“Ng Eng Han, said that “sexuality education needs to be taught in a context of values which our mainstream society believes in”.. Attaching moral weight to facts is a dangerous proposition.”
Benjamin Cheah

“Israel has 5 million people, six million entrepreneurs, and fifteen million opinions. Singapore has 5 million people, six entrepreneurs and one opinion.”
Guy Kawasaki

“I don’t know why the PAP hasn’t figured out why it is so hard to convince intelligent and principled men and women to join the party. Surely having a chequered history of jailing and abusing well-meaning social activists should not be that big a barrier to joining the party? Or is it?”
Gerald Giam

“..the case for a strong viable opposition is made most forcefully by PAP MPs who do not believe that the PAP will ever fail.”
groundnotes

“The sad conclusion is that the purpose of the increase in NCMPs is to provide the citizenry with the theatre of political jousting without the substance of actual influence.”
Choo Zheng Xi, Khairulanwar Zaini

“..Sam Tan has a safe job in the CDAC which is recession proof and a part-time MP job that pays $217K - Sam Tan is not mollycoddled.”
LuckySingaporean

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’
- The Bosonic State: More Opposition MPs: How Will This Change Voting Patterns?
- Article 14: A sizeable opposition now is an insurance policy for the future
- Sgpolitics.net: Parliamentary roundup: Make no mistake, the ruling party has no intention of restoring democracy
- groundnotes: Changing the NCMP scheme
- nofearSingapore: Singapore’s electoral reform- Great but.. [Thanks Dr Huang]
- Die neue Welle: I am Singaporean XVII – Rhetorics
- Yawning Bread: Minimum nine opposition MPs from now on
- The Wayang Party: Is the Workers’ Party an effective elected “opposition”?
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Proposed Changes to Electoral System
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: More Tweaks to the political system…
- The Wayang Party: Why it is more important to have 29 elected opposition MPs than 20 NCMPs
- TOC: A mockery of Parliament – appointed MPs, Loser MPs, Walkover MPs…
- Under The Willow Tree: TOC, Wayangparty have got it wrong here
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Jokes heard from the Parliament
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Walking Away
- The Wayang Party: Support Mr Chiam See Tong’s call to abolish the GRC system and reform the media
- TOC: Singapore’s security and evolving the political system

Parliament: 25 May 2009
- TOC: MP Low Thia Khiang’s speech on the Presidential Address [Thanks Donalson]

AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: The separation of religion and state is to protect them from one another…
- TOC: The Emperor’s new clothes

Pink Dot @ Hong Lim
- TOC: Change you can believe in? (part four)

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Singapore M.D.: More Flu Cases in Singapore
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Shame on you TNP! Shame on you!

Remember May 21st
- ed’sperience’s Blog: ISA Abolition Movement May 21st – III. On your Marx, get set…

Recesion
- the kent ridge common: Upfront: with NMP Siew Kum Hong

Free Burma
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: 64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi

National Day 2009
- mrbrown: mrbrown at NDP 2009: The Choir

Daily Discourse
- TOC: The fallacy of “growth at all costs” (part four)
- Jacob 69er: Singapore – Amnesty International Report 2009
- Subba’s Serendipitous moments: Will Singapore usher in Government 2.0?
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: The crucial role of the Singapore journalist

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: MediaCorp’s Super Fail ‘Just For Laughs’ Gag
- The Wayang Party: Letter to Shin Min Daily demanding a public apology for defamatory article maligning wayangparty.com

Hanako Takigawa (多岐川華子) is a gravure idol from Kanagawa prefecture. Her showbiz career started in 2004. She comes from a showbiz family with actor father Shinsuke Achiha and actress mother Yumi Takigawa. More of her after the break. [PNSFW]
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AWARE Takeover Aftermath: Militant Secularism
- The Gigamole Diaries: Militant secularism?? - Thio Li-ann’s parliamentary speech
- Angry Doctor: ‘Militant Secularism’
- Today In Singapore: Of Secular Militancy And Media Bias
- Recruit Ong: Stubborn minded people are dangerous

Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’
- TOC: TOC Analysis: PM’s gambit is manufactured dissent par excellence
- TOC: Fallacies of the boon of PAP dominance
- The Singapore Enquirer: A system in sync with aspirations of S’poreans
- Sgpolitics.net: Changes to Parliamentary system: Don’t be lulled into the political “mind trap” set by the PAP
- kent ridge common: Why MP Indranee Rajah needs a class in elementary logic [Thanks Donaldson]

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Otterman speaks: Influenza A(H1N1) in Singapore – how did you find out?
- Unique-Frequency.com: Why Singaporean Press Are Like Vultures
- Singapore Life and Times: The Swine Cometh

MSK Caught. The Atonement of the Wong that Can’t Sing
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Mas Selamat Kastari Conundrum

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Leaders without sympathy and empathy.

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Govt appoints 7 gatekeepers to vet political films

Lee vs Chee
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: TBT Trial The 3rd Tranche - Why Am I feeling So Alone?
- Jacob 69er: Trials and tribulations of the Tak Boleh Tahan activists

Strangers In a Strange Land
- TOC: TOC apologises to Ms Stephanie Chok
- Yawning Bread: An ill-judged and irresponsible scoop

Daily Discourse
- Anonymous_X: MediaCorp’s “Just For Laughs” — Everyone loves it…Not!
- eastcoastlife: Yellow Ribbon Cooking Competition 2009 (Finals) - WW
- The Sketch Times: Mollycoddled Me

Life, the universe and everything
- ed’sperience’s Blog: To Singaporedaily.net – a section for Interanational Affairs [Thanks ed]
- My Little Corner: Can Graciousness and the 2 Ks Coexist?
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Finalists of Start-Up@Singapore 2009
- Aussie Pete: Sydney Smart Light Festival 2009

Infoblogaramous
- TOC: Blogging seminar this Saturday
- Cooler Insights: Free Entry to 13 Museums on 31 May!
- The Singapore iPhone Guide: Interested in a full-time job as an iPhone developer?

Tech News
- TweakTown: GIGABYTE already has SATA 6 Gbit/s on its mobos
- VR-Zone: Razer Debuts Sphex, The World’s Thinnest Mousing Surface
- DailyTech: SSD Prices Could be Cut in Half Due to New JMicron Flash Controller & 32nm NAND Flash
- HWZ: Serial ATA International Organization Announces SATA 3.0 Revision
- Liliputing: HP launches Mini 110 and 1101 netbooks running Windows XP, Vista, and Linux
- Engadget: Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall
- Fudzilla: MSI unveils five Display All in one PCs
- InsideTech: Seiko Epson Announces OLED TV Breakthrough
- Akihabara News: Sony Gives up on Vista, Propose new Vaio P with Windows XP

Reviews | Guides
- Hardware Canucks: GeForce GTX 275 Roundup (Gigabyte, EVGA, MSI, Sparkle, BFG)
- iXBT Labs: Intel Core 2 with Various FSB/Memory Clock Rates
- TrustedReviews: MSI GT627-246UK - 15.4in Gaming Laptop Review
- TweakTown: Antec Skeleton Open Air Case
- CPU3D: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 910W PSU
- TrustedReviews: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T900 Review
- PC Plus: How Silicon Chips Are Made

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Watch Henry Jenkins discuss Transmedia Storytelling (video)
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Best of MMORPG
- Tech65.org: HP Mini 110 Detailed First Look
- Techgoondu: Plug and play overclocking

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Cowboy Caleb: SINGAPORE has confirmed its first case of Swine Flu (H1N1)

Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’
- groundnotes: Making the Opposition’s Case; or Shoot. Foot. Yours.
- TOC: Don’t turn my country into an administrative state
- TOC: Political changes - what about the media?
- Wayang Party: Indranee Rajah’s flawed rebuttal to Low Thia Kiang a testimony of the calibre of PAP’s “backdoor” MPs
- My sketchbook: Let’s dance to the changes in our political system..1..2..1.2

Remember May 21st
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lionel De Souza: Government Stooge or Political Idiot? [Thank Beng]

AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- Sgpolitics.net: Medieval attitudes towards sex and sexuality, rather than tolerance of alternative lifestyles, undermine the social fabric
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: The One about the Swedish Guy [Thanks Ben]

Pink Dot @ Hong Lim
- TOC: Change you can believe in? (part three)

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- Anonymous_X: Day 5 of the Coroner’s Inquiry of The Case of David Widjaja: The use of 120 Photos | Why almost all the blood stains belong to David?
- TOC: Scene reconstruction: David Widjaja’s last moments

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: ST letter in response to China worker jailed for 10 weeks

Paperchase
- The Rot Within: Inducing Gratefulness

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Pleading Guilty to Assembly and Procession without Permit – Why Pay More?
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore lawyer challenges “law” that violates democracy, freedom

Singapore Sports Awards 2009
- Street71’s Perspective of Singapore: The STTA, The Lee, and The Liu – With New CEO Appointment
- The Singapore Enquirer: Petition drive at Hong Lim Park, 6 June 2009, 5pm - 6.30pm to implore DPM Teo Chee Hean to give special award to Liu Guodong

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MP Sam Tan : Singaporeans are too mollycoddled…
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Damn! Those mollycoddled are spending too little!
- Talkiew: Father of “Get out of my elite uncaring face!” out of touch with reality
- IZ reloaded: Is Mediacorp humiliating local actors in its new Just for Laughs TV show?

Life, the universe and everything
- AngryAngMo: The Complete Guide To Storage Places In Singapore
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Began, the Ovi Store has
- Digital Terrorist: (Whatever) Wars on the iPhone
- mrbrown.com: Wash Your Hands Too fan-made video!

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: CleanTech Big Pitch 2009 - 28 May
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Asia Pacific Future 100 To Recognize Entrepreneurs And Social Changemakers