Weekly Roundup: Week 27 « The Singapore Daily

Weekly Roundup: Week 27

“Yes we cane.”
Hansel K

“We should treat people like we would like to be treated, not pull them down so they can be treated as badly as we treat our own.”
Kirsten

“Singapore, on the other hand, has to be one of the most racist places on Earth. The level of racism disgusts me.”
Brad Farless

“My question is, WITHOUT any preparation, WITHOUT any rehearsal, WITHOUT any wayang and notification to the related management or what so ever, have these highly paid CEOs, minister or so, take the public transport (meaning trains or public buses), in the morning/evening peak period or not?”
Yuxiang

“..I hate Singapore as a lover would. Only the ones you love can hurt you. “
Alfian Sa’at

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

The Great Flood of Orchard Thomson Boon Lay Bukit Timah Telok Kurau Singapore
- TOC: Floods – are we prepared?
- The Temasek Review: “Freak” floods – Unanswered Questions
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Floods in various parts of Singapore….
- TOC: Heavy downpour, several areas flooded (Updated with videos)
- motochan: Singapore Flood 2.0
- Boleh! Boleh!: Flooding @ Cisco Basement Carpark
- mrbrown: PUB caught off guard everywhere today
- Singapore Alternatives: Press Statement on recent Floods
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore Freaky Flooding Part Trois
- ST Forum: Fresh floods. More to it than a clogged culvert
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Flash Floods: Is This Going To Be A Regular Thing, PUB? (Part Two) [Recommended]
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: The Flood and PUB’s Credilibity Washed Away
- flaneurose: Flash Floods and Spin Doctoring
- Musings From the Lion City: Unrealistic
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: I don’t think it is possible in Singapore to…
- The Green Bush: Get Real, Not Hysterical : Thoughts on Singapore’s Flashfloods
- TOC: Drumming it in

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Welcome to Singapore, where Foreigners kill Foreigners
- funny little world: Must it really be “Us vs Them”?
- funny little world: Singapore = Global Torture Hub.
- Barnyard Chorus: Dear Oliver, I’m sorry.
- Singapore Dino: Raymond Lim finally surfaces 42 days after SMRT security breach
- The Asia File: Singapore to cane Swiss man after train graffiti incident
- SpotlightOnSingapore: SMRT vandal: Oliver Fricker gets jail and caning. Barbaric?
- Singapore Notes: The Price Of Justice [PNSFW]
- TOC: Vandalism – the new evil (Message from your leaders)
- My Sketchbook: 3 strokes of love from Singapore for graffiti
- Right Juris: Oliver Fricker: Swiss Man Faces Singapore Caning for McKoy Banos Graffiti (Video)
- SpotlightOnSingapore: SMRT vandal: Oliver Fricker’s caning sentence is torture?
- Business Beyond the Reef: Singapore Swing

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The Lycan Times: An Open Letter to SMRT CEO
- Want some tau huay?: SMRT trains are not packed, according to it’s CEO
- Singapore’s Land Transport: Distance fare calculation glitches?
- Small steps for Social PR: SMRT “Fail” Bus/Train a joke in Twitter-verse
- yuxiang’s corner: So if I choose not to board the train and in the end get pissed off after 20 mins..
- Dee Kay Dot Posterous: SMRT CEO says “People can board the trains – it is whether they choose to.”
- ST Forum: SMRT reply does not address commuters’ concerns
- ST Forum: Matter of choice?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: SMRT’s To-Do List
- Singapore Alternatives: SMRT Chief is misleading!
- Singapore’s Land Transport: PTC and LTA clarifies distance fare calculation ‘glitches’… but
- TOC: Dear Ms Saw…
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore’s Transportation System Needs A Rework
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Sustainable Cities and Transport

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Vivian’s Sleight of Hand: Blaming S’poreans for PAP policies [Recommended]
- Gerald Giam: Where have all the engineers gone?
- TOC: Ban transport of workers on backs of vehicles – TWC2
- New Asia Republic: Foreign lives not worth much?
- ST Forum: Workers want urgent action
- ST Forum: Parliament must act to ensure safety
- TOC: TOC Special Feature: Safer transport – what are we waiting for? [Recommended]
- Loh and Behold: They are not Beasts of Burden
- Unraveling Singapore: Farewell Singapore!
- The Temasek Review: Should marginalization be encouraged for GDP growth?

Countdown to Elections”
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Outstanding Govt keeps getting caught off guard…
- Loyalty is Orange: Blame the Foreigner
- Singapore Alternatives: NEA under Yaacob disturbing Opposition Parties instead…
- Singapore Alternatives: Caught off Guard Ministers’ Ranking
- Molitics: The Next Time the PAP Asks for My Vote

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- Barnyard Chorus: Filial piety: fine feelings and hard work [Recommended]
- Cognitive Dissonance: MCYS video on filial piety
- ST Forum: Filial piety not about right and wrong
- The Temasek Review: Does the PAP stand to benefit from resurgence in filial piety?
- Loyalty is Orange: Reading into Nothing
- Singapore Notes: Power Of The Sublimal Message

Truth, Justice and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Notes: Oh Yes, The Law Can Be Mocked

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Death row case: Malaysian Law Minister’s puzzling about-turn
- Malaysiakini: Law minister flip flops on Yong’s execution case
- Malaysiakini: 40 Asian NGOs denounce Yong’s execution

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Temasek Review: Are we looking at another Billion Dollar losses?

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : No Housing Bubble in Singapore..

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Firehouse Still Burning!
- Abdillah Zamzuri: GST’s on You!

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers (Overweight people need not apply)
- The Gigamole Diaries: Obesity – a KPI? How silly can you get?
- Loh and Behold: Fatties Doomed Career-wise?
- TOC: Discrimination of overweight staff in Singapore hospitals

Re education
- ST Forum: Why burden children with holiday work?
- ST Forum: School break should be just that: a clear respite from books
- TOC: Why course subsidies are a really bad idea
- ST Forum: Time management and school breaks

S’poreans A Dying Breed
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Low birth rate
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Demography, not immigration, part 1 [Recommended]
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Demography, not immigration, part 2

National Service
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Great Game Again
- Military Life: No More Reductions in NS and the SAF in Afghanistan [Thanks Panzer]
- Singaporean Skeptic: Aren’t you glad you are a male Singaporean?

Little Green Dot
- Wild Shore of Singapore: Giant endangered grouper served in Singapore restaurant
- Green Kampong: Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish
- Global Witness: Singapore’s ‘sustainability credentials’ undermined by environmentally destructive sand imports

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Kennethism: Questions inquiring City Harvesters need to be asking
- Sze Zeng: Rhetoric for prosperity theology/teaching
- Irreligious: Gaining, saving, and giving

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Mark Ng advances the cause of speech freedom
- Loh and Behold: A Strawberry MP?
- TOC: An open wound
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Managing a Smarter Singapore Landscape
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Slur on our reputation
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Call made to abolish ISA, for truth commission over detentions
- The Temasek Review: New tactic used by state media to deflect blame from PAP ministers
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: The travails of Singapore’s democratic youth
- The Itch To Write: Only ‘hardware’ what about our ‘software’?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Understandably Xenophobic Mob
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Thank you, Soh Lung [Thanks Seelan]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why I think Economic Outlook is very bleak….Part 2
- Feed Me To The Fish: No Ma, it’s not your fault
- Singaporean Skeptic: FIFA is as incompetent as the PAP
- ST Forum: Football. Does S’pore suffer from French blight?
- Loh and Behold: Entrapment
- The Malay Dilemma: The Singapore Dilemma in the Malay World
- ST Forum: Too close for comfort
- ST Forum: Mobile data billing shock
- Sun2Surf: I love my country, I hate my country
- Gerald Giam: “You may wish to get involved in…political organizations”