Onward Singapore! In our case, it’s more like “Onward from Singapore!” now that we are at Changi to go to Hong Kong and then Hong Kong to O’Hare. I heard Singaporean students sing their national anthem several times during my school attachments. Of course, I never understood the Malay lyrics, but I finally recognized that they say “Majulah Singapura” more than a few times in the song and I had to look up the the lyrics. It makes perfect sense to me that the national anthem for Singapore encourages its citizens to continue onward, to keep improving, progressing, advancing. It seems to be in the collective mindset of most people here. I’ve been so happy to be part of that majulah mindset. Onward to Chicago!
