Letter to Singapore
Dear Singapore,
When I was younger, when we just started on this long distance relationship, I would be crying and screaming in the airport everytime I had to leave you.
“I love Singapore!!!! I dowan go back London!!!” my five-year-old passionate voice shrilled, clinging onto the metal railings, causing my mother much embarassment.
“The SIA girl will give you Singapore toy later,” she would assure me. But that was never enough. I would sob till I fell asleep, drool and tears dripping onto my plane seat.
When I was finally reunited with you several years later, I was happy to have all this love
around me again. But then, the not so nice things came. You became demanding. You became judgemental. You became overprotective. And soon, I tried to find all kinds of ways to avoid you. The strange thing is, when I got away from you, I missed you. But the minute I returned, you starte d getting to me again.
It’s not that I do not love you. But you are just so hard to live with sometimes. You are pretty obnoxious and domineering, and yet, you can never make up your mind on certain things. You try to be someone you are not sometimes, and ironically, you never try to understand people who are not like you.
I’ve tried to change for you, but sometimes, I wonder if I have compromised too much just so we can get along peaceably. As you can tell, I am drained from this relationship. I hope you can try to talk to me. I really want to work things out.