It is doubly blessed to be blessed by a man in robes, in this case a Daoist monk, and especially within the propitious perfect circle where the ‘Om’ resonates within the circumference. The greeting, ‘Longevity’ and ‘Eternity,’ which amounts to the same unless you want to quibble over semantics, is mentioned as the beads mark the incremental blessings. Painter-calligrapher Professor Wan Wing-sum is dubbed the Lynx-Eyed Calligrapher. He is said to have “God’s Eye.” He was skilled in micro-calligraphy, cramming some 3,000 characters into a square-inch of space of square, on a tiny postage stamp – a feat he had honed since the age of 12. He created a sensation when 19 after his exhibition in Shanghai when he was considered to have mastered the Lingnan Style. He could do his micro-calligraphy on turtle shells, bones, bronze ceremonial bronze bells and vessels. China’s Ministry of Education awarded him the Gold Medal of the Arts. Born in Ngohan Hsien county in Quangdong province in China, he fled to Thailand and then Vietnam when war broke out, before settling in Hong Kong. Since 1938 when he held his first solo in Hong Kong, he had taken part in more than 100 exhibitions all over the world, including Malaysia. His demonstration of his micro-calligraphy was recorded on films by Warner Brothers when he visited Hollywood in the 1950s.