Ang Pow packets from Gurney Plaza

Saw the "Golden Celebration @ Gurney Plaza" ad on The Star yesterday and the 'Red Packet Redemption' caught my attention... Being an ang pow collector, I definitely couldn't miss getting my hands on Gurney Plaza's ang pow

The red packets can be redeemed from 10th to 20th Jan '09 at Customer Service counter (1st floor), for any shoppers who meet the spending criteria of minimum RM 180 (maximum of 2 combined receipts in a day). However, as HSBC is the official credit card for the string of events, its credit card holders will only need to spend RM 138 to redeem :D and yes, damn right I'm a HSBC credit card holder, for about 5 years now.

I spent about RM 111 at Parkson (as it's Elite card member day today), and combined with Suchi's RM 75 spending at MNG, we get to redeem 1 red packet - and Suchi was kind enough to let me have it all to myself - thanks! :D

Time to check out the ang pows...

The pack we were given... the dui lians (2 strings of good words that wish success and prosperity) were the main theme for the Golden Celebration this year


Opening up the packet reveals the actual pack containing the ang pows...


And let's count how many ang pows are there in the packet....


It came up to the total of 7.. Why 7 and not 8??? Aren't there supposed to be 8 of them since 8 is like THE auspicious number especially for Chinese New Year? And somehow a very wild theory just dashed through the wild mind of mine there and then...

Unless....... the folks manning the customer service counter of Gurney Plaza were to take out 1 ang pow from each of the packs that they were given custody of, so they could save them for their own use!!!! AHA!! Then that explains why there were only 7 instead of 8 of 'em!!!



AM I BRILLIANT OR WHAT???



.... Err... Well ... Anyway.... back to the ang pows.....

There are actually 4 different designs to the ang pows, each of them bearing different auspicious words... and they are:-

如 意 Ru Yi
迎春 Ying Chun
富贵 Fu Gui
吉详 Ji Xiang

The one I got was 如 意 - meaning 'as wished', but I can't help but wonder do the other ang pows come in gold as well? And can I ask for other designs if there is a next time? :P


The back of the ang pow...


My next goal : McDonald's ang pows! With any Prosperity meal purchase :)