The Singapore Daily

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- e pur si muove: Let’s calm down, please
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Public call for Andrew Loh and Remy Choo to apologize and step down from TOC

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Decay on Net: Pump price easy to go up, hard to come down
- My singapore News: Imported inflation or inflating prices?

CPF & Annuities
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: I hope Refund-80 is enough for McDonald’s Happy Meals!

Human Rights
- The Online Citizen: A CASE of double standards?
- SG Review: Politically motivated law enforcement is exposed gain

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Live Long and Prosper

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Singapore: New Media, Politics & the Law: “Give me freedom or… I’ll take it anyway”
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Censorship under the PAP : 1959 – 2008
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: If Malaysian politics is having an ‘erection’, Singaporean politics needs viagra…

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Lives of Dark & Quiet Desperation
- Singapore Life and Times: Down the drain
- A Partisan Guy: Political Poem
- Fauzi Rassull: Why Singapore Have To Be Bilingual? Isn’t It Stupid? [Thanks agnes]
- the(new)mediaslut: Fauzi Rassull got it wrong; Bilingualism is still important in today’s context!
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Will politics here throw up an Obama?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Why I would leave Singapore
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Gender Bias in Singapore Law
- Yawning Bread: Safety on Trial

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Singapore 2030 Forum — Highlights
- The annotated budak: International Year of the Reef 2008: Birds of Singapore shores
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: A personal peep into local art exhibits
- theory.isthereason: Made in Singapore: Comiqs, GaussianMath, SG Wiki, Rockumentary

Infoblogoramus
- Ah Boon.Net 阿文: Manned Cloud – The Flying Hotel

February 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (35)

Popular gravure model Akina Minami 南明奈. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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February 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

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February 16th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (12)

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- The world is thinking..: TOC, conspiracies, truth, and me
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: The TOC Fiasco – Truth is the First Casualty of War
- SgForums: TOC’s Choo Zheng Xi Paid by PAP MP!
- HWZ: I support the Online Citizen

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Yawning Bread: Inflation has hurt poor more than rich
- sgForums: Are We Getting what We are Paying so Much For?

Human Rights
- la nausée: A Non-Citizen’s Constitutional (Non-)Right to Freedom of Speech in Singapore
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Film ban hurts Singapore’s press freedom
- The GP Tutor: Info-pack on Censorship

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Cheng’s Corner: Some Remarks..

Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 22 January 2008: GDP Bonus for Ministers

Daily Discourse
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Value of Success
- The Itch to Write: First world country having ‘brain drain problem’
- utopia: brain drain problem does not lies with the people
- Singapore Patriot: Police were boh chap in their investigations: Judge

Life, the universe and everything
- Insane Polygons: The Ladder Theory
- ringisei: Ethical campaigns leave a bitter taste

Infoblogoramus
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Singapore 2030: Views from the ground
- Sayoni Speak: 3rd ILGA-Asia Regional Conference
- Singapore Budget 2008: About The Singapore Government Budget

February 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (13)

Japanese Haruna Yabuki (矢吹春奈) started as a swimsuit model for Parco, a department store chain out of the fashion district of Shibuya. The ads featured the slender bodied Haruna in giant posters that many Tokyo shoppers couldn’t easily forget. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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February 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- An Inconvenient Truth: remy choo is a pap boy – fact
- Nomed Letters: Infernal Affairs – Singapore Style
- nofearSingapore: TOC’s mole affair – My personal opinion
- Insane Polygons: What Matters Not.
- For What It’s Worth: sigh
- Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Furore in cyberspace over Choo Zheng Xi’s links with PAP
- Looking For LaLaLand: NOPE. NONE. ZILCH. NATTA.

The $$$ You’ll Never See
- mrbrown: CPF (You Won’t See For) Life: Compulsorily Flexible
- Sgpolitics.net: National Lifelong Income Scheme finalized
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore – F1 or F9: Income statistics?
- The States Times: R80 Category

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Patriot: Obama praises Singapore’s education system
- Sophie’s World: Missing MRT link, Part 3
- SimplyJean: The solution to brain drain is to draw more brains (sounds quite gross)

Life, the universe and everything
- Catholic Writings: It’s safer to download porn than to download anime?
- YoungJedi: My StarHub Cable TV – Part 1
- BlogF1: Could There Be A Problem With Wet Weather Night Racing?

February 14th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (7)

Reviews
- PConline: G94 core GeForce 9600GT first global assessment
- InfoWorld: MacBook Air is light as, well, air
- Madshrimps: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 45nm Wolfdale CPU Review
- Bit-tech: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770
- Digit-Life: ASUS Xonar D2 Sound Card
- TechwareLabs: Scythe Ninja Plus and Scythe Ninja Mini
- AnandTech: Exclusive Interview with PC Power & Cooling Founder
- ZDNet: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes
- ExtremeTech: The Best Extensions to Enhance Firefox

Tech News
- PCMag: Google’s Android Makes Its Public Debut
- Fudzilla: RV740 is ATI’s new mainstream
- Wired: EA’s CEO: How I Learned To Acquire Developers And Not Screw Them Up
- Reuters: Rich-poor “digital divide” still broad, says UNCTAD
- HWZ: Showcase Nokia 2008
- HWZ: Samsung’s Mobile World Congress Coverage Part 1, Part 2
- VR-Zone: Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT Unveiled
- VR-Zone: GeForce 9800 GX2 Launch On March 11th
- Mozilla Developer News: Firefox 3 Beta 3 now available for download
- Techdirt: Danish Block Of The Pirate Bay Leads To Even More Traffic
- The Inquirer: Wikipedia faces wrath of Islam

February 14th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- The Online Citizen: Separating fact from fiction – Addressing the allegations against theonlinecitizen
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Playing Undercover
- Singabloodypore: Baseless, Malicious, Hogwash No More
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Reply to La Nausee: Why we find TOC’s agenda suspicious
- HWZ: TOC undersiege

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: High Food and Petrol prices solely due to external forces? – Accountability in the media
- Where Bears Roam Free: Like Father, Like Son – Let them buy (unbranded) annuity plan!

Hacked or Mischief
- Pseudonymity: SDP Website – A Case Of Information Sabotage?
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP website problems: Systems error or mischief-making?

Daily Discourse
- Sophie’s World: Missing MRT link, part 2
- Singapore Life and Times: Money Madne$$

Life, the universe and everything
- Simply Jean: Are you asking your cabin crew friends to bring in porn?
- Odd Culture: In Singapore, No More Lookin’ Good For Jesus
- GeekSG: Singaporean Start-up takes on Google in Patent Search
- Joystiq: Ubisoft looks to Singapore for latest studio

February 13th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Model and host Stephanie Carrington has been gracing magazines covers, newspapers and billboards throughout Asia. Born to an American father and a Korean mother, Stephanie has moved permanently to Singapore (yay!!). Pictures after the break.

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February 13th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- The Online Citizen: Allegations against TOC
- la nausée: The Sounding of a TOCsin: Blogosphere in a Bog
- soc.culture.singapore: Beware TOC (The Online Cons) [Thanks messiah]

6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
- Decay On Net: Newly improved title – S’poreans and foreigners gain from job boom

Transport Reforms Announced
- Singapore’s Land Transport: New ERP gantries: Part II
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Every [Congested] Road Pay may be ready 2010

Daily Discourse
- Simply Jean: Another belt-related death?

Life, the universe and everything
- Luxury Launches: Singapore Flyer is the tallest spinning Ferris Wheel to date

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

- Official X1 Website

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
- MobileBurn: Sony Ericsson Unveils Xperia X1 Super-Smartphone
- ars technica: Microsoft and Sony Ericsson announce the XPERIA X1
- Infosync World: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
- Slashgear: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone is a sign of the company thinking outside the box
- Engadget: No wonder Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 is so good: HTC makes it
- Youtube: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Ad
- Youtube: Xperia Introduction video from Sony Ericsson MWC 2008

Cooler Reviews
- X-bit labs: Scythe Ninja Copper Cooler Review
- Virtual-Hideout: Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler Review
- FrostyTech: Scythe Shuriken SCSK-1000 Heatsink Review
- Madshrimps: Thermalright IFX-14 CPU Cooler Review
- Hardware Canucks: GlacialTech Igloo 5750 Silent CPU Cooler Review
- HardwareLogic: ASUS Silent Knight II CPU Cooler Review

Reviews
- The Tech Report: 700-1000W enthusiast power supplies compared
- HWZ: GeCube Radeon HD 3870 X2 X-Turbo Dual (O.C Edition)
- Hardware Secrets: Antec NeoPower 550 Power Supply Review
- 3dGameMan: HIS HD 3870 X2 1GB GDDR3 Video Card
- AnandTech: Samsung 245T: LCD Prime
- TrustedReviews: Zalman FPSGUN Gaming Mouse
- Hi-Tech Reviews: Microsoft Sidewinder USB Gaming Mouse Review
- VR-Zone: Asus Nova PC: The Mini Dissected

Tech News
- The Inquirer: Microsoft cuts Windows 7 features – already
- DailyTech: IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet
- CNN: Yahoo seeks to restart merger talks with AOL

SG Tech
- Tech65: Make your iPod Touch TRUELY mobile with JoikuSpot [Thanks NTT]
- A tiny blip in the continuum: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
- The eOK .network: Theory: How to make a MacBook Pro last longer
- theory.isthereason: Dirty Hack: JoikuSpot + Nokia cellphone = 3G iPhone

February 12th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Ah Meng (1960 – 2008)
The Zoo: Remembering Ah Meng

The Phantom Menace. PAP mole in the mist?
- Singabloodypore: Singapore’s Shame
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: The Online Citizen’s reply and our stand
- Newsintercom: The Unknown Extent of the PAP’s Net Offensive
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: 8 questions for The Online Citizen’s Remy Choo
- The Void Deck: The Online Citizen Conspiracy Theory!
- Chemical Generation Singapore: What a Tangled Web they Wove
- Sammyboy: TOC connections

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Of ERP, COE and Singapore Population
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Big-brother is putting a GPS-tracker in your car!

Healthcare
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Slippery Slope : Means Testing + Healthcare Insurance

The Complaints Choir Banned
- Singapore Patriot: Complaints Choir “firing cheap political shots”?

Section 377a
- Musings: 377A Still A Registrable Offence

Ah Meng is dead. Long live Ah Meng
- YoungJedi: Ah Meng left us for a better place called heaven.
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Ah Meng is dead
- Singapore Life and Times: Death of a distinguished Primate
- ALVINOLOGY: Ah Meng passed away this morning
- Empty Vessel: Ah Meng

Daily Discourse
- e pur si muove: Respect my patois, biatch
- Musings: The Story of Section 298A
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 22 January 2008: Workfare Income Supplement Payment
- Yawning Bread: Keeping schools safe from religion

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: “Where the Hell is Matt?” in Singapore
- mrbrown: Taiwan celebrities say we Singaporean the England not powderful
- Decay on Net: Taiwan Celebrities Criticise Singaporean English
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Safe Or Not?

February 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (16)

Model Wang Li Ya 王丽雅 was the winner of the 2005 Elite Model Look competition in Taiwan. Known for her healthy tan looks, she is one of the most popular models for runway shows and product endorsements in Taiwan. Pictures after the break.

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February 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Happy Chinese New Year!
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Hong Bao Yi Ge Lai!

Not that we love Caesar less…
- Vox: The Reasons for Singapore’s diminishing talent pool
- SOURgrAPESatSG: Lee kuan Yew and those disillusioned others
- Where Bears Roam Free: MM Lee should stop interfering with others’ business
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Long-term political planning, Singapore style

6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
- EDMW: Reload this Page Goh Chin Lian! Were you under pressure to change the subject title and content??? [Thanks viceroy]
- HWZ: OMG LOL! 154th media exposed!!!
- SgForums: Q4 jobless rate falls to 1.6% – Really?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Yawning Bread: Are the planned bus and rail improvements enough?
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: SBS bus practise of concealing bus number caused waiting time above 40minutes
- The mrbrown show: 2 Many 2 Count – ERP Drift

Healthcare
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Means Testing – A load of bullshit
- A Singapore Odyssey: Don’t make needy seek aid from multiple sources

NKF, Charities et al
- The Online Citizen: NKF – more in reserves now than during the scandal

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Simply Jean: Hawker prices the same… but is your food still the same?

Election Reform Public Forum
- A Partisan Guy: Forum 4 Reform

Daily Discourse
- Winter is Coming: Penalise those who write ridiculous letters
- My Singapore News: Halal canteen in a Singapore school!
- The States Times: Police Mentality

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry Doctor: Alternative New Year
- My Way: Answers to Common Irritating New Year Questions

Odex Update
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Disturbing!

February 6th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (48)

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Looking For LaLaLand..: Is the Prime Minister seriously out of touch?
- The Online Citizen: 5 Minutes With… Leong Sze Hian on rising inflation
- HWZ: Singapore ‘s food inflation is extremely high by international standards

6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
- Decay on Net: 6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners OR a third filled by foreigners?
- SPUG: Jobs don’t go to Singaporeans

Strangers in a strange land
- The boy who knew too much: Lee Kuan Yew reconsiders population
- SgForums: SG 85,500 emigrate a year?

Singapore’s Bid for Youth Olympic Games 2010 [Thanks Brian]
- Red Sports: Moscow takes cheap shot at Singapore in race for Youth Olympic Games
- eastcoastlife: Eastcoastlife supports Singapore’s bid for Youth Olympic Games 2010
- Red Sports: Show your support for Youth Olympic Games bid
- Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010: Singapore’s Youth Olympic Village

Transport Reforms Announced
- The Online Citizen: TOC Policy Feature: Improving Singapore’s Public Transport System – A Commuter’s Perspective
- Yawning Bread: Are the planned bus and rail improvements enough?

GIC, Temasek Spending Spree
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: GIC Buys Tokyo Westin!!!
- SPUG: Will the US govt do what President Ong failed?

Not that we love Caesar less…
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Why MM is wrong that there’s not enough top talent for a two-party system in Singapore

CPF & Annuities
- Perspective Unlimited: Talking a Policy to Death

Healthcare
- HWZ: Owned? You PAP voters!

Pink Issues
- Yawning Bread: Leaving Singapore for pinker shores

Daily Discourse
- Journalism.sg: Government needs to invest in the credibility of the press
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Distressing!
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: If everybody has ‘passion’ for his/her job, would they work for free?

February 5th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo
- Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
- NY Times: Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?
- MarketWatch: Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is bigger than you think
- InsideMicrosoft: Does Microsoft-Yahoo Spell The End of MSN?
- TechCrunch: What Would a Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like?
- ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Effect on OpenID
- The Domains: Microsoft-Yahoo: It’s Not a Done Deal
- AP: Yahoo Music Users Going to RealNetworks

Reviews
- Xbit Labs: Contemporary Dual-Core Processors Shootout
- Tom’s Hardware: AMD CPU Efficiency Compared
- Maximum PC: Videocard Image-Quality Shootout
- HotHardware: Intel Skulltrail Unleashed: Core 2 Extreme QX9775 x 2
- BCCHardware: Zalman 750W Heatpipe Cooled PSU
- ProClockers: Scythe Zipang CPU Cooler
- TrustedReviews: LG Flatron L227WT-PF
- Digital Trends: Sony VAIO NR160E/T

Tech News
- ZDNet: Intel unveils Tukwila Itanium processor
- Digital Photography Review: Sony announces Alpha 300 and 350

SG Tech
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Why Microsoft is gunning Yahoo for US$44B
- Ong Jiin Joo: Microsoft to buy Yahoo!!

February 5th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

Not that we love Caesar less…
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: MM Lee: Singapore’s population is too small for political diversity
- The Daily Backtrack: Ombudsman, what a queer little word
- Alice in Wonderland: Where is Singapore’s fourth generation of leaders?

Strangers in a strange land
- JeremyToh: The Consequence of a ‘regulated’ press
- mrbrown: Er, so, was it 6-in-10 or one third of our jobs went to foreigners now?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Life and Times: Divorcing the car

Section 377a
- Musings: Gay Anal Sex Illegal…really?

The Complaints Choir Banned
- Yawning Bread: A reason to complain

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: Trust the govt with your money

Human Rights
- Pseudonymity: Story Behind Singapore Authorities’ Attempts To Stop NUS International Students’ Walk For Burma

Daily Discourse
- Enblocing Singapore: Hong Kong’s Collective Sale Process – Us learning from them or them us?
- Sophie’s World: S’pore-KL budget flights take off but..
- The States Times: Not Quite The “A” Team
- Looking For LaLaLand..: YAY! No more blood will be shed for skimpily clad women!
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: 2007 Worries about price hikes..2008..

Life, the universe and everything
- nofearSingapore: Are you ready for change: What’s your Locus of Control score?

February 4th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

In 1999 at the age of 13, Erika Sawajiri 沢尻エリカ successfully auditioned at Stardust Promotion, one of Japan’s leading talent management agencies, and began modeling for junior fashion magazones CUTIE and nicola. In 2001, Erika won the Seikore (制コレ) grand prize. She began appearing on TV in programs like Harajuku Ronchazu, The Night of Hit Parade and Super VIP. A year later, she was named Fuji TV’s Visual Queen of the Year. In 2002 at age 16, Erika began acting in TV dramas and modeling as a gravure idol. In 2005, Erika starred in her first film Pacchigi!, which won her Best New Actor awards in all major award ceremonies in Japan (18th Nikkan Sports Movie Award, 30th Houchi Movie Award, 15th Tokyo Sports Movie Award, 79th Kinema Junpo Award, 29th Japan Academy Awards). In the same year, she grabbed 2 more Best New Actor awards for her role in 1 Litre of Tears (2006 Elandor Award, 43rd Golden Arrow Award). In 2006, Erika released her first single which went to #1. Her second single the following year also went to #1, making her the only artist in 39 years to have the first 2 singles hit #1 consecutively.

Pictures from Erika Sawajiri’s first photobook P-chu! after the break.

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

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February 1st, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (5)