The Singapore Daily

“Lee Kuan Yew. Sometimes you do consider him the bringer of light to our country and at times you feel he’s like a flame thrower.”
ErniesUrn

“And at the end of every discussion, someone would say, “You should be a politician.””
Ian

“..we have to move beyond tolerance to acceptance.”
Ravi Philemon

“Boomz!”
Ris Low

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

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…”
- 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??
- 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
- kay poh chee: Singapore PR is given away like candies [Thanks Jon]
- The Temasek Review: Since when do we need “foreign talent” to be clinic assistants?
- Trapper’s Swamp: Beauty pageants are important, so lets import potential beauty queens!
- according2ed: Sg: I’ve never encountered a people who’ve done so much to undo themselves [Thanks Jenel]
- TOC: New citizens outstripping net increase of existing citizens?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Ungrateful Platoon Commander, Insensitive Leeder
- kay poh chee: Any XiaoHua, Anand and Harry can quality to work in Singapore easily

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
- Today In Singapore: Have And Have Nots
- Yawning Bread: UBS survey shows Singapore slipping in standard of living [Recommended]
- 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

Housing
- TOC: Is Singapore really slum-free?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ERA report : More evidence price rise due to foreign influx.
- 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
- The Temasek Review: A reply to Ms Mabel Tan’s letter: “How family’s fortunes have grown over the years”
- The Temasek Review: Why peg prices of new HDB flats to market rates?
- TOC: Prices of HDB flats – press censorship?
- Trapper’s Swamp: Rising HDB flat prices due to “unrealistic expectations”?
- The Temasek Review: COVs: Does Mah Bow Tan know what he is talking about?
- The Temasek Review: Mah: “Not meaningful” to compare to prices of flats in the past

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
- Tribolum.com: The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune [Recommended]
- Today In Singapore: Beauty Before Integrity
- Singapore Life and Times: Cheating beauty
- Trapper’s Swamp: Spare me the romanticism
- The Temasek Review: Straits Times named Ris Low’s photo as “sg-stupid.jpg”
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Have we gone too far?
- The boy who knew too much: Could Ris have got any lower?
- The Lycan Times: Commentary – Ris Low
- Singapore Life and Times: Confused Beauty
- The Asia File: The man who called Lee Kuan Yew a dictator to his face [Thanks Ben]
- Singapore Life and Times: Abused Beauty

The power to cost the people
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Rising of Electricity Prices due to increase in fuel prices?

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- TOC: Analysing Temasek Holdings’ Review: Does portfolio value mean anything? [Recommended]
- 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

Recession
- The Temasek Review: State media castigates jobless Singaporeans for being “fussy”
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore recovery slowing: All sectors down except biomedicals
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Belt Tightening and Rallying Rhetoric
- Temasek Hedge: Why Singapore Industrial REITS are begging shareholders for more money [Thanks Bink]
- Temasek Hedge: Morgan Stanley: Buy ‘quality’ stocks because crap is expensive [Thanks Bink]

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- The Temasek Review: Town Council took unemployed man to court for S&C arrears
- Singapore Dino: $10m to ‘integrate’ PRs while penniless & disabled citizen in court for $432?!

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

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Have you changed your EZ-Link Card?
- World Through Spider’s Eyes: The 25 Cent Argument [Thanks Kenneth]

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

The Gospel of Harry
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lee Kuan Yew says the darndest things. Part II [Thanks lary]

Mainstream vs X-Stream
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s New Media: New for How Long?
- The Civic Advocator: C’mon, we all know the “cyber defenders” are actually new cyber police

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

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

Re education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Alternative media in the education of our future generation
- Mr Wang Says So: Academic Success and Socio-Economic Status in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Residency Part III
- The Kent Ridge Common: A more serious threat than the so-called alternative media

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

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

Road to Perdition Election
- TOC: Power, change and leadership succession [Recommended]
- Sam’s thoughts: Singapore Election Fever

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] [Recommended]
- TOC: He is a former hedge fund manager..
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party First Anniversary Dinner

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]

EPL 1 : Football Fans 0
- Frankly Speaking: So Singtel wins the BPL rights
- Master Of The Obvious: EPL win for Singtel, Loss for Singapore
- Temasek Hedge: EPL broadcast rights: When competition is actually bad for the consumer

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
- 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]
- The Useless Tree: William Safire and Singapore and Williams College [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: Formula One – A Gold Mine or a Gold-digger
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Japanese Govt Ban “Amakudari”
- Today In Singapore: Buzz In The City
- For Want of a Better Title: Strange Weather we’re having
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Arms Race or Reverse Psychology?
- Ian On The Red Dot: I Should Be A Politician
- TOC: Spillovers of tolerance [Recommended]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Yellow Ribbon campaign within the civil service
- The Temasek Review: MM Lee’s misplaced “optimism” about Russia
- The Temasek Review: Singapore a puzzle hub? Another shoddy reporting by the state media
- Temasek Hedge: S-chips: SGX wins, Singapore loses [Thakns Bink]

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Paddock Club 2009
- The FØØL’s Progress: Animation Nation 2009
- 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
- UniqueFrequency.com: Twitter And The Singapore “Earthquake”
- The Journey of a Decade: A letter to Mediacorp - The so called wedding event of the year [Thanks DK]
- UniqueFrequency.com: Singapore Writers Festival’s Mistake – Focusing On The Tools, Not The Goals

Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 26 Sept-3 Oct
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “Support the Survivors of Typhoon Morakot”