Why did mobile #0888-888-888 jinxe its owners?

UK's Daily Mail reports that Mobitel of Bulgaria had suspended mobile phone number 0888-888-888 because every user assigned to this line had died in the last ten years.

"The first owner, Vladimir Grashnov - the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel, which issued the number - died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48....there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning."

"The jinxed number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss Konstantin Dimitrov..... He was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug-smuggling empire.

Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a beautiful model."

"The phone number then passed to crooked businessman Konstantin Dishliev....He was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 2005, after taking over the jinxed line."

For more details, read
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281327/Jinxed-phone-number-0888-888-888-suspended-EVERY-user-dies.html#ixzz0p1Lct09z

Chinese regards the number 8 as very auspicious because it sounds like "prosperity" or "getting wealthy". If you go to wherever Chinese are congregated, like Chinatowns, you will see many cars with license plate number full of 8s.

A mobile # with all "8"s will be auctioned off in China and Hong Kong for a very high price.

Why these unfortunate Bulgarians died in cancer or violent deaths with such an auspicious phone number?  Does the Chinese have a monopoly on the number 8?

There are a few possible explanations.  First, in Chinese numerology, the number 1, 6 and 8 are considered auspicious and "righteous".  When someone who is less than righteous, like these mafia boss and crooked businessman, using this phone number with strong "righteous" energy would be counter-productive to their type of non-righteous energy and activities.

Second possible reason is similar to first one.  This one deals with user's blessing. These people may have enough blessing or karma for a few 8s, but not nine 8s! According to Yi-Jing (Book of Changes), too much of a good thing will turn to negative.

This 0888-888-888 phone line should be assigned to a charity organization and it will bring in more donations

Ken Lai

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3-Penalties Day and Indian Plane Crash

Today (May 22, 2010) is a 3-penalties day. An Indian jet crashed in Mangalore with 169 people on board at around 6 am local time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100522/ap_on_re_as/as_india_plane

Here is the 4-Pillars chart when the plane went down:

Y: GENG-YIN
M: XIN-SI
D: REN-SHEN
H: GUI-MAO

Yin-si-shen 3-penalties show up in the chart for the day.  Yin-si-shen 3-penalties are metal, fire and wood energies battling each other.  The common effects are traffic accidents like auto and plane crashes.

People should avoid traveling and doing anything important today, especially for those with monkey (shen), snake (si) and tiger (yin) in their 4P charts. People who already have the yin-si-shen 3-penalties in their charts should definitely sit tight and stay home and avoid using any traffic vehicles today.

Other 3-penalties days for 2010 will be: June 3, August 11, August 23 and Sept. 4.


Ken Lai

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"Hero kills corrupted officials! Coward kills kids"

8 kindergarteners are killed and over 20 are injured in China today (May 12, 2010).   Just within the last 30 days, there are over 5 incidents of school violence targeting mostly kindergarten and primary school students.  Most of the violences are committed by males with mental problems or grudges against authorities.  Children were stabbed or chopped with knives. Even the Chinese government has tight control on media report of school violence to prevent copycats, violence against small kids continues.

China's one-child policy aggravates the pain to the victim's parents.  The deceased children are likely the only child of the family.

People are demonstrated against these kid-killings.  They put out the banner, "Hero kills corrupted officials! Coward kills kids."  Some of the killers were embittered by corrupted officials or social injustice and resorted to killing defenseless kids to draw attention.

A banner put in front of a kindergarten even directs any potential killer to goverment office and not their school.

In terms of Chinese metaphysics, there are some startling coincidences about kid-killing in China.  Current year is Geng-yin (metal-tiger).  Geng-metal is knife or axe.  Yin is part of the Gen trigram (gua) in the 24 mountains.  Gen stands for young kids.  Annual star 6-white metal lands on the east (China).  "6" is Qian or older male. The whole imagery of a knife over a young kid happens in the east by an older male emerges.

Chinese government has ordered school officials to tighten security in the schools. 


Ken Lai

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An Unusal "Time 100" Heroine

61 years old Chen Shu-chu, is a Taiwan woman who has been selling vegetables for 47 years since she was 13.

Chen works 16 hours days and lives an extreme frugual life. She has donated NT$10M (about US$330k) of her hard-earned money to charities. TIME MAGAZINE has chosen her as one of the "Time 100" heroes.

Chen is an example of how ordinary people can do extraordinary things even under adverse conditions. The following links with video (in English) tell about her inspiring story:

http://alternativeformosa.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-hero-chen-shu-chu.html
http://amandastea.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/chen-shu-chu-the-2010-time-100/
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984949_1985237,00.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XhzEdtN0rM


Ken Lai
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Extreme real estate marketing-- no more!

Last October I had written about a Hong Kong real estate developer who markets a 40 storeys buildings as an 88-storeys one by skipping certain "inauspicious floor numbers" (the 4s and 13) and pumping up the auspicious ones (the 8s).  The following link can refresh your memory:

http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2009/10/extreme-real-estate-marketing-with.html

In order to protect the gullible billionaires and wealthy pandas from China (who tend to buy expensive real estates), the Hong Kong Government has just issued the following new law regarding the labeling of floor numbers:
1.  no jumping or skipping of floor numbers (except below)
2.  only floor number with 4, 13 and last digit is 4 can be skipped.

The law will be effective from September 1, 2010.  This means a builder can only legally skip 4th, 13th, 14th or any number ending with 4, but not skipping any number starting with 4.   Therefore, new building with missing 40th to 49th floors will not be seen again after 9/1/2010.  Builders are out of luck to arbitarily skipping bad numbers or adding hot-selling floor numbers.

The number 4 sounds like "death" in Chinese.  Some "smart" masters think they can consider 4 as the academic and romance star used in the Flying Star system.  This may block the negative vibes or phobia-- hopefully. 

Certain Feng Shui schools use floor number to calculate if a particular floor is "in luck" or matching the magnetic profile of the residents.  An "artificial" floor number probably will not cut it and requires the actual floor number to do the calculation.


Ken Lai

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Chinese Metaphysics Perspective on Polish Plane Crash

I am saddened by the tragic Polish plane crash and have been looking for any metaphysical explanations in the last few days.  I have found some critical info from today's AP news:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100413/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_plane_crash

Here are the critical data:
Crash date and time: April 10, 10:56  (9:56 when adjusted for summer time)
Age of pilots:   Capt. Arkadiusz Protasiuk, 36, and the co-pilot as Maj. Robert Grzywna, 36. Also in the cockpit were Ensign Andrzej Michalak, 36, and Lt. Artur Zietek, 31.
Age of President Kaczynski : 60
Number of attempts to land:  5 (crashed on the 5th attempt)

Destination city's relative direction to Warsaw: Northeast

A quick glance would show Grand Duke probably is involved in this tragedy.  Grand Duke is the "Ruler" of the year according to Chinese metaphysics.  If your age is a multiple of 12, you are "violating" Grand Duke for the year.  Three out of the 4 people (including the pilots) in the cockpit were 36 years old or "violating Grand Duke".  President kaczynski was 60 and hence also "violating Grand Duke".  Besides, the plane is flying towards northeast or against the Grand Duke direction of the Tiger year.

If we factor in the traveling time and 5 attemps to land, it was very likely the plane took off  before 9am. The 4-Pillars chart at take-off time was:

YEAR:  GENG-YIN  (metal-wood)

MONTH: GENG-CHEN (metal-earth)

DAY: GENG-YIN (metal-wood)

HOUR: GENG-CHEN (metal-earth)

Besides day and year pillar fu-yin (identical), of this chart shows "battling of metal and wood".  Metal seemed to have an upperhand in Chen hour.  But when the clock switched to Si hour (9:00- 11:00), the chart looked like this:

YEAR: GENG-YIN (metal-wood)
MONTH: GENG-CHEN (metal-earth)
DAY: GENG-YIN (metal-wood)
HOUR: XIN-SI (metal-FIRE)

Yin is jia-wood or tree.  Si is fire.  Geng is metal or plane.  The plane hit some trees, crashed and burned.  This chart also has a hidden Yin-Si-Shen 3-penalities.  Geng is the main component of Shen-metal.  Yi-Si-Shen 3-Penalties usually involves traffic accidents or injuries/ deaths by metal.

In terms of Qi-Men-Dun-Jia, the northeast direction for April 10, Geng-Chen hour chart has the following components:

Heaven/earth plates: Xin and Wu (fan-yin or fighting here)
8-Gate:  Jing-men (Surprise Gate, metal in nature)
8-Gods:  She (snake, fire in nature)
9-Stars:  Rui/ Qin (earth in nature, fan-yin or fighting here)
Both the time and directions are non-auspicious with an imagery of fire burning metal. 

Since the flight took longer than 2 hours, I have check the QMDJ day chart.  The results are more stunning.

The day chart is full of problems:
1.  9-Stars fu-yin  (energies not moving)
2.  8-Gates fan-yin (energies fighting each other)
3.  9-Stems fu-yin (energies not moving)  
 
The plane flew towards northeast direction.  Northeast palace has the worst combinations in the whole chart.  It has Si or Death Gate with Geng-metal fu-yin.  The only positive energy left there is the Lead-God Fu which is not powerful enough to neutralize the negative energies.
 
In terms of QMDJ, the "inauspicious" direction can be changed by flying to Ukraine and stopping-over for 2 or more hours.  This will convert the flight direction from northeast to the south, which is more "manageable" or less inauspicious. 
 
Finally, I would like to express my condolence to my Polish friends and students.
 
 
Ken Lai

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Happiness from borrowed light

On March 12, someone had posted a blog message titled "Touching!  Nan-Chang female beggar 'borrows light' to read for almost 3 years" onto a Chinese website.  Within 2 days, over 6 million page views and 20 thousands netizens discuss about this woman online.  So here comes the birth of another Chinese internet celebrity, "Sister Novel"小说姐-- right after "Brother Sharp".   Newspaper and TV reporters hound around her ever since.

"Sister Novel" is a 35 years old homeless woman who is seen reading books with "borrowed light" from the door-steps of a business in the evening after hours.  She does not really read anything profounded but just novels, especially the martial arts novels written by the famous Hong Kong writer Jin Yong.  People seemed to be touched by her persistence to read with "borrowed light" despite misfortunes and hardship.

"Sister Novel's" real name is Chen Mui.  She had lived in a happy family until she was 10-- when her father had indulged in gambling, lost everything and disappeared.  She was forsaken by her mother when she was 12.  Her grandmother had passed when she was 14 with no relatives left to support her.  Chen had left her village and begins her "wandering" or homeless life.

Chen had married when she was 18.  She gave birth to a girl.  The couple made a living by scavenging.  But the husband took away her life-savings and ran way with her daughter.  Her second husband did the same thing to her-- ran away with her savings.

The worst thing of being homeless is not hunger or cold weather but when to expect sexual assault coming.  It happens to her every year.  "I had resisted assault in the beginning.  But I dare not resist later or I'll be beaten up."  Said Chen. 

Chen does not like people calling her "beggar". "I'm a wanderer, not beggar." She does not beg and refuse taking money from people.

Chen's happiest time is when she reads in the evening.  During the day, she picks up empty mineral water bottles to make enough money to pay for her book rental and nothing more.   If there is no money for food, she will pick up left-over food from garbage cans.  She does not want to have any saving for fear of being swindled again.

People are deeply touched by Chen's inner-strength and simple happiness--  being homeless for 21 years due to father's gambling and mother ran away, dumped and swindled by two busbands and under the threat of sexual assault-- yet she refuses handouts and money from people, subsists on her meagre income and finds happiness through reading with "borrowed light".  She only had a grade 5 (primary school) education.

What can we learn from "Sister Novel"?

Ken Lai
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