A short trip to Penang, notably staying around the area of Gurney Drive, observed the mushrooming of the property markets and it is NOT due to the effect of the 4 heraldic beast land formations such as the Green Dragon, White Tiger, Black Warrior and Red Pheonix. These concepts had been long bastardized by modern age guru either to sell their figurines or simply to make things sounds complicated. If it is true that such a feature is important, a glance through my hotel window should at least witnessed the so called, red phoenix but where has it gone to? 9 layers of heavens? These very notions which were originated from the ancient astronomy of the 4 enclosures had been very misleading while I remember reading somewhere from Master Eva Wong, as she proposed that it is entirely misleading to take the White Tiger as the right with reference to the tomb and a living abode to be the same, had created another wave of confusions into the otherwise murky subject.
Another subject of confusion is the phrase, water governs wealth, mountain governs health, and thus it is good to have the sea in front of the property and mountain at the back, what more if the mountain is Penang Hill! Go check around and see if all the successful and wealthy pioneers liked the Khoo families has their ancestral temple located facing the open sea. If it is not, perhaps such phrase needs to be thought over as it simply does not fit the true context in applications.
Other fables such as the pearl of the orient is indeed a turtle with its back “stuck” to a needle, in the form of the “cursed” KOMTAR tower. When such is a masterpiece of our beloved Architectural pioneer Datuk Seri Lim, it is again being painted rather ugly by the new age master as the culprit that leads to the dormant economic progress of the state and ultimately spelt disaster for BN. KL has its twin towers, Dubai has its Burj and Taiwan has its 101 tower. What has gone so very wrong with Komtar? The answer is in the land formation and definitely not the 4 heraldic beasts! There is this much to say about Penang PGCC, another architectural icon from Asymptote which hasn’t seen the lights at the end of the tunnel. Would it be another Komtar, when mountain see mountain? Or, another needles to pin down the otherwise prosperous turtle?
Amusingly, when one sees Penang as a turtle, another sees it as a Tiger, crouching tiger! Perhaps it is due to the Tiger year, that the turtle disguise itself as a tiger. Wonder if the world of Mc Fongshui would make it as its top seller figurines? That will be another tales. The ancient master liked figurative writing with emphasis form over substance. Surprisingly modern master also liked form over substance and that is where the problems arise when it is taken by the lay person as the truth, liked the pinned turtle. Again, the answer is within the veins.
Such fables are rather amusing to some and pain to others. Another dose, please take it with a huge pinch of salt of what ever said by these co called new age masters.
Note: Photo Credit - LesChang, FotoKrazy.com, Asymptote - PGCC
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