GIF MOMENT: HEM’s special GIF selection + wallpaper – Diwali 2014

October 12, 2014October 12, 2014 HEM News Agency

For the Gregorian year 2014 and the Vikram Samvat year 2071, the festival of lights, Diwali, will fall on Thursday, October 23. It will be a time to welcome the Goddess Lakshmi Devi into our homes to bring Her divine graces and blessings on our families and homes. Lamps (diyas/divas) are lit to welcome Her into our humble abodes and bestow upon us her gifts of prosperity and wellbeing. Diwali also means spending time with the family, exchanging gifts and wishing each other well. Plates and thalis laden with sweets beckon hungry stomachs and sweet teeth over, while living rooms and … Continue reading GIF MOMENT: HEM’s special GIF selection + wallpaper – Diwali 2014

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GIF MOMENT: Easter 2014

April 13, 2014June 27, 2015 HEM News Agency

In the United Kingdom, the days from the 18th to the 21st April are the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. I have booked a day off work so that means an impressive five-day long rest, which honestly I badly need. Easter is one of the most important Christian festivals celebrated here, and over much of the world. Children and parents look forward to munching their way through tonnes of chocolate Easter eggs and for many churchgoers it is a time to reflect on the lifetime of their religion’s founder Jesus Christ and his dying and resurrection for mankind’s sins. For the less … Continue reading GIF MOMENT: Easter 2014

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GIF MOMENT: Stick Texting

February 2, 2014April 14, 2014 HEM News Agency

Today the Half-Eaten Mind brings you a special GIF image courtesy of Lilith Moon on Google +. The GIF was produced by StickTexting.com and shared by Lilith and Kamran V. Kleist. A person becomes annoyed at his friend’s over enthusiastic use of smileys and gets his revenge in spectacular stickman style. The Stick Texting iPhone app gives users fully animated stick figures for text and emails using your iPhone or iPad. The detailed and clear animations help you express yourself, your thoughts and your moods with a firm punch. The smileys won’t know what hit them. The animation was created by … Continue reading GIF MOMENT: Stick Texting

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PHOTO MOMENT: Vijay’s pick of 2013’s best Diwali GIFs

November 3, 2013May 17, 2015 HEM News Agency

Vijay Shah Here is a selection of Diwali GIFs from various websites that I decided to include in this blogpost to get you in the festive mood. I have especially selected these animated images, or GIFs, for their attractiveness, relevancy or uniqueness. I hope you like them!! 🙂 I have tried to include different styles of design and culture, as Diwali is a festival marked by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains, as well as many people outside in other faiths and none. Many of the images shown here are e-cards and ‘scraps’ for social networks like Facebook and Orkut. A common … Continue reading PHOTO MOMENT: Vijay’s pick of 2013’s best Diwali GIFs

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ANNOUNCEMENT: HalfEatenMind marks Chinese New Year – wallpaper

February 2, 2013September 21, 2014 HEM News Agency

By Vijay Shah It is time for another celebratory wallpaper to mark a specially illustrious occasion. This time, the blog is commemorating the Chinese New Year. A major highlight of revelry marked in the calendars of more than a billion people worldwide, both Chinese and non-Chinese, this fun and joyous festival will fall on the Sunday 10th February (just over a week away) with an abundance of spectacular fireworks displays, fine foods, family get-togethers and cheerful tidings of good luck, happiness and prosperity in the year ahead. The best places to witness Chinese New Year as its most spectacular is … Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT: HalfEatenMind marks Chinese New Year – wallpaper

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ANNOUNCEMENT: New wallpaper to celebrate Diwali

November 3, 2012April 15, 2014 HEM News Agency

By Vijay Shah As of today, the Half-Eaten Mind unveils a new background wallpaper to help get myself, the Brainiacs and all blog viewers into the mood for Diwali/Deepavali, the Hindu festival of lights. To celebrate this special occasion, I have chanced upon a really elegant GIF image from a stock photo website which encapsulates perfectly the beauty and light that emanates throughout Hindu homes the length and breadth of the world, during Diwali. The animated picture shows some diyas, or Indian candles. In the scripture of the Ramayaan, such diyas (or divas) were used to light the way for … Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT: New wallpaper to celebrate Diwali