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Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations

The truth in blogs and between the lines - In the TODAY paper, today Wed 7th Jan, these 2 pieces of news were placed one after the other: http://www.todayonline.com/articles/295973.asp Locked out of...
1 hour ago
mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore

Talking about The Webbys on Prime Time Morning, CNA - This morning, my friend Melvyn, Creative Director of OgilvyOne, and I were on Channel NewsAsia's Prime Time Morning program to talk about The Webby Awards. T...
4 hours ago
Singapore Entrepreneurs

65Bits Episode 101: Silence… I Curse you!!! - After an exciting 100th episode event, our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week...
4 hours ago
My Singapore News

$46k for French cooking course - A top civil servant reportedly spent $46k for himself, wife and son to study fine French cooking. He took 5 weeks of annual leave, flew to France to learn th...
4 hours ago
Hard Hitting in the Lion City

What Great Friends! - Sometimes friends give you more problems than enemies. This is something Europe has discovered as gas shortages spread across Europe as the Russian and Ukr...
4 hours ago
Singapore Dissident

Have they no shame at all? - *Readers of this blog who are unfamiliar with the goings on in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, may think reading the comments that there are many who think Singa...
4 hours ago
The Online Citizen

All men are equal unless… - The West is utterly incapable of sympathy or solidarity with the Palestinians, says *Davin Ng*.
6 hours ago
Tan Kin Lian's Blog

Life in Singapore - This survey is popular. 25 people responded within 1 hour. Here is a summary of the replies. 1. Your age group Below 20: 0.0% 21 to 30: 13.0% 31 to 40:...
6 hours ago
The Wayang Party Club of Singapore

Interview: Uncle says he will vote for PAP on basis of its ‘track record’ - Video produced by The Enquirer TV, The Singapore Enquirer Prologue: In a recent interview conducted by research firms TNS and Gallup International, 63% of ...
6 hours ago
Choosing my own adventure

Temasek's social role? - *As a long-term investor, we have a stake in the lives and well-being of our fellow men. We recognise that social, environmental and governance factors can...
7 hours ago
Sgpolitics.net

Dr Chee’s response leaves CJ, AG and Law Minister in the dust - Written by Ng E-Jay 07 Jan 2009 At the opening of the legal year in the Supreme Court last week, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong, Attorney-General Walter Woon...
7 hours ago
Jacob's Weblog

Chee Soon Juan responds to Chief Justice, Attorney-General & Law Minister - Chee responds to CJ, AG and Law Minister Singapore Democrats, 6 Jan 2009 Mr Chan Sek Keong Chief Justice Mr Walter Woon Attorney-General Mr K Shanmugam Mi...
7 hours ago
Blog of The Not So Sensitive New Age Monk

Duet alone - A Whole New Year No One Isn’t Nick Pitera such a wonderful singer?
7 hours ago
To Fix a Mocking Peasant

Upgrading Skills - *[Send this to the ST Forum 11] * Dear Molly, I’m very puzzled by what’s happening to my nephew. Maybe you or your readers could enlighten me. Thanks. Se...
13 hours ago
ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food

Bali Eats: Babi Guling at Ibu Oka in Ubud - Babi Guling Special 35,000 rupiahs (approx S$5) When I was doing research on what to eat in Bali, one restaurant always seem to pop up and that is this li...
16 hours ago
Salary.sg - Your Salary in Singapore

All signs point to Major Retrenchments, yet Permanent Secretary Flaunts Wealth - The writings are already on the wall. Today newspaper reported a fortnight ago that retrenchments will “go up” after Chinese New Year. In TV news just now,...
16 hours ago
Gerald Giam

Perspectives on the situation in Gaza - Israeli blogger and former army reserve “AronT”, who blogs at Aron’s Israeli Peace Weblog, claimed that Israelis have long been indoctrinated by three poli...
17 hours ago
JUST STUFF

The Day, The Yellow Brick Road Turned Red – A Singaporean Study in Living with Uncertainty in a Certain World / Part 1 - In the Wizard of Oz, Bausch (the author) uses the metaphor of the yellow brick road to brilliant effect; nothing sums up the air expectancy that accompanie...
19 hours ago
No "partisan stuff" political films please, we're Singaporeans

One Nation Under the Films Act - Join the campaign to raise awareness about a law that criminalizes everyone in Singapore who has in his or her possession a copy of a fil...
1 day ago
Times They Are A-Changin'

My Little Red Dot - We have compulsory savings Yet we never have enough to retire We set aside billions for rainy days Yet we do not know what they are We elect a president to...
1 day ago
Singabloodypore

Social Network Approach with the Ethnographic Approach - Arbitrarily Combining the Social Network Approach with the Ethnographic...
1 day ago
a blog day's work

Year's first "political" weekend of sorts - Not one with a memory for a past year's memories, writing about 2008 would be somewhat of a challenge, as I may not recollect some occurrences accurately. ...
1 day ago
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

Blanket Party in the Singapore Armed Forces? - The article above hints at what may have been a case of "blanket party" in the Singapore Armed Forces. Given the terse and very unhelpful news article that...
1 day ago
The one dimensional island

2009 - the year of change - Boo to economics, cheers to politics. I don’t particularly look forward to seeing the damage that has been inflicted on the economy. Everyone knows there w...
2 days ago
Inner Workings

Sovereign Disaster: Buy what the Treasury funds, not what competes with the Treasury for funding - One sector that has NOT improved during the December credit rally is sovereigns. It isn’t only the obvious weak links such as Greece and Italy, but the UK ...
2 days ago
News Release by UncleYap

families & friends held memorial for Mr. JBJ - At the St Andrew's Cathedral on Saturday 3.Jan.2009 between 1700hr to 1830hr, friends and family members of late Mr. JBJ held an exhibition of ...
2 days ago
groundnotes

Finally, an argument for the ISA - Our nation is under attack. An extremely disturbing and frightening thing happened right in the heart of Orchard Road today. According to news reports some...
2 days ago
Singapore Alternatives

Stepping down from NSP CEC - I have finally submitted my resignation from NSP CEC and the party leadership has accepted my departure. I have been too busy with many other things that ...
2 days ago
Young Pay-And-Pay Blog

Frugal your Lao Bu CCB - Frugal living at home amid lush greenery 'Suffering and deprivation is good for the soul.' - Mrs Lee Kuan Yew In Jan 2009, Lee Wei Ling, daughter of Lee Ku...
2 days ago
Yaw Shin Leong @ WP

WP Veteran Lim Eng To - At this morning's Workers' Party’s Members’ Seminar, I had the opportunity to listen to some interesting oral history narration by long time party cadre En...
2 days ago
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

Protecting the integrity and independence of our courts... - Today's Sunday Times headline : *LAW WON'T TOLERATE ATTACKS ON COURTS.* [ Link] Singapore courts must be respected. Singaporeans must obey the law. Anyone ...
3 days ago
Feed Me To The Fish

Political Orthodoxy and Respect! - Chua Lee Hoong of "reading the internet posting often makes my blood boil" fame wrote this on ST 3 Jan 2009. 'The problem with the Internet is not politica...
3 days ago
Mr Wang Says So

The Primary School Adventures of Little Wang - How time flies. Seems like only yesterday when my little son was learning to take his first baby steps. However. what really happened yesterday was that he...
3 days ago
XTRALICIOUS

Can you trust a blogger? - Mike Arrington of Techcrunch says they will break every embargo they agree to. “The reason this is becoming a larger problem is because there is no downsid...
4 days ago
The Kway Teow Man

On Capitalism and the Free Market - 2008 has been an interesting year and the KTM suspects that 2009 will be no different. If there is fear, uncertainty and insecurity, they are all justifie...
4 days ago
Insane Polygons ver4.0

Steampunk-005 - More WIP Zbrush sculpts- Click to view hi-res Next step would be to start texturing, but it looks like I might not finish in time.
4 days ago
My sketchbook

Singapore's economy slides again... - Subscribe to My sketchbook
4 days ago
Singapore Life and Times

The Old and the New - The New Year in Singapore brings something good and something not so good, depending on who you are. First the good news (why must the bad always come firs...
5 days ago
The Void Deck

Sit Down, Sit Ins in 2009? - Check out this stirring bouncy version of James' Sit Down in its (then) swan song come-full-circle Manchester gig. Damn, it's a bloody goosebumps song in a...
5 days ago
Workers' Party @ Parliament

- Next Sitting: 19 Jan 2009 @ 1.30 pm
5 days ago
Tender News,Tenders Weblog,Tenders Guides

WORDS OF WISDOM - WORDS OF WISDOM I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not ri...
6 days ago
P65 - It's Where We Talk

Welcoming the New Year - Year 2008 has been an interesting year. The world economy has gone through a rough roller coaster ride, starting off at a high plane and rapidly descending...
6 days ago
The Lionheart

An End, A Beginning - 2008 is drawing to an end. As the year closes, I sit and meditate about what I have done, what I have learnt, and what I will do. This blog is still a soci...
6 days ago
Tales of A Tiger

Minutes to Midnight - [image: Doomsday Clock]Well, here we are. Last day of 2008. Nope, I am not going to do any New Year resolutions. I never have the discipline to follow them...
1 week ago
nofearSingapore

Tribute to Emeritus Professor Wong Hock Boon - Hi Friends, I sent the following letter to the forum page and ST has confirmed that it will be published: Tribute to Emeritus Professor Wong Hock Boon Th...
1 week ago
The Itch To Write

Away Notice - This is to inform that I will be away on holiday to Tokyo, from 29th December 2008 to 12th January 2009. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
1 week ago
Big Talk Singapore (大话新加坡)

How much water are you using ? - Now this is a pretty useful article for all Singaporean to evaluate if they are wasting or over-consuming their water. By the way, it is actually against S...
1 week ago
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

New tricks possible from an old dog? - The global economy is reeling, and Singapore is certainly no exception. The question for most Singaporeans now, I believe, is how the Singapore government ...
1 week ago
Blowin' In The Wind

Greetings of the season - A merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I am off on a holiday to Calcutta (Kolkata) today for the 12 days of Christmas. Hope to be online again in the seco...
2 weeks ago
choongyong.com

Clean Coal: It is a myth - Received this video in my inbox today. Interesting ‘reverse-advertisement’ that tells you subtlely about the truth in using coal. Just a nice little thin...
2 weeks ago
this lush garden within

Raise GST by 1.5 percent to provide free public transport please - Updated 29 Dec: Since this article has been featured on Tomorrow.sg, I figure that soon there will be lots of comments lambasting me for making such a cont...
2 weeks ago
Chia Ti Lik's Blog

Learning about Life - the mistakes of dealing with mistakes - A friend of mine had asked me why i had become so reflective recently. I merely told him that it was a stage that i was going through. Time and again it wo...
2 weeks ago
Bishan Busy Body

Random Thoughts over the last quarter of 2008 - Been very busy for production and post production thus far for the recent few months and will stretch over early next year. But guess that after two of my ...
2 weeks ago
BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits

Reflecting on reflecting - I was reading through my old posts here. It seems that, judging by the tone of the posts alone, I am decidedly anti-establishment. I would like to think th...
2 weeks ago
Simply Gab

J B Jeyaretnam Memorial Service - Event: In Memory of J B Jeyaretnam Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009 Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm Location: St. Andrews Cathedral City/Town:Singapore, Singapore Co...
2 weeks ago
Article 14

Two shoes and a Bush - Embedded video from CNN Video
3 weeks ago
Kaffein-nated

Who do you say I am? - I had just received a phone from a dear brother-in-Christ. He mentioned to me that a lifegroup leader had pronounced that this financial meltdown was God’s...
3 weeks ago
Yawning Bread Sampler

Muddy Singapore swallows China workers, part 2 - The saga continues. Two more workers had to spend a night in a police lock-up while nobody seems to know what's happened to the first two, arrested last we...
4 weeks ago
For Want of a Better Title

Fair and balanced? - I remember when I was studying in the US and Fox News would always say they are giving fair and balanced news in a “no spin zone.” Of course I did not beli...
4 weeks ago
A Singaporean

What will you defend in S'pore? - Hopefully, S'poreans can look beyond self-interest in their answers By Goh Chin Lian - as carried in the Straits Times. I will defend my right to live in a ...
4 weeks ago
Gee Siva!

Saying no to madness - After last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I sent a sms text message to a friend in the city asking about the situation. Her one-word reply summed it u...
4 weeks ago
Siew Kum Hong

Speech at media launch of U60 festival, 2 December 2008 - The U60 Organising Committee kindly invited me to be the Guest of Honour at the media launch of the U60 festival, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of ...
4 weeks ago
Young PAP Blog

Warring For Money and Minds - I woke up to news of Ms Lo Hoei Yen’s death today. One of our nation’s most promising talents have perished in violence. Stunned, I pondered over the power...
5 weeks ago
Singapore Angle

Everyday Forms of Collaboration - Almost a year and a half ago, I wrote about the everyday forms of resistance in Singapore on Singapore Angle. In recent months however, I began to take m...
5 weeks ago
Simply Inconceivable

Advance Medical Directives - I certainly have much to say about the fallacies Health Minister Khaw has been trying to propagate. First of all, there is no essential difference between A...
1 month ago
THINK HAPPINESS

NVPC Reply: Charities Selling Greeting Cards - On 3 November 2008, I asked the NVPC for a comprehensive list of charities that sell festive greeting cards to raise funds for their work. This is the reply ...
1 month ago
The Sun Chair Critic

On the Footsteps of the Global Wanderer - As I edge closer to being one of the global-trotting worker, in search of a better life abroad, a sense of sadness grows as I'm set to leave this place whe...
1 month ago
:: Workers' Party Singapore News ::

Straits Times: Tiered electricity tariff will benefit needy - Forum I REFER to last Saturday’s reply by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, “Electricity prices: Why HK is cheaper”. The tiered system I envisage for ele...
2 months ago
The Online Shitizen - A Community of Turds

Motherson Fun: “Unwrapping my blah blah blah” - Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah ...
2 months ago
Singapore Debtors

Eminence Medical Equipment Private Limited, Singapore - The following email was sent by me to one of the major shareholders, "Lady Victoria Cheng Kai On", one of the directors and major shareholder of the compan...
2 months ago
Remind Myself whenever I want to trade

Pacificus: Paulson cannot be allowed a blank cheque - Pacificus: Paulson cannot be allowed a blank cheque * Recently an insurance company nearly wind up.... A bank is nearly bankrupt......filing chapter 11 ...
2 months ago
Singapore Patriot

This blog has moved to geraldgiam.wordpress.com - Dear friends, readers and fellow bloggers, I have moved to a new blog address at geraldgiam.wordpress.com. All my previous posts and your comments can be v...
2 months ago
catherinelim.sg

The Political Opening Up—Is it for Real? - For the first time in the political history of Singapore, the PAP Government is not only unambiguously stating that the political process is ripe for chang...
3 months ago
JB Jeyaretnam's Blog

Mr JBJ took famiLEE LEEgime to court for By-Election - http://uncleyap-news.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-jbj-took-familee-leegime-to-court.html [image: Press Statement Scanned] Enlarge View A class action lawsuit ...
3 months ago
Tan Tarn How

Article in Today: Bad news and two myths - * Bad news and two myths *by Tan Tarn How *TODAY Weekend, Singapore news* *13 September 2008* * * NEWSPAPERS in Singapore have so far managed to avoid...
3 months ago
Edmund Ng

Recommendations to Increase Child Birth in Singapore - Press Release For immediate release. ----------------------------------------- Recommendations to Increase Child Birth in Singapore I read the Prime Minist...
4 months ago
A Xeno Boy in Sg

Terminal Loops - Its that rally speech again, littered always with captivating words, moving promises, prelapsarian anxieties. statistical suasion. Not the chest-thumping j...
4 months ago
Singapore Viewer

Burmese Say No -
8 months ago
Singapore Media Watch

Singapore arrests opposition members over protest - Several Singapore opposition party members were arrested on Saturday after a rare protest outside the city-state's parliament house led to a tense standoff...
9 months ago