The Singapore Daily

“[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

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July 31st, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“The stupid decision would be to try (and fail) to ban it.”
Au Waipang

“If they do anything, it’ll just draw more attention to it all, and they have no defence.”
Alan Shadrake

“Silently the people respond to the economic and social realities with slow suicide: Total Fertility Rate of 1.22.”
PengYou

“Reasons must be given for the Orchard Road flood. But only real ones, please.”
Christopher Ong

“The Web in itself cannot effect major political change. It doesn’t level a uneven political playing field. It doesn’t negate martial power. It is blind, lending its potential to the orthodox and the radical.”
Spiegel

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July 24th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“We cannot rely on a select group of cultural intellectuals in the academic world to answer these questions. Conversation needs to permeate society.”
Rui An

“There was such a blatantly unthinking spin-job (or absolutely rubbish journalism) in today’s Sunday Times, that I simply had to blog about it.”
Siew Kum Hong

“Everywhere, it seems, Singaporeans are getting more and more frustrated at little things that get in their way.”
Christopher Ong

“All in all, it is a rather oppressive month..”
Joshua Chiang

“I hereby declare that the film is no longer in my possession, and its ownership will from now on be given to all citizens of the Republic of Singapore.”
Martyn See Tong Ming

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July 17th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“…see, when society starts to chase Wealth as her only God, the individual becomes devalued. You don’t use society, society uses you. Your happiness never counts, the society’s happiness counts.”
The Truth

“Crowded trains today? I suspect we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
Au Waipang

“Here’s a reality check, how many of our parents have actually fully paid off that HDB loan today even though prices were more affordable back then?”
Nabs

“It is time not distance that is important to the commuter and they have started off with the wrong basis for the new fare structure..”
Lucky Tan

“..everything is going according to plan. Yet that fails to assuage the disquietude in so many of us, that there are things happening here which are viscerally wrong…. Of how this Singapore … this place, just doesn’t feel like home anymore.”
mjuse

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July 10th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“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

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July 4th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

“..is the government more interested in pummelling the accuser or dealing with the issues raised?”
Au Waipang

“..we can subcontract the work , but we cannot subcontract the responsibility”
Findmuck

“..here’s a plea to our would be leaders, ….please lead…please help and facilitate our originality and creativity. Stop going for those low lying fruits. And playing those self gratifying numbers games.”
gigamole

“My bold forecast is that the swing will be 15%..”
Tan Kin Lian

“Great, just what we need. Another party.”
theinkhorn

“This is love, but given its strange alignment with the political ideology and paternalism of an authoritarian state, it is repulsive and evil.”
Sam Ho

“..the arguments seem to be falsely revolving around the status of the church as an institution of public character, which seems to imply that what’s wrong for a private sector enterprise may be right for an IPC, and vice versa.”
uncletrader

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June 26th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“..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

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June 5th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (2)

“It is like letting a fox loose in the chicken coop!”
Constance Singam

“..there is a culture of collective historical amnesia amongst Singaporeans.”
guanyinmiao

“These frightful harridans, how dare they believe they should marry to get something out of marriage?”
Magical Chicken

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May 29th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“..every Singaporean worth his or her salt would agree that justice must not only be done, but be seen to be done.”
Pritam Singh

“I cannot find the words to adequately express the disappointment and anger that I feel.”
Kirsten

“Read, search, understand, analyze, then judge. As a citizen of Singapore, you owe it to yourself.”
Nabs

“The only Renaissance that appears to be happening is that of conservatism.”
Ho Rui An

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May 22nd, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

“…he felt like he “was talking to an agent of MOH and not a reporter of a newspaper.””
Ravi Philemon

We need minds to be humble and reflexive, and able to understand the implications of their privileges and actions in a multi-valued society.”
Sam Ho

“It is a common weakness: victors ascribing moral superiority to themselves.”
Yawning Bread

“I ache for our future, because today will never change.”
Jeremy Chua Jiakai

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May 10th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“What they are blind to see is that money cannot a real nation make.”
yaevlejunce

“The PAP should not only tolerate disruption, disturbance and disorder, but for their own survival, encourage it.”
Catherine Lim

“If you want the public to form a different opinion, you have to give them the reason to change that opinion. After all, this is what public opinion is all about.”
Tan Kin Lian

“Treat these people humanely. They’re not sub-humans to be herded around, put to work like plow animals and then penned up at night.”
Brad Farless

“Hardly anyone calls these xenophobic people out for their horribly prejudiced and hurtful behaviour and we all quietly support them with our silence.”
Flying Low

“..using the information collected about one homeless couple to dismiss the issues of all homeless families is a weak and juvenile stand.”
Callan Tham

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May 1st, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“There is one C that describes our society so well – that C is COMPETITION.”
Lucky Tan

“…Singapore’s political system was just one economic crisis away from collapse.”
Yawning Bread

“…because of its unintellectual and patronising delivery of message, religion, in the hands of the government, becomes either a bogyman to worry over or a spoil child who must be appeased.”
groundnotes

“But how does a fare hike become a fare cut?”
Abhijit

“The Singapore system of education must recapture the meaning of “moulding the future of our nation”.”
zachisaiahchia

“…he is going out on a whim and looking like just another civil servant.”
Tau Hua Boy

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April 24th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“They worry – but for a Singapore as abstraction, not the nation as people.”
Khairulanwar Zaini

“There is a clear difference between growing one’s population via immigration and replacing one’s native population by importation..”
The Temasek Review

“…regardless of system, I think the greater issue here is of transparency and accountability to its people.”
Nabs

“…we are insufferable materialist. Nothing titillates our senses more than the Bang & Olufsen system, BMW car or Hermes bag.”
Nabs

“…I find it hard to understand how [Al Jazeera English] does not “enhance mio TV’s channel offerings”, especially when its existing news channels are euronews, Russia Today and CCTV 9.”
Chan Tau Chou

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April 17th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“If this is who we are, I want no part in this.”
Kirsten Han

“Truth be damned, the Singapore Story must be spun, ad nauseum, and no one shall question its authenticity.”
Callan Tham

“..it seems that there will be no such thing as sub urban or outskirt in Singapore anymore. Everything will be prime area..”
Nabs

“Combining large amounts of cash with thousands of fervent believers is a recipe for increasing social cleavages in a diverse society.”
Imran Ahmed

“The COE allocates an important resource based purely on a person’s ability to pay… It maximises the pain among those with greatest need and limited means …and it maximises the govt revenue.”
LuckySingaporean

“…we need to take a long hard look at ourselves and see whether we have a future in this GDP obsessed state.”
Nabs

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April 11th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“..we should focus on making our voters politically aware. For only then will we truly be safe from populism.”
On Nation and State

“Why do the solutions to so many problems involve locking up more money in the CPF for longer and longer periods?”
LuckySingaporean

“The validity of feedback lies not in the identity of the person who provided it, but rather in the validity of the message itself.”
Callan Tham

“Singapore leaders allow themselves to be criticised as undemocratic or illiberal. Some even appear to wear such labels with pride..”
Cherian George

“We, as citizens, can and should take issue with our government for their plans to accommodate the foreigners but we should be mindful never to get caught up in xenophobia.”
Ian

“For all we know, the demand for change constitutes an illegal act itself. I guess the only legal thing now is to vote.”
Sam Ho

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April 4th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“We are far too remarkable to be repressed.”
theinkhorn

“This country is not a religious battleground, and if we are still sensible, should never be one.”
Callan Tham

“Singapore needs to evolve away from the very bare definition that a country is defined by geographical boundaries. Singapore needs to be a well-articulated idea.”
Tribolum

“..is there a need for this creature, permanent residency?”
Singapore Aspirant

“Talking a 30 year loan is not a trivial thing – during the 30 years, many things can happen include the high likelihood of interest rates going up, job loss, illness, etc”
LuckySingaporean

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March 27th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“Concessionary travel for the disabled is merely a question of moral imperatives that strikes deep into our hearts, and the answers in Parliament on Thursday suggest that we have none.”
Khairulanwar Zaini

“..both public transport and public housing are BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES. Entities that provide these basic social services have more social responsibility that just mere private enterprises.”
Goh Meng Seng

“But today, the driver has long forgotten that the car is not just for the young and adventurous – it is for the children and for the elderly; for the handicapped and the unlucky too.”
Gangasudhan

“It is often one’s flaws that makes us human, and thus beautiful. As you desperately try to hide your flaws, you also hide yourself. Singapore, isn’t it about time that you let us see the real you?”
Surya

..”the liabilities of entrenching a generation of Singaporeans who are ‘barely have their heads above water’ have dire social and economic consequences for the next generation.”
Ian Choo

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March 20th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“Why is the burden of competition put on ordinary Singaporeans yet again?”
LuckySingaporean

“The problem is that the ministers are asking workers to bite the bullet first.”
Ian

“We can no longer keep on churning out economic digits fit [only] for an industrialized society.”
Wong Wee Nam

“I can already imagine how someone will quote this one freaking incident and use it to justify that Singapore new media cannot be trusted.”
DK

“Productivity is only an economic indicator. By improving productivity, what do we seek to achieve?”
Donaldson Tan

“We have become addicted to government subsidies.”
Yawning Bread

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March 13th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

“For a nation priding itself on knowledge, science and technology, to have productivity fall over 10 years is horrifying.”
onedimensionalman

“If I get to vote in the next election than I will go ahead and just be daft.”
Insane Polygons

“Today, I hardly touch local newspapers anymore.”
theinkhorn

““Govt does not decide characteristics of Singapore’s markets: SM Goh”.. Well, who is looking into it, if not the government?”
Twasher

“The fact that we worry of productivity is symptomatic of how society in general is suffering a systematic dehumanisation and degradation of human dignity. It should send a chill down ones spine that human resource has become a means to a productive end.”
zachisaiahchia

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March 6th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment