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Cabinet Musical Chairs
- The Online Citizen: New Cabinet line-up throws up some surprises
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Preliminary thoughts about Singapore’s latest Cabinet reshuffle

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: NTUC Stores for the poor!
- Mr Wang Says So: How The Government Helps Singaporeans Cope With Inflation

Pink Issues
- Yawning Bread: Hotel Singapore now officially gay-friendly
- Musings: Subsidies and Legitimate Discrimination

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Singapore Review: Half-Hearted Token Search for a Fugitive Means Cover-Up?

Paying for Foreign Scholars
- Ian On The Red Dot: Are Singaporeans Really Paying For Foreign Scholars In Singapore

Healthcare
- The Online Citizen: Medishield – one of the most profitable in the world

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Retiring Hong Kong politician criticises Singapore’s democracy

PARF/COE Cash Rebates
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: How does this help?

Malaysia Elections
- Sophie’s World: Did bloggers really create the Malaysian tsunami?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Angle: Dansong’s Angle Ticker: Patronage Politics, Cancer Nannies, Aesthetic Snake Oils
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Free Speech
- Singapore Life and Times: Three of the worst
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Send this to the ST Forum 3: Corruption-Free S’pore
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Are we really pragmatic?
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Moving Targets

Life, the universe and everything
- Vinyarb: Advertise! online!

Infoblogoramus
- eastcoastlife: Historical European Swordmanship – WS #17

March 31st, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Lee Ji-ah (이지아, 李智雅) is a new Korean actress who received rave reviews in her debut in the popular Korean period drama Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi (The Story of the First King’s Four Gods) opposite superstar Bae Yong Jun. At the 2007 MBC Drama Awards, she received a total of three awards for ‘Best New Actress’, ‘Popularity Award’, and the ‘Best Couple Award (with Bae Yong Jun)’. Pictures after the break.

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March 31st, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (3)

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March 29th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Void Deck: Kan Seng’s Tora Bora Remix
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: We have not forgotten about Mas Selamat , or have we really?
- utopia: only hear the good stuffs
- Mas Selamat Kestari: is RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!! [Facebook]

Co-Space Initiative
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: My Thoughts about the Co-Space Initiative & Virtual World
- Ian on the Red Dot: 4 Things About The Co-Spaces Event
- Nomed Letters: Giving Virtual Space in a Crowded Island

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Singapore Angle: Beyond Obamania in Singapore – Change You Can Believe In
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Badawi : I underestimated the power of blogs…

Aesthetic Medicine and Snake Oil
- Angry Doctor: Stop using that word!
- nofearSingapore: Aesthetic Medicine and Snake-oil-My unabridged letter to the Straits Times

Malaysia Elections
- The Online Citizen: Farquhar – A Freak Result
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Badawi now ‘loves’ bloggers; what about the PAP?

Daily Discourse
- catherinelim.sg: A challenge for the future: Democratising the Lee Kuan Yew model of governance?
- Sam’s Thoughts: The modesty of a woman
- Singapore Patriot: How did LTA manage to tai-chi away the blame?
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Is United States the greatest nation?
- My Singapore News: Paranoid or Mean

Infoblogoramus
- Muruah: “Women and an ASEAEAn Human Rights Body” By Maruah, held on the 29th of March 2008.
- Unique-Frequency: 29th March 2008: Social Media Breakfast: Singapore
- ALVINOLOGY: No Flash vs No Photography
- the(new)mediaslut: Bangkok Car Show – Babes and all

March 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Supaksorn Chaimongkol (Thai: ศุภักษร ไชยมงคล) is a Thai model and actress. She is affectionately known to her fans as “Kratae”, which means chipmunk. Pictures after the break.

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March 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Online Citizen: In the spirit of giving a “full account”
- The Hammersphere: One month after escape – questions still unanswered

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The boy who knew too much: Signs of growing poverty in Singapore
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech by Minister Vivian Balakrishnan: 5 March 2008

Free Tibet
- Pseudonymity: Quick To Kiss China’s A**!
- Salt * Wet * Fish: Free Tibet: Romantisizing Shangri La

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- e pur si muove: A transcript of Singapore: The Inconvenient Truth
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Illegal Assembly Laws in Singapore…

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: David vs Goliath: Airview Towers Sale Dismissed by High Court

Starhub EPL, Singtel CL, Football Fans LPPL
- Under the Willow Tree: Lee Sze Yong is a Bungling Blathering Bozo

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: A Tale of Two Drugs
- Simply Jean: If you have these $50 notes (see picture), you are screwed…
- Humanities & Social Sciences Library: New Singapore university

Earth Hour Singapore 2008
- Singapore Life and Times: Sans Power
- Singapore Metblogs: Earth Hour Singapore 2008

March 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (26)

Tech News
- ask BINC: Reason People are Leaving Yahoo
- Bit-tech.net: Windows Vista SP1 Gaming Performance
- DigiTimes: Asustek to roll out second-generation Eee PC with touchscreen panels and possibly GPS support in May or June
- Shacknews: Creative: Asus Misleading Customers on EAX Drivers
- CNet: Yahoo, Google, MySpace form nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation
- BetaNews: Accidental Wi-Fi access still a criminal offense in Maryland
- BEtaNews: Despite rumors, Windows XP SP3 still not quite ready
- Ars technica: Apple quietly settles lawsuit over dithered laptop displays

Reviews & Guides
- VR-Zone: GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver – EP35-DS4
- TrustedReviews: Canon IXUS 80 IS
- PC Freaks & Geeks: Razer Destructor Mousepad
- TechARP: How To Take Great Photos With Your Mobile Phone

March 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Malaysia Elections
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: badawi now ‘loves’ bloggers; what about the PAP?
- Where Bears Roam Free: If only Singaporeans are like Malaysians

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Itch to Write: How long more are we going to wait?
- Think, thought, thunk: Mas Selamat T-shirt: What will they think of next?

Starhub EPL, Singtel CL, Football Fans LPPL
- The Online Citizen: To all sports fans
- TNPPostman: Weekend Question(What do you think of not watching European Football on SCV?)

Transport Reforms Announced
- Simply Jean: Pissed off by those bus ticket cheats

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- SG Review: This is what we pay our multi-million dollar ministers for
- THE armchair critic: So what if all of us TAK BOLEH TAHAN anymore?

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Stayers’ Poll & Links to Parliament Debates

Daily Discourse
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Reservist discrimination in JobsDB.com?

March 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Choi Jung-won (최정원) is a popular Korean actress who has garnered Excellence and Popularity awards from the Korean Broadcasting System. Pictures after the break.

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March 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Yawning Bread: Improving the Internal Security Act
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Jail the hoaxer; but what about the guy in uniform who didn’t do his job in the 1st place?

Free Tibet
- Celluloid Reality(s): PLA troops kill Tibetan pilgrims
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Talk

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: Post-Modern Authoritarian Singapore

6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
- Kojakbt’s Blog: Less job creations for SINGAPOREANS!

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Pandering to “the Greed of Developers”: 10 Year Predictions – Parliamentary Debate on 1999 Amendment to LTSA
- Modern Burrow: Modern Burrow

Starhub EPL, Singtel CL, Football Fans LPPL
- THE armchair critic: Oh you are such a cock-teaser!

There goes aesthetic for GPs
- The World As I Know It: Beautiful no more
- Angry Doctor: Confidence Goods 12

Daily Discourse
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Send this to the ST Forum 2
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: NTU bond-free research scholarship “controversy”
- Majulah Singapura: Graciousness vs Service Quality
- NOTES FROM SERANGOON ROAD: We need SIFF more than it needs us.

Life, the universe and everything
- Sam’s Thoughts: The ‘de Souza’-isation of Eurasians
- A L V I N O L O G Y: NTU triple room sharing parody videos

Infoblogoramus
- thegreatsze: House-Hunting: More Satisfying Than Going After Mas Selamat
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Earth Hour 2008 in Singapore

March 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Source: South Park Studios
- Gizmodo: Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)

Reviews
- Overcock3D: Asus 9800 GX2 1GB (EN9800GX2)
- Motherboards: Intel E8500 CPU Review
- Fudzilla: Intel E8200 reviewed
- X-bit Labs: Dell Vostro 1400 Business Notebook Review
- VR-Zone: Sim Lim Sq Walkabout: Week 12, 2008

Tech News
- Randomelements: The Vista SP1 problem evidence is mounting up
- Ars Technica: Evidence mounting: Windows 7 going modular, subscription
- Tech ARP: Windows XP SP3 RTM Schedule & Updates!
- Washingtonpost: Firefox, Safari, or Neither?
- DigitTimes: Acer low-cost PC expected to be cheaper than second-generation Eee PC
- DailyTech: Engineers Develop Solid-state Fan That Puts Traditional Coolers to Shame
- ChileHardware: Explosive HP Notebook

SG Tech
- Theory.isthereason: Apple Remote + Mighty Mouse = Kensington’s Slimblade Presenter Media Mouse?
- 65bits: 65Bits Episode 64 : 64 just ain’t enough…
- ALVINOLOGY: Singapore’s “Super Brand”
- Webs@Work: YouTube Video Award Winners
- The eOK .network: We’ll be playing mind games soon
- Under the Willow Tree: M1, CTI & StarHub vs SingTel in Singapore’s Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN)

March 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Tak Boleh Tahan! Protest
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Public Arrests and Political Obligation in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Yes, we should all just enjoy the good life!!!
- Sam’s Thoughts: Before and After: My letter got amputated by the Straits Times
- Singapore Donkey: Police arrest sign carried by opposition member

Malaysia Elections
- Singapore Patriot: Malaysia govt reaching out to bloggers, will S’pore do the same?
- ringisei: Watching the factions / Failure leading to success

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Online Citizen: Another alleged JI member detained…but where is Mas Selamat?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore and the stuff: SMRT and the woes

Paper Chase
- The boy who knew too much: Double standards in Singaporean Education

Free Tibet
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Tibet and the American Civil War

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Constitutional Ambiguities (at least for the layperson!)
- Simply Inconceivable: Racial Quotas in HDB Flats [Thanks Justn]

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Pork Barrel Politics In Malaysia….

Healthcare
- Singapore Life and Times: Hard to swallow

Singapore’s Next Top Model Happy Citizen
- Wake Up Your Idea: Singapore’s Happiest Person & Other Tales Of Fiction
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: NEWS: ST Reader Nominated Happiest Person in the World

Starhub EPL, Singtel CL, Football Fans LPPL
- Under The Willow Tree: When Competition is Bad for Consumers: SingTel, the UEFA Champions League and the Economics of PayTV in Singapore
- iPetitions: Say “NO” to endless sports contents price hikes

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: Employment statistics
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Imagined and Real Perils of Blogging about One’s Job
- Sophie’s World: Causeway blues again, Part 3
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: How can one underestimate the power of Singlish?

Infoblogoramus
- inter alia: NUS Law Ball 2008
- Sayoni: Sayoni Queer Women Survey 2008

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Hong Kong born Canadian actress-singer Tiffany Lee Lung Yee 李蘢怡, touted as the next gen sex symbol of Hong Kong Cinema. Pictures after the break.

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March 24th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

As you can tell, the SDP protest topic was hot! Opinions in the blogs were split down the middle. Some saw the protest as yet another lame publicity stunt by SDP especially as SDP came up with new moves inspired by foreign activists. Others saw that the police was over-reacting and victimising SDP again especially when priorities should be diverted elsewhere, like finding the now skinny still missing Mas Selamat limping around somewhere in urban Singapore. Chia Ti Lik’s prose of being jailed was almost as entertaining as Francis Seow’s seminal “To Catch A Tartar” where fact and fiction blurred in the fascinating government-slighting narrative. Talking about fact and fiction, what about the officers of the law almost gnashed by a protester? That story never took off it seems.

And since we are on the topic of lame protesters and police, what about our limping JI terrorist-fugitive? Everybody with common sense in the blogs is questioning the government’s management of the “security lapse”. I’m sure the authorities are trying their best to recover lost face and those trudging in the woods are having a hard time being ridiculed by their friends and family. With the is-it-independent or not-independent Committee of Inquiry going on, the public are eager to get to the bottom of the toilet break, bear the pun. However, it is still not too late for the security agencies to struggle for redemption and get a dramatic capture before the COI administers blame, and the public, bashing.

Elsewhere, the paper chase is another area of gripe with the A level results released recently. Who will become a Mandarin in the Establishment? Is paper qualifications, a prestigious scholarship and a job secured in a MNC or government all is there to it? Let’s be clear on this, perfect A-level scores are nice, but life certainly does not end if one’s A-level results are not “good” enough.

What to watch out for in the coming week? Maybe Tibet and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

March 23rd, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (2)

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March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (18)

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Online Citizen: If one were Dr Choong..
- Singapore Patriot: We screwed up but we’re still the best
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mas Selamat : 21 days and counting!!!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Mas Selamat, where are you?
- My sketchbook: It’s not a good time to be a journalist

Tak Boleh Tahan! Protest
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Confessions of a Protestor, World Consumer Rights’ Day – Protest in front of Parliament House Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
- Die neue Welle: Politicians Biting People – A States’ Times Letter
- the girl nobody remembers: (One of) my favourite chicken rice is now $3.30, up 10%!!
- SgForums: Confessions of a coward on World Consumer Rights’ Day

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- EDMW: PM Lee urge us to LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS!!!
- SgForums: Cost of electricity to go up from April as oil prices rise

Paper Chase
- Theory of Knowledge: Diploma or Death?
- EDMW: Lecturer belittles ‘weak’ poly student at NUS open house

Free Tibet
- Yawning Bread: What to do with the Tibetan question?

Housing
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore – Is the HDB fulfilling the needs of Singaporeans?

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics: “Tyranny is worse than a Man-Eating Tiger”

Daily Discourse
- Journalism.sg: Reporting, then and now: The role of the press in Singapore
- The Daily Backtrack: To pontificate
- Myrialogues: My beef with the ST
- Singapore Patriot: A lesson in diplomacy
- The Red Grade: A Patriot’s Perspective
- This lush garden within: Search for the happiest person in Singapore? Nothing more than a marketing stunt

Life, the universe and everything
- The eOK .network: Blogger relations: What works

Infoblogoramus
- GarageBand Meetup: Hello world!

March 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Towa Aino / Aino Towa (あいのとわ) is the younger sister of Yua Aida. Her cute smile and beautiful body has seen her rising up the ranks of the gravure industry. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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March 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

Tak Boleh Tahan! Protest
- The States Times: Tak Boleh Tahan
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: ST Reader Offers Chee Advice

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- My Singapore News: Time to say a few good words
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Apology to the MHA
- Mr Brown: We haven’t found him yet, but we can search 121 buildings in one day!

Daily Discourse
- Jed Yoong: Singapore’s Languishing Lawyers
- Simply Jean: Are you moonlighting? Don’t get caught!
- Angry Doctor: Take my rights… please! 2
- Nomed Letters: Taking the heat off the Incompetent
- She Spins a Yarn: Bad service encountered at MIS. (Marketing Institute of Singapore)

Life, the universe and everything
- Unique-Frequency: Where Did SMU = NTU Ad Go??
- Occulta L5 + S1: Some guy’s idea of Singapore’s future skyline.
- Lost in Transposition: Singapore Fling
- the(new)mediaslut: Will Rednano.sg find Google’s gold?
- Jaunted: Changi Airport’s Getting Greedy for Terminals
- Ian On The Red Dot: Why Online Piracy Of Books Is A Good Thing

Infoblogoramus
- Singapore News: Prisoners getting more interviews than you

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

- Windows Vista Team Blog: Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update
[G notes B's vile attempt at answering calls for wider Idol representation with this photo.]

Reviews & Guides
- VR-Zone: Monster Stack: Inno3D NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
- Dragon Steel Mods: C2Q Q6600 Heatsink Roundup -12 Tested
- Legion Hardware: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT Overclocking Guide
- OCIA: Thermaltake iXoft Notebook Cooling Pad
- HWZ: Sony Cyber-shot T300

Tech News
- Tech Report: AMD to cut Radeon HD 3870, 3850 prices again
- VR-Zone: Nvidia To Launch GeForce 9800 GTX On April Fool Day
- DigiTimes: Dell reportedly plans to resume handheld device business
- techPowerUp!: NVIDIA ForceWare 174.53 Beta Released
- CNA: Industry sources say SingTel will launch iPhone in S’pore in Sep
- Mac Rumors: Apple to Offer Unlimited Music Plan?
- TweakTown: Sex, Drugs and Graphics Cards
- IDC: IDC Predictions 2008: The Post-Disruption Marketplace Takes Shape

March 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (2)