Hwa chong students want station named after their founder
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Originally posted by jayh272416:
HCI good school meh? I thought HCI is hougang central interchange?haha! i might as well call my own school Hydrochloric Acid...HCl
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nene from HCI??
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1. move this thread over to chit chat. train forum is for talking about TRAINS, not arguing about TRAIN STATION NAMES.
2. rename this thread "hwa chong ALUMNI want station named after their founder". read the news article carefully.
3. i personally do not like the idea of naming the station as kah kee station, just like you don't name the station near acs 'bishop oldham station', nor is the station near RI named 'raffles station'. and neither is singapore called "lee kuan yew land". however this thread is for the discussion of why not to name the station as such, and NOT for flaming the school. please do not go off-topic. open another new thread elsewhere if you want to do so. and besides, as mentioned above, this is in the wrong forum.
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Originally posted by 201911:
1. move this thread over to chit chat. train forum is for talking about TRAINS, not arguing about TRAIN STATION NAMES.
2. rename this thread "hwa chong ALUMNI want station named after their founder". read the news article carefully.
3. i personally do not like the idea of naming the station as kah kee station, just like you don't name the station near acs 'bishop oldham station', nor is the station near RI named 'raffles station'. and neither is singapore called "lee kuan yew land". however this thread is for the discussion of why not to name the station as such, and NOT for flaming the school. please do not go off-topic. open another new thread elsewhere if you want to do so. and besides, as mentioned above, this is in the wrong forum.
talk also no use
go vote la
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kah kee sounds abit la ka kia
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Originally posted by 201911:
1. move this thread over to chit chat. train forum is for talking about TRAINS, not arguing about TRAIN STATION NAMES.
2. rename this thread "hwa chong ALUMNI want station named after their founder". read the news article carefully.
3. i personally do not like the idea of naming the station as kah kee station, just like you don't name the station near acs 'bishop oldham station', nor is the station near RI named 'raffles station'. and neither is singapore called "lee kuan yew land". however this thread is for the discussion of why not to name the station as such, and NOT for flaming the school. please do not go off-topic. open another new thread elsewhere if you want to do so. and besides, as mentioned above, this is in the wrong forum.
This thread was initially was at Chit Chat.
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they like to anyhw move threads one lah.
dat time i posted abt one event mgmt co.
they oso moved to world & asia pac news.
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Originally posted by nenepokey:
haha! i might as well call my own school Hydrochloric Acid...HCl
Its HCL leh...
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Since when was HCI a landmark?
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Lets be democratic.
Chinese name, Indian name, Malay name, vote on it. Majority vote wins.
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After careful assessment, three names were chosen for each station for this public polling exercise. The selection of the shortlisted names is based on the following general guidelines that the station name should:
· Identify the location readily so that all commuters can easily remember the names and identify the area of the station
· Illustrate the history and heritage of the station surroundings if relevant
· Reflect the multi-racial, multi-cultural character of Singapore if possible.
Hwa Chong at least still can reflect history but Kah Kee? Might as well name the depot after the contractor's boss name.
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seriously, the choice of names for the station sounds weird.
Duchess and Watten are essentially 2 residential slipways, with most of the landed properties along these 2 strips of road habited by expats.
and Kahkee sounds strange. it does not sounds that normal like "eunos"...
aniwae, i think it is quite stupid to build so many mrt stations so closely together. lrt may be more suitable, since the length between each stn is quite short. you can walk from serene center to blackmore if you want.
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eunos is normal?
like........................... how? -
Tell you guys what to do.
Rename all MRT stations after Pokémon creatures. That will solve the problems once and for all.
And there's 493 of them. New York, even with it's gigantic subway system, has around 470 stations currently at most. There's enough to go around in Singapore for now and the future.
Imagine: "Next stop, Kyogre. Passengers going towards Lugia or Pikachu, please alight at this station."
*bricked*
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Originally posted by eX.A.K.R.:
Tell you guys what to do.
Rename all MRT stations after Pokémon creatures. That will solve the problems once and for all.
And there's 493 of them. New York, even with it's gigantic subway system, has around 470 stations currently at most. There's enough to go around in Singapore for now and the future.
Imagine: "Next stop, Kyogre. Passengers going towards Lugia or Pikachu, please alight at this station."
*bricked*
Aiya, should be landmark la. Pallet town
Next stop, Pallet Station, Passengers going towards Viridian station or Cerulean station, please alight at this station
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Originally posted by Beaten_And_Damned:
Aiya, should be landmark la. Pallet town
Next stop, Pallet Station, Passengers going towards Viridian station or Cerulean station, please alight at this station
Passengers may choose to alight at this station and battle the elite 4 over at the parliament house. -
Originally posted by FireIce:
eunos is normal?
like........................... how?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunos,_Singapore
Inche Muhammad Eunos Abdullah was the Chairman and co-founder of the Kesatuan Melayu Singapura (the Singapore Malay Union) and the first Malay representative of the Legislative Council, the then governing body of Singapore. In 1927, he appealed to the government and was granted $700,000 that the Kesatuan Melayu Singapura used to purchased 240 hectares of land, which later became known as Kampong Melayu.
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Kampong Melayu is present day Geylang Serai so yeah, station and area is named after him. We haven't seen a Kah Kee Road anywhere near Duchess though.
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How also a piang name would suffice.
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aiya i think its all up to them la.
Who cares what name is taken, who has the dedication to vote,
who will win. And no need so dead mind everything must follow according
to senses or what. MRT must be named after a road meh?
Who say the rule one sia?
And once the name is set also no one will be bothered to complain
about it, just let it go rofl. Its not like the tourist won't bother to check up
the directory to see what roads have what mrt stations, etc.
So don't be so central and straight minded that stations can't have
unique names. Theres always a "first".
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name the stn after Lee, Goh or Lee (junior).
best.
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At least MGS founder has a street named after her. TKK has none. Those HCI students too big for their own boots liao.
Anyway, is Petir Station co-located with BPJ LRT? IIRC there is also an LRT stop named petir in the vicinity.
My votes: Tekka (after Tekka Mall), Wayang Satu (named after the flyover), Watten (Estate), Blackmore (Drive), 7th Mile (if we have TMJ, why not this one), Hillview (Road), Chesstnut (Drive) and Zhenghua (constituency).
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Hi all,
If you are able and willing to put aside all your inherent biasness and pre-conceived notions about this school, ask yourself, whats inherently wrong with naming it Kah Kee station? Tan Kah Kee is a philanthropist who donated large sums of money, not only to Hwa Chong, but to build other schools like Tao Nan School and Xiamen University in China. I'd say his altruism is certainly laudable. And thats only snippets of his contributions. If you dont know about him, go and read up before you allow your inherent biasness and illogical feelings to blind your rational thinking. Personally, its okay if you contain such petty and unsubstantiated biasness within yourself. Because from the way most of you put forth your points, you are making a laughing stock of yourself, seriously. Speaks volume of your maturity and jealousy for some, to put it very bluntly.
Seriously, Duchess MRT station or Watten MRT station!?! If I were to ask you where is Duchess Rd, do you know where it is? Watten? Tsk tsk. You would probably describe Duchess Rd as a road "beside Hwa Chong". If I were to say Hwa Chong, much as many of you hate to admit, you will know decisively that its smack right in the middle of Bukit Timah. So isn't it more feasible to have the station named Hwa Chong, or somewhat related in that matter, for easy identification?And please dont draw unrelated extrapolations like "oh, if Hwa Chong can name their own MRT station as such, so can Raffles and _________________ etc etc" sort of arguments. Look at the geographical location of the MRT station before you make such flimsy arguments. For instance, some of you might be thinking Bishan Station could be named as Raffles Station instead, or Catholic High Station, (and the list goes on). But pry your eyes wide open. Duchess station is so near to Hwa Chong, what about others?
I find statements associating Hwa Chong with bookworms, muggers, etc blindly most appalling and abhorrent. Are you from that school? If you are not from that school, who are you to criticise and make unreserved, deceitful and impressionistic opinions on that school? How well do you know the school's culture, bonds and dynamics? To me, it sadly exposes your inability to evaluate a scenario rationally.
It does not take a genius to guess where I come from. Yes, your guess is probably right. And I am proud of it. Before opportunistic individuals make use of this as a platform to rebuke me, albeit in an infantile manner, about being an elitist, please allow me to make a disclaimer, I am anti-elitism. I have said my piece. I encourage comments, but I'll only bother replying to sensible and mature replies. Thank you. :)
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Originally posted by Scania:
The Hwa chong guys are doing it again, that time they suggest Hwa Chong as the name of the station outside their school (which was tentatively Duchess), now they want that station named after their founder, Mr Tan Kah Kee. There are three choices for Duchess: Duchess, Watten and Kah Kee.
Yes Mr Tan Kah Kee has been a great contributor to Singapore and the Chinese community, but naming the station outside Hwa Chong after their founder is too much. Already Zaobao is reporting that the students would vote for Kah Kee, so chances of them winning is quite high if there is only a few people participating in the naming exercise. But is it necessary for a single non-university institution to have a station with a name related to their school outside their school, if like this, every other school with a MRT station should participate in naming competitions naming it after their school.
Go to the following website and click surveys then "Downtown Line Stage 2 – Public Polling Exercise" (or maybe available at main page side panel) to poll. Please vote for Duchess instead of Kah Kee.
I suggest the station name NATHAN, a former teacher at Duchess primary school in 1960's who is known as a chief gangster of Duchess Primary School.
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Originally posted by Bedoks:
I suggest the station name NATHAN, a former teacher at Duchess primary school in 1960's who is known as a chief gangster of Duchess Primary School.
wth??? who the hell is this person? -
Originally posted by gohby:
And please dont draw unrelated extrapolations like "oh, if Hwa Chong can name their own MRT station as such, so can Raffles and _________________ etc etc" sort of arguments. Look at the geographical location of the MRT station before you make such flimsy arguments. For instance, some of you might be thinking Bishan Station could be named as Raffles Station instead, or Catholic High Station, (and the list goes on). But pry your eyes wide open. Duchess station is so near to Hwa Chong, what about others?
Allow me to counter this with a few statements:
If Duchess station's final name ends up being Kah Kee, this name will be relevant to it's surroundings. But, what happens if the school moves out? Highly unlikely, you say, but metro lines are there for the long-term (there's rapid transit systems in the world that are over a hundred years old), and no one can be able to forsee what might happen in the future. Raffles Insitution's current address, I believe, was not it's address a mere 20 to 30 years ago; a few of our MRT stations are that old, if not older. What if Hwa Chong Insitution moves out in, say, 30 years' time? Could the name Kah Kee, a much-unheard name, still have immediate relevancy to the surrounding neighbourhood? For future generations living there?
Also, the name Kah Kee might invite unwanted jokes. I won't go into this, but if you speak Hokkien, you will understand the nature of these jokes. If he's such a great person, his name should be protected from such jokes to protect his dignity.