October 21, 2009

• <More than Joke>

  After years of flamboyant advertisement, our local property sector has left too little surprising. So, I bet most will treat the 88-story 天匯 – which actually has only 40-some or 30-some stories – as a joke.

  Why? Because

  (1) the top is 88th floor, then 68th floor, and followed by 66th (no 70+ floor)

  (2) it does not have floors ending with 4 (no 4, 14, 24 and 34)

  (source)

  Why no 4? That is not difficult to understand (whether you accept it is a totally different issue). Cantonese pronunciation of 4 is similar to dead.

  But why no 70+ floor? Maybe they try to avoid reminding residents, especially those on 70+ floor, that how 柒 they are.

  So I believe these are all jokes. Who will take that seriously?

  Yes, our honorary LegCo member

  
  

  市民投訴天匯樓層編排誤導

  民主黨立法會議員李永達表示，收到市民投訴，恒基干德道樓盤天匯的樓層編排，涉誤導消費者。

  李永達表示，天匯最高一層是88樓，對下層就是68樓，而40至59樓是沒有的。他表示，他們正向屋宇署及地政署了解，如何更好地保障消費者。

  據報道，一名內地買家以5.6億元，購買68樓單位，平均呎價為88000元，但該樓層實際為44樓，而全幢天匯為46層高。

  I am not speaking for anyone. But let me say this : Traditionally, we should expect floors are followed by floors (i.e. 1 followed by 2 etc.). Over time, we skip “4″ floors – if you go to new estates, just like this, most increasingly accept it. 天匯 is just a great step forward, in skipping all unlucky numbers.

  At least, it does not mix the floors just that they are not sequential / out of order.

  What’s the point of complaining?

  What I really worry : 3 is also an unlucky number is western culture. 0 means nothing. Probably we should skip them as well. No discrimination

  All left is 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9.

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