In which I talk very fast on TV

About a week before Christmas, I did an on-camera interview with the producer for On the Red Dot, a local current affairs programme that was preparing an episode on Singapore culture and what makes one Singaporean. Because I'm a writer, we thought about doing the interview at a library or bookstore, but eventually, they decided to just shoot it in the Toa Payoh neighbourhood where I live.

All in all, the shoot took over two hours about various things Singaporean, but in the episode I appear fo...