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August 31st, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (8)

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August 30th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (5)

Parliament 26 Aug 2008
- Sgpolitics: Sylvia Lim opposed motion to revise Parliamentary Elections Act because the motion sought to entrench GRCs
- groundnotes: The Stillbirth of Democracy in Singapore Parliament
- Workers’ Party @ Parliament: Section 41A Of The Employment Act, GST (Amendment) Bill

Jurong By-elections
- Simply Inconceivable: Bye bye by-elections
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GRC celebrates our racial harmony..
- My sketchbook: Can you hear us?
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Today: Is there a need for by-election in Singapore?

National Day Rally 2008
- TOC: Don’t be a stupid cupid
- Mr Brown: New media: This government doesn’t get it
- Carpe Diem: Only Fruitcakes demonstrate

We’ve got a Sliver, sack the coach
- XTRALICIOUS: Missing – Integrity
- HWZ: Sports Mis-management Saga Continues..
- Sgclub: Winning an olympic medal via foreign imports. Is it something to be proud of?
- SPUG: China FT thinks he damned can

Fixating the Opposition
- Young PAP Blog: The Ever Redundant Opposition

Lee vs Nair
- Singapore Dissident: Hanging in there, the Judges Belinda Ang, blogging case and Lai Sue Chiu EMail case

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics: K. Shanmugam’s remarks on acquittals in law could open a pandora’s box
- From the ground Up: Put the ‘eco’ back in ‘economics’
- Renewables Report: Part 3: Singapore’s uncertain energy policy
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Female, a lesser creature than male?
- Singapore Indian Voice: Tell Singapore Not to Import Live Dolphins

August 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Yuko Ogura ((小倉 優子) born on November 1, 1983 in Mobara, Chiba prefecture is a popular Japanese idol and model who strives for the cute, innocent schoolgirl look. In Japan, she is mostly called by her nickname, Yukorin (ゆうこりん). Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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August 29th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (6)

Parliament 26 Aug 2008
- Sgpolitics.net: Parliamentary Snapshots [26 Aug] [27 Aug]
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on “Parliamentary Elections”: 27 August 2008
- Workers’ Party @ Parliament (Sitting Date: 21 May 2007): Police Coast Guard, Police Officers Killed In The Course Of Duty, SAF (Amendment) Bill, Remuneration Of Directors, Etc

Jurong By-elections
- TOC: Singaporeans want by-election in Jurong GRC [Thanks mr.udders]
- Winter Is Coming: Vote MP = Vote PAP? and the Presumption of Innocence
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: LeeHsienLoong says each of our votes is more for the political party and less so for the individual MP-candidate

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The Condescension of a Ruler towards his Peasants
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Speakers’ Corner or speakers cornered?

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Sgpolitics.net: Foreign workers DO depress local pay at the lower end of the salary scale
- Simply Inconceivable : Simplistic to Simply Say its Simplistic

Domestic Helper Issues
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Maids redux

We’ve got a Sliver, sack the coach
- The fire in my life: Go.. Going… Gone.. [Thanks ecko as]

Transport Reforms Announced? Same ‘ol, same ’ol
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Profit drive SMRT to EXCEL….!

Daily Discourse
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why Not?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Donating back to NUS: here’s how

Life, the universe and everything
- Mr Wang Says So: Challenging Moments in Parenthood
- A L V I N O L O G Y: TODAY online kena Hacked?

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

*Updated 29 Aug 2008.
Laptops
- Fujitsu COMEX 2008 Offers
- ASUS Notebooks & PDAs Flyers
- HP Compaq
- Truenote
- Sony Vaio, Today Ad
- NEC [1][2][3][4][5]

Monitors
- BenQ LCD pricing
- ASUS LCD Monitors flyers
- ASUS EeePC, EeeBox & Nova Flyers
- Acer
- NEC
- Philips

DIY/Mod
- XFX Graphics Cards Flyer
- Scythe Coolers Promo
- Seasonic & Scythe Promotions at Comex
- LG Blu-Ray Drives Promo
- Enermax offers
- Hitachi HDD

Peripherals
- Logitech Flyer
- Netgear Flyer
- D-Link Promotion [PDF]
- AC Ryan COMEX Promos
- Aztech promo
- Creative Deals @ COMEX
- Edifier Speakers Promo
- Shure Earphone @ Comex Show 2008
- Samsung MP3
- Razer special promo

Printers/Cameras
- Canon Flyers
- Epson [PDF]
- Olympus
- Nikon
- Sony
- Brother [PDF]
- Nikon brochures
- Casio Exilim Today Ad

LCD TVs
- JVC LCD
- Pioneer LCD
- Samsung LCD
- Sharp Aquos
- Sony Bravia
- Samsung Plasma TV Series

Distributors/Shops
- Convergent COMEX 2008
- Corbell’s MSI/HIS VGA promotion
- Eastgear pricelist [PDF]
- PC Dreams Lenovo sales and trade-in offers
- Chamoxa’s 2008 Comex Promos
- Singtel BBOM 50% off Promo
- Starhub Hustation promo
- AudioHouse Promo for audio products
- AudioHouse Promo for Sharp & Shinco
- UOB Credit Card Comex 2008 promo
- Apple Epicentre promos

Forums/Sites
- COMEX 2008 Official Site
- HWZ: COMEX 2008
- VR-Zone: Comex 2008 (28th Aug to 31st Aug)
- CNet: Comex 2008

Will update as more appear online.

SG Tech
- Cooler Insights: Creating a Sustainable Social Media Enterprise
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: How To Hack an IPhone, and How To Prevent being Hacked
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: unlocked iPhone on M1 or other networks

August 28th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Desparatebeep: Protest
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Outdoor demonstrations at Hong Lim Park no enough?
- Simply Gab: Tokens or Lemonade
- Simply Inconceivable: Shrewd Politics 101: Make Token Concessions
- My sketchbook: Virgin step at Speakers’ corner

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- EastStop: Temasek – A closed-end sovereign wealth fund?
- Singapore Complain Hub: Singapore’s Temasek doubles profit, fears contagion

Burma Protests
- SgPolitics: Flip flop by the police: Are Burmese activists in Singapore keeping within the law or not?

Inflation
- Recruit Ong: Playing with numbers

Education
- the boy who knew too much: Of cheers and jeers in the classroom

Our 147th|151st Press
- Simply Jean: Of EZ link cards, $100 million investments and my $5 deposit
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Cepas-compliant ezlink card ‘test-ride’ volunteers WANTED or UNWANTED? [1] [2]

Daily Discourse
- SGpolitics: Dr Lily Neo speaks out vociferously over aid for poorest households
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Going into recession….AGAIN!
- The Daily Backtrack: For lack of databases
- Simply Jean: Of dual citizenship, national service, exemptions and your CPF money
- Feed Me To The Fish: Can a Person or a Government ‘not corrupted’ in law be ‘corrupted’ in fact?
- The Lady Melissa: Ignoble Nobles
- TOC: One country two systems
- hopei: wah lan eh, this kind of thing also do

Life, the universe and everything
- Simply Jean: Free AirAsia tickets!
- Mr Wang Says So: Life As A Competition
- The Moley Prophet: Free Market?
- A L V I N O L O G Y :Naming the New Singapore University
- Cooler Insights: I Got a Free Bus Ride!! [b thinks: If Great Eastern can, why can't SBS and SMRT?]

Infoblogoramus
- TOC: Inflation forum with experts

August 27th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

It’s been a year since the 25 Aug 2007 ODEX protest. Thanks article14 for the reminder. What excellent timing

National Day Rally 2008
- TOC: Of concessions and tokenism, worrying trends in policy making

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Simply Jean: Ban lifted; now you can talk all you want… almost
- The Void Deck: The All New Old Speakers’ Corner
- Sgpolitics.net: Liberalization of Speaker’s Corner: Let’s see whether the authorities truly use a “light touch”
- Yawning Bread: The first fruits of civil disobedience

We’ve got a Sliver, sack the coach
- TOC: Bloggers up in arms over Lee Bee Wah’s actions
- Sgpolitics.net: Lee Bee Wah’s flip-flopping is startling
- Simply Inconceivable: Should we sack the coach? The irrelevant question
- Empty Vessel: Being media-savvy
- My sketchbook: Party pooper

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Complain Hub: US sub could have leaked radiation in Singapore: govt
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Olympic medal, Singaporean and typical Singaporean mentality
- Singapore Dino: Old enough to run business but not “mature” enough to vote?
- Mr Brown: More changing headlines: Inflation hits poor harder
- Mr Wang Says So: The Law Minister Agrees With Mr Wang
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Good Graces in the Olympics

Life, the universe and everything
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Beijing Paralympic 2008: The Details
- Nomadism: Reading the “Words” right
- Adventures and random brain waves: Blogger’s block

Infoblogoramus
- Stunned by Stone: Field Report on Singapore International Jewellery Show 2008 [Thanks ecko]

August 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Hardware Zone has a preview of Comex 2008 happening this Thurs – Sun (28 – 31 Aug) at Suntec.
- HWZ: Comex 2008 Preview

Tech News
- Gadget Lab: Wired.com’s iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses
- Computerworld: Mozilla turbocharges Firefox, touts major speed gains
- CNet: IE 8 to include private browsing feature
- PC Pro: NVISION: Larrabee “like a GPU from 2006″
- DailyTech: Physicists Theorize New Method for Faster than Light Travel

Reviews | Guides
- Tom’s Hardware: 11-Way P45 Motherboard Shootout
- AnandTech: NVISION 08 – Live! Jen-Hsun Keynote Coverage
- TweakTown: ASUS GeForce GTX 280 TOP Graphics Card
- OCIA: BFG Tech LS-680 Power Supply
- DSM: World’s slimmest USB Bluetooth Dongle
- DriverHeaven: Apple MacBook Air
- The Register: Anatomy of a malware scam

Singtel iPhone Launch
- Sheylara: I went for the iPhone launch..
- my rants: iphone 3G is better without $ingtel
- Sangsara: Singtel iPhone THANKYOU
- HWZ: The Singapore iPhone 3G Launch – Queues ‘R Us

SG Tech
- 65Bits: Episode 85 : iPhone Mania – Singapore Edition!
- Empty Vessel: Sidewinder X6 announced!
- harmless? bananas!: Xbox Xperts Yes, But Social Media No?

August 26th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Singapore Life and Times: Finding the Equilibrium
- The Rot Within: Twisting Words
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Baby Package 2008

National Day Rally 2008 – Making Babies
- Right up your alley: Dear stupid Singaporeans, NOBODY is telling you to wash the dishes lah!
- My Sketchbook: Easing of political films

A Sliver from Beijing
- TOC: Ms Lee Bee Wah: A new broom sweeps indiscriminately
- nofearSingapore: Table Tennis: STTA president’s puzzling action
- TOC: I am not celebrating
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How many people in Jamaica?
- SPUG: Win Liao… Tio Sack…

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Simply Inconceivable: The Foreign Talent Irony
- Just stuff: The Foreignness of Foreigners in our Midst – A Study in the FT hubris

Lee vs FEER
- Singabloodypore: Singapore PM raises stakes in FEER defamation case

Burma Protests
- Yawning Bread: Singapore shows Burmese dissidents the door
- Sgpolitics: Burmese citizens hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore
- Singapore Indian Voice: Burmese activists hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Singapore’s Public Transport

Healthcare
- The Alternative ‘HPB’: Why is ST so anti-biomedical treatment for autism?

Daily Discourse
- Desparatebeep: Irony and Sarcasm

Infoblogoramus
- No “partisan stuff” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Top 100 Political Videos (that are likely to be banned in Singapore)
- Notes from Serangoon Road: A ’secret’ screening

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

Xu Jing Lei 徐静蕾 (nickname 老徐 ol’ Xu) is a rising star in Chinese cinema. A graduate from the Beijing Film Academy Performance Institute 北京电影学院表演系, she has starred and won numerous acting awards in China. The multi-talented star from Beijing not only acts, but models, sings, writes and directs as well. In 2003, she won the Best New Actress and Best Actress awards at the 4th Annual Chinese Film Awards in the film My Father and I 我和爸爸 which she wrote, directed and acted. She has since written, directed and starred in 2 more films, bagging the Best Director at the 52nd Donostia-San Sebastian International Fim Festival for the 2004 A Letter From An Unknown Woman 《一个陌生女人的来信》. In 2006, Xu Xing Lei topped Technorati’s chart when her blog clocked 50 million clicks. In 2007, she started her own online magazine Kai La 《开啦》. Her latest movie saw her starring opposite Jet Li in Warlords 《投名状》. [Phew, what a woman!]

Pictures after the break.

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August 25th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

The vibe I got when 7 will be charged over the IMF-World Bank Protests held in Singapore in 2006 after the rally promised easing of restrictions.

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August 24th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (2)

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August 23rd, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

The Japanese Film Festial starts today! What are you watching this year? ^0^

National Day Rally 2008 – Making Babies
- Empty Vessel: Paying The Price With No Regrets
- TOC: Nanny gets serious about babies but..
- vinyarb: Of getting hitched and babies
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Pro family policies: as good as it gets
- Singapore Complain Hub: Let’s talk politics Online! Says PM Lee
- The Lady Melissa: A MisMatch Made in Peasant
- The boy who knew too much: Maternal and Paternal Leave around the world
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: What the Government does for/on behalf of the people..
- HWZ: New measures to boost birth rate to be introduced in August

A Sliver from Beijing
- Desparatebeep: Olympic Efforts
- Mr Wang Says So: Suffering and Struggle As The Hallmarks of A True Singaporean
- My Game of Life: a little bit of disappointment…
- HWZ: Should we be proud of our Chinapore athletes winning the silver medal?

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics: SDP: Government continues to rain down charges against human rights defenders
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Et Tu Brute?: Ravi and Betrayal

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- EDMW: Malaysia Abdullah boards rush-hour train – and he’s not happy

Re Education
- TOC: Danger in our education system

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Temasek’s Happy National Day Announcement

The Million Dollar Bounty for M$K
- Otak69 Forum: Aug 27 :6 mths since Mas Selamat escaped [Thanks aa bb]

Burma Protests
- Jacob’s Weblog: Burmese patriots in Singapore to hold press conference today; Press release asks for explanation from Singapore authorities

Daily Discourse
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Singapore Tax-Haven

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Nostalgia Kicking In – The Malaysian Cup 1994
- Fwd: Today in Beijing with Jade Seah saying “F*CK!”

Infoblogoramus
- Glass Castle Blog: FDW shelter under threat: please help!

August 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Nakagawa Shouko (中川翔子) is a gravure idol, actress, singer and seiyuu (japanese for voice actor or actress) artiste. This multi-talented lady is also known to post 10-20 entries on her blog in one day. [PNSFW]

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August 22nd, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

National Day Rally 2008
- the boy who knew too much: On Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Feed Me To The Fish: Is this for real?
- Sam’s thoughts: Baby-friendly Singapore
- Sgpolitics.net: Complex problem of low birth rate requires more than just throwing money at it
- Siew Kum Hong: More on National Day Rally 2008
- TOC: National Day Rally – some questions
- My sketchbook: The baby package

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Gerald Giam: Untangling Singapore’s web of Politics
- Just Stuff: Find Out Whether AIMS is Screwing The Right Hole?

Education
- Young Pay-And-Pay Blog: Choice schools for foreigners, leftovers for Singaporeans

Daily Discourse
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: The Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society; a necessary mouthful?
- Ian On The Red Dot: How I Try To Make My Public Transport Experience More Enjoyable

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: What Reservist Does To You
- Mr Wang Says So: School, Memory and Real Life
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: The Journey of Michael Phelps through Sports Illustrated Magazine 2004-2008

Infoblogoramus
- harmless? bananas!: We’re launching our new EP!

August 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

*All are 2 yr contracts. Source: Singtel Iphone Site

Singtel iPhone Launch
- Crave: SingTel announces pricing for iPhone 3G in Singapore
- Your Industry News: SingTel: Be part of the groundbreaking midnight sale for the Apple iPhone 3G
- CNET Asia: All your iPhone 3G questions answered
- PC World: Singapore Gets IPhone, but No Visual Voicemail or iTunes
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: Singtel iPhone Pricing
- EDMW: 3g Iphone from Singtel is so expensive!
- MUGS: iPhone Price Plans Out
- HWZ: Going on 22nd August 2008 00:00 (Midnight) Thread

Tech News
- PC Mag: Intel IDF 2008: Day 1 Wrap Up
- [H] Enthusiast: Nehalem Slide Presentation – PART I, PART II
- Gadget Lab: Analyst: Palm Needs a Savior, and Treo Pro Won’t Cut It
- Tom’s Guide: New, Improved Sony PSP Handheld Coming This Fall
- 1UP: GC 2008: Sony Reveals EyePet for PS3, PS3 Keypad Attachment
- ZDNet: Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
- MacNN: Apple: iPhone 2.02 fixes some 3G glitches

August 21st, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

LOL LHL flipping the bird! Thanks fireopal for the pic. :-)

National Day Rally 2008
- The Lionheart: Where is the dividing line?
- Yawning Bread: Demonstrations to be allowed in Hong Lim playpen
- TOC: The ball is in the opposition’s court
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: National Day Rally 2008: Political Liberalisation, really?
- Simply Gab: PM Rally Speech: Men-in-White or Men-in-Grey?
- nofearSingapore: My thoughts on that Olympic Silver and that Political Liberalization Speech
- Singabloodypore: Lee’s meaningless concession on protests fool no one
- Mr Wang Says So: Education and The Great Pain of Rather Useless Things
- No “partisan stuff” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Oops, we were too restrictive : PM Lee
- Longest Flight: What pro-family measures?
- redefining.suet: NDR 2009
- Sgpolitics: Key points raised in PM Lee’s National Day Rally speech 2008
- Journalism.sg: Obituary of a ban: Political films may get a new life
- EDMW: A Letter from a Citizen in Response to NDP Rally Speech

A Sliver from Beijing
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Desperately seeking Singaporean-ess
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Taking someone’s ass to be your face
- Tales of A Tiger: Buying Our Own Olympic Medal
- deadpris: Li Jia Wei IS a Singaporean [Response to Iantimothy]

Lee vs Chee
- Singapore Dissident: The days go on

Infoblogoramus
- SG_Ljers: Charity Project Youths.Care

Seems like Singnet fixed the problem. eligwee emailed that he’s able to load SGDaily on Singnet now. Big ups to Bernard and Daniel for the help. Send us an email if you still have trouble with our site on Singnet.

August 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

More Kae Chollada Mekratree.

Chollada Mekratree (nickname Ke or Kae) is a well-known model and actress in Thailand. She was voted number 37 sexiest woman in the world by FHM Thai edition readers in 2006. She has appeared in several movies such as Unhuman and The Letters of Death. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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August 20th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)