Kee Hua Chee Live!: PEARLY NEW YEAR WITH AMEE PHILIPS! THIS EXCLUSIVE PEARL TALK AND EXHIBITION WAS THE PERFECT START TO 2015 AS IT WAS HELD ON 1 AND 2 JANUARY 2015. A HUGE SELECTION OF LOOSE PEARLS AT AMAZING PRICES FLOWN IN FROM JAPAN ENTHRALLED THE GUESTS. HELD AT THE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE AT MANDARIN ORIENTAL KL, IT WAS A NEW YEAR SUCCESS AS GUESTS SIPPED MOET & CHANDON CHAMPAGNE AND ENJOYED DELIGHTFUL FOOD.

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AMEE PHILIPS DOES EVERYTHING IN CHIC STYLE AND THEIR PEARL EXHIBITION AND TALK WAS NO EXCEPTION.

IT WAS HELD AT THE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE THAT COST RM 30,000 A DAY! THE MASTER BATHROOM IS THE SIZE OF AN ENTIRE STUDIO FLAT IN TOKYO!

THE LIVING ROOM WAS BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD THE LECTURE ON PEARLS BY ANDREW PHILIPS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF AMEE PHILIPS AND SCOTTISH HUSBAND OF AMEE PHILIPS WHO FOUNDED THE BRAND. OR IS HE IRISH? SAME SAME LAH.

ANDREW PHILIPS GAVE AN INTERESTING AND ENLIGHTENING TALK ON PEARLS AIDED WITH IMAGES SO IT WAS EASY ON EYE AND MIND. EVEN I, WHO KNOWS ALL AND BLABS ALL, LEARNED SOMETHING NEW.

THE FOOD WAS DELECTABLE AS THIS WAS MANDARIN ORIENTAL, THE BEST HOTEL IN TOWN TOGETHER WITH SHANGRI-LA. THE DRINKS FLOWED NONSTOP AND IT WAS MOET AND CHANDON, NOT SOME OBSCURE BRANDS THAT ARE ACTUALLY SPARKLING WINE.

THE LOOSE PEARLS WERE ALREADY STRINGED OR INSIDE PLASTIC PACKETS WHICH ALLOWED GUESTS TO CHOOSE AND EVEN MIX AND MATCH.

THERE WERE 3 JAPANESE GUYS ON HAND TO HELP AS THE PEARLS WERE FLOWN IN FROM JAPAN. THIS PARTICULAR JAPANESE SUPPLIER IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND EVEN SUPPLIES PEARLS TO SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN HAUTE JEWELLERY IN PARIS! OF COURSE THESE ARE TRADE SECRETS AS I CANNOT REVEAL THE NAMES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERS WHO BUY THEIR PEARLS DIRECT FROM THIS JAPANESE SUPPLIER.

EACH PEARL SOLD FROM RM 250 TO RM RM 600 AND RANGE FROM 7 MM TO 14 MM. OF COURSE LIKE DIAMONDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE INCLUDING YOUR PRIVATE PARTS, THE BIGGER THE BETTER! THE BIG PEARLS FROM 18 TO 22 MM SOLD OUT WITHIN 2 HOURS.

THE PRICES WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE ATTRACTIVE IF THE RINGGIT WAS STRONGER AS THEY WERE PRICED IN US DOLLARS! THE RATE WAS US$1 TO RM 3.4 WHICH WAS GOOD. IF ONLY IT WAS RM 2.9 OR RM 3 WHICH WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO!

WITH THE AMOUNT OF MOET I DRANK TO CELEBRATE IT WAS A WONDER I WAS STILL STANDING BUT THE EVENT WAS HAILED AS A FABULOUS START TO A HAPPY PEARLY NEW YEAR!

FOR THOSE WHO MISSED THE EXHIBITION, THERE IS STILL HOPE. THE JAPANESE SUPPLIERS HAVE LEFT BUT AMEE PHILIPS STILL CARRY SOME STOCKS SO VISIT THEM AT MANDARIN ORIENTAL LOBBY IN KUALA LUMPUR OR IN PENANG AT THEIR JALAN KELAWEI FLAGSHIP STORE.