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Hi Everyone, You will be pleased to note that I have compiled a list of Minor Chinese Festivals. Actual date for each festival/birthday is also provided for this year. Do you know the birthday of Chinese God of Wealth? Feel free to find out the various Chinese festivals or birthdays of Chinese gods and immortals celebrated by the Chinese both past and present. Follow this link: http://www.geomancy.net/calendar/festivals-minor.htm Thank you and have a nice day! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi Everyone, You can follow this link to My Calendar, an easy to view consolidated calendar of Major and Minor Chinese Festivals:- http://www.geomancy.net/calendar/index.htm This will be useful, if you are planning an event and would like to know what significance it has in the Chinese calendar. This is just one of the many `important' dates: The Seven Month, the most inauspicious date for the entire year is 6 August 2000. This is the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. Since ancient times, the Chinese belief that during the 7th month, the gates of hell is opened and hungry ghosts are allowed to wander on earth. This is considered a dangerous month to go out. Chinese avoid …

Dear Users, We are pleased to inform you that after several hours (12-16 hours) of data transfer (for over hundred of thousands users profile), My FengShui has been deployed on the new server:) We would like to thank all users for their continued support and we are happy to have provided our services to hundred of thousands of users all over the internet since the online management has been created in Jan 1999. We had dedicated high performance servers to each key section of the site so that you can enjoy full dedicated responses from each server. This means that there are now plenty of bandwidth and server resources available to My FengShui, My Adviser, and all other ser…

Dear Users, After several days of testing on the various sections of the site, all the recent changes such as changes in url or access to the My Adviser, My FengShui, etc should be working properly by today. This is because it usually takes the rest of the internet about 24 to 48 hours before all the changes are permanently updated to their cache servers. If you do encounter any problems accessing any parts of the site, feel free to e-mail to robert-lee@3dmail.com and I will look into it. Also, we would like to apologise if there we are still any unanswered queries sent to us during the upgrades. Meanwhile, I will be clearing my e-mail and forum message which I may have …

Dear Users, 1. We have added an onsite human assistance support to the key pages of this site. For example in this forum and main pages of geomancy.net and geomancy-online.com 2. The purpose for this addition, is to support all users who encountered problem(s) or simply need to contact us personally to get prompt assistance. 3. This means that whenever we are logon online or when we have sometime to spare during the daytime (usually between 9 am to 9 pm GMT +0800). We will be around to assist you with your problems or enquries. 4. The help icon will show the status e.g. We are ONLINE or Leave us a message if we are not available. Whenever, we are not around, you can leave…

Dear Users, 1. Many users have requested for samples of auspicious Chinese Symbols. I have gradually added samples (pictures) of auspicious Chinese Symbols. Many designs are common and standard designs. For example, these symbols, patterns and motifs can be found in Chinese `antique' furnitures, decorative panels, crockery etc... 2. This collection of Symbols/ motifs/ patterns is gradually building up under the conference: Photo Tours of Interest. You need to login to the forum in order to view the graphics as it is not feasible to sent to users through the e-mail as these attachments may take up precious email space. 3. In addition, more things Chinese e.g. Chinese cult…

MIRC Chat: chat.geomancy.net Dear User, Having seen how much interest has been generated in the recent addition of our Human Assistance in both the main page of www.geomancy.net and important pages of the site. We are pleased to inform you that a Geomancy Group Chat Feature available to all users. Previously, users have to login to the forum before they can gain access to the Chat channels such as #free-advice. This Chat feature allows a group of users to interact with each other rather than a one-to-one chatting on the Human Assistance. We have added the Java Chat Client to the main page so that all forum users, visitors of this site can interact with each other withou…

Dear Users, My FengShui has been given a new look. - Online Reports (partial) - Electronic Books (completed) - Online Course (partial) We have been listening to your feedbacks and have re-designed the My FengShui with the similar design concepts from the various external navigation pages. In addition, as we were re-designing the pages, we were also going through the various modules and optimised the codes so that every page generation is faster. We have put up a sample link for the new online interface. And would like to hear from users about the type of interface you prefer. Currently there are three different interface. 1. By Categories interface uses similar categories…

Dear Users, What is My Pictures? My Pictures is a series of pictures/photos on Feng Shui, Chinese Culture & Chinese Symbols. View pictures continously and easily This url serves as an easy reference of pictures and photos posted to the popular geomancy-forum.com: - http://www.geomancy.net/slideshow/index.htm Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Users, We have disabled the auto focusing on the windows for Netscape 3 and below, so that any javascript will not cause you from having difficulties logging into the forum or any pop up windows. This means that for older browsers users, if the window has been previously opened, it will not automatically bring the window into focus. But at least this should allow you to login to the system properly. Whenever you login to My FengShui, My Adviser, or My Mail, the system will launch the site into a new window. I have modified the startup so that My FengShui and My Adviser will not share the same window. This would allow you to switch between the two window in case you n…

Newsgroup: forum.geomancy.net Dear Users, How to configure Microsoft Outlook Check out this link on how to configure your Microsoft Outlook to read messages using a news client:- http://www.geomancy.net/newsgroup/index.htm Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee P.S. Configuring using other newsreader agents is similar:)

Dear Users, We would firstly like to apologise to all users who have been having problems accessing the My FengShui Site www.geomancy-online.com since 21 Feb 2000 at 10 pm (+0800). As there were more than a few million profiles, it took us sometime to restore all the profiles. The reason for the disruption has been due to a hard disk crash. This crash had affected our new US main database server (primary and backup), as it was a hardware problem, it has affected our most recent 2 hourly online backup. Such that we had to restore the data from our `old' local server. Together with recent unaffected profiles which we could recover after the crash. My FengShui ( www.geomancy…

Dear Users, We have updated the configuration for the My Adviser, and tested the newsgroup access for the My Adviser. It is now working properly at server address: forum.geomancy.net. Users who wish to obtain new messages & participate via a newsgroup reader can access the configuration setting for Outlook Express and Forte Agent Newsgroup reader. http://www.geomancy.net/newsgroup/index.htm We have enabled all the conferences so that they will appear under the newsgroup. For users who participate actively, will find this newsgroup easier to manage then the normal mailing list, as all the messages will be grouped based on the thread that it was sent in. Thus, you will…

Dear Users, Opportunities for Joint-Collaboration to further Traditional Feng Shui Translation of Resources at Geomancy.net into other languages 1. If you have a keen interest and a similar passion for Feng Shui and would like to translate our work into your native language and start a website in your country, please drop us a note. Personalized Free Forecasts for your site 2. We have also been approached to provide especially the Free Forecasts to Portal Sites and will also activatively work in this direction. Addition of Feng Shui to Courses at Polytechnics and Universities 3. Tailor made courses on Feng Shui appreciation etc.. More 4. If you have any other proposals, f…

Dear Users, As you can tell we have been very busy updating the site for your benefit. My Directory ============ URL: http://mydirectory.geomancy.net We have implemented our own Web online directory. This directory will be used to organise all the various resources found in our website, as well as to serve as a web directory which we will put up for linking various resources from all over the web. This will also allow you search for all the various resources which has been neatly organised in this web directory. We are still updating the various contents we have on our website into the database. However, we have updated and documented most of the key resources found in t…

Dear Users, The messages under Free Advice nearly reaches the 3,000 `mark.' Here, I like to share with you the following:- I reproduce, an excerpt of the `Certificate in Applied Feng Shui Course':- Para 12.8. Four Guidelines to Good Feng Shui Practises Here are Four Guidelines to Good Feng Shui Practises:- 1. Monetary rewards is always tempting but we should be honest in your dealings with your clients. 2. Avoid applying too many enhancements or `cures' to a specific location at any one time. If you do so and if something goes wrong you will never know which `cure' was used `wrongly. Fortunately " Dead man tell no tales ". However, this is no way to do Feng Shui Audits. …

I was inspired by Reader Digest's `Laughter is the Best Medicine' which I truly enjoyed since young to come up with Caricatures on Feng Shui and related subjects. As the heading says it all, ` Laughter is the Best Medicine'. In addition, a picture is said to paint a thousand words! The first images went up on 16 April 2000. Have a good laugh! Warmest Regards, Cecil P.S. Drawing from Glyn's personal comments that she enjoyed them; I agree with her that these illustrations can also be considered `Greater Education' series.

Geomancy.net's own Banner Exchange Network! URL: http://mybanner.geomancy.net Objective of this banner exchange A. To add life and color to the website. *JOKE* B. More importantly, it will help us maintain the various free resources such as this forum and other resources and continue to be strong and healthy. By doing so, we hope to progress and continue to grow from strength to strength. Information for Webmasters:- 1. We have tested our new Banner Exchange software for more than three weeks. And we have just resetted all the trial statistics a few days ago. We now officially accept new members. 2. Webmasters can join our free banner exchange network. 3. Details of a…

Dear Members, 1. New page layout for Geomancy-forum.com Hope you find the new layout better! 2. Free Advice (General Topics) 2.1 I have enabled file attachments of not more than 200k so that pictures or illustrations can be added and viewed easily. (Limited to maximum of 2 attachments) per mail. 2.2 For attaching layouts, please continue to post it to the Conference for Attaching Layout which will allow larger attachments. 2.3 The attachments will also allow me to post caricatures; to be clicked rather than `pop-up' on your screen i.e. only if you want to view it, please click on it. We will continue to monitor your feedback and if necessary make further changes. Wishing …

Dear Users, We have just added some frequently asked questions help and uses for the various online reports. URL: http://my.geomancy.net/help It provides answers to many frequently asked question and some help on what are the uses and etc. The help resources are in it's 1st edition of revision, so it may not yet cover every possible aspect of the reports details. However, users should find it useful in knowing what report is used for and many commonly asked question about the report itself. Hope that helps! We are working on many areas of improvement to using and understanding the report better and many more. Warmest Regards Robert Lee