{"id":13681,"date":"2023-11-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:11:16","slug":"grave-matters-the-greater-bukit-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/grave-matters-the-greater-bukit-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave Matters \u2013 The Greater Bukit Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_type=&#8221;circular&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction_radial=&#8221;top left&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.89) 30%|rgba(255,255,255,0) 80%&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.89)&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position=&#8221;30%&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0)&#8221; 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Established in 2012, the group advocates for the conservation of the abundant heritage and ecological value within Greater Bukit Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201c[Bukit Brown Cemetery] is a place that represents the stories of our early pioneers and their contributions to Singapore. It\u2019s a space which represents an important green lung for Singapore and [is] ecologically diverse,\u201d Peter Pak Yew Guan, 50, project manager at the National Library Board and an admin of the Facebook group, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In 1922, Bukit Brown Cemetery marked the inauguration of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlb.gov.sg\/main\/article-detail?cmsuuid=4d144626-6b4c-4ef3-a5c2-fb508100562c\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">first Chinese municipal cemetery<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">. To meet the growing demand for more Chinese burial grounds, the municipal government opened Bukit Brown Cemetery, where one did not require communal affiliations to be buried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Notable pioneers located there include Ong Sam Leong, a successful businessman, Lim Chong Pang after whom Chong Pang Village and Chong Pang Road were named, and Khoo Seok Wan, a poet and prolific literary figure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following its closure in 1973, it has been gradually reclaimed by the surrounding forest. Today, it\u2019s bordered by three cemeteries, Seh Ong, Lao Sua (Old Hill) and Kopi Sua (Coffee Hill).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leong Kwok Peng, 66, a volunteer with the Nature Society, said, \u201cThe forest provides a very good environmental service, [it] provides oxygen, cools down the temperature, and is beautiful. 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Their efforts came in various forms, ranging from volunteers conducting guided tours, writing blog posts to document graves, and assisting descendants in locating their ancestors\u2019 graves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Darren Koh, 55, Associate Professor from the Singapore University of Social Sciences\u2019s School of Law is among these individuals, offering free guided tours at Bukit Brown Cemetery. He said, \u201cI&#8217;m doing it to try to save Bukit Brown, and to show people that it&#8217;s not [just] a stone. 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On this weekend, they braved a horde of wasps to clean and document tombs. <em>Photo by Elena Tay.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Montreal Medium||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; inline_fonts=&#8221;Montreal Medium&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Alongside these efforts, Mr Pak also runs a blog, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mymindisrojak.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Rojak Librarian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">. Initially created in 2004 to share his life experiences, Mr Pak transitioned to blogging about the dead in 2013. He now utilises his platform to write autobiographies of the pioneers buried in areas like Bukit Brown, Ipoh and Choa Chu Kang.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This has also turned into one of the communication channels that descendants can use to contact Mr Pak for assistance in locating their ancestors\u2019 tombs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One of the reconnected descendants, Lilian Wong, was unaware of the existence of her great grandmother\u2019s tomb since the ancestor had passed away before her mother was born. Ms Wong only discovered the tomb after coming across <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mymindisrojak.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/madam-phua-kim-neo-bukit-brown.html?m=1&amp;fbclid=IwAR3M70BCNfo_38dfEqHUUYTUiyYOkiIqahy9ytMNSEHYRixOkpF68vN8Y2c\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Mr Pak\u2019s blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"> and managed to reunite with her ancestors with Mr Pak and Mr Goh\u2019s help. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 2023 alone, the pair has already reconnected six or seven descendants to their ancestors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Despite the efforts put into preserving the heritage and ecology of Greater Bukit Brown, the Ministry of National Development (MND) announced in 2013 that Greater Bukit Brown has been earmarked for possible land use allocation in Singapore beyond 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/hypesingapore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image2.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;image2&#8243; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montreal Medium||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; transform_scale_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_scale_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate=&#8221;0px|-22px&#8221; transform_translate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_translate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_translate_linked=&#8221;off&#8221; transform_rotate_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_rotate_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_skew_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_skew_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_origin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transform_origin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; transform_styles_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;31px||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; transform_styles_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; transform_styles_phone=&#8221;&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greater Bukit Brown being labelled as a possible residential area in the future. <em>Image taken from <\/em><\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MNDsingapore\/photos\/a.267436009951129\/572322866129107\/?type=3&amp;ref=embed_post\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MND<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Montreal Medium||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; inline_fonts=&#8221;Montreal Medium&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">However, according to the latest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ura.gov.sg\/maps\/?service=MP\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master Plan 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">, the Greater Bukit Brown area has been \u00a0 classified as \u201cCemetery\u201d instead of \u201cResidential\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a collection of memories and it connects and ties you to a different place, in a different time. 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