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Love Is A Gift
From bicycles and running shoes, to cameras and tablets, our simple Valentine’s Day Gift Guide has the perfect gift to say “I Love You” in style.
Olivia Newton John once sang “Let’s always remember that love is a gift.” With that in mind, here are some gifts to pamper your significant other.
1. SCS – Homemade With Love
Household name and butter brand SCS partners up with Marshall Cavendish to bring you Home-made with Love: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion.. This compact culinary treasure trove is packed with dozens of recipes, from festive favourites to baking basics, making it a must-have for baking enthusiasts! Available in all major bookstores island wide from February onwards, Home-made with Love: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion will retail for S$9.30 per copy.
2. New Balance Fresh Foam Zante
The Fresh Foam Zante is the everyday running shoe for runners seeking a smooth underfoot feel and a fast feeling transition through their stride. The shoe represents an evolution of the Fresh Foam collection, designed to take care of the runner in an exciting new way by providing a unique underfoot feel in a truly soft, lightweight and flexible package. The Fresh Foam Zante will launch in mid Feb 2015 with a SRP of S$169.
3. Coast Cycles’ Coastliner in Chrome
Coast Cycles is a lifestyle bicycle brand aimed at creating bicycles that are both rider and environment friendly. The Coastliner is the first signature model launched by the company and features a clean and uncluttered design suitable for daily use. The model is also the first bicycle with all its unsightly brake lines hidden inside a 100% seamless aluminium frame with no visible welds. The Coastliner is available at Coast Cycles. From S$2,800 onwards.
4. Lee Hwa Jewellery’s Amia
What better way to surprise your wife or girlfriend this Valentine’s than with the distinctive Amia pendant by Lee Hwa Jewellery? The pendant features 10 shimmering white Destinée diamonds, and 10 finely crafted rose gold hearts arranged in an alternating pattern to form the shape of a heart. Each Destinée diamond is of an ideal-cut and polished by highly experienced artisans. Artfully unique, this latest pendant is innovative and on trend for Valentine’s Day. Price upon request.
5. Wilfa Precision Brewer in Black by Papa Palheta
If your partner is a coffee-lover, then this sleek automatic home brewer would make a perfect Valentine’s gift. By ensuring the elements of fresh water, flow, brewing time and temperature are precisely controlled and optimized, Wilfa Precision brews barista-made coffee that you can enjoy in the comforts of home. The Wilfa Precision Brewer is available at independent coffee boutique, Papa Palheta and retails at S$399.
6. Samsonite RED’s Business Casual BALLON line
Is your partner a frequent traveller or always-on-the-go? A great gift idea this Valentine’s would be one of these stylish bags from Samsonite RED’s new Spring Summer 2015 BALLON collection. Placing emphasis on functionality, durability and attention to detail, the BALLON collection features unisex backpacks that are available in colours of orange and grey. These sleek backpacks start from S$340.
7. Roots of Fight – Bruce Lee X Under Armour Men’s Jeet Kune Do Short-sleeve T-shirt (Black)
This special collaborative collection between Roots of Fight and Under Armour pays tribute to the legendary martial artist, Bruce Lee. Suitable for daily wear or even for workouts, this Bruce Lee X Under Armour t-shirt is a great gift for that special someone this Valentine’s! The Bruce Lee X Under Armour t-shirt is part of the Bruce Lee X Under Armour collection and is available at Under Armour Orchard Gateway outlet at S$49.
8. Bose SoundTouch 20 Wi-Fi System
The idea of having music streamed throughout the house sounds good, but setting it up isn’t. Bose thinks so too, which is why they made the SoundTouch 20. High standard of audio quality aside, what really makes the SoundTouch 20 a winner is its simple controls, comprising of an easy-to-use app and six easy-to-program physical preset buttons. Plus, it’s easy to add more speakers to your home network to play the same, or different music in different rooms. Priced at S$639.
9. Sony NWZ-A15
The Sony NWZ-A15 has plenty of creature comforts crammed into its svelte frame. Despite its 66g weight, it is capable of 30 hours of play with high-resolution audio files, and supports up to 128GB storage via a microSD card in addition to the 16GB storage built-in. To top it off it also features Bluetooth connectivity and NFC to enable one-touch wireless streaming to your Bluetooth-enabled speakers. The NWZ-A15 retails at S$299.
10. Canon PowerShot SX710 HS
When traveling, convenience is of the utmost importance, thus having a camera like the Canon PowerShot SX710 HS makes it easy to take holiday photographs without having to carry an array of lenses. At its heart is a 30x zoom lens that lets you get up close to your subject, and reduces the inevitable shake with a Zoom Framing Assist feature. The SX710 also allows you to easily transfer your pictures wirelessly or upload them to social media outlets or cloud storage. Retails at S$459.
11. Pioneer SE-MJ561
Wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones are a dime a dozen these days, but Pioneer’s new SE –MJ561BT has no fear of being left in the shadows. Designed to be functional, the SE-MJ561BT also supports one-touch NFC pairing to simplify the process, while physical control buttons makes it easy to adjust the volume, play and skip tracks, as well as take calls through a built-in microphone. The SE-MJ561BT has a battery life of up to 15 hours and retails at S$149.
12. Zepp Golf Swing Analyser
Sometimes the best gift isn’t a physical object. If your significant other is a golf nut, this might be one of the most enjoyable gifts that he or she would ever have. The Zepp Golf Swing Analyser is a sensor that helps measure the most important aspects of your swing, such as your swing plane, backswing position, hip rotation, and then analyses and improves each one. The accompanying app also comes with video analysis features to help you refine your technique further. Retails at S$219.
13. Deeper Fishfinder
Sometimes a relaxing day out fishing, isn’t quite that relaxing – not if the fish aren’t really biting. The Deeper Fishfinder is a first of its kind, portable, wireless sonar, that can be used to find the location of fish, depth, water temperature, bottom contour, and so on. The Fishfinder can gather reliable sonar readings up to 40 metres below the surface, and even give you a detailed view of the bottom terrain via its accompanying smartphone app. The Deeper Fishfinder costs S$299.
14. Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 10-inch
Choosing between a tablet or a laptop as a gift? You can include the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 in your shortlist. The 10-inch YOGA Tablet 2 is an Android-based tablet that is flexible enough to be used in a variety of ways, all thanks to its unique cylindrical base design – it makes it easy to hold in one hand, plus the cleverly-designed kickstand lets you use the tablet in a variety of ways; be it as a display when you are watching videos, or tilted for ease of typing. The YOGA Tablet 2 retails from S$699.
