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Tak Boleh Tahan! Protest
- Alien Nation: Something Rotten [Thanks louie]
- Singapore Life and Times: Futile Demos
- The Void Deck: SDP Tak Boleh Tahan and Tak Boleh Tahan SDP
- HWZ: police arrest 10 protesters at SDP rally today!

Malaysia Elections
- Sophie’s World: A new beginning for Malaysia

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Chemical Generation Singapore: More Like a Private Inquiry than a Public Inquiry?
- vinyarb: Survivor Singapore: Wild berries version [thanks Richard]

Paper Chase
- takchek (读书): Stressed-out varsity applicant? Check.
- Die neue Welle: Examination Eugenics
- l’oiseau rebelle: Frankly, I don’t see the point
- utopia: the disadvantaged lot: poly grads

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Mr Brown: The LTA CBD Taxi Stand fiasco
- Simply Jean: New taxi rules adjustments

Daily Discourse
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Li Bing Bing donation drive’s controversies
- Nomed Letters: Global Markets, Tibet and Opposition Down Out Throats
- Highway of Life: Singapore Slingers – Traditional media does it again?
- HWZ: We sell our national asset to CHINA!!!

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Singapore

Infoblogoramus
- Rentinsingapore’s Weblog: Singapore Rental properties and google maps mash up

March 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (7)

Reviews & Guides
- TweakTown: GeForce 9800 GX2 with ForceWare 174.51
- Hi-Tech Reviews: Sapphire HD3850 & Two HD3850 running Crossfire Review
- HWZ: Dell XPS M1730 Notebook (Intel Santa Rosa)
- HardwareLogic: Antec P190 + 1200 Case Review
- Techware Labs: Razer Lachesis 4000dpi Gaming Mouse
- TrustedReviews: Nokia 7900 Prism

Tech News
- The Register: Vista SP1 on track for mid-March release?
- ars technica: Windows 7 “official” date rumor-whoring: no, it’s not official
- CNET: Apple considering clamshell iPhone?
- WIRED: A New Type of Game Turns Web Surfing Into All-Out Information Warfare
- DailyTech: ASUS Reveals Eee PC Desktop Variant
- Engadget: Canon’s new PowerShots: SD890 IS, SD790 IS, and SD770 IS
- Fareastgizmos: BenQ V2400W World’s slimmest 24″ widescreen LCD monitor
- Softpedia: Dell’s UltraSharp 2009W: Wide LCD Display With a Twist

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Tiananmen 2.0: Freedom and Suppression both growing in China
- harmless? bananas!: Don’t bother paying bloggers to put up banner ads
- Striped:Shirt: iPhone coming to Singapore?

March 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Tak Boleh Tahan! Protest
- sgpolitics: My personal account of the 15 March 08 debacle involving arrest of peaceful protesters
- Sgpolitics: Chia Ti Lik: Confessions of a Protestor on World Consumer Rights’ Day – Protest in front of Parliament House Part 1, Part 2
- The Online Citizen: Protesters arrested for World Consumer Rights Day event
- The Daily Backtrack: Taking down consumers, one at a time
- Sheep City: Unmasking the disgruntled sheep
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SDP turns militant!!!
- Nomed Letters: Victors as King and Losers as Slaves
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Chee Siok Chin to be charged for Animal Abuse
- Pseudonymity: PHOTOS: Singapore Police Manhandle & Drag Away Peaceful Protesters. More photos
- EDMW: 15 protesters arrested

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Singapore Kopi Tok: The Logic of Rewards
- S-man’s bullsh*tbox: Have you seen this man?
- PREVAIL: Mas-terminds [Thanks Francis]

Malaysia Elections
- Yawning Bread: The mathematics of elections
- SG Review: An opposition coalition

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- pORcIN: Common Sense Please

Re-education
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Education Corporation
- Kojakbt’s Blog: How many actual places in our local Univ are reserved for real Singaporeans?

Daily Discourse
- e pur si muove: Perfect scores, perfect students – a perfect storm for future failure
- Singapore Life and Times: Give me my money

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: The David Beckham of Singapore [Thanks Cawley]
- Where Bears Roam Free: If third world nations can have women leaders, why not Singapore?
- The Lionheart: The Road Less Travelled
- Eastcoastlife: A mistress is a mistress, don’t flatter yourself!
- Singapore Donkey: George Yeo finds out Singapore is a small country on trip abroad
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Is Singapore ready for Social Entrepreneurship? Two Years later

Odex Update
- The Odex’ed — Time For Justice: Roll Call of the Odex’ed — The Time to Act Is Now

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March 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

We complete Erika Sawajiri’s 沢尻エリカ first photobook P-chu!, taken when she was 17. Pictures after the break.

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March 15th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- My Singapore News: Story of woman seeing Mas Selamat
- Alas, a blog!: What’s the coverup?
- Wake Up Your Idea: What The Hell Is Wong Kan Seng Doing In Laos?
- SG_LJers: Nobody’s Perfect
- HWZ: minster trying to spin again

Malaysia Elections
- The Online Citizen: Malaysia boleh! Can Singapore boleh too?
- Journals of a Philosophic Inquisitor: What’s in a Vote?
- The Void Deck: The Malaysian Election and the Northern Exposure on Spore

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- This lush garden within: Healthy to ask if government is doing enough?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: See what the Opposition is doing in Singapore!!!

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Sgpolitics: Rule restricting where cabbies can pick up or alight passengers in CBD is silly
- Simply Jean: I wonder how many more criminals there will be…

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Annual State Department Report on Singapore’s Human Rights Practices

Daily Discourse
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Random Ramblings…
- Nomed Letters: Damage Control Begins
- Singapore Life and Times: Top-down vs Bottom-up
- Useless rantings of a few disgruntled S’poreans..: School Principal Bans Non-Halal Food In School Canteen; Students to Eat Halal Pork Instead?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: War Drums beat on Iran
- My Singapore News: The temporary nature of being

Life, the universe and everything
- The Daily Backtrack: The Leap Years” and assorted horrors
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: The Virtues of being a Cynic
- Life and other wierd things: Singapore scribbles

Odex Update
- Xedo Defense: Anime dispute tangled in legal minefield

March 14th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (6)

Yoko Kumada (熊田曜子) is a Japanese gravure idol and singer. Due to her mother’s disapproval, Yoko entered a talent agency’s audition while her mother was away in order to pursue her dream of being part of the entertainment world. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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March 14th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Malaysia Elections
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: Possible Teething Problems?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: See what the Opposition is doing to Malaysia!
- The Maxima: Blogs & Elections
- Singapore Patriot: Transcript of New Paper Interview
- Sam’s thoughts: Pardon my “PAP supporter” face!
- The Online Citizen: From blogger to politician – in Singapore?
- Sgpolitics.net: Rising political pluralism will be good for Malaysia’s economy and stock market

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Confessions, Transcendence and the Rhetoric of Leadership

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Pseudonymity: Tak Bolek Tahan!! Protest This Saturday

Re education
- The boy who knew too much: The generosity of Singaporean Education

Daily Discourse
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: High Oil Prices Here To Stay
- Yawning Bread: Street work ain’t for us
Singapore Watch: How my Networth went from -$40k to $285k in 5 years
- THE armchair critic: For charity’s sake, does it matter you’re from China or Siberia?
- nofearSingapore: David Saul Marshall: What Singapore’s mass media will not tell you

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: Random thoughts part XVIII
- Smell my fart and DIE: My Last Post as an NSF… [thanks zuco]

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

Reviews & Guides
- AnandTech: Intel’s 45nm Dual-Core E8500: The Best Just Got Better
- Digit-Life: Four Overclocked RADEON HD 3650/3850/3870 Graphics Cards
- Hardware Canucks: Seasonic M12II 500W Power Supply
- Frosty Tech: Scythe Orochi SCORC-1000 Low Noise Heatsink Review
- HardwareLogic: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2 VGA Cooler Review
- Futurelooks: Razer Mako THX 2.1 Speaker System Review
- TweakTown: ATI Catalyst 8.3 Analysis – XP & Vista
- Techware Labs: An Unbiased look at Windows Vista
- PCSTATS: Beginners Guides: Stopping Vista From Thrashing Hard Disks to Death
- Guru 3D: CeBIT 2008 Part 4 – Booth Babes

Tech News
- Computerworld: YouTube rival Hulu debuts with lineup of TV shows, movies and sports
- Telegraph: iPod nano sparks safety scare in Japan
- Business Wire: Samsung Introduces New Series of High-End Contemporary Desktop Displays for Businesses and Consumers
- Fudzilla: Radeon HD3850 drops to €109, 3870 X2 to €315
- Neoseeker: XFX cuts prices on 8800 GT/GS, 9600 GT

March 13th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Malaysia Elections
- Mr Wang Says So: Politics in Cyberspace
- Sophie’s World: Wanted: New Malaysian PM
- Mindblogging Stuff: Will the wind of change finally blow our way?
- Yawning Bread Sampler: Any lessons from the Malaysian general election for us?
- Sgpolitics.net: Like Umno, the PAP’s hegemony on power can only be broken by a united Opposition campaign

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- My Sketchbook: Mas selamat exploding in Wong’s face
- The Workers’ Party: Escape Of Mas Selamat
- My Singapore News: No words from Mas Selamat’s family
- Simply Jean: Singaporeans get A+ for Mas Selamat’s escape?
- Used Brains For Sale: Lampposts
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: The Great Escape of Mas Selamat Kastari – Revisiting ISA

CPF & Annuities
- Simply Jean: Of CPF schemes…

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: To improve public transport, consult bimbos
- Singapore Life and Times: Raw deal
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland” Why will public transport not be taken over by government

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: In response to MM Lee’s Washington Post article on Iraq
- Where Bears Roam Free: MM Lee should send his own grandchildren to do the killing and dying

Life, the universe and everything
- the(new)mediaslut: IDA using this blog as reference material?
- eastcoastlife: Tattooed 4D Fish – Wordless Wednesday

March 12th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Beautiful hardware was again on display at the IT Show 2008 at Suntec over the weekend. No prizes for guessing which brand stole the show again. Pictures after the break. [Cue will.i.am's I Got It From My Mama song]

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Malaysia Elections
- Bad News on the Doorstep: Badawi is only 20% to blame
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Writing is on the Wall
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Malaysia : With change comes risk…
- Ong Jiin Joo: Yet Another Malaysia Election Analysis
- Pseudonymity: Malaysia Opposition Win Shows Power Of Cyberspace
- Webs@Work: M’sian Blogger-Politicians Make History
- Singapore Kopi Tok: NEW DAWN, PERFECT STORM OR SIMPLY BN TAK BOLEH

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Daily Backtrack: Chastened. CHASTENED?!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Are you kidding me?
- Sgpolitics.net: Poking fun at PM Lee’s “what to do” comment
- theonlinecitizen: Reviewing Mas Selamat’s escape
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Fantastic Conspiracy Theories about Mas

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Parking charges in town rose citing GST – by up to 36% ?!
- Baloney and Balls: The Future of MRT

Transport Reforms Announced
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain 鸟话连篇…: 2210hrs on a Sunday…

Daily Discourse
- Nomed Letters: Mapping out the Strategy for the next General Elections 2011
- Singapore Life and Times: T1 T2 T3 T4

Life, the universe and everything
- the world is thinking: The Olympics – A cause for celebration?

March 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (9)

CeBIT 2008
- Tom’s Hardware: Previewing The Trends
- AnandTech: Day 1 – New Intel Chipsets, Atom on Display, and lots from AMD/NVIDIA
- AnandTech: Day 2 – OCZ’s Mind Controllable Mouse, ASUS’ HDMI Sound Card, Intel and more
- AnandTech: Day 3 – PSUs and Cases
- Overclockers Club: Cebit 2008 Coverage
- Guru 3D: Guru3D CeBit 2008 tradeshow coverage
- Bit-Tech: CeBIT 2008: The Best of the Rest
- CrouchGear: CrouchGear Live at CeBIT 2008
- Tom’s Guide: The Babes of CeBIT Part 1, Part 2
- techPowerUp!: CeBIT 2008: Girls

Reviews & Guides
- Silent PC Review: ATI HD3850 & HD3870: Improved Acoustics & Power Efficiency
- Bjorn3d: XFX 9600GT 512MB
- 3dGameMan: HIS HD 3870 X2 vs. BFG 8800 GTX
- Overclockers Online: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Review
- TweakTown: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
- Techware Labs: Nexus Hush Kit
- Digital Trends: Are Solid State Hard Drives Worth the Extra Cash?
- The Tech Report: TR’s February 2008 system guide

Tech News
- TG Daily: Intel six-core coming in 2008
- Laptop MAg: Eee PC to Get Intel’s Diamondville, Hard Drives, and Fashion Forward Style
- Telegraph: Microsoft chases casual gamers with Xbox 360 price cut
- CNET: YouTube live video will launch this year
- Engadget: Samsung intros five new SyncMaster LCD monitors under $400
- Digitimes: Dell to push its entry-level notebooks in low-cost PC market
- Register Hardware: Nvidia lets DX10 mobile GPU specs slip

SG Tech
- Cooler Insights: Hopping on the eee Wagon
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: URL and Malware
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Random Musings about iPhone Software Roadmap

March 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Malaysia Elections
- nofearSingapore: Malaysia’s GE Tsunami and implications for Singapore
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: wave of politcal change in Malaysia spooking Singapore?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: (Race) Politics and Malaysia: The Answer by Tomorrow
- Simply Jean: Malaysia’s ruling party BN failed to get 2/3 majority – and relating it to Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The hand behind the Opposition Victories in Malaysia!
- Insane Polygons: Standing Up For Change
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Big Shock in Malaysia
- The Itch To Write: A new Malaysia, when will it be our turn?
- My Singapore News: A creepy silence
- Singapore Patriot: Malaysian Opposition video that would be illegal in Singapore
- Singapore Alternatives: A New Dawn for Malaysia I
- Webs@Work: Bloggers Rock the Vote in Malaysia
- the(new)mediaslut: The new rules of Malaysian politics: How the opposition use new media to reach their voters directly
- Ong Jiin Joo: Tomorrow is the Big Day! Malaysia Decides
- HWZ: Malaysia BN Lose 5 states

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- For What Its Worth: Manhunt
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Blame the Custodians and Complacency
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “Physical breach” = Toilet Windows Without Bars?
- Yawning Bread: The great hunt: bunker chaos?
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Custodians: Terrorists and Other kinds of Terrorists
- Where Bears Roam Free: So whose complacency is MM Lee referring to?
- Singapore Life and Times: Conspiracy Theories
- Pseudonymity: Suspicions Over Singapore Jailbreak

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Public transport, taxi, private car or greener pasture?

Housing
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9: HDB Lease Buy-back?
- Sgpolitics: High-handedness of URA and HDB

Daily Discourse
- Nomed Letters: Time to Select those new Yes-men
- Singapore Angle: Preventing a Bioagent Great Escape
- Yawning Bread: Sex is all around, get over it

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: On sensitivity and toughness
- Harmless? bananas!: Public relations for Public relations
- My Way: Changing The World, One Compliment At A Time
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “The Illusion of Sexual Equality” Revisited

March 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

Pum Dollaros Dechapratumwon ดลรส เดชะปทุมวัน is a Thai actress and model. Pictures after the break. [To Pleinelune, for her honesty :)]

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Prison Break, Singapore Style
- The Online Citizen: Escape has yet to dent govt’s hubris
- Unfortunately Singapore: Committee of Inquiry: Institutional Deficiencies vs Personal Liability
- Sam’s thoughts: “Mas Selamat” does not exist
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Mas Selamat Kastari – The Conspiracy Theories
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Resignations and the Apportion of Blame in the Escape Debacle
- The Online Citizen: Has our Prime Minister gone missing too?
- Looking For LaLaLand..: PM Lee Hsien Loong has gone f#*# AWOL
- Singapore Alternatives: Forum Rebuttals to MHA over blunders
- Sophie’s World: Selamat caught at causeway?
- Pseudonymity: Singapore Faces Blogging Ire Over Militant Escape

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The boy who knew too much: The most inconvenient taxi service in the world

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Change in Upgrading forms, but no change in political underpinnings?

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Subsidy and Other Preoccupations 19

Daily Discourse
- Random Rants: Web of Deception – The Rules of Disinformation : The Politician’s Credo
- Atrocity Exhibition: No Worst Time
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: A Sham We Believe In

Life, the universe and everything
- Rat in the Lab: A*STAR’s Star Challenge Updates and White Paper
- the(new)mediaslut: The Singapore Eye – the great wheel of boredom?
- Ridzwan.Com: Fixation for Installments
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Marketing & Monetization of Facebook: Hype or Gold Mine – Post Thoughts after the Panel

March 7th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (5)

Jun Natsukawa (夏川純) is a popular Japanese gravure idol known for her sexy body and high level of physical fitness. Although she announced that she was born in 1983 until March 2007, she confessed in her blog that she was actually born on September 19, 1980. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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March 7th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Where is Mas Selamat bin Kastari?
- mr brown: Pointless Mas Selamat Letter/News of the Day
- Kamal Dollah’s Art Journal: Most wanted man in Singapore: Mas Selamat Kastari
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Singapore netizens express their frustrations and dismay through satirical posters
- Pseudonymity: Mystery Of The Vanishing Prime Minister

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Ergo Cognito Sum: Inflation and your Shrinking Dollar

Transport Reforms Announced
- Singapore Life and Times: Battering Ram

Healthcare
- The Void Deck: What Others Are Saying: You have been served! Means Testing

Daily Discourse
- e pur si muove: Another naïf on entrepreneurship
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Wanbao’s headline today
- Simply Jean: So much about loyalty to company…
- Sgpolitics.net: ST Forum Letter (rejected): Liberalization of Speaker’s Corner would make Singapore more vibrant, not hurt us

Life, the universe and everything
- Used Brains For Sale: Review: Theatre Idols Semi-finals
- eastcoastlife: Dragon Fruit Farm in Singapore – WW
- Ian On The Red Dot: I Think Using Tissue Papers To Chop Seats Is Stupid.

March 6th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)