Written all over your face

8 November 2011 -

AS the face reflects a person’s character, it becomes a powerful tool to analyse a person’s potential over the long term, according to The Star business journalist and face reader Tee Lin Say.

Speaking at the launch of her book ‘Faces of Fortune — The 20 Tycoons to bet on over the next 10 years’, Tee said the practice of face reading originated in medieval China.

Ancient art for modern audience: Tee showing off 
her new book 'Faces of Fortune' during the launch 
at Queensbay Mall.

 

By reading facial features, she believes one can foretell a person’s destiny based on their current actions.

“You get to know what it takes to be a tycoon. Maybe you have it in you too,” she said during the event at the Borders bookstore in Queensbay Mall in Penang recently.

Tee reveals that through the course of her decade-long writing career, she had been privileged to meet many successful tycoons, noting that most of them possess strong facial features.

“I’ve always been inspired by entrepreneurs — people who come from nothing and achieve big things,” she said.

Advising those lacking the requisite facial features against plastic surgery, Tee points out that one merely needs to change one’s attitude towards life, and their face will change with it too.

“Just like in feng shui, all must be balanced,” added Tee, who picked up her face reading skills three years ago after enrolling at the Master Academy of Chinese Metaphysics.

The academy’s founder, Joey Yap, in the foreword of the book, praises Tee’s gift for face reading, saying that her book takes everything from the classic practice and lays it down in a way that modern audiences will understand.

“The book aims to teach readers how they can use face reading when deciding to go ahead with potential investments, ultimately letting them make safer and more profitable decisions,” Yap said.

“The face gives a lot of secret information away and reading a face properly is the next best thing to mind reading.

“By understanding those around us more fully, we can seek to make better connections, decisions and investments,” he said.

The book, which is Tee’s first, covers studies of the 20 most prominent tycoons in Asia so readers can see how relevant the system is in the modern world, and what it makes these tycoons so successful.

The 150-page book is now on sale at major bookshops throughout the country, priced at RM38.

Also present at the launching was Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping, president of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce.