Love him or Hate Him, He is Michael Jackson. On June 25th, Michael Jackson was pronounced dead. He suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him.

Michael Joseph Jackson or as known as “The King of POP” was born in 29 August 1958 in Indiana, United States. He was the 7th child of the Jackson family. As early as age 11, Michael Jackson started his professional music career as a member of The Jackson 5, and began a solo career in 1971.

In the early 1980s, he was the dominant figure in POP music and was credited for transforming the music video into an art form and promotional tool. This helped the MTV Music channel quickly become poplular. With his stage work and music videos, he also popularized a number of complicated dance moves, such as the robot and the moonwalk.

A quick look at his lifetime achievements includes: 2 time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles, and multiple Guinness World Records – including one for “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time”. His success has made him part of POP culture for almost four decades!

On his Dangerous tour here in Singapore on the 29th August 1993, Michael Jackson performed on his birthday to a crowd of 47,000 fans at the Singapore national stadium.

We now leave you with the 10 songs we loved, Paying tribute to the King of POP forever. Thanks Michael, may you rest in peace.

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Low Crime Doesn’t Mean No Crime!!! How true! After all, it’s human beings that are breathing and living in Singapore. Love, hatred, jealousy, greed, all sorts of human emotions are as alive here as any other part of the world. We picked the 10 most sensational cases from Singapore’s recent past that captured the country’s attention and imagination.

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Here are 10 attributes of the Lion City that really stand out to Curly, the American, Singapore PR on our editorial staff.
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The Multiclickz team spend some time scanning around the phone directories and found 10 numbers that every Singaporean should remember. Take a look and do let Multiclickz know if there is any other numbers that all of us should never forget and we will be glad to add those in!
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Singlish basically means Singaporean English. In Wikipedia, it is actually quoted as the “First language” for Singapore!! Almost every born Singaporean uses some form of Singlish; that is what makes us unique and different. A quick Google on Singlish returns more than 150,000 results.

We bring Singlish everywhere we go. Unknowingly, we uses it even when we talk with our friends of other nationalities. I still remember once when I was on a business trip to the the States, we were having some off-topic discussions over the dinner table on some techie stuff when I said “oh, this one don’t have lah.”. Everyone just stared at me. Knowing that no one really understood what I was trying to express, I quickly added “Oh this is Singlish”.

Here is another example which happens very frequently to me. Whenever I am overseas, friends who like to greet me with “Hey, How are you doing today?” usually will get a reply “ok lah. You leh? ”

For your reading pleasure, listed below are 10 Singlish terms which I feel are used quite frequently in our everyday lives. What do you think ?

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Lists. We the human species love lists, from shopping lists to lists of dreaded chores. We feel the need to be in control, to be organised. We the folks from SGTOP10 are no different, in fact we are willing to go the extra mile to see, hear, feel, touch and smell in-order to bring these lists to you.

Welcome to Singapore Top 10. We are dedicated to bringing you up-to-date top ten lists on many, many areas of interest and disinterest, about Singapore and beyond.

Allow us to introduce our multi-talented folks, who will be sharing their areas of interest with all.

Curly: An American expatriate gone local, who has been in Singapore for 11 years. He lives in frozen northern Singapore in Woodlands. He brings a strange, hairless perspective to all things Singaporean.

Sengkangboy: A shopaholic who is tired of following people’s path and wants to walk on his own.

Cupnoodle: Made in Singapore, educated in Australia and is obsessed with graphics. He believes a picture tells a thousand, maybe million words and will bring a different perspective of Singapore to all through his viewfinder.

BabyCarrot: Born in Beijing, devoted 15 years of her life to beloved Singapore. Picked up everything Singaporean from language to food, while still maintaining her flavor of the northerners.

Smokepot: If life is a mountain, he will burrow a tunnel through, to the other side.

We welcome feedback from you, the visitors to our site. Please feel free to offer your views on the accuracy of our top ten lists, and make suggestions for adding/subtracting from any list of interest. Enjoy!