Maximize Your Good Fortune in 2020 with Marites Allen’s Feng Shui Convention

Chinese New Year 2020, the Year of the Metal Rat, is fast approaching and if 2019 falls short on your expectations, here’s your chance to turn things around. The Rat is the first animal sign in the Chinese zodiac, and its arrival marks the start of a new 12-year cycle. Take advantage of the winning traits of this clever and adventurous animal to establish a stable and abundant new year.

Join us on November 24 – an auspicious day for starting important events and deemed lucky for those who expect superior value for their investments –  to learn how to maximize your luck and good fortune in the coming Year of the Metal Rat.

Don’t miss this chance to learn from the international fengshui master herself, Ms. Marites Allen, and hear first hand the following: 

·     Insights on lucky/unlucky prospects for your personal/professional life

·     Updates on energy types and directions that may work for or against you in 2020

·     General forecasts for important life areas (wealth, health, relationships, etc.)

Get these additional benefits by attending the event:

·         ·    First dibs at the latest luck enhancers and cures for the Metal Rat Year

·         ·    Convention brochure filled with useful takeaway points

·         ·    Engaging presentations, excellent food, auspicious company

·         ·    Chance to win raffle gifts and lots of other surprises

We are also excited to launch Ms. Marites Allen’s 2020 horoscope books, Feng Shui Almanac and Planner, the 2020 Feng Shui App, and the Frigga e-commerce website.

Don’t let this golden opportunity pass you by.  Secure your seats now and get your tickets at Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-marites-allen-philippine-feng-shui-convention-tickets-71031468033), call the following numbers: 0920-9509390 / 8188858/ 7360512 / 4707661 or email maritesallenevents@gmail.com or yours truly at dcalnea@gmail.com.

Welcome the Year of the Dragon

Chinese culture has been embedded into Filipino culture for as long as we can remember that even pure Pinoys have come to love Chinese food and products, movies, and even believe in Chinese Horoscope and participate in the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Coming from a family with Chinese blood, I grew up eating hopia, pancit, lumpiang shanghai, tikoy and siopao; watched movies of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, and the Chinese movies that were shown on Sunday mornings (where the actors are in full Chinese costume); and frequented Chinatown in Binondo. To prepare for Chinese New Year, we always bought tikoy and a variety of sweet, round fruits every Chinese New Year; collected 88 pieces of coins; prepared gold coin chocolates and other candies; and eagerly awaited the horoscope forecasts for the coming year.

(l-r) Feng Shui Expert Marites Allen and host Boy Abunda

This year was different as we celebrated it outside of home for the first time -- we spent Chinese New Year's Eve and the next couple of hours into the new year at Manila Hotel for the "Welcome the Year of the Water Dragon" event featuring Predictions and Forecasts for 2012 by international Feng Shui Expert Marites Allen.

(clockwise, from top left) lobby cocktails; Chinese dance

performance; bazaar; and eye-dotting ceremony

At 9:30 pm, the event started with cocktails at the Manila Hotel lobby where a short programme took place showcasing Chinese dance and Wu Shu exhibition; a short talk by Marites Allen; the traditional Lion Dance and Dragon Dance; the dotting of the Lion's eyes for good luck by Marites Allen and guest VIPs led by Manila mayor Alfredo Lim and Manila Hotel president Joey Lina. The event, hosted by Boy Abunda, also had a Chinese New Year bazaar that offered various Chinese products, including lucky charms and horoscope books.

(clockwise, from top left) wish balloon ritual; auspicious

meal; activities; lion and dragon dancers

By 11:45 pm, everyone was led out onto the hotel driveway for the new year wish balloon ritual -- we were instructed to write our specific wishes on a balloon that we will release together at the strike of midnight, sort of a representation of sending our wishes/prayers to heaven. The dark sky was then illuminated by bright and colorful fireworks originating from the Chinese New Year countdown at the Quirino Grandstand.

Tossing of the Prosperity Salad (that's me with the

ring and lucky beads bracelets)

At past 12 midnight, the last activity for the evening (rather, wee hours of the morning) was the Auspicious Meal and Lucky Forecasts by Marites Allen. The meal started with the assembly of the traditional Prosperity Salad on each table, where the head tasked to facilitate was the oldest in the group -- for our table, it was my mom. Each ingredient followed a sequence in the assembly and once complete, everyone in the table joined in the salad tossing to partake of the 'good luck.' The food prepared by Manila Hotel at the Centennial Hall were really delicious and overflowing that even when the celebration ended, the buffet table was still teeming with goodies.

This was a new and nice experience for me and for us as a family, and we believe that with prayers, hard work and good karma, the Year of the Dragon will be good to us. KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!

Log 1-1-11

Happy New Year! May 2011 be better for all of us -- more love, peace, happiness, better health and wealth. :)

Looking Forward to 2008

Four hours more to go before 2008 sets in...time went by so fast this 2007 that a lot had happened to me, especially to my budding enterprise, HeartSpeak.

This year is special because HeartSpeak Fashion Accessories was born (March 2007). Although I have been designing and making fashion accessories since my childhood days and selling them to friends, relatives and resellers, 2007 made my business official. I opened my online store in Multiply and gained new clients and friends. This year also gave me opportunities to join bazaars and get publicized on TV. I also met wonderful people who offered their help to me to grow my business for 2008. See, I have so much to thank for.

And I plan to give back the blessings to my clients by providing them unique and quality products that they can treasure and share with their loved ones. I wish that 2008 will be better and brighter for HeartSpeak and for all of us. :)