Like most Singaporeans, I spent 2021 within our borders, as the global pandemic made travel inconvenient.
I last travelled out of Singapore in January 2020, over the Chinese New Year, on a family vacation to Japan. We returned just as news about the coronavirus - it didn't even have a name yet - grew alarming. I've remained in Singapore for nearly two years now, which is the longest stretch I've been home-bound since I took my first flight, at the age of 18, to take up a scholarship to study in England.
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