Monday, January 15, 2007

Profile of a Malaysian blogger

According to a report last November, if I am a Malaysian and I have a blog, the odds are that I will be a woman and aged 25 or under. It is also found that about 64% of the Malaysian bloggers are ladies and 74% are under 25! In fact, nearly 41% of those who online blog regularly. So how do I fit in?

Seriously I can't see why nowadays people are so attention craved. I have read some news reports that there are full time bloggers earning thousands per month! I as quite astounded to say. As for me, I am 33 years old, male, and very new to stuff about blogging. It was my sister who taught me what is blog, blogger, how to attach pictures and the do's and dont's of blogging. Oh yes, she's Malaysian and she's under 25. Do you see that? I guess I really have a lot to pick up because things online move really fast. Last talked to her, I heard some terms like RSS, digg, furl, del................... I feel like a dinosaur.

She told me you need to have some specific subject to blog about, and if you have several topics to rant about, you can divide the blog into categories if you are lazy to maintain a few blogs at the same time. I thought about that hence I just focus on Marie Callas.

However, I am already facing that feeling of 'emptiness' to continue with logging. Sometimes I just do not know what to put in the blog! The general profile of the bloggers primarily do it for entertainment and to share their lives with family and friends.

The report also says that most blog visitors like to read stories and enjoy the pictures posted by
the blog owners. I guess my blog is too dry and bland so I hope I have some nice pictures to post.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Intuitive Energy Insights: Portrait of a Psychic / Intuitive

Many people ask me how I started doing this work.

As a child, my earliest memory is being 3 years old and telling my mother things that I could not have possibly known. I would tell her stories about ladies she socialized with and various relatives. At first she thought I’d ‘overheard’ this information, but then realized that the stories were ones that were shared when I wasn’t there. I told her how the people felt, and about other people connected to them that I had never met. Eventually she became ‘used to’ my stories and knew I had something that was special.

Knowing things about people unfortunately brought sorrow to me early on in life when I ‘knew’ that my father was going to die. I was 7 years old. The day he died, my mother came to pick up my brother and me from elementary school. I already knew what had happened.

All though school, I knew what other people were feeling. Mostly I felt flooded by emotion, often reacting to feelings I’d ‘picked up’ from others. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I thought I was a basket case.

After these and many other experiences, I knew that I had to learn about what was happening to me. So, at the age of 17, through a series of highly synchronistic happenings, I began an internship with an Intuition specialist to learn about and hone my abilities.

During my training I began to understand some of what I went through as a child. I analyzed myself as I learned. To this day, I still work to sort myself from others’ feelings. I am more conscious of it now and it is relatively easy to sort.

My training was ‘hands-on’ in that I worked along side my mentor as he consulted with clients. I watched, studied, learned and joined the consultation. I explored their energy field, their issues and complaints (with their permission of course). This was my best form of training. Eventually I began to take over the consultation sessions, slowly building my own clientele as I trained.

My abilities fall under several categories, clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient. Clairvoyant, meaning ‘clear seeing,’ is the ability to have visions or ‘see’ a psychic impression. Clairaudient, meaning ‘clear hearing,’ is the ability to ‘hear’ psychic information from another’s energy field or from higher guidance. Clairsentient, meaning ‘clear feeling,’ is the ability to ‘feel’ or sense the energy field of another and experience psychic impressions in an emotional or physical way.

My brother has a similar gift. We like to say he has ‘radar’ or his ‘antennas are on’ because he just ‘knows’ things. My abilities are similar, but are enhanced in the realm of sensing what is taking place in a person’s electromagnetic energy field. I am an Energy Intuitive, ‘seeing’, ‘knowing’ and ‘feeling’ others. Intuitives are not mind-readers. We are highly sensitive beings that have learned how to synthesize the information that we sense around us.

My training taught me to hone into the core of what is taking place in someone’s energy field. This ability allows me to get right to the center of an issue. The source may be karmic memory (past life related), childhood patterns, emotional overwhelm, mental confusion, etc. It may even be emotion that source’s from another person (like a child feeling a parent’s feelings).

I actively read anything I could get my hands on about intuition, counseling techniques, self-help books, meditation, etc. I took training courses, earned a degree in psychology, went on retreats, participated in workshops, learned breathwork, I even hosted my own meditation group. I gathered tools, tips, techniques and methods to develop my own intuition and I began to teach others. My internship lasted 5 years and by the time I completed my training, I had a full client list.

People of every walk of life are interested in learning about their intuition. Mostly, they are looking for answers. They have questions within themselves, feel conflicted and confused---- without answers! Ultimately they want to feel better. They are looking for a way to feel better about themselves, get past their fears and begin moving forward in their lives. They want more and don’t know how to get it.

During the coaching / intuitive counseling process, we begin sorting through the emotions, mental chatter and confusions. Collectively we analyze their current situation, the echoes of the past that are influencing them, and then develop an active approach to move forward and transform their lives.

My own intuitive energies come forth, guiding them and directing their inner quest. As intuitive messages come forward, I deliver them and help the client to surface the emotional / mental / physical / spiritual pieces involved to catalyze a transformation. The working plan of action may include various assignments and tasks for them to complete along with goals to work towards.

In this work, I promote active participation in clearing inner chatter and identifying old patterns. Intuition is an inherent trait within us all. Learning to listen to it, work with it and create life changes out it is a powerful experience that brings many rewards.

Author Jaelin K. Reece, is a whole life coach, intuitive and guide. Jaelin uses her complementary skills as a gifted intuitive to facilitate people in realizing their true potential in their personal lives, relationships, career, and prosperity. She assists people in transforming their lives and creating the life they love to live.
Jaelin serves as a mentor, consultant and success partner for her clients. She is also the featured columnist Ask a Life Coach for About.com Holistic Healing. If you are interested in partnering with Jaelin as your mentor and life coach you may arrange a session with her through her website: Jaelin K. Reece, Life Coach or by visiting her blog Intuitive Innovations

Friday, January 12, 2007

Online Guide to Tarot

marie callasHere is a great article by Ken Malborough about the the tarot cards. Interesting therefore I share it with all.

Tarot cards possibly originated in Europe in the 1100s, and the earliest known specimens of tarot card decks are said to be from North Italy. These could go back to the early-to-mid-15th century. These were called carte da trionfi or "cards of the triumph' and were later used to play a game called 'Tarocchi.' These could have been derived from playing cards that came into Christian Europe between 1375 and 1380. First discovered in China, these cards probably came through the Arabic route to Islamic Spain and then spread across Europe. These were similar to the 52-card pack in use today.

There are usually 78 cards in a deck of tarot cards. Special motifs were assigned to cards, taken from different ideas in philosophy, poetry, and astronomy. They were also borrowed from Roman, Greek and Babylonian mythology.

The two main types of tarot cards are the major arcana and the minor arcana. The major arcana have 21 trump cards along with a fool card. The minor arcana have 56 cards, going up from the ace to 10. There have four different suits - the wand, cup, sword and the pentacle. There are also four court cards: the page, knight, king and queen.

Tarot cards are connected to the occult and divination. Tarot card readers tried to divine a person's past, present and future. Some of the earliest known tarot card readers were Etteilla, Marie-Anne Le Normand and Antoine Court de Gebelin.

Etteilla was a French occultist who lived before the French revolution. His actual name was Alliette, but it was with this changed name that he became famous as a seer and card diviner. The first set of cryptic symbols were designed by him. Many of these were a derivation of the Marseille designs.

The Hermetic Revival in the 1840s made tarot readings more popular. Eliphas Levi is attributed with using the cards as a mystical key to see the future. He is also considered the real founder of the true Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie or the Transcendental Magic school of tarot. These interpretations are also linked to the Kabbala. In 1910, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot came up with symbolic imagery with divine meanings, increasing the popularity of tarot card divination. There are many who consider modern day tarot cards more interesting as these have grown and evolved through centuries of interpretations.

Today there are special symbols for feminists, cat lovers, computer specialists in Silicon Valley, baseball players and many other groups of people in modern life.

Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist and psychologist, used tarot cards to help patients. He was probably interested in the archetypes that the tarot cards represented. It is still used by some psychiatrists who might ask a patient to choose a card representing himself or someone else. It is based on the fact that essentially symbols are archetypes.

Tarot cards have inspired many stories and films. The tarot practiced by witches has been used in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die. T.S Eliot used it extensively in his poem The Waste Land. The video game 'March of the Black Queen' has tarot cards woven into the game. In this age of hi-tech science, there is still a place for the magic of tarot!

Tarot provides detailed information on Tarot, Free Tarot Readings, Tarot Reading, Tarot Cards and more. Tarot is affiliated with Reading Tarot Cards.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Breakfast with my friend, Duang

I had a breakfast with one of my colleagues today at a coffeeshop near my working place at Kelana Jaya. We are buddies in the company and we both work in the same department as project executives.

Duang told me while he sipped his coffee that he noticed I had somehow changed to be more cheerful and initiative recently. He said previously I like to complain a lot about the vagaries of life and the politickings within the company, but now instead of criticising, I always looked to the bright side and offered solutions rather than making a mountain out of a molehill. I smiled.

While we are best of pals, I have never told him I employ the services of a psychic to advise me on the future directives of my life because I think it will shock him as he is a person who really does not believe in such things but always like to try to control his own destiny.

Now that he asked me this question, I candidly told him I bought the services of Marie Callas and she had offered me an insight into my life and family. Her guidance and advices even brought me luck as I won quite a sum recently. I also told him besides being strong mentally and physically, spiritual wellness is very crucial in the overall development of a person's life and character too. From his expression, I could tell that he was flabbergasted and how come I have become so holy like a preacher.

I think I will do my best to tell him more about Marie Callas and maybe refer her services to him if he were keen to find out how to even better manage his own destiny.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

The talk of the Town



Do you know what 'Eye on Malaysia' is?

It is the talk of the Town at this moment and it generated some sort of national pride especially those people staying near KL area. It is the new tourist attraction and it is a 60 metre tall ferris wheel. Record indicates that it is the world's largest mobile ferris wheel and there are 42 air conditioned gondolas. A ride takes about 12 minutes and you can view nearly 20km of the cityscape when you are near the top of the circle.

This is part of the plans for Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign and was launched by Prime Minister sometime last Sunday. With the assurance and guidance Marie Callas has given me recently, I am now living my life with a cheerful, positive and compassionate outlook, therefore I brought my kids to the place for some fun and to experience the hustle bustle of the location. The weather was cool that day and it made our moods even better. However we were shocked to see the queue was very long and kind of a disappointed. I talked to someone near the front and he told me he had queued for more than 2 hour! It looks like Malaysians like to queue too, not just Singaporeans. Also the traffic near Taman Tasik Titiwangsa was quite bad.

As the night was setting in, I have to consoled my kids because I told them we would not be riding one today but another time. In the end I took a night shot across the lake and I shall post it here.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

My Testimony for Marie Callas

I shall copy and paste to you my testimony about my good experience with Marie Callas. I have sent her this letter because she had made me won some money in a lottery. That happened sometime in September 2006. Since then Marie had helped me further by purging my bad luck and I won more prize money in last 2 months for a total of about RM34,500.

Dear Marie Callas,

Firstly, I would like to wish many thanks for your kindness in helping me solving my financial problem.

Lately, the seven digit numbers which were given to me as per your schedule dated 25th September 2006, i.e. 01, 07, 16, 19, 29, 34 and 38 almost striked and I missed being a millionaire by two numbers.

However, I had won four plus one where out of seven numbers only two were missed. I had won a sum of RM2,660 as a result.

Please help me as I am have a lot of debts and many legal actions have been taken against me by various parties and that require a lot of money to solve my problem. I hope you can pray hard for me.

Therefore, I enclosed a Malaysian Money Order amount to RM216.00 as part of my contribution for your goodself.

Thank you for your attention.

Yours Truly.

L. Suppiah

Hope on Marie Callas

After the form was sent out, I waited in anticipation and kept wondering if this was the right thing to do. I wondered too how long it would get back. I waited for a few weeks and it seemed that I wouldn't be hearing any replies. In fact, I had totally forgotten I had sent it out in the first place.

About 4 to 5 weeks later in the afternoon, I had a surprise I because I had received the envelop from Marie Callas. It was her reply! I was quite ecstatic. I looked through it and smiled wryly because I knew what to do next.

The next day, I proceeded to the lotto counter near my house. You can say many Asians are habitual punters and gamblers so do I. You will be surprised gambling industry is big here in Malaysia whether legally or illegally. I never had much luck with the numbers before in fact. Every week, I bet in several local lotteries hoping to recoup the losses I have accumulated over the years. It is a sad state because people know it is bad to indulgent in such activities yet many continue to be stuck in this mire. My current financial situation can be partially attributed to some excessive puntings that is why I clang on to the hope Marie Callas had given me in her letter and I hope she would be someone to change the bad luck.