The big revolving wheel at Marina Bay has been turning the wrong way, according to them.

And now, to satisfy these masters in the ancient Chinese practice of arranging elements of the environment to promote fortune and health, the wheel has been reconfigured to turn the opposite way - at a cost involving a six-figure sum.

The 30-minute ride started going the other way last Monday.

Until then, since its opening in April the wheel had risen to face Singapore's business centre and went down on the other side overlooking the sea and the eastern part of the island.

Trouble was, this meant it was turning its back on the financial district literally.

'A number of feng shui masters had approached us to tell us that the Flyer is on the perfect site to pick up the good qi (energy) flowing into Singapore, but it was going in the wrong direction,' says Mr Florian Bollen, Singapore Flyer's chairman. 'The Flyer was going against the sun and taking fortune away from Singapore.'

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times' Life!