My experience returning home temporarily made my experiences in Birmingham felt like it was a distant memory - like it was a dream that was quickly fading away. Singapore has its ways of reeling me back into its fast-paced dominant lifestyle I've come to know. Nonetheless, Singapore will always be home and I was happy to return to familiarity despite my criticism over some aspects of it. Its terribly poor work-life balance, its pace which has inadvertently defined the norms of "success" and "productivity" and hence causing me to be very impatient and discontented when I experience the UK system and its flaws (read: inefficiency), the vicious cycle of work and subsequent hyper consumerism to appease ourselves, as well as the restriction of expression of dissent and alternative voices in public and political spheres. While Singapore was familiar, it was not entirely familiar anymore after I've been given a fresh pair of lenses to see what could have added mo...