July 27, 2006

The story of the Singapore $1 dollar coin and SMRT

Mr Hardy said:

Reverend Hong was an expert at feng shui and after taking lots of readings he said that the proposed constellation of MRTs tunnels and the huge amount of metal being driven deep into the Singapore bed rock would sever Singapore's Dragon Vein which is bad, bad, bad for the nation. Reverend Hong then offered the following advice: "If you want to continue with project, then u must give every Singaporean household - Indian, Malay, Eurasian, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim - every single one of them a Chinese Ba Gua. Or else Singapore will sink."

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Its a popular myth that MM Lee consulted a feng shui master before he set about constructing MRT tunnels. Also, have u noticed the Octagon on the coin? Why an octagon? Why not a nine-sided coin? Or for that matter a 10-sided coin? why an octagon?

Even the SAF Cap Badge - "Yang Pertama, Yang Utama" has an OCTAGON. I remember my old CSM used to say if you go guard duty carry a 1 dollar coin and always have ur beret with the capbadge facing out and in front of u and when you turn, don't just turn ur head, turn your entire body so that any bad spirits will be driven away by your energy.

Sort of like a Street Fighter Ryu energy "Odugan" fireball effect.

Chinese Ba Gua Fengshui elements are everywhere."

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on July 24//8:07am and published by jseng, LMD :: 13046 reads | trackback
Comments 4

haha, kinda hard to believe mann.. i dont think the 8-sided border in our coin has gotta do with that. its kinda.. superstitious isnt it? and we're like.. in the 21st century? yeah?

Have you also noticed... that all our other coins are ROUND??? why ROUND?? why not SQUARE? or Semi-circle?

ALSO... they are made of METAL!! omg... why METAL? why not PLASTIC? or WOOD?

Posted by wingit* on 28 July, 2006 - 1:07pm

actually there's more.

the initial plan was for the ALS (area licensing scheme) car decal to be octagonal. but the reverend realised that insufficient number of singaporeans drive, so in order to ensure EVERYBODY gets an octagon, the $1 coin with octagonal design was implemented.
also, some things aren't meant to be moved. like the merlion. if you choose to believe, you won't stop believing

Another urban legend says that the merlion NEEDS to be moved to the current location because the new bridge is blocking it.

It actually depends on how creative you are ba. :D

Posted by Anon* on 30 July, 2006 - 1:41pm