Few years back, I was asked to head a high school which is notorious for indiscipline problems among not only the students but also the staffs. When I reported for duty on 23rd August 2003, my arrival was met by 3 workers that were sitting along the corridor. I was a little bit confused and dazed by the environment and conditions of the so called high school. Shrubs and small trees growing wildly on the gutters and roof top. There were holes on the roof and there were no window panes for the windows. I asked myself whether I was at the correct place. This thought surfaced because it looks like I was visiting one of the centuries old castles in Europe which I had visited. My heart and expectation dropped to the lowest ebb. How am I going to live up to the expectation of my boss given the time-framed of 28 months before I retired from my service?

The school term was coming to an end and I noticed that most of the staffs were unhealthy physically. This prompted me to come to conclusion that there was something wrong with the environment. A thorough auditing of the buildings was necessary to ascertain what sort of corrective measures should be taken to put the whole thing on the correct track. The main office block is sitting on the south and facing the north but the whole building was painted blue and along the corridor were potted plants which is against the principle of feng shui. Blue color represents water while the plants are wood. In fact wood is good for fire in the productive cycle but in this particular case it is wood soaked in water. How can wet wood be a source for fire? To activate the chi (fire), the building was repainted red including the floor. This is because fire is the type of chi that can be activated immediately. If you don't believe, try to light a match stick, it will lit up immediately. The same thing goes to water. In fact, among the five elements namely; wood, fire, earth, metal and water, fire and water are the two elements that can produce results instantly.

Miracles occurred after the workers finished painting. I discovered that the potted plants died off one by one. At first, I suspected that the workers forgot to water them or purposely put some weed killer to it because they had been in the comfort zone earlier. I took a closer look at the plants and immediately discard the assumption earlier. The plants died because the fire chi started burning them. The good chi (energy) had been successfully revived. Thanks God!

The second step I took to strengthen the chi of the environment is to build an artificial waterfall in the XUN place. Xun represents the wood. In feng shui water is represented by numerical 1 while xun carries numerical 4 and according to feng shui principle, if we group together water and xun, then good things will happen. True enough after the completion of the mini waterfalls, there was a string of frogs and toads being drawn to the pool. This is strange thing as my school is situated in the centre of the town surrounded by concrete forest. Where the frogs and toads came? No ones can give an explanation to the phenomena but since then, every member (both the pupils and staffs) is working happily and highly motivated to put back the past glory that had been lost a decade ago. They even brand the waterfalls as Fountain of Hope.