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V.A.T celebrates National Day!

(Ed’s note: Some students popped by to do up V.A.T as our way of saying Happy 43rd Birthday Singapore! It’s fun when you have such a huge space to do almost anything. This entry is from Weilin, one of the students who put in lots of work to make V.A.T a place fit for Singapore’s […]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Y.O!spotting: Free Hugs

Contributed by Nicole Ann Law Li Ling, 14
Y.O! blogger
The growing trend of “Free Hugs” has made its way to the sunny streets of Singapore. The video of young people offering free hugs in Orchard road on a Saturday has been widely circulated on video sharing website Youtube.
This is one of the many videos found on […]

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Y.O!spotting: Ex-President Suharto died on Sunday

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 […]

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Heard the latest buzz in school?

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, […]

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Y.O!spotting - What are teens talking about? Books?

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. […]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008