Wake up our ideas – a story about generational trauma. (Compare with Tash Aw’s A Stranger At The Table)
Life advice from one redditporean to another (suicidal over low GPA)
music what’s wrong with made in Singapore? “When you socially engineer a people to be digits in an economic machine, the creativity “muscle” in our psyche atrophies over time.” – /u/kukubirdsg
music: Sing! China finalist: we lack confidence “We need the recognition of others to believe in ourselves.”
music: Snakeweed Soosay
music when the Rolling Stones played in SG in 65
music The Expert Behind the 60s Singapore Scene (And What He Has to Say About Ours)
music history of music in singapore (blogpost)
music narrative history of music in singapore 1819 to present (research grant / technical report)
police interesting cop cases
apathy Are Singaporeans socially conditioned to be meek and apathetic?
Sinda SINDA must stay focused, Singapore
chinese mandarin speaking vs english speaking
external: Singapore through the lens of a Japanese tourism ad
lit list of Singaporean novels to review
pressurecooker The Great Paper Chase, by Mary Lee [1974]
pressure-cooker smart articulate 17yo girl suicide
pressure cooker 97 marks not good enough
pressurecooker paved with good intentions – colin and yen
$$ Singapore is still the most expensive city in the world
$$ what is a “singapore style economy” to the brexiters?
“youth here lack idealism” – not true
smart nation Singapore data collection and privacy
religion Death of a halo: of Kong Hee, CHC and Christianity
LGBT We could have danced all night
censorship journalism and jiu jitsu
censorship Alfian on censorship of Les Mis (Gwyneth, too)
history debunking the singapore story
Confronting chinese privilege in Singapore, tweets on Chinese Privilege, post about unequal treatment of races
colonialism decolonial aesthesis
reddit unpopular opinion
PM Lee 2009 NDR speech – nuanced bits about race and religion
geopolitics George Yeo FB post about globalization and identity
land reclamation 2017 How Singapore is creating more land for itself
adrian tan 2008 NTU convocation speech
Women of Singapore, have you ever faced sexual harrassment?
Donald Low’s posts about Singaporean decision-making around parenthood (sex in small spaces)
BS Joe Augustin on Class95 charity fundraiser
jayne talking about food with her mother-in-law
politics PAP should be wary of being too intrusive
dating singapore dating reddit thread, creepy guy 1,
race “sorry, as your wife is indian”
history history of Singapore in pictures
idea: have an argument schedule, by trope
singapore needs better thinkers
singlish – talk dirty to me
babies – is giving birth a national duty?
how the rogue train was caught on circle line
singlit why singapore literature turns me off
singlist – goodreads best Singapore books to review
prostitution scmp post about brothels in SG