Moving On: library@orchard in transit

There’s so many things that happened in the last 10 days that even as I’m typing this, I’m not sure where to start!

On our birthday weekend (20/21 st Oct), many people contributed to our Dreamwall by painting, sticking, printing, splashing their art onto our glass panels. I particularly liked the statement that said: “If I exhibit flashes of brilliance, would you find it fascinating?”… Used it for our previous Call for Citizen Reporters post!

Check out our flickr set for pics that I took using a camera phone, will upload some better ones that a colleague took, later.

Some folks blogged about their encounters with our artistic experiment:
John Yeo
Joel  (btw, I still can’t find his Mandy Moore “piece”!)

Then on the 21st, we had our cooking experts, Mdm Koh-Heng and Aishah demo Jeput Jeput and Ondeh Ondeh. And the chio trio of foodbloggers (Cheryl, Denise and Julia) entertained the audience with cooking adventures and amusing food anecdotes.

Check out Julia’s pics and post about the event! We even had a member of the audience give us a tip about how to avoid introducing transfat into our food: Do not heat the oil past the smoking point!

Someone also brought up an interesting point on how the food bloggers would react if someone said that they’d followed some instructions on their blog and a disaster occurred. I think the consensus was that, the bloggers have personally tried out the recipes/techniques/restaurants and they post their experiences on their blogs. Readers make the choice of taking that information and interpreting it for themselves. The bloggers also mentioned that they do get requests for help about the stuff they post and usually they’ll try their best to help the readers ”troubleshoot”.  

Anyway, we then ended the day with food (what else right?) and a Birthday Cake! For some strange reason, the cake had the text: “Graduation” on its side… Maybe it’s the model number? ;p But we took it to mean that the library is “graduating to better things”!

- Posted by Jillian

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