tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41070242752616787692024-03-14T10:24:56.967+08:00Yi Jing Feng Shui (Chinese Astrology)日常生活隨天意,
凡事看開笑咪咪,
悔改過失知明理,
心情鬱卒隨風去,
心中知足福無比,
快樂人生真有趣!李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-8488218643959858742012-03-28T03:47:00.005+08:002012-04-29T00:11:34.242+08:00Awakening the DragonMy apologies to my faithful readers here, though the story might looks like having missing parts on the Xuan Kong used but I do not want to waste anymore of your precious time in further full translations but nevetheless I hope that all of you here would still enjoyed the ending. Cheers. <br />
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One year later, Ah Tong had then followed Old Master Jiang instructions after meeting him at the tea house in Tai O fishing village. He then shifted to another residence as well as moving his office to another location. Old Jiang on seeing the two properties then told Ah Tong with a smile: 'From now on, both of you would be a very happy couple.' He heard him telling Xiao Wu :'夫唱婦随啊... '<br />
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Ah Tong was then puzzled on this prose as Miss Han was still very cold towards him despite his efforts in showing his sincerity to win her back since she had recovered. It was not unusual as she is a proud woman and Ah Tong was also worried that he would be rejected if he approached her for a reconciliation.<br />
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One night when Hong Kong was hit by a typhoon, there was a loud crash and a scream which awoke Ah Tong. It came from the children's bedroom and Ah Tong rushed to see what happened. Amidst the lightnings and thunder sounds, he saw a shivering figure huddled at a corner which was Miss Han, he went to her and heard her sobbing :'Please hug me, I am very frightened.' <br />
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And as in a fairy tale, they then lived happily together and thereafter despite Xiao Wu's grim forecast of Ah Tong undergoing unfavorable marriage luck for the next few years in his bazi chart. <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The End</span></div>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-64590337608273848332012-03-20T22:22:00.014+08:002012-03-22T22:48:51.076+08:00偷天換日, Steal the Sky, Change the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaVcqzhr99Na7fHG9EVY_gLojS7ahzVPS4arpzrcoyoRd4TsNAQE75kG2cXlYUZGjoKZc-0XiYC1UFIK4FH0bGlP6P4CdA83hyphenhyphenXaiDRn2z2hL9LeLgR2xG8J_x98E8VnohpVvKulY0Orc/s1600/Steal+the+sky+and+change+the+sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaVcqzhr99Na7fHG9EVY_gLojS7ahzVPS4arpzrcoyoRd4TsNAQE75kG2cXlYUZGjoKZc-0XiYC1UFIK4FH0bGlP6P4CdA83hyphenhyphenXaiDRn2z2hL9LeLgR2xG8J_x98E8VnohpVvKulY0Orc/s320/Steal+the+sky+and+change+the+sun.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Ah Tong had then bought a fish shape clock that can chime hourly to put next to his main door and also to put a big gold fish bowl just filled with water only at the balcony as instructed by Old Master Jiang. He was then told to go to the teahouse one month later to meet Old Master Jiang before Xiao Wu sent the latter back that day.<br />
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Two weeks later, Ah Tong had then called Xiao Wu to meet again at the cafe by the park. Apparently, Ah Tong wanted to discuss with Xiao Wu about meeting the old master again later in the month.<br />
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Ah Tong: 'I called you here today is because I don't know whether I should ask if the old master can find a way for me to remarry my wife again.'<br />
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Xiao Wu burst out laughing immediately but quickly stopped: 'Sorry about the laughter, I really can't help it as I wonder if there is anybody in Hongkong now or before who had met a situation like this. I had guess this could be the reason why you had called me to meet you first. Anyway, how is your ex wife now?'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'I have been monitoring her closely for the last two weeks and it shows that she had completely recovered. Apparently she also do not know why she wanted to have a divorce as I saw her once looking at her divorce papers with a puzzled look. Another reason is that sometimes the children would wake up in the night and cry non-stop when she is not around to coaxed them back to sleep. You know how to read bazi, maybe you can tell me whether there is a possibility of us getting back together again.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'I would be frank with you, this are all reflected in your bazi chart. If it is a one year problem in the your bazi chart, there is still a possibility of a reconciliation. However, you are a weak fire daymaster which means the next two years are still unfavorable as it is Geng Shen Monkey, strong metal which represent your wife and wealth. The year after would be Xin You and the You Rooster have an affinity with the Chou again in your spouse palace. It is actually very bad considering that it is three years in a row starting already from this year Ji Wei influencing your spouse palace. All in, it is bad whether you understand what I am talking about or not. Haiz....'<br />
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Ah Tong sighed too and said: 'Nevertheless I am glad that Miss Han is back to normal which is my main concern. She don't looks like she is habouring any ill-feelings towards me as my office staff must have told her what happened when she went back to help in my office. Another interesting thing is also that the client who wanted to sue me for a botched property deal had dropped the lawsuit and in return, had asked me to help him to negotiate with the owner of a land that I am on good terms with as he is interested in acquiring it. Sometimes I wonder if this is all coincidence or not as this was the same guy who was driving me crazy during that period which had influenced me also into agreeing to the divorce during that quarrel.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Not to worry, as the old master had asked you to meet him again. I have a feeling he must have some advice for you as the timing was probably not right for that time at your place to let you know more. I am also intrigued as there was nothing much he did apart from asking you to buy those few common items. Anyway, I am going to tell you something important but do not put your hopes too high. My uncle had told me before that Master Old Jiang knows a lost legendary Feng Shui skill called 'Steal the Sky and Change the Day' meaning he can change your destiny if he wants. This is why my uncle had not wanted to teach me Tie Ban Shen Shu but instead instructed me to learn tea appreciation so as to try to get Old Master Jiang to take me as his disciple. It is also why I am not working now but spending my time here instead at Tai O Fishing Village. Do not let him know that I tell you this as he might not help you then, remember...'<br />
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Seeing the sudden sparkle in Ah Tong's eyes, Xiao Wu immediately try to take away the excitement that the former must be feeling. He was also worried as he thinks that it is quite impossible to change destiny from his experiences gained so far from reading bazi charts. He don't want to give Ah Tong any false hopes as this is still hearsay for he have not really seen the old master at work yet.<br />
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'Tell you what, lets go for a massage later to relax and take away your anxiety of waiting to meet the old master as thinking about it can't help much.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'All-right , I also do not want to go back early yet and faces Miss Han for I feel guilty whenever I see her. I am also thinking of the children for the future as it feels odd living as a divorce couple in the same house together. I really still love her a lot and I don't think anybody can replace her in my heart.'<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day, Ah Tong decided to call the Miss Han’s father to check whether she did went home. He felt suspicious that she could have purposely provoked him for a divorce. Strangely, she was at home and the father told him that she had cried upon coming home and locked herself in the bedroom. When asked about it, he told the father that he would explained to him later on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a few days, Miss Han called him and told him to contact her lawyer on the paperwork for the divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He however was more concerned about the custody for the children and asked her about it. She then told him that she will leave the children with him but will visit them anytime she wants. She also wanted a separate bedroom for herself if she wanted to stay overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also curious as Miss Han now appeared to be more coherent in her speech and actions. He then started thinking that she might really have a lover outside as what the last Tie Ban master had hinted in a prose <span class="mpt2">明<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">有夫,<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">暗有夫(Open and Secret Husband)</span></span></span>. He decided he will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>call Xiao Wu to discuss about it further later.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Han then did come back and visited the children when he was at home and sometimes stayed overnight. He has no objections to it as he does not intend to look for a companion yet. However, she will still at times behave erratically. Once she had ordered a set of travelling luggage from a friend’s shop which he did not feel strange until after a few days, she threw them all down from the apartment. He found out when the building supervisor had called him and complaint that it was dangerous as it might hurt someone. Later on, he thought she could also be rebuking him indirectly for not going for a honeymoon as he had promised during their wedding that they will do it once his new company had been established.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once in the middle of the night, she threw down all the pillows and bed sheets. All these also confused him as to whether she has recovered from her mental illness. She would also at times disappear for weeks and did not go back to her father’s home. This also puzzled him as he felt that if she have a lover, she have no need to be secretive as they have now agreed on the divorce. This mystery of her whereabouts before marriage and after was finally solved when one day; a woman called him and told him that she is the aunt of Miss Wu in Macau. She apologized for not attending their wedding but had called him now because she finds that there is something wrong with Miss Han. In the past, she would come by to her place when she was unhappy and seek solace from her. However this time, she refused to say anything when the aunt had wanted to know further and then she found her crying in the middle of the night. Further, Miss Han had never stayed in her place for such a long period before and she found it strange and decided to call him to ask about it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong then started having misgivings as whether he was right to agreed to a divorce before finding out things further. However both of them had already signed the divorce papers though it had also consoles him that she did not have someone new in her heart. He then decided to call Xiao Wu to discuss about his situation. He arranged to meet him at the old café when they had first met at the part. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: ‘I am not surprised that things have come to this stage as I had said that there is a clash on Chou in your spouse palace by the Tai Sui Wei this year in your bazi chart. Normally, either separation or divorce would follow in this situation. I had hoped that Master Iron Bone would have solved the problem for you which apparently were not.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: ‘She did improved after the masters had visited my place and conduct their rituals. However, the divorce was over another matter and nothing to do with her being unsound. It was over some clay materials for pottery works that she bought.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong then told him what happened that night and that he was hasty as he was angry and jealous that she might have someone new in her heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'I think maybe we can try to enlist the help of this master whom I have lately met again at a teahouse in Lantau every morning. He is a close friend of my uncle, the one who did the Tie Ban Shen Shu reading for you. He is very good in solving difficult problems from Destiny as he is a Da Liu Ren (大六壬 )expert.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'What is Da Liu Ren? How come I have never heard of this before? Is the same art as Master Iron Bone uses.' </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'No, it is not. Da Liu Ren is is a form of Chinese astrology using the Sun position relative to Earth in anticlockwise movement dating from (at least) the later Warring States period. Along with the divination methods Qi Men Dun Jia 奇门遁甲 and Taiyi 太乙—collectively known as the "Three Styles" (San shi 三式)—Da Liu Ren is considered in China to be one of the highest forms of Chinese metaphysics.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'How come I have never heard of all these three arts before if they are that good.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'When the communist took over, most of these masters went into hiding or fled overseas as they had already know that they will be targeted. Those who fled overseas had then maintain a low profile as it is believed that secret operatives of the Communist Party continued to hunt them down in Taiwan, the base of the Koumintang Party or in Hong Kong. It is believed that Chairman Mao had uses Qi Men Dun Jia successfully against the better equipped Kuomintang party supported by the West. He was also afraid that these Hidden Dragons and Crouching Tigers might be used against him by internal rivals and had proceed to wipe out this threat.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'I see, then in this case, we must sought his advice to see what I should do next. I am beginning to regret as I have just found out that Miss Han did not have someone else in her heart and it would be unfair to have divorce her in that moment of anger. Though I don't think there is much this master can do as we are already divorced.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'There would be no harm giving it a try as matter have already come to this stage. However, I have to think of a way to introduce you to this master so that you could sought his help.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'Mmm, I don't understand. I thought you know him well as he is a friend of your uncle.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'Yes, but my uncle had told me that he would always claims that he is not skilled enough when people asked him for help. He would always asked them to look for my uncle or to go somewhere else.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'In this case, I think we might as well forget it and leaves it to affinity as in my case with Miss Wu which I think have ended.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'Not really, he had told me in one of our breakfast session that he is just tired of the mudane world and he prefers a carefree life. However, I can tell that he is very capable as at time, he would hint to me about certain events that would happens to me which came true. He is very good as I had managed to avert a major disaster which I would tell you another time.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'Talking about affinity, I believed I can convince him to help you. This master likes tea and is always talking about tea appreciation which I no longer have interest while you are still a tea connoisseur. Both of you might get along fine and he might consider helping you if he likes your company. Why don't we do this, you come by to this teahouse in Tai O fishing village the day after at 6.30 am and take a seat in a corner. He would normally goes there at 7.00 am and I will be there at 7.30am, my usual time. I would then chat with him for a while and pretend to need to use the latrine. We would then acted out that we had met coincidentally and I would invite you to join me and that master. It would be like affinity for you to meet him and he might consider helping you based on that.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong:'All-right, I really regret having agreed to the divorce but I would still like to help Miss Han to recover as she still at times behave irrationally though not as bad as before.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu: 'All-right, so let's do as what I have proposed and I will see you on that morning there.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that morning, things then went smoothly as planned and Xiao Wu had then bought Ah Tong along to sit at his table after acting out that they have met coincidentally there. He then introduced Ah Tong to the old master who is named Old Jiang after explaining that they were old friends and Ah Tong is a tea lover. Further, Xiao Wu added that it was such a coincidence for them to be meeting in such a remote place. Old Jiang smiled on hearing the word 'coincidence' and acknowledge Ah Tong. As both of them sat down, they were surprised to see Old Jiang using his fingers to count something as what Xiao Wu's uncle had done in the Tie Ban Shen Shu reading. After a while, he then says something that really surprised both of them. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old Jiang with a serious look on his face then said: 'Mmm, it looks like your friend Ah Tong here have some serious domestic problem and would like to see whether I can help or not. So it is not so much of a coincidence to be meeting here eh?'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing Xiao Wu looking sheepishly, Old Jiang then said with a smile: 'Don't worry, I won't blame you as we have been having breakfast often for the last few months together and I know your character well. You are a friend in deed when there is a need.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong then quickly: 'Yes old master, do not blame Xiao Wu as I am the one at fault. I have a problem with my wife for the whole year and Xiao Wu have been trying to help me with it unselfishly.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old Jiang then said: 'It is all right as we still have affinity to meet despite that I have purposely chooses this remote place to stay away from the mudane world. I would help also on account of Xiao Wu's uncle who is a good friend of mine. If Old Abacus is still here in Hong Kong, he would also help you on account of Xiao Wu.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Ah Tong and Xiao Wu replied simultaneously: 'Thank you, thank you old master.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that, it was arranged that they would meet at Ah Tong's office on a day that the old master had chose and after which they would go to his residence. Xiao Wu volunteered to chauffer the old master on that day to Ah Tong's office as he have been impressed by the skill of the old master and curious to see what he would advise Ah Tong to do.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that day, they met at Ah Tong's office and as Old Jiang was looking around, Miss Han suddenly appeared. She appeared to know what they are doing as Old Jiang was holding a Luopan (Chinese Feng Shui Compass) and spoke loudly:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I am born in the year of 1949 old master, see if this office is suitable for me?'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing the puzzled look on Old Jiang on whether she is a staff or a relative as Ah Tong and Xiao Wu was struck speechless to respond, she said with a laugh: 'Haha, I was once his wife and now no longer, wonder if it is of any use to know this now.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old Jiang with a kindly smile to her: 'Not to worry, you might be surprised.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Han suddenly fall silent and then went and sat on one of the office chairs with a magazine that she have been holding.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong then bought him with Xiao Wu to look at his office room where Old Jiang then told Ah Tong in a quiet voice: 'Take this little bell that I have bought along and hang it now at your main office door and then come back here.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Ah Tong have done it and came back to the room, they then proceed to the car to go to his residence. Miss Han suddenly also appeared as they did not see her when they left the office. She rushed to the car to open the door and accidentally knocked her head and exclaimed in pain while using one of her hands to massage that part. Ah Tong was concerned and rushed to her side to check whether if she is all right. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She just keep saying :'I am okay, I am okay.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xiao Wu whispered to Ah Tong as they got into the car: 'Looks like she got a nasty bump on her forehead.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong: 'Never mind first, let Old Jiang settle my matter first, I would bring her to a bone setter (chiropractor) later to check.'</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When they have reached Ah Tong's apartment, Miss Han immediately eagerly went to the children's room as with any loving mother. Old Jiang then walked around the apartment after which he sat down at the living room and suddenly started laughing hysterically and holding his stomach which reminds Ah Tong of the Tie Ban Shen Shu prose: 哭笑不<span class="mpt5">得.(To laugh or cry). Old Jiang then slowed down his breath and said: 'My apologies, I don't know what came over me. Could be I am amused and suprised that both your office and house have the same fengshui setup which I have never encounter before. Your wife must have given you a lot of unexpected headaches this whole year.'</span></span><br />
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</span><span class="mpt5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Tong nodded and sighed. </span><br />
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</span><span class="mpt5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Han suddenly then walked out from the children's bedroom and strangely then in a quiet voice says to Ah Tong.</span><br />
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</span><span class="mpt5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Ah Tong, you must listen carefully to what this old master have to says and do whatever he tells you about this house. I am going back to my father's place now and will come back tommorow to visit the children.'</span><br />
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</span><span class="mpt5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a smile at Old Jiang, she then turned and walked out of the house as if they were still the loving couple before. Ah Tong was then confused in the change of her behaviour as he was quite skeptical about the small bell that Old Jiang had asked him to hang at his office door. He had then thought whether it could be related to her getting a knock on her head while opening the car door as she had also injured her head in the previous incident that had resulted her behaving abnormally. He just can't believed that it is as easy as that to have solved the problem though he can see some abrupt changes which he is unable to explain logically. </span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">To be continued.....</span>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-90004241944996431182012-01-29T12:30:00.020+08:002012-01-30T17:53:48.980+08:00The Exorcist<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, well. You all will have to thank Eileyn Chua for making me continue translating the story if you like it as she had PM me on my Facebook and I had told her that it was boring for me as I felt that this part was uninteresting and I do not know how to go about it. Actually, at that moment I had no intention of carrying on with the story, me BAD. I was amused when she said that ‘How can a real life story be boring!’ and so here we go,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John: 'The doctor says that most of the impact was absorbed by her skull in the fall and therefore nothing else was affected. However, she is still unconscious and the doctor says it could be a while before she regained consciousness.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: 'Thanks for sending her to the hospital as it must have hard on you. My apologies for the trouble it had caused you.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John: 'It’s not a problem as this is something I have to do but I still think it is inauspicious and it would be best to leave that property alone.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong then immediately thought of Xiao Wu as he is the only person who knows more about spiritual matters. He then decided to give him a call but the public phone was hogged by an old lady for the past half hour and he do not want to create any fuss. It was then that John told him that Miss Han had awoke and he was glad but then she just stared blankly at him and John when she saw them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: 'Don't worry, I am here, you must have received a shock after the fall. The doctor says that you are all-right except that you might have a bit of a headache.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miss Han still stared at him and then said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'I was going down the stairs when I thought I heard somebody called and as I looked up, somebody then pushed me from behind.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She then smiled to herself but in a while started sighing. Ah Tong was shocked and told John to stay by her side while he looks for the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Doctor, an old man in his sixties looked up from a file as Ah Tong went into the office without knocking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: 'My apologies, I am worried that there is a problem with my wife.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The doctor kindly asked instead of being offended by his abrupt interruption: 'Hmm, what is your wife's name?'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong realizing that he has been impolite: 'Sorry, it is Miss Han Si Xun'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Doctor: 'Its' all right, I was told earlier by your colleague that you were not around as I want to brief you on what is her situation.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">'Your wife has a previous history of neurotic disorder before and her skull had absorbed most of the impact from the fall she had. Because of this, she might have a relapse and suffer from a nervous breakdown. Physically she looks all-right but....'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong interrupted abruptly again: 'Yes, she does not appear to recognize me.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The doctor: 'It’s all right as sometimes for cases like this, it is normal that the patient will take time to recover in a few days’ time. You just need to monitor her every day and in the worst scenario, then you let us make a confirmation and send her for mental rehabilitation.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong was shocked that his wife had a history of mental problems as she have never mentioned to him before.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: 'Well, all-right, I will get back to you if there is any further problem when I bring her home.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The next day, Ah Tong bought Miss Han back home. He then informed his secretary to cancel all appointments in the night as he do not think that the maid alone would be able to handle any problems having to take care of his two children.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After 2 days, Miss Han insisted on going to work with him but he refused as he do not think that she have recovered yet. She would at times ignored him and sit by herself staring blankly at the wall. She would also talk to herself and laughed for no reason. The rest of the routine was normal for eating, bathing and this surprised him as she still looked normal as before.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One day, she then suddenly went out by herself one without informing the maid who called him when she can't find Miss Han. He then rushed home and was relieved when he saw her going into the apartment with two bags of what he thought was groceries. It was not as it is clay materials for pottery and which then he felt more at ease; he then hoped that in this case, she might go back to her normal self soon by doing things that she liked. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One day, he returned home and found her with her hair disheveled, sitting on the sofa in the living room with her hand full with clay and the whole living room was scattered with clay debris.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: 'What happened?'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miss Han: 'They don't listen to me and I punished them by dumping them into the toilet bowl.'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong was struck speechless as this would choke up the whole plumbing system in the building. He immediately went to look for a maintenance supervisor and told him the problem. In the end, he had to spend a substantial amount of money to get a team of plumbers to remove the clay materials from the plumbing system of the whole building.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He then ordered the maid to dump whatever clay materials left and forbids Miss Han to do any more pottery works. She then quarrel with him saying that he also do not allow her to accompany him to work and she feels bored doing nothing at home. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That night, she slept on the sofa and refused to be coaxed to bath by the maid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He then shook his head and sighed and went to bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The next morning, he then got ready for work and went to the dining hall to have his breakfast and was surprised to see Miss Han all dressed up properly. She smiled at him and said: ‘I am going with you to the office as I will be bored now that you forbid me to do my clay potting.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He shook his head and said: ‘Why don’t we do it another day as I will be busy the whole day and unable to keep you company.’ He was actually worried that she might create further havocs after what happened the other day as he would be too occupied to monitor her.<br />
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She just stared blankly at him and then looked down on the floor while keeping quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He then immediately left as he was afraid that he might acceded to her request as he find it’s heartbreaking when feeling the disappointment in her slumped posture. However when he stepped into his office, he was immediately preoccupied in a meeting with his staffs and after that, went to meet his corporate client who is having a major acquisition deal of a prime land in the commercial business district. It kept him busy the whole morning and he soon forgot his worries, after taking his lunch, he then got back to the office with the client to finalize some documentation works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reached his office building and at the entrance, he got out of the car to hand the car keys to the valet to park. Suddenly, there were loud banging sounds on his car boot, he turned and looked and was shocked to see his wife there and she shouted loudly on seeing him looking at her: ‘Finally you are back!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was embarrassed as he tried to explain to his client who was clearly shocked. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He quickly ushered his client to the office and asked John to attend to him while he immediately sent Miss Han back home despite her protests. From then, whenever he was not in the office, he would call back at times to check whether his wife was there but however could not do anything about it. She would really sneaked back to the office unexpectedly despite his instructions to his maid to keep her at home. Apart from other erratic behavior while there, she would at times <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ordered an employee into his office room and berated that unfortunate person for an hour or two for no reasons. However, at times, she would be friendly and make an employee chat with her about the latter domestic life while treating the employee to snacks that she made and bought along from home. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She would also sometimes disappear for days after telling him she wants to go home as she was unhappy when he reprimands her for ordering the staff around for no rhyme or reasons. He had called her father to make sure that she was all-right and was shocked when told that she was not there. He was perplexed every time when she comes back and refused to tell him her whereabouts. The worse was sometimes when he was in sound sleep in bed at night; she would just slap him out of sleep or hit his head claiming that there is something strange on him. This started to drive Ah Tong crazy and he really felt that he now understand the Iron plate divination prose of ‘….</span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">哭笑不得</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of ‘being unable to laugh or cry’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He then suddenly remembered Xiao Wu again and immediately called him. He was glad when Xiao Wu was the one who answered the phone. He told Xiao Wu about the problem after the usual formality chat and arranged to see him for lunch. Xiao Wu told him to get the exact birth time of Miss Han as he wants to check the bazi chart to see if he can find out the problem. As the medical report from the last visit to the doctor had the birth details, he bought it along for the appointment. <br />
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At the restaurant, he saw Xiao Wu was already waiting for him, greeting him warmly despite that they have not kept in touch with each other because of his business commitments and he felt guilty about meeting him only after he had encountered problems. Xiao Wu greeted him warm heartedly and does not look offended that Ah Tong had contact him only after encountering problems. They then sat down and after ordering their food, he immediately handed the medical report to Xiao Wu where the birth details are written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xiao Wu looked at it and immediately exclaimed: ‘No wonder, she is still considered born in the year of the Rat as her birthday is still in January before the handover to the Ox year in February.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong was taken aback and said: ‘I thought January is considered the New Year as it is the first month of 1949.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Xiao Wu: ‘No, because for our Chinese astrology, the first month starts with Li Chun in February for that year 1949 and she is still considered born in the year of the Rat.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: ‘Oh no, that means the Iron plate divination has come true and in a way that I have not expected. What can we do now? Is your uncle able to give any advice on how to resolve this issue?’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Xiao Wu: ‘Did you try asking your doctor about mental rehabilitation for her?’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: ‘Actually I had bought her to the doctor to verify her conditions as sometimes she would be normal and at times, becomes another person. The funny part is in front of the doctor, she behaves normal and the psychology tests done were favorable. The doctor insisted that she have recovered. ’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Xiao Wu: ‘When you called me, I had immediately called my uncle but his assistant told me that he is no longer practicing and had left for Mainland China to retire while leaving him to inform clients. We might have to look for other masters, give me a few days and I tried to find a reliable one who we can get advice from. Her birth chart is too complicated for me to solve the problem as all I can see is that she is now in unfavorable luck period.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Xiao Wu added on: 'Further, it is reflected in your birth chart too as your Eating God Chou the Ox in your spouse palace is being clashed by this year Tai Sui, Ji Wei the Goat and as you are weak Fire, it is unfavorable. We will need to do another Tie Ban reading to see if we can find where the problem is.'</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After lunch, they both then parted ways with Xiao Wu assuring Ah Tong that he would try to find a solution. Ah Tong was also glad as he found that he have someone to share his problem with. That night, he finally was able to have a good sleep and wondered why he had forgot about Xiao Wu after initially <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wanting to contact the latter while at the hospital that day after the incident had happened.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One day, Xiao Wu suddenly asked to meet Ah Tong at a Tim Sum Restaurant saying it is urgent and that he wanted to introduce a person to him. Ah Tong cancelled all his appointment for the day and went immediately as he hoped that it would put an end to his problems. Previously before, they had already went to see another Iron Plate Divination master and had made no further progress on his problems.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On reaching the table where Xiao Wu was seated, there was a strange looking man with him. Strange in that there is faint gold tine on his face and he was thin as a bamboo. Xiao Wu then introduced him as Iron Bone Ye, the name is probably is because of the metal color tine and his skinny frame. He was told that he is the disciple of a famed Exorcist named Strange Whispers </span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">聶異人.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both of them specialized in spiritual problems and Xiao Wu explained that since the last time that they had approached another Iron Divination Plate master for advice and had made no headways, he thinks that it is probably a spiritual problem as it started from the visit to the haunted house.( Actually they had met a bogus Iron Plate Master, some of these masters were actually conned into paying thousands of dollars by unauthentic masters who just gave them the theories without the application part and they had no choice but to hope to recoup their loss through what the meager knowledge that they were given on unwitting clients. These masters were said to have a set of specially formulated questions to make the clients give away their personal details unknowingly in the<span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">考</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">时</span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">刻</span> part ). <br />
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Anyway, to carry on, Ah Tong agreed as he had become more worried with Miss Han as she had sometimes disappeared for days and he could not trace her whereabouts even after instructing the maid to tail her. Further, that bogus Iron Plate master had unintentionally makes matter worse by giving him a prose ‘</span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">暗有夫?’</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> ‘A secret husband?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>using the checking of the minutes segment of the hour of birth </span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">考</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">时</span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">刻 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">as an excuse in order to find out whether he have any marital problems unethically and then gleefully confirmed to show off his expertise when he see the shocked face of Ah Tong. Ah Tong was shocked as he thinks that her frequent disappearance could be a possibility of a third party involved because of this prose given‘<span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">暗有夫?</span> After all, there are many things that he did not know and that he only found out after marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Iron Bone Ye: ‘Mr. Tan, this sounds like a serious spiritual problem to me and I might not be able to handle it alone. Tell you what, I will arrange with my master Strange Whispers to go with me to your office and then to your home to do some checking and put some charms to help you avert this disaster.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong: ‘I appreciated it very much and I would be very grateful if my present problem can be resolved.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was then agreed that it would be arranged in the following week after Master Iron Bone informed his master.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That day, exactly at the time they had arranged to meet after Xiao Wu had informed Ah Tong later, the exorcists punctually arrived at his office. Ah Tong was surprised to see that the master of Iron Bone looks more like an elder brother of the latter instead of an old sagely man which he had envisaged as in movies. After the usual formality, both of them solemnly went around the office and Ah Tong had no idea of what they were actually doing, as at times, one of them would chant and the other would use some hand gestures. Master Iron Bone then took out from a bag he was carrying, two metal calabashes and told Ah Tong to hang it at the main door into his company without any explanations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then instructed Ah Tong to bring them to his home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On reaching Ah Tong’s apartment, they then go through almost the same routine but however, when they reached his master bedroom, Master Strange Whisper then said something to his disciple Iron Bone who took out a talisman and burn it in the air, scattering the ashes at the door. Master Iron Bone then took out a sword made from coins stringed together and told Ah Tong to hang it at his main door to the Apartment. They then left, telling Ah Tong to contact them if things don’t improved after which Ah Tong had as instructed by Xiao Wu gave them the stipulated fees in a Chinese red envelope/packet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coincidentally, Ah Tong’s apartment have the same sitting or facing in Feng Shui as his office. As mentioned before in my previous post, his main door have Star 1 and Star 2 at the South East Sector which coincidentally is the same.The combination of Star 1 and Star 2 which in the Xuan Kong script,:'一加二五</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">伤</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">及壮丁,坎流坤位,</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">买</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">臣常</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">妇贱</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">之羞</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> . Kan flow at Kun trigram bad for man and women.' <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is strange that often destiny goes in hand with Feng Shui and that most people would find that they have the same Feng Shui chart for their house and workplace. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgv2PtO3E1TxKmT65NksA5oElUKF-1TZphIQtLW0WMQwGDLVptj9XEKLLtA6iBPwAtbzOFBZuEWqQjwsL5mhkd4zvwxyXHK96Z-Rb77-S4caPfJ3voIong1qKs6fIf4WAHlK2Nox-gapu/s1600/sword.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgv2PtO3E1TxKmT65NksA5oElUKF-1TZphIQtLW0WMQwGDLVptj9XEKLLtA6iBPwAtbzOFBZuEWqQjwsL5mhkd4zvwxyXHK96Z-Rb77-S4caPfJ3voIong1qKs6fIf4WAHlK2Nox-gapu/s320/sword.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now interestingly, the spiritual cures which in this case are metal material that the Exorcists uses is the same as used in Flying star Feng Shui <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to counter the two delinquent stars 2 and 5. After the masters had left, his wife then came back as he was on the ladder putting the coins sword and Ah Tong panicked as he had the impression from ghost movies that the possessed victim would go into some kind of excited frenzy on seeing stuffs like this. He was disappointed though glad as Miss Han nonchalantly walked in and went straight into the master bedroom without saying a word.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was to Ah Tong surprise that the following week, Miss Han started to behaved normally without going into her unusual routine that he has been accustomed to now. This could be a reason why the spiritual masters can coexist with Feng Shui masters in the Chinese culture with both having their supporters and as explained above on their methods used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though Miss Han started to behave normally now, she would sometimes look strangely at him when they were together having dinner or accompanying the kids. The other interesting thing is that since the day she had that unfortunate incident, she did not show abnormality when she is with the children, still treating them lovingly as a mother which is why Ah Tong was in a dilemma on whether to put her in a nursing home or not initially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Surprisingly a week later, she had then asked permission to follow him to work which he had declined as he was still worried though things had been eventful after the Exorcists had come. That night when he went home, he saw two big bags on the table in the living room. He was curious and opened it to see what it was. It was again the clay materials used for pottery which had then reminded him of the last incident. He immediately took it out and threw it away in the rubbish dump. An hour later, he heard Miss Han shouting for the maid and then scolding the maid. He went out of the bedroom to see what the commotion was. He then told Miss Han that he had threw the materials away as he was afraid that she might throw it into the toilet bowls again. She apparently could not recollect that incident as she started to berate him for doing it. When he told her that she could be having neurotic disorders, she immediately felt insulted and it got worse. She then out of the blue said: <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘I want a divorce.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Tong was stumped and to be frank, he actually had the thought sometimes ago during the period she was giving him a lot of stress and as he was thinking that since the Iron plate divination was unfavorable for him to marry a woman born in the year of the rat, it would be best for them to separate. Ah Tong had also been under pressure the whole week for a property deal that went awry with the owner threatening to sue him and with this; he just could not take it anymore. He had also remembered the last Tie Ban reading from the bogus master about: ‘Secret husband’ and in a fit of anger and jealousy, angrily retorted: ‘All-right. It’s you who want to have a divorce, I would not object as I have been suffering for so many months from your unruly behavior.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On hearing that, Miss Han immediately turned and went to the Master bedroom. He could hear her packing her clothes after taking out the luggage from the storeroom. He was surprised when after packing her clothes, she went to the children’s bedroom. He then got worried and followed her and saw her hugging the children who were already asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did not make any sounds while ignoring him at the same time. She then walked to the main door and said: ‘You don’t have to worry, I would leave the children with you and I would be staying with my father until our divorce is finalized.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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The next morning, in a small quiet cafe next to the park where Ah Tong exercises daily, Xiao Wu was already there waiting. Now Xiao Wu is in a dilemma as being a prudent man, he was worry that he might says the wrong thing and made Ah Tong back out of the wedding at the last minute. To be frank, he had met Miss Han once and had found her likeable as she speaks her mind outright with no hidden agenda. He was thinking of how to assure Ah Tong's worry when the latter arrived. <br />
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Ah Tong: 'Sorry to keep you waiting as Miss Han had called me regarding the appointment to collect the wedding gown.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Not a problem, I am on leave today as I had arranged to meet a relative from overseas this afternoon.'<br />
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Ah Tong then blurted out: 'What do you think I should do now, postpone the wedding to a later date until I get another opinion from your uncle?'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'No, no. My uncle would not advise on a marriage that is going to take place and I cannot lie to him.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Then what should I do?'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'I do not know why you are so worried about the word Fen which is different from the one that is mentioned in the divination. Anyway, as long as she is not born in the year of the rat 1948, it should be all-right. Sometimes I do think that we should not take fortune telling to the extreme of letting it dictates our life or it shows that your love for her is not strong enough.' Xiao Wu had used the play of words intentionally to make Ah Tong think more about his own feelings more than what the divination says.<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Yes, I do feel guilty thinking about this but there is this uncomfortable feeling that I have. I was thinking why it is so coincidental for me to find out about it before the wedding. She had never mentioned this to me though the father thought she had.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Simple, as she had accepted the name her father gave and it is always used in her documents right? This shows that it is just the mother only who uses this name. Further in destiny analysis, what is predicted had happens as you have already met a Xiao Fen would means that it won't be repeated again.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'You are correct, I did hear about this before. Yeah, I should not think further about it as my wedding is only a few weeks away as I don't think anyone can else that can replaces her.'<br />
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He also had enough of those lonely days with strangers before meeting Miss Han.<br />
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With that, Xiao Wu heaved a sigh of relief instead of Ah Tong as he was thinking that he should have actually told Ah Tong that it is already pre-ordained in his destiny when a 鐵板 Tie Ban Iron Plate reading is used. But then, it might have affected and change his destiny for the worse if he decided to stay unmarried. After all, Ah Tong had already avoid girls born in the year of the rat and that should be good enough to avoid this prediction. At the same time, he was wondering whether the father or somebody had got the birth year mixed up as 1949 was a few years after World War 2 and the British administration was still undergoing changes however he thinks it was unlikely. He had remembered Ah Tong is going through good luck cycle from the bazi chart that he saw on that day of the fortune telling. This should be a favorable event though both destiny analysis are different methods but they should tally.<br />
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Soon the wedding day came and Xiao Wu was given preferential treatment at the dinner. Ah Tong had felt that after meeting Xiao Wu, he had managed to avoid marrying a girl born in the year of the Rat. He had been amazed about the accuracy of the fortune telling that Master Tie Pan did for him and believed in it strongly. <br />
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Well, as what Xiao Wu had analysed on the bazi chart was correct, Ah Tong, a weak fire Fire Day master was undergoing a Bing Zi (Fire and Water) luck pillar and further got married in a Ding Si year. It was not surprisingly that even before the marriage, Ah Tong had closed a major property deal and had made a substantial commission from it. Ah Tong had then decided to set up his own property company and in fact, had already found an office which was undergoing renovations. He had told Miss Han that he wants to postpone their honeymoon to a later date in that year because of new company. He also had wanted to clear some of the matters at his previous company and therefore would be very busy in between. Miss Han was very supportive and in fact, resigned from her job to help Ah Tong to oversee his company at times when Ah Tong had to go back to his previous company to settle some documentation for those previous property deals that he had closed.<br />
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One interesting thing about the office that Ah Tong rent is an Age 6 building facing South, the main entrance however is at the South East sector where there is a combination of Star 1 and Star 2. In the Xuan Kong script, :'<span class="mpt3"><span style="color: black;">一加二五伤及壮丁,坎流坤位,买臣常妇贱之羞 . Kan flow at Kun trigram bad for man and women.' as '腹多水而膨胀.' which is a clash between water and earth when one of the elements turn strong (Anyway, this interpretation I will leave it to readers to research). For commercial uses, it is still good as it brings prosperity for Age 6. </span></span><br />
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It was another good news for the couple when a few months later, Miss Han got pregnant. Soon she gave birth to a baby boy and Ah Tong was overjoyed and in fact, held a celebration dinner to share his joys. His company is also doing well as it had clinched several new projects in the booming Hong Kong property market. It was indeed, a double joy.<br />
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Another year passed and they have another new addition with the birth of a baby girl to the family. Soon Miss Han was bored with staying at home and taking care of the children and voices it out to Ah Tong. Ah Tong immediately suggested that she can help out at his company as certain projects that he have to personally handle can be assigned to her as in his line of business, he don't trust anybody because of the competiveness. <br />
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One fine day, Ah Tong came to hear about an old bungalow put up for sale after being unsold in an auction. Apparently, there were rumours about it being haunted and nobody wanted to buy it. Ah Tong had then thought: 'Well, I can just buy it and sell it at a good price as it is cheap. Afterall, I am not going to live there.' He had not thought of calling Xiao Wu as they have not kept in contact as Ah Tong have shifted to another property and did not go to the same park to jog anymore. Further, his company had also kept him busy and with entertaining clients more for his benefits, he had less time to socialize as well as being married. It is strange that most people when they are in good luck, they don't bother much about spiritual or metaphysical stuffs. It is only when they meet with a mishap or problem that can't be solved by coventional method, they then resort to unorthodox means. <br />
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After contacting the lawyer who is acting for the trustees, he asked Miss Han to inspect the property with an assistant as he was busy that day. It was about evening time when Miss Han and the administration assistant by the name of John Khoo went to look at the property. It was an old decrepit house with musky smell and an overgrown garden. Apparently it was vacant for several years, and while in the house, Miss Han noticed that John tried to stay around areas where there are windows and sunlight. She thought that then he might have been influenced by the rumours of it being haunted. She personally felt that there is nothing to worry about, not that she don't believed it but she thinks that as long as she don't provoke anything if there are any, there should not be any problems. She then went up to the second floor of the house alone as she do not want to force John to go along. After looking around and feeling satisfied, she then proceed to go back to the ground floor. As she was going down the stairs halfway, she thought she heard somebody called her and instinctively look up. At that moment, one of her foots was halfway in the air onto a step and she miscued and fell headlong down the remainder of the staircase to the ground floor. John heard her shouts and rushed immediately to the staircase as he was already being wary of the place. By then, she was lying unconsciously on the ground and he immediately carried her to the car and rushed to the hospital as the house was in a too remote area to get to a telephone. At the hospital, he immediately called Ah Tong to tell him about the mishap.<br />
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To be continued........<br />
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Dear friends, my apologies as I had wanted to complete translating the story by this year but as it needs to take another two parts of a page like this, I can only finished it by next year. A Facebook friend Lucy had requested me not to kill the story so I will try to give a more complete translation which I had actually not wanted to, Haiz. Anyway, I would LIKE to thank everybody here for the support given to my blog and I would like to wish everyone :<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">And no, the world is not going to end yet.....</span>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-51700802886933113422011-12-24T22:25:00.020+08:002011-12-27T23:21:55.939+08:00The Way I Feel Tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N2i8ouDF1rw/TvMOcW3MFPI/AAAAAAAAA-o/_oLla5akNjE/s1600/supper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N2i8ouDF1rw/TvMOcW3MFPI/AAAAAAAAA-o/_oLla5akNjE/s320/supper.jpg" width="212" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O-gMz4KMnXo/TvMJnXdaJDI/AAAAAAAAA-c/UwOV8_G1xdA/s1600/Macau.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br />
Ah Tong :'For wife avoid Rat, do you think that I would be able to avoid marrying one born in the year of the Rat.'<br />
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They were having supper at one of the roadside stall as Ah Tong wanted to know more about the last prose of '<span class="mpt5">配妻<span class="mpt4">忌</span><wbr></wbr>鼠, 哭笑不<span class="mpt5">得'</span></span> Anyway, it was a Friday night and both of them do not have to work the next day.<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Yes, it is true that females born in the year of the Rat will not be suitable as a match for you in marriage.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'From the conversation that both of you had during tea, can I assume that the Master is a relative of yours? And more or less you should know this art.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Yes, he is my uncle but I am not supposed to acknowledge him which is why I did not tell you beforehand. Just if you want to ask further, I also do not know why too as I have been instructed by my mother, his sister on this. I do not know Tie Ban Shen Shu, just that I saw your bazi chart which he had plot out. You are a Weak Fire element and water is not ideal for you and the Rat is an Water element which have an affinity with the Shen Monkey, your birth year.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Mmm, your uncle took quite a while to work it out while you have already seen it from my birth chart. Does it means that the Bazi analysis is better as it is faster.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'You are wrong and I can't blame you for thinking that as it was the same when I first started in Destiny analysis. His art is the most difficult to master as we have to first learn most of the destiny analysis arts such as Zi Wei Astrology, Mei Hua Yi Shu, Yi Jing Six Yao intrepretations, Heluo Lishu numerology and so forth before we can start learning Tie Ban Shen Shu. Lets instead talk about how you can go about looking for your life partner.'<br />
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Xiao Wu had not added that the reason it is called Tie Ban or Iron Plate is because once the destiny is worked out as in the words the Iron plate casted, it is fixed and cannot be changed. Further, he had not wanted to elaborate further on the '<span class="mpt5">配妻<span class="mpt4">忌</span><wbr></wbr>鼠'</span> as it could means that it is Ah Tong's affinity to have a wife that he would be unable to laugh or cry.<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Do you have any suggestions on how I can find out if the girl I like is not born in the year of the Rat?'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'You are born in the year of the Shen Monkey and women older than you would be at least 8 years onwards. Therefore, your concern should be those that are about 3 or 4 years younger than you. Should be those born in the year 1948.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Yes, in this case, I had better avoid getting involved with one born in that year. Anyway, if there is anything that I am not sure of, I would seek your advice again. By the way, I really want you to know that I appreciated what you have done for me. If in the future, there is anything you need, just let me know. I cannot promise you much as we won't know about the future but I will do my best for you.'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Thanks for the offer too but don't think too much about it for as friends, we ought to help each other when we can. Anyway, I had also not visited my uncle since the last Chinese New Year and it is affinity from helping you that I get to see him again.'<br />
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Both of them then spend another hour chatting on current affairs and enjoying themselves watching the boisterous crowds on that busy Friday night. They then parted ways separately as both of them did not drive that night.<br />
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Time passes fast and soon it was four years since Ah Tong had went for that Tie Ban Shen Shu readings. For the last four years, he was very careful on any girl that he was interested in as he would first try to find out the birth year. However, surprisingly he also did not have much opportunities as he also did not meet anyone that he really liked and therefore had no need for that.<br />
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It was during the festive christmas season 1974 Jia Yin the Wood Tiger year that his company had then send him on a trip to Macau to negotiate a property deal. The senior executive who is in charge of this case had taken annual leave and the boss was at a dilemma on who to send as a representative and had then decided on him. His company was trying to buy over a piece of land but there was a problematic landlord who had stood in the way. Ah Tong was actually glad that he was being asked to go so that he have something to do on that day. Can't blame him as Lonely is not a friend and as he is still single and had envied those love couples celebrating the Christmas mood.<br />
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At the meeting between the buyer and the group of house owners, he saw a strikingly good-looking woman. Everyone called her Miss Han and she must have been representing one of the owners. However, the meeting was then absolved in an hour as that odd owner out refused to budge on his selling price which was twice the market rate. There was no way to accept it as the rest of the owners would follow suit. In disgust, the buyer went off, telling Ah Tong that the deal is cancelled. Ah Tong then called the company boss to report the situation and was told that he is given the rest of the day off. <br />
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He then went to the ferry pier and was surprised that it was fully booked though Christmas was still two days away. He got a ticket for the 2.00 pm ferry and decided to go for lunch. <br />
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He then went to a nearby cafe which sells Wan Ton noodles (meat dumpling with noodles) and found that it was much better than he thought. He was then surprised to see Miss Han walked in while he was eating as she nodded at him. He smiled back and was disappointed when she went to another table to sit. In those small cafe as with now, normally the customers would share tables as it is a still a Chinese fast food concept that time. After he had finished eating his noodles, he then went for a walk by the sea as it was still early. <br />
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Soon it was time to board the ferry and after taking his seat, he had then thought of taking a short nap after the walk. Suddenly, he then saw the lady Miss Han again walking in the aisle and heading towards his direction. He started wondering where would she be seated when this time with surprise, she took the allocated seat next to him. Sensing an opportunity to get to know her better as there is a kind of feeling that she gave him that no woman had before, he started:<br />
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'Oh, we must have affinity as I just saw you at the Cafe earlier and now you are seated next to me.'<br />
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She just stared at him and then proceed to take a book out of her bag to read. Ah Tong thought : 'Good, she is different and not the type who would just make friends with anyone.' as most of the girls he hd met were from clubs while entertaining clients. Further, his colleague were all married and even then the only one left not married was the Boss's daughter which he had thought that it is better to leave alone.<br />
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He then saw that the book was about pottery and quickly used it as a topic to get her attention. He then said: 'Oh, your hobby must be pottery making and I happened to know the writer of the book you are reading.'<br />
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It was really coincidental that Ah Tong had met the writer and got to know her well while helping to sell her land 2 years ago. Apparently she is a fan of the writer as she immediately reply: 'You are also into pottery making as a pastime?'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Nope, I just like appreciating pottery wares and Miss Mei (the writer) had given me one of her best works. If you want, I can show it to you when you have the time.'<br />
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Ah Tong then took out his name card and gave it to her: 'You can call me at my office if you would like to take a look at her work.' <br />
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She nodded and in return, gave him her name card obviously wanting him to call her instead. He was surprised when he saw the Chinese name was of male character <span class="mpt4">世</span><span class="mpt1">勳 Si Xun and blurted out: 'Why is it a male name?'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">She must have been angered by the question: 'Why do you have to know? Is it the rule that females cannot have male names.' She then turned to the book she was having to read, obviously wanting to put a stop to their conversation.</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Ah Tong realised his mistake and quickly says: 'No, just that I was curious and I am sorry if I sound too Ba Gua (Being a Busybody).'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">As he saw her still looking at her book and not replying to him, he then prepared to pretend to take a nap when she said: 'Are you tired?'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">He quickly reply: 'No, no, not at all.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">She then said: 'My father had given me this name as I was the last to be born and he had hoped that I would be a son. And as the name was picked before I was born, he had then decided to stay to this name for me.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Ah Tong: 'Oh I see, and by the way, are you from Macau as you are representing one of the sellers?'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Miss Han answered bluntly: 'No, why does it means that I have to be from Macau because I am representing a Macau owner. I am born in Hong Kong and I am representing my aunt who is from Macau for the property.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Again Ah Tong is cowered by her uncaring, sharp and blunt reply but he still do not give up as he felt a closeness with her that he do not have with other women he knows.</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">By then, the ferry had reached Hongkong and as they disembarked, Ah Tong offered to give her a lift from the taxi which she agreed. Ah Tong was glad as this shows that she had accepted him as a friend. He was also impressed by her outright character with no hidden agenda unlike those club girls he met. The next day while at work, Ah Tong quickly called Xiao Wu and told him about this girl. </span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Ah Tong: 'Is there any way I can get the girl to reveal her birth year as I am really keen on her?'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Xiao Wu: 'Sure, you can go and buy a copy of the Yearly Forecast for Zodiac and use it as a conversation topic.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Ah Tong: 'Pardon me, I don't really understand what you means by that?'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Xiao Wu: 'Simple, you just pretend to read the book when you are with her and says that for the coming year, people born in the year of the Rat might meet with a mishap. If she is born in that year, she would be curious to find out more whereas if she is not, she would just ignore your remarks.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">Ah Tong: 'That is a good idea and yes, thanks a lot, I would have to buy you Afternoon Tim Sum one of this days. See you then.'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt1">With that, Ah Tong then call Miss Han as he had still kept thinking of the day before where she had sat next to him. He had never felt like this with any woman before in his whole lifetime with the closeness and the warmth of her body next to him. He was delighted when she agreed to meet him for dinner on the coming weekend on Saturday before going to his house to take a look at the pottery work. Ah Tong thought that it also could be a positive sign that she is not attached to anyone as she is free for the weekend. </span><br />
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A day before the appointment with Miss Han, Ah Tong went to a bookstore to get the yearly forecast for zodiac signs as well as a few books on pottery art. He was filled with excitement about meeting Miss Han and hope that it will ended his search for a life partner. He had thought that it could be his destiny that he is not meant for marriage life.<br />
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On that day, they had dinner at a Western Restaurant as Ah Tong wanted to impress her. After all, he had a substantial amount of savings that had accumulated as he is single for the past almost 20 years. His parents and siblings are well-off and do not need him to contribute to their welfare. In fact, at times, his mother insisted on giving him money gifts as she feels that he need more financial security as he is alone compared to his other siblings who were all married.<br />
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However Miss Han is not a fussy eater he discovered as she had ordered a set dinner instead of A la carte and had no complains about the food. She told Ah Tong that actually they should go to one of those roadside stall to eat as she prefers local foods. She felt that a restaurant more or less inhibits her enjoyment of the food with its formality. Ah Tong was pleased to know about it as he loves local foods and also do not like to frequent restaurants as he felt that it creates an artificial feeling. They then discovered that they shared a common hobby for fishing apart for food (It is interesting that in Bazi analysis, people with the Eating God in the chart or from the luck pillar loves food). <br />
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After dinner, they went straight to Ah Tong's apartment to look at Master Mei' s work and Ah Tong can sense that she is excited. Ah Tong then told himself that he must contact Master Mei again so that he can use the relationship to support his courtship. On seeing the artwork, she was really impressed and spent time holding it and feeling the shape. Ah Tong could'nt really understand the abstract feeling as he had just thought that it would looks nice and lends an artistic touch to his apartment. The rest of the evening were spent on chatting about pottery and Ah Tong quickly took advantage to bring out the astrology book when she excused herself to go to the washroom. When she came back, Ah Tong immediately says:<br />
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'Oh, this is an interesting year for me as what this book I had just buy on our Chinese Zodiac Astrology said. It said that for romance, I would meet a girl of my dreams and she is born in 1948, the year of the Rat.'<br />
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Seeing no response for her, he then carried on:<br />
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'You have no interest in Chinese Astrology?'<br />
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Miss Han: 'Not really, just that I feel there is no need to know so much. If it is a good forecast, one would be glad but what if it is bad?'<br />
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Ah Tong was glad that she replied as he had hoped that she would not talk about pottery art again as it is going to drive him crazy sooner or later if they carried on the topic.<br />
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'I agreed but I read it for fun sometimes to pass time. I have a feeling that I might meet the girl of my dream for this year coincidentally too.'<br />
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Obviously Miss Han read his intentions differently thinking that he was referring to her: 'Too bad, I am born in the 1949 and is not your dream girl.' She said it with a laugh at which Ah Tong found infectious and he laughed along with her. He then made up his mind that he would be with her for the rest of his life if he could make it happens. For those who knows bazi analysis, Ah Tong have the Flower of Romance star for Angels and Demons in his month earth branch You pillar, a good star for marriage and the spouse.<br />
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Time passes fast and both of them spent a lot of time together, going fishing and eating at roadside stall as both of them also loves local foods. Soon, Miss Han accepted his feelings as she did not have many suitors in the past because of her cold demeanour and bluntness which discourages a number of them though she is good-looking and have a child like character. It was at the end of the year of the Bing Dragon in their courtship that Ah Tong proposes to her and she accepted. It was at Christmas that he proposes marriage and Ah Tong had prepared a bouquet of flowers and yes, a diamond ring though modest but at least still a carat piece to be a woman's best friend. For both of them, it was a Christmas that they will never forget together with the oath to be together for better or for worse when she says: "Yes". <br />
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They then agreed on the wedding date to be set in March the following year Ding Si Fire Snake, a Spring Month, a good month to signifies the growth of all living things. <br />
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One fine day in February before his Big day in March, Ah Tong was at his future father-in-law house waiting for Miss Han as she was changing her clothes to go out for an evening date. Suddenly, the door bell rings and as his father-in law was in the study room, Ah Tong went to open the door. He then saw that it was a despatch guy who have a letter for the family.<br />
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'Anybody by the name of Miss Han Xiao Fen <span class="mpt4">翰<span class="mpt1">銷<span class="mpt1">棻</span><wbr></wbr> </span><wbr></wbr></span><wbr></wbr>here?'<br />
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Seeing the surname is correct, Ah Tong accepted the mail by signing it while trying to recall which of the sisters goes by this name. Miss Han's father had also at that time came out on hearing the doorbell sound and asked: 'What is it about?'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Oh, it is for the sister of Miss Han by the name of Xiao Fen.'<br />
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The Father-in law while looking at the letter: 'It is for your girlfriend, it must be from the mother about your wedding invitation.'<br />
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Ah Tong was flabbergasted by the reply as he recalled immediately the divination of '一<span class="mpt4">字<span class="mpt4">記<span class="mpt1">之</span></span></span>日<span class="mpt1">芬</span><wbr></wbr>, <span class="mpt4">戀</span>不<span class="mpt5">得'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">'I am surprised that Miss Han have another name.....'</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">The Father: 'Well, it is actually a long story and I think Si Xun would have told you about it by now. I had wanted to have a son and I was actually disappointed when she was born. The mother had then insisted on this name which I do not want. It then became an issue later on which leads us to separate but I suspect that she have another lover at that time and uses that as an excuse to leave me. For a living, I was then travelling most of the time as I was a seaman and she probably had got to know somebody. She obviously had not forgiven me as the letter is still addressed in the name that she chooses for Si Xun (Actually in the Chinese Cantonese dialect group which the father belongs to, the word 勳 also sounds as Fen). It is really so ironic about destiny that I had loved her mother so much. I wanted a son so much that I also think that she had longed for a son as she appeared disappointed each time when the sisters was born. Guess that it is problem of our Chinese mentality, Haiz....'.</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">And as you guess it, Ah Tong was sleepless the whole night after that when he went home after the dinner date. He felt uneasy as the sound of the word 'Fen' keeps ringing in his ears and he decided then to call Xiao Wu for an opinion though the word <span class="mpt1">棻 is different from <span class="mpt1">芬 but had sounded and looked almost the same.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt5"><span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt1">Well, would there be a Happy Ending for this odd couple?</span></span></span><br />
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To be continued in a Final episode on New Year's Eve.......<br />
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A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!!!<br />
for my metaphysics friends here. Cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-14452840271726353592011-12-21T20:28:00.004+08:002011-12-23T08:49:41.267+08:00Pieces Of April<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/0P_MPAydajE/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0P_MPAydajE&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0P_MPAydajE&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">COMING TO THE NEAREST LAPTOP OR COMPUTER AT YOUR ISP THIS XMAS EVE AT MIDNIGHT HERE, EPISODE 2 THE IRON ABACUS FOR CNY!!!</span>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-55962674799233232562011-12-15T18:26:00.021+08:002011-12-20T09:19:10.998+08:00The Iron Abacus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTl6oqYY3miUWfVilc7fVU1IDSunAkyeiQuF0Xr-Lmwr2vSZBHEFz1Z_yQI3UBOb3rwYKmmUIt7uAqa7yBTO6FF7Oggm-_WCREeo_sjLwZKpRVrmqoV9FRwwjQtqaGDPO79DVP_EaqMZA/s1600/Iron+plate+divination.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTl6oqYY3miUWfVilc7fVU1IDSunAkyeiQuF0Xr-Lmwr2vSZBHEFz1Z_yQI3UBOb3rwYKmmUIt7uAqa7yBTO6FF7Oggm-_WCREeo_sjLwZKpRVrmqoV9FRwwjQtqaGDPO79DVP_EaqMZA/s320/Iron+plate+divination.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
An Introduction to Tie Ban Shen Shu, I would prefer to call it Iron Abacus Divination....<br />
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From wikipedia:<br />
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Tie Ban Shen Shu (in Simplified: 铁板神数; Traditional: 鐵板神數; Pinyin: Tiě Bǎn Shén Shù = iron plate spiritual numerology) is an ancient form of divination from China, which is still in use in China, Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Tie ban shen shu is regarded as among the most accurate and most difficult methods of personal fortune divination. Tie Ban is as well regarded as the collective Three Arts or Three Styles (三式 sān shì), Qi Men Dun Jia, Da Liu Ren and Tai Yi Shen Shu , China's highest metaphysic arts.<br />
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[edit] History : Tie Ban Shen Shu is associated with Shao Yong , the metaphysician of the Northern Song dynasty, as he is often credited as author of the 12,000 lines of texts used in Tie Ban Shen Shu divination. Those texts were regarded highly enough by Qing Dynasty scholars as to have been included in the Qing Dynasty archive, the Four Treasures Siku Quanshu 四库全书 collection.<br />
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Chinese legend also holds that learning Tie Ban is problematic, as the literary sources are deliberately obscured to prevent novices from easily gaining this precious knowledge.<br />
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[edit] Technique : Tie Ban Shen Shu contains 12,000 individual lines (Some are blank which some later day masters would add in with their individual composed proses) compiled in 12 books (Some masters would compiled their own set), which are applied to each individual divination, through a series of twelve different procedures. The procedures for arriving at the correct texts are based on the Four Pillars (Ba Zi), which include the ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earth Branches, numerology, the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and the Six Familial Relationships of Chinese metaphysics. Tie Ban’s emphasis on the specific quarter hour (fifteen minute segment) of birth ensures the relatively high degree of accuracy, in comparison with other divination methods. This is because another 120 charts can be worked for that Shi Chen <span class="mpt2">時晨 or Chinese hour</span>.<br />
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My comments:<br />
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However, this will involved a sort of interview with the client to work out the 15 minutes segment of birth but at times this part of the divination method got abused by commercial fortune tellers. After this is done, some masters would then asked the client to refer to the books while they work out the sequences of numbers for the proses to be compiled. At the end of the session, the client would then go off and come back again to collect the compiled proses from the master on another day. It has been said that some masters would not explain the proses to the client who have to figure it out. If that is the case, I would suggest that you look for one who will, this is because some of these proses refer to Bazi analysis, Zi Wei astrology and even ancient Chinese historical events with hidden meanings which a layman would not be able to figure out.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking for Love</span> </span><br />
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One raining morning, in a park pavilon, two men were taking shelter from the rain. One was a young man called Ah Tong who is working in a property company and the other was a middle aged man called Xiao Wu who is a school teacher and a sociable person by nature. They each were jogging and because of the sudden downpour had then coincidentally met in the pavilon. They had known each other for a few years after they had met in the park. Xiao Wu is also a Chinese metaphysics ethusiast which Ah Tong had come to know when they chatted during breaks from their routine. While waiting for the rain to stop and to pass time, Ah Tong had then asked:<br />
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'Is it true that our destiny is fixed and we cannot change it?'<br />
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Now most of us who practised any Chinese metaphysics arts especially destiny analysis like Bazi, Zi Wei Astrology and so forth, are bound to meet with questions like this from friends.<br />
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Xiao Wu reply easily as this had become a familiar question to him: 'Yes, we can't change destiny however, we can take actions to improve part of it like through Feng Shui, Social work, Education as what has been always being quoted: First, Life; Second, Luck; Third, Feng Shui; Fourth: Merits; Fifth, Education.'<br />
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Ah Tong nodded and then asked out of curiosity: 'Which then do you think is the most accurate of all the destiny analysis arts?'<br />
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Xiao Wu: 'Mmm, China has many schools of metaphysic arts like Zi Wei Astrology, Iron Plate Divination and so forth. Each are different with the methods and therefore different in strength and weakness in certain parts. It would also depends on the profiency of the masters.'<br />
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While chatting, Xiao Wu had been observing Ah Tong face features and he then said with a smile: 'For example, if we talk about face reading, the fish tails by your eyes are slanted negatively downward. As it is the spouse palace, it indicate problems in marriage . I know you are not married, why don't you get a reading from a destiny analysis master so that you can take some preventive action to reduce any unfavorable influence.'<br />
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Ah Tong had not went for any fortune telling before and the only time in the past was during a social party, a friend had read his palm for fun. It was not a serious reading as it was more of a ice breaker by his friend to attract attentions from the opposite sex. He trusted Xiao Wu as he had observed him to be a prudent and careful person who do not make empty talks. As Xiao Wu looked serious, Ah Tong decided to ask him to recommend a destiny analysis master to him and he was also curious to find out about his marriage for the future.<br />
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Xiao Wu thought for a while and he then said: 'All-right, as we know each other well, let me call an Iron Plate Divination master who I am quite familiar with and see if he is agreeable or not. Give me a call tommorow at my office and I will let you know the time to meet that master then.'<br />
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Ah Tong: 'Thanks, I will call you and as the rain have stopped, we can go off now as I have to get changed for work. See you tommorow hopefully.'<br />
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And with that, both of them parted.<br />
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The next day, it was Xiao Wu instead who called Ah Tong first: 'I had got good news as that master is willing to do it for you. He had arranged the time in the evening at 8.00 pm, this Friday after our work for convenience and we do not have to take time off from work. You must have affinity with him as he is normally busy and some of his clients had waited months to meet him.'<br />
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The fees that Xiao Wu quoted sounds reasonable to Ah Tong and Ah Tong did not know that some famous Tie Ban masters charges as much as HK20,000 for a reading. They then arranged to meet for dinner first in the vicinity of that master's home before going for the reading.<br />
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On that day, they met at the Chinese seafood restaurant and Ah Tong had did the ordering of foods as he wanted to treat Xiao Wu for the trouble. Ah Tong had later found out from his colleague that he was lucky to be able to get an appointment with this Tie Ban master and was surprised of the exorbitant fees that it command by some masters for readings. Xiao Wu grudgingly agreed to the treat saying that they should have gone to a roadside stall if he knew as he said that it is affinity that the master agreed to see Ah Tong.<br />
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After dinner, they went up to the master' s flat which is on the second floor of an old building and were met at the door by a young man. They had then given him their names at which they were let into the flat and told to take a seat at the living room. That young man is probably a disciple as he shouted: 'Master, they are here!' . A old man in his seventies then came out, his hair had already turned completely white though still bountiful and he looked in his prime of health. Xiao Wu looks like he knew him for a long time as the master smiled and hold his two hands when Wu had put forward as a respect after greeting him. Ah Tong was then introduced to the master who is known as Master Tie Pan or Master Iron Abacus which Ah Tong thought sounds odd. The master then asked Xiao Wu if he mind sampling Chinese tea that a client had given to the master together. Xiao Wu readily agreed as he is a tea connoisseur too and he also know that Ah Tong like Chinese tea too.<br />
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They were then led into a spacious study room filled with Chinese paintings and furniture from the Qing dynasty. On the big table, there were several books and an Iron abacus with several blank paper and an ink set with Chinese writing brush. The master chatted with Xiao Wu while sipping the tea and Ah Tong then realised that the master was Xiao Wu' s uncle from the conversation.<br />
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After a while, the Master said: 'Okay, lets begin, Mr. Tan (Ah Tong). There are several books on the table, I would work out the number sequence and you refer to the book that I pointed to read the prose and tell me whether it is correct or not. This is required before I go further as I need to find out which 15 minutes segment of that hour you were born in.'<br />
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Ah Tong nodded his head as Xiao Wu had already brief him over dinner on what are the procedures and which Ah Tong was surprised as it was different from other fortune tellings that he had heard of.<br />
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The master then started working the abacus after he had written Ah Tong Bazi Chart and some drawings and numbers on the paper. After a while, the master gave him the numbers and Ah Tong was shocked on reading the prose from that book:<br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="105" pc="null">'自杀</span><span closure_uid_wilx5h="106" pc="null">三次, </span><span closure_uid_wilx5h="107" pc="null">阎王</span><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null">不受'</span></span><br />
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'Commited suicide thrice, rejected by the Hell king.'<br />
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He replied: 'No, or do you meant that I might do that in the future?'<br />
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Master Tie Pan: 'These proses that I am checking will refer to past events only, all-right, let's redo again.'<br />
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'3578...'<br />
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Ah Dong: '<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null">一母, </span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="106" pc="null">一母, 又</span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="107" pc="null">一</span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="108" pc="null">母, 前</span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="109" pc="null">有</span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null">母<span class="mpt4">后<span closure_uid_ae11m2="109" pc="null">有</span><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null">母.'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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'One mother after another, one infront and one behind.'<br />
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'No, from what I know is my father is not frivolous type and I am very sure that I have only mother and no other in name.'<br />
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Master Tie Pan then caculated on the abacus again and gave him another proses to check out.<br />
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'<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="105" pc="null">兄弟</span><span closure_uid_kv8fig="106" pc="null">三</span><span closure_uid_kv8fig="107" pc="null">人, </span><span closure_uid_kv8fig="108" pc="null">一入空</span><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null">门'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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'Three brothers, one enters Monkhood.'<br />
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'Correct, but nobody is a Monk.'<br />
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Now the interesting thing about this part of the divination in this art is that by these two line of proses, we can know that Ah Dong is not an orphan and have three brothers. Some talkative clients would even elaborate more and gives away more details of their personal life without knowing. Some supposed masters who have high intelligence and deductions skill would then be able to record it in the mind without the client being aware of it. This would then later be used in the second part of the divination when the master had difficulty with analysing the chart. However, Master Tie Pan is an authentic master who have no needs to revert to this course as we can see from the later part.<br />
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The master then shook his head and redo the calculation again.<br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">'花前会嚙臂, 月下早心盟'</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">'Before flowers bloom, broken branch despite pledge with still lingering thoughts.'</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">'This is completely true, I had a childhood sweetheart and we had separated later on. Until now, I could not get married as I still thinks of her.'</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Master Tie Pan with a smile: 'Good, finally we can really started on the second part for the divination.'</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Sometimes some masters might take a longer as much as two to three hours to work out this so called checking the quarter time segment 考时<span class="mpt4">刻. This shows that Master Tie Pan is a competent master, he then started spouting a series of numbers. Ah Dong then read as he write out the numbers on a piece of blank paper that he was given. He was surprised as he read with amazement at the accuracy of the divination. These are some of the lines that is in the second part of the divination:</span></span><br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="105" pc="null">父</span><span closure_uid_iaobfm="106" pc="null">属</span><span closure_uid_iaobfm="107" pc="null">牛, </span><span closure_uid_iaobfm="108" pc="null">母</span><span closure_uid_iaobfm="109" pc="null">属</span><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null">兔</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="105" pc="null">Father born in the year of the Cow, Mother in the Rabbit year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="105" pc="null">父</span><span closure_uid_arumn6="107" pc="null">无<span closure_uid_arumn6="106" pc="null">多</span></span><span closure_uid_arumn6="108" pc="null">妻, </span><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null">家门<span class="mpt1">之</span><wbr></wbr><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null">幸</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="105" pc="null">Father not more than one wife, family with fortune.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="105" pc="null">兄弟</span><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="106" pc="null">三人, <span class="mpt3">数</span></span><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="108" pc="null">中</span><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="109" pc="null"><span class="mpt4">预<span class="mpt4">注</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="109" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span class="mpt4">Brother three, predestined.</span><wbr></wbr></span><wbr></wbr></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_grcuoa="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_grcuoa="106" pc="null">祖业<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_grcuoa="127" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_grcuoa="105" pc="null">不靠, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span closure_uid_grcuoa="108" pc="null">白</span><span closure_uid_grcuoa="109" pc="null">手</span><span closure_uid_grcuoa="110" pc="null">成家</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
Do not depend on ancestors, empty hands to built a home.<br />
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<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_wilx5h="126" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_wilx5h="108" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="105" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_ae11m2="130" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span class="mpt4"><span closure_uid_ae11m2="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_kv8fig="124" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_kv8fig="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_inbjgc="121" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="112" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="141" pc="null"><span closure_uid_inbjgc="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_iaobfm="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_iaobfm="110" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_arumn6="128" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_arumn6="111" pc="null"><span closure_uid_5batx7="90" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_vu2sxo="118" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_vu2sxo="109" pc="null"><span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_grcuoa="127" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_grcuoa="110" pc="null">生<span closure_uid_bwnrwl="106" pc="null">平唯<span class="mpt4">仗</span><wbr></wbr></span><span closure_uid_bwnrwl="107" pc="null">义, 素性</span><span closure_uid_bwnrwl="109" pc="null">本輕</span><span closure_uid_bwnrwl="111" pc="null">财</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
Born with justice, easy going with material gains.<br />
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Ah Dong gasped when he comes upon the last three lines of proses:<br />
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一<span class="mpt4">字<span class="mpt4">記<span class="mpt1">之</span></span></span><wbr></wbr>日四, 住不<span class="mpt5">得</span><wbr></wbr><br />
One word 4, cannot stay.<br />
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He had just shifted out from a property which have the address with number 4 and it is also on the fourth storey four months ago. He had bought it about a year ago and since then, met with a spate of bad lucks. A lucrative property deal that was almost closed had gone awry. He had then fall sick after catching a virus and was hospitalized for a few weeks. Feeling that there could be a problem with the property, he decided to sell and shift to another property temporary. His luck then started to improved and he had no more further health problems.<br />
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一<span class="mpt4">字<span class="mpt4">記<span class="mpt1">之</span></span></span>日<span class="mpt1">芬</span><wbr></wbr>, <span class="mpt4">戀</span>不<span class="mpt5">得</span><br />
<span class="mpt5">One word Fen (perfume), no longings.</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">A few months ago while he was in bad luck, he had met a nightclub hostess called Ah Fen and had become intimate with her. He had not mind her background and as he was already unattached for a number of years since his last break up. He had thought that maybe that they could be a couple in the near future. She had then once borrowed HK50,000 from him claiming that her family was in financial trouble. Ah Tong had then lent her HK30,000 instead as he was still not sure of her feelings for him. It was then later while in Macau on a company business trip, his client had bought him to a casino to look around after matters were settled and he saw her gambling on one of the table. It was completely a different person from the one that he thought with the demure, soft spoken character now shouting aggressively with a coarse look: 'Banker! Banker!' in a card game called Baccarat. After he went back to Hong Kong, he started avoiding going out with her. She also obviously had no intentions of returning the loan and in fact had asked for further financial help. Ah Tong had then treated it as a costly lesson learned and lucky that he did not got serious in the relationship further and finding out her true character before he were to get married with her. Further, he was'n t really in love with her as he was just feeling lonely with most of his peers already married.</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">It was the last line of proses that gave him a shock:</span><br />
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<span class="mpt5">配妻<span class="mpt4">忌</span><wbr></wbr>鼠, 哭笑不<span class="mpt5">得</span></span><br />
<span class="mpt5"><span class="mpt5">For wife avoid Rat, unable to cry or laugh .</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt5"><span class="mpt5">The master then told Xiao Wu to come back with Ah Tong another day to collect the compiled proses. Ah Tong had already prepared the stipulated fees in a red packet and gave it to the master while thanking him sincerely. He had then recall coincidentally that the nightclub hostess Ah Fen was also born in the year of the Rat.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt5"><span class="mpt5">To be continued.......</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt5"><span class="mpt5">Cheers, and have a great weekend that is coming. </span></span>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-72790676123975694822011-12-09T22:18:00.002+08:002011-12-10T08:49:54.993+08:00A Chinese Love Story for Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVESaZ-dnSh5OwaXTt3zIhvm_BfG1bGQc1xk5LOu1HOtHwTiB0Kt55weM3tQmrc6qwmxMczbhvBR6MlwCBFy3RjOlc5caBtjLaMKiyz4VKShIRdubpPe_8Qh2UBXmxjI-JheVwlG-fvGLv/s1600/A+Merry+Xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVESaZ-dnSh5OwaXTt3zIhvm_BfG1bGQc1xk5LOu1HOtHwTiB0Kt55weM3tQmrc6qwmxMczbhvBR6MlwCBFy3RjOlc5caBtjLaMKiyz4VKShIRdubpPe_8Qh2UBXmxjI-JheVwlG-fvGLv/s320/A+Merry+Xmas.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div>For my dear Friends here who have been patient waiting for the next story that I am translating, many thanks with appreciations. And in return for this festive season, I will again translate a love story by Zi Wei Master Yang again as I find it suitable for this Christmas and I leave it to you to decide whether it is a sad or Lovely story. This is a story that involved two more Chinese metaphysic arts, Da Liu Ren <span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_x1801d="115" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" pc="null"><span closure_uid_x1801d="105" pc="null">大六<span class="mpt2">壬</span></span></span>and the mysterious Iron Plate Divination <span closure_uid_sfa8n2="103" pc="null">铁板</span><span closure_uid_sfa8n2="104" pc="null">神</span><span closure_uid_sfa8n2="105" pc="null">数</span><span closure_uid_sfa8n2="106" pc="null"></span>, both are considered the cream of the top in Destiny analysis. I will be putting up the story this coming Wednesday(Asia) and completed it in time for those in love celebrating Christmas Eve. Well, for those out of love in this festive period, never mind, stay happy and maybe you are going to get to meet the one meant for you this Christmas but keep in mind, the following chinese saying.<br />
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'舊的不去,新的不來....' 'If you keep holding onto the Old, you will miss the New, even right before you.'<br />
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A song to cheer up and energize you up by Christmas Eve.<br />
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Till-then, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-16058279226230138572011-11-19T14:23:00.195+08:002011-11-25T23:08:00.907+08:00Once in Every Life<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TOdo80GlAic" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="mpt1">'相</span><wbr></wbr><span class="mpt1">親</span>之中走一人,<span style="color: red;">富<span closure_uid_u9nmmc="104" rc="null">星</span></span>大运反伏两个吟,孝服不断哭煞天....................'</span></span></em></span><br />
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<strong><span class="ft">日主本身犯伏吟反吟<span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_u9nmmc="119" id="result_box" lang="zh-CN" rc="null"><span closure_uid_u9nmmc="103" rc="null"><span closure_uid_u9nmmc="103" rc="null">财</span></span><span closure_uid_u9nmmc="104" rc="null">星</span></span>、或与岁运伏吟反吟者,克<span class="mpt4">父</span>妻</span><span class="mpt3">也</span>.</strong><br />
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<strong>When the Daymaster meets Fan Yin (Clash pillars) or Fu Yin (Duplicate pillars) on the Wealth star, it will harms the spouse or the father.</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The next few days, Ah Shan was busy with getting their travels documents in order and as the company was a British Incorporated company, he had no problems getting their visas approved. Strangely, Ah Feng also appears to be getting better in Ah Shan's parents home and it could also be that she is excited about starting their life anew again in a country where there are four seasons. The mother had disagreed and even then said that Ah Shan should have stayed with them after marriage instead of staying on their own. The mother is a very good cook and even Ah Feng had to agreed as she had also regret suggesting to Ah Shan to have a place of their own. She was not a fussy eater and in the past, she seldom had dinner at Ah Shan's home. Now that she had stayed there so that her mother-in-law can take care of her while Ah Shan was at work, she marvels at the different dishes that the latter could whip out. She felt so energetic and even wanted to go shopping to get thicker winter clothes but Ah Shan refused to let her do it, telling her that he would get it for her. (She was still unaware of her terminal illness)</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Finally everything was done and that night before they were to leave Hong Kong, the whole family decided to have dinner that night at home instead of having it at a restaurant to celebrate his new future. His parents had given him the full support after Ah Shan had revealed the circumstances of Ah Feng's terminal illness. Ah Shan's mother had remembered that time when Ah Feng had said it was her childhood wish to see snow and had almost broke down in tears and gave the secret away. They had steamboat that night for dinner as it was nearing Winter with a few days left for Autumn. The whole family that night was very happy and they had chatted and laughed about Ah Shan childhood as Ah Feng was curious and asked about it. </strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It was past midnight when Ah Shan had finished checking the travel papers and their luggages and he had prepared to take a hot bath to relax. Meanwhile, Ah Feng was already asleep as she had not spend so much time out of bed in the past few weeks. While he was drying himself, there was suddenly heavy knockings on his bedroom door and he heard her mother shouting: 'Ah Shan! Ah Shan!'. He immediately put on his clothings and rushed out of the bathroom. Ah Feng was already awakened and had answered the mother who then open the door. The mother shouted: 'Ah Shan, there is something wrong with your father, quick come and take a look as I don't know what is happening to him.'</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>When Ah Shan got out ot the bedroom, he saw his father slumped unconsciously on the sofa in the living room. He then told the mother to call the house doctor at the same time while he try to awaken his father.</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Finally the mother says: 'I have called Dr.Tan and he says that he is coming over now.'</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Shan: 'Not to worry, I think that Dad have a stroke again but I don't think it would be serious as he is still very careful about his diet. I noticed that he avoid those oily foods while we were having dinner tonight.'</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>They then had then tried rubbing medicated oil on the unconscious father to make the latter comfortable while waiting for the doctor. In a while, the doctor arrived as he was staying not far away from them. He immediately took out his stethoscope from his bag and checked the father's condition.</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>After a while, Dr. Tan looked at Ah Shan and said: 'I think we have to send him to the hospital immediately, can you make a call to ask for an ambulance.'</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dr. Tan: 'Ah Shan, my deepest condolences, there is nothing more I can do. your father just left for paradise. I will not give you false hope as we are like a family. '</strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The mother started to wail on hearing it and Ah Shan then felt a sadness enveloped him like never before. Even when his ex-girlfriend ditched him for a rich guy, he did not feel this kind of pain in his heart. Since young, his though strict father doted on him and even at that time, comforted him and drank beers with him when he had fallen out of love. The doctor's voice woke him up from his thoughts and then he realised that he had to inform his boss who would definitely be upset with this as the latter would have to inform the head office. </strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dr. Tan, being a family friend stayed behind to help Ah Shan make arrangement for his father bereavement without being asked. It was almost morning when Ah Shan then started calling his father's siblings as a matter of respect on the funeral arrangements. His uncle, the younger brother of his father then told Ah Shan to leave the funeral arrangements to him. By then, it was about 8.00 am in the morning when the relatives arrived to help out. Ah Shan then called the company and left a message with his secretary to inform the boss. </strong></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;">After the father was buried, the mother told Ah Shan that there is something that needs to be done. Ah Shan's father was supposed to go back to his hometown to exhume the ancestral grave as the Chinese Government in Mainland China is taking over the land for development purpose. In fact, the construction company had already begun the works a year ago around the cemetery.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He had actually wanted Ah Shan to see to it but because Ah Feng had a terminal illness, the father had decided to make the trip and see to the relocation of the ancestral tomb at the end of January when this unfortunate incident had happens. She suggested that Ah Shan to do it now so that it would not affected his job transfer to Canada as Ah Shan's Boss who also treated Ah Shan like his son, had already went over to Canada to run the company while waiting for Ah Shan to complete his deceased father arrangement. Another problem then arises as the father' s younger brother was insistent that the mother to move to his house so that they can tempoary take care of her as she will be alone. They did not know of Ah Feng's illness too and the mother had also not wanted to let them know. Ah Feng, not wanting to put the mother in a difficult position then suggested that she move back to their apartment and get a temporary caretaker by paying more for the services which will not be a problem. After all, she said it is only a few weeks after which they will immigrate to Canada. Though Ah Shan was loath to leave her to see to the relocation of his ancestral tomb but he had no choice as the Chinese Government had given a deadline and it was also his father's wishes to see to it.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>When Ah Shan arrived in his father hometown, the father’s cousin, a spritely man in his sixties was there to receive him and see to his accommodation for the night. He had then told Ah Shan that another relative, a highly respected feng shui master would be there to help out and in fact Ah Shan’ s father had asked him to see to the new location for the ancestral tomb.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>The next day, Ah Shan and his uncle set forth to the cemetery area and the feng shui master known as Yi Dao was already waiting for them. The grave workers then started the works after getting a nod from Master Yi Dao who was quiet throughout the exhumation after acknowledging Ah Shan and his uncle when they arrived. Ah Shan was surprised that the coffin was covered with white ant nests when the gravedigger bought it out. Master Yi Dao was expressionless and beckoned to one of them to bring the Urn over. After everything was done, Master Yi Dao nodded to Ah Shan’s uncle who then brings Ah Shan to him. The uncle then told Master Yi Dao of the position of the father in the family tree hierarchy. <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Finally the master spoke his first sentence to them: ‘It is destined that only at this moment that you have come instead of your father. Do not be too sad as life is itself unpredictable.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Ah Shan felt tears coming to his eyes as he then remembered about Ah Feng’s illness and being alone at home. He felt anxious suddenly wanting to go back as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>The Master then asked: ‘Are you born in the year of Xin Si (Snake year)?’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Strangely, Master Yi Dao appeared to know something when Ah Shan nodded as he then said: ‘I suggest that you go back to Hong Kong as soon as possible as your loved one wants to see you. Leave everything here to me here as your presence was just required for the documentations by the Government.’ <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Ah Shan then thanked the master profusely at which the master then while looking kindly at him, said: ‘You don’t have to stand on ceremony as we are relatives. If you have anything you are unsure of and needs help, there should be someone you know with the word Metal <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">金 </span>in his name whom you can seek for advice. Go now, you don’t have much time.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria;">With that, Master Yi Dao then turned away and the grave workers immediately congregate around him for instructions. The uncle then immediately sent Ah Shan back to arrange for his return trip to Hong Kong also sensing the urgency in Ah Shan and that there is already a preexisting problem with Ah Shan apart from the Father’s death. Master Yi Dao while watching them leave from the corner of his eyes, then said to his quiet respectful disciple by his side: ‘It is fated that he have come at this time instead of earlier as something could have be done to avert all this tragedy that is starting to unfold.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at which the assistant nodded. The master then muttered to himself while shaking his head: ‘</span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">桃李</span></strong><span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;"><strong>谢春风,西飞又复东,家中无意绪,船在<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">浪涛中.'</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>When he awoke, he saw his mother at the side asleep in the chair. He then felt bad as it must have worried his mother and that he should think of his mother welfare as he is now the only nearest next of kin left to her. He then saw his mother’s hand on a letter which was addressed to him that is left on the table by the side of his bed. He gently took the letter without waking up his mother. It was in Ah Feng’s handwriting and immediately he took it out to read.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>‘My dearest beloved Ah Shan,<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>When you read this letter, I regret that I would no longer be around to share the rest of our lives together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had found out my health conditions after I had received a letter from the hospital asking me to go for a checkup. I had then called the hospital to fix the appointment and the nurse unknowingly out of good will advise me not to delay as my condition is critical. I had then spoken to the doctor who had told me that you had not wanted me to know of this terminal illness.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I imagine the anguish and sufferings you must have gone through every day when you were with me and especially after the blow you received from your father’s death. I had therefore written this letter as that life is as unpredictable as can be seen from your father who left without any words.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I want you to know that I have no regrets knowing you and having at least spent some time with you as your wife in this lifetime which had made me very contented. When I was sullied and you will still willing to accept me convinced me of your love for me. I am willing and hope that in our next lifetime, we will be together again. But I want you to carry on living happily though without me as I would be sad if you were to give up on yourself. Think also for your mother who is alone too. </strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>I will also not blame you if you need to remarry so that you can have someone to take care of you as well as your mother. But I do not want you to find one that is much better than me as I will be jealous because I will be watching you from where I am. Ha-ha, I am just pulling your leg. You see, I am still the cheerful Ah Feng that you know and therefore I want you to wish the best for me where I am and I would also wish for you to be the same. I would also like you to have me cremated and bring my ashes with you when you go to Canada as I told you I want to see snow, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you would do this for me without doubt and therefore such, I will go with peace, knowing that you will be with me to watch the snow.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Do not let me down about taking care of yourself and your mother. With this, I bade you farewell <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for this lifetime only and that we will meet again in our next lifetime, my dearest Ah Shan.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Forever and ever, Your Ah Feng<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah Shan felt his tears coming out again as he read and read again the letter, feeling the pain and yet there was this strange peaceful feeling as if Ah Feng was next to him.</span> <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Six month later, Ah Shan came back from Canada for holidays with his mother who was homesick and wanted to see her siblings and relatives. Ah Shan had contemplate about letting her stay in Hong Kong as he can tell that she was bored after the initial excitement of exposure to a different environment. While going through those mails that have not been redirected to him yet, he saw a letter from his uncle in Mainland China about the new location for his ancestral tomb. He then remembered the other relative, the feng shui master had said that he know someone with the word metal </strong><span class="mpt1"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>金</strong> </span></span><strong>in his name who could help him in times of need. He felt ironically that even so, he does not think that it can do anything for Ah Feng’s situation. He then recalled Xiao Jin which the word Jin means metal and wonder if he is the one that the master mentioned. Having nothing to do as most of his friends are working, he decided to call Xiao Jin and was surprised that the company telephone line is no longer in use. He then called the home and it was the same. Suddenly he remembered that Xiao Jin had given him a telephone number to call if he cannot find the latter. It was as if he knows Ah Shan would still looks for him though at that time, Ah Shan had no wish to contact him anymore. That slip of paper was still in his wallet and he immediately called and looks for a person called Ah Kang. He was told by Ah Kang that Xiao Jin had relocated to Singapore as his company had closed their operations in Hong Kong. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Kang then told him that if there is anything he wants to know again that concerns fortune telling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which Xiao Jin had done for Ah Shan that time, he would be able to help as Xiao Jin had request him to help. Ah Kang is actually the senior disciple of that Ziwei Master who had taught Xiao Jin. Ah Shan then remembered about the temple divination and which till date, is still puzzled why the divination was wrong as the temple is well-known for its divination. He then invited Ah Kang out for Afternoon Tim Sum at a Chinese restaurant in Causeway Bay. <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>When he reached the restaurant, he asked for the table he had reserved under his name which he had told Ah Kang to look for as they have not seen each other before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah Kang was already sitting at the table and reading a newspaper when he found the table number. To his surprise, he found a good looking young man who does not looks like those fortune tellers that he had in his mind. Ah Kang would have look like a young master from a rich family who do not have to work.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>After introducing each other and ordering their drinks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah Shan felt that Ah Kang gave him a comfortable feeling as if they have known each other for years. He then immediately <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>told Ah Kang about what happened to him and his puzzlement about the divination which had stayed in his mind till now. <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Kang: ‘This is actually not an auspicious divination, there is a hidden meaning to it if you still do not get the meaning of the first prose.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Shan: ‘I still don’t understand as there are no inauspicious words in both lines.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>' <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">艷於春而盛於夏</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">無心之怨一筆解決</span>.'<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong><em><span style="color: red;">Colours belongs to Spring while Magnificence is in Summer, </span></em><span style="color: red;"><em>Unintentional </em><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><em>Grievances</em></span> </span><em>is resolved with a Stroke.......</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Kang then said: ‘I do not know whether the interpreter at the temple intentionally or not gave you a different translation as it is a very bad omen. However since matters have already reached this stage, let me explained.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>‘<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">艷於春而盛於夏</span> is part of a poem of <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">艷於春者</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">望秋先零</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">而盛於夏</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">未冬已萎</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meaning colors belongs to Spring but do not wish for Autumn as it will still ends in Autumn even though with colors. Magnificence is in summer but will lose its spirit or wither away in winter. It is saying everything have a beginning and will have an end. You had asked for the divination in Spring</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> and you should roughly guess that what should happen in autumn and winter.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Shan: ‘If that is the case, I understand as with life, there is death. But this is what everybody knows and do not really tally with what happens to me.’<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Kang: ‘Okay, the hidden meaning is in <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">無心之怨一筆解決 w</span>hen you look at it further. Here it is saying <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">無心 which means no heart and you then take away the heart 心 from the word 怨 and 一筆解決 means you add a stroke 一 on top of it giving you the word 死 Death. And therefore, how can the divination be good?’<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>With that Ah Shan was stumped and had no further objections on the accuracy of the divination from the temple. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ah Kang then said: ‘Anyway, do not blame anyone who had read it wrongly for you as such is destiny. These people are part of the big picture arranged by the Heavens to make a mockery of Man in destiny analysis.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><strong>With this, the two of them then started talking about other things with Ah Shan finally convinced that chinese metaphysics is indeed mysterious in the way Fate works or what we will says Xuan 玄.....</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><strong>The End </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><strong>With thanks to ZiWei Master Yang for the story and my apologies that I have made some changes to it. </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><strong>Okay folks, that will be all and I hope all the Ah Shan and Ah Feng will not make the mistake of mixing up the Angels with the Demons in their pursuit of happiness. However if you do, do not blame anyone as this is what we call destiny as in life though there are good guys but you still needs the bad guys to complete the Yin and the Yang, just an opinion. </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><strong>Till-then, cheers.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-82824385510765903622011-11-08T21:29:00.012+08:002011-11-09T13:40:17.116+08:00Love of a Lifetime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX3scNu0oR5dyZ-nSNPxFPDPozeyviYe3FuvJUYKiLtMh_w_Q_RWQINsqixOE7ccKEdT1aY1XCdHRH_09joT5jKLaJTYEtuRwqOZgsyqrvQPyiAh9JBHqyQ6uhb6QMrl5ChlMAkaFF_w1m/s1600/love+of+a+lifetime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX3scNu0oR5dyZ-nSNPxFPDPozeyviYe3FuvJUYKiLtMh_w_Q_RWQINsqixOE7ccKEdT1aY1XCdHRH_09joT5jKLaJTYEtuRwqOZgsyqrvQPyiAh9JBHqyQ6uhb6QMrl5ChlMAkaFF_w1m/s1600/love+of+a+lifetime.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<em>'I guess the time was right for us to say,</em><br />
<em>We'd take our time and live our lives together day by day.</em><br />
<em>We'll make a wish and send it on a prayer,</em><br />
<em>We know our dreams can all come true with love that we can share.'</em><br />
<em> Firehouse.</em><br />
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A day before they were to register their marriage at the registrar, Ah Feng asked to meet Ah Shan for lunch. Ah Shan got worried for it must be a problem as it was too sudden apart from that they had arranged to meet for dinner already. He then went to Ah Feng's apartment to pick her up for lunch as both of them had taken leave from their work to prepare for the wedding. <br />
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Ah Feng appear normal and still looks her cheerful self which put Ah Shan' worry at ease. As usual, Ah Feng had asked for her favorite fish and chips while Ah Shan had a beef steak set at the Western cafe. <br />
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Ah Feng: 'Ah Shan, I have been thinking that we should register our marriage later on when I think the time is right. I still feel unsure as to what would happens later on in our future if we should separated and it would be unnecessary with all the paperwork. I have to be fair to your feelings as you are human and this unfortunate incident might be in your mind as we are bound to have quarrels living together.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'But how do I tell my parents or your parents about it as it would be very strange to them.'<br />
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Ah Feng: 'We would still carry on with our custom weddings and we would tell them that I don't feel well on that day and we would register our wedding in London when we have our honeymoon there after the wedding.'<br />
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Ah Shan, worried that if he objected further would leads to more problems with the custom wedding ceremony just a day away: 'All right, but you must promise me we would do the registration after three months as I would feel odd without this procedure followed."<br />
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Ah Feng: 'All-right.'<br />
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On that day, the wedding dinner was held at a famous Cantonese restaurant and Ah Feng had looks radiant and beautiful in her wedding gown for the afternoon photo shoot. Needless to say, Ah Shan felt he was the luckiest man on Earth to be able to marry a girl like Ah Feng. The thought that he is finally starting a new phase in life with Ah Feng gaves him a joyful feeling that he have never felt before and that he is unable to describe. Ah Chong the Feng Shui master had probably picked a correct day as the day was cool and breezy without the sudden rains that is common in Spring in Hong Kong. The wedding dinner that night was also a success with all the relatives and friends enjoying it and as usual, teasing the happy couple. The next day, the married couple left Hong Kong on the afternoon flight for their honeymoon in Europe with both their parents and friends sending them off at the airport.<br />
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Two weeks later, they were back with the usual gifts that holiday makers bring back from trips for their loved ones. They had then moved into their new apartment and started their life as a married couple without their parents around. Months passed by and everybody was happy, Ah Shan had even started hoping to have a baby with Ah Feng soon to complete their family. Both parents were also glad and happy to see their only offspring starting their family. Soon it was three months, the Wei month nearing the end of Summer when Ah Shan bought up the subject of getting their marriage registered with Ah Feng. Ah Feng had agreed then as she had observed that Ah Shan was really the type who though stubborn at times, would stick to his principles when he made up his mind. They then arranged to take a day off the next day and also visit Tiger Balms Garden as Ah Feng had wanted to visit the place while they were dating but the place was too packed with crowds on the weekend at that period.<br />
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On that morning, Ah Feng had prepared a small basket with snacks at the same time for the visit to the garden. They then proceed to the carpark when suddenly there was a heavy downpour. Ah Feng: 'Oh no, looks like it is going to be a heavy rain.' <br />
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Ah Shan: 'I don't think so as I have listened to the radio weather forecast and there was no mention of rain at all. Lets wait and decide later if the heavy rain will to carry on after half an hour, we would then go on another day.'<br />
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And strangely true enough, it stopped after half an hour and both of them then set off to the Registrar for Marriage. After all the legal procedure was completed and with Ah Shan now feeling even more at ease and happy, they set off for Tiger Balms Garden. It was then that they saw Xiao Jin outside the Registrar and Ah Shan started feeling guilty as he had not invited him for the wedding. <br />
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Xiao Jin after greeting Ah Feng: 'Ah Shan, it is so coincidental to see you here as I had called your office today and they told me you had taken a day off. I wanted to apologise as my company had sent me away on an overseas trip and it was too rush for me to leave a message for you. I had just came back and wanted to let you know as I guess you would not have be able to contact me for your wedding dinner.'<br />
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Ah Shan was relieved on hearing that but however with Ah Feng around, have no wish to prolong the conversation. He then says: 'I will call you another day for lunch in lieu for the wedding dinner that you missed. We had to go off now.'<br />
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Xiao Jin then looked weirdly at him and said: 'Did you just registered your wedding here or came to collect the certificate?'<br />
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Ah Shan not wanting to explain why they did not registered before the wedding: 'Oh yes, we were here to collect the certificate.' <br />
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Xiao Jin: 'Oh okay, I still needs to let you know certain matters that I had told you before and I also need to know whether you have told your father about your ancestral tomb. This needs to be done by the end of Autumn as your father would starts to have some health problems and it might set off a chain of unfavorable events.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Okay, I will discuss with my father when I get back and I will call you as soon as possible to meet up. I really got to go off with Ah Feng now.'<br />
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Xiao Jin on hearing the tone knew that Ah Shan do not want to carry on further the conversation with Ah Feng around. He had wanted to try to let Ah Shan know more at that moment as he knew that his company might anytime relocate him to Singapore for that new project and he do not know when he will be back in Hong Kong. But he also do not wanted Ah Shan to think that he is out to make the latter indebted to him as mentioned before.<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'All-right, I will give you my cousin's phone number now just in case you can't contact me again.' He then wrote on a piece of paper he tear from a small notebook and gave it to Ah Shan.<br />
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They then parted way with Ah Feng feeling curious as she felt that Xiao Jin had been trying to hint to them to go for a coffee for a chat. She was thinking why Ah Shan was unwilling as Xiao Jin really looks concerned about the health of Ah Shan's father. But as in that generation, chinese women still do not get involved in man's talk or question their men about their matters. Ah Shan also did not explained his attitude to Ah Feng as they go off and she left it as it is. Anyway, they had a wonderful day at the Tiger Balms Gardens especially Ah Feng as she got to visit it after several failed attempts in the past.<br />
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Now, after they had registered for more than a month and Autumn had just started, things began to change in their lives. Ah Feng started growing thinner although she was not sick, both of them thought that it was probably her hectic work at the bank that is affecting her appetite as she started to eat less. Ah Shan jokingly says that it is probably she is trying to slim down as after marriage initially, she had gained weight. The apartment also started having problem with the lights blowing off frequently and even the plumbing pipes were choked for no reason as there were only two of them using the toilet. They had then called a handyman to do the repairs but after a few days, the problems came back. Ah Shan had then thought that this was probably why the previous owner was frustrated and had sold off the place. <br />
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Two weeks later, Ah Feng suddenly fainted while working and could not be revived, the bank staff had to sent her to the hospital. Ah Shan on hearing the news, rushed down to the hospital after taking a half day leave from his company. Ah Feng was still unconscious with the parents already there by her side as Ah Shan had informed them including his parents. Half an hour later, the nurse told Ah Shan that the doctor is free to see him. Ah Shan was informed by the doctor that they have not found the reason for her fainting and that she had to be warded for another day for observation. The doctor felt that it could be work stress as she had fainted at the bank and that Ah Feng was probably too tired. <br />
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For the moment, they find that she is underweight for her height and asked about her daily diet. Ah Shan then went back to the ward and was glad on seeing Ah Feng awake. The pale looking Ah Feng asked him what the doctor had diagnosed and Ah Shan told her what the doctor had said and agreed that she probably did not have enough rest as she had worked overtime for a period of time prior to this incident. Ah Shan felt bad while saying this as Ah Feng's parent were listening at the side however the parent instead felt that Ah Feng should resign from her work now that she is married and be a housewife.<br />
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At that time, Ah Shan' parent also arrived and asked Ah Shan again on the same old question. Ah Shan then noticed that his father do not appeared to be in good health. He had then pulled his mother aside and asked her whereupon the mother told him that the father had caught a cold the other day and there is nothing to worry about. By then, it was already late at night and Ah Feng told them to go back home as they have not taken their dinner. Ah Shan sent both parents off and went to get some takeaway foods for himself and some supper snacks for Ah Feng as he do not want to go home yet. About midnight, he then left telling Ah Feng that he is taking a day off and would be back in the morning with breakfast for her as he do not think highly of the hospital food.<br />
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The next day in the afternoon while Ah Shan was reading the newspaper as Ah Feng had fallen asleep, the doctor asked for him.<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Have you managed to find out whether there is anything else? My wife appeared to be better now after resting for a day here.'<br />
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The doctor: 'Mr. Zhang, I hope you will stay calm as I have bad news for you and your wife will needs your moral support.'<br />
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Ah Shan now started to look worried: 'Never mind if it is bad news as I still have to face it.'<br />
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The doctor : 'It is confirmed that your wife have liver cancer and normally for cases like this, her life expectancy is at the most between three to six months.'<br />
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Ah Shan started to feel dizzy and almost fainted on hearing this, but he remember what the doctor had told him beforehand that Ah Feng needs his moral support.<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Can you get another doctor to check again, just to be sure that you have the correct diagnosis as you know sometimes.....'<br />
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The doctor interrupted him before he could carried on further: 'Mr. Zhang, my fellow doctors and I had a meeting this morning and had spent 2 hours analysing the test samples we took and confirming it before I had let you know the diagnosis as this is a serious case.'<br />
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The doctor anticipating Ah Shan next question: 'This is a new disease that we have no cures at the moment though there have been rumours that some have recovered mysteriously. But they have never come back and we don't really knows.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'But there were no signs or symptons at all and suddenly you tell me it is liver cancer.'<br />
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The doctor: 'Yes, as this cancer is normally at stage 4 when it is discovered and therefore we have been unable to do anything about it.'<br />
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The doctor having been through several similar cases and Ah Shan looks like a new couple to him<br />
which had drawn his sympathy, then said: 'I have a suggestion if you do not mind though it is not medical.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'I do not mind any suggestions that can give me any hope at this moment. I would not even spare any expenses if there is any cures for it abroad.'<br />
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The doctor: 'No, what I meant was maybe both of you can go for a holiday and at the same time, she can rest and recuperate. Somewhere that she wanted to go and where the air there is fresh and she would regains her appetite and maybe a miracle could happens.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'All right, I would ask her about it and I have a request that you do not let her or our parents know.'<br />
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The doctor: 'I agreed as this would helps pyschologically as she might give up her will to live if she knows. There is nothing much the hospital can do now, I suggest that you can get ready for her discharge today.'<br />
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Ah Feng was awaked when Ah Shan came back to the ward and Ah Shan then told her that the doctor says she can be discharged. He then told her the doctor said that she was overworked and needs a lot of rest. Her health might get worse if she still go back to work and suggest that she resigned from her work. Ah Feng then readily agreed as she had felt nauseous and weak for the past two weeks and had no appeitite. She had also disliked the new manager that the bank had employed who appears to pick on her as a scrapegoat everytime when things go wrong.<br />
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The next day while at work, Ah Shan spent his time thinking of how to tell his immediate superior that he wants to take a long leave from work. It had appeared that the parent company, a British company had been giving his boss some pressure as his boss appears to be in a bad mood. He had not dared put his request to his boss as he also like the job and do not want to have any future problem with the boss in a bad mood. He had tried asking the managing director for lunch together that day but the latter had brushed him off and had hurriedly left for a meeting with a personnel from the parent company who had visit Hong Kong. While thinking of what to do, his cousin Ah Chong the Feng Shui master called him, he was about to tell his secretary that he do not want to take the call when he remember about the divination from the temple. He then thought maybe Ah Chong could explained to him as the Gods can't be wrong if the divination is auspicous. Ah Chong told him over the phone that he needs a loan from him as he had wanted to buy a property but did not have enough money. Though the loan amount was substantial, Ah Shan was willing to lend him the money hoping that maybe Ah Chong could help him as he had heard that Feng Shui can helps when all other means of orthodox methods failed.<br />
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However, he did not know that Ah Chong needed the money to flee as the latter had offended an underword boss after he had done a Feng Shui audit for his mistress. The mistress of that notorious gangster had wanted Ah Chong to activate the so called Peach Blossom star (Romance Star) for her as the boss had fallen for a young film starlet and had spent less time with her. Instead she had fallen for a giggolo and absconded with the boss's ill-gotten gains entrusted in her account for safekeeping from the laws. The infuriated boss had found out that she had engaged a feng shui master before absconding and had sent his own Feng Shui master to look at that love nest to check. He was then accordingly told that the Flower of Bath star was activated instead which had caused his mistress to 'easily be attracted to the opposite sex, and became flirtatious, immoral and sexually obsessed.' The incensed boss then put out a reward to find out the identity of that Feng Shui master which was fortunate for Ah Chong as the nickname he had used Divine dragon, was not well-known in the Feng Shui circle. Ah Chong decided to flee first whether that underworld boss can managed to find out his identity or not.<br />
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Anyway, back to Ah Shan who then met Ah Chong at a cafe during lunch to pass him the money as he had also wanted to asked him about the divination. Ah Chong then told him to go back to that temple to seek redress from the Gods as he also felt that the divination is an auspicious one and that the Gods can't be wrong, right? To us, it might sound illogical but when a person is desperate and had no orthodox ways to solve a problem like Ah Shan, he turns to spiritual means. Thinking that it makes sense, he took the other half of the day off as after all the boss was too busy for him to sound out on his request for a month's leave from work.<br />
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He then went to the temple and burnt paper offerings after what he had felt sincerely, asks the Gods to intervene in his prayers as things had not gone the way the divination had implied on his mariage. He then went home and strangely, he felt serene as it could be probably be the peaceful surroundings of the temple which was desolate and quiet on the weekdays. He had then bought some of Ah Feng's favorite foods for dinner as well as for his mother who had went over to prepare lunch for her and take care of her. He then told his mother and Ah Feng that he is thinking of taking a long holidays for both of them as before marriage, he had also been working very hard without taking long leave. He is also worried that he might fall sick especially now that Ah Feng is not working. Ah Feng then asked Ah Shan that whether they could go to somewhere that have snow in Winter as it is one of her childhood dreams. Ah Shan readily agreed with tears almost coming to his eyes when he thought of her illness and excused himself that he wanted to take a bath.<br />
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The next day while he was thinking of how to approach his boss on this matter as he was the manager and the boss might have to take over some of his works while he is on leave, the Boss suddenly called him for a meeting. He then went to the Boss's room and hoped that it is some good news and that at the same time, he could put forward his request to take long leave. <br />
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His boss was called Mr. Tang, an amicable person when he is not under duress from the parent company and leaves everything in the company to Ah Shan to run freely. <br />
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Mr. Tang: 'Ah Shan, you know I have been very supportive of you when you first came to the company and your present position as a manager is from my recommendations to the head office in Britain. In another few years, I would be retiring and I would recommend you to take over my position as long as things goes smoothly.'<br />
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Ah Shan familiar with the office protocol and hoping to put the boss in a good mood: 'Yes sir, I am aware and thankful for your patronage in the company as it is the reason why I have stayed for so many years despite being given higher offers elsewhere.'<br />
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Mr.Tang: 'All right, we would cut short all the formalities and get straight down to the point. To be frank, the head office had wanted me to go over to our branch office in Canada as the managing director over there had suddenly resigned without ample notification. I am reluctant to go over as they are unable to give me a definite period when I can be back to Hong Kong and you know I am retiring in another few years time.'<br />
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As Ah Shan had kept quiet, the boss carried on: 'I was thinking of recommending you to go over as deputy managing director and hope that you can accept this position. If after two years, you are not happy over there, I would put a request to the company to place you back here as by then I would be retired and they would need a person familiar to take over my position, what do you think?'<br />
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Ah Shan was thinking that he would have to accept the proposal as he have no other choices from the way his boss had put it even if he don't like it. But in his heart, he was glad as Canada have snow in Winter which was what Ah Feng had wanted. However, he was thinking of whether he would have the time to accompany Ah Feng on outings when his boss said: 'I had told the company that once you have put the branch office in order, to let you have two weeks of leave to look for a permanent residence to stay as you might not like the present property that the company had rented over there.' <br />
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When Ah Shan heard that, he immediately reply without trying to sound anxious or happy: 'Sir, to be frank even if I do not like the idea of relocating to Canada temporary, I would still do it for you as in my eyes, I looked upon you like my father after what you have done for me all the years I was here.'<br />
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The boss sounding relieved and happy replied: 'All-right, I am glad to hear that and I would asked the head office to give you the same salary though you are designated as deputy managing director and the view they might have of your young age. However, I will convince the company that you have the experience to handle and I hope you would not let me down. Ah Shan was then told to take the next few days off to prepare the immigration paperworks for his family to go over.<br />
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Ah Shan then happily went home to inform Ah Feng the good news as he would be fulfilling her wish of seeing snow at least for the moment. Interestingly, in Zi Wei astrology, we normally believed that when the Life palace is not favorable, it would be logical to go over to the opposite travel palace by emigrating as it would helps in diluting the effect of the unfavorable formations. It looks like the Gods are convinced by Ah Shan's love for Ah Feng and his destiny could be changed.<br />
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To be continued next week, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-85258318473196631402011-11-03T11:33:00.016+08:002011-11-06T11:35:40.215+08:00Seasons in the Sun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGojNQJlQPDp7Of7Bf0Be7XT3ujs-2irYNTs81kSye_OiYQF96Se8Aih8AD8qk0HybjQ2aPt038PDEmDcIE-jnt2GKAA3GVaDCdrMF6WSbakx0V6z3QJRyG_DAGtR1AIAcFlBDUOD_rhT9/s1600/Winter+End.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGojNQJlQPDp7Of7Bf0Be7XT3ujs-2irYNTs81kSye_OiYQF96Se8Aih8AD8qk0HybjQ2aPt038PDEmDcIE-jnt2GKAA3GVaDCdrMF6WSbakx0V6z3QJRyG_DAGtR1AIAcFlBDUOD_rhT9/s320/Winter+End.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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<em><strong>'We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the wine and the songs </strong></em><em><strong>like the seasons have all gone.......'</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Terry Jacks, 1973.</strong></em><br />
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Ah Feng then started to think of what to do next as she realised that she have to keep the matter from her parent. The next day, she called the bank and told the manager that she had some urgent family matters to settle and needs to apply for a week of leave. The manager approved as she had quite a number of uncleared days left from the year before. <br />
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She then went out immediately as her parents had went out for breakfast in the early morning and she did not want to meet them yet. Although being dealt a blow to her normal life, she sensibly first went to her family doctor and had a checkup while telling her doctor that she did not want to get pregnant as she had forgotten to take precaution while sleeping with her boyfriend. After this was done, she went to a cafe nearby the clinic and had breakfast and thinking of what to do next. She do not have any close girlfriend to confide in and discuss her situation. She felt like going crazy while thinking of the incident and with no one to confide into. And also whether she should let Ah Shan knows about it. Though Ah Shan appears to be deeply in love with her, but she do not know whether their relationship in the future would be affected by this incident after he knows about it. Further, they are going to get married and if later on, he might be influenced by the incident which might leads to them separating during quarrels and it would be complicated. She then decided to temporary avoid him until she can finds a way to be sure of his feelings.<br />
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Well, when Ah Shan awoke from his drunken stupor from the night before, he immediately thought of Ah Feng and called her office. He was surprised that she had applied for leave and he then called the home but the maid who answered told him that she had left the home as usual in the morning. He then thought that maybe Ah Feng had went out with her parents to tend to some family matters. He remembered he had also asked Ah Feng to apply for leave before the party and that they could spend a day together but Ah Feng had said she had things to do that day. After taking some rice porridge to cure his hangover, he went back to sleep as he still feels tired. <br />
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It was in the late afternoon when he awoke again and he immediately called Ah Feng but this time, the mother who took the call told him that she was sick and sleeping and to call back again the next day. At this point on hearing that she was sick, he then decided to pay her a visit instead when he have finished work. The following evening, he drove straight to Ah Feng house and the door was opened by the maid who told him Ah Feng is still not feeling well and resting and asked him to go back first. He then did not wanted to interrupted her rest as the parents might misunderstood that he is being possessive even before marriage.<br />
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This carried on for a few days and even though he had called by telephone but she had not take the calls and each time it was the maid or mother who told him to wait for her to call him back instead. Ah Shan then start to think whether it was because of that night that he had got drunk that Ah Feng was unhappy and therefore had avoid him. He then decided to go early in the morning during breakfast as she should then not be in her bedroom and be able to avoid him. True enough, the maid let him into the house as Ah Feng should be having breakfast at that time as he expected, he then saw her at the dining table. Ah Feng then told him to wait at the living room as she had just finished her breakfast and help the maid to clear up the table.<br />
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In a while, she came to the living room and then just sat opposite him instead of the usual side next to him when he visited in the past. She was silent and Ah Shan immediatedly started to apologise about that night. She was rather cold while listening to his explanation and did not reply. Ah Shan then continued about her health and whether she have recovered as he wants her to look at the bed he had wanted to purchase for their apartment. At this moment, Ah Feng said: 'Who said we are getting married?'<br />
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Ah Shan was shocked and said: 'Why did you say that? I had already apologised several times over the phone through your mother and the maid to you apart from now here.'<br />
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Ah Feng just kept quiet and just looked blankly at him.<br />
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Ah Shan then asked: 'Is there a problem from your parents on our marriage and you are in a difficult position to tell me. I can wait for your parents to be back and discussed with them if they are still unsure about my feelings for you.'<br />
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Ah Feng just said : 'No, this have nothing to do with them, it is my decision.'<br />
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Ah Shan then noticed that Ah Feng' s eyes was red and teary and he had thought that she had looked unwell as she probably had not recovered from her illness. Sensing there is something amiss, he started to talk loudly, unable to control his feeling. Ah Shan: 'Then please tell me what is the problem that have made you change your mind? We can try to discuss and there should be a way out as we have known each other for such a long period.'<br />
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Ah Feng was starting to lose her control as she senses the sincerity in Ah Shan and about to break into tears when she firmed up and then told Ah Shan: 'My parents will be coming back here soon and I don't want them to hear what I want to tell you, come back in the evening to pick me up and we will look for a quiet place.'<br />
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Ah Shan was relieved as he was worried that she might locked herself up in the bedroom and avoid him again. <br />
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'All-right, I will come back in the evening and we can go for dinner.'<br />
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Ah Feng: 'No, I am not in the mood for dinner, you can have yours first before coming by at 7.30 pm.'<br />
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Thus saying, Ah Feng then went back straight to her bedroom without sending him to the door. Ah Shan felt helpless but to leave and hope that he will be able to settle any misgivings she have on the marriage later on.<br />
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Well, as expected, Ah Shan took a quick dinner and came before 7.30 pm and Ah Feng was already waiting for him. In the car, Ah Shan as usual asked where she would like to go and Ah Feng said: 'Anywhere that is quiet as I want do not want to be disturbed by other people in our conversations.'<br />
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Ah Shan said: 'I will get some soft drinks from a provision shop then and we can go to the same place at the beach where you had saw the shooting stars.'<br />
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Ah Shan hope that as Ah Feng like that place, it would be easier for him to convince her of his love for her which is true as he really cannot imagine life without her by his side. This was why he is so anxious to get married as he was worried that anything can happens in the future to affects their relationship if he do not commit himself to her soon. He of course, believed that Ah Feng truly loves him and felt he was correct in wanting to get married early as this incident had shown.<br />
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As they sat there looking at the sea and that night, there was no moon or stars as if they were afraid to appear before the troubled love couple. Ah Feng was still quiet and looks solemn while Ah Shan had kept quiet, waiting for her to start the conversation as he did not want to annoy her unintentionally because of her present mood. Ah Feng then said : 'There is something I must tell you which had made me decided to call off our wedding.' Ah Feng then told him about the incident though she had misgivings about whether she should or not before she left home. But she felt that it is not fair to let him know without any explanation to call off the wedding because of her doubts about his feeling. Being her character and her principles, she also had no wish to keep it as a secret from him too if they were to get married.<br />
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When Ah Shan heard about it, he started feeling guilty as he had gotten drunk that night and even more as Xiao Jin had warned him about it. He had not let Ah Feng know about what Xiao Jin had said or bought her a protection talisman. He also felt that he had a part in causing this incident as he had not being able to send her home personally that night for he will usually walk her up to her apartment before leaving. Rather than berating himself further in the mind, he started to assure Ah Feng of his true feelings and that he will not let the incident affects their future relationship. Of course, he did not dare tell her about what Xiao Jin had said which ironically will leads to more problems later on. He then insisted that they will get married in Spring when he confirmed the wedding date with his father while having his usual breakfast at home in the morning. He was glad when Ah Feng kept quiet and did not voice further objections. He then decided to send her home as he also don't want her to suddenly change her mind again and also to let her have more rest as the incident is a big blow to her as well as to him. When he send her to the door of her house, he told her he will be back the next day to bring her out for lunch and go to her favorite places to let her slowly forget about the incident so she can be back to the usual cheerful girl he knows.<br />
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The next morning, he called his office and apply for leave and then while having breakfast with his father, told him that he wants to confirm the date for the wedding. To his annoyance, his father told him that he is not sure of which is a better date and wanted him to asked the old fortune teller, Master Ze De to choose the date again. Without any choice as he knows his father will not pick the date for him since he had said so, Ah Shan had to call the old fortune teller. This time, when he told his request to the assistant who took the call, the latter after making him wait on the phone, came back and told him the master is busy. Ah Shan was about to throw his temper at the assistant after all he went through the last few days over Ah Feng's incident when he thought of his Feng Shui master cousin and an idea came to him. He then told his father who had not gone out that the master is still busy and suggested why don't they asked his cousin to pick the date instead as it was already nearing the Chinese new year. As what he expected, his father agreed saying that if the cousin was willing to do it, he have no objection. <br />
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The relieved Ah Shan immediately calls his cousin who happened to be at home and agreed to meet him as it was still early for him to fetch Ah Feng. When he reached there and after the maid had served him tea, his cousin Ah Chong immediately took out a Tong Shu, a chinese almanac without even asking him for their birthcharts and in a while, gave him the date after asking Ah Shan for the month that he wants to get married. Ah Shan despite after meeting that old fortune teller and his schoolmate, Xiao Jin, he should have felt something amiss that this was done without even looking at his birth data even though Ah Shan do not know or believed in this stuff. Rather in his mind, he thought that this should be the way as he don't understand what had took the old fortune teller such a long time to decide the date for him. <br />
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Anyway, the cousin then carried on and asked him whether he have started renovating the new apartment at which Ah Shan told him there was no major renovation except for some minor repairs which the previous owner had left behind. And also that he just needs to furnish the place apart from that at which his cousin told him that he was lucky to have got the apartment at a good price, considering that it was quite new as the previous owner had stayed there for less than a year. As expected, with Ah Chong' s inadequate knowledge in Feng Shui, he was unable to know that there are major problems with the apartment. But common sense should have told him that there is something amiss as the owner was obviously willing to lose money when he sells the place at that price after staying there for less than a year. And it looks like the owner was in a hurry to get rid of the place as soon as possible.<br />
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His cousin then wanting to show off his feng shui knowledge started to tell Ah Shan that there are further things that needed to be done like positioning the bed and stove at the right place. Ah Shan was impressed by his so called knowledge. And as Ah Chong was free, he asked Ah Shan for lunch after which they can then go to the apartment and he will tell Ah Shan what to do. Ah Shan was agreeable as he have been thinking of where to go with Ah Feng after they had lunch. He remember Ah Feng was delighted when he had collected the keys to the apartment and bought her there to discuss on the changes to be done on the apartment.<br />
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When they finished lunch and as usual with Ah Chong, the fengshui master talking most of the time and bragging about his skills, they then proceed to the apartment. Ah Chong lately because of his unfavorable luck pillar which had started have less clients and business, was bored as he was the boorish type with few friends willing to pay him that kind of attention. Ah Chong then started to tell Ah Shan that the bedboard is to be positioned at the South and which had the end of the bed pointing towards the bedroom door which is located in the North sector in a straight line which was bad advice as readers here familiar with feng shui layout should know. The other thing was that Ah Chong do not know destiny analysis and was unaware that Ah Feng was born a week before Chinese New year and her Ming Gua is still Dui Trigram which belongs to the West group and not the East group for Eight Mansion Feng Shui. Anyway, as for apartments till today, there are practitioners which uses the balcony and some which uses the Main door to decide on the category of the property that it belongs to. Therefore, we would look at Flying stars feng shui instead for readers here to understand easier what I had earlier mentioned about how the six relationships in a Bazi chart affects a person destiny where the story started.<br />
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To make things worse, Ah Chong have never heard of Xuan Kong Flying stars which was gaining popularity at that time after the knowledge was made public in the 1920s. The property is considered Age 6 which had started in 1964 and will complete its 20 years cycle in 1984. It is sitting at the Xun Trigram or South East where the Golden Dragon is and have the main entrance door at the West where water star 5 and mountain Star 7 meets and have the Master bedroom at the South Sector where you have mountain star 9 and water star 3 which is in clash with Ah Feng' s Ming Gua. Most of the readers here familiar with the Flying stars feng shui would know that water star 5 when it is untimely is best to be left alone as activation would creates problem. The main door of the apartment in the West sector is facing South and had made Ah Chong determine it as auspicous for the East group in Eight Mansions Feng Shui. I would leave it here for readers to analyse further on how bad the configuration of the apartment was for both Flying Stars and Eight Mansions. The only saving grace was that the Early trigram for the bed position is at Qian Gua.<br />
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After Ah Chong had told the couple where the stove needed to be placed in the kitchen, he left as he had an afternoon tea appointment for Tim Sum (A Chinese afternoon pastime like the English afternoon tea) with an old friend who do not mind listening to all his feng shui stories. Ah Shan then told Ah Feng that he thought of going to the temple to seek blessings for their coming marriage as the date have now been fixed by Ah Chong. He was glad that everything is now proceeding smoothly and with placement of furniture for the apartment settled instead of another day. He also finds that it is coincidental that Ah Chong had volunteer to instruct him on the layout of the furniture for the apartment. He have been thinking of how to approach Xiao Jin for advice about the apartment on the things to be done to neutralise the harm that is in his Zi Wei birth chart accordingly to the latter who had told Ah Shan to inform him when the apartment is ready. He had to do it without Ah Feng' s knowledge as he feels guilty if Xiao Jin would to ask if anything had happened the month before infront of Ah Feng. He was glad that Ah Chong had got him out of the dilemma and had then thought of going to the temple as he felt that the Gods must be helping him now.<br />
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They had then went to a popular Chinese Taoist temple at Causeway Bay and while there, Ah Shan had asked for a divination which was 'Colours belongs to Spring while Magnificence is in Summer. Unintentional Grievances is resolved with a Stroke'. Not knowing what it meant, they had then look for a fortune teller to decipher it at the temple. They found one stall which was still opened with an old man who appeared to be sleeping as the late afternoon weather was warm and breezy. There was a banner with the words, 'Half Fairy' which must be his hallmark as most fortunetellers have one. Ah Shan then approached the stall, thinking of how to awake the old man when a small boy he had not noticed at the side, pulled at the old fortune teller sleeve. The old man opened his still sleepy eyes and saw him and then asked: 'Yes, young man, anything I can do for you?'<br />
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Ah Shan replied: 'I would like to seek your opinion on this divination I got from the temple.'<br />
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Half Fairy: 'Not a problem, let me have a look...'<br />
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Ah Shan passed the paper on which the divination was printed to the old fortune teller who then stared at it blankly for a while. He then asked Ah Shan what he was praying or seeking for as he needs to know in order to decipher it correctly as it is a poem. Ah Shan with the by now curious Ah Feng at his side, then told the fortune teller that it was for his coming marriage in Spring.<br />
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Half Fairy: 'Mmm, it is a very auspicious divination for it means that as with Spring and Summer, all things have reached its glory and that all previous grievances would have been resolved when you get married.'<br />
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Both Ah Shan and Ah Feng was pleased to hear that as it had in their hearts,implied that the rape incident would not affect their marriage which would remove the negative feelings of grievances from that incident. Of course, they did not tell the fortune teller about it and gave him a more than the usual token of money in the red packet which Ah Shan took from the table for customers to put their money in as appreciation. However all of them did not know that there is a hidden meaning in it including the fortune teller who had taken over the stall by paying a sum of money to his friend who had gone back to his hometown in China to retire. The so-called Half Fairy actually had no foundations in destiny analysis or divinations skills .<br />
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The words : <em>'</em> <span>艷於春而盛於夏, 無心之怨一筆解決.' </span>is actually part of another poem which is <br />
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':艷於春者, 望秋先零<br />
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而盛於夏, 未冬已萎' <br />
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and together with: '無心之怨一筆解' is not auspicious at all to a person who is well versed in divination and familiar with the old chinese poems and its hidden meanings.<br />
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Ah Shan seeing that Ah Feng had now more or less revert back to her usual cheerful self, was glad and thankful that the final trip to the temple had helped. The deeply in love couple then happily went to look for a restaurant to have dinner.<br />
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To be continued.............................李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-30858373074807677672011-10-20T12:28:00.016+08:002011-11-01T20:50:24.802+08:00Divine Intervention<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim69_FCPW5x7RfWK5PRPRPF6q6Gt4cD-ydPCuGPb44P1TMWJn9AvjV9pC1csdm6P9K-ASbOxYvGiCi0U6slD3O2Gx_NRTJVDxUQtCSGFxMjlZPnMDapvBG3eRO69VdTKpGLaMUbyzqFq1H/s1600/White+ants+nest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212px" rda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim69_FCPW5x7RfWK5PRPRPF6q6Gt4cD-ydPCuGPb44P1TMWJn9AvjV9pC1csdm6P9K-ASbOxYvGiCi0U6slD3O2Gx_NRTJVDxUQtCSGFxMjlZPnMDapvBG3eRO69VdTKpGLaMUbyzqFq1H/s320/White+ants+nest.jpg" width="320px" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>'White ants nest on the coffin in relocating the grave'</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Xiao Jin then carried on: 'It would be good if you can perhaps as a present, buy her a jade Guan Yin (Chinese Goddess of Mercy) neck pendant or a shiny cross if she is a christian. Maybe get somebody to check the feng shui of her house too could help to avert this mishap.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ah Shan: 'For feng shui, I doubt so as her parents do not believe in this stuff. All right, I will try to do something about getting her a talisman. Anyway, you were telling me that there are things that I need to do next year as there is a harm in my bazi chart.' </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Xiao Jin: 'Don't bother about that as it is still early now.' </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ah Shan: 'You still appear to be reluctant as if you want to keep me in suspense for this period and obligated to you.' </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Xiao Jin: 'You misunderstood me, I have already told you more than I should have and when the time is right, I will let you know more.' He stopped when he saw Ah Feng coming back from her phone call. He then changed the subject immediately. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Xiao Jin: 'By the way, since your father believed in Feng Shui, ask him to get a feng shui expert in Ying Zhai Feng Shui to check your ancestral tomb as you had asked me about your career the last time. I believed there could be some problems which would not be good for the descendants.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah Shan still annoyed by Xiao Jin refusal to let him know more about his request: ‘All-right, I will talk to my father about it. Okay, I guess we can go now as I had to take Ah Feng to look at some furniture we intend to get for our new home.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So saying, they bade each other good-bye at the doors of the restaurant with Xiao Jin reminding Ah Shan to buy a talisman protection as a present for Ah Feng.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After they have left the place, Ah Feng noticed that Ah Shan appeared to be moody and asks: 'What is the problem, did you argue with Xiao Jin when I was not around just now?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah Shan: 'It is not that, I had asked him something and he had put it off again. It appears that he wants me to feel obligated to him. I would not, I think in the future, I would instead look for my cousin, the Feng Shui guy who should know all this stuffs too and I just need to give an Ang Pow (money in a Chinese red packet) for advices. See how fast he had settled our property search unlike the old fortune teller and now Xiao Jin who behaved like him.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What Ah Shan do not know further was that the property that his feng shui master cousin had recommended apart from having bad external landforms if you would to compare the two photographs in the previous post, had other feng shui defects too, especially for Ah Feng of West group of birth actually. He then put aside what Xiao Jin had kept harping on about getting a talisman for Ah Feng in his anger.</span><br />
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<em>From Collection of Classics on the Physiognomy of Dwellings (相宅经纂):</em><br />
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<em>'Military Arts and Broken Soldier (Metal Stars) entering Li (Fire Palace) leads to difficult births, diseases and ill-fated deaths whereas Kun (Earth Palace) countering Literary Arts (Wood Star) will harm the women.' </em><br />
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Well, months passed by and there was a week more to go before the new year when Ah Shan had an office party for the festive Christmas season at a colleague's place. Ah Feng dressed beautifully for that night, a new trend low cut dress of English label. They had a lot of fun that night as Ah Feng also knows most of his colleagues and Ah Shan had taken opportunity to announce his marriage in the coming Mao month after the forthcoming Chinese new year. While doing it that, he had suddenly dropped his wine glass out of the blue onto the floor. He was surprised too as he thought that somebody had slapped onto his arm but he found nobody around him. He felt uneasy at this but was soon distracted by his colleagues who jestfully wanted to punish him by making him drink three glasses of wine in a row to compensate for causing the mess. Nearing the end of the night, a happy Ah Shan was soon drunk from the continuous well wishes with the drinks for his coming marriage.<br />
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As it was time to go off, the host by the name of Xiao Gang saw that Ah Shan was too drunk to drive home and offered to send Ah Shan and Ah Feng back. Ah Feng gratefully accepted it as she was worried if the intoxicated Ah Shan insisted on driving home. They had then send Ah Shan back first as he was drunk before going to Ah Feng's place. On reaching Ah Feng's house which was in a block of four storey apartments, Xiao Gang wanted to send her up to her house which is on the third storey which Ah Feng declined, not wanting to inconvenience the host further. Xiao Gang then left with Ah Feng slowly walking up to her house.<br />
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She was on the second storey floor when suddenly two dark figures emerged from the dimly lit staircase and accosted her. One who pulled her handbag but as she struggled and shouted making the other to hit her forcefully on the back of her head with a big torch which cause her to lose consciousness. The robber who took the handbag threw it down disgustedly as he found only a few banknotes while the other on seeing this started to take off her watch and open up her coat to see if there are other valuables. He then saw the cleavage and the shapely body and immediately started to rip off the dress, the other robber on seeing this also knelt down. It is ironical that if Ah Shan had bought or insisted on getting Ah Feng the Goddess Guan Yin neck pendant or the shiny cross, the robber might have changed his mind on seeing it. Most humans beings good or bad will feel uneasy and hesitate on seeing spiritual items if they wanted to do something unethical.<br />
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After sometimes, Ah Feng woke up still feeling the pain on her head and trying to recall what had happened. On seeing her torn dress and her open handbag on the floor, she guess as much as what had happened. Though she had a strong and carefree character, she immediately started sobbing and crying. As her moods stabilized, she started to think of what to do. She realised that to make a police report is of no avail as she was unconscious and have no way of getting any identification marks of her assailants. Worse, if this matter gets blown up by the merciless news press, she and her parents would be subjected to a lot of unnecessary attentions with no opportunity of getting redress based on her circumstances. She then picked herself up and painfully walk up to her house and seeing her house was dimly lit, she then dare to open the door and go in as she do not want her mother to see her state and ask her questions.<br />
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To be continued...李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-10625589940304124722011-10-14T09:20:00.007+08:002011-10-21T07:23:36.455+08:00Home Sweet Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><em>'阴阳地理山家卦,总是闲言话。 更加山头指拔砂,都是眼前花。'</em></span><br />
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Another 2 weeks passed by without any news from the old fortune teller and Ah Shan was getting annoyed by now. He then then decided to pester the fortune teller every day in the morning by calling him before he go to work but was always told that the latter was not around. By then, it was September when he finally managed to get a message from the assistant who had taken his call. The latter told him that the master had said that he will be back in two month's time from an overseas assignment and that perhaps Ah Shan can seek advice from another master if he cannot wait. Ah Shan had then complained to his father and asked if he could seek another master to pick the date but as expected, the father told him to wait.<br />
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One evening while he was with Ah Feng and complaining about how he don't understand why his father was so superstitious that the day to get married must have the approval from the fortune tellers. Then Ah Feng bought up a request which gave him another headache. <br />
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Ah Feng: ' Ah Shan, I am thinking that since your father is so conservative, it is best that we have our own home after getting married. As they said absence makes the heart fonder and we would have less frictions in our relationships. It would be good to have our own home too.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'All-right, I will speak to my father about it as this fortune telling stuff have already got onto my nerves. Don't know whether we will encounter more of this if we will to live together.'<br />
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Ah Shan after reaching home, started to think of how to approach his father on this matter as he is the only child in his family and have never left home. He remembered how his plan to study abroad was aborted after his mother was unwilling to let him go alone overseas. However, for the sake of pleasing Ah Feng, he had to think of a way as choosing the wedding date was already creating unhappiness.<br />
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The next morning, Ah Shan while having breakfast with his father, with the usual rice porridge with fried bread sticks, a popular Hong Kong morning food, told his father about his intentions of living on his own after marriage. <br />
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The Father: ' Is it Ah Feng's idea that you thought of living on your own?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Oh, it is not as I have thought that it would be good for me to prepare early to start a family as later on with kids, we would need more living space.'<br />
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The Father: 'Well I see, I have no objections as I think it would be good for you to learn to be independent on your own after you get married. Secondly, I think that as Hong Kong is doing well now and it will be good to invest in a property now.'<br />
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The Father then continued: 'Anyway, with your present salary, you should be able to afford a comfortable residence and I won't have to worry about whether you can maintain it. Well, if you have problem servicing the loan later, let me know and I would help you with it. But I want you to consult Ah Chong about the Feng Shui before you purchase it.'<br />
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Ah Shan was glad when he hear this as he was worried that his father was going to make things difficult for him again. Ah Shan was less worried about the Feng Shui part as Ah Chong is his cousin who had became a Feng Shui practitioner some years back and believed that it would be much easier to handle than that old fortune teller. However unknown to both Ah Shan and his father, Ah Chong was the usual run of the mill types of Feng Shui practitioner. Ah Chong had came upon this art when he had engaged a Feng Shui Master to audit his house some years back. Ah Chong was then in good luck cycle in his bazi chart (Wealth luck) and had thought that his good luck was due to the Feng Shui done on his home. He had then paid the master a hefty sum of money to learn the art. What he had learn was a watered down Eight Mansion Feng Shui or Bazhai Feng Shui, a simplified version of Feng Shui which divided people based on their year of birth into two groups (Basically East group and West group) and the types of houses based on the sitting position, also into two groups. So one group, e.g. East group of people would be suitable to live in East group of houses while the other in the West group. Back then, little was known about Feng Shui as the Communist had taken over China and banned Feng Shui. As Ah Chong was in good luck cycle, and naturally after learning the art, most of his customers who he audited for were also in good luck cycle see positive results and he had thought that it was the art that he had learned and his skill that had make the favorable changes for his customers. He had then grown proud and the worse part was that he was the mediocre type and had not seek to improve his skill by researching or reading up more about the art. When Ah Shan was told to seek consultation from Ah Chong, the latter had just started to go into his bad luck cycle. Well, in life it is fair as every individual would have his fair share of good and bad luck, only that it depends on the individual to weather the bad cycle and get out of it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoting2000/2832166251/" title="1962 Nathan rd, Kowloon by Eternal1966, on Flickr"><img alt="1962 Nathan rd, Kowloon" height="324px" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2832166251_fe7cee9718.jpg" width="500px" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><em>'有福能自然来,有祸也躲不开'</em></span><br />
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So while waiting for the old fortune teller to give him a date for the wedding, Ah Shan and Ah Feng spend most of their time looking for their new home. Finally, they found one after looking at several apartments, a cosy and quiet place just outside of the Kowloon City. However, Ah Chong the Feng Shui Master rejected it saying that as the property belongs to the West Group but Ah Shan and Ah Feng are East Group of birth which do not match. Then one day, the assistant of the fortune teller Master Ze De called Ah Shan and say that there is a letter from the fortune teller for Ah Shan and whether he can go by and collect it. Ah Shan was so happy that he took a day off from work and went straight to the old fortune teller house to collect it. <br />
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However, after reading the letter, he do not know whether to be glad or angry. The letter had started with: <br />
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'Dear young master Zhang,<br />
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I am honoured that you have been patient waiting for my reply despite of the delay and though that you have the choice of looking for another master to pick your wedding date. It is with regret that I have to let you know that despite checking the almanac thoroughly all this time, I have been unable to find a suitable auspicious date for your wedding which is the reason for the delay. The only best time would be after this coming Chinese New Year in the Mao month of Spring which also signifies a new phase of life and the date, I would leave it to your father to pick for you. At the same time, I would like to convey my regards to your father through you.<br />
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Thank you.'<br />
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Ah Shan was glad that he finally can get the date to get married but frustrated that he still have to wait until after the coming New year. But anyway, he thought, might as well as he still have yet to get the right place to live after his marriage with Ah Feng. But he thought that it was strange or coincidental that Xiao Jin, an amateur could foretell so confidently that he would not get married in that year. Actually, Xiao Jin had seen from the Ah Chong's Zi Wei birth chart that none of the three stars that symbolises marriage or childbirth had appear in his spouse palace and neither was the spouse palace enhanced by any positive transforming star (Hua Lu, Hua Ke or Hua Quan) for that year. Rather, the spouse palace was negatively clashed from the opposite palace by Hua Ji, the negative transforming star in Zi Wei Astrology which was why he was so confident that Ah Shan would not get married that year.<br />
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Two days later, Ah Chong the Feng Shui master recommended a place that a relative wanted to sell to Ah Shan as it match the East group of birth people. It was next to a highway flyover, a novelty then in bustling Hong Kong and Ah Chong felt that the vibrant energy from the new highway would be good feng shui. The watered down version of Bazhai feng shui that Ah Chong had learned do not place much emphasis on External Landforms influence on property was also one of the reason that Ah Chong the feng shui master had ignored that the highway flyover could be a Killing Sha or have negative effects. Worse as the apartment was on the same level, facing the flyover, which logically would creates noises and dusts into the property, feng shui or no feng shui sense.<br />
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Ah Shan had then purchased the property after informing his father who had no objections as he had wanted Ah Chong to be consulted. Actually, Ah Feng did not like the property and had no choice but to go along with it as she do not want any confrontations with her in-laws even before marriage. She was thinking that very most, they could change to another property if she really could not bear with the highway noises and pollutants later on which would be easier after they were married without going through Ah Shan's father' s approval then.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoting2000/3216269828/" title="1960s Princess road by Eternal1966, on Flickr"><img alt="1960s Princess road" height="309px" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/3216269828_8378f7e75c.jpg" width="500px" /></a><br />
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After everything was put in place for his coming marriage with the date chosen by his father in the Mao month after the coming Chinese New Year, Ah Shan had then arranged to meet Xiao Jin as he wanted his advice on Ah Feng birth chart after seeing that he was so accurate in his prediction. They then met in an uptown chinese restaurant for tim sum, a popular Hong Kong tea time preoccupation for the Chinese.<br />
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Ah Shan: 'My friend, I must address you as Master Jin in the future, seeing that you are so accurate in your forecast.'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'Ah, jokes aside. Not really, it is from the knowledge that our ancestors have passed down and anybody well versed in it would be able to do so.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'This is Ah Feng's birth data, We would have to trouble you to give us some advices on our future after our marriage.'<br />
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Ah Feng who had felt an affinity with Xiao Jin on seeing him for the first time also added in : 'Hope you do not mind as this is only our first meeting and having to trouble you on my fate.'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'Not at all, it would be a pleasure as I needs to practise my skill, being a non commercial practitioner. Ah Shan, just carried on with your conversation with Ah Feng and ignored me while I checked her astrology chart. '<br />
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Xiao Jin then started to convert the birth data into a Zi Wei Astrology chart. After a while, from his eyebrows, one can see that he was frowning at some unseen objects and shaking his head as what the old fortune teller, Master Ze De had done when looking at their charts the last time. Ah Shan noticed this and asked: 'How is it?' at which Xiao Jin did not answer as he was still preoccupied analysing the chart. In a while, Xiao Jin looked up and said with a forced smile: 'Well, not too bad except that she have to be mindful at the end of the year as the Zi month is not favorable to her. But that is life, there are bound to be good and unfavorable luck period.'<br />
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Ah Feng then told Ah Shan that she needs to make a phone call home to tell her mother that she is with Ah Shan and that she might be home late and not to wait for her to be back. After she left, Xiao Jin immediately said: 'Ah Shan, you need to be extra careful for her in the Zi month this year as she might meet with a mishap. It would be good to go to a temple to ask for blessings and get an amulet or if she is of other religion to get a protection talisman to wear. I do not want her to worry unnecessarily or for her to take it lightly as I don't know what she thinks of this fortune telling stuff which is why I am telling you instead.'<br />
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To be continued.......<br />
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Cheers, have a great weekend!!!李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-65272635815610433622011-09-04T22:57:00.000+08:002011-09-04T22:57:34.277+08:00Wish Upon A Shooting Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<em><span style="color: red;">艷於春而盛於夏, </span></em><em><span style="color: red;">無心之怨一筆解決.....</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: red;">Colours belongs to Spring while Magnificence is in Summer</span></em><br />
<span style="color: red;"><em>Unintentional </em><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="color: red;">Grievances</span></em> </span><em>is resolved with a Stroke.......</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">This is another story by Zi Wei Master Yang set in the late part of the sixties in Hong Kong. It is a story about the ironical play of destiny in life from the interference of six relationships which influence the course in Destiny <span class="mpt4">六</span><span class="mpt4">親</span> in the bazi chart. This will also partly explains why some people despite having the same birth chart have a different life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">One evening in the late autumn, a black color car was parked at the edge of a beach, facing the sea. In it, a young couple was enjoying the scenery after the sun had set and the feeling of being in love. The young man is called Ah Shan, thirty years old, holding a management post in a trading company. His partner is a sweet looking girl called Ah Feng in her twenties working as a bank teller. </span><br />
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Suddenly, a meteor appear in the sky and Ah Feng excitedly says: 'Ah Shan, quick, make a wish...'<br />
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Coincidentally, Ah Shan started to cough badly and by the time he had stopped, the meteor was gone.<br />
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Ah Feng: 'Are you all-right? Have you caught a cold?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'I am okay, don' t know where the cough suddenly comes from too?'<br />
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At this moment, another meteor shoot across the sky again and he started coughing non-stop again. By the time, he stopped, it was gone again.<br />
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Ah Feng: 'Oh no, I wanted you to make a wish as they say that when we see a shooting star, we can make a wish and it will become true.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Ah Feng, it is good to make a wish but nevertheless, our happiness is not dependent on this as more importantly, it is our actions that will decides our happiness in the end.'<br />
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Ah Shan in sensing her disappointment: 'Never mind, lets see whether any more will appear and I will make a wish for our future, okay?'<br />
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Strangely, now that Ah Shan prepared to control himself not to cough and make a wish, despite having two shooting stars appeared in a period of ten minutes, the rest of the night did not have any more meteors.<br />
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Ah Shan then started to talk about their future and asked Ah Feng whether she is agreeable if he will to inform his parents that he wants to marry her in that year. He is anxious to settle down as they have already know each other well after 3 years of courtships.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Ah Shan: 'Okay, I will get my parents approval tomorrow first and I will pick you up after work and we will go to your house to inform your parents about our request.'</span><br />
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The next evening, at about 6.30 pm, Ah Shan was waiting in his car for Ah Feng outside the bank. When Ah Feng gets into the car, she saw that Ah Shan was not looking happy. She asked: 'What happened?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Let us find a place to eat and at the same time, I will tell you what my parent says.'<br />
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They then went to one of those restaurants by the beach, and while having dinner, Ah Shan started to explained.<br />
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Ah Shan: 'My parents have no objections but my father is still the old fashioned and superstitious type, he wanted me to ask for your birthdate. He wanted to consult his fortune teller about our compatibility and pick an auspicious date for the wedding. To think that our future is to be decided by a fortune teller had annoyed me.' <br />
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Ah Shan then looked at Ah Feng to see her reactions and was surprised that she was not affected at all.<br />
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Ah Feng: 'Well, I had thought that he had objected to our marriage which is more of a concern to me. Never mind, since he wanted to check fortune telling, let him be as it is not good to have any frictions with him before we are even married.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'What if the fortune teller said we are not compatible?'<br />
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Ah Feng: 'Oh then, we don't get married then. ah, just joking, I am sure they will offer a solution since they are paid to check for problems. I will check with my mother on my birth time and called you to let you know tomorrow, ok?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'All-right, I am glad that you are not angered by my father's ridiculous request.'<br />
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Ah Feng: 'It is more important to have a good relationship with your parents if I were to be married to you as I will be seeing them often.'<br />
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The next day, Ah Shan got a call from Ah Feng who gave him the birth-date details and immediately after work, Ah Shan went straight home to give it to his father. His father, however, told him to give it to the fortune teller with whom he had fixed an appointment the following day which was a Sunday.<br />
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On that day, Ah Shan thought of asking Ah Feng along but her parents had wanted her to accompany them for a visit to a relative. He then proceed to the fortune teller's house and was met at the door by the master himself. The fat silver haired master looked old however he had a ruddy color and jovial look on his face.<br />
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Master: 'Welcome, would you prefer coffee or tea before we proceed?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Oh coffee would be fine. Thank you.'<br />
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Master: 'Okay, let me have a look at the birth dates of you and your girlfriend.'<br />
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Ah Shan then gave him the details written on a piece of red paper which the master then started to check with a chinese calendar. Ah Shan then drank the coffee as the master started writing down the bazi charts on another piece of paper. While the master was doing it, Ah Shan noticed he was muttering to himself and shaking his head. After a while, the master apparently had finished analysing and stopped and with a smile asked Ah Shan:<br />
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'How is your father? I believed that he had interest in our chinese astrology and is knowledgeable, did he tell you anything about your destiny?'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Not really, it is just that he is retired now and spend more time on reading books on this art as a hobby and for my matter, he said that it is better to consult an expert like you.'<br />
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The master looked pleased at the reply and says: 'Well, tell you what, you go back first as I will need time to pick an auspicious date for the wedding, I will then call you and let you know when a good date can be found.'<br />
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Ah Shan was disappointed as he thought that he would be given the date at the visit. However, he have no choice but to go back first and hope the master would give him a reply soon. As he don't believed in this fortune telling stuff and was more keen to get a wedding date, he decided not to ask about compatibility since the master did not mention about it, to avoid further complications to his wedding.<br />
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Days and months then started to go by with no news from the Master, Ah Shan was getting impatient and when he complained to his father about the delay, his father was nonchalant and told him to wait. The father was also persistent that an auspicious date be given by the master before the wedding can be proceeded. He had also try calling the master to see whether the date can be given earlier but was told that no suitable date was found yet and that he will be informed when it is ready<br />
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Ah Shan then started feeling uneasy about it as he remembered that the master had shook his head while analysing their birth data. He then remembered he had a quiet classmate who was crazy about chinese astrology and by now, should be knowledgeable in this art. That classmate was considered weird by the rest and was often bullied and Ah Shan had always stepped in to help that classmate. He decided to give him a call to meet up and see whether he can offer any suggestion on an alternative solution to expedite his wedding.<br />
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This classmate of his was called Xiao Jin who was pleased to hear from him. He agreed to meet Ah Shan for dinner that night at a eating house near to his office. Ah Jin is working as a administration manager of a company and draws a high salary. After he left school, he had the affinity to meet a Zi Wei Astrology master who had liked him and took him as disciple though he had no intention to practise the art commercially. We can say that he had reached a proficient level in this destiny analysis when Ah Shan had called him that day.<br />
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When Ah Shan saw Xiao Jin, he was surprised that the latter had changed completely from a once wimpy, timid person to one with a quiet air of self-assurance. He almost could not recognised him if Xiao Jin had not called him first. They then sat down at the table and after having their orders taken, started chatting about the changes in their lives after graduation. After they had taken their dinner, Ah Shan then started to tell Xiao Jin the reason that he wanted to meet him. <br />
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Ah Shan: ' I am intending to get married this year and would like to know if it would proceed smoothly' and at which Ah Shan handed a piece of paper with Ah Feng and his birthdate to Xiao Jin.<br />
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Xiao Jin then looked at it and moved and counted his fingers to work out the chart and after a while, muttered to himself: 'Mmm, the Zi Wei Star is at Chen Palace....'<br />
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Ah Shan was curious and started asking what he meant by that but Xiao Jin was totally engrossed in working out the chart to answer him. What Ah Shan did not know is that Xiao Jin is not reading the bazi chart but converting it to Zi Wei Astrology chart. After about 15 minutes later, Xiao Jin says: 'Life palace at Mao, born in the year of Jia Wood and will have Tai Yang the Sun Hua Ji at Spouse palace.'<br />
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Of course Ah Shan don't understand what Xiao Jin meant by that as all along he have no interest in metaphysics. Ah Shan then asked: 'Are you reading my fortune?'<br />
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However Xiao Jin was not done yet and still totally engrossed with his fingers working out the chart, it was as he was in another world and there was nobody around.<br />
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After another ten minutes, Xiao Jin then stopped as if he have returned from another world and then looked at Ah Shan and said: 'You don't move, I would like to have a closer look at your face to confirm my readings,'<br />
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Ah Shan of course did not dare to move and by now was really curious to know what Xiao Jin have to say about his marriage.<br />
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Xiao Jin then asked Ah Shan to show him his palm and stared at it intensely for a few minutes before muttering to himself again: 'The Sun in negative aspect at spouse palace matchs the face's spouse palace and the palm's spouse line also branches out.' It is understood that in most destiny studies, what one read from one method would also reflect in another method of reading.<br />
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In Zi Wei Astrology, when the Sun is in negative aspect at Chou Palace, you would have Tuo Lou star the aggressor in the same palace and if meet the couple of Huo Ling Fiery and Siren stars combination in the same matrix, it is not favorable for the spouse palace.<br />
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Xiao Jin then looked at the paper on which the birth data was written again and then says: 'There is no possibility of you getting married within this chinese year.'<br />
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Ah Shan was shocked: 'What! We already have our parents' approval and now just waiting for an auspicous date. Did you read wrongly?'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'I would not argue with you on this as we would only know by next year but this is what I have read from both your charts for this year.'<br />
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Ah Shan: 'Not possible, it is just that the other fortune teller that I have asked to pick the auspicuous date is busy and have not given me a date.'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'Anyway, you will get married next year however there are certain precautions and things that you have to do as your spouse palace is not in favorable position. I will tell you what to do by then.'<br />
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Ah Shan was curious: ' Why wait until next year, you can tell me now, it would be the same, isn' it?'<br />
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Actually Xiao Jin do not want to tell Ah Shan further but was afraid that the latter might misundertand that he wants something in return as a favor then carried on: 'Based on your star chart, you have what we called harm in the spouse palace and you will need to take some actions to protect your spouse if you really love her.'<br />
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Xiao Jin was being diplomatic about it though he is not a professional ZWDS consultant and had just said that there is harm in the spouse palace which is normally termed as hexing the wife.<br />
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Ah Shan then asked: 'If there is this harm in the spouse palace, there are solutions for it right? Why don't you tell me now?'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'Yes, not to worry, there is solution for it and it is pointless telling you now. Anyway, you will not get married this year so what's the hurry?'<br />
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Xiao Jin then carried on : 'Well, anything else you would like to know for your future?'<br />
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Ah Shan: ' Sure. I would like to know when my luck will be better and I will have a successful career.'<br />
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Xiao Jin: 'For career, you will start to progress after the age of 36 years old.'<br />
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They then chatted about other things and also of trying to contact as many of the other classmates to meet up for Ah Shan's wedding next year. By the time they have finished, they realised it was quite late and they bade each other farewell.<br />
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As Ah Shan drove home, he keep thinking that Xiao Jin must have made a mistake as it is not possible that he will not get married this year. It was only July and there are several months more before the new year. It is just that the fortune teller that his father had entrusted, had been unable to give him an auspicious date yet.<br />
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To be continued........<br />
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Till-then, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-73946756801455926382011-08-16T18:05:00.016+08:002011-08-17T20:39:52.747+08:00The Blind Duke 盲公<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxCwhxxeehWFvUbHvfZcNzdgv-3oFSrbUkw3gjYrB15gi7kXy7uKPZdzqqzt0PstEiZbdRVp82QCC2j9DCcAzx6mwo02jW4BmPCSd7W4V9RxPabkzwqoMQzHtxVWyEM4CsOJ2ftfpGny1/s1600/tortoise+shell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxCwhxxeehWFvUbHvfZcNzdgv-3oFSrbUkw3gjYrB15gi7kXy7uKPZdzqqzt0PstEiZbdRVp82QCC2j9DCcAzx6mwo02jW4BmPCSd7W4V9RxPabkzwqoMQzHtxVWyEM4CsOJ2ftfpGny1/s320/tortoise+shell.jpg" width="240px" /></a></div><br />
A curious reader had asked me whether it is possible to share how the fortune teller had known there is a marriage in hand as I have say that Ah Qiang's father had not even tell the fortune teller anything. Well, not a problem, if you will to change all the line in the original hexagram no 41 Decrease from yin line to yang and vice versa, you will get the opposite hexagram no 31 Attraction which is an auspicious divination for marriage but however it is in opposition here which had caused the problem. <br />
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Okay, lets continue with the story....<br />
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It was nightfall when Ah Qiang's father had returned home and he was glad when he saw that a group of Ah Qiang's friend had came to visit his son. He was thinking of who to look for among his son's friends to find out more about what the fortune teller had said. M<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">oreover</span>, his son was still delirious and had appeared to have lost control of his mental faculty, not being able to recognised anyone when he had went to visit the fortune teller in the Morning. Xiao Kang came up to him and says: 'Uncle, it looks quite bad to me, can't the doctors do anything about it?'<br />
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Ah Qiang's Father then remember what the fortune teller had told him and asked Xiao Kang whether there was such an incident of his son kissing a dead girl corpse. Xiao Kang shook his head and says that it is impossible as nobody in his right mind would do it. Ah Qiang's father then told Xiao Kang to check with the rest of the friends when Xiao Ming, who was standing nearby and had overheard the conversation says : 'Uncle, I remember now, the last trip, we had not gone scuba diving as the weather forecast says there might be a storm and we went to the beach instead.'<br />
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Ah Qiang's Father then got curious as he was initially skeptical about what the fortune teller had told him as it looks like the latter had use spirituality to reason as his son's situation can't be explained logically. It was also the first time that he had met a fortune teller that do not uses the conventional method like the previous Bazi master he had consulted. And it had reminded him of stories of how some people got cheated by these so called artists.<br />
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He then asked: 'What happened then?'<br />
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Xiao Ming then continued: 'Well, we decided to go swimming as there was no signs of rain yet. While we were playing in the water, somebody shouted for help and we saw a girl struggling far out in the sea. She was obviously pulled out into the deeper part of the sea by the strong underwater current of which she is ignorant. Ah Qiang and I then swam out to rescue her and managed to pull her back to shore.'<br />
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'By then, she was already quite lifeless and Ah Qiang had put his finger on her nostrils and said that he needs to perform CPR as she is not breathing. You know, in this case, he have to put his mouth on to her mouth to blow air into her lungs and at the same time push her stomach to force the sea water out of her. After quite some time, she still remains the same however but by then, the ambulance people had arrived. Well, I don't know if that is what you meant by asking whether he had kissed a dead girl corpse.'<br />
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Ah Qiang's father by now was anxious: 'Well, was she dead then?'<br />
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Xiao Ming: 'Well, apparently so, as the ambulance people that came had also tried to revive her but shook their heads. Later we saw a black Mariah Hearse came and I guess that she have to be dead as they did not use the ambulance.'<br />
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Xiao Ming: 'Uncle, why did you ask about this and how did you know something like that had happened.'<br />
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Ah Qiang's father: 'Never mind, I will explained about this another day. Meanwhile, I will need your help to do some errands. Can you come by everyday to my house for time being until Ah Qiang's situation have improved?'<br />
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Xiao Ming: 'Sure, Uncle Chan.'<br />
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Well, the next day, Ah Qiang's father without wasting anytime, went straight to the fortune teller to tell him and also wanting to know how to solve the problem. He was still hesistant about cancelling the wedding as his generations had believed strongly that in bad luck period, marriage is good to clash away the bad luck which in chinese is <span class="mpt1">衝<span class="mpt3">喜. However this time he had to wait till the evening as he had not made any prior appointment </span></span><span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">and there were a number of customers.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'Well?'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: ' It is true but he did not kiss the drowned girl as he was trying to save her life by giving her air to revive her.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'Well, it is the same, isn't it?'</span></span><br />
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The Master then carried on: 'To a young adolescent girl who is unconscious though considered dead, she will have thought that she is being kissed and this should be the first time for her and had made her ghost falls in love with your son then.'<br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: 'Master, tell me how we can solve this problem permanently as secondly, don't tell me my son cannot get married forever and there will be no one to carry on my family line.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'There is of course a way, the last time you have given me your son' s bazi chart and I have checked that his longevity star is being punished this year and is not in clash. This means that he will pull through this ordeal and I am allowed to guide you.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: 'So what should I do now?'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'All-right, but you must promise one thing first before I tell you.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: ' I will promise you anything that I am able to do for my son's sake.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'Okay, first cancel the wedding and tell everyone that they will not get married. Secondly, you have to find out where she is buried. Then look for a Taoist master to do religious rites to help her get reincarnated earlier. Tell the master that you want her to be reincarnated and not destroyed or imprisoned by him. This will solve the problem immediately. However, I have checked and find that she will needs at least three years before she will be allowed to get reincarnated. I want you to make sure that your son do not get married until after the third year have passed from the date of the ceremony.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: 'Okay, this sounds easier than I thought and you have my words that my son will not get married for these three years. I would come back and give you a bigger red packet (Ang Pow) when all this have been settled.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father went back and saw that Xiao Ming was already waiting for him as instructed. He then told the latter to tell all his classmates that the wedding is off. He also ask Xiao Ming whether it is possible to find out where the dead girl was buried. He was glad when Xiao Ming says that he knows a girl classmate of the deceased who had went on that outing that day and will be able to find out her grave. He also told Xiao Mei about the situation and the need to call off the wedding and to inform her parents and relatives.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The next day, Xiao Ming called and told him the burial place and Ah Qiang's father went to look for a famous Exorcist master instead who was recommended strongly by his friend who told him that it is better as the master have the power to protect them as well as do the religious rites. However, he comes with a hefty price tag which to Ah Qiang's father is not a problem if it can protect his family line. </span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master initially was reluctant to do the reincarnation rites as he preferred to have the spirit exorcised instead. However, after Ah Qiang's father had offered to pay him more as what the Blind Duke had stated in his conditions, he agreed. The Master then put up talismans at all the doors of the premises apart from giving the family members, each a special talisman to be carried at all times. He then did a house spiritual protection rites and put up an altar with the chinese ghost catcher deity Zhong Kui 鐘馗 at the living hall.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Surprisingly, Ah Qiang's condition started to improve immediately after all this were done. By the third day, he had revert back to his super fit conditions as with that of a sportsman. He had no inkling of what had happened all this time, just remembering glimpses of a shadowy girl figure that seems to be sitting by his bedside while he was delirious. His father then told him that he can only marry Xiao Mei after the third year as he is in bad luck without telling him everything as he do not want his son to think of the dead girl.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Well, everything was fine and the years passes by till the middle of the third year when Xiao Mei found that she had gotten pregnant. By right, this is an joyous occasion for everyone as the Chan family now have another member to carry on the family line. However, Ah Qiang's father was in a dilemma as he had remembered the promise he had made to the Blind Duke. He told Ah Qiang that Xiao Mei can go ahead and give birth to the baby and stay with them in a separate room until after this coming chinese new year where they can then offically get married. But Ah Qiang was adamant, insisting that by now so far, everything was fine and it is not appropriate to have the child born out of wedlock as Ah Qiang is also a man of principles which is why he have many friends who admired him. He also told the father not to be too supersitious and also said that it have been the wish of everyone including the grandparents for him to get married soon and have children to carry on the family line. Ah Qiang's father then reluctanly agreed to have the wedding held as soon as possible before the birth of the child.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Well, on the wedding day, everything proceed well and everybody had a good time. After a tiring day of ceremony and the boisterous wedding dinner with Ah Qiang's young friends getting Ah Qiang tipsy. Ah Qiang's father had on seeing this made the couple leaves with him earlier and asking Xiao Ming, the Best man to entertains the friends and relatives. On reaching home, everybody had then cleaned up and prepared to go to bed when suddenly there were loud wailing cries of a young girl outside the house. Ah Qiang's father told everyone to ignore it and to go to bed. After an hour or so, the sounds then stopped which Ah Qiang's father was immediately thankful for. Ah Qiang was already drunk to hear this sad cries although Xiao Mei was not but she was not afraid as she had strong survival instincts now that she was with child and she was not going to allow anything to stand in her way as she believed that both she and Ah Qiang have not done anybody injustice by getting married due to circumstances.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The next few days, Ah Qiang's father was at unease about his broken promise to the Blind Duke and finally decided to pay him a visit and make a clean breast about it. He was prepared to be admonished but he was also worried now as the girl ghost had reappeared though since after that night, she had not appeared. He do not know what is going to happened next as Xiao Mei is now with child and he do not want anything to happen further.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">After climbing up to the second storey of the old block of the fortune teller, he knocked at the door and was met by a young woman whom he have not seen in his previous visits. She was the daughter of the fortune teller who told him that the father was in the hospital after falling into the sea, a day ago. He then went to the hospital and saw the fortune teller lying in the bed with his disciple beside him. He then greeted the master and saw that the disciple was behaving coldy towards him, kind of ignoring him unlike when he had met them in the old house. </span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'So you are here finally to tell me you have broken your promise to me.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father: ' Master, I am here to convey my deepest apologies for breaking the promise as my son's girlfriend had gotten pregnant and they do not wish the child to be born out of wedlock. My old parents had also put pressure on me to acede to my son's request.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: ' I had initially not wanted to do any divination for you on that day as I had forgotten it was my <span class="mpt1"></span>劫煞 Jie Sha day when I agreed to the appoinment made by my fellow villager for you. After meeting you, I had known this would happens but I had never expected the girl ghost to go all out to get me to the Netherworld for revenge at the expense of her reincarnation.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang: 'How did you fall into the sea which your daughter have told me?'</span></span></div><br />
<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: 'I normally have some recreation time to relax which is needed being human even though I am blind. I will have some small drinks of wine with my fellow blind peers and play some dominoes game in a cafe near to my block which is accessible by a bridge or a walk by the beach. The bridge route is the one I always take as it is shorter and for the past 15 years, I have been doing this without mishap alone or with my disciple for company. On that night, my disciple was sick and stay at home instead of usually accompanying me.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">The Master: ' I had as usual then left early that night as my assistant was not with me. While I was walking towards the bridge, a young girl called out to me.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">She said: 'Blind Uncle, there is a hole on the bridge and the repairs people have left a sign asking people not to use the bridge, you better use the way by the beach.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">She then carried on: 'Since I am going that way, may I help you?'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">'I of course agreed and say yes as I had not use that beach route for the last few years. I then turned to the right and walk onto the beach. She had then hold onto my arm as to help me and I felt the coldness immediately and I realised I have been tricked by a ghost. I struggled but was no match for her strength and in a short while, she pulled me into the water by the beach. I was also unable to shout for help as my mouth appeared to be stiffen by a frozen ice. Luckily, when I was almost up to the neck in the water, my neck protection talisman managed to come free from my shirt and float out on the water, she had then with a cry disappeared. I immediately started shouting for help as I find that my mouth was free and luckily, there was a young man passing by who came to my rescue and led me out of the water.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">'I had then caught a cold which had turned to pneumonia which is why the doctor kept me here still. Ah, it is destined to be and I am not able to blame you as this is part of my destiny.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">'Woh Xiao Ma, do not blame this gentleman as such is our destiny when we made this choice in life which is what I have been telling you all the time. Though we may have the ability to know the future but there are still times when Heaven made sports of us at its whims.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Ah Qiang's father felt really bad about the whole matter seeing the sad look of the disciple Xiao Ma and the bed- ridden master. He had actually prepared a big wad of cash in an envelope as compensation for his broken promise and which he then left at the table beside the bed as he was afraid the master might take it as pity if he will to offer it in hand. He then bade the Master and student good-bye and left the place. He heard the Master reciting a poem to himself as he closed the room door:</span></span><br />
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<em><span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3" style="color: red;">'潜藏自有光明日,守耐无如待丙丁;</span></span><span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3"></span></span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: red;">龙虎相争生定数,春风一转渐飞惊'</span></em><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Months later, Ah Qiang's father heard from the Nanny that the Blind Duke had shifted house and that no one knows where he is staying now as the Nanny had a relative who needed his help and wanted to know if Ah Qiang's father would know his whereabouts. Since then years later, though Ah Qiang's father had indiscreetly hired private investigators to check the whereabout of this Blind Duke for he had still felt very bad about the whole episode but it was fruitless. However, he was still very grateful to that fortune teller as by now, he had four great looking grandchildren which that Blind Duke had told him apart from other major events that had came true.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The End</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">For Dear Nathalie, Arrrgh!!! Why have I added you on Facebook? Just Kidding, good to have you stop me from lazing around too much.....</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt1"><span class="mpt3">Cheers, have a great week for all my metaphysics friends here.</span></span>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-71786312572148512802011-08-10T10:26:00.013+08:002011-08-11T10:45:59.584+08:00A Chinese Ghost Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVzrkztzl2oeodu6j19whevNV3gjE2tjWTqXi9ZEcMPPZ5GkjcNTm1UgV7vWAVH1yt6GCK24qZ1YlYTF47IKZReIRTURRDfmAkiSzLwAS7Te1ymH9siLgMd26zMZ-lqvigjh0ttSvM_ch/s1600/seventh+month+ghost+festival.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVzrkztzl2oeodu6j19whevNV3gjE2tjWTqXi9ZEcMPPZ5GkjcNTm1UgV7vWAVH1yt6GCK24qZ1YlYTF47IKZReIRTURRDfmAkiSzLwAS7Te1ymH9siLgMd26zMZ-lqvigjh0ttSvM_ch/s320/seventh+month+ghost+festival.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
Woh, time passes fast and it is the Seventh Month of the Ghost Festival again, above is a picture of people making all kind of offerings at night to the Ghosts on a street during their annual holidays on Earth for this month. Keeping with the spirits of the festival, let me tell you a Hong Kong ghost story involving a Blind Man fortune teller. There are many versions and the one I like best was this one retold by a popular ZWDS Master Yang and I had made some adaption from other similar stories to it. So here we go,<br />
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'In the Fifties in Hong Kong, Scuba Diving was not that popular when it just started as equipments were very expensive, only the super rich can afford it. There was this young man from a reputable family who was crazy about anything to do with the sea and he particularly loves it. He happens to be the only son of this wealthy family and of course, his parents were concerned as there is a Chinese sayings that the chances of meeting danger in the sea is high normally for a sole descendant. However, they have no way of stopping him apart from telling him to be careful as knowing his unrestrainable character . The son to keep the parents from worrying too much went for qualified life guard course and was trained in CPR or resuscitation apart from being a good swimmer. As such, the parents are more at ease, taking comfort that all precautions have been taken.<br />
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Now lets call this young guy Ah Qiang, who happened to have a sweetheart named Xiao Mei from his schooldays however Xiao Mei do not like the sea and so do not join him on his weekly routine of boating around the little islands off Hong Kong. Apart from this hobby, most of the rest of the time Ah Qiang have were spent with Xiao Mei as both were very much in love. The parents were happy to see this and were hoping that they will get married early and they can then have additional family members to carry on the family line.<br />
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Ironically, when the parents were in the midst of discussing of how to get the couple to settle down early, when one weekend after returning from his scuba diving trip, Ah Qiang came back, pale faced and went straight to bed without taking his supper or bath. The parents were surprised and thought that he probably had too much fun and was tired. However, the next day, they found that he was running a high fever and was delirious and making unintelligible sounds. The House doctor that came then diagnoses that he was just running a high fever. Ah Qiang then recovered after a few days but however, started to behave strangely.<br />
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After that incident, Ah Qiang was no longer so loving to Xiao Mei and most of the time, appeared to be lost in his own thoughts. Xiao Mei in an attempt to strengthen their relationship decided to spend more time with him and thus at times, stay overnight with him at his house. Strangely, when Xiao Mei wake up in the morning, she will find faint finger marks on her cheek which looks like a slap and Ah Qiang will then fall sick for the next few days before recovering. This carried on for weeks and did not escape the notice of Ah Qiang's father who believes in Feng Shui and believes something must have happened during that diving trip and decided to seek advices (this was the Age 5 for flying stars school of feng shui). He had then asked his Feng Shui Master to recheck the house for problems and it was discovered that Ah Qiang was sleeping in a Gen Gua(North East) room and the annual star 4 was in that sector for that year. The Bedroom door was at the Kun Gua (South West) sector. It was then decided to shift Ah Qiang to another bedroom but however again after weeks, Ah Qiang shows no signs of improvement and still behaves strangely. Somebody then suggested that Ah Qiang's father to check his son bazi chart (birth astrology) to find out what is the problem.<br />
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A friend then recommended a famous bazi expert in Kowloon which the father went but was disappointed as the master could not offer a valid explanation. He then went to a spiritual master who told him that the solution was to get his son married to clash away the bad luck which he agreeds.<br />
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Ah Qiang 's parents then met up with Xiao Mei and her parents to discuss about the marriage proposal for Ah Qiang. Xiao Mei's parent have no objections and agreed to it as they have been wanting to see their daughter married rather than cohabiting which they have been uncomfortable with.<br />
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After the wedding date was fixed and the announcement was then made to all their relatives and preparations were made for the big day, Ah Qiang immediately fall sick seriously. Doctors were unable to find the cause and decided to have him warded in a hospital instead so that they can monitor his conditions and find out more. However, Ah Qiang's conditions got worse each day and he grows thinner. When asked about it by the parents, the doctors could only shook their heads and told them to bring their son back home as they could not do anything about it.<br />
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By now, the parents were worried and desperate and Ah Qiang's nanny then suggested that they seek the help of a Blind Man master called Zheng Mang Gong <span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt4">鄭</span></span><span class="mpt2">盲<span class="mpt1">公. Here the word Mang Gong <span class="mpt2">盲<span class="mpt1">公 </span></span>refers to Blind Duke as the analysis uses the Yi Jing by Wen Wang, a Duke from the Shang Dynasty. Interestingly, in Hong Kong at that time, these Mang Gong or Blind Duke were suspected to keep a ghost child as their analysis were very accurate and they will able to foretells a lot of things that a normal fortune teller was unable to. Some says that these group of people have the 'Third Eye' and therefore able to see a lot of things in the future and past. It was not a surprise to visit one and have the master tell you your surname, and the number of siblings you have and whether your parents are still around or not accurately without giving your date of birth.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">An appointment was then made with Zheng Mang Gong by the Nanny who was from his same village in China as this master would only divine for people related to him. On that day the master appeared unwilling to meet him, and despite being told to come another time, Ah Qiang' s father persisted by insisting that he had an appointment and after half a day, finally get to see the master. The master without saying much, starts to shake an old turtle shell with apparently some coins in it and then toss it out. After several similar actions, the master finally stopped and lit a cigarette followed by sipping the tea. He then says: 'A female ghost is in love with your son!'.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">Ah Qiang's father was astonished as he have not even told him about the purpose of his visit. However he was shocked and stood up and says: 'I don't get what you means?'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">The Master then took another sip of his tea and blew a ring of smoke from the cigarette and then said: 'Your son had kissed the corpse of a young girl causing that girl ghost to fall in love with him. The ghost had since then followed him everywhere and then you all had provoked her by arranging a marriage for your son and it looks like she wants his life so that they can be together forever.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">Ah Qiang's father thought for a while and says :' I don't understand why my son would want to go and kiss a girl corpse...'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">The Master: 'It is wrong by thinking that arranging an early marriage would clash away his bad luck, I would suggested that you cancelled the wedding tempoary until you can find a solution to appease the girl ghost and keep your son safe for time being.'</span></span><br />
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▅▅▅▅▅ Dragon<br />
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▅▅ ▅▅ Turtle<br />
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▅▅ ▅▅ Tiger<br />
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▅▅ ▅▅ Snake<br />
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▅▅▅▅▅ Worm<br />
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▅▅▅▅▅ Bird<br />
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<em>Commentary: The above is an analysis based on the six lines of the hexagram called Liu Yao Yi Gua or Wen Wang Ba Gua. Here there are six Earthly branchs of Zi, Chou, Yin, etc attached to each line and there are six celestial animals attached to it. Just this hexagram alone contains Eight trigrams. E.g. The Lower trigram which is Dui Gua can represent a young woman or an open mouth. The Snake also represent ying spiritual energy.</em><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">Ah Qiang's father: 'Will you be able to find a permanent solution to this problem?'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">The Master: 'For my solution to works, you need to have belief in me to take certain actions. So please go and check from your son or his friends whether what I have said is true as you still appears to be skeptical of what I have said.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="mpt2"><span class="mpt1">To be continued, have a great week.</span></span><br />
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李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-73440802744023577592011-07-13T00:56:00.023+08:002011-07-13T12:58:55.611+08:00Judgement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGtltJe2NXBsEyLSCq9U-9Afr5ygwBdf9uzdt_o0w3kxPSDjnXkfQTZEJLLCIyebvJBvWO8IL6IQJwnJAEz_7mmDhZEUV_3KhZRSiIPW5CcthPtGC_4yoscCtFQAhVSyUpQ4rpGHXfusY/s1600/The+Empress.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGtltJe2NXBsEyLSCq9U-9Afr5ygwBdf9uzdt_o0w3kxPSDjnXkfQTZEJLLCIyebvJBvWO8IL6IQJwnJAEz_7mmDhZEUV_3KhZRSiIPW5CcthPtGC_4yoscCtFQAhVSyUpQ4rpGHXfusY/s400/The+Empress.png" width="240px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Diary Of A Blindman</span></strong><br />
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My master then continued: <br />
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'I deduce that this person is very much younger than you...'<br />
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The woman replied: 'By how many years you think?'<br />
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Master: 'Should be ten years at least ah...'<br />
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Woman: 'Yes, he is younger by thirteen years,' and then she excitedly asked: 'Do you think our relationship can lasts?'<br />
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Master: 'No need to be anxious about this, let me confirm more accurately about your this lover first from my readings before we go further.'<br />
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This is one strange habit of my master unlike the other fortune tellers who are more than glad to conclude when the customer is satisfied. He treat it as painting a masterpiece, not willing to sacrifice any single minute details to complete a satisfactory work of art. This perhaps differentiate him from the rest who are contented to be mediocre and therefore had make him as a legendary person in the metaphysics world today. <br />
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Master: 'I can tell that this person is one of your younger generation of relatives.'<br />
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Woman: 'Yes, he is...'<br />
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Master: 'And he has true affections for you...'<br />
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The woman: 'Yes, he is very close to me. Tell me what I should do and would he change his heart or not?'<br />
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Master: 'We will come to that later, let me first confirm who he is among your relatives.'<br />
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Woman: 'All-right, you tell me who he is?'<br />
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Master: 'This lover is not an outsider, he is your step son...'<br />
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Woman then laments : 'Oh Master, why you have to be so accurate in your readings? You tell me now, is my birth chart meant to have this fate of being lovers with my own step son.'<br />
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Now I understand why she refused to give her complete birth date when she first went around asking in the alley. She was afraid that it might be leaked out from being shared among others from those who cannot read the chart well. If she had not met my master, I doubt that she might find one easily to guide her on the outcome in the future and probably she would be keeping the secret for life.<br />
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This time the woman then started crying as she continued: 'It started five years ago when I started working in a ceramic factory and I had to work overtime at night. Since young, I doted on him and he reciprocate by having concern for me. He felt that it was not safe at night for me go back alone and insisted on fetching me back from work. He was very attentive and caring to me during that period and as time goes by, our feelings developed.'<br />
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'In 1990, it was time for him to get married as with our Chinese custom and a match was found for him by his insistent uncle as his father is no longer around, a honest and educated young village girl. They then got married in that year however as from then on when he speaks to his wife on intimate terms as a couple, I started having strange feelings, maybe jealousy.'<br />
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'I then took matters into my hands, I will summoned my stepson to my bed chamber and keep him till before midnight and then allowed him to go back to his bedroom. My daughter-in-law had shows no dissatisfaction as she is also normally a quiet girl who do not gossips. Even if she is not happy with the arrangement, I don' t think that she will dare to voice it out.'<br />
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The woman then suddenly went quiet and after which she said softly: 'Then out of the blue, a year ago, she committed suicide by taking rat poisons..'<br />
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I was shocked on hearing this, the daughter-in law probably have found out the mother and son relationship to be more than what it is and must have suffered a blow which she cannot accepted and ended her life. To be honest, I have come across many strange cases that my master had read the fortune for the customers and this is one that if I did not personally hear it, I would not believe it if anybody will to tell me this as such is our strict culture at that time.<br />
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'After her death, my son's attitude changed and he seems to kind of blame me for it as well as himself. He then remarries again later probably out to spite me. He then started ignoring me, I am now stuck as I cannot forget him though I have thought of trying to give up the relationship. Master, tell me what I should do now.'<br />
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The woman shows deep torments on her tears stained face by now.<br />
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My master then consoles her: 'You Ah, your life is destined to go through this, don't be too sad. Tell me your son's birth date and I will see what will happens in the near future for both of you.'<br />
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After working out the birth chart, my master says: 'Well, next year onwards, both you mother and son will undergo some major changes in your lives and when you go into your next luck pillar of Ji Wei luck pillar, both of you will get back together again but it will no longer be the same as in the past of being that loving.'<br />
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The woman sounds disappointed : 'Then what about for the future, will it ends.'<br />
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'Both of you no longer have that kind of affinity and it will definitely ends when that luck pillar is over when you reach the age of 54. During this period, you will also need to be mindful of your health and that will be all.'<br />
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She showed disappointment and sadness in her expression on hearing this, I felt sorry for her but at the same time still cannot accept the thought of her coming between her new daughter-in law for the next ten years or so. I also hope that she won't cause another tragedy in the family again.<br />
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After she left, I mumbled to myself : 'Such a despicable loose woman...' and my master on hearing it, the ears of the blinds are particularly sharp, rebukes me:<br />
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'Little Chao, do not speaks rubbish. Everyone have their own destiny to follow since born and this woman is no different though she unfortunately have a bad low grade chart. Character wise, she is in fact better than some of our so called model citizens. We are to guide them in their path in life and do not have the rights to judge them.'<br />
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However, I have never seen a birth chart like this and I was curious to want to know more,<br />
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'Master, why does she still have the affinity with her stepson to be together in the next ten years in Ji Wei pillar?'<br />
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'It is because in Wei, there is Ding Fire which represent her male offspring and it is a favorable element to her. The Ji Earth is also controlled by her Jia wood. And remember if the chart have strong parallel stars such as Bi Jian 比肩and Jie Cai 劫财, that person will look for a younger companion.'<br />
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'Then why did you says that at the age of 16, she found her ideal match in marriage.'<br />
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'It is because she have a hidden Geng Metal which is Qi Sha <span class="mpt1">七<span class="mpt1">殺</span> </span>in her year pillar which governs her life for the first two luck pillar and the year when she was 16, it was a Wu Shen year which is why she got married.'<br />
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'Then why did you say she married someone far away from her hometown.'<br />
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'Normally when the Direct Officer <span class="mpt1">正<span class="mpt1">官</span></span>or Qi Sha <span class="mpt1">七<span class="mpt1">殺</span></span> is in the month pillar, it will be somebody close to her or in her hometown however she started her marriage star early in her year pillar.'<br />
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'But how did you know that she will be a stepmother when she got married.'<br />
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'Her first luck pillar was Yi Mao and probably her first child would be born in the Rabbit year but she was still young and not married. The hour pillar for children was already activated by the Mao pillar then. And as I have deduced further correctly, the second one was born in the horse year and is the secret lover.'<br />
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'Her chart is also called Prospers the sons and not the daughters by some masters, and there is one matter which I have not told her.'<br />
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I was curious, 'What was it?'<br />
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'In the future, one of her daughters is destined to pass away before her as the Eating God 食神(Output star)is weak in the chart. Some fortune tellers will also call it jinxing the daughter chart too.'<br />
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'Why will the daughter die and which one will it be as there are two, Master?'<br />
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My master then said: 'If you should see her again, ask her for the birth date of her second daughter and I will be able to give you the answers. If there is affinity, she would also come here to find out more at the same time and maybe can avert that disaster.'<br />
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I did meet her again later in the following year and I had remembered to ask her for it. She willingly give it to me but did not ask why or wanted to know further as I think that she probably was already back on better terms with her stepson in their relationship which is also one of the irony of Life. My master after looking at the birthdate had told me then that this daughter would contract a terminal disease in the year 1998 and will not live beyond 2004. When she came back to look for my master in the year 2002, my master had already passed on to his new paradise as he had foretold for himself.<br />
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What follows was really another personal tragedy for her own daughter in retribution for the deceased daughter-in law or perhaps you can call it Judgement Day.....<br />
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<strong>This is THE END</strong><br />
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Okay, folks have a great weekend. Dedicated to Nathalie Mourier and Oey Opkwan at the same time.<br />
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Till-then, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-90615549857085455172011-07-10T18:28:00.002+08:002011-07-14T11:58:11.079+08:00Of Angels and Demons 神煞<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvwTVMJx1XlJIOgYDR4tTBG3qV9vAdlJRxQ0BnD_03ViPvQCEhSvsAFVOv1UfjGUEQICR8T5QSKgNUkSrjG8AmC1LCwLbmfCp0AcgIkzLrDg-KUYTGjg6CZIXKl3C1dYpH8oj6yxB4zl6/s1600/Angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvwTVMJx1XlJIOgYDR4tTBG3qV9vAdlJRxQ0BnD_03ViPvQCEhSvsAFVOv1UfjGUEQICR8T5QSKgNUkSrjG8AmC1LCwLbmfCp0AcgIkzLrDg-KUYTGjg6CZIXKl3C1dYpH8oj6yxB4zl6/s400/Angel.jpg" width="278px" /></a></div><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Continued from The Diary of A Blind man</span></strong><br />
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It was getting to noon and there was still no signs of her, I was starting to perspires under the hot sun. However, I was impatient to get to see her as I was hoping what my master had find out by just looking at her birth time which was Ding Mao <span class="mpt1">丁<span class="mpt3">戼</span> </span>Hour. I then saw her walking to Old Wang who was sick the last few days and was not around. This time, she was obviously frustrated as at the end she shouted: 'Even you Old Wang cannot read my destiny, I think I have to go to the city instead.'<br />
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I then waved my walking stick towards her direction, trying to catch her attention and fortunately she saw it. She hesitated for a while and then she came towards me, saying: ' I thought I am done with you...'<br />
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I interrupted her before she go further, also afraid that she might lose her temper as she carries on: 'Oh, I spoke to my master last night and he said he can give you the answers you are looking for but you must wait for the sun to set before I can bring you to him.'<br />
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She starts to show annoyance : 'How can I just wait till the evening and go all the way to your place and not knowing whether he really knows or not?'<br />
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I then said: 'My master said that it is about your children.'<br />
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Her expressions changes immediately and I can tell she was shocked, 'Ehmm, very well, I will go over...'<br />
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I then told her : 'But my master wants to have your full bazi chart if you want to have your readings done, if not, he said then he will not do it so as not to waste the time for both sides and he wants double the amount that we normally charges if he is correct.'<br />
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She then just nodded her head and look sheepishly.<br />
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It was nightfall when we reached my master home, we step into the house and there was no one around as I had put a signboard saying we are closed to visitors for that evening when I went out in the morning. I then prepared for tea and I can hear her telling my master her birth date and my master was using our Meteors Chase Moon method to work out her Birth chart. As I poured tea for my master and her, my master said: 'This is your birth chart and you are a Wood day master and your luck pillar starts from age 4, am I correct?'<br />
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She said: ' Yes.'<br />
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My master then said: 'Okay, as agreed that you will be paying me double the amount, I will give you a full reading from the age of four onwards and gives you answers for the doubts in your mind?'<br />
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She nodded her head, and I tapped on my master on his right thigh to let him know as he can't see.<br />
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Master : 'At four, you and your mother left home and you have two fathers....'<br />
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Woman: 'Correct.'<br />
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Master: 'Your stepfather treats you very well as he had always wanted to have a daughter and you have a very good childhood.'<br />
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Woman: 'Yes, he treats me very well.'<br />
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Master: 'At the age of seven, you started schooling but at the age of ten, you stopped.'<br />
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The woman's face show a look of amazement as she nodded her head and I again tapped my master thigh.<br />
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My master then paused and took a sip of the tea and after clearing his throat said: <br />
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'You got married as with our custom age at the age of 16 and you pick a match that was far away from your hometown.'<br />
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The woman nodded her head again,<br />
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'Your husband is very much older than you.'<br />
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The woman answered: 'Yes, he is forty years old.'<br />
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'From the moment, you step into his house, you became a step mother and your life is destined to have 5 sons and 2 daughters.'<br />
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'From then on after the age of twenty to thirty, you bear a lot of hardships.'<br />
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As I have seen my master done analysis for many times, I was not surprised at all this information but I was more curious as to why the woman was so anxious over her children and come for fortune telling instead of confiding to her close ones. I was also getting impatient, waiting for my master to come to that part.<br />
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Finally, my master as usual when coming to something important start to read a poem: '遇不遇,逢不逢。月沉水底,人在梦中。'<br />
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'To meet with purpose or by chance is not fated, just like the reflections of the moon in the water as being in a dream.'<br />
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My master then said:<br />
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'Lately, these few years, you have been living in torment for not being able to share this matter with anyone at all.'<br />
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The woman looks shocked at this but still do not believe that my master knows by insisting: 'Then you tell me what is my problem? '<br />
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'From my calculations, it can be seen that you have a lover.'<br />
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This time, the woman admitted readily and saying softly: 'Yes...' and she have an excited expression on her face probably maybe from having a chance to say it out finally.<br />
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'Then the last two years, another woman comes in between you and your lover, and you will not able to confront her and it has started tormenting you from then.'<br />
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I can see teardrops starting to well from her eyes though it was getting dark by then but at that times despite my failing eyesight, I found that I was able to see even clearer in the dark. I then started to nudge my master to stop him as I was worried she will start crying but my master ignored me and carried on:<br />
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To be continued............<br />
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<em>: ) Well, I thought for Now, this picture is more suitable as Angels and Demons should be using guns at least instead of swords as in the past.......</em><br />
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Till-then, cheers.<br />
I will be back in the next few days.....<br />
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'李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-8961909819787922022011-07-08T14:11:00.000+08:002011-07-10T11:33:38.082+08:00When A Blindman CriesTaken from Chip and Candi :<br />
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<strong>West Gate & Blind Fortune Tellers</strong><br />
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<em>'Outside every gate in Jingzhou there are blind fortune tellers. This is how they make their living. They sit and wait for someone to ask them to tell their future and then they get paid. It is really sad to see them sitting there waiting everyday.'</em><br />
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<strong>Doubel Clicks on the picture to count how many blind people.</strong><br />
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廖墨香的关门弟子瓦房店刘文元在其书《四柱命理正源》中对一些自封为“盲派宗师”的亮子举起了正义的刀!<br />
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刘文元在书中说道:“。。。。。。。盲人算命开头几个问题算得很准,。。。。但是如果求测者继续问更多的问题,盲人的预测结论就会出错!问得越多出错就越多,这就是盲派的局限所在!”<br />
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刘文元接着说:“我认为,只要你一个“睁眼人亮子”就不要去抢盲人那点吃饭的唯一“家什”,盲人本来就不容易,好不容易学点吃饭的本领,却被我们这些睁眼人亮子给偷学!亮子们学来自己用还不要紧,可是偏偏有些不讲江湖道德的人拿来(偷来)盲人唯一依靠这些来吃饭的“断言、口诀”大肆传播于天下!还不知耻地自封为“一代盲派命理宗师”!<br />
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我看这些人不是什么“宗师”,他们是睁着眼睛的真正“盲人”!<br />
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连盲人唯一吃饭的“家什”都拿出来办班、培训敛财了,就算你们教的是真的,学员也学到了,那你们将把盲人的饭碗置于何地?盲人的未来再靠什么来吃饭?<br />
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盲人只是生理上有缺陷,但是他们的心灵是光明的!自封为“一代盲派宗师”的亮子呢,虽然他们的眼睛是睁开着的,但他内心深处永远因为敛了黑心财而受到谴责,暗无天日!”<br />
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The above passage was quoted by a chinese metaphysics blogger:<br />
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'Liu Wen Yuan, an indoor disciple of Famous chinese bazi expert Liao Mo Xiang, Daliang, wrote in his book, 'Four Pillars Life Analysis Origins' in a passage on his viewpoints of the New School of Blindman in destiny studies. <br />
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'There is nothing to envy about the blindman technique in destiny analysis though they might be extremely accurate in the intitial readings but as it goes further into the analysis, it tends to get more errors prone and this is where we can see the limitations of this technique.<br />
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However, I still feel that if you are not a handicapped person (meaning you can still learn from other traditional schools of destiny analysis), you should not compete with these people livelihoods. As a blind person, there are already hardships for them in their daily lives and it is not easy for them to earn a living and yet there are unscrupulous people who try to learn secretly from them through manipulations (The blind apprentice is under oath to pass the knowledge to the blinds only). To learn it for analysing your own destiny is still all-right but then to steal their knowledge and share it publicly by conducting courses where a fees is charged reflected that it is more of a commercial intent. In this instance, where will that leaves the blind man fortune tellers if every normal person can do their unique technique of destiny analysis after learning the so called real blindman theory even if it is the correct stolen techniques.<br />
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Although the blind people are handicapped but not so in their hearts.It is unfortunate that people who are not blind but in doing so are themselves in the Dark for not being able to <strong>See </strong>the Heavens.'<br />
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Well, I leave it to you readers to decide again on the above comments and as lately I have been busy and to make up for it, let me tell you a story about the accuracy of the fortune telling readings of blindman from a case study in :<br />
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<strong>The Diary of a Blind Man (Xu Xian Chao)</strong><br />
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In the summer of 1993, I had just started learning destiny analysis from a blind bazi master for 2 years and while as usual making a living outside in the Blindman alley, I chanced upon a frantic looking lady. At that time, my failing eyesight could still discern shadows and colors, she looks like a normal housewife but she was very fair looking and young. She was going from one to another of the fortune tellers' stalls however, refusing to pay after the readings was done saying it was incorrect. I can feel that she has some problems from my sixth sense as it is probably to compensate for our handicap. I beckoned her over and ask her: 'Would you like me to read your future?'<br />
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She answered back with a question: 'All-right, I can give you by my birth time and you tell me what is my situation now and what is going to happen to me in the future?'<br />
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At that time, my knowledge and experience was also almost the same as with rest of them in that alley, I was unable to tell much from her birth data and was hesitant at which she can tell, she then said: 'You are also the same, I don't think you are able to read my destiny.' after which she put a token and walk off.<br />
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I have met customers who refused to pay for their readings after being done, some were out to take advantage of us blind people but apparently, this was a different case. I then as usual after the sun starts to set, went back and told my teacher, Ching Feng who is a Taoist master too. My master smiling says: 'If you see her again, you can asked her over and tell her I will give her the answers that she is looking for. But let her comes only after you have finished your work and there is nobody else in our house at that hour.' I was curious too why my master had made such an arrangement on the time as I was also anxious to find out too as nobody in our alley managed to find out her problem.<br />
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To be continued...........<br />
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For Mulberry, this is her chart and the analysis was done about 18 years ago when she was at Chinese age of 41 in 1993 Gui You Year and still in Wu Wu luck pillar : <br />
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Till-then, cheers.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QwOU3bnuU0k" width="425"></iframe>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-45847201650076285522011-06-29T11:52:00.000+08:002011-06-29T14:04:34.477+08:00Nicholas Tse<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Tomb for the Living 生基</span><br />
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Taken from Hong Kong News Daily: <br />
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Hong Kong Media Expose: A "Live Burial Ritual’ list obtained have the name of popular actor, Nicholas Tse being involved came as a shock to many people.<br />
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According to sources, Nicholas Tse was undergoing bad luck, a motoring accident which results in 2 weeks of prison, an assault case and a dip in his popularity in 2002. His mother, Deborah troubled incessantly by this had then approach a spiritual Master in Guangxi, China who uses ‘Live Burial’ to change his luck.<br />
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It is believed to cost S$30,000 to conduct a standard ritual.<br />
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So today, let’s have a look at this mysterious ritual which accordingly requires feng shui knowledge as well as the need to conduct a spiritual ritual and which had intrigue a lot of people. It also has other supposed powers such as to bring abundant wealth as well as protecting the Life of the person. <br />
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The meaning of Living Tomb simply means a tomb for a living person and would also refer to longevity abode. This practise originates during the founding of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Liu Bang where a Taoist Zhang Liang, an advisor, search for a heavenly paradise to practise immortality came upon a plot of land in Xuzhou, now known as Jiangsu Tongshan and built a longevity abode with superior Dragon Qi or in modern context, good feng shui. Henceforth, this was then passed down in history and later evolved into a feng shui ritual.<br />
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To be frank, I am just surprised as I can’t find any well-known Emperor using this feng shui ritual except for Burial for the Dead or Ying Zhai Feng Shui in the Feudal China History. A Taoist master, Lao Miao Zhu of Penang, a friend of mine had said that it is actually used in Mao Shan ritual to hide the soul to avoid calamity for a period of time and how it then evolved into being a feng shui ritual, he also have no inklings about it too. In my opinion, this is more of a spiritual practise than feng shui and secondly, all along, the Chinese have always uses Taoist for funeral ceremony and other religion related activities. It is a known fact that most Taoist priests should have some basic knowledge of feng shui. <br />
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Surprisingly, the original Blindman school of thought have an almost similar ritual when meeting bad luck cycle where a Taoist talisman would be required and a ritual conducted at least two years before the bad luck commences. They called it the <span class="mpt3">躲<span class="mpt1">身<span class="mpt3">法</span> or 'Hiding the Body Ritual' which is to be conducted on an auspicious date. Based on their school of thought which I am familiar with, Nicholas Tse is supposed to have faced a calamity in this luck pillar of Ding Hai and apparently it is working from the above Taoist ritual as he is going into his next luck pillar Wu Zi which though is no better but should not be that disastrous,' <span class="mpt3">死<span class="mpt2">於<span class="mpt1">非<span class="mpt4">命' or 'Meeting Death but </span></span></span></span></span></span>keeping the Life.'<br />
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However so far, there is only bad publicity on this feng shui ritual; one was a public outcry in neighbouring Malaysia where a Taiwanese master had went to Penang last year and conduct feng shui class. At the same time, he bought a piece of burial land, enthusiastically promoting it as the Dragon Lair (Rare superior feng shui land) and encouraged his students to buy it for live burial for prosperity. An original plain plot of burial land that was bought for $40,000 was then sub-divided and sold for $120,000 a piece to the fortune seekers. Apparently he was the who got the fortune as he panicked and absconded with the money successfully after other feng shui masters in Malaysia investigated the landforms of that land and revealed that it is just a normal piece of land and could be a possible fraud on unwitting students who had enrolled in that master feng shui classes too.<br />
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The other publicity that this ritual got was however during the court case on Nina Wang’s will where this ritual was bought up in an affidavit and it was mentioned that the deceased billionaire had paid Mao Shan practitioner Tony Chan S$200 Million to conduct this ritual as she was suffering from Terminal cancer and which had then renewed interest in this ritual for fortune seekers. It apparently doesn’t work for Billionaires too while some claims that Tony Chan was a fake.<br />
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Life Tombstone of Nicholas Tse<br />
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Okay, I would just go about into the so called important principles that accordingly are used to conduct this ritual for Nicholas Tse.<br />
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First find a plot of land termed the Dragon Lair with superior Qi based on Ying Zhai Feng shui landforms theory. Then collect together the living person belongings such as favourite clothing, teeth, nails and hair, etc., together with the seven precious stones and five types of colour beans together, symbolizing the Bumper Harvest for the ritual. For some masters, 10 cc of the person blood would be needed. <br />
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Second, this will involves Metaphysics knowledge; use a Luo Pan Chinese Compass to check and choose a suitable plot that matches the living person Bazi chart. An average plot with good feng shui configuration will do if a superior plot cannot be obtained in land scarce country; we have to be flexible right?<br />
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Third, this will involves some spiritual imagination as it is assumed that there is a negative energy attached to that living person which is causing bad luck and we are burying that bad energy here, and as long as it is comfortable and the place is peaceful and it do not hate the place, it will not go back and haunt that person and creates problems or bad luck anymore. Therefore, a spiritual ritual would needs to be conducted. <br />
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The ritual would then start by picking an auspicious day to bury an urn or a small coffin with the person’s belongings as in a normal funeral burial. Then, a ritual of forty nine days involving spiritual invocations would then be needed to be conducted too by the spiritual master. And that will be all to start life afresh with that vexing spirit or negative energy being buried though it is supposed to hide the soul from disaster in the original Taoist version. Okay, I will leave it to you readers to decide on its effectiveness. <br />
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Next, the Bazi chart of Nicholas Tse, 謝霆鋒 aka Tse Ting-Fung. Now, lets look further into Nicholas Tse’ s Bazi Chart to see if we can find where his problems started from which luck pillar and whether it tally with this special chart on its likes and dislikes of elements.<br />
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His chart interestingly belongs to Special category and is called a Fake Follow Power Chart. It would also be interesting to see whether his live burial has helped him when the years were unfavourable as the ritual was supposed to have been done in 2002.<br />
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As can be seen in the chart below, Nicholas Tse is a Jia Wood Daymaster born in Autumn where Wood is controlled by Metal.The only support he has is a Bi Jian Friend aspect element next to him, another Jia which is however sitting on Shen Metal but is clash by the Geng Metal in the year pillar and cannot render Support. As such, with no other <strong>major </strong>support like resources aspect Water and parallel aspect Wood, he has to succumb and follow the strongest element which is Metal. As the two earths Chen and Xu (Spouse Palace) is in clashing though Heavenly stem protrudes Wu.<br />
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Metal will be the strongest element in the chart. So we can call this chart a Follow Metal (Power aspect) Chart 从杀格. <br />
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However, though Power aspect Metal element is supposed to be favourable for this category but because there is no Unconventional Intelligence or Indirect output star 食神 Yang Fire in his chart and therefore there is no control on Qi Sha Indirect Power Star Metal 食<span class="mpt2">神</span>制<span class="mpt1">七</span>杀, it has resulted in a tendency for rebellious streak behaviour with disregard for proper authority in ten elemental relationships in its absence.<br />
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From Wikipedia, Tse and Lee divorced in 1996 and in 2008; Patrick Tse started dating a girl named Coco who is almost 50 years younger than he is, if you can read the bazi chart well, it is all in there. A clue, the father is next to him in the Hour pillar.<br />
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His luck pillars:<br />
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Bing Xu pillar (Chinese age 13-23) Indirect Output Star and Wealth 食<span class="mpt2">神</span>制<span class="mpt1">七</span>杀<br />
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As mentioned, here was a good luck pillar as he meets Indirect Output Star to control his Strong Power Star where he propelled into Stardom.<br />
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In 1997 Ding Chou, Nicholas Tse aged 18 in sign a record deal with EEG under the Fitto label, releasing his first album, "My Attitude". The album was ranked 3rd on the top selling CD chart of IFPI. It was that year where he won the most popular new artist award.<br />
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Tse received mainstream success in 1998 Wu Yin with songs like "早知" and "如果只得一星期" and became a prominent successor in the entertainment industry. He received a musical award during the 1999 Ji Mao, Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards with his popular song "非走不可" recorded on September 27, 1993 (Gui You).<br />
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Ding Hai luck pillar (Chinese age 23-33) Direct Output and Direct Resource Star<br />
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Here is where the Blindman School of thoughts would put this as the worst luck pillar to be in for Nicholas Tse.<br />
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His problems starts to begin in 2002 Ren Wu Chinese age 23 when he enter into luck pillar Ding Hai pillar, first being involved in a car accident driving a ferrari where a false police report was lodged and he was jailed for 2 weeks. It was then followed by another incident of an assault on a reporter where it was settled out of court. He also had another car accident in 2003 Gui Wei and had his license suspended for 2 years. In 2005 Yi You, he had another accident and was again suspended from driving for another six month. Apparently, he is out for death thrills through speed in racing.<br />
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Things started to change, in July 2006 Bing Xu where he meets the favorable Indirect output star 食<span class="mpt2">神</span>again, he officially admitted he was dating Cecilia Cheung and in September that year, they got married secretly. First son, Lucas was born in 2007 Ding Hai followed by second son, Quintus in May 2010 Geng Yin last year. <br />
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But 2011 Xin Mao this year, rumours surfaced that he has marriage problems as it was supposed to be activated next year Ren Chen where the Chen will activate the clash with Xu in his spouse palace. Nicholas Tse reportedly filed for divorce on the 14th of June 2011, Geng Zi day in Jia Wu month. Obviously there is a difference for 2011 Xin Mao compare to in 1999 Ji Mao where he had became more popular with a music award instead. A source revealed Tse reached his decision after realising unconditional sacrifice would not lead to ultimate happiness and divorce was the only right decision. This comes after pictures of Cheung and Edison Chen on a plane together surfaced in the Taiwanese media. Cheung and Chen had earlier been embroiled in a sex photo scandal. Tse was also reported to have had enough of Cheung’s constant demands and “threats” in their marriage, including taking her own life and son Lucas if he did not give in to her demands. Next year Ren Chen, Nicholas Tse should be entering into Wu Zi luck pillar which though does not sounds so good, but anyway, let's still wish him the best. <br />
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Till-then, cheers.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bf0Vkq2IG6Q" width="425"></iframe>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-55419506917614761642011-06-04T01:37:00.000+08:002011-06-04T14:52:47.495+08:00Followers Chart 從格?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLukO9e20DfgEePF7tNkGhcsw_YTlC0K3294zXd3f0-rw-mVHORPDSIIuLRDyai1GbP3IVnNh-S9WBWIVkECLijBgqiufgA9u0DuVbSqsYCzcTx3vkHD5kjfs4hMVpj-WYJaHgqHkudg8k/s1600/meeting+each+other.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLukO9e20DfgEePF7tNkGhcsw_YTlC0K3294zXd3f0-rw-mVHORPDSIIuLRDyai1GbP3IVnNh-S9WBWIVkECLijBgqiufgA9u0DuVbSqsYCzcTx3vkHD5kjfs4hMVpj-WYJaHgqHkudg8k/s320/meeting+each+other.jpg" t8="true" width="320px" /></a><br />
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<em> '奇奇奇,地利与天时。灯花传信后,动静总相宜'</em><br />
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My apologies to my dear friends who have dropped by while I have been getting disillusioned and inactive with the World. <br />
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However, I may have found something new to get out of boredom after having a talk with my Mentor to get me out of this rut that I am stuck in.<br />
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This is a special category chart that I am thinking of putting up as a discussion for a possible coming SFSC event at food and drinks ticket pricing for any interested Bazi Enthusiasts which my Mentor Vincent Koh have suggested. His history is available at Wikipedia for those interested in analysing this very interesting chart which is also somewhat rather like the DSK chart and highly debatable about its structure with its so called Likes and Dislikes.<br />
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I have decided to discuss about this chart as further more Astrotheme, a popular Western Astrology website had also done a write up about him and also requesting for help to get his birthtime,<br />
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<em>'If you happen to know the time of birth of Sergueï Bubka, we would appreciate it very much if you would send us your information including your source, if any. We thank you in advance for contributing to the enhancement of our astrological database. As a token of our gratefulness, we shall be glad to send you for free the comprehensive astrological portrait (38-40 pages) of this celebrity, if you let us know that you are interested in it.'</em><br />
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Chart courtesy of Singapore Feng Shui Centre software and the free link is at the right hand corner of my blog for friends who would like to plot bazi chart.<br />
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Disclaimer: The Hour pillar is above is for show only as I also don't have it but if you pay me enough, I might consider getting a PI to check if you are really that interested. : )<br />
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However for the moment you decided yourself whether it is a Follow Whatever Chart or Not Follow by doing research on his background as you are doing it for yourself to learn and not paid by Sergei, Ok?<br />
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A bit of his History:<br />
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From his biography at Bookrags.com<br />
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'When Bubka was <strong>15</strong>, his parents divorced <strong>Luck pillar Ren Xu</strong> 1977 <strong>Ding Si</strong> . (My opinion: Si clash the Hai and Ding does not seem to be favorable. Luck Pillar Ren is also locked by Ding and Xu attempt for fire combination with the Mao in his year pillar. All these are in the Ancestor(year) and Parent(month) Pillar.) Life was hard for the two brothers, who lived in a factory dormitory. Twice Bubka broke his foot, and doctors advised him to give up the sport. He refused and kept vaulting.<br />
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Serhiy Bubka entered international athletics in <strong>1981 Xin You</strong> in <strong>Luck Pillar Xin You</strong> participating in the European Junior Championships where he reached 7th place. But the <strong>1983 Gui Hai</strong> World Championships held in Helsinki proved to be his <strong>actual entry point</strong> to the mainstream world athletics, where a relatively unknown Bubka snatched the gold, clearing 5.70 metres (18 feet 8 inches). The years that followed witnessed the unparalleled dominance of Bubka, with him setting new records and standards in pole vaulting.'<br />
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<strong>The rest you can dig out from Wikipedia.</strong><br />
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<strong>I assure you that you will have fun in trying to figure out about this special chart structure. Have fun with it if you really got nowhere to go and nothing to do for the weekend.</strong><br />
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Till-then, cheers.<br />
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<em> </em>李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-85176387514479902522011-05-15T19:11:00.000+08:002011-05-15T19:28:52.345+08:00Space/Time (玄空-Xuan Kong)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjQFxyDTCl6VHyjCYLMCnN2HdRIHTbQ9UP4L_wmpblJQl7QKMNi5-jV8DGRgX24N9y0tRDtO1gGjI2keNHMjP_VX9_yRNIzPDS5J9N8M5-2xUruu8EAHeybTTb4TwU-4Yeb8CXl_xh3aA/s1600/stereo_space_weather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjQFxyDTCl6VHyjCYLMCnN2HdRIHTbQ9UP4L_wmpblJQl7QKMNi5-jV8DGRgX24N9y0tRDtO1gGjI2keNHMjP_VX9_yRNIzPDS5J9N8M5-2xUruu8EAHeybTTb4TwU-4Yeb8CXl_xh3aA/s320/stereo_space_weather.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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From my Spacebook friend, Aloke: <br />
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'Earth is the still beating heart of space. Space is alive. Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as space time. There is still so little known about outer space by modern science, but of that little we do know there are some extraordinarily amazing things.<br />
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We are moving through space at the rate of 329 miles a second. Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 140 miles per second. In addition, the galaxy is traveling through space at the rate of 190 miles per second. This means that we are traveling at a total speed of 330 miles per second. That means that in one minute you are about 11,806 miles away from where you were. The moon is drifting away from Earth. Every year the moon moves about 1.5 inches further away from the Earth. This is caused by tidal effects. <br />
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Consequently, the earth is slowing in rotation by about 0.002 seconds per day per century. Scientists do not know how the moon was created, but the generally accepted theory suggests that a large Mars sized object hit the earth causing the Moon to splinter off. The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old. The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins (unit of measurement for temperature). All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles. <br />
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together. This may sound unbelievable, but it is true. Two pieces of metal without any coating on them will form in to one piece in the vacuum of space. This doesn’t happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces. This might seem like it would be a big problem on the space station but as most tools used there have come from earth, they are already coated with material. In fact, the only evidence of this seen so far has been in experiments designed to provoke the reaction. This process is called cold welding. Space Facts: - The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. - Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. - Sound doesn't travel in space. <br />
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. - The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down. - The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! - The Earth weighs around 5,940 billion metric tons. - The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour. - The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. - More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.'<br />
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Grasshopper: 'Master, I don't understand by what that Korean Feng Shui master Cho is saying by the Eight Mansion Theory is a conspiracy by the Late Tang Dynasty Emperor to weaken his country?'<br />
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Master: 'Were you around at that time or did you witness it, boy?'<br />
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Grasshopper: 'Of course not but master, while having tea with the other school's disciples who are laughing and joking about it yesterday, it sounds quite true from the contradictions it have with Time as it emphasis mainly on Space.'<br />
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Master: 'What if Time is the other missing part for some reasons or others from the original text and you will to add it in?'<br />
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Grasshopper: 'But then, Master, it still does not sound right as the so called eight wandering stars are classified as auspicious and inauspicious meaning some stars are still bad though the time might be right for the bad stars in the correct place. And then you only have 2 category of Life Essence-East or West, it is so funny and do not make sense as it means if you are East, you can only live in a East type of house and so forth.'<br />
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Master: 'Would it not be same for our 滴天髓 Di Tian Sui which categorises people generally into 10 types of characters?'<br />
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Grasshopper: 'Not really master, as in Di Tian Sui, we still have to look into the seasons of birth and many other things...'<br />
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Master: 'Precisely, as what you have seen and heard about Eight Mansion Theory would be the same with the missing parts. All-right, I will explain to you what really happens from what I know from our late grandmaster another time, its time for dinner...'<br />
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Grasshopper thinking to himself: 'Arrrgh, no wonder Master always says 'Eat 3/4 full only as it is good to still feel hungry after a nice meal and being energetic instead of being sleepy...'<br />
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To be continued....<br />
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Dear friends, my apologies as I have been busy lately and too tired to do any posting, thanks for being around if you happen to be here.<br />
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Till-then, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107024275261678769.post-2644061232786228882011-04-29T22:18:00.000+08:002011-04-29T23:19:38.698+08:00The Big Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdYX1sdfw51AGn7Ez_8MedLKM4gkPSlO0VoIKcn3boXJFA_cN22k7kdgQDRrVPRAhIy5qGhE__KBCJM8Wp-Z2gWSPzwtHBsW4HQ9aJNBxqsDLW99iXvnM1VmBENNY06ZoJ1BN8W915_Lw/s1600/800px-Zheng_He%2527s_ship_compared_to_Columbus%2527s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdYX1sdfw51AGn7Ez_8MedLKM4gkPSlO0VoIKcn3boXJFA_cN22k7kdgQDRrVPRAhIy5qGhE__KBCJM8Wp-Z2gWSPzwtHBsW4HQ9aJNBxqsDLW99iXvnM1VmBENNY06ZoJ1BN8W915_Lw/s320/800px-Zheng_He%2527s_ship_compared_to_Columbus%2527s.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
<b>The Size of Zheng He ship compared to Christopher Columbus</b><br />
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Well, if one day the world can unite and start space explorations, would’nt that be nice? It would stop over profiteering lately of claims of food shortages due to overpopulation of Man. Anyway, to continue from where I last stop…..<br />
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It is another one of those fresh spring mornings where you wake up and feel good, ready to take on the world which is what Grasshopper felt while having breakfast with his Master. They were on the second floor of the teahouse overlooking the big open Town square where hawkers were shouting out their wares and customers alike were bargaining loud over the colourful and assorted wares. Grasshopper has never seen this colourful scene even in the town where he occasionally visits on errands in the North which the folks were already tilling hard in the fields when the sun just starts to slumber out. There were smells of different exotic foods cooking in the air too, making one feel stimulated by the aroma together with the colourful sight. As such, Grasshopper felt he has the courage to ask his master of a perplexing matter.<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘Master, lately I am confused by the different opinions of the various masters who had met up with you.’<br />
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Master: ‘What about?’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘The approaches they use for destiny and feng shui are all different from what you taught me and you seem to have agreed with them.’<br />
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Master: ‘You mean what I have taught you contradict with my actions….’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘No, no, I dare not think of that.’<br />
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Master: ‘Okay, I know that you are confused by the different schools of thought on our arts.’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘Yes master, especially the guy who uses just the hexagrams and had confused me with his jargons and had made me sleepless trying to figure out on what he was telling you.’<br />
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Master: ‘Mmm, have you not heard of the six blind men who came onto an elephant and each had felt the different part of the elephant and proclaiming each other correct in trying to describe the elephant as a snake, a pillar, a wall and so forth.’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘Yes master but I don’t see what it has to do with this matter.’<br />
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Master: ‘Boy, boy, it is the same as with the different theories that you have come across here. Every one of us including myself at the moment only has a limited vision though not blind of which is somewhat of the elephant, the mysterious Xuan Kong.’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘But master, in this case, knowing just a part of the elephant likewise will not suffice…’<br />
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Master: ‘As you can see, to one who can see the elephant, the blind men are each correct in their interpretations such as us. Therefore, do as what I have done, agreed with every one of them and learn something from them instead of arguing whose school is more superior.’<br />
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Grasshopper thinking to himself: ‘Ah, Master is wise, no wonder he always insists on meeting each of them individually instead. While they were busy denouncing the other schools of thoughts, they always give theirs away in trying to explain to Master and hoping to gain his support as Master is believed to have some relationship with the Imperial court who is compiling a great book of all the Arts.’ (From wikipedia: Yongle Emperor commissioned his Grand Secretary, Xie Jin, to write a compilation of every subject and every known book of the Chinese. The massive project's goal was to preserve Chinese culture and literature in writing. The initial copy took 17 months to transcribe and another copy was transcribed in 1557. The book, named the Yongle Encyclopedia, is still considered one of the most marvelous human achievements in history, despite it being gradually lost by time.) <br />
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Master: ‘Boy, I am not as mean as what you have made of my actions.’<br />
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Grasshopper thinking: ‘Oops! I forgot Master is not called the Divination God 神算among the masters for nothing.’<br />
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Grasshopper: ‘No Master, I was thinking that then I must learn to be more appropriate in my actions as what the Yi Jing have always stressed as humility leads to superiority.’<br />
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Master: ‘It is best that it be the way, boy. Anyway, the people have the wrong concept of the word 神算 which means it is divined by the mysterious and not that I am God.…’<br />
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Grasshopper by now even more astonished that his thoughts was well read by his master.<br />
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Master: ‘It is also another Elephant however this time to our great Emperor Zhu Di (Yongle) and the Admiral himself who really puts their efforts into feeling the whole elephant instead of the parts. That reminds me that I have to inform the Admiral household that I am staying in this Inn. Boy reminds me when we have finished our breakfast to task the Innkeeper with this errand.’ <br />
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To be continued......<br />
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An exchange on a forum where a member had substantiated claims of:<br />
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‘Also Mindreader it appears that Menzies has been proved correct the results of <br />
the radio-carbon tests show that :<br />
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New Zealand tests back Chinese ancient map claims<br />
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A New Zealand university's research has suggested a 243-year-old map indicating a famous Chinese explorer discovered New Zealand, Australia and America before Europeans is probably not a fake.<br />
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Waikato Times reported Saturday that Waikato University carbon- dating shows that "there might be something in a theory that the Chinese discovered New Zealand before Europeans."<br />
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Before Christmas, the university's carbon-dating unit was asked to analyze a Chinese map allegedly dating back to 1763 and stating that it was a copy of a 1418 map.<br />
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If authentic, the 1418 map by Chinese explorer Zheng He, which includes portrayals of America and Australia, was drawn 70 years before Christopher Columbus became the first European to land in America.’<br />
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Western histories record that Columbus found the New World in 1492, Portugal's Bartholomeu Diaz discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, and Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set off to circumnavigate the world in 1519.<br />
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While some people said Zheng He seemed to have discovered America 70 years before Columbus in 1492 if the controversial map drawn in 1763 by a Chinese cartographer is real.<br />
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The map could have an important influence on a re-evaluation of Chinese and Western maritime exploration.<br />
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The map was originally unveiled in Beijing on Jan. 16, attracting interest from across the globe. The owner, Liu Gang, a Chinese lawyer and map collector, said at the time that it was an authentic 1763 copy of a 1418 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) original.<br />
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The original map has not been found, but if real, the 1763 copy could be proof that it existed. If so, it would give credence to the theory that Chinese sailors traversed the globe long before their European counterparts.<br />
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Deputy Director Fiona Petchey of Waikato University carbon- dating unit, who was entrusted to make tests of the map, said tests showed there was an 80 percent probability that the map's paper dated to either 1640-1690 or 1730-1810.<br />
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There was only a 13 percent chance it could date between 1920- 1960.<br />
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Liu Gang unveiled the results this week at a press conference in Beijing, according to news report.<br />
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He held that appearance of the map, the color of its ink, the age of its paper, the way in which it was painted and the style of calligraphy used by the cartographer verify that the year in which the map was created was the year of 1763 as noted by the cartographer on the map.<br />
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"The carbon dating result of Waikato University confirms that the map's paper was most probably produced during the period from 1730-1810 or 1640-1690, which is the right range for the year in which the map was created," said Liu.<br />
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Source: Xinhua’<br />
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<strong>Food for thoughts:</strong><br />
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<strong>So by then, did the early Chinese geomancers know that there is a Southern Hemisphere with a different climate and that the world could be round? When did XKDG with its square and round arrangement came out?</strong><br />
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Till-then, cheers.李杰http://www.blogger.com/profile/04021589738549014169noreply@blogger.com