Daily SG: 17 Feb 2010
Sorry Rony Recants
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: A Word About Intolerant Christian Views
- TOC: Take a stand for moderation, liberty, and genuine understanding
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Crime and Appropriate Punishment
- TOC: Aftermath of the Rony Tan incident: it has only just begun
- The Kent Ridge Common: A sensible move, finally
- Sgpolitics.net: What the Religious Harmony Debate has missed out thus far
- face/palming: beyond the bashing [Thanks A. Noni-Mity]
- Singapore Life and Times: Flogging a dead horse
- Kennethism: Pastor Rony Tan of Lighthouse Evangelism needs to apologise to gays and lesbians too [Thanks Kenneth]
- The Temasek Review: Aftermath of Rony Tan fiasco: ISD shouldn’t be policing racial and inter-faith relations
- Sze Zeng: Singaporeans have a low view of Internal Security Department?
- dhamma musings: The Pastor Tan Fallout
The Year of the Tiger
- The Secret Political Blog: De-constructing PM Lee Chinese New Year Message 2010
- Singapore Dino: PM Lee should increase his government’s productivity first before lecturing Singaporeans
- TOC: The “hongbao” dilemma: No place for divorcees during Chinese New Year?
- ALVINOLOGY: This CNY, Mr Mah Bow Tan is here to spread wealth
- sixdegrees.asia: Better Than Ang Pows [Thanks Gwee]
- Anonymous_X: Singapore River Hongbao 2010: Photos Galore [Thanks wacky_artz]
Road to Election
- utopia8787: speech at 15 Feb 2010 [Pics @Temasek Review]
- Chee Wai’s Random Musing: Making Pluralism work in Singapore
- Singapore Alternatives: The Role of Opposition – Putting Spurs into PAP’s thick hides
- The Temasek Review: Beyond the PAP: Thinking aloud
Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The Economist : Welfare in Singapore The Stingy Nanny
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: The Economist calls Singapore a ’stingy nanny’
- The Economist: Welfare in Singapore – The stingy nanny [via Diary of A Singaporean Mind]
Cheaper, Better, Faster
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Dampening the volatility in our economy..
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Do “Productivity” Courses Necessarily Heighten Employability?
Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Homeless people are “defective”, needs “rehabilitation”?
The Economic Strategies Committee Report
- Sgpolitics.net: Economic Strategies Committee: Real Change or Just Words?
GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Blowin’ In The Wind: GIC pick Travelport IPO shelved for poor demand
- The Temasek Review: Chief Strategist behind Shin Corp debacle now head of Temasek’s Seatown Holdings
Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- nofearSingapore: Singaporeans’ Medisave Money for Malaysian hospitals
Re edcuation
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Increased focus on recruiting matured applicants into civil service in a move away from a scholarship focus?
Daily Discourse
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Questioning Singapore’s foray into military robotics
- The Temasek Review: Interview with Kenneth Lin, 15 year old Singaporean who started a petition against Lee Kuan Yew
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Hitting and Running
- Alamak: The State of Broadband in Singapore
- TOC: Cultural Revolutions, Wilting Flowers
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: The Lion City: quietly opening the door for Chinese Triads?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Free Burma Campaign Singapore statement on the 2010 Burma elections
- Proto Magazine: Biopolis: The Science Factory [via Balderdash]
Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Who is Tai Sui (太岁)?
- Small steps for Social PR: Viewers’ Choice 2009 prediction
Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Telegraph: Singapore accused of launching ‘Sand Wars’
- The Age: Singapore accused of stealing beaches
- The Jakarta Post: Place your bets
- AP: Singapore tries luring foreigners as casino opens
- The Star: Big brother to drive away cars
- Bangkok Post: The not so beautiful game
- FT.com: A ‘stall crawl’ of Singapore
- Reuters: Lender’s agent forecloses on Stuyvesant Town
- Reuters: Temasek cuts stake in ICICI Bank to 5.9 pct from 8.3 pct
- Reuters: Five world markets themes next week
- NYT: Year of the Tiger: Potentially Exciting and Turbulent
- Reuters: New media can help fight repression: watchdog group
- Foreign Affairs: The End of the Beijing Consensus [Thanks CR]
February 17th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
A touching,sad but true story.
http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/2010/02/july-22-2009-wednesday-unbearable.html
February 18th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Thanks Onlooker. Seems like he has just published a book. Is that a first? A local blogger turn author.
February 18th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Nope Singaporedaily admin. The first one that did it i.e local blogger turn author” just happens to be Darkness (insert year) of the brotherhood.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I’m still waiting for Isabella Chen to write a book. She has a natural talent for writing. Real talent. But too bad she as born Singaporean.
Oh please, back up your claims or just shut up already. We are all tired of your rubbish. No one cares I wish only Singapore Daily would drop the courtesy and delete all your trolling. Don’t bother to reply because.. NOBODY GIVES A FLYING FCUK ABOUT YOU
February 19th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Hello Missy,
Its true, before he was known as Darkness. He was called Baby Bambi Bad Boy. Then it became Darkness.
The first historical publication of a e-novel by a singaporean was launched in icered.com in the year 2002 in Hong Kong by Bambi Bad Boy.
You can read the condensed version here.
http://intelligentsingaporean.wordpress.com/2005/02/12/the-confessions/
Please don’t flame me, I am just trying to set the record straight. The internet does not lie.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
And to think I always thought Catherine Lim is the first to write an e-novella.
Leap of Love. for Lycos Asia
please Pardon my ignorance.
Posted Dr Cai’s blog post after being inspired by it on another blog.
Hope there will be more inspiring posts on the web.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 am
Cat’s Leap of love
In 2000, she worked with the now-defunct web portal Lycos Asia to pen an e-novella. The effort was called Leap of Love and was sold online (at 19 cents a chapter) before it was published by Horizon Books in 2003. It was released as the film The Leap Years by Singapore’s Raintree Pictures in 2008.