Weekly Roundup: Week 31
“[National History] is something more than a tool of national indoctrination or political mobilisation, historical consciousness is a common identity that belongs to the individual.”
Findmuck
“Our glory days are truly behind us.”
Khairulanwar Zaini
“It’s time to say thanks but no thanks to censorship. It’s time to let me decide”
Let me decide
“Let me express my right to freedom of expression and make a fair comment. I think you are a cruel soulless son of a bitch.”
Sam Ho
This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
The Great Flood of Singapore
- The Mind Game: ST cunning in the front-page flood
- Everything Also Complain: Orchard Road sandbags
- ST Forum: Has train tunnelling played a part?
- The Star: Oh, for a dip in Orchard River
- My sinchew: Singapore flood risk alarms insurers: report
- TOC: Floods and politicking – which hits worse?
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: The Great Singapore Flood – a case of ponding [Thanks George] [Recommended]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Flooding woes – the critical cause of poor soil quality [Recommended]
- New Asia Republic: Looking at Orchard River through a broken window
- The Lycan Times: Floods & Engineering [Recommended]
Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: HDB prices hit new high!
- Under The Willow Tree: HDB Unaffordability Exposes Economic Policy Failures – Housing Bubble to Grow and Pop [Recommended]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: HDB flats: Selling how much above valuation where?
- TOC: Helping the needy – Mr Koh replies
- My sketchbook: Welcome to my party
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MBT : There is IMBALANCE in the Market!
- Siew Kum Hong: The “market” as deus ex machina (or, The Scapegoat For Rising Housing Prices and Other Inconvenient Realities)
- Under The Willow Tree: Mah Bow Tan is Either Disingenuous, or Stupid
- Mr Wang Says So: The Little Story of One HDB Flat
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Selling a HDB flat
- flaneurose: When will housing prices return to ‘normal’? [Recommended]
We are against capital punishment
- New Asia Republic: Road justice beyond doubt..
- funny little world: Give Vui Kong another chance!
- Lianain Films: The Good Fight
- TOC: SADPC & TOC to take to Speakers’ Corner – 1 August
- funny little world: Have you signed?
- TOC: High Court reserves judgement on judicial review application
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Give Vui Kong A Second Chance, 1st Aug (Sun), 4pm – 6pm, Speakers Corner
- TOC: Legal charges threat to freedom of expression: HRW
Alan Shadrake charged for Jolly Hangman
- TOC: I am not going to be cowed: Alan Shadrake (Updated)
- Singapore Notes: Is Shadrake Doing Us A Favour?
- TOC: Review : Once A Jolly Hangman
- Balderdash: Improving your country’s reputation for fun and profit
- Asia Times Online: Shooting the messenger in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Alan Shadrake accused of contempt of court..
Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Political pokerplay: the government’s gamble [Recommended]
- Gerald Giam: My interview on Yahoo! Fit to Post
- funny little world: What, are we Communists now?
- New Asia Republic’s workshop on General Election Blogging and the Law: Peter Low on GE Blogging [Thanks Donaldson]
- New Asia Republic’s Photos: SPP Ordinary Party Conference 2010 (25 Jul 2010, 3pm to 7pm)
- Singapore Notes: Their Dreams, Our Nightmares
- The Temasek Review: Proposed strategem for the Reform Party in the next 10 years
- Keep Me Safe While I Sleep: Is the PAP for or against us?
- The Temasek Review: Desmond Lim barred from meeting Potong Pasir residents
Twilight in paradise
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: No retirement age
- Fit to Post: There should be no retirement age for S’pore: MM Lee
- Sam’s thoughts: Caught in a Bad Romance: The day Lee Kuan Yew gutted me [Recommended]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : Never Retire & the Intellectual Class.
- The Asia File: Elderly Lee Kuan Yew offers to take pay cut
- Singapore Notes: Signs Of Senility
- Feed Me To The Fish: Chui Kong Lumpar Song!
- My sketchbook: No retirement age in Singapore
The Gospel of Harry
- Under The Willow Tree: Lee Kuan Yew’s “Intellectual Class” will Run Singapore Into the Ground
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew – a sad sight indeed
– THIS HEADLINE HAS BEEN CENSORED FOR YOUR OWN GOOD –
- LET ME DECIDE: Time to say thanks but no thanks [Thanks AE]
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Let Me Decide – Mr Lee Kuan Yew Agrees With You
- Article 14: S.35 of the Films Act is Unconstitutional [Recommended]
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Blowin’ In The Wind: How many Indians, Chinese, Malays and people of other races in Singapore’s total population?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: How to fight human trafficking: Ban the term ‘sex work’
- The Rot Within: Surprising Statistics
- TOC: Employers bear brunt of unnecessary foreign worker levy hike
- Lost in Singapore: National Day and 100,000 Foreigners
Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Fastest growing economy – what about jobs and wages? (Part 2) [Recommended]
- Yours Truly Singapore: Singapore’s well-being goes far beyond GDP
- Furry Brown Dog: The dual economy of Singapore [Recommended]
- TOC: Why I do not like high GDP growth
re education
- ST Forum: ..we must review a range of value, motivation and reward systems.
- ST Forum: Abolishing Exam Culture
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Ministry Of Education’s (MOE) Delayed Move Forward
- ST Forum: Exam-focused parents leading kids astray
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Community Engagement Programme (CEP): An Exercise In Futility?
YOG
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Please pay $188 and help us evaluate the YOG Village
- TOC: Press Muse – Ivory tower irony in last-gasp YOG pitch
- Klik.tv: Ris Low We Will Rock You Boom Boom Pow Remix [Thanks izreloaded]
- The Temasek Review: Slovak YOG Ambassador slams Singapore’s YOG venues of “school standard” only
- The Temasek Review: Slovak YOG Ambassador Danka Bartekova writes to TR
- TOC: Upset S’porean writes to SSC, slams YOG
- Vinyarb: CNA poll on YOG
Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Bed crunch continues even as new hospital opens
- TOC: Medisave – pay up or be charged?
2010 National Day
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Live Our Dreams, Fly Our Flag
Little green dot
- Green Drinks Singapore: Citibank pulls sharkfin promotion
Blueprint for a sin city
- Covered in his blood: Of casinos, birds, bees and honey [Thanks Paul]
Religion
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore’s Obsession With Our Divides and Fault-lines
- Barnyard Chorus: International Burn A Koran Day
Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- The Logical Christian: The Anti-Prosperity Hypocrite
Daily Discourse
- TOC: Next Gen broadband system may not be for next generation S’poreans
- Chemical Generation Singapore: CAD and COC Move On… to Others
- The Mind Game: Makers and Keepers of History (Pessimism and idealism) [Recommended]
- TOC: The Dunno Cartoons (Updated)
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Efforts to control motor insurance claims
- Loh and Behold: Irresponsible Journalism
- Singapore Dino: Wikileaks’ Afghan expose and Singapore’s excessive secrecy
- Lost in Singapore: ‘Fuck’ Really Such A Bad Word?
- Irreligious: Comment on Joseph Prince’s father not ill-judged
- Everything Also Complain: Often-drunk Sikh priest
- Singapore Notes: Dastardly Journalism
- TOC: London’s history, Singapore’s future?
- Singaporean Skeptic: Hong Kongers fight to preserve their culture.
- ST Forum: Police and ambulance slow to respond to accident
- ST Forum: Issuing summonses does not help residents.
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Singaporeans’ national duty: buy women from abroad
- ST Forum: Seeking excellence – but at what cost?
Life, the universe and everything
- Open Contours: Terror and Beauty
- New Asia Republic: China’s Mekong diplomatic offensive
- deadpris: Singapore Vehicles Not Allowed to Pump Ron 95 in Malaysia
- Small steps for Social PR: Some interesting facts about Singapore
- VR-Zone: HWZ forum may not be really busy!!!
- Singapore and beyond: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
- Under The Willow Tree: Singapore Economy Would Suffer if China Property Boom Collapses
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore download speed below global average
- Open Contours: The Broken Cabinet
- Pinyin.info: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard [via Balderdash]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore’s 40 richest compared with the rest
- For Want of a Better Title: Formula for Dividing Matrimonial Assets
Infoblogoramus
- Carpe Diem: Party Against Poverty III @ Timbre @ The Substation
- TOC: Civic Life project announces short-film competition
- loozihan 罗子涵: Aemaer @ 7th Singapore Short Cuts, National Museum of Singapore
- The Substation Theatre: Local music – Industrial: “Strobe Like A Butterfly” (FREE ADMISSION) [Facebook]
- Gerald Giam: My new book: Singapore version 2.0
- The Substation: The Substation Love Letters Project #2 (August) – Elangovan [Facebook]
