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interesting / recommendations / Saturday, December 31st, 2016

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 death of a permsec review

lit list of Singaporean novels to review

CNY power plays

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

no u-turn syndrome

Confronting chinese privilege in Singapore, tweets on Chinese Privilege, post about unequal treatment of races

colonialism decolonial aesthesis

reddit unpopular opinion

truth behind my JC life

PM Lee 2009 NDR speech – nuanced bits about race and religion

geopolitics George Yeo FB post about globalization and identity

bilahari interview 2011

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”

everyone hates sumiko tan

history history of Singapore in pictures

idea: have an argument schedule, by trope

food – 12

singapore needs better thinkers

singlish – talk dirty to me

babies – is giving birth a national duty?

country clubs on decline

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