http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo a blog by the librarians & volunteers from the Young People's Services (Public Library) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tchoukball? Say 'chukeball'. Originally, I had this in my mind:  'Pikachu and the Poke-ball' by ishot71 Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives Works Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishot71/304566701/ Hahaha :)  :) BUT it is actually this, this and this. Amazing stuff! What exactly is this tchoukball? In short, it is a - 7-a-side non-contact sports where players can score at both sides ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/youthstories/tchoukball-101-part-i/ Singapore women's table tennis team Wang Yue Gu, Feng Tianwei and Li Jia Wei brings Singapore our first medal in Olympics since 1960 !!!! Woo!!! Everybody hands up in the air!! Last night at 730pm Singapore time, I went down to the Singapore Table Tennis Association with a bunch of friends to ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/sports/olympic-medal-for-singapore/ Contributed by: Felicia Clara Tan Jun Hui, 16 Y.O! blogger I thought I was going to be in big trouble this morning when I got into the car with my mum. This unusual circumstance arose because last night my friend D called at 11pm and I yakked with him for an entire ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/youthstories/growing-pains/ 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 ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/bookclubbers/pseudo-book-club-national-day-special/ (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 ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/library-gossip/vat-celebrates-national-day/ Do you have something to express? Something that you are aching to share with your peers? Well now you can with ‘Teen Expressions’! What exactly is Teen Expressions? Teen Expressions is a display of teens’ book recommendations, poems, quotable quotes, reading thoughts or reflective questions at our public libraries. It’s basically a ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/current-news/teen-expressions-express-impress/ (Ed.'s notes: We bring you the final installation of this 'how-to' series. Linda of Lunarin shares chapter 3 and 4, sound advice complete with all the gritty bits.) Chapter 3: Releasing and Distributing the album By jumping straight to the topic of releasing the album, I have effectively skipped the following topics: 1) ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/music/how-to-produce-your-own-album-part-ii/ (Ed.'s notes: So far we've had lessons on 'How to be a live performer' from Rai of EIC and 'How to do market my band?' from Syed of West Grand Boulevard. Next up we have Linda from Lunarin to complete the series. Pens and papers out please!) Chapter 1: the Art ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/music/how-to-produce-your-own-album-part-i/ Contributed by: Lea Gysel, Switzerland Hello! I'm a guest from Switzerland. I work in Switzerland, more precisely in a high school library. I'm attached at the Jurong Regional Library for an internship for 6weeks to learn about great customer service and the what the people behind various library projects ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/bookshelves/librariancabbage-from-switzerland-says-hi/ Contributed by: Teo Shu De, 16 Y.O! blogger I refer to the article entitled "32 teams from 22 nations to train in S'pore ahead of Beijing Olympics". It is heartening to know that Singapore is playing an active role in supporting the advent of international sports. While geographically small in size, 'the little red ... http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo/sports/singapore-a-sporting-nation/