plus <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> exams <mandarin>要来:yao lai </mandarin> Liao mah, so I give them all the sweets in like a package and I wrote them a small note some more yeah, ya I think it was quite cute of me to do so


but then, I was a burden throughout the whole time by the way, I didn't dare to tell this to anyone in the family because, I think they will kill me, ya because on the way right I don't know how I only know how to cycle like those park one like the very long ones no it's three I'm talking about ah, like you know it's straight and like okay bumps I'm still quite okay but if like I need turn here and there I think it's a bit trouble


yeah, I don't dare lor, then


we have this truck lah we have this truck where we also carry all the bicycles, and then we can read your bicycle already lah, err, eh then when also carry people who cannot cycle, AKA me, and a few people so I <mandarin>我真的很:wo zhen de hen </mandarin> burden lor <mandarin>如果我不可以:ru guo wo bu ke yi </mandarin> cycle right <mandarin>我真的不没有:wo zhen de bu mei you </mandarin> confidence ah


to the truck and then I will also sit at the back of the truck


if my family know that I'm doing this it's quite dangerous actually cause there's no seatbelt whatsoever, yeah and there was bicycles with us so like anytime if, the bicycle decide to go haywire the bicycle can crush us


oh, [orh] then <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> on the spot <mandarin>教你怎样:jiao ni zen yang </mandarin> cycle lah, yeah lah yeah then like that lor


but like it was a very fun experience lah, or rather, maybe <mandarin>我懒惰:wo lan duo </mandarin> lah but ya <mandarin>我没有去:wo mei you qu </mandarin> cycle but I very thankful lor that those guys taught me how to cycle


oh cycling ah learning how to cycle is the same as how you, swim ya and those who don't know how to swim ah I make sure they drown sia


they they any they just like !aiya! you can do it one, okay okay sorry but anyway it was very fun, but the only sad thing is that because my OG right most people know how to cycle obviously that's why they went for the cycling event


so right they will all cycle in front of me one, I will be very slow then all of them will like move on to like one point when I'm at the previous point, so <mandarin>我没有跟他们在一起:wo mei you gen ta men zai yi qi </mandarin> lah <mandarin>所以他们有:suo yi ta men you </mandarin> bond then <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you </mandarin> bond


but like <mandarin>那个几个人:na ge ji ge ren </mandarin> is <mandarin>不是我:bu shi wo </mandarin> OG <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> it's like all those type of like organisers in charge


ya lah <mandarin>那个有一点:na ge you yi dian </mandarin> sad, I also not staying in hall cause I intern


so it's a bit sad ya, maybe I'll go back to stay in hall I don't know <mandarin>很贵:hen gui </mandarin> lah, but maybe <mandarin>如果我觉得:ru guo wo jue de </mandarin> hall <mandarin>比较更比较好读书肯定会去肯定可能可能会回去:bi jiao geng bi jiao hao du shu ken ding hui qu ken ding ke neng ke neng hui hui qu </mandarin> yeah


thirteen july, to sixteen december I think yeah


I need to my school fees err total twenty four k you know, then from this intern I can only earn six k, one one k, yeah, bloody hell I told you before right


yes I did, I I I told you, I told you I went for some went to somewhere for an interview right, that's right


NTU interview funny ah, genome institute of Singapore, are you serious, so you went already, is is under which department


!wow!


two point five <mandarin>可以:ke yi </mandarin> lah, ya


very hard to get job nowadays because of COVID


<mandarin>在家烂掉:zai jia lan diao </mandarin> lor, are you serious, okay okay, (mmhmm)


okay lah can lah if you don't need a huge cost, yeah if you don't need a huge cost to invest into the business first then obviously just go ahead by all means


yeah, okay lah this type of business can just do one lah if you don't need a lot of money


ya so did you go anywhere else for your interview, are also went to Hope Technik is like this unit is just is this like er engineering start, [orh]


so it's like one week I work


even days then another week I work odd days, because sometimes <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> weekend <mandarin>不要不需要我回去所以:bu yao dong xu yao wo hui qu suo yi </mandarin> like I feel like achieve very little


out of all the ten days right like those days I'm working on those days I'm not working I'm not doing anything much, so, that's what I was thinking lah I was thinking of teaching tuition


err <mandarin>我不懂我会:wo dong dong wo hui </mandarin> on the day I work lah what time I will end, and like , I don't know yeah the timing's very uncertain and, for example <mandarin>我:wo </mandarin> work


work on, tuesdays and thursdays, then I can make it again


yeah so sometimes I can make it cannot make it cannot make it can make it


oh my god <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong </mandarin> leh, oh ya lah that one <mandarin>也是有点可怕:ye shi you dian ke pa </mandarin> lor


[orh], okay lah it's a good idea lah I've also trying to look, for part time jobs lah <mandarin>我真的觉得我那些那那:wo zhen de jue de wo na xie na na </mandarin> like that few days I <mandarin>没有做工:mei you zuo gong </mandarin> ah


and pay off my school debt


but <mandarin>我的:wo de </mandarin> intern fun lor, okay now I just started to do more lab work ha ha


oh really, one point five actually ya actually two years lah but minus <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> intern


one and a half years lor


okay lor but <mandarin>你那个:ni na ge </mandarin> progress leh on your jewellery business so far


!wow! I didn't know


!wow!


as I'm on Instagram also I also see a lot of ideas like that a lot and my friends I also have friends who already have their own stores already they're already selling


okay lah but, !wow!


k <mandarin>你要先:ni yao xian </mandarin> you want start first or not


[orh]


so like what you say I think I think, I agree with what you say also cause, like, the body can train mah, then if, the looks not nice that means not nice already


unless they have a lot of money lor want to go Korea


then like body can go find at least find fitness trainer, building on your body also can build on your health then <mandarin>比较健康:bi jiao jian kang </mandarin> mah <mandarin>比较好对身体比较好:bi jiao hao dui shen ti bi jiao hao </mandarin> so, but then you never say but you only say yourself leh then what do you think about like in a partner


like <mandarin>你找男朋友的时候你要好样貌还是好身材:ni zhao nan peng you de shi hou ni yao hao yang mao hai shi hao shen cai </mandarin> same thing is it, oh ya hor you say you say the same thing, you say, you want small face, sorry


k then another question I ask you ah


is preference mah you just say what you want lah <mandarin>你比较喜欢吃苹果:ni bi jiao xi huan chi ping guo </mandarin> then <mandarin>你讲你喜欢吃苹果:ni jiang ni xi huan chi ping guo </mandarin> lor if you like orange then


cause I like the crunchy texture


very sour, so yeah I prefer apple


green lah because if, like, ya like what you say orange have the sourness right, but then, and then like I prefer apple cause, there's it's sweet, then sometimes I want some sour like what you say also


so I prefer green apple it's like both it's not it's not so sour but, so ya


yeah I know you don't have to say it both times


okay I ask you first what is the one thing that you wish was free


[orh] in <mandarin>新加坡的:xin jia po de </mandarin> context lah, !wah!, haha


they can lah, eh then you ask me next question first, oh wait wait wait never mind I want to ask you


okay so they will


!wah! <mandarin>很多:hen duo </mandarin> truth yeah I agree also, like you see nowadays even donald trump all that, cause of business then he want to open everything but then, like


then <mandarin>很多人不要他还他还:hen duo ren bu yao ta hai ta hai </mandarin> like insist, okay but anyways outside of politics <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de </mandarin> like <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui </mandarin> die of global warming lor, cause like what you say greedy mah then then they will want to


err like, release those toxic gases, then <mandarin>我们我们呼吸:wo men wo men hu xi </mandarin> Liao <mandarin>已经很很:yi jing hen hen </mandarin> bad then <mandarin>还要:hai yao </mandarin> release to environment <mandarin>不是更:bu shi geng </mandarin> worse


yeah, okay next question


like, and then also have the chewiness


!huh! okay why you like rice more I thought


okay


then


[orh] same [loh] like the spicy seafood noodle they have, in Korea


Singapore also have you eat before meh, maybe some <mandarin>真材:zhen cai </mandarin> one leh like they ask the korean chef like with the real korean roots then come Singapore <mandarin>煮那个面:zhu na ge mian </mandarin> then <mandarin>你这样:ni zhe yang </mandarin> doubt <mandarin>他们他们会伤心的:ta men ta men hui shang xin de </mandarin> leh


don't know what is it


[orh] I I saw #tzu yang# the Youtube channel what happen I don't know leh I cannot I don't know the, caption not caption also


ya I also saw the #tzu yang# one then she just release one video then I, I cannot find her other videos, but then you know right <mandarin>昨晚我做梦:zuo wan wo zuo meng </mandarin> eh, I don't know whether true or not eh but then I I <mandarin>梦到:meng dao </mandarin> she, bring back all her videos like I can watch all the videos again then like


I think it's fake right, cause I think no more videos still I don't know eh


oh really meh I think that video is explain one leh cause yesterday then I see that video


so I think <mandarin>那个是讲他的:na ge shi jiang ta de </mandarin> controversy, like no more recording or no more, no more coming out of these Mukbang videos like <mandarin>你讲的:ni jiang de </mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>还有别的:hai you bie de </mandarin> channel mah <mandarin>你可以看那些:ni ke yi kan na xie </mandarin> channel eh, [orh] <mandarin>真的:zhen de </mandarin> ah <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong </mandarin> then if not left the boss Yang lor eh no is it boss Yang no, is not that one is the other is the guy


the basketball guy, ya lah I mean that one is <mandarin>你可以看的:ni ke yi kan de </mandarin> mah like <mandarin>你因为你讲:ni yin wei ni jiang </mandarin> all the Mukbang video channels also like those that you watch also


also gonna remove all the videos then at least you can watch boss Yang one mah, and the ya lor, , ya so but <mandarin>我有我有一件有一件事:wo you wo you yi jian you yi jian shi </mandarin> hor <mandarin>我真的不明白:wo zhen de bu ming bai </mandarin> like why they want to


cause like what you say what the views all that, maybe cause, like <mandarin>他们喜欢看那个:ta men xi huan kan na ge </mandarin> Mukbanger <mandarin>吃得很爽:chi de hen shuang </mandarin> mah then <mandarin>如果他们觉得:ru guo ta men jue de </mandarin> like they know it's sponsored


then they will feel like it's very forced is like cause it's a sponsor video then <mandarin>很不:hen bu </mandarin> sincere you know, then it lowers the 爽Ness of watching the video, cause like before that they know is sincere mah then they eat until so Shiok like that like really very true


then maybe now they just anyhow put on a show to, to eat and get the sponsored views that kind


ya lah but you know what it's korean culture <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> like, they also anyhow, make until very big, so ya lor


or maybe you can be one, then earn a lot of money also


don't know


is it like real time did they cut or anything


okay, k then yeah, you say first


but like okay then is almost like what's your favourite dish that kind of question, then I say first ah I think I eat sushi cause sushi you can mix a lot of thing what


eh wait no no no actually sushi sometimes quite Sian, like eat already then very Jelak, I think I'll eat like Bibimbap, cause it has all the korean flavour that I love then like


but then the noodles no not noodles sorry the vegetable, like <mandarin>很长:hen chang </mandarin> then, Shiokness


yeah, but I also like the spiciness and the sweetness like all in one that kind so I think I will eat Bibimbap for the rest of my life, then got good nutrition also if anyhow just eat one thing that you really like !wah! Sian leh then the nutrients so like like


so <mandarin>你想到:ni xiang dao </mandarin> mah <mandarin>你:ni </mandarin> what favourite food is what favourite food will you eat for the rest of your life


but they say it's not the MSG what is the wax of the instant noodle, I think so


that one rubbish lah you grow means grow already eat MSG shorten what anyhow say only lor this kind


[orh]


eh <mandarin>七月:qi yue </mandarin> cannot anyhow say die that word, ya you ask


err I like to do crunches eh no no no I like to do the sit ups even though I cannot really do ah but then, cause sit ups, can train the whole body what


like your legs also when you push down, and then <mandarin>那个手也是在动:na ge shou ye shi zai dong </mandarin> mah, then <mandarin>也是:ye shi </mandarin> train <mandarin>那边:na bian </mandarin> like train your entire body ah so, like one exercise for everything kind of thing


then you leh


!wah! <mandarin>你很:ni hen </mandarin> selfish eh


but <mandarin>你跑也是跑:ni pao ye shi pao </mandarin> treadmill <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> mah


I mean the world is full of them that kind, like even NUS so many cases, I mean <mandarin>你跑的时候:ni pao de shi hou </mandarin> just don't <mandarin>听音乐:ting yin yue </mandarin> lah


like <mandarin>很:hen </mandarin> confined, but then <mandarin>现在七月你还敢出去跑:xian zai qi yue ni hai gan chu qu pao </mandarin> meh


[orh] hor


then, you go and run around the swimming pool lor


but <mandarin>你现在:ni xian zai </mandarin> COVID period <mandarin>去:qu </mandarin> gym then, what if the virus inside the air con like circulate you also don't know then the chances of


contracting COVID higher eh <mandarin>你不怕:ni bu pa </mandarin> meh


ya lah that's what I'm saying


but I mean you also follow the workout so that means <mandarin>有效:you xiao </mandarin> mah cause you can see results very weird leh


but okay, of course lah who don't know high intensity interval training what


something like that lah but I mean you want to lose weight also you need to watch your diet then you <mandarin>乱乱吃:luan luan chi </mandarin> also you exercise also no use mah


yeah lah


I think consider cheat they also if you keep restricting yourself right then <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> diet <mandarin>也是会:ye shi hui </mandarin> fail <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> mah


I mean <mandarin>如果你要看那个效果:ru guo ni yao kan na ge xiao guo </mandarin> did you must really have to make it into a lifestyle mah if <mandarin>你:ni </mandarin> like


ya like you stop for awhile then after that, come back like it will come back again what it will go back to normal then all your fats come back that kind you know like, you need make it a long term change


ya lor


what, it's not petty there's a reason for it


okay cause, like, you were rude what, the other time remember you quarrel then after that you just anyhow like I offer eh I offer to go and buy for you I never even ask you to pay


like I like you don't even need to go and carry I help you buy leh like whatever you want I just go and buy, I didn't even ask you back for money then you


[orh]


!huh! never ask to carry


(uh huh), yeah


(mmhmm)


then that's why you must do more exercises what last time you stay in eh <mandarin>你那时候:ni na shi hou </mandarin> stay in bunk <mandarin>的时候谁在家:de shi hou shei zai jia </mandarin> ah <mandarin>只是我:zhi shi wo </mandarin> eh


that's why I can keep volunteering go and buy stuff I volunteer I ask me give me the list all that


then we go and buy then, at least got car to carry us back that kind of thing, and then even before that when you were in dorm like what I say right, then is I buy by myself leh I sometimes I never even ask mummy, to go with me I just buy what I can then she say if cannot then, err another day we go and buy together that kind


I don't know, I don't know where's my fault here cause I try my best what it's just that, on that on those few weeks cause I need to submit my FYP report then


the next few weeks after I have, I have exams already, still got but ah


I am calm


okay


then <mandarin>你明天讲他们:ni ming tian jiang ta men </mandarin> lah


[orh] then <mandarin>他们会抢:ta men hui qiang </mandarin> ah


[orh], obviously you have no idea how how someone can spend that one because every time your mother always been above fifty dollars forever even if there are only two people going to fairprice


I mean since yeah, I mean since now COVID period then <mandarin>你也是在家:ni ye shi zai jia </mandarin> mah then, you can ask mummy to give you the money give you list go and buy what since they say that they are not at home


during the weekends then, weekdays sometimes they at home at home also do nothing much then you just offer lah, since got car also what, and the other time I also I no car but my boyfriend got car I also offer not my car also just use go


go buy come back, the groceries


then <mandarin>你有:ni you </mandarin> scratch mah <mandarin>去:qu </mandarin> scratch lah


but if you if they understand your situation then <mandarin>他们不会:ta men bu hui </mandarin> force <mandarin>你去:ni qu </mandarin> mah, ya lor I mean like, nice nice friend outing you can just buy cheap food from like I don't know coffeeshop or something or like Fairprice then you all go make picnic lah like go


eh no not marina bay ah the marina barrage then go picnic that kind then away from the crowd away from air con also better during this period


is idea mah, end ah end ah


like sincerely think that you are in the wrong or you think that you are right then I'm wrong


ya you also ignore me how I know


I not elephant I don't , I think so ah


no, !huh! then <mandarin>你懂:ni dong </mandarin> cycle ah


how you learn


(mmhmm), [orh] so is that day ah so many #orh cheh# that one why you never say


ah <mandarin>你讲:ni jiang </mandarin> so is that time lah


!huh!, !huh! so so how long did you take to learn how to cycle


I learnt in like one hour forty five minutes, no ah they trying to act act macho only


I also cannot turn, stop then turn <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> bicycle


ya same, but very Shiok, ya lah but I can I learn cycling faster than you


okay anyway I was a burden throughout the whole time by the way I didn't dare to tell this to actually want family because, why, (mmhmm)


ah <mandarin>一样:yi yang </mandarin> lah


eh so fun


yeah lor, oh but where do you get all those bicycles from


[orh]


then since then have you cycled


ya then now you can cycle, ya but I very long never cycle already so I don't know whether I still know how, I think can lah, learn how to swim ya I know


you very <mandarin>很惨:hen can </mandarin> you very cruel


!huh! then <mandarin>你一个人:ni yi ge ren </mandarin> ah


I mean next time ah, next time <mandarin>你也可以跟他们一起:ni ye ke yi gen ta men yi qi </mandarin> cycle mah <mandarin>如果还有同样的:ru guo hai you tong yang de </mandarin> activity


okay lah then <mandarin>还有明年:hai you ming nian </mandarin> then <mandarin>你那些钱:ni na xie qian </mandarin> saved up from intern <mandarin>你可以用:ni ke yi yong </mandarin> mah


[orh] <mandarin>你在哪里:ni zai na li </mandarin> intern


no, or you cause we quarrel what then how I know, I forgot NTU, A star


A star which one, I got interview from A star, ya but I don't know whether they will accept me, ya lah is Zoom interview what


it's under some bio informatics technology it's different lor obviously, but then cause under SG united traineeship also then <mandarin>我不懂如果:wo bu dong ru guo </mandarin> like <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> pay <mandarin>很少:hen shao </mandarin> cause SG united traineeship max pay <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> will give is two point five only eh


but then on the listing itself it says three point five to four k so I don't know, I hope it's three point five to four k ah then then I will join but I mean if, if not also I think I will join cause now <mandarin>很难找工作很多都:hen nan zhao gong zuo hen duo dou </mandarin> like under SG united traineeship so


if get then get lor, I think so ah


but <mandarin>我觉得我想要开:wo jue de wo xiang yao kai </mandarin> jewellery store leh, yeah, pearl and beads right <mandarin>可以弄:ke yi nong </mandarin> rings and bracelets like


so now apparently is a is a trend lah then like jenny from black pink also made similar stuff so I think it's gonna be a trend, then can just make what I just use my free time make then sell on Instagram or something lor


it's not very expensive also, ya lor now I start already I I bought some stuff on Taobao like


not Taobao Shopee, like the materials I think maximum twenty dollars, like that just to try lah, like if it doesn't work then at least I can just use this twenty dollars to like make it as gifts to give to people that kind


ya lor, err I also went to Hoop Technique it's like this is just is this like err engineering startup, but then they haven't reply me for quite some time already so I don't know, ya lor then I just apply to a lot also but then


like I think their response time is one month lah cause, the other time I apply this for the Hope Technik also around one month then they will reply me one so very long


ya lor I I, ya


[orh] that's true lah, but you intern do what


like the timing just very uncertain lah


you will work on


[orh] but, but have you heard of like this online teaching sites right, where you can be connected to, a student from another foreign country and then like you can teach from there


ya like can conduct Skypes one but then the thing is you need to make online, video of yourself talking so, I a bit turn off by that leh cause I scared like if people search my name then can see my face and my video already then I a bit scared, like awkward


but I mean I think I thought of it leh but then, I don't know whether should I join yet, but I mean that's an idea lah


ya lor that's true, ya lor that's true I feel you


then ya, fun what you do, actually I feel like lab work right like your field, cause now I look at a lot of jobs what then a lot of them like the relevant fields one there's a lot of jobs


like being offered for those, ya so I think it's not bad but I mean for your field you I don't know I don't know how you want to branch out, so when you graduate then you see what I mean you still have like what two years


okay lah so okay cause I now also want to find part time jobs but then I scared like got interview come then I don't know what to do, so I just I just chill at home first and then I


tidy up my stuff lor my thumb drive all that and then, build on this jewellery business, I now waiting for the beads cause


then I just start with pearl first lah cause <mandarin>你懂那个:ni dong na ge </mandarin> pearl symbolizes new beginning mah ya so I try start from there lah but then now I see a lot of the businesses they start with those flower beads already but then I feel like


it's very common so I don't know maybe next time lah next time I can do something like that and then think of more creative ideas lor I also thinking of making like those DIY beaded bags you know, I don't know if you know it's like handbag but then it's made out of bids so I think very cool very unique


ya that's why that's true ya I know I know that's why


that's why like I a bit scared now cause I scared so many people already have all these then no one's going buy mine but then if I never try I never know what so like I say also very low cost so if, really too over popularized and like over demand right then if I stop also no loss for me


not much lah cause it's a learning procedure it's also a skill that I picked up mah, but apart from that I also learning python, ya you should learn also I think like regardless of whatever field you are in right you learn better


eh how are you barry !wah! so long time also I never see you ah, eh <mandarin>你最近好:ni zui jin hao</mandarin> mah


ah <mandarin>你现在在做什么:ni xian zai zai zuo shen me</mandarin> ah, [orh] <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> lor <mandarin>现在这个:xian zai zhe ge</mandarin> this COVID nineteen ah !aiya!


!aiya! <mandarin>已经这么久了:yi jing zhe me jiu le</mandarin> hor so many months !aiya! everyday, everyday looking forward to the next day the next day still the same, ya lah, so actually I'm lucky lah because err


ah <mandarin>就是那个:jiu shi na ge</mandarin> COVID ah <mandarin>还没有:hai mei you</mandarin> <mandarin>开始:kai shi</mandarin> ah, err I went to china china err


err


about err his hometown err what happened because, err he's born in china you know so, err so he always tell us about what happened in china what happened you know so I said okay maybe ya let me make a trip there you know you might have a chance


so, ya <mandarin>所以说:suo yi shuo</mandarin> [orh] let me go and see lah ah see


eh <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> ah err <mandarin>就去我我老爸的老家那边:jiu qu wo wo lao ba de lao jia na bian</mandarin> lor eh


still still err, okay err, the, the house, that my father err built with the brothers his brother


err still there you know, still there you know, err actually err is err somewhere near to <mandarin>福建:fu jian</mandarin> ah, err Quanzhou, Quanzhou ah <mandarin>一个地方:yi ge di fang</mandarin> eh


so he looked after the house and err he stay there lah, so, err <mandarin>去那边:qu na bian</mandarin> ah err <mandarin>跟他也是:gen ta ye shi</mandarin> ah


err when he was in singapore, err already, every time err he go to err send money last time lah ah send money or some some send something to china you know ah


so, so err he sent sent quite a lot of err money or what ya to back to china for, for building the house and repairing the house and all that so uh so when I was growing up uh he used to bring me also to go to the place err he sent the money so uh the later stage


you can go to err bank of china ah, to send money also, ya to to my cousin brother lah this cousin brother so, ya we still have contact, every now and then err like chinese new year lah you know err he will call from china to greet us happy ya happy new year


then we also err you know you write letter you know, then my father will also write letter to china and you know ask us to post for him, so in contact lah, so when my father passed away err you also informed him so


err normally, the chinese tradition uh if let's say we were to inform him, then uh err like you know my father passed away so he will also err have a shock, shock the morning lah morning over there also


you know ah so is err you know like respect lah, for the the for my for my father lah because my father is the uncle, so


no actually err my father come to china, err, my father err actually have three brother


three brother and err so these three brother, the eldest one is this cousin brother err father, so he don't come to singapore because he's always err very sickly, and err my my father is second


you know, and err my father have a younger brother, so three of them, so only my father and the younger brother come to come to singapore, because my, my father, err


my grandfather that means my father, father grandfather, ya so err my father very young ah that time mah


my grandfather send him, to to my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> lor my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> so my, then err is err doing very well lah in singapore that time


you know, so err, then my, err, my <mandarin>叔叔:shu shu</mandarin> also come, to singapore and then, uh my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> started err


err those err wholesale provision shop and err for my, for my <mandarin>舅舅:jiu jiu</mandarin> lah but my father, help my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> ah in his business lah, and uh he's doing some trading and everything but


the main business is still uh you know they have, err <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err pineapple plantation ah in malaysia in Johor, Johor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err Pontian ah


err <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> err <mandarin>我爸爸在那边:wo ba ba zai na bian</mandarin> <mandarin>帮帮我舅公看那个黄梨的园:bang bang wo jiu gong kan na ge huang li de yuan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>黄梨园你知道:huang li yuan ni zhi dao</mandarin> mah, err <mandarin>当他的那个延长这样:dang ta de na ge yan chang zhe yang</mandarin> lah, ya


ah then he come to singapore to help my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> lah


in the in the <mandarin>黄梨园:huang li yuan</mandarin> hor or the end up, ah singapore malaysia still together, ya so, so so they all err like err


trusted lah you know like my father, err, err it's like old people you know to my, a brother son you know is still like your own son lah


you know same surname lah, you know the same surname so so same family name, because my father my grandfather only two brother, ya only my grandfather and this younger brother the younger brother ah my <mandarin>舅公:jiu gong</mandarin> ah and my grandfather ah the age different very very far


so so, my my second my my, uh father is the second son so also, err


so err, then err, once in while you know uh that time they don't, you know they don't go back very often one to china, so when my father was here


then err, he work work work work until I think, err thirty something forty years old ah, uh then he went back to china


ah <mandarin>就是那个全村那边:jiu shi na ge quan cun na bian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>就那时候很落后:jiu na shi hou hen luo hou</mandarin> mah


ah <mandarin>就种:jiu zhong</mandarin> ah <mandarin>种那个自己也有种就也有给别人种这样做做地主这样:zhong na ge zi ji ye you zhong jiu ye you gei bie ren zhong zhe yang zuo zuo di zhu zhe yang</mandarin> lor


but after err because the china always err, if heavy rain ah, err will be flooded the the all the land will be flooded so all the crops ah the paddy field all will be flooded so all the all the crops will be you know


or be err, spoil all the uh the farm all will be spoilt by the, the floodwaters so no more, no more uh cannot uh grow cannot grow cannot harvest so you know


that time very, life was very difficult lah even after my father go back, err buy the land repair the house build the house married you know, so


I think he's about, ya thirteen years old he worked until about thirty something so he was here like twenty years then he go back twenty twenty years he go back, go back then he married married ah my


married my mother then after that err, my eldest brother was born in china, then after that my father, all the crops ah was flooded and err all the farm flooded so cannot harvest already cannot grow anything so you know the the livelihood also problem so my father just


uh, err have no choice, so he go to the the <mandarin>关帝庙:guan di miao</mandarin> ah to to to to pray, with my mother they went to pray and instead err the <mandarin>抽签:chou qian</mandarin> lor ah <mandarin>就就求那个关帝爷给他:jiu jiu qiu na ge guan di ye gei ta</mandarin> uh <mandarin>指点:zhi dian</mandarin> lor <mandarin>说怎么样他说:shuo zen me yang ta shuo</mandarin> err <mandarin>可以你:ke yi ni</mandarin> you can uh you better go back to to Nanyang is go back singapore and then if not ah you know your your life will be you know difficult here


ya it's the same, duration you know because last last time there's no other means of


of sending letter all this ah, so so we went back then uh went back to my <mandarin>叔公:shu gong</mandarin> there continue to work from my <mandarin>叔公:shu gong</mandarin> ah, ah so, so err after about one two years, ya then ah err


my my father ah, uh arranged for my mother my eldest brother lah, from china ah after one two years arranged for them to, err take a, the take the ship lah ya then came to singapore, so we we my father my mother and my eldest brother ah


all in singapore then, then that time ah and after that uh, they settled in singapore lah settled in singapore then, then err, after that the japanese occupation


think nineteen forty something ah, ya ya ya the second time he come back to singapore then, that was err, before the japanese occupation he came back then after japanese occupation then my father mother my mother and my eldest brother came back to singapore


then after that err, then err they have the civil war in china, uh they have the uh revolution in china so, err, the communism uh communist came and you know


so, so that's why that's why after that hor my father mother then china become communist so my father mother all these cannot go back cannot go back to china because it's like, err when china become communist they shut down the country


no one can come in no one can go out ah no nothing no so you know everything was locked down in the country, so, so err no choice so my father just err continued to settle down in singapore


then until, only my cousin brother this cousin brother my, my his father you know continued to stay in china, then err, then err until


妈 的, in in the china ah is like ancestor home ah ancestor home you know so


uh my grandfather, uh, the, in our village so we have this when my father my uncle uh was working in singapore they send money back to china so they bought the land ah err beside


the ancestor home they bought the land then they built a bigger house, bigger house in china so, so in the village lah they rebuilt the house because house after you know, uh maybe fifty year or so uh you know


uh fifty sixty years the house ah become you know very bad condition so they have to rebuild the house so, so err, they send money back so we help rebuild house so it's the same house, until


even until today is still the house still there but, the the house was, the house with the land, in front and behind the house, and beside the house the surrounding the land was very big but because, err of the err government uh you know they expand road expansion and then they you know the government will reclaim the land


you know, they reclaimed the land away you know take some land you know but you know give you very small compensation only lah you know so the the land in front of the house all was taken away to to err build the road lah expand the


the road you know, so, the road become wider lah wider widening the road so, so that time, ancestral home actually my my my father has three brothers


so three family three families so err three couples, three couples then err every couple has let's say one children that time ah let's say, or two children lah ah, uh two children or what so maybe uh


err we like, four twelve then my grandfather grandmother, you know so will be about err more than ten lor, more than ten people in the house but the house is like, those ancient chinese house you know


where you, outside you go in uh there's a, a wooden door, uh and then after you enter uh there's a a a small courtyard, uh then, after that you go up a step a few step again there's a sitting area and then on the left there's a bedroom on the right there's a bedroom


then uh at the side there there's a kitchen, uh and toilet you know kitchen toilet, you know, so it's like typical chinese house lah but no not double storey only single storey, and uh


mostly <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> all this is all made of wood, wooden, all wooden inside you know the only some part of the wall is cement but the frame is all you know wooden even the roof, uh the roof uh the roof is of course tiles roof tiles wooden roof tiles but also a lot of wood lah you know


so, so this err when my father, err bring my mother and my brother back to, back to singapore so for more than, forty years even after the chinese the communist err


uh allow people to go in and out of china but still, still uh he didn't have a chance to go back lah until, err quite late in, nineteen eighty something lah then he managed


you know to go back you know, managed to go back you know err for a trip to china so, ya so, so, so actually you know uh no I didn't go with him that time I was err I think thirty over years old so I arranged for my father to go back you know him


ah air ticket and everything then you know, err


not very expensive lah you know it's quite quite cheap lah, ya, 其实 affordable lah you know not very very expensive


ya, so, but, no no that time he went back alone, he went back alone and uh he he before he went back you know he was already telling say oh


I must go back you know to see my my and my old house my ancestors' home and all that then my my cousin brother is there my cousin brother also, err got three daughter, three daughters so


err they can look after him, so so that's why I arranged for, for my father to go back lah you know go back to to Quanzhou ah Fujian Quanzhou, so uh, that time things were also very cheap lah ah


he was telling me you know the, the noodle, and uh <mandarin>炒面:chao mian</mandarin> uh <mandarin>炒福建面:chao fu jian mian</mandarin> but, of course I don't think the <mandarin>炒福建面:chao fu jian mian</mandarin> is same as singapore <mandarin>福建面:fu jian mian</mandarin> lah you know, err


singapore <mandarin>福建面:fu jian mian</mandarin> ah is err with prawn lah pork lah, err you know but I think there is just like <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> and then you know then maybe, the most some vegetable inside ah you know I don't think got prawn and pork lah all these ah you know


so, but he was telling me only, cost ah about singapore ah err thirty cents, thirty cent ah, uh maybe, four people can eat, ah singapore forty cent four people err four people can eat


ya not that expensive but but not thirty forty cent lah you know maybe, more than that lah more than that eh but maybe the


two dollars already lah ya I think something like two dollars already, ya, I think two dollars already, so that time still very cheap in uh china lor, so <mandarin>他回去好像住了:ta hui qu hao xiang zhu le</mandarin> uh <mandarin>有一两个月才回来:you yi liang ge yue cai hui lai</mandarin> mah


he err he tell me tell me again err what what's the place so he say [orh] the place he speak in hokkien lah


but ah, he uh, he tell me err how to say, err the place name and all that you know err err, err <mandarin>福建:fu jian</mandarin> lah then err <mandarin>泉州:quan zhou</mandarin> lah err <mandarin>西门:xi men</mandarin> ah you know err <mandarin>西门:xi men</mandarin> uh err <mandarin>西门外:xi men wai</mandarin> lah uh the address the address of the place in china but there's no proper like road name and all that but there's there's like


ya in china mostly they they don't have the road name that time they they only have the village name, you know village names, so you go to that, once he tell you the village name then you go there [orh] err okay this village ah okay so and so house where is so and so's house [orh] so and so's house is there you know


there's no like ah number one number what uh what road what road or what street or what not [orh] don't have all this, so so that time you know he told told us like that but, even send letter he sent letter ah to china also is written like that no road name one you know it's just


uh uh, uh the country name, china, province name Fujian, and then the city name Quanzhou, and then the village uh name you know and then err which area you know


ya he's quite already he, no no no he's uh around seventy something seventy something ah


seventy something he went back then, err, he was there for one two months, you know but he had a very good time because, my cousin brother and the, and the nieces lah my my cousin brother three daughters ya


looked after him very well, and uh so, so uh he's very happy you know, when he was back in china lah, then uh he came back you know after he came back


but problem is that after he can back err he fall sick you know, because err maybe, of age lah ah then he got some, some uh gall bladder stones then he went for surgery and all that you know but that's after he came back for after a few months he came back ah then he got the gall stones problem then he went for surgery


but after that he's fine lah , he's fine and , anyway, uh, talk about uh, after my, my father uh arranged for my mother and my first brother to come back then err


, we have err then my second brother was born, ah then after that you know, err, my, err sister was born then me


then again a brother, you know, you see a brother and a sister, you know


uh <mandarin>黄梨黄梨厂就做那个:huang li huang li chang jiu zuo na ge</mandarin> canning <mandarin>那个黄梨的:na ge huang li de</mandarin> cans


can <mandarin>那个黄梨的:na ge huang li de</mandarin> you know


all the necessity and foodstuff uh


you know, are all err doing very well because, there's a shortage, shortage because err as time goes by the people improve lah, improve you know they want, to have better things you know


so those days like you know you got err, pineapple can, uh Longan can, uh Rambutan can all these, you know it's luxuries you know not like now hor all these ah sometimes people don't want to eat because it's not fresh but last time


those days, is a luxury is because, uh first of all it's sweet people like sweet things in the old days, cause err, uh sweet make a person happy so, if got any guest come to your house you give them something sweet


they will be very happy you know, uh so that's why err those days, the sweet things are you know very popular, so he continued to work you know, until quite some time


you know, then err, while we are while we grow up lah, so, then uh that's why this time you know I said okay, let me because err since what my father told me about china about the ancestors' home and all that


so I was thinking ah let me, also visit, you know


ah, err, 还没有 COVID nineteen lor ah <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> lor


ya see you know <mandarin>不知道到几时才有机会:bu zhi dao dao ji shi cai you ji hui</mandarin> lor hor, !aiya! so that's why, really lucky you know that I have the opportunity lah, go there have a look you know see how's the ancestors' home


ya ya the condition of the house, okay, you know err of course old but you know I think, still, still still can live people still uh living there my cousin brother still living there


and then uh, err, it's now actually many place already, err, en bloc ah reclaim lah that kind lah ah but my my, ancestors' home was not


en bloc or reclaimed because, it it is just beside a temple, so normally in china ah, if there's a temple there ah they try to avoid err to, to err


dismantle to move the temple or dismantle, demolish the temple so, the house is just next to the temple, you know quite near and you know, maybe about fifty metres away there's a temple there


err so, so is along the main road you know, ya so uh, when I went there, err, it's not very big maybe err can say about


, can say about the land area maybe about, thousand over square feet I think uh I think less than two thousand square feet lah


or maybe it's two thousand square feet uh, ya, two thousand square feet I think got, ya, two thousand ya about, two three thousand square feet


cause err, the, site also they got some land area on the side lah ya, so, but anyway you know no


no intention to do anything about the house there lah you know cause, you know even though you know the house belongs to my father and the my uncle but


actually the land deed is actually my father and my uncle, name, ah but ah the user ah is err my cousin brother ya


ya so I don't know, err, so what what what uh do you want to do with it uh but anyway, you know, since the government also not doing anything with it so, so like this lah because


the story is that ah, err as far as possible try not to, uh do anything to the house because, the house is actually err built by my, when my grandfather was around


so apparently err, my grandfather ah you know he know how to see fengshui one, fengshui, you know so


<mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> ah <mandarin>他的家族就是:ta de jia zu jiu shi</mandarin> my grandfather and


my ancestor that means his father uncle my grandfather, uh the senior more senior than my grandfather, uh uh in nineteen, I think maybe nineteen ten nineteen twenty or what


there is a plague in china ah, uh, one time you know alone, uh my my family err, my family ah my grandfather family ah, and relative ah


one time ah err seventy two people passed away because of the virus, you know, and according to my uh father he said, err that time they had no no way to get, err


medicine vaccination all these thing they have like, let the people just uh get the virus and die, and no coffin to not enough coffin and also and no, no money to buy coffin also so mass grave


so, so they just dig a mass grave behind the house, and then buried all the all the bodies there, you know, and then uh, you know, just just do that only


so, so after that, the my grandfather err, go and ask some err, fortune teller and fengshui people, then err he learnt about all these fengshui thing and all that so that's why, that's why


my grandfather also uh, got the plague but he got polio mah polio, so he's a bit hunchback ah so he's got polio also he's got a bit hunchback, ah, so so he also learnt how to see your fortune fortune reading and


fengshui, so if you have not evident when grandfather and now known I never because err, no no no I have never because err, my grandfather passed away you know when, when my father err I think maybe, err


maybe err, after my, few years after my father married my mother that time he was still in china, my father my grandfather passed away


ya, ya, ya, so so err, about maybe forty years old lah my father forty years old the the my grandfather passed away


ya, so he he's a since he's a fengshui, master also so, the house that that we have built that time ah you know, the, the roof ah, the room there's a the main


main uh cross section of the of the roof, the, the ceiling uh there's a cross section of the long err wooden wooden uh beam uh cross section beam


uh is a very long beam, you know to to have a long long life you know, and then the steps you know I I just now I was saying when they enter the house, ah there's a wooden door, after the wooden door there's a


there's a, they call as uh, like no it's like a like a a courtyard a courtyard then go up again ah there's a hall


so, that part ah, the part uh, the the, granite ah, the granite also is a very long piece


without join, a long piece cross section also, so that means, the roof one cross section wooden beam ah that's very long, uh which my grandfather said my father said my grandfather bring that that


he go and see the, go to the the jungle to see the trees, and choose the tree the longest one and then get people to cut down the tree you know and then err err treat the the the tree


uh in the water soak for don't know how many, err months lah then after that used that beam to make the house, at the same time, he go to the granite, granite err err


the what do you call the the mine, you know the quarry quarry there then ah to special, especially look for the longest granite you know, so that you know, to


no not to reinforce that the granite is for the courtyard the steps you know to enter the house the beam is for the roof so both ah are long one so, this he believed that ah is good for the fengshui


ya for the people staying and the descendant to have long life ya, so so because before that my grandfather said that, err, all the family members


ah, most of them don't live more than fifty years old, ya, before they are fifty all passed away, one way or the other the worst, hit was the plague you know, which hit them and then you know one time seventy two people died in family


so almost the whole err err family you know like you know disappeared you know over time you know over a short time during the plague, so, this COVID nineteen ah you know is


another, last time the plague you know, you know err people don't know what to do and all that now, ya after so many years, still have this kind of of virus and you know pandemic you know


you see so, have to be very careful lah ah, !huh!


err


ya err my dad my dad give birth err to me he was already almost fifty years old yes


because he married quite late I think he married I think thirty over years old, nearly forty years old, okay then he was in china, then ah, when my eldest brother was born he was almost


forty years old already, ya, cause my my age and my eldest brother ah different about, err eleven years, ya my eldest brother and my age different eleven years, you know


then err, so so when he was err, almost fifty years old lah, he give birth to me, ya, ya, !huh!


elder brother ya when we were young err he, he used to uh give me tuition or, for my studies err he he's supposed to be, those days ah we have chinese educated english educated so he's supposed to be chinese educated because err he study


err primary school secondary school I think in <mandarin>中正:zhong zheng</mandarin> or something like that ya ya so chinese educated you know, then err, until, I think he went to, pre-university also ya my eldest brother


err his study is quite good ya, so ah but after pre-university he he didn't further his studies lor ah he got involved with uh girlfriend and all that after that, you know he he didn't study lor


he rather come out to work you know and then you know, but, my father you know he, can say that he, work his whole life lor never retire


I don't remember my father really retired, the the time that he start retiring is already he cannot work already because he's sick, no he's, seventy something he went to china so when he was eighty something ya


err, he's he get sick ah when he was eighty something, and he passed away in uh nineteen ninety ya, which is already like thirty years ago, ya so he worked in a pineapple foundation so


no err, meantime you know until about err, nineteen sixty, seven or sixty ya sixty seven


the pineapple plantation, they have the uh, strike you know in the plantation, because, what they say is that err, infiltration of the, communist party of uh malaysia into the plantation


so and also, the, under the instigation of the, the, CPM I think they start have a start to have a, err, strikes they organised strikes and all that you know


so the, the whole plantation came to a a stop ya lah stop, so, and our pineapple ah is something you know, that ah you know, grow on the ground you know


so, if the pineapple is ripe ya and then you don't, go and harvest that you don't cut the pineapple the pineapple become rotten once the pineapple become rotten, you know, err


the pineapple plantation the ground would be, be contaminated, so once the ground is contaminated ah, you know it is difficult for you to clear, and then grow again


you know so when they strike you know it's, is then they stop harvesting the pineapple, so the whole pineapple plantation also like damaged, but that my father also had no choice because they demand


higher salary and all that, and then the head office in singapore that time my my my <mandarin>叔公:shu gong</mandarin> already passed away lah, ya so the company is run by the my <mandarin>叔公叔公:shu gong shu gong</mandarin> err son lah that means my


my, uncle lah, you know my, father cousin brother which is younger than my my father, so but they refused to listen to my father ah , then err, they they refuse to


to uh, agree to the workers you know, err to increase the salary, and also, to uh, to


pay them the salary on time and all that so, then the the strike become worse, until my father has no choice, so he has some friends in the in the, malaysian uh


uh military, so the malaysian military uh, escort them lah, escort all the workers in the in the in the office, all the singaporean out of out of uh Johor until


out of the escort them out of the plantation, ya, this part, this part ah of the, history and all that, uh actually I tried to find, more details uh


I tried to google I tried to, wikipedia you know but I don't really find anything about this lor about the pineapple are about the pineapple plantation history behind it, ah about the pineapple plantation and the history behind it, maybe


maybe if I want to find out I have to go down to uh Pontian, because I I understand there's a, uh a pineapple uh plantation museum uh in Pontian ya, but err you have to go down there and then find out lah you know


anyway, you know, err, I don't want to take too much time ah because you know, maybe we can


go to somewhere you know, more comfortable and now and then we can uh discuss uh I can tell you more information about these things


, ya ya, oh when I was young you know uh


when I go to school, then my father always looks older than than my friend's father, and my father himself, looks older than his age also, and uh on top of that he got uh


quite a bald head you know, so so not much <mandarin>头发:tou fa</mandarin> ah, so looks older and then you know so, I see eh my father, err so old other people father so young [orh] sometimes


sometime my my class uh classmate or schoolmate ask me say eh this your grandfather came <mandarin>你爷爷来:ni ye ye lai</mandarin> ah, uh you see so sometime like that lah, to my father


so, err, so after, after the pineapple plantation uh collapsed and all that, so my father, came back to singapore, then err my <mandarin>叔叔:shu shu</mandarin> lor that time my <mandarin>叔叔:shu shu</mandarin> still


still doing the business uh the wholesale provision shop right, so, so he suggest to my father lah so you why don't you get a shop and then open a, a provision shop ya lor, ya and my <mandarin>叔叔:shu shu</mandarin> can supply all the goods what


so my father say okay lah but that time I think maybe my father not so familiar with the, the, regulation or laws in singapore or what, so he found a place in uh east coast road Katong there so


the the place, it's a, ground floor but upstairs is uh residence, so, uh, he rented the place, without checking ya checking whether


the place ya can become a provision shop or not, or convenience store, so he just rent and then we, we our whole family err shifted to there, you know and then, err


our house ya over in uh Serangoon we rent it away to some people and then we shifted there, then, after some time then you know the , building control and all these people came


you know, uh NEA or somebody say oh this place cannot become a provision shop you know, and all that so, err I think we opened the provision shop only for about


two years lah one two years only ya, then after that, one year I think only one year then after that no choice, you know since it's it's it's against the law, so we have to close it, close it and then


you know err since our house was rented out, so we rented <mandarin>再租一个另外一个地方住:zai zu yi ge ling wai yi ge di fang zhu</mandarin> lor


kovan <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> lor <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> kovan <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> lah, ah <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> kovan <mandarin>去那个:qu na ge</mandarin> Tampines road <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah


err <mandarin>早上或者晚上去卖去卖鞋子:zao shang huo zhe wan shang qu mai qu mai xie zi</mandarin> lor


这样, so so


so actually he told me say eh, uh I said why you buy so many these things for what he said this one hor this one for making shoe one he said today I was in the factory so, the factory ya, the people criticised him just tease him lah


ah you don't know how to make shoe one lah you you can make shoe ah, you make one pair ah I eat one pair you know, so my father get, get frustrated he go and buy all the tools lor, then, he buy the you know the the to make shoe ah


you must make your glue, that time, you cannot just buy glue off the shelf you know you must buy your own glue, so there's basically uh two kind of glue, so, so he


bought the, what do you call petrol, and then you have to get a tin and then soak the thing you know to make glue, then err, bought the knife lah shoe knife you know, shoe knife lah shoe last ah


uh scissors ah big scissors to cut, for cutting ah you know, then, after that, he start making shoe so, so I also try to help him here and there you know


then he start making shoe, until, mostly he make uh ladies' sandals sandals mostly ladies' sandals lah, some with the back strap some without back strap you know but mostly is all handmade all handmade ah there's no even the upper ah the shoe upper


also, cut by hand, cut by hand and then all the hole ah, holes on the shoe or what whatever design and holes all ah use the puncture and then uh punched by hand


and then uh sewing machine, so sew also by hand, so by hand the the use the sewing machine by hand lor to sew, and then, the even the shoe, err


the shoe the bottom ah, the out sole, also ah, err cut, cut to size lah by hand, so I also err helped him lah to make, so let me you remember like 他 一个 卖 多少


oh very cheap that time uh nineteen six, we start making shoe I think in uh nineteen sixty, sixty five sixty six sixty seven, sixty eight sixty nine we start making shoe


nineteen sixty six sixty nine sixty eight sixty nine, ya is long <mandarin>大概:da gai</mandarin> how much diana ah we he it was selling the show, then ah uh we he he was selling the shoe, err for only like one pair ah


one sixty one seventy one eighty two dollar ah two twenty like that, ya <mandarin>夜市:ye shi</mandarin> and also market


ya until ah, until nineteen, err after he start making his own shoe, then ah he stopped buying from the shoe factory in uh nineteen seventy seventy one when we stopped no more buying from other people


so he make his own shoe and then sell his own shoe, then, until, nineteen seventy, five


seventy four seventy five he stopped selling, shoes, you know he only make, and then he sell to the shoe shop, ah


ah <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> lor


ah <mandarin>我妹妹他们太小就没有:wo mei mei ta men tai xiao jiu mei you</mandarin> lor


ah


uh Sakura


Lada <mandarin>为什么因为那时候:wei shen me yin wei na shi hou</mandarin> err <mandarin>有两个歌星很出名:you liang ge ge xing hen chu ming</mandarin> ah, Lada


sakura <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> ying hua mah


#ying ying# <mandarin>的商标这样:de shang biao zhe yang</mandarin> ah


err help him err you know to make lor


so the design are colour lah all these ah


so must must work you know because we have so many brother sister, like


okay he's doing quite well ah able to support the family, and uh his shoe is always in demand there's always no stock ah no stock people, people like like his shoe because first it's cheap


ya, I remember only one fifty one sixty, even until nineteen seventy something you know, I think he, even make sure until eighty nineteen eighty something


I think nineteen eighty something he also, make his own shoe and sell, maybe he alone make lah that time no one help him all all already got uh got our own uh job to do, working we are all working so he


he got nothing to do so he just make a bit lor, every every few day he make maybe, twenty fifty pair and then he go and sell lor ah, ladies' sandals ya


so so err many many of his customers also liked him very much because, can you imagine maybe ten years or fifteen twenty years he, hardly increased his price, ya


hardly, oh when he went to sell he sell in many market but when he, when sell himself he sell in many many market when he he like make and sell to the shop ya he only got I think


he only can supply to, two three uh customers, you know, no they are shoe shop shoe shop, I think err, if I am not wrong ah there's one shop in the


in err, Serangoon road, uh, there's one shop in uh last time the rochor rochor got one shop, you know so he work he manufacturer so he wholesale to them lah


you know, but the business was quite good lah because I don't remember he got any, goods balance lor until today not one one pair or one side left lor


ya, everything he sold, you know, good business you know, and I am sure the shoes is uh very lasting all are fully handmade


and uh even up to the glue we make the glue ourselves, you know, so, you know that time when, when I was helping him you know


texan board lah, hor


err <mandarin>下次:xia ci</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我们再聊:wo men zai liao</mandarin> lor hor ya ya <mandarin>再聊这个:zai liao zhe ge</mandarin> hor <mandarin>现在我有点事我要先先走了:xian zai wo you dian shi wo yao xian xian zou le</mandarin> hor ah okay okay ah okay


eh #kok hua# long time no see, not bad not bad I'm quite good


ya very <mandarin>头痛:tou tong</mandarin> but okay lah at least now still got a job <mandarin>最重要:zui zhong yao</mandarin> lor


next day next day still the same what to do


ya lor


[orh] why why you suddenly go there


[orh], you lucky you went over before this closure


[orh], how was it, how was it like


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


but how you know the exact address or what, who you like how you maintain contact


(mmhmm)


ya, (mmhmm)


[orh]


then this time you go back the <mandarin>你的伯伯还在那边:ni de bo bo hai zai na bian</mandarin> mah, [orh] then who is the one that


organise <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> mourning


uh


(mmhmm),


know


so your father when he came to singapore, ya ya, ya


I know last time singapore malaysia still together lah


so one big land [orh]


you know, that time he was about how old already


he came here at thirteen years old right you say, twenty [orh]


!huh!


this uh this is around what year, nineteen forty something the second time he came back to singapore


so, (mmhmm), ya


no tourist nothing


so this is the same house that you visited ah you mean your grand, mother, and your first brother stayed in that house that's still in Quanzhou


government thing, road


do you think at one point got how many people living in that that compound that ancestral home, two families, three families


courtyard ah, living room


wouldn't, (mmhmm)


, nineteen eighty something that means you were around already lah, you didn't go did you go with him


(mmhmm), oh you arrange for his air ticket is it


oh, !wah!


(mmhmm), not bad not bad but expensive or not you remember remember roughly how much


(mmhmm) okay, that time you went back alone or he brought your your mother back to see her hometown also


brother, my brother and all that, (mmhmm) (mmhmm)


theirs more simple lah, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), so it's a lot lah


but in nineteen eighty something, singapore the <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> also, though not that not that expensive right also cost like fifty cents


still two dollars only, okay


(mmhmm)


what what you mean ask him how to say, he don't know meh he should


(mmhmm), okay, so but I was just thinking by the time he go back he must be quite elderly already lah, that's what eighty something seventy something, seventy something he still want to go back ah


so when he came back did he continue working at the


[orh]


!wah!


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


all the brand,


did you see the conditions of the house, is it


still can live ah


oh, to move it ah


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


actually quite big hor actually, (mmhmm)


but do you know legally in the registrar like who does the the title the land deed who is it belong to


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), your cousin brother meaning your father brother's son ah and his family


just continue staying there


why, (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


!wah!, !wah!


medicine vaccination


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm), I see


eh but you have not ever met your grandfather right have you


[orh]


ya, still in china so that's about, thirty years old, thirty plus years old


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


like a well, [orh],


trees


ya, to reinforce the wood


[orh], [orh] [orh], [orh], (mmhmm)


oh


that you cannot


(mmhmm), so


so how was you how was your dad when you when you were born, sounds like he's, ya cause sounds like he gave birth quite late ah like, cause he went china and back


fifty years old, (uh huh), (uh huh)


(mmhmm), okay


so were you close to your elder brother


were you close to your elder brother, [orh]


ya, okay, oh #chung cheng# high, ya


!huh!


(mmhmm)


and that's around eighty seventy years old eighty years old, [orh]


(mmhmm), ya, so he work in the pineapple plantation until he so old


(mmhmm), oh


(mmhmm),


, , (mmhmm)


so are they all like


about the pineapple plantation


Pontian


oh is it


no lah can ah nice to see you today no so I want to ask like your father was also like quite elderly when you were born lah so what was it like growing up with, with a father who is so much older than you like like normally thirty years old ya


like father and child, your friends <mandarin>的爸爸:de ba ba</mandarin> lah


oh, ya


[orh]


(mmhmm), not bad lah that's a


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), regulations uh


!wah!


Tampines Tampines road <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah


did he managed to do any


ah


uh uh


what kind what kind of shoe did he make


sandals ah [orh], and all handmade ah, !wah!


(mmhmm)


okay


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


and he sell these at the <mandarin>夜市:ye shi</mandarin> ah, [orh], got people got people buy


oh he became like a manufacturer but he still <mandarin>全部用手做:quan bu yong shou zuo</mandarin> !wah!


like, [orh]


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), oh


ya, !wah!, then do you remember you got any brand like he put his own label


ah, !wah!


[orh], ya


err, [orh]


oh


, (mmhmm)


yup, was it was it a good business though like did he do well, (mmhmm)


more demand than supply lah, (mmhmm)


, and all still lady ladies' sandals


ya, which market which market he go to sell, [orh]


[orh], then these customers are like provision shop shoe shop, [orh]


(mmhmm)


uh


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


then all these is do at home, (mmhmm)


okay okay interesting, okay, can lah talk to you again, K lah, okay see you #kok hua# okay okay can nice talking to you man


oh okay, okay so


ya what's your wish, okay


!wah!


something that you are willing to spend eight hours lor, <mandarin>应该可以啊可以:ying gai ke yi a ke yi</mandarin> eight hours straight ah


eh <mandarin>你那时候不是说他有他们有什么:ni na shi hou bu shi shuo ta you ta men you shen me</mandarin> like err <mandarin>一个东西叫:yi ge dong xi jiao</mandarin> club ah, myClub ah so my myClub <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> err what do they do


[orh] <mandarin>好像那个:hao xiang na ge</mandarin> #ah meng# ah


, okay, so


oh <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> Zoom learn singing lah


!wah! <mandarin>如果是我八个小时:ru guo shi wo ba ge xiao shi</mandarin> hor I think I cannot take it eh


er, err


okay


ah


then <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> during COVID


[orh]


ya, [orh] <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我跟你讲一样东西:wo gen ni jiang yi yang dong xi</mandarin> eh <mandarin>最近不是有那个:zui jin bu shi you na ge</mandarin> BTO lor


but at least <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> try lah


[orh] ya ya ya <mandarin>因为他在那个:yin wei ta zai na ge</mandarin> Ulusami <mandarin>的地方:de di fang</mandarin> what


ya john <mandarin>就是有讲:jiu shi you jiang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>他讲他算来算如果因为你等:ta jiang ta suan lai suan ru guo yin wei ni deng</mandarin> BTO <mandarin>你要等五年:ni yao deng wu nian</mandarin> let's say <mandarin>那个五年我们在这边在这个:na ge wu nian wo men zai zhe bian zai zhe ge</mandarin> rental place err stay


err let's go for I think we should try and apply for Dakota


four room lor


but #ang mo kio# <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> five room lah <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> five room <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> err <mandarin>到那个:dao na ge</mandarin> five hundred eh seven hundred plus thousand


Dakota mah location mah, Dakota <mandarin>最大只有:zui da zhi you</mandarin> four room <mandarin>而已你以为你要:er yi ni yi wei ni yao</mandarin> five room <mandarin>就有:jiu you</mandarin> ah ya don't have


ya wait long long


ya lor <mandarin>从七楼掉下来然后他的窗没有那个:cong qi lou diao xia lai ran hou ta de chuang mei you na ge</mandarin> window grille some more


sorry hor <mandarin>二楼也要:er lou ye yao</mandarin> window grille I don't care what I don't care which level you stay you just gonna have a window grille down there


then <mandarin>我给他看那个:wo gei ta kan na ge</mandarin> link mah


then after that <mandarin>我就讲他:wo jiu jiang ta</mandarin> lor <mandarin>你不会打电话给我:ni bu hui da dian hua gei wo</mandarin> ah


[orh] <mandarin>他现在终于会:ta xian zai zhong yu hui</mandarin> err <mandarin>好像你跟他讲:hao xiang ni gen ta jiang</mandarin> bye bye hor, then <mandarin>他我们讲:ta wo men jiang</mandarin> flying kiss <mandarin>的时候他就:de shi hou ta jiu</mandarin> err <mandarin>放他的手在那个嘴巴:fang ta de shou zai na ge zui ba</mandarin> then <mandarin>他会弄那个那个:ta hui nong na ge na ge</mandarin> <mandarin>那个声音:na ge sheng yin</mandarin> ya


then, then, then <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>那个皮:na ge pi</mandarin> leh <mandarin>那个宅:na ge zhai</mandarin> leh, eh <mandarin>那个渣你可以拿来:na ge zha ni ke yi na lai</mandarin> <mandarin>可以给我来做肥料:ke yi gei wo lai zuo fei liao</mandarin> for <mandarin>我的那个:wo de na ge</mandarin> plant


so bean <mandarin>首相:shou xiang</mandarin> seventy


[orh]


eh mooncake festival <mandarin>要到了:yao dao le</mandarin> leh


oh <mandarin>那个结冰那边:na ge jie bing na bian</mandarin> ah


then


then <mandarin>你来:ni lai</mandarin> lor, ya, Abuden


oh <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> maybe I got some work to do


but <mandarin>我是觉得好玩:wo shi jue de hao wan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>包装写那个:bao zhuang xie na ge</mandarin> note


so actually <mandarin>我还没有跟你讲那个故事:wo hai mei you gen ni jiang na ge gu shi</mandarin> so <mandarin>第一次:di yi ci</mandarin> so <mandarin>他不是运过来的时候有问题:ta bu shi yun guo lai de shi hou you wen ti</mandarin> lor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> shipping <mandarin>的时候他应该是那边的人敲打还是什么:de shi hou ta ying gai shi na bian de ren qiao da hai shi shen me</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> lah then then after that <mandarin>我就跟他跟那个中国人再:wo jiu gen ta gen na ge zhong guo ren zai</mandarin> order <mandarin>第二次第二次的时候:di er ci di er ci de shi hou</mandarin> err


eleven <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> one hour <mandarin>难道你要我讲:nan dao ni yao wo jiang</mandarin> no meh then then <mandarin>因为你把那个:yin wei ni ba na ge</mandarin> poster <mandarin>放在他的:fang zai ta de</mandarin> warehouse hor err <mandarin>他他有:ta ta you</mandarin> charging <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> err per square meter <mandarin>还是什么屁的:hai shi shen me pi de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>所以我就:suo yi wo jiu</mandarin> like !aiya! whatever lah <mandarin>反正我急着要用我就我就还那个我就跟他讲讲:fan zheng wo ji zhe yao yong wo jiu wo jiu huan na ge wo jiu gen ta jiang jiang</mandarin> okay lor <mandarin>你叫人:ni jiao ren</mandarin> lah then err <mandarin>请两个人:qing liang ge ren</mandarin> two men err ninety dollar in cash


err <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> nail ah <mandarin>来盯死他的:lai ding si ta de</mandarin> so <mandarin>我就我们我也拔不起来:wo jiu wo men wo ye ba bu qi lai</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我一个小女孩哪里可以把那个:wo yi ge xiao nv hai na li ke yi ba na ge</mandarin> nail <mandarin>这样拔出来:zhe yang ba chu lai</mandarin> right so <mandarin>我们就把它放在那个那个:wo men jiu ba ta fang zai na ge na ge</mandarin> <mandarin>那个也不是:na ge ye bu shi</mandarin> warehouse lah <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> <mandarin>我们是放在那个:wo men shi fang zai na ge</mandarin> loading unloading bay lah


then next day I mean next day <mandarin>我们就是要把那个:wo men jiu shi yao ba na ge</mandarin> poster <mandarin>放在那个墙壁了准备要跟他:fang zai na ge qiang bi le zhun bei yao gen ta</mandarin> open <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> present <mandarin>然后放那个:ran hou fang na ge</mandarin> poster <mandarin>在那个墙壁:zai na ge qiang bi</mandarin> so before that <mandarin>我已经有跟那个:wo yi jing you gen na ge</mandarin> contractor <mandarin>跟那个:gen na ge</mandarin> install <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> poster <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> contractor <mandarin>讲要准备很多很多:jiang yao zhun bei hen duo hen duo</mandarin> document <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah


worker permit lah <mandarin>什么这些一大堆:shen me zhe xie yi da dui</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> lah <mandarin>然后我还要跟那个:ran hou wo hai yao gen na ge</mandarin> shopping mall <mandarin>的那些人:de na xie ren</mandarin> err <mandarin>联系就对了:lian xi jiu dui le</mandarin> then after that <mandarin>联系了:lian xi le</mandarin> err <mandarin>晚上:wan shang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我搭:wo da</mandarin> taxi <mandarin>过去:guo qu</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我在那个车里面:wo zai na ge che li mian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我有一个很不详的预感我就觉得:wo you yi ge hen bu xiang de yu gan wo jiu jue de</mandarin> hor


but <mandarin>因为那个很晚了:yin wei na ge hen wan le</mandarin> mah <mandarin>所以他也不是:suo yi ta ye bu shi</mandarin> immediately immediately <mandarin>回回我:hui hui wo</mandarin> lor then hor so <mandarin>那时那天那个晚上:na shi na tian na ge wan shang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我们就我看你你看我:wo men jiu wo kan ni ni kan wo</mandarin> lor like err <mandarin>因为他们又掰掰下来而且:yin wei ta men you bai bai xia lai er qie</mandarin> hor <mandarin>又不是一个人是四五个人:you bu shi yi ge ren shi si wu ge ren</mandarin> then so err anyway <mandarin>他们也做不了东西所以他们就回去:ta men ye zuo bu liao dong xi suo yi ta men jiu hui qu</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>我要跟他们的老板:wo yao gen ta men de lao ban</mandarin> err <mandarin>谈话:tan hua</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> err


err <mandarin>晚上十点然后载一个:wan shang shi dian ran hou zai yi ge</mandarin> lorry <mandarin>下下来然后又好像没有:xia xia lai ran hou you hao xiang mei you</mandarin> but <mandarin>也没有说:ye mei you shuo</mandarin> lah <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> err <mandarin>他本来是:ta ben lai shi</mandarin> charge total <mandarin>三百五十:san bai wu shi</mandarin> plus like <mandarin>有那些:you na xie</mandarin> installation <mandarin>这些:zhe xie</mandarin> but err <mandarin>因为没有:yin wei mei you</mandarin> installation <mandarin>所以他:suo yi ta</mandarin> charge <mandarin>我两百五十:wo liang bai wu shi</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> okay lor <mandarin>那种两百五十:na zhong liang bai wu shi</mandarin> lor what to do


then but then <mandarin>他是有他好心啊他讲:ta shi you ta hao xin a ta jiang</mandarin> next round <mandarin>如果我们还有在放这个:ru guo wo men hai you zai fang zhe ge</mandarin> poster <mandarin>的话他就会他会:de hua ta jiu hui ta hui</mandarin> charge <mandarin>我便宜一点:wo pian yi yi dian</mandarin> lor <mandarin>两百五十:liang bai wu shi</mandarin> lah good lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> then after that err


found out <mandarin>是那个:shi na ge</mandarin> airport the airport <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> worker <mandarin>他们他们弄的:ta men ta men nong de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>他们把那个钉这样钉下去:ta men ba na ge ding zhe yang ding xia qu</mandarin> then then err then <mandarin>就是这样子:jiu shi zhe yang zi</mandarin> lor <mandarin>然后我就我就问他:ran hou wo jiu wo jiu wen ta</mandarin> lor <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>第一次没有他们第一次没有钉第一次没有绑没有钉什么:di yi ci mei you ta men di yi ci mei you ding di yi ci mei you bang mei you ding shen me</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>他就说:ta jiu shuo</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like inspection lor


Suay lor what to do


!huh!, oh my gosh, [orh] K lor ya lah ya lah ya lah


[orh] <mandarin>因为那个:yin wei na ge</mandarin> factory <mandarin>是在:shi zai</mandarin> err <mandarin>河南:he nan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>河南:he nan</mandarin> lah basically


then after that, oh so <mandarin>我要讲什么:wo yao jiang shen me</mandarin> okay so subsequently <mandarin>我就要:wo jiu yao</mandarin> err <mandarin>定了那个第三次的时候然后我又要:ding le na ge di san ci de shi hou ran hou wo you yao</mandarin> settle <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> insurance mah so <mandarin>第一次:di yi ci</mandarin> insurance <mandarin>我已经:wo yi jing</mandarin> settle <mandarin>好了就是他们要什么:hao le jiu shi ta men yao shen me</mandarin> document <mandarin>我已经给他了:wo yi jing gei ta le</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> document <mandarin>都是:dou shi</mandarin> in chinese <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah


okay then second round <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> insurance err err


fix <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> poster, [orh] <mandarin>讲到:jiang dao</mandarin> fix <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> poster hor even <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> china <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> supplier hor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> manufacturer hor before err <mandarin>他讲他帮我:ta jiang ta bang wo</mandarin> like <mandarin>跟那个保险公司讲他问我你试着用叫我用:gen na ge bao xian gong si jiang ta wen wo ni shi zhe yong jiao wo yong</mandarin> Super Glue


like action <mandarin>一下:yi xia</mandarin> lah <mandarin>把一片碎片然后丢在那个:ba yi pian sui pian ran hou diu zai na ge</mandarin> dustbin <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> lor <mandarin>然后我就我那时候在那个:ran hou wo jiu wo na shi hou zai na ge</mandarin> loading unloading bay hor <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> loading unloading bay <mandarin>在这边那个:zai zhe bian na ge</mandarin> rubbish chute <mandarin>在这边:zai zhe bian</mandarin> where a lot of all the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> rubbish bin <mandarin>那种好像:na zhong hao xiang</mandarin> recycling bin <mandarin>这样就在就在这一带:zhe yang jiu zai jiu zai zhe yi dai</mandarin> lah <mandarin>然后那边有两个:ran hou na bian you liang ge</mandarin> worker


then <mandarin>他是印度人:ta shi yin du ren</mandarin> ah <mandarin>然后我就讲:ran hou wo jiu jiang</mandarin> uncle I need to borrow <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> rubbish chute ah I just wanna borrow only take picture only ah I just need to push this one over there <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> #geh siao# like put that that piece of a rubbish and then take a picture and then I will push it back to you <mandarin>因为他有一直讲:yin wei ta you yi zhi jiang</mandarin> like what kind of rubbish are you throwing away


then then <mandarin>我就我我还心里在想:wo jiu wo wo hai xin li zai xiang</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> ah <mandarin>如果他不让我借的话:ru guo ta bu rang wo jie de hua</mandarin> then end up end up <mandarin>我就我就讲我就跟他:wo jiu wo jiu jiang wo jiu gen ta</mandarin> explain <mandarin>多一次他讲:duo yi ci ta jiang</mandarin> [orh] okay so just take picture ah okay err you must return back to me empty you know nothing can be inside ah then <mandarin>我就讲:wo jiu jiang</mandarin> okay lah okay lah then <mandarin>我就把那个东西推推过去那个:wo jiu ba na ge dong xi tui tui guo qu na ge</mandarin> where <mandarin>我放我的东西:wo fang wo de dong xi</mandarin> lah


yup <mandarin>那个叫:na ge jiao</mandarin> myClub


the <mandarin>猩猩啊他是什么动物然后他怎样:xing xing a ta shi shen me dong wu ran hou ta zen yang</mandarin> train <mandarin>他的孩子:ta de hai zi</mandarin> surviving course <mandarin>讲很像讲:jiang hen xiang jiang</mandarin> <mandarin>什么好像怎样读啊:shen me hao xiang zen yang du a</mandarin> err #arong mu tan# ah err Orangutan


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> so err <mandarin>就是讲的比较多:jiu shi jiang de bi jiao duo</mandarin> ah <mandarin>就是说他们:jiu shi shuo ta men</mandarin> err the whole life ah <mandarin>他们就是从看孩子小小就:ta men jiu shi cong kan hai zi xiao xiao jiu</mandarin> train <mandarin>他这样用怎样做自己的:ta zhe yang yong zen yang zuo zi ji de</mandarin> shelter <mandarin>万一:wan yi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>怎样自己做:zen yang zi ji zuo</mandarin> shelter <mandarin>然后讲怎样去:ran hou jiang zen yang qu</mandarin> hold <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> branch


ah we also the more important err they train us the conversation so any mistake then they will on the spot err tell us


ah <mandarin>还有跳舞那个跳舞的话是在还没有:hai you tiao wu na ge tiao wu de hua shi zai hai mei you</mandarin> COVID <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们跟老师一起跳然后现在不可以了因为:wo men gen lao shi yi qi tiao ran hou xian zai bu ke yi le yin wei</mandarin> err COVID <mandarin>所以没得跳就是在:suo yi mei de tiao jiu shi zai</mandarin> zoom <mandarin>这边一起唱歌学的比较没有那么多:zhe bian yi qi chang ge xue de bi jiao mei you na me duo</mandarin> lah


(ppc)


ah <mandarin>学我的英文再继续然后回家可以做家务然后煮饭然后看食谱:xue wo de ying wen zai ji xu ran hou hui jia ke yi zuo jia wu ran hou zhu fan ran hou kan shi pu</mandarin> okay let's talk for eight hours


no lah, please lah, ah


okay


yes, example like I I miss my lesson before COVID err the rest actually not bad stay at home I prefer


I don't have to err, do to I I prefer stay at home lah anyway


what's your err planning what are you what you looking forward, next step


[orh]


oh <mandarin>不用紧:bu yong jin</mandarin> november <mandarin>再:zai</mandarin> ballot


oh oh <mandarin>我还这几天我还在想:wo hai zhe ji tian wo hai zai xiang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>想跟你谈:xiang gen ni tan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>可以的话还是:ke yi de hua hai shi</mandarin> apply HDB lah


ah


!wah! <mandarin>他也有算的啊我还以为他不算的:ta ye you suan de a wo hai yi wei ta bu suan de</mandarin> leh


<mandarin>不要紧:bu yao jin</mandarin> pray harder sure you got it


oh okay


eh <mandarin>为什么你们会拿:wei shen me ni men hui na</mandarin> four room leh <mandarin>你们不是很喜欢大间的:ni men bu shi hen xi huan da jian de</mandarin> lor


so surprise, !huh! <mandarin>我不知道:wo bu zhi dao</mandarin> leh okay I never know, now I know I wish I can apply man


, !wah! <mandarin>这样这样桥:zhe yang zhe yang qiao</mandarin> ah


oh <mandarin>我觉得新加坡要有这个法律要保护孩子的法律如果孩子在哪里那个家就要怎样的:wo jue de xin jia po yao you zhe ge fa lv yao bao hu hai zi de fa lv ru guo hai zi zai na li na ge jia jiu yao zen yang de</mandarin> window


good, then


then <mandarin>后来:hou lai</mandarin> leh


pressing <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh !wah! <mandarin>我把那个黄豆放下去他真的挤出它的那个:wo ba na ge huang dou fang xia qu ta zhen de ji chu ta de na ge</mandarin> creamy <mandarin>的那个豆奶出来:de na ge dou nai chu lai</mandarin> leh


!wah! <mandarin>我跟他收起来不懂要煮什么还有:wo gen ta shou qi lai bu dong yao zhu shen me hai you</mandarin> carrot


!huh! <mandarin>我还想问你:wo hai xiang wen ni</mandarin> eh <mandarin>要不要煮什么什么什么来煮东西来吃:yao bu yao zhu shen me shen me shen me lai zhu dong xi lai chi</mandarin> leh, so


kevin ah


is it <mandarin>教会的:jiao hui de</mandarin> lah


!huh!


!wah! <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> ah


[orh] <mandarin>多少钱:duo shao qian</mandarin> ah


[orh] <mandarin>就像他们有那个台风:jiu xiang ta men you na ge tai feng</mandarin> ah


okay okay, sorry , I think you can start, <mandarin>你看那个啦:ni kan na ge la</mandarin> they say we can talk about


err, so my school ended at like, quite late what time did it end at like six so almost seven o'clock


then after that, wake up


I okay okay from the start I tell you what I do from the start okay of the day ya, err, so in the morning, I woke up quite late cause I slept very late lah


ya, my class was at twelve , then, then ya <mandarin>我没有吃饭很饿可是:wo mei you chi fan hen e ke shi</mandarin> I had class for like until three fifteen


then at three fifteen I went to buy lunch, I went to eat mac and cheese, ya, and


eh


why so early, hate morning classes, they're fucking, sorry, they're so tiring


that's how I feel about morning classes, CMI I cannot


backtrack backtrack


then <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你讲话大声一点那个:ni jiang hua da sheng yi dian na ge</mandarin> sound wave cannot catch you


you move closer, okay


okay then then


ya because I slept late at three, then I woke up at twelve, until three fifteen my class then I hungry for three hours, then I went to eat mac and cheese then I went to listen to my next class lecture then <mandarin>四点半:si dian ban</mandarin> was the next class


I went


what


oh, I understand what you trying to say but can you say it in english don't stress , okay okay got people sleeping , then continue ah


they also want your english singlish accents inside this, okay you can


test lah, come on, you can do it no okay okay then we need to talk about the prompts, talk about the prompts


ah ah ah, so it was <mandarin>我三点十五分去买午餐:wo san dian shi wu fen qu mai wu can</mandarin> then <mandarin>我吃到三点四十五分:wo chi dao san dian si shi wu fen</mandarin> then <mandarin>三点四十五分我去听我的:san dian si shi wu fen wo qu ting wo de</mandarin> next class <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lecture


then after that, ya and then I have to class which was like horrible because I am so shy


little bit ya then after that we had Mookata for dinner, and now I'm here with you doing this recording, Mookata, right


seasons marinated, and then the pork lard also like the pork lard also like it's actually, pork lard is not just rubber <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> why


good ah, we are giving this person food recommendations, Bedok Mookata, block eighty five


okay


Bali I want to go to the beach


what would I do in Bali I want to like chill by the beach lor, like lie on the beach watch the sunset eat by the beach walk by the beach shopping by the beach


then like suntan read a book maybe, go diving, I don't mind, but I don't have a volleyball but I don't mind, ya


can, can frisbee frisbee also can, I want to go to the cafes, ya Bali cafes


suck you sucked, okay <mandarin>啊你说的啊:a ni shuo de a</mandarin> eh <mandarin>现在只有八分钟:xian zai zhi you ba fen zhong</mandarin> leh


(mmhmm), why why don't we why don't we talk about first date questions


where did I come from what do you mean, , you see ah ya but I singapore what everybody look chinese what this is such a bad conversation I think you we need to talk about something else this is not what you ask on first dates


wouldn't be with you, ya I say <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> and then you said but you look like a, chinese because, what


[orh] then too bad lor oh too bad lor


(mmhmm), about my journey <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> I am uncooperative then you go ah what about you


than me I, you know when I came back to singapore how I learn the places because I didn't know like north south east west I only knew like #bukit panjang# like I didn't even know #bukit panjang# was in the west okay like I had no idea so I learn by the MRT map


the only place I knew right was orchard I knew that orchard was in the central, central point ya oh I didn't even know like like like like like marina bay was the south I didn't know like south got the Richie riches you know


or like Yishun in the north was like the, crazy traders I didn't even know #bukit panjang# was in the west, like to me right I was like you know like you know #bukit panjang# #bukit timah# very very far apart


but, no lah they were quite close you know, I know


because, to go <mandarin>没有去:mei you qu</mandarin> Orchard meh <mandarin>没有去:mei you qu</mandarin> Bugis meh


now you make me think of Sashimi but my gum pain now I scared if I eat raw food it make it worse, how, but I miss Sashimi, eh, that's such bad advice eh


I need to find a dentist


this is a singlish test is not a chinese tests what does the red line mean really oh I'm sorry


earpiece users beware


okay <mandarin>你找找:ni zhao zhao</mandarin> search for would you rather questions or or


what is <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> colour, so I see either black and white or everything is green, everything is pink I rather see black and white, everything is pink my head headache eh, you eh you eh


but , but everything pink headache really headache eh


I don't think so lah actually got a lot of different type okay lah if different type of pink then maybe pink lah pink lah, maybe pink but I can never see like colour contrasts eh I can't see like the sunset and that's, I see a pink sunset


I think, hands I think hands, like I I assume like it just grows out of my other wrist


!ee! I don't like this question next


two sizes too big, why


[orh] ya ya and oh look if all my clothes ah are like two size too big right is like how it comes in I can alter it, why what would you chose


[orh] you will just wear my clothes oh oh a lot of red lines a lot of red lines I'm sorry it just went like, bam, embarrassing why is it embarrassing


err, smell, ya how how can I lose my sense of taste I love food like crazy oh my god, are you you can't stop copying me


I know okay then now you err like like you answer first okay, whisper sorry I got no rational


sorry I panic, err whisper what's your rationale


like if I'm whispering I can just tell you I got sore throat all the time I can whisper into my very ASMR you know


right, if you are too loud you can hear your throat dying


ya but whisper whisper whisper is better what that's why I chose whisper, correct


uncontrollable means what, like, constantly just Achoo Achoo Achoo, what do you mean


what's cannot not sneeze, ya that's okay I will choose the sneeze I don't mind like once in awhile sneezing loudly, wait is it wait isn't the other one like uncontrollable guess like it will always come


what do you mean, what do you mean, like, constantly like always


but I feel like the the farting if if you are just telling me is like once in awhile but it's not once in awhile but sneezing uncontrollably all the time is horrible, you can't speak, like if I'm just farting fart lah I can do other things what I will fart ya same


then you always have to be around people


music or video music I will live without music, Netflix is life, what about you, why because music in life


but but you don't even listen to music, ya wait wait wait wait wait I'm trying to think of things that you literally cannot do anymore okay okay is very important


you cannot watch, you cannot watch survival with me anymore, ah when it's family night you cannot watch err TV show with the kids, they won't let you listen to music with them


oh my god you cannot watch any music videos you can only listen to the music, right you oh you cannot watch your gaming videos anymore you cannot learn from what other people do


you cannot use Youtube anymore, !huh! what crap, I am right, I'm always right


I just screamed again I got a red line I'm so sorry


true love, I don't ya, then good lah I got both ah


you rather have a dream job so you will give me up for your dream job, but what if you have let's say you have your dream job, would you give up your dream job


for true love, no but you have to, you have to, you have to well then this question is asking you about that why


no bear, I will die in fluff


I realise if you wrestle an alligator right like there is a chance of, number one eaten by an alligator number two drowning, if you wrestle a bear it's just, you death by bear why


but you can pet the bear to death, cutie pie, that's true, you pluck out the teeth


what is <mandarin>最:zui</mandarin> stop making up chinese words man, next, I don't know leh I feel alligator are scary


but bears okay lah fine fine fine but I will still choose bear next


eat, no, you can't eat live tarantulas but if you are in a room with ten thousand tarantulas for ten minutes they might crawl into your mouth, that's true I'll be in the room with the tarantulas I don't think I'll be that scared


like if other people have done it I don't think I'll be that scared but I like even if I know other people have eaten live tarantulas I would I don't want to do it but if I know like people have gone into the tarantula room and like they'll tell me how to do it I'll do it


they are fluffy and cute won't hurt you unless you try to hurt them, what lie, why would why would do animals won't want to hurt you just for the sake of it, they're not like bitchy humans


I can wear a wig, what am I going to do with like but I feel like I can pull off the bald look than the gum look, you want to pull off the gum look ya okay next time you can say your reasonings first


who whose kid, kids no makeup ah no makeup I don't, no as in I already don't wear makeup


not really like I only I only do my eyebrows what like like that's fine like I can just go without it, or like before this this like before this thing starts right I will go and like tattoo my eyebrows


then that's it lah but I wouldn't want to spend my time always make like doing a whole face of makeup like every time I go out like I need to do makeup that's crazy eh


K <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> turn, ya cheater these questions are all for girls, ask ask


err fall in love I don't want to read people's mind that's like creepy


you rather read people's minds why, do you want to know what I'm always thinking about really because I don't want to know what you are always thinking about


it will and I think I knew what you are always thinking about will be quite bad so you best not be thinking about other girls


you tell me ah, no I don't want to read your mind, next we are at the almost thirty minute mark


I hope this save properly leh, I will KMS eh next leh why don't you want to talk about current affairs you want talk about how the the redhill cat was eaten by a python


ya the cat was so fat like your cat, don't let your cat out leh


python won't eat you the python will eat the cat


[orh] okay that's true I'm dumb


would I let the python eat me what's the alternative, no I don't want the python to <mandarin>干:gan</mandarin> me to death, but pythons don't eat you alive you know that right they strangle you to death then they eat you no all snakes do that that's how snakes eat yes


maybe I'm wrong, like small things like they grab the frog ya but like you know when you when they eat like bigger things they will strangle it to death first


why do you want to get eaten by a python, but you are dead already what you talking about


what do you mean but you get swallowed by the python, that's like what that's like if you eat a live tarantula you are telling me as you swallow it halfway it crawl back up that's not how it works


!eww! stop I don't want to think about it, but that's not how python that's like in the south africa, the sufferers, you are just weird why why why does your light change colour is very annoying


also also your humidifier do not smell like, cheap shangri la and secondly, I don't know why you need a humidifier this country is very humid


Febreze eh is that Febreze ya but that one in my room very small I scared like if the strong too smell then I headache


is the strong smell too strong ah is the smell too strong then I headache, right


ya lor should I get the stick ones, no lah that one not cheap lah automatic shit not cheap maybe I'll get the sticks one you know


I won't do it one, maybe maybe I'll just get the the sticks one essence sticks one, because the window cannot open they construction


I'm offended <mandarin>开玩笑开玩笑:kai wan xiao kai wan xiao</mandarin> my ass


ya, after this you, why


but do you know the problem I don't have a bowl, like bring take your bowl ya


!eww! , I only have a cup but I don't want to eat my cereal everyday in a plastic container


or or you can just give me a spoon because I have a cup, give me a small spoon, ya


fly, eh tortoises are quite fast did you see that video the tortoise very funny the the the the the run the the the the , run like a cheetah


but I'm I'm going to make it like I'm not going to like make it seem obvious, in the sense that I'll just join the olympics and then I'll just run fast ya ya ya basically like winnable not winnable ah but like, I will slowly get there


no but no one else can compete with me that's stupid !huh!, no, then scientists want to test me


I will run if I can run as fast as a cheetah, what, is it a lot, if I'm getting medals I don't mind


once in awhile why not, why I'm already better than everyone else, okay


watch the movie, but I wouldn't know like it's a hit and miss what if the books really bad, you think you very funny


next next, !aiya! see they don't think our joke is funny


like if I want to walk in and sleep then I forget that I walk in and sleep


what do you mean, I will do the room one because I really like don't remember why I walk into the room most of the times


no you just forget you got a business meeting then you just need someone to tell eh you have a business meeting like I'm sure like if you have this condition like people will give you a TA then this TA not TA what am I talking about PA to like tell you why why you are walking into the room


like you will be my personal PA, when I become a CEO


I don't want but eh you will you, no I don't like there's a switch personality nah, I don't I don't want to forget myself


, I think okay ya same, I think I can pull it off better and also didn't you just tell me your favourite colour is green you liar liar pants on fire


I you damn liar your you don't even own green shit oh my god I'm angry, why do you like green


ya, yes, I'm sure that picked up are you going to listen back


okay lime that's so judgemental okay next, haircut


I will throw it against the wall man unless you are telling me the phone is like very functional ah like it will not die like it doesn't you know what I mean what Nokia


what's oscillation, ya


ya lah but but now we are saying that that you have the same phone for the rest of your life it off , pain you kicked me accident ah, it's okay I forgive you, like if you're telling me it's for the rest of my life right we're assuming that the phone


will stay in this condition just like how my hair will always stay in this condition ya but


ya but, I can use my grandkids okay, okay, I'll keep my hairstyle they didn't say, ya, I'll keep with my current hairstyle


at the beach baby, ya I mean if I'm already living at the beach then of course the mountain lah


why, nah hunt some sheeps and eat some sheeps,


never be able to use cash again, so I have you


I like that it's like the public transport is like damn like convenient, I went for the focus like anywhere ya


I I went to the I went for a focus group, then they asked me the same question then I answer the same thing the public transport is really like, top-notch, oh and like [orh] that's it lah


that's so sad no lah that's not it lah there's more thing, , I like that you are here, probably but nothing comes to mind


mind what about you, I also like <mandarin>新加坡人:xin jia po ren</mandarin> except <mandarin>新加坡人:xin jia po ren</mandarin> on Carousell


ya, but which nationality isn't friendly, it can't be like I like the human kind jungle men is not a nationality


we're not in tarzan and we're not making poems


like, have you been, I felt okay in Australia, why because a lot of chinese there


okay I want go Australia after COVID let's go, ya, ya


but I hope they find the vaccine soon, I think I think next year I think next year can already [bah]


I will kill myself leh what do you mean who said which idiot said, are you kidding me, no baby


I can't be stuck I feel very claustrophobic I feel very claustrophobic, so so you saying that I can't go on exchange, twenty twenty five


who say one, how do you know is not real


I thought once they find the vaccine which they said next year then we can travel, maybe after the vaccine they still won't let us travel


!walao! eh how ah, , then what should we do, I don't want entertain myself I want to go travelling


!aiya! next next talk about something else before I cry, stupid, (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


okay, chicken rice eh I actually miss leh I I have very long never eat chicken rice already I want to eat


ya, where, #ang mo kio# that's so far away


okay you want to go #ang mo kio# to eat chicken rice oh we need to go Bishan, remember, what, !huh! focus


what, what, you are the one disturbing me I want to eat my truffle fries at Bishan, are we going to let this guy listen to our talk about sugarcane


the workbench bistro Bishan I'm not sure what block the truffle fries there are to die for, it is covered in parmesan I mean covered, I


they they literally do not like you know err scheme put on the the truffle the the the the parmesan like after you finish the truffle fries there will still be parmesan, baby don't make me think about it now I want to go back and eat


he will always want us to continue is it ya then he can bring his friends or her friends, ya okay so ya what what other


food recommendations ya so Bishan truffle fries is called <mandarin>忘不了:wang bu liao</mandarin> cafe, wait no it's not called <mandarin>忘不了:wang bu liao</mandarin> cafe it is called <mandarin>忘不了:wang bu liao</mandarin> cafe it's called the work bench bistro and in chinese it's called the <mandarin>忘不了:wang bu liao</mandarin> cafe


and they have the <mandarin>忘不了:wang bu liao</mandarin> waffles which is their chef recommendation, !wah! I want to eat truffle fries, ya I think so