Where to get rubber stamps made?
When I wanted to get a bunch of rubber stamps made for the new office, I ran in to a bit of a panic. When you don’t need them, you see signs for rubber stamps everywhere. When you are really looking for them, you can never find them anywhere at all!
Eventually, I had them made at a shop advertising rubber stamps but it was a stationery shop and I later learnt that they subbed it out to an external source to make their rubber stamps.
After a few more trial and errors, I found that you can get rubber stamps made for about half the price at the direct source in Pudu. If you do to where all the printers are, just hit up any store that makes rubber stamps there and you get it practically at cost from about RM3 upwards. To get it at other shops, it costs about RM6 minimum. So now you know!
Where to buy cheap pet fish?
Last weekend, I paid a visit to the fish market at Pudu in Kuala Lumpur. This was to purchase live fish for aquariums not fish for eating.
The Pudu live fish market is near the Pudu wet market along Jalan Yew. There is a row of shops selling nothing but fish in pails, basins and aquariums and pet supplies too.
I was quite taken aback at how cruel or poorly handled the fish were by the workers. If I were a fish, I’d be seriously traumatized at the way they were scooped out of the basins and thrown back in, the way they were kept in plastic bags of water waiting for a new owner and although they were cheap, between a few sen to RM1 for some of the smaller more common fish, there were also some expensive arowana being sold.
I don’t have an aquarium and fish aren’t my pets of choice but I felt so sorry for those fish I saw – they might be cheaper than buying from a pet store, but I wonder if the inhumane treatment is worth it. That said, I don’t know if pet stores treat their fish any better! Perhaps its all done behind closed doors so I wouldn’t know anyway. But if you want to get some cheap fish, try the Pudu fish market – there are loads of people buying.
Chinese New Year Decoration Shopping
Picture creditof chooyutshing
Its that time of year again for everything red and gold and gaudy and properous looking. Hunt down your vases for your pussy willows and Plum trees or fakes one with the bright pink plastic plum blossoms.
Its the Chinese New Year! 
I love decorating the house for Chinese New Year – the brighter and redder the better. Never mind that everything clashes 
Some of the places I shop at for CNY decorations are in Chinatown, Petaling Street Kuala Lumpur.
Sure, the prices are jacked up but it still works out cheaper than buying at the stalls at the malls. Also, I find you get a better selection. Sometimes, some of the malls bring in artisans from China so you can get some nice Chinese stuff that we don’t usually get here at normal times, like red paper cuttings and calligraphic writings.
However, to save money, this year I’m reusing last year’s decorations. I might pick up a bamboo or two to place in the house. Last year’s lucky bamboo did not survive – I guess it wasn’t very lucky
Have you started your CNY shopping yet?
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