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eptember for us is when we officially start
gearing up for the coming year. We have just
sent our Fortune & Feng Shui 2016 books
for each of the 12 animal signs to print and
these will be available for sale before the month
is up. Lillian Too’s Feng Shui Extravaganza
2016 tickets are also available now through our usual
channels (MPH, www.wofs.com and SISTIC) at Early Bird
discounts for those who get their tickets early, so do book
your seats soon!
This issue we have a collection of some really fabulous
stories. When the art and science of feng shui first came
into prominence with the earliest of Lillian Too’s books
“The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui”, it started
a worldwide craze where everything feng shui and related
became all the rage. Even primetime TV shows like
FRIENDS and THE SIMPSONS had their token feng
shui episodes. Then came the Zen period, when some
advocates of “feng shui” started popularizing clutter-
clearing and minimalist living.
Lillian was then approached by publishers to write about
this minimalism and decluttering to further elaborate
on her expertise. She thought about it, but then said,
“minimalism is not feng shui!” In this issue, she introduces
the art of Maximalist Living, a powerful mindset she has
always subscribed to and lived by, one which assumes a
state of abundance in one’s life always. This mode of living
permeates one’s lifestyle from the way you think, to the
way you dress, to the way you decorate your home… but
try it! It is uplifting, it is liberating and it attracts truly
fabulous good luck your way.
Our personality this issue has to be Donald Trump,
billionaire magnate and US Presidential hopeful. So
does he really have what it takes to get picked for the top
Lillian Too’s Feng Shui
Extravaganza 2016 in KL
job in the world? And what kind of President would he
make? While his campaign started out as a big joke, the
polls are now swaying in his favour, and like he points
out, “If I weren’t a successful person, it wouldn’t work so
well. Voters have great confidence in me because I really
have been successful.” He is no doubt a showman, and
yes even a TV ratings machine, but will he make the cut?
Lillian gives her opinion.
From the movie world, we feature Emma Watson.
Everybody’s favourite witch from the Harry Potter era is
now all grown up and finding her voice. She was appointed
to the United Nations as a Women Goodwill Ambassador
last year and has since made their women’s rights campaign
HeForShe her own. Together with her humanitarian
work, she continues to make movies at a prolific pace, with
at least three soon-to-be-released films featuring big-name
co-stars like Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke and Luke Evans.
She has a long bucket list, but looks to be checking off
each task with great efficiency. We take a look at her Paht
Chee chart with some interesting findings.
On the business front, there is no success story quite like
the Amazon.com story. Named after the greatest river
in the world, Amazon.com has forever changed the face
of the book industry, and is now conquering everything
else. If you look at the Amazon River and how it meanders
across South America, it resembles a mighty Water
Dragon; in terms of total water flow, it is the biggest river
in the world. Founder Jeff Bezos is a known believer and
practitioner of feng shui, and the name he chose for his
company surely was not one picked just by chance. We
look at the incredible mind of Jeff Bezos and his attitude
towards work and business.
Having just completed Lillian Too’s Spiritual Feng
Shui event where she shared the benefits of invoking the
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Goddess Tara, with Khenpo Delek Rinpoche leading a
one-of-a-kind Puja, we bring you full coverage of this very
special afternoon. Friends and followers flew in from all
around the world to attend this event, and among them
this year were Lynn and Phil Conder from Perth who
share their incredible real-life story of how the trip of
a lifetime manifested for them following last year’s
King Gesar retreat. Hanni Lim brings all the
details of this powerful aspect of feng shui – the
Spiritual aspect.
I know so many friends wanting to start
families, and in today’s world where women
work, settle down to family life later, and
juggle so many different responsibilities and
aspects of living, fertility has become a real
issue. IVF doctors are more in demand than
ever, with couples having greater difficulty
conceiving or carrying to term. Hanni Lim’s
case study zeroes in on this matter, where
a simple feng shui tweak was all it took to
turn a childless couple’s flagging marriage
around, blessing them with two beautiful
children. We also have a Pregnancy Taboos
list for all expectant mothers to take note of!
Helen Oon brings us Korea in London,
a festival showcasing all that this colourful
country has to offer. Their marketing motto
made full use of the K prefix, from their
world-famous K-pop, to K-fashion, K-cuisine
London Korean Festival 2015
and K-content. Perhaps they too have heard about the
numerological power of the letter K, a “master double”.
She also introduces us to the lovely Diana Culey, a
Malaysian designer making a name for herself in the
UK. Dato Kee Hua Chee meanwhile interviews Chef
McDang, a member of the Thai Royal family who is
lending his name and expertise to the newly opened
Chakri Palace, whose latest location in KLCC mall
serves up Royal Thai cuisine (different from your
regular Thai fare!)
Phillip Lim goes deeper with his Paht Chee,
explaining how to ensure your main door
conforms to both your feng shui Kua number
and your Four Pillars birth chart to maximize
the benefits it can bring you. Chris Yeo
discusses swimming pools and how to ensure
they look good as well as being an auspicious
addition to your home décor, while Lim Han
Jin gives a snapshot on the Metal element in
feng shui.
We have some even more exciting news and
offerings, but that can wait till next issue. In the
meantime, stay tuned to all our social network
accounts for day-to-day updates!
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boldly redefining
what it means to be
a feminist, and in so
doing, is winning a
lot of people over.

EMMA
WATSON
THE NEW FACE
OF FEMINISM
BY JENNIFER TOO
 Emma Watson burst onto the
world’s consciousness as
Hermione Granger, or “the
Harry Potter girl” in the most
successful film franchise in
Hollywood history. Catapulted
into the limelight at age 9,
and filming almost one movie
a year for a whole decade,
she grew up in the public
eye, and by the time she was
17, acknowledged that she
technically never had to work
for money again. But then for
Emma Watson, money was
never the end goal. She has
much bigger plans than that.

F
rom an early age, Emma Watson
learned to be very independent.
Born in Paris, she moved back
to her native England when she
was 5 when her parents divorced.
Growing up, her parents shared
custody of her and her younger brother, with
her mother in Oxford and her father in London.
Because her parents worked, she stayed back at
school most days, taking part in every extra-
curricular and after-school activity imaginable.
On set, unlike her fellow child actors, she didn’t
have her parents as chaperone because they had
to work. Says Emma, “My parents couldn’t take
the time off, they had careers and they weren’t
together. They couldn’t swap in and out like
Rupert Grint or Dan Radcliffe’s parents.” But
she never felt neglected. This however led to her
getting used to making a lot of her own choices.
Before Harry Potter, she had never acted
commercially, although she was a keen member
of the Oxford branch of the Stagecoach Theatre
Arts company. It was her acting teacher there
who recommended her to casting agents looking
for a little girl to play Hermione. Like her Harry
Potter co-stars, she had to go through 8 rounds of
auditions to get the part, but writer JK Rowling,
who retained creative input in the movie versions
of her books, supported Emma Watson’s bid from
the start when watching her first screentest, and
fought for her to get the part.
Indeed, as the series unfolded, Emma
Watson started to eclipse both her male co-stars

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 Emma Watson was
appointed a United
Nations Goodwill
Ambassador in 2014.
Her brand of feminism encapsulates
what the crux of feng shui is about. Says
Emma, “We need yin and yang. We need
balance. We need female representation.”
Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert
Grint in terms of popularity,
awards and critiques. Today, of
the three Harry Potter child stars
from the series, she is probably
the best known. While we will
always love her as the bossy
and self-assured Hermione, she
has successfully shaken off her
Hermione persona and taken
on more and more diverse
material, sometimes well beyond
her age. Playing Ili in Darren
Aronofsky’s NOAH opposite
Russell Crowe, she channels a
young mother fighting for the
life of her newborn babies most
convincingly, despite obviously
never having gone through
childbirth or motherhood before.
In 2009, she was ranked 6th
on Forbes’ list of “Most Valuable
Young Stars” and by 2010, she
was named Hollywood’s highest
paid female star, having earned
£19 million in 2009. In interview,
she has a confidence that belies
her age; if you go back and
watch her in her 11 year old
interviews, she had that then too.
She attended Dragon School in
Oxford, followed by Headington
School also in Oxford, and kept
up her studies during filming.
During gaps in filming, she would
go back to school, and when
asked if it was difficult to work
and study, she said it was like
having the best of both worlds.
“My life felt like both parts were
a holiday, coz I’d get a break from
school and go and do something
really exciting and fun. Then I’d
get to come back again and see all
my friends.”
She achieved straight A’s in
all her GCSEs as well as all her A
levels, and earned herself a place
Emma is
determined to
at Brown University in America.
use her fame to She was also offered a placed at
bring attention
to causes that
she believes in.
the University of Cambridge, but
she chose America because of the
breadth and choice offered in the
American curriculum. When it came
to renewing her contract for Harry
Potter to finish the series after the
5th movie, Emma didn’t sign on
immediately. She wanted to pursue
college, because acting wasn’t the only
thing in her life. She said, “I wanted
to have my cake and eat it. I wanted
to do everything.” But at the same
time, she said it was “difficult to let
go of a role like Hermione.” After
a series of talks with the producers
to stagger filming to allow her to
pursue University at the same time,
she signed on.
Emma Watson is definitely
someone terrifically driven. As well
as excelling in both the world of
acting and academia, in 2009 she
added modelling work to her resume
with contracts with Burberry and
Lancome, and got involved in People
Tree, a fair trade fashion brand. Says
Emma, “Fashion is such a great
way to empower people and give
them skills. Rather than give cash
to charity, you can help people by
buying the clothes they make and
supporting the things they take pride
in.” Today, she has become a leading
voice in humanitarian work, having
been appointed as a United Nations
Women Goodwill Ambassador
in 2014. She helped launch the
“HeForShe” UN campaign for gender
equality with a speech at the UN
Headquarters in New York City in
September of last year.
She wrote the speech herself, with
no speech writers. At first, when she
got the appointment, she started
writing out drafts, sending them on
to her family and friends to vet. But
everyone had a differing viewpoint of
the angle she should take, and what
she should change or tweak, that she
herself started to get really confused.
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So she threw all those drafts away and

wrote a brand new one without showing
it to anyone before delivering her
address. She aims to win over both men
and women in the fight for equality.
Says Emma, “We’re never ever going to
be able to fly as high unless we’re both
in support of each other.”
Her brand of feminism encapsulates
what the crux of feng shui is about.
Says Emma, “We need yin and yang.
We need balance. We need female
representation.”
She observed that feminism over
the years had become a dirty word,
synonymous with man-hating. But this
was not the case at all. Her fight for
feminism is really a fight for equality in
every sense of the word, which perhaps
Emma Watson has come a long
could be more accurately termed as way since her Harry Potter days.
humanism. Just as women should have
equal rights as men in the worlds of
business, politics and society – with gonna go.” When Emma Watson announced
equal pay and equal opportunities – A look at her Paht Chee chart gives to the world she was going to
men similarly ought to have equal rights an inkling to what really lies behind University, she says, “People kind of
to display their more sensitive side, to that steely backbone of a personality. got confused. They were like, why
be allowed to play just as large a role in We can see that her self-element is would you want to do that? If you
parenting, to not be scared to appear METAL, accompanied by her Month want to be an actress, surely you are
less “macho” without being ostracized. and Day heavenly stems also being already doing what you want to do.”
She is boldly redefining what it means Metal. Her Day and Month earthly But that was just it. Emma Watson
to be a feminist – and in so doing, she branches are both EARTH, which doesn’t want to just be an actress,
is winning a lot of people over. produce more METAL, making her although of course she is not going to
Just as she did in school when she a super STRONG METAL person. give that world up. She has a string of
straddled two worlds, she continues Her Hour Pillar earthly branch brings upcoming movies, with Ethan Hawke
to do so today. In between all her film yet more Metal. When a chart is so in REGRESSION, Tom Hanks in
work, she champions her cause and her terrifically skewed, it makes it easy THE CIRCLE and Luke Evans in
work with the UN. Says Emma, “You’re to catapult to overnight fame and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. She
not going to get rid of me until I get to success when one goes through a also has a list of directors and actors
see an equal number of female prime period that brings the chart back she says she would LOVE to work
ministers and presidents and CEOs, into balance. But her STRONG with in the future. So she is not done
and more men that feel like it’s OK METAL persona imbues her with an yet. Not by far. But at the same time,
to express how they really feel about unshakeable resolve when pursuing she will not just act. She will act and
things. And while I live in a world where the things she believes in, while her then some. From the look of things,
there is a narrowly defined definition of obvious intellect ensures her success Emma Watson will have her cake and
masculinity and femininity, I’m just not and popularity continue to grow. eat it.

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Our Spiritual Feng Shui event in Singapore at
the Marina Mandarin Hotel brought crowds
from over 15 different countries! It was a huge
success and the energy was truly uplifting!

Khenpo Delek Rinpoche, Lillian Too together

with Lama Kunchok, Hanni Lim and Emillie
Lee performed the condensed Puja of the
21 Tara Praises while the text was beamed Khenpo Delek Rinpoche
on-screen for the audience to follow. was very kind to make an
appearance during this event.

Jennifer and Mr Too here with Pralad & Yal Sunnasee

from Mauritius, and another student from Russia.

Lillian gave a powerful

lecture on the benefits of
practicing Tara.

Everyone in the audience

Faina Sandzhieva
got a chance to offer
from Kalmykia with
milk serkyem to Tara!
Lillian and Hanni
 LILLIAN TOO & KHENPO DELEK RINPOCHE

INVOKING POWERFUL
BLESSINGS FROM By HANNI LIM

THE GODDESS TARA

IN HER BIGGEST SPIRITUAL FENG SHUI EVENT YET!
Every year, we look forward to
Khenpo Delek Rinpoche
our annual Spiritual Feng Shui and Lillian Too

show in KL and Singapore,

where Lillian Too devotes two
consecutive Sundays to impart
spiritual feng shui knowledge
to her annual audience of
friends and fans! Last year
Lillian invited Khenpo Delek
Rinpoche to perform King
Gesar’s Protector Puja and
the “Hooking Abundance
ritual” for prosperity! This year
Lillian goes BIG on placing the
Goddess TARA firmly in our
consciousness. She once again
invites her dear friend and
lama, Khenpo Delek Rinpoche
to bestow precious oral
transmissions of the 21 TARA
Praises and Mantras!

T
he spiritual energy Here there are no charts to read or In the beginning, Lillian did
generated in our spiritual directions to take! not know if this subject matter was
feng shui events are Lillian’s spiritual feng shui event something her audience was ready
always mind-blowing! It’s focuses exclusively on the secret rituals to embrace. But the overwhelming
quite a departure from and methods that make up the third and response from our growing audiences
Lillian’s Feng Shui Extravaganza which most powerful branch of feng shui – the has been so encouraging. We find
happens at the beginning of each year. cosmic spiritual dimension. ourselves having to look for bigger

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Reconnecting with friends from all around
the world! Back row (L-R): Jennifer Too, Lama
Kunchok, Drolkar Chen, Julie Tan (NZ), Lily
Noon (U.S.), Pamela (Hong Kong), Amelia Neo
(Singapore) and Faina’s husband (Kalmykia)
Middle row (L-R): Lee Lee, Lee Hwang, Faina
Sandzhieva, Yal Sunassee (Mauritius).
venues as the number of people
attending our events continues to
grow.
It is heart-warming to receive the
awesome support and feedback that
we do; this is what keeps us coming
back, but more importantly, it gives
us the conviction that we are on the
right track, knowing that there is a
definite hunger for greater spirituality,
and instinctively, a deep need to seek
out the right kind of guidance that
enables all those who attend the Event
to tap the vast, infinite and powerful
forces of the spiritual realms.
It tells us that we are very much
in sync with the energy vibrations of
the current Kaliyoga age, an era where
we are see an explosion of spiritual
awareness and a desire to connect
deeply with our inner selves and lie in
a state of such wonderful Mindfulness
becoming more aware than ever that
there is indeed a third dimension, and
a fourth and fifth… to the practice of
living auspiciously and meaningfully.
Spiritual feng shui methods bring
swift and tangible results. We see it
manifesting in our own lives as well
as the lives of others! We receive
wonderful letters from our students
and fans who attend our spiritual
events and follow Lillian’s advice to
the tee. Our students rave about the
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miracles unfolding in their daily lives
and are always keen to share their
stories with us (read Lynne and Phil
Conder’s letter in this issue)!
Lillian began giving lectures on
Spiritual Feng Shui five years ago.
Since then we’ve seen a rise in the
number of feng shui masters who
have come out to reveal that they
also use spiritual methods. While we
celebrate the sharing of such powerful
ancient knowledge, we also recognize
that there are spiritual methods being
taught that are NOT SAFE to practise.
Here is where we want
to caution our readers
on this subject.
You must be aware
that there are white
spiritual feng shui
methods and black
spiritual feng shui
methods. To practise
spiritual feng shui
correctly and safely,
you must be very sure
you are learning the
white methods.
White spiritual feng shui methods are
always beneficial, and the motivation
that gives it power is always pure and
good. The black methods do not tap
the white forces of the cosmic realm.
They tap the darker forces, which can
be harmful if one does not know how
to have the right spiritual protection
or if one cannot call on a strong and
stable life force and spiritual essence.
It is important to be aware of this
crucial distinction between white and
black practices. It is for this reason
that Lillian is now introducing her
audience to the PRACTICE OF
TARA, which is very much a white
practice known by everyone of the
Buddhist Traditions.
Especially for this year and next
year, both 2015 and 2016 are known
in astrological terms as “dark years”.
Dark years are years where the cosmic
and worldly energy forces are severely
afflicted.
Natural disasters and tragedies
increase in such years. When the
energy vibrations are dark, we need
white magic practices to shine a
light through the darkness. Black
years are not necessarily unlucky
years; they are just black in the sense
of there being greater illness and
death, with energies being more
quarrelsome.
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and mantra at your heart chakra
protects you every kind of danger.
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 The KL Spiritual feng shui
was held at the Gardens
Hotel Ballroom. Here is
Khenpo, Lillian, Lama
Kuncok, Emillie Lee and
Hanni Lim performing
the Tara Puja.

Lillian pointing out the

importance of inviting the 9
Tara Mandala into the home

Hanni Lim and Jennifer Too

with Dato Kee Hua Chee
and his friend.

WOFS Business partners from

New Caledonia, U.S., Japan
and Kota Kinabalu

Russian singer and

performer Natalia
Pravdina who is
Lillian’s student flew in
to attend her event.

Our Tara Retreaters with Khenpo

Delek Rinpoche, Lama Kunchok
and Lillian.
TARA – A POWERFUL WHITE appears in over 1000 different forms,
PRACTICE it is so vital to have this but her principle form is GREEN in
colour. Her right hand is in the mudra
Tara is the ultimate female Buddha. confidence in Tara, of granting your wishes, and her left
She is an enlightened being and is thus
full of compassion and wisdom. As a
and to feel secure that hand sports the triple gem mudra
fully enlightened being, Tara sets no what you are practising while holding a blue utpala flower
conditions to helping anyone. If you is genuinely good and that represents her unlimited and
request her help with sincerity and real. unparalleled kindness. Tara can also
pure good motivation, Tara will always appear in the colours of white, blue,
answer and come to your aid. There is yellow and red. You can invite a thangka
no necessity to convert into Buddhism print of Tara or a statue of Tara! Choose
When we start engaging in spiritual a Tara you feel an affinity with, or be
and there are no “spiritual debts” to repay
feng shui, our senses become more like Lillian and have them all!
later in return for her help. She helps
sensitive to the invisible forces around
because she personifies the ultimate
virtue of bodhicitta, which means
kindness to all…
us and how they affect our lives. These
forces have always been there, they
have always affected our lives, but now
2 INVITE
MANDALA
THE NINE TARA
This is the celestial abode of Tara.
With Tara, you can always be sure
that we are armed with the methods of The Nine Tara Mandala comprises a
that you’re on the right track. You can
spiritual feng shui, we have the ability three-dimensional palace that houses
be 100% sure that you’re engaging in
to harness these invisible forces to the Nine Taras: Green Tara at the
clean spiritual methods that always
change our lives and the lives of others top, four outer Taras at the cardinal
lead to beneficial outcomes. Those who
for the better. directions and the four inner Taras
are schooled in spiritual language call
These invisible energies around us in the secondary directions. The four
the practice of Tara a white practice.
can be good, but they can also be evil. outer Taras protect us from harm
This means that it is a peaceful (and
When we rely on Tara’s Goddess energy that originates from external forces
powerful) practice that leads to love,
and protection, we are protected from – violence, robbery, imprisonment,
harmony, happiness and goodwill.
all categories of bad forces, and aided natural disasters and black magic.
The TARA practice is not an
by all the good forces of the cosmic The outer Taras also prevent us from
Ordinary kind of white practice!
realms. This is the powerful benefit of inflicting the same dangers on others.
practising Tara! The four inner Taras protect us from
In Lillian’s spiritual feng shui talk, harm brought by destructive internal
The Practice of Tara she taught her audience six easy ways emotions – either from ourselves,
is an extraordinary to practice TARA and to invite her or from others: jealousy, stupidity,
kind of practice that Goddess energy into our lives: arrogance, attachment and anger.
Just by having the Nine Tara
surpasses all others
in scale, power and
completeness. For
1 INVITE
TARA
THE PRESENCE OF
This is the first step – to invite the
Mandala in our home, we benefit
from Tara’s protection, and at the same
time, we channel the magical blessings
every worldly or image of Tara into your home. Tara of Tara into the energy of our home.
spiritual problem you
may be experiencing
in your life, there is a
manifestation of Tara
that provides the right
kind of help. There
really is nothing that
Tara cannot help you
with. Tara is skillful
and intelligent; her
guidance is never
wrong! We spend a
good deal of time TM

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Offering milk or
juice serkyem on
Tara Day multiplies
the blessings of
prosperity.
3 WEAR THE ENERGY OF
TARA
The easiest way to come under Tara’s
protection and guidance is to wear
the energy of Tara. This allows her
Goddess energy to be near you at all
times. Amulet pendants made in her
image, watches imprinted with her
mandala, mantra necklaces and Tara’s
seed syllable TAM in gold carry the
subtle energies of Tara.
When we wear them, our auric
fields merge with the energy of Tara
and this is how we create an invisible
veil of protection around us. Lillian
has designed many different Tara
pendants and scarves to suit different
tastes and budgets! Pick one that you
love, and wear it everywhere you go,
especially when you travel.
4MAKE
TARA
OFFERINGS TO
When we make offerings to Tara,
we accumulate a spiritual bank of
“brownie points” that translates into
prosperity and abundance! The most
basic set of offerings to Tara are the
eight offerings. These are eight bowls
that represent the following: water for
drinking, water for washing, flowers,
incense, candlelight, food, perfume
and music. Each of these offerings
has a special significance, and when
we offer them to Tara, we create the
spiritual merit to receive it back from
Tara!
For example, offering flowers
to Tara brings beauty. Th e more
flowers we offer to Tara, the more
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Khenpo Delek Rinpoche blessing
every individual who attended.
beautiful and attractive we appear
to others! Offering candles brings
intelligence and wisdom! Children
who light candles to Tara increase
their knowledge and improve their
powers of analysis! In addition
to the eight offerings, Lillian also
highlighted the significance of
making these other offerings:
i. Mandala Offering – This
is most powerful for
attracting prosperity
and wealth. A
mandala represents
the entire universe! The
mandala offering encompasses
the symbolic representations
of the sun and moon, eight
offering goddesses, the seven
precious royal emblems, four
wish-granting emblems,
parasol and victory banner.
ii. Wish Granting Trees –
Offering wish granting
trees to Tara brings
spiritual, material and
emotional growth!
iii. Serkhem Offering of Juice
and Milk – This is very
beneficial to offer at least once
a month on Tara Day, which
falls on the 8th day of the
Tibetan lunar calendar. The
serkhem offering comprise
of pouring milk or/and
juice over a chalice filled
with five kinds of grain.
5CHANT THE PRAISES and
MANTRAS of TARA
Tara’s mantra is OM TARE TUTTARE
SOHA. This is her essence mantra that
invokes all the Taras! To get really close
to Tara, Lillian advises her audience to
chant this mantra and recite the praises
to the 21 Taras daily!
To e m p owe r e ve r yo n e w h o
attended, Lillian invited Khenpo Delek
Rinpoche for the afternoon session to
give the complete oral transmission of
the praises and mantras of the 21 Taras!
It was truly magical! For those of you
who were not able to attend our event
on the day, you can still benefit from
watching the video which we will be
making available through Lillian Too’s
Mandala Ezine.
You can also join us in practising
the praises to the 21 TARAs once a
month through our webcast online.
To participate, write to us at
tarapuja@wofs.com if you wish to join us!
6PERFORM THE
MEDITATIONS OF TARA
Finally, Lillian taught her audience two
powerful meditations that can be used to
solve all our problems with the help of Tara.
The first meditation is a “Wishfulfilling
Meditation”, a technique for increasing
prosperity, abundance, intelligence, long
life and success! The second visualisation
technique she taught her audience is
specifically for overcoming difficult
situations with others! This “Obstacle
Removal” meditation can transform
even the most difficult boss into our allies
and friends!
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 Tara appears in a variety of forms; but mainly she manifests in white, yellow, BLUE TARA helps
red, green and blue. Lillian explained that these five colours of Tara have us to subdue
great importance as they symbolize the five categories of magical powers difficult people
she is able to perform. and cope with
To channel these kinds of blessings from each of the five coloured Taras, severe hostile
Lillian designed five different brass mirrors with the image and mantras of situations. She
the Five Taras. Just by having these five mirrors, one is able to utilize these can remove
powers to improve situations in their own lives. Here is a summary of what danger, violence,
Lillian explained on the day, and how the mirrors can be activated: black magic and
dark spells. If someone
MAMA BASU PUSHTUM KURU you know is under some kind of
WHITE TARA spell, you can reflect him/her into
epitomizes the SOHA. Use the Yellow Tara mirror
to reflect whatever you would like Blue Tara’s mirror to help remove
magical siddhi of the affliction.
Pacifying and to increase – i.e. your house, your
money, etc as you chant Blue Tara keeps you safe from
Healing. When enemies and just by carrying her
we use the the mantra.
mirror, you come under her
Mirror of White powerful protection. The Blue
Tara, we channel R E D TA R A ’ s
specialty is Tara mirror can be activated
her power to pacify by the mantra: OM TARE
ourselves and others. control or
enthrallment. TUTTARE TURE BENZA
White Tara calms anger and TAKA HANA LITSA PHAT
reduces hostile emotions. She can She raises our
confidence SOHA.
also extend life, heal diseases and
nullify poisons. The mantra for levels and helps
us develop skills to GREEN TARA
activating the White Tara mirror embodies the
is OM TARE TUTTARE TURE influence and control
others. When we supplicate collective
PRAJNA HRIM HRIM SOHA. powers of the
Whenever someone is angry at you, Red Tara, we develop a special
kind of charisma that makes us Taras in all her
reflect their face into the mirror to manifestations.
calm them down! When someone irresistible to those around us.
Our power of speech multiplies, She swiftly
you know is ill, run White Tara’s conquers all
mirror over their crown down to their and we find ourselves able to
persuade or dissuade others. obstacles that stand in
feet and back up again. Do this as you our way to success and
chant the mantra. Re d Ta r a’s m i r r o r i s
activated by the mantra OM attaining our wishes. Green
TARE TUTTARE TURE Tara is particularly effective
YELLOW TARA for repelling jealousy from
specializes in B O D H I C H I T TA
SOHA. Use this others. All career professionals
increasing. The can benefit from Green Tara’s
most popular mirror daily to enhance
personal charisma and mirror. Activate the mirror
Ye l l o w Ta r a with Tara’s mantra: OM TARE
is known as authority. Especially vital
for anyone in a leadership TUTTARE SOHA.
Vasudhara, the
Goddess of Wealth role.
and Abundance. She
increases prosperity, wealth
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casestudy
how changing their
BEDROOM LIGHTING
brought them their first child and saved their marriage!
M
any years ago while
I was living in New
Zealand, Patrick
and I became
friends with a lovely
English couple who lived in the same
neighborhood as us. Mary* and I got
to know each other through work. She
represented the school who was one of
my clients at the time I was working at
a digital web firm.
Mary and her husband Andrew*
came from Kent (UK) and they moved
to New Zealand because they wanted
to be able to afford a “beach and batch”
lifestyle. Mary is a secondary school
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By HANNI LIM
teacher, and Andrew was a Network
consultant in one of New Zealand’s
largest IT consulting firms. They were
such a lovely and beautiful couple...
truly the nicest and most polite people
we have ever met! Things looked very
cordial and picture perfect from the
outside, but as I got to know them
better, I realized that all was not as
hunky-dory as it seemed.
Mary and I became dog-walking
buddies. We met up every weekend
to take our pooches out for walks in
the park near our houses. She had a
gorgeous Golden Retriever named
Katy and I had a bouncy little Jack
Russell named Gypsy. One day as we
were having one of our walks around
the park, I plucked up the courage to
ask her a very personal question.
“Mary… you don’t have to answer
this, but I was wondering why you
and Andrew don’t seem to want to
have children?” It was then that Mary
started tearing up as she poured her
heart out to me. She told me that she
and Andrew loved children. In fact,
she and Andrew got married while she
was already pregnant with their first
child! As soon as they got married,
they moved into their new home.
Unfortunately, soon after moving in,
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Mary miscarried at five months!
A year after the miscarriage, Mary
fell pregnant with their second child.
They were both over the moon but
again, tragedy struck. Her second
pregnancy did not make it past four
months this time. And then, a year
after her second miscarriage, Mary
got pregnant again. This time, the
pregnancy didn’t make it beyond the
first trimester!
After their third miscarriage, things
between Andrew and Mary started to
fall apart. Mary spiralled into a state
of depression, and Andrew began
to withdraw into his man-cave. He
refused to talk about any of their
miscarriages and by the end of the year,
he had turned their third bedroom
(which was allocated as a nursery)
into a store room for his bicycles and
tramping gear. He even went so far as
to remove all the nursery decorations
and repainted the walls a dark blue.
A year passed and they stopped
talking about having children. When
Mary suggested they look at adoption
options, he would fold his arms and
not talk at all. They stopped going
out on date nights. And they stopped
having sex. Whenever Mary initiated
anything in the bedroom, he would
turn away and ignore her advances.
Another year passed and Mary
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began teaching night classes at the
school to avoid Andrew when he got
home. Andrew also started working
late and weekends. Both would speak
to each other or have meals together
only when friends came over for
dinner. Conversation was minimal
– only mundane topics like paying
bills, running errands or taking Katy
to the vet, or fixing a broken faucet.
Things got so bad that Mary began
entertaining thoughts of divorce.
Finally, Mary confronted Andrew and
issued him an ultimatum: she told him
that their marriage was over unless he
agreed to start seeing a therapist.
Both then began attending couples’
counselling sessions. By the time I
met them, they had already been
seeing a counsellor for eight months
and things seemed to have improved
slightly. At least they were talking and
laughing with each other again. Even
so, they were still avoiding the topic
of adoption or having babies. By the
time she finished telling me all this,
she had cried so much that her t-shirt
was soaking wet! I had to give her a
big hug. I could not believe that all
this was happening behind this “happy
couple” veneer that I saw!
I suggested to Mary that I could
take a look at the feng shui of her
house. At the time, Mary had not even
heard about feng shui, but she was very
open to my idea. I explained to her that
feng shui was an ancient Chinese art
of arranging furniture to channel good
energy into the home, and she just said
to me “Yes. I need good energy now!
But I would like to wait till Andrew is
out as he’s not keen on friends visiting
his bedroom.”
That very same weekend, I came
over when she called me. “Andrew
has gone tramping so he’s going to be
out for half the day! Come over now!”
I hurried over with my compass and
when I got there, I realized exactly
what was wrong! And luckily it was
not difficult to fix!
The good news was that all the
important sectors of the house were
intact. There were no Southwest or
Northwest afflictions in her home.
Both Andrew and Mary shared the
same Kua number – and their home
was facing their Nien Yen direction!
This was a very good sign – it meant
that from a feng shui point of view,
this couple had a real chance of
establishing a family! The Nien Yen
direction is a family and descendants
direction and this was also probably
the reason why they had not split up
yet!
The main feng shui problem was
their bedroom! Their bedroom was
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 located in the WEST – which is the
sector that represents descendants.
The intrinsic element of the West is
a METAL. But their bedroom was
decorated entirely in RED – the
element of FIRE! In the feng shui
element cycle, Fire destroys Metal
– and the red colour scheme was
destroying their descendants luck!
But worse than that –
directly on top of their
bed, Mary had installed
a huge designer ball-
shaped lighting feature!
It was a beautiful
lighting feature, and
really big – as large
as one of those Swiss
exercise balls!
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very simple change offered her a fourth
feature was hanging directly above the
bed in such a way that when she slept,
it rested about 2 feet directly above her
belly! Mary told me that this was the
lighting fixture that sold her the house
- she thought it was so special and it
has been in their bedroom since they
moved in after their wedding!
I advised her to remove the
lighting fixture immediately, and
replace it with a simple dome ceiling
light. I explained to her that this light
fixture was what caused her to have
her miscarriages. It was beautiful –
but definitely it was hanging in a very
UNSUITABLE place! I advised her to
move it elsewhere and I also suggested
she place a framed photograph of a
beautiful baby in the West corner of
her bedroom.
Mary was a little skeptical – but she
felt that it was time to do something.
She told me that that the red colour
scheme and that light was a regular
source of tension with Andrew. He
didn’t like the big lighting fixture to be
placed above the bed and had always
wanted to move it into the dining
room! He also preferred a more neutral
colour for the bedroom!
We agreed to keep this as a secret
from Andrew. But over the next three
months, Mary was able to persuade
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and replaced it with a simple
ceiling light. The designer
light fixture went into the
dining room as Andrew had
always wanted!
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As they worked on their makeover
project together, things between her
and Andrew starting getting better!
Their redecoration brought them
close again as Andrew loved house-
painting, and he was glad to have a
new project to keep himself busy over
the weekends. He was also thrilled
that she finally decided to remove
that light and even happier when she
suggested they paint their bedroom a
neutral beige!
By Christmas that year, Mary was
pregnant again! And by August the
following year, their first daughter Carrie
was born! I visited them at the hospital
after Carrie was born and honestly, I
have never seen a happier set of parents!
Today, Mary and Andrew have TWO
lovely children! Their son James was
born just three years after Carrie.
It just goes to show how important
it is to ensure that nothing is placed
above the bed when sleeping. This
chance at having children and saved her
marriage. Since then, Mary has become
a fan of feng shui. Her new house
by the beach has been decorated
according to feng shui colours
appropriate for all the different sectors
according to the Pa Kua.
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MAXIMALLY…
The art of living maximally is a powerful mindset that assumes must be one of plenty. There should
not be any lingering or subconscious
a state of abundance in one’s life always. This is a mental fear that you are spending too much
attitude that generates a life of plenty, where you make sure OR you are serving too much on the
there is an abundance of good food on the table, plenty of table OR that the food will go to
beautiful clothes to wear, lots of cash to spend. You are always waste. These are negative thoughts
thinking big, aiming high. Yours is a state of mind that propels and they are the result of scarcity
thinking. It is always better to have
you towards attaining the best of yourself. You dare to think too much than to have too little. This
big, dare to dine like a king, dare to dream enormous dreams, is the key that unlocks a confidence
dare to live beyond your limits, not just occasionally but that leads to a state of abundance!
always, and spontaneously. Constantly programming yourself Wealthy people NEVER worry
for prosperity, and forever rejecting a scarcity mindset. about there being too much food on
the table. When they eat with the
For this to be your reality, you should surround yourself with family, they dine with quantity and
abundance, breathe and live abundance, until this abundance quality; when they invite guests to
becomes a part of you. BY LILLIAN TOO dinner there is an even greater show of
abundance. There are bigger serving
bowls, more courses and a show of
greater opulence. This generates yang
chi which in turn attracts greater
prosperity into the home. Meals
served when guests are around must
look like a banquet.
Reject scarcity mentality and
minimalist thinking. This kind of
negativity becomes an obstacle to
your success path. It causes you
to fumble and stumble. If you are
entertaining a client or business
associate, you will appear nervous
and lacking in confidence. If out on
a date, you will project an image of
stinginess. If you are a guest, you
will definitely look like a loser if you
appear uncomfortable with a well-
stocked table. But dine in abundance
and you will come across empowered
and confident. You will look like

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DINING IN ABUNDANCE
There is always more than
enough food on your table.
When you eat at home, the dining
The Chinese believe that at least the winner you are, someone who
once a day, you should have a meal knows that your flow of plenty is a
where food is laid out like there is not continuing flow.
enough space to fit all your dishes. The

table should always be laid out with
many dishes, and at least visually,
the scene should be one of filling
up the table space to its maximum.
This must suggest choice and variety
of food.
food can be served altogether or be
served one course at a time, in which
case there should be at least eight
courses. And food should be served
with all the decorations, on large
plates and deep bowls. The mindset
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LIVING IN ABUNDANCE
All your rooms should be
furnished and arranged to
achieve an air of elegance that is borne
of good taste and ongoing prosperity.
Never make any of the rooms in

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Decorate your living space with
the highest level of opulance and
style that suits your budget! Living
in a grand setting has a way of
tuning your mind into a prosperity-
attracting wavelength!
your home look like you lack the
means to have all that you need to
live comfortably. Living minimally
is a very limiting state to be in. It is
neither comfortable nor stimulating.
Living maximally surrounded by the
warmth of beautiful possessions that
spell wealth and abundance is a far
more stimulating state to be in, and
also a lot more comfortable.
Hence go for the most comfortable
plush lush of sofas and chairs. Let your
living room have lots of comfortable
sitting space. Have well-decorated
tables and sideboards. Have walls
made beautiful by decorative art and
antique screens. Let your plants be
placed inside collectible porcelain.
Have curtains that keep the glare
out. Have beautiful windows that
bring the sunlight in. Have decorative
lamp shades that bring subdued light
that is bright enough in all the right
places, and have touches of elegance
that suggest taste and breeding.
Focus on emphasizing abundance,
not on the lack of it. Let your living
area suggest depth and creativity. Let
the space be clear of clutter, but not
clear of statement pieces such as having
a culturally rich corner that showcases
a set of your antique furniture… and
also create other charming corners
that get lit up by auspicious carpets
and coffee table books, and lots of
other things that make you feel great.
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nooks and corners of your home.
This not only gives your home such
depth of character, it also suggests
you have the time, the inclination,
the eye for beautiful things and more
importantly, the money and good
taste to appreciate the fine things in
life.
Living amongst things you love
is living in abundance. It emphasizes
how you are maximizing the energy of
your space. Nothing attracts a greater
mindset than this.
Each time you look at your well-
decorated room, filled with so many
things you love, you become aware
of their presence; that they are there
for you to savour and enjoy, and with
this realization, you begin to develop
a sense of appreciation.
And when you appreciate your
possessions, your furniture, your
Collect
something!
Suggest an
eccentricity, a
passion, even an
obsession that shows up
clearly in the decor of your home.
Collect auspicious things, protective
creatures, art. This always suggests
you are living a prosperous life.
Collecting symbols of good
fortune also brings wonderful good
feng shui. Collect porcelain, owls,
horses, elephants, birds, specific
art styles, spiritual thangkas, sacred
objects, wines, good whiskies, stones,
crystals… Collect anything at all and Be a collector! Collect all your
favourite objects and always
let your collections show up in the display them with pride!
Fill your living space with all your
favourite figurines and line your
floors with beautiful carpets! Make
your living space a place that
makes you feel rich!
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 tables, your decorative pieces, your
collectibles, your home, your space,
your life and all the things you have
so successfully displayed for your daily
enjoyment... that is when you will also
start to deeply appreciate your friends,
your family, your inclinations, your
work, and most of all, your wonderful
life!
This calms your mind. The
appreciation of your life soothes
your soul and turns whatever may be
making you feel sour at any particular
moment melt away; and instantly,
all that is positive and happy in you
emerges. This turns your mind to the
opportunities that have come your
way. Each day, you see all that you
may have missed, and in time, just
sitting in your home, all you have
invested in it to make it special to you
will manifest wonderful realizations.
These open your vibrations and
frequencies to the greater abundance
that is coming your way even as you
appreciate what you already have.
Living in abundance truly the best
way to live, as it stimulates your mind
and strengthens all that is positive
in you. The mindfulness within you
starts to weave ever greater magic in
your life!
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NOTHING LIKE
WARDROBE
ABUNDANCE
Apart from eating, the most important
part of our daytime life revolves
around our wardrobe, so having an
abundance of clothes that cover all
spectrum of the fashion conundrum
is what a good life is all about – our
daytime wear, our night time wear,
our casual and formal wear, our work
clothes and fun clothes, and most of
all, our accessories - our jewellery
(rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces,
pins, brooches – our diamonds,
pearls, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and
all kinds of super expensive crystals…
) couture clothes, designer bags and
shoes…
Want to live maximally? Build
your collection! Buy regularly what
you can afford. Indulge yourself
and create a wardrobe bursting at
the seams to give you the choices
you need to make you feel like
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Fill your closets
with plenty of
clothes so that
you’re always
spoilt for choice
when it comes to
dressing up!
an Empress. There is such great
abundance in fashion. Indeed, the
more attention we pay to the way we
dress, to our clothes and accessories,
and to the way we carry ourselves, the
greater the air of positive sang froid we
exude.
No m a t t e r w h e t h e r c a s u a l
wear, clothes meant for play or
clothes to impress at some grand
occasion, remember that the more
you consciously add on what I call
the trimmings - the jewellery, the
accessories, the scarves, jackets, vests
and other adornments - the greater is
the air of abundance you can create. Don’t be afraid
to accessorise
This is the inspiration behind our and collect
House of Too line of jewellery precious stones
in every colour!
creations.
There is no need to overdress, or
carry overly expensive Hermes Birkin way, you can easily live in a state of
crocs to suggest wealth or good taste. fashion abundance!
You can have an abundant wardrobe In recent years, women wear ten
with lots of choices for auspicious rings on ten fingers instead of the
dressing through the day without conventional one ring on one ring
having to own a fat checkbook; just be finger. They expertly mix and match
clever and organized, and look for real and dress in layers of tops accessorized
value… genuine finds at super sales. with jackets and shawls, bags and
There are so many deals being offered sunglasses to create their very own
that as long as you shop smart and version of boho chic… so nonchalant
organize your wardrobe in a clever in their dressing and even sometimes
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Silk scarves in
bright colours
protect and
activate
your throat
chakras!
Multiple layers can
work wonders.
unconventional, yet everything that
is worn is done with attitude!
It is the attitude that defines the
air of abundance, and this comes
from having so much to choose from.
Personal confidence then comes
naturally, helping you to carry off
what you wear with aplomb.
T h e s e d a y s , d re s s i n g w i t h
abundance can appear casual, but it
reflects the spontaneity of the current
generation. We now wear and carry
more pieces to accessorize the outfit
than ever before. We wear three layers
of tops (the secret of tres chic) and
carry two handbags, so IN these days
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Complete your
abundant look
with a trendy
handbag, fancy
shoes and bag
charms!
for busy and successful career woman.
Now even fashion is keeping up.
Hemlines now come in two or more
lengths hence the wavy hemlines that
have made them shorter in the front
and longer in the back.
Every fashionable and successful
lady today creates racks to hold her
clothes, plenty of drawers for her
jewellery, sunglasses, sling bags, tote
bags, clutches, shoulder bags, high-
heeled stilettos, wedges, flats, rubber
shoes, boots, sandals… our women
(and men) are so spoilt for choice, tell
me anyone who does not have more
than ten, twenty or if not more of
everything – and in every colour too!
We shop with a passion and sense of
real and joyous abundance. This is the
art of living maximally!
Dressing to please and impress at
the same time reflects the glory days
of today. We live in a richly developed
consumer society where social media
publicizes every new look, new colour,
new cut and new designer the minute
they come on the scene.
There is instant availability of
whatever is in demand - originals
as well as fabulous fakes. It is so
easy to buy. Abundance is no
longer about expense alone. Today’s
celebrity culture sways the taste of
contemporary looks, and abundance
is always about having plenty of
choice.
So you get the idea.
Prosperity programming is about
replacing scarcity vibrations with the
more appealing feelings associated with
an affluent ambience.
How do you do this?
1. “Hang out” with people who
have an abundance mentality.
Read, listen to and watch
empowerment gurus who
preach the power of the
positive.
2. Follow success stories in
books and magazines.
3. Have a positive attitude
towards the abundance and
the success of your friends,
family and co-workers.
4. Hang out with people in
real life who have more of
an abundance mentality and
less of a scarcity mentality. Be
selective with who and what
you put into your mind.
5. Create your own environment
of abundance and start
immediately.
People with an abundance mentality
are always happy living incredibly
maximally. Plus they work at creating
mutually beneficial relationships
where they always emerge from
each other’s company feeling good
about themselves. Instead of creating
competitive mind frames, theirs is a
feel-good mindset, so they praise and
share, and they enjoy life with supreme
confidence.
A new trend - to have rings on
ALL of your fingers. The trend
is to adorn all ten fingers with
jewels and precious metals
like gold or silver!
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WILL DONALD direct, arrogant, even insulting and

definitely not diplomatic. He enacts
the magnificent tycoon to the hilt.
Asked why he is so interesting and

TRUMP
why so many people are tuning in to
watch, he says simply, “It’s because I
am rich!” He is most likely not wrong.
We all find him irresistible because he
is a billionaire who keeps talking and
talking and everything coming out of
his mouth makes us laugh… but he
also wins our grudging respect! Go
BECOME THE NEXT U.S. watch his series of interviews with
CNN’s Anderson Cooper and you

PRESIDENT? BY LILLIAN TOO

will see what I mean.
It seems like Donald Trump is
the global main event of the Summer
of 2015, the ultimate Reality Star

C
a n t h i s Ne w Yo rk
Billionaire whose name
everyone must by now
know… surprise the
US political world,
Republicans and
Democrats alike and probably the
rest of the world too by winning the
American election next year?
He is currently ahead in ALL the
opinion polls leading into Election
Year 2016. He has a winning slogan,
“ M A K E A M E R I C A G R E AT
AGAIN”, something that seems to
be resonating with Americans across
the neo-political divide. Everyone is
watching, and we are as fascinated and
as entertained as everyone else. These
days I am taking him seriously as he
plays a robust national reality game.
His campaign is totally
unconventional; he refuses to play
in the ultimate reality show, and
even as he marches steadily towards
achieving his quest of wrenching the
Republican nomination from a clutch
of Presidential hopefuls, he could
even go on to beat the candidate of
the Democratic Party (be it Hillary
Clinton or Bernie Saunders or some
other!)
Can the Donald bring the TRUMP
name to the American White House?

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 Donald Trump is known all over
the world. Many years ago when his
name first burst onto the international
scene, he was busy consolidating his
New York real estate empire. He
became famous for his divorce from
his first wife IVANA, who coined the
catchphrase of First Wives around
the world when she took him to the
cleaners, wresting reportedly a record
payout in their infamous divorce.
Ivana taught all women cheated on by
their rich husbands, “Don’t get mad,
get even!”
Ivana Trump is a formidable
woman in her own right. She gave
Donald Trump three incredible
children, all fabulous looking and
as capable as the both of them.
Their daughter IVANKA TRUMP
is the ultimate daughter – smart as
anything, diplomatic where her dad
is not, and the perfect role model for
modern mums and daughters of the
new generation.
The personality of Ivanka Trump
makes her everyone’s friend; she
is admired and feted wherever she
makes an appearance, as much for her
beauty as for her charisma and smooth
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delivery each time she speaks. She
was chosen by her Dad to introduce
him when he declared that he was
indeed in the race for the Presidency.
She is easily Donald Trump’s most
powerful secret weapon. And like
her two brothers, Donald Jr and
Eric, who are themselves equally
well-honed role models for upwardly
mobile young men, she works for the
Trump family firm. Like them, she is
as fiercely loyal!
Watching his children, including
a younger daughter, Tiffany Trump
(from second wife Marla Maples) and
another son Barron, by his current
wife Melania Trump, and indeed his
entire family, I am filled with huge
respect for this man. They all work for
the Trump organization. Donald and
his three elder children all graduated
from Wharton Business School.
Tiffany is currently studying there
and is likely to join the family firm.
Together they have helped
Donald the Patriarch make the
family name T-R-U-M-P probably
one of the world’s biggest and most
highly-admired brands. The name
TRUMP spells wealth, elegance
and classy living. Trump brands
the properties he develops around
the world, alone or in joint venture
with other property developers. But
Trump is also into high-end hotels,
entertainment, resorts, casinos and
golf courses.
Donald is a bestselling writer
and a big time TELEVISION star
of his APPRENTICE series, which
has survived six seasons and is still
going strong, now helmed as much
by his daughter and sons as by him,
and of course, he owns the highly
lucrative MISS AMERICA and MISS
UNIVERSE franchise. His three
older children play crucial roles in
his business empire, valued according
to him at around US$20 billion,
although his detractors scoff at this
figure. Nearer to U$2 billion they say!
Who cares. He is still a billionaire
and a mighty showy one at that! He
has two private jets, lives at the apex of
New York luxury and has a beautiful
wife – in short ALL the sort of wealth
trimmings that the rest of the world’s
wealthy want to emulate, and maybe
all of us mere mortals too. He surely
epitomizes the American dream.
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Donald Trump with
his beautiful and
capable daughter
Ivanka Trump
Now he is in effect saying to all his
countrymen, Look at me! I am rich,
I am clever, I am a great manager,
a wonderful innovator, a successful
businessman, a great father, and I am
beholden to no one. I am using my
own money to run. I can make this
country great again. I can be the best
President you ever had.
One has to admit his rhetoric has
enormous appeal; and being a true
blue American, he surely knows the
way to win the hearts and minds of
his countrymen. As of this month,
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The Trump family (from left):
son Eric, with his wife Lara
Yunaska; son Barron; Donald
and his wife, Melania; Vanessa
Haydon and her husband,
Donald Trump Jr., with their
children, Kai and Donald III
Donald is a bestselling writer and a big time
TELEVISION star of his APPRENTICE series,
which has survived six seasons and is still going
strong, now helmed as much by his daughter
and sons as by him.
Donald Trump’s run is looking good!
Trump critics on every side are
getting increasingly desperate. They
want to believe that Trump’s current
popularity is as high as it will ever
go. They point to the miserable
1% climb in his popularity among
likely Republican voters after the
Fox News debate - from 23% to
24% - to suggest that he is simply
getting the vocal fringe vote. They are
praying that TRUMP will not emerge
victorious at the Iowa Presidential
Republican caucus, that most likely
JEB BUSH or one of his rivals will
come up alongside him and pull
ahead. They are saying that Trump’s
strategy of inciting controversy for
the sake of controversy is definitely a
risky campaign strategy.
They are also saying that Trump is
unlikely to really want to be President,
as tempting as it might seem. Being
President would mean giving up
direct control of his global business
empire. He would also have to forfeit
the hundreds of millions of dollars he
gets in endorsement deals each year.
Four years as President, cut off from all
business dealings and steady cash flow
from endorsements could seriously put
his financial situation at risk.
Wishful thinking surely!
The Celebrity
Apprentice 2015
Donald Trump’s bus alone with
the “Make America Great Again”
slogan extending across its sides
creates an irresistible oasis of celebrity
politics amid a desert of minivans
and shopping carts wherever it goes,
whether or not Donald Trump is
inside.
For many Americans watching
the Trump Presidential campaign,
all eyes must be on Iowa. This is
not just about a billionaire talking
bombastically on television. In Iowa,
Trump must beat all the veteran
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 politicians at their own game. He has
to count not on television rhetoric but
on the stumping reality of political
campaigning; so he is building one of
the most extensive field organizations
in the Republican field.
He is laying the groundwork
and he has a sizeable Iowa staff of
10 paid operatives, a number that
is fast growing. This is the clearest
sign yet that the Donald Trump,
the unconventional candidate, is
looking beyond his summer media
surge as he takes aim to win the first-
in-the-nation caucuses in February
2016. And should he win and the
Republican Party kicks in with
real, solid backing, Donald Trump
would be well on his way to actually
becoming America’s new President.
I took a bet with a good friend of
mine in Singapore. I am saying Donald
Trump will win the Republican
nomination. He is betting against
me. The bet is dinner anywhere in the
world selected by the one who wins!
My friend is betting against me
because he does not take Trump
seriously. He describes Trump as a
joke, with his wacky over-the-top
statements.
Indeed, after Trump’s first,
incendiary remark about Mexican
immigrants, things got complicated.
Univision dropped its coverage of
his Miss America pageant. NBC
cancelled his Celebrity Apprentice
show. Businesses started to distance
themselves from him.
But something else happened.
The anti-Mexican insult inadvertently
struck a chord with the fringe element
of America that once embraced the
tea party and knighted Sarah Palin’s
strident vice-presidential run four
years ago. Suddenly, Trump has started
pulling ahead in the polls, even as
the political world shakes in alarm.
Suddenly he is a force to be reckoned
with.
So we are seeing disenfranchised
supporters of the American electorate
steadily growing behind Trump.
Political pundits bristle at his
popularity, strongly insisting his
brand of blowing hot air cannot
sustain his popularity. They say
that Trump must present concrete
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I took a bet with
a good friend of
mine in Singapore.
I am saying Donald
Trump will win
the Republican
nomination. He is
betting against me.
The bet is dinner
anywhere in the
world selected by the
one who wins!
solutions and not just heckle the
political veterans. Whatever anyone
says, Donald Trump’s presence in
the race is profoundly impacting the
political landscape of America.
The reason the experts are getting
it all wrong about Donald Trump is
because they continue to look in all
the wrong places for evidence that
proves he can never become President.
They refuse to entertain the unnerving
possibility that a politician can win
simply by inspiring the voters, getting
them seriously worked up about issues
that are raw and real to them – about
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jobs, about making enough money to
live a decent life!
Trump knows the deal. He can
play the political game conventionally
too. So he has promised to issue
specific policy plans, and who’s to
doubt that what he puts on the table
to the electorate will be as good as,
or even better than that put forth by
other candidates? His money can buy
him plenty of politically savvy policy
paper writers.
Nevertheless, in the end, it is
not the dry position papers nor
high sounding economics nor clever
promises that win votes. It seems these
days it is the Donald’s brand of reality
show type unscripted spontaneous script
that appeals to them. Plus a BIG dose
of success luck!
In 2016, Donald Trump enjoys
very good lung ta, the Windhorse
luck that propels him to great success.
He is a Fire Dog who enjoys excellent
health luck but suffers a net cash
outflow in presidential election year;
not surprisingly! He is likely to
become several hundred million
dollars poorer. But surely becoming
the most powerful man in the world
is worth it! America has elected a
movie star to the White House, they
can elect a Magnate.
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had been looking forward to August. We had
arranged to put on the SPIRITUAL FENG
SHUI event in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Preparing for it had given me a wonderful feeling
of joyousness; and as it turned it, both events
were awesome, for me mentally and also spiritually.
I benefitted as much as those who came, and for us
here at WORLD OF FENG SHUI, reconnecting
with old friends who arrived from near and far – from
our home ground, KL and Singapore and also from
as far away as USA, Russia, Australia, Japan, India,
Indonesia and Philippines meant a great deal. The
energy in the hall on both occasions was powerfully
potent. I felt it and many in the audience did too.
What may not have been so obvious was that my right
leg was in a great deal of pain, to an extent that I could
barely walk. In between the sessions, I had to apply tons
of Counterpain and wear a knee guard to add strength to
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my walk. It started the day before we flew to Singapore
and continued through the week into the following
Sunday of the KL event.
But here’s the thing… on both Sundays as soon as I
stepped onto the stage, my legs felt normal, and it was no
problem at all standing through the day, but the moment
I stepped off the stage, the pains came shooting back and
they were – trust me - quite excruciating!
Then two days after the KL event concluded, I woke
up unable to move my right side. Turns out I had suffered
what the doctors refer to as TIA – Transient Ischemic
Attack; not quite a stroke but feels like one with the limbs
becoming completely numb, not with pain but with a
heavy immobility that is quite scary. My right shoulder
through my right upper and lower arms, as well as my
thighs and lower legs froze up. Naturally, I assumed it
was a mild stroke as I could not get out of bed. Thank
goodness I always have ASPIRIN next to my bed, so
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knew this would help, as aspirin is a
blood thinner, which aids the flow
of blood.
Two days earlier, I had been
assailed by a tingling sensation on
my right side as I was having a
shower. At that time, taking two
aspirins had caused the tingling to
subside. What I did not realize was
that little episode of the tingling
nerve ends was actually a warning. I
had not followed up on the warning.
For sure, this had been a mistake.
Then I did something even
more foolish. I was investigating the
possibilities of Essential Oils and a
friend came over to my place the day
after the KL Event to demonstrate
to me just how wonderful these oils
are. She seemed very knowledgeable
and was also very charming and
soft sell. I believed her and I let her
take two kinds of oils, which she
applied straight onto my knee and
then proceeded to rub them directly
into my right leg, which had been
hurting. Then she rubbed in a layer
of another kind of oil, again directly.
Next, she used another oil to rub
directly onto the base of my scalp
just above my neck.
The pain in my leg eased off and
I felt very happy. Mentally I started
thinking of all the different ways I
could try more oils, and use them
within a wider context. I had at first
been doubtful as I thought perhaps
oils are too strong and had to be
diluted before being applied directly
onto the skin, or even consumed.
But my friends’ assurances eased my
doubts away.
Alas, the very next morning was
when I awoke with the TIA. I realize
now that my body had been sending
me so many signals, and while I did
not altogether ignore these signs, I
had not taken them as seriously as I
should have. I started feeling afraid.
I am diabetic and am fully aware
that one of the dangers of diabetes
is suffering a stroke attack. My own
father had died from a stroke, and
I had also seen old lamas suffering
from this terrible affliction.
Jennifer and Hanni were amazing
– probably because they are young
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people who are very clued on about
medical symptoms. They are also
expert Googlers and within minutes
they had come up with enough
information to get a good idea of
what had happened to me.
I am lucky, I guess. My husband
encouraged me to take the B
Vitamins. My family doctor came
and took my blood pressure, after
which he assured me that mine was
not normally considered a stroke,
just a mild one that must be read
as a warning sign. My girls Jenn
and Hanni called Khenpo Delek
Rinpoche and Lama Kunchok, who
were both in town and who both drove
to my home immediately and we did
two important pujas and prayers.
The spiritual response to illness is
ALWAYS vital and can spell the
difference between full recovery and
a worsening of the symptoms.
Next day, my very dear friend
Siew Yong came over, and when she
found out what had happened, she
immediately advised I had to move
quickly; that I must NOT ignore
the signs. She instantly arranged for
me to see the specialist doctor at
her AYURVEDIC center. She was
absolutely confident that this was the
best way for me to get a long term
remedy. She said if I did not heed
the signals my body was sending me,
if I did not respond to the warning
signs, the next time I would not be
so lucky. The next time it could be
a real stroke…
Since I do not smoke, don’t have
hypertension, am not stressed out
and am almost a vegetarian (note the
word almost, so not quite yet but
trying...) the healing process would
be easier. So here I am writing about
my experience, in the hope that those
of you who may be diabetic or getting
on in age will find this experience
of mine useful. Responding quickly
and correctly is the key to full
recovery!
The AYURVEDIC massage
treatment using special herbal oil
and powder massage remedies is
truly excellent. I can feel the hardness
inside my limbs and body surfacing
and softening; and I can feel my
nerve endings coming alive once
more and my flexibility returning.
The full treatment can take anything
from two weeks of daily massages
and medications, and I have to say
I am beginning to enjoy the feeling
of release, which the hot oil massages
are giving me.
I had forgotten the joy of having
mobility. It had been only a few days
when my limbs had freezed up on
me. Now I feel relieved that I can
actually walk upright again and even
though I need to walk slowly, still I
can walk like normal! This is kinda
important as there are few things I
enjoy more than walking my dogs
every morning.
This experience that I am sharing is
actually something quite common, as
many people hitting the big SIX-O
need to be aware of. We are not as
flexible or as nimble as we used to be,
and sitting at the computer as often
as so many of us do, our bodies can
freeze up on us. I consider myself
very lucky and blessed.
I am realizing now that my acute
leg pains are not so much unlucky
obstacles to my work. No indeed,
they are a result of the blessings I am
being showered with. Rather than
getting struck down with something
truly tragic, I feel lucky I am being
given a chance to repair my body;
that all the causes and conditions
happened to have Khenpo pray for
me, to have the diagnosis, the doctors
and the treatment I need to recover.
These surely are such great blessings!
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 THE
POWER OF
THE GREAT
AMAZON
RIVER
A
mazon.com is just like
the great Amazon River,
winding its way across
the jungles of South
America, awesome in
its unrelenting flow even as it curves
its way across 6500km, depositing
the largest water discharge - 209,000
cu meters every second - into the
great Atlantic Ocean. Just think of
the power this entails! Just imagine
the supremacy of this kind of Water
Dragon, this sort of massive global
feng shui empowerment!
JEFF BEZOS is the genius behind
the Amazon model and the meteoric
rise of this enormously successful
company through the past 21 years
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boils down to the innovative sales and
commercial strategies he put in place.
Amazon.com’s logo is in white with
a hand-drawn yellow arrow under its
name. It is likely the awesome hidden
strength of the Amazon River must
have weighed in on his choice of name
and logo. Word has it he has a healthy
respect for all things Chinese. He is
fully aware of the power of feng shui
and from thereon, he knows about
the great significance of natural water
flows bringing huge success, drawing
on the natural landscapes of the
jungles to generate the fast growth he
has experienced.
The mindset of Jeff Bezos who
founded the company and remains
its President and CEO is worth
investigating and getting to know!
Let us try to understand Jeff Bezos. To
examine the way he thinks, study his
approach to work. Imbue his attitude
towards building the company and
follow his strategy and business model
for Amazon.
This is not an ordinary man. He
hangs on to everything he believes.
Jeff Bezos was a high-powered
Vice President in an investment
firm when he founded AMAZON
in 1994 at a time when the future of
the Internet was simply a pipedream
for many people. Nevertheless, he
left a financially secure position to set
up Amazon. When TIME magazine
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 When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, he named
his website after this great and winding river. The company
lost money in the early years but it has since gone on to
become the most powerful DISTRIBUTOR of books, and
today, of almost everything sold online! It now dominates the
world’s book trade after successfully changing the structure
of the book industry forever, causing the slow deaths of
bookstore chains around the world, including previous giants
BORDERS and BARNES & NOBLE in the USA.

interviewed him, he explained then, “I
knew that if I didn’t try this I would
regret it, and it would be inescapable”.
Bezos first rule in life is to
REGRET NOTHING. Setting
up Amazon reflects his attitude of
always making sure he keeps to the
Regret Minimization Framework he
considers to be his guiding principle.
Bezos second rule is to PLAY
THE LONG GAME. The early days
of AMAZON were not profitable
days. Bezos explains that he warned
his investors that the company would
be years away from turning a profit.
Indeed, to quote what he said at a
business interview he gave in 1997,
“We are going to be unprofitable for a
long time. That is part of our strategy.”
The company grew very quickly in
the late 1990’s, developing innovative
customer service strategies that burnt
through all the cash being generated
by its online sales.
But Bezos was always adamant and
he put it all on the line. It was not
until 2003 that AMAZON earned
its first full year profit. His vision
accepted that building an Amazon
size business meant having to forgo
profits… to grow and grow and grow.
Bezos knew he had to generate a sales
turnover as huge as the great river his
company was named after, and with
that kind of power, the profits would
come flowing in. Once at a Bank
Cocktail he whispered to someone
who asked… “Look at the length of the
Amazon… see how far it has to travel
before it reaches the ocean.”
Bezos third rule is to START
NARROW, THEN DIVERSIFY.
Amazon has long arrived at the
wondrous great ATLANTIC ocean.
The company started narrowly – a
niche business dealing exclusively with
book distribution. Today, Amazon has
diversified up and down and sideways
and more, much, much more. Today,
Amazon sells just about everything
from books to movies to clothing and
groceries. Now with Amazon Prime
and Amazon Studios, it has even
entered into the business of media
production.
Note that Amazon started by
selling one thing only: books! Selling
books was Amazon’s proving ground to
investors. The strategy was to start with
ONE specific product and building
a totally superior way to do it. The
Amazon model of E-Commerce is
today second to no one. With this
infrastructure in place, it is diversifying
into everything. Bezos’ vision was
always to create the EVERYTHING
STORE, and thus Amazon has become
the global E-Commerce Giant of the
world with warehouses and fulfilment
centres around the globe and with just
about everyone dying to be distributed
by Amazon!

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Amazon.com’s warehouse
employs robots and runners to
store, pack and ship out over
a billion products each year!
In 2014, Amazon’s shipping
revenue amounted to 4.49
billion US dollars

Bezos’ vision was

always to create the
“EVERYTHING STORE”
and thus Amazon has
become the global
E-tail Giant of the
world with warehouses
and fulfillment centres
around the world with
just about everyone
wanting to be distributed Amazon.com started by selling
only books and today their
by Amazon! selection of books is the largest
in the world!

And finally Bezos’ fourth rule
is to understand that you must BE
PREPARED TO FAIL if you want to
be innovative. Amazon’s success today
is the result of not just innovation on
his part; it was a very big risk at that
time in 1994 to put all his bets on the
success of the Internet, and to believe
that he could generate the billions of
dollars in E-Commerce sales that he
needed to justify all the investment he
was putting in place to establish the
fulfilment centres.
As anyone in the E-Commerce
business will tell you, fulfilment is a
logistics nightmare, and to perfect it
takes guts, superb process engineering
and tons of investment! It should
surprise no one that even Bezos did
not expect the company to succeed.
Indeed, he had even told those who
invested in Amazon that there was a
70% chance they would lose all their
money!
Bezos describes risk-taking as
very liberating. As he puts it, “That’s
actually a very liberating expectation,
expecting to fail”. Although, make no
bones about this, he may have expected
to fail, but his mindset was always success.
Bezos never doubted himself, never
regretted anything he did, never looked
back.
He is always looking ahead, and he
minds when his company is described as
unkind. When recently THE NEW YORK
TIMES ran a big (and very unflattering)
story about the Amazon corporate culture,
Bezos quickly responded.

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 Yes, Jeff Bezos is data Yes, it is admitted, Jeff Bezos is data
driven. He is a logistics driven. He is a logistics guy, a metrics
guy, a metrics man, an man, an algorithms empowered person -
algorithms empowered this is the very heart and soul of Amazon.
com. As if to explain the corporate
person. This is the culture of Amazon, he once shared the
heart and soul of story of how he attempted to stop his
Amazon.com grandmother smoking. It is a story he
told the Princeton University graduating
class of 2010, “I did not beg or appeal
to her sentiment. I just did the math for
her, calculating that every puff cost her
a few minutes. “You’ve taken nine years
off your life”, he told her. He was ten
years old at that time. She did not say he
was smart. She simply burst into tears.
Jeff Bezos has not changed. Indeed,
it is his unswerving, calculating brain
that has become the engine that drives
Amazon.com. Thus we see an Amazon
today that is a totally impersonal
company powered exclusively by metrics
and algorithms to get the most out of
every trade. No one runs Amazon; it
is the algorithms as worked out by the
computers that run the company.
Ask anyone who sells through
Amazon. “We don’t deal with anyone
human at Amazon; how our products
sell, how much help Amazon gives to our
product, all depends on the algorithms,
and if you don’t understand what this is,
it will be hard for you to be successful
selling through Amazon!”
Bezos himself admits that it is harder
to be kind than to be clever. Telling his
grandmother that her smoking would
take 9 years off her life was him being
clever, not kind. This is the way he still
is, but he is not an unkind man. His
leaning towards metrics, working out
what everything costs in terms of time,
money and whatever else he wants to
measure - when actually calculated out,
makes him act in a seemingly harsh and
unrelenting manner, and this can well
trickle down to how his staff behave.
Hence this becomes part of the Amazon
corporate culture.
Just like the great river which flows
unrelentingly towards the ocean, it
flows on totally unsentimental, and
completely devoid of feeling. The great
river does its job, generates the flow,
The Amazon River in South delivers the products and captures
America is the largest river
in terms of volume of water
the profits. It does the job for anyone
in the world. In feng shui, with total efficiency. Amazon is sure
water represent wealth. An
auspicious namesake indeed. to efficiently deliver anything and
everything we order online.

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 5 MINUTE FENG SHUI
with Lim Han Jin

I
n the second part of this series, I
would like to focus on the Metal
Element. Just to recap, knowledge
of the five elements form the core
framework in the Chinese sciences
of geomancy, medicine and basically
how the world works from a Chinese
perspective. Like the all other elements,
the Metal element has both a Yin and
Yang state. Yin Metal is represented
generally by ornaments and objects that
do not move or make any sound. A good
example of this is a set of “Fuk Luk Sau”
made in brass.
Yang Metal can be represented by
items such as clocks, where there are
gears inside that can move and make
some sound. Windchimes are perfect
examples of Yang Metal as the chimes
move in the wind, creating vibrations
that generate sound.
In the cycle of elements, the Metal
element is produced by the element
ACTIVATING THE
of Earth, which fuels it and makes it
stronger. The Metal element is exhausted
by the Water element, and is destroyed
by the Fire element. It destroys the
METAL ELEMENT
Wood element, and exhausts the Earth guru. Once activated properly, you both of which are of the Earth element.
element. Therefore it can be used to will find that mentors that appear Traditionally, Metal element cures come
cure afflictions based on other formulas. at different stages to impart the in the form of windchimes and bells.
Placing Earth energies in Metal sectors knowledge you require at that point Do note the use of Metal to cure Wood
will enhance them, Water element in time. element afflictions will make the energies
energies will weaken them and Fire even more unstable, which could end up
element energy will be destructive. With Using Metal in worsening the affliction.
this in mind, we can then start to apply Flying Star Formulas
these principles to the various formulas In Flying Star Feng Shui, Metal is Metal Elements
in Feng Shui. represented by the Auspicious Star in the modern age
6, which can bring windfall luck and Today, metal objects are very common
Eight Aspirations authority luck. As it is an auspicious as everyday objects, and we have to
Under the Eight Aspirations formula, star, you should place Metal and Earth take special note that the Metal element
the West sector governs Descendant’s elements in the sectors where the #6 can reduce the luck of Wood elements
Luck. Its element is Small/Yin Metal star appears, to enhance the good luck sectors. For example, if you have a
and you can activate it by using Yin it brings. clothes hanger in the yard and it is
Metal energies. So if you would like The other Metal element star is made mostly of metal, if placed in a
your family to grow larger, you can the Robbery and Accident Star 7. This Wood sector, especially the Southeast,
activate this sector with lots of metal star, unlike the 6, brings bad luck that it can harm wealth luck of the home.
ornaments to bring more children for can cause you to lose money or even Similarly, cars are also made of metal, so
yourself if you are still young; while for get injured causing you to “see some when designing your house, placing the
the older generation, it can help secure blood”, which can mean minor cuts or garage in the Northwest or West sectors
a fertile marriage for your children, thus even accidents that may cause you lose will be beneficial. Avoid building the
producing lots of grandchildren. a limb or two. To cure this, we use the garage in the East or Southeast sectors
The Northwest sector represents the exhausting cycle where Yin Water (still of your home.
element if Big/Yang Metal and represents water) is placed in the affected sector. Look around your space to see if there
the mentor luck of the occupants A good symbolic cure for this star are are metal element objects in your Wood
within the home. It can be activated the Blue Rhino and Elephant. sectors and check that you have activated
with windchimes or clocks to actualize The Metal element can also be the correct sectors with Metal energies.
mentors in your life, whether for your used to cure Earth stars such as the This will help ensure the environment
career or if you are looking for a spiritual Five Yellow and the Illness Star 2, you are living in is in balance.

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LETTER FROM LYNNE AND PHIL, AUSTRALIA
Dearest Lillian and the WOFS Team,

O
n behalf of myself and my family – Phil,
Lynne and Phil Conder and
Courtney and Krystall, we really want to their two daughters Krystall and
Courtney at Lillian Too’s Spirtual
thank you and your amazing team for the Feng Shui event last year.
wonderful work you all do each year and all
you have done for our family! I want to share with you
the awesome GIFT that was given to us by King Gesar
and Guru Rinpoche after we attended your Spiritual
Feng Shui Event last year in 2014!
Last year, my whole family and I flew from Australia
to Singapore to attend your Spiritual Feng Shui event.
During your lecture, you introduced us to King Gesar
and the magical ritual of “Hooking Abundance” which
you explained is especially powerful for the fulfilment of
wishes, prosperity and success. You told us that the ritual
text says that this prayer is recited 108 times, definite
blessings will manifest for us. And because we were doing
this ritual together with a thousand others during that day,
the power of the ritual was multiplied!
I was really so thrilled, as I had already made a mental
checklist of all the wishes I wanted to hook and attract! I
especially asked for Phil and I to be able to spend quality
family time together with my two girls, as both of them
study 600kms away (6 hours drive) from our home! It’s not
like they can just pop home for dinner anytime! I really
miss them dearly every day!
At the event, we were so excited as you had arranged Khenpo Delek Rinpoche and
for Khenpo Delek Rinpoche, yourself and your M.A.F.I.A. Lillian taught the audience how
to use the daktar to hook the
friends to perform this ritual on stage with us using the abundant blessings of King Gesar!
daktar hooking wand. Hanni had told us in the morning
to get these wands before they were sold out, and I’m so
happy that all four of us managed to get one! to France, Monaco and Disneyland for the entire family!
Just before the afternoon puja started, I noticed that It was an all-expense-paid trip, complete with business
everyone in your group had a daktar on their prayer class tickets, lavish meals, top-notch accommodation and
table except Mr Too- who did not have his own daktar. I plenty of VIP highlights and events rolled in! The lady on
signalled to Hanni that she could borrow mine – and she the phone asked me when my family and I could go, and
came over to bring my daktar to Mr Too! I felt so lucky as I said “I can’t right now, I still haven’t unpacked from our
I knew it would empower the daktar even more if it was Singapore trip!!!”
used by one of your MAFIA members during the ritual. Wow! We could not believe our good fortune – we
As we were learning how to hook in the abundance, I felt knew without a doubt that it was King Gesar’s blessings
incredibly fortunate that such a powerful ritual was being that we received at your event! What a remarkable blessing
taught to us. The event was a huge success … and we felt – it was the answer to my wish – but much, much MORE!
energized and so positive after attending! It would be a whole month of Phil and I spending super
When we arrived back to our home, which is situated amazing quality time with my girls, all paid for!
outside of Perth in West Australia (six hours flight and Finding the right time to go on this trip wasn’t easy
another six hours drive to our house from the airport) as we have two businesses to run, and my girls are at
we were so exhausted and jetlagged but so happy and university most days. As taught by Lillian and Khenpo
glowing from our trip! As we took a rest at the dining Delek, Phil and I prayed to King Gesar every day for a
table, I was just giving myself and my family a pep talk month and hung his flags all around our business. Our
about unpacking and all that… when… business seemed to be getting very busy since King Gesar
A phone call came from the radio station, telling us entered our lives… and so we prayed hard to find the time
that we have won their major prize of a four-week trip to do this trip.
 How cool is that – it’s like King Gesar
tailored this entire tour just for our
family - fulfilling every dream each
of us had! It was amazing! And the
fun didn’t stop here… there’s more!

The four of us,

visiting Notre Dame
Cathedral.

Dream come true for us -

visiting the Eiffel Tower all
together as a family.

Here we are at Euro Disney with
Mickey Mouse. We were very well
looked after and felt like happy
little children all over again.
PARIS – THE CITY OF ROMANCE!
Almost exactly a year later, we finally found a window of
time for all of us to go on this trip. It was truly the trip
from heaven! We spent four weeks travelling in Paris and
all around France and Monaco!
On the first week there, we were hosted as VIP guests at
Euro Disney – where they put us up in their AUD$10,000
family suite –while giving us guided tours and exclusive
“no-waiting” access to all the rides and parades! We had
such a glorious time – like being little children again! It
was magical!
Then they took us to Paris for shopping and
sightseeing! We visited the Louvre Museum, Notre
Dame Cathedral, the Arc de Triomphe, Versailles
and even cruised down the Seine River to visit designer
shops like Chanel! It was truly Krystall’s (my eldest
daughter) dream come true to be able to visit the original
Chanel shop. We were given special access to view Coco
Chanel’s private apartment and her famous mirrored
staircase which all Chanel fans and models want to be
photographed on!
As a keen gardener myself, I particularly enjoyed
Claude Monet’s House and Gardens and the Villa
Ephrussi de Rothschild estate, which were on my bucket
list from way back, and is now being fulfilled without
my having to organise anything myself! At night, they
took us to the Eiffel Tower and we stood there together
as a family, marvelling at our great good fortune, taking
in the breathless beauty of the lights and views of Paris.
Courtney, our youngest daughter, had watched Moulin
Rouge on video so many times and had always wanted to
be here. And what do you know, they took us to watch
Moulin Rouge live – which was such a BIG highlight for
her!
We then travelled for the next 14 days to the south and
north of France. I loved Provence, Arles where Vincent
Van Gogh the great artist created his master pieces. We
also visited Nice and the French Riveriara – where we
were told was a hot holiday destination for celebrities! We
were completely blown away at the extravagant mansions
and toys of the rich and famous!
 Here is a breathtaking view
of Monaco Harbour. The
weather was just perfect
throughout our stay there!
Cruising down the
Seine River. Each of
us are wearing Lillian’s
Popularity scarf with the
Seven Royal Emblems,
which made our trip so
smooth and lovely.
MEETING WITH ROYALS AT MONACO
And then there was Monaco! They put us up at the
fabulous Monte Carlo Hotel which is very famous for the
F1 cars racing under the hotel. This is where Phil’s dream
came true – of driving a brand-new red Ferrari around
the city and along the Grand Prix circuit!
How cool is that – it’s like King Gesar tailored this
entire tour just for our family - fulfilling every dream each
of us had! It was amazing! And the fun didn’t stop here…
there’s more!
We all enjoyed the visit to the Royal Palace of the
Grimaldis and marvelled in amazement at how lucky our
timing was! Princess Caroline’s son - Pierre Casiraghi was
having a pre-wedding ceremony to his long-time girlfriend
and model Beatrice Borromeo! Then 2 days later, while
on our flight back from Nice to Paris – in business class
we were seated near Princess Stephanie and her daughter
Pauline Ducruet. Lillian once told us that meeting up
with Royalty by chance is always an auspicious sign – and
we felt so blessed that our Monaco trip brought us in close
proximity with not one but two royals!
WALKING WITH LIONS AT MAURITIUS!
Finally, our whirlwind vacation concluded with a stop-over
at the island of Mauritius (on the way back from France to
Australia)! Even this little stop-over was arranged for us.
We were taken to the “Walk with Lions” safari and here
you can see from our photos that we really got up close
and personal with these majestic furry creatures! It was a
little scary to come up so near these lions, but something
inside us knew we were protected by King Gesar, Tara
and Guru Rinpoche and that there was nothing to fear!
Lillian, these popularity scarves that you make are
truly a God-sent. All of us wore your amazing amulet
scarves throughout the trip and we were truly greeted
and treated royally – like real VIPs! There were absolutely
ZERO obstacles – we didn’t lose anything, there was not
a single delay in our flights or tours. Everywhere we went
we were met only by friendly faces and helpful people.
In fact we were constantly told by the people hosting
us – “this is your lucky day we have a surprise for you
or something extra is happening today”! So auspicious!
Even the flight attendants actually thanked us for wearing
these scarves as they felt that just by having us in their
plane, they felt safer! It was very surreal and yet all this
happened to us!
This trip was really filled with the most memorable
and cherishing moments! Phil and I realized that it was
a real blessing from the Buddhas - something that cannot
be afforded or even arranged by us even if we tried. It
was really something that that can only happen to your
life if you are lucky enough to win or have hooked your
wishes and dreams.
Our family had the most amazing time together, and
throughout the trip we felt the hand of King Gesar, Guru
Rinpoche and Tara fulfilling our wishes and guiding us
the whole time. Thank you Lillian and your amazing
team for introducing King Gesar to us and for sharing
your knowledge with the world. As soon as we got home
from our trip we rested for 1 day just to pack ourselves
and make our way to KL for this year’s event. We just
had to share this trip with you and thank you!
We Love YOU so much!
A Walking with Lions- Safari
Tour was a great culmination
of our trip. Here’s Krystall (who
will be a vet one day) petting
this lovely mama-lion
 SUPERSTITIONS
Traditional beliefs around the world place great importance on
rules for pregnant women to follow to ensure baby goes full term.
Expecting mothers must put attention to observing these taboos,
AVOID PINEAPPLE
According to Traditional
Chinese Medicine,
consuming pineapple
clears the lining
of the womb. So
eating pineapple
while pregnant
is a big NO-NO
as it can lead to
miscarriage!
Avoid at all
costs.
TIE A RED THREAD
In Russia, pregnant ladies
and new mothers believe
that babies can “catch”
bad luck when the mother
is out taking a stroll. To
ward off bad luck, it is
customary to tie a red
thread onto the baby’s
stroller. Pregnant ladies
also tie a red thread on
their clothes to ward off
bad spirits!
PRAISE OTHER BABIES
If a pregnant woman
criticizes someone else’s
child, their own baby will
look and act like the child
or baby they criticize.
During pregnancy, the
best advice to follow is
for the expecting mother
to keep all her thoughts
and negative opinions to
herself.
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especially during the early months of pregnancy!
AVOID USING GLUE
The Chinese believe that
touching anything with
glue or adhesive can cause
the baby to develop an
unsightly birthmark on
the face. This can also
cause the birth to be
very difficult.
NEVER GO OUT OR
DO NOT SIT BY THE
GIVE BIRTH DURING
DOORSTEP
SUN OR MOON ECLIPSE
A solar or lunar eclipse In Indonesia and rural parts
is considered very bad of Malaysia, sitting by the NO GRANDMAS IN
luck. You must never look doorstep or on the foot of THE DELIVERY ROOM,
at an eclipse! Expectant the stairs while pregnant is PLEASE!
mothers are advised not to believed to tempt wandering The pregnant woman’s
go outside or schedule any spirits to enter into the mother can be present at
births during an eclipse. womb and cause labour delivery of the first child,
Babies born during an difficulties! but should not be there for
eclipse are considered a subsequent children.
bad omen. AVOID FUNERALS
The Chinese believe that
NO USING HAMMERS pregnant mothers and
OR TOOLS newborns should NOT go
Do not knock the wall or anywhere near funerals or
heavy furniture as doing so cemeteries. These are places
can result ugly birthmarks filled with spirits that can
on the baby. If easily attach themselves
you strike an to a developing foetus
animal during or a small infant! If
pregnancy, the you must go, the
newborn child convention is to tie a
will look and red ribbon around the
behave like that baby bump together
animal. with a strong amulet!
WEDDINGS & LARGE
CANNOT USE SCISSORS PARTIES CAN BE TOO
Avoid placing sharp objects such as knives or scissors on or MUCH!
near the bed. In fact, the expecting mother should refrain The Chinese believe that
from using scissors even to cut paper or cloth. Doing so can weddings and large parties
result in the baby being born with can cause their foetus to
a cleft lip. Sometimes this can lead meet up with jealous ghosts
to the baby getting scarred. that cause miscarriages or
deformities. Avoid them
towards the last trimester.
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K
nown as Budai to the
Chinese, the Laughing
Buddha is revered as one
of the most powerful
Buddhas in the Chinese
pantheon of Buddhas. This happy,
smiling bot-bellied Buddha can’t help
but lift your spirits and inspire a smile
when you look at him! His presence
in the home brings an enormous dose
of happy energy that dispels all your
troubles and woes!
Over the years, we have heard
many uplifting stories from our
fans, telling us how their lives have
transformed for the better just by
inviting the Laughing Buddha into
their lives. One lady we know was
going through a bitter separation with
her husband and then one day, she
came across an oriental store that was
selling a beautiful porcelain Laughing
Buddha seated with his right hand
raised as if to say “Stop.”
“ He l o o k e d s o h a p p y a n d
contented, and I was feeling so
depressed that day. I felt that like
he was calling out to me, telling me
that he could stop my unhappiness
and that he would lend me some
of his happiness energy,” she said.
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THE LAUGHING
BUDDHA
BRINGS ALL
VARIETIES OF
HAPPINESS LUCK!
By HANNI LIM
She brought home the
Laughing Buddha that
very day and placed him at
the entrance of her home. That
year, she and her husband made
amends and the two are now still
happilly married!
Another woman who came for
one of our courses told us how the
Laughing Buddha helped her get
married! She had been single for many
years and had great difficulty finding
a good man to marry! On her 30th
birthday, her best friend gave her a little
white Laughing Buddha with children,
and told her it was a wish-fulfilling
Buddha! She held the Laughing
Buddha close to her heart and made
a silent wish to find a wonderful man
who would make her happy in every
way. Within a month, she moved into
a new apartment and met a lovely man
who lived right next door to her! He
swept her off her feet completely and
the two are now happily wedded with
a baby on the way!
The Laughing Buddha is truly
the best antidote to all kinds of
unhappiness. He appears in many
postures to symbolize his ability to
alleviate all kinds of complications
from your life! But no matter what
he is carrying or wearing, he is always
depicted with a huge potbelly, always
laughing and always relaxed and
contented.
His large belly is said to symbolize
the happy and content life that comes
from abundance and prosperity, and
having enough to eat. His laughing
expression reminds us that life does
not need to be so serious all the time –
and whatever suffering we have is just
a temporary illusion. He reminds us
that whenever we feel sad, all we need
to do is laugh!
The Laughing Buddha is usually
seen carrying or sitting on a huge
sack. The sack does not carry money;
in fact, it carries all our problems and
obstacles! This signifies the Laughing
Buddha suppressing and removing all
our difficulties, obstacles and sadness!
HE REPRESENTS THE
FUTURE BUDDHA
The reason why the Laughing Buddha
generates such powerful happiness
energy is because he’s not an ordinary
ornamental figure. He is a bodhisattva
and the manifestation of MATREIYA–
the Future Buddha. According to
Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha
Matreiya is predicted to appear on Earth
(like how Shakyamuni and the Buddhas
before him came to the world) to save
the world and re-establish the teachings
of the dharma when it is degenerated to
an almost non-existent state. Until then,
Matreiya appears in many different
forms – the most popular being the
Bodhisattva Laughing Buddha.
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with the Laughing
Buddha creates a karmic
link with Matreiya and
ensures that when he
returns in the future,
our future life will come
under his protection and
guidance. This is another
reason why everyone
should invite at least one
form of the Laughing
Buddha into their homes
and place him in a
respectful place!
Matreiya has taken the form of
the Laughing Buddha with the sole
purpose of helping us enjoy a happier
life. Having a good life that is free from
major obstacles is not only desirable, it is
essential for the attainment of spiritual
growth in the long-term! When we are
financially secure, it becomes much
easier to be generous and practice a
giving attitude. When we are happy
and secure in our relationship with our
spouse and our family members, we
are in a much healthier mental state to
practice compassion for others without
anger and jealousy. When we are happy,
our minds become stable and strong.
This is the right mental state and happy
attitude that allows our inner spirituality
to rise to a new level!
You can invite whichever Laughing
Buddha that you feel an affinity, or be
like us and invite them all! You can also
wear the Laughing Buddha as a pendant
to keep him close to your heart at all
times. It’s very beneficial to learn how to
chant his mantra. If possible, copy this
mantra, print it as many times as you can
on a yellow piece of paper; then roll it up
the paper and place it inside the body of
the Laughing Buddha. If your Laughing
Buddha is solid, print his mantra on
a very small piece of paper, roll it up
and hang it over him. His mantra is as
follows:
OM MAITRI MAHA MAITRI
MAITREYA SOHA
All the different Laughing Buddhas
each carry a different implement to signify
his forte in solving different problems.
In this issue we feature some of his most
popular poses and they can come in
white porcelain, brass or coloured resin.
White porcelain (and painted porcelain)
Laughing Buddhas are especially valuable
to collect as the skill of making them is
fast becoming a thing of the past. Skilled
porcelain sculptors in China are becoming
scarcer and more difficult to find - as most
porcelain manufacturers have stopped
making figurines and instead, channeling
their resources towards making toilet
sinks and bowls. So if you come across
a beautiful Laughing Buddha made
from porcelain, don’t miss out on the
opportunity to invite one home! Not
only will he bring you such a lot of good
luck and blessings, he will become truly a
collector’s item in the future!

LAUGHING BUDDHA for WEALTH LAUGHING BUDDHA

& OVERCOMING FINANCIAL
DIFFICULTIES
You can always tell which Laughing Buddha this
is, as he is always depicted holding a huge ingot.
The Ingot represents wealth and prosperity – so this
Laughing Buddha specializes in bringing greater
financial stability and removing money problems. If
you are struggling with your finances, need to reduce
debt or find a new job to help with paying the bills,
this Laughing Buddha is for you.
There are several posture variations of this
Laughing Buddha. Sometimes he’s shown seated and
holding the ingot on the left hand, other times he’s
lying down. Another version shows him standing
up, holding the ingot above his head. We’ve been
advised that the appearance of laughing Buddha
holding it on his left hand (either seated
or lying down on his side) is the most
suitable for the home, and
the version holding the
ingot above his head
is best placed in the
office to stabilize
financial matters in
one’s business.
for EXCELLENT
DESCENDANTS
LUCK
This Laughing Buddha
is always depicted with
at least three children
a r o u n d h i m ! He
specializes in creating
family happiness and
can help resolve quite
a number of family issues. If
you are single and looking to get
married, this is the Laughing Buddha for you. If you are
having trouble conceiving, invite this image of Laughing
Buddha and chant his mantra!
Along with children, this Laughing Buddha is also
shown holding a RuYi scepter which symbolizes control
over children! This is Laughing Buddha to invite into the
home if you have disobedient children and need help with
controlling them. Parents who have problematic children;
i.e. kids mixing with the wrong kind of friends, children
who struggle with their studies, children being bullied in
school by friends or teachers, … these are all the problems
that can be resolved by this Laughing Buddha. Invite him
into your home and place it in the West corner of your
living room, or in your children’s room.

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LAUGHING BUDDHA for
AUTHORITY & CAREER
ENHANCEMENT
This is the CEO’s Laughing
Buddha – as he is seen carrying
a Ruyi and generally his other
hand is either carrying an ingot,
or depicted in a wish-granting
mudra. The Ru Yi symbolizes high
authority and mandate and the ingot
represents prosperity. The wish-granting mudra –
where the palm is held up as if to say “stop” – is where
blessings of wishes flow! This Laughing
This Laughing Buddha is the best one for removing
obstacles and harm related to office politics and
gossiping. Most importantly, the Laughing Buddha
protects you against hidden enemies in the office! If
you have aspirations for promotion and elevating your
career prospects, then invite this Laughing Buddha into
your home or your office.
If you are struggling at work – your boss hates you,
or you have no friends in the work place who support
you – then invite this Laughing Buddha into your life.
The best is to get the white porcelain ones or one that
wears a red and gold robe.
LAUGHING BUDDHA for A HAPPY
“OLD AGE”
All of us will eventually reach retirement age … and
wouldn’t it be nice to have a relaxed, happy old age that
is free from money and health worries? This relaxed
Laughing Buddha, languishing with
his hands held behind his head is
exactly the Laughing Buddha who
looks after us when we grow old!
Invite this Laughing Buddha into
your home once you’re over the
age of 40. It also makes a great gift
to give someone for their 40th,
50th, 60th and 70th birthday.
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FOR BUSINESS LUCK
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next to your cash register or office phone to
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LAUGHING BUDDHA WHO PROTECTS
AGAINST DEMONS and ENEMIES
If you work or live in a dangerously competitive
environment where your enemies are always lurking
around or hiding in the shadows, then you need this
powerful Laughing Buddha. He is the
meditative form of Laughing Buddha –
with one hand holding a set of large mala
beads and another hand holding
a lasso or a rope loop. The lasso
symbolises the ability for the
Laughing Buddha to “catch”
anyone – spirit or human –
who means to cause harm to
you and your family.
LAUGHING BUDDHA for WISDOM
AND IMMORTALITY
This Laughing Buddha is shown holding up a pair of
pearls which signify two things. The first interpretation
is that the Pearl signifies a special kind of “wisdom”.
The outer meaning of this wisdom is intelligence and
academic knowledge. This Laughing Buddha is thus
associated with academic success and is excellent for
children or young adults. The inner meaning of the
pearl is associated with spiritual knowledge and mind
transcendence. Those who are involved in esoteric
sciences can benefit from this kind of wisdom pearl!
The second interpretation associated with a pair
of pearls – is health and healing. Legend tells us that
these two large balls are actually medicine pills that were
given to the Laughing Buddha by the Naga King. One
pill is for healing diseases and extending
ordinary long life. The other pill is
for spiritual immortality - signifying
the attainment of a high spiritual
level that allows to enter a paradise
heavenly land after we have passed
away. This Laughing Buddha is
thus excellent for both very young
children and very old people!
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This beautiful red plaque invokes the blessings of the
Nine Powerful Deities. By placing this in your office and reading the
text daily, you generate power in your speech and attract friends and
benefactors who will support you in all your activities.

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Chef McDang

Imperial Chakri Palace Royal

Thai cuisine restaurant at
KLCC celebrated its 16th
anniversary with 16 new dishes
worthy of royalty as approved
by Thailand’s celebrity Chef
McDang, great grandson of King
Mongkut or King Rama IV.

C
hakri Thai restaurant at Suria
KLCC celebrated its 16th
anniversary by introducing
16 new dishes at a celebratory
dinner in the presence of M.L
Sirichalerm Savadiwat, who was the guest
of honour. In Thailand, ‘M.L’ means Mom
Luang, while the higher rank is ‘M.R’ or Mon
Rajawongse, which may roughly be translated
as ‘Tengku’.
Chef McDang is famous throughout Thailand
for his cooking, cookbooks and column in
Thai language Daily News.
Despite the natural inclination to think
of McDonald’s, Chef McDang has nothing
to do, God forbid, with fast food. Explains
the affable and youthful 62 year old, “I used
this name by combining the nicknames of my
father Merk and my mother’s pet name Daeng,
but non-Thais stumble over Merk Daeng, so
I shortened it to McDang!”
As a member of the current Chakri
dynasty, Chef McDang commands the
most coveted credentials, as not only is he a
marvellous cook, he was accustomed to the
finest dishes as he grew up in a real palace!
Grins the chef extraordinaire, “I was raised
in Sukhothai Palace by Chao Phraya River and

Imperial Chakri Palace

BY DATO KEE HUA CHEE Director Caleen Chua
and Royal Celebrity
Chef McDang from
Thailand.

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 meal: kai pullo, or Chinese-style five-
spice-accented pork belly and boiled
“This differs from normal Thai cuisine in three egg stew. It tasted good! Growing
ways. The first is balance which means there up in Sukothai Palace, I experienced
are no extremes in flavours---never too sweet, firsthand the traditions and artistry
sour, bland or spicy! Second, only the freshest that go with cooking top-flight Thai
food.
and best ingredients are used as vegetables “I was also lucky to have as a
must be garden fresh and not bruised and meat mentor my father, M.R Thanadsri
must be newly slaughtered. Finally there must Svasti, who was – and remains – a
not be any bones anywhere! pioneer in food education in Thailand.
He is a brilliant man, able to parse very
complicated concepts and ideas about
food into language readily understood
lived with my great aunt Her Majesty we used western style cutlery. Dinner for the layman. My love of Thai food
Queen Rambhai Barni who passed was always a formal affair and usually (and, hopefully, my ability to translate
away in 1984. lasted two and half hours!” the intricacies of Thai food to a wider
“As a child, I used to explore the He was lucky as being a child and audience) come from him.
kitchens and see how things were the precious pet of Queen Rambhai
Her Royal Majesty
cooked, so I had a natural flair for he was not shackled by too much Queen Rambhai
cooking. Growing up in Sukothai protocol. But he still had to grovel at was Chef
McDang’s aunty
Palace, I was accustomed to what is her feet daily before he could kiss her and mentor. She
brought him into
called Royal Thai Cuisine. cheek! At 18 he had to use formal royal the palace and
“This differs from normal Thai language. raised him.

cuisine in three ways. The first is “I loved having afternoon tea with
balance, which means there are no Her Majesty in her boudoir, gardens
extremes in flavours - never too sweet, or verandah. She was raised in Britain
sour, bland or spicy! Second, only and used the most fabulous tea sets. I
the freshest and best ingredients are am so lucky to enjoy such a privileged
used, as vegetables must be garden childhood!”
fresh and not bruised, and meat must How did he begin his culinary
be newly slaughtered. Finally, there career which was never planned?
must not be any bones anywhere! “Many years ago – but not too
The fish bones and meat bones must many – I was a young student in
be removed before serving, so in England, away from home for the
theory, everything on the dish can be first time. Desperate for a taste of
eaten! The pits must be removed and home, I ventured into the kitchen for
if possible, all fruits and vegetables the first time to make my very first
must be carved so when presented, it
is both pleasing to eye first and then Imperial Chakri Palace
dishes are always well-
palate!” garnished to suit the eyes as
Chef McDang sat and dined at the well as the palate! This is how
Kings and Queens dine!
same table as Queen Rambhai from
age 12 onwards when “I was expected
to be able to behave!”
He recalls, “We dined Russian
style. This means Her Majesty sat in
the middle of the table with the guests
of honour at both sides or in front.
No one sat at the head of the table like
in England where the Queen or host
and hostess would sit at each end of
the table.
“Queen Rambhai preferred red
rice and all dishes were served only
for her on silver plates and crystal with
her emblems. Each of us had our own
cutlery with our own emblem and

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Launch of the new menu by Dato’ Eddie Choon Founder
President of Malaysia Retail Chain Association (MRCA),
Dato’ Garry Chua (MD of Rotol Food-Chain), Caleen Chua
Director of Rotol Food-Chain, Royal Celebrity Chef McDang and
H.E. Mr. Damrong Kraikruan (Thai Ambassador).

“But it took me a while before I

realized food would be my calling.
This occurred when I was a young
college student at Georgetown in
Washington where I was studying to
be a diplomat. I saw Julia Child on
TV, and became so enchanted I put an
apron on, started cooking and my life
changed. I got a job as a lunch cook
at the Back Porch Café in Delaware
before taking over.
“I began voraciously studying
everything food-related I could get
my hands on. It was as if someone
had turned the lights on in a dark
room. I never looked back.
“Today, I consider myself a
diplomat of sorts; only this time,
the medium is food. Whether on
television, through my lectures or my
website, I have spent a lot of time in
many different places showing people
exactly why I think Thai food is so
special.
“People all over the world
are interested in learning about
Thai cuisine – its origins, history
and ongoing evolution – and the
fundamentals that make Thai food
the marvel it is. Our food is our
people’s most brilliant invention, and
I am privileged to be able to “export”
The Imperial Chakri
Restaurant employs chefs
that have been trained
to prepare exquisite and
refined food in the manner
that is fit for royalty.
“What strikes me recipes for my television show and
most about Thai writing my food column, I consider
cuisine lately is that myself primarily a teacher. When
I travel abroad, lecturing on the
few people principles of Thai cookery to non-
including Thais have Thai audiences, I become a sort of
a concrete grasp of Thai food “ambassador”.
what it really is. “Both pursuits are tremendously
fulfilling and sharpen my perspective
on Thai cuisine. What strikes me
my love of Thai food to people most about Thai cuisine lately is that
across the globe. few people - including Thais - have a
“Because I frequently concrete grasp of what it really is.
t r a ve l t h ro u g h o u t T h a i l a n d , “We are at a kind of crossroads for
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identity in general) spurring people to
develop their own understanding of
what Thai food is like. Unfortunately,
that also leads to some pretty confused
Thai food.
“There is nothing more
disheartening than entering a Thai
restaurant abroad, only to be met by
an embarrassed-looking Thai owner-
chef who apologizes for his food
before you have even taken a bite.
“Our food is for foreigners,” they
invariably say. “You should have told
us you were coming earlier.” What
is left unspoken is that a completely
different cuisine is being served to
people - a parallel “Thai food” with
only a passing nod to the wonderful
things we have at home.
“Don’t get me wrong. I love that
more and more people every day are
tucking into Pad Thai (char kuay
teow) or slurping up a bowl of thom
yum goong (spicy prawn soup). Thai
food is an integral way to share Thai
culture with the world.
“I want people know the real
McCoy, the original Thai food and
how the cuisine has evolved over the
past decades touched by Western
influences”.
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Of course, one assumes Chef average Thai read 8 sentences in
McDang owns a 3 Michelin star a book in a year! So I decided to
restaurant in Thailand or a chain of write ‘Principles of Thai Cookery’
popular eateries. Ironically, he has in English! Mind you, I continued
none! writing 6 more cookbooks in Thai!”
“I owned 3 restaurants, all in Says Caleen Chua, director of
USA and none served Thai food!” Chakri Group, “Three of Chakri’s 16
he laughs. “Back then, Thai cuisine new dishes are from ‘Principles of Thai
was maybe too exotic for Americans! Cookery’, while the rest are inspired
I owned one in Key West, Florida, and approved by Chef McDang.”
Charms restaurant which served Enjoy.
French Pacific Rim cuisine and
Back Porch Café in Delaware, which
served seasonal food. I sold all before
returning to Thailand in 1993.
“I decided never to open another
restaurant simply because I had to
work during big festivals, holidays
and important occasions! I don’t
want to toil in the kitchen when my
friends are enjoying and partying
outside!” chuckles the bon vivant.
He has no favourite dishes either!
“It depends on my mood, personal
cravings, seasonal produce and the
weather!”
In 2009, he decided to write his
first cookbook…in English! “Not
many Thai read English books. I
wanted to write in Thai originally.
Then I read a survey saying the
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HAVE A GOOD DAY
EVERYDAY
1. Hum a happy tune as
you rise and shine
Put your frame of mind into a good
mood as you wake up. This sets the tone
of your day in the most effective way. It
activates your face muscles into a wide smile and
brings happy thoughts into your mind. You can be
spontaneous in the tune you choose or you can sing a song
that means a lot to you. Avoid choosing sad goodbye-type
songs and instead go for joyous tunes, rousing marches or
even patriotic melodies.
For years after I returned from studying at the Harvard
Business School where I spent two of my happiest years,
I would sing AMERICA the beautiful, simply because I
just so loved this song; not because I loved America but
because I loved the sentiments the song invoked in me, the
way the song made me think of my own homeland and
caused me to love my own country so much. Funny how
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the secret rituals of happy living
BY LILLIAN TOO
melodies touch the inner soul. So let a powerful melody
bring you a beautiful start to your day.
2. Start the day with the triple
infinity hand sign
And as you walk through your front door to go out into
the big world out there, walking confidently to your car
to go to work, use your right hand to create the triple
infinity sign. Extend your right hand into the air on the
right and then bring it to create the figure of 8 which is
also the infinity sign. Repeat this three times. Oh my, how
powerful a ritual this is! Do this daily until it becomes a
habit, and you will discover that the energy that surrounds
you will instantly improve. The world and everyone you
meet will dance to the same tune as you, and will operate
at the same frequency as you. This is one of the most
powerful secret rituals of living that I have made my own
for a very long time, and to everyone I have shared this
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with, this triple infinity hand ritual has brought resolution
to so much stress. Try it!
3. Say hello to your car
Greet your car with some small
praise – gee, you smell good this
morning, brush your hands over
the dashboard and give it a pat
as if to acknowledge just how
much you appreciate the car
serving you, taking you safely to
work and back each day. Treat the
spirit of the car with genuine warmth and caring, and each
time you clean and wash it, generate these same thoughts
in your mind. And if you are one of those who sings to
the morning radio, imagine the car singing happily along
with you. Not many people realize how much their cars will
love them back, if only you will consciously love your car.
4. Smile to the first person
you see
This is such an easy thing to do. Putting a smile on your
face is a powerful way of relaxing your facial muscles, and
automatically making your whole body lose whatever
tension that may be knotting up your insides. As you go
through the motions of walking into your office, smile at
every stranger and make the smile even wider when you
encounter a familiar face. The warmth of a smiling face
spreads amazing goodwill – just try it as soon as you can.
Precede every request with a smile, and you will see just
how nice people will be to you. Nothing really makes for a
greater happiness ritual than actually smiling at the world.
It brings enormously good feng shui!
5. Eat a light lunch, but tuck in
if you skipped breakfast
It really is advisable to keep your lunch light. There have
been so many research studies that advise against taking
too heavy a lunch – it makes you drowsy and causes you to
feel lethargic. Instead, keep your lunch intake light unless
for some reason you happened to have skipped breakfast
that day. Otherwise, avoid getting bloated in the middle
of the day. Keep your thoughts happy and lighthearted,
and try to avoid working lunches. This time of the day is
not conducive to getting stressed out working, strategizing
or making the mind get over-activated.
6. Find time for a 5 minute
walking meditation in the
afternoon
It is such a great habit taking a five minute walking
meditation as you make your way back to office after lunch,
or if you do not work, to find a quiet corner to quiet the
mind in a five-minute meditation. Do not sit, but instead
walk slowly. Even in a confined space, it is so good to stay
upright and mobile.
Take very deep breaths, as this is simply so good to
strengthen the body muscles and to bring new oxygen into
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your stomach. Inhale in as deeply as you can through the
nose and exhale as slowly as you can through the mouth.
As you breathe in, stretch your torso slightly, and as you
breathe out, come back to normal. This daily breathing
meditation is a reminder for your mind and body
to stay balanced and relaxed. It really is a great
habit this taking three deep breaths each day and
letting the mind wander – it is the best form of
spontaneous meditation.
7. Say three nice things
through the day
Make it a habit to think up nice things to say to people
you interact and work with through the day. Few things
are as empowering as thinking positive thoughts about
the people around you and when you actually give voice
to these thoughts, it increasingly enhances the power
of your daily speech. This is a happiness ritual the most
successful people in the world engage in; praising others by
saying something nice about them that you notice at any
moment in time is such a powerful spontaneous gesture
I wonder why not more people do it. This just creates
such an enormous difference in the quality of the energy
around two people like bringing in sunshine rays onto a
dark gloomy day. So just imagine how much you can cheer
up someone thinking unhappy thoughts?
8. Share a happy anecdote...
An even more powerful thing to do is to share a joke, a
happy anecdote or a joyous event. I love watching comedy,
all kinds, and even the silly slapstick kind gets me. I want any
excuse to laugh out loud, as I know just how much oxygen
I take in each time I have a good laugh. I also love listening
to someone tell me about something funny, weird, strange,
even gossipy that happened to them. Sharing a story or an
event that makes you happy usually makes others happy too.
It is in the sharing that makes life so meaningful and joyous.
Get into the habit of making happy conversation this way,
at least once each day, and let this interaction with someone
make your day for you and for that other person too!
9. Write down your thoughts
once a day
This is one of the best ways to become self-empowered. It
is far, far more effective than taking a selfie, simply because
when you write down your thoughts, you are outputting
the way you think, how you see the world, your reactions
to everything around you. Writing down your impressions
and recording words you heard that touched you in some
way will make sure you never forget them, and by the
end of a month, a year or more, you would have created
a written record of the world as YOU see it. This way
you learn so much about yourself, things that are sure to
expand your awareness of how you react to people and
how they respond to you. These days, you can even add
COLOUR into your life, as we see now the incredible rise
in popularity of colouring books. It is simply so therapeutic
to write and to colour. Start making these activities a part
of your daily ritual.
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London Korean
Festival 2015 rocked
up Trafalgar Square.

KOREAN FESTIVAL By HELEN OON

ROCKS UP KOREA IN LONDON

T
he heat is on at Trafalgar
Square in London one
sunny Sunday in August
and I am not talking about
the unusually hot weather
that day. Korea has come to town to
rock up London and is firing on all
cylinders to showcase the dynamic
culture of East Asia’s most innovative
developed country. It also boasts of
the world’s fastest internet connection
speed. Today Korea excels in almost
everything they set out to do and this
festival is to create awareness among
the British of this awesome country
and to show them that there are more
to Korea than kimchi, Taekwondo,
Samsung, Hyundai-Kia and LG. Let
the show begins!
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B-Boy Jinjo Crew
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girls in traditional Korean
costume.

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on full display!
The Korean Festival may have opened the eyes
of the British to a country that has a legion
of both natural and man-made attractions
abound with stunning scenery, ancient
temples, a shopper’s paradise and beyond.
K including K-music and dances
both traditional and contemporary;
K-cuisine, K-fashion; K-Contents
and all things Korean. It is a country
steeped in tradition but at the same
time embraces and innovates world
trends and technology with fearsome
efficiency and dynamism rushing into
the 21st century at break-neck speed.
Its film and modern music industry
branded as K-pop have gained world
recognition and has massive following
globally. In fact, I have known many
friends and family members who are
hopelessly addicted to Korean dramas
on television that make mega stars out
of the cast.
On a huge stage under the shadow
of Nelson’s column, nymph-like
female dancers glide round the
stage in vibrant pink and white
hanboks, the traditional South
Korean costumes, doing a fan dance.
It is a graceful dance that needs
precise synchronised movement to
form spectacular moving patterns
with the fans. The dancers executed
the choreography perfectly. The
huge audience send up a rapturous
applause. Not to be outdone, the
male dancers all clad in white come
on stage to perform a fast-paced dance
and show amazing skills of twirling
white strips of ribbon attached to their
headgears by rapid head movements
without once tripping on the long
trailing ribbons. Once again the
crowd roared with approval. Classical
musical instruments accompany the
dance routines in rousing rhythmic
beat. All the folk dances that follow
are as riveting and amazing with
their gorgeous costumes and lively
dance steps that require great skill
and co-ordination. Korean cultural
dances are famous for their dynamic
choreography and fabulous costumes
and they deliver on very count at this
festival.
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To s h owc a s e t h e c o u n t r y’s
contrasting culture of traditional
performing art and its pulsating pop
industry, Korea’s world champion
b-boy group, Jinjo Crew, burst on to
the stage much to the delight of the
younger members of the audience
who are obviously big fans of the
group. They take break dancing to
a new level throwing some breath-
taking moves with awesome leg works
and gravity-defying head and hand
stands. I am breathless just watching
the high-octane dance moves of these
young street dancers. The highlight is
the b-boy battle of Jinjo Crew versus
UK’s b-boy group, the Mavericks.
There are no holds barred in the
dance off as each group tries to outdo
the other with mock hostility and
spectacular street dance movements.
Uproarious cheer from the crowd
as they cajoled the rivalling dancers
and bray for more action amidst the
eardrum-bursting high tempo ultra
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Lord Nelson on his colossal column
probably looks down with disapproval
at the racket. A famous girl band
called f(x) also strut their stuff with
their electro-pop melodies and daring
costumes. K-pop represents the hip
youths of Korea who are marching
into the 21st century with attitude,
zest and a badass taste for music that
put them on the world stage of the
pop industry.
Following the theme of marrying
classic with contemporary designs,
the Hanbok Fashion Show paraded a
stunning collection of haute couture
of a modern take of the hanboks
in sumptuous colours. The ladies’
couture features the jeogori or long-
sleeved blouse worn with uneven
length skirts, shorter than a traditional
hanbok at the front with a long flowing
back skirt creating an elegant and
sophisticated look yet still capturing
the look of the hanbok. I want one!
The male models wear the traditional
robes like an overcoat worn over the
paji or baggy pants in vibrant colours
funking up a simple design into
fashionable attire with a modern twist.
This fabulous fusion of haute couture
trend is just the tip of the iceberg in
the Korean fashion scene. They are
famous for their luxurious silk and
brocade fabric, intricate embroidery
and costume jewellery and they are
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 not afraid to rock them up with
contemporary touches.
It would not be worth its salt if
Korea did not showcase its technology
intelligence and inventions, which
surpass many countries in this field.
I swear by their wonderful products
such as my Samsung phone and
LG electronic and electrical goods
in the home. The K-Contents stalls
exhibit various animation screening,
gaming, technological gadgets and
electronic goods attracting large
crowds who subscribe to these modern
phenomena.
The festival will not be complete
without promoting Korean cuisine.
Various stalls are selling typical
Korean fares while the show kitchen
cooks up a storm with its cookery
demonstrations by selected chefs from
Korea and UK. Judy Joo, a Korean-
American from New York has made
a name for herself in London in her
cookery programmes in the Good
Food Channel called “Korean Food
Made Simple”. She is the trump
card at the festival championing the
healthy aspect of Korean cuisines
and promoting kimchi, Korea’s
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national pickles
of vegetables and Junior fans of
K-Animation
fruits fermented screening
with garlic and
chillies. She has
opened a restaurant called Jinjuu in Korea is not a natural choice for
central London featuring signature British holidaymakers as it has no
dishes from her programmes. Korean historical link with the country but
cuisine is not quite in the same league it is slowly gaining popularity as a
as Japanese or Thai food yet but it is destination from UK. The Korean
slowly climbing up the culinary chart Festival may have opened the eyes
in London. Judy Joo has become an of the British to a country that has a
unofficial food ambassador of Korean legion of both natural and man-made
food in UK and after her programme attractions abound with stunning
came on air, Korean supermarket in scenery, ancient temples, a shopper’s
London was cleared out of gochujang paradise and beyond. It is not called
Korean chilli paste and doenjang soya the “Land of the Morning Calm” for
bean paste after she used these two nothing. I know where I am going
ingredients in most of her recipes. Her again for my next holiday. Next stop
viewers, including myself, were eager Korea revisited!
to try her seemingly easy recipes. I had
some success in following the recipes www.visitkorea.or.kr
and they were delicious. for further information on Korea
Helen Oon is the author of the Globetrotter Guide to
Malaysia and the Wildlife Guide Malaysia
(www. newhollandpublishers.com).
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 By Helen Oon
D
ue to its British colonial past and as a member
of the Commonwealth, Malaysia maintains
a very strong link with Britain. Thousands of
Malaysians including myself have adopted
this country as our home while still maintaining
our roots in our homeland. Many of us come to the UK
for education and better opportunity or just to broaden
our horizons. One of the newest Malaysian diaspora in
England is Diana Michelle Culey, who hails from Sabah
and has recently made Liverpool her new home.
She has British DNA in her bloodline from her English
grandfather who is from Leeds. He was with the British
Army in Malaya during the war and married a local
Sabahan girl, Diana’s grandmother. He still lives in Kota
Kinabalu in Sabah today. In her short spell in the city
famed for the famous four – the Beatles and the recently
deceased Cilla Black - Diana has made quite a name
for herself. She has been featured in the media with the
Lord Mayor of Liverpool and in the New Straits Times in
Malaysia for her outstanding designs.
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SEEKING GREENER PASTURES
Diana trained as a graphic designer,
and after five years in the field in
Sabah, she decided to seek greener
pastures abroad last year. She says, “I
moved to England in March 2014.
It was something I had thought a bit
about as my granddad is originally
from Leeds and my father was born in
Leeds, so it was always an option for
me to come to England. After working
as a graphic designer in Sabah for 5
years, I felt the time was right for a
change, and to try and further my
career in a new environment where I
could learn new skills. So that is how
I came to end up living in Liverpool,
though I was aware of Liverpool
beforehand due to the popularity of
the football team and the rich history
of the city.”
After some initial challenges getting
used to a new way of life and culture in
England, she soon got into her stride
and secured a design job in a local
company. While working on a project,
she was recruited to do some design
and a branding job for a company in
Liverpool. She says, “ It has been a busy
2015 really. One of the members of the
team had an idea to try and create some
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 commemorative items to celebrate the
Cunard three Queens celebration in
May-July 2015 and asked if I would
come on board as a designer. I ended
up designing various commemorative
items and building and designing the
website.”
DESIGNING FOR THE
PRESTIGIOUS CUNARD
Diana’s designs were chosen for a
limited edition of 350 sets in bone
China including a plate featuring
Cunard’s original ship Britannia on her
transatlantic maiden voyage to Halifax,
Boston and New York on 4 July 1840
from the Mersey. The second plate is of
the Queen Mary 2, which re-enacted
the maiden voyage to celebrate the
company’s 175th anniversary. The
plates are signed and initialled by
Diana bearing her “DMC” initials as
hallmarks of being genuine articles.
How cool is that, a Malaysian has
engraved her name on such esteemed
commemorative gifts on the Cunard!
Cunard is the most renowned and
established cruise company in the
world, and owns three famous liners
all named after British queens – Queen
Victoria, Queen Mary and Queen
Elizabeth II. The company celebrates
their 175th anniversary this year with a
momentous occasion when all the three
“Queens” sailed down the Mersey into
Liverpool on 25 May 2015. Liverpool
was the former home of the Cunard
Line. They are well known for their
ultra-luxurious transatlantic voyages.
“Due to the nature of the work on
the Cunard celebration, and my
colleagues’ connections, we managed
to get the local Mayors of Liverpool
involved, as well as the Mayors of
New York, Halifax and Boston -
purely through gifting a copy of the
commemorative plates to them. It
snowballed from there really; Cunard
were very impressed by the plates and
the Captain of the Cunard flagship
Queen Mary 2 has also had plates
presented to him as a gift from the
Mayor of Wirral (part of Liverpool).
REBRANDING THE MAYOR!
Throughout the design process, I was
also delighted to have the opportunity
to meet and complete some design
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work, redesigning official charities
logo for the former Lord Mayor of
Liverpool,” Diana elucidates and she
continues, “After learning about the
history of the Cunard Line and its
unique relationship with Liverpool
as a port, I was really keen to create
something that captured the illustrious
history of the Cunard Line. After
seeing the ships close up in real life,
it was hard not to take inspiration
from how spectacular they were.”
Asked if she is surprised with the
recent recognition of her work and
what makes her stand out, she answers
modestly, “I’m not so sure I stand out
just yet in my profession, as I am still at
an early stage in my career, but I guess
as a designer, I love to work on a range
of styles, right through from complex
programs on mac and pc, to hand
drawing and oil painting, whatever is
required. When a project captures my
imagination, I am extremely driven
to create something that I am 100%
happy with.”
Diana is settling down nicely in
her new home in Liverpool and she
is amused when I ask her if she could
understand the broad Scouse accent
(nickname for people from Liverpool)
which even the English, especially
those from southern England, find
hard to understand sometimes. She
chuckles, “Haha, yeah my Scouse
accent is coming along nicely now. On
a recent trip home, my family were all
laughing at my Scouse impressions.
Diana designed limited edition
Cunard china Plates featuring
Cunard’s original ship Britannia
on her transatlantic maiden
voyage to Halifax.
After a few difficult initial months, I am
now completely at home in Liverpool
and can understand everyone here
perfectly.
HILLARY CLINTON NEXT
“Who knows what will happen in the
long term, but I am certainly very
happy here, and hope one day to be
very successful here. There are a few
things I have in the pipeline, but the
main project I am currently working
on is in tandem with Hillary Clinton’s
Presidential campaign for 2016.”
From a humble graphic designer in
Sabah to designing for Mrs Clinton is
a giant leap of a step-up, and will be
the icing on her portfolio. Way to go
Miss Culey! Diana is also a talented
artist and has started her own business
as a side-line, taking commission
on artwork. She also specialises in
painting pet portraits, which has a
growing demand in the UK.
Like most of us living abroad, we
still miss our native land, and Diana
reminisces with nostalgia, “I miss my
friends and family a great deal, but
I know they are always available via
skype, whatsapp or on the end of the
phone, but it was lovely to see them
again on my recent visit back to Sabah.
The other main thing is the food! As
much as I enjoy the vast choice of
foods and restaurants in Liverpool, I
still miss my Sabah traditional food,
Sabah mango and my Mum’s home
cooking.”
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When she’s not designing for
clients, Diana loves making
portraits of animals.
Diana was born in the year of the
Horse, with Fire in her earthly branch
and Metal in her heavenly stem. With
Kua 8, Liverpool in the northwest of
England lies in an auspicious direction
for her. People born in the year of
the Horse are generally energetic,
enthusiastic and courageous and very
single-minded in achieving their goals
with tenacity and discipline, fired by a
“Having been educated
in a Chinese school,
and having close friends
and family with Chinese
heritage, feng shui is
always something I am
aware. I take particular
notice to numbers, colour,
and money feng shui.”
Diana incorporates feng shui in
her life. Says Diana, “Having been
educated in a Chinese school, and
having close friends and family with
Chinese heritage, feng shui is always
something I am aware. I take particular
notice to numbers, colour, and money
feng shui.” Based on her chart, her
lucky colours are red (Fire) and white
(Metal) and her lucky numbers are 9,
6, and 7. For money luck, it would be
beneficial to energise her Southwest
direction of wealth by placing herself
or positioning her workstation to face
that direction when working.
It takes courage for a young girl
like Diana to uproot herself from
her comfort zone in Sabah and leave
the bosom of her family unit to seek
a new life in a foreign land. But this
dynamic filly is on the right path to
gallop into fame and possibly fortune
with her talent and vision. May the
feng shui force be with her and may
this young and exciting talent prosper.
To view or order Diana Michelle
Culey’s commemorative Cunard plates
penchant for financial gain. They are click on www.3queens1city.com
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 Dato Dr Farah Kahn at cake
cutting ceremony with
Shaan, Karim and Dimitri

DATO DR
FARAH KHAN
CELEBRATES 5TH
LUNAR CYCLE
By DATO KEE HUA CHEE

Most women balk at admitting their age but the

indefatigable Dato Dr Farah Khan shouted it loud and proud
at her 60th birthday party last July at Grand Hyatt KL.

Dato Dr Farah
Khan with
darling friends.
Arrival of Dimitri
and Dato Dr
Farah Khan!
 A
round 250 dearest and
nearest family and friends
swanned into Grand
Hyatt ballroom to toast
the ever glamslam, slim
and youthful Dato Dr Farah Khan.
For the terminally uninformed,
Dato Dr Farah Khan is the founder
and president of Melium Group,
Malaysia’s leading purveyor of luxury,
upscale designer labels. Today,
Melium retails over a hundred coveted
designer labels, including her own
brand simply and effectively called
Farah Khan Collection and her
diffusion line FK. Sold in 44 cities
across the globe, Farah Khan is
Malaysia’s first and only international
upmarket label.
The birthday girl looked practically
half her age under subdued lighting,
and her infectious laugh echoed
merrily as she welcomed guests and
ensured everyone had a good time.
Graced by Her Royal Highness
Sultanah Kalsom the Sultanah of
Pahang and His Highness Tengku
Arif Temenggong Pahang Tengku
Fahd Sultan Ahmad Shah, the
evening started with speeches by Dato
Farah Khan’s long term companion
Dimitri Pantazaras, Dato Thong
Kok Khee, executive director of Insas
and Dato Steve Day, founder operator
of MIGF (Malaysia International
Glamorous ladies at
Farah Quinn The Glamorous Ball!
of Jakarta
Gourmet Festival) and Vision KL
magazine.
Dimitri described Dato Dr Farah
Khan simply as “as good as it gets”
and even showed a video clip from the
movie of the same name starring Jack
Nicholson who uttered the immortal
words, “You make me want to be a
better man.”
Observed Dato Thong Kok Khee
of public-listed Insas, “Farah is very
brave to ask me to speak on such a
big occasion as I have never given a
speech before other than once at my
daughter’s wedding. And I certainly
ain’t a media baron and poster boy like
Steve Day. And I certainly don’t have
Steve’s reckless spontaneity, his efficacy,
his many brilliant epiphany moments
or his ability to do the Gangnam dance
when all else fails.
“Today, I have been asked to talk
about life and friendship. That is a
challenging and serious subject, but
here goes.
“On life at 60, one of Farah’s
friends recently wrote, “At 60, a
person has gone through 5 cycles of
the lunar calendar and is reborn as
a new person”. I don’t completely
understand all this wisdom, but it
sounds pretty profound to me!
“At 60, we have experienced a lot.
I learned the rules, changed some
rules, reveled in the strength of my
youth, found my love, raised a family,
laughed with my children, cried for
them, found some success, faced my
failures, did some smart things and
many stupid things, had some regrets,
lost my breath, found a new wind,
discovered a newfound confidence,
made new friends, discovered my true
friends, discovered some wisdom in
my older age and on balance, realised
it’s been worth it all. That is my take
on life at 60 in one breath.
“According to Dato Farah Khan,
“True friendship is about a relationship
of understanding values over time,”
but to me, character is defining.
America’s top universities sometimes
ask applicants to write essays on what
constitutes their defining moment.
Good character produces virtue,
lack of good character tends to
compromise virtue.”
Dato Thong has spent 18 years in
the boardroom of Melium with Dato
Farah and both have enjoyed many
‘defining moments’.
He said, “Not only in terms of
work, but seeing her define her own
humanity. She cares and has natural
warmth and love for people, especially
her family, staff and friends. I don’t
know anybody who has so many
good friends all over the world! These
moments engender respect, and
respect engenders deeper friendship.”
Malaysia’s most
beautiful, famous
and sexy actress
Zahidah Rafik in
Farah Khan couture

Party time!
“On friendship and virtues,
there is a very beautiful phrase in the
Chinese language called “yan ching”,
which literally means ‘human love’.
‘Yan ching’ means granting favour
or helping a friend from the heart,
not from the head, with no ulterior
motive or expectation of payback.
“Another beautiful phrase is “kwai
yan”, literally meaning ‘precious
person’. These are people who have
carried us through some of our life’s
twisted corners in our hour of need,
or have been with us through such
major episodes that we just can’t
imagine having lived a life without
them.”
The irrepressible Dato Steve Day
revealed, “At Farah’s birthday parties
over the years, we’ve often played a
game making words that describe
Farah Khan using her initials F K.
“The letter F is obvious …..
Fashion, Fabulous, Flamboyance,
Fantastic and Fun. But the F words I
think of most when I think of Farah
are Family, Friends and Fearless.
“Family and friends are paramount
in Farah’s life. And as for Fearless –
this describes Farah when it comes to
dreaming up new ideas, overcoming
challenges and seeing them through
to the end.
“So that’s F taken care of. When
it comes to the letter K, let’s face it,
we all get a bit stuck. Some of the
ladies present - and I won’t mention
who they are - normally suggest words
that we gentlemen would never come
up with like ……Kinky…. Kissing
…..Knickers!
“Of course, we guys who are
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Che Puan Nurlisa
Abdullah the mother
of the Crown Prince of
Selangor Tengku Amir
Sultan Sharafuddin
Idris Shah and Tan Sri
Dato Wira Jason Goh.
friends of Farah’s are
far too gentlemanly to
entertain such thoughts…
and besides, we’re all too
scared of Dimitri.
“Friends of Farah, for
me the obvious K word Puan Sri Liza Teo, Datin
Catherine Lai and Dato Kee
that stands out for Farah is Hua Chee with massive dragon/
Kindness. And it’s Farah’s phoenix necklace for good
feng shui.
kindness that acts like a
magnet to us all.
“ Fa r a h w i l l d o I think now is the time. Mind you, my
anything for her friends and because life has been totally unscripted and I
of her kindness, Farah’s friends will like it that way!” This new venture is
do anything for her. also inspired by her son Karim.
“When responding to Farah’s Dato Steve Day comments that
requests, they dress up, turn up and the fashion industry can be catty and
never give up once Farah has asked filled with socialites and wannabes.
them to help her charity work. The He asks how Dato Farah keeps up.
most recent is the magnificent Tatler Her reply? “I don’t. I don’t try to
Melium 25th Anniversary Charity compete but lead my own life. I look
Auction which raised over RM3 at people from a positive viewpoint. I
million for charity!” focus on their plusses instead of their
Farah has the Knack (another minuses. I see what inspires them and
K word) of getting the best out of try to learn from them to create my
her friends and getting them to step own reality.”
outside their comfort zones. They even chatted about Dato
She cajoled Dato Steve Day into Farah’s 50th birthday bash, which had
playing the role of interviewer with a Playboy bunny theme!
her as interviewee in a video clip Finally, Dato Farah took the
called ‘Steve Day Live’. Dato Steve microphone and announced the
Day asked questions which Dato Dr names of eleven women who made an
Farah Khan answered candidly ala impact on her life. This was followed
Oprah Winfrey-style! by the cake-cutting ceremony
She reveals one of her unrealised surrounded by family and friends
dreams is to be --- DRUMROLL lustily singing ‘Happy Birthday’. And
PLEASE --- a children’s book writer! what could be a better present than
Not open a fancy restaurant, club or that?
hotel as might be expected! “I can Oh, and Limkokwing University
reveal it now as I have just found had just awarded her a doctorate
the perfect illustrator. I have always in humanities, so this was a double
wanted to write children’s stories and celebration!
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Vegetarian Special

by JUANITA LEE &

HANNI LIM

T
o the Chinese, the humble
“ N a n g n u a” ( p u m p k i n )
symbolizes gold emerging from
the earth! Consuming pumpkin
is also believed to generate strong
descendants’ luck, causing one’s children
to have an illustrious future! The lotus
seeds within the dish signify purity and Prosperity, family unity and a
fertility. Water chestnuts not only add a healthy dose of descendants luck!
lovely crunchy texture to the dish, it also
symbolizes family unity.
Gourmet Goddess Juanita says, INGREDIENTS
“This is one of my favourite dishes! It’s 1 whole pumpkin (about the size
so delicious, and fancy enough to impress of a half a football)
even your most gourmet vegan guests! 2 tbsp vegetable oil Seasoning:
If you’re making a meal for a dinner Aluminum foil - large enough to ½ metric teaspoon of…
party, cook this dish first, as you’ll need wrap the pumpkin. t
DPSJBOEFS
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to place the pumpkin inside the oven t
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QPXEFS
for 40 minutes and then another 20 Pumpkin filling: t
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minutes after placing the filling inside. 80g of canned button mushrooms t
TFB
TBMU
If you are pressed for time, you can skip (cut into quarters)
the baking; just cut up the pumpkin 80g of fresh water chestnuts – For the onion paste:
into chunks (without the skin) and cook pealed & sliced into 1cm pieces 50g shallot onions
together with the ingredients. While it 50g of red bell peppers – cut into 1 stalk of lemon grass
won’t look as ornamental, it’ll taste just as 2 cm chunks 3 kaffir lime leaves
good! Remember to boil your lotus seeds 70g of lotus seeds – boiled for 20 3 dried chilies – soaked in
ahead of time. Save the bell peppers for minutes till soft boiling hot water till soft
last part – they’ll cook nicely inside the 1 ¼ cup of freshly squeezed 2 cloves of garlic
hot steaming pumpkin!” coconut milk 4-inch fresh galangal

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 1 2a
3b 3c
METHOD:
1. Bake the pumpkin: Heat oven
to 200ºC. Using a brush, coat the
whole pumpkin with a light layer
of oil.
2. Wrap your pumpkin in aluminum
foil, place inside the top rack of
your hot oven. Set your timer for
40 minutes.
3. Prepare the onion paste: soak
dry chilies in boiled water until
soft (10 minutes). Place the dry
chillies, shallots, lemon grass,
kaffir lime leaves, garlic and
galangal into a food processor and
pulse until a coarse paste.
4. Cook the filling: Heat 1 tbsp oil
in a non-stick wok. Sauté onion
paste over medium heat until
fragrant and slightly brown.
6 7
10 11
12 13
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2b
4 5
5. Pour in the coconut milk and
let it simmer for about 3
minutes.
6. Add in the mushrooms, lotus
seeds and water chestnuts. (If you
are not baking your pumpkin,
this is the part where you add the
pumpkin chunks).
7. Add in all the seasonings –
coriander, cumin, pepper and salt.
Stir and let everything cook for
about 3 minutes. Switch off the
heat and set aside.
8. Fill the pumpkin: Remove baked
pumpkin from oven when the
timer goes off. Using a sharp knife
(and while wearing oven mittens),
gently slice off round the top of
the pumpkin at an angle: save this
as the “lid”.
8 9
3a
9. Scrape off the seeds from the lid
with the knife.
10. Use a soup ladle to scoop out the
pumpkin seeds. Be gentle and
careful not scoop out pumpkin
flesh!
11. Now fill the pumpkin - alternating
between the cooked filling and
raw bell peppers. The steam inside
the pumpkin will help cook the
bell peppers and fuse the flavours
together.
12. Reposition the pumpkin’s lid and
wrap with foil.
13. Place it back into the oven for
another 20 minutes. When done,
switch off the oven and leave the
pumpkin inside. Serve hot from
the oven when your guests are
seated!
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 Long Life and Continuous Prosperity Growth
Peanuts (fa-sang) symbolize
long life as well as continuous
growth and expansion! And
what’s more, this zesty dipping
sauce provides at least 35g of
nut protein and goes extremely
well with every kind of raw
vegetable that takes your fancy.
Gourmet Goddess Juanita
says, “This is my all-time most
popular dish. Every time I
make it for my friends, I’m sure
to get requests for the recipe!
It comes from Indonesia (my
home town) and literally
means ‘mix mix’. The secret to
getting that extra zing in the
peanut sauce is kaffir lime leaves
– so don’t skip this ingredient! I
just love how flexible this salad
dip is! You can serve it western
style with celery, cucumber,
zucchini, and carrot; or go
traditional Indonesian with
blanched cabbage, long beans,
tofu and bean sprouts. The best
part is you can make it ahead
of time and keep in the fridge
until your guests arrive! It’s
also a great pot-luck dish to
bring to your friend’s place,
as it doesn’t change texture or
lose flavour after cooking, and
it doesn’t require reheating.”
1 2
4 5
7 8
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INGREDIENTS
For a Traditional Indonesian Gado
Gado Salad:
4 pieces of fried Tofu –
cut into 2 triangles
1 cup of cooked bean sprouts –
trimmed and blanched
1 cup of cooked long beans –
trimmed, cut into 2 cm, and blanched
1 cup of cooked cabbage – cubed
(3 cm) and blanched
1 cup of cooked kang kung –
washed and blanched
1 cup of cooked bayam leaves –
washed and blanched
A bag of Vegetarian crackers (bought
from a Chinese vegetarian restaurant)
OR
For a Western Style Salad with
Dipping Sauce:
2 carrots - peeled and julienned
2 cucumbers - peeled and julienned
1 large zucchini –sliced or julienned
(any other raw vegetable you like)
PEANUT SAUCE:
130g of peanuts – roasted and husks
removed.
3 kaffir lime leaves
100g of palm sugar (Gula Melaka) –
chopped up into small shavings
3 7. Return the pulsed mixture into the wok and
6
9 2. Arrange vegetable crackers around the
40g of tamarind paste
2 ¼ cups of freshly
squeezed coconut milk
2 cloves of garlic
2 big red chilies
2 small chili padi (skip if you prefer less spicy)
1 tbsp ABC sauce
½ tsp of salt
METHOD
1. Make the Chilli paste: Grind chillies and
garlic in a food processor or bash it in a mortar
and pestle until a fine paste is achieved.
2. Prepare the Tamarind Juice: Mix 4 tbsp of
water with the tamarind. Use your hands to
remove the pulp from the seeds. Mesh the
mixture through a metal strainer to get the
juice out.
3. Start Cooking: Heat your wok with 1 tbsp of
oil. Sauté the chili paste and kaffir lime leaves
over medium heat until fragrant.
4. Add in the tamarind, palm sugar, coconut
milk and salt. Let it simmer and cook for
about 4 minutes.
5. Place roasted peanuts into a food processor.
6. Pour the cooked mixture into the food
processor and pulse it a few times. Be careful
not to over-pulse the mix, as you want the
peanuts to remain slightly chunky.
turn on the heat.
8. Stir in the ABC sauce and let it simmer for
about 3 minutes. The sauce is now ready.
PLATING THE GADO GADO SALAD
1. Layer the vegetables in this order: start
with cabbage, followed by long beans,
bean sprouts, bayam, kang kung and finally
tofu.
salad on the side.
3. Top with a generous helping of peanut
sauce on top. Enjoy!
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Prosperity and Gold has arrived!
Pineapple (ong-lai) has always been associated with
abundance and good luck ripening! It’s for this reason that
pineapples are always displayed prominently during the
Chinese New Year. As for cashews, their shape resemble
the ancient ingot and is thus associated with money!
Gourmet Goddess Juanita says “This is a great dish
to serve during an auspicious occasion like a birthday or INGREDIENTS
a birth celebration! The turmeric gives the rice a lovely 5 cups of cooked white rice (fluffed up with a fork)
yellow color that makes it look like you’re eating gold! 120g of fresh pineapple – cut into 1 inch cubes
The secret to this dish is to be generous with the shallots 100g of thinly sliced shallots
and make sure you sauté them really well in sufficient oil! 1 clove of minced garlic
You’ll also get the best results from using overnight white 2 inches of fresh turmeric – peeled and grated finely
rice from the fridge as it’s much drier than freshly cooked ½ cup of roasted cashew nuts
rice – making it fluffier and more conducive to soaking ½ cup of black raisins
up the flavors. Fluff up the rice with a fork or a pair of ½ cup of frozen green peas (washed and thawed)
chopsticks to ensure there are no rice lumps. Eggs can be 2 eggs
skipped for a more vegan-friendly dish.” 2 tbsp soy sauce
½ tbsp salt
METHOD 3 tbsp vegetable oil
1. In a non-stick wok, saute shallots, turmeric
and garlic in oil until fragrant and shallots have 1 2
caramelized slightly.
2. Add pineapple and saute for a further one minute.
3. Add the fluffed up rice and stir well until all the
rice is coated with an even yellow colour.
4. Add light soy sauce and stir-fry for about 1 minute.
5. Toss in the cashews, raisins and peas and Stir-fry
for another minute.
3 4
6. Add salt to taste and mix it well. Rice is now ready
for plating!

1 2
5 6

3 4
EGG GARNISH
1. Beat up the eggs with a fork.
2. Heat up a large, flat, non-stick fry pan. Add a bit of
oil.
3. Pour the egg mixture on the pan and roll the pan
5 6 around till the egg mixture spreads evenly.
4. Once the egg is cooked through, turn it over onto a
large chopping board.
5. Let the egg cool, and then roll it up.
6. Slice the eggs thinly and place over the fried rice as
a delicious garnish.

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Paht Chee with Phillip Lim
To have a lucky life, we
need to ensure we have
high levels of each of the 3
kinds of luck: Heaven Luck,
Earth Luck and Mankind
Luck. Heaven luck is the
luck potential we have when
we are born, and we can go
some way predicting this
using Paht Chee analysis.
Earth luck comes from our
surroundings and we can
predict its potential through
Feng Shui. Mankind luck
comes as a result of our
own actions, behaviour and
attitudes.
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W
hen we look at
our Paht Chee
chart, among
the most
important things we look for
is balance in our basket of
elements. We need to identify
what elements are deemed
lucky for us by determining the
strength of our self-element.
In traditional practice, the
consultant would recommend
you add the required elements
by advising on what colours
are lucky for you, and may
also recommend that you add
the required element into your
home.
For example, for someone
whose self-element is Strong
Earth, and lacking Metal element
in their chart, we would ask them
to wear colours that represent
Metal - purple, silver, gold and
white. We may also require that
person to place either a bowl of
coins beside their bed, or to place
6 dynasty coins tied with red string
underneath their pillow. We may
even go as far as asking them to
sleep on a metal bedframe, as well
as having a work desk made of
metal.
When it comes to Feng Shui
however, we identify their Kua
numbers based on their date of
birth, which separates them into
either East or West group people.
We then say that East group people
have lucky directions of East,
North, South and Southeast. While
West group people are luckier
tapping West, Southwest, Northeast
and Northwest. According to the
original Pa Kua formula, we also
know that each of the 8 directions
represents an element. Thus North
is of the Water element, South
is of the Fire element, West and
Northwest are of the Metal element,
Southwest and Northeast are of
the Earth element, and East and
Southeast are of the Wood element.
So how do we identify which
kind of facing direction for our
home would be the most ideal,
taking into account both the Kua
formula (from which we know our
lucky and unlucky directions) as
well as the principles of Paht Chee?
If you refer to the table included,
you can see how we have combined
both formulas, making it easier
for you to decide the best facing
direction for both your Kua
number, as well as from a Paht
Chee perspective.
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East Group West Group
Kua No : 1, 3, 4, 9 Kua No: 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8
NORTH SOUTH EAST & NORTHEAST & NORTHWEST &
SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST WEST

Element Water Fire Wood Earth Metal

weak water ZHDNÀUH  weak wood weak earth weak metal
Good for
weak wood weak earth ZHDNÀUH weak metal weak water
strong earth strong metal strong metal strong water strong earth
strong metal strong water strong earth strong wood strong wood
VWURQJÀUH  strong wood strong water VWURQJÀUH  VWURQJÀUH

Strong Water Strong Fire Strong Wood Strong Earth Strong Metal
Bad for
Strong Wood Strong Earth Strong Fire Strong Metal Strong Water
weak earth weak metal weak metal weak water weak earth
weak metal weak water weak earth weak wood weak wood
ZHDNÀUH  weak wood weak water ZHDNÀUH  ZHDNÀUH

Let us look at a couple of examples:
For a man born in the year 1965
(Year of the Snake) of Kua 8, whose
self-element is Weak Earth: we know
that this person belongs to the West
group, and his lucky directions are
Southwest, Northwest, West and
Northeast. When you look at the
chart, we see that for him, having
a house that faces either Northeast
or Southwest would be the most
favorable since the chi element that
comes from Northeast and Southwest
are the elements of Earth.
Since his self-element is Weak
Earth, this means that Earth element
is especially good for him. Of course,
it would also be most advantageous
for him to sleep and sit facing either
Northeast or Southwest. However,
if his self-element was Strong Earth,
then selecting a house with a main
entrance facing Northwest or West
would be better for him, since
Metal would be one of his beneficial
Another example: a lady born brings her Fire element, while East and
in 1979 (Year of the Sheep) of Kua Southeast bring Wood. So for her, it
number 3, whose self-element is is most advantageous to have a home
Weak Fire. In this case, her lucky that faces South, East or Southeast. She
directions would be North, South, should also sleep in the South, East or
East and Southeast. However, when Southeast room with her head pointed
we add the strength of her self-element to one of these three directions as well.
into the equation, we find that of the Of course, if her self-element were
four good directions, South, East Strong Fire, then the most suitable
and Southeast are more suitable for direction for optimizing her luck
her Weak Fire. This is because South would then be North.
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ARCHITECTURALLY
SPEAKING
DESIGNING LUCKY
SWIMMING POOLS
One of the greater luxuries of
life is to be able to relax and
enjoy the sanctity of one’s
own personal swimming
pool. To know that there is
one place in the home you
are able to unwind and be
in touch with nature. So how
do we go about designing
our pool? There are a few
things to think about when it
comes to pool designs and
these comprise the following
factors: Size, Materials and
Shape (SMS). Let us discuss
the importance of size. There
are many ways to design
a pool, but there is a limit
to how big or small a pool
should be before it stops
becoming a pool and ends
up either as a water feature
or lake.
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WHAT IS BIG AND
WHAT IS SMALL?
Always avoid an oversized pool. No
matter how impressive it may be or
how much real estate you may own.
The reason being, there comes a limit
where the pool loses its intimate
qualities and starts to imitate a public
pool. So how do we begin?
Start by thinking of the number of
lanes a person is able to swim laterally
Avoid pools that are too
large for the space
A small sized pool
where the walls
dominate the space
creates a claustrophbic
experience
through the pool. Always stick to 4-5
lanes but never more, as any excess
would end up being a swim meet. In
addition, always avoid incorporating
swimming race lines as part of
the design, as this would instantly
cheapen the aesthetic quality of the
pool.
On the other spectrum, you
shouldn’t have the pool smaller than
two swimming lanes, as this would
create a long narrow feature, which
would emulate a landscape or lap
pool design. The next element to
consider is the surrounding areas
adjacent to the pool. If we can
only afford to set aside a small
section of the house to build a pool,
make sure that the pool is built in
proportion to the surroundings.
Avoid placing a small pool where
the walls dominate the entire space.
Doing so creates a claustrophobic,
suffocating experience.
Similarly, avoid building a pool
that is too large for the space, as this
causes the intimate relationship with
the water to be lost and you will then
start to feel as if you were cast away
in an ocean.
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Now that we have established the
parameters on the size of the pool,
we will need to start looking at
materials. First off, we need to
ensure that the pool materials we
select do not match up with any
tiles you have selected in any of the
bathrooms.
The second thing to look at
are materials as a means to create
features. Consider the use of motifs
to create a central feature within the
pool rather than the monotonous
tile effect. By introducing a logo
eff ect on the pool fl oor, you are
able to pull the attention of the user
to indicate a section of the pool is
somewhat diff erent, and special.
This is a great technique to use to
The use of motifs as
indicate steps for entry into the opposed to monotonous
pool, or to indicate a feature such patterns helps differentiate
different parts of the pool.
as a hot / cold tub or jacuzzi.

The merging of elements

A wall of complementary height to the can be done through the use of
pool creates a balance effect.
integrating the beauty of stone
or timber as a mirror element
to the pool. In this example,
there is a symbiosis of form and
materials between pool and wall.
By introducing a wall that is
similar in height as to the width of
the pool creates a vertical element
to balance out the longitudinal
element of the pool. But the play
of yin and yang, or opposites,
allows the vertical dominating
form of the wall to succumb to the
feminine peanut form of the pool,
creating an interesting, visual
relationship.

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PRAYER FOR
PROSPERITY
Place this powerful invocation text on
your dining table and recite before each
meal. This Tsog Offering Prayer brings
abundance and prosperity.
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 CREATING INTIMACY The semi-circular form
Now that we have understood how creates a prominent
vantage point.
size and materials can affect our
perception in appreciating a pool,
how do we design it such that we are
able to create a sense of intimacy?
This comes down to how adventurous
you are in designing the shape of
the pool. The easiest shape is the
rectilinear form, which is perfect for
laps and general pool usage. But to
introduce a special element into the
pool feature, all we need to do is add
a small element. In this scenario, the
semi-circular form anchors a central
viewing platform where the pool
and deck intersects, creating a single
prominent vantage from which to
soak in the element of water and view.

The daring “night sky”

effect of this indoor pool
offsets the monotony of
In this example, the use
the regular shape. of LED ceiling lights creates
an artificial moonlit sky
effect offering the experience
of swimming under the stars
(indoor). While the shape of the
pool may seem to be regular, the
use of an irregular wall pattern
helps offset any monotony effect
the room may have.

The T-shape here, as

well as making the
pool more interesting,
indicates an entry + exit
point and allows the
pool to visually be split
into two parts.
In this example, even though it is a
public pool, the T-shaped form serves a
dual purpose. First it indicates an entry
/ exit point into the pool, and secondly,
it allows the pool to be visually split into
two parts, whereby the square element
indicates a shallower play area, while the
rectilinear element indicates a lap pool.
So when you consider incorporating
a swimming pool into the home, always
think of the following SMS elements.
Make sure the size balances out with the
surroundings, and is in itself a suitable
size for swimming / playing in. And
once you have determined the size,
think of ways of how to play around
with materials either through pattern or
form. Finally, look at the shape and see
how you can start with a rectilinear form For Interior Design services and consultancy, contact
and introduce another shape to create a Chris Yeo at chris@eminentbuilders.com
node to serve as a highlight to the pool.

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There is a little-known and rare sutra which reveals the consequences
of cutting your hair on the wrong days – and the extraordinary benefits
of cutting it on the correct day. The right and wrong days are based on
the Tibetan Calendar and for your benefit, Feng Shui World has transcribed
these good and bad days into the Western dates for you.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

GOOD GOOD BAD BAD GOOD GOOD
You receive You will meet $MRERIIHU<RX You will catch $MRERIIHU Your enjoyments
posessions with helpful and will lose your a debilitating or promotion increase in all
and gifts from honest people. main source disease or fall will come to ways. You receive
others. People $PHQWRUIULHQG of income and very ill. Young you. Bosses good news
will value your or relative will the support children and will notice and and be guided
friendship. RIIHUDGYLFH of someone elderly folk are recognise you. owards a happier
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related to assistance when dark cloud will and should not given a money comfortable life.
property and needed. form over your cut hair today. making-oppor-
vehicles. head. tunity.
1 2 3 4 5 6
BAD GOOD GOOD GOOD BAD BAD BAD
You will Brings the bless- Your good Your good You will have Your mind and You attract
contract a ings of happi- karma and wish karma and wish misunderstand- spirit essence unpleasant
contagious ness. Your spirits IXOÀOOLQJSRZHUV IXOÀOOLQJSRZHUV LQJVDQGFRQÁLFW weakens spiritual
disease. You lift instantly. increase. You increase. You with others. Your considerably. disturbances
could develop Problems will attract kindness attract kindness relationships You become IURPJKRVWV
a skin rash or ÀQGVROXWLRQV and generos- and generos- ZLWK\RXUVSRXVH vulnerable to wandering
an acute viral Heart break will ity from others ity from others relatives VSLULWKDUP spirits and
infection. dissolve. Good around you. around you. and friends depression night demons.
news is coming. Smile! Smile! deteriorate. and mental
illnesses.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
BAD BAD GOOD GOOD GOOD BAD BAD
Shortens life You could get You will attract You will have Your possessions You could be Your inner
span. Elderly sick or contract a sudden brighter will increase. sued in court or essence and
people over DGLVHDVH$YRLG windfall of complexion. You will acquire get in trouble vitality gets
60 and sickly cutting hair or high value - a Your aura of a new asset: i.e. with the with the weaker. You will
individuals shaving if you VXUSULVHERQXV attractiveness DFDUSURSHUW\ authorities. feel depressed
should avoid have low life expensive gift increases and electronics or and sickly.
cutting hair on force or poor or opportu- people will clothes.
this day. health this year. nity to make gravitate
money. towards you.

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD BAD GOOD GOOD
Increases your Friendships Power and Your intelligence Brings danger Good fortune Wealth ac-
OLIHVSDQ$ ÁRXULVK7KRVH authority and knowledge and violence. comes to you. cumulation
good day for interested in comes to you. ZLOOLQFUHDVH$Q You could have Luck in all and posses-
elderly folk romance will You could get excellent day DQDFFLGHQW areas of your sions increase.
above the age meet someone promoted or for students and JHWPXJJHG life improve. Investments yield
of 60 to cut QHZRUUHNLQGOH asked to lead young children be attacked or Small obstacles good harvests.
their hair! DQROGÁDPH a new project. to cut their hair. fall into a hole. are overcome You could
You may run Your powers $YRLGDWDOO without much aquire new
into an old of persuasion costs. effort. property or new
friend. improve. business.
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
GOOD BAD GOOD GOOD BAD BAD GOOD
Cutting your Lowers your You receive You will meet You will lose You will catch $MRERIIHURU
hair today inner resistence posessions with helpful and your main a debilitating promotion will
brings auspi- to dark magic and gifts from honest people. source of disease or fall come to you.
ciousness. Your and spells. Your others. People $PHQWRUIULHQG income and very ill. Young Bosses will notice
life becomes complexion will value your or relative will the support children and and recognise
smoother and will grow pale friendship. Good RIIHUDGYLFH of someone elderly folk are you. You could
you are blessed and you could news related to support and LQÁXHQWLDO$ most vulnerable be given a
with good meet with an property and assistance dark cloud will and should not money making-
timing on all accident. vehicles. when needed. form over your cut hair today. opportunity.
activities. head.
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8th Month of the Yi Wei Wood Sheep Year (8th Sept 2015 - 7th Oct 2015)
In each of the 9 grids, you will find 2 numbers. The number in the upper left corner
indicates the annual star and the number in the lower right corner indicates the
monthly star. Use a reliable compass to determine yourdirections or locations;
the relevant grid for the kind of luck that will affect everyone in the household
during that particular month. Also, if the room you occupy is located in the north
sector, then you will be experiencing the kind of luck indicated by the stars there.
SOUTHEAST
 If your main door or
bedroom is in this sector,
you will receive unexpected
windfalls and increase of
opportunities in your life. Heaven shines
upon residents of this sector. Enhance good
fortune luck by placing a Wish Granting Tree
in this part of your home or office. To keep
the annual star under control, place a Golden
Garuda next to your bed if your bedroom is
located here, and hang an All-Metal 6-Rod
Windchime in the Southeast of your house to
protect against any negative energies.
EAST
 The monthly five yellow
brings health problems
related to the liver and also
general misfortune to the
resident. Use a Bejewelled Dorje and/or Heart
Sutra Pagoda to suppress the negative Chi. It
is best to move to another room or use another
entrance if either your bedroom or main door
are located here. Place a pair of Golden Wu
Luo on either side of your entrance and a
Longevity God in this area for improved
health luck. You may also run into cash flow
problems. Display a God of Wealth in this
area to attract wealth luck. Do NOT renovate
this sector this month.
NORTHEAST
 There is good financial and
career luck for residents of
this sector. Promotions and
recognition are forthcoming
to those who seize them. This is an extremely
lucky this sector this month. Enhance the luck
here with a Lotus Roots with Water and a statue
of Kwan Kung. If your office room is located
here, place a Chinese Calligraphy Set on your
desk to enhance creativity and ideas, and display
a Golden Arowana to give your career a huge
boost. Use a 21 Tara Plaque on your desk to
remove all obstacles to success this month.
SOUTH
 The monthly illness star
joins the annual #7 to bring
danger of eye diseases & heart
attacks. Wear sunshades to
protect your eyes if you reside here. Those with
heart conditions should move out of the room
for the month. Display a Wu Luo with Garuda
by your bed and carry a Health Medallion while
you are on the move. Display an Anti-Burglary
Totem here to protect against robbery. Young
females face troubles related to office politics, as
unscrupulous colleagues can’t seem to halt their
wagging tongues. Display a Rooster to protect
against harm from politicking.
CENTER
  You need to be extremely
careful this month as there
are high chances of robbery
and burglary. This applies to
all households, as the burglary star has flown into
the middle of the house. Violence and blood is
in the cards. Keep this place quiet and avoid
arguments. Use a Still Water Feature to calm
the fiercely clashing energies here. Carry the
Nightspot Amulet keychain to protect you from
robbery and accidents, especially when you are
out of the house. Avoid late nights and walking
alone during night time. Display a figurine of
the Red Robe Laughing Buddha to transform
bad energy into good.
NORTH
 The annual prosperity star
is blocked by the wood star
energies this month. A clash
of elements occurs in this
sector bringing disagreement and the stressful
energies of gossip. It is worth watching what
you say in daily conversation. There is a
tendency for misunderstandings to arise out of
nothing at all. Keep a Red Tara Lamp Light
on and display a 7 Royal Emblem Plaque here
to suppress the inauspicious energies. Display
a Lotus Flower with Carps to enhance the
annual prosperity star.
SE S SW
6 2  4
E
5 7  9 W
1 3 8
NE N NW
SOUTHWEST

This month is very
favourable for those who
are still single. The lucky
#4 star brings romance luck
and makes you very attractive to the opposite
sex. Display a Painting of Peonies or Rose
Quartz Mandarin Ducks here to boost your
love luck. This sector is auspicious for students
this month as it brings excellent examination
and study luck. Residents will also find this
month much better in terms of productivity
and opportunities to excel. Display a Bejeweled
7 Level Pagoda for examination luck and a
Crystal Globe to enhance study concentration.
WEST
 You may find the children
or females at home more
short-tempered than usual
this month, especially if the
West sector is a ‘public’ area of the house. Try
not to spend too much time in this sector as it
is unlucky this month. Stress levels and blood
pressure can soar, so take it easy if you are
prone to health problems. Place a Heart Sutra
Pagoda or Metal Pagoda Windchime in this
area to control the bad chi. Do not leave candles
or stoves unattended here, as there is danger of
fire. Display a Laughing Buddha with Ingots
to bring prosperity luck.
NORTHWEST
 This is the luckiest sector
this month. The prosperity
star brings financial success
and wealth luck to the
whole family, especially the patriarch. Display
a 6 Tier Water Feature here to enhance
money luck. If your living hall/dining area
is located in this sector, you could enjoy
increased income! Those in the academic
or literary fields will have a smooth and
successful time. Prospects are good when it
comes to affairs of the heart. Display Peonies
or Mandarin Ducks in the living room to
enhance luck in love.
FENG SHUI LIFESTYLE PLANNER
7 16 25
DZAM PENDANT KEEPS
MONEY SAFE
These are days where there is
danger of money loss due to
being cheated or robbed. The
best is to wear the DZAM pendant
to counter such energies. Lock
away any lose cash lying around
the house! It’s also a good idea to
avoid going to the ATM machine
on these days.
10 19 28
ACCIDENTS. WEAR
YOUR STRONGEST
AMULET.
These are really
dangerous days as
accidents and injury
are predicted. Don’t
leave home without
wearing a strong amulet! Wear the Guru
Rinpoche’s pendant throughout the day.
Not a good day to commence travel or
drive long-distance. If you don’t have
a choice, make sure you are wear the
Travelling Scarf if flying abroad, and stick
the Guru Rinpoche sticker on your car
windshield if driving.
9 18 27
TARA’S AMULET PENDANT
BRINGS GOOD LUCK
Good news! These are some of the
days where the luck is auspicious.
Wear the Tara Pendant to receive
powerful blessings on these
days and increase success
potential!
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Our lifestyle planner tells you what to wear, what to do and
which amulets to carry to make the most out of the energy stars
visiting. The numbers represent the days of the month – just mark
them on your calendars and follow our guide!
WINDHORSE PENDANT SAVES
YOUR REPUTATION
4 13 22
There are no physical dangers indicated
on these days – but your limelight is LIFE-FORCE IS LOW. BE
danger of being stolen! Someone at CAREFUL.
the office could take credit for your Your internal resistance to illness and
best work and leave you to clean up depression is controlled by the level of
the messes! Wear the Windhorse your life-force. These are days where
Pendant amulet to ensure that the general levels of everyone’s life-
victory will be yours! force is in danger of being stolen by
harmful spirits. Wear the Life-Force
Producing Chakra Amulet on these
days. Senior citizens and sick people
5 14 23
should wear this for the entire month.
ANTI-INFIDELITY AMULET
PROTECTS RELATIONSHIPS
8 17 26
Oh dear. The infidelity star of external ROBBERY: AVOID LOUD
romance gets much stronger on these
days. Relationship temptations increase JEWELLERY
and those with weaker will-power The double 7 appears on these
could find themselves being led astray! days so be very careful when going
out. Better to carry a sling bag and
Protect yourself (and your spouse) by
avoid wearing loud jewellery on
carrying the Anti-Infidelity Amulet for
the day. Place the Rooster with a Fan these days. Carry the Anti-Burglary
Amulet or wear the Anti-Burglary
prominently at the entrance to fend off
any unwelcome advances! It might be Scarf to stay protected. Display
Guru Rinpoche’s Black Scorpion
a good idea to keep the Rooster there
for the month! Amulet near your entrance to keep
your home safe from dangerous
people. Do not let strangers or
2 11 20 29
workmen that you are not familiar
with into your home on these days.
QUARRELS COULD
LEAD TO FIST-FIGHTS
The atmosphere is moody
and quarrelsome on these
days. Disagreements
can easily get out-of-
hand and cause physical
fights to ensue! Refrain
from participating in any
heated arguments. Most
importantly, wear the
Popularity Scarf and clip the
Peace Amulet onto your
handbag when going out!
3 12 21 30
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FENG SHUI ASTROLOGY: SEPTEMBER
1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996
Although money luck is good, you may
find yourself more quick-tempered
than usual. This could stem from stress
or working too hard. Try to keep your
temper under control to avoid negative
repercussions. You have promotion
luck, but only if you can maintain good
relations with your boss and colleagues.
Weaken your argumentative tendencies
by wearing the color red and displaying
a 3 Harmony Warrior on your work desk.
Enhance wealth luck with a stack of
Gold Bars placed in the North this month.
If you play your cards right, you could
be welcoming a promotion to a better
position and higher salary in the near
future.
1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002
Luck is neither good nor bad this month,
but you need to watch out for your health.
There are illness energies in your chart and
you will tend to be more accident-prone.
Protect your health with a Garuda Wu
Lou placed by your bedside. Your wealth
luck is good and this is a fruitful time to
start building your nest egg. Be alert to
outsiders trying to
come between you
and your spouse/
partner. Your love life
walks a hazardous path this
month and there will be
temptation along the
way. Do not let flattery
and vanity get the
better of you. Protect
your relationship by
wearing the Double
Happiness Symbol
as jewellery, or carry
it as an amulet in
your wallet.
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1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997
You re-enter a good luck period
which continues till next month. You
find yourself more energetic and
efficient in doing work. Take on exciting
opportunities that come your way. You
succeed easily in things you invest in.
Friendship luck is good and
you will not be short of friends
when you need them. Business
and career luck are also
good. Place a Friendship
Windchime in the Northeast
to enhance career and
business luck. When it comes
to love, if you are married,
think of some romantic
ideas to spice up your love
life. For singles, this is not the
most fruitful time to expect
to meet your life partner. But
you can improve this luck by
placing a Bejewelled Horse in
the South.
1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003
Your luck improves. This is always a
good sign for the rest of the year. You
will have plenty of support from helpful
people this month. Relationships are
particularly enjoyable and fruitful, and
there is plenty of passion in your life.
You are bursting with creative energy
and great ideas this month. Avoid wet
blankets and those
who spoil your fun.
There is nothing wrong
with enjoying yourself.
Harness romance
luck with a Magic
Mirror – reflect
both the moon and
your face in the
mirror at the same
time. Display a Wen
Chang Pagoda in the
Northeast for career
and study luck.
1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998
This will be a successful and fulfilling month.
You are on top of your responsibilities and
still have plenty of energy to do more!
Career and money luck is good and there
is a room for promotion or a pay-raise. Do
not resist when friends or relatives try to
help you. Have an open mind and you will
have much to rejoice about. To enhance
for career luck, display a Bejewelled
Throne in the Northeast. For more
opportunities, wear the Opportunities
Scarf. This will help smooth away any
obstacles in pursuit of your goals. If you are
looking for love and romance
in your life, wear the
Double Happiness
Symbol. The best
stone to wear this
month is the citrine.
This will bring luck in
all your endeavours.
1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004
Your luck this month is a vast
improvement over last month, although
it is not entirely auspicious by any
means. You will suffer from stress and
fatigue, especially if you are working in
a company with office politics and other
such intrigues. Do not be tempted to
play politics yourself, for as they say, “if
you can’t take the heat, stay out of the
kitchen.” Protect yourself by wearing
protection from Office Politics Scarf and
ensure you do not sit at a desk without
support. This is an excellent month to
prepare for the coming year, not one
to reveal grand ideas or plans just yet.
Hold your ingenuity till next month when
the stars are more
in your favour. You
can celebrate
when it comes to
your love life, which
will give you much
to smile about this
month.
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1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999
This month you are plagued by misfortune
luck, which brings danger, loss and injury.
Be extra careful when it comes to money,
personal safety and risk-taking. It is better
to lie low. Do not attempt to show off
your knowledge to others. Even though
you are helpful by nature, efforts to lend
a hand may be seen by some as pushy,
so it is best to mind your own business.
Wear a Golden Mystic Knot to help bring
success into your relationships
and dealings with people.
Health luck is at top alert.
Avoid staying in a East
sector bedroom this month.
Carry the Golden Pagoda
Keychain to control the
bad chi affecting you.
Try not to get too
near anyone who is
infectiously sick.
1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005
Your luck takes a turn for the worse
this month, and all the good luck
you experienced last month could
evaporate like a puff of smoke. Do not
fear, for the bad luck you experience
this month will end as quickly as it
started. But for now, lie low and try
not to take on too much. Hold off
important events like finalizing business
deals, getting married or making
important decisions. Place a
large Heart Sutra Pagoda in
the west to suppress bad
energy this month and
wear gold jewellery to
boost the metal energy
surrounding you. Build
yourself a Wealth Vase
to ensure money luck
is good throughout the
year. Do not speculate or
gamble this month.
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1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000
Your luck changes for the better. This
is a month full of opportunities. There is
change in your chart, which could be
a change of residence, change in job,
etc. but this change in your life will be
a positive one. Your secret weapons
this month are your friends. You have
powerful comradeship luck, which can
be enhanced by keeping a set of your
horoscope friends and allies near you
at all times. You are also helped by fate
and heaven luck. Activate
by placing a Precious
Minister Windchime in
the Southeast. Luck in
love is great this month.
Enhance for passion
and romance by
placing a Rooster in
the West. Or wear one
on your wrist as a Love
Bracelet Charm.
1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006
This is an especially lucky month for
you, the kind that brings big breaks
and opportunities. There are so many
coming your way that you’ll wish there
were more of you so you can take
advantage of them! Enjoy the wealth,
money and relationship luck heading
in your direction. But do not let your
good fortune get to your head, or it
may be short-lived. Make yourself a
wealth vase to lock in the good wealth
energy of this month, as it will be some
time before your money luck is this
good again. Stay focused, driven and
single-minded about your ambitions
and you will be able to realize them
this month. Wear
the Wealth and
Power Medallion
and display a Wish
Granting Tree in
northwest.
SMOOTH EXCELLENT
1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001
You are blessed with luck from
heaven, which means nothing you
do will go far wrong. Success comes
easily if you have a mentor guiding
you. Activate mentor luck with a
Kuan Kung in the Southeast. Many
opportunities come your way, in
your career, business, and love and
also with friends. Life will seem a lot
smoother than before. You will also
feel physically and mentally stronger.
Activate for opportunities with a
Phoenix in the South. For career and
business luck, place a
Dragon Horse next to
your desk. To
spice up
the passion
in your love
life, display
a Horse in the
South sector.
1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007
You receive luck from the eight
directions. Things go well for you in all
areas of your life. You have money luck,
career luck, relationship luck and health
luck! You will be feeling very energized,
so do not waste this precious energy. Put
it to good use. Do as much as you can
and want. When making decisions, be a
little more courageous than usual. Wear
the Kalacharka Pendant to enhance
the positive energies in your chart
and also carry the annual
harvesting amulet to
bring you good wealth
and harvesting luck.
For love, wear the
Double Happiness.
Display the
Orgyen Norhla
in the northwest
to improve your
wealth luck.
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SIGNIFICANT This comprehensive spiritual calendar
marks all the significant and powerful
days to chant mantras, perform pujas

SPIRITUAL DAYS and conduct powerful rituals that will

increase your wealth, success, love and

SEPTEMBER 2015
happiness. Please take note of these
dates and read the explanation on the
facing page.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

1 2 3 4 5 6
Avalokiteshvara Day

7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Partial Solar
Dakini Day Eclipse (7m)

Shakyamuni
Day

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Samadhi Rajah 16 Arhats Puja

21 Tara
22 23 Guru
24 25 26 27
Day Rinpoche
Day
Medicine
Buddha Day
Thousand Amitayus Day
Buddhas Day

28 29 30 Avalokiteshvara
Day

Amitabha
Day

Kalachakra
Day

VITALITY POINTS OF THE BODY

September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
RIGHT SHOULDER

LEFT SHOULDER
LEFT FINGERS
RIGHT ELBOW

RIGHT ANKLE

RIGHT ANKLE
RIGHT WRIST

RIGHT HAMD

Vitality
RIGHT PALM

LEFT WRIST
RIGHT FOOT

LEFT ANKLE
RIGHT KNEE

LEFT ELBOW
RIGHT HEEL

RIGHT TOES

LEFT HAND

LEFT PALM
LEFT HEEL

LEFT KNEE
LEFT FOOT
RIGHT HIP

LEFT TOES

LEFT HIP
THROAT

THROAT
CROWN

Point
HEART

NECK

NAPE

(Men)
RIGHT SHOULDER
RIGHT FINGERS
LEFT SHOULDER

RIGHT ELBOW
RIGHT WRIST
RIGHT ANKLE
RIGHT ANKLE

RIGHT HAND
LEFT ELBOW

RIGHT PALM
RIGHT TOES

Vitality
RIGHT KNEE

RIGHT HIPS
RIGHT HEEL
LEFT ANKLE

LEFT ANKLE
LEFT WRIST

LEFT HAND

FOREHEAD
LEFT PALM

LEFT TOES
LEFT FOOT
LEFT KNEE

LEFT HEEL
LEFT HIP

THROAT

CROWN

Point
HEART

HEART
NECK

(Women)

The table here shows the locations of your body’s vitality points on each day of the month. Getting bruised or injured, or performing
surgical operations on the joints or organs located at or near these points weakens your life-span and vitality considerably and can
be fatal if your life-force is already low. Refer to this table when setting dates for medical operations. When going for a deep-tissue
massage, ask your masseuse to avoid pressing deeply on the vitality points of the day.
PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
ON A SHAKYAMUNI DAY
This month we have a partial solar eclipse day occuring
on the new moon day! Karmic meritis multiplied billions
of times. Use this precious day to chant mantras and
sutras, and perform increasing wealth and health rituals!
Offering Tsog to the Dakinis on the 7th and to Guru
Rinpoche on the 23rd brings prosperity luck! Refrain
from negative speech, thoughts and bad deeds on
these days and take note of the activities to
be avoided (e.g. no funerals, medical, etc).
TARA DAY – Chanting Tara Mantras and
praises on these days multiplies success
and removes obstacles. Join Lillian Too and
her Dharma friends online in performing Tara
Puja on the 8th day of the Spiritual Calendar.
Write to tarapuja@wofs.com for details on
how to participate.
Medicine Buddha Day – Chanting the 7 Medicine
Buddha names and mantras on this day purifies 30
eons of negative karma and brings swift healing
to those who are ill. It also brings BIG success for all
activities.
Thousand Buddhas Day – Reciting the names of the
Thousand Buddhas of our fortunate eon on this day
purifies 200 eons of negative karma and prevents
rebirth into the animal, ghost and hell realms. You
remove obstacles to wish-fulfillment.
Amitabha Day – Chanting his mantra purifies 200
eons of negative karma and leads you to Amitabha’s
heaven land. You develop strong powers of speech.
Avalokiteshvara Day – Chanting his mantra purifies
90 eons of negative karma and brings blessings of
happiness, peace and goodwill. You become lucky
in meeting people who will constantly help you.
Amitayus Day – Chanting his mantra increases
longevity and healing for those suffering from terminal
illness like cancer and AIDS. You remove the karma
of premature death.
Shakyamuni Day – Chanting Shakyamuni mantra and
praises purifies 1000 eons of negative karma and invite
rains of blessings! You reverse the karma of spiraling
into darkness and will be led irreversibly towards
happiness and enjoyments in this life and future lives.
Guru Rinpoche Day – Making lavish offerings to Guru
Rinpoche and chanting his mantra on this day invites
the Protection of Guru Rinpoche. You will be led
irreversibly to happiness, comfort and a life filled with
powerful spirituality. Read the Tsog prayer.
Dakini Day – Making incense and food offerings to
all the female deities and dakinis brings good fortune
and merit. Read the Tsog prayer.
Incense Puja – Good days for offering incense to
Buddhas, protectors and local deities.
Protector Puja – Offering Black Tea to King Gesar and
all protectors on these days brings powerful protection
against obstacles and black magic.
Long Life Sisters Puja – Offering Black Tea and Milk to
the Five Long Life sisters on these days brings protection
against disasters of the five elements
Naga Puja – Offering Medicinal incense to the Nagas
on this day brings protection against misfortune and
skin/lung diseases.
Tsog Offering - Reading the Food Offering Prayer before
all meals multiples your good karma millions of times.
Court Days – Harmonious days for resolving disputes and
attending court hearings, mediations and trials.
Long-Life Rituals - Powerful days for reciting mantras
of the Long Life Buddhas – Amitayus, White Tara and
Namgyalma. Also excellent for animal liberation rituals
Wealth Rituals – Powerful days to offer water to White
Dzambhala Wealth deity and chant his mantras. Also very
auspicious for making and consecrating wealth vases and
chanting mantras & sutras for attracting prosperity luck.
Chant the Sutra of Norbu Sangpo.
Parties & Weddings – Parties and Celebrations performed on
these days multiplies and increases happiness luck.
Success Rituals – Powerful days for chanting Noble Stack of
Auspiciousness, Hooking Abundance and making prayers
for success.
Prayer Flags – Raising Wind Horse & mantra flags on these
days bring good fortune and blessings.
Start Spiritual Journey – Very auspicious days for starting
retreat, pilgrimages or performing new spiritual practice
for the first time.
House Blessings - Excellent days to conduct space cleansing
rituals and to invite a holy man to bless your home.
No Court – Bad days for dispute resolution, divorce, court
trials, hearings & mediation. Disagreements & disharmony
prevails.
No Funeral - Bad days to perform funerals, burials,
cremations and conduct wakes.
No Medical – Bad days for major surgical/medical
procedures. Medical treatment will have obstacles.
No Starting Business – Starting or officiating businesses on
these days bring un-ending obstacles to the business.
No Prayer Flags – Hanging Wind Horse or mantra flags
on these days bring constant obstacles that will plague
success.
No Weddings/Parties – Holding gatherings, parties or getting
married on such days bring discord and disharmony. Friends
will turn into enemies.
 ASK FAILED DRIVING
AUNT TEST THREE TIMES IN
AGGA A ROW
Q
If you have a I live in Canada and have failed my driving
problem you think test 3 times in a row. I know how to drive
feng shui can solve, but somehow, on test days I can’t seem to
ask Aunt Agga
make a good judgements when driving. I’ve even tried
by emailing her at
auntagga@wofs.com picking a lucky time and date but still no success. I’m
born in the Year of the Snake.

DAUGHTER’S
BEDROOM HAS THE
A You seem to have some kind of karmic
blockage with “transport”. I suggest that you
make some donations towards any charity
that cares for the welfare of horses. It is also a good
idea to chant Vajrasattva’s mantra 21 times every
ILLNESS STAR night before going to bed to remove obstacles: OM
VAJRASATTVA HUM. Then, offer incense often to all

Q According to the Flying Star chart, my your local spirit deities and ask for their help in making
apartment faces East2/3. This means that you pass your car test. You should also chant the
my daughter’s bedroom has the illness star! mantra of Manjushri every day
According to Lillian Too’s book, this is a really bad star – OM AH RAPA CHANA
that can cause serious diseases and even death. I’m DHIH as this will increase
scared for her. What should I do? your intelligence and good
judgement. Make sure you

A The illness 2 can be deadly if it is not controlled. offer incense inside the
The good news is that this star is not difficult car you are driving as well
to suppress. You need metal energy, and – as cars also have local
powerful feng shui symbols that can suppress deities! Make sure you do
illness. The best antidote is the Garuda image. Place this on exam day! You will
a Garuda image and 2 Golden Wu Lou cures in your definitely see a difference!
daughter’s room. This will suppress the 2. Next year,
the 2 becomes very strong – so increase the number
of Wu Lous in her bedroom. I also highly recommend
inviting the image of the Medicine Buddha Mandala
and hang it inside her room.

BEES BUILDING A
NEST AT MY HOUSE
Q Lately I have been noticing swarms of bees
flying around my car porch area. I think they
are building a hive under my car porch roof.
Is this a good or bad sign? What should I do? I can’t
keep them!

A Whenever bees make a nest in your home

it’s always a good sign! If you’re in business
it could mean a meaty new contract or new
money-making opportunity. If you are a working
professional – this could indicate a
promotion or career change. As you
can’t keep them, please enlist the help
of a professional bee keeper who can
safely transport the hive somewhere
else. Whatever you do please do NOT
burn them or destroy their nest, as this
creates seriously bad karma for you!

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LOVE
Q My relationships always fall apart after a few
months. I have bathrooms in the Southwest.
I’ve tried to suppress this with mirrors on
the doors and 5 rod windchimes inside the toilet
but things have not changed. I’ve also activated SW
corners of my living room and bedroom but not much
has changed. Help! I’m 29 years old.
A
Poor thing. Southwest bathrooms are not easy
to remedy and this is one of the most basic
feng shui taboos to avoid. I suggest you start
looking for a new place to live which does not have
this problem. In the meantime, you can enlist the help
of the Red Goddess of Love. Wear her scarf daily and
preferably wear her mantra necklace OM TARE TAM
SOHA. It will be very helpful if you chant this mantra
daily as well. Red Tara removes obstacles to finding
stable relationships – she will not only help bring
someone suitable into your life, she will also support
you in finding a new place that has better feng shui
for you. Good luck!
MY MOTHER-IN-
LAW IS POISONING
US WITH BLEACH
Q My husband and I have been carers of my
90 year old mother-in-law for 23 years. We
discovered she has been secretly poisoning
us with Clorox! She is also abusive as my husband
is her least favourite child. She curses at us every
day, warning us that we will die before her. We
look after her as this was my father-in-law’s
final death wish! We are Tibetan Buddhists
and I believe the Buddhas have saved us from
death even after ingesting these poisons. But
what can we do? We can’t put her
in home, but I don’t want us to die.
A
I’m so sorry to read about this. Old women
are naturally crotchety and difficult. You are
both repaying some kind of karmic debt with
her... think of it like this and you will find it easier to be
patient and tolerant. Meanwhile, install locks on your
cupboards to store away all the Clorox and whatever
poisons you have in your home. I strongly recommend
you hang Guru Rinpoche’s Dusum Sangye plaque
in her bedroom and chant Guru Rinpoche’s Dusum
Sangye prayer for her as I suspect she is under some
kind of negative spirit influence. For you and husband,
I recommend wearing Tara’s amulets and chanting
Goddess TARA’s mantra: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE
SOHA. Tara will protect you from poison and whatever
curses your mother-in-law hurls at the both of you. You
will also start to see a real change in your mother-in-law.
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FEMALE STUDEN’T
CLIMBED OVER
HUSBAND’S HEAD
DURING HER “TIME
OF THE MONTH”
Q
My husband allowed one of his female
teenage students to climb over his head
and sit on his shoulder while tying a rope
on the tree. Apparently she was having her period
at the time! My mother-in-law was horrified when I
told her and says this will bring serious bad luck to
my husband! Is it true? And what can I do to get rid
of this bad luck?
A
I would have to agree with your mother-in-
law. In fact, this could cause your husband
to develop an unwelcome fondness over that
young girl! You need to clear this INSTANTLY. Make
a special cleansing water with this recipe: place
petals from seven different kinds of flowers, kaffir
lime leaves and pomelo leaves into a big bucket
of water. Have your husband wash his hair and his
entire body with this water for seven days in a row.
This should dispel the bad luck. This is best done
during the waning cycle of the moon (between full
moon and new moon).
IS MY EMPTY FISH
TANK CAUSING ME
BAD LUCK?
Q
Does an empty fish tank in our house bring
bad luck?
A
Oh dear! This is a very bad feng shui taboo.
You must never display an empty or broken
fish tank inside your home! If this is your wealth
corner, it can cause you to lose your wealth and
source of income. Wrap it up and keep it away in the
store room if you’re not using your fish tank. Throw
it away if it is broken. Of course, the best is to use
the fish tank and fill it with water. Even if you do not
have fishes inside, growing aquatic plants and having
constant bubbling
water can be very
beneficial for you.
Keep the water
clean at all times.
But do not keep
unmoving water in
the tank – this is
also not good.
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