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Trading the green card dream for Singapore

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.

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.