Friday, 24 November 2017

Keep or sell? (Re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com)


20 Nov 2017 my relative give me a lift home. During the journey she asked me whether she should keep or sell her condo.
Relative: Someone is interested in my unit but the offer is not ideal for me.
Me: Then keep it
Relative: Can you be more constructive?
(I noted the registration number of a car in front of us: 5827
Me:  Not easy to sell due to competition
Relative: Yap there are 2 units putting up for sale within the same stack
Me: Maybe you should find a good agent to help you sell
Relative: I am the agent
Me: Hmm I not sure what going to happen but you need to watch out of losing money.
Relative: Oh yes I am offering above market rate co-broke commission to the buying agent. That why he is trying to swing his buyer to my unit....
Me: Honestly the buyer's offer seems good but your unit have growth potential
Relative: I am getting decent income from rental. Should I keep?
Me: You decide. If you really want to sell, the max achievable is $1250 psf.
She: You are right! Initially, I am marketing my unit at $1269 psf for almost 1 year. No offer until the buyer agent swing his buyer to my unit at $1204 psf
Me: This is what we call 劫财卦(Rob wealth Gua)
Relative: Huh!
Me: Never mind. You can try to push a little bit more to compensate for the commission loss. 
Relative: Ok! 

Agnostic Gua (Re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com)

4/11/2017, my wife and I was at a retail mall (white goods) to shop for a stove for my parents new house. It was a huge mall and we don't have a clue where to look for.
She: Let's check the directory.
(I looked at my phone and the time showed 1831)
Me:  No need, the stove section is at the back. 
She: You sure? Gua say so?
Me: Yes and it is situated at the back but on left side of the mall
(We are at the main entrance which is at front right side of the mall.  We went in all the way and found the stove section. )
She: Your Gua is half correct leh. The stove section cover from right to the middle back.

(Honestly, I scratched head too, until we walk few more steps and realized a restaurant . I paused for a moment to think )
Me: Bingo! This restaurant sell cooked food. Here is where the real stove is .....
She: Giggled

Saturday, 15 July 2017

Feng Shui wonder of rubbish chute (Re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com)

Will you set up a stall that is directly facing the rubbish chute cum refuse collection center?

Well the rubbish chute seems to prosper this roast meat stall in the coffee shop. The Q during lunch time is always this long.
I was there last Sat with my relative. He told me he could not see why a stall such a stall could outshine the rest. Apparently most of the coffee shop patrons are here for the chicken rice.
I told him my 1st encounter of such a prosperous food stall operating beside a rubbish chute is a Briyani stall in Beach Road.

“Ya right there is also a Michelin star Pork noodle stall in Crawford lane which is also beside a toilet and the waiting time can be up to an hour or more” he said. I was told that the toilet is at the left hand side (Dragon) of the stall. I was kind of surprised by what he described and I promised myself to pay it a visit soon.
Anyway, while he was queuing I managed to find out online this roast meat stall has been operating for 10 over years.

According to Xuan Kong Liu Fa, it has a 雌雄Ci Xiong formation that is aligned to period 8 金龍Jin Long (Golden Dragon) and that is all it needs to prosper.

That said it is worth pointing out the stall is facing South East and this orientation has the effect of icing the cream, adding points to the already prosperous site.
If you don’t believe me it is understandable. The point I want to make here is that a site’s prosperity is determined by Feng and Shui itself, i.e. the external environment. Whether it facing rubbish area or not or whether the door or stove is in the auspicious sector or not, they are not the key to a site’s prosperity. The same principle apply to your house unit. This is because the very 1st line in the classic 青嚢序 Qing Nan Xu (the executive summary to Qing Nan Classics)already state: 楊公養老雌雄,天下諸書對不同.先金龍動不動,次察血脈認來龍.“Master Yang spend his lifetime see Ci Xiong …., Ascertain the Jin Long ....”
However, in this case the rubbish chute does weigh in. So if you intend to set up business it may be worth considering areas near the rubbish chute or toilet area and who knows these features might work wonders on your business ……

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Floor plan & Unit number Feng Shui (Reblog from www.yxlfengshui.com)

I frequently received emails & texts seeking advice on house Feng Shui. Most of them ask me to assess online by providing me with the unit floor plan or the unit number.
Do you think it is possible to assess Feng Shui based the furnished info? The answer is yes but there are blind spots.

Now would you trust a prescription by a doctor who base on your description of the symptoms merely over a phone call?  

1. Feng Shui assessment is complicated. Feng Shui impacts a person’s well-being in 5 areas: wealth, fertility, nobility, longevity/health & marriage. In Chinese it is known as 财丁贵壽婚
Each area can be further subdivided into smaller scope that needs to be accounted for in order to have a comprehensive & clear audit.
Let us look at wealth as an example. It can be divided into 5 scopes: wealth source財源, wealth potential財勢, wealth luck (timing) 財運, wealth magnitude (how much) 財量and wealth reserves (savings) 財庫.

2. We can assess wealth reserves based on floor plan and wealth source based on unit number. Among the 5 scopes, wealth luck (when does it come) and magnitude (earn how much) are the deciding factors to whether the house Feng Shui can bring you wealth. But they can be only assessed on site.
I am sure you would not want a house which is assessed to be prosperous in wealth reserve but requires more than a decade to fill up right?

3. Of course it does not come free when you engaged a Feng Shui consultant to assess on site. But if you objectively compare, the consultation fee is very likely to be less than 5% of the total renovation cost. In case the house Feng Shui is lousy and you have to move out, can you tagged along the expensive renovation with you?
The consultant fee is fractional if you weigh it against the financial commitment of house. I am sure you would want a house that can bring you immediate prosperity.

Therefore for me, I will not trust phone call based medical prescriptions.  What about you?

Dynamic divination (Re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com)

Last week (29 June) my client treated me to some snacks after assessing a unit. We had a short chat ......

Client: What do u think about my bonus this year?

Me: (I noted the sequence 1038 and scribbled on a serviette tissue) You already know how much you were getting.
Client: Hee hee make a guess leh
 
Me: What is your highest commission achieved so far?

Client: 8 to 9k

Me: hmm your bonus not fantastic at most 12.5K

Client: (surprised) How do you know?
(He show me his bonus letter and allowed me to take a picture but with company logo and details masked out)
Me: I also know your company recently have become more popular but is experiencing tight cash flow

Client: Yes that is the current situation! 

Me: (Smile)

Client: Should I leave?

Me: You must have made a name for yourself in your company too! 

Client: How do you know this? Are you a medium? Yap I am being looked up as the expert in an upcoming product that our unit is trying to push.

Me: Hee hee. Don't worry ok to stay put ......
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This is not King Wen (文王卦) or Plum Blossom Yi (梅花易)  divination. 
It does not require rocking coins in a tortoise shell or compute to transform time of day into a Gua (卦). 

It is called the Xinyi divination (心易占) , "1秒起卦,3秒断卦,5秒断吉凶"
It takes 1 sec to cast a Gua, 3 sec to decipher, 5 sec to know the outcome.  
The best part is that it is dynamic and flows with the conversation

Prosperous Business (Re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com)


Many Feng Shui masters emphasized the importance of door facing and for some see it as the deciding factor to a prosperous business outlet. Yes, they are right but the Rojak and Biryani stall do not have a proper door. Worst still the back of the Biryani stall is a refuse chute area where most people will shun using this place for eatery business. They defy the odds and prosper. Why?
Many Feng Shui masters always tell their customers that compass cannot replace a Luo Pan. This is because the compass measures the magnetic field while the Luo Pan measures the direction of the Qi at the Door that enters the premise. Only with this bearing, it is possible to analyze the distribution of Qi in conjunction to the floor space planning within the premise. Therefore, the auspicious sectors within the premise can be determined and harnessed to usher in good business. Yes they are right but both the Chinese stir fry and Fish head steam boat does not have a main door. Their sides are opened. So which facing should be the right one?  Perhaps door doesn’t matter at all?
Some masters may attempt to tilt the main door by a couple of degrees aiming to overhaul lousy Feng Shui into an auspicious one. Yes they are right too. But do ask yourself how many prosperous shops that you come across actually have tilted doors? Go see for yourself those very long Q prosperous shops and outlets. Let us take a look at Chinatown. There are so many money changers  but only this one is always queued. This bakery started off with a humble shop in 2008 and today it has 9 branches in Singapore! 


Does it mean that we should ignore the facing of main door? My answer is main door plays an important role in harnessing good Qi but it is not the key to a prosperous Feng Shui. The issue here is many masters over sell the importance of door facing while it is the Feng Shui formation that dictates the auspiciousness of the premise. Don’t believe me? You are welcome to discuss with me further......

Saturday, 21 January 2017

A different naked eye system ? (Last Part)

The following is a re-blog from www.yxlfengshui.com

The same reader after following the blog on 'A different naked eye system', he pointed out to me that the Left (Dragon) side of the Rojak stall that I have previously posted (Refer to blog on Prosperous business) is in fact Yang (road). Therefore the stall is expected to be prosperous according to his Naked eye logic.
Before you start raising doubts with our Yi Logic, let us look at the queue of this vegetarian stall.
Assuming the façade (where the queue and tables are) as the facing, the right (Tiger) side of the stall is a walkway and therefore considered as Yang. This contradicts his logic but how do you explain the long queue?
In fact, the front of the stall shares the same direction as the flow of the queue. Suppose we use it as the facing, the right side where the queue side is again Yang (open area). Worst still, the back (Black Tortoise) side which prefer Yin (Stillness) is now Yang (Walkway). Without back support (贵人)how is it possible that the business remains good? He is also puzzled as I explained...
Does it mean we have a battle of 2 Naked eye systems?
Receiving Qi is the primary reason behind the long queue. You may start to ponder about the efficacy of naked eye technique or perhaps should we focus on formula alone?
Let me explain base Yi logic using wealth accumulation as an analogy.
To accumulate wealth 1st you need to have at least an external source (go out and earn) therefore Yang. Next you need a secure vault to contain the inflow. This is akin to savings and therefore Yin.
If there is a leak in your vault but to someone who is resourceful, it may not matters much as inflow is greater than outflow. He probably can even afford big ticket items in life.
The problem starts when the leak becomes comparable to the magnitude of inflow. This is common to most people but through proper money management they can still survive. What it means is that modest saving, think thrice before swapping card for Prada, unable to cross Altantic or Pacific every year but no problem for JB every weekend if they want to. This is 'normal' as God has decided we shall obey the Gaussian law in the distribution of wealth.
The issue becomes chronic when the leak is greater than the inflow and to patch the issue some ended up borrowing resulting in negative flow…
So ask yourself which do you prefer?
Now the vault (savings, 库)is akin to the structure of your house (form) and therefore Yin. 
External source (make money, 赚钱) is akin to the formless Qi your house is receiving. So you should know why Chinese always associate wealth as 财库. Note to be exact, source should be the source that emits Qi (氣口). Naked eye assess the structure while the formula that we advocate Xuan Kong Liu Fa (XKLF) looks at how to harness Qi from the environment and that is how a Feng Shui should be assessed. Therefore structure form is as important as receiving Qi in wealth accumulation. The main question here should be what is the optimal percentage between the two in Feng Shui that creates wealth? Next what are the formations that usher wealth, promotion/status, taohua... I am afraid you will need to pay me a visit to find out the answer. 
To conclude, the answer for the long queue lies in this photo here.