Batu Gajah, if translated literally means 'Elephant Stone' but most people would assume it to mean 'Stone Elephant', a confusion common with words like 'pisang goreng' or banana fritters, mistaken with 'goreng pisang' which means the act of 'frying banana' rather than fried banana.
Batu Gajah is likely to be better known for 'white elephants' like the new train station and new council building, in terms of huge costs yet inconvenient to the local users. People will use them because there is no choice, but each time they will wonder what the planners and decision-makers were thinking when dealing with the projects. 'The bigger the contract, the bigger the profits to some' seem to be the rationale, 'to hell with what people think'.
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