Hwa chong students want station named after their founder
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Originally posted by mrtfan:
I agree with gohby. I am from Raffles Institution, and I find it very abhorrant that people think RI guys are nerdy, muggers, etc. etc. If you are not from this school, you have no right to criticise it.Mr. Tan Kah Kee was a great philantrophist and donated great sums of money to found schools. Naming a station after him is no big deal and I don't understand the fuss. After all, Eunos is named after Enche Muhammad Eunos Abdullah, a great Malay philantrophist, who founded Kampong Melayu, later named after him. Aljunied is named after Syed Omar bin Ali Al Junied, a Yemeni philanthropist. His charitable acts included donating a large plot of land in Victoria Street for the purposes of a Muslim burial ground and the construction of a mosque in Bencoolen Street. The land where St Andrews Church stands was also donated by him. He contributed largely to the setting up of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Therefore, Kah Kee Station will not be the first to be named after a philantrophist. Even though Enche Eunos and Syed Omar bin Ali Al Junied have roads named after them, it does not mean that an MRT station can't be named after Mr. Tan Kah Kee. Is it that difficult to accept that?
In other countries, metro stations are also named after great revolutionaries. In Paris, metro stations are named after square or a street, which, in turn, is probably named for something (or someone) else. There are metro stations named Franklin D. Roosevelt, George V, Charles de Gaulle, Pasteur, Bolivar, Michelangelo, Garibaldi and Stalingrad, just to name a few. Even though there is an av. Franklin D. Roosevelt, there are no exits from Franklin D. Roosevelt station to av. Franklin D. Roosevelt. George V station too. So, what's the fuss?
NickL_C151's suggestion is sound. Probably the whole station could be dedicated to Mr. Tan Kah Kee, with miniature statues, paintings, and the station can be done up like a small museum in his honour, depicting his life and contributions to Singapore's educational system. It could even become a tourist attraction! To reduce confusion among the public or in the case that HCI moves out, we can have double names for the station (Kah Kee-Duchess or Kah Kee-Watten). Again, this example is taken from Paris, which has double-named stations like Richelieu-Drouot, Reuilly-Chaligny and Saint Sebastien-Froissart. Doesn't this satisfy everybody?
Could someone suggest this to LTA.
I agree that it is a great idea. There is no need for any of us to suggest this to LTA. Just ask those HCI students to do what they good at..
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eh the survey no more le
HCI always coming out with funny idea
dun like them arrogant like hell
although i respect tan kah kee If can vote i wont for for his name as the station name
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the person who post this tread making use of this opportunity to display your hatred for HCI? u didn't tell the full story, retard. hwa chong is naming it kah kee station because its being built on HWA CHONG'S LAND. use your brain. if it were not their land do you think they would name it after our founder who PURCHASED THE LAND? why don't you buy your own house, and then offer it to the public to stay for free, and then say its your neighbour's house? and why are you going mad over a station-naming exercise?
if you have some unfounded hatred for the sch, just say it. don't take a stupid opportunity, find fault with it and blast it like no one's business.apparently you're just jealous you need another 200 more psle points to just scrape past the entrance score.
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Originally posted by Hahahahahahaenator:
the person who post this tread making use of this opportunity to display your hatred for HCI? u didn't tell the full story, retard. hwa chong is naming it kah kee station because its being built on HWA CHONG'S LAND. use your brain. if it were not their land do you think they would name it after our founder who PURCHASED THE LAND? why don't you buy your own house, and then offer it to the public to stay for free, and then say its your neighbour's house? and why are you going mad over a station-naming exercise?
if you have some unfounded hatred for the sch, just say it. don't take a stupid opportunity, find fault with it and blast it like no one's business.apparently you're just jealous you need another 200 more psle points to just scrape past the entrance score.
haha.toopid boy.
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Originally posted by Hahahahahahaenator:
the person who post this tread making use of this opportunity to display your hatred for HCI? u didn't tell the full story, retard. hwa chong is naming it kah kee station because its being built on HWA CHONG'S LAND. use your brain. if it were not their land do you think they would name it after our founder who PURCHASED THE LAND? why don't you buy your own house, and then offer it to the public to stay for free, and then say its your neighbour's house? and why are you going mad over a station-naming exercise?
if you have some unfounded hatred for the sch, just say it. don't take a stupid opportunity, find fault with it and blast it like no one's business.apparently you're just jealous you need another 200 more psle points to just scrape past the entrance score.
So the land belongs to HCI? I thought all land for schools belonged to the government since all schools belong to MoE.