The Singapore Daily

The Singapore Daily

What everyone is talking about

The Singapore Daily RSS Feed
 
 
 
 

Archive for August, 2008

Daily Tech: Singtel iPhone 3G Package Leaked?

Tech News
- 3giphone-hacks: Breaking News About Singtel 3g Iphone – Bad News!
- Expreview: Gainward unveils their latest non-ref HD 4870 512MB GDDR5
- Hexus: NVIDIA says it will win back performance leadership this year
- Gizmondo: Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date
- Crave: For now, the HTC Dream is still just a dream
- Fudzilla: Intel plans six Havendales
- TechNewsWorld: Plan B for Toshiba: The Low-Cost Road to High Definition

Reviews | Guides
- HWZ: HardwareZone’s 10th Anniversary Special
- HotHardware: ATI All-In-Wonder HD, A Legend Returns
- RBMods: Asus EAH 4850 TOP Videocard Review
- Digit-Life: ATI RADEON HD 4870 X2 2x1024MB final tests
- Phoronix: Gigabyte EP45-DS3L & EP45T-DS3R
- Bit-tech: Samsung SyncMaster XL30 LED Backlit LCD
- X-bit labs: 19″ LCD Monitors Roundup. Part XI
- Futurelooks: Back to School 2008: Dorm-Friendly Tech for Budget-Minded Students
- ars technica: A crumbling tower: Sony lays siege to the 360′s weak spots

SG Tech
- 65bits: Episode 84 : Anti-Social at the Social Media Breakfast
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: An evening with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
- Theory.isthereason: Qik showcased by Singaporean Prime Minister at National Day Rally
- Theory.isthereason: Stripped & Teased on Zivity.com

Daily SG: 18 Aug 2008


Congratulations, ladies. Well done!

Someone asked: 10 years from now, if the 3 decides to return to China and they bring their medals home with them. Technically, wouldn’t we lose our silver medals?

A Sliver from Beijing
- TOC: Hate the policy, love the paddler
- The fire in my life: Identity Crisis??
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: An Olympics medal for S’pore!
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Let’s cheer for China….erm…I mean Singapore !!!
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Random musings on the Singapore women table tennis team making it to the Olympics finals
- Feed Me To The Fish: Ping Pong Orgasm – Does money buy everything?
- My Singapore News: Don’t get carried away
- Tribolum.com: Point of No Return
- My Game of Life: Congratulation Singapore!!!!
- Extreme Prejudice: Bashing Foreign Talents
- SG_Ljers: We can achieve, we can achieve

Beijing Olympics
- The boy who knew too much: The lie of Chinese ethnic unity

Re Education
- Empty Vessel: Teaching better
- Mr Wang Says So: Education – The Government Still Doesn’t Get It
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: The Education System Will Not Change
- TOC: Educating the next generation

National Day Rally 2008
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Rallying a Nation….can wait!
- Siew Kum Hong: National Day Rally 2008
- Vexillum II: National Day Rally

Why they hate Singapore
- Mr Wang Says So: The Devil, Chua Lee Hoong & Harry Lee

147th and falling
- e pur si muove: Yet another example of Channel NewsAsia’s “quality” journalism

Healthcare Means Testing
- Angry Doctor: Subsidy and Other Preoccupations 20

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Siew Kum Hong: WPQ 21 July 2008: Issuance of Employment Passes, S Passes, Dependant’s Passes and Long Term Social Visit Passes

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Siew Kum Hong: WPQ 21 July 2008: GIC Investment in UBS

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Hilter and ERP…

Indignation 2008
- Illusio: Queer women within feminist Singapore

XEDO refuses to die
- TedFox: Crackdown on Anime Piracy The Sequel
- Jason Chua: ODEX strikes back
- Zen House: Remember ODEX?
- Ahgong Hippo’s Blork: Odex Returns 2008?

Daily Discourse
- Just Stuff: Education, Education, Education all around, but not a Brain around
- Singapore Life and Times: Spy vs Spy

Life, the universe and everything
- The FØØL’s Progress: The Resident Tourist
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: EPL starts again

Infoblogoramus
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: One Nation Under Lee to premiere in Malaysia
- harmless? bananas!: Local Band Leeson Makes ‘Some Girls’ More Popular Than Others

Daily ChioBu: 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]

More »

Of Post National Day Cheers from FTs

Singapore Women Table Tennis Team

Good showing Feng Tianwei and Li Jiawei! Brace yourselves for the final clash tonite!

More »

Weekly Roundup: Week 33

More »

Daily SG: 15 Aug 2008

The Gospel of Harry
- Sgpolitics: Walking the line between stating the obvious and fear-mongering: MM Lee’s favourite propaganda technique
- Singapore Patriot: Of eggs and baskets
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Politics and sports
- TOC: The unintended consequences of a globalised world
- HWZ: MM Lee says Singapore has no money politics

Why they hate Singapore
- Just Stuff: The Fine Art of Standing Proudly Naked Before The World – A Study In The Mufflement of the Humanities
- empty_vessels: Moronism Part 132456565477976876…
- Musings of an Aspiring Polymath: Why They Hate Singapore
- Desparatebeep: Celestial Places

XEDO refuses to die
- EDMW: Those kena ODEX, please advise
- Xedo Defense: ODEX IS BACK!
- Sgcafe: Someone got the letters again!! This time is from Showgate.Inc

Singaporeans, a Dying Breed
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: The soul sucked out of Singaporeans?

National Service
- Siew Kum Hong: Need to refine deferment policy?

Burma Rising
- TOC: Payback time?

Beijing Olympics
- The Void Deck: Who is real, fake, half-past-6 Sgporean ah?
- HWZ: SG flag carrier at 2008 Olympic

Indignation 2008
- Illusio: Brain surgery – what’s inside the heads of homophobes?

Daily Discourse
- Article 14: General Elections in 2009?
- Bad News on the Doorstep: Our Angsana mentality
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: What is a fair regulation?
- Singapore Patriot: One dis-united people?

Life, the universe and everything
- Babywail’s Shelter: To Hell and Back..
- The Extra Scoop: Saying goodbye to journalism?

Daily ChioBu: Sayuri Anzu

Sayuri Anzu (杏さゆり) is one of the top gravure idols in Japan. She has graced the cover of almost every major men’s magazine including
the infamous Sabra. [NSFW]

More »

Daily SG: 14 Aug 2008

Why they hate Singapore
- Sgpolitics: Separating the wheat from the chaff
- kelvintan73: LKY do a “You can’t handle the truth!”

147th and falling
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Singapore journalism: The sad state of affairs?
- EastStop: Room for improvement – Straits Times Interactive

Prosperity versus individual rights. Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore
- Jacob’s Weblog: IBAHRI corrects inaccurate comments of Press Sec to Minister for Law

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Prime News on Hope Group

Beijing Olympics
- Simply Inconceivable: The Meaning of Sports to Singapore
- The boy who knew too much: The importance of telling the truth
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Keep Quiet About It

Indignation 2008
- Balderdash: Brain surgery – what’s inside the heads of homophobes?

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics: Cherian George’s article on tolerating political diversity

Daily Tech: AMD Launches HD4870 X2


New card launches are exciting but who can resist Lara? The new Lara, that is – Alison Carroll.
Source, BBC Interview

HD4870 X2 Reviews
- AMD: AMD Launches World’s Fastest Graphics Card
- Neoseeker: Double the fast: Palit HD 4870 X2 Review
- TechPowerUp: Sapphire HD 4870 X2 2048 MB
- Overclockers Club: Sapphire HD 4870 X2 Review
- HotHardware: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 – AMD Back On Top
- Guru3D: Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Crossfire review
- PC Perspective: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Review – AMD’s Triumph
- TweakTown: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 in CrossfireX
- Techgage: Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 1GB – AMD Reclaims GPU Supremacy

Tech News
- Hexus: AMD also lowers CPU prices
- TGDaily: AMD split rumors accelerating
- Gamespot: Blizzard, AMD forge graphics-card deal
- CRN: Russia Might Not Have Attacked Georgian Websites, Researchers Say

SG Tech
- 65bits: Episode 83 : The Chilly One

Daily SG: 13 Aug 2008

Why they hate Singapore
- A Xeno Boy in Sg: Remaining Time
- Adventures and random brain waves: Singapore government improving its propaganda [Thanks sjoespm0]

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Loss

Daily Discourse
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Why shouldn’t Singaporeans be prepared for natural disasters?
- the boy who knew too much: The true nature of Singapore’s bilingualism
- TOC: Seeing stars: Uniquely S’pore – Equality

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: City Harvest Church Gets Whacked Again! I Call Bullshit

Daily SG: 12 Aug 2008

43 years, from nation to multinational
- Feed Me To The Fish: Screwed again!

Beijing Olympics
- Endoh’s Dungeon: The Spirit of Olympics – Gone With The Wind
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Power Of Symbols (Part One) & Li Jiawei ‘Dragging’ The National Flag
- vinyarb: Of Li Jiawei and her flag dragging fiasco [Thanks Richard]

Why they hate Singapore
- Sgpolitics.net: My thoughts on Chua Lee Hoong’s article “Why they hate Singapore”
- A Xeno Boy in Sg: Why They Like Singapore
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: On Shit and Prostrating Prostitutes

147th and falling
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: ST online website redesign… cough cough

Daily Discourse
- My Singapore News: The unhealthy disquiet
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore Parenting Congress 2008

Life, the universe and everything
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The price of growing up

Daily Tech: Intel launches 6 new CPUs, Drops Q9550 Price

Tech News
- Hexus: Intel drops price of top quad core by 40% to make room for Q9650
- Computerworld: Intel names its next chip baby: Core i7
- Fudzilla: Mobile quad-cores launch on August 17th
- ChannelWeb: Can You See Me Now? Scientists Further Invisibility Shield Research
- PC World: Silenced Subway Hackers, Silenced No More

Reviews | Guides
- TechSpot: GeForce GTX 260/280 versus Radeon HD 4850/4870
- ModSynergy: Seasonic M12 700W 12CM Modular Power Supply Review
- TrustedReviews: Linksys RangePlus Wireless Router WRT110
- DragonSteelMods: Contour Design iSee, Flick, and HardSkin Cases for iPhone 3G Reviewed
- TrustedReviews: Toshiba Regza 37CV505DB 37in LCD TV
- Crave: 10 (more) absurd iPhone apps

SG Tech
- 65bits: PDF woes
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: My 10 days in World of Warcraft
- The eOK .network: Driving data packets instead of cars

Daily SG: 11 Aug 2008

43 years, from nation to multinational
8 Aug 2008
- A Xeno Boy in Sg: Singapore Spirit
- Simply Inconceivable: Nationalism in Singapore?
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Flammable Spirits: My National Day Nonsense
- TOC: Appreciating Singapore
- TOC: A National Day video by TOC
- The Void Deck: This Thing About National Day
- Just Stuff: Can The Crescent and Stars Really Mean The Good Life? – A Study in the National Search for the Meaning of Life
- Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: This is my country, this is my flag, but are these my countrymen?
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: National Day…

9 Aug 2008
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: National Day 2008: Celebrating the Singapore Spirit!
- Singapore Alternatives: A Nation without Empathy & Identity?
- Singapore Life and Times: Whole in the Heart
- Balderdash: Required National Day reading
- SG Fairy: Because it is National Day..
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Happy National Day 2008!
- SG_Ljers: if you ask me, i already forgot what day it is today…

10 Aug 2008<
- Desparatebeep: Values
- TOC: We, the citizens
- Empty Vessel: An old friend leaves Sim Lim Square

11 Aug 2008
- TOC: A party for patriotism on National Day

Why they hate Singapore
- Beautiful Monster: Rejecting the universal
- Simply Gab: Oh hear the patriotic drum
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Dear Ms Chua Lee Hoong..!

147th and falling
- Yawning Bread: Straits Times redesigned, part 1, part 2
- My Sketchbook: New “clothes”

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics: Mr Nair exposed the farcical machinations of the PAP administration

Tak Boleh Tahan Campaign
- UncleYap: National Day’s Tak Boleh Tahan Campaign @ Toa Payoh Central (Photos & Videos)

Free Burma
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: (Singapore’s) National Day and its unfulfilled obligations
- Jacob’s Weblog: Burmese activists face visa problems in Singapore

Beijing Olympics
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Is the sky crying for Singapore?
- DK: That is my flag dragging on her motherland for the entire world to see
- I.Z. Reloaded: Li Jiawei drags the Singapore Flag during the Olympics Opening Ceremony
- EDMW: li jia wei dragging singapore flag on floor :(

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Seeing Stars: Uniquely Singapore – Progress
- My Singapore News: The biting reticence of Singaporeans
- Under the Willow Tree: Singapore’s Quality of Life vs Sweden’s
- Yawning Bread: Give me dogs over religionists anytime

Life, the universe and everything
- Figuring how faith fits into this world: How to make Singapore baby friendly

Infoblogoramus
- a blog @ Singapore: WP Youth Wing: YouthQuake 4 [Thanks Bernard]
- SBF Brotherhood: In Search of Ex-SammyBoy Forum members…. [Thanks otak69]

Daily ChioBu: Chen Zi Han

Chen Zi Han 陈紫函 is a popular actress from Chong Qing. A graduate from the Beijing Film Academy, she became popular after starring in the remakes of The Return of The Condor Heroes 神雕侠侣 (as Guo Fu 郭芙) and White Snake 白蛇传 (as Qing She 青蛇). The actress shed her “little girl” screen image and set tongues wagging when she did a daring photoshoot that left very little to the imagination. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

More »

Of Singapore: 43 years and growing

Happy National Day Weekend Singapore!

More »

Weekly Roundup: Week 32

More »

SG Daily Special: 43rd National Day

43 years, from nation to multinational
8 Aug 2008
- Tribolum: We the People of Singapore
- TOC: National Day or MP Day?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Why are they staring at me during the Ghost Festival?
- Deadpoet’s Cave: Happy 43rd
- Cowboy Caleb: Happy National Day Singapore, I Really Mean It
- EDMW: I might write in to newspaper about reflection of being singaporean. Come in and give ideas…

7 Aug 08
- Endoh’s Dungeon: What does Singapore mean to me?
- Sgpolitics.net: A picture is worth a thousand words: Happy National Day
- My sketchbook: The anticipated Rally speech

6 Aug 08
- Mr Brown: Singaporeans in the UK, please report to your mobilisation centre

5 Aug 08
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Red or white

4 Aug 08
- Just Stuff: In Search of A Place Called Home – A Study on the Philosophy of NDP
- Insane Polygons: The Hotel In The Jungle
- My Singapore News: 43 years of Independence!
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Democracy, Justice, Equality, Peace, Progress
- Jacob’s Weblog: Aug 9, 1965 – Aug 9, 2008 -…

30 Jul 08
- This lush garden within: 2 more weeks to National Day… where are all the flags?

28 Jul 08
- TOC: The 5 stars of our flag
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: A made-in-Singapore movie to celebrate Singapore National Day NDP 2008 新加坡国庆日

21 Jul 08
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Don’t say Goodbye…
- TOC: I am a patriot
- My Singapore News: After 45 years of independence…
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The NDP propaganda

9 Jul 2008
- Feed Me To The Fish: Singapore Cracked Up!

8 Jul 2008
- Insane Polygons: One United People

We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty.
..We will not walk in fear, one of another,
we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
If we dig deep into our history and our doctrine,
we will remember we are not descended from fearful men.
Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate,
and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular..
..Good night and good luck.

Have a good National Day weekend.
g

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics.net: Chee Siok Chin vs Official Assignee: Let’s judge for ourselves who is telling the truth

Beijing Olmpics
- Fearfully Opinionated: what does the olympics mean to you?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: 1 Day to the Olympics

Hub for The Elites Formerly Known As Dictators
- IZ Reloaded: Former Nepal prince gets into trouble at Singapore club

Daily Discourse
- Urbanrant: Home Affairs Minister says the police not doing its job is just a matter of perspective
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Are u guys ready for ho ching as s’pore president???

Life, the universe and everything
- Extreme Prejudice: A 47-million dollars church building
- Jacob’s Weblog: Video: Inside Burma – Land of Fear

Daily ChioBu: Isoyama Sayaka

Sayaka Isoyama (磯山さやか) is a famous Japanese gravure, actress and singer. Best known for her role of Ran Saotome, or Sazer-Visuel, in the 2003 TV show The Gransazers. Currently, she stars in TV Tokyo’s 2nd House television show. [NSFW]

More »

Daily SG: 7 Aug 2008

43 years, from nation to multinational
- Endoh’s Dungeon: What does Singapore mean to me?
- Sgpolitics.net: A picture is worth a thousand words: Happy National Day
- My sketchbook: The anticipated Rally speech

Fixating the Opposition
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why there should be no by-election in Jurong GRC…
- nocturne.noctalis: [Living in Sin] The Opposition In Real Life
- Ian On The Red Dot: We Celebrate Mediocrity – We Allow Our Opposition Too Much Leeway

Housing
- En Bloc Block Blog: En bloc: Why it is NOT right for Majority Consenters nor Minority Dissenters?

Daily Discourse
- My Singapore News: Another ungrateful aid recipient
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The sad state of blogosphere
- TOC: To walk the fire
- Singabloodypore: Babies in Singapore – Respect Starts In The Home!

Life, the universe and everything
- theory.isthereason: What if: Star Trek vs. Star Wars

Daily Tech: August Singapore Launch for iPhone 3G

Tech News
- Reuters: SingTel to launch 3G iPhone in August
- Wired: DNS Flaw Much Worse Than Previously Reported
- Silicon Valley Insider: Cuil One Week Later: Up And Running, Still Not That Good
- The Register: McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live
- TGDaily: Mozilla Labs and Aurora: Envisioning a Web 3.0 browser
- Apple Insider: Apple poised for special event this September

Reviews | Guides
- Legit Reviews: The AMD 790GX Chipset Arrives – Asus M3A78-T Motherboard
- Tom’s Hardware: The Best Graphics Cards for the Money: August 2008
- Futurelooks: MSI Wind U100 Sub-Notebook Review
- Fudzilla: Sparkle’s 55nm 9800 GT is here
- HWZ: Apple Has Done It Again, App Style!
- The Minus World: The Xbox 360 ‘Red Ring of Death’ Apology Manual

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Twittering Singapore news
- theory.isthereason: Inside the iPhone 3G






You Will Not Be Forgotten
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
5 Jan 1926 - 30 Sep 2008

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.


Browse Archives



  • Random ChioBu
    random image