sang nila utama's lion...
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question for the national day: any idea what was the animal that sang nila utama really saw
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Ask Sang Nila Utama himself.
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Lets build a time machine and ask him...
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let's jus take it as lion bcos we have been saying it's lion for so many darn farking yrs that if we eventually found out tt the truth was actually a baboon, we would have to re-write all our history books and it's going to be helluva troublesome so let's stick to lion k?
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i thought u thread title say the answer liao
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It was a tiger... not a lion... where got lion in SEA?
Oh yeah.... Zoo
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It might be the Chinese Lion Dance troupe...
I know Chinese and Indians had long being trading with the locals for a very long time oreadi. -
lol "baboonpura"! but no need la, singapore will always remain singapore, just tt i believe many ppl will want to know the truth and maybe one day someone will find outOriginally posted by FireIce:...if we eventually found out tt the truth was actually a baboon...
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jus nice now ghost festival. summon sang nila utama's spirit n ask him loh.Originally posted by crushedhearts:question for the national day: any idea what was the animal that sang nila utama really saw 
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He not chinese.. how to summon?Originally posted by monoslayer:jus nice now ghost festival. summon sang nila utama's spirit n ask him loh. -
Good pointOriginally posted by FireIce:let's jus take it as lion bcos we have been saying it's lion for so many darn farking yrs that if we eventually found out tt the truth was actually a baboon, we would have to re-write all our history books and it's going to be helluva troublesome so let's stick to lion k? -
Use Malay to summon him laOriginally posted by Urroh:He not chinese.. how to summon? -
It is a lion lah... hmm... maybe it is a sea lion... hahaha...
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It's obvious that it's a Tiger that just swam across the Johor Straits, was so wet that its hair made it look it like a Lion.
It's one of the many ironies of Singapore that the island is called the "Lion-City" but we dun have a single wild Lion at all.
But just imagine what if Sang Nila Utama saw a pig or a monkey? -
i remembered i saw some notes on it was impossible for a tropical island for a lion to come here as lion only located mostly in india.
most likely sang nila utama seen wrongly n his follower merely 'zhi lu wei ma'. -
must be smappy showing of his butt back then
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Some people suspect it might be a babboon or a tiger.
Lions dont exist this part of the world ba. But becos wise men are wise, he may have decided to tell the King its a Lion simply cos Lions are regal creatures.. and babboons... are not. -
who knws the lion reached singapore when people of those days imported it?
foreign talents were already in-things in ancient singapore!
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From The Strait Times Interactive
Some scientists believe that this was the animal, and not the lion, that Sang Nila Utama saw when he visited Temasek in 1299.
While there were no lions in Singapore, tigers were relatively common then. The last tiger here was shot at Choa Chu Kang in 1932.
However, zoologist John Harrison, father of the current zoo curator Bernard Harrison, speculated in the 1960s that the animal was either the Golden Cat, or more likely, the Masked Palm Civet. He based his conclusion from the description of the colours and the size of the animal given in the Malay Annals.
Both the Golden Cat and the Masked Palm Civet are believed to be extinct in Singapore.
The lion was a symbol of divine kingship. By naming the place Lion City, Sang Nila Utama may have wanted to signify that he was re-establishing the lion throne, which he had set up in Palembang in Sumatra. -
if we admit it's actually a tiger, then sang nila utama will be damn paiseh to have identified wrongly rite?
give him face and let him maintain his integrity. it's a lion! -
relac.Originally posted by FireIce:let's jus take it as lion bcos we have been saying it's lion for so many darn farking yrs that if we eventually found out tt the truth was actually a baboon, we would have to re-write all our history books and it's going to be helluva troublesome so let's stick to lion k? -
aiya...jus take a look at ur NRIC....the national coat of arms consists of both animals...lion and tiger..
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a case of lost chain messaging, sang nila utama only saw a singapura cat lah
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who knws the cat in those days are known as lions
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How Singapore got its name
Version 1 : When Raffles stepped out of his boat on to Boat Quay, a man was running by announcing the birth of his son in hokkien. 'see ta poh, see ta poh'
Version 2 : I thought the story was like this : The malay/indian king, Parameswara, was sleeping under a tree and was dreaming. He was rudely awakened by an animal resembling a lion. So, out of shock, he screamed ' Singa porda ! Singa porda ' (which means, 'lion, get lost!')
Version 3 : When Raffles sailed up the Singapore river for the first time, a malay lady was bathing in the river, having left her clothes on the river bank. A singh came by and stole her clothes. The upset lady started shouting after him, 'Singh Kapoh, Singh Kapoh'...
Version 4 :'Singapore' was actually translated from the name 'Singapura' in Bahasa Malaysia. Story goes that there was a prince that came to our island many many years ago, on an exploration trip. Then he suddenly saw a lion and he named our island 'Singapura', which means lion.