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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!

March 31st, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (9)

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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March 31st, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (5)

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

March 30th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

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

March 30th, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

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

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March 28th, 2009 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (10)

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

March 27th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (5)

Eri Otoguro (乙黒えり) is a Japanese actress who was born in Bangkok, Thailand. She has a small role in the Hollywood remake of the Thai film, Shutter. More of her pictures taken off her photobook <<Every Breath You Take>> after the break.

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March 27th, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (8)

Film’s Act
- Youtube: Singaporeans should be trusted to judge the films for themselves [Thanks craven]
- NewSintercom: The Films Act Noose Tightens
- TOC: Was Minister Lui Tuck Yew confused by AIMs’ recommendations?

Recession
- Singapore in General: Can Singapore Fail? [Thanks Jennifer]
- ~eternalhap~: Simple guide to S’pore domestic consumption
- TOC: Preparing our SMEs for the next phase of growth

Parliament 2009
- Sgpolitics.net: Parliamentary Snapshots — 25 & 26 March 2009

Strangers in a Strange Land
- still me: What to do with the Rohingyas?
- TOC: MOM takes action against illegal lodging for foreign workers

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Still a climate of fear…

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- Wayang Party: PAP MPs expressed concern for foreign students, but forgot about local undergraduates

Lee vs WSJ
- Jacob’s Weblog: Judgment in Singapore – Dow Jones statement

Re education
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Myth of Meritocracy

Healthcare
- ~eternalhap~: A look at S’pore’s Healthcare: Part 3
- Today In Singapore: Money Does Buy Happiness

Pink Issue
- Musings: Singapore Communitarianism and the Case for Conserving 377A

Daily Discourse
- Wayang Party: Time to review executive rewards for CEOs and political leaders in government-owned companies

Life, the universe and everything
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Earth Hour 2009 and SENATUS
- Ong Jiin Joo: The “International Sounds” of Singapore
- The Fire in my Life: Advertlets : The Link With SPH [Thanks Joel]
- Aussie Pete: Archibald Prize 2009 – Finalists

March 26th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Tech News
- BetaNews: Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?
- PC World: Firefox May Already Be Dead
- The Boy Genius Report: AT&T: New iPhone will be hot, son
- VR-Zone: AMD Brings Foward HD 4890 Launch Date To 2nd April
- techPowerUp!: ASUS Preparing High-End Non-Reference HD 4890 Accelerator
- X-bit labs: Sony Slashes Pricing of PlayStation 3 Development Kit
- Google Blog: Two new improvements to Google results pages
- EETimes: Cloud service battles videogame boxes
- Voodoo Extreme: John Carmack Releases Open Source Wolfenstein iPhone Port
- Maximum PC: This is No Joke: Conficker.C to Strike on April Fools’ Day

Reviews | Guides
- Fudzilla: EVGA GTX 295 HydroCopper blows the competition away
- Legion Hardware: ASUS Extreme AH4870X2 Tri-Fan
- HWZ: Copper Boost – Gigabyte GeForce GTS 250
- HotHardware: ASUS XONAR Essence STX PCIe Audio Card
- DriverHeaven: Acer Aspire 8930G Laptop
- TweakTown: ATI Catalyst 9.3 Analysis – XP & Vista
- TrustedReviews: Winterface 1.31 Windows Mobile Shell

SG Tech \ MISC
- Tech65: Counterpoint: Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Software
- Hadto.net: Generation Loss

March 26th, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

Film’s Act
- TOC: An affront to Singapore’s history
- the kent ridge common: What’s in a name? That which we call a truth?
- Sam’s thoughts: Films Act: Let us embrace ambiguity
- Singabloodypore: PAP: Not even one
- The Brotherhood: Diplomacy vs Community Moderation – a better tomorrow for our net
- My sketchbook: More muscles to the Films Act

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- Singapore in General: Dialects – The Mysteries of Singlish [Thanks soojenn]
- Wikipedia: Singlish [Thanks soojenn]

Parliament 2009
- Wayang Party: Important questions not raised during recent Parliamentary sittings

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- TOC: JB nursing homes – MOH clarifies

Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore
- Blowin’ In the Wind: Human rights: Universal or evolutionary?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Toadjuice: Serangoon Gardens dorm may begin operations in August

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Wayang Party: Reasons behind site shutdown
- Wayang Party: Anonymity in cyberspace is really an illusion

Daily Discourse
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Celebrate marriage without balloons
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Reactions to mass balloon release

Life, the universe and everything
- Yummy BBQ Chicken Wings: Getting addicted to TED: Ideas worth spreading
- The fire in my life: Advertlets: Exposed! [Thanks Joel]

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: 3rd Singapore Python User Group Meeting

March 25th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (7)

Film’s Act
- Martyn See: New restrictions to Films Act introduced in the guise of liberalisation
- TOC: A bad law just got worse
- Sgpolitics: The new Public Order Act — more arbitrary powers, more tyranny
- Singapore Alternatives: PAP Cha Cha – One Step Forward Three Steps Back
- Workers’ Party: Films Amendment Bill
- TOC: New Films Act restrictions [News Vid]

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Many Faces of Moderation in Internet
- Geekonomics: Can the Internet be self-regulated? [Thanks Nic]

The Passing of Dr Allan Ooi
- Singapore Enquirer: A call for setting up of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the circumstances leading to Dr Allan Ooi’s suicide
- Wayang Party: More than meets the eye behind MINDEF’s explanation of Dr Allan Ooi’s bond
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Mindef Speaks, All Listen
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Hey, Straits Times, where’s the gaming addiction now?

Recession
- Blowin’ In The Wind: The ascent of money
- My Little Corner: Inflation is up 1.9%

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- The boy who knew too much: The mysteries of Singlish

SG Press rank 140 and falling
- A Xeno Boy in Sg: A Cup of Sg Tea

General Elections 2009
- The Void Deck: From the Horses’ Mouths: PAP MPs’ Shortcomings

Re education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Rethinking the term “elitism”

Daily Discourse
- catherinelim.sg: “Who’s afraid of Catherine Lim?”
- TOC: Change has come to S’pore

Life, the universe and everything
- AngryAngMo: Singapore’s Best Burger – Here Are The 5 Best Places (With Pics)
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Multi-touch Interactive Table at Noise Singapore

March 24th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (14)

Asami Reina 浅見れいな is a Japanese actress and model. Born in Higashimurayama Tokyo (7 Jun 1983), she began her modeling career for the magazine Seventeen. She was a gravure idol for a period before becoming an actress. This is a photobook she released in 2005. Picture after the break. [NSFW]

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March 24th, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- God’s in his heaven, All’s well with the world: Of languages and dialects
- Cavalierio: Disadvantageous Mandarin
- Singapore Life and Times: Speaking aloud
- TOC: Speaking dialects helps build rapport, even in business
- My sketchbook: Gazing into the stars

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- mrbrown: CDC Bonus Fiasco Part 2: The missing forum threads

The Passing of Dr Allan Ooi
- Singapore Enquirer: SAF offered doctor alternative posting

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Today In Singapore: Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: BBC Interviews PM Lee
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore newspapers censor PM’s BBC interview

Recession
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Its the economic performance that counts!
- ~eternalhap~: MM Lee says boosting consumption is ‘rubbish’
- Support site for the unemployed: Reader’s Comment on Article “Helping private enterprises create jobs” [Thanks Small and Suffering]

General Elections 2009
- Wayang Party: MM Lee’s “mandarinate” system is the real scourge of multi-party politics in Singapore
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Singapore Elections This Year

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Wayang Party: One law for all?

SG Press rank 140 and falling
- The Lady Melissa: A Paper Fit For Peasants

Hsien and Thein: An Orchid for a Dictator
- Sgpolitics.net: Orchids for Aung San Suu Kyi but it’s not from PAP

Lee vs WSJ
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Philip Jeyaretnam: Following Dad’s footsteps?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Social Activist: ‘We’ don’t look down?
- Wayang Party: BREAKING: Exclusive interview with blogger “PothePanda” who claimed he was arrested & interrogated by police for a post he made on STOMP (Parts 1 & 2)
- TOC: Are childcare centres exploiting govt schemes?
- The Brotherhood: Why is PAP going to China to look for the mythical dead end?

Life, the universe and everything
- Otterman speaks: The Straits Times: old articles (1845-1982) now searchable
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Response Email from RWS with regards to petition
- Unique-Frequency.com: An Opportunity For Resorts World Sentosa?
- nussu the ridge online: New Shaw Foundation Alumni House Opening in March

Infoblogoramus
- Geekonomics: Marriages in Singapore get digital support [Thanks Nic]

March 23rd, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Tech News
- ZDNet: IE8 focuses on usability
- eWeek: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Shows Great Improvement, but It’s Already a Step Behind Rivals
- PC WOrld: Internet Explorer 8: What You Need to Know
- Ars Technica: Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own
- InformationWeek: Google Offers Gmail ‘Undo Send’ Feature
- X-bit Labs: Nvidia’s First Microprocessor
- NetworkProPortal: Ericsson Demonstrates 0.5Gbps Broadband Using Copper Wires
- Donanim Haber: Intel: GM45 better than Nvidia MCP79MVL chipset

Reviews | Guides
- TGDaily: Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available
- Computerworld: Review: Internet Explorer 8 is new and improved — is it back on top?
- The Tech Report: A fresh look at processor value. Evaluating the latest processors
- X-bit Labs: 1TB Hard Disk Drives Roundup: 14 Solutions Reviewed
- AnandTech: The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ
- TweakTown: Patriot Warp V3 256GB 2.5-inch Solid State Disk
- Legit Reviews: Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB Notebook Hard Drive
- PC Games Hardware: Power consumption: 30 LCDs tested
- HArdware Canucks: The Future of Stereo 3D Part I: Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision
- TechSpot: 5 Beautiful HTPC Cases Reviewed
- Overclock3D: Seasonic M12D 750w ATX PSU
- TrustedReviews: Panasonic DMP-BD80 Blu-ray Player

SG Tech \ MISC
- Techgoondu: First looks: Windows 7 Beta
- Tech65.org: Lenovo ThinkPad X200
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: iPhone 3.0
- Digital Terrorist: Eee Top is Underratedly Simpur
- My Little Corner: Comparing an iPhone 3G Photo and W595 Photo
- theory.isthereason: The DIY Phuket Simulator

March 23rd, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

..the nature of business development in Asia is so different and [the West] fail to understand that in a country where the private sector is nurtured by the state, the business community will be the last people to champion democratic reform.”
Carpediem

“Alternative news source do not simply appear if established ones are doing their job.”
groundnotes

“I cannot take this anymore and I don’t know what I’ll do one day.. I get angry when I see her so how can I don’t hit her?”
Ng Kim Ngweng

“Isn’t it ironic that Mr Lee who prides himself in having brought Singapore up by providing education is now busy trying to create a limitation of the mind in his quest to remove any ressurgance of the people who put him into power all those years ago.”
Tang Li

“I would gladly trade, pardon the pun, GDP growth with the ability to speak my native language (it is neither English nor Mandarin) even if it is the most economically unviable language in the world. For that matter, I would be proud to be a Singaporean even if it is the poorest country there is around. What consolation does it bring, to be able to speak to 1.3 billion Chinese all over China if I cannot even engage in a proper conversation with my own family?”
KJ

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March 21st, 2009 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (7)

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- TOC: Disadvantageous Mandarin
- Carpe Diem: Searching for Singapore’s soul (Part 2): A losing battle for our dialects
- Desparatebeep: A Dance for All
- Feed Me To The Fish: Dialect Murderer – Fangyi Sha Sou
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Suppression of Dialects in Singapore

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- Today In Singapore: Bonus For What?!
- Singapore Enquirer: Interview with Jalan Besar residents: Do they think a 8 months bonus given to CDC staff is fair and reasonable?

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Blowin’ In The Wind: ‘Life would be easier if MM were not my father’
- TOC: Singapore’s GIC RE unfazed by $360m hit

Recession
- Singapore Social Activist: Risks of Unchecked Export-Driven Growth
- The Kent Ridge Common: Will the ongoing crisis be the catalyst for anarchist views?

Hsien and Thein: An Orchid for a Dictator
- Singapore Dino: Singapore’s Botanic Gardens and national flower defiled

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- The boy who knew too much: Where sympathy is a crime
- Sgpolitics.net: NTU Associate Professor Chan Kap Lup attempts to dispel rumours

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Wayang Party Club: Less than 3 in 10 jobs went to citizens: no real figures on citizens given by MOM

Lee vs Rag-and-Bone Man
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Phone threats is a non-seizable offence

Lee vs Asia Sentinel
- Sgpolitics.net: Another Day in the Lion City, Almost

Healthcare
- ~eternalhap~: A look at S’pore’s Healthcare: Part 3

Life, the universe and everything
- this lush garden within: $100k donations for NUS student stricken with cancer within days

Infoblogaramous
- Ong Jiin Joo: Registration for NMF 2009 is open

March 20th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Mayuko Iwasa (岩佐真悠子) is a Japanese entertainer and model. She debuted as Miss Magazine 2003 and made the biggest impact in various Japanese magazines as an early-blooming high-school girl. Mayuko has gained the Graph Prize, the 42nd Golden Arrow Awards (2004) in March 2005. She then jumped into TV and movies completing an astonishing 12 TV shows and 5 movies in 2.5 years. More of her after the break. [PNSFW]

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March 20th, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- SingapuraKini: News Blackout [Thanks Singapura kini]
- Wayang Party: Open letter to Dr Teo Ho Pin re: Creative shares purchased by Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council and staff bonuses
- My sketchbook: Taxpayers’ money

Recession
- The Itch to Write: After Jobs Credit Scheme was introduced…

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Lianain Films: First World, Third World
- Lianain Films: Seriously Depressing

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- Geekonomics: Setting the records straight
- Singapore Enquirer: NTU Prof dispels rumours

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Sgpolitics.net: The Internet and Opposition Politics
- Singapore Enquirer: Government increasingly forced to respond to anonymous bloggers

If newspapers die..
- Kaffein-nated: Sheer genius, or complete dodo

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- Desparatebeep: Why Limit Learning?

Lee vs Rag-and-Bone Man
- Wayang Party: Phone threats a non-seizable offence: case of double standards?

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Courage, gall, guts and balls – In celebration of all things daringly Singaporean

Hsien and Thein: An Orchid for a Dictator
- Seelan Palay: Singaporean activists protest against naming of Orchid after Burmese General
- My sketchbook: Orchid named after Myanmar PM-Dendrobium Thein Sein

Healthcare
- ~eternalhap~: A look at S’pore’s Healthcare: Part 2

Daily Discourse
- the kent ridge common: Singapore Education: Why underdogs and late bloomers have the better end of the bargain
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Merlion is Back
- Carpe Diem: Should we be searching for Singapore’s soul? (Part 1)

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: How To Handle Negative Media Coverage [Thanks Bernard]
- Ian On The Red Dot: My One Shorter Than Your One. Actually, No Lah… Same Length
- The fire in my Life: It just does not make sense with Advertlets! [Thanks Joel]
- TOC: Undergraduate battles ALL with a smile

The Arts, Film and Music
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Review of Watchmen

March 19th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Tech News
- Crave: Is a 9-inch Adamo in Dell’s future?
- Guardian: Apple’s new G3 Shuffle creates minor controversy
- Engadget: Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
- DailyTech: Apple Reveals It Intentionally Crippled Bluetooth in iPod touch 2G
- OCHeaven: The Rumor has ended. AMD unveiled Radeon HD4890
- Fudzilla: Microsoft ‘Office 14′ to launch in early March 2010
- VNUnet: Google takes Chrome back into beta
- ExtremeTech: Catalyst 9.3 Unifies Vista, Win7 Driver Release
- TweakTown: Sneaky trick enables SLI on non-SLI motherboard
- DigiTimes: Atom processors to account for more than 50% of entry level desktop sales by end of 2009
- SlashGear: Ericsson looking to sell Sony Ericsson cellphone share?
- Techware Labs: What the OLPC project is screwing up and how to not be the next Newton
- Nigel Dessau: ..the industry needs another test to measure battery life.

Reviews | Guides
- Engadget: iPhone OS 3.0 hands-on!
- PC World: Hands On With Dell Adamo Notebook
- Crave: Hands-on with the Dell Adamo
- The Washington Post: Hands On With the Dell Adamo
- ExtremeTech: Windows 7 vs. Vista Graphics Performance
- Overclockers Club: HTPC Guide
- Benchmark Reviews: Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 – Q1 2009
- Phoronx: File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD
- MadShrimps: AMD Phenom II In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis

SG Tech
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 110 : Yaaaahooooooooo
- Techgoondu: First looks – HTC Touch Diamond 2

March 19th, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment