WHAT a difference 27 months has made.
The first time I visited the Resorts World at Sentosa work site was shortly after it broke ground in April 2007.
All I saw then was a huge muddy crater in the ground. It looked like what I pictured would happen after a close encounter with a meteorite.
In the last 27 months, I've visited the site at various stages and I must admit, every time, it just looked just like what it was: A busy construction site with more than 6,500 workers hard at work.
It was hard to find all those cranes, metal, concrete and mud beautiful or exciting.
But the site that I saw on Thursday was quite different.
The hotel's framework is up at Resorts World at Sentosa.
PHOTO: Zaobao
The hotel towers were all up, the rides were beginning to take shape. Things were looking good. Yes, it was still muddy and the pretty facades have not gone up yet on the building.
But, this was when I began to look forward to the opening. For I saw things that I might enjoy.
The finishing touches were put in place for the dark ride in the attraction named Revenge of the Mummy.
The stage for the Waterworld Stunt Show is coming along nicely. We caught a back-of-house view of where the various props, including a sea plane, would enter.
The thing that excited me the most was the duelling roller coaster with two options — red for the relatively more timid, a regular roller coaster and blue for that one that will head for the other coaster after taking one too many 360-degree spins and leaves one’s feet dangling in the air.
I wish they were done already. Strap me in and shoot me off.
Read more: Resorts World at Sentosa on track and see a video of the roller coasters.