So A-Door-able

A 5-room HDB flat at AMK.


Entire house overhauled. Door to be relocated to tap on the best - at client's request.

Step 1 : Put up the door frame at the selected auspicious hour.



Tiler and carpenter need to dovetail their jobs to position the frame.




Checking on the level.




Yours truly checking on the direction.

Inside looking out.

Step 2: Put the door up and fine tune the degree of the door. You will never expect how tedious the process is to put the door into the desired hexagram. The carpenter almost "went crazy" just to knock the door frame into the degree I want.

Ensuring Heaven.Man.Earth hexagrams all matched.

Ta da! Completed.

You Reap what you Sow

An Korean ancient story to share.

A monk went to a very far place to learn feng shui. After he acquired all the skills and on his way back, he passed by a field where he saw a young man mourning on his father who had just passed away.

The monk was feeling tired and very hungry after walking for the entire morning. It was lunch time and he had got nothing to eat. The young men saw that the monk was pale and immediately offered him his entire lunch box.

After filling up his tummy, the monk was very grateful to the young man. To repay the kindness, the monk offered to help the man to locate an auspicious burial site to bury his father's body.

The young man was elated and on that very night, they found a good spot to bury the corpse. The monk told the man that within 3 days, he would marry a wife and in 3 years time, he would become very rich.

The prophecy never came true. The monk went back to check the site and discovered that none of the descendants was alive to look after the grave and in fact the family line had become extinct. The monk thought that he had mis-selected the site.

Just when he was about to destroy the luo pan and quit his profession as a feng shui master, a sage appeared in front of him.

The sage said "Don't destroy your luo pan. You have selected the correct site. However, the grave could not manifest its auspiciousness to the decendants because the person who is buried here committed 3 homicides when he was alive."

The above is an illustration of karma at play.

But please do not use this as an convenient excuse if you, due to your incompetence, screw up people's feng shui.

I know some bogus masters do.

Thank you.

The Law of Induction

We all know that by burying one's ancestor in a good feng shui spot will benefit and bring prosperity to the descendants.

But do we know how does the process take place? Isn't it very amazing and unthinkable on how the good things are conveyed from a dead body that is buried in the ground to his children or even grandchildren who are staying in a highrise condominium?

Or do you just accept the fact based on books or blind faith?

Did we ever ask ourselves where is the medium or connection that passes on this qi? If wireless technology has been introduced during ancient time, then things may be simpler to understand.

Anyway, in my opinions, not all things can be tied to a scientific answer, and this is one example.
On this, The Burial Book, or Zhang Jing, gives an analogy:

是以銅山西崩，靈鍾東應。
木華于春，栗芽於室。

When a copper mine collapses in the west, the spiritual bell (made from copper from the mine) rings in the east, and when chestnut trees bloom in spring, chestnuts bud in the room.

Does my article resonate with you now?

Take A Break...

A Chicken and Egg Argument

Which comes first?

Was Feng Shui principles first developed for selection of burial site? Or did mankind use feng shui to help them choose a good dwelling place and later re-adapt the principles for burial?

Many people, including myself, have the impression that feng shui was first developed for the sake of finding an auspicious burial ground for the ancestor.

At this point, due to my recent research into Korean feng shui (which also originates from China), I stumble into detailed and extensive works by academia and convincing arguments put forward by scholars that have kinda shaken my belief.

My paradigm may soon be shifted.

I will be sharing more...stay tune.

I am Fuming Mad with this Master

Below news extracted from Straits Time published on 16 Aug 09:

HE WAS specific about the kind of girls he wanted. They had to be between the ages of 14 and 18, pretty, as well as gentle and quiet in manner. Most importantly, they had to be virgins. And Wu Tianxi was determined to bed 100 of them.

The former member of China's national legislature and once wealthy entrepreneur from Henan province was desperate to end his spate of bad luck, which he blamed for his business failures.

A fengshui master he consulted told him that sleeping with virgins would break the cycle of misfortune, according to a report in The Beijing News.

So between 2005 and 2007, Wu acted on the advice. In under two years, he raped as many as 36 schoolgirls. Of the victims, six were under the age of 14, and the youngest was only 12 years old.

Last Thursday, he was put to death by lethal injection in the city of Nanyang, in Henan, after the Supreme People's Court rejected his appeal against the rape conviction in 2007. His execution came amid a crackdown by China on officials who abuse their power.

The feng shui master should also be executed for uttering nonsense and giving fengshui a bad name. He is the real culprit. I am so angry.

Feng Shui masters (professional ones) do not give such absurd prescription.Feng Shui cure is all about helping you to tap into the positive energy from your living environment. It is never about performing rituals and or actions that cause disharmony to the environment.

For those who want to see how the rapist looks like, please click on the link below.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_417454.html

Property Selection for HDB

For the past few weekends, I have been going around Singapore with clients to view condominiums and to visit show flats. No, I did not double up as a part time housing agent. I have a very onerous duty, that is, to select a home for the client. Usually, clients would want a house that brings prosperity, good career luck, health and family bonding.

I told them I will try my very best to help them to achieve what they want because a little bit of trade-offs are to be expected. Those who want to achieve a perfect house should then consider to buy their own land and construct it themselves.

The process of selection should be rigorous, careful and always place your clients' interests at top most priority. Why? Very simple, property is a big ticket item and it usually costs your client his or her life savings. Can you imagine your client moves into the house you pick for him and his career begins to move downhill, children get sick and relationship with wife starts to turn sour? Worse still, he has to wait for 5 years to get his HDB flat sold. I am not sure if the family can survive well by then.

Prevention is better than cure. I personally embrace this notion. I always urge people to select a good house - in feng shui sense. Anyway, if your house feng shui is bad, you can only implement cures to mitigate the problem. Do not be so naive to think that everything can be cured or turned around especially when you come to HDB or condominiums.

Anyhow, my peers always ask me what guiding principles do I adhere to when doing selection or what feng shui techniques do I apply especially in situation where the condominiums or flats have not been built. I think it is timely to share the techniques that I use since we are into a property-buying frenzy.

I must qualify that there are few methods one can use to assess a property. What I am sharing here is actually something I personally find it very useful over the years. I combined a few techniques together and these are mainly from the Xuan Kong Feng Shui system.

Not in any order (used mainly for high rise):

1.Check the site plan for swimming pool position in condo in relation to your block. Very important if you wish to usher good wealth luck.

2.Use google map to check the location of nearby river or water mouth and how it flows.

3. Check the floor plan for missing sector. HDB flat always has this problem. Missing sectors bring along a set of issues. Please search for my previous posting on this.

4. Check the flying stars at main door, stove and bed. The stars must support the endeavours of the client. For instance, I will pick 6,1 for people who wish to climb corporate ladder.

5. Check the life gua of the person. Make sure the star at the room door is not in conflict with the person occupying the room. Best to be producing in.

6. Check which level's unit is good to buy. This is done by using the Wu-Zi luck method to make sure the unit's good luck is not expiring.

7. Check the flying stars residing in the life palace of the owner's gua. They must enhance
the breadwinner.

8. Check the location of elevator in relation to the unit.

9. Check if the level's luck is supporting the house (main door).

The above are not found in any text book. It is based on my experience and research. For practitioners, I welcome you to adopt the method and give me your valauble feedback.