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“The Philippines is my home! Auntie's home is in Bicol.” The whole time the entire brood was in Singapore for a three-week furlough, my four-year-old-Orvik, kept insisting and reminding us we were strangers in this foreign land. “ I want to see Len-len and go to Market-market.” Len-len is his pint-sized neighbor-friend who practically grew up squabbling and kissing up with him. “But Mom, I like it here. See, it's very clean. I don't see any popoo along the roads, unlike in the Philippines. And people here mind their own business. They don't mess up with other people's lives,” Rovik, my eldest butted in. “ I think it's a good place to live in, and well, study...” he continued, gritting his green-braced teeth as if to emphasize his point. It seems my two boys hold conflicting views about their stay in this cosmopolitan country. The younger of course was just being honest about what what he missed, ditto with the