{"id":11365,"date":"2023-12-31T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:40:34","slug":"walking-tours-through-lost-singapore-haunted-paths-a-critique-by-ng-yi-sheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2023\/walking-tours-through-lost-singapore-haunted-paths-a-critique-by-ng-yi-sheng\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWalking Tours Through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths\u201d A Critique by Ng Yi-Sheng"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>31st January, 2023<br \/><br \/>So on Sunday 19 November, I turned up &#8220;Walking Tours through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths&#8221;, created by playwright Neo Hai Bin and the heritage group all things Bukit Brown, part of Singapore Writers Festival 2023\u2026 and while it wasn&#8217;t bad, I wasn\u2019t impressed. <br \/><br \/>Sure, it&#8217;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\u2014overseas Chinese culture (didja know that only we put the names of living descendants on tombstones? In China it&#8217;s taboo) and World War II (there are still bullet holes on a headstone from a battle in 1942). And yes, there&#8217;s a poignant metaphor when the recording describes the cemetery as a heart in the centre of Singapore, and its desecration by the construction of Lornie Highway as the breaking of that heart. <br \/><br \/>But ultimately, this work didn\u2019t rise to meet its advertised standards. Despite the \u201cHaunted Paths\u201d in the title, this was a 10am event without a single ghost story. And despite the official SWF theme of \u201cPlot Twist\u201d, the narrative line was pretty damn straightforward. The voiceover mourned the fact that so many stories were being lost, but the stories that were told were the same ones I\u2019ve heard a million times before: Chinese immigrants coming to Singapore and making it rich; Chinese people dying of grief during the War; Chinese descendants unable to find their mother&#8217;s tomb after 2012 due to the destruction of the landscape.<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s easy to characterise heritage groups in Singapore as having progressive politics, cos they&#8217;re standing up to capitalism and unilateral government decisions. But Bukit Brown ironically builds on pretty conservative values: a centering of majority race culture; the preservation of patriarchal religious traditions; hegemonic historical narratives. <br \/><br \/>\u201cHaunted Paths\u201d tried to push back against that a little. Leow told us how \u201cLorong Halwa\u201d is a combination of the Malay word for \u201clane\u201d and the name of an Indian sweet; how they\u2019ve found a mysterious record in the archives of a Chinese couple who gave their daughter a Dutch name; how it\u2019s clearly cringy to our generation that our ancestors referred to Southeast Asia as a &#8220;barbarian land&#8221;. But we didn\u2019t get questions that actually problematised the status quo. Who did these great Chinese tycoons have to climb over to get so rich? Did they see the Sikh guards they immortalised in stone as their equals? Why are none of the &#8220;notable names&#8221; buried here actually famous enough to be mentioned in our textbooks?<br \/><br \/>I\u2019m being particularly hard on this show because I\u2019ve seen really cool work being done in response to Bukit Brown, like DramaBox\u2019s interactive\/documentary theatre pieces It Won\u2019t Be Too Long: The Lesson and The Cemetery; Ishvinder Singh\u2019s Sikh Heritage Trail app; MyCommunity Festival\u2019s Seventh Month night tour \u201cAfter Hours @ Bukit Brown\u201d. All of these provide deeper, unexpected insights into this site\u2014and from what volunteer Catherine Lim told me, \u201cHaunted Paths\u201d was supposed to too, with its initial focus on World War Two ghost stories. She had been working on a script for a wandering spirit with no grave, dumped in a mass grave in the chaos of a war where the bodies in the morgue was piling up. But she fell ill and could not make it for the meeting.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>Compared to such efforts, what we ended up with was the same old reheated leftovers, garnished by a dancer in the background doing soulful qigong. Which is particularly galling at one of Pooja Nansi\u2019s editions of SWF, known for being extra-creative and challenging with the discourse, where it should be known that \u201cwah-wah-Singapore-doesn&#8217;t-respect-its-history\u201d has become a literary clich\u00e9.<br \/><br \/>All this being said, I recognise that the average audience member was pretty satisfied with the show. There aren\u2019t, I realise, as many well-publicised Bukit Brown-themed events now as there were in the 2010s, so a whole generation of heritage newbies (young people, immigrants and older folks discovering new hobbies) don\u2019t see all these tropes as clich\u00e9s. <br \/><br \/>I\u2019m not telling them they\u2019re wrong to have enjoyed the show. But I am telling the artists involved to do better. They oughta know what\u2019s been said and done before. They oughta go beyond that. We honour the dead, but as the living, we get to keep growing.<br \/><br \/>And honestly\u2014as someone who sent in four proposals for SWF 2023, all of them engaging w the theme of the unexpected\u2014it galls me that the committee&#8217;s chosen to serve us the same old reheated tripe, garnished w a dancer in the background doing soulful qigong. <br \/><br \/>A writers festival, of all places, is the occasion to be more creative &amp; challenging writing of\u00a0 the discourse, rather than to just repeat the tired #singlit refrain.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_11368\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11368\" class=\"wp-image-11368 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463686_738169365012226_5452157535076836315_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The end of the narrative with the new Lornie Highway as the backdrop Photo: Catherine Lim<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_11369\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11369\" class=\"wp-image-11369 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404463407_738169298345566_6467171058676756726_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stoned steps leading to ? Photo: Catherine Lim<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_11370\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11370\" class=\"wp-image-11370 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/404501308_738169231678906_7182697183947589603_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Not so haunted paths. Spot the dancer. Photo: Catherine Lim<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_11372\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/402063739_738168005012362_1946369572063183051_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11372\" class=\"wp-image-11372 \" src=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/402063739_738168005012362_1946369572063183051_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ng, striding in with the pack, 3rd from left. Photo: Claire Leow<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p><em>(Dr) Ng Yi-Sheng is an award winning author, who has participated in past SWFs. He is an energetic participant in the book and art scene, providing reviews and insightful critiques of what he has experienced and read.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31st January, 2023 So on Sunday 19 November, I turned up &#8220;Walking Tours through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths&#8221;, created by playwright Neo Hai Bin and the heritage group all things Bukit Brown, part of Singapore Writers Festival 2023\u2026 and while it wasn&#8217;t bad, I wasn\u2019t impressed. 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