Selection comes first

There has been numerous occasions when client comes to us seeking for help after they have selected and completed the construction/renovation of their land/properties/offices/retail shops . This happens when their situation gotten from good to bad to worst in their life experiences, be it business, relationships, health, etc.

Property selection is the most important activity that one must embark on before anything else to follow. This is to ensure that the property is located in a “productive” surrounding and with the ability to harness auspicious Qi . If the surrounding area is not optimal, our advise is to look for a better place.

We want to start on a right footing. Of course, changes can still be done post-construction. But wouldn’t it be better if we can minimise the changes, changes that are usually costly, by getting a good property first?

Always keep in mind…Selection comes first.

Let your Strength flourish you

“You cannot be anything you want to be – but you can be a lot more of who you already are.” – Tom Rath, author of Strengths Finder 2.0

An interesting book that focuses on you working with your strengths to lead a better life. We have been told many times to overcome our weaknesses and turn it positively to our advantage. According to Tom Rath, this is the path of most resistance.

We should all be working on our strengths, fulfilling our passion in whatever we do. Our talents are already in us. Why work on things that we are dreadful of? By using our strengths and our in-born talents, the path of “least” resistance, we can achieve more when we do what we do best.

BaZi analysis is one method we can use to identify our strengths, what we are good at and capacity we can excel in. The Strengths Finder requires you to answer a set of questions to determine your talents but a BaZi analysis only needs your date of birth and time. Such is the wonder of our Chinese Art.

Strange Coincidental Day

It was kind of a strange day yesterday (Sunday). We went to view two apartments and the property agents for each of the property were wearing green blouse.

The two apartments, located at two different areas, were located on a “Fire” floor and the orientation was North-South facing.

The current owners of two apartments bought their units not more than 12 months ago and now looking to sell their property.

Both properties are also well-maintained and well-designed. For those of you who view houses and apartments regularly will know that it is rare to view two units of property in “good buying” conditions in a span of one hour.

Although it may not be anything at all, but it was so weird that both apartments that we viewed have similar “characteristic”.

It is telling us something?……

Cycling with the Dragon

It was an overcast morning on Sunday. Dark clouds were hovering above the sky and it looked like it was going to rain. We decided to go ahead with our cycling schedule and if it rains, so be it.

Originally we had wanted to cycle along Coastal Park Connector, a route that connects ECP area H to Changi Beach Park. While driving to area H, we found another park connector (Siglap Park Connector) that can take us to Bedok Reservoir Park from ECP via Bedok Town Park and Telok Kurau Park. We decided to take this route and leave the Coastal Park Connector for another day as I was interested to know what the route was like and where it would lead us to.

What is interesting about these park connectors is that proper bicycle and jogging paths are created for the public to use. It has proper lighting along the route and they are mostly lighted from 7pm to 7am. Most of these connectors are build along the main river/canal system in Singapore island.

Along the way, I discovered so many Big Water Mouth that one would missed it, even if looking from Google Earth or with a street map on hand. You could see where it all started, which underground tunnel it flows to and where it rises up again. You’d be surprise where some of these river flows underneath…

As we cycle along, we could see nice, huge bungalow houses, industrial offices as well as run-down properties. From a perspective of a trained eye, you could immediately tell why those properties look the way they looked. It is just a matter of whether they are tapping or not, or perhaps, situated on the wrong side of the equation.

Upon reaching Bedok Reservoir Park, we found out there is another way back to ECP. This is the Bedok Park Connector. We took this route to return to ECP but not before we had finished our morning breakfast at the nearby Bedok Reservoir kopitiam.

Overall, we did about 14km bicycle ride across two different Park Connectors. It was a really good exercise and I get to note down the location of the BWM. We will be exploring more Park Connectors in due time.

Aesop Fable

Here is a story that I would like to share. It is fairly common story and incredibly valid in today's world.

A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.

"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster."

"You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."

So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.

Moral: Let's not kill the goose who has been the source of the golden egg.

source: http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/goldengooseegg.htm

San Yuan, San He - Is there any comparison?

Is there any comparison at all between San Yuan Feng shui and San He Feng Shui? Each has it uses and it is more important to know how to use it rather than to claim that San Yuan Feng Shui is better than San He Feng Shui and vise versa.

It is claimed that San Yuan is the ONLY school that takes time dimension into consideration and it places great importance in energy changes between periods. On the contrary, anything that is remotely connected to Feng Shui have to take in the time dimension, not only San Yuan Feng Shui. In order to be effective, practitioners need to be able to determine what has happened, what is happening and what will happen and when. Without the timing built-in into the Feng Shui School, what is the point of implementing Feng Shui? How effective can the Feng Shui be? San He Feng Shui has existed way back even before San Yuan Feng Shui were born. Can we really say that San Yuan is the only school with time dimension?

Placing great importance to changing of energy of different period simply means that you need to change your property feng shui whenever the period or energy changes. Is it really necessary? It is even practical? It only means more money for the San Yuan practitioner.

Ba Zhai seems to be related to San He Feng Shui. How this comes about is a mystery. Ba Zhai is probably the black sheep that San Yuan practitioners (or perhaps, Xuan Kong practitioner who thinks they are San Yuan practitioners) are trying to disown. San He feng Shui is never about East and West groups and no such thing as permanent good or bad directions. Every directions can be used. It is how we can use it to our advantage.

Then there is the classic arguments of using a pie-chart and the grid chart and comparisons of how a San Yuan and a San He school makes use of them. Regardless of schools, a pie-chart is to determine direction, a grid-chart is to determine location. Period. Both charts are used and it is a matter of how you use it.

It is mentioned that San He uses low landform and water features to tap on energies and San He uses the construction time to determine the "Period" of a property. This only reflects ones ignorance and lack of understanding of the various schools methodology in order to come up with such a statement.

Yin and Yang Apart - Perfect Harmony?

I was surfing the Internet and I came across this page that talks about a rock, a Dragon Rock as it is known, located near the center of land formation called Petals of the elegant Plum Blossom.

What is interesting about this rock is that it looks like it has been split into half by supposedly a divine sword and the two halves has been "ordained" heaven and earth.

A quote from the webpage, "The clean split in the middle seems to symbolize the Yin and Yang of nature ever so close and yet so far apart. It is only here that.....can commune in perfect harmony in this wonderful setting"

One wonders if the Yin and Yang is supposed to be split into two halves to achieve harmony or must work together as one. Both Yin and Yang must balance. Can perfect harmony be achieved if it is split and be so far apart?

This dragon is hurting. A broken bone dragon is not a happy dragon. Time will tell the wrath of the dragon.