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Our deepest condolences to the family of Ms Lo Hoei Yen

“Joke has it that PAP gives you a drumstick but will take back a whole chicken from you. With what’s been happening lately, it’s more like they stole your whole chicken farm [raising the cost of living in every and any way possible while paying themselves million dollars salary] and feed you chicken feet and neck when you complain or beg for sustenance to survive [Mdm Lim's public assistance of $330].”
Feed Me To The Fish

“When asked if town councils might lose more money from their other investments, Dr Teo said that he did not have the details of their investments and declined comment about his town council, Holland-Bukit Panjang”
Today Online

Roundup this week and recommended reads after the break.

Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- TOC: A touch of reserve
- TOC: Gamblers and gambling – a nation hooked
- Wayangparty Club: Video interview with Singaporeans on their thoughts of Town Councils’ loss of sinking funds
- the(new)mediaslut: Town councils and Mini bonds: A PR lesson in crisis management [Recommended]
- UncleYap: Opposition should call MPs to Resign over Town Councils’ Bond Losses
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: elected town councils
- The Secret Political Blog: Sinking funds Sinking
- My Very Own Glob: We are sorry we lost your money
- Singapore Alternatives: Long Term Becomes WRONG TERM! WHERE ARE YOUR EYES?
- Wayang Party: Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council Chairman reassures residents: “relac, still got $2.1 million left” but…..
- Mindblogging Stuff: Be thankful
- TOC: Accounting for town councils’ investments - do your part
- TOC: Town councils’ funds - Teo Ho Pin responds
- Wayang Party: Teo Ho Pin’s “reassurance” is hardly reassuring
- Wayang Party: Tanjong Pagar GRC resident writes in to Town Council to request for full disclosure of information
- The Lionheart: A Call for Action

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Tan Kin Lian: Tan Kin Lian eyes elected presidency [Petition form for elected presidency]
- Sgpolitics: Tan Kin Lian’s political ambitions
- Wayangparty Club: Tan Kin Lian’s bid for presidency: Is this the right time?
- Singapore Life and Times: Stand Up for Singaporeans
- Vinyarb: from hong lim to istana
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Tan Kin Lian - a threat to PAP and Opposition alike?
- Wayangparty Club: Multi-talented PAP ministers working hard on Sunday for their multi-million pay package
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Investors should see their Member of Parliament
- TOC: Two opinions on Tan Kin Lian petition
-Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Musings on Mr. Tan Kin Lian’s political ambitions
- Recruit Ong: Tan Kin Lian’s political “ambitions”?
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Who benefits from a petition to TKL [Recommended]
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Possible reasons why TKL keeps his options open
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Suggestion: how to approach legal action
- Where Bears Roam Free: Elected President, MP or consumer rights activist?
- Wayangparty Club: Roundtable discussion: Tan Kin Lian’s bid for presidency - how far will he go?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why He Should Not Run
- My sketchbook: Tan kin lian’s christmas list
- Singapore Alternatives: Synthetic CDOs
- TOC: 100,000 signatures so more people will step forward
- Wayang Party: More photos from minibond rally at Hong Lim Park, 15 Nov 2008
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner 5 p.m. Sat 29 Nov
- TOC: Interview with investor who lost $150,000
- Voices.Sg: Monster Dogs, Broken Pipes, and Political Plumbers [Thanks Stanislaus]
- Wayang Party: Remembering the last two ‘presidential casualties’ - Ong Teng Cheong and Andrew Kwan
- Sgpolitics.net: Mr Tan Kin Lian offers an apology to Dr Chee and sister
- Wayang Party: Is Tan Kin Lian posturing to reach out to the opposition camp?
- The Void Deck: Tan Kin Lian as President: Change we can believe in?

Recession
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Shrinking economy still expected to grow. Why?
- My sketchbook: Light at the end of the tunnel
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: golden period golden period golden period
- Sgpolitics.net: An offer Singapore couldn’t refuse?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore worried about money flowing overseas
- TheSuffocate: Uncle Sam the White Knight
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More Help Needed
- Tan Kin Lian: Bonus likely to remain low

One-Party to Rule Us All
- Gerald Giam: Having a capable alternative party is in the national interest
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP : Change we ALSO can …Part 1.
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Political Systems or Rhetorical Systems?
- Majulah Singapura: Two-party thing
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Further arguments on a one-party state
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Li Hongyi and his ST letter
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Mr Li writes to ST Forum; commenting as a Singaporean or Singapore’Lee’ian?
- Sgpolitics.net: Logic favours two party system; Governments better off with checks and balances (ST letters in response to Dr Tan Wu Meng)
- Sgpolitics.net: Continued one-party rule by PAP or multi-party democracy?
- The Singapore Talkshop: To be strong and incompetent [Thanks Alex] [Recommended]
- musings: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
- Think For Me, Singapore: Was Obama speaking to the Singapore government?

PAP Ministars, Get Rich or Die Tryin
- TOC: Third ministers’ pay hike in two years – Staying together or moving ahead?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Grandstanding or just sitting on their buttocks?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: the art of grandstanding
- Wayangparty Club: Multi-million PAP ministers working their socks off on Sunday for their multi-million pay package
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Post-cut Singapore leaders better paid than Bush
- Street71: How much ‘Civil Servant’ pay in Singapore…
- Feed Me To The Fish: Austerity Grandstand
- Singapore Life and Times: Follow the porridge
- TOC: Kudos to Govt for pay cut and deferment
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Too Much Info
- The Lycan Times: Daily Discourse - Pay Cut

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Wayang Party: This Country is going to the Dumps
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: We are all helping the PAP

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Will Shareholders of Citigroup get wiped out?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Citigroup down to $20.5b from $244b
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: What is WORRYING about GIC & Temasek Losses!

Time to Cast our Vote?
- Singapore Angle: Singapore General Election 2009 Likely?

Fixing the Opposition
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Beyond Sintercom: Not My SDP, The Online Citizen, The Wayang Party Club

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Yawning Bread: Conversation stoppers

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: 60 years of UDHR and ISA
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore’s embattled human rights lawyer

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: “Kangaroo court” activists found in contempt of court; To be sentenced on Thur, 9.30am
- Sgpolitics: My response to the TOC article “SDP: Misunderstood, misguided or misaligned?”
- vinyarb: I want to complain about you to me
- Jacob’s Weblog: Persecution and prosecution of activists continue
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Kangaroo T-Shirts and the Established Pecking Order

Hong Lim Park
- TOC: “Blood flowing like a river”

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Wayangparty Club: Hella lots of propaganda spinning from the state media lately !!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 21 October 2008: Employment of Foreign Workers Without Jobs
- Siew Kum Hong: WPQ 17 November 2008: Foreign Workers on Special Passes

Power to Cost the People
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Crude, EMA, SP and Me

Daily Discourse
- flaneurose: Doing Business with DBS
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: 2008 PSLE top pupils; not-surprising & surprising at the same time!
- still me: wtf letter of the day
- Singabloodypore: Prostitution Thrives in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Elitism 401 : Elitsm and the war for talent
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening - why is everyone keeping mum?
- Wayangparty Club: Life transformer: Man works 7 days a week to feed family of 7
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: singapore armed forces pay cut too?
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Myth of The Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
- Singapore Enquirer: Interview with 2 Public Assistance (PA) holders: Is S$330 a month enough?
- Feed Me To The Fish: We live, we learn
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore’s Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation? [Thanks Bernard]
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore: Where Do I Start? [Thanks Bernard]
- Choosing my own adventure: PSB-approved doesn’t mean safer
- Mr Wang Says So: Tan Wen Yi - The CCA Suicide
- Singapore Enquirer: Are Singaporeans ready for change?
- My sketchbook: Our government are with us in bad times
- groundnotes: The Comfort of False Dilemmas [Thanks Mr. Udders] [Recommended]
- Gerald Giam: Thailand’s protestors is subverting democracy

Life, the universe and everything
- The Lycan Times: Places of Interest - Marina Barrage
- thegreatsze: Anime Festival Asia ‘08
- Anonymous_X: Photos Galore: HungryGoWhere.com Big Eat Out! The Peranakan Museum [Thanks wacky_artz]
- Wise of the Day: Consumer’s complain against errant provider
- Ong Jiin Joo: The 12 Settings of GMail’s Tea House Theme
- Aussie Pete: Top 10 Movie Bad Guys - Warning, These Guys Will Invade Your Nightmares!
- TOC: Coping with joblessness: A personal account
- Military Life: Youtube your way through the Singapore Armed Forces
- The fire in my life: Singapore Mint showing signs of inflation?
- Toadjuice… off the blender: News from the Crapper - Returning of Food Trays
- Singapore Agnes Tan: Bargain for the past few days
- Glass Castle Blog: DBS: Don’t Support Focus on the Family
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Enter the MATRIX with Secret Command Execution in Wordpress 2.6 and 2.7 betas! Try it Today!
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Browhaus tribute to George W. Bush’s legacy
- Angry Angmo: 10 Best Things To Do When Being Sick In Singapore [Thanks Florian]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs’ Translations goes WRONG!
- Aussie Pete: James Bond’s Latest Girl, Olga - Up Close and Personal

Infoblogaramous
- the boy who knew too much: Hafiz Osman’s Economist Art Exhibition
- EDMW: [Alert! GPGT] Choa Chu Kang Way Molester
- Singabloodypore: A Public Awareness Walk To End Violence Against Women
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Chunk Fest
- Otterman speaks: Also at Sungei Buloh on the 15th Anniversary weekend - 2 Days of Shutterspeed Action with Nature
- Cooler Insights: Dim Sum Dollies at National Museum
- Majulah Singapura: DARK FRIDAY Dec5: Goth/EBM/Industrial Night feat (ANGELSPIT) DestroyX & ZooG