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Everybody loves Food! A bunch of teens gathered at VAT for a book sharing session on food. They even sampled a brand new recipe by the librarians.The event kicked off with a get to know you session and ice-breakers. 3 lucky (or perhaps unlucky) teens had a forfeit where they tasted mystery food while blindfolded. […]

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

pseudobookclub - Create Your Own Recipe

Contributed by: Beverly
pseudobookclub participant 
The pseudo book club, led by Miss Jessica, was held on the 17th January 2009 for one and a half hours. Pre teens from ages 10 to 16 were actively involved in the sharing session.
Ice breaking was first done to break the barrier between participants. We played simple name games and […]

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Sep Pseudo Book Club: Fantasy

(Ed’s notes: We had a ’stomach-cramping laughter-inducing’ session on fantasy last Saturday. Have a look at what Beverly has to say about the session. Magic and dragons included.)
Posted by Beverly, teen photojournalist

Held by teens on the third Saturday of every month, the pseudo book club engages young adults to share their personal views with regards […]

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Sep’s Pseudo Book Club: FANTASY

Hello hello hello!
Sep’s Pseudo Book Club will be happening on 20Sep, 3-430pm at V.A.T, Jurong Regional Library. Take a break from mugging and join us
We’ll be doing fantasy *cue multi-coloured unicorns and a dash of magic* so if you cant put down your harry potter and terry pratchett, this is for you! And […]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Pseudo Book Club: National Day Special

Heyhoho!
The Pseudo Book Club meets in August again
This time we’re doing a National Day special with the following titles:
Onewinged: An Anthology of Young Writing
Publisher: Singapore : UniPress, c2001
Call No.: YSING English S828ONE
The Gathering: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Author: Hu, Michael
Publisher: Singapore : Candid Creation Pub., 2006
Call No.: […]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Read! Singapore 2008 at JRL

We had a Read! Singapore 2008 discussion on Colin’s Lee’s short story ‘Yew Lee’s Wedding Woes’ from ‘Home and Away’ on 25th June, 3pm at Jurong Regional Library.
Check out the crowd!

60 students all the way from Kranji Secondary School (that’s Peter talking to the students about Read! Singapore 2008). We listened to an audio recording of […]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Pseudo Book Club Session in July

Hello hello!
The next Pseudo Book Club session will be on 19July, 3-4pm at V.A.T (V.A.T is at the Jurong Regional Library, Level 4).
If you don’t know it yet, Pseudo Book Club is the ONLY club in the library by teens, for teens that has activities and games. You’ll make new friends while we attempt to […]

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

teen thots…

..on pseudobookclub

“This VAT programme would definitely broaden my horizon and my social circle.”
~ Chun En, 15
“Today sure was an interesting day, I have lots of takeaways and looking forward to the next sesison.”
~ Ingrid Ho, 15
“I had a very great time as the circumstances forced me to adapt to the situation and to put my […]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

wassup@pseudobookclub

yo! yo!

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

Thursday, January 10th, 2008