The thing I love most about Singapore’s Birthday is singing these uplifting, spirited, passionate songs! Here’s my pick for top 10 of my favorite National Day songs!

1. One People, One Nation, One Singapore
2. Majulah Singapura (Onward Singapore)
3. We Are Singapore
4. 相信我吧！新加坡 (Believe in me! Singapore)
5. Singapore Town
6. Count On Me Singapore
7. 家 (Home – Mandarin version)
8. Home
9. Singapura, Sunny Island
10. Stand Up For Singapore

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相信我吧！新加坡

我是年轻的卫国军，有的是漫长的热血。
有的是精力充沛，相信我吧新加坡！

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We Are Singapore

There was a time when people said
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Sure, we’re attracting alot of foreign talents, but are we losing our local talents to other countries that give them more than just a sense of security?

After all, this sense of security is very important to the older generation. A secure job, no natural disasters, a safe neighborhood, good education, peaceful lives. I believe the surge in migrating Singaporeans show that this is not what the current generation needs. We want to explore this “freedom” that western countries have been propagating for years, we want to venture into the unknown, routes that might not always be the safer bet or give any form of guarantee.

In the past, people that did well academically would usually chose to study courses like Law, Accountancy, Medicine etc. Yes, many smart youngsters are still choosing to go into these fields that would more or less give them a financially secure future. However, I’ve also noticed many people are choosing to study liberal Arts subjects like theater, dancing, music. With local Universities and Polytechnics opening more courses in Arts, Social Sciences and the Liberal Arts, I guess the market has spoken. Perhaps, Singapore is heading towards the direction where money isn’t everything anymore, aka, we won’t sell our souls for money?

1,000 S’poreans give up their citizenship each year, in the last three years
Posted: 21 July 2008 2352 hrs

SINGAPORE: In the last three years, an average of 1,000 Singaporeans gave up their citizens each year.

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said their reasons for doing so vary, and these range from marriage to foreigners, to yearning for a different environment.

Most of them took up new citizenship in countries in Southeast Asia, the United States and Australia.

Mr Wong gave this update in reply to a written question from Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim.

She had asked how many Singapore citizens emigrated from Singapore in the last three years, the countries they emigrated to and their reasons for doing so.

Mr Wong said those who emigrate generally do not declare this to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority when they leave.

So the only available data which gives an indication of the number of emigrants from Singapore is the number of Singaporeans who have given up their citizenship and left Singapore. -CNA/vm

I was talking to Sabrina on the phone, just catching up and bitching -as usual-, when we started to talk about my blog post on banning ShadowFox.

I didn’t realise this before, Sabrina noted that some people might have been provoked by me mentioning that Singapore has no free speech. Some, silly people, might even feel that if I am against free speech that I should keep quiet and not voice my opinion.

I understand how the proposition “intolerant against intolerance” might sound ironic and funny, but being able to blog about my opinions does not mean that we have free speech.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Singapore is ranked 141 out of 169 countries in the freedom of press index. If you still don’t believe me, the Singapore opposition politically figures getting jailed and bankrupt should give you some hint. If you still don’t believe me, go blog racist and hate inciting blogs and see if you end up in jail like the 3 other foolish bloggers.

Now that we have established that Singapore does not have much freedom of speech, here’s why my post to call for Shadowfox’s head does not cross that line. My post simply called for a ban of a particular person, like how people can call for ban or unban of chewing gums, gay sex, pornography. It’s merely censorship. The religious people are usually pro censorship because the media’s censorship guideline has been slacking every year, and it reflects on how people’s morals have been more “tolerant” of sex, drugs, vulgarities and violence. I’m sure we don’t really want our children growing up accepting these vices as normal. Yes, perhaps showing too much homosexual themed media might brainwash the next generation that it is ok to be homosexual as well.

If there are still people out there, after reading this post, still think that Singapore has freedom of speech and if Singapore doesn’t that I should shut up, then I guess there’s no other way for me to enlighten you. -sigh-

Streetdirectory recently lost their lawsuit with LTA and had to pull their website down. But it’s coming back up today!!

Could someone be so kind as to post the link to the news article that explains why they got sued?

I guess to keep it civil and simple.

LTA, please don’t disrupt Streetdirectory.com service again, it’s really very inconvenient for us to search for directions. I bet many Singaporeans got lost and taxi drivers have been making more money in the past week because of this disruption. Yes, I took a taxi to Orchard Hotel this morning because I could not find the directions for a bus from Toa Payoh to Orchard Hotel for my family lunch (lunch was good by the way).

Streetdirectory.com , c’mon! You’re making tons of money, as we can imagine, selling advertisement space in your site! Why do you have to sue local companies of stealing your images? Making them pay thousands of dollars to show direction to their location?! You obviously deserved to get sued, and you should have seen it coming.

Bleh.

Just get on with life, give us back street directions so we won’t be lost sheeps anymore, but stop sueing people for said instructions ok?

Ok, now that everyone is happy…. GIVE ME MY DIRECTIONS BACK!!!

Taken from http://www.streetdirectory.com/ on Monday 14 April 2008 00:40

I’ve been blogging for more than a year now, although I’m not your hardcore blogger that blogs about everything everyday… Nowadays blogging is all about the juice.

First, you need a juicy headline.

A lousy headline:
Why no one reads my blog?

A good headline:
Sex scandals littered in my blog but no one interested?

A lousy headline:
My workplace is horrible

A good headline:
Stupid bitch at office. Office politics & Cat fights!

A lousy headline:
I lost my handphone

A good headline:
Bastard who stole my phone should rot in hell

A lousy headline:
Edison Chen is a bad boy

A good headline:
Edison Chen SEX maniac with pictures [NSFW]

A lousy headline:
Mas Selamat escapes

A good headline:
Mas Selamat f***s Singapore in the a**

A lousy headline:
Ping.sg new version out!

A good headline:
Will Ping.sg Stop Edison Chen?

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