About

The Author
Foo Yin Tung, also known as ‘雷公’, is 22 years of age. Growing up, he had been in 2 street corner gangs, before stepping in with the big dogs in one of Singapore’s most notorious and tarnished secret societies: 369. He was arrested in Geylang for illicit operations of online casinos. Today, Yin Tung pens his delitescent straits stories, ‘The Right Mistakes’, so that others could recognize failure. For without catoptromancy, falling down with broken bones are always vitally anguish.

The Book

“Today I am 22 years of age. I used to be a person who was working in the complex streets of Geylang and the black market. I was a gangster in three different criminal organizations. Robbery, assault, peddling drugs, extortion…At the end of everything I have done in the underworld, I have never brought goodness to anyone around me. People who know me and those who don’t, I have never given them something pleasant to smile about.”

As a child, Yin Tung seemed to have a particular affinity for trouble. Despite his best intentions, his actions and decisions always seemed to land him on the wrong side of law. Without the support of a loving family, Yin Tung was drifting and furthermore, angry—and he didn’t know why. With his father in jail and his mother working tirelessly to provide for her only child, he was left on his own to make sense of his world and fend for himself. The death of his beloved grandmother drove him to fill the void in his world with friends who gave him the support he never had, the security he never knew and worth he never felt. But this came with a price, and with eyes wide open, he fell headlong into a secret, illegal world, where bravery and loyalty were valued above all. But eventually Yin Tung had to come face to face with the reality of his world and into confrontation with all that he had been running from.

With piercing honesty and the brazen boldness of youth, Yin Tung recounts his experiences of being in a gang, his brushes with law and examines the events that brought him there. What made him who he is today? Was it his own choices, or the choices of others? More than just a shocking story of a boy losing his way, The Right Mistakes is about a boy trying to make sense of his life and change it for the better.

Publication date: 15 January 2011
Retail Price: $18.50 before GST
Imprint: Marshall Cavendish Editions

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