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Grand Duke is here, what to do?

December 31, 2009

As the lunar year comes around, it is a time for making arrangements to appease the Tai Sui. Actually appeasing may be the wrong word. The more apt phrase may be to make offerings. This Tai Sui. Some have called it the Grand Duke Jupiter but that may not be entirely correct. Neither is it [...]

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Recommended Days for House Clearing and Cleaning

December 24, 2009

It is a Chinese practice to set aside days for a sprucing up the house in time for welcoming the Lunar New Year. (this year it falls on February 14). It is something like the spring cleaning that preoccupies the Westerners. The only difference is that the Chinese place great importance in selecting a suitable [...]

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Are You Having The Right Picture Hanging On Your Wall?

December 23, 2009

Are we having the right paintings (or pictures) hanging on our walls? A very innocent question but as they say, a story tells more than a thousand words. I remember the advice of a feng shui master who taught that we should never hang pictures of tigers and ferocious animals on walls of our homes. [...]

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Tiger Year 2010 Forecast for Tigers

December 8, 2009

Those born in the tiger years should be turning 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, 85, 97, 109 on their birthdays this year. The last of the lot would likely qualify as the oldest person on earth. Congratulations! A young man asked me what he should do since he is a tiger year born. If [...]

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Dubai Debacle

December 4, 2009

Dubai has made the headlines again. Only this time it was negative news. Hardly a year ago, it was the city to rival Baghdad of the Arabian nights. But this time it fell to the syndrome of human folly, greed, aggression, and if I may say, madness driven by egoism. This burst of the Dubai [...]

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Bedroom Rules

December 3, 2009

In arranging the bedroom and the bed (where else should the bed be but in the bedroom.. ), there are at least two approaches. The first of these follow the qi formula method. Commonly practiced are the East-West method of selecting the area of the house or room and the other is the Sanyuan method [...]

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What is Peach Blossom Luck?

December 1, 2009

Essentially peach blossom luck means love. It is a positive thing only that in this hectic material life, the beauty of love is sometimes lost. Today, we find it easier to meet people and thus the chance of meeting that someone special is all the much higher. But is that really so? If you were [...]

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Good Days for December 2009

November 24, 2009

The calendar you see shows the good days for December 2009. Quite a number, isn’t it? Well, it is the  season for goodwill and cheer. Those who are born in certain years are not compatible with the following days: 1/12, 13/12, 25/12            dog 10/12, 22/12                       goat 16/12   [...]

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Are Salt Lamps Bad Feng Shui?

November 11, 2009

Rightly or wrongly, salt lamps are a recent addition to the array of feng shui tools. If I remember correctly it was touted as being good for health as it was said to have an ionic effect, that is, they release ions to the atmosphere. These released ions remove pollutants from the air and oxidants [...]

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Bed Headboard for sound sleep

November 2, 2009

Tip..bed headboard. Not fresh in the morning? I have often noticed that some are fond of leaving a little gap between the head board of their bed and the wall. The reason maybe that it made sweeping and vacuuming the area between bed and wall a little easier, like a space where the broom or [...]

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