This message shows three interesting `bat' motifs or pictures:
1. First picture:
If one bat is considered as bringing one good fortune. What happens if there are two bats?
You may have guessed correctly! Two bat motifs signify double good fortune!
2. Second picture:
The bat is in the centre. The actual diagram is the profile of the Longevity symbol " Shou ". As in Fu Lu Shou
A bat symbol is included in the above to imply one will have longevity plus good fortune.
3. Third picture:
Shows five bats. Five bats indicate " receiving " gifts.
You will also notice in the earlier message, that some Chinese boys are catching a bat and there are a total of five bats in some of the pictures.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

Location: Soup Restaurant @ Vivocity

If one bat is considered as bringing one good fortune. 

Very appropriate that Soup Restaurant had chosen this motif instead of other alternative motifs.

Next time if someone asks; it is not about Batman the cartoon superhero...

1990's generation HDB flats in Tampines with a 4 leaf clover design

1990's HDB Pasir Ris motif.. Bat look-a-like design

Or perhaps some may say it could be a helmet or a brain or even parachute or king crab or a Fan? Your Guess is as good as his/hers or theirs ... whatever right?

Simei St 1

6 sided shaped motif...

Simei St 1

The 4 leaf clover and circle motifs

HDB Bishan North 

Square diamond design motif.

This motif is considered an old school design.

Again at Simei

 

Extra large... as a walkway feature 

Blk 163 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 motif: angled squares

HDB Anchorvale Grove and the circular motifs..

 

Below: Actually this is oval shaped. And not an optical illusion:-

Oval shaped:-

On 06/08/2017 at 8:45 AM, Cecil Lee said:

Again at Simei

 

Extra large... as a walkway feature 

Would you believe that there are six sided homes? Look no further than Faber Park, Faber Drive and Faber Walk

1960’s triangle motifs

at Old Airport estate

Private estate: landed property 

ventilation cum privacy motifs popular in the 1970’s..

Plus inadvertently it has become a magnet for lizards

Very common as it provides ventilation plus close to 100 percent privacy:-

The design below is the least common pattern amongst these three patterns..

Circles overlap to form a motif.

Used by Georgetown Coffee House:

At a defunct Chinese Association building at Sims Avenue / Aljunied 

French flair...looks more like a French medieval castle gate:-

Village Hotel at Katong uses a repetitive square within a circle design.

Square represents the earth element. Circle represents metal element.

To the layperson, more importantly so long as it looks pleasant; this is good enough!

If you look carefully, in fact there is a pencil thin outline of an octagon or Bagua trigram or eight sided shaped design surrounding each motif.

Additional motifs @ Kovan

A variant of the longevity theme:-

Islamic geometric motif

Geometric pattern at Bukit Batok Central

Hougang Central

Chai Chee Avenue 

Symbolises a Palm tree :-

138 Edgedale plains

At Choa Chu Kang area

Whitehaven condo fencing at Pasir Panjang

HDB 325A Sembawang Crescent

Predominantly interlinked circles