The Singapore Daily

Budget 2008
- Sgpolitics: My take on the Parliamentary debates for 25,26 Feb
- The Online Citizen: Government fees freeze doesn’t address real concerns

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Nomed Letters: Who let the prisoner out?!
- Singapore Life and Times: Toilet tales
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: JI leader escape in Singapore
- Simply Jean: Security lapse led to JI militant escape, taichi, and other stuffs in Singapore and the region
- The Online Citizen: “Limping Terorist” escapes – 10 questions for Wong Kan Seng
- Singapore Patriot: Mas Selamat’s prison break: Some questions for Home Affairs Minister
- Where Bears Roam Free: The Great Escape or the Great Decoy?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: An Apology Means Little Until the Escaped Terrorist is Caught
- This lush garden within: Poor security at Singapore’s Internal Security Department
- The States Times: “The Fugitive” Rerun
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Did Mas ‘breakout’, or is this a cover-up? A conspiracy-theorist’s fantasy that is good enough for Hollywood?
- Thrills, spills & flatliners: You Gotta be Kidding
- Bad News on the Doorstep: My Top 5 Gahmen Boo Boos
- Her Gestures: Mission Possible. JI detainee Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from Singapore detention centre.
- Thoughts and Pieces: Escapes of Selamat Kestari
- Military Life: The SAF and SPF are truly lumber 1!
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Consolidation of articles on escaped JI leader saga

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Liberalization and the Singaporean Absurd (Disturbingly Funny)
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Relaxation of Overseas Voting – Fostering Participation or Creating Pipedreams?

The Great Escape
- THE armchair critic: I’m a Singaporean, merely by birth

GIC, Temasek Spending Spree
- The Age: Child-care giant faces break-up [largest shareholder Temasek last year paid $400 million for a 12% stake] [Thanks Simon]

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Singapore Has Our Own Improv Everywhere Inspired Group

February 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Erisa Nakayama 中山エリサ, popular race queen and gravure idol. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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February 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Budget 2008
- e pur si muove: Acidflask’s summary of Budget Speech 2008
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: What is your problem, Sylvia Lim?
- Nomed Letters: Now we got more money for…
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Home ownership as a hedge against inflation
- Sgpolitics: Parliamentary snapshots (26 and 27 Feb 08)
- The States Times: A Fishy Story
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech by Minister Tharman: 27 February 2008

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: CNA: “JI detainee Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from Singapore detention centre”!?
- Singapore Patriot: Terrorist leader escapes from Singapore detention centre
- Simply Jean: Tons of Special Operations Command forces spotted near SCGS
- Unfortunately Singapore: JI Detainee Escapes: State Not Intrusive Enough?
- Used Brains for Sale: Great, Now They’ll Start Checking My Shoes
- Xy Mudane Life: Highly Wanted Man Escapes
- Earth@sg: Ji Terrorist leader escapes from Whitely Road Prison
- Coffee Shop Talk: JI Detainee Escapes From Whitley!
- SPUG: Singapore’s most wanted militant escaped from the Whitley Road detention centre today
- HWZ: JI detainee escapes from detention centre

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- The GP Tutor: Minister of Home Affairs: Media Censorship in Singapore – Role played by the Government

Daily Discourse
- nofearSingapore: Letter about Parkway Novena Hospital

February 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (12)

Reviews
- TechPowerUp: Noctua NH-U12P Heatsink
- bit-tech: Zalman ZM-FG1000 FPSGUN Gaming Mouse
- VR-Zone: XFX Alpha Dog 8800GS XXX Edition Review
- OCIA: Cooler Master Sphere CPU Cooler
- DragonSteelMods: AeroCool DoublePower VGA Cooler Review
- HWZ: An Encounter with the Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Tech News
- Engadget: Razer teases CeBIT-bound Speed of (The) Light mouse
- Wired: Top 3 Indie Games to Watch Out For
- Gizmodo: Toshiba Speeds 1.8-Inch Drives Up to 5400rpm
- DailyTech: Intel Roadmaps Outline Centrino 2 Platform This June
- BBC: EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: How to Generate and Read QR Codes for your blog
- Balderdash: Update for Windows Vista (KB940510)
- 65Bits: Episode 60: The King is Dead, Long Live The King

February 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Budget 2008
- The Daily Backtrack: The Auntie’s View on the Budget
- Mr Wang Says So: The Government Missed By $7,150,000,000. Just Another Honest Mistake
- The Online Citizen: Bitter medicine prescription – with a little spin thrown in
- Sgpolitics: Parliamentary snapshots (25 and 26 Feb 08)
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: …Ministry of Finance should be replaced by a bunch of dart-throwing chimps!
- Singapore Patriot: Bring back our 5% GST, Tharman
- My Singapore News: A $6.4b happy mistake
- utopia: 2008 budget…what did they say again?
- Siew Kum Hong: Budget 2008: Speech on Budget Statement, 26 February 2008

The Inconvenient Truth
- catherinelim.sg: Singapore: The Inconvenient Truth
- Nomed Letters: The Hypocrisy of Established Individuals

CPF & Annuities
- The Online Citizen: CPF Life – does it really address retirement needs?
- Random Rants: CPF Tweaks – Compulsory Annuity Scheme (2)

Singapore Wins 2010 Youth Olympics Bid
- Singapore Life and Times: Your house my home
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Singapore 2010: a mini-curse in disguise for the PAP?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Inflation, Inflation, Inflation..

Strangers in a strange land
- Sgpolitics: Dr Wong Wee Nam: Why Do We Need 6.5 Million People?

The Great Escape
- Singapore Election Watch: Goodbye and thank you

Daily Discourse
- catherinelim.sg: A challenge for the future: Democratising the Lee Kuan Yew model of governance?
- The Maxima: How to systematically develop creativity in Singapore?
- In Search of Goh Bock Seng: Unfair to compare Low Thia Kiang with Malaysian opposition leader Lim Kit Siang

Life, the universe and everything
- The armchair critic: Hi I’m from ACS, I must be a hunk…

February 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (14)

Yvonne Lim 林湘萍 was the first runner-up in Singapore Polytechnic’s Beauty Quest and a finalist in Go Magazine’s Cover Girl Contest before she joined Star Search in 1997. The next year, she was given the lead role in her debut TV drama Starting Point, from which she was nominated for Best Newcomer and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes in the Star Awards. Since then she has released a solo Mandarin album and has starred in numerous TV serials in Singapore, China and Hong Kong. In 2007, she finally bagged the Best Actress Award for her role in the TV drama Metamorphosis.

Pictures after the break.

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February 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

The Coen brothers are cool…

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Directing: No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Best Supporting Actor: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Best Foreign Film: The Counterfeiters
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Best Short Film: Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Best Short Animated Film: Peter & the Wolf
Best Screenplay: Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Visual Effects: The Golden Compass
Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Makeup: La Vie en Rose
Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Music: Atonement
Best Song: Once
- Oscar.com: 80th Annual Academy Awards Winners

Budget 2008
- Balderdash: …interesting nuggets about tax relief
- Sgpolitics.net: Budget 2008 highlights

The Great Escape
- Little Speck: The exodus continues
- Yawning Bread: Daydreams of a way station

Housing
- The Online Citizen: Homeless soon, thanks to HDB

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sophie’s World: Inflationary Asia

Healthcare
- Insane Polygons: Life, Basketball and A Tub of Haagen Dazs

Daily Discourse
- The annotated budak: Cleaners walk out
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Obama is not fit to lead!!!
- Die neue Welle: Propaganda?
- Nomed Letters: Left Pocket In, Right Pocket Out: Purchases of GIC and Temasek
- The States Times: Selling Snake Oil
- The Rot Within: ST Against Obama?

Life, the universe and everything
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: What’s wrong with women expecting some chivalry?
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Internet As A Confession Booth & Place To Release Trapped Emotions
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Best Practices in Corporate Blogging
- Weikiat.NET: Singapore Airshow 2008

February 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (8)

Reviews & Guides
- Tom’s Hardware: CPU Cooler Charts 2008, Part 1
- TrustedReviews: Nikon D300 Digital SLR
- DigiTimes: Intel brings forward launch of its low-cost PC platforms
- Anandtech: ASUS P5E3 Premium: One to Rule them All
- Bit Tech: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 motherboard
- TweakTown: NVIDIA GeForce 8200 Preview – Palit N78S
- Big Bruin: Cooler Master Cosmos S Full Tower Case

Tech News
- Wired: Netscape: The Browser That Started it All Dies a Quiet Death
- Silicon.com: Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff
- CRN: Nvidia’s Top Brain Talks Future of Graphics Computing
- NYT: Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web
- Gearlog: Microsoft Discontinues HD-DVD Drives

SG Tech
- Darth Grievous: [”NSFW”] Stripping.. erhem…
- The eOK .network: Water your phone?
- Webs@Work: Wikileaks: Web Censorship Won’t Work
- the(new)mediaslut: From blogs to print – Nokia Singapore’s image gets a hit!
- theory.isthereason: Freshly Presented: “Facebook Strategies for the Classroom”

February 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Budget 2008
- The Online Citizen: Reflections on Budget 2008
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Lucky to be a citizen of an affluent island..

Singapore Wins 2010 Youth Olympics Bid
- Where Bears Roam Free: Youth Olympics – Victory for Singapore or 2011 Election prop for PAP?
- Sam’s Thoughts: The rhetoric of the Youth Olympics
- rynowned: My take on SYOG 2010

REeducation
- Beyond SG: Of Scholars and Scholarships
- Stresed Teacher: Am I Now A Researcher Too?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Simply Jean: Singapore’s middle “sandwich” class is really very well to do…
- My Singapore News: When the music stops?

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- Nomed Letters: The Power of Money: From Opposition to Budget 2008
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Embattled TOC unleashing its ferocious “internet brigade” on critics

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Pseudonymity: CASE Gets To Do It Again While SDP Gets Rejected

InteresThink
- Ong Jiin Joo: Interesthink @ ThePod, Climax, The Lunch

Daily Discourse
- Musings: Better Hours for Doctors?
- Rat in the Lab: A*STAR/NTU Visiting Science Writer-in-Residence Programme
- Singapore Angle: Dansong’s Angle Ticker: Budget Sandwich, Satyr Fencing, Green Hypocrisy
- The sometimes damsel in distress: On scantily-clad women and prostitutes

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: How To Tell If A Girl Will Have Sex With You
- SG_Ljers: more about that LIME CD Compilation
- Marina’s Bloggariffic: An Evening of Southeast Asian Music and Dance
- Jialat dot Com: Why the hell I toutured myself visiting the fiacking airshow?

Infoblogoramus
- The FØØL’s Progress: Anime Screening @ NUS Arts Fest

February 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Korean race queen and model Im Ji Hye 임지혜 (林智慧) was first spotted at the 2007 Seoul Motor Show and has since made the cover of Maxim korea and numerous spots on Korean TV. The 1.72m beauty was born on Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb 1987. Pictures after the break. [Warning, dangerous curves ahead =)]

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February 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (6)

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February 23rd, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

Official Site: Singapore2010

Singapore Wins 2010 Youth Olympics Bid
- Culture Shiok! Singapore OFW: Youth Olympic Games 2010 in Singapore
- Sophie’s World: Slow off the mark?
- eastcoastlife: Yahoo!! Singapore wins bid to host Youth Olympic Games 2010!!
- utopia: Youth Olympics – faking enthu
- Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010: An Open Letter to Our Supporters

re Education
- Next Stop Wonderland: ST Forum: Help grads who do as well as foreign talent

Relief Teacher Ridicules Students in Blog – Sacked
- Sam’s thoughts: Trial by media
- Singapore Life and Times: Gag Order

Pink Issues
- Yawning Bread: Media silence and the cultivators of hate
- i have succumbed to peer pressure.: ‘Gay uncles’ and the assimilation of dominant discourse

CPF & Annuities
- Coffee Shop Talk: CPF Life – 1st update by sgpolitics [Thanks shoestring]

Budget 2008
- Young PAP Blog: A Great Budget, But Does It Service?

Not that we love Caesar less…
- Mr Wang Says So: Things You’ll Never Catch Lee Kuan Yew Saying

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: An Apology Goes a Long Way

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Random Rants: What can you do?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My Singapore News: ERP, pay according to usage

Housing
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: HDB lift upgrading and malfunction woes

Daily Discourse
- The Void Deck: Making Cents Out of the New Diesel Tax for Private Cars
- The Legal Janitor: Whoring for the BSA
- nofearSingapore: Beware MSM editor’s creative scissors-you read what they want you to read
- Looking For LaLaLand..: Singapore needs a Wee Kim Wee in politics
- Reality of Kai: Superficial
- Bad News on the Doorstep: Wrong move
- Balderdash: ethical basis for vegetarianism.. [Thanks Agagooga]
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Not happy about Kosovo

Life, the universe and everything
- Sg_Ljers: A message from the local music scene

February 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (54)

Japanese Rei Toda (戶田怜) is a gravure idol who has made appearances in several drama serials and shows. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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February 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

CPF & Annuities
- Sgpolitics.net: Some back-of-the-envelope CPF Life calculations
- Singapore Property Frontiers: 10 Things You Need to Know About CPF Life

Re education
- Singapore Patriot: Singaporean students subsidising foreign scholars?
- The Online Citizen: Knowledge-based economy needs more Uni education financing
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Molly Replies to ST Forum Letter

Transport Reforms Announced
- Simply Jean: Taxi problem back

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Angle: The Press Needs To Invest In Its Professionalism
- The boy who knew too much: Why does no-one speak out?
- the(new)mediaslut: Cowboy Caleb risk Tomorrow.sg as the next Sintercom?

Life, the universe and everything
- My Way: What I Learnt From Every Race In Singapore
- fashion nation: Singapore Fashion Festival 2008 Press Conference
- Singapore Life and Times: Black not White
- fishtail: Telling Off a Smoker in a Non-Smoking Area

February 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Nvidia 9600GT Launched
- VR-Zone: 64 Shader Processors: NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT
- OCW: Review Introduction to ECS N9600GT-512MX-P graphics card with Accelero S2 passive cooler
- PC PRO: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT
- Atomic PC: NVIDIA 9600GT launched
- Digitimes: First GeForce 9 series GPU to be launched on Feb 21
- TweakTown: NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB G94 Tested
- Neowin: Nvidia GeForce 9600GT Review
- Hexus: AMD aggressively cuts prices on dawn of NVIDIA launch

Reviews & Guides
- techPowerUp: HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ3 TurboX 512 MB
- TrustedReviews: ASUS EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G
- TweakTown: MSI Radeon HD 3870 512MB OC
- HWZ: ZEROtherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800
- Techgage: Palit GeForce 8600GT Super+1GB
- The Tech Report: A brief look at three-way SLI
- MadShrimps: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 Video Card Cooler Review
- Rbmods: Asus P5K Pro motherboard review
- Overclockers Club: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 Review
- Hardwre Secrets: Antec EarthWatts 500 W Power Supply Review
- XSReviews: Noctua NF-B9
- PCGH: What happens if your PC is on fire?

Tech News
- DigiTimes: Intel to cut 65nm processor prices for 45nm
- Expreview: GeForce 9800GT is a 780i-like product
- Engadget: HP’s UMPC 2133 revealed
- HW: Special Preview: Samsung Soul
- Gamasutra: PlayStation 3 Outsells Xbox 360 In January NPD
- Voodoo Extreme: Blue Mars: Crysis Meets Second Life
- AP: Gates: Microsoft Isn’t Raising Yahoo Bid
- NYT: Judge Orders Wikileaks Web Site Shut

February 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

CPF & Annuities
- Sgpolitics.net: A question on CPF Life asked in Sammyboy Coffeeshop forum

Life, the universe and everything
- GeekSg: A look at Singaporean’s top 100 favorite sites
- Singapore Celebrates our Reefs!: Our sea turtles
- Bounce Back To Life: Chingay 2008 – Star Wars & Me
- Musings of an Opinionated Sod: It Would Seem People In Asia Don’t Believe You Can Learn Through Play …
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Funnier than Fiction

Infoblogoramus
- eastcoastlife: eastcoastlife gives away Singapore Airshow 2008 tickets – WW
- Majulah Singapura: Casting Call!

February 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

Ueto Aya (上戸彩) is a Japanese actress, idol and singer. She participated in the 7th All-Japan National Young Beauty contest in 1997, where she received a special award from the judges. Her discovery led to many TV commercial deals, which eventually started her acting career. Pictures after the break.

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February 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- HWZ: Public call for Remy and Andrew to apologize and quit TOC

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Ignorance is Curable: Singapore – You are a foreigner, shut up

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Stagflation hits Singapore
- I Love Looking Good: Singapore Employment Statistics

Charity? More Clarity pls.
- Simply Jean: Ren Ci probe: Part of investigations referred to CAD

Pink Issues
- Sam’s thoughts: Gay is okay
- Used Brains for Sale: Voldemort the Half-Blood

Daily Discourse
- Sophie’s World: Free up Asean skies!

Life, the universe and everything
- EDMW: Ridiculous!!! Teacher from HIPS bullys students!!
- Majulah Singapura: green plastic earth
- the(new)mediaslut: Sex blogging can ruin your offline reputation
- YoungJedi: StarHub Indoor Arena? Yucks…

February 19th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Reviews & Guides
- HWZ: PowerColor Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB
- Motherboards.org: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Review
- TrustedReviews: LG 37LT75 37in LCD TV
- PCStats: Samsung Syncmaster 275T 27-inch LCD Display Review
- VR-Zone: Scythe Zipang – Super Size Me!!
- [OC]ModShop: Solve File Copy Problems: Tweak Vista’s auto-tuning Network
- I4U: Razer Boomslang Collector’s Edition 2007 Gaming Mouse Review
- VR-Zone: ASUS EAH3650 TOP Review

Tech News
- Expreview: GeForce 9800 GX2 detail Specifications
- VR-Zone: More 9800GX2 photos
- 1UP: Report Claims Xbox 360 Failure Rates at 16%
- Gamespot: Analyst cautious EA, predicts next Xbox, Wii
- HWZ: Mobile World Congress 2008 – The Full Coverage
- Physorg: ‘Recordable’ proteins as next-generation memory storage materials

SG Tech
- Tech65.org: Episode 59: Change Our Phones Can Believe In
- The eOK .network: Could laptop lids be sold as ads?

February 19th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment