Took these one Saturday afternoon after OT in the office. I think I have messed up the settings on the camera and I had a hard time getting clear photos no matter how hard I try to hold my camera steady. And no, it’s NOT the smoke from Indonesia that’s making them blurry.
These are the better ones of the whole lot.
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Took these photos a few weeks back with my mei xinyun, chillycraps, and her shifu (a super nice guy who is humble and takes criticisms heartily) after work on the weekend. It is obvious that my night photography skills are terrible… a testimony of my terrible photography techniques – demonstrating the obvious that I failed to hold my camera steady while I shoot.
By the way it would have turned out a lot worse if my mei didn’t help me reset the camera to default settings. Otherwise I don’t think I’ll have anything to put up. Thanks for the company, all of you. Or else that weekend would have been another boring one since I cut down on drinking due to ‘hard times’.
My friend who is a resident at The Pinnacle lent me two resident passes and I went with some friends over the holiday weekend and took some pictures. The view from the Sky Garden on the 50th floor is breathtaking but I wonder whether the residents who stayed there will still appreciate it after some time. I noticed that quite a bit of precautions were taken on the 50th Floor to deter those people who choose it as a spot to be a ‘jump off point’ to their next life. Unfortunately, that makes photo taking at that level difficult, since a lot of times the metal grills end up in the way and spoiling the photos.
The 26th Floor is restricted to residents only and fortunately I had a resident’s pass so that gave me access to that level. It has also a sheltered running track, a ‘Sky Gym’ and a children’s playground. I took two different group of people there over both Friday and Saturday. The photos on the 26th Floor were taken on the subsequent visit.
Situated just a stone’s throw away from the CBD and in between two MRT stations (with Outram MRT being the interchange station between the NE and EW lines), I think the residents got a good deal for a unit there.
I still have a few more days of leave to go after coming back from Phuket and it’s no good cooping up at home. So I head down to town in the late afternoon of a rainy Tuesday to the Marina Bay, hoping to take some photos of the Marina Bay Sands and the Helix. If you ask why did I go to the Marina Bay Sands instead of Resort World Sentosa which has opened earlier, the answer is simple: Marina Bay Sands is easily accessible on foot or by public transport without any add-on cost.
My first impression of the place? WORK IN PROGRESS! There’s still a whole bunch of scaffolds, construction equipment (cranes) still in operation and many construction workers milling around putting the final touches to the place. Even the Helix itself is half completed.
The impression is similar for Resort World Sentosa when I looked across from Vivocity. Frankly, both of the Integrated Resorts [IR] are nothing more than construction sites in their final stages of touching up. Had it been just any other mall or commercial building, it would not have been allowed to open.
Thus, all the glitches and issues in them are of no surprise to me. While a human baby is expelled from the mother’s body before its head grows too big for its passage through the birth canal, the IR was forcefully opened so that the casinos can begin operation. Had there been more delays, there will be damage (financially and economically) to the entire project. Very much like a baby staying longer in the womb would have died stillborn.
Either way, there is really nothing spectacular about Marina Bay Sands until its own sky garden is opened. It’s just another high end mall like Ion Orchard with shops selling branded goods. The view of the skyline of the Central Business District [CBD] from it or the Helix is another matter entirely. If you want a good photo of the skyline of Singapore, this is one of the place to go to snap some pictures. Personally, I would return in the evening some time in the future to obtain some night shots of Singapore’s skyline.
So, here’s the pictures I took. They might not be impressive since I ain’t a photographer and I take them for my own pleasure. At least I am proud to say I didn’t rip them off from someone else’s site.
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