ya, okay anyway, back to it


this, saturday let's go supper


okay steady


so topic number one we talking about work ah damn boring so okay but but do you want to hear my side of, the I feel like I haven't really talked about how I've been seeing this whole job, at first you know I was a bit was it annoying or not with when I ask you like for work to do


ya lor but, okay that's one thing <mandarin>可是:ke shi </mandarin> like


I don't know lah was I was I like what are what was your first impression was I like !wah! this guy asking for so much work !wah! <mandarin>这么勤劳:zhe me qin lao </mandarin> ah you know, , no that's true that's true I I started to have !aiyo! I it's it's not that I is I I always have this kind of mentality is like just


like F care you know, don't ah but I mean you go into a new job you're sort of slightly I don't know personally speaking I'm a bit motivated <mandarin>去去:qu qu </mandarin> you know prove myself lah to go to go prove myself


but after awhile it's sort of like you realise that , how how should I say it's very irregular


ya, taking care of the same man


, four month <mandarin>了:le </mandarin> lor, I know okay <mandarin>四个月我觉得是:si ge yue wo jue de shi </mandarin> is is not a very let's say long period but to me is just like there is


I I have gone through a bit of, hell I guess but ah you've been through more lah, clearly but I mean there's GE twenty twenty which is hectic it's like <mandarin>全部:quan bu </mandarin> <mandarin>乱七八糟:luan qi ba zao </mandarin> because I I I just


for a while sometimes you just don't know what the fuck is going on and then am I allowed to swear so and and and then you just


how should I say ah just just just caught caught up in everything, and you realise that actually no one really knows what the hell is going on is is just you are just going with the, flow, it is just chaos, kay


correct cause you like you see all the you know that the systems are screwed up <mandarin>可是你你是完全:ke shi ni ni shi wan quan </mandarin> <mandarin>没有那个:mei you na ge </mandarin> uh <mandarin>怎么说啊:zen me shuo a </mandarin>


, , exactly but at the same time I feel like this is also being a bit of a negative I I was talking to my girlfriend last night about this


ya so she said I've been a bit more irritable even I took this online quiz which is uh <mandarin>关于:guan yu </mandarin> depression and all that and I scored quite highly on depression not so not not okay not severe lah but it's like moderately


kay, I'm not very surprised but as in the other thing ah is that my stress, levels Sibei high, ya so the thing is actually, err


how should I say ah, kay ya correct originally I I thought myself like I'm very like happy go lucky I very like you know Suka-Suka one kay, can just go with the flow and and my stress right I'm I have it under control lah


but I was actually quite surprised to see that the score at the same time not surprised but like I I was like !huh! took a step back when I saw that the score was quite high, cause the thing is right I get very irritated I am very irritable after this whole NS thing


, I feel like is, I feel like it's after NS as in like not not just I mean this


okay, err, what I'm trying to say is like , it it muddies up your mind you know in a way as in like it it like my I I used to have this sense of like


I I think so I think so, ya I had the I had the traffic accident right, ya I don't know it it's just that my thinking <mandarin>我:wo </mandarin> <mandarin>想东西想不清楚:xiang dong xi xiang bu qing chu </mandarin> leh is is like I I really can't get a grip on things sometimes and I feel like it's just like you know I don't have space to sort of sit down talk to myself breathe and and and this kind of stuff so I mean I feel like everyone feels that way


so so, okay the problem right is this, I hold myself up to other people's standard but then that in itself is toxic because if they don't care why should I care, correct okay so so if I if I throw a tantrum or something if


okay like see #wa eh sibei# like you know like Pekcek ah okay you know and I see everyone around me also #lagi pekcek# then is like if they don't care why should I care if correct correct if if they don't keep their own


err irritability, and all all all this I'm telling you ya this irritability right this this sort of like #sibei pekcek# like eh eh eh <mandarin>感感觉:gan gan jue </mandarin> ya so, if if I, don't keep it under control which in the past I used to do then it's sort of like it just spills out and it starts to affect the people around me lor my girlfriend my family something like that


ya, ya, ya


Tio, , is is ya, it's very daunting it's very , ya lah I get what you mean


but your no your morale was high right in HTA, !huh!


like that lor just just Nua just, ya, so about so about like okay speaking of uni right


I'm sure we both have our plans so you going to law in NUS right, ya law, oh okay, eh, is which one duke NUS one ah


that one is medicine, how come, I never <mandarin>我没有听过这个新的:wo mei you ting guo zhe ge xin de </mandarin> campus,


I see, all the laws regarding the flowers and the the bees, (uh huh)


eh wait, for, for <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> facilities be <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> facilities <mandarin>是:shi </mandarin> like it's as if it was cut in half lah


ya one eighth !wah!, Jialat sia, oh I'm going to I'm going ya actuarial science so I I I mean okay I say this word but <mandarin>你明白什么是:ni ming bai shen me shi </mandarin> actuarial science mah


ya, you also have no idea, #long zong tak tahan# okay nevermind I I will, okay so actuarial science is a specialisation NTU actually doesn't have this major <mandarin>叫做:jiao zuo </mandarin> acturial science kay <mandarin>这些这些都:zhe xie zhe xie dou </mandarin> okay <mandarin>比如说:bi ru shuo </mandarin> uh NTU <mandarin>有:you </mandarin> actuarial science lah financial <mandarin>什么:shen me </mandarin> ah banking <mandarin>跟:gen </mandarin> finance okay


is is all within NTU's business err major or business degree so okay lucky for me sorry don't be salty okay there are there are what they are three years only is a three years programme compared to other people you know four years


correct correct you say Shiok but I think a bit stress ah like, #tampo tampo# stress but I'm okay I'm okay you know look, so so ya so actuarial science just to explain to uh you a bit further okay is that


is that it's err it's a, field of knowledge which is used in, , in mainly the insurance and the financials industry so uh what do I mean by actuarial science okay actuarial science is


, basically what you are trying to do right is you are trying to evaluate and price risk, so you are using this kind of different economy model right, or different risk models right, to actually quantify


uh <mandarin>比如说:bi ru shuo </mandarin> I, kay I'm <mandarin>我问你:wo wen ni </mandarin> ah


<mandarin>哪一个:na yi ge </mandarin> risk <mandarin>哪一个哪一个男人的:na yi ge na yi ge nan ren de </mandarin> risk <mandarin>会比较:hui bi jiao </mandarin> uh high


twenty year old,


psychological <mandarin>这些的:zhe xie de </mandarin> risk <mandarin>全部都:quan bu dou </mandarin>


insurance <mandarin>的公司:de gong si </mandarin> ah <mandarin>他们怎么知道你:ta men zen me zhi dao ni </mandarin> ya <mandarin>对对对对要付多少钱那个:dui dui dui dui yao fu duo shao qian na ge </mandarin> premium <mandarin>要付多少:yao fu duo shao </mandarin> ,


have corporate customers you have you know uh all these err what do you call that even the all the #orang lama# all this also you can be a consultant for them, , any any old any <P2>tom</P2> <P2>dick</P2> and <P2>harry</P2> lah so


ya lah but what about you in terms of your law aspirations, in house [orh] as in like in firm


Singlish and, lost I'm lost, wait wait pause


ya, (uh huh), (uh huh), ya, ya


[orh], so you want to be those kind of part of the legal department of a certain firm lah so certain company IC


correct, correct, , yes you have, more monies


it's all about the money, okay, correct correct, (uh huh)


!hannor! , at the end of the day you gotta drive or something, but that's the thing the law firm ah one of the benefits <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de </mandarin> is , you will know a lot of people


ya you'll have a lot of be able to like grow this kind of connection, you know people connect ya okay so so , ya people connect so ya lah law firm <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de </mandarin> ya I I


feel like shouldn't look at it as, a detriment or anything, to your, to your overall career cause in the end in the end right I mean you have to look at it as a people-centric kinda experience


regardless of whether you climb or not cause I mean if you climb in the law firm or not in the end you are going corporate world right it doesn't really matter, just farming !wow!


okay, [orh] <mandarin>你有没有你有没有想过:ni you mei you ni you mei you xiang guo </mandarin> uh <mandarin>参加一个:can jia yi ge </mandarin> CCA, ya


debate, [orh], ya I know I know but I was I was in I I I I don't think you know this about me but I when I was in primary school right I was in primary school in Bangkok because my dad was working there, and ya


err, I was attending this international school lah which had a singaporean curriculum singaporean ya, correct correct, even the bloody my pals are here all that all all ya all imported from ya marshall cavendish okay


so I joined the debate club because they asked me to they are like !wah! <mandarin>你很会讲话:ni hen hui jiang hua </mandarin> and I'm like what the fuck you talking about what do you mean what is that supposed to mean so so so anyway whatever okay lah I I just #suka suka# just join anyhow join the


debate club, correct this was primary school and it was towards the tail end which is like primary four primary five, six or something, so the thing is I, err went to this thing what is it for ah something bowl ah debate I don't know


I don't know, is a, correct is a intra primary school competition I remember they were actually discussing quite interesting, and honestly quite controversial topics for a primary school level audience like for example gay rights in Singapore there was they even discuss this singaporean author who at the time I didn't know that he will become my favourite singaporean author lah but he they were discussing this singaporean author


his name is cyril Wong, ya so, talks about topics of LGBT rights in Singapore all that, it's very ya very touching lah in that sense, they, correct ya, correct


in depth into the topic because we know that the motion will be about, the the topic will be about , the what do you call that ah it will be about these topics lor so there will be a set it will be a from a set I'm sure you had the same experience before right


whenever you have a motion right is so called like you know unseen in a sense but at the same time you know which sort of rough few or which rough subject is going to be pulled from,


yup, correct exactly, correct, you don't have to talk about statistics although I'm sure you know a few Garang people like that right, who are like


!wah! bloody hell is like yes so actually <P2>hitler</P2> took a shit on like you know the third of april of nineteen forty three or something, ya ya for ,


correct and and and and, his and his motivations lah but that's history, I mean debate you can really really talk about any kind of topic lah in the motions lah so high I I I never really enjoyed debate because I just thought it was a bit how do I say ah


is a bit puts you on the spot so actually what I did in secondary school right, was I shifted actually wanted to do journalism that was my first choice in sec one, ya, correct correct so that's ya that's my like first option but cause at the time I don't know why but I got very enamored with the


err practice or like , you know <mandarin>创创作:chuang chuang zuo </mandarin> err <mandarin>我自己的:wo zi ji de </mandarin> you know essays all that or or or stories novels all that


I I actually err had to audition for my second choice which was the school band


and ya lah the school band actually the conductor was this domineering woman, she had a PHD in music or something okay, so we, and you know she has a mullet you know is very cute but not in as in like a cute kind of way like how should I say ah


no a mullet as in the hair the hairstyle, ya so so ya she's a bit domineering but not in a bad way not in the way like I take resources from you or whatever although a lot of people have that perception of her anyway


ya she ask me to audition and somehow she pull some strings I got shifted away from the journalism club, into ah school band but the thing is like quite fulfilling lah because you it's quite big, you get to meet a lot of kind of people but if you really like them then you like them


and ya lah a few of my closest friends, in fact I'm working with one of them one of them used to be the vice president, of the student council he's a bit of a high ya he's a bit of a high baller lah high flier, kind of like


ya he was in the band also so I ya I actually knew him because he was in my class in secondary one, but then we parted ways cause I I am a nobody lah so called, ya compared to him but the thing is he's always very humble one so right now I'm working with him on a project to sort of look at the student council and how we're actually going to


upgrade it or reorient it it's vision the student council vision is what we're looking at, so it's a bit #ka jiao# you know it's a bit nosy to actually go into this when I've I myself have never been part of the student council but I believe strongly in it lah so I hope that's like a good enough excuse for me to be so #ka jiao#


ya, (mmhmm), ya correct but I haven't I haven't really, I haven't really fleshed it out yet but he and I are probably going to flesh it out next weekend hopefully I'm not sure


you want to hear meh Sibei like very boring one, a quick summary, oh okay basically we're looking at how do we reorient the bottom like twenty five percent in terms of like you know there are some laggers that fall behind or they don't express interest in the <mandarin>这个:zhe ge </mandarin> student council anymore so <mandarin>我们在现在在看的:wo men zai xian zai zai kan de </mandarin>


you know realise <mandarin>发觉到他们他们:fa jue dao ta men ta men </mandarin> you know <mandarin>的的:de de </mandarin> err, their passion lah their true passion you know it may be in the student council it may be not


, curry favor the the teachers those kind of ya curry their their #lam pa# , correct, ya is is is elitist in a sense lah, so ya those who know how to curry favour with the


ya those who know how to #angkat bola# ah as they say err those teachers ah carry the balls ah, ya they they are the ones that get in lah because the thing is okay in a sense there is a some correlation between being popular and being competent as in if you are more competent in in my school environment you are actually more likely to be


how should I say ah respected by the other students is a very academic sort of , sort of err background or I mean like ya correct correct, ya but at the same time you can see how that sorts of, has some kind conflict of interest <mandarin>因为比如说:yin wei bi ru shuo </mandarin> err <mandarin>一个很:yi ge hen </mandarin> popular <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> err kid ah <mandarin>他:ta </mandarin> err <mandarin>被选择做:bei xuan ze zuo </mandarin> err exco


okay executive committee (ppc) then, that poses a problem lah because executive committee is chosen sure but the positions are elected lah, okay, ya okay so that that gives rise to you know some kind of conflict of interest because let's say for example they don't like somebody who is not in the exco then they can easily you know screw that guy over lah and


is is very hard because there's no sense of due diligence, and and we want to ensure that there is lah so that it doesn't go out replicating you know real life politics because actually, corrupt <mandarin>的所以:de suo yi </mandarin> actually


then, ya it's not a good excuse to say eh how come student council can replicate this kind of behavior or can replicate this kind of structures you know, so so


no they already notice the trend cause, in the end they are fifteen sixteen seventeen years old and when you're seventeen ah trust me you ah don't know anything correct


when you are seventeen hor <mandarin>你全部全部:ni quan bu quan bu </mandarin> you know like what's going on in the world current affairs all that, exactly but they don't they don't get it they don't get it


correct, ya, ya, ya, but the but the problem is I I don't I don't think the burden I don't think the onus falls on them


to actually go about affecting any of this change <mandarin>所以我们做做:suo yi wo men zuo zuo </mandarin> uh seniors <mandarin>我们做:wo men zuo </mandarin> uh


another thing is that we want to move it away from like, ah event planning only we actually want to look at , matters which are more outward facing how can we like be you know ambassadors for the school how can we actually helped to err console and talk to the students in a way that builds a healthy student body in a way that builds on a support network lah so actually the champions of this kind of support network right I feel like it has to come from the student council lah ya lor


when you're in the student council special resources are given to you and you can see things lah and you can sense things that the teachers cannot or the management cannot


you know like you have to have, this kind of <mandarin>责任去去去帮忙你的:ze ren qu qu qu bang mang ni de </mandarin> fellow students


correct correct correct, correct,


correct


, you're absolutely right you're absolutely right


or even or even there might be some people who are isolated you know they don't really have any friends you should step up you should provide some kind of support network and actually like, , uh build the foundation and that's why we want to instill lah is kind of vision in them the the very the most important thing is actually <mandarin>你们做:ni men zuo </mandarin> student councillor ah


<mandarin>去去去:qu qu qu </mandarin> uh <mandarin>成达这些:cheng da zhe xie </mandarin> goals lah that you have in mind you know


but anyway enough about this project, I feel like is a bit is a bit long ya that's one of the ongoing projects lah, ya, so but anyway speaking about the politics of all this ah how how <mandarin>你:ni </mandarin> what do you feel about the recent one


, I didn't know I didn't know that the PSP youth was


losing out lah, so called P A P A no PAP youth, , okay


hypebeast eh #ah pek# ah


, you know you live in Singapore you breathe the air the air belongs to who is PAP's air, correct, , you are in the lion's den so ya I I feel like okay that's true in the sense that


okay that's true in the sense that <mandarin>年轻人他们觉得:nian qing ren ta men jue de </mandarin> #lee hsien loong# is sort of the default opinion mah then if you want to have your own, political issues which I feel like young people, uh they are more wont to speak about this kind of


ya they're more wont to speak about this kind of issues right, if they're looking for a specific person to talk about say for example economy inequality right then I think, especially with the advent of internet you know everything also every Orang ah Lama also can contribute their political voice right they will look at SDP for example which has a track record


of of uh looking out for people, who may experience financial difficulty, it's a bit Cham lah you know in in in the sense that, you have to look at PAP as the default


rather than it having its own platform, but that's how singaporean politics has been run lah for a, few decades already, for for ya


correct, correct


ah,


lee, #lee hsien loong# <mandarin>万岁:wan sui </mandarin> lah okay that one is indisputable fact of life is like the law of physics


for now but the, ya correct so four G who's going to step up or is it five G already, , !wah! #heng swee keat# <mandarin>万岁:wan sui </mandarin> no so the the question now is


, you you zoom out on a sort of macroscopic scale, and you look at uh <mandarin>十年二十年的的情况:shi nian er shi nian de de qing kuang </mandarin> ah, okay, maybe you don't see anything but I feel like twenty twenty might be a bit of a watershed moment might be a turning point


ya, so we will, instead of, you know moving in one direction, singaporean society might turn you know and move in a sort of, ninety degree in an orthogonal


err other direction lah, it's too early to tell, okay lah is


is is just my <mandarin>感觉:gan jue </mandarin> okay, yes yes yes, that's right, like, is it


ah, the <P2>jamus</P2> daddy all the stans right all the k-pop stans no ya that's one thing and also of course the whole platform of the conversation right the whole platform of uh of political discourse, <mandarin>全部都是:quan bu dou shi </mandarin> internet internet <mandarin>在网上:zai wang shang </mandarin>


, singaporeans are starting to realise that actually the conversations that they have politically right, doesn't have to take place within the traditional arena which you know like it or not has involved shit like


character assassination by the ruling party, against figures like #chee soon juan# and I mean they started to target you know workers' party #raeesah khan# all that it's quite ugly and the thing is you can see <mandarin>很很明显你知道吗这些:hen hen ming xian ni zhi dao ma zhe xie </mandarin> character assassination


the the tactics, everything is online, everything is immediate at your fingertips and that's a weakness honestly for the PAP, because, traditionally we are a very conservative society and what conservatism is


brands itself as ah, is , #wa eh si# <mandarin>隆重:long zhong </mandarin> #toh toh mai mai mai# uh <mandarin>没不要改变:mei bu yao gai bian </mandarin> ah don't want to have this kind of change correct so so


is a preservation of what you have now, and if you have people who are seeing that these issues really do exist, homelessness in Singapore just the other day yesterday I was talking to a homeless guy, before coming to work, ya [orh] I ya I bumped into him and and then he was like oh you got any cash to spare is like then I saw


kay lah actually he don't have EZlink he don't have a phone to contact MSF, no one ya wants to bother with him lah, and and, see so you see there that's the thing, ten years ago right ten years twenty ten ah


so, , ya all all these issues are coming to light and, of course we have to do something to have change, you know instead of framing narratives around actually you know there's one solid unshakable singaporean society in the end society has to move with the individuals not the individuals have to conform to society as in like you know your systems right if it's not working for you right the systems have to go the systems have to change


err <mandarin>政府的这些:zheng fu de zhe xie </mandarin> bureaucracy <mandarin>很骄傲因为:hen jiao ao yin wei </mandarin> uh <mandarin>他们每次都说:ta men mei ci dou shuo </mandarin> oh <mandarin>我们的:wo men de </mandarin> bureaucracy


is very correct cost efficient, ya you get things done but pragmatism is no excuse for a bureaucracy that doesn't serve people cause in the end right


singaporeans are very sociologically blind I've always held this because , ya when they talk about , uh bureaucracy they don't they don't see that actually right this bureaucracy right doesn't come you know falling down from the sky handed to you on a golden plate by you know #lee kuan yew# himself #ah gong# ah


it is


ya, that's cause the, ya, that's the whole story that's the whole story of


, how should I say ah like those kind err old kingdoms lah like you know err the ancient Rome all that is is the the the the word for it is decadence, you know, err Russia before the revolution China before their respective Taiping rebellion all that correct correct so and and Britain of course lah so


that's the thing ah you have this kind of decadence ah, you you are like a frog in a in a pot that is boiling you know, is the water is really boiling I mean you've heard the metaphor before okay


[orh] like


what is your next step, ya correct what is, the next step ahead, that's a pretty good


example, but , so it is not even about the next step you know you can keep taking steps forward and forward and forward but if it's not in the right direction you're not steering the ship in the correct direction then what's the point you know


ya lor <mandarin>就是:jiu shi </mandarin> lor if there's if, there's a cliff edge in front of you horh and you <mandarin>一一步一步走:yi yi bu yi bu zou </mandarin> ah, ya lor


the cliff edge looks tempting in terms of like you know there's like gummy bears on the floor okay this this imagery is going too far, (mmhmm)


the the antidote is visibility you know the antidote is visibility and not just that democracy


if people, okay so the thing is right you come from another country right, okay like you confirm ask eh #um cho# Singapore Lang Sibei Bo Chup ah as in Bo Chup in the sense of they don't have a very solid sort of civil society element and and the reason is just that we just don't


ya we we don't care because, ya, correct we don't have to care that's one thing that's for the middle class but what about the lower class they feel so disenfranchised you know disenfranchisement is a very very


you know, Tio,


which is, exactly which is structurally is not is not doesn't make any sense you're just a laughing stock ya, ya exactly


correct, is very is very Goondu one this kind of thing is very simple and singaporeans just don't seem to realise it or they don't care to talk about it because, they got better shit to do they got better business to


is is is a not my #tai ji# kind of, ya exactly not my #tai ji#, doesn't mean Bo #tai ji# at least you must know about this kind of things that are happening in your backyard right


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), then <mandarin>要死:yao si </mandarin> lor ya lor


, ya that's the thing so you need to actually start pushing back lah, which is a another problem with


pushing back in the sense that you need to start negotiating with employers that actually we need more time we need more leisure time for ourselves, we need more time to organise ourselves, politically uh and like civil society, so so that that's the thing you see there's always push back and if for example you are a bloody PRC bus driver right and you want to sort of ah rally together with your


then then you will have you have no chance because the whole system is against you let alone you know singaporeans they don't even care okay so so there's no precedent for what if singaporeans come together like they did for example in the SG climate rally like they do for example yearly uh on a yearly basis at pink dot right what what do you actually do


you confine them to #hong lim park# and you just don't listen to them because they're not worth listening to either that or if they go out on the streets right and they throw shit like in in in <mandarin>美国:mei guo </mandarin> lah <mandarin>你你看:ni ni kan </mandarin> uh <mandarin>那些黑人因为:nei xie hei ren yin wei </mandarin> , we have it lah US doesn't have it so lucky <mandarin>他们政府他们警察全部都是特别特别:ta men zheng fu ta men jing cha quan bu dou shi te bie te bie </mandarin> corrupt <mandarin>特别:te bie </mandarin> you know police brutality is a real problem lah


so there's they have a right to be angry they have a right to smash stuff on on the streets smash the windows and all that but in Singapore if you do that, everyone will just stare there stunned at you and nobody will support you exactly because there's just no space you know for you to start demanding things from your employer when you start demanding things for an employer ah


that's the thing you get correct you get replaced because, everyone has the mentality of well I mean why not just keep your head down you know, correct


ya they are part of our <mandarin>社会:she hui </mandarin> you know they are part of our community, correct, is precisely they cannot vote is precisely <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> err this general election they couldn't say anything right that's why we have to stand up for them you know


we don't have to, correct


but but the but the but the, issue here is that we are already stuck with the system this national system of borders and immigration and controlling who can do what where and it's all very artificial in the sense that you are segregating yourself from Malaysia because dot dot dot economic reason


and you are segregating yourself from Bangladesh because the dot dot dot you know whatever reason the movement of the inflow of people, correct, and and and I don't dispute that we can't really do anything about that that's on a global level


but what we can do is at least right try to actually give a voice to those uh foreign workers


ya but but still ah is very stressful it it really put puts some kind of


a burden you lah, correct, correct, so you have to you have to realise that, your boss is not, your boss is just another, fella lah you know like another f word


correct so so you need to start putting pressure on the company because they have all the money what they can actually pay you, more for working less it's just that they won't <mandarin>因为:yin wei </mandarin> you know it's such a cutthroat society


personally, personally


I think that we just have so much, , technology right now right that a lot of things that's why that's why I don't get a lot of things every automated and that's why I don't really understand


okay, why does it why does it sound like such a bad thing to people losing jobs, jobs in the first place are not a good thing what, you know you can't talk about jobs as a positive thing you are literally selling your free time you're selling time that you can spend on


ah you selling time that you can spend with your family you're selling time that you can teach your children how to play how to laugh how to you know like, spending time with your loved one ah, in order to survive, you know


, I I, understand and that's the problem like our boss lor I mean you know that that's the <mandarin>女:nv </mandarin> the <mandarin>女皇:nv huang </mandarin> over there you know


so so the, problem is not that we shouldn't throw aside work as a meaningful part of, human , human needs lah, it's part of the self actualisation right you know maslow's uh pyramid of shit


okay, of of hardships yes so , the thing is we shouldn't discard it but at the same time you have to realise that when you are talking about someone who is doing their work for passion someone who is in their dream career right in the end they have to deal with a lot of shit that


they basically didn't sign up for a lot of bureaucracy, trying to you know sort out the legal details the tax details of your or for example you are an artist trying to sort out the legal and tax details of your artwork how to sell it on the market you know you have to liaise with many different kinds of people and then you


you get backfire from the public because they don't really understand what you're doing and, you get this societal pressure of like [orh] why am am, am I doing something that isn't worthwhile, so


ya, I moved away from the airlines because that was a big mistake I think I show you before but the airline's big big mistake I moved it over to gold and silver so far I haven't made a net loss or a net profit


but ya I put about two point, eight k two point nine k in gold and silver half half, ya, about a week ago


okay


ya so you can diversify that's good because you are like hedging your bets right so so that's I that's the thing I'm more familiar with with gold and silver you're literally banking on the fact that it's a safe haven but what the hell does safe haven mean correct so it's like if you have an end of the world situation right you pass already no one wants your gold and your silver they want food


you know, exactly, (mmhmm), oh I that eh that sounds like slavery, well, that is that's slavery


, ya mostly okay my house is on fire but we're alright


, ongoing projects !wah! I have a lot I was doing this I was talking to one of the SDP fellows, he's doing uh out of it's like a non-partisan err social enterprise so this social enterprise is actually not linked to SDP at all


it's just that I knew him through volunteering with SDP, so he was talking to me about developing this platform right to linkup volunteers you know those kind of befrienders right with the elderly, because


ya , medically speaking right they are not the most medically literate lah, and that's a problem because you see the doctor only has what ten minutes with them in consultation


then they don't really understand what the medicine is for they feel very isolated alienated from the whole process, <mandarin>他:ta </mandarin> he <mandarin>这个这个:zhe ge zhe ge </mandarin> uh this guy ah, he's a CEO of a healthcare company so he's very invested in all this because you know healthcare is his thing but but he told me he related to me this story <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge </mandarin> uh


#ah gong# ah <mandarin>他们去:ta men qu </mandarin> err visit <mandarin>他探望他:ta tan wang ta </mandarin> ah, then the the uncle just showed them this whole full cabinet of uneaten medicine you know unconsumed medicine


not buy not buy he went to the, polyclinic and then he talked to the no but he completely don't understand what's the point of, the medicine and he's just in pain lor suffering because of his illness or whatever and he has this whole stock of


correct correct and they realised that the problem after speaking to him they realised the problem is actually a matter not of not just of literacy but also have like not having someone there to converse with them on a human level beyond just the consultation which I don't blame the doctors is just that they don't have the time to actually go and talk to every individual especially the elderly ah


one by one okay you know they don't speak english maybe their tamil a bit broken something like that


correct, the nurse ya but the nurse also don't know how to explain because it's not within their expertise, so you see you need some kind of , volunteer service lah and so we were thinking actually what's the best way to develop this so, is it app is it err what


is it a programme you know is it something that you go weekly you go to your err community centre and <mandarin>你跟:ni gen </mandarin> uh <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge </mandarin> err volunteer <mandarin>谈:tan </mandarin> you know <mandarin>这些这些:zhe xie zhe xie </mandarin> <mandarin>跟他们商量:gen ta men shang liang </mandarin> lah so so that's what we're trying to figure out right now and a bit


trying to get myself involved within their forces mah cause honestly it's very meaningful, , (mmhmm)


, correct, we don't need just the numbers you actually need the right kind of people to you know uh to sign up


they will be like ah Sian lah my work, already ask me to download thirty forty apps already you want me to, ya lor I'm trying to save, for my <mandarin>我在省我的这个:wo zai sheng xian wo de zhe ge </mandarin> iphone seven eh


so ya that's the issue , but the another issue pops up when okay you want to make a iphone app or whatever but at the same time, you think those kind of #lao lang gei# you know they know how to use iphone or not


, actually I think that I mean no matter who you are at the end of the day when you come to a new place it's going to be chaos lah


at first lah but then you know after a while you start to you know #chao keng# a bit


(mmhmm),


, ya but I mean the prestige is just for short term one mah after a while you will start to think to yourself, actually the things that you do everyday is the same you are taking care of the same things your job doesn't change ya the same man your boss is always the same and whatever you catch is you're just catching stuff from above nonstop


and then you start thinking about how you how soon you can get out of here I mean how long have you been here, <mandarin>四个月了:si ge yue liao </mandarin> hor


ya it's just chaos you know once you go in you actually start to see what's going on in the organization and you just think to yourself


like how did things get this bad and then you start vomiting blood, that's where, exactly


the ability,


ya you'll just think ya lah I mean that's life you know, [orh]


, , oh


ya, Sibei high ya


like you quite happy go lucky lah, ya ya


, but actually did it start after you join NS or did after you come to this office,


, I see , then did it get worse after the accident or did you like after you come here after the accident you felt better


ya it's true


ah , if they, it spreads to you lah the attitude


ya I I totally I totally get what you mean uh I think, after I came here in like april around that time lah #agak agak#, I started to my moods just went down lah at first when I when I was in HTA in training TRACOM, my mood was sky high cause I I just freshly POP just finish mah then I'm Sibei happy it was like oh freedom time you know four months I survived then I I look ahead one year eight months to go then before I ORD it's not possible lah it's not possible to stay optimistic


ya, but I think, at the time especially when I POP but honestly it was quite chill cause I didn't do much I was bar from firearms bar from bar from personal defence so anything I do right they also tell me eh #le long zor eh buay sai zou# then I'm thinking !huh! everything also cannot do then what do I do so I just stay in bed everyday do nothing ya just pass the time


so there was nothing to encourage me or discourage me, then all I have to look forward to is I mean after this you know after NS I just go to uni lor that's it, ya, I'm sure we both have a plan so you going to law in NUS right they're


ya I going to law NUS which I'm very happy cause it's a it's a different campus lah so all the COVID zoning things doesn't apply to me I mean , ah no no it's err it's somewhere in #bukit timah# is next to #botanical gardens# around there lah


I never <mandarin>我没有听过这个:wo mei you ting guo zhe ge</mandarin> saying that can, of course, cause it's hidden in #botanical gardens# , !huh! , ah ya ya botanical law that's the only thing they learn there, ya, ya but I mean


that's where I'm going lah so I'm just glad that I can avoid the NUS zoning thing cause I heard a lot of people unhappy lah like for example you pay for the swimming pool or not swimming pool the library and all that right if it's not in your zone right you are screwed lah you can't go in there at all, ya it's quite it's quite terrible but you are still paying four k per semester for for each module


oh is it each module no no for, not just half lah like one eighth like twelve point five percent, ya but ya ya but how about you like, actuarial science


honestly right if you ask me the first time right when you told me about this I had no idea and then now you ask me again I also have no idea ya tell me again tell me again


oh is one year faster ah, !wah! Shiok bro then,


ya ya ya tell me about that


, overall risk ah, err honestly


oh


[orh]


so, so it's like risk management but you turn it into a science lah, [orh] okay


ya I understand


I understand ya, honestly right my end goal is just go in house lor, in house law as in in house law lor you got understand in house law lor Singlish and law lah in house in house law L A W lor L O R


haha you don't you don't get me you're lost okay okay I just want to go in house and the purpose of that is, I think I'm, in house <mandarin>就是:jiu shi </mandarin> okay for example <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> law firm right like uh Allen Gledhill err Rajah&Tann <mandarin>这些这些是:zhe xie zhe xie shi </mandarin> specialised law firm <mandarin>那个整个:na ge zheng ge </mandarin> company <mandarin>就是:jiu shi </mandarin> law firm but then every let's say Apple or Tik Tok you know the cursed app Tik Tok every single one of these companies Google all that they all have to have their own legal consultant


who are the legal consultants in house lawyers, yes correct, so it's like you advise the people around you who know shit about law about how to balance the corporate and the law side lor


which I think is more interesting cause it I'm more of a corporate person personally although I, I kind of, laugh at companies sometimes lah but honestly at the end of the day I I like climbing the corporate ladder, you have more money, yes kay lah I mean that's where I belong lah so but the problem is that I need to have some experience before I go in cause cannot be you go and throw some random you know fresh grad lawyer like <mandarin>不可能的:bu ke neng de </mandarin> mah Bo mah so obviously you are going to need somebody with experience so I need to grind for like five to ten years in a law firm lor


at the end of the day you gotta grind for something lah, ,


people connect guy ya ya we we always say that phrase especially around boss ya when he's not around ya


ya, that's true that's true


ya it's just about getting the the post qualification experience the PQE lah they call it ya that that that's actually an acronym lah ya <mandarin>全部:quan bu </mandarin> ah <mandarin>他们全部都用讲:ta men quan bu dou yong jiang </mandarin> PQE PQE then <mandarin>本来:ben lai </mandarin> I don't know what it means lah now I know PQE is how many years after


after you graduate all the experience ya, CCA ah, ah, the the typical law student lor


(uh huh), I was attending his international school lah which had as singaporean curriculum Singapore and yeah


oh so they copy like okay not say copy but they adapt, oh so so is all the same thing lah pretty much


, this was in primary school right


bowl, like a like a competition kind of thing or


(uh huh)


, oh, so they actually teach you about all these kind of things and make you go in depth into it lah


ya definitely, ya correct, it's like I mean especially when you after you read quite a lot of things not not deeply lah just broadly is enough then you start to understand like oh you know I got this I I know roughly what I can think of what points I can come up with


ya, oh ya those that memorise the numbers then is like damn crazy, I can't, ya


they they have like a timeline for for his bowel movements like this lah that's the level that we're talking about lah but then you actually don't need to know that you just need to know what he did what he roughly what year correct because that's what matters, exactly


oh, initially lah, but


but , she had a PHD in music or something okay okay, I can I can tell what sort of person she is now ya I can sense it


like a mullet as in like the small hammer thing or, , oh , oh,


oh, so he was inside the school band also


oh, compared to him,


haha yes


ya I remember you were you were telling our boss back at the like just now I think was a few weeks ago that you wanted to give back to the school so this is the project lah, this was the project


okay, then when is it err actually can you tell me more about this project what exactly is going on what are you what are you guys doing, okay okay lah maybe you do like a quick run-through lah


[orh]


ya, is like all the elite, like a, there's like elitist mindset lah people don't like it lah


ya I understand


like a selection process kind of thing


, ya you'll you'll have people blaming the they start noticing the trend then you know


there'll be a lot of


they don't understand the that it's important to stay impartial and to look at things logically instead of just following their emotions and, doing whatever they want lah don't


matters which are


ya I think (ppc), honestly <mandarin>做:zuo </mandarin> student council, it's more than just about being popular or planning so called events lah which is basically just


glorified parties funded by the school lah correct honestly there's also it's it's way more than that because you know the student council is a bit like a civil servant you're not just there to look cool at a gala yearly gala and at the end of the day you sing the school song then everybody cries together for like half an hour that's it because student councillor at the end of the day you are still supposed to serve the students


right people give you all the achievement the CCA awards because you are doing something for people and what that means is that you have to as you said be ambassador lah you cannot just, waste the resources you have to not just be ambassador for the students but also for the school you where you have to speak up when there are issues because teachers are honestly more likely to listen to the student councillors lah because of the so called status that the school go and put on them


and so, cause of that you have to be very morally aware morally cautious and you have to understand that not everybody as lucky as you to be able to buy books every year not everybody as lucky to as you to be able to go to the canteen and buy anything you want, there're always people who need help


, ya ya it's a bit long but I think quite meaningful lah quite meaningful


oh ya hor, I think very interesting it's uh but


because it's very clear that honestly PAP is starting to lose touch lah a bit, they're starting to lose touch with young people like the PAP youth they try very hard <mandarin>他们一直:ta men yi zhi </mandarin> try <mandarin>一直:yi zhi </mandarin> try <mandarin>一直:yi zhi </mandarin> try


(uh huh), ah really really


but you look at the opposition right like PSP you have #tan cheng bock# very popular what <mandarin>每全部的年轻人哇看他哇这个:mei quan bu de nian qing ren wa kan ta wa zhe ge </mandarin> mister #tan cheng bock# <mandarin>哇这么:wa zhe me </mandarin> uh ah hypebeast #ah pek# !wah! <mandarin>这么可爱然后你就看:zhe me ke ai ran hou ni jiu kan </mandarin> #lee hsien loong#


ah


ya, the the moment you step step foot in #yio chu kang# you are in his territory there's no there's no escaping from him


think like a lot of people are used to the fact that PAP is around, so the moment you want any kind of change ah, you start looking everywhere else mah


but the problem is that, PAP has been winning for the past fifty over years, so naturally most people will end up gravitating towards the PAP mah


err


I mean <mandarin>我选别人我选:wo xuan bie ren wo xuan </mandarin> #chee soon juan# at the end of the day <mandarin>我还是有:wo hai shi you </mandarin> #lee hsien loong# ah, ah


ya for now lah but he's he's going to retire already mah, ya, it will be our #east coast# plan for the #east coast# residents of #east coast# plan,


but what do you think, too early to tell but but then how do you know


but is it is it because recently the opposition, they start to win


ya the the standard


the big changes suddenly ah


wait how did you how did you meet this you bump into him on the road or


these people that need help


, oh like cost efficient you know you want things you get things done


, ya I mean, this government is actually pretty good, by international standards by the problem is that because it is so good there's no reason to progress any further when we are we already see ourselves as number one and we believe that we're number one and we always tell us we're number one there's there's no reason for us to change and so when people overtake us we'll just be wrapped in our own delusion of oh you know not my #tai ji# what as long as I'm happy can already lah ya


oh China, ya that's the word decadence


ya !huh!, the opium war and all that ya


ya you'll you see, did you see the video as well there was this video of a, they actually had like to prove the point right ya they actually put the frog inside like a pan with water, then but they slowly heat it up but then I mean at the end they go and replace the frog lah then they put in like a fake frog


but at first you will think that it's a real frog that's like floating and bubbling and like dying inside is damn messed up then <mandarin>你看:ni kan </mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>你就想:ni jiu xiang </mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>这个人是:zhe ge ren shi </mandarin> animal abuser ah , then but at the end they did explain lah, but I think it drives home the point lah that, I mean


you must always be thinking about, what is what is the third person perspective exactly, like an if an alien were to come down and see what we're doing would the alien think that we got a chance to survive for the next fifty hundred years or would we actually be you know in trouble lah


it will you'll still run the ground lah like get stuck and stranded


ya, but but honestly right it is actually quite easy to figure out what is the right direction


they don't care


we we don't, we don't have to care


and the worst part is that once you start it's very hard to pull yourself out, unless you are very lucky for cameras to start rolling to your house then one of the <mandarin>演员:yan yuan </mandarin> comes in gives you a million dollars changes renovates your house and then shakes hands with you


but doesn't give you any more help beyond that, not sustainable also ya


ah <mandarin>你就开始想:ni jiu kai shi xiang </mandarin> lor,


ya the not my #tai ji# means #bo tai ji# to settle but, but to be fair to a lot of people <mandarin>其实他们你你想:qi shi ta men ni ni xiang </mandarin> ah <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> the average singaporean


I see the


it's it's very difficult lah actually


nobody will support you, it's very easy you get replaced very easily


ya you'll be everybody always thinks you will be much happier if you just go with the flow you know, go with whatever the government has set up for you and then your life will be quite comfortable it won't be great you won't be a millionaire or billionaire but you'll be comfortable I mean that's the mindset lah whether or not that's true I think


, ya we can't just ignore them just because they don't vote or they come from a different country


ya, in a way actually to be honest we don't have to, and it is and there is I don't think, it is <mandarin>公平:gong ping </mandarin> to create a system where we have to, like as citizens, it it may not be fair because now you're forcing people to to go the extra mile but I think we should lah try to encourage it


ya, you're just, drawing lines in the sand and then calling it a different colour at each side


ya <mandarin>两碗:liang wan </mandarin> lah <mandarin>两碗:liang wan </mandarin> lah <mandarin>不要讲到这么惨:bu yao jiang dao zhe me can </mandarin> lah


ya <mandarin>时时刻刻:shi shi ke ke </mandarin> lah <mandarin>不是每天:bu shi mei tian </mandarin> lah, , ya and on top of that then you know people ask you to go and help other people I don't think they're in the state of mind or state of body


ya he's he's , another person trying to survive, in the society as it is


ya but how actually how do you think we can like, overcome the problem of


but actually I think to some I mean, honestly it's true that <mandarin>我们新加坡人做工做得太太晚了:wo men xin jia po ren zuo gong zuo de tai tai wan le </mandarin> we are working too much but but I don't think it's fair to say that we should just work towards abolishing work as an idea because


for some people work by itself and engaging in like something productive hor <mandarin>跟对社会贡献:gen dui she hui gong xian </mandarin> is something that, that drives them and gives them purpose in life of course not everybody lah you know some people they are like family oriented you know they wish !wah! <mandarin>如果我每天可以回家:ru guo wo mei tian ke yi hui jia </mandarin> err <mandarin>跟我的:gen wo de </mandarin> err <mandarin>教我的孩子跟跟他们:jiao wo de hai zi gen gen ta men </mandarin> spend time


I think that that's the best for me but not everybody is like that you see, ya


ya we always claim that ya, of of needs ya


that's true


it's like you actually I think when you mentioned that I realised that it's because <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren </mandarin> they attach their self worth to the work they do


without realising that they're doing it so when it ends up <mandarin>他们的工作:ta men de gong zuo </mandarin> hor <mandarin>没有这么顺利:mei you zhe me shun li </mandarin> hor they start to realise why am I here they don't have anything else to attach themselves to and that's why the problem comes in lah when you over rely on one thing it's a bit like investing lor oh ya speaking of investing


I heard you wanted to invest in some things right


damn, so wait when did you put it, but, is there like like <mandarin>大概几时你的:da gai ji shi ni de </mandarin> returns will come in or you'll know like where how how much does it change


but, ya


that people people think that it's safe and then therefore you buy into it, ya I mean that's true so actually the safest is you buy many many farms and get people to work those farms oh wait no no no no no no no you pay the people


okay no that still sounds like slavery, , uh just hire like


ya, like, ya anything else you have ongoing projects, ya, oh ya


, ya


then some of them don't take the medicine as a result


damn so the guy bought alot of medicine over the years uh as in through


that is totally unfinished untouched


so basically it's not that the doctors, they cannot they don't understand the same language it's simply that doctors are just delegating it to the nurse lah then the nurse


, I think one of the main things you need to first ask yourself is like, who is your target audience is it young people or is it you know middle age I think most likely will be the young people cause they are the ones with the you know the passion the fire in their hearts


then I mean that's where usually people source for and there's a reason for that, (mmhmm), exactly so I think in that sense maybe an app would be more useful cause if you go and ask a even the middle age thirty forty year old guy to go and download an app right <mandarin>他们就会讲:ta men jiu hui jiang </mandarin> !huh! !hannor!


ya you want to slow down my, my <mandarin>电话:dian hua </mandarin> then all that become, ya, , iphone seven <mandarin>很旧了:hen jiu liao </mandarin> leh <mandarin>几年了:ji nian liao </mandarin>


err okay so the first question is if you had three wishes what would you wish for, so err for me I think <mandarin>我会选:wo hui xuan</mandarin> like, to have


the first wish would be to have unlimited wishes , then the second one would be to have like, abs and like not get fat no matter what I eat and not work out, and then the third will be like super smart, so like damn <mandarin>聪明:cong ming</mandarin> ya you


that's your first wish, , (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), don't really need wish to do that


, (mmhmm), oh okay, , cool cool cool


uh, I don't really understand it says if you drop everything to follow your dreams what will you risk, we, risk


and like, I don't know <mandarin>我也没有钱:wo ye mei you qian</mandarin> to lose


oh ya true that sounds like what she will say,


you know, but <mandarin>我怕:wo pa</mandarin> like, to try for all the interview and the test like <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> leh like SQ I don't know


ya I think I might try but I don't know, uh to read people's mind


ya I like that one eh I don't ya, who, oh ya oh forget about him , true


oh ya,


time capsule from myself, like what I will put inside, maybe like, a list of things I will like accomplish by the, I think <mandarin>你要小时候:ni yao xiao shi hou</mandarin> I'll be like oh <mandarin>长大我要当完空姐:zhang da wo yao dang wan kong jie</mandarin> whatever


then I'll probably be what, I put inside then <mandarin>以后我可以开来看:yi hou wo ke yi kai lai kan</mandarin> whether I achieve <mandarin>我以前想要:wo yi qian xiang yao</mandarin> achieve <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> ah, but I think nope


oh ya true every girl's dream


, I don't know negative or positive ones, uh, ya I think so like


err, then <mandarin>我还要结婚生孩子:wo hai yao jie hun sheng hai zi</mandarin> all this you know, I don't know, I think, I don't really know <mandarin>还有什么:hai you shen me</mandarin> leh


, oh it's like, in australia when I was in poly like we went to australia then <mandarin>他带我们去:ta dai wo men qu</mandarin> this farm


then <mandarin>我们吃羊肉:wo men chi yang rou</mandarin> lor but then like, like the <mandarin>羊肉:yang rou</mandarin> it was the first time I ate <mandarin>羊肉:yang rou</mandarin> then very like distinct then <mandarin>我不喜欢:wo bui xi huan</mandarin> I think my friend say like taste like beef, like you know you <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> raw <mandarin>臭臭的味道:chou chou de wei dao</mandarin> I don't know


ya, ya but I never but I don't like it then <mandarin>我没有吃:wo mei you chi</mandarin> Liao after that , ya


(mmhmm),


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


, I think <mandarin>那边的人也会比较:na bian de ren ye hui bi jiao</mandarin> like easily contented so they don't like really like work damn hard to like <mandarin>赚很多钱:zhuan hen duo qian</mandarin> and whatever just


like whatever that is sufficient for them to go on a day and like be happy with what they have I think


(mmhmm) (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), oh ya true but I think they have different difficulties as well so like, they have to worry whether <mandarin>有没有够鱼:you mei you gou yu</mandarin> in the sea for them to like, make a living, and like natural ya ya ya it's different concerns but ya I get it I think it's like <mandarin>比较简单的:bi jiao jian dan de</mandarin> lifestyle as compared to


like more developed cities [orh], , <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> meaning ah


, oh (hmm), ,


time !wow! [orh] eh, what


(uh huh), what you mean so you have unlimited time [orh] okay, [orh] true, does that mean we won't grow old


like, I don't want to live like this , but they don't grow old <mandarin>他们到:ta men dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> then they stop growing what like twilight


oh ya lah okay, cool I will wanna be a vampire,


ya lor hunting but in cities <mandarin>这种很难:zhe zhong hen nan</mandarin> hunt maybe like grow your own crops, I don't know what else do we need, build your own, house, that's all I guess there's nothing that we can really do what, if we don't have to work to survive


what else do people do, I don't know relax, enjoy, but then there's still


I feel, (mmhmm), what everyday activity would be a torture if you had to do it for eight hours straight


, workout, I'll rather die ya if I have to run, I can't even run like <mandarin>十五分钟叫我:shi wu fen zhong jiao wo</mandarin> run eight hours girl


uh that's not an everyday activity, oh ya true


, twenty four seven on call , oh ya <mandarin>他真的:ta zhen de</mandarin> psycho sia


oh, but you return <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> work phone Liao ah oh, oh, what is the pettiest reason that you would dislike someone


they can be only one of me , ya cause in secondary school there's this girl who <mandarin>跟我一样名:gen wo yi yang ming</mandarin> but <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> another surname lah but then


ya then <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> like spread rumors about <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> friend like <mandarin>有的没的真的:you de mei de zhen de</mandarin> then I'm like, !eww! <mandarin>你在败坏我们:ni zai bai huai wo men</mandarin> belinda <mandarin>的名:de ming</mandarin> eh okay, common


ya so I don't really like it ya, I don't know cause


but then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> didn't get to be captain, then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>吃醋:chi cu</mandarin> whatever that's quite lame but ya, how about what's yours


ah, in terms of work or what


that <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> achieve something ah okay, (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


, oh


that should be me , true true, oh ya, I mean sometimes I will feel this way also like <mandarin>为什么你先:wei shen me ni xian</mandarin> you know like it should be like me


but I don't know


, I don't know I would want to be, able to like talk very well or present, very well in front of people like <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> think on my feet then <mandarin>我不会怕:wo bu hui pa</mandarin> like, stage fright whatever cause <mandarin>我讲我会:wo jiang wo hui</mandarin> like nervous when <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> present or like talk in front of people but that is something that I hope


to <mandarin>以后:yi hou</mandarin> can master, then maybe I want to learn how to cook also like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> like very well, and, I don't know, I don't know oh my god, what's the third one


oh oh oh I want to learn how to uh <mandarin>打架:da jia</mandarin> like krav maga those kind ya


(mmhmm), oh okay


, (mmhmm)


oh language, actually <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> body language [orh] <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> youtube <mandarin>有看:you kan</mandarin> eh, like I saw some videos that teach you how to like identify whether like


or like look away like look to the left or right I can't remember one one of it, then, ya true but, I think it's true to a certain extent <mandarin>我没有自己:wo mei you zi ji</mandarin> like try <mandarin>过:guo</mandarin> lah cause I'm not, that observant, then it's like you can tell whether <mandarin>人家:ren jia</mandarin> like


whether by the by how their like, feet points towards you or away from you when they are talking to you, if like <mandarin>他们在跟你讲话:ta men zai gen ni jiang hua</mandarin> but <mandarin>他们脚:ta men jiao</mandarin> like pointing outwards means <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> like <mandarin>快点:kuai dian</mandarin> end the convo and leave


ya, oh ya true, and (ppc), ya ya


and you must have like very like, cause if you won't like you won't pick up all these signs


, I like reality TV , like selling sunset, or, like kardashians or like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> , horror shows, ya that's my that's my favourite actually then reality is second


!wah! <mandarin>你看完了没有:ni kan wan le mei you</mandarin> indian matchmaking, [orh] they all <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> like <mandarin>在一起:zai yi qi</mandarin> !hais! spoil ya, ya


you know at the end of the episode <mandarin>它:ta</mandarin> kind of <mandarin>有讲:you jiang</mandarin> what no meh, oh ya I research also ya they all <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> together, so I guess the matchmaker ain't that good anyway


[orh] like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> cop show ah, reality TV oh


eh isn't there one on netflix <mandarin>叫什么:jiao shen me</mandarin> ah, eh selling sunset <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> docu series what isn't it, but ya, ya lah like <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> drama ya


[orh] youtube ah, oh ya <mandarin>我也是喜欢我喜欢那种:wo ye shi xi huan wo xi huan na zhong</mandarin> like day in my life, day in my week <mandarin>或者:huo zhe</mandarin> cooking vlog, cause they don't really talk that much it's just like the


kind of feels, but not too much you know so like, not like purposely ASMR but just <mandarin>不要讲话:bu yao jiang hua</mandarin> like the video and just show you like cooking but you can hear the you know the sound


ya but if <mandarin>他讲话讲话我就不想煮:ta jiang hua jiang hua wo jiu bu xiang zhu</mandarin> lor, ya I miss living alone


true I still had a roommate


like what travelling, you want to have a show of your own, [orh]


[orh] true


oh ya lah true, I thought your <mandarin>你也是有:ni ye shi you</mandarin> vlog what with like I don't know instagram or something you can try posting on youtube like making vlogs


!huh! you did, so you have how many videos, on youtube, like vlogs ah


oh, , you're the only viewer


oh ya lah, (mmhmm)


, oh, one time in taiwan I was drunk then I roll down the stairs, but ya it was pretty fun


, oh ya <mandarin>你还有跟他讲话:ni hai you gen ta jiang hua</mandarin> mah, [orh]


#ang moh# <mandarin>是这样的:shi zhe yang de</mandarin> what, everything got story to tell for them ,


, natural disasters I feel or like COVID <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> pandemic, ya probably


in singapore, oh ya the herd immunity


it wouldn't work in singapore cause <mandarin>我们太小:wo men tai xiao</mandarin> Liao like if <mandarin>真的这样:zhen de zhe yang</mandarin> everybody just <mandarin>死到光:si dao guang</mandarin> Liao, ya but then I think actually <mandarin>已经:yi jing</mandarin> like the local government <mandarin>已经不错:yi jing bu cuo</mandarin> Liao in containing this


except for at the start when <mandarin>他叫人家不要:ta jiao ren jia bu yao</mandarin> like wear mask unless you are sick, not enough supply of mask, but then if they from the start <mandarin>就叫:jiu jiao</mandarin> everybody wear mask then maybe


it wouldn't have spread to this <mandarin>程度:cheng du</mandarin> I feel , I don't I don't know


(mmhmm), actually it's actually I think it's it will be okay leh like most of the businesses <mandarin>这些都开:zhe xie dou kai</mandarin> Liao what, [orh] ya lah <mandarin>一定会的:yi ding hui de</mandarin> lah but the whole world <mandarin>也是有:ye shi you</mandarin> mah so


we won't be the only one and, I don't think it would be the worst of also but I don't know lah cause singapore depend heavily on <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> economy, so I don't know


ya, ya of course ah it started from is it the bats one


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


it's the unsanitary living conditions to raise, (mmhmm)


they're what, oh so oh okay, but last time <mandarin>我们有:wo men you</mandarin> like swine flu all these what but how did we get through that, do they have a vaccine or not


I can't remember, oh is it, [orh] okay, is it SARS, oh ya ya, ya lah in recent


decades lor I think <mandarin>以前有更容易的:yi qian you geng rong yi de</mandarin> like what what's that called the the black plague ah, ya lah , ya ya ya


I I don't know whether that's completely true leh like <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> they're hiding <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> numbers but ya lah I think they're doing quite well also, cause ya cause they're the first to


ya unlike like, uh US <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> that they don't really care, so ya so the disease is proliferating


err, I think I'd rather fight one horsed size otter but then I I think it'll be cute to see a very very big otter, before I die


yup do horses eat people though, eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> otters eat people,


, , (hmm), I think I'll be served potatoes cause I always eat potatoes


uh, and I didn't harm anybody making those potatoes so, yup, (hmm)


(hmm), so like one side of the shoe, (hmm)


I don't know sia, free, err, , , (hmm) let me think oh my god


err, oh ya true


next day <mandarin>都硬:dou ying</mandarin> sia, the pearls will harden the next day, oh


but have to <mandarin>养两个人:yang liang ge ren</mandarin> so, I don't know, ya ya ya ya,


on his own, if your <mandarin>孩子:hai zi</mandarin> is nice to me then okay ah I think should be fine, ya, (oo) good looks or fit body


don't even have to be <mandarin>帅:shuai</mandarin> just <mandarin>看得顺眼不会:kan de shun yan bu hui</mandarin> Sian like , ya, fit body


uh, what if <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> spend <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> energy and effort to maintain <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> body then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like lah like you spend <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> energy and effort to maintain <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> body then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like


[orh] true okay, oh for myself, I think a good face cause face, I mean I can't change anything about it unless <mandarin>我整容:wo zheng rong</mandarin> but I don't plan to then body


control what you eat, and get what you want, ya, but if, if, you want a fit body you should start working out soon


for yourself or for other people, [orh], alright, ya like can go ya it can go both ways


ya lah so ultimately <mandarin>我觉得不是:wo jue de bu shi</mandarin> whether <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> fit or what <mandarin>帅:shuai</mandarin> or what it's like the personality, cause like even if <mandarin>他很普通:ta hen pu tong</mandarin> but <mandarin>他人很好:ta ren hen hao</mandarin> all these <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> shine <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> you know like <mandarin>看得出:kan de chu</mandarin> ah, ya


so if you get a chance to wake up as an actor one day what which actor would you want to become and why, (hmm), I want to be chris evans, captain america


america then <mandarin>他一直叫:ta yi zhi jiao</mandarin> people to vote like and like he uh like


advocate for voting against trump lor, ya <mandarin>他是那种很:ta shi na zhong hen</mandarin> vocal <mandarin>的那种艺人:de na zhong yi ren</mandarin> even though like it might like harm <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> like , career but <mandarin>他还是很:ta hai shi hen</mandarin> vocal when it comes to like <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> so I think , if <mandarin>我要当演员我要当这种:wo yao dang yan yuan wo yao dang zhe zhong</mandarin> you know like


like <mandarin>用他的:yong ta de</mandarin> platform and <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> power to speak up on things that matter, ya <mandarin>而且很帅:er qie hen shuai</mandarin> , oh


oh err what's her amy something is it, oh oh ya I just watched enchanted like, as in we watch enchanted like <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> amsterdam <mandarin>好看:hao kan</mandarin> sia


if <mandarin>这样的话要当:zhe yang de hua yao dang</mandarin> chinese actress why <mandarin>不要先:bu yao xian</mandarin> like


oh really meh but <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> Chio what, kinda like


I don't even remember how he look like


is it, but <mandarin>帅:shuai</mandarin> ah or what


(mmhmm), okay, [orh] I [orh] okay


so the show you like, include like, also or what, [orh] okay, oh okay it's pretty cool it's a cool concept


ya lor, ya, but it's too good to be true though, how do you meet the same person like, over and over again over different lives, if there is even different like lifetimes


I don't know


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm), (mmhmm) [orh] okay


if you were to eat one dish for the rest of your life what would it be, I just love potatoes in any form, so, ultimate, love,


flour, flour oh, [orh] like carbs, I don't know, is it


but flour <mandarin>你需要其他的:ni xu yao qi ta de</mandarin> ingredient mah, [orh] okay


[orh], , okay <mandarin>还有什么:hai you shen me</mandarin> question <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> Liao


(mmhmm), so is your main ingredient egg


but you still need egg , [orh] okay


, oh my god okay, job is it receptionist


oh then <mandarin>你昨天去:ni zuo tian qu</mandarin> interview is for which one, [orh] at restaurant, [orh] okay, full time ah, part time


oh ya true, ah <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> friend <mandarin>也是在那个那个:ye shi zai na ge na ge</mandarin> restaurant


[orh] okay, ha but at least there's somebody you know, [orh] okay


(mmhmm), err criteria ah


uh, or soft toys, then err


then er, like <mandarin>这跟我讲话的时候要:zhe gen wo jiang hua de shi hou yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>好好讲:hao hao jiang</mandarin> lor cause <mandarin>他一:ta yi</mandarin> like , so <mandarin>不可以一定要:bu ke yi yi ding yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>好好讲话:hao hao jiang hua</mandarin> not say <mandarin>斯文:si wen</mandarin> but just


ya, ya you, like, bring it


like korean style, okay, tall nose okay


[orh] curly hair curly or wavy [orh], I think straight hair <mandarin>比较好看:bi jiao hao kan</mandarin> eh no, oh


oh, (mmhmm)


oh, needs to be passionate about god church and people, can you ever date someone who is not christian, as in like long term leh like until like marriage, oh


true, oh, oh ya (hmm)


it's that hard to get in singapore, one point eight what, below one eight zero eh


what air force, okay what <mandarin>你你不是:ni ni bu shi</mandarin> what how tall are you one six, three, four, (mmhmm)


[orh] okay, (mmhmm), [orh] ya lah true, what if like what if he's one eight zero but <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>很瘦:hen shou</mandarin> like


like skin and bones, oh okay


(mmhmm), (uh huh), [orh] okay, [orh] ya lah


(mmhmm), , , but what if <mandarin>他没有一八零:ta mei you yi ba ling</mandarin> but <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> body <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> fit, oh


must be the height and the okay, oh okay, (mmhmm)


the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> china <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> ah [orh] okay, (mmhmm)


[orh] ya lah I don't like and it's somebody who will like restrict me, or whatever, okay


oh ya true ya that's a important one, [orh] okay, oh ya lah like support you in your growth and your change


(mmhmm), , true true that true that,


err, I wanted to visit like, poland russia like eastern europe, rather than <mandarin>那种很:na zhong hen</mandarin> , russia you know


but ya I didn't get to go, but soon ah [orh] <mandarin>我要回去:wo yao hui qu</mandarin> austria <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> like vienna and hallstatt, ya !wah! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> I was like in a dream, then it's very like the vibes there <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> peaceful <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> calm


, ya ya, but when I went


ya <mandarin>我们四个人走在路上:wo men si ge ren zou zai lu shang</mandarin> right then like some like police came then <mandarin>讲我们:jiang wo men</mandarin> have to walk in a single file eh, like <mandarin>不可以走在一起:bu ke yi zou zai yi qi</mandarin> have to like <mandarin>一个一个走:yi ge yi ge zou</mandarin> we were like !huh!, then like no no restaurants were open then no like, uh


call grabfood sia, ya then we went to <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> err , what's that called like, err, like tourist attraction but we couldn't enter ah <mandarin>他们很多:ta men hen duo</mandarin> historical sites all these ah but we couldn't enter so we can only like


but ya I was quite sad but then it was quite nice also cause <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> like, in vienna <mandarin>都空的:dou kong de</mandarin> sia, left a few shops, ya so it's quite sad next time round I want to visit


yes ya


[orh] like lifted Liao lah like the lockdown, especially italy is wasn't it very serious <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> COVID, at first


ya then after that <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> okay Liao I think they contain it Liao or something I don't know, [orh] not like ours ah indefinite <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> until


oh, oh so they can drive ah is it


!huh! <mandarin>美国:mei guo</mandarin> to turkey, or what I don't know where <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>我看到一个美国人还是去:wo kan dao yi ge mei guo ren hai shi qu</mandarin> turkey leh, I think there are still flights but not many, (mmhmm), who can go travlleing sia


, [orh] for next year ah oh ya some people say by next year <mandarin>应该可以出国:ying gai ke yi chu guo</mandarin> Liao but, I don't think so, I don't know leh


in february like next year february to korea, but I don't know whether she can still go, cause for this semester as in <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> semester <mandarin>我回来:wo hui lai</mandarin> mah, then for <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> the new semester like, so, I don't know whether my friend still can go for hers like next sem


ya, ya so I don't know like, the school <mandarin>还没有:hai mei you</mandarin> like cancel the next sem <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> exchange so maybe we can travel by then I don't know, ya lor


ya, ya and other areas might not be as like , harsh on like <mandarin>一定要带:yi ding yao dai</mandarin> mask or whatever so like you never know so <mandarin>你到那边你还是要带:ni dao na bian ni hai shi yao dai</mandarin> mask what, for your own safety even though it's not like, mandatory by the state


err actually <mandarin>蛮不错:man bu cuo</mandarin> leh, I kinda like it cause like, you know <mandarin>以前我一定:yi qiani wo yi ding</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>要图一点:yao tu yi dian</mandarin> makeup, to <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> town I mean now I can like just <mandarin>画一下:hua yi xia</mandarin> brow <mandarin>我就去:wo jiu qu</mandarin> Liao you know


ya, need to cover up like, pimple or whatever


I don't know breathing in your own like, carbon dioxide I don't know just just <mandarin>很闷:hen men</mandarin> then <mandarin>我的眼镜每次会:wo de yan jing mei ci hui</mandarin> fog up, ya then I can't see


how does it work though, oh okay, good idea


you will still wear what right cause, some people <mandarin>一定不会带:yi ding bu hui dai</mandarin> and you never know <mandarin>他们去哪里:ta men qu na li</mandarin> meet <mandarin>谁:shei</mandarin> whether <mandarin>他们有没有:ta men you mei you</mandarin> COVID, (mmhmm)


, oh ya lah ya lah true, ya same same , ya nobody <mandarin>会看一下:hui kan yi xia</mandarin> cause you can't really see their face


, , Tikopek at where though


!eww!, , (mmhmm), [orh] okay


stare <mandarin>回他:hui ta</mandarin> what will you do if <mandarin>人家:ren jia</mandarin> like <mandarin>一直:yi zhi</mandarin> stare at <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> on like public transport, ya lah they will feel, threatened, ya


that's why they are called Tikopek, yup, oh ya oh my god that's the worst but <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> Paiseh


#bukit panjang#, like <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> I don't know


, ya, ya and it's like <mandarin>我想:wo xiang</mandarin> just enjoy my music in peace, when I go somewhere you know like, on the way there


dressing up, !huh!, ya if you <mandarin>穿太美:chuan tai mei</mandarin> you know or, ya ya ya ya, I want to that's why I I love wearing like boots and like you know like dress up to <mandarin>出门:chu men</mandarin> but then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I don't like it when <mandarin>人家:ren jia</mandarin> like


like you look overdressed you know I don't want to be overdressed so like, ya, yes it it is your choice but then you cannot like stop people from looking at you but it makes me very uncomfortable


so I rather just, normal ya, even though I know I can wear like what I wanna wear,


(mmhmm), I don't know, alright, , true,


as in ya, I mean <mandarin>都已经:dou yi jing</mandarin> almost there Liao might as well finish it, eh so when is your school starting online school


[orh] september, is it like a part time <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> like you can study it anytime


so you need to submit assignments, okay, but you don't have to be like, you don't have to watch it real time right


[orh] okay, ya lah ya, (mmhmm),


, but then how, how are you going to work and do that at the same time since <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> weekly submissions though, !wow! okay


good job, good luck to you, no was just feel like full time study <mandarin>我都觉得辛苦:wo dou jue de xin ku</mandarin> Liao, ya lah true, ya ya


true, , oh ya <mandarin>你几时会搬去:ni ji shi hui ban qu</mandarin> ah


until the bed right ya <mandarin>阿嬷讲:a ma jiang</mandarin> ya, okay lah should be should be quite fast


ya she say she want stay there he can stay our house for the three weeks, then <mandarin>去那边家住:qu na bian jia zhu</mandarin> one week, ya I don't know how's it gonna work, okay bye


, I want find my husband , uh I need to meet my husband find my husband and get married so that's my first wish my second wish would be


err to get a house, at wherever, , wherever that I want lah, probably a big one


that's true so second but probably my second wish is that I'll have a very big business ah, err <mandarin>可是我觉得:ke shi wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>人身不可以这样我们需要:ren shen bu ke yi zhe yang wo men xu yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>学会做事情:xue hui zuo shi qing</mandarin> ya so then


probably I I will give the third wish to my mum, ya, ya, mine's the third so what's your second thing


like <mandarin>你会失去什么:ni hui shi qu shen me</mandarin> I think, err I think I will lose, think I'll get uh I don't think I'll lose anything I just get a lot of scoldings from my mom


, , then my mother will say


!huh!


but you never try you never know girl, okay, if you have unusual superpower what would it be, ya me too I totally agree on that


you know whose minds I wanna read, my boss , oh sorry not my boss my ex boss


ya okay, if you found a time capsule from your yourself ten years ago what would be inside,


, , !wow! so motivational


, but <mandarin>按照你这个思路想你知道我里面会放什么:an zhao ni zhe ge si lu xiang ni zhi dao wo li mian hui fang shen me</mandarin> mah


no lah not every girl wants to be a #tai tai#, , what labels do you think you have been given by society


never never specify


ya, uh ya I agree


oh so that was the first time you ate, [orh], [orh],


I think it's either, at, Galang, or at, uh one of the mission trip I went, so they both had like a similar background in a sense like it's


at the sea and then <mandarin>是那种:shi na zhong</mandarin>


ya that kind like it's memorable for me because I felt like, I felt like life is weird, it's like, you know like you're in city you are in the city and then like


you, you have everything here so you have the electricity you have the water, you have education, but it's more difficult for you to make it here, whereas in, whereas there


it's like you have so little, but, you don't really worry about food, or what do you have to wear what do you have to live on


然后 ya I think that's why it's memorable for me it's like it's like they're poor but they're able to feed you and the food is good and and if you were to get the exact same amount of fresh food in in the city area


it cost you a fortune


but you see uh like , just so that you can put bread on the table, but whereas when you are there you work hard but you don't really


in a sense quote unquote depend, on anyone you just go to the sea you fish and then you put food on the table, you can make a good living out of it you didn't you don't really have to worry so much and like they have


a roof over their head eh I mean it's not the best beds but


like <mandarin>生活变得简单很多然后你我觉得他会让我觉得说:sheng huo bian de jian dan hen duo ran hou ni wo jue de ta hui rang wo jue de shuo</mandarin>


like, like we are getting more and more developed in terms of like our technology but life is getting more and more difficult


ya, disasters right ya ya, ya ya so that was my most like, a more more memorable


meals I had, (mmhmm) (hmm) (hmm),


I wish time is free, yes, like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>你知道时间它是一个很:ni zhi dao shi jian ta shi yi ge hen</mandarin>


what if what if time is free, ya, ya, ya then like you really you literally can like explore all that you want, ya, and you can be a


you probably will grow old but you not you will not die , I think that's how like the concept of vampire came about


like the concept of vampires like that ah ya, me too


ya man


oh yes running, uh I think for me is, being in the same room with a with my angry ex boss


I mean I mean it's close to everyday for me already okay, everyday I have to like wait for like I mean previously when I was working, everyday I had to like


, then after that like <mandarin>会嫌弃一个:hui xian qi yi ge</mandarin> new drama


!huh! really


ya, what did she do, spread rumours <mandarin>为什么她:wei shen me ta</mandarin> bully <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> friend


[orh] so they jealous, oh K okay, , err, pettiest reason,


like I plan to do something, but like this person, happen to do it, faster than me, like in life


uh for like <mandarin>可是我没有这样讲:ke shi wo mei you zhe yang jiang</mandarin> lah but you know like they will ask like oh what's your future plan I'll probably say I don't know


like other <mandarin>国家读书什么这样这样我有我想做的事情:guo jia du shu shen me zhe yang zhe yang wo you wo xiang zuo de shi qing</mandarin> lah, and then like, before I even start it then I met <mandarin>她讲说:ta jiang shuo</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我前天才要去上一颗日文课:wo qiani tian cai yao qu shang yi ke ri wen ke</mandarin> eh


in my heart I'm gonna be like, god why like hello excuse me why !huh! , , stop it ah, ya I felt like that's like my pettiest reason to like, ya


ya correct correct


if you can instantly master three new skills what would it be


[orh]


[orh] okay, uh I think my three skills would be, uh I think, ya like one of them is like <mandarin>身体的:shen ti de</mandarin> so like either like <mandarin>我会打架:wo hui da jia</mandarin> or I <mandarin>会跳舞:hui tiao wu</mandarin> ya


then, how to read body language, ya


so that like <mandarin>如果我再遇见像我的上一个老板这样的人的时候:ru guo wo zai yu jian xiang wo de shang yi ge lao ban zhe yang de ren de shi hou</mandarin> like I kinda know like what they think without having to know what they think, ya, then <mandarin>第三个就是我希望我可以:di san ge jiu shi wo xi wang wo ke yi</mandarin> like


, it's either <mandarin>我学会我很会赚钱:wo xue hui wo hen hui zhuan qian</mandarin> or like <mandarin>我我很可以我可以很快的:wo wo hen ke yi wo ke yi hen kuai de</mandarin> pick up <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> language,


but don't know how true is that


like <mandarin>可是我觉得:ke shi wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>这件事情因人而异:zhe jian shi qing yin ren er yi</mandarin> so like ya everyone is different, I mean like generally like it's true lah but I felt like you must be with this person like long enough, ya


, ya, which genre of drama or TV show do you enjoy the most


ya, ya,


then <mandarin>我问她你去:wo wen ta ni qu</mandarin> research ah <mandarin>她讲没有姐姐去:ta jiang mei you jie jie qu</mandarin> research them [orh] , it's so sad man


[orh] but like I hope that there's like a docu series <mandarin>我很想看:wo hen xiang kan</mandarin> docu series, to a certain extent


it's just like it's like a lot exaggerated and like dramatized ya, , ya


ya why do you particularly like korean cooking vlog,


oh you like ASMR things


oh, you will never you never left you never lived alone okay even if it even in when when you're in amsterdam you never lived alone ya


, err


, it could be or uh they already have a show of their own like, ya and they they they they like make it already so like ya <mandarin>我会想看这种因为我会觉得说:wo hui xiang kan zhe zhong yin wei wo hui jue de shuo</mandarin> like <mandarin>不是每一个人的:bu shi mei yi ge ren de</mandarin> vlog


ya and and like all the cinematics aspects, and the thing is like <mandarin>你没有办法去:ni mei you ban fa qu</mandarin> , like


direct <mandarin>你的自己的人生可是你可以:ni de zi ji de ren sheng ke shi ni ke yi</mandarin> direct <mandarin>你自己的:ni zi ji de</mandarin> vlog ya, ya lah ya lah I do I do I do but, I did, I did


uh, quite a lot actually, yes, not vlogs not particularly vlogs but like I have quite a few like no probably more than ten, ya that's quite a lot right, ya but like


uh apparently <mandarin>没有没有人对我的人生有兴趣所以只可以我对都自己的人生有兴趣:mei you mei you ren dui wo de ren sheng you xing qu suo yi zhi ke yi wo dui dou zi ji de ren sheng you xing qu</mandarin> , ya ya but I just like the cinematics aspects of it like how they edit, ya, I enjoy that part,


oh my goodness, !wow!


shut up lah <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>我觉得你不尊重我的:wo jue de ni bu zun zhong wo de</mandarin> effort


yup, , ya


what do you think of COVID, what do you think of COVID and singapore that's what I wanna ask, like like you know like how the whole world like deal with like singapore right how the whole deal with COVID it's like you see london


it's like they have like the, ya ya ya like <mandarin>你觉得:ni jue de</mandarin> like, like, ya that's why


like <mandarin>你觉得:ni jue de</mandarin> economic wise right like like <mandarin>你觉得:ni jue de</mandarin> like


but the suffering like


, okay okay, , ya I think


humans will die of natural disaster also but that is because we don't take care of our earth, I felt that that's, and I think COVID happened because of that also I started from inside the bad son I don't know if it's a bad I just think that like to because like one, I don't know if it's the bat I just think that like it's because like <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> you know <mandarin>我那昨天在看多一个:wo na zuo tian zai kan duo yi ge</mandarin> like doc like <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> video <mandarin>他也讲:ta ye jiang</mandarin> right


, we don't have a lot of space to <mandarin>养那些猪和鸭:yang nei xie zhu he ya</mandarin> and whatever that we're eating the poultries


so they have very compact space


and it's very prone to, so it's very it's prone to like you know bacterias and stuff, to virus and what happened the old then and then the videos like saying that the only reason that we're not getting a device because they are fed antibiotics, and what happen the then and then the video was like saying that the only reason that we're not getting any virus is because they are fed antibiotics, like <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> animal they're fed


antibiotics, ya <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> like, ya, ya ya ya, I remember we do, ya


and it wasn't that bad,


so like you know we're just like reading it off the book, like it doesn't really apply to us


ya that's possible


yup okay , would you rather fight one horse sized otter or one hundred otter sized horses, I rather die,


!wow! okay, , I'll just let them eat me, ya, I don't think so


, ya, you're at the dining you're dining at a new restaurant called karma it doesn't have a menu simply get what you deserve what food will you be served, I will be served abalone


okay, , what would be the worst buy, one get one free sale ever the worst ah


like <mandarin>你买一你买:ni mai yi ni mai</mandarin> first half of it <mandarin>他现在送你:ta xian zai song ni</mandarin> second half of it, ya ya ya ya, , , ya I also


okay for me it's because it it should come it should come in pairs ah,


but can you imagine like if you if you are a loner you have no siblings, that's what you always do right


!huh! but !wah! <mandarin>现在买大送小很好:xian zai mai da song xiao hen hao</mandarin> eh, [orh] if you are a if you are a guy you mean, [orh] okay okay okay, okay okay so <mandarin>如果你是一个女的可是:ru guo ni shi yi ge nv de ke shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> marry <mandarin>一个男的:yi ge nan de</mandarin> then <mandarin>你买大送小你:ni mai da song xiao ni</mandarin> okay mah


but you have, okay okay, okay okay


fit body, I can accept I can accept like seemingly ugly guy ,


then <mandarin>你没有谈恋爱:ni mei you tan lian ai</mandarin> ah


no they say it's like which one would you prefer like, I'm talking about like, for other people ,


, ya ya that's right


oh, oh


, , uh for me emma watson, or, , or


I can't remember her name


ya <mandarin>我觉得我觉得她演得很好:wo jue de wo jue de ta yan de hen hao</mandarin> ya, ya, then uh,


(ppc), oh my god do you know how bad her acting is, !eww! no, no <mandarin>我会想要演:wo hui xiang yao yan</mandarin> uh <mandarin>演杨幂或只是变成<P1>杨幂</P1>是因为她跟那个趙又廷有演那个三生三世:yan yang mi huo zhi shi bian cheng yang mi shi yin wei ta gen na ge zhao you ting you yan na ge san sheng san shi</mandarin> oh my god


yes he, no <mandarin>他他:ta ta</mandarin> okay so <mandarin>三生三世:san sheng san shi</mandarin> is like <mandarin>你有三生:ni you san sheng</mandarin> right, like <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> three life right so like <mandarin>你有今生今世前世还有下一辈子:ni you jin sheng jin shi qian shi hai you xia yi bei zi</mandarin> right


ya like <mandarin>不管是在什么:bu guan shi zai shen me</mandarin> like scenario right <mandarin>你怎样让他们:ni zen yang rang ta men</mandarin> meet [orh]


, ya, ya, ya so I mean <mandarin>我不相信今生前世还要下一辈子这件事情所谓的啦可是我觉得:wo bu xiang xin jin sheng qian shi hai yao xia yi bei zi zhe jian shi qing suo wei de la ke shi wo jue de</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>这个专情专的够好:zhe ge zhuan qing zhuan de gou hao</mandarin> like <mandarin>你每次: ni mei ci</mandarin> meet <mandarin>这个人你都爱上这个人:zhe ge ren ni dou ai shang zhe ge ren</mandarin> is like


then it's like, ya


I think it's like I think it's like, constant, like, okay whenever like I hear about like preaching in church they always say like err, men only need three things, uh consistency


err, I I can't remember the other two like strength and something else but it's consistency is key because like when you're consistent with your things right whatever that you choose


like ya if you if you constantly put her as a second priority


ya, so <mandarin>我觉得是那个:wo jue de shi na ge</mandarin> portion lah, ya


okay I was thinking about, uh flour, ya, ya, any form of flour, cake, noodles, ya, I can just add soy sauce and then it would taste like fabulous


ya then


uh


, 做


like <mandarin>如果有:ru guo you</mandarin> wheat ah like, rice like I can make flour I can make porridge I can make, !wah! I can make so many things leh, I can even make spaghetti eh with egg


no my main ingredient is flour, I mean just saying ah, without egg is just noodles [orh], yup err I guess we still have about six or to ten minutes right is it


oh we still have twenty minutes eh, , ya


it's supposed to be today but I change it to tomorrow, server, , part time


uh at this place after you start working, then like <mandarin>我要去那边做工哪里可以做:wo yao qu na bian zuo gong na li ke yi zuo</mandarin> nails <mandarin>而且我做:er qie wo zuo</mandarin> server eh, then <mandarin>他跟我讲:ta gen wo jiang</mandarin> very flexible one, can, [orh] my friend <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> chef


ya but I don't know if he's gonna work there for long, ya, , ya, (ppc), yup yup, what's your boyfriend criteria


how's your dating ife now


, I have very specific, criteria, like <mandarin>我希望:wo xi wang</mandarin> okay out on the outside right


like on his appearance, and and no no any kind of small eyes but, nice looking small eyes, and then, any kind of wavy hair is good and then no matter fine or thick and then err tall nose


ya ya, eh <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> realise that <mandarin>只要有这个:zhi yao you zhe ge</mandarin> combination, ya wavy wavy wavy hair


, ya and then on the inside I hope that <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> love god definitely and then


needs to be passionate about god church and people, and then plays an instrument, I did date before what, probably not


(ppc) because like, there's so many things that he we mean I we cannot, ya we we we kind of thing, be in sync, ya like lifestyle wise, ya


ya, one point eight to one point six I think it's a good height for me, one point eight, zero, so one eight zero to one eight six


below one eight zero <mandarin>的话我觉得他会需要穿那种比较厚的球鞋:de hua wo jue de ta hui xu yao chuan na zhong bi jiao hou de qiu xie</mandarin> ,


I'm one six three, but the thing is right when I go okay one to not her thing is like when I go out with a guy right I need to feel small when I'm around them, like I need to feel like I'm taken care of and I will be taken care of, like I need to feel that he's like bigger than me


like in appearance wise, that's why I said I said I said cannot like I that's why I say like I'd rather like prefer like a good body and a good face


anything happens, ya


like I tell you already like I need I need like ya the height and ya ya hired a few small it's like there's a sign okay lector, ya ya I need to feel small beside this person I need to feel protected


which is my ex boyfriend, and then like <mandarin>会变成:hui bian cheng</mandarin> that like <mandarin>他不喜欢我穿高跟鞋了那个:ta bu xi huan wo chuan gao gen xie le na ge</mandarin> china lah or you kind of <mandarin>穿高跟鞋:chuan gao gen xie</mandarin> apple <mandarin>想要做这个:xiang yao zuo zhe ge</mandarin> thought lah cause <mandarin>我就觉得:wo jiu jue de</mandarin> like, ya ya <mandarin>他不喜欢我穿高跟鞋他不喜欢我做这个做那个:ta bu xi huan wo chuan gao gen xie ta bu xi huan wo zuo zhe ge zuo na ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就会觉得:wo jiu hui jue de</mandarin> like


like okay <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like if <mandarin>你要跟一个人在一起:ni yao gen yi ge ren zai yi qi</mandarin> right, and not


ya so like, that's why like, ya that's why like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like if you have if I have someone that is like


of a different value system, because like whatever that you are working towards is already different, <mandarin>所以我觉得:suo yi wo jue de</mandarin> true to that true that


so pretty right ya, ya ya ya ya like, but <mandarin>那边很漂亮:na bian hen piao liang</mandarin> it's like it's got like the paris feel without like the very touristy vibe right ya ya


ya that's why like when your <mandarin>妹妹跟我讲说:mei mei gen wo jiang shuo</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>不可以去:bu ke yi qu</mandarin> paris Liao <mandarin>你要去哪里我讲我们可以去:ni yao qu na li wo jiang wo men ke yi qu</mandarin> vienna lah , oh no


, ya ya ya ya ya ya ya


!aww! okay, , K lah, ya


okay I think what happen in overseas right now is that they're able to go overseas already,


yup yup yup, uh !wah! I don't know eh <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>我看那一个美国人他去:wo kan na yi ge mei guo ren ta qu</mandarin> turkey eh


ya, then after that uh <mandarin>我那天去:wo na tian qu</mandarin> koi interview right <mandarin>他们问我:ta men wen wo</mandarin> do you have plans for like travelling I'm like !huh! no, then <mandarin>他跟我讲说有人:ta gen wo jiang shuo you ren</mandarin> interview <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> have plans for travelling for next year eh


I'm like !wow! you have great faith eh


oh, okay, like <mandarin>现在你去哪里:xian zai ni qu na li</mandarin> right


wherever you go ah, then <mandarin>你还要:ni hai yao</mandarin> like, just for COVID , ya


!wow! then <mandarin>你拿下来吃饭:ni na xia lai chi fan</mandarin> leh,


, I don't know


like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, like


so <mandarin>我觉得带面具:wo jue de dai mian ju</mandarin> uh <mandarin>带口罩是一个:dai kou zhao shi yi ge</mandarin> like


no it's like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, I'm not a free I'm not a free show you know, ya and then like <mandarin>那天我去吃饭:na tian wo qu chi fan</mandarin> right, then <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> uncle <mandarin>站在那边看我:zhan zai na bian kan wo</mandarin> eh, and he, and he <mandarin>看我:kan wo</mandarin> like


it's an enjoyment for him when he's eating eh, I'm like, hello excuse me and you know like because like <mandarin>我们已经带口罩带了这样就:wo men yi jing dai kou zhao dai le zhe yang jiu</mandarin> so like <mandarin>你没有这么:ni mei you zhe me</mandarin> sensitive anymore


I will look at that person most of the time when I look at the person the person will stop looking at me


but uncle doesn't doesn't stop you know, uncles don't stop uncle will like continue, ya


!huh! <mandarin>你会回答他:ni hui hui da ta</mandarin> ah, ya I know but like <mandarin>我不想要:wo bu xiang yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>让不相干人的人知道这件事情我觉得:rang bu xiang gan ren de ren zhi dao zhe jian shi qing wo jue de</mandarin> it's like I feel very like


, ya but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like it's like dressing up in singapore is like, kind of like weird also


freedom what, I feel like slapping them whenever they look at me like that because I feel like it's my freedom it's like <mandarin>我觉得这个是我的自由:wo jue de zhe ge shi wo de zi you</mandarin> I'm entitled to have this choice you know


that's why I like wearing mask after that ya, normal,


, ya, ya I guess that's that for today


I mean <mandarin>十二块钱不是很多:shi er kuai qian bu shi hen duo</mandarin> lah but it's two cup of Boba tea you know


that's right, uh, online school uh it's starting during september, ya but I'm gonna choose my modules soon


no it's full time so it's a full time thing but it's distant learning so it's designed for distant learning so you don't have to be there on a certain time but they have uh they their assignment is on a weekly basis, so you don't have to be there on a certain time but they have a they their assignment is on a weekly basis, weekly okay so by the soap at the start of the week they'll give you probably a lecturer


so by the so by the start of the week they'll give you, probably a lecture, probably last a few hours, you have to sit there and watch it through lah, no I don't have to, but you have to follow their timing when you're submitting like uh you know the assignments and then you probably have quite a few reading materials


to do to so that you can do your assignments alongside alongside with the lecture lah, I mean like, I mean the idea of it is like fun but then how how are you going to work and do that at the same time since your weekly submissions


why you give me that face


ya , ya