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Horton Hears a Who
Reviewed by Nicole Law, 14
Y.O! blogger 

The creators of Ice Age present yet another look into the world of Dr Seuss. It all starts with Horton an elephant when he starts his day in the jungle. A speck of dust floats by and Horton thinks he hears a cry for help. Horton runs after […]

[Ed.’s notes: Olivia, our Y.O! blogger, discusses the dangers of something so close to many of our hearts, or more accurately, close to our ears - the ubiquitous mp3 player.]
The Straits Times recently reported a study on how teens in the Netherlands are aware, but still choose to remain nonchalant, about the risks of mp3 players. […]

[Ed.’s notes: Olivia, our Y.O! blogger, shares her views on the woes currently plaguing soccer fans who get their weekly fix via cable. It does seem like fans would just have to fork out that little bit extra to support their favorite teams in all the various league matches.
That would mean, for example, watching Liverpool play their EPL game on one cable […]

[Ed.’s notes: Olivia, our Y.O! blogger, gives us a youth perspective on the impact of foreigners on Singapore. Do we really need foreigners? Or can they actually help Singapore achieve new heights?]
Whilst many of us youth in Singapore may have already had considerable interaction with at least some foreigners amongst us, it is likely that many of […]

(Ed.’s note: I was checking the emails in the ShowTeens mailbox , I found Hui Yie’s article on ”Nice new NLB Reminder Service!”, dated 3rd April 2008.
“Bingo! that’s exactly what I need!”
Well, I was tasked to post NLB SMS and Email Reminder Service on Y.O! blog and was just wondering what to say to you when I spotted the write-up by Hui Yie, our Y.O! […]

[Ed.’s notes: Issac, our Y.O! blogger, offers his view on the other edge of the Internet sword. He considers the loss of privacy that one may experience ala Edison Chen or Tammy from NYP.
Just like we saw with the above scandals, Joe Queenan writes that
“The theory was that the 24/7 surveillance wrought by camera phones, blogs, YouTube, Facebook and […]

[Ed.’s notes: Part of a series of posts on environmentalism and conservation to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. Read the full news article that inspired this post here] 
Outline of news report:
1.    2008 designated as the frog year so as to promote public awareness on the declining population of amphibians.
2.    The significant disappearance of frogs generates a […]

(Ed.’s note: The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) together with NLB organised this sports event held at the Plaza of the National Library on the 29th of March. Sport was truly the order of the day as teams battled it out in Frisbee and Floorball competitions. Booths and kiosks promoting and selling various sports paraphernalia as […]

(Ed.’s notes: Part of a series of posts on environmentalism and conservation to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. Scroll down for links to other posts on the Y.O! blog)
Global Warming. Yeah, sure, every one’s talking about it, but how many of us actually take serious view of this problem?
We should all be very familiar […]

Reviewed by Jelvin Tan
Y.O! blogger 

This is another movie made by the writers of scary movie and the epic movie. So if you have watched those, you should know what to expect about this movie.
This is another comedy which includes parodies of your 2007 films like Shrek 3, James Bond, happy feet, 300, transformers and many […]