Fengshui 风水

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Colour of a building

Today, I am going to do something different, instead of me writing things that I have done. I am going to ask you a few questions which will crack your head.

Q1. Have you been to Chinatown point before?
If your answer is NO, please skip today entry. Just kidding, please continue to stay and discover some interesting findings.

If your answer is yes, please go to question Q2.

Q2. When was the last time that you were there?

Q3. Did you know that Chinatown point building exterior used to be light blue before it was changed to present colour :- yellow?

As far as I can remember, the first time I saw Chinatown point building, it was light blue in colour. And that was back in 1991, the light blue was with the building for at least ten years or so. Please correct me if I am wrong and that is the reason why I asked so many question in the opening of this entry.

Okay, let me continue, when the building exterior undergo "facelift" a couple of years back, I was quite surprised to see the new change of colour. And it did not stop me from wondering what were the reasons for a building to change its colour?

So was it due to top management's decision to change to attractive colour to draw more crowds? Or the present colour was chosen to match the key personnel's bazi; favourable colour? Or has it got to do with fengshui?

I have one explanation for the change. Look at the photo below, maybe you can find the clue in this photo. Okay, happy finding! Cheers

Monday, January 5, 2009

Nice Song by local singer

The more I listen to her songs, the more I like it, she has a sweet voice. The singer that I am talking about is Olivia Ong, who sang the Little Nyonya theme Song "Ru Yan". Very talented young lady. Okay, below are 2 songs taken from youtube, hope that you will enjoy her lovely voice.

Wishing Well

Found a wishing well outside Chinatown point. Make a wish, may your wish comes true.

At the other end of Chinatown, at a quite corner, I found another well. This time, this is a REAL well. This well was used in the early days, and our ancestors could have used it.

Wondering what is the reason for keeping this well? To educate our younger generation? Or to enlighten people like me, who had never seen a well before?

Now, make a guess whether is this a deep well?

A closer look to the well.

Not really deep. Maybe the well was filled up with cement, that's why it did not look deep to me.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Chinatown - Light up

Tonight, Chinatown will be light up. Took some photos of Chinese New Year decorations during daytime.

This year, Chinese New Year falls on 26 Jan 2008, it arrives much earlier than Li Chun which falls on 4 Feb 2009. Technically, the year of Ox will only starts on 4 Feb 2009 not 26 Jan 2009.

Anyway, let's hope that year of Ox will bring us good luck.

Mr Ox and Miss Cow, sitting on a platform.

Mr Ox with open arms, welcome year of Ox?

Another 2 cheerful Ox.

A happy Ox family.

Usher to year of Ox.

Where are the people? Usually, Chinatown is flooded with shoppers buying Chinese New Year stuffs during this period of time, and most likely you would have to squeeze your way through the pathway, unlike this photo there are so much clearance space to walk about. Guess what time did I take this photo?

Two lions dancing happily.

Tonight, the whole stretch of street is going to be light up.

Wondering will there be firecracker tonight?

The famous Indian temple in Chinatown. Is a tourist location, everyday bounds to have tourists visiting the temple.

How would you translate the above Chinese characters, Niu Chuan Qian Kun into English?

The translation I got from http://sg.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt is "The cow passes on the universe." To verify the whole translation is correct. Let's break up the whole phrase of Chinese characters;

Niu 牛 is Cow

Chuan 传 is passes on

Qian Kun 乾坤 is Heaven and Earth or Yang and Yin or universe.

So the translation is correct? Maybe someone can advise me?

I like the above Chinese Character, Xin Fu Wan Sui, it means Happiness long live!

Friday, January 2, 2009

New Year Song - 新年到

2009 New Year Song - Xian Nian Dao sang by MediaCorp artistes, video clip taken from Youtube.

Visit to farms

Visited some farms today, not because that I wanted to change trade to become farmer but to get away from our busy city lifestyle and to breath in fresh crispy air. Drove to one small scale farm first.

A small scale farming.

A herbal farm, herbs have good curing properties.

Another big vegetable farm, they sell alot of fresh vegetable at reasonable price.

Bottle gourd, also known as Hu Lu 葫芦 in chinese. Bottle gourd is basically a vegetable but it can be used as a container or utensil when dried. In fengshui, Hu Lu is used to hang in front of main door, it is believed that it can prevent any evil from entering the house..

I have not seen a real bottle gourd before. Guess it was an eye opener experience for me.

A suspended bottle gourd looks cool isn't it?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Party at Marina Pier

As promised, here are the photos taken at Marina Pier Countdown party.

This is my first time to Marina Pier, the party was held on top of the rooftop.

There were more than 30 tables. I was there a bit early, to enjoy the beautiful seaview.

The long jetty.

Look at the background, that is the jetty too!

A lonely lady.... or another early bird?

A temporary tentage. The restaurant boss told me that tentage was set up based on last min decision, after he saw the weather forecast that rains were expected. Thanks goodness, there wasn't any rain.

After dinner, there was a cruise to nowhere. Waiting at the jetty to embark on the boat.

The 1 hr and 10 min cruise. We set off at 10.20pm, the cruise to nowhere. Anyway, we passed by the Marina Barriage and flyer.

Back to Marina Pier, everybody was waiting for the countdown. Guess the ambience was a bit different, countdown party in a "Chinese" style. In case you are wondering, there were other nationalities in that countdown party.