After 12 hours in bed, I woke at 0700. It was a wise move getting a can of coffee and a red bean bun last night to have handy for breakfast.
I took a Grab car to the airport around 0815. The last time I was at Bintulu, the airport was in town where the green parkland is now. But now, the airport is some 30 minutes away.
Arriving at the airport, I asked my driver if he was going to get a customer for the return journey. He replied that he didn’t feel good about doing that as Bintulu taxi drivers are mostly very old and they need the money. So he was just going drive 22km back to town! And that’s after earning a mere MYR21 from my fare.
My short 50 min flight to Kuching left on time. Kim was meant to fly in from Singapore around 1h50 later but was delayed by around 15 mins. I killed time with lunch and also getting on boarding passes and his bagtag for two days later. Despite, that I had about an hour to kill before he arrived for a two day stay in the cat city.