“Superstitious buildings” in Malaysia
March 29th, 2008If you are in Malaysia and you are staying at the 28th floor of a hotel, it does not mean that you *really* are at the 28th floor. For example, at Cititel Mid Valley, the lift buttons look like this:
There is no 4th floor (disliked by some Chinese), in fact there is no floor that has the number 4 in it, meaning there’s no 14th floor and no 24th floor. And of course there’s no 13th floor. So actually the hotel is only 24 storeys tall. Business valuation of the building could be affected…
Around the same time, I was attending a course at Phileo Damansara, and the lift buttons look like this:
Here, the building owners are clever. Instead of throwing away the number “4″, they simply replaced it with a “3A”, hence we can be sure that the building is really 9 storeys tall.
For private hospitals at least, you can be sure there’s no 4th floor, as shown by this lift button panel at Sabah Medical Centre, Kota Kinabalu:
But some buildings couldn’t care less, like Wisma Perindustrian in Kota Kinabalu:
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If you go to centrepoint, instead of 4 you will see the Palm Square icon. I haven’t noticed Karamunsing or Wisma Merdeka though.
That’s weird. But I never really realized lifts which omit the number 4 - yet.
haha.. i haven’t realised this before! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will surely be looking at an elevator’s buttons from now on! LOL
guess what they did to the room where the Deputy Minister was murdered? They took off the number, renovated the existing room to join it with the room next door and walla, no more spooky encounters….
That infamous room 208, 11th Feb 2004? I think that makes good business sense…
There’s this huge house we use to rent a night or two for vacation in Kundasang. There’s like 6 rooms altogether and there’s even a room labeled as “Room 4″. Nobody wants to sleep in that room because obviously, it was creepy! It’s the only room downstairs (the rest are upstairs) and the “feel” inside the room alone is ..chilling.
Funny thing is, the owner of the house is a Chinese.
I think that’s very bad, business wise. Why not simply change the room numbers to names? Eg, Bougainvilla room etc