This Christmas, why not get something that the entire family can get to enjoy together. We picked out some of the latest gadgets as well as gifts we think are great for family bonding.
Give the gift of Music
Online music streaming site Deezer may just be the best gift this Christmas for the young and the old. Get a subscription to Deezer’s Premium+ for 3, 6 or 12 months. There are more than 30 million tracks available on computer, tablet or mobile to enjoy. From oldies to popular pop or world music, there’s something for everyone. Mum just recently asked me where I got such a nice song list of oldies one day, when I was playing from my Deezer’s list of oldies. There you go… The gift of music.
Get the Deezer gift card HERE. Priced at S$29.70 for a three-month subscription, S$59.40 for 6-months and S$99 for a 12 month subscription.
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Share Your Bluetooth Speakers
Music is universal. Share your music with Braven’s latest bluetooth speakers. These affordable speakers are small and light. Perfect for sharing your music in any part of your home or when you have an outdoor party in the park or by the beach. Pairing your music source to the speakers is easy and quite idiot proof. It even has a built in microphone so you can take calls and speak through the speakers for teleconferencing with family and friends just like a speaker phone.
Weighing 388 grammes and measuring only 15.85 cm x 6.7cm x 4.6cm, the Braven 710 offers 12 hours of playtime with its 1,400 mAh built-in battery. It comes in Blue, Silver or Graphite.
Available at S$228 at EpiCentre, Infinite (Apple Stores @ Best Denki), Nubox & Tech@Vogue.
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A White Christmas
Celebrate a white Christmas with Asus’s latest White Nexus 7. With the perfect dimensions as a portable tablet that not only fits snugly in any bag or in your hands, the Nexus 7 is light and a great companion when you are commuting or travelling. Plug in your earphones and this handy device lets you in on your own world with music from online music streaming sites such as Deezer or Spotify or read your favourite ebook.
The Nexus 7 runs on the latest Android 4.4 KitKat operating system and is available in 16GB WiFi version. For the festive season, you will receive free JUMBOX Jelly Power 5200 portable powerbank and you can also purchase a Travel Cover at a special price of S$15 (Usual S$29).
Priced at S$399 and available from 21 December 2013, this gift is affordable and perfect for the family.
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Christmas Is More Than Just Ham & Turkey
Christmas is not only about ham and turkey. Go for a nice family meal at this private fine dining hideout at Craig Road known as Xi Yan. A favourite of mine, Xi Yan offers food that is delicious on the palate but also a visual feat. This Christmas let celebrity chef and founder Jacky Yu impress you with his creative cooking.
Enjoy a fuss free meal with various set menus offered here. Xi Yan Singapore is a strictly by reservations private dining establishment. Open daily for lunch from 12pm to 3pm and 6.30pm to 10.30pm for dinner.
Lunch menu is priced between S$48++ and S$68++ per person while the dinner menu is priced between S$68 and S$288 per person for a minimum of 2 persons. The lunch menu varies from five to eight courses, while dinner menu has six to 12 courses.
Visit xiyan.com.sg for more information or call +62203546 for reservations. Xi Yan is located at 38A Craig Road.
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A Healthier Family
The Revitive IX helps aid blood circulation and strengthen the leg muscles with 30 minutes of usage daily. It also provides daily relief from tired, aching legs and swollen feet and ankles. Did you know your legs contain a series of muscle-driven pumps and one-way valves, a system known as the ‘second heart’ which pumps the blood back up through your body. Using mild electrical muscle stimulation to your feet, Revitive activates your ‘second heart’, improving blood flow and reducing fluid retention in the lower legs.
Everyone in the family can use it. Packaged with two sets of pads for you to attach to your neck, shoulder or back, the Revitive can be used simultaneously with the foot device. It has different intensity levels for you to choose. Revitive has won the 2012 Red Dot Design Award and is a Class B medical device in Singapore.
Priced at S$499 and available from Guardian, Watsons and Unity as well as Courts, Best Denki, Harvey Norman and OG. More information at revitive.sg.
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Avoid The Crowd
Enjoy a cup of the Magic Christmas Tea from TWG Tea with macarons in the comfort of home. The Magic Christmas Tea is a theine-free red tea with a fragrant blend of rare citrus fruits and with raw and malty dark chocolate and spices. 100 grammes of the Magic Christmas Tea retails at S$78 each while the tea bag version Red Christmas Tea retails at S$25 for a gift box of 15 tea bags. Pair your tea with TWG Tea macarons to complete the experience. TWG Tea has metamorphosed the macaron into a jewel – a ruby-red orb infused with White Christmas Tea and the zest of fresh Mandarin Orange. Available in boxes of 6 (S$12), 12 (S$24) or 24 (S$48).
Pick up a pack of the Christmas tea and a box of macarons or pastries from TWG Cafes in Singapore and enjoy them with your family.
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Support Local Writers
- The Land of The Meat Munchers
The latest locally published fiction in town Land of the Meat Munchers by ex Straits Time reporter Nicholas Yong tells the a zombie story in the HDB heartlands. The plot revolves around Jim, a Ghim Moh resident, undergraduate and apocalypse survivor. He has to fend himself from five million very hungry meat munchers in the way with his parang and just a back pack. Joining him in this nightmarish feat are Selina the crazy girl with the tattoos and Raj the law graduate.
The paperback version is priced at S$19.90 from major bookstores including Kinokuniya, Books Actually and MPH. Get one today for the family and discuss the plot as it unfolds just like how families discuss sitcoms or Korean drama.
