{"id":9174,"date":"2014-07-17T22:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2014-07-17T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:24:27","slug":"report-on-tomb-measurement-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2014\/report-on-tomb-measurement-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Tomb Measurement Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0 Joshua Ng<\/p>\n<p>Instead of enjoying a quiet and uneventful Saturday, I chose to spend it at a live tomb measurement exercise. Armed with a trusty can of mosquito repellent, jeans and covered shoes, I arrived at the Bukit Brown Main Gate at 3.30pm. It was 35 degrees Celsius and I started to doubt my decision.<\/p>\n<p>After a round of introductions, I was assigned to a team with Wei Ming (the drawing maestro), Andrew\u00a0 and Simone who are Brownies (volunteer guides). We had met briefly during the previous week&#8217;s theory and briefing workshop at NLB.<\/p>\n<p>Our assigned tomb was Tan Ean Kiam&#8217;s wife, Ye Yan Niang (\u8449\u7109\u5a18).\u00a0Our task was to\u00a0measure and draw the front view, section view and the plan view of the tomb.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9178\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-_Ee-Hoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9178\" class=\"wp-image-9178 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-_Ee-Hoon-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Tomb Measurement _Ee Hoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-_Ee-Hoon-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-_Ee-Hoon-280x208.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-_Ee-Hoon.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wei Ming (foreground) , Simone and Joshua (photo Ee Hoon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Initially I was wondering why we needed four people to measure a tomb. It only made sense when we began our work. The curves, elevation and non-rectilinear structure makes it really hard to get an accurate reading. We had to use strings, bamboo sticks, IKEA flexible paper rulers, a metal tape measure as well as insect repellent to get it done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9180\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"wp-image-9180 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Tomb Measurement 2 Ikea _Ee Hoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-2-Ikea-_Ee-Hoon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone and Joshua\u00a0 using the &#8220;ikea paper&#8221; ruler (photo Ee Hoon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The little insects that make their homes around the tomb were not amused \u2014 I even got a few ant bites on my hands. Some even crawled up my covered shoes and jeans and bit my calves.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, after three hours of hard work, we finally finished our sketch. Our drawings were not the best. We committed at least one mistake, which was to assume that the sides are mirror images of each other. Chee Kien told us that we should not assume but measure and draw the tombs just as they are found. He pointed out that sometimes in a \u201ccouple\u201d tomb, part of the tombs may be intentionally elevated so that the \u201cwater\u201d will flow towards the descendants of one side.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first insight I gained from these two weeks of tomb measuring. I also learned that the different dialect groups have very different tomb designs. The one we measured clearly had a Hokkien design. Besides that, only the tombs in Bukit Brown have special bricks backing behind the head stone. It would have been very expensive to import bricks from China, so\u00a0 brick making was one of the earliest industries in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>As our assigned tomb was <a href=\"http:\/\/mymindisrojak.blogspot.sg\/2013\/07\/tan-ean-kiam-bukit-brown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tan Ean Kiam<\/a>&#8216;s wife, I figured he must have been some important person. I looked him up and found out that he was one of the founding members of OCBC Singapore. And he was also one\u00a0 of the founding members of the\u00a0 Tong Meng Hui (\u540c\u76df\u4f1a), which supported Sun Yet Sen&#8217;s revolutionary effort.<\/p>\n<p>Another unique feature of this tomb is that the history of Mrs Tan was written by Tan Ean Kiam himself. According to the Brownies, Tan Ean Kiam&#8217;s own handwriting was inscribed on the body of the pedestal altar. Other than the fact that Tan Ean Kiam was alive when his wife passed away, we also know that he must have loved his wife a lot to do something so unusual as to personally inscribe her life story.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9183\" class=\"wp-image-9183 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tomb Measurement 5 _Andrew Lim\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-5-_Andrew-Lim.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan Ean Kiam&#8217;s tribute to his wife inscribed on her grave (photo Andrew Lim)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What amazed me the most is the fact that such a simple exercise like tomb measuring could connect the dots in my understanding of those who went before me. It makes me wonder what interesting facts I can discover from my grandparents\u2019 tomb. <a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=2673\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Qing Ming<\/em> (\u6e05\u660e)<\/a> would have been more fun if we were told about all these unique cultural factoids.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Tan\u2019s tomb is just one tomb. There are about 4,000 tombs that are going to be destroyed without proper measurement and documentation because of the building of a highway that will cut Bukit Brown into half. Who knows what other important life insights we might have missed by not preserving and treasuring the stories of those who went before us.<\/p>\n<p>There are 100,000 graves at Bukit Brown. Imagine how much time and effort will be needed to document them all. And as a digital heritage enthusiast, I can\u2019t help but wonder if there could be better and faster ways to do this. Looks like my journey have just begun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9179\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9179\" class=\"wp-image-9179 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Tomb Measurement 1 _Ee Hoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-1-_Ee-Hoon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One for the album with the full team. Andrew on the left , Simone, Joshua and Wei Ming with his drawing, (photo Ee Hoon)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9182\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9182\" class=\"wp-image-9182 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Tomb Measurement 4 _Ee Hoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tomb-Measurement-4-_Ee-Hoon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Lai Chee Kien (third from left) sharing a light- hearted moment with his students (photo Ee Hoon)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9177\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Group-photoa_Tan-Wei-Ming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9177\" class=\"wp-image-9177 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Group-photoa_Tan-Wei-Ming-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo_Tan Wei Ming\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Group-photoa_Tan-Wei-Ming-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Group-photoa_Tan-Wei-Ming-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Group-photoa_Tan-Wei-Ming.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inaugural class of June&#8217;14 (photo Wei Ming)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9176\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9176\" class=\"wp-image-9176 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Drawings+Khoo Ee Hoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Drawings+Khoo-Ee-Hoon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the drawings from mainly the architectural students of the workshop (photo Ee Hoon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Editors note<\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".1m0.1:3:1:$comment668262586577292_668280469908837:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".1m0.1:3:1:$comment668262586577292_668280469908837:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1m0.1:3:1:$comment668262586577292_668280469908837:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0\">Documenting and taking precise measurements provide valuable data\u00a0 to analyze the proportions and variations through IT applications and ultimately relate it to Feng Shui. Tombstones are not just built, they are &#8220;feng shui&#8217;ed&#8221; Citizenry participation in a project like this is crucial because of the sheer size of Bukit Brown and because it signals a deeper engagement of ordinary people in wanting to understand all aspects of Bukit Brown. So kudos to Lai Chee Kien<\/span><span data-reactid=\".1m0.1:3:1:$comment668262586577292_668280469908837:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\"> for this initiative and the first batch of participants for signing up. Hopefully there will be more.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What the tomb measurement workshop covered <a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=9036\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; by\u00a0 Joshua Ng Instead of enjoying a quiet and uneventful Saturday, I chose to spend it at a live tomb measurement exercise. 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After a round of introductions, I was assigned to a team with Wei Ming (the drawing maestro), Andrew\u00a0 and Simone who are Brownies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,115,81,93],"tags":[545,546,544],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-gallery-photo-exhibitions","category-slider","category-your-say","tag-feng-shui","tag-lai-chee-kien","tag-tomb-measurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Report on Tomb Measurement Workshop - Bukit Brown: A World Monuments Watch Site in 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2014\/report-on-tomb-measurement-workshop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Report on Tomb Measurement Workshop - Bukit Brown: A World Monuments Watch Site in 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; by\u00a0 Joshua Ng Instead of enjoying a quiet and uneventful Saturday, I chose to spend it at a live tomb measurement exercise. 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