Why choosing land is important

The government of Singapore announces that a total of 10 industrial land sites will be for sale in the first half of 2010. Now before you mobilize your army to start the bidding war, it will be worth your while to take a step back and re-consider some options that you have in your hands. The number one option is to consider proper land selection and the industry it will serve. What is proper land selection?

Just like all project feasibility studies, the first thing we need to assess is if the prospective piece of land ("the subject") is vibrant and full of energy. Is the subject getting into the "Growing Qi" phase or is it in the "Depleting Qi" phase? Are there any more vibrant Qi left for the occupants of the subject to tap on?

The next thing we want to know is timing. Has the timing for prosperity from this land past? Or, it is coming soon?

When the above is confirmed, you will want to know if the subject is good for the planned industry. For example, if the industrial site is to cater for metal industry such as metal sheets producer, hardware nuts and bolts, etc, is the piece of land good for such an industry? What we are looking for is to find a piece of land that supports the industry and allowing it to grow within a short period of time and create a boom for the industry. You can put wood carving, furniture manufacturing in that area but the growth will be never be the same. Thus, the key is knowing the real potential of the land and matching it with your industry to guarantee faster success.

Once you know that this land is good for the industry you planned for, now you want to strategise and plan the locations of your entrances, your executive management offices, and the flow of energy within the estate and the interiors of all the buildings. This is the time to maximise the available Qi we can tap from the surrounding area. If you are constructing the building to lease out to others, you should know the guaranteed take-up rate of 75% even before the completion. Don't know how? Talk to us.

It is only after considering the above, you can decide if it is worth your time and money investing in those industrial lands, or any land for that matter, that you come across. Perhaps, the next proposal that is laid on your desk before your eyes?

Why you need to understand people

All of us have come across various people from all walks of life. We interact with them and work with them in our daily life whether you like it or not. They will come with different personality and behaviour characteristics. Some are sweet, some are difficult, some demanding, some are helpful, some are unreasonable and some are pleasant. And the list goes on.

In order to get through our day with our sanity intact, we need to understand people, their personality and why they are who they are. When you understand why people respond as they do, it is often easier to be patient with them rather than becoming exasperated.

For example, Michael likes to focus one thing at a time. Having understood this will encourage you not to interrupt him unless necessary and to be less upset if he is impatient with you when you interrupt him.

At the same time, knowing how you come across to others may help you moderate your behaviour. For instance, just by understanding that you are a higher risk taker than others, it should help you understand that their negative respond is not personal but coming from their aversion to undertake additional risks. You may need to get your ideas clearly laid out and explain why the risks can be managed.

Taking the effort to understand others makes our life easier, be it working life, social life and personal life. Equally, understanding how others perceived us goes a long way to help us help others understand us better and eventually makes our life journey a smoother one.

Why use Feng Shui?

There were many occasions we were told of limitations whenever we give recommendations to clients. Typical constraint is the cost involved to implement the recommendations.

Many are worried as the property is on rental basis and any designs and structure put up costs money to install and un-install when the lease is over.

Hence, my question is, why use Feng Shui in your business?

When we use Feng Shui, we want is to see results, better results compared when no Feng Shui is used. For businesses, we want to see sales increase, more new clientele and make them buy more, willingly than they would. Isn’t this a good reason enough to implement the changes?

Using Feng Shui should be viewed as an investment, rather than as a liability. For every investment, we expect our asset to make more money for us and the company.

Our recommendations are always geared towards over-achieving the targets that we set. It is our job to create an environment that opens up more opportunities for better business. There is a saying, “money loss, can make it back. Opportunity loss, it’s gone forever.”

Thus, do not be too worried about spending a small sum to make way for bigger returns to come. This is probably all it takes to have a more successful business venture.

Disclaimer: before putting down your money and signature to engage any Feng Shui practitioner, please ensure you do your homework to find out everything you can about them and be sure you are comfortable with them and their services. Engage them at your own discretion and risks.

Chinese Metaphysics Tombs

Many, many years ago, I have ever come across a tomb where the family of their dear beloved crafted a life-size dog figurine that sits by the tomb of its late owner. The story goes that the dog missed its master so much that it died next to the late owner’s grave.

Up until a couple of years ago, I chance upon the following two tombs in Singapore. A group of us decided to checkout this place after reading an article that talks about such tombs.

What is the significance of having such a sculpture on top of a grave? Is it of a religious sect practice, for future descendants prosperity or merely for the love of the animal?

This is so cool! Just don’t pee in your pants if you bump into this at night in one of those late night cemetery excursions.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall….!

Mirror, mirror on the wall, what can Feng Shui do to make you feel AWE?!

In today’s new age Feng Shui application, the modern usage of mirrors is to ward off ‘sha’ qi or killing force or “poison” arrow. This mirror is also use by those who are more spiritually inclined to ward off ‘evil’ from coming into the house .

If you are a keen observer, you will notice that in some houses, the tenants would place an octagon-shaped plaque with a mirror in the center just above the main door. This super mirror is known as a Ba Gua mirror. Sometimes a regular mirror is used as a Ba Gua mirror.

The Ba Gua mirror comes in two shapes i.e. Concave-shaped and Convex-shaped. Typical application can be found in apartments or condominiums where the main door of two units is facing each other, divided by a corridor. If one neighbour puts a concave-shaped Ba Gua mirror, the opposite neighbour will put a convex-shaped Ba Gua to ‘counter-act’ the concave Ba Gua. Does this really help? We need to ask the two neighbours.

Put this into perspective. If one neighbour is antagonising the other to the extent that the other neighbour needs to counter-act its action, is this going to create a peaceful environment?

In another application, if you find a tree, a flag-pole, a road or a lamp-post located right in front of your main door, a Ba Gua mirror is used to neutralised the so-called sha qi as mentioned above. Imagine a mirror of about 3 inches in diameter neutralising a sha qi such a road, (if it is indeed a sha qi, but that is another story)…..? :-(

In yet another application, mirrors are recommended next to the dining table or somewhere near the dining table. The reason is to double or triple the amount of food for the household or to ensure that there will always be abundance of food on the dining table.

Sometimes we wonder how all these comes about……anybody wants to be in mirror-making industry?

Mirrors, in Feng Shui application, has its usage but not in the way the new age Feng Shui practitioner promotes it. How to use mirror to your advantage? This is a story for another day… ;-)