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Singapore Sucks! is an eclectic collection of short stories, essays and poems about Singapore. Various topics such as conscription in Singapore, the acceptability of corporal punishment, political oppressiveness in our country and Singaporeans’ fascination with white culture are explored via the...

The Activist Registration Act is a 2 part article. I wrote it to explain the relevance and importance of anonymity to freedom of speech. Part 1 explains why transparency doesn't necessarily add value and Part 2 highlights the danger of losing anonymity - our shield against corporate and...

And they all walked in on the protagonist of our short story, who was sitting by himself in a London bar. Soon he was regaling all 3 girls with stories from his days in the Army. Perhaps things would have gone better for him if he didn't, because... While the American girl declared...

“Internet activism is a form of leaderless resistance. Bloggers and online commentators lack command links and operate without the constraints that hierarchies impose. Since there is no visible hierarchy, like in a political party or NGO, internet activists are not susceptible to the sort of...

I just heard from a book importer today that all 400 copies of Singapore Sucks! (the book) have been detained at Customs. The original plan was for DHL Global to deliver the books to a book importer in Singapore and I was supposed to go pick them up this morning. Many of you may already know...

Book Launch for Singapore Sucks! Many books have been written about Singapore, but few, unlike Singapore Sucks!, showcase the grim and gritty reality, hidden carefully behind a façade of clean shopping centres and gleaming office towers, that ordinary Singaporeans live in. Singapore Sucks! is...

A writer once described Singapore as “Disneyland with the death penalty”. However, for many Singaporeans – like myself – who have to put up with the draconian rules for decades now, we are not feeling the Disney at all. Just the penalties. Therefore, we get very annoyed with the mainstream...

As I started reading the latest Kafkaesque masterpiece by PAP propagandist Lediati Tan, I couldn’t help but wonder if the PAP is unable or just unwilling to understand the problems plaguing Singaporeans. In her article on foreign workers, published in the 4th of September edition of The New...

I was passing by a notice board at a HDB estate when I saw the MoneySENSE cartoon (To buy or not to buy?) created and put up by the PAP. The advice given was sound, I thought. After all, being thrifty is a virtue, especially in these difficult times. And I would applaud such sensible advice...

"I called the police again and reported the incident and the exchange, A guy from Jurong HQ called me to say the IO in charge will contact us. I waited up the whole night for someone to come or call me - Nothing." I came across this blog about how loan sharks managed to repeatedly harass a...

I have been trying to access for the past half hour or so. No luck. Anyone else experiencing the same problem? If not, perhaps I ought to try using another ISP to access.

Over time, Singa Crew says, the PAP ministers have become “less hard-driving and hard-striving.” This is why it is a good thing, Singa Crew says, that Singaporeans have welcomed the idea of hiring foreigners to help run Singapore. He is aware that many PAP members are unhappy with the influx of...

I wasn’t too bothered when Mr Fanthome’s reply to Singaporeans’ adverse reaction to the PAP’s proposed ‘cooling off day’ first appeared on the P65 blog. That is, until I found out that Mr Fanthome, unlike true Singaporeans who had to bear the brunt of PAP rule and policies for decades, was...

Dr Chee's recent interviews on America's talk shows have sparked a wave of criticisms from PAP propagandists and supporters. These propagandists have repeatedly claimed that by granting interviews to the foreign press, Dr Chee is trying to 'do us in'. So really, they are merely parroting our own...

Saturday, 02 May 2009 Singa Crew, Guest Writer I remember an editor with the Straits Times once complained that reading some internet postings made her blood boil. Good. So she will understand how I felt when I read a New Paper article written by Ms Elysa Chen and published on 28 Apr 09...

Supporters of Gopalan Nair have put together a video interview of Gopalan Nair and it is now up on Youtube. Right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD7HWzgI97w Go there and hear from the man himself why he did what he did! Enjoy. Learn. And help spread the message around cyberspace...

In his latest blog entry, Mr Nair exposed the farcical machinations of the PAP administration. His trial was held in Court 6, Subordinate Courts, Singapore at 9.30 am on Monday July 28, 2008. Readers may read the whole entry here: http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/ ... viour.html Here...

Excerpt from site: “The origins of this website lies with an US citizen returning to his birth-country to observe a farcical court case, annoying some petty tyrants, and having to accept the consequences viz. criminal charges filed against him.” Disclaimer: “This website has no...