The Singapore Daily

"Dear Singaporeans, we regret to inform you that you have been outsourced."
Waleed Hanafi

"The gahment should tell us explicitly what they are doing to mitigate the effect of this rising sea level."
gigamole

"Forget about logic and empirical evidence, the best way to persuade someone in the PAP or civil service is to get the endorsement of Lee Kuan Yew."
skeptic

"At the end of the day, being a Singaporean only matters if Singaporeans care about what happen to their fellow Singaporeans.."
LuckySingaporean

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

Road to Perdition Election
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Is electoral handouts necessarily the best option?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: UK Election vs Singapore General Election
- Kelvin Teo Writes: A vast disparity in the status of MPs
- Kelvin Teo Writes: The utility of electoral ’suicide squads’
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Is linking HDB upgrading to votes pork barrel politics?
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Kelvin Teo catches up with Mr Goh Meng Seng of the National Solidarity Party
- Kelvin Teo Writes: About high time that national issues are discussed during elections
- The Temasek Review: Co-opting Philip Jeyaretnam: A PAP masterstroke to counter the Jeyaretnams’ lingering appeal
- The Rot Within: Frolicking Bigmouths

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Is Singapore a better place without foreigners?
- Ignorance is Curable: Dear Singaporeans, we regret to inform you that you have been outsourced
- Singapore Alternatives: The extend of influx of Foreigners
- Today In Singapore: Dumb Answer, Dumb Answer
- Ministry of Home Affairs: Oral Reply to Parliamentary Question on (a) how many foreigners were successful in their application for permanent residency (PR); (b) how many of these permanent residents have given up their PR status; and (c) how many new PR applications have been received, 23 November 2009
- The Temasek Review: Vivian happy that there are 4,500 new immigrants serving as grassroots leaders
- TOC: By 2015, born and bred S’poreans may be the minority in S’pore
- Today In Singapore: Citizenship Test Questions

Housing
- TOC: Mah’s explanation does not square with HDB’s annual report [Recommended]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Govt helps Singaporeans by increasing property tax!
- Feed Me To The Fish: Stupid & Stupider
- The Temasek Review: Means testing for PRs to buy resale HDB flats

Twilight in Paradise: Growing old in Singapore Inc
- Singaporean Skeptic: Singaporeans in their 40s.

Re education: To Bi or not to Bi
- Singaporean Skeptic: Risk Adverse Government still needs Lee Kuan Yew to tell them what to do.
- Asia Sentinel: The Beauty of Singapore
- Me and my thoughts: English and Chinese
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Where Have All The Talents Gone?
- according2ed: Scholar lauds bilingual policy – not much of a ’scholar’ methinks
- Alas, a blog! Live life, like you give a damn!: The Singapore Dilemma

Re education
- Temasek Hedge: “Singapore as an education hub” aka “PhD for Fido” [Thanks Bink]
- Sgpolitics.net: Being a degree mill: Singapore’s shame
- Singaporean Skeptic: Racist Policy of the Ministry of Education

CPF
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Expert Defense of CPF : FLAWED
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Expert Defense of CPF : FLAWED Part 2.

Healthcare & Helathcare Providers
- Singapore Short Stories: Invisible Health Risks
- Urbanrant: To Minister Khaw: We need more information and updates on H1N1
- The Gigamole Diaries: H1N1 vaccine toxicity?

Mainstream or X-Stream Media
- The Emancipation of my Brain: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"
- Journalism.sg: Malaysiakini turns 10. So where’s Singaporekini? [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: Role of state media in making Singapore leaders appear better than they are (Part 1)
- The Temasek Review: Role of state media in making Singapore leaders appear better than they are (Part 2)

Lee vs Chee
- The Temasek Review: Dr Chee Soon Juan’s foreign liaisons: an act of patriotism or treachery?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: I saw Chee Soon Juan

A jobless recovery?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore and other economies compared
- TOC: Reducing the cost of living – the Lean way

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles. E$-Link
- Today In Singapore: Stupidity Is Contagious

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Apathy among Singaporeans.. [Recommended]
- Journalism.sg: Singapore scores high marks in test of access to government information
- The Temasek Review: Economic Freedom and Political Liberty [Recommended]
- Singapore Life and Times: A Serious Flood?
- TOC: Singapore Police Force – stretched and fatigued
- TOC: Casinos, the Internet and the sex trade
- The Temasek Review: Will a “Fajar generation” emerge in Singapore ever again?
- The Lionheart: Steps to Stagnation
- Mathia Lee: Police handling of rape cases in Singapore : Skills Upgrading Needed.
- The Gigamole Diaries: Rising sea levels – what is the impact on Singapore’s coastline??
- The Temasek Review: Use of public funds by Boon Lay CC for grassroots event at condominium to promote “community bonding”
- TOC: Asia Sentinel loses a Singapore correspondent [Recommended]
- Balderdash: Why I shall [try to] wear a Black Ribbon on Wednesday (25th November) – on a Campaign against Male-on-Female Violence
- Mathia Lee: Sexual abuse doesn’t happen to females only.
- The Gigamole Diaries: Rising sea levels – what is the impact on Singapore’s coastline?? #2
- Today In Singapore: And You Thought White Horses Were Bad [Recommended]
- Asian in America: On being Bland in the Lion City
- The Asia File: The difference between red tape and repression
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: GST is helping the poor (corporates)
- Sam’s thoughts: The Gay Suspicion
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP’s joining of Liberal International is heartening
- The Temasek Review: Resident asked where funds to replace lifts in Tampines will come from
- Irreligious: Losing sleep over Yong Vui Kong [Thanks Terence]
- Majulah Singapura: Presumed guilty until proven innocent
- actionslavehero: The Elected Singapore President – TV Debate
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Apply for Casino Self-Exclusion Here..
- The Temasek Review: Defending your country? Then pay for your own insurance

Life, the universe and everything
- Irreligious: An Orthodox Christian’s response to Rev. Yap [Thanks Terence]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore got talent – Ling Kai
- The Gigamole Diaries: NKF to dip into reserves
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: A joke about Yin & Yew
- Wet Calamari: Anime Festival Asia 2009 day 1 photo report
- Little Red Ants Blog: Dads For Life
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Is SISTIC the only ticketing agent in Singapore?
- Rambling Librarian: ‘A’ before ‘D’: Abilities before Disabilities – applies to Everyone.
- thedramadiaries: Magazines Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Screw Us Over [Thanks dk ]
- Mathia Lee: Why child marriage was necessary in the past, but unethical today
- Loh and Behold: Black Friday
- A Travesty Waiting to Happen: More inspirational posters

Now Showing
- thegreatsze: Catch This Fox
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: Evangelion 2.0

Infoblogaramous
- Mathia Lee: SgLEAD
- Mr Wang Says So: Here Comes The Neighbourhood!
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: MEOW! (Critical Singaporean play this weekend)

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