The 1st Malay Brigadier General
- nofearSingapore: Malays and SAF: Revisiting the issue [Thanks Dr.Huang]
- My Singapore News: Discrimination - Malaysian and Singapore models

Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Alamak, they move the goalposts again!
- Singapore Enquirer: ANALYSIS-Singapore seeks to manage political change

CMIO - Singapore Colouring
- Sam’s Thoughts: CMIO issues in Singapore again
- Singapore Social Activist: The Value of Citizenship over Race

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: What Good Is It?
- utopia8787: Evidence of locals becoming second class citizens

Healthcare & Healthcare Givers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How healthcare costs creep up…

National Day 2009
- TOC: Celebrate National Day – but is this necessary?

Housing
- The Kway Teow Man: Building Slums & Taxing Capital Gains

Operation Spectrum Open Forum
- Singapore Democrats Blog: Operation Spectrum open forum: a good start [Thanks Seelan]

Asian Youth Games
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Don’t taint Games with Politics

AWARE Aftermath
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: In defence of secularism

Daily Discourse
- Littlespeck: Tale of a shop’s closure
- My Singapore News: A transient society
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: I curse the day I was born a Singaporean’ [Thanks Seelan & hil]
- Sgpolitics.net: My internet connection was cut off — time spent briefly reflecting on various issues
- Today In Singapore: Lapses In Accountability

Life, the universe and everything
- Yawning Bread: Take my photo again, she said [Thanks hil]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Support Gazetting Lim Bo Seng’s grave as a National Monument
- The fire in my life: Soya Boom! [Thanks Joel]

The 1st Malay Brigadier General
- TOC: Singapore’s first Malay general – a star of things to come?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Our First Malay BG – What was Said and Not Said
- Today In Singapore: All Hail The Generals
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A Malay-Muslim BG does not a policy change make
- geraldgiam.sg: Malays deserve equal opportunities in the SAF

Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’
- Singapore Alternatives: The Concept of Power - NCMP better than Proportionate Representation?
- the kent ridge common: Taking an opposition position and career prospects

Recession
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Are we going to see our CPF money?
- Singabloodypore: Welcome to Alice in Wonderland -Two Integrated Resorts Coming up!

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Singapore Social Activist: Let the games continue!
- TOC: The Khaw Strategy – myth or fact?
- The Gigamole Diaries: Anthropomorphising the virus - Prof Tambyah’s view
- Emerald Hills: H1N1 – Local Cases Reached 599! [Thanks wywhoo]

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- Information Read By Me: On David Hartanto Widjaja: It was absolutely NOT a Suicide?

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Videos : Zahari’s 17 Years, Upturn The Downturn and Mas Selamat parodies

International
- Subba’s Serendipitous moments: In Government spin zone

Daily Discourse
- the kent ridge common: YES to civil servant, NO to government executive
- Singaporean Skeptic: Your Electricity Bill is going up again

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Bloggers versus Journalists - Flawless Victory?
- Mathia Lee: How Advocacy & Private Funding can reduce the Power Asymmetry in Singapore
- Unfortunately Singapore: Government Lapses - Have you read the IM?
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Newsflash: Singapore go down to Iran in AYG football second round group match
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: La Oroya, One of World’s Most POLLUTED Town provides a Livelihood for Many

“The arrogance of power. Combine that with great wealth, quick progress, a group think syndrome, limited thinking style and big responsibility at a relatively immature age and you have a potent mix.”
Subbaraman Iyer

“Half of Singapore’s population could consists of foreigners in 11 years time..”
Ng E-Jay

“The uninvited guests should be investigated for barging in to and disrupting a private event.”
Seelan Palay

“These [NCMP/NMP] guys can bark. But they can’t bite.”
Subra

“[Lee Hsien Loong] left out the most important gap in Singapore - the gap between the leaders and ordinary people.”
LuckySingaporean

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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Michael Jackson
1958 - 2009

A living legend has passed on. Long live the King of Pop.

This was probably Michael Jackson’s most memorable performance at the 1984 Grammy Awards.

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Surviving (suspected) H1N1
- TOC: Let the Games continue!
- My Little Corner: High Risk Group for H1N1
- The boy who knew too much: H1N1 flu and personal hygiene, in Singapore.
- Totobobo: Totobobo mask hits 25 countries [die die must buy?]
- Sgpolitics: TTSH releases clinical data of first 50 H1N1 patients in Singapore [Symptoms info]

Lee vs Mahathir
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Is Iskandar the start of a beautiful relationship?

Lionel de Souza vs TOC
- TOC: MDA replies to Lionel De Souza

Remembering Anthony Yeo
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Eulogy to Mr Anthony Yeo

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Today In Singapore: LTA: Less Than Acceptable

Housing
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Lease Buy-Back Scheme. The difference between owning and renting.

Little Green Dot
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Kotex – Setting a new Singapore record in polluting the environment thru mass balloon release

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- EurekAlert: Online ethics and the bloggers’ code revealed [via Singabloodypore]

Now Showing
- Used Brains For Sale: Review: Duplicity
- Empty Vessel: Ten problems with Transformers 2 [Spoilers]

Singapore Politics They Are a-Changin’?
- Chill Out: Kwayteowman’s questions [Thanks the voiddeck]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: How can $1m help the Taxi industry?

re Education
- the kent ridge common: Singaporization of American education and Americanization of Singapore education?

Healthcare & Healthcare Givers
- Singapore M.D.: Disciplinary tribunals are not law courts - so what?

International - Baguettes in Burkas
- ed’sperience’s Blog: Sarkozy : ‘Difference Not Welcome in France’
- Laïcité: French secularism and the burka
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Beautiful Distraction

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Illusion of Superiority and Dangers of Elitism…

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Singaporean men are fussy, Singaporean women are even more fussy

Books and Papercuts
- Singapore Democrats Blog: Constructing Singapore: “pragmatism” and personalised power [Thanks Seelan Palay]

News
- Fudzilla: Nvidia to launch DirectX 11 in 2009
- 1UP: Sony Responds to Activision’s ‘Threat’ to Cease Supporting PS3
- Technet: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available
- TrustedReviews: Microsoft Extends XP Downgrade Option Until 2011
- CNET: Apple iPhone 3GS: The sum ($) of its parts
- Pocket-lint: 1cm thick UK plug designed
- Techgage: An Open Letter on the State of Video Games
- ExtremeTech: The Last Column

I’ve been following Loyd Case since his days at CGW and I’ve always enjoyed his writtings. All the best, Loyld.

Reviews | Guides
- Mozillalinks: First look to Firefox 3.5 RC2
- Applilinks: Checking Out Firefox 3.5rc2
- PC World: First Look: Microsoft Security Essentials
- VR-Zone: Gaming with a punch: MSI GX620 Review
- HWZ: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s - Slimming Down and Staying Tough
- TrustedReviews: Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T-353 Review
- VR-Zone: Noctua NH-U12P Core i7 Cooler

SG Tech
- Tech65.org: Gear65 #28 - Canon 500D
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Lenovo launch Thinkpad T400s
- Techgoondu: Pay Apple US$9.90 to fix 46 security holes in your iPod Touch