In the last month, we’ve been living through the haze from fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan, clearing at times and then returning. Whenever I go to our study room to write, I can measure the haze. Our HDB flats are built on a hill, and they’re taller than the rest of the Bukit Gombak estate flats. I can see the MRT, then some small 1970s slab blocks sandwiched between newer,