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TO: YOG Officials who take charge of make up artist team. I don't Know u are the Spec or the Officers. I would like to Emphasize that We are the Professional Make Up artist. We Are Civilian. We dun have to listen to your UNPROFESSIONALISM ORDERS!. If you think that your Way can work. By all means PLS take over WE THE MAKE UP ARTIST JOBS and we will be very pleased that u can replace us with your Dealt of the situations. The Points that i wish to Highlight. 1. Time Constraint. Yes everyone are Rushing for Time. We are the Make up artist U SHOULD TRUST OUR TIMING AND OUR PROFESSIONALISM AND NOT TO DOUBT US. 2. We ask the students to lean against the GS Table is Because is Easier for make up artists to get the job done. By rising the chair like 4-5 stacks. Students who are Short how to get on to the chair. So high up ESP GIRLS WHO ARE WEARING SKIRTS!!! Wont they will be EXPOSE??? Come On Please use Your Common sense to think about it. 3. We The Make Up artist Knows what are the Roles we are Doing. We just need your co ordination with the schools send them batch by batch AND DUN HAVE TO WORRY OF OUR INTERNAL SIDE. It Is (NOB) Non Of Your Business. 4. Make Up artist ARE NOT PROVIDED WITH DINNERS !!! TO: The Schools IN- CHARGE OF THE YOG. I like to Highlight that If you all want to DO singapore proud. DO a good performance. Please Ask your students to co operate with the Make up artist. I like to Emphasize. Strong make up is to make sure that Under Bright Lightings, they will still look natural. Else their face will be as pale as Paper. Please Ask Your Students Please Make Singapore Proud to do this Closing and Leave A good Impression to the World to see!!!And Please Please Remind Your Students DO NOT REMOVE THE MAKE UP!!! TO : The Performance/ Students. Please Do singapore Proud. I am sure everyone wants to look good on TV. YOur Co operation is really appreciated. When we Do your make up. It will Look very Strong on u especially when you all look at each other. Does u all wonder Why Ching gay Make-UP are so nice? It is Because the Lightings are Extremely Strong. Only Strong Make-UP will make you look Pretty and Fresh on TV while you all are Performing. Don't Believe me please look for the previous Footage. EveryOne Look so Pale. Does U all want to Look Pale??Please Think About It.   JEFFREY LINUS Source: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=106184679437182&topic=27  Read More →

The family of Yong Vui Kong has been working hard these past two months – hitting the streets in both Singapore and Malaysia to collect signatures for a petition begging President SR Nathan to spare Vui Kong’s life. Activists in Malaysia have rallied to their cause.  By 10 am this morning, the campaign had collected a total of 109 346 signatures.  Among those who signed were 44 Members of Parliament and 15 senators in Malaysia. Vui Kong’s father and six siblings delivered the petition and signatures to the Istana earlier today. They were accompanied by Sabah MP Datuk Chua Soon Bui, some close relatives, as well as lawyers M Ravi and Ngeow Chow Ying. The family was not able to hand the petition to guards at the front gates of the Istana and had to use an alternative entrance 15 minutes away. The group walked uphill, in the blazing heat to this other gate where they were met by Security Officer, Corporal Marcus Chong [picture, right]. He took the files of signatures and told the family, “You may leave now.” Vui Kong’s father, Mr Yong Kwong Keong, had prepared a personal message for President Nathan. Corporal Chong was asked to help pass this on but declined to do so, instead asking repeatedly for the family to vacate the area. Mr Yong broke down in tears and the family knelt down in front of the gates.  They remained there for several minutes before guards ordered them to leave. At a press conference held later, Mr Ravi expressed disappointment over how the Yong family was treated at the Istana . “We are also faced with the unfortunate circumstance that we have to go to the Istana,” he said, “even though the courts have said that the President has no power.” Datuk Chua urged President Nathan and the Cabinet to give Vui Kong’s case due consideration before making a final decision. She also questioned a decision by prison authorities to deny her request to visit Vui Kong on Monday. The Online Citizen understands two of his aunts were also denied access, although a cousin was granted entry. “I feel the authorities should be more human,” Datuk Chua said. “This case is a special case. We don’t know how long before [Vui Kong’s] life is terminated. The family members and I came here just to see Vui Kong. We feel this is not too much to ask.” The deadline for Vui Kong to submit his clemency appeal to the President is Thursday, 26 August. However, when handing down his decision on Mr Ravi’s application for a judicial review of the clemency process, Justice Steven Chong had “invited” the Singapore Prison Service to extend the stay of execution as he said he expected Mr Ravi to appeal his judgement. Mr Ravi has requested confirmation of the extension from the Prison Service, however, as of Tuesday, 24 August, he has yet to receive a response. Vui Kong was arrested in June, 2007. He was 18 and a half years old then. The Singapore courts subsequently sentenced him to death for trafficking 47g of heroin into Singapore. He was originally scheduled to hang on 4 December last year, but since then, his lawyer, M Ravi, has managed to obtain two stays of executions. In the past few weeks, the Yong family, as well as campaigners in both Malaysia and Singapore have worked round the clock, organising public forums and collecting signatures online and on the streets, to appeal to President Nathan to spare Vui Kong’s life. Several non-governmental organisations are backing the campaign. These include the Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia, Amnesty International Malaysia, Lawyers For Liberty, Amnesty Hong Kong and the Singapore Anti-death Penalty Campaign. The Malaysian government added its voice to the call for clemency when it sent a letter of appeal to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 29. The Singapore government however has yet to respond to the letter. A spokesman for the ministry told the media that “[the] letter of appeal has been referred to the legal authorities.” The campaign to save Vui Kong does not end today. “We will continue to collect signatures until the President makes a decision,” said Ms Ngeow. “As long as there’s time, even if there’s just one second left,” said Yun Leong, “we will all still work hard for Vui Kong.” Members of the public who wish to sign the petition may do so online here.   by Andrew Low, TOC Additional reporting by Lynn Lee. Editor's note: The Online Citizen have been actively campaigning for the clemency of Yong Vui Kong and has kindly agreed to share their articles with us.  Read More →

I was reading the article by Takumi ( So you say Temasek Review is unfair and biased? ) and (Are you guys secretly approved by the PAP?) by Benjamin, the replies of which prompted me to write this fair and unbiased short opinion piece on Temasek Review. :) According to Alexa the Web Information Company, Temasek Review was ranked 75,475 most visited site in the world and 329 in Singapore in January 2010. Within a short span of 6 months, Temasek Review has moved up the charts by an impressive 1386 and 130 places respectively to rank 74,089 in the world and 199 in Singapore. For a relatively new site which has only been around for  2 years (having only registered the new domain in late 2009), this is some achievement which many would agree - the envy of many webmasters and bloggers on the internet. With power players from SPH like ChannelNewsAsia, TodayOnline, Straits Times and the likes, anyone would have thought that Temasek Review would need a miracle to achieve the standings they have today due to shallow pockets and limited manpower but miraculously they did it. Boasting a monthly pageviews of approximately 1,000,000 and unique visitors of 500,000, Temasek Review is now THE MOST READ Alternative News Site in Singapore with readership hot on the tail of TodayOnline (ranked 176 SG) and has overtaken the official government feedback portal Reach (ranked 3860 SG) and HardWareZone (ranked 212 SG) owned by SPH. Credit should be given when due and Temasek Review has the various Main Stream Media from SPH to thank for their success. It is common knowledge that all the papers in Singapore are owned by a single media company – Singapore Press Holdings, which is the de facto propaganda machine for the ruling PAP party. As such, Singaporeans can expect to NEVER get any authentic or accurate news from the Singapore media which is ranked a pathetic 133th in terms of press freedom by international media watchdog Reporters without Borders last year. With the coming of the internet age, Singaporeans are hungry for unbiased and truthful news which the MSM cannot deliver. News, articles and  comments that are prejudicial to the ruling PAP party are NEVER allowed to be published and Singaporeans are fed only with information which the ruling PAP party deems fitting for their own agenda. The same goes for negative comments on various official forums about the policies implemented by the ruling PAP party - they are almost ALWAYS deleted because the ruling PAP party won't hear anything of that sort, being 'deaf to all criticism'. It is precisely this lack of outlet and avenues for Singaporeans to voice their concerns, grievances and opinions that propelled the success of Temasek Review. Not only did they report on happennings in Singapore which the MSM dare not report, they also promised (to the best of their abilities) to allow fair, unbiased and unedited news, articles and comments from any writer, be it pro or against the ruling party, thus creating an environment for like-minded 'lesser mortal' Singaporeans (with no voice) to gather and share. The following comments from their readers best sum up the reason(s) for the success of Temasek Review. Tracy Tan: TR, you have done well. You have educated singaporeans of the pap’s shortcomings and failures. Keep it up. Takumi: TR basically allows you to offer opinions on both sides whether negatively or positively. They publish what you write. Whether you are for or against the govt’s policies. DarkAngel: TR Keep up the GOOD Job!!!!. Continue to maintain the sites unedited and unbiased opinion. Continue to demand quality and integrity for Singaporeans. Increase readership, Increase advertisement to cover costs and Advertise your site to increase readership. Whether in Opinions or Actions, Singaporeans need to believe they can and will have the will power to be able to govern by themselves with their and decide their own future without the reliance of a one party rule. changed singaporean: I used be to taken in by the Straits Times. Ever since I stumbled onto Temasek Review, I am so informed. Thanks TR, I now know a more balanced source. Cannon: Without TR I have no voice. I stopped reading local MSMs or watch the news for many years. TR is good for me. disappointed singaporean: The one thing I like about TR is that it does not proclaim to be fair or unbaised. It is simply a online tabloid, and a very popular one at that. However, it does not proclaim to have no agenda, or is particularly open. paul: I am depending on TR for all local news as i don’t trust other ankat newspapers. I spend an average of two to three hours a day on TR. TR is very fair and allows even the critics to post their views. V erySian: At TR, you are able to even spew out or vent out your frustrations here. But in that idiot ST, Today, The New Paper, are you allow to do that? No, right??? and last but not the least, European Expat: I am a european expatriate and I read the TR every day to get an idea of what is really happening in Singapore. I know that many expatriates do the same. I can also confirm that many diplomats read your on line newspaper. Well done TR and congratulations for having the courage to expose the lies of the political regime of Singapore and write the truth. Not easy in a country were the fundamental rights are constantly denied. On a side note, it is not easy for Temasek Review to keep the site up and running simply financed by advertisements alone. On a very conservative estimate, a cluster of 3 servers with the kind of bandwidth and hardware demand which the site draws will easily set them back by over US$3,000 a month. So for those who visit Temasek Review for whatever reason(s), be it for the articles, to scream your hearts out or merely to de-stress, please consider donating a token sum to help keep the site running. And to the team at Temasek Review, kudos to a job well done!   Andrew Anon    Read More →