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Three iconic images made their way to the Singapore consciousness in the last two weeks. They reminded us of the various ways and journeys to being Singaporean, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes spontaneously and sometimes in a moment of realisation and supreme clarity.

“Chief of Defence Force and Chief of Army visited him. We are glad to report that he is stable. Suffered some injuries due to hard landing, but no surgery required. He will need time and some rehab but full recovery is expected,” Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen wrote in a Facebook post on Aug 10 evening.

Finally, there is table tennis player Feng Tianwei, who was born in Harbin, China but became a Singapore citizen in 2008. We know her as one of the Chinese turned Singaporean players who helped put Singapore on the table tennis map – from the Olympic Games to world championships, Asian Games, SEA Games to the Commonwealth Games.

 

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