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Eye on the Divine

When Dato’ Sri Martin Lui first encountered dzi beads, he was an established civil engineer with property developer SP Setia. Never could he have imagined that a single instance with a mystical gem would change his fate. “I bought my first dzi in Ipoh from a crystal dealer. When I held it, I felt an electric shock, and my curiosity grew,” the 57-year-old feng shui master recalls fondly.

Unlike crystals, dzi refers to tubular beads with motifs indicative of

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