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MSK WKS Debacle
- A Xeno Boy in Sg: Of Angry Journalists, Anger & the Evil Internet Again
- The Online Citizen: Demonising the Internet – and bloggers
- The Daily Backtrack: Nyeh
- Sheep City: We love you Chua Lee Hong
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Mas Selamat’s escape in LEGO
- Sgpolitics.net: J.B Jeyaretnam pulls no punches on DPM Wong Kan Seng over Mas Selamat’s escape

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: LTA did not say why it is raising ERP charges?

Free Tibet
- Yawning Bread: China and (inter)nationalism

Censorship & Pink Issues
- Sam’s Thoughts: MDA: Morality Depends on Authority

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- A Singaporean: So THIS Is Justice – Part II
- Singapore Donkey: Low democracy doesn’t mean no democracy: NCPC

The Return of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Daily Discourse
- Feed Me To The Fish: For every life, a little rain must fall
- nofearSingapore: Are we ready to treat our maids as humans yet?
- The Online Citizen: High cost of living – what the government can do
- Angry Ang Moh: Mr. Lee, Dr.Love and the Newspapers advice on “Sex in your car” [Thanks Vivian]

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: Maiden Flight on the Singapore Flyer
- The eOK .network: Blogger relations best practices

April 30th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

Son Ye-Jin (손예진 or 孫藝珍) is a South Korean actress who graduated from the Film Art Department, Seoul Institute of the Arts. Last year, she was awarded the Best Leading
Actress in the 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards for her role in the drama, Alone in Love. Pictures after the break.

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April 30th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

MSK WKS Debacle
- THE armchair critic: No more Mas Selamat nonsense for me! No more!
- Blinking Brink: With huge pay increment, comes great accountability
- Singapore Patriot: Time to move on?
- Mr Brown: blame it on somebody (The Anyhowly Remix) [Thanks anonymous craven]

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- BHP: The Fallacy of Community Regulation [3A][3B] [1][2]

Healthcare
- Sgpolitics.net: MediShield changes to start from Dec 1

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- the(new)mediaslut: SMRT celebrates life as long it is not on their trains

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Empty Vessel: Freedom of speech

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: A Personal Thought

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Very Necessary
- URBANRANT: The “Union” in the new NTUC logo appears to fade into the background
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Sam’s thoughts: The brutality of the police and gender norms
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Love Letter from Lee See Nao to Jacelyn Chan

Daily Discourse
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Straits Time Has An Ironic + Prophetic Name
- The Itch to Write: SIA’s image?

Life, the universe and everything
- Ong Jiin Joo: Esplanade Station underpass opens 30th April
- Majulah Singapura: Channel 8 Helped Made This Woman $23,000 A Month
- Mindblogging Stuff: Double entendre, Chinese-style

Infoblogoramus
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day!~

April 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (56)

Reviews & Guides
- HotHardware: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor
- VR-Zone: ThermalTake DUORB and Scythe OROCHI
- PCGH: 3DMark Vantage Benchmark 28 GPUs
- Virtual-Hideout: Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock Review
- Futurelooks: Buffalo MiniStation 320GB TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive Review
- Maximum PC: RAID Controllers Compared!
- TrustedReviews: Philips DVDR5570H DVD/HDD Recorder
- Techgage: ASUS M51S 15.4″ Notebook
- TrustedReviews: Samsung Pebble SyncMaster 2232BW
- BCC: Edifier M1550 5.1 Speakers
- HWZ: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX520 – A New Touch
- Game Trailers: Grand Theft Auto IV Video Review

Tech News
- TrustedReviews: nVidia Launches GeForce 9600 GSO
- MacWorld: Apple updates iMac with faster processor, graphics options
- PC World: AMD Business Class Helps Shave Costs
- DigiTimes: Asustek plans to make Eee an independent brand
- NVIDIA Forums: Geforce 175.12 beta for Vista 32/64-bit
- Wired: Can GTA 4 Save PS3? How About Take-Two?

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Run GPS on Google Maps on Samsung i780 [How-to]
- theory.isthereason: GTA IV + Euphoria engine = Mimicking Life on Screen
- Under the Willow Tree: Why the M1 – City Telecom Partnership Is Front Runner for NGNBN OpCo

April 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

MSK WKS Debacle
- Catherinelim.sg: More Comments on the Mas Selamat Scandal
- Catherinelim.sg: The Mas Selamat Scandal: Its Impact on the Government-People Relationship
- The Online Citizen: The Government’s Great Getaway
- Winter Is Coming: The MSK/WKS Saga
- Singapore Patriot: My Response to MP Lam Pin Min’s blog
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: To resign or not to resign, that is the question?
- Mr Wang Says So: Domestic Maids, Mas Selamat and Why Wong Kan Seng Should Be Fined
- Ian On The Red Dot: Should Minister Wong Kan Seng Resign? Between a Rock and Hard Place is The Chance To Take The Red Pill
- The Daily Backtrack: Rabble rousing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Please lets MOVE ON…
- Singapore Alternatives: Who should challenge PM’s Verdict? Voters

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: “Critique” to the independent proposal – Helping the lazy to catch fish – Dissecting the Brotherhood Press’s “interview

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sgpolitics.net: Government to give $3b worth of handouts in 2008 – My take
- Wake Up Your Idea: When Cost Goes Up, Wages Don’t Need To?
- My Sketchbook: It just gets tighter

Burmese Vote On New Constitution
- The Online Citizen: No voting NO: Burmese embassy staff contrive to disenfranchise voters
- Pseudonymity: PHOTOS: Burmese Nationals Protest Constitution In Singapore

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Baloney and Balls: MDA strikes again…
- The Phallus Monologue: Singapore the Prehistoric Cave

The Price of Rice
- Yawning Bread: Rice price as capitalism’s vice

Healthcare
- My Singapore News: Addressing higher payments instead of cost

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Shifting Accountability – Poor Ken Lee of Airview Tower

Daily Discourse
- Mishegaas: About Time
- Urbanrant: Smoking in casino: Our laws should not stand in the way of making money

Infoblogoramus
- Sg_ljers: Petition TV Mobile

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

Taiwan-born Kelly Lin Xi Lei 林熙蕾 was hailed by FHM as Asia’s Sexiest Woman in 2002. She emigrated to the US with her family when she was 9. After graduating from UC Irvine with a Degree in Economics and Comparative Literature, she returned to Taiwan to pursue an acting and modeling career. Pictures after the break.

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April 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Since the escape of Mas Selamat, we the complacent citizens sat waiting, twiddling our thumbs for the release of the COI report.

“A confluence of events” said the report simply. It’s preposterous, absurd and even disappointing. Mas Selamat pulled no stunts. He left a supposedly highly-secured premise by climbing through a window without grill. Yes, it is a primitive method, absolutely lacking in creativity. Does it matter if he escaped sans trousers? Hey, it worked.

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April 27th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (8)

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April 26th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

COI, the low-down on the Prison Break
- Siew Kum Hong: Mas Selamat and Government Responsibility
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Between a rock and a hard place
- My sketchbook: Get outta our way

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- BHP: The Fallacy of Community Regulation [1][2][3]

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Singaporeans succumb to convenience of taxis, even willing to pay higher fares

Censorship and Pink Issues
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Send this to the ST Forum 7: MDA Not Doing Enough
- Yawning Bread: Upholding our ‘fine city’ reputation

Climate Change
- Ian On The Red Dot: To Christians, Alternative Sources Of Energy Shouldn’t Really Be That Alternative

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s thoughts: SIA: Slapping Is Alright
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: What is the Holocaust?
- theory.isthereason: First ever… The United Nations “Creative Economy” Report 2008
- Article 14: Walter Woon – Attorney General

Life, the universe and everything
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Yue Fei and Qin Hui (岳飞与秦桧)

Infoblogoramus
- Notes From Serangoon Road: The Kind Exchange
- A Sampan on S’pore Soil: WP Youth Wing: YouthQuake [Thanks Bernard]
- U-Start @ Muhammad Haniff ‘s Site: Singapore United – A portal for Community Engagement Programme against racial and religious conflict
- The Online Citizen: Film screening and discussion by the Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign

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

Japanese Mariko Okubo (大久保麻梨子) is a popular gravure idol from the Hyogo Prefecture. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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April 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Now we know where the funding goes

COI, the low-down on the Prison Break
- THE armchair critic: That’s all your findings?? Sure or not??
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Nevermind the kudos, but will you face the music on your own?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Leadership, Accountability and Responsibility….
- Empty Vessel: Here’s what I think….
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Reponsibility & Accountability.. What About Conscience?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Odd Report
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Should Wong Kan Seng be sacked? Tough question
- I.Z. Reloaded: Reuters says Mas Selamat escaped without trousers!
- Sam’s thoughts: ISD: Unintelligent intelligence unintelligible
- SG Review: Jaded
- The one dimensional island: Mas Selamat Part Deux
- Sheep City: MSK: What really happened
- Simply Jean: I agree with PM Lee that DPM Wong should not resign and we should “move on”
- Singapore Life and Times: Just do it
- Singapore Patriot: Don’t demoralise MHA by punishing the Minister
- nocturne: Wong Kan Seng’s Head, Rollability Index
- The Online Citizen: TOC Editorial: Government’s lack of accountability bad for the PAP, worse for Singapore
- Wake Up Your Idea: What To Do, It Has Happened…
- My sketchbook: Stop teasing my boy,Wong anymore!

Parliament 21 Apr 2008
- Sgpolitics.net: Other Parliamentary Snapshots (22 Apr)

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- The World Is Thinking…:Neutrality on the Internet [Thanks Desmondez]

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Them 8

Daily Discourse
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: 3 Quick Musings – Wong, Clinton & SDP

Life, the universe and everything
- harmless? bananas!: simplicity, choice and news sources
- The boy who knew too much: How to live a long time: be a parent
- Rambling Librarian: We need alternative (and renewable) energy sources… yesterday!
- My Very Own Glob: Secret blog of a P65 MP: Part 5
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Wikipedia’s full list of unusual deaths

April 24th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (5)

Source: AMD

AMD Phenom X3 8750 Launched
- AnandTech: AMD’s Phenom X3 8000 Series: Fighting Two Cores with Three?
- Neoseeker: AMD Phenom X3 8750 Tri-Core Review & Overclocking Analysis
- Legit Reviews: AMD Goes Triple-Core, But Will it Sell?
- Bjorn3d: AMD Phenom X3 8750: Entering the Triple-Core Era
- Tom’s Hardware: New AMD Phenom X3 Vs. Phenom X4
- X-bit Labs: Three Cores vs. Two: AMD Phenom X3 8750 Review
- Overclockers Club: AMD Phenom X3 8750 Review
- HotHardware: AMD Phenom X3 8750 Tri-Core Processor
- PC Perspective: AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz Triple-Core Processor Review
- Bit-Tech: AMD’s Phenom X3 8750 triple-core processor
- Techware Labs: AMD Triple Core Phenom X3 8750

Tech News
- CNET News: Microsoft finishes big XP update
- ars technica: Déjà vu: MSDN and TechNet subscribers get XP SP3 “early”
- PC World: Vista SP1 Released to Automatic Update
- Engadget: Dell unveils tiny bamboo-cased eco-computer concept
- Dailytech: Newegg Guns for Amazon
- ars technica: BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: W00t worthy: JBL On Stage Micro

April 24th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

COI, the low-down on the Prison Break
- Sgpolitics: Parliamentary Snapshots (21 April): Escape of Mas Selamat
- Yawning Bread: The great hunt: more management failures than guards’ lapses
- Singapore Patriot: Protecting their own kind
- A Xeno Boy in SG: Politics, Gladiator, Praetorians and a Missing Fugitive
- The Online Citizen: Minister and top management not to blame – PM Lee
- Under the Willow Tree: Wong Kan Seng Off the Hook? Not So Fast. The Game Has Just Begun!
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: The Mas(k) of PAP’s accountability: one sets himself free from prison but two sets of standards
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why Minister Wong Kan Seng should not resign!
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Cronyism at best [Thanks udders]
- vinyarb: climb, jump and limp away! [Thanks RT]
- My Singapore News: Witch hunt for scape goat
- The Extra Scoop: Like Pilate, DPM Wong washes his hands clean
- Singapore Kopi Tok: The COI Report – Simultaneously Fair and Frustrating to Singaporeans
- Singaporean in NZ: No witch-hunts, no responsibilities
- News Release by UncleYap: I saw more than a dozen PAp MPs asleep in parliament today
- Desparatebeep: I could drop Dead tomorrow
- The States Times: Debrief Of Mas Selamat Kastari
- Singapore Sojourn: Mas Escape
- The Bosonic State: A Disappointing Report on Mas Selamat’s Escape
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Oddly enough eh
- Utopia: Shallow report from COI on Mas Selamat
- ….小朋友的地盘: Uniquely Singapore…
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: ‘enforcing discipline’ or ‘enforcing a culture of forgiveness for higher-ups’?
- A Sampan on S’pore Soil: Not taking heat, so take heed
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Singapore Government’s biggest blockbuster since 1987
- an aberration in pronunciation: A sketic’s view on Mas Selalmat COI(we can’t be complacent)
- My Sketchbook: Stop teasing my boy,Wong anymore!
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: 22/4/2008 — PM Lee Hsien Loong talks about the Mas Selamat Saga
- Coffee Shop Talk: LHL saves his cousin in law WKS!!
- HWZ: Top man, defends his team….
- HWZ: DPM Wong will punish those responsible for Mas Selamat’s escape

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Balderdash: …as a policy proposal it fails

Parliament 21 Apr 2008
- Sgpolitics: More Parliamentary Snapshots (21 April)

Re Education
- The boy who knew too much: What is said and what is done

Healthcare
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Arresting Health Threats

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: 5Cs of Social Media Success

Infoblogoramus
- ieatishootipost: Mr Tea: Invasion of the Foreign Hawkers!

April 23rd, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (29)

Li Bing Bing (李冰冰) is a popular actress from China who graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She has acted in numerous TV series and she can be seen in the movie, The Forbidden Kingdom, starring both Jacky Chan and Jet Li. Pictures after the break. More »

April 23rd, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Isn’t it time we think about tackling climate change? Earth Day website

COI, the low-down on the Prison Break
- A L V I N O L O G Y: How did Mas Selamat Kastari escape?
- The Itch to Write: 3 critical factors…what a joke!
- My Very Own Glob: Even the foreign expert says so
- Mr Brown: Mas Selamat COI report is out
- Sheep City: Physical weakness
- Simply Jean: Mas Selamat Escape: Pictorial Sequence of What Happened (including a hand drawn map)
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Blame the Guards, Window and Fence
- The Online Citizen: DPM Wong Kan Seng explains JI escape
- My sketchbook: Security lapse as claimed
- THE armchair critic: Silly mistakes says he who should be held responsible
- The Daily Backtrack: What a Circus
- eastcoastlife: Mas Selamat’s Escape : Amazing 11 minutes!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mas Selamat : 3 Steps to Freedom….
- Feed Me To The Fish: With LKY, Who Needs COI?
- Pseudonymity: COI Report Raises More Questions Than It Gives Answers
- Where Bears Roam Free: That still doesn’t explain how he vanished into thin air
- Military Life: For Lack of a Window Grill, A JI Terrorist was Freed
- The Void Deck: COI Hoot ISD!
- Unfortunately Singapore: COI Report: A Litany of Blunders, A Culture in Need of Change
- Mr Wang Says So: No CCTV. No Grilles. No Guards. No Dogs. No High Fence. Just One Big Open Window, And A Lot of Toilet Paper To Cushion Impact

Return of the JBJedi
- Singapore Indian Voice: JB Jeyaratnam at Reform Party’s Press Conference

Transport Reforms Announced? Same ‘ol, same’ol
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Petition for the Removal of TVMobile

Free Tibet
- The Daily Backtrack: God and Country
- nofearSingapore: Olympic Torch Relay: Hey China, what about Singapore? [Thanks Dr Huang]

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- BHP: What is Really Wrong With the G-15 Proposal?
- Majulah Singapura: Community Moderation as an alternative to Internet Regulation in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Emigration Becomes A Business

Life, the universe and everything
- Ong Jiin Joo: The Life You Could Have Led

April 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Price List changes here: [PDF]

Reviews & Guides
- Techgage: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 – The New Budget Superstar?
- Bjorn3d: Gigabyte EP35-DS4: DES in Action
- HWZ: HTC Shift – A Paradigm Shift
- VR-Zone: Asus Eee PC 900 Review and Dissection
- BCCHardware: Noctua NH-U9B CPU Cooler
- 3dGameMan: Thermaltake BlacX HDD Docking Station
- Gizmodo: The Ultimate Cheap Camera Battlemodo
- 刀枪Blue: Windows Milestone 1 Release 2

Tech News
- CNET: Intel cuts quad-core price by 50 percent
- TG Daily: AMD’s Radeon 4800 in production
- AP: Sony reportedly negotiating PS3 video distribution
- MS TechNet: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released to Manufacturing

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Twittering “Lee Kwan Yew” to test Singapore’s Internet freedom
- Empty Vessel: High-end PCs are really affordable these days
- Xy Mudane Life: Tribal Wars

April 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- The Online Citizen: Bloggers’ group proposes sweeping changes in Internet regulation
- Singapore Patriot: Bloggers to call for bold changes to new media regulation
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: A real grassroots initiative by bloggers
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Community Moderation as an alternative to Internet Regulation in Singapore
- Sgpolitics: Bloggers submit Proposals for Internet freedom in Singapore to Minister for Information, Communication & the Arts
- BHP: When Good is not so Good – A Study in Consultative Affirmative Action

Prison Break, My Fault
- Singapore Kopi Tok: COI Findings: Will the Government be Honest?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mas Selamat : Monday is the moment of TRUTH!!!
- Bad News on the Doorstep: Public responsibility
- My Sketchbook: The Mas selamat inquiry findings

Return of the JBJedi
- Singapore Patriot: What JBJ actually said at his Reform Party press con
- UrbanRant: Is JBJ a serial opposer or a die-hard romantic?
- Pseudonymity: VIDEOS: Reform Party

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- A Sampan on S’pore Soil: The PAP’s new 100
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The PAP has already identified 100 potential leaders!
- My Singapore News: The emergence of the next PM

Free Tibet
- Salt * Wet * Fish: Of Protesting Monks and Nuns
- The Daily Backtrack: More on Beijing
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Stupidity of the Chinese Protests against France
- nofearSingapore: Olympic Torch Relay: Hey China, what about Singapore?
- Ong Jiin Joo: Join the Torch Relay in KL – April 21

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Online hawker food price guide
- Cirque de Liberte: It’s Good News From The States’ Times For the Next 10,000 Years!

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Used Brains For Sale: Who is allowed to speak?

Re Education
- The boy who knew too much: Homeschooling in Singapore and the USA: a comparison

Faith, Religion, to each his own
- Sam’s Thoughts: Religion should be within religious boundaries

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Suggestion of Short Term Lease to be Included in SPA

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread: Prosecute or nothing
- Used Brains For Sale: Lording it over the internet
- Cooler Insights: Neighbourhood Branding
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Capitol building and building conservation
- quachee’s blog: Does Singapore Really Cares About Malaysia? [Thanks QuaChee]
- BHP: Will the Singapore Story End Like Malaysia? [1] [2]

Life, the universe and everything
- harmless? bananas!: After thoughts of IDC’s Directions’08 Panel Discussion

Infoblogoramus
- Tech65: The Fiat Cinquecento aka 500

April 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (7)

Han Chae Young 한채영 韩彩英 (born Kim Ji-young, 13 September 1980) is knwon as the “Barbie Doll” of Korea. A graduate of Dongguk University majoring in performing arts, Han Chae Young received rave reviews for her role as a fun-loving, free-spirited young woman in the K drama series “Delightful Girl Choon Hyang”.

Pictures after the break.
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April 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

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April 19th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment