Properties from a feng shui perspective: Part 138
By David Koh and Joe Choo | Apr 30, 2010
Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park
The Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park started quite a number of years ago as a commercial centre for Kuchai Lama. It was touted as a strategically located area. (For Google map reference, please log on to http://maps.google.co.uk/ and search for “Kuala Lumpur”.)
Access to this area was via Jalan Kuchai Lama, a busy (read, congested) road. Much of this busy traffic was due to its link to Happy Garden and further down, the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban highway. Beyond the turn-off to the highway, the road gets pretty quiet as it winds its way past the Ajinomoto factory and on to Salak South Garden.
Through a series of internal roads, the park was also connected to Happy Garden. This proved to be a nightmare for residents as their idyllic roads turned into busy and congested highways.
Today, of course, the road network has expanded tremendously. The KL-Seremban highway link is further enhanced by its connection to the New Pantai Expressway. The link to Salak South Garden is now connected to the Sungai Besi highway that joins Sungai Besi to Balakong and Serdang. Thus, the Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park was given a shot in the arm and a new lease of life. Prior to these developments, the area developed an unsavoury image and despite its newness then, looked like a slum.
NEW VIBRANCY
Now, the area has brightened up considerably, with a new internal main road, Jalan 1/127 connecting to an extended Jalan Gembira (which takes a load off the uncomfortably congested Jalan Selesa) and the development of Kuchai Maju, populated by shop-offices. True to its name as an entrepreneur’s park, a large number of buildings here are commercial in nature. Shops, restaurants and offices dominate.
Residential areas are limited to several condominiums and apartments such as Brem Park, Sri Desa, Happy Garden, Bukit Gembira and De Tropicana. It is certainly a more compact design, and ensures that the township does not become a ghost town after dark.
From a landform perspective, the terrain here is undulating. As you would recall in previous articles on this part of the Klang Valley, a branch from the mountain ranges up north terminates here. This is the arm of a “dragon” and we are seeing its claws here. There are several talons running into the Kuchai Lama-United Garden area. Thus, every road would be different and each property has to be considered differently.
Jalan 1/127 is an extension of Jalan 1/116b. It then connects to Jalan Gembira to provide a new through-road from Happy Garden. This is a major relief for Jalan Selesa which previously did that job. In this area, there is a small hill, which is surrounded by Jalan 1/127 and 2/116b. It would have extended to Salak South Garden if not for the KL-Putrajaya highway that bisected it.
There is also a dip to the west at Taman Kuchai Jaya before the land rises again.
HIGH TO LOW
Generally speaking, properties that have high land on their backs and low slopes in front are considered conducive. That is because earth energy travels from high land to low. As it moves, it is considered too strong and overwhelming. Properties that face a higher slope come face-to-face with this. Thus, the occupants usually do not fare well.
Many people seem to think that this only applies to properties at the foot of a hill, citing “common sense” that such properties are at risk of landslides. But look carefully elsewhere. Even in places where a hill is further away and the danger of a landslide is not imminent, properties that face an uphill slope still tend to be more run-down, and their occupants seem to struggle more than their opposite neighbours. Thus, it is the earth energy at work, not any psychological fear of being buried under a ton of rubble.
Now, to the east of Jalan 1/116B, the road curves in an embrace around the hill. This is a good formation as the parabolic concave path of the road serves to reflect the earth energy back into a gentle, homogenous pool. Shop-offices on Jalan 5/116B that face Jalan Kuchai Lama are likely to do well.
Unfortunately, the opposite holds true for those on the back, facing the hill. Businesses here are likely to struggle for success, either to attain or retain it. Property agents will also tell you it is not as good because it lacks visibility, from a marketing point of view.
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Kuchai Entreprenuers Park an upcoming business hub.
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WRONG DIRECTION
There are several flats located here within the embrace but generally most of them face away from the embrace. This is not considered conducive. Properties along Jalan 2/116B are quite well positioned because they have the hill to their backs and they face the Kerayong River further up north. Certain sections of Jalan 6/116B are also good because they face north and are also embraced by Jalan Kuchai Lama. However, those facing north-east and east are not as good because these directions put them slightly against the flow of the river.
Properties should either face a river or have a front that parallels the flow of the river. Those that go against the river’s direction tend to create living and working spaces that are not conducive to the occupants. Jalan 6/116B also happens to be a one-way street. This presents yet another factor to consider. Properties along one-way street usually fare well at the entrance, where human traffic (bringing in fresh energy) is strongest. As traffic exits the road, it is spent and no longer able to “charge” properties at the exit.
The entrance to Jalan 6/116B is located at the east-facing side. Thus, this mitigates matters for businesses here. They are likely to enjoy better business but the operators are likely to be stressed and may make bad decisions.
PEAKS AND TROUGHS
Of course, a person also has his personal life profile (we call this Eight Characters, or BaZi) that indicates periods in his life when he peaks and ebbs. Combined with the effects of landform, his peaks can either be amplified or muted. Likewise, his troughs could be eased or exacerbated.
North-facing properties at Jalan 6/116B are at the tail-end of the one-way street, and therefore will feel its effects. To compound matters, there is the factor of the raised interchange that was recently added to facilitate traffic entering and exiting the New Pantai Expressway.
This is virtually a new man-made hill directly in front of the buildings. Thus, north-facing properties no longer have a river in front, but a “mountain”. This “mountain” also has strong wind turbulence, thanks to fast moving traffic. Over time, this is likely to cause their immediate vicinity to deteriorate.
The hawker centre behind these shop-offices is effectively shielded. The main entrance faces west along the path of the river and the high lands are to their sides (north and south).
To the west of Jalan 1/116B, we have the remainder of the Kuchai Entrepreneur Park. The roads here are located in a grid and most properties face either west or east, running along Jalan 1/116B’s slip road, 10/116B and 11/116B.
KERAYONG RIVER
Properties here that face west are likely to do well. This direction parallels the Kerayong River and the land slopes downhill to a little ravine before Taman Kuchai Jaya. Properties on opposite side are likely to fare poorer relatively speaking. Interestingly, the KL City Hall office on Jalan 10/116B faces east.
The roads ringing these shop-offices are one-way streets and again, those located at the entrance are likely to do better than those near the exits.
Jalan 1/116C services some shops that face north and this is a conducive facing direction. Therefore, businesses here should do well.
There are some so-called prime properties found facing Jalan Kuchai Lama itself, but their value is questionable, from an environology perspective. Some of them, such as those along Jalan Kuchai Maju 2, are located too close to the elevated interchange to the NPE. This man-made mountain is likely to exert the same deleterious effect on the properties here as with those on 6/116B. Again, the one-way street effect will also impact the various properties here.
Properties along Jalan 2/116D are “luckier”. They are located further away from the interchange and thus actually face low land and the Kerayong River. Behind this row, properties on Jalan 3/116D face away from the river, which is considered not so conducive. Furthermore, the land in front of them is raised.
Properties along Jalan Kuchai Maju 5, 6 and 7 are on higher ground and they have an east-west orientation. West-facing shop-offices here are likely to perform well. They face the small ravine separating Kuchai Maju from Kuchai Jaya and have high land on their side (south) and back (east). Conversely, those facing east are likely to fare poorer. This is exacerbated by the one-way street traffic flow prevalent in this park.
*This series on feng shui and real estate properties appears courtesy of the Malaysia Institute of Geomancy Sciences (MINGS). David Koh is the founder of MINGS and has been a feng shui master and teacher for the past 36 years.
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