SGDaily Roundup: Week 4

Principal’s ITE Remarks
- The Universe Within: Self Improvement for others
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Education in Singapore needs to see beyond KPIs R
- The Online Citizen: Principals who put down students have no place in educating our young
- Molly Meek: Mediocrity in Meritocracy: There must be, there cannot be
- Looking For LaLaLand..: A load of crap from the education minister
- Insane Polygons: The Emerald Helm of Unlimited Stupidity
- Recruit Ong: Lui tio kan! LOL
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: Teacher’s “Go To ITE” Remarks - A Question No One Seems To Have Asked
- Stressed Teacher: Your results suck! R

Re education
- Mr Wang Says So: Safety in the Syllabus

Transport Reforms Announced
- The Lush Garden Within: Land transport reforms in Singapore - at last
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: The wildcard in public bus reforms
- Simply Jean: What I want to see in the transport overhaul
- My Singapore News: Time to return to sanity
- Singapore Life and Times: The right step
- Decay On Net: I should be a taxi driver instead
- Singapore’s Land Transport: Land Transport Review Part 1: Public transport (bus)

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- QuirkieKai: A Public Fantasy [Thanks Chin]
- Decay on Net: Peak hour madness - thanks to a maintenance train
- zm.: the ugly side of SMRT
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Increase the Cab Fares even more!!
- HWZ: Singapore Public Transport. World-Class?

Government Denies Hand in State Fund Investments
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Tharman: S’pore govt has nothing to do with Govt Investment Corp… R
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: Contradiction by Tharman?
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: GIC and Temasek have a blank cheque
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GIC money for Citibank..
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 21 January 2008: Investments by GIC and Temasek Holdings in UBS and Merrill Lynch
- HWZ: “Not my business” - Tharman

Not that we love Caesar less…
- Looking For LaLaLand..: Is MM Lee still relevant?
- Utopia: MM Lee: top money for talent

Human Rights
- Pseudonymity: VIDEO & REPORT: Human Rights Torch Relay Reaches Police State
- Used Brains For Sale: More Idiocy
- Sgpolitics: Singapore Democrats: Singaporeans Participated in International Human Rights Torch Relay

Election Reform Public Forum
- The Online Citizen: Election reform effort needs everyone’s involvement
- Sgpolitics: SDP’s public forum on electoral reform, 20 Jan 08
- UncleYap: Public Forum held for Reform of Electoral System

The A* or not Challenge
- Singapore Life and Times: The next big idea
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: A-STAR 100K challenge is an outdated idea to both Innovation and Business
- Ian On The Red Dot: How A*STAR’s Search Engine Is The Same As Google
- GeekSG: Bloggers mocks Singapore’s attempt at a Search Engine
- SEO Expert: Star Challenge 2008 Website Broken?
- PageTrafficBlog: USD 100,000 To Build A State-of-the-Art Search Engine: Will It Work?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: Attract foreign talents or retain local talents?

Healthcare
- When docs turn gods: The inexorable rise R

Our war on terror
- SGFrag: 2 more detained under Internal Security Act, 5 JI members released
- sgForums: Two men detained for planning acts of terror

Welfare For the Meek
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9 - Workfare statistics?

Casino LaiLiao
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Why fritter away your $$ at the casino when SingaporePools welcomes you with open arms?

General Discourse
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: A tale of a fictitious country - Lalapore
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Perhaps the best campaign victory speech I saw
- e pur si muove: Singapore culture shock: civility and lack thereof
- Newsintercom: An Interview with Artist-Activist Seelan Palay
- The States Times: A History Of Bullying
- The Rot Within: The “What School” Question
- Mr Wang Says So: The Modern Risks of Information and Advice
- My Singapore News: Why is cyberspace more powerful?
- The States Times: Soldier Of Fortune
- Simply Jean: Are you feeding the monkeys?
- Sophie’s World: One less piece of red tape
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: So am I right to say that the moral of the story seems to be…
- Looking through the eyes of_: On meritocracy and elitism
- My Way: Eliminate Your Competition the Singaporean Way
- The Online Citizen: My future as a Singapore citizen
- Simply Jean: The letter that caused a furore in the Straits Times discussion board
- Organic Ally: Dear MM
- Eastcoastlife: Bullying at school is nothing new

Life, the universe and everything
- Intelligently Retarded: Cool Dome [Thanks Chang]
- the(new)mediaslut: Tiger Airways- Will a 45 mins flight to KL turn into a 5 hours wait?
- Balderdash: ..by the law of engineering girls cannot exist.
- Nomadism: Tabloid news…
- Sophie’s World: The Lingam defence
- The Void Deck: CNG Cars Ahoy!