{"id":9684,"date":"2014-12-31T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2015-03-23T00:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T16:24:27","slug":"goh-brothers-personalities-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2014\/goh-brothers-personalities-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Goh Brothers &#8211; Personalities of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>All Things Bukit Brown congratulates\u00a0 Raymond and Charles Goh who have been chosen by Chinese news daily Zaobao to be included in\u00a0 their list of Personalities of 2014. For the Brownies, it is a timely recognition for the 2 brothers who have been exploring and uncovering the &#8220;lost&#8221; heritage and history of Singapore since the mid 2000s. Their hard work, sheer doggedness in research and walking the ground, is our inspiration, and we are proud to claim them as Brownies and proud, we walk with them<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>===============================================<\/p>\n<p>Translated Article by Raymond Goh<\/p>\n<div class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><strong>2014 Personality of the Year by Zaobao weekly, Dec 28, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raymond Goh (51) and Charles Goh (46),\u00a0 Looking at history through the departed<\/p>\n<p>If not for praying to one\u2019s ancestors, one would not usually go to the cemetery. That day the reporter asked a taxi driver to drive her to Bukit Brown cemetery. The driver was not very happy, and so she has to alight at approx. 200 metres from the cemetery at the road cross junction. But the Goh brothers does not have any sort of taboo. They keep on bringing people to the cemetery to look for their roots, rediscovering old tombs hidden in the depths of the forest, bringing history back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since Sep 2011 when news broke out that part of Bukit Brown has to give way to a road and approx 5000 tombs has to be exhumed, nearly twice a month during weekends and public holidays, one would see volunteer guides from all walks of life known as \u201cBrownies\u201d wearing Bukit Brown heritage T shirts, and guiding the public on the history and heritage of Bukit Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond and Charles Goh are a familiar pair among the Brownies and the pioneering guides among them.<\/p>\n<p>Bukit Brown Pioneering Explorers<\/p>\n<p>Charles Goh is a construction safety manager and has from young like to explore the unknown to get to the root of matters. Some things will be forgotten or disappear as one grow up, and Charles hope to revive the forgotten collective memories. Since the SARS crisis of 2003, Charles responded to the call of STB and together with his brother registered as tourist guides. They do voluntary guiding for visitors to the cemetery, and let these visitors know Singapore in an unique way.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Raymond Goh, a pharmacist, they founded Asia Paranormal Investigators, as a step forward to fulfil their ambition to research all things unknown. Since 2006 they also started to lead tours to Bukit Brown, do research into tombs and even design a cemetery map for the public to do DIY tours on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond said that Bukit Brown and the surrounding Seh Ong and Hokkien cemeteries has a total of 200,000 tombs, with the earliest dating all the way to 1826. From that year to the closure of the cemeteries in the early 1970s, one can see 150 years of changes and transformations reflected through the tombstones of Bukit Brown. Our history is gathered piece by piece from the collective stories of all these tombstones.<\/p>\n<p>2014 Great Finds<\/p>\n<p>Through the efforts of Charles, Raymond and the Brownies, there has been a surge in interest to find one&#8217;s ancestor. Due to the passage of time and insufficient information, the success rate of finding one&#8217;s ancestor for these tombs is only about 50%, but the rediscoveries of pioneers\u2019 tombs provide much encouragement to the Goh Brothers. This year alone, the two great finds are the founder of Hong San See temple Neo Jin Quee and the family cluster tombs of Lee Kuan Yew maternal ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the archives, Hong San See founder Neo Jin Quee was relocated to Bukit Brown cemetery. When Raymond Goh first encountered this tomb, he combined forces with local history researchers Walter Lim and Ang Yik Han to research into this tomb and finally confirmed the identity of this tomb. The discovery of Neo Jin Quee\u2019s tomb and the tombs of his wife, son and daughter-in-law provide important clues to the study of the immigrant stories of early Lam Ann people to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, in Jun this year, a news report to find the rickshaw puller Koh Teong Koo made Raymond recalled about Lee Kuan Yew maternal grandfather Chua Kim Teng and maternal grandmother Leong Ah Soon. Based on the clue provided by tombkeeper Soh Ah Beng, Raymond and Walter Lim finally found the tombs of Chua Kim Teng, his second wife and his father\u2019 tombs. They later managed to find Leong Ah Soon\u2019s tomb from the burial register, that is Chua Kim Teng\u2019s third wife. The Chuas were a typical Peranakan family, and Chua Kim Teng was a successful merchant. These finds provide important historical information for the study of this early Chua pioneer family.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from graves, Charles Goh is also interested into heritage sites and ruins. Not long ago, together with NHB Group Director (Policy) Alvin Tan, they rediscovered a century old lunatic asylum wall, which provide valuable information for the study of this early institution.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest difficulty in finding graves is not mosquitos and insects bites, nor wild snakes or animals, nor wild vegetation, but the limited information and resources to find the graves.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are burial records in Bukit Brown, many descendants does not know the dates their ancestors passed away, and some can only remember their ancestors\u2019 Chinese names, while the records are in English. The lesser the information, the more difficult will be the tomb find.<br \/>\nAs such, Raymond said that sometimes it require more than the efforts of one or two persons, but the combined efforts and expertise of many volunteers to help find a tomb.<\/p>\n<p>As for 2015, the Goh brothers will keep on their volunteer work of researching and finding tombs, and their mission is to find an earlier tomb than 1826 as there were already Chinese people then who died before that.<\/p>\n<p>By Mok Mei Ngan<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9686\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-image-9686 \" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"ZB Personality of the Year\" width=\"494\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-280x142.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Yap Chin Tiong &#8211; Raymond and Charles Goh has been researching and rediscovering old tombs in Singapore and sparked local grave interest<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>Catch a video of Raymond Goh on <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fzaobao.com%2F&amp;h=1AQGwNVUR&amp;enc=AZMUhXkUl9YMRETQkCeFhr2NbnHVKRJbnimuE8T2oymNQF6mYHbAlFWl_W0fv4VjdTVG6n_CHv8jmI-qay7_GeHlY9XsH3opllQYtw1toOJchtcNMjHFUkrbX3RwRkQQNBXzlfN8mXPBKKcMTYjZ_pBV&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">zaobao.com<\/a>, sharing his interesting discovery of Bukit Brown Cemetery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaobao.com.sg\/media\/video\/story20141228-428660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>================================================<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9690 \" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ZB Personality of the Year 3\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9692 \" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-4-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"ZB Personality of the Year 4\" width=\"390\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-4-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zaobao weekly &#8211; 2014 Personality of the Year<br \/>\nThey may not be famous people in the limelight,<br \/>\nBut yet each in their chosen field give out their own light and heat and leave behind beautiful imprints in 2014<\/p>\n<p>There is a Western proverb \u201cThe devil is in the details\u201d, which means that it is in the details which spell success<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>These six personalities selected by Zaobao Now are chosen especially for their insightful analysis and acute observation, taking care of the whole situation, yet not leaving out the smallest details to ensure success for their endeavours<\/p>\n<p>They are :<\/p>\n<p>Two relatively unknown \u201camateur archaeologists\u201d brothers Raymond Goh and Charles Goh who started to find old tombs to return back history. In this rapidly growing city of ours, they search for old tombs and uncover lost history. They also bring people to cemeteries to search for their roots and let the light shine once more upon the hidden tombs in the forest, bringing history back to life<\/p>\n<p>Artist Ong Keng Seng who revamped the Singapore International Festival of Arts to reach out to a wider audience. His 12 chosen productions attracted widespread discussion<\/p>\n<p>Chef Julien Royer from Swissotel Stamford Jaan restaurant for his passon in the culinary arts and for winning multiple culinary awards, and let foreigners look at Singapore food scene<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Sim Chi Yin. Originally an ST correspondent based in Bejing, she give up journalism for photography, and use her passion for the lens to reflect Chinese mainstream society in China. In July this year She became the only Asian photographer to join the Internationally renowned VII Photo Agency. In Oct she was selected by Her World magazine as this year Young Woman Achiever<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lee Meng Soon for beig the first non-Taiwanese to win the Best Actor Award in the 49th Golden Bell Awards. His win means that the top awards coming from Taiwan for the Cinema, Music and TV all have been won by our local artistes, and mean that here we do have internationally recognized acting talents.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Lin for winning the 25th Golden Melody Awards for best mandarin male singer. He also won two awards from the 19th annual Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS) for top local artiste for the 6th consecutive time and best song writer for the 4th time<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9689 \" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-2-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"ZB Personality of the Year 2\" width=\"288\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-2-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-2-234x320.jpg 234w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ZB-Personality-of-the-Year-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All Things Bukit Brown congratulates\u00a0 Raymond and Charles Goh who have been chosen by Chinese news daily Zaobao to be included in\u00a0 their list of Personalities of 2014. 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