Ministers Aplenty This Cabinet Change
- A blog day’s work: Cabinet changes - what does it mean for next GE?
- Desparatebeep: Top Heavy Management
- A writer’s blog: Increased stakes for the opposition

General Elections 2009
- The Kent Ridge Common: Independent candidates and their viability
- TOC: Workers’ Party hit by latest spate of resignations

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- TOC: New faces watching new media

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Reasons To Die Young

Lee vs Rag-and-Bone Man
- Foxy Thoughts: Shame on Singapore (Remember that song?)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Feed Me To The Fish: A Quitter’s Glory!

Daily Discourse
- The Wayang Party: Mourning 25 years of the demise of a free and independent press
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Like father, like daughter.
- The Lycan Times: Remembering Raffles
- TOC: Reaching the needy? More publicity needed
- TOC: The Pope, condoms, AIDs prevention and a controversy

Life, the universe and everything
- A Singaporean: Ideas to help Sentosa’s Marine Life Park Team circumvent the Whale Shark Exhibit winning bid submissions please..
- AngryAngMo: The 5 Most Beautiful Nature Walks In Singapore (With Maps)
- choongyong.com: “Lighting up our City Centre” and EarthHour
- Ong Jiin Joo: Blog to be a Pilot!

Our favourite Korean race queen Im Ji Hye. We never get tired of her.

Korean race queen and model Im Ji Hye 임지혜 (林智慧) was first spotted at the 2007 Seoul Motor Show and has since made the cover of Maxim korea and numerous spots on Korean TV. The 1.72m beauty was born on Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb 1987. Pictures after the break.

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Ministers Aplenty This Cabinet Change
- TOC: The man who would be king
- Singapore in General: First Female Singapore Minister?
- The Void Deck: Recent Cabinet Changes and Camelot
- Wayang Party: Is “rejuvenation” possible for a cabinet filled with oldies?
- Wayang Party: Say No to Senior Minister/Minister Mentor - Gerontocracy in disguise
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Office
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: The Singapore’s Government April Fools’ Joke
- My sketchbook: Murky world of politics choosing a DPM

General Elections 2009
- Singapore Enquirer: Photo Gallery: Up close and personal with Minister Khaw Boon Wan during his ministerial community visit to Paya Lebar
- Singapore Enquirer: Photo Gallery: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan’s dialogue session with Paya Lebar and Kovan residents

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: All about BONUS!

Recession
- TOC: Employers still discriminating against older workers
- Sgpolitics.net: We need to change the way the Government manages our economy
- Singabloodypore: Singapore officially in recession

A Law to Barter Me Organs
- nofearSingapore: “Organ-trading through the back door”

Film’s Act
- Singabloodypore: Banned film hits 40,000 views on Internet

Woody Goh, Fatimah and the Birthday of Gods
- Sgpolitics.net: The mainstream media’s clear bias for the political elite
- Singapore Enquirer: Dialogue session with Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan: On use of Medisave for nursing and old folks homes

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- Singapore Enquirer: Dialogue session with Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan: On use of Medisave for nursing and old folks homes

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- The Brotherhood: Why Blogosphere needs to run TOC, Wayangparty and the Brotherhood Press out of town!

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Getting Singaporeans excited about conservation
- the kent ridge common: Can a Green Party possibly exist in Singapore?

Life, the universe and everything
- Kaffein-nated: Missing links?
- the kent ridge common: Can Local Programming Get Any Worse?
- Singapore Watch: Earn points paying your Singtel Bill with your credit card

Infoblogaramous
- Ong Jiin Joo: Give Us This Day (Just Your Evening)
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Barcamp KL - April 2009

Tech News
- Liliputing: MSI Wind U123 to land in Japan on April 11
- The Inquirer: More ATI 4890 benchmarks
- HWZ: AMD Tackles Affordable Ultra-Thin Notebook Segment
- Bright Side of News: nVidia working on a Dual-GPU Quadro with 3.5-7GB of RAM?
- CNET: Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster
- VR-Zone: Microsoft’s new ad campaign - PC is more affordable than Mac
- CNET: Study: Video game play may improve eyesight
- Tom’s Hardware: Four of Best Six Games of the Year are on PC
- USAToday: Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
- Engineering Windows 7: Touching Windows 7
- Youtube: Lights Dim Worldwide for Earth Hour 2009 [Vid]

Reviews | Guides
- Overclock3D: 3GB, 6GB or 12GB Investigated
- HWZ: The Notebooks of Yore - Portable Past Meets Future
- X-bit labs: Chieftec Power Supply Units Roundup
- Virtual-Hideout: Cooler Master V10 CPU Heatsink Review
- Legit Reviews: SanDisk Extreme III 4GB SDHC Flash Card
- TrustedReviews: Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard

SG Tech \ MISC
- Techgoondu: StarHub launches public trial of 21Mbps mobile broadband
- Digital Terrorist: The Fast and The Furious: Starhub’s Mobile Broadband Trial
- The Singapore iPhone Guide : Local apps will take advantage of 3.0
- Tech65: Sony Vaio P
- Singapore Retrenchment Blog: NEC to no longer market and distribute PC and notebooks in Asia-Pac w.e.f June 2009

Weekly Roundup: Week 13

“While Singapore chases after economic development and all that it brings, such as jobs, one wonders if this should be at the expense of erasing our history.”
Andrew Loh

“..the Singapore system is an exam meritocracy, whilst the American one is a talent meritocracy, which saw the latter producing world-beaters in abundance.”
Kelvin Teo

“..the founding Father—who engenders and animates the state—writes himself as the sole protagonist in the national narrative, casts his allies in supporting roles and his enemies as antagonists, and interpellates Singaporean readers/citizens into infantile subjects paranoid about threats of race riots, Marxist conspiracies, hostile neighbouring countries, terrorism, disease, economic crisis, and the ceaseless challenges of striving to be number one in the world. Society, in all its lack, is the “negative mirror” that makes possible the state’s heroic self-definitions.”
“Who’s afraid of Catherine Lim? The State in Patriarchal Singapore”, Dr Kenneth Paul Tan

“The latest move IS NOT A SIGN OF OPENNESS but rather A MOVE TO UNTIE PAP’s HANDS WHILE MAKING MORE RESTRICTIONS FOR ITS DISSIDENTS, CRITICS AND POLITICAL OPPONENTS.”
Goh Meng Seng

“Knowing they can’t control political discourse, they seek to control the spaces for discourse.”
Sam Ho

“When a government legislates not against the person conducting an illegal activity but against the one witnessing it, and does so for clearly political purposes, one should know that the government has stepped beyond its moral responsibilities of safeguarding society and has abused its conferred privilege to enact laws.”
Andrew Loh

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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Woody Goh, Fatimah and the Birthday of Gods
- TOC: SM Goh’s misdirected attack on the press
- Today In Singapore: The Ugly Race Card

Film’s Act
- James Gomez: Self-Censorship: Singapore’s Shame (2nd edition) – with double the SHAME

A Law to Barter Me Organs
- nofearSingapore: Organ-trading through the back door [Thanks Doc]
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Best Answer to a Bad Question

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- Balderdash: JB nursing homes - MOH clarifies
- Today In Singapore: An Uphill Task

General Elections 2009
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Singapore Cabinet Version 3.3 — same old, same old?
- Wayang Party: Why does tiny Singapore need 2 Senior Ministers, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 1 Minister Mentor and 3 Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Office?
- The Kent Ridge Common: What Sun Tzu might have done if he was in Singapore politics instead
- EDMW: KHAW Boon Wan taking over George Yeo in Aljunied GRC?

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- The Singapore Enquirer: Interview with a Whampoa resident on his views about the CDC bonuses and personal experience with the civil service

Recession
- Dotseng: Can Singapore fail? Deih Kishore! Singapore already failed already lah!

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Singapore Social Activist: So, what did change?
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: (The popularity of) Singapore’s foreign investments in Australia

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- Sam’s thoughts: White Posterkid for Cheena-pore: WTF

Lee vs WSJ
- TOC: The unimpeachable court
- Singapore Dino: Singapore judiciary fails to silence Wall Street Journal

Daily Discourse
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Marriage Central turn a deaf ear
- Online Magazine By TPJCians: Sexting And The Accidental Porn Stars

Life, the universe and everything
- Yesterday….Today….Tomorrow: SSVF HQ 1931
- The Void Deck: Earth Hour
- The fire in my Life: SPH editors says KIV Advertlets news! [Thanks Joel]

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Android Dev/User Group Meet Up - March 2009