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I have this msg through email and have always wondered about it. It has aso ben posted before in other forums…
Note that this passage is several years old..
Ever wonder why Singapore is known as a Garden City?
Why would Singapore go around planting trees?
After all, maintaining a Garden City is very expensive.
Well, here’s the answer —
If you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crab (that means dead crab) is red, the colour of barren ground.
But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjung Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab… which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80’s recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares Bridge… which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab.
This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn’t it?
NBC
Here’s another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, out it also has a unique Octagonal design – which is an important symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui.
This is where the story of this coin begins. On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man’s balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event.
There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor – a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision.
The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don’t believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc.
Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui.
“Yes”, replied the Venerable, “but it may be impossible to implement”.
Said Lee to the Venerable – please speak.
The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a ‘pak kwa’ or symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a ‘pak kwa’ then at home?
Hehheh… said the wise Lee – I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many ‘pak kwas’ as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
NEXT CHAPTER…
But then, the economy didn’t do quite as well as expected after the circulation of the one-dollar coin. Remember the ’85/86 recession? So the Honorary Venerable was consulted again.
He said that whilst the one-dollar coin did symbolise the pak kwa, it was of no use if everyone had it in his pocket and failed to DISPLAY it. So the next novel idea was born the ROAD TAX LABEL If you recall, it used to be round and now, it’s OCTAGONAL and it is DISPLAYED.
Maybe now, you think this explains the many years of booming economy Singapore had been experiencing. However, with the recent turmoil in the region and now that the Venerable* is no longer around, what shall we do next? Know any feng shui experts?
By the way, the monk mentioned is the ex-head of a temple. When he passed away several years ago, Bishan Park was born because his temple was not allowed to be blocked by any HDB flats.
well then maybe Penang is so wonderful because it resembled a tortoise.
@Ajeyya wrote:
well then maybe Penang is so wonderful because it resembled a tortoise.
Tortoise long life creature in chinese beliefs.
I have heard of this story years back as well, charles. I wonder if there is any way of getting an aerial shot of Singapore and see if it really does resemble a crab.
no need aerial shot, world map will do. singapore map will do. it’s the shape that counts.
Er… I think I would know about world maps, especially singapore map. I know how Singapore shape looks like, when I was in Primary school. The aerial photo would show how Singapore looks like, with the trees and everything else that is described in Charles’ post.
then why seek for aerial photos?
i was up in the air once for aerial video shoots… those shots are not really that fascinating after all.
If I am not wrong, I think it was the same Venerable who actually sheltered a female spirit across the courseway (cannot remember clearly, should be from Malaysia to Singapore) some 10 years ago. Read the article long time ago.
I remembered something about the lady spirit suffered some form of injustice and seek help from this particular Venerable.
In another story I heard regarding the Venerable, it was about the sleeping dragon, drilling the underground tunnel for MRT and the Pagoda at orchard. I remembered something about the pagoda was built in order to keep the dragon in singapore.
Pardon me if my story wasn’t accurate. Getting old, memory is failing me.
@Ajeyya wrote:
then why seek for aerial photos?
i was up in the air once for aerial video shoots… those shots are not really that fascinating after all.
Maybe you didn’t get what I meant in my post 😯 but I really don’t know how to write to make it any more clearer. 😕
@marshall wrote:
If I am not wrong, I think it was the same Venerable who actually sheltered a female spirit across the courseway (cannot remember clearly, should be from Malaysia to Singapore) some 10 years ago. Read the article long time ago.
I remembered something about the lady spirit suffered some form of injustice and seek help from this particular Venerable.
In another story I heard regarding the Venerable, it was about the sleeping dragon, drilling the underground tunnel for MRT and the Pagoda at orchard. I remembered something about the pagoda was built in order to keep the dragon in singapore.
Pardon me if my story wasn’t accurate. Getting old, memory is failing me.
All these stories, you got them from the chinese newspaper Wan Bao? If so, which year is it? We can find them in the library and shorten the search scope if we know the time or at least the year it was printed. 😀
Pai Seh….. Let me see, should be around the time the Venerable passed away (25/12/1990). There was some writeup about him.
@abductboy wrote:
Here’s another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, out it also has a unique Octagonal design – which is an important symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui.
This is where the story of this coin begins. On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man’s balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event.
There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor – a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision.
The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don’t believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc.
Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui.
“Yes”, replied the Venerable, “but it may be impossible to implement”.
Said Lee to the Venerable – please speak.
The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a ‘pak kwa’ or symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a ‘pak kwa’ then at home?
Hehheh… said the wise Lee – I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many ‘pak kwas’ as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
Nice story, but the octagonal border is not uncommon and unique to Singapore only.
Please take a look at these coins, Indonesia has it in the 1990’s although recently they change it. Of course the economy crash in 1997 and the rest is history.
Other country coins also show various patterns around the border.
@abductboy wrote:
If you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crab (that means dead crab) is red, the colour of barren ground.
But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjung Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab… which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80’s recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares Bridge… which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab.
This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn’t it?
Aerial view taken from Google Earth.
I can’t picture a crab there.
Japanese launch surprise attack from the north, since they are aware all heavy artillery is facing south, nothing to do with chopsticks to kill the crab.
As for the mouth theory, here is the mouth of the Singapore river and Sheares Bridge.
Here is a crab and a crab mouth for comparsion:
Picture taken from a photo tutorial “from live crab to your dinner”
@marshall wrote:
Pai Seh….. Let me see, should be around the time the Venerable passed away (25/12/1990). There was some writeup about him.
I see I see… Thank you for that piece of information, goes a long way in helping with the search for the article 😀
Well done fengshui, that was what I meant by having an aerial view of Singapore in reality, and not just from a world map. 😀
By the way, being a kampong boy from a family who raised prawns, I did my share of killing crabs and what was described in the email on how a crab is killed is not entirely correct – You use a chopstick, and stick it through the mouth, straight in, not from the side. That is how people usually kill a crab.
As for me, I kill by breaking off the two pincers with my hands, then de-shelling its body (or the crown) and then chop it into quarters (if you are frying), or leave it on a plate for steaming.
Geez, all these talks about crabs… *drooling*
I have this msg through email and have always wondered about it. It has aso ben posted before in other forums…
Note that this passage is several years old..
Ever wonder why Singapore is known as a Garden City?
Why would Singapore go around planting trees?
After all, maintaining a Garden City is very expensive.
Well, here’s the answer —
If you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crab (that means dead crab) is red, the colour of barren ground.
But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjung Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab… which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80’s recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares Bridge… which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab.
This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn’t it?
NBC
Here’s another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, out it also has a unique Octagonal design – which is an important symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui.
This is where the story of this coin begins. On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man’s balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event.
There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor – a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision.
The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don’t believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc.
Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui.
“Yes”, replied the Venerable, “but it may be impossible to implement”.
Said Lee to the Venerable – please speak.
The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a ‘pak kwa’ or symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a ‘pak kwa’ then at home?
Hehheh… said the wise Lee – I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many ‘pak kwas’ as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
NEXT CHAPTER…
But then, the economy didn’t do quite as well as expected after the circulation of the one-dollar coin. Remember the ’85/86 recession? So the Honorary Venerable was consulted again.
He said that whilst the one-dollar coin did symbolise the pak kwa, it was of no use if everyone had it in his pocket and failed to DISPLAY it. So the next novel idea was born the ROAD TAX LABEL If you recall, it used to be round and now, it’s OCTAGONAL and it is DISPLAYED.
Maybe now, you think this explains the many years of booming economy Singapore had been experiencing. However, with the recent turmoil in the region and now that the Venerable* is no longer around, what shall we do next? Know any feng shui experts?
By the way, the monk mentioned is the ex-head of a temple. When he passed away several years ago, Bishan Park was born because his temple was not allowed to be blocked by any HDB flats.
well then maybe Penang is so wonderful because it resembled a tortoise.
@Ajeyya wrote:
well then maybe Penang is so wonderful because it resembled a tortoise.
Tortoise long life creature in chinese beliefs.
I have heard of this story years back as well, charles. I wonder if there is any way of getting an aerial shot of Singapore and see if it really does resemble a crab.
no need aerial shot, world map will do. singapore map will do. it’s the shape that counts.
Er… I think I would know about world maps, especially singapore map. I know how Singapore shape looks like, when I was in Primary school. The aerial photo would show how Singapore looks like, with the trees and everything else that is described in Charles’ post.
then why seek for aerial photos?
i was up in the air once for aerial video shoots… those shots are not really that fascinating after all.
If I am not wrong, I think it was the same Venerable who actually sheltered a female spirit across the courseway (cannot remember clearly, should be from Malaysia to Singapore) some 10 years ago. Read the article long time ago.
I remembered something about the lady spirit suffered some form of injustice and seek help from this particular Venerable.
In another story I heard regarding the Venerable, it was about the sleeping dragon, drilling the underground tunnel for MRT and the Pagoda at orchard. I remembered something about the pagoda was built in order to keep the dragon in singapore.
Pardon me if my story wasn’t accurate. Getting old, memory is failing me.
@Ajeyya wrote:
then why seek for aerial photos?
i was up in the air once for aerial video shoots… those shots are not really that fascinating after all.
Maybe you didn’t get what I meant in my post 😯 but I really don’t know how to write to make it any more clearer. 😕
@marshall wrote:
If I am not wrong, I think it was the same Venerable who actually sheltered a female spirit across the courseway (cannot remember clearly, should be from Malaysia to Singapore) some 10 years ago. Read the article long time ago.
I remembered something about the lady spirit suffered some form of injustice and seek help from this particular Venerable.
In another story I heard regarding the Venerable, it was about the sleeping dragon, drilling the underground tunnel for MRT and the Pagoda at orchard. I remembered something about the pagoda was built in order to keep the dragon in singapore.
Pardon me if my story wasn’t accurate. Getting old, memory is failing me.
All these stories, you got them from the chinese newspaper Wan Bao? If so, which year is it? We can find them in the library and shorten the search scope if we know the time or at least the year it was printed. 😀
Pai Seh….. Let me see, should be around the time the Venerable passed away (25/12/1990). There was some writeup about him.
@abductboy wrote:
Here’s another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, out it also has a unique Octagonal design – which is an important symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui.
This is where the story of this coin begins. On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man’s balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event.
There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor – a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision.
The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don’t believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc.
Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui.
“Yes”, replied the Venerable, “but it may be impossible to implement”.
Said Lee to the Venerable – please speak.
The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a ‘pak kwa’ or symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a ‘pak kwa’ then at home?
Hehheh… said the wise Lee – I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many ‘pak kwas’ as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
Nice story, but the octagonal border is not uncommon and unique to Singapore only.
Please take a look at these coins, Indonesia has it in the 1990’s although recently they change it. Of course the economy crash in 1997 and the rest is history.
Other country coins also show various patterns around the border.
@abductboy wrote:
If you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crab (that means dead crab) is red, the colour of barren ground.
But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjung Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab… which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80’s recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares Bridge… which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab.
This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn’t it?
Aerial view taken from Google Earth.
I can’t picture a crab there.
Japanese launch surprise attack from the north, since they are aware all heavy artillery is facing south, nothing to do with chopsticks to kill the crab.
As for the mouth theory, here is the mouth of the Singapore river and Sheares Bridge.
Here is a crab and a crab mouth for comparsion:
Picture taken from a photo tutorial “from live crab to your dinner”
@marshall wrote:
Pai Seh….. Let me see, should be around the time the Venerable passed away (25/12/1990). There was some writeup about him.
I see I see… Thank you for that piece of information, goes a long way in helping with the search for the article 😀
Well done fengshui, that was what I meant by having an aerial view of Singapore in reality, and not just from a world map. 😀
By the way, being a kampong boy from a family who raised prawns, I did my share of killing crabs and what was described in the email on how a crab is killed is not entirely correct – You use a chopstick, and stick it through the mouth, straight in, not from the side. That is how people usually kill a crab.
As for me, I kill by breaking off the two pincers with my hands, then de-shelling its body (or the crown) and then chop it into quarters (if you are frying), or leave it on a plate for steaming.
Geez, all these talks about crabs… *drooling*
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