Originally posted by Honeybunz:
Scenario....
You organise a high society function, attended by Tai-Tais and Ministers and their wives. You want to make the evening more exciting for those who attend. So you decide to do a lucky draw.
What kind of prizes do you think will excite them?
Government officials and their immediate families are not supposed to receive any personal gifts, payments, etc. There is actually nothing wrong with winning something at a lucky draw, but to prevent scandals, they can't accept any prizes. They will either have to reject the prize, or more tactfully accept it and immediately publicly give it to charity or something to that effect.
As for tai-tais....hahaha.....I personally know some (my own personal friends or my mother's friends). They may be rich (some only act rich), but many are ngiow and kiam-siap until words also cannot describe. For many of them, if they see a 10-cent coin in the middle of the highway, they would probably run across and try to pick it up.
I know of this tai-tai who drives a Jaguar, but goes to this certain cafe in town at 8:45 pm to wait.....wait wait wait.....till 9:00 pm, when the cakes are cleared at half-price.
For tai-tais, the best is to get something not overly expensive yet exclusive (ie. something different, not easily available to the public), or something which money cannot buy.....for example:
- Give tickets to a show/musical (eg. PCK The Musical) and try to arrange private tea with the actors and maybe some autograph signing (at the interval or after the show). This is of course not easy, but not impossible either.
- Tickets to best seats SSO concert (they cannot reject because they're supposed to be high-class and claim to listen to classical music, etc....although they know nothing more than I do). Once again, try to organise a private tea with the orchestra members, etc.....and watch the tai-tais try to pretend to talk about classical music.
- Lunch for her and her family served in a suite room of a downtown hotel. You can use the same hotel suite for tea and dinner for other tai-tais who have won prizes. I'm sure this can be easily arranged with the hotel. If you do this, please let me use the suite at night.

- etc. etc.
(Maybe the above are not good examples, but I think you get the gist of it. Sorry, too lazy to think of any further examples now.).