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Malaysia born Steph Song Xiu Xuan (宋琇萱) was voted FHM Asia Sexiest Woman in 2006. She has appeared in movies alongside Jet Li, Jason Stratham and in local serials such as Archar and Heartlanders. Pictures after the break.

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April 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Don’t overlook the outstanding work done by the ISD in the past
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Send this to the ST Forum 6: Focus on ISD’s Achievements

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- The Daily Backtrack: PM Lee, protector of meritocracy
- nofearSingapore: Voting with the feet is worse than voting for the other side
- Sgpolitics.net: Where Are the Potential Prime Ministers?
- the(new)mediaslut: I want the next SG PM to be a web2.0 junkie!

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- The Online Citizen: Free press vital to S’pore’s survival
- Yawning Bread: Political activism, cyber or otherwise
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Speakers Cornered rated NC16 by censors

Faith, Religion, to each his own
- Mr Wang Says So: A Tale of One Jack Chick and Two Religions
- For What It’s Worth: keep the faith
- Simply Jean: Charged for sedition over evangelistic article?

Daily Discourse
- Desparatebeep: Be Annoying!
- Ian On The Red Dot: Why Do You Expect The Government To Take Care Of You?
- the boy who knew too much: Rice or Soylent Green? A Singaporean journalist’s view

Life, the universe and everything
- THE armchair critic: Being anonymous is at times, as good as being a coward
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Rules of Thumb.ORG
- Singapore Watch: School of Hard Knocks – Part 1

April 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

- Coolest-Gadgets: WiiFit Release Date Finally Announced

Tech News
- PCWorld: The Next Big Thing: Twitter and Microblogging
- Information Week: Windows XP SP3 Pegged For Release On April 21
- CNet: Yahoo grabs search-advertising slice from Google
- Wired: Will Smith Launches High-Def Music Video Site
- CNet: Defiant Psystar back selling Leopard computers
- Guardian.co.uk: So exactly who or what is Psystar? We dig a little..

Reviews and Guides
- ars technica: Emulation station: GP2X F-200 gaming handheld reviewed
- HWZ: Intel’s 1600MHz FSB Platform: Tried, Tested, Judged
- Fudzilla: Gainward 9600GT 1024MB likes overclocking
- Techgage: Creative EAX vs. ASUS DS3D GX 2.0
- Macapper: DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap
- The Tech Report: Overclocking Intel’s Xeon X3320 processor: For servers, workstations, and overclockers too?

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Top 5 technologies to bridge the digital divide

April 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Free Tibet
- The Lionheart: Thoughts on Tibet, China and the Olympics
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Nothing Benign About Chinese Authoritarianism

Internet 101
- Mr Wang Says So: Online Election Campaigning Leads to Corruption. Huh?
- Sgpolitics.net: PM Lee on Internet lessons

Freedom, Choice, a place for my Voice
- the(new)mediaslut: MDA’s game rating system out of byte?
- The Void Deck: What Others Are Saying: Game Classification (Finally)
- Yawning Bread: Ban-happy Singapore [PNSWF]

Singaporeans Bailing Out Troubled Bankers
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Great Singapore Fire-sale

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- The Online Citizen: 5 Minutes With…. Choo Zheng Xi on PM Lee’s interview

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore – Rising Opulence, Rising Poverty….
- Nomed Letters: The Uncle Scrouge Mentality

Soaring Prices? U-S t r e t c h
- Simply Jean: First hungrygowhere.com, now…cheapestfoodgowhere.com?

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Three Perspectives on Land Acquisition

Re education
- the boy who knew too much: The Best Student in the Class
- Simply Jean: Be hip. Say no to exam paper piracy!

Free Enterprise vs Government
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: SLA’s map.gov.sg vs StreetDirectory.com

Daily Discourse
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: One can get away with assaulting stranger in Singapore
- Mr Brown: Dear NETS
- My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}: Secret blog of a P65 MP: Part 3

Life, the universe and everything
- Rambling Librarian: Three new NLB websites
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: The little bird – no it’s the little bride…argh my eyes, my eyes!

April 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Jang Nara (장나라 or 张娜拉) is a Korean singer and actress who is involved in charity work. She recently held a fund raising concert for children with leukemia in China. She starred in the serial “My Bratty Princess” (刁蛮公主) which had finished airing recently. Pictures after the break.

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April 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (9)

Prison Break, My Fault
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Will the real idiot please stand up, please stand up?

Transport Reforms Announced? Same ‘ol, same ‘ol
- Sheep City: The Best Passenger Service in the World

Free Tibet
- Pseudonymity: “Young Chinese Have No Sympathy For Tibet”

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sam’s thoughts: Letter to Today Paper: MDA needs to rethink censorship

Internet 101
- Singapore Patriot: PM Lee speaks about the Internet bogeyman
- YoungJedi: Online neutrality please …
- BHP: Why is There a Need to Craft a Singaporean Internet Identity [1] [2]
- My sketchbook: Talked down.. yet again

Soaring Prices? U-S t r e t c h
- The Online Citizen: NTUC’s “gift” – helping the poor or blatant exploitation?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Rising Prices Combat
- The Itch to Write: The richest will survive

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Feed Me To The Fish: On being 2nd class citizens
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Gahmen Still Knows Best

Daily Discourse
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: PAP’s Co-Opting Strategy: Slowly Softly Surely
- P65: New Media – A Formidable Political Dimension?

Life, the universe and everything
- Organic-Ally: How could mothers do that? (Part 2)
- A L V I N O L O G Y: World’s Most Expensive Bottled Water

Infoblogoramus
- For What It’s Worth: BSG is coming!

April 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

InfoWorld: Save Windows XP

Tech News
- CNet: Nvidia does battle with Intel, Moore’s Law
- PCPro: Hackers bring iPlayer to PS3
- Fudzilla: XFX announces Black Edition cards
- VR-Zone: Chaintech GSE96GT Overclocking Edition
- The Tech Report: Asus’ Eee PC 4G XP sub-notebook now sports Windows XP
- Wired: Video: Strong Bad Trailers Debut

Reviews & Guides
- PCWorld: Updated Web Browsers: Which One Works Best?
- Fudzilla: EVGA 9800 GTX SSC runs like the wind
- The Guru of 3D: The Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition
- TechwareLabs: Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI
- Stuff.co.nz: Review: Microsoft Sidewinder mouse

SG Bloggers Preview HP Mini
- 65bits: The HP Mini – Singapore Blogger’s Preview
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC Review
- Simply Jean: Highlights (and Pictures of the HP Mini Note PC at the Bloggers’ Preview)

The Xiaxue iPhone Fiasco
- Unique-Frequency: Xiaxue’s iPhone Fiasco: Entertaining But Negative For Singapore’s Social Media Scene
- the(new)mediaslut: @Unique Frequency: Here’s why businesses are not using social media, yet!

SG Tech
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Google Apps Engine and it’s Web 2.5 significance
- Under the Willow Tree: Next Generation Broadband Around the World: Pricing, Penetration & Technology
- The eOK .network: Singapore’s 4G plans: LTE could beat WiMAX

April 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Prison Break, Singapore Style
- Sheep City: The multi-million dollar question

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sgpolitics.net: The iceberg of Singapore politics
- Simply Jean: Pwned by the National Wage Council?
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Send this to the ST Forum 5: S’poreans Complacent and Greedy

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Insane Polygons: The MRT- No Place For An Able Bodied Male

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Successor Question

Transport Reforms Announced, Same ‘ol same ‘ol
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Private buses suggest having different IU with ERP charges displayed

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Being Bullied: What to do in Out-of-Control EOGMs.

Free Tibet
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Human Rights Protestors wasting their time!
- Yawning Bread Sampler: Lee Hsien Loong calls on world to kowtow to China

The Price of Rice
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Oil and Food Costs
- The Void Deck: Sowing Unnecessary Rice Price Panic

Daily Discourse
- The Daily Backtrack: PM Lee, protector of pragmatism
- Desparatebeep: I’m No Longer in Charge
- Nomed Letters: Knee Jerk Economics
- e pur si muove: Andy Ho: articles and ripostes

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: A world without the smell of flowers
- Singapore Life and Times: Sweat out the invention
- Rambling Librarian: Kankakee Public Library asks “How Wiki should our Wiki be?”

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

Chinese model Coco Chiang (蒋怡) entered a 1998 Guangdong Modelling competition and made it into the Top 10 models category in the 1999 Shanghai International Modelling Competition. Pictures after the break.

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April 14th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

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April 12th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (9)

Prison Break, My Fault
- Singapore Patriot: Where is our “full account”, independent Committee?
- The Red Grade: The Reliably Unreliable Government
- The Citi Never Sleeps: Garhman Not At Fault, Singaporeans Are Being Complacent

Malaysian Bloggers Speak
- Yaw Shin Leong: Of Hearts, Minds & Votes
- Rocky’s Bru: For Spore, civil disobedience is necessary …
- Singapore Democrats: Civil disobedience necessary at times: Malaysian human rights lawyer

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- BP: The Perfect Leader – Finding The “Singaporean” Forrester
- Insane Polygons: My Straight “A”s Buddy
- Snapshots of Life: Brain Drain in SG. The 2 Os

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Life and Times: The Thick and the Thin

Strangers in a Strange Land
- utopia: Over-populated Singapore

Pink Issues
- Where Bears Roam Free: So where are the gays now?

Singaporeans Bailing Out Troubled Bankers
- e pur si muove: New York Times on Sovereign Wealth Funds

Daily Discourse
- Used Brains For Sale: Law, Morality and Religion
- Feed Me To The Fish: Country in trouble?
- Desparatebeep: Founding Fathers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: 1 US$ = 1.357 S$

Life, the universe and everything
- Juvenile colloquialism – Understand?: An exploration into the motivations of a chronic skirt-chaser

April 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Japanese actress and singer Kuninaka Ryoko (國仲涼子) was working in a part-time store when she was first discovered by a tealent scout. In 2001, she was given the “Best Smile of the Year” award and she was dubbed the “Best Newcomer” the year after. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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April 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Malaysia Elections
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Singapore politics will be making a fundamental u-turn in the future?

Transport Reformed? Same ol’, same ol’
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain 鸟话连篇: An April Fool’s Joke – One Week Late
- Ian On The Red Dot: I Finally Realized SBS Transit’s Intelligent Route Information System Was Meant To Suck

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Wind In My Head: More rising costs

The Price of Rice
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Rice…
- eastcoastlife: Where’s the rice?

Free Enterprise vs Government
- Singapore Life and Times: Virtually gone

Re Education
- The boy who knew woo much: Where every school is a “military” school

Daily Discourse
- The Itch to Write: Step forward to making it happen :)
- Musings: Challenging Prosecutorial Discretion in Singapore
- Simply Inconceivable: The Lee’s Strike Again

Life, the universe and everything
- THE armchair critic: Fitna movie is merely what it is, a Fitna
- Organic-Ally: How could mothers do that?

April 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (8)

LEGO USB thumbdrives are so cool lor. Anyone selling this in Singapore?

Tech News
- VR-Zone: Nvidia GeForce 9M Series Line-Up Unveiled
- Crave.Cnet: Dell to release a low-cost minilaptop
- Bit-tech: G45 is great at HD video playback
- ars technica: Adobe shoots an AIR ball with new Media Player
- InformationWeek: Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr
- CNN: Yahoo turns to Google for help

Reviews & Guides
- Fudzilla: MSI’s overclocked 9800 GTX tested
- HWZ: MSI N9800GTX-T2D512-OC (GeForce 9800 GTX)
- Techgage: ASUS EN9800GTX 512MB
- Legit Reviews: Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler
- Bjorn3d: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
- Techware Labs: Linux: The Beginners Guide
- Hardware Secrets: nVidia Chips Comparison Table

SG Tech
- GeekSG: Why Singtel is willing to give in to Apple & the iPhone? Answer:3G
- theory.isthereason: Flickr video? Yeah, you’ve got 90 seconds to comply…
- 65bits: Catching Air: First in a series of articles by Guest Editor, Naveen!
- Under the Willow Tree: GNBN OpCo RFP Released: OpCo to be “Operationally Separated,” Receive Maximum of $250m Grant

April 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Prison Break, My Fault
- THE armchair critic: No bombs from Selamat (thank God), yet we see cracks all over [Thanks Edroos]
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Who’s Left to Blame, Who’s Right to Blame?
- Random Rants: Complacency
- My sketchbook: The great wise one speaks again..
- Coffee Shop Talk: Straits Times : S’poreans are COMPLACENT
- HWZ: MM Lee : MSK Escape. Guards Negligent. Citizen Complacent. Govt Not to be Blamed ??!!

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Sheep City: The Best Passenger Experience in the World
- EDMW: SMRT wins international award for “Best Passenger Experience”

Transport reformed? Same ol’, same ol
- Ian On The Red Dot: Why I Dislike Taxi Drivers

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Michelle Almighty: Inflation/Rising costs
- A Sampan on S’pore Soil: Our “brain drain” terrain
- Nomed Letters: Succession is all about grades
- EDMW: Something’s seriously WRONG going on in SIngapore…

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar-
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: A Postmodern Dynasty
- BP: The Singapore Talent & Leadership Challenge
- sgForums: Everyday, 10 sporeans quit SG for Aus

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- director’s blog: Censors Ban ‘Jihad” in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Simply Jean: Singapore amongst tops in service?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Jaywalking an expressway
- Ong Jiin Joo: Building the Optimal Global Footprint on the Causeway
- Wake Up Your Idea: Steve Irwin, Nick Petroulias & Singapore = SCAM

April 9th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Supermodel Danielle Peita Graham was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but raised in Australia. Most of her modelling career was established in Hong Kong. She is most noticeable for her Olay advertisements. Pictures after the break.

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April 9th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Prison Break, My Fault
- BP: Who Is Really Responsible For Our Complacency?
- The Itch To Write: MM Lee has given us the green light
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Responsibility and Blame, Shame Shame
- vinyarb: Sorry, I screwed up.

Pedra Branca
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: The Pedra Branca Factor in Singapore-Malaysia Bilateral Relations

Healthcare
- The Universe Within: Good healthcare but the underinsured: reasons, proposed solutions, doubts and a suggestion

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: As Singapore (*cough*LTA*cough*) embraces ERP, New York trashes it
- A Mind of My OWn: So, Commuters Should Shut Up and Accept?

Budget 2008
- Siew Kum Hong: Budget 2008: MICA, 29 February 2008

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Elderly Cleaners in Singapore
- Desperatebeep: Still the Fault of the Guards

Aesthetic Medicine and Snake Oil
- Angry Doctor: Confidence Goods 13

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- Mr Wang Says So: The Search For Political Leaders

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- nussu the ridge online: The Ridge: Not a mouthpiece for SDP

Free Enterprise vs Government
- Endoh Pure Ranting Room: Streetdirectory.com will stay alive

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread: Why the Films Act should be trashed
- Singapore Patriot: Sunday Times to include ‘blogosphere’
- THE armchair critic: Woman request to ban smoking along corridors??!!
- the boy who knew too much: On the value of Beauty

Life, the universe and everything
- Celluloid Reality(s): 10 Misconceptions in Photography

April 8th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (9)

Yahoo vs Microsoft
- Yahoo! Inc: Yahoo!’s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter
- ZDNet: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
- Telegraph: Yahoo!’s Yang hits back at Microsoft’s Ballmer
- Marketwatch: Yahoo takeover battle turns into a game of chicken

Tech News
- Touch Podium: Quake III + 2(iPod Touch) = Pure Win
- X-bit Labs: Ex-Microsoft Executive Predicts Dusk of Video Game Consoles in 5 to 10 Years
- Wired: Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the U.S. Carbon Footprint

Reviews & Guides
- VR-Zone: Gainward Bliss 9600GT 512MB & 9600GT Golden Sample!
- Bit-tech.net: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500, E8400 and E8200
- Benchmark Reviews: Best CPU Coolers of Q1 2008
- Techgage: Logitech diNovo Mini
- Legit Reviews: Nyko Zero Wireless Controller for Playstation 3
- Tweaknews: Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000
- HWZ: Smartphones Versus UMPCs: Mobility Meets Mobility

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Interview with the man behind Rednano.sg
- Tech65: 65Bits’ Episode 65: Yea, Repeating Numbers are Sexy!

April 8th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (2)

Prison Break, My Fault
- Mr Wang Says So: Very Poor Service By The Straits Times
- The Online Citizen: Mas Selamat’s escape – Government shifting the blame to Singaporeans’ “complacency”
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Re-reading Mr Lee vis-à-vis Pierre Macherey
- Die neue Welle: National Education: On Complacency
- The Daily Backtrack: ST and the betrayal of intelligence
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Let’s start playing ‘Pass the Parcel’ and banning films!
- Insane Polygons: Playing The Complacency Game
- mollymeek: Send this to the ST Forum 4: S’pore Govt Too Good
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : Some are “Living in a Make-believe world”…
- Feed Me To The Fish: COMPLACENCY – Finally Tsunami hits Singapore!
- mrbrown: Mas Selamat’s escape was not gahmen fault, it was yours and mine
- Desparatebeep: When in Doubt – Blame the Guards

The Price of Rice
- Sgpolitics.net: My take on high rice prices and soaring commodity prices in general
- Singapore Life and Times: Rise of the Hoards
- Simply Jean: Of the price hike for rice…

PM V1.3. Search for the next Prime Minstar
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Finding the future leaders of Singapore
- My Sketchbook: The tea session just gets harder

Free Enterprise vs Government
- The eOK .network: Singapore govt kills streetdrectory.com
- For Want of a Better Title: Streetdirectory.com: My point of view
- My Singapore News: Rule of Law

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Everything also our fault…

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: NUS’s The Ridge vs SDP: Censorship or Editorial Prerogative?

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: A Downgrader’s Nightmare

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Rational Rationing? 2

Pink Issues
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Exploitative Openness and the Myth of Saint KY

Starhub EPL, Singtel CL, Sports Fans LPPL
- Singapore Life and Times: Money in your mouth
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Singapore’s pay TV scene a free market?

Daily Discourse
- The Online Citizen: Public Accountability
- The Lionheart: Spirals and Mirrors: The Birth and Growth of Extremist Terror
- Singapore Patriot: More S’pore teens engaging in risky sexual behaviour
- Yawning Bread: The mathematics of elections 2
- BP: Bad Governance + BN = Losing Power, Good Governance + PAP = Staying In Power?

Life, the universe and everything
- Reality of Kai: Are you an astronomer or an astronaut?

Infoblogoramus
- Bishan Busy Body: Dare to Document, Dare to Talk, Dare to Blog etc etc
- Singapore Indian Voice: An Open Invitation to Political Bloggers

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