, not the "dessert" section and Gabriel made a face when I tried to explain it and brought me to dinner anyway :D
The darts were available when we arrived so after an enchanting child's meal of mac and cheese and watching a drunk man mush against two unsuspecting Aussies, we tried to see who was the darts master.
At first I was fucking terrific and Gabriel kept complaining, saying I have an unfair advantage because I used to be a chao ah lian and hence am adept at all bar games and I aced a bullseye just as he complained so neh, I shall not bitch about the insult!
In the end he caught up and got so good at it that I stormed away and instead of catching me, he played my rounds so I watched him gloomily but lovingly.
Headed up to our room after that and he was too dirty to be tamed, which means he refused to bathe so I did, alone. When I came out, he was back on Code Geass and I tried to stay up but I couldn't.
I fell asleep feeling like the most blessed girl in the world :)
In summary:
Land transfer: Free
Fish & chips: 140,000 rupiah
Fish tacos: 120,000 rupiah
Drinks: 100,000 rupiah
Room service: 130,000 rupiah
Dessert: 98,000 rupiah
Mac and cheese: 80,000 rupiah
Total: 668,000 rupiah // SGD$69
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