The Singapore Daily

“So is MM telling everybody again, that GDP is the magic number?.. He’s also trying to tell everybody to work, to sacrifice free time, leisure time, or time for relationships, just to make the GDP numbers.”
Sharon

“Not only are Singaporeans expected to care (as opposed to being apathetic), they are also prescribed the right ways to care..”
Molly Meek

“I hereby challenge Young PAP members to have a public debate at the Speaker’s Corner.”
utopia

“..is there really a dearth of so-called ‘talents’ in Singapore?.. [or] little more than a whitewashed attempt at accruing a higher GDP at the expense of the public.”
Fiona Lim

“What Are We Doing To Prepare For The Elections?”
Ian

“..the pertinent question is will the next elections be based on policy debates or personality (blown out of proportion emphasis on the mistakes of certain candidates) and estate management issues?”
Kelvin Teo

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

Housing
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore HDB resale flat prices highest in two decades
- Today In Singapore: Flat Prices Will Always Rise [Recommended]
- Musings From the Lion City: Change Your Argument (Part 2)
- The Rot Within: Up, up and away
- The Temasek Review: A letter to Mr Mah Bow Tan on his “realistic” remark
- Ian On The Red Dot: HDB Will Continue To Be More Affordable
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: HDB flats and the illusion of wealth
- Sgpolitics.net: HDB flat prices: Affordable to who?
- The Lycan Times: Not filling but yet not starving
- Sgpolitics.net: The banana and your HDB flat
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Mistaking garbage for cheese
- Sgpolitics.net: Have wages kept up with soaring HDB flat prices?
- The Temasek Review: Financial Consultant: Only households with monthly income of more than $7,500 can consider buying BTO project in Queenstown

Road to Election
- Kelvin Teo Writes: The implications of having more opposition parties
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: My vote counts: 10 reasons why I cannot vote for the PAP in the next election [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: Why Singapore needs to have elected opposition MPs in parliament and not token representation
- Molitics: The Importance of Being Bitchy [Thanks chorusy]
- Desparatebeep: What Exactly is Governance?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Super Singapore President!
- The Secret Political Blog: Reform Party challenges PAP in its core competency – the economy
- Kelvin Teo Writes: The changing electoral landscape
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Take the coming elections seriously..
- utopia8787: i dont know the Opposition, but i dont want the PAP
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Policy debates or estate management for the elections?
- The Temasek Review: One single slogan for the opposition front: “Singapore for Singaporeans”
- Ian On The Red Dot: What Are We Doing To Prepare For The Elections?
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Of voter turnouts and electoral reforms
- The Temasek Review: A rebuttal to Shanmugam’s remarks that “Singapore needs a strong leadership and a political system for speedy decisions to be made”
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Shanmugam does it again!

Road to Election: An Extra Cooling Off Day for the Fixing
- Littlespeck: ‘Freak’ result concerns
- TOC: Who will gain and what’s at stake – Additional day of non-campaigning for next General Elections

Chiam See Tong: 25 years
- TOC: Let Potong Pasir be a beacon and power base: Chiam
- The Temasek Review: Mr Chiam See Tong urged all opposition parties to contest as many group representation and single member constituencies in the next General Election
- Today In Singapore: Wishing You More Good Years, Mr Chiam
- leesjuanpat world: A Tribute to Mr Chiam See Tong [Thanks Seelan & Patrick]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Graduate schools see large foreign student population
- The Temasek Review: A rebuttal to YPAP Fredric Fanthome by a new citizen and former PAP supporter: A Chorus of change for Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee advises Japan to import foreign workers.
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Seriously dei, what is Shanmugam talking about?
- TOC: Why must we join the ‘war’ for talent?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Expats love Singapore, but don’t mix much
- Singapore Manifesto: Anonymous Singaporean Thought #10 [Thanks sgmanifesto]

A jobless recovery
- TOC: PMETs and degree holders among hardest hit by weak labour market [Recommended]
- TOC: Economy recovering, but labour statistics getting worse?
- Temasek Hedge: Clueless: how main stream media and stock watchers work

Mainstream | X-Stream Media
- TOC: Press Muse – The good, bad and ugly (part one)
- sardonic ambivalence in a progressive society: Senseless Citizen Photojournalism
- The Asia File: Singapore has the BBC singing like a canary [Thanks Ben]
- The Interpreter: [via Jacob 69er ]
- TOC: Press Muse – The good, bad and ugly (part two)
- World Through Spider’s Eyes: Riffing MDA’s Television Code (Part 1) [Thanks Kenneth]

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Quest to be Gainfully Employed: MM to japan: play the GDP game [Thanks shibuyume] [Recommended]
- Desparatebeep: Say What You Like About Terrorist..
- Singaporean Skeptic: Why you are short-changed by the system.

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- TOC: Foreign nurses cannot replace local care for our elderly

Re education
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The thin line between education and propaganda

Singapore Coloring
- Sam’s thoughts: Malay problem is sociological; Chinese problem is statistical [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: SDP’s Jufrie Mahmood slams Dr Yaacob for not doing more to help Malay community
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Who says that Racial Discrimination does not exist in Singapore?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Hospital errors – more action needed
- Singapore M.D.: Subsidized healthcare
- Today In Singapore: Heal The World According to Wallet Size

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore buys top publisher with a mountain of debt

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: Disabled or not, we are Singaporeans
- Zach’s Thought Blot: A Traffic Problem [Recommended]
- The Field Marshal: TV Mobile to be silenced
- My Little Corner: TV Mobile is finally gone. Good riddance

National Service
- Military Life: Basic Military Training: What Your Mama Never Prepared You For [Thanks Panzer]
- Sam’s thoughts: Defending What’s (Y)ours! National Service Deaths and Grievances
- Senang Diri: I Will, Who Will?

Little Green Dot
- TOC: Urban solutions for Singapore
- AsiaIsGreen: Environmentalism In Singapore: Dead Or Alive?
- The Lionheart: Climate Change and Choice
- TOC: Does Singapore have a climate change policy? [Thanks Donaldson]

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s thoughts: “Alternative lifestyle” is a condescending and ill-informed myth
- The Temasek Review: YPAP member resorts to smearing critic’s character to silence him on Facebook
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Alex Tan barred by YPAP..
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Whither Singapore’s Secularism? Note to the Ministry of Law [Thanks Imran]
- On Line Opinion: Singapore – offending the sensibilities of government [via Singabloodypore ]
- I’m getting personal: What has really gone wrong, Doctor?
- The Temasek Review: Alex Tan to YPAP members: “Don’t be anonymous cowards on Facebook
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: In praise of M. Ravi
- The Temasek Review: If you are so disenchanted, why not leave Singapore?
- Singapore Dino: Condolence letters to PAP and Opposition MPs differ greatly
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: The Young PAP are just as spineless
- Singapore Life and Times: Ballshit
- Sam’s thoughts: Feedback and Recommendations to CRC 2009
- The Secret Political Blog: The Corruption of Power: How Corruption is not just about money
- TOC: Media reports on Killer Litter case miss the point
- The Temasek Review: Lessons from Muharram and Ashoura for Singapore Muslims
- nofearSingapore: Singapore Athletics’ SAA sucks- so please go
- Today In Singapore: Avatar: The Singapore Movie
- The Temasek Review: Netizen questions if there is conflict of interest between Mr Sear Hock Rong’s job and his grassroots work
- TOC: Youth Olympics can, SEA games cannot?

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian On The Red Dot: Go Fly Kite Lah
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore got talent – The Fire Fight
- Empty Vessel: Bishan Skies, now a Windows 7 theme pack!
- blankanvas: top ten blogs you won’t imagine being from singapore
- AngryAngMo: ZoukOut 2009 Gallery – See The Best Pictures / Videos
- TOC: DNA suggests China Chinese originated from Southeast Asia
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Can the Singapore online community create a podcast network?
- SGEntrepreneurs: Local Startup Communities Launch Jobs Listing
- Mathia Lee: Genetic Basis for Sexual Identity at the Cellular level
- ALVINOLOGY: How to cancel your Pioneer magazine subscription
- journalism.sg: Papers can’t resist unverified Tiger Woods gossip from dubious sources
- TOC: Haunting mural graces Citylink
- Youth.SG: The Do Good Interview: Let’s Go to Speakers’ Corner [Thanks Kenneth]

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