Peranakan Trail
The Peranakan Trail was customised for the Peranakan Association and guided by Chew Keng Kiat, Peter Pak and Gan Su-lin. This report was documented and contributed by Gan Su-lin. More on Cheong Choon Seng here Find out more on Tan Kheam Hock here Find out more on what is a live tomb here Find out more on Pang Cheng Yean who was a pioneer banker here Footnote: Customised tours on request can be […]
Moving House-My Say
Dateline : 26 Tuesday 7-pm – 9.30pm The Ngee Ann Kongsi auditorium of the sprawled out spanking new campus of University Town, NUS fills up. The event: “Moving House” jointly organised by NUS Museum and All Things Bukit Brown. The highlight: a timely resurrection of an award winning documentary by film maker Tan Pin Pin. “Moving House” made in 2001 which followed the Chew family , one of 55,000 Singapore families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives […]
Exhumed #1888
by Gan Su-lin and Catherine Lim The tomb staked 1888 or rather its companion is used as an illustration in the LTA sign boards at Bukit Brown to explain to the public how to look out for and identify whether an ancestor could be affected by the 8 lane highway that is going to be built through Bukit Brown. The resident of Tomb 1888 was exhumed on Thursday 21 June 2012 by his descendant, a great grandson who has requested […]
Luah Kim Kway, The Chivalrous
Luah Kim Kway (赖金奎) the Chivalrous by Ang Yik Han On first impression, his is a typical story of a poor migrant made good. Orphaned when young, Luah Kim Kway left for the Nanyang at the age of 19 to seek his fortune. Like other uneducated migrants who toiled unceasingly, he was at various times a coolie, a hawker and a miner before hitting his first pot of gold as a building contractor. Subsequently, he branched out into the rubber […]
Seh Ong Hill
Seh Ong Hill Introduction The Bukit Brown Cemetery Complex mapped out by Mok Ly Yng based on the land lot tracings from this map shows a surviving area of approximately 390 acres. The biggest Chinese cemetery outside of China consists of four identifiable cemeteries bordering each other : Bukit Brown, Lau Sua (Old Hill), Kopi Sua (Coffee Hill) and Seh Ong Sua (Ong Clan Hill) This map shows the various cemeteries demarcated In the following article Jave Wu traces the […]
Pantuns
Pantuns by Norman Cho The pantun is sometimes described as Malay poetry. It consists of stanzas made up of rhyming quatrains (4-liners). Its history was thought to have originated from golden period of the Malays during the 15th century. When a pantun is sung, it becomes the dondang sayang (melody of love). Normally, the last word of the first line would rhyme with that of the third line, and, the second line would rhyme with the fourth line. If […]
“Moving House”
“Moving House” Tuesday 26th June 7 pm – 9 pm University Town Auditorium in Kent Ridge NUS Museum and All Things Bukit Brown presents “Moving House” – a screening, a presentation and a Q and A session on the next significant development for the planned 8 lane highway that will cut through the cemetery – Exhumation. The documentation team led by Dr Hui Yew Foong undertook its first documentation of a private exhumation of a staked tomb affected by […]
9 & 10 June Tours
Date: 9 June Saturday Time: 9am to 11.30 am Meeting Place: At the entrance gates of Bukit Brown at Lorong Halwa . We will be covering Hill 2 and 5 – the heavily staked area of the cemetery affected by the 8 lane highway and which also cuts through the most beautiful valley in Bukit Brown…. PLUS a bonus of Oon Chim Neo – the largest single occupant tomb, and in the same vicinity the recently exhumed tomb of […]
Between the past & present….
The Purpose of Keeping Heritage sites is to Preserve the Physical Linkage between the Present and Past When the relevant authorities were planning for the cemetery to give way to the highway, did they know the historical value of Bukit Brown? Or was it after the researchers and the public’s strong interest and views that they suddenly realised the importance of this site? If this is the case, it reflects a deeper layer of problem: do the upper echelons of […]
Alex and Lim Kee Tong
Alex Lim’s Story Part II On the 2nd April 2012, Alex Lim and his family observed Qing Ming at Bukit Brown starting with his grandmother’s tomb, Tan Tee Teo which was accessed from Lornie Road. Part II continues as the family proceeded into Bukit Brown proper, to Hill 4 where they paid their respects to Lim Kee Tong and his wife, the paternal great great grandparents to Alex and his brothers. Lim Kee Tong was a Singapore pioneer businessman and […]
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