Cecil Lee

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.

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.

What you mean? a tree with a lamp-post???

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).

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.

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.

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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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

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.

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.

1. Frankly, this Feng Shui thingy can be very difficult for a newbie or a novice of Feng Shui. 2. As traditional Feng Shui involves both Shapes and Forms (external and internal of the home/ site /building) and also to diagnose the interior of the flat: compass school of Feng Shui - Flying star has to be used to not only both plot the birth-chart of the home but also interpret the findings. 3. Thus like the dimension of your desk is secondary when compared to Para 2, above. 4. For example, under Flying Star Feng Shui: someone with this knowledge has to plot a proper Flying star chart: often the chart will show numbers in a sector and also the 81 combinations:- 4.1 For example: #7 = theft or robbery start 4.2 81 combinations is something like: Mountain star #7 with water star #7: beware of bulgary at home. 5. The above are some of the simple examples of how a home is charted using the proper Feng Shui tools. 6. There are two ways about it:- 6.1. Do it yourself : DIY = not so simple for a novice 6.2. Peoples Action Party: P.A.P = many always use the term: Pay and pay a professional to do it for you. 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One is better off applying studying things like Professor Michael Porter i.e. Porters five forces and applying say Suntzu Art of War strategies.

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.

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.

This is bullshit!

Thanks very much! You have successfully activated the Fire Element for my home! A thousand thanks! BTW, where can I stay now?

These are some of the considerations:- 1. In my opinion; "It Depends". 2. For example; one should still have to look at the 20 Year Flying Star numbers in relation to the yearly #5 at SW sector to further fine tune the situation. 3. Actual location : room located at SW. Even subtle things like the decoration; any strong colours used in the room e.g. Bright Yellow? Bright Red? Bright Blue? Also any strong colours on furniture in that room e.g. Bright Red, Bright Yellow furniture etc... 4. Sometimes a room can be within two pie chart zones. And in such a situation, one has to look at which zone has the highest influence over the room. 4.1 For example: if a room falls within the SW and West. And say if one draws a pie chart and it shows that the west area covers most or all the windows. And there is a likelyhood that the windows would be opened. 4.2 And, in this example, SW is trapped at a corner of the room. Then, I would consider this room best influenced by West sector "qi". 5. It is this kind of fine tuning which is more important whether you are strong wood. 6. The saying goes: If you don't spent time in that room; Feng Shui is not by remote control. 7. Thus it's slightly puzzling how one suddenly links one's ba zi element to say a room that one does not occupy - if this is the real senario. 8. There is a difference unless one fully spends lots of time within a sector; then the standard Feng Shui thing is to harmonize the room .. to that person.

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