A motorcycle club established in Singapore in the 1990s modeled after the traditional motorcycle clubs from the USA and Europe. Originally formed in 1999, in honor of Singapore’s militia military, which had served the state since Singapore seceded from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965.
The club has since established chapters in Malaysia and America, and is recognized as one of the few clubs of Asian-origin to have crossed cultural and traditional borders into the USA outlaw motorcycle scene.
South East Asia has their own paramilitary affliations with links to motorcycle clubs such as the Militia Riders of Singapore.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”