you can literally see the transition you know you think about it first they bought all the essentials okay they bought the toilet paper they bought the rice canned food like they were preparing for like I don't know some apocalypse or something right and then


and then after that I think gradually they realized that okay the world's not coming to an end so then they decided to like ya you know what I miss like my cakes and my bubble tea and everything so everyone was like, ya making the pearls and baking at home


ya even basic like stuff that okay you never viewed as essentials were gone you know like what literally like Campbell soup luncheon meat


like never have I ever faced a situation where even like my beloved Campbell soup was gone I couldn't find it ya


ya then after that slowly slowly became mask, if you think about right it's damn funny and damn <mandarin>夸张:kua zhang</mandarin> the people that really came out of this whole COVID thing and profited from like just #tan dua lui# lah like ya I don't know


mask the food delivery people then eventually the courier people but it's amazing eh I mean you see like how I don't know whether resilient is the word, like it's interesting how society evolves to adjust


but honestly they damn Kiang lah to be honest I mean it's quite a smart move like it's like I always feel like singaporeans maybe opportunistic is not the right word or maybe it is it's like


it's like water you know when the water is flowing and then you block the water then the water will go another direction and then you block it again and the water will going other direction and I think that's also what has made us like very resilient lah as, as as as as singaporeans also lor as a people lor ya


ya that's true can, can you imagine right if this whole COVID thing had broken out like in the eighties or the early nineties where the where when internet and like technology like smartphones there were no smartphones social media wasn't like really like you know a thing internet and all that oh my gosh that'd be damn scary


ya actually that's true lah sometimes you don't know what you don't know is good right like oblivion is nice also ya it's true because there was just so much information out there about about the virus, and about like and then we were literally like keeping track of the daily death toll or the or the you know number of people who got infected I mean like what you say lah I mean much as I tried to resist it and not look at it


and to be honest at the beginning like I really didn't really care but but ya after a while I found myself unconsciously like eh I wonder what's the numbers today right ya so I guess if we didn't have internet or we didn't have such regular updates


yeah maybe we just would have just gone along our oblivious lives and ya like what are you say don't know for better or for worse lor, eh !walao! eh we only talk for nine minutes leh we have to talk for one hour


!huh! I !huh!, no lah I mean I'm just ya lah I mean ten minutes lah looking at the clock now from ten ten eh we started


is it, ya I think that's the one thing that I found I yes for sure I've been a lot more conscious especially when I work in a multinational company


where I'm seriously constantly being surrounded by foreigners so you know like like being in a regional role I really lah I come across and I have colleagues from really every part of the world and, and when you speak with them right and then sometimes you you you speak in a certain way unconsciously and then part of you just wants to go the lah or even when you're typing you're skyping them


and then you you like eh please lah you like you tell yourself like eh they won't understand the lah but then you're like no I have to type it I have to say it and then you just and after a while that people just kind of know that it's a singaporean thing ya


or eat what today, ya or like what you cooking


ya that's true


you won't have to hide it's just that you have to suppress I don't even know if that's the right word ya but definitely I think being singaporean and whether it's studying overseas or working in a multinational company right


I definitely find that I have to adjust the way I speak and my accent and to be honest it it happens quite automatically now I'm not even aware of it like if I'm speaking to a caucasian whether it's an american or a british person or australian I naturally tend to


ya or like uh tone down or temper my accent my singaporean accent but if they are certain people that I find uh they can catch and I think that they , you know even though they are foreigners but I think that they are very adjusted to my accent already then I let more and more of my local accent come out ya and my local slang and my local lingo come out but ya I think it's something that's very unique


and I don't think we should ever let it go but you're right sometimes because in the course of work we may have to suppress it ya in order to be understood lor, ya


okay


no but what about the ipad


but I thought like in a while there's going to be some promo right no didn't Jo say some some promo is coming or something, no no not the Apple talk she said somebody Shopee or what having something


what having some what, that's like three days away ah, no so this promo is for how long now


no so that means what after the promo is over it's just thirty dollars more lah


I mean at this point in time it seems like it's the best price but I mean maybe later down the road no my point is that if you miss this promo what is the, thing you are telling the way you say is like is this like as if it's a thirty dollar price difference from the normal price you mean


ya so I mean no harm waiting mah, I mean what if you wait and then the ya the price of waiting is thirty dollars but what if there's another discount you know what I mean or not I mean thirty dollars seriously is a it's a small price to pay for waiting


ya so if after you buy it and then later there's a hundred dollars discount then how then it's even more sucky right


ya anyway I don't see why must rush to buy it mah, ya lah, and you can just tell everyone for your upcoming birthday just don't buy you anything just give you #ang bao# lor


ya but it's not that long away what I mean still for what just tell people don't waste money buying you nonsense just say you you're saving up to get an ipad lah whatever lah


yes, okay it's only been eighteen minutes leh, [orh] so


!walao! eh this is damn painful sia how much are we getting paid again, for one hour


what, why


if it's on sale lah, then are you staying here or what


I very tired already


ya what


no but is it because <P2>stanton</P2> didn't have a laptop


no I don't think so


he showed me something, oh is it, [orh] ya ya ya ya ya


no no no now I remember !aiya! maybe it was just too many people talking at the same time


see lah later if I not too tired I send you back ah


then now you got no bicycle already ah, no lah I don't know I'm asking you, !huh! [orh] so daddy also no bicycle already ah


how much six fifty ah


why actually how much, but why he squeeze you as in he see you then he squeeze you ah, but you also know that he reach already mah he came all the way to meet you mah


eh did the <P2>rachel</P2> get back, oh I thought just now you wanted to log on mah


you, ya lah I didn't see anything, no so today one the collection one was the the black color one ah pay you already ah


eh can you imagine it'll be damn funny ah if I after one hour I go to it and then sekali it hasn't been recording


ya, it's a free world mah you didn't do your research right


eh somebody got ask about your Iuiga facial they say are you able to do mailing seven AM they ask me


ya the <P2>rachel</P2> didn't reply you want me to text


so cheap meh the Iuiga, that one you bought or they send it to you


I mean I'm guessing ipad has more marketablity right


ya true no and then ipad can be for kids also maybe I mean like so called


and how much are they selling it for and is it brand new, okay lor then I need to check lor


my gosh this is damn painful how long more


ya marissa say school is tough senior yeah, no I didn't ask ah


I never ask everybody's chatting about a lot of things so many I mean everyone's talking about the kids and all so I never go and ask ask ask like interrogation like that, no lah some secondary school only some primary school


like they got a lot of kids lah like two three kids, that day I ordered something from Monica Vinader, ya two two rings it's coming uh it's on sale like like later I check


err mix ah wait I'm trying to find the


trying to find the email so you can see basically it's a you know I have this gold ring with the green onyx, you know I bought the silver with the black onyx which is what I wanted to begin with


last time but they didn't have my size ya


what everybody key in oh keen ah, keen


ya lor, I don't know why it says your Google account was recovered eh did daddy try to


ya, no no no I got Google also, ya then I think daddy use the turquoise to recover his Gmail I think


ya, ya one is like a gold with like a green it's called a chrysoprase it's a kind of stone it's a very light green jade like stone


uh with gold that was about ninety four fifty then the baja deco rings sterling silver with black onyx right that one was one two six, last time I bought that was a slightly more I have a record


ya, because they have my account mah so I know what I bought lah, no lah got sale lah basically like maybe the last time I bought was thirty percent now it's fourty percent something like that lah


I hope so too


[orh] ya ya (mmhmm)


!wah! so the last time I bought something from Monica Vinader it was a hundred and seventy where I bought the chain and the gold bar the vertical gold bar then another time I bought something, was err june june was hundred and fourty ya the last time I bought the ring was hundred and fourty dollars


the green one actually quite ex hor, hundred and fourty then now it is err hundred and


twenty six, but I mean their quality not bad lah I mean it's good quality it's not like like some you spend already then you're like !walao!


!aiya! anyway the COVID like that Bopian Sian, so spend money lor lol


ya online shopping everything, confirm #dua dua tan tan# one


ya sia eh that little pendant that I bought ah the siren mini nugget ah hundred and ninety two sia on sale leh, !waliao! earn money spend money


it's coming already leh my Monica Vinader by thursday it will come I wonder ship from UK or where hor, but could be from the shop here also what


ya lah better than nothing, Shopee one thing I very scared leh sometimes hor don't know china thing or what


true lah


eh I thought you wanted to buy the garlic chopper, !huh! the garlic chopper how much only


!wah! one thing I find hor if you want to do well online ah your photography ah very important


ya true or #ba zhang#, oh at least I got something to look forward to oh you know the management gave me the insecticide spray already


eh full size leh, it's like it's like big bottle leh, put in the mailbox, can the mailbox is very deep in they open and put in lor


full size eh that means even bigger than my one eh even bigger than the ones I bought leh, Shieldtox or something it's just outside our room later you open the door you know where the light switch is it's just down there only


ya lah, ya lor


ya, ya there like that that's how they put it in


and they gave uh mosquito repellent also small little bottle


is it, what when it's closing time, how they chase you, so cute


what, uh we started at ten ten now it's ten fifty so twenty minutes more lor


what's daddy doing at home ah


really, eh I really love my this earring , case love it, I bought on Carousell, I I think it's like five bucks or something


I think so, you need ah, ya


the last time I bought, ya ya it was very cheap mah


six bucks the jewellery just found the chat, no I bought one there was somebody who was selling five bucks one but I texted then she never reply ya


, the ipad that I'm getting for free that one is called what again just ipad ah not ipad


no but is it called ipad pro ipad mini err ipad air


ipad ten point two and it was what ah thirty what ah, right, seven gen ah, ya lah ya lah


I'm checking somebody posted thirteen hours ago ipad seventh gen okay ten point two inch space grey right five hundred and fifty bucks


used ah, ya lah but this guy just posted, then he say warranty till second november twenty twenty


but what's the retail price, (hmm)


then how come the guy sell five fifty, [orh] true


!wah! <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> hor <mandarin>为什么有两种:wei shen me you liang zhong</mandarin> Dyson ah some sell three hundred and fourty five new then somebody sell five hundred and ten new why so much difference


ya lor, ya lor


but even looking at the Dyson ah Sibei Zuay people selling also leh and then so many permutation eh !walao! eh #tao tia#, !ee! I don't like I don't like the airwrap


I find that one bloody con people money one eh please lah your hair hor have to be the right level of wetness, cannot too wet cannot too dry if not the thing don't work !walao! give me more stress sia


don't eat this type of nonsense ah wait #lao sai#


don't have don't keep asking me if have I will tell you I got notification one


!wah!, oh is it my one is wifi ha oh so cellular means got can put sim card one ah, [orh]


confirm ah my one only wifi, !wah! the Dyson hor really leh the price fluctuation hor quite broad leh


what the Dyson ah, but like what you say lah I mean !walao! the hairdryer who wants to spend this kind of price on the hairdryer


so it's a very limited group of people, true true, ya true, is ya ipad safer hor hor


ya lah true lor, ya but I don't like to sit at the table watch TV mah, my laptop is there what


eh please lah I work for PC company lah I can survive everything on my laptop one you know, thirty two GB ipad [orh] the five hundred and fifty one is cellular


(ppc) the three eight eight is the wifi see ipad, !wah! but this one posted one year ago don't know got people buy or not


no lah Apple ipad gen seven ten point two inch wifi new selling four eight six, posted three months ago don't know whether the fella sell or not it's still posted here


eh but you ya, no no no


please you think I will buy physical books


lol damn funny somebody right posted this pair of shorts , I know it looks dirty right but I think it's the shadow, but it looks like there's a stain on the crotch


I have no idea no it says saturday club tweed short, item in excellent condition comes with two side pockets, eh this Glamnatic eyelashes ah damn expensive sia


eh it's it's uh I think they sell like one box they don't sell piece by piece one I think like one box got like two pieces right it's hundred plus leh


!wah! somebody selling NTUC voucher worth three eighty they selling it for three sixty


!wah! got people Fairprice voucher three thousand dollar leh, Fairprice vouchers for sale three thousand dollar, [orh] three thousand dollars for three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars worth of vouchers then got people selling three hundred dollars worth selling for two seventy


ya, unless ah sekali the voucher fake one then Jialat


haha so funny got one fella selling NTUC vouchers one thousand dollars for nine nine six four dollar discount only what's the point


ya at least this one something lah got somebody selling one thousand dollars worth of vouchers for nine fourty, ya


I'm sure lah you slowly go and scroll sure can find one lah


ya ya I'm sure


true that, yup


ah ya ya how, don't know should be okay lah no news should be good news lah


nobody leh why ah, eh that one I boosted hor which Miu Miu you talking about, which one the beige one ah and the black one ah


which one, [orh] ya lah but nobody want some more that one I boosted everything eh that was the one that I boosted leh cause if there's one bag that I can just let go that's the one


ya but nobody leh


one minute more jordan, okay come countdown, eh okay okay don't touch anything sekali accidentally then <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> ha once we finish what's the instruction


(hmm) !wah! we did it one hour of talk cock, talk cock sing song


where is the recording app okay then we go to


can already ah, okay wait ah, so you just press the pause button ah, should be lah


my name is Hazifah, ya, so


sure HBL doesn't really suck you know, home based learning it's to me it's flexible but I get tired really easily cause I just get very side tracked


by food and everything else that's at home it's hard I mean you are out quite often so ya I always end up sleeping when you come home you know


ya, so how is work


ya, I mean we gotta live with it for now that ya don't have a choice we have to like I mean phase two is in on nineteen june


sixteen I think


oh ya, I think I think I will still be at home until this whole corona thing ends


ah this week is my last week so next week ah, ya next week sec two's and sec one's are having their last week of HBL as well and then the week after that we completely normal


!wow!


ya if me I will just stay home I mean that's what I do quite often I come home right after school cause I don't really find the need to go out with this corona thing especially with the mask definitely not going out


I mean at least your place has aircon you know I'm in like a classroom with fans and it's so sweaty like if after ah physical education right uh we we'll take off our mask during physical education but then we're all like one two metres apart or something like that and then


when we walk back to class we have to wear back our mask and like we're really sweaty and it's like really uncomfortable then we have to sit in the class and do our class work and stuff, ya but no contact no sharing of equipments and completely like I'm here right I'm like it's like one or two metres apart I think two


we don't play sports we just exercise so they will show like videos of uh people exercising and then we'll just join I mean that's so far I had my first lesson ah my first physical education lesson was to do exercise to


like follow what like there's this youtube thing that they on and then we like follow what they do basically like your squats your lunges and all those things and basically on your own kind of thing ah so ya sort of boring


(mmhmm) it's kind of boring but you gotta live with it and like participate cause it's school you know, ya mask my mask really stuffy but apparently mine doesn't really get oh last week right so last week I was in school and then my friend brought some of her kuih-kuih for me


ya she made kuih suji for me and then she didn't make for me lah she make for #hari raya# then she brought some for me and then I was eating in class cause I'm a fat ass so you know gotta eat and eat then she what's that she uh she she pass me like uh in a styrofoam container and I


like keep I kept eating it in class cause I was like hungry and I was trying to I was trying really hard to stay awake in class and and it was low-key hard but after like eating one or two right I think it got like at the uh edge of my lips


so it started to like stain uh sort of quote on quote stain on my cloth mask and then uh ya it end up becoming really smelly


ya but her her her suji was is a bit different like uh you know those bigger suji you know the I don't know if you know but it's like bigger suji and then


ya, ya and then the and then the taste is like a bit sourish not really sour but a bit off not exactly super sweet kinda taste then ya but I still ate it cause I was really hungry LOL


ya it stink and then it stink for the whole week because I only wash my cloth once a week


(mmhmm), ya so not to mention how it's more environmentally friendly but one thing I don't like about the disposable mask right it hurts my ears like the tip of my ears here right where it holds your thing it hurts for me like I can wear it I wore it my friend gave me a disposable one and I kept it in the ziploc bag that we have to bring for physical education like every time we have that lesson


so I tried wearing it in class cause my nose was really wet and I was really sweaty cause I just came back from PE and then I wore the I wore the disposable one and my ears was like hurting I think cause I was fidgeting with it a lot and also cause it's really big on me I think I need the baby ones


ya all my friends like they wear the adult size and they're all like fit's perfectly fine like even the elastic it's like nicely fitting it's not pulling too hard or what but for me I'm just like it's like what's the point of wearing it's so loose


ya and then the new the new mask that the government gave right recently is so thick like really thick and it's so uncomfortable and like when you talk right it's so muffled like it's worse than the first one


sticks to your face, like if you sweat right it sticks to your face, (hmm) I mean if you don't go out often you wear disposable mask okay lah you can reuse the mask every once in awhile depends how long you wear it


rich people things


I mean maybe they reuse the mask and like for maybe like two three maybe four times or like a whole week you know


same


ya I know I do that everyday and then the first day I went back right and then uh I I had to fold in my mask I fold in you fold out right I fold in and then my friend was apparently she was indirecting me she was like cause at the side or at my jaw there right it it like comes out it flips out so it looks like fish


I mean she didn't say that lah but she didn't really told my friend and then uh ya and she indirect me I know it was me but like I just like whatever lah, she say something about uh she was talking about the mask and why the end like coming out kinda thing and I'm just like I mean I know it's me but I'm just going to tutup mata you know don't really bother


honestly school kinda suck I I really don't I don't exactly like school cause I just don't wanna see my friends okay it's not all my friends basically just the girls except one girl and I wanna see my guy friends cause like damn they the bomb they like my family


(mmhmm), I know right I don't know I just feel girls can get very toxic I feel my only quote on quote girl friend is my sister


shade on you


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm), ya but like they come there are like times where they can get really toxic where like like you say ah like out of jealousy or like whatever something like that like and so the other time I pass my math right for the first time in secondary school so I pass my math


and then they all looking at their marks and then they will start comparing and stuff right and then they looked at my marks and they were like uh they were like uh smart lor something like that lah they will say something and then they'll be like smart lor or like good for you lor and then I'm just like okay mean


she didn't understand you could have asked the teacher


it's hard lah because ya we're competing against at the end of the day when it comes to O and N's we are competing each other so it's hard but at the same time it's also how to how like the maturity level is not saying that I am mature I I can be very immature but like


it like talking about this right like maybe they don't talk about this kinda things but maybe it's their only way they see it to like you know okay I don't know what I'm saying but


I'm just tryna say the maturity level that's all


(hmm), eight, eight to three eight to two something


!wow! I study geography yet I only learn about climate change


ya


I mean actually what you said about the singapore not having uh the other thing about speech blah blah thing ah there's this thing where I learn in I think in english or something we had this thing where we can speak to the government about things


it's just not really open I guess I think you have to like make an appointment and then and then they will then I think you have to be there and then they will have this they have a conversation about it and then ya and also back to the education thing


they make us think about what we wanna do very early and it's really to me I find it really hard because what if I end up losing interest in that thing what if I don't wanna pursue it anymore can I just change into something else or the thing is it takes like a whole you might have to go back like if you wanna take


engineering or something and then you lose interest in that and then you then you get interested in business you have to like take you have to go back to poly after you finish your engineering or something like that and then you have to go to poly and do your your business


it's like very hard to choose what you wanna do and if you wanna stay there forever


maybe you can use your architecture skills to like you say you want to help people right maybe you can like I don't know build homes for those in need or you know like help those organisation that that need architectures to like build houses or like whatever that is needed


(mmhmm), haiti where that, wait is haiti a country


how do I not know that


oh uh the


funny, it's hard I mean the world is all fighting to be better to be like better than the other country and ya


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm), , (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), (mmhmm) for sure


(mmhmm), cause like, ya


ya ya getting neglected is hard, at least to me it's being neglected okay maybe that's how I see it I don't know about them but I mean all they do is talk about work and it's tiring ya it's like tiring to listen to it like everyday even though you sit down at the table just to have a nice meal and even if I'm there right


all they do is talk about work and like when I tell them to give it a break right they will like they will be like uh who give you the allowance and stuff like that and it's like !wah! I just wanted to have a nice family lunch but you just gotta bring up about work and like


that's all they do this all they talk about like if I go into their room at like at night right before they sleep they're always talking about work and this morning when mama was awake she was on the comp then she was trying to find ways to like like do amazon stuff


and I mean I get it lah like you awake your mind is fresh and you wanna get some information about it inside whatever lah but like when it comes to family dinner or family lunch they just cannot stop talking about and it's so hard


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


ya and now that makes money plus people I think money weighs more than people


(mmhmm), but the good thing is that we have err government subsidies for hospital I think do we I don't know but there are like cool advantages of being singaporean at the same time it's also really hard to be one because of all the work


that's that is on us put on us I mean even as a student I feel like there's a lot to do cause you know we got so many subjects at hand it feels like work not for my own kind of thing


(mmhmm), ya


(mmhmm), streams, you know they stop you know they have uh my school is spelt as one H one O one U one G one A one N not gonna lie this year sec one is just kind of bad I think we got my school got trend twice I think by sec ones


and it's like bad and oh my god I'm sorry to say I really don't like the sec ones they are hella annoying okay maybe I was annoying but at least I wasn't like chaotic I wasn't out of hand kinda student I was still like


I was still like sia I was just really loud in my cohort okay maybe in just NA stream I was just really loud I was known to be really loud, ya sort of not really lah not a minah actually, ya I was really a big mouth but like at the same time then when it came to sec two I really tone down like I really like you couldn't really hear me anymore


no my selimut is damn nice I don't know why you don't like it so comfortable


it's not I washed it okay I wash it every once in awhile when it gets dirty


I mean it's dirty you eat on it you eat all your what you eat ah you eat your sensations at least I don't eat on my one


cause, it's my baby it's not wrong it's like my child it's like my cat but I don't bring my cat everywhere cause he doesn't really like to be around me twenty four seven so


ya, ah my eye's getting itchy, low-key think there's something inside ah, same


making me yawn, ya we got this it's fun though to do this


(mmhmm), ya even though we have to like lock the room door and put please do not enter we are recording okay that's my that's my


ya that is on me because like our last recording Harith was there and you know it's like noisy


I mean he likes to be in our room cause it's cooling cause his room is really warm cause now he has his bird right if I open the window right the bird just keep looking at the window and then if you like then I have to close it and be like what do you want ya I'll close it and he will like he'll look at the window then he will look away it's like ya don't ever open it


or not I'll beat your ass and the bird's really cute has really weird name though, there's nothing to be scared about I know she will just bite you but if it's bites you right it's playful kind of bite it's to get to know you bite I had to deal with that for like the first few days he was here I mean he hasn't been here for very long but my index finger on my right hand right there's like the place where you bend


there's like a drop here that's where he continuously kept biting that and it's like really painful now cause he used the end of his beak to bite compared to sometimes when like cause his beak is curved right then your hand will like nicely fit so that's how he but then you will like his tongue will start moving it's like really weird but it's it's not really obvious but he's quite friendly one we just cannot make sudden movements he gets really scared sometimes


ya then you don't want to traumatise him, it's a bit like a giraffe's tongue it's not long though but it's similar to a giraffe's tongue somewhat similar


ya I'm tryna say it's like a giraffe tongue but like uh divide by like one million of it's size that's how small a a birds tongue is is like cute but yet when you first see it is like kinda weird after awhile you just really get used to it


he made a hole on my phone case I wanna cry , I gave him the old phone case he walk away sia and then no the thing is he likes the bright coloured one but he doesn't like the black one and then Harith tried to put his phone case and then he went forward but with my phone case right the purple one he keeps coming forward but with the black one he's like nope I'm out


iphone is flat, he does, okay maybe he doesn't he just kinda goes forward and then he's like nah that's not that's not nice then he walks away then he comes back to my phone case and I'm just like stop it please ya


ya man that's you you cannot you you don't seem to bond with them I even if it's not yours can still born with it but you just refused to


papa the way papa mama described Gingy how she really likes to get stroke and the way I see Gingy with Kaya right like when they call her or whatever right it's quite obvious that she's a very manja cat once she gets to know you


you just it's just that some cats right you need more time to bond, and then they will like they would like to be around you but there's some cats that are just naturally manja and they like everybody that's not exactly bonding though


you don't if like if have those like like honey for example, he isn't exactly bonded with you at most like if he sleeps on the bed right and then you need to you wanna lie down on the bed too he doesn't mind you just being there even with he's okay if she just sleep and then he's behind he's like okay sure


but like with me right he is K at least I feel very bonded with him cause you know I feed him every day and then I stroke him and like I I spend always carry him to me I spend a lot of time with him I feel like I've bonded with him it's that special bond that you feel when you have like your own pet


I mean you don't necessarily have to get own pete but if you do get hamsters so our house can be a mini zoo (oo) I'm really hoping honey and and swain gets to know like gets to like know bonded


and so that they can, no so that I can let honey go as in when yesterday I let honey sit in the room right cause I was doing math uh I was doing my math class at the end of the day as well at about one forty one plus


one forty-ish so I was having lesson so I let honey in then I on the aircon then I was listening to class and then swain was in the cage and then honey I brought I took Harith chair and brought it closer to honey I put honey on


no closer to swain I put honey on the chair and then I push the chair closer to swain's cage so honey was just really looking at swain for like a good what half an hour forty five minutes and then after a while ah I took honey and I cut his claw and then and then Harith took out swain


and then I held honey and then honey tried to interact with swain by smelling him but of course swain was like no I'm scared and then he run, and then after that ya so that was the end of yesterday's bonding and then today's bonding they sort of came closer a lot faster but at the same time honey was really scared okay not really


K at first when honey got scared when swain started like trying to smell him or like or like if the paw touch his body or whatever right he start to flinch and Harith thought it was me but not me I'm not retarded, but ya honey flinched and then honey was like and then after a while he started to be honey started to like uh get


really he got really uncomfortable after I kept trying to like put his paw on swain I did take his paw and kind of pat swain but then when swain turn around he flinched, I think honey is more terrified of swain than swain being terrified of honey


but then isn't jerry a mouse


true, but it's quite cute though and then when mama came right swain was really scared cause I think mama was standing even if I stand right swain get scared


so I think cause mama was standing so swain was a bit scared to like move towards honey also cause they were warming up honey just came into the room, also after honey started flinching and stuff right and then he he looked up at me he looked like he was begging to like for me to let him go so I let him go and then he walked to the door and then he was using his small little paw and he was like buka pintu buka pintu ya cause the door wasn't properly close


bro Harith room is so hot like it's really warm and humid and has like oh my god, I the dream you had I


they want to be friends


or maybe they're friends, but maybe they wanna be friends but like, but then but then you know tom tom maybe jerry doesn't know how to interact so he just keeps like ya you know


ya deep thoughts deep thoughts


(mmhmm)


I think I think spongebob and tom and jerry have very deep meaning because family guy and like simpsons they have a more direct meaning, but the thing is spongebob and tom and jerry they're very simple but if you look at like many more different perspective right like there's different meanings but


with simpsons and and family guy and those similar shows right they don't you don't really look at exactly different perspectives because they have like voices they have like constantly talking and it's a more complex quote on quote complex


talking compared to spongebob spongebob cause it's like kids talking get what I'm tryna say, oh my god, it's like it's like


it's like if you have talking right you can understand it so maybe it has a somewhat direct meaning maybe what you're you're what you are listening to is that's what it actually means but whereas you look at tom and jerry and and, you look at tom and jerry and what's the other show spongebob cause spongebob from the way their conversations are right is like very very simple


(mmhmm) true


this was really nice I hope one hour of putting the sign outside the door trying to keep people out, if we get this


and my name is Haziqah, and I'm twenty five we are ten years apart and we are sisters


want to go first, so what is HBL


ya, work is okay ah just scanning the IC and taking temperature in the morning that's about it coronavirus is not going away


I hope the for now it's not that sucks


ya it's on nineteen june now today is what is it today ah, ya so two more days before friday !woohoo! and it's a friday night as well


so we don't know if we're gonna go out or just gonna stay home and do just things at home


how long is your HBL, oh so you go back to school all the way


!wow! we're moving into phase two I don't know people say it's a bit too soon but I'm not sure if it is and also my friend has started like a group chat on whatsapp asking to meet like right after phase two


this weekend so I don't even know if it's safe to meet them yet cause I've been out in public for awhile now and I don't know if it's safe to meet my friends cause I don't want to put them at risk


ah the mask is so hot I can't even it's so bad like the cloth mask the first time that the government gave us was just a cloth mask they say it's breathable and washable reusable everything right but number one it's not breathable number two ya you can wash it it's it's like a garment but like


I don't know it does get stinky after awhile cause I use it everyday so I have to be consistently washing it quite often


wait so you still have physical education during this period


so what do you do if it's not in contact like what kind of sports do you play


interesting, you're using your mask as well right


she made it herself


oh I think I know what you mean it's the very big one


LOL, I think I think that's why people use the the disposable ones cause ah number one you can speak clearly can actually hear people cause it's very permeable like it's not even it's not even muffled when you speak then number two is like you can actually breathe because it's permeable you can breathe properly and everything not that I've tried it before but eh actually I did try before it's not bad at all


but it feels like you're not wearing anything feels like air which is I think that's why people will consider buying it like a box of it costs twenty five dollars it used to be twenty eight dollars for fifty pieces at NTUC and now it's twenty five so it's reduced but ya haven't really see a lot of people buying it


but I'm sure they do I'm sure they stock up as well so just imagine having eh a mask everyday I don't know if they change the mask everyday they like they wear like new ones everyday cause I don't think it's uh I don't think that it is uh economical sustainable and environmentally friendly


ya they even have the children size one I think your face might fit children one more than the big ones or like so awkward cause you are a teenager and you're not like an adult adult per se or you're not a child child so I think in terms of like okay maybe your face shape is more towards like child size cause it's small


ya it might not fit for you


ya that I think that's one of the reasons why I don't use it cause especially for work I have to speak to the customer who's coming in and say like oh hello good morning like greet them and then scan their IC and direct them whether you know they can choose to either scan their IC or the QR code right to enter because the safe entry right either way it's still under safe entry which is a government website for contact tracing


so ya it's just a lot more hassle when I have to use the the second mask that they gave us cause it's so muffled and it's just like there's no way I'm going to repeat myself ten thousand times just for them to hear me out like ya


and I think that's why I I I went back to the first mask cause uh it's just a lot clearer and less heavy on the face as well cause I think the second one is quite like ya it fit's nicely what but at the same time it's quite like berat it's just so heavy and


I I don't know I've never sweat in that before but like oh my god it's the worst like I would never I can't even imagine wearing it sweaty like I wouldn't


ya I'm very curious like I have a few friends colleagues ah they all wear that disposal mask and I'm just wondering like how often do they actually use that mask, eh I don't know eh I think they might be just using the mask again and again and again


ya I was contemplating in buying like a new mask so so actually fit's my face nicely and like I don't know just something cause I wear it on a daily basis so it just makes sense for me to get a proper mask at least that that the ones that I'm comfortable with at the minute like the first one that the government give is still


a bit annoying cause I have to fold up the bottom bit cause it's quite long on my face my face quite tiny what not not even long like my face as in my face is not even long so like for me to wear that mask I just need to like fold it up


how what do you mean by you know what did she say


!wow!, so deep, ya I think ya I think when it comes to girls we have to be not trying to be sexist or anything but I think girls are a lot more dramatic they're they're a lot more sensitive not sensitive in a bad way but it's more of like they are emotionally driven so they do a lot of things out of like


either very difficult emotions to deal with so they lash out or they just kind of like keep it in and keep themselves numb or they just, ya they just throw shade on you and it's not it's not the best sort of like friendship you want to have especially when you're growing up in secondary school and like you wanna build that sort of cause you you sort of rely on your friends quite a bit for that companionship that sort of like drive to want


to do well in school as well cause like you you're not going to school just because of homework or school work or just enjoying some sort of like math lesson or like science or whatever but it's more because of your friends so ya I think choosing your friends are very important as well


very very important that social circle of friends is very important cause it help lift you up in times of like when you're stressed under a lot of pressure especially when you're doing O N level whichever right like they will be the ones that cheer you on cause you are in it together with them so you definitely need that support


I mean especially when it comes to exams ya you can't help to compare but I also think that like you know if you are quite upset about your grades you shouldn't impose them on others it's more of like you know you should be like eh well done like you pass maths like I haven't but like I will like I'm inspired by you because you passed maths and I haven't achieved that so I will do that for the next time


or you can just ask say because since you passed maths and I don't right take that as an example lor then you can always ask for help like there's no harm in asking for help or like just check with each other like if any of the questions that you actually don't understand and you actually got it right


you know, and I think you know just that peer sort of like support is also very important and I think that is one thing that the school needs to foster that sort of like culture instead of like being very competitive and be like !aww! you got a forty seven oh I got a fifty four so like I'm better than you


no I also think it puts like because of the education system here in singapore they put a lot of pressure on students uh to get very good grades since since as young as we can remember studying like since nursery to kindergarten and then going on to even before that you might be child care you know


and then you know we are expected because there's examination every per term or like every quarterly of the year then it kind of stresses on like the result very result driven more than like the process of like learning and understanding and why you are doing it rather


so you're only looking for results at the end of the day because that's what exams make you do so ya and I think having to try and unlearn that and re-cultivate sort of like a more healthier relationship with education and knowledge and learning


would be I would say is a challenge for the singapore system because I think we haven't really got it all even though we say we are like the top in the world and all that but you also do see a lot of like setback like you know


very, very troubled minds in terms of like mental health and like the emotional wellbeing of like the students especially kids when you're growing up all you need is like a lot a lot of like emotional support and if you don't get that I think it's very difficult for one of for them to like thrive


and like you're practically studying five days a week from like seven to one seven to two however long it is right three sometimes


ya so it's like a good six hours you know just studying like crazy just intense back to back as well like you don't even have break in between say okay ten minutes break go off the only break that you probably get is like from one class to another you just go and run the toilet and come back and it's also within like five minutes


sometimes you your brain needs to process things and let it like sit for a minute with that knowledge and then move on to the next task so I think even that in itself that transition period between one subject to another right your brain needs to like tackle that quickly and it needs to adapt because it is a daily thing like you kind of force yourself to


ya you just kind of force yourself to have to you know work a certain way according to the system and I think I feel I personally feel this is just my own sort of opinion but like I think that the system doesn't work for you instead you worked for the system


ya because at the end of the day singapore's resources are the people and without the people we are actually nothing ya we are very very well placed on the map because the west can't cross to the east without passing through singapore and that's why our port of harbour is very


it's very well known and also it very efficient because we know if we invest in that heavily heavily invest in that and like make sure it's like top in the world right then a lot of people would come by and make business come by and trade come by and like


ya just import their goods and all that because we are reliable in that way it's all geopolitics lah so that is for another day


you see that's another thing right I wanna talk about cause like eh you know in education they are so they are so boxed up with just like oh english maths science right chinese whatever mother tongue oh and like


oh and then social studies combined humanities but they never really like ya we got history we got geography but they never really tackle on like the political aspect of it because I think at the end of the day day how systems are made right and how the society works is through the system and the system the way is being done is


the political aspect of it and I think we don't understand as we are growing up we just don't really know our human rights we don't really know like oh like what what we can do can we sat can we give feedback to the grassroot organisation you know then you will go to the government that kind of thing or can we not do we just abide to the rules you know there's no sort of like clear


ground saying that like eh you know you you have that freedom of speech you can say whatever you want if you feel like say the system not doing for you you can speak up but I think the matter of fact is that like singapore don't have that openness if you will they are not open to the ideas of the people I feel like the system here works


only because the people are kinda like pushing it and not the other way round


ya because you're going through right now right even not even going through right you're on the way there I've already done it and ya it's true that like I do feel pressured because like when I was sixteen I didn't really know what I wanted to do


and I think that's one of the reasons why I wanted to go to junior college JC for obviously with my score and all that like I did try and appeal for MI no MI I think I appealed for one of the schools I think it was novena eh novena innova innova JC IJC and obviously didn't get in that's why I went to poly but like


ya I think that's one of the reasons why I strongly strongly just wanted to I was very adamant on just going to JC rather than err poly because I didn't know what I want to do so when I you know when I had no choice but to go into poly then obviously I kinda you know I didn't really had any dreams of being anything for a start right so I just kinda went into ah mama's business


because that was the only thing that I've kind of like I've been exposed to and I was quite okay with it and obviously pursued architecture degree so ya but I now even now I'm just thinking like do I actually want to do that in life cause I feel like I kind of sort of shift my priorities and


what I actually am interested in doing cause I am like I know that I am very in tune with like just wanting to help people in general like I think I thrive when people when I when I help them when I help people it in any way possible and I think I just need to find my sort calling I don't even know exactly where


or what I wanna do but it's definitely something to do with people but then again you know I've kinda narrow it down to like teaching because all these years I've been teaching teaching kids and then obviously teaching asylum seekers and refugees after that it just kind of went on from there and like I really really like that open up my political sphere because before that I was very deluded I was just like


ya just living my life you know I'm going to a new country going abroad to study and that's it you know and then don't really need to have any sort of experiences come home every summer and then you know you be back home by three years by the end of three years and then like you know you can get a job decent job decent pay because you already got degree but that's not the case at all even though you got like papers even though you've got


O level N level whatever right you are still stuck in that limbo where eh you know even if you get the job say not not that the one that you want but it's sort of like you are qualified for it then it's like but then you're not happy in it do you actually


ya do you actually want to do what you have already set your mind to do say six years ago because that was in poly what that's that was when you were seventeen you got in and like you thought ya okay I love I love drawing I love I love and that's what I'm gonna do and then realising that like that's not very not very long lived


ya I'm very inclined to, helping those that are in need ya I know there is different aspects of like or different look or different forms of how poverty can look like in first world countries even it's not just about third world countries like africa or like india or


at any, any colonised sort of land from the western world, because obviously their resources are being stripped from them and like all that's left is the people and the people are living in poverty because the resources are scarce (mmhmm) scares I don't know


ya because of what they did to their land in say if agriculture is their only source of income that way that like you can earn the money but because that is already being abused and violated and you cannot and it takes a long time for like the soil to grow and re-fertilise and everything before they can actually go back to normal


so it's not just that lah that's just one aspects of it that I'm talking about haiti here, uh I think near the america, yes


ya then there's also this having that divide you know uh haiti versus the dominican republic


#puerto rican#, !wow!, ya lor so


oh also from that right because that's a third world country it's very obvious very tangible look of poverty you know say or like you know if tsunami keeps happening in their land or like flooding like in Jakarta per se like in indonesia it's always flooding because you know high rise water levels are rising


and their ah ground basically their land sinking already because of global warming so ya even that in itself right has so much implications and like it's not just the third world leh even in singapore like we see we have our own sort of poverty line that we do not it's not obvious to us because


we may not be the one that suffering it we're not the one that is like in it but there are there are little glimpses of it you know that we see say you know a lot of like the social services


that I know of like they help people who actually don't have enough money to go around say like you know elderly people who need help and they don't have help because like their children just don't want to take care of them that's a that's a that's also poverty like you growing old but like


there's no sort of support from anyone especially your family members cause you expect we we expect to rely on them what at the end of the day right but they're not there and then like you know people just trying to survive in business I think singapore singapore businesses is just very overcrowded at the minute so like


ya so like it's just difficult to make business because everyone is so competitive like the food business itself is really into millions you know and like you just have to stand out and in order to stand out you have to do something different and then like you know if you're an entrepreneur like you'll be struggling to meet ends meet cause like


you know just thinking of ways to make sure that you sustain that business, and I think with singapore's cost of living is not cheap either it's not, like say you have a house it's already like one big asset and one big liability that you have to basically commit the rest of your life then that's that sets that and then after that what else are you gonna have I don't know gonna have


you have to sustain that job that you work for five days a week six days a week don't know depends on the industry that you're in and it's crazy cause like, cause like there's no work life balance in singapore like people are overworked here to death


it's not as bad as japan but you cannot really you cannot really compare apple to orange you know like japan has their very own sort of culture of just working and like really perfecting every like their niche sort of like profession whereas like singapore is like


you know we just work work work earn money money money because there's so many bills to pay so many outgoing and like lesser of like the income so you gotta keep working to earn that like I think we both suffer from that sort of like repercussions of just our parents working very very hard just to sustain our sort of lifestyle also


you know if they put I know it it is a very big struggle cause like money is very very very important in singapore if you got no money you no talk no money no talk easily like that that that's why where the the sentence come about like the phrase come about cause like you really you really get very stressed out when you have no money here in singapore cause you cannot live without money ya like like the importance of money is so real cause like


and like that costs money I think it's just that sort of like living in a bit of like a fear as well because the government has already set that has already put that in place in you and a lot of it links money and I think it's just very


it it gets to a point where it's not healthy anymore yes it does it's very effective in stopping people from doing you know things like illegal or like things that you know you're not supposed to do and all that but like I'm sure there's other ways of policing I think there is something there needs to be some sort of balance in


ya there needs to be some sort of balance in just like money and people, I think weighs more than people at the minute cause like


and all that but like the truth of the matter is the people are not happy, yes they are only happy because they got the money but other than that are they truly happy living here, yes you got like amenities here you built billions and like millions and millions of dollars and you built the marina bay sands you built all the hotels tourism you know gardens by the bay everything but is that truly for like the locals or is it just to boost tourism because you need the money ya we do get the money back in terms of like you know we


like because we pay taxes and all that we do get to enjoy them because we get to you know visit these places without having to pay cause we singaporeans or PR but at the same time like I think that act of balancing between work and life is just not there at all


and I think that's why we get very overload and get stressed out and like nothing fills in our mind but just work because with no work we will die we cannot survive


ya I mean in sec one sec two already have like ten subjects or something like that lah even more right cause art music and like D&T F&N are all included in right you doing literally everything trying to juggle from four subjects in primary school say music and art but they're not really counted there


but like when you come to secondary school everything is suddenly like oh it's graded and it's like shit how like that big I think it's just a very big transitioning from primary school to secondary school because like number one there's already a streaming sort of thing and I know there's sort of a EM one EM two EM three but it's not as prevalent and it's not so like


it's not so like you know it's being set for your path you know like oh say like in primary school you don't have like oh you you have to spend extra year to just complete like PSLE say right but like in secondary school obviously there is that case cause like we got the express normal acad and normal tech stream and sometimes special screaming in like better schools


so ya it's just that disparity where like you being classed into, ya


I feel like it's just dirty, every once in awhile is not clean


whatever but you bring yours everywhere you drag it out to the living room to the seat and then uh


, I'm tired, stop yawning


!wow! okay we're like three quarters of the way in we got less than fifteen minutes now which is good, ya I think it it helps to reflect on the society at large and might as an individual on how you can play a part to be better


even though you're just like a small speck of dust what you you can make that difference, I had no part in that I'm sorry that one is on you


Kaypoh boy Kaypoh


, I don't know how to interact with the bird I'm scared


he has a tongue !duh! is it long is it snakey


so what they have like very big taste bud I mean like the buds ah cause giraffe tongue is like very


then you give him your old phone case


because your your purple one has some sort of like three dimension thickness to it what and it's very bright so I think that catches his eye and it's like something bulging out hydraulic black


that's enough for pets I think pets are nice to have but they are very they need maintenance and if you cannot and need commitment and if you cannot do any of that you shouldn't have pet


I bond with Gingy though


how do you know you haven't even met her


eat each other


well it's like tom and jerry, ya but like the concept is still very similar it's like prey and predator


so ya


oh speaking of that right uh there's this tweet saying that uh what ah


uh the tom and jerry just think about it right the only reason why tom no why jerry is always after tom and try and like just uh what do you call it ah


try to like capture his attention is because maybe he doesn't want to let him eat other mices or it could be that, eh doesn't make sense oh is that or or because jerry cause jerry is it needs to pretend that he is chasing after a mice in the house because the owner is quite like


I I I you're here for a reason you know you're a cat you gotta go and chase the mice cause that's what cats do right so for him to maintain that sort of status he jerry becomes like his ally essentially


no they're not friends if not they wouldn't it be so tiring to keep constantly having you are like track each other


ya maybe I don't know, but ya just food for thought I think that was a very interesting way of seeing it you never know if this actually what the creators wants you to think


I feel like cartoons in general are quite intriguing they are actually very deep as it is so ironic cause like they look so simple and they look so far away from reality right


but the truth of the matter is like every underlying you know say episode of that cartoon like family guy like the simpsons like south park


like all of them cartoon spongebob squarepants there's so many like symbolism and like underlying meaning to the certain things that they put out for animation


no, you got a minute to explain yourself again


ya but there's still a lot of meaning behind the things that they do or like, a lot of symbolism so so you can't really, you just don't see it it's more okay it's more prevalent in say simpsons or family guy cause they are direct you know in terms of like speaking about world problems or like


you know real life character like justin bieber donald trump they are all in the simpsons, or like family guy speaking about like politics you know there is but ya, I think that's another good topic to speak about for another day


it's nice, as a permanent thing, everyday we're doing it (ppl)


okay so we're going to be talking about black mirror lah, so basically I found this ah ah this, how to say like this website online that talks about black mirror cause both of us watch it right


so I find it very fascinating cause like ah my friend kind of recommended it to me ah she was she was like eh ah watch this series series on netflix and then at that point of time netflix just came out mah


then after that I was like okay so during my holidays I went to watch it then I think the first show I watch was the very first episode what was it called ah, the no not the pig one is the married couple then he wear the contacts one


ah memory one ya that was the first one that I watch what was the first ah show you watched


, I haven't watched it yet eh is it nice


oh okay


!aiyo! okay so is it very relatable to our society now or you just feel like it's just a storyline, ya because I feel like black mirror like it reflects a lot some of the episode reflects a lot on our society lah


for example I feel, nose dive that one is extremely relatable because I feel it kind of reflects how uh our society is becoming gradually lah


, then the main character like <mandarin>他很肥嘛:ta hen fei ma</mandarin> then it kind of shows like how <mandarin>如果你很肥:ru guo ni hen fei</mandarin> then like you don't fit in ya


so I feel that one is very familiar lah so from this website right it did actually talk about nose dive because it actually talks about how like technology can harm society and transform our behaviour so in nose dive I feel it really transformed her behaviour drastically lah


and it should it showcased in that show so what is your favourite show out of all the five seasons, [orh]


, (hmm), oh ya


actually in play test he died is it, oh ya ya ya


[orh] that one I don't think is very relatable to my life eh like I feel that it's just a storyline ya cause like he's just this psychopath who


uh what went to recruit people who he like saw as his colleagues then okay actually is a bit relatable lah cause like you can really see like how, people who you perceive perceive as being very timid and very shy right they can actually keep a very dark secret so he was just like such an example lor


he he's very timid at work but then actually at home he does like very <mandarin>很怪的东西:hen guai de dong xi</mandarin> lah then I just think it's a bit relatable lor,


ya which I find is very scary because if technology were to actually advance to that extend right it might be possible that he can actually have these weird fantasies uh like people can have such weird fantasies in fact I feel like it's happening right now leh like what in japan


there's like uh what silicone dolls replacing real humans then after that these people they don't actually really get real human interaction they just either marry a robot and then they live with life like that to help cope with their daily lifestyle at all to help overcome their depression or their loneliness


so they they would much rather like err , they would much rather resort to robots than to interact with humans lah ya


he no he didn't die like cause he was supposed to to like


wear the thing right then after you play the game right then after that he was lost his mind was lost in that space ya in that space forever so that's what happened lah, then basically going back to season three episode one about nose dive it from reading the wraps website says it describes an oppressive society where everyone constantly grades other people's words


actions and publications on a five point scale so they are obsessed by their own image criticises superficiality and the need to portray oneself positively to obtain other people's approval what do you think of this opinion


ah


!huh! really ah


, !wah! that's so scary leh, my god


but then I feel it's exceptionally prevalent in china and korea lah like to be beautiful to what have fair skin and <mandarin>有大眼睛:you da yan jing</mandarin> then your <mandarin>你的你的鼻子也是:ni de ni de bi zi ye shi</mandarin> like must be very sharp then like you must have


very nice eyebrows have a nice figure then what there's the a four size waist then <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> , there's the collarbone challenge whereby you are able if you are able to have this coins stack of coins on your collar collarbone if you are able to balance that on your collarbone you are considered as beautiful ya so there's a lot of superficial standards ah in fact uh I saw on youtube


uh I don't know whether you got see lah but it's basically these late this young girl she was influenced by society to, go under undergo plastic surgery then after that around her is like ah people who look the same


ya ya ya ya ya ya, that one really kind of addresses the problem of how in society right there's so many there's such beauty standards that everybody kind of just looks the same and aims towards the same kind of beauty lah which is like kind of sad


because there isn't anybody unique anymore ya, I for example when I go to korea right when I went there I feel like all the girls look the same leh like <mandarin>一模一样:yi mu yi yang</mandarin> leh, ya like they have bangs because they have airy bangs because like it looks cute then after that they have like big eyes uh definitely have a fair skin so if you are tan in korea right you stand out in the crowd


and then like you have to have nice I don't know long uh hair then after that you're the red lips in korea is very is very popular because they see it as like oh you have fair skin and red lips right is very like nice ah then after that the makeup


then after that the makeup style is also very similar lah there there isn't like a, somebody that stood out to me in korea everybody kind of just look the same then as for guys I feel it's less problematic because I feel like guys in general they don't really need to meet the beauty standards they don't need to go for like what diets ah


uh like eat less just to become slim what right so do you think there is that disparity between guy and girl beauty standards,


(hmm)


, ya ya ya


!aiyo! why like that one oh my god


!wow!, , and so it kind of just brought me to thinking about like uh in terms of dating in terms of settling down right uh I think asia would be more conservative in that sense that oh for women


by <mandarin>三十岁:san shi sui</mandarin> you must get married you must, like <mandarin>结婚:jie hun</mandarin> then like settle down <mandarin>生孩子:sheng hai zi</mandarin> that kind of thing but then for america right they feel like marriage is just a piece of paper and they don't see the need to marry lah so I feel it's a very uh broad topic also like that we can talk about cause


my friend right ah you know like the whole and NOC uh break like divorce after ten years sharing, he posted on his instagram then he was like err do you think marriage is necessary do we why do we need to uh certify to the government and and inform the government that we are in love with this person why must we be able to


uh let the government see us get married first before we can even apply for BTO or HDB and settle down like why must the government decide this for us why can't we just, you know cohabit with a a another person who we love but we don't necessarily have to marry ya so do you think like marriage itself is


like a very <mandarin>很重很重要的东西还是:hen zhong hen zhong yao de dong xi hai shi</mandarin> like not very important


so you are saying like the context matters so the location where you live matters so depends on the country ah


ah, ah true true


actually speaking about the NOC break up right do you think like if you were in that their position right do you think after <mandarin>十年:shi nian</mandarin> of marriage , you realise that that person's not really for you but if you look back it's ten years of your life


spent with this person and it's such a high profile relationship would you actually decide to continue staying in a relationship and hopefully it would, things will get better or you will be like them just announce a divorce and start over and that means you are also pressured by your parents to find a new person your life and and you're like thirty plus already eh so it's like you're not <mandarin>年轻:nian qing</mandarin> anymore eh


then do you think you would stay in a relationship after ten years like would you choose to divorce your wife or would you just stay in a relationship cause it's been so long


because I feel like divorce itself is a very <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> thing cause, you have to consider like what after marriage how much money you have to pay your wife then also the and if you have kids that's why I feel like NOC the reason why they divorced in the first place because


they don't have kids mah if they have kids I think it will be so much more complicated because they will have to decide as to like when the kid will meet the which parent ah then which whether the kid who will stay with who that kind of thing so it makes things less complicated I guess


but it's such a high profile relationship that I think there was a lot of courage when they, announced it ah cause I also went to watch the the podcast that err #jian hao# did with ryan then he said that he what wanted to end his life


uh in Osaka like one of the travel logs then he wanted to end his life then he got like mild depression and stuff like things serious depression or stuff lah basically he was like very <mandarin>难过:nan guo</mandarin> lah, then like it was through time that he recover from it lor so it's a very very sad thing did you watch the whole video


!chey! I watch the whole video eh, because okay he started out like he started the company because he likes to make videos right but he never intended to be in the spotlight


to !wah! be in the camera then like receive attention that kind of thing so when he started NOC that was his mindset what right where you know like everybody's life or or you know whenever you take on a project in life right


it always isn't it doesn't exactly have to go as planned what doesn't always it isn't always like that so gradually people recognised him because after all the company's name is called ryan sylvia, then after that he started receiving a lot of attention from fans ah


then that he didn't like it because he is firstly an introvert he's very shy so it clashes so having this kind of life right it clashes directly with his personality ah then he hated the fact that err you know as a celebrity in the limelight


you have people being extremely interested in your life they they want to know what where you live ah they want to know what you like ah <mandarin>什么东西不喜欢什么东西喜欢:shen me dong xi bu xi huan shen me dong xi xi huan</mandarin> like they all all need to know that kind of thing lah so he hated it ah cause it was an invasion of privacy what


so then err he was very upset with that lor then gradually it kind of just took a toll on his own life because he felt like, oh if I do this kind of thing people will confirm say something about it so you become very self conscious [orh] so it's kind of like nose dive in black mirror what like you are conscious of what other people say about you


that will somehow may impact on what you do in your own life what because you don't want people to judge or have a bad impression of you what right so then I think, for sylvia she's a very extrovert person so she doesn't mind the limelight what ya so it's just that personality clash lah then he was very depressed because of it lor


ah I think he uh he also mention like the reason why it took a toll on your marriage was also because of NOC, uh because when I watched the video right I realised that ryan and sylvia they are very responsible people ah they


forgo like they're willing to forgo ah how to say ah their valentine's day celebration their wedding anniversary celebration because they have a schedule to meet, ya so like they will like oh if we don't schedule you know you know this video thing on this day that means another person may have to OT another person may have to sleep late so like it affects other people's lives so the fact that they then after that in the end they sacrifice their valentine's day celebration lor


then they said because of these things right you you kind of like don't really have anything special in relationship anymore because you are not looking forward to to anything what cause like you you just like see it is as


oh if we forgo valentine's day doesn't mean that we won't love each other what that means everyday is a valentine's day lah so they just kind of take things for granted lor, then that's how it kind of like made their marriage very sad lah like not special anymore because you're not looking forward to anything what


so do you think in a marriage like it's still important to, like have special dates with your partner even after so long or you think it's fine


true true


, but her relationship wasn't say very high profile though like she just posted a picture of her wearing the ring, uh


she went to say it ah


so that were conspiracies that they were dating


is a star a a is born is it a real life story, I haven't even watched is it available on netflix, [orh] okay okay sure sure


ya lor ya lor ,


!huh! wait so like they go and marry solely because they want to promote themselves even more, oh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> meh


!huh! really, so from the very beginning have never lived together ah 没有在没有在一起 ah


!wow! that is very sad eh


it is eh you know like I went to mama concert back in twenty seventeen right then he was there mah then after he was saying like, oh I have to thank my company err for err in for me being able to meet my wife then he was like oh I have to thank them then now this kind of thing happen oh my god


ya lor I think she's more suited for Angmoh husband lah, ya very westernised mindset lor which which is like I feel if you are an individual that has very high standards to begin with ah it's very difficult to find a partner lah


because you have to get rid of that uh stereotype that you have of the opposite gender or like the person that you choose to love in the future right, so maybe because


I I don't know like the shaun and michelle Chong marriage was extremely publicised eh I saw it on TV eh, ya lor ya lor, ya


maybe ah, really meh I feel from the beginning actresses like michelle Chong joanne Peh and belinda they all match Angmoh husband eh ya


she's having an Angmoh Angmoh boyfriend now lah, married already really, !wow!


ya, , but I think <mandarin>戚玉武:qi yu wu</mandarin> is a very good guy lah like he's maybe a bit boring but his stable lor so it's it really depends on your personal preference cause it's either you look for stable guy that will lead to a lasting relationship or you lead or you date a guy that is err


not say very stable but then you have the excitement in your relationship lor ya


ya but they quite cute what, , ya then like they hardly ever act in the same shows together also ya, but I don't know lah she said like oh he's very funny then he makes her laugh which I have to agree lah cause jeremy he's a very very funny kind of guy he always acts like funny characters one what


ya, ya lor ya lor, but I think it was a very low profile relationship ah so do you think as like a celebrity you should have a


low profile relationship or do you think it is okay to publicise to the world,


oh, [orh] eh did you see the speech that she did when she won the award


I think it was MTV eh, no no no like as in the current like very very new one I felt like it was very uh, very influential lah because she actually mentioned about how media really affected her life and the decisions that she made because


you see from her her albums right it's very related to the scandals that she was in like for example when she came up with reputation, she said she went to she said ah cause the media said that I did I did too much business I'm too money minded so reputation came out and I didn't do any of the promotion of the album that after that


then after that she said oh because the media said I have too many celebrity friends I stop posting about my friends on social media, then after that she said oh because, uh the media said I date too many guys so I stop dating for a few years so like I feel she really conform to what the media said about her lah


then after that as she got older she kind of just stopped because it also explains like her weight gain what because in the netflix show right err what's that called, miss Americana ah ya so she was mentioning how because she was like skinny all her life what right then after that because of paparazzi <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like


err take pictures of you then they will post on social media, so naturally celebrities will also get to see so including taylor swift herself lah then she says like she will always get affected by


what the media says about her body ah that sometimes she will get like err eating disorders lor especially when she was young and impressionable then she said that she's tired of it lah she's tired of like having to


say like oh if your stomach is she said this that kind of like impacted me if your stomach is flat your butt is not big enough or if you are butt is big then your stomach is not flat enough so she said is an impossible way of trying to achieve that kind of body that an individual wants ah


ya that after she talked about how like , she used to not yet as much as now lah then after that and now she doesn't care already cause she has you know grown out that stage lah ya which I feel is very inspirational lor then after that now she also released the music that she wants to release and not care about what the media says about her lah


which I feel like taylor swift despite, her many scandals of like what her dating too many men or her writing the letter to apple music because of


ya ya ya ya something like that there was a lot of controversy controversy about it ah like <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren</mandarin> like <mandarin>讲她:jiang ta</mandarin> then then because of that err despite all of that right people still know of taylor swift lah like she she's just iconic lor


like lady gaga like she does a lot of controversial things but a lot of people talk about her


then do you think it is right for uh big celebrities like her to use their platform to influence other people


then what do you think of like celebrities jumping on the bandwagon just because it is trending right now like for example the george floyd death one so some people they were complaining like how


oh she used to be somebody that doesn't really talk about this or doesn't really advocate black lives matter but because right now it's such a relevant situation that now she's jumping on the bandwagon than promoting this situation


, confirm one lah she so big then then what what what is happening now in america ah is it like still ongoing


, Jialat leh do you think the george floyd thing right that err the fact that it was blown to such an like an at such a unprecedented rate do you think it was necessary or do you think it wasn't like you you you felt like oh because it's a pandemic they shouldn't do this kind of thing


but it kind of got me wondering like what if george floyd was white


right then it wouldn't be a black lives matter thing what right I think we talked about this before lah like how I feel it's a matter of basic human rights already because no police men should, like suffocate a criminal for eight minutes straight like put his knee on his neck for eight minutes straight I think is unjustified lah like the fact that he he has had experience


like past experiences of police brutality against other criminals is like a very it's a bad thing lor, you know even the police force in america choose to overlook overlook that and then not punish him for it right


then there was a lot of uh controversy over the like his charges lah because they went to charge him that his third degree murder what, right so do you think it is first degree murder second or third degree 罢了


ya so like third degree is like you and your friend are probably hiking a mountain then after that suddenly a bicycle came came uh like riding past your then after that cause both of your were in the way then after that you just push your friend to get him out of the way but then he fell down the the mountain and then he died so it's


like you it's an unintentional movement lah ya so you never you never intended his death but it happened ah then first degree murder is, you have the intention to kill that person like you already kind just planned it ah


ya I'm not sure about second degree murder eh let me check it and like in between it's like have intention but also,


[orh] okay so it is the unlawful killing second degree a non premeditated meditated killing, ya so


ya so like second degree murder is different from first degree which is a premeditated one ya so like for example you just kill him without any reason


, ya second degree is more of like a heat of heat of the moment thing lor so you probably, uh walk in on your wife like hanging out with an another man


then after that you got so angry you killed the guy ya so do you think he should be charged for third degree like what degree of murder do you think he should be charged with, I think second is probably unintentional but that is accidental


ya I don't think like a lot of people say it was first like it should be first degree murder but I don't think it should be eh cause like, first degree is like you go and stalk someone then you go and check out about his ah family background like you do checks on him you go and uh follow him


on that very day you realise you found him at this spot then you go and kneel on him purposely go and kneel on him to kill him ya so a lot of people felt it it should be called as first degree murder which I don't think should be should called that lah I think maybe second degree [orh] like that you said


ya true, but you know maybe he probably what had the intention of like because everybody's watching what so if I go and


take out a gun to shoot him then people will be even more angry ah cause like I will be shooting him for no reason but then this one is because oh he got he was struggling so I'm using this to kneel on I'm using this method like how I used on other criminals to kneel on him but then I purposely go and kneel on him longer lah


and not care when he said he can't breathe, I don't know eh it's very sad leh like you know his last words it was what I can't breathe ah


, actually do you think up till today there is still that disparity


which boils down to like again how you look matters lor right, ya


ya but I mean if you think about it right uh maybe because, the reason why this situation was so big it's so big right is because maybe like of it being a very sensitive topic in the first place like how err


in the past the blacks couldn't go to specific places that only the whites can go to, ya then they were they were they were labelled as the N word you know, and then ya lah they were hired for slavery and things like that and then how if you are of a certain colour you you definitely will be under this category


of like being poor of not having as much privilege lor, ya so maybe because it was such a sensitive topic that that's why when such things happened in this day right it becomes very big


, so I don't know how the situation what end eh what do you how do you think this riot will end honestly you riot so much then what is the outcome that that they want sia


, actually very Siao leh like now pandemic and then now still got another riot !aiyo!, then oh you know like the non essential workers one the artist one in singapore


do you think people should have reacted like that


so do you think that that them being upset over the fact that they they were artists were rated as the number one non essential in singapore do you think uh people should get upset over it or you think they're just being petty


true you know sneaky sushi on youtube he actually mentioned uh in his video and I feel like he's in his opinions are very very insightful, like he uploaded the #jian hao# one like why he so popular then after that for this he also uploaded a video lah and you know he said was


not artists being non essential during this period of time doesn't mean that they are not important doesn't mean that <mandarin>他们不是很重要:ta men bu shi hen zhong yao</mandarin> it's just during this pandemic who would want to approach an artist for help


they will most likely go to a healthcare worker to like doctors nurses for help what right, then he said if I was stranded on an island and I want I have I had one person to choose to survive with and I was I was given two choices either an artist or a or a healthcare worker obviously I will choose the healthcare worker what


he said if there was another survey uh that changes the context who do you think would is the most essential in err like graphic and design, then he say I can guarantee you the doctors and nurses will definitely be the least important not least essential lah


then he said just singaporean are just in general being very petty lor, ya which I find it very like ah like like I I find his opinions very good lah because, just because they were voted as non essential on some survey doesn't mean <mandarin>他们不是很重要的人:ta men bu shi hen zhong yao de ren</mandarin> lor


because after all like I know people are like oh we need these artists to what design like these posters, ya things like that right now but then after all the people who are really trying to solve the situation is the healthcare sector what trying to find a vaccination then have to wear PPE to treat these workers is really very tough eh ya and they have to work like long hours also ya


which I have a lot of respect for them lor don't know whether they will actually get the virus or not ya, you have to really like uh wear the PPE then I realised what sometimes they can wear until their their eyes there got problem leh the scars right


nothing better, I don't know lor you know like singapore <mandarin>没事找事情做的:mei shi zhao shi qing zuo de</mandarin> you know like during the circuit breaker right suddenly everybody want to


err exercise and then bake and things like that but on the flip side it is true lah if you have nothing do you try to find something to do what to be productive with your life lah, ya so you will naturally inclined to towards doing something that can take up your time and make sure that time passes faster lah


ya so I am quite excited for what phase two is going to come lor actually do your do you think the cases will spike , true true


true lah true true


, ya I feel our government is very good lah in that sense of uh planning ahead and being prepared lor


ya because I feel it actually what you mentioned is very systematic then after they they are looking for ways to improve like how, okay if they they are preparing for okay if uh they're considering like what if singaporeans don't actually do the contact tracing then we come up with the contact tracing watches so that it makes it a compulsory for everybody to do contact tracing already what right you just have to wear the watch mah


then after that uh when the mask when it first came out I think got some people say it was too thin then they actually found ways improve it ya they made it thicker, ya then after that cause of the circuit breaker thing then because they feel like people might get depressed over it they released the song right


ya payouts lah so it kind of got me thinking maybe singapore was prepared for a pandemic uh in the first place lah like in case something really goes wrong then they actually have like all these plans !wah! suddenly got so many schemes budget schemes coming out what right ya


then I don't know eh other countries I don't know how to handle the situation eh, what china now suddenly got one outbreak again, it's a new virus or is the same virus


oh my gosh, ya, ya


actually you think about it right back in chinese new year when it kind of first started nobody expected this to happen right no so I coming, ya like we were just having our chinese new year gatherings as per normal then suddenly we're like eh new virus in china how ah then we kind of just moved on with life right


ya then after suddenly got few cases in singapore then we like !huh! then how ah but we still went on with our lives what right


then nobody knew at the situation would blow out oh that our lives will be affected his manner is like really really a big change no one expected that relies will be so so much of a change from our normal routines are


ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, actually you do you think COVID nineteen will be the new normal for all of us, I I don't I don't hope so I just hoping sinners return back to what it was


when will be the next time when we can step out of our house without wearing our mask , right even we cannot even tell right


exactly and then you know masks is like how to say ah the the the most basic form of preventing the virus from spreading


so like how are we going to actually go out on a regular day without wearing our mask , exactly ya you know I was like cashiering at that time NTUC right then like one indian guy he took out his mask to drink water then after that he never put back right then I got a bit like conscious eh


ya exactly I got scared you know cause I scared like what if you know as he speaks as he drinks water the virus is coming out cause it's an invisible thing what we are unable to see it, which is a very scary thing ah cause it's really more than you know uh like teaching other humans to be good it's more of like it's fighting against an invisible thing that's against all of humanity so it's not about wars anymore eh it's very scary thing [orh]


we're travelling resuming work normal life resume, eh ya lor but oh wells we will see


okay ,


, is it the pig one


[orh] the memory one ah, the it was the pig one because my friend told me to watch that episode then he says about some guy like having sex with the pig ah so I just watch it ah then


it's about government ah schemes ah like how do you want to control the government and stuff ah, that one is like very like political to me lah it's not really like black mirror cause it's not really like future lah it's like just very current times ah


is like how they use the like someone that they want to gain something then they use the government to like they want to the government to do something lah so they they ask him to like have sex with the pig in order to release his daughter cause she was being held as held at ransom


, I think just a storyline ah cause they can't really do that what


because all the judging and everything lah how you like measure a person's worth by their like ratings and stuff like that,


my favourite one is the the lesbian couple that one ah the #san junipero#, cause it talks about life after death mah, and talks about love talks about a lot of things is like is the most cheerful black mirror episode it doesn't really have the sad vibes


and the rest of the it's like there's a like so called negative aspect to it, most of it have like a negative ending to it like black museum then the murder one then play test all those ya


ya he died cause of the AI system what it failed mah and it killed him in the end, then what about the the USS callister that one the spaceship that one where his his friends were inside the game then he control them


, it shows a dark sides of someone's personality lah


what what's the ending part point what's the ending point of the the the guy who control his friends ah he he died right in the end


oh ya he was trapped inside the game


like they judge people to to get approval ah, it's like it's like what's everybody doing now everybody judge by look everybody judge by what you wear uh what's your status what school you going a lot people judge based on a lot of things lah and then they're very quick to judge on all of these factors


so I heard that china is like coming up with this like five point five point system as well where they judge people uh on a five point scale lah than they say that uh the higher ratings you have right then you will have better access to things like dating websites


uh getting like deals quicker getting jobs quicker this kind of things ah I heard that they are during this kind of things now, ya in china they are actually testing out this like social rating kind of thing where they everyone gets a rating then if you are higher rating right you will get better opportunities ah


like they say then if your rating is lower right your government the government might like make your internet slower or charge you more for bill this kind of thing, it's like a social point system that means like it encourages like good behaviour and stuff lah maybe because they the people are very unruly mah so they want to do this kind of thing to like control their behaviour ya (ppc) maybe is like some conspiracy theory as well lah


[orh] the short movie is it that time I show you that one right


uh like eat less just to become scheme right right, , maybe in asian culture yes lah because err the guys and the guys especially ya are also pressured to look good what like have white skin err have nice bodies be tall this kind of thing and especially in asia korea right uh are the guys are very like uh pressured to


like very nice complexion and stuff they really take care of themselves lah like hair face all these kind of thing but on the western side right it's not so much, on the western side maybe people focus more on like bodies and height lah but in korea is really on the looks ah the face


like cause the guys there use makeup and stuff mah right then they are pressured to have very like white skin even for the guys this kind of thing especially in in korea lah as as compared to the western side right the western males they just probably need to have like six pack abs ah or height kind of thing right like they will be dated by women ah ya


I know the american girls they are like very conscious about a guy's height lah, I see there was there was a picture of this girl right she posted say happily married to my five foot something king then then while you all are talking about I only date tall men this kind of thing


ya, but ya lah that's how I think that's how americans like females they they want like the guy to be taller, but there's this tall girl right she posted a picture of her and the and the boyfriend ah then she said happy married to my five foot ten king


then why your why your why your talking about dating I only date tall men this kind of thing then they will ghost on you after awhile ya, but you can see all those american guys they are like play boys lah they just like want your number then after that when you find someone new then they don't want you already probably is more like casual relationships and stuff ah


I think in singapore is because the the land is scarce kind of thing and so that's why they have to really make sure that people are married to each other then they will have a opportunity to the buy a house than because they would want to have children mah, so that's why they will make that four room flat right you're able to house their children you know as the government's aim is also to increase the childbirth here what cause it's very low mah the childbirth rate whereas in america is different like the country is so big they have so many houses this kind of thing


there's marriage is not a important thing what some more over there's like gay lesbian all these kind of thing right so, I think maybe for them marriage is like just tools to solemnise their them being together is more like a publicity thing ah especially in between celebrities like they get married to this person then it's just in like news lor


but it doesn't I don't know whether about benefits ah whether entitled them to a house or whatever because there is really different you don't even to be married to buy a house you don't even need to be married to get this or get that right, ya lah also the the governments ah like cause is different mah ya we are a small country that's why that's why the government needs us to get married so that we can have err offspring mah which is what they want ah


cause the childbirth rate here is low low mah in US is different and then they have such so many resources even need to have I I mean don't need don't need much of population growth ah because they will import from other countries


I think for them they already ya already reached this age right so once get divorced right they probably won't find new partners, because it's like their mid life already then they already spend a a good amount of time together mainly the love worked out in the past, and it they created a channel out of their relationship so it was like success built from their relationship mah but then now they find that their relationship don't work and thankfully don't have children lah so it doesn't make things complicated