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“Don’t touch it“, exclaimed by my dear Boss on the Feng Shui that has been placed just a few days ago in our office desk. It’s the typical golden dragon that will literally keep us in shape throughout the year, that is “no one is allowed to call in sick”. In some cases, Feng Shui are used as a kind of art and science of placing things in your indoor environment to increase prosperity and good business. Every year before the arrival of the Chinese New Year, a Feng master visits our office, walks in and out the entire office desk and point his finger like a lunatic and decides what “feng shui items” is better for this year, The Year Of The Rat.

“Fine”, I said.

Thing is, this whole feng shui arrangement is already keeping me insane. We have three golden old guys statue standing infront near our PC monitor, a golden tic-tac clock that sits near the telephone lines, a big zwarovski-crystal like balls surrounded with eight little jackstones on the display at the back of our chair, a fishbowl with eight lucky coins and white marble stones submerged in water on the side of the wall display and a golden brass mirror plate that hides under our table. What more could we ask for?

I mean, aren’t they too much? It seems though that I am fascinated with all these stuff in the beginning, but now they are as if killing me to even touch it and curse it with my middle finger.

Interested? Here are some pointers that you can actually do by yourself to improve this “prosperity place” in your home:

Is your kitchen in the prosperity place? Food is associated with wealth in Feng Shui, so display a bowl of fruit on the counter to symbolize prosperity. Keep the kitchen scrupulously clean. The more burners you have on your stove, the more prosperity you attract. Either hang a mirror behind the stove to reflect the burners, symbolically doubling them, or place a shiny teakettle on the stove to reflect the burners.

Is your bathroom in the prosperity place? Keep the toilet lid down and the door to the room closed so you are not symbolically “flushing your wealth” down the toilet. Add an object that is either red (the Fire Element) or Brown (the Earth Element) to symbolically “sop up” the excess water that could be washing away your wealth.

Is your living room or family room in the prosperity place? Display your valuable objects in this room to symbolize wealth, such as crystal, valuable collections, fine art. Add healthy plants in beautiful pots to symbolize flourishing wealth. If you plants die, replace them immediately with healthy ones to keep your wealth growing.

Is your dining room in the prosperity place? Food and guests are associated with wealth. Hang a mirror that reflects your dining room table and you will symbolically double your wealth. Keep valuable items like crystal, silver, and china in the room to represent the continuing accumulation of wealth.

Is your bedroom in the prosperity place? Hang artwork that depicts water, such as rivers and streams. Water represents the flow of abundance, so be sure that the water image in your art is flowing into your room. Art that shows water flowing out represents prosperity leaving your home. - via Prosperity Place

In other words, I believe in Feng Shui and it works - for as long as you know how to use it. Or Fung Shui? I’d like to call it, “Feng” as it rhymes beautifully with the names of “Fong” and “Hong”, two of my colleagues. I am surprised that even the names they use, considering it’s a Chinese name, is more popular for the locals, meaning, a “good charm”. I once asked someone what my Chinese name would translate, they laughed and said, it’s a badluck word named after a flower called “Lei”? How could that happen? Therefore, about time that I should re-arrange stuff in my own house as they say, helps to curse the bad luck away with or without this Feng Shui. I’m sure my old bulky Sharp TV is surely the first stuff to go. It’s giving me a heavy loads of headache. Remote please.

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