We have moved to singaporedaily.net We’ve moved all our barang barang to our new home Singaporedaily.net. All comments are closed and all chiobu’s will move in a few days as well. This place will stay up for another week or so then we’ll shut it down completely. See you at my new place! Daily SG: 23 May 2008 David Cook did it! He actually beat The Chosen One! I think this is why he deserves to be the American Idol: David Cook: Always Be My Baby Local Blogger Arrested - Endoh’s Dungeon: Is openness really what Singaporeans can handle? - Almost Infamous: Fragrant Prince - Anonymous_X: Racism is only funny in…”Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”. Not in the real world…or in the blogosphere - Chemical Generation Singapore: Sexy Fragrance Prince’s Unsexy Arrest - Ian On The Red Dot: Uncle Sha’s Question To Me: Was The Post By Fragrance Prince Offending? - Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Racist Bloggers: Then & Now (why it affects me) - Tomorrow.sg: Racist Crap - EDMW: blardy racist…give it to him! Pink Issues - Yawning Bread: The unnatural afterlife of the Section 377A debate Daily Discourse - JGNews: Online politicization: Singapore’s source of new activists - Simply Gab: The Reason Why Old and New Media Remain Strange Bedfellows [Thanks Gabby] - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Understanding US$130 Oil - TOC: Campaign the Singapore Government to stop producing cluster bombs - Alice Cheong in Wonderland: World Bank says that Singapore needs to ease controls to remain competitive - My Singapore News: Feedback between the Ruler and the Ruled Miss Singapore Universe 2008 - nadelicious till de very last drop!: Cringeworthy moments of the finals of Miss Singapore Universe - Baloney and Balls: Miss Singapore Universe Life, the universe and everything - EDMW: MDA officially annouces ban on videosharing prawn site Infoblogoramus - TIA Conferences: Free Public Forum on “Understanding the implications of inflation on your investments and the labour market” - Ong Jiin Joo: Office Ergonomics 101 Daily ChioBu: Nao Nagasawa Nao Nagasawa (長澤奈央) is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She is one of mentors for girl’s BOX activities, an AVEX Idol event. She is currently part of the idol group, Kingyo. Pictures after the break. [PNSWF] Daily SG: 22 May 2008 Manchester United wins the Champions League after a penalty shootout that went into nail bitting sudden death. Lots of panda eyes like me in Raffles Place today. Local Blogger Arrested - Simply Jean: Local blogger arrested - Ian On The Red Dot: Bloggers Should Be Allowed To Be As Racist As Possible Voting for the Opposition - The Online Citizen: Political suicide or political maturity? Our 147th|151st Press - URBANRANT: Doc sex on spy cam case: gaps in Straits Times reporting Freedom, Choice, A Place for My Voice - Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Loosen up a little, PAP ERPains, Trains & Automobiles - Singapore Life and Times: Great Singapore Squeeze - Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Fold-and-ride trial on trains and buses Daily Discourse - Simply Jean: Starhub block! Block! Block! Life, the universe and everything - harmless? bananas!: Freakhog Cool Cadbury Egg Crushing Machine Daily Tech: 22 May 2008 Reviews - Notebook Italia: MSI Wind PC vs Asus Eee PC: comparative tests [Ita translate] - TechSpot: Diamond Viper Radeon HD 3650 1GB review - bit-tech: BenQ X2200W 22″ widescreen LCD monitor - Techware Labs: Thermaltake BlacX Hard Drive Docking Station - ASE Labs: Antec Three Hundred Case - Benchmark Reviews: ASUS BC-1205PT SATA Blu-ray Disc Optical Drive - AMDZone: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev2 - Madshrimps: Passive CPU Coolers ShoutOut: CM Z600 vs Scythe Ninja CU - TrustedReviews: Sennheiser MX 560 Earphones Tech News - AMD GAME: ATI Catalyst 8.5 drivers released - PC Mag: Napster Starts Selling DRM-free MP3s - NYT: Why the Roku Netflix Player is the First Shot of the Revolution - ChannelWeb: 38 Scammers Charged In Global Crime Ring - Opera Software: State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008 Daily SG: 21 May 2008 The Sichuan Earthquake - Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain 鸟话连篇: 如果你想哭 (If you want to cry…) Burma Aid - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: You call this a compromise? - Endoh’s Dungeon: Donation to Myammar? No thanks! - The Online Citizen: Crisis in Myanmar and the responsibility to protect Voting for the Opposition - The Void Deck: TVD’s Picks: Law’s Decision to Vote MIW over SDP - Woah Prison Break, Singapore Style - Foreign Policy: Jailbreak shakes public confidence in Singapore Singaporeans Bailing Out Troubled Bankers - Yawning Bread: Long term investments or long shots? Education - Ed Leading Edge: Future of Education in Singapore… Censoring the Video - Nomed Letters: SDP vs PAP - The Video Fiasco Freedom, Choice, A Place for My Voice - The Maxima: Where has the voices gone? Daily Discourse - Chemical Generation Singapore: Educate, Castigate but not Regulate - Simply Jean: Guess who earns peanuts too? - To Fix a Mocking Peasant: The Iron Fist Behind Soft Authoritarianism - URBANRANT: Sydney campus finds potential conflict of interest in the UNSW campus project in Singapore Life, the universe and everything - thegreatsze: No Country For Old Men - Real World Application - vinyarb: How much does a ghost cost? - A L V I N O L O G Y: Huat.SG! Daily ChioBu: Song Hye Kyo Song Hye Kyo (송혜교 or 宋慧敎) is a talented Korean actress who made her debut by winning the Grand Prize in model search in SunKyung Smart (school uniform brand) and in a Sunday morning drama called “Happy Morning” (KBS, 1996). Her breakthrough came in the Korean drama series, Autumn Fairy Tale. Her first popular role was in Full House, in which she co-starred with Korean singer, Jung Ji-Hoon (better known as Rain). Pictures after the break. - Song Hye Kyo on Friendster - Song Hye Kyo on MySpace Daily SG: 20 May 2008 The Sichuan Earthquake - Endoh’s Dungeon: Interviewing victims pinned under collapsed buildings? - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Politics of Karma - Singapore Life and Times: Business of giving Burma Aid - Yawning Bread: Burma should be suspended from Asean - nofearSingapore: ASEAN, please expel Burma [Thanks Dr.Huang] - BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: ASEAN wins trust of Myanmar generals; but what does it say about ASEAN? - Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Burmese candlelight vigil for the cyclone victims (17 May 2008) Voting for the Opposition - A Partisan Guy: 3 Scenarios… Hush [Thanks Peter] - The Kway Teow Man: Yaw Shin Leong is Right! - The Online Citizen: WP’s OS voted for the PAP - The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: WP CEC member Yaw Shin Leong proud to vote for PAP !!! - Sheep City: A vote on the wild side Paper Chase - Looking through the eyes of _ _: On scholarships Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Explaining the UGLY SINGAPOREAN!!! - The Sun Shines on Singapore: What now for FEER? Censoring the Video - Ian On The Red Dot: The Screening of “One Nation Under Lee” - The Authorities Were Restrained The Price of Rice - The Online Citizen: The rise and fall of rice Daily Discourse - Singapore Life and Times: Gone with the sex - Military Life: How to get pass IPPT in the Singapore Armed Forces - A L V I N O L O G Y: Fragrance Prince - Watch what you post on your blog - Nomed Letters: It’s all Politics, Stupid! - Simply Jean: ST forum writer self pwned ? Read between the lines in the reply and you’ll know why - the(new)mediaslut: Real or mock, a protest in SG by another other name still requires a police permit Life, the universe and everything - Just Stuff: A Wesak Day Message - Me and A Tree Called ‘Bo’ - Alice Cheong in Wonderland : S.A.M. minimum $2 purchase of stamps irks - the boy who knew too much: Chicken Soup for a Singaporean Soul - harmless? bananas!: Do you really care about social media? - Cooler Insights: Laughter the Best Advertising Medicine? An extra bump for Linda: Survey Participants Needed A NTU Masters student is conducting an Internet survey on “Internet Users’ Perceptions of Socio-Political Blog Credibility in Singapore”. The survey comprises of 19 questions and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. This survey will run throughout May 2008 and respondents stand a chance of winning $200 cash. If interested, please click here. Daily Tech: Report Finds Starhub Blocking BitTorrent Traffic A test result done by a German institute concerning Bittorrent blocking activities in various parts of the world has named Starhub as one of the companies that engages in Bittorrent traffic blocking. Source. [Thanks Lurzan] Reviews - Hardwarezone: The Mother of Boards: Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Preview - Techware Labs: Creative X-FI XtremeGamer FATAL1TY Pro Series - Velocityreviews: XBox 360 PC Controller - Bit-tec: Lian Li V1110 - Futurelooks: Gelid GC1 High Performance Thermal Compound Review - TrustedReviews: Philips DVDR5520H DVD/HDD Recorder Tech News - Washington Post: Shortsighted Nostalgia for XP - Shacknews: AMD Talks ‘Console-like’ PC Brand - Times Online: Google in urgent talks over Microsoft-Yahoo! deal - WSJ: Google Helps Organize Medical Records Daily SG: 19 May 2008 Happy Vesak Day! SGDaily Roundup: What’s Hot in Week 20 Map credits: jaunted (Blue key - Epicenter of earthquake) (Yellow & Red keys - Dujiangyan Irrigation System) This week, our papers were covered with photographs of the devastating Sichuan earthquake. The Chinese government is handling the crisis with amazing efficiency. The death toll is estimated to be 50, 000. Now, the Zipingpu dam threatens to collapse. The China authorities has taken the initiative to seek international aid to prevent the dam from collapsing. This is such a stark contrast when it comes to the inert Burmese government. The results of the election did not come as a surprise. Considering the junta is holding onto the aid for the Burmese, we cannot help but to wonder what would happen to the supplies if the junta lost the election. In local news, it’s all about the $$$. Transport Minister Raymond Lim revealed that current signages for the ERP gantries “are too small to be read by motorists”. Now, the 70 ERP gantries are due for “upgrading” and the tabs comes to $4.55 million. $4.55 million because someone lack the foresight to make the signs bigger. $4.55 million… What about the needy? How many lift upgrades can be done at the residential estates? Vehicles get more priority than us humans. The Straits Times on Friday informed that matriarch Mrs Lee suffered from a stroke. We at Singapore Daily empathise with her condition. However, we cannot see why there was a “What is a stroke?” diagram in the article. We are pretty sure that it is not the first time our favourite newspaper printed the word ’stroke’. Ma’am, we sincerely wish you well. Have a good long weekend. P.S. On 12 May, The New Paper reported that Singaporeans have donated $906,000 to aid Burma. It is moving to note that amidst the inflation, Singaporeans have not forgotten how to give. Well done Singaporeans ^_^! P.P.S. Move over Iron Man, our latest hero is *drum roll please* Chinese Premier Wen Jia Bao! SGDaily Roundup: Week 20 Voting for the Opposition - Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: A Vote For The Other Side - The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Unpacking Yaw Shin Leong’s Choice - Treading the Colloboration Line [Recommended] - Sgpolitics.net: WP candidate publicized on his blog that he voted for PAP, draws flak on the Internet. My personal take. - Sg_Ljers: I voted for PAP in 2006 elections: WP candidate Burma Aid - Sgpolitics: Converging Parallels - Burma & Singapore - nofearSingapore: Burma’s xenophobic actions leave me almost speechless! - The boy who knew too much: Taking credit for the goodwill of the world - Chemical Generation Singapore: Myanmar, Pariah - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Stupid Referendum - The boy who knew too much: Who is international aid to Myanmar feeding? - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: 2 Disasters, 2 Responses - Simply Jean: Chengdu’s quake and Myanmar’s cyclone The Sichuan Earthquake - Cooler Insights: In Media Relations, Timing is Everything - Singapore Alternatives: Criteria of Good Political Leadership - Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Donations for earthquake-stricken China - Webs@Work: Covering China’s Uncensored Quake Fear and Loathing in The Lion City - People Like Us: Chan Mun Chiong should not have been charged under Section 377A - Yawning Bread: Here’s proof: Section 377A being enforced - Sayoni Speak: Broken Promises Part II: HIV positive man prosecuted for s377A (Singapore) - Musings: Broadcasting Gay Content: S’pore vs. HK [Recommended] - Yawning Bread: Hong Kong broadcasting regulator’s decision overturned by court Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - Mr Wang Says So: Films That You Won’t See In Your National Education Classes - Yawning Bread: Stop demolishing, start integrating - The Online Citizen: The Unions, the Press, and the People - Part II - My sketchbook: Temasek takes a fall - InsanePoly: “Mediocre” Governments, Happiest Nations - this lush garden within: More reasons for leaving Singapore - Simply Gab: More Govt Lapses [Thanks Gabriel] We Don’t Need No Regulation - The Void Deck: Touchy Bloggers or Govt? - The Lionheart: Responsibilities and Regulations - BHP: My Inalienable Right to Remain Anon - Sgpolitics.net: Internet freedom: Rights come with responsibilities. My response to a ST letter - Sam’s thoughts: Freedom in the Net (pun intended) [Recommended] - BHP: Past, Present and Future in the Real and Virtual World - BHP: One battery chicken life coming up in the Net? MSK WKS Debacle - The Online Citizen: A psychological perspective - Sheep City: Seventy-seven days of nothing Our 147th|151st Press - The Online Citizen: Does Singapore deserve its press freedom ranking? 21 to Vote - The Online Citizen: Give credit where credit is due, Andy - Empty Vessel: You serious? ERPains, Trains & Automobiles - Feed Me To The Fish: ERP - Rates to be displayed at all gantries? - The Online Citizen: Reducing commuting time - national effort needed - A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Another Reason To Get A Car Inflation - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: And the pain deepens.. [Recommended] Strangers in a Strange Land - Military Life: Outsourcing the Singapore Armed Forces - Looking through the eyes of _ _: Singaporeans are a bunch of weird people [Recommended] Healthcare - Angry Doctor: What we don’t know about sex - Random Rants: Means Testing (3) Housing - Enblocing Singapore: The Dump After Completion (Image Heavy Warning) Lemons for Money - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Great Singapore Fire-Sale Part II - The Void Deck: Indonesia Really Dowan Fren Temasek Bloggers unite for Human Rights! - Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Unite for Human Rights - May 15 - Special Post - Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: China, The Internet and Human Rights Infringement Daily Discourse - mrhardy: A theory as to why Singaporean bloggers are so “bo liao” - The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod: This Is What Happens When you Cultivate A Culture Based On Possession - Feed Me To The Fish: Kiasi, Kiam-Siap, Chui Kong Lanpar Song! - Mr Wang Says So: Thank You For Reading My Blog, Aljunied Town Council Members - Simply Jean: PM Lee and MM Lee vs. Dr Chee and Chee Siok Chin in court face-off - URBANRANT: Seat belts in school bus: LTA deems it necessary to spend more time to study issue - For Want of a Better Title: Disciplining your Child is YOUR responsibility - Ignorance is Curable: ISPs in Singapore blocking BitTorrent traffic - Ian On The Red Dot: Singapore Is Making Some Of The Mistakes That Led Empires To Ruin [Recommended] - quachee’s blog: Ni Hao - the world is thinking: Nation Builders - A short film by Martyn See - Lushhome: An underground reservoir? - Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Buy food from street hawker? - To PM Lee Hsien Loong: The Taiwanese Mochi Merry-go-round - Organisers found - My Very Own Glob: Smartypants Singtel - Sgpolitics.net: Woes faced by households hiring maids - Haumau: International Museum Day 2008 theme “Museums as agents of social change and development” - HWZ: PM Lee: Singapore will be a first class living environment for Singaporeans Life, the universe and everything - Fresh Brainz: Counterintuitive Science: Grand Complexity From Humble Beginnings - Insane Polygons: Making Games Is Not Always Fun and Games part 1 - BHP: Who I am and who are you in the age of cut and dried - Ian On The Red Dot: Powerset Doesn’t Excite Me The Way Google Did - ALVINOLOGY: Made in Singapore Strapless Bikini - Stuff Singaporeans Like: #6 Mr. Brown [Thanks Richard] - Angry Ang Mo: Stuff Singaporeans Like vs. Stuff White People Like - Mr Endoh: [VIDEO] The Secret - The Law of Attraction - vinyarb: Memory Woman - BHP: The Woman Who Likes to Scratch My Car - Mindblogging Stuff: Star Wars according to a 3-year-old - Sabrina.SG: Little SG boy beggar “talks”! - The Tom!: Singapore Sports Council: Chicken & egg edition - EDMW: Mrs Lee Kuan Yew in serious condition after brain haemorrhage - Coffee Shop Talk: LKY’s Wife in ICU Infoblogoramus - The annotated budak: What nubile Nonyas wear - ALVINOLOGY: Singapore Blog Awards 2008 - registration/nomination now open Daily SG: 16 May 2008 So it’s going to be a David vs David final. Cook’s peaking at the right time and looks like he might just steal it on the last day. But I feel that The Chosen One’s too much of a prodigy not to win it. Voting for the Opposition - Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: A Vote For The Other Side - The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Unpacking Yaw Shin Leong’s Choice - Treading the Colloboration Line - Sgpolitics.net: WP candidate publicized on his blog that he voted for PAP, draws flak on the Internet. My personal take. - Sg_Ljers: I voted for PAP in 2006 elections: WP candidate The Sichuan Earthquake - Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Donations for earthquake-stricken China - Webs@Work: Covering China’s Uncensored Quake [Thanks Joanne] Bloggers unite for Human Rights! - Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Unite for Human Rights - May 15 - Special Post - Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: China, The Internet and Human Rights Infringement We Don’t Need No Regulation - BHP: One battery chicken life coming up in the Net? Daily Discourse - Sgpolitics.net: Woes faced by households hiring maids - Haumau: International Museum Day 2008 theme “Museums as agents of social change and development” - HWZ: PM Lee: Singapore will be a first class living environment for Singaporeans Life, the universe and everything - Sabrina.SG: Little SG boy beggar “talks”! - The Tom!: Singapore Sports Council: Chicken & egg edition - EDMW: Mrs Lee Kuan Yew in serious condition after brain haemorrhage - Coffee Shop Talk: LKY’s Wife in ICU Infoblogoramus - The annotated budak: What nubile Nonyas wear - ALVINOLOGY: Singapore Blog Awards 2008 - registration/nomination now open Daily ChioBu: Akiyama Rina   Akiyama Rina (秋山莉奈) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol. Her most notable appearances are in the Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider Agito and Kamen Rider Den-O. She also has a cameo appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in which she is featured in a poster on one of the levels. Pictures after the break. Pictures after the break. Daily SG: 15 May 2008 The Sichuan Earthquake - Cooler Insights: In Media Relations, Timing is Everything - Singapore Alternatives: Criteria of Good Political Leadership MSK WKS Debacle - The Online Citizen: A psychological perspective - Sheep City: Seventy-seven days of nothing We Don’t Need No Regulation - Sam’s thoughts: Freedom in the Net (pun intended) - BHP: Past, Present and Future in the Real and Virtual World Healthcare - Random Rants: Means Testing (3) ERPains, Trains & Automobiles - The Online Citizen: Reducing commuting time - national effort needed Transport Reforms Announced? Same ‘ol, same ‘ol - A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Another Reason To Get A Car Lemons for Money - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Great Singapore Fire-Sale Part II - The Void Deck: Indonesia Really Dowan Fren Temasek Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - this lush garden within: More reasons for leaving Singapore - Simply Gab: More Govt Lapses [Thanks Gabriel] Daily Discourse - Lushhome: An underground reservoir? - Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Buy food from street hawker? - To PM Lee Hsien Loong: The Taiwanese Mochi Merry-go-round - Organisers found - My Very Own Glob: Smartypants Singtel Life, the universe and everything - Mindblogging Stuff: Star Wars according to a 3-year-old Daily Tech: 15 May 2008 Reviews & Guides - Hardwarezone: ASUS’ Special Ones - EN9600GT TOP & Silent - Overclock3D: ASUS show off their latest R.O.G board - SPCR: Zalman ZM1000-HP: Quiet KiloWatt PSU - BCCHardware: Zalman FPS Gun Mouse - TrustedReviews: BenQ W5000 Full HD DLP Projector - Legit Reviews: Game Testing 2GB versus 4GB of Memory on Vista 64-bit Tech News - Hexus.net: Inno3D launches i-Chill GeForce 9800 GTX Accelero Xtreme - VR-Zone: MSI Wind PC Actual Product First Look - Laptop Mag: Getting Windy: Full Specs of the MSI Wind - Engadget: Microsoft says no new Xbox 360s in 2009 - Tweaknews: Force fed technology that the average consumer doesn’t need SG Tech - Webs@Work: Twittering the China Earthquake Daily SG: 14 May 2008 We Don’t Need No Regulation - Sgpolitics.net: Internet freedom: Rights come with responsibilities. My response to a ST letter Housing - Enblocing Singapore: The Dump After Completion (Image Heavy Warning) Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - InsanePoly: “Mediocre” Governments, Happiest Nations Burma Aid - The boy who knew too much: Who is international aid to Myanmar feeding? - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: 2 Disasters, 2 Responses - Simply Jean: Chengdu’s quake and Myanmar’s cyclone Censorship and Pink Issues - The Online Citizen: Does Singapore deserve its press freedom ranking? Daily Discourse - Ian On The Red Dot: Singapore Is Making Some Of The Mistakes That Led Empires To Ruin - quachee’s blog: Ni Hao - the world is thinking: Nation Builders - A short film by Martyn See Life, the universe and everything - Stuff Singaporeans Like: #6 Mr. Brown [Thanks Richard] - Angry Ang Mo: Stuff Singaporeans Like vs. Stuff White People Like - Mr Endoh: [VIDEO] The Secret - The Law of Attraction - vinyarb: Memory Woman - BHP: The Woman Who Likes to Scratch My Car Daily ChioBu: Charmaine Sheh Charmaine Sheh Sze Man (佘詩曼) is the first TVB actress to be shortlisted in the semi-finals of the Best Actress category at the 35th International Emmy Awards in 2007. In 2006, she became the first TVB actress in history to walk home with two major acting prizes at the TVB Anniversary Awards - Best Actress and My Favorite Female TV Character for her captivating performance in “Maidens’ Vow”. Pictures after the break. Daily SG: 13 May 2008 We Don’t Need No Regulation - The Lionheart: Responsibilities and Regulations - BHP: My Inalienable Right to Remain Anon Healthcare - Angry Doctor: What we don’t know about sex ERPains, Trains & Automobiles - Feed Me To The Fish: ERP - Rates to be displayed at all gantries? Burma Aid - Chemical Generation Singapore: Myanmar, Pariah - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Stupid Referendum 6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners - Military Life: Outsourcing the Singapore Armed Forces Paper Chase - Looking through the eyes of _ _: Singaporeans are a bunch of weird people Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - Yawning Bread: Stop demolishing, start integrating - The Online Citizen: The Unions, the Press, and the People - Part II - My sketchbook: Temasek takes a fall Daily Discourse - Mr Wang Says So: Thank You For Reading My Blog, Aljunied Town Council Members - Simply Jean: PM Lee and MM Lee vs. Dr Chee and Chee Siok Chin in court face-off - URBANRANT: Seat belts in school bus: LTA deems it necessary to spend more time to study issue - For Want of a Better Title: Disciplining your Child is YOUR responsibility - Ignorance is Curable: ISPs in Singapore blocking BitTorrent traffic Life, the universe and everything - Ian On The Red Dot: Powerset Doesn’t Excite Me The Way Google Did - A L V I N O L O G Y: Made in Singapore Strapless Bikini Daily Tech: 13 May 2008 Reviews & Guides - TweakTown: Palit 9600GT Sonic 1GB Graphics Card - Hardwarezone: ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe (Intel P45) - Ready for Action - X-bit labs: Dual-Display Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2263DX Review - RBMods: Noctua NH-U9B CPU Cooler Review - OCIA: Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock - Techgage: Razer/THX Mako 2.1-Channel Speaker System - [OC]ModShop: Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard - TrustedReviews: Panasonic DMR-EX768 DVD/HDD Recorder - Extreme Tech: Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 - Anandtech: Eight Months of Gaming. A preview of what lies ahead in 2008 Tech News - The Register: Windows XP SP3 blame game begins - Mozilla Dev News: Firefox 3 Release Candiate 1 Code Complete - PC World: Powerset Unveils Test Version of Google-killer - TechRadar: Nvidia: Current CPU-GPU balance in PCs is ‘obscene’ - CIO: Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits - VFilm: Gore Verbinski to direct ‘Bioshock’ Daily SG: 12 May 2008 In case you are from out of town (like another planet), The Red Devils has done it on the last match of the season. One more match in Moscow and the women can have their men back on Weekend nights… until the Euro 2008 :) Congratulations to the Devils! Fear and Loathing in The Lion City - People Like Us: Chan Mun Chiong should not have been charged under Section 377A - Yawning Bread: Here’s proof: Section 377A being enforced - Sayoni Speak: Broken Promises Part II: HIV positive man prosecuted for s377A (Singapore) - Musings: Broadcasting Gay Content: S’pore vs. HK - Yawning Bread: Hong Kong broadcasting regulator’s decision overturned by court Burma Aid - Sgpolitics: Converging Parallels - Burma & Singapore - nofearSingapore: Burma’s xenophobic actions leave me almost speechless! - The boy who knew too much: Taking credit for the goodwill of the world 21 to Vote - The Online Citizen: Give credit where credit is due, Andy - Empty Vessel: You serious? Inflation - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: And the pain deepens.. Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - Mr Wang Says So: Films That You Won’t See In Your National Education Classes We Don’t Need No Regulation - The Void Deck: Touchy Bloggers or Govt? Daily Discourse - mrhardy: A theory as to why Singaporean bloggers are so “bo liao” - The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod: This Is What Happens When you Cultivate A Culture Based On Possession - Feed Me To The Fish: Kiasi, Kiam-Siap, Chui Kong Lanpar Song! Life, the universe and everything - Fresh Brainz: Counterintuitive Science: Grand Complexity From Humble Beginnings - Insane Polygons: Making Games Is Not Always Fun and Games part 1 - BHP: Who I am and who are you in the age of cut and dried Daily ChioBu: Methinee Kingpayome Methinee Kingpayome (nickname Lookkade) is one of the top models in Thailand. She has been a regular in most of Bangkok’s major events, magazine covers, TV and print ads for a long time. Pictures after the break. [NSFW] SGDaily Roundup: What’s Hot in Week 19 To all mothers, Happy Mothers’ Day! Burma who has been suffering under the junta now faces the after effects of Cyclone Nargis. While the junta remains stubborn and has witheld the handing out of relief packages, the international committee is once again, trying all means to help the victims and carry out relief operations. To see how each and every one of us can help, click here and here. Now in local news, Bishan is supposed to be the estate with the best ‘fengshui’. If you would like to attain wealth (however tangible), Bishan is the auspicious place to stay! Aljunied has decided to outdo Bishan by attaining material wealth for its constituency by implementing a ‘fine’ system for the dirtiest precincts. Now the black sheep who treats his/her precinct as a personal garbage bin escapes legal prosecution, evades the bright Corrective Work Order vest and drags the rest of the innocent residents into paying for his/her trash. How does this teach the litterbug a lesson or in diplomatic terms, nip the problem in the bud? Who knows, this may give Aljunied greater reason to expand its GRC in the next elections. Perhaps a resident vigilante would have on standby, an ever ready can of Baygon to rain on that selfish litterbug. Phui! The Straits Times continues to suggest that NTuC is the best place to shop for cheap groceries. Even the neighbourhood Aunty Lucy knows that this is not true. Aunty Lucy may not frequent Cold Storage or The Marketplace, but she knows that the prices between NTuC, Sheng Siong, Giant and Carrefour (even though she has difficulties in pronouncing it) “can fight one”. In pink and censorship news, MICA/MDA has lifted its ban on Wilde and the film would be released uncut. The 1997 film that tells the story of the barbed wit writer and poet Oscar Wilde. The film’s gala premiere is slated for 13 May on Tuesday. Who can forget Wilde’s famous lines uttered a month before his death? While lying in bed in a hotel room in Paris stripped of his extravagances, he quipped “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.” See, even MICA/MDA knows how to audit and rethink its decisions. There is still light at the end of the tunnel. SGDaily Roundup: Week 18 We Don’t Need No Regulation - Simply Jean: Blogger jailed - When is it freedom of speech? When is it seditious? - Yawning Bread: The pigeons are among us already - Sgpolitics.net: Ministry for Information, Communication & the Arts reply to bloggers’ Proposals for Internet freedom in Singapore - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: It just boils down to power and control - Journalism.sg: From Light to Lighter: Government Signals Direction of Net Regulation - Musings: Maintaining Racial and Religious Harmony through Criminal Law - BHP: Superman’s ‘Right’ to Blog Anonymously - My Singapore News: Mica responding - utopia: New media regulation/censorship - BHP: Why my right to privacy is ultimately a matter of choice – Sex, G-15 bloggers and Samizdat Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: NTUC chief says govt is pro-actively dealing with economic uncertainty. Really?? - The Singapore Angle: NTUC Fairprice Profitability and the Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Inflation Cause and Effect - Feed Me To The Fish: Letter to Prime Minister - Feed Me To The Fish: Golden Age or Hungry Years? If Singapore is so rich, why am I poor? - URBANRANT: Why Lionel Messi is worth 80m pounds to Chelsea? And the implications for ministerial salaries in Singapore - BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Indonesia increase interest rate to curb inflation; S’pore gives citizens hundreds of million in spending-cash - A Xeno Boy in Sg: A Kilo of Rice from Tua Pek Kong - The States Times: A Moment Of Truth Aljunied Residents Must Be So Rich! - Mr Wang Says So: Aljunied Town Council And A Matter of Principle [Recommended] - A Sampan on S’pore Soil: More and more enigmatic - Cirque de Liberte: Coming Soon: The Powderful Town Council Wealth Funds - The Online Citizen: Aljunied Town Council - Taking the easy way out? Fear and Loathing in The Lion City - The Online Citizen: Homophobia Part 2: Under attack from the police - The Daily Backtrack: Dogma - Yawning Bread: Guilty until proven innocent: the case of William Ding - Sam’s Thoughts: Thank you Mr Lim - Where Bears Roam Free: Let’s all face the issues of gay sex once and for all - Angry Doctor: Them 9 - Sam’s Thoughts: Everyone deserves media representation - Sam’s thoughts: The Homosexuality Debate Goes On (2005 article) - Sam’s thoughts: The celebration of heterosexuality Our 147th|151st Press - BHP: Why Freeing up the Press will just kill Bloggers - The Online Citizen: The Unions, the Press and the People World Press Freedom Day - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Singapore activists mark World Press Freedom Day in front of SPH building - Sgpolitics.net: Activists protested against media control outside SPH on 03 May 08 - Yawning Bread: Packable politics and its press [Recommended] - I have succumbed to peer pressure: Re-reading Joel Tan via Archetypal Literary Theory [Thanks udders] [Recommended] MSK WKS Debacle - Under the Willow Tree: Is an Incompetent Cabinet What We Have? - Insane Polygons: What Stories Will You Tell? - Singapore Patriot: How good leaders manage failure - BHP: Mas Selamat Strangers in a Strange Land - Empty Vessels: What’s wrong with having foreign workers? - The Itch To Write: Response to Seng Han Thong - A Sampan on S’pore Soil: That ‘foreign object’ ERPains, Trains & Automobiles - Blinking Brink: We made S$150 millions, but we still need fare hike! Healthcare - Angry Doctor: Turf War 2 Singaporeans Bailing Out Troubled Bankers - Under the Willow Tree: Lee Kuan Yew vs. Warren Buffett - Round 2 Help for Burma - nofearSingapore: Burma’s cyclone disaster: Time for unconditional giving [Thanks Dr Huang] - Singapore Patriot: Appeal for help for Myanmar - Sheep City: The cyclone that failed to destroy the junta - Random Thoughts of a Freedom Thinker: Donations for cyclone-hit Burma - The boy who knew too much: Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar: the true danger Tak Boleh Tahan Campaign @ Toa Payoh - Mr Wang Says So: Chee Soon Juan And Other Illegal Hawkers Daily Discourse - Sgpolitics.net: Labour Day round up: Who did what, who said what - The boy who knew too much: The lack of entrepreneurs in Singapore - The Kway Teow Man: Three Questions - The Online Citizen: Youths call for right to vote at Youthquake forum - Nomed Letters: You can’t handle the Truth! [Thanks Screwtape] - Ian On The Red Dot: Are Bloggers Really Influencers? Gosh - Do We Really Still Need To Ask This? - Singapore Life and Times: Strap on for life - Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: To laugh or to cry? (I) - The Online Citizen: Former CEO of NTUC Income calls for “collective protest” - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee Speaks - Ultimate Wisdom on Protests - Endoh’s Dungeon: “Diet” drinks & their cancerous compounds - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Scratching head in disbelief - Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Same profession, different treatment [Recommended] - The Void Deck: TVD’s Picks - Taking on NTUC - To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Irresponsible Speech & The Right to Forgiveness - Rambling Librarian: Singapore Police Force in YouTube (or “Should our SPF have a blog?”) [1] [2] - vinyarb: What raffles place ghost? [Thanks Richard] - The Online Citizen: The truth about life insurance [Recommended] - Rambling Librarian: Singapore Police Force in YouTube (or “Should our SPF have a blog?”) - Part 3 - Simply Jean: How will I feel after I leave Singapore? - vinyarb: The hot seat [Thanks Richard] - Singapore Life and Times: Card in cashcards - The Unofficial Cat Welfare Society Diary: Class 95 calls for fines for cat feeders - CLessThanThreeC: Irresponsible Duo: Glenn Ong and The Flying Dutchman - Anonymous_X: The Maid Trade - Singapore: “And then, NO BOYFRIEND! This one’s very important, okay?” Life, the universe and everything - Notes From Serangoon Road: Save the Atrium - euniqueflair.com: Don’t Mess With Nice People - Especially When You’re a Fucker - Empty Vessel: Visual Literacy course : Part 1 - theory.isthereason: Singapore’s own 11yr old “John Mayer” in the making - Ignorance is Curable: UOB does it again Infoblogoramus - Sg_ljers: Wilde gala premiere for Indignation - Yesterday.sg: Singapore in maps, 1819-1954 Daily SG: 9 May 2008 Our 147th|151st Press - The Online Citizen: The Unions, the Press and the People Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - A Xeno Boy in Sg: A Kilo of Rice from Tua Pek Kong - The States Times: A Moment Of Truth We Don’t Need No Regulation - My Singapore News: Mica responding - utopia: New media regulation/censorship - BHP: Why my right to privacy is ultimately a matter of choice – Sex, G-15 bloggers and Samizdat Daily Discourse - Singapore Life and Times: Card in cashcards - The Unofficial Cat Welfare Society Diary: Class 95 calls for fines for cat feeders - CLessThanThreeC: Irresponsible Duo: Glenn Ong and The Flying Dutchman - Anonymous_X: The Maid Trade - Singapore: “And then, NO BOYFRIEND! This one’s very important, okay?” Life, the universe and everything - Empty Vessel: Visual Literacy: Colours - Ignorance is Curable: UOB does it again Infoblogoramus - Yesterday.sg: Singapore in maps, 1819-1954 Daily ChioBu: Kosaka Yuka Kosaka Yuka (小阪由佳 or こさか ゆか) is a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model. She is also known as her nickname “Yuka-chin”, and has starred in a number of TV dramas and films. Yuka made her debut in 2004 after winning the Grand Prix award in Miss Magazine 2004. In the fall of 2004, Yuka’s popularity rose when she became the campaign girl for the Japanese convenience store, Circle K Sunkus. Pictures after the break. [NSFW] - Kosaka Yuka’s Official Site Daily SG: 8 May 2008 We Don’t Need No Regulation - Sgpolitics.net: Ministry for Information, Communication & the Arts reply to bloggers’ Proposals for Internet freedom in Singapore - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: It just boils down to power and control - Journalism.sg: From Light to Lighter: Government Signals Direction of Net Regulation - Musings: Maintaining Racial and Religious Harmony through Criminal Law - BHP: Superman’s ‘Right’ to Blog Anonymously Help for Burma - Random Thoughts of a Freedom Thinker: Donations for cyclone-hit Burma - The boy who knew too much: Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar: the true danger Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - The Online Citizen: Aljunied Town Council - Taking the easy way out? - BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Indonesia increase interest rate to curb inflation; S’pore gives citizens hundreds of million in spending-cash Censorship and Pink Issues - Sam’s thoughts: The celebration of heterosexuality Daily Discourse - vinyarb: What raffles place ghost? [Thanks Richard] - The Online Citizen: The truth about life insurance - Rambling Librarian: Singapore Police Force in YouTube (or “Should our SPF have a blog?”) - Part 3 - Simply Jean: How will I feel after I leave Singapore? - vinyarb: The hot seat [Thanks Richard] Life, the universe and everything - theory.isthereason: Singapore’s own 11yr old “John Mayer” in the making Daily Tech: Win XP SP3 Released Stuff from Windows.com: - Win XP SP3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers - Win XP SP3 ISO-9660 CD Image File - Release Notes for Win XP SP3 - Win XP SP3 Overview - Steps to take before you install Win XP SP3 Win XP SP3 Released - PC World: FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3 - KTAR.com: Should I install Service Pack 3? - IEBlog: IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3 - ars technica: What you need to know about IE6/7/8 and Windows XP SP3 - Deseret News: Like Windows XP over Vista? You’re safe a few more years - Supersite for Windows: Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) - Lifehacker: Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Your Windows XP Installation CD Reviews & Guides - Anandtech: 24″ LCD Roundup - OZ Hardware: Fujitsu LifeBook U1010 (3.5G) Notebook Review - Hardwarezone: LG GGW-H20L (Blu-ray Rewriter/HD DVD-ROM) Tech News - Shacknews: Doom 4 Announced - EETimes: AMD discloses 12-core server chip - X-bit labs: AMD May Divide Itself Into Two Companies SG Tech - The eOK .network: First Takes: VMware Fusion 2 Beta 1 Daily SG: 7 May 2008 We Don’t Need No Regulation - Simply Jean: Blogger jailed - When is it freedom of speech? When is it seditious? - Yawning Bread: The pigeons are among us already Healthcare - Angry Doctor: Turf War 2 Fines Are Us - A Sampan on S’pore Soil: More and more enigmatic - Cirque de Liberte: Coming Soon: The Powderful Town Council Wealth Funds Help for Burma - Singapore Patriot: Appeal for help for Myanmar - Sheep City: The cyclone that failed to destroy the junta MSK WKS Debacle - BHP: Mas Selamat Singaporeans are fed, up with progress! - Feed Me To The Fish: Golden Age or Hungry Years? If Singapore is so rich, why am I poor? - URBANRANT: Why Lionel Messi is worth 80m pounds to Chelsea? And the implications for ministerial salaries in Singapore Censorship and Pink Issues - Sam’s thoughts: The Homosexuality Debate Goes On (2005 article) Daily Discourse - Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee Speaks - Ultimate Wisdom on Protests - Endoh’s Dungeon: “Diet” drinks & their cancerous compounds - Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Scratching head in disbelief - Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Same profession, different treatment - The Void Deck: TVD’s Picks - Taking on NTUC - To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Irresponsible Speech & The Right to Forgiveness - Rambling Librarian: Singapore Police Force in YouTube (or “Should our SPF have a blog?”) [1] [2] Life, the universe and everything - Empty Vessel: Visual Literacy course : Part 1 Daily ChioBu: Kenix Kwok Ke Ying Kenix Kwok Ke Ying (郭可盈) is a popular actress from Hong Kong. Kenix was a Top 5 finalist in the Miss Hong Kong 1993 Pageant. Pictures after the break.