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Dainere’s Journey Blog – Inspirational writing about her life

  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 [...]

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Get to know blogger Ming!

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 [...]

Friday, November 6th, 2009

So what about ‘Libraries of the Future’?

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 [...]

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

2010 Youth Olympic Games: The One Year Countdown

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 [...]

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Cosplay Convention in San Diego – July 2009

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 [...]

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Pioneer Secondary School Blog

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

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Why? Oh… Gee!: The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Blog

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

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

Monday, January 28th, 2008