Cecil Lee

Dear Sophia, Please see below:- It is the belief that if one displays decorative objects (note: call them whatever one wants "wealth vase ...." etc... But really, these are only objects made by ordinary man! One of the beliefs is that if one keeps such objects, it is best always to cover the top and not let the vase be "empty". Some would place another smaller covered container to cover this "mouth" of the vase, while others could simply cover it fully with a cut-out cardboard, styrofoam etc.... In Singapore, we read of magic "stones" that can cure cancer etc... This is where such people prey older folks -- into parting with their savings! Therefore, all of us should not have the "foolish" notion that there is really such thing as a "wealth vase". The near equivalent are true "blooded" ancient antiques that have good "wealth value". For example, early century Ming pocerlain vase, plates etc... These are truly "rich-man's" collections. That may range from a few thousand dollars to even a few million dollars! Other than this, without proper authentication, there are many FAKES circulating around! This is where one of the gods, removed the cap to the gourd and point the empty vessel towards the "villian" and sucks him/her into it. Perhaps, illustrations such as this could be the originator for such ause in Feng Shui today. Many Feng Shui practitioners advise the use of it:- 1. Straight path of qi (leak) In many of those 3-room HDB type of flats, some made renovations suchthat when they open their living roomwindows, there is a straight path of air from this window, past thru the open dining room/kitchen door and out thru the service / kitchen windows. Some Chinese, would therefore hang a hulu or bottle gourd at the dining/kitchen entrance. For the above purpose. 2. Sickness star Especially manyHong Kong Feng Shui practitioners may advise their clients to placeor hang a hulu on the bed post. This is to "suck" away sickness stars #2 or #5. Or one of the alternative cures toconstant sickness. 3. Placed at toilets As one can see, it is the same principle or "belief". In conclusion, one can see that the above three points are the most commonly applied area for the use of the hulu or bottle gourd. Often, in the past, many would buy ready made wood-dried-hollow type with a cover on it i.e. when it is new, it is green. But, when it is "old" it turns into a beautiful "light" wood color. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Esther, Firstly, CONGRATULATIONS! Yes! There are lots of people who has prior to given birth or even before giving birth to display cute lovely children photos in their bedroom. Thus, you are not alone! And this is certainly something that is not new! So, in my opinion, feel free to continue to place these lovely pictures of children! On a human (man luck) level, it makes us all feel so good or wonderful! No harm in doing so. As for the placement of figurines; majority of the time no harm. But, in some of the past forum messages, there has been some issues with regards to this. But, this is rare or something like 0.01% type of an encounter. Thus no an issue. But, good to on the safe-side, remove them. As for home items "breaking" down, it could be a coincidence or other matters - since no Feng Shui audit has been done to review it. What is most important in the Chinese belief is not to move or shift the "wedding - or master bed" at all during the time of pregnancy up to the time of the 1st month old baby. It is ok to place the hulu at the basin. More importantly, do take care of your health and have as much "human or man luck" such as family support and care and togetherness with the spouse. Basically don't worry too much about all the little things! I am sure ALL OF US, especially Robert and myself, look forward to you having a lovely cuddly and beautiful child! CHEERS! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Doris, To be pretty honest: there is often no right or wrong answers. Nor one camp can ever overwhelm the other to consider exactly what colors fit which elements. For example, it is very straight forward that all the primary colors such as (often those found on the color tv) e.g. Green, Blue and Red. And some also consider Yellow a primary color). From a hot-cold continuum or spectrum, colors would range from the hot end (Red) to the cold end (Blue or white). Grey is interesting. Because silver looks silver to us. But in my country, all our paper notes have a security thread -- threaded into each paper note. Humans when eyeing the notes will certainly see a gleemer of silver -- (metal) element. But if one scans the dollar note (I am not recommending this - as it is agains the law) or photo copy the dollar note -- the silver thread would turn out to be "GREY!" So perhaps, some people would thus consider perhaps grey = metal? If we look at decorator's color charts, often we see the grey tones on the sample brochure next to the blue tones. Again, there is always no right or wrong answers. Because, often, pastel shades of colors are subjected to many interpretations. In addition, there are other ways to identify objects: circle = metal element etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Daniel, 1. Feng Shui is not just about looking into the four-corners of a home. But the KEY success or the highest weightage has to do with LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. 2. As the above suggests: 1stly it is all about the External environment: the Landscape, the site and the building. 3. This is because each home is different in many ways because of the location. 4. Imagine this: Some homes unfortunately is equivalent of a 4 door saloon. Some homes are even equivalent of a 30 year old run-down 1,000 cc car. So, even if one pathes the entire interior of the 4 walls with gold: CAN THAT HOME BE BOOSTED TO A BRAND NEW MERCEDES CAR? 5. With this in mind, this is why, sometimes, enhancing the interior can benefit from Feng Shui if the exterior is not that bad. But given the example above of a home that is like a run-down 1,000 cc car - no matter how much we do, we cannot enhance the house further. 6. The morale of the above story is that: "we have to consider the external FS or Location, location, location, first. 7. Applying Flying star Feng Shui:- This is where you wanted to know where is the wealth sector of your home: 8. In the past also, I had mentioned two major concepts:- 8.1 The three-step-approach Each Feng Shui concept has : 1. strengths and 2. weakness. and also we should understand the 3. the purpose of each concept. 8.2 All sectors in a home are very important: For example, in the past, I give an example that like any other disciplines weightage should be given to all sectors. Many of us had taken examinations before. For example: in an examination: it asks us to answer 5 questions out of say 10 questions. Each question = 20 marks each. Our teachers would normally ask us to ATTEMPT to answer ALL FIVE questions. Even if we do a wonderful job answering only 4 questions, but leaving out the last, we can still fall the examination! Feng Shui is also like that. We should try to maximize all sectors if possible. 8.3 If one has gone thru many of the messages in this forum, one can also apply Flying star to detect / enhance or neutralise elements in each sector. For example: #8 numbers are current wealth numbers and WS#8 is water wealth etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Doris, There are several dimensions of Feng Shui or degrees of "understanding" what is good or bad Feng Shui. For example: 1. Enhancing Qi Some Feng Shui actions or activities are to enhance qi or to boost qi in a home. For example such as activating #8 under Flying Star Feng Shui. Where especially #8 has to do with the current water wealth location. 2. Neutralising Sha Qi or Poison arrows There are also imbalances caused e.g. by a pointed roof aimed towards our home e.g. a lone street lamp slicing into our main entrance etc... 3. Commonsense approach to Feng Shui Fortunately, from what I can gather, yours has to do with a toilet above the main entrance door. This has much to do with "commonsense" that there is a higher probability that since the toilet is above the door and if the sewerage pipe(s) are located just above it, then, there could be an issue (not often) but a higher chance that it may leak downwards. Otherwise, generally, this third category is not the "worse" type of "bad" Feng Shui. It is equivalent of the idea that we should not have our bed above the kitchen. For "fear" that there is also a higher probabilty of a fire starting out in a kitchen, also. It is equivalent to the notion that some were told that it is not favourable to have the masterbedroom above the garage. For the same reason that in the unlikely-hood that if vehicle or car catches fire... the flames could reach the masterbedroom. Thus, as one can see, your concerns are associated with "commonsense approach" type of Feng Shui concerns or issues. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, You can actually click on the " ADVANCE SEARCH" on the top left hand side of this forum (just below the SEARCH button):- Step 1: Type in " beam " Step 2: Select the conference " Photo Tours of Interest with Pictures " Then, press to confirm and you should find several messages on "An alternative to a flute".... Go review several of these messages to find out what are the often used items e.g. a pair of flute or decorative arches etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Since it is a non-religious item (more towards decorative item), a simple "throw-away" would be acceptable. If you have a big plastic bag, simply place it into the bag, tie it up and throw it away. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jean, Generally, there should not be an issue as each intermediate terrace has it's own space. And in Feng Shui, each intermediate terrace owns a site. And can be distinct from each other. The major concerns would be any water course e.g. large drain(s) on the side of the home or a large drainage behind the home etc... Nevertheless, each site should be considered separately and since often no two sites are the same, a proper FS assessment should be made specific to that plot of land. Thus what I had mentioned, now or in the past are general statements or general comments, only. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tristan, In my opinion, the best way is to understand in-terms of "harmony with the environment". Or use Feng Shui on this primary basis, first. For example, we have our own birth-date and thus "birth-chart". The home or apartment also has it's own birth-chart. "It is said that we human beings must try to harmonize ourselves to our environment but not the other way around". Here, we must first "take care" of any imbalances in our environment. Thus under Feng Shui, we have two major schools: Shapes and Forms and Flying Star Feng Shui. Shapes and Forms Feng Shui would suggest that our house or block is on solid foundation. If we are at a hill, we have to make sure that the foundation - continues to be stable. And not just being stable at the point where we move-in. But, to be continously stable. A simple cutting down of trees or soil erosion can easily make a safe home, unsafe! For the interior of the home, we should first consider the "birth-chart" of the home e.g. using Flying star Feng Shui. For example, if under Ba Zi, a person is a weak metal person. And his or her best element is EARTH element (yellow, cream or beige). But because unfortunately, the bedroom has some nasty stars like #5 and or #2 and or #9 in combination, it would not be wise to enhance the bedroom with one's ba zi best elements. Here, it is a simple rule: " We must harmonise with our environment and not the other way around. " We cannot simply impose our "elements" onto the environment. If we apply this concept, I believe, one can easily understand or have a firm foundation ofthe degrees of either: MUST or BEST be done NICE to Have (Usually, it is nice to be able to match the home colours ot our Ba Zi or that this room is favourable to us under our Eight house chart etc..) Thus, sometimes it can be truly UNFORTUNATE if we stay in a "wrong" home where what would seemed NICE TO HAVEsometimes, we are unable to introduce such nice-to-have as it does not fit our environment i.e. the home. Some of us may be more fortunate because not only are we able to enjoy our MUST haves but we can equally apply our NICE-TO-HAVE's in our home. Not all can do this. This could perhaps explain that thisisanother reason why some people are RICHER while others are poorer. Often, the rich gets richer because, money does buy good Feng Shui! Or usually, with or without Feng Shui, try buying a home: Naturally, a person perhaps paying 2million dollars for a home will certainly get better Feng Shui because most of the time the frontage or other external shapes and forms may be better than say one who purchases a home that costs only 1/2 a million dollars. (This is a simple anaolgy - it could be the other way around if good Feng Shui is applied!). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Judy, It is good that you review this three previous messages that had been posted in the forum:- Conference: Feng Shui Tips & Guidelines Part I - Facing direction of a home by: Cecil Lee (Cecil Lee, support@geomancy.net) on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 Part II - Facing direction of a home by: Cecil Lee (Cecil Lee, support@geomancy.net) on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 The easiest way is to go to the above conference and review the above three messages. It will certainly throw light to your question and hopefully give you clear and concise answers. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Angie, There are two sides of the coin to this:- 1. Generally, from a hobbist point of view, many things can affect the lifespan of fishes: such as the ph-level, water content, age of goldfish(es). 2. From a Feng Shui point-of-view, often, this is a blessing in disguise: as such deaths often are said to be 'sacrificial' to our own well-being. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Previously, I had posted information in this form on what to do for initial getting of keys and what to do during move-in. As both information are found under the same attachment: please click on the attachment to this forum message. Generally, Chinese has lots of dialect groups. Distinctively the major dialect groups: Cantonese and Hokkien "things-to-do" can be found in the above attachment.For other dialect groups; everythingelse comes in-between the best practises found in the file. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Further to what I had mentioned, below; In previous replies to your messages, I have mentioned that you can search for dates in early 2004. Thus, in the attached two screens, one can see that if one used the ADVANCED SEARCH feature on this forum, one can do a SEARCH either on Key Words e.g. Period 8 and/or enter date-range. I can literally "chop-off-my-head" if one cannot find messages pertaining to Period 8 or how-to fly to period eight within the pages mentioned above. For example, simply enter date range of say 1 Dec 2003 to 1 Mar 2004 as shown in the attachment. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Sharon, To be truly honest, there are already lots of messages as mentioned that was posted between 1 December 2003 and 1 March 2004. For example, I replicate this message:- Posted in: Discuss :: Free Advice (General Feng Shui) Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2003, 09:51 AM, Quote & Reply "Dear Anon, Ideally, the favoured change is to have a "major renovation". For example, hacking away the entire flooring or some walls and/or change of main door, or windows is a sure way of `flying' to the new period. Other short cuts but these are subject to opinions by various practitioners: 1. Have major "yang" activity in a home. Here, what it means is that humanly, we have some yang activity such as celebration of birthdays or house warming where we invite lots of friends and relatives into the home. But this alone, often may not on it's own guarantee that the house fly into the new period. 2. Activity under Para 1 with repainting the entire ceiling of the home Here, if one does not live in a landed property, one cannot simply hack away the ceiling structure. In such a situation, one can take the chance of changing the home to period 8 by repainting the entire ceiling. But again, it is safer to do Para 2 with (inclusive) of Para 1 (above) 3. What happens if one owns a landed property For sure, if one fully removes the roof of this house, and do some renovations inside the home e.g. changing the living room tiles or change of main door, then, it is for sure that the house will fly to Period 8. 4. What happens if one removes (and replace) a few roof tiles and wash the tiles Here, this is more of a symbolic nature. Replacing a few roof tiles plus cleaning or washing the entire roof tiles is a good bet to fly into the new period for the home. And again have some "yang activity" as mentioned under Para 1 (above) - as an added, safe-guard to fly the home to new period. 5. For sure, if one does renovation equal or exceeding 33.3 precent of the entire layout of the home, then, it is considered as a major renovation. Even better if 50 percent of the entire floor area is undergoing renovations. " Truly appreciate, users should take more effort to use the SEARCH feature. For ease of use, one can simpy do an ADVANCE SEARCH by keying in the parameters such as "1 Dec 2003 to 1 Mar 2004. As you can see, I just did one search and found one of the many responses to Period 8. Therefore, try to spent more effort to do so. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Cindy, Frankly, I hope u don't mind me saying; but it would be better for you to get expert help instead of grasping with so many "puzzles." Often, the major consideration is to check the layout plan of the home to see if it is better (or not) to fly to the new period. For example, for a Period 7 SW 2 apartment, the current prosperity water star is located at South compass direction while the mountain star is located at West. While under Period 8, the water wealth location flies to the NE sector. And the mountain star remains at SW sector.Does this match your layout plan i.e. is your living room at NE? or as a result of flying to P8,the water star 8 could be drowned in areas like a toilet?bedroom? etc... Besides this consideration, although distinctively P7 SW2 homes should changeto new period 8, each room should also be looked into in relation to the flying star numbers. Generally, a P7 SW2 (or very generally)such a home could benefit from flying to P8 as you had mentioned because of the parent string formation. In addition, it would not be possible or more difficult to fly to Period 8 directly if there is no major renovations. Other activities should be considered. Which have been documented in this forum in theearly part of 2004. Warmest Regards, Cecil

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Dear BR, This is an interesting question. In another not so related issue, we have the signage of "live" companies that had changed their signage. Here, there are some companies that change their signage(s) because of new corporate image or the existing signage has been torn or in bad condition. Many of these companies, often get the signage maker to half-way remove their company sign. Place it on a secondary landing such as another ladder, first. And only after they installed the new signage do they then remove the old signage and place it on the floor. Well, a red banner is not equivalent of the above (a company signage). Most of the time, due to ultraviolet light or direct sunlight often a red banner may fade and turn light red or pink. If so, it is time to replace the banner. But if the banner is very new but dusty, there is no harm in removing it to wash. However, some of the colouring used or dyes may stain or come out after washing and turn it to light red. If there is so much hassle, here, then, it would be best to simply discard the old one and buy a new one. Traditionally, some people, would suggest buying a new red banner simply because it is not that expensive and also, like the tradition of many who are suppose to buy and wear new clothes, no harm to do so for a banner. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Alex, Although you are a strong water person, this relates to your personal Ba Zi. However, since you are (also) applying Flying Star Feng Shui: Period 7, West 1, Yes the sector in question i.e. NW: has #6 MS with #1 WS with base #8 Given this senario, #1 = future prosperity and furthermore, since this is also the water star for NW sector; water can be activated here. Since MS #6 also supports water. Under Flying Star Feng Shui : Yes, 6 fishes (gold or carp etc) would be OK since it represents strong metal element. An alternative is to add 7 fishes i.e. 6 gold fishes with 1 black fish. Here, black represents water and 6 represents strong metal. Metal (6 gold fishes) with 1 black (fish) water is particularly useful. You may also consider metal stand for this sector or a stand painted in metallic colour e.g. gold or silver. However, the current water wealth location for a Period 7, W1 home is currently at South-East sector. Depending on where this location is, this is considered a more effective location for water since under the current Period 8, #8 WS represents the current wealth location and if activated can improve on wealth and relationship luck. Again this depends on what is at this sector in the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Mir Rodis, The most sensible thing to do is not to display it anymore. Try to wrap it up in a "clean" newspaper and keep-it away in a cabinet since this was a gift. Try to do it ASAP. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Thank you for the link to the sitemap. However, there is no compass marking on the map thus cannot see the perspective from the Compass School. From (only) a Shapes and Forms perspective, without considering where is the afternoon or morning sun, the smaller units #07, #11 and especially #12 and #17 or #14 and #15 looks more promising as #08 seems to have majority of windows facing the opposite #05. Yes, although construction began in 2001-02, but because since no one has yet stayed in the home, it should be considered as a Period 8 home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, There is some truth in this. The rationale is because usually, at (high or higher levels) the statues will not "clash" with our normal living. A. "Salivating at what we eat or drink!" Most often many of us have limited wall space in a home. And it is very common to find the statues facing e.g. the dining table or the living room coffee-table. In such examples, placing the statues at low levels would imply that they could literally be "eyeing" what we eat or drink! And thus considered disrestpectful. In the above, two examples, thus placing the statues at a higher level would mean that they are usually above this line of sight, thus is a better choice given these two examples. B. "Hey Earthly creatures; erh.. Don't look down on us!" Another possible senario is that if the buddha statues are placed at low levels, we are literally "looking down" on the Buddhas! Thus, often, in a temple, we can see buddha statues (or large ones) towering over us. They should instead be looking down on us and not the other way around. In addition, these other rulesets often apply not only to the placement of buddha statues but also the Chinese altar (which may have the Goddess or Mercy on them, Guan Kong or ancestar's tablet): 1. Avoid placing the altar on the opposite wall of a toilet 2. Avoid placing the altar facing a toilet 3. Avoid placing the altar facing into a bedroom 4. Best not to place the altar "guarding the main entrance". Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear May, It is good that you provide a simple sketch. A bedroom is said to be usually a place of rest (yin). And a potted plant is "growing" e.g. leaves : thus considered yang and not suitable. 2. Commonsense approach Effort has to be made to constantly look after the plant. Some plants may not survive well inside a home; thus may need constant "attention" such as bringing it out to sun once-in-a-while. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, All over the world, many of us work either in an open office and use system furniture and are not able to or (have the luxury) of placing our table to our good directions. So this is indeed a consolation to you. Based on the holy trinity of luck:- 1. Heaven luck - what is given to us (Ba zi) 2. Earth luck - the office environment is only of the other factors. Other factors include our home. 3. Human or man luck - given that currently one is quite constrained on the earth luck i.e. unable to face a good direction for work, then, we should make use of our man or human luck to good use i.e. be a good team player and work smart ...not necessarily hard Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Sophia, From many of the current cases, usually the most common (neutral) element for the main entrance door is natural wood or wood stained in various colours e.g. pine, walnut, rosewood etc... In addition, doors that are also: white or off-white or cream or pastel shades of colours are considered acceptable and often a non-issue at all. For those who want to consider door colours such as "primary" colours (BRIGHT) i.e. Red, Blue, Green or Yellow could perhaps check the suitability, first. Otherwise, if natural / laminated wood or wood tone colours are used, do go ahead with it. In addition, if one is constructing a new home, could perhaps, use the Feng Shui ruler to get good width, height dimensions. For Singaporeans, in some past forum message, I had indicated that all HDB entrance doors (had been Feng Shuied before such that they are of good Feng Shui dimensions. Because of the race sensitivity, this fact is not know to everyone!) As a test, if you do have a Feng Shui ruler, go ahead to check the door measurements of such apartments. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Symbolically, it is good not to display broken objects. Since the Fu Dogs are decorative items, one can dispose off-them the usual way e.g. either dispose it by ourselves or pay others to get rid of it for us. Warmest Regards, Cecil