Gang tattoos and their meanings.

Tattooing in one form or another has been practiced for centuries. Originating in Asia, the art of tattooing for religious meaning, cultural tradition and even gang related or just for appearances has spread worldwide. While some tattoos are chosen because the wearer has an affinity for the artwork, many tattoos have a universal meaning that goes beyond the basic graphic. The following are a few examples of the meanings of tattoos that have a universal symbolism for wearers, artists and admirers.

1) Teardrop Tattoo

The teardrop tattoo first appeared in the 1960’s. The meaning of this tattoo can vary depending on how it is drawn. An empty teardrop can symbolize a friend or a loved one that was killed, and now the wearer of the teardrop is looking for revenge. The teardrop is filled in with ink when revenge has been achieved. In prison, the teardrop can also be a warning to other prisoners that the wearer has committed a murder.

2) Red Butterfly Tattoo

Originated from the Red Butterfly Gang, better known as Ang Hor Tiap. Gang members of the AHT were identified by the butterfly tattoos they wore on their thighs, groins or shoulders, said a former AHT member.

3) Cobweb Tattoo

Cobweb tattoos have become very popular these days with people who were never convicts, but the cobweb is most definitely a prison tattoo. People get cobwebs to symbolize a lengthy term in prison. 

The symbolism of the cobweb is the association with spiders trapping prey and criminals being trapped behind bars. The spider web represents the prison (that's deep bro.) This tattoo is commonly found on the elbow because it also represents a lot of time with your elbows on the table. I.E. you've been sitting in prison doing nothing for so long that a spider is weaving a cobweb on your elbow.

4) Three Dots Tattoo

The three dots tattoo is a very common prison tattoo that symbolizes 'mi vida loca' or 'my crazy life.' It doesn't symbolize any particular gang, but rather the gang lifestyle. It's typically found on the hands or around the eyes. 

The three dots tattoo can also carry some religious significance, representing the holy trinity. Dot tattoos are often done using the stick-and-poke method.

5) Centipede (Wu Gong) Tattoo

It just simply means that they never fail in any fights.

6) Eagle on Globe Tattoo

Eagle on globe means he 'control the world' and is 'accorded'. Started with one flying eagle, when he becomes ready, the globe is added. 

What other tattoo meanings do you know of? Like the snake coiling around a sword? It is said that that tattoo is associated with secret societies but we can't find anything about it. If you do know, please drop a comment and share your knowledge with us! 

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Motorcyclist of Ducati's Fatal Accident Was Not The Trailer's Fault

A 25-year-old Singaporean man (Loh Linken) was killed in an accident on the Pan-Island Expressway on Monday.

The mishap involving his motorcycle and a truck occurred at about 4.30pm on the highway towards Changi, after the Central Expressway exit, said a police spokesman. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene. The truck driver, a 50-year-old Malaysian, was arrested for causing death by negligent act, and police investigations are ongoing. The Straits Times understands there were no passengers in either vehicle. The accident caused a massive jam that at one point stretched all the way to Bukit Batok. Traffic began to ease only after 8.30pm.


[UPDATED]

After reviewing a video footage that was submitted, that DayumNews will not be uploading. We received an email from a reader.

"It was not the trailer's fault. In this video you can clearly see that this White SUV hit the rider as he was riding in between the trailer and the white SUV. That hit made him fell and he slided under the trailer that caused his death. It was believed to be an Austrailian lady that turn herself in after that incident. I hope his loved ones and the victim can be at ease now knowing what really happened."

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The mysterious case of Elisa Lam.

There are mysteries that are so eerie and strange that they boggle the mind for days on end. The case of Elisa Lam is one of them. In February 2013, this 21-year-old student from Vancouver, Canada, was found dead inside the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank in Los Angeles. The L.A. County Department of Coroner ruled the death “accidental due to drowning” and said no traces of drugs or alcohol were found during the autopsy. However, there is much more to the story than what is implied by police reports. The first piece of evidence that needs to be considered is an elevator surveillance tape that recorded Elisa’s behavior only a few moments before she lost her life.

The four-minute video posted on YouTube shows Elisa pressing all of the elevator buttons and waiting for it to move. Seeing that the elevator doors are not closing, starts behaving extremely bizarrely. Here’s the video.

At first, Elisa enters the elevator and apparently presses all of its buttons. She then waits for something to happen but, for some reason, the elevator door doesn’t shut. She starts to look around, as if she is expecting (or hiding from) someone. At 1:57, her arms and hands start moving in a very strange matter (almost not human) as she appears to be talking to someone, something … or nothing at all. She then walks away. The elevator door then shuts and appears to start working again. Some say she was playing the "lift game" where one have to press certain buttons on the lift and will be approached by a lady but you should never talk to her. Or else, you will be transported to another dimension. Some say she was possessed too. 

What do you think happened to her? Was it the lift game? Demonic possession or her bipolar disorder? 

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Boy committed suicide after questioned by Police.

A 18 year old boy committed suicide by jumping from 14th floor of his flat in Sengkang after being questioned by plain-clothe police officers.

The tragedy occurred yesterday afternoon at Blk 224A in Sengkang. The deceased is Huang Shao Heng (黄绍恒) who was implicated in an assault case two days earlier.

He was questioned together with his god-brother Fang Jun Jie by the police at the void deck. The police also took their photos and confiscated their handphones.

After the questioning, Huang went up to the 14th floor and jumped down. His distraught mother now wants to know what the police had told her son to cause him to take such a drastic action.

Unlike other First World countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, there are no defined guidelines in place for police to interrogate suspects.

The police is allowed to question anybody anywhere at anytime. In Hong Kong, the entire interrogation process is video-taped and lawyers are allowed to sit in to observe the process, thereby ensuring that no inducement or intimidation is used to extort a confession from the suspects.

Source: temasektimes

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Religious teacher ill-treated kids under his care.

As a religious teacher, he was put in a position of trust for children under his care.

But Muhammad Abdul Gani ill-treated eight children at the Pertapis Children's Home in Kovan Road from 2012 to January last year. 

On Thursday, Muhammad, 27, pleaded guilty to four charges of ill-treating his students. On two occasions, he had lifted two boys, aged seven and four, off the floor by grabbing their heads below the ears. 

A 10-year-old girl was made to stand on a chair for being noisy during mealtime. He later kicked the chair from behind, causing her to fall to the ground. He also pushed another 10-year-old girl on the mouth, causing her head to hit a cupboard. Muhammad will be sentenced on Oct 13. For ill-treating a child or young person, Muhammad can be fined up to $4,000 or jailed up to four years, or both, for each charge. 


Article from: http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/teacher-pulled-boys-floor-grabbing-their-heads#sthash.sPC9zbLi.dpuf

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Why it's never okay to break up over text.

Whatever happened to a proper breakup?

I’m talking about meeting in a public place, having a polite conversation and finishing with a gentle goodbye.

Where are the breakups you see in movies or on TV? We know the routine: a long build-up, tearful exchanges — in other words, a proper end to a relationship.

Jackie O wrote letters; the Kardashians filmed a two-hour special on TV. We use different media to end relationships. But texting seems to be a pretty popular one these days.

Why do people break up over text? Well, we’re a generation that would rather type out feelings than say them out loud.

We’d rather watch those torturous ellipses on our phone than hear the awkward silences on the other end of the line.

We’d rather send a sad face emoji than see a true expression of sadness on a partner’s face.

The conversation has changed from a mutual exchange of thoughts and feelings to a blue paragraph of calculated words that allow you to never see that person again.

Sending a text is not the way to break off a relationship.

I recently made a simple romantic situation very complicated.  I was pushing for something more serious, and this guy was keeping it casual.

That’s something I could have handled — had this guy simply talked about it. Instead, he slowly started to ghost, and I knew what was happening. Things were ending.

I’m never someone to shy away from conversation or conflict, and I don’t like unresolved business. We’re all adults here, so let’s just put everything out on the table.

After weeks of texting without making any concrete plans, I really wanted to know what was going on. If he was seeing someone else, I wanted to know. I wanted to be able to put this behind me.

After fruitlessly asking him endless times to grab a drink at a normal hour (since I was still getting 2-am booty texts from him), I went for the text that every guy dreads.

“Hey, we need to talk.”

This FREAKS GUYS OUT. They assume you’re pregnant, that you have an STD or that they have to deal with a woman’s feelings (all equally terrible possibilities).

He responded very anxiously, so I assured him it wasn’t anything health-related, figuring he could then do me the decency of agreeing to a beer. I mean, we live in the same neighborhood, for f*ck’s sake.

But he didn’t agree to that. He INSISTED I tell him what’s going on. I realized it was getting more dramatic. He was beginning the conversation, and he wasn’t waiting for us to meet in person.

I said I was confused about what was happening between us. I told him I just needed some clarity. He told me he “kind of started seeing someone else and wanted to avoid any awkward situations,” (an “awkward situation,” of course, would be meeting me in person).

I replied with a simple “See, that’s all you had to say.” I was explaining that my feelings were hurt but understood that I couldn’t change his. I couldn’t convince him to do anything different in this situation; all I could do was share how I felt.

He didn’t understand why he needed to say something to me at all, and he assumed I should have just picked up on his clues and disappearing act.

The result? I now have a written (well, typed) transcript of how this six-month relationship ended.

When there’s only text, there’s no respect.

Communication is so important in any relationship. If it’s too hard to share feelings face to face, the relationship is doomed.

This is especially true if you’re hurting someone else’s feelings. It’s completely disrespectful to let someone down so cruelly when that person has invested time, energy and love into the relationship.

More than anything, this breakup affirmed what I already knew and feared: He wasn’t into me anymore. He was so not into me that he couldn’t even meet me to tell me he’d moved on.

Though this certainly hurt, it helped me to know how heartless this guy could be. I promised not to let a guy be so reckless with my heart in the future.

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There’s so much left unsaid — with so few words exchanged.

Texts are concise. This is good when you’re giving directions or confirming plans. It’s not good when you’re explaining what happened on your side of a relationship.

You’re leaving no room for rebuttal. The other person doesn’t see you stumble over your words. You’ve carefully calculated what you’re going to say, removing any emotion from your words in order to make the conversation as short as possible.

You don’t get to see the feeling behind his words, and he can’t take them back. They’re in my text history until I decide to delete them.

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Your relationship took time to build, but he’s destroying it in a minute.

How long does a text conversation like this even last? 10 or 20 minutes? Maybe an hour or two? All I got was a total of about 100 words over the course of 30 minutes.

It’s unreal how quickly he can wrap up your relationship over text. In person, long silences can fill a room.

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When people show you who they really are, listen to them.

Don’t get serious with people who can’t express themselves well. Love is a shared emotion, and it needs to be expressed on both sides to work.

What would have happened if something serious came up? What if I really did need to talk about something health-related? What if it was more than just an invite for him to tell me it was over?

I’m guessing that a real issue would have led to the same response: a series of open-ended texts with no real emotion behind them.

My Seamless delivery guy texts me when he’s on his way. My Uber driver texts me when he’s at my door. My best friend texts me about the last episode of “The Bachelor.”

There’s a time and a place for text messages, and this is not one of them. Please don’t text me to tell me that what we had is over. I’m worth a face-to-face breakup and a beer.

Article from: Elitedaily

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Man murdered in Ang Mo Kio.

A third murder was reported this week when a man was killed near Ang Mo Kio MRT at about 8am on Friday (Sept 4). 

Police said they found a 48-year-old man lying motionless at the covered walkway between the MRT tracks and Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East park. 

The man was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9.15am. 

A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the case and will be charged with murder on Saturday.

It carries the death penalty. 

Article from: http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/murder-ang-mo-kio#sthash.Aevk5reb.dpuf

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SMRT (Feedback) Co-Founder Revealed.

After close to four years of snarky humour, trolling pranks and internet vigilantism, an anonymous member behind the infamous SMRT Ltd (Feedback) has finally revealed himself — and he goes by the name of Azly J. Nor.

In a note published on his Facebook page an hour ago, Azly claims to be part of the ridiculously popular local satire page — confirming that SMRT Ltd (Feedback) is indeed run by a collective of anonymous individuals. He recounts the origins of the Facebook page — born out of an idea formed by an Internet Relay Chat community of intellectuals and starting out as a legitimate real-time feedback channel for SMRT during the December 2011 MRT disruptions.

It was Azly who started injecting some wit and humour into the page's posts, and it was Azly who sarcastically replied to all who believed that their page was a legitimate channel to leave complaints.

As many would have clearly noticed, the usually caustic tone and snarky, fuck-all vibes of SMRT Ltd (Feedback) has disappeared recently, and Azly confirms that it's because the newfags have taken over.

"The old guards are now gone, and the freshlings took over. It's been close to 4 years, surely many would have move forward in life. I did."

And it also looks like he might very well be serious in running in the upcoming elections, creating the Teh Tarik Party and its legitimate accompanying manifesto with the help of the current team running SMRT Ltd.

"I may or may not run for elections, but the manifesto is there for everyone to figure out where their vote goes to."

Fear not, the page will continue running as "the neutral voice for Singapore, without fear nor favour" and will continue on with their antics — albeit a page where other publications simply pay a lot of money to dump their content for massive view count boosts.

As one of the old guards who crafted SMRT Ltd (Feedback) into the social media behemoth it is today, Azly admits that he still carries on their legacy even though he's no longer part of them.

"To one and all, my name is Azly J Nor. In case I don't see you, good morning, good evening, and goodnight."

Article from: CocoSg

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