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Following the success of the 2 Sundays DIY Tours at Bukit Brown, API has decided to release a Map showing the locations of the Notable Singapore Pioneers that lies resting in Bukit Brown.
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Follow the directional signs to the locations indicated on the map.
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Print out the API Map.
Directional Signs hung on red & white tapes will guide you to the tombs in the API Map.
Placard describing whose tomb you are standing before will be displayed. .
(More pics at our API facebook page).
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The directional signs and information placards will be maintained by API weekly.
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The Map will be updated on a weekly basis on new tombs discovered.
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API hopes that self-guided walking tours at Bukit Brown Cemeterywill help raise greater public awareness of the rich heritage found there. The site is set to be redeveloped for housing.
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Read more here.
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Please go here to read about how Bukit Brown has touched the people who visited Bukit Brown.
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Here is a poem I wrote some years ago. It seem appropriate now, and I delicate it to those who sleeps in Bukit Brown….
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Let me dream while I can,
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Let me see the stars while I can,
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Let me cry, let me laugh,
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Let me hold you in my arms, Let me be
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One day I may dream no more,
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One day I may not wake up,
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But do remember me, let me live on,
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Don’t ever forget that I ever exist.
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A man’s life is so short, in a twinkle he is gone.
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There’s so much to see, so much to discover.
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Wouldn’t you hold my hand, and together let’s fly to the stars
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And one day when I am very, very old, let me close my eyes,
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Let me dream forever.
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Written by Charles Goh
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Do you know someone in Bukit Brown whom you think that fellow Singaporean should know too? Write to me at charles@api.sg and we’ll see if he/she can be put on our Map.
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Are you with the government? API would love to be your Guide to Bukit Brown, because we have many friends there waiting to meet you. And maybe, just maybe, Bukit Brown could be spared, for the current and future generations of Singaporeans to come.
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Leading the fight to conserve Bukit Brown, Raymond Goh, Tomb explorer, Heritage Buff and Historian. has led the following Government Bodies on the Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery Discovery Trail:
– 26 Aug 2011 – Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
– 9 & 24 Sep 2011 – Presevation of Monuments Board (PMB)
– 12 Sep 2011 – Land Transport Authority (LTA)
– 21 Sep 2011 – GOV