******2011..09.28 (Wed)
***kkzy14" The Popular Example
*nation building *character building *education
***razor: Punggol - The New Waterfront Town
or YT market2garden - Punggol Waterway and Fiesta
*punggol waterway *fiesta *LHL PM
***PMO: Population in Brief 2011 (as at end June) (pdf file)
*population
***lhzb: 下月8日通车 西环线本星期日开放 公众可免费乘坐
or CNA: Sneak preview of Circle Line stations on Oct 2
or CircleLineDiscovery
*circle line *excerpts: ... 环线开放日将从上午10时开始至下午6时，公众可参观介于加利谷和港湾站的12个新地铁站，也可从任何一个站免费乘坐地铁 ...
*****2011.09.26 (Mon)
***GoodMorningYesterday: The Tg. Pagar Station As Seen by A Six-Year Old Boy – Peter Chan
*KTM railway *Tanjong Pagar Station
*E103M
***TOC: Tan Jee Say: Prepare for a broad-based non-PAP Government
*governance *leadership *TJS *coalition government *broad-based government
*****2011.09.23 (Fri)
***rayhope8: DJ Glenn Ong’s insensitive and hurtful comments have deeply hurt psychiatric patients and their caregivers
*Glenn Ong *comments *behaviour
*E103C
***mywangsaysso: Friends, Romans and Countrymen
*stages of life cycle *blog - general to socio-political to personal (general)
*E103C
*****2011.09.21 (Wed)
***thinkhappiness: Maybe, PAP Ministers not so talented – Part 2
*PAP *governance *leadership *excerpts: ... I, like many Singaporeans, are rightly
concerned about this business as usual attitude of the PAP government. If the
PAP government does not indeed change from within, this serious lack of ideas
and the continuance down the same path from last 5 years are quite a worry for
our country ...
***YB: On a high horse called Truth and Right, PAP lost in a changing world
*PAP *governance * general direction of policy vs policy making vs policy execution *excerpts: ... The very fact that they see agreement with their own policies as the default position (in the absence of a rabid internet) , indicates that underlying this is a belief that they own the truth and that their policies represent the obvious right thing to do. I call this a “universality complex” ... Clinging on to this illusion means that the government will fail to re-examine its policies with sufficient thoroughness. It might examine a policy’s execution, but it would be hard to question its starting assumptions, for doing so would undermine its own universality complex ...
*E103M
*****2011.09.19 (Mon)
***furrybrowndog: Some thoughts on Temasek Review and the Presidential Election
*TR *PE2011 *TTKY *TOC
***TOC: That ‘ghettoising’ comment
*ghettosing *excerpts: ... the survey shows ‘firstly, there are not that many people who are indulging
(just) in the Internet, secondly, it is complementary’.
‘These people are not ghettoising
themselves,’ he said.” ...
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***lhzb: 因为也接触主流媒体 上网观政不会“自我激进化” (2011.09.16)
*MSM *alternative social media *self-radicalized *political cynics
***dfdaily: 李光耀治理新加坡的“硬道理” (2011.08.21)
*LKY *hard truths *excerpts: ... 以新加坡的例子，笔者相信“高薪”之能“养廉”，与有无上权威的李光耀“上梁端正”即绝不贪渎及治贪腐绝不手软的示范和阻吓作用亦有关 ...
*****2011.09.17 (Sat)
***sginsight: 分化新加坡的政治文化
*PAP *government *governance *inclusive vs divisive *LKY *excerpts: ... 一个没有政权更迭的社会，由于长期的排除异己会最终导致国家分裂。一个无法通过政权和平转移来磨合不同观点的社会。在本质上是一个不稳定的分化社会，随时会出现国家动乱的局势 ...
***NAR: MHA defends the Internal Security Act
*ISA Internal Security Act *detention *political rival *political ideology
***pijitailai: Visionary Singapore May Not Necessarily Be Led By PAP
*vision *Singapore Pledge *leadership *Singapore Inc *Singaporean *PAP *political party
*****2011.09.16 (Fri)
***YJJ: The Finnish Education Model – Should Singapore emulate it?
*education system *purpose of education *Finland vs SG
*E103M
***nparks: Parks Festival 2011
or World Parks Day 2011 (The 4th World Parks Day - Sep 17, 2011 Sat)
or lhzb: 让你荡掉忙碌 乌节路摆放九个秋千
*nature *park and garden *outdoor *world parks day
***TOC: Lee Hsien Loong: Singapore “will consider scrapping ISA if KL does so”
or chemgen: Malaysia Abolishes the ISA and Eyes on Singapore
*ISA *PAP government *MY
