Photo Shoot by CM Photography

Just in recent last Sunday, for 3 years myself & Ming did not seen each other since the last photo shoot we did some 3 years ago. And this time on this particular day we happened to get contacted.

On that day itself, we paired up again for another photo shoot. I would like to thank Karena for her help in doing the make-up for me.

Before sharing the nice shoots done by CM Photography; anyone interested to get their shoots done can find them at 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cm-photography/106614729400119

Bagua Pendants

Bagua pendants are beautiful fashion accessories that protect the wearer from negative energy while bringing good fortune.

The bagua, sometimes referred to as pakua, is one of the most important and basic tools of feng shui. Using the bagua map, feng shui practitioners can determine areas of their homes or offices that need a change or would benefit from a feng shui cure.

The bagua symbol, a yin yang surrounded by the eight trigrams of the I-Ching arranged in an octagonal shape, is used in many feng shui cures both inside and outside of the home. It protects the home or office from harmful negative energy. The center yin yang represents the duality found in everything in the universe. The eight trigrams represent many things including:

• The eight navigational directions
• Life situations
• Family members
• Aspects of nature
• Personality traits

Bagua Pendants

When worn as a pendant a bagua symbol wards off shar qi, or negative energies and evil. The wearer is protected from accidents and harm. Bagua necklaces also draw good luck, prosperity and good health to the wearer.There are beautiful pendants with the bagua symbol that look wonderful worn by women, men and children. A common practice is giving a young child a bagua necklace when they are born. Parents often pin the pendant to the baby's clothing to help keep them safe and healthy.

Examples of Pendants with the Bagua Symbol

Bagua necklaces and pendants come in a variety of materials, styles and designs. The prices of these lovely bagua amulets range from a few dollars to many thousands of dollars. The following is a sampling of the many beautiful bagua necklaces and pendants you can find online.

With the wide variety of styles and designs of bagua pendants available, choosing one to wear is a great way to show your love for feng shui while benefiting from the protective energies of this powerful symbol.

Bagua pendants eliminates sha chi - bad energy.

This bad feng shui energy can lead to illness and depression for those who are exposed to it for a long amount of time.

Also Si Chi, or low feng shui energy, can be found outside (for example in the land where the energy of the human massacre, or overwhelming human tragedies, is still potent) or inside the buildings that have strong geopathic stress, for example.

We have all experienced, at one time or the other, the effects of "bad vibes", or bad feng shuienergy. Do your best to avoid these places and be sure there are no such feng shui energies in your home.

Strive to be surrounded by the good feng shui energy - Sheng Chi - in your home and office.

Also Known As: bad vibes

Examples:

Your house is free of external Sha Chi; which is excellent. However, your bedroom has Si Chi energy. This can explain why you often feel low energy and sad.

After owning a Bagua pendant, maybe you should consider to see a feng shui master to have it (开光) for an actual benefits of the Bagua Pendant/ bring it to life and protect the wearer.

The red dots seen on the Bagua pendant was done due to the 开光 ceremony.

In the Mood for Body Massage at Home

While I was playing with my new necklace earlier today; listening to its tingling sound; then out of sudden I was in the mood for some massage. 

Happened to be my sis just came back from her movie session and I ran out of my room and asked whether she's up to do a little massage for me. And....

Have you Cartier?

I love jewelry and awesomely in love with Cartier's. But the one collection I am so indulge in is the Cartier Love Collection. 


The House of Cartier combines traditional craftsmanship with a rich imagination. This inventiveness 
is fuelled by an open-minded curiosity and boldness, both emblematic characteristics of the brand.
There is magic in names like Santos de Cartier, Tank, Le Baiser du dragon, Panthère de Cartier, 
Caresse d’orchidées par Cartier, La Doña de Cartier and Ballon bleu de Cartier. Cartier draws on 
its own history as well as strong universal symbols for its inspiration.

Pieces of jewellery are mysterious gifts of nature transformed by the hand of the master jeweller. 
Each is unique. Jewellery by Cartier for women, men and children can help celebrate a special 
occasion, or be offered as a wonderful surprise!

And here it is which I finally having my favourite Cartier in my jewelry collection specially brought for me from my friend while visiting Europe.

I am loving this piece so much that I would wear it day and night. It defeated all of my other collections.

If you are just like me or if you appreciate fine jewelry, maybe you should get your piece from Cartier Boutique, KLCC. Seriously you will not regret.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival (simplified Chinese: 中秋节; traditional Chinese: 中秋節; pinyin: zhōngqiū jié), also known as the Moon Festival orChinese Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese andVietnamese people.^[1] A description of the festival first appeared in Rites of Zhou, a written collection of rituals of the Western Zhou Dynasty from 3,000 years ago.^[1] The celebration became popular during the early Tang Dynasty.^[1] The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in theChinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox.^[1] The Government of the People's Republic of China listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritage" in 2006, and it was made a Chinese public holiday in 2008.^[1] It is also a public holiday in Taiwan.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Spring Festival and Winter Solstice.^[1]Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:

• Eating mooncakes^[1][2], traditionally consisting primarily of lotus bean paste.
• Drinking tea.
• Matchmaking. In some parts of China, dances are held for young men and women to find partners. "One by one, young women are encouraged to throw their handkerchiefs to the crowd. The young man who catches and returns the handkerchief has a chance of romance."^[1]
• Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns.^[1]
• Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e
• Fire Dragon Dances.^[1]
• Solving riddles, or miyu in Mandarin Chinese, usually written on slips of paper and pasted on the lanterns.^{[citation needed]}
• Moon rabbit is a traditional icon.^[1]

Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival is strongly associated with the legend of Houyi, his student Feng Meng, and Chang'e, the Moon Goddess ofImmortality. Tradition places these figures from Chinese mythology at around 2200 BCE, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Yao, shortly after that of Huangdi. Unlike many lunar deities in other cultures who personify the moon, Chang'e simply lives on the moon.

There are many variants and adaptations of the legend of Chang'e that frequently contradict each other. However, most versions of the legend involve some variation of the following elements: Houyi, the Archer, an emperor, either benevolent or malevolent, and an elixir of life.

One version of the legend states that Houyi was an immortal and Chang'e was a beautiful young girl, working in the palace of the Jade Emperor (theEmperor of Heaven, 玉帝 pinyin:Yùdì) as an attendant to the Queen Mother of the West (the Jade Emperor's wife). Houyi aroused the jealousy of the other immortals, who then slandered him before the Jade Emperor. Houyi and his wife, Chang'e, were subsequently banished from heaven. They were forced to live on Earth. Houyi had to hunt to survive and became a skilled and famous archer.

At that time, there were ten suns, in the form of three-legged birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea. Each day one of the sun birds would have to travel around the world on a carriage, driven by Xihe, the 'mother' of the suns. One day, all ten of the suns circled together, causing the Earth to burn. Emperor Yao, the Emperor of China, commanded Houyi to use his archery skill to shoot down all but one of the suns. Upon completion of his task, the Emperor rewarded Houyi with a pill that granted eternal life. Emperor Yao advised Houyi not to swallow the pill immediately but instead to prepare himself by praying and fasting for a year before taking it.^[3] Houyi took the pill home and hid it under a rafter. One day, Houyi was summoned away again by Emperor Yao. During her husband's absence, Chang'e, noticed a white beam of light beckoning from the rafters, and discovered the pill. Chang'e swallowed it and immediately found that she could fly. Houyi returned home and, realizing what had happened, he began to reprimend his wife. Chang'e escaped by flying out the window into the sky.^[3]

Houyi pursued her halfway across the heavens but was forced to return to Earth because of strong winds. Chang'e reached the moon, where she coughed up part of the pill.^[3] Chang'e commanded the hare that lived on the moon to make another pill. Chang'e would then be able to return to Earth and her husband.^{[citation needed]}

The legend states that the hare is still pounding herbs, trying to make the pill. Houyi built himself a palace in the sun, representing "Yang" (the male principle), in contrast to Chang'e's home on the moon which represents "Yin" (the female principle). Once a year, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Houyi visits his wife. That is the reason why the moon is very full and beautiful on that night.^[3]

This description appears in written form in two Western Han dynasty (206 BC-24 AD) collections; Shan Hai Jing, the Classic of the Mountains and Seas and Huainanzi, a philosophical classic.^[4]

Another version of the legend, similar to the one above, differs in saying that Chang'e swallowed the pill of immortality because Peng, one of Houyi's many apprentice archers, tried to force her to give the pill to him. Knowing that she could not fight off Peng, Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the pill herself.^{[citation needed]}

Other versions say that Houyi and Chang'e were still immortals living in heaven at the time that Houyi killed nine of the suns. The sun birds were the sons of the Jade Emperor, who punished Houyi and Chang'e by forcing them to live on Earth as mortals. Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to find the pill that would restore it. At the end of his quest, he met the Queen Mother of the West, who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half a pill to regain immortality. Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not to open the case, and then left home for a while. Chang'e became curious. She opened up the case and found the pill, just as Houyi was returning home. Nervous that Houyi would catch her discovering the contents of the case, she swallowed the entire pill, and started to float into the sky because of the overdose. She kept floating until she reached the moon, where she stayed with her pet rabbit, also known as the Jade Rabbit.

Some versions of the legend do not refer to Houyi or Chang'e as having previously been immortals and initially present them as mortals instead.^{[citation needed]}

There are also versions of the story in which Houyi was made king as a reward for killing nine of the suns and saving the people. However, King Houyi became a despot who either stole a pill of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West or learned that he could make such a pill by grinding up the body of a different adolescent boy every night for a hundred nights. Chang'e stole the pill and swallowed it herself, either to stop more boys being killed or to prevent her husband's tyrannical rule from lasting forever.

Return to Tiffany, Latest Design

Princess birthday is around the corner. After some thought, this will be her birthday pressie.

Got it in a pair so we could have the same necklace as sisters alike.

Return to Tiffany is the classic design of Tiffany & Co but this particular design was the latest of those in this collection.