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Daily ChioBu: Natsuko Tatsumi

Natsuko Tatsumi 辰巳奈都子 (born 21 Jan 1988) is a actress and gravure idol. A graduate from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Musashimurayama High School, Natsuko appears regularly on TV commercials and advertising billboards. In 2007, she won the Miss FLASH Idol competition for the popular weekly publication Flash! which bills itself as THE weekly photo magazine. Besides modeling, Natsuko has also appeared in numerous TV series and movies.

Pictures from her photobook Adventure after the break.
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June 11th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- covered in his blood: When CHC meets CAD
- The Lycan Times: “Ze CHC De-Bait”
- 野人俱乐部: Do Religious Bodies ‘have duty to their members’?
- Tiny Island: Singapore on E News: Husband of Pop Singer Sun Ho, Pastor Kong Hee Questioned by Authorities

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- funny little world: Extraditing a graffiti artist – ARE YOU FOR SERIOUS?!
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Oh, so the graffiti on SMRT wasn’t a marketing campaign?
- Nomadism: Swiss national arrested for graffiti
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP media release: Govt must come clean on MRT security blunder
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Swiss man exposes SMRT security lapses -Straits Times rejects letter
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SMRT: What has “public’s duty” to do with the price of eggs?

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Partnership, trust, respect needed for stability
- The Temasek Review: Disunity & being uninformed are primary factors in PAP’s long rule
- The Temasek Review: Singapore and its road to democracy

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Too Much Glitz And Too Little Substance In Our Education System?
- TOC: Let teachers do what they do best

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Notes: Letter Of The Law Rules

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ST Forum: Singapore needs its very own success stories

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: IHRA rebuts S’pore’s defence of harsh drug laws

The Beautiful expensive Game
- TOC: S’poreans protest World Cup charges by telcos

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread Sampler: Foxconn wage rise spells trouble for Singapore
- TOC: TOC back from hiatus

Life, the universe and everything
- My Little Corner: Places of Interests Near Circle Line MRT Stations
- My Queenstown: Goodbye KTM Tracks

Infoblogoramus
- funny little world: Collection for victims of Kallang slashers.

June 10th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Unless you are from another universe, you should have heard by now that the iPhone 4 is coming. It will be launched in the US on 24 June 2010. Singaporeans need not worry, we are in the 2nd wave of the iPhone 4 release. iPhone 4 is expected to invade the little red dot somewhere in July. We are still not sure if this is going to be exclusive to 1 telco or available to all 3.

By the way, isn’t iPad coming to Singapore in July too? Oh my…. it’s going to be an Apple-ish month.

News
- Engadget: iPhone 4 guide
- Straits Times: iPhone 4 on sale from July?
- LesterChan.Net: SingTel’s Media Launch of Samsung Galaxy S with Super Junior
- JustinLee.sg: StarHub Exclusive Motorola Milestone XT
- TechGoondu: Adobe: 53 per cent of smartphones to have Flash by 2012
- LesterChan.Net: Intel Bloggers Event
- TechGoondu: HDS launches S$4.6 million Asia Pacific distribution centre in Singapore
- Engadget: HP CEO: “We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business”
- LesterChan.Net: SingTel MicroSIM Details
- TechieLobang: iPhone OS Has 3x More Market Share than Android OS
- Cnet: European regulators to get Google Wi-Fi data
- JustinLee.sg: What I’ve learnt about the Samsung Bada Platform

Reviews | Guides
- The Journey of a Decade: One Word to Describe Samsung Galaxy S : Impressive
- Tech65: Motorola Milestone XT First Look
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Review: Sony Walkman NWZ-W252

June 10th, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s City Harvest Church, a few spiritual and material lessons
- The Logical Christian: Extending Grace
- 大腿杰: Domon Times III
- The daily news: Just heard the news !!!

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Thank you, Oliver Fricker.
- Musings From the Lion City: Seriously?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Swiss man in SMRT security lapse-why charge him?
- My sketchbook: SMRT and the graffiti

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Aussie Pete: All Aussies Judgmental? That’s Just Rude…

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: Why Singaporeans leave Singapore?

Daily Discourse
- 追梦者: limits on exclusiveness
- Sgpolitics.net: What kind of a society have we become?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore Ranked 30th in World Peace Index
- The Asia File: A tale of two city-states

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: Don’t Lose the Long Form!

Infoblogoramus
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Land banking – Gathering at Hong Lim Park, 12 June 9.30 am

Selected News Stories
- Caixin: Dismantling Factories in a Dreamweaver Nation
- SMH: How a far-sighted 17th-century scientist saw the future
- Bits Blog: Thoughts From Tech Blogs on the iPhone 4
- MintLife: The Economics of the World Cup

June 9th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Fit to Post: Pastor Kong Hee ‘takes a break’
- I see the world through my eyes: New updates on City Harvest Church [Thanks Tan]
- Yeap Chee Seng Weblog: City Harvest Church And The Devil
- Just Thoughts: Failing Ourselves

[Thanks Cameron]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- motochan: Vandalism in Singapore: then and now
- funny little world: How DARE he make the MRT look nicer?
- ST Forum: It’s not about team, but the system
- Exparica Switzerland: Swiss monitoring Singapore graffiti case

Countdown to Elections
- Yawning Bread Sampler: Online politics at election time: more space, clearer boundaries
- Sg Truth: PAP Launched Election Campaign in Facebook
- utopia8787: Singapore: A utopia no more?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Ravi Philemon: The seminar, Vincent Cheng and the National Library Board
- The Temasek Review: Open letter from a Singaporean Political Refugee, Ho Juan Thai

Sin City
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Are the IRs a flop?
- NYT: Relaxing Its Grip to Play for a Winning Hand

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Ignoring the Elephant

The Beautifulexpansive Game
- Just Jewel: Red Wave – it is about the principle [Thanks Ravi]

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: PAP MP’s police report against his own resident: Real Threat or Paranoia?

Life, the universe and everything
- motochan: iPhone 4G to be released in Singapore July ‘10
- Lara’s Singapore Blog: Chinese Garden and the Eight Singapore Immortals
- Take Two Up Three: It’s Chicken Rice and it’s in Cubao!

Infoblogoramus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Open for booking: Chek Jawa intertidal walks Jul-Dec 2010

Selected News Stories
- Daily Mirror: LKY’s prejudice
- Winnipeg Free Press: Singapore hopes shaming litterbugs will help keep squeaky-clean image
- City Brights: Water lessons from Singapore
- AFP: Cross-border rules hampering ASEAN trade: industry

June 8th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: Persecution? Not by a mile
- Facebook: Exhortations for CHC [via Irreligious]
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Kong Hee’s Pastorpreneurship?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Last Word on CHC and Kong Hee.
- Blogpastor: City Harvest Church probe: why is this happening?
- The Lycan Times: The City Harvest Church Investigation
- The Logical Christian: The Benefit Of Doubt
- The Logical Christian: “To The Best Of Our Efforts”
- Balderdash: A great message of ‘support’ for City Harvest
- The Star: Rich religions pose new woes

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Did Singapore win or buy the Table-Tennis World Championship?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Lessons From The Kallang Slashings
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Are foreigners making S’pore unsafe?
- The Temasek Review: Singapore mass-recruiting electrical and software engineers in China
- The Temasek Review: Application for Singapore PR/citizenship takes only 4 to 6 months to process

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Small steps for Social PR: The Graffiti on SMRT Train 1048 – It could have been worst
- Singapore Dino: How safe are Singapore’s transport depots?

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Singapore’s policy keeps drugs at bay – REALLY?
- Guardian: Singapore’s policy keeps drugs at bay

Countdown to Elections
- choongyong.com: First Survey Outreach for Vote18 Campaign

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Wrong country for graffiti….?
- New Asia Republic: Fighting Against Manipulative Business Practices
- ST Forum: Review how GST rebates are distributed
- Small steps for Social PR: Nukes in the ASEAN neigbourhood – Wither thy Singapore?
- Yawning Bread Sampler: How obvious is the line on invasion of privacy?
- The Gigamole Diaries: NKF short of money?? You must be kidding..

Life, the universe and everything
- Cooler Insights: Singapore’s Pavilion @ Shanghai World Expo
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Indonesian Bands Festival 2010 in Singapore
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Oil spill spread and clean up: a summary

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 5-12 Jun

Selected News Stories
- Al Jazeera: Myanmar ‘nuclear plans’ exposed
- Room for Debate: Is Any Job Better Than No Job?
- NYT: In Leaked Lecture, Details of China’s News Cleanups
- Village Voice: Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

June 7th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

“..the worst thing about this “but others suffer more” kind of argument is that in the end, it allows the status quo to continue.”
Flying Low

“The GDP number has become quite meaningless to ordinary Singaporeans because their lives are not getting better.”
Lucky Tan

“I would say this CHC investigation actually benefits everyone who attends mega churches, regardless of the results.”
kelvintan

“..that’s what this is about. We have conceded defeat. We’re done trying, we lost. So let’s buy some talent and win us some medals.”
theinkhorn

“We are not apathetic: we are made to feel apathetic.”
guanyinmiao

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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June 5th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (2)

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Figuring how faith fits into this world, & other stuff: City Harvest Church Probe
- Musings From the Lion City: Not So Fast!
- what u see is what u get: City Harvest Church Saga
- Cheat Grace: Plagiarised articles still on sale
- ED Unloaded: City Harvest Probe
- no more talk of darkness: Of tithes and donations
- MyQute: Info and a Question for City Harvest Church Goers
- Where do dreams go from here?: On the City Harvest Probe
- Gweek Culture: Sleep of a Good Conscience

Strangers in a Strange Land
- It’s all about Amelioration: Singaporean on Paper or Heart?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Issue of NS for Singaporean Men Part II
- The Temasek Review: Singapore table tennis team’s victory: more astroturfing by Straits Times

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- The Way We Are: Is ‘constructive’ anger towards the PAP possible?
- TOC: “Late inclusion” an excuse, Vincent Cheng tells NLB

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: Elections Dept sent letters to schools to update premises for polls

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Our SWFs: Another question our MPs should be asking

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Tampines GRC PAYM Policy Forum: All The Expense With Limited Takeaways
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: Ah Fook thinks we’re becoming a Sin City! [Thanks Tan]

Life, the universe and everything
- Otterman speaks: The switch to a steel water bottle
- XinYun @ SG: Photos: Youth Fest. 2010
- Crystal and Bryan in Singapore: Pulau Ubin…Again!
- Marcus’ Blog: And you tell me a singapore passport is priceless?

Selected News Stories
- New Asia Republic: Green Shoots or Fresh Weeds?
- BusinessWeek: Singapore Dollar to Outperform on ‘Safe-Haven’ Status, RBS Says
- The LA Times: Annual Tiananmen Square cat-and-mouse game
- Business Insider: The Complete Guide To All 32 Teams Playing In The World Cup
- NYT Goal: The Beautiful Game’s Serious Blemish

June 4th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Mayuko Iwasa (岩佐真悠子) (born 24 Feb 1987) is a gravure idol and actress. Born in Nerima Tokyo, she made her debut as one of the winners of Miss Magazine 2003. Mayuko got her acting break playing Ayu in the highly popular television adaptation of YOSHI’s novel Deep Love ~Ayu no Monogatari~. In 2005, Mayuko won the Graph Prize at the 42nd Golden Arrow Awards. She was recently seen in the drama Gal Circle as Rika, a ganguro who scams her friends for money.

Pictures from Mayuko Iwasa’s photobook True Colors after the break.
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June 4th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: My money or your money?
- Sze Zeng: Some manipulative methods used by some pastors to get rich
- ambiguity: Surprise Fail: CHC Misuse Of Funds
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Give..give..give..
- I see the world through my eyes: Kang Xi, Can`t see.
- SpotlightOnSingapore: City Harvest probe
- Hitchhiker’s guide: Not conservative = Immoral

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- The Asia File: The censorship of history in Singapore: a response
- TOC: Exchange of letters between NLB and member of the public

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ambiguity: Never Accept without Questioning

The passing of Dr Goh Keng Swee
- Notes from ED: Goh Keng Swee and the cold, bronze statute [Thanks Eric]

TOC on Hiatus
- funny little world: Give TOC a break!

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Corruption-free Government Agencies, possible?

Life, the universe and everything
- blankanvas: bmw joy 3d
- The Long and Winding Road: More views of the Chong Pang of old

Selected News Stories
- SMH: Singaporeans asked to chew on their manners
- The Local: Singapore’s flush research funding attracts German scientists
- ProPublica: The Madoff Circle: Who Knew What?
- Thoughts on Freedom: Don’t raise salaries to eliminate corruption
- Mike Wirth Art: How Our [US] Laws Are Made
- Crack Two: 100 Amazing National Geographic Pictures

June 3rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Chemical Generation Singapore: So the Kong Hee Drama Starts
- Irreligious: Aftermath of a party
- Sze Zeng: What is happening to City Harvest Church?
- Thrasham: On religion
- My Mocha Dreamzzz: City Harvest Church members under investigation
- kelvintan73: City Harvest investigation keeps all churches in line.
- Singaporean Skeptic: City Harvest Investigation-Let’s not make hasty judgements.
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: City Harvest under CAD investigation…
- The Temasek Review: Senior Pastor Kong Hee called up for questioning by police
- The Boos and Moos of Life: Fiasco
- Rage Against The Solitude: An initial look at City Harvest Church.
- deadpris: City Harvest Church under investigation [Satire]
- Food for Soul: Ho Yeow Sun AKA Sun Ho Divorce Kong Hee: Rumor?
- Church Warnings: Kong Hee-Prosperity gospel preacher-City Harvest Church-Singapore: UNDER INVESTIGATION: UPDATE [Thanks KK]
- Fit to Post: What now for City Harvest?
- The Logical Christian: Pastor Kong Hee’s Publisher Explains It’s “Oversight”

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Ravi Philemon: National Library Board responds

Twilight in Paradise
- ST Forum: Offer seniors genuine concessions to offset reduced wages

Housing Singaporeans
- ST Forum: Share details of lift upgrading costs with residents

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Reinventing Urban Transport: Singapore-Malaysia cross-border transport agreement and opportunities

The passing of Dr Goh Keng Swee
- ST Forum: Let’s not use founders’ names for indirect gain

National Service
- Military Life: Risking Life and Limb as a Conscript in the Lion City [Thanks Panzer]

Daily Discourse
- It’s all about Amelioration: Insights to the Singapore Dilemma

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: I took part in a non-dancing flashmob

Selected News Stories
- New Asia Republic: Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion
- The Bangkok Post: A censored ‘normality’
- BBC: Government reveals 172 civil servants earn more than PM

June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment