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1. w00t (interjection)

expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”
w00t! I won the contest!

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Diary of a Singapore Mind: Goodbye Taxi Hello MRT+BUS..
- nebulaenova.com: Taxi Fare Hike: Who will it benefit?
- Daily Reflections: Taxi fare hike again!
- Simply Jean: Taxi fare hike: Too soon another problem
- GeekSG: Beat the Taxi Price Hike with Tagxe.com

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Money = the grease for squeaky national wheels?

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: Medisave Account RA

Daily Discourse
- All and Sundry Singapore: Why Press Freedom in Singapore matters?
- Sam’s Thoughts: There is “I” in Patriarchy
- Singapore Life and Times: Maelstrom of Madness

Life, the universe and everything
- techi-talks: Ultra High Broadband access by 2012 — Stuffs you need to be aware of!
- The Pro Bono Columnist: My religion, ZoukOut 2007
- Nites out on the Town: The Click 5 Arrive…

Infoblogoramus
- nussu the ridge online: Be a miracle maker this Christmas!
- Yawning Bread: DIY self-portraits

December 13th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Nvidia G92 8800GTS 512MB Reviews
- Legit Reviews: XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB XXX Edition Video Card
- Hardware Canucks: XFX 8800GTS 512MB Alpha Dog Edition Review
- nV News: XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Review
- Neoseeker: Asus EN8800 GTS T.O.P 512MB Review
- Legion Hardware: ASUS Extreme N8800GTS 512MB
- HotHardware: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Refresh: Asus and XFX
- TweakTown: ZOTAC GeForce 8800GTS 512MB G92
- techPowerUp!: Zotac 8800 GTS 512 MB
- DriverHeaven: Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS V2 (G92): ASUS and ZOTAC
- [H] Enthusiast: BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB
- Fudzilla: Vadim drives 8800 GTS 512MB to 800MHz+
- Anandtech: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 & GeForce 8800 GT 256MB: Playing with Memory and G92

Tech Talk
- Microsoft Watch: What Went Wrong with Windows Vista?
- TrsutedReviews: Digital Camera Tutorial: Wet Weather Survival
- HWZ: Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP (GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, TurboForce Edition)
- FrostyTech: Top 5 Heatsinks

SG Tech
- Rambling Librarian: Singaporean behind Direct2Dell blog success
- theory.isthereason: Office 2008 for Mac: Under NDA, but this is what I can say…
- The eOK .network: The monetisation of blogs
- The Power of Influence: FaceBook does Word of Mouth – Not Quite!

December 13th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The boy who knew too much: The Great ComfortDelGro Taxi Rip-off
- Alice in Wonderland: ComfortDelgro taxi fares rise up to 49%
- All and Sundry Singapore: Taxi Fare Hike – Attempting to solve a problem but creates another?
- Singapore Life and Times: You Pay More
- Singapore Patriot: 83% Hike in Taxi Fares not Comforting at all
- mrbrown: Complain about taxi somemore?
- Insane Polygons: Problem Solving the Elite Way
- Simply Jean: Taxi fare hike: Oh wait! You have to pay midnight surcharge in the day! This is crazy!
- Decay on Net: You guys might as well go rob bank
- SGFRAG: ComfortDelgro’s Q3 profit up 15% to S$59m

International Human Rights Day
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Dignity and Justice for all of us
- Pseudonymity: VIDEOS: Singapore Lawyers’ Petition To Law Society On Human Rights Day

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sam’s Thoughts: Singapore Dreamers Anonymous

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: Who really is “not ready” for a non-Chinese PM?
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: $10000000000 to Swiss Bank UBS – Should there be parliamentary accountability?
- Mr Wang Says So: You Give Your Money To Your Town Council So That It Can Play The Stock Market
- Singaland: Malaysia’s ‘Tectonic Shift’
- Journalism.sg: S’poreans on press freedom: Don’t have and don’t care
- My Singapore News: 1/3 full or 2/3 empty?
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: A Certain Type For Singapore (Part 4/ 4)
- The Void Deck: UBS and the United Banks of Singapore
- Mollymeek: Why I’m Disturbed
- The Universe Within: Press Freedom
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Singaporeans KNOW our press is biased, but we LIKE it that way!

Life, the universe and everything
- Fresh Brainz 新鲜脑汁: Identification Of Design Motifs
- Ong Jiin Joo: Cultural Map of the World
- Balderdash: Miss Veet Standout Challenge 2007..

Infoblogoramus
- They Might Be Curly Giants!: Machine Girl Is The New Kill Bill

December 12th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Ase (pronounced ‘Aw-sir’) Wang 黄惠敏 is of Chinese and Swedish descent. She is frequently exposed in magazine articles, MV productions, TV commercials, TV shows and movie productions and is well known and appreciated for her beauty and warm personality. She was also in the local series “Spin”. Pictures after the break.

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December 12th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

International Human Rights Day
- All and Sundry Singapore: To be humans, we need Rights
- The Online Citizen: Lawyers petition Law Society of Singapore
- Pseudonymity: VIDEO: Burma On My Mind – Human Rights Day 2007

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Mollymeek: Wonderful Taxi Fare Structure Overhaul
- The States Times: Greed Trumps Logic

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: MAS Essay Writing Competition

Daily Discourse
- Simple is the Reason of my Heart: Selective Liberalization – On the Brink of Breakdown?
- Yawning Bread: What lurks beyond globalisation and capitalism
- Sam’s thoughts: What the cluck?!
- Inside & Insights: The Emerging Threats to The Church
- Rojak or the melting pot: A teddy bear called Muhammad
- Mollymeek: The media is not free, but who cares?
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: A Certain Type For Singapore (Part 2/ 4) (Part 3/ 4)
- The States Times: Policy Plunders
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Breaking News : GIC buys stake in UBS!!
- The Void Deck: The Singa’ and the ‘Roo
- Hau Mau: PAP or not, Singaporeans are like frogs in a well

Life, the universe and everything
- Decay on Net: Blogger Social Responsibility
- Rat in the Lab: A Happy 30th Anniversary!
- Young Upstarts: The Men in Uniform Gets It Right

Infoblogoramus
- The FØØL’s Progress: Singapore’s First Seiyuu Course

December 11th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Nvidia G92 8800GTS 512MB Launched
- Tweak Town: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB G92 Tested
- TechSpot: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 review
- Reg Hardware: Nvidia G92-based GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
- Tech ARP: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Benchmark Results
- HWZ: MSI G92 8800GTS 512MB OC edition Mini Review
- VR Zone: G92 8800GTS 512Mb [XFX Alphadog]
- HWZ: Leadtek 8800GTS 512M DDR3 are in stores…
- TweakTown: ASUS G92 EN8800GTS and EN8800GTS TOP
- TweakTown: HD 3850 Crossfire vs. 8800GTS 512MB G92

Tech Talk
- Anandtech: Sparkle 8800 GT Passive: The Fastest Silent GPU in the World
- Fudzilla: Nvidia to EOL all G80’s in January
- Expreview.com: First review: Sapphire HD 3850 512MB fanless version
- InformationWeek: Windows Vista Users Hit With ‘Purple Screen Of Death’
- GameGuru: X series of LCD monitors launched by BenQ
- Anandtech: MSI P35 Neo2-FR: Platinum performance for under $100
- The Tech Report: How to build a PC
- HWZ: 750GB External HDD Storage Roundup

SG Tech
- Alice in Wonderland: Apple threatens iPhone retailers and its undesirable marketing strategy
- theory.isthereason: theorycast.33 :: Hacking the Asus Eee (plus MojoPak!)
- Culture Shiok! Singapore OFW: Apple iPhone in Singapore

December 11th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (2)

International Human Rights Day
- TheOnlineCitizen: Local activists commemorate International Human Rights Day
- Sam’s thoughts: Law reform to balance rights and obligations
- Words of the Lionheart: Activism and Advocacy
- Pseudonymity: Burma Crackdown Bloodier Than Government Admits

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Interest rate to Curb Inflation in Singapore
- Simply Jean:Possible changes in Singapore’s annuities returns
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: A Certain Type For Singapore (Part 1/ 4)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain 鸟话连篇: No Comfort Here (III)
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Finally Relief for Taxi Commuters….
- Singapore Life and Times: A tipping we should go

We don’t need no regulation..
- Just Stuff: When Speed Kills – The Way of The Tortoise

Daily Discourse
- Alice in Wonderland: Could Prima Deli be “innocent” (non hygiene-lapse) in mass food poison?
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Shite Mandarin? Think again: Backman is not all he seems to be.

Life, the universe and everything
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Moving Images 10th Anniversary Celebrations
- Rambling Librarian: Singapore Writers Festival: “World Wide Web of Words” post-event reflections

December 10th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Amigo Feng Yuan Zhen 冯媛甄 is a Taiwanese who once emulated Lin Chi Lin 林志玲 on a variety show. Since then, she has been affectionately known as Lin Chi Lin junior “小林志玲”. Pictures after the break.

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December 10th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (9)

Event 1

More info: 8 Dec 2007: Wildlife trade in Singapore ( A Guided Tour)

Event 2

More info: 8 Dec 2007: International Human Rights Day (IHRD) Commemoration

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Finally Relief for Taxi Commuters
- Singapore Life and Times: Gim Kopi
- The States Times: Highway Hell

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Simply Jean: Change in medical subsidies in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Simply Jean: Prima Deli incident – More Salmonella carriers found!
- All and Sundry Singapore: Glory for Nation or Money?
- Sophie’s World: Malaysian bullet train going to Singapore?

Life, the universe and everything
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Chintendo Vii and James Wong
- deputydog: 7 of the coolest fire stations on earth
- Telegraph: Trouble and strife: On stage in Singapore

December 7th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Azusa Yamamoto 山本梓 is a Japanese actress and gravure idol. This
talented actress speaks Japanese, Korean and English. Pictures after the break.

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December 7th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: A Flat Fee Suffices – On Taxi Fares in Singapore
- The States Times: Cowboy Town
- I.Z. Reloaded: $10 to flag down a cab in Singapore?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Angle: Secularism, the Dr Thio Li-ann way
- The Void Deck: Flash – Oh Oh Shite Mandarin!
- Auto Racing Daily: V8 Supercar in Sg for F1 night race

Life, the universe and everything
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: Uncanny similarities between Singapore Inc and the Chinese corporacy
- Constructive Deconstruction: “Stop Whining!” Should We Be Evaluating Ourselves Based on Others?
- Both Sides of the Johor Straits: Malaysia in the blue corner, Singapore in the red corner

December 6th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Tech Talk
- DailyTech: AMD Tri-core Processor Details for 2008 and 2009
- Slashdot: Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms
- TweakTown: GIGABYTE GA-73UM-S2H – GeForce 7150 IGP
- Hardware Logic: Asus EN8600GT 256MB Videocard Review
- Hartware.net: ZOTAC – GeForce 8800GT with HDMI output
- CustomPC: Samsung develops world’s fastest memory – GDDR5
- Creative: Creative Announces 32GB ZEN Portable
- Wired: As Intel Surges, PC Makers Prop Up Its Main Competitor
- CNET: Internet Explorer 7 vs. Firefox 2
- p2pnet: Facebook caves to angry users
- Information Week: Ultimate Holiday Tech Gadget Buyer’s Guide 2007
- DailyTech: DailyTech Holiday Games Buyer’s Guide: Part Two

SG Tech
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: My Tech Predictions for 2008

December 6th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Mr Wang Says So: You Give Your Money To Your Town Council So That It Can Play The Stock Market
- News Release by UncleYap: mata’s video on YouTube again

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: What I think about taxi fare hikes

13th ASEAN Summit
- Celluloid Reality(s): ASEAN and Burma : The Real Realpolitik

We don’t need no regulation..
- Just Stuff: When Even The ‘Experts’ Can Get It Wrong – Part II

Daily Discourse
- Decay on Net: MOH and AVA advise public to discard chocolate cakes from Prima Deli
- Young Upstarts: Prima Deli Faces PR Nightmare
- The Kway Teow Man: Numbers that tell us nothing
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Past Careless Talk, Now New Finance Minister
- All and Sundry Singapore:Singapore’s property market is running a fever
- Alice in Wonderland: USA entry requirements

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore Life and Times: Just dessert
- The States Times: Throwing Good Money
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Why did Miss China win?

December 5th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Yuni Li Yen Chin 李妍瑾 was the runner-up in the Miss Chinese World 2005 pagent. She was awarded the UK Webcam girl award. This 170cm tall model has since been the darling of the Taiwanese modeling industry. Pictures after the break.

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December 5th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

More info: Open call for a bloggers’ meeting

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Online Citizen: $1 billion in town council funds – what’re they used for?
- Pseudonymity:Singapore’s Strong Pro-Death Penalty Stand At U.N. Leaves Many Angered
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: How much is too much?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Going up: Taxi fares!
- The Void Deck: Rocketing Petrol Prices and the “Great” High Octane Petrol
- Singapore Life and Times: Spiraling Misery
- In the land of the blind, one eye man is king: Oil prices, cab companies and cab drivers

Strangers in a Strange Land
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Relocating the Local/Foreign

Life, the universe and everything
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Who says there’s no FREE LUNCH?

December 4th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Tech Talk
- TweakTown: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB G92 Tested
- UltraMobileGeek by ThoughtFix: Asus Eee 701 vs. Nokia N810 – Linux Fight!
- HWZ: MSI Latest AMD 790F Chipset Mainboards Ready to Support Phenom CPU
- Information Week: AMD Pulls The Plug On Quad FX Enthusiast Platform
- Mobile Review: Nokia N82 – preview
- TechCrunch: 3G iPhone On Track For Next Year
- DailyTech Google Rolls Out Mobile Phone Locator
- MikhailTech: OCZ ATV Turbo 4GB USB Flash Drive
- DailyTech: DailyTech Audio Lover’s Holiday Guide: Players and Phones
- Gizmodo: 8 Reasons Why The PSP Will NEVER, EVER Overtake the DS

SG Tech
- The Young Businessman – Everyone Loves Him:
Free XBOX 360 with MacBook Pro @ iShop
- techie talks: Asus Eee PC 8GB details released, modded green Eee PC spotted!
- Decay on Net: Happy Birthday to Wireless@sg
- The Young Businessman – Everyone Loves Him:
How to make an Office 2007 document compatible with Office 2003?

December 4th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Vindicated!
- Pseudonymity: {FOI} – Letters On Singapore’s Death Penalty
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Speakers Cornered – Complete video now unleashed

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Coming up next – Fuel surcharge for taxis
- Sophie’s World: Causeway blues again

1st December was World AIDS Day
- The Fitness & Design Jurulatih: WORLD AIDS DAY
- All and Sundry Singapore: World AIDS Day Means Little in Burma

We don’t need no regulation..
- Just Stuff: When Even The “Experts” Can Get It So Very Wrong? Part 1

Charity? More Clarity
- My Singapore News: End of NKF saga

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Another lawyer ‘run road’…..
- Alice in Wonderland: Good bye Library@Orchard

Life, the universe and everything
- Fresh Brainz 新鲜脑汁: Evolution Of The Eye: Recent Review

December 3rd, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment