I don't care who says that there is no inflation and I don't care who claims that everyone is doing well because these past three months has been very quiet for many many businesses. Retail is badly hit, my florist's husband had to get a job to supplement their income and even the cinema complex in the mall has had to postpone the screening of an Indonesian movie 4 times because there just wasn't enough viewers to justify the expenditure of air-conditioning! All shops and malls are so quiet as nobody is out buying. The resultant domino-effect is affecting more and more businesses each day. Even the Bak Kut Teh shop and the Rojak man are complaining that they cannot sell all their prepared food.
And so it goes that one of my casual customers came to see me today....(I was told that he hovered around for sometime yesterday but did not approach me and I did not see him.)
He was one sad man who didn't know what else to do anymore. He is convinced that the house he moved into a few years back, has very bad feng shui and it is getting worse and worse. And why shouldn't he? His business is bad, he finds it hard to collect payment and the man has had three road accidents in 2 years!
He broke his leg in the last accident and was laid up for a long time. Ever since then, he has not been able to pick himself up from the doldrums. Money is so tight that sometimes he cannot even afford tuition fees for his kids. He said that tears would run down his face when that happens. As he spoke to me, his eyes turned red and teary. Honestly, I get so wishy-washy when I see a grown man cry! (Sssshhh......NEVER let my husband know this or he might use it as his secret weapon!)
I totally empathised with him as I myself had gone down that road not so long ago. I don't know if it was a coincidence or if fate lent a helping hand, but that was when I happened to have signed-up for a formal course on feng shui. With the knowledge I acquired, I used feng shui to pick us up from rock bottom!
Now, just two years down the road, we are still not exactly on par with Bill Gates or Donald Trump, but at least we have a business and a consultancy that is fast picking-up! And from trading from a kiosk space, we will be moving into a proper shop next week :)
Do not underestimate the application of feng shui. When used correctly, its effects are very powerful and speedy. Many people gaff at this ancient Chinese science but when one is truly at wit's end and when all means have been exhausted; that's when they turn to feng shui as a last resort. Many of my clients come to me when they are at this stage, just like the man today. *Sigh*
The demand for feng shui consultations goes up when times get bad. In the past 2 weeks, I have been hired to do 7 consultations from one end of the country to the other!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Yes, I am still alive!
Hi Guys!
Yes, I am still alive and kicking. I know I have not updated my blog for almost 2 months now...Omigosh! You mean it's been THAT long?
What have I been up to? Well.....*Drawing a deep breath..*
I have attended two advanced courses in feng shui...Been working 7 days and 7 nights because I can't seem to find any sales assistants (Can anyone? Almost every shop at the mall when I am, have a notice stuck up at their door looking for staff, I have done 7 diagnostic consultations zooming up and down the highway between cities, I have hunted down and found, and negotiated, and then worked hard to raise money for......to....move into a new shop! YES! At last! WE ARE MOVING! We are moving into a better shop with enough space for an office where I can see clients in private, sneak-in forty winks, eat in private and work in private!
So. I thought I'd better put up a posting before everyone thinks I have fallen off the face of this earth just cos the ancient Chinese who worked out all the feng shui formulas, thought the earth was square (Flat actually, but the feng shui symbol for earth remains a square till today) BECAUSE.....after this week, I shall have to travel to Kuala Terengganu twice, Kuala Lumpur twice AND THEN....pack-up the whole shop all by ourselves (Hubby and I), cart all them boxes to the new shop's little office to be locked-up whilst we supervise the electricians, carpenters, carpet-ters (???)AND apply for all the necessary licenses, sign boards, electricity..*pant pant huff puff* I feel tired just thinking about it!
That is part of the reason why I have not written anything in a while. The other reason? That's because I have not been anywhere, not done anything, not heard anything nor said anything interesting for awhile now....'cept for....my dear friends Bernard and Niko visiting from Normady, and all we did was eat, drink, laugh, make merry, wake-up, drag body to work, close shop, eat, drink, make merry, eat, drink, eat, drink.......
It's really tough you know...all that eating and drinking...but hey! SOMEONE HAS TO DO THE DIRTY JOB!!!
Yes, I am still alive and kicking. I know I have not updated my blog for almost 2 months now...Omigosh! You mean it's been THAT long?
What have I been up to? Well.....*Drawing a deep breath..*
I have attended two advanced courses in feng shui...Been working 7 days and 7 nights because I can't seem to find any sales assistants (Can anyone? Almost every shop at the mall when I am, have a notice stuck up at their door looking for staff, I have done 7 diagnostic consultations zooming up and down the highway between cities, I have hunted down and found, and negotiated, and then worked hard to raise money for......to....move into a new shop! YES! At last! WE ARE MOVING! We are moving into a better shop with enough space for an office where I can see clients in private, sneak-in forty winks, eat in private and work in private!
So. I thought I'd better put up a posting before everyone thinks I have fallen off the face of this earth just cos the ancient Chinese who worked out all the feng shui formulas, thought the earth was square (Flat actually, but the feng shui symbol for earth remains a square till today) BECAUSE.....after this week, I shall have to travel to Kuala Terengganu twice, Kuala Lumpur twice AND THEN....pack-up the whole shop all by ourselves (Hubby and I), cart all them boxes to the new shop's little office to be locked-up whilst we supervise the electricians, carpenters, carpet-ters (???)AND apply for all the necessary licenses, sign boards, electricity..*pant pant huff puff* I feel tired just thinking about it!
That is part of the reason why I have not written anything in a while. The other reason? That's because I have not been anywhere, not done anything, not heard anything nor said anything interesting for awhile now....'cept for....my dear friends Bernard and Niko visiting from Normady, and all we did was eat, drink, laugh, make merry, wake-up, drag body to work, close shop, eat, drink, make merry, eat, drink, eat, drink.......
It's really tough you know...all that eating and drinking...but hey! SOMEONE HAS TO DO THE DIRTY JOB!!!
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Royal Birthday Party
I've just come home from a royal birthday party.
It wasn't half as successful as it was last year when the dress code as a theme was a casual white shirts/blouses and blue jeans. I will now attempt to describe this evening.
This year's theme and dress code is all black or all white, not black & white together, so most of the er...more matured guests (like me) were in black whilst the younger generation (children/off-springs) were dressed in white. This created a really formal and sombre atmosphere. Being a royal party in Malaysia, many of the guests were wearing tudungs which created even more black because then, they were black from head to toe! Luckily there were lots of sequins and diamonds to add much needed sparkle!
The decor was creative but long strands of mother-of-pearl discs hanging from the ceiling separated dinner guests seated at long tables all night long. There were only two very long tables for more than 150 people. All along the tables, there were short fat black candles on high iron-black candelabras, dripping its black wax onto pieces of white tiles placed on white table cloth. In between the candelabras were square glass vases with a single bunch of tiny apple-green chrysanthemums each. Chairs were either covered in black or white cotton. Transparent apple-green voile were hung from ceiling to floor and a single black and white painting hung on stage in place of a backdrop. All guests were seated directly opposite each other at the very crowded long tables. This create confrontational energy all around.
More guests turned up than expected and seats were over-subscribed. Right from the start, there were a few sour-puss faces as some guests had nowhere to sit and it took the staff a long, long, long, long time to set more places. The narrow and long function room was too cluttered with people and chairs and decoration and the buffet line. The long strands of mother-of-pearl discs successfully divided the party and blocked everyone's view of everything.
Show time was an entertaining Chinese guy who was very talented and very funny and he made some of the guests perform funny dances on stage. Everyone enjoyed his act and finally, the ice was broken and laughter was loud from all around and there were hoots from the kids. This was the one reprieve to the otherwise sombre evening. Oh...and some of the teenage royal off-springs sang very well. I swear one of the young men sounded exactly like Patrizio Buanne!
The food was glorious and the guest list oh, so distinguished, but more than half of the guests left after the show, probably for greener pastures to continue Saturday evening. I'll bet if the decoration was better feng shuied and a little bit more auspicious, the party would have taken off as it should have....after all the effort put in, and everyone would have partied till the wee hours of the morn and my mind wouldn't have kept on thinking all night long of the Chinese phrase....'Choyyyy!'
It wasn't half as successful as it was last year when the dress code as a theme was a casual white shirts/blouses and blue jeans. I will now attempt to describe this evening.
This year's theme and dress code is all black or all white, not black & white together, so most of the er...more matured guests (like me) were in black whilst the younger generation (children/off-springs) were dressed in white. This created a really formal and sombre atmosphere. Being a royal party in Malaysia, many of the guests were wearing tudungs which created even more black because then, they were black from head to toe! Luckily there were lots of sequins and diamonds to add much needed sparkle!
The decor was creative but long strands of mother-of-pearl discs hanging from the ceiling separated dinner guests seated at long tables all night long. There were only two very long tables for more than 150 people. All along the tables, there were short fat black candles on high iron-black candelabras, dripping its black wax onto pieces of white tiles placed on white table cloth. In between the candelabras were square glass vases with a single bunch of tiny apple-green chrysanthemums each. Chairs were either covered in black or white cotton. Transparent apple-green voile were hung from ceiling to floor and a single black and white painting hung on stage in place of a backdrop. All guests were seated directly opposite each other at the very crowded long tables. This create confrontational energy all around.
More guests turned up than expected and seats were over-subscribed. Right from the start, there were a few sour-puss faces as some guests had nowhere to sit and it took the staff a long, long, long, long time to set more places. The narrow and long function room was too cluttered with people and chairs and decoration and the buffet line. The long strands of mother-of-pearl discs successfully divided the party and blocked everyone's view of everything.
Show time was an entertaining Chinese guy who was very talented and very funny and he made some of the guests perform funny dances on stage. Everyone enjoyed his act and finally, the ice was broken and laughter was loud from all around and there were hoots from the kids. This was the one reprieve to the otherwise sombre evening. Oh...and some of the teenage royal off-springs sang very well. I swear one of the young men sounded exactly like Patrizio Buanne!
The food was glorious and the guest list oh, so distinguished, but more than half of the guests left after the show, probably for greener pastures to continue Saturday evening. I'll bet if the decoration was better feng shuied and a little bit more auspicious, the party would have taken off as it should have....after all the effort put in, and everyone would have partied till the wee hours of the morn and my mind wouldn't have kept on thinking all night long of the Chinese phrase....'Choyyyy!'
Monday, July 30, 2007
High tech 21st century feng shui communication tools
A lovely lady came in today with a worried expression on her face. She is on holiday in Malaysia from Houston, Texas and she had been into my shop a couple of times before.
She was confused and upset because a family friend (Her parents live and work here) had 'read' her husband and her life charts and told her that everything they do will not succeed because they have a swimming pool at the back of their house in Houston. That's 'cos they are both born of the earth element and water is not suitable for them.
WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH! How can anyone come to that conclusion without even seeing her house and without even knowing the directions of the pool or her home? That's like a quack doctor diagnosing an illness without even doing tests!
Anyway, I managed to put her mind at ease and after speaking to her for about 2 hours, she decided to hire my services to carry out an off site analysis of her home via email and Skype. She left with instructions on how and where to take directions of her home plus a feng shui questionnaire to fill up.
So... if someone tells you something bad about your home or office, do seek a second or even a third opinion. I am not saying that her family friend is wrong. I would have to wait till I receive the plans and directions of her home. I really wish self-made feng shui 'experts' will research something more thoroughly before they go around scaring people! He or she should always offer a solution if they detect a problem. That way, the affected person will always have a cure or a remedy to the situation. Don't leave people hanging onto the cliff edge with their finger nails!
Be assured that most times, there are remedies and cures for most feng shui afflictions. It is not a case of - Ooohhh...your swimming pool is bad for you....here's a spade. Go fill it up!
She was confused and upset because a family friend (Her parents live and work here) had 'read' her husband and her life charts and told her that everything they do will not succeed because they have a swimming pool at the back of their house in Houston. That's 'cos they are both born of the earth element and water is not suitable for them.
WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH! How can anyone come to that conclusion without even seeing her house and without even knowing the directions of the pool or her home? That's like a quack doctor diagnosing an illness without even doing tests!
Anyway, I managed to put her mind at ease and after speaking to her for about 2 hours, she decided to hire my services to carry out an off site analysis of her home via email and Skype. She left with instructions on how and where to take directions of her home plus a feng shui questionnaire to fill up.
So... if someone tells you something bad about your home or office, do seek a second or even a third opinion. I am not saying that her family friend is wrong. I would have to wait till I receive the plans and directions of her home. I really wish self-made feng shui 'experts' will research something more thoroughly before they go around scaring people! He or she should always offer a solution if they detect a problem. That way, the affected person will always have a cure or a remedy to the situation. Don't leave people hanging onto the cliff edge with their finger nails!
Be assured that most times, there are remedies and cures for most feng shui afflictions. It is not a case of - Ooohhh...your swimming pool is bad for you....here's a spade. Go fill it up!
Monday, June 25, 2007
More learning for me
Today, I attended an advanced course in feng shui. I am away from my shop and sales for a whole week. In this first-of-its-kind-in-the-world class, I met many many feng shui consultants from all over the world, some with much more experience than I have. There were participants from Sri Lanka, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Belgium, The Netherlands, The Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, China, Japan, USA and of course, Malaysia. I thought I knew a lot about feng shui , but am humbled by the
fact that there is much more to learn. This goes to prove that no matter how much you know, there is always more to learn from.
I was invited to lunch with my most honourable teacher and 3 other consultants, 2 of whom, are as famed as my teacher is, in their respective home countries. What marvelled me was the fact that they were all unassuming and humble. I have often wondered how these world-renown masters would be like, and I found out today that they too, were ordinary human beings like you and me. We talked about clothes, cars,
fashion, work, family, customers, clients and religion.
Lunch was just like any other when a group of girlfriends get together - yak
yak yak yak. There were times when we all spoke at the same time, there were naughty jokes and exchange of news about family, comparison of job-related problems and
achievement of goals. All the gabbing about fashion and shopping must have seemed like a gathering of hens, much to the dismay of the one and only guy with us! The poor thorn amongst the roses!
In class, there was such a huge amount of comradeship as everyone knew that was being taught, with no stupid questions and nary a detailed repeat of anything petty. There was lots of laughing, joking and humourous experiences and incidents were narrated.
In just one day, I expanded what feng shui knowledge I have to include details on how to get seriously rich! We were taught to think big and to rid our brains of small mindedness and achievements. I can't wait for class to resume tomorrow as we continue
to deepen our feng shui know-how. So, watch out for me getting seriously wealthy when I go home to apply what I learn this week :)
Added to the above are two coffee breaks per day with delicious food, being whisked away for cosy lunches and an invitation to dinner in such witty company and my one week break from minding my store becomes such a refreshing break! Man! This can become addictive! Not to mention an ever-expanding waistline!
Till we meet again! Buuurrrrp!
fact that there is much more to learn. This goes to prove that no matter how much you know, there is always more to learn from.
I was invited to lunch with my most honourable teacher and 3 other consultants, 2 of whom, are as famed as my teacher is, in their respective home countries. What marvelled me was the fact that they were all unassuming and humble. I have often wondered how these world-renown masters would be like, and I found out today that they too, were ordinary human beings like you and me. We talked about clothes, cars,
fashion, work, family, customers, clients and religion.
Lunch was just like any other when a group of girlfriends get together - yak
yak yak yak. There were times when we all spoke at the same time, there were naughty jokes and exchange of news about family, comparison of job-related problems and
achievement of goals. All the gabbing about fashion and shopping must have seemed like a gathering of hens, much to the dismay of the one and only guy with us! The poor thorn amongst the roses!
In class, there was such a huge amount of comradeship as everyone knew that was being taught, with no stupid questions and nary a detailed repeat of anything petty. There was lots of laughing, joking and humourous experiences and incidents were narrated.
In just one day, I expanded what feng shui knowledge I have to include details on how to get seriously rich! We were taught to think big and to rid our brains of small mindedness and achievements. I can't wait for class to resume tomorrow as we continue
to deepen our feng shui know-how. So, watch out for me getting seriously wealthy when I go home to apply what I learn this week :)
Added to the above are two coffee breaks per day with delicious food, being whisked away for cosy lunches and an invitation to dinner in such witty company and my one week break from minding my store becomes such a refreshing break! Man! This can become addictive! Not to mention an ever-expanding waistline!
Till we meet again! Buuurrrrp!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A simple feng shui tip
A few days ago, my good friend Bee came to see me to seek some feng shui advice. At 27, she has come across her first brain-cracking, heart-upsetting, back-stabbing office politics! Poor Bee was quite unhappy.
I remember her as such a bubbly happy young lady to whom I wrote lots of creative notes to. (Psst...I used to leave her all kinds of brain/eye-challenging notes that drove her crazee!)
Well, just as luck changes with time in feng shui, the happy-go-lucky-look-4ward-to-work-cos-you've-great-colleagues-and-boss-days don't last forever. Up/down, happy/sad is here today and gone tomorrow. I found out a long time ago that I should store as memory, all my enjoyable escapades and never look for the same level of satisfaction at the same place with the same people ever again. A similar occasion with the same friends in the same place may not result in the same enjoyment you captured before.
Bee's office which I used to tear through, (We were once colleagues)is no longer the same. A change of ownership has changed her General Manager and most of her long-time colleagues. Then, as fate would have it, the new General Manager turned-out to be a first-timer at his post who BECAME SO UNPOPULAR, egoistic AND arrogant that EVERYONE hated him! This resulted in the resignation of most of even those who were NOT retrenched in the first place! My, my...how upside down everything has turned out to be.....Bee's beloved division head also got himself transfered far far away....
Meanwhile, Bee's entire department's furniture were rearranged. Tsk..tsk..tsk...in such a way that desks were grouped together in fours, with the staff facing each other directly across the desks - two directly opposite two. Now, anyone who knows feng shui will be able to tell you that that kind of arrangement is asking for trouble. Staff seated directly confronting each other will lead to office politics, uncooperativeness, back stabbing and quarrels, although not necessarily with each other. To sum it up, work in such an enviroment will not be smooth. Colleagues will turn against colleagues, there will be more absentees due to illness or otherwise, projects will be delayed and there will be a general air of dissatisfaction. There will be not much trust and a whole lot of unhappiness going around. Work wouldn't be very progressive or productive.
Which brings us back to Bee. Poor Bee.
I told her to take the directions of where she sits, sleeps and the direction of the door she uses to leave her home. I wanted to check out her Kua number and her directions.
Sometimes, without spending even a cent/sen, you can lessen the impact of your bad feng shui if you know how; although this may be only temporary. Sure, it will make things better but to actually start having better times, you'd have to do a little more. But we'll talk about that some other time. Let's see what happens to Bee.
Bee was born in the year of the sheep. The sheep has the best luck of all of the 12 Chinese horoscope animals this year because the home direction of the sheep has the most auspicious #8 Flying Star in 2007. She should be having it real good this year.
After some calculations, I came to the conclusion that she has the Kua number of 3, which makes her an East group person. Her auspicious directions are S - Wealth & Success, N - Good Health, SE - Good Relationships & Networking Luck and E - Personal Growth & Future Prosperity. Her inauspicious directions are W - Total Loss, NE - 6 Killings, NW - 5 Ghosts and SW - Bad Luck & Mishaps.
Bee told me that she has been going out of a side door of her home facing SW, she was sleeping with her head pointing to the SW, and her new work seating arrangements had her sitting at a desk facing W and confronting a colleague! Even her desk at home was facing an inauspicious direction for her and she had the desk pushed-up against the toilet wall! You must never share a wall with the toilet as you work or as you sleep!
I guided her to change all of the above to her good directions and if she did it correctly, she would immediately feel more comfortable and at peace.
Well, whadayaknow? Bee calls 2 days later.....to tell me that she had made some adjustments. She changed the direction of the head of her bed to the south and was using a south-facing door to leave her house so she could maximise her good luck by tapping into her success & wealth direction. She hasn't rearranged everything yet. She needs to wait till the weekend to do that.
To quote Bee - She said, "I just wanted to let you know that I really do feel such a sense of peace and I slept well last night, first good sleep in a long time!"
It really is a wonderful thing when someone feels better and is happier. I sincerely wish her the best and hope that she will continue to correct her feng shui so that she can reap the good luck 2007 has in store for her. But she'd better hurry! Half a year has already gone by. There's only another 6 months more for her wealth and success to manifest. next year, the sheep has the #7 Violent Star which makes her more vulnerable to theft, robbery, burglary and being cheated........
I remember her as such a bubbly happy young lady to whom I wrote lots of creative notes to. (Psst...I used to leave her all kinds of brain/eye-challenging notes that drove her crazee!)
Well, just as luck changes with time in feng shui, the happy-go-lucky-look-4ward-to-work-cos-you've-great-colleagues-and-boss-days don't last forever. Up/down, happy/sad is here today and gone tomorrow. I found out a long time ago that I should store as memory, all my enjoyable escapades and never look for the same level of satisfaction at the same place with the same people ever again. A similar occasion with the same friends in the same place may not result in the same enjoyment you captured before.
Bee's office which I used to tear through, (We were once colleagues)is no longer the same. A change of ownership has changed her General Manager and most of her long-time colleagues. Then, as fate would have it, the new General Manager turned-out to be a first-timer at his post who BECAME SO UNPOPULAR, egoistic AND arrogant that EVERYONE hated him! This resulted in the resignation of most of even those who were NOT retrenched in the first place! My, my...how upside down everything has turned out to be.....Bee's beloved division head also got himself transfered far far away....
Meanwhile, Bee's entire department's furniture were rearranged. Tsk..tsk..tsk...in such a way that desks were grouped together in fours, with the staff facing each other directly across the desks - two directly opposite two. Now, anyone who knows feng shui will be able to tell you that that kind of arrangement is asking for trouble. Staff seated directly confronting each other will lead to office politics, uncooperativeness, back stabbing and quarrels, although not necessarily with each other. To sum it up, work in such an enviroment will not be smooth. Colleagues will turn against colleagues, there will be more absentees due to illness or otherwise, projects will be delayed and there will be a general air of dissatisfaction. There will be not much trust and a whole lot of unhappiness going around. Work wouldn't be very progressive or productive.
Which brings us back to Bee. Poor Bee.
I told her to take the directions of where she sits, sleeps and the direction of the door she uses to leave her home. I wanted to check out her Kua number and her directions.
Sometimes, without spending even a cent/sen, you can lessen the impact of your bad feng shui if you know how; although this may be only temporary. Sure, it will make things better but to actually start having better times, you'd have to do a little more. But we'll talk about that some other time. Let's see what happens to Bee.
Bee was born in the year of the sheep. The sheep has the best luck of all of the 12 Chinese horoscope animals this year because the home direction of the sheep has the most auspicious #8 Flying Star in 2007. She should be having it real good this year.
After some calculations, I came to the conclusion that she has the Kua number of 3, which makes her an East group person. Her auspicious directions are S - Wealth & Success, N - Good Health, SE - Good Relationships & Networking Luck and E - Personal Growth & Future Prosperity. Her inauspicious directions are W - Total Loss, NE - 6 Killings, NW - 5 Ghosts and SW - Bad Luck & Mishaps.
Bee told me that she has been going out of a side door of her home facing SW, she was sleeping with her head pointing to the SW, and her new work seating arrangements had her sitting at a desk facing W and confronting a colleague! Even her desk at home was facing an inauspicious direction for her and she had the desk pushed-up against the toilet wall! You must never share a wall with the toilet as you work or as you sleep!
I guided her to change all of the above to her good directions and if she did it correctly, she would immediately feel more comfortable and at peace.
Well, whadayaknow? Bee calls 2 days later.....to tell me that she had made some adjustments. She changed the direction of the head of her bed to the south and was using a south-facing door to leave her house so she could maximise her good luck by tapping into her success & wealth direction. She hasn't rearranged everything yet. She needs to wait till the weekend to do that.
To quote Bee - She said, "I just wanted to let you know that I really do feel such a sense of peace and I slept well last night, first good sleep in a long time!"
It really is a wonderful thing when someone feels better and is happier. I sincerely wish her the best and hope that she will continue to correct her feng shui so that she can reap the good luck 2007 has in store for her. But she'd better hurry! Half a year has already gone by. There's only another 6 months more for her wealth and success to manifest. next year, the sheep has the #7 Violent Star which makes her more vulnerable to theft, robbery, burglary and being cheated........
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Fortune teller? Aaarggghh!
Let me tell you some of the shortcomings of being a qualified, certified, experienced Feng Shui consultant.
1 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
2 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
3 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
Occasionally my patience is put to the test. That's when people pop their heads in to ask if you can 'tengok nasib' or 'thai seong'. Needless to say, these people are from all the three major races - Malay, Chinese and Indians (In that order of popularity!)
I have to keep on telling them that I do not tell fortunes. I am a feng shui consultant or a feng shui master if you wish to accord me some measure of respect. If you want me to analyse the feng shui of your home or office, I can do that for you. I can recommend things that you can do or place in order to balance out the energies and elements of your workplace or home environment. I do not tell fortunes. Even if I took a course in palm or face-reading, it will be to enhance my feng shui consultations. I will not tell fortunes. If everyone's future is meant to be current knowledge, God would have made it available.
Honestly, it annoys the hell out of me when that happens. Maybe I should go to work with a bandanna wrapped around my head, wear huge loop earrings and sit in front of a crystal ball!
Today was the ultimate insult. A whole family (And I mean a whole family - dad, mum and about 6 off-springs) came in to browse.
The mum was so proud of her eldest son. She told me he is an interior designer and has already purchased all the feng shui books we have. She said that he is so interested in feng shui that he intends to use it in his designing.
Number One Son spoke to me and asked a lot of feng shui-related questions but didn't even seem to know the simplest of the basics. Humphm. So much for his library of feng shui books. Wonder if he even reads them. I mean, he asked me what he should place in his new car so that the registration number would win the four digits draw!!!?????!!!
I told him that there is nothing to place in a car other than to ensure safety whilst driving and protection against car break-in.
Almost immediately, his mum piped-up with this - "I bought this combination of numbers - 9*** Can you tell me if it will come out?"
I couldn't believe my ears. For a moment I was speechless. Then, I said,
"Ma'am, I am not a dead spirit who can give you four-digit numbers. I am a feng shui consultant" At this point, both she and her lady friend grinned and chuckled sheepishly.
SHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSESSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If ever anyone reading this posting, loses his or her daytime job or gets retrenched or laid-off work, put on that bandanna, hook-up the earrings, knock-out a tooth or two, grab that crystal ball and borrow your auntie's multi-tiered ruffled skirt - GOSH! YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING WITH ALL THOSE REALLY GULLIBLE PEOPLE OUT THERE SEEKING TO KNOW THEIR FUTURE!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
1 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
2 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
3 - Not everybody knows the difference between a feng shui consultant/master and a fortune-teller.
Occasionally my patience is put to the test. That's when people pop their heads in to ask if you can 'tengok nasib' or 'thai seong'. Needless to say, these people are from all the three major races - Malay, Chinese and Indians (In that order of popularity!)
I have to keep on telling them that I do not tell fortunes. I am a feng shui consultant or a feng shui master if you wish to accord me some measure of respect. If you want me to analyse the feng shui of your home or office, I can do that for you. I can recommend things that you can do or place in order to balance out the energies and elements of your workplace or home environment. I do not tell fortunes. Even if I took a course in palm or face-reading, it will be to enhance my feng shui consultations. I will not tell fortunes. If everyone's future is meant to be current knowledge, God would have made it available.
Honestly, it annoys the hell out of me when that happens. Maybe I should go to work with a bandanna wrapped around my head, wear huge loop earrings and sit in front of a crystal ball!
Today was the ultimate insult. A whole family (And I mean a whole family - dad, mum and about 6 off-springs) came in to browse.
The mum was so proud of her eldest son. She told me he is an interior designer and has already purchased all the feng shui books we have. She said that he is so interested in feng shui that he intends to use it in his designing.
Number One Son spoke to me and asked a lot of feng shui-related questions but didn't even seem to know the simplest of the basics. Humphm. So much for his library of feng shui books. Wonder if he even reads them. I mean, he asked me what he should place in his new car so that the registration number would win the four digits draw!!!?????!!!
I told him that there is nothing to place in a car other than to ensure safety whilst driving and protection against car break-in.
Almost immediately, his mum piped-up with this - "I bought this combination of numbers - 9*** Can you tell me if it will come out?"
I couldn't believe my ears. For a moment I was speechless. Then, I said,
"Ma'am, I am not a dead spirit who can give you four-digit numbers. I am a feng shui consultant" At this point, both she and her lady friend grinned and chuckled sheepishly.
SHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSESSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If ever anyone reading this posting, loses his or her daytime job or gets retrenched or laid-off work, put on that bandanna, hook-up the earrings, knock-out a tooth or two, grab that crystal ball and borrow your auntie's multi-tiered ruffled skirt - GOSH! YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING WITH ALL THOSE REALLY GULLIBLE PEOPLE OUT THERE SEEKING TO KNOW THEIR FUTURE!
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