Happy Lunar New Year to all the people from cultures that celebrate this traditional festival! And to all Chinese around the world, Happy Chinese New Year!
Watercolour painting of a tiger roaring auspicious wishes for the new year. Painted by @kkmakesandbakes.
It’s the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year, it’s the year of the Tiger, according to the Chinese zodiac.
May you and your family enjoy a healthy and prosperous Lunar New Year, and a blessed 2022!
Singtel has launched the latest installment of its annual short film for Chinese New Year. This year, “The Hunt for the Lucky Tiger” features two rival families that go on a staycation at the same hotel.
“The Hunt for the Lucky Tiger” by Singtel for Chinese New Year. Click on the image to play watch the short 6-minute film.
The two families continue their rivalry from the first two installments in Singtel’s festive film series: – “His Grandfather’s Road” (2020) and “My Grandmother’s House” (2021) – endearing themselves to Singaporeans after their madcap but meaningful altercations in these previous films.
Set against the backdrop of the pandemic, this year’s film sees the Ang and Huang families opt to go on staycation during the Chinese New Year break instead of travelling overseas.
Kismet leads them to choose the same hotel on the beautiful and now 5G-powered island of Sentosa, sparking fresh contention and comedic rivalry between the families when they run into each other upon arrival.
More details below from the press release.
It’s 2022. Happy New Year!
Calendar and this watercolour stone house in Tuscany painted by @kkmakesandbakes.
May the new year bring to you and your family good fortune, great health as well as immense happiness and fulfillment!
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Happy New Year 2022!
Today is the last day of year 2021, as we continue our fight against COVID-19 and its Delta/Omicron variants.
The cover of the calendar is of the Lavender fields in Provence, France – hoping for a revisit when travel restrictions ease! Watercolour by @kkmakesandbakes.
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Calendars painted by @kkmakesandbakes.
Here’s wishing everyone who celebrates Christmas a very Blessed X’mas!
This watercolour painting of a X’mas Kitty was painted by my wife. Check out her other paintings on Instagram at @kkmakesandbakes.
May peace and love be with you always!
Looking for some beautiful accessories (phone cases, mouse pads etc) with watercolour paintings on them? Check out Erinsgarden – an e-shop on Redbubble selling print-on-demand stuff based on the watercolour paintings of @kkmakesandbakes.
* Full disclosure: @kkmakesandbakes is my wife.
Phone covers, mouse pads, desk mats and other accessories based on original watercolour paintings specially designed for Christmas. Christmas Collections at Erinsgarden by @kkmakesandbakes.
Fancy an iPad Case and Skin with a watercolour Christmas Puppy on it?
Or a X’mas Kitty Cat gracing your laptop skin?
Check out other tech4xmas gift ideas that I’ve curated for this year’s Christmas here.
Or a Vacation Kitty art mug to keep up inspired since most of us aren’t likely to travel this Christmas.
@kkmakesandbakes loves watercolour painting.
She paints as a hobby and friends suggested that she put some of these on Redbubble so people can buy stuff printed with her watercolour paintings on them.
So if you’re looking for a nice accessory as a X’mas gift for a colleague or a loved one, check out her designs!
Here are some gift ideas that I’ve curated for X’mas 2021. I’ll be adding to this list over the next few weeks, so check back daily for new gift ideas as I collate them.
The tech4xmas gift guide is meant to provide ideas to start you off, so do check out some of them online and in the shops if they are what you think would bring a smile to your loved ones this Christmas. Start by shopping (on Redbubble) for accessories (phone cases, mouse pads, T-shirts, mugs etc) based on this lovely watercolour painting painted by my wife.
It’s now time to shop for presents for Christmas 2021, and bring some cheer to two years living under the shadow of COVID-19.
This year’s cover art for tech4xmas 2021 has been painted by my wife. Check out her other paintings on Instagram at @kkmakesandbakes.
This cutie in a Christmas sweater is a watercolour painting that she did for this year’s Christmas and has kindly agreed to be used as the tech4xmas 2021 banner.
Around this time of year, I’m usually inundated with requests from readers and friends on Christmas gift ideas for their loved ones or themselves.
So here are some tech that I would use myself or get for MY loved ones, based mostly on those gadgets that I’ve tried or reviewed.
Not all are the latest and newest, but they are what I think are some of the best-in-class in their category of products.
tech4xmas 2021 Gift Guide below.
It’s 2021. Happy New Year!
Photo credit: Justin Tan @_incognito08_. Sunrise at Mirissa in a whale-watching boat off the coast of Sri Lanka. Circa 2018.
It’s a new day, new year, with new beginnings.
Let’s hope the new year brings better times and leave behind the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May the new decade begin!
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Closer to home in Singapore, the skies opened up today to usher in the new decade. Video shot with Google Pixel 4 XL.
Hand washing is one of the most effective preventive measures against COVID-19 – the disease ravaging the world now. Google Doodles is recognising Ignaz Semmelweis – the Hungarian physician who discovered the medical benefits of handwashing.
* This story first appeared on Haleness Me.
Google Doodles celebrates Ignaz Semmelweis and handwashing. Click to watch the video.
Dr Ignaz Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in the maternity clinic of the Vienna General Hospital 173 years ago in 1847, where he deduced and demonstrated that requiring doctors to disinfect their hands vastly reduced the transmission of disease.
Print out this poster on proper handwashing techniques.
Semmelweis had noticed that a mysterious and poorly understood infection known as “childbed fever” was leading to high mortality rates in new mothers in maternity wards across Europe in the mid-19th century.
Semmelweis deduced that the doctors were transmitting infectious material from prior operations and autopsies to susceptible mothers through their hands.
He required doctors to wash their hands with chlorinated lime water before examining pregnant women.
As a result, the documented mortality rate plunged from 18% to 2.2% over a period of a year.
Here are some tips from Google on digital wellbeing and how our devices can contribute to our daily happiness.
The first step toward digital wellbeing is often understanding more about how you interact with technology in the first place. Tools like the Digital Wellbeing Dashboard in Android 9 Pie and YouTube’s Time Watched offer ways to keep you more informed about your habits.
Despite being one of the wealthiest nations globally, research has shown that Singaporeans are amongst the unhappiest people in the world.
Disconnect when you need to. Take advantage of tools that help make it easier to take a break from your devices, and switch off at the end of each day.
