Happy birthday Singapore!

Today I watched the national day celebration live from the internet. This is the first time I watched the whole show from beginning to the end and I feel very patriotic coz I usually just watched a bit of the marching in and the fireworks in the end. The feeling is strange, watching this from a foreign land although this is not the first time I am doing so. Somehow I feel more and more alienated from my own country. It's like I can only see it but I can't touch it, like a mirage. Living here in this foreign land had definitely make me appreciates Sinagpore even more even though it's a stressful pressure cooker of a country, at least it's my own country, my home.