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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