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Hi Chery! Not a FSM but i can give u some advise based on some experience in pyschology. 1. Sleeping under a beam will create a "Ya Po Gan", a feeling of something pressing onto you, hence some people will get bothered by it and loses sleep over it. 2. Legs facing the door will gives u a sense of uneasiness, same as if you are sleeping with ur head facing or leg facing the windows. 3. Toilet is a place of moisture and human being are not very receptive towards moisture, epecially during rest time. Hence people tend to fall sick. My advice (Do not flame me as it's a open discussion, and i'm offering the advice from a pychological point of view. I notice there are too many narrow minded pple in the forum, who only believe in their own set of beliefs, and simply has no tolerance towards other's point of view) If possible, try not to sleep under a beam or facing the window and door. If u really have no choice but to choose to sleep under a beam, u can choose one that doesn't faces the window and not facing the door. (Out of a bad area, u can choose the best place. If u feel pyschologically well, most probably u'll get a better rest too.) If possible, always ensure ur headboard is resting against a wall or a big and solid thing. (You get a sense of backing, a sense of security) When the toilet is not in use, u can always closes it. Or u can choose to close ur own door. Maybe u can post a layout of ur room and other forumers can have a better view.

tai seng link. u sure can see the signage one. Jackson Design Hub. u can do a street directory search too.

For "REAL" 5 emperors coin..it will be REALly expensive..hehe..because it's an antique. I seen a few in Bugis and china town..There's a shop that sell paintings which has it..but even better! It has 10 emperors coin in it, but it is package super nicely with descriptions of the era of the emperors. You can check out DA WEI painting, cause i do not have the info on hand now, u can search for a thread i posted in : DECOR, FOR ALL YOUR PAINTING NEEDS. I believe i had written dwn the shop's information there. Hope it helps. Rdgs, Ara

I believe u can classified this as a "mis-selling" or "mis-representing". You bought the unit under false information given to u by the agent. Example to quote : If ur unit has an empty plot of land in front, and the agent told u that it will be used for a shopping centre. And u bought the unit based on this point. In the end, it turns out to be a graveyard. If u have evidence of him telling u that it is going to be a shopping centre, u can sue him, or rather his company for damages. What i suggest, Ask ur agent out again, and then u tape the whole conversation. Make him admit that he did mis-sell or mis-represent himself to u. If u are successful, sue his *** off. Damages u can ask for : All the deposits paid + If u buy a higher price unit of same valuation, the agent's company are liable to pay for u. But what i would suggest, is that u play the recording for the agent to listen, and ask him to foot whatever costs there is to build back the wall. The initial confusion will make ur agent blur and make him pen it down in black and white, admiting his fault and to pay for the walls. Keep saying if he dun comply, then prepare to be sue. Most agent do not have the experience of being sued so i think to avoid trouble on his part, he will pay the few hundreds dollar. Just my 2 cent worth. Anyone can confirm taping the conversation can jalan in CASE?

Bro dun think they got any website leh. But they got many materials, like shaggy, furry, long and hard, long and soft..various size also..Many colours also..chances are u will find ur carpet there..

Was looking around for oil painting and with the input of a fellow forumers, manage to find a shop that sells a big variety of oil paintings. I could see many various type of Buddha painting of all sorts of sizes. I eventually settle for a 4 piece golden lily in abstract. U can also ask them to trim the painting to ur desire sizes too. The lady boss is friendly and honest in my opionion. Their shop is located at South Bridge Road, near Maxwell food market, directly opposite the party world. Da Wei Arts and Crafts 270, South Bridge Road S058819 Tel : 62245058 I'm not affliated to them but only want to find fellow forumers to shorten their search for oil paintings. Cheers!

A point to add from the new tenant is that "coloursofthewall" seems to have shifted to Kaki Bukit. Anyone can confirm this?

Hi all! Went to check out the website : www.coloursofthewall.com It is down and not able to be access. Went to check out the blog site : www.coloursofthewall.blogspot.com Took down the address and went today. To my dismay, it is no longer using the place anymore. Call their number that i manage to find in the forum : 83059838 but number unable to get through. From the new tenant, it seems that every saturday, there will be people going down and going back dissapointed cause they did not realise the shop has close or shifted. Anyone know whether is the shop closed down or have they shifted to a new place? Any address or contact number will be appreciated! Please post their new address or contact number straight to this thread and not as pm as i believe there are still people looking for their address. Thanks!

Bro, try jackson at Tai Seng Link. Im sure u can find something there. cheap as well. 2.3m x 1.6m costs as low as $80!

Yeah man..I believe there are still good furniture store out there..just that we need to be careful of the black sheep. Thankfully i manage to get my stuff from Mondi and even luckier, they are able to deliver this week. Hope everything goes smoothly this time..hehe.. Btw, anyone know where is the shop "Coloursofthewall" or "coloursofmywall". Supposingly they sell paintings but i cannot find any additional info on the net leh. Anyone can help?

Good day to all! I feel that I have the obligations to share my experience with all who are buying furniture for ur new home. The worst kind of services imaginable, from Novena. Story as follows : 3rd Jan 2010 My wife and I went to SHAW PLAZA's NOVENA to take a look for our Sofa, Dining table and Coffee table. 1 of our criteria when purchasing them is the availability of stock, meaning they must have ready stock. Eventually, we settled down on all our items and purchase another storage stool which cost $99. Total 4 items. Delivery date is set to 16th of Jan. 15th Jan 2010 Morning : The sales girl called me telling me that my sofa got no stock, so got to wait for the shipment, which is somewhere near 5th of Feb. Told her i got to discuss with my wife, and will get back to her shortly. After discussing with my wife, we decide to wait for the shipment but we need a confirmed date. This is when all the **** begin. Called her but never answer. Sms her but never reply. Decide to wait for her to reply or call instead. Afternoon : The sofa supplier called me tell me that they will delivered the sofa tomorrow (16th of Jan) between 4pm - 6pm. Was thinking maybe she had sort it out and called my wife to informed her. Decide to sms the sales girl as well. Evening : The sales girl sms me asking who is that supplier and i was like WTF? supplier is from ur company yet u had to ask me who ur supplier was. But nonetheless, i gave her the number and ask her to update me. After a few hours, still no news. So decide to call her and sms her. Called her but never answer. Sms her but never reply. Nothing we can, so we sleep on it till the next day. 16th of Jan (Day of delivery for all my purchases) As our washing machine, dryer, mattress, fridge, tv, HTS are all set to be delivered on today, so we decide to wait for the sales girl call while we settle the other delivery first. Again, we decide to try our luck and call and sms her. Called her but never answer. Sms her but never reply. As the last of our item for the day have arrive, she sms me saying EVERYTHING except the storage stool will be delayed for 2 MONTHS! Of course we cannot accept this and we are **** pissed at her already, so we ask for the manager's number and to speak directly to him/her. She told me to wait out while she consult her store manager. After another hour, she smsus saying tht her manager, as a kind gesture, decide to let us choose another sofa at a discount price. They are willing to loan us a dining set and coffee table till they arrive. At that time, we don't care for these things anymore, and all we ask for is the full refund. The level of customer service is too much for us to take the risk of it happening again. So we sms her of our intention and said we will be gg down to her store for the refund and to cancel the delivery of the storage stool. When we reach the store, we ask for the sale girl but she wasn't around. So we decide to ask for the manager and guess what! The sales girl was actually the STORE MANAGER! Unbelievable! We told the cashier of our the situation and she took the invoice and check it out for us. More suprises! Out of everything, Only the sofa is out of stock! The dining table and coffee table are in stock! Imagine our fury! We insist on our refund and they counter-offer us again with a discount of another model. I told her in a loud voice (By then i had lost my cool) that," Please don't be mistaken by our pressence here. We are not here to create a commotion so u would give us a discount. We had enough of NOVENA's nonsense and would like to have our money back, Thank You" The commotion had attracted the attention of some customers, so they decide to let us have our refund. All in all, we lost about $60 in cab fare, 2 days worth of time but we gain a stomach full of anger. If she had let us know earlier, we can still salvage the situation but 1 day before delivery? we had to re-arrange the house warming and to calculate another date to move in now. Worst of it's kind, Novena the screw up furniture store. If u really had to buy stuff from Novena, please avoid SHAW PLAZA at BALESTIAR road. Please avoid BELINDA too. rdgs, justin

Hi Ivy! 平洋龙 - A Vast piece of land without any visible landform. Eg, Dubai has this Feature as most of the land are converted from desert. it can only be considered as a 平洋龙 if it has no visible landform, hence making it a very rare landform. 平洋一穴 - A vast piece of landform without any visible landform but has ONLY 1 mould or small hill popping up. That is the location of the Dragon's head. Hence, in a 平洋龙 feature, that is even more precious. To be able to call it a 平洋龙 ,the below criteria must be met : Vast piece of land. (Certainly not a bedroom) No visible landform. You can't have "many little dragon head popping up" as there's no 平洋龙 in Singapore that i can remember of. Rem HDB are consider mountain. Well, to say the least, i have my laughter with ur "little dragons head popping up everywhere" image. Rdgs, Ara

Hi IVy, From the classical text, it mention the bedroom would have to be in a 静 status. The reason being that we do not want to disrupt the 气 as much as we can help it. Perhaps the classical teaching could not be apply to modern day living, but if we were to believe in feng shui, surely we would need to take into consideration of the classical text. Rdgs, Ara ps : Really glad that someone is as enthusiatic about feng shui as me, at a age close to mine! That is, assuming u are 1981 as what ur nick is. Cheers. Really learnt alot from u in the few posting.

Hi Ivy! I believe u are right as i recall my mentor mentioning that : To activate the travelling horse sector, we will need to place movement related objects or statue of horses. To NOT activate it, we just need to place large non moving objects in that particular sector to prevent the horse from travelling. As for the theory 易卦八宅, i believe a more appropriate theory would be 宅命合一. Combining the 命 of ur unit to the 命 derive from ur own 八字. This would integrate the life of the unit into the owner. Rdgs, Ara

Hi IVy, 平阳一穴胜千峰 平阳一穴 - To translate from my understanding, It means a vast piece of flat land, but with 1 mould or small mountain in it. The flat land is refer to as an underlying dragon hidden away. The mould or small hill is the place where the dragon's head pop up. Hence why it is superior (胜千峰) is because the 龙穴 is present at the land.(Mould or small hill) Would it be wrong to apply the theory in a room? Rdgs, Ara

Hi Ivy! 千丈看势，百丈看形 I have read up on this 2 verse before, and to my understanding from the example and case study, the 形 we are talking about here is the land form. Pointed roof visible from the unit creating 煞气, Gap between 2 building or HDB block creating 天斩煞, Building showing a small part that is being hidden by another bigger building 探头峰, A lamp post or a huge tree that is on the right side of ur unit will create 白虎煞 etc. As for shape/colours/size of an ornaments, they play a small part in the overall view of fengshui, except other than from the view of Pop Feng Shui master Lilian 2. Please correct me if i am wrong as i'm also in the learning process. Rdgs, Ara

Hi Leonbelmont! I'm just an avid feng shui researcher currently following a mentor. There are many FSM in SG but not all of them are following the classical texts. And it doesn't mean those that not following the classical are bad feng shui master either. AS what i have mention to a pm from a fellow forumer, No sector are bad forever, and no sector are god forever. The 飞星 in 玄空 system means that the stars will fly around the different sector in ur unit, so a sector might not be favourable for u 2 this year, but come next year, it might not be that bad already. A change of year in Feng shui is ALWAYS on the 4th Of Feb of every year. This is according to the Hsia Calendar. Seeing we only got 3 more mths to the next change of stars, PErhaps u would want ur master to calculate for u using next yr's stars instead? Another good idea is to combine ur rooms, but that is only if u want it that way. Feng Shui is all about Harmonising the 气 in ur unit, making it flow better and bring about peace and happiness. If by following the fsm advice, but in the process making u unhappy that u cannot stay in ur MBR, then i would advice u seeking ur fsm again and telling him u die die must stay in the MBR, and seek him advice to cure as much as he can. Hope u find my reply useful and may u find peace in ur reno journey! Rdgs, Ara

Hi! Glad i could be of some help. Just to share some more on TV related FEng Shui tips. As TV is considered Yang, and Yang is associated with movement. Movement refer to the changes and movement of the magnetic field.(气) By watching TV in ur bedroom, which is a room we want to achieve stillness/tranquality of magnetic Field (气), will causes unwanted movement of 气. As much as possible, try to limit activity in ur resting area. Maybe u can try watching TV in ur living room for a week, and see whether u can achieve A better good night rest.. Rdgs, Ara

Hi all! A picture of flower can activate the "桃花" of a person, but only in a certain sector of a unit that belong to a person "桃花" sector . To find a person's personal "桃花" sector, we would need his 八字 and couple with the 24 mountain (二十四山) of ur unit, will we be able to activate the "桃花" of a person. We can place a small scented candle, fresh flower etc to activate it. But let's not give ur husband a chance to use it as an excuse, but if u are really keen to hang the picture, it's better to consult ur FSM, in case u did hang in ur husband's "桃花" sector unknowingly. Rdgs, Ara

Hi all, Im not too concern about ur bed facing the door, but rather, the backing of ur bed is facing the window. In feng shui term, having ur bed facing the window will make u insecure and resulting in a poor rest time. In landform fengshui (峦头), we talk about the Left Green Dragon, Right White tiger, Front Red Sparrow, Back Turtle. 左青龙，右白虎，前朱雀，后玄武. If u have the back of the bed facing the window (By having the back against the window, i meant when u lie on ur bed, the top of ur head is facing the window), u will not have any solid backing. Thus, there will be feeling of uneasiness, not having a good night rest. If the facing is recommended by ur FSM, maybe he is using a different system. But the fundamental of Feng Shui should not be ignore, as the phrase 左青龙，右白虎，前朱雀，后玄武 has been around for as long as the 1st documented feng shui book is around. Much of the present system commonly used today revolved around this 4 phrases. An example is 前朱雀, a low lying area in front of ur unit or hse. This area is used to gather "气“ in term of 玄空飞星 system. Rdgs, Ara

Hi all! Have read through all of the postings and would like to address the issue : Buying Feng Shui ornaments. IF a FSM reccomend u a feng shui ornaments that will cure a specific area, please be mindful that for a cure to be effective, the shape does not matter. What matters the most is the element the ornaments is made of. If a FSM asks u to hang a special $388 Wind Chime made of metal, to weaken the Earth-element malicious star there, you can also achieve the same effect by hanging metal trophy of urs or ur wife or ur son. U can also buy cheap $10 metal wind chime too. What we want is the presence of the metal element, as well as the sound of the metal clinking away. There are no documentation of specific shape or ornament one should have to weaken another element from the ancient texts. What the ornaments are, is Popular Feng shui. Read up on Lili** 2 magazine if u want to know what Pop Feng shui is. But then again, if pop feng shui gives u ur peace of mind, go ahead and implement them. As long as u feel at peace, whatever works for u is true feng shui. Purpose of this posting is to clarify that Classical Feng Shui do not specify which ornaments to use. Rdgs, Ara

Hi all! The article is too vague and cannot be taken in your feng shui audit. The FSM of the article is using the 玄空飞星 system so i'll try to explain to the max of my understanding of the system. It's true that a marble table can bring about unwanted/unhappy events but only if ur dining area is situated in the sectors where the 山星 are the malicious 5 and sickly 2. Both of them are of the Earth elements, and a marble table, assuming it to be of earth origin, will increase the effect of 2 & 5. The Mountain star (山星) will be "activated" by the big and unmoving marble table. 山管人丁，水管才。The mountain star will affect ur human relationship, translating to a hard time in ur job, which requires a great deal of dealing with pple. So if ur dining area is governed by the malicious and sickly 2 & 5, maybe a marble table might not be such a good idea. But if different stars governed ur dining area, there is no need for panic at all. So from the article, which just assume that a marble table in ur dining area is a cause for work pressure, is just plain absurb. Rdgs, Ara

Hi Lynn! A budget feng shui master might just gives u a budget answer. If budget is a problem, maybe u can try reading up the 通书. Alternatively, there's a few Chinese translated to English 通书 in the market. Try searching around for it. Rem, the purpose of finding a auspicious date and time is to give ourself a peace of mind. Some pple find it by engaging pricey FSM. Some pple can find it by reading up on materials available in the market. Which type of pple are u? Rdgs, Ara

hI! From FS perspective, it is ok as it is the TV that will activate the 向星. By having a mirrior opposite, it will not create anything bad itself. But having a mirror that will reflect the tv, will the reflection cause some discomfort to ur viewing pleasures? rdgs, Ara

Hi everyone! I am an avid Feng Shui researcher and a new hse owner myself. Chances upon this thread and wishes to share some of my finding. I am a 易经风水 guy, hence i only read up on materials that is documented down in paper aka ancient chinese classical text on fengshui. According to 玄空 school of thoughts, there is no procedure stated for the opening/starting of reno. (开门动土) Eg, rolling of pineapple, ritual etc. However, according to 玄空择日学, u can find a specific day/month/hour to start ur 动土. Alternative way to find an auspicious date and time is to use 通书 or by 董公择日学. If u want a more personalized auspicious date, you can use ur 八字, and derive a good date that is only specific to u. Whichever way u uses, it all boils down to which system u uses and believe in. As for the rituals, i'm most probably going to skip all that, but i'm definately going to pray that everything will go smoothly and if i'm disturbing "anyone", i did not mean it. At the chosen timing, i will ask my reno to crush the tiles at all 4 corners, and the centre tile, this will signify the start of reno. (动土) I'm not being skeptical to all the rituals. If it gives u a peace of mind after doing it, do it! Feng Shui and pyschology are quite closely linked to each other, and by giving urself a peace of mind, is good feng shui itself. rdgs, Ara