Around Singapore

Annual review

Serangoon area

Feng Shui visit last two days...

For many of us who have grown up in Katong will forever remember walking past this Red House and it's confectionary ... I have a photo of Peter Wee’s Katong Antique house in the next thread:-

The side facing the afternoon sun. A distinctive weave concealing the fire escape staircase. This structure is slender and elevated. According to the Five Elements philosophy, it is categorized under the "Wood element." The stylistic "basket weave" characteristic of this building:- This structure is not designed for automobile enthusiasts. There are limited parking facilities and a scarcity of covered spaces.... Nevertheless, most of the units are currently rented out. If you look carefully, each unit is tiny thus one will notice that each unit consisted of TWO (2) floors... Each unit spans two floors …

The former block was a horse-shoe shaped building

A visit to Pebble Bay condo

Photos taken on 29 December 2018

Photos taken on 29 December 2018. Looks like T.O.P. Can be approximately around 6 months time....

Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus) The Angsana is a large Tree native to Southeast-Asia. It has a compact drooping crown with a greyish—brown trunk that is usually fluted. It Can grow up to 40m tall. When in bloom, it produces yellow flowers, with a heady fragrance that lasts one to two days before carpeting the ground; with fallen petals. The fruits are circular flattened pods with papery wings. The Angsana was widely used as a roadside shade tree in the past, including here at Upper Serangoon Road where this old tree stands. This is one of the remaining giant Angsana trees that originally lined this road.

Distinctive Fish mosaic tile pictures and elaborate facades...

Palm Residence & Royal Court at 3 Jalan Rajawali & Grand Chateau Palm Residence = An arrow head profile block:-

Part 1: Ascent @ 456 & Symbolism in Feng Shui = "The Coffin Position" 1. What is "the coffin position"? 1.1. It is where as shown, here; part of the bed face the bedroom door. And in this illustration, chances that one of the partner's legs face the bedroom door:- 2. How did this come about? 2.1. In the past and even today, when funerals are carried out in a landed home, when a family member died; the physical body in a casket is brought into the home "head first". 2.2. And when it is time to sent the decease for burial or cremation; LEGS FIRST! out of the main door/main gate of a home. 3. Thus this is how the term "Coffin position…

Fyve Derbyshire (formerly Derby Court) at 5 Derbyshire Road by Roxy-Pacific Holdings. Freehold with a total of 71 units: Under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui a tower block (or point-block) is a safe design. As it allows for qi to flow around the tower block.

Launching soon Freehold, in district 15 Most likely takes it’s name from a district of Switzerland. And the home of the European Football union HQ

Oops! This is a walkway.. and this home faces this walkway. No wonder, the owner sought protection by hanging a Bagua type mirror This is the view if one stands outside the home looking outwards The same bollard as a reference... Are you able to piece the entire storyline?

Making a grand entrance? Potted plants, please... Who stole my plants?

The Nanyang Sacred Union was the first Confucius Association in Singapore. It was formed in 1930 just before the outbreak of world war two. Photos of the exterior facade