Bukit Brown plays a significant part in Singapore's history. Much has been written about it and there are some references at the end of these notes that are definitely worth a read.
For me, Bukit Brown is simply a lovely place to walk and relax and I walk there several times a week. There are the obvious walks along the main roads but the real delights are taking the old paths through the forested areas to find treasures from the past.
I have always been excited to find examples of old, fired, red clay bricks that were used to construct the headstones and surrounds of the graves. The traditional, older bricks are marked inside the "frog" (the indented part of the brick) with the name of the Singapore kiln company that made the brick (for example, Alexandra, Jurong, Goh Bee).
Heaped up or isolated, these bricks will have formed some sort of structure and most likely some part of a grave - please be respectful and leave them where you see them.
The cache itself is a small glass bottle hidden behind something that is itself natural but shaped by man's hand. The "something" is in an unexpected place - hence "How did that get there?". You might need to take some tweezers to get to the paper in the bottle.
Once you find it, ponder briefy how long it must have taken to get to where it is - 20 years? Longer? We will never know.
When re-hiding the cache, please make sure the whole bottle is hidden from view.
Bukit Brown / Kheam Hock Road background reading:
http://justinzhuang.com/posts/building-singapore-brick-by-brick/
https://mymindisrojak.blogspot.com
https://www.bukitbrown.org/
https://thetravelintern.com/bukit-brown-cemetery-singapore-hiking-guide/
http://bukitbrown.com/main/
https://explorersg.com/history-behind-bukit-brown-cemetery/
(There are plenty of others available via a web search)
