The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures

The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures traces the 3,000 history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous history of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and conquest, and civil war, resulting in valiant attempts to rescue and preserve the collection. Throughout history, different Chinese regimes used the imperial collection to bolster their own political legitimacy, domestically and internationally. 

The narrative follows the gradual formation of the Peking Palace Museum in 1925, its hasty fragmentation as large parts of the collection were moved perilously over long distances to escape wartime destruction, and finally its formal division into what are today two Palace Museums - one in Beijing, the other in Taipei. Enlivened by the personalities of those who cared for the collection, this textured account of the imperial treasures highlights magnificent artworks and their arduous transit through politics, war, and diplomatic reconciliations. 

Over the years, control of the collections has been fiercely contested, from early dynasties through Mongol and Japanese invaders to Nationalist and Communist rivals - a saga that continues today. This first book-length investigation of the imperial collections will be of great interest to China scholars, historians, and Chinese art specialists. Its tales of palace intrigue will fascinate a wide variety of readers.

New Korea Drama Attracts Wealth of Viewership exceeding Billion views on Video as K –pop Culture exceeds above law of attraction

iQIYI.com, a popular online streaming service in China recently  bought the right to bring  South Korean’s new TV drama  You Who Came  From the Stars  to china  TV viewer   and is attracting a wealth of viewership ,  reaching a new high of how a popular  k- drama in short  breeze of time manage  top TV  raking  hitting  top viewership in China

The  full  episodes on iQIYI have been viewed more than 550 million times. And the number doesn’t even take into account of websites that feature the show illegally.

Every week when a new episode comes out, it became  the top trending topics on Weibo, China’s leading social media, with  millions of user searching  for  details  on its storyline or the characters. For example, as both  the male actor  Do Min-Joon and female  actor , Cheon Song-yi is the top searched keyword on Weibo. 

The show is so popular that it may just as well save China’s declining poultry market amid the recent health crisis  affected  by  the  new deadly bird flu fears. “Fried chicken and beer” are the heroine’s favorite treat, especially on a snowing day. During the recent Valentine’s Day, many restaurants in China promoted “fried chicken and beer” as their main Valentine dish.

Alien fever triumphs bird flu.

The drama  brought  on New Found Wealth  as  the advertisement   accompanying  each  serial broadcast each week  shot  up ,with advertiser  hoping  to  catch  up with the hot trends  for maximum  customer  clicking on their  advertisement ,the millions of viewers covering  from china to South  east Asian viewers  were mostly streaming   to watching online with  their portable gadgets . the online  streaming  each tooks hours as each serial  last average 45 minutes per show and  viewer  were watch average  2  episodes  while travelling   or relaxing at home . What brought  on such popularity  was further enhanced as viewer simple shared the video on line  using social media  and the   raking  just  keep shooting  up .

The  show is a romantic comedy about an alien who comes to Korea during the Joseon Dynasty 400 years ago. He shifts to modern times and falls in love with an actress. The  storyline were  written by Park Ji Eun, who  works include  the drama My Husband Got A Family, which  will be produced by Jang Tae Yoo.

The lead role, Do Min Joon, who has a fascinating appearance and has  wonderful abilities, comes to Joseon by UFO, and  has lived for four centuries by changing his identity, and falls in love with an actress named Chun Song E

September 25, 1609. An alien crash  landed in  Joseon. For 404 years, he is living as a young handsome man and  has kep his original self  as the first time he came to the Earth. He has eyes of a hawk, and ears of a wolf, and he can move great speed.

 In certain moments, he can foresee the near future of someone. But he carefully hides his powers and never uses them. Until he can leave Earth, he plans to live peacefully with dignity and not get involved with anyone. Fundamentally, he is very cynical about love. He believes that love, as talked about by humans, is basically curiosity, jealousy, sexual desires, possessiveness, sympathy that is misunderstood.

But once Min Joon meets a woman named Cheon Song Yi, his life without his consent is filled with unexpected situations. For the first time after 400 years in Earth, this beautiful man from outer space starts to  understand  real love. And as his real identity is revealed to the world, he is threatened and becomes in danger.

But the real beating heart of the show is the heroine Cheon Song-yi, played by Jun Ji-hyun. Song-yi has been a star since childhood and was once crowned South Korea’s “national sweetheart.” Her fame gradually vanished after one of her rival stars was murdered by the evil guy in the show. Jun gives the character life by playing her as a proud (about her beauty), creative  and  outgoing  girl , but vulnerable at  times

 “She is a perfect goddess in one minute, and then in the next minute, she is a completely silly girl.”

Pi Xiu attracts wealth

Pi Xiu, or Pi Yao is very Famous in Chinese cultural believe in Feng Shui. It is portrayed as a winged lion. Many believe that it is a combination of earth and sea, in which means that the creature generates wealth. It has an appetite for only gold and silver. This has made believes that it possess mystical powers to draw wealth energy from all directions. This powerful creature is usually used to attract wealth or protect people against evil spirits.

A myth of Pi Xiu stated it violated a law of heaven, therefore the Jade Emperor punished it by forcing it's diet to gold and sealed its buttocks. So Pi Xiu only absorb gold. This is how Pi Xiu gained its status on attracting wealth.

Wealth Street in Kuala Lumpur ,Malaysia

As we walk down the street at the Pavilion in Malaysia , you can see the recent development along Malaysia’s Wealthiest street , along the side you will feel the brisk of yuppies shoppers doing their window shopping and browsing all the top branded goods , while some will join the long queue of customers lining up for some exclusive boutique to open , so that they can get the classic models of handbangs recently introduced . I thought it happens only at galleries lafayette in France or at Canton street in Hongkong , but here the queue might be shorter , but you might find middle eastern rich tourist here joining the queue with some Chinese tourist.

Pavilion shopping center

At night, as we strolled down the same street ,we come across the Hutong food court at the lower level of Lot 10 shopping centre , where you will find some of the most luxurious stalls serving some of best of the best local food of Malaysia .
Further along the street , we come by the most exclusive Starhill shopping centre where the whole building is packed with exclusive branded goods and after shopping around in the building ,we could feel it has an exclusive class of its own , with it’s surrounding playing nice classical music giving an ambient of soothing rich feeling to the shoppers .

Truly Malaysia has display its wealth , with a further growing economy with a forecast of GDP of 6 % this year . This wealth is promptly displayed with the Night glamour and spotlights surrounding the Exclusive and Ever Prosperous KL Twin Tower which stood proudly within the Night beauty of the City.


Along Bukit Bintang

The Twin Towers

Cherry Blossoms

My recent rip to Taiwan was yet another marvelous one. The site of blossoms are great.

The blossoming of these flower( cherry blossoms) create a positive and pleasure chi. These hence attracts insects to help pollinate them. Similarly, flowers help blossom ones wealth, and this usually happen during the Chinese new year period

The Fountain Of Wealth

The bronze fountain, located at Suntec City, Singapore is Famous of many occasions. It has been in the Amazing Race Asian twice, at which both were clue checkpoints. It was also the place where the hit Indian Movie, Krrish, in which Krrish uses the area to locate his enemy’s helicopter.
The fountain is 13.8 metres high and occupies 1683.07 metres of land. It was in 1998 edition of the Guinness Book of Records for the “World's Largest Fountain”. The Fountain is located at the heart of Marina Centre Area, in which it is located near to its neighbours. Suntec City was created with 5 tower buildings, at which it represents the fingers and the thumb. The fountain is in the centre, representing the palm.
The water of the fountain flows inwards. His is as such as, in the Chinese culture; it is believed that water is a symbol for life and wealth. With the inward motion, it shows the Suntec City is gaining and attracting wealth. Visitors are also invited to walk around the fountain’s centre base 3 rounds, with their hand on the base handle of the fountain; touching the water. This is said to bring one wealth and good luck.

Major Stamp Auction may exceed over HK 45 Million

A large stamp auction is to be held in Hongkong from Jan 30 to 31 , 2010 at the Parklane Hotel in which some 1800 stamps,postcard and covers from mainland China , Hongkong and other Asian countries in the region will go under the hammer , adding a total value to over HK 45 Million

It includes the largest sale of China in years, with not only the great rarities of the Qing Dynasty, but also a special catalogue of the "Treasures of the Cultural Revolution" that includes all Four of the Treasures, the rarest stamps of the People's Republic. This is the first time that all Four Treasures have been offered in the same auction
Further information is available at interasia-auctions Limited ’s website . The following will be some of the exclusive stamps with photo provided by xinhuanet.

2010 Chinese New Year stamps

Being a stamp collector i am always very fond of collecting Chinese New Year stamps. This year is the year of the Tiger(according to the Chinese zodiac) Well as you can see i have collected limited edition stamp. The above picture shows 1998's Tiger stamps and the bottom show's this year's tiger stamp. Both are from Singapore. Apparently the value of the 1998 tiger stamp has increased over the past 12 years. But of course, this stamps are kept in mint condition. The wealth built by such collections will increase each day.

More on The Laughing Buddha

Many times in our lives, we feel anger and frustrated. These negative emotions tend to build up in our bodies and may cause illness and health related problems. This shows the importance to stay happy, joyful. Distressing is very important to our lives, a start will be to follow the board smile from the laughing Buddha.
By looking at the Laughing Buddha’s face, there will be a sense of happiness. His smile will always brighten my day. Smiling is a very special thing, try smiling at anyone, don’t be surprise, they may smile back at you. The Laughing Buddha always smiles, bringing happiness and joy to many. He is a person of loving character. He has a large tummy and board smile, this features brought him the name laughing Buddha.
For many years, people viewed him as a symbol of happiness, wealth, prosperity and good fortune. He is seen in many different forms, some with a walking stick; some with many children around him. Even so his smile will always signify happiness; his tummy, wealth; his bag, worries of people in which he takes on.

In Singapore, Bugis, thousand of people from asia comes to visit the Laughing Buddha. They would perform the "welcoming wealth procedure"(which will be discussed below). They would also visit the nearby temple for luck, food fortune and wealth.

In Feng Shui, it is believed that placing him in their wealth direction will bring them wealth. For this coming New Year, Chinese believe in worshipping the Laughing Buddha at temples to bring in luck and wealth for the New Year. Also, people believed that rubbing his ears, followed by chest, then his tummy, would bring them wealth and prosperity. At which that procedure is known as the “welcoming wealth procedure”. People in the business industry also use him to bring wealth and fortune. In such cases, they would also use gold ingots and other symbols of wealth to create and abundance of positive chi to created good luck, happiness and most importantly, wealth.
So let the Laughing Buddha make you happy and wealthy.

Will this cause a decline of Wealth for Johor Bahru?

On Jan 7th 2010, there was an article which I came across, titled “No Petrol Subsidy for Non-Citizens From May 1”. The article’s emphasis is just as the title, the increase in price of petrol for non-citizens. Johor Bahru has been visited by many Singaporeans who went there to purchase cheap petrol and make some round of shopping in the town
With this new regulation in place, it might just mean that Singaporeans that are looking for cheap petrol, may not go over to Johor Bahru anymore. With this group of buyers gone, Malaysia would see quite a great drop in number of people who find no reason to go shopping in Johor again .
This justify a re-consideration by the Minister , as johor will feel the pinch .
When the new Johor Custom was opened early last year , there was a big divert of traffic in the city , and former shops which were bustling with good business ,suddenly see an out flow of their turnover ,as traffic was divert direct to Johor town ,giving the city a miss . Business came down , and now they will be affected twice , but this time almost the whole town will be affected .
On top of that, the subsidy of the petrol is going to be sub-categorised throughout the Country . This means that not all Malaysians are getting their petrol subsidy also . Only those who are in the lower income range, and can afford cars with only small capacity engines will not be affected much .
On the foreigners end, there really still is not much lost for them as well , especially for Singaporean with their Strong dollar .
Going by the exchange rates, overall, prices of oil are still cheaper in Malaysia, in comparison to prices in Singapore. Therefore, the decline in wealth for which Johor will face will be imminent at the start. However, in longer terms, Johor will still be in good wealth as it is now.
Maybe the new Integrated Resorts ,opening in Singapore soon will also attract some tourist from other countries whom visit Singapore to cross the borders to get their Passport Chopped with the Malaysia Immigration chop , then maybe visit Maybe Iskandar , or visit the city to boost some shopping sales , left-out by those whom not happy with the new Petrol prices.
Source http : seowealthsblog.blogspot.com

With Reference to the article; http://http//www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=466735
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I have just recently made a recent trip to Hong Kong. It is a really wonderful place. The city is well developed and is continuing to grow financially stronger and bigger both economic and structural terms. As of October 2007 Hong Kong's stock exchange has been the 6th largest in the world, with around US$3 trillion worth of capitalisation. With the same area of land, about 1100 square km, Hong Kong has a really remarkably accomplished as the leading Financial Center in Asia .





Since many years ago , people believe Hong Kong’s success has been attained due to it’s good Feng Shui and truly some places in Hongkong , the Feng Shui’s Qi is typically been able to contribute good wealth

A good example is the God of Wealth who is known for bring wealth and joy to the world. At Hongkong’s Repulse Bay, the statue of the God of Wealth stands there. Repulse Bay is now one of the most expensive housing areas, with some property prices as high as US$2500 per square feet. Several millionaires, such as , Sir Run Run Shaw ,Mr Li Ka Shing , Mr En Tong Sween own properties and houses around Repulse Bay. It was said that, the statues of the various Gods in the area brought such wealth and prosperity to fellow residents in the area also .

There is a special ritual in which people perform, to gain the blessing of wealth from the statue of the god of wealth. It was said that people should rub his forehead, hands and belt, after which they need to keep it in their pockets to gain such blessings.

The Laughing Buddha

The Laughing Buddha, a.k.a Hotei or the Fat Buddha, is famous for his for his feature and cheerful character. He symbolizes happiness and good luck. Many people believe that rubbing his belly will bring them wealth, prosperity and good luck.

He is seen carrying a sack, in which poeple believe it contain 'goodies' like sweets, food and rice plants.The sack would have a symbol of wealth on it.

Also in Feng Shui, it is believe that he is a symbol for wealth. He must not be place on floors but on elvated areas to show a form of respect and that he must be placed in the direction of one's personal wealth direction.