Cecil Lee

Not everyone is born with a silver spoon! Usually for every 1,000,000 person, the 1,000,001 person is born with a silver spoon! Do you know of anyone?

This illustration gives a better understanding of how DOORs or GATEs should open in a landed property. This layout: a semi-detached home.

1. Under Feng Shui, the main gate and back gate is not as important a consideration as the FRONTAGE (MAIN DOOR) and/or the SITTING OR BACK OF THE HOME. 2. Please refer to the attachment to confirm the "proper" meaning of things like:- 2.1. Main gate (is not the main door) 2.2. The back gate (is not the back door of the home).

These are some considerations:- 1. Under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui, it is about:- 1.1. The "mouth of the house". And this mouth is usually the FACING direction. 1.2. The back of the home or known as the SITTING directions is equally important. 2. Under Symbolism in Feng Shui:- 2.1. For a landed property, the main door should at least have one Leaf or one DOOR that open inwards. 2.2. In addition, if the home has a back door e.g. a wooden back door, this back door should open inwards. This excludes the grille protecting the backdoor etc... 2.3. If the home does not have a back door; then this is considered as a neutral position. 3. If there is a straight path from the main door to the back of the house, then it is best to have a back door instead of just an opening at the back yard area. 4. In my opinion, I take your meaning of a back gate as a gate from the back of the home leading out of the property perimeter. And not the back grille gate of the back of the home: often this is the area where most kitchens open towards the back yard area. 5. If there is a drain or storm or monsoon drain behind the home, than best that the perimeter fence of the home is fully covered such that standing inside the home, one should not be able to see the drain. This can also be a cement wall or wooden panels that "shield" the view of the area after the perimeter of the home.

Yes, Feng Shui can help provided it is applied properly. Like the term: garbage in garbage out applies.

Under the eight house concept, it is nice to be in a good sector and or good facing a good sector while at work. Sorry what is this great room you mentioned? The Grand Toilet?

1.Frankly, Holistic Feng Shui is more than what you had mentioned. 2. In my opinion, no harm, trying. But do refer to these two guidelines:- * The Customer Engineer Concept * The Three-Step-Approach 3. More guidelines:- *Commonsense Approach Fact or Fiction? * Fast Food Feng Shui * Feng Shui Triage * Fix-the-Leak, First! * Situational Approach * The Concept of Maximizing Marks * The Concept of Feng Shui by Exception * Trial & Error Vs Flying Star

1. If your kitchen is open towards the yard; and the yard area is close by, may consider hanging a six hollow rod windchime at a open yard area to help disarm these stars. 2. Yes, star 7 is bad under this current period. But what is of greater concern is star 9 fueling sickness star 2. Star 9 on its own is suppose to be good. But being a fire element, it may further inflame star 2, at that sector. 3. Given, that it is only star 2, and not star 5, one simple thing is to avoid bright yellow nor use warm white lights in that bedroom. Try to use cool day lights and avoid red colour also.

1. In fact on the contrary, toilet under a staircase is instead a blessing in disguise. 2. Frankly it is luckily just a toilet. Another common area is a storeroom below a toilet which is equally ecxellent. 3. Thus a cure is not necessary, here. 4. A dining table facing the stairs is again, based on shapes and forms is nothing serious so long as the dining table [is not too close to] the estairs that should anyone accidentally falls or trio, will not hit especially the head against the table. 5. Based on Shapes and forms, again, avoid any sharp objects on the dining table e.g. a scissorss placed on that part of the dining table for too long. 6. A plant, at the dining table area is not a good idea, as already there is a base star with 3, there and lets hope no more star 3 flies into that sector.

1. Please refer to my earlier comments. 2. I mentioned that specifically, your chart may be cold, and it could get colder in a "cold, cold - winter" period. 3. Thus, time dimension can affect your personal bazi chart. 4. In addition, have not seen your chart, and unable to make comments as I had mentioned: there are 12 variables that interact in every ba zi chart. And your cold chart is anyone's guess for now. Even for a cold chart, like a range : it can range from : cool to cold to freezing cold sort of thin. 5. Why don't you, since you went to so many geomancers; make an effort to perhaps, asks questions about your chart. 6. Common questions are: how's my "luck" for this year, next year, 10 years down the road etc.. 7. As once a detailed ba zi chart has been properly plotted, there are lots, lots and lots of information: from personal health, wealth, luck etc.. etc... 8. For those who don't have so called "luck" from heaven; in one's lifetime; but there are such things as 6th monthly luck. And in many cases, where some even don't have "luck from heaven" in say a ten year moving average period; but if you check carefully, their six monthly luck can move up or down depending on the period or time dimension that they are in. 9. Therefore, even in a cold chart senario, it does not mean ... "doom" sort of thing. You have check with our geomancer; as I mentioned, cold can range e.g. from a cold setting of 1 to 100. So where is your setting like? Go check out. 10. Furthermore, as I have always mentioned; there in general THREE kinds of LUCK orsimply "The Holy Trinity of Luck":- 10.1 HEAVEN LUCK 10.2 EARTH LUCK 10.3 HUMAN OR MAN LUCK Your bazi accounts for only 33.3333333333333333% of the above luck.

Nowadays, LED light bulbs are getting brighter and brighter. And can also nearly "replicate" at a glance; those traditional not so long ago filament type of bulbs.

More photos of the led light bulbs to neutralise #3...

Further to what I had mentioned:- 1. Attached, please find a sample Ba Zi chart. 2. If you can check it out;there are a total of TWELVE (12) variables that need to interact with each other to determine the characteristics of an individual. 3. Furthermore, the day, the month, the year and even the hour one is born: if by coincidence, the day, the month, the year and/or a person was born in the dead of winter; and there are minimal "fire element" in the chart; then one may consider the person has having a "cold" chart. 4. In addition: Charts that especially have lots of Earthly branch elements: Pig (yin water) and Rat (yang water) and Heavenly stem: of Yin Water, Yang Waterare "cold".

Usually the major significance are:- 1. Born with and Time dimension. 1.1. Individual Ba zi (born with): Interactions of your Year / Month / Day / Hour (and House of life andconception) variables:- 1.2 For example, literally speaking, most likely you were born in the middle of the winter or in winter andalso; 1.3. Furthermore, usually, the Year, the Month, the Day, the Hour and House of Life and House of conceptionindividual elementsdo not have fire (element) or strong fire element in it. 1.4. For example, your chart may have earthly branch somewhere that hasRat (water); the Pig (month or year) orOx (day or month or year)and many other elements that don't even have fire or weak fire element in it. 1.5 Time Dimension 1.5.1 In addition to having a cold chart, some of us may enter a "cold period" where the expression: "Your chart is very very cold right now" may apply : when especially the Year you are in and /or the month you are in is having a "WINTER" period. 2. Therefore, born WITH a COLD chart and for someit could also be in a cold, cold winter period.

Further to what I mentioned, below (sorry, somehow the safari software written with my iphone 4) did not place hard-enter codes): this is why the text is all grouped together. The situation that you face is far from anything to do with "dangers of underground water" as found in this article:- http://forum.geomancy.net/resources/art/art-under.php

These are some of the considerations:- 1. Dying of old age or natural death: In a way, attending the funeral of a family member who had died of old age is respectable. 2. Especially since, he was your uncle: considered as a family group. 3. Usually after attending the wake, usually we go home bathe and change clothings. 4. And in my opinion, frankly, it is not like a dark shadow is casted on you or other family members that one cannot attend a birthday the next day. 5. All these concerns are in my opinion unfounded. Unless, it is a more "serious" occasion like say attending a wedding of sorts, then some of us have mixed feelings over it. 6. So long as, if by protocol: an uncle either from father or mum's side; when attending activites such as a birthday, then try to avoid wearing flashy clothing. 7. Alternatively, actually this has more to do with family "superstition or beliefs"; do get advice from your seniors : for example some have a grand mum staying with them or parents that highly object to you going to the birthday bash; then (take the opportunity) to convey the regret that you cannot attend it. 7.1 I am sure, if it is your friend or friend's birthday, they should respect or understand your situation. 8. Again, if you have to go for the birthday bash, again, don't wear flashing colours, but definitely not all black sort of colour. 9. The saying goes.. the ball is in your hands...

1. Fortunately, the sewerage pipe that is linked to that toilet is on the opposite wall, thus for this reason, not a major issues even if your baby sleeps next to a toilet wall. 2. As sleeping next to the bath tub and or bath tub "clean water" pipes is acceptable. 3. The only concern is that one should not sleep with a sewerage pipe running below one's bed or at the side of it. Please check. Otherwise, again, no issue, here

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In many countries, constructing a false ceiling using gypsium board material is a simple solution. Since you said no way to construct a false ceiling; then what? saw away the beam? Frankly,it is not like one is sitting under this beam 24 hrs / 7 days a year sort of thing? Such things are like some of the past messages that I had posted:- For example: Can you suggest any other way for all my 8 family members to sit in my saloon car? What the heck? after 5 members squeeze into the car, tie one family member on the roof? and another on the bonnet and the other place in the boot? Any suggestions? Go get a 8 seater MPV!

As the Caspian is under construction; it is best to seriously consider noise pollution (if any) especially:In my opinion, automatically, the worst blocks are 54, 56 and 58 especially with stacks facing Boon Lay way: noise pollution from the East-West MRT line. In fact, in some developments, units within the same block but facing the pool MAY also be affected by it.

1. The significance of missing corner or protusion can be found here:- http://www.geomancy.net/resources/theories/fs-building.htm 2. Please refer to attachment: Illustration 1. 2.1 Usually, I use the "eye-ball" method to determine the "largest" WHOLE rectangle. This is a quick method to ROUGHLY determine the centrepoint or center-of-gravity of the apartment. 2.2 NOTE: Please note that the protusion in YELLOW under Illustration 1 is NOT correct. As mentioned above, it is just a rough guide. 2.3 In fact, I don't draw out such an illustration. But for the purpose of learning in this forum; I did this quick sketch. 3. After mentally knowing where is the ROUGH centerpoint or center-of-gravity, I will start to plot a more accurate outline to determine a more accurate centrepoint (all using the "eye-ball" method). 4. When I roughly get the area of the SUM of Missing corners roughly equal to the SUM of protusions; see attachment: Illustration 2; then I will feel confident that I am pretty close to getting the centrepoing correct. 5. For those of you, you can also: copy a layout plan; paste it on a cardboard. Cut-out the outline and balance it on a nail. The place where the nail balances the entire layout plan should be the centre of gravity. However, as I mentioned, I am using the "eye-ball" method. 6. Therefore, based on a quick determination: refer to Illustration 2, yes the toilet (close to the basin) is at the centerpoint.

These are some of the considerations:- 1. Feng Shui at work is limited or constrained as you had mentioned: often, one cannot choose one's seating or simply change the directions to suit a person. 2. Thus, if your cubicle happens to have the emergency exit behind you, then really, there ain't any miracle cure to such things. 3. To determine best work directions: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/reports-list/perlist-workposition.htm 4. Often even for those who are privileged with a room for themselves; if the corner or sector is not planned properly, even if a certain facing direction is suitable for them; but as a result their back is facing the door to their room is equally just as bad. 5. Therefore in a office environment, can be restrictive as such (other than the office conducting a full Feng Shui audit to determine suitable sectors for various functions: e.g. finance, accounting, legal, ceo, cfo, marketing etc... 6. One may have to squeeze out earth luck from other areas e.g. home feng shui is one of them:- The Concept of Maximizing Marks

1. In general, bi jian or "friend" relates to person to person relationship. 2. Person to person relationship can be between: husband & wife / son to father / a person to another person. 3. For the Chinese, generally, are more cautious (due to upbringing) and many Chinese don't open up immediately especially to strangers. 4. The higher score generally is akin to like being more easier to make friends. 5. Usually the norm for any of the ten dieties is generally 0 to 2. Anything above this is higher. 6. The rationale for 0 to 2 is that under the Ten Deiities; contrary to popular belief; a person say with all Ten deities at 0 or 1 is considered a well rounded or has a well balanced ten dieties chart. 7. Usually exceptional charts have a ten deities characteristics e.g bi jian ranging from 4 to 6. Often seldom see higher than a score of 6 or more.

Aquick reply on the bench:- 1. As you had mentioned, it has been for a few years. And low and neat and tidy. In my opinion, therefore, will not affect the Feng Shui that much (if any). 2. As the frontage of your main door is considered bright (or still) able to have "bright hall" effect which is good. 3. So no need to take drastic steps in removing it. 4. Earlier, I mentioned, when you placed the bench, it a sense, symbolically, to some people, it means that "your cares" are only up to the bench area. Thus, in a sense, in my opinion, to your neighbour, perhaps, implies that they can do anything they want "out of this" boundary - that's all.

Thanks for the photo. These are some of the considerations: 1. Plus points: 1.1 Very spacious "entrance" lobby. Good for "bright hall" effect. 1.2 Fortunately, the fire escape staircase (on the right side of the photo) does not have any direct effect on your Feng Shui @ the main door. 2. Because of the large lobby area, and that even with their picnic table, looks quite neat. 3. In fact, when I first saw your bench, I was like erh.. But it is also relatively low. Usually it be best not to have such a bench facing your main door. But I personally feel no issue. By placing such a chair, symbolically you are limiting your space to that boundary. 4. As their picnic table is low height and a distance away, I feel it is no major issue, even if it is red. (other than if there are any flying star considerations, if any) 5. Given that there are always shared or common areas in a public housing; many have to live with such things (not much choice). There are worst senarios like bamboo poles of neighbours facing the main entrance door etc...