why does the merlion has blue eyes?!

dash recently brought a group of students to the singapore discovery centre (sdc) for a visit, and realised to her immense surprise - that the merlion in the sdc short film had *bright blue* eyes!!

eh?! O_O

dash guess she has never really thought about the colour of the merlion's eyes, and has always imagined it to be black or brown O_o

and perhaps within the chinese-malay-indian-others (cmio) framework, our merlion is "others"? odd. hrmm. dash would so want a peek at the merlion's identity card!