ya <mandarin>他没有房间:ta mei you fang jian</mandarin> so, but <mandarin>他就是喜欢那个:ta jiu shi xi huan na ge</mandarin> big concept but of course <mandarin>她现在就有一点:ta xian zai jiu you yi dian</mandarin> like <mandarin>觉得:jue de</mandarin> err a bit <mandarin>要因为你还是需要一点:yao yin wei ni hai shi xu yao yi dian</mandarin> privacy so <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> build <mandarin>了一个:le yi ge</mandarin> like a <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> wall lah, sort of like a temporary wall err partition so that <mandarin>他睡觉的:ta shui jiao de</mandarin> area is not being seen ya


ya <mandarin>他有一个:ta you yi ge</mandarin> walk-in wardrobe <mandarin>他的一个:ta de yi ge</mandarin> room right <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> like err how to say they partitioned it to make it a walk-in wardrobe, ya apparently <mandarin>他们是:ta men shi</mandarin> designers or something ah then they use the house for airbnb


I mean not suppose lah


err like in october


then my mum say okay lor like we try to get used to staying at the new place so that you know err to get used to taking MRT taking bus because my dad's workplace is is just next door my house which is CMPB, ya so the thing is that's why my dad is like very refused like very resistant to leave the house because so used to like you know just walking back home you know


but now now cannot lah now you have to take a bus and go back to the new house so, because I did manage to get the grant like the distance grant ya, cause it's very near only like a few bus stops away it's just that not I don't have a straight bus lah but it's okay lah I still can go there ya no issue


my mum's one is about thirty plus (hmm) not that old yet but almost there lah almost there but cause my mum already sixty plus mah so it's different it's like you know you sixty plus you !aiya! how many more years can you you tell me about fifty years more than enough


ya <mandarin>她现在我讲:ta xian zai wo jiang</mandarin> I think can leh <mandarin>这个不会很高勒:zhe ge bu hui hen gao lei</mandarin> maybe can en bloc, ya


you know there's those old old, ya common corridor kind, ya, ya actually before <mandarin>我买这间屋子的时候我是在想说:wo mai zhe jian wu zi de shi hou wo shi zai xiang shuo</mandarin> like after that <mandarin>我买这间屋子过后我就想到:wo mai zhe jian wu zi guo hou wo jiu xiang dao</mandarin> oh actually <mandarin>有很多东西你需要:you hen duo dong xi ni xu yao</mandarin> you really need to think it through for example right location is one secondly is also the convenience of the place because like okay to be honest my location is very centralised right everybody know


but the thing is right, it's not exactly very convenient even though it's centralised because the buses, err there right it's only there's only three buses right there's no MRT and then how causing #tiong bahru# mah, ya <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> okay there's a straight bus to #tiong bahru# so that's the thing you see like how


ya lah you can take the bus to #tiong bahru# you can take the bus to vivo you can take the bus down to Sentosa you can take bus to even city hall err suntec so it's actually very convenient but the thing is, like some people will feel that oh I think you still need like a good hawker centre which I'm lacking I obviously don't have good hawker centre there that is but it's just


ya to travel, that's why I don't eat out much because if you talking about like <mandarin>到了家我会打包吗不会:dao le jia wo hui da bao ma bu hui</mandarin> (hmm) so <mandarin>我自己煮:wo zi ji zhu</mandarin> lor, or I don't cook lah I mean ya see how, ya then because you know grab food also is also expensive lah even though you know ya


ya convenient, then


ya, ya true


ya ya ya, correct I went there


oh okay


(hmm), but my friend say the <mandarin>风水:feng shui</mandarin> no good leh because my friend wanted to buy


I don't know lah then <mandarin>他们讲说到时候他们有看因为:ta men jiang shuo dao shi hou ta men you kan yin wei</mandarin> my friend, I think so or some I I I don't know lah <mandarin>他们讲说:ta men jiang shuo</mandarin> something like the building on the facing a


oh I didn't know


(hmm), ya that's true


ya, (hmm)


ya that's true ya, <mandarin>他是真的干净额啊啊安静:ta shi zhen de gan jing e a a an jing</mandarin> ya


oh


oh, like you say lah like okay, now it's not a good time I don't think so


(hmm), then <mandarin>你有想过叫他帮:ni you xiang guo jiao ta bang</mandarin> I mean like help ask her to help you to find job


no no no find job find job, not Klish err charlene, !aiya! so quite Jialat


actually not just us I feel really eh, ya it's everywhere


(hmm), but now the thing is the economy is so bad I don't think there's anything that you will want to even if there is right there will be like maybe two hundred to three hundred applicants for that one


post you know, well I mean, think company is also tight on budget mah


(hmm), correct you know like I see hor okay I I yesterday there was this girl who texted me on err instagram then ask me oh like you will just commenting on my instagram then after that


she said like oh err like err it's very funny or something like that then the next thing is she then I said oh how are you like it's been so it's been a while lah are you are you like flying or whatsoever ya she's a crew, and then she said oh no leh err ya lah I got called up for paris flight or something last month then after that she said oh you know uh I say do you find other jobs lah like are you any of the ambassador or whatever then she say no she say err I'm so busy learning how to cook and exercise and learning err korean I don't have time at all to do anything


then I say !huh! are you sure like then she said oh ya also busy shopping also then I say !wow! okay good for you like I I say even shopping right I have to think twice you know to to think whether is it a essential for me or not because


err <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> Tong mah <mandarin>我买:wo mai</mandarin> colgate <mandarin>我都要想清楚:wo dou yao xiang qing chu</mandarin> whether this one is like really to buy or not, no the thing is right because my my my toothpaste is expensive because I always buy pronamel and pronamel is always eight eighty and I usually buy overseas but now no choice right to buy in singapore then okay so I was looking at other choices because there's no other


oh because I got sensitive teeth, ya so <mandarin>我就买了这个:wo jiu mai le zhe ge</mandarin> colgate sensitive lor, err <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> promo lah <mandarin>两个两个十二块九:liang ge liang ge shi er kuai jiu</mandarin> or something like that <mandarin>我就买:wo jiu mai</mandarin> lor just try lah <mandarin>如果真的是:ru guo zhen de shi</mandarin> cannot then too bad lah you know


suck it lor what to do


oh, not the plastic plastic kind lah


ya I will be like oh my god grateful oh my god I want to buy all the things, we really take it for granted to be honest ya


I really really like miss the shopping in the supermarket overseas, yes like I always think !aiya! okay lah never mind lah next time I'll come back and buy lah


(hmm) <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> like you would really never thought that this will happen and then you know your whole entire year, ya eh what kind of twenty twenty is this it's really bad you, okay lah I'm sure there is lah


I don't know you


what do I did I go for a holiday no I didn't also I really wanted to leh like I I was supposed to plan in april right and then this stupid whole shit thing came right, no more annual leave already


so that's the thing they can travel we can't we are on this stupid little


transportation only okay babe ya, ya true


it's a place for nature lor like cycling and all that lah like you can what you can do is you can take err the boat to go down to other islands like saint john and #pulau ubin# and things like that


cycling lor, hiking, the weather


ya <mandarin>很粘真的很粘我跟你讲我跟你讲我从去那个:hen nian zhen de hen nian wo gen ni jiang wo gen ni jiang wo cong qu na ge</mandarin> coney island hor that's it, !wah! Sibeh Zhua


okay lah better than nothing, okay lah I mean okay lor I guess <mandarin>我的最:wo de zui</mandarin> most fruitful <mandarin>的就是我的的:de jiu shi wo de de</mandarin> three months attachment lor as a CA <mandarin>真的是蛮:zhen de shi man</mandarin> interesting then like I've seen a lot of people and, I guess


ya then err a lot of people also tell us like a lot of people have many misconceptions about err, us, and you know when we go there then people like even the nurses themselves don't talk about patient or patients, like relatives they really the nurses okay some of them think like what can we do like we are just


you know cabin crew and then we, ya then it's it's like they think that we will not survive lah we will we will probably like, we will probably will we we won't survive that's why and then secondly is like they feel that we will be like


we'll complain and then we wouldn't do anything and then like you know we'll just stand there and just look good and that's it, ya so, the best part is right on the last day right like when we had that celebration they came I mean like they were so appreciative that they actually make us a video


ya I mean like people all the nurse, ya like, ya so what she did was she then she she like join us for like she ask us for the instagram then after that she ask us for certain things lah like can you get us a picture on this and that then ask us like oh what colour you use for your work for your lipstick just to buy us gift eh <mandarin>就我觉得他们很有用心:jiu wo jue de ta men hen you yong xin</mandarin> lor <mandarin>真的有用心:zhen de you yong xin</mandarin> ya then


then when we watch the video right okay to be honest right maybe <mandarin>有而且不只是我们他们也流:you er qie bu zhi shi wo men ta men ye liu</mandarin> ya <mandarin>很很很:hen hen hen</mandarin> rare because like I mean <mandarin>他们有很多:ta men you hen duo</mandarin> student nurses also that come and go and then you know they do their attachment for three months or something like that so it's like very common for people to come in and do attachment


but they say like you know it's so rare to have people from us like in in the company like this to join them, and it is very err like, it it they never expect us to be able to, you know and endure and also err be able to catch up and and be able to gel with them they ya they didn't


this job really like give them a lot of err, like also insights about our job lor because of course they will be very very err interested then they always ask us like what we do what do we do


or like err our what, ya, ah correct, then they'll ask you oh err err where should we go next like after COVID a lot a lot of things err do you think ah next time I should go here what do you think of this place I want to go visit one day or where's the best place for shopping you know that kind of thing it's very interesting to know what they think of cabin crew as well what does the job entails and some of them I mean they inspire and they always wanted to be they always think that !wah! this job is so good you know like that like that then I tell them ya the job is very good because like they really really gives you a lot of time


and you have your own


but <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> after COVID I think things are very different so I don't think it will be the same anymore


even like own travelling could be a hassle also because I don't know what is going to be a new recognition until a vaccine is found mah so I say I really have no idea like how is it but they were very very encouraging lah they say I really hope, that err like you know y'all can can go back and fly and you know because they know that we


we still love our job ya so the thing like we are also considered frontliner they they I mean that that's what the nurses say you all are considered frontliner you all just, you all just momentarily clip your wings to come on the ground, err to work with us on ground as frontliners but to be honest you all also are frontliners while you are up in the air so you all must be correct different kind of service of course you know there are things that they can learn and they can like you know learn from us because like even the sister always say like oh you know you all have so much things that the nurses could learn from you all because most of the time they are also very task oriented they just want to get their things done because there's just so many things to do


ya and, 真的


correct my wards mostly elderly, ya correct they are like children


just do it lor just that <mandarin>你要跟他讲啦呢跟他讲说不是你要看这个整个地方:ni yao gen ta jiang la ne gen ta jiang shuo bu shi ni yao kan zhe ge zheng ge di fang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>不只是你一个人你要我来帮你你要等:bu zhi shi ni yi ge ren ni yao wo lai bang ni ni yao deng</mandarin> ya <mandarin>要跟他们讲:yao gen ta men jiang</mandarin> you have to wait because no choice <mandarin>这个不是:zhe ge bu shi</mandarin> a class mah <mandarin>不是你一个人一个人你看你这边里面就是有六个人每个人都需要帮忙:bu shi ni yi ge ren yi ge ren ni kan ni zhe bian li mian jiu shi you liu ge ren mei ge ren dou xu yao bang mang</mandarin> then <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> like okay <mandarin>要要解释:yao yao jie shi</mandarin> you must always have explanation but the thing is


the nurses don't have time to explain they are just too busy they just ah you don't want okay then maybe you just do other things you know then after that they the the old people will feel very neglected, yes, so that's the the part lah where I feel that we we I always tell them you know empathise and put yourself in the patient's shoe because they have nothing to do you know they just sit there and err not not sit there but lie there with no TV no nothing you know and because their


C class babe, so what they can do they just observe nurses lor, ya so they have nothing to do so they every day just <mandarin>在那边看你们跑来跑去:zai na bian kan ni men pao lai pao qu</mandarin> so they know who they want because they know who are the ones that really do care ah <mandarin>他们知道的:ta men zhi dao de</mandarin> you know <mandarin>他们不是那种:ta men bu shi na zhong</mandarin> like err okay because I okay maybe demented or whatever so they have no knowledge of what's going on but a lot of patients is they are aware of everything


but they nothing to do correct <mandarin>就是没有东西做真的没有东西做:jiu shi mei you dong xi zuo zhen de mei you dong xi zuo</mandarin> unless <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> okay some people <mandarin>他们有:ta men you</mandarin> phone like <mandarin>比较年轻一点的啦:bi jiao nian qing yi dian de la</mandarin> maybe <mandarin>六十多岁那种:liu shi duo sui na zhong</mandarin> then <mandarin>有自己的:you zi ji de</mandarin> mobile phone then they can can play game, ya but some of them right is the very old kind like the eighty plus ninety their phone is like the very big one with the numbers very big one ah that kind so those right no choice you have to engage them lor then most of time <mandarin>就是我们:jiu shi wo men</mandarin> lor we just sit there we chit-chat with them understand them you know or let them do activities lah because they have activities


yes, correct


correct O, ya during the during the CB period cannot I heard now different lah now they all can come and visit, correct two at one time, and they are very strict nowadays they are still very strict like they don't they err after visiting hours they try not to you know err unless


the patient are very very ill lah like anytime go that kind then yes you can come in anytime but (hmm) but if the patients are like still quite okay and everything is good then, no means no ya cause they don't want to many people coming up and all that it's just, not


correct, then that's it some more my ward is all old people, ya, like I learnt a lot lah then now I feel that the nurses are very nice people like some of I mean


but okay to be honest out there are more people now taking up this job as a job like I see a lot of NUS nurses of course they are singaporeans right because they are NUS then err I ask them lah as in do you really want to come out after you graduate that you want to actually pursue this as a career


err there is a nursing degree now so you can after A level you can choose to go into school of nursing, so this these are the people that will change in time to come if people, you know they really realise that this is the profession you know and you know the pay is getting better which they it is getting I think is getting better it is getting better so


people will then take it up as a career but of course if you actually come into the job and and see it for yourself whether or not you like it because this is a very human, to human kind of job some people just don't like they realised that oh they are not


the kind that they, but the only thing about staff nurses is that they don't, how to say they are not that kind of people that err, how to say they are not that kind of people that err are on the job I'm on hands with the patient all the time it's always the enrolled nurses that are always with the patient because they do all the basic care


ya staff nurses they do only like medication they do like IV and they do report writing so all the report writings are done by the staff nurses so staff nurses are, which is the graduate or the the diploma holders but the thing is I always feel that why is there a discrepancy in terms of pay because right it is a skilled based job why does a diploma holder and a degree holder had to be of different pay


because you still come out as staff nurses it's not oh your diploma so you come come up as err staff nurse junior then you come out from you know degree you are staff nurse senior then okay then there is a different in terms of


yes and yet the the pay could be a thousand dollar difference, that's the thing I don't think it is is relevant anymore you look at it I mean, look at like for example like a grab driver did grab driver or grab rider do they need to actually be a graduate in order to ride no it's a skilled job so I feel that


singaporeans or you know people for in the HR department or whatever have to look, through all this to look at the job itself is it a skilled based kind of job if it is right then I don't think education is a big part of it because, singapore education itself is already one of the most established and more I would say like you know compared to a lot of other countries so even if you are a diploma holder or degree holder I don't see that you are of difference you know what I mean because it's it's a skill based job mah you know unless you telling me oh this one <mandarin>这样子你拿:zhe yang zi ni na</mandarin> diploma <mandarin>你擦的屁股比较烂过那个:ni ca de pi gu bi jiao lan guo na ge</mandarin> you know degree holder I think <mandarin>两个擦屁股都一样的嘛对不对:liang ge ca pi gu dou yi yang de ma dui bu dui</mandarin> so that's why I'm saying like I feel that the


you can get better with you know maybe in years to come I don't know now maybe it'll be hard


but <mandarin>就就觉得有点:jiu jiu jue de you dian</mandarin> union like <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> lor like I mean doesn't mean that A level is better than a diploma holder


correct, it's a skill set lor <mandarin>我觉得这个:wo jue de zhe ge</mandarin> skill set just like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> cabin crew is also a skill set we are just


I I I don't know you know like people always say oh you know y'all always


ya totally agree


okay our one hour is up, yes


so, so hor today hor !wah! I tell you ah, remember that time I tell you about the tuition coordinator job, I thought it was such a good deal so I share with you, so today I went to the briefing at like afternoon lunch time


then hor, the briefing hor crush my hopes on this thing


so I went to listen to what they have to say then it's true so like being a tuition coordinator you can earn money in three ways so the first way is to match <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> student <mandarin>跟那个:gen na ge</mandarin> teacher, so when you match them together uh you earn fifty percent of the student's first month's uh tuition fee


, oh, have so I was recruited by someone who is doing that lor


because telegram <mandarin>也是一个那个:ye shi yi ge na ge</mandarin> free advertising <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah <mandarin>不用钱的:bu yong qian de</mandarin> then a lot of the they teach us a lot of ways that you can, can get free advertising, which is like gumtree is one of them so I saw this job on gumtree so I went to apply


but then <mandarin>他不是做:ta bu shi zuo</mandarin> tuition teacher <mandarin>他是做:ta shi zuo</mandarin> tuition coordinator, so


as a tuition coordinator <mandarin>你也可以赚:ni ye ke yi zhuan</mandarin> from <mandarin>做:zuo</mandarin> referral, so you can do referrals you can do the job matching and you also can sell the exam paper


[orh] <mandarin>不在不在不在她只需要:bu zai bu zai bu zai ta zhi xu yao</mandarin> match <mandarin>你而已:ni er yi</mandarin> then she will give the timing to them, then match already she just shake then can earn money lor but she don't earn unless I also go and sign up as a tuition coordinator, ya


and the earning is is quite a lot eh it's ten percent of the amount you pay so the amount you pay for the maintenance hor, is uh seven hundred minimally seven hundred dollars so <mandarin>他可以赚:ta ke yi zhuan</mandarin> like seventy dollars just from just from this


I don't think it's specifically students leh I think it's anyone who wants a flexible so like the people that attempt the same uh briefing as me right, I think half of them <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> student <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> then the other half is like working but want to find another sideline job


ya lor so I think all the student here already right they #ji tao# just close their eye , ya they just left they just left no cause after so after he finished sharing ah then like he got say lah those who want to leave you can just leave lah to but those who want to find out more or those interested to sign then you stay then he he share with you more information


then out of seven people four of them left, ya that's more than half because it's very expensive student where got money to put in two K but the the stupid thing here is that you shouldn't be needing to pay in order to work for somebody


so like <mandarin>我跟:wo gen</mandarin> #ming jie# <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> then he give me one damn good example he said is like for example recruit express, so you go and ask recruit express to work on your role for you right then you recruit express ask you to pay them a sum first, doesn't make sense right, ya so this is something like what they're doing cause they ask you to pay <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> maintenance fee


then <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> maintenance fee so you can like reach out to the tutors their tutors database, so I was thinking like really so good meh then while I walking out of the place hor <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> google <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> oh my god I got people bitching about them online


I don't think they I don't think they are known leh like I've never heard of this agency before today, and then like so because they say that they pay like don't know how much in ads on google for to advertise their agency so <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> google lor best tuition agency singapore <mandarin>他们的:ta men de</mandarin> name <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> appear


ya very bad , I should have seen that before I went there stupid sia me, no the bad the bad reviews is about <mandarin>这个好像:zhe ge hao xiang</mandarin> MLM scheme


so people are saying like is a is a hoax is a is a uh what do you call that, uh because he don't talk about that all the way until the end so he share with you like the actual way that you can earn money first


then after that he ask you so so let me ask you guys a question so how much do you think uh or or how do the think the company earns by providing you this platform then <mandarin>我们就那边猜:wo men jiu na bian cai</mandarin> lor or like oh ten percent whatever twenty percent, then he say !wah! !wah! you all very generous


then, uh, ya so the the maintenance fee is for the the tutor database, but then, I think okay then they say they got sixteen thousand tutors people who sign up for them to be tutors


ya but I doubt out of the sixteen K right I doubt like all of them are active lah I'm sure like there are like so many people that are stagnant and <mandarin>很久没有做:hen jiu mei you zuo</mandarin> Liao it's just that their name is still there what


so you know I I told you the you can like reserve the fifty percent promotion I told you the they give fifty percent promotion if you sign up on the spot


but then they say you must reserve it if you you can be chose to reserve it and then pay again another day, so <mandarin>我跟那些:wo gen nei xie</mandarin> stranger <mandarin>讲的话:jiang de hua</mandarin> right <mandarin>他们也是一样:ta men ye shi yi yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>他们只要放那个:ta men zhi yao fang na ge</mandarin> uh just reserve <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> fifty percent first then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> come to pay again another day


ah next wednesday, then they still like oh no worries uh you can actually pay online uh you can go to this website we will give you the link like everything just very sketchy to me lah I like, the information that I wanted to know like the materials I need to to decide whether this is a good move they don't want to provide you until you have


paid the money and the money is not like twenty dollars is, thousand dollars eh, ya lor, ya lor, they scared I distributed the thing but I okay lah that's that's that's that's their


I think so eh or people who is super sales driven lor, that's true


ya that's true, ya lah I'm gonna say I'm not gonna go for it lah , eh <mandarin>我还很笨:wo hai hen ben</mandarin> eh you know what did I do


I don't know why I think I Kena like like black magic eh , so in order to reserve the fifty percent discount right you need to pay twenty dollar first , ya I Kena count twenty dollar , I don't know eh I don't know why also I never control I don't know eh normally I not like this one leh normally I will <mandarin>一分钱都不要给:yi fen qian dou bu yao gei</mandarin> one leh but like


I think I was very, , , cause I did want to find a job that I can that is sales driven I don't know I just wanted to try something new lah so this was actually something that I really wanted to consider, ya I did


then by the time <mandarin>我走到那个:wo zou dao na ge</mandarin> bus stop hor <mandarin>我就直接后悔:wo jiu zhi jie hou hui</mandarin> eh , I actually think to myself oh shit I think you just donated twenty dollars to charity, I don't know leh but then hor


ya so


[orh], she signed up to be tuition coordinator lor,


maybe same as us but a bit older [bah], not very young, ya, then after that in the seminar <mandarin>她跟我们讲:ta gen wo men jiang</mandarin> she signed for two K twenty four months, ya


then it becomes like an obligation really because every month <mandarin>你要去想:ni yao qu xiang</mandarin> what you need to go and place candidates eh if not you will you will just be putting ninety nine dollars, a month on these things


ya correct, ya unless you place a lot of candidates lah, or place a lot of student but what guarantee you have that you can do that right, dependant on the market also mah


of course he will took his own horn ah <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> like the people that he worked with the tuition coordinators like one month can like five to ten students one, ya oh my god I tell you something very funny so he he show us like an example of how their tutor database look like so


he filter by like the subjects that they offer so the surface he offer he gives us an example like english then <mandarin>有一个名字:you yi ge ming zi</mandarin> ah appear <mandarin>叫:jiao</mandarin> nicholas, uh this nicholas like five star rated apparently like the the, students also can go and put feedback on the tutor so the feedback will go into the database so you will know how reputable the tutor tutor is


so <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> nicholas hor english <mandarin>也在:ye zai</mandarin> chinese <mandarin>也在:ye zai</mandarin> science <mandarin>也在:ye zai</mandarin> basketball <mandarin>也在:ye zai</mandarin> , yes, yes, basketball ah eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> yoga <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> swimming


both they have both, ya, I think so, but I think I wanted to suggest to him lah but I think like <mandarin>不要大嘴巴:bu yao da zui ba</mandarin> lah


because I think like now I think I shared with you before about the demand for technology, wise people, so why don't they give tuition on like, python C plus plus


but I never take right, is not


oh I didn't take I take stupid D&T, oh, eh he smart he smart


and then I would like to help them to improve their websites it's, shit, it looks horrible their website look like twenty two in the early two thousands <mandarin>做的:zuo de</mandarin> that kind


, so now I reverse the table now is you have to pay me instead


but that's the way employment should be what you pay me for a service what not I pay you first then I do you service what, !duh! it doesn't make sense


but <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> hor like I heard one story I don't know true or not <mandarin>有人跟我讲那个:you ren gen wo jiang na ge</mandarin> herbalife <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> so herbalife also another MLM, you know, ya my friend doing herbalife <mandarin>他每天都:ta mei tian dou</mandarin> post <mandarin>他每天都:ta mei tian dou</mandarin> post <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> movie


but herbalife is the nutrition shake, then like I heard don't know true or not, err because MLM herbalife as an MLM so like the more you refer people in hor you you earn by referring people and not by actually selling the product


but then in order to, another way to make sure that you don't die off is to buy the product also lah so if you cannot find people to buy your product <mandarin>那个人:na ge ren</mandarin> go and buy the product himself, then <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> entire garage full of herbalife products


celeste I don't think you know her, through, no my ex-boyfriend's friend, ya


remember send by when


ya, I know got one essential oil brand also MLM, I Kena approached by this lady, I was at a hair salon, then <mandarin>她叫我:ta jiao wo</mandarin> try so many different kind of essential oil leh <mandarin>真的很香啊:zhen de hen xiang a</mandarin> then she keep


dabbing the essential oil on my hair until my hair full of , !huh! <mandarin>很多当是来:hen duo dang shi lai</mandarin> you can massage you can put in air diffuser, then oh I remember already that brand she show me hor is even edible you know <mandarin>你可以放在你的菜心吃:ni ke yi fang zai ni de cai xin chi</mandarin> leh


uh you can like you can dip, pour like a bit, no lah, not that, she said like <mandarin>你煮菜的时候你可以倒一点下去:ni zhu cai de shi hou ni ke yi dao yi dian xia qu</mandarin> but I think it's so weird I wouldn't even want to eat


she tell me you can cook <mandarin>菜心:cai xin</mandarin> and pour the essential oil inside, she said that's the only authorised edible essential oil in like south east asia region


cause the brand I think is from malaysia if I'm not wrong


oh ya ya ya that one very nice, that one my mother like to eat with her porridge


I think they like suck the, the the essence from the leave or something she got show me one, the mint especially mint you know mint leave, ya


ha I don't know,


eh that means ha then in a sense isn't all essential oil should be edible what why only that brand is edible, is very smart, never thought of it


no lah damn gross I got one time <mandarin>喷在我的嘴巴里:pen zai wo de zui ba li</mandarin>


I think accidentally spray before in my mouth like, oh my god when got meh,


, !eeyer! that's I don't remember but I don't remember that it taste bitter so I definitely have tasted perfume before


lipstick is not lor


lip balm <mandarin>觉得:jue de</mandarin> a bit <mandarin>油:you</mandarin> leh


lip balm got matte one meh, matte matte a bit dry for me


!wah! I think, I think like that will be !wah! about two three hundred already sia, not eaten her, , ya actually my


, that time I bought the BB cream from them like thirty dollar only think the BB cushion, why


maybe your oil or skin type changed, right


(mmhmm), you buy what brand, , I got


I got one urban decay one but <mandarin>我没有很常用:wo mei you hen chang yong</mandarin> leh


then your that one,


, ya what


!huh! like that twenty two dollars ah, oh my god


!ow!


powder ah, I don't know if I have, !wah! I didn't know leh I thought it's like <mandarin>你做完:ni zuo wan</mandarin> Liao then <mandarin>你喷一次就可以:ni pen yi ci jiu ke yi</mandarin> Liao


so did your makeup last the whole day


oh my god


where is this cafe what is it called


eh what's that place called I think I wanna go, at lavender ah


, not fated, , so consolation prize


what you watched


, but you can sit beside him right,


I think so eh, I will guess so


meet him for dinner lor don't know, but I think because they have to put the sign at a designated you know they have to <mandarin>安排:an pai</mandarin> two then one then two then, but I think because they have to put the sign at a designated you know they have to <mandarin>安排:an pai</mandarin> two then one then two then one, so they cannot every time every screening they go and change the configuration mah


, ya what it becomes a new law already


ya


but so far I think only got one uh cinema case, I think GV, like somebody positive there,


, ya Jurong point


eh so how's #jun jie#, (uh huh), !aiyo! why


, eh how come you all choose to go that day leh I thought you say oh ya <mandarin>你要剪头发先:ni yao jian tou fa xian</mandarin> right, so you <mandarin>剪:jian</mandarin> already then you meet him


oh he still school


oh, but I thought now should be all e-learning already what no need go campus


I would guess so, I don't know eh you ask him lah, E learn means you just go online or in your class because #xuan pu# is in SUSS and they've been doing e-learning for very long already


ya <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> semester <mandarin>不一样的:bu yi yang de</mandarin> their semester is like, it's very weird lah he every time say he got exam one so he has like mid terms then he got final exam then he got like another exam after that


only only like that lah , twenty nine sep lor, !aww! very sad don't want to know, that's when we know whether we graduate already or not , one, okay lah ya ya two two two


会有的啦


(hmm)


, oh I already we already play, for like three times in a week, or is it four time


national day, and then ten is a public holiday, uh, tuesday lor, ya normal work day,


yes I am, yes I'm going office, , today my mother, today my mother was just saying !wah! <mandarin>现在你们全部都长大:xian zai ni men quan bu dou zhang da</mandarin> Liao ah then <mandarin>不用:bu yong</mandarin> celebrate birthday Liao ah


then I say okay lah I'm more than happy to just but she say okay lah <mandarin>我知道啦我帮你煮那个红枣面线加一粒鸡蛋:wo zhi dao la wo bang ni zhu na ge hong zao mian xian jia yi li ji dan</mandarin>


no but the thing is I also don't really fancy it I honestly don't need, uh celebration I don't really want it as well


no point mah cause like, (mmhmm), , I feel like I have enough lor I don't need it to be special because it's my birthday, I'm probably gonna have that so one is enough


then <mandarin>还肥:hai fei</mandarin> sia then <mandarin>我们要去要去:wo men yao qu yao qu</mandarin> gym changing we should we go and go another gym session, but it will be like too waste of money, on this week ah (hmm) next week


ya the Sentosa mah


!walao! eh you so bad, yucks what the hell, [orh] that one must it is it must go weekend one or can go weekday, cannot lah unless evening but evening no point right cause it's a beach


eh just, , moon tan moon tan, , okay lor friday night lor


need reservation one ah, ya I see my instagram story ah every other day got people at the beach you know


then that time I think claudia went like two or three times in a week eh, then very funny


#ai xin#, they very funny every time they go in rain , who is chelsea, aren't you angela


wait you talking about secondary school or poly, angela is uh john's ex-girlfriend


I think


eh I saw that kind of job posting on the I joined this telegram group chat, no lah I need to be like market selling goods through the, what special


what special talent oh like that ah !woo!, so is it I can get a fair


eh


he took one whole week leave then like cause this week if you take leave then will stretch until monday mah,


that's why he's trying to find an opening for me lor


, they doing at mid august that's why he say he, ya that's why he say he need time, which like, I I have to trust him lor


well very lah of course I spent so long in this company eh, , one year, I don't think you should count twenty eighteen cause twenty eighteen I there for three months only, but I was from may twenty nineteen until now


so it's, one and a half years already ya, ya I'm doing recruiting only, which like the more it's like literally <mandarin>我越做我越喜欢:wo yue zuo wo yue xi huan</mandarin> like everyday got new things come in and then everyday there's new challenges I faced


and everyday got new pattern that people show me


that's good


in only ah but you can start there first then in case if they have the opening next time then you


raise your hand and you tell them that you want that lor you wonder if the part because bad are back and my previous company right


ya lor unless you see an opening in the team like , if they have a lot of cases previously of internal mobility right then, and if they very flexible to pull you around, like the current payroll guy in my team hor he was from finance one, so like


ya, ya that's why, he was doing AP some more that's why


is it earn and learn, that one Palina went right


ah what a waste


yes and no lah I think even, in within finance team also there are different roles that will require different level of communication like if you do AP right that's really just processing invoices and


and, like really just computer interaction but like in a global team you have to liaise with your tax partners from different countries, err I if you need to have a lot of knowledge about different countries tax benefits and their


all these like when you make payments internationally right there are different cost that will incurred one, I don't know how these people have such information one eh, it's not like something you can google


but why so I


but how can <mandarin>老古:lao gu</mandarin> one why they still need hard copy, oh that's


, interesting


next week ah, tenth dinner I meet #ming jie# eleven daniel, twelfth I'm going office


uh I just I just wanna change of environment I can choose to go if I want lah, no I don't on aircon when I in the daytime one <mandarin>浪费电:lang fei dian</mandarin> leh


I just on fan then I these few days super hot, previously like everyday <mandarin>下雨:xia yu</mandarin> then still not still quite okay


uh, ya it's like very small it's like this high only, so it don't destruct my


how come, how come cannot fix, justin


ah but he fix your door what is it your door, what you all like, eh speaking of which ah that day I run into <P2>wesley heng</P2> eh you remember wesley or not, he he lived my same neighbourhood as me mah so that day I I think after I cut hair then I take the forty one back then he also board the same forty one


eh yo are you at the bus stop then I looked around, then are you a stalker


no the one that I took wasn't, but <mandarin>我没有看到他:wo mei you kan dao ta</mandarin> like he on the he board the bus that time I didn't see him


ya he text me then he said he saw <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Loubaimee then he got off at like the same bus stop so he asked if it's me, I kissed my neighbour don't ran into him one day, ya that's true lah I damn long never see him but got one time I saw him very long ago also like I going home that time then I saw him


ya cause I go home must walk pass his block one he stay the very first block


it's not very complicated it's just a rectangle actually, ya that one is after we bake cupcake


I thought I give you umbrella, oh no I got ask you you want to come back or not I give you umbrella, did you come back to my house in the end


never ah but I remember you went home in the end you never go class eh, , it's not very difficult


oh you can only take one bus sixty one that's all, queenstown


(mmhmm)


why so funny one maybe you a bit <mandarin>路痴:lu chi</mandarin> also


oh ya but it's not very bad it's actually really just a rectangle then in the middle is a badminton court, so, #jun wei# stay here I stay here the badminton court is here


my staircase is here his staircase is there, we literally stay at two ends of the estate, ya


correct, but he don't stay opposite me he stay like all the way down then opposite side, ya he stay that side he cross the road one, need to cross the road to get to his side


ah that one is my side, yes so you you cannot cross yet you just walk straight all the way straight then you will <mandarin>到他家:dao ta jia</mandarin> Liao,


not at all that last time that I told you what I ran to him at the, hawker centre, that was the last time that I saw him, eh no got one time I also saw him he and he and, he and charmaine, err they walking I don't know why they walk from my side to their side so I saw him when I was going home


I think so or maybe like MRT but maybe MRT he will go the other way I don't know eh


!wah! <mandarin>我的是:wo de shi</mandarin> like I think since secondary school <mandarin>没有看到他们:mei you kan dao ta men</mandarin> leh


ya I want to find like a very last minute supper buddy, that's like near my place, then <mandarin>你那是:ni na shi</mandarin> !aiya! Mookata <mandarin>没有开:mei you kai</mandarin> Mookata close at like ten


nine, that's not supper that's dinner, supper should be like midnight


oh you don't sleep early one ah, you sleep what time ah, why, what you thinking about, (ugh)


maybe you, due to space then you <mandarin>搬回去这边睡:ban hui qu zhe bian shui</mandarin> lor, change lah


oh ya so we talk talking about him half way then you change subject, so he's okay as a friend that's so sad, okay lor if that's what you want


, ya lor maybe you start off as friend first, eh you try one day ah you like that err you put like extremely super long makeup ah then he will do your face ID see whether the phone recognise you


, rot, I just like <mandarin>画:hua</mandarin> like like three cm thick of eyeliner


oh your one very sensitive is it


but you contour for what you look so skinny


wait hair extension or eyelash


oh my god


no but not all guys will think like that lah not all guys will put in so much they will just be like [orh] nice lor,


(hmm) ya lah, ya, but, I don't know eh maybe I different, ya


but I think the thing is not that they don't want to say is that they don't even know that you can, ya they don't know, so in a sense also cannot really blame him lah maybe now you tell him this then he will know [orh] okay next time next time no matter what she say just say you look beautiful and everything,


don't know maybe conversation started lor since that's the first time you all met, but have you seen his face in real life before, oh, handsome or not


ha, taller than you, okay what, no wonder lah no wonder good friend lah, , now I know the real reason,


(mmhmm)


I think I got heard this somewhere before like I actually see it, in one of the telegram channel if I'm not wrong I think that are people doing that in the market lah


oh, (mmhmm)


(hmm), understand


cause <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> maintenance fee <mandarin>很贵:hen gui</mandarin> eh, did they left on the spot


that's a lot, that's more than half oh


(uh huh), , ya doesn't make sense


are they known they are not known


, [orh]


but their reviews are very bad, tutor as in the bad reviews is about their service or


[orh], but, during the training they should be able to sense whether it is, MLM or not mah


sixteen thousand, but <mandarin>你今天去有没有人:ni jin tian qu you mei you ren</mandarin> join them on the spot


then <mandarin>你讲什么:ni jiang shen me</mandarin> ,


oh next wednesday


and is because they want to secure you in first lah before knowing too much information


ya, unless, I think so I'll pick it super sales driven lor, if not


if you are sales driven you might as well go and be an insurance agent, , I mean there are, they are always hiring, so are you gonna give they your reply next wednesday


!aiya! you should just reject on the spot eh, what did you do


so you paid twenty dollars, why did you pay twenty dollars to them


so you got attracted by them


everybody will be asking you what will you thinking at that moment


!wah!


(mmhmm), interesting


, but, actually <mandarin>到头来你没有赚到很多:dao tou lai ni mei you zhuan dao hen duo</mandarin> eh


(hmm)


related, oh so tutor <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> academic wise


that is very wide spectrum, of


, eh , you remember back in secondary school we have this subject called computer science, computer science oh other than a math POA eh not computer science lah


have ah, because #jun wei# took computer science mah that's why after that uh when he enrolled into polytechnic he study uh technology


ya, if you want to develop ideas for them ah you ask them for partnership lah can I join your company please I would like to offer you a brand new business idea


and then you ask them maybe you all would like to pay first for the next twenty four months I will gladly , improve, the image of your business


that is a strategy the MLM use lah, in general, , MLM is uh you pay then, ya that's how they earn


now, oh uh is it the same as the influencer, got a period of time all the influencers online were promoting this particular product I think is uh


shampoo, or body wash, called Wowo, or Wowo or something like that


uh as in how you know her, through work or, oh


cause uh not long ago one of my friend also texted me about this company then he said it's very big in singapore, and ask me whether do I know this company but I I actually never ever see that brand before


so I went to google, , ya is MLM, err I cannot remember, and <mandarin>那时候他刚好在做一个:na shi hou ta gang hao zai zuo yi ge</mandarin> project on that particular company that's why he went to


uh search out more about it but <mandarin>他那时候:ta na shi hou</mandarin> when he first got this project he went around asking, everybody does anyone ever came across this thing because, he say is so profitable like they're earning a lot of money, then I say but he say no one has ever seen it


so it's very weird I think , MLM is not, because to be, unless you are authorised by the government lah if not it's illegal, so very hard to, come across I think


essential oil 不<mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> use for massage <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> meh


dish, curry ah, that sounds weird,


uh


oh !wow! interesting I have never heard anyone <mandarin>煮菜的时候加:zhu cai de shi hou jia</mandarin> essential oil, if <mandarin>有的话:you de hua</mandarin> I think all supermarket should sell it sounds, , uh, creative I guess


, obviously you have to choose the flavours maybe like a lemon grass or like or like uh olive you know those type, I mean you have olive body lotion I assume there will be olive essential oils


you can make, essential oil from all sorts of


things I guess be it flowers fruits, no it make sense what, if not, if not what can you make essential oils from


humidifier <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> leh, ya lah, I think they like suck the


so other than, retrieving it from the leaves where else can you retrieve the fence from, , need to pull back your logic it doesn't make sense anymore


no I mean in order to make it into essential oil they have to add in chemicals what it's like perfumes, right


, so what you think your perfumes are edible also


I, I think if I'm not wrong I did accidentally spray it in your month, err I think it was at orchard the innisfree


I mean all cosmetics related are mostly quite, bitter


, uh I don't eat lipstick , I don't eat the lipstick, I mean I don't apply lipstick very often lah so to me not much of a difference I use lip balm more


my lip balm is fruity


no lah I mean I mean shine one is lip gloss lip balm matte is lipstick, all these lor, then you use satin, satin satin finish


like a bit shine a bit matte, err I don't think all the brands have


so <mandarin>她开:ta kai</mandarin> hor <mandarin>她开是一面镜子:ta kai shi yi mian jing zi</mandarin> then <mandarin>这边有:zhe bian you</mandarin> eyebrow then maybe blusher then you pull out the drawer is all the lipsticks for various range


very cool but, I think they only send those to influencers for review


but, l'oreal Paris <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> cosmetics <mandarin>都:dou</mandarin> quite affordable leh


foundation <mandarin>好像是从:hao xiang shi cong</mandarin> maybelline eh, then <mandarin>那时候不会觉得用:na shi hou bu hui jue de yong</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> cakey ah <mandarin>还是什么现在就会觉得没有那么:hai shi shen me xian zai jiu hui jue de mei you na me</mandarin> hydrating


probably, eh so because of recent pandemic right then uh we have to wear mask out, so at that time I went to google how to,


let your makeup stay, fresh throughout the day, then they say must use makeup err the setting spray, so yesterday <mandarin>我有出去:wo you chu qu</mandarin> mah so I decided put into experiment so I went to


I went to sephora before oh because <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> meet <mandarin>我的朋友:wo de peng you</mandarin> at eleven thirty then sephora <mandarin>十一点开正好:shi yi dian kai zheng hao</mandarin> faster <mandarin>十一点去买那个:shi yi dian qu mai na ge</mandarin> spray <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> hor <mandarin>去做我的:qu zuo wo de</mandarin> makeup, it was quite


like it maintained throughout the day lah but <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> you will feel like it start to get a bit a bit cakey throughout, uh makeup for ever


get more oily faster throughout the day


that one yesterday actually <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> online <mandarin>看到是白色那瓶:kan dao shi bai se na ping</mandarin> then <mandarin>白色那瓶是讲:bai se na ping shi jiang</mandarin> uh it's meant for hydrating purpose, then then they say there is a new one which is the black colour bottle


then I say err, then <mandarin>她就讲:ta jiu jiang</mandarin> err but because I buy <mandarin>那个比较小瓶是二十二块因为我不需要很大瓶啊我这样:na ge bi jiao xiao ping shi er shi er kuai yin wei wo bu xu yao hen da ping a wo zhe yang</mandarin> I think <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> last


but sephora <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> cosmetics <mandarin>都很贵的:dou hen gui de</mandarin> mah, eh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> oh but <mandarin>因为你现在也不用:yin wei ni xian zai ye bu yong</mandarin> makeup


then you put, then uh if you want to go extra mile you can put , powder, you know those err sebum powder from like


whatever brand that you have so you put sebum powder already you put foundation, as in the, dry version not the liquid version, ya


but it really feels like your skin already after you do that


uh it did last but I think you still need to touch up here and there throughout


eh <mandarin>那时候那时候我本来要去一个:na shi hou na shi hou wo ben lai yao qu yi ge</mandarin> cafe then <mandarin>我有问我另外一个朋友要不要去:wo you wen wo ling wai yi ge peng you yao bu yao qu</mandarin> but that time <mandarin>他没有很:ta mei you hen</mandarin> interested, so in the end <mandarin>昨天我:zuo tian wo</mandarin> meet <mandarin>他的时候我就问他要不要去这个:ta de shi hou wo jiu wen ta yao bu yao qu zhe ge</mandarin> cafe then <mandarin>他也去读:ta ye qu du</mandarin> reviews all these then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> very tempted mah so we decided to go


but the thing is when we reached there about one PM, the queue is very long and the waiting time is more than an hour, and we wanted to eat for lunch you know you see if we reach there one PM


and doesn't make sense because it's not in the air conditioned environment, uh it's at lavender called Tolido'S espresso nook


so after that <mandarin>我就问他你要不要吃别的:wo jiu wen ta ni yao bu yao chi bie de</mandarin> cause <mandarin>有一次我去:you yi ci wo qu</mandarin> event training with, uh one of my friend we ended around , just nice we were at lavender also so <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> google so there was this taiwanese


cafe where they serve uh taiwan local food like <mandarin>卤肉饭:lu rou fan</mandarin> lah all these, so they have the trial version so you can have three bowls of everything, ah like the sample version so if you are interested to try all you can just try one shot you don't have to get a la carte a la carte


(hmm), eat three bowls, ah at lavender and it's very near it's uh walkable distance from MRT station, ya, and at first I thought <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> we need to use the google to go and search around for then we realised actually it's just side by side


and then <mandarin>那时候因为很多人那个店也是蛮多人:na shi hou yin wei hen duo ren na ge dian ye shi man duo ren</mandarin> so <mandarin>里面已经坐满了:li mian yi jing zuo man le</mandarin> then <mandarin>他就跟我讲只可以坐外面:ta jiu gen wo jiang zhi ke yi zuo wai mian</mandarin> then <mandarin>外面那个位子:wai mian na ge wei zi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>刚好就是:gang hao jiu shi</mandarin> beside <mandarin>那个我们要吃的:na ge wo men yao chi de</mandarin> cafe, ya it seems like


it can prove as if <mandarin>我们已经吃到:wo men yi jing chi dao</mandarin> Liao lah, ya so in the end <mandarin>因为我那时候吃过:yin wei wo na shi hou chi guo</mandarin> so in the end <mandarin>我跟他讲:wo gen ta jiang</mandarin> okay we can get the three sample bowls


err train to Busan two the peninsula but it's okay I mean ya, not very good and actually is ya the reviews online are quite true it's almost like fast and furious


ya so, but, the cinema really quite empty cause now you have to sit you have to leave two gaps in between, , ya lah, I mean actually I don't know eh because now they said that you can go out in a group of five right


so does it mean that, because that cinema I go you only can put two two two two, like you cannot extend, so does it mean that all cinema only can seat like two


then <mandarin>他就觉得很:ta jiu jue de hen</mandarin> left out eh,


then you know the funning thing is right cause err <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> cineleisure <mandarin>看电影:kan dian ying</mandarin> then <mandarin>你懂:ni dong</mandarin> cineleisure <mandarin>它是有三层:ta shi you san ceng</mandarin> cinema


so after you you check in for safe entry right they will give you like a whole long list of lobby then which are cinema cinema so there's a lot of location to choose from, so that day we after we bought our tickets at lobby we exited mah cause err there was like


by time we go up we don't know whether we have to choose lobby or the movie theatre, so in the end we were thinking like eh actually <mandarin>我们现在已经要看电影:wo men xian zai yi jing yao kan dian ying</mandarin> so should we choose the moving theatre right


after choose a movie theatre we going there realise it is not at this floor, so


ya <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> at first <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> <mandarin>我们不是在:wo men bu shi zai</mandarin> cineleisure <mandarin>看我们本来是在:kan wo men ben lai shi zai</mandarin> cathay


so quite tedious lah now, and I don't feel very comfortable watching cinema because you have to stay that place for two three hours, you won't know whether is it really that


oh, oh is it, !wah! that's damn sad, now got a lot of, poor thing, actually to recently west area got a lot, of, like cases if you


not really cases but there are people, , with, COVID went to like those shopping areas right if I'm not wrong, west got a lot I don't know why


but so far I think we are good, uh, he is, okay, quite a nice friend


I I mean I mean I mean he is fine lah he is fine he's really fine but, , no is because actually next week <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> start school


that !aiya! they are still schooling , I actually I wanted to ask #jun wei# but then though I realise next week they are gonna start school, cause <mandarin>我跟你讲我欠他一个:wo gen ni jiang wo qian ta yi ge</mandarin> meet up mah so till now I haven't get back to him, then


he is if I'm not wrong he's from which school, NTU right, ya they start because #jun jie# also NTU then they start school next week then I also don't know how to, but I don't know whether he stay hall or not if he stay hall then probably hard to meet


but actually also can meet lah cause NTU very near mah, but E learn err E learn E learn


[orh] <mandarin>他们很早就开学了:ta men hen zao jiu kai xue le</mandarin> right


no that one is like I think , it's same as poly lor like got a lot of tests all this, because their results 是, accumulate <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah <mandarin>不像我们是:bu xiang wo men shi</mandarin> one shot, uh final exam and that's it


so, , two more months, now august what, two months


, I also waiting for more interviews to come in


which I'm quite, nervous about it I guess or not I can't really remember, but since it's zoom meeting is actually a lot easier for me because I don't have to travel to and fro


ya so, I guess that should be fine, when are you free, cause , you have to go and play with me


you do know what is happening next week right, ah sure national day is on sunday girl


ah ya then what happen the following day, ah just your normal work day is it, err sure are you going out that day, I thought work day go office is it, (mmhmm)


very good so diligent


I mean you can always have a cake make a wish and blow candle that would be nice


err you can have more, oh ya should we and book another gym session, you haven't get back you haven't even reply me when are you free


err feed you more cake lor, you do know where we are going right, ya


for display , you can go weekday meh, ya lah


err evening can lah we don't uh suntan we night tan, I think we can always uh sit there to eat and drink no worries and just us enjoy our time


err I see whether they open at night or not, I think I'm to make reservation I haven't call in also


(hmm) yes that's true that is very true I I think <mandarin>他们全部都去:ta men quan bu dou qu</mandarin> cause uh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> food cheaper mah


I don't know why I always think chelsea is #ai xin# oh my god, chelsea is the one with angela, the one that, no not as in not me but the other one the the one last time


angela was the one that left what, poly, there was one called chelsea right, yes that's right, ya I thought <mandarin>你要讲:ni yao jiang</mandarin> angela


ya, she's now uh, I think she is on those platform whereby you do life section, then ya you talk to people et cetera


so are you interested, no lah I mean you can always uh show your talent, special talent that can attract people to come and look at you


sure I mean uh as long as our people are interested anything will be fine, your are you going to continue your current job till next year


or you are ending this year end, oh oh just on leave lah


(hmm) that's a very good planning, but <mandarin>你这你这次是:ni zhe ni zhe ci shi</mandarin> maternity cover for <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> colleague right then <mandarin>她回来你不是没有:ta hui lai ni bu shi mei you</mandarin> opening Liao job


are they doing job planning soon for next year, [orh] then he will try to fit in lah for you lah


, will you be disappointed if none, actually is about three years two three years


oh almost one year plus, , but you are more of recruitment right


I literally said that to him directly, because he he asked me whether there are any conflicts from my previous job


then I say , I told him because my previous shop I, I was very open to them like they literally ask me do I want to learn or if not they can just allocate any job to me, then I told them that yes I do have a passion in human resource and I really want to learn


that's why I told him actually there's not much conflicts lah, then he ask me, , like in the event that when you risk any issues will there be any disagreement, then I say uh discuss it with my manager or I like discuss it with the


person involved like you don't, point it out directly, which makes other people uncomfortable or you can raise issues like during meetings open to discussion, ya, that's what I told him lah so


I was hoping to get a generalist, secretly praying, if not, , I don't think I'll be happy working for that one year


eh but because uh back at my previous company right, because I was in a business partner team, then I do heard that there was one person at the payroll, always wanted to come to business partner


then, but in the end they took me in instead of her, so at that time they always tell her said [orh] she's still new lah she's student she just maternity cover for another colleague, not because we want to expand our team and hire another person because from the start she have already expressed like very very strong interest


of joining, business partnership don't want to just been tied down at payroll, ya, so actually, for <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> case like job switching or like job rotating is a bit


hard I mean it may sounds like possible but it err is not it don't seem like very, workable among I mean it depends on other party whether they want to accept you or not


but it's like related ah, finance and payroll, but actually last time now I think back hor back then I want to do actually that time I did went for interview for,


the learn and work programme, work and learn programme I forgot what is the proper term for that particular, extended diploma thing so, that time I did went for interview then I wanted com and ben for


oh ya, yes earn and learn, yes uh I got go for OCBC then , but it clashes with my grad trip, so in the end I I think they never consider me lah because I told them that


, the timing may not be, I may not be coming I I may not join the company same time as others, ya, but now I think back I don't know, like after I joined my previous company I don't think I'll favour


payroll that much anymore, because, they very direct say that if you want to face computers all day and do calculations you join payroll, but if you want more of like interactions engagements


et cetera then you, do BP


you remind me of a mistake that I actually made in uh it's not a mistake lah but because they ask me to, okay so for this uh colleague that was working overseas you have to send in their salary to , japanese uh company


so at that time I did send in the E payslip so, I didn't expect that they were asking for an actual payslip so they were asking uh where is the invoice so I said I have already mailed it over, and this whole thing repeated for about two three weeks then I realised that oh actually they are asking for the actual


invoice that I have on my hand and I have to, err, send it over as soon as possible because they are asking since like three weeks ago so, after I realised my mistake I faster go to my manager I said oh I actually, then I have no choice but to


no I have to expedite it lah I sent it by airmail, so I think it reached less than a week, because because okay at that time , the person that was on maternity leave was not back yet, and my manager have never handle that situation so she also didn't know that I have to send the actual invoice over which is pretty funny because she is


, she is included in all the emails that we have sent to each other that, every single time I'm just repeating saying that oh I have already sent you the voice, and then he will say oh but I have not received the invoice I have sent you the invoice but have not received which the whole situation is very funny


err I think it's because <mandarin>因为他要:yin wei ta yao</mandarin> process <mandarin>人家的:ren jia de</mandarin> salary mah so I think they need actual documents probably, ya but japanese companies are usually go by the


they are more strict in terms of their procedures as compared to other companies not as flexible lah, so I think, they themselves uh there are SOP's that they need, the actual document, then I I I mean it's fine lah I mean at that point of time I have no use of holding on to the document anyway


ya, very funny , eh so are you so where are you meeting next week you know just meeting your boyfriend,


eh you are going back office now, why working at home is not very ideal is it


your room you never on aircon, [orh], okay


floor one


it's just a lock mah


when he fix the lock, ya, so you all talk


or, he is a oh is a double deck bus right, eh


the one you took I thought was a double deck bus, oh no ah, oh, so weird, then how you oh you are only realised after he texted you


but it but it didn't happen for so many years


going home


no but <mandarin>你记得有一次:ni ji de you yi ci</mandarin> I accidentally overshot my bus then I told you I a bit lost cause I don't know what bus to take back to school and it was raining, that day if I'm not wrong


no, no I think that one is uh is it the same, it's the same time meh I thought is another day I can't remember, no no no no no I didn't I


oh probably oh maybe because I don't know how to go back to school I don't know why I only


ah sixty one I only take sixty one from school to like ex workplace, , oh ya queenstown there, so I'll ya always very


troubled, by your area, in terms of travelling I don't know why, even uh like I go to friends house I'll ask like roughly how to go, oh every year chinese new year celebration is at justin house right so every year I will ask him for address


this is like how many year already ah I think I got go more than four five times already I still always ask him for address


honestly I don't know where #jun wei# stay, so your staircase is at where, oh


!ee! your block is here his block is there right then you all have a sheltered walkway in the middle is it, oh and, oh so he don't stay at this block


oh I roughly know this one is the this one there's a this uh curve, like walk, like the path right


ya so he is before I cross the road to take the staircase he stay at this side lah, although you all stay so near


it was at the coffee shop right not not the coffee shop the market market there, MRT what, at where


oh probably they took the shell the petrol station walk, !aiya! so long never meet those friends


after circuit breaker


you you can always come and have supper at nine, why not, dinner is seven


supper should be at midnight <mandarin>我不介意陪你去吃你要送我回来就对:wo bu jie yi pei ni qu chi ni yao song wo hui lai jiu dui</mandarin> Liao, , if not, oh my god, !huh!


or maybe cause maybe due to space constraint I cannot like, move around my bed


I have to change the bed sheet, that's not as in I I have clean one but it's just that I damn lazy to, change, cause err, I'm actually kind of used to


someone, what's there to talk about him


why how is that sad, no I I mean I mean ya I'm out there to make friends what, right you have to see whether the person is a friend material, maybe he


or she is not


I think before that my face will rot, ya, yesterday for that type of makeup I literally, use cotton, pad to remove already right, I go and use the


gel type is it like gel type like those , ya so I removed my makeup two times then I use cleanser one time, then I put mask, then after I cause for mask I have to wash off if not I scared it will accumulate gems mah


so I wash off my mask then I start my skincare, that's why my face is still okay today if not I I very scared that I'll have a lot of pimples, I think so I think last time quite cause err last time I don't do contours right


so I actually last time don't I only actually all along my makeup is only on the affected areas I don't apply literally the whole face, so last time I don't to contours I don't touch these two area, so , got one period here became very serious because I think I never remove properly so it will develop pimples outside but now no more already


maybe because I too long never contour, uh face need to look small, oh you know yesterday he told me he told me a story about his ex girlfriend of wearing extension so ah


uh <mandarin>要不要带:yao bu yao dai</mandarin> extension, then he say,


hair extension then he say uh up to you you decide for yourself, then after that she say so she took a photo with her in extension then she send it over then ask him whether is it nice or not, then he say he say it's fine lah like it's okay then in the end she replied uh I'm not meeting you tomorrow


then just nice he was going out to uh for his CCA so he replied on what is wrong, then he tried to pacify her so in the end it was because , he said that she look great in extension so uh she's she she said that he also implying that her natural beauty is not very nice


that's why she got she got fed up and like, then <mandarin>他就觉得很无理取闹:ta jiu jue de hen wu li qu nao</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就回他:wo jiu hui ta</mandarin> actually <mandarin>她只是想要你去:ta zhi shi xiang yao ni qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>夸她漂亮:kua ta piao liang</mandarin> all this, because normally girls put in so much effort which is us fishing for compliments mah


she want you to complement that [orh] uh you are actually very beautiful or what, so I ask him why not you twist your words and said that just be yourself be whatever that you are comfortable in as long as you are comfortably at everything will be beautiful


right, it you just makes like, the whole thing so much sound so much nicer and even girls will feel better then I think she will want, like, who don't want to be natural beauty we also want but one thing is <mandarin>我们没有自信:wo men mei you zi xin</mandarin> another one is they just want to put in effort to


make it pleasant for your eyes, so girls don't do it for nothing they do it for effort and for her effort can't you just repay with kind words


ya no but the thing is if he were to say that to me I will also be upset because, if let's say I spend so much effort to look nice to look pretty in front of you and all you say is oh ya it's fine


I I think it's always nice to say kind words to other people who are and it's not like I'm flattering you or what I'm just being very honest if you want to say that , being yourself is the best our natural beauty is the best then you just


complement a bit, is good too, #ai jia# he he I think he also don't know


no so in the end he tell me, don't wear makeup, so I tell him did tell me the whole entire story just to tell me not to wear makeup


then wait he say do you think I'm such person, then I say maybe, I mean if not why would you suddenly come up with that story


what you trying


what you trying to imply


oh like, what kind of CCA do they like put you into <mandarin>你会不会:ni hui bu hui</mandarin> like


oh so like, what do you what do you actually, do like what's your job scope like and, how's like, one entire day in school


oh so you haven't like <mandarin>开始:kai shi</mandarin> yet ah


!huh! they put you in the maths department, but your maths <mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> meh I thought your maths is like <mandarin>不好:bu hao</mandarin> what you failed right last time


what do you mean by curate videos online like <mandarin>你要做什么:ni yao zuo shen me</mandarin> right you just need to go online let's say the topic is like positive and negative individuals then you have to find videos that align with the syllabus hor then you compare to list, !huh! but the videos like you must find or <mandarin>你自己:ni zi ji</mandarin> create


oh I see eh but, you don't even teach the students what you are supposedly like a behaviour therapist so you just, okay ya don't know you just like suppose to


assist the teacher right I then like, why your job scope so big like <mandarin>要做什么:yao zuo shen me</mandarin> like all these things that are not in your JD


oh, ya that's true but like so what exactly like do you have to do like


ya but like what you told me that is like what you do daily mah but apart from that like


ah just like that then <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> the interns <mandarin>都:dou</mandarin> same faith as you,


oh I see here or the cycling you know so like all the videos and you have to prepare that's like, so like all the videos that you have to prepare that's like, what you have to do when you're in the maths department lah ya but the performing arts leh like <mandarin>舞蹈:wu dao</mandarin> all these isn't that very busy then, like if you haven't start then when are you starting


oh ya now like the news is out and then they say, only like certain CCA's with, lesser interaction


can continue right so, then, how is everything I don't know like, organised there when, everything is so chaotic like <mandarin>每天要跑来跑去要做这样多东西:mei tian yao pao lai pao qu yao zuo zhe yang duo dong xi</mandarin> how I don't know how is everything settled


when ah, that is sep, october, october !wah! <mandarin>很快要年底:hen kuai yao nian di</mandarin> Liao


, !ee! N level lah


!wah! then <mandarin>怎么办这样不是死:zen me ban zhe yang bu shi si</mandarin> lor, what, how you gonna do that like that's twelve


!wah!, so you


so you have to like come up with a schedule to accommodate to their needs like, oh !wow!, ,


!hais! suck this life, !hais!, , you deserve it, yup you deserve it


!wah! must be like sec four, those were the torturous days of my life !wah! sometimes like, no no no no not <mandarin>几十年前啦九年前:ji shi nian qian la jiu nian qian</mandarin> about !wah! that sucks man like imagine after PE you're so sweaty then you go into the class like


how to even focused and concentrate sia especially like oh my god maths and all like, that's crazy how did I do it for like I don't know, fourteen years of my life


ya, because when they go ITE they kind of like, have to mingle with the normal kids right so , but <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> leh like you were telling me that they take the bus everyday to the normal secondary school right then they kind of like


but before COVID leh like <mandarin>他们有没有:ta men you mei you</mandarin> mix with them, less the, ah ah, (ppc) ya ya ya


so get along then, they're fine lah, , that is true it's life like you have to be happy and enjoy when you can


ya man tell me about it , can just be bullied for anything !aiya! <mandarin>现在的人:xian zai de ren</mandarin> ha like, they can make something out of nothing you know like even names like


they keeps this this they can just like, they are damn creative they can just create names and then just like, bully you for that, like you said people called you natasha, crazy


oh no oh ya your class right is this this guy ya,


they get very triggered, , actually !wah! that's so cool if I can I'm like ah <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我不要听你的课啦很闷:wo bu yao ting ni de ke la hen men</mandarin> you know


oh my gosh that's so annoying I'm like (ugh)


yours is


so what did he say when you said do I look stupid to you, and then what did you say,


so does the call your mother trick work I'm gonna, oh all the time


he's that tit guy right like, he's got it oh, he's the bully


do they know that they have autism


oh that's, quite nice ya, but oh they so they know that they have autism and and


(mmhmm), (hmm), (hmm), oh that's why they came here <mandarin>读中学:du zhong xue</mandarin> lah


oh no


that's very heartbreaking it's like, , but it's very heartbreaking because, it just shows how, society is like I mean everyone should be, more open you know be kinder like


be more <mandarin>心地善良:xin di shan liang</mandarin> you know open up your heart, I mean you don't choose you don't choose to have autism right so what if like, that person is, a <mandarin>家人:jia ren</mandarin> of yours lah then like


if it's your if it's your younger sibling like will you treat your <mandarin>弟弟妹妹:di di mei mei</mandarin> like that, ya like will you, want like others to, bully like your <mandarin>弟弟妹妹:di di mei mei</mandarin> like that lah ya


oh oh yes I don't think it's autism school only leh even normal school like, these days the parents damn good lah like don't even side, the like don't relay the teachers one last time the parents all believe the teachers every time come home I get caning eh then <mandarin>被人骂:bei ren ma</mandarin> one leh then I cannot sia


everyday <mandarin>被妈骂:bei ma ma</mandarin> then I'm like !wah!, like every like I feel like sometimes the teacher doesn't even tell the truth like I just got to bring like an art sketch book and she's like, I need to call your parents call already come home, get scolding all lah !wah! caning ah <mandarin>被打啦被马被骂啦:bei da la bei ma bei ma la</mandarin> like oh my gosh like


childhood fears in my life, (hmm), oh my gosh so you really have to send her like


so so uh like what are the things that your kid does then you have to take the photo


so like there's you have quite a number of kids that need whole number and they don't like ninety nine percent, complete


oh I see, oh I see, so what did you have to do like, so what do you have to do like you have to peel off the thing and you like okay, just hundred percent, oh so, you just delete the problem


, censorship [orh], like when !ow!


when you all show him videos ah


, !wah! so like now <mandarin>现在的:xian zai de</mandarin> school so advanced like can surf internet while <mandarin>上课:shang ke</mandarin> one


ah, ah, so what do you all do on their ipad, oh


so that


!hais!, , but you know you know kids like when you were that age like


!hais! don't don't we all wish the world could be kinder it's like <mandarin>如果你没有东西做:ru ruo ni mei you dong xi zuo</mandarin> then, you know I mean don't uh hurt the world like people don't hurt you either so


like, I don't know man, so like what what do you all actually do in class when you use the ipads I mean I mean if you they go to youtube you'll confiscate but, is it that he went to <mandarin>脸书:lian shu</mandarin> right so if he go to <mandarin>脸书:lian shu</mandarin> did you confiscate also


then what then you take picture of him going to facebook, oh, oh then what the mother say, oh but I'm just curious what like so you to really take pictures of their actions


to show the parents, but are all parents like that like, every single one, most


the bully he's a compulsive liar <mandarin>每次讲骗话:mei ci jiang pian hua</mandarin> ,


!wow!, oh so how's the twin


ah that's what siblings are for like <mandarin>我们来一起找找担忧:wo men lai yi qi zhao zhao dan you</mandarin> , oh my god that's so fun


oh so it's obvious, then even <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> also cannot tell them apart, so they swap classes and then what what how did people even find out and like


if the students damn ass sia like normally if I was the student I'll just keep quiet about it like, I just wanna have fun


really but also, you guys actually let them know, from primary one


it's not gonna it's not gonna get easier, that's true <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> hor


so how do like past students that go into ITE adapt, like I don't know cause


, , what if they


most most are okay right,


(mmhmm),


there are a lot of them get bullied like, but in the school no, it's like that


ya ya normally like <mandarin>有一点不一样的:you yi dian bu yi yang de</mandarin> and


, , (mmhmm)


but if that's what you're quoting then, wouldn't all of us even the <mandarin>学生:xue sheng</mandarin> and all in the normal school speak that way too, but <mandarin>你的学生:ni de xue sheng</mandarin> imitate it


ah so for autism they learn by imitating, ha, okay make sense I mean


everyone will like try to imitate the parents and imitate what you say that's why people always say like you know <mandarin>不要在小孩的面前骂粗话:bu yao zai xiao hai de mian qian ma cu hua</mandarin> cause, that's how you know everything sinks into their brain and they'll start like intaking and learning everything


exactly the fact is he'll only be playing in his mind like


I see, eh so what about the twins like in primary school when they like switch class so


ah tell me the stories,


but <mandarin>有他们两个:you ta men liang ge</mandarin> how to I'm here I'm here unless one person take the other position then, when they are in the same room then they just keep pointing to each other


, , then how then like, so the teachers and students have to all like <mandarin>学生会帮老师喔他是:xue sheng hui bang lao shi o ta shi</mandarin> A <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> B, but how do the students tell the difference I guess spend time together everyday


oh my god like that must be so fun <mandarin>是蛮有趣的:shi man you qu de</mandarin> leh to know twins that who are actually doing this kind of thing, (hmm)


but at least but at least <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> is okay right


but I guess it's something that's quite common with autism people but even like <mandarin>普通人:pu tong ren</mandarin> like us, we struggle with, expressing our emotion sometimes also like


, ya that's true and like


like I think because a lot of people you don't have that experience of, being exposed to autism and this kind of people in primary school so, like, all these people they will just feel that eh <mandarin>你跟我不一样哈哈:ni gen wo bu yi yang ha ha</mandarin> like screw you or they'll just bully you lor


, no it's fine it's very interesting to hear like about, your stories in school like cause, I also don't have that kind of experiences so all this is like <mandarin>蛮有趣:man you qu</mandarin> and it's like something new for me like


cause like I'm also like a normal person right so, I'm not, exposed to, these, kind of kids also so, good to hear more like I mean the more you hear and the more educated you are then


it, kind of, makes it easier for me to understand students when I see them outside also like for example


I mean not like he's hurting me or what so just let him be happy lor <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor , but <mandarin>有些人:you xie ren</mandarin> they won't be very nice lah they just tell the kid to shut up you know which is, if they don't understand the kid's situation you know they just keep thinking like everyone thinks like them but


that's that's not the case you,


but why like I mean everyone should just


!wah! that's like uh what every mother wants man, for their kids to


or, like <mandarin>他们不要回家做:ta men bu yao hui jia zuo</mandarin> or they just want to get things done as soon as possible


!wah!,


but ya that's the thing like I think and think it's the society and, maybe even singapore like, everyone just looks at results like even the government say, oh we're not going to look get results at all but the truth is like <mandarin>你出去找工作:ni chu qu zhao gong zuo</mandarin> right like our cousin <mandarin>出去找工作:chu qu zhao gong zuo</mandarin> what then they said


okay yup but in the government sector someone say okay but will only confirm your pay once you uh show us your transcript and then how much she's paid is like according to how well she, does in school is like !huh! then like <mandarin>你跟我讲:ni gen wo jiang</mandarin> grades is not everything but then


like <mandarin>现在有我要出去做工:xian zai you wo yao chu qu zuo gong</mandarin> then <mandarin>你要还我的工钱:ni yao huan wo de gong qian</mandarin> is based on like, like it's so contradicting but I think the truth is like a lot of people just have to start accepting the fact that <mandarin>成绩:cheng ji</mandarin> is not everything lah and


beyond grades like, there's so much more in a person's character because, I mean if you are not smart enough if you are hardworking you can always work hard to get there but, if not then


like for example you can be the smartest person in the room but if you character is shit then, like, everyone is gonna have a very hard time working with you and


that you feel nervous for them also like uh they don't know like the kind of society that, they are going to step into is like


, ya this job kinda makes you more compassionate right when you are exposed to them, why, is it you felt emotionally <mandarin>你也是眼泪:ni ye shi yan lei</mandarin> till <mandarin>眼泪掉下来:yan lei diao xia lai</mandarin>


then actually when <mandarin>你们打电话给:ni men da dian hua gei</mandarin> the therapist right then, therapists <mandarin>跑下来:pao xia lai</mandarin> what what does therapists actually do I mean I know the general things to calm them down but what do they do to kind of like rectify the entire situation


but what if they don't even want to write down and they just like throw a fuss, then


violent tendencies sounds a bit scary, oh my god, from the, classroom window


like


and then how so like the <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> have to go and like, !whoa!, then when she pull him down was he like kicking and screaming and like making a huge fuss and then like <mandarin>狠架狠架:hen jia hen jia</mandarin> then <mandarin>你们带去:ni men dai qu</mandarin> therapists


and therapists <mandarin>跑来:pao lai</mandarin> and, like, and they're like okay calm down like write how you're feeling, eh <mandarin>你们的学校有几个:ni men de xue xiao you ji ge</mandarin> therapist


are you serious wait then are there more therapists the teachers, like you teach sec three right so sec three <mandarin>你们有:ni men you</mandarin> like


then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> sec three <mandarin>有几个:you ji ge</mandarin> class, as in like how to say


ten times seven seventy, then you will need therapists for like person A and B


, really, , who are the other people


, are there any instances where two are not enough, !wah! then <mandarin>两个跑下来还有:liang ge pao xia lai hai you</mandarin> like two so that's four people in the class


ah it's like


the circle of triggering, like bowling,


no, , they they thought okay to do right


but are there any instances where they like no I want to be the teacher what makes you think that I can't, ,


, and then what do they say do they have compassion for you, ,


okay lah <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like, , the <mandarin>心地:xin di</mandarin> is still, quite kind and, (mmhmm)


that's quite normal like wasn't that you when you were in secondary school, oh, do you do it on purpose


, see looks like you know we are not, I mean, we're not quite different from them after all lah so, just that you know they have a bit higher needs if everyone is a little bit more understanding compromise a bit, ah


I, ya it's true I think like, these people their quite like, they will get broken but


, oh


, at least they have a good physics, did you tell them to go to the gym


what did you say, but why did you say that later like did they ask you for it later they say uh miss natasha says that, to keep up


oh my gosh I hate PE, I hate PE, do you have to do PE with them, , oh so like there's a teaching aid for PE too


oh my gosh so what what do like all the teachers do for PE like <mandarin>蛮有趣的:man you qu de</mandarin> leh, and relax for that one hour,


they will feel like they want sit back from low to medium become high, ah so like <mandarin>其他的:qi ta de</mandarin> classes for the students with the higher needs <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> one to one


then like what you said, then <mandarin>那个班有六个:na ge ban you liu ge</mandarin> then got six YFAs, so then that class will have two YFAs


every class will always have one lah, !wah! then by, ah so like does every class have a YFA


really ah, and that's okay


so like no crazy breakouts or whatsoever, if not she can also call therapists mah


oh you can do that like don't need to ask your subject teacher, oh ya I mean if everything is okay in your class then you just run out, so like, that was the instructions that <mandarin>他们给你们:ta men gei ni men</mandarin> lah


, is your class at the end of the school, oh so you guys don't have a fixed classroom you all move around


cause of COVID, no what but because of COVID then you have to stick in a fixed classroom when you move around then the virus, move around easier


oh then because COVID <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> move around even more, !eww!, then when your class split up into different classes then how you follow them


which is like do you have, like the teacher will tell you okay <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> follow <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> student A B C


(hmm)


ah, but wouldn't the other classes have other wire phase two


(mmhmm)


, do they get to choose their own seats, oh !wow! never got to do that in secondary school


I see oh, okay, like <mandarin>要这样看:yao zhe yang kan</mandarin> !wah! then <mandarin>如果他搭飞机:ru ruo ta da fei ji</mandarin> he's like


like that , !wah! then if he <mandarin>出国旅行:chu guo lv xing</mandarin> on aeroplane then wouldn't he like just sit next to the window and like look out for like that whole I don't know <mandarin>十二个小时:shi er ge xiao shi</mandarin>


make him sit in front don't let him sit next to the <mandarin>窗口:chuang kou</mandarin> lor


walk to the class than like ah <mandarin>看树:kan shu</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>今天那棵树长的很高:jin tian na ke shu zhang de hen gao</mandarin> , he likes nature, and scenery, is he in your original class, he's from one of the elective classes


, do you smile when you make eye contact, oh ya I forgot about the mask


ya ya ya that's like the best, that's right , and you think it's funny but like you cannot laugh but you need to sound angry can take a moment to compose yourself and like, okay I need to calm down then okay time to <mandarin>骂他们:ma ta men</mandarin> Liao


but like they cannot see right, ya ya ya ya ya ya ya that's what my friend told me ya


, like you just the lipsync it right, uh


!whoa!, then did the <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> hear it, you were sitting nearby, do you do you agree it's the handwriting,


oh, doctor's handwriting a lot of people say that !wah!, Jialat Jialat cannot make it ya


you like it's like you know sometimes when I really wanna laugh but I I cannot control myself then <mandarin>我会咬我的舌头:wo hui yao wo de she tou</mandarin> but sometimes that doesn't work cause it's like too funny and I cannot stop myself


you probably have to run out of class pretend like oh oh <mandarin>我那边有:wo na bian you</mandarin> emergency


like, and you like, , tactics ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


, !huh! !huh! really really like tell you things like that, girls or guys, !wah! but they confide quite easily ah


you need to listen to them, so what did they what did you reply when they said that


education, oh really they say that, oh but the older sister is autistic autistic also or no, no


, is it <mandarin>捣蛋:dao dan</mandarin> one or no, like, I don't know create trouble


, I think like kids are kids are nice I don't know they are just playful like in secondary school you'll ask your teacher that question to okay at least in my school cause there are boys, you're from a all girls school so then like sometimes,


but it's quite common lah, secondary school kids are harder to handle primary school is like more , innocent <mandarin>小学生:xiao xue sheng</mandarin> then,


you can read their biodata, , oh then <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> have to tie for them


oh my god, !wah!, just wear shoes without shoelaces, like I didn't like shoes with shoelaces that's why I never tied shoes with that's why in secondary school I never wore shoes with laces


(hmm), well maybe normal kids take one hour to tie a knot too, ya


, oh yes yes it's always harder to bring that across, yap, (mmhmm)


but primary school they are like, a fresh blank sheet of paper, are you serious


, , primary one ah oh, oh wait so the primary school and secondary school <mandarin>是在一起一样:shi zai yi qi yi yang</mandarin> campus ah


oh so do they have the same canteen, wait


really that's so good like I don't know in the normal circumstance I thought that would happen, did they signal each other and like and


ah


, eh so the primary school also have YFA, oh then <mandarin>是不是你选:shi bu shi ni xuan</mandarin> to choose like secondary school or they just, oh so when during the interview they ask you or what


[orh] like friend friend like that lah I think <mandarin>中学:zhong xue</mandarin> you can treat them like friends but <mandarin>小学:xiao xue</mandarin> is like you really have to baby talk them


elderly, (uh huh)


relatable,


that's true


, like was it in your dreams, I see but so far like, are you enjoying your job like do you think it is


something that you wanna do for career, well I mean this is a good start lah like the fact that, you know I feel that, you like what you're doing it


you like share experiences in, , you feel for your kids and like ya you just, at the end of the day ya


, make a difference in someone's life like, you know


, no lah I mean everyone starts up somewhere I feel like as long as you, have the will to do you have the heart, like, who is going to <mandarin>阻止你:zu zhi ni</mandarin> you know


they don't have evil intentions <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like, lame things,


ya secondary school oh my gosh especially girls' schools is like !wah!,


very simple minded, oh that's so nice, it's just that the trouble comes in when, they have meltdowns yes, but other than that do they get along well with each other like are they <mandarin>好朋友:hao peng you</mandarin> do they like


go out together, do they check, !ow! that's that's surprisingly nice, oh ya, like before that so


lower spectrum, not so serious, ah ah ah, , (hmm), but actually for your class


so you've like never heard them spoke or what before, ah, but how then <mandarin>他们怎么上学:ta men zen me shang xue</mandarin> cause like exams sometimes there's oral right then you have to speak


then what if like oral, no, oh, but then don't you have the reading passage that you have to read it, oh cool, !wah! but, , my heart goes up for


, it's like, ya I mean it's not sad about having a child like that but it's like


, like, so, when you bring up a child it's like


of course <mandarin>会很忙啦因为:hui hen mang la yin wei</mandarin> like the first two weeks hor <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> it's just like, follow the person around then you learn how to <mandarin>照顾:zhao gu</mandarin> the <mandarin>学生:xue sheng</mandarin> but then after that


you assign department assign CCA so now not just <mandarin>照顾:zhao gu</mandarin> the <mandarin>学生:xue sheng</mandarin> lah you of course have your own like paperwork and your workloads to do


err they give you <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> google docs from there <mandarin>你就选:ni jiu xuan</mandarin> lor then after that they give us, but I got my first choice ah <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> performing arts lor like <mandarin>舞蹈:wu dao</mandarin> all this


okay so for the performance art thing like the performing arts thing <mandarin>他们还没有:ta men hai mei you</mandarin> get back to me lah, so that one I not sure yet but, the performance the CCA assignment they haven't get back to us yet so <mandarin>还没有开始:hai mei you kai shi</mandarin> lor but then the


for the others right like, I started already so I'm in a math department but I don't why they put me in a math department, ya cause my math sucks, of course, exact but they, ya I failed maths lah but then like whatever lah they put me there then okay lor whatever lor then


the teacher ah they ask me to they ask us to curate videos online to find for the for the uh students because they, want to take precautions for future HBL


like just need to go online let's say the topic is like positive and negative integers then you have to find videos that aligned with the syllabus [orh], then you compile the list, err for now we finding but then I think after awhile when there's more manpower <mandarin>他们就自己:ta men jiu zi ji</mandarin> create lor


I'm not a therapists, I'm an assistant teacher, ya


it is technically in the JD but we're interns and then, everybody chose #sai kang# to interns one what, right, in every company <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> interns <mandarin>全部都是:quan bu dou shi</mandarin> #sai kang# <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah


okay so the crux the crux of what I do, as an assistant teacher at pathlight right is , I go to school with my students I go to classes with my students and, what they need, cause they have special needs what so the special needs tend to be emotional needs so let's say


in this object if they are not good some of my students tend to stand up and walk out of class so you need, when you will see when I see them struggling already right I ask them do you need a break, then if they say yes then we then we we will <mandarin>我们走一圈:wo men zou yi quan</mandarin> around the level then I then we come back to the classroom I say are you ready to go in


until they say yes lor or until the next lesson starts ah


or they, you all gonna be assigned department tomorrow then we like oh okay lor, you, ya lah but some go to other department lor got me and this girl we, I got two departments maths department and the results department


so now cause SA two coming already so we starting to curate like all the , name list and everything lor, then the report card everything, !yay! all the #sai kang# you knows


ya so they just give us work, I tell you, probably like next week, but cause now like a lot of the events and everything have to scale down cause of COVID so like


they also not sure yet, yup


I don't know eh <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> a lot of people at the CCA haven't even get back to them yet, cause now <mandarin>现在是:xian zai shi</mandarin> cause SA two is coming, two months time, next september october


ya lor then like <mandarin>他们因为我的是中三:ta men yin wei wo de shi zhong san</mandarin> anyway ya so next year <mandarin>他们要过:ta men yao guo</mandarin> O level already, so everybody, oh ya N level so, uh really some of my students <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> cause one of some of the students right <mandarin>他们必须:ta men bi xu</mandarin> like they need remedial you know <mandarin>他们必须必须:ta men bi xu bi xu</mandarin> go remedial but then


COVID so there's only a certain number of students in school so they cannot go for remedial, ya lor so <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> the !aiya! the co class coach share to me it's like eh natasha, you need to come up with individual schedules for all twelve students I'm like freak


study schedule, so, I have twelve students and I have to come up with twelve different schedules for each different students because, each of them right got tuition or whatever in their home life and then each of them are weak at different subject


and then each of them the subject combination <mandarin>是不一样的:shi bu yi yang de</mandarin> leh, of course that's what I'm here for why do you, they pay me one more more than one K per month lah I'll just shut up lah as long as the one L keep coming in I'll just do my work


to one K to one K, now now you know why they pay more than one K, I was thinking why the school pay so much then you go there then you like okay got screaming children need to physically restrain children I'm like okay fine now I know why you pay more than one K


do you even remember what it's like to go in a school without aircon, when what was the last time you even stepped into a school without aircon, centuries right, centuries


, I mean <mandarin>我的孩子:wo de hai zi</mandarin> , this is life what I mean even though they have autism and they have all these extra things to help them <mandarin>他们还必须:ta men hai bi xu</mandarin> study what


you know they still need to study they still need to learn how to integrate into mainstream society, and I'm afraid that most of my students are going to get bullied when they go ITE, ya they're definitely gonna get bullied