by Lai SW on July 14, 2010
Most Chinese homes in the old days have a thick longish red book hanging on the wall ever ready to be used. And you can bet that its pages are worn and dog eared. This is the Chinese Almanac or Tong Shu. And it is a very good guide book for conduct of all daily [...]
by Lai SW on July 8, 2010
Three Factors of Yang Feng Shui – Part 1
When I first started these pages, I told myself that the stuff has to be useful. Simple tips will do alright. No fancy technicalities (but once in a while they do creep in . No one is ever interested in technicalities.
Recently I caught up with a [...]
by Lai SW on June 17, 2010
We live in a new world. We have new knowledge, loads of information and this makes us think that we are getting smarter all the time.
Some time ago, an “old” friend mentioned that there are now many gadgets that are being made to measure qi. These new instruments works on the assumption that qi is [...]
by Lai SW on May 25, 2010
If we were to ask any feng shui enthusiast whether he would like to know the “real” secret feng shui, I bet we will get a yes.
In fact if you were to ask anyone who practices some form of feng shui, you will get the same response. We put aquariums, magic numbers hung in strategic [...]
by Lai SW on May 12, 2010
Known fact. Sleep is the balm that heals – the tender sleeve of care. Shakespeare said something like that in MacBeth. Shakespeare might not know fengshui but he knows the value of sleep.
In our dog-eat-dog world, being sharp and alert is a virtue. A good night’s sleep does wonders. I agree, totally.
Fengshui has its fair [...]
by Lai SW on May 10, 2010
Looking back through the years of practicing feng shui, it seems like a long journey. But then, it has been very worthwhile.
I do not really know how it all began but I do remember a keen interest in unexplained things, you know, ghosts, the undead, Lobsang Rampa, magic especially black magic, occult, tarot, the lot. [...]
Fengshui – sometimes when I take a back seat and look at everything again, a few things tends to stand out. These are to me the inescapable part of study and research into this interesting field.
We seek out feng shui for very simple reasons, don’t we? Get that career going… get the kids to pay [...]
by Lai SW on April 30, 2010
by Lai SW on April 5, 2010
A designer gave fengshui advice and taught how to use aquariums. However, he said he was unsure whether the aquarium should be placed in the “inauspicious” or the “auspicious” positions.
His arguments waffle along something like this:
Placing it in the auspicious position is recommended as the movement of the water, the fishes, the water and the [...]
by Lai SW on March 17, 2010
How nice if we are in the shoes of those who we hear getting lucky, receiving unexpected windfalls or about careers and businesses that soar. What does feng shui have to say?