like right now <mandarin>虽然是做:sui ran shi zuo</mandarin> sales <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> target lah <mandarin>真的是没有:zhen de shi mei you</mandarin> target but of course <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> have goals lah like <mandarin>比如说我要:bi ru shuo wo yao</mandarin> move <mandarin>去这个:qu zhe ge</mandarin> position so you have a certain targets in that sense in order to move on lah so it gives you a drive lor, ya but if you don't also it's fine also lah but just that <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> manager <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> like try to push you to do better you know like ya but there isn't like a target and I think <mandarin>工作就是蛮不是说轻松:gong zuo jiu shi man bu shi shuo qing song</mandarin> but <mandarin>就是蛮开心的:jiu shi man kai xin de</mandarin> lor I go to work and just you don't bring work home I think it's very important also lah now I think a lot of people work from home or sometimes quite stressful also you know like


ya because no choice mah because I mean your <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> will just call you cause the whole day you are at home what so there's no segregation between work and life <mandarin>所以会感觉很压力:suo yi hui gan jue hen ya li</mandarin> lor


(hmm) ya <mandarin>我朋友是做:wo peng you shi zuo</mandarin> lawyer or something like that ah or like accounting firm all those so like no choice ah in the past is they will have to OT in office lah


ya but now OT at home lor <mandarin>所以比较:suo yi bi jiao</mandarin> Jialat lor ya but I mean workplace also the environment are very important in the sense like


ah in front manager suddenly so friendly suddenly so like oh like I do this and that then after that when like you meet them like as you talk to them without the manager around ah they like another, another personality one so very two face one lor then <mandarin>他们只是要要:ta men zhi shi yao yao</mandarin> claim credit only lor then ya like I think like you shared with me your scenario I think it's really they just when to claim credit so that when <mandarin>老板看他们:lao ban kan ta men</mandarin> like !wah! eh <mandarin>你做工不错:ni zuo gong bu cuo</mandarin> ah so sometimes workplace always got this kind of things ah ya that really really <mandarin>令人讨厌:ling ren tao yan</mandarin> lah I mean no choice lah


but there's some of the reasons lor that I guess that like makes me dislike the person lor, just wanna strangle the person sometimes their lah I mean I won't finish strangling the person I just feel that that I and at point of time I don't like him because of that but


!aiya! no lah because <mandarin>我的是他是:wo de shi ta shi</mandarin> consistently damn Wayang eh like the person is just very fake lor, ya so is one reason why I don't like this kind of people very very hard to deal with them because you don't know <mandarin>他们几时真:ta men ji shi zhen</mandarin> and then the next moment they might just back stab you because they just want to angkat the you know what I mean


so that's work lor but I think it's very important in work also to constantly upgrade ourselves lah right just now you were saying about like upgrading like <mandarin>就是要更新去学新的技巧去学新的东西活到老学到老:jiu shi yao geng xin qu xue xin de ji qiao qu xue xin de dong xi huo dao lao xue dao lao</mandarin> mah right ya so actually now got the SkillsFuture and all right so what do you think you are like what kind of skills do you want to go and master


these food and hygiene certificate


is quite, no lah actually very interesting sounds is the first time I hearing this like <mandarin>没有听过:mei you ting guo</mandarin> so I think like <mandarin>蛮:man</mandarin> interesting <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lor ya like


for <mandarin>我我是喜欢煮饭:wo wo shi xi huan zhu fan</mandarin> but <mandarin>没有想过:mei you xiang guo</mandarin> make it into a career because or like a business because, it's a whole different thing lah I mean to cook for yourself for your loved ones is is is a passion but to make it into a a like a business and all with all the margins and everything is something that <mandarin>我有点不想:wo you dian bu xiang</mandarin> lah because <mandarin>我老实讲:wo lao shi jiang</mandarin> running a business has never been my dream and will never be a dream is more of ah


it's not my kind of thing lor ya <mandarin>对我来讲:dui wo lai jiang</mandarin> err I will be a customer but I probably wouldn't try to do something like that on my own lah


(hmm) I look forward to trying all your <mandarin>新的:xin de</mandarin> styles design like I know one of my friend also she going to start a home based bakery business


ya <mandarin>西班牙啦:xi ban ya la</mandarin> then <mandarin>西班牙语言:xi ban ya yu yan</mandarin> then err <mandarin>就是用了:jiu shi yong le</mandarin> but <mandarin>还是需要:hai shi xu yao</mandarin> top up <mandarin>一点:yi dian</mandarin> then now ah then now got more money I think can continue using lor ya but actually to be honest also I also got look at taking a second degree also and maybe take masters or like but that one is more for passion lah not really for


like err for career advancement because ya I mean the the <mandarin>我要读的东西:wo yao du de dong xi</mandarin> don't really help my studies but I mean my career but more of like <mandarin>只是:zhi shi</mandarin> interest interest <mandarin>罢了咯:ba le lo</mandarin> I mean ya so, but since got the money but very expensive lah I went to enquire and it's like around twenty four K because it's a whole new degree mah


part time study mah ya so <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> drag <mandarin>到十年:dao shi nian</mandarin> lah murdoch university ya then I wanted to take a degree in public policy


think about how this will work lor then maybe down the line <mandarin>以后再去学咯:yi hou zai qu xue lo</mandarin> but first <mandarin>一个一个先啊就是先学一个语言:yi ge yi ge xian a jiu shi xian xue yi ge yu yan</mandarin> ya actually funny story just a few days ago hor <mandarin>我在工作的时候:wo zai gong zuo de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>有一个从:you yi ge cong</mandarin> columbia <mandarin>的那个女的:de na ge nv de</mandarin> then she don't speak english one really Buay Hiao


the daughter got grand the daughter got a kid already what do you think no lah already got the the #ah ma# already got a granddaughter already so means the daughter already


eh recently you got watch Netflix or not


but the


!wah! you're just listed out two of my most ah shows that I binged watch recently !wah! not recently lah last time are designated survivor when it came out I love it a first season was so good that's a plot twist ah !wah! like the vice president was a traitor this and that but then like you said lor after


think like three four days cause it was like Sibeh good lor like Sibeh good lor like it was so exciting lor I mean ya it was in french it was a bit annoying because like language cannot understand but like !wah!


super good sia like super exciting sia like your heart just keep pumping then like every episode there will be like some plot twist here and there lah then ya I don't know how to get top it up out of the season two I mean epic ah season two because now they all landed already


pause, one


so what are we gonna talk about, you mean next year ah, my aunties one lah


err, my dad side has, five, ya


no there's five siblings altogether lah, ya one is in, america, I don't think she'll come back, for chinese new year ya


about, thirty years ago


ya, she came back when my, okay


you think she'll come back for our wedding, , ya I think so, but my cousin can't come back, you know why right


that's very Dao, let me think ah,


my, then my, and then my, so that's three days is on my mum's side


my dad's side, , I think <mandarin>大概:da gai</mandarin> about like, three or four, not a lot right, over two days lah


ya then like, ya like, the, my grandma will be like, ya


everybody come together, give Angbao, ya most of us


kind of not a lot lah, but we also do skype lah you know nowadays


it's easier right, no I told you right, with like my my sorry my aunt, ya overseas so we can't see face to face like


ya but it's a form of respect lah, ya ya, what about yours


(mmhmm)


eh don't bluff lah, where got so many last time where got so many one


how can


so how many houses


how so


is it


don't bluff, really, I didn't know that


uh


, ya, I feel like my chinese is also very Cui everyone says that


because I'm <mandarin>华人:hua ren</mandarin> right I need to be more <mandarin>流利:liu li</mandarin> like that, is it, no


is it like what white banana


like you look is it the other way, , ya, no I don't think so but like I said like some people think that my mandarin is a bit Cui or considering that


where I was from, you know a school that spoke mainly chinese but you know, ya in junior college


ya pretty sure like, ya, they are quite like <mandarin>粗鲁:cu lu</mandarin> you know what I mean, ya like I don't know everything also they swear


that's true, but I mean, I wasn't, I don't know I think cause like last time I used to be from english school, ya so it was quite a big change for me ah


(mmhmm), you know my brother did CLB, do you know what I said right


michael what, oh !wow!, that's Jialat ah,


really, I've never like heard him speak mandarin before, , but I think he quite #yan dao#


but you know a lot of girls you said like him last time right


so before you know, rachel, tell me about it


she don't eat rice one is it, at all, how can


, , the oak tree with one bin, eh ya you did you always tell me about this story


what's that


ya I get it


like like like <mandarin>站起来:zhan qi lai</mandarin> also <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> like just like, so so <mandarin>不可以站起来不可以:bu ke yi zhan qi lai bu ke yi</mandarin> just,


, if I saw some of your photos they were very chill


why like that, , , honeymoon


ya ya, nowadays, a bit difficult, #go jin ki#


why would you think that I thought it would be like cheaper since nobody wants to travel


like how much and mean budget airlines will be also be expensive I think everything will be about five ten percent more, what


ya, I don't know ya


I don't know if I'm really leh, eh actually honestly I haven't decided when we're gonna get married


so <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> one, like seriously sometimes when I think about it, just doesn't seem like, like that fun anymore and you know you think about all of the things


why is society like that


no I feel like, my parents are quite, like very Obiang you know that, they want to do it right, everything also must, be like <mandarin>顺利:shun li</mandarin> like that you know cannot, make mistakes


ya but I'm beginning to feel like not like they said anything it's just, I don't know maybe we should have like a proper conversation about this, but they're not at home now


I don't know whether can, I think if it's a HDB flat we need to, get the


err, you anyhow say one, oh okay


I don't want


oh my gosh


nine nine,


eh what you wanna eat later, they have soup meh


!aiyo!, eh can we go budget, as a student


budget, Simi budget, eh eh you want talk about food I very hungry now


, don't know I want something <mandarin>清:qing</mandarin> cause yesterday I eat a lot


I never exercise very long


fine


oh, what, what's that, where got so good


if it's not <mandarin>方便:fang bian</mandarin> then forget it, eh we are both very <mandarin>懒惰:lan duo</mandarin> leh cannot


like, something that is not


you need a calculator


what I'm CPF CPF rules any like five percent, five percent purchase price down payment


wait wait wait so what how I interpret this is seventy five percent


that's your ceiling so let's say you have a house that's like <mandarin>只是七十八先:zhi shi qi shi ba xian</mandarin> right sorry I mean seventy seventy percent because it's like eighty years ago that's your loan, that's your loan ceiling


ya, don't know lah


try lah, oh my gosh


depending where lah


, what, , Gong Simi


then I live with, my parents


there's nothing to do at #ang mo kio#, like what


no lah, Tampines got more things, that's true, now I feel like we're talking about a lot of things


I don't want,


sorry ah I not reading properly


got lot of time I no Lan, eh shit I think I need to settle the carpark fee fine thing can you remind me


, ya, damn Suay eh


cannot sleep, , err


eh we haven't decided what we gonna eat leh, I want <mandarin>清饺子:qing jiao zi</mandarin> not <mandarin>清:qing</mandarin> uncle always put a lot of oil


, Mala, oh man


I'm thinking,


I need to eat veggie, how about you ah what you want, , eh I feel like this is a good deal should we check it out


I don't know whether they bluff or not, , don't know,


, it's quite weird eh,


very Shiok eh


, sad we couldn't exercise at, mount faber, it is lor, it is I don't know why you keep saying it isn't


burpees suck, jane, (mmhmm), your friend ah you say she's doing some challenge for


Jialat Jialat, , Jialat, are you looking at the prompts


yeah, don't need lah eh can we can we just take things, , this is damn good


this course, ya you wanna watch it now, if you're not going to buy why you keep looking at this


for real


they probably don't take us seriously, ya I think


it's better when you, get in the water right, rather than just browsingish


, , are you serious, because we've never done it before, for it's


like they hard sell, it'll be snapped up quickly


how many room ah


what does it say, two rooms, it's two, it's two right, no, I see two room right I already close my eye


let me see, how do you tell oh cause you look at you actually look at the dimensions


you don't want,


maybe, ya ya


I'm okay one I rather have small house actually you know that, two bedrooms, I don't think you'll actually like the country feel


you think your parents will like,


that's true


I don't know get a job, I'm working


where do I see myself, when I'm forty six


, working on the farm, I'll just hire someone, ya


ya, , you leh


maybe, , I don't know


think of anything right now, eh you know just now that, this house right I show you


oh hopefully, oh my gosh the aircon is on, both


the fan's on, , how many people do you think sign up for this, but I really pity the person who needs to record and transcribe this


I know how hard it is to transcribe, yes, oh you might be right why didn't I have that for my research


let me see


this one is more eh, are you crazy, why is it oh this one got three bedroom, why is he's saying five hundred and thirty


but then he put four hundred and ninety eight, what is it, with four hundred and ninety eight, yeah


eh dude, that one right eight and four eight zero is very different okay, sorry


don't know why you're looking it doesn't make us happy, like cause, we are not really gonna get it


I don't know, I also don't know, think I'm just making conversation,


can you imagine doing this for nine hours,


, did you spill water, , well, sorry about that


, is it okay


like you is then then, eh you don't reveal my name okay I very shy one


let me check how long more


about twenty minutes,


anything


Tampines also got, ya right it's quite medicinal I felt, don't you think so


good question, black cat, no can walk,


let me,


thank you, thank you, eh my brother takes that, thought he very like, he very Hiao one you know like he likes to, use that pink colour rubberband when he ties


his hair, like a girl, , I don't think he wants to be a girl


ya do you want to help me no but not now I think we too noisy, oh my gosh you know my neighbour was so <mandarin>吵:chao</mandarin> like yesterday he was just like barking again I don't know what's his problem


ya, ya I think my parents are quite like empathetic after I told them that I think he might have some special needs


he stop exercising I don't know why he very <mandarin>懒惰:lan duo</mandarin> nowadays, no but after he just never I don't know why, I'm sure that's not the reason, maybe he <mandarin>中风:zhong feng</mandarin> or something leh


I'm not freaking out, ya it's damn cute, do you think it's dead, no I never hear it bark anymore the only barking sound


the only barking sounds I hear is like my neighbour, ya, eh eh, you want to go through the guest list again I I cut quite a few people, can you take my computer here


oh ya good idea, you are, do you think the person listening to our conversation probably vomiting


love love what's that, eh can you imagine like if you're two strangers doing this


ya that's only thirty minutes and that's really long I think about twenty minutes


but actually the thing is, you know with strangers, with strangers you know you probably can like, leave anytime


but then if this you know you can't you better make sure that we are seated apart and make sure that there's no, loud sharp noises, quite far apart lah but I'm saying there's always an out like if you're on a date


you can always leave but you know with this we are kind of bound to each other, I really really wanted to I told you with gregg


feel so disgusting, I don't know he just put me on the spot, what did you say, I just so, , offices


he brought me here, ya, he said he was going to bring me to somewhere interesting never would I thought he thought that school was interesting it was a guild house for the alumni I think


eh no no no I think there was another couple, for some reason it was just very very quiet and they were overstaffed, so this is like two people who just kept staring at us the whole time, , and so okay what really just threw me off was like was just


, oh my gosh, you will never <mandarin>相信:xiang xin</mandarin> this, you wanna hear, I told you I told you before so he gave me like a box


a box and then I was just like !aww! cause it was my birthday right so fine it's probably just a present, and inside that box do you know what it was, no it wasn't a human head, you know the the straw, he made like ninety nine


like little hearts, and what on earth was I supposed to do with that, ya at that at that point of time I was cause I had a friend who was quite concerned cause he knew that I wasn't really like


into him but just I just felt like I wanted to go as a friend but I didn't expect him to bring me to such a weird place, ya and I wanted to leave lah, ya I think so, or eh no possibly not


, like properly, err, just before I start work, because, in may then august I started working,


tell me about it, I shaved a lot of people, I think we always had around the same that's not an issue


open in, oh I don't damn it, it's okay we only got about thirteen minutes to go


thank you, , very cute right


unforch unforch, ya sure


like my holy friend friend


, as in a few of them, shoots, no lah I already told you already I'm not gonna tell anyone or ask anyone, until


no it can't be I already shaved a lot, I feel like you haven't done a clean sweep yet


why is there a huge gap I was very frustrated with it


I don't know lah if I wanna add rows why would it be like that, no lah people didn't get cut off, please tell me you know I check every time I added one I check


, are you serious, oh jacks, don't have to worry just let me go charge my laptop, get up


can you charge mine, ,


, , don't tell me what I need to think ya


, !aiya!, so how what we eating, , where


no no Tampines one and then after that we can go ikea and get our soft serve


at this time what you gonna eat meatballs, sure, always town


never met anyone like that so weird


are you tired, , really wanna finish watching hamilton it was like I think one quarter left, or was it one ten,


, , , what, , , , they keep on changing like the scenes, , they change the bar


you know, , the, the costumes, , no I I really want to watch


ya ya the super
cheena
 one


ya I know, debate


of course what his name is chinese


oh really


is it a jail cell, he's very tall, ya he's the tall with the weird spiky hair


that's not


ya I think you told me before


ten pounds leh


, no ah


what's it about what's it about, I've watched the the the movie, can't be it's like it's like flying popcorn then


I can't wait to see isiah and talk to him about his love for cars and buses


I feel like mikaela's gonna be taller than him, ya, and and then both of them will inherit


she's pretty <mandarin>她眼睛很:ta yan jing hen</mandarin> cute


ya, I told you this before, don't act like I've never told you, no, it's because of his tresses, , tresses


, okay wait so you said, the which one the next kid is a


, ya ya, , poor thing


I hope so she's very cute she looks like a bear


I'm bearing with this right now


damn I don't know, how are we going to get to Bedok


ikea cause it's nearer, no, no, no, one grab, is half, the cost of this


did you earn this, it's every fifteen minutes


there will always be a queue for the shuttle dude who do you think you are president ah <mandarin>你总统:ni zong tong</mandarin> ah


there's always a queue at the shuttle, yes, did he just hit her domestic abuse


dude it's it's not, it's really not, don't do that, are you a kid


you're not right, must control yourself, posture, , is it because you cannot bite bite ah bite your hand


, !aiya!, so ikea it is we're taking the shuttle there and the shuttle back,


you take you take MRT, what do they what would they need


no I don't believe you


okay let's talk about whose house you are going during chinese new year,


how many aunties do you have, seriously though, your mum side got four, your dad side got, your dad side has your dad has five sisters


but you say that they they all don't work all of them right, for chinese new year she never comes back for chinese new year what correct


when did she migrate there actually, thirty years ago already, !walao! eh that's damn fast, thirty years ago nineteen ninety


okay so she's never come back


oh ya, okay,


ya, anyway, your other aunties wait how many is it do you visit


that's one day ah


so like, your you go to four people's places


do you all all gather at your grandma's place, so like okay, like your cousins and, that one your mum's side right, then your dad's side leh


is there like a massive gathering, , ya


wait you all skype, over chinese new year so you all give each like greeting over chinese new year, ah ya overseas lah


you think she still can speak chinese, (hmm), cool,


so, usually last time used to go to my grandmother's house, and then that's where we do the greeting everything everyone gather my dad has like what eight, siblings right no, eight sisters


three brothers or four brothers one of them, and then ya ya ya and


don't know there were three that were given away also so like there were actually fifteen so, it's a rough one if ah you see someone who's like my father could be, is given away, siblings, I don't know but ya it's


it's okay , but they they usually like, ya they usually play Mahjong and, they that's the only time I watch chinese TV, yesterday I just watch chinese TV


ya but otherwise nobody talk chinese lor, but, you know it's alright, , ya


I think I think also the other side of my family right a lot more chinese so, like err our relatives who, came from china, like they come back and then like, and it's very weird right so like their chinese is very different


so their chinese is very like, deep, so it's really like, like , cause <mandarin>巴刹:ba sha</mandarin> is something that is


like, is a singaporean made, ya so, , if you want to okay so <mandarin>巴刹:ba sha</mandarin> and Pasar is like the dialect word, or what not right so


it's, Pasar is, so <mandarin>巴刹:ba sha</mandarin> is supposedly the chinese way of saying, uh Pasar like in malay


and then , , ya but that's a rough one , and I think that's also why like first time you try to talk about it was very weird, and also I don't know leh, when we speak teochew right we sound exactly the same


but we speak chinese right, like when I speak teochew it's like you know err #le jia le bui# it's it's very very it's very very similar but like err, uh, it's the chinese that's very difficult lah like don't really understand


like they'll say a whole string of chinese ah but I'm very bad at it so like that time when I went to, err go to err, the <mandarin>推拿:tui na</mandarin> place and then what I did was I I just went for a massage and I said and the guy was like, he sprouted a whole string of chinese and then the next thing I knew I cupping


so I I ya it was I think when when mainland chinese guys like they do like a whole string of chinese it's just like, super confusing to me, but ya


have you heard of that, so, the I mean


do I need to like you understand what it actually means right like don't know how to speak chinese one is like don't know how to a chinese person that doesn't know how to speak chinese is like a fish that cannot swim right so


no such thing what , I think the americans call like banana oh yellow on the outside white on the inside, are you yellow on the outside white on the inside


you came from a school that mainly spoke chinese that's not true, , I'm quite sure that that's not a stereotype of that junior college


, so everyone else spoke chinese, rough


I mean okay to be fair everyone swears, english okay lah I guess it's counted


is it, I hated chinese though so studying chinese in school !whoa!, oh !wow! now I don't feel so bad, you you know michael did CLB


it's okay lah, k, he's very Jialat but he also part time Angmoh right so, actually it's not part time he's actually Angmoh, his dad his dad is one quarter dutch


yup, he can't, he can speak malay though, , , ya


, okay, sure, err a lot of girls used to like him


oh my gosh there's so many, so there was on, that, don't like to <mandarin>吃饭:chi fan</mandarin> so she's damn skinny, and then, now she still looks a bit anorexic


like really really really like to the bones kind I show you picture next time it's quite scary she looks like african child, like I'm not kidding like she used to pride herself on wearing bangles right, all the way until the top of her like her bicep


ya, but, she just don't eat, ya it's not very healthy lah, I don't know, she will explain why michael


so much right but she , but ya you know like, , it's a, I think that's that who else was there who else did he, that's all I think


ya, ya it's okay, did I tell you about the time I went err, the oak tree with #wen bin#, I freaking love it eh I love that place


scotland was damn beautiful, and then err, so, there was once when we were driving to this place and then like, it's called the quiraing, so it's like it's in it's in a valley


it's a valley in the isle of skye, , and then we drove up there right so when we drove up there, !wah! very lucky err to we thought !wah! very lucky you know like, nobody around but there was a good reason lah


because, uh it it it it just kept raining like, raining cats and dogs that thing


and then , the when I opened the the car door right, the wind actually flung the door open so I open a bit then like !wah!, , never lah of course never lah that's so dramatic,


and then , then we got out right err we can't even like stand, and like like <mandarin>站起来:zhan qi lai</mandarin> also pay like just like


then <mandarin>文彬:wen bin</mandarin> walk to try to take a picture this idiot he nearly flew off a cliff, like, like he was at the edge and then I was like oh my god #wen bin# you don't do that you, don't anyhow and then he was like ah it's okay lah, and then he lift up one foot and then his foot like you know how you like


you lift your foot and then you put it down, but then the wind was so strong it just like swung his foot away, and then ya it was it was, ya ya we it was crazy, ya lah of course lah because you can only see the chill photos you cannot see the not chill photos


how I know, ya, anyway, where you want go honeymoon


please


is it, I think it's okay leh I think not bad, ya I think next time travelling will be very expensive,


correct so, now it's more, now it's err gonna be a bit more rare lah because it's a lot more process procedures


so they'll mark up the prices because there will just be fewer people going, I think budget airlines will be also be a bit more expensive I think everything will be about five ten percent more, but people will still go


you know, ya, Istanbul, is it


cause <mandarin>买屋子:mai wu zi</mandarin> okay, , where you wanna stay, I know, okay


#toa payoh# okay, do you think it will be ready by twenty twenty four


then after that we need to do the random crap right like the


, but getting married is not about you , it's about everyone else sadly


, that's not, now ah


my mum did say that like, we should like <mandarin>见家长:jian jia zhang</mandarin> before, , like even we do any wedding stuff but I think that we should get everyone when we set a date lor, like very like what like ya they


did you say by end of next year right, sounds good, do you think we should get like a bank loan or like a CPF


we can get a bank loan, it's a low interest rates some more, that I can see the appeal, no serious it's lower interest rate


, how many room, oh wait we are supposed to err how many years ah we cannot do before a certain age right what was it


it must last us until ninety nine, ninety five or ninety nine, ninety five twenty six let's say next year twenty seven, ninety five minus twenty seven is, sixty


eight, , sixty eight years left it means sixty eight years from, that means it must have been built, twenty one years ago


which means it must have been built, what's twenty one years from the nineteen ninety, no nineteen ninety nine, , ah,


then you drink the soup that <mandarin>的饺子:de jiao zi</mandarin> is in, you get <mandarin>饺子汤:jiao zi tang</mandarin> lor you sure can get it


is it, that's quite budget what that one no meh


well I'm a very budget of guy, , you are budget,


talk ah food go, say you're <mandarin>肥:fei</mandarin> one more time right


I'll be very upset, never exercise for very long then <mandarin>去运动啊去跑啊去散步啊:qu yun dong a qu pao a qu san bu a</mandarin> !walao! I keep asking you to go then you don't want,


fine okay when you gonna do it


but, three zero seven C #ang mo kio# avenue one I could work with this, I could definitely work with, high floor chinese owner


rare country themed decor, two minutes walk to hawker centre, eh not bad leh, it's really not bad maybe


it's next to the blue ugly blue house you saw just now, okay, it's quite <mandarin>方便:fang bian</mandarin> actually, Nah you see, it's good because like uh built like in two thousand twelve


so it's got a lot of tenure, no can you help me check how much was the down payment supposed to be ah


you're on your ipad you just check lah, the down payment for bank loan housing bank housing loan not


no err CPF loan CPF loan is only like five percent, bank loan leh


mean I think you missed it already, how many, ten percent, or twenty percent, twenty percent five percent in cash, five percent over hundred times five hundred thousand


(uh huh)


oh but it doesn't matter for us cause it's definitely within that ninety nine year thing, right, okay, can, do we have twenty five thousand dollars in cash


balance uses OA, times three, do we have seventy five thousand dollars in total in CPF


I think got lah, because including must include the grand, confirm can lah actually it's just a matter of getting the cash


but if I do cash then, cannot, also the other thing we need to check right is there any penalty for selling the house before we finish the whole loan, ya


you then Gong Simi, then <mandarin>不用买家:bu yong mai jia</mandarin> lor, with my parents


there's so much to do, stay at home anyway you also don't really go out what right so, Tampines got more people


(hmm)


pull it out, just pull, you pull one time the <mandarin>搞去:gao qu</mandarin> then my hair will be fuller,


(mmhmm), , okay, this one possible


, ya it's really very Suay, , my head very tired can I, can I get like a yoga block to put under my head, , (mmhmm) better


so, what we gonna talk about now


you said oh, okay what what <mandarin>清:qing</mandarin> thing you want say speak now


Mala is,


yes you are, ,


anything you want I also want, it is a good deal I think it's a great deal


well was it wasn't


okay <mandarin>走路:zou lu</mandarin> is not exercise, , is not, and to do more burpees


, it's always a jane's thing, jean, who's jane, oh ya tomorrow is her yoga class


oh, what's yoga in chinese, I'm quite sure it's not fish house, I I don't believe you what's such I'm very sure it's not you a


, your chinese really very bad, so what are your aspiration, , ya, so what are your aspiration


easy, sure, what is damn good, ya not bad hor


I think, what are we going to buy, eh ya lah, is how urgent do they need it, like need to


sell it, actually I don't mind going lah let's go lah message them


then, just come and see lah, and then understand you know like how quickly do they need to sell the house, or why they are selling the house


just see ah, go there and see lor go there and see the house, see whether it's all these


are you doing that now, ya you ask me twice <mandarin>我已经说:wo yi jing shuo</mandarin> Liao K lah just do it, you have, eh wait do you remember the lady that wanted to bring


ya, think it's a good deal, I think it is, like, ten percent is, fifty thousand we can definitely cover that it's in our CPF


monthly mortgage of thousands for all of these is definitely okay, thousand four, right now


ya maybe will pay thousand using my CPF then I'll top up four hundred dollars in cash, I don't mind, we may have to borrow cash though, I think four room right


!chey!, it's two room, wait then why the floor plan looks so big, did you see the floor plan


no but the thing is that it's quite big, you see the floor plan


ya, you don't, , you then <mandarin>太大了:tai da liao</mandarin> man


, don't think so, is that big enough for you


cost more than house, if gabriel size, right


no but it doesn't look like it's a lot of work like the floor can keep, what else can keep the windows can keep, no


but they also not staying there, , ,


why, no you must answer the question


what kind of job, what is your like ten twenty year aspiration, when you are forty six right, what do you want


you know the farm is very hard work right, just hire someone so own a farm but hire someone to tend everything


I don't know maybe, , travel lor


no must think of something, (mmhmm)


I know I saw, okay <mandarin>啦因为你卖:la yin wei ni mai</mandarin> hor, like as the property matures more people will buy lah


not hopefully definitely, !oi! the comms on,


(mmhmm)


who is to say you know better this one, but this one renovation need a lot of work, err


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), means that willing to negotiate with four hundred and ninety eight, that's my interpretation !aiya! push down lah, !aiya!, fine


!aiya! crap


you look lah your turn to look


so why are you with me already, what are we waiting for


ya, isn't that the whole point, no but I'm sure that we our blocks right


everything is okay, just a bit,


[orh], wait what, (mmhmm) ah,


ya it's okay,


okay,


half an hour more right, twenty minutes


水饺, Tampines or #paya lebar#


see how hungry you are later, #paya lebar# got a lot of acai, err actually the acai wasn't very nice, is there acai in Bedok


is there good ice cream in Bedok, oh but that's quite far from Bedok MRT right,


this, I tell you ah


must be a reason why, , he wants to be a girl, , tired


do you want me to clear all these files, like you want to throw away some of the stuff is it


barking like a dog, , Tampines where all the <mandarin>神经:shen jing</mandarin> reside, after I told them that I think he might have some special needs


the guy that exercising downstairs, !huh! but that was I saw him exercise two days two weeks ago, oh is it cause I caught him exercising


!wah! but your block, your block is super like your block is okay firstly stop freaking out, probably not, secondly how cute is the Shiba on the floor, no, there's a very dark place to go


, you can't hear the dog bark from so far, the neighbour


where sure, er, actually you can access it using my bed, I am, always full of great ideas, no you are


, to person listening I'm so sorry, that's my love love, , my love love,


ya no I mean then you do that that you how like all these youtube videos of two strangers asking the thirty five questions to see if you can fall in love, you can definitely talk longer than that like have I spoken to a stranger for six I mean ya lah at work lah but that's about work what


you know,


how closely do you sit with strangers,


wait stop stop stop, you can't leave during a date, have you ever like left during a like tried to find a way, what happened


what did he say,


, okay, (mmhmm)


oh my, sure but sound very <mandarin>尴尬:gan ga</mandarin> but ya, a box of


a human head


!aww! that's so sweet, I'm so glad I didn't give you straw hearts


was this when you when you were working already


!aww!, what the heck, oh that's a bit weird


so of this list you shave people or you increase people or you rearranged people, why, do we have the same number now


no as in if after you cut, do you have the app, K you don't have the app, okay, ,


if not you cannot see, , it's very like I hate wearing like footwear at home


but like this are very comfortable but I'll never wear it lah, , , let's just see your list lah don't need to edit can we just view


so you tell me lah people like who did you cut, !huh! ya holy friend friends like verone


oh IMH guys, 呀, , your bridesmaids got change not decided already


we have a date, so they're the first we put the save the date with, eh hello your list is still longer than mine eh


look at this this is my list this is your list, actually I don't know why there's a huge gap, did you add rows


like so I may have done all that already then you added rows and then, I don't know, oh did people get cut off


oh wait, it has been copied and pasted, ya ya ya ya ya


ya why has it been copied and pasted it's the same thing, my list is still shorter than yours, okay okay okay I'll charge your laptop


woman you will do when I tell you, calm down


Bedok


what #ban mian# place, oh century square hub, oh, if we go ikea I want to eat ikea,


ya, , chicken wing and meatball that's all we eat


you then weird, ya, thank you


a little, it was like it was probably like twenty minutes after the interlude, like twenty minutes into the interlude, actually musicals are damn long ah


can you imagine right, they actually do this everyday they perform everyday, feels damn shag


!wah!, who keep on changing


did you watch book of mormon, the best


he was in he <mandarin>他在华中的时候:ta zai hua zhong de shi hou</mandarin>


what, yes, get in, not good, ya so #liang xun#


#liang xun's# chinese is really good, but like his good, , #jie yi's# name also chinese #jie yi's# chinese rubbish anyway so err


half the size of this room, half the size of this room with a bed with a table and a toilet, no ah it's damn small then he he slept on the floor literally right when he slept on the floor there was nowhere else to walk already


no, he's about my height lah, no, then #liang xun# ah we we so we actually bought book of mormon tickets, sorry, we bought book of mormon tickets like very very early on


and then err, we got like fifty pounds each fifty pounds that's still the cheapest, ya, it's not cheap ya, and err, err, we can actually <mandarin>可以抽奖:ke yi chou jiang</mandarin> you can <mandarin>抽奖:chou jiang</mandarin> for a ticket


ya so everyday, and the afternoon you just go there and then they will just put your name in a lottery like thing and then they pick up like five names and then you'll get like two tickets or something, ya which is great lah is and you get it for like ten pounds


ya ten pounds best seats in the house ten pounds, and then ya book of mormon was great lah like, it's very blasphemous though


like, say very bad things about god lah, ya I watch that, I want to watch charlie and the chocolate factory the musical


and, or mamma mia, you never watch charlie and the chocolate you know what's charlie and the chocolate by roald dahl, the movie, it's the same lah just musical lor, ya they can they can make flying things


bus go downstairs, (hmm) (hmm) (hmm) (hmm) (hmm) (hmm), the wheels on the bus go round and round


, ya she really is what


没, she's not that pretty, gabriel a pretty boy


, is it cause of his dress sense, , his dresses, oh tresses


so you think if they have they have another one it will be a boy or a girl


!wah! I don't know, , I think it'll be a girl, you, yeah, , poor thing why poor thing girls are better I want girl


girls are much better, I think do you think emma will have a sibling do you think they'll have another one, little bear


ya she is very cute, no <mandarin>熊:xiong</mandarin> is a bear <mandarin>猫:mao</mandarin> is cat


panda is a cat bear, yes so bear lah, ya


dumplings is like how like I have the when I was you, I say Bedok what then you don't want then K lor go #paya lebar#, take train lah or or wait ikea so what ikea or Bedok choose one


can we take grab to ikea, please, no but with a shelter very long, please, !aww! but wait for shuttle very long


I earn money okay can I just take my grab, I'm hungry and then you don't let them see the, how often is the shuttle can you check, okay fine let's take the shuttle


lucky ah you lucky you cute, but if there's a queue for the shuttle I'm not I'm not going to, no as in like if there's a queue for shuttle such that we cannot take the next one you know what I mean


but has it been a point where like we cannot get on, we're taking grab, that's four minutes, that's at most ten minutes that's not


sound, okay okay okay, okay, okay


no, control, control my urges


sure, then how I'm going home after that


let me ask my parents whether they need anything from ikea if they need then I'll buy and then I'll just,


think about how daiso is to you is ikea to my mum and dad, it is that


I need to clap, chicken rice


chicken, since when uh


uh one month one month ago, , , , <mandarin>没有东西煮:mei you dong xi zhu</mandarin> nothing to cook


Paiseh


ya ha where #kor kor# go ah #kor kor# #kor kor# go shopping, every month every week got people birthday


, don't know leh


next time, okay, , , cannot promise, , #kor kor# got girlfriend or not ha


you talk to him lah you, you try lah


that girl, that girl from KL one, but older than than him leh


twenty six ah, ah twenty six,


standing, not not big size ah is that, you can see she is uh working already in in in social


workplace <mandarin>这样的感觉:zhe yang de gan jue</mandarin> #kor kor# <mandarin>很很:hen hen</mandarin> green,


I don't know but I know know I know expensive lah but I don't know how much ah


then you book, you book a timeslot


then you just follow lor, but sometime got you can just ask them mah then they will got the other people to help you or guide you or just show you lor


but I don't know how much is that, I heard lah, we met one one or two err err


err golf coach ah happen they they they also coaching, a, a little girl, ah lor, around I think less than ten years old, ah but I think the parents are rich ah


ah then after <mandarin>刚好:gang hao</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我们打我们休息:wo men da wo men xiu xi</mandarin> we we sit there and just take a rest and then we talk talk talk then he err the coach come and just,


just <mandarin>打招呼:da zhao hu</mandarin> or maybe <mandarin>要要找生意:yao yao zhao sheng yi</mandarin> lah


then <mandarin>他讲这种是看:ta jiang zhe zhong shi kan</mandarin> parents lah, but <mandarin>就是看:jiu shi kan</mandarin> parents you know <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> parents <mandarin>不是本地人:bu shi ben di ren</mandarin> is a foreigner or is from china from from other country


or from japan also is it, the parents willing to pay ah, err investment [bah]


but <mandarin>你可以学:ni ke yi xue</mandarin> lah,


err something like a networking like that lah see if got any other opportunity or for business lah so I don't know lah, but at the end no lah not easy lah


ya you just like learning how to swing, swing swing swing, swing the ball out I don't know I never learn


I one I think I I I do one or two two time, Paiseh lah I don't want, cause everybody, know how to play one see even that


I don't know why they they go there lah, it looked like they like very skillful already, but they still standing there and play like the newcomer I don't know why, or maybe they are coach


err #gei gei# I don't know, err I don't, !aiya! we go there few place lah Yishun ah, #bukit batok# ah


end up end up no lah, since when you got play, I don't know leh I don't think so leh the golf


not easy leh not not not cheap eh, [orh] Awana ya Awana, Awana I think you got try before once


also play play one lah, but Awana one the weather is good ah


I think you primary, primary four or primary five ah, ya, but now cannot go already lah


if maybe <mandarin>小舅:xiao jiu</mandarin> say don't want to renew already the membership, they now, okay Awana last time, awana, err, we at least one year got five days eh six days


six days if let's say you took err, err apartment one six ah twelve days you took Awana hotel one six days per year you can can stay, then now they don't give you


they say that is err fully occupied no room, fully occupied or no room ah or got a event or what they already got the like the the company booking one whole


one maybe a few few room, so uh they got event so they are not allowed, then they assign you to, err, uh don't know what hotel ah, but, Awana is the middle mah


then <mandarin>它不给你它就跟你讲说:ta bu gei ni ta jiu gen ni jiang shuo</mandarin> okay <mandarin>我会给你在:wo hui gei ni zai</mandarin> err, , err, oh Ria Ria apartment, ah Ria apartment R I A R I A ah Ria apartment


ya but near to err already lah ah already near to the Genting there then, but the Ria apartment !wah! <mandarin>小舅讲:xiao jiu jiang</mandarin> cannot make it lah


then, I think


err maybe not renewable already


before <mandarin>你要上去要到那个那:ni yao shang qu yao dao na ge na</mandarin> uh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> theme park <mandarin>那边的:na bian de</mandarin> ah


err <mandarin>里面的:li mian de</mandarin> room, too cold


compared to Awana ah compare to Awana Awana <mandarin>它在半山:ta zai ban shan</mandarin> mah


Awana


, no choice one lah because they want to they want to earn money, if the malaysia got uh the company ah got event event event ah then they can just give them what because one time they can book a lot of room


for event


ya but they not they try not they they give you lah but okay then another condition is that you you


one whole year right you cannot take, if they give you only one time uh, err public holiday, err the public holiday the date ah that you want to go in one lah one year only give you one time you you can come for the public other than that leh you you must come at low uh ah low peak


ah, peak period they only give you one time once a year, you can come lah ah lah because low peak <mandarin>没有人他他给你:mei you ren ta ta gei ni</mandarin> mah okay mah


oh one year I think, err school holiday, then <mandarin>有时候有时:you shi hou you shi</mandarin> hor their public holiday right their malaysia public holiday <mandarin>有时候他会去可是他就是每次没有给他:you shi hou ta hui qu ke shi ta jiu shi mei ci mei you gei ta</mandarin> lah


!aiya! so <mandarin>没有办法:mei you ban fa</mandarin> lah


err less priority lah


#ah ling# <mandarin>姐姐公司没有给:jie jie gong si mei you gei</mandarin> uh hotel Liao


then <mandarin>他就讲:ta jiu jiang</mandarin> #xin yi# <mandarin>怎么睡在:zen me shui zai</mandarin> platform, every night leh <mandarin>她每天:ta mei tian</mandarin> every night <mandarin>打鼾:da han</mandarin> leh


then <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> hor, !wah!


uh, oversea trip


then <mandarin>他有跟她去他讲其中的一个姐夫:ta you gen ta qu ta jiang qi zhong de yi ge jie fu</mandarin> ah, but every night


cannot sleep !wah! <mandarin>他讲吵吵到很恐怖最后:ta jiang chao chao dao hen kong bu zui hou</mandarin> hor


hotel room


a'ah


stop, you don't sleep first we all sleep first


no choice lah, but <mandarin>至少那等于休息了:zhi shao na deng yu xiu xi liao</mandarin> lor, then <mandarin>他讲不知道没有叫他去看:ta jiang bu zhi dao mei you jiao ta qu kan</mandarin> doctor lah see doctor consult, uh <mandarin>为什么他会打鼾:wei shen me ta hui da han</mandarin> lah


ya lah I think the first time when they they go out overseas oversea trip I don't know when lah they say !wah! <NEN> first time !wah!


!wah!, !wah! <mandarin>真的不能睡:zhen de bu neng shui</mandarin> the next day ah <mandarin>哇跟他讲:wa gen ta jiang</mandarin> and uh you you go and sleep alone, one room, special for you, ah because everyone cannot sleep and then okay lor


then from there he knows lah, I didn't think so leh, I think is his his wife also don't know meh never say meh, I don't know I never ask ah I never ask much ah


, cannot be


ya !huh! I don't know, ah oh got one night uh uh #kor kor# come out !wah! #kor kor# say the next day morning #kor kor# say !wah!


!wah! very loud very loud <mandarin>很大声:hen da sheng</mandarin> leh, ah <mandarin>小舅在那边笑:xiao jiu zai na bian xiao</mandarin>


ha <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> ha


uh, , uh <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> check


uh master bedroom, no one master bedroom


uh master bedroom for two person stay, per month one thousand


one person stay,


ya lah, but because you using master bedroom mah, so everything provided everything toilet everything inside mah, also hor master bedroom normally bigger mah and got the toilet, inside mah


ah this is what #ah zi# #kor kor# want lah he said that more privacy mah, even outside room stay with, other people you also know no no uh nevermind, we not using common toilet


err common toilet you how how their their roster cleaning roster you see ah you you you you pay one thousand is you just manage your own room lah, ah and toilet lah


you then if you take single room one, normal room, normal room then you have to, have to, manage with other others uh uh roommate lah, for toilet, so he say don't want lor


then <mandarin>你们那:ni men na</mandarin> permit <mandarin>就要就要:jiu yao jiu yao</mandarin> cancel <mandarin>了:liao</mandarin> work permit cancel <mandarin>的话就很麻烦了:de hua jiu hen ma fan liao</mandarin> leh


uh


ah then <mandarin>现在有人在:xian zai you ren zai</mandarin> facebook complain


I don't know <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> cut down lor business <mandarin>不好:bu hao</mandarin> cut down lor


uh, !huh!, then


malaysian, err, malaysian


then <mandarin>他们也不是每天都要:ta men ye bu shi mei tian dou yao</mandarin> ah <mandarin>放工回家:fang gong hui jia</mandarin> but <mandarin>他们这里的:ta men zhe li de</mandarin> err err, rental


then then <mandarin>那些一直以来:nei xie yi zhi yi lai</mandarin> all the while stay in singapore <mandarin>的那些:de nei xie</mandarin> malaysian worker, then what they


they have to pay monthly also what, then who paid for them


oh <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我又没有想到那些:wo you mei you xiang dao nei xie</mandarin> malaysian <mandarin>住在新加坡的的那些:zhu zai xin jia po de de nei xie</mandarin> worker


felilcia <mandarin>姐姐讲:jie jie jiang</mandarin> ha lor hor


, eh no no


per room <mandarin>她们:ta men</mandarin> per room <mandarin>她们是:ta men shi</mandarin> equally share, headcount <mandarin>的他们六个人:de ta men liu ge ren</mandarin> mah


then <mandarin>一整间多少钱这样:yi zheng jian duo shao qian zhe yang</mandarin> then share lor but <mandarin>那个朋友被被裁掉:na ge peng you bei bei cai diao</mandarin> mah <mandarin>出去:chu qu</mandarin> mah


they cannot survive without income mah for one month the most is one month


no, okay for, , depends lah but for like for like for ah err leanne right, for leanne right


so <mandarin>他们也是一样的:ta men ye shi yi yang de</mandarin> ah, they know that they cannot get PR in singapore one so they will they will they will also, err err do investment to buy a house there


then every month, send money back lah installment lah


, got a little bit saving lah, but you cannot last you for one month in singapore without without err err err income lah


ah


but <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> share share <mandarin>起来一个人大概还四百五:qi lai yi ge ren da gai huan si bai wu</mandarin> lah


normal room, one person, six five zero, ah but <mandarin>她是租整间的所以:ta shi zu zheng jian de suo yi</mandarin> equally share


take MRT take bus <mandarin>出去:chu qu</mandarin> travel mah, basically <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> rental <mandarin>跟吃:gen chi</mandarin> lah, ah, another thing is that


ya confirm not easy what even if even got the got opening right


priority, ah <mandarin>所以你你你:suo yi ni ni ni</mandarin> employer <mandarin>你要去找工人你一定要先先:ni yao qu zhao gong ren ni yi ding yao xian xian</mandarin> uh posting <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> MOM <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> that <mandarin>你有这个:ni you zhe ge</mandarin> opening


then, at the same time <mandarin>可能一两个星期过后你就讲说:ke neng yi liang ge xing qi guo hou ni jiu jiang shuo</mandarin> okay <mandarin>你你要申请这个人你要申请:ni ni yao shen qing zhe ge ren ni yao shen qing</mandarin> foreigner


so their priority to local


lockdown <mandarin>所以很多工作有些公司完全没有:suo yi hen duo gong zuo you xie gong si wan quan mei you</mandarin> operation <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> like, travel, lockdown mah lockdown time <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> visitor mah


but <mandarin>这种东西没有办法他砍他砍的话:zhe zhong dong xi mei you ban fa ta kan ta kan de hua</mandarin> MOM <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> okay


uh


no point to apply


then <mandarin>他们以为开始是讲可以:ta men yi wei kai shi shi jiang ke yi</mandarin> transfer eh <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> employer <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> group chat <mandarin>里面以为讲可以:li mian yi wei jiang ke yi</mandarin> transfer <mandarin>因为之前:yin wei zhi qian</mandarin> company A


transfer, uh cancel company A transfer <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> company B


then <mandarin>他就问他为什么你还要请:ta jiu wen ta wei shen me ni hai yao qing</mandarin> foreigner, oh <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> transfer mah <mandarin>不是你们讲:bu shi ni men jiang</mandarin> transfer <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> transfer mah, uh <mandarin>我们会:wo men hui</mandarin> look into it


[orh] okay <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> okay other country right means they are in their own country ha, is is a construction worker but in their their country lah their own country right, because their own country they no need to pay levy mah


uh <mandarin>可以跑:ke yi pao</mandarin> machine <mandarin>的可以驾那个那个:de ke yi jia na ge na ge</mandarin> uh <mandarin>那个挖泥机的:na ge wa ni ji de</mandarin> a'ah <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> the grade <mandarin>就比较高了因为他有去:jiu bi jiao gao liao yin wei ta you qu</mandarin> on course


upgrade, so uh, their category can different different level already, uh <mandarin>用手挖东西而已挖一些洞:yong shou wa dong xi er yi wa yi xie dong</mandarin> lah <mandarin>或者是拉拉一些:huo zhe shi la la yi xie</mandarin> cable <mandarin>因为有些:yin wei you xie</mandarin> cable <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> cable <mandarin>不是埋在地下的他只是用人力拉这边进那边出这边拉上面的人拉等下是这样子而已所以所以他没有:bu shi mai zai di xia de ta zhi shi yong ren li la zhe bian jin na bian chu zhe bian la shang mian de ren la deng xia shi zhe yang zi er yi suo yi suo yi ta mei you</mandarin> skill mah


captain lor <mandarin>头手已经会从:tou shou yi jing hui cong</mandarin> basic, uh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err sand mixed with err <mandarin>那个些白灰啊那个:na ge xie bai hui a na ge</mandarin> cement ah sand mixed with


ah okay lor <mandarin>你就升级:ni jiu sheng ji</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>每天骂:mei tian ma</mandarin> lor, okay


ah #ah zi# #kor kor# <mandarin>的老板又忙着自己的工:de lao ban you mang zhe zi ji de gong</mandarin> mah, plug <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> wire


but but they'll they provide a meal lah


dinner, but <mandarin>我们工作是迟的:wo men gong zuo shi chi de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>是是:shi shi</mandarin> after work <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah, then <mandarin>每次来到:mei ci lai dao</mandarin> hor #ah zi# #kor kor# <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> okay <mandarin>那:na</mandarin> fifty dollar go and buy, buy food


and drinks, then <mandarin>等下不会回来:deng xia bu hui hui lai</mandarin> leh


eh, where all the the the the worker, [orh], dinner time dinner time


every time, meal uh rice and and and ah uh, drinks ah <mandarin>包:bao</mandarin> ah a'ah, okay lor <mandarin>包:bao</mandarin> lor


claim lor, ah supervisor <mandarin>先给:xian gei</mandarin> lor, !wah!


ya give money lor fifty dollar okay see how many people lah, sometimes six persons sometimes seven sometimes only five ah, give them fifty dollar then go and <mandarin>打包:da bao</mandarin> lor


then go and Makan lor, then, claim leh claim lah, I give fifty dollar I don't care, anyway I I I claim company lah, no receipt !aiya!


okay lor <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> know, ask her #tok kong# lor, they know actually I feel that they are quite generous lah, as long as, they work lah


Makan no no issue lor, ah they don't buy for them what they give money and ask them to go and buy,


lazy lah, they just #gei gei# ah they just standing there and and, not really do work lah or maybe they do work but they slow lor


no because manager also are also hands on mah also go also doing work mah so you won't be always asking as long as I already assign you a job, okay you do this one this part to this part ah what you need to do ah then you go and do then he go and do others


so he he won't he won't standing there and watch them what they do what, , ah ah #ah zi# #kor kor#, no


no such thing one lah ah standing there everyone also doing work one lah, regardless you are you are the supervisor or you are manager or what you are worker lah, everyone also work together lah, that's why they they don't


, so is sometimes that , like ours view you're standing there then will be be you become a manager that we are the, uh what monitoring ah don't know ah no he just standing there and see


!wah! this, !wah! this this dorm good, !wah!, very fast ah, and know what to do, why then why this dorm standing there, I don't know


this one this one want to do or not, this one want to cut or not, I standing don't know who to ask, ya lah something like blur blur like


like timid lor scared doing wrong ah then Kena Kena scold or Kena fire lah, so they standing there and dare not to ask, and then everyone got their things to do mah


stuck <mandarin>在那边了:zai na bian liao</mandarin> then <mandarin>等到:deng dao</mandarin> you have to wait until #ah zi# #kor kor# or or more senior one ah, because he, then he can they cannot continue do other things mah have to wait for him to do finish then got other people can continue do mah later they come back then say why you still stuck here ah


oh I don't know what to do ah ah, then Kena scold lah, one or maybe one manager and oversee everything and then the manager just standing there no


the the time is very pressure one, everyone


no choice [one] [lah] !aiya!, ya [lah] of course


okay mommy, what we going to eat later, chicken rice <mandarin>你煮:ni zhu</mandarin> ah


why why why you why you talk to me like that, since when


one month ago, then <mandarin>为什么突然今天要煮:wei shen me tu ran jin tian yao zhu</mandarin> leh


don't have some <mandarin>特别的原因:te bie de yuan yin</mandarin> meh


, where <mandarin>哥哥:ge ge</mandarin> go


, you ask you ask for their names lah


next time okay you promise me ah, promise me next ask for name, then later later wait for him to bring girlfriend home ah


but he said <mandarin>他已经有带他你已经有看过他的女朋友了:ta yi jing you dai ta ni yi jing you kan guo ta de nv peng you le</mandarin> leh err like <mandarin>未来的:wei lai de</mandarin> future girlfriend


!huh! who who tell me tell me, which girl, [orh] from


twenty six


she very big size meh, not not big size ah is that, then


[orh]


!wah! golf ah


is it, like, one ball, don't know how many


[orh] then


a little girl


like <mandarin>怎样拿:zen yang na</mandarin> then <mandarin>怎样:zen yang</mandarin> swing


!wah! so ex ah


the parents got money ah, but golf is more of a leisure thing right


but that kind of investment is like


causing trade


partner


connection, , okay


not easy ah


like you not aiming for the hole right


but you got play before


maybe they want to show off to the newcomer


but I think <mandarin>我好像有印象我有我有玩过:wo hao xiang you yin xiang wo you wo you wan guo</mandarin> is it


but I got play before, really, I feel like I got try to


really not like maybe like in malaysia or something Awana, I got try before right


ya <mandarin>我记得:wo ji de</mandarin> I cannot swing one, every time I try to swing I will miss the ball, ya Awana very nice, eh how long we never go Awana already ah when was the last time we went


!wah! so long ago ah, , ah why, !huh!


oh how come


!huh!


, ria, like !huh!


[orh]


!ee!


[orh], ya


ah,


ya, cause about ya lower


<mandarin>他们很坏:ta men hen huai</mandarin> leh, but like <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> ah you


ya but you see like, but they, they still should be accountable for <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> promote <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> what


like they say that, they say that they going to give out the what like your subscription enables you to take the Awana right


what do you mean, [orh]


low peak, but that, okay


but <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> #xiao ju# <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> #yu hang# <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> last time every year got go one


, ya


then, then apart from this leh what else what else did he tell you


(uh huh)


!wah!


oh my god


stress <mandarin>可以导致:ke yi dao zhi</mandarin> snoring meh


[orh]


so in the end


[orh] then but but before that he doesn't know meh


!huh!


also snore very loud, ya


!huh!, ya


[orh] okay, okay, !wah!, !wah!


but does it mean is one person to that bedroom, so


[orh],


[orh] ya


but <mandarin>小舅知道:xiao jiu zhi dao</mandarin> singapore <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> housing rates meh


(mmhmm)


!wah!, ,


ha


but then also it's not it's not


because the like the demand not that high what


so but those


is initially already <mandarin>八百:ba bai</mandarin> per, so last time


their savings


but that's leanne what


then every month


, it's almost like living hand to mouth lah, but <mandarin>不够:bu gou</mandarin> lah


the cost of living in singapore,


ah


ya, it's not not easy lah


transfer


but the funny thing is in other country hor


like what we are paying <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> construction worker, ya like <mandarin>其他:qi ta</mandarin> country <mandarin>你做:ni zuo</mandarin> construction worker actually quite, but I don't know why in singapore


ya their like like in, ya correct


no but even if like


right if you keep the workers happy also <mandarin>是好事:shi hao shi</mandarin> what


but that's the that's their manager's <mandarin>问题:wen ti</mandarin> what


but I thought manager should apart from just <mandarin>给他们:gei ta men</mandarin> instruction, the manager


like those people like blur blur like that


ya <mandarin>每次:mei ci</mandarin> always <mandarin>有那些:you nei xie</mandarin> lost ship like that one


time waits for no one right


so what are you going to cook today, (mmhmm), interesting,


there is


it's fine with me, do you have sambal


too spicy then I would have to, drink a lot of water lah


if that is the case you think that way then we eat out lah, really, wherever when we say eat out you will say good idea and then you come back with another question for me


why don't you suggest where to eat, I ask you to suggest now what's your issue


steady feeding reach eh baby


really


what sambal again, [orh] okay so where you want to go and eat your malay food craving


I hate durians, you know I don't like the smell right I might be singaporean but I don't, like durian what's wrong with it


yes, ya why what do I sound Angmoh, please lah it's not it is not a criteria that I have to like durian to be a singaporean right


one man's meat is another man's poison, hello idioms eh


ya and then you are idiom eh idiot ah, , whatever, maybe if I pay the durian then I don't have to go right


alright so how, no no I mean you go #bukit batok# to buy on your own, why


ya, then you go with my mother in law lah, funny


one KG twelve dollars what can buy a very big one you know three to four KG fifty bucks you know


!hanna!, they will unhalf it what you take styrofoam box what


that's why I say work within the budget, this, why you tell me all this thing


!aiya! you bring my mother in law out lah go and walk with her lah maybe she wants to go out #gai gai# leh


precisely <mandarin>什么鬼天气买:shen me gui tian qi mai </mandarin> four <mandarin>榴莲吃:liu lian chi </mandarin> !aiyo! you damn funny one you go when the weather is, not very friendly right now you still want to eat durian later you sick ah !alamak!


what you wanna do the <mandarin>以毒攻毒:yi du gong du </mandarin> thing is it dignity no no no east <mandarin>专家:zhuan jia </mandarin> see one doctors have also stronger than that which receive with doctor because the give me a name, you tell me which <mandarin>专家:zhuan jia </mandarin> tell you that which which which doctor which expert tell you that give me a name


ah you see, !wah! you don't every time use my mother in law <mandarin>来压我:lai ya wo </mandarin> leh


doctor <P2>phil</P2> is it, bollocks


I am definitely not a doctor in the field, but I definitely know that you're bullshitting me I'm also very serious dear


no what, I I thought we are durian season is over what right that's what you told me what, when I refused to buy for you the jackfruit


Cempedak is the yellow colour right, jackfruit ah, how is it different from jackfruit


is it yellow with a big seed in the middle, it's jackfruit what


you know ah I'm just going google what you say just now and then it becomes what jackfruit ah I will just going to print a copy and paste all over the room so that when you wake up in the morning ah you can see jackfruit, whatever babe


, what, you say want malay food right


but malay food is more costly at night ah, cause most of the time you have to go for the malay seafood, ya, then eat what, hello you got see malay food that sells #nasi lemak# all this thing that opens at night


yeah, really, really, may be you stay malaysia have lah dear, ya precisely I'm trying to tell you that


where got I mean honestly there's no food like that I mean selling this kind of breakfast food that opens until so late, I mean the malay shop that sell all this food they don't open that late one seriously


nasi padang,


but you are going #bukit batok# where got crave, crave cannot sit in leh woman


, you know crave also do delivery right dear


then we can, then burn the house down, what's what what, what's Bandung


Bandung'S a drink I know lah,


does that make you happy if I do that, see, anything lah


ah beef is a must, I don't really like Sotong


I think it's fine right also eat Sotong what, didn't I just say that out loud


no need <mandarin>五秒:wu miao </mandarin> lah for you, I wait wait you say your memory like like is is like a goldfish right


then how can take money from me that time never like goldfish one, that one is when you take money ah !wah! it's like super computer you know the memory damn good know


, , I can say what I want dear


okay so what, we are going to eat malay ah, the, Zhichar right, so, now come back which store


if you go back to my parents there then of course you go to the mister #teh tarik# coffeeshop


oh no the malay food the one that you know you like the #mee siam#, ah it's closed, but the coffeeshop still open the other stalls like all the like #ayam penyet#, you know they are still open


only that particular store that you like to eat the #mee siam# is closed, ya the, the old, yep, the old makcik I think she, during COVID nineteen I think she calls it a day lah tired


!huh!, [orh] okay cool that's what it's called in mandarin, why they made the name so difficult


ya if you look at my report book in the past you'll know how <mandarin>难:nan </mandarin> is it right, that's bollocks


no what, not really if you say chinese is like uh have you eaten <mandarin>你吃了吗:ni chi le ma </mandarin> that's present tense what asking a question


will suit Paolo is pasta, what is the same meaning what


it's the same I mean you think about it, really yes, room for debate fair, yes you seriously so where going to eat come ongoing


but that's in #jurong west# you want to go #bukit batok#, me again


thank you, hardin kitchen okay and they're like this uh Masjid Masjid, never heard of it before, that's sound familiar


what's that


that means it's close by is it, as usual when the wife talks


!wah! english got chinese uh


impressive ah <mandarin>第:di </mandarin> six stop, why don't we just go west mall and eat


west mall got food court right, really


neh, do you know I don't eat <mandarin>拉面:la mian </mandarin> okay, please don't waste time


!huh!


it depends, where


so what what what do they sell there, if you want to talk about <mandarin>鸡翅膀:ji chi bang </mandarin> then I go to my friend restaurant at trade hub twenty one even better right


, oh !oops!


!oops!, my bad, !huh!


why, a little bit, after all I'm twenty five percent Peranakan as my mother always says


yup, (mmhmm), I can't cook Peranakan food but I damn I'm damn sure I can eat Peranakan food, cook


you don't make food you cook food, it's not cheap


Nyonya #chap chye#, woah, oh, I hate I don't like to eat Babi but when it comes #babi pongteh# oh my god


can die for my #babi pongteh#, I don't like Babi but if it's Nyonya if it's Peranakan food then of course I like it, it's heritage babe heritage


I didn't know if it's cooked well must go to those places that I eat I done it I tried before, you randomly get tell me this guy cook very nice how I trust that guy you know this type of thing very sensitive you know


but there's no unless my grandmother is still alive, I once or twice lah but then, the best is still done by my grandma lah


, , you will never know it, ya of course but the thing is you can go to


you need to buy the durian today, just asking


so if you can wait for one week you can wait for another week right, what <mandarin>付:fu </mandarin> your durian


I already told you I pay fifty bucks already, I'm not paying I'm subsidising that's different okay babe, it's just like the government give you money but they don't pay you they subsidise your expenses subsidise


they don't give you money and say that no I'm paying for you no, as far as I'm concerned it's called it's called to help you not to pay for you


so like like the government like, whatever my government is doing I also trying to subsidise to help you


no fifty dollars is never enough to buy durian I totally understand that, but the fact as the matter that is that I'm not going buy for you just subsidised for you, so that you don't have to pay that much if you are willing to pay a hundred bucks you my fifty dollars you can buy a hundred and fifty


or you can only you top up fifty dollars I pay fifty dollars then I say you only you say fifty dollars it all depends on how you look at it, I wonder what's usually you and durian


then can you love my liverpool as well, , sorry that's bollocks too


is the is the history the culture you will never understand two years man U supporter so what, okay okay, so you are a man U supporter so what what


why, you explain to me


he work as a nurse I know, ya ya ya


you mean the #dai lok mee# ah


, blind faith, then, then then how are you a football supporter, precisely so don't bollocks me can or not you only support man U because of who david beckham come on


ah liverpool was the first thing that


so I grew up supporting them lah, for thirty years !wah! but I'm forty four so it's like, ya more than thirty seven years, and finally they are the champions of England europe the world


that is not blind faith that is faith, that is supporting my team, come on you only support your david beckham I support the team and itself man


oh oh it's not just football man


still say you support man U that's called blind faith you don't even know your facts, oh referee <mandarin>不是人:bu shi ren </mandarin>


stadium but the stadium they don't run what, the supporters stand down there or sit down there and support the team what they don't run around the ball


(mmhmm) true ya, to score or not get score


so just admit you support man U because of david beckham and then all these will be done already lor, you don't even know your football facts you want to say you are a football fan


sorry the stadium name is old trafford it is situated in Manchester, the name of the stadium yes is old trafford no the nickname is what is the nickname of the stadium


of course you don't know there's a there's a name for the old trafford stadium ah the stadium name, the ah let me tell you what's the name of the stadium okay it's call the theatre of dreams you don't even know a simple thing like that how are you gonna support your team david beckham bullshit


that's the name of your Manchester stadium ah at old trafford is called the theatre of dreams, oh my god you see I knew it you just support david beckham for the looks


better not like him anymore, whatever


my god anyway still got anyway , why


we we have been to taiwan we've been to so many <mandarin>夜市:ye shi </mandarin> already, seriously <mandarin>有:you </mandarin> Shilin #feng jiao# err what what what what what do you want, the one you stay near the back of the hotel is the <mandarin>夜市:ye shi </mandarin> that's #feng jiao# right, #feng jia# not #feng jiao#


ya you been to so many <mandarin>夜市:ye shi </mandarin> all looks the same one lah, the only <mandarin>夜市:ye shi </mandarin> that is different ah is singapore there's nothing like that, sucks


no if the beaches there's a lot there's #pasir ris# Changi, Sentosa beach of course you're you're #tanjong rhu# beach blah blah blah, west coast


can you see the sea, is the sand can you feel the water, anything, !aiyo! you really I think you should come out from your cave ah


for what you don't you cannot stand the hot the heat


we went to east coast park what at night, [orh] you want a couple thingy not with your friends thingy one ah


, !wow!, you beat me to the punchline, you beat me to the punchline


well if you don't have to do your durian thingy today, then maybe you can go to the beach, east coast park for dinner


now you complain far woman make up your mind, but then you go to east coast, there's food


there's bars the there's like places to hang out, if you go to west coast and the nothing there you know


never mind lah never mind lah I think I will just go down I bring you downstairs to the playground I bring a pail water, right I just dig a little bit so I pour water then you feel like !wah! I'm at the beach man


at night tonight tonight we go down, if already did, there's nothing to do at west coast unless you go there to barbecue


west coast, what fire fox, where got flying fox


oh you mean the playground, oh my god that is so yesterday, of course


what Jurong no mcdonald's must go there eat mcdonald's so special, Jurong park can not


ask you go east coast you make noise want to go west coast !wahpiang! eh, I go there to eat you know where's the they have the


hawker center there what, the #peng kang# ah all the roast all the barbecue foods there what, it's like a mini newton


ya you can eat the #peng he#, you can eat barbecue prawn stingray Lala, ya Hum and then you can drink coconut juice, and then they were #hae mee# prawn noodle


barbecue chicken wing roast the roasted the fry oh my god, I will probably go home and take my blades


sorry, I didn't have to learn blading I already know blading, uh playing darts


darts are sports what do you mean by its not sports, dart dart <mandarin>有运动:you yun dong </mandarin> ah why why why you think I don't sit down there and play darts what have to stand I have to do the warm I mean I have to warm up


right I got to stand at the line, ya all of this is exercise what moving what, movements, it is working towards being accredited to as the olympic sport but it doesn't mean it's not a sport there are lot of sports that are not in the olympics what


darts, err #sepak takraw#, ya but then


not really <mandarin>全世界:quan shi jie </mandarin> but then these are still sports right, classification of sports, that's all only don't have to tell me whether the whole world plays it or not, tennis is the olympic sport but not everyone play tennis what


every country will people playing the sport but not all the people what you just think like that, !wah!


ya you could play dart with me, playing darts is <mandarin>动一动:dong yi dong </mandarin> what, you can actually like know jog on the spot for five minutes before you throw the dart ah then you feel the <mandarin>运动:yun dong </mandarin> ah


I'll ask them to off the aircon so you feel like you're perspiring and stuff


exercises you mean, my kids


the kids, their are only exercise do you have is to lift the ipad off the table that's all, ya as you wish


if you say so


their kids you know their the, they're the millenium kids you know they never, the this is their lifestyle now you think what, look at my my nephews, do they go and do sport they also stay at home like that like that what and they're like eight seventeen to twenty years old they also like to stay at home play game what


well can try lor what to do


okay


ya I don't even buy the blades first, do I have to teach you to play as well, really, !wow!


well it'll be better with help, oh no that's because I learn how to roller skate before thats why it's easy for me


I didn't start rollerblading I started to roller skates that's why rollerblading is I didn't have to learn, is naturally, rollerskate you have four wheels but there are two in front to at the back


rollerblading is called inline your wheels are in a straight line, if you can rollerskate you can rollerblade if you can rollerblade you definitely you can rollerskate


is easy lah blading no need to learn one what I told you this for me lah, I only fall down when I do stupid stunts you know, I don't fall down when I blade


thank you thank you thank you


right dad never taught me that, okay


(mmhmm)


oh you can learn within a day ah


my god, alright I will try, I don't know


I don't I I didn't know there's a competition for balancing, so I don't know how to gauge whether I am better than you or you know


maybe we should try if you can teach the kids this one, I think the teaching the kids easier than me lah dear, okay lah


so is rollerblading


okay then later we go and buy a bike lah, for the kids


!wah! you want to teach them bike teach bike first uh rollerblade can come later what


yes babe, I thought we already !aiyo! you are, make up your mind lah dear


what you want to eat, , alright let's have it


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


I used to stay beside there


, wait what library, ya hor there's a library there


well look at my face, you don't do you, how long have you not been there


you think it's still open, really


we can don't have to go #bukit batok# you know, , you know you can take one oh five from our place here then we go to newton


no you alight at the newton MRT mah one oh five


(hmm)


you can take the why don't you just take the train


oh really


then it's good what then I finish playing dart you can come and fetch me


you should go because next year when we play league again ah you can come and fetch me after my league game so I don't have to be so tired


yeah the league game finishes at like, ten thirty at night you know, ya just nice what Tampines you come down to fetch me what


no, ya


I doubt so only lah


Prinsep street, turf club, and which I'm going on sunday, err, #toa payoh# and where and where <mandarin>还有哪里啊:hai you na li a </mandarin> err


the last few league don't have Sembawang what, the last few league where got #dhoby ghaut#, no no no the last league was #toa payoh#, Prinsep on one turf club and


rendezvous two teams, yup


Yishun to #toa payoh# is so near, PIE what then you exit #toa payoh# uh the avenue what the PIE exit to #toa payoh# there


Yishun you can no need to go by the PIE one you can go by the little small roads towards the, #yio chu kang# that side already


and then exit #toa payoh# lah ya lah


PIE Changi, uh yes Mandai Mandai, oh for Mandai I heard wrongly but then it's fine you can make a small detour to pick your hubby right


ya you better, what do you what's in for you, I buy you durian what


okay yes subsidy I'm giving you a subsidy for your durians what, we can have a discussion if you buy the car


, really , really uh GTR, yeah


it's not really big but it's like very fast, we are please lah let's not think about Ferrari can not


okay then I would like a, (hmm) picnic, that still with my GTR


make up your mind


ah, easy to park what


easier to park, front nevermind if your backside can go in your front go in already what


people have difficulties in parking para is because of that those like normal sedans is a bit long at the back, so they cannot really see properly


then don't park para lah, don't go lah


my office is at Geylang you know dear, what food in Geylang have I not tried before really, I will go there at night to eat


and then what, stay overnight there in my office, one two six


oh please lah overrated lah <mandarin>我都吃了这么多次了:wo dou chi le zhe me duo ci le </mandarin> !walao!


but one to six not very nice lah overrated trust me I I've been I work there for five six years lah !aiyo!


!ee!, the only thing I like is the #pei dan zhou# that's only, what do you !ee!


last time we went was so many years ago


#tao nao pai# ah you, I go there to eat then you <mandarin>顺便:shun bian </mandarin> go there and buy durian nah


robert


eh eh eh nevermind lah I bring to NTUC go and buy durian yesterday I saw NTUC right when we were shopping right


is it


don't eh


I only know <mandarin>二十一:er shi yi </mandarin> in blackjack, lucky my daughter don't eat durian


during COVID at my mother's place I also give you fifty bucks to buy durian okay no durian also before their assistance the second round is the third monday, no durian also before that actually since the second round this is third one already okay


no ah you're smiling your happy what, yes


what <mandarin>这样对你:zhe yang dui ni </mandarin> I treat you very well what, like my undying love for you at this moment of time


then can you then can you start to be your <mandarin>女强人:nv qiang ren </mandarin> so that I can be that someone at home


, absolutely bullshit, then why not, okay then if you just say the statement that some are women are career minded and they don't mind they just want someone to be with and they don't mind with the guys at home


right so it will totally with failed just what you said just now by saying that a work shop, okay so I tell you what you start being career minded please


I have (hmm) barbecue beef, , spicy chicken


, you want fried veggie a not,


and then there's also like cauliflower


I have some like Belachan, like , if not I will probably just like <mandarin>炒:chao </mandarin> with <mandarin>那个辣椒:na ge la jiao </mandarin> lor


later too spicy leh how ah, then you drink a lot of water


eat out, , that might be a good idea


like, didn't I just ask you that question <mandarin>我要吃什么:wo yao chi shen me </mandarin> Neh, okay cool probably


well sometimes I have the <mandarin>马来人:ma lai ren </mandarin> the <mandarin>食物:shi wu </mandarin> the craving ah, ya I'll probably think like Rendang


#nasi padang#, and then maybe some, , eggs, and Sambal here and there, Sambal here and there


(mmhmm), oh ya


why, why do you hate <mandarin>榴莲:liu lian </mandarin> so much


I don't know it doesn't seem like, you are so singaporean if you don't like durian so much


okay fine


ya I know idioms, not funny, so anyway we need to go to like err #bukit batok# area to go and, queue for the durian


that sounds like a very good idea, durian delivery yes


no, no


are you sure


please, exactly lah but the thing is


ya but <mandarin>一粒榴莲如果:yi li liu lian ru guo </mandarin> let's say <mandarin>是:shi </mandarin> one point five KG okay then <mandarin>一个:yi ge </mandarin> KG <mandarin>大概:da gai </mandarin> twelve dollars then


no such thing <mandarin>你不知道吗吃榴莲他们也会:ni bu zhi dao ma chi liu lian ta men ye hui </mandarin> weigh <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> husk <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> okay, so now I'm trying to tell you that


okay I will think about it, but the thing is


no but the thing is


no no no is <mandarin>专家:zhuan jia </mandarin> say one doctor say also say


I can't remember my mother, my mother watched it on TV, no it's true


I don't know, <mandarin>健康一零一:jian kang yi ling yi </mandarin> I think, it might not be you never know are you a doctor in the field


no I'm serious


not jackfruit by the way is Cempedak


is different from jackfruit, it is an entirely different <mandarin>水果:shui guo </mandarin> please


ya so anybody


it's call Cempadak


malay food but <mandarin>你有:ni you </mandarin> feel <mandarin>想吃:xiang chi </mandarin> malay food mah, you are fine ah


malay seafood can don't eat seafood what


ya ya, where like they, hello I'm a true blue singaporean


breakfast food how is #nasi lemak# only breakfast food, #nasi padang# yes what


then <mandarin>不要去:bu yao qu </mandarin> coffeeshop lor


we can go west mall for crave


uh maybe <mandarin>你要浪漫冷一点我们去打包在楼下放几个:ni yao lang man leng yi dian wo men qu da bao zai lou xia fang ji ge </mandarin> candle <mandarin>在那边然后:zai na bian ran hou </mandarin> light up <mandarin>就:jiu </mandarin> have <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> candlelight dinner you have <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> candlelight dinner


Bandung


you know what's Bandung ah, ya, it's a perfect night


well for starters I don't really like Bandung, so I'm not very sure about that, but anyway back to the topic, #nasi padang#


oh that's for sure, and then


oh ya there's malay <mandarin>煮炒:zhu chao </mandarin> hor, I forgot about that


my memory is like the <mandarin>金鱼:jin yu </mandarin> like that, so


yes, money is different you need money to survive


no why do you say that, whatever


I think so, do you have any recommendations


eh but the coffee shop you are always saying is like


ah, like permanently closed


oh you mean like the, oh you mean that, particular store


COVID nineteen


it's just chinese seriously, well I always thought that chinese is much easier than english, because you see english you have things like


present tense past tense, prepositions present perfect tense present uh, past perfect tense so many tenses, what is the same thing


, yeah exactly you put eat and then ate <mandarin>我吃饱:wo chi bao </mandarin> and <mandarin>你吃了吗:ni chi le ma </mandarin> it's two different words


I, well there are rooms for debate so I wouldn't know, yes, ya


okay so err you recommended the mister #teh tarik#, so you have to go to google right, okay fine I will google now


so there are places like this err hardin's kitchen, hardin's kitchen, okay and they're like this uh, Makcik Makcik


and there's places like , my, My Udang Store, it's around the #bukit batok# east area


ya is your ears having issues


six stops <mandarin>下车:xia che </mandarin> I think


ya, oh then that that's pretty near the west mall, west mall can but they're not much restaurants there to eat


oh ya oh the food court has some very good food, things like your


and of course there is the


I think the china china food


so, ya the food court, is a bit small but still alright but there's one restaurant has pretty good actually


uh they had oh the most famous thing about that restaurant is their


that is true but he's <mandarin>鸡翅膀:ji chi bang </mandarin> is <mandarin>西式:xi shi </mandarin> not <mandarin>中式:zhong shi </mandarin> I'm talking about the <mandarin>中式:zhong shi </mandarin> the way they <mandarin>卤:lu </mandarin> the thing is different


so come out the <mandarin>鸡翅:ji chi </mandarin> also different, ya so, okay lah I think I give up the idea of having malay food


why do you have a feel for malay food


Peranakan, , uh is Peranakan and Nyonya the same, oh really, oh, but you can't, make Peranakan food right


I say make, fine, okay fine but the thing is, Peranakan food is not easy to cook, okay they have like the Ayam Kueh and then after that there's the


Nyonya #chap chye# and of course not forgetting the beef Rendang, as well as the #babi pongteh# that's my favourite


I'm surprised I thought you don't like #babi pongteh# I don't like babi but if it's Nyonya Peranakan food then of course I like it


then why the last time I ask you if you want #babi pongteh# you give me the I didn't know if it's cook well must go to those places that I eat I've done it be tried before


so what is uh your favourite Peranakan restaurant to go to, you mean you seldom Peranakan food outside


that's home cook <mandarin>家乡的味道:jia xiang de wei dao </mandarin> is different


restaurants like PeraMakan, I mean, why are we back to the durian


then the the craving will be very huge then are you willing to <mandarin>付:fu </mandarin> my durian or not


come on lah fifty bucks is not enough to pay for my durian man, (hmm)


well


uh the government nor too bad I mean gave us some payouts


I wonder what's usually you and durian, well my love for durian is there <mandarin>我爱榴莲榴莲爱我:wo ai liu lian liu lian ai wo </mandarin> yes that's all


(hmm) that's bollocks, so


maybe <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi </mandarin> try to explain <mandarin>给我:gei wo </mandarin> lah since you never ever once tried to explain to me right


oh so I mean since young when I always like where I stayed with my dad he always watches TV after he comes back from his night shift, ya so those nurse lah <mandarin>要做很多:yao zuo hen duo </mandarin> shift work <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> mah so <mandarin>他有时就是做早上有事就做晚上的:ta you shi jiu shi zuo zao shang you shi jiu zuo wan shang de </mandarin> shift


然后, slowly slowly <mandarin>他晚他如果是做早上的:ta wan ta ru guo shi zuo zao shang de </mandarin> shift <mandarin>他晚上回来呢吃他的:ta wan shang hui lai ne chi ta de </mandarin> #hokkien mee# <mandarin>他的:ta de </mandarin> favourite, and must be <mandarin>黑色的:hei se de </mandarin> #hokkien mee#, ya okay <mandarin>然后呢他就坐在那个电视机前面:ran hou ne ta jiu zuo zai na ge dian shi ji qianan mian </mandarin> and he'll eat his #hokkien mee#


ya so as <mandarin>他的女儿:ta de nv er </mandarin> of course


it's so boring, not really there, then you, then how about you


ya <mandarin>在那时候:zai na shi hou </mandarin> what


so how is that not blind faith starting with you dad as well


okay, cool but the thing is, it's just football


okay fine is <mandarin>二十二个人追着一个足球跑来跑去:er shi er ge ren zhuii zhe yi ge zu qiu pao lai pao qu </mandarin> referee <mandarin>不算:bu suan </mandarin> mah <mandarin>因为:yin wei </mandarin> referee <mandarin>不需要拿球:bu xu yao na qiu </mandarin> mah, then <mandarin>你要讲人:ni yao jiang ren </mandarin> the whole football stadium also <mandarin>人:ren </mandarin> what


cool, so then, the football field has like twenty five people


you know with <mandarin>他们的:ta men de </mandarin> main goal <mandarin>就是要去替那个球:jiu shi yao qu ti na ge qiu </mandarin> get as many goal as possible, right, yeah, so, okay I still don't understand the game and I don't I don't understand the rationale supporting football and liking football


no really mah, !hey! I know that Manchester united the our stadium is in old trafford


ya like in Manchester at the, the I say the stadium is old trafford right


so what is theatre of, [orh] okay can cool


no I don't like him anymore, I don't like him anymore, so that's bollocks stop saying that, what have a, so anyway


ya anyway, so err !wah! now COVID nineteen you cannot go overseas, ni, Bangkok why because


and then of course <mandarin>那边的衣服:na bian de yi fu </mandarin> very cheap, and of course you seldom see a super big #pasar malam# as well you know that #pasar malam# so huge is like maybe three times of like Vivo city wait


#feng jia#


ya, is so small that is different lah if singapore is nothing like them, [orh] singapore is boring


ya the only <mandarin>海滩:hai tan </mandarin> we have is like what Sentosa, west coast that one is not beach what that one is like your


oh is your park, there's no sand what


cool beans


so anyway so what


I'm talk about just taking a walk at the sea <mandarin>西海岸:xi hai an </mandarin> not <mandarin>东海岸:dong hai an </mandarin> okay, if one day I can stay in the <mandarin>东:dong </mandarin> I don't mind


yeah I know I just said take a walk <mandarin>在海边走走吹吹风吗我有没有说去那边:zai hai bian zou zou chui chui feng ma wo you mei you shuo qu na bian </mandarin> eat


I feel like rolling my eyes at you a thousand times, thousand times, no you can go there and play the firefox <mandarin>下面吃:xia mian chi </mandarin> mcdonald


flying fox


ya <mandarin>他那边有:ta na bian you </mandarin> flying fox, yeah you been there right


okay lor you go in Jurong beach for me lor


well the aim of you going to east coast is actually to, go to the bars right


oh, oh, and then you can eat the Satay #bee hoon# the Satay


Hum #gong gong#


oh yeah you learn blading before ah, you learn blading before


yeah so what is one of your favourite sports to do, is that even considered a sports


got to throw the thing


but currently <mandarin>丢飞镖:diu fei biao </mandarin> is not inside the olympics, example


besides darts, because #sepak takraw# is not really practiced like <mandarin>全世界:quan shi jie </mandarin> !wah! your but darts is more like a <mandarin>全世界:quan shi jie </mandarin> kind of


ya, ya ya, most countries play tennis


okay, fine


no I'm trying to train to have better stamina, you know to be


no, I mean like real sports like you know jogging, like , like


tabata, like, ya <mandarin>不然每次躺着在床上:bu ran mei ci tang zhe zai chuang shang </mandarin> is like


so I think we should actually train them to do more things right


ya so the thing is you know uh I think kids should actually be more active at their age rather than just watching ipads the whole day, then <mandarin>躺着:tang zhe </mandarin> like this all that they do


yeah I mean maybe like you know do it together as <mandarin>一家人:yi jia ren </mandarin> and they'll probably more open to it


ya maybe you could think of fun sports activities I mean, like <mandarin>打篮球:da lan qiu </mandarin> lah like uh rollerblading and means since you've been like talking about


teaching them how to do rollerblading right, ya and then after that you uh maybe we could, I know how to blade, yes, why need to teach I can learn myself too


so what's the difference between rollerblading rollerskating


[orh], like that I learn how to rollerblade instead of rollerskate, babe


I learn blading, ya just keep falling down only what


so I was saying we should teach them some additional things like maybe ah I know the most basic while cycling, you know you you don't know how to cycle right yup that never talk to that


ya so maybe I should also teach you how to cycle, kay lor you know when I was young I learnt how to ride a bicycle from my uncle he taught me how to ride


and I have to cycle cycle cycle, and then after that


so it took me quite a long while I think within a day I learn actually learned how to <mandarin>提交车:ti jiao che </mandarin> lah, ya ya it's actually pretty easy though


ya so <mandarin>如果你会:ru guo ni hui </mandarin> blading <mandarin>的话:de hua </mandarin> I think <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> roller and you can actually <mandarin>骑脚车:qi jiaoe che </mandarin> also, I mean is about balancing mah so with rollerblading <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> balancing <mandarin>应该比我好:ying gai bi wo hao </mandarin> ah


[orh], well blading actually takes a lot of like balancing on your body on its own, so <mandarin>我们就要:wo men jiu yao </mandarin>


rather than a blading is just balancing of yourself and how to move forward with the loot, the wheels that's all


ya but then, no lah, because <mandarin>骑脚车:qi jiaoe che </mandarin> is the most basic form of exercise and you know as the kids grow up as the kids grow up probably you know they might have like those bicycle


uh sorry cycling expeditions or eh sorry, cycling exercises with their friends and stuff, so I think is a good way of teaching them how to ride a bike


ya so, ya, yes and also like what you say rollerblading lor


okay cool we'll see how, then ya anyway, moving forward we are talking about dinner right


why, maybe we can go for the <mandarin>中餐:zhong can </mandarin> in west mall


the <mandarin>中餐:zhong can </mandarin> in west mall also got the history one, and how I know that place, ya last time I used to <mandarin>教补习:jiao bu xi </mandarin> mah with my this two kids both are more of them are <mandarin>男孩子:nan hai zi </mandarin> lah, so uh at that time I think I was around like err


ya and then I taught them for like three four years throughout my university period, like places too like I remember we went to wild wild west


ah ya ya ya ya there, so uh actually brought them there lah I remember after their exams and stuff just to enjoy


so me ah me and their mom actually very close and then so sometimes uh we will actually go to like go out and eat lah Makan lah, then we will go to this she recommended me this chinese restaurant in the west mall


and <mandarin>我记得那边最好吃的是他的:wo ji de na bian zui hao chi de shi ta de </mandarin> chicken wings, so <mandarin>我觉得是很好吃:wo jue de shi hen hao chi </mandarin> but I can't really remember the name of the restaurant


maybe <mandarin>是三楼这样子:shi san lou zhe yang zi </mandarin> I think, yeah <mandarin>为什么里面有一个:wei shen me li mian you yi ge </mandarin> library <mandarin>你不懂:ni bu dong </mandarin> meh, ya lah


over ten years


ya, why do you think it's not there, okay lah maybe cause of COVID nineteen but I think since we're going #bukit batok# maybe maybe we're going to


then, where do you suggest we go, or east coast park right, oh ya I forgot about that part


no lah you got to change a bus to go to newton, one zero five bus doesn't stop at newton, I know that for sure because my office used to be in scotts


road, just outside of the newton MRT, and <mandarin>从我家去呢我就要打那个一零五:cong wo jia qu ne wo jiu yao da na ge yi ling wu </mandarin> all the way


then I will reach newton, eh ya, taking a train is actually shorter because I probably take around


forty five minutes to reach, ya but it's a hassle lah I prefer to just take a bus there slowly make my time way there, ya of course when I actually bought a car during that period of time


uh !wow! the journey was so much shorter, it was so amazing


yes I know dart is your favourite spot


but sometimes <mandarin>轿车很累的:jiao che hen lei de </mandarin> okay <mandarin>要很多那个:yao hen duo na ge </mandarin> concentration <mandarin>要很多那个精神:yao hen duo na ge jingng shen </mandarin> and a lot, of predicting people's move as well which is what they you call like defensive driving


no I'm not gonna do that, maybe when I probably I'm out working like going to my appointments


sometimes maybe my appointment end at nine thirty and maybe my places like Tampines or Yishun


Sembawang, is like so many places, and so unpredictable


Sembawang lor, #dhoby ghaut# lor, uh #dhoby ghaut#, I can't remember