{"id":22909,"date":"2025-12-25T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22909"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:05:36","slug":"7-stories-from-2025-that-made-us-feel-good-including-jimmy-o-yang-and-cantopop-djs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22909","title":{"rendered":"7 stories from 2025 that made us feel good, including Jimmy O. Yang and Cantopop DJs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/22\/69f089ad-80fd-4ac0-b7d4-d29f3d949a8e_2fa0a2e8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The festive season is all about spreading cheer, so here we take a look back on some of our favourite feel-good stories of 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong artist Joannah Hon, who paints local people and then reveals the art in public, made us happy with her work, and Aiden Tsang\u2019s wholesome Instagram reels, where the eight-year-old teaches Cantonese, also put us in a good mood.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">American photographer Austin Bell also put a smile on our faces thanks to his project that saw him photograph, from above, all of Hong Kong\u2019s outdoor basketball courts, turning the images into geometric art.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Here, we revisit seven fun stories of 2025.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">1. This Hong Kong artist\u2019s art has gone IG viral<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In her short videos, which are often paired with classic Cantonese songs, Joannah Hon Pui-yan reveals her oversized oil paintings of local cultural icons on the streets of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The 32-year-old artist \u2013 known as Jobey \u2013 poses next to the subjects that her paintings depict, including taxi drivers, fishmongers and even women doing <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">tai chi<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/3337289\/7-stories-2025-made-us-feel-good-including-jimmy-o-yang-and-cantopop-djs?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festive season is all about spreading cheer, so here we take a look back on some of our favourite feel-good stories of 2025. Hong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9289,14168,408,97,4076,14167,1726,3180],"class_list":["post-22909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cantopop","tag-djs","tag-feel","tag-good","tag-including","tag-jimmy","tag-stories","tag-yang","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}