Bukit Brown: A World Monuments Watch Site in 2014

Bukit Brown Wayfinder (2025) : The Scoop!

Admin 1 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:41:40 +0000

12th October, 2025 The Bukit Brown Wayfinder by all things Bukit Brown The Bukit Brown Wayfinder, a new self-guided trail of 32 graves with signage covering Hills 1 and 3 of Bukit Brown Cemetery at Lorong Halwa, has been launched. During the open house this afternoon, about 30 educators from secondary to tertiary institutions were invited to experience the trail with Guest-of-Honour Minister of Education Desmond Lee. The profiles reflected along the Wayfinder trail are the collective stories of Singapore’s […]

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

Adminstrator 1 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:49:49 +0000

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

Adminstrator 1 — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:57:39 +0000

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

Adminstrator 1 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 08:19:53 +0000

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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atBB looks back! Nature Society Position Paper on Bukit Brown

Adminstrator 1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 23:19:24 +0000

28 October, 2023 by Catherine Lim It was the April-Jun 2012 edition of Nature Watch, the Nature Society of Singapore (NSS) bi- monthly magazine of hot topics. This one featured the position paper and recommendations for Bukit Brown Cemetery together with a ed-op piece and photo feature titled “Spirit of Bukit Brown” The latter by Ilsa Sharpe, who was on a visit from Perth, which was now home. A revisit was undertaken in the light of news following the announcement […]

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Guided Walk to Hills 1 & 3 by Fabian & Catherine

Adminstrator 1 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:33:00 +0000

Guided Walk of 10th September’23, 9am to 11.30am A stopover at the the triple Wee tombs with a matriarch buried in the center flanked by her son on her left and daughter in law on the right. This was to familarise the group on material culture and what it represents, from protection to insurance for future descendants to be taken care of. Catherine drew attention to the magnificent trees surrounding the junction of Hills 3 & 2 & 5, hosting […]

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Guided walk to Hill 4 :Report by Catherine

Adminstrator 1 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:30:16 +0000

14 October, 2023 A guided walk to the rarely traversed hill 4 saw a turnout of 20 enthusiasts, some repeat customers, but the majority were first timers. Our passing stop was the tomb of Tan Chor Nam, enroute to Hill 4, where Fabian explained the importance of the man who was the founder member of the Tong Meng Hui, the revolutionary arm of Sun Yat Sen, widely acknowledged as the founder President of the Republic of China. At Hill 4, […]

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Ong Chong Chew – Found!

Adminstrator 1 — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 03:42:31 +0000

#Flashback: 10 October 2012 by Catherine Lim I was working on a production of History from the Hills – an 8 episode docu series which traces the history of Singapore from the perspective of Chinese pioneers who made significant contributions to society and the region in the late 1800s to the 1900s (post-war) and who are buried in Bukit Brown. We were to shoot a sequence with Ong Chwee Imm – whose great great grandfather Ong Chong Chew was one […]

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Bianca: The Brownie from Holland

Adminstrator 1 — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 04:47:33 +0000

By day, she has project managed some of Singapore’s transportation system projects such as the flight information displays in Changi Airport and road tunnel systems for LTA. But come the weekends or public holidays, one of Bianca Polak’s favourite places is Bukit Brown Cemetery, leading the public on guided walks. She first visited Bukit Brown in early 2012 and came on a few guided walks conducted by the Brownies before naturally falling in step with the volunteers and started conducting guided […]

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“I Found A Bone” – Victory Day

Adminstrator 1 — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:01:33 +0000

#Flashback “12 September 1945, General Seishiro, along with four other Generals and two Admirals, entered the City Hall Chamber to formally surrender Singapore to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the British Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.” From Roots on WW II timeline. So today marks Victory Day. But the joy and relief must have been short lived as people woke up to victory and at the same time came to grips with the loss and damage wreaked by three […]

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