and form a human barrier of legs along the shores of Temasek to protect the country. The number of swordfish were too numerous and it only cost more lives to be lost. After which, among the people, Hang Nadim spoke up and advised the ruler of Temasek, the Maharaja, to build the barrier with banana stems instead. The effort was successful as the swordfishes' snouts were trapped by the barricade of stems. According to legend, the place, Tanjong Pagar in modern-day Singapore, takes its name from the barricade. In the Malay language, tanjong pagar or tanjung pagar means "cape of gates". Backlash The Maharaja was furious because he had been outwitted by a boy. So he decided to hire assassins to murder the boy. The boy lived on top of a hill so that night, the assassins murdered him in his sleep and all of his blood flowed into the hill, thus the name Bukit Merah (Malay for red hill). Others Also well-known is Laksamana Hang Nadim, the son of Hang Tuah and Malay warrior who on several occasions tried to recapture Melaka (Malacca) from the Portuguese. The Royal Malaysian Navy's Laksamana Class corvette KD Hang Nadim is named after Laksamana Hang Nadim. An airport in Batam, Indonesia is also named after it. Film Director Omar Rojik directed an adaption of Hang Nadim's story as told in the Sejarah Melayu, the film is entitled "Singapura Dilanggar Todak" and was produced in 1962. This film ties together both the story of Tun Jana Khateb's visit and execution in Temasek and Hang Nadim's later heroic act in saving the people from the attacks of the swordfish. References Malay culture