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Archive for October, 2008

Daily SG: 31 Oct 2008

It’s Trick or Treats day! Agnes Tan has a list of Halloween Parties to go to.

High Notes and Minibombs
- Jeflin’s Investment Blog: Flush DBS High Notes 5 Down The Drain
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Oops No Compensation Now
- Being a Working Mother: DBS High Notes and Lehman Minibonds
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minibonds..and finally a few words from PM Lee….
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP Town Councils bought minibonds….
- TOC: Town Councils investments – be accountable to constituents
- Wayang Party Club: MAS sidelines Tan Kin Lian in a deft move to reclaim initiative from him

Financial Crisis
- Simply Jean: Entrepreneurship in the midst of a global financial crisis?

Gospel of Harry: Marry Graduates Good, Marry Non-Graduates Bad
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse – Eugenics

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- JUST STUFF: Suggested Solutions for managing e-relationships between netizens and government / Part 3 B / The Strategic Initiative (The Final Chapter)

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Beautiful Monster: Queer academia and Singapore: some thoughts

Paper Chase
- Mr Wang Says So: The Foreigner’s Guide to Getting A Subsidised University Education in Singapore

Melamine in my Milk
- Singapore Complain Hub: Julie’s biscuits banned

Parliament 25 Aug 2008
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) (Amendment) Bill: 25 August 2008

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Town Council explains herb garden removal
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Undergraduate reply to Prof Lan
- Aussie Pete: Singaporean Fraudsters Con The Kiwis
- The eOK .network: Friendster still #1 in Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- Yawning Bread: From Alexandra Hospital to Washington: The currency of race
- Balderdash: Avenue Q

Daily ChioBu: Akane Souma

Akane Souma is a famous Japanese gravure idol and former race queen. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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Daily SG: 30 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Singapore Life and Times: Toxic Towns
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Mini-bond investor gives his view
- Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Is it time for us to look into the accounts of PAP Town Councils?

Financial Crisis
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore newspaper’s amazing knowledge gap
- My sketchbook: Job of a politician-restoring confidence of the public

Power to Cost the People
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Energy (Electricity) Conservation Tax

Gospel of Harry: Marry Graduates Good, Marry Non-Graduates Bad
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Designer Marriages (Or: Why my parents should have been graduates)

Fixing the Opposition
- Enjoy the Breeze: A new political landscape?
- Singapore Kopitiam Forum: Is democracy truly attainable?
- Sgpolitics.net: A weblog on politics and current Singapore Democrats meet Anwar Ibrahim’s daughter

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: TBT Trial 3rd & 4th day – The question of Equality – Article 12 Singapore Constitution
- Singabloodypore: Arguments on constitution continue on day 4 of trial

SG Press rank 141 and falling | The Misquoting of Agnes Lin?
- TOC: TOC Exclusive – Agnes Lin: a victim of the ST?
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse – Agnes Lin

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics.net: Las Vegas Sands woes to delay Marina IR opening?
- Singapore Skeptic: The cost of middle-class living in Singapore
- The Legal Janitor: Is this guy for real?
- Winter is Coming: Its Time ST did the Right Thing
- groundnotes: Leadership: Doing and Saying

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: How China Could Resolve Its Growing Consumer Crisis
- Delvinlee’s Weblog: The 7 Storey Hotel – A memorial [Thanks Delvin]
- Singapore Agnes Tan: Upcoming Halloween Parties in Singapore

Daily Tech: Microsoft Shows Windows 7

Microsoft Shows Windows 7
- Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report: A first look at Windows 7’s pre-beta PDC release
- PC World: Windows 7 First Look: A Big Fix for Vista
- The Tech Beat: Windows 7: A First Look
- ars technica: First look at Windows 7′s User Interface
- Computerworld: New math for Microsoft, as Windows 7 = addition by subtraction
- TG Daily: Side by side: Windows 7 vs. OS X Snow Leopard
- NYT: 10 best features in Windows 7 for IT professionals
- Apple Watch: What Apple Needs to Know About Azure, Windows 7
- Engineering Windows 7: Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7

Tech News
- Reuters: TSMC: No comment on Chartered stake sale report
- EETimes: Intel to roll 32-nm process at IEDM
- Fudzilla: ATI rests its case with graphics in 2008
- Engadget: Samsung titillates with transparent and 0.05mm ‘flapping’ OLED panels
- eWeek: HP, Dell, Lenovo Offering New Crop of Low-Cost Notebooks
- WIRED: Psystar: Blu-Ray Hackintosh for Sale; MacBook Clones on the Way
- Microsoft: Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser
- CNET: Finally getting with the program: Microsoft to offer Office online

Reviews | Guides
- Guru 3D: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 OC 896 MB review
- techPowerUp: Scythe Kama Bay Amplifier
- Virtual-Hideout: Antec Notebook Cooler 200
- Modders-Inc: SilverStone Raven Mouse
- Benchmark Reviews: Microsoft Sidewinder X6
- TechSpot: Das Keyboard Professional and Ultimate review

SG Tech
- 65 Bits: Episode 94: The new Palm OS is finally here! Sort of..
- The eOK .network: Are we seeing a netbook ecosystem?
- Ignorance is Curable: Digital Music, High-Fidelity, and making it all work
- Otterman speaks: Figuring out where stuff is
- The Singapore iPhone Guide: Check bus arrivals, plan bus journeys on your iPhone

Daily SG: 29 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Sgpolitics.net: Lehman-linked structured products tragedy exposes persistent flaws in our financial planning industry
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: How much public funds did PAP Town Councils lose in total from the failed minibond investments?
- Almost Infamous: The Minibonds Continued
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minibonds a HORRIBLE PRODUCT
- My Singapore News: For the worth of $500 million!

Financial Crisis
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Govt can create jobs, boost economy: Keynes

Gospel of Harry: Marry Graduates Good, Marry Non-Graduates Bad
- Balderdash: Minister Menthor Lee Kwan Yew
- vinyarb: Looking for a mate? Look out for assortative mate!

Fixing the Opposition
- Enjoy the Breeze: Should opposition parties change government policies?

Lee vs Chee
- Singabloodypore: Take Action for courageous Singaporeans

Transport, a hole in our pockets
- Singapore Complain Hub: Double Standards in Transportation Fees for Tertiary Students

Melamine in my Milk
- Sg Food Fads: Malaysian made Biscuits affected by Melamine [Thanks ecko]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Nation-building or party-building?
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: NSW bureaucrats pay rise. Copying the autocrats

Infoblogaramus
- Otterman speaks: Donorweb revamped!

Daily SG: 28 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- TOC: “Non-vulnerable” deserve a chance at pay-out
- Wayang Party Club: Over 500 disgruntled investors turn up to protest against MAS’s inaction
- Singabloodypore: Hong Lim Park: Over 500 disgruntled investors turn up to protest against MAS’s inaction [Vids]
- Sgpolitics: Updates on the Lehman-linked structured products fiasco
- Blowin’ In The Wind: PM Lee no Greenspan: Confidence unshaken
- Bad News on the Doorstep: PM did not address the real issue
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Call for Public Inquiry – some views
- The Void Deck: Minibond – Where Do We Go Now?
- Singapore Alternatives: MAS responsibility in Minibonds– Moral Hazards
- Dr Cynic and Mr Idealist: The hapless Singaporeans
- Me and my thoughts: On Lemon Brothers Issue (Again)
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why all DBS HN5 investors should be fully compensated!
- Almost Infamous: The Minibonds Issue
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Minibond Compensation
- Singapore Alternatives: This is what Minibonds is all about!
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Blog for High Note investors
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Petition #4 – Review Complaint Handling Process

Financial Crisis
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: What will happen to our IRs/Casinos..?
- Singapore Life and Times: 10,000 duds?

Gospel of Harry: Marry Graduates Good, Marry Non-Graduates Bad
- The Lionheart: Eugenics, Education, Economics
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: The perils of Lee and his theory on assortative mating
- Me and my thoughts: LKY and his silly remarks
- Toadjuice: Assortative Mating.. I like..
- Singapore Indian Voice: NONSENSE: MM Lee on “assortative mating”
- TOC: MM Lee on “assortative mating” [Vid]
- My sketchbook: Primitive mind

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Tak Boleh Tahan trial – The first 2 days
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: The trial begins – [Part 1 The Dilemma] [Part 2]
- Singabloodypore: THE CHARGE

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Legal Janitor: This dude gets it yo

Hong Lim Park
- Jacob’s Weblog: Pictures of a Fast at Speakers’ Corner

Re Education
- Singapore Educational Consultants: A rose-tinted view of Singapore’s education system

Daily Discourse
- still me: Talk is cheap?
- The Constitution Times: Why I don’t write about Singapore Politics?
- Singapore Skeptic: The cost of middle-class living in Singapore
- TOC: A measure of dissent
- Enjoy the Breeze: Is it time for a new opposition party?
- TOC: The Elected Presidency and future non-PAP govts

Life, the universe and everything
- inter alia: Singapore Lags behind Europe in Recycling
- Alamak: SingTel Colour-Me-Tones: Cancel if you don’t need it

Infoblogoramus
- Balderdash: Zomb-Out! update from Superfly

Daily ChioBu: Chen Run Xi

Chinese model Chen Run Xi 陈润熙 from Hunan province. She was ranked top 10 in the 2008 Miss Chinese International Finals. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]
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Happy Deepavali

Happy Deepavali!

Weekly Roundup: Week 43

“When Shan, a second year political science student, asked Dr Balakrishnan about Singaporeans who were affected by the mini-bond fiasco, the minister in turn asked her whether he should approach the problem as an economist or politician. Her simple reply—to look at the issue from the eyes of an “ordinary Singaporean”—won the applause of the audience.”
The Enquirer

“..we see very obvious signs that the govt will be the last among nations to help its citizens AND only if whatever actions it follows will protect its competitiveness, not that it is the right and decent thing to do for your citizens.”
commentator_sc

“For a while this generated growth for our financial sector – a key goal of the govt. But there is a price to be paid when greed overcomes prudence and fiduciary duty is forgotten….traded away for commissions..”
Lucky Tan

“That’s life, if you want good rewards, you have to take risks. Otherwise, leave your money with the CPF.”
Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister, Chairman of MAS.

“Charities should seek extinction rather than growth. The mantra of business is growth.”
Dr Lee Siew Peng

I think this should apply to the Government as well. Other than foreign policy and national defense and maybe one or two other areas, the Goverment’s main job should be to empower its people in self preservation and the pursuit of happiness. Sadly the current administration doesn’t think that way. Singaproe Inc was a good plan in the 70s and 80s but its an outdated model to take our country forward today.
g

Recommended reads for the week after the break.
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Daily SG: 24 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner – 25 October 2008
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: A fair compensation
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A False Dawn
- My Singapore News: A gaping wide hole!
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Demand for Compensation
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Requests for media interviews

Financial Crisis
- Fwd: How to explain the current financial crisis to a layman
- The Lycan Times: Random Discourse

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: Tak Boleh Tahan trial – First day of State persecution of activists
- Sgpolitics: Why I participated in the TBT protest, and why I pleaded guilty
- Singabloodypore: AGC cannot decide whether to use video or not
- TOC: 19 in court to face illegal assembly and procession charges
- TOC: Amnesty Int’l calls for support for “peaceful activists”
- Singabloodypore: Human Rights Goes on Trial in Singapore with Chee Soon Juan Case
- Jotman: Singapore’s Funny Pages
- HWZ: No Kangaroo T-shirts please, we are Singaporeans

Parliament 20 Oct 2008
- a blog day’s work: Of reserves, auctions and the elected presidency
- Feed Me To The Fish: Goodbye Gracious, Goodbye Courtesy!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Adopting a rights and care approach for Migrant Workers in Singapore
- two cents worth: Population and Health: The overcrowded Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Organic-Ally: Charity and a culture of dependency
- Enjoy the Breeze: Perspectives – Why Chiam and Chee Soon Juan were at loggerheads
- AirKosong.com: In Singapore, you analyse press freedom independent of the political freedom and fear!
- TOC: Some lives are not worth living?
- vinyarb: Let’s play guess which route the bus will take today [Thanks vinyarb]

Life, the universe and everything
- Choosing my own adventure: The Raffles merger
- Ong Jiin Joo: The Star Challenge Finals
- SG_Ljers: New SAF Uniform

Daily ChioBu: Cristine Reyes

Cristine Reyes (born Ara Cristine Pascual Reyes) is a Filipino actress who has starred in various television shows. She was also one of the contestants of the reality talent search StarStruck and was one of the thousands who were able to make it to the top 14. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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SG Daily: 23 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Sgpolitics: Call a spade a spade
- Under The Willow Tree: Why Regulation for Minibonds…?
- Insane Polygons: Failure To Lead

Parliament 20 Oct 2008
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on the Constitution of Republic of Singapore (Amendment) Bill: 20 October 2008
- TOC: WP does not support Elected Presidency still
- Gerald Giam: Now who is the pork barrel champion?
- groundnotes: The Art of Political Apophasis
- 勿忘我: Canada rushes in, where Singaporeans fear to tread

Strangers in a Strange Land
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: SM Goh says S’pore needs policies that favour citizens in the face of foreign talent. What about our employment policies then??
- joie de vivre: Mind Your Language

Lee vs Chee
- Singapore Indian Voice: What we must reclaim: Seelan Palay
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore’s sad business with the business press

Jurong By-Elections
- Siew Kum Hong: Clarifications by Prime Minister in debate on motion on by-elections: 27 August 2008

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Get out of town

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Why I chose a China bride

Infoblogoramus
- Sg_Ljers: An evening with I Am David Sparkle [Friday 24 Oct]

Daily Tech: 23 Oct 2008

Tech News
- NordicHardware: NVIDIA GT216 first 40nm GPU from NVIDIA?
- DigiTimes: Large-size LCD panel prices trending down again
- Neowin: Microsoft sends Vista SP2 invites – beta release in 4 weeks
- Xbit labs: Asustek Computer’s Chief Exec Promises Windows 7 on Eee PC by Mid-2009
- Expreview: ASUS Xonar Essence STX, nice sound card with SNR up to 124dB
- Android Open Source Project: Android is now available as open source
- Telegraph: Mobile phone use causes rise in skin problem
- China Journal: Going Dark: China’s Computer Screens
- The Inquirer: Pirates scoff at Microsoft’s anti-piracy day

Reviews | Guides
- HWZ: XFX GeForce 9600 GSO XXX Edition – More Than Meets the Eye
- Hardspell: K.O. 9500GT! HD4650 reviewed
- Motherboards.org: Nvidia GeForce 9300 Launch Roundup
- Hardware Secrets: Sunbeamtech Acrylic HTPC Case Review
- ASE Labs: Antec Micro Fusion Remote 350
- Techware Labs: SilverStone Raven Gaming Mouse
- Overclockers Club: Far Cry 2 Performance Evaluation
- Digit-Life: NVIDIA CUDA

SG Tech
- Fireopal: Winzip coming after users! [Thanks ecko]

Daily SG: 22 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- TOC: Has our Prime Minister gone missing again (Part Two)?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Where does the BUCK STOP?
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Comparison of how MAS and HKMA are handling the complaints of Lehman investors
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Victims of our leaders’ aspirations….
- Choosing my own adventure: Lim Hng Kiang again!
- Think For Me, Singapore: Hard to please Singaporeans [Thanks GT]
- Singapore and the stuff: Credit crisis jokes

Strangers in a Strange Land
- this lush garden within: Singaporeans – Stop referring to foreign workers as TALENTS
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Yippee!!! Singapore no longer has ‘no resources’!
- Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: Citizen Soldier: Protecting 65% of Singapore using 100% of your life [Link fixed. Thanks Panzer]
- EDMW: Wong kan seng says Govt will always consider S’poreans’ interests above foreigners’

Power to Cost the People
- Choosing my own adventure: Electricity tariff hike – parliament
- Gerald Giam: Govt should play bigger role in managing price increases
- My Singapore News: Preventing supernormal profits

Parliament 20 Oct 2008
- Sgpolitics: Parliamentary Snapshots (20 & 21 Oct)

Lee vs Chee
- Singabloodypore: Singapore’s shame: ordeal of Chee Soon Juan

Melamine in my Milk
- Singapore Agnes Tan: Malaysia Julie, Khong Guan and Khian Guan biscuit found melamine

Daily Discourse
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Economic rights before political rights for most Singaporeans
- The Void Deck: The Roomy Space for Satire in Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- inferno’s pensieve: First Principles
- Ong Jiin Joo: One Media, One Purpose: To Inform, Move and Inspire
- Delvinlee’s Weblog: Nine Emperor Gods Festival 2008 [Thanks Delvin]

Infoblogoramus
- GoLibrary: Seeking An Audience: A Symposium on Singapore Literature in English [Thanks Laremy]

Additional plug for my bro Laremy:
Seeking An Audience: A Symposium on Singapore Literature in English
Jointly organised by the NBL and NTU’s Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, this is a Symposium for all who promote and have an interest in Singapore Literature in English.

Lee Tzu Pheng and Robert Yeo will open the symposium with a dialogue about their experiences as writers, recalling the heady days of the sixties when they and the most promising poets/writers of their generation had their beginnings, and who are now established writers with substantial bodies of work. The Symposium will also feature the generation of writers who followed them. The day will end with a cocktail reception with poetry readings and a musical performance developed by Stella Kon, author of Emily of Emerald Hill.

Admission is free. To register, please select ‘add to cart’. Registration closes on 24 October 2008. For enquiries or registration by organisations/institutions, please contact Ms Sharon Chen at 6333 7912 or email Sharon_CHEN@nlb.gov.sg

On the US campaign trial… SNL’s Palin rap. ROFLOL. Vid after the break.
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Daily SG: 21 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- MAS: Reply to PQs on the Sale of Structured Products to Retail Investors [Vids][Comments @ TKL's Blog]
- TOC: Loss of hard earned savings
- TOC: Mis-selling 101 – a respond to minister’s remarks
- TOC: When silence is not golden
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Views from an ex-private banker
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Low : Be More Proactive MAS!
- The Enquirer: Minister shouldn’t have politicised forum
- Xtralicious: The highnotes/ minibonds issue – difference between HK and Singapore
- Bad News on the Doorstep: We need a watchdog to watch the watchdogs
- Singapore Alternatives: Volunteers Needed
- My sketchbook: Society of lame ducks
- Xtralicious: Help for all affected investors

Financial Crisis
- StaticVariable: Sudden Recession?
- mrbrown: Singaporeans, take a hike
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Marina Bay begins “massive” recruitment exercise for 40 jobs
- Singapore Life and Times: How the Markets really work

Lee vs Chee
- Robert Amsterdam: Singapore and Freedom of the Press
- Sg_Ljers: Students start online paper
- Singapore Dino: The Judiciary has scandalised itself
- Jacob’s Weblog: The TBT 18 trial is a rape of the Constitution of Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- COM101: Multi-racial, perhaps not
- The boy who knew too much: The message and the messenger

Daily Discourse
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More harm than good

Life, the universe and everything
- two cents worth: Urbanisation, necessarily ‘evil’?
- The Rot Within: Singapore’s Performance in the Legatum Prosperity Index

Now Showing
- vinyarb: Tropic Thunder m-m-m-makes me happy..

Infoblogoramus
- Balderdash: Making it S’pore’s 1st ever zombie march!

Daily ChioBu: Chen Kuang Yi

21 year old Chen Kuang Yi 陳匡怡 is known as Taiwan’s Little Vivian Chow 小周慧敏 because of her resemblance to the Hong Kong actress 20 years her senior. Chen, whose face industry watchers described as exquisite 精致的五官, first gained attention when she appeared in Lin Yu Jia’s music video Secret Guest 林宥嘉《神秘嘉宾》. When she appeared in Jay Chou’s latest music video 《说好的幸福呢》 (loosely: Where is the promised happiness), her name became the talk of Taiwan’s entertainment industry and Mandarin Pop fans. The National Taiwan University graduate has been dubbed one of Taiwan’s new generation of beautiful women 台湾新生代美女 (the last generation being those led by Lin Chi Ling I suppose).

Pictures after the break.
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Daily SG: 20 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Structured Products : List of questions for Parliament
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: General advice to investors of structured products
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Petition #3 (To Mrs Lim Hwee Hua)
- Sgpolitics: Singapore struggles to play catch-up with Hong Kong in Lehman-linked structured products issue
- TOC: The MAS – a desperate headless chicken?
- ST Discussion Board: The right and decent thing to do for your citizens
- Where Bears Roam Free: The Sound of Silence – Is our PM competent?
- Singapore Life and Times: Toxic times

Financial Crisis
- Insane Polygons: Condescension
- Singapore Skeptic: Is CPF really safe?
- Singapore Alternatives: A Nation in Gamble
- My sketchbook: MAS’ U-turn on bank deposits

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Blowin’ In The Wind: The Singapore – Merrill Lynch story

Strangers in a Strange Land
- groundnotes: Pssst, want Singapore citizenship? Its disposable
- The Sun Chair Critic: On Foreign Talents
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Headline: “Foreign workers live at sea; Middle-class Singaporean rejoice!”

Lee vs Chee
- Singapore Indian Voice: TBT 18 trial begins on Thursday
- TOC: PAP makes no apologies for defamation suits, says Vivian Balakrishnan
- Singabloodypore: Defamation suits necessary, Singapore tells rights group

Power to Cost the People despite Falling Oil Prices
- Petition Online: Revise of SP Services Tariff
- The boy who knew too much: What Heng-Cheong Leong of Myapplemenu doesn’t understand

Re Education
- The Lycan Times: Career Guidance
- Mr Wang Says So: Students And Their Career Choices
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: On NPCC and NCC

Housing
- My Singapore News: Reaching for the pinnacles the profitable way

Daily Discourse
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Singapore Government Is Not Corrupt
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Ridiculous Rules!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SM Goh : Planned Leadership Succession make Singapore stable

Infoblogoramus
- Ong Jiin Joo: Some Startup@Singapore Publicity

Daily Tech: 20 Oct 2008

Tech News
- InternetNews: Google’s G1 or Apple iPhone? Experts Weigh In
- PC World: In Pictures: 15 Killer Android Apps for the G1
- DailyTech: Apple Sued for MP3 Player Monopoly, Thuggish Tactics
- VR-Zone: Intel Upcoming Desktop CPU Price Cut (Q4 ’08 to Q1 ’09)
- Computerworld: Mozilla debuts mobile browser alpha
- DigiTimes: Demand for high-end handsets falling
- Techgage: Tales from a Modder’s Garage
- Popular Mechanics: Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of the Year

Reviews | Guides
- [H] Enthusiast: Crysis: Warhead Gameplay Perf and IQ
- HWZ: The Full Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Review
- InsideHW: Acer Aspire 5530G
- ExtremeTech: Western Digital RE3 and Hitachi’s E7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive Review
- ATI Forum: Catalyst 8.9 vs. Catalyst 8.10
- Before Dark: Nvidia Driver Comparison 178.15 Vs 178.24
- Tech-Reviews: Noctua NH-U12P
- Pudget Systems: The 64-bit Question
- ExtremeTech: How to Speed Up the Playstation 3

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Swapping Windows for Linux on Eee PC 901
- 65bits: Episode 93: I mean, who cares about Apple, right?
- theory.isthereason: theorycast.48 :: Rise of the Netbooks
- 勿忘我: The 50th anniversary of the video game

Weekly Roundup: Week 42

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Daily SG: 17 Oct 2008

High Notes and Minibombs
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minibonds: No leadership in times of trouble….!
- Singapore Watch: Creative Journalism
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: HK: Tsang vows to get justice for minibonds investors
- The Lycan Times: DBS High Notes 5

Financial Crisis
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore U-turn, guarantees all bank deposits
- Sgpolitics: All bank deposits will be guaranteed

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore’s leaders should end the practice of using defamation suits to stifle political opposition – Human Rights Watch
- HWZ: No Kangaroo T-shirts please, we are Singaporeans

Power to Cost the People despite Falling Oil Prices
- The boy who knew too much: An unkept Singaporean promise

Re Education
- daphnemaia.sg: Lack of Career Guidance in the Singapore Education System

Melamine in My Milk
- EDMW: Khong Guan biscuits got 33.4ppm melamine~!

Daily Discourse
- groundnotes: The Confused Family?
- A Poor Scholar: It’s all about Populism
- TOC: “How much does the Government care?”
- Where Bears Roam Free: Same offence, different gender, different treatment
- The Legal Janitor: Anthony Yeo: “Hai gais, I am a douchebag”
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Highlights from “NUS Stand Up Against Poverty”
- Singabloodypore: SINGAPORE: Further world pressure to end executions

Infoblogoramus
- Otterman speaks: Additional screenings: Diminishing Memories I & II: 15 Oct – 1 Nov at The Arts House




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.


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