Despite having such a great time in Canada, I think I still love home best. More than once, Po Chin and I have been discussing if we'd actually rather live in Singapore or Canada. Having lived in Singapore for so many years, I have never felt that anything was amiss. Not even that it seems to be too crowded everywhere I go, that everybody seems so cold to everyone else or that the herd instinct is so strong here we seems to have lost our individuality.

I have known all these, at the back of my head, all these time, but I never thought of them as weaknesses. I just saw them as neutral characteristics. Now, the question is, after this experience of finally looking at Singapore straight on, realising that there are other places in the world that can offer another secure yet more exciting lifestyle, would I still want to live in Singapore?

Like I have told Po Chin, the place that I stay in is not as important as the people I am staying with. My choice now is still to remain in Singapore, simply because I have commitments here. I have my friends and family members. To choose to uproot myself to move to another part of the world, I will have to be strongly attracted to someone there.

Of course, this is purely hypothetical. Having gotten so used to the efficiency and cleanliness here, I'm sure realistically, I will not be able to accept living in any place physically inferior to Singapore. Argh, but wouldn't it be so romantic to follow my beloved to a beautiful country like Australia or Canada, and let our love be as strong as to fuel my determination to lead a stable life there in foreign land?

Haha, I'm getting so amused here myself. It is but a little fantasy.