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Weekly Roundup: Week 24
Posted by singaporedaily on June 14th, 2008
MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Singapore Patriot: Judging the judiciary [Recommended]
- Yawning bread: The Singapore Democratic Party: method or madness? [Recommended]
- TOC: The phoney war [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics: Ms Chua Lee Hoong, why do you even bother?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Chua Lee Hoong : Chee is nuts!
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Will the real psychopath please stand up?
- TOC: Character assassination of the most uncharitable kind
- Feed Me To The Fish: What Utter Rubbish!
- Sheep City: Are you mental?
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Chua Lee Hoong’s a sorry excuse for a journalist
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ST Forum : Chee’s Potshot at Govt diminish our reputation!
- Nomed Letters: “Moral” Authority
- nofearSingapore: What think ye of SDP?
- Sgpolitics: Activists sing “We Shall Overcome” outside Queenstown Remand Prison
- ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace): Freedom of Expression in Singapore vs. Sri Lanka
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: The Chees vs. The Lees
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Transcript part lll : CSJ vs LKY
- The Daily Backtrack: Pseudo Freuds, all of us
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Transcript part V : CSJ vs LKY
- My sketchbook: Chua Lee Hong and her article
- TOC: Callous labelling of mental illness smacks of gutter politics
- TOC: The integrity of the courts [Recommended]
- Journalism.sg: Gopalan Nair case moves media activism to a new level
- Singabloodypore: Goplan Nair likely to face four charges
- Article 14: What can I say? (without being charged?) [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics.net: Chia Ti Lik: A rebuttal to PAP media crucifixion of Dr Chee Soon Juan [Recommended]
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Press statement by Singapore Dissident
- Yawning Bread: Gopalan Nair’s quickie press conference
- TOC: Gopalan Nair denies charges
- Sheep City: This is what you get
- TOC: Human Rights activists - a bunch of ‘fanatics’?
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: CSJ probably deserved the contempt charges
ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The boy who knew too much: What kind of country is this?
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: The Real Reason Why I’m Getting A Car
- Simply Jean: The message in papers today: Take public transport (or at least leading to that)
- The States Times: The Great Singapore Tax Saving
- The Void Deck: Old News about the New Road Tax Regime
Human Rights
- Sgpoitics: Singapore needs human rights. We really do [Recommended]
- TOC: Human Rights in everyday life
- SG Human Rights: SG Human Rights is no more
Have you ever wondered why we must serve..
- TOC: Shouldn’t MINDEF be more transparent about servicemen deaths?
- Military Life: Duty, honour, and death for the motherland
- My Singapore News: What is National Service?
- utopia: NS is killing SG
- My Sketchbook: Death in the army
MSK Fallout
- Die neue Welle: “Don’t Rock the Boat!” [Recommended]
NKF Closure?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: So, what must our Ministers do to get punished?
- No Buns No Life: T.T. Durai 3 months sentence, Fair?
Re education
- Fearfully Opinionated: teacher tells student to get tuition: what’s really happening?
- utopia: JC diploma
Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: OK, I’ll be good
- National Center for Policy Analysis: The Singapore Model
- Angry Doctor: Singapore’s Healthcare System
Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Every Building Tells a (Hi)story
- Simply Jean: Property prices down, but too poor now to buy it
Pink Issues
- Sam’s thoughts: Qu(e)erying Singapore [Recommended]
Singapore is clean and green. Truly?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: “Go green when convenient, but otherwise do whatever that makes or saves you the most money”
Daily Discourse
- TOC: Transparency - more or less?
- Yawning Bread: We duds at the pinnacle of evolution
- The-Upperroom.com: My heart saddens..
- utopia: Singapore: an Asian country with no Asian values
- The Itch to Write: Simple analogy on how tax-reduction are not helping the poor
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The removal of Estate Duty - Snippets from inside the Court
- Under the Willow Tree: Temasek’s Hands in Too Many Pies
- The Bosonic State: A Case of Similar Attractions
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Singapore Government needs better HR management
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Who is better for Singapore?
- Yawning Bread: Pity that Youthquake 2 didn’t make it to the Richter scale
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Singtel’s - Optus’ marketing ploy exposed (and a brief history of Singapore Government’s Corporations’ negative influence in the region)
- TOC: Public facilities need to be improved
- Simply Gab: Malaysia’s cost-cutting package: When not enough is dangerous
- Mr Wang Says So: Thinking About Critical Thinking
- URBANRANT: This Lee allows protests
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Top-level honour in Korea; top-level shruggin-of-shoulders in S’pore
- Asia Times: Clouds over Singapore’s blogosphere
- The boy who knew too much: No freedom to play
- A Serial Number on my Vote: Transparency versus Trust
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Justice for a victim, but many molesters go scot-free
- SingaporeSurf: What Kind Of Government Do You Want?
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Storm in a Teacup - Over Endoh’s Post
- Cowboy Caleb: The Difference Between A Malaysian & A Singaporean (Part 1)
- SgForums: Tharman says S’pore not headed for a recession
- HWZ: Survey finds Singaporeans generally happy
Life, the universe and everything
- The Void Deck: Flash: Discrimination at St James Power Station, so go there for f*ck?
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Budget ticket no more? See the [bias?] reporting
- Anonymous_X: So what if Dawn Yang benefited by posting the false ad?
- Room full of fun: Boon Lay playground: cycling
- Singapore Complain Hub: Flipped PIN e-mail tip exposed as a myth
- The Power of Influence: Asian and Americans see the world differently
- Rambling Librarian: Encyclopaedia Britannica goes “Wiki”, but not quite
- ALVINOLOGY: Who is Xiaoyun from Sichuan?
- the(new)mediaslut: Ping.sg polices commercial and critical blogs; NSFW blog runs free
Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Short Films Selections of Boo Junfeng
- ZDNet: Highly skilled IT professionals, but paid enough? [Thanks Leslie]
- Endoh’s Dungeon: In seek of missing Grandfather
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Missing grandfather has passed on..
June 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
What is the big deal about what Walter Woon said? I don’t think he is condemning human rights, or all HR activists.
The big deal is that what he said has been taken out of context, rephrased and distorted.
Take for instance, his actual words on “fanatics”:
Noting that human rights is “now a religion among some people”… - TODAYonline, Friday 30 May 2008. He mentioned “some people”.
But browse through some of the “hottest” blogs around, you will find it has been singled out as “human rights is now a religion to fanatics” or variations to that effect.
Perhaps we should all read more about Discourse Analysis before we shoot our mouths off at every little hint or opportunity to condemn people we assume as having sold their souls for money and power just because what they say does not go down 100% well with our agenda.
That is why I am beginning to take some bloggers less and less seriously.
Sigh, I miss the Brotherhood and their articles.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Dear Shoestring,
check out dotseng.wordpress.com
June 15th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Heroinguy,
Thanks. It’s good that they have finally set up their own Free Internet Library. To NLB - neh, neh, neh, neh, neh…
But they aren’t writing anymore :(
June 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
:)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Sian ZZZZZZZZZZZ Pak Bang! I’ve never been so bored in my surgery bfr on a weekend. I don’t think they can write any more. What many people don’t know about BP is the readers themselves are the main contributors. The writers are only assemblers. It’s like one giant WIKI before WIKI’s came in. That’s why some article can even run 6 to 7 pages. If you look closely every article carries EP or EV at the ending bfr the gobble-d-guck numbers.
EP stands for Executive Paper. EV for Extended Version. I may be wrong abt the exact term, but in principal the gist is correct. So for instance one 3 page article published in EP can run maybe 30 to even 40 pages in EV mode. I don’t believe you can just pack up something as interactive as this and still get it running again.
When their readers no longer comment. Or feel the need to contribute their thoughts. Or get the thrill of seeing them published. When those writers like Harphy Boy, Astro Boy etc don’t regularly read our comments and consolidate them into essays. When these things aren’t regularly done day in and day out.
Usually it just dies off. As time goes by, the skills die off. No one takes pride in it. It will just rust. It took them 2 years to build this thing called Toyota, JIT or machine writing. I remember Bambi Boy was so proud of it as he developed it based on his rudimentary know how on automotive manufacturing gobble-d-guck. The whole idea was writing could be like building a Japanese car. There were specialist for engines, paint work, Quality Control, conveyor lines along with warehousing.
Their productivity was unmatched.
I really don’t think that sort of thing can just stop and come back again. Usually it rust. It gathers dust. People forget about them. They move on to something else. It’s dies. That’s sad. So sad.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:34 am
But the key lies in the appreciation of the term, “almost.” They “almost” made it. Good “almost” triumphed over evil. By a wonderful alchemy, the various materials that the brotherhud press gathered and polished through the years into the alembic of the imaginative is indeed staggering and impressive. I dont even know an equal that can compare to their depth, breadth and level of detailing.
For one they ignored the classical unities of academic convention and what it means to blog, they certainly set their own course. They kept to the 3 to 4 page script. That means many of their traditional readers will not be induced to switch over to other reading material. This is not a case of if we cannot get lobsters then we will eat mud crabs. I think many readers will just log off after this. I seem to get the feeling the net has certainly become a quieter place since they slipped away in the night.
This is both a blessing and a curse. Now that the curtain call is finally in the keeps. My only wish is the writing spirit will live on. Even that will be difficult. For one sites like TOC used to openly discriminate, marginalize and even sideline them. One can only guess at the level of acrimony. It’s fair to assume none of those writers will even consider joining them.
The only other bet is the Singapore Angle run by Dr Loy. H.C. I happen to know many of the BP don’t regard them as an enemy site. Many even spoke out openly against Darkness when he tried to brand them as anti-brotherhood. In one crucial respect the portraits remains incomplete. Let’s all hope gifted writers like Harphoon, Scholarboy, Astro Boy and the only rose in the fraternity, the lovely Aurora will continue to do the things they used to do.
My hope is they will continue to recount their fascinating story of love, tragedy, ambition, disaster, power, politics and above all what it means to write and to read.
It is so very strange to me. The people who claim to want to make the net a better place don’t even seem to know what it takes to make a better net.
All they seem to do so very well is to hide no end in their high walled ivory tower, pretending not to see, hear or even think. I wonder, if they are so numbed, insensitive and out of touch even with the online community BEFORE they get into power. What will happen once AFTER they are conferred power?
Q.E.D
June 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am
GOOD MORNING ALL!
HAS ANYONE CONSIDERED WHAT IF THE THINK TANK OF THE BROTHERHOOD GOES TO THE OPPOSITION?
I THINK THE FIRST THING TO HAPPEN IS WE IN THE YPAP WILL HAVE TO CLOSE SHOP.
BTW. I DONT WISH TO COME ACROSS AS A SNOOP, BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH DARKNESS AND GANG?