While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.
It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.
'Singaporeans first' is different from saying 'Singaporeans only.'
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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