What can RM 50 buy in Malaysia?
ー Part 1 ー “What’re ya gonna do with these postcards?” “Throw away or send to recycle centre.” “Can I have them all instead?” “Erm, I already reprinted you 600pcs with no mistake ones though...” I published the Chinese version two years ago. During my first exhibition at Commune Space @Velocity Mall, seriosly I felt sorry for those who couldn’t understand Chinese. Once decided to do another exhibition at Hin Bus Depot, quickly I continued my plan to launch the postcards so the same group of people could at least get postcards first before the English version out. I thought it might be a good marketing strategy as well. Leave with hopes instead of disappointments. Within couple of months, Shin managed to get the postcards nicely done. Immediately, I rearranged the layout with Sean before sending to printer. I was exciting to see my very first merchandise, but I noticed “Join The Dots” postcards (almost 500pcs) had a significant red dot each. The printer reprinted 600pcs to show their sincere apologies for the unnecessarily printing error. To me these misprinted postcards are all still nice, well they are my babies no matter what! I didn’t want them to be in the dustbin or recycle centre. Suddenly, I thought the postcards could possibly be a colouring session for the kids, because the first exhibition, especially the parents couldn’t enjoy because of their kids. I was thinking, erm, letting the kids colour these postcards so that the parents could focus and enjoy the exhibition, and yeah eventually they may all get the books. Genius FuFu! “Boss, can I buy them from you?” “Sure, how much you wanna pay” “RM 30. Two KFC happy meals, ok?” “Erm, RM 50 can?” I’m not good at bargaining. Since it could be one extra activity for the exhibition, I paid and brought these misprinted postcards to George Town. Colouring itself not attractive enough, thus I decided to cover the postage cost, as long as there’s address written at the postcards, I would deliver, be it local or overseas. Guess what? The colouring session was popular! Not only the kids loved it, but the adult enjoyed, some even spent 30-60mins slowly decorating the postcards for their parents, friends, colleagues, teachers or themselves. “It’s been ages since the last time I colour!”, “I would never thought of having a chance to colour again at this age!”, “Finally, we (four of us) can sit down together colouring and enjoying this unique family time.” The scenes of kids and parents, grandpa and grandma, family members and group of friends enjoying the colouring session always brought me different smiley faces. ー Stay tuned for Part 2 ー
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