Reflections on a Ramble

On 14 August, Samira Hassan joined Brownie Peter Pak for a Ramble thru’ Bukit Brown to Kopi Sua Cemetery . It was  Samira’s first  visit and she penned these reflections to share. “I doubt there are textbooks or academic sources that would be able to do justice to the arcane yet insightful details the places in Bukit Brown had revealed about our past – and these pieces of our tangible history are truly irreplaceable.” by Samira Hassan Dateline: Bukit Brown […]

The Rickshaw Puller Low Nong Nong

  Dateline 19 October 2013 The Story of the Rickshaw Pullers Strike and a Man called Low Nong Nong (compiled with research by Raymond Goh and a Pat Sg, a member of the Facebook Group -Heritage Singapore Bukit Brown Cemetery) Today, Raymond Goh located the tomb of rickshaw puller Low Nong Nong who died during a confrontation between striking rickshaw pullers and the police. In the clash which occurred on 17th October 1938, Nong Nong lost his life, and there […]