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Based strictly on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui alone; in general, the layout looks OK. Except hopefully, from the main door; one should not directly see the stove (and hobs). - I can't clearly see if there is a solid wall, there.
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Indeed, the presence of the two towering structures contributes to a rather somber atmosphere in this area, diminishing the previously experienced 'bright hall' effect.
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Your loss is MY GAIN!
Fools depart with their money!
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Someone says: "I want to jump down this building"
The officer says: "Go ahead! Make my day!"
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1. Thanks for the sketch.
2. If it is still a set of staircase for any block of flats; it is suppose to be a fire escape stairway (area).
3. If so, under Singapore (and most other countries) fire safety code; the staircase door should be closed.
4. Thus, since there is all the more reason for this door to be closed; it should be fine. In this case, you don't need to place those item that you are not in favour of at your main door area.
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Further to what I had mentioned;
1. Many condominiums love to have a circular or semi-circular club house.
2. What is the major concern is that many of the club house have trellise that looks similar to this development: Carabelle condo
http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=43&mid=25665&new=
3. If one looks carefully at say your posting of the Waterford Residence, the clubhouse also has a distinctive semi-circular club house.
4. Depending on the height of the roof of the club house and whether does it have such spikey trellis or not; it is best not to purchase unit that has this spikes aimed towards the unit one is considering purchasing.
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1. Frankly, try not tomistake pool design (flatten area) with built up area (blocks / stacks-units).
2. For example, please refer to our conversation. I believe you had asked me about Stack #6 in the development called One Jervois.
3. The worrying thing or sometimes tell tale sign of "no-take-up" in a new condominium or we say "left over units".
4. It is without a doubt that many buyers always go for the best and often such remainder units have some deficiency or the other. For this instance, the attachment illustration shows clearly a small handgun with "twin" barrels pointed towards the closest stack is #6 and next closest is #5.
5. In this development based on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui, stacks #6, #5 and #9 are considered inauspicious.
6. However, one cannot just put two and two = four. This example of One Jervois has more do with a top-view profile of a built-up bricks and mortar "concrete" blocks of flats.
7. It ain't the same as the pool design. A location where a pool passes thru has always to do with a "flat surface" or clear space or unblocked view.
8. This one cannot compare Yin and Yang. For example: Yang could be the block of stacks that resemble a pistol. And yin is the design of the pool water.
Anonymous wrote:
Under the shapes and forms, would you consider the pool design of this development "damaging" to stack 7,2 and 11?9. Therefore, contrary to your "thinking" it is a blessing in disguise for this development's stack 7, 2 and 11 that has some clear space thanks to the design of the pool even for ground floor unit upwards.
10. Why? The fundamental quality or at least some good that comes out of a home or apartment is that there should be some "clear space" or "bright hall" or "bright area" that allows qi to "collect".
11. This is why old HDB 5 room point block flats are the best as all four stacks of the block have lots of clear space every where.
12. One good thing about stacks 10 and 12 are that they are not affected by afternoon sun. And the appropriate Flying Star chart can be plotted to check the interior of the plan.
13. Period 8 SE facing apartments in GENERAL only have good qi at the frontage but many of it's other sectors are littered with bad flying star numbers that may need to be disarmed.
14. The key issue here is that one cannot assume the profile of built up area or outline of towers / stacks (yang) and equate this with pool design (yin).
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Frankly, it is always easier to give a sketch or a photo. Else, as mentioned in many of the forum messages, can easily misunderstand questions. And I don't have to ponder or visualise and sometimes like this get it wrong. This is very unproductive.
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1. In many countries, under the Fire safety requirement; all exit staircase doors must be closed. To ensure that in the unlikely event of a fire; heat and smoke does not get into the stair-case air-well to allow for safe evacuation.
2. Thus, in your case, you have the "right" to have the staircase door closed.
3. Usually, such doors have a fire rating. In Singapore, the stand is around 1/2 hour fire-rated door.
4. Perhaps, your door with a glass fixture is in the past; as nowadays, all new buildings don't have this glass panel.
5. In this case, this is what you had wanted.. and if so, no need for the other "accessories" for your home.
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Frankly this is pretty common, and it depends.
In Singapore many estates have such a situation e.g. Siglap hill area, Hume Avenue, Yio Chu Kang, River Valley, Dunearn Road, Holland Rd areas.
In fact, just about anywhere. Thus, many factors including how the home was built.
In general, you are quite correct to say that earth luck (or poor luck) is usually strongest at the ground level.
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You can use this free auspicious date report for the next 30 days under this URL:
http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-dateboth.htm
or simpy type: http://dates.geomancy.net
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1. The true nature of what you mentioned or "the statement" has more to do with pure landscape.
2. Where the best landscape is not only the academic sayingof the entrance door where one sees the dragon and ??? where is the tiger?
3.What it really is suppose to be is a good site is where one can see not just the green dragon but a white tiger. And the key ingredient is thatboth are in gentle embrace.
4. This is the key success factorof a good site based on this concept of Shapes and Forms Feng Shui.
5. Thus: to be frank: "so what if thedragon is ... " but where is the tiger? in gentle embrace!
Anonymous wrote:
Dear Cecil
Many thanks for this excellent site
I have a doubt concerning the 4 symbolic animals
I refer to the Shapes and form shool
My house (entrance) is facing North
Back is facing South
If I look at the entrance door, on my right or West I see the dragon
Is that correct?
Thanks in advance
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The saying goes " a picture tells a thousand words".
Frankly, might as well throwa dice if you are asking whether to move-in solely on general (brief descriptions) - and usually, hope you understand, I don't usually have time to scan and figure out a whole paragraph of information.
It is similar to a resume - it has been widely stated that a human resource personnel takes a "three seconds" glance at it; and just chuck it away.
Rob K. wrote:
Thank you for getting back to me on this.
This is a top view of the flat, our other concern is that it is above a successful celeb cosmetic dental clinic. The main door/enterance for the whole building is exactly in the south where you see the point is level from the left hand bedroom.
Also there is a railway line and train station that runs along the main side of the bedrooms but a good 100 meters away and it goes parrell to south west wall. We would plan to have our bedroom in the smaller room.
Our entrance to the flat is directly where the stairs are in the pictire via a 3 sided fenced pavid yard. the stairs goes up into the flat
Would you recommend moving there ?
Thank you for your time on this as it is a real concern of ours.
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1. In many countries, besides the rectangular and squarish interior layout plan;
2. It is common even in my country to have developments littered with such "triangular" shaped flat.
3. Even this afternoon, went to a client's home that looks very similar to your layout plan.
4. In the attached illustration; where I had marked the center-of-gravity or centrepoint of your proposed rental flat; you can see that after I had drawn a triangle and fit the layout plan; it does not look "scary" anymore.
5. However, from a Shapes and Forms Feng Shui point of view; this Feng Shui School suggests strongly against newly married couples to occupy a bedroom (or master bedroom) that is odd shaped or less than rectangular. In addition, if the top view or helicopter view looks like a butterfly; it is said that a butterfly has a relatively short lifespan.
6. From a Flying Star Feng Shui point of view; it depends totally on the facing direction of the flat.
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1. Honestly, mastering Feng Shui can pose a significant challenge for those new to the practice or inexperienced in its principles.
2. Traditional Feng Shui encompasses both external and internal elements of a home or building, requiring the use of the compass school of Feng Shui - Flying Star to analyze and interpret the space effectively.
3. Therefore, the size of your desk is of lesser importance compared to the concepts discussed in the previous paragraph.
4. In Flying Star Feng Shui, a knowledgeable individual must create an accurate Flying Star chart, which may reveal specific numbers and combinations indicating potential issues or concerns within a particular sector.
5. These examples illustrate how proper Feng Shui tools are utilized to analyze and map out a home effectively.
6. There are two main approaches to consider:
6.1. Attempting a DIY approach may not be straightforward for beginners.
6.2. Why not hire a Professional Feng Shui Master?Fiona A. wrote:Hi,
I moved into my new house, set up an office in one of my rooms,but since I set up my office to work from home I havehad two business properties broken into on seperate locations and datesCan you help? I am new to Feng Shui and believe the only worry I may have in my office is the dimensions of my desk, could this really cause me so much trouble? Or is there something else I'm missing?? I am very concerned and ask for guidance please?
Fi
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Please see attachment. This layout is preferred over the other one. As the bed is parallel to the bedroom walls.
However, in a larger bedroom, your second alternative "slanting the bed" is practised by some Geomancers.
Overall, do check that the toilet bowl particularly the piping is not sharing the same wall as your "face" when you sleep. There is a cause of concern of cancer in such a situation.
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1. Your analysis is OK.
2. Just take note that usually Orange colour should be classified as under metal = gold element.
3. As three major dialect groups of the Chinese consider "orange" as gold:-
3.1. The Cantonese Dialect group (largest population outside of China, Guandong province) in Hong Kong and is 2nd largest Chinese population in Singapore: calls orange "KUM" or gold.
3.2. The Hokkien Dialect group (in Singapore is the largest dialect group) outside of China calls it "KIM" or also gold.
3.3. The Teochews (the third largest dialect group in Singapore) also calls it "KIM" or gold.
4. For example, many young couples or youngsters who visit their elders always bring a pair of mandarin oranges. They will hand the oranges to their elders (in the elder's home). In return, the elders would return them two oranges.
5. And the oranges = KUM or KIM in Cantonese, Hokkien (Fujian) and Teochews means GOLD.
6. Thus, rightfully, orange is best to be classified under gold. There are some oranges such as sunkist oranges - some of which looks yellow. And in this case, "yellow" orange should be considered as earth element.
7. My terms of reference is that of traditional mandarin oranges which is predominantly orange in colour.
8. Of course, there are more exotic oranges such as those blood red oranges that looks red on the outside and the pulp is also red. These are not the normal sort of oranges. Thus we are not talking about these.
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1. Yes, in Singapore, there are similar plots similar to the plot 18 you had mentioned.
2. There should be more study, but generally, the main entrance door should not directly face the gate.
3. Often the best is to make such a home on this plot as rectangular as possible. And just imagine, the driveway; a car drives up to home. And the better situation is the main door runs parallel to the driveway - is one way to neutralise any sha qi from the cul-de-sac.
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These are the consideration:-
1. Burial date does not depend on any person's "auspicious date(s)".
2. But rather for the Chinese, burial or cremation is always on the "yang" days. Yang days are odd number days. Never YIN days.
3. Thus for example if a person dies on this Friday, then Friday is counted. Thus, the earliest burial day is SUNDAY (three days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday - note Firday is counted as 1 day even if it is late into the night of Friday).
4. Thus Chinese burial (or cremation) is always: Third day, Fifth day, seventh,ninthday. Never on an even day for those in the know: 2nd, fourth, sixth, 8th day.
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1. Based strictly on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui; your attached layout plan is pretty common given the constraints of windows / balcony / toilet door / bedroom door and location to mount the tv set.
2. Thus overall, looks fine under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui.
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One is better off applying studying things like Professor Michael Porter i.e. Porters five forces and applying say Suntzu Art of War strategies.
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1. Please note that in the past, a good site is always influenced by the dragon with gentle embrace of the tiger (landscape).
2. For a burial site; often it is best to be situated on the SOUTH-SIDE of a hill and the burial plot faces south. This the big picture is the "landscape" not just the plot and it's surroundings if that is what you are trying to figure out. The key here is the "big" picture of a land...
3. Thus, a good burial site is a hill where all the cemetry plot faces south.
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It is good if there is a layout or simple sketch. As in many instances; some of us may mis-interpret the "center-of-gravity" of a home wrongly.
Just recently, a client was so worried about an "L' shaped layout plan. When I reviewed the layout plan; instead there were some protrusions and missing corner(s) for this home. And the layout plan based on the "centre-of-gravity" concept; is not an "L"-shaped layout plan.
Advise on Floorplan Layout
in General Help
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1. Feng Shui has two major schools:
1.1. Shapes and Forms Feng Shui;
1.2. Compass School Feng Shui: Eight House and Flying Star
2. I can only comment on Para 1.1: this is a general advice forum and not a I do it for you sort of thing: It is so easy to add the compass direction, but there is a lot of work needed for such an evaluation. And often it also has to include the breadwinners date n time of birth. If you can, DIY on your own.