iWish "how to"

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iWish - Gifting Made Easy!
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Sign up for your free iWish account @ www.iwish.com.sg now and start gifting away

You can sign up either with your existing facebook account. iWish is integrated with facebook.

Or you can sign up using your email address.

Step 1: Create your wishlist

Click add a wishlist

Enter the wishlist name eg. Christmas 2014 for Lawrence

Select the category for that wishlist

Wishlist created

Now to add gift ideas to your wishlist

Click on add items

Add an image file, and key in as much information as you can possibly can to describe the gift item.

Eg. Size, colour, model no., specifications worth taking note of, etc.

This is so that your gifter knows exactly what gift to give you. (you wouldn’t want to receive a pink cardigan of size XXXL, when you are a male and is a size M right?)

If you want inspiration for gift ideas, you can click on the Gift Ideas tab to view the catalogue of gift ideas hosted on iWish.

Step 2: Share your wishlist

You can copy and paste the link, and either email, post it on facebook, whatsapp, etc and share it with your network.

Or you can simply just click on the facebook share icon. iWish is integrated with facebook.

Your friends and you can also write comments on this wishlist.

Step 3: Wish granted

Check in regularly and be notified when someone has “choped” the gift to buy it for you.

You will know that this gift item is taken, your other friends will know this gift item is taken, but you and they will not know who in particular has “choped” and bought you this gift item (element of surprise!).

To grant your friend’s wish, you can click on Friend’s Wishlist tab, and view your friend’s wishlist if they have shared it with you.

View your friend’s desired gift ideas on their wishlist, and “chope” the gift item to gift your friend.

We are in the happiness business!

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It's the year end holidays!

It's the year end holidays!

Rejoice, Rejoice, the year end holidays are here. School's out for a couple of weeks now, colleagues are all going on long leave around office. Finance is closing their books for year end consolidation. Out of office replies a plentiful on the email accounts. Vendors are closing their offices early this year. 

Out on the streets - the shopping malls are out in full force. This is the period where they have to do their last push to rack up impressive sales figures to end the year with a bang. It depends on the buying frenzy of gifts for the Christmas festive season on whether the malls will close the year with a loud bang, or a pathetic whimper. 

For those of you who have yet to contribute much to the GDP and the economy, make sure you spend more this month!

For all you lucky salaried employees, you're getting your 13th month AWS bonus payout, plus your usual salary for the month of December. 

For all you lucky employers! well, just one word: Tax. As long as it is business expense, anything goes...

For all you self employed business owners, haha, well, you don't have an annual leave quota, you just leave and spend your holidays!

For all those still making ends meet, hang in there. It will get better. Stay positive, focus on what you already have, make the most out of it, and positives attract more positives. Stay focused, stay grateful. 

For everyone out there, happy festive season. and happy gifting away.

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A fishing rod

Ask a hungry man what he wants, and most probably his answer is: fish. 

Charity and non profit organisations in Singapore operates not on giving the end (gifts), but on giving the means (teach the man to fish) so he can be sustainable. 

If we ask an under privileged kid what he wants, he most probably will say iPad, or iPhone, rather than 12 lessons for financial literacy etc. 

There are some gaps which can be addressed and gift recipients should be educated in the wish list items that they list. To focus on the means, means so that this change can be sustainable, rather than just the end, which only lasts temporarily. 

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. 

Teach the man how to fish, and he eats for a lifetime. 

iWish is the fishing rod.

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A good gift

A good gift is like a good meal.

A good meal - sometimes a good meal does not have to be expensive, extravagant, or delicious even. A meal becomes good when dining with the right company, the company of friends or loved ones. 

That is why food critics often dine alone. That is because when one dines alone, one truly tastes the food and drinks he/she is consuming. The food critic is then able to objectively judge the quality of the food without external interventions, and focus solely on the taste and presentation of the food. At least that is, theoretically...

How can one truly be objective and focus solely on the food itself without regard to the environment aspects, such as the decor of the restaurant, the ambience, or even the plate which the food is placed. All these factors play a part in the presentation of the food itself. 

Likewise, like in a present, how can a gift recipient focus solely on the gift itself, when a gift is truly made up of the sum of all its individual parts? 

Individual parts such as the wrapping, the texture of the wrapper, the look and feel of the gift, the ribbons tying it, the handwritten card that accompanies it. Or even the poem, or text handwritten in the card. And even the gesture of personally delivering the gift by the gifter, instead of relying on 3rd party delivery services. 

What are the elements that make up a good gift?

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without compromising on the elements that made a gift good in the first place...

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Christmas shopping trip at Orchard Road turned gifting idealists into gifting practicals

I experienced a mad rush for Christmas presents over the weekend with a trip to Orchard Road. 

I had to do some last minute Christmas presents shopping myself, along with the wifey. It's the annual Secret Santa initiative. This year, the budget per present is $20. true enough, we busted the $20 cap with today's spiralling prices of presents. 

Every set of present we got, it's above $20. Ouch. 

Wifey had a hard time determining what kind of gifts, or what range of presents she should get for each of her friend/ colleague. She didn't even have a vague idea when we began our Orchard Road presents hunting trip. She said, "Let's walk around Orchard Road, and get gift inspiration. Then we will know what to buy then."

For those who still believe in this saying, let me bust that one out as a myth for you right now. It is a total myth. You will not get gift inspirations by randomly walking around gift stores without having a plan, or having a vague gift idea to begin with. The hordes of shoppers and gift buyers, coupled with the never ending display of gift ideas will confuse you even further. 

Even worse, seeing everyone else around you carrying bags of gifts, made us feel even lousier that we haven't even bought any gifts yet. 

Initially, we wanted each gift to be unique, and represent the person whom we will be purchasing the gift for. We discussed about the gift recipient's unique personality, discern what kind of gifts that person might like, and so on...

We were gifting idealists.

Eventually, we got tired, and settled on the gift idea that "whatever, it will be an awesome gift as long as I have made the effort to come shop, pick out and wrap it". 

We became gifting practicals. 

We came, we conquered, we lost, we got tired, we bought gifts. 

This sums up our shopping spree pretty much. 

When we were younger, we could go on and on the entire day, just walking around, and doing window shopping. Now that we are older, presumably, all the walking and standing around browsing for gifts literally almost killed us. We have the moolah to spend, we just couldn't find the right gift to spend it on. 

How we wish more people will use iWish - to pen down their gift idea and wish lists, so that it actually makes the gifter's job a lot easier, a lot simpler, and a lot more fun!

People, gifters, gift recipients, everybody, I urge you go sign up for your free iWish account @ www.iwish.com.sg now and save everyone else the trouble and hassle in picking out gifts for you. 

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When we were young

When we were young, our parents scrimped and saved on themselves, and only provided the best for us.

Think back at how they have sacrificed in order to put you through school, buy you the best items, etc.

Now that they are older and may have retired, it is now your duty to take care of them.

It is now you, who will provide the very best for them. Maybe a new better mattress, a sturdier wardrobe, a new washing machine...

What is important is to make their life now a little bit more comfortable. A little bit is better than nothing.

Love them as they have loved you.

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Then why can't I choose the gift that I WANT?

Then why can't I choose the gift that I WANT?

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