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Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Helix & MBS

Immediately after Alvin & Friends' (Harminder and Nicholas) last engineering paper, we went to visit Singapore's latest star attractions, The Helix bridge and Marina Bay Sands!




At the mouth of the bridge is the Youth Olympic Park.
Unfortunately, it doesn't give me an impression I stepped into one other than a few children's art on display here and there.
What exactly constitutes a Youth Olympic Park?




Here, the sci-fi looking bridge stops abruptly and throws you off course onto a cement pavement midway (it hasn't been fully constructed).




Bumped into a bunch of Malaysian archi mates along the bridge!
L-R: Chin Wei, Anthony, Kian Wee, Me, Mun Chun and Min Jie.

They're all heading to explore the casino, no levies imposed.




ZOMG. And guess who I met en-route to MBS.
Fancy bumping into a number of archi mates in one short evening.

We flailed our arms wildly when Co Seng and I saw each other. Hahahahahaha.
Such serendipity, we just did lunch and movie a few days ago!

Haven't met Hong Guan fer ages too! =D




There! The interior of the latest and biggest vice den in Singapore!
Not many Singaporeans know where to get an aerial view of it without having to part with a $100 levy.

It's at the Imperial Treasure floor and only accessible by lift.




The intricately done ceiling doth makes it a fine backdrop for photo-taking. =)




Alas! These trees in giant ceramic vases were what I was looking out for the entire walk.
I had read about the 3m tall ceramic vases being fired in a specially built kiln in China earlier that morning.

Um, but after I've witnessed the canopy of trees, it's nothing special.
Over hyped.




Went up to where the rooms are located next.
Was surprised that security was laxed to be able to enter guests-only floors.
Perhaps, this wing wasn't ready to receive guests then.
But goodness gracious, it was quite stuffy up there!

As you can see, the guys were quite bothered by the heat and were ready to charge at any sorry wuss anytime.




These were the last few shots before we headed off for supper at Hooters. Don't you think the picture of the shimmering fabric-like facade (it moves as the wind blows) framing the moon looked particularly spectacular.
Ok, regrettably, the photos here do not do justice to what we saw back then.

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