Oh Singapore, this is how I feel when I think about you…
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Roger Waters
7 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
Immigrants & Foreigners
- The Temasek Review: PAP responds to Dr Chee Soon Juan on “6.5 million” population target
6 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
Immigrants & Foreigners
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “Xenophobic Singaporeans?”
- Just my Observation: CNA: Immigration issues dominate discussions on REACH.
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Trapper’s Swamp: Get a bigger can
7 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: knee-jerk reactions!
Immigrants & Foreigners
- TOC: S’pore needs a new game plan, a new “miracle”
- Singaporean Skeptic: Cautionary Tale to all Overseas Singaporeans.
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- The Lycan Times: Satire – National Service Recognition Award (NSRA)
Opposition Response
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Chee Soon Juan responds to Lee Hsien Loong’s ND speech
6 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: My beady eyes over Lee’s numbers, part 2
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Response to “My beady eyes over Lee’s numbers, part 2″.
- TOC: What are Singaporean workers sacrificing for?
- Yours Truly Singapore: National Day Rally 2010
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: National Day Rally.
Immigrants & Foreigners
- The Rot Within: Underutilisation of local resources
- Geek Is The New Black: Are We All Becoming Pauline Hansons?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Immigration to be hottest topic in Singapore yet
- TOC: Why do we need 6.5 million people?
- The Star: No more the most open
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Senang Diri: NSRA stokes evergreen concerns on National Service
- mrbrown: YouTube video: Hitler Finds Out about his NS Recognition Award
- My very lo soh long winded page: $9K to buy NSmen’s votes?
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Lau Peng Forgotten and Lau Peng Won’t Forget [Thanks Dai Kor]
Housing
- Abdillah Zamzuri: New HDB home ownership policy could have deeper meanings
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Homes of Singaporeans
3 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- flaneurose: Some thoughts on the National Day Rally Speech
- Sam’s thoughts: If Lee Hsien Loong sang the National Day Rally speech out…
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why opposition ignored?
- Geek Is The New Black: The Singapore Hotel
Immigrants & Foreigners
- TOC: Is he addressing the issue – 12 years on?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore population crosses 5M….Part 2
- The Temasek Review: 60% of grassroot leaders dissatisfied with PM Lee’s take on foreign talent
- My Sketchbook: Singapore’s population hits five million..and counting
Housing
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part V – What now, after the control measures?
- The Temasek Review: Policy on property market unhelpful to the majority of Singaporean except 1st timer
- FTP: Are new property measures too little, too late?
2 Sep 2010 National Day Rallay
General Responses
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: My beady eyes over Lee’s numbers, part 1
Immigrants & Foreigners
- Singapore Notes: Read Their Lips
- TOC: Singapore’s immigration policy and its developed status
- The Temasek Review: What are the problems behind the immigration problems in Singapore?
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Best Springboard in the world
Housing
- Singaporean Skeptic: Step in the right direction
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Senang Diri: NSRA: How much is enough?
- Military Life: Welcome the New: Frack the Old (NSmen) [Thanks Panzer]
- Sam’s thoughts: Thanks for the money! Now give me incentive for thanking you! And give me incentive for willingly receiving the incentive and giving you face!
- Simply Gab: Disappointed that NOT ALL NSmen are being recognized
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP: Leave No Man Behind
1 Sep 2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- Under The Willow Tree: Measures that PM Lee SHOULD Have Announced, But Didn’t
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why I refuse to be reached by REACH
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: One angry citizen
Immigrants & Foreigners
- TOC: New citizen issue – poor grasp, useless ideas?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Population crosses 5M…
- Singaporean Skeptic: Island gets more crowed. Facts and Figures. Part 2.
- Musings From the Lion City: The Numbers Game
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Foreign-born Singapore resident population up from 18% to 23%
Housing
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Young Singaporeans Dreaming – Expensive HDB Flats and the Politics of Impossibilities
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore Government finally appreciate our NS man?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Will $9000 make NSmen STFU and vote PAP?
Opposition Response
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP: Response to PM Lee’s Nation Day Rally Speech
31 Aug 2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: My Take on the ND Rally..
- Words of the Cze: National Day Rally 2010
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: National Day Rally – some views
- Singapore Dino: Spotting the big holes in the rally speech
- Singapore Notes: The Speech That Need Not Be Delivered
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why were these pressing concerns ignored?
- Insane Polygons: Snake Oil Salesman
- mrbrown: Tweets from National Day Rally 2010
- My sketchbook: National day rally -The persuasion
Immigrants & Foreigners
- TOC: The PAP and the Malay Singaporean: Between rhetoric, reality and meritocracy
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee’s “out of touch” National Day Rally speech on immigration issues
- Gerald Giam: Immigrants and foreign workers: Let’s talk real numbers
- Musings From the Lion City: The Rally
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Population Bomb (Metaphor)
Housing
- Blowin’ In The Wind: HDB flats can’t be resold, sublet for 5 years
- My Little Corner: The latest government measures may just work
$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Singaporean Skeptic: $9000 compensation for NS.
Opposition Response
- VotingRp: RP’s Response to PM’s National Day Message
- Sgpolitics.net: PM Lee’s National Day Rally Speech 2010 — James Bond is in town!
- SDA Desmond Lim Bak Chuan Facebook: A Response to the Prime Minister’s National Day Rally 2010 Speech
30 Aug 2010 National Day Rally
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: 4 Themes for PM Lee’s National Day Rally Speech
- Singapore Alternatives: Avoidance of Income Disparity…
- Insane Polygons: Save Me The Bullshit
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why the Singapore Spirit is incomplete
- The Rot Within: The Irony
- FTP: ‘We’ll slow down influx of foreigners but door must remain open’
26 Aug 2010
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: PM should address the issue of building a democratic society
25 Aug 2010
- SINdie: What do you see…… What DO YOU SEE?
19 Aug 2010
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SM Goh : Your Problems are just Gripes..
16 Aug 2010
- Tribolum.com: Colonialism without Borders
13 Aug 2010
- ST Forum: N-Day Awards. Not a single doc in restructured hospitals recognised
12 Aug 2010
- TOC: NDP reflections
- The Temasek Review: Why Singaporeans should not be proud of the PAP regime for its economic performance
- Singapore Notes: Saving SM Goh
- Balderdash: Jobs, long hours and personal fulfilment
11 Aug 2010
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Do We Really Need The 5Cs To Shape Our “Singapore Dream”?
- Growing your tree of prosperity: National Day Rant : No one is out to ruin your Singaporean Dream, lah !
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Most Ironic Awards – Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize & National Day 2010 (The Distinguished Service Order) [Thanks Yak]
- Vinyarb: No way, He didn’t! Did he?
- The Gigamole Diaries: Did Corrinne May’s “Song for Singapore” do it?
- mrbrown: NDP Slogans You Never Saw
- Sam’s Thoughts: NDP 2010: It’s all about penises, sex, vaginas and more penises
10 Aug 2010
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: My National Day thoughts (or, I love Singapore and hate it too)
- funny little world: Watching the National Day Parade.
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Make it Our Singapore
- The Lycan Times: Singapore Dreaming
- For What It’s Worth: dreams
- The Itch To Write: Love your country, fly the flag!
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Mind-boggling National Day Award
- Rachel Zeng: 45 years of what?
- Sam’s thoughts: I want a more equal Singapore
- Furry Brown Dog: Happy 45th National Day Singapore
- The Rot Within: Dreams and Spurs
- Singaporean Skeptic: Getting all Nationalistic Today
- Lost in Singapore: The Singapore Gripe?
- The Temasek Review: This National Day is not mine, its the PAP’s.
- Feed Me To The Fish: Yes, Mr Prime Mini$ter
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Thoughts for National Day 2010
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Happy 45th National Day
- New Asia Republic: Celebration, albeit draggy
- Cooler Insights: Celebrating National Day via Social Technologies
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP National Day Message 2010
- My sketchbook: 5Cs in Singapore
- De Leviathan @ SG: Reflections as we prepare to celebrate 45th National Day [Thanks Yak]
- The Secret Political Blog: I wave my flag in slow motion [Thanks Norvin]
9 Aug 2010
- Ravi Philemon: National Day must remain a day of pride
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: My National Day Message: No Dream too Bold…
- The Rot Within: A Negative Identity
- VotingRP: A National Day Message from the Reform Party
- ambiguity: National Day
- Tribolum.com: E Pluribus Unum
- Scott’s Weblog: How Loyal Are Singaporeans?
- My Very Own Glob: My National Day Parade
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Happy National Day Singapore
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore National Day: fleeing the country
- Sam’s thoughts: Parliament Parody
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Happy National Day
- My Sketchbook: National day
- The Star: Still a work in progress
6 Aug 2010
- Under The Willow Tree: Why I Would Like to Leave, by Kitana [Classic]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Isn’t there a better way to wish residents a Happy National Day?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: SDP’s National Day Message 2010 – The Young Ones
5 Aug 2010
- Under The Willow Tree: National Identity, by Solitaire Joker [Classic]
- Kaffein-nated: (Old Classic) I am a Singaporean, by Dan E
4 Aug 2010
- Under The Willow Tree: [Classic] I am a Singaporean, by Dan E
- TOC: What the Maya collapse can tell us about our future
29 Jul 2010
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Live Our Dreams, Fly Our Flag
3 Aug 2010
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Singapore’s Social Engineering
- sylvia lim’s blog: Live Our Dreams. Fly Our Flag.
- Under The Willow Tree: [Classic] Dick Lee: “Count on Him Singapore”
13 Jul 2010
- ST Forum: Displaying flags to set record? That’s going overboard
