SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a serial snatch thief following a crucial lead provided by an iPhone application.

The thief had snatched a 36-year-old woman's iPhone in the early hours of Sunday morning along Lim Liak Street, in the Tiong Bahru area.

Police was able to trace the stolen phone via an iPhone application called "Find My iPhone". The application allowed the missing iPhone to be located on a map.

With this important lead, officers were able to establish the identity of the suspect and he was arrested on Monday in Outram Road.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is also believed to be responsible for several other snatch theft cases in the Tiong Bahru and Kim Tian estates.

Police said the suspect, an 18-year-old Malaysian man, will be charged in court on Wednesday.

If convicted he could be jailed for up to 7 years and caned.

Police said a Court Order will be sought to remand him for further investigations.

-CNA/ac





You know your insignificance/unimportance when people refuses you and chooses someone over you.

I have always been insignificant. I see it even clearer now that i am.

When the lights go out
Will you take me with you?
And carry all this broken bone
Through six years down in crowded rooms

And highways I call home
Is something I can't know till now
Till you picked me off the ground
With brick in hand, your lip gloss smile
Your scraped up knees and

If you stay
I would even wait all night
Or until my heart explodes
How long?
Until we find our way
In the dark and out of harm
You can run away with me
Anytime you want

Terrified of what I'd be
As a kid from what I'd seen
Every single day
When people try
And put the pieces back together
Just to smash them down
Turn my headphones up real loud
I don't think I need them now
'Cause you stop the noise and

If you stay
I would even wait all night
Or until my heart explodes
How long?
Until we find our way
In the dark and out of harm
You can run away with me
Anytime you want

Anytime you want
Anytime you want

Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't walk away

'Cause if you stay
I would even wait all night
Or until my heart explodes
How long?
Until we find our way
In the dark and out of harm
You can run away with me
You can write it on your arm
You can run away with me
Anytime you want

From the blue tent i withdraw, taking tiny steps to your big welcoming heart n arms. (:

Sometimes we fight
Sometimes I cry
Why don't I
Just tell him goodbye
Sometimes I should
But sometimes I don't
Build up the strength to
Say that it's wrong
Sometimes I hate
Sometimes I love
Sometimes I hurt
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I wait
For him to change
But it's okay
I've disguised the pain
And I don't ever wanna leave him alone
They say i'm brainwashed but i'm in love
With this man
Yeah

Keep telling myself that it's not worth it
I already know I don't deserve it
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
So when will I wake up and scream
No way (x7)
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
Perfect nightmare

Sometimes I keep my cool
Sometimes I let him know
Sometimes I even pack my bags to walk out the door
Sometimes I feel safe
Sometimes I really don't
Sometimes I promise that i'm ready to let him go
But I don't ever wanna leave him alone
They say i'm brainwashed but i'm in love
With this man

Ohh ohhh

Keep telling myself that it's not worth it
I already know I don't deserve it
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
So when will I wake up and scream
No way (x7)
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
Perfect nightmare

Hoping he's changing
But i'm scared he's not
Can't see a way to leave
Help me open my eyes

Keep telling myself that it's not worth it
I already know I don't deserve it
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
Perfect

Keep telling myself that it's not worth it
I already know I don't deserve it
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
So when will I wake up and scream
No way (x7)
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
Perfect nightmare
No way (x7)
But if it's from you I don't mind hurting
This is my perfect nightmare
Perfect nightmare
Perfect nightmare


Sometimes i feel as though it is during such times tt i catch up on my music. This really caught my ear. Her t-shirt song is not bad (:

Everybody wants something, just a little more
We're makin a living, and what we're livin for
A rich man or a poor man, a pawn or a king
You can live on the street, you can rule the whole world
But you don't mean one damn thing

What do you got, if you ain't got love
Whatever you got, it just ain't enough
you're walkin' the road, but you're goin' nowhere
you're tryin' to find your way home, but there's no one there
Who do you hold, in the dark of night
You wanna give up, but it's worth the fight
You have all the things, that you've been dreamin' of

If you ain't got someone, you're afraid to lose
Everybody needs just one, someone... to tell them the truth
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/2Tub ]
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I still believe
I believe in hope, I believe the change can get us off our knees
If you ain't got love, it's all just keeping score
If you ain't got love, what the hell we doing it for

I don't wanna have to talk about it
How many songs you gotta sing about it
How long you gonna live without it
Why does someone somewhere have to doubt it
Someday you'll figure it out

If you ain't got love, it's all just keeping score
If you ain't got love, what the hell we doin' it for
Woahhh, I ain't got, if you ain't got love
What do you got if you ain't got love
What do you got if you ain't got love






Bon jovi's songs.. always amazing. this is one of his latest which i LOVE. (:
it really is nice to have someone there for you. it really is.

someone once told me that i was a serial heartbreaker.

i didnt believe i was. she said i have an ability to make someone fall very hard for me and then i will choose to leave.

time and again i did. i did it without my knowledge. i didnt know i have actually done such stuffs till i look at my past msges and chat histories. this was when i realised i have left a trail of broken hearts. i blame it on my inability to give a direct no for an answer.

there are others whom i did give a direct no for an answer. they never came back as friends. in fact most of us stopped talking. i guess it was from such reactions that there after that i do not give a direct no for an answer. i would drop hints, thinking that they would be smart enough to gather the hints which were pretty obvious hints. but no! they didnt gather any. they grew more persistent till i stopped all form of contact with anyone except for girlfriends.

i did not want my life to be anymore complicated.

i sincerely apologise for the trail of broken hearts that i have left. i hope all of you will find peace, somehow, hopefully.

if i have daughters, i will tell them to give firm, direct rejections and not leave a trail of broken hearts. for my sons, enter into an r/s only when you are sure you will not break her heart.

another morning, another hearse.

i saw a hearse leaving near my apartment. i saw the palms of the immediate family members placed on the hearse in the attempt to walk with the deceased in the final journey of his/her life. i did not know what was the symbolism of this when i did it. it was only later when i learnt of the reason. it is normally at this point in time when it will be the saddest and most painful time for the immediately family members or friends of the deceased. it was also our "final goodbye journey" with the deceased.

this image reminded of...

she was with me through and through for 20+years in my life, just 5 months before my 21st birthday. we were in the hospital with her till her very last. everyone in the family was really looking forward to my birthday. they had gone to various jewellers to look for something suitable instead of giving me the "key" that was so cliched. they wanted mine to be special and memorable. i was not looking forward as to me, birthdays are just another day in the calendar. there is nothing special about it. in your birth, there are many others who have passed who may probably have even more celebrated lives than us in our lifetimes.

i believe not many of my friends knew the reason why i did not celebrate mine. i did not mind at all for not celebrating. i did not mind being tired and all but just really wanted to be with her. we broke all the rules about visiting only at the hospital's stipulated visiting hours. at least one of us will sleep by her. in days when her condition got slightly more critical, she will be in a room that is monitored 24hrs by nurses. even then we were not kept away. we slept outside at the corridors, only going in once in awhile to look at her. i guess besides the reason of wanting to be with her, the other reason is that in the case of any emergency procedures to be done, sometimes acknowledgement from family members are needed and we will be there to sign the forms.

i could see how dejected she was when we told her it was my birthday. but we assured her it's okays. cos as long as we are together as a family, nothing else really mattered. on days when she threw huge tantrums, we understood and tolerated. it's the conditions that make her behave so.

everyday after work, i would rush to her without fail. only on days when i had class or sometimes after class, i will still make a trip to see her before i head home. the hospital was a 20mins brisk walk from my house. all of us lost weight during the 9 months that she was there. i lost 5 and became underweight. but it was alright. everything we did, every moment with her was worth it.

she left us on the very day of mother's day.

of all days, yes, mothers day. it just made us even sadder but we will smile at the wonderful life she led and the memories and moments shared with her.

take good care wherever you are. it was nice having a life with you. sorry for the nonsense that came out of me in my growing years. we will meet in the western paradise.