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Salakau (Chinese: 三六九; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Saⁿ-la̍k-káu), which means 369 in Hokkien, also known as "Sah Lak Kau", is a street gang or secret society based in Singapore. The numbers 3, 6 and 9 add up to 18, which was the name of an older gang; the number signified the 18 arhats (principal disciples) of Shaolin Monastery.
Tan's second poetry collection, Driving Into Rain (1998), won the Merit award at the Singapore Literature Prize 1997. [2] His second collection seeks to project the poet's relationship with the larger world [ 2 ] and according to poet Dr Cyril Wong , "regularly stops short of divulging enough about the poet’s persona for readers to enter a ...
Edwin Thumboo, born in colonial Singapore, Straits Settlements on 22 November 1933, was the eldest [citation needed] of eight children of a Tamil Indian schoolteacher and a Teochew-Peranakan Chinese housewife from a Singaporean merchant family. [2]
Aw Teck Boon, the second of six or seven children, was born in Singapore in 1956; his father worked as a fishmonger. According to his younger sister, Aw became independent and lived separately from his parents and siblings during his teens, and worked as a sailor for most of his life.
Even in the present days, there is still a growing number of rebellious youths who subscribe to the ideologies of gang stars thinking being in a gang makes people look cool. [5] A typical example can be traced back to 1990 where some teenagers in “pseudo street gangs” were obsessed with Salaku believing that such an affiliation was cool.
Ginsberg refers to the Cold War as "gang wars across oceans", and calls capitalism a "vortex of this rage" and a competition "man to man." One of Ginsberg's "spontaneous" poems, it has a "long-breathed rolling rhythm", with an emphasis on hard, single facts presented one at a time over an ever-increasing energy.
Pang is also co-editor, along with the poet John Kinsella, of Over There, an anthology of Singapore and Australian poetry, and of Double Skin, a bilingual anthology of Italian and Singapore poets (with Turin-based poet and editor Tiziano Fratus). In 2009 he curated the anthology Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (Autumn Hill Books, USA).
Gang membership is a criminal offense in Singapore, and police have previously investigated gang chants shouted during concerts. [4] Due to this, Groove Coverage was advised not to play the song at their concerts in Singapore in 2019 and 2023. [3]