they are totally fine man, as long you have the ability ah like you have the money to do so, ya you can't have the best of all worlds man


but that comes with sacrifices as well that people in the full time does not


uh have to risk, like let's say you're running a business I mean, touch wood ah let's say you run the business then after that you go overseas then halfway in the overseas then someone call you say eh sia lah uh our our business what whatever this thing that thing happens super important need you to be back then also Bo Pian what


like no choice you need to, attend to your business, it's kind of like NS ah like like some NS right you you you there was for me ah like , I was work I was in NS then I'll do err shift work mah so sometime you have standby days


so on standby days right we, can't exactly most of the time we won't get uh activated but then, you never know man let's say you watching a movie you just stepped into the theatre you buy the tickets already if they activate you you also no choice need to go, go to the camp to for activation if not


if not you die ah , ya but the thing about students, !aiya! I mean or many of us can relate ah like when we are young like


let's say, primary school, like all we ever dreamt about his !wah! <mandarin>可以做大人就好:ke yi zuo da ren jiu hao</mandarin> Liao really <mandarin>想到被骗:xiang dao bei pian</mandarin> Liao now but it's also not <mandarin>被骗:bei pian</mandarin> because is like <mandarin>我们自己骗自己:wo men zi ji pian zi ji</mandarin>


it's like we just envision !wah! like being an adult then uh got more choices you can do whatever you want because you have money you're earning money already don't have to listen to uh orders no homework


err but then, as a child I always uh hear all the adult saying, like uh being a student is the best time of your life, so should cherish it but then, I think it's just human beings ah like as human beings like we can't actually be able to


uh appreciate the moment, until it's gone and then you start to crave it again, is like a bit <mandarin>贱:jian</mandarin> also ah you think about it


and what people, the people always say the grass is greener on the other side, ya


and it's hard being a human being man well but I saw this , actually if you go google right what is the chances right on the probability of, you being a human being right


it's actually four hundred trillion to one eh that's the odds of being a human being so a bit funny the analogy like let's say right your father right can just halfway, ah nevermind I I take a water take a drink or whatever and then the whole sequence will change eh then you might not even exist eh that's quite a that's quite a funny analogy ah but then it's at the same time so true so


being a human being is almost like you've already hit the lottery


!wah! your <mandarin>爱好:ai hao</mandarin> is exercise ah , okay so for me <mandarin>我的爱好是:wo de ai hao shi</mandarin> videography, ya like since


then after that become very interested in it then decided to, get a video camera to start video recording


so I went to japan before err Bali, record, err blogs, then after that <mandarin>自己:zi ji</mandarin> edit


err at the start still quite amateur lah cause never really learn


separate for <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> videos <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> account, so for that video account <mandarin>我有:wo you</mandarin> instagram facebook, youtube <mandarin>好像也是有:hao xiang ye shi you</mandarin> youtube I posted for australia before, I don't I don't <mandarin>我不记得我的:wo bu ji de wo de</mandarin> youtube channel <mandarin>名字了:ming zi le</mandarin>


but sadly can't go, japan is the best they got the best culture


the food is also so good then still got what else oh I like the weather there except for summer lah <mandarin>我永远不会在:wo yong yuan bu hui zai</mandarin> summer <mandarin>的时候去的:de shi hou qu de</mandarin> that's like, the worst decision, so I rather go during uh spring


the winter, then at least <mandarin>那个天气是凉快的:na ge tian qi shi liang kuai de</mandarin> you know not like singapore whole day is just hot, ya man


err if you like K pop then <mandarin>韩国:han guo</mandarin> lor <mandarin>韩国:han guo</mandarin> also quite fun mah, ya but <mandarin>韩国:han guo</mandarin> K lah they say the people there a bit a bit the not so nice ah or maybe it's just cause I go japan already then after that <mandarin>去韩国的时候就觉得那个人没有:qu han guo de shi hou jiu jue de na ge ren mei you</mandarin> <mandarin>没有那么亲切:mei you na me qin qie</mandarin> you know


but then I only went there during the winter period and it was like <mandarin>我还很小:wo hai hen xiao</mandarin> so I don't remember a lot of things I only remember


that time I made Kimchi, then the ya there was like this Kimchi workshop, then <mandarin>要自己做那个泡菜的:yao zi ji zuo na ge pao cai de</mandarin> then you need to do the fermenting I don't know if you need to do the fermenting actually


I really cannot remember man it was just very very young


err not bad but I


food, that I've tried in singapore would it would be like like Jjajangmian Jjajangmyeon, then still got, their spicy


ramen noodles, then their ya, then still got what else ah oh ya <mandarin>还有那种他们的:hai you na zhong ta men de</mandarin> korean barbecue ah, the korean barbecue <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> I think <mandarin>是最好吃的:shi zui hao chi de</mandarin> lah I think ah


actually no leh I think <mandarin>牛肉:niu rou</mandarin> wise right you want you need to go japan to try japan <mandarin>的牛肉:de niu rou</mandarin> is the best for korean they say their <mandarin>牛肉:niu rou</mandarin> is considered quite cheap so


the quality is not as good but you if you want to try the korean barbecue it'll will be their


any other places ah, err you can try maybe like, (hmm)


must wear until like super thick then I think that period cause oh the negative thirteen degrees is when I went up to like some mountain to do skiing


ya correct correct then, I literally fell sick then and there


ya man my only chance to ski I didn't get to ski, nevermind next time still can go after this quarantine period, err


ya only been there once, ya maybe it came from those anime mangas


this kind of thing, quite a few but <mandarin>我不记得有什么了:wo bu ji de you shen me le</mandarin> last time <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> like, I think <mandarin>有到三十个:you dao san shi ge</mandarin> different animes


ya man <mandarin>我也是看我是看那些别的:wo ye shi kan wo shi kan nei xie bie de</mandarin> I don't I don't watch those mainstream one, one piece <mandarin>这种太长了他们的:zhe zhong tai chang le ta men de</mandarin> episodes like, hundred plus two hundred plus I cannot catch up


I think, I don't need to work <mandarin>不用做工不用吃不用睡不用什么都不用:bu yong zuo gong bu yong chi bu yong shui bu yong shen me dou bu yong</mandarin> ah, just to watch finish ya man I cannot I rather watch those like twenty four episodes one


K pop


K drama have a few


scarlet heart ya those two are the nicest that I've seen


compared to you know eight hundred plus episodes origin away but then the I mean my last actual


why why you stop though, that's true, ya but I don't think I cried the most in that one there's one that I watch


that I cried a lot more <mandarin>那个叫:na ge jiao</mandarin> goblin I think, ya that one also quite popular but I also don't know why it's popular ah it's just the storyline is good, but the, actor and actress I won't say it's common


or rather people will say that they are the super good looking actors and actress, but the, K drama got fame, cause of it's story line which is ya pretty damn good lah


sounds familiar


that's true, but the <mandarin>香港台湾戏:xiang gang tai wan xi</mandarin> all the dramas are damn long also they also like pick I don't know how many episodes in channel eight or channel U that kind one, ya still got still got what else ah I forgot the title of the rest already


ya I forgot the title oh <mandarin>家事萬興:jia shi wan xing</mandarin> or don't know what all these kind of, , that's true


[orh] that one I think is called <mandarin>夜市人生:ye shi ren sheng</mandarin> leh, ya the <mandarin>我问天:wo wen tian</mandarin> I think is <mandarin>夜市人生:ye shi ren sheng</mandarin> one


okay I got a few shows ah, ya but nowadays I think K drama is better cause, shorter episodes and, I feel the storyline at least is not as draggy even though it still contains enough drama for aunties to like


aunties <mandarin>都喜欢:dou xi huan</mandarin> drama


ya that's true ah my aunt also can't really tell the difference, then she always say like oh actually she likes swiss actor, then actually then after that she will talk about an actor then she said that actor is has the same face as that the other actor that she likes


then she thought he's the same person but actually is totally different person, then she always categorise, like err those single eyelid, then she thought that they are also the same person just cause they are single eyelids


ya but she just combine those with same features as one person, so I don't think she's, technically categorising people at all,


got one drama then after that the next time you watch the movie then is actually two different actresses but just cause they are single eyelids she thought is the same actress then she judge the actress cause she don't like single eyelids


so it's like confusing that's why I never watch that show Liao and there's too many series in that show already, I don't like to watch movies with too many series either


I personally don't like harry potter either, like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> star wars harry porter, fast and furious, like all these movies with too many series one right I will never go and watch it like the max would be like twilight, four series <mandarin>就好了:jiu hao le</mandarin> four to five ya


but I never go and read a book ah the book also damn long , ya the book I read only for like first three books but I never read the entire plot, cause I have no patience, then <mandarin>我不喜欢慢慢读到整个:wo bu xi huan man man du dao zheng ge</mandarin> plot one especially


whenever there's like draggy parts in the storybook, then <mandarin>你读了读了:ni du le du le</mandarin> then <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>越读越累:yue du yue lei</mandarin> uh then I just !aiya! okay lah Sua <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> wikipedia <mandarin>去看他的:qu kan ta de</mandarin> plots


that's true I wouldn't watch is kind of movie as well I think the the, the most interested that I've been, for movies would have been like the marvel series, at least <mandarin>他们的那个:ta men de na ge</mandarin> plot <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> interesting compared to like


those super lengthy star wars lord of the rings, that maybe if I don't watch this certain part then I won't understand the story at all, like still understandable lah like if you've never watched the rest of the movies you still can understand this superhero story that kind


but the ending is the one that requires you to watch like every single, superhero stories before you reach the ending to understand the ending


no idea eh but I don't see anything like they have I online <mandarin>上面好像没有什么:shang mian hao xiang mei you shen me</mandarin> plans ah, I don't see any other plans that they have to, err have another separate, or new series from there


[orh] ya correct


true but I didn't know hulk was the first one eh


the only knowledge I have of these superheroes are through the movies


so what's your favourite hero, eh maybe out of all the marvel heroes that you've seen do you have any favourite


oh my god I like the doctor strange scene you know the final, that final part where he have to face Dormammu, Dormammu is like this one like what's it called, out of the universe kind of bad guy villain


then he want to take over the earth or something, then doctor strange, like whenever he face Dormammu he will die, but he, but he but because he can control time right he keep dying and then come back dying and then come back dying and then come back it's just damn funny


ya ya then then he has this very iconic line which is Dormammu have come to bargain then that one damn funny people keep using it in memes and stuff, gaming videos, then <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> gaming channel which I followed he likes to do like minecraft speed runs


then got got this one one, video where he, uh speed run with a very hard difficulty <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> difficulty where he take the plug-in from someone's channel someone else's like plug-ins ah


so he used that hardcore level, then, then <mandarin>我看到超好笑:wo kan dao chao hao xiao</mandarin> eh he he has to keep repeating the same thing he has to keep entering the final end portal to like kill the ender dragon that's the main aim of the game


so he keeps having to travel through the portal cause he keeps dying, only to kill that one ender dragon the but the main boss isn't even the ender dragon it was the thing that, like, make him, required to keep reviving to go to the portal


ya so so that scene to me was like super funny


ya but I never play pokemon ah, I think the most I played was like minecraft, ya but minecraft was it was only fun when you played with friends cause it's like a more of a collab game, trying to complete the entire game which is defeat the ender dragon like that youtuber


ya, ya but the the Dormammu scene is like the most funny out of everything eh


I don't think I want to become a hero but I like, thor cause of the actor , he really damn he like uh he I would say he's the, top tier


good looking guys out there already some more his voice is so deep that it suits the character so much, ya so, he's the he's like one of the idols that have


err liam hemsworth, really


then


but I think liam actually, I think he got famous from other movies not this movie, ya this movie the limelight <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> chris hemsworth ah, ya


but the other annoying brother the not from the same, same mother annoying brother, no lah the adopted brother in the thor movie mah, err ya


but he is the bad guy to a certain extent ah and I forgot his name, damn it I don't remember his name anymore, ya but he's the bad guy in certain movies then after that at the end right he became a good guy and collaborate with


thor, to help, the kill the the ultimate bad guy that kind of thing, no lah I don't want to become him also lah as in I just like him cause


he's good looking, like if thor wasn't him then maybe I wouldn't like the character that much, ya if he wasn't thor


, to a certain extent


everything you do is faster than normal people and you can even complete don't know how many task before other people can do


that's true sia actually if you do that right, !wah! can you imagine when you're so fast that before a investment announcement is made you actually get there and then you know about it and then you put your investment in, before right before they gonna announce it


but it's like you will know like the person, then you see how they do you go and read their financial reports before they even go in


oh that's true, that is true


ya sia instant rich eh maybe that's why doctor strange is so rich, true, batman is rich cause his family is rich


but he still work, as a clerk, spider-man works as a clerk meh, oh really meh I thought spider-man is a student


that's pretty interesting, ya that's pretty interesting, I think if I really want a superpower, I will want like


powers that can help me to defend myself like those, I think hers is just she's damn strong as a female though I don't think she got any other powers


ya that's why ah it's not a superpower mah just to train them well until you become that level, then you can do anything you want also, ya <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> legit <mandarin>他是真真的:ta shi zhen zhen de</mandarin> superpower eh as compared to other superheroes


but those are the superpowers that are more inspirational to people leh like at least you know people can, but then requires a lot of training ah


superman, achieve


but if become batman okay lah don't I don't want to become batman I just wanted to have his his level of wealth, that you can do anything you want anytime you want but he's IQ is damn high, ya so it's like even if it if <mandarin>他没有那个钱:ta mei you na ge qian</mandarin> right he got the brains to do anything he wants also


oh ya


cause he's still earning mah


ya usually if the <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> sells stocks of the company the company won't do well already


inventor mah <mandarin>一定是:yi ding shi</mandarin> continue invent <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah so usually this kind of companies if they continue inventing, it will still be going up


this is a tech thing for you


ya man but <mandarin>做老板的问题就是这样的:zuo lao ban de wen ti jiu shi zhe yang de</mandarin> lor, this is the tough side of being a, large corporation boss


K lah <mandarin>他们他们都不算是:ta men ta men dou bu suan shi</mandarin> called entrepreneur Liao there are just considered like super large corporations CEO already


so have you, thought of getting the new iphone, there should be a new one coming out this september, twelve lah <mandarin>还没有在这样快:hai mei you zai zhe yang kuai</mandarin> know eleven <mandarin>才刚刚初步就而已:cai gang gang chu bu jiu er yi</mandarin> then suddenly <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> SE then <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> next one <mandarin>因该是:yin gai shi</mandarin> twelve Liao


ya there was a SE came out as a cheaper iphone from iphone eleven, ya but iphone eleven, like boast the camera, camera, so hopefully iphone twelve have a better camera that I can get it for my video


~graphy projects, ya but a video camera <mandarin>需要:xu yao</mandarin> then, sometimes err if I got editing apps in the phone itself


their minds logistic from the phone is easier also


actually okay leh I feel iphone <mandarin>他的那个:ta de na ge</mandarin> specs still considered quite good sia, ya cause I think for them is their supply is always damn high


so the price is, considered lower than as compared to like US companies, doesn't require high cost from them that's why they can afford to lower prices


but you US they have to import all the parts from like other places then still got all the import tax fees, all these weird fees that make their products much more expensive


ya, technically yes, true but huawei Tio block eh


trump being trump doesn't like anything to do with china,


huawei some of them cannot use, ya so especially for <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> if I constantly like to use google maps, google sheets all the google drive all these things but if you can't downloaded it on huawei then it's a inconvenience to you already


nope I'm pretty hungry


strawberry milk, yes, but it's the #don don donki# milk, but it's pretty expensive


I have no idea


, ya I like ikea


I like the cake, and that I don't know what's it called but it's a almond cake, and it's super nice, never tried it anywhere else, I think <mandarin>是从:shi cong</mandarin> sweden <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> leh is it sweden ya sweden ya <mandarin>是从:shi cong</mandarin> sweden <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> that cake


yes because sweden I wanna go there also, it's also a cold country, then <mandarin>他会有那种:ta hui you na zhong</mandarin> northern lights <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> southern lights ah <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> ya <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> aurora lights, sweden <mandarin>也有:ye you</mandarin> norway also have


so like those kind of places, and is super nice


ya, it's a bit harder to catch it nowadays, then you need to like sit and wait until it appears that kind and <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> luck <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lor


I think it appears for maybe half an hour only that kind doesn't stay for very long, maybe ah I'm not very sure also, but usually to go to that kind of places <mandarin>你要驾车:ni yao jia che</mandarin> lor, ya


I don't think you can go in any public transport any other way, then you need to stay in that area one just to wait for the northern lights to come out


会, GG


that's true, but I still rather go there and see eh if I get a chance to do it, I I don't mind the cold I like cold more than I like hot it's just that my skin can't take the cold cause I get dry skin very easily


so you got any other countries that you aim to go


ya you did, so what's your favourite so far taiwan ah


okay lah then you can go japan korea but you go during the spring and autumn period it's the air con temperature, not too hot not too cold


I think I got go there before as well but also quite young <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> ah then I don't really remember much I think we went to <mandarin>台南:tai nan</mandarin> ah was it, ya, you know the taiwan inside got <mandarin>台中台南:tai zhong tai nan</mandarin> I think got other places also, ya then at <mandarin>台南:tai nan</mandarin> [orh] there's this


even though I was young right I remember this very vividly, there's this hotel there's hot spring as a bathtub in that hotel room, and that hot spring bathtub is, so good leh it's so special eh I feel is like super special and got like the hot spring water that kind of thing


for for your bathing, then after that other than that right the room itself the bed right, still got err what's it call, still got the bath eh no not bath the


bolster, ya their room got bolster, I don't think is heated bolster, but it's just a normal long bolster lor but it's like rarely you see a hotel with bolsters


ya so, don't know whether I still remember the, the name of the hotel eh I think it's called evergreen, ya cause my dad brought back the slippers cause even slippers are good


ya I also tried that before it's actually quite <mandarin>爽:shuang</mandarin> but just then after that when you, finish <mandarin>泡:pao</mandarin> already right, you feel damn tired


but it's a waste to sleep when you are in another country


ya same I feel I rather, like drag out the timeline like instead of finishing in one week I'll I'll rather have a two week trip, then at least can slowly don't need to pack all the activities into one week that kind of thing, then <mandarin>还可以迟起来:hai ke yi chi qi lai</mandarin> you still can go for late night activities that kind of thing


that one more <mandarin>爽:shuang</mandarin> than you just, Chiong everything in one day


true


ya as students is the problem is the money lah but once you come out to work the problem is the time ah , actually you can it's just depends on what you do lor if you go for full time work then of course no chance lah, but if you are doing like freelance or your own business maybe you still get the chance to have your own time own target


ya actually student life is still the best ah, at least you got the, time freedom, it's just that no money [orh]


actually it's just you want what you can't have, so whenever you have it already you won't really want it anymore, then you will want other stuff that you can't have, ya so it's a constant do you want to request for something there's a constant need and want


ya lor <mandarin>所以很难:suo yi hen nan</mandarin> satisfy <mandarin>人:ren</mandarin> ah


that is true, that is not wrong


but <mandarin>做人生还是满累:zuo ren sheng huan shi man lei</mandarin> [lah]


so clap, okay so I I guess the one hour start's from now right ya, (mmhmm) so after this we need to extract this file then upload to their google sheets is it like how does it work so we have to email to ourselves then


(mmhmm)


we try first lah we don't even know if we get selected a not how many people do you think sign up for this


they study linguistics what is not a subject you study right ya that's why linguistics <mandarin>都不一样你来:dou bu yi yang ni lai</mandarin> compared <mandarin>做么:zuo mo</mandarin> !walao! eh


like <mandarin>他们赚多少:ta men zhuan duo shao</mandarin> <mandarin>很年年年轻:hen nian nian nian qing</mandarin> ah


they don't care one lah you know you know lah


ya but why why do you have to do the sampling for econs like is it part


more than what you are worth ah but <mandarin>你怎样判断那个:ni zen yang pan duan na ge</mandarin> worth <mandarin>是什么:shi shen me</mandarin> like


practical like like theoretical studies based on my degree so <mandarin>假设我毕业的时候我二十五岁三四年五十五岁我五十五岁:jia she wo bi ye de shi hou wo er shi wu sui san si nian wu shi wu sui wo wu shi wu sui</mandarin> how do I know okay so my question is <mandarin>因为你是判断哪个:yin wei ni shipan duan na ge</mandarin> value <mandarin>吗那个:ma na ge</mandarin> paid more than their worth mah <mandarin>我是在问这个:wo shizai wen zhe ge</mandarin> statement lah


(uh huh), but I think your study very bias leh is is very bias no because you are asking teachers like you are getting data and statistics from teachers but the problem about the thing about teachers and an education industry the longer they have worked in the industry the more you are worth


is only your uni right


like five hundred teachers


they give you fake oh is anonymous then okay but then how you know they are from which faculty


okay


then I, how to say ah but like if you compare because your study is based on like <mandarin>外面的那个外面的行情:wai mian de na ge wai mian de hang qing</mandarin> ah so <mandarin>如果你是讲说:ru guo ni shi jiang shuo</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果在:ru guo zai</mandarin> macdonalds <mandarin>做三十年:zuo san shi nian</mandarin> versus <mandarin>我在学校我教书三十年:wo zai xue xiao wo jiao shu san shi nian</mandarin> actually the difference is very big one because


I think accounts like people like do white collar job like accounts HR these kind probably lah I guess so


, ya <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> project <mandarin>我们在做是帮:wo men zai zuo shi bang</mandarin> NUS <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> students linguistic students lah so how does this work


no lah if if, well so what do you study as a linguist so you study what enunciation pronunciation law, like <mandarin>这那个这个字自愿的字体来源还是什么:zhe na ge zhe ge zi zi yuan de zi ti lai yuan hai shi shen me</mandarin> how you study


that's vocabulary already what what does linguist linguistic have to do with this, no linguistics is like, you know <mandarin>中国历史以前他们不是用繁体字:zhong guo li shi yi qian ta men bu shi yong fan ti zi</mandarin> then even before <mandarin>繁体字:fan ti zi</mandarin> they use like very rudimentary symbols weird weird one like just like even if it's a ball right then they just draw circle


okay what does a linguist do you think about this, like linguist


er even history <mandarin>也是有:ye shi you</mandarin> leh like okay for example like literature literature, degree holder studies the written word of the english language, (mmhmm)


you are describing like a journalist Liao


they will have a deeper understanding of which periods have used this style of writing or this type of language


then how like <mandarin>只有:zhi you</mandarin> uni <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> tenure meh or does it mean like for example


<mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> leh like tenure is a very US thing you know it's not a asian thing leh


ya lah <mandarin>就是从:jiu shicong</mandarin> like like westerners we copy over lah <mandarin>以前中国历史哪里有这样的东西来的如果你是:yi qian zhong guo li shi na li you zhe yang de dong xi lai de ru guo ni shi</mandarin> like for example like like like what err who is a good philosopher ah


he is a philosopher he he he never go war before he write is all theoretical one no practical experience no but so he he is regarded as the best because of public opinion mah so if he's write scripture didn't gather any sort of like public acknowledgement right then he will have just been considered another loser lah


no because now it's a lull period for me mah <mandarin>等:deng</mandarin> course then <mandarin>过后:guo hou</mandarin> like after course and <mandarin>再来做打算这种:zai lai zuo da suan zhe zhong</mandarin> so it's like


ya, don't want lah you you eat can lah don't ask me open funny funny business because of what you want to eat what


okay <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> first things first you feel cold it's because you don't sleep air-con I tell you fifty percent of singaporeans sleep air-con and fan on so they are supposed to feel cold they enjoy feeling cold


and <mandarin>它的料也是给挺多的:ta de liao ye shi gei ting duo de</mandarin> right


fuck <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> lah I never eat <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> one lah crazy <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> is a freaking scam you know a not, it's a freaking scam


uh <mandarin>小锅面:xiao guo mian</mandarin> right it can be any of these but the okay the look at look look at the common denominators okay the common denominators is the noodle use more or less the same I mean every every type of <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> you order <mandarin>可以用:ke yi yong</mandarin> #mi sua# uh <mandarin>可以用:ke yi yong</mandarin> #mee kia# or #mee pok# right


#mee pok# is the flat flat one


then it goes down to a <mandarin>肉圆肉圆:rou yuan rou yuan</mandarin> is like processed food lah can consider processed food


no lah #bak chor mee# have the they put up the what's that ah that mushroom


the braised mushroom, and and I think <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> it's just the <mandarin>面的汤:mian de tang</mandarin> and the <mandarin>鱼圆:yu yuan</mandarin> only and fishcakes some times they give you, but honestly I feel is not worth the money because both fishcake and fishball basically is like starch and flour it's a scam


nowadays I even even if I eat supper I don't eat #ba chor mee# also I always eat the #mee sua# I find that the #mee sua# is like the most like worth like <mandarin>划算:hua suan</mandarin> ya like the #mee sua# nice leh some more the #mee sua# they give you the <mandarin>鲍鱼片:bao yu pian</mandarin> also I like that one downstairs one lah


#mee sua# nice lah #mee sua# but the the thing about #mee sua# is that you know it it comes in a box with five bunches together


I the brand that I buy is five lah is the #tua peh gong# brand the one with the three deities or whatever the but in order to for me to like feel full from one portion I need to use two bundles then it's damn weird because one box got five mah so if <mandarin>如果用两个:ru guo yong liang ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>剩三个:sheng san ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>第二轮我有两个剩一个:di er lun wo you liang ge sheng yi ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>那一:na yi</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>孤苦伶仃的:gu ku ling ding de</mandarin> then <mandarin>怎么办要买多一盒来:zen me ban yao mai duo yi he lai</mandarin> top up


!huh! <mandarin>红槽鸡肉:hong cao ji rou</mandarin> ah #ang zao kuay# ah no lah that one is the dish itself mah you can eat with rice you can eat with #mee sua# you can eat with #kuay tiow# also


that one is you cook in soup not I cook one


oh I made the <mandarin>溏心蛋:tang xin dan</mandarin> they're marinating in the fridge now the picture I send you just now for my lunch that one was a lava egg but not marinated yet


I made the #chap chye# nice leh very mushroomy, I did I did there there were mushroom slices the dried mushrooms I rehydrated <NEN> ah


I don't know leh actually yesterday I wanted to take photos like you know people do the diet for one month then they do the before and after photo but I thinking thinking thinking !aiya! never mind lah I I I cannot even find the weighing scale in my house that's why don't even know not how much I weigh I got nothing to benchmark against <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>做:zuo</mandarin> lor


like eat <mandarin>为什么我:wei shen me wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> just <mandarin>这样子做:zhe yang zi zuo</mandarin> then start to build healthy living habits then <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> maintain lah <mandarin>管我:guan wo</mandarin> reach <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> weight <mandarin>还是什么:hai shi shen me</mandarin> goal, I don't like leh I don't like to put this kind of unnecessary pressure on myself for what


well actually my lifestyle the calorie requirement when people started exercising so now if <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> increase <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> calorie burn plus reduce my calorie intake


in my whole life right where I lose weight first was around secondary school that time, and then was again in army right the way I lose weight ah is not by eating less leh I eat the same amount if not more but I w- I exercise a lot I mean army lifestyle <mandarin>是这样的吗:shi zhe yang de ma</mandarin> no choice ya exercising a lot go play basketball oh chewy Jio me to go play badminton with his family yesterday


ya his father his mother stepmother and the the stepsister, he say they always play there's a court nearby his house badminton court but it's not those indoor kind lah it's sheltered lah but it's not indoors, ya he say he say you must be good lah I don't play with noobs one


I don't know them lah is weird I never go and ask so much also, but if you like if they got go play badminton on weekly basis should be quite okay lah


cause of the shuttlecock got no such thing as a reusable meh but plastic one very heavy you know it doesn't fly nicely


standard <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> yonex <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> meh yonex <mandarin>的一条十三块你这样:de yi tiao shi san kuai ni zhe yang</mandarin> nerd <mandarin>做么:zuo mo</mandarin> !walao! <mandarin>打:da</mandarin> like <mandarin>你又不是打:ni you bu shi da</mandarin> national eh relax leh where <mandarin>你是外对:ni shi wai dui</mandarin> ah <mandarin>那个最后被人家选的那个外对外对是:na ge zui hou bei ren jia xuan de na ge wai dui wai dui shi</mandarin> away team ah


(mmhmm)


!wah!


ya we went before the just beside our house only ya <mandarin>打了一盘全部全部去抽烟:da le yi pan quan bu quan bu qu chou yan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>他不会打也是是:ta bu hui da ye shi shi</mandarin> for fun <mandarin>的爽的:de shuang de</mandarin> exercise then <mandarin>靠近他家:kao jin ta jia</mandarin> then it's a game mah <mandarin>也不是那种:ye bu shi na zhong</mandarin> eh let's run two point four click YOLO


it's just exercise lah it's nothing nothing special


even the most weird thing like like like most obscure like rock climbing <mandarin>这种我也是:zhe zhong wo ye shi</mandarin> don't mind <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh


it's true because the the what's that call ah the belay ah the person standing below with the rope attached to you the the counter weight that guy because he doesn't assist you going up leh he only make sure you don't go down you know ya so when you go up is pure <mandarin>体力你的脚要踩踩上去你的手要抓抓你把你自己抓上去:ti li ni de jiao yao cai cai shang qu ni de shou yao zhua zhua ni ba ni zi ji zhua shang qu</mandarin> is not so easy one leh trust me I I do rock climbing in primary school be do it


okay you are a nerd then, bordering <mandarin>是那个没有:shina ge mei you</mandarin> belay <mandarin>的:de</mandarin>


didn't know you are a boulder person then your grip still so bad, Jialat sia


没有 leh


for me <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> before <mandarin>我讲我会:wo jiang wo hui</mandarin> process <mandarin>在脑:zai nao</mandarin> mah so I will just use whatever language it is easier for me to convey what I want to convey, so if the phrase that I want to convey it's let's say idiotic right idiotic is a three syllable word so let's say I say <mandarin>你是笨蛋:ni shi ben dan</mandarin> or or <mandarin>不要做这个笨的行为:bu yao zuo zhe ge ben de xing wei</mandarin> is is more <mandarin>顺口:shun kou</mandarin> for me like see like like see <mandarin>顺口:shun kou</mandarin> I automatically convert from english to <mandarin>顺口:shun kou</mandarin> ya but in english what is the term for <mandarin>顺口:shun kou</mandarin> I would say a slip of the tongue which is a mouthful in in of itself lah


(mmhmm) you know ya (mmhmm)


for me it's a bit different because my whole family primarily speaks english I'm the only one who speaks mandarin, ya I'm more comfortable having conversations in mandarin because is it bridges into dialect very nicely mah


like !walao! eh is a dialect that is hokkien that's a dialect that's a dialect, you you go to taiwan you you talk to any <mandarin>台湾人:tai wan ren</mandarin> you say #nin lao peh# they sure know one #nin lao peh# is your father is not a vulgarity what by right we are not suppose to speak dialect also lah but this is just a sample so I guess we see how we see what what is the extent of uh


dialect that we can use I'm just using as an example but actually hokkien or taiwanese they call it uh <mandarin>国语:guo yu</mandarin> I think eh what do they call it they've a specific term for it leh, no no no <mandarin>普通话:pu tong hua</mandarin> is also china chinese that the taiwanese have a term for it like you when you if you go to like the actual <mandarin>士林:shi lin</mandarin> night market anytime like you say in dialect err give me one of this or give me like for example you go to a coffeeshop then you order tea with milk no sugar right in singapore you know what it means lah but you go there you say that order they will know what you want


it's just it's just our enunciation is different like for example like <mandarin>我有看那些食物节目:wo you kan na xie shi wu jie mu</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>食物节目上面它有:shi wu jie mu shang mian ta you</mandarin> like <mandarin>采访那种比较小的好像卖卤肉饭路边摊的那种:cai fang na zhong bi jiao xiao de hao xiang mai lu rou fan lu bian tan de na zhong</mandarin> so when the interviewer ask the the the owner questions right the the interviewer will ask in <mandarin>普通话:pu tong hua</mandarin> chinese lah mandarin the vendor will reply in in in whatever language they are more fluent and those kind of uneducated one usually is dialect


you have to twist your tongue little bit to say <mandarin>律师律师:lv shi lv shi</mandarin> green lion


I'm fat lah, I don't look great in t-shirts anymore go , I want to buy more funny funny t-shirts with weird weird monkeys and random stuff thanks if I can be as slim as those korean <NEN> I will dress like them also the baggy waist high pants the baggy button up shirt that kind I don't mind I don't mind


(mmhmm)


so you like cannot travel for leisure at all lah, ya <mandarin>我给你薪水一块钱:wo gei ni xin shui yi kuai qian</mandarin> eh did you see the news about the lebanon the explosion the beirut !wah! horrible sia eh ya suspected hundred over died four thousand injured !wah! <mandarin>那个很惨:na ge hen can</mandarin> leh <mandarin>你有没有看那个:ni you mei you kan na ge</mandarin> video eh <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> terrorist bomb <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>很可怕:hen ke pa</mandarin> leh


ya ya, and and I read the news about like what's their investigation so far then apparently it the explosion was at the port


so example our err our the one beside harbour front is what ah, whatever lah wherever lah so <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> apparently <mandarin>在那边:zai na bian</mandarin> store <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> ammonium nitrate which is for fertiliser then they store there for six years plus and guess the quantity


ya two thousand seven hundred and fifty tonnes, so I went to go and check I I was trying to visualise how much two thousand seven hundred and fifty tonnes looks like right, I cannot imagine so I went to google in terms of money how much is it is it worth lah so ten cent coin


ten cent coin ah, if you have two thousand seven hundred and fifty singaporean ten cent coin, it is worth one point six one billion US dollars


no ten cent coin is much lighter, ten cent coin is only one point seven gram


you can just google I just google like how heavy is a I google how heavy is a singaporean ten cent coin


so <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> will like ten cent I know how much a fistful of ten cent is mah and I know how much of a bucket of ten cents worth what


oh it should also be around that same amount that's what ten cent I not I not I not trying to find I use ten cent is not because I want to see the dollar value how much is it if I really wanted to see the dollar value I'll use singaporean ten thousand dollar note right


but I just wanted a visual aid of how much <mandarin>两百七十五吨吨:liang bai qi shi wu dun dun</mandarin> is worth but then like, !wah! you know I went to google's so apparently you know those err containers the shipping container so a empty one right it's not even <mandarin>一吨:yi dun</mandarin> you need three to make one tonne three empty containers


so you need


ya so <mandarin>你去想:ni qu xiang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> explosion <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> imagine


two two point seven five thousand two point seven two two thousand seven hundred fifty tonnes of ammonium nitrate caused the explosion which is how much like <mandarin>可能半个:ke neng ban ge</mandarin> warehouse of pure barrels of ammonium nitrate


improper disposal or ya lor they still investigating leh but now !wah! Jialat sia, two fold <mandarin>因为我看很多:yin wei wo kan hen duo</mandarin> video at first it's like a white cloud mah then after that is the big explosion with the shock wave


ya lor COVID so lame standby COVID twenty already lah


their port exploded leh, it's not


!walao! <mandarin>我相信:wo xiang xin</mandarin> chemical explosion <mandarin>他们应该会来:ta men ying gai hui lai</mandarin> lockdown <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> area for awhile lah hong kong explode then Jialat already [loh] ya US explode I laugh and point at trump


is beirut their capital, lebanon is is a country by itself is it


don't know leh no libya libya is ya lebanon if I remember is like a european country is it near spain france, is it


so they are middle eastern, russia germany, (mmhmm)


eh <mandarin>讲了讲出五分钟了:jiang le jiang chu wu fen zhong le</mandarin> leh ya ya <mandarin>如果我们被选:ru guo wo men bei xuan</mandarin> for <mandarin>下一次:xia yi ci</mandarin> we need to standby like water this kind of thing like chips maybe chips ya <mandarin>边吃边讲:bian chi bian jiang</mandarin> really meh okay so what is something that is delicious but doesn't make weird noises when you eat it <NEN> <NEN> when chew also something like that


it became a jaw breaker lor I hope your clap doesn't affect the recording that clap the clap you did in between usually the clap is for


noting the start and end of a recording you know when you watch movie they have have that board they you know that board uh that board is is is like a clap lah our clap is that board lah, ya it's to signify the end like take one


so we can do this <mandarin>等你被选中才讲:deng ni bei xuan zhong cai jiang</mandarin> lah !walao! eh


maybe their they invite us down to NUS then you can show me your officials gear I am fat but I have an outgoing personality okay I like okay if I was a podcast guest I would talk your ear off man


I will be so fun, like <mandarin>王雷:wang lei</mandarin> lah <mandarin>王雷:wang lei</mandarin> so famous is because he is like that what, he is the epitome of singaporean personality #ang mo# #buay pai# err english not bad mandarin not bad but speak mostly in dialect so is relatable to all age group


maybe probably


I do lah it's just natural lor this my natural conversation I mean okay if really let say they, they don't select us if they don't tell us the reason then okay lah maybe I know I'm doing something wrong lah, but if they select us then probably they will tell us what they what they need or whatever I I guess there will be further instructions


it's it's just to see whether <mandarin>你适不适合:ni shi bu shi he</mandarin> your natural state <mandarin>适不适合他们的那个要求:shi bu shi he ta men de na ge yao qiu</mandarin> try lah


(mmhmm)


typical JC brat


ya lah JC elitist, got this kind of mindset , fail <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> fail lah <mandarin>你看我:ni kan wo</mandarin> fail FTT eh fail final theory


!wow! <mandarin>我故意去:wo gu yi qu</mandarin> test system <mandarin>的都三次都没有去读:de dou san ci dou mei you qu du</mandarin> crazy just <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> try ah


ah <mandarin>去读那个:qu du na ge</mandarin> manual lah <mandarin>你去读你读越多越好:ni qu du ni du yue duo yue hao</mandarin> crazy one that one not relevant also I'm taking auto leh the book teach me manual leh for what so okay, think about it this way like you are so good at memorising the what the book says but you will never get to practise it in real life I mean this is just <mandarin>我的立场:wo de li chang</mandarin> lah because <mandarin>我读的是:wo du de shi</mandarin> manual mah <mandarin>可是我考:ke shi wo kao</mandarin> as auto ah


so <mandarin>我读来做么我去记来做么我去背来做么:wo du lai zuo mo wo qu ji lai zuo mo wo qu bei lai zuo mo</mandarin> for what, !huh!, basic of driving


for what <mandarin>我驾的是:wo jia de shi</mandarin> auto leh no no mine was I fail a lot because of err manual like clutch in clutch out when should you do what RPM should you clutch up


err okay just before <mandarin>那个什么:na ge shen me</mandarin> lor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> course


the good news is <mandarin>现在可以考车了:xian zai ke yi kao che le</mandarin> lah <mandarin>如果不可以考就会:ru guo bu ke yi kao jiu hui</mandarin> ice cream,


(mmhmm),


I don't maybe they think guys are better drivers, ha ha ha, don't talk to me about driving you are really not qualified Sia really tell you turn right you make a u-turn that one I confused leh that one really damn confusing <mandarin>每次你驾车我都会:mei ci ni jia che wo dou hui</mandarin> fear for my life


she <mandarin>闯红灯:chuang hong deng</mandarin> meh really meh oh I don't know she didn't tell me


just <mandarin>放慢走慢慢慢看:fang man zou man man man kan</mandarin> lor


theory theory practical <mandarin>我还没有:wo hai mei you</mandarin> fail <mandarin>到因为我还没有去:dao yin wei wo hai mei you qu</mandarin> try confirm ready to fail, failure is good what <mandarin>成:cheng</mandarin> eh <mandarin>失败成功之母:shi bai cheng gong zhi mu</mandarin> right hello


eh but <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> fail <mandarin>就一点通一:jiu yi dian tong yi</mandarin> fail <mandarin>就几百块好像:jiu ji bai kuai hao xiang</mandarin> theory <mandarin>你一:ni yi</mandarin> fail <mandarin>才七块多而已:cai qi kuai duo er yi</mandarin> <mandarin>不懂这个会不会:bu dong zhe ge hui bu hui</mandarin> cancel <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> recording


ya <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>如果有有他们选我们:ru guo you you ta men xuan wo men</mandarin> to <mandarin>做这个:zuo zhe ge</mandarin> study <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果有收入不用不用紧:ru guo you shou ru bu yong bu yong jin</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> fail <mandarin>多几次:duo ji ci</mandarin> lor


!aiya! eh but <mandarin>怎样:zen yang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>现在我们的:xian zai wo men de</mandarin> housing loan <mandarin>我现在没有:wo xian zai mei you</mandarin> cpf contribution then <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> will it affect <mandarin>我们的那个东西:wo men de na ge dong xi</mandarin> a not okay


okay <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> join account <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> but <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> join account for some reason is tagged to my main three sixty account, then <mandarin>变成因为它是:bian cheng yin wei ta shi</mandarin> tag to <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> main account right then become I'm the title holder, ya <mandarin>那时候我我打去:na shi hou wo wo da qu</mandarin> bank then <mandarin>有那个什么:you na ge shen me</mandarin> officer tag to <mandarin>我我跟他:wo wo gen ta</mandarin> #chao gan# is it you stupid or what I just change handphone number also cannot ah


you know you know we have to go through three I have to go through three different banking offices in order for them to change the phone number to yours, do you know, nothing can be done unless I close my three sixty account


OCBC damn dumb their system very rigid is super rigid, let me tell you again what happen so under a main account holder the title holder, the three hundred and sixty account is tagged to my name with my mobile number what


ya so end up what happened was that in order for me to change the contact person to yours, it has to I have to change my account into your name, which is my own personal account then very weird already what


, ya scold them die


!huh! what you mean, but once I am done I will go back already what


!aiya! <mandarin>你怪怪吵架吵架吵架:ni guai guai chao jia chao jia chao jia</mandarin> fight fight fight (ppl) so now we suppose to clap or what clap to end okay then then <mandarin>需要讲什么吗:xu yao jiang shen me ma</mandarin> like we is it just clap [ah] okay okay I hope we get chosen !yay! clap


ya correct, ya so the time is


I think there is this information page where you have to tick through and make sure that all the things you do are, accurate then they will have a prompt, so you press a button and <mandarin>一个东西会跳出来:yi ge dong xi hui tiao chu lai</mandarin> then you just upload lor


iphone <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> meh, okay,


we'll do that when we get to it I've no idea actually I think it's, study ah


ya I studied econs, ya but one of the most interesting err experiment we have to do was err we go around asking the professor how much


they make, so <mandarin>被骂:bei ma</mandarin> lor, kind of like what's the difference between tenured professor and what's the what's the price range what's the salary range between tenured professor and, non tenured professor and whatsoever lah


eh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> leh err engineering people they are more, the the teachers in engineering maybe they more nerdy or they don't care they they will give you a range they won't tell you exact they will give you a range but, err <mandarin>那些:na xie</mandarin> econs ah english ah <mandarin>华文:hua wen</mandarin> ah <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> cannot make it <mandarin>全:quan</mandarin> in fact we got a complaint and then my econs professor call us in and say eh I think you should stop doing this sampling oh erm it's an econs paper that we need to study the smoothening of a tenured professor or any professor err salary or


in general salary like when you first start working the company doesn't know how much you earn, pay you lesser than what you are worth, but when you are more experienced they will


, high pay but, the company doesn't actually want to continue their pay lah because they, they are not really worth that amount of money especially when they are old <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> under <mandarin>政府的:zheng fu de</mandarin> ah


err so, the, the thing is the, the study of how a human salary, will smoothen based on your age lah so when you're younger you are paid, lesser than what you're worth then <mandarin>当你长大了:dang ni zhang da le</mandarin> or <mandarin>当你老了过后:dang ni lao le guo hou</mandarin> you are paid more than what you're worth lah


actually the study is more on the smoothening, of a person's, so, err those company always want to fire those err


older people then they say that they're worth is not as high anymore so like, okay err no my study is not bias yes exactly because of your experience and stuff like that but the truth is


they always say that experience will plateau after <mandarin>一段时间:yi duan shi jian</mandarin> so subsequently, your your increment always increase so every year you increase by about say <mandarin>五巴仙:wu ba xian</mandarin> but your experience doesn't increased by five percent mah so you I mean your mom works there for ten years she she she she set


ya especially for <mandarin>政府工:zheng fu gong</mandarin> the five percent ah it's like confirm one so very difficult to fire these kind of people or whatsoever lah so that was one of the studies that we did ya


but we did not actually have a very good results because our sampling size was too small less than one hundred and fifty it's okay so my uni but, of course we have a lot of faculty lah so engine lah econs ah english ah


I thought, kids are doing you know their homework


ya oh and it's anonymous is anonymous then you just oh because what happened is, err


you I we slip it to every professors room then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> fill <mandarin>完了过后:wan le guo hou</mandarin> they will just bring down to this box that we put below the faculty so <mandarin>我们有一个:wo men you yi ge</mandarin> designated area for them to <mandarin>放他们的:fang ta men de</mandarin> application or whatsoever not application <mandarin>他们的他们的:ta men de ta men de</mandarin> response then from there we will collect lor so it is anonymous unless they want to tell us but nobody tell us lah then err


they just they just put it in lor so we know exactly what faculty it came from uh we we colour code or we coded each of the different faculty but who exactly got it we have no idea lah ya


but I think at the end of the day as long as you're tenured person or you're full time staff in general they will still give you some form of


like seniority, pay or something like that I'm not very sure


that's true but err I mean of course, I I think the, more or less <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> closer to maybe education or


professor professorship or something like that lah to be honest


ya it was a very difficult mathematics project ya ya I've no idea


why <mandarin>你问他们:ni wen ta men</mandarin> ah , honestly I've no idea but maybe it will be something like I'm just guessing


how do you spell in a spelling bee if you fur fur is it p h or f h I think it's, similar right


it could also be how you learn english, in a easier way, how to


I don't know memories, I don't know you do I looked like a linguist to him


no I think literature, like, my brother, sylvia plath


literature person or this poet or this author he he really just gives critic and say this is good this is bad how do we read more into this thing what is the different layers of this


especially when you're at the PHD level, poet <mandarin>或者跟住一个:huo zhe gen zhu yi ge</mandarin> specific author like <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> specifically learn about, shakespeare or you can specifically learn about sylvia plath and all that so they are so specific that it doesn't make sense to


, to be tenured in something so so like the tenure ship doesn't even make sense anymore because at the end of the day, err he can only, be, very very good at one or two specific author only that's why they are always


part time job


no what I thought <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> professor <mandarin>都有:dou you</mandarin> tenure-ship like, err <mandarin>三年:san nian</mandarin> teaching assistant then assistant professor then <mandarin>就变成:jiu bian cheng</mandarin> tenured professor or something but NTU NUS 都有 ah eh wonder what they do for at SMU


#xu yuan#


oh no he's not a he I don't think he's a poet I think he's like err, is he ah okay so is a wuss


I think he would be considered another looser, if, one of the, one of the king's <mandarin>没有选中他:mei you xuan zhong ta</mandarin> and take his <mandarin>孙子兵法:sun zi bing fa</mandarin> as, the utmost best war planning


that's true, eh actually I'm quite hungry leh, what do you think about your diet right now


then after that, I thought, it will be easier if I workout like once every two days so I work out two days <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you</mandarin> workout


then one day work out two days never workout then after that, but after two days the strain just go away so it's like a it's like a clockwork already lor 就是


that's true, yup, eh what do you think about a <NEN> business,


err


damn Shiok man, I I think is about the soup, I mean if if you consider


between <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> and <mandarin>可口面:ke kou mian</mandarin> you'd you'd definitely, it's not, the the ketchup


they <mandarin>鱼圆:yu yuan</mandarin> is everything that you can buy so <mandarin>其他东西:qi ta dong xi</mandarin> ya okay yes yes <mandarin>葱是一样的:cong shi yi yang de</mandarin> uh okay


eh but you do realise that #bak chor mee# in general cost more


so I think the extra fifty cents will be your #bak chor# your meatballs, ya


well to be honest I think we're just paying for them to not sleep at night <mandarin>晚上煮宵夜给我吃:wan shang zhu xiao ye gei wo chi</mandarin> that's the best thing that's the most important thing like <mandarin>我不要晚上七晚八晚的时间起床:wo bu yao wan shang qi wan ba wan de shi jian qi chuang</mandarin> and make myself a maggie which is the reason why I'm paying for the convenience


buy <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> still have to do it myself leh I just need to go down sit down there and let somebody serve me leh, uncle <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> ,


I think it's more than five


then eat it for breakfast lah, it makes me feel very good lah I don't know and and it's so smooth <mandarin>滑滑的:hua hua de</mandarin> just suck it in and you know


I I think the reason why I didn't like #mee sua#, when I met you was because you guys always eat this <mandarin>红槽:hong cao</mandarin> #mee sua# something like that the taste doesn't it's it's kind of sour <mandarin>红槽:hong cao</mandarin> something like that oh


okay so I I don't think I've ever eaten #mee sua# until <mandarin>我遇见你:wo yu jian ni</mandarin> and, that I didn't I didn't enjoy it


but the recent one where you know that you cooked it in <NEN> soup and some something like that ya I cook with <NEN> soup <NEN> soup is the, most awesome


well, #chap chye# <mandarin>杂菜:za cai</mandarin> ah, but you didn't add mushroom in the <mandarin>杂菜:za cai</mandarin> right what kind of mushroom


ah, eh <mandarin>你有没有吃过那个:ni you mei you chi guo na ge</mandarin> fried <NEN> mushroom, I think 士林 ah <NEN> style oh my god so so what's your goal


true but it's a good thing that you know that oh <mandarin>我一个月减了多少:wo yi ge yue jian le duo shao</mandarin> or at least like, reduced by it's a it's a sense of achievement that's very difficult


exactly, that's true


I think for you <mandarin>应该比较容易瘦身:ying gai bi jiao rong yi shou shen</mandarin> because <mandarin>比较多肉可以瘦:bi jiao duo rou ke yi shou</mandarin> mah you know <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> circuit breaker ya ya ya but <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> circuit break hor <mandarin>每天跑步:mei tian pao bu</mandarin> for <mandarin>一个月:yi ge yue</mandarin> one freaking whole month leh and


while you were I can't wait for you to exercise a lot


his family he got family meh, oh


does he play, !wah!, I thought <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> family <mandarin>不是很:bu shi hen</mandarin> closely knitted because


true, then <mandarin>问他有没有:wen ta you mei you</mandarin> shuttlecock <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> shuttlecock


it's too light


as in you have school team <mandarin>校对:jiao dui</mandarin> then <mandarin>外对:wai dui</mandarin> is like, you are just some <mandarin>就是不是:jiu shi bu shi</mandarin> school team no no no no as in no I I was in the school team but I was also you know you play with the <mandarin>老:lao</mandarin> Jiao you go to the CC then all the old people <mandarin>老人:lao ren</mandarin> then they their strokes !wah! super <mandarin>大力的:da li de</mandarin> leh <mandarin>拍下去:pai xia qu</mandarin> then


regular so <mandarin>他们会做那种:ta men hui zuo na zhong</mandarin> stroking the stroke, then err <mandarin>你只要知道他们的:ni zhi yao zhi dao ta men de</mandarin> style <mandarin>你就大概打赢他们了:ni jiu da gai da ying ta men le</mandarin> but for the


the competitive people like us right we will play, very random <mandarin>很奇怪乱乱飞的那种球:hen qi guai luan luan fei de na zhong qiu</mandarin> so all those <mandarin>老:lao</mandarin> Jiao regular right they they are very old mah you know very flexible <mandarin>他们就抓不到我们的球:ta men jiu zhua bu dao wo men de qiu</mandarin> that's why we always win so <mandarin>我们打外对的时候:wo men da wai dui de shi hou</mandarin> right okay


my stamina <mandarin>不是很好:bu shi hen hao</mandarin> lah so usually <mandarin>我都是打:wo dou shi da</mandarin> doubles <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> and <mandarin>我打:wo da</mandarin> doubles <mandarin>一定是一个男一个女我一定是那女的:yi ding shi yi ge nan yi ge nv wo yi ding shi na nv de</mandarin> then <mandarin>跟一个男的打我们只是打:gen yi ge nan de da wo men zhi shi da</mandarin> mix mix double then <mandarin>每次我都是会站在前面:mei ci wo dou shi hui zhan zai qian mian</mandarin> then <mandarin>我每次都赢:wo mei ci dou ying</mandarin> leh partly because


usually <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> partner <mandarin>都是不错的:dou shi bu cuo de</mandarin> lah


, but <mandarin>那些打:na xie da</mandarin> badminton <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> usually they will like !wah! I cannot I cannot I need to warm up first those uncle and then you need to warm up for twenty minutes with them just stroking the ball stroking the ball then they will be like okay <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> ready <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> you know and then they will start !wah! but they are very competitive they are very competitive do you realise that most people who play sports are very competitive ya


ya I I walked you there before awhile back apparently all of you were quite shitty at it


I am pretty excited about badminton because I'm pretty good at it so <mandarin>如果你跟我说:ru guo ni gen wo shuo</mandarin> oh


on demand when !wah! <mandarin>我我现在觉得很:wo wo xian zai jue de hen</mandarin> #gao wei# <mandarin>我的我的手很肥我的脚很肥我想要去跑一个步我就:wo de wo de shou hen fei wo de jiao hen fei wo xiang yao qu pao yi ge bu wo jiu</mandarin> immediately, you know wear your, wear sports shorts and go out for a run


eh I don't think you burn a lot of, that's not true, you don't even need to belay sometimes ya ya dude


I I I'm a rock climber and I'm a boulder mania in in uni, it's my CCA I'm not a nerd I'm not a nerd but


ya so for example when you we will pick lah for example on on this wall we will choose the one that is steep or the one that is inward bending outward bending, and we will choose for example oh I will only step on red in colour tiles I will only step on red and blue in colour tiles so we will create a very difficult path like because you only see three or four red in colour tiles that you can step on then there's nothing else you can step on so we will try to learn how to balance with our shoe on <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> rough surface <mandarin>如果没有:ru guo mei you</mandarin> rough surface <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> like how do you how to greet


a certain wall, to remain a certain posture or how do you <mandarin>用你的脚踩:yong ni de jiao cai</mandarin> so that <mandarin>你可以站起来:ni ke yi zhan qi lai</mandarin> instead of


then or whatever your CG is different lah so then


ha ha ha ha eh but <mandarin>你没有看过我穿那个:ni mei you kan guo wo chuan na ge</mandarin> boulder mania <mandarin>的衣服吗:de yi fu ma</mandarin> cause, that's one of my favourite shirt leh !wah!


see you haven't been, paying attention to me <mandarin>难过每天聊一个小时没有我只是知道:nan guo mei tian liao yi ge xiao shi mei you wo zhi shi zhi dao</mandarin> I think it's freelance so you are supposed to, talk in singlish for


that's true


I think it will be more like, so my mother tongue is chinese but I think I speak english more than chinese now so like I speak to you in english but I speak to my parents in chinese so it comes


very naturally either <mandarin>英语或者华语都是一样的:ying yu huo zhe hua yu dou shi yi yang de</mandarin> but surprisingly I think


but you don't speak any dialect, that is that is singlish or lingo I okay right


eh wait I think we are not supposed to use vulgarities or something right ya true well done brother ya, that's true <mandarin>国语:guo yu</mandarin> is chinese


I'm not too sure


I think most of the time when I switch between, two languages <mandarin>应该是:ying gai shi</mandarin> when I am using, err a word that is difficult, like, can you look for your can you look for your <mandarin>律师:lv shi</mandarin> or ya even if I speak with my clients in chinese


err


physical appearance, but <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> fashion hor <mandarin>很很难看:hen hen nan kan</mandarin> leh <mandarin>真的一大堆颜色一大堆:zhen de yi da dui yan se yi da dui</mandarin> it's so untidy and colourful but the truth is <mandarin>有很多:you hen duo</mandarin> korean <NEN> <mandarin>也是长得很帅:ye shi zhang de hen shuai</mandarin> or <mandarin>很有点小胖:hen you dian xiao pang</mandarin> but


shoes but


err <mandarin>鞋子你会花很多钱:xie zi ni hui hua hen duo qian</mandarin> but <mandarin>裤子你就是:ku zi ni jiu shi</mandarin> !aiya! <mandarin>随便:sui bian</mandarin> lah


oh then I bought more shoes than you oh <mandarin>我的鞋子:wo de xie zi</mandarin> almost spoil already I think we need to go to JB soon !aiya! I can't wait for it to to be lifted <mandarin>我真的好像去好像:wo zhen de hao xiang qu hao xiang</mandarin> I think cannot leh because


as long as you're not a work permit holder or some something like that we totally <mandarin>过不了关关口:guo bu liao guan guan kou</mandarin> what, I think so <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like they will ban us from entering and leaving lor unless <mandarin>你有那个:ni you na ge</mandarin> work permit then


I don't think you can travel for leisure ya, why don't you hire me then <mandarin>薪水一块钱也不错只要可以:xin shui yi kuai qian ye bu cuo zhi yao ke yi</mandarin> apply <mandarin>得到:de dao</mandarin> work permit ya <mandarin>七七十多个人:qi qi shi duo ge ren</mandarin> Niao <mandarin>死掉:si diao</mandarin> I didn't watch the video I I you know what is the funniest thing the okay it's not funny lah but I mean


it's a horrible thing but uh the israel <mandarin>马上就说:ma shang jiu shuo</mandarin> oh we didn't do it because they are so worried that they think that they do it then <mandarin>他们又去攻打他们:ta men you qu gong da ta men</mandarin> like that but I think it's !aiya! it's a horrible, it's a horrible place to stay in one oh sorry


SPA, SPA


that should be many t t or tons or


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> if you use ten cent coin to, gauge


I mean it it doesn't it doesn't, it's not accurate you could say that okay then in that case I will use one dollar but one dollar has, weight as a ten cent coin


one gram and one dollar is, ten grams no no I am saying that it should be


the ratio between one dollar and ten cent should be, similar, or, the ratio the ratio okay never mind this is very difficult to


but it can you imagine if you if you use one dollar instead then the value would be so right now you tell me that <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> one billion dollar


but if you actually use one dollar no it should be way more than one billion dollar


so, so why eight thousand over containers <mandarin>不是很多:bu shi hen duo</mandarin> no but


the amount of containers that <mandarin>进出新加坡的:jin chu xin jia po de</mandarin> port, is way more than eight thousand containers per day, how many tens of thousands of containers <mandarin>进出新加坡的:jin chu xin jia po de</mandarin> port <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> eight thousand <mandarin>就是一个小小的:jiu shi yi ge xiao xiao de</mandarin> site


so I find it very interesting <mandarin>为什么他们会说:wei shen me ta men hui shuo</mandarin> this is a terrorist attack when


you mean they just left six eight thousand barrels of thing there, err I mean it's probably some company which you know like went bankrupt ya


left it there in the port and then nobody


I think a lot of people like to talk about this because, COVID <mandarin>已经讲到有一点很:yi jing jiang dao you yi dian hen</mandarin> Sian <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> ya then trump <mandarin>又讲到有一点:you jiang dao you yi dian</mandarin> Sian <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> then nothing much to talk about so you need some new exciting news coming out you like oh there's going to be a war israel <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> you know <mandarin>有一个炸弹:you yi ge zha dan</mandarin> then you have all those like


a conspiracy theory coming in nobody is going to buy lebanon <mandarin>的股票:de gu piao</mandarin> right oh but it's too smaller lah the the


the effect of this is too small it's just like, err, but it's not, it's not fully dysfunctional <mandarin>吗他还是可以用:ma ta hai shi ke yi yong</mandarin> a very big proportion of it and I don't think lebanon is a very big port it's just a very small trading on food


well but if like for example if hong kong explode then obviously ya <mandarin>全世界都会:quan shi jie dou hui</mandarin> you you know affected if US explode then of course <mandarin>全世界都会:quan shi jie dou hui</mandarin> expect at ya but then like a small small area like lebanon I don't think they will create shortly I have no idea


lebanon I only know the chinese is <mandarin>黎巴嫩:li ba nen</mandarin> cause my dad said it before I know that it is between uh egypt, israel, eh lebanon lebanon ya lebanon and libya is different place ya ya so those those are the three middle east area no lebanon is they are muslim state because ya


libya ya, yes but I think <mandarin>他们很靠近欧洲:ta men hen kao jin ou zhou</mandarin> so easily they could travel to, ruffle rash [bah] germany maybe I think it's more like the western part the part where I didn't travel during my exchange


!wah! <mandarin>差不多了我口水都:cha bu duo le wo kou shui dou</mandarin> almost dry already I don't think we can no no no it will create too much <mandarin>杂音:za yin</mandarin> then they will disqualify you they will like oh please <mandarin>重新:chong xin</mandarin> record <NEN> oh ya that's true


I believe so ya, can we can we maybe <mandarin>拿一块版:na yi kuai ban</mandarin> and make a


little thing like that <mandarin>很可爱:hen ke ai</mandarin> right what if they ask us do <mandarin>一个视频:yi ge shi pin</mandarin> then we can ask my mum to <mandarin>帮我:bang wo</mandarin> no no no <mandarin>不要这个跟:bu yao zhe ge gen</mandarin> linguists <mandarin>有什么:you shen me</mandarin> there's nothing to do with a linguist I don't think they will lah


ya but they are not interested in you being able to speak well they're interested in you <mandarin>可以讲华语讲英语:ke yi jiang hua yu jiang ying yu</mandarin> can speak in, lingos and


I don't feel that you speak, a bit more in english now, but, don't speak enough in chinese but when you speak in chinese it will be in long long sentences which is I think not code switching


because, you watch the video yesterday right <mandarin>昨天那个:zuo tian na ge</mandarin> video, (mmhmm)err


do you feel bad for, doing things like, you know when you <mandarin>做东西不成功:zuo dong xi bu cheng gong</mandarin> and then


, you know


as a very competitive person the first time I I as in I have never failed anything in my life until, the first time I failed my driving test so, when I failed my first practical !wah! <mandarin>我回家哭得很惨:wo hui jia ku de hen can</mandarin> leh I know and you know


what's the best part the second time I failed my practical again <mandarin>我又回家哭得很惨:wo you hui jia ku de hen can</mandarin> leh and my mom just stands at the door banging on the door thinking that <mandarin>我要自杀:wo yao zi sha</mandarin> or whatsoever and she kept knocking on the door and keep saying stuff like oh <mandarin>我还我还是很爱你:wo hai wo hai shi hen ai ni</mandarin> I still love you I still care for you don't worry about it is not the end of the world <mandarin>这只是一个小挫折:zhe zhi shi yi ge xiao cuo zhe</mandarin> and I'm like


I am feeling damn bad right now and why do you have to <mandarin>站在门那边一直敲我的门:zhan zai men na bian yi zhi qiao wo de men</mandarin> and like give me some some peace and you know understand why is going through in my mind like <mandarin>她不:ta bu</mandarin> she don't understand how a kid is like like you don't need to keep going on about it


, do you feel bad for failing <mandarin>四次:si ci</mandarin>


true true <mandarin>像我这种:xiang wo zhe zhong</mandarin> hor, err elitist JC kid ya ya but the problem is I only need to do the test <mandarin>一次我就及格了:yi ci wo jiu ji ge le</mandarin> hello


because at the end of the day you need to know the basics of, the logic of driving, no what the FTT the FTT is all about oh do you


I don't think so okay <mandarin>随便:sui bian</mandarin> but I mean at the end of the day if you have already read through and understood it like somewhat lah then you <mandarin>就不需要浪费这么多钱:jiu bu xu yao lang fei zhe me duo qian</mandarin> to


well, I'm pretty sure they don't have that many


like although the question <mandarin>在里面:zai li mian</mandarin> lah but anyway, so <mandarin>你什么时候会去:ni shen me shi hou hui qu</mandarin> take <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> driving test, ya


instructor <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> school <mandarin>的还是:de hai shi</mandarin> I don't think so school <mandarin>的跟:de gen</mandarin> personal personal <mandarin>的有自己的:de you zi ji de</mandarin> license then school <mandarin>的有自己:de you zi ji</mandarin> licence if you are in school you're not allowed to moonlight and <mandarin>教:jiao</mandarin> personal <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> ya


medical equipments or something like that because you have to drive around and


really but I think ladies, hazardous that is not true <mandarin>当你自己去驾车的时候:dang ni zi ji qu jia che de shi hou</mandarin> then you talk about it oh my god are we going to have a fight on this recording


but <mandarin>那是因为:na shi yin wei</mandarin> I don't even know this location what so I mean that's the same for #yan li# and all that <mandarin>我看不到:wo kan bu dao</mandarin> I didn't see, that that happen to #yan li# also what ya ya ya <mandarin>他自己讲的:ta zi ji jiang de</mandarin> what because <mandarin>他们转的时候:ta men zhuan de shi hou</mandarin> same thing she didn't <mandarin>他对那个地方不熟:ta dui na ge di fang bu shu</mandarin> what so she at the same thing she cannot see where is the turning and then it happen to her also it's so common


but <mandarin>我已经放慢了:wo yi jing fang man le</mandarin> it was very slow, that's why there was nothing for the no there's no problem I was about to turn I couldn't be turning at <mandarin>四十你没有资格讲:si shi ni mei you zi ge jiang</mandarin> okay shut the


I have no idea how much to pay all the time and, ya it's I


I don't know how to help you with that but is creating a lot of trouble in my life


so what I do is <mandarin>我每一个月:wo mei yi ge yue</mandarin> like first second so usually is like will first second or third of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> month <mandarin>的时候我就会:de shi hou wo jiu hui</mandarin> call OCBC and, try to ask them to, tell me how much it is lah like for example today


!aiya!, I really cannot


it's a joint account !aiya! don't care lah <mandarin>我不管了:wo bu guan le</mandarin> lah


charged me any interest or whatsoever then I will just call them and scold them lor at the end of the day is not like I'm not paying them or I have any late payment, ya lor


it's not even supposed to be grace what I I know I'm supposed to pay and I, it's not like I late at all


no it's not <mandarin>算了的东西:suan liao de dong xi</mandarin> sometimes I feel very irritated that they need to remind me because I'm not a kid right it's not like <mandarin>我故意不要去还你钱我故意欠你钱:wo gu yi bu yao qu huan ni qian wo gu yi qian ni qian</mandarin> leh it's more like


you didn't tell me I need to pay I don't know how much to pay just like, right now I consistently pay the previous month, [orh] <mandarin>随便:sui bian</mandarin> lor


I don't mind <mandarin>运动:yun dong</mandarin> also, then <mandarin>你跑另外一个:ni pao ling wai yi ge</mandarin> side <mandarin>我跑另外一个:wo pao ling wai yi ge</mandarin> side lor


you run like, clockwise around the park and I run, counter clockwise around the park [lor], (err) <mandarin>你什么东西都要自己做我们在一起干什么吵架吵架:ni shen me dong xi dou yao zi ji zuo wo men zai yi qi gan shen me chao jia chao jia</mandarin> (ppl) okay okay <mandarin>时间到了:shi jian dao le</mandarin> clap ya of course clap to end yes <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> [ah] I think it's just clap


yup start Liao


what did I have for lunch , I oh she cook she cook the she trying to do some pork broth lah but end up it taste more like vegetable broth, pork broth ya, like


Tonkatsu Ramen then some Ramen, ya but end up it's a bit like, our asian, vegetable soup, then with Ramen then I was like a bit err then she a bit angry


!huh! then err no lah just eat lor but then okay lah the soup itself is okay lah if you have it by soup but if you want to add Ramen inside then it seems like, too bland for uh


adding the carbo because <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Ramen carbo <mandarin>是没有:shi mei you</mandarin> taste mah so if <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> soup <mandarin>不够:bu gou</mandarin> strong, then <mandarin>就不会有那个爽的感觉咯就很像很:jiu bu hui you na ge shuang de gan jue lo jiu hen xiang hen</mandarin> bland <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> ya


so that's for lunch, just very fast one leh one hour so the soup you can expect


cause Tonkatsu is err <mandarin>他们是用那个猪骨熬的熬很久:ta men shi yong na ge zhu gu ao de ao hen jiu</mandarin> from what I find from <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> google <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> recipe hor can be like cooking for five eight hours <mandarin>那种的:na zhong de</mandarin> leh ah just <mandarin>一直:yi zhi</mandarin> boil <mandarin>的以前:de yi qian</mandarin> some I don't know what I cooked before but there were some pork


bone throw inside then after that as you boil ah the soup will become like


then what you eat


#tom yum# porridge ah


then the #tom yum# come from where


is #tom yum# soup or #tom yum# flavoured cube that kind of


ya for me I don't really like carbo so I always go for the soup thing so I enjoy #tom yum# soup and then maybe rice I'll just have a small half bowl or something like that because I find that


carbo always bland the taste of everything, no it blands it for example you put the porridge inside the #tom yum# soup then the soup become, more bland not so much taste mah ya then so is like neither here nor there then end up in order to make it flavourful you need a stronger taste into the broth or something like that but I guess if you just cook it by its own it's actually quite tasty


then you just drink it so the amount of said sodium you gonna add in or flavoring that you are going to add in will be lesser lah because it does not need to, go and, share the favour with the carbo that is going to dissolve dissolve or dilute the base lah


then what you do is like you cantonese style porridge for what did he do ah


can try can try


!wah! over the weekend I think saturday I went to, the Yishun place for the thai food, the place is called BKK bistro and bar, so, the selling point is


err they have, one bowl of noodle for eighty cents, ah is the boat noodle so it's very small but is still okay so example if you buy the small one is eighty cents then inside maybe got one meatball only ya but if you order the medium probably the medium have more <mandarin>料:liao</mandarin> so you have maybe like err


pork prawn meatball and all but the small one, you can choose whether you want, err meatball you want the slice or you want the prawn something like that, whatever you choose inside is only one one piece of meat or one but imagine this is eighty cent the middle the medium size is seven eighty so you order ten of these ah is still bigger than this medium bowl


ya so it's definitely worth it to just order the small one lah ya so we have like, err I think both of us took twelve of the small bowl lah, no no no both of us, ya so that one is cheap and reasonable then but the other food they sell right !wah! expensive


I mean like not really ten dollar lah maybe seven eighty eight eighty nine eighty but it's expensive but it's like things like green curry, with rice seven eighty or nine eighty then we order


pork collar meat that one quite nice lah, err something like deep fried pork collar meat, that one was fourteen dollar plus so other food expensive only the noodle is cheap ya even simple things like maybe say err


err the, what ah luncheon meat fries ah that's like eight eighty ya, so the other things are not cheap is only the noodle is cheap ya lor ya lor that day just all the way go there


ya okay lah our side quite near maybe twenty minutes facebook lor see people share destroyed lah, not really not really


ya I think the whole thing started off with affordability lah because it's like people are not you know affluent enough to buy say a full portion so they can afford the noodle maybe ten Baht twenty Baht that kind of price


very simple very simple so key thing is just the broth ya, what the #long gao zui#, !huh!


but err the Yishun one they serve two flavor one is #tom yum# the other one is herbal, the herbal one is actually not bad I like the herbal more than #tom yum# the #tom yum# ha I I find that my house downstairs the #tom yum# is nicer


the ah the one a lot of branch everywhere one like maxwell also have the coffee shop one ya the thai food the or something like that one, they are all run by real thai people ya their their #tom yum# is nice


!wah! speaking of which maybe later I should go and buy, the dim sum lah ah


then, yesterday what you do, you mean you run there or you take


like


you went alone, I


use to cycle ah from here, then after that I think is through the keppel road, then reach the shenton way area then from the shenton way area basically somehow just get towards


the, garden by the bay area lor then <mandarin>就有:jiu you</mandarin> bicycle track Liao, ah it's from here to shenton to #lau pa sat# area don't have then after that somehow you cross over to like you know the asia square and beyond ah then all that pavement then after that you join the track already


then from there err the track to garden by the bay then the Satay by the bay than the barrage ya and from barrage all the way I think it's pretty much err Kallang, the the golf course there lah then Kallang, ya then after that Kallang <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> ECP Liao


all the way cycle <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> Changi <mandarin>我们每次到:wo men mei ci dao</mandarin> Changi err <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> after east coast <mandarin>完了就:wan le jiu</mandarin> one stretch <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> linked to Changi lor <mandarin>的在那个:de zai na ge</mandarin> stretch <mandarin>下去多一下子啊就:xia qu duo yi xia zi a jiu</mandarin> U turn Liao


traffic not heavy lah last time I do that


then err that was the, the tandem bike lor that I made lor that that time lor ya the tandem bike where, I installed a motor in front, so front wheel <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> electric driven rear wheel <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> mountain bike <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah <mandarin>是那个:shi na ge</mandarin> gear pedal mah so every time I pedal then the assist will kick in and then will power the front wheel


it was the first of its kind that is a tandem bike


so, if you will see the trishaw in singapore right you see their wheel their hub got this black colour round thing they're all got electric motor one <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> trishaw <mandarin>全部有:quan bu you</mandarin> electric motor <mandarin>你不要以为没有啊:ni bu yao yi wei mei you a</mandarin> not really now is all electric one now it's all electric power


so err I think theirs is slightly bigger mine is slightly smaller the size of motor ya but, we can last about, I think sixty to eighty kilometer you know the range of the battery one full charge


like a bread so big you know, no it's not it's a lithium ion battery


or lithium polymer whatever it is lah is is like, is like those remote control helicopter or remote control airplane remote control toy with rechargeable battery but way bigger so it's the size of like maybe two bricks the size but it's quite light lah


so you charge you take it out you charge then full you put put it in, then based on my configuration right it can last I think easily eighty kilometers, so it was at my house if you remember last time you see at the side the tandem bike at the window there


nobody interested then suddenly circuit breaker before circuit breaker I reduce the price my cost of manufacturing that bike the design and build up and everything


I think it's about thousand seven, ya, but it was fun lah I just treat it as a project, thousand seven then I started to try to sell back then, thousand seven nobody interested even cost price thousand two no people interested I reduced to eight hundred ah that was err


after come back from australia reduce to eight hundred also nobody interested then just before circuit breaker I reduced to five hundred fifty I just want to get rid of it because it's #din tei# and then it's illegal because it's not registered but when I made it there is no such rule


err so, actually what happened is that the the requirement ah I think it's twenty five KG or something like that, for the bike err to be legal lah, my bike ah is twenty six KG, but twenty five KG is for bike that is meant for one person this is a tandem bike is for two person <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so actually


it is a decent bike I mean when you look at it right is the same polygon bike as in the east coast that you see people riding the tandem bike, but except that <mandarin>他有:ta you</mandarin> motor and you can't see it and there is battery which you can't see it also because there's a cloth bag hanging in front that put the battery


ya it's not that kind of very complicated thing so at the look of it you won't know it's electric bike, so during circuit breaker err, this young chap come and buy from me I think <mandarin>他跟他的:ta gen ta de</mandarin> sister they drove a car down


they just want to find things to do lor quite rich leh they drove a, SUV down like I think, that kind of land rover or jeep [orh] jeep one jeep


then <mandarin>载不回:zai bu hui</mandarin> lor so end up <mandarin>他讲说他回去驾另外一辆更大辆的车:ta jiang shuo ta hui qu jia ling wai yi liang geng da liang de che</mandarin> !wah! the family quite rich then after that I said no lah you ride back lah then <mandarin>他就骑回去:ta jiu qi hui qu</mandarin> lor, err west coast


it's pedal assist ya <mandarin>对你:dui ni</mandarin> the faster you pedal the more the motor kick in so <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> pedal <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> rear wheel power mah but as you pedal front wheel motor assist <mandarin>进来是是:jin lai shi shi</mandarin> electric


so you can imagine this bike itself ah two wheel drive leh, all wheel drive, front wheel motor drive rear wheel <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> human drive so <mandarin>它的:ta de</mandarin> speed pick up ah acceleration up slope <mandarin>很好因为有:hen hao yin wei you</mandarin> push and pull <mandarin>它的:ta de</mandarin> top right push and pull so <mandarin>后面啊是你自己踩是:hou mian a shi ni zi ji cai shi</mandarin> push <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> bike but <mandarin>前面:qian mian</mandarin> motor <mandarin>是拉你:shi la ni</mandarin> leh so ya so it's very amazing the feel then even when you ride right when you take corner ah you pedal right <mandarin>它前面:ta qian mian</mandarin> front wheel drive plus rear wheel drive ah the traction and control is very good <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh all wheel drive bike and I search the whole world no such thing because even when they do such a pedal assist bike ah number one is usually at the rear wheel


so that is exactly what I want, I always don't understand <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> electric bike <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> gear, so <mandarin>你想你有:ni xiang ni you</mandarin> gear ah <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> up slope <mandarin>你放:ni fang</mandarin> low gear <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> pick up as you go faster you put higher gear so you can example you start from the seventh gear lah nobody use first gear one lah if you start from seventh gear <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> pedal then motor <mandarin>开始:kai shi</mandarin> assist


however <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> motor assist is the same, then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> motor assist <mandarin>就越快:jiu yue kuai</mandarin> so <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> multiplier effect so motor make you go faster and less load <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> lesser load <mandarin>你又可以踩快一点:ni you ke yi cai kuai yi dian</mandarin> then <mandarin>因为你可以踩快一点你:yin wei ni ke yi cai kuai yi dian ni</mandarin> motor <mandarin>又在去加快:you zai qu jia kuai</mandarin> so it's a never ending cycle then after that <mandarin>你就可以:ni jiu ke yi</mandarin> all the way <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> to maximum twenty one speed


so <mandarin>你在:ni zai</mandarin> twenty one speed <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> maybe <mandarin>你踩一圈你后面的:ni cai yi quan ni hou mian de</mandarin> wheel <mandarin>是转很多圈的:shi zhuan hen duo quan de</mandarin> and <mandarin>因为你一直:yin wei ni yi zhi</mandarin> pick up <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> speed <mandarin>你用那个:ni yong na ge</mandarin> gear <mandarin>去弄啊你到:qu nong a ni dao</mandarin> twenty one speed <mandarin>的时候你这样踩啊我们:de shi hou ni zhe yang cai a wo men</mandarin> try <mandarin>过在那个:guo zai na ge</mandarin> east coast the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> cycling track, we overtake everyone and all the racer I think we were going at


uh that was before singapore got all this rule ah I think we are going at about forty five kilometer per hour or forty and is two person is two person but it's super stable because the bike is two person and it's long it's extremely long because it's a tandem bike ya so the stability is there ya


but, when you want to brake it can also brake well because the longitude is quite long the wheel doesn't lift up and you got two person sitting on that ya so it's actually quite okay


they have it in #bukit merah# the company name err rodalink, I ordered the bike from rodalink so it's a normal bike that you see on east coast park when you rent tandem bike it's the same bike <mandarin>我买整个:wo mai zheng ge</mandarin> bike


then after that I start to source motor and controller from Taobao, then when the thing come then I have to integrate them together and do the wiring myself and all, err


mostly cable tie lah, mostly cable tie to the frame lor it runs outside it doesn't go inside but it runs outside but quite neat lah you can't see, but thanks to CB lah otherwise I cannot get rid of it, but I if I lower the price until five fifty then CB come


so I managed to sell it but if I haven't lower maybe at eight hundred dollar I probably think people will still buy, during CB ya waited for so many years leh until CB come then finally sold this thing, four five years four years lah I say once I moved in here ah then I #jiak pah boh sai pang# then I go and


design this bike eh running well so after many years never use right that day the guy want right then I just charge, charge already then connect then bring down


err <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> air pump <mandarin>插车的那个:cha che de na ge</mandarin> socket in cigarette lighter slot, then <mandarin>我就在:wo jiu zai</mandarin> on the spot <mandarin>跟他:gen ta</mandarin> pump lor, then pump <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> Nah <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> pump <mandarin>你拿去:ni na qu</mandarin> lah <mandarin>已经十多年了很便宜的东西来的那时候:yi jing shi duo nian le hen pian yi de dong xi lai de na shi hou</mandarin> I think <mandarin>是不懂哪里买的:shi bu dong na li mai de</mandarin> ah <mandarin>那种十多块一个都用了十多二十年放在车上:na zhong shi duo kuai yi ge dou yong le shi duo er shi nian fang zai che shang</mandarin> spare then <mandarin>现在我的车本来就有了吗:xian zai wo de che ben lai jiu you le ma</mandarin> <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> volkswagen come with <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> tyre repair kit <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> spare tyre <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so <mandarin>我就不需要:wo jiu bu xu yao</mandarin> Liao mah <mandarin>因为我的车本身就有:yin wei wo de che ben shen jiu you</mandarin> volkswagen <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> pump


so <mandarin>就给他:jiu gei ta</mandarin> lah throw in


then after some time, previously is always bring it up here then I was I got another battery pack connect them then pump the tyre so don't make the tyre flat spot or what so maybe one year <mandarin>我才:wo cai</mandarin> pump two time <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> ya


thousand seven lah at least ah on that bike, the motor [bah], I guess the motor


and the controller, no actually the bike itself is not cheap if you go to rodalink today you check that same bike ah, the price of the bike ah I believe is about nine, eight nine hundred dollars the bike itself is already eight nine hundred dollars


then the motor itself and the controller I think add up is about seven hundred each ya, err no it's for bike lor


it's it's for bicycle ya, the brake is still original still original one ya so as a matter of fact any bicycle you give me right I can modified into electric bike ya any bicycle you give me I can design and modify into electric bike


you can't tell, you can't tell because originally the bike also had those, err exposed harness like your brake cable and things like that so what I have is also a integrated maybe a black colour


tubing that is cable tie in between your brake can't tell, ya it's it's not obvious one in fact the guy said err I told him you know you ride this is illegal, then he said err it's okay lah he just ride around his neighbor he said maybe go west coast park then I said


but you be careful lah will be caught then he said like err it's okay it doesn't look like electric bike anyway, ya but for me when I sell I tell them straight this one need to register but anyway I tell him how to get it registered I tell him there is a one KG difference, then I tell him go and remove or change the wheel and the seat to lightweight one then go for the inspection again


ya to get it legal so probably he do it lah but I did tell him that if he don't do its illegal so it's up to him, err there is actually a soft bag that is hang at the rear seat handle there ah the rear seat no need to move mah so there's a soft bag lah


then the battery go inside, no mount mount battery is err no motor is mounted on the front wheel


it's quite err it's it's it must be slim because you have to fit into the fork of the uh ya, the bicycle fork mah front fork ya, that's quite slim ya


then it's seated on the front front handle lor of course, ya then after that err, then the the so called the computer lah it's actually, very small one so it is secured somewhere


ya, yes I will do it , okay resume


ya ya it's a little bit off but should be okay lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> cut and paste


I think trial ah if I were them ah I'll be like uh just evaluate the quality of the voice the clarity because there are people who maybe having a short tongue or actually couldn't speak properly then this kind of recording may not be a good


err you know sample for the general population, ya, so I think the sample is for them to evaluate the normality of the speakers lah


or or let's say if we're from uh, uh from china then we got the china accent in our or the hong-kong english accent then it's not relevant to their study for singapore accent it's a kind of codeswitching ya


or maybe like malaysian <mandarin>他也是来你这样子几不好一下:ta yi shi lai ni zhe yang zi ji bu hao yi xia</mandarin> then there's a lot of, accent there so I guess the one hour trial probably is to


evaluate the normalcy lah of the speakers, ya but if we oh like this ah is a bit too loud that's why they said twenty CM so now where we have been sitting right is normal


no matter how loud you, raise your voice probably there is a peak over there but when we speak normally it is within the range, but if we going to sit close and we going to speak ah it's very easy to burst the, the threshold so key thing is don't keep your phone so near and then speak normally lor


ya man I don't know because suddenly I realise I thought taken away mah my, my roster for ninth august so I was like


okay lor my own I just do my own stuff, err <mandarin>在忙着他的:zai mang zhe ta de</mandarin> reno <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> lor, but now this morning when I wake up I realize the roster came back for ninth august they took out and then I email them yesterday to tell them that my three in ninety is expiring


then sharon replied lor said she will put me on a, full, support sim lah, ya for the full recency simulator support, which is what I shared with you just now, then suddenly I realized okay lor probably it's good for me to


revisit the normal procedures and look through the EBT again lah, circuit procedures I also a bit blur lah


from what I try to recall just now while I was in the treadmill right so <mandarin>我只记得:wo zhi ji de</mandarin> okay so I was trying to do mental fly then , I okay so to summarize ah lift off then four hundred feet start to turn


but four hundred feet onwards you can turn for crosswind right so four hundred feet turn crosswind then after that uh call for uh downwind track do you call for downwind track or downwind hailing, so uh so need to call for hailing sell or not


so uh track sell downwind track then I start my turn, then after that call for after take off, decent approach landing checklist as far as you can go, but Wayang <mandarin>还是要做:hai shi yao zuo</mandarin> lah


Wayang <mandarin>还是要:hai shi yao</mandarin> call out but after that <mandarin>不要做就不用做:bu yao zuo jiu bu yong zuo</mandarin> lor, ya wait that one later part so a beam threshold <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> a beam end of runway <mandarin>才:cai</mandarin> start clock


a beam threshold so it's either forty five seconds or sixty seconds lah depending one thousand five or two thousand ah, so forty five sixty lah so start clock then forty five sixty then checklist heart centre mah then when sixty I uh forty five <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> gear down first twenty


then sixty <mandarin>的时候我就:de shi hou wo jiu</mandarin> start <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> turn, so <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> start <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> turn <mandarin>的时候我就跟他讲说:de shi hou wo jiu gen ta jiang shuo</mandarin> err runway track


I think it's it's distracting so I don't like so usually I manual fly one I say just turn off flight director then I manual fly ya, okay lah so that's all I need to know but okay lah normal procedure <mandarin>也是要:yi shi yao</mandarin> familiar mah


senior one they may Bo Chup already


ya because there is a circuit checklist ya, and then you cannot don't do I think if you don't do there will be


there will be a, caution warning


ah I think <mandarin>是你:shi ni</mandarin> gear down <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> warning <mandarin>就出来了:jiu chu lai le</mandarin> ah ya I can't remember what is the warning I remember there is a warning


well


for me it's a, race track


I think the instructor will purposely go and put tail wind


but actually, so before <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> turn ND <mandarin>上面应该有那个:shang mian ying gai you na ge</mandarin> wind vector mah


so <mandarin>我就看那个:wo jiu kan na ge</mandarin> wind vector on ND lah <mandarin>因为他们每次在那边讲说:yin wei ta men mei ci zai na bian jiang shuo</mandarin> two three zero one five knot <mandarin>我在那边:wo zai na bian</mandarin> two three zero <mandarin>在那里:zai na li</mandarin> ah


err ya <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> shift <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> power point <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> the wall ah ideally to put the TV ah has no power point ya but in the showroom ah


in the showroom when they design right the place where they supposed to put TV ah, but it makes sense because if they if you do it the other way that wall you are going to put sofa


then you realize that the wall is shorter there is a limited sofa you can put you can only put like two seater, instead of three seater so the design is a bit limiting lah so it just makes sense that that wall suppose to put TV but then they don't have power point and things there


so after that <mandarin>要做这个:yao zuo zhe ge</mandarin> L box lor, and false ceiling <mandarin>怎么讲:zen me jiang</mandarin> leh, trunking


bury ah, no actually the the legal method is to drill quite a big hole then after that the wire must go through the metal piping then hide inside the wall


that's the that's the right method, it's just drill a bit of drain then hide the three wires inside and cover it with putty again lah


I I I seriously don't know lah I I think, in singapore ah you don't have the thing about our government also weird they have all these requirements that that electricians all have to be licensed and all right but in all honestly from my experience right all of them are from malaysia and they don't have license