by Lai SW on July 26, 2010
Water plays a big part in our lives, right? No? If the taps don’t work for a few hours, how comfortable would we be? It does eat into our comfort zone, doesn’t it?
But on a bigger level, water in feng shui does more than causing that little discomfort. Fortunes, good or bad are decided by [...]
by Lai SW on July 20, 2010
One of the favorite questions asked is this – what is the ideal direction my house should face?
Views from the balcony or windows aside, feng shui has many methods to find your ideal direction. Of hand, there would be the year based method. A more refined method would be that which uses your eight characters. [...]
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
Good FengShui Advice – I wrote this book last year and I believe it is still available at bookstores.
This book is a translation of a text by FengShui Master Jiang Da Hong (ca1640) with my explanations and comments. The root text is a section on yang dwellings from his book “5 Songs of the Heavenly [...]
by Lai SW on June 4, 2010
Living styles have changed a lot the past twenty thirty years. The days of farms, vegetable gardens, bungalows or townhouses are replaced by high rise apartments and link houses. This sometimes poses interesting feng shui situations.
Let’s look at two real life situations. The first involved a terrace or link house. As is common, the owners [...]
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 17, 2010
The hair saloon is one of those havens in the world that one can relax and engage in idle chit chat. No wonder ladies spend so much time there. One of the best excuses in the world. Get pampered and get themselves looking beautiful to boot. It’s worth every dollar spent.
I was at the hair [...]
by Lai SW on May 13, 2010
A young mother asked, “I have bought many toys for my son. A friend says it is not good for feng shui. Says some of these toys are animals, that’s why. “
Any truth to that?
Toys being an item for discussion? That should get grandmaster Yang Yun Song turning up in high heaven. It is hard [...]
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 [...]
The last one, making babies is somewhat bias as the directions or locations that are deemed most auspicious are supposed to favor success in adding male babies to the family line. So here I am writing again to make up for that.
As with all things fengshui, this one is inescapable; there is a yin direction [...]