{"id":3121,"date":"2015-04-01T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2015-04-01T22:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:25:21","slug":"a-for-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"A for Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;m taking on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\">Blogging A-Z challenge <\/a>where I&#8217;m supposed to write a blog entry every day from Monday to Saturday in the month of April. So the idea is to blog thematically from A\u2013Z on a topic beginning with the letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>For today, A stands for Away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been away from Singapore for five years now and have been thinking a lot about Singapore lately. Even more so last week during the week of national mourning over Mr Lee Kuan Yew&#8217;s passing. It&#8217;d have been great to have been able to be in Singapore last week to share that sad moment of history with Singaporeans. I read about Singaporeans specially flying home from Hong Kong and even the UK to pay their last respects. That&#8217;s quite something I have to say.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weird thing to say, but I think I love Singapore more when I&#8217;m away. I love many things about Singapore, except that it&#8217;s too small for me. Which unfortunately it&#8217;s not something that can be changed. Ideally I&#8217;d like to split my time among three cities that I would call home \u2013 Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. If only I could spend four months in each city throughout the year! Then I wouldn&#8217;t get bored with any one city, and I would be able to catch up with friends that I have in these cities.<\/p>\n<p>Will I return to Singapore? Maybe. I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0All I can say for now is that I&#8217;m a proud Singaporean away from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;m taking on the Blogging A-Z challenge where I&#8217;m supposed to write a blog entry every day from Monday to Saturday in the month of April. So the idea is to blog thematically from A\u2013Z on a topic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3121\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}