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The writer asks why Singaporeans are conditioned to grin and bear it.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
It’s circuit training hour at the gym and I’m plunged into rounds of rapid-fire exercises. Lunges! Burpees! Deadlifts! The music is pumping and so is my unruly heart rate, now displayed in alarming crimson on a TV screen.
The coach dutifully checks in. “Are you okay?” he queries.
