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Trading the green card dream for Singapore
Torn between continuing her life in the US and returning to Singapore, the writer found a moment of absolute clarity.
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Reminders of what it means to be a Singaporean are hard to miss in the month of August, says the writer.
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It was the aroma of Indian masala that did it. After 10 years of working in America, the unexpected fragrance of home-cooked dhal wafting from a rundown motel on the Kansas border in 2010 made me decide it was time to return home, to Singapore.
Reminders of what it means to be a Singaporean are hard to miss in the month of August. Flags, buntings, strains of Count On Me Singapore, Home and other National Day songs on a loop at shopping malls. The National Day Parade.
