New FengShui Book

27April2009 was a day of sorts. Collected the prints of the new book. Hope to hit the stores early.

If you would like to support, the price is RM30 a copy. There will be postage on top of that. At the bookshops, the price is RM35. The email is goodfengshuiadvice@gmail.com

I hope this book is a start for more translations and explanations of old fengshui text from chinese into english. Non-chinese readers are at a disadvantage when it comes to knowing more about fengshui mainly caused by the language and lack of understanding of fengshui principles.

I feel that the value of this book lies at the very least on its translation which I believe is accurate. Happy reading.

Go little Bird

Ants raided your nest
Down you plopped - did it hurt?
Starved of your mother's care
Was the sesames I fed you alright?
Stress, shock or was it the cold
that caused you to leave that morning?
Hopefully the warm sunshine
Will be your last remembrance
Of the short time you spent here
Go, little bird, we shall remember your shallow grave
and may your next birth be a better one!

Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung

They say that the world is seen through the eyes.And what we see depends on how we see.
I remember Ajahm Brahm relating an experience in his book "Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung?". Before he became a monk, he was on one retreat and during one break he noticed that a clump of bamboos was so beautiful. So much so
that he found time there at every opportunity.
However when he returned there some time later, the bamboo clump was nothing special. The Magic was gone. What I think he meant to say was that external things do not change. It is ourself and our perception that determines how things appear to us. Whether we see magic depends on ourself. Happiness begins from inside.

Plastic Bottles Unsafe?

The safety or rather the danger of plastic water bottles has been circulating in cyber space and in print. I saw a printout of this plastered on the notice board at Songtsen library too so I did some research and guess what I discovered.

According to snopes.com, it seems that there is no truth in this at all. Plastic bottles are safe. Some chap did a university thesis on the subject saying that the effect of heat and chill casued the plastic bottles to release a carcinogen, a cancer causing substance. Well, there seems to be no truth to this. It is an urban myth. Check it out at snopes.com