Data Entry (as of 24 Dec 2008)

Info on Telok Blangah

Period	Category	Name	From	To	Brief Description	Data	Event	When	Remark
P	Animal	Fish				O	Singapore was at first a fishing village
P	Animal	Lion				O	was spotted by Utama
P	Animal	Merlion			Tourist icon of Singapore	O	has a 2nd replica in Mount Faber	1998
P	Animal	Merlion					is afraid of flying and was almost made to fly to Venice by artist Lim Tzay Chuen	2005
P	Animal	Tiger				I	was spotted by Utama, but advised that it was a Lion instead
P	Animal	Tiger				O	refers to Singapore, among 4 Asia Economic Tigers (the other 3 being Taiwan, Korea & Hong Kong)
	Animal	Bird					Escaped Hornbill sighted in TB
	Animal	Great Hornbill					sighted in TB, escaped from captivity
P	Being	Pontianak			Ghost	I	was spotted at Alkaff Mansion	2002
P	Event	Between, Beside, Beyond				O		2007	1st solo exhibition of Daniel Libeskind in Asia
P	Event	Mutiny					Indian soldiers (sepoys) mutinied against their British Officers in India.	1857	Activity: Protest
	Event	Lightning Strike					at Signal Stataion and Flagstaff
	Event	Mail Flag Signal					"For some years, I lived under this huge flag mast on Telok Blangah Hill. Every time the 19th-century mail ships arrived from Europe, special flags would be flown so that people in the city would know the mail had arrived."
	Event	Floods				1964
	Event	Fire
	Event	Ghost Sighting					Alkaff Mansion
	Event	Tree falling					31 Oct 2008, a 20-m tall tree fell onto a black and white bungalow; family from Asutrailia escaped unscathed	2008	http://www.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20081106-98644.html
	Event	Migration			of Pahang settlers to Telok Blangah				Travel
	Event	Telok Blangah Resettlement					heated argument landlords and TB's MP P Govindasamy	1972
	Event	Female Impersonation					Michael Lee won top prize in beauty pagent during army
	Event	Female Impersonation					Lee Dai Soh does it over the air
	Event	Paranormal help					in tracking down Huang Na murder
	Event	Murder					Huang Na
P	Event	Amazing Race 3					Mount Faber was pit-stop for Leg 10	2002	Media: TV
P	Event	Amazing Race Asia 2					Mount Faber was featured as a Route Marker for Leg 1	2007	Media: TV
	Event	Ho Ming Mao			student of Gan Eng Seng Secondary School		sleepwalked out of window	2008	http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080131-47516.html
	Event	Landscape Planning					Edmund Waller: "From the point of view of landscape planning, I suggest that the most successful residential development conceived during the first decade of the HDB was the new town and tourist attraction at Telok Blangah…." (Landscape Planning inSingapore, 2001, NUS Press)		http://books.google.com/books?id=L5kLBHwUwfEC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=telok+blangah&source=web&ots=EDRjSEWZ3g&sig=Z7mXsC0MshHcD4ZvfrjAXV0WOjs
P	Facility	Cable Car				O	7 killed when 2 cable-car cabins fell into the sea between Mt. Faber & Sentosa,	1983	Accident: Fatal
	Idea	Space Needle					Original intentions but unrealised
	Idea	Hotel					Original intentions but unrealised
P	Material	Clay			the material of Indian cooking pot, which Telok Blangah looks like	O
	Material	Soft soil					may have cause tree to fall		See Tree falling
P	Object	Crown				O	Utama the his crown off the boat during a storm to save the boat from capsizing	1299
	Object	Baju Kurung Telok Belanga			costume whose origin was in Telok Blangah; created and worn in Johor during the reign of Temenggong Abu Bakar Sri Maharaja.	1862			Naming, Culture
	Object	$5 nnote					features Tembusu tree found in Telok Blangah		See Temneusu
	Orgn	Singapore Free Press					published posting of Faber on 3 Oct 1844
	Orgn	Madras Engineer
	Orgn	Bata Shoe Factory			A Czech MNC that is often mistaken for a homegrown brand.		built on Telok Blangah Road	1964
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Toastmasters Club					Originally Tiong Bahru Toastmasters Club (est. 1998) which was moved to Telok Blangah in 2002		Name, Relocation, Culture
	Orgn	Seamen Training Centre	1979		regional training school in Telok Blangah
	Orgn	Radin Mas English School			formerly Engku Khalid's palace
	Orgn	UMNO			setup branch at Radin Mas
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Children's Home
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Soka Centre							Religion
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Estate Speed Dating							http://www.matchmaker.com/mm/speed-dating/singapore-telokblangahestate3.htm
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Mosque					Brick-faced walls and wide overhanging roofs characterize the mosque which responds to climate by adapting the traditional courtyard plan. The plan shape follows the parallelogram geometry of the site, clashing internally with the plan of the main space.		http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=1088
	Orgn	Telok Blangah Community Centre
	Orgn	Tsao Foundation - Hua Mei Seniors Clinic (Telok Blangah)			Eldercare
P	Person	Abdul Rahman, Temmengong		1826	Governor of Singapore	O	was resettled by Sir Stamford Raffles to shift from Singapore River to Telok Blangah		1st urban resettlement
P	Person	Anonymous			Chinese Man in 30s	O	stole taxi and crashed into a wall, Telok Blangah	2007	Crime: Theft & Suicide
P	Person	Brunner, Fraser				O	designed Merlion	1966
P	Person	Faber, Charles (Captain Charles Edward Faber)			engineer		Telok Blangah Hill was renamed Mount Faber after him, after he constructed the road and signal station up; Signal Station was removed from Blankan Mattie (Sentosa)	1945	See also Sentosa
P	Person	Huang, Na			Eight-year-old Chinese girl	O	was killed and found at Telok Blangah Hill Park	2007	Crime: Murder
N	Person	Lee, Hong-Hwee Michael	1972		Singapore-born artist	I	Commissioned artist for Telok Blangah Station	2010
P	Person	Lee, Kuan Yew			1st Prime Minister of Singapore	O	enjoys swimming		Activity: Recreation
P	Person	Libeskind, Daniel	1946		American architect	O			in project in Singapore is in Telok Blangah (Reflections at Keppel Bay)
P	Person	Puteri Raden Mas Ayu			16th-century Javanese princess		has a shrine at Mount Faber Road, near the junction with Telok Blangah Road
P	Person	Raffles, Sir Stamford	1781	1826	Modern founder of Singapore	O	Founded Singapore	1819	Founding: Modern
P	Person	Thomson, John Turnbull				O	made a painting from Pulau Brani entitled Telloh Blangah	1849	Art: History
P	Person	Utama, Sang Nila			Prince of Palembang	I		1299	Founding: Premodern
	Person	Randy			Security guard	I	saw ghosts	2007	Paranormal Phenomenon
	Person	Ramlee, P.			Filmmaker
	Person	Wang Dayuan	14th C		trader who travelled through Southeast Asia noted natives and Chinese lived side-by-side; also noted that Dan-ma-xi babarians were pirates
	Person	Pirate			Barabarians in Temasek, Utama was one also		Usually let ships pass unmolested to the west, but plundered returning shps when they reached Karimun island.
	Person	Chow Yun Fat			Hong Kong-born actor who played the role of pirate king of Singapore in the movie, Pirates of the Carribean; his wife is a Singaporean
	Person	Chow, Jasmine			wife of Chow Yun Fat; business manager (met 1984, married 1986)
	Person	Sun, Yat Sen			stayed on Golden Bell Mansion
	Person	Jeyaratname, Joshua Benjamin					contested in 1980 General Elections in Telok Blangah but lost to Rohan Bin Kamis	1980
	Person	Rohan Bin Kamis					won Jeyaratnam in 1980 Egenral Elections in Telok Blangah	1980
	Person	Lee, Dai Soh (originally Lee Fook Hung)	1913		Chinese storyteller		born in Telok Blangah; joined RTM and hosted a Cantonese programme, Tam Tin Shuit Tei, which ran for more than 30 years.  He went on to host other Cantonese programmes telling folktales, ghost stories, swordfighting stories, detective stories and Chinese classics."		Name
	Person	Tan, Boon Liat					lived in Danish Seamen's Church in Telok Blangah
	Person	Orang Laut			tribes at TB and Kallang River observed by Raffles				See Raffles, Kallang
	Person	Wedding couples					love to take photos at Telok Blangah Hill Park
	Person	Yeo, Vinson			founder of founder of Tiong Bahru Toastmaster Club`1998
	Person	Tamiya			Jap soldier during WW2
	Person	Yap Siong Eu					related story about a Jap soldier Tamiya
	Person	Shree Lakshimi Narayanan Temple
	Person	Dube, Ram Swarath			President of Shree Lakshimi Narayanan Temple		became SG citizen in 1962
	Person	Choo Teck Hong`					saw bombings in Telok Blangah, but scaped death
	Person	Abu Bakar bin Hj. Abdul Halim (Haji)			malay rulers in 14th c
	Person	P Govindasamy					had heated argument with landloards over TB resslement
	Person	Tang Mau Lee			mid-wife		runs mid-wife business at Telok Blangah
	Person	Tan Chwee Heng (Prof.)	1948				Stayed at Telok Blangah
	Person	Kamis, Rohan			Member of Parliament, Telok Blangah		won elections againist Jeyaratname
	Person	THUNG Syn Neo					Recounted case of a boy who was destructive in a volunteer children's home but gradually improved in his behaviour after transferring to Telok Blangah Children's Home.
	Person	TOH, Chew Seng			writer		had a column and book titled 花葩山 (Mount Faber)
	Person	Chay Wai Chuen					regular jogger at Mount Faber
	Person	Eugene Toh			President, Society of the Paranormal Investigators; a relative of Hunag Na's mum scored Timag and Faber after a friend had vision that she was held on a hill.				http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_289166.html
	Person	Police					dismissed paranormal clues to Hunag Na's body
	Person	Waller, Edmund			writer of Landscape Planning in Singapore				See landscape Planning
P	Place	Alkaff Mansion				O	"an elegant colonial bungalow built by an Arab trader and is previously a place for grand parties of the social elite. "		See ghost sighting
P	Place	Blk 101 Depot Road			Michael Lee stayed there				Autobiography
P	Place	Blk 103-107, 110-112 Depot Road					demolished		Urban Redevelopment: Demolition
P	Place	Bukit Bendera			Malay for Flag Hill
P	Place	Bukit Merah Planning Area				O
P	Place	Flagstaff					a new Flagstaff wa erected on Telok Blangah Hill. A month later it was struck by lighning and destroyed	1851
P	Place	Jewel Box				O	houses the cable car station on Mount Faber to Sentosa
P	Place	Mount Faber			Institution that explores Telok Blangah's past, present & future	O
F	Place	Museum of Cooking Pots	2028		Mass Rapid Transit Station of the Circle Line	I
P	Place	Observatory					was built on Mount Faber	1905
P	Place	Observatory					was built on Telok Blangah Hill	1905
P	Place	Palembang				O	was the place where Utama came from
F	Place	Reflection at Keppel Bay			Private apartments	O		2012	Architecture: 1st project designed by Daniel Libeskind in Singapore
P	Place	Signal Station					The Free Press, a local newspaper commented “…stupidly narrow road to the top….two persons meeting can barely pass each other….so much of renown is bestowed up him.”
N	Place	Singapore				O
P	Place	Sit Lat Mng			Hokkien for Telok Blangah for 'Singapore Gate' or 'North West Gate'	O
P	Place	Telok Blangah			a district between Pasir Panjang and Tanjong Pagar in Singapore to the south-west of the Central Business District in the southern part of the island. It is part of the Bukit Merah Planning Area,	O
P	Place	Telok Blangah Hill				O	was renamed Mount Faber	1945	Name: Renaming
P	Place	Telok Blangah Road					officially named	1907	Name
P	Place	Telok Blangah Station	2010			O
P	Place	Urban Redevlopment Authority	1974			O
P	Place	World Trade Centre				O
	Place	Hiap Guan San	1882	1970s	Cemetery at Telok Blangah Hill		was evacuated and removed to Choa Chu Kang	1882	Urban Legend
	Place	Simhapur (Vietnam's Lion City)	4th C	9th C	a Lion Citadel in Tra Kieu, Quang Nam province in Vietnam;the first capital of the Champa from 4th- 9th centuries
	Place	Lion City			Singapore's old name, Singapura		Singapore was the 4th place for a Lion City, after central Vietnam, Kelantan and Java		See also Simphapur, Chi Tu, Pajajaran
	Place	Chi Tu	7th C		literally, Red Earth		located near Kelantan		See Redhill
	Place	Redhill
	Place	Raktamrtikka	5th C	Sanskrit for Red Earth			Sanskrit inscription found in Kedah (likely to refer to Chi Tu)		See also Chi Tu, Redhill, Simphapur
	Place	Pajajaran	14th C		next potential Singapura, aka "Singha-pura"		Political marriage led to bloodshed; had syncretic mix of Hinduism and Buddhism		See Redhill, Chi Tu, Syncretism, Hinusim, Buddhism
	Place	Temasek			Old Malay for "city of the sea"; Singapore's name before Singapura
	Place	Sentosa			offshore island aka Blankan Mattie				Sinal station removed and installed on Mtelok Blangah Hill
	Place	Fort Faber					linked to Charles Faber
	Place	Ellenborough Market					linked to Charles Faber
	Place	Outram Prison					linked to Charles Faber
	Place	Faber's Bridge					by Chales Faber, known to be slipshod, "[Amongst] his peers, he, unfortunately, is known more for the few constructions which fell apart soon after they were built than for his engineering contructions that stood. He was highly criticised in the press for...the slip-shod construction of his unstable Faber's Bridge..."		http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_907_2004-12-23.html
	Place	Fort Canning Park					Charles Faber built a Gothic Style North Gateway to eastern section of Government Hill Cementary (now Fort Canning Park)	1846
	Place	Golden Bell Mansion			stayed by Sun Yat Sen and family during their travels here
	Place	Danish Seamen's Church			once home to Tan Boon Liat, who has factory in Tiong Bahru named after him, grandchild of Tan Tock Seng
	Place	The Southern Rdiges
	Place	Marang Trail
	Place	Faber Walk
	Place	Henderson Waves
	Place	Hilltop Walk
	Place	Forest Walk
	Place	Alexandra Arch
	Place	Malay Girls' School			first Malay vernecular girls' school			1884	First
	Place	Telok Blangah Hill Park			Recapturing the pAst Splendour		gathering place for trade communities since early 19th c, symbolised by Alkaff Mansion
	Place	Keng Seng Pri Sch					Attended by Michael Lee
	Place	Keng Seng Pri					merged with
	Place	Gan Eng Seng Pri					Merged from KSPS, Alexandra Hill Pri, Bt Ho Swee Pri, Henderson Pri	2002
	Place	Gan Eng Seng Sec					Attended by Michael Lee
	Place	Gan Eng Seng			merchant		founded Gan Eng Seng School 1885
	Place	Temmenggong Abu Bakar's palace					converted in Malay College
	Place	Mount Faber			Title of book and column by Toh Chew Seng
	Place	Bukit Merah Planning Area			TB is part of this
	Place	North West Gate					TB's Hokkien name: Sit Lat Mng
	Place	Pasir Panjang					TB is between Pasir Panjang and Tanjong Pagar
	Place	Tanjong Pagar
	Place	Malayan Railway
	Plant	Cannonball trees
	Plant	Tree Ferns
	Plant	Tembusu			Fagraea fragrans		Symbol of state-civil relations; Like the tembusu, Prof Koh noted, the Government was deep-rooted, strong and protective, but that it also permitted other plants (that is, civil society) to flourish in its vicinity.		http://www.wildsingapore.com/news/20070506/070609-5.htm
	Plant	Bougainvilleas
	Plants	Eugenia
	Plants	Alstonia
	Plants	Rain Trees
P	Word	Bendera			Malay for flag
P	Word	Blangah			Malay for cooking pot	O
P	Word	Singa			Malay for lion
P	Word	Telok			Malay for bay	O
	Event	Man					found deadhalf an hour after stealing taxi in Telok Blangah, crashed the car into a wall….		http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/man_found_dead_24315.html
	Person	Chinese Lady					her spirit haunted Riandi for 7 years
	Person	Xue (Madam Xue)
	Place	Xieyuan Hill			old name of TB Hill		burial ground for Yang familu from Fujian province since 1882		http://waynedhamma.blogspot.com/2007/03/trapped-soul-of-telok-blangah.html