that kind lor, there's the that was the whole point of their video I guess, okay <mandarin>来下一个问题:lai xia yi ge wen ti</mandarin> what everyday activity will be a torture if you have to do it for eight hours straight, I already can think of one from the start lah


for some, for some lah for some people, but we put that aside what will you say is something that would be a torture for eight if you have to do for eight hours straight


then if we say shop for food for eight hours straight


I mean not necessarily what <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> shop for food for eight hours mostly <mandarin>是买材料:shi mai cai liao</mandarin> what, give me for eight hours to buy whatever <mandarin>材料:cai liao</mandarin> then you can everyday think of what to eat


ya that's the that's the issue lor so it's like then you can't possibly like buy err what is that call everyday <mandarin>买罐头吃罐头:mai guan tou chi guan tou</mandarin> also right


(hmm) I mean we already say lah besides working lah but let's say if you have to do it for eight hours straight if you have to do err showering for eight hours straight


Subaru challenge, that's not an everyday activity what


cathay , you know the


ah so it is basically a joker ah, is a joker that err he everyday he everyday err K things that he do, err he take photo he like he <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> he's a guy that err he's a fan of buying the wrestling belt


you know the guy already ah, something like that but <mandarin>这个人是收集的:zhe ge ren shi shou ji de</mandarin> and you know what's the next thing about this guy


he live in Yishun, he lives in Yishun, ya sia then err otherwise otherwise you see things like he err that time got the


got got people go and got people go and throw hime <mandarin>他们整他:ta men zheng ta</mandarin> say err Mediacorp invite him to recording to record some movie or something


as in funny in the sense that we are laughing him ah not the not the the whole situation is funny, err they kind of didn't lah, cause it's like they are no way affiliated what


no he just invade like I I actually forgot what the full story is lah but basically is like after a while he realise he got he got pranked then <mandarin>他很生气:ta hen sheng qi</mandarin> then he go the he went down to I forgot which police station lah he went down to go and make a police report and he film himself making the police report also


I mean it's entertainment for everyone lah at his expense, ya I mean later show you lah the later show you lah the that one okay so


what is the pettiest reason that you would dislike someone for


when was that though


got bring sweet share with everyone, then it's like they keep take take take take take take take cope the sweet, cope the sweet and then err <mandarin>留到自己没有:liu dao zi ji mei you</mandarin> then I I at that point I remember I say I don't friend them I I literally just tell him I don't friend you Liao


primary school what, below ten below ten, one to three primary one to three, ya at that point it was like


that kind of thing then there's also actually when you ask this kind of pettiest reason for disliking someone right, now in our age ah let's say you maple ah all sorts of pettiest reasons happen


I don't like you Liao, no you no then got another kid another kind of example, I bid for this item then I Kena octo in I don't like that person


or more like <mandarin>那时:na shi</mandarin> ah there was also this sell there was also this situation ah not very petty lah but, it was a real story


!wah! <mandarin>三个人要:san ge ren yao</mandarin> octo in then every all of them were like super angry


no all of them bid at the same time, he chose to like they he increase the price and then err the other two refuse to refuse to bid animal cause of the seller attitude, then WNK


he decided that I just want the items so much, something like that something like that, ya lah, something like that lor I mean there's a lot of petty reason that you want to say petty reason like that of a lot it lah I mean whether is it <mandarin>小时候:xiao shi hou</mandarin> even today also got a lot of this kind of thing happening


err like, you never you never Belanja me I Belanja he never Belanja me I don't like this guy


, don't like Liao


!aiyo!


!aiyo! let's not get there lah hor, K lah okay now is err wait ah we ask question first okay so how do you think humans will go extinct


I kind of disagree with that lah cause, we let's say lah <mandarin>两个人:liang ge ren</mandarin> lah there are just two people out of seven billion plus people in the whole world, but how they will go extinct is basically through climate change


yes, because <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> you know there are many activists are doing like advocating !wah! climate change is a very serious thing but there are only so many activists but ultimately industrialisation


you want to you want to go green can so <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> so you go back so basically you want to go green can that means to say you want to walk from point A to point B, but then if you but then there flying is an option


ya flying is an option why will human with the option to fly go back to walking from err let's say singapore all the way to err russia


years ah not months lah, ya but the the is like this lah why why would they choose like in let's say lah to reduce carbon footprint


there is the option to fly you reach there in like how many hours, !huh! you want to do this meh you want to row the boat all the way


ya in and the it's I do agree lah but it's still quite bad lah


but is not as bad as


actually <mandarin>也是会:ye shi hui</mandarin> eh, ya


not wrong lah


systems do fail so in the <mandarin>海:hai</mandarin> the sea travel kind of thing if the system fail also they cannot detect at like err they cannot detect like on incoming traffic <mandarin>还是会撞:hai shi hui zhuang</mandarin> what


ya it happens ah then again is like err then again ya but I still think it's a global global warming and climate change that will lead humans to extinction


also because of the modern rising sea levels, correct, that is one the rising it will actually melt the ice caps then <mandarin>那个海会要高所谓那个:na ge hai hui yao gao suo wei na ge</mandarin> the sea level will become higher mah so like say for example lah err places that are very like <mandarin>路:lu</mandarin> low ground lah they might actually become extinct completely under water


no as in there are some countries that are like in very low tide lah so to speak


(mmhmm), err okay lah so but then there's that lah I guess it is like human basically is humans being extinct themselves right


mostly lah okay so let's see !wah! this is a interesting one you are dining at a new restaurant called karma it doesn't have a menu you simply get what you deserve what will you be served


yes, I mean I kinda already have a fair share of it lah car if karma !huh!, let's see maybe the food


the food you simply get what you deserve I mean err, I mean that's what they say lah that's what they say food lah but probably ah I might get like say those burn burn stuff maybe


or maybe like say or maybe like say people just cook err cooking only the basics, possible


no ah there is like metaphorically it means that you you are like how to say you have not been treat treating others with respect and all that lor also they give you only the basics metaphorically speaking lah


err <mandarin>吃什么:chi shen me</mandarin> sia, ya I mean


!yay! don't really do like plot loser things also lah is like


ya it happens all the time, ya it actually is actually quite common place leh that's why one of the challenges in society lah is to know when to be when to be nice and helpful and when to keep to yourself


no lah it's it's how to say it comes with life experience and then is like, it's not like say <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> is a module that you must pass by this age or whatever


ya, so it's like how to say don't it's like, take your time ah, cause <mandarin>这种这种这种:zhe zhong zhe zhong zhe zhong</mandarin> life skill right eventually <mandarin>是会学到:shi hui xue dao</mandarin> that's what I believe lah


that's called leopard, leopard leopard cannot change its spots, I mean is the first I heard it like that lah but the meaning the meaning <mandarin>是一样的:shi yi yang de</mandarin> lah


what would you prefer someone with good looks or someone with a fit body


okay I phrase like it like this then K there's this guy, he super handsome but he very fat, and all that and okay then there is this guy he is very handsome <mandarin>真的会打扮吗他是肥到不可以再肥:zhen de hui da ban ma ta shi fei dao bu ke yi zai fei</mandarin> obese lah that kind or you have this guy everyday go gym six pack lah tone body everything ah but the face cannot make it like a lot of like just ugly a lot of scar lor a lot of pimple all that


which one will you prefer


so if both of them have the same ugly personality, and if both of them have the same, like, so to speak


if they are both


ah now


so now from a male perspective, from a male perspective ah honestly ah, very hard to choose eh, but err, given a choice ah I will actually go for the I would actually go more for the looks fat because


because, you know why or not because even if you are very fit right, too toned is also being too toned is also not good because you are actually err compromising your compromising some aspects of your health also


actually then


the girl choose guy they go for looks, there are people like this lah there's also like how to say


so it's not just for like <mandarin>选选扮:xuan xuan ban</mandarin> ah even like say when you are meeting a new person or you're meeting err place business opportunity and all that, having good looks right means you show to the other person or <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> you will know how to present yourself


like how to say I won't say <mandarin>把自己弄到好看:ba zi ji nong dao hao kan</mandarin> lah but it's more like say you dress yourself appropriately you know how to dress for this occasion you know how to present yourself so this alone right is already a good impression to other people


ah guy guy don't need to do makeup to, no lah is also a way of presentation [orh] because <mandarin>自然美:zi ran mei</mandarin> is a thing


can actually show that they have confidence to be themselves


ya so it's like oh then <mandarin>更何况:geng he kuang</mandarin> ah the opposite is actually a turn off at least for me lah you so it's like <mandarin>这个真的很:zhe ge zhen de hen</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>很会打扮:hen hui da ban</mandarin> ah !wah! but then the personality like super shy


or like, very crude is also a turn off, because it's like, how to say communication is a two strip


of course <mandarin>我会给你时间:wo hui gei ni shi jian</mandarin> lah but if like <mandarin>过久:guo jiu</mandarin> Liao hor and if it's still like that then is, depends on depends on the situation, I have waited for years and I have also given up in like one month


might be also because like never really get to know the person well enough or also the case that say she shut herself up she shut herself from others that kind of thing


then err that is for the if let's say they very shy lah if they are like super crude they never present themselves ah they they like, they like very #ah lian# ah is also a turn off


you'll outgrow it lah, you will outgrow one, you will outgrow it one


!wah! you all actually do that ah it doesn't happen in my secondary school lah


assembly ah


!wah!, then for the females that are very fit ah


it depends, if they are very fit


okay, my day today err not bad like err


ya like that, err <mandarin>那个面包:na ge mian bao</mandarin> peanut butter jam the strawberry one


you know sleep too late or maybe just you know <mandarin>玩手机:wan shou ji</mandarin> then after that <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> gone Liao, [orh] K


!wah! <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> leh, err


three wishes ah no sickness


ya, ya got think of it when <mandarin>没有这个病:mei you zhe ge bing</mandarin> then after that <mandarin>有这个病之后:you zhe ge bing zhi hou</mandarin> is totally err forget it man the dream just


just forget it lor <mandarin>就算:jiu suan</mandarin> Liao, ah like, don't know leh the condition <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor it appear appear like out of the nowhere poof landed on you or


ya I guess is fine like nothing new lah, [orh]


no no no no no no it's not confronting unfair score between the system, it doesn't work that way okay I'm guess and if we start which is not getting another wish then is what which, if it's third wish is not getting another wish then it's what wish


what, you think you going for the beauty pageant, world peace, I mean that's what they always say mah what do you have everything anything else to say


world peace, touch wood touch wood


what will I risk ah


drop everything but all the things that I want to risk for is like, maybe <mandarin>牺牲一点时间跟精力:xi sheng yi dian shi jian gen jing li</mandarin> lor


and maybe you know relationship, yes workaholic


because you know <mandarin>有钱就等于有要利用你的人:you qian jiu deng yu you yao li yong ni de ren</mandarin> then <mandarin>没钱就变成说你被人家利用:mei qian jiu bian cheng shuo ni bei ren jia li yong</mandarin> you know that kind of thing so it's a bit lame lah like you need to guard against people like trying to get close to you just to make friends that are one like benefit out of you lah


I want to read people's mind so I can know what they are thinking like


ya like are they like real like real real like <mandarin>真的是这样子:zhen de shi zhe yang zi</mandarin> like <mandarin>真心对你好还是:zhen xin dui ni hao hai shi</mandarin> really <mandarin>有别的企图:you bie de qi tu</mandarin> or something


<mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> Kena backstabbed a lot, like since primary school until secondary school then <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> poly then


I mean even in games right now you know this skilled and whatever, like


I wouldn't let people know


make sense, yes they will find out but there's a chance I just don't want to help lah because I can read their mind mah so I know who to help and who not to help mah so there's actually more benefit to me then, then them lah technically


time capsule, got


[orh] that kind ah I got write my diary before like what I want to achieve in the future with my boyfriend and that kind of thing but it never came true lah is that that thing like <mandarin>很很老:hen hen lao</mandarin> Liao


like


if say I never write anything before indeed


ya correct, don't want, ya


still foolish


what labels do you think society has given you, labels what you mean by, ah classify me as <mandarin>生病的不能做工的:sheng bing de bu neng zuo gong de</mandarin> because simply got this sickness so they rejected me my application then they find I unreasonable because due to this sickness <mandarin>不能去拿:bu neng qu na</mandarin> MC then I was like trying very hard to if I can go take MC I might as well come office to work right


better than ya so like, then sometimes you need to leave your job because of the sickness then your body cannot take it because of the stress and all the OT and on and off <mandarin>的那种东西之类的:de na zhong dong xi zhi lei de</mandarin> ya so it became like


at first I before I was sick right I'm a workaholic lah so is technically <mandarin>早上七点多出门晚上十一点多回来:zao shang qi dian duo chu men wan shang shi yi dian duo hui lai</mandarin> then weekends just <mandarin>出门到三更半夜才回来的那一种:chu men dao san geng ban ye cai hui lai de na yi zhong</mandarin> so is technically to <mandarin>找到我:zhao dao wo</mandarin> right you need to err book a appointment so you know can actually can have some timing to go out with me that kind of thing


like you know even my mom she was like <mandarin>找我:zhao wo</mandarin> then she was like saying !walao! <mandarin>整天都找不到你:zheng tian dou zhao bu dao ni</mandarin> then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> then she say !wah! to the point <mandarin>好像要:hao xiang yao</mandarin> book <mandarin>跟你:gen ni</mandarin> book appointment <mandarin>哪天你几点做什么:na tian ni ji dian zuo shen me</mandarin> hor then <mandarin>才抓得到你:cai zhua de dao ni</mandarin> if not [orh] is like <mandarin>你完全失踪的那一种:ni wan quan shi zong de na yi zhong</mandarin> eh


ya so you see even my own mom <mandarin>都是这个样子:dou shi zhe ge yang zi</mandarin> right friends one is like I think friends got higher chance to meet up more than my mum like even though she's like everyday <mandarin>跟我在家里相处:gen wo zai jia li xiang chu</mandarin> like we still get to see each other every day that kind of thing you know


ya technically <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> counting in the hours that you go sleep and maybe you wake up you see for that five ten minute ya that's all, ya cause <mandarin>她也是:ta ye shi</mandarin> like she <mandarin>她也是在做工:ta ye shi zai zuo gong</mandarin> mah so


what


weirdo


end result ah ya like how <mandarin>你讲的:ni jiang de</mandarin> err process <mandarin>不重要是:bu zhong yao shi</mandarin> eventually whatever you do you get to that same result that you want to get right but to me is process <mandarin>很重要:hen zhong yao</mandarin> because it's like call the learning process but eventually the result <mandarin>到底是怎样:dao di shi zen yang</mandarin> is really <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> you put put in your hard work like that then it's really


like ya


ya then you efficiency a lot then people treat you like some robot then make you like do until you got no break


ya so it's like <mandarin>如果你:ru guo ni</mandarin> very <mandarin>做工很快:zuo gong hen kuai</mandarin> then <mandarin>速度也很快:su du ye hen kuai</mandarin> like <mandarin>很勤劳:hen qin lao</mandarin> then <mandarin>因为你是:yin wei ni shi</mandarin> like newbie <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> then <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> make use of you then I feel quite bad lah then the salary wise also not very good


err, I guess its some Sashimi japanese buffet there was like it was like my first time attempting Sashimi then it was like oh my so <mandarin>好吃:hao chi</mandarin> man


then, err ya then they have like free flow a mixture of everything lah then err free flow drinks and everything then now like ten years down the road the they don't serve Sashimi anymore so it makes like the buffet not very worthwhile anymore


ya near the stadium there one


if not like then every time <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> just !wah! <mandarin>肚子好饿:du zi hao e</mandarin> just dying for it that kind of thing, ah ya <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> fully <mandarin>菜:cai</mandarin> one even the broth also <mandarin>菜:cai</mandarin> one


ticketing to


[orh] that one sounds like china like <mandarin>你没有:ni mei you</mandarin> china when <mandarin>你去那种家楼下:ni qu na zhong jia lou xia</mandarin> like, those small little restaurant not say very small like like smaller than McDonald size but


know japanese but actually like some clown like that down there


no secretly laughing at you but trying to be


ya can relate


!huh! what


ya so become <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> less <mandarin>尴尬:gan ga</mandarin> you know just like that time can err, I think if I were you I will just ask them <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> can I have like err english menu cause my <mandarin>日文真的是:ri wen zhen de shi</mandarin> CMI man


ya that's like me I I study poly got study japanese but I mean we had like those conversation ah interview and so on exams


err spelling and like those <mandarin>习字:xi zi</mandarin> and stuff then, the moment graduate already right err


confirm confirm have one what like they born in that country like <mandarin>从小到大就是住在那边:cong xiao dao da jiu shi zhu zai na bian</mandarin> then confirm <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> accent <mandarin>就会:jiu hui</mandarin> stay there like for me also mah like the accent on and off <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then last time they were like ask me if I'm a malaysian then got people ask me if I am a indonesian then <mandarin>有时候问我是不是从:you shi hou wen wo shi bu shi cong</mandarin> thailand <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> like err hi


filipino , cause singapore malay just ah malaysia just <mandarin>一个一个:yi ge yi ge</mandarin> bridge <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> ah


true blue sia


ah okay pink IC from birth is call true blue singaporean okay understand, [orh]


what, I think for the <mandarin>老一辈会:lao yi bei hui</mandarin> be sleeping watching TV and maybe <mandarin>有点钱:you dian qian</mandarin> like they will be travelling but then is like saying if <mandarin>没有人做工:mei you ren zuo gong</mandarin> who will drive the plane


what if everything is automated


party man, party until like you don't need to sleep then just eat what you want to eat because you don't need to work so assuming you don't need to work so you got a lot of money loaded with money and maybe can go casino since like okay lor <mandarin>一百块不是给你:yi bai kuai bu shi gei ni</mandarin> lor <mandarin>还是两百块:hai shi liang bai kuai</mandarin> then just going casino and try to have fun casino


ah true lah I mean <mandarin>如果懒惰:ru guo lan duo</mandarin> lor under this kind of COVID situation


but you will see everyone's daily life more often because it's like


AMSR, oh ASMR the people eating food streaming <mandarin>来很夸张:lai hen kua zhang</mandarin> like eating those <mandarin>超级大的:chao ji da de</mandarin> lobster then they just open a shell like it's so easy then they pull out the meat and deep into the sauce like they then you have the the sound you know that kind of thing


[orh] I thought it's how <mandarin>真的吃有那个:zhen de chi you na ge</mandarin>


I mean like <mandarin>他们有一些自己去:ta men you yi xie zi ji qu</mandarin> like just <mandarin>抓一只:zhua yi zhi</mandarin> lobster then they never do any seasoning then, like the lobster from the market or something lah <mandarin>然后他就直接:ran hou ta jiu zhi jie</mandarin> steam Liao <mandarin>拿出来:na chu lai</mandarin> it make it look like <mandarin>很好吃很好:hen hao chi hen hao</mandarin> then he deep the what err tartar sauce I think <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> got the chilli sauce also


then hor <mandarin>好像好像吃得很少很少:hao xiang hao xiang chi de hen shao hen shao</mandarin> but then the facial expression look like <mandarin>有点假假的感觉:you dian jia jia de gan jue</mandarin> I don't know is it just me or they just look that way or maybe they are like koreans or <mandarin>什么来的:shen me lai de</mandarin> so, yes yes <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> so it's like look a bit <mandarin>怪怪:guai guai</mandarin> also


!wah! <mandarin>让你自己去想象:rang ni zi ji qu xiang xiang</mandarin> the eating lobster the feel then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> pried <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> shell and everything


what, oh my god


eight hours straight, go shopping for eight hours straight is a torture, I only like to shop for food if you ask me to shop for clothes and everything for eight hours right


then <mandarin>这样子也不好吃:zhe yang zi ye bu hao chi</mandarin> what you everyday eating the same thing from like from monday then <mandarin>你买买:ni mai mai</mandarin> monday like you say <mandarin>买一包:mai yi bao</mandarin> noodle like from the shop one directly nice one then you is like you eating for lunch dinner breakfast lunch dinner breakfast for like <mandarin>三四天:san si tian</mandarin> then end of that <mandarin>三四天:san si tian</mandarin> right the food also doesn't taste so nice and then <mandarin>已经吃到:yi jing chi dao</mandarin> Sian like then you be like why am I like buy such a big packet to <mandarin>吃:chi</mandarin> it's just like as good as <mandarin>你一个人庆祝生日:ni yi ge ren qing zhu sheng ri</mandarin> then you go buy one <mandarin>超级:chao ji</mandarin> not say <mandarin>超级大:chao ji da</mandarin> like just those five hundred gram cake ah !wah! that one also <mandarin>够你吃:gou ni chi</mandarin> sia like <mandarin>你吃:ni chi</mandarin> for <mandarin>早餐:zao can</mandarin> then <mandarin>你吃:ni chi</mandarin> for <mandarin>午餐:wu can</mandarin> then <mandarin>你吃:ni chi</mandarin> for dessert then maybe supper then end of that finish of the cake ah I'll be like oh no I'm not eating another cake for err


like at least one year that kind of thing, !wah! <mandarin>你有这样多材料要买:ni you zhe yang duo cai liao yao mai</mandarin> meh


that one got the preservatives like, ya <mandarin>不健康:bu jian kang</mandarin> lor


my skin will drop


ya, ya oh I know what is the worst torture already you know take got this car competition where you stick your hand at the position


I think so then after that err need to stand there for until the last standing man, but I see that like if people keep on go winning car like kind of thing it will be a everyday activity what


what is cathay


oh I know, no it reminds me of the steven Lim <mandarin>的那个他的:de na ge ta de</mandarin> champion belt <mandarin>那个金色:na ge jin se</mandarin> so that kind of <mandarin>那种样子的:na zhong yang zi de</mandarin> belt


sorry, build a wall around Yishun just like what my friend say all the time


record <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> [orh]


oh my god


!wah! then how the Mediocre people handle him though, !huh! just <mandarin>不管他这样:bu guan ta zhe yang</mandarin> ah, but then is like did he <mandarin>拿一封信:na yi feng xin</mandarin> or something to prove that you all asked me to


then how, then <mandarin>他怎样拿什么证据:ta zen yang na shen me zheng ju</mandarin> to say that they actually invited him


ah true agree


ah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> when my friends steal my food, when he was at know, err it happens a lot, like, I mean <mandarin>不是说我小气:bu shi shuo wo xiao qi</mandarin> don't want to share but there is like <mandarin>明明就是我们自己:ming ming jiu shi wo men zi ji</mandarin> order <mandarin>自己的食物:zi ji de shi wu</mandarin> but then <mandarin>他还是:ta hai shi</mandarin> like take mine


like <mandarin>拿一直拿这样:na yi zhi na zhe yang</mandarin> then become <mandarin>说我自己的:shuo wo zi ji de</mandarin> things lah like you order noodle and ingredients right then become the noodle <mandarin>剩下很多:sheng xia hen duo</mandarin> then ingredient <mandarin>已近差不多吃完:yi jin cha bu duo chi wan</mandarin> is not even <mandarin>被你自己吃完:bei ni zi ji chi wan</mandarin> is like your friend come and just take and eat


well being sweet sherry everywhere


oh <mandarin>那应该很不对:na ying gai hen bu dui</mandarin> how how old was that


like, but okay lah that one


ya I just remember we snatching over pencil and things like <mandarin>我借你:wo jie ni</mandarin> pencil so <mandarin>你要跟我好:ni yao gen wo hao</mandarin> if not <mandarin>我不借你:wo bu jie ni</mandarin> pencil


ah got you buy low then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> sell high then, ya because you cheapskate


ya then I sell to the other person


ya I heard I think I heard before


the the first bidder or the last bidder or the second bidder, then, how


okay so that's one person won


ya just like us you know I I pay for the food but he always make me pay, then <mandarin>他没有请我吃:ta mei you qing wo chi</mandarin> so I angry, or maybe <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> we eat fast food then he steal all my fries then still dare to ask me ah <mandarin>你要吃吗明明就是我的:ni yao chi ma ming ming jiu shi wo de</mandarin> fries then eat until the very last err <mandarin>最后一根薯条:zui hou yi gen shu tiao</mandarin> right <mandarin>才问我你还要吃吗:cai wen wo ni hai yao chi ma</mandarin> then I stare at him


err being petty, you will go extinct because <mandarin>我嫉妒你你嫉妒我:wo ji du ni ni ji du wo</mandarin> so eventually you turn into violence and you will hire someone to murder the other person or do something bad to the person so you can get the the thing that <mandarin>你嫉妒:ni ji du</mandarin> to you lah like it's the example like money or assets or certain things like I have no idea like the looks you know they go korean do whatever


ya so they murder all of each other on just like the bank robbery rob already the people kill kill kill kill each other then the population goes down like that lah, then eventually they got no food and then they go eat each other cannibalism


like the dinosaur


then you have traffic accident in the sky


you will take months eh, got years meh <mandarin>很夸张:hen kua zhang</mandarin> eh


but you can sit boat also, no lah the normal boat


but is not as much as using car and everything like it's just one vehicle


I mean you don't have traffic accident in the high but you will have traffic accident on the road and the sky because sky is a control system by <mandarin>那个飞机:na ge fei ji</mandarin> the tower then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> roads <mandarin>是那个:shi na ge</mandarin> traffic light the traffic light can malfunction then the <mandarin>飞机:fei ji</mandarin> one can be human fault


but then the <mandarin>船:chuan</mandarin> one like very hard because it's you got this radar sensor thing then <mandarin>你还没有到就看得到那个船:ni hai mei you dao jiu kan de dao na ge chuan</mandarin> then but not so much because you can detect the thing before, like <mandarin>他们如果是开去:ta men ru guo shi kai qu</mandarin> other country they wouldn't be like driving very fast also mah so even if they collide right it won't be like <mandarin>很严重:hen yan zhong</mandarin> like <mandarin>飞机:fei ji</mandarin> like <mandarin>撞:zhuang</mandarin> each other like then explode in the sky or the <mandarin>车:che</mandarin> just flip over then you know that kind of


you won't have those <mandarin>连环:lian huan</mandarin> accidents like <mandarin>车撞车:che zhuang che</mandarin> then you have like five six car together then like


then like the forest fires <mandarin>烧烧:shao shao</mandarin> all the trees then become like no oxygen then temperature go up and that kind of thing


like the antarctica no, ya like have one game called the what A country that


that country got flooded by the sea, like went under the sea, ya


what do you think you will be served, I mean you


is that even food


!wow!


then like that I think I'll have a buffet


I don't know all the good food that I want to eat, cause I hasn't been treating people err like <mandarin>不好:bu hao</mandarin> or something like they offend me I just give them one two three four chance and then to the point I just cut them off like I don't really do anything bad to them that kind thing


but I still got lot of karma back from them like they still like not say like karma lah like <mandarin>对我不好:dui wo bu hao</mandarin> and stuff like <mandarin>很埋怨我:hen man yuan wo</mandarin> like I never do this never do that is just that how people <mandarin>你帮他一次他觉得你很好你每次帮他:ni bang ta yi ci ta jue de ni hen hao ni mei ci bang ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>有一次你不帮他:you yi ci ni bu bang ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>他就觉得你不会:ta jiu jue de ni bu hui</mandarin> Liao so that is my situation that kind lah


yes, ya so I really don't like it lah like <mandarin>就是这样很:jiu shi zhe yang hen</mandarin> Jialat


!wah! I need to learn this man <mandarin>真的是不行了:zhen de shi bu xing le</mandarin> I've been like made use of so much, to the point I just !aiya! give up on life lah <mandarin>你们要怎样就怎样:ni men yao zen yang jiu zen yang</mandarin> lor I really don't care what well whatever makes you all happy then <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor I sacrifice lor


!wah! I been re-module-ing this module for like err


since poly till now I'm still re-module-ing this module


you believe ah I don't believe in it leh cause it's like, tiger cannot change its stripes ah, not tiger meh, ya that tiger cannot change its stripes mah


like <mandarin>没有错:mei you cuo</mandarin> what, is the same, ya


neither I will prefer someone with a good heart


I wouldn't pick either, photos, then must find some other flaws or if really cannot find flaws then is really to see whether if he if the person click with you that kind of thing like


so you already based on that already or if say both are like the same ugly and fat, eh no handsome and fat, the body's nice and face are ugly ya it's really comes down to personality and after that it's really like how much you click already


that's predicted


you mean like when they go choose guy or you mean the guy choose girl that go for looks


I mean girl leh, but <mandarin>自然不美:zi ran bu mei</mandarin> eh


oh !wow! okay can


!huh! super shy also will turn you off, ya but then super shy is not her fault what maybe she will become better when <mandarin>你们熟了:ni men shu le</mandarin> then she's not so shy like more willing to talk more and express herself more <mandarin>这样子:zhe yang zi</mandarin> then


it's okay what I feel, how long is <mandarin>久:jiu</mandarin> sia, like what


!wow!, I don't know man


but then last time we all come from the #ah lian# generation you know the #ah beng# #ah lian# in secondary school


like, sorry, but it's still damn funny to to look at them doing all the silly things now you think back like they going to the female toilet or the like no the female go to the male toilet then <mandarin>去踢那个门:qu ti na ge men</mandarin> then after that going to wipe the meal like a bit err question mark question mark question mark


it happens in my secondary school until they went to beat up the, the discipline master it err he went they went to scratch his car then then the discipline master got beat up and went to hospital for three months before he got discharge then they got suspended no they got public caning in the like the morning


ya but then the the student like never even cry like nothing happen ya lah [orh] okay lor, ya then it's like <mandarin>很夸张:hen kua zhang</mandarin> lor


I think that [one] cannot make it cause like <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> men fit as in muscular then you like then look already cannot make it then the body like muscular <mandarin>很恐怖有没有:hen kong bu you mei you</mandarin> I feel


, why the auntie so <mandarin>凶:xiong</mandarin> one


err what did I eat for lunch, oh I indulge myself in some <mandarin>可口面:ke kou mian</mandarin> today, I added, two eggs, ya two eggs, no I was at home cooking baking


I made some cakes today, I made err an earl grey cake, err I spent most of the time actually making the frosting, and doing the frosting


it's err much harder than it looks lah, err, I mean I do work


small like event jobs here and there, but, no I don't miss working at all I I love the freedom, yup, , err a lot of free time to do what I want I want to play games I want to


like <mandarin>你做工的时候:ni zuo gong de shi hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>一定要做周末的:yi ding yao zuo zhou mo de</mandarin> mah then like when you work on weekends it's like not flexible is it's not a flexible timing like, to meet your friends


, but I work I mean I studied, and work, F&B my whole life so like finding a pure weekday, office hour job is kind of like impossible cause people want to err eat on the weekends mah


where, err my last job ah


and before that I was working at a cafe making coffee, for about a year and a half, I would say I fit in in the NTUC environment more eh


because, err, err I'm a bit less knowledgeable in the world of coffee, so I feel a bit like <mandarin>不自在:bu zi zai</mandarin> oh


yeah


different, , err, if my dreams may come true maybe I'll stay at home forever to be a home baker #tai tai# <mandarin>休想有没有:xiu xiang you mei you</mandarin>


!hey!, err, but I also have work some jobs err pertaining to kids as well, such as err facilitator or like a camp


ya a camp facilitator or like factory tour guide, but do you usually have a preference for the kind of kids you work with like the age group or


(mmhmm) so for me I think it's the opposite spectrum for from you like <mandarin>你之前讲的:ni zhi qian jiang de</mandarin> you usually work with like kids kindergarten age


like the two year olds which


yeah so for me usually the kids I take are like primary school level at least, so I I feel like there are there are pretty easy and fun bunch also because like


err you give them a little bit of sweets as reward and they'll do anything, , yeah and they're , some of them are actually pretty intelligent, err in a sense that, you know like some of them are really talented in like you know even maths or whatever


ya ya like more event based


so two year olds are too old for you right ya but actually when I used to take like the seven to thirteen year olds for


camps, so uh we we'd be stuck with them like, so it'll be like seven consecutive days with the kids actually, but we don't even get to go home we have to sleep with them sound fun to you


yeah it was okay lah I wouldn't say it was it's just the, the scariest part is like, when you get like <mandarin>调皮的孩子:tiao pi de hai zi</mandarin> in among your bunch and it's a group of like, one facilitator to like about


twelve children, ya and then err when you get a very naughty one once in a while, yeah because we do have outings like we do go out to like gardens by the bay which is like immensely crowded or like then ah from the gardens by the bay we have to walk


walk all the way to the MRT, with like ya so it's like you are bringing around a bunch of children which would be okay if they do stick together all the time, but like once in a while you do have like, one or two boys who want to who always insist on playing catching like throughout the whole day


okay lah I would say that the girls usually err do will <mandarin>牵你的手:qian ni de shou</mandarin> most of them do err


that was quite cute ya is very sweet usually the girls at this age are very sweet


!ee! I think I would say, a bit maybe a bit of both like I would say in school I was more <mandarin>乖乖:guai guai</mandarin> because


err, Pa was also in the school at the same time like as a teacher at the secondary side, so I couldn't really do anything so but like since the teachers already saw me as a <mandarin>乖乖:guai guai</mandarin> like, but I didn't really have to do much lah


, on the other hand I would say, I was a bit more cheeky cause I was very like a very how to say, like a very hyper, child like always running around, also in kindergarten I also used to get caught and punished for playing catching with two boys


still remember their names were Sean and Ian we used to run around up and down the stairs under and over the tables playing Power Rangers , so in our kindergarten every time we got caught doing that it was deemed a dangerous activity and they will put clothes pin clothes peg on our shirt


to indicate that we were big we were naughty for the day


so it was really secondary school and I think just because I was a bit more a bit of a more active and chatty kid in class, that some of the teacher saw me as a very I don't know a naughty girl or something


but there was once the first time I got caught for using my ipod in a class, uh the teacher confiscated it and he was like so, so adamant that like <mandarin>那不是我第一次:na bu shi wo di yi ci</mandarin> like <mandarin>我第一次:wo di yi ci</mandarin> so he was just like


err this not your first time, ah like I need to punish you then I was just like but it is my first time, err, I think I don't think there was any punishment because it was really my first time


still remember it was doing art class, I didn't like the teacher after that


microphone,


such an interesting story so strange how the teacher would like try to reprimand you for like, taking interest in cells lah when it's


when that's the thing she's trying to teach you what, maybe she's a bit too stringent I feel


actually I do miss my poly days a lot, I will say I was given a lot of freedom as compared to other poly kid because like


throughout the three years like everybody mostly has like, like <mandarin>整整三年:zheng zheng san nian</mandarin> of studies while mine was only two years because my last year was all intern and, like work-based lah, but other than that I would say


I would not want to go back to like year one year two or even before that like secondary primary school, cause like or <mandarin>我真的不是学习的料:wo zhen de bu shi xue xi de liao</mandarin> lah like I hate exams, to the core and !wah! PE suck more than anything eh !wah! I still remember during NAPFA


I used to walk the two point four run, it was so bad to the extent that the teacher didn't even make me finish my run he just, said that I was cutting into his own break and then he just let me off for recess and he didn't even make me retake it at the next few PE lessons while like when the other students had to retake it because he knew I was still gonna walk anyway


yeah


err for me I'm actually very competitive so if it's like, pure like exercise for the, sake of exercising like <mandarin>比如说:bi ru shuo</mandarin> like <mandarin>跑步:pao bu</mandarin> ah jogging or, or sprinting I'll really hate that man I dread it but if you make me like


participate in like err, like actual like game, or like competitive sports I will put in my my hundred and ten percent, and like what soccer and all this I actually did join a soccer competition in my year one in poly


and my team actually came in first, and then also my year one while I was trying to find a CCA I did try a lot of things including err like dragon boat also lah or not ODAC was it canoe, yeah I I gave up after one day it was too tiring


others the, yeah


yeah I feel like sacrificing weekends is one thing but if it's for something you really enjoy then why not


so for me in poly but my biggest CCA was like, err, participating in the students' union and I like for that I can sure, surely say that I have no regrets about it even though I burn like almost every day on that CCA


like every yeah I would, err have, like you will always find me in the club room, yeah


yeah yeah definitely worth it like I feel like it was it brought up a lot of character like character development in me I would say like, err


but I mean I feel like out of everything you do gain something lah so at least now you know what, where your limits are or, where like what you should be what you shouldn't have to force yourself to be


and at the very least I mean I'm I'm sure you make a lot of very good friends right


err I feel like that's a part of adulting lah like when <mandarin>你长大后:ni zhang da hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你也是:ni ye shi</mandarin>


your your goals are different lah you don't want to like always go out everyday play with friends make new friends like you have enough friends that you it already lah


but I mean


so it's a dream of yours to travel overseas alone lah, do you think by what age do you think you want to achieve that


but you have you have you heard though that , like the airline companies are like, considering launching a service like a flight to nowhere so it'll be like about three hour flights, and then like <mandarin>你不会真正去别的国家:ni bu hui zhen zheng qu bie de guo jia</mandarin> lah you just fly around there


and like a lot of people err like they're getting a lot of backlash for it because a lot of people say it's very , environmentally harmful but then again, err <mandarin>造成来飞飞在空间的:zao cheng lai fei fei zai kong jian de</mandarin> so if they don't fly for too long right the parts will slowly deteriorate and like the and when we do start flying again commercially


that, it will be almost impossible to identify which are the broken parts, ya so like now people online are trying to rally ideas to think of how to save like airline companies and stuff like that, when you cannot fly there are no flights to anywhere I mean it it but they do still have to fly


I would say, best memory on the flight , the I don't think any of them really stick up to me but maybe some, some with err more leg room maybe a better movie selection


, so like the time , it's not enough for me to watch a movie, or like maybe I just play games on my phone for awhile listen the music or take a nap


or the worst would be like, definitely there was once on this plane so it was already very crowded and I was given an aisle seat, so I , getting an aisle seat with no leg room is bad, but it's terrible when you sit like one hour away from the from the <mandarin>厕所:ce suo</mandarin> lah then like every passenger who wanted to <mandarin>上厕所:shang ce suo</mandarin> that they had to


knock pass me, knock pass my chair you know squeeze through the narrow aisle just to get to the toilet


ah yeah definitely for sure cause like I don't know if you have heard but like, there's this, maybe it's a syndrome or maybe it's a I don't know what what what you call it but, everytime <mandarin>我上飞机飞起的时候:wo shang fei ji fei qi de shi hou</mandarin> like my ear will get very painfully stuck ya so I like you know like sometimes when you're when you have a cold then you're like your ear get stuck and it's very very painful


yeah, I will say for that we did take a better airline, so I guess the flying was more stable the plane was bigger so I didn't really have err like there was no, like I guess small turbulence or whatever


so yeah it was a very comfortable flight and the movie I think that was the one with the good movie selection, and the time permitted was good enough for me to watch two full movie


I will say out of all the countries I've visited, japan definitely does have the best food


it's very crunchy and all the Sashimi there is so fresh and it's not very expensive like considering like if you go to market


the only complain I would have is that, japan is fraught with stairs like everywhere you go is always like the staircase and staircase and staircases, err ya ya you could say that, price point is about the same like both of them aren't very


like, I wouldn't say they are very very affordable countries to go to as compared to maybe like thailand, yeah


at least the things are exciting, then in hong kong there were a few night markets which I okay was quite


I enjoyed walking round and round and round but there was barely anything you get which was fine as long as it's, like interesting to look at but generally they were a lot of like shopping malls which is very much like singapore, it's like if you walk into like MBS


, for me I do prefer, I mean like I like the comfort, in visiting neighbouring and like, err neighboring countries just because it's more affordable and I don't have to worry so much when I'm spending


overseas, but I think maybe, I mean it's, really near and I think the culture is pretty cool, like from working in the coffee industry


uh I did learn that australians are very coffee before, like they're very big on the coffee scene and singapore has much to learn from them, I feel like their coffee and cafe culture is like, want to visit lah definitely


yeah of course, err yeah more of the cafe culture but I I do hear that , that the the cost of living is pretty expensive or I did actually forget one place that I wanted to visit though


actually have been wanting to go to china, I it's not from this is probably not a very popular destination now or this year at the very least but I I love that so does this delicacy I got from a china friend before, it's a <mandarin>麻辣鸭脖子:ma la ya bo zi</mandarin> so it's like hot and spicy duck neck


ever since then like <mandarin>我一直一直有在吃那个鸭脖子:wo yi zhi yi zhi you zai chi na ge ya bo zi</mandarin> there is a shop near our house that sells it, and I always buy like at least once a month just to eat snack, you know satisfy my cravings, and also like I really love like hotpot


I don't really want to visit like where like the, the, where like #Hai Di Lao# originated from all this kind of thing, yeah and and we definitely we'd


ya as as opposed to going, to like a foreign country like maybe like say, vietnam


maybe I would say that has something more to do with, the places they visit I mean I'm sure that there are shopping malls or whatever will have toilet doors


I mean, err can you imagine going to any shopping mall like err maybe a higher and shopping mall like <mandarin>他们的厕所没有门的:ta men de ce suo mei you men de</mandarin> I don't think that's very plausible or maybe they were at the market or something, yah


ah then you do what every every singaporean does ah just hover [loh]


, , I mean it's fine if you are with a girl friend but I guess, , ya better better with girlfriends and her friend


there was once, , there was once at a school camp, the toilet door actually, dropped on one of the facilitators, then knocked the guy's head, yeah, yeah so the the door just fell on her head


I can't remember who it was but it just fell on one of the, the camp camper or the facilitators head because they didn't install the door rightly something like that, they had to call the the like ambulance, you know you can't be too you can never be too safe in the camp like when there's people in charge of you


ya they have to account for you lah


then


the same girl


that must have been the worst camp of that girl's life man, the individual buns


or for me I think I've been to a lot of camps but not so much like outdoor camps like as you mention, more like school camps leadership camps you know this kind of like fun camps, I mean you go through a lot of that when you are in poly right


ya then , I think, like there was this once we were all at like the field playing activities and there was one of the


the camp , like the committee members actually, he was just hanging around a sport that nobody else was at under the goal post when the goal post suddenly like, knocked, knocked his head like it just fell down on his head, but the big goal post like apparently the wind was like blowing or whatever he just he just got unlucky lah


yeah, so that was, pretty terrifying they just stopped all the games there then like, I think there was a girl who saw it and cried, cause there was err apparently like quite a lot of blood coming from his head but like he was totally fine after that


(mmhmm) I think that was probably his worst camp in his life


I didn't have an experience like that also in secondary school if you don't remember I was in the science lab I got caught chewing gum, the teacher told me to spit it out so I went to the dustbin to spit it out and when I like I had to like bend over to reach the dustbin


and when I like stood straight up again like, and I didn't even know it happen until like <mandarin>我回到我座位那边:wo hui dao wo zuo wei na bian</mandarin> then I felt like my head was a bit wet


so when I touched the spot it was bloody, yeah and that was when I knew (ppl), yeah luckily nothing happened to me no permanent brain damage thank god or maybe there was


oh it was okay lah like generally the kids, I guess they <mandarin>蛮听话:man ting hua</mandarin> lah today


but then auntie's lunch was not good lah, like err today she cook, err you know the <mandarin>青菜:qing cai</mandarin> that the very boring one


then, then actually I didn't know she set aside a portion like without the vegetable for me because like <mandarin>我不吃菜:wo bu chi cai</mandarin> mah, but then I didn't know lah and then I still go into the kitchen and then I call eh auntie err you eat already <mandarin>吃饱了吗:chi bao le ma</mandarin> then, she said !aiya! err not not free not free never eat


then like I hint to her that I'm there to collect the food already but then she didn't say anything so I just took the bowl that she presented there [loh], then I take already I eat so I gave my colleague all the the <mandarin>青菜:qing cai</mandarin> then, later the auntie say err, eh <mandarin>你吃了吗:ni chi le ma</mandarin> she suddenly ask me then I like uh


err yeah, then <mandarin>他讲李李老师来了都没有没有饭吃:ta jiang li li lao shi lai le dou mei you mei you fan chi</mandarin> then auntie say like <mandarin>怎么可能:zen me ke neng</mandarin> then I say or err !oops! like oh !ow! so


I guess <mandarin>李老师:li lao shi</mandarin> only had like the chicken wings to eat, but then I had the, wings and the vegetable lah which I give away [loh], ya lah then what to do never mind luckily never scold me [loh] what do you eat for lunch were you home


oh you cook ah I thought you went on to eat


, but it it turned out nice lah so that's good I I can't wait to eat it, so now you're <mandarin>你现在没有做工:ni xian zai mei you zuo gong</mandarin> lah so, do you miss working


!huh! <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> leh


that's true but how about you find a job that just work weekday lah


so the last job you were working where


oh


coffee ah I know Kopi O Kopi C, like that ah auntie Kopi, but it's interesting that you, like <mandarin>做不一样的:zuo bu yi yang de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin>


like your NTUC and the cafe <mandarin>有不一样的地方:you bu yi yang de di fang</mandarin> like I think like my job is always been <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> like <mandarin>一样的:yi yang de</mandarin> [loh] it's always with children, so first was in a playground also deal with children, err then after that is childcare now also with all the <mandarin>小孩子:xiao hai zi</mandarin> [loh]


like I cannot see myself doing something, , do you see yourself doing anything else after this


, err like actually I see the, the primary school kids like very annoying and also like <mandarin>不可爱:bu ke ai</mandarin> like that lah like not (ugh) like I remember myself like in primary school when I


like very bossy very teacher's pet very like if not like very like <mandarin>顽皮:wan pi</mandarin> that kind of like I purposely want to !wah! act cool ah, so I thought like like so now I also think like not cute lor then secondary school even worse like, bad attitude ah difficult to deal with so like my favourite will definitely be


six and below I I feel like the younger the better [loh] like so now I'm taking the, two year olds then I think they are quite fun lah but like sometimes really !wah!, really <mandarin>很皮啊很皮:hen pi a hen pi</mandarin> there's like this girl in my class she


she just whole day like she won't listen to you [loh], then, you tell her to do, to do like whatever you ask her to do ask her go let's go change diaper also don't want to follow go and play playground like if you walk there on the way and something she want to do she will just run there and do


so like recently we found like this tactic like she's scared of like, like like spiders, so we always whole day like pretend we we the my <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> she took one plastic bag, and then inside she put the toilet paper then she use marker and draw one black black dot on the


toilet paper, then every time like, she the the girl misbehave then she'll be like, err <mandarin>蜘蛛我给你蜘蛛:zhi zhu wo gei ni zhi zhu</mandarin> ah I give you the spider I give you the spider then she will then the girl get scared lah so like she'll , like <mandarin>他会比较听话这样:ta hui bi jiao ting hua zhe yang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>因为怕:yin wei pa</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>会哭:hui ku</mandarin> lah <mandarin>哭之后也不会这样皮:ku zhi hou ye bu hui zhe yang pi</mandarin> ah


so I don't know if it's the right or wrong way, but as long as she listen lah at least makes my day, a bit, easier to manage lah, but at the end of the day like <mandarin>我觉得他们都很可爱所以:wo jue de ta men dou hen ke ai suo yi</mandarin> like


like, angry also cannot be angry unhappy also cannot be unhappy [loh], so do you work usually work with like a certain age group of children too


okay lah but then I think your your jobs are usually more, short term right, so I think that's a bit of the difference also because like I spend like the whole day with, like as a teacher I whole day with their children so, it makes like more sense to take the younger ones because


like, so, but then like <mandarin>你拿大班:ni na da ban</mandarin> then the kids they are more


like they understand they're starting to understand things they will go home and then like sometimes, because they are also young so they understand yet they're young then they


teacher scold me today but then they never then if sometimes even worse they don't want to admit that they are wrong then they like why then they say I I <mandarin>我没有做错事啊:wo mei you zuo cuo shi a</mandarin> like like, so then we have a lot of explaining to do but then if it's like the two year olds like


anything happens like barely like it's almost like, never will a child go home and like <mandarin>跟妈妈投诉啊跟爸爸讲:gen ma ma tou su a gen ba ba jiang</mandarin> but then recently I also think like, this, we take advantage of their like


ya like the <mandarin>傻傻:sha sha</mandarin> like that but then slowly we forget and we realize that the children are also like growing up, she, she just suddenly like we were just having free play time then they had those like music tambourine then she started to like


like hit on the tambourine like at her friend then we see the face like, like damn angry then she say, err, sit down you sit down like that at her friend she was shouting at her friend then she say no more <mandarin>爸爸妈咪:ba ba ma mi</mandarin> no more <mandarin>爸爸妈咪:ba ba ma mi</mandarin> you don't go home later no more teacher then we realise oh no like


, so !oops! then we have another kid also


she, I think she didn't want to eat the tea break or something then, like err the teacher put her in the next door class and and said that she was naughty which is actually err, like the note that it's like the end were the naughty is something we shouldn't be saying lah it's like a labeling term or something like that


then later when the parents ask then because she's not those like #gong gong# one she's like those


it's just dangerous I feel maybe next time I should just take the infants lah


(ugh)


ya you see so like it's difficult like, but then you say that at this age


like if sometime it doesn't work so what do you do like !huh! <mandarin>来过来我跟你牵手:lai guo lai wo gen ni qian shou</mandarin> also they will not like agree with you what, they will not then you just change [loh]


so sweet


so like you are talking about seven to thirteen so


, quite funny this gives me like ideas to do with my children, but I also think, I feel that I was also quite like balance like but I feel like there was a very drastic change after err Ptwo lah


like in Ptwo I was really like those <mandarin>乖乖啊要听老师我要做老师的助理我要帮你老师:guai guai a yao ting lao shi wo yao zuo lao shi de zhu li wo yao bang ni lao shi</mandarin> come I help you take your books, err teacher you see she never do her homework I feel like I was like very much like that in primary two


I I'm not sure why , then after that like Pthree I met this friend Valerie then I think she was also like, she was named like the notorious girl so everyone will say <mandarin>他很坏蛋这样:ta hen huai dan zhe yang</mandarin> lah so she liked to run around I think she was also like knowing her now and she has like ADHD lah so


I don't know but somehow like actually in Ptwo when we first met right we weren't classmates but then I caught her, hiding the badminton rackets like at the back of the hall, then I went I actually went up to her and said oh hor <mandarin>我跟老师讲:wo gen lao shi jiang</mandarin>


, so like I really hated her I think because like you know when you are like the <mandarin>乖:guai</mandarin> Kia, then you don't like all these like like <mandarin>顽皮的孩子:wan pi de hai zi</mandarin> cause you think like !wah! so bad ah you very bad I don't wanna be your friend so naughty, but then somehow in Pthree when we became classmates then


I don't know there was like this perspective change I guess I don't know it suddenly felt like cool to be like, be with her kind of thing so we became quite good friends then after that, like, because like you say right like #pa#'s a teacher but then by then he was no longer teaching at at the school


yet like there were a lot of teachers that still knew him lor so, so like we were in the


science lab I think he was my science teacher this old man was like #pa#'s friend lor or like colleague


after school he actually called Papa lor, then call already then Papa come and scold me lor, then I remember like, like less like subsequent lessons with this teacher, like he will always like say I will call your father


so I remember like that time we used to stay like in the old house then we would I stayed I I slept on the loft right, so next to the loft like if you press your ear against the the wall you can actually hear, like


for the teacher to call Papa, and then actually like recently I I did ask Pa like like !wah! I remember ah that time the teacher whole day call you like you're on speed dial leh just because you are their friend


and then Papa said, so now I know like all my tricks I tell the children like, like like err later you don't need to go home and then the then the children will cry right then I think !wah! I was also like that leh


like people say I call your father then I scared already , but think after that it was more like, balance lor, it was fun lah actually, but I also don't think I was too wild so, I think our parents are very


so what happened so what's the punishment


art class , I think like I remember that time we had science err class also in secondary school, then like we use the microphones so like, eh microphone


the what is it called microscope ya then like we look it then we were like checking cells ah then I thought it was really very cool lah so


then like I guess cause school not supposed to useful phone then the teacher was so strict about it she actually took my phone, and then she asked me what I did then I said oh I I took picture of the cell then like


then she just said like you cannot use your phone in class, she brought my me to the general officer and she actually gave it to like the, the OM ah the, what's her name, she I don't know then after that like the OM was like quite scary


then so after her lesson she really, like ask me to go general office to take like my phone then I don't want <mandarin>真的打给打电话:zhen de da gei da dian hua</mandarin> lah then I thought like, I cried lah okay I don't know why I was so scared of like our parents last time


cause actually after that I cried cause I was so scared like Papa would like, so I I like !huh! so I cried lah on the spot then after that go home right then later, strangely enough maybe because like I don't know suddenly my parents realize that I'm old enough so they didn't scold me they actually lah ask me what happen


and then I said like I took picture of the cell lah cause it look cool mah, they really never scold ah and I thought like yeah it's reasonable because, like <mandarin>我是对学习关关于学习的东西有兴趣对:wo shi dui xue xi guan guan yu xue xi de dong xi you xing qu dui</mandarin> mah, then like you scold me this kind of thing then of course I will lose interest in it what no wonder I fail my my science lah


in O levels [loh], ya lor it's really not flexible lah like you should you can tell me the next time you should ask or something lor


but then no lah she really just like rules are rules then she's just like go, , I'm glad like I don't longer have to like live in this kind of like system where you are treated that okay you were a kid you got all these like rules you have to follow but then


quite scary also lah I feel, you think you do you prefer being back in secondary school or in school even


I think I feel like PE was a very big regret for me like, I think I was like you lor maybe it's like I really feel and I think I know that , my skills in like I'm not so good at sports so


knowing the fact that I know that I'm not good at it made me like , then like got like, what is it called have two left feet kind of thing like !wah! very embarrassing especially since all my friends were like


!wah! in hockey ah softball ah, then, so of course every time I always like #kei kei# lah act like !wah! like <mandarin>我不管这样子:wo bu guan zhe yang zi</mandarin> I just act cool but actually inside is like


then I actually after that in poly I joined the dragon boat team then, I I still hate it till today I still hate sports I still like if you ask me to run I'll still look at you like !huh!, like <mandarin>你讲真的吗:ni jiang zhen de ma</mandarin> that kind of thing, but then like, during that period in poly when I was like very fit then I realise oh actually you know it's actually quite a lot of fun maybe I should have like


put in a bit more effort, instead of like getting onto teachers nerves I guess, and like !wah! like so so irritating lah I guess but then in poly, it's very different lah you said that you really like your poly days compared to I think other schooling time but then like


compared to you I think I hated poly the most , I think was mainly because of the dragon boat I think because like, I wanted to do something that, like I wanted to


be different, like and try something that I I've never done then and to prove to myself that I can be someone that I'm not lah, like like a sporty person cause you know you always see those like sporty people then you think !wow! so cool eh like I I guess that's how I view my friends lor


then after that go inside right then like !wah! so <mandarin>凶:xiong</mandarin> leh like I also don't want to do, whole day run here run there gym here gym there !wah! I tell you, , I I realized that like, monday to friday in school studying


saturday to saturday and sunday the weekend is like, then, then <mandarin>真是累死我真的:zhen shi lei si wo zhen de</mandarin> you know, so I guess you never like sports after that


but I think I realized that I'm a very like egoistic person like err, I joined and then like you said lah it was really very tiring lah and I hated it really but I think it was really like the


like <mandarin>我不要:wo bu yao</mandarin> like, ah <mandarin>一点点就这样:yi dian dian jiu zhe yang</mandarin> then so stayed [loh] and then really stay !wah! I <mandarin>忍:ren</mandarin> until three years you know to think about it already is really like a joke lah to me


to hate and like !wah! this thing, and stay there for three years, so, err, actually I also tried err canoeing but not sure why this time the ego didn't set you maybe I was really too scared, maybe so like err


I went for one land training and then like it was like so tough but then yeah ego so I stayed for the first sea training, and then the sea training I was like shaking and shaking like just kept like shaking cause I was so scared I think, and then I capsized and fell into the water


so then when you step on it it feels like you are you are sinking, so it's very scary ah it's like I can swim, and okay I wouldn't say err I'm very confident like


but I I I will survive kind of thing lah but it's like, cause it's clear I can see what's below but I think being in the reservoir or being in the sea there's this fear lah, so after capsizing then like every time I came back on like I would just cap again lor


so after that day I'm just like nope, I was really too scared to go back but then like I think for dragon boat because it's it wasn't so much of a fear thing, it was more of err , resilience or like or you can


how was was how to say that how to like, go through the pain lah pain is one thing and like fear is another thing, so it was a tough three years but err do I regret it may be, I still think


like working now like the weekends are so important then you think !wah! I sacrifice three years or weekends for what, just for my face you know


so was it worth it, yes lah


, I also think like like joining the, it made me very scared there was a lot of toxic relationships there that now I feel like I was very extroverted and I really like


love that about myself but then now is like becoming more and more introverted is like, it's something that I cannot help and I guess it's me so I should be accepting myself but it's like, something that, I I wish did not happen lah did not have to happen that I have to become like this


good friends have some, not many I guess there were a lot of friends but you lose a lot on the way but I also think is a part of, growing up <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> <mandarin>学到谁是真正的朋友:xue dao shei shi zhen zheng de peng you</mandarin> lah then I guess it's also


it's not always the best to I think like last time like mum will always joke even now she'll say ha but last time you always say you got nine best friend, then like , so I guess yeah it makes sense now but sometimes it's even like when my friends ask me out then I'm just like err, you know it's like it'll be FOMO but at the same time it's just like err I'd rather just like


ya so I wanted to like deem myself as the introvert but then that day mom had a very, interesting point cause like I'm very eager to, travel like solo and meet meet new friends overseas then mom said that's something I will never do as an introvert


then I realise oh yeah ah maybe my like extrovert self is still like somewhere there I guess


!wah! I wanted to do it like this year or next year man but because of the, !wah! the COVID I tell you then, sometimes I just like tell myself !aiya! <mandarin>不要想了:bu yao xiang le</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不会发生的:bu hui fa sheng de</mandarin> lah it's like, it was like really this year was like my best year for me like


like this few years it's like you know the the use is like !wow! like when you turn like twenty then it's like oh you can do so many things your parents are not it's like you don't have so many commitments like, technically with ours financial stability at home I I like the job is for my future


but at the same time you don't need like, I don't need every month I can save so much because I don't need to pay for rent I don't need pay my bills kind of thing, cause like very lucky lah but, so I thought this year I can like oh I can go overseas I wanted take like two grad trips to like err korea taiwan go with my friends


then is then err the trips were already booked in fact, I thought like, I was really very excited then it's like the day before then like the cases in korea hit err one thousand


then like I think it wasn't I think I felt like, but then it was because like we had six five six of us going then after that one back out then after that almost everyone backed out except like my friend and I then we like


I guess it wasn't really like err a option but just like oh okay [loh] back out [loh], it was really very disappointing, so hopefully


I cannot afford it out so it's like !wah!, so I I bought a book recently too, about the place I want to go to do like just


okay [loh] but I think nowadays at this day and age <mandarin>大家都很敏感:da jia dou hen min gan</mandarin> like saving the earth that kind of thing like !wah! destroying the earth which is true and it's very important to think about like generally if they fly the plane at lesser than when it was


like for commercial flights kind of thing, is generally already it's really helping I guess, so there is this like, it's already less you reduce even though you cannot like completely like don't have it, but for me I don't think I will pay money and do that lah like generally I don't like flights I don't you are stuck in that seat


then you are stuck there you sit there then you just now I only look forward to like reaching the place to go and discover there was never really the flight lah


you just you know a bit cool ah <mandarin>拍照啊放在:pai zhao a fang zai</mandarin> Instagram <mandarin>那种东西:na zhong dong xi</mandarin> [bah] I'm flying but actually no lah, like I've actually, err I sat on a flight for fourteen hours when I was in sec two, and I think that was actually it's very strange to think about


like so we took the plane at midnight the plane left at midnight and we reached you went to paris for the stop over before changing for a flight to ireland, so do you you land at two PM then I the whole time I remember thinking !wow! I board the plane when I am going to sleep


and I will reach when school ends it's a very strange thing, then I think I remembered like , like <mandarin>很少去旅行:hen shao qu lv xing</mandarin> I think that time like generally once a year so so not so, familiar or what I remember I packed my medicine in the wrong


wrong luggage and then like my nose was blocked throughout the flight there lah, so like !wah! so poor thing like, then you just sit there thinking oh my god fourteen hours is my nose going to be blocked throughout, but generally it was quite, it was quite nice lah you always feel like you have time to do things


like <mandarin>做什么:zuo shen me</mandarin> lah like the time is like not here not there so I guess that fourteen hours was like oh okay, I am going to sleep first then I'm gonna eat then I'm going to talk to my friends something like that so it was quite


interesting have you ever had, what what's like your best memory on the flight or something


, so generally you don't like flights I can assume


, oh, ya you see I regret the reason why I didn't go for the your trip like with the parents to


japan was because of the dragon boat I gave up for competition lah so, how was it there I I wish to go one day lah


(mmhmm)


so it's like a better hong kong


, yeah that


the first day we have to lug all our luggages all the way out, then I'm someone who, like so hong kong was already like it was cramped the place was cramp, and like err, everyday you climb the stairs and then, I I'm not someone that that fancies chinese food so you also so like


I remember <mandarin>我只要吃:wo zhi yao chi</mandarin> <mandarin>那个牛奶吐司:na ge niu nai tu si</mandarin> err what's that called condensed milk toast ah, I don't like #dim sum# and then like err I really like going to thailand because of like the cheap like night markets even taiwan that kind of thing whether I buy something or not


ya so is generally like that in hong kong let me walk around then I'm just like ya okay designer bags I guess that is something that I'm also not


interested in or like like oh, something that I also won't go and like chase this kind of like, things to buy, so, then food I also didn't like so I guess it was it's a place that unless the our parents say want to bring us together which I doubt will happen because of we're like quite old already


I won't go back lah but, like you were saying in japan like I I'm, but I know japan is a bit like , so you like <mandarin>我是希望:wo shi xi wang</mandarin> like our parents will will actually bring us there bring me there again so that I don't need to pay right


but now is like <mandarin>想得美:xiang de mei</mandarin> ah because like you know working, what other countries would you like to visit though


, I also like


like I feel like if you show me any country now also said I want to go now is the time when I just want to go and like explore ah <mandarin>看看风景:kan kan feng jing</mandarin> ah just want to do and see everything maybe is the age thing, but like but there is some fears like I really want to go to the states I think there's a lot of things to buy a lot of things to see


but there is fear of like danger lah and then, it's also see who's willing to go with you or like, some places so like I've been trying to plan or for now is just, err hope for, and like imagine and like just pretend lah


to go for a solo trip in the not sure even when future, so I keep thinking about where I should I should go lah especially for the first trip where it's definitely, a bit scarier, I guess but err I thought of vietnam maybe but


it's not, like some people say it's like not so safe some people say like oh it's okay so I'm a bit, mixed reactions but I guess that generally can just try, err maybe ask from people who are more like <mandarin>比较熟悉那个地方:bi jiao shu xi na ge di fang</mandarin> then I can ask like where to stay <mandarin>去哪里吃去哪里看去哪里玩:qu na li chi qu na li kan qu na li wan</mandarin> if not another like you said australia I think right ya I think australia also very good place ah but someone said like


err if you want to go and visit australia it's very worth to just drive around to the to the different parts, but the thing then they said like it's hard to go on like public transport which is something singapore is very like very efficient lah everywhere is connected but then they said err when you go to australia


you should like, passed away at an accident at australia, so it makes me a bit scared lah so, some also not sure but I think the main thing about australia I want to go and see it's like the zoo


you know like it was it's open by Steve Irwin you know who's that, what do you want to see in australia so you want to mainly see the coffee seeds


that's true the language barrier maybe a bit of a difficult thing, yeah I I actually now that you talk about it okay like china I wouldn't say it's like on my top list on where I want to go but I guess


like err my friends last year they went for a school trip for like this, I don't know what's that you even call so that even for maybe a month, and then they actually like enjoyed theirselves themselves so much like


they they I think their highlight for them or maybe a highlight for me because that's the main thing I remember from their stories will be, they want to this like I think it's the fake goods market, and then he just kept like bargain and bargain and bargain until things were so cheap


I guess it was also like fun for them because you get to see, !wah! who so #gung ho# go and like go and argue and say don't want to the seller kind of thing, but , but I heard a lot of scary stories about the toilets there, would that be a problem for you like I heard


that somebody just told me that day that they went to the toilet and there was no door in the public,


but maybe it even if there are doors and like everything normal what if it's like really very dirty


, I remember out ah this eh no last year time flies, I went to not Bangkok what's that #Hua Hin# and not sure I went to thailand with my best friend


and then we stay in this Airbnb and then we are best friends yes but like, the toilet doors were I feel like they put it the wrong side like, one side is supposed to be a bit more see no one side was opaque one side was


like frosted kind of thing like it's strange, so when I was showering inside she could see from the outside, like it was like it's not clear but it's a bit frosty but yet you can see, the person inside showering then really very Paiseh ah then


I I always must say eh you don't look ah you don't look, I think after ten years of being in the girls' school didn't really help me with this


!huh!, while she was in on the toilet


then then what happened


why are your camps so exciting all the camps I remember all, not like very went very smoothly I guess the only, the camp that that okay I really like camps I think I've been to a lot of camp but the camp that stuck to me my memory most will be like


the scariest one I think you make me so scared I think err in sec two we went to #Kota Tinggi# for the school camp, then we had


so luckily after kayaking like I was very tired so I said I don't want in lunch lah then like, in secondary school you cannot skip lunch cause the teachers will like


someone else they found a, I think it was like, and the thing we heard they catered the food I'm not even sure I don't think from singapore lah cannot cater food from is I don't know, they catered the food for I guess hygiene purposes also so it all came packaged in a styrofoam box


so after I think she she didn't eat the the worm lah but I think she saw the worm then when she was midway eating then she just like


vomited lah she vomited and then I think at that point of time like, I was very very scared of people who vomited I have this phobia but now is a lot better but, I remember I I really, was so terrified you know by like, by by the fact that she vomited everything out like you know (ugh)


like I think I'm not for sure but I heard or see I saw it but I was already like no, so after that I I think I already feel very uneasy knowing that she vomited it's not because of the worm, I will in fact I wasn't too afraid like okay if you tell me there's a lizard in the food I will freak out


but it was like a worm and it didn't affect me but the fact that she vomited, affected me then after that, that night because I was already like affected by it, so then, like err this time the food was all together at the like the lunch was at the at the like


the docking point of the kayak so he was like everywhere and nobody listening, but then at night it was at the campsite so there was a place to eat, so like <mandarin>每个人都在那里坐着吃:mei ge ren dou zai na li zuo zhe chi</mandarin> but because it was the last night we were supposed to rush for a campfire, so <mandarin>每个人都在赶时间对吗:mei ge ren dou zai gan shi jian dui ma</mandarin> so the the instructors also didn't realise lah that I ran off


luckily you know I heard that, like I heard later that she, she found another worm in the food, no and the yes that same girl and another girl


oh no I think maybe another girl found the worm and then the one like, in the afternoon so so they both, vomited


but I felt like it was the worst camp for me cause I don't know it was just (ugh), so okay that whole day I didn't eat luckily at night they gave me this like the you know the sunshine bread in that packet, I decided not to eat it but then I kept the case that I will get hungry


and then the next day morning we were going back so I faster eat that bun for breakfast instead of their, there are packaged food and then I faster went back luckily imagine if it was the start of camp I tell you ah, by the time I come back I tell you I I'm so skinny already


that's good but I guess in camps like I I don't really okay I I'm okay with the outdoorsy activities in the day but I always like again a bit spoilt lah !huh!, at the end of the day <mandarin>你会回去一个有冷气啊还是比较舒服的一个地方:ni hui hui qu yi ge you leng qi a hai shi bi jiao shu fu de yi ge di fang</mandarin> at least you feel like oh you have something to look forward to like in that camp I mentioned earlier


the we slept in this like tent on like this concrete platform and it was really very hot if not it's like at camp christine where there are a lot of bugs, and then you are basically sleeping on like a mat on the grass then you like, you feel very like you but then like in sec three we also had in the day we did like a gardening which is also not it's like very outdoorsy dirty but then at night we went back to this like hotel


in Bintan and you open the door and it leads you to the beach like, you also don't know where the school comes with like like the school has this money but I guess maybe it's cheap so I maybe one day I would like to go back to that hotel it's really very Shiok, but then you were talking about the, injury


it really brings back like this memory in primary school where, I'm not even sure why I I guess I'm staying back for, I'm not very sure what maybe we had tuition ah I think it was tuition later, so I stayed back with my friend we were in the same tuition class then we, like we went to the playground to play


then like we we met because the primary and secondary side are all merged together, so we went to play like the <mandarin>姐姐们:jie jie men</mandarin> that was there also I think that was sec one maybe not very sure, a bit strange right cannot be sec four play play playground right, so like we are only ah like Pthree


so when we were playing with the <mandarin>姐姐们:jie jie men</mandarin> then, ah we were playing, what's that being called blind mice, so like, someone will will close their eyes and then they will try to find everyone else, then we played on the jungle gym then I remembered like


like it wasn't even the person that was blindfolded, it was just like one of us that were running away from the blind mice, so <mandarin>他就是没有看那就是很:ta jiu shi mei you kan na jiu shi hen</mandarin>


I don't quite sure like how she hit hit herself or what happen, like then suddenly like I I remember she what we remember or what we said was like, she hid until your head had a hole I I'm sure it wasn't a hole now thinking about it but


I remember she bled through like our PE attire was white, and then her shirt became like soaked, like red like pink lah, !wah! I tell you that was a very scary later the teachers came then like I remember my my my teacher primary side faster take the primary primary side children away


then there was the ambulance


, so interesting I don't okay it's not something you should wish for but I guess it's something


ya I didn't see can you clap again , uh ya I think it it works right, okay can, (uh huh)


uh it's okay lor okay so by the time october comes right they're gonna come back to the company but right now right they've already stopped my shift allowance,


yes lah I mean you put in the same amount of effort actually more effort but you don't get the extra pay, uh I mean cause less people on site mah then a lot people work from home then <mandarin>在家的人就接:zai jia de ren jiu jie</mandarin> call ah but then


the ones on site are the ones you have to like handle the onsite issues like any walk in issues, ya, but okay lah slowly lah slowly <mandarin>他们要回来了其实我的老板还在:ta men yao hui lai le qi shi wo de lao ban hai zai</mandarin> is she's still in malaysia


don't know, she I mean she's been stranded there since, I think during the new year period then when she come back I think now I uh, I'm not sure whether when you come back you have to quarantine for two weeks or is it one week but I think you have to go through the COVID testing


, cause I have have you seen the diagram of the thing like they put the swab test


quite far back, up your nostril, ah, oh okay


[orh], ah, !huh! so fast eh but I heard it's subsidised so like uh I was talking to my colleague the other day right then he was saying that his daughter fell sick so like my my conception is that right now if you fall sick they will force if you fall sick uh due to a respiratory issue right they will force you to do the swap test that's what I was thinking lah but then actually it's they will send you back to monitor first so like uh <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> within a certain amount of days right


haven't recover then they will send you back to do the swap test, is it's not a immediate thing it's not like you go in and then they will and then it is heavily subsidised so if you go in for a respiratory issue you'll only get charged like, ten or twenty dollars, max including the medicine and the consultation


it's quite <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> right, (mmhmm), (uh huh)


!huh! the drowsy meds ah, [orh], ah


, ya oh wait okay I I, I keep okay I'm like on the verge of falling on earth on I'm on the verge of falling ill but not actually there yet so what I've been eating is the the Panadol then I think thee paracetamol is sort of like helping


yes , , I have like painkillers at the at my desk lah at the office the extra pain


extra efficient uh Panadol extra yes sorry Panadol extra, uh as in I think the the recommended dosage for adults is two right then I just eat one lor then multiple times a day cause it's twelve hour shift mah


that's what you're gonna oh but yours is not shift right you were saying that you have a job, that might be at Tuas, is very Sian


yes eh wait they they provide transport no, !huh! only at #chua chu kang#


oh, !huh! <mandarin>很不方便:hen bu fang bian</mandarin> leh what the heck only two locations, ya


what the heck okay my mind okay I I have several locations so for the one for me right either I take from Eunos Eunos or from outram, then uh the timing for outram is six forty, ya, but I'll eh maybe will have to leave around the same time lor I guess if I want to catch the six forty uh shuttle bus timing I have to leave the house at six O


five the latest


pharma is it, [orh] [orh] healthcare products


ya, ya


no, ya but okay lah uh, at least all my projects and everything have been like slowly reducing I've completed most of my projects then cause my contract will be until <mandarin>明年的三月头:ming nian de san yue tou</mandarin> so uh


so that day I went through some training with the the new trainee


ah <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> <mandarin>他是新人:ta shi xin ren</mandarin> but <mandarin>他比我老因为:ta bi wo lao yin wei</mandarin> for my batch right there's a lot of fresh grads but for that this coming batch that's already here lah they're mostly people who are doing mid career switch, so the person I'm training is like in his, thirties mid thirties I think !wah! ya I was like okay so I I tried to go through the thing is we have a lot of materials for training then I didn't know what to do I was like oh should I go through the SOP then there's also a powerpoint and then there's the physical form that I want to teach you how to so I I a bit <mandarin>乱唱:luan chang</mandarin> like when I was doing the training right


ya I was like uh okay so I I tried to go through the thing is we have a lot of materials for training then I didn't know what to do I was like oh should I go through the SOP then there's also a powerpoint and then there's the physical form that I want to teach you how to use so I I I a bit <mandarin>乱:luan</mandarin> some more like when we when I was doing the training right


my boss like <mandarin>不放心:bu fang xin</mandarin> so she you want to listen in the conversation, right she's not here physically onsite but she's in malaysia mah so she had to dial in, in the meeting and it was quite awkward I think I was like trying to go through the SOP first then halfway through I was like !huh! this is information like you are supposed to have already read it mah there's no point in me going through again then like the important points are already highlighted in the presentation slides so I went to friend I move on to the presentation slides then I was I was doing it I was like it's easier to like understand the context if I just show you how to use the form and then I move on to use the form that so in the beginning it was a bit lah but I guess in the end, , and it was quite awkward I think I was like trying to go through the SOP first then halfway through I was like !huh! this is information like you are supposed to have already read it mah there's no point in me going through again then like the important points are already highlighted in the uh presentation slides so I went to friend I move on to the presentation slides then I was when I was doing it I was like it's easier to like understand the context if I just show you how to use the form then I move on to use the form that so in the beginning it was a bit <mandarin>乱:luan</mandarin> ah but I guess in the end


cause after the whole training right my boss <mandarin>他有:ta you</mandarin> like err, she wanted to go through this like case study and the trainee <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> he managed to get like most of the issues lah he he manage to, handle the case study that my boss gave him so <mandarin>他讲我成功了:ta jiang wo cheng gong le</mandarin> then I'm like ya I guess thanks like <mandarin>你觉得你觉得你成功:ni jue de ni jue de ni cheng gong</mandarin> mah or is it the competence of the mid career switch guy


I maybe half half like I think the main point is to be able to know how to use the form so I really went through a lot of the form and what's like the common issues that will pop up with him lah but err maybe the like SOP part not very clear I I to me I'm like <mandarin>你你要自己去读吗:ni ni yao zi ji qu du ma</mandarin> I there's no point me reading the SOP out to you you are supposed to really have read it and know what is


and basically the main point is that you must know how to use the form and in this kind of scenario you cannot, prepare for all, uh if you you cannot prepare for everything because


and he he he never complain I was like uh <mandarin>还可以:hai ke yi</mandarin> mah do you any questions then <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> oh <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> lah just, learn as I go lor then I'm like that's that's how I felt when I was receiving this like err training from my previous predecessor


I was also like, okay lor so far I will just see how it goes, cause you mean it you don't know what you don't know until you really have to go and handle the issue then you realise that oh <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> or <mandarin>我不可以做:wo bu ke yi zuo</mandarin> every situation is different and but ya your job sounds pretty tough okay lah it's like it's time over soon hopefully and oh ya my boss cause she got promoted mah previously he was my


, okay lah it's fine it's fine over soon hopefully oh ya uh my boss cause she got promoted mah previously she was my, when I just entered the company he was interviewing supervisor because the actual supervisor she was on maternity leave but then after that


uh <mandarin>她生完:ta sheng wan</mandarin> baby <mandarin>她回来了:ta hui lai le</mandarin> so my direct supervisor became the normal normal key way personnel lah then until now cause the, the supervisor that came back from having a baby she got transferred to a different role so my supervisor is back


to being, a supervisor but not interim anymore officially, then I have to okay the the point of this thing is that I have to take her night call slot, , , I know I want to be able to sleep at night I don't want to be traumatised by the the ringtone that iphone ringtone


uh, ya okay okay you'll only get night call on the days that you work so I'll be working from seven thirty AM to to eight PM mah so eight PM if I'm taking night call I will be taking eight PM to the next day eight AM


when they handover lah, so imagine right if you're working three days straight right then on like friday saturday sunday and friday you get the call and you keep getting calls at night, it's like


ya they'll sometimes in the morning I got a call right before I was about to leave right I was like shit uh, ya is it urgent or not not urgent then I come to onsite then I handle the issue


what's your job scope ah the one that you applied for the Tuas one, ah


, okay, (uh huh), inventory management


, [orh]


wait is it full time or comes it's like a contract or something, ,


maybe <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> like <mandarin>你可以看他的那个:ni ke yi kan ta de na ge</mandarin> company <mandarin>有没有别的:you mei you bie de</mandarin> opening, I mean it's not what you see yourself doing,


just a interim lor while you find other job


oh, ah I mean to be to be fair this kind of


job you don't really need much experience ah <mandarin>你做一年:ni zuo yi nian</mandarin> you already learned everything already right, !huh! so the interview is coming or you already gone to like is there several rounds of interview


(mmhmm), how's the pay decent


, ah ah, I mean it's reasonable mah cause fresh grad, but <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> this kind of,


ya but okay lah it's office hour what is it eight to five or nine to six PM, nine to six then they pick you up at six forty for what


ya okay my job also the same thing I think it's supposed to be either seven thirty to eight or eight to eight, but they pick us up at six forty and then we reach the company at seven fifteen, then like <mandarin>你要我白白工作:ni yao wo bai bai gong zuo</mandarin> no I'm just going to go eat breakfast


ya, uh ya I mean, regardless I mean shuttle bus service is, still faster than going to take your own transport so no choice lah


it it makes it taking like


christmas, if I'm on I'm on shift lah so I'm supposed to work then I'm not plan to take off but I want to take like maybe three hours off early but then the thing is there's no transfer out


as in there is transport out but it goes to jurong, uh I mean not jurong Tuas crescent or something the MRT station, ya, cannot I cannot take off just because I want to take off it has to be like uh cause like my team got is quite big mah so like one one day right only at most two people can take off


so christmas confirm everyone want to take off right christmas eve lah yah !aiya! so err I I cannot fight with the full timers so I'll just be like I'll take I will go and work but I want to take, a few hours of off lah early !wah! then do you have to take grab back


I'm trying to see if I can bribe my cousins to come and get me with bubble tea, , ,


pay you in bubble tea I don't know much grab hitch going to cost lah but , I mean it's a public holiday leh is there surcharge I don't I don't take grab often so


oh but it's public holiday, no as in public holiday <mandarin>很少人出去:hen shao ren chu qu</mandarin> right from Tuas <mandarin>他都不会去:ta dou bu hui qu</mandarin> Tuas in the first place what, !aiya!


okay but uh at least christmas day is off it's just I have to work I have to work on christmas eve


I cannot get my #ang pao# I very sad you know


(mmhmm), the thing is my job is, structured in a way that regardless of whether I'm working on a public holiday I will still get the public holiday pay, ya <mandarin>我们做:wo men zuo</mandarin> shift <mandarin>的吗:de ma</mandarin> so


all the public holidays you will get the surcharge, ya I also <mandarin>很不甘心:hen bu gan xin</mandarin> ah you can go and like try to arrange with your colleagues ah but <mandarin>一定:yi ding</mandarin> I mean most of them have kids or something right so they will always want the christmas or the new year or whatever


ya


which is better than nothing, so if you want to work shift you should think twice even though the pay is very


[orh] I you need a programmer like the the one that I'm in right now there's people who mid mid career, this batch right my department got two one she's from insurance


micro biology or something but then that was very long ago she spent like over, ten fifteen years in insurance then she do the mid career switch and my batch itself right we had police officers making the mid career switch


it was on straits times , uh please don't ah very aunty


the only <mandarin>奖:jiang</mandarin> I want do with the #sheng siong# one, ,


oh no, I haven't finish reading the the novel, wait where did I stop I think, #zhao yun lan# just lost his eyesight or something like that


ya okay they are about to visit the ferry tribes or whatever it is


ya well true true


(uh huh)


as in like he got sent off to do like a side mission, I thought like the <mandarin>二叔:er shu</mandarin> has no power over him, how come he just send him to do mission then he go and do mission, question mark


, it's a bit OOC ah I mean I would feel that, he should he would be there to monitor given


that he knows their personality so well, don't don't no spoiler I haven't I haven't watch


okay I will get then eventually I'm just talking about possibilities because, what episode are you at ah season two what episode, oh and when's the next as in when are the future episodes gonna come out every night


oh really daily ah, ah ah, how many how many episodes are there in total forty also


less than that, oh okay, no, err I mean err ya I I hope that there were more


got cut ah censorship ah, weird, eh I mean, half the scenes don't have <mandarin>铁三角:tie san jiao</mandarin>


that's so sad, I keep every time he's off screen and I'm just like when is he going to come back


ya the the directors don't think so, the directors want to appeal to a wider audience


no I don't think so I don't think the script writer has that much power over the script I think he'll he or she will probably have gotten directions from the director lah, up to if it's only up to the script writer right <mandarin>一定会比较好的:yi ding hui bi jiao hao de</mandarin> plot, I I feel lah I feel director is the one who have to make all the decisions in the in the end what