well let's talk about #ah ma#, , oh <mandarin>那个我真不知道:na ge wo zhen bu zhi dao</mandarin> eh like <mandarin>她吃了:ta chi le</mandarin> then <mandarin>她睡:ta shui</mandarin> but <mandarin>她的胃口也不是很好:ta de wei kou ye bu shi hen hao</mandarin> ya so I'm a bit concerned like I don't know whether she's like having internal bleeding but no leh her blood count is normal right her temperatures is okay right oh ya she feels okay


what could it be ah I don't know sia maybe what, oh my goodness yes


then after that ya like like if you if you don't deliver the food like instantly then she'll be like err <mandarin>饿: e</mandarin> Liao ah <mandarin>食物在哪里:shi wu zai na li</mandarin> but okay lah she will ask in a nice way I guess she's one of the less demanding kind of grandmas that I've known


uh, ,


ya oh my god yes, ya like every time we go there like it's really like the interaction is so little because I think she really just she lost touch lah like how <mandarin>他这么久没有跟人家讲话没有人:ta zhe me jiu mei you gen ren jia jiang hua mei you ren</mandarin> like actually <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> try to engage her so she just sitting there and like even when you try to start a conversation I think to her she forgot how to


how to respond ah or like she she really forgot how to how to hold a conversation with someone ya like the difference is so big that I can't really remember how she was like last time and that's really really very tiring like she stayed there for like what three years or more more


!wah! this is crazy eh and the amount of functionalities she can give back within like what three months ya I mean ya I I guess it was a good it was a good decision to just drag her here and like put her like say like she's she's here she's gonna stay here


ah, ya ya ya oh my god yes, uh ya I know right like quality of life was just


was just really bad lah like I wouldn't want to age that way ya, #jia buey lo# ya cannot eat already ya


ya ya ya every time we see lor she really doesn't [orh] I tell you something very funny also so cause she like the whole day very tired so I just kept asking like eh #ah ma# why you so tired <mandarin>为什么你这么累:wei shen me ni zhe me lei</mandarin> then like ya so then she tell me she very Sian lah like you know just <mandarin>不要做东西:bu yao zuo dong xi</mandarin> very bored ya so I tried to engage her then I was just like #ah ma#


err <mandarin>明天我们去吃早餐:ming tian wo men qu chi zao can</mandarin> then she was like [orh] then I was like <mandarin>吃早餐过后我们去买榴莲:chi zao can guo hou wo men qu mai liu lian</mandarin> !wah! then her face really like brighten up eh then she smiled like got no tomorrow like she really like she just like her eyes were closed cause she was so tired but then she just like smiled like the I know what you are trying to do and I like it like that's the way I like to be engaged then I was just like oh expensive but worth so


like pre-wheelchair like seriously you can remember how she how she was like like her quality of life ya


like the coffee shop downstairs the house


ya true,


ya


super funny, ya ya ya,


ya oh my god I I'm really really proud of ivy in that aspect because like she really she know how to like choose people lah ya I feel like she makes her choices very very well ya and I think like I don't think she does it on purpose in that sense that she thinks that Popo needs it but is just that she <mandarin>她会看人:ta hui kan ren</mandarin> lor ya


she she knows, yeah yeah that's true


oh , dead ya


but !aiya! she's so darling ah is like I think we have partially given up disciplining her like <mandarin>那天:na tian</mandarin> like <mandarin>那个狗要咬我:na ge gou yao yao wo</mandarin> then Popo just like !aiya! <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> discipline <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> lah <mandarin>没关系:mei guan xi</mandarin> lah hor <mandarin>你要看自己也是:ni yao kan zi ji ye shi</mandarin> mah <mandarin>有时候是你作弄狗的:you shi hou shi ni zuo nong gou de</mandarin> ah <mandarin>不是他要咬你的:bu shi ta yao yao ni de</mandarin>


like it's a total hundred eighty lor from when the dog first came when the dog first came Popo was like all about discipline and like ya <mandarin>你不可以宠那个狗不可以乱乱喂那个狗要:ni bu ke yi chong na ge gou bu ke yi luan luan wei na ge gou yao</mandarin> follow <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> follow <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> !huh! <mandarin>哪里可以这样:na li ke yi zhe yang</mandarin> then now is just like [orh] <mandarin>它废:ta fei</mandarin> ah <mandarin>它应该是要吃饭:ta ying gai shi yao chi fan</mandarin> !aiya! <mandarin>给她吃:gei ta chi</mandarin> lah !aiya! <mandarin>没关系:mei guan xi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我吃不完给她:wo chi bu wan gei ta</mandarin> lah <mandarin>剩下的都给他:sheng xia de dou gei ta</mandarin> lah


ya ya ya oh my goodness and then like you walk


into the kitchen and then she will be at her bowl crunching things then you will be like <mandarin>谁给他吃东西:shei gei ta chi dong xi</mandarin> and like silence cause if he admits guilty then hor I'm gonna scold him like seriously oh my goodness but okay lah good thing like nowadays her guts I think it's a lot better she got no more


no but you know why, do you know why, yes no because of the day before mama cook some beetroot apple pear drink and then she totally forgot about it so she put in the fridge then after that shortly we are drinking but then no one want to eat all the stuff so at the end of the day like literally at night <mandarin>晚上很冷的时候:wan shang hen leng de shi hou</mandarin> she took them out from the fridge and <mandarin>给他吃:gei ta chi</mandarin> ya so like their and the dog <mandarin>真的吃完全部:zhen de chi wan quan bu</mandarin> eh <mandarin>他吃:ta chi</mandarin> like I don't know like <mandarin>五六片:wu liu pian</mandarin> like <mandarin>很冷很冷的:hen leng hen leng de</mandarin> like apple lah pear lah ya


ya so anyway bad diet choice and so


ya sia I think over CB lah she really enjoyed CB


oh the last we weighed oh no no no that time we wanted to weigh her then the weighing scale spoil but not related ya


ya last warning lor she


you're being evaluated, like tastiness of your food, ya, jenna also ah I was gonna feed her lunch then <mandarin>她进来:ta jin lai</mandarin> then <mandarin>好像要吃又不要吃我也有在把她弄冷冷一下:hao xiang yao chi you bu yao chi wo ye you zai ba ta nong leng leng yi xia</mandarin> ya <mandarin>因为太烧:yin wei tai shao</mandarin> mah <mandarin>刚出来因为:gang chu lai yin wei</mandarin> Korkor <mandarin>在外面他去看他在做什么:zai wai mian ta qu kan ta zai zuo shen me</mandarin> then <mandarin>她进出进出进出:ta jin chu jin chu jin chu</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>进出到:jin chu dao</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我真的是气死人:wo zhen de shi qi si ren</mandarin> so I just err I just make the door a bit I pretend I was going to close her gate lah ya then


ya then she saw it then she faster come in <mandarin>她怕我吃她的食物:ta pa wo chi ta de shi wu</mandarin> ya, oh ya ya ya, actually cause now #zor zor# got the same colour bowl same type of bowl ya


from her bowl, super funny she's she's another papa leh like she always pretend to scold the dog like when the dog climb on her and everything she pretend to scold the dog then after that right like when she eating or right as long as the dog look at her she confirm give the dog and it's just I don't know whether she's scared or she wants to win the dog's favour but either way like she cannot resist the dog


oh, ya ya ya like the way to a dog's heart is the food really leh like if you just keep feeding her right like


true true most dogs ya sad truth of life,


[orh],


oh <mandarin>我们要去送货去:wo men yao qu song huo qu</mandarin> okay <mandarin>我我我本身我有三个三个地方:wo wo wo ben shen wo you san ge san ge di fang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>两个是在:liang ge shi zai</mandarin> Tuas then <mandarin>一个是在:yi ge shi zai</mandarin> Changi


ya, ,


[orh] <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> !huh! <mandarin>睡觉:shui jiao</mandarin> eh !walao! <mandarin>最那个是人家最恨的:zui na ge shi ren jia zui hen de</mandarin> passenger leh <mandarin>他们驾你做你的:ta men jia ni zuo ni de</mandarin> chauffeur


then you go and sleep, oh


[orh] <mandarin>因为我要点:yin wei wo yao dian</mandarin> confused <mandarin>因为那个是我跟:yin wei na ge shi wo gen</mandarin> emilia <mandarin>在在:zai zai</mandarin> coordinate then I don't know why they go and thank abel and me ya like how did abel even to get into the


really ah maybe he join ah, is it did he join maybe he too free ah, oh really ah, oh then it's probably not him lah I suspecting only


okay ah not bad ira also quite fast ya about ten minutes, !huh! <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> lah


oh true that true that


add another twenty minutes, oh


as in like no but do you think that our badminton skills were better then were we really better no actually that's why I said I'm really a bit confused because I clearly did not have any technique back then but I felt that I was able to play better like I was able to catch more balls and give more


like challenging balls, ya is it, charlene somemore oh ya charlene got play


well don't we always don't we always ya but okay lah I think <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> like there's area for growth in, in badminton like it's a bit easier to grasp as compared to table tennis table tennis oh my god the learning curve damn steep like that time I try right !walao! damn Cui and it's like it's like cause I'm not the kind that I can process things on the spot and deliver


ya so like you know on the spot I'm just like trying to figure out how to grip the bat or even try to get the ball in the right direction and then they just like you must curve this way your arm cannot be so rigid then you know you must swerve then you must deliver follow through then I'm just like oh my god kill me I used to I like I know what you want me to do I just can't do it like you just I just don't get it ya like my brain just don't get it ya so that that was really hard but at least badminton is like you kind of know like okay


like ya just need to fine-tune it, [orh] oh ya even then that was that was quite hard leh I remember last time I still remember playing badminton as a kid and finding it's super duper hard to get the get the shuttlecock like when it comes to you then I just like oh my god where is it then always like this right then you feel damn Cui then when you hit it you are just like !yay! I'm like a badminton player now


oh ya ya ya that's true that's true, your brain do the estimation do until


, [orh], !wah! eh you know my group as in my I got another community health assessment project ya then the teacher was talking about foreign like we can talk okay so this one is about health in a community so it is more nursing related then the teacher was suggesting like err doing on foreign workers the impact of


no it's just the health of foreign workers like how is the demographics then like I was so tempted cause like there's two parts to this one is the group presentation what is the individual part so the group is like err you go into the community and you survey them and and really like find out what what you wanna focus on then the individual part is doing a health promotion programme


ya so I was really really very tempted to do on like their mental health then you know then you know you got all resources all it's like but then like cause you know in each group got like five to six people then I think my group not very fine if I tell them like let's do this then in the end like you know I leave them in the lurch without


like sharing resources or stuff for the individual part cause we cannot all be doing the same you know health promotion programmes right and I think mental health like it's very limited in a sense that within the constraints of like like <mandarin>我们要帮他们但是:wo men yao bang ta men dan shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>帮不了什么:bang bu liao shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>我们可以做的只是只是那么多:wo men ke yi zuo de zhi shi zhi shi na me duo</mandarin> ya so


no no no so I I decided like oh I didn't even ask them lah I was really tempted cause you know it's it's something that like I have touch with lah ya but then like I thought thought thought about it then I was just like okay lah it's not really a viable like you know school project kind of thing ya and


it like it's not as if it will directly benefit them also like not really doing a legit health promotion programme, <mandarin>还没还没:hai mei hai mei</mandarin> decide ya I have two group projects this sem one is the research one then the other one is the community health care


yes correct the research one is the ya what I love it no I really love my group cause sarah and #xin yan# inside ya so like sometime we can just like joke around a bit ya sarah you don't know <mandarin>我跟她一样:wo gen ta yi yang</mandarin> <mandarin>一样:yi yang</mandarin> work


for two two I think eh three attachments already ya basically all my major attachments so quite bro, err after like


oh my goodness yes


you are the problem kid eh, !huh! but sec four you all still got pictures on your textbook


oh oh okay okay for for me is sec sec one oh that was good memories man cause I was in the same class as #li jun# like my primary school primary school friend ya so in sec one ya ya in sec one we were same class then we are table mates ya so like we will literally like flip to the same page like the page that teachers teaching one cause they got the illustrations right so we will be on our own like like we will add on to the illustrations then we will draw moustache lah


then we just make them look super super funny then we will see her as like the funniest drawing then we will be like drawing and laughing at everything then the teacher will walk pass then she will just be like #jia rou# #li jun# <mandarin>你们在做什么:ni men zai zuo shen me</mandarin> cause I have a very innocent face usually like I I usually sound very like repentant and all so like like during the first few lessons as teachers always give me chance one ya but then when they realise that I'm never gonna change right then that's when like they just ya like things turn sour ya


then they just be like, #jia rou# <mandarin>站起来:zhan qi lai</mandarin> #jia rou#


but why were we so put off by chinese ah is it the lack of exposure at home but they like the parents really did try to expose us to chinese ya


like mother tongue that's true that's true, ya oh I still remember our <mandarin>廖:liao</mandarin> is it called <mandarin>廖老师:liao lao shi</mandarin> what's his name yes !wah! he was he was the best eh like <mandarin>他的课最好:ta de ke zui hao</mandarin>


ya lor me too like I think I was so blessed to have him teach like we're all like every single student that was taught by him I think there will there wasn't a single one who like didn't enjoy his lessons like he was like the pied piper like literally like his lessons right like he will make us sit down on the floor right and then ya and then he really he will engage every single one of them one of us like even though I was like a quiet kid and all but he really like he made me want to answer his questions because he was just so interesting I just wanted to hear more


ya and when he went we were all genuinely so sad ya


!huh! <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> ah


ohya ya ya I vaguely remember towards the end he became a lot more like a lot less like story telling a lot more like syllabus kind


ya damn but that was that was honestly my only positive encounter with chinese the rest was just downhill ya I think even outside I haven't really had anyone piqued my interest in chinese okay maybe chinese dramas but then I always look at the subtitles cause chinese is just so complicated


like really every single chinese story has to be on top of those stories it make me so like what is chinese even but if they actually show us like like you know chinese storybooks or like ya books that actually like interest people I don't know like in english at least they do have like you know the reading lists and like one of the holidays they recommend like good like good books all these right ya that was quite fun or they have like english literature lessons then you learn about like


you know like the how to read between the words the lines or like how to act out a word like that was fun


uh oh ya ya


oh the best part was their, what's that ah their reading comprehension is it the very last part the one where you read the long ass the one where you read the long ass passage and then you have to answer questions the err <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> the blah blah blah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> ya then !wah! that one really right the only thing I ever got from chinese comprehension right is to read whatever is in the question find like the most matching paragraph ever and then actually just copying the whole paragraph


ya like it was so I don't know I just feel that it was very unnecessary like I just wasn't I wasn't like engaged enough to really find out how I should study chinese or I just didn't enjoy them


but you scored quite well right oh !oops! but I guess that's comparatively well cause I got a D right ya


as in ya is like if, ya, like only the higher chinese people can actually read and speak proper chinese ya and like


ya language need to practice lor I guess


uh uh ,


eh <mandarin>我有一点喉咙痛:wo you yi dian hou long tong</mandarin> eh, past few days my throat haven't been really well (ppc) a bit itchy !wah! shit is it eh COVID


time check <mandarin>现在是四十二分钟:xian zai shi si shi er fen zhong</mandarin> yeah <mandarin>二十三:er shi san</mandarin> so what are you doing this weekend,


oh oh ya ya anyway you are already in the east so, nice hor,


oh tomorrow is the one !aiya! <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>去那边玩:qu na bian wan</mandarin> lah


and many jobs in between, !walao! <mandarin>你们每次都在:ni men mei ci dou zai</mandarin> Bugis meet <mandarin>可以换地方吗:ke yi huan di fang ma</mandarin> at least travel a bit up to the central area


oh downtown line <mandarin>是你地盘:shi ni di pan</mandarin> ah then central <mandarin>也是你地盘:ye shi ni di pan</mandarin> ah


we didn't reach the park, ya lah just say west to the east lah


the what okay okay in a sense ya if you are code switching chinese then ya, that that make sense, okay


(oo) spreading the word of colonialism , , but it's like if you are not looking in your community then why are you looking outwards ya


, , okay


but is michelle doing any other community mission operation, [orh] you all haven't started are you all relatively new, how new


oh so they branch out from another cell is it, oh were you in the same place with him today


oh ya ya ya true true, like the dinner, the grassroots


okay okay okay we we need to up our codeswitching game


oh sure that's heavy that's too heavy , if we are thirty five can ah can ah why not because once you're thirty five even if you are single you can buy a flat you are eligible ya right I'm gonna be in debt two years later


!wah! super #lao kui# eh


ya they are known for taking very long


ya <mandarin>只是他以为他没有信心:zhi shi ta yi wei ta mei you xin xin</mandarin> then <mandarin>他以为他不会:ta yi wei ta bu hui</mandarin> get ya <mandarin>因为他们这么久没有回答他:yin wei ta men zhe me jiu mei you hui da ta</mandarin> mah ya so then <mandarin>他就他就去:ta jiu ta jiu qu</mandarin> sign <mandarin>另外一个:ling wai yi ge</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>等一下出来他们要给他:deng yi xia chu lai ta men yao gei ta</mandarin> interview but he cannot play his ball already


ya or at least it's not nice to do so lah, , ya that's true when you are working like I guess time passes a lot faster but actually ya do you feel that like when you work time passes a lot faster than when you study


honestly I really don't know how you do it eh freaking hell hell I really don't want do already like this sem <mandarin>我下定决心我要读书:wo xia ding jue xin wo yao du shu</mandarin> right I really had to just clear all my schedules like I I just leave it to the bare minimum like one extra-curricular activity and low commitment full stop like ya as in that's extra-curricular but ya like I really don't how you do it you were you were just mad I swear


ya then but I was just thinking also like you know when I when I start working I actually start like joining the grind like how much time do I want to set aside for like other pursuits cause like maybe start working right then you really just immerse yourself in work like at the end of it of like your many years of working the only thing you will ever achieve is you know the the money that you save up lah and potentially a name in your industry but then you know what else


ya like I was just thinking like that lah like do I want to you know like try and do something more or do I just want to you know live that kind of like day to day kind of thing, you know like actually go out and help people


like beyond my job lah like you know volunteering and all but the thing is I don't know whether I got the time and energy ya is because I think when you work when you are working and you are helping people your world view is pretty limited


to like you know how you can help within your organizations like you know their own standards and practices so ya is not really you are not really like helping helping them per say ah we can help them in little ways but after a while it all just gets the same lor like it's very hard to constantly be you know be a a caring person in your workplace ya


like they they don't treat you as like a friend friend they just see you as like err someone that they can take advantage of cause cause your friendly ya so she say !wah! <mandarin>这种真的很:zhe zhong zhen de hen</mandarin> toxic ya then after that she's just like over there <mandarin>没有时间:mei you shi jian</mandarin> deal with all these


that's true, ya I can already imagine


ya can u imagine the worst part is that if someone is like a a class slacker but then they know how to like suck up to the right people and then they climb over you !wah! that one really the hardest <mandarin>不爽:bu shuang</mandarin> one, then you have to answer to them then just like [orh]


oh but I think the saddest is those like those foreign nurses cause their promotion is is very very different from like local nurses and local nurses kind of a lot faster even though they might not have the merits to do so and so like they're a lot like very very very skilled foreign nurses who have a lot more knowledge and a lot more experience


but they are stuck in a certain rank maybe cause like you know either they they choose to to stay there or like ya they just don't don't get the same promotional benefits then like they have to answer to nurses who were once like their same level or below them ya when clearly like they are they are both competent lor or like you know there's some of them they climb above then they suddenly change they become like very like


but if they must protect their <mandarin>面子:mian zi</mandarin> also you know like in front of people then if you study with like if you friend friend with them then they will be like how to respect


, I haven't reach there yet I still got two more years,


you started traveling before you you you started working right at Bangkok when was that you work already ah oh oh ya it was over the long holidays taiwan yes


oh to more trips man we should totally go like we should have like a bucket list eh we should do scratch map then we go we start with southeast asia, ya we just use it ah !huh! we still got the map meh no is not there already eh scare me eh it's not there already ya ya ya I don't know who took it down but it's not there why ah the dog ah


ya I was like there's no way I can miss it for so long cause I'm very sure it's not there ya, where you wanna go next


, europe


, , , !wah! I love anything cheap and with food actually I I really love those like neighbouring countries ya cause I really feel at home there I just feel like you know I can really dress down and just be myself and go out to the streets with like you know just like maybe like ten dollars and have a good time ya compared to like if you go to those like you know #ang moh# countries then you know you are gonna like okay


don't get judged and then like you gonna eat at like like the the pricing there is so so expensive but I guess they do have the cheap the cheap side lah but !wah! never been there so I don't know, go to their thrift shop lah we everyday go to their dollar store and then ya ya ya we go to the walmart


eh !wah! that's so cool


let's go to nepal, ya the tickets are expensive, go and climb the mountain go and drive up the mountain !wah! I really love mountains eh I got I got something for mountains is very serene ya ya ya it just gives you a feeling of like


then ya this is true nature like something so big like and it's just right beside you ya it's just so so pretty, oh scuba diving


at where I see you have big plans, ya can see all the fishes


ya ya I think


ya


oh !wah! I didn't know sia


!huh! then <mandarin>如果好像:ru guo hao xiang</mandarin> rain thirty minutes then stop then rain thirty minutes then stop then <mandarin>怎么办不算:zen me ban bu suan</mandarin> okay lah but at least <mandarin>你们有时间去玩你们有没有:ni men you shi jian qu wan ni men you mei you</mandarin> book <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> hotel


okay it's almost one AM, here we are it's eighty dollars


there's always free lunches in the world but it takes up my time is it really free I'm cheap, ya it's too late for that


oh she's so cute, eh but why nowadays she like very tired she's always sleeping eh


<mandarin>医生说也是不懂为什么她这样:yi sheng shuo ye shi bu dong wei shen me ta zhe yang</mandarin> eh her temperatures ya she feels okay just now when I touch her, I know, three months of binge eating


ya so it was really three months of binge eating right


ya ya as in but sometimes she show tantrum though when she really like feel like really don't care but I feel that she's so responsive like <mandarin>舅舅在家:jiu jiu zai jia</mandarin> right she also won't do this kind of thing like <mandarin>他叫叫叫:ta jiao jiao jiao</mandarin> it's just <mandarin>坐在沙发看电视没有讲话:zuo zai sha fa kan dian shi mei you jiang hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>他每次也是:ta mei ci ye shi</mandarin> ah [orh]


more than that more than that, since I was in JC she was already there leh or so at least like six years


<mandarin>他也是:ta ye shi</mandarin> ya <mandarin>他现在很好了:ta xian zai hen hao le</mandarin> leh like really cannot tell leh from last time I remember last time right she couldn't even walk properly, and then her tongue will just stick out like and then she just won't respond she just sit down there and then stare at the blank space


and she also never eat every time I see her I will be like eh #ah ma# <mandarin>吃饭:chi fan</mandarin> then she just like


but reminds me of rabbity do you remember rabbity's last days, he was just like <mandarin>我什么都不可以做不可以吃不可以吞不可以站但是我可以吃榴莲:wo shen me dou bu ke yi zuo bu ke yi chi bu ke yi tun bu ke yi zhan dan shi wo ke yi chi liu lian</mandarin> like when the durian came he immediately leaped up leh I was like cause he was so sick at that point of time he was just like peeing over himself couldn't understand stand up <mandarin>站不稳:zhan bu wen</mandarin> and everything


seventeen years


ya like you know <mandarin>小舅:xiao jiu</mandarin> house the coffee shop is you have to walk inside like to this common coffee shop area at the bottom of the house so it's not like you know !wah! <mandarin>三十分钟:san shi fen zhong</mandarin> eh <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> eh


then we walk slowly ah then <mandarin>我就想:wo jiu xiang</mandarin> !wah! really cannot but what I'm actually really glad that we brought her out to random places before the COVID also ya like I brought her to go and see don't know what, #kung fu# <mandarin>戏:xi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>看戏:kan xi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>吃东西:chi dong xi</mandarin> lah just <mandarin>逛街:guang jie</mandarin> ah get scolded by bus driver because I never press the bell early enough cause I don't know what stop it is lah but she enjoyed I will just bring her around push her around although she doesn't remember the next day but now her memory is so much better


[orh], [orh] then #ah ma# just be like


, I think I think like now what she has is a secure attachment with the dog especially like even if it's not really us okay I think I think us also have but secure attachment with the dog so you know hundred percent like <mandarin>我叫:wo jiao</mandarin> Gao <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> Gao <mandarin>一定会来:yi ding hui lai</mandarin> like she flexes that all the time leh mama is so jealous


ya like every single time when she calls ivy ivy will respond to her, ya and she knows that and she uses it to her advantage and I love it like she knows that no matter what the dog loves her hundred percent actually very very proud


, I think if you ever get pregnant <mandarin>生:sheng</mandarin> baby <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> why so vulgar siol ya she will protect your stomach at all costs like I can totally imagine right


Korkor <mandarin>来的时候:lai de shi hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他会咬:ta hui yao</mandarin> eh the other day Korkor I woke up so I came up on the bed then Korkor <mandarin>他还:ta hai</mandarin>


she will bite off everyone


, he's such a big softie eh I remember every single time we eat right he will actually leave for her like he will think of her and leave for her one eh then when <mandarin>我们没有看的时候:wo men mei you kan de shi hou</mandarin> hor then will like sneakily like give her cause he know that <mandarin>我们会讲他:wo men hui jiang ta</mandarin> you sneakily one eh like he will really keep it one eh


please yesterday somebody just vomitted in her bowl, I saw some err beetroots


she's so fat leh


like


ya phase two


ya <mandarin>我也是不:wo ye shi bu</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我觉得我们已经:wo jue de wo men yi jing</mandarin> cut <mandarin>掉很多了:diao hen duo le</mandarin> leh


the cheek of her to turn her head like you know she was walking in right it was a non you know usually like food like she will just come in sit down very good right it was a non-committal coming in you know there's a coming in smell my food turn around look at the food outside I was just like girl <mandarin>如果你不要吃这个东西我们可以吃你知道吗我们可以吃你的粥:ru guo ni bu yao chi zhe ge dong xi wo men ke yi chi ni zhi dao ma wo men ke yi chi ni de zhou</mandarin> eh


ya feel so cheated


oh ya she always gets confused whenever we eat porridge, like, eh I think I know this smell okay <mandarin>不要以为我不懂你在吃什么:bu yao yi wei wo bu dong ni zai chi shen me</mandarin> ah and not only that Zorzor always let her eat from her bowl ya so you know like sometimes you doing your own stuff then you turn around right like you see Zorzor then the bowl then ivy <mandarin>的头在里面:de tou zai li mian</mandarin> then you just like err


ya then she act


so, but so far it has worked you know it has worked


fat ah, but ya I think that boys they really like like big dogs like is like their, don't know man ego issue they like big dogs they like papa <mandarin>那次每次跟我讲:na ci mei ci gen wo jiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>带她去跑带她去跑它很胖:dai ta qu pao dai ta qu pao ta hen pang</mandarin> Liao


you know


after this <mandarin>可以睡觉了:ke yi shui jiao le</mandarin> leh


oh <mandarin>我们星期一天要做什么:wo men xing qi yi tian yao zuo shen me</mandarin> ah


is damn mean right


I think he was also a bit scared cause he I don't think he travelled certain expressway before, ya he as in he was very nervous like riding then I just like oh you know you go and concentrate on the road I go and sleep, then <mandarin>我去睡觉:wo qu shui jiao</mandarin> lor, ya anyway ya lah <mandarin>因为我们也是有两辆车:yin wei wo men ye shi you liang liang che</mandarin> right ya then <mandarin>我们叫他们一个去一边:wo men jiao ta men yi ge qu yi bian</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我们去两边干嘛浪费时间:wo men qu liang bian gan ma lang fei shi jian</mandarin> eh then <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> ben <mandarin>他去他也是有去送货:ta qu ta ye shi you qu song huo</mandarin> ah


ya but the person that deliver look a bit like him leh like the chinese guy, no eh he want to stop volunteering already eh too free meh ya he want to concentrate on studies


really want to like can you like me please


oh ya ya ya


so, only thing is to be productive no efficient, very long to reply ya, ya ya ya ya then he will ask like so why you asking this then you reply already hor then another two hours don't want reply I I won't even bother texting him now


and my text to him is just like you okay or not what happen why you call me tomorrow I call you <mandarin>做什么跑步:zuo shen me pao bu</mandarin> ah [orh] [orh] [orh] badminton ah


not bad ah quite healthy ah


is called growth


I think you were a bit more agile, ya we played with charlene some more eh, we play quite a bit eh and we were able to jump here jump there run here run there now I run already I want to kill the person who shot the ball


I think cause <mandarin>我们从小玩:wo men cong xiao wan</mandarin> mah


and you know also like you can't your body kind of get used to the racket length so you know when I switch from like the <mandarin>小孩子:xiao hai zi</mandarin> one to the <mandarin>长:zhang</mandarin> one it took me so long eh to get used to it and then <mandarin>以前我们也是有一个:yi qian wo men ye shi you yi ge</mandarin> racket <mandarin>比较短的:bi jiao duan de</mandarin> cause the bottom broke off ya oh <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> ah ya so like if you use that for long right then you cannot switch it already cause if not you missed the a lot of balls


cause you <mandarin>习惯了:xi guan le</mandarin> mah, is your subconscious thing


ya <mandarin>但是我是还在:dan shi wo shi hai zai</mandarin> text, main group lah <mandarin>午餐时候我跟那个外劳讲话:wu can shi hou wo gen na ge wai lao jiang hua</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>你们说来说去你们要做什么:ni men shuo lai shuo qu ni men yao zuo shen me</mandarin> topic


one is the one that someone carry ah


eh,


ya it was so boring like they chinese lesson I'll just go there I okay, I was a very terrible student <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> right <mandarin>如果我不喜欢那个课我不会看:ru guo wo bu xi huan na ge ke wo bu hui kan</mandarin> ah so I remember I will just open up the textbook and I will just draw on it


so I totally didn't know what the teacher was saying so like at that time I always heck care you know like what is the worst that you can do to make the teacher angry right cause only <mandarin>我学校不好所以:wo xue xiao bu hao suo yi</mandarin> detention you know what's detention or not


then I just ignore her ya then she was like ah <mandarin>站起来:zhan qi lai</mandarin> then I just stand up lor then I continue drawing, you know like the I don't care about you, and ya don't expect me to care about you


I draw my own picture lah


and I love it how like as in as in not love it but I feel very amusing how like the teachers think that making you stand is a good enough like it's a punishment like they they ask you stand


first at at at your table and then <mandarin>是在:shi zai</mandarin> classroom <mandarin>后面:hou mian</mandarin> and then classroom <mandarin>外面:wai mian</mandarin> but then is like nobody cares you know like I literally have no shame and I don't care so I just like oh <mandarin>你要我站:ni yao wo zhan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>站:zhan</mandarin> lor ya then just draw


I feel like it's also the way that it was it was shoved down our throats in school like instead it was just like <mandarin>你要读华文:ni yao du hua wen</mandarin> but the thing is that the <mandarin>华文:hua wen</mandarin> syllabus is so terrible it's just like <mandarin>道德:dao de</mandarin> as in not saying <mandarin>道德:dao de</mandarin> is bad but the way that we are taught like you sit down there then you just write <mandarin>习字:xi zi</mandarin> then like you don't learn about like the chinese history and culture and why certain words are certain way and you know like it's just shoved down your throat you understand


your throat you understand, I don't care I can get C or B then I can do whatever I want with my life, it's not something that people actually prize mah


I still remember his stomach I still remember his stories what this is like what what what time already ah one fifty ya I still remmeber his story there was this <mandarin>华文字躺:hua wen zi tang</mandarin> so like this is the <mandarin>身体的身:shen ti de shen</mandarin> then with the <mandarin>三个:san ge</mandarin> then with the thing


ya so I still remember his whole story about the Kappa and how they pushed together and then how he form the word and I loved it eh I remember I love chinese under him I just looked forward to all his lessons then just hearing it and then learning the new word


yes yes yes gather around him right


and I remember also like every time he goes into lesson though like I remember at the end ending few months when he was like stopped when he stopped talking so much right his face is constantly red ya and his head was just red all the way


I don't know eh <mandarin>可能他头痛:ke neng ta tou tong</mandarin> or something like that that's why he stopped, he was just red then every time I was just like why is he always red then like he will hold his head then like his stories became a bit shorter


I think it's because you always watch it two times so you cannot actually hear anything


so I think like the thing is that if you want to make chinese something that's appealing how then can we incorporate elements that we ourselves as in it have to be very creative and it has to be done in a way that holds our interests


like cause I think the thing that was very offputting was always <mandarin>习字:xi zi</mandarin> you know you sit down there and you write the <mandarin>习字:xi zi</mandarin> then it was so ridiculous because like I remember I will take out the <mandarin>本子:ben zi</mandarin> then I will just write one like you know cause you have to write like maybe like <mandarin>五到十字:wu dao shi zi</mandarin> right I will write one word of the same as in I'll write the first what's it called alphabet first character


ya so I'll write for all of them then I will slowly fill up everything so I don't even know what was I writing


I remember in chinese in secondary school that they made us buy books ya then after that they have a quiz at the end of the year of then we have to I think it's counted so it's counted towards the final results ya so I would never buy the books cause it was <mandarin>浪费我的钱:lang fei wo de qian</mandarin> ya then I will just so what I will do with that cause they will ask us do on paper and then say like part of your exam grades you know then I'm just like whatever lah I don't even think about chinese


like I get A or I get F <mandarin>不管:bu guan</mandarin> lah so I will just sit down and during the test everybody had the book I really had no book and I'll just fill in like for MCQ I will just I will just literally no <mandarin>我拿我的:wo na wo de</mandarin> eraser I will write a b c d then <mandarin>我去翻:wo qu fan</mandarin> lah while the teacher like <mandarin>看真的很不爽:kan zhen de hen bu shuang</mandarin> eh then she then she was just like <mandarin>给我:gei wo</mandarin> then I was just like <mandarin>这个是我的:zhe ge shi wo de</mandarin> eraser then she will be like <mandarin>不可以这样做:bu ke yi zhe yang zuo</mandarin> then like okay sure then I drew a circle


I drew a circle on my thing and then I put one two three four and then I wrote my pen then she really see me she win Liao lor then she just ignore me for the rest of the so literally just did this and fill in my paper then at the back have to like match certain things then I'm just like whichever I want ah I don't even bother reading it you know ya


and like I realise that there was a point in time in chinese especially a levels also I was just so done with it that I know that <mandarin>天空:tian kong</mandarin> right I will just do you see like oh this shows like three then I just put number three like you know the the first part of it when they have this whole passage need to put the words inside right ya I will just like looks like this word ah then I just put the word inside cause I really don't know


summary ah


I think those the end alsoi was just like why do I even bother I know and I know in JC they had this summary portion right I was just so done with it cause like you know JC <mandarin>第一年:di yi nian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>如果你:ru guo ni</mandarin> err <mandarin>不及格的话:bu ji ge de hua</mandarin> you can just choose to take CLB that's just like I have no incentive to study what I study for what waste my time so


so I literally just I remember summary right I just chose like five six points that I wanted and then wrote it down then the rest I just put filler words cause I was just like err <mandarin>不及格就不及格:bu ji ge jiu bu ji ge</mandarin> lor what you want me to do, I got C but I failed I failed my oral


eh but I mean it speaks volume about, for Singapore's education system what kind of chinese is being taught, it is not even conversational chinese eh I can't even speak chinese oh my god


actually a lot of them also cannot leh ya like after a few years out already they all cannot remember and they cannot speak, and I feel like chinese doesn't teach us to also communicate in a professional manner <mandarin>现在我出去做工:xian zai wo chu qu zuo gong</mandarin> hor <mandarin>什么都讲不了:shen me dou jiang bu liao</mandarin> eh at most I'm just like [orh] <mandarin>真的很高兴听到你可以讲:zhen de hen gao xing ting dao ni ke yi jiang</mandarin> like you know that kind of chinese is really very terrible lah


and like, chinese has always been a this weird context like ya I wish that it was done a lot differently


COVID


very busy ah tomorrow I going wild wild wet, I might be going out the whole day


ya lor with him lor


ya but, ya ya ya I go and <mandarin>玩:wan</mandarin> first don't think about it, honestly right I got a very strong feeling I'm just gonna say no lor if anything's gonna happen not now you know cause I realise that I really have no time and energy to deal with other things because I really have a full time job and a part time job


yes, ya then sunday <mandarin>我们我们一起出去:wo men wo men yi qi chu qu</mandarin> right morning I have I got dinner with Chai in the evening, Bugis lor


eh Bugis <mandarin>我们地盘:wo men di pan</mandarin> leh, , downtown line up, ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, oh <mandarin>从蔡厝港骑到:cong cai cuo gang qi dao</mandarin> east coast park


I just tell people east coast park, ya east to the west west to the east, !wah! Jin <mandarin>累:lei</mandarin> leh


I don't know eh


I'm so tired leh oh my, you know my cell they were talking today about doing missions so we were wondering if they have to do overseas mission, then and then they ask me then I'm like nah I'm not sure if I can commit cause <mandarin>我现在也是有点忙:wo xian zai ye shi you dian mang</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我做别的东西:wo zuo bie de dong xi</mandarin> just like I don't wanna do colonialism you know


cause they all keep saying they wanna be fishes of men, then I look at them then I'm like are you sure not that I don't I don't trust them lor


and more than that also, is, the gospel the end, I feel that it's not lah there's a lot of things that the church is not doing well


so we need to decide ourselves lor no


we are, one year, as in, so the cells have been like changing you know so a few people come in and all this that's why my colleague also inside


no no he's in a different mini group as me and anyway we cannot meet each other eh different teams eh we meet each other I think our company would kill us, dinner we which dinner


what you wanna talk about you want talk about, family and,


how we're going to pan our future together, are we allowed to BTO together


unless you buy private property, why


I think it means that they're gonna accept already they just want the administrative nonsense to be settled but I don't know why they taking so long leh


but okay lah anyway he need meet you study also right okay lah <mandarin>不是很久:bu shi hen jiu</mandarin> lah <mandarin>一两年很快的:yi liang nian hen kuai de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我现在都做一年了:wo xian zai dou zuo yi nian le</mandarin> leh


yes also because I feel like also because I'm very busy on the side so like for the first six months I am working <mandarin>我也是在读书:wo ye shi zai du shu</mandarin> mah so like <mandarin>我每次去做工:wo mei ci qu zuo gong</mandarin> then <mandarin>去学校:qu xue xiao</mandarin> everything then <mandarin>回来做功课:hui lai zuo gong ke</mandarin> so that like last year went by very very fast then this year also cause <mandarin>做这种东西:zuo zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> so is super fast cause you very very busy ya


but I feel that school actually when I'm busy is very very busy like last time when I was still doing like all the religious classes and know then <mandarin>每天都来十一二点回来的:mei tian dou lai shi yi er dian hui lai de</mandarin> ya that was so that time pass very fast like those semesters


they, what do you want to do what is the more than you want to do


I mean aren't you doing that in your job


frankly like when you go work right you have to spend the first few months just watching for everyone to see how things are already cause like if you do any missteps some people they just Chuang inside right then like they get into certain sensitive issues right that's it leh like they are just marked for their whole career ya you have to be very very careful all the politics dodging people who backstab you ya apparently there's a lot of people that backstab for their own gain


I mean you see in school already people just slack then get all the credit that kind of nonsense like at work like there's money involved eh this one not just your stupid grades eh your stupid grades end up you still can find job one and if there's money involved and all you will be sure they will stab you first


got a lot ah got a lot, they don't promote you based on your skills one, they promote you based on your


uh uh, !wah! that one I cannot leh, must at least show <mandarin>面子:mian zi</mandarin> leh like someone help you before ya but I guess


how this is a adulting conversation you know, can ah but I think the good thing about work is that you have a lot more finances ya and then when you take leave you can take leave lor


then you can travel I I think I travel a lot more, when I started working


no we should we don't even need a scratch map we always have a map in ya we just exit lah ya no meh


I don't know, maybe, ya we should totally get a map and just X out all the place we have


I want to try go europe


expensive though but like apparently they say the scenery is super good like the clear skies mountains nice lakes and the nice weather, ya but not anytime soon ah I don't think COVID will allow us to go soon


ya but if any if anywhere near us, I was thinking one of the southeast asian countries, what about you


apparently it will be super expensive


microwave, oh but ya I think if only southeast asia was a cold country like cold had a cold like you know apparently okay I should stop clapping in vietnam like certain parts of vietnam like they have winter


so like it's north vietnam or south vietnam I cannot remember which I think is north vietnam that have winter you know so because they are above the equator whereas the other part of it right it's just hot all the year long ya so you can go and fly during one of their winter seasons then can go and climb the mountains then ya go and visit the place


but it's expensive though their tickets


do you want to go scuba diving, I'm thinking of getting a diving license


csn you imagine how fun it will be can you imagine if next time we go to places like japan then we go diving and there are nice reefs you know


but it's a bit expensive, ya but I think it's so cool eh, ya <mandarin>现在差不多两点了:xian zai cha bu duo liang dian le</mandarin> leh


tomorrow I must wake up eh we are waking up early to eat toast is it, !yay! with my Teh but I think I will be super tired leh, play the whole day hope my adrenaline will be okay cause the past few days I never sleep properly sia cause my stupid work


okay lah hope everything's okay, oh <mandarin>可以可以:ke yi ke yi</mandarin> ya but okay lah hopefully tomorrow weather is good


so <mandarin>他们说如果:ta men shuo ru guo</mandarin> rain for like ninety minutes or more then <mandarin>他们会给:ta men hui gei</mandarin> automatic refund


ya so as in not automatic refund <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> automatic reschedule so you can book within the next three months


hopefully don't have, !huh!


circuit breaker measures, I think


I think is very sudden, cause I just started work, right, and then, but


<mandarin>很多变化:hen duo bian hua</mandarin> so got changes right I told you, you got to, stay at home, more than usual, it's like a lot of changes lor, just need to adapt


but after that I think that err <mandarin>习惯了:xi guan le</mandarin> and then <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> right is still one week home one week office, and I think I kind of prefer to stay at home, ya,


, ya, I think


!wow!, I learnt, I learnt to cook a bit, I guess cause stuck at home basically and <mandarin>每天你打包:mei tian ni da bao</mandarin> I think <mandarin>你打包了:ni da bao le</mandarin> Sian Liao <mandarin>你在家里开始:ni zai jia li kai shi</mandarin> experiment right <mandarin>自己煮:zi ji zhu</mandarin> and then err my #ah ma# she


err decided to, and then i think I think mostly, that's what I did lah during I I started cooking


and I did a lot of exercises what else did I learn, I don't know not, ya lor what did you learn,


plan to do house work, , , I guess I spend a lot of time with my grandparents


apart from work lah cause working from home I spent quite a bit of time with my grandparents usually we don't get a chance ah because everyone is just, , like <mandarin>每个人要做啊读书啊跟朋友出去:mei ge ren yao zuo a du shu a gen peng you chu qu</mandarin> right and then nobody actually really stay at home like who's


not a lot lah will spend as much time with our parents or grandparents, , and and doing this, circuit breaker period even though it was just eh two three months right, it was a lot right a lot of adjustment


and then <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> like just <mandarin>有一点冲:you yi dian chong</mandarin> right at the start confirm got conflict one and after that adapt and then <mandarin>现在就:xian zai jiu</mandarin> like, after all


I mean, , like what they said ah now is like the new norm right will never go back to the what what we used to, have what we used to do


, err COVID, and then now it's just is a new thing lah with a mask right social distancing then <mandarin>每个人:mei ge ren</mandarin> just err,


then I think everyone was just err queueing up lah like cramping next to each other instead of observing like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> one meter <mandarin>的那个规矩:de na ge gui ju</mandarin> and then they just, , I don't know lah trying to squeeze into go into the NTUC and everything now I really like like what you said lah I think they just take it for granted


all the measures they just take it for granted, ya


then another round of circuit breaker err another round of social distancing


, if nobody is outside <mandarin>即使我下去楼下:ji shi wo xia qu lou xia</mandarin> who can I seek help from, right and then I go down I cannot sit and seniors a lot of seniors they need to sit down after a while you know you cannot just expect them to stand and walk around they need to sit down and rest ya and so during this period I think a lot of my seniors


I mean it's my job also ah a lot of my seniors they, , like complain lah you know they said feel lonely right a lot of people fall into depression right I mean it's not even seniors ah a lot of people you know in the community youth even adults right depression they fall into isolation they are lonely a lot of all these mental issue come up


ya which I think !wah! and a lot of help I think the government is also doing great also because a lot of help is also rendered into those needy, , , I mean it's a it's a it's a it's a thing that was already implemented lah right throughout these years and then <mandarin>就是因为有这种:jiu shi yin wei you zhe zhong</mandarin> crisis right you can see that you know all these implementation that was set in place right is really err ready you know for this pandemic itself and of course because there was already a good foundation laid out so when more issues arise especially during this time then the government or the agencies ah you know <mandarin>他们可以应付这些要求:ta men ke yi ying fu zhe xie yao qiu</mandarin> and then I think I think


we seriously we are doing quite a good job lah and I I think all those frontline workers are really doing great I mean is tiring lah but, , they really really like <mandarin>牺牲:xi sheng</mandarin> more they sacrifice themselves, how to say lah


what, how is this negative is good what, good things, , good things like people spending more time with each other, people like families ah right they are at home


those people I mean if you are at home long enough you can get to speak, to your parents talk to each other, I mean force lah but you know CB <mandarin>毕竟是被逼关在一起:bi jing shi bei bi guan zai yi qi</mandarin> right <mandarin>没有地方可以去没有地方去不可以见朋友:mei you di fang ke yi qu mei you di fang qu bu ke yi jian peng you</mandarin> right you cannot visit your relative and what not


right so you are actually literally force to stay with your parents and force to stay with your family, then you can get to talk to everyone right do activities together right like you said, exercise workout together spend time cook together clean together I mean simple activities lah


ya, and what else there is good, I don't know what


you mean like to reflect on our life


that is true, ya


help to be better,


ya, <mandarin>很多人都在死:hen duo ren dou zai si</mandarin> ya


, new norm lah is a new norm, like <mandarin>又没有工作喔:you mei you gong zuo o</mandarin> and and <mandarin>还有那些学生:hai you nei xie xue sheng</mandarin> right suddenly all confined at home, I think I think is also it was also a tough time for them


ya, it's a it's a new thing lah and home based learning lor <mandarin>在家里:zai jia li</mandarin> !wah! shag


!wah! many of the parents, shag for them, ya


, you also won't even know when you can carry on with your plans right and then like for those people having babies also worry what, baby so small immunity still not good, then <mandarin>等一下你生出来他又生病喔:deng yi xia ni sheng chu lai ta you sheng bing o</mandarin> at this time


then <mandarin>你就要:ni jiu yao</mandarin> like, blame yourself probably I would blame myself if anything happens, after that baby , anywhere with you


okay fine, korea, I think I I still want to go korea, , why korea I never go before and I think I have been watching so much K drama I think you will influence then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> like <mandarin>要去那些:yao qu nei xie</mandarin> <mandarin>他们拍戏的地方我觉得:ta men pai xi de di fang wo jue de</mandarin> !wah! it will be a dream man I think lah but I don't know <mandarin>我每次出国:wo mei ci chu guo</mandarin> right I'm all about the food


kind of ya, you know on <mandarin>那些好的:nei xie hao de</mandarin> lah of course


really to make sure that everything is sorted out, and then after that <mandarin>我才会:wo cai hui</mandarin> execute


ya I like to solo travel I think but I only did it once lah it was like a grad trip <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> experience


ya <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> lah but I think, , if let's say of course if I can go with someone that be great lah but I think solo travelling has it's own benefit, , not that I like to be alone lah but I think I'm not sure eh do I really like to be alone I think it's more like independence and also I think


, being alone on the trip like nobody can, , you know and it takes one person to like eh <mandarin>不要啦:bu yao la</mandarin> and then you have to think of something else to feed the whole group


, you know and then like <mandarin>如果我起来:ru guo wo qi lai</mandarin> like <mandarin>那那时候我去:na na shi hou wo qu</mandarin> newton <mandarin>我起来:wo qi lai</mandarin> right,


我 <mandarin>还是有一点累:hai shi you yi dian lei</mandarin> then <mandarin>我回去躺:wo hui qu tang</mandarin> after that <mandarin>八点多才起来:ba dian duo cai qi lai</mandarin> you know what like <mandarin>没有人吵你:mei you ren chao ni</mandarin> and then you just wake up whenever you want , , I think lah I think that's the good part how about you,


!wah!, where did you go, (hmm), why


correct, (uh huh)


, then <mandarin>可以可以看到:ke yi ke yi kan dao</mandarin> like different people


, picking up random people on the streets


funny leh, (uh huh), ya, like the Yuzu Ramen at Funan


then <mandarin>那时候真的我有看过一个:na shi hou zhen de wo you kan guo yi ge</mandarin> Yuzu <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but I like I told you like I didn't get to try and I was quite surprised you know a few months after I came back <mandarin>他既然:ta ji ran</mandarin> like it came to singapore is like !whoa!


ya but it was super good though, about what


, you mean like Rojak and like the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> you know the fried #yong tau foo#


fried sauce, (uh huh), (uh huh)


ya but but of course like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> it takes a lot leh for people to experiment right and how many times must you experiment to actually get something that is good then <mandarin>你还可以拿去卖:ni hai ke yi na qu mai</mandarin> and people will be accepting and willing to try <mandarin>如果不好吃的话你:ru guo bu hao chi de hua ni</mandarin> gone Liao leh <mandarin>你这样:ni zhe yang</mandarin> experiment few months hor <mandarin>对不对:dui bu dui</mandarin> and then you think that it's good <mandarin>可是你放到:ke shi ni fang dao</mandarin> public hor and people just <mandarin>不喜欢:bu xi huan</mandarin> then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just


like like like you know it people say it's like make it or break, ya


oh ya Mala Mala, a quiet taste


ya, , , favourite food now, it's, I quite like


Ramen lah, I I quite like, , I quite like ramen by then err if you ask me, err more in depth really you what kind of I would say Sashimi, like ya I like salmon Sashimi


, and I I think, , I also prefer Sashimi like salmon Sashimi, , I think that's like, Da best


还有, pepper lunch is it pepper lunch is considered but is it like fusion or is it


(uh huh), Kopi from don't know what lah, that's why sometimes lor you see like those, kind of food like pepper lunch you wonder is it, but considered fusion, , is it western


I think is western though, but usually, but my I think I would like,


genre is it culture, ah


thai, indian, can just basically, indian food you also try


indian food <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> wrap, right and then I think oh ya during CB period I ate so much Mala that


had nothing on me man I could eat it now no problem, , really eh seriously I cannot believe from <mandarin>小小辣:xiao xiao la</mandarin> I try I try I try medium one day I tried <mandarin>大辣:da la</mandarin> actually when I when I increase the level honestly when I increase the level I really diarrhoea


and then like, quite bad


, ya but like like they said you know different store is different, ,


, ya but <mandarin>改天:gai tian</mandarin> lah <mandarin>改天可以去:gai tian ke yi qu</mandarin> try


I don't feel like eating that anymore I'm back to my #cai fan#


you know <mandarin>两菜一个肉:liang cai yi ge rou</mandarin> settled, and satisfied <mandarin>赢:ying</mandarin> ah, oh ya ha, and people get retrenched


, ya, I think during circuit breaker like, I really save up the money I guess I don't know but sometimes I still have to go and buy food lah like err some people they save money because they eat at home, you know but then


I think by eating at home it also brings a lot of pressure on like the homemakers right the people that are cooking because suddenly like <mandarin>你三餐都在家里吃:ni san can dou zai jia li chi</mandarin> eh <mandarin>他不会:ta bu hui</mandarin> stress usually, , usually <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>晚上才晚上才煮的:wan shang cai wan shang cai zhu de</mandarin> then <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> like <mandarin>早餐要给你吃:zao can yao gei ni chi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>午餐又给你吃:wu can you gei ni chi</mandarin> ah then like whole day just your cooking constantly like cooking cooking cooking


I cook for myself I also Sian


but then I think <mandarin>我现在:wo xian zai</mandarin> after CB right, I think I think <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> gain again everything back, I think so I don't know I just weigh myself the other day I think I gain I gain a bit


actually no I weigh myself last night I gain a bit, but I don't know you know, ya maybe, ya, ,


, I guess it's is really to to, get it, started is one thing but is really to help them with ya


, right and then I think it's really just to start to I think, honestly think that they are still at a loss lah right they still haven't earn back but,


err <mandarin>他即使他:ta ji shi ta</mandarin> reduce <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> cost right to enter like USS aquarium for example, also but but they still have those measures like <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> err social distancing is one thing and then they control the


, roller coaster the cyclone or something cyclone right is about twenty seven seconds okay twenty seven twenty nine seconds I can't remember


, right every twenty seven twenty nine seconds right they had to wipe down the entire seat eh, for the next batch to go, so that's why the queue is also slightly longer, my friend went and was like


ya but because now without tourists ah right without tourism is one thing and then without err with all these measures added on lah the social distancing all that right, , , but I don't know lah if if let's say it it kick-start is a good thing lah but another thing is that another concern <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> community cases lor right if you put


if you encourage you doing by doing this right selling tickets cheaper you are kind of encouraging people to go out, right and then in in that case <mandarin>你这样:ni zhe yang</mandarin> encourage <mandarin>人家出去:ren jia chu qu</mandarin> right <mandarin>人家会:ren jia hui</mandarin> mix mah, and then risk of, like community spread


, but is just the measure is there lah yes I agree but, , how


err what you call that how safe is it alright <mandarin>没有人知道:mei you ren zhi dao</mandarin> how safe is it that we can go out like this again, and like what you said lor why people like to go out and like as though is like pre COVID, then, that were the the problems will arise ah right there


but will do you think that it will go up, with the lowered prices, (mmhmm)


ya, just do your own part lah


I don't know if is selfish or not lah but, but but okay of course we still wear it properly ah, but I I don't know I just looking forward to


go back to having normal like, gatherings and stuff, no need to fear you know now you go out and then they like <mandarin>有一个恐惧说:you yi ge kong ju shuo</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>如果我出去:ru guo wo chu qu</mandarin> then you know one random aunty just #ha choo# next to me or (ppc) you know clear their throat next to me <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like eh <mandarin>这个人这个人:zhe ge ren zhe ge ren</mandarin> and then <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>眇一下他看有没有带:miao yi xia ta kan you mei you dai</mandarin> mask lah <mandarin>还是什么:hai shi shen me</mandarin> lah <mandarin>还是他:hai shi ta</mandarin> sneeze <mandarin>先他:xian ta</mandarin> Buah <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> nose <mandarin>先:xian</mandarin> then <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> Buah <mandarin>哪里:na li</mandarin> then you know you like !aiya!


there's a fear lor out there and can you imagine those people that, give birth during this period


right or not, they haven't found a cure and don't know when they are gonna find a cure I mean they can find a cure like, who knows like tomorrow and after that within one week everyday is back to normal who knows also


ya, but it it is really lah it just shows that <mandarin>我们自己要本身:wo men zi ji yao ben shen</mandarin> like need to practise our personal hygiene and stuff like that really last time people will take it for granted mah right <mandarin>我们上厕所:wo men shang ce suo</mandarin> just <mandarin>洗个手没有放肥皂:xi ge shou mei you fang fei zao</mandarin> and like wash and then go


you know ya, now is a norm lah is a new norm lor I would say , (uh huh) came back came back from europe ah, oh, (uh huh)


, domestic flight lah <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> they like, , (uh huh) europe <mandarin>这样大:zhe yang da</mandarin> meh, oh


, YOLO, (uh huh)


doesn't matter, Kena Kena and die, , like if they go out just go and do their thing or if <mandarin>他们在家里还是中:ta men zai jia li hai shi zhong</mandarin> right and and I


, so risky though <mandarin>你不觉得:ni bu jue de</mandarin> , cheapskate ah, , , uh


, (mmhmm),


ya that's true, , but then <mandarin>我看到那个:wo kan dao na ge</mandarin> you know that youtube there's a try guys they also quarantine <mandarin>他们有:ta men you</mandarin> film the quarantine experience, , I think is also really quite bad, , then one of them cause he got a disease right then he very scared


like cause he is very poor right his immunity is no good at all in the first place because of his disease, , then <mandarin>他就很怕:ta jiu hen pa</mandarin> lor <mandarin>也是在家里:ye shi zai jia li</mandarin> then <mandarin>他怕:ta pa</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> like <mandarin>他需要去:ta xu yao qu</mandarin> supermarket and then the supermarket got people if the wife goes lah not him right but then what if she comes back with the virus ya then <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> like <mandarin>有一个恐惧:you yi ge kong ju</mandarin> and then it it it strikes out leh so what anxiety and I think it it caused anxiety in a lot of people also I mean not only there lah because we really don't care there but even in singapore also


like those very err health conscious like virus conscious <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> conscious or whatever, , ya but anxiety mah , it cause a lot of anxiety but now you see ah apart from COVID right <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> dengue


dengue just killed someone, twenty five, ya lah but they just killed, they kill another person twenty five years old, but ya lah precisely but people are more afraid of COVID than the stupid mosquito


ya that's true dengue <mandarin>你在家里都有事:ni zai jia li dou you shi</mandarin> eh eh <mandarin>他在家里:ta zai jia li</mandarin> breed,


let's quickly go to like, twenty twenty one move on <mandarin>不要再看不要回头看今年发生了什么事:bu yao zai kan bu yao hui tou kan jin nian fa sheng le shen me shi</mandarin> and people think like twenty twenty is a nice year


like eh twenty twenty is the year <mandarin>我们要出人头地我们要做这个做那个:wo men yao chu ren tou di wo men yao zuo zhe ge zuo na ge</mandarin> a lot of people plan during this year mah right, , pretend this year didn't happen and move on


, let's just move on, , go twenty twenty one, I'm not sure ah I think , maybe people will really learn something out of this, and even you know they did the election and everything was massive


, life, I think, even if we want to, [出国] like I myself I would want to go overseas last time I thought that you know every year at least I can go overseas but okay of of course some years I didn't go lah


, but, it makes me want to go, really, I don't really go out


really


, but in singapore I go Jurong east I come back can be done in one day or even half a day you get what I mean that's why I guess people would like <mandarin>想要出国:xiang yao chu guo</mandarin> I don't know


but I never really thought of it that way ah but I guess it's true, , ya and is true ah I think is a singaporean thing and is a luxury for us lah, <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>很像有些老人:hen xiang you xie lao ren</mandarin> right <mandarin>他们以前做工:ta men yi qian zuo gong</mandarin> right <mandarin>从:cong</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>过来新加坡做工:guo lai xin jia po zuo gong</mandarin> and that's it


and they never really like some never take a plane before et cetera et cetera,


, it was really an experience ah I would say you know and <mandarin>这种他们就:zhe zhong ta men jiu</mandarin> like you know they were super appreciative, , like <mandarin>我们这种:wo men zhe zhong</mandarin> right <mandarin>我们出国:wo men chu guo</mandarin> and everything you know but then, , we still like <mandarin>每年:mei nian</mandarin> like want to do better go further and stuff like that


when we can just, appreciate what we have


(mmhmm)


, ya, so


, and they they uncovered, together, but I don't know I think


, ya lor hopefully this year is over once this year is over we can resume, everything and I I think ya lor really hope everything can go back, ah just


I watch a lot korean dramas actually, what did I watch during, circuit breaker how I met your mother, was it, , I I think so or good place good place I watched good place


, and <mandarin>我在追那个:wo zai zhui na ge</mandarin> episode, like <mandarin>追到他的:zhui dao ta de</mandarin> last season <mandarin>还在追每次等他的:hai zai zhui mei ci deng ta de</mandarin> episode <mandarin>出来:chu lai</mandarin> I think like, , ya but it was a good show you should check it out


but there's no middle place lah you know, , (hmm), ,


, I watch a lot of, , movies I watch a lot of series, , and then <mandarin>我觉得因为我一直在家里:wo jue de yin wei wo yi zhi zai jia li</mandarin> right then <mandarin>我看到:wo kan dao</mandarin> like nothing to watch then I very sad


I just go youtube in school is a constant like repeat every single day , like cause we're just stuck at home mah, like <mandarin>又不可以去见朋友:you bu ke yi qu jian peng you</mandarin> and I think technology lor, this become a daily part of life


that's why you must have an instagramable house,


<mandarin>厉害:li hai</mandarin> meh


why not why cannot <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> what why cannot, , I'm going to post about Pocari <mandarin>水:shui</mandarin> for example post about Coca-Cola, then I'll, why thirty you got see people post thirty times about same thing no what only at most once or twice


why must I post about coke thirty times who want to watch, I I want to post actually I want to post fitness wear


like the fitness wear, and I think fitness wear very comfortable leh if if it's me during circuit breaker most of the time I mean like, workout clothes, most of the time lah cause it's comfortable, , like a singlet shorts and stuff


, I mean, you don't really have to unless you video call lah right your work you know you got see those videos you video call and then you are like top formal and bottom like informal in your pyjamas shorts et cetera and <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just !aiya! but ya most of the days <mandarin>我只是再穿穿我的:wo zhi shi zai chuan chuan wo de</mandarin> T-shirt


then <mandarin>去冲个咖啡:qu chong ge ka fei</mandarin> no <mandarin>咖啡:ka fei</mandarin> Milo, right get some yogurt and then sit there, and, , ya lor <mandarin>就一天一天的过:jiu yi tian yi tian de guo</mandarin> I think,


starting was hard I, what err , post about clothes


I I I don't know leh, , I thought you have do you have a favourite brand, you open a cardboard


but it's japanese, ya okay ah <mandarin>他全部都是一个衣服一个裤子不一样颜色而已嘛你:ta quan bu dou shi yi ge yi fu yi ge ku zi bu yi yang yan se er yi ma ni</mandarin> just <mandarin>买不一样颜色:mai bu yi yang yan se</mandarin> then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> mix and match <mandarin>就可以穿了:jiu ke yi chuan le</mandarin> right


I think is cause asian, I don't know but like I see influencers they post a lot, recent post a lot of clothes


right clothes if not like beauty products, , I think now you know e-commerce is earning a lot during this season, because people at home mah bored right <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> just scroll scroll Liao <mandarin>看到买:kan dao mai</mandarin> it's just like <mandarin>几个:ji ge</mandarin> click <mandarin>而已我都不用去:er yi wo dou bu yong qu</mandarin> <mandarin>去那个:qu na ge</mandarin> store <mandarin>买我就不用扛回来:mai wo jiu bu yong kang hui lai</mandarin> right the things get delivered straight to my house


I don't even need to go there and buy carry and everything groceries is simple right avoid the crowds online, NTUC everything is online, and during this season I think a lot of shop owners like food stores they also learn a lot also technology


like even those err <mandarin>长辈的:zhang bei de</mandarin> right they have to they have to try out, right, online delivery try out like using those PayLah PayNow merchant, , I think is a usually you I saw there are at my workplace there the pancakes seller those that sell you know the peanut cake that one


they also like even though the pancake was what seventy cents, they also have PayLah PayNow option, err not PayLah no no not PayNow PayLah


, (uh huh) yes sia all the zoom, really meh I think it's okay <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> okay lah then <mandarin>还有什么可以:hai you shen me ke yi</mandarin> compare


other than zoom, comparing, ya then cause people have to use for conference mah if let's say


ya but teams <mandarin>不一样:bu yi yang</mandarin> mah teams is like organisation, but if it's just friends casually okay lah and anyway


you can use wherever you go when you travel why not, is like, , !aiya! but


I kind of like social distancing, but <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


I wonder how is it gonna be like, next year this time, even, right if this half a year so much has happened


, and then, who knows what will happen next year this time even, you also will never know


!aiya!, then how do you start school like how do you start a new school or new phase of life, , you not even meeting other people like kids forty kids going to school primary school, kids I don't know poly kids started without meeting right they started online


ya april what started in they started one month only, school from home, home based learning, !aiya! <mandarin>就是在家里:jiu shi zai jia li</mandarin> lor


err err <mandarin>这个人的:zhe ge ren de</mandarin> towel <mandarin>掉在这个人:diao zai zhe ge ren</mandarin> never make the bed you know that kind of thing ah, , I don't know lah but I think is a new experience for a lot of people


during SARS, one week eh oh is it, and you know they they had a school closure for one week last time but there wasn't like, what you call that like computer laptop based cause last time don't have


, you see but then now instantly everything online, and that happen all within like what, less than a month


then it's like <mandarin>我刚刚开始做:wo gang gang kai shi zuo</mandarin> right I already wear my clicks for awhile, , right then after that <mandarin>就在家里了:jiu zai jia li le</mandarin> then <mandarin>一回来:yi hui lai</mandarin> you know you go back to work and then from change team a change to team B then you meet a whole new bunch of people, , and then you realise that this team has not met the other team for a good like almost half a year already


and that is how that is how life is going to be


(uh huh), (mmhmm)


, , you know <mandarin>在假假再看:zai jia jia zai kan</mandarin> you just like,


是 meh, sound sound scripted


I'll just make you stand up, remember the, cool lah cool lah


good lor I will just check only what no harm to ask you to stand up and then like oh thank you can sit now, (oo) but eh no lah really you see ah even in japan right they do, even they talk on the phone they will still stand up and bow one leh that is like how amazing is that


, so I think I don't know, ya, true eh but in interview <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> hor still <mandarin>还是要:hai shi yao</mandarin> makeup <mandarin>还是要什么得:hai shi yao shen me de</mandarin> I mean for girls lah


ya, I don't know, so are you preparing for job interviews


(uh huh)


啊, I guess so I think I think also, is a good time to of course pick up new skills lor I think now right a lot of things starting again, a lot of causes a lot of a bit of face to face lah not say they're controlling the number still but


, I want I want I really want to go bake something


COVID nineteen, 是 meh, err <mandarin>我还没用:wo hai mei yong</mandarin> I want to use


, a lot of people using,


so right, ya, I want to bake, <mandarin>没有哪个时间:mei you nei ge shi jian</mandarin> ah


your head lah I think I not I don't know I don't feel rested eh even if I sleep sometimes even if I sleep a full eight hours also I still feel very tired <mandarin>你不觉得:ni bu jue de</mandarin> meh


, , then we just, , I don't know I want to sleep also I think about work then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>很压力我觉得啊我每次跟我:hen ya li wo jue de a wo mei ci gen wo</mandarin> colleague <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> like today I told my colleague say , err not today or yesterday I told my colleague like,


ah every sunday right when I need to go back to office right the day before I need to go back office usually I have very very hard time sleeping and even until now it's still the same, , I'm still awake that I have to get up at like six


, and then is really very bad it's like a bad habit but I cannot help it I'm just worried about you know the things I need to do


grow older or go up the ranks, !hannor! <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor that's why lor, so is ya that's true


, , , oh I think that err what do you call it


I picked up tennis though, after circuit breaker, kind of, no I didn't know I only watch you know last time there's this uh anime show prince of tennis ya ya ya


ya I don't know, well I think it was quite fun I played with a good a good partner but then you know


, , I think one day, you should try like squash and I play against the wall


play ah would I like to learn, (hmm), I think martial arts will be good, martial art


if I was young again <mandarin>你很老:ni hen lao</mandarin> meh, ha, but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> right <mandarin>我弟弟以前去学:wo di di yi qian qu xue</mandarin> right <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> Taekwondo <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> right


she not using it what is it a skill is it you mean


天生 , (uh huh)


take a longer time <mandarin>一定是:yi ding shi</mandarin> harder but, I think can try out lah I always thought oh one more thing I wanna try I thought of trying, ballet, ya what why judging me, I feel that <mandarin>我可以做一个很漂亮的:wo ke yi zuo yi ge hen piao liang de</mandarin> ballerina


okay <mandarin>一起:yi qi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>一起:yi qi</mandarin> I need a male partner and all or we can !woo! we can go and do the , what's that what's that dance called, the like you know those aunties do one no ah


, my aunt like to do my aunt like to do lion dancing, , I think martial arts is okay lah is not those like err <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> very active ones the HIIT lor


, you know, I mean not dance dance lah like more of exercise I I honestly like to sweat it out, but if it's a dance, like just now you ask me what kind of sports what I'll think


I did ice skating before and everything but I think, being a ballerina is not bad <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> lah but I'm not that flexible anymore at this age some more


but okay lah willing to try, err


I can do hip hop, then I Chiong then okay lah can lah you must be a supportive friend


can you be supportive, but thank you, you know I have a lot of thoughts lah I only talk about my future like is it gonna be also


during this time, then <mandarin>你现在重:ni xian zai zhong</mandarin> COVID and then <mandarin>你现在想你要想:ni xian zai xiang ni yao xiang</mandarin> if you think about wedding next year or whatever then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>最多五十个人一百个人:zui duo wu shi ge ren yi bai ge ren</mandarin> then you're stuck


, I think a lot of people adapted really well also during this time, oh well I think we will


survive through this, what what, [oh] you finish I thought <mandarin>你打哪个:ni da nei ge</mandarin> mosquito !haiya!


hi so what do you think of the circuit breakers measures by the government


I think the government should be even stricter


because, obviously singaporeans <mandarin>可以呆在家:ke yi dai zai jia</mandarin> right, they have to go everywhere and then go and eat lah go and play lahafter two months then they forget about everything already


(mmhmm) so did you you learn anything new during this err time


during this few months ah


ya lor


ya lor so err can exercise more then I think I I clean up the house a lot more also and and we tend to tend to spend more time with the family at home,


(mmhmm), so what what do you think you will happen for the next year


what do you think anything would be different comparing life next year to this year


wasted right ya that's why I said singaporean as in singapore government should actually put in stricter measures and then I I see that at the start of the the circuit breaker err they were


so err it's not that I don't want to continue with my life but I know this is err is a crisis and then we should we should look out for the society and we should


continue, err doing what we did great during the circuit breaker lah that's how the numbers came down what, but then if, , if everybody just continue what they're doing after the circuit breaker and then don't treated like err is a serious matter then err I I believe the numbers will go up again ah then it's like everything is some <mandarin>废掉:fei diao</mandarin> Liao you know


and I believe that will that will happen soon if if we don't look out for one another especially the the elderly,


okay err, let let's stop with all the negativity what what what do you think are the are the good good things that came out of COVID


ya,


I think this is a good time to show a lot of people that, err but not not say what is a essential job lah but, take away all the distractions and then and now you have so much time because no no travelling and all that, err is a good time to see what is really important


yes that's right, , there's a lot of other things you can do for your as a hobby, then you you start to discover yourself more then


cause err in singapore lah the to be honest right you just rush here rush there, then it is good that you now actually have time for yourself err be it to pamper yourself or to err relearn ya learn things improve things


it is it is a good time to reflect and see, is what you doing really essential is it helping the community, do you have the skills if you, if you lose your job now do you have transferable skills for another industry


ya lor so I think is a is a good lesson for everybody lah, so I I I ya it it is bad because err <mandarin>很多人都在死:hen duo ren dou zai si</mandarin> but then is also good because it is a time where people


pause their normal life and just adapt a new life or new lifestyle, yes <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


ya lor, and then especially our our age a lot of people getting married then everything has to be paused now, and is is not just delaying leh cause it's indefinite so


you don't know when it will happen, ya lor


(mmhmm), if you can travel after this COVID thing where is the first place you want to go


, what why korea


have you solo travel before


(hmm), like what, like you you like to be alone is it, like


oh ah I did my solo travelling as well but I think the best thing right is that err I went the USA, I think the best is that ya lah you can make your own decisions and then you'll find a very different you when you're put in different situations because when you travel with friends right


then err, maybe you you you just follow your friends lah but when this is your trip right everything you do is is up to you, so if you're feeling adventurous today err you can go for err something new if you are not feeling so adventurous today maybe can stay in your room


, but what I was excited about is meeting new friends from all over the world because we are we are so connected as a world right, , ya lor just <mandarin>每个人:mei ge ren</mandarin> like from all over the world, correct that's what so I think the common language most of all is actually drinking lah like most people would know how to drink


yes drinking food so you just need to, you can just meet random people on the streets then you ask them if they want to eat with you then you can make new friends, yas


but I think singapore is very lucky because we we a a lot of things that is famous overseas you just wait awhile longer and they will come to singapore already,


all right since we are on this topic right do you think that err food fusion lah that means different culture right, it is it's a good thing or a bad thing, like do you think we should mix different cultures put together


no something like the Yuzu Ramen you know Yuzu is supposed to be a dessert ramen is supposed to be hot but they mix it together it's like fusion or something that is not normal do you think is a good idea


so so it doesn't matter lah


ya is like, I think is a is a definitely a new generation thing, younger people like to try they are more adventurous in trying


new food lah, ya if not not not say that the older generation is not adventurous but all these children err come out recently err I think the older generations are more traditional to their food lah, so err and also now because the world is more connected and people err try to be more creative if not they'll be <mandarin>淘汰:tao tai</mandarin> by the world


ya, so, (hmm), ya, what what what is your favourite food, yes, what kind of japanese food


, I think pepper lunch is very west but if you add rice right then it's err asian food


it's supposed to be western lah cause got the err #ji pa#


姐, genre of food ah, I think ah ya I think most people would like I I like but, uh if there's


fusion food or like something out of the ordinary I would I can try lah, so err I'm I'm I'm good with any food but I think if err, if it's mix it up is Rendang, so I tried err thai mexican err italian french


indian food uh, (mmhmm)


that,


but you can you can request for more spicy eh, 等 一下


I think is the craze leh, the craze is over Liao


but, I think now is a good time to save money as well because the economy is not doing very well


, do you think that the all the attractions right they're having promotion now that will be able to kick-start the economy


if I will go to the attractions, , ya I I remember lah because I believe that err if everybody wears the mask, or if even people don't do the social distancing right it is


your responsibility to err keep the distance ah , so if if <mandarin>别人不要做你做:bie ren bu yao zuo ni zuo</mandarin> lah you you understand what I'm trying to say, , ya so if err you are a responsible citizen, , yes if you are responsible citizen right you do your part err you you keep yourself safe you keep your families safe if you are really scared then you can stay at home the whole day lah but if if err you just follow the measures err and you know the the


, err <mandarin>病毒:bing du</mandarin> well enough right then you you know what to do to counter it lah so I believe the mask is the most effective way so far to to stop it cause if if you have social distancing without a mask right you you can still spread because err it can be airborne lah so if everybody continue to wear mask including the older people who don't like to wear mask


, and be responsible when they err come in contact with their saliva or their tissue right that they dispose it correctly , then I think we are all good,


ya lor, I just heard from my colleague right cause he err comes from europe then err, no he is from europe, but he didn't came back lah he's working in singapore all the way so what the europeans are doing now is that they still allow err flying within europe itself


it's not counted as domestic lah they are different countries what, europe <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> <mandarin>国家的:guo jia de</mandarin> what ya so you can fly within europe and then err so we asked ah are they not afraid of COVID then they said the europeans right they they are more about living the life then yes cause they locked down for two months but then the the of course the people don't care so the the numbers are still high so they just continue with life lah and they think that uh you you only live once correct


so I I I rather just, I rather just die err but I I enjoy myself first then die rather than just stay at home the whole time live long life


no lah I I would like like like I said just now, (uh huh), I would rather just go out


and then if I know about the danger I will protect myself I don't be so close to crowded places, , I I don't ya I don't go to crowded places I keep my distance everybody err if everybody is crowded I just stay away from there lah cause if you really get the virus you are the only one to blame nobody else to blame


it is your responsibility


no and it's a it's a good thing that now everybody should be health cautious because COVID is not the only thing that will kill you lah


dengue didn't just killed someone dengue killed a few thousand and is more than COVID


dengue has more people dying than COVID lor, that's how, ya but COVID <mandarin>你不出去就没有是:ni bu chu qu jiu mei you shi</mandarin> mah dengue <mandarin>他回来找你:ta hui lai zhao ni</mandarin> mah


do you know that err, travelling overseas is a very singaporean things other people don't do that other countries don't do that, when even americans or even europeans right travel to asia right is of sort a once in a lifetime or once in ten years one it's only a singaporean mindset right that <mandarin>每年出国:mei nian chu guo</mandarin> ya


so, it is I don't know lah singaporeans' way of escaping from the the COVID err not not COVID, the, ya maybe lah but it is a very singaporean thing to go so when you go overseas right you need to be cautious not to ask them do you where do you travel cause they will tell you most likely they never go anywhere even those that are in the travel industry they only welcome tourists but they never at errppo they seldom travel overseas


, that is how fortunate singaporeans are but is also interesting because err, I have a lot of friends that are overseas now and then they are they are trap overseas, ya there's even one that is that was featured on straits times yesterday so she was she was stuck in australia lah then she was err just trying to record down what she did in australia during the lock down period


because australia as you know it's it's supposed to be one of the countries that, , err sort, err defeated COVID first, because they they stopped lockdown lah but then err it it err research again and then err they have to do the whole lockdown again lah so it's interesting to see especially france in different country and how the country fights the COVID because singapore is small it is easy to err implement as well as to make sure that everybody follows but bigger countries right you can say lockdown err but people just don't care lah and then


, it it it spreads more easily because the country's big there's more people going here and there and everywhere and all that, ya, , so err, everybody's experience this year will be, , will be very special because err their life is paused


and then they those that need to study can't resume studying those that need to work can't resume work, and those that overseas will miss their family, , and they they can't come back lah, ya


you watch Netflix during, the circuit breaker, what was your favourite show


ya I I didn't watch good place is like it is a very good concept because it shows err


ya there's no middle place , , so that, no that that shows that is you're either good or bad lah, ya so, I think the the the twists comes in right when, you realise that actually the better ah


the good place is actually a bad place, you you understand what I'm trying to say, that means I I believe err it reflects life in a way that err, it it it it doesn't things doesn't seem what it is lah so sometimes it looks good right but actually most of your time is bad


ya, , so err I think is err is a very good reflection of a what what life is ah ,


!wah! but really


I really respect err influencers like even during the lockdown right they can come up with content which is not easy lah cause most of the time you go around do events is very easy to create content but when you're at home and you're alone


ya that's why it's not easy to create content that's how they


, that's why they're 厉害 lah, cause it's not easy to


so what what are you going to post everyday, and what else you give me thirty things


not not same thing lah different things lah you tell me, I I never say you must post about coke thirty times I said you need to post everyday what are you going to post about


ya don't worry it's over and hopefully it doesn't come back, eh but you haven't say what what you want to post, is is it a very girl thing to err keep posting ya


cause I I don't have a I don't have a clothes that I'm very proud to post, I I I have a few, but the the favourite brand is not even a brand is just because it's comfortable it's not because it's nice


ya UNIQLO rocks, is not okay so the thing about different I think okay is not different is the same as girls


, her shirt right is is not about the pattern by how how your body fits in to it, so if it can err showcase your body right it is a good good shirt lah so most right, most just is just too big or too small but UNIQLO shirt right they are a good cutting right to show off


yes correct asian fit lah ya, so it is asian fit it is affordable and it is comfortable what is there not to like


you know, so COVID err date, what, err government can't do for ten years in two months lah


!huh! they they pushed society forward with technology, ya and I don't understand why zoom is so popular, where is not very user friendly


it is it's not about comparing but is just that it is not the most friendly lah


as in that concept lah


哎呀 吧


correct I agree ah


ya and I I believe the the old and young are the one that's suffering ah


oh is it, !huh! then how they just work ah school from home school from home, home based learning is it


I heard ya SARS right better teachers have to go and visit the students


(mmhmm) within one week I think


, !wah! but actually like, I think it brings people closer as well because, err because of technology right a lot of people that didn't need to meet now meet ah but is online because there are a few less err pressured I would say err to meet online than face to face like for example right now they're finding a job right I would rather have it err interview online for a job interview because


because first of all err you are in the comfort of your house second of all you can prepare notes just put at the side on on on your screen and then just pretend, not pretend lah as in


, it it's it is scripted but it it it supposed to not sound like it's scripted ya so that is another thing and err third thing is for guys lah we can wear the top half only bottom half don't need to wear


, ya, no lah what what's the use of standing up what if the person stand up and then you see his long pants then like you you make a joke


good, what if the interviewer also you ask the interviewer to stand up also the interviewer also


but that that is japan mah welcome to singapore lah where people find the laziest ways to do the least amount of things


I don't know, (mmhmm) yes because the economy is very bad so I think any job now would work lah, so just just keep an open mind and then


err just try like what other companies are doing as well lah because everybody is trying to find a way to work around this COVID and it is good practice to learn from other companies as well, ya so err try lah why not right


!huh!, no harm done


do you know that government has a lot of err grants to help COVID nineteen people as in people who have who have been affected by it affected by COVID nineteen


ya lah but I think err government is very pro at marketing, they have a lot of no they have a lot of good ideas but they have very bad execution, you see your SkillsFuture you know is there but they don't tell you what courses to go for


go and bake ah


which means you have poor time management lah


I I think I think err your condition is common and it will get worse as you grow you grow older, because grow older


because you have more things to worry about err which includes family next time, and other monetary issues we will become worse lah, , (mmhmm)


ya lor


oh so previously you didn't know how to play, oh prince of tennis yes I know, so was it fun


what what other sports do you like to play


oh we should we should learn we should learn, oh I I would like to try to to, ya cause I I believe like I mean if I was young again I would go I would go and learn martial arts again


because I think no <mandarin>不是很老啦:bu shi hen lao la</mandarin> but <mandarin>我觉得我现在很:wo jue de wo xian zai hen</mandarin> inflexible ah,


no it's it's not no is not is not just about fighting it increase your agility increase your overall strength increase of discipline,


when when he's young right is is learning things right it is good time to learn all these skills


, you catch no ball you know not catch no ball, , ya lor so everything is better to learn when you're younger lah cause it's it's easier you don't know anything


ballet at this age, no ah not judging


lion dance, why don't you do more like I know lah I'll just stick with martial arts lah no lion dancing


you know, and ya lah sweat it out lah but then why we talk about dance


ballet <mandarin>会很幸苦:hui hen xing ku</mandarin> eh especially when you are old now and then


your your legs your hands all that is not flexible, so, it will be very difficult, 哦


what made you <mandarin>觉得:jue de</mandarin> that you can


ya ya sure, I will buy drinks for you


ya but some people like it what everybody has to have a wedding but some people don't like a big wedding you just need to invite your your close friends mah, ya lor so is is not all bad for COVID lah in summary I think there is is some good points out of it and we just need to take a closer look at the good benefits that COVID brings about lah


cause, okay lah everybody is is suffering in one way or another but let's just look at the silver lining ah, ya,


finish already [ah]


eh let's go eat Shi Li Fang leh I really really craving for pork belly leh, !walao! don't like that leh I never eat Shi Li Fang for damn long leh then I travel all the way here from Jurong leh then you don't want eat Shi Li Fang with me


!walao! don't like that lah I never eat for very long leh then I never eat the chili !wah! the <mandarin>特制酱:te zhi jiang</mandarin> very nice you know or not then my favourite aunty over there she always she always say <mandarin>我很美我很漂亮我很瘦要吃多一点:wo hen mei wo hen piao liang wo hen shou yao chi duo yi dian</mandarin> okay


!huh! <mandarin>不要啦我真的要吃:bu yao la wo zhen de yao chi</mandarin> Shi Li Fang leh <mandarin>我要吃火锅:wo yao chi huo guo</mandarin> leh please


ya don't have eh you know hor he in he you know he very gay what's you know you know right <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> right <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> bunk mate ah <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>很喜欢他他讲:hen xi huan ta ta jiang</mandarin> !wah! SAF <mandarin>给他最好的:gei ta zui hao de</mandarin> bunk mate then I was like !aiyo! <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> gay leh then <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> right <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like