From ‘游客吓一跳 滨海南花穹乍看像沉船’, 13 April 2011, article in omy.sg (SM Daily)
…读者李小姐告诉《新明日报》，她日前全家到滨海堤坝游玩，从海面上望向滨海湾方向，结果看到一个很像“沉船”的物件。李小姐后来得知，那其实是国家公园局滨海南花园项目冷室之一的“花穹”（Flower Dome）。
…李小姐表示，若从新加坡摩天观景轮的方向望去，就能看到花穹的整体设计，非常美观，就像一波波的浪潮，但从滨海堤坝望去，由于建筑互相遮挡，看起来就像一艘“沉没一半的船”。“花穹傍水而建，形状看起来却像‘沉船’，未免有些不吉利。”
…风水师慧戒说：“水为财，花穹傍水而立，寓为’近（进）财’，是很好的象征。李小姐觉得看起来像’沉船’，我倒觉得更似一条冒出水面的鲸鱼，有’抓水’的寓意，更有’收揽财气’之感。”
Google translated, the above becomes:
Miss Lee told readers, “Shin Min Daily News,” she has the whole family to play Marina Barrage, Marina Bay from the sea, look to the direction of the results to see a lot like “wreck” of the object. Miss Li was later informed that it is the National Park Service Marina South Gardens project, one of the cold room “Flower Dome” (Flower Dome).
Miss Lee said, from the direction of the Singapore Flyer looked, you can see the dome of the overall design of the flower, very beautiful, like the waves of the wave, but looked Marina Barrage, the building block each other, see it is like a “half of the ship sinking.” Flower Dome Bangshui built, the shape looks like a ‘wreck’ was somewhat unlucky.”
Hui feng shui master ring, said: “Water for the money, spend Bangshui standing dome, and combine for the ‘near (Import) Treasury’, is a good symbol. Miss Lee that looks like a ‘wreck’, I would feel more like a emitting surface of the whales, but the ‘catch water’ meaning, more ‘close embrace financial gas’ feeling. “
An unintentional tribute to the Japanese tsunami
This is an extreme example of ‘half glass empty’ people seeing disaster where there isn’t everywhere they go, whether it’s in design of the Flower Dome, or a chicken dish on the business class flight menu. The flip side of feng shui is how such catastrophic imagery is exploited by mere amateurs to portend unnecessary doom when the ancient art/science itself was probably developed at a time when modern ships as we know it hadn’t even existed, meaning that such calls for inauspicious design is simply people corrupting elegant geometry or animal imagery with finale scenes from a Titanic movie, like how people would see a skull and crossbones on a sand dune on Mars, or look at a skyscraper and complain about how it almost looks like a train run aground and erect without even whipping out a compass to check the direction it’s facing. Still, looking at the ‘shipwreck’ design of the Flower dome and the lotus bloom of the Art Science Musuem, regardless of feng shui or ‘financial gas’, one does wonder if the MBS people hadn’t gotten the two attractions mixed up instead.
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