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“I’m on page 73.”
Thio Su Mien

“the defining moments of this whole episode — one side being about Shut-Up and Sit Down, and the other side being about Stand up and Speak Out.”
Mathia Lee

“The battle for Aware should be seen instead as a struggle over how – not whether – to insert faith-based values into public life.”
Cherian George

“Economic growth should benefit all Singaporeans, not just the rich and well-connected.”
Avery Chong, Gerald Giam, Nathaniel Koh, Watson Chong and Yaw Shin Leong

“The thrown chair could have killed somebody.”
Lim Hwee Hwa

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.

AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- TOC: AWARE: Lessons from a fiasco [Recommended]
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: FUNDIES, EXIT… STAGE LEFT
- still me.: Asian societies and the Chinese Gentry
- The Wayang Party: Aftermath of Aware EGM: Time for some house-keeping
- Youth.sg: AWARE: a case study in respect
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Moving on from EOGM
- Singapore Alternatives: Lesson from AWARE SAGA - Defending our National Core Values
- Sgpolitics: An open letter to new AWARE president Dana Lam and her team
- God’s in his heaven, All’s well with the world: I am AWARE, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore
- Mr Wang Says So: Thank God the Christians Were Defeated
- Singapore Dino: “Feminist Mentor” Thio Su Mien’s gang thrown out of AWARE
- My Little Corner: AWARE saga is finally coming to an end
- Singapore Life and Times: RIP
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore women’s group routs anti-gays, media goes to town
- The Wayang Party: Aftermath of Aware EGM: How Josie and team manage to play the media card the wrong way
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: The Aware Saga - Time to repair the damages
- ALVINOLOGY: Alvinology goes to the AWARE EGM
- Illusio: An issue of statements I
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: AWARE : One Saga, Many Lessons…
- Yawning Bread: Lessons for the PAP from the Aware EOGM
- Sgpolitics.net: My response to the ST article: “Process, pluralism, protection”
- The Wayang Party: ST ploy using the Aware saga to justify shameless PAP gerrymandering via the GRC
- TOC: Letter to TOC: Aware - readers’ views
- groundnotes: How to win an EOGM and lotsa friends
- Chemical Generation Singapore: An Insidious Thiology
- Nomed Letters: Our Evil Gains from the AWARE Fiasco
- The Wayang Party: If you think good won over evil in AWARE, you better sit down, take a stress pill and think it through again!
- Tricia: I’m a hooligan and proud of it
- The Christian Post: What the ‘Aware Saga’ really is (and what it is not)
- Angry Doctor: On the same page?
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: FUND RAISING SHOUT OUT
- Mathia Lee: Things I’ve learnt from the AWARE saga [Recommended]
- Siew Kum Hong: What I took away from 2 May
- Talkiew: The Christian Post find offense in secular nature of our Society
- As My Life Is: Speak Out and Stand Up!
- Writing-Yoga-Living: Already Plotting Next Move
- TOC: The government’s strategic intervention in the Aware saga
- Sgpolitics: Political parallels of the AWARE saga
- The Wayang Party: Why the civil activism shown in the Aware saga will never be replicated in politics
- Mr Wang Says So: Steeplejacking: The Internal Crisis of Christianity?
- Illusio: Inquiring minds want to know: Caine Teo and Ape Communications
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: More than just a Mentor…
- Singapore Kopi Tok: In the Name of Christianity
- Almost Infamous: The Authoritarians - AWARE Edition
- catherinelim.sg: Fallout of the Aware saga: A letter to concerned parents
- Empty Vessel: A response to Ms Catherine Lim
- catherinelim.sg: The Aware controversy - The Real Casualty
- Mathia Lee: AWARE’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) : Re Homosexuality, anal sex, pre-marital sex
- The Wayang Party: MOE succumbs to intense lobbying to suspend Aware’s CSE
- The Wayang Party: The CSE controversy: Let us be guided by pragmatism and scientific evidence
- The Wayang Party: LEAKED: Appeal to Prime Minister on values of marriage and family
- Tampines Court enblc/anti-enbloc: Has MOE lost it’s mind?
- Scholar at Large: AWARE and the secular conscience [Recommended]
- Glass Castle Blog: The future of Singapore’s feminism
- irreligious: Ringside seat at Aware EGM [Thanks Terence]
- Me and my thoughts: Aware - the last word
- Today In Singapore: Bulletproof Your Exco
- naif’s journal: The ‘i’m on page 73′ game [Thanks Jerome]
- Yawning Bread: Education Ministry suspends AWARE’s sexuality education program
- The Wayang Party: The AWARE steeplejackers and their deep connections to Joel’s Army and American dominionists [Recommended]
- Almost Infamous: Josie and the DBS Credit Card Boycott
- Singapore Life and Times: Silvery tongue
- defragment.me: Stop feeding the fear mongers
- Project Lucy: Let’s have an omelette for gaiety [Thanks Project Lucy]
- The Lycan Times: CSE and the role of MOE
- Sex sells, so does Politics: How an IT guy will teach school sexuality programmes

AWARE Weekend Special
AWARE Aftermath
- The Bosonic State: The Aftermath of the AWARE War
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: AWARE is saved; It is all over?
- Siew Kum Hong: We won :)
- Sam’s thoughts: AWARE restored
- Feed Me To The Fish: Why PAP leaders cannot match up to Braema Mathi
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Pastor Hong, hongkan liao lah!

AWARE EGM at Suntec
- Sayoni Speak: AWARE EOGM Results - Old Guard Returned (Singapore)
- TOC: Josie Lau and team resign from Executive Committee
- Sgpolitics: Josie Lau’s team removed, and a new leadership at AWARE has been voted in!
- TOC: Voted out but still willing to contribute
- The Wise Old Owl: AWARE EGM…Bravo to 1414 brave women!
- Motion Pictures: AWARE EGM 02 May 09
- TOC: Aware members demand: “Account for our money!”
- TOC: Chaos - “Shut up and sit down”
- The Wayang Party: Thio Su Mien asked the crowd to show her some respect during Aware EGM
- ADRENALYNNE: Aware egm starts
- The Wayang Party: LIVE from Suntec: AWARE EGM, 2 May 2009
- TOC: More than a thousand turn up for Aware EOGM
- The Wayang Party: Photo Gallery: AWARE EGM, 2 May 2009 (before the EGM outside the hall)
- the DEATH of A MILLION is JUST A STATISTIC: 65% Vote of No Confidence at AWARE EGM
- TOC: Aware EOGM - Damien Chng’s photos [Pics]
- TOC: AWARE victorious and rejoice [Vids]

AWARE’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: AWARE Takeover: Not a debate between gays and fundies, but between bigotry and the 21st century

Christians Speak Out
- inter alia: Gwee Li Sui’s notes: to praise or not to praise?

General Discourse
- Yawning Bread: John Dorhauer on the steeplejacking of AWARE
- Illusio: Aware’s new events management company
- Singapore Life and Times: The Other Page
- You paint the morning sky with miracles in mind: Aware and the Press
- Alamak: Today, Singapore tore up the Twitter-sphere with #awaresg being…
- My Note Book On The Web: AWARE EOGM : Twitter, Twitterfall and Twitpic the new media world

MSK Caught. The Atonement of the Wong that Can’t Sing
- The Wayang Party: Mas Selamat captured in Johor by Malaysian authorities which make a fool out of WKS!!!
- TOC: Mas Selamat’s capture: Why only inform us now?
- Simply Gab: the series of self-back-patting
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mas Selamat CAPTURED!!!
- ALVINOLOGY: Mas Selamat Kastari captured in Johor!
- Jialat.com: Mas Selamat Caught But Not Sent Back To Singapore Yet, Why?
- CNA: Singapore’s JI leader Mas Selamat arrested in Malaysia
- Reuters: Singapore’s most-wanted militant arrested after escape
- AP: Top Islamic terror suspect held
- The Void Deck: Flash: Mas Selamat Tio Tangkap! [Thanks uncle]

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Mr Wang Says So: The Risk of Disease on a Very Crowded Little Red Dot
- geraldgiam.sg: Reducing train frequency because of H1N1? That’s ridiculous!
- Sgpolitics.net: Absolutely moronic to reduce train frequency in event of flu outbreak
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Can someone explain SMRT’s Logic…
- running legs: April Fools again?!
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: SMRT: What logic is this?
- Angry Doctor: What, me wear a mask?
- My sketchbook: Let’s cut down on the train service
- The Kent Ridge Common: Out of the world logic in reducing MRT train frequency when swine flu pandemic alert reaches red

Recession
- My sketchbook: Confused
- Singaporean Skeptic: Protecting your savings from (hyper)inflation
- TOC: The myth of the lazy native [Recommended]
- TOC: Protect the Singaporean worker!

Lee vs Chee
- Yawning Bread: Flyers and flying laws

Reform Party: A New Hope
- Sgpolitics.net: Former Chairman of Reform Party gives press conference on his alleged ouster
- TOC: Reform Party ex-chair on his leaving the party [Vid at Hong Lim Park]

National Service
- Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: What did we fight for: reflections of an ex-Conscript in the Lion City [Thanks Panzer]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Is Singapore over-populated with foreigners?

May Day 2009
- geraldgiam.sg: Economic growth should benefit all, not just the rich
- Singapore Alternatives: May Day 2009 - Accountability the Core Value
- Jacob’s Weblog: SDP’s May Day message/Singapore employers fire record number of workers
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP Labor Day Message

Revenge of the Mandarins
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Boy arrested for slamming chair at MP Office!
- The Kent Ridge Common: When meeting the people’s session becomes an occupational hazard
- My Thoughts…: Uniquely Singapore: One Low IQ Boy vs Two Low EQ MPs [Thanks Ganga]
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: 17 year-old arrested for public display of anger.

Singapore Sports Awards 2009
- Singapore Sports Fan: Right move by STTA not to nominate Liu for Coach of the Year Award [Thanks SFF]
- The Singapore Sports Fan: Snub of Churchill and Foo shows that the Sports Awards are a farce [Thanks SFF]
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The disservice to coach Liu Guo-dong
- Today In Singapore: These Women Are From Mars

Healthcare
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore healthcare spending compared with other countries

Little Green Dot
- Singapore Peak Oil: Capitalism in Wonderland - Economists versus Natural Scientists

Daily Discourse
- For Want of a Better Title: Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act Amendment
- Singabloodypore: Singapore police block euthanaisa talk
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The obsequiousness of the Straits Times
- Today In Singapore: Whistle Blowers Inc
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Parameswara’s Weekly Round-Up (19TH – 25TH April 09)
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore inching up press freedom chart with Gabon
- The Wayang Party: The “upgrading carrot”: abuse of state resources by the PAP to perpetuate its own political hegemony
- Singapore Dino: Singapore: Istana welcomes North Korean Scum Kim Yong Nam
- TOC: Job satisfaction - inadequate measures to protect workers
- Singaporean Skeptic: 7 wrong things we teach our children!
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: North Korean President Kim on 3-day working visit to Singapore [Thanks Seelan]

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: Play a Part in Dennis Kweh’s Mission
- The boy who knew too much: People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People List
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 2009 JP Morgan Corporate Challenge
- Ong Jiin Joo: Al Jazeera interviews SG Finance Minister Tharman
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Amazing Stop Motion - Wolf and pig
- theory.isthereason: Cross-Ideological Discussions among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: House of Cards by William Cohan
- TOC: “A voice for the arts and artists”
- Aussie Pete: Happy 40th Birthday - The Internet History in Pictures
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: GeoCities is Closing
- Balderdash: Freedom is a Two-edged Sword / Jack Parsons
- Mr Wang Says So: Mr Wang’s Straight Talk on Sex Education - Part 1
- Rambling Librarian: Thoughts from the New Media Seminar 2009 (for the Singapore civil service)
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: One Nation Under Lee screened at Taiwan’s film festival [Thanks Seelan]
- Empty Vessel: Why, God, why?

Infoblogaramous
- EU Film Festival: Screening Schedule
- TOC: Blogging - you’ve got the power!