... after all that hard work i've gone through to attempt to get my new place up and ready by lunar new year celebrations, I'm not moving in anymore. After spending over 15k and shit loads of time and even losing my Brazil trip becoz of being so occupied with choosing my lightings, renovations, curtains, paint colors, new tv and home theatre, room design etc etc.. I, a young, modern, straying-ashamed-to-call-myself-a-buddhist me, decided to not move into the spanking new lovely 1st home Boy & i threw truckloads of money into. All becoz of the words of a feng shui master. Dont ask me why i didnt check the fengshui before i went through all that trouble... i like to believe i procrastinated going down the Feng Shui road coz i'm young, trendy and not full of superstitions...which by the way isnt really true. Besides, wats the point of seeking advice if one doesnt really wanna follow the words of the supposedly wise one? Especially in my line of work, which is still filled with many very cheena old sch people, Superstition plays a big part. We have annual seven month ghost festivals dinner auctions.. the real deal kinda old-school-getai-style and we have more tables filled over the whole 1 month period than u can even say merry xmas. I am also a proud owner of 2 fengshui items (1 for backstabbers and 1 for wealth) on my work desk. I got back a week earlier in Singapore from the failed attempt to make it to Brazil.. they seem to tink alot of people would like to go there to be illegal immigrants -- including me, a proud to be Singaporean young working 20 somthing who will stick out like a sore thumb with my flat chest and short stumpy legs in a bikini. Maybe also for that same reason, they would prefer me to get a visa to prove my earning capabilities before my short limbs step onto their holy soil and fail to find the means to make money by just strutting down Copacabana... So back to my story.. so i have plenty of time on my hands now that i'm back earlier, indecisive me started toying around with the idea of finding my "wealth" location & the facing of my bed.. so i casually mentioned it to my mom who got extremely excited coz she tinks it's a great idea.. She made a few calls to my aunt and got the meeting setup the very nxt day at Master Chen's office in Rocher. Master Chen is my aunt's family friend. They say he is reputable, blah blah, and i've seen him before when i was much younger. So no questions abt his "qualifications" since its simple stuffs i'm asking... i brought my floor plan down with a "north pointing-direction" for reference to his office and the nightmare started. Nothing he said was good. NOTHING Main facing direction - 22.5 degrees north. Feng shui's biggest nightmare he said..
Main door - 5 ghost position - bad for work.. i will have plenty of competitors
Sitting - my main sitting is in my guest room toilet - bad for pregnancy - will have miscarriage
Master Bedroom - Will end up facing lawsuits which i will lose..
Sleeping direction - prefered way for bed is always meant to be not facing mirrors/ main doors and bedhead not against the toilet wall. My best sleeping way will put me pointing into bad health.... geez
Kitchen - duno bad for wat.. by then i seriously lost interest He basically said.. marriage = divorce, relationship = no more. Great.. that's what i really need to hear 3 days before my scheduled move in date. I left, 228 sgd poorer, mentally robbed of my dream of a beautiful new home of my own and physically torned coz i was still very ill with a bad throat inflammation. After much consideration, i decided to seek a 2nd opinion... a friend of a friend took a quick look at my floor plan and said he didnt tink there's as much issues with the master bedroom.. but main door not looking too great either. BUT he also said, it's important for a Fengshui master to be down in the apartment to do the actual direction reading - which Master Chen refused to do so coz he said its so bad a facing for Boy & i (for our element type basically) so he didnt see the need. And the 2nd fengshui expert also said.. if the facing direction is really as the 1st master said.. 22.5degrees north, he will advice me against staying there too..  But he gave me a gd tip.. use an iphone to check the direction.. which i did of coz.. guess wat.. its a different reading. but he said laymen like u and me will not get a very accurate reading coz we are unaware of external factors like concrete and metal objects which will affect the compass. Right.. so back to square one about not being sure once more! ARGHHHhh... ....but my renovation carpentry works have been stopped so no way it can get back on track in time for the party!!!  Plus after the shock at the Feng Shui Master's... i've acted super fast & rented back my old place, called eager agents to rent out my new place... yes.. chop chop.. but i got my old place at a 200 bucks higher/mth rental. No biggie really.. coz the new place when rented out can fetch more than 1.5 times of my old place rent..So effectively moving back to the old place and renting out my new pays alot more than just the bills..the boy and 1 will be over a thousand buckerooos better off per month. Pretty nice deal we got there.. Just opportunity cost wise i'm just losing out on my gorgeous lights, halfway done renovations, lovely curtains and moving cost. And of coz all that damn irritating 20+ boxes i've packed and gotta now unpack. Fuck fuck fuckkkkkkk!!!! My worse nightmare is begins on Friday... oh hello once again, Balmoral~! | 
