like bad vegetables , ya lah because you cannot track them back what cause <mandarin>你要菜的嘛我就给你菜的:ni yao cai de ma wo jiu gei ni cai de</mandarin> lor <mandarin>你要怎样:ni yao zen yang</mandarin>


you cannot do anything, there is no tips ya no tips correct


it's just to tick off the checkbox, shopper


I think it's normal pay leh like the part time kind of pay, it's nothing fantastic lah, like adventure,


achievement, but after, after we eat where should we go then


but <mandarin>吃到来都几点还可以去:chi dao lai dou ji dian hai ke yi qu</mandarin> museuem meh museum <mandarin>现在几点关现在不是全部有那种:xian zai ji dian guan xian zai bu shi quan bu you na zhong</mandarin> like like library <mandarin>不是提早关门:bu shi ti zao guan men</mandarin> like because of COVID and everything


eh like <mandarin>现在如果:xian zai ru guo</mandarin> like for example <mandarin>我要去:wo yao qu</mandarin> karaoke <mandarin>我都不可以去的:wo dou bu ke yi qu de</mandarin> okay


I know is at three one three I saw the photos but I did I don't know like exact location <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> three one three, !huh! really meh, yesterday yesterday I was looking at like some articles on cafe then it came out quite often but then


the one that they show was [orh] the one and three one three or is it I don't know, is at Somerset one lah but I don't know whether is it exactly in three one three or what


are you talking about the Arabica the one with the percentage one the one with the percentage one the one that open at three one three <mandarin>我走过很多次走:wo zou guo hen duo ci zou</mandarin> and hor the queue is like long queue long queue long queue the queue like <mandarin>没有停过的很夸张的长:mei you ting guo de hen kua zhang de zhang</mandarin> I don't know the queue


but I feel like Tuk Tuk Cha is very selective not everyone love Cha like somebody don't like some people don't like you know the aftertaste got the Siap Siap taste they cannot take the Siap Siap


ya some I also don't like because they got like you know Siap Siap thing then they don't like, I don't know, she just reject, is like green tea itself also cannot or just green tea products like I don't know green tea byproducts


like <mandarin>绿茶:lv cha</mandarin> flavoured things she will just no go


no, chocolate or chocolate mint, mint is like <mandarin>牙膏:ya gao</mandarin> don't like


did you even ask her or like in the end they really is like what whatever you thought was like, what they wanted was really what they wanted


did you make them swap ok lor, is her house what do you mean by she is here first you mean you are here first is her house one you know


that she go to, (uh huh)


, now both is not as nice what you talking, which one ya meh


, !aiyo! but, you know


can lah, or do you want to eat first then <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> like I mean if you are full enough or not


no no I mean like immediately after probably not need to <mandarin>消化:xiao hua</mandarin> first then you can go and eat, or what you want oh wait have you tried the


what Somerset opposite Marche there is this like don't know new york or don't know what but is korean food one, I cannot remember what is the name a lot of light one yellow colour one yellow blue colour that one that one is it nice


it looks very fanciful, no that's food food food, Somerset Somerset okay then like uh like


#Tanjong Pagar# walk to somerset, can walk meh


I don't know, no is a serious question, just everything Google map


but is terror, you don't know what they are thinking, everytime is listening, it's like your Instagram ads, if you talk about something too much later everything related to that will come out, did I not tell you is it I send you or you send me


that time there was this couple wanted to test the ad, algorithm for Facebook so they don't have a cat they just started talking about cat food all day for three days, and then like on the third by the third day then they started getting cat food advertisement because they keep on talking about cat food like eh you know what cat food you want to buy eh you know this one is good or that one that one that one then <mandarin>一直讲一直讲:yi zhi jiang yi zhi jiang</mandarin> then after that


they just get advertisement they don't even have a cat, they just trying to do a test, so isn't it very very scary


so you are going to give up your privacy for, you can ah like you just throw your phone somewhere else, I try before you know like that time I was you know in the office right, because they will I put my phone on the table when I do work


then after that they were talking about, Kat Von D cause what Kat Von D is one of the client so they were talking about like oh know what they are going to do for Kat Von D like only like, at the end of the day right when I was looking through my Instagram I got a Kat Von D adverstisement


for like their makeup, like they in the office they were just saying like you know eh for Kat cause they like to <mandarin>缩缩小:suo suo xiao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>缩小:suo xiao</mandarin> like they shorten it when they when they talk about, Kat Von D they say KVD so they were saying for Kat Von D eh the KVD thingy kind of thing and then after that at the end of the day I look at my Instagram I got an ad for it


is totally something that, I wouldn't find or anything like previously all my advertisements is food, then suddenly out because they talk about it like two three times in that day then I got a KVD ad I'm like what the hell yeah


then got another time me and my friend we were on the taxi he just said once, err eh let's go eh what is that place Tanuki raw he was like eh where err what is there ah he something like eh know <mandarin>很久没有去了我们去:hen jiu mei you qu le wo men qu</mandarin> Tanuki raw <mandarin>这样了:zhe yang le</mandarin> just like one liner let's go Tanuki raw


when I went home after the taxi ride Tanuki raw came out advertisement immediately one line only, it's damn ridiculous just one line and then I got an advertisement that day, that same night because, on the taxi ride back he talk about it one time only then I say okay lor like that lor


I mean I can cover the speakers only I don't know


why not, oh no lah I mean like, this that's why I don't get it why some people they want to use Google home kind of thing like those


yeah home assistance I feel like it's damn creepy, I don't I don't know so it's something I always it's like


thirty minutes, , ah that is Bugis isn't it, no Muji Chijmes also got another cafe I cannot remember what's the name but I saw it yesterday


because I was looking at a lot articles but I cannot remember what is the name but I think there was one cafe there also, ya can't remember the name, no at Chijmes itself, nearby but I can't remember the name you know Chijmes got a lot of, is cafe lah


I can't remember, white probably, no cause cause no what I want to say you know cause outside Chijmes there is a lot of bean bags so you can just Nua there


but now, because of all this kind of thing <mandarin>我不知还有没有:wo bu zhi hai you mei you</mandarin> lah but <mandarin>那是我去的时候:na shi wo qu de shi hou</mandarin> it was before this like my last year already you know I think it was last year, it's in right inside


like they ha- they got like one you know like outside the asian civilisation museum <mandarin>不是有一片草:bu shi you yi pian cao</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>他们不是有那种:ta men bu shi you na zhong</mandarin> chair, no no no I'm just saying that's example of the <mandarin>草:cao</mandarin> so Chijmes inside there got the same kind of <mandarin>草:cao</mandarin> right just right like legit in front of the restaurant out of nowhere to <mandarin>一片草:yi pian cao</mandarin> then they just throw bean bag there


and then got fairy light at the top one, to Nua, ya ya ya that's why we went at night to Nua there, but now I don't know whether still have or not because, cause even yesterday right when I went to orchard right a lot of that you know like


all the chairs in the middle of nowhere for you to sit down kind right they all removed already, yeah yeah yeah a lot of it are removed, so you you you you can barely find any seats


apart from the restaurant, or cafes, or like coffee places to sit down and, because they remove everything, cause they just don't want you to stay there lah


Chijmes has a lot of bar places, no reno


what what's the name of the thing, of the place right


then how you know the thing you just saw, that's all foam there is barely any beer


but they do it for you right like the servers right you don't do it for you okay but if they are going to give me that kind of half half right


so you went before


(uh huh) have to book don't need


cause they got they got like maximum like time that you can late for what normally fifteen minutes I think, cause normally ya <mandarin>这种地方:zhe zhong di fang</mandarin> like like restaurants in general like like their no show time it's just like their late timing is just fifteen minutes


yeah


because you know like err that time got not say a lot but there were like two places that Kena fined for it


because they, they they they they break the circuit breaker thing, one one of it was, Amoy is it Amoy that area the indian, is a bar is a bar place like Amoy #Telok Ayer# that area


because they they say because err what you call it, they had a, their last order, their last order supposedly supposed to be half an hour early supposed to be at ten what because at ten already last order finish already correct but then they haven't finished drinking yet so <mandarin>他们没有赶人家走:ta men mei you gan ren jia zou</mandarin> so they were still drinking there that's how they Kena


it's quite sad also ah but it's also because, suck thumb lor


(mmhmm), oh is it, a loop hole kind of lah


but what if I drink at ten thirty five, but no one is here to catch me you get what I mean if I'm at home, then isn't it a loop hole then


(mmhmm), is okay but they still charge people for it isn't it


okay ya ya ya but it's like, , okay, (mmhmm)


okay


ya meh, that one I don't know leh


, is the teacher teaching her all the stuffs to rebel against the government, but like what is her exact course name like the degree degree name actually


(mmhmm)


just law like <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> like long <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> name like law is the full name, no but what was her previous ya ya ya


okay lah, I was like is that link okay lah okay lah a bit lah a bit lah can lah, can lah but then the thing is like because not all, because what I was thinking is why would the school accept her


if your degree is very [orh] oh is it ya


(mmhmm), this this this this (uh huh)


you know, story


but what what does she want to get out of it in in in the end like, is she going to start doing law related stuff in the future or


it's like okay if you take like a law degree right after that you will go for law exam or what and that is your end goal that kind of thing but with her what is her end goal like <mandarin>他到底要做什么:ta dao di yao zuo shen me</mandarin> like


but then what about the modules that she can do, related to law in the uni like CDS kind of thing


cross cross one


c, don't know, (uh huh)


lawyers <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> la, in the same, is like NEA <mandarin>管:guan</mandarin> environment <mandarin>它是管:ta shi guan</mandarin> lawyer that kind of thing is it is it a government thing or is it [orh] okay


actually I don't really get what's the use of prosecutors and like the lawyers I don't get it you know <mandarin>每一次看戏:mei yi ci kan xi</mandarin> prosecutors fight <mandarin>一个东西:yi ge dong xi</mandarin> lawyers fight <mandarin>一个东西我不懂在他们在:yi ge dong xi wo bu dong zai ta men zai</mandarin> fight <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> like !huh! I don't get, (uh huh), but they also have like state given lawyers isn't it


no no no let's say if I cannot let's say if I get caught for something then <mandarin>我没有钱:wo mei you qian</mandarin> hired <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> lawyer they will give me a lawyer what, no no lawyer lawyer then how is how different is that lawyer from the prosecutor


but if you watch like K drama they always have this kind, some confirm got like one scene that where they are fighting against like err what you call it prosecutor and lawyer because they are fighting for different side but I don't get it why is it different side


so that means prosecutor fight for the government that means they want to, get more or let's say if like you litter your lawyer your lawyer will help you to reduce your let's say your fine then the prosecutor will try ways to make maximize your fine is that what


the prosecutor does, is always prosecutor and lawyer fighting but fight <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>在打什么我不明白不是两个跟:zai da shen me wo bu ming bai bu shi liang ge gen</mandarin> law <mandarin>有关系的:you guan xi de</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就看看不懂:wo jiu kan kan bu dong</mandarin> lor


are the prosecutors directly under the government, are they supposed to help the government or are they I don't know


so that means they forever hel[ the government but even even if like let say <mandarin>这个人:zhe ge ren</mandarin> like okay let's say go back to the littering case again let's say, I never litter but then the government say I got litter would they help me as a person because I never litter or would they help the government because they are hired by the government


it is just like the lawyer like lawyer how if like you are some <mandarin>黑社会老大:hei she hui lao da</mandarin> then you <mandarin>杀人:sha ren</mandarin> or whatever not then, the lawyer don't care one the lawyer just whoever pay me money I help who what so is the prosecutor the same thing, like I will just help whoever who pays me because the government pay me so I help the government so I would get the most out of you that kind of thing


so that means they will just try to <mandarin>炸:zha</mandarin> me <mandarin>干啦:gan la</mandarin> because I litter lah oh no even if I never litter


because that is what the lawyer is doing but the opposite way what, but if you think of it the other way if it is I am a <mandarin>黑社会老大:hei she hui lao da</mandarin> go and kill people


then, my lawyer will help to defend me so I won't get caught, then, the prosecutor will fight to get me Kena, that is correct but if I am I never do anything, then


the prosecutor will try to make me Kena what because <mandarin>他要赚钱:ta yao zhuan qian</mandarin> what, ya but <mandarin>他帮:ta bang</mandarin> government <mandarin>赚钱:zhuan qian</mandarin> you get what I mean, no no if if if I litter right then they fight for it okay but if I never litter


then, they fighting for government then <mandarin>他们不是:ta men bu shi</mandarin> try to maximize fine for like the fine on me then <mandarin>我不是白白无辜:wo bu shi bai bai wu gu</mandarin> Kena, just because <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> how they work for government


it is just like how how my <mandarin>黑涩会:hei se hui</mandarin> will try to prove that I never do do anything even though I got do something they are also trying to do something to find that, I


I don't know so every time I look at those law show I'll be like uh what is this I'm lost I don't know


like <mandarin>有看到就看不然我就不要看:you kan dao jiu kan bu ran wo jiu bu yao kan</mandarin> it's like I tried Googling like what what's the difference but I don't really get it it feels like it's the same same kind


like <mandarin>才不多才不多:cai bu duo cai bu duo</mandarin> then I am like, I I I can't tell that they're fighting each other but why are they fighting each other that one I don't understand that's why that's why I can tell you they are fighting each other but what for who are they fighting for I don't get it but they are fighting, they are just fighting each other


ya but I don't get it, I don't know, so, all meh meh


I haven't been watching, what do you mean I already told you I never been watching much, I watch variety rather than dramas now because I'm kind of sick of dramas


like, ya lah, is like how to say, nothing fantastic nothing out of the norm, and then, ya lor know like very, very predictable


you know so after that you will stop, that's why after that I would rather go and <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> like movie kind of thing cause it's more content


then


cause they don't want to box office


but then, but then they say uh who are , I think, Hong Kong they want to boycott it because, what's the female the is it <mandarin>刘亦菲:liu yi fei</mandarin> cannot remember her name, the female lead I I know her face I don't know what is her name I think is <mandarin>刘亦菲:liu yi fei</mandarin> or something because she support


err China's because okay Hong Kong's trying to fight off, democracy right they wanted to break off from China right then after that China is trying to, how to say kind of like back them down, like they want them to be together


so, to make them together, China is China like, I don't know what China I cannot remember what's the exact phrase but like China like had some like crackdown on like this pro democracy thing in Hong Kong


then <mandarin>刘亦菲:liu yi fei</mandarin> supports this thing, then a lot of people are like boycotting lah like say why you don't want them to separate kind of thing so people started boycott Mulan boycott boycott boycott, but then on the other hand there is, people that are saying that the film itself is good it's like one of the cause you know recently <mandarin>他们一直出用真人演那个戏的很多不很多不是:ta men yi zhi chu yong zhen ren yan na ge xi de hen duo bu hen duo bu shi</mandarin> err not fantastic lah it is Mulan is Disney


so a lot of people are saying that know this is one of the better like better or best, like real life, adapation of the movie, so it's like, very extreme also <mandarin>我不知道:wo bu zhi dao</mandarin> but do you know Mulan is nineteen ninety eight that is why when I saw an article I was like what nineteen ninety eight


I don't think I will watch it, I tell you there is a very


extreme comments about it I think I will wait some more to see whether is it really, because that time I tried it was on demand the what Aladdin on TV !ee!, yeah, I watched like five minutes I am like (hmm) no thank you


it was very weird, I think it's still okay eh because they got already limit like the number of people what, so it doesn't really affect me


, I don't think it's a big concern if you are, I think that is just Suay lah I mean, this kind of thing you cannot prevent what if if not you're telling me you don't go outside eat restaurant how the restaurant no aircon meh the aircon won't drop down meh


ya ya that time Jurong that kind the mall all got flood


like the <mandarin>天花板漏水:tian hua ban lou shui</mandarin> you also never avoid the shopping mall what, but it doesn't make sense what like


I feel like because of COVID <mandarin>你怕死:ni pa si</mandarin> is okay because COVID there is no cure, yeah you can't see it is one thing and there is no cure so <mandarin>你怕:ni pa</mandarin> okay I cannot say


I mean that's her own choice lah you cannot stop for her what


you just <mandarin>不要就回家:bu yao jiu hui jia</mandarin> Zoom


then what's what's her main purpose of wanting to go out in the first place that is the thing I don't understand I mean if <mandarin>你真的很怕死的话干脆连出门都不要出干脆用:ni zhen de hen pa si de hua gan cui lian chu men dou bu yao chu gan cui yong</mandarin> zoom


I mean if <mandarin>如果人家:ru guo ren jia</mandarin> ask me out then


eh it doesn't make sense is, I am the one asking you out and then I'm making this kind of weird request if you ask me out then I I say this kind of thing then okay because I'm just trying to


then how she say, then just ask her ah so what you wanna do leh


die there


(mmhmm)


someone's birthday then you just send something to the house lah then you call the person, is equally enough what, then <mandarin>你做么要怕:ni zuo me yao pa</mandarin>


cannot cannot I cannot, I don't get it, so in the end how, or haven't settled yet, then it's just hanging there


so what was the plan like I mean until now what's the plan for it, no plans like not even a bit, so she just randomly one day say <mandarin>要不要出来:yao bu yao chu lai</mandarin> kind of thing, then how


there's no then, then, then you go go museum that kind cause museum very big place and then


not a lot of people, a lot of space, she went, cause if you wanna say cafe restaurant all those right <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren</mandarin> also sometimes it's quite close


you want to do then you're not scared then you when you don't want to do then you scared


bowling bowling,


you know what is insect repellent


then, then if she ask you again then you just say like how about we just do it over Zoom


no no no no, ya, what I want to say ah, I cannot remember already but anyway yeah I cannot remember to tell you something oh, I cannot remember I was like ah no I cannot remember I don't know I wanted to say something what was it ah


it was related to, I can't remember already lah !aiya!, I really can't remember, (uh huh)


this you sure is this


the shipping costs do you need that thing like now now, if not then just sea, no no wait but actually does the sea and air the difference is it a lot


because the duration difference is like <mandarin>几个礼拜:ji ge li bai</mandarin> right so if it's like


for like <mandarin>一两个礼拜:yi liang ge li bai</mandarin> kind of thing then I'd rather just go with the air, because the difference in duration is <mandarin>一两个礼拜:yi liang ge li bai</mandarin> right but the


amount I don't know


if per KG then is worth it to swap over, because if per KG [orh] <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> cannot be only but two KG what so it's confirmed more than <mandarin>两块钱:liang kuai qian</mandarin> what


define a lot, ya ya ya ya ya


that was a shared thing isn't it


is like that one what all the shipping the same one, I feel like five is my max sia I think, I think three plus, three plus I don't think five I cannot remember


they count the the the dimension confirm one


but I don't think there's any other way that you can, reduce the price of it right I mean unless you is it Ezbuy, is it the prime Ezbuy prime or what, do they still have it yeah yeah yeah yeah like one item one one, among kind just that's how they ship all the like furniture kind of thing


so there's no way to bypass it


(uh huh), I don't use I don't know I really don't know <mandarin>很久没有用:hen jiu mei you yong</mandarin> so I never use, eh


do we need to tap again, no I don't know, please, no


ready, so how, was your, week


why like that


like it's branded right the figurines or something


(uh huh)


okay


so like see question you


your stuff is in her possession


so she's just like, take your stuff and then <mandarin>冲出来:chong chu lai</mandarin> then nobody knows


so so <mandarin>你爸爸:ni ba ba</mandarin> didn't like, didn't know that she took anything lah, but he he didn't know was your stuffs lah


just cause the previous owners of


uh neighbours your other neighbours didn't say anything doesn't mean, the family didn't cause any trouble for them mah


wasn't she's the one that said


she can't, take care of her two four seven


then cannot speak in their mother tongue meh


call the police I mean, I mean like, you didn't say anything about the mother in law why did she bring it up anyways


no lah go straight to the police already still complain to her for what


maybe cause the previous neighbours or like, you know the the current ones that are like currently there they


like don't mind it or like didn't notice it


she's she has some type of problems lah, I mean or maybe she's just a kid that like wants to full around


you're not obligated to do anything for her lah, she took your stuff what you're not wrong to I guess call the police on her


oh ya quite heavy also right


or any other like people with care in general


or like you know, in some cases like, when a child is in a locked car something might happen to them


ya just cause like in the twenty years, like she didn't experience any of that doesn't mean


like, as you said twenty years what like this girl is only six years old she's probably is just starting to like you know, get to go out and stuff at his age, and then she start doing such stuff


then, the last <mandarin>二十年没有发生:er shi nian mei you fa sheng</mandarin> just <mandarin>他的女儿才:ta de nv er cai</mandarin> six years old mah means this six years, like, how do I put it


these things can start happening you know, just cause that, !aiya! I just keep repeating the same shit just cause like that last twenty years she never do such like she never happen like such stuffs never happened doesn't mean


it won't happen, after this twenty years, is twenty twenty she moved in in twenty like two thousand


I mean a child in general will cause mess lah if, I don't know, mostly lah most children will just like cause mess around


and like it doesn't matter whether she's autistic or not lah, so, I don't know maybe her, the mother just didn't notice any of these and then, your neighbour also never notice any of these


but that doesn't mean that she they never did any of these


maybe she just don't remember any of that or she she that's not what I meant I meant like maybe she just like doesn't, take it to heart lah you know


she seems quite from the last I see her she seems quite kind and nice


!wah! if it's <mandarin>我的猫他会自己跑掉:wo de mao ta hui zi ji pao diao</mandarin> sia


parrot you feed the parrot seeds only mah, I almost say shit


why do I have a feeling that the cat is very untaken care of, if <mandarin>他们可以:ta men ke yi</mandarin> one night just leave the cat outside


it's been twenty years, I mean I don't know how old a cat is lah but


sounds like a


ya then why didn't she just like but put it in first and then so that when you come back you just put your clothes in and wash


but like your washing machine and your laundry basket is right beside the toilet when she changed she can just put it there


sounds like <mandarin>他没有:ta mei you</mandarin> she haven't got her life together yet


she was bossing you around


but of what the heck


that will be me in ten years time so


!huh!, , what to do


I've four words for you sister


why she like this one I mean I thought okay when you guys were shopping for all your like, household stuff right I was there right, she was like I'll clean this I'll clean that


remember the whole, you say you don't want it, she's like I'll clean it, did she, she's like you don't clean I will clean it but she never does I mean, no hate to your sister from my side but like why is she like this


not until thirty years lor it until this house expires right, you will live just thirty years and then move out meh, and that this makes sense lah


but she probably die before you what she's older than you by a lot, I mean


so I don't know her at all


to her niece, why, that controlling by what she say ah she's like oh you so controlling and he


I I guess she can save money on that, but it helps lah when you tell someone, all your problems


I mean I guess she's unlucky ah, not everyone is lucky to find a good person like good partner, not not even you cause sister is so shitty


ya, you're not lucky enough to have a like, very nice sister, not like you are nice to your sister also lah but, , well, if you put it that way


ya why


ya cause you and I <mandarin>我们都很喜欢吃海鲜:wo men dou hen xi huan chi hai xian</mandarin> mah, freaking love seafood man


oh so she's very mad in like


a waiter or something gets near her, like if the waiter, if has a slight tiny mistake she will snap at the waiter, I mean lagoon got no waiter lah but like she will be so upset about like the surrounding you know


why you like this, well, if she's not there I'll be there


on your birthday the day right, I was told that my family is going for some buffet, so I can't, I can't go on that day


so, guess I can go and eat, peacefully


and thursday cannot also, yes, I have named him


ya can't wait


you already are though


so I guess <mandarin>你们不会和好:ni men bu hui he hao</mandarin> lah for now, for a long time I guess


I guess it's gone now, sike


!aiya! he's so annoying come on !walao!, every, every night I couldn't hear him scream not even night


the whole damn day he's outside screaming at the computer, for what, he's he's just screaming and screaming and screaming the whole day like, the moment my aunty come back


she will scream at him, cause why, he's too noisy then, left right center got people screaming, like, how to live in this stupid house as in not how to live lah like


like, even when <mandarin>我的门关着:wo de men guan zhe</mandarin> hor, like even right now and you <mandarin>可以听得到他在外面喊:ke yi ting de dao ta zai wai mian han</mandarin> right


!wah!, you heard that, like, he's he's sitting so far away from the room, but I can still hear him screaming


and, last week he's he was being such an idiot, you know what he did, cause he is in volleyball team right, he, he went to hang his ball on the ceiling, like down from the ceiling at ten thirty PM he started like smacking the ball


like, so there was the bomb bomb bomb at ten thirty PM and then my aunty wake up she came out she was like <mandarin>我要睡觉你懂吗:wo yao shui jiao ni dong ma</mandarin> then I was like not me ah not me I was I was just outside to like prepare food for my cat you know


ya lah, it's like always come together <mandarin>你懂吗:ni dong ma</mandarin> like, like when whenever he does something shitty I Kena


and then whenever, something shitty that I do only I Kena why like, they'll be like


they'll be like, !aiya! you shitty lah you you know, like why only I Kena just cause I'm older, I don't get it, it's so


it's so shitty


ya you all it's that stupid you all like <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> you all, come on I didn't do anything, like, you know all I did was come out to take my cat's food and then


she'll be like, my aunty will be like, and I'm like, what did I do, all all I did was come out to open the can put the food inside the bowl, and then I walk back to my room


and then I Kena scolded, just cause my brother was out there smacking that stupid ball, there's this like hook thingy in the middle of my ceiling ah in the living room cause I think last time my grandfather want to hang ornaments like the


the chinese new year ornaments you know we'll hang that so there's there's that thing he just use that thing to hang his ball, with a, with a like string ah he tied the ball to a string then he like hang it there then he like smack then got the ba ba ba ba


the annoying like sound, and he he doesn't do it in the afternoon he only does it at like, after, nine PM, like what am I supposed to do with that, like


like what if someone complains about us you know, you know, ya oh ya like like like your neighbour see I've been living here for twenty years, and then your neighbour also, just cause nobody complained about her not being shitty for the past twenty years doesn't mean


she won't be shitty lah like my brother and he's like what thirteen years old , I can't, deal with this, like


he's nice sometimes but he's so shitty a lot of the times like


also, ya, I was fine being the only child for, nine years, I don't know if the recording can hear him but


I'm sorry my brother is being very loud, I've no words for this boy man


then you gonna be like remember you stole my figurine


I think okay lah you telling her about this is more of like, what's that thing called, constructive criticism, like like like she can take it in and then learn to take care of her child better or some shit


but like, she doesn't, like she's she's just like fending it off like, you you talking and then there's a shield, she's like blocking it you know, oh got no


COVID, didn't you, okay great


oh I was saying, ya that's what I said, that's all I said


ya she ya she's she's like shielding off your, like words you know you're like telling her, what if next time your child goes into, like


your house I mean her child goes in your house, and then something happens, and then she's like, no she's never done that before, right, like, just cause I'm gonna say the same stuff again


it's really her fault lor cause like she didn't, she she from what you're saying ah she's like never take care of her child


good enough, okay as a child you will like crawl here crawl there just like a cat you know cat instincts are like jump everywhere, you know, like


what if the child curious she crawl over the railing, and then just because she thought she's going to go into the house for two minutes then let leave the child outside, and then the child just gone like that


ya she's gone like that, like, that will be <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sad sia like


uh and from how you talk about that lady that mother she's probably gonna say you did it like


and claim insurance and sue your family or some shit


kids are curious and they will like look around climb here climb there mah


ya weirdo like, the thing is outside your corridor you barely have anything like not even your slippers are outside, right and then, inside your house is inside your house what and the figurines are not even near the corridor it's


your TV is in the middle of the house, she ran all the way in, like at least a good five six steps, for a child it's probably like what seven to ten steps you know


that's not near the corridor at all


steal parcel <mandarin>的人:de ren</mandarin> I still remember the steal parcel oh my god, I really think it's the one opposite your house the one with the door open one


just cause the as in I I suspect them cause just cause the doors are open lah like they can see whatever is happening


right opposite the house which is your house, so like, they can just run over not even run lah can just walk over can already


like


no lah just take it and open it yourself lah


<mandarin>这边没有一个:zhe bian mei you yi ge</mandarin> nicole Poon, , really what


I want to watch netflix later, I don't know what to watch lah but I want to watch


I never, I didn't see it


true I haven't been catching dramas lately


ya I just watch whatever that is showing on the TV, cause I've been, looking at tiktok, , specifically chinese tiktok, it's amazing


you know my grandpa uses it


you will be schedule ya also you


you are not invited okay lah, they will just be upset if they are there lor, that's all


they smoke


like your dad was there


that's all they're not going to sit down, what, I got no words


rich aunty is scary but, ah ya child support ya ya, uh by child


ya, uh my week has been, disastrous


then at my living room area right got two figurines


he uh this child just ran in and took it why is the child like this, I'm not sure but apparently, my father right he say he carrying a lot of grocery


then he come into the house he want to put the grocery down first then go and lock the door, but then <mandarin>他老了:ta lao le</mandarin> then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>一点慢:yi dian man</mandarin> lah he only like saw the child running from the corner of his eye there then I think he couldn't stop it


so anyway the child just ran off ah with the two things then I think the child never tell the mother also she just kept things with her the whole day, and my dad just left leave it be he didn't want to tell me I had to discover it only like two days later


I don't know I ask my father also then he's like !aiya! <mandarin>你知道我啦:ni zhi dao wo la</mandarin> like <mandarin>我不喜欢跟我的邻居吵架的你知道吗:wo bu xi huan gen wo de lin ju chao jia de ni zhi dao ma</mandarin> anyway he's like those two things are very small only what's the big deal


but it was quite expensive right, ya it's the same one you have, and she took only two pieces so it was so irritating and then


I was like okay this actually not the first time this family has disturb me I told you before their cat jump into my house my father didn't like it, and he had to chase it out with a broom apparently, when my father told me that the two figurines were taken ah I


already in my mind I was like okay I'm gonna go confront this family like what's wrong them why are they always so chaotic, and then I when I first went to their doorstep, it was this uncle lah that opened the door with his nephew or son playing


by the TV, then he told me that even he had no idea what goes on in this family, it's not just him living like alone he has


his sister and her husband and their mother-in-law and their six year old child and his son lah right that's it already nevermind, anyway so it's like five person household, and they have like from what he tell me lah he has a parrot


and a full grown cat, I don't know how the parrot came up lah but, then anyway he also don't know what happen he just had to wait for the sister for his sister and the child to come back mah so I waited


then the mother and child arrived to their house, uh luckily she had the two little figurines ah then she give back to me she apologised for the child taking the things, which is fine I mean, I'm not mad at the child in the first place


not that man anyway, but then <mandarin>他问我为什么有这个两个东西在我的孩子的:ta wen wo wei shen me you zhe ge liang ge dong xi zai wo de hai zi de</mandarin>


ah then I okay lah which is I think normal for her to ask I also mad that she asked that cause I think because she was the one holding the two items then she give it back to me ya so I think she also like where where you get these two things she also don't know then she told me her child it's autistic


apparently what happen what she said was, uh she left the child she was going to bring her child to school but then <mandarin>他忘记一个东西:ta wang ji yi ge dong xi</mandarin> then <mandarin>他跑回去他家拿要去拿那个东西啊:ta pao hui qu ta jia na yao qu na na ge dong xi a</mandarin> I don't know what it was she never tell me but then she left her child outside at the corridor she what she thought was going to be like maybe two minutes or something then she go back and take the child to school but in that you know few minutes that child manage to run into my house take the thing go out like nothing happen like that


so the mum didn't see it, except my dad lah but he only saw it like for awhile


no he know he took something, he knows ah but he told ah he just didn't want to quarrel with the neighbour, which is ridiculous in my mind


cause me I literally went there picking a fight lah anyway and then I just tell her lah like


, then the cat managed to jump in like a few weeks earlier


but then one I mean the cat didn't cause damage didn't take my things so whatever just like need to chase it out with a broom so I never bring it up, then when I bring up the thing where her child went into my house or her cat also ran into my house she like couldn't believe it herself sia she was like oh these things never happened to me before what


like I live here for twenty years nobody complained to me that these things ever happened before, doesn't mean it's not happening right


right


ya and then , anyway she was the one who asked me what happened in the first place so just tell her lah then she got upset she was the first one to get upset by the away, and then she was like so you are telling me I don't have a good eye over my children my household lah is it


then I'm like, you say one ah really like then I was like uh, uh ya then she went on a rant lah like how she was the only person taking care of this whole household and you know she can't watch her child twenty four seven and her child because she severely autistic like


like, <mandarin>不可以听别人的讲话:bu ke yi ting bie ren de jiang hua</mandarin> like she don't understand english I guess I don't know, uh she never really say much, I don't know also, then anyway


while during that rant she brought her mother-in-law into this sia apparently, this was information I didn't need to know cause I didn't, talk about it she was like oh my mother was a IMH patient you know like what if she caused problem for this neighborhood


what are you going to do about it, ya I don't know how her mother-in-law came up lah I think maybe I don't know


like I understand her child is autistic and I wasn't mad at the child itself what and also they could return my thing so ya that's why but then she went on to say that oh my mother in law is an IMH patient she might cause trouble along this corridor some uh


sometimes or my family is very loud also we're very loud family what you gonna do about it like are you going to complain to me again about this , then I just like anyway I wasn't like complaining what I


rightfully as a person like who lives here if you took my things I have the right to ask for it back right and also you ask me and how these things ended up in your child's hands I told you what, and I told her the exact story my dad told me cause I wasn't there what this is my dad's account


and the cat thing also I wasn't there and it was my dad and my sister's account, but the thing is I only started living in this neighbourhood for like, four months already to be honest I don't know this family's name they're malay lah don't know this family's name I don't know


most of my neighbors here like why would I lie about these things right, and then she kept like accusing me of complaining being a bad neighbour and, like cause uh in her mind she live here twenty years but her child only six years old and she says that nobody ever complained to her about these things before


or maybe it hasn't happened to them yet cause the child is only six years old maybe this is a first time entering people's houses cause it's unlocked you know


so obviously her living at the neighborhood for twenty years doesn't mean anything but she kept bringing it up, and she got angrier and angrier, okay and then uh I was thinking, okay lah it's a very bad thought but, like is her child really autistic though cause I haven't met the child even


from the moment she came into her house her house doorstep she sent a child back to the house immediately but the child came running back out anyway because she heard her mum shouting lah I guess the child, started to kick up her clothes for now as he stood so so I guess some <mandarin>就证明:jiu zheng ming</mandarin> lor like


ya so I was like okay <mandarin>我相信你啦:wo xiang xin ni la</mandarin> hor, I guess, but even then I oh by the way she talked to me was like


I have to tolerate her nonsense, just because she's been staying here for twenty years and just because her child is autistic, like, , no absolutely not, ya and then about the police thing she was like she kept asking me


oh what are what are you going to do then if this happens again next time I can't control her I can't teach her she goes to a special school with a special therapist and all that and then I'm like well this is not <mandarin>不是我的孩子我没有生他也是:bu shi wo de hai zi wo mei you sheng ta ye shi</mandarin> so like


ya what do you mean by asking me what what do you intend to do about it if this thing happen to you again, like I'll call the police ah <mandarin>我会报警:wo hui bao jing</mandarin> lah like let the police handle it


ya and she took my stuff nevermind my house is not child proof because it's only adults living there and the fact that she ran what my father said she ran very fast up to my TV my TV is not mounted to a wall like most households, so ya bigger than the six year old child ya and then my father and I were thinking oh then actually we have to be more careful cause what if she runs into my house again she bashes herself against my


TV and the TV table that long wooden cabinet, that TV can actually topple on her and flatten her and then I told this like to the neighbour right the neighbour was like oh then she might


die to be honest the TV is way too big, and then I told her man my house is not child proof she can actually get hurt in my house cause I just moved there's actually screw driver nails lying around cause my dad is still doing up the house so I was just if she gets injured in my house what then what are you going to do about it


and then she just kept silent for a moment, and then she's like !aiya! I live here again again with the !aiya! I live here for twenty years lah nothing like this ever happen before only until you move in, it's so insulting like


then I just gave her another example then man since she has a habit of, running into doors that are unlocked or open what cause my father has a car it's very big car what if we just leave one door open cause he want to take things or he's waiting for someone or any other like


ya what if she just jumped into the back on my father's car he closes up everything cause he doesn't know he's not expecting a six year old child and he just drives off to wherever and loses your daughter completely


but like it's a very real situation she already did it in my house and then, near the TV there right there is a tray the tray got my key my sister's key and my father's key what if she just took the whole tray and when then we cannot leave the house is it


there's so many of valuables in my house and, oh my god this neighbour is so


like


ya so I said the same thing your daughter is just six years old, and I've been living here for four months, this may be the first time it's happened or maybe it's happened other times you just never notice because I have another chinese neighbour her name is ruthie I know her a bit better cause my father I don't know I think he said hi to her a few times so she knows me now


she has a lot of plants like by her balcony the side of her door the other side of a door and then there's this giant aloe vera that is near the lift it's hers confirm, I can't believe that this autistic child never did anything to her plants before confirm have one ya


and maybe I don't know this ruthie is nice enough not to say anything ah


uh ya by the way, I actually just did this this morning I saw ruthie, like before I left work, and I asked ruthie lah like did this family at the end there ever caused any trouble for you anything like maybe not the child but she's mentioned something about her mother-in-law being a IMH patient so I was like


but I mean that's normal for every neighbour, , don't know


okay lah cause she's quite an old lady also, oh ya then speaking about how that whole family never notice what their child is up to right or the cat is up to right either that


like say that they never had heard of their cat jumping to other people's house before which is nonsense because you know why one time I went home late at night


then I was like wait why is it outside and then the door is like the wooden door is closed the gate is closed so it's like they not letting it back in what the heck cause it's just sitting by their shoes, ya the cat loyal sia I think


don't know where to go also just stay outside the house, ya so them saying that they don't know they never hear of the cat, running away or jumping to whatever I find it quite hard I actually believe that like you don't know what your cat or children up to lah to be honest and


if this neighbour right the mother lah say that she's struggling already with a kid, why would they bother getting like a cat and a parrot,


you know like it's such a chaotic household and, I hope I don't ever have to talk to them ever again, ya I have a feeling of that also sia like


I think this is not the first time because the cat like knows which corner to just stay in, ya


ya so that's them they never notice whatever happen, and then I think I had enough we were actually quarrelling for like one hour and it just it was a pointless argument lah the mother absolutely refuses to like take responsibility for her child and stuff so whatever nevermind I went home


then back onto my sister she clearly did not care whatever happened in the house cause, we're fighting again, so what happened was I come home, like last week ah this happened a bit earlier


then I come home from work I was gonna cook dinner, and do the laundry, that that was my plan for the day


ya, ya anyways so ya that was my whole plan when come back from work, and then I message my sister like, ya I'm gonna do these two things ya and then my sister was like


eh wait first ah I wait for me wait for you, wait for me to come home I want to do the I want to dump some clothes in as well then I'm like okay sure, and when I came home she was already home


so nevermind I'm like okay you're home so you already uh <mandarin>你放你的衣服在里面那个:ni fang ni de yi fu zai li mian na ge</mandarin> uh, then I'm like, so quite and by the way I came home five thirty I ask her


what time were you home she said four thirty she had one whole hour, and she just waited for me to come home to wait for her, to put all


ya because you know how our laundry system works is that we have two laundry basket one my dad one me and my sisters and then sometimes my sister will keep like her own clothes in her room cause maybe she can re-wear them again lah so no need to put in the laundry basket


so usually I only deal with the clothes in the laundry basket cause I don't I don't want to go her room what it's her things I don't need to take her things what, the clothes she wanted to put in were from her room


so I had to wait for her gather all her clothes put them in a basket, and put them in the laundry the washing machine, for what I also don't know my god and that was when


<mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> then


she wanted to like cut up the regular the things we like, need to cook first lah like garlic onion you know the things you have to prepare first but the thing is like I said


I came home one hour later than her, why can't she just do them before I come home right oh


cause anyway I'm like oh my god I just came home I don't fight I try not to fight with her lah and then I just let her do the thing lor


so I had to boil the noodle then made the sauce and everything then while I'm doing all these right, she don't want to help me already, she just stand by my shoulder and like, what you doing now uh you should do this first instead of this you should add this first instead of this


it's so made me even angrier, until I finally shouted at her, cause it's so annoying like she don't want to help me anymore nevermind but she was


oh my god then I got so angry I was like can you just go away like, and then she she started screaming at me lah why are you so mean to me like I just wanted to help only what


then I was like your help me no use you could have helped me an hour ago but you choose to help me now when I'm very busy come on lah, and then she went back to the room and then she slammed her door she's thirty years old by the way, like what the heck


anyway I cooked dinner then like I know my sister very well lah like she will not help me clean anything at all, like she's lazy as heck she's the worst person ever


ya and so I will portion everything out first, and then she <mandarin>洗别的东西:xi bie de dong xi</mandarin> lah the plates and everything, so as I'm washing she come up !walao! she stump


on the floor for no like you know a child throwing a tantrum she will pang pang pang on the floor ya it's so irritating I'm like oh my god what's wrong with her she took her bowl then she went her room while I'm washing everything


she still don't care, then uh okay, she borrowed a bag of mine a few days ago to go swimming is like a big tote bag I need a bag cause I need to put some things in to return to my office is a lot very heavy


she don't want to give it back I have to bang her door so many times until if she finally opening and then she threw the bag at me oh the bag was disgusting, you know the chlorine the swimming pool water smell combined I'm like oh my god I'm supposed to office thing inside and give it back to my office


god I've had enough of her, like she's


I regret buying this house with her, and then also uh my dad right has been nagging at her like we've all been nagging at her to do her own chores and these chores are like not extra chores like wash the toilet mop the house floor it's chores that are related to her


like do your own dishes like the bowl you eat of the plate you eat out of you need to wash you what, or like, uh what's that other thing, when you know we all use separate shampoo separate body soap when that one finish already you ownself throw lah and by the way when I tell her to throw her things right I just tell her to take out a plastic just throw the thing in hang it somewhere else cause she don't like our house got that


metal bin the direct rubbish chute where you don't have to go outside your house throw you have a direct one she also don't want to throw that thing in there she don't like touching it she said, which I accepted lah fine cause I think that's where some of the cockroach come up sometimes like it's natural lah


so fine you don't have to touch it I would do it just hang out rubbish somewhere else very nice already right and then some more she's not washing the toilet she's not doing any of the other house chore, she still want to say oh I hate this family so much you all are never nice to me you all only know how to nag at me


like man, you bought this house it's your responsibility as well, I'm not getting paid as a maid you know to do all these,


not once


ya and then we were like I say like you said lah furniture shopping right she was so promising she was like uh when we move into this new house I will be better all my old I will not bring all my old habits to this new house, she became even worse in this new house like our old house there was like at least a laundry basket and she does her own laundry and she washes her own dishes and she cleans at that time lah she got her own toilet she clean her own toilet


move into this new house only, she doesn't use the laundry basket, she don't keep her clothes, she don't do her dishes she got worse so what's the point, the next thirty years


I will live just thirty years and then pass away lah probably


oh ya and she's a smoker, ya so now we're like not talking to each other obviously I don't want to talk to her I hate her so much


anyway my birthday is coming up next week right uh on tuesday ya tuesday, so I was I was planning this with my father lah and then my father this time he decided to invite one more aunty this aunty I just reconnected with her last year ya you haven't met her but she's uh nice lah she's a bit weird


like, she chats about the most awkward things like when I reconnected with her right you know what she talked to me about, she talked to me about how, abusive her husband is, ya to me


I don't want to say bad but like, very controlling like what she say ah she's like oh he's so controlling and he


he beats me up like sometimes and by the way we were just having a casual lunch ah cause I recently got her phone number and I thought it'd be nice to see her again, and she started unloading on me like I was her therapist or something


, ya and, I mean ya but I can't help her lah just listen, ya and then anyway I just listen lah to be honest I don't believe


not that I don't believe no I believe her but it's like a bit, how did you ever manage to get for men like that cause I remember when I was younger, like maybe five or six years old she was single at the time, cause she's so well travelled and everything right I thought


how do you end up with a man like this though you weren't like this when I was so young


that was that's out of my control okay, I'm nicer to her than she is to me okay


ya anyway this weird aunty of mine okay I call her weird not because of her domestic problem lah but it's just the way she talks and, she's very I don't know if you understand like she's very flighty


like she will, jump from one topic to another like that very fast so anyway I wanted to invite her cause I think she invited us to her own parents birthday dinner last year


and uh it was a very expensive buffet, and so and stuff, at this hotel so I thought okay lah also at the right at the start inviting her to my birthday dinner, anyway so my sister now are fighting I don't want my sister at my birthday dinner obviously first of all she's just spoil sport she doesn't even eat the food I eat she doesn't eat seafood


right and we always eat seafood on my birthday so, anyway, ya and I message my aunty, and I was like !hey! do you wanna come over like we're either going to this place called the lagoon or we Dabao from there and then bring back to the house


and she was like yes sure I can make it, and then she ask me is your sister coming along I just I didn't want her to know we were fighting lah so I was like, and then I said oh no she's busy with work we'll just uh Dabao her something as usual and she was like okay


I didn't know she went behind my back to message my sister separately, and then she, told my sister <mandarin>他跟我讲:ta gen wo jiang</mandarin> eh


is on the eighth, like, are you how come you're not going I think she ask like how come you're not going, then my sister obviously she's like !huh! it's on the eighth meh, like I didn't know nobody told me


ya obviously because I don't want you there, (hmm), then my sister found out right, and she was like why nobody she came home stomping and screaming lah as usual why nobody invite me to <mandarin>妹妹:mei mei</mandarin> birthday dinner like I'm not part of this family meh


then my father was like, he don't want to say lah like I don't want you there my father also he agreed with me he's like, kind of don't want my oldest child there cause she don't eat seafood and right now you all are not on good terms I don't want to have a spoilt dinner


oh ya I didn't


oh ya I oh ya I didn't even <mandarin>我没有想过:wo mei you xiang guo</mandarin> sia I, I forgot about that entirely like


ya she, oh my god she's so rude towards like service staff, and everything, like remember last year during my birthday at the japanese restaurant she was so rude to this waiter just cause, the waiter didn't come over and take her order like fast enough


and that just spoilt the whole mood like oh my god this girl what's wrong with her why she like this, ya so anyway she came home stomp stomping and screaming and then my father had to like, he he came up with an excuse ah he was like uh I didn't tell you yet cause nothing is confirm mah girl like we're just asking around whether the usual family members can make it make it first or not lah


and then, and then my sister was like whatever then she go back slam the door, so she's not going lah, uh I'm gonna do my best to make sure she doesn't


like I really don't want her there she's just gonna spoil everything I know it, oh ya you are there for sure


but I didn't tell you first cause like my dad said nothing's confirm yet


and wednesday won't work also cause wednesday my sister will be home for sure it's her off day


ya thursday we're gonna pick up a new cat


oh ya so anyway back to this aunty she went behind my back to like message her my sister, and for why why oh my god and I got so upset I was so petty


so uh she message me again today she asked me whether I want to no she ask me again she's weird she ask me eh jasmine, where are you working ah what's your work address like why do you need to know and then she was like oh I'm thinking uh maybe I buy you a dinner or something first ah


like for your birthday, then obviously I'm a bit upset at her so I don't want it I don't want to go out with her cause I know for sure she's just gonna ask my sister to come along, and then I'm like oh no thanks by the way this week next week's dinner is cancelled at the moment cause my father has to reschedule


then she's like and then she's like oh no worries why don't we go orchard and uh have tea or something, I will ask your big sister along too, and then I got so mad I was like I'm not going and I just ended the conversation


what the fuck oh ya like when I came to work right like away from my house I was so relieved sia I was like oh my god I'm here, away from that stupid sister of mind it's amazing


for the first time I went to work I was like I'm so happy to be here, no, most probably she wouldn't like say sorry to me before my birthday so I'm not going to celebrate her birthday either


!aiya! excuse me eh before all these right I lend her my laptop you know for like a few hours to do her stupid interview with this company that will offer her five K or something but because of this COVID nineteen like the interview must be done at home lah over skype or zoom I don't know what they use


and because her laptop is spoilt there's no audio I lend her my one she was like uh when I get his job right actually even without this job lah for lending me your laptop for the interview and everything I will buy you a expensive buffet dinner okay cause you are my sis


I mean I should take her for liar lah like, why do I believe anything she says


ya so that's my whole family, anyway how about your bro, how's he


oh ya then <mandarin>你的弟弟什么坏事他做:ni de di di shen me huai shi ta zuo</mandarin> right <mandarin>你会被骂也是:ni hui bei ma ye shi</mandarin> hor


okay lah that's like me and my sister when we were younger


oh ya similar my dad lah my dad is whenever like right now my sister's being , a brat right so but he will lump us together sia he will keep say you all be


then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> ball ball <mandarin>没有掉下去:mei you diao xia qu</mandarin> meh like how he hook it up to ceiling


oh ya I have no words for your brother sia I've no idea he became so, uh unpleasant


oh ya back to my neighbour right okay cause


even though I used to stay in Punggol for over ten fifteen years like that already I actually, don't remember any of my neighbour's names as usual cause I think I change, I change about like four three or four sets of neighbours already per house


so but there was this one, uh flight, a flight attendant for singapore airlines I recognize I recognize the uniform and she's been staying at my house as long as me lah, she's she and I are the only longest one staying there but obviously she's not home most of the time cause she's a flight attendant she goes away for like few weeks


she actually before I moved out she eh like remember me and stuffs sia like she said to me ah oh !wow! I've been here since you were very young I see you change uniform a lot of time, cause she's been staying here since I was in primary school


so she see me a few times like we're at the airport so I think she see me there too, so weird, so like okay that's nice my neighbour notice me grow up, and then I'm thinking like I just moved to Bedok now there's a new child that's six years old I'm obviously also going to notice her grow up what cause ah I just bought this house I will be staying here for a long time


it was such a brat last time, I mean like, like I mean as a neighbour and an adult I don't want anything bad to happen to this child that's why I'm bringing this up to her mother who should be aware oh but her mother is so defensive like she don't want to take responsibility


she just wants to blame on her child's autism which is not right what


I I was about to sneeze I'm sorry, I didn't I hold it back in, ya you were saying, like she has a shield like she has a shield when I was talking to her


I can't I was holding back my sneeze sorry couldn't pay attention


ya, and then okay like on a different note right when I finished quarrelling or talking I would shoot


I was talking she was shouting lah so it's like very one sided quarrel, I went home to think about it lah like ya cause I was so angry at the way the mother responded I was like, !walao! eh I hope, I hope nothing bad happens to your child but if something happens to your child


ah <mandarin>我跟你讲了我跟你讲了你不要相信:wo gen ni jiang le wo gen ni jiang le ni bu yao xiang xin</mandarin> lor <mandarin>不要相信:bu yao xiang xin</mandarin> lah


you and by the way when I say my house is not child proof, in my type of house there is a kitchen window, it's set at like uh my waist, the height is like until from my head to my waist there and not only that my father right he keeps like uh stepping stool


I was like right next to the window so if the child were to climb in uh to run into my house even further to the kitchen, she can actually use the steps stool to jump out of my kitchen window and I live on a tenth floor


ya and financially and mentally I obviously none of my family members family members can deal with that happening you know


ya because she accused oh ya when we will quarrelling she actually because like I said mam you will need to be aware that your child is starting to get to these things like she's curious autistic or not I think she's just curious and things like that


and she told me not to put these things up around my house like the figurines near the door or anything like it's my fault, I want to decorate the house the way I want it to cause it's my house


ya ya ya I was thinking that you will have to pick five steps into my house to reach my TV for her for adults some more


so this family is insane and I okay, these are the first neighbours I actually dislike so much and back in Punggol, there were people who stole my parcels and I didn't even hate them that much


what is this this is so insane


ya my sister said like they're are the most likely suspects also


and I'm not home most of the time back then some more, horrible sister as much as I hate her she was a bit useful lah okay like she will collect my parcels but now nevermind


oh my god if a parcel comes to my house and if it's hers I will just tell them it's the wrong house sia


netflix am I watching anything new on there right now, oh ya there's this korean drama on netflix called the world of married couples I don't know a lot of my colleagues liked it


I don't know ah I forgot what my colleague say I could be wrong it covers like the entire I don't know what you called subjects of being in a relationship and getting married, like cheating


you are having a wedding dates valentine's day like everything I wanna watch sia but, can barely commit to one drama so


oh ya so my birthday plans most likely I will do it next week on fourteenth of september


and I will not be inviting that snitchy aunty or my horrible sister and rescheduled it's not happening for them


ya and I have a feeling like I said my aunt that particular aunty is closer to my sister cause, they smoke like that's the only thing they have in common


ya, because one time like I told you she invited us to a buffet and everything my dad and I and my sister were about to go home, but my sister stay on with my aunty ask them all you're going somewhere else and oh no we're just staying back to smoke only


ya so but they told me privately lah so that I wouldn't, join them because I'm not a smoker and they were like oh <mandarin>我们要:wo men yao</mandarin> uh <mandarin>留在这边一下子要抽烟聊天:liu zai zhe bian yi xia zi yao chou yan liao tian</mandarin> do whatever


then I'm okay that's pretty weird like you know why so weird because they were telling me this and then you're going to go somewhere else, like to maybe uh club or wine bar or something, no she they just wanted to stand that particular corner of the shopping mall to smoke and talk I thought they were going to go somewhere they're so weird


ya so probably I'll see you on the fourteenth and I'll be inviting the


tenth oh ya we have to pick up <mandarin>蜜糖:mi tang</mandarin> <mandarin>蜜糖蜜糖:mi tang mi tang</mandarin> first ya but for my birthday I will see you on the fourteenth with that nice aunty and that rich aunty


I need her #ang bao#, but you know that by now, okay we're gonna have a second child so we need that money, uh by child we mean cats lah


okay so bye see you next week


!walao! damn full lah like, which was which was your favourite this just now the sushi place


why leh, fatty


oh, really ah, better than <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Genki sushi right


but it's quite thin right the salmon belly


the texture is it, oh


ya <mandarin>我看到你吃到好像要要要:wo kan dao ni chi dao hao xiang yao yao yao</mandarin> pass away


my favourite is has gotta be the shrimp, the big red shrimp <mandarin>还有那个:hai you na ge</mandarin> small shrimp


and <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> shrimp Kani roll, it's called shrimp, the menu on the menu <mandarin>他们放:ta men fang</mandarin> shrimp right


I like the uncooked, semi-cooked shrimp kind of kind of shrimp, it's very


sweet but savoury


standard normal


really, !wah! but that's my favourite, and also the scallop


ya that one really cannot make it lah it tastes like some, then <mandarin>好像有很多:hao xiang you hen duo</mandarin> MSG


but mango is your favourite right your favorite food fruit, uh it's called shaved ice


also known as ice Kacang right, uh Bingsu, korean Bingsu yes


I think it's, similar to that, oh <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> canned mango ah


so it's still made of real mango lah, okay anyway now we know lah we just don't order <mandarin>他们的甜品就对了:ta men de tian pin jiu dui le</mandarin> just whack


!huh! just whack just whack the sushi, I think it's okay if you go to like, those Omakase place


times two twenty six already, so <mandarin>我一个人二十粒:wo yi ge ren er shi li</mandarin> ah


it's like how many <mandarin>几碗晚饭:ji wan wan fan</mandarin> ah, oh my god, I think we should


stay away from japanese food for awhile, so next week I think we can explore


some hawker centre food near, night safari area, no as you wait night safari is near where woodlands right, or is it


#choa chu kang# <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> lah, so there we we can't score any good food lah


!walao! confirm not nice one


oh my god it's still there meh


maybe, ya I think I wanna eat more hawker centre food


but today the sushi quite healthy what


okay next time I will just eat everything myself already


(hmm), filing scanning lor !walao!


of course Sian lah, I just hope tomorrow will be the last day that I have to go back to the office


forever until the end of the year, ya


ya I think when it comes to, moving and shifting the boxes, all of us will need to go back to office


don't know leh, not yet


cause I need to, not me, my, boss needs to clear her own desk first, she's the only one who hasn't cleared, her the things on her desk


she is a hoarder


ya no those lanyards are already, the old old versions, she didn't want to throw them away because she feels that it's very wasted, so she kept everything and then now she doesn't know, where to put so <mandarin>他去给那些:ta qu gei nei xie</mandarin> aunty uncle lor office cleaners


like even if you give them right what are they going to do with it, just to find more space for to keep for you, uh in hopes that one day you will need it back from them


ya and then then her even her own house right is really a huge mess also, they they went before, oh you know so so they went to her house right and one of them told me that


no space not much space to walk because there's a lot of, clutter, so basically her house rare is actually two


flats, combined into one, so so ya so her house right it's already super big but because she has so much stuff in her house right she just keeps hoarding and


collecting and accumulating things, there's really no space to walk, ya okay imagine how, how how uncomfortable, you will feel when you go try to even go walk inside your house


cockroaches ya ya I tell you even her desk ah confirm you <mandarin>小强:xiao qiang</mandarin> one


just leave on a table down there, the most disorganised person, mess discord organised messy, and dirty person I've ever met


I think so man, like okay so if you go to, a new office right a new company, and then you walk around and you'll notice people's desks are usually very clean tidy decluttered right then you come to our room right


our office ah then you see oh my god like you stand at the door only right you just like oh my god like what what is all this mountain full of, crap, in her room


no so the things ah is even like, things that, are dated before her time, she didn't bother to go and <mandarin>整理一下:zheng li yi xia</mandarin> or like you know so I when I when I did the


filing and packing of the stuff right


cause she never bother to go and like you know ya filter those things and throw away what is not needed


ya lor


no but but I'm trying to push for train what


my careers future, SG united


oh, okay


what operations ah


all in operations, okay


how many jobs do you think <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> apply so far


you know I think it's because, so for you right I think you should stick to your current industry it's easier


so you don't want to stay in this industry


how about you go and study something like a type of course, or like coding or like data analytics


ya and then they will say we are the <mandarin>草莓族:cao mei zu</mandarin> don't know what


then it's just, ya but then right they they will still classify us together with them ya


ya but, sorry, for me move up, how to move up


I can't move up unless somebody, ya, either someone moves up then I can also move up or the person has to move out for us to move up


for sure no lah


everybody is just stuck in their current current role right now and, there isn't much hiring going on outside as well, so everyone is just holding on to their


jobs, and it's also like you know hiring freeze, salary freeze so


and great depression, SARS is not even a big enough crisis


start your own thing lor


because it's more competitive right so you know so that's why right you need to think of things that people have not done before


I think it can be done


blooming


!wah!, what's for supper, later I cook the, ginger onion sliced fish lah I haven't tried that one


then <mandarin>我看那个:wo kan na ge</mandarin> youtube video lor just follow step by step or do you want the #hae mee#, !aiya!, you confirm later eleven PM hungry one


I really very excited to make a good prawn Mee soup stock, store until when, ya you can bring to work tomorrow what


you ons


close the door lah, very simple just uh okay so the guy he used chicken feet and


prawn heads one KG of prawn heads, and I think one KG of chicken feet


ribs and anchovies #ikan bilis#, that's what I put that day what for the hokkien Mee, so how was the soup the next day


so you felt you tasted more of what the prawn ah


oh I also put in the some of the pork lard oil in the soup maybe maybe that's why, !wah! but I tell you ah when I fried the pork lard right, it was so hot


so smelly I smelt like pork after that, then yes in the end then


and I really didn't know what to expect, so I was like how come so long one ah then the video right <mandarin>他也是讲要:ta ye shi jiang yao</mandarin> fry for <mandarin>十五到二十分钟了:shi wu dao er shi fen zhong le</mandarin> !huh!, it's damn long you know because when you buy that time right all white colour right so I was wondering how come so long already ah still not like brown golden brown colour


super not ya the whole thing is all all <mandarin>猪油:zhu you</mandarin> lah, at some point right I think the frying pan had some droplets of water, and I used it ya and then it started like ya like what the hell


ya ya ya so after that I turn down the, the stove, ya so that it will not the fire won't be so strong


oh because I was watching the singapore master chef, and of course and and also like I wanted to


learn to cook more dishes, oh very very domestic


no I also think that it's very, food taste different, when you cook it yourself, it tastes nicer


don't you think, no you look at the food I cook is nowhere near healthy but it's like, I feel that when I cook it right I know exactly what I put in I know how to adjust I know when to adjust the taste and how to adjust it to my liking and of course you know lah <mandarin>我喜欢:wo xi huan</mandarin> like super spicy stuff


is it good why, oh so is that why my food is always very oily


no because sometimes right it's like very dry


and I don't want it to burn, and also the youtube videos right he also the guy also, pour a bit of oil in between one especially when he fry like noodles, I don't know whether it's normal or not but I just follow that guy ah but I think it's okay cause I don't feel my food taste weird


!wow! are you like nitpicking on what I cook now


so for example like what salad


#bak kut teh# quite <mandarin>健康:jian kang</mandarin> mah <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> meh


ya but the one we cook at home is quite <mandarin>清淡:qing dan</mandarin> what


okay I don't want to cook prawn Mee already later


but it's, nearing the end of the weekend already


!wah! I can eat, like, anything, like maybe carrots I will still eat


brown rice right no way man, like uh so, I don't know


and the texture, the texture of of brown rice is very, unnatural


really meh, think they ran out of brown rice


so what you are saying is, say your, your week starts on a monday you are gonna cook


worth of, brown rice <mandarin>四天:si tian</mandarin> worth of brown rice and another protein to keep in the freezer, can last so long meh


sounds good sounds healthy


sounds good, you starting from when tomorrow, why not tomorrow you can go and buy later


come on man


sure, ya


well, you never try you never know


oh my god you just reminded me you know that day, is still in my fridge I haven't


so that day right I came home then !wah! was so so tired then I was like, uh maybe, one week ago right ya it's still in the fridge I told my mum will take it out to help me wash also but it's still sitting in the fridge very comfortably


!oops! okay tomorrow I will wash I will soak it for like two days


ya but that will take like, don't know how long


or sale of balance, which one resale, uh


ya so if you get a resale right a resale flat, that's near my parents you will get additional grants, I can't remember I think no lah


no but like ya lah that area is a bit expensive but you have to see the


long term value of that area, uh I think you should set try to save and set aside like at least fifty K


ya, because the down I know cause the down payment will be like twenty K


and then renovation say twenty to thirty K in total so


I think it's doable lah like, okay to be honest right I I do feel that, it's the monthly rental that really kills your


savings, that's why I keep saying like you know it's really not worth paying rent


who your parents no lah they will never say that they will want to move in they already have like a very


like pristine house waiting for them, but you can't own more than


you can rent both out no you cannot new flats you must stay there for five years then you can rent out, ya, ya it's a new flat what you should stay there minimum occupancy is five years


well, okay your dad confirm wanna stay with you one for sure


(hmm), I think, it really depends on


how about you ask your landlord how much is this house, I don't know lah like I I mean I'm just


has he considered


no lah it's a different separate agreement man what the ya


it's a separate agreement you signed on the dotted line so did he and your dad right, do you are you are you even like on good talking terms with the landlord


!huh! he is working there as an expat or what, why so weird I have never heard of anyone going to myanmar to work from as in from a singaporean


the COVID situation


then where's he gonna stay when he comes back


as in the landlord


oh so so so it happen, how long was the how long did the previous landlord


ask him what is the market to do a market evaluation first, I think will be four hundred


I don't think this place is bad to begin with


I thought you are getting your brown rice, why you don't want why you don't want start this week, you lazy


then you ask me whether want to go #sheng siong#, don't want lah don't want lah, tired also, ya, !aiya! just cook the fish later ah


you still want to eat rice


well there's bread, garlic bread


we have no more noodles what, okay


!huh!


I feel like it's very pretentious man, show off


just go hiking at #bukit timah# nature reserve


sure we're already going to night safari to hike


sure


when is it ending, ya that time I went like five plus six right, and then it was like


it got dark very suddenly, then I was so scared I just started like I didn't even finish the trail and then there were like monkeys and I'm so scared in the end I just went back home I just rush home


I felt so loser man, no it is a whole bunch of them, and they were like trying to disturb this person


like the some of the the the the group of monkeys were trying to steal or take someone's, like


and they were quite aggressive, ya and then they were trying to lie, chase the monkeys away


I think five, ya then I was the only one there you know then this is like oh my god there's no one else around and it's getting darker


actually we went there in the morning before right


oh we end up many many drinks


oh dear, oh actually <mandarin>刚才:gang cai</mandarin> right I wanted to go to vivo


to see puppies, what I got a bit lazy lah I thought about the bread I think I wanted the bread more than the puppies


eh <mandarin>你饱:ni bao</mandarin> mah, I don't know man they were all


salmon belly hor <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> Sibeh #tok gong# <mandarin>的真的是:de zhen de shi</mandarin> best, because it's very very fatty fatty, it melts in your mouth


and, I don't know I think it's pretty much the best, I have eaten so far


I don't think you can find elsewhere ah, I think it's important for it to be, not <mandarin>薄一点:bao yi dian</mandarin> it's not about the, the foulness it's about the


the mouthy-ness, of one bite, the ratio of <mandarin>饭:fan</mandarin> to <mandarin>鱼:yu</mandarin> you know, too much fish to rice is gonna taste is gonna be overwhelming


but at some point I think I I couldn't stomach anymore already


what about you, what about you, what do you like


prawn <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> prawn, shrimp


ya but what about it that you like


savoury, okay but I get the sweet shrimp, that one I can taste, a bit of sweetness but, other than that


the rest of the shrimp quite, it's just very neutral lor


the one that you ate yes, I eat so much scallop also, oh talking about scallop, the spicy baby scallops are horrible


very funny ah I don't like it, and, the shaved ice


flavoured water, mango flavoured water


it is my favourite favourite fruit, but everything was frozen, is it, a shaved ice is different from ice Kacang


yes, but


it's just flavoured water I I expected more, it's like rock hard


uh I know it's like, the mango they put it inside the ice cube tray, they go and freeze it and dig it out and serve it to me


but <mandarin>八十块:ba shi kuai</mandarin> leh, you think worth it or not


thirteen plates, times two ya, okay so we ate about forty


forty pieces, !wah! that's a lot


I really cannot walk anymore, so what do you want eat, next week


night safari food, is usually very touristy, it's expensive


no Mandai, that kind of place, no lah but, no you can score fried chicken KFC


as usual, that's what people eat over there, or you can eat the night safari cafe either what ah safari cafe I can't remember zoo cafe or something orangutan cafe yes the orangutan is dead


but the cafe is still there, so you can eat there probably but the food there is overpriced lah, I don't think singaporeans will eat there, at all


you know what I wanna do I wanna eat healthier this week, like, I am so tired of everyday eat


the amount is unhealthy, the amount I we ate


you need to think about it


then <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> try try <mandarin>一口就不要吃了:yi kou jiu bu yao chi le</mandarin> then <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> finish, then <mandarin>我要吃:wo yao chi</mandarin> three quarters


okay, I'm just kidding <mandarin>开玩笑而已:kai wan xiao er yi</mandarin> lah, so <mandarin>明天回去:ming tian hui qu</mandarin> office ah


forever until the end of the year


but you have so many things to do so many things to move, and


you all have to, like really


but is there is there like a system in place for everyone to, turn up and help


that's a that's a typical hoarder hoarder mentality, she hoards everything, even the lanyards right, company lanyards also don't want to throw


ya but your boss really has to wake up, her idea man, how do you know, oh


I'm trying to imagine the entrance to the, living room there's a walkway and cluttered


oh can you imagine all the


is her, goodness


that's so long that's like twelve years ago, I was in the army you know twenty away and she keeps all these things ya


ah <mandarin>收这样久:shou zhe yang jiu</mandarin> ah Siao, ya lor


I don't know leh


I don't know I think it's a job for


fresh grads ah it'll it'll be better for fresh grads I'm afraid if I go there, I will feel very, under utilised, and then I will feel exactly the same way, as I feel right now at work


ya I know you trying to push for change but you've been pushing for change for the last year, nothing much has changed if your boss doesn't change then nothing would change, if there's only so much you can do right, I mean


there are things that you can, introduce processes you can improve but, if your boss is still so hard headed, still so traditional, still so disorganised


I think it's difficult ah, but, I'm thinking of moving out already so, mid career switch right is the is the thing right now


go look for put the hashtag SGUP, no now the new thing is to put in your profile


oh sorry not that's for jobstreet, you put hashtag SGUP right and employers will look at your your profile will flag up to employers, as someone who is looking for mid career switch


ya my careers future my careers future also like that, ya if you see some job postings on my careers future right, there's a at the end of the posting there's a hashtag SGUP, so don't that's for people who are looking for mid career switch


the rest are hashtag like SG united or traineeship, ya, but I don't know what industry I want to switch to man


so tiring to look for jobs, how about you


it's all about timing man <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> timing <mandarin>现在真的是很很:xian zai zhen de shi hen hen</mandarin> bad


uh fuji xerox as well, ya, and then even applied for government jobs I think I told you about it before


and then I think I applied at least thirty already, nobody's hiring man


ya but my industry is very niche is very specialized, that's it like, I can only rotate between these few companies


and I don't wanna work there anymore already, I don't want not not this industry lah but this, this area of this industry this sector, I don't feel like there's any growth


no career progression, I'm thinking of taking safety courses


more towards safety I know I told you before that, I don't like safety but, I think maybe more of quality assurance, inspections that serve a bit more technical get myself certified


maybe that will help maybe maybe that will help me, then something different I think I'm just looking for something different you know, but I can't be different in a sense that it's, boring you see


like I don't want to shift to another of like another, work for someone else but end up doing paperwork again, I mean what's the point right


it has to be engaging your bosses have to be engaging your work has to engage you


some people can do that lah but I can't what also cannot


we are from a different generation, would think of us as, like to pick, but I don't think so


I say I'd say we are more selective and uh, more in tune we with what we want, whereas, people of their time they just have to do things to survive yes


the ones that we we see coming in now


ya because they think that we're all we're the ones who started his whole, strawberry easily bruised generation, you know would complain about everything


but I heard, you said that you also, looking to move out already, of your current current role, move out or move up, move out or move up


ya, ya lor, moves out, see that's exactly what I'm saying, if there's no vacancy


so do you think there's any chance of you moving up or the person on top of you is going to move up or out, because why, your boss cannot move or cannot move up


okay so every generation will have a crisis


okay I read read about this the other day every generation, in singapore right will encounter one crisis, asian financial crisis okay <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> grandparents world war two


the great depression, I think our parents <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> parents, asian financial crisis and SARS, it was quite bad lah I mean for asia


okay then for us is this COVID nineteen pandemic, and then, somehow right there are people who can, find a way to


innovate during these these times, like I wanna be that person, like how can you find a way to still be successful during, periods like this where companies are not hiring, people are firing


start my own business, I feel it gets harder and harder every generation leh, and ideas are saturated already


ya so they say you think out of the box right but now the box is so, like, it's so big, like how do you think out of the box you have to think out of the box of the box of the box, how many boxes you have to think out all just to


have that one idea, it's tough lah, ya but, I don't know lah, that it's just a very bad time for everybody


there's no there's no , it's very little things to look forward to, especially, four people like us at our age where we're supposed to be


this is supposed to be the period where you are, blooming I say booming ah I think like, like your success factor at this period should be multiplied ya double triple than when you are in your twenties ya


and then when this kind of thing hits you right it puts everything, stops everything dead in its tracks


I think <mandarin>是我们:shi wo men</mandarin> Suay, sorry


I can't think of food anymore


then <mandarin>你要几点:ni yao ji dian</mandarin> start


!wow!, can we store the stock, like can it be and kept


ya I don't mind


I don't mind #hae mee#, but it's going to make the whole house smell, the youtube I mean what's the recipe like for the #hae mee#


that's too much for us already


got #ikan bilis# one meh, got people put #ikan bilis# in prawn stock one meh, oh ya


oh very nice it was that it was richer the next day, I taste I don't know lah but it just taste, it's just very just very briny and salty because I only had like that much


no wonder, ya it was very good, the following day


!wah! I never knew that eh


whole thing is fat what I think will take a long time, oh splattering


how come you suddenly have a


interest in cooking all these things recently, !wow!, are you uh


like are you feeling domestic recently very domestic recently, how come is it because uh, you are approaching the age the motherly age


when you need to, in what sense


you mean is healthier


and you tend to add oil in between cooking, no, because you've cut you tend you tend to forget how much oil you added before at the start


it's not there is always oily but, when oil is not tempered like <mandarin>你没有去煮那个油:ni mei you qu zhu na ge you</mandarin> right you can taste the


so so it's normal lah to just add oil in between


but I would like, I would like to eat a home cooked food, (ppc), but not necessary always home cooked hawker food


I think sometimes it's okay if you can cook like healthy like something healthier, no lah I'm not nitpick I'm suggesting that uh, like


like okay for weekdays right, I think, uh on special days on weekends we can do something out of the norm, sia Mee #hae mee# <mandarin>炒果条:chao guo tiao</mandarin> this kind of thing


but during the weekdays or we should keep it, clean and lean, because you know we're not getting any younger, right our bodies you can feel already slowing down a lot already it's not as <mandarin>灵活:ling huo</mandarin> as before already


like anything you put inside ah you feel double the effects the after effects, when you were younger, you can go like, at night #bak kut teh# next day wake up you feel fine


okay lah eh, but I'm just saying we're not we're not young anymore


not as young, not not young but not as young, I think we should watch your diet, like, more, more greens more clean more protein cook


cook cleanly, no uh today is a weekend so it's okay, ya we can we can spoil ourselves


okay so you know what I thought about, I I thought about starting to prepare my own meals during for the week, and keep them in the fridge, ya


I'm gonna start pre-cooking my meals, like, maybe I'll cook brown rice, I don't really hate brown rice


will speak to me in hokkien #chor mee#


celery, what is it about brown rice that you don't like


it's so, exactly there's no taste to brown rice, texture


because you are eating, the husk of the rise as well, that's why brown rice basically rice with their husk gone


ah, when we order, I don't know why it came as white rice


I usually order brown rice, ya but anyway, I was thinking of preparing like my meals, in advance so everyday I'll just take out, a portioned out meal a well portioned out meal


and eat it, and then save my, cheat days for like weekends when in I have my off days


ya in the fridge, can, you see I need to cook four portions of rice for myself, four portions of protein, two can be chicken two can be fish very simple just either steam or


something very easy to to whip up lah, and then, two portions four portions of vegetables, ya, and then I do that for times two lunch and dinner


and then I'll bring it to work lah, what do you think, next week, I haven't I haven't buy my groceries


oh my god I'm so tired, I'll do it next week


but, what, do you think I can stick to this plan, would you want to join me, in eating healthier, ya


that means four days eh, of just eating the same, vegetables chicken, can you do it, I don't think you can


don't have faith, okay let's do it next week, you can do healthy eating for thirty days give it a shot


like you nearby containers to keep the food, ya


eh the oil will stick to the


eh you know the oil will stick to the container then will become very hard to remove yes that's why I always wash my lunch box like, latest the next day, because the oil !wah! and <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> as a lot of oil


you have to use clorox to soak it, eh so, I have been thinking right, about


our house in the future, the best place, that we've decided right, will still be uh BTO release near your parents right


so what are our immediate options let's say if we want to, get a house in the next two years


additional up to fifteen K is it, !walao!


ya but I I just wanna be prepared like how much should I am I am I supposed to set aside


what am I supposed to expect, in cash ah that's what you mean, that's on top of my savings eh


this is, taking into account that, if we see something that we like


and it's not BTO which is uh or as in we have to buy a resale or balance, that's where the cash deposit comes in


!wah! adulting is tough man, twenty to thirty K


ya, but different people got different circumstances it's hard I think this this thing I mean it's


it's something I understand but it's also difficult for me to, it's hard for me to avoid also ya I know, ya


I mean I get that like, at the end of the day the house does not belong to me, I'm paying for someone else's mortgage, which is why I also am


trying to like you know, come up with a plan, and see when is the soonest that, I can get, we can get our own place, you know what I mean


but then there's a lot of expectations also getting your own place, especially from me from my parents, why you don't want to move in, ya my parents what if your parents say that you know they want to move in with you also eh you never know leh you never know ya exactly


knowing your parents and how frugal they are right they see that they will probably they could also see that as, a money making more than they can't but they can still stay with you and rent out that place


you can have one private property and one HDB yes, really meh, for theirs also consider new flat ah


oh okay, so we're safe from your parents, but we are not safe from mine


ya I know, it's very hard to, avoid that, it's just like !aiya!, I think I'm a bit different leh, I just wanna be by myself, away from parents


you know that, some people will say that, this is, some unfilial act


it's a big big purchase, getting your own flat, and buy this house from him


actually I could uh if I could ask him to back, like, if he's okay and he is considered selling this place, I don't know I haven't spoken to him


but if he's if he ever considered, selling this place I don't know if you'd be down to, back date all my payments as in as part of too much am I asking for too much


I already paid for one year already what one year plus there, ya but he could always say like you know okay I value this place X X but since you been paying rent


ya as in awhile lah you check out I'll text him like eh I just send you your I just send you the rent, then, uh oh I realized he is not


in australia I got the countries wrong he's in myanmar, ya he is in myanmar, consultancy


ya he is a expat in myanmar, I think uh manufacturing and IT industries they have they post quite a lot of singaporeans there as consultants


ya, but he says that, in myanmar, there's, I mean the situation there is a lot better than singapore lah


I even told him not to come back for the time being, and he agreed, but now myanmar is facing an outbreak already so I think he's thinking of coming back


I don't know, not with me lah obviously, house already rented out what, no I think he has another flat lah with his brother or something


then <mandarin>他去:ta qu</mandarin> renovate


the <P2>tan ah si</P2> went to borrow money from loan sharks before, the previous tenant so he didn't stay here this this landlord never stayed here he owned he owned the place he renovated the place he rented it out to


one tenant before me who borrowed money from loan shark, and then uh, I think that was that's why that the cameras outside because they had issues before, loan shark activities outside


so he reported to the police also ya the landlord reported to the police before, then after he took awhile like everything settle, after after awhile then he, lease this place out again


I don't know I don't know if it happened or not but that's, he say he say was a couple months before me, ya he said he didn't want to put it out on the market straightaway because he was worried that


uh these these people will come back so he lodge a police report, and then and then after a while then when it felt like everything had settled down, then he put the market back out again and put the house back on the market again


that's when I found it ah, but I don't know eh should I, should I consider like, asking if he is willing to


sell this place, ya he has to do market evaluation, how much do you think he will value this place will be valued at, four hundred


this place not bad lah, I mean it can it can be a lot worse, right, I just find the the neighbours a bit rowdy sometimes


but in the spirit of racial harmony, and social cohesion, ya, you must learn to be tolerant of one another