Spring strongly symbolizes renewal and this issue is very much about making the effort to rejuvenate the energies in our home and work places. Chi energy always resonates auspiciously when we bring a fresh new look into our living space. So this being a relatively good year (compared to the years that are coming) it is a good time to make the effort to revitalize the look of the rooms inside your home. We have included some great ideas for you to consider implementing. Our ideas do not require you to spend too much. Sure, economically times are not rosy but the worst thing to do is to stop living and allow the fear factor to get to us. When things are not going well, it is exactly time to be very positive! There is an old Chinese saying, “It is when we shake the tree that its fruits fall.”

For inspiration, we take you into some stunningly beautiful homes. In Kuala Lumpur’s Bukit Tunku, Danish Marianne Rehn and John Madsen welcome us into their hillside home - a showcase on how to make the most of our gorgeous tropical weather, while Chris Yeo shares an example of a recently remodelled Singapore home featuring feng shui features in a classy, understated way. From the US, Peter Lung brings us a recently renovated residential project in America highlighting useful pointers on how he advised on their feng shui.

Lillian Too reveals yet another feng shui gem – the formula of the Magic Ratio, that is both potent and quick acting to bring in the feel-good factor into homes and gardens. The incredible thing is how easy it is to incorporate this into your feng shui! Even those with no budget to renovate or make big changes can put this method to work quickly and simply. We also bring you a feature on Inner Feng Shui, a powerful method that enables your inner chi to manifest powerful auspicious energies into your life easily and effortlessly.

Even as we write Lillian is flying to Amsterdam on the final leg of her EXTRAVAGANZA 2009 – she has been travelling a lot last month bringing updates to her thousands of feng shui fans everywhere. Read reports within. Later in March she is conducting, for the first time ever, a course on INNER FENG SHUI incorporating meditations, visualisations and potent new ways to use the vigour and strength of the mind to actualize wishes and aspirations. She will show her students how to use a series of powerful mental exercises to actualize success. Log on to www.wofs.com to find out more.

Viktorija Kovalenko from London shares interesting thoughts on Date Selection, while Richard Ashworth walks us through another amusing feng shui consultation. Helen Oon interviews the fascinating Amin Shahab, a leading Malaysian artist whose mission is to paint the world, and at 1km long, his painting sets quite a record! There are plenty more ideas on how to live well and get lucky in our popular Life with Lillian pages, where she shares the recent consecration ceremony of her giant prayer wheel, as well as a fabulous way to celebrate birthdays involving the liberation of hundreds of birds otherwise headed for the dinner table.

And before leaving you to enjoy the wealth of new information in the following pages, we absolutely must share with you a fabulous find – Sushi Tei, the newly opened Japanese restaurant in Tropicana City Mall, is sushi at its finest and at cannot-be-beat prices! Now anyone can eat five-star sushi and sashimi!