Lim took us on a special genealogical tour of their family’s ancestors buried around Bukit Brown (which we quickly found out that their maternal grandmother Polly Tan-not buried at Bukit Brown-inspired Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill). Lim Su Min and her sister, playwright Stella Kon, were in attendance too. I still remember that faithful Saturday morning in April, just before Qing Ming: twenty odd of us trudging through rain, mud and hills across thousands and thousands of graves containing the remains of our forefathers-notable ones including Chew Boon Lay, Gan Eng Seng, Lim Chong Pang, Ong Sam Leong, just to name a few.ĭr. Lim Su Min serenades his ancestor to the rhythm of the falling rain in April 2012 (Photo: Claire Leow)Įarlier this year, on the invitation of Khoo Ee Hoon, a veteran Singapore theatre practitioner, I visited-for the very first time-Bukit Brown Cemetery.
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