Yuuri Morishita (森下悠里) is an up and coming gravure idol and actress. While she was promoting Test Drive Unlimited online she revealed that she wasn’t much of a real driver herself and she hadn’t been gaming much. Dangerous curves ahead. [NSFW]
Financial Crisis
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: CPF the ultimate structured product
- Insane Polygons: The Age of Greed
High Notes and Minibombs
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Will Singapore follow Hong Kong?
- Sgpolitics.net: MAS should follow Hong Kong’s lead in securing bank deposits
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Interview with Journalist (1)
- Anonymous_X: Very costly to trust a financial adviser these days | $100,000 life savings gone
Ping Pong Pandemonium
- RedSports.sg: Table tennis coach Liu Guodong says salary offer is “insulting”
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Jiawei’s leaving – and there’s nothing the STTA and SSC can do about it
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: The Chronicles of Lee Bee Wah, a “Division One” Party Pooper
Power to Cost the People
- Choosing my own adventure: Q&A on electricity [1] [2] [3]
Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Park Benches & Public Transport Standards
- Simply Jean: SBS, SMRT fined… but who ultimately pays for it?
- TOC: How to make better use of Government “goodies”
Life, the universe and everything
- Military Life: The Guard Post (2008): A Film review by a reservist conscript in the Lion City
- ringisei: ARTSingapore 2008 impressions
- Vinyarb: learn as you pay (your parking fines!) [Thanks Richard]
- The Fire in my Life: Singpost Admail not solving root of problems [Thanks ecko as]
- Balderdash: Historical places of worship in Singapore
Infoblogaramus
- Otterman speaks: MPA maritime heritage exhibition: 17-19 Oct @ Vivocity
Tech News
- ars technica: First look: Firefox 3.1 beta 1 officially released
- TG Daily: Windows 7 gets a name: Windows 7
- Hardware Aktuell: SanDisk Sansa slotMusic Player: the new Discman?
- DigiTimes: HP said to be threatening notebook OEMs against dealing with Asustek
- PC Pro: First look: Toshiba Portégé R600
- Guru 3D: GeForce 178.24 WHQL ForceWare XP and Vista
- Phoronx: Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta
Reviews | Guides
- PC World: Is it Time to Switch to an Apple Laptop?
- BetaNews: Analysts: Will $999 MacBook have an impact?
- Overclockers Club: Asus Eee 1000H Review
- Techaddicts: Antec Signature Series SG-850 850 Watt Power Supply
- TweakTown: Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse with BlueTrack
- DriverHeaven: GELID GC1 Thermal Compound
- Legion Hardware: Building The Ultimate Budget Gaming PC [Oct 2008]
- Download.com: OpenOffice 3: Faster, uninspired interface
SG Tech
- HWZ: HardwareZone Iron Tech 2008 – The Grand Finale!
- theory.isthereason: Apple’s 24″ LCD is “almost dockable” with MacBook Pro
Financial Crisis
- My sketchbook: It’s time to check CPF monthly statement!
High Notes and Minibombs
- Blowin’ In The Wind: US to rescue partially Singapore-owned banks
Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: The sorry state of Singapore’s judiciary
- Sgpolitics.net: Contempt of Court proceedings initiated against 3 activists
- Singapore Indian Voice: Singapore Bankrupts the Singapore Democratic Party
Freedom, Choice, a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: Protests do not lead to anarchy
The Passing of JBJ
- TOC: JBJ Facebook group “largest” in S’pore
Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: How Many CSAs can a CSA CSA?
Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: No protest please, we’re Singaporeans
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse – Starbucks
- TOC: Chasing that elusive Singapore Dream
- Simply Jean: Fined for taking a nap on a park bench
- Singapore Complain Hub: Time to abolish radio and TV licence fees?
- Balderdash: I was/am/will be from RI and/or RJC, not RI(S) and/or RI(JC)!
Life, the universe and everything
- theurbanwire: What do we know about politics?
- the(new)mediaslut: Does it pay to be a journalist in Singapore?
Financial Crisis
- TOC: Will S’poreans “feel rich” too in retirement?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Lim Swee Say says it again: I’m a millionaire, but I’m still glad that I got $ in CPF..
- Feed Me To The Fish: Ripley’s Believe it or not?
- The Wayang Party Club: How the World and Singapore leaders respond to the global financial crisis
- Blowin’ In The Wind: What Singapore newspapers don’t say
- Little Speck: We need a Democratic Party
High Notes and Minibombs
- A Singaporean: Economic Crisis – Gainers and Losers
- TOC: Angry investors turn up at Hong Lim Park to seek redress
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minibonds : Same problem, different response
- nofearSingapore: Singapore’s Distraught Investors of Structured Products Need Help Now! (Forum Letter)
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Protest outside DBS headquarters
- TOC: Tan Kin Lian’s speech at Speakers’ Corner
Daily Discourse
- two cents worth: Politics of identity and globalisation: The Singaporean Identity
- Choosing my own adventure: I have hot air to share
- Singapore Election Watch: They mucked up the economy and blame everything and everyone but themselves
- HWZ: PM Lee – Chillis & Onions
Life, the universe and everything
- Delvinlee’s Weblog: Singapore Biennale 2008 @ South Beach [Thanks Delvin]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: The Worst Taxis In The World And Other Taxi Stories
Janine Zhang Jun Ning 張鈞甯 (张钧宁) is a rising star in Taiwan television. A law graduate from the National Taipei University, Zhang was born in Germany, where her father was a law professor and mother a successful writer for children’s literature. Zhang made her TV debut in the 2003 series Love Train 心動列車, but it was her starring role in the 2006 series The Hospital 白色巨塔 that got the attention of viewers and industry watchers. This was followed by the technically groundbreaking series Wayward Kenting 我在墾丁天氣晴 where she played a famous blogger. Zhang will next star as Yamada Ayumi 何亞弓 in the Taiwanese remake of Honey and Clover 蜂蜜幸运草.
Pictures after the break.
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Financial Crisis
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Time for the Social Safety Nets to be READY and in place….
- For Want of a Better Title: Who Should Pay?
- Simply Jean: Singapore is in technical recession!
- My sketchbook: Putting a brave front in face of financial crisis
High Notes and Minibombs
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Structured products too complex to understand
- Mr Wang Says So: How To Protect Your Money in Singapore Banks
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Complete news blackout by mainstream media on DBS Hong Kong’s “kind” offer to compensate affected minibond holders
- Me and my thoughts: My Professional Goals
We don’t need no regulation
- Just Stuff: Suggested Solutions for managing e-relationships between netizens and government / Part 3 A / The Foundation
Power to Cost the People
- Singapore Complain Hub: Singapore Energy Crisis Ahead In The Future
Daily Discourse
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse – Benny Hinn
- Simply Jean: Going down: Pump prices. Again. (But electricity going up)
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Money makes the crowd come round?
Life, the universe and everything
- The Extra Scoop: Positive Journalism?
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Singapore’s Worst Website – NS.SG?
Tech News
- The Inquisitr: Apple to launch $800 laptop
- NYT: YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through
- The Inquirer: Nvidia 270, 290 and GX2 roll out in November
- Infoworld: Worst Windows flaws of the past decade
- Apple 2.0: Spotlight on Apple notebooks: 1989 to 2008
- Gizmodo: Richard Garriott Reaches Orbit, Can Finally Act Out Plot of Tabula Rasa
- VideoGamer: PC gamer market in ‘tatters’, says Molyneux
- Shacknews: StarCraft 2 Now A Trilogy, Three Campaigns to Be Split Into Separate Games
- Game|Life: Video: Diablo III’s Wizard
Reviews | Guides
- Tom’s Hardware: The Best Graphics Cards for the Money: October 2008
- Hardware Infos: Nvidia Geforce G, GS, GT and GTX
- OC3D: Waterblock Shootout
- BurnOutPC: Antec Mini P180
- TrustedReviews: Nokia N96
- I4U: Coosh Headset for iPod/iPhone Review
SG Tech
- 65bits: Episode 92 : In Mother Russia, the OS boots you!
- The eOK .network: Plurk isn’t a game changer… yet
- theory.isthereason: Making silky smooth videos with the affordable Hague Mini Motion Cam
Lee vs Chee | Censorship
- Yawning Bread: Academic freedom and the Rascals Prize
- Sgpolitics: Chia Ti Lik in London to meet with lawyers and lawmakers
Can we learn to clean up our own mess?
- Think Happiness: Decline to Return Used Crockery & Trays
- Singapore Life and Times: Messing up
The Passing of JBJ
- Wayang Party Club: A national day of mourning for JBJ by Singaporeans
- ed’sperience’s Blog: reflections: on JBJ’s candlelight vigil, perspectival space, and the future of Singapore
- San Oo Aung’s Weblog: We want a Mr JBJ but not another Harry Lee Kuan Yew in Burma
Power to Cost the People
- My Singapore News: Singapore power tariffs higher than the US or France
Strangers in a Strange Land
- The art of dumbspeak (and pigging-out): Serangoon Gardens: Who’s Afraid of the Dark Man?
- Aussie Pete: Expats Give Singapore ‘Thumbs Up’ For Kids
Financial Crisis
- Blowin’ In the Wind: Singapore fund has stakes in UK bailout banks
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minibond holders in HK offered full compensation
Melamine in my Milk
- Food Fads: Three more products with melamine discovered in Singapore [Thanks ecko as]
- Mindblogging Stuff: Ok, so now melamine is “permissible”?
Daily Discourse
- Groundnotes: Where have the intellectuals gone?
- Musings: New Thio-ries on Bloggers and Homosexualists
- Singapore Dino: Fine Starbucks for massive wastage of water in Singapore
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Increasing the price of a dying technology is a bad move
- Jacob’s Weblog: Chia Thye Poh and Lim Chin Siong
Life, the universe and everything
- Ong Jiin Joo: 460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record
- One lady’s wrath might be another’s: Sengkang Stud
Momoko Tani (谷桃子) worked as a campaign girl and a waitress after graduating from High School. She was scouted and quickly gained favor and was elected into the 2007 Nitteligenic class, which included other top idols such as Asami Oda and Aya Kiguchi. After graduating from the Nitteligenic group this year, Momoco has been working towards her goal of becoming an actress. [NSFW]
Financial Crisis
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Recession is here!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Tough Times Ahead
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Entrepreneurs and Credit Crunch
- Yawning Bread: With recession coming, what social safety nets have we in place?
The Passing of JBJ
- In memory of JB Jeyaretnam: “I have lost everything but I have no regrets”
- a blog day’s work: Philip Jeyaretnam’s eulogy for his father
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: Let not the personal tragedy of JBJ by repeated in Singapore again
SG Press rank 141 and falling
- a blog day’s work: More “first-world” media stunts
- TOC: The importance of editorial independence in the news process
The Singapore F1 Grand Prix
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore Democrats: F1 and our future
Housing
- TOC: Means testing for public housing?
Daily Discourse
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Society: Policeman blames himself for girl’s death
- PKChuKiss: Police officers not allowed to be human – Lionel De Souza
- Simply Gab: Changi Airport Corporatisation: from the hand that swipes the ass to the hand that digs the nose
Life, the universe and everything
- Military Life: Citizen Soldier: How the SAF Taught me when to kill
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: ANOTHER World’s Tallest Building in Dubai, This Time at A Kilometre HIGH. (Biggest LCD Screen Too!)
Tech News
- BusinessWeek: Verizon Wireless, RIM Unleash a Storm
- Fudzilla: Intel to launch three new CPUs on November 30th
- ITProPortal: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Delay Till 2009
- The Inquirer: Arabian Micro Devices explains itself
- CNET: Google introduces YouTube click-to-buy
- Register Hardware: Sega to launch PSP beater in 2009
- Engadget: Razer rolls out Lycosa Mirror, Arctosa gaming keyboards
- CNET: Android phones making their way into the wild
- Cellular-News: Lightbulbs Could Replace Wi-Fi Hotpsots
- VentureBeat: Q&A: Nintendo of America chief on game industry competition
Reviews | Guides
- B3D: Sapphire HD 4850 Dual Slot Fansink
- Bit-tech: First Look: Asus Eee PC S101
- TweakTown: NZXT Khaos Full Tower Enclosure
- OCIA: Logitech Cordless Desktop S520
- Everything USB: Logitech Illuminated Keyboard Review
- Benchmark Reviews: Belkin F5D8053 WiFi N Wireless Adapter
- Futurelooks: Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Review
- TrustedReviews: Apple iPod nano 8GB 4th Gen
SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Lost in Singapore? No longer with Google Street View, iSingeo, Gothere.sg
- HWZ: Hardware Zone Iron Tech 2008
Power to Cost the People
- TOC: Greed run amok
- Salary.sg: HK Electricity operator cuts price of electricity by 3%. What about Singapore?
Lee vs Chee | Censorship
- TOC: NTU students protest at Speakers’ Corner
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: NTU student’s protest against censorship [Vid]
The Passing of JBJ
- Singapore Complain Hub: Discovering JBJ – A Stranger, A Legend, A Politician
- TOC: JBJ – a tribute and a response to PM’s letter
- Singapore Dino: PAP even afraid of Mr Jeyaretnam’s ghost
- UncleYap: Part 3 of Mr JBJ’s funeral videos
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Toadjuice: Looks like my MPs are postmen and women after all
- Sgpolitics: Abuse of foreign workers is yet another example of Government incompetence
Financial Crisis
- Mr Wang Says So: Greed & Ignorance – The Financial Crisis
Daily Discourse
- Giapsby’s Weblog: Globalised identity: How did Singapore managed the situation
- Wayang Party Club: Roundtable: Is Malaysia’s society more divided than Singapore’s due to differences in education system? [Thanks James]
Life, the universe and everything
- Nomadism: Happening night life, what night life?
- The fire in my life: “Nuffnang attempts to ‘censor’ Innit!” [Thanks ecko as]
- Right up your alley: BeeNahLey!
Infoblogoramus
- SIPF08: The Inaugural Singapore International Photography Festival [Festival Calendar .DOC]
- Ong Jiin Joo: A stint in Bermuda, a career in Singapore
Fey as Palin again, this time spoofing her interview with Couric. ROFLOL. [Vid after the break]
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Lee vs Chee | Censorship
- Mr Wang Says So: Singapore’s Media Tied Up in Its Own Knots
- Sgpolitics: Singapore Democrats: Let our students grow
Financial Crisis
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Singapore Journalism: Whither the details?
- My Singapore News: Where is the stock market heading…
The Passing of JBJ
- Tribolum: The Miserables
Daily Discourse
- Social Problems in a Global Context: Singaporean Identity Under Oppression?
- The Legal Janitor: Singapore: The Last Bastion of Freedom
Life, the universe and everything
- Alamak: SingTel Raises Land Line Charges, StarHub Offers Them For Free
- The boy who knew too much: Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008
- Sam’s thoughts: Transgender Engendered Agenda
- In God We Trust: Kindness an act of obligation?
Infoblogoramus
- The eOK .network: Social Media Marketing Examples in Singapore
The Passing of JBJ
- a blog day’s work: Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s eulogy for his father
- Yawning Bread: J B Jeyaretnam: The iconography begins
- Balderdash: I went down to Hong Lim Park
- TOC: Letter to PM Lee to honour Mr JBJ
- TOC: From one friend to another
- Gee Siva: The Lion of Singapore
- Xtralicious: Fixing the opposition – even beyond the grave
- My Singapore News: A time to change
- Think Happiness: MICA Reply: Banned JBJ Film
- Singabloodypore: The final farewell to Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- UncleYap: Good Bye Mr JBJ Sir
- Jacob’s Weblog: Photos of JBJ’s funeral service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral AND memorial event at Speakers’ Corner
Power to Cost the People
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Explaining the 21.5% Electricity Tariff Hike…..
- Under The Willow Tree: Singapore’s Electricity Prices Pegged to Crude Oil, not Natural Gas!?!?
- My Sketchbook: The electrifying electricity tariff hike!
We don’t need no regulation
- Just Stuff: Suggested Solutions for managing e-relationships between netizens and government / Part 2 / The Challenges
SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Xtralicious: Dissecting the ST interview and the journalist-blogger relationship
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Channelnewsasia’s news bias: A private book-launch of an ex-minister is newsworthy??
Low Class Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- PakMakJujat: Singaporeans Who Think Too Highly Of Themselves
- Sg_LJers: foreign workers dorm…
- Tomorrow.sg: Untold story of migrant workers in Singapore
Lee vs Chee | Censorship
- TOC: Becoming a world-class university: NTU and campus media freedom
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Stupid Move by NTU
- Sgpolitics: Students protest university censorship at Hong Lim Park
Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Property UP, Property DOWN….
Melamine in my Milk
- Simply Jean: Melamine in everything? There may be more coming… and here’s why
Life, the universe and everything
- quachee’s blog: Singlish
- Lushhomemedia: The MRT guide to home prices
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
- Engadget: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hands-on
- Phone Scoop: Nokia 5800 with S60 Touch Hands-On
- Crunchgear: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube released plus first hands-on
- Slashphone: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Live Demonstration on Ovi Channel
Reviews | Guides
- Tech ARP: ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide Rev. 3.0
- Futurelooks: Razer Salmosa Gaming Mouse Review
- DriverHeaven: Enermax Aurora Premium Keyboard & JAZZ Enclosure
- TrustedReviews: Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
- InsideHW: Compatibility of Office Formats
Tech News
- TG Daily: Rumor mill: Playstation 4 to focus on cost reduction, Wii
- PC Mag: Skype Acknowledges Chinese Spying
- Crave: Amazon’s Kindle 2 leaked
- TrustedReviews: CEATEC Japan 2008 – Part 1
- BusinessWeek: The 25 Most Influential People on the Web
SG Tech
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 91: The One Before SMB4
- A tiny blip in the continuum: Sony brings sexybackA
