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Archive for September, 2011

Daily SG: 30 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: The eyes only see what the mind wants to believe: SFD apologists edition
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TJS: Right attitude, wrong project?
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP sets its sights on Tanjong Pagar GRC
- Publichouse: Prompt action by MP and HDB to bugs problems
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: Running Singapore – Kembangan 1
- Foreign Affairs: Overturning Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy in Singapore

Catch the Falling Sky!
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Electricity Tariff Puzzle
- Today: Electricity tariffs to fall

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singapore Notes: The Trouble With Doctors

Malaysia do, Singapore Follow?
- When the Spin Stops: A Tale of 16 Former Detainees
- Where Bears Roam Free: Exactly what is the (hidden) agenda of these ex-ISA detainees?
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: ISA : Interesting Video from the past…
- New Asia Republic: 不要把内安法当成一门生意来做

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- inSing: Local drama mocking Singaporeans?

Daily Disclosure
- Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat: Mini Q&A session with Group CEO of Comfort Delgro
- Small steps for Social PR: How London Weight Management could have turn their advertising disaster into a PR success
- Vicky’s Writings: Money
- Singapore Notes: Drawing The Line For Decency
- Publichouse: Liberated by disasters
- Yahoo: Slimming company defends its controversial ad
- CNNGo: Abercrombie & Fitch is too sexy for Singapore

Infoblogamus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Shell refinery fire at Bukom: aftermath
- Good Morning Yesterday: Old Gadgets Quiz #3
- Paper Moons and Macarons: My Grandma: Miss Singapore 1960
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Hazy day….
- Alex Lew Yan Liang 刘彦良: Interview with Mr. Leong
- TOC: The launch of Caregivers Connect – Reach Out, Engage, Learn and Share

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: First Look: Sony Tablet S
- sgentrepreneurs: If Mohammad can’t go to the mountain…

Stuff
- FinanceAsia: Singapore dollars and gold are the only safe havens

Sketches

Daily SG: 29 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- The Journey of a Decade: Too Risque
- Sam’s Thoughts: Time to make marry in Singapore!
- Prata Politics: Singapore’s Population Reaches 5.1 Million!
- Javert’s World: Toothless Tiger
- Crisis Communications In The Era Of Social Media: London Weight Management Controversial Slimming Ad Sparks Debate
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Divorce – not the end of the world
- New Nation: Good Riddance
- TOC: Mental illness – there is no taboo, there is no shame

Malaysia do, Singapore Follow?
- Singapore Kopi Tok: The Anti-ISA Circus is in Town

CPF
- Temasek Revealed: The Hard Truths about CPF
- Davian Lee’s FB: How safe is your CPF? Get the facts here !

377a
- Publichouse: s377A – do not disturb?
- Where Bears Roam Free: LGBTs’ constitutional challenge may awaken their biggest nemesis – religious awareness

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Anonymous_X: Singapore Population Trends 2011 & arising questions…
- TOC: Population: Foreigners rate of growth up 36 per cent year-on-year?
- Today: Why import graduates if there is oversupply? [Thanks Adrian]

Infoblogamus
- Before We Forget: I wonder
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Mortgagors: No gd scenarios
- Alvinology: Money As Debt: Videos To Help You Understand Money
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Monkeying around on Sisters Island

Speak Good English Singlish English Campaign
- Speak Good Singlish Movement FB: Speak Good Singlish Movement Responds to Catholic News #2

Daily SG: 28 Sep 2011

Educate Our Youth
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Student-centric Education System? Start with teachers first…
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Yes To Character And Values Education, But How Exactly MOE?
- flâneurose: On the New Civics and Moral Education Imperative
- Today: Moral education for the young generation [Thanks KS]

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: More money lost via our sovereign funds
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: GIC: Smoke & mirrors
- Singapore Notes: When Will They Ever Learn
- Today: Are Singapore’s reserves too exposed to public equities? [Thanks Adrian]

A Vote for Change
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Activists that do themselves no favours: Singaporeans For Democracy edition
- Musings From the Lion City: Find A Common Goal First
- ST Forum Page: Politicians need to be seen by voters
- New Asia Republic: Why Tan Jee Say’s economic plan misses the point
- TOC: PAP should not view dissenting views with fear
- Yahoo: No need for populist gov’t: Lee Kuan Yew

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean Says: How welfare culture evolves
- [ insights, interests, intelligence ]: The NUS training
- New Nation: MCYS-sponsored youth platform launches with a bang
- TOC: Bedok Reservoir deaths, did we fail them?

Section 377a
- Publichouse: Miak Siew – S’pore’s first openly gay pastor
- Fridae: One step closer to the abolition of s377A in Singapore?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- My Singapore News: False CVs on the rise in Asia

Sketches
- The Sketch Times: Good at Sniffing, Poor in Math.
- SQ-Quitters: Ministers’ salaries Review – Are they serious or just another wayang?

Infoblogamus
- cogitASIA: Video: Dr. Balakrishnan describes Singapore’s environmental challenges
- UTalkmarketing: Singapore spends the most time on Facebook
- BBC: Singapore’s competitive IT industry overtakes the UK

Daily SG: 27 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- Where Bears Roam Free: SFD, it was your own fault SHRI kicked you out
- TOC: Absurd inconsistencies in SHRI’s administerial processes
- Publichouse: The meaning of freedom
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Divorced woman seeking legal help for daughter in Melbourne
- Don Lim’s FB: Strategy for Tan Jee Say & Potential Allies 2011-6
- Sgpolitics.net: Lee Senior and Junior play games with Taiwan
- ZB: 官民别再“脱节”了

Our F1 Night Race
- Singapore Notes: F1 Takes Your Breath, And Money, Away
- Kien M Lee’s FB: Why Continuing Formula 1 in Singapore is Not a Clear-Cut Case
- mrbrown: L’infantile terrible of Singapore: A visit to the Ferrari garage
- Chemical Generation Singapore: SGP F1: Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Bloomberg: Singapore Inc.’s Bank Bet Losses Pile Up in Wake of UBS’s Trading Scandal

Educate Our Youth
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PSLE : The Great Sieve Machine….

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Ravi – A short documentary

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean Says: A “Daughter” Visits
- Everything Also Complain: Rinsing the genitals with Coke can prevent pregnancy
- Singapore Sojourn: Yes Coke Yes
- Musings From the Lion City: Cooking Is Sexist
- Social Dimension Online: Four Fallacies about the Singapore Welfare State
- Today: Our CBD is losing its green edge

Infoblogamus
- The Long and Winding Road: Onboard the Audi ultra on Marina Bay
- Yahoo: Singapore ready to bid for SEA Games in 2015

Daily SG: 26 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- New Asia Republic: The New Obscene Normality – Who needs Justice and Equality in Singapore?
- TOC: Tan Jee Say: Prepare for a broad-based non-PAP Government
- Today: Ex-PKMS president to plead guilty

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: Desmond Choo nominated for Alamak award
- I’m Getting Personal…: Reunification: Msia-S’pore
- The Kent Ridge Common: On Causes and Campaigns
- Singapore Notes: Reports Of Violence In The City
- My Singapore News: Gambling Divisions in banks
- funny little world: There are worse things to be than fat.
- TOC: Is GIC experiencing a computer glitch like CNB?
- Yahoo: Controversial slimming ad sparks debate

Educate Our Youth
- Musings From the Lion City: A Rant About Education
- Vicky’s Writings: Parenting – Challenging times
- Alex Lew Yan Liang 刘彦良: Youth’s Insatiable Appetite
- New Asia Republic: 学生为本,价值导向,是不是把教育程度提升到文化程度?

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- YawningBread on WordPress: Labour churning has economic and social costs

Twilight in Paradise
- Yahoo: ‘My legs are now so tired and weak’

Our F1 Night Race
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Is F1 worth it? Updated with 2011 estimate of additional tourism revenue
- Sporting Roar: Singapore GP 2011
- Anonymous_X: F1 Night Race 2011 – Photos Galore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Where Bears Roam Free: Something’s wrong if we need to train foreign workers
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Local English professor at overseas university upsets over foreign influx

Malaysia do, Singapore follow?
- oldmancheng: What if Singapore abolish ISA before Malaysia? [Thanks Cheng]
- Where Bears Roam Free: Wassup Tian Chua? Wanna leave Malaysia to be a S’porean?
- TOC: Abolish the ISA immediately

Infoblogamus
- Tiong Bahru Estate: What happens to a property after the 99 years lease runs out? [Thanks Sharon]
- Growing Your Tree of Prosperity: Learnings from working with unemployed IT professionals.
- Good Morning Yesterday: The Tg. Pagar Station As Seen by A Six-Year Old Boy – Peter Chan
- Senang Diri: Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) stages massive 5,750km air and sealift to Australia to deploy forces for Exercise Wallaby
- De Leviathan @ SG: Revisiting The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part 2 – It is back to basics again [Thanks C H]
- Publichouse: Harnessing the energy of S’pore’s youths

Sketches
- The Sketch Times: Latest Trend?
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Internal security Act

Stuff
- BBC: IMF economy warnings: Time to panic? [Thanks Adrian]

Daily SG: 23 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Notes: A Serious Error
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Night Safari cancels Halloween Horrors event
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Geriatric in Pomposity
- Ray of Light: DJ Glenn Ong’s insensitive and hurtful comments have deeply hurt psychiatric patients and their caregivers
- Publichouse.sg: Infested home de-bugged

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Who is the Opposition Kingmaker?
- Singapore 2025: Should opposition MPs be grassroots advisers?
- New Nation: Did you know that Lord Peter Mandelson…
- New Asia Republic: Singapore rejects UN calls for independent election body

Educate Our Youth
- Where Bears Roam Free: ‘Holistic, balanced’ education means more pressure in schools
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Bettering Singapore’s Language Education At The Pre-School Level
- The Long and Winding Road: Be The Change!
- New Asia Republic: 大学扩招的教育正心意义 无奈还是不得已

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: GIC, UBS and the Death Spiral of your CPF funds
- Today: GIC manages its investment portfolio for the long term

Our F1 Night Race
- yourSDP: F1, the haze and the way forward
- BBC News, Singapore: Formula one revs up Singapore’s businesses and economy

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Skills Upgrading for Foreign Workers

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Sgpolitics.net: Time to free up Singapore’s media

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe in Second Chances: The Death Penalty – Is this justice?

Infoblogamus
- SEA Youth Say So: Awkward Fail Singaporean Videos
- Loh and Behold: Panmunjom
- Abdillah Zamzuri: WordCamp comes to Singapore
- New Asia Republic: A safer nuclear reactor for the future
- Yahoo: CNB announces error in drug abuse statistics

Sketches
- SG-Quitters: Brain Activities of the Obscenely rich vs common citizens.

Daily SG: 22 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean says: A Gifted Child is a Challenge
- Senang Diri: Missing elements in Singapore Armed Forces war games
- [ insights, interests, intelligence ]: Is marriage becoming obsolete?
- Where Bears Roam Free: Animal Rights Activists at it again – pls back up your claims
- Chen Show Mao’s FB: Free Market
- New Asia Republic: Pushing Singapore Workforce to the Brim

A Vote for Change
- Yee Jenn Jong: Two Party System Will Not Work in Singapore? How about 3, 4 or 5 Parties?
- My Little Corner: Are foreigners really the problem?
- Mr Wang Says SO: Friends, Romans and Countrymen
- Yawningbread on WordPress: On a high horse called Truth and Right, PAP lost in a changing world
- TOC: Lily Neo: It was a typo disaster

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Anonymous_X: Wang Wenfeng gets death sentence for murdering a taxi driver…

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- New Nation: A disenfranchised Singaporean PhD holder speaks out

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Mr Cheong’s Story

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor : GIC has internal communication problems?
- TOC: The rogue trader and his impact on GIC

Infoblogamus
- New Asia Republic: Cross-partisan trio forms think tank

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Google Wallet: The future of payment is coming

Daily SG: 21 Sep 2011

2011: Transport Operators’ Vitamin M deficiency
- The Temple of Thoughts 3: Proposal for a: Fair Transport Watchdog
- Singapore Sojourn: Going Around In Circles
- Singapore Notes: Don’t Take Us For Fools
- themediaslut: Rodents blamed for circle line power failure

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- TOC: Future media: Evolution of a discerning public

Daily Disclosure>
- New Asia Republic: Singapore envisioned having a nuclear power plant as far back as the 1960s
- Everythign Also Complain: Glenn Ong: Put mad dogs to sleep
- Making Light of Things: Universal
- Rambling Librarian :: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian: Teaching racial harmony
- Musings From the Lion City: Ban On Camera Phones
- Unbiasedelectorate: Once again our dear MPs have shown their value:)
- The Kent Ridge Common: The Extinction of Books and Bookstores?

A Vote for Change
- Think Happiness: Maybe, PAP Ministers not so talented – Part 2

Flesh-man Orientation
- Where Bears Roam Free: Sexist Uni Orientation: Again, where is AWARE?

Educating Our Youth
- Yee Jenn Jong: A photo journey of Bhutan (part 3) – Education and religion
- Yahoo: ‘A degree is nice, but we need something else’

Infoblogamus
- Remember Singapore: Singapore’s Favourite Mascots.. How Many Do You Remember?
- QuirkyChic: The Hossan Leong Show
- Loh and Behold : Pyongyang: the Metro
- sgentrepreneurs: Singapore firms leading the way in IT outsourcing: Survey
- Today: Rising electricity prices take their toll on town councils

Tech
- thedigitalconsultant: Facebook Is The New Internet, Or Is It?
- The Register: Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

Daily SG: 20 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: PR skills fail: WRS CEO, Isabella Loh edition
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor : A TLC where losing $1m is “peanuts”
- Everything Also Complain: Bombing Parliament after failing a job interview
- All Things Singapore: Of the ISA. True abolishment or a facade of skull-duggery?
- Where Bears Roam Free: Anti-ISA campaigners are as one dimensional as pro-ISA supporters

A Vote for Change
- Yawningbread on WordPress: ‘Alternative’ netizens were ‘alternative’ before they were netizens
- New Asia Republic: 内安法的积极和消极 无奈的不得已

Educate our Young
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Is our meritocratic educational system a failure?

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: 22-Year-Old Jobless Singaporean Caught In Sandwiched Generation

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- The Kent Ridge Common: Malaysia: One giant leap for democracy

Flesh-man Orientation
- TOC: Cheap entertainment for the “seniors”?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yahoo: ‘Foreign workers should also receive skills upgrading’

Infoblogamus
- GPT InDuStRiEs – White Hat Hacking for the good of Singapore.: GPT InDuStRiEs Log Book
- New Nation: Baey to the rescue: Cancelled Halloween event may get new life at PAP constituency
- Singapore Sojourn: Supernatural Mps
- sgentrepreneurs: Singaporean entrepreneurs made waves at TechCrunch Disrupt
- Tan Chuan Jin’s FB: Going Green and Trying to Get Somewhere…
- Yahoo: Road closures for Formula One race
- AFP: Cold, dim room sheds light on Singapore history

International
- New Asia Republic: Palestine’s Statehood: Let’s get it over with

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Windows 8 might come with a new Blue Screen of Death

Daily SG: 19 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- When the Spin Stops: Open letter to Singapore’s Civil Society – Wake Up & Screw the Hibiscus [Thanks Reuben]
- Think Happiness: No need to abolish ISA
- The Mind Game: Speaking too soon about the ISA
- funny little world: ISA, why are you still here?
- Blinkymummy: Active Enforcement vs Lame Enforcement
- A Singaporean says: English as it should be writ (Part 5)
- Publichouse.sg: Victim of cyber harassment left to fend for herself.

A Vote for Change
- Think Happiness: Maybe, PAP ministers not so talented
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SDP’s timely reminder and to do
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜 FB: Singapore is ours, it is ours to shape
- Sgpolitics.net: While Malaysia’s government is forced to embrace change, our government still resists change
- Publichouse.sg: EXCLUSIVE: Yaw Shin Leong – leading by example

Temasek Review Donation Capers
- Furry Brown Dog: Some thoughts on Temasek Review and the Presidential Election

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Growing Your Tree Of Prosperity: What will you be doing in your miserable 40s ?
- TOC: Harder to be re-employed if you’re more educated?

Housing
- TOC: 80% increase in HDB price between sale launches?

Educate our Youth
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: All kids should learn this: What is the Secret to Success is Failure?

Wikileaks Revelations
- New Asis Republic: WikiLeaks: Singapore’s Nuclear Energy Ambition

The Gracious Singaporeans
- Loh and Behold: North Korea: Assholes

Flesh-man Orientation
- Everything Also Complain: Freshmen doing push-ups on top of girls

Sketches
- Demon-Cratic Singapore: Episode #170 Malaysia To Repeal ISA

Infoblogamus
- Singapore Notes: The Devil In The Details
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Imagining Youth – Media as a Catalyst for Change
- Investment Moats – Stock Market Investing: The erosion of telecom margins: Will mobile operators like Singtel, M1 and Starhub lose to Google and Apple?

Daily SG: 17 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- Void Deck’s FB Notes: The Big Fracking Fuss about Malaysia’s No-More ISA Show
- Musings From the Lion City: Malaysia Say Bye-bye to ISA
- Where Bears Roam Free: Malaysia abolishes ISA? It’s too early too celebrate
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Malaysia to abolish ISA
- TOC: Singapore should consider scrapping ISA
- New Asia Republic: MHA defends the Internal Security Act
- Everything Also Complain: Halloween Horrors axed for not being family friendly
- mrbrown: L’infantile terrible of Singapore: Night Safari management cancels Halloween Horrors event last minute

Section 377a
- Sam’s Thoughts: Kumar’s coming out: An empowering and disempowering Ra Ra Show
- New Nation: Gay portal Fridae receives investment, S’pore society opening up?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Tan Kin Lian: Why employers prefer to employ foreigners
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: 29-Year-Old Malay Engineer: 5 Reasons Why I Decided To Look For Work Abroad
- TOC: EP minimum salary helps Singaporean workers?

A Vote for Change
- Everything Also Complain: Speaking for Pappy

Educate Our Youth
- Liana Films: In Search of the Tiger Mother
- Publichouse.sg: Creating thinkers and pioneers
- The Star Online: Slowing the paper chase

Infoblogamus
- MOM Blog: Silver Lining the Dark Clouds
- EastCoastLife: Wooden Houses in Kampong Buangkok – PH
- Yahoo: Duo in SLA scam to plead guilty
- MIS-Asia: Three quarters of Singapore enterprises to outsource the majority of IT infrastructure by 2021: Savvis study

International
- New Asia Republic: Shi Lang: A Maritime Game Changer?
- CogitAsia: Has the Real Najib Stood Up?

Tech
- nobunsnolife: This Minimalist POWER PLUG by Min-Kyu Choi is fully loaded with FEATURES.

Daily SG: 16 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- funny little world: Leave my educated ovaries alone!
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Malaysia Abolishes the ISA and Eyes on Singapore [Thanks Wayne]
- Everything Also Complain: We, the Onternauts of Singapore
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Catch A Crocodile

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Roslan’s family writes to the President
- Where Bears Roam Free: Downtown East killers literally get away with murder – is anti death campaign the reason?
- TOC: Foreign drug offenders facing death in Singapore

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Notes: Roots Of Discontent
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Do we need more political parties?
- The Temple of Thoughts 3: Please Don’t Vote your Friend
- The Kent Ridge Common: They Change, We Change
- New Nation: Lee Kuan Yew: Low replacement rate due to economic development, better educated women
- NAR: Prisoner’s dilemma at the voting booth
- NAR: 儿子太笨,老爸辛苦,无奈的不得已

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- CNN: UBS discovers $2 billion loss in unauthorized trade

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yahoo: 18 Chinese nationals jailed over fake degrees

Educate our Youth
- Yee Jenn Jong: The Finnish Education Model – Should Singapore emulate it?

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Crossroads: Crossing my Crossroad — A life changing first step

Infoblogamus
- Balderdash: On what constitutes Outrage of Modesty (Molest) in Singapore
- Pipala Tree: 16 September
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Happy Civil Defence Day
- Wall Street Journal: In Singapore, Bookstores Off the Beaten Path
- Wild Singapore: Indonesia: Power struggle over forest land use

Daily SG: 15 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Cycling must be a key part of Singapore’s future
- Yee Jenn Jong: Social inequality in Singapore
- My Singapore News: China helping the ingrates!
- New Nation: Former MM Lee Kuan Yew: The Singapore vision is your vision, not my vision.
- Yahoo: ‘Stop at two policy nothing to do with low fertility’

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ifeng.com: 新加坡人才立国显奇效(国际视野)

Housing
- Musings From the Lion City: A Laughing Matter
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Developers to Khaw : Review cooling measures…

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Washington Post: Former PM Lee says Singapore won’t buy European bonds, monetary union can’t be saved

A Vote for Change
- Workers’ Party FB : MP Sylvia Lim made SGCC Patron

Infoblogamus
- NAR: New media transformed Singapore’s election coverage
- Loh and Behold : Pyongyang: The Arirang Festival
- Tan Kin Lian: Loss of $100,000 within a few days
- The Jakarta Globe: Govt Declines Singapore Help on Haze

Tech
- lesterchan.net: Microsoft Windows 8 Developer Preview

Stuff
- CNN: Can Singapore engineer creativity?

Sketches
- SG-Quitters: Singapore Political Line Dancing – Wong Kan Seng’s new appointments.

Daily SG: 14 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- journalism.sg: Covering A Changing Political Landscape: The Challenge For National Media
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – The People’s Association
- Singapore Notes: Incestuous Links
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore Campus Political Associations: Big Talkers, Little Doers?
- TOC: PKMS terminates and strips membership of its President
- Today: PKMS president stripped of membership following arrest

Daily Disclosure
- (Untitled): Singaporean cliches grouped by logical fallacy [Thanks Li]
- The Temples of Thougts 3: Is Singapore ready for democracy?
- Blogging for Myself: What is Jet Li doing as a Singaporean?
- Think Happiness: Insensitive advertising by law firm
- ABDILLAH ZAMZURI: What Are You Positive About?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Not Everyone’s Dream
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Medical career for foreigners, junk career for Singaporeans
- Sgpolitics.net: AWARE disagrees with Mr Lee Kuan Yew
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew’s remark and audience’s response: a reminder of backwardness

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Let’s talk about the death penalty.
- publichouse.sg: 3 young S’poreans take on the death penalty

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Monday morning at a police station reporting another scam

Sketches
- The Sketch Times: Uniquely Stinkapore
- The Sketch Times: (Untitled)

Housing
- My Little Corner: Not much difference in selling land through the confirmed list or reserved list

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How people can just fall into policy blackholes….

No Indian Curry for You
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore Curry Incident – Malaysian MTV by Namewee

Infoblogamus
- Cooler Insights: McDonald’s Reveals Its Restaurant Secrets

Stuff
- The China Post: Singapore must develop practical policies to fight ominous fertility rate
- MaritimeSecurity.Asia: REVIEW BRIEF: Mapping Out Rival Claims To The South China Sea
- World News Report: Singapore’s Oldest Not-for-profit Professional Institute Sues Edith Cowan University

Daily SG: 13 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- guanyinmiao’s musings: People’s Association: Searching For A Way Forward
- TOC: PAP must depoliticise the People’s Association for their own good
- Yahoo: PM Lee defends PAP involvement in PA

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Interview with a new citizen

Housing
- TOC: HDB SERS: Family loses flat of 16 years over technicality

Educate our Youth
- A 21st Century Education by OURF: Are we too structured for our own good?

Daily Disclosure
- My Little Corner: Stop wasting food in this period of high inflation
- Support site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Life starts at 50…
- Yahoo: Lee Kuan Yew’s 30-year concern
- CNNGo: Singapore service sucks — or does it?

Infoblogamus
- Loh and Behold : Visit to North Korea
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: 1983 SBC propaganda drama serial about National Service
- Yahoo: Three Singaporeans detained under ISA

Daily SG: 12 Sep 2011

Daily Disclosure
- Adam Khoo: The Expats Will Rule Singapore
- Everything Also Complain: Women are better drivers than men
- SpeakSpokeWriteWrote: Appropriate Responses, S’il Vous Plait
- Singapore Actually: Poor Joan Sim: Lee Kuan Yew’s Embarrassing Personal Questions about whether she has a Boyfriend
- Feed Me TO The Fish: Shocked And Dafted, Will Joan End Up Like Wei Ling?
- TOC: Free To Be – a celebration of freedom and democracy
- The Star Online: Crossing the Causeway to a cleaner, different world

A Vote for Change
- Political Writings: How Wrong We Were!
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TJS: a coming victim of the Sirens?
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Of Sacrificial Lambs, Martyrs and Fighters

Remembering 9/11
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Remembering Sep 11, 2001
- Benjamin Cheah: Ten years on
- Singapore Sojourn: Premonitions
- Tan Chuan Jin’s FB: Remembering 9-11
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Bill Maher’s Religulous
- A Singapoean Says: Remembering 9/11
- New Nation: A personal history of 9/11
- New Nation: 9/11 freaked me out

Educate Our Youth
- Yee Jenn Jong: Social mobility in Singapore

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Is Singapore’s Administration of Muslim Law Act immune from debate?
- journalism.sg: Media Censorship: Us Versus Them?
- The Star Online: Reaching out to the young ones

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Rethinking the Death Penalty
- TOC: The Mandatory Death Penalty is not the same as the Death Penalty

Sketches
- SG-Quitters: Plight of Singapore Males (Local born citizens)

Infoblogamus
- EastCoastLife: EastCoastLife on Talking Point
- Wildshores of Singapore: Chek Jawa and the Lost Diamond Ring
- New Nation: Jesus Camp invades Singapore [Thanks Terence]
- NAR: The parental equation in sporting excellence
- USAToday: Unemployment: A jobs problem or a work problem? [Thanks Wayne]

Daily SG: 10 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- Donald Low FC’s FB: The New Normal and what it means for Governance
- Ravi Philemon: Opposition strongmen made of tougher material
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Does Tony Tan continue to get his DPM pension?
- NAR: 行动党担忧未来,我们又如何面对未来?

Daily Disclosure
- journalism.sg: Mediacorp’s Election Coverage Let Off With a Light Touch
- Everything Also Complain: Jack Neo thinks an MRT train on fire is beautiful
- Alvinlogy: On SAF and Mobile Phones with No Camera Features
- A Reporter’s Memoir: NO HARD FEELINGS: Another nasty remark, another denial
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why using current birth rate to justify foreign influx is wrong….
- flâneurose: Trouble in (Research) Paradise
- Where Bears Roam Free: When Animal Rights’ Activists behave worse than animals
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew’s ‘below the the belt’ answer

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Blogging for Myself: Employer-Employee Win-Lose situation

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Crossroads: Staring at the biggest crossroad of my life
- TOC: Single parent disillusioned with MCYS’ CFAS subsidy

Infoblogamus
- COOLER INSIGHTS: The Truth About Ikea: Book Review
- Wildshores of Singapore: Fences and barriers on our shores: do they work?
- The Long and Winding Road: Fly me to the moon
- Singapore Notes: Take This Test

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: It’s greener in the cloud

Daily SG: 9 Sep 2011

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Easy & cost-free way of uniting S’poreans
- flâneurose: Fear-mongering before the next immigration surge
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Let’s not kid ourselves! Mr Low is The Leader of The Opposition officially, unofficially and any which way you like.
- Youtube: Interview with Lee Kuan Yew
- TOC: SDP’s youth wing – who’s in charge?
- Yahoo: ‘There’s definitely a division in the PAP’

CPF
- TOC Public debt: US$70k per Singaporean?

Daily Disclosure
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Cognitive dissonance continued
- Blinkymummy: Perils of being a Female PhD Student
- The Kent Ridge Common: I. Of “The State of NUS Lectures” Debate and its Intended Audience
- The Kent Ridge Common: II. Of “The State of NUS Lectures” Debate and its Discontents
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Remembering 911 – A Decade of Personal Lessons Learned
- AsiaTimes: Yale alumni lament Singapore sting
- eurasiareview: Singapore: SMRT Security Breach’s Strategic Implications In Post 9/11 Era – Analysis

Infoblogamus
- NAR: The Great ‘Economic’ Wall of China
- Yahoo: ‘Singapore’s population will shrink without immigrants’
- InSing: Govt to boost social media usage

Daily SG: 8 Sep 2011

Educate our Young
- Blinkymummy: Cross-Dressing & Variety Shows
- funny little world: First Day of School at Gaia
- ERPZ: Failure of Competition
- New Nation: Singapore Dream is within reach
- TOC: School of Tomorrow – firing the passion for learning
- Yahoo: Teach students to recognise American English: Lee Kuan Yew

A Vote for Change
- “Say No! to Tony Tan as President of Singapore” FB: A frank, candid and insightful commentary on the PAP, its mediocre ministers, kiasu policies and ‘atas’ attitude, A must read.

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Anonymous_X: Yet another compounded case of molestation & this time it cost only $5,000?!?!

Daily Disclosure
- The Enquirer: STUDENTS: LEE KUAN YEW GOES OFF TOPIC, BAD QUESTIONS TO BLAME
- Yaw Shin Leong: An Account by a HIV Ex-Inmate
- TOC: Online dolphin crusade, justly placed
- TOC: Singapore should reconsider accepting the legality of prenuptial agreement

Sketches
- The Sketch Times: Can he treat himself?
- The Sketch TImes : Wat could hav been leaked?
- SG-Quitters: 35% of vote made President – only in Singapore. No run-off despite winning by a narrow margin of less than 0.4% of votes.

Tech
- sgentrepreneurs: 5 trends that will shape the app world

Infoblogamus
- New York Times: U.S. Slides, Singapore Rises in Competitiveness Survey

Daily SG: 7 Sep 2011

Wikileaks Revelations
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Bright Side To WikiLeaks’s Singapore Exposé
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Did the former Minister Mentor really say it?
- The China Post: WikiLeaks’ protests following massive release of cables show hypocrisy

A Vote for Change
- YawningBread on WordPress: Why words when deed is there for the doing?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Who reflects reality better, netizens or MSM?
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Wikileaks : PAP recruits from lower tiers…
- SpeakSpokeWriteWrote: Dear PA or is it PAP?
- TOC: People’s Association should not serve political party as it’s taxpayer funded

Daily Disclosure
- Terence Chong’s FB: National Anxiety #3: Meritocracy and Self-worth [and Anti-immigrant Anxiety]
- Canvasing Light: Nuclear Launch Detected
- The Kent Ridge Common: Upfront with Edwin Yeo, NUS’ Russian Renegade
- art:21 blog: Arts Funding, Censorship, and Writing in Singapore
- funny little world: 9/11.

Housing
- Publichouse.sg: Infested and bloodstained – but it is his home
- My Singapore News: Still squeezed out of public housing

Presidential Election
- TOC: Race will not hinder the election of a minority President

Strangers in a Strange Land
- SUpport Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Jobless PMET Providing Vital Feedback on Our Government Aid Agencies

Infoblogamus
- The Long and Winding Road: The 7 links project
- The Art of Dumbspeak: Chinese Lesson 2: What’s In A Word
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Changing Position of Thai Buddhism
- CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA: Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) Suspends Facebook Comments Function Over ‘Cyber-Harassment’
- Yahoo: Yaacob to new citizens: Uphold S’porean values
- The Malaysian Insider: LKY says KL reprisal over land could have led to war

Stuff
- Alvinology: How foreigners cut their durians
- The Moscow Times: Medvedev Is No Lee Kuan Yew
- DIN MERICAN: THE MALAYSIAN DJ BLOGGER: A New Deal on Water with Singapore is timely

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