The Singapore Daily

“I think they didn’t fail the system, it’s the system that failed them.”
The Killerzephyr

“What do I tell my children about a government that is rich in wealth but not so wealthy in spirit?”
Ian Tan

“..I am wondering why we need to cast everything in terms of realpolitiks, or look at potential economic returns in everything we do? Isn’t doing the right thing, a good enough reason in itself?”
gigamole

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

Housing
- TOC: 50 years of HDB – homelessness is its biggest challenge
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Record high HDB resale flat prices: How much where?
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Complete denials
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Affordable flats
- Sgpolitics.net: Minister Mentor calls Singaporeans DAFT for faulting Government’s housing policies
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee: Govt does not have control over prices of resale flats
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Let the truth be told
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : You must be daft!
- The Temasek Review: Lee Kuan Yew: Singaporeans must be “daft” if they cast protest vote against PAP over rising HDB flat prices
- The Itch To Write: Would you pay $100, 000 COV?
- The Temasek Review: Mah Bow Tan finally acknowledged that the rising HDB resale flat prices have “raised fresh concerns”

Road to Election
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Why I joined the Opposition [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics.net: PM Lee: Complete loss of perspective at Singapore Perspectives Forum
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee now says degrees “not as important” after former govt scholars join opposition
- Gimme Some Truth!: Elections come later, like chocolate cake
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The wheel of history will move forward
- The Temasek Review: Opposition gunning Tampines GRC to kick unpopular Mah Bow Tan out of office
- Die neue Welle: I am Singaporean III – The Importance of a Good Memory

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Singapore to give out free YOG scholarships to foreigners
- The Temasek Review: Exposing the 6 major flaws in the PAP’s immigration policy [Recommended]
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Foreigners pay more, but what’s in it for Singaporeans?
- The Temasek Review: Policy Face-off: Immigration policies – how many is enough?

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Is MM Lee Kuan Yew adding value to Singapore?
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Moral Turpitude of Singapore’s Great Helmsman
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks deeply offensive to Malays
- Icarus Flew Too High: Ethnic divisions and your grains of rice

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Secret Political Blog: The PAP imitates the Reform Party
- Furry Brown Dog: Singapore’s policymakers catch up with economic reality [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics.net: A U-turn in PAP’s economic and population policies? We shall see.
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Talking about a revolution
- The Temasek Review: Being the second freest economy in the world – What does it mean to Singaporeans?

Singaporeans: A Dying Breed
- Empty Vessel: Are they really fixing the birth rate problem?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Singapore’s declining birth rate

Reform Party Seminar on Education
- TOC: RP: Don’t address issues by only looking at symptoms
- The Temasek Review: The Reform Party’s Seminar on Education [Pics]
- Singaporeans for Democracy: James Gomez’s speech at Reform Party Seminar on Education

Re education
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: Education in Singapore: what changed, what hasn’t
- The Kent Ridge Common: Social studies curriculum must be independent
- Mathia Lee: Dual Specialites
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Singaporeans’ views on the mandatory death penalty

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Alternatives: Inadequate Public Transportation [Recommended]
- Singapore Alternatives: Inadequate Public Transportation II
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: More on Transport..
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: On Transport Again..

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore MD: Breast cancer screening and adoption of evidence
- The Gigamole Diaries: More on mammograms

Singapore Coloring
- The Gigamole Diaries: Race and ethnicity in Singapore - the confusion continues

Religion
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Malaysia joins Islam’s ideological fray – Singapore beware!

Goal 2010
- The Kent Ridge Common: World Cup 2010: We won’t be held hostage
- The Gigamole Diaries: Between World Cup 2010 and Haiti…… the choice is clear

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Shanmugam living in a state of denial over political repression in Singapore [Recommended]
- TOC: Facebook’s bra colour campaign for breast cancer hurts more than it helps
- Growing your tree of prosperity: So having an Ivy-League degree is like having a D-Cup breastsize? [Thanks Wai Chung] [Recommended]
- I’m getting personal: My reflections on European Parliament
- Irreligious: “Cowards!”
- Empty Vessel: What price pragmatism? [Recommended]
- Insane Polygons: A Most Pragmatic Response.
- Facebook group: Singaporeans for Haiti
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Part 2 of SDP’s Let’s Talk with Michael Fernandez
- Singapore Dino: Cheaper, Better, Faster and Smarter… Ministers
- utopia8787: PA’s reply on Eunos Grassroots Enquiry
- The Gigamole Diaries: Do we believe in anything of value….?
- My sketchbook: How to help Haiti-Singapore style
- Barnyard Chorus: What’s shit for the goose
- The Temasek Review: Smear campaign against “new ugly Singaporeans”: Is YPAP fighting back?
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: Have a say in shaping our home
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore Resident Committee member shortage
- Kaffein-nated: The truth is out… what are you gonna do now?

Life, the universe and everything
- Sujadi’s Blog: Does it matter…Singapore? [Thanks John]
- Business Insider: Another Warning Sign: China-Based, Singapore-Listed Firms Rapidly Collapsing Amidst Debt And Fraud [Thanks Gerald]
- Open Contours: Change We Can Believe?
- Letters to Bobo: Letter 3 [Thanks Gwee]
- Growing your tree of prosperity: What Apple’s new tablet would mean for writers.
- Memories Archipelago: Behind the scences of Singapore Airshow 2010
- quachee’s blog: Singapore Memories: Singapore Singers & Songs
- The Long and Winding Road: Psst … guess who dropped in today?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: 3G Micro SIM
- The Lycan Times: Humor – iPad
- Flying Low: 3D Football
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Asia 360 -Taal Volcano [Thanks Major]
- Vinyarb: Graffiti - AIDS Awareness Paris

Infoblogaramous
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 23-30 Jan
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Join us at SDP’s 30th Anniversary Dinner!
- Ong Jiin Joo: FilmCamp Singapore 2010 is this Sunday!