Of course I had no idea where to even begin! I had no money, I had no time and now, I had no idea. Bad situation to be in. My younger sister was simply amazed that Mum would show interest in this subject matter. You see, by the time I had graduated from University, Mum had already hit her mid-fifties, and therefore had spent her young and productive years toiling for this family. Assuming Mum got married in her twenties, she would have slaved over the household chores for more than 30 years. Imagine, doing the same same day in day out, and on top of that, you seldom get to spend time with your husband (the one you married and started this family with, in the first place!). That’s draining on anyone’s energy! So this effervescent speaker energized Mum as well! It was all systems go for Mum! She had money and ‘time’ to pursue her interest. Mum started hanging out in the public library, and she brought her pencil box with her and wrote notes! 🤩We would gather as a family on some weekends to look at Mum’s notes. My younger sister, who has always been the brainy one, would teach us her interpretation of Feng Shui (this was despite the fact that she was also clueless about Feng Shui, and she did not even go for that talk!) . And of course nobody could find the floor plan of that old place, so sis drew one. This sister of mine, she’s really, really smart! 👧👍 But… we had trouble even trying to superimpose the 9 squares grid into this hand-drawn floor plan, and there were many deadlocks as we debated over who’s interpretation was correct! We could not even move from this point, because we had nobody to ask whether we were correct. It’s true that Mum read books and she made notes, but every house is unique and the author did not use our floor plan to illustrate the “how-to” in her books. This deadlock dragged on for months!

As time passed, my younger sister graduated from University and she started on her job. I barely had the time to go home and see Mum, and anyway I was too zonked out to talk anything but mere courtesies. And so, as with everything in life that has lost its ‘energy’, Mum lost interest in Feng Shui. She passed her notes to me, declaring it was too hard for her to understand. My younger sister said that in any case, Feng Shui was not proven to really work, and so she will take her chances in life.

风水到底是什么？怎么开始？从哪里开始？当然，我们不知道。是知识太浅吗？毕竟我们只听了一次讲谈会，我们真的什么也不知道！对我来说，我的风水路程是很难才踏上，开始迈进的。当时，我没钱，没时间，也发觉我没有头绪如何开始。真惨。幸好，妈妈也被这个‘神賜能力’的演讲者激发，她开始每天往图书馆跑，翻阅很多本书，也写很多参考笔记。我们都被妈妈的新动力给传染到。你想，妈妈那个时候已经快六十岁了。她把她的‘青春’给了我们这个家。难过的是：她是应为爱我父亲才会和他结合，组织这个家。没想到父亲整天忙工作，根本没时间‘理会’这个家。光是赚钱就够忙他了！身为女人，其实真的真的是要被疼爱的！所以看到妈妈从新激励振兴，我和我妹妹就算周末只可以腾出几个小时，我们都会陪妈妈一起参考笔记本，一起研究风水！

说比做难。。。风水最基本的‘九格洛书’就把我们难倒！怎么把这‘九格洛书’叠加在我们长方形的家呢？是要把‘九格洛书’拉大？还是先把屋子切成一半，然后才把‘九格洛书’放进去？怎么放？妈妈，我和妹妹争论谁对谁错。虽然妈妈和我不懂，不过小聪明妹妹，你哪会知道？你连讲谈会也没去听，好吗？！我们就被这‘九格洛书’给打败了。应为没有人可以问，也没有认识什么风水师，我们进入一个僵局。

时间过了，妹妹毕业找到工作。我的情况跟以前一样糟，连回家看妈妈也抽不出时间。就算回去，也只是人回，心和头脑是‘死’的 – 太累了！过了不久，妈妈把她幸苦整理的笔记送给我，她说她觉得风水太难了，她已经没有兴趣。妹妹也一样，忙着过自己生活，反正她一向学业超强，做工能力也强，她说：“没有风水不会有什么大碍啦”。