I have several friends who pay Feng Shui Masters to conduct a professional Feng Shui analysis of their home. Some Masters do a really thorough job, they start with your ba zi (they need your time of birth to calculate this), before even going on-site to do the house feng shui. After one such consultation, the Feng Shui Master told one friend to cut her hair short because her wood element is too strong! According to that Feng Shui Master, because the hair grows, it represents the wood element. Then there is another Feng Shui Master whom I mentioned in my blog (see _________) about my husband’s university mate. If you remember, that friend was told by the Master to fix the kitchen tiles and also to buy a dog to keep as a pet. Then there was another Feng Shui Master who told my other friend that a particular sector in her apartment needed 21 hanging lanterns. Here’s what happened: The first friend who had to cut her hair only trimmed it a little. Her reason was because long hair suits her face shape. The second friend (my husband’s university mate) did fix the kitchen tiles and his wife went to get a dog. This university mate and his wife were too busy working, and they did not have time to groom the dog. Because it was always smelt doggie, my husband’s university mate refused to even play with it! The friend who was supposed to hang 21 lanterns, she did so! And she did so with passion! She bought tickets to Vietnam and she went over to buy the prettiest and most gorgeous handmade lanterns for her home! The effect was glamorous! Imagine entering her apartment and seeing all 21 colorful lanterns. I’m one who loves color, so I definitely loved it!

The one who did not follow the instructions on cutting her hair short concluded that Feng Shui is rubbish. That was the one and only time she paid anyone to do Feng Shui analysis. As you know, my husband’s university mate did move onto better things, and when he became successful, his wife quit her job to stay home full-time, and they hired a maid to help with the domestic chores. Because his wife had more time, she brought the dog to the groomer’s every month. Pretty soon, Ms Dog began to smell like roses and she also looked like magnum (LOL)! My husband’s university mate is now willing to at least pat it on the head once in a while. The last time I saw Ms Dog, it was also happily living in the Bukit Timah private apartment with the whole family. I guess Ms Dog did bring the family luck, so they did not desert it when they upgraded from the Farrer Road 3-room flat. And finally, the 21 lanterns couple had some hiccups in life, but they continued to ask the Feng Shui Master to go back every year, so my feel is that there must be more pros to cons in their life after the Feng Shui consultation.

As for myself, I did not get to meet my Feng Shui Master until 3 years ago. This means that I have been reading her books for more than 15 years, even before I got to meet her in person! I’ll tell you more about our first encounter later.  It also means that I have been doing my own Feng Shui analysis for that long a period! Prior to meeting her, I did not know that she would even come to my (your) house to do Feng Shui analysis. I heard of a very famous Feng Shui Master in Singapore who chooses his clients. He started off doing house consultations, but because he is so good, he could soon ‘afford’ to choose his customers. So you see, money is not that powerful if you cannot use it to move mountains. I suppose if you were willing to pay him 10 times his rate, you could move him (or not?!). Haha, I don’t know. Anyway, forgive me, I deviate.

So at my friend’s (the one who had to cut her hair) request, I loaned her some Feng Shui books that my Feng Shui Master wrote. And because we were quite close at that point in time, I even went down with my compass to identify the sectors and directions for her flat. Guess what happened? Ya, of cos! She had 1 million excuses why she cannot shift this table, and why she cannot put a lamp in that corner there. And though she did listen to me and she went to buy a small fish tank, she did not bother to look after her fish and they kept dying. Instead of treating the water_____ like I taught her, she even ‘argued’ with me why she did not want to buy a dedicated pail to hold water for the fish. Her reason is that there was already a pail in the toilet, so she was just going to use that! Her solution therefore was to keep buying new fish to replace the old fish. Without fail, she would lament to me that her fishes died (again)!  It’s like a death accelerator machine for the pitiful fish that she bought, because she simply refused to learn how to treat aquarium water. What kind of good Feng Shui do you expect from a death accelerator machine? Of course, after 5 rounds of buying new fish, she gave up rearing fish altogether.

As I predicted, shortly after she gave up rearing aquarium fish, this remark came out of her mouth: “Aiyah, I don’t think your Feng Shui Master is that good lah. Her school of Feng Shui does not work!”. Hearing that remark makes me so mad! If you give a half-past 6 effort into implementing my Feng Shui Master’s suggestions, then what kind of results were you expecting? I did not get from that miserable place 20 years ago to here, by adopting a half-want, half-don’t-want attitude! If you want something badly, then go for it all the way! No excuses! Charge!!! 💪 💪 💪