I am actually one-fourth Chinese because my paternal grandmother was pure Chinese. However, I was not raised Chinese. In fact, I consider my Chinese influence to be minimal, confined mostly to accompanying my father when I was a child to Binondo where he would go for acupuncture treatments. And even though I am part Chinese, I don’t use feng shui in my business transactions. Two of my siblings though are avid feng shui practitioners.
When I was younger, my older brother would tell me to read some feng shui books he had bought to get an idea of how feng shui works. However, after reading these feng shui books for awhile I would give up and go do something else instead. Not only did I find feng shui to be extraordinarily boring but the books made me dizzy. I guess I really don’t get the way feng shui works. All I know is that my birth year is Water Ox with water being the sign closely associated with Christianity and the Ox being the animal of people who are industrious, patient and hard working. And that’s pretty much it.
I have heard though that there are people (not just those who were born and raised Chinese but also those who just like to believe in feng shui) who will not go into business or do any transactions like buy real estate unless the feng shui signs are “favorable”. To me this doesn’t really make sense but I respect those who are really into feng shui because feng shui might really work for them, even if I can’t make it work for me. To each his own, I say.
My sister told me once that our father was also a follower of feng shui but I can’t remember a single instance when he would practice feng shui with me or in my presence. What I do remember about my half-Chinese, half-Tausug father is that he was a follower of Islam. So maybe I missed out on that Chinese influence somewhere down the line. But it’s okay because not practicing feng shui has not really affected my business practices in any way so far, so I suppose I won’t be needing feng shui anytime soon for any reason.
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