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The perenial underachievers have dont it! No not the Lions. Spain has beaten Germany to be crowned Euro Champions 2008!

Lee vs Chee
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Democracy in Singapore
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: A Rebuttal to PAP Media Crucifixion of Dr Chee Soon Juan
- TOC: Crossing the line into vulgarity
- Chemical Generation Singapore: “Patriots” in Court

His Excellency Minister for Life Field Marshal He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, VC, DSO, MC, MM, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in SE Asia in General and Singapore in Particular
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Voting the Opposition will ruin Singapore Part 2
- Article 14: PAP, The Opposition & the Resilience of Singapore
- My Sketchbook: Here comes the bogeyman again

Inflation & Cost of Living
- Singapore Life and Times: Rocket food
- Sam’s thoughts: Chicken rice without the chicken
- The Rot Within: Eat Less and Stop Complaining

We Don’t Need No Internet Regulation
- Just Stuff: The Incredible Unlikeness of Being of The Sedition Act – A Critique on “Deregulating The Net.” [1][2]
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: Another stupid “anti-community moderation” trash article

Appalled and Flabbergasted
- Singapore Kopi Tok: All the Minister’s Men

Minister Salaries: Get Rich or Die Tryin
- TOC: Whose future is “shining”, really?

Organ Trading
- Mr Wang Says So: The Issue of Human Organ Trading in Singapore
- nofearSingapore: Organ trading: Peril of Slippery Slope and Ethics Committee’s Impossible Tasks [Thanks Dr Huang]

Housing
- TOC: Making sense of HDB rejections
- Mr Wang Says So: Ideas for Void Decks

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- The Void Deck: Public Transport Fare Upz Slowly

Re Education
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Education for what end?

Singapore Toy and Comic Convention
- Wet Calamari: Singapore Toy and Comic Convention 2008 event report
- the(new)mediaslut: Singapore Toy and Comic Convention Cosplay winners
- ALVINOLOGY: Photos Galore! Singapore Toy & Comic Convention 2008

Daily Discourse
- The Rot Within: A Missive from the Chairman
- Desparatebeep: So Cheap!
- TOC: A paean for intellectuals

Life, the universe and everything
- Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen: Much Ado About How Much

Infoblogaramus
- Udderiffic Indulgence: Own Time Own Target @ Singapore Theatre Festival 2008.

June 30th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Pace Wu Pei Ci 吴佩慈 was talent spotted at a Mcdonald’s restuarant by Zhang Hong Liang 张洪量. At 18, she began modeling for TV commercials. At 19, she released her first album. Since then, Pace Wu has made much progress as an actress, a TV host and has even published a book on skincare All About a Girl.

Pictures after the break.

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June 28th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

His Excellency Minister for Life Field Marshal He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, VC, DSO, MC, MM, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in SE Asia in General and Singapore in Particular
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : Opposition will ruin Singapore!
- Feed Me To The Fish: Minister Mentor: Which ever way but lose?
- Sgpolitics: 5 years may be all it takes to SAVE Singapore
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Singapore is WEAK!
- Simply Gab: 5 more years of mistakes could also ruin Singapore
- Vinyarb: 5 Years all it takes to ruin Singapore!!!
- HWZ: MM LEE ON FREAK POLL RESULTS: 5 Years all it takes to ruin Singapore
- SPUG: The Powerful One SPINS like a Drilling Machine

Tak Boleh Tahan Campaign
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Tak Boleh Tahan – I have stands so much! I can stands no more!
- TOC: Activists charged for protest

Lee vs Chee
- Singabloodypore: Democracy in Singapore

Re Education
- Singapore Patriot: Govt’s graduate equation needs balancing
- The old cow and his mon-kids: My exact sentiments [removed by request from author]

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Under the Willow Tree: Good on Temasek, Shame on the Government

Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform
- Just Stuff: The Shattered Dreams of the Blogger 15 / Part 1

Goal 2010
- My Game of Life: Let us move on from the World Cup qualifiers..

Daily Discourse
- Littlespeck: Lion without teeth
- Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: National Day Parade: Please Don’t Involve Me the NSF/NSman
- Sg_Ljers: 7 Storeys Hotel Is To Go

June 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (32)

Ayumi Kinoshita 木下あゆ美 is a Japanese actress and model. She is most well known as Deka Yellow from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (Power Rangers S.P.D.). Along with Mika Kikuchi, she sings the second ending theme of Dekaranger titled “Girls in Trouble!”. Kinoshita’s most recent work is the film “Master of Thunder” (マスターオブサンダー), an action film where she stars as one of the seven pupils of a martial artist.

This is part 1 of Ayumi Kinoshita’s photobook Lemoniro No GoGo. [PNSFW]
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June 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Appalled and Flabbergasted
- Gerald Giam @ Singapore Patriot: Passport blunder: It’s Singaporeans who are negligent
- Desparatebeep: Candour and Managing Up

Fixating the Opposition
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: LKY cautions against voting for Opposition; Lest we forget, PAP was in Oppostion once too!

Human Rights
- Looking through the eyes of_ _: Human rights in Singapore?

Inflation & Cost of Living
- TOC: Inflation drove this man to loansharks

Housing
- Sgpolitics: Point/Counterpoint: Has HDB’s public housing policy been a success?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- EastStop: Did Temasek make a mistake?

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Real and Apparent Danger

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Give adequate wages to low income workers
- Ian on the Red Dot: Huh? We Absolutely Should Not Cancel Our National Day Parade.
- The Extra Scoop: More babies – so what?
- Singapore Indian Voice: Campaign the Singapore Government to Stop Producing Cluster Bombs

Infoblogoramus
- ALVINOLOGY: Singapore Toy & Comic Convention – preview passes to give away
- Otterman speaks…: Journalists blogging

June 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

AMD Radeon HD 4850 & 4870 Launched
- AnandTech: The Radeon HD 4850 & 4870: AMD Wins at $199 and $299
- InformationWeek: AMD Ships Teraflops Line Of Graphics Cards
- The Tech Report: AMD’s Radeon HD 4870 graphics processor
- TweakTown: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 in Crossfire
- Legit Reviews: HIS Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire Video Card Review – GDDR5 Arrives
- PC Perspective: AMD Radeon HD 4870 and HD 4850 Review – Mid-range GPU mix up
- HotHardware: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived
- ExtremeTech: GDDR5 Comes to Market—Radeon HD 4870
- [H] Enthusiast: AMD Radeon HD 4800 Series
- ZDNet: Diamond Viper Radeon HD 4850 Review
- TechSpot: AMD releases Catalyst hotfix for Radeon HD 4800 cards

Tech News
- PC Perspective: NVIDIA, PhysX, and the “C” Word
- Hexus: BFG president says NVIDIA “will guarantee it wins the price/performance battle”
- Guru3D: [XF]nVIDIA ForceWare 177.40 improves GeForce GTX 260、280
- NordicHardware: Two 45nm Phenom X4 and cheap ultramobile CPU in Q4
- DigiTimes: New Apple iPhone carries US$173 BOM, iSuppli estimates
- Network World: Microsoft VP confirms Windows 7 ship date: January 2010
- InformationWeek: Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014

Reviews
- Legion Hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Overclocking Performance
- HWZ: Shootout: ASUS Eee PC 901 vs. MSI Wind NB U100

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Syncing the browser
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: HP TouchSmart PC Bloggers Event at Brotzeit, Singapore

June 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Appalled and Flabbergasted
- TOC: Responsibility, responsibility, responsibility!
- Sgpolitics: A litany of security lapses by the Ministry of Home Affairs
- Mr Wang Says So: Wong Kan Seng’s Latest Career Achievement
- Views of a tiny being on global throes: Singapore’s Security Makes News Again!
- My Singapore News: Blame it on the fengshui
- TOC: Security lapse at Changi airport – DPM Wong’s statement

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Mr Wang Says So: The Government Does Not Make Money From The ERP Increase. So Says Lim Swee Say
- HWZ: Lim Swee Say: If there is no traffic congestion, there will be no ERP increases

Religion
- TOC: Religious freedom and its discontents

Daily Discourse
- The Daily Backtrack: All god’s creatures big and small
- Singapore Indian Voice: Rush For Land May Destroy Our Last Village

Life, the universe and everything
- Sg_Ljers: Doing the Karen Cheng for CHARITY

Infoblogoramus
- The Legal Janitor: Creative Commons Singapore

June 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Sumonrat Wattanaselarat (nickname Peemai which means New Year) is a popular Thai model who has appeared in commercials since age 16. She was ranked 78th sexiest woman by Thai Maxim. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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

Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Economics about Banning Political Films
- Journalism.sg: Rationality vs political expediency in internet policy
- Just Stuff: “The Internet Should Be Left Alone.”
- My Singapore News: Cyberspace is No Man’s Land

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Sgpolitics: Government does not make money from ERP? Yeah right

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Simply Inconceivable: Why liberties matter

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More Problems at UBS

Goal 2010
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Death of a 2010 soccer dream: or was it nothing more than a dream from the start?

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s thoughts: Singapore needs tuition lessons
- The boy who knew too much: The Value of An Individual
- Yawning Bread: Orchard Road: boom, bust, stuck and shut

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Interview with Ridzuan Ashim, co-founder of Widgeous [Thanks Bernard]

Infoblogoramus
- Otterman speaks…: “CC Singapore License Draft in Public Discussion”

June 24th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Tech News
- DigiTimes: Nvidia to cut mid-range GPU pricing to counter AMD
- ComputerWorld: Researchers spot Mac Trojan in the wild
- DailyTech: DOJ Investigators Dig Into Windows 7
- CNET: No Android until fourth quarter
- PC World: Sony Launches Lower-energy Bravia LCD TV
- Nvidia: GeForce 175.19 WHQL drivers released
- Opera: State of the Mobile Web, May 2008

Reviews
- Expreview: [Autopsy] ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256bit
- VR-Zone: RV770 Debut – Radeon HD4850 CrossfireX Scaling
- Anandtech: ATI Radeon HD 4850 Preview: AMD Delivers Performance for the Masses
- HWZ: Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire Performance
- TweakTown: Radeon HD 4850 In Crossfire at 4GHz
- PC Perspective: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB Preview – G92b at 55nm
- Legit Reviews: Overclocking The NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card
- PCGH: The cost of your PC to the electricity bill [DE translate]
- Tech ARP: Desktop CPU Comparison Guide
- Bit-tech: How To Start Your Own Games Studio, Pt 4
- PC Mag: Exclusive – The Bill Gates Exit Interview

SG Tech
- 65Bits: Episode 76 : The one with open secrets
- Unsolicitedopinion: iPhones sold by SingTel will not be carrier-locked

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

Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform
- Yawning Bread: Key concerns about internet deregulation emerge at forum
- Singapore Patriot: Internet Content Consultative Committee
- Journalism.sg: Why we need a bottom-up internet content consultative committee
- Singapore Patriot: Political Films and the Ruling Party
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Community Moderation: Thoughts from the Internet Regulatory Reform Seminar
- The one dimensional island: Internet deregulation seminar
- Sgpolitics: Why I dissented to the Bloggers’ proposals on the Regulation of Hate Speech on the Internet

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Empty Vessel: Mr Lim goes under the gantries
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Lim Swee Say says that he pays ERP when driving to work too!
- My Singapore News: Practise what you preached
- The Rot Within: ERP, Part 2

Inflation & Cost of Living
- TOC: Coping with inflation – some free stuff
- P65: Is Subsidy a Panacea for the Rising Inflation?
- My Sketchbook: Let’s talk about subsidy again…

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Singapore Dissident: 27 days in Singapore. A prisoner in the island

Fixating the Opposition
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The other opposition party is just as useless…

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Enbloc Wars: A New HOPE – www.hope4stayers.com

Re Education
- SGFrag: NTU Student writes e-mail expressing opinion on the drop in education standards

Return of the JBJedi
- Sgpolitics: Reform Party Inauguration Dinner Booking info

Daily Discourse
- TOC: A nation of gamblers – or investors?
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Campaign for All Singaporean SAF, Police Force

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry Doctor: Where many were, how few remain
- Fauzi Rassull: Singapore’s Only Male Bitch: Singaporeans, Don’t Act As If You’re Angmoh, Can? [Thanks wati]

Infoblogoramus
- Singabloodypore: Imaging the Singapore Blogosphere
- EDMW: [GPGT] CLEO BIKINI EVENT @ Siloso Beach Today

June 23rd, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (5)

Zhang Jingchu (张静初) plays the older version of the Chinese Ambassador’s daughter, Soo Yung, in Rush Hour 3. Jingchu graduated from the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in China (she was one year below Zhang Ziyi and twelve years Gong Li’s junior). In 2005, Time magazine crowned her as one of the Asian Heroes of the year. Pictures after the break.

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MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Sgpolitics: SDP under probe for posting video snippets of Court proceedings on website
- Singapore Dissident: Another day of U Turns and Fishing Expeditions by the Police
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: I don’t read / I dive
- Singabloodypore: Singapore Court Room Audio Files

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- A Singaporean: ERP again?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Take the Bus
- TOC: I am superstitious about ERP
- HWZ: ERP rates in CBD to go up, 5 new gantries added

Inflation & Cost of Living
- TOC: The scourge of inflation

Re Education
- The boy who knew too much: The Education of a Nation

Return of the JBJedi
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Reform Party registration approved; Inauguration dinner on 11 July

Daily Discourse
- harmless? bananas!: Jean.SG Says She Was Molested, And We Say She Deserves It?

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Thanks To Ogilvy & Brian, I Learned Of Someone Cool – Yasmin Ahmad

Infoblogoramus
- the(new)mediaslut: Blogger babes at CommunicAsia

June 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Yukie Kawamura (川村ゆきえ) is Japan’s most popular Grand Prix G-Girl and bikini model and it’s not hard to see why. Yukie was one of the few high school students chosen by Seikore, the famous annual national modeling audition for high school students that make-or-break Japanese idol careers. Yukie shot to the top of the bikini idol charts in 2003 after the competition and her photo book sold out within the first week of release. [NSFW]

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June 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Article 14: Misreporting by Reporters Without Borders

Have you ever wondered why we must serve..
- TOC: National service, national responsibilities
- Sam’s thoughts: Singaporean Depoliticisation

Return of the JBJedi
- Sgpolitics.net: JBJ’s Reform Party registration is approved

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Mr Wang Says So: Up, Up And Away – The ERP Takes Off
- Simply Jean: ERP going up – not just the charges, but the number of gantries too
- The Void Deck: Flash: ERP Rates Up to Tax Road Usage

Daily Discourse
- Simply Jean: Another molest case?!
- Singapore Sojourn: That Sinking Feeling
- Chemical Generation Singapore: 28 to 42, 315 to 306, Against the Whip
- Anonymous_X: Another entry to Hall of Shame of those who abuse their maid…Presenting: Lee Song Koi
- Just Stuff: The Great Singaporean ‘Take Away’/ A Study in ‘Brain Drain’ Management [1] [2]

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: Suggestions are not welcomed
- ringisei: Thank you for your suggestion
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Are environmentally friendly cars really helping?

Infoblogoramus
- Singapore Patriot: Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform, Sat 21 Jun, 2pm

June 19th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

CommunicAsia 2008
- HWZ: CommunicAsia 2008 Showfloor Coverage, Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung Omnia
- VR-Zone: CommunicAsia ’08 Coverage

Tech News
- CNET: Problems delay Firefox 3 launch
- CNET: Firefox 3 downloads clear 8 million mark
- Slashdot: A Few Firefox 3 Followups
- The Tech Report: Catalyst 8.6 drivers boost performance
- VR-Zone: BFG & EVGA Launched Water Cooled GTX 280 Cards
- PC World: Sony Ericsson Launches Phones for Photographers and Gamers
- Bit-Tech: Wii update removes homebrew capabilities
- GamesIndustry: Microsoft to cut US Xbox 360 price at E3, says analyst

Reviews
- XtremeSystems Forums: PowerColor HD4850 first review
- TweakTown: How NVIDIA Stuffed the GTX 280
- VR-Zone: NVIDIA GT200: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB Review
- Guru3D: GeForce GTX 280 SLI Dual | Triple review test
- HotHardware: Asus MK241H 24″ Widescreen LCD Monitor
- SPCR: WD SE16 Caviar 640GB is now Blue
- B3D: Noctua NH-C12P
- HWZ: Google Android Preview: Too Human?
- Legit Reviews: Logitech’s Pure-Fi Bluetooth Mobile Speaker System
- Benchmark Reviews: NVIDIA GPU Computing & CUDA FAQ

June 19th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment