"Singapore, if you are not my country, who is?"
KJ

"..I am just concerned that as the Singapore political and historical rhetoric gets spun and respun by successive generations, Singapore’s collective sense of reality would dissipate and fragment if competing versions aren’t heard by the masses."
Clement Tan

"Why leave them among the dead – literally?"
Andrew Loh

"Ten years after the first opposition party went online, Singapore’s opposition parties’ online presence is small, its online external outreach weak and their electoral fortunes remain unchanged."
James Gomez

"Our parents lived through different times. They suffered poverty first and now prosperity. We started out with prosperty but suffer a poverty of mind."
Carpediem

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media | Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- TOC: We, the citizens of no country [Recommended]
- Asian In America: The dizzying lows of Singapore’s political spin [Recommended]
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Singapore: Country or City? [Thanks Seelan ]
- The Journey of a Decade: Singapore is a CITY.. NOT a COUNTRY.. it is the truth [Thanks Benjamin]
- The Temasek Review: Why Singapore government is bruised by the world press freedom index ranking?
- TOC: Freedom Press Index divorced from reality?
- The Temasek Review: Singapore government getting cold feet over its worsening international image
- Asian in America: The self-defeating effects of fear and paranoia
- The Temasek Review: Proposal to Minister Shanmugam to increase the Singapore media’s rankings
- Ian On The Red Dot: We The Citizens Of Singapore
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Is the RSF press ranking flawed?
- Today In Singapore: Subjective Chronicles
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Tharman: Once upon a time in the West..
- Singapore Aspirations: On the rule of law
- Bryan Caplan: What’s Really Rotten in the City-State of Singapore?

Road to Perdition Election
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: To PAP : You need better MPs..
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Message the PAP is sending to us: We can pick and choose our responsibilities/policies.
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Quick thoughts on PAP Party Convention 2009
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Animal Farm - Chapter X
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee: PAP will not be “taken advantage of” again in Potong Pasir
- Simply Gab: PAP Convention: Quote of the Quotes
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Fourth generation leaders
- The Temasek Review: Is PM Lee looking for the next generation of leaders or sheep?
- TOC: Potong Pasir Town Council rebuts ST report
- Academia.edu: Online Opposition in Singapore: Communications Outreach Without Electoral Gain [via Jacob 69er ] [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: An alliance between Singapore opposition parties: a dream too far? [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: Chiam See Tong leaving Potong Pasir to fight in a GRC: A political strategy or suicide?
- TOC: Singapore Democrats call for Government to release Electoral Map
- Jacob 69er: Reform Party press release on Balldev Naidu
- Forbes.com: Five political risks to watch in Singapore
- TOC: Two Paradoxes of Singaporean Political Economy
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Grassroots advisers are not accountable either
- Jacob 69er: SDP does not exist
- The Temasek Review: SPP rebukes PM Lee’s insinuation that Potong Pasir residents are “short changed”
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Stop comparing Singapore with Third world countries
- Robert Amsterdam: The Repression of Political Freedoms in Singapore: The Case of Opposition Leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan [via Jacob 69er ]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Social isolation – left among the dead
- Balderdash: Minding the gap between THE PINK & THE BLUE
- LIANAIN FILMS: J Is For Justice… And Journalist… And Just Go Away
- Singapore Watch: SG Citizenship is worth about $7,503-$10,583 more than PRs a year
- Today In Singapore: A Bitter Fruit
- The boy who knew too much: The flight of the Malays.
- Today In Singapore: Whither The Leaders?
- The Temasek Review: Losing our national identity: Who are we?
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: A satirical take on the foreign talent issue

The Gospel of Harry
- Today in Singapore: The Charlie Rose Show
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Booboo of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
- Today In Singapore: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- My Thoughts..: The Evolution of a Straits Times Headline [Thanks Ganga]
- Global Times: Balance of powers in Asia is inevitable [Thanks CelluloidReality]

Housing
- TOC: HDB Annual Report : Deficit has doubled – really? [Recommended]
- Feed Me To The Fish: HDB: So where the hell did the money go to?
- The Temasek Review: HDB’s $2 billion dollar deficit – More Questions than Answers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: HDB ’suffers’ another deficit..
- The Temasek Review: Demand vs Supply: So many applicants, so few flats

Recession over?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Unemployment hits 5% among Singapore residents
- Temasek Hedge: Q3 labour numbers: Singapore’s job losses continues to grow as economy ‘recovers’ [Thanks Bink]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore productivity falls sharply, average wages drop to 2007 level
- Manu Bhaskaran: What will the economic recovery mean for Singaporeans?

Singaporeans are fed up with progress!
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Measuring economic performance: Looking beyond GDP [Recommended]

Re education
- Times They Are A-Changin’: No Apology Needed..
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lee Kuan Yew was wrong.
- Toward the Green: Acidflask’s Annotated Guide to Eddie Teo’s Speech
- Balderdash: Eddie Teo’s Defending Scholarships but not all Scholars
- My sketchbook: The elite scholar monologue

Little Green Dot
- AsiaIsGreen: Attempt to Manipulate and Confuse Public Thinking on Climate Change [Recommended]
- Tales Over Coffee: Singapore Rejects Firm Emissions Targets? What About The Elephant In The Room?
- I just don’t know what to do with myself!: Letter to Andy Ho, and his response

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: What has Gini got to do with Medifund?
- Singapore Aspirations: On medical leave and the employee
- Jacob 69er: Singapore has health-care hurdles too

CPF
- TOC: CPF: What happened since GE2006?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Six rail journeys for every 10 bus rides in Singapore

National Service
- Sam’s thoughts: Dear MINDEF, please delete where appropriate: YES/NO*

ASEAN | APEC 2009
- Zach’s Thought Blot: The Urgent Case for ASEAN Integration – Part One
- Simply Gab: APEC - Showcase for POA
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: APEC Rejections
- Blowin’ In The Wind: The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen
- Asia Pacific Voices: Pacific Asia and the Asia Pacific: The Choices for APEC

Daily Discourse
- ~eternalhap~: No, this Myth is Reality
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Cheap petrol and no rights [Thanks Seelan ]
- Singaporean Skeptic: I love the Straits Times Forum!
- TOC: Meet the Protagonist of the YPAP Facebook Forum War
- Singabloodypore: Freedom for Sale
- TOC: And so the castle crumbles..
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Episode 2 of Singapore’s 1st Internet Talkshow (Constance Singam, AWARE)
- Carpe Diem: The root of Singapore’s intellectual vacuum
- Civic Advocator: Why financial assistance is not really assisting
- Musings: Bridging the Gaps: Talking About Hate Speech in the US, Canada and Singapore
- Only "objective" and "factual" political films please, we’re Singaporeans: The 3 tiers of censorship in Singapore
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Broaden the tax base

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: This used to be my (DIY PC) playground
- SG Fairy: The Importance of Hugging
- The Temasek Review: SPH IP address caught “grabbing” content from Temasek Review server [Thanks Alex]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 360 - Day 18: Dining At Din Tai Fung [Thanks Major Elm]
- TOC: Human rights 101
- Empty Vessel: Chapter 2: Mr and Miss Perfect Does Not Exist
- Ian On The Red Dot: Clicknetwork.tv – I See Boobies
- TOC: Blogging Seminar videos on YouTube

Infoblogaramous
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Art Exhibition: Boundless Thoughts, Infinite Courage

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media | Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Tharman: Once upon a time in the West..
- Singapore Aspirations: On the rule of law
- Bryan Caplan: What’s Really Rotten in the City-State of Singapore?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Losing our national identity: Who are we?
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: A satirical take on the foreign talent issue

The Gospel of Harry
- Today In Singapore: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- My Thoughts..: The Evolution of a Straits Times Headline [Thanks Ganga]
- Global Times: Balance of powers in Asia is inevitable [Thanks CelluloidReality]

Housing
- The Temasek Review: Demand vs Supply: So many applicants, so few flats

Re education
- My sketchbook: The elite scholar monologue

Recession over?
- Manu Bhaskaran: What will the economic recovery mean for Singaporeans?

APEC 2009
- Asia Pacific Voices: Pacific Asia and the Asia Pacific: The Choices for APEC

Daily Discourse
- Carpe Diem: The root of Singapore’s intellectual vacuum
- Civic Advocator: Why financial assistance is not really assisting
- Musings: Bridging the Gaps: Talking About Hate Speech in the US, Canada and Singapore
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: The 3 tiers of censorship in Singapore
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Broaden the tax base

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: Blogging Seminar videos on YouTube

Shoko Hamada is a popular gravure idol from Kyoto. She got her start as a race queen while still in high school in 2003. That same year, she clinched a role in the TV drama Tenpai. In 2005 Shoko was chosen as Japan’s Telegenic of the Year. In addition to her career as a race queen and gravure idol she has released several music CDs, mostly containing cover versions. In Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Shoko appears on a poster at the Eastern Weapons Wing.

Pictures from the photobook Sweet Season after the break. [NSFW]

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Is the RSF press ranking flawed?
- Today In Singapore: Subjective Chronicles

Housing
- The Temasek Review: HDB’s $2 billion dollar deficit – More Questions than Answers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: HDB ’suffers’ another deficit..

Re education
- Toward the Green: Acidflask’s Annotated Guide to Eddie Teo’s Speech
- Balderdash: Eddie Teo’s Defending Scholarships but not all Scholars

CPF
- TOC: CPF: What happened since GE2006?

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Booboo of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Jacob 69er: Singapore has health-care hurdles too

APEC 2009
- Blowin’ In The Wind: The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen

Daily Discourse
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Episode 2 of Singapore’s 1st Internet Talkshow (Constance Singam, AWARE)

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: Chapter 2: Mr and Miss Perfect Does Not Exist
- Ian On The Red Dot: Clicknetwork.tv – I See Boobies

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Today In Singapore: Whither The Leaders?

Housing
- Feed Me To The Fish: HDB: So where the hell did the money go to?

Re education
- Times They Are A-Changin’: No Apology Needed..
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lee Kuan Yew was wrong.

Recession over?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore productivity falls sharply, average wages drop to 2007 level

Little Green Dot
- I just don’t know what to do with myself!: Letter to Andy Ho, and his response

APEC 2009
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: APEC Rejections

Daily Discourse
- TOC: And so the castle crumbles..

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: Human rights 101

Wait hor, isn’t that supposed to be called a Tablet instead?

News
- Epizenter: Creative’s next big thing is a Zii MediaBook
- Hot Hardware: Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
- Cnet: Twitter users warned about new phishing attack
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: BlackBerry App World now available in Singapore
- Business Insider: Microsoft And Yahoo Delay Signing Search Deal
- Armchair Theorist: Clash of the Tech Titans
- Google Blog: Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
- PreCentral: Rumor: Australia to miss out on all the Palm fun for some time?
- TechCrunch: Check It Twice: Twitter Lists Now Open To All Users
- TheNeoDimension: World’s first 3.5G touch watch phone now available in Singapore
- Nanyate: Witty Taglines and Wicked Tattoos by HTC
- Arstechnica: Dutch hacker holds jailbroken iPhones “hostage”
- Download Squad: Reocities: because Geocities is gone, but not forgotten

Reviews | Guides
- Engadget: Motorola DROID review
- JustinLee.sgConnectify: Virtual WiFi Hotspot on Windows 7
- Tech65: Gear65 #40 – HTC Hero
- Google Wave Guide: The Complete Guide to Google Wave
- TechieLobang:Acer neoTouch Review – Unboxing
- Engadget: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 announced, we go hands-on

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media | Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- The Temasek Review: Proposal to Minister Shanmugam to increase the Singapore media’s rankings
- Ian On The Red Dot: We The Citizens Of Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Today In Singapore: A Bitter Fruit
- The boy who knew too much: The flight of the Malays.

Housing
- TOC: HDB Annual Report : Deficit has doubled – really?

Singaporeans are fed up with progress!
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Measuring economic performance: Looking beyond GDP

Recession over?
- Temasek Hedge: Q3 labour numbers: Singapore’s job losses continues to grow as economy ‘recovers’ [Thanks Bink]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Six rail journeys for every 10 bus rides in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Aspirations: On medical leave and the employee

ASEAN | APEC 2009
- Simply Gab: APEC - Showcase for POA

Daily Discourse
- Singaporean Skeptic: I love the Straits Times Forum!
- TOC: Meet the Protagonist of the YPAP Facebook Forum War
- Singabloodypore: Freedom for Sale

Life, the universe and everything
- The Temasek Review: SPH IP address caught “grabbing” content from Temasek Review server [Thanks Alex]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 360 - Day 18: Dining At Din Tai Fung [Thanks Major Elm]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Social isolation – left among the dead
- Balderdash: Minding the gap between THE PINK & THE BLUE
- LIANAIN FILMS: J Is For Justice… And Journalist… And Just Go Away
- Singapore Watch: SG Citizenship is worth about $7,503-$10,583 more than PRs a year

Road to Perdition Election
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: To PAP : You need better MPs..
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Message the PAP is sending to us: We can pick and choose our responsibilities/policies.

The Gospel of Harry
- Today in Singapore: The Charlie Rose Show

Recession over?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Unemployment hits 5% among Singapore residents

Little Green Dot
- AsiaIsGreen: Attempt to Manipulate and Confuse Public Thinking on Climate Change
- Tales Over Coffee: Singapore Rejects Firm Emissions Targets? What About The Elephant In The Room?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: What has Gini got to do with Medifund?

National Service
- Sam’s thoughts: Dear MINDEF, please delete where appropriate: YES/NO*

ASEAN | APEC 2009
- Zach’s Thought Blot: The Urgent Case for ASEAN Integration – Part One

Daily Discourse
- ~eternalhap~: No, this Myth is Reality
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Cheap petrol and no rights [Thanks Seelan]

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: This used to be my (DIY PC) playground
- SG Fairy: The Importance of Hugging

Infoblogaramous
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Art Exhibition: Boundless Thoughts, Infinite Courage

NoToRape.com - “Let’s get heard.” [Thanks Jolene!]

Message from the No To Rape team:
No To Rape’s latest film ad, “Let’s Get Heard”, features Singaporeans and residents from a variety of walks of life answering the question, “If you could say ‘no’ to something, what would you say?” You might recognise some familiar faces among those saying “no” to everything from bad breath to censorship and more! You can find the video on our blog: http://www.NoToRape.com/Blog

No To Rape sees this video as encouraging everyone in Singapore to take a stand for what they believe in. Of course, we also believe there’s something else everyone should be encouraged to say ‘No’ to, and that’s rape. So as the petition drive enters its final month, we’re saying to Singapore: let’s get heard!

..this area [the political domain], far from keeping up with the other domains of industry, trade, business, education, the arts, etc. has shrivelled into a backwater..”
Catherine Lim

“Diversity in Singapore, in this case, obviously excludes the girl with poor spoken English.”
Sam Ho

“Ours is a fascism that works.”
KJ

“Calling people to stand up and fight for your future is impressive. BUT as long as reality and education says that you will never make a rat’s ass in terms of difference, it just remains flowery rhetoric. Or “highfalutin”, as some octogenarian would tell you.”
The Truth

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media | Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- journalism.sg: Why RSF’s Press Freedom Index is flawed – and why it works
- The Temasek Review: Shanmugam peeved at Singapore media’s pathetic rankings on the World Press Freedom Index
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Comments on Singapore’s press rankings
- Today In Singapore: Rule Of Law, Or By Law?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Law Minister says criticisms of Singapore are “Divorced from reality” [Thanks Seelan]
- My Thoughts..: ST’s Typos Get Grander [Thanks Ganga]
- The Temasek Review: Singapore Chief Justice: No basis for allegations that Singapore’s judiciary lacks independence
- The Temasek Review: Singapore ranked 86th out of 104 countries in “democratic institutions”
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Shanmugam : Low ranking for press freedom here absurd!
- The Temasek Review: Correcting Minister Shanmugam’s misperception that Singapore is a “stable democracy”
- Singapore Dino: From credible to absurd: PAP views on press freedom ranking
- The Temasek Review: Shanmugam: Press can criticize (but will they dare to?)
- TOC: Law Minister defeats “Reporters without Borders’” straw man
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Press Freedom Index is pure rubbish
- Mr Wang Says So: Trembling in the Tropics

Road to Perdition Election
- The Kent Ridge Common: The candidate that does substantial damages at the polls
- Die neue Welle: I am Singaporean Vol. 3, I – On Apathy
- TOC: A peek into PAP politics – present and future
- The Kent Ridge Common: Current election dates a deterrent to youth participation
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: NUS PSSoc: Partisan or Not?
- The Temasek Review: MND continues to throw smoke bombs over role of PAP “grassroots advisers”
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Let’s Not Politicise LUP Anymore!
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s Opposition Parties – Time for Some Backward Integration?
- The Temasek Review: Town Council Act (CAP 329A) States Clearly That Govt Must Work With Town Councils (Run By MPs) To Implement LUP
- Singapore Dino: PAP probably thought no S’porean would bother to check

The Gospel of Harry
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Chinese leaders afraid of losing control: LKY
- The Kent Ridge Common: Questions you would have liked to ask MM Lee at the Kent Ridge Ministerial forum
- The Temasek Review: Lee Kuan Yew: The Singapore Strongman
- Singapore Democrats Blog: Spoken like an emperor (with no clothes): Part 2 [Thanks Seelan]
- Asian in America: Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore, Asia and America’s place in the world
- The Campus Observer: Students disappointed with Ministerial Forum
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Balancing an emerging dragon
- Today In Singapore: Fair Weather Friends
- POLITICO 44: POTUS, Lee Kuan Yew sit down [Thanks Gerald]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Secret Political Blog: A colonial hangover, or very flawed reasoning?
- My Little Corner: Singaporean vs PR
- Today In Singapore: Seeing Is Believing
- The Temasek Review: PAP MP Ho Geok Choo Against “quota System” To Ensure Even Distribution Of PRs
- Tales Over Coffee: Talking Politics With A Cab Driver
- The boy who knew too much: The secret Singaporean teleportation device.
- The Temasek Review: Thoughts On PRs Usurping Jobs Meant For Singaporeans

Recession over?
- The Secret Political Blog: 2010: Pay hikes are going to be a pittance
- The Temasek Review: Irish Luck had ran out – But are we on the same route to disaster?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore output falls, bucks advance estimates
- Temasek Hedge: Singapore’s “jobless recovery” turning into “jobloss recovery” [Thanks Bink]
- The Temasek Review: Paradox of Singapore Economic Growth: Economy has grown fast, labour income share remains dismally low
- Temasek Hedge: Top called: is the global sucker rally about to end?
- Asia Pacific Voices: Will Asian Assets Really Outperform Globally?

Housing
- Singapore Watch: Ever wonder why HDB prices keep going up?
- The Star: Buyers Feeling The Squeeze

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Singapore Peak Oil: Wanted: Biophysical Economists in the Singapore Government

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- Singaporean Skeptic: Life at 50 is painful (if you live in Singapore).

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Temasek Hedge: Temasek and GIC Longfor some action in China property bubble

CPF
- The Temasek Review: Gan Kim Yong says “No” to restoring CPF for older workers

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: What??? No regulation for stem cell products also? !!!
- Mathia Lee: Is it more ethical to lie or tell the truth?
- Singapore Life and Times: Cheap cheap
- Life’s simple things..: Where do we draw the line? [via Singapore M.D.]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Aspirations: On traffic congestion and car ownership
- Today In Singapore: More Road Woes
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Hardly LTA’s Fault

Re education
- The Temasek Review: PSLE furore: who is to blame?
- The Secret Political Blog: PSLE too tough? We can’t all be geniuses, but we need to beat Hong Kong in TIMSS [Thanks Chuan Yi]
- Yawning Bread: Tough tests serve a positive purpose

Little Green Dot
- Singaporean Skeptic: Environmentally Unfriendly Singapore?

ASEAN ICHR | APEC 2009
- TOC: Civil Society, QUANGOs and ASEAN
- The Temasek Review: Singapore causes stir by selection of “substitutes from government-sponsored agencies” to the Informal Dialogue with ASEAN Leaders
- NYTimes: Asean Inaugurates Human Rights Commission [Thanks Gerald]
- Yawning Bread: Throwing fish
- TOC: Human Rights in ASEAN: An Economic Perspective

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Fascism that works [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: Singapore’s missing pillars of democracy (Part 1)
- Zach’s Thought Blot: The Domino Effect
- Sam’s thoughts: The mob has spoken: Ris is over, who’s next? [Recommended]
- Rojo Cancer: Free To Exploit
- Singaporean Skeptic: The myth of your mandarin heritage.
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Rachel Zeng’s blog
- Singabloodypore: Let’s Talk with Alex Au
- The Kent Ridge Common: Upfront with Dr. Catherine Lim
- The Temasek Review: Singapore’s missing pillars of democracy (Part 2): What are we actually missing?
- Sam’s thoughts: Gay rights in Singapore and the double-edged sword of science
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: World Day Against The Death Penalty (Singapore) – Videos [Thanks Seelan]
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Wet Markets must stay
- Temasek Hedge: Irony: The cost of Shell’s ‘$1 promo’ to Singapore taxpayers [Thanks Bink]
- TOC: Is Singapore = PAP?
- The Temasek Review: Singapore’s missing pillars of democracy (Part 3): Building the most important pillar right now
- The boy who knew too much: The urgings of Singaporeans.
- TOC: World Day against Death Penalty
- according2ed: In retrospect : on the Fascist state of Singapore & how it taught me to fear the BNP [Thanks Tracy]
- TOC: The Myth of Asian-style Democracy
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: Progress, History and the Wet Market Controversy
- according2ed: Case study: How de-racialisation can deliver a fascist racialisation of politics [Thanks John]

Life, the universe and everything
- The Bosonic State: 350? Too Audacious a Target?
- Loh and Behold: Body Worlds Exhibition? No thanks!
- The fire in my life: Queue for Shell.. [Thanks Joel]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Flash Mob at Raffles Place
- flaneurose: A Surfeit of Shopping Malls
- theory.isthereason: theorycast 59 & 60 :: Michelle Thorne’s walkabout with Creative Commons Singapore
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: HTC Flash Mob at Orchard Road
- Senang Diri: Blue on Blue: Part 6 - A Father’s Pain [Thanks Mike]
- utopia8787: ypap facebook war
- LIANAIN FILMS: Because There Will Always Be Hope
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A short documentary film about food and poverty — “Chicken a la Carte”
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: One Nation Under Lee website updated!
- Letters to Bobo: Letter 2 [Thanks Gwee]

Infoblogaramous
- Maruah Singapore: eFlyer – Youth Human Rights Workshop 31Oct Final1
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: FLY BY NIGHT Challenge is here again!!
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Borders 30% off
- TOC: VJ – Myanmar through the lens

The Gospel of Harry
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Balancing an emerging dragon
- Today In Singapore: Fair Weather Friends
- POLITICO 44: POTUS, Lee Kuan Yew sit down [Thanks Gerald]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Tales Over Coffee: Talking Politics With A Cab Driver
- The boy who knew too much: The secret Singaporean teleportation device.
- The Temasek Review: Thoughts On PRs Usurping Jobs Meant For Singaporeans

Road to Perdition Election
- The Temasek Review: Town Council Act (CAP 329A) States Clearly That Govt Must Work With Town Councils (Run By MPs) To Implement LUP
- Singapore Dino: PAP probably thought no S’porean would bother to check

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Temasek Hedge: Temasek and GIC Longfor some action in China property bubble

Recession over?
- Asia Pacific Voices: Will Asian Assets Really Outperform Globally?

Little Green Dot
- Singaporean Skeptic: Environmentally Unfriendly Singapore?

ASEAN ICHR | APEC 2009
- TOC: Human Rights in ASEAN: An Economic Perspective

Daily Discourse
- TOC: The Myth of Asian-style Democracy
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: Progress, History and the Wet Market Controversy
- according2ed: Case study: How de-racialisation can deliver a fascist racialisation of politics [Thanks John]

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A short documentary film about food and poverty — “Chicken a la Carte”
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: One Nation Under Lee website updated!
- Letters to Bobo: Letter 2 [Thanks Gwee]

Infoblogaramous
- TOC: VJ – Myanmar through the lens