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The MacDonald House is the last remaining office building withred bricks facade. The building was built 3 years after World War 2. It was and designed by Reginal Eyre of the architectural firm Palmer and Turner. It was one of the 1st high-rise buildings in Orchard Road. During that time, the MacDonald House housed mainly British, American and Australian companies. I remember clearly that the show rooms of British made cars such as the mini-clubman was along this area. On March 1965, in an incident known as the MacDonald House bombing, two Indonesian saboteurs placed a bomb on the mezzanine floor.At the time of the bombing the buildinghoused the Australian High …

Monterey Park Condo at West Coast Site plan

Revisited ..this site slopes towards “Hougang” ... instead of Serangoon... Not exactly Egyptian reeds.. but comes close to it..

In ancient times, elephants are widespread all over China. They were hunted by the the upper class. Many ancient books talk about Chinese heroes who ride on elephants. I enclosed more pictures of elephants.

Midwood comprise of 2 blocks of 29 storeys residential flats and 1 block of 6 storey MSCP with Child care centre and communal facilities. Expected completion date is under Flying Stars Period 9 on around 1 October 2024. *A quick glance* Frankly.. I cannot reconcile the above site plan with this photo (see below).... hmmm... LOL... P.S. I think I finally got it....

Hi Everyone, The enclosed logo is made up of the following:- a. Background : Purple representing the Fire element. b. Logo : An ancient Chinese coin representing Metal element. Under the destructive cycle: Fire destroys Metal. Under the Five Elements concept: When Fire destroys Metal, this is considered creating wealth i.e. one way of creating wealth is to look at the destructive cycle and the element that destroys the next element on the destructive cycle can be considered to produce wealth. However, one must take not that for individuals, for example, if you are a Strong fire person, it is no problem for you to destroy Metal to produce wealth. But if you are a Weak fir…

A water feature with specific dimensions..

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Offerings of Roast Pig and burning of large joss sticks

HDB Montreal Ville BTO launched in April 2011 site plan and floor plans montreal-ville.pdf Lease Commencement Date: Year 2014

If your home is facing such a home... with a semi-circular set of floor tiles radiating outwards of the main door with a slight protusion as shown here; you should try to do the same with similar set of floor tile configuration..

On all SIA flights: there is no such thing as ROW number 13. In the photo; you will see that there is a Row 12. And then followed by 14. Where is "row 13?" = none.

Koi's are actually carps. Many instead of keeping real fishes purchase paintings of Koi's swimming. Most of the paintings usually have 9 Koi's swimming. (A few paintings have 8 fishes). In Mandarin 9 sounds like `longevity' and in Cantonese 8 sounds like `prosper'. The last illustration, is interesting because, it can also be applied to a swimming pool. Besides an uneven flow of water, it is equally inauspicious to have a swimming pool in the shape as mentioned in the illustration.

Eight Riversuites @Whampoa recently T.O.P.

Hi Everyone, Besides Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the two lion statues each tied with red cloth is found on a Bank of India Branch in Singapore's country's Central Business District. It is not necessary to place the lion statues at a specific facing direction e.g. the West direction. But rather, it is commonly found on both sides of the main entrance to `guard' the premises. In the picture the two lion statues are tilted at an angle against the flow of traffic (of the one way street). One interesting comment is that `Feng Shui' is well spread all over the world and since China is very close to India, influences such as Buddhism came from India. We can today say that …

1. This water feature is in "orange" colour. 2. Under the Five Elements concept: Metal element = circle (e.g. the circular ball design of the water feature); and orange can also be considered as "gold" colour or metal element. 3. This follows the tradition of exchanging oranges when some one visits a home. And the two dialects: Cantonese : Kum or mandarin orange sounds like GOLD. While the Hokkiens call it : Kim = also gold. While "Peach" colour is pinkish and belongs to the Fire element (Fire element - red, pink or purple).

Kovan Regency Condo recently T.O.P. The swimming pool reminds me of the first generation condo developments like Mandarin Gardens @ Marine Parade Road

This Chinese religious home has a highly decorated frontage. With a Tee Kong (Earth god) figurine and altar on the floor. Did you see the Earth God (Tee Kong) - wearing yellow clothing? Look closely at attachment: my home5.jpg Perhaps, there are two items missing: two lanterns on each side of the main door and/or a red "Ang Cai" banner above the main door entrance!

Pictures of the eight lucky treasures used by some Feng Shui Schools. Where a picture of the eight lucky treasures are either buried on the main entrance door steps or displayed in the home or business.

Nice scenes from my hotel room in Grand Hyatt, Beijing - 2009 visit.

This plant with beautiful "trumpet" flowers is known by various names: Firecracker Plant or coral plan. It belongs to the famly of: Scrophulariaceae : synoym: R. juncea And this plant originates from Mexico.. And it's family consists of pink or white flowers. It loves direct sunlight. That is why,you can see the plant trying to face sunlight. It only needs minimal water to grow.

In Singapore, in many clusters of estates that have landed properities; the most popular ornaments are a pair each of the lions on the gates of many Chinese homes. This estate is in Paya Lebar called Tai Keng Gardens. The most remarkable thing is that there are two homes that have large sized lions. I do mean large ones that can only be placed on the floor: one set is found beside each front gate pillar and there is another set placed behind the main gate (beside the porch pillar..) As usual, there are the white lions and some homes have the ceramic glazed "brownish" type...