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By Novia Lim I'm actually amazed that I have not been to Sun with Moon despite hearing good raves about them. Time for verdict, let's see how well they fare with their first impression with me! Salmon Pink Dragon Roll, $13.80 Very exquisite and well executed sushi roll. The creamy and sweet crab avocado is well balanced with fresh thinly sliced salmon. Perfected with a hint of lemon slice and salty fish roe. Yumz! Yellow Tail Sashimi, $17.80 You cannot go wrong with fresh sashimi. The yellow tail here passed my stringent taste test as it has a subtle sweetness and almost melts in my mouth. It can be quite costly for 5 slices of fish but it's definitely an eye candy as it is plated delicately on top of craved ice accompanied with seaweed by the side. Hokkaido Ramen, $15.80 The buttery taste really retained my attention but the noodle is slightly too soft for my liking. Comfort food and nice combination for the chilly night. Okonomiyaki, $12.80 Pan fried very nicely but I love my okonomiyaki to be serve with more sauce! Goshoimo Mentaiko Cheese Yaki, $15.80 This dish is very pleasing! They balanced the rich taste with broccoli. Cheesy and not too overpowering to the taste buds. Kamameshi The signature dish of Sun with Moon is the Kamameshi, a more delicate cousin of our local claypot rice. The kamameshi is served with a small hourglass on top. When the time is up, you can then lift the lid and start enjoying this dish. A bit gimmicky but cute and delightful nonetheless. Unagi & Asari Kamameshi, $15.80 I had the unagi and clam kamameshi. The unagi was juicy but the clams were a little too dry and not too sweet. It definitely satisfy my carb cravings and can be quite filling. I was quite impressed with the overall experience in Sun with Moon and will definitely return again! 501 Orchard Road #03-15 Wheelock Place +65 6733 6636 Operating Hours: Mon-Thu, Sun & PH: 11.30am - 11.00pm; Fri-Sat & PH Eve: 11.30am - Midnight Food: Ambience: Value: Service: About the Author: Novia Lim is a global data analyst by profession, honored with years of solid experience with multinational corporations. She is also a hobbyist model and food blogger striving to achieve lifestyle balance with proper prioritization between career, demands of life on one hand and pleasure, leisure on the other. Novia blogs at http://eatcookshoot.blogspot.com  Read More →

Top News Sports, 12 December 2009 Tiger Woods' wife has reportedly given him the stark ultimatum: "It's golf... or me." According to reports, the world Number One, 33, told wife Elin he "will do anything" after his alleged extra-marital affairs came to surface. Elin, 29, has agreed to stay with the billionaire star for the sake of their two young children, reports The Sun. Sources have revealed that the former Swedish model Elin has drawn up a strict list of rules for Woods to follow if he wants to win her back. A friend said: "The easy thing for Elin to do would be leave him, take the children and get a divorce. She''''d never worry about money again. "She was close to walking out for good. She decided to stay for the kids'''' sake - but on her terms. "They have agreed to try and rebuild their marriage, but Elin will be the one calling the shots. It will be a long time before he''''s travelling the globe playing golf unless Elin''''s by his side. "Tiger will have to work long and hard to ever get her to trust him again. Quitting golf shows he is willing to sacrifice something he loves so much to protect his family." - Top News Sports Republished from Top News Sports on 12 December 2009  Read More →

During a speech made at a Law Society seminar yesterday, constitutional law expert Professor Thio Li-Ann spoke about the relationship between the rule of law and other indicators of constitutional government and good governance. Professor Thio felt that while the law means different things to different people, "formal rule of law doesn't provide any criteria by which you can assess whether something is or is not good law" in the context of Singapore. While she refrained from commenting on the rule of law in Singapore, Professor Thio noted that the Singapore Constitution "permits instances where the State is beyond law and judicial control, as in the case of emergency powers and preventive detention laws, where the needs of the State come first and foremost."  "The courts do have a role in how these powers are reviewed ... It's not a huge role. The courts cannot enquire if the detention reasons are good ... (but) it must be based on national security concerns," she added. Under the draconian Internal Security Act, anybody deemed a "threat" to the state can be detained without trial indefinitely. The detention orders are signed by the Home Affairs Ministers and the detainees do not have the right to access to legal advice. Neither can their lawyers overturn the decision to detain them in a Singapore court. Chia Thye Poh was detained under the ISA for 32 years, making him the longest-detained political prisoner of conscience in the world, followed by Dr Lim Hock Siew (19 years), Said Zahari (17 years) and Dr Poh Soo Kai (16 years) (In contrast, Nobel prize laureates Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 28 years and Aung San Suu Kyi is (still) under house arrest for 13 years) The ISA is an archaic law introduced in the 1950s by the British in Malaya and Singapore during the communist insurrection and was initially known as the Public Security Ordinance (PSO). After the Emergency was declared over in 1960, the Malayan (now Malaysian) government replaced the PSO with the ISA with much of the same powers. The ISA was used in 1963 under "Operation Coldstore" to detained hundreds of suspected communists in Singapore including key leaders of the opposition Barisan Sosialist such as Lim Chin Siong, Dr Lim Hock Siew, Sydney Woodhull, and Dr Poh Soo Kai. Their arrests enabled the PAP to win the general elections held only a few weeks later. According to declassified documents from the British National Archives, the communist threat was "played up" by then Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew who allegedly tried to persuade the British High Comissioner Lord Selkrik and Malayan Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman to arrest even his former comrade Ong Eng Guan under a joint operation by the Internal Security Council in addition to several of his political adversaries in the opposition. Lord Selkrik wrote to his superiors in London imploring them not to listen to Lee: "Lee is probably very much attracted to the idea of destroying his political opponents. It should be remembered that there is behind all this a very personal aspect…he claims he wishes to put back in detention the very people who were released at his insistence – people who are intimate acquaintances, who have served in his government, and with whom there is a strong sense of political rivalry which transcends ideological differences." Selkirk's deputy, Philip Moore, reviewed intelligence reports and concluded that there were no security reasons to detain Lim Chin Siong: "Lim is working very much on his own and that his primary objective is not the Communist millennium but to obtain control of the constitutional government of Singapore." (Lim Chin Siong was never a member of the Communist Party of Malaya and in his memoirs published in 2003, CPM Secretary-General Chin Peng denied that the Barisan Sosialist was ever controlled by the CPM and neither had he met Lim before in person) [Source: The Fajar Generation by Dr Poh Soo Kai, Tan Jing Quee and Koh Kay Yew] The last time the ISA was used against the opposition was in 1988 under "Operation Spectrum" when over 20 social activists and members of the Workers' Party were arrested for plotting a "Marxist Conspiracy" to subvert the Singapore government, one of whom was a former Solicitor-General of Singapore Mr Francis Seow. The charges were never quite proven and even key figures in the establishment such as S Dhalabanan (a former minister), Tharman Shanmugaratham (current Finance minister) and Walter Woon (current Attorney-General) have expressed sceptisms about the case. The ISA is now used sparingly to counter the growing threat from terrorism. The Malaysian Bar Association has spoken out ferociously against the continued existence of the ISA in Malaysia and calls for its immediate abolition and replacement with an "anti-terrorism" act to deal specifically with terrorists. The Singapore Law Society has remained eerily silent on the issue so far. Under the law, Singapore lawyers are only permitted to comment on legislative matters if their opinions are specifically sought after by the government. Prof Thio's comments as published in Channel News Asia, 11 December 2009    Read More →