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ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My Bitching Area: What is the PTC for, really
- Singapore Life and Times: Transportation to nowhere
- mrbrown: Is it a return to the 1984 taxi boycotts?
- My Singapore News: A simple new year wish
- JZ88 folding bike blog: A graphical study of “MRT fit” for popular folding bicycles

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Simple is the Reason of my Heart: A Year of Extraordinary Inflation – Singapore 2007
- The States Times: More To Come

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Under the Willow Tree: Singapore’s Population Statistics – The Rise of Foreign Talent
- My Singapore News: Instant population! What does it mean?

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: Malays in 2007: Renewed confidence amidst turbulence?
- Sgpolitics: Dr Wong Wee Nam: Fear Factor Revisited, The S’pore Edition – Politicophobia (The Fear of Politics)
- Insane Polygons: What Happened To The Singaporean Worked On The Matrix?
- utopia: how can we trust CNA anymore??
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Election Led to Uncertainty for Thailand and Distantly, Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GIC & Temasek Outfoxed Warren Buffett!!
- Sophie’s World: Chance for Asia to seize the day
- Just Stuff: Why Is Pakistan So Messed Up? – A Strategic Analysis
- Insane Polygons: Year in Review- The Year of Living Precariously
- Coffee Shop Talk: Thinkall: It has begun and will not end

Life, the universe and everything
- Endoh pure ranting room: US police putting more celebrities behind bars
- the(new)mediaslut: SMRT eDM exposes Ride SMRT, Celebrate Life! contestants’ email addresses
- The Real Kaizer: Barber Shops of the Vintage sort
- I.Z. Reloaded: Singapore Escort Ads on Yellow Pages
- YoungJedi: Recap Top 15 gadgets/design in 2007
- xinyun.sg: Flame Wars (Part 1 – Definition)

Infoblogoramus
- Insane Polygons: Where To Buy An Elite Girl T-Shirt
- e pur si muove: New US baggage rule for batteries!
- Decay on Net: Don’t say I teach you one lah

December 31st, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (6)

Saki Seto 濑户早妃 (born 21 June 1985) is a gravure model and actress. She began her entertainment career as a singer the J-pop group Strawberry in 2002. At 18 the following year she won the Miss Shuukan Shounen Magazine gravure idol contest. She made her break into TV in 2005 in the TV drama Hana Yori Dango and became very popular in the TV comedy, “Haruka 17″. Pictures after the break. [gravure alert]

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December 31st, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Insane Polygons: Adventures of Elite Girl ep0036
- Hongjun’s technology edge: Taxi Fare For Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- HWZ: SBS Bus services: really in public’s interest?

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: PM Lee on well-deserved break, but how much is his time worth??
- HWZ: Ministers, top civil servants to get 4% to 21% in 2nd pay rise

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Citi never sleeps: CitiNews: Singapore 2007 Part 1 [list of 2007 price increases]
- sgForum: Taxes: Singapore Vs. Australia. Who is better off?

Healthcare or Heckcare
- Singapore Angle: Clarifying the Liberal Arts Education in Singapore

Benazir Bhutto Assassination
- Singapore Patriot: Farewell to Benazir Bhutto
- dsng.net: Bhutto assassinated
- Unfortunately Singapore: A Macabre End to a Daugther of Destiny
- All and Sundry Singapore: Blog Reactions to Bhutto’s Assassination

Daily Discourse
- Just Stuff: Are Entrepreneurs Schooled or Are They Born?
- YAwning Bread: Happy to eat apart
- Utopia: singapore’s style of solving any problem

Life, the universe and everything
- theory.isthereason: The Local Alternative: a singapore music documentary (1996)

December 28th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Hawaiian born Jarah-Evelyn Makalapua Mariano is seen by many as having the perfect blend of Hawaiian, Chinese and Korean ancestry. The Pace University graduate’s appealing mix of ethnicities has made her one of the world’s fastest rising models.

Pictures after the break.

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December 28th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (8)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Sgpolitics.net: A question on Ministers’ remuneration

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The boy who knew too much: Is Singapore’s population too low?

Re education
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: Teaching qualification is not the same as teaching quality

Daily Discourse
- All and Sundry Singapore: Singapore’s Political Faces of 2007
- Mr Wang Says So: How To Make Singapore Look More Tech-Savvy Than It Really Is
- Pseudonymity: VIDEO: Singapore Students Speak To Riz Khan

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Starbucks In Singapore=The Decline of Local Coffeeshops?
- Just Stuff: How To get Ahead of the Pack / Blogging – Part II
- Fresh Brainz: Lecture On Suicide Terrorism
- Alice in Wonderland: Exclusive peek into last day of library@orchard
- ALVINOLOGY: “Paradise” Wedding @ T3

Infoblogoramus
- Decay on Net: Do you want to be a Singapore Grand Prix Volunteer?

December 27th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Gaming
- Gamespot: Best Games of 2007
- Gamespy: GameSpy’s Game of the Year 2007!
- 1UP.com: 2007 Award Nominees
- Gametrailers.com: GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2007
- IGN: IGN’s 2007 Year in Review
- Planet Unreal: Epic Releases First User-Created Content for PS3!
- GamersHell.com: One Piece: Unlimited Adventure New Screens/Trailers

Tech Talk
- Anandtech: Power Supply Summary 2007 – The Best of the Best
- DigiTimes: Nvidia to launch mid-range G94 in February
- x86watch: Intel Yorkfield Chip Delay Due To Board Issues: Report
- Phoronix: AMD 2007 Year in Review
- Phoronix: NVIDIA 2007 Year In Review
- Bjorn3d.com: XFX 8800 GTS 512 XXX Alpha Dog [Review]
- Tech ARP: Edifier C3 2.1 Speaker System Review
- AnandTech: Getting the Most Out Of Your Hardware: Motherboard/CPU Utility Roundup
- Techware Labs: Ultra Stackables: Your Every External Solution [Review]
- The Tech Report: A beginner’s guide to overclocking
- technabob: worst casemod ever: ubuntubox cardboard pc
- heise Security: Antivirus protection worse than a year ago
- The Audiophiliac: ‘Before the Music Dies’ a documentary

SG Tech
- eOK .network: Is this the end of online privacy?
- Decay on Net: Micro Olympics – Addictive game

December 27th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Strangers in a Strange Land
- All and Sundry Singapore: Foreign Workers Problems: HDB Complaint calls & Crime rate
- Recruit Ong: MOM spins broken record

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Life and Times: Council needs Counselling

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: Contrasting Tactics of Resistance: our own Aung San Suu Kyis and Bhuttos?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Singapore invests in the world! Where’s my place as a humble shareholder?
- eOK. network: Getting what you’re worth
- Singapore Alternatives: Black Centrepoint II
- The States Times: One Last Splurge
- The Universe Within: Protecting the old
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Are Singaporeans venting their frustrations on the weak?

Life, the universe and everything
- Mr Wang Says So: The Silent Singaporean
- e pur si muove: How to blog – a crash course in writing skills
- Just Stuff: How To Get Ahead of the Pack / Blogging – Part 1
- Harmless? bananas!: I haven’t done bible study in awhile
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Clothes Maketh The Man?
- thegreatsze: Christmas is a Time For Refraction

December 26th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

So Nyeo Shi Dae (SNSD, 소녀시대, 少女時代), also known as Girls’ Generation, is currently Korea’s most popular girl group. Its nine members are Yoon-A (17) Tiffany, Yuri (18), Hyo Yeon (18), Soo Young (17), Seo Hyun (16), Tae Yeon (18, the leader), Jessica (18), and Sunny (18). The multi-lingual group speaks English (Jessica and Tiffany were raised in the US), Chinese (Hyo Yeon) and Japanese (Soo Young started out in the J-pop girl group Route-O in 2004). Their debut album was released in November 2007.

Pictures after the break.
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December 26th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (10)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Insane Polygons: Motivational Posters for The Elite 1
- Kaffein-nated: You decide: which is the real letter to ST forum

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The boy who knew too much: The Voice of the People: Singapore
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: No Comfort Here (VI) – Cabbie Excuses

Strangers in a Strange Land
- My Singapore News: I don’t feel safe in my neighbourhood anymore

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Void Deck: Dun forgetz how your bank $$ bcome smaller in 2007! (Dulan Remix)

Daily Discourse
- e pur si muove: Wherefore art thou not Singaporenow.com?
- ringisei: The eternal danger-sense of the paranoid mind
- Alice in Wonderland: Why do I bother to blog on social-political issues?
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: 2007 : A year of great PAP achievements!!
- Insane Polygons: Adventures of Elite Girl ep0035

Life, the universe and everything
- Simple is the Reason of my Heart: The Cotai Strip – A Reprise of Singapore’s IR Strategy
- Just Stuff: The Four Letter Word That May Just Change Your Life!
- The Singapore Diaries: Christmas in Singapore

December 24th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Reon Kadena かでなれおん is one of Japan’s top Magazine Ad and gravure model. born on Feb. 19, 1986 in Osaka, she has also appeared on numerous late night comedy skits and TV commercials. Reon Kadena is one of the many Japanese models that appears on posters throughout Hideo Kojima’s PS2 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. She appears on a poster in the lounge of the Graniny Gorki Lab.

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December 24th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- The Online Citizen: Paying more for good people – what if it backfires?
- Andrew: Inside & Insights: For Self-interest or People’s Interest?
- Yawning Bread: New highs for ministerial salaries, new lows for media credibility
- I have succumbed to peer pressure: What is the point?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Citizen Grateful for Civil Service Pay Hike!!
- Mollymeek: Why we should pay more for top talent

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The Online Citizen: ComfortDelgro’s “self-examination” exercise
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: No Comfort Here (V) – Public Transport Propaganda

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Insane Polygons: Problem Solving the Elite Way Part 3
- The Online Citizen: Is the Singaporean population shrinking? – Part 2

Re education
- Mr Wang Says So: PSLE Results and the Colour of Your Skin
- Angry Doctor: Gays spread AIDS, Malay kids are dumb 2

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Alice in Wonderland: Singaporeans New Year Present

Daily Discourse
- Words of the Lionheart: The Nonexistent Moral Weight of Supranational Organisations
- catherinelim.sg: No official reply to my open letter
- All and Sundry Singapore: Planning for a comfortable retirement
- The States Times: “Thank You For The Money
- Mollymeek: Mindef’s Waste of ST Forum Space
- Just Stuff: Coping In Age of Endless Hype, Spin and Bullshit – Survival Tips
- The Sidelined Student: Singapore’s media freedom sucks
- Inter Alia: Cebu Mission Trip 13-19 December 2007

Life, the universe and everything
- Talking Cock: More Asian Countries Annoyed Over Singapore’s Asian Idol Win [Thanks Sophie]
- Yawning Bread: Futsal on International Migrants Day
- The boy who knew too much: Chimps’ maths skills rival humans’
- Luvphobia: Of fond regard
- Smile-Your’re on camera!: Advertisement in blog really earn money for blogger?
- Lost in Reverie: Silk Air Crash MI185 – 10 years on

Infoblogoramus
- Lancerlord: Of unicef photo of the year 2007

December 21st, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Janel Cai Shu Zhen 蔡淑臻 began her career as a model. Her flawless complexion had won her modeling contracts with Estee Lauder and SK-II. She was rumoured to be seeing Jay Chou in 2005. In recent years, she has starred in numerous Taiwanese serials. Pictures after the break.

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December 21st, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Selamat Hari Raya Haji to our Muslim friends.

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Highway of Life: I think Singapore’s traffic is worse than Ho Chi Minh and Taipei!

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Adventures and random brain waves: Singapore’s propaganda getting sillier

Strangers in a Strange Land
- dnwq’s journal: guest workers. An American journalist writes about foreign workers in Singapore

Re education
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Singapore PSLE results: creative statistics at play?

Section 377a
- Yawning Bread: Christopher de Souza’s four rebuttals
- Gareth Steen by Yawning Bread: After 24 years, passing through, speaking up

Daily Discourse
- Salary.sg: Year-End Bonus Ranking
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Singapore State-Owned Investment Corporations Conundrum
- catherinelim.sg: Interview with PRIME Magazine
- Just Stuff: Why I Think Catherine Lim Should Just Shad dap!
- All and Sundry Singapore: Singapore gambles on
- Nomadism: A question i was asked..
- Angry Doctor: Them 7 [An Aids test? 'It isn't for me']
- Alice in Wonderland: Foldable bicycle no longer allowed on mrt train?
- LittleSpeck: Bio-tech suffers another blow

Life, the universe and everything
- Looking through the eyes of: The role of morality in human interaction
- the(new)mediaslut: Employers should follow the BBC guide for blogging employees
- The boy who knew too much: Life purpose for a genius
- Trivial Triflings of An Aimless AKK: I can’t talk right now…
- Singapore’s Only Male Bitch: The First Time Was Prima Deli. Now, It’s Sheng Siong Turns
- Nine Over Ten 9/10: Holiday Shopping Guide – Gifts for Office Workers
- Murmurs, Mutters and Other White Noise: The First Christmas Joke of the Year

Infoblogoramus
- SG LJiers: Swopfest and Ethical Christmas Sale
- I can give you Gatsby: Hot babes & hunks @ Zouk!

December 19th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Akina Minami 南明奈 was born on May 15, 1989 in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is a popular gravure idol and has recently moved into singing as well. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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December 19th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (6)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: SHA 7820 D and other taxi drivers, sorry, you just got pwned
- Praveen Rajan: Simei, Sin Meng & SMRT
- Youth.sg: “I’m Taking Taxi Back”: An Ode to Fare Hikes
- Empty Vessel: How much did it cost to publicize this tunnel?

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- The Online Citizen: Are ministers already being paid more than their private sector salary benchmark?
- My Singapore News: A simple comparison of salaries
- Salary.sg: Pay Rise For Government Leaders

Strangers in a Strange Land
- This lush garden within: I’ll be leaving you … Singapore
- Just Stuff: Could This Be Why; The Singapore Population is Shrinking? Part I Part II
- All and Sundry Singapore: Becoming a Singapore Permanent Resident (PR)

Daily Discourse
- la nausée: Press freedom and social stability — of cake, and half-baked assumptions
- Celluloid Reality(s): Singapore and Kenya : Different Post-Colonial Outcomes
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The ISA – Ensuring the Security of Singapore
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Reluctant PAP politicians – My Ass :)
- Smoot: No More Apathy

Life, the universe and everything
- Mr Wang Says So: The Annual Life Audit
- Random Thoughts of a Free Thinker: Working With Friends – Boon or Bane?
- Insane Polygons: Elite Girl in 3D
- The Pro Bono Columnist: An (internet) star is born
- Yawning Bread: Hady did Singapore proud, part 2
- Cooler Insights: Sex, Scandal and Sensationalism

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Tech Talk
- Tweakers.net: NVIDIA bans overclocked 8800GTS 512MB
- AnandTech: AMD Hybrid CrossFire Preview: Making Two Slow GPUs… Not So Slow
- PCSTATS: Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows
- Nordic Hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 reviewed
- Overclockers Online: Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW Review
- InformationWeek: Top 6 Lamest iPhone Lawsuits
- AnandTech: MSI P35 Neo2-FR: Platinum performance for under $100
- HWZ: Top 100 Products of 2007
- DigiTimes: Digital music player makers to aggressively launch Windows CE 6.0-based products
- Shacknews: The Year Ahead: PC Gaming in 2008
- X-bit labs: ATX Power Supply Units Roundup. Part VIII
- ZDNet: The most disappointing products of 2007
- Fudzilla: Radeon HD 3450 will start at US$50
- Planet3Dnow: AMD to cut Phenom prices 17 Dec 07
- Time: Top 10 Scientific Discoveries

SG Tech
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Google Story

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Alice in Wonderland: Pay rise? Fat Bonus? Be Disappointed
- Jemauvais: Like that I also want to be President!
- The Void Deck: TVD’s Picks: Gripes and Grouses on Ministers’ Salaries
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Ministers, Elite civil servants get pay hike
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: For the sake for charity; for the love of taste (and face)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Alice in Wonderland: Is the authority really concern about the taxi woes?
- My Singapore News: Reviewing the transport policies
- Nomadism: My take on Singapore taxi hike
- Empty Vessel: It’s just not right

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Insane Polygons: Problem Solving the Elite Way Part 2
- The Void Deck: Minsta say “Oh oh jialat liao, cost of living go upz…”
- The States Times: Times That Try Men’s Souls

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Online Citizen: Is the Singaporean population shrinking? – Part 1

Section 377a
- Mollymeek: The Violence of Selective Ambiguity

Daily Discourse
- la nausée: Why blogging is not the antidote to illiberalism
- Mollymeek: Lying Testimonies: (Dis)belief in the Age of Curious Politics
- The Universe Within: A brief note on Article 15(2)
- The Online Citizen: A government-controlled media is superior to a free media?
- Just Stuff: When Religion and Science Just Doesnt Make Sense!
- Simple is the Reason of my Heart: Fact Checking on Press Freedom/Stability in Singapore
- Singapore Life and Times: Plague of the lawyers
- All and Sundry Singapore: Take risk to remove climate of fear, PAP
- catherinelim.sg: Climate of fear hurts Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- Beyond SG: The value of Digital Asset and the Price of Luxury and Uniqueness
- The boy who knew too much: The duties of a domestic maid
- Ramblings of DarkMirage: EOY Cosplay 2007 @ Expo
- Sophie’s World: Hady Mirza is Asian Idol!!

December 17th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

19-year-old model Jiang Yu Chen 江语晨, rumoured to be 周董 Jay Chou’s latest squeeze. She has appeared in Jay Chou’s MV The Longest Movie 最長的電影, and recently released her first single 晴天娃娃, written for her by Jay himself. Pictures after the break.

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December 17th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- All and Sundry Singapore: My thoughts on Ministerial Pay Hike
- Simply Jean: Pay hike: They forgot to up his pay…
- The States Times: Ministers’ Taxi Hike Offset Package
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain 鸟话连篇….: Hefty Pay rise in January… Just not mine!!

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
Maestoso Amore: People should think before writing an email.

Daily Discourse
- Pseudonymity: VIDEOS – SDP Assumes Chairmanship Of CALD
- HWZ: Law student says he didn’t come clean with Police

Life, the universe and everything
- Decay On Net: Refer a friend to Blog2u and win an iPod Classic!!!
- Fortune: Top 10 reasons IT won’t support the iPhone

December 14th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)