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2010 National Day Rally
General Responses
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: My Take on the ND Rally..
- Words of the Cze: National Day Rally 2010
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: National Day Rally – some views
- Singapore Dino: Spotting the big holes in the rally speech
- Singapore Notes: The Speech That Need Not Be Delivered
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why were these pressing concerns ignored?
- Insane Polygons: Snake Oil Salesman
- mrbrown: Tweets from National Day Rally 2010
- My sketchbook: National day rally -The persuasion

Immigrants & Foreigners
- TOC: The PAP and the Malay Singaporean: Between rhetoric, reality and meritocracy
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee’s “out of touch” National Day Rally speech on immigration issues
- Gerald Giam: Immigrants and foreign workers: Let’s talk real numbers
- Musings From the Lion City: The Rally
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Population Bomb (Metaphor)

Housing
- Blowin’ In The Wind: HDB flats can’t be resold, sublet for 5 years
- My Little Corner: The latest government measures may just work

$9,000 for your votes National Service
- Singaporean Skeptic: $9000 compensation for NS.

Opposition Responses
- VotingRp: RP’s Response to PM’s National Day Message
- Sgpolitics.net: PM Lee’s National Day Rally Speech 2010 — James Bond is in town!
- SDA Desmond Lim Bak Chuan Facebook: A Response to the Prime Minister’s National Day Rally 2010 Speech

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Nazri Aziz’s remarks – a significant step?
- funny little world: We Believe In Second Chances

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: What The Tuition Explosion Reflects About Our Education System
- ST Forum: Quizzing children in the evening just won’t do

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- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Drama of boxed thinking

Seventh Month
- My Queenstown: Huat Arh! Let’s Makan and Watch Show With Mok Mok [Thanks Yazhi]
- My Queenstown: Hungry Ghosts are Coming Out! [Thanks Yazhi]
- Singapore Playground: Hungry Ghost Festival 2010 [Thanks Yazhi]

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s Thoughts: Lay(person)ing the law: Section 377A’s constitutionality

Infoblogoramus
- Dover Park Hospice: SUNday Walk 2010 5 Sep 2010 @ Tanjong Beach to Palawan Beach, Sentosa [Thanks Charlene]

Selected News Stories
- Telegraph: Expats snap up ‘landed properties’ in Singapore
- BusinessWeek: Singapore Developer Bonds Slide as Rules Added to Cool Prices
- The Star: What does Merdeka mean?
- SMH Drive: Outback test: Toyota v Land Rover v Mitsubishi v Nissan
- infomaniac Flickr: “What happens when you mess with the physics of it all?” [Lego Inception city bending]

August 31st, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

2010 National Day Rally
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: 4 Themes for PM Lee’s National Day Rally Speech
- Singapore Alternatives: Avoidance of Income Disparity…
- Insane Polygons: Save Me The Bullshit
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: why the Singapore Spirit is incomplete
- The Rot Within: The Irony
- FTP: ‘We’ll slow down influx of foreigners but door must remain open’

YOG
- The Temasek Review: Mr Abdul Malik’s latest public statement on his arrest
- Sam’s thoughts: Using guns and cuffs for communications management in Singapore
- Everything Also Complain: Only cowards criticise YOG on Facebook
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: The art of violent metaphors – by Lee Kuan Yew
- Singapore Life and Times: Youth on the Balance
- The Lycan Times: Facebook Arrest & Blogger Clampdown
- My sketchbook: Chilling effect on bloggers in Singapore
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Special Report: Seconds from Disaster; YOG Edition

Press Photographer handcuffed for his own good
- Abdillah Zamzuri: I’m borrowing credibility for myself, if I may
- Singapore Notes: An Officer And A Gentleman
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Newspaper Photographer Held for Taking Flood Photos [Thanks Justin]

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Political fear and apathy? What fear? What apathy?

We are against capital punishment
- The Death Penalty in Singapore: Give Vui Kong a Second Chance! campaign
- Jacob 69er: {Videos} 2005 Public Forum on Death Penalty in Singapore and Appeal outside Istana for Shanmugam Murugesu
- The Star: Abolish death penalty, it’s incorrect to take someone’s life, says Nazri
- The Star: Weighing the death penalty

Twilight in Paradise
- Gerald Giam: Let’s deal with elderly poverty now
- nofearSingapore: Active Ageing Index and the plight of the elderly (Letter to Forum Page Editor)

Distance based Fare Hike
- Singaporean Skeptic: Just nationalise the damn thing!

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- ThinkingNectar: ERP, Foreign Cars and Taxis

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part IV – Making Sense of Mortgage Default Statistics and Key to Invest

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Asia File: If the whole world was designed like Singapore…

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: What The Tuition Explosion Reflects About Our Education System

Blueprint for a Sin City
- New Asia Republic: Ex-ante barriers are non-existent

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Dino: ST preaching journalism ethics? Ah, the irony…
- AWARE: Singapore Gang Rape Case
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: No hostage drama here
- Balderdash: Gang rape, aggravated outrage of modesty or more than meets the eye?
- ST Forum: Why it’s not right to privatise my HUDC

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Ghost serenaders
- NYT: China’s Growth Leads to Problems Down the Road
- SMH Drive: First drive: Suzuki’s Subaru rival
- Infographics: Ten Most Expensive Buildings In the World

August 30th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“..a more aptly description would be that we were bred to not bother.”
Kenneth Koh

“Is this what we have become? Ruthlessly efficient yet heartless automatons?”
Kirsten

“The government may see it as “Singaporeans want more and more”, but I see it as “Singaporeans deserve better”.”
Sam Ho

“Henceforth all metaphors – as a matter of fact, all words with double, triple, quadruple, etc meanings – are disallowed and barred.”
TS Loh

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August 28th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team Singapore’s results on the 10th day (Tuesday), 11th day (Wednesday)
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Is the MCYS Minister showing his fangs?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Language scuffles
- Loh and Behold: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Metaphors Banned!
- The Asia File: You say tomato, I say incitement to violence
- The Temasek Review: Arrest of YOG critic to squash online criticisms of YOG backfired miserably
- TOC: Inciting violence? Judge for yourself
- Loyalty is Orange: YOU ARE ALL PENDEJOS By Decapitation
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: YOG Hang Overs
- Ravi Philemon: I support YOG
- the mrbrown show: upsize the youth olympics
- Journalism, Journalists and the World: No Surprise: Singapore arrests blogger who posted anti-government notes on Facebook

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- New Asia Republic: Time to review censorship process

Countdown to Elections
- Blowin’ In The Wind: The GRCs of Singapore

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part III – Certainty of Employment ?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Notes: Of Mouse And Men

Life, the universe and everything
- Temasek Hedge: Profitable Plots MD says (via Skype) CAD raid a result of scammed Singaporean investors’ stupidity

Selected News Stories
- BBC: Singapore’s tough balancing act on immigration
- The Star: Barisan Youth wants minimum wage introduced by year end (Updated)
- BBC: US housing slump sparks fears of double-dip recession [Video]
- NYT Real Estate: When Feng Shui Helps Determine a Deal’s Fate
- NYT Wheels: Honda Jazz Hybrid Will Get Paris Premiere
- SMH Drive: Big changes for Ford’s small car
- Guardian: Moscow International Automobile Show
- The White House: Inside the White House: Letters to the President
- Pop Jolly: 15 Things You Didn’t About Outer Space
- Gizmodo: How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice
- Bnet: How to Use Google Voice on Your Smartphone

August 27th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Ayase Haruka (綾瀬 はるか, born 24 Mar 1985) is a Japanese actress from Hiroshima Prefecture. She first achieved widespread recognition for her role in the short film Justice. But it was her award winning role (for supporting actress) in the 2004 hit JDrama Socrates in Love (aka Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ,) that she rose to stardom. She has also released 3 singles and 3 photobooks. This is her 2nd photobook released in 2002.

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August 27th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Vui Kong given extension to file clemency, Shadrake’s trial postponed
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Death Penalty : Why we need to rethink….
- Lianain Films: A Family’s Plea
- Icarus Flew Too High: A Note About a Boy
- FIDH: FIDH calls for presidential pardon for Yong Vui Kong, sentenced to death by hanging
- Singaporeans for Democracy: Independent Clemency Board for Death Penalty Petitions
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Buat Bodoh, Truly (Southeast) Asia Style [Thanks NJ]
- Guardian: Death penalty: judicial killing in the free world [Thanks Cheong]
- GOOD Blog: Is Switzerland Sliding Backwards on Capital Punishment? [Thanks Cheong]

Distance based Fare Hike
- guanyinmiao’s musings: In A Fix Over Public Transport Fares
- Singapore Notes: Lesson From A Commuter
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Less satisfaction for Singapore students and commuters

YOG
- Sam’s thoughts: Police arrests Singaporean netizen over YOG remarks: Time for chilling effect to take its course
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Is Singapore handcuffing down the path of Communism?

re Education
- My sketchbook: Sex education policy in Singapore

Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics.net: This is why the Democrats advocate retrenchment benefits

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Why are Singaporeans continually rebuffed from jobs in favour of foreigners?

Ministars Get Rich or Die Tryin
- The Temasek Review: Let’s forget elections, just employ ministers

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- New Asia Republic: We can beat the Superbug

Brad Lau – The search for a free lunch
- The Lycan Times: Bloggers, Blogging and Integrity

2010 National Day
- SpotlightOnSingapore: National Day Rally: PM should address the issue of building a democratic society

Daily Discourse
- The Asia File: Trouble down on the (Singapore) farm
- Singaporean Skeptic: Sex Trade in Singapore
- Che Det: Is Meritocracy Racist?

Infoblogoramus
- Substation Facebook: The Substation Open Call 2010 presents Debbie Ding [Thanks Noor Effendy]

Selected News Stories
- AFP: Model city Singapore shows symptoms of urban stress
- asia!: Smells Like Home, Truly
- TMCNet: 1.4 handsets per person in Singapore
- AFP: France’s Carrefour retreats from Malaysia
- Bloomberg: U.S. Existing Home Sales Plunge by Record
- NYT: Wrong Direction on Stem Cells

August 26th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

The family of Yong Vui Kong kneeling outside the Istana on Tuesday. More pictures and full report at TOC. [Thanks Andrew]

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Breaking News: Vui Kong’s family pleads at Istana (Full report)
- funny little world: Until the very last second.
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Sleeping with strangers, part 2
- Jacob 69er: We’re putting the entire (Singapore) judiciary on trial
- The Jakarta Post: Minister told to save those in Malaysia death row

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: How Team Singapore fared on the ninth day of YOG competition (Monday)
- Open Contours: Y is for Youth
- The Temasek Review: Official complaint to SYOGOC on poor choice of commentators for the gymnastics event

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Singapore Notes: The Statistics Of Inflation
- Singaporean Skeptic: How you lose money in your CPF Ordinary Account.

Brad Lau – The search for a free lunch
- deadpris: Truth About Bloggers & Freebies
- ALVINOLOGY: Ladyironchef (Brad Lau) vs Private Affairs

re Education
- Sam’s thoughts: Abstinence: We need a condom for religion

Countdown to Elections
- I’m getting personal: SDP calling netizens: Help us win Bukit Panjang

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: It is time for Singaporeans to take back our country

Blueprint for a sin city
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Casino and Rolling Credit

2010 National Day
- SINdie: What do you see…… What DO YOU SEE?

National Service
- Senang Diri: National Service: View from a foreign mum

Daily Discourse
- ST Forum: Fliers have their uses

Life, the universe and everything
- No buns no life: The 5 Parodies & Spoofs of INCEPTION Movie that’s TOTALLY Worth your TIME!

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore Bond Sales Beat Record as Economy Fires, Borrowing Costs Plunge
- NYT Letters: Is It Fair to Raise the Retirement Age?
- NPR: China’s Massive Traffic Jam Could Last For Weeks
- ZDNet: S’pore data protection law still under review
- Ars Technica: Why Intel bought McAfee
- The Yomiuri Shimbun: Toshiba to launch 3-D TVs that don’t require glasses
- PC World: Samsung Galaxy Tab Official Video: Here’s What We Know
- Inspired Magazine: 50 Most Prominent Custom Facebook Pages [many pics]

August 25th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team Singapore’s results on the eighth day of YOG competition (Sunday)
- New Asia Republic: Raison d’être pour les YOG
- Loh and Behold: MOE Lacks Common Sense
- The Temasek Reivew: Singapore schools forced to pay for YOG tickets
- TOC: They represent us but they know nothing about us
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Not Cubs but Lions
- The Star: Lion City banking on imports to poach for glory

Brad Lau – The search for a free lunch
- ladyirenchef: The Truth
- FTP: S’poreans outraged over ‘free meal’ blogger
- HungryEpicurean: Open Letter to a Certain Food Blogger
- Mel C: Does “Bad Publicity or Good Publicity is still Publicity” applies for LadyIronChef?
- My Food Sirens II: STOP asking for free food!
- ED Unloaded: Food Blogger Demands Free Meal!
- Anonymous X: Why the condemned ladyironchef blog is suspended (4 top speculations)
- MSG: Food blogging: A cardinal sin
- Tristan Navera: Food blogger crossed the line in demanding free food

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: President urged to convene Constitutional Court
- Lianain Films: 100,000 Rays Of Hope
- FMT: Singapore tightens one more screw

re Education
- Sam’s thoughts: Instil confidence
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Sex Education Silence: What Is With The Fears?
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: If this is a perfect world…
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: St Patrick’s patch 1: How to use a condom

Countdown to Elections
- On Nation and State: Reducing barriers to citizen participation
- Just my Observation: Partisan politics reeks of prejudice (GRC PM Gillard et. al.)

Blueprint for a sin city
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Casino: The high social costs…
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Insist on cash-only gambling

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan@ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part II

Twilight in Paradise
- Singapore Notes: No Golden Years For The Elderly

Sporeans a dying breed
- Nomadism: A tongue in cheek video response to Sg govt “Pro Marriage” Campaign

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: SUN HO: Haiti’s First Lady?

Daily Discourse
- ST Forum: Do more to make a difference in mental health awareness
- ST Forum: Refreshing feedback

Life, the universe and everything
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: The Old Tanjong Pagar Train Station
- flaneurose: The Pose Method

Infoblogoramus
- Otterman speaks: Eco Music Challenge 2010
- Singapore Heritage Society: The Fajar Generation: A Forum on Reading Singapore History [Thanks Kah Seng]

Selected News Stories
- NYT: Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say
- Guardian: 10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet
- JK Short Sale: Secrets the Banks Don’t Want You to Know
- Co.Design: First Look: Ross Lovegrove’s New Bike for Biomega

August 24th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team S’pore’s results at the YOG on the fifth day (Thur), sixth day (Fri), seventh day (Sat).
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: The Singapore Attitude: YOG Edition
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore’s YOG and the international media.
- TOC: Align success factors with true spirit of YOG
- The Temasek Review: Drinking mineral water at YOG is “a conflict of interest” to Coca Cola
- TOC: Click Five concert – who is telling the truth?
- The Temasek Review: YOG concert by Vox at Marina promontory played to empty seats yesterday
- Play The Game: Athletes risk fines for early return from YOG
- Bleacher Report: Does the United States Really Care About the Youth Olympic Games?

We are against capital punishment
- Article 14: Clemency and the Constitution
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Sleeping with strangers, part 1
- Give Life A 2nd Chance: 96,622 Person Plead for Vui Kong , To Hand In the Petition to Singapore Istana on 24 August 2010
- Petition Online: Give Yong Vui Kong a Second Chance to Help Singapore’s Anti-Drug Trafficking Policy

Distance-based fare hike
- Blowin’ In The Wind: See what’s wrong with fare calculator
- Singapore Notes: Feel Like Taken For A Ride?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Distance based fare – an example

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singaporean Skeptic: Journalists do not know maths.
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Island Flooded with Potential Immigrants
- Yours Truly Singapore: Singapore most desired by migrants: Gallup poll
- ST Forum: Protect, don’t punish, them

Countdown to Elections
- Growing your tree of prosperity: Fairness is what we strive for. But equality may turn out to be a really bad idea.
- I’m getting personal: The PM we never had

re Education
- Sam’s thoughts: Sexuality Education AGAIN: Same old story
- Foxy Thoughts: Why Liberal Arts.
- ST Forum: Why it is crucial to opt in

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: An Exercise In Futility
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Competition and medical fees

Daily Discourse
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Poly, not uni, grads least likely to be jobless
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Are Singaporeans Doing Enough To Give And Volunteer?
- ST Forum: Cyclists deserve the same rights, courtesy as others

Life, the universe and everything
- ALVINOLOGY: Wood Xuan (Jeanette Aw) Funny Video Series

Infoblogoramus
- ALTSEAN-Burma: ASEAN/Regional Countries Urged To Support A UN Commission Of Inquiry

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Two sides of the same coin
- The Star: S’poreans shedding clothes, and inhibitions
- NYT Economix: Is ‘More Efficient’ Always Better?
- Guardian: Premier League transfer window – who needs whom?
- WSJ: LG Readies Tablet, Optimus Smartphones
- Guardian: Top Games of Gamescom 2010

August 23rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“Most important of all, law is not there to hand control over us to those more powerful than us, such as governments; it is there to protect us from those who would harm us, and render justice.”
Au Waipang

“Could it be, that having lived under this label all of her 45 years, Singapore has become less human and more commodity to be sold or traded?…It is all business, and everything is for sale.”
Lucian Teo

“The YOG is about [the athletes], not the city of Singapore and it’s time the organizers recognized that.. stop trying to promote Singapore and start promoting the YOG. They are 2 different things.”
Ghost

“..there is one most disturbing with weighty troubling ramifications: That Singaporeans have disowned Singapore, or rather, PAP’s Singapore.”
Liau Chuan Yi and Norvin Chan

“I wish I had a teflon career. With millions of dollars in wages and benefits. Pity. Common mortals like me are so…encumbered…with accountability.”
mjuse

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August 21st, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team SIngapore’s results at the YOG on the fourth day of competition (Wednesday)
- It’s all about Amelioration: Someone murdered the sporting spirit…
- Loyalty is Orange: I am a Youth Olympic Games Apologist
- Sgpolitics.net: Take care of Singaporeans too
- Singapore Notes: The Case Of The Phantom Spectators
- ST Forum: Watching S’pore athletes live: Was panel proactive?

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Will Yong Vui Kong be hanged on Aug 26?

re Education
- ST Forum: Review our education system

Sporeans a dying breed
- Fit To Post: ‘Tackle cost of living first before playing Cupid’

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s thoughts: Singapore can be a safe place for our LGBT friends and family

Infoblogoramus
- TOC: The return of Singapore Migration Film Festival

Selected News Stories
- BBC: US backs inquiry into alleged Burma war crimes
- asia! through Asian Eyes: What’s Wrong with the Mooncake?
- NYT: What Is It About 20-Somethings?
- SMH Drive: Honda Freed The small car with seven seats
- Double Viking: Questions From Your Girlfriend That Aren’t Really Questions [via Balderdash]
- NYT: Over a Billion Years, Scientists Find, the Moon Went Through a Shrinking Phase
- HotHardware: A History of The Internet: From Concept To Napster and Facebook (Infographic)
- Explain This Image: Have you ever seen a picture that simply makes no sense? [via Balderdash]

August 20th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Meet the 2010 Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix Grid Girls!

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August 20th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team Singapore’s results at the YOG on third day of competition
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: YOG : Overwhelming Negativity on the Net
- singularity industries: My Thoughts And Motivations Behind The Post: Singapore, What Do You Want?
- TOC: An open letter to Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
- Times They Are A-Changin’: WhyOhGee…
- The Temasek Review: Kuo Chuan Primary School students FORCED to pay $5 deposit to ensure they watch YOG games
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Half empty stadiums at the Youth Olympic Games
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Youth Olympics a Singapore paradox too
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: YOG – Now is not the time
- Musings From the Lion City: The YOG is not about Singapore
- Singaporean Skeptic: One Country. Two system.
- Memories Archipelago: Singapore 2010- Youth Olympic Games
- Singapore Life and Times: Youth Energy
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: $387M can’t buy you the real Spirit of Singapore!
- ALVINOLOGY: Spelling Error on Singapore 2010 Map Pin
- Klik.tv: You Are The One Singapore performed by The Chipmunks [Thanks IZ Reloaded]
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: The Taekwondo Kid – Winning the First Medal but No One’s there to See [Thanks Tan Ah Beng]
- ST Forum: ‘Far from a sell-out as organisers had announced.’
- ST Forum: Tickets sell out early, but venues are poorly filled
- ST Forum: ‘Half-empty venue was evident even on television.’

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My Queenstown: Cheaper, Better, Faster Transport? [Thanks Yazhi]
- My Singapore News: The virtuous deaf frogs [Thanks Yazhi]
- The Gigamole Diaries: The cyclist vs motorist debate….. why is the LTA silent?
- Fit to Post: Debate over distance-based fares rages on [Thanks Yazhi]

Blueprint for a sin city
- Singapore Sojourn: Don’t Say They Weren’t Warned
- Singapore Notes: Gambling With Your Money
- The Gigamole Diaries: $26 million loss at the casino – hard to feel sorry.

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Past Presidents powerless, never actually decided clemencies?
- TOC: The Elected President is not a rubber-stamp

Countdown to Elections
- New Asia Republic: Blogging the next General Election

2010 National Day
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SM Goh : Your Problems are just Gripes..

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- The Asia File: An insider’s view of academic censorship in Singapore

Ministars Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Blowin’ In The Wind: MPs’ pay in Singapore and other countries

re Education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Diversifying Our Education Landscape

Religion
- Irreligious: Do love, not make love

Life, the universe and everything
- My Little Corner: Do I really know that small sample of people who had problems with Mio TV?
- Open Contours: Rojak with the Minister Mentor
- department of crappy engineering: the ship that flips

Infoblogoramus
- Balderdash: Talk on Bond Breaking (28th August)
- The Substation Facebook: The Substation presents “Nazri” by Khairuddin Hori (public art)

Selected News Stories
- CogitAsia: Singapore’s Tightrope Walk on Taiwan [via New Asia Republic]
- Macworld: Singapore’s anti-corruption bureau quiet on Apple kickback case
- SMH Drive: Rated: Top five city cars
- SMH Drive: What SUV should I buy?
- BillShrink: The World’s Most Profitable Companies [infographic]
- Guardian: Wayne Rooney is only English-based player named among Europe’s best
- InternetSlang.com: Internet Slang Words and Computer Slang

August 19th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

YOG
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Team Singapore’s results on second day of Youth Olympics
- flaneurose: The YOG will be a success
- funny little world: More about the youth, please!
- The Secret Political Blog: Youth Olympics: the abandoned orphan
- ALVINOLOGY: Celebration@Marina Bay – Concert Fail
- TOC: YOG – what the local media don’t show you
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: YOG
- My sketchbook: YOG- neitizens on a witch hunt
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Do You Need Ground-Zero Info on #YOG?
- BBC: Singapore’s Youth Olympics costing three times budget
- The Big Picture: Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics [large pics]

Press Photographer handcuffed for his own good
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Handcuffed for Public Safety? Right

Blueprint for a sin city
- Loh and Behold: Recovery spurred by Gambling?

Daily Discourse
- funny little world: Campaigning you to the altar (and the maternity ward).
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Three clippings from last Saturday’s newspaper

Life, the universe and everything
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: The good and bad of life insurance
- Open Contours: A Jolly Flight
- supermerlion: Kampong Buangkok

Selected News Stories
- WSJ: Singapore Export Growth Eases in July
- Robert Reich: Confessions of a Class Worrier
- NYT: The Muslims in the Middle
- SND.org: It is Ramadan time [infographic]
- Reuters: BlackBerry technology explained
- BBC: Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive
- Technologizer: iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More
- Mashable: Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launches on September 15

August 18th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

YOG
- TOC: Dea(r)th of our Olympic Dream
- singularity industries: Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games: Singapore, What Do You Want?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Cease The Blind Hate; Let’s Put The Singapore Youth Olympic Games (YOG) In Perspective
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Across the bay from the Youth Olympics
- Sam’s thoughts: Farcical Youth Olympic Games and Disingenuous Press
- The Asia File: Singapore gets all Stalinist over Youth Olympics
- mrbrown: YOG “volunteer” spectators: No Adidas or Nike logos on your water bottles
- The Asia File: Jacques Rogge brings Olympic spirit to Singapore
- The Temasek Review: Count on me, YOG: The infectious apathy of Singaporeans in pictures
- Caricatures of the Carnicus: YOG is here! But are we excited?
- blueballs: on the YOG – going out on a limb?
- Tribolum: The Point of the YOG
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Subdued Enthusiasm
- Towards freedom: opposition.
- Everything Also Complain: YOG an unflagging waste of resources
- Singaporean Skeptic: Something that is sorely missing in the YOG.
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Poor ticket sales
- The Voide Deck: YOG Start Liao!
- Telegraph: Political row overshadows Youth Olympic Games in Singapore
- EverythingPR: The Singapore Youth Games, Olympic Monetization

Distance-based fare hike
- Singapore Notes: Four Legs Good, Or Two Legs Better?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: New Fare System

We are against capital punishment
- Musings From the Lion City: Even I’m Puzzled By This
- funny little world: Two videos to share.

Countdown to Elections
- New Asia Republic: Desmond Lim looses SPP ASG position to Wilfred Leung

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- TOC: “But you see, it IS religion”

Press Photographer handcuffed for his own good
- De Leviathan @ SG: Why photographer was handcuffed?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Priorities

National Service
- VotingRp: Striving for Zero Death in the SAF

The Gospel of Harry
- The Rot Within: The myth of the ‘level playing field’
- My sketchbook: Singapore policies are not cast in stone

Daily Discourse
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore’s Intellectual Class.
- ST Forum: Cyclist in the thick of accident puzzled by joint reply
- ST Forum: ST editorial misrepresented my work, says academic

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Opposing unwise juxtaposition of sites of tragedy and symbols of their causes, and bigotry
- The Long and Winding Road: The lost idyllic coastline of Tanah Merah
- Times of My Life: Holland Water – Hor Lan Shui

August 17th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

YOG
- Under The Willow Tree: $387m Budget Understates Cost of YOG to Singapore Society
- TOC: YOG: NSmen become spectators?
- Blog@Ridz.sg: Giving way for 2 weeks – Thoughts about YOG
- My Very Own Glob: Very full now, just ate my words
- The Rot Within: Taking Sides
- Kaffein-nated: I confess watching the YOG opening ceremony…
- TOC: Straits Times, you don’t have to try so hard lar
- The Temasek Review: Primary school students FORCED to stand in the rain to welcome YOG torch rally
- Singapore Alternatives: YOG Spending in perspective…
- Singaporean Skeptic: YOG- Barely a Blip in the Whole World.
- TOC: Offer volunteers a decent meal, at least
- ST Forum: Organisation irresponsible to neglect basic requirements.
- BBC: Youth Olympic games gamble for Singapore

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: President has no discretion in clemency appeal (Full report)
- Siew Kum Hong: Misunderstandings about the Singapore Constitution
- Rachel Zeng: Statement by SADPC regarding the judgement of Singapore’s High Court on 13 August 2010
- For Want of a Better Title: The Power of Clemency
- funny little world: “Cabinet clemency” doesn’t sound as nice.
- Irreligious: Jesus was a victim of the death penalty
- Singapore Dino: Judge’s decision confirms that SR Nathan is useless
- Singapore Notes: Why Is He Still There?

Distance-based fare hike
- My Way: It’s Not Me, It’s You.
- department of crappy engineering: distance fare in a cup of kopi
- My sketchbook: LTA feeling the heat on distance-based fare system

2010 National Day
- Tribolum.com: Colonialism without Borders

Countdown to Elections
- Chemical Generation Singapore: PKMS Imploding

re Education
- Hazel Poa: Reflecting on the issue of the Weighting of Mother Tongue Language in PSLE

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: To those who grew up with legalism, part [1][2]
- Sgpolitics.net: Activist Seelan Palay jailed for exercising his rights
- Balderdash: Why more girls seem to be attached than guys

Infoblogoramus
- blankanvas: alexa chung in singapore for mulberry aw 2010

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Go on a date and get RM1,166
- Universal Sports: IOC hoping Youth Games can overcome cost
- Guardian: David Beckham’s England career in pictures

August 16th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“What exactly are you celebrating?… The day, or the idea behind it?”
theinkhorn

“When the meritocrats are all at sea, it may well be the outliers who will save the day.”
Au Waipang

“Although Singapore should strive to achieve success at any sporting events such as the YOG, it should not be achieved at the expense of the spirit of Olympics. Winning isn’t everything.”
my queenstown

“The imagination of Singapore as a young country dovetails with the Youth Olympic Games, wanting to find somewhere to begin, grow and evolve into a legitimate event.”
Sam Ho

“It is the fact that we are not allowed to talk about it, not allowed to read about it, not allowed to know about it, that is sowing so much doubt, fear and fury in the Singaporean public’s mind.”
Kirsten

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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August 14th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

YOG
- Under The Willow Tree: Does Singapore YOG Violate ILO Forced Labour Convention?
- Singaporean Skeptic: YOG Support?

2010 National Day
- ST Forum: N-Day Awards. Not a single doc in restructured hospitals recognised

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Under The Willow Tree: SMRT Cares About the YOG, But Not About You

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: The Straits Times loses the plot!
- Jacob 69er: Of “PAP wallahs or bootlickers” and “running dogs of the PAP and poor prostitutes”

Countdown to Elections
- VotingRp: Q & A With Jeisilan Sivalingam

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Feeling out of place in your own country….

Housing Singaporeans
- ST Forum: Dating not as effective a carrot as affordable housing

No amount of engineering can prevent flooding
- ALVINOLOGY: Flood Again? You can always canoe on the Singapore street

National Service
- Molitics: Real Wayang: Propoganda as Reality

Little green dot
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Singapore Green One

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: Placing URA’s guidelines in context

Daily Discourse
- Sam’s Thoughts: Shoving heterosexuality and homosexuality into our faces
- Carpe Diem: Malaysia going Nuclear
- The Asia File: Rwanda: the Singapore of Africa? [Thanks Ben]

Life, the universe and everything
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singlish and English in Singapore
- The Temasek Review: Global economies heading for turbulence, are we edging closer to trouble heading forward?
- Balderdash: NSFW Chart

Selected News Stories
- Asia Sentinel: How Many People is Enough in Singapore?
- Reuters: How sharply is China slowing and how will Beijing react?
- LA Times Business: 2011 Mazda2 is an entry-level blast
- BBC: Rubik’s Cube quest for speedy solution comes to an end
- jkOnTheRun: Evolution of Car Radio — An Infographic
- LA Times The Big Picture: Why is it that the older you are the more you can’t stand ‘Inception’?

August 13th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Joe Chen Qiao-En 陈乔恩 (born 4 April 1979) is a Taiwanese actress,singer and model. She began her career as a model in 2001 and quickly moved into television the following year, hosting the popular travel show China Is So Big 中国那么大. Her popularity caught the attention of Jacky Wu 吴宗宪, who roped her into his entertainment show 综艺旗舰 (with NONO as the third host). In 2004, Qiao-En became a member of the popular all girl pop group 7 Flowers 七朵花. But it was the 2005 TV drama The Prince Who Turns Into A Frog 王子变青蛙 that shot Qiao-En to stardom. Staring opposite Taiwan heartthrob Ming Dao 明道, the show became the 2nd highest-rated TV drama. In 2008, Qiao-En broke TV records again starring opposite another heartthrob Ethan Ruan 阮经天 in Fated to Love You 命中注定我爱你 which became the highest rated Taiwan TV drama to date, cementing her place as the Queen of Taiwan Idol Dramas 偶像剧女王.

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August 13th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (6)