Organsa pouch bag for wedding gift

For who the wedding bells toil... There are wine, bear, favour which can be tucked into these so called organsa pouch bag. They look visibly transparent and it gives out a stylish presentation of your wedding gifts.

These bags are also tailored for wedding gift purpose with imprinted Chinese character of " Xi" which means happiness in itself, yet it is a double Xi when a couple coming together forming a Happiness uniting with another Happiness... God bless them.

It comes in both traditional red and pink colour with a golden band and strip to pull and fasten up the stuff within. As they come in 3 sizes, you can select the best size to suit your gift. I had samples of these and it does not seem to be popular as a seeming reason may be that couple may like not to have their gifts exposed. They would prefer some package that need the receiver to open up and exclaimed "AHHH... so cute..." kind of effect. Nonetheless, only certain gifts fit the bill here. Don't ask me... I think a mini key chain with the couple picture and thank you note on it can be a keepsake for the receiver. The prices for these is S$0.60; S$1.20; and S$1.60 each for the 3 sizes

Graduate for sale... in persona bear

What a day and what a picture here of graduates convocation. They ended their course of pursuit for that degree paper and begin another course of career for wages, fame, cause, politics and so forth. An interesting article in the Straits Times paper today that most graduates in Singapore do not contribute to their Alumni for they do not identify with it... thus not a emotional bond as yet. Nonetheless, what are these bear graduates for ? Whatever stuff these human graduates have with their Alma Mater is for their personal soul to sort out. These cutie 10cm tall bear are meant as a add-on gift with the certificate which some training institutes, learning centre, school are giving away to their students who passed out from their school. A symbolic act that you have muddle through their courses with your eyes closed like these bears - they are teasing you that you have done it.

A graduate comes to me and I sell her one at S$3.00/each. The school ordered 500 pieces and they paid me in a cheque of S$1000/nett. Simple mathematics, right? graduate.

A sweet heart box for her

In a pastel pink coloured hues are these interesting boxes which have an cutout heart shaped window where you can see the gift contained inside. It can be a good display box for jewellery within.
The pastel pink colour are soothing enough for any girl, the dotted little heart also peppered with shining glitters on it giving this box a dedicated look of efforted purchase. The interir is also printed with sweet heart motiff. The sizes of these boxes are about 10cm x 10cm x 9cm for the smallest size shown here; the next size is 1cm increment and so forth.
There was an occasion in November 2006 when I have an flux of request for boxes, and it was more for the year end festive giving. Various styles and sizes of boxes were imported and sold. Would share with you more once I relocate those pictures of it. People asking for all sizes of boxes but the prices for these are not attractive for the seller... like me. The rationale is that people do not think much of boxes and deem it as a simple stuff and cheap and easy to get, but actually it is quite tedious to stock boxes... they cannot be folded and therefore takes up much spaces; it can be crushed and dented at the corners and you will not want to buy it then, have to watch out for cockroaches that laid their eggs therein, yellowing of boxes especially the white one, moulding found over time due to our moisture environment.
So, you see there are very few people specialising in gift boxes sale and the prices are more than one have thought to be cheap item.
Try me, the above pieces started from S$3.50 each.... ( above problems may exist... kidding)

A tiny bear gift for your loved one

This tan coloured bear is about the size of your thumb, holding a heart shaped cushion, telling you that she is giving you her heart, giving you her all...

As in life, there are many times where we want to give our best for someone we love and treasured. we can give up many things, changed our habits, adjust our expectation just to be aligned with someone, to be identified with. This is good for our soul and being as long as we have the responsive affection from the one we loved too... in return.

I had some of these above bears, when I pressed it, it sounded out a message voice : "I love you". It breaks the silence and help to communicate a message where at times, we do not know what to say to our loved one. So, sending in these message love bear might do the job for you. It comes with a chord string and you can tie it to whatever memorabilia that you are giving away. They costs S$2.00 each; while bulk discount are available if you intend to give it to 25 persons you loved at one go.

Let the light read me on...

Robotic Reading light??? What so robotic about? It can only be seen when you press the "open" latch by the side of this light... the arm holding the led light extrude up ward, outward , and then locked itself in the position you see on the right of this picture. It takes half a second to be transformed into a nice reading light, the movement is a ROBOTIC stroke at best. It moves haltingly but precisly into place. You have to see it to agree that the factory does uses the right name in this case for their product. You clip it into the book pages and the beam nicely shines and brighten up the page for you to read on....

A very neat gift for guy and gal who does reading by the bedside while other around are asleep... no light distraction to others, need not have to get up to switch off the night light! I had a piece to myself when I sold 1000pcs of this to a International Church for their father's day gift for the congregation. I found it a nice father gift for myself.... Only setback is that you got to change the cell size battery when it is drained. ( normally the case, what am I talking about?)... It drains fast ( Of course, if you used it every hours of the night to read... what am I talking about?)...

I sold them at $4.90 each although I knew it fetch more in the open market. The best part is that the Church have it at $2.90/each because of the quantity ordered as well as my pious self to adorn a charity spirit to a spiritual congregation.

A toothpick presented on both hands to you!

After all the celebration feasts over the weekend, we settle down to look forward to the Inaugural Formulae 1 race in September. Another great event to tuck at the hearts of Singaporeans, drumming in them the great feelings that they had so much good happenings in their favour.

There is this author, Christine Suchen Lim who wrote in the Straits Times on 10th August that if we strip Singapore of her jewellery, remove all malls, remove everything lauded "first class", remove all the "M"s -MM,SM,PM...cabinet M,.. so poor that she could not afford to stage National Day Parades. Would you still love her then? Would you?

If you get a lump in your throat or grit your teeth answering the above. Use the toothpick to pick your teeth or prick your skin; presented to you stick by stick, unfailing each time, handed to you on both hands from these cutie man. I find these toothpick holders quite sophisticated at first, you took the tooth pick away, depressed the box, and behold a new stick appeared on their hand for the next take. It does not fails, and it is not electrically triggered, it is just a simple spring actioned piece of functioning table piece.

It is available in 3 colors and make quite a good household gift away, the bright colours also brighten up the table. I sold them for S$4.90 each individually, There was this gift shop who bought 24 pieces from me and they paid me S$3.00 each.

From Lion Roar to demure cats

Yesterday we heared the Lion Roar with the F16's streaming across the sky and the One Nation to count on...

I am introducing the pussy cats today to unwind, curly, soft and with black embroidered cat eyes that cat lovers adore. The color and fabric used are of non-ruffled cloth and also available in satin cloth( the right cat). I had a hundred of them left after using them for a cat theme party, I am ready to offer them again as door gifts or The Straits Times Classified girls if they need it to improve their image. They are fed to a size of about 20cm length and about 20cm in height. I can part with them for S$5.00each. As if we add some mystery to it, you pay S$3.50 if you take 9 pieces at one go. (should know why...)

Last week, I put up a dog and now the cats, It reminded me of raining cats and dogs. This English idiom originate with the historical backdrop in the early London city where the drainage systems were still incomplete, still clogged up streets and o\does caused flooding. This was where stray dogs and cats are flushed out and their carcass straddle the road scape. So, they coined the idiom raining cats and dogs. Hope I got this right having heared this from the radio station.

9th August 2008, 43th Singapore National Day

9th August 2008 : 43th National Day for the republic of Singapore. A country of migrants fore-fathers from Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China and Arab world streaming in since the 1820's. One hundred years later, my paternal grandmother came from Guangzhou Province and business herself as a contractor in civil work, supplying workmen for the building sector then... primarily to build roads, shop houses, zinc roofed factory with cemented support pillars.

Immigrants were travelling the world in search of a livelihood. The picture on the left is a TRAVELLER PALM; it was the covering page of a 280 pages photo book produced 24 years ago saluting the 25years of Self Rule of Singapore since 1959. The photographs are of Singapore scenery taken by 41 world top photographers then. It was a mammoth project then. The Traveller Palm grows freely on this island and it traps and retains rain water easily...so it was what early travellers look for when they are thirty... thus its name.

As I went through the pages, daily scenes that we take for granted then become rare, young faces that grace the pages then are your aunties and uncles now. The uncle in the picture here with a trishaw load of paper mac hes would have left human abode then. Those
who have seen him does remembered. As a young boy and youth, this uncle with a trademark beard plies his trade along the old city routes, pushing and cycling his trishaw at the edge of the road. His colorful array of paper face masks is hard to miss, it spices up our imaginations of faces we read in Chinese story books. I had seen him along the road in Macpherson, Geylang road, Chinatown of course, Tiong Bahru, Redhill. This is his city route, but actually it is the PIE in its original version from east to west city roads. I patronised him twice in his life time, I cannot afford to buy those masks then, he offered a game of luck where you pay him 10 cents and you dipped your hand into a cloth bag containing various colored balls. You win a simple paper face mask if you pick up 3 balls of the same colour. I don't think I won but the chance to play give me a pretext to examine all those tiger, buffalo, Disney faces characters at close range, which is suffice.

Anyone reading these have memories of him, email me a note. Believe he have no successor to take over his skill of making these crafts. I remembered there was an article on him in the paper... but then again... we just read and past on, only now that when we dwell on memory and yet found information scare.

There were many interesting photographs beside these which can look back with pride as to where we have travelled from. On this National Day, am I to sell this book which can only add value as the years goes by... next year 2009 will be 50 years of self rule nationhood. The book costs me S$70.00 in 1984 which is not a small sum I forked out then. Let us see what value beside money this will worth many years down this nation road.

29th Beijing Olympic Games on 8th August 2008, 8.08pm

8th August 2008, A day that will stayed in the memory of many Chinese for a long, long time... Just as I remembered the 1973 Seap Games hosted by Singapore when I was a student.

In celebration of this auspicious day when even wedding couples and new borns registered this day as their entry into new life. I shared with you some pictures all things Chinese, as it meant that the Olympic games also chosen to start at 8.08pm on 8.8.08.

The Beijing Olympic stadium needs no introduction as it is much publicised as a Nest; (Just like Singapore Esplanade coined as Durian... I think it deserved a better name though). I shared with you the picture on the right here which give you a perspective of how the walkway under those Nest beam are like.

Instead of building a Pagoda themed stadium, the Chinese had built up this Olympic Park with contemporary pieces of
architectures... But they still rely on traditional costume and cultural items when performance and art are concerned BECAUSE it is the Chinese identity of with historical thread. You can recognised straight away it is Chinese dancers in their act on the left picture.

I checked out these 3 pieces of Chinese drawing/paintings while looking for articles for National Day. These are not printed copies of painting. It is a water color art piece, and it is done with a modernistic color scheme in mind, but the artist wants the essenceto capture Chinese women going about in their daily chores and recreation mode. So, one gets to see the on going revolution within the Chinese to catch up with time and yet displaying her
Chinese roots whenever and where ever possible. These 3 drawings are and should be displayed
together as a set. Why? It will give a definition to a statement of what Chinese woman is instead

of a single frame which you will not know what the artist is trying to communicate.

The prices of Chinese paintings had also inflated in value as people now recognise and appreciate the aspirations and styles of presentation done the Chinese way :- Chinese identity done in a touch of modernistic twist and paint medium.


These 3 pictures costs me S$225.00; Will anyone appreciate these enough to offer me a price that I transfer ownership. Try me but I am going to love these more after the impressive opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games hosted by this great civilisation!