I love The Ting Tings on Fridays Youth.SG just discovered another English indie pop band that has us grooving in the office! Called The Ting Tings, this boy-girl duo has been smashing charts all around the world. (They are currently kicking Madonna’s and Mariah Carey’s butts in the UK album charts.) And Youth.SG wants to share the love! We’re giving out 3 copies of The Ting Tings’ ‘We Started Nothing’ albums for free! Be the first 3 to tell us the name of any song from their debut album ‘We Started Nothing’ and you’ll win the album! Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 31st, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘I love The Ting Tings on Fridays’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email! *Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply About The Ting Tings The Ting Tings are Jules de Martino and Katie White. They met when she was just out of being a Wigan school-girl and bonded over a shared ambition to rock the foundations of pop music. Together, Jules and Katie have configured a sound that represents the pure heart of British pop. Their debut album, ‘We Started Nothing’ is littered with snappy choruses trade off against angular guitar work, whipsmart drumming and a succession of loops that they create live with the use of delay pedals. Read our review for The Ting Tings’s ‘We Started Nothing’ here! Movie Contest Sci-Fi Alert! To prove that Youth.SG’s not just into mainstream pop music, we’ve decided to give out FREE passes to Brendan Fraser’s new movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth! Based on Jules Verne’s classic, this adventure thriller is directed by Academy Award-winning visual effects veteran Eric Brevig (who also did Pearl Harbor). Be the first 10 to answer the following question and you win a pair of in-season complimentary passes to watch ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ and an exclusive notebook! Tell us, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ opens on August 7th, 2008, in Singapore. True or False? (you must be blind if you don’t know the answer.) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by Aug 1st, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Movie Contest’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email! *Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply Journey to the Center of the Earth promo is brought to you by Warner Bros. Whatever SINGfest Again Youth.SG received overwhelming response from all you readers out there who couldn’t wait to lay your hands on the SINGfest tickets last week… which is why, we’re giving out another 2 more pairs of tickets to the 2nd day(Aug 3) of the event! (We can just imagine you guys jumping up and down in excitement….) Don’t you just love Youth.SG? Quick! Tell us the answer to the following question! Local bands like West Grand Boulevard, The Fire Fight, Allura and Plainsunset will also be performing for SINGfest’08. True or False? (Hint: Find your answer here! www.singfest.sg) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 30th, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever SINGfest Again’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email! *Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply About SINGfest 2008 Line up for Aug 2: Melanie Subono, Crowned King, Dearest, New Found Glory, Melee, Lost Prophets, Simple Plan, Travis Line up for Aug 3: Stacie Orrico, Jamie Scott & the Town, One Republic, Panic at the Disco, Jason Mraz, Rick Astley, Pussycat Dolls, Alicia Keys Buy your tickets at any SISTIC outlet or online at www.sistic.com now! Whatever SINGfest is brought to you by Midas Promotions. Win Rock-It passes! Ever feel modern life weigh heavily upon you? Don’t be because… the Youth Life Ownership Rally ROCK-IT is coming to you! Or rather, you can be going to ROCK-IT! Youth.SG is proud to bring 25 pairs of passes worth $150 each (price includes meals, conference materials, goodie bag of gifts… and of course loads of inspiration!) to our good readers, courtesy of Youth Life Ownership Ltd! Simply be among the first 25 to send us your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 24, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Rock away Mon Blues’ in your email header. Winners will be notified on Fri, July 25! What’s ROCK-IT? It’s basically a full two-day seminar happening this weekend (July 26-27) at ITE College East. Don’t say we didn’t warn you’re gonna be spoilt rotten with life lessons from the likes of Keith Wanzer and Glenn Lim, career talks, fun sports trials like inline skating… and, what’s that, rock concerts?! * Note: attendees must be between 14-17 years of age. Do note that Youth.SG contest terms & conditions apply. Find out more about ROCK-IT at www.rockit.com.sg Makeover Me Did you notice? Youth.SG’s landing page looks a little different from usual? (Yes, it now houses more blurbs to our articles!) And in conjunction with that, we’ve decided to give 2 lucky winners $500 worth of makeover vouchers each for them and a friend to change their looks! Just in time for those who want a different look before school re-opens! Simply be the first 2 to appear at Youth.SG office between today(July 21) and Friday(July 25) and we’ll give you $500 worth of voucher each! (Exciting right?…) Of course, please give us a call at 6354 8431 before coming down. (We don’t want you to make a wasted trip.) You can look for Stanley and tell him you want to join the ‘Makeover Me’ contest. He’ll let you know the address and the rest of the details. *Youth.SG contest Terms & Conditions apply. Makeover Me is brought to you by H.O.A. Boutique. The face of a survivor The face of a survivor: Lucky the koala From Reuters: A koala that cheated death after being hit by a car at 100 kmh (about 60 mph) and dragged with his head jammed through the vehicle grill for 12 kms (about 7 miles) is being dubbed Australia’s luckiest marsupial… “To have him survive and virtually unscathed is quite miraculous,” Australian Wildlife Hospital spokewoman Carolyn Beaton told Reuters Tuesday. “Lucky” hung on during his ordeal with one arm and his trapped head, and was freed with household scissors used like a fireman’s “jaws-of-life” to cut around the car’s mesh grill with the horrified owner’s permission, Beaton said. Lucky will stay at the hospital, set up by the late television wildlife and crocodile crusader Steve Irwin, for 45 days to recover from his experience and receive treatment for a chlamydial infection. Technorati Tags: koala lucky survivor australian wlidlife hospital Office picture(s) of the week: Fun on a bus We have fun even on the bus. Just because we can! Yani and Stanley method-acting hamsters Then, because I dared them to take on their best presidential/ pageant-holder/ queenly smile and wave… Yani does the charismatic palm wave So does Stanley! So does Nisha! Thankfully, I escaped unscathed as I was the one who took the pics. Technorati Tags: method acting, vegetables, bus, hamsters, president, beauty pageant Goodbye, and so long for all the fish? Today marks the last day that Adibah and Min will be with Youth.SG. Too bad Adibah was sick today and couldn’t come in to work, so Stanley, Min and I went out for a sad satisfying meal of salad. Sad yea. Anyway, moving on. Some testimonials from our satisfied interns: Min: “It was a great experience! I made a web banner today.” Adibah: “I had a blast and I’d love to do it all over again ” (Adibah’s really nice, you see) Here’s Min at Stanley’s place with the balloons from his birthday celebration: Before she went crazy After she went crazy She’ll be having fun at Vietnam next, the lucky gal! Technorati Tags: last day youth.sg bye xinmin adibah I love Electrico on Fridays Singapore’s best known band, Electrico, is back with a new hit album, We Satellites! Taking the local music scene by storm, We Satellites is an album comprising of tracks bound to blow fans away with its dark, cohesive sound and emotional lyrics. (Youth.SG has Shadow and Faces on repeat mode in the office ever since the album arrived.) And for today’s Friday Special, Youth.SG is giving away 5 pairs of free passes to catch them live in action! Electrico - “We Satellites” Live Loud Tour Location: Butter Factory Date: August 6, 2008 Time: 9pm Simply be the first 5 to tell us the correct answer to the following question: There are 11 tracks in Electrico’s new album, We Satellites. True or False? (Hint: Find the answer here! www.wesatellites.com) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 23rd, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Electrico Friday’ in your email header. Winners will be notified of details by email! *Youth.SG terms and conditions apply * club rules apply. For more information on Electrico’s tour dates and their latest album, visit www.wesatellites.com Forever 25, Stanley Under the pretext of holding a meeting, we lured Stanley into a probation service meeting room! A retelling of what went on earlier: Stanley walks into the meeting room… Not knowing that a cheescake was about to ambush him! “How dare you, cake!” he says. (even the watermark trembles in fear and trepidation) Turn your head upside down, and you’ll see the word S-T-A-N lit by candles. Aww! We’re guessing he’s touched! Mr Birthday Boy! Again! (with his new Hello Kitty mug and some brochure with Felicia Chin ha) With Adibah! Cam whore, haha With his birthday present, a (plastic) stethoscope! Look at how chuffed the wannabe doc is. More birthday presents. A (paper) cK watch! Plus a (paper) Braun Buffel wallet. Rest of the Youth.SG crew! Nisha, smiling. Yani, looking dignified. Here’s Min, who impressively blew up ten balloons at one go just for Stanley! And now, for something completely different… a piece of action! Technorati Tags: stanley lim youthsg birthday forever 25 Stanley turns 25, cuts cake I’ve been accused that I never put up nice pics of Stanley (then again, no one else but Stanley complains), so here’s a superflattering one of him getting his cake! Happy sweet 25, birthday boy! (More pics to come…) Technorati Tags: stanley lim youthsg birthday forever 25 Whatever Singfest Singapore’s biggest music festival, SINGfest, is back this year with a bigger and better line-up than ever before! Be prepared for a star-studded weekend with Grammy winner Alicia Keys, British Folk Rock band Travis, OneRepublic, Simple Plan, Jason Mraz, Melee, latest addition The Pussycat Dolls and more! Youth.SG’s so excited, we’re already packing our camp tents to Fort Canning so that we’ll get the best spots! (I’m kidding.) But the truth is, for this week’s Whatever Wednesday, we’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets (worth $600) to watch August 2nd’s show for FREE! Simply tell us any one artiste/band (apart from the ones we’ve mentioned) who will be performing for this year’s SINGfest and you stand to win a pair of tickets each to the first day of the festival on August 2nd! (Hint: Find your answer here! www.singfest.sg) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 23rd, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Singfest’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email! About SINGfest 2008 SINGfest, a highly anticipated outdoor music festival which saw a brilliant line up last year consisting of Sugar Ray, Cyndi Lauper and the Pet Shop Boys, is back! Tickets bought before the August 2nd will cost $150 for the first day pass, $200 for the second day pass, and $300 for the weekender pass. Tickets at door will cost $200 for the first day pass, $250 for the second day, and $350 for weekender pass on the first day. Buy your tickets at any SISTIC outlet or online at www.sistic.com now! Whatever SINGfest is brought to you by Midas Promotions. Office picture of the week: Six David Gans! I recently stumbled upon our ex-webmaster Alvin’s blog and found that over at his new home, omy, they’ve started a Do the David Gan movement. As cited from his blog entry: “I am jio-ing everyone to take pictures of yourselves, showing off your nice watches in poses, similar to one of Singapore’s leading style guru, David Gan. You see, on David Gan’s blog, it appears he likes to pose with one arm resting on his shoulder, probably to flaunt his expensive designer watches.” So we couldn’t resist but flash that David Gan pose in office lor. Come on, it’s Friday. This is the kind of stuff people can’t resist doing on Fridays. Right, so I kinda arm-wrestled everyone. Now! Current Youth.SG team: (from left) Lai Chow, Xinmin, Zhen-Kuang (cappy diem all right), Yani, Stanley, Adibah. SIX DAVID GANS! Flashback! The ex-Youth.SG guys and gals: (from left) Julian, Melvin, Rachel, Cassandra. FOUR DAVID GANS! The real deal. ONE DAVID GAN! Technorati Tags: david gan mac slow friday tgif adibah stanley yani xinmin lai chow zhen-kuang julian rachel melvin cassandra omy alvin Friday Special Youth.SG loves local music. Especially if the songs can traverse from spirited indie-rock to folk and explore the ills of current affairs all at the same time. Alternative rock quartet Nuance has just released their first EP containing 6 songs and 2 video tracks produced, mixed and recorded by Evan Tan (The Observatory), Eugene Wong (Morphy) and Nuance themselves! To launch their self-titled debut EP, Nuance will perform next Friday(July 18), 10pm, over at Home Club! (By the way, we’re totally digging the album cover…) And we’re giving away 5 autographed albums and 5 pairs of drink coupons to 5 lucky winners on the night of the launch! Simply tell us the answer to this question: Home Club is located at The Riverwalk, B1-01/06, 20 Upper Circular Road, Singapore 058416. True or False? (Hint: You’ll find the answer here! www.homeclub.com.sg) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 16th, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Friday Special’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by SMS! * Youth.SG contest Terms & Conditions apply. * contest is only open to participants above 18 years of age. Catch their video, Mesopotamia here! Nuance nōō’äns -noun: “An expression or appreciation of the subtle shades of meaning, feelings and tones”. It is an outline the quartet found very agreeable when applying those textures to their music. As Donald Pan (vocals and guitar) explains, “In our songs, there are subtle messages we try to convey, whether through music or through lyrics. It is about differences that might not be noticed.” By doing so, Nuance waxes sonic restraints in their edgy songwriting, crafting out visceral tales around colorful melodies. Being influenced by a vast variety of genres, the band’s repertoire ranges from alt-rock to post-rock, and comes taut with sharp pop sensibilities within explosive cathartics. “Our songs deal with the tormenters and the tormented, from little personal pieces to epics about politics, from losers and drunks to politicians in power”, adds Donald. For more info about Nuance, visit www.myspace.com/nuance Friday Special is brought to you by: Whatever BY2 Youth.SG’s throwing in ANOTHER Whatever Wednesday! No apparent reason for doing so; simply because we’ve been having a thing for 2s and duos lately… If you don’t already know the two adorable girls above, you should. This pair of identical twins from Singapore are the up-and-coming pop sensation, BY2. Talent-spotted and groomed by Ocean Butterflies, these girls have been training hard in Taipei, Beijing and Tokyo and have taken audiences on popular Taiwanese variety shows by storm with their cute looks and sleek dance moves! For today’s Whatever Wednesday, Youth.SG is giving away 20 sets of BY2 goodie packs and 20 pairs of entry passes to watch them live at St James Powerhouse on the 20th July! The goodie pack also includes the exclusive BY2 EP, lanyard and handphone cleaner! Premiums that can’t be bought anywhere else! Goodie pack goes to the first 20 readers who tell us the correct answer to the simple question: The BY2 twins are from Singapore, True or False? (Hint: The answer is in the first paragraph!) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 16th, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever BY2’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by SMS! BY2 Girl Power Party 08 Date: 20th July 2008 Time: 5pm Location: Powerhouse, St James Power Station Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. BY2 Whatever Wednesday promo is brought to you by:    For more of BY2, visit blog.omy.sg/by2! You can also download BY2 music tracks exclusively on Nokia Music Store! Visit music.nokia.com.sg! Whatever Magicbox Poof! Youth.SG is in the mood for some magic today… Singapore’s homegrown illusionists Lawrence and Priscilla Khong (Father-daughter combi!) are in town to perform their highly anticipated production, MAGICBOX! Combining both magic and theatre in one excellent piece, this show is prepped with death-defying acts, impossible levitations and endless illusions! And we’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets (each pair worth $122) for all you loyal readers out there! MAGICBOX Date: 15 July (Tuesday) Time: 8pm Location: Esplanade Theatre Question: Lawrence Khong is the lead actor and executive producer for Magicbox. True or False? (Hint: Answers here! http://www.magicbox.com.sg/) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8500XXXJ), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 13, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Magicbox’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by SMS. Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. Featuring an international team of stellar magic consultants like Jim Steinmeyer, who has been credited with “defining illusions in contemporary magic” for David Copperfield and The Pendragons, along with the legendary guru of magic and consultant on Criss Angel’s MindFreak television series, John Thompson, these masters will devise acts unique to Magicbox. Homegrown director Loretta Chen, lighting maestro Mac Chan along with composer Iskandar Ismail who has led the music direction of Singapore’s National Day Celebrations 14 times will also lend their expertise to this dynamic display of artistry and enthusiasm laden with many brand-new magical illusions. Office picture(s) of the week: Toy boys and girls We were gonna spill more of these pictures with you all last week, but sudden distractions kept us from doing this till now. Excuses, excuses. Anyway, (some of) the Youth.SG team was hanging out at the Singapore Toy & Comic Convention a week back, and we thought we wouldn’t share just one, but many a few photos with you! Yani and Nisha charming the camera. Stanley method-acting a toy. Nisha striking a surprised pose. She does it quite well! Myself mimicking Spooky Gloomy Bear. Ex-webmaster Alvin and current girlfriend, ex-intern Rachel. Aha! And… here’s the honourable non-picture mention: Stanley spinning around. Whatever Movie Contest The most anticipated movie of the year is finally here! Youth.SG can’t wait to watch the Gotham City hero, his fancy gadgets and his uber cool batmobile. And who in the correct frame of mind will miss the last performance from one of the world’s finest young actors - Heath Ledger? We’re giving you the chance to watch it for free! Be the first 10 to tell us who plays Batman and the Joker in the movie and you get to win a pair of in-season complimentary tickets to watch The Dark Knight for free and an A2 sized poster of the movie! Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8500XXXJ), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 9, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Movie Contest’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. The Dark Knight promotional contest is brought to you by Warner Bros. Pictures. “The Dark Knight” is the follow-up to 2005 action hit movie “Batman Begins”. Director Christopher Nolan and lead star Christian Bale are reunited in this highly anticipated action thriller alongside star studded cast including the late Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. In “The Dark Knight,” Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker. Whatever Usher Yo yo yo! Youth.SG feels like dancing today. And who else can create such a stir in the Youth.SG headquarters? Did you know? The license plate on the album cover shows ‘1126’. That’s the birth date of Usher’s son! How sweet is that?! We simply couldn’t resist. Be the 1st, 6th and 12th (because these numbers make up 1126. Duh~) person to tell us Usher’s last name and you get to win a copy of Usher’s Here I Stand album! (Hint: It’s written here! http://www.usherhereistand.com/) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8500XXXJ), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 9, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Usher’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. This contest is brought to you by SonyBMG Singapore. Riddle of the week! This has been going around Facebook for awhile and is bound to puzzle you at first read! But the answer’s pretty obvious, lets see if you get it! 3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room. A while later, the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys’ room with $5. On the way, the bellboy couldn’t figure out how to split the $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man $1 and kept the other $2 for himself This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27, add the $2 the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar? Office picture of the week: Water safety We should have known that it would be tough to top last week’s random picture. It doesn’t help that Stanley seems to be very camera shy! So this week, we present to you… Our samurai Gojirra with a cause (or lanyard) around his neck: Water safety! Look at the light in his hand. That Japanese straw hat. The fierce glare! Technorati Tags: gojirra youth.sg samurai rice price hike water safety straw hat Nisha’s new (strange) hobby I took up a new hobby recently: collecting coins that were manufactured on the year of 1989 (yes, the year I was born). It was a sudden interest during a snack-spree at Mark & Spencer’s three nights ago. I was given a dollar change and it had ‘1989’ marked on it, so it hit me that it’ll be fun to collect ALL coins mint in 1989. I’ve no idea what’s with me and coins. I remember collecting one-cent coins since secondary school – partly because I didn’t know what to do with them and also after the coin’s retirement, I had a rather childish thought that these one-cent coins might worth more than it is worth now (but then, you’ll never know – maybe some billionaire’s young son from the States might have a sudden interest in collecting coins and he don’t mind paying a million bucks to get a one-cent coin). I’ve been called strange more than a dozen times because of that one-cent hobby. But, I guess this coin hobbies have something to do with my dad who collects those Lunar New Year and foreign coins. Back in primary school, I had another strange hobby of writing down car license plate number. Now grown up, I’ve no idea why my friend and I used to stay up late during those kiddish sleepovers to write down the numbers. It was an obsession we had – it felt like we were spies and sometimes we’ll write suspense fictional stories by watching these cars and their owners (Oh my god! I used to be a weird kid). It’s not only me; celebrities have strange hobbies too. A few months back Simon Cowell (yes, American Idol’s mean judge) revealed his likings of spying on his neighbours. Apart from that, Spider-man star Willem Dafoe used to shoot graphic profiles of his fellow schoolmates. This resulted in his expulsion. A friend I met recently has a very interesting hobby of commuting in buses and find out where each bus takes him to. He is almost the best person to get help from if you are the lazy sorts who hate to do little research (like me! But mainly it is because I love getting lost - you’ll never know what you might discover) as he stated that he has taken almost all the buses except some of those that travels around the East area. Don’t call us strange; we are just too creative you see. =)) Technorati Tags: strange hobby, coins, simon cowell, willem dafoe Whatever fabrikade Youth.SG goes shopping today! Always wanted to own one of these cool looking t-shirts? Youth.SG is not just telling you where to get them, we’re GIVING you a 40% discount voucher to ransack the place! (That means a $25 t-shirt can cost as little as… $15 now!) Simply be the first 3 to tell us the slogan of fabrikade and we’ll give you a 40% off storewide discount* in addition to free local delivery service! (Hint: You’ll find your answer beside the logo: http://fabrikade.sg/) Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by July 2, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Fabrikade’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. *discount valid for 1 month till August 2, 2008. fabrikade (pronounced as fab-ri-kayd), is conceived with the aim to showcase overseas and local design labels via the world wide web. The key purpose is to bring more talents in the industry and related trades together for fusion of ideas and collaboration, in the form of fashion apparel, accessories and other wares that exude personality, attitude, creativity, fun and funk. Visit http://fabrikade.sg/ NOW! Next week, we MIGHT be throwing in some surprises from a certain hero from Gotham City… and MAYBE a guest appearance from a rapper who’s famous for going Yeah!… So… remember to check back on Youth.SG!! Ha-choo! I got a green virus! And I thought that tagline was cheesy, but close to 800 secondary school students certainly caught the green virus last Saturday, 14th June, as part of the National Youth EnvirOlympics Challenge, which was inspired by the spirit of the Olympic Games! I’m actually a little midget under Publicity in the Organising Committee, so I went down to sneak a peek at the Closing Ceremony, which was held at Hougang Central. If I were in the right attire, I could have received a certificate from the GOH, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr George Yeo himself! The participants and facilitators alike were really high when I saw them, guess they must have had tremendous fun throughout the day. In fact, I saw a couple of teams at the MRT station earlier in the day, carrying lots of barang barang which consisted of cardboard boxes and empty cans and bottles. Some of their adventures included disseminating recycling bags to households and educating these households on recycling practices to live by. The teams also had to build a sculpture using recycled materials at one station. The Closing Ceremony was pretty entertaining. On top of the usual award and certificate presentations, there were exhibition booths on environmental messages, Miss Earth finalists parading around and as well as a Longest Length of Thumbprints record-breaking event which earned itself a place in Singapore’s Guinness Book of Records. The ceremony then closed with rock band performances, and very hard rock indeed. Youth.SG checked out the winning team! Some girl power! The winning team comprised of 5 young pretty girls from Temasek Junior College (Sec 3): Nicole, Yang Lin, Sabrina, Jasmine and Josephine. ‘Grats! Office picture of the week: Stanley as you’ve never seen him before! SIGHTED! Stanley hearts himself very much The Youth.SG team were just mucking about in office on a slow afternoon, when Zhen-Kuang discovered that the Photo Booth on our Mac came with really cool effects to manipulate our pic on the spot! So all of us did some cam-whoring. This picture got our unanimous vote as the best of the lot, even if Stanley threatened to destroy it. We finally convinced him to share this precious image with the rest of the world by granting his wish to mask his eyes in the pic. Trivia: if you do a search for ‘bad boy’ and ‘tvb actor’ in Flickr, you will arrive at this photo! Technorati Tags: stanley youth.sg bad boy tvb actor Thursday Special And you thought Youth.SG only has weekly contests on Wednesdays? The crew at Youth.SG wants to play. So, we’re giving out 10 pairs of exclusive passes to the preview night of Singapore Toy and Comic Convention! (Note: these passes are only available for key partners, designers, special guests and members of the media! So grab them now!) Be the first 10 to tell us who is the Regional Broadcast Partner for Singapore Toy and Comic Convention 2008 and win for yourself a pair of priceless passes! (Hint: you will find your answer somewhere near the bottom left of this page: http://www.sgtoyandcomiccon.com/) Preview Night Date: June 27, 2008 Time: 5pm Location: Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre Convention Hall 603 Dress Code: Smart Casual Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by June 25, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Thursday Special’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. Blasting off on 27 – 29 June 2008, the first-ever Singapore Toy & Comic Convention will see an annual showcase of toys (general and designer), comics, animation, gaming, design, licensing and Cosplay on creative minds from all over the world, serving up an eye-popping visual feast and unprecedented variety and innovation in all the closely-related industries!   Visit www.sgtoyandcomiccon.com for more information! This promotional contest is proudly brought to you by… Animax, your 24-hour destination for the best in anime, will be taking your anime viewing experience to the max with a special motion-synced showcase of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in the D-Box real-life motion seat that vibrates, shakes, and moves to the thrills and spills on-screen to offer Animax viewers the ride of their lives! August comes early Spotted yesterday (yes the Youth.SG office’s got a glorious view): National Day is coming! Technorati Tags: national day singapore plane air show Whatever Plainsunset Youth.SG goes indie today. Plainsunset, one of Singapore’s most original and influential bands, has released their 4th album and Youth.SG wants you to own a copy! Simply be the 1st, 3rd and 9th person to tell us the name of any band member in Plainsunset and you win an autographed copy of Plainsunset’s latest album! Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to contest@youth.sg by June 24, 11:59pm. Indicate ‘Whatever Plainsunset’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. (Hint: You might find your answer here: http://www.myspace.com/plainsunset) Youth.SG Terms and Conditions apply. Formed in 1996, Plainsunset has 3 full-length albums under their belt, and songs on countless compilations both local and international. Whether playing to 30 people in a cramped club, or to 3000 screaming fans on a huge outdoor stage, Plainsunset have done it all, and then some. They have performed internationally, taking their music to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, New Zealand and China in a series of successful tours. Want to see the madness at Plainsunset’s album launch party at Zouk? Click Here! NLB presents Vibes! Who says you can only read, research and study in the library? This June, National Library Board presents two funky events to be held in the library! First 5 teams to register for Chillout@Vibes! receive a gift pack which includes an exclusive ‘Raffles Choped First’ game developed by NLB , cool individual coaster sets and memo clips! Join now! For more information, please send your emails to Athena_AZIZ@nlb.gov.sg Be Laser Tagged Watch out, friends and foes! Youth.SG is a firm disbeliever in violence, and but we love clean, good, bloody fun! We sensed how you were rubbing your hands in glee over our feature on Anergy Laser Shootout yesterday. Read all about it here! Now one special Youth.SG reader can win a complimentary Anergy Laser Shootout party for 10 people (3 missions) worth $420! Fight for your right to party by emailing a picture of you and your friends having a riot to contest@youth.sg. The reader with the most happening picture bags the grand prize! Isn’t that… grand! Remember to include your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK) and mailing address to. Indicate ‘Laser Tag Me’ in your email header. Winners will be notified by email. Closing date: June 26. Terms and conditions: - Winner is entitled to 3 missions for 10 people at West Coast Park Car Park 1 area/ Clementi Woods Park, of which all 3 missions have to completed during the same 1.5 hour slot. - Redemption is valid for any day between Monday to Saturday (subject to availability), from June 27 - Sept 26. - Advanced reservation is required. Two weeks’ notice has to be given for application of park permit. This is a rain-or-shine event. There will not be a replacement shoot if there is heavy rain or lightning hazard on the day itself. However wet weather games will be conducted under the sheltered area at West Coast Park. - No replacement shoot will be given if there is cancellation after confirming booking through email. For more info about laser tag, log on to www.lasertag.com.sg Technorati Tags: laser tag