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  12-year-old Dainere Anthoney from Australia was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 11. She chronicles her struggles on her blog. With the help of the Starlight Foundation charity she has published a book You have to go through a storm to get to a rainbow – Dainere Anthoney. She also writes about her family life with [...]

Looking for cool blogs to check out! Love Food? Gorgeous pics too? We spoke to Ming, a 23-year-old Student, via e-mail to find out more about this avid blogger. He maintains 3 blogs actively. 1) mydemoninyou.blogspot.com/ – great movies, hangouts, food 2) leongmingen.blogspot.com/ – soley on food in Singapore 3) disgustingpeople.blogspot.com/ – irresponsible Singaporean and disgusting behaviour To [...]

Recently, we had a contest to find out what our teens felt about the future of libraries and libraries of the future. The best 10 submissions received a $10 book voucher each. And here was what the teens had to say (in no particular order): “Libraries of the future will be IT integrated. Books would [...]

With exactly 365 days to go before the launch of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore, it is little wonder that Singapore is in the mood to party. More than 5,000 enthusiasts, supporters, volunteers, government agencies, official sponsors and National Sports Associations (NSAs) turned up for the One Year Countdown event at the [...]

Costumes Galore! A Singaporean attended the Cosplay Convention in San Diego & posted lots of pics on his blog. I love the Spiderman outfit and Ghostbusters amongst many others :) It’s amazing how closely these fans resemble their characters. Cosplayers at San Diego Comic Con 2009. Originally uploaded by Parka Blogs under a Attribution Share Alike Creative Commons [...]

Check out this blog where teachers and students share their literary works and thoughts about their favourite books: http://pioneersec.edublogs.org/about-us/. Neil Gaiman, a popular writer, has had his books transformed into films like “Stardust”, “MirrorMask” and the upcoming “Coraline”. Check out this link: http://pioneersec.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/my-favourite-author-of-all-time-neil-gaiman/ Posted by: Reena Kandoth Associate Librarian, Young People’s Services

With the YOG in 2010 getting closer gather all the fun facts, videos and photos from this wacky Blog. Check this out! http://whyohgee.wordpress.com/    Posted by:Reena Kandoth Associate Librarian, Young People’s Services

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]