Busy busy busy!!!

Busy! Busy! Busy! And I am glad that I can finally ‘steal’ a few precious minutes to update latest happenings into my blog. So much had happened since the last time anything was entered in here. I m trying my level best to summarize the past week activities and share it with my fellow readers out there.

We are in the final stage of negotiation with the management to secure our new showroom cum office. Actually, we had paid the “commitment fees” but there is a last minute hitch – our common area is to be shared with our neighbour who runs a cafe. What an insult to us! The worst nightmare our main entrance is facing the common area! We are not too happy with this sharing idea and we insist the EXCLUSIVITY from management to utilise this area completely to ourselves. We have big ideas of converting it into a mini gallery to display our wide range of replica items in 3D frames. Our drawings and layout are ready and we are still waiting for the green light to proceed with this mini gallery. Question is what if the management insist that we have to share the area? Hmmm, in the worst scenario, we will have to give up this place and even scrapping the idea of setting up our office cum showroom here … and forfeited our deposit too!!! I hope we don’t have to take drastic action and everything goes smoothly as planned….We hope to operate from our new showroom in Mid December and time is running short….sigh…

Finally the much anticipated “Buy Malaysian Craft” promotion in the cool resorts of Genting Highlands is on. There are only 7 handicraft industries from 7 different states selected to participate in demo & selling. We are one of the LUCKY ONES! It is very costly for the Malaysian Govt. to organize and rent raw space from the Genting management and we are very thankful to them for this golden opportunity to test the potential market here. We were placed in one of the busiest building, i.e. First World Plaza and the crowd here is huge! It is always busy around the clock with many tourists from all over the world. So far the response has been encouraging with many small items being sold to different nationalities each day and they have a field day bargaining for best price just like Petaling Street! It is very disheartening when the tourists here are not appreciative of handicraft products and treated ours just like ordinary imported products…The govt. body must work harder and more aggressive to promote our handicrafts and change the tourist mindset that Malaysian handicraft is of world standard quality.

The weather is so pleasant here but at times it can be extremely cold, especially when it rains in the noon. Food is also very expensive and the fast food is also costly than normal outlet too due to higher transportation costs. For strange reasons all of us are always hungry and always craving to munch snack in between meals time.. Why is it so?? Is it because we are surrounded by many restaurants?? Aarrgghh….it’s burning big hole in our pockets!! The lighter side of Genting Highlands: every minute we can see many different kind of people, their character, their fashion sense – regardless of their gender and my! oh my!…it is so interesting I have to say!

Finally, here are the highlight designs for our current GH promotion. 3 nicely crafted bracelet. It took me a month to complete this limited pieces and few days for my partner to sacrifice her eye sight to fix the tedious crystals. I was hoping that it will get noticed by some rich tourist. But to my dismay, the market here is so different. Carry high range product here and it will never get appreciated and not even noticed! Sigh..
Goshh .. the smell of fried chicken is in the air again ….!!!! KFC …I must hang on to my wallet tight!