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| | No Place Like Home - Chapter One |
 | | Ask the question to the man in the street and he will tell you, quite rightly, that 'Bukit Timah Hill' is the name of a hill (in this case the highest natural landform in Singapore), whereas 'Bukit Timah' refers to an entire area, from Zhujiao Centre at Rochor, all the way north to Bukit Panjang. |
 | | Note how in this case, the region called 'Bukit Timah' has taken its name from a prominent physical landmark, and is defined more or less by the routes taken by a major road and an expressway (the Bukit Timah Expressway). |
 | | The continental plates are moving with respect to each other, and because the planet is of a finite size, this implies that at any one time along the plate boundaries, the margins of the plates are either converging, diverging or moving alongside each other. |
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