Jersey Colors may determine World Cup results!

I found that the Chinese 5-elements theory is a pretty good predictor of winners for the World Cup semi-finals based on the actual team jersey color during the match.

Chinese 5-elements theory states that the world is made up by the interactions between 5 type of energies;  metal, water, wood, fire and earth.  The relationship between these 5 types of elements are as follow:

• Metal is represented by white color. It is controlled by fire (red), drained by water (blue or black) and nurtured by earth (yellow or brown).
• Wood is represented by green color.  It is controlled by metal (white), drain by fire (red) and nurtured by water (blue or black).
• Water is represented by blue or black color. It is controlled by earth (yellow or brown), drain by wood (green) and nurtured by metal (white).
• Earth is represented by yellow or brown color. It is controlled by wood (green), drain by metal (white) and nurtured by fire (fire).

 Here are the rules for picking the winning team:

• If that team's jersey color controls the opponent's jersey color (example, red will lose to blue) or
• If that team's jersey color drains the opponent's jersey color (white will lose to blue)

How does it work?
Jersey color stands for part of the energy field surrounding the players.  By controlling or draining the energy field of your opponent using appropriate colored jersey, you can enhance the energy level of your own team and weakening the energy level of your opponent.  There are other Chinese metaphysical methods like Qi-Men-Dun-Jia that can increase the odds of  winning by 10- 15% through the use of directional energies.

Plugging this 5-elements theory to June 26 and 27 semi-finals, we have the follow results:

1.  URU vs KOR (blue vs white)

-- blue is water and white is metal.  Water drains metal.  The theory predicts URU will win.

2.  USA vs GHA (white vs red)

-- white is metal and red is fire.  Fire burns or control metal.  The theory predicts GHA will win.

3. GER vs ENG (white vs red)

-- white is metal and red is fire. Fire burns or control metal. The theory predicts ENG will win.  Incorrect for this one.  But June 27th is a strong metal day according to Chinese calendar.
4. ARG vs MEX (blue/white vs green)
-- blue is water and white is metal and green is wood. Metal controls or chops wood. The theory predicts ARG will win.  Besides June 27th is a strong metal day according to Chinese calendar.

Chinese 5-elements theory's predictions are almost 75% accurate for the first two days of the World Cup semi-finals.  How about the next two days?

Assuming the teams will wear their standard team colored jerseys, here are the possible results:

1.  NED vs SVK (red vs blue)
-- red is fire and blue is water.  Water extinguishes fire.  So SVK is likely to win.
2.  BRA vs CHI (yellow vs red)
-- yellow is earth and red is fire.  Earth drains fire.  So BRA is likely to win.
3.  PAR vs JPN (red/white vs blue)
-- red is fire and white is metal; blue is water.  Water drains metal and water extinguishes fire.  So JPN is likely to win.
4.  ESP vs POR (red vs red)
-- it is unlikely that both teams wear red.  The team that wears white is likely to lose because red is fire and white is metal.  Fire burns metal.

May the best team win (Coaches:  Make sure you pick the winning color for your team jersey)!


Ken Lai

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Beating up the mean people around you

One may feel depressed because it seems the whole world is against him.  One works his behind off and the boss shows no appreciation.  Co-workers and friends back-stab or drive him nuts.  He seems to run into obstacles wherever he moves.  Nothing seems to go his way. He is neither a violent nor sports type person, so he cannot grab a gun to shot or do boxing.  There is no channel to vent his frustration and anger. 

Upon the recommendation of a good pal, this depressed person consults a psychologist.  The psychologist is happy to offer him a battery of psychological tests and customize a "therapy plan" of 6- 10+ counseling sessions.

During the sessions, the depressed dude will spill out his pet peeves.  The psychologist will sugar-coat the client's craps and throw it back to him.  He may realize that it is either his own stupidity that he is depressed OR it is nobody's fault to be depressed OR simple get a life and think positive.

Somehow our depressed dude feels relieved and happy again, largely due to the opportunity to find someone listening to his pet peeves.  But he becomes depressed again when he is billed a few thousand dollars by the psychologist.

In Southern China, there is a service that can offer similar or better results for the price of a MacDonald Value Meal.

The Chinese call people who back-stab or obstruct you or whoever make your life miserable as "mean people" or "little people" (xiao-ren 小人).  There are "beating up mean people ritual" (打小人)services for people who feel that they are being rejected, slighted, bullied and etc,. by other people.  These services are mostly provided by older women or grannies.

In Hong Kong, beneath a flyover near the Times Square, there are some grannies practicing "Beating Mean People" ritual for HK$40 (US$ 5) per beating.  You do not even need to raise your finger.  The grannie will do all the "beating".  This service include:

A.  ALL THE PAPERWORK (joss papers)
-- a big yellow talisman that includes clemency orders for your bad deeds or sins.
-- a red nobleman talisman to attract helpful people to you.
-- joss paper money to please the deities and spirits
-- a paper tiger (symbolizes "mean people")
-- a paper imprinted with a human shape (represents the mean people who bully you, for beating)
-- a plea to heaven about beating the mean people
-- incense and candle sticks


B.  SERVICES

-- you can specify the name of a person to be beaten or just a "blanket beating" of all the mean people around you (no extra charge!).

-- your "mean people" are represented by a piece of rectangular paper with a human shape imprinted.  It will be put on the surface of a brick.  The grannie will use a woman high heel shoe to strike the paper human from head to toes while chanting something like these:

" Hit the head of  you mean people, so you can't breathe.
  Hit the hands of you mean people, so  you can't hold your pen.
  Hit the feet of you mean people, so you can't wear shoes...."

You may add your special punishment to your mean people.  But this ritual rarely curses or beats  people to death.

-- after a thorough beating, the paper mean person will be "engulfed" (wrapped inside) by a paper tiger and burnt.

-- a quick divination will be done with the portable altar nearby by throwing two piece of wood (3 possible combinations) to see if the deity "approves" of the beating.  If the answer is "no", grannie will throw a pinch of rice and burn some papers and redo the divination until getting deity's approval.  Most of the time, two tries are enough.  Now you will feel great because even the deity or heaven has approved of your beating.

-- all the remaining "paperwork" (joss paper) is lighted and sway around your body to "cleanse" or remove  negative energies away.  At the same time, grannie will chant, "Auspiciousness and prosperity for you!"  You feel lighter, relieved and happy.

-- throw the burning paper into a red tin can to finish burning (ritual is done)

This is probably the best deal in mental health service.  For US$ 5, you get your sins forgiven, your mean people beaten with heaven's approval, spiritual cleansing and blessed with good luck and fortune.  No wonder Hong Kong's Tourist Association was so surprised to sell 2000 "Beating Mean People Tour" packages in Taiwan within a day or two in last May.

"Ken, does this really work?"

Two years ago, I took an Amercian Feng Shui pal to the grannie and beaten up his "mean people".  He told me later that he had no business for two months.  He was dumbfounded that most of his clients are the "mean people".  Mean people are sometimes the people who sign your paycheck, so be careful when you try to "beat" them.

In my "Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui and Blessing" course, I have a more "humane" ritual that does the same thing without beating up people.  It focuses on bringing in helpful mentors into one's life instead.  The ritual works so well that it is reported on the TV in South America.


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Feng Shui of the rotating circular buildings

Note:  This is an updated version of the original blog written in 2010 with certain identifying info removed.

There are rotating circular house videos and pictures floating around the web like this one:
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/seven-rotating-houses-and-towers-that-turn-our-crank.html

The biggest problem of doing Feng Shui for circular houses, especially rotating ones, is the determination of the sitting and facing of the house.

One way to have non-rotating door is to "hang" the donut-shaped house onto a cylindrical pillar that does not rotate-- like a mushroom.

"Mushroom" design has an disadvantage of seeing a wall upon entering the house-- not great for psychological well-being.  The "Form Feng Shui" implication for the residents will be "hitting obstacles wherever they go". Besides, energy or qi does not flow well with this design.

Some Feng Shui schools use the "yang-est" (brightest) side as facing. Determining the facing will be problematic a circular house has "360 degree view" or windows around its perimeter.

In addition, some rotating circular houses rotates one round within an hour or two, the qi or energies entering the house will be very mixed or simply neutralized each other out.

In terms of Form Feng Shui, circle stands for metal energy.  I have seen hospitals in Mexico, Singapore and some other countries are built into circular shape--  metal energy is good for doing surgery.  Residents whose energy profile like wood or wood in nature will suffer limp injury or traffic accidents. But it is good for professionals who are surgeons or doctors.

The probability having a spiral staircase in the middle of the house for mushroom-shaped house is pretty high.  This is another "Feng Shui hazard' in terms of Form Feng Shui.  It looks like a giant cork-screw twisting into the heart of the house.  The Feng Shui implication is certain person in the house will have higher probability of suffering heart problem or accident.

There are some positive features that one can derive from a rotating house.  For examples:

(note: all examples here require limiting rotating to 45 degrees once every 3 months or at most once a month)

• arrange your bedroom sector or where one stays most of the time to sit on the current "timely" star of the year (eg. 8-white star) to enhance wealth luck
• arrange your bedroom to sector that promotes health or recuperation
• arrange your bedroom to 1-6-8 star locations to "make" a baby boy

The principle is simple-- always put your ass on the sectors with auspicious star combinations.

In short, a rotating house, especially the ones with a rotating door, is Feng Shui researchers' delight to do scientific experiments to verify various Feng Shui theories and claims.  We need someone like Bill Gates who would donate a few billions for Feng Shui enthusiasts to do experiments.
 
"Hi Ken, can you give some Feng Shui tips to the residents of rotating houses?"

The residents can rotate the house in such a way that the auspicious stars fall onto their bedrooms sectors and turn off the rotating motor in the evenings.  So the residents can absorb positive energies during their sleep instead of the aimless energy flows during the day.  They need to replace the spiral staircase with something non-spiral or tragedy is likely to happen within 6 years or no longer than 12 years.

You can learn more about Form Feng Shui in my "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" course.


Ken Lai
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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. 


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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


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