Takeover of AWARE
- this lush garden within: The Aware Conspiracy - facts
- Almost Infamous: My Humble Suggestions involving the AWARE EOGM and the presence of Rajah and Tann
- The Kent Ridge Common: An interesting accidental coincidence, previously
- The Legal Janitor: Time for mainline churches to make a stand
- The Wayang Party: Call for ROS to step in and dissolve AWARE for breaching provisions under Societies Act (CAP 311)
- Sgpolitics: An open letter to Ms Josie Lau
- Yawning Bread: Identity mobilisation - a threat to society
- The Wayang Party: LEAKED: Email sent by Josie Lau’s husband, Dr Alan Chin BASHING MOE for “promoting” homosexuality to rally support
- The Wayang Party: Another “wayang” by Thio Su Mien? Parents’ appeal to Education Minister to express concern about CSE
- The Wayang Party: Pastor Derek Hong’s speeches on homosexuality and letter to lobby government against repealing 377A in 2007
- irreligiously: Muslim perspective to the Aware saga? [Thanks Terence]
- Boing Boing: Christian fundamentalists hijack Singaporean feminist group [Thanks suhaw]
- Singapurakini: God Saves Aware [Thanks singapurakini]
- Mathia Lee: Christians Against AWARE Takeover
- Me and my thoughts: AWARE - Part 3
- We Are Aware: Sign Up, Turn Up, Be Counted

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Otterman speaks…: Getting a grip on Swine influenza A (H1N1)
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore is lagging in flu preparedness.
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Swine Flu Panic : Are we overreacting?
- Mathia Lee: Swine Flu Outbreak & the misconception about Genetic Research
- The Open Room: Getting the Official Swine Flu News [Thanks Brian]

Recession
- TOC: Sleepless in Singapore
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Worst may be over, but brace for more job losses: MAS

Reform Party: A New Hope
- The Kent Ridge Common: Interesting prospects ahead for the opposition

Public Order Bill
- Jacob’s Weblog: Minister for Home Affairs comments about local protesters are M.I.S.L.E.A.D.I.N.G

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- ed’sperience’s Blog: Internet Regulation in Singapore, ‘Opposition’-style

Little Green Dot
- Singapore Peak Oil: Why Singapore’s Sustainable Development Blueprint is UNsustainable

Daily Discourse
- The Kway Teow Man: Much Ado About Local Entreprenuers
- TOC: Singaporeans need to overcome negative traits
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: Writing to My MPs Again…..(On Mr Fulwood’s Advice)
- The Wayang Party: Drowning in the Nonsense age of AWARE, Swine flu etc - How do we cope with living in the age of nonsense?

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: “I am good at what I do”

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Blog Awards: 2009 Official Site [Thanks Alvin]
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: SDP articles now available in four languages [Thanks Seelan]
- ShaunChng: Launch of Dell Swarm
- Lester Chan: Dell Swarm
- WilfridWong: Dell Swarm - The More People Buying It, The Most Discount You Get! [Thanks Brian for the headsup on Dell Swarm]

Tech News
- Fudzilla: Asus has the first overclocked HD 4770
- WinSuperSite: Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details
- ars technica: Nielsen: Twitter’s explosive growth can’t be sustained
- APC: New Samsung netbook offers larger keyboard in 10-inch form factor
- Expreview: ASL’s atom-based Mobo for Ion Platform
- DigiTimes: Samsung said to push DDR3 by offering low prices
- TechConnect Mag: LG rolls out new 21.5-inch Full HD LCD monitor
- Engadget: JVC XV-PB1 Blu-ray player surprises with 1080p MPEG-4 MKV support
- GE Global Research: Another big step forward in GE’s holographic data storage program
- CNET: Samsung I7500
- Betanews: Firefox 3.5 Beta 4: Mozilla delivers the speed, as Beta 5 gets under way

Reviews | Guides
- HWZ: The Ion Arrives - Acer AspireRevo
- HotHardware: Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC
- HWZ: Graphics for the Recession - ATI Radeon HD 4770
- Anandtech: Faster Graphics For Lower Prices: ATI Radeon HD 4770
- [H]Enthusiast: AMD Radeon HD 4770
- TG Daily: HP dv2: Better than a netbook?
- TechReviewSource: Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) Review
- [OC]ModShop: Linux Firewall Core software installation

SG Tech \ MISC
- Tech65.org: Gear65 #19 - HTC Touch Diamond2
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Nokia Developer Summit 2009: Prologue

Takeover of AWARE
- Siew Kum Hong: AWARE EGM on 2 May now at Expo Hall 2
- The Wayang Party: A call to wage a ’spiritual’ battle for AWARE (now we know why the EGM venue was changed)
- The Wayang Party: AWARE EGM venue moved to EXPO, next to “Transformation Conference 2009″ co-organized by COOS and 40 other Churches!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MOE Replies on AWARE Sex Education Programme
- The Kent Ridge Common: Hanging herself with her own rope?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Aware new guards - Doing more harm than good
- The Field Marshal: Aware
- TOC: “Aware belongs to you,” says Josie Lau
- groundnotes: Singapore’s ‘Culture Wars’: Fragmenting Politics
- The Kent Ridge Common: ‘Opposition’ versus ‘ruling’ party on 2nd May and a simulation for the next General Elections
- Sam’s thoughts: AWARE, Jihadist Sleeper and Unanswered Questions

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: WHO warns: new H1N1 flu unstoppable
- Angry Doctor: Alert Yellow
- the boy who knew too much: Swine Flu: is Singapore ready?
- Dotseng: When all fails, just blame it on the devil - the art of the mufflement of the truth. [Thanks SD]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yawning Bread: Migrant worker problems must be tackled at roots

Reform Party: A New Hope
- Sgpolitics.net: “The door is always open to him,” says new Reform Party Chairman

Daily Discourse
- The Wayang Party: Singapore-based company collaborating with company owned by Burmese drug lord to build Myanmar’s new airport
- TOC: Borrowing from loansharks - criminalising without providing real choice
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: My Response to TNP article on “Go to Your MP instead of Complaining” - 28 April 09

Takeover of AWARE
- The Kent Ridge Common: Playing with words and a controversial precedent
- irreligious: Going undercover at Church of our Saviour (COOS)
- SG Gutter Press: Leaked video on COOS Pastor sermon on homosexuality [Thanks auntie] [chilling in a Blair Witch kind of way..]
- Illusio: A message from Josie Lau
- Mathia Lee: TWC2 Statement on AWARE
- Sam’s Thoughts: AWARE: The implications
- Writing-Yoga-Living: Josie’s Lau’s Insidious Insertion
- Illusio: The law of eternal return
- twinkilya: AWARE: a not-from-the-press perspective
- Crazy about Life: AWARE Saga: A glimpse of the future of Singapore politics?
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Minister’s advice for AWARE
- The Wayang Party: The AWARE saga: Time for government to respond to its ramifications to draw a clear demarcation between secularism and religion

Reform Party: A New Hope
- TOC: Chairman of Reform Party resigns, Kenneth Jeyaretnam is new Sec Gen
- The Wayang Party: Kenneth Jeyaretnam needs to reply to damaging Straits Times report

Singapore Day in London
- Feed Me To The Fish: Free Makan & Show for Quitters in London?
- Singaporean Skeptic: Are Overseas Singaporeans more valuable to the country?

PAP Ministars Get Rich r Die Tryin
- The Wayang Party: Lee Boon Yang As Keppel Chair: How Much Are We Spending To Keep Ex-PAP Leaders On GLCs And Stat Boards?

Little Green Dot
- Singapore Peak Oil: Some Concerns About the Speech by Minister Mah Bow Tan at the Asia Society Conference

Daily Discourse
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Net speculation about Singapore and Facebook warning
- Tribolum.com: Respect
- Nomadism: Hating Singapore, isnt it a bit overdone?

Life, the universe and everything
- SimpleBlob’s Life: Singapore all-age employment

Japanese idol Risa Kudo 工藤里紗 had sold Coca Cola at Jingu Stadium and worked in a tavern before her debut as a gravure idol in December 2004. Risa’s first printed work was in the Be GIRLS photobook, under her real name Mizukawa Seiko. More of her after the break. [NSFW]

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Takeover of AWARE
- TOC: Staff sent out email asking members to vote at Aware EOGM
- Empty Vessel: Better to convince, and not impose your views
- Sam’s Thoughts: The Christian Post on Aware and Homosexuality
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: New AWARE : How to make enemies and offend people
- irreligious: I’m Christian, and I disapprove of the new Aware Exco [Thanks Terence]
- Me and my thoughts: I am a Liberal
- The Phallus Monologue: What do they want?
- Youth.sg: Caught unAWAREs: Milestones and brickbats [Thanks Jennifer]
- Used Brains For Sale: Civil Engagement in a Civil Society
- Balderdash: Why you should not cancel your DBS cards because of Josie Lau
- HWZ: AWARE WARS - The Complete EPIC Trilogies! [Thanks shicai]
- ed’sperience: Why Singaporean Bloggers are Far from Political Maturity
- The Kent Ridge Common: Can a Christian political party possibly exist in Singapore?
- Newsvine: A Steeplejacking of a Women’s NGO In Singapore

Recession
- TOC: Will this be Singapore’s Lost Decade?
- My Little Corner: Inflation is up 1.6%

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Letter to the Editor, SMA News

NS Matters
- Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: Embrace Foreigners, and Screw the Locals(NSmen) [Thanks Panzer]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: A Malay dilemma
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Ministerial Musical Chair
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: A young person interested in politics
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Parameswara’s Weekly Round-Up (12th – 18th April 09)
- TOC: “Singapore penalises you if you are too weak or too strong.”

Life, the universe and everything
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Church of Jediism anyone?
- Singabloodypore: Why promoting democracy via the internet is often not a good idea
- Cooler Insights: Social Media in the World of Museums
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says…: Singapore athletes break five national records at Negri Sembilan Open [Thanks SFF]
- Sgpolitics: I am not associated with Wayang Party’s blog
- For it is difference that moulds me: Singapore Day in London

Infoblogaramous
- Tech65.org: Code::XtremeApps:: 24 hour programming competition