down there you never cannot see Mee all you must make yourself you go market you buy Mee come Goreng never <tamil>எங்கே:engae</tamil> singapore <tamil>மாரி:maari</tamil> no hawker centre all <tamil>அப்போ லாம் ஏது:appo laam ethu</tamil> hawker centre all


you must cook you must eat yourself, you know very peaceful


ah, ya,


after that ah demolish they want to make flat, I go first #toa payoh#, ah


that one is rent flat first first rental rental time <tamil>லாம்:laam</tamil> very cheap, oh forty dollar one month forty dollar


electricity all seven dollar seven dollar very cheap lah <tamil>ஏழு வெள்ளி தான் எவ்ளோ நீ:ezhu velli thaan evlo nee</tamil> use <tamil>பண்ணாலும் தண்ணீ எவ்ளோ:pannalum thanni evlo</tamil> use <tamil>பண்ணாலும்:pannalum</tamil> seven dollar


, current meter


you use electricity also seven dollar, , my last time life different now life different, now, now you want to go down also you need money, without money you go down ah


one dollar, ah fried #kuay teow# fifty cent father working that time ah, father taking pay <tamil>சம்பளம் எடுத்தா நா தான் போய் வாங்கிட்டு வருவேன் அம்பது காசு:sambalam eduthaa naa thaan pooi vangitu varuvaen ambathu kaasu</tamil> !aiyo! <tamil>வாசம் அடிக்கும் பாரு:vaasam adikum paaru</tamil> #kuay teow#


nice ah


now all mixed lah, ah they sell, they cook they sell ah one dollar


fifty cent seventy cent now kuih all very expensive now last time last time no diabetic, so everybody you put sugar and cook also nothing ah now everybody diabetic


so long you also scared to buy


ah, ah different


butter <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> kopi seed <tamil>இருக்கு:irukku</tamil> lah


unless you buy india coffee


tea, sri lanka tea, ceylon tea ah ceylon tea


that time my father, is like my father never bring me go to sri lanka, she go already, I never go I never see sri lanka


my father place now my father got many relative, but where they all stay don't know


ya lah different people after they come different they change everything,


Tekka only sling road, after I married only I know


cheap <tamil>ஒரு வெள்ளி ரெண்டு வெள்ளி கூடை கூடையா ஒரு வெள்ளி ரெண்டு வெள்ளி மூணு வெள்ளி எல்லாம் வாங்கிட்டு போயிருவாங்ககே:oru velli rendu velli koodai koodaiyaa oru velli rendu velli moonu velli ellam vaanggittu poyiruvaangae</tamil> finish


seventy five


cheap <tamil>தான்:thaan</tamil> four room sixty thousand sixty five thousand


ah sixty five thousand, ah


ah, those, people #chong pang# <tamil>இங்கே:inggae</tamil> pasar uh <tamil>இங்கே:inggae</tamil> #chong pang#


ah, very good place also, ah


market eh ah, ah, nineteen


but chinese temple many, and I dont know also


ya, but my house ah my husband no light also


kerosene don't know what


where got electricity so much, no electricity


wet cannot burn


ya lah outside, no they got cover lah ah shelter


then they put shelter, then night time put the <tamil>பானை:paanai</tamil> all inside the house


#yio chu kang# primary school, ah


tamil school


tamil malay also got, piano teacher uh piano


ah <tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> lah ah <tamil>அப்போ லாம்:appo laam</tamil> piano teacher <tamil>இருப்பாங்கே:iruppanggae</tamil> piano teacher mostly indian, , guitar <tamil>இருந்தது:irunthathu</tamil> violin <tamil>இருந்துச்சு:irunthuchu</tamil> ah


violin guitar <tamil>லாம்:lam</tamil> mostly come from india,


childhood, childhood time,


ah


dark green


experience <tamil>இருக்கும்:irukkum</tamil> lah, oh no leh last time long remind them track one, track twenty six I stay track twenty six


ah,


never learn ah


anyway I stay Kampung also


Sprite ah, , Kickapoo <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> japanese one ah, japanese


<tamil>அப்பே வேற தண்ணீ சாரா:appae vera thanni saraa</tamil> ginger beer


powder


all change already, Chandrika


ah Chandrika sandal, old time, will make your


ah, no good


oh ah now all Colgate <tamil>பல் பொடி:pal podi</tamil> never use what


ah, ah cheap, two dollar three dollar


study primary six also


can get good job, ah


if you all never study at all you have to do cleaner, ah cleaner job, there is a typewriting I also type writing what


ah, certificate <tamil>நா எல்லாம் கிழிச்சு போட்டுட்டான் எங்கே வேலைக்கு போயிருவேன்னு:naa ellam kizhichu potuttaan engae velaikku poiruvennu</tamil> naughty lah naughty <tamil>தான்:thaan</tamil> because he never study I study jealous


not so much


biscuit


china people, this one all made from china, I don't know ah


, middle road uh


, middle road <tamil>லே தான்:lae thaan</tamil> biscuit company


, ah biscuit different different kind of biscuit, biscuit last time


ya, , without sugar also got


sweet I don't know different different type of


colour uh ah,


, natural ah


ah syrup


rose syrup so sweet,


china product ya


okay was fine


didn't want to go school primary school, don't like studying, but what to do must go through, what I do I never do anything


that


learn the bad things by bad friends, ya, ahsec, I girls school every time


and then bad meet bad friends, then they teach me out to smoke, how to, how to smoke how to drink they teach me, but I never , ha, ah but I cannot say they're bad friends but I cannot say they're bad friends my mentality I must follow think why I never think


yain the wrong, that's called , gene gene, follow the family


that's why run in the family blood, everyone is like that run in the family blood


(ppc), ya but I still study, I pass, , two what I do (mmhmm)ya


what puppy love last with her for five years


what I break up only, no like the girl then three I get attached with her, then five years break


ya, ya but the girl also choose to love me what, doesn't mean I only love and ah wrong


ya but must blame the own bottle also, ya but must blame the own bottle also


who, three ya, four I do what, of course, just pass everything this person


ya, but I still get into ITE, what what


lazy to go IT, ya, six months


I fail by six points, that's why, now I currently serving NS


I don't want, miserable, ah, I cry every day


because before I go army I break up five years, ya, ya everyday cry go through hell, run run run exercise


there life very difficult you don't know, you must go through if I tell you you don't understand, you don't know BMT life how you know that time you come cookhouse after you eat you say you go toilet after that hell start


not even five minutes after you all left they start scolding us already, I feel like two years army life is just waste of time can earn more money outside


no no I don't want I want to run away from army, don't talk nonsense enemy won't come this this


this, what kind of generation already now you think what enemy will come ah won't come


, mah singapore is just, singapore in the center a lot of country a lot of nothing will happen


I want to do , I'll make my kids more happy, give them everything


I will get I will get from your, you gonna give me ya


ya lah from you lah, from you lah take from you take then build up my life, you better pay my, on december, no matter


(ppc)


(hmm), buy me a small car, that one I will take care, few thousand dollar <tamil>தான்:thaan</tamil> eight eight thousand nine thousand


(ppc), got eight thousand nine thousand dollar car, I never say buy for me for free I will give you back, no cannot


eighteen thousand one car twenty thousand, I I paid the tax all, mama, car how long going to uh how much it gonna be five hundred four hundred per month


I will take care, no


I don't want to waste money go travel in MRT all, mrt bus all, you know how hard ah not must wake up five thirty


okay then ask daddy stay office you use daddy car I use daddy car, I use your car


one year two months, you come and serve for me lah, you you walk a bit already cannot what


ya they won't they won't they got officer DX nine you know, you can apply what they got DX nine all you come work at the office ah then I can go home anytime


they take like dog you know, what what taking care army is just what army they treat us like small boys like that, like still in secondary school like that scold us for what we what we not serving for them you know is we no choice is the government is like that


mom you go ask you go ask you go ask everyone serving you a, what


like you just ask who want to serve army, you ask who want to serve army nobody want to serve army, but we no choice, what rules !wah!, the two years I will be happy outside earning more money


ya, at least <tamil>அந்தவேலைசெஞ்சா:antha vela senja</tamil> to one month two thousand one thousand six one thousand eight, got license can drive van lorry


no money, I know how to drive


I know how to drive, no I was, , ya lah


ya because friend what to do


it's just uh I won't drink and drive, I won't drink and drive I will know about myself I know how hard to take license so I won't I won't


you buy for me car enough I'll be very


ya ya I going australia confirm


I going australia to study, that one you pay me I go there work and


diploma diploma, I take so I I take


I go take certificate I diploma I come office bigger the company, I going with <P2> matar </P2> please the parents all know, okay nine thousand only the course okay two semester


one semester, no one semester is like four or five months, two semester, six months ah six months, so one one year, ya


that's why I work there, all already, that one <P2> matar </P2> parents will pay


they don't know I going there with her, cause we never tell them to ya they won't know because I go there what I won't we won't tell them


, she going first next year july like that after my army finish I go


mah I see already what


singapore, why the father send him, why she cannot work there


every month send one thousand two thousand, every month send one thousand two thousand


you all can come holiday , australia is cheaper than singapore, in house now


I don't know why you staying there yo go there lah


don't spend lah one day keep a limit


talk something


I just want to go there mah and see the life, I want to study also diploma, more value


but australia one more value, buy for me ah serious I'm not joking


ya,


singapore will help what, then they vote


enough one


your parents must pay what, I earning one K two K means I don't mind I earning seven hundred what to do, can I work can I work one month


because last time is not expensive now expensive, it's normal salary is six thirty for me seven hundred because, combat pay


can't even save, why


I don't even smoke okay I want go malaysia


I thought they opening border january, then means I cannot go, theni army cannot even go


quarantine means I cannot even go malaysia, after army only ah, then you all go Batam also


then Batam also quarantine, three months


why, Batam, why then they open the border for what


I thought got vacation already, for their quality nearly that cafe singapore was according to you what's the point better don't dragon, okay the new house got my own room don't lie but serious


I from last time I want my own room that's why all sleep outside, serious got my room or not how, how


what, cannot what phase two I thought is phase three


, , got my room or not


how, what you talking


!huh! how to do do in the hall, (uh huh), mah I don't want like that lah I want all, we're all small lah


then how to bring friends over my house , I want the room like this, I want bring friends over enjoy my


I want to bring my, can bring my girlfriends, girlfriends


inever do anything what talk only, how much more we must wait


how much more, my name cannot put


I next year twenty one what


this house old lah nobody will buy lah, mother buy house already Yishun also uh near to the, near to Canberra you know where a not, not new I don't know old I think old house three hundred three hundred twenty thousand three hundred fifty thousand


near to #chong pang# there, ah mah ah mah eh wait one eight nine two eight nine


near the temple the temple there, two seven five, buy for three hundred fifty thousand


see we will get the NG, where , that one not the house , our one five room ah


no, five room is four room one room is hall, five room, a five room you know how a not four room then one room then this one is what


ya lah then three room one hall what, the house new how big how big how big from here to the there ah


, ah


I ask try to ask <P2> matar </P2> father, but I don't want ask lah shame lah, eighteen thousand they won't what they will think we no money all, then


how, then buy for me one small car from there, if you say, then so near school lor if now you pay the money already then when we will go there


how to ask <P2> matar </P2> father you tell me how to ask, how to ask, say what say what I ask


nine how much to ask hundred thousand, the father work government


no now only we started, <P2> matar </P2> is the one, model for that, , I don't know you ask them ask your elder big buffalo


I won't accept her as a sister, feel like I die feel like I die I won't accept her as a sister


you won't see what she do I do, I won't I won't accept her as a sister, until I die I don't care


I forgot fighting leh so everytime at to give and take what they're gonna do your target later, I take your car can a not I want to join the motor sport why


when, why stop then, you got tell the shop a not, I come


I follow you can change on the spot meh


!huh! , so you must wait two thousand plus, to who to the shop, !huh!, (uh huh)


okay, you go


mah you want buy car you go to you know where a not , go there lah, go there can buy all cheap cheap used car, next time first lah daddy car


finish use already, what car you buying, mum okay


ah did for me


very irritating must wear mask everywhere go army also must wear mask, nothing will happen my body, what, what I do


eating burger under block kena fined three hundred dollar, eating burger under the block, that no no no


I have been paid the fine but what about me ya correct for your this your money because you ask for it


stupid lah sitting under block only please, they suddenly do like that then


where do they nothing happen to me right, okay


then go do different work, then go do go do different work go do your agent house agent


but you still can do ah what, how how much how you earn the money agent what money who will sell who uh how to get you


oh so, now you sell the house right to people people won't pay you HDB will pay ah, !huh!


now you sell how much you'll get forty thousand, you buy, what, err so I only get one hundred, how much you buy this house


then why you say hundred only, could be a few K, then how to get the money


no no not that which age you can get the money, what thing hundred


ya when your retirement which age, now you what age, so now five years can get the money ah, !huh!


retirement money, for what


then PR, , then daddy fifty five what


so you no money at all now cannot take


where it go where it go


please please, I see the car all already, is not show is not show off I want to modify the car I want to want my own I want to modify my own car I want to join the car key I going to go for car key


inspection time I will change


no you see I'm not going to buy your car like fifty thousand dollar no


okay, I will buy


what is, !huh!, six


how much, okay what, okay what


I wanna drive to army morning so before seven after seven cannot drive ah they won't catch right


how they catch, very easy I come camp morning park there going back time just faster go home


they won't catch one lah, then weekend car can bring malaysia ah


weekend car is how much twenty five thousand


what coupon


then car park how much, , my one


no now got, I heard the you know the cash card, everywhere free but one month must pay, motorbike have motorbike is twenty eight dollars you go everywhere like every car park


no your one is only for your car your car park what this one for everywhere, similar parking for everywhere


per month you per month you pay, like that, everywhere, motorbike can use means can use the motorbike cash out put car what


I have what , still must go for ipad


I take the car license first lah, I take car license then I go convert, you are correct


, what , all is well


I never, am I asking you money like last time, last time I got ask you last time I didn't ask


you skip what you say you'l pay for me, you say you'll pay for me, you go savings a not, I don't believe


I don't believe you don't have savings, I got savings five hundred only, you know that day I tell you the six hundred now balanced three hundred pay for car you know ah mah got thirty six dollars I go for five already


now one circuit right is seventy six dollars, I must pay money face lah, I say the instructor


okay second second company baby fallout can because you need to use phone yet the coupon important, when the line changing ah when the line I want iphone twelve, come out already four camera


the re-contract re-contract I will give you money mah re-contract I give you re-contract to take out the phone


mah I talking about your


that's why I tell you


I tell you open for me small business I will earn money give you, then how you want me to earn, important


swab test you all must pay ah, how much why foreigner must pay two hundred plus, for me all is free you know you know how many swab test I go fifteen swab test


you got go swab test meh I go fifteen, , swab test they'll put inside your nose there you know


will drop also, you know why I do like that all because of army,


ya lah that's why I tell you for ten years car two year or three years lease very cheap, that's all, but I want buy manual


you gangster last time more


that's hwy I follow you, that's why I follow you, they follow me, ya


what now you talking,


!aiyo! stop it lah stop it, you know why you and daddy cannot share one car, I take the car now he never go back what


why, he come here he come here


scold me scold me scold me, ya


you want to do for <P2> sumatra </P2> the small room, outside, I don't you go pray


go see until next year, after july then can put my name, tell you lah you need to arrange money or what, see now she angry or what


okay buy for me


watch


!huh! two thousand five that time why so expensive that time


oh, how, you have a not ah


you study for that or you anyhow go, england, then anyhow can, take course


how you get the money, how much they give you, so less


terrace is it, !huh!, oh I thought I thought that was our own house


swimming pool all, I say why if you get money means go for condominium, I don't want to stay HDB already


I try ask, try ask <P2> matar </P2> father


hundred thousand after I sent miles and I will give, but the father will ask thousand question, okay I try ask


if the father never give means I cannot do anything


ah, ah


ahah, ah, but what did you do in primary school you know or not


(mmhmm), complaint <tamil>பண்ணதாசெய்வாங்க:panna thaa seivaanka</tamil> (mhm)


ah, see what you can remember, only smoke ah


in what in secondary one ah, !huh! secondary one they teach you this one ah !wah! how come I don't know ah, , ahah, you know you you are in the wrong


if you use your own brain right or wrong you never use all this, ah, [Z], what gene no, school time compared to adults is totally different how you can say gene when you get older you follow gene they're different because you're supposed to study no totally is wrong you cannot say gene because you are younger you cannot follow your parents


okay gene will be later stage not now study means study, ha, !hey! two, ah you said you have girlfriend correct, ha


puppy love, now happen puppy love, last time he say what you know uh uh my my love will be very strong for forever


but actually it happen really puppy love , ah so, that one in two ah two you start to love a like a girl ah, ah three you attached with her ah


then, the father not happy came to school uh uh teacher called in to talk to parents because of the girl, uh


so blame both side lah not her side lah because the father blame you what, uh, oh, what to do


four, two ah father came and complain, it was three ah four, did you pass your N level


you pass ah just pass ah not so good your grade is not so good to have a better courses correct, (hmm), ITE it get worse when you went into ITE, !huh!


smoke too much complain too much don't want to go to school in time, the teacher will call me uh is <P2> kishaanth </P2> in school has he moved to school, ah, ah, see lazy to go to IT have you completed your IT ah not your IT completed you say but you stay back for another ah why that means it's not incomplete because you never do your you never complete your courses


ah, fail by six points so now what are you doing, NS, how's your BMT life can you please explain your #pulau tekong# one


why, say lah at least at least we know miserable means not everybody are going through that, why everybody have to serve what why you must cry


five years break up with your girlfriend ah because of that you cry ah ah, ah, then only two month only what


ah, I want to go through but I age already, , ah, yes, ah


hell start ah, ah, that is army life lah, they never scold you all never listen no discipline, correct or not


no, no you have to serve the government, okay, the government implement these rules means have to follow you cannot say I don't want then if uh enemy come how you want to fight


no this is example only, who say won't come you see like US korea china even pakistan india are still fighting we we will never expect


okay, it's nothing wrong like learning things all so next time when you have your kids then you have to keep teach your kids the right way, like how, you must have everything to give him or them to your children


right or not, (hmm)


NBT


cannot cannot


when you earn money then you go and buy, because when you buy already it belongs to you if you use your parents one is your parents car it cannot be yours, so you give me money I save for you lah


ah, ya you give me money I save for you lah


understand or not, at least you go and earn two two thousand two thousand plus then you buy one small car you drive lah ah you using own expenses also what


uh


cannot, daddy also need to drive to go to workplace, workplace I need to go to work then


another one year two months then very fast what, ah


if the army accept me I go and serve, will they accept me a not, will they accept me or not, I work in the office what, why I must go and walk walk walk


ah, I apply and work then you go out ah cannot be what government , ah, those in these this is their way of, taking care of the


uh what do you call uh juniors, ya what ya, it's like that what okay when you no, ah, don't say about that


have to, you have to follow the rules what, you have to follow the rules what, they give you only two years to complete lah correct or not ah


are you sure, !huh! !huh!, ah


ah, the friend do mistake what can how can I help you I cannot help, you never follow the rules and regulation, what they say when you drink don't drive


ah


okay army life ah <tamil>முடிச்சிட்டு:mudichittu</tamil> serve get a good name


ah, ah okay


ah okay for how long


oh you are working there, ah, see the place already


okay, parents pay for them then , then you also involve what ah they should know what


when they send off also you also must be together there what


my friend my friend ah, is staying there ah I think, uh son ah, staying there ah I think, uh but not work I think she working the wife is working the australian okay one month the father send him five thousand ah expenses <tamil>வீட்டுக்குசாப்பாட்டுக்கு:veetukku saapattukku</tamil> also not enough


hundred thousand australian money can buy, I got a lot friends staying over there my friends, ah I go there ah


I got my commitment ah in singapore to go there, you must have a job when you go there you must have a job you don't have a job you go there how you survive one month two month you survive with your money after months go if you don't have money how


cannot you you know you very fat your food also not enough for you, have to spend a lot


study I think you better do it in singapore


you have to pay here singapore they give you subsidies, okay even if you can use your parents money, you can study in singapore, ah then go for a holiday don't say I want to go there


work and study no I don't think so a lot people coming in india, students all coming to singapore to study singapore is recognised is up to you lah you want to go you


use your own money and go and study, okay save save, okay that one later can, now singapore life is not easy okay, now now since march ah april you know how life


miserable you know a not you know how life a lot of people no work, !huh!, we cannot even bring up family no work no cannot even bring up family then how they want to pay especially water bill, current bill very important ah then no no salary


if got children, then food how, singapore help how much you think hundred dollar they help enough ah, also not enough, where got hundred dollars enough


ah, I only I just go marketing ah, you see I want just buy things two hundred dollars some more I see not much items I saw little bit item two hundred dollars ya just now you think enough ah everybody


okay parents must pay correct parents don't work how, that is better compared to last time ah, last time you know army life how much they earn hundred plus two hundred ten same lah not much difference now they give you two seventy seven is very good


already they give you, ah you see good already, what salary is nowadays compared to last time ah is very good already, I know two hundred something got two hundred fifty


my my cousin <P2> vicky </P2> ah that time two hundred plus five hundred only


smoking, don't say you don't smoke ah I caught you few times already cigarette, you don't need to lie to me !huh! you don't even smoke (hmm)


now cannot go you know because of covid lockdown, how to go no not everybody can go if you go, down there quarantine singaporean go there quarantine then come back we all come back to singapore also quarantine army what army


cannot, after army cannot see lah next year hopefully, the the custom open lah for all uh travellers correct a not, also go back ah Johor people only can stay in their home I heard lah then they cannot go back to


the old country you know because why they have to quarantine in JB and pay money ya you go Batam also quarantine ah you go, thailand uh three months quarantine ah, no you go not three months you go there quarantine overall you must stay three months then come back the rules is like that


cannot like go and come back very fast cannot, Batam also they will quarantine fourteen days, people want to go back to Batam got family there, no vacation I don't think so


you all go vacation how many days three days four days we go we come back but cannot now go there quarantine already then come back singapore also quarantine then what's the point better don't travel, have you give me money I give you one room


ya ya, ah


HDB <tamil>கிட்டஇப்பதாவந்து:kitta ippatha vandhu</tamil> phase two <tamil>இல்ல:illa</tamil> phase three haven't open coming soon


ah


oh no no no no


and no no such thing no such thing like that uh because, the government say uh, safe distance so no friends, no


what talk only, also cannot


new house ah ah what block


two nine nine <tamil>எங்கதெரியுமா:enka theriyuma</tamil> my old block two seven five, ah ma), I last time stay two seven five, ah mah, four room then buy the house


four room <tamil>இங்கதா:inkathaa</tamil> NG


ya five room <tamil>இப்பவாங்கறதா:ippa vaankratha</tamil> ah mah five room, five room means three room !aiyo!


want ask until now you never ask shame for what, no we have money after I send I got the money can return return back, I got different money I got


I'm talking about house what you talking car my our main importance, to buy a house first must change lah if not from there, anytime I can take key tomorrow key collection you know


I cannot because short by a little you say you'll ask I don't know, I don't know say my mother short of money after she


sell the house she return you back, how they got so much money ah, ah


actually that means they got shop ah, ah they doing they're own business lah diamonds selling diamond lah


your mother can become model a not, don't talk to your sister about like that ah you're wrong you're all smart keep quiet you all are one family


you cannot talk like that okay, okay I have to treat all equally, okay don't talk about that, never mind don't talk on all this sister is sister, he won't accept sister everytime they quarrel ah everytime quarrel


so cannot talk all this ah, right every family got fighting I sure one correct a not


so everytime I have to give and take what ah correct a not, my car cannot I going to change the car already, wait like that daddy stop already stop


never stuck never cannot start because of the battery running the car radio still ya the now only change the, car radio today also suppose to go and see car, the waiting for daddy to come, must see what car you gonna take lah because I still got uh uh balance


my car only can this week take back fifty fifty only I still got balance, fifty two something so ya loan balance loan balance, two thousand plus then I sell the car I must settle to not shop the loan company where I take the loan I have to settle there now they take back only fifty


ah so I got another fifty two thousand plus I have to pay ah when I pay then I can take another car they will they will how I don't know how it works ah


ya the that one is friend reccomend, but I must still use my car, daddy car next year april


ya finish, ten years, because of this I only can buy for you toy car but you cannot sit down already toy car ah I okay I want to ask you one thing


what is the covid nineteen did for you, covid nineteen ah the pandemic came, covid nineteen pandemic came how you feel, nothing ah got food to eat because parents buy and give so don't need to worry but ah if you never wear mask nothing you never make


you know you know what you did a not, when the covid nineteen during the lockdown what you did you you with your friends all, ah three hundred dollars he paid ya


because during the lockdown they all cannot see each other what, so talking to the friends then Kena uh, so I write in to the police I write in I tell them uh, like that like that he was with the friends all he say no you have to pay the fine !aiya! he paid the fines


ya correct correct is your money because you ask for it so really affected his army salary only how much, three hundred fine gone


correct a not , you the government already say like that then why you do it, they already announce what no gathering


nothing happen to you but only three hundred fine !huh!, three hundred dollars you know how much you can eat a lot ah so next time be smart okay wear mask properly I know is irritating wearing mask during hot hot days are very


I wear mask ah !aiyo! sweating it's not easy but what to do we have to follow the rules what !huh! you all never mind parents buy food you all eat ah but we all suffer without no salary


my workes all Kena lockdown the dormitory, at least the government pay the workers government never pay to the locals you know don't have only, pay to the workers, cover their CP cover their


salary they still pay and then dormitory their utilities, company have to pay so they never cover the singaporean the bosses all not covered not covered now also not easy can do but not easy


not selling not everybody are selling house to do ah now all drop all commision if people sell the house, when they take the money house money HDB will give ah HDB will pay to the who sell the house lah


then from there the cash money ah, they take loan from HDB so the HDB the money will give to us, they they'll deduct our CPF they will deduct uh, outstanding of the house balance then the balance they'll give us


I only get maybe hundred thousand ya because hundred fifty thousand go back to CPF, ah so I only get about hundred thousand this house about two hundred three hunded thousand CPF hundred fifty thousand ah that one different when I bank then can get lah


how to get the money you see he aiming the money !huh! cannot get because now the CPF they increase to hundred and seventy eighty ah no example when you, your CPF got two hundred thousand two hundred thousand CPF example ah now government rules what


hundred and seventy thousand, you must keep in the CPF the entire money go to your retirement account hundred seventy, so you after fifty five I only how what age


ah so you waiting ah, they won't give that's why I say they won't give the fifty five the age of fifty five hundred seventy go to retirement, account so the, two hundred thousand have correct hundred seventy push <tamil>பண்ணாஎவ்ளோஇருக்கும்:panna evlo irukkum</tamil> thirty thousand so you only get thirty thousand so there's another


retirement once go to the retirement account got sixty five years old lah every month they give you salary from there they'll give you, that is the rules you know !huh! PR all same, unless they don't want they want to cut they work cut PR cut work


then the government give back the money at the age of fifty, I think I think so lah I'm not so sure daddy still working what daddy where got CPF daddy become PR right, three years ago only what, seventeen <tamil>நெனைக்கிறேன்:nenaikkireen</tamil> no only twenty thousand cannot take it must have hundred seventy thousand he only can he only take five thousand at the age of fifty five take already five thousand spend lah what else


one month house expenses you know a not do you know one month is house expenses thousand four is my house instalment ah thousand four, I'm paying thousand four bills Makan maid think what how much alreaady


car instalment , maid salary , five hundred, five hundred yet complain five hundred ah ah five hundred given how much one month expenses you know a not don't know ah some more


two cars his car thousand four my one one thousand two thousand five like that gone for the car other expenses, if you don't earn how, some more want another car (ppc) !huh!


, I know is is is not like this this is all the youngsters trend you got license you need to buy have the car show friend show off I know your character is like that you want to use the car saturday sunday you can use lah


then you use lah other days cannot what I have to go to work what, there's no need to modify wait police catch you inspection all fake, all take out inspection all <tamil>காடிலஇருந்தலைட்போனதுக்கேஇன்ஸ்பெக்ஷன்லபெயில்ஆக்கிட்டாங்க:gaadila light poonathukke inspectionala fail aakitaanka</tamil> cannot undestand a not what change ah


ah


so when you buy the car


sometime you won't tell them only ten thousand ah full ah <tamil>நீகட்டிஎடுத்துருக்கணும்:nee katti eduthurukkanum</tamil> so I


okay we can buy weekend car red colour plate saturday sunday drive saturay sunday you drive no, no charge, other day you charge uh after seven is free after seven you can drive morning seven to


night seven you want to drive ah coupon <tamil>எடுக்கணும்:edukkanum</tamil> uh twenty dollars ah twenty dollars and above one day ah buy weekend car is cheaper, after seven everyday after seven you can drive what


ah then you cannot buy weekend car, cannot ah morning after seven cannot drive they will catch weekend car charge more ah ah ma) charge more they know what weekend car you're driving in day time red colour plate how come you're driving they will stop your car ah you buy coupon a not you must prove them you buy is online


ah ah also cannot after seven only you must drive you cannot sy that lah nowadays their traffic they are very, !huh! no cannot


, I think can can can, maybe can but you have to buy lah coupon ya ya can can can, you must buy coupon, a bit cheaper, lah


two hundred fifty, is common ah


daddy <tamil>காடிக்கேநான்:gaadikke naan</tamil> coupon <tamil>எடுக்காமஇருக்கேன்:edukkama irukken</tamil> eighteen thousand


then you park car free ah, you put put car in the car park in free ah, no what you must buy buy, ah you must buy coupon what, but is very hard time to leave ah now


because of the covid ah <tamil>சீக்கெல்லாம்வந்து:seekellam vandhu</tamil> first car eighty dollars second my car eighty dollars


insurance <tamil>எடுக்கணும்:edukkanum</tamil> is it


and we were free but one one must be, every month also you pay like that what okay


ah, car license you pay <tamil>அப்பஅப்பபிரீயாதாஓட்டமுடியும்நீஆனா:apa apa freeyatha ootta mudiyum nee aana</tamil> so everyday you want drive to work now you take motor license


chill no lah never


current situation no <tamil>என்ன:enna</tamil> situation now what is the current situation because that's why all is well now your parents is there to do for you that's why all is well for your parents who is doing for them


no lah I didn't ask you that ya worse than that now ya that day I pay for you your driving, license how much hundred plus some more almost two hundred plus correct not everytime !huh!


I don't have savings my father also father mother, my father also , my father mother never give me <tamil>சொத்து:soththu</tamil> what !huh! I don't have savings


oh very good, okay what also something what keep lah ah, then two hundred you take out already


okay what good lah, you will ready one ah ah I will ready one ah, you eh then I, money face then, ya lah


instructor money face instructor need to earn also what he also need money correct a not, ah, everybody need earning what no earning how to survive especially the most important thing in the household ah you must pay your bills, !huh! house bill water bill current bill that is the most important


okay second second come in maybe phone lah okay because you need to use phone here and there to call, important house ah what line ah that one also eye ah


that one also eye ah, re-contract I don't want to do for you already no, no no no you never give me money (one), later you use the extra data all I have to pay, I don't want to re-contract I don't want to re-contract already anyhow use the phone go and buy the one the uh your sister say so twenty two dollars got forty GB ya same ah better


forty GB that day your father use uh extra GB ah almost seventy dollars, because last time he go back malaysia he don't know go back malaysia data off now he in singapore data never off then from there he


he open hotspot to use the malaysia line data alone count seventy seventy dollars then plus the bill, two hundred everything are costly so you must start current situation don't talk about your car that one not important okay that one is not important


that one is not important okay the most important thing is don't spend anyhow, okay what is important do first you all children ah you all ah still uh you know the parents is there to do for you all ah you all don't think


your parents go out to earn how, they earn back ah you all don't know, since april my company is not working you know a not ah another, another story after another story lah you !huh! you complete your army first !huh! since april


your parents your your parents not working in company no work since april, workers are locked up in the dormitory now september only they start to, open then because, of lockdown workers cannot anyhow go out you have to apply to MOM to EDV all these apply then your workers can go out to work go out to work every one week must give them


off day ah staggerate off day one day goverment rules must give them so my workers every tuesday off day and then two weeks once friday swab, test ya how many days they working can your parents make money until now you swab test is now


by under government, that one when they travel come back to singapore, because you're singaporean, ya then because you're singaporean that's why government is helping you, is good already government is helping I never until now I never go swab test I never go swab test because I think <tamil>மஞ்ச:manja</tamil>


ya lah that's how they test you lah take mc ya


ah MC , !huh! just complete, car istallments <tamil>கட்டணும்ல:kattanumla</tamil> you go to australia then who pay ah but same price never work


ah you follow me not follow your father ah, parents and your genes, !huh!


if other situation please please ah control yourself okay behave yourself, what the government implement the rules please follow sorry ah


is because I know you're twenty years old okay, still <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> teenage <tamil>வயசுதாஓடுதுஅங்கபாரேன்தூக்கிகாட்டுரான்:vayasutha ooduthu ankapaaren thooki kaatturaan</tamil> ah ah !huh!


okay, family now family sorry ah


, why your first car you know that one, first, car, daddy always go back malaysia


that's why, now a bit strict not singapore singapore still can go they allowing already but malaysia side


ah, why scold you when you never do mistake why he scold you ah, you do mistake that's why scold you correct, !huh! you never do mistake meh


scold you for nothing is it , I don't think that first you think what, no no think what to sell this house people come and see make sure they buy you think this one first


I pray already, ya I pray already


cannot they won't wait long HDB rules , okay


if don't get buyer how


two thousand five hundred <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> phone ya my first phone I buy ah is motorola, two thousand five <tamil>நான்கொடுத்துவாங்குனேன்அப்பதா:naan koduthu vaankunen appathaa</tamil> phone <tamil>எல்லாமேவெளியவந்தது:ellamee veliya vandhadhu</tamil> ya first <tamil>நான்வாங்குனது:naan vaankunathu</tamil> pager pager <tamil>உங்கப்பாக்குநான் வாங்கிகொடுத்தேன்:unkappaakku naan vaanki kodutheen</tamil> ya the pager


is like that pager has the aunty now pager also still have, now all gone already last time that one is my first <tamil>முந்திலாம்அந்த:munthilaam antha</tamil> pager <tamil>ல [பிப் பிப் பிப்னுதா]சத்தம்கேக்கும்அப்புறம்கொஞ்சநாள்போனபின்னாடி:[pip pip pip pipnutha] satham keekum aparam konja naal poona pinnadi</tamil> message <tamil>போடலாம்:poodalaam</tamil> can put message


uh three hundred thousand <tamil>அவ்ளோதா:avloothaa</tamil> terrace house you know now last time


ah


think <tamil>பண்ணலஅப்பயேஅந்தடைம்லகாசுஇருந்துச்சுனாகண்டிப்பாநான்வீடுவாங்கிருப்பேன்:pannala apayee antha timela kaasu irundhuchunaa kandippa naan veedu vaankiruppeen</tamil> cheap last time is cheap


you give me lah money


maintenance must [orh]


so tiring already, see lah if if <P2> matar </P2> father can help okay lah hundred thousand after I sell my house only I will give back


!huh!, can ah you think the father will help, ah , ya what he will ask you


(ppo) (mm)


why you miss them ah, ah later ah you put down the curtains all ah you better clean the windows all, okay don't lazing around


so dusty what ah you have to clean up the place Deepavali coming right


, then then don't don't ask me go marketing ah buy mutton buy chicken buy all these all I'm not very free


!huh!, okay that's fine that's fine that's what you should do what, !huh! now you get old already you cannot come and help me is it , last time, Deepavali only very happy


[orh] put the what, painting the house lah doing this lah doing that but now you don't do any of that, ah then not willingly ah, then for what, not for me because your friends will come


(mmhmm), [orh] <tamil>பேர பிள்ளைங்க செஞ்சா பரவால:paera pillaingga senjaa paravaala</tamil> we do this wrong then children do okay


must discipline them cannot do this cannot do that


why you then the children, good luck, that's, okay lah then that's fine


why pull my father in


<tamil>அட கடவுளே கடவுளே:ada kadavulae kadavulae</tamil>


I'm going office okay, I come back what time, I come back what time, by the time I come back I cannot do any work already, so you have to finish


ten, cannot lah my work got extra hours I've been working last minute no lah,


you you come and see ah you got come and see my office ah do what ah you never see what we do we are so busy everyday you know


err <tamil>சும்மா போய் நீங்க என்ன செய்விங்க போவிங்க: chumma poi neengga enna seiveengga povingga</tamil> Milo <tamil>போடுவிங்க உக்காருவிங்க குடிப்பிங்க:poduvingga okkarauvingga kudipingga</tamil> what were you doing in Nestle, ah so what do you do there, ya


yes, ya lah everybody go their own work we have to do important what, ya lah R&D okay <tamil>அதே மாதிரி:athae maathiri</tamil> I got my work in my office mine is the legal line


R&D you only follow your engineer tell you what to do you do that's all follow instructions only what so simple, no lah


you all you all R&D you all only punch card system only ours is no we cannot work like your timing oh five O clock sharp must leave


(mmhmm)


ya lah you you


why you do so much of work Milo ketchup I don't know what Maggi Mee what you have to do


uh


your rendang also you do what rendang you do


my work I got so many clients each clients got different different ways of doing things you know, uh we cannot have the same same routine like yours


actually yours is routine right my work is hor got different cases, different clients will come, we got the prorate matters you must do convincing, ah litigation and all that so it's different standard not the same


looking up authorities and all that, ah you try, cannot lah, people will come last minute they will give us something they will send emails and ask you


no no no you go and check with all the law firms they work very late, they work until six only cut-off time but after that they still stay on and do their work, inside office, they work ah some people working until ten eleven you know


you can see I busy week now some more the lockdown period ah lagi worse, no still people not coming to office you know a lot of them are working from home ya a lot of them are working from home, no most of the offices they taking turns half half like big firms lah only my firm everybody is working but most firms are like fifty percent only can work


fifty percent stay at home, cannot my firm is a very small firm, (mmhmm), that's why mah, you easy life lah, you stay in the you you talk about my father ah you talk about my father ah then your father very hardworking ah


, !huh! how dare you talk about my father (uh huh) say ah


I've seen, until three years old I know my father worked my father old what


ah <tamil>இல்ல:illa</tamil> race course leh Deepavali <tamil>னா:naa</tamil> so much fun, here where got fun


but when you were in grade school we do a lot of work what


last time ah, later lah we do that lah still got time lunchtime lah that one is for lunch now, Diwali was enjoyable last time now no fun already


(mmhmm), !aiyo! <tamil>நீங்க:nsengga</tamil> west coast life was very fun what, for me nothing


ya my side is ah very good ah I grow I grew up with so many brothers and sisters my one sister only but my sister went back to india I grow up only with my, ya when I was about how many years old nine years old when I'm primary four like that


my sister and my two brothers go back india what I grow up with all my nieces and nephews, my three brothers' children, all they were married we were all staying in the same house those days no problem all the kids were growing up I'm like the eldest to all of them


all of them were such a you know one dozen you know in the same house twelve of them in the sixties children were very nice easy to play along easy to bring up they don't fight for food, they won't fight for toys


they were very obedient not like kids nowadays we don't even have we don't have TV, we don't have like all those computer games or what, toys nothing we only got sand and grass and garden to play, catch spider go longkang catch fish


ah so all these children were so good those days, and also cooperative when staying in one house kampung life is so nice not like now, that one ya lah was a very small kampung lah my neighbours only four of us only


four houses there, quarters, ya but yours is also uh not not kampung ah, what quarters is that


I know lah turf club lah turf club quarters, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), considered something like that lah something like that, something like kampung also what


quarters, but was it fun staying with all those people those days, fun right, last time how they go to school your sisters' children all lorry will come and fetch them right


no bus lah, Papa used to tell me they go by the kind of pickup, , or <tamil>தம்பி:thambi</tamil> all that they will go in the bus to school


uh, (mmhmm), you and your brother, then you all go and pluck rambutan don't go to school where ah dunearn road ah #bukit timah#


ah what your brother go and pluck I heard your brother fall down, mangosteen, ya I want to listen it's fun what those days now you can't find all those what


ah last time <tamil>அண்னே:annae</tamil> go and pluck rambutan ah instead of going to school lah, after school lah how much you all get


, how old were you ah


(mmhmm), ya lah, how you go to india after that you went with your Pa and Ma to india right


ya lah when you go to india, where you go, you go cycling all that, you got the group of all those turf club people go with you right


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


boring ah


come back , (mmhmm), do they check they check what they do swab test what


how ah, how I went to india I had a lot fun what I never have like boring ah


I stayed in Chennai, before I got married I go there I go and stay with my father and mother almost one year, ah everyday go for because I was bored, my father send me to the typewriting class, shorthand typewriting from my house I go there learning typewriting shorthand very useful what


a lot no friends lah just one neighbour one lady down there, always come and talk to my my no lah that time young but one girl will come and talk to me you know everytime she come over the side lane ah window ah my mother will chase her out my mother say why you talking to these type of <tamil>பொம்பல:pombala</tamil> all these all lousy cannot make friends with these people all


then typewriting class <tamil>போமோது:pomothu</tamil> then got one fellow come after me also, ah, then Aaruma <tamil>மாமா:mama</tamil> will go and, saw that fellow you know, Aaruma <tamil>மாமா:mama</tamil> come and complain to my father, then my father they all go see who's this guy


he he was telling with you he was telling your grandkids that day you were playing with spider fight spider fight and all that


he will you will bring him to temple he will come to the temple he will stand there


ah you don't like to go temple, we go so many places what, sightseeing remember we go to this Nandha NGO we bring the kids to Mysore


at night the driver was almost taking grapes grapes almost he was a bit drowsy already all the way he was eating the grapes you know you remember, why you, you keep him awake talking talking talking to him


then uh he also don't know the route, ah he want to check the Hilton hotel don't know where keep asking everybody he don't know where the hotel is


ya lah we went to so many places we went to this what Kerala


the fellow too much right, the driver, where he want to have a room in the big hotel some more


the same hotel lah (mmhmm) (mmhmm)


india leh


but our happiest moment is when we went to Sydney uh nice ah very fun and then we travelled with winnie, we bring her along, ah ah no another Tandoori, her favourite food is the Tandoori


, after that only she try the Tandoori ah then she loving the Tandoori chicken, come here also she every time want to eat the Tandoori


Brisbane ah we drove there right very nice ah that one, (mmhmm), nice place very relaxing lah, (mmhmm)


ya lah we went to visit the, my niece ah !huh!, indian beauty house, where was it uh, blacktown uh, notorious area


ah seven years, seven years lah, ya seven years lah, good business lah that one okay the business is good but must travel


so how, (mmhmm), first thing you must go india first, then you after that we have to plan about going to Sydney


now we cannot think of Paris and all that, france all cannot, so we try to settle down for Sydney, france is nice, (mmhmm)


france lor we went to the, (mmhmm) more than ten years already


(mmhmm)


that side lah maybe the #bukit timah# area have this area uh can't find, last time they cut down or everything already what last time got rubber tree also right, , now where cannot find rubber tree right now


you always go and explore forest, because you from the #bukit timah# area you know so many trees down there


(mmhmm), , I know turf club lah, singapore turf club


, your my childhood was so much fun we always go for picnic cheapest one the cheapest age, that one your whole group lah go as a family


we bring the kids very often ah very, we very often we got my brother got the van all of us all the kids will go and my third brother will go and pluck all the you know there's coconut, my my third brother lah


also somebody's house lah on the way all pluck and go, then we cook some curry bread then we bring to the beach and eat


lunch ah make sambal lah


no lah, just eat something here


ya, uh, ya lah that one we go another day today will be very crowded we don't go and buy things today, weekdays only ah we go and get the shopping items


oaky lah then you do some cooking for Deepavali lah you do


(mmhmm), Deepavali <tamil>விடிய விடிய எல்லா ஒக்காந்து மாவாட்டி ஒக்காந்து இருப்பாங்க:vidiya vidiya ella okkanthu maavaatti okkanthu irupangga</tamil> they used to outside the corridor


they grinding every house will be grinding chili and uh eve lah eve of Deepavali they doing all the, it was so much of err fun down there lah


now all gone lah all the old people long gone already, (mmhmm), ya before all your generation all gone lah


(mmhmm), and your all your friends lah, you all still in contact the TCIB boys


some of your older generation also there what, you your brother and then the one other your friend Panjaamaanikkam


you all never worked in turf club what, they grew up there, so you ever ride horse there


when young time, I saw one photo, ah, why never go you bodybuilder what, very weak , ah


body lah pump <tamil>பண்ணிட்டு இருப்பாங்க:pannittu irupangga</tamil> , never never visit, ah, like you buy this


then that day you buy that one the other one ah


even my, those days when I was working at high street ah there were so many nice shops and all that, high street centre now you see change a lot ah yesterday we went you saw the place how much of changes


the the north bridge road, the whole stretch you said diamond royal was there but I don't remember, I was thinking it was after islamic, the whole stretch ah


I sixty plus already lah, seventy plus, you lah, you know beter lah of course


I don't know that, MGR or Sivaji I don't know which ,


then got one malay movie theatre also there right, ah ah


yes, (mmhmm)


where now Raffles hospital is ah, now it's Raffles hospital


what happened ah last time they have singapura restaurant right, ya I know last time my brother always bring me there with the I was thinking because we always go outing means we go eat something in islamic


then we go and watch the and watch the movie, I don't know is up or down I don't know lah


you ever see fights or not down there, I heard they all got fights all down there every time


two gang, all day all that what these people that fight last time younger days ah they not happy


india, #bukit timah# in the sixties uh, you ever saw the gang fight here you said you said you went to uh


ah, is it, then where your you went back home how you rush home, what time, you all go and watch movie ah so late, where where got movie theatre here


[orh], then, how many of you all your friends all ah which is all the turf club people


ah they are


then in the end how you all go back


you go inside the drain and walk through ah, I don't know


(mmhmm), [orh]


(mmhmm), ya I saw, don't know


(mmhmm)


!hanna!, you were working in uh, this what with right


at the saint rosetown, yes what you want


no you last time I want to know about your market, old estate school your old school lah, what school you went to, the school name, dunearn


how can you say you cannot remember any, now no more right down there, who's your teacher what's your teacher's name that time


how come you cannot remember I was staying at alexandra there I know the alexandra market food court all


(mmhmm), not yet lah wait lah still got a lot of time


boys town leh, where you learn your typing,


still got a lot of time


<tamil>வருவாரு:varuvaaru</tamil> school <tamil>கு நா போறனாலே:ku naa poranaalae</tamil> he will say okay I wait until she finished her O level then I come and propose


your father lah, you got the vegetable <tamil>தொட்டோ:thotho</tamil> right, ah what you bring you bring all the <tamil>வெண்டிக்கா:vendikkaa</tamil> tomato ah


ah, then you bring some to my house lah


you ever come to my house, (mmhmm)


my house in alexandra you know so much fun, I remember you come there you sit down with my brother all you talk about the <tamil>வீர பாண்டி கட்ட பொம்மன்:veera paandi katta bomman</tamil> story all, (mmhmm)


then after my school I went to nursing right, you remember I go nursing, ah you come and you came with dalmian right, come to wait for me somewhere


you must refresh your mind to remember a lot of things


marriage proposal ya, ya lah then he, come there then he will sit down shy shy don't want to ask anything just keep quiet come and sit down there then I got fed up I say <tamil>வந்திட்டாரு மாமா இங்க:vanthuttaaru mama ingga</tamil> I and my sister will talk a lot of gossip about you in my room


ya ask my sister, I say he will come there wear his chain gold chain take out his then he showed off his chain back then


ya, no I said you want to come there sit down there and then watch TV, then pretending wasting time we cannot even do anything my sister and I cannot come out from the room also


then the the he went to tell his sister lah the sister propose uh <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> girl <tamil>நீங்க சொல்லல:neengga sollala</tamil> but happy already lah


dark and short girl ah, !huh! <tamil>nநா எவ்வலோ:naa evalo</tamil> fair <tamil>ரா இருந்தே அப்போ போய்:raa irunthae appo poi</tamil> , ya


ah ya lah I came back from india


I came back from india lah after that then about twenty lah, (mmhmm), then you come and sit there then look at me near the kitchen sit outside the kitchen then my mother will come and chase him off <tamil>மணி ஆயிடுச்சு தம்பி:mani aayiduchi thambi</tamil>


there was so much of fun in those days you know everybody was so happy, ah ah, then how


where we get married you remember, ah this one he can remember, then whose car we using ah we borrowed somebody's car your boss' car is it, Mercedes BMW or Mercedes ah


Mercedes, oh I thought it was mister Pang, I don't know


but you were before that you were working in Maya right, a marriage type, Maya Plastic, then you move to Geylang, then err we struggle lah after that we were staying in the block eighteen story there


my <tamil>அண்ணிஸ்:annis</tamil> house right rental house then the first house we buy in where Tanglin halt we rent, we applied Tanglin halt we were renting, ah rental house after that they offered then we bought the house lah that was our first house I remember the house in Tanglin halt


(mmhmm) <tamil>அதுல நெனப்பு இருக்கா அந்த:athulae nenappu irukka antha</tamil> !huh!, almost about eight years ah, ya eight years, we bought in uh nineteen seventy nine we moved there


eighty eight we came to Fajar, ya nineteen eighty eight we buy at Fajar ah so we stay there almost, eight years lah, because the children was schooling there what Tanglin primary


we stayed until Nandha go primary two uh primary five actually primary two then we moved to #bukit panjang#, #bukit panjang# down there err


finally we come back to square come back to the one room one hall house, we started in one room one hall and come back to ending up to one room one hall, what two room one hall where


(mmhmm) two room one hall lah


but considered that one was also first house what, L shaped ah, (mmhmm)


, Theeban was a Bala Bala father


school days was nice lah when I was studying time, ah my brother used to, but that time no school pocket money all my one brother give each one take turns to give us money give me money for spending


and after my cookery lesson only my brother's children will all be waiting for the cookery food , go home got extra cakes and all that, then once ah I bring my second brother's son you know I will what


I was he was about one plus only two years old I brought him to alone ah alone I was I don't know I think I was only about ten years ten eleven years old uh


I bring him there then uh my first <tamil>அண்ணி:anni</tamil> searching for us she got so mad that we lost already, after I come back only I kena nicely from her she because she sayang my nephew she slapped me ah <tamil>அவன எப்டி நீ தனியா அழைச்சிட்டு போமுடியும் அவளோ தூரத்துக்கு:avana epdi nee taniya azhaichittu po mudiyum avalo thoorathuku</tamil> redhill <tamil>வரைக்கு:varaikku</tamil> I walked from prince charles square to redhill carry him


, those were the good old days lah, (mmhmm)


err <tamil>அவங்க போய்:avangga poi</tamil> visit <tamil>பண்றதுக்கு போவ நானு எப்போது அங்க அவங்க:pandrathuku povae naanu yeppothu anggae avanga</tamil> son <tamil>னோ இவனுக்கோ ஒரே வயசு:no ivanuko orae vayasu</tamil> my nephew age and my this one son so, don't know for what I just bring him go jalan jalan down there lah


I was in secondary school already lah


(mmhmm), ya


don't know lah cannot be lah the <tamil>சும்மா:chumma</tamil> midnight show <tamil>அப்போ அடிக்கடி:appo adikadi</tamil> midnight show <tamil>வரும் எங்க அண்ணலா போவாங்க:varum engga annalaa povaangga</tamil> midnight show


other all my brothers earning, (mmhmm), my father you remember my father how fierce he was


he my brother all my brothers' earnings must go to him first, after that when we start working also our earning also must go to him, when we were working in the factory ah NS at the delta there


payday only you know come and wait at the gate, my father he exactly he knows payday he standing there my sister will be so angry, then after that only he will give us some money pocket money you want to buy your personal things you go and buy but he will be waiting there


even when my brother sent my sister used to tell me lah when she was india my brother will send parcel there they were staying in the <tamil>கிராமம்:graamam</tamil> my sister stayed there six years then she will be waiting for singapore what presents will come, my brother will send saris and make-up things all you know but my father will take all those and go and sell make money


and he will buy the local things for her to wear, my sister really suffered under him and my other two brothers also I didn't suffer much because uh most of the time I spent with my brothers, my brothers all were were all okay lah with us but my two brothers and my sister uh suffered under my father because he's such a #kiam siap# man


my mother is a very simple woman lah but for her husband is god, whatever food she cook also grandchildren all be waiting but he must eat first, my father-in-law is a different man my father-in-law will wait for the children to eat first everybody eat he will eat last my father the opposite my father must eat first grandchildren all waiting after that <tamil>மிச்சோ மீதி:micho meethi</tamil> children eat


this is like that my mother also very supportive lah of my father she don't bother about own children for her husband lah like god like that, she will take care of him until he died, such a nice woman


but my mother-in-law and my father my mother-in-law very simple, she will stay with my father-in-law but she won't talk so much with my father-in-law, my father-in-law will always tell her because my mother-in-law only like to watch movie TV that one enough for got food TV then do the housework


my father is she will that time our house got no TV you know when I newly married to my husband, then the we have to go to my sister-in-law's house or our neighbour's my mother will sneak slowly sneak from the backdoor, go to the other house to watch TV that time tamil <tamil>படம்:padam</tamil> thursday friday only ah then my father-in-law will like


my father-in-law's favourite word is this one <tamil>வந்தோமா பாத்தோமா சாப்டோமா படுத்தோமானு இருக்கனும்:vanthomaa paathomaa saaptomaa paduthomaanu irukanum</tamil>


my father is a very err thrifty man lah like to save money keep keep keep for himself only, difficult my mother-in-law is very nice my father-in-law, I never stayed much with my father lah


we only know him very vaguely, stingy because we will get angry with him because when he was with us, he will always make the children wait, which I don't like, and we got the my eldest sister-in-law was the one very filial she will do everything for him wait put hot water cook and all that


err, after that because my brother my other two brothers they they stayed with for awhile in uh our elder brother house after they went and stayed on their own lah but we every time Deepavali or what any function we are always there the children also grow up together


that was a very uh different life lah those days my husband family very small family only one sister one brother, my side more bigger family, inside but we were very close after the marriage ah my sister-in-law also


my husband side they are all very nice, especially my husband sister-in-law she does all the cooking she don't give me any work to do because she's a housewife that's why can work, then the they took care of my children also lah most of the time we stay there


even though we got a house we never stay in our house we always spend our weekened in, my mother-in-law's place, (mmhmm), so life goes on like this lah I start working


(mmhmm), you where there what you know me you know my family you you you were there you know my family before already


my elder brother's wedding you were there, you were there at my elder brother's wedding, can I, , you know better than my brothers what I was very young that time you always mixed with them what


then my my father ah you don't, [orh]


then you know just now you say my father like to collect a lot of junk and keep


no lah we are not junk collector we just take unused good things what why you want to throw can use what, no lah those items which we can reusable then we reuse


(mmhmm), walk there already how to ask !huh! they all gone already shall I phone I will ask them lah after I go and join them


right, no lah, that time already prince charles square we moved there three years already I was only three years old when we moved to prince charles square


no after that about five years later eight years or nine years old lah not so young lah my brother's wedding all you came what I was six years old for my brother's wedding


ah you came there when I was six you were thirteen years old


ah younger brother's wedding you all all were there what uh your sisters stayed over that I remembered a lot of people were staying there, ya because early morning wedding was at Krishnan temple What


we had the <tamil>ஊஞ்சல்:oonjal</tamil> there what at the garden there


was so much of uh grand lah that time even the sixties nineteen sixties I think sixty or sixty one ya when he was there, I think most of the time he was spending time with my brothers and all


wedding food, ya ya <tamil>அப்போலா:appolaa</tamil> we cook there you remember sebastian <tamil>மாமா தெரியுல:mama teriyula</tamil> he was cooking in the background


ya I miss them, eh, ah can no problem


all these are a waste of time waste of thing <tamil>கழட்டிகிட்டு போட்டுகிட்டு:kazhatikittu pottukittu</tamil> eh


for me it's nothing, no, I'm I'm not coming I'm coming because I want to help you to carry that's all


okay no problem, ah, I don't know more, no no I'm not getting young anymore


that also I won't do it willingly, nop, for you, nonsense


you people ah are useless ah


grandchildren are the priority in the family, no matter how, when I get first married you are my priority, now no more, you are like a junk nothing


!huh! children also no more already have grandchildren, they have their own err family to handle to do things why you


exactly like your father


you go office, you must put beside time <tamil>வேல:vela</tamil> at nine to


okay six lah very most give nine to six lah


think, nonsense


ah, six O clock you must finish it


nonsense, you that is R&D okay research and development okay, so we do researches, okay daily we must do one one project


and then we must we must come to the office and, record all what you do and then send to overseas


limited that time lah, ya, ya, ya


you come back nowadays eight <tamil>அன்னிக்கு:anniku</tamil> eight thirty, no, you can make you can ask the guys to


come this time this time <tamil>ஏழு மணிக்கு:yaelu manikku</tamil> okay okay <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> office <tamil>இருப்பேன்:iruppaen</tamil> Uma office <tamil>இருக்கும்:irukkum</tamil> no problem ah then the fellow will come at seven O clock, then come back home eight eight thirty


that's it the day is finished


hello


no we have three thousand to four thousand, err different type of product you know Nestle is not only Milo, and ketchup no such thing, we have three thousand over products, right, and we cannot do all that product we did these they will assign certain projects to certain


err certain R&D okay you all supposed to do these projects, and the projects you know are already, in the market already, okay what we do is to make it better


that's our job, anything lah anything lah they they they will the market lah see we are like like concern uh err Nestle, malaysia they they these people they want to do, they want to do a different type of product because same type of product will not make


you know you, do marketing what, we must have a see last time we only have Maggi chili sauce, Maggi tomato sauce these two are the only items, after that you have garlic, we have you know so many different different types so these are the things we have to


will send to the MD MD will send down to the, engineers engineers will, pass on, what you should do, then we will do lah we follow the thing in, then after that end of the day after we have completed the research


they will have a panel of err, err tasters to come and taste the product, and then see where what the change and all that lah these are our job lah, R&D is like that what, R&D got different different way this is the full


nonsense


fix your time lah go do work and come back, only Mohandas and Naidu like that


lockdown no more already ah, who said no


no, why don't you make yourself fifty percent work


it's like two different pillars you know, they are this is Naganathan


total, you have seen your father work or not, nonsense


race course leh


nonsense Diwali


no lah <tamil>நீ நீ சொல்லுல உங்க உங்க:nee nee sollula ungga ungga</tamil> you, you are from the more like a city side more hello mine is a kampung side nothing there, ah ah


ya, who say your sister went back to india


nowadays it's different lah you don't talk about sixties and now


last time the government it it is a what do you call this quarters


mine is not a kampung mine is a quarters, quarters is the the employer who give the employees, the place to stay ah turf club lah, ah not kampung kampung life is different, see they have clusters of houses and can this one is not like that it's more like uh


err what do you call this, a row of houses, we don't mix also, we different, same like you uh kampung you are not from kampung what


what is it


no lah, where got fun ah, school bus lah, bus


not lorry lah bus lah, bus lah, bus that time all the bus in the sixties, my time went I went to school it was in the in the the lorry lah that time there was no bus


I and my brother, no lah , by dunearn road, oh ya mangosteen ah that's a long time now story lah !aiya! don't listen to all these sixty year old story all


nonsense, nonsense this is after school lah, ya because there's a there's a kind of field there have few three mangosteen and rambutan trees


then we we we waiting for the lorry or the the the transport to come and pick us up so err while waiting we just go and climb up the tree and pluck the, the when the fruits uh you know already to eat uh then we just, so it was the one my brother I think


he was chased by the guard lah and then he fall down from the thing on top from I don't remember that long time already but I forgot lah I vaguely remember, at that time I only seven eight nine years eight nine years ya nine years


nine years lah, how many years ago sixty over years ago, that area are now bungalow houses ah


no lah after that lah when I was twenty years old aleady, go by ship lah, no lah


that one was the family people lah then I, father want to bring me to show me how the india, life is, and let me know you know the things all but then, that was fun lah I stayed there for three months lah but lousy lah cannot stay there lah


the life there is so much different from there and here, and we don't know the people there and all that !aiya!, stayed home, ya father will go to the village, I and #ah ma# will stay home


boring life lah there, that's why now I'm having boring life here, I can't do anything, because of all the corona lah, now corona corona is already okay in singapore in india haven't


they are already keep multiplying only, no lah they they cannot lah it is there already, corona, and india comes along


india india cannot one lah, other countries they can, india, dirty fellows cannot listen one, right, useless fellows


!huh!, what fun you have tell me, , from my house like that


why why don't you make friends you are a young girl at that time


bored <tamil>அடிக்குதுல:adikuthula</tamil> I just want to see something ah, this is


I think it's good lah


I go temple because of you, I don't you know my


even in india I also never go, sleepy lah he


okay lah I was keeping keeping him awake lah, no lah that fellow was okay, at that time


last time don't have all the GPS and all that lah in india also you must ask people to go certain areas not unless you are a travel agent or, this, travel agent people they know lah because they frequent some, tourists they go to certain hotels they know certain hotels


actually cannot lah he want to stay with us in the hotel


he got the driver's err what do you call this uh, drivers' err room ah where all the drivers you know, leave their guests in the hotel and then they will have their room and sleep there but he don't want he said a lot of mosquitoes here ah I cannot sleep this and that that's not my business


he want to room in the our our our, the the place ah same hotel, who going to pay for it, say you ask your boss lah to pay for it, I told him no no such thing


ah okay lah, I only vegetarian one I'm very very


otherwise, Thosai Idli Thosai Idli, !huh! india was nice lah


Chandra and we two went to Brisbane, (uh huh) that one was nice


we went to uh where was it there, ah no no no that one is uh what ah, blacktown ya, ya


uh seven, she have a shop there lah she still has her shop there, ya she's doing better now, actually I wanted to travel this uh this year or next year but then


because of the corona I cannot go, at where, ya should have settled the things there lah


ya, we have to had fun you know in france, now it changes lah after how many years, we went in two thousand nine ah is it !huh!


more than ten years already but that time was different now they a lot of, the restriction and control you know because of the terrorists and all that


I I never seen a nowadays, long time when I was young that time, (mmhmm)


rubber tree ya, now we can't find, now we can't find the rubber tree


ya that area undeveloped what last time, you see you see here all these area


this is where I, was born and bred, no lah not this one this one is actually the latest stage, later, when I was born in the shop like that


we go play play once a while, whole group lah I mean, family all we will go with the family lah not like you all


sister's brother


where you go to have your lunch


or should I go buy chicken rice for you, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm)


oh !huh!


ah born the later I never see her properly actually supposed to see yesterday right


!wah! then cannot ah must go to the NTUC some more my whole leg


weekend cannot, weekday okay, you cooking nothing you are you, you want to cook or don't cook I I don't know I'm not going to


I don't want people ah police come here and all the nonsense I don't want, they will definitely they will complain one


we are now ah getting old and we are the older people now for the young people


they they can't remember my parents, ah before my generation ah mostly gone, ninety five percent all gone left five percent not gone


my friends lah, not not but not much people also, the TCI TCI all are younger boys, not many there who's there


finer lah not much lah, these are our generation lah younger generation fellows, not working ones I mean those


no lah, <tamil>அது ஒரு:athu oru</tamil> for time being lah


daily morning, morning ah my unit I will do do for awhile


just to keep the arm you know active , can lah I will still, okay lah


all the old shops all gone already, yes I can, I can guarantee it was there that was hello, hello let let me tell you


how old are you, how old I am, who is older, okay I'm older than you, I should know better or you should know better of course so you cannot argue with me on this point


I normally younger days I go there and see movie, which one is first Diamond first or, then then then you but, hello, no we have diamond royal, two two theatres


this is the position diamond, north bridge road, diamond royal, okay, no, there are only two theatres the other side is alhambra that long time ago that one long time ago the other one during the sixties gone already that one beach road


three Capitol Odeon, Cathay, these are the theatres, but you were saying the islamic after the islamic they definitely, the theatres after islamic is what you know beach road already


you know what I'm trying to say islamic mean it's not like islamic now you know, the big letter ah bigger one ah that one that row, then after that is what beach road already you remember not now you remember how can there be theatres there


I give you a simple example, so it is this stretch of road, starting from, !huh!, ah yes, Raffles hospital right yes it's there


there's there's one uh, CC there still there I think, you it's just next to the Bugis there what Bugis Bugis uh MRT


and the diamond then royal then, you can see the what the Jumzam on the other side, ah singapura restaurant lah, Jumzam and all that lah long time also there


during my younger days the shops were still there, then how can you say the theatre is after, then you walk down


you walk down, ah but you arguing is after islamic is the theatre no, is, if you are walking if you going down north bridge road, then islamic, pass by islamic then you go to


royal diamond, then we will come to, no lah, normally they have fights ah but normally I


and yes yes yes no lah that one was more of small small gang, not the real gangsters no the chinese, the real fight they are the real gangsters fight, the rest more on their, MGR Sivaji all these have


ah that one is a one time uh long time ah, I ran into the longkang to escape because they coming with the knives and all that


because I have nothing, it was a gang fight what, run back lah, what time midnight lah around midnight, ya and get picture lah


they got theatre here what Dianwah Nanyang, you will know one lah, so you think !wah! theatre this theatre I think it's Dianwah, turf club people lah during the seventies I think


late sixties and seventies, through the gang fight between two gangsters


they cannot distinguish you or whether you on which side whether you're on, the, I don't know what number lah they have numbers, ah you know can't remember the numbers


so we were I think the movie finished already we were about to go back, then the fight start, so we, we cannot escape what we have to we were at the bus stop how to how to run if we run, then they will suspect


that you are on the rival side, right so what do you feel the best is to to to escape escape from the fight lah, you cannot and fight into the into the, but last time gangster fight is not like nowadays nowadays don't have gangster fights you don't hear these gangsters fighting lah last time yes


ya lah we need come need come the #bukit timah# side what six mile, not all lah few of them because that was that was a bus stop later and the drain and the drain now now covered already you know now the


the drain is now covered is because the the MRT was coming up, and the beauty world bus stop, one seven three, it happened somewhere around there


the fight so that was a big canal you know it was not a river it was big canal down, that slope like that, so there's a river there not river lah it is a canal


so they covered all that area you now, now you can't can't see now that area ah you know #bukit timah# plaza that river, the the canal there now after a few maybe one two years time we can't even see the canal already, they covering now already you got see not


I heard that there is going to be a bus road bus lane there ah, ah bus lane right, ya I saw that there is a road there you know the they building a road there


I think buses are going to pass through there, because, by going up, the hill and turn ah they going up the slope on the turn, there's nobody living around that area what, so they are going to have this straight route


better, that's a long time ago lah


hello, sister, , market


ah why, what you looking for, dunearn, ya, dunearn lah dunearn, dunearn primary


no lah now it's the now it's the broken the old school lah that time, I think it was mister peter or what I can't remember lah, during the fifties I can't remember, can't remember I don't know who the teacher is


no the teachers you are asking me I can't remember any teacher, any teacher I remember mister peter because peter was, along the he will stay along the dunearn road, you know there's one indian house there you remember, along the dunearn road there's one indian house


dunearn road near the dunearn school, there's one indian family there


same lah, there lah I never went to school to learn I learnt from


ten thirty


hello, talk in english


my father lah, yes, brinjal


agree really he


I'll put in the six uh six uh


ya I know, ya, it was the whole time ah


I can't remember lah I can't remember, nowadays I can't remember old things already, cannot lah this is not something that you, just remember like that no


after you cannot remember certain things, age is catching up I'm also taking a lot of medicine, schooling is never mature thinking a lot of medicine, thing, hello, use your brain a little bit, past things he cannot remember certain things


then, but that that time that time that time you got a crush on me right


eh eh eh eh, don't bluff lah don't, ya you you


you were you, so you you you, you were talking about me right that time that means you got a crush on me


ya lah that time your parents were not here what, one in uh Chennai one in here and one will be here and one will be there


take turn, no I didn't say, no lah happy my sister was saying that the why how going there always you have like you have like he for this girl the dark and short girl


ya that time you were quite dark what, nonsense you fair, no you were saying lah whether to marry her


that time you were twenty years old is it, not yet lah sixteen years old lah, I know twenty lah, I was quite old already what I was about twenty eight


then that's it lah I'm married already lah all done some more


I remember, yes


Mercedes, no, that one was another friend called mister Goh, no, mister Pang is around the later stage of the uh marriage


(mmhmm), ya


ya, no that time was rental


ya, doctor eddy Ho, how many years we were there


no lah, really, so long ah, ah


uh, Nandha


no, two rooms one hall


we cannot consider that, we started with the two room one hall first, no lah that one only has temporary one lah <tamil>அது அது:athu athu</tamil> cannot consider as err your house


that one was we rented from your sister-in-law, I remember


what happened to them uh no no news


how old were you at that time, oh, quite big lah


he went with his girlfriend lah, why


I can't remember


hor hor


no ah I'm not living there I visit there, this is sometimes talk without thinking, but how how I know your your background all, I already tell once in a while


I visit your house should I you should know better or I should know better you tell me, nonsense we are doesn't mean we talk like that we know better I don't know what his character is where was he working I don't know all


your brothers or your father also I visit yes, one month one time or what doesn't doesn't mean that I know your family not nonsense, ya, at the back of their house you you


you I can see all the cupboard and all the fellow don't want to throw away all there, uh your father is a junk collector what, you eh agree or


how's the Masla or the Selva this fellow's knows,


ah


, err just fun lah


when when I was talking uh you were only about three four years old only


then how old were you for your brother's wedding !huh!, !huh!, six years old, ya


, I can't remember all these people, evening got the reception lah your brother's wedding, I don't remember that


you remembered, I remember


one hour already


okay so err I'm gonna, ask you something about err radio profession any of the famous people you interviewed you, still can remember


oh oh miss Subbulakshmi oh ah okay


KAP Viswanatham, oh okay, ah


ah okay, I think I listen singapore


ya pick and choose, ya ya there are still some others I am listening to <tamil>சுவாமி ஓம் காரனந்தா:swami om kaaranantha</tamil> on WhatsApp group he everyday err


give a explanation about one <tamil>குறல்:kural</tamil> of course he <tamil>அதிகாரம்:athikaaram</tamil> he chose different <tamil>அதிகாரம்:athikaaram</tamil> but err <tamil>அதிகாரம்:athikaaram</tamil> all the ten course he finish but not in sequence like what you said


, [orh] <tamil>கா அறிஞர் அண்ணா:kaa arinyar annaa</tamil> when he was a chief minister or


radio station


how about <tamil>அப்போ</tamil> Vairamuthu or anyone not not never get a chance or maybe you recently then popular, Kannadhasan


ya so it will be a good opportunity [orh] [orh] [orh] [orh]


okay okay ah


[orh] okay


ah


that means you should have known about him already


ah,


oh okay


[orh] okay, oh okay


I like in one of the book release I think you mentioned about the family tree I think you made, that one I was it was very impressing to me you ya I was there at the book release then I was err sick so one of the nice


, [orh] [orh] okay


oh they like ah, because it is quite neat that nowadays because whenever visiting err our relatives, nowadays the grandchildren they don't spend much time they just !hey! hi or sometime need the parents have to drag them to the hall and say hi this is so and so


I'd be #casa san#, ya, that's why ya ya because the idea the concept I like it very much because ya


correct, , I also think I also think but most of them when I tell them err this is so and so this is how


they are related and most of them including my wife tend to how you say this this relationship, we use to call this that that's why we tell them that one of the uniqueness, we have whereas english language have generalised auntie every woman could be an auntie and every man could be an uncle


we have nice term each and every terminology, ya, ah


it's like err so at least the concept is good that at least we can leave a legacy for our next generation say how these people are related to us, ah


listener to remember you know money right


ya ya, and most of the tamil programmes I like to attend them now because of COVID only ya


err the april <tamil>மொழி மாதம்:mozhi maatham</tamil> that one this year is a miss, most of the events I like I'll attend especially on weekend some more I live near #boon keng#


(uh huh) okay okay


ah !huh! [orh], [orh]


(mmhmm) (mmhmm) okay


ah, correct one more, thing I realised is that when I was in india I was from northern part of <tamil>தமிழ் நாடு:tamil nadu</tamil> my hometown is very near to err Chennai


I think err most of the hindu temples we went to even big or small


my uncle's son is joining us to <tamil>வைத்தீஸ்வரன் கோவில்:vaitheesvaran kovil</tamil> ya then along the way he say eh my I mean my mother's brother son


temple is nearby we detour a bit err it's near <tamil>திருவாரூர்:thiruvaarur</tamil> that area then, uh uh then they err


err


yes south bridge road, ya correct, make a pause okay, we will stop for awhile


as that's I notice every even I told my friend in canada every year april month we celebrate as err it was started as a week tamil more tamil language week and now we extend it into tamil language month


we have a series of programmes, I, err I would I send to him the particulars he was quite impressed even though he in Toronto city itself he say that the two hundred thousand tamilians living in Toronto city itself they have a very big tamil community especially sri lankan tamils


even they can't put up that kind of err programme say that err government giving a lot of infrastructure, so that is, so that is one of the difference I notice even in tamil Nadu


err, even though I grew up there I can't see the importance


ya, ya get together festival


harvest festival


ah so , that's way the thinking is err morning breakfast, in general tamil language we thought that err have you eaten ya yes


uh okay I thought was is a sri lankan term of kitchen


sri lanka, so they they have a influence same like Malacca, err then you how about err when it comes to writings ah what makes you err, ya what makes you write


two tamil news daily


[orh]


oh the radio dramas how was the experience


crime scenes


robbery background


[orh], so got chance to write dramas as well as telecast acting multiple roles !wah! so this drama you need to convert it to a individual script based on character


need to ah, oh okay


then err any of your experience about err travelling due to, your works and, writing


, now #ang mo kio# MRT


oh okay, [orh] okay


back in india, [orh]


[orh] okay


regional regional


ah, something like now err football, our our workplace we used to conduct a Deepavali cup


football, from my starter and now I can see the because those err, used to play vigorously they are in their forties and fifties now, obviously due to leg injury and all those things now then they change it to seven a side and then the team keep on shrinking


[orh] for the wedding the cup ah, oh okay


[orh] okay it was big in that manner at that time those days [orh]


oh okay no space, now only difficult to get I think now, (mmhmm)


ah


okay, , [orh] okay


those days wedding


for the national team


[orh], oh he choose


ah yes


[orh] one gold point


one of the deed are our, our my company is one of the repair staff his name is ronald job he is from saint george


he wanted to do something like this, mother's day, mother's day he wanted to do something like what err doctor did say he want to choose about twenty mothers, are all his own expense and err you give them prepared everything


he did then since he did mother's day then maybe he was having some kind of thing he want do the father's day two three years later ya he did the same thing ya then they we feel obligated then we send err


we planned a retirement party for him or something about two years back, all with the #jalan kayu# members we working together with me ya ya ya my company err actually the indian community is quite


err significant number of people so they all put together make an effort Nah you take this part you take this part and they call singapore MGR, err three years we tried out


so ah singapore Sivaji ya he also came, so is err so there are some people wanted to give recognition to, must be recorded ah


we like now lucky now we have a easier devices and all those things you have recordings probably the olden days may not have ya, the newer things err one person or the other person can get the collection of it


ya still have different bus #johor bahru# ya, ah ya [orh] roll into the bus


coffee shop, singapore deliver to #johor bahru#, [orh] okay okay before separation


something remind me of, ah yes that one I heard of, you you remind me of err Mumbai the <tamil>டப்பாவால:dabbawala</tamil> even it's a harvard MIT did a study compared to modern day courier err how many millions of delivery err


the mistakes done is err almost insignificant, err almost negligible, err even though they do they don't do any high technology devices and all those things they still collect the food and delivered to the correct spot, by going through all these public transit ah public transport and the trains Mumbai trains and all those things


err ya ya ya, err ya, (uh huh) oh okay I only know that one the present MRT Sungei road


ya that one just gone, got the opportunity to see in india is something I come across here and durian of course


#lim chu kang#, of course dragon fruit there are two parts one is white one is red


there was a, boat transport which area is it woodlands the present checkpoints that area oh the bridge was not there at the time [orh] ya


Jumabhoy own a lot of property at orchard road right


then the children took over, err you mean Jumabhoy RB Krishna


bats, ya after the COVID


first class ya correct, ya ya


err so they say that err, someone post the picture NTUC in #choa chu kang# or somewhere in the western part ya destroyed all of the fruits our norms are changing now


we used to say err whenever the bat eats them must be a good food good fruits,


the present botanical garden, at what you carry it wants to snatch you, something like err batu caves temple monkey


avoid carrying plastic bag, I my experience like uh I remember nineteen, eighty four after I finish my err technical training I still finding the apprenticeship


temporarily used to work in Chennai everyday I shuttle between Chengalpet my hometown, Saidapet err tamil is Chengalpet, english is Chengalpet


err err no is english is pronounced that way something like Thiruvallikeni english Triplicane, so are you speaking in tamil or are you, we can stick to


then err, so the the incident I remember is, err okay the incident I used to remember is that err one day after three PM something then we heard the news


#indira gandhi# assassination, and the whole Saidapet, Saidapet, city stand still and err, no bus no cars I was err work, india india


eighty four I was still in india I only came to singapore in ninety two, so no bus no transport all the shops are closing, and one of my friend err he is my he study together with me in IT ITI err he tell me eh my auntie house is in Saidapet why don't we walk


err the place we work is Chinnamalai it's about two kilometres two to three kilometers away from Saidapet so okay maybe like those days telephones are not common most probably someone will be there we can just go see when the things can improve


so we walk since there is no bus, we walk and err go to their house they were very accomodative, we stayed there until that night next day morning then we heard that err there is a train


and we go to the Saidapet station then we travel through, travel to Chengalpet, the journey takes about normally takes about two hours, that day every stop don't know whether it will carry on or not it's a question mark


and eventually we reach Chengalpet evening four PM, after eight to nine hours travel, this one because of this and same thing for, #rajiv ghandhi# assassination


as well I was I was there , and I was doing night shift that time is near not far away is about err twelve kilometers away #maraimalai nagar#, between err Chennai and Chengalpet


the err the company works manager suddenly came at nine PM says that whoever, err we shut the factory whoever can find the mode of transport better reach home, I don't think so there will be bus or train maybe I think due to their influence they will get information first


and then err, we were wondering at this moment how to find the transport and a few friends ya, then uh so few of us I remember we walk all the way from


from #maraimalai nagar# to Chengalpet, ya ya ya it's between when you travel from south you come across #maraimalai nagar#


#maraimalai nagar# it was a new town so called last time, , going towards airport


is more to maybe one or two, [orh] okay


ah okay, err you mean you mean err radio radio, station


[orh] okay what what


[orh] okay, in Delhi in Delhi , ah [orh] okay


[orh] okay, Delhi, Delhi okay ah okay


err pakistan, ya, fence


okay soldiers


but you went to indian border ah [orh] okay north west frontier, ah okay


lucky you managed to get into the border


ah okay, uh


ah


[orh] all india radio, oh you manage to see how they conducting their programme those days


[orh] okay myanmar language


[orh], [orh] in err


oh okay


, everyday I'll listen to radio even till today morning


ya uh


telugu ya same like kannada even though you hear for the first time


I see, ah, ah


but err I notice that kannada is easy to understand those speak tamil ah, ya correct that's the closest next to malayalam is the closest, even though you hear for the first time you still can figure out what they are trying to say


that is err exactly to next to malayalam ah


it's true


travelling experience southeast asia Kedah ah


ya, war and peace war and peace


freedom at midnight who is the author


[orh] okay, ya ya


Madhukar, different themes, ah


that one is collection when he was in prison he wrote to, to his daughter ya that one I heard about that


I read, err like can say recently I read finish err roots alex haley is about black american how they end up in US


someone referred this book is very touching recently how they born in east africa how they bring it to sold as slaves and how they leave the country


but even in Kolkata there are a significant amount of chinese people they are indians, they are chinese by race, not many city but you can see chinatown the name of chinatown you can see in big cities including Chennai


but err only in Kolkata the chinese people they are still they celebrate chinese new year, err, but err the population is shrinking, some of them those decendents they migrate to hong kong


ah, Shimla'S, oh okay


oh, during your Delhi during your Delhi trip you come out with the entire, it's a nice place


[orh], his wife we give actually


they send you spy


background check


oh he never tell you for what purpose


ya ya


[orh] okay, [orh] okay [orh] he was working in err he is a part time author


ah okay, Janakiraman, ya