{"id":148,"date":"2004-02-10T00:48:48","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2004-02-10T00:48:48","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:48:48","slug":"transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get used to being back in Singapore. The transition hasn&#8217;t been easy for me. Many good friends of mine know how much I love travelling, exploring new places &#038; things and meeting new people, so being back in Singapore is like returning to the gallows. A bird in a gilded cage.<br \/>\nOccasionally, I still yearn to be in Sydney where space was in abundance, where the ocean was just a stone&#8217;s throw away and where society was more open. However I know it&#8217;s impossible, so I have to resign myself to being back here. To be fair, Singapore is not that bad a place to live in if viewed in terms of standard of living and I can&#8217;t fault Singapore for her lack of land and beautiful beaches. It&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t get the same emotional and mental stimulation i get from being in a foreign land. I&#8217;m bored.<br \/>\nThere are decisions I have to come to regarding my life and future plans. However, these decisions are also bound by various constraints and obligations.<br \/>\nAh well, I&#8217;ll have to work this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get used to being back in Singapore. The transition hasn&#8217;t been easy for me. Many good friends of mine know how much I love travelling, exploring new places &#038; things and meeting new people, so being back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}