On the Cusp of the Dragon Year, We Greet You!

9th February, 2024  The Year of The Dragon – The Cusp of a New Cycle “January 23, 2012 to February 9, 2013 marked the Year of the Dragon. According to tradition, the dragon is the fifth animal in the Chinese zodiac and symbolizes loyalty — it is noble, gentle, and intelligent, but also tactless, stubborn, and dogmatic. “ New York Public Library 2012 was the year a nascent community from different disciplines and interests – IT engineers, journalists, a pharmacist […]

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“Walking Tours Through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths” A Critique by Ng Yi-Sheng

31st January, 2023 So on Sunday 19 November, I turned up “Walking Tours through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths”, created by playwright Neo Hai Bin and the heritage group all things Bukit Brown, part of Singapore Writers Festival 2023… and while it wasn’t bad, I wasn’t impressed. Sure, it’s perfectly pleasant to wander the grounds of Bukit Brown Cemetery in the cool of a November morning, learning facts from volunteer Claire Leow about tomb design—overseas Chinese culture (didja know that only […]

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The Lawyer and his Beautiful Daughters by Catherine Lim

30th October, 2023  A post by Raymond Goh last evening, intrigued me as it was unraveled by tomb inscriptions. And then caught up in the moment, inspired me to compose a poem which I am sharing in this blog post.  It has been reworked since but remains in essence in the same spirit. It goes like this:    An Ode to Beauty and Justice  The Father Handsome is Mr. Koh, brilliant, his path of justice but sorrowful  his birth, for […]

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Bukit Brown’s first family day on Sunday 11 March had “children” of all ages exploring nature and culture in the open air classroom of life – Heritage, Habitat,History given full expression       And the reason it was running late was because at the first station, Peter was loathed to let them go, at least not before a group photo! Meanwhile at the Art Station……     The children had moved on to a spot of Haiku composing And […]

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 Post script: In her hands she cradles  a pair of binoculars, she holds the vision for our future. Let  Bukit Brown be her legacy. Give her a chance to decide what she wants to do with this legacy. Dateline Monday 27 Feb, 2012 Chasing away Monday Blues at Bukit Brown, is our  Accidental Photographer aka Georgina Chin. She claims Bukit Brown as her backyard and it is where she is often to be found bird watching, or happily snapping away […]

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Calling all heritage and photography buffs: 23 February 2012, Thursday, 7.00pm, NUS MUSEUM Admission free. To register email:  museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 / 8429 A Panel Discussion  Speakers: Ken Cheong and Zann Huang In this second installment of THE PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES, we explore the role of photography in relation to heritage, a much-discussed concept that comprises investigation into aspects of history, memory, spaces, and rituals. Used as an instrument of documentation, photography becomes a medium through which these are immortalised […]

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  On the menu on Wednesday  22nd, 7 pm @ Blu Jaz in Bali Lane: For more details visit here Talk 1: Bukit Brown: The Hidden Treasure of Southeast Asia by SOS Bukit Brown Description: Bukit Brown is both a 200-hectare green lung which is home to diverse wildlife and a 180-year-old cemetery which is the final resting place of 100,000 of our forefathers and foremothers. In this talk, members of SOS Bukit Brown discuss various aspects of this hidden […]

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