Cecil Lee

Dear Steven, Please see below:- Generally these are simply beliefs. And subject to various comments for and against it. It is best not to rely too much on the words of Fish Shop owners. Unfortunately, because of the spread of such beliefs, many people do take the `information' provided seriously. Here, one should see if there are any `hidden' agenda. Arowana fishes, depending on their size and `breed' are not cheap. Thus, the potential to make more profit exists selling such fishes against even popular but cheap fishes. If one can sell us a Mercedes Benz, the profit to be made may be much higher than buying a cheaper car. Selling Kois are popular because, they can be quite costly depending on the breed again. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Chris, Priority should be given to sleeping in a good sector. Only after this is taken care, then it would be nice or a bonus to sleep with the head facing a good direction. If one is unable to sleep in a good sector, the `consolation' is to sleep facing a good direction. BUT, all these should be taken into consideration only after one has considered the Shapes and Form School of Feng Shui. For example, it is best not to sleep on the same wall as the toilet bowl even if it is one of our good or excellent sectors. Feng Shui is a holistic approach and the bedroom should not be considered in isolation. It is more important to`fix' any problems associated in the house than to focus narrowly at one sector of the house. Do not adopt a myopic or tunnel vison approach to Feng Shui. Many of us, seemingly focus only on one sector and hope, hope, wish, that things can turn out right. Or wait for the sky to fall down to earth. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Heather, 1. First priority is to try to place the bed in a good position based on Shapes and Form School of Feng Shui. 2. Here, where possible, the bedrest should have a good support and other considerations based on the above. I believe, there are already quite alot of resources on the proper placement of beds under Shapes and Form School. 3. Thus, one must remember that it is certainly `nice' to be able to place the bed in one of our good sectors but this may not be possible either due to the layout of the bedroom or even if we do so, all areas (sectors) of the bedroom may be in one of our bad sectors under the Eight House Theory. 4. My advise is to ensure that your bed is placed in a `good' position under Shapes and Form. 5. Depends on your whether you want to go further or not to evaluate your house such as using the Flying Star is entirely up to you. The benefit of the Flying Star is to help check the sector e.g. in the bedroom and if there is an imbalance, you can help to neutralise it. 6. If there are inauspicious sectors in the bedroom under Eight House, it is nice to steer further away from it. But if you can't one has to be realistic. There is not much more one can do, unless one finds another bedroom. 7. If one has a partner, it is best for the partner with a `better' intangible force/sector to sleep closer to it. While the partner sleeps further away. 8. Furthermore, the bedroom is but one of just the many other considerations to improve the home under Feng Shui. Warmest Regards, Cecil

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Dear Elena, Yes, it is very common for people to ask for their immediate office to be Feng Shui-ed. Most of the time if it is the CEO or a manager, they do have a room to themselves. Here, if it is the case, this would be `easy.' Most important thing to remember is to use the Shapes and Form School. Even if it is an individual table, one should always consider using Shapes and Form. Here, for the Manager's room, make sure that his back is facing a wall or never have the door opened to his back. He/She should also have the desk supported on one side of the wall. Next watch for poison arrows and overhead beams. Considerations such as this are the most important. Next, you can then use the Eight House to let him/her face a good direction. (if possible). Remember that if one should always use Shapes and Form no matter what form of assessment is done. Other theories can subsequently follow. If it is an office area and if the entire office is reasonably large e.g. 1,000 sq feet or more, one can do a Flying Star Chart to assess the sector where the person occupies. Then if there is an imbalance in the sector, see if one can place a `cure' (discreetly) in his/her partition. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, I believe, th Sung dynasty Chinese poetry and painting associates the horse with military greatness. The horse also symbolises courage and strength. The galloping horse represents engery, perserverance and speed. Thus overall, the hourse has many auspicous meanings and thus, featured widely even under the Sung dynasty. In fact, the horse, turned out to originate from the west and brought into China since as early as the Shang Dynasty period. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. In ancient China, camels were used as `workhorse' mainly to transport salt between China and Central Asia especially through the harsh Gobi desert. 2. Actually, the Chinese do not have a good impression of the camels as they considered it a lazy animal. 3. Only during one of the dynasties i.e. Tang that art and artwork on camels arise. Otherwise, it has always been an `uninteresting' animal as compared to the Dragon etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Yes, this is true based on Chinese Astrology, taking into consideration, a person's YEAR Chinese Astrology chart. Reference: http://www.geomancy.net/love/cdragon.htm Under the above link, where possible, pairings `best avoided' is between a dragon and dog:- "A mismatch. There is a serious clash of personalities. The problem is that both have strong characters and unyielding character. There must be compromises and sacrificies but it is hard to relate to each other and there will be no communication between the two and tempers will fly. There will be constant bickering and the relationship may be short-lived." Need to work real hard on the above relationship. General Chinese astrology takes into consideration only a person's YEAR chart. Usually, a more thorough analysis is to use Pillars of Destiny as it considers not only the Year, but the Day, Month, Time of birth. A more powerful analysis includes House of Life and House of Conception. Here, because of more combinations involved, triple combinations may surface as compared with only the basic comparison. Traditionally, in the past, rich families, hire a geomancer to calculate the compatibility of both partners using this method. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. So far, if I can recall, no Chinese, who represent China has got a nobel prize. Anyway, I may be wrong about this. 2. One interesting thing to note thou is that in one of my books, I believe it was the Applied Feng Shui book, I mentioned that because of the Chinese hexagram or 8 x 8 combinations, one Nobel prize winner mentioned that he attributed his discovery to this: 2.1 This is where he jointly discovered the DNA structure which is based on 8 x 8 or the 64 hexagrams. 2.2 Another person said that the same 64 hexagram lead to the discovery of the binary numbers in computer language. 3. Chinese which has more than 4,000 year civilization, has quite an amazing number of discoveries but these are `ancient' ones. So, anyone out there, wants to study more and perhaps, use some of these tools to get a nobel prize? *Joke* Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Sharks fin soup is indeed a delicacy amongst the Chinese. 2. It is a tedious task to boil the sharks fins in broth until it becomes soft, yet `cruncy' (I hope I said this correctly). Sometimes, crap meat is added to the soup. 3. On other occassions, it comes concentrated with a `lump' of sharks fins. Depending on the quantity and restaurant, it can costs as much as US$30 or more for one small plate of this delicacy. 4. Usually, the restaurants buy the sharks fins in bulk and as they can easily be `kept' e.g. dried, they can be boiled whenever needed. Contrast this with the meat of sharks. Shark meat like other fish meat, need proper storage. 5. Sharks meat tastes more like a `normal' fish so, it is thus not considered a delicacy. Some `exotic' food restaurants do serve sharks meat. Since they are not popular, they are not often eaten. Chinese prefer "quality" fishes like the Groupa instead during Chinese dinners. 6. Nearly, every `quality' Chinese dinners especially wedding dinners in fine hotels or even the lesser known hotels serve sharks fin. 7. More gruesome `tales' (true storys):- (For those who the gore, please stop reading this) 7.1 In a Chinese documentary show, this poor live fish, has been (I am sorry if I said it wrongly or `expertly'), took a life fish, wrap the head (keeping the fish alive). Then cooked its body in hot oil. He turned the fish around and cooked the other side. So, the fish was presented to the dinning table, still gasping for air. I could not stand it but, the dinners can without any conscience, eat the fish and see its mouth moving. 7.2 Monkey's brain. What happened here is that the poor monkey was placed in a cage, imobilised. The skull of the monkey was removed and this special table is such that the monkey's brain pokes out of the table. The monkey's brain is served `live', to the dinners. I have not participated in Para 7.1 or 7.2 but after writing, this, indeed, had not gone for lunch, today. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, I will post it as soon as possible. I have several seals. One interesting pair is used on the Geomancy University Certificate and course letter. Of interest:- 1. The two seals are carved from the same piece. If one joins both pieces together, one can see the veins or lines seamlessly `joined' together. 2. Some seals carved differentiate male from females. Male seals are those that carved with the outline of the words. While female ones are a `negative' of the male's seals. You get to see more `red'. Will upload as soon as possible. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Vicki, Please see below:- 2. This is because, what was briefly mentioned as South = five yellows, belongs to the Flying Star Theory. 3. But Flying Star Theory, goes further than this simplistic view. 4. Each home falls under one of the 24 mountains (or we call this 24 compass directions). 5. Usually, the relationship of the mountain and water stars are looked at inrelation to the base number. And not in isolation. This 20 year period is then looked at in relation to the Flying Star of the house, for this year. 6. The problem with Fixed Template Feng Shui either based on the `Black hat Sect' or fixing a location such as SW the romance corner is not often reliable as this is too general. 7. I have given examples in the past like: 8. Lets say both of us are office colleagues. And there is this beautiful girl. 9. In addition to the two of us, another colleague also is trying to `woo' the girl. 10. The three of us are `aware' that say South West is the romance sector. Should each of us outbid each other. In my home, I place 12 roses at that sector. 11. Our another colleague placed 24 roses. But you outbid us all by placing 999 roses on your South West corner. 12. Does all these make sense? 13. Perhaps, the three of us become over confident, by doing all these that we really truly forgot to `woo' the girl. 14. She ends up not being with any of us but someone who, goes directly and gives her just one stalk of rose. 15. Hope you can understand the rationale that statistically, if 100,000 people placed roses or enhance, their romance corner, the only person to beneifit are the florist not any one of us. 16. One must understand therefore, that Feng Shui need not necessary be a `cure all'. Feng Shui is about, boosting a person's luck. Thus, a holistic approach to Feng Shui should include:- - Shapes and Form School accessessment - Eight House, good and bad directions and how suitable the house is to the breadwinner. - Flying Star analysis. Under Flying Star analysis, there is a specific romance sector. But because of time dimensions, the sector `flies' or moves so that is quite elusive to locate. Under Flying Star, it does not happen in all homes. But if there are two star combinations, and if it relates to an interpretation of a good romance sector favourable to the owner, this can be enhanced but not all houses may has this combination. The above are the most common way to improve one's luck and then, once once's luck improves, usually, other factors improve. Feng Shui is not a quick fix solution and enhancing, does not necessary guarantee success. For example, if there is a `leak' in a boat, or in a house, where, there may be inauspicious sectors that need to be balanced. The first priority is to cure these imbalances first. Before even beginning to enhance other factors. Imagine, each time water leaks into a boat, one is like fighting fire or applying `first aid'. Thus one should break this vicious cycle first. (When applying Feng Shui)> Generally, under Shapes and Form School of Feng Shui (without considering a person's Kua number), a door on the side of a house need not be considered bad. This is because, it may even be beneficial, especially since seldom if any poison arrows can be aimed (unintentionally) at the main door. As for the Kua number, it only says generally whether how suitable you are to the house. For example, the death / disaster sector is at the main entrance means that it is considered an `unsuitable' house to you. Other than Feng Shui, perhaps, you can relook your situation, to see if you can see any other opportunity or activies that can help you meet a girl. As mentioned above, Feng Shui is a holistic method and all the necessary ground work has to be done for it to take into effect. It is not like paying `homage' to a certain sector of the house. I believe, this can be frustrating and misleading. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Yes, in a recent documentary on China, I saw that this is still popular especially in the rural areas. 2. The documentary includes how these simple kites were made. And even complex ones that looks like a dragon etc... 3. It is also interesting to note that glass is often pounded into fine grains of glass. `Glue' e.g. rice glue is used to coat the string with these fine grains of glass. Here, the kite owner would fly his/her kite close to another kite and try to pull or jerk the kite to `cut-it'. The action of the fine glass piece can easily cut another kite like a mini saw. This is considered `Kite fighting' and adds excitement to the activity for some people. 4. In the documentarly, I saw mostly grown men flying the huge kites. Perhaps, the children were not featured because, it would be more interesting to view these beautiful huge kites soaring in the sky. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Yes, this is quite true for some overly superstitious Chinese. 2. Not all Chinese belief in this but there are some who considered it inauspicious to use water from the bathroom. 3. Anyway, these are just a `small group' of Chinese. 4. In modern times, so long as the water comes from the tap, many fish lovers have instead, collected water from the rain or use tap water. But if tap water is used, the water is not immediately poured into the fish tank but kept for several days (in order for the flouride and other neutralising agents to settle). Some hobbist even purchase neutralising agents and add a few drops to the water to neutralise this. So that the water is more `natural' to the fishes. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Traditionally, it is common to find a pair of Lions guarding each side of a main entrance in China. 2. Here, many Chinese especially overseas Chinese have followed this belief and placed similar sets of lions on both sides of their main door. 3. One good example is the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, where you find two bronze statues on each side of the main entrance. 4. While in China, these statues are carved in stone. But since Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank is in the Banking area (Metal element) it thus use Metal (bronze) lions instead of stone ones. 5. Usually, these lion guardians are simply statues and serves more to give an impression (to human beings) rather than mystical or magic in them. These are just ordinary carved rock like any other objects. 6. In my opinion, it is perfectly ok to keep a pair of small versions of the lions as decorate pieces. 7. It is equally found on top of Chinese carved seals (used as signatures). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Molly, 1. Under the Feng Shui concept `if it no longer can be seen, it no longer becomes a " threat ". This principle can also be applied to the gas cylinder. 2. Usually, it is kept away from the bedrooms either next to it or directly below a bedroom. 3. Generally, it is advised that the cable is not too long or placed too far from the source (if possible). 4. If the tank is `concealed' or placed in a cabinet, then, place it like any other liquid e.g. a water heater in such a location. Thus safety would be a primary concerned when compared to `Feng Shui'. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, If one has stand close to a waterfall, you can hear the sound of water flowing over into a pool of water. It is the sound and water movement that is considered to create vibrant Qi. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Carina, I do not have Freelance Graphics. But if you upload either .gif, .jpg or .bmp, this could be read. Sorry no attachment came with this note. Thanks. Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. It is the belief of some that growing bamboo is inauspicious either at the back or the side. 2. This is because, bamboo grows real fast! In no time, the bamboo, if not properly maintained may grow into a `jungle'. Furthermore, cutting down the bamboo, without removing the roots, cause little cups or catchment for mosquitoes as mosquitoes can breed in the circular tubes or hollowes caused by cutting down the trunk. 3. Thus, in my opinion, maintainance is the biggest worry for this plant. Contrast this to other plants that have only a major trunk. 4. When bamboos grow out of control, you need to dig into the ground to remove the entire tree and its roots. Too many bamboos, will create a too yin environment as the area becomes `darken'. Thus even if the bamboo plant is planted at the front, one still needs maintananece. It would be easier to plant more `loveable' trees. Trees that are easy to maintain. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Yes, indeed, this is a popular belief that a home should not have too many `holes'. 2. Most importantly, the frontage of the house should have windows and main door in the right proportion ie. the windows should not be extremely large. At the same time, if the main door has sliding glass panels, avoid opening all the panels. Some houses have both sliding panels and main door. Avoid opening the sliding panels if you can. 3. Under commonsense approach, it is best to avoid having too many windows. This is to avoid, an unsecured home e.g. attractive to a `cat burgler' especially if the house is a corner house or there is a forest behind the house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

1. Wearing a yin yang symbol is considered inappropriate by some people. 2. Is it frowned upon to wear a yin yang symbol? A Typical Yin & Yang Symbol Dear Anon, 1. Youngsters often wear the yin and yang symbol as both a necklace and rings, showing that it can be worn without any issues. 2. I regret my earlier mistake in associating the Yin and Yang symbol with the Ba Gua trigram. It is important to clarify that the symbol alone is acceptable as it signifies balance and can be placed at the center of a house for that purpose. 3. My initial thoughts were linked to the First Heaven Sequence and the placement of the 8 trigrams. Unless it is a temple or religious setting, it is advisable to avoid placing the symbol in a house. The Ba Gua mirror should face outward. 4. The rotation of the yin and yang symbol symbolizes the changing seasons. 5. In conclusion, the yin and yang symbol can be worn as jewelry without issue, symbolizing balance. However, caution should be taken when associating it with the Ba Gua trigram, especially in the context of the First Heaven Sequence. Rotation of the symbol signifies the changing seasons. Warmest Regards, Cecil