Posts Tagged ‘#lessismore’
Webinar Series – Nourishing your Soul
Background This webinar series focuses on overcoming the emotionally overwhelming challenge of decluttering sentimental things. These include photo albums, travel memorabilia, and souvenirs that just keep on growing in your house over the years. Even if your children have started their own family, their belongings are still with you because you can’t bear to part…
Read MoreLet the Adventure Begin – Create your own Recreation Slideshow
I love traveling, photography and video recording with my smart phone. A potential perfect storm is brewing for me with loads of digital clutter clogging up my life and brain! Electronic scrapbooking enables me to organise, declutter and distill my media for keepsake. It can be turned into a video slideshow that engages the audience…
Read MoreWorkshop Reflection March 2019
The two workshops in collaboration with NUS Society and WINGS had just been completed in March: (1) Key Highlights of Workshop at NUSS Mar 19 2) Key Highlights of Workshop at WINGS Mar 19 Kowling and I enjoyed the interaction, exchange and sharing with the students. Now that I had conducted more classes and got…
Read MoreLearn, Unlearn and Relearn
It is said that sixty is the new forty in the new age of ageing. Longer, healthier lives lead to the current generation hitting middle age later. This argument has gained acceptance with evidence supported by the longevity of Hollywood film stars and evergreen singers. The well-known politician Dr Mahathir returns to power in his…
Read MoreGreen Hybrid Chinese New Year Card Idea
In last year’s blog titled ‘Three Electronic Scrapbook Ideas for Chinese New Year’, I mentioned that one can create a personalised new year card by converting it digitally and augmenting it with a handwritten message to make it more personalised. Now let me elaborate on the possibilities of this approach. For example, let’s start with…
Read MoreLiberate Your Life by Decluttering
There is a recent trend #mariekondo and #sparkjoy that had inspired many Singaporeans since the Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo was released on Jan 1 this year. The beginning of the year coincides with the Spring Cleaning for Chinese New Year. Many shared on social media how they took the extra miles to…
Read MoreReflection before New Year Resolution
Do you ever notice that most retail shops changed their decoration to that of the Chinese New Year theme on Christmas Day? We are going to say goodbye to the year 2018 and usher in 2019 in barely a week’s time! Is strange, is it peculiar to me only that Dec 31 feels so different…
Read MoreJourney of Learn, Live and Share
To many baby boomers in Singapore, we have the experience of growing up in a third-world country and retiring in a first-world country. We had few photos when we were young, and we over-compensated that by having a lot of pictures of our children and vacation. These are common phenomena for us who enjoy photography…
Read MoreReflection, Reframe and Reorganisation
Many busy professionals, full-time housewives, and young mothers of school-going children do not have the time for themselves. We attempt to be more efficient, better organized, and super time management, only to find that more are piling up on our in-trays. The challenge is not so much about how we become better at solving this…
Read MoreElectronic Scrapbook – Why and Why Now?
The digital revolution is creeping into our lives in many ways in Singapore. The island nation is well connected with a high-speed broadband network with one of the highest internet and mobile phone penetration in the world. The educational system reinforces e-learning and IT enrichment to prepare students for the digital lifestyle ahead. As parents…
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