The Singapore Daily

“Uncritical pragmatism engenders the doer who will not think beyond the most narrowly technical and profitable; the doer who is incapable of moral reasoning, critical thinking, creativity, and imagination; the doer who despises such things as naïve, time-wasting, or troublesome. The doer-who-will-not-think engenders and imprisons in a stereotypical ivory tower its opposite, the thinker-who-will-not-do.”
Kenneth Paul Tan

“Any criticism of you can never be of your views as such, but for your imposing them on others.”
Catherine Lim

“To say [page 73 girl Thio Su Mien's] claim to authority backfired would be the political understatement of the year.”
Juwel

“..apparently one can facilitate critical thinking, that is, the reasoned questioning of assumptions, norms and values AND fully reinforce and adhere to social norms at the same time.”
Lisa Li

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

MSK Caught. The Atonement of the Wong that Can’t Sing
- The Kent Ridge Common: Political implications of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest
- Chemical Generation Singapore: On the Way to Atonement
- Littlespeck: Mas Selamat capture: Who gets the credit?
- Sgpolitics: Accountability, not celebration, needed in the Mas Selamat saga
- Sgpolitics: Time to give Mas Selamat Kastari a fair trial
- geraldgiam.sg: Question time for MHA
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Mas Selamat’s Capture: Some Face Gained, Some Face Lost
- Today In Singapore: Discerning News And Creative Journalism
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Spin on Mas Selamat’s Capture…
- The Wayang Party: EXPOSED: Malaysia still undecided on repatriation of Mas Selamat to Singapore contrary to ST reports
- The Wayang Party: State media spinning tales to cover up for Home Team’s negligence in allowing Mas Selamat to swim across to Johor
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Why is Mas Selamat arrest a Straits Times scoop?
- geraldgiam.sg: Mas Selamat captured…all thanks to ISD!
- Jacob’s Weblog: Apr 1 captured; Apr 15, Minister “regularly updated” while ISD “continue to hunt”??
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Hi Mr Wong Kan Seng, do you mind clarifying? [Thanks lesser mortal]
- Singapore Life and Times: Swine fugitive
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: The manhunt is over!
- groundnotes: Terror-rible Experts
- The Lionheart: It’s Not Over
- My Sketchbook: Quiz time: Guess the “floating device’ Mas selamat used.
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies [Thanks Roti]
- ST Forum Letter: Capture of Mas Selamat: Lesson for all in weeding out terrorism
- Raman’s Terrorism Analysis: Re-arrest of Mas Selamat of JI: A Wake-Up Call for Singapore & Malaysia [Recommended]
- Singaporean Skeptic: Joanne Lee…a uniquely Singaporean ‘journalist’.
- mrbrown: Mas Selamat’s “improvised flotation device” revealed!
- The Sketch Times: Mas Selamat’s Improvised Floatation Device Discovered!
- the mrbrown show: our fella

AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- TOC: The suspension of reason
- catherinelim.sg: Letter to concerned parents – Part 2
- Illusio: The 8th Germinal of Thio Su Mien
- The Lady Melissa: A New Awareness
- Mathia Lee: Singapore’s Invisible Abused Women
- nofearSingapore: Pink Dot- It is your Right, but is it Smart? [Thanks Dr Huang]
- Gimme Some Truth!: Sniffing out the Straits Times agenda in the AWARE Saga [Thanks asyh]
- Scholar at Large: Mother Doesn’t Know Best [Thanks Judith] [Recommended]
- Siew Kum Hong: Something that may be making the rounds
- My Sketchbook: Aware sex education programme
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Meet the Amazing Amazon Warriors of Singapore
- Siew Kum Hong: Observations of a lapsed citizen
- Yawning Bread: AWARE, steeplejackers and pink durians
- the kent ridge common: Essential religious knowledge in our social studies syllabus?
- Ridzwan.Com: Straight in a Crooked World
- TOC: Taking a right turn
- The Wayang Party: Opposition to Siew Kum Hong’s re-nomination as NMP: Another “astroturfing” in process?
- The Brotherhood Press: Should Botak Siew have been “neutral” instead of taking sides in AWARE?
- musings: What a more appropriate CSE could look like
- thrills, spills & flatliners: PEDAGOGY AND PARENTING
- the kent ridge common: LGBT in Singapore and the march forward
- Project Lucy: 10 – Positions [Thanks Project Lucy]
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: It has reared its ugly head [Thanks Project Lucy]
- The Economist: Singapore’s NGO furore. Taken unawares [Thanks Suhaw]
- Sam’s thoughts: A response to MOE’s statement on sexuality education
- Yawning Bread: Parliament now faces “gay test”
- The Brotherhood: Why for better or worse we need Botak Siew to get nominated again as a NMP!

Recession
- TOC: Where is the “unique Singapore advantage” to protect our workers?
- Singapore Social Activist: So That They Can Move On – A Webchat with Mr. Gan Kim Yong and Dr. Amy Khor
- Sgpolitics.net: Enough of silly slogans, focus on real problems
- TOC: Give us better statistics on employment
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Upskill, reskill, Multi-skill, Mr Lim Swee Say replies
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore workers : What’s in it for us?
- Sgpolitics.net: The state of work in Singapore: 61% still go to work even when sick
- For Want of a Better Title: Asian Economies first off the block?
- FP Passport: How Google Earth explains the financial crisis

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Swine Flu will reach Singapore
- TOC: Swine flu could hit one in three
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Lee Wei Ling, State Powers, Hong Kong and the Global Spectacle of Health
- Sgpolitics.net: Prof Lee Wei Ling is practicing bad statistics and horrible science

Revenge of the Mandarins
- Empty Vessel: “MP had no empathy”

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The boy who knew too much: Singaporean immigration: a modern comedy

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Today in Singapore: Profits First At SBS Transit

If newspapers die..
- Unique-Frequency.com: Can You Search Newspapers?

Paperchase
- the boy who knew too much: The NUS Asian University ranking.

Singapore Sports Awards 2009
- Sgpolitics.net: Online petition calls for STTA president’s removal over coach saga
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The STTA Comic Opera
- The Wayang Party: Public pressure mount on Lee Bee Wah with Dr Tan Eng Liang joining in the fray

In Memoriam of JBJ
- Jacob’s Weblog: Video: JBJ’s 2008 interview with FEER’s Hugo Restall
- Yawning Bread: Archiving J B Jeyaretnam’s papers for posterity

Daily Discourse
- Brightsparks Forum: Against Uncritical Pragmatism: Education for Doers Who Can Think and Thinkers Who Can Do [Recommended]
- TOC: The fallacy of “growth at all costs” (Part One)
- Illusio: Defending the right of Christians to discuss
- Getting at the Truth: Singapore – haven for money and fugitives
- Civic Advocator: GRC system detrimental to democratic development of Singapore
- TOC: In memory of the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake
- geraldgiam.sg: Abortions in S’pore must be reduced
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Newsflash: Singapore sweep all three medals in men’s triple jump at Arafura
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Bloodbath in Sri Lanka [Thanks Seelan]
- TOC: The fallacy of “growth at all costs” (part two)
- groundnotes: It ain’t easy being Singaporean
- geraldgiam.sg: Shoddy interrogation methods
- The Kent Ridge Common: Wrong to judge an NMP through tinted lenses

Life, the universe and everything
- d’sperience’s Blog: A True Cognitive Cultural History of Singapore, and the present need for foreign talent – in brief [Recommended]
- Foxy Thoughts: Pregnant AUNTY or AH-MA?
- Empty Vessel: Don’t blog. Communicate.
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Electroconvulsive therapy?
- Cooler Insights: Sensational Branding!
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Importance of Being Social – A Talk on Online Social Networks
- thegreatsze: Get Rich or Die Lying
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Tanah Merah: a total surprise!
- For Want of a Better Title: Funny WOW Shit
- Insane Polygons: The Millionth English Word
- Singapore Peak Oil: Oil and the End of Globalization – What about Singapore?
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Singapore’s most inconsiderate driver contender
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Interview With Jonathan Chua, Co-Founder Of Klout
- Unique-Frequency: Singapore’s “First Ever” Tweetup (#sgtweetup): Shill Or Social?
- ingridmak: #sgtweetup- All Twisted Up?

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