【有子初長成🌱】As the Little One grows

我在八月尾為這位在新加坡的中國客人批她的八字，之後在九月尾為她的三歲兒子批八字。

事後，這位分析能力極強的女客人寫了一封感謝函給我。

我很喜歡為小孩批八字。有些父母認為孩子太小不宜批八字。對我而言，孩子一滿歲就該批了。

如此，父母能提早規劃他們的未來，引導他們往對的方向發展。小孩的潛能、喜好和習性也能從八字裡窺探個究竟，而無需靠誤打誤撞或東敲西打，省心又省力。

某次，在批一位少年的八字時，我說少年的頭髮對他很重要，切勿剪得太短。那位爸爸才驚呼，難怪之前硬硬把孩子的頭髮剪得很短時，孩子至今依然氣爸爸，不再讓爸爸碰他的頭髮。

如果早點知道這些點滴的竅門，父母便能深入了解孩子的心態，給他一個更快樂的童年，而不會執意用強硬的手段，讓孩子蒙上陰影，間接破壞了親子關係。

據寫這感謝函的客人表示，孩子一個月前剛轉校。媽媽以為需要幾個月的時間，孩子才能適應。但在這兩個星期裡，他們夫妻倆照著我的指示，換了孩子的小床、部份的日用品和穿著後，本來慢熱的孩子在學校的話越來越多，和其他小朋友交流時，也更顯熱情了。

這只是個開端而已。當這對父母能持續做下去時，他們必會看到一個更陽光，更健康成長的愛心大男孩！

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I met this client from China towards the end of August for a Bazi Analysis, followed by another one with the same client. This time it was for her child. After that session, this client of mine, who has a strong analytical mind, wrote me a thank you email.

I take special liking in doing Bazi Analysis for children. Some parents feel it is inappropriate to analyse the Bazi if the child is too young. In my opinion, you ought to get it done as soon as the child turns one.

Doing so allows you to do early planning for the child’s future and guiding them on the right developmental path. A child’s potential, likings and tendencies can be decoded from his Bazi, saving you time and effort going in circles in the blind.

There was one occasion when I was analysing a teenager’s Bazi. I told the father not to cut his son’s hair too short as his hair was important to him. The father was shocked and recounted the time he forcefully cut his child’s hair to a very short length. His child is still angry with him till today and refuses to let him touch his hair.

If you had known earlier these little intricacies, you as a parent would be able to better understand the mentality of your child, giving him or her happier growing up years rather than resorting to high-handed ways and indirectly straining the parent-child relationship.

The client who wrote this thank you email told me that her child got transferred to a new school in end August. She thought the child would need a few months to acclimatise. In the past 2 weeks, both parents took my advice and changed the child’s little bed, clothing and other daily necessities. The shy boy began to open up and became more chatty and friendly in his interactions with other children.

This is only the beginning. If the parents persevere, they will see their son transform into a bright, healthy and loving boy!

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Testimonial translated:

Amitabha, hello, Teacher Ji Qian. Having seen you twice, on 31 Aug for my Bazi analysis, and 24 Sep together with my husband for my child’s Bazi analysis, I am extremely grateful for the extra time you have given us on both occasions. My heart ached that you had to go with little food the entire session. My gratitude to you for the patience and detailed advice. I am delighted to hear you speak the Dharma including the Law of Karma and other principles, wishing that I could hear them more often from you. I am always ready with my little stool, eagerly anticipating your new videos. I hope I can still book you again to hear your teachings and advice, for they are especially motivating for me! Haha~

Your analysis were very accurate, about many things in my life and my child’s. For example, my child is especially clingy to me, his acute sense of colours, his inability to express his feelings, his slow reactions with his limbs and speech, even something as minute as his penchant for looking in the mirror! This is truly amazing! You said that this child will have benefactors of maternal nature, so you must be his first one helping him to guide his first-time and often unaware parents with detailed advice. We will work hard to follow your instructions to the tee, to help him shine during his peak cycles and motivate him to persevere during his down time.

Meeting you is my great fortune. Your divination of my luck cycles, including the year I came to Singapore, was very accurate. I also understood the reason for my dwindling motivation towards my R&D work which I am proficient in and my tendency to give up on things I initially started with keen interest. Of course you pointed out my positive traits, and now I understand why my friends like to hear me speak and why my analytical nature. You have such ability to decipher such great amount of information from seemingly simple Bazi characters. My greatest struggle comes when my desire to go for Lasik surgery was met with my husband’s objection. He was worried about the after-effects of such surgery. But I told him Teacher Ji Qian said I can do it, thus he relented. So now I must strike when the iron is hot and quickly book an appointment! Haha! I have great faith in your divinations on my future years and I look forward to changing the negatives in my life. I hope to get more advice from you if we meet the next time (Of course your Youtube channel is fantastic but I enjoy more to see you live in person. I am your super fan, although a low-profile one)

One more thing to add, your husband is commendable, always accompanying you. It’s heart warming. I wish the both of you everlasting bliss!

Love you much, hand hearts from many angles.

Wishing you and your family auspiciousness at all times.

Regards,
Wenya

When I was pregnant with Iman, I had wanted to try VBAC - Vaginal birth After Caesarean.

I was also opting for a water birth after watching so many success stories over videos online.

My husband agreed on the VBAC after a few visits to different doctors and getting one to agree to perform the procedure.

But he was adamant against the water birth.

I was a bit cross with him because I thought he was open to new ideas and “going natural” but he put his foot down and said “I agreed with VBAC even though most of the doctors were dead against it, but I won’t give my blessings for a water birth and a doula. I’m sorry”

So my hippy self relented and Iman was born safely to the world.

When I read this article this morning, I said a silent prayer — unable to shake that feeling knowing if anything had happened to her had we proceeded with a free-birth despite Azmi’s objection, would I be able to forgive myself?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/she-wanted-freebirth-no-doctors-online-groups-convinced-her-it-n1140096

When God Shows you a Vision, Pray!

“Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest. When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh. Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.” (Amos‬ ‭7:1-6‬ ‭WEB)

Some of you have been receiving visions or dreams from God.

When God shows you something, it’s not just for fun. He is inviting you to intercede and to pray about the matter.

In the passage above, if prophet Amos had not interceded for Israel, Israel would have perished from a terrible famine.

If he did not continue to pray, Israel would have been devoured by raging fire.

God loves to deal with man mercifully. When we pray for the welfare of those who ought to be punished, God has a righteous basis to spare them and transform them instead of striking them down.

“You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows. You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways. When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person. He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”” (Job‬ ‭22:27-30‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Because God has given man the gift of free will, He cannot infringe it—someone has to pray and consent to receiving God’s intervention.
God is looking for believers who are willing to pray His perfect will.

God is love, but He is also righteousness. If He wants to express His love for us, He must do so in a righteous way, without compromising on the perfect standard of holiness in any way.

As a royal priest to God, you have the authority to pray for others and see them delivered because of your prayers.
God will invite you to pray for people so that His plans can come to pass.

Sometimes believers forget to pray and this is when God leads intercessors to stand in the gap to pray for them.

What about the good things that happened to you when you didn’t pray?
It’s because someone else prayed for you, whether by name, or when praying in tongues.

Remember, for God’s kingdom to grow on earth, it is a partnership between God and His people.
It is an honor and privilege to serve God—one of the easiest ways available to every believer is to pray.

Through the Holy Spirit, we receive the blueprint of what to pray for, and when we pray, we see it manifested as a reality.

The next time you receive a vision or dream from God, don’t just marvel—pray!

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Once the Toronto Raptors started running, the Philadelphia 76ers could not slow them down.

Alvin Williams and a host of reserves led a second-quarter assault and the Raptors rarely relented in a 100-85 over the Philadelphia 76ers, who suffered their fifth straight road loss.

Williams had 14 points and 13 assists and did a credible job on NBA scoring leader Allen Iverson, who managed just 18 points on 7-of-23 shooting before sitting down for good midway through the third quarter.

Williams handed out 11 assists in the first half, when Toronto raced to a 63-39 lead and made the 76ers look like the Eastern Conference's worst team rather than its best. He scored eight points in a 29-3 second-quarter run during which the Raptors repeatedly beat the defensive-minded Sixers downcourt for dunks and layups.

"We've wanted to push the ball more and more by controlling the ball," Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens said. "It allowed us to push the ball upcourt and we hit our shots."

"I haven't been in a game where a team had 35 points on the fast break in the first half, plus they had 22 assists and only one turnover," Sixers coach Larry Brown said. "They manhandled us. We took bad shots and we didn't guard. Everybody on their team made a significant contribution."

Reserves Keon Clark and Chris Childs scored 11 points apiece and also were in the middle of the explosion in the second quarter that gave Toronto a 59-33 lead. The Raptors also got a spark from backup forward Jerome Williams, who scored six points in the period.

"Alvin distributed the ball really well and I thought Chris and Alvin played well together," Wilkens said. "When you run and push the ball, you get into a rhythm. Guys were catching the ball and making shots."

"Everyone had energy tonight," Clark added. "It wasn't just myself or Jerome coming off the bench. ... Tonight was the smoothest offense we had all year. Nobody was forcing or rushing anything. We still need to be consistent."

Vince Carter scored 26 points for the Raptors, who never trailed and defeated the Sixers for the third consecutive time, becoming the only team thus far to take the season series from Philadelphia.

"They hit shots and we just did a bad job," Iverson said. "They outhustled us, and we rarely get outhustled."

The Raptors (41-33) won for the fifth time in six games and moved one game ahead of Orlando for sixth place in the East.

The Sixers (51-23) have lost seven of their last 10 games and fell one game behind San Antonio for the league's best record. The magic number for clinching their first Atlantic Division title since 1990 remained three.

Iverson's layup gave Philadelphia a 30-30 tie with 9:46 left in the second quarter before Toronto's onslaught began with consecutive fast-break dunks by Carter and Antonio Davis.

A jumper by Childs made it 40-30 with 7:46 remaining before a free throw by Philadelphia's Tyrone Hill only briefly slowed the deluge.

For the next five minutes, Williams thwarted Iverson at one end and scored or set up teammates at the other. Dunks by Clark and Jerome Williams preceded a 3-pointer by Childs that capped the explosion at 59-33 with 2:33 to go. Philadelphia called three timeouts during the burst.

"I thought we played good team defense, especially on Iverson," Alvin Williams said. "The guys were making shots and as a point guard, it made my job easier. They asked me to stick him (Iverson) and I did my best to make his shots difficult."

Any chance the Sixers had of getting back into the game ended when the Raptors scored the first 11 points of the third quarter, opening their largest lead at 74-39 on a tip-in by former Sixer Eric Montross with 8:39 left. Brown emptied his bench shortly thereafter.

Montross was a surprise starter for Charles Oakley, who was suspended one game by the NBA for hitting Sixers forward Tyrone Hill with a thrown basketball during Tuesday's shootaround. Montross had season highs of six points and 11 rebounds.

Cancer has always been a big looming cloud over my life - when I was 12, my mother succumbed to a 4-year battle with the disease. I saw everything - the sleepless nights, loss of hair, confusion, pain and the fierce battle which she finally relented to. Through it all, she told her story, in hopes of inspiring and helping others.

Cancer isn't the end - there's so much we can do to fight back. For my 50for50sg charity of choice, I'm picking the Singapore Cancer Society for the incredible work they do - education, research, patient care and many more. I'm going to be donating alongside you as well as working closely with the society to come up with initiatives to push back against this terrible disease.

If you feel for the cause, and you want to help out, we'd really appreciate that.

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