A lot of prayers and

By Shaun Inguanzo
A COMBINATION of feng shui and prayer produced a winning division one Tattslotto ticket for Southvale Newsagency last Saturday night.
Delighted owner Seth Sok, 35 originally from Cambodia, bought the newsagency in August and made radical changes to its interior on the advice of a feng shui expert.
He also prayed to the various Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian temples and a local church so that the winds of fortune would fill his Springvale South Tattersall’s outlet.
Monks from a nearby Cambodian temple then blessed the revitalised newsagency.
And now just two months after his spiritual investment the Springvale trader is celebrating his agency selling a winning division one Tattslotto ticket that is expected to fetch its owner a cool $600,000 after its System Nine multiplications.
Mr Sok this week said he was not expecting to sell a winning Tattslotto ticket so soon. But he believes the newsagency’s spiritual focus has a lot to do with it.
“We had the expert advice of a feng shui person who recommended we change the colour to yellow and modify the floor and lay-out to make sure energy flowed well within the shop,” he said.
“Also we had to expose the mirrors so they have reflections to maintain the energy.”
Saturday’s lotto win coupled with a previous spate of luck has now cemented Southvale as an incredibly “lucky” newsagency in a city full of Asian cultures that value both fortune and wealth. That combination can only spell good trade, Mr Sok says.
“Within a couple of months we have already sold that division one ticket plus a winning second division ticket,” he said. “We are now getting more and more customers because we have been so lucky.”
The lucky lotto winner is yet come forward to claim the prize. But that has not stopped Mr Sok and his staff from enjoying a few celebratory drinks.