I like luxury when someone gives it to me just for being myself
I mostly post pictures of cultural things like the Great Wall, Forbidden City, and millenia-old terracotta armies, but why not pictures of luxurious resorts I’ve indulged in? Maybe because the former are cultural and the resort in question — Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands — is commercial and makes its money from gambling?
Maybe, but swimming in an infinity pool above Singapore also recalls when I swam across the Hudson River. And with my posts on how spending less improves your life, maybe I should show I enjoy luxury too. Besides, since I used my social skills to get my friend and me invited to the roof (hence my swimming in boxer shorts — we didn’t plan on going and they were all I had), it cost us nothing.
Sorry the pictures are blurry and dark. We only had an old camera phone. Still, check out the view of the skyline below the pool!
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Here are professional pictures of the resort.
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