Cecil Lee

Dear Sharon, You can do a SEARCH in this forum especially the forum messages in the early part of 2004. It has been discussed and I had also elaborated point-by-point the type of "change" needed to fly over to Period 8. Warmest Regards, Cecil

The Bayshore and sea-view facing units.....

Dear Jason, For a bedroom, we should look at it from the perspective of: "nice-to-have" or "must-(should)-have". Often, many of our bedrooms are small, and furthermore, there are "restrictions" such as having windows and there is also the bedroom door. Because of all these constraints, there are few if any best positions to place the bed. More importantly, between the two schools: Shapes and Forms or Compass School (Eight house), the most important consideration is based on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui. Here, Shapes and Forms Feng Shui should be considred as "must-should-have". While the eight house concept would have to be considered as "nice-to-have". Often, realistically, once we have already stayed in a specific home, there is not much one can do - since a bedroom is small with some of the above constrains. Thus, it is most important to go for good Shapes and Forms. As the advantage, here is that furniture arranged in this format is often the "most-comfortable" or logical for the bedroom. Other contraints include: avoid having the bed-or-our-legs pointing towards the bedroom door. As this is the "dreaded" coffin position. Thus inauspicious. In Singapore, it is often, not good placing the bed leaning across the windows especially in high rise - especially if some inconsiderate smoker should let go their cigarette butts or ash. and this may fall on-to flammable cotton /pillows or bed sheets. A universal concern is that a child may inadvertently climb onto the bed and if there are no grilles, could fallout of the window(s). Thus, nice-to-have is not necessarily the end-of-the-world. There are always other areas in the home where one could improve on. From a Feng Shui perspective, another area is to harmonise the bedroom to the bazi or eight-characters of the person sleeping, there. For example the most common is the use of colours that harmonise to the person i.e. the wall colour, bedsheet or the curtains. Shift the bed if one must, but not to the extend that any logical person looking into the bed would laugh at the arrangement! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Amy, Fire element careers are often associated with:- Marketing and sales Law (prosecution) Public relations, fashion Chemical process or any other liquids e.g. fuels - oils Fashion or Livestock Homemaker Metal careers are often associated with: Accountancy, banking, coin mintage, enterainment, finance, hardware, investment, jewelry , loans, Management consultancy,mechanical engineering, money, perfume, politics, rail, trains Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tim, Please see below:- In another example, if base = #1, this is acceptable since 1 = water and can partially drown earth elements (#2 or #5). Warmest Regards, Cecil

If one is applying Flying star Feng Shui, (without being at location to access the qi); but from your description, looks more like the "mouth" of the home comes from the facing of the pool/club-house rather than the lift landing area. Therefore, based on the preliminary information, tapping the Flying Star numbers based on the facing of the pool/club-house would be the best choice. However, are there any other facing besides the pool or the main entrance door? Usually, most condos have three "openings" or locations where either there is the main door, windows facing one side and another side. So far, the only buildings that have two sides with windows/doors are terrace homes that are sandwiched together (other than the corner unit of a terrace house). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Timothy, Please see below:- If however, the mirror does not face the door directly, this is still OK. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, In my opinion both cases you had mentioned below are non-issues especially for the fire hydrant. As often, it is quite low and does not pose any "poison-arrow" issues. In fact, from a non-Feng Shui point of view, this is often a blessing in disguise as it is right in-front of one's home As for the electricity sub-station, there is also no issue since it is quite a distance away. And often, even if one lives close to one, there is no known bad effects from it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Emily, Given that the mountain star is #8, water is not a good idea here, since firstly water at an auspicious MS#8 can drown or "drop the mountain into a hole(water)" thus making it inauspicious. If you have a landed property or if your is a landed property, then landscaping with rock garden would be favourable to further enhance the mountain star #8. In addition, neutralise the #6 - strong metal water star. This is provided the base star is also considered. Here, you have not mentioned what is the base star number. As it should be considered together with the MS and WS. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Chee Kiong, Actually, the clue has to do with the "strength" of your element. For example, there is a difference between a "weak" fire person and a "strong" fire person. Under the Five elements concept; the idea is that if one is weak, one should increase one's element. While on the other hand if one is strong, one should try to decrease it. Here, in both instances, what we try to do is to become "balanced" i.e. a "balanced" fire element that is neither too weak or too strong. In your case, since you are a strong fire person, water is favourable to you as it will help to reduce the strong fire. The opposite is true for a weak fire person. Water will further help to extinguish his /her element. Try to understand the above and hope it makes sense for you. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, To be honest, there is very little information to go on to assess whether it is OK to place the fridge close to the main door entrance. Usually, in a compact kitchen, often a fridge do happen to face a stove. This is especially acceptable if the kitchen is located in the south of the home. It would be best to avoid such a situation i.e. stove face a water position (in the north or if the kitchen is at the north). See if the new location feels more comfortable to both of you or the earlier location. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Alvin, There are two major considerations, here. Firstly, as you have mentioned: that you are a weak fire person. Therefore, on a hobby level, it is not that advisable to rear fishes given that water can inadvertenly extinguish your weak fire element. However, another major consideration is the "luck" factor of the home. Here, each of us is an individual with our own distinctive date and time of birth. Equally, each home has it's date of birth. Senario ONE 1. The fish tank was placed correctly at the water wealth sector. For example sectors that may have water star #8 (present water wealth location - under Flying star Feng Shui) and sectors like #6 where there is a strong metal location etc... 2. Even if one is a weak fire person, but has correctly placed a water feature (be it a fish tank or a water fountain correctly) either : To enhance wealth or to neutralise sha qi. 3. To enhance, I have given a specific under Para 1. Sometimes, a location may have sha qi or a fishtank had been used to correct a poison arrow suchas a lamp post slicing towards the window of a home. And a water feature has been placedfor this purpose. Senario TWO 4.The fish tank was placed at a wrong location. Such as a mountain wealth location. Here, "water inadvertenly drowns themountain." Ora water position has been wrongly placed at a#9 mountain wealth location. Where 9 = future prosperity. And 9is the fireelement. Water at this sector can drown the "future wealth prosperity". 5. In another senario, where there is a mountain star #8 (current wealth location - pian cai or relationship or lottery luck sector, water again could wrongly drown this luck! Therefore, from the above two senarios that: ONE:A water position placed correctly within a homecan boost one's wealth without MAJOR regard to whether one is a weak fire or strong water etc... TWO: A water position placed wrongly in the home can be a double edged sword: It is already not auspicious for aweak fire person.Yet, one further AGGREVATE the situation by making it worse by "destroying" the home's wealthalso. Like they say, here: Everything went wrongly for me! I am in a vicious cycle of poverty and never seemed getting out of it! The above two senarios show that it can go "both ways"! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Frankly, traditional Schools of Feng Shui specifically use two major schools: 1. Shapes and Forms Feng Shui 2. Compass School: The Eight House (Ba Cai) or The Flying Star Feng Shui Thus fixed template "Feng Shui" or adapting the Eight Aspirations or Life Aspriations concept of the Eight Trigrams is common today. Although it looks very easy to apply, it is considered too general by Traditional Schools of Geomancy or Feng Shui. In addition to the above, the Ba Zi or Pillars of Destiny of individuals are also used by Authentic Traditional Schools. It all boils down to another major concept: known as "The lowest common denominator or LCM" or everything revolves around the Five Elements concept. The Five elements concept is thus like a gel that holds all the major theories of authentic traditional Feng Shui together. If you really want to apply proper Feng Shui, it is best not to use the "fixed template" model of e.g. Career = North; Romance = SW etc.... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, For the bedroom, it would be best to avoid any water scenery painting or poster in the bedroom. Otherwise, often, other types of painting or poster has to be looked at individually. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tim, Actually, there can be some "misunderstanding", here with regards to the statement: "qi would enter the house through the main door". Frankly, this is just a simplistic explanation to quantify that qi exists. However, qi can enter a home from any directions if there are any openings be it a window, the backdoor or any crevice or holes or any openings - vents in any home. For the purpose of applying Flying Star Feng Shui, often the "frontage" of a home is located. And for the purpose of Flying Star Feng Shui, once this "frontage" or mouth is determined, it can be used to plot the flying star chart to determine where the best qi to e.g. place a water position etc... No offence, but in my opinion, this is a wrong way to work on "enhancing qi". From what I read, you mentioned the need for a "remedy". But in the first place, what is there to remedy if the door is a perfectly normal set of entrance. It is not good to place a mirror wrongly i.e. such as facing the main door directly. Even if it is good Feng Shui in the first place, in commonsense approach to Feng Shui or purely on commonsense; for example, if we are in deep thoughts and the moment we open the main door and immediately see a shadow of a person, some of us may get a "shock!" thinking that someone else is at the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hung, If one applies the Compass School of Feng Shui: Eight House (Ba zai) and/or Flying Star Feng Shui the basis of this School has to do with the magnetic compass and not geographical compass. Thus, for any home / office /building /site investigated via the Compass School of Feng Shui, a magnetic compass has to be used to determine the magnetic north and other cardinal points etc... For the purpose of evaluating any site / building or interior, one has to determine the "center-of-gravity" or the centrepoint of say the layout plan of the interior.

Dear Anon, Frankly, in the past most of the "Feng Shui" of a shopping complex is done-up either based on intuition or via Feng Shui advice on the construction i.e. type of external design of say a shopping complex. Here, if a geomacer is tasked the job, he will do an environmental scanning of the surrrounding buildings andadvise on the type of structure. For example, if the neighbourhood is made up of largely of earth buildings or buildings that are squarish or rectangular in shape, a geomancer may advise that the owner build a building is in the form of a wood element e.g. tall structure e.g. like a trunk. For example, for those in Singapore, good examples are: 1. BANKS: DBS (Development Bank of Singapore) LTD vs UNITED OVERSEAS BANK (UOB) The HQ of DBS bank or Shentonway Tower 1 and 2 is in the shape of a rectangular type of building or known as earth element building. UOB's HQ building is in the form of a tree or wood element. Imagine the roots of a tree crushing into the soil or earth. 2. The Merriot Hotel (formerly Tangs) at Scotts vs the neighbourhood Most of the surrounding buildings near to this landmark is of the earth element type e.g. Wisma Atria and other buildings nearby resemble earth structures. The above is to illustrate that more importantly, the external environment is the most crucial for Feng Shui. Such as the frontage, water positions outside of or within the complex (office or shops). 3. In the past, it is very rare for retail outlets to have water positions SIMPLY because of the limited real-estate space to sell! And, most of the time, water position within this retail space may not be able to tap on good feng shui because that it is simply too small. 4. Nowadays, here: the idea is "YOU ASK, YOU GET" type of responses. 5. In the past, when buildings are constructed, some developers consult geomancers. Nowadays, even small retail shops get geomancers. And because there is not much else to do, these geomancers would thus recomend fish tank etc.. since, there is relatviely nothing much more (visible) or invisible that can be said to be "Feng Shui". 6. The morale of the story is that what is more important is the location, location and location PLUS business model. So, do you think placing a fish tank in a retail will work? Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, In my opinon, the best units are at #20 or #23. Units that are facing the highway such as #22, #30 etc... can be quite noisy and parts of their balcony/bedrooms is affected by the afternoon sun especially for higher floors. The unit that you are considering is OK especially for high floors since there is a very auspicious double 8 at the balcony area(facing direction).And in fact, what better scope is that there is aswimming pooljust outside of it. Furthermore, because the unit is South-Northdirection, most of the unit(s)will not be affected by the afternoon sun. Only the very high floors will be affected (e.g. master bedroom)i.e. may be affected by the afternoon heat. This apartment can be auspicious especially for East group breadwinner. Other than Feng Shui point of view, what sets this leasehold condo apart is that it is a 2 to 3 minutes walk to the bus interchange and the MRT /LRT. And the nearby LOT1 shopping complex/banks. This is not Feng Shui, but truly one of the "gems" of staying in this condo. In addition, overall, the quality of build by the developer MCL for most of the units there are quite well built. For example, no where-else can one find a very solid balcony sliding doors. Good quality, indeed. Other than the little imperfections of some units. If I have stayed in Choa Chu Kang area, would certainly consider some of the units, here. Warmest Regards, Cecil

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Dear Niteka, Since you are a weak fire person, in terms of the 5 elements concept: wood element is your support element. And one way of looking at acting is that it belongs to the water element. Thus in terms of the 5 elements concept, water element is your "Power and Authority" career. Or a career that brings you "power and authority". However, since you are a weak fire person, you have to be supported by wood element. Thus, if I look at it this way: wood is about growth or constant upgrading of skills or honeing of the skill set for acting; a water career such as acting thus is not that bad; since on a personal level, I am sure, you have have the opportunity to "grow" your talents. However, usually, for a weak fire person, one would thus perhaps at a later stage in life, more contented with a career associated with wood element. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, The Flying star apartment report is based on the idea that each floor or storey has a different qi flow. And this Flying Star analysis is known as "Vertical Flying Star Feng Shui". However, it has to be used in conjunction with "horizontal Flying star Feng Shui" or the regular 20 Year Flying Star analysis. Since you now see him more often, try to make the opportunity to be togetherness. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Fran, At a location which you had described i.e. mountain #8 with water #8, then this is known as a double #8. And under Period 8, this is considered an auspicious combination: 1. Virtual water In certain situations, for one reason or another, some may not be able to activate water at this specific location. For example, if this is the front door and on the exterior, it could be a lobby shared with other subsidiary proprietors or tenants. Here, since the main entrance is at the frontage with double #8's no real water - is acceptable. 2. If one stays in a landed property, one can have a pond, as you had mentioned, right in front of the house. Ideally, the water feature should be (if one stands inside the house facing out: 1. directly outside the main door or on the left side). Since water at the right side is not good i.e. may lead to "flower of romance" or illicit affairs by either party. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, From your description, looks like the back of your house is instead the "frontage" of it. As under Flying star Feng Shui, what matters is the "mouth" of the house orwhat you have describe best fits the description of the seaview as the frontage. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Eli, Yes, I do concur with you that often artificial flowers do really make a place look nice - without the hassle and costs of frequently changing real (dying flowers). In fact, many will agree that artificial flowers especially single colour or multi-coloured ones often uplift us or make us feel good - factor. I believe, many Feng Shui authors also did mentioned that artificial flowers or plants to them are just as good for the "feel-good" factor. Which is very important for many of us. The only bad name about real flowers is where in Singapore, there are those who approach flower shops to purchase a reef of dead flowers to sent to their ex-lovers or ex-husbands: to spite them! This kind of behaviour is bad. In addition, for the unromantic, it is never a good idea (at all) to give or buy your loved ones artificial flowers e.g during valentine's day! Else, that will be the last valentine with that specific person. So actually, do go ahead with having them. But once a while either rinse or wash them or when they do get real old, discard and buy new ones! Warmest Regards, Cecil