ya so I always choose to, I always choose to sleep downstairs, because, I I scared I fall over because, my mum always told me that when I sleep, I will


roll around correct ya so I am not really stable when I sleep usually I will eh, !wah!, ya that's why <mandarin>有时早上我起来:you shi zao shang wo qi lai</mandarin> !wah!


so <mandarin>通常我是:tong chang wo shi</mandarin> sleep downstairs lah but, during my stay in, in err Sembawang, I know I don't know actually, err every three o'clock, in the night


I will eh yes every night three AM I will automatically, woke up, ya I'm not sure why I always woke up, ya during the, one big stay I'm not sure, it's like


two weeks time, uh, err wake up exactly three AM but I saw there's a, because actually my bed is near to the window, and I saw some white colour


and, uh, it's a, it's not a long hair lady lah it's just a white colour things float around it's


it's not a figure it's like a cloth cloth, just flashed through my eyes, ya eh I that's why, I I, every morning actually I tell my friend


have you saw any like, you know everyone sleep until very sweet sweet sweetly, soundly ah


because actually during the day, we exert a lot of energy ah during our day so for me, because of this incident, are you let me think until now lah of what actually what made me always


woke up at three AM, ya,


[orh] upper ah so <mandarin>你是很喜欢睡上面:ni shi hen xi huan shui shang mian</mandarin> ah, [orh], the the number [orh]


[orh]


, ya when I go to the field camp ya it's always buddy system, always in pair ya do everything in pair lah


then you actually shadows on the wall,


, [orh], !wah! admin ah


eh jonathan <mandarin>你是:ni shi</mandarin> sergeant, [orh], in two years in the NS do have learned anything do you learn anything


for me err, in NS you can sum up in two two roads, one is one is a disciplinary road another is a welfare rule, correct, those disciplinary is they you know


master sergeant ah if you do anything wrong they will, err, method out some punishment to you lah, while some welfare is like you know RQ ah, they actually ah order food for you take care of your supper


take care of your laundry yes, it's a welfare road so for me, as a CQ, I'm a like a mother okay taking care of my men welfare so from you know from NS I had learned a lot actually be a mother is not easy lah


because you need to take care of a lot of people, a lot of responsibility you need to upheld, uphold, err


and not only responsibility sometimes, when you make some mistake, you will sort it out, ya just like err, I just think that, eh learn learn from this mistake, learn from this mistake and don't repeat the same mistake


in the future ya I think that is very important for me to you know realize my mistake


uh,


, , usually what is your day day to day operation


[orh] war time and peace time ah


, so during let's say there's a war come come come up, ya so what will you do, during the war, okay lah I mean as our men


, [orh] so you are the front line


, because communication is very important


so <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> department <mandarin>有没有包过:you mei you bao guo</mandarin> err, those like, encryption, encryption those that enemy code


[orh] secret lah, ,


, yes yes, , eh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> what's your salary ah


after that, !wow!, !wah! <mandarin>好多:hao duo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我才八百五而已:wo cai ba bao wu er yi</mandarin> eh


which one learn more


[orh]


it didn't, what about your poly life, ya, eh <mandarin>你是读什么:ni shi du shen me</mandarin> poly, I forgot already


ah clean energy ah solar energy <mandarin>还是什么:hai shi shen me</mandarin> energy


!huh! solar power so, , do regret uh studying err solar power


because, why I say that is err, during my JC actually I regret, some of the topic that I took, you you see err I took, bio H one, actually <mandarin>我真的很想要拿:wo zhen de hen xiang yao na</mandarin> H two lah


bio dropped from H two to H one lor, ya so, when I share this with my friends my friend say !wah!


because H two you will actually learn a lot of interesting stuff, like those more, more more things that you can explore in your human body, ya like viruses bacteria


but I think, ya


JC ah, err <mandarin>不会这么随不会这么不会这么懂怎么:bu hui zhe me sui bu hui zhe me bu hui zhe me dong zen me</mandarin> socialize


so err usually when after school I will just go to the library to study, ya with my friends so I only got a couple of friends is uh like those like my study friends, ya


err, honestly speaking, I don't I like I like learning and studying but I don't like, studying for the sake of, examination, I don't like examination


okay for me it's like you know I I always think, the singapore education there's a flaw, ya so you see


[orh], you see ah you cannot it's like a, everyone got their own strength, you cannot ask a dog


to, err compare with fish, okay on the ground, and also you cannot ask fish to compare with the bird when you fly


uh be fair just <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> fair <mandarin>一点:yi dian</mandarin> ah, ya


err, so I don't think singapore education err provide everyone an equal footing


I think singapore have no choice singapore you know lack of talent, so their uh sorry their their only resources


yes, they don't have raw material like malaysia, saudi arabia ya, ya correct


founding father, ah, ,


, okay <mandarin>对我觉得李光耀先生:dui wo jue de li guang yao xian sheng</mandarin>


he is definitely a, smart person lah I think is uh singapore is err very lucky to have this err, you know prime minister #lee kuan yew# to actually take care of the of singapore land


and actually a lot of singaporean, ah, from my experience, a lot of singaporean actually take everything for granted ya so actually it's not, when you think about last time the living standard, you can actually cannot compare to now lah the living standard


ya last time the fishing from a fishing village you know, ya there's no skyscraper, ya there's no clean water I remember my history teacher told us no clean water and the food is you know


street food ya, and, not every house, not everyone got got house lah so I think, ya, so I think singapore, as compared to many country


has really uh did a very good do a good job, in bringing up the country to, what it's now lah


(mmhmm) , to, ,


uh, !wow!, johnathon, I met you like, we have we have since, meet each other for around, how many years


[orh] sec one, how many years already, oh two zero one one !wow!, uh, uh, !wah! <mandarin>这么久了我们认识我觉得你讲的话是最聪明的:zhe me jiu le wo men ren shi wo jue de ni jiang de hua shi zui cong ming de</mandarin>


err, you know


, it's for itself symbolizes a lot,


ya activity <mandarin>就是你看每次你会看到有节目:jiu shi ni kan mei ci ni hui kan dao you jie mu</mandarin> ah, ah <mandarin>有空中:you kong zhong</mandarin> air parachute <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> someone sing


!wah! that's a good gesture, to thank the front line doctor nurse,


I means, , other western countries like you know like certain country ah so I believe singapore can you know like


, mindset


yes <mandarin>说的好:shuo de hao</mandarin> I agree


when will, end


, next year next year


err end of next year


ya,


oh <mandarin>六年后开始建:liu nian hou kai shi jian</mandarin> !wah!, !hais!


!hais!


COVID nineteen, a lot of company actually retrench a lot of workers, and I feel that this is the time that, being an entrepreneur there's an advantage


, oh you ya you mentioned the the latest uh the two one weeks ago one


three days [orh] the lebanon, the middle east, oh, what what happen actually


, uh, ,


, after the explosion the house is very messy and there's a old lady, playing piano there !wah! the melody


the contrast is !wah!


!wah! <mandarin>很团结:hen tuan jie</mandarin> leh, ,


article, so this article is about a why COVID nineteen is so hard to eliminate, ya and, the article is quite interesting


it's it's saying that, our immune system <mandarin>有两种:you liang zhong</mandarin> immune system, immune system


you <mandarin>你有细菌感染:ni you xi jun gan ran</mandarin> ah, err and the body will actually err generate a lot of antibodies okay is the the antibodies is very general, okay so this is part of the innate


immune system ability lah to generate all the, and a lot of various antibody to fight the bacteria, the second thing is err, is adaptive immune system means that err actually the adaptive immune system, will err


create, specialize, antibody that fight the, uh, bacteria, so


hard to do eliminate is because, err, the, second adaptive immune system is kind of err, very blur you know <mandarin>他们很模糊他们不懂要出什么:ta men hen mo hu ta men bu dong yao chu shen me</mandarin> antibody <mandarin>来杀那个:lai sha na ge</mandarin> COVID nineteen


so, err, err vaccination


adaptive immune system, cannot allow the adaptive immune system to create a specialized antibody ya so is there's a lot of uncertain uncertainties behind


for <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> lah, what the traits that you are looking for correct


!wah! filial, [orh], I have, oh kind hearted,


if if if someone, err, then you don't talk about, treating other people uh, good lah


you know even if you if you can't really take care of your parents you know, how can I expect you to treat me well, ya so this the first quality, second quality is as you mention


I don't like those that girl that you know always stick to me, ya and I like more


independent girls, ya but I know this quite hard because usually girls, uh, well, want to stick to their, boyfriend, am I right to say that


ah


, <mandarin>说的好说的好就是不要不要太过极端:shuo de hao shuo de hao jiu shi bu yao bu yao tai guo ji duan</mandarin> lah, don't be too extreme


but, , this will give us some times to really, sit down and talk seriously


err, good deal lah


oh telegram ah, what telegram you join, !wow! how many people inside, !wah!


, , oh


a lot of business opportunity especially from start up businesses investor, I think you should join this group, I think it's good for your, long term prospects, ya I think the actually I know the founder, the founder is quite, friendly


ya, I think the founder is quite strict, I saw him err, actually he start this company four years ago, ya I think he's, I I think around five years ya ya because like five years


since the start the event since they start the their first event at november, ya I think it's more than that, or less than that


four years lah four years, ya I think, incorporation, no, incorporation ya, they told me that officially incorporation is three years, but before they incorporate


no lah <mandarin>不是不是是我朋友:bu shi bu shi shi wo peng you</mandarin> lah, oh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我只是谦虚而已:wo zhi shi qian xu er yi</mandarin>


uh,


I think ya it's a good really a good opportunity, err yes to really sit down and talk you know, you have known each other for quite err many years ya,


hello #cheng an# okay, so, let's do this, okay let's see the prompts that they have for us


, eh, so it's basically like a


earning earning money through talking right, as in, and the fact that is, so <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> earning money to talking right


eh <mandarin>不可以全部你讲华文没讲英文:bu ke yi quan bu ni jiang hua wen mei jiang ying wen</mandarin> what, ya, this project is about speaking english, and the main purpose of this project


according to the one that I see, on telegram group, is, let me see ah, okay, the main purpose of this project


oh is about nation singlish speech recognition tech okay, ya, any ghosts


but why, is it cause the seventh month coming Liao, but do you know the, ghosts do you know the err


ghost festival is coming, in two weeks' time, but chinese tradition, ya, it's it's nineteen august so which is in, err eleven days


err so when the tradition comes, my parents and I will, buy some incense paper from the store, and then head down to the, carpark area, where they where they have this like you know the bin thing


for you to like burn your paper and all, but, okay


ah <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> Pantang cannot say this kind of thing ah in the office ah especially, the whole corridor is so quiet only got two of us here in the office, okay lah but I mean, this is a chinese tradition ah once a year thing so must do


have basic respect for it lah, so just do what we can do like the basics, of like, burning those papers, all those homeless ghost, like they need food lah they need money


ya, like they unlock during this period to come to, , is, it's on your own belief lah I guess


so it depends, buddhist, okay lah I mean it's kind of like err, chinese tradition thing not really


, being bothered to different, or religion mah, it's more of like a race thing okay lah also depends lah if you are christian you are like a free thinker you won't believe, this, as much as compared to being a buddhist lah, or taoist


so naturally, I came from a buddhist, family mah like err, err, I will, I would say


err, I I do believe, err okay lah <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> it's like, how to say ah, ya everyone, to singapore will Tio bad karma one mah


so when the time comes you will, have your own like how to say payback lor when you're like, in another like place and all, so as long as, I mean, as human try to have a pure conscience can already lor


is it directed translate from, so what was what's the saying in chinese, francis grose,


okay lah I think to a certain, a degree, ghost is, a lot on your own mental it's a it's a very mental thing, so like be it like whether you're a religious person or not


as long as, like, err you feel that, like say let's say you are guilty of something actually you'll be afraid of like, be it like say police lah or, ghosts and this kind of thing, so it's it's like a very supernatural thing like that affects you mentally then makes you think of


it's like all the, bad stuff to come to you lah after you did something wrong, ya so I mean like there's a chinese saying goes that if, err


you just have to know err, cause you are very like, precious person mah <mandarin>你有正义感:ni you zheng yi gan</mandarin> and all then naturally you won't have to be afraid of anything that comes to haunt you or whatsoever lah or when your <mandarin>仇家:chou jia</mandarin> come down for you


, some of us, okay


brunei,


okay, okay,


okay


okay, what happen


ten, it's a very weak voice lah there's that echoed ten


got this phobia thing already ah, , ya I mean those that went to brunei naturally got more stories


as compared to stay in singapore cause, there, at the places there, , to most people there is more, how to say it's not as clean lah, clean in a sense that


died there ah, ya so it's like #lim chu kang# cemetery all these if your camp in singapore is nearer to #lim chu kang# cemetery, as compared to your camp is in Bedok people that stay in the niche err area right the camp will be more, like prone to seeing more ghosts like have more ghost encounters lah be it like whether it's


legit ghost or just like you know, a strange encounter they will relay they will relay it to, err like ghosts, err, easier as compared to like if you encounter strange stuff in other camps lah


you know their emphasis, , okay, , okay


during your unit stay is it, as in your unit lah your unit life ah, your hair will stand ah


okay, just share lah I'm all ears


SCS course lah you mean, #gong gong hua# all these


is a double layer is a ya, double-deck bunk double-decker bed lah, at the bottom layer of the bed


, roll around, you won't be in this you won't be in the same position for a long time lah


neck cramps like ya


every night three AM ah, wake up


it's a white colour figure ah


so then when I was back in Tekong my Tekong days ah cause like, err Tekong is the people had their BMT mah in Tekong right, so when in Tekong naturally you have like more, err for me lah I had this like err I'll say it's kinda supernatural


inverted commas encounter lah, so like, like you right, my bunk was filled with err double-decker beds and according to our like what do you call it the metric number or like whatever, number I was err second so means


so means I was err, sleeping at the upper layer of the upper deck of the bed correct, no ah it's like I didn't get to choose, ya it's just according to a like your like your section number lah cause I'm like one one zero two so belong to section one then you're the second guy in this section


then I was like being assigned to the err the bed on top, so like err there were around like twelve, six six beds in our bunk and then, my bed is the only one that's like a hat


my head, facing, the corridor, so means like the rest of the beds right they are like err opposite me, so when let's say like, err their head right is against the, walls and their legs are facing towards the door but for me right mine is the head


towards outside the corridor but my leg is, err like facing towards them lah, so naturally like when whatever happens along the corridor like whoever walk past there will be like shadows, err being like on the on the walls itself


and I'll be able to see them, and so like err like you right I always cause like not used to, the military life when I first entered the army mah, so when in Tekong right I always like err couldn't sleep at night


couldn't sleep at night, and then after that err I, woke up around I didn't wake up at three AM exact but I always wake up around like one plus two plus, not exact lah <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you</mandarin> like <mandarin>三点钟起来我:san dian zhong qi lai wo</mandarin> just woke up around like one plus twoish it's just in the middle of the night


it's just like, I will definitely after twelve, and, err still way before the time that I'm supposed to wake up like six AM so it was like between like you know twelve plus one plus two plus three plus that kind of timing I will wake up, then I will wake up then after that [orh] okay lah should I go toilet


then it's like you know when in the middle of the night you go toilet right you definitely wouldn't want to go alone, cause in Tekong mah then like [orh] okay lah just drag your friend drag your you you have a buddy system, ya whenever you go as in you whatever you do you do army right there is a buddy system one lah like to err ya


ya so that they'll be like someone you know be responsible for each other safety and all, in what in whatever thing you do lah, so I always ask my buddy to wake up and follow to me to the washroom, so there's this there's this like one night, around like I think


two plus ah when I woke up, then I I see shadows on the wall, cause when I open my eyes right


it's it's like a ball, it's like a ball, in like along the corridor


and why would they have like, basketball, it's like it's like bouncing, bouncing across the corridor, then I was quite afraid so after that, but I mean like when you're afraid, you won't you won't do you wouldn't dare to move an inch ah, so you just like stay very still


in the, on the bed, so I just stare at the walls and see what they do like what the what the reflection lah is so basically the ball like you know bounce bounce, towards the direction of my door


so after that, where it's reaching my door right, I'm like, I was basically like I was already like you know like shivering, and had sweat you know sweating, like my my shirt are like kinda like wet cause like


err, ya admin tee so admin tee <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> material is not that like how to say not that <mandarin>透风:tou feng</mandarin> what, so I will sweat a little


so !wah! my shirt was already wet, like soak in sweat already lah, but somehow like the shadow right suddenly like stop, then bounce, in the opposite direction from where it came from, and that was like the worst encounter that I had


like's like the most trish encounter that I had during my army life lah, in my in my Tekong, ya other than that in my the remaining one point something years of, like army life which was in like during my sergeant course and my, unit life right was quite was quite alright


, , err, two years of NS ah what about you can share what you have learnt first


, (hmm)


okay, I mean it's more like a, it's like a bit like leader lah like


it's like


as a sergeant is it, I mean it's I think it's quite standard lah as a sergeant basically you are like the, middle person mere messenger, from the top, you are the messenger that you know like err convey messages from the top


to the bottom, cause below you there are like your man, above you there are like officers and all what, so basically officers, what they do is they plan, four men what they do is execute what, and for you right


your main role is to, err, be, like it's it's like a supervisor, in the working environment


as uh for <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I say normally right as a sergeant right, things that I have learnt in army right can be, err applied to, the working society, the values that I have learned is like you know <mandarin>你做事:ni zuo shi</mandarin> hor


and err, day to day operation ah okay lah cause like you know in army is being separated by err this called like you know err


what what what is the term that they used to, distinguish between like army, war times and [orh] war time and peace time, so during war okay so basically like we, err like in a year


we will have like two to three outfields, and during this outfields right, err they stimulate, what can happen in the real war, and we are supposed to you know like err, show what we have learnt in our SCS course


and, and


then, , singapore as in, err


you I won't say #zuo bo# but I will say we do, err, lesser, we do stuff that's not really, err, like it's not like we're not in a war stimulation


period lor, so we will do more admin stuff we will do like lesser, this


question ah okay lah I mean as a man, as the citizen of singapore lah as a guy right during the war definitely I will be representing singapore, to go, err, on the like your war field lah to protect singapore what, I'm not the front line I cause my unit is signaller


so it, signaller is like in another word it's just like, communication, I'm like a communication device, that you know err convey messages from like the front line to the back end to the HQ


so definitely like as my unit right <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> unit right would definitely will be every part of the line will be every part of the sector of the war field, because err, ya in in a war it's very important like any slight delay in communication right can result in very you know err serious consequences


this kind of, okay lah this thing is like err we cannot go into this cause this one is a singapore secret lah you know like uh it's a it's a army it's a


you what do you call it is like what's your vocation is a vocation secret lah, ya, it's like if in in you're in navy right, you will know where the location of the submarines at where are they placed in the bottom of the sea like which coordinates but you cannot reveal them what


I you cannot like just like you know talk about army staff like this to the public and all, ya cause all these all these stuff are very like confidential, ya, so must be careful lah, salary ah they call it allowance lah they call it allowance err a month so my allowance a month


err when I was in Tekong it was five sixty, ya <mandarin>五百六十:wu bai liu shi</mandarin> for my err Tekong life, after that when I go to SCS course, then it, was err


after that


actually <mandarin>赚更多:zhuan geng duo</mandarin> lah <mandarin>所以我们:suo yi wo men</mandarin> err but I'm quite alright with my allowance lah like one month, you get one K, for protecting singapore I think that's quite alright


and I have no I have not much complaints for that lah, ya, and, , I think is like a very meaningful two years of my life lah cause <mandarin>这两年:zhe liang nian</mandarin> is like


err you will learn things that you will never get to experience again, in other part of your life


uni <mandarin>学的东西是很:xue de dong xi shi hen</mandarin> practical


but, army, in the future cause technically when you're in unit you are technically in a working environment, your incubation period is like when you were in SCS course when you Tekong when


you can like commit mistakes and people can like cover your backside, but when you are in unit, it's like in the actual working society what, that's why people say like [orh] err for guys your two years of your army experience can be converted to


two years of working experience as well, correct, , so I think it's a very valuable phase of my life lah this this this this two years, it didn't, poly life ah my poly life ah is very interesting one ah poly life


poly life last time you know uh, poly life ah <mandarin>我是读:wo shi du</mandarin> clean energy lah it's an engineering, ah, solar energy, err solar energy <mandarin>不是说:bu shi shuo</mandarin> solar energy lah


err what's that tool called, solar power, ah


okay lah but I mean other than your how to say, err, the err, your curriculum, part of your JC like putting all your academic aside, what else do you miss about your JC


but but let me ask you like a honest question ah do you actually enjoy studying


studying it's like you, or you enjoy learning new stuff, you enjoy learning new stuff but not really like, it's like <mandarin>死记硬背:si ji ying bei</mandarin> those kind of thing is it,


okay, you know now you got new minister of education right Nah it's your time to feedback now, ah <mandarin>对对对对对到你到你来:dui dui dui dui dui dao ni dao ni lai</mandarin> it's your turn


okay, so you cannot base a person's ability on their results, academic results ah that's what you meant


something that you <mandarin>擅长:shan chang</mandarin> in one, fair and square that kind, so like let's, ah, okay,


but why do you think singapore prioritize studies this like academics so much, the only resources singapore have is human is is


is their citizens, they don't have like early like what err oil like saudi arabia all these kinds of places they don't have all I mean singapore is legit built from scratch, and our


our what do you call that, our, err what do you call founding father #lee kuan yew# mister #lee kuan yew#, know that, the only way for singapore to strive to come out on top, in the early early times lah was to have


because it wasn't easy for him you know like to err put on the same, same skill as err america like you know <mandarin>美国这种大国家已经是:mei guo zhe zhong da guo jia yi jing shi</mandarin> established country, this this first world countries so


err the initiative that he took was to make use of what we have, which was <mandarin>人名:ren ming</mandarin> lor


ah, , this is definitely


not everyone has a roof above their head lah


I mean like whatever that we have now didn't come easy lah legit, like our how to say, like you looking at the pioneer generation and Merdeka generation they did a lot for, err our country, our country in order like let's say they built up the foundation


to whatever we have now, so that's why like, we should really like you know, I mean like err having a leader like mister #lee kuan yew# mister #goh chok tong# the kind that era right, was essential but


having, err, people like you know our grandparents and all they are the like the workers that are to the ground one, ya so I mean they all work hand in hand, it's not just err mister #lee kuan yew# like err those err higher


officials giving out err, giving out ideas you know but it's all on the like execution and the cooperation of our grandparents as well, ya, ya that's why we should like you know like respect all these elderly when we see them


, #ah ma# (hmm), (hmm)


we know each other since sec sec one ah that was like, two zero one zero ah two zero one one ah, so that was


nine years, know you for close to nine years, time flies uh, oh really,


okay, ya ya ya there are places for fireworks, to cause err I just came across this article on the straits times yesterday, they have like you know like ten places for public to


err enjoy fireworks across the city itself, which exact there's like in err Sembawang in woodlands ya I think they choose places that are not that you know like not that crowded, ya so maybe, I don't know how are they going to plan it but I'm sure they're still gonna have


you know that make sure that this national day parade, goes well lah, ya because it, this parade itself symbolizes a lot, of different meanings lah for our country, ya


, [orh] one thing one thing that's one thing that's special is that I


err saw on newspapers is that, they will have like you know like those like err, err firefighters eh no what do you call that like the jets lah flying across the front line like hospitals all this, ya, to like how to say


ya that's a that's a that's a gesture, err that's a gesture for like you know appreciate appreciation of those like front line workers that they are putting their health at risk, like to help out with the you know like this safety system safety measures that are being put in place


everyone work hand to hand ah in this COVID period it would it's not easy but, I mean, as compared to like other countries, like the western countries like you know like certain country err I believe singapore can you know like, go through this easier as compared to them lah singapore I believe in general there are like more cooperative


and like, I mean it's SG united lah <mandarin>他们比较团结:ta men bi jiao tuan jie</mandarin> lah, ah


, ah <mandarin>要有一个同样的:yao you yi ge tong yang de</mandarin> mindset, then <mandarin>一起去:yi qi qu</mandarin> you know <mandarin>度过:du guo</mandarin> ah <mandarin>度过难关该做的就要做:du guo nan guan gai zuo de jiu yao zuo</mandarin> lor


like uh <mandarin>简单的叫你戴口罩你就戴口罩:jian dan de jiao ni dai kou zhao ni jiu dai kou zhao</mandarin> mah


is it it varies lah


I think right, using end this this this this term this word itself right is not is not an accurate word lah, because like, for like you know like SARS lah H one N one there's always this like, err, we we will never we cannot be so sure that it's hundred percent


err gone what, it's about how, how sick how how much of like, how careful we are against them like what safety measures we put in place, to make sure that <mandarin>他们不会再重新再来:ta men bu hui zai chong xin zai lai</mandarin> mah


to singapore, is coming out to singapore err by the end of next year, end of next year so I believe it is like the earliest that the public can get access, to all these COVID err vaccines are around two zero two two


which is roughly like one point five years more cause now technically it is already like halfway across, two zero two zero , it's like, it's like we're in a new decade what this year, and new decade, and


, by the time, two zero two two, we gonna be, twenty five, twenty eight, around there ya


have have you heard of the, you know like this like err, railway from between SG and malaysia, that's going to be built in two zero two six


there's another like six years so err recently they sign this like agreement, on the construction of this project, in starting in two zero two six six years from now, so I believe like this whole project itself


it's going to connect one of countries ya <mandarin>真的很方便只只是说:zhen de hen fang bian zhi zhi shi shuo</mandarin> like


okay lah malaysia like our neighbouring country , it's also a very interesting country like there are a lot of cheap food


employee lifestyle of like working from nine to six then you work, for like another forty years you hassle then, ya, I would say like you will, you can retire, comfortably


probably not that comfortable but still comfortably, at the age of sixty and all, probably by then you will have like your children and all ya


okay ya ya ya true, we have tripled, okay for the entrepreneur right such such timing right, this is a good opportunity for entrepreneurs


but just like err I believe like everyone who have like, certain, degree of entrepreneurial spirit in them just that they don't know how like bring it out, ya they don't know how to portray it out don't know how to like put it to actions


so is like


they call it financial freedom in the future lah, like uh not sure whether you know about this news like err two days ago


in this country there was like this like a big explosion right, ya, then it left like three hundred thousand people homeless, few thousand few hundred people dead, not sure about that


waiters, not really one week lah maybe like three days ago like three days ago and lebanon countries ya ya middle east country, ya lebanon ya middle east country, ya, err I'm not really sure about the details but I think it's roughly


between like the line of like the workers didn't put like looks like a security measures in place and that left all those like a chemical products, sadly exposed to the public, in a sense that, err someone like probably with bad intention or


no bad intentions but they, set it up lor, !wah!


four K resolution, another huge impact because of this lah


like COVID was already like not easy, on them and some more they have this thing


, oh but the people, the people in there are quite united though I saw like they release some pictures on facebook, and then, err the citizens came together to sweep the streets


so is it like is it like a lot of ruins on the floor, ya a lot like <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> like you know like


<mandarin>所以我觉得:suo yi wo jue de</mandarin> hor <mandarin>人民团结很重要:ren min tuan jie hen zhong yao</mandarin> lah, okay


I mean like this COVID thing like any other like, cause I mean it has such a big impact, huge impact on, the worldwide countries mah so technically even if they have like any like vaccine and all they also have to be very careful


making sure that they have not any like err, ah like you call that like err <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> like certain certain err, certain lapse those like err


err vaccine Liao, but <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> vaccine <mandarin>只可以抱你前五年:zhi ke yi bao ni qian wu nian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>后五年他们不决定:hou wu nian ta men bu jue ding</mandarin> what will happen what, so technically they will have like a longer time lor to explore all this making sure it will have like you know like a certain medicine


then <mandarin>留下后遗症:liu xia hou yi zheng</mandarin> mah


what are the traits you're like you're like looking for lah, , filial piety, secondly is like err, , kind hearted


ya, then, thirdly perhaps, err I wouldn't say okay lah, I mean let's be superficial a bit lah, maybe like err


I watched like not not maybe maybe not like let's say like world class beauty world class model you know lah but at least to you is like, visually satisfying visually appealing lah


the elderly what to <mandarin>你的家人:ni de jia ren</mandarin> to <mandarin>你的长辈:ni de zhang bei</mandarin> what


so I mean like from young our parents brought us up what, correct, and filial piety is like, in a way it's you appreciating what your parents have done for you what, ya, so


and must like err cannot be rude to them lor, must also


independent lah


ya why


, uh


there's no sexist like, it's about gender equality, so doesn't mean you have to be like [orh] <mandarin>女孩子应该是要粘人的男孩子就是应该要独立撑起这个家:nv hai zi ying gai shi yao zhan ren de nan hai zi jiu shi ying gai yao du li cheng qi zhe ge jia</mandarin> lah


, it's like, earning money, telegram group lor telegram <mandarin>有很多不同的:you hen duo bu tong de</mandarin> group


err SG part time


!huh!


according to what you like, oh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> club <mandarin>怎样:zen yang</mandarin> leh


how long has this company been around for, five years, are you sure it's five years, I think it's more than that


four years for four years, three years plus <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> lah


wait so are you the founder of this entrepreneur club


[orh]


err work is normal lor but I got this one customer super <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> one she came in right she buy she didn't even buy an expensive bed leh she bought like a car bed the car bed is only four nine nine


then she keep on <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> err freebie freebie can give me more freebie err <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> sticker ah <mandarin>要这个:yao zhe ge</mandarin> ya wall sticker that kind then like err <mandarin>要这个要那个:yao zhe ge yao na ge</mandarin> ask this ask that like so complicated and then she see these uh like sketching thing at behind the counter then she that one is quite expensive actually it's like thirty dollar for one then she keep on err can give me one give me one for free ah the big one the big one ya she keep on ask free ah free ah then I'm like no no no no then she say give discount leh your things is so expensive how come you cannot give discount then in my head four hundred plus for bed hor a bed frame car design is not expensive leh


so irritating you leh, why


, already so cheap leh, okay okay but today my sales not very good only two K plus


cannot deliver before seven month what to do


I got ask customer eh seven month I thought it's because like relative go back, then like err <mandarin>如果有买新家具:ru guo you mai xin jia ju</mandarin> very awkward like, new new I mean your family go back your dead family go back to your house, then like see why why their furniture change they they will scared or something like that


but then <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> customer <mandarin>讲不是:jiang bu shi</mandarin> is because they scared the <mandarin>灵魂:ling hun</mandarin> will be stuck with the furniture something like that then if, err you delivery right during the hungry ghost then the <mandarin>灵魂:ling hun</mandarin> will follow the


furniture back into the customer's house, funny, you leh


(uh huh), ya ya ya, okay, so long


(mmhmm), why leh, ya ya


but he now not with charmatic already what, (uh huh), ya lor ya lor


true lah, (mmhmm), true true true


ah ya ya ya, okay, then under who, [orh]


he's in shopping mall meh, (mmhmm)


[orh] okay okay


ya, (mmhmm)


[orh], he by himself ah, his girlfriend eh, oh, [orh]


then what you drink, !whoa!


he got say you <mandarin>发福:fa fu</mandarin> Liao


where's that beach road, okay okay, okay okay


(hmm), true ah true ah COVID hindling business, (mmhmm)


you have to pay about three to six hundred dollar, while the international city view, okay that's quite expensive but how big is the shop


oh that's quite big what, (mmhmm), okay, ya true true true


(hmm), ya lor


oh, but you will need <mandarin>老板签名:lao ban qian ming</mandarin> one ah


okay, oh, okay okay, [orh] okay


not bad seems like you get a lot leads today, , oh ya


should we celebrate on twenty first itself or push it back because twenty first I working until nine PM eh, ya lor


true, I cannot I cannot find part time staff, but then hor if we go out <mandarin>这个月:zhe ge yue</mandarin> right, got more promotion eh cause national day like Sentosa all having like some fifty five percent discount then like I don't know other places like quite a lot of places got promotion this month leh


no it's national day, okay, so, so should we celebrate it this month or just keep it to next month


, true true true next month all the part timers <mandarin>不会累:bu hui lei</mandarin> Liao I can take more off


wanna staycation or not, , I'm thinking of the Sentosa one but then very expensive sia thousand over dollars but it includes the <mandarin>玩的东西:wan de dong xi</mandarin> lor like the USS


thousand over dollar leh can consider serious, true, or we go on normal staycation ah at a hotel a relaxing one don't have to go out and play whatever just like to chill stay in


, oh ya you can watch movie


ya sia I hope grab can like, return the money or something like that, but the disney plus one is singapore also ah or is it just a US thing


but then if we don't have disney plus, we can wait until it release in the theater then, but a few months later you never know what it can release in theater what


, , wasted sia got the free ticket


ya, ya ya ya ya ya, I don't know the actual date but based on my experience I mean the past few time whenever we apply is always like what third week of the month then then


not last week lah around third week like that, I want to do the woodlands one leh I see all the units although this month got a lot a lot of places can BTO but the woodlands one look like the most potential one leh, Tengah Tengah can lah but very Ulu eh


then you want wait six years for the things to be up like very long leh, true but not say very near also what you need take like bus and stuff


so if we stay at woodlands you take one train from #choa chu kang# to woodlands, also, not that far what, ya lor and that woodlands one ah opposite MRT


opposite the bus interchange the bus interchange is like literally just beside, then the the what shopping mall is there movie theater is there library is there CC is there !wah! I tell you from our window, ya JB also near you all eat #lok lok# you can eat #lok lok# you want buy groceries there you also can then from our window if we get the correct view or what we look out the window we can see fireworks woodlands always got fireworks one


!wah! then if, ya always have one, the woodlands CC there always got fireworks one like err countdown ah national day ah somehow they always got fireworks also then, ya lah but imagine ah then we watch movie you watch movie at the mall beside us we you can watch the midnight movie where there's not a lot of people and then after that don't have to take taxi home we can just walk back and then it's like just a five ten minutes walk !wah! or


we always cannot decide what to eat right with a shopping mall just beside us hor <mandarin>爽:shuang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>要吃什么就去吃什么:yao chi shen me jiu qu chi shen me</mandarin> lor everything is like there,


and this one more cheap, but then, four room I think three hundred K two hundred plus three hundred K, it's like super cheap leh


oh ya office room I want it to be the master bedroom, ya, it don't have to be for sleep you imagine ah, in the rom, then err, like, you put on both side of the wall there's like err away from the window on the both side you put like two wardrobe so in a way it's like a walk in wardrobe but one side we put our clothes we don't have a lot of clothes the other side you can put like equipment stuff like err you know sometimes for your for your business you need to have the lighting and everything we keep inside we can put exercise equipment also so you can put like those foldable treadmill dumbbell whatever shit all just throw inside


no but you listen first, then we can put their study table like office tables there we can put two tables and then err is I think it's a very conducive place we can either workout or work in that area


and then a toilet is just beside so like it's like a office edit lah very easy for you to just work and go go toilet or whatever you need to do you just do it there, then once when it's time for bed we go to our bedroom which is like the probably just a common room beside the master bedroom it's just to like fully relax lor like no work no exercise stuff like down there it's just literally a bed


some maybe a TV but it's just a very cosy, chillax place, instead of like I don't know having a wardrobe there or, (uh huh)


then no the thing is I think I tell you before the toilet right I don't want I want me to have one toilet and you to have one toilet cause I very OCD about my toilet my toilet cannot be wet although the a toilet is supposed to be wet but I hate it when toilet is wet I hate it when toilet floor is wet I hate it when the sink is wet


no when I have my own house right, after I bathe you know the squeezy thing or ya then you can like push push the water into the drain, ya then you can like push push the water into the drain, I think hor <mandarin>我每次冲完凉:wo mei ci chong wan liang</mandarin> hor I will take out that thing and like squeezy the water into the drain to make sure it's dry


then I feel peaceful about it I hate wet toilet I cannot take it just very #gao wei# you know, ya but I don't want to hack any wall so whatever the floor plan is it doesn't matter


hopefully hopefully fingers crossed, I want an open kitchen hopefully we can have an open kitchen, but the


new kitchen if is not open ah the kitchen in the new BTO <mandarin>很小:hen xiao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>小到很夸张:xiao dao hen kua zhang</mandarin> leh like only one person can be in the kitchen, if the glass door can open fully then okay lah


ya ya ya


, eh plus we stay so near the shopping mall hor might as well just Dabao home, ya anyway we talk about one room the master bedroom then we still got two common room my idea is one of the common room is sleep


we if you're just sleeping, if you are just sleeping we don't need a very big space to sleep, and then kids we still got one more room what, ya lor


then we remodel our house lor if they grow up no no you want a home office right, so you still need a room what regardless if it's the master room or a common room <mandarin>还是要一个房间:hai shi yao yi ge fang jian</mandarin> what


resale, resale, resale have to be near your parents Liao lor #choa chu kang# lor, but don't have as good as the amenities as the woodlands one I feel I like woodlands one like a very <mandarin>花算:hua suan</mandarin> place


ya so convenient, ya ya ya


, Sian lor always like that one sia we always cannot Kena, maybe it's god's plan <mandarin>他跟我们讲:ta gen wo men jiang</mandarin> right all those other places are maybe too expensive or all those other places not the best for use maybe this is like the best for us so he's like


saving this for us but <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> this time <mandarin>还是拿不到:hai shi na bu dao</mandarin> then I think we will get resale already, ya it's almost immediate


have to find a good one lor, then find those that don't need to renovate already also advises his voice, I mean if you get one that is very Cui right then you need to spend on renovation then the renovation will cause you more than thirty K


then what's the point what, might as well just pay for a nicer house, but my mum say right if you buy resale flat and then it's like is move in condition when you go and visit the flat versus when you move in usually is very different cause


err the first owner who move out they move out they don't care about their house anymore so before they move out when they make it Swee Swee for you to go in and see right you can see everything is like a nice nice the floor is probably nice, when they move out they move all their furniture they will like scratch the floor bang the wall like ya you still have to do touch up here and there so <mandarin>算来算去:suan lai suan qu</mandarin> it's about the same lah


, ya why would they even care right, talking about BTO, if we really get the BTO okay even if we don't get the BTO


we need to talk about wedding, yes, stress you know, then


ya, anyways we also need to talk about wedding, I feel like I don't wanna do wedding eh, and don't need more like, why waste money do you know how much a wedding costs


my parents also don't mind I ask before, but it's your parents that wants it


well, but you know if you want to do one wedding hor on my side I need to invite a lot of people leh, cause


no although I not close like, after all <mandarin>亲戚:qin qi</mandarin> still my <mandarin>亲戚:qin qi</mandarin> what if I invite one side of the family and I don't invite another side of the family like very awkward you know, like okay cause you know what my parents divorce


then err I still quite close to my Godma they all from my biological dad side, then my mum side, ya my mum side maybe don't need to invite already cause she fall out with her sisters but my mum side by right is only like two or three families so nevermind


then my stepdad side, that one got a lot of relatives sia, my Godma leh


ya but down there already how many families you think about it, down there a lot of families already leh, I my family alone on that side will need like I don't know, confirm need more than ten tables eh that's like a thousand people already


ya I think I will need like ten tables eh, but usually hotel like wedding they have a minimum amount of table I don't know now COVID they will change it but, even if we, do wedding it's like two years later


three years eh three years later I twenty eight leh, but you want kids right


but then you how many kids you want you say you want two eh, you zero you already thinking you will stress then you still want kids for what I don't mind not having kids


I don't bring joy


okay what if we got dog, cute what


I mean if you really want kids I feel like in singapore is not a <mandarin>自然:zi ran</mandarin> kind of thing is really you must plan for it, like, having a kids in singapore I feel lah although now I don't want kids but if we were to have kids next time


I don't want to give my kid a very, not up to I wouldn't say not up to standard but, I want to have my kid be able to experience the things that I cannot experience, so we really need to plan for it what we cannot just <mandarin>随便随便:sui bian sui bian</mandarin> okay let's have a kid now means let's have a kid


five k, true lah but , we see how lah we see how lah still long lah, , ya lor, adult being an adult is so hard


where you want to go


I want go JB, I miss JB so much eh, ya the midnight #lok lok# the massage night market the cheap airbnb !wah!


thinking about it, , !whoa!


ebola is from bat so it really could be from bat, (mmhmm)


like that hor, then our wedding photography how, singapore ah, , ya lor true true true true, actually right I don't need to go any other country leh like so far


like we go thailand together we go I don't know we go so many place together right but, oh ya lah like we visited quite a few places together but, still I feel


my heart is in JB, ya, everything is so cheap, food is good, there's no need to go other place Liao,


ya lor, you faster make me #tai tai#,


ya but if we have kids I don't think I wanna work, ya true but, ya that's why if we got no kids ah I still okay to work


if you got kids ah you will be the sole breadwinner, think about it like <mandarin>我不会放心:wo bu hui fang xin</mandarin> put my kids with maids and all you got see so many videos of like those maid abuse the children and whatever


I just cannot <mandarin>放心:fang xin</mandarin> ah, and then I feel like, I can teach my kids better than anyone else obviously if I pay thousands of dollars and find some professional they probably can teach my kid better than me but


I feel like me I will be able to educate my kid, the way I want and, to my preference, I mean not really my preference but I feel like I can teach them a lot more things okay


ya I will know my kid better and I know how much I can push them what's their limit I'll be able to really push them to their limits lor, I don't want just a normal average kid I want someone who


can be successful in future lah I don't want to like have them just play or have them just goof around, ya lah that's why that's why I need to teach


that's why I wanna be able to teach like teach this kind of values, but these are things that schools usually don't teach


ya, that's why I feel like if I, I take care of my kids myself I can teach them these kind of values lor, but hor if, got kids right <mandarin>我要养狗:wo yao yang gou</mandarin> eh


like there's this research that I saw they say that err, kids that has pets I mean like families will have pets the kids actually grew up to be more compassionate


as even <mandarin>会比比较关心别人:hui bi bi jiao guan xin bie ren</mandarin> lor like, , compassionate


like <mandarin>很容易:hen rong yi</mandarin> like <mandarin>可以感觉到人家的:ke yi gan jue dao ren jia de</mandarin> feelings ah that kind of thing, like single I mean err, kids that don't have siblings grow up very differently from kids who have siblings eh I feel ah


things like <mandarin>他们从小就没有那种:ta men cong xiao jiu mei you na zhong</mandarin> like need to share need to err, you know, like there's no no one to snatch things from them no one to challenge them no one to


ya, make things make things difficult for them like, err, there's just a lot of things that they don't get to learn if they don't have a sibling, same thing with dogs or pets


maybe because they go to school childcare or whatever that teach them ah, cause cannot be they learn from there their parents will probably just <mandarin>疼:teng</mandarin> one kid only what


they need to learn it from somewhere what, their parents cannot show them example without another kid or whatever there what, so


you so confident by then your business will okay already, we shall see lor if not okay we don't have kids lor


(mmhmm), at where SMU ah, oh sunday ah, oh just nice I also working, two to


okay okay, can I end work at seven, yup, yup, make more money


oh this time you must bring an invoice for him to err sign eh, okay


(uh huh), okay, I think singapore is february ah, I think officially close is april march or april I forgot already officially close somewhere around there


oh yes I watch with my bother I I didn't watch the first train to Busan


I watch the second one the train to Busan peninsula, ya, why leh


(mmhmm), (uh huh)


(uh huh), (uh huh), outside of the train or inside of the train


!whoa! okay okay, okay


(mmhmm), don't know eh cabin crew


okay, okay


okay


okay why eh, oh so they really barricade a place in Busan lah, only human can go in lah


okay, (uh huh), the next station is what Busan


[orh]


oh, sacrifice ah


(mmhmm),


(uh huh), !wah!, then the the Busan will accept them meh


(uh huh), [orh], okay


okay okay, okay, ya ya ya ya they by sound they attracted by sound


(uh huh), (uh huh)


they're so evil, (uh huh),


(uh huh)


(uh huh), !wah! shit so so the the devil died ah


, then when <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> reach Busan, when <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> reach Busan


!wah! Jialat, but he will not turn around and bite the rest meh


(hmm),


ya lor ya lor, very korean drama lah is it


, okay


!wah!,


how old is the son, (uh huh)


[orh] so that he will not <mandarin>咬:yao</mandarin> his own family lah, !whoa!, (uh huh)


but the rest of the zombies in the train leh, all lock up in their own cabin is it


(uh huh), oh no wonder, ya ya ya the rest already dislodge and like gone somewhere else, okay okay


oh ya the the what GV I think now got one for one eh but got no movie to watch, ya ya ya, now


!aiyo! I damn busy eh, but I guess can watch like weekend lor <mandarin>我放工后:wo fang gong hou</mandarin> then can watch, but then weekend watch like saturday sunday like saturday <mandarin>做工:zuo gong</mandarin> sunday still need to <mandarin>做工:zuo gong</mandarin> monday still need to <mandarin>做工:zuo gong</mandarin> damn Sian leh


, !hais!, ya sia sing K close damn long leh


I guess like karaoke and like zouk like those club is, like considered the same category cause <mandarin>都是一样的:dou shi yi yang de</mandarin> what people go at night people enjoy at night, ya, but I guess if like they the government should give like


a green light to certain businesses like #teo heng#, #teo heng# <mandarin>一个房间一个房间:yi ge fang jian yi ge fang jian</mandarin> one what, so they can, ya but they can do it in a way like you know how gyms they have like cleaning hours or whatever <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> like <mandarin>一个人用了之后:yi ge ren yong le zhi hou</mandarin> then that that room will close for fifteen minutes to like sterilize


[orh] ya lor gym <mandarin>可以开人家又:ke yi kai ren jia you</mandarin> touch equipment then touch <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> touch <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> then exercise <mandarin>又不用穿:you bu yong chuan</mandarin> mask [wor], #buay sai# wear mask and sing <mandarin>要唱歌都有有一个东西在那边:yao chang ge dou you you yi ge dong xi zai na bian</mandarin> block <mandarin>住你:zhu ni</mandarin> like very <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> lor


I mean just normal walking ah or talking with the mask on ah already like


no no no they cannot be sing K is open they have to say like sing K for like #teo heng# that kind, is okay but, no no what about those chinese KTV club


cannot lah that one is like err in public place eh anybody can just sing in a microphone leh, that one then no lah those chinese chinese KTV no lah like those private rooms one and then can clean the room, restaurant and bar they can open but they serve drinks until a certain time what


then not only that restaurants you know what phrase is senior,


I don't think our generation anybody have KTV machine at home lah, ya lah, but like <mandarin>我们的朋友:wo men de peng you</mandarin> have meh


tomorrow no leh tomorrow I not working, do what, oh oh ya oh ya you tell me before


then you want to buy at Jurong west, like like paper bag or what, or you ask your mum ah if she have any nice paper bag


, then <mandarin>这样就不用出:zhe yang jiu bu yong chu</mandarin> Liao, save time, true, then dinner leh we eat at where


ya <mandarin>很久没喝:hen jiu mei he</mandarin> Liao, it has been so long, ,


yup, I told you what I think only thirty dollars, my sales not very high today damn Sian eh and you know what, yesterday the guy hor although is like a weekday <mandarin>拜五:bai wu</mandarin> eh he his sales got <mandarin>五千:wu qian</mandarin> eh


#li jie# lor, ya, and then today weekend hor my sales only <mandarin>两千:liang qian</mandarin> eh, ya lor


he sell two beds only and both is like, I sell, one bed one dresser, what else did I sell ah I sell one bed one dresser one canopy


some craft I sell so many things hor only <mandarin>两千多:liang qian duo</mandarin> eh so Sian eh my my items hor <mandarin>全部都小小小小小小:quan bu dou xiao xiao xiao xiao xiao xiao</mandarin> then it's not like I serve the customer lesser I feel like I serve the customer same amount but <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> value <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> very low lor


(mmhmm), ah I not sure leh I never see the landlord before ya


, you thick skin enough you go and ask lor, , okay okay then you go and ask ah, don't have ah


I'm not in contact with the landlord how to ask, I'm just a sales staff eh, faster lor, true true true


!haiya! but that one very small scale compared to this


Kimchi live, oh but <mandarin>人家吃不到:ren jia chi bu dao</mandarin> they will buy meh


, (uh huh), no need license meh the food hygiene license


home-based but you home-based only can sell to relatives or like family or friends, home-based business cannot sell to public can meh


, how to say ya lah people will Sabo sia


do things <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>黑白要分清楚:hei bai yao fen qing chu</mandarin> lah cannot like, cheat the system or what I don't believe in cheating the system I believe cheating the system will never get you anywhere


SIRS system what's that, oh so they get the nine K but is cheat one ah, !wah!, don't know eh


, ya, but this kind of thing honestly ah if you can earn your own money you go earn your own money lah why you need like government to rely on ah right, I will never fall for this kind of guy eh


like you should have your own backbone if you have your own be able to manage your money properly and when there's crisis why didn't you even plan beforehand


like always like <mandarin>从小:cong xiao</mandarin> our parents got teach us what you need to save money save for rainy day, and this kind of like, err pandemic or whatever recession is like


so just need to be prepared for it lah, (uh huh)


it's the final match already no, okay, (mmhmm)


and then, wait the the opponent team or, !whoa!


!wah!,


!wah!, that team will be damn strong lor, is it cause they're they're they're bosses can buy, a lot, ya lah it's all about money what soccer


!wah!


wait, but ozil's pay never get cut ah


, who would want to recontract you earn peanuts and then you need to work like a dog


true, , you every year also want to buy want to buy honestly the shirt I feel not don't even look nice, but you show me the picture already what I feel very normal very messy too much pattern pattern already


I like I prefer plain, plain red with the right with the white color words <mandarin>这样才好看:zhe yang cai hao kan</mandarin> what, like so many pattern pattern


I feel downfall, I mean so far right that when I you introduce me to arsenal and I started to follow a bit <mandarin>很像没有看到他们有:hen xiang mei you kan dao ta men you</mandarin> like real success or


that one is like such a small thing you are talking about premier league, , Suay lor


not interested, but now, but <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> tottenham <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> arsenal <mandarin>一起玩:yi qi wan</mandarin> I feel got high chance tottenham will win arsenal


!hais! how's work just now, ah


okay, sticker, [orh]


customer <mandarin>是这样的:shi zhe yang de</mandarin> lah, if if I'm the customer, correct, cheap customer <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> cheapskate I also cheapskate


nothing wrong mah, how much, two K plus okay lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> lah


err commission still okay what, , then <mandarin>趁现在快点叫人家买:chen xian zai kuai dian jiao ren jia mai</mandarin> lor also good what, can earn more


commission, I mean their Pantang is lah, before the seventh month, then ah counted if <mandarin>你是在:ni shi zai</mandarin> seven month


the time err you buy then is different


ya, me ah just now


then me and <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> merchants now I I go back to <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> uh Rena Rena james <mandarin>上次:shang ci</mandarin> for <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> website the ya, they still recognize me then I <mandarin>我我跟他讲话差不多一个小时:wo wo gen ta jiang hua cha bu duo yi ge xiao shi</mandarin> sia


ya then then <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> but <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> charismatic <mandarin>那个他没有:na ge ta mei you</mandarin> continue lah <mandarin>我没有问为什么:wo mei you wen wei shen me</mandarin> lah


then after that <mandarin>我就讲:wo jiu jiang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>他硬硬要:ta ying ying yao</mandarin> go into digital, you will lose out ah, correct, you can ask other people to help him do [orh] he do himself what like you say the shopee mall


uh photo the products and so on, where it it uh plus he himself do he don't have team


ya, then, like <mandarin>假假:jia jia</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> park <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> discuss there <mandarin>给他:gei ta</mandarin> idea lor then after that


I don't know lah <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> okay okay ah then <mandarin>我有我不是现在在做那个:wo you wo bu shi xian zai zai zuo na ge</mandarin> electric consumption


the landlord lah ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> landlord, no it's not in shopping mall it's just like a, room retail retail store, but under HDB those retail store you know


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> then <mandarin>他的家也换:ta de jia ye huan</mandarin> Liao so ya lah no choice lah <mandarin>我帮不了:wo bang bu liao</mandarin> ah


then <mandarin>就这样子:jiu zhe yang zi</mandarin> lor then after that <mandarin>我就去:wo jiu qu</mandarin> err, like, ah the you know the beach road the hawker, right, like and then after that I go ah look through zenly ah the app see people at where then I saw charlton there


then I go whatsapp charlton, then I say eh bro you you at at beach road hawker ah then he say eh how you know zenly ah there's there's there's a reason why I I'm err people using this zenly mah, ya then I then I talk to him for, ya


then after that, oh ah don't know eh with other friends eh, he he just come by to the collect stuff ah army stuff with his army friend I don't know after they Zao already, ya lor, then after that I eat carrot cake


ya, drink uh, easy to recognise lah


no eh, ya lah then also, after that I eat already then I go to ah the city gate the mall beside the hawker, still very dead, ya beside the hawker ah the mall it's a mall whereby less traffic


so, I just go, above those people ask whether are they in charge and is most of them are in charge but most of them, wants to move out already so no point signing


ya but some don't mind but need to email them the information like the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> bubble tea <mandarin>很像卖:hen xiang mai</mandarin> bubble tea ah <mandarin>我不我不:wo bu wo bu</mandarin> I don't know, then it's like err he say lah , cause right now SP ah every month ah


you you have to pay about three to six hundred dollar for the electricity bill, ya so I tell him mine, err is from that end, to that end this glass like the end


uh okay lah not that very big ah not that very big ah if you you see <mandarin>你会明白:ni hui ming bai</mandarin> ah, but ya the thing is ya three to five hundred per month which is very expensive not much crowd at that mall also so it's like losing money but they have been there since the more started lah


can last <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> Liao leh, err <mandarin>就问啦:jiu wen la</mandarin> <mandarin>我我就问:wo wo jiu wen</mandarin> ah then <mandarin>这样子的话你一个月:zhe yang zi de hua ni yi ge yue</mandarin> lah <mandarin>如果可以省三十巴仙以上:ru guo ke yi sheng san shi ba xian yi shang</mandarin> err ah <mandarin>对到三十巴仙:dui dao san shi ba xian</mandarin> ah


save up ah then keen or not then he say ya lah sure keen ah, then err he's a manager eh uh to in charge everything one err not the boss but he ask me to email the info everything okay he will send me the bill for me to calculate for him


then if everything okay <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> then, okay lor <mandarin>就可以:jiu ke yi</mandarin> close deal lor, err I must see the bill first because the bill right got uh either uh <mandarin>老板名字:lao ban ming zi</mandarin> or the <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> the store name uh ah then after that who's uh accountant


ya ya the bill sure will say one, ya then that's where I uh I will see who is a decision maker lah, ya, cause err they highly will, sign up


okay lah <mandarin>一点点:yi dian dian</mandarin> leads ah <mandarin>今天:jin tian</mandarin> saturday ah relax a bit ah, ya lor ah talk about anniversary dinner, uh this month, twenty first, friday


what do you think, , err till nine PM ah, err can be saturday lor


more off ah


ya because it's pandemic, and they want more traffic more business, long let's just leave it national day behind lah, they are giving out a lot of offer already


eh err keep it to next month lor more more is just don't talk about the offer lah but we got more, free time maybe next month, like yourself ah <mandarin>你你有多:ni ni you duo</mandarin> off day on next month ah


can consider ah can consider, ya, can, it's not like everyday spend thousand plus what, right, just enjoy ourself for that period


ya lor, ya lor then ya talk about the mulan ah !wah!, from from theater become disney plus we get the free ticket now we cannot have it


ask the support lah later, whether can can get for other movie or not , it's worldwide


but then if you don't have to, no it it will never release in theatre, it change it to ah disney plus


they already confirm already eh, this one cannot this one won't lie they already tell the whole wide world already so they stick to their words uh if not boycott ah no lah just kidding ah, uh no choice lah


, oh ya this month is august uh BTO right but you know which date or not


maybe last week of the month lor, top view garden, Tengah Tengah


it's very inside right, don't you think so


ah ya lah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah, not that far ya that's true lah just opposite MRT ah, can consider lah


go JB also near, true ah


really, , those are like twice a year,


ya lah but, woodlands ah ya four room lor, , ya, how much ah four room


three hundred K four hundred K can lah, can can can, four room then one of the room is office room, oh why master bedroom is for sleep you want to change it to office only had to be forced imagine


in the room, then


but we haven't see the the floor plan mah,


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> lah my my thinking is like, err, the master bedroom right would have to be a bedroom it's like, very near beside is the toilet come on, so easy go toilet


then when you bathe what's the difference, ya


okay understand lah, but by must see the floor plan then easy to plan it out, okay


I don't like open kitchen I like a close kitchen so that, all all the oil won't come out you know


okay open kitchen open kitchen can we do a glass door, if not right all the oil whatever you cook all come out then living so oily


you know what best is grab everyday, or go out eat everyday, ya


ya might as well <mandarin>打包:da bao</mandarin> home, then kitchen don't need have kitchen, what why what if you have kids


okay, one more room for kids lah but when they grow up they need separate what, !wah! remodel ah waste time eh ya I don't like so much changes


ya lah, five room flat lah better five room got one more option, , can can add extra room


like my one add extra room, why not, resale Liao resale Liao, ah <mandarin>买:mai</mandarin> resale, will be better ah


ya #choa chu kang# have, no choice, ya opposite mall right


okay, can lah can consider lah but <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> once the thing is up to register then we talk about it, ya right now we talk about it also no point ah, how many time you apply already this is the fourth or fifth time


Tengah reject Tampines reject, we no luck lah we no luck, you know, why


, !wah!, okay resale more faster ah, it's like everything the house inside all done it for you ah


also but like this more expensive leh, that's true, I also just pay for nicer house


true ah, okay


the first owner who move out when you move out they don't care about their house anymore correct so before they move on when they meet it's easy for you to win as you right, correct


, , okay, well that's true lah that's true lah, correct lor, I mean got pros and cons lah you know


!wah!, don't don't think about, you know I everyday think about it right


it's stress you know, then have or don't have also stress ah, wedding, why no wedding, , why


you don't don't ya ya lah our mindset is don't want ah but our parents is different thing ah, my parents traditional, you cannot blame older generation thing ah


ya lah wedding important ah, but I won't invite so much people lah, invite those close, can already lor


ya, ya, your your stepdad side ya your stepdad side all I all I know already, uh is all all all I like so that one okay but


your Godma your Godma ya lah and that one your biological dad your Godma okay lah, but other than that don't need already what, okay, !wah! <mandarin>我要花很多钱:wo yao hua hen duo qian</mandarin> hor


ya, Cor leh <mandarin>我我的钱:wo wo de qian</mandarin> Pok ah


, no lah two three three three years later lah, ya if three years later must see whether COVID change


ah <mandarin>你自己去看:ni zi ji qu kan</mandarin> you go do research ah, kids ya lah kids maybe twenty nine or thirty ah


!aiya! one see how lah one can already stress already ah, cute cute one in the house bring more joy


yes I need another joy too to be like a complete family you know, dog is not a human, you know ya lah cute is cute lah but


ya you you I don't know how to explain ah, you know !aiya!, so it's like, !ee! people plan


but uh plan never come out so might as well <mandarin>顺其自然会比较好:shun qi zi ran hui bi jiao hao</mandarin> lah, correct, not an easy thing


same ah that's why that's why, I never say that ah I really, maybe four years down the road our financial even more stable and even more better ah


then will be good lah, every every month earn more than five K good what, right, correct


!haiya!, so much plan to do, it's not easy lah, adult life sucks, but ya, we have to move on, I mean when this COVID nineteen over


wanna travel, I want I want go, uh thailand, I want go taiwan, ya, JB is anytime go one


#lok lok#, eat #lok lok# everyday every night


COVID blame china no lah kidding, blame whoever who do the virus, I believe it is man-made, it's not like what you eat bat then got virus, I mean


ya lah but the thing is not everything is from animal what, you see this COVID is I I from my belief it's man-made ah, and, it might have happened again lah so be prepared lah that we may not even get a great chance to go to overseas for maybe five years or six years you know


singapore ah, ya go all the scenery lah go Sentosa right I told him to go so far


where got, oh okay


JB cheap everything is cheap we retire there we retire there, right


right, but the thing is singapore is expensive, so you want to enjoy right can you earn more money you can enjoy life over here


see all the <mandarin>太太:tai tai</mandarin> enjoying life, want <mandarin>太太:tai tai</mandarin> so easy meh, money <mandarin>从天上掉下来:cong tian shang diao xia lai</mandarin> uh, [orh] <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor <mandarin>做梦:zuo meng</mandarin> lor, , uh


ya lah I work from home already what my E commerce


!wah!, stress ah more stress, ya I saw, I saw


yup, !wah! got preference one ah


okay, (hmm) interesting


this one is take time to process one it's not like, correct


ya, teach values don't teach like what uh ya, school is teach subjects they don't teach you about successful life, they don't teach you how to earn money


ya lor


okay, compassion as in what


will purpose opposite know, ya so it it's not necessary you must have dog it's how you how you being brought up, actually it's how you brought up uh how how the parents brought up the children lah


what kind of difference elaborate please


okay, no one to okay challenge them, oh I get what you mean


but it depends, ya correct lah but it also depends on how they being brought up, you know, not every kids are the only child, and don't have dogs then don't have all the things that you mention


you know I have friends who single, uh ya single kids ah, they they basically care for people more than they care for themselves you know, don't have dog some more


they no childcare ah they my childhood friend I don't know, ah true lah, , correct


ya, I mean by the time, we have kids then we know how lah and, by then I everyday at home can see my kids <mandarin>成长:cheng zhang</mandarin> everyday at home do my work my E commerce you know and so coffee land by then you are okay already okay


okay, what, E commerce will never die, we shall see, ya talk about E commerce uh this coming sunday wait no next next sunday on the sixteen I need to


go teach the person again, the the SMU ya the last session, ya, the sixteen, ya but I start at afternoon, two, two to five


three hours ah then after that can find you ah, ya, so just nice, ya, then ask him to intro more people and all


correct, invoice this one this month don't need, ya, err people they only ask for january because I say I start this year january mah so january err february and march when does the COVID nineteen start


march or april, ya I need to see ah cause I can't remember my class stop at when ah


ya so ya lor need to, track back everything, !wah! movie finally can watch ah but people trying to pull stunt already ah


!wah! you never watch, ya but you should watch the first one I I tell you, is more, is it I I I won't say is like the second one because I watch second already, because no link ah first and second


it will teach you right the I mean the starting right of the movie right the, first one ah err how how it evolved I mean for my got like normal day daily life people go work it started early in the morning people board the train


then, a personal governor then suddenly got one thing run super fast but never care but


it's uh it's a zombie ah a zombie eat up a, ya, outside then eat up the security guard, ya, then, somehow it goes up to the train go into the train


nobody noticed ah until a dog keep on bark and bark at the door the toilet door yes, then the like a air stewardess lady ah, what does we all air stewardess lady in train call ah


cabin crew ah cabin crew , then she open the door then, the zombie ah just bite her, ya then then after that everybody was shocked lah, then that's how everything started not everything started lah but where uh other place also started


correct, then err then all the <mandarin>男女主角都出来:nan nv zhu jue dou chu lai</mandarin> Liao, ya there is quite uh !wah! intense ah the movie and the whole ride right they want to go to Busan


correct why, Busan is the place is safe ah, cause it's guarded, ya, err soldiers, ya, ya I think the military already know what happened already just that they never tell the citizens this one not sure this my guess


then then err everything so chaotic at the train then a lot of people die, then they go to next station they thought the next station everything okay, then after that they all alight alight already then take another


no no no no no not so far I can't I can't remember which station then they go out the train alight the train, they all go to level one, there they saw a lot of soldiers there but end up the soldiers is a zombie


!wah! then all chase ah chase, then ya they they run and run then some people uh stay back to protect uh there continue to fight with the zombie, then after that faster chase after the because uh train have to faster move what so uh move already then the last few five people chase until the train


ya because got one bastard lah it's a devil ah I call him devil ah, uh ask the train captain to move without uh without them on board but actually they on board on other side already, so


ya in the middle of the train got lot of zombie, ya, so so, wait you haven't I haven't finish my story, then err, after that they have to go through the


the middle of the train, then do way a lot of strategy to pass through it, then they noticed that eh uh they can't see without light, uh


ah <mandarin>不是不可以动:bu shi bu ke yi dong</mandarin> they they they just like aimlessly lor they then, ya wait they


correct uh that's why you see the the part two at night is ah they like, nothing lor, until they hear voice or anything lor, by sound they attracted to it, ya then they pass through all the middle part finally get to the


uh err the first second row of the train that's where all the survivors there !huh! they uh the survivors one of the devil, don't allow them to come in, to the the second uh room


ya because they scared they are affected if affected <mandarin>早就:zao jiu</mandarin> affected Liao what, ya lah if if don't do this right no more movie ah ya, correct then then they fight their way in uh, then they whack the guy


ya then, after that somehow err cannot go in ah then after that they go to another cabin, then ah because uh there's a two sister very old lady uh two old sister lady


that are <mandarin>一个在那个:yi ge zai na ge</mandarin> first cabin <mandarin>另外跟着那些五个六个:ling wai gen zhe nei xie wu ge liu ge</mandarin> survivor the sister at the cabin the survivor eh no that devil side there right so the sister still alive then err like oh my god go open the door let all the zombie come


ya correct, uh the devil, died ya, ya


the <mandarin>主角:zhu jue</mandarin> got one son ya


uh ask the <mandarin>男主角:nan zhu jue</mandarin> take care of the wife, ya no choice, ya he he going to turn already he even his turn he turning right he still quite tank ah ya


err uh mentality strong eh he, [orh], that's why I say very intense eh better than the second part of the movie like shit only that one no link, it's just want talk about I'll get the money only for the second one


the first one is talk about all the emotion all the intense, ya it's more intense lor then after that, every scene so chaotic I can't remember some, topic already ya, then after that err one of them one by one die most of them die then the <mandarin>男主角:nan zhu jue</mandarin> with the kid and the pregnant


err on board to another train okay, but the captain also Kena bite, then err the uh kill the captain lor, but the devil end up, being a zombie right still can climb to that train


then the the <mandarin>男主角:nan zhu jue</mandarin> Kena bite I don't understand why he he so <mandarin>容易被:rong yi bei</mandarin> bite sia like ya if not no movie what, ya lor then Kena bite then err the son


keep crying ah, then, I can't remember I can't remember, then after that ah before he die he she it have a lot of flashback in uh the son, and all from baby and all all the flashback white colour flashback


after that he jump out of the train, he die, ya correct, so left the kid and the pregnant lady ah, ya there after that ah there's a black tunnel uh to go until <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Busan <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> uh


that's where all the barricade is then err the soldier thought is err zombie going to shoot already then the kid sing song, I don't know why sing song but then they never shoot they say it's a survivor uh most of the soldier go go help them


uh no more, ya the train that the pregnant lady they all took right is one one train only just only got the, front part of the train uh one only no connected one


ya you get what I mean ah, ah dislock Liao dislock Liao <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> Liao, ah something like that, then that's where it ends lor like !wah! then I waiting for part two whether got part two then end up four years later is this peninsula Nina <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> find money


a bit stupid ah I thought the zombie ah is worldwide end up is only korea, why korea man not US, world war Z lor more fun lor, ya lah


there's a there that's why I say err part one is better than part two, ya, then ya want to watch mulan also cannot more !ouch! then want to watch the fast and furious nine also need to wait, everything


one for one for which one oh have have have we have movie to watch the greenland, now, ya if I'm not wrong


ya lor, can I don't mind, ya lah


work what work


ya, I want to go sing K also cannot, why they can't open ah cinema can open K cannot open


psst, really meh


ya but but because a lot of people taking the <mandarin>房间:fang jian</mandarin> mah like finish already ah then next, ah, that's why that's why the


that's why the planning a bit stupid ah gym <mandarin>可以开:ke yi kai</mandarin> [wor]


and sing, can what


but ah, I can't wait for the day ah where government announce ah, sing K is open !wah! I tell you fully booked ah


why only for #teo heng# that kind it's not like all the KTV meh, also open what


oh, then why, then why why restaurant and bar can open, you know what best is sing at home


ask friends come over, search ah search for friend list that have, have their parents


ya, then can sing, ya lor, easy ah like that, eh but tomorrow you working or not ah


okay then probably go eh no lah Jurong point, Jurong west I need to deliver a product, ya I haven't buy the packaging yet


then buy from where, oh oh oh okay okay, or you ask her mum I knew she have any nice paperback back


okay later I ask lor, ya lah if don't have then buy ah, outside, ah Jurong point


ya, correct, ever since uh CB, I haven't been to there yet wait have I I can't remember


but ya, tiger sugar is a miss, is a must drink, you know, correct, then oh ya today your commission how much


what, which guy #li jie# ah


[orh] <mandarin>对对对:dui dui dui</mandarin> !wah! he friday TGIF that's why, it got maybe, because the person rich what


, no choice


ya, oh, landlord


ya I want to talk to the landlord, ask him to change the electricity bill, number


ya lor, ya correct, !haiya!


ya lor <mandarin>你就是老板娘:ni jiu shi lao ban niang</mandarin> Liao eh, !wah! I can't wait to eat your mother do the kimchi


!wah! heaven ah but should should, do the ah uh Kimchi live, and sell it, uh facebook live, ah


okay <mandarin>不不要讲榴莲人家卖:bu bu yao jiang liu lian ren jia mai</mandarin> biscuit eh, ah, ya then


like people also sell, mooncake they themselves do one ah and sell ah also have, home-based what


home-based business can don't need license, through facebook live people buy nobody complain, food poison people complain lah, correct lah but no issue then can sell, why not


Sabo


!wah! when you talk about cheat the system hor people cheat the SIRS system ah all Kena caught eh I don't know what document, the <mandarin>三百八:san bai ba</mandarin> I show you one, ya that's why they get arrested eh I don't know eh I don't know how they cheat ah


how to cheat, I'm like, I don't know lah people like to cheat government system ah, cause it's uh easy money, ya, this kind of thing


you ask them ah


it's other people you think what other people care, , !aiya! same lah


well what to do, oh ya oh ya err last night uh the ronaldo the juventus team ya !wah! he score record again ah err for champions league


ya but the thing is, no err semi final eh wait quarter final semi final I can't remember, ya but they won, but still, they one to one but the first leg was, one two, so I don't know how to count


!aiya! I don't know how they count but they are out of the cut don't know how they count but they are out of the cup, the champions league, juventus out, ya, err same goes to barcelona also out


err messi lead the team then end up the team screw up he also Sian he want to leave barcelona already, everything of <mandarin>他们两个:ta men liang ge</mandarin> ronaldo <mandarin>靠:kao</mandarin> ronaldo, I I heard rumours that ronaldo going to PSG


ah you know with who mbappe and neymar !wah! nuke bomb ah this one, uh it will be good if, PSG money one


money ah you talk about arsenal ah they just lay off fifty five people sia, ya, ozil was right (ppc), ozil was right he don't want to cut his pay is because he wants to know where the money goes to


before he cut his pay he was right along people even shoot him down, he was right that err if err the money ah you don't go where but still ah lay off fifty five people, all the players cut their salary eh


you know, ya because he never want to participate in this until he know where the money goes to then he open to cut, even more than what are the rest are cutting, but you see they lay off fifty five people even cut off err player's money


now all the players not happy, if I'm Aubameyang right I I surely don't want to uh recontract, there's uh arsenal


cannot make it is because of the owner, a bit stupid lah that's why you see I don't want to buy the shirt, if I tell you the FA cup right they win ah I want to buy but they go lay off fifty five people like


ya, compare to compare to <mandarin>其他的:qi ta de</mandarin> season, this is nice, modern everything follow modern what correct


I don't know ah but, arsenal is either they go upwards or downfall


FA cup, that this <mandarin>四五年:si wu nian</mandarin> arsenal shit lor


even their shit is more better than spurs ah, now


spurs still shit lah cause they haven't win any cup, oh ya don't know lah K that's it !yay!


okay so we're going to start and ah speak a bit of english and mandarin, my name is gillian like your name is <mandarin>五月:wu yue</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>五月:wu yue</mandarin> lah


ya, okay


oh


but err


ya, perhaps artistic, maybe that's the thing


you, as for me I would say [orh] my parents they didn't know what name to give me so my father all the way had a friend and I think taiwan or something was an author say <mandarin>写书:xie shu</mandarin> you know right write books that kind of thing so go and ask for a chinese name for me lah and that's when that person say oh ya #min xue# has is a good name and all this because my surname is <mandarin>陈:chen</mandarin> so you know I think they put it to get it turns out to be a good name


I also don't know because err for me what my why <mandarin>华语名字:hua yu ming zi</mandarin> I don't say so much I don't use so often, the only time was when I was in school when I want to have my chinese name I'll always turn the the the what's that, the exercise book ah the cover to the front cause I can see <mandarin>学校:xue xiao</mandarin> !wah! I copy lah <mandarin>学怎样学:xue zen yang xue</mandarin> ah <mandarin>怎样写:zen yang xie</mandarin> that's why the <mandarin>学:xue</mandarin> like that so I know how to write my name because of that


other than that I usually err just go by my english name, but okay lah my english name my mother also tell me got a lot of funny stories she was like ya last time I wanted to call you michelle but then nobody know how to say your name they call you #mee siam# #mee siam# so <mandarin>我的名字:wo de ming zi</mandarin> for michelle become #mee siam# in the end they were like how are so they said okay lah how gillian because that can be shortened into jill easy jack and jill went up the hill and go get water and fall down lah as shortened into jill easy jack and jill went up the hill and go and get water and fall down lah


ya so sorry to hear that but you know lah in school <mandarin>学校:xue xiao</mandarin> you know there is ah male students they are always very naughty one


you know in class in school last time always <mandarin>打架:da jia</mandarin> lah always go recess time they will go and push us take our food lah that kind it's very normal and they just very


I don't really like them


!aiyo!


if that happened in today are more a complaint to mamma papa grandma uncle auntie all come down to the school <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> surely get in trouble one ya lor the link so different now than before


things have really changed but that's also, I think the the rights of a lot of things have change also the rights of people towards children, last time I remember in school the teacher would throw the what the duster at us you know chalk duster then after that you go recess everybody know because <mandarin>白白:bai bai</mandarin> or your your uniform all got white here


nowadays no such thing because they use whiteboard, whiteboard, , we are supposed to try not to talk over each other as well so I'm trying to like let you talk first you you got you you can tell me about your school thing first then later I continue


(uh huh), err, I think you are really a musician that's why


ya that's what I feel


and then I end up in chinese dance of all things I cannot dance to save my life one I'm the kinda if you say you dance otherwise I should do I'd be like save time should mean shoot me so I had to do chinese dance


and then the teacher will always tell us how to move and all this and I would like I've try my best but I'll always be <mandarin>很慢:hen man</mandarin> lah like everybody <mandarin>一二三四:yi er san si</mandarin> I'll be like <mandarin>一二什么什么:yi er shen me shen me</mandarin> what what oh never mind start again so we get the first two steps right then the next steps that's why <mandarin>捣乱:dao luan</mandarin> you don't know where I'm going is it


that one is more secondary school in err <mandarin>小学的时候没有做什么:xiao xue de shi hou mei you zuo shen me</mandarin> I cannot remember they what my CCCA was in primary school back then they call it ECA, you never used the word CCA


oh


I think that was probably like one of the early exercise routines with dancing like nowadays they got zumba lah all this lah you know like the K pop err <mandarin>跳舞的:tiao wu de</mandarin> exercise that kind jazz exercise so this sounds like a ball exercise


that does sound really fun actually lah when I was in school I remember PE teachers not so fun one all the teachers always very fierce


you know you you look at them wondering <mandarin>喊阿:han a</mandarin> shout lah you luck punish you lah do push up lah everybody walk by <mandarin>很怕很怕:hen pa hen pa</mandarin> dare not even look at the teachers that kind, most of them are these very angry looking men ah always frowning you know then they will wear shorts right and then they will always pull their arms and the they watch the students walk


I feel like their security guards of bouncers, err


that is very possible ya, because not everybody will know you know some people they look in the mirror smile nice moment they turned away from you ah frown doesn't look friendly anymore ya


err, I do think at the end of the day people don't always think of how they are received like there was this phrase that I, I like I remember hearing, err from doctor edward damning it says we know what we told him we don't know what he heard so the same thing you know how you feel when you talk to someone when you project your expressions but you don't know how they perceive it


maybe to you you are smiling, maybe <mandarin>体育:ti yu</mandarin> just being serious but then they see !wah! <mandarin>很可怕:hen ke pa</mandarin> no you feel during at me scary frowning lah very angry lah that kind of thing so maybe also comes across very different to others


actually no leh never talk to most of them


ah, err, ya lor


(hmm)


I'm not close to my teachers also survive here from other fans leh, like <mandarin>每年:mei nian</mandarin> ah, they really know how to err keep in touch also


so sometimes when they go back there will meet others or suddenly they tell us on chat groups or your facebook oh you know nowadays teacher got cancer, so sad, so our sports PE teacher I remember his name mister Kua very fierce in school always


he wear glasses and then he always has this frowning face, and quite a stout looking person you know you imagine that if he, he wants to he just strangle you by the neck and carry you up you be lifted off the ground your leg will be dangling the kind if it you know <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> cartoon <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> (hmm) so I remember everybody was very scared of him


but he got sick and he passed away already, see lah


and outside the school the canal, (oo), that err that that place err was


so this was one of the students


(oo)


ah


nobody dare to let the kid take the bus on their own already at that point


fifteen <mandarin>十五岁:shi wu sui</mandarin> so cute


, I think we will always I think maybe women right we're always put ourselves in this err, criticism middle we we're we're always criticise ourselves


err we will always look at ourselves and go oh we we used to look nicer eyes thicker I think uh you know kind of thing but we only getting older so what I hope is !aiya! <mandarin>老不用紧要聪明好:lao bu yong jin yao cong ming hao</mandarin> how you try and be smarter no older I get hopefully the wiser I get


ya your name is bernadette


ah, (hmm)


so, !huh!, but


I think is actually a very nice name and the name bernadette may sounds like a celebrity, look at this new movie coming out it's starring bernadette may she's been at so many movies oh <mandarin>我最喜欢的演员:wo zui xi huan de yan yuan</mandarin> you know that kind ya it has this so feel like a a very complete name


uh yes yes the one in britain


so ya lah I think err names are very interesting because they all have a very interesting history like archie's name, the name schneider in german means tailor, so when I go and I look in, when I when I go to his place and I look at his family's like photos I keep looking lah <mandarin>有没有在缝衣服:you mei you zai feng yi fu</mandarin> but don't have then I ask eh your name is schneider I'm so somebody in your family must have been a tailor then he say no we made shoes


ya ya talking about cars and nieces


F one Kena cancelled right, ya I think that affects a lot of business but to me I am happy I never like F one I always think, people like us we don't care for it


it's just blocking the roads only wanna take bus take there everywhere Kena block,


ya that's why I say


ya, I always find it a little bit too too much it's almost like how, and I feel this way I felt this way you long ago when I went to vietnam for filming, and they, took us on a bit of a tour and then I saw all these like village area like oh so clean so nice or like a nice holiday place and then I saw a tall building


and it's all shiny I said !wah!, this place is what ah and they said this is a condo very nice new condo I said !wow! so do the locals buy this and that's it no it's all for foreign investors and I actually said I'm glad singapore is not like that (hmm) where you have a lot of


people who are struggling to make ends meet, and at the same time you have all these fancy condos and nice homes for the rich people who are buying it when they're not even the local people I mean now in singapore we do have some locals because doing it lah


but then singapore has become like that of it which is quite sad, ya, !wow!


you ever been


ya, I went to china last year ah ya in the last two years two years like then I went to china twice, to teach drama in english over there, but then when it came to mandarin and speaking mandarin and you know like you just communicate with them a little bit here and there


but I never felt very confident because of course you know their mandarin is definitely better, so when I was there and I would like, speak what I can say oh <mandarin>我喜欢吃很辣的东西这是什么啊谢谢哦可以可以我可以吃这个:wo xi huan chi hen la de dong xi zhe shi shen me a xie xie o ke yi ke yi wo ke yi chi zhe ge</mandarin> and then when I ask him <mandarin>这个叫什么名字啊这个:zhe ge jiao shen me ming zi a zhe ge</mandarin> dish lah and then they will say or some chinese word I would go okay <mandarin>谢谢不用紧:xie xie bu yong jin</mandarin> I will never remember


honestly I like <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> lah but cannot too much because for the first five minutes is still enjoyable you still get the flavour yet the sweetness the layers after five minutes !wah!


is that what they call <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> ya that's why they always have the sesame sauce right to dip ya I like the sesame sauce actually ah you know why this reminds me long ago two thousand


err itchy in poly go and study and then she wanted to go back to china to visit family if you to bring things you wanted to bring a computer you know a CPU


from singapore to go to china, maybe they have but then she probably thought it's better, (hmm)


this was two thousand maybe she feels that the parts over there cannot be trusted so she buy from here, that's a good point <mandarin>全部从中国来新加坡那回去中国:quan bu cong zhong guo lai xin jia po na hui qu zhong guo</mandarin> like very funny right I so I was like okay lah however she likes it if he's happy with that fine and then she said eh we need one more person to share the wait come along and as it say come along lah just to share the weight ah I thought about it I was like this is exploitation but at the same time I like okay I don't mind it's really not so difficult I get to sort of take it as a holiday


at the time <mandarin>没有去中国:mei you qu zhong guo</mandarin> never went china never go anywhere like like like like you know mountain tortoise in two thousand


her family okay, her family she actually lives in, Beijing, sorry her mom lives in Guangzhou, we lived in Guangzhou then her mum's family like the auntie uncle grandma that all live in


Beijing and then err another set of grandma grandpa lives in Tianjin Tianjin was very nice when you go there !wah! finally <mandarin>蓝天:lan tian</mandarin> everywhere else is long smoky and grey only Tianjin you can see blue skies


I would say it's more rural, back then they were building a lot of apartments but more for retirement village