A Tale of Two Cities

Well, Ching Ming Festival is coming in April, a traditional festival for the Chinese to visit and tidy up their ancestors graves. It never fails to remind me of Takashimaya@Ngee Ann City along Orchard Road which was previously a Chinese cemetery. In fact, it was even designed like a mausoleum or large tomb if you will to ask for my opinion. Every year the owners, a Chinese Teochew clan association would hold a ritual at the place to appease the spirits which are quite happy apparently as they have been no known paranormal case yet. The below are some of the pictures taken from my old article in 2009 on the Taoist ritual conducted there yearly.

The Largest Shopping Mall in Singapore when it first opened its door with at a deep womb(The many levels of basements) into Mother Earth.

It had  also reminded me of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang who was the first in China to construct a mausoleum city and to build coffin chambers and subordinate palaces in the mausoleum. The first emperor also started
the ritual of building chambers for those buried alive with the owner of the tomb on a large scale. Another
unusual discovery is that the mausoleum does not have a tomb of the empress. If Qin Shi Huang had succeeded in attaining immortality to see it, he would be amazed of what thousands of years ago he
envisaged is a reality today in Singapore, ha-ha....

A picture of the thousands of ceramic terracotta soldiers who accompanied the Emperor.




 
 
Anyway, lets look at two interesting shopping malls owned by a local land investment company in Singapore on the feng shui. The two shopping malls are just opposite each other at a busy road junction, the one below is called Velocity@Novena Square. It don't have any sign of water features or any single drops of water at all in the frontage and the building was renovated with a wing building added in 2006 and renamed as Velocity going into Age 8. It instead have a basketball court at the front as it was said the management had wanted to portrayed an image of a sports and health hub.
 

 

 
 
 
The other mall owned by the same company known as United Square is diagonally opposite at the side of the cross junction. Here water, water is everywhere at the frontage.
 


As both are owned by the same listed company, is feng shui at play here and does it means that having yang activity is the same as having water? Or maybe water is not welcome for Velocity?
 
There are more interesting things to observe on the feng shui aspects between both Malls if you were to spend some time there while you are free, one fine day. Especially on the landforms too, as there is an hospital just behind the Velocity. By the way, you can says all Major Hospitals in Singapore are located on Hilly terrains(There are no mountains in Singapore), coincidence that all architects or the ones in charge love hilly terrains for locating hospital in Singapore?
 
Till-then, cheers.

Understanding Feng Shui 风水

Part 1 - Wind


From the Need Project

The Sun Makes the Wind Blow

The energy in wind comes from the sun. When the sun shines, some of its light reaches the earth’s surface. The earth near the equator receives more of the sun’s energy than the North and South Poles.

Comments: This refers to how the chart for Da Liu Ren is derived and makes it one of the top Metaphysics Art in the 三式

Some parts of the earth absorb more solar energy than others. Some parts reflect more of the sun’s rays back into the air. Light-colored surfaces and water reflect more sunlight than dark surfaces. Snow and ice reflect sunlight, too.

Some types of land absorb more solar energy than others. Dark forests absorb sunlight, while light desert sands reflect it. Land areas usually absorb more energy than water in lakes and oceans.

When the earth’s surface absorbs the sun’s energy, it turns the light into heat. This heat on the earth’s surface warms the air above it. The air over the equator gets warmer than the surface air near the poles. The air over the desert gets warmer than the air in the mountains.

The air over the land usually gets warmer than the air over the water. As air warms, it expands. The warm air over the land is becomes less dense than the cooler air and rises into the atmosphere. Cooler, denser air nearby flows in to take its place. This moving air is what we call wind. It is caused by the uneven heating of the earth’s surface.

We Can Capture the Wind

Some places have more wind than others. Areas near the water usually have a lot of wind. Flat land and mountain passes are good places to catch the wind, too.

Comment:  The term popularly used by Feng Shui practitioners, 藏风聚水/气. Qi travels on Wind and collected at the boundary of Water.

 Create Power



Create Seas of Lights

 The Power You can Get

The Fun you can Have (Oops, My apologies to the gentle sex here)

Good at provoking Fire and Re Creation of Life

Spreading Life

And Being Romantic (Think of Storms and Heavy rains when two persons is alone, also got to do with Life)

Good Bye.