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Strangers in a Strange Land
- Toward the Green: Is Singapore’s imports of non-residents hurting its economy?
- The Temasek Review: Latest statistics: Citizens constitute only 63 per cent of Singapore’s population
- Big Talk Singapore: Thanks to foreigners, Singapore population is hitting 5 millions
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: Singapore is overcrowded

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Yawning Bread: UBS survey shows Singapore slipping in standard of living
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Life really got worse in Singapore..
- The Temasek Review: Why Singapore “meritocracy” isn’t meritocracy
- Feed Me To The Fish: F1 and Men in the Street of Singapore

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- TOC: Analysing Temasek Holdings’ Review: Does portfolio value mean anything?
- The Temasek Review: State media tries to cover up GIC’s gigantic S$109 billion loss in two years
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: GIC’s Turn Under the Microscope

Housing
- The Temasek Review: A reply to Ms Mabel Tan’s letter: “How family’s fortunes have grown over the years”

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- TOC: Parents suing their children?

Re education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Alternative media in the education of our future generation

National Service
- Sam’s thoughts: MinDEF: More action, less talk please, we’re Singaporeans
- Sam’s thoughts: Full-time student doing reservist

A new low for Ris
- Trapper’s Swamp: Spare me the romanticism

In Remembrance: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- UncleYap: candle-light vigil @ Hong Lim Park for Mr JBJ anniversary 30.Sept.2009 [Thanks uncle]

Daily Discourse
- The Useless Tree: William Safire and Singapore and Williams College
- The Temasek Review: Formula One – A Gold Mine or a Gold-digger

September 30th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

It’s Intel Developer Forum and we have a few exciting news coming from San Francisco. Perhaps the most exciting news for me is the instant boot BIOS by Phoenix. No more pressing power button and go fetch coffee.

News
- Cnet: Intel’s Moblin 2.1 to compete with Windows
- Slashdot: New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second
- Media Memo: Apple’s Apps Flying Off the Virtual Shelves: 6.6 Million Downloads Per Day
- Arstechnica: Windows 7 PCs to go on sale early
- Tech Dirt: Google Ordered To Shut Down Gmail Account Of User Who Received Unsolicited Banking Info
- All Things Digital: USB-IF Sides With Apple, Spanks Palm in iTunes Synch Spat
- Cnet: Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition to the desktop
- TechCrunch: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
- Cnet: Google Toolbar adds comments with Sidewiki
- Techie Lobang: Google Trike Spotted at Singapore F1 Track, Google Street View Coming Soon?
- NY Times: Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion
- Ridz.sg: HP FOR ME

Reviews | Guides
- Theory is the Reason: Social Cyborg upgrades: GoPro Hero Cam + Xacti HD1010
- Tech65: Review: Olympus Pen E-P1
- Nicole: Review: Lenovo Y450
- LesterChan.net: Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

Events
- SGEntrepreneurs: Incub3 Presents HungryGowhere and Gothere.sg Founders Talk Series

September 30th, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Latest statistics: Citizens constitute only 63 per cent of Singapore’s population
- Singaporean Skeptic: Singaporeans are not welcomed in their own country!
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: We are going to be outnumbered soon
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Population now 4.99M.
- TOC: S’pore population: 4.84 mil or 4.99 mil??

Housing
- The Temasek Review: Go back to basics for affordable flats
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: HDB Prices: another lame letter
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Jumping onto the Property Bandwagon..
- The Temasek Review: ERA: 40 per cent of buyers of HDB resale flats are PRs

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Today In Singapore: Have And Have Nots

Recession
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Belt Tightening and Rallying Rhetoric

A new low for Ris
- Tribolum.com: The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
- Today In Singapore: Beauty Before Integrity
- Singapore Life and Times: Cheating beauty

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Handicapped resident applies for aid with MP but faces difficulties
- Senang Diri: Blue on Blue: Part 2
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: On marital rape [Thanks Seelan]

Life, the universe and everything
- Rambling Librarian: Musings about Music: Lilly Allen, File Sharing, the Music Industry, NiN, Creative Commons
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: The Local Anime Market Paradox
- Singaporean Skeptic: Stupid DJ makes fun of Singapore English
- Singapore Sports Fan: The US pulls out of YOG’s swimming competition; and may skip shooting and cycling too [Thanks SFF]
- Letter to BoBo: Letter 1 [Thanks Gwee]
- Trapper’s Swamp: SIN and Create2010 shoots

Infoblogaramous
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “Support the Survivors of Typhoon Morakot”

Forum & campaign to save the life of Yong Vui Kong
Saturday, October 10, 2009
2:30pm – 5:30pm
Oxford Hotel, 218 Queen Street, Singapore

Forum speakers:
M. Ravi, Human Rights lawyer
Alex Au, Yawning Bread
Sinapan Samydorai, Thinkcentre
Breama Mathi, Maruah
Agnes Chia, Social worker
Moderated by local artist Alfian Saat

To visit the event’s facebook page click here

As the World Day against Death Penalty approaches on 10th October 2009, we the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign call upon the Singapore government to join 138 states throughout the world that have ceased executions in law or practice.

We mark this day by campaigning for the clemency of Yong Vui Kong, 21,a Malaysian who had been sentenced to death as a result of drug trafficking. He was 19 when he was caught for drug trafficking in June 2008.

Singapore is estimated to have one of the highest per capita executions rates in the world.Most death sentences in Singapore follow convictions for drug trafficking. The misuse of Drugs Act provides at least 20 different offences and contains a series of presumptions which shift the burden of proof from the Prosecution to the Defence. The UN Rights Committee have concluded that the death penalty for drug offences fails to meet the condition of “most serious crime”.

The UN Special Rapporteur on extra judicial, summary or arbitrary executions has called for the death penalty to be eliminated for drug-related offences and has argued that the mandatory nature of the sentence is a violation of international legal standards.

There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters serious crimes in general more effectively than other punishments. The most recent survey of research findings on the relation between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted for the United Nations (UN) in 1988 and updated in 1996 and 2002, concluded: “…research has failed to provide the scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment. Such proof is unlikely to be forthcoming. The evidence as a whole gives no positive support to the deterrent hypothesis.”

Yong Vui Kong is a case of a youth who had fallen into the snare of drug trafficking against the backdrop of his vulnerable circumstances. His parents were divorced when he was 10 and had to stop education as he comes from a poor family. His mother suffers from depression and is still kept in the dark about her son’s impending execution. His clemency petition had been submitted to the President a month ago.

We ask that the Ministry of Home Affairs provide annual statistics of executions in Singapore which is part of public information as acknowledged by the Minister of Law recently.

Please join us on 10 October 2009 at 2.30 pm, Oxford Hotel, to mark the World Day against Death Penalty in Singapore and say no to the execution of Yong Vui Kong by signing a petition to the President. This is one of the ways to tell the state that it does not have your mandate to go ahead with its planned execution of Yong Vui Kong which is done on behalf of the people.

In peace,
M. Ravi
Convenor of Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign
mravilaw1@gmail.com

Thanks Seelan for the heads up

September 29th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Reform Party’s 1st Anniversary Dinner
- The Kent Ridge Common: A memorable evening at the Reform Party’s First Anniversary
- The Temasek Review: Kenneth Jeyaretnam: “We have credible candidates”
- TOC: Change will not happen if we wait for some other person or some other time [Vid]
- TOC: He is a former hedge fund manager..
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party First Anniversary Dinner

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: The unsustainable Singapore model: a rejoinder
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: High costs and low wages in Singapore
- Singapore Sojourn: Not Everyone Is Affluent In Singapore

Housing
- TOC: Is Singapore really slum-free?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ERA report : More evidence price rise due to foreign influx.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Why should Singapore taxpayers pay $10 million dollars to help immigrants integrate?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: “We Prefer Non-Singaporeans…”

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- The Sketch Times: Singanews and the Wizard of GozD [Thanks thesketch]

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- Feed Me To The Fish: Whiter Than White

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Have you changed your EZ-Link Card?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Slimming pills – The Sunday Times picks up the cudgel

Recession
- The Temasek Review: State media castigates jobless Singaporeans for being “fussy”
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore recovery slowing: All sectors down except biomedicals

AWARE Aftermatch
- flaneurose: DBS Focus on the Family redux II
- The Temasek Review: Former Aware president Josie Lau leaves DBS to join company of Thio Su Mien’s husband

A new low for Ris
- The Temasek Review: Are we being too harsh on Ris Low?
- TOC: Straits Times’ perplexing definition of ‘netizens’
- Empty Vessel: My pet peeves about poor English
- Sam’s Thoughts: Seagulls on the Ris

Daily Discourse
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: Why you fear politics in Singapore.
- Temasek Hedge: Dirty money in Singapore: perception or reality?
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s Human Rights Debate: Not Just about Gay Right
- Singapore Alternatives: The Contrast Of Democracy And Ill-Democracy
- Yawning Bread: Singapore buskers are really bad
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Sexism in newspapers
- Irreligious: China Wine a wasted opportunity
- The boy who knew too much: Ris Low: Miss Singapore World

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Paddock Club 2009
- The FØØL’s Progress: Animation Nation 2009

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 26 Sept-3 Oct

September 28th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

"..PM Lee’s dare to dream is revealing in itself. Against the reality of Singapore, it sounds almost like a taunt: to sleep, perchance to dream, but only if you dare."
Cavalierio

"The thing is, we don’t want to do propaganda art."
Audrey Wong

"..the very fact that all these [CPF Life and Eldershield] schemes and policies are both mandatory and self-funded are indicative that the government has no desire to own the problems."
mjuse

"I feel it is a little ironic that a champion of mainstream values [Singanews] did not want mainstream attention."
Sam Ho

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September 26th, 2009 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Housing
- Singapore Alternatives: HDB High Prices & Influx of FT
- My Singapore News: Downgrading the quality of living
- Singapore Dino: Singapore’s National Disgrace: The Straits Times
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Massive Spin for these Town Council MPs

Town Councils
- Today In Singapore: Some Report Card
- The Temasek Review: Teo Ho Pin blames residents for S&C arrears
- Simply Gab: Town Council Reviews: Where is the Green?!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- BlogTV: Gayle Goh on integration, the UK, and a mindset change. [via TOC]
- The Temasek Review: Are foreigners depriving locals of places in NUS, NTU and SMU? (Part 2)

Road to Perdition Election
- The Kent Ridge Common: Upfront with The Reform Party: An exclusive interview with Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam and Mr Justin Ong

In Remembrance: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- ed’s Blog: In memoriam, Joshua Ben Jeyaratnam : Move over JBJ, it’s time for ‘ed’

Daily Discourse
- Master of the Obvious: Singapore – where whatever we do, is never good enough
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore F1 spinoffs not easy to calculate
- The Kent Ridge Common: Is Singapore Hungry? – A Project Perk Discussion
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee Wades into Singapore’s Blogosphere
- Alas, a blog!: As SOEasy crashes and burns, Singapore’s Ministry of Education does the Right Thing

Life, the universe and everything
- Tales Over Coffee: Why So Serious? Singaporean Blogosphere Blues
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Sneak peek of the F1 Rocks backstage
- pressanykeytocontinue.com: Phuckthis.net Launched ! Vent, Complain, Share!

September 25th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Yui Aragaki 新垣結衣 (born 11 Jun 1988) is a Japanese model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry. She is a well-loved Japanese idol. Her beauty particularly her smile, is well-regarded in Japan. It was Yui’s sister who registered Yui in an audition for a junior fashion magazine (nicola) where Yui won the Grand Prix award. In 2004, Aragaki expanded her modeling career into gravure, and started appearing on variety shows and commercials (Glico’s Pocky being the most popular). After a breakthrough performance in the TBS drama Dragon Zakura, she began to pursue a career in acting. To date, she has won 5 Newcommer awards in 2007 and a prestigious Film prize at the 2008 Golden Arrow Awards. Aragaki also made her singing debut in 2007, singing the theme song for the movie Tokyo Serendipity (which she acted in) and the release of her album Sora.

Pictures from her first photobook Koisuru Madori after the break.
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September 25th, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Housing
- The Secret Political Blog: Straits Times editorial chides Singaporeans for being unreasonable
- The Temasek Review: The paradox of Singapore’s economic growth: Housing Component
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Straits Times Editorial: …Its all YOUR FAULT!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Strange One

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- Simply Gab: SingaNews: Divine intervention or distraction?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Are foreigners depriving locals of places in NUS, NTU and SMU? (Part 1)

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: The unsustainable Singapore model

The Gospel of Harry
- The Secret Political Blog: MM Lee teaches Russian students how it’s done in Singapore
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lee Kuan Yew says the darndest thing.

In Remembrance: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- TOC: JBJ’s interview with FEER
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Tribute to J B Jeyaretnam by Dr Chee Soon Juan

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Singaporean Skeptic: Who is responsible for GIC’s profit? (A tale of 2 news paper report.)

Religion
- TOC: On tolerance, sedition and forgiveness

National Service
- Singapore Alternatives: Protecting Military Secrets…?

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: Who we should bring to bed – The Last Revolution
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Kwik Press – Fast money – Fast Backpedalling – Fast Cars (F1) – Fast Women (Ballless Men) – Fast & Loose

Life, the universe and everything
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: The Visit [Thanks Seelan]

September 24th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

NoToRape – “I do/n’t.”

In Singapore, raping your wife is not treated as rape. But it should be. [How You Can Help ]
Watch CNA’s documentary Get Rea! focusing on marital rape first broadcast on 14 Sep at the No To Rape blog.

Housing
- TOC: The future of discontent
- Lion Investor: Is Property in Singapore Affordable?
- The Temasek Review: How much money is HDB making or losing from the sale of new flats?
- The Temasek Review: In response to ST journalist Fiona Chan’s article
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The cause of HDB resale price surge..

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Winning the hearts and minds of orphans
- Sg Pirate Game: Singapore Chocolate Factory
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: A Look at Australian Immigration Policy
- ALVINOLOGY: Stranger in my own country

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: The paradox of Singapore’s economic growth: Time & Income

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Singapore Dino: Temasek-owned companies suffer bad publicity in Australia

Singapore Coloring
- ed’s Blog: What is singapore’s ‘Promote Mandarin Council’ actually Promoting? [Thanks lary]

Recession
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The Economy and the Stock Market..

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: The problem with slimming pills..

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- The Kent Ridge Common: Of Men In White and objective history

Censoring Singapore
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Martyn See writes to Minister on Zahari’s 17 Years
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Seelan Palay submits Francis Seow video for rating

Life, the universe and everything
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Free because you blog, tweet, in an attention economy

Meh, our server was down this morning again..

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

By DK

Big news for the Palm Fans out there (aka me) this week as Palm announced that it will stop making Windows Mobile phone. Still no news about when Palm Pre or Pixi is coming to Singapore. Sony Ericsson’s new motion activated headset didn’t really change the way we listen to music forever. Google beware, Microsoft launches it’s Office Web Trial to rival Google Doc. Closer to home, MOE adopts Open Standard Internet Email and Collaboration Services from Google.

News
- PC World: No More Windows Mobile Phones From Palm
- Alamak: SingTel vs Local iPhone Developers
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: MOE Adopts Open Standard Internet Email and Collaboration Services
- Cnet: Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
- Engadget: Sony Ericsson’s motion activated MH907 headset could change things forever
- Mashable: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts
- Gizmodo: World’s First USB 3.0 Webcam Streams Uncompressed 1080p Video
- Mashable: Log In to Facebook With Your Username
- SGEntrepreneurs: Crowdsourcing Visual Road Traffic Conditions
- Information Week: Microsoft Launches Office Web Trial
- JustinLee.sg: Getting Buy In for Usability Testing
- Arstechnica: Google Voice rejection came from the top at Apple
- Techgoondu: Sony PS3 Slim at S$512 in Singapore

Reviews | Guides
- The Gal – Nicole: INQ Mini 3G
- Venture Beat: The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP
- Tech65: HTC Hero (White AND Brown) Unbox
- Techie Lobang: Apple iPod Nano 5th Generation Unboxing and Review
- Netbook Choice: HP Mini 311 ION-powered netbook gets official

DK is the obsessive compulsive blogger famous for his face on the table avatar. His blog at Dee Kay Dot As Gee talks mainly about technology and current affairs. He loves his twitter nick and has been tweeting non stop since Nov 06. Apart from blogging and tweeting, he also does podcast and videocast at Tech65 .

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (2)

Contributed by: Cheong Wing Lee

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Affordability in Singapore..
- ~eternalhap~: Preliminary Thoughts on Public Housing in Singapore
- The Temasek Review: A letter from Ng Kok Lim: HDB’s affordability benchmark is not reasonable
- The Temasek Review: A letter from Ng Kok Lim: Home ownership becoming a liability rather than an asset
- The Star: Fears of a property bubble spur buying spree [Thanks Mike]

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why a pro-family program should rise above sexual
- TOC: Thio Li-Ann’s speech at New Media Breakfast forum

Twilight in Paradise. CPF Life
- flaneurose: On CPF Life [Thanks twasher]
- The Temasek Reivew: CPF Life – A Critical Analysis

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Lessen dependence on foreign labour
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: What is the PAP thinking?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Govt considers covering congenital illnesses under MediShield

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: The facade of meritocracy in Singapore
- 光でも闇でも: Singapore: a totalitarian state?
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singaporean Behaviour – Not So Bizarre After All

Life, the universe and everything
- Bernard Leong: Why and How Facebook should come to Southeast Asia
- Rambling Librarian: Stuttering: some resources and related links
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Beyond The Run – Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2009 [Thnaks Major]
- Irreligious: Defending Ho Yeow Sun [Thanks Terence]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- A response to Case’s concern addressed, says EZ-Link
Dear Mr Danker

Given that your previous responses are lacking, kindly answer my queries:

In the first place, I am not convinced that it was necessary to change the EZ-link card system at all. As someone who uses the public transport system in Singapore (incidentally, Mr Danker, do you rely on the public transport system solely? Or do you drive?), the new EZ-link system appears more expensive to implement, and seems to only profit the public transport companies and EZ-link. It does not benefit me in any additional way as a public transport user. All I need, is a simple and affordable card that I can use for public transport. I don’t want an expensive card for multiple purposes. I am therefore extremely disappointed with the authorities for allowing the public transport companies and EZ-link to implement the new EZ-link card without good justification. I would rather the public transport companies pass on the savings to commuters by reducing the fares if these companies made so much money from us over the years. Mr Danker, do you realise that we have no practical alternatives for transport because the public transport companies have a monopoly in Singapore? So, Mr Danker, please justify to me why it is absolutely necessary and beneficial to public transport users for SBS, SMRT, EZ-link etc to incur the very expensive costs of overhauling the previous system to implement a completely new system?

Secondly, Mr Danker, why is it that the previous EZ-link card system was able to do auto-GIRO top-ups without charging extra costs, but the new system incurs extra costs? As a commuter, I do not want something that is more expensive. I would rather have an old system that costs less, instead of a new system that costs more, especially when the new system has no other additional benefit to me as a commuter. Besides, aren’t the top-ups all computerised and automatic? If so, that should be an efficient and cost-saving system. Pray don’t tell me that you are now manually doing the top-ups and that is why it is so expensive now.

Thirdly, Mr Danker, I am tired of public transport companies reaping huge profits from public commuters year after year. It results in trying to squeeze your commuters in 2 ways: (a) for more money and (b) in over-crowded trains and buses. Do you think it is possible for the public transport companies to spare a thought for the commuters and to stop trying to squeeze them? I would like to see the companies either (a) revert to a government-run public service or (b) become not-for-profit organisations. After all, public transport is an essential service to the public, not a luxury good. Don’t you agree?

I look forward to your replies.
matchger

No direct link to this, so we reproduce it here. [Thanks Lyndon]

September 22nd, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Wishing all our Muslim friends a Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Sg Pirate Game: Deceptive Statistics
- The Temasek Review: Singapore’s art groups decline to be propaganda mouthpiece for National Integration Council
- Singaporean Skeptic: Mr PM: Please release the exact figures.
- My Sketchbook: Slowing down the intake of foreigners

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why a pro-family program should rise above sexual issues
- Sam’s Thoughts: Combing the Mane of Singanews for Lice

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Blowin’ In The Wind: In millionaire-rich Singapore, majority income below national average
- The Temasek Review: State media crowed about Singapore being a “millionaire country”
- Mathia Lee: Meritocracy, as we would like it

Road to Perdition Repression Election
- TOC: Have your views of the political parties changed in the last 3 years?

Singapore Coloring
- Sam’s Thoughts: Good News Malay!

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: H1N1 vaccine – areas of concern
- Singapore M.D.: Residency Part II

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Of Ph.D. taxi drivers and the aging conundrum

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Justice is sometimes baffling..

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Men In White: More

Housing
- The Secret Political Blog: Can’t afford HDB flats? You deserve it if you’re poor
- TOC: Disillusioned with trying to purchase a HDB flat
- The Temasek Review: HDB: new flats sold at “significant discount”
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Singapore Property Prices
- Recruit Ong: Andy Xie: What We Can Learn as Japan’s Economy Sinks
- My Sketchbook: "Affordable" public housing by HDB

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My Sketchbook: The new EZ link card

Daily Discourse
- Cavalierio: Requiem for a dream
- The Brotherhood Press: Will Singapore and Malaysia go to war in the name of chili crab? – A study in gastronomical intrigues

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 19-26 Sept

September 21st, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“I really begin to wonder if my very own country whom I had sworn to protect when I was 18 is really worthy of my protection.”
J

“..if CPF Board can cherry pick who to insure and who to reject, then what makes it different from any profit-oriented private insurance company?”
Gerald Giam

“The fact that government officials are rewarded economically, through salaries and bonuses…for delivering GDP growth, may also lead to ‘growth fetishism’… and thus to preference for the easiest route to growth, which is through the addition of inputs of foreign capital, labour and skills.”
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Professors Lee Soo Ann and Linda Lim

Written, produced and directed by Jacen Tan

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September 19th, 2009 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (5)

don’t try to fix me, I’m not broken..

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Netizens sceptical about PM Lee’s promise to slow intake of foreigners
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: PM Lee correcting his “hum” mistake
- The Enquirer: Council alone not a holistic solution to integration [Thanks Henry]
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Slowing the Pace of Foreigner Influx

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- Snippets: SingaNews
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Spectacularly Secular

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Where is MSM’s thorough investigation?
- The Secret Political Blog: Mental Illness in Singapore – A Cause for Concern?
- Civic Advocator: Khaw Wants to Blhawg

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- The Temasek Review: 91% of Singaporeans feel ill-prepared for retirement

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sg Pirate Game: Frenching

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- inSing.com: mrbrown and the Men in White

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Should universities be re-politicitized?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ETFs, CFDs and structured warrants on the market..
- Singaporean Skeptic: 30+ years is too old?

Life, the universe and everything
- ed’s Blog: Understanding Confucian Societies : the Meaning of Success
- The Temasek Review: Towards a Nation of International Capitalists
- ALVINOLOGY: “A Story of The Image” exhibition @ The National Museum of Singapore
- sangsara’s posterous: Burger King Whopper Bar Singapore opening
- under a Pipala Tree: Little Note
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Sony Launches PS3 Slim & PSP Go (in Singapore)

Infoblogaramous
- TOC: JCI seeks volunteers for climate change event
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Win a pair of tickets to F1 Rocks!!!!

playground school bell rings again
rain clouds come to play again
has no one told you she’s not breathing?
hello i’m your mind giving you someone to talk to
hello

if i smile and don’t believe
soon i know i’ll wake from this dream
don’t try to fix me i’m not broken
hello i’m the lie living for you so you can hide
don’t cry

suddenly i know i’m not sleeping
hello i’m still here
all that’s left of yesterday

Hello | Amy Lee, Evanescence
I like!

September 18th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Miwa Oshiro 大城美和 is a popular japanese actress and swimwear model. Pictures from her photobook Cocoa after the break.

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September 18th, 2009 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

We are having trouble posting articles in the last 2 days. Apologies if it has affected your daily discursive fix.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- tOC: Foreign worker buffer is not working
- The Kent Ridge Common: Singapore to tighten the inflow of foreigners
- The Secret Political Blog: Reviewing Immigration Policy: Israel As Role Model?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: We have enough Spices!
- Where Bears Roam Free: Slower Intake of Foreigners
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Property Prices, New Singaporeans and the PAP’s Social Contract

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- Illusio: Plausible deniability; or, are you stupid enough to buy their excuse?

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee questioned new media’s journalistic standards

Road to Perdition Repression Election
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Is a tsunami of good news about to hit Singapore?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Did I Miss Something?
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy on leadership succession
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 5): Reforming the party and state to level the playing field

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Men In White: Read it at your own risk, it’s hard to put down
- Sgpolitics.net: Men In White — Another example of PAP’s “managed dissent” strategy
- TOC: Passion And Patriotism (PAP)
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Just for Yew

Housing
- Sgpolitics.net: Root Cause of Sky-High HDB Flat Prices
- The Temasek Review: HDB: buy resale if you cannot afford private
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: A rather meaningful comment that says it all..

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: The Transplantation Ethics Committee (TEC)
- The Gigamole Diaries Minister of Health’s Blog

Daily Discourse
- still me.: Organic intellectuals
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Hanky-panky in Hourly-rate Hotels

Life, the universe and everything
- nofearSingapore: Singapore Athletics- Still stuck in the 70′s
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: The Singapore football fan is speaking up and backing Noh Alam Shah’s blast against the S-League
- Ian On The Red Dot: Everyone Should Data An Asian

Infoblogaramous
- Virtual(ly) Thursday: SHOOOT to Stardom (17 Sep 2009) [Thanks Peter]

September 17th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- Trapper’s Swamp: Bring it on, Singanews

Road to Perdition Repression Election
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 3): Lack of real political leaders in a team of technocrats
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 4): Likely post-LKY scenario and implications for Singapore
- ed’s Blog: Understanding Confucian societies : how a one-party democracy can be democratic

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Men In White author responds to Martyn See’s blog post
- Today in Singapore: Interviewing Fiction

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM : The fix for the foreign Influx is fostering integration..
- The Temasek Review: PM promises to review immigrant policy under mounting pressure
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee’s inappropriate use of Israel as an example to promote the merits of immigration
- TOC: Room for more, but at what cost?
- Mr Wang Says So: Citizens in the Vice Trade Up Against Strong Foreign Competition
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: The Mysterious 100% PRC Staffing at Geylang Restaurants

Housing
- Singapore Watch: Removal of Interest Absorption Scheme (IAS) and Interest-Only Housing Loans (IOL) should curb some speculation
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: So…Minister Mah hasn’t really heard us after all !
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Affordable HDB flats?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Singapore Alternatives: ECONOMIC GROWTH Just a numbers game? Quality counts too
- Under the Willow Tree: France to Count Happiness in GDP – Why Singapore is Still Nowhere Near World Class

Recession
- The Temasek Review: Unemployment rates higher for all education groups

Re education
- Singapore Dino: Singapore’s National Education: A broken system
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Bill With No Bite
- The boy who knew too much: A look inside a Singaporean company.

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Diarrhoea – the mystery continues
- The Gigamole Diaries: Stents and prostheses – are they regulated?

Singaporeans. A Dying Breed
- Sgpolitics.net: Single mothers should be given Baby Bonuses and other benefits

National Service
- Senang Diri: Wall of silence [Thanks Mike]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Install fans on MRT platforms

Daily Discourse
- TOC: ASEAN Human Rights – Going Forward or Stalled?
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: My mom and her politics

Life, the universe and everything
- under a Pipala Tree: Noh Alam Shah
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Neoliberalism miscontrued?

September 16th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

The Singapore Daily welcomes the newest crew to our humble give back to society. DK will be keeping us up-to-date with the latest news from the world of IT and techno gadgetry. Welcome to the crew, DK!

News
- Arstechnica: Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrade can take nearly a day
- Yahoo: Motorola jumps into the Android game with “Cliq” QWERTY phone
- BBC: SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’
- Engadget: The Palm Pixi
- Valleywag: Google Patents World’s Simplest Home Page
- Cnet: Apple updates iPods
- Straits Times: Stay connected while in-camp
- Graham Cluley’s blog: Apple ships a known vulnerable version of Flash with Snow Leopard
- SGEntrepreneurs: Nokia One Connected World Event

Reviews | Guides
- The Neo Dimension: Singtel launch iNQ Mini 3G
- Techgoondu: Hands on: Nokia N97 mini plus X3 and X6
- Tech65: INQ Chat 3G First Look with INQ Mobile CEO
- Tech65: HP Mini 5101 First Look
- Dee Kay Dot As GeeReview: Mifi 2352

DK is the obsessive compulsive blogger famous for his face on the table avatar. His blog at Dee Kay Dot As Gee talks mainly about technology and current affairs. He loves his twitter nick and has been tweeting non stop since Nov 06. Apart from blogging and tweeting, he also does podcast and videocast at Tech65.

September 16th, 2009 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (6)

Contributed by: Cheong Wing Lee

Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- The Temasek Review: Singapore netizens sceptical about Singanews’ real agenda
- The Brotherhood Press: Singanews, the theory and reality – A study in internet stupidity
- TOC: About SingaNews

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media
- Trapper’s Swamp: We teach critical thinking through propaganda

Housing
- StaticVariable: HDB and CPF
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Breaking news : Govt curbs property speculation!
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Petition featured in Singapore’s Chinese papers, Lian He Zao Bao

The Broad of Film Censors
- Yawning Bread: Film censorship correspondence, part 1
- Jacob 69er: Seelan Palay submits ‘Francis Seow: The Interview’ for rating

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Offer window period for uninsured to join Medishield
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Slow Medicine Movement

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: Third Most Competitive Nation in the World – What it means to the Average Worker

Singaporeans. A Dying Breed
- The Itch to Write: ‘Few Babies? It’s the Hotel Mama mindset’.

Daily Discourse
- Today in Singapore: Coming Full Circle
- The Temasek Review: The resignation of Taiwan’s Premier Liu: A lesson for Singapore in public governance
- Singabloodypore: Singapore: Freedom for Sale by John Kampfner

Life, the universe and everything
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Thank you, Alam Shah, for telling the truth about the S-League and Singapore football
- ALVINOLOGY: Supermodelme.TV Finale @ Zouk
- No Buns No Life: SIGNS, a short film. 1 of Cannes 2009 Winner. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!

September 15th, 2009 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)