We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Singapore Angle: The 229-page AIMS report recommends maturity and common sense [Thanks Bernard]
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Political films must not be political

Financial Crisis
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Financial Crisis 2008 - Aid & Taxation

Recession
- My Little Corner: Pegging of pay to pay with bonuses??

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Desparatebeep: Why Change?

Freedom, Choice, a place for my Voice
- TOC: Singapore does uphold human rights’ norms
- TOC: U60 launches human rights anniversary celebrations
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech at media launch of U60 festival, 2 December 2008
- TOC: Tales of rights and wrong

Hong Lim Park
- Tan Kin Lian: Speaker’s Corner 6 December, 5 - 7 pm
- TOC: TOC at Hong Lim Park on Saturday – Social Justice and Fairness

LEE vs Nair
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Gopalan Nair. Lawyer, Activist, Beggar
- Jacob’s Weblog: Back to being Singapore Dissident

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Snapshot of COE bidding at 2:30pm… 1.5hr from closing time

Public Transportation Issues
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse - SMRT… again

Daily Discourse
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: We seem, therefore we are
- Singapore Angle: Strike Eagle or Struck Turkey? [Thanks Bernard]
- Singapore Complain Hub: Temasek sells PowerSeraya to YTL Power for S$3.8b
- Singabloodypore: Singapore shuns treaty banning cluster bombs
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Singapore refuses to sign Cluster Munitions Ban
- Musings: Reflections on the DBS-FOTF faux-pas

Life, the universe and everything
- The Secret Political Blog: ALERT: News about S.R Nathan - Never thought that there will be news about him?
- The Mango Blog: Highest Paid Presidents / PM’s around the World
- Singapore Angle: Pad Thai Democracy [Thanks Bernard]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Biological Terrorist Attack likely by 2013
- this lush garden within: Budget airlines - AirAsia’s the best
- the boy who knew too much: The value of long-term research
- Endoh’s Dungeon: BRAND’S Blogger Challenge - Singapore emerged victorious!

Infoblogaramous
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Free Starbucks Coffee on 4 Dec 2008 (5 - 7pm)

Reviews | Guides
- InformationWeek: Media Machines
- Virtual Hideout: Lian-Li PC-60FW Case Review
- Frosty Tech: Top 5 Best Heatsinks for Intel and AMD
- Guru3D: PC Buyers Guide Christmas 2008
- X-bit labs: “Multi Dual Engine”: ASUS G70S Gaming Notebook Review
- HWZ: HTC Touch HD Review
- VR-Zone: LG Renoir KC910
- TechGage: ASUS Rampage II Extreme - The Definitive Overclocking Board?

SG Tech
- Ong Jiin Joo: Weighted TCP for faster Internet?

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- theory.isthereason: AIMS Report: Engaging New Media (Dec 2008) [Participatory Governance]
- A Singaporean: Opening Up The Web to Politics?
- TOC: More political space for Singaporeans if Government accepts proposals: AIMs
- Sgpolitics.net: AIMS’s final submission to MICA — my view of its recommendations regarding online political content
- Gerald Giam: AIMS report shows the way forward

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana
- Wayangparty Club: Is Tan Kin Lian burning his bridges with the PAP soon?

Recession
- YoungJedi: Is bailout evil?

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Yawning Bread: The government wants active citizens so that they can harass them
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: What will happen to those who practice civil disobediance in Singapore?
- My sketchbook: Political film in Singapore

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore : No pain, no change…..
- groundnotes: A Government’s Wet Dream

Healthcare: HIV:AIDS Awareness
- Mathia Lee: Say YES to AIDS treatment subsidies!
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: aren’t AIDS sufferers Singaporeans too?
- harmless? bananas!: What did you do on World AIDS Day?

Public Transportation Issues
- Singapore and the stuff: Fix-its for Singapore’s Public Transport system
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: MRT Seat Removal: More space = More crowded

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- The Secret Political Blog: Thai-Style Scare Tactics - The Straits Times great attack on the “Protest Culture”

Housing
- TOC: HDB - providing homes or a monopolistic business model

Daily Discourse
- The Secret Political Blog: Shame on Singapore: North Korea and Singapore
- the(new)mediaslut: What if Thai farmers stop planting rice?
- Singapore Indian Voice: Singapore falls short of banning production and use of cluster munitions
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: 3 power plants in S’pore but none in S’porean hands. Electricity supply is just a business??
- Yawning Bread: Politics airport-style
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Exciting new ez-link cards!
- The Singapore Enquirer: Rent depends on their earnings

Life, the universe and everything
- Wayangparty Club: VID:75 year old Ah Pek works as Karang guni man to support children
- Musings: DBS replies
- The boy who knew too much: Who killed Nordin bin Mondong?
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Chevrolet driveaway 2008: Photo teaser
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Dining at Mr. J - Jay Chou (周杰伦)’s restaurant

Infoblogaramous
- a writer’s blog: my life, my thoughts: PAYM Policy Forum on Environmental Sustainability

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Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- TOC: Residents query but PAP town councils keep mum
- TOC: Town council investments: Annual reports do not answer questions

High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Legal action against the Issuers and Distributors
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore : No pain, no change..
- Wayangparty Club: Do Singaporeans want Mr Tan Kin Lian as President?
- the mrbrown show: Town council investment bank of singapore

Daily Discourse
- The Enquirer: He’s PAP and dares to dissent
- The Secret Political Blog: Thai-Style Scare Tactics - The Straits Times great attack on the “Protest Culture” [Thanks secret]
- The Void Deck: $2 COE Woh! Issit Honggan or Hosay
- Vexillum II: DBS FOTF Saga

EPL
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: EPL this month

Life, the universe and everything
- The FØØL’s Progress: Anime Festival Asia 2008 - A Defining Moment in Southeast Asian Otaku History
- Agents Are Go!!: A letter to Mcdonalds Singapore

Infoblogaramous
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: Climate change events

Our friends at Play! Entertainment (the DVD rental kiosk people if you’re wondering) are having a fantastic offer. They are letting people rent year-old movie DVDs free for one day! No registration required, no hidden fees. Its totally free and the offer will last indefinitely! So who says there’s no free lunch? :-) [Thanks Gina]

Eva Huang Sheng Yi 黄圣依 is a Chinese actress from Shanghai. Her father lived and studied in the USA in the early 1990s and her mother works for a well known and famous newspaper office as an editor in Shanghai. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2001 and acted in several TV series. In 2003, she won the role of lead actress in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle 功夫, which earned her a Best Newcomer nomination at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.

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High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speech at Speaker’s Corner, 29 Nov 2008
- Singapore Enquirer: Goh Meng Seng’s speech
- TOC: “This thing will never die until it is settled”
- Wayang Party: Mr Goh Meng Seng lambasted PAP at Hong Lim Park, urges investors to sign petition to support Tan Kin Lian’s bid for public office
- Singapore Enquirer: Gallery: a slideshow of photos taken at minibond rally,29 Nov

Lee vs WSJ
- Desparatebeep: Victory in Court, Our Court
- Tomorrow.sg: Singapore strikes again!

Minority as PM
- I have succumbed to peer pressure: Is Singapore ready for an Acting Prime Minister from the minority race? [Thanks udders]

Daily Discourse
- OPEN Thought: Riding the middle footpath in Singapore [Thanks feather 123]
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Thumbs up for totalitarianism
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Why imposing a moratorium is not good enough?

Life, the universe and everything
- mrbrown.com: Mass cycling event in Singapore a little expensive, no?

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Tech News
- AppleInsider: iPhone Dev Team successfully boots Linux on iPhone
- tech radar: How Windows 7 shames Vista on battery life
- PCGH: DirectX 10 on CPU via DirectX 11 - first benchmarks
- VR-Zone: NVIDIA Desktop & Mobile GPUs Renaming
- Mobile Computing: Plextor unveils “pocket size” hard drives
- bit-tech: Only 20 percent of games make a profit
- NRDC: Even When Idle, Gaming Consoles Cost Consumers More than $1 Billion Worth of Wasted Energy
- CIO: Tech of Yesteryear: Where Old Computers Find Their Final Resting Place

Reviews | Guides
- TweakTown: Core i7 920 Core Disabling Performance Analysis
- B3D: Intel 80GB SSD (X25-M MLC)
- X-bit labs: Between Cold and Fire: Thermal Interfaces Roundup
- TrustedReviews: Sony Bravia KDL-46Z4500 46in LCD TV
- InsideHW: Logitech V550 Nano
- TestFreaks: Razer Piranha Gaming Communicator
- VR-Zone: Samsung INNOV8 GT-i8510
- Hardware Secrets: Everything You Need to Know About Camera Sensors
- TrustedReviews: Canon IXUS 870 IS
- Tech Report: TR’s Christmas 2008 system guide

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: How to search for opinions online
- Tech65: HP Mini 1000 First Look

“Joke has it that PAP gives you a drumstick but will take back a whole chicken from you. With what’s been happening lately, it’s more like they stole your whole chicken farm [raising the cost of living in every and any way possible while paying themselves million dollars salary] and feed you chicken feet and neck when you complain or beg for sustenance to survive [Mdm Lim's public assistance of $330].”
Feed Me To The Fish

“When asked if town councils might lose more money from their other investments, Dr Teo said that he did not have the details of their investments and declined comment about his town council, Holland-Bukit Panjang”
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Roundup this week and recommended reads after the break.

Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- TOC: A touch of reserve
- TOC: Gamblers and gambling – a nation hooked
- Wayangparty Club: Video interview with Singaporeans on their thoughts of Town Councils’ loss of sinking funds
- the(new)mediaslut: Town councils and Mini bonds: A PR lesson in crisis management [Recommended]
- UncleYap: Opposition should call MPs to Resign over Town Councils’ Bond Losses
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: elected town councils
- The Secret Political Blog: Sinking funds Sinking
- My Very Own Glob: We are sorry we lost your money
- Singapore Alternatives: Long Term Becomes WRONG TERM! WHERE ARE YOUR EYES?
- Wayang Party: Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council Chairman reassures residents: “relac, still got $2.1 million left” but…..
- Mindblogging Stuff: Be thankful
- TOC: Accounting for town councils’ investments - do your part
- TOC: Town councils’ funds - Teo Ho Pin responds
- Wayang Party: Teo Ho Pin’s “reassurance” is hardly reassuring
- Wayang Party: Tanjong Pagar GRC resident writes in to Town Council to request for full disclosure of information
- The Lionheart: A Call for Action

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Tan Kin Lian: Tan Kin Lian eyes elected presidency [Petition form for elected presidency]
- Sgpolitics: Tan Kin Lian’s political ambitions
- Wayangparty Club: Tan Kin Lian’s bid for presidency: Is this the right time?
- Singapore Life and Times: Stand Up for Singaporeans
- Vinyarb: from hong lim to istana
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Tan Kin Lian - a threat to PAP and Opposition alike?
- Wayangparty Club: Multi-talented PAP ministers working hard on Sunday for their multi-million pay package
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Investors should see their Member of Parliament
- TOC: Two opinions on Tan Kin Lian petition
-Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Musings on Mr. Tan Kin Lian’s political ambitions
- Recruit Ong: Tan Kin Lian’s political “ambitions”?
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Who benefits from a petition to TKL [Recommended]
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Possible reasons why TKL keeps his options open
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Suggestion: how to approach legal action
- Where Bears Roam Free: Elected President, MP or consumer rights activist?
- Wayangparty Club: Roundtable discussion: Tan Kin Lian’s bid for presidency - how far will he go?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why He Should Not Run
- My sketchbook: Tan kin lian’s christmas list
- Singapore Alternatives: Synthetic CDOs
- TOC: 100,000 signatures so more people will step forward
- Wayang Party: More photos from minibond rally at Hong Lim Park, 15 Nov 2008
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner 5 p.m. Sat 29 Nov
- TOC: Interview with investor who lost $150,000
- Voices.Sg: Monster Dogs, Broken Pipes, and Political Plumbers [Thanks Stanislaus]
- Wayang Party: Remembering the last two ‘presidential casualties’ - Ong Teng Cheong and Andrew Kwan
- Sgpolitics.net: Mr Tan Kin Lian offers an apology to Dr Chee and sister
- Wayang Party: Is Tan Kin Lian posturing to reach out to the opposition camp?
- The Void Deck: Tan Kin Lian as President: Change we can believe in?

Recession
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Shrinking economy still expected to grow. Why?
- My sketchbook: Light at the end of the tunnel
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: golden period golden period golden period
- Sgpolitics.net: An offer Singapore couldn’t refuse?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore worried about money flowing overseas
- TheSuffocate: Uncle Sam the White Knight
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More Help Needed
- Tan Kin Lian: Bonus likely to remain low

One-Party to Rule Us All
- Gerald Giam: Having a capable alternative party is in the national interest
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP : Change we ALSO can …Part 1.
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Political Systems or Rhetorical Systems?
- Majulah Singapura: Two-party thing
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Further arguments on a one-party state
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Li Hongyi and his ST letter
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Mr Li writes to ST Forum; commenting as a Singaporean or Singapore’Lee’ian?
- Sgpolitics.net: Logic favours two party system; Governments better off with checks and balances (ST letters in response to Dr Tan Wu Meng)
- Sgpolitics.net: Continued one-party rule by PAP or multi-party democracy?
- The Singapore Talkshop: To be strong and incompetent [Thanks Alex] [Recommended]
- musings: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
- Think For Me, Singapore: Was Obama speaking to the Singapore government?

PAP Ministars, Get Rich or Die Tryin
- TOC: Third ministers’ pay hike in two years – Staying together or moving ahead?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Grandstanding or just sitting on their buttocks?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: the art of grandstanding
- Wayangparty Club: Multi-million PAP ministers working their socks off on Sunday for their multi-million pay package
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Post-cut Singapore leaders better paid than Bush
- Street71: How much ‘Civil Servant’ pay in Singapore…
- Feed Me To The Fish: Austerity Grandstand
- Singapore Life and Times: Follow the porridge
- TOC: Kudos to Govt for pay cut and deferment
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Too Much Info
- The Lycan Times: Daily Discourse - Pay Cut

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Wayang Party: This Country is going to the Dumps
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: We are all helping the PAP

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Will Shareholders of Citigroup get wiped out?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Citigroup down to $20.5b from $244b
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: What is WORRYING about GIC & Temasek Losses!

Time to Cast our Vote?
- Singapore Angle: Singapore General Election 2009 Likely?

Fixing the Opposition
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Beyond Sintercom: Not My SDP, The Online Citizen, The Wayang Party Club

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Yawning Bread: Conversation stoppers

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: 60 years of UDHR and ISA
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore’s embattled human rights lawyer

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: “Kangaroo court” activists found in contempt of court; To be sentenced on Thur, 9.30am
- Sgpolitics: My response to the TOC article “SDP: Misunderstood, misguided or misaligned?”
- vinyarb: I want to complain about you to me
- Jacob’s Weblog: Persecution and prosecution of activists continue
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Kangaroo T-Shirts and the Established Pecking Order

Hong Lim Park
- TOC: “Blood flowing like a river”

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Wayangparty Club: Hella lots of propaganda spinning from the state media lately !!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 21 October 2008: Employment of Foreign Workers Without Jobs
- Siew Kum Hong: WPQ 17 November 2008: Foreign Workers on Special Passes

Power to Cost the People
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Crude, EMA, SP and Me

Daily Discourse
- flaneurose: Doing Business with DBS
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: 2008 PSLE top pupils; not-surprising & surprising at the same time!
- still me: wtf letter of the day
- Singabloodypore: Prostitution Thrives in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Elitism 401 : Elitsm and the war for talent
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening - why is everyone keeping mum?
- Wayangparty Club: Life transformer: Man works 7 days a week to feed family of 7
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: singapore armed forces pay cut too?
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Myth of The Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
- Singapore Enquirer: Interview with 2 Public Assistance (PA) holders: Is S$330 a month enough?
- Feed Me To The Fish: We live, we learn
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore’s Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation? [Thanks Bernard]
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore: Where Do I Start? [Thanks Bernard]
- Choosing my own adventure: PSB-approved doesn’t mean safer
- Mr Wang Says So: Tan Wen Yi - The CCA Suicide
- Singapore Enquirer: Are Singaporeans ready for change?
- My sketchbook: Our government are with us in bad times
- groundnotes: The Comfort of False Dilemmas [Thanks Mr. Udders] [Recommended]
- Gerald Giam: Thailand’s protestors is subverting democracy

Life, the universe and everything
- The Lycan Times: Places of Interest - Marina Barrage
- thegreatsze: Anime Festival Asia ‘08
- Anonymous_X: Photos Galore: HungryGoWhere.com Big Eat Out! The Peranakan Museum [Thanks wacky_artz]
- Wise of the Day: Consumer’s complain against errant provider
- Ong Jiin Joo: The 12 Settings of GMail’s Tea House Theme
- Aussie Pete: Top 10 Movie Bad Guys - Warning, These Guys Will Invade Your Nightmares!
- TOC: Coping with joblessness: A personal account
- Military Life: Youtube your way through the Singapore Armed Forces
- The fire in my life: Singapore Mint showing signs of inflation?
- Toadjuice… off the blender: News from the Crapper - Returning of Food Trays
- Singapore Agnes Tan: Bargain for the past few days
- Glass Castle Blog: DBS: Don’t Support Focus on the Family
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Enter the MATRIX with Secret Command Execution in Wordpress 2.6 and 2.7 betas! Try it Today!
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Browhaus tribute to George W. Bush’s legacy
- Angry Angmo: 10 Best Things To Do When Being Sick In Singapore [Thanks Florian]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs’ Translations goes WRONG!
- Aussie Pete: James Bond’s Latest Girl, Olga - Up Close and Personal

Infoblogaramous
- the boy who knew too much: Hafiz Osman’s Economist Art Exhibition
- EDMW: [Alert! GPGT] Choa Chu Kang Way Molester
- Singabloodypore: A Public Awareness Walk To End Violence Against Women
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Chunk Fest
- Otterman speaks: Also at Sungei Buloh on the 15th Anniversary weekend - 2 Days of Shutterspeed Action with Nature
- Cooler Insights: Dim Sum Dollies at National Museum
- Majulah Singapura: DARK FRIDAY Dec5: Goth/EBM/Industrial Night feat (ANGELSPIT) DestroyX & ZooG

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner 5 p.m. Sat 29 Nov
- TOC: Interview with investor who lost $150,000
- Voices.Sg: Monster Dogs, Broken Pipes, and Political Plumbers [Thanks Stanislaus]
- Wayang Party: Remembering the last two ‘presidential casualties’ - Ong Teng Cheong and Andrew Kwan
- Sgpolitics.net: Mr Tan Kin Lian offers an apology to Dr Chee and sister
- Wayang Party: Is Tan Kin Lian posturing to reach out to the opposition camp?
- The Void Deck: Tan Kin Lian as President: Change we can believe in?

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: We are all helping the PAP

Fixing the Opposition
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Beyond Sintercom: Not My SDP, The Online Citizen, The Wayang Party Club

Recession
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More Help Needed
- Tan Kin Lian: Bonus likely to remain low

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: 60 years of UDHR and ISA
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore’s embattled human rights lawyer

Power to Cost the People
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Crude, EMA, SP and Me

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Kangaroo T-Shirts and the Established Pecking Order

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Tan Wen Yi - The CCA Suicide
- Singapore Enquirer: Are Singaporeans ready for change?
- My sketchbook: Our government are with us in bad times
- groundnotes: The Comfort of False Dilemmas [Thanks Mr. Udders]
- Gerald Giam: Thailand’s protestors is subverting democracy

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry Angmo: 10 Best Things To Do When Being Sick In Singapore [Thanks Florian]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs’ Translations goes WRONG!
- Aussie Pete: James Bond’s Latest Girl, Olga - Up Close and Personal

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Kana Tsugihara (次原かな) is a popular model and gravure idol who has appeared in various magazines, event promotions and TV advertisements. She launched the Xbox: 360 in Japan. More pictures after the break. [NSFW]