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Anthony Chen, a local youth director, whose short film “Haze” was nominated for the Berlin Film Festival in the upcoming month.
Check out details at channelnewsasia.com, last accessed 23 January 2008.
I’m not a guru in this area. But my colleagues are. Visit our EPCL blog.
In fact I would go “Huh?” when everyone around me is chatting excitedly about the Singapore International Film Festival or […]

Ex-Indonesia President, Suharto, died on Sunday, 25  27 January 2008, at the hospital.
He was 86 years old.
He became Indonesia President in 1968 and was forced to resign in 1998.
The country tried to bring him to trials for his acts of corruptions and human rights abuses.
But the court case continued for a long time due to […]

YES!!! Singapore is now left in the running together with Moscow in the bid to host the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in year 2010! Supporters were overjoyed when the good news was released on Monday, 21st Jan 2008.
YOG has somehow invaded schools like a storm. Just how much stir did it cause in schools? Well, […]

If you’re tired of listening to librarians talking about good books, then hear what teens are talking about books they had read at Cheshire Public Library Teen Book Blog.
As I browsed through the blog, I  found some of my favourite titles
Totally agreed with Monica that Garth Nix’s Shade’s Children is a book worth reading. […]

Check out our local teens having fun yakking online and snacking at the same time in both Jurong Regional Library & Woodlands Regional Library ->

They’ve learnt some simple German words & phrases from this chat session too.
Know what does the German word “Danke” mean???
More … and in case you’ve missed out Part I

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Librarian, Young People’s Services
Wow, the German teens actually woke up and chatted with us online at 8am! They seemed to chat from an internet cafe too… didn’t know that the internet cafes operate so early in Germany unlike the internet cafes in Singapore.
Here are some photos of the teen online chat […]

Is that you in this comic strip?

This is Sarah’s first contribution entitled “routine” and can be found at http://www.leemeixia.com/
Ivan (aka my manager) introduced Sarah’s blog to me one day and insisted that I took a look at her blog.
I couldn’t believe my eyes after visiting this young lady’s  blog. It’s really amazing how she expresses herself through the use of […]

We’re two-thirds into the month of January, and I’m guessing by this time, most students are pretty much oriented into their new school, have made at least a few good friends (whom most likely will stay with you till the end of school) and gotten used to the new subjects and syllabus. And, the most […]

Ahh… 2008… Happy (belated) New Year! It also means the start of a new school year. My The December holidays seems so far away.
Some of you have probably started/are starting soon at a brand new school, being in Secondary 1 or JC 1 or 1st year at Poly/Uni. I remember it being a very scary […]

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pseudobookclubbers are piano-jamming this month at VAT teens room.
taking the unconventional approach of playing games and being activity centric, this for “teens by teens” bookclub aims to bring you on a reading adventure with cool reads and gigs
pseudobookclub is on every 3rd saturday, 3.00pm-4.30pm at jurong regional library
be there or be square
~ Jessica, Librarian