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At 17, I dismissed history as irrelevant. At 24, I know better

Vehicles arriving at Singapore from Malaysia at Tuas Checkpoint on April 1, 2022. ST PHOTO: CHING JUN LIANG
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A video on the Internet made me cry recently and it wasn't about cats.

It showed a line of men on their motorcycles, caught in a traffic jam and waving cheerfully at a camera-drone flying above them. They were waiting to cross into Malaysia by the Causeway.

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