then they want to they don't want to <mandarin>他们不要花:ta men bu yao hua</mandarin> extra money on a new spectacles so they want to keep the lens then I need to go find a lens ya <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> frame to suit then most of the time right is cannot find one cause the


all the lens is either too big or too small cause their frame is very old already it's a old like design, so don't have the same one then if you want to find like a similar one is either all too mostly is the lens too small, cause now like nowadays all the frame <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> very big


ya, !huh! that's quite nice, yours is like on oh ya <mandarin>你们是:ni men shi</mandarin> W optics right


ya, not bad actually W optics, but I didn't know about <mandarin>你的那个:ni de na ge</mandarin> suntec the people are nice, ya


but suntec is the people there is also very nice, ya, the time you know the survey thing I went there for to ask them to do the survey what


then the uncle <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> like <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> old <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> optometrist, then, like I think he maybe like fifty plus sixty plus you know then that uncle very nice


oh <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> senior at great world city ah, ya ya ya they got a few, who is jason Lim as in like one year older one or two years older one


got, [orh] got a few one, I remember <mandarin>有一个姓:you yi ge xing</mandarin> a female <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin>, forgot her name already, (ppc) (ppc)


ya then the the the the the, SP senior


I think she only comes on like they take turns one that's why maybe the senior is


ya we got nothing to do, [eh] end already right one hour already, okay, can stop


girl <mandarin>妈妈:ma ma</mandarin> ask you


but hor, if <mandarin>你每次:ni mei ci</mandarin> wear black <mandarin>人家会说:ren jia hui shuo</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你没有衣服穿:ni mei you yi fu chuan</mandarin> meh


why you always wear black,


I am fat so I must look a bit slimmer right to look nicer but <mandarin>你不同你们真的:ni bu tong ni men zhen de</mandarin> youngster hor <mandarin>每次:mei ci</mandarin> wear black but <mandarin>有些人说:you xie ren shuo</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你每天:ni mei tian</mandarin> wear black


maybe you can choose other colour, come on lah try to wear something different


you can try some other option <mandarin>因为人家会觉得:yin wei ren jia hui jue de</mandarin> !aiya! why you so boring don't always wear black wear other colour


ah #buey hiao kin# lah <mandarin>就算:jiu suan</mandarin> Liao lor


of course lah but what to do, Ahma is Ahma what Ahma always <mandarin>疼孙:teng sun</mandarin> mah


okay fine I accept the fate


what will happen so, I no need money to survive, so, what should I survive with


so if they don't work what would happen


so can I say that actually


if they don't work, and their time is running out


!wow!, interesting, I don't mind you know, like now ah actually I'm having slipped disc then


most of the company, won't want to employ me because I cannot sit, for long hour I cannot stand for long hour, so if let's say we practice this, times


!wah! so no need to suffer, not bad is a good idea what do you think, I err do you think that it's a good idea for you also


(mmhmm) no right or wrong I felt that


on the tap


all that need money, so, now is using, time to replace money, I'm not sure, because, so far, in our in in in our world we don't have such thing


I don't know, when the time comes, maybe it's good, maybe is not good but the thing I like about it is, when you your time is


gone, from sickness or whatsoever


so actually, if the mother reached him earlier he, can transfer some of the time to her mother


and maybe they can live happily, forever, -, but


I'm not sure


if there's some kind people in the past, that can, so called donate, or transfer some time, to the mother


maybe, the mother won't die, or maybe the bus driver can give the mother some alternative, ask her to drop somewhere, alight somewhere


continue to live


I agree with you, (mmhmm) but some time


able or willing to lend some time to the mother, maybe the son, will replace it with a double or triple time you don't know


or because you, I don't know


is correct is good


true this is life, but okay fine in this world I felt


true, I agree with you


what will happen in your future


true, so, you are a very practical person, you don't need, to see your future to change your current


what would you do


yes, so is it, you prefer to turn back the clock, or


so you are very realistic person lah, you would rather go through


err


actually is true, like I heard people say, no point crying over spilt milk, so spilt milk also <mandarin>没有办法:mei you ban fa</mandarin> lor, it's just learn from your mistakes


do our part, and will we will live happily


so as long as <mandarin>没有遗憾:mei you yi han</mandarin> ah


true, I do agree


yes your best is not your best, sometimes people you are trying your best but, are you trying your best, is this your best, is your best the best so


true, I agree, because


thinking all that, so, I might not be the best at that time but, I know I might not be that worse


maybe


so <mandarin>现在可以做的是:xian zai ke yi zuo de shi</mandarin> adapt to changes, have a open mind


only one choice, yeah rice actually you can do a lot of things with rice


you can fried the rice you never say I cannot do anything with the rice I can fried the rice, I can cook porridge with rice, I can do a lot of things with rice I can do make sushi also


so <mandarin>我要白的要黑的要黄了要红的多姿多彩很多颜色:wo yao bai de yao hei de yao huang le yao hong de duo zi duo cai hen duo yan se</mandarin> colourful rice, anything I want to do with rice I can do it


true, that's why if those people who don't have rice I think


!wow!


three wishes, I think I will wish to have a healthy life, err <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> sickness, the first wish


second wish I will wish to have a, happy family, so that I my kids and I will be very happily together, thirdly I think I wish, to have a lot of money


so <mandarin>我不用:wo bu yong</mandarin> worried <mandarin>这样多东西:zhe yang duo dong xi</mandarin> I can give my kid a comfortable life, I can live


so, maybe that will be good for my three wishes how about you


okay fine you're so smart so my wish is your wish also so you have extra wish okay sure, so what is your wish what is your three wishes


you can, do many things, I think, your mental health will be better


maybe, don't expect too much return, so as like


a half an hour, so a lot of


maybe mental disorder <mandarin>也会:ye hui</mandarin> reduce


the family also get a very hard time if


having some depression


yes please tell me your last wish <mandarin>因为我也是很:yin wei wo ye shi hen</mandarin> excited to <mandarin>知道你的:zhi dao ni de</mandarin> last wish


maybe try to put yourself in some other people shoe, or


actually I like the way you say, move yourself, one step back because by doing that, you can see a bigger, and better picture, you can


look at, the thing at a lot of different angle


jump to conclusion, very true actually, is very true that, we should look at things


not too close, and, also not too far


blur blur, long sighted <mandarin>的人可以看远:de ren ke yi kan yuan</mandarin> but <mandarin>靠近它就会看起来好像:kao jin ta jiu hui kan qi lai hao xiang</mandarin> blur blur so <mandarin>他们就像我这样需要用那个老花眼镜来看:ta men jiu xiang wo zhe yang xu yao yong na ge lao hua yan jing lai kan</mandarin> so <mandarin>有时候东西我跟你讲:you shi hou dong xi wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> eh girl ah girl ah


then I can see the thing clearer that's why you always say <mandarin>妈:ma</mandarin> what are you doing ah taking photo for what ah I say yeah I cannot see anything so I must take photo that is the thing lah


of course you need to look at yourself lah everyday you wake up you look at the mirror eh <mandarin>镜如果镜子你不是很恐怖:jing ru guo jing zi ni bu shi hen kong bu</mandarin> leh


oh my gosh <mandarin>现在是七月:xian zai shi qi yue</mandarin>


then you can answer to yourself, answer to other people also, rightfully


yes right you are right, okay, what they expect from you is different, you might be doing A to Z, but


you can't fulfil everything and everybody only have, twenty four hour per day, so, sometime you have to go and see which one is your priority, you must prioritise your work also


am I right


nevermind nevermind sometime is like that mind block


so sometimes you need to, pause for awhile, the thing, what you need to talk, okay you talk about love is it or you talk about peace already


yes I think I'm in my lala land when hor you grow older <mandarin>有些东西:you xie dong xi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>不记得:bu ji de</mandarin> leh, filter out


actually to be fair is like, you listen to what you want to listen only, you hear what you want to hear those things that you don't want to hear like mummy nag nag nag at you you will, you will be ah !huh! <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> meh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> meh


yes I know, but sometime you really is thinking something that you're


oh my god I also wish that I'm like them


you are trying to say <mandarin>心有余而力不足:xin you yu er li bu zu</mandarin> right, hokkien <mandarin>叫做:jiao zuo</mandarin> #wu xim bo lat#


okay but yeah it's true that time management is very important, multitasking, is now what, the world looking at, so


that can multitask a lot of thing


maybe better than robot


so build sandcastle in your head but <mandarin>没有行动也是行:mei you xing dong ye shi xing</mandarin> lah


oh yes you must know how to dream then the


!wow! <mandarin>你这么:ni zhe me</mandarin> Chim leh, so Chim until I catch no ball


suitable for


okay


oh yes rumours like real thing now a lot of rumours but it's not real news it's fake news so scary


but people don't believe you


oh yeah I heard about that, very scary, I don't know is this now trending


so, the news is not real


but that is very dangerous you know the blind lead the blind, so, the end nobody know what is happening


oh my god that is I hope that the new generation, is not like that


I know you all are very smart actually you all even know how to do Google all that very clever Google experts somemore not like we all this type of people !aiyo! #m si# IT savvy leh cannot lah


true lah but


but <mandarin>真的是我真的是很佩服你们你们真的是很:zhen de shi wo zhen de shi hen pei fu ni men ni men zhen de shi hen</mandarin> smart like <mandarin>去电脑那边:qu dian nao na bian</mandarin> type type <mandarin>几个东西啊那个:ji ge dong xi a na ge</mandarin> Google <mandarin>就会给你一些:jiu hui gei ni yi xie</mandarin> solution ah <mandarin>一些:yi xie</mandarin> answer to that


like <mandarin>人家讲的东西:ren jia jiang de dong xi</mandarin> not necessary to be real, okay so sometime is really that you will have to exercise, your brain to filter what is true and what is not true


oh my god so cute


okay, oh okay static <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> ah static


but <mandarin>有些人真的是有:you xie ren zhen de shi you</mandarin> sweaty palms <mandarin>的不是在讲骗话:de bu shi zai jiang pian hua</mandarin> (mmhmm) maybe maybe the creator should


it is not what they choose you know to have sweaty palm is so natural they have a sweaty palm


oh


but it's good that <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> point out to <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> so that when <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> interview <mandarin>还是什么他不会突然间这样一直笑一直笑:hai shi shen me ta bu hui tu ran jian zhe yang yi zhi xiao yi zhi xiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>人家会觉得:ren jia hui jue de</mandarin> eh you find me very funny meh what is so funny about me so <mandarin>那个人会:na ge ren hui</mandarin> how to say how to say


so <mandarin>他这样笑可能:ta zhe yang xiao ke neng</mandarin> maybe <mandarin>他是一个:ta shi yi ge</mandarin> best candidate or good candidates that fit all the criteria


okay, that would be good


I cannot stand, maybe <mandarin>有些人的习惯就是在那边一直:you xie ren de xi guan jiu shi zai na bian yi zhi</mandarin> shake <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> leg lor


I mean you cannot please everybody as what I say just that


funeral lah wake <mandarin>全部整身西装:quan bu zheng shen xi zhuang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>都是黑色多么:dou shi hei se duo me</mandarin> #sta lou# leh


wear white, pure white


oh my god <mandarin>你在:ni zai</mandarin> wedding white colour no lah fuel funeral can wear black lah, wear black is good oh but funeral don't wear red lah !huh!, the best is don't wear red, okay no red


black, yeah just wear black or maybe err blue colour, or yeah but don't wear white and black or black and white this one usually associate with


family member at the funeral, oh <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>俗语说不听老人言吃亏在眼前:su yu shuo bu ting lao ren yan chi kui zai yan qian</mandarin> but


I felt not everything the old person say is right, again I will say, use your filtering filtering, the skill, come and filter, that would be good


, true true true I agree, so you must use your initiation to see which one is right which one is wrong


to filter, and keep the right one, and eliminate the wrong one


true, yes


oh that I totally agree with you, just make yourself happy and you will be a more happy person, and you will make the whole family happy make the world happy


yeah <mandarin>我现在很:wo xian zai hen</mandarin> happy Liao okay good night


you don't have to think so hard when you wear black shirt and black pants and then you can like match with <mandarin>什么颜色的鞋子都:shen me yan se de xie zi dou</mandarin> okay ah, as compared to like maybe purple colour <mandarin>这些好看:zhe xie hao kan</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可是不是每件衣服:ke shi bu shi mei jian yi fu</mandarin> also look nice one what


well I think, it doesn't matter lah I mean we are the new generation already what


then what you want, what can what what other alternatives do they have for me to wear if not black


eh mummy <mandarin>去年:qu nian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我每次穿白色你又讲我全部穿白色好像人家去:wo mei ci chuan bai se ni you jiang wo quan bu chuan bai se hao xiang ren jia qiu</mandarin> #jiu song an ni kuan#, then hor now you say I wear black, also <mandarin>不吉利:bu ji li</mandarin> then <mandarin>要穿红色像鬼:yao hong se xiang gui</mandarin> meh


but I also got wear other color mah just that I never wear as much as


black lah because black is really easier to <mandarin>配别的东西:pei bie de dong xi</mandarin> mah


but Ahma <mandarin>看到:kan dao</mandarin> Ahma <mandarin>也没有讲到什么东西:ye mei you jiang dao shen me dong xi</mandarin> what, so mummy you salty she treat us nicer than you lah


yeah lor so we win you lose


then, mummy <mandarin>我问你:wo wen ni</mandarin> ah, the other day right <mandarin>我看到一个很:wo kan dao yi ge hen</mandarin> interesting <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> question <mandarin>他在问:ta zai wen</mandarin> right, to survive, then what would happen


(mmhmm)


err true lah, just that for them what happen is that they are literally paid in time, so they use time as the currency, so like they will work, but then right err their <mandarin>工价:gong jia</mandarin> is actually just time


so <mandarin>他们不会用钱也不会被:ta men bu hui yong qian ye bu hui bei</mandarin> like they won't touch money at all because they are actually genetically engineered to like die when they hit a certain age and their life start counting down lah from that day onwards, so when they work is actually to buy more time to live longer


they don't work, because they are very poor they need to pay all the bills and everything


so err if they don't work they got no money if they got err so call not no money they got no time if they got no time then they die


then you may not die immediately but since now they are playing with time when their time run out they die


like if, now now you are playing now the currency is actually money and there's already a lot of crimes so <mandarin>如果那个:ru guo na ge</mandarin> currency <mandarin>变成是时间:bian cheng shi shi jian</mandarin> everybody wants to live longer I mean there's a general norm la <mandarin>不是讲你的看法:bu shi jiang ni de kan fa</mandarin> but


yeah lor


actually because of the fact that is actually based on time right so you say that things like when <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> take public transport <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> you don't have enough money maybe somebody can lend you some money to take lah !huh! let's just say that you take the bus then you forgot to bring your EZ Link card but there's this nice person there that like lend you that few cent that you need to take your bus right then it's okay you can still get to wherever you need to go but in <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> show right what happened was that the mom was actually coming back from work she wanted to see her son but because of the fact that <mandarin>它的那个:ta de na ge</mandarin> bus fare suddenly increase


from normally the <mandarin>一个钟头变成两个钟头:yi ge zhong tou bian cheng liang ge zhong tou</mandarin> so end up when she want to take if she want to take the bus right she will have to pay two hours from her life but she only left ninety minutes, so if she were to do that then <mandarin>他还是不够钱:ta hai shi bu gou qian</mandarin> ah so what she did was that instead she chose to


walk run [la] run back to her son instead and the more saddening part of it was that, she haven't even reach him <mandarin>她已经死掉:ta yi jing si diao</mandarin> Liao, because her time ran out but if you don't have money, you wouldn't be, dying on the spot mah I mean you still have


okay lah I mean there's uh always there is always pros and cons to everything two side of the coin, and a lot of times <mandarin>是你看我好我看你好:shi ni kan wo hao wo kan ni hao</mandarin> lor


so unless you are put in a situation is very hard for you to determine whether it's something really good or really bad, but not everything will turn out the way that you want it to be lah


I mean that I am not sure lah maybe it just happened that in the context is still a dog eat dog world lor so


they really have no, opportunity or maybe every cause like I think the context was like everybody was already very poor so they got no money there are barely enough to survive much less still donate money to some weird stranger that they see yeah lah this person say that she running out of time lah but if I donate her my time who know maybe I will run out of time


but whatever you defined as <mandarin>良心:liang xin</mandarin> is also subjective to people because eventually people only want to do what benefits them the most in this world what you wouldn't really be choosing to do things that's for the good of others I mean yes lah you might


but if you do that and you are always on the losing end then why would you want to continue, you know sometimes it takes two hands to clap, you can only <mandarin>付出:fu chu</mandarin> so much before you feel very tired and then you don't want to give in anymore


no lah you wouldn't lah but in a sense


if even if you treat someone good that doesn't mean that they will treat you well either


then


actually right to be honest if you ask me now, maybe if you ask me ten years ago I will say yeah I want to go to future I want to see things like maybe, err what kind of job will go to where will you study who will still be your friends who would betray you


I if given a choice lah, I wouldn't really opt to go to the future either, because, your future


is a great unknown, and if you were to jump from, now to the future, you don't have the experiences that you go through now to back you up in the future because eventually you are who you, you are who you are because of your past experiences what


you <mandarin>你就是以前你所经历过的那些:ni jiu shi yi qian ni suo jing li guo de nei xie</mandarin> equipment you're just the accumulation of whatever you have gone through in the past, so, for all you know, just because I decide to go there to change something but because I didn't understand the context


so what's the point, why don't you just stay in the here and now to


but just because I see my future don't mean that I will be able to change my current to become like the future what happens if because I see the future and then come back and I become very complacent


and then I don't do anything about it, thinking that I will still get the same future only to end up ruining my life even more


everybody has their own regrets I'm sure you do also what


I mean the past is the past as what people always say


it's things that happened in the past that make you what you are now what you can go back there to change, but then just because you change something the past to mean that your life will become better what I mean


she was unable to change the future to something that she wanted at end lah, and end up, she just doesn't like future even more, so why would I want to go back there to change, the past to get a so call better present but I have live through it I survive my past


so why would I want to go back to revisit again


I I guess so like if you ask me now lah I mean maybe you ask me like back then


my answer would have been different lor like you will say oh go back to the past to change your past lah so that you can have a better future but, and then all things happen you change, and after that we think back then okay lah I guess, maybe it's time to embrace the present so that you could make the best of your future to the best of your ability


while remembering the lessons learned from your past, then what do you think eh mummy


I guess maybe it's not about like living happily or like anything you know I guess like at least


it is what it is lah I mean, you really did what you could so maybe tomorrow


you look at yourself you can still say yes okay I did I did what I could yesterday today let's try harder, but, it is your best already lah, ya to the to the best of your abilities <mandarin>没有遗憾:mei you yi han</mandarin> lah but I'm sure to win some you got to lose some so


whether you have regrets or not


but, mum, isn't life, a very very exhausting thing also like, you, I mean like yes lah you you try your best, but sometimes your best don't work out either


I mean I think that's a very common question lah, because, your best is this <mandarin>未知数:wei zhi shu</mandarin> that, you got nothing to answer to what is just what you deem as your best


but maybe


yeah I guess so I mean, it is what it is lor, you can plan ah, your life, and then like have a plan for like you know every err err daily plan lah you wanted to do this do the do this do that


but life always has a way of turning out differently and I guess the only thing I can learn about it is how to, adapt to <mandarin>各种各样的:ge zhong ge yang de</mandarin> situation lor because, eventually life is like, I don't know people like to say that life is like a game of chess


you every move will lead to another move and you will never know what the future


but mum so right, on a irrelevant note, since you always cook for us and you know so many dishes, then if I give you a choice you can only eat one dish for the rest of your life what you want to eat


why rice so boring


well I guess yeah lah you can lah, is just, I don't know depends on, the person lor if you are a type that don't like rice then maybe it will be a torture to eat rice for the rest of your life lah


should be, so, if you had three wishes right now what would you wish for ah


okay lor <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> wish for <mandarin>钱:qian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我就不用:wo jiu bu yong</mandarin> wish for <mandarin>钱:qian</mandarin> already , but you are my mummy mah so is okay lah so I save the wish man


I want the knowledge and the wisdom to be able to discern, whether it's something true or not then that will help with your studies


that will help you with, then I guess your life will become very bad lah


so you should have wisdom to be able to choose the right things be it your course in life your friends in life or like what you want to do in life, then, you shall have


I don't know I think like <mandarin>如你所说的:ru ni suo shuo de</mandarin> everybody I I will wish for everyone to have, like the people that I love and care, because if you have a, heart that is content you would stop expecting more things if you are not expecting more things then you will be happier


and if you can, live your life happier you will live your life, probably with more health, so you will be a happier healthier person with wisdom


yeah so I guess you need to be content you need to learn how to like give thanks for the smallest things lah and not only on thanksgiving day


yeah I guess so anyway nowadays, mental health is a great issue


so I guess you, if everybody is more content the world might be a better place also, you will see, lesser things happening and maybe everybody will be happier lor is like


you are more content you will be those <mandarin>饮水思源的:yin shui si yuan de</mandarin> people what so end up you I don't know lah how to say lah but in a sense if you were to be able to give, thanks for small little things that come your way then you'll definitely be able to


and when things go wrong you will be able to take it more easily and take it more in stride, so you wouldn't be like so caught up over the things that, that have gone by and have passed


(mmhmm), true


yeah I I guess


I think the depression rates will probably go down


yeah lah I get it lah, but, I mean


that is another issue on its own that I don't have, the ability to err talk to you about it, as such I shall, tell you my last wish


but if you ask me I think it would be err, it would be a tough fight between, love and peace okay never mind I will go with love <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> if everybody


have more love, then the world will be more peaceful, because if you have love for yourself


it's more of like a you stop having all those like maybe, hateful greedy thoughts so you will become a more giving person or maybe it's not even love it's just learning how to be more selfless


like how to say you learn how to care more about other people's needs then the world would be a better place, because there will be lesser things like war happening and


I guess if everybody is a bit more, err <mandarin>怎么讲:zen me jiang</mandarin> ah like you care more about other people, then other people will learn how to care more about you also, I mean it takes two hands to clap and somebody has to start somewhere


so I guess, (mmhmm), yeah, I I guess you can say putting yourself in other people's shoes


or maybe it's more of like, learning how to, take a step back, and look at the bigger picture lah, because a lot of times you assume you know a lot of things but you don't you only see one side of a you can't just see one side of a coin and expect to see everything and you know everything just from that one side of a coin


you know like you sometimes need to see the whole picture first then you can get your own conclusion but I think a lot of times, people don't really see the whole picture and they just jump into their own conclusion lah so I guess, like if my family and the people I love could learn how to I don't know be more selfless or like learn how to love


then maybe everybody will be happier then they will be healthier and then they will learn how to be more content, and after that, when you are you have all those and then you are wise, and you have money then you will be a successful person in life


yeah I guess so I mean like like the movie like all those like now you see me all those like magician movies, the only reason why you don't see the bigger picture and you cannot see the tricks that's going on it's because you are too caught up in what they are doing with their dramatic hand actions


so <mandarin>因为他们的动作太大:yin wei ta men de dong zuo tai da</mandarin> and you are standing too close you do not see the whole picture and you thought you know it you really thought you knew it oh like the villians in the show, but when you take a step back and you look from the audience point of view then you realise that no you don't know it at all <mandarin>你什么都不知道:ni shen me dou bu zhi dao</mandarin> at the end of the day you at


yeah you jumped too fast you thought that you were winning but end up you were just being the you are just the one being played by people you know


yeah, I I I know what you mean lah I guess is like, the concept between like you know being being <mandarin>近视:jin shi</mandarin> or <mandarin>远视:yuan shi</mandarin> that kind of thing you need to have that normal eyesight so you can see things normally but if you are I don't know shortsighted and you like stand too far away all you see is just a big glare err blur blur right


then I guess if you are long sighted and you stare you need to like stare at things closer to be able, eh long sighted <mandarin>的人是可以看远还是可以看近:de ren shi ke yi kan yuan hai shi ke yi kan jin</mandarin> ah


ah


err yeah lah so in a sense, seeing things from too close also not good seeing things from too far also no good you have to find the right place to stand, !aiya! but if you cannot find it on your own then you just adjust yourself lor <mandarin>前面后面前面后面:qian mian hou mian qian mian hou mian</mandarin> lor you know eventually you will find the right perspective to look at things


I don't know I guess to become a better version of yourself, though like, what ah, err, like who ah <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> sometimes you really need to just be like Mulan and look back at your own reflection <mandarin>不要好像人家:bu yao hao xiang ren jia</mandarin> become like you know you can't you can't even look at your own reflection because at the end of the day you don't know who you are anymore you know you you need to be able to look at yourself


no leh <mandarin>因为他的那个歌不是有一句话什么:yin wei ta de na ge ge bu shi you yi ju hua shen me</mandarin> when will my reflection show who I am inside or something along those lines mah


eh <mandarin>我不是想吓你:wo bu shi xiang xia ni</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我只是在说:wo zhi shi zai shuo</mandarin> I mean like, at the end of the day it's more of like do what is right so that you can still wake up and look at yourself in the mirror


yeah lor I guess


but I mean you cannot really please everyone so I think at the end of the day is more of like knowing that <mandarin>你没有亏欠:ni mei you kui qian</mandarin> anyone and that, the next day you can still get on with life without worrying about like oh yeah maybe I shouldn't have done this or I shouldn't have done that lah


whether you are, whether you are rich whether you are poor whether you pretty or ugly or whatever


yeah I mean on that note time is fair lah, it just moves on lor, but like how to say ah, you need to, wait I lost my track of thoughts mummy


!aiyo! <mandarin>惨:can</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>我真的是老:wo zhen de shi lao</mandarin> Liao you know , no lah


ah <mandarin>我都讲完我的三个愿望了:wo dou jiang wan wo de san ge yuan wang le</mandarin> what you talking about you lala land is it mummy


well I guess like that's why people say sometimes you here but you don't listen lah, you only


I mean <mandarin>有时候真的是没有听到:you shi hou zhen de shi mei you ting dao</mandarin> mah you have to be fair I mean sometimes I really am busy doing my things I don't hear you how to hear you all the time mummy


ah <mandarin>我想到了我只是在想有些人:wo xiang dao le wo zhi shi zai xiang you xie ren</mandarin> you know like they have such great time management skills we all only have twenty four hours in our life I have barely have enough time to like study, and to like


I don't know lah relax a bit here and there, but some people, can have like, and they study and then now I have a friend that is actually looking into having a part time masters while working it's like <mandarin>对我来说是真的是一个不可思议的东西:dui wo lai shuo shi zhen de shi yi ge bu ke si yi de dong xi</mandarin> like


where you get all the time from I also want some you know, fantastic


get, get there but like I'm not even halfway and my tyre puncture already so I don't know how they can manage their


ah yes lah sorry lah <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> chinese <mandarin>不是很好:bu shi hen hao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不要这样讲:bu yao zhe yang jiang</mandarin> leh, !wah! <mandarin>这个什么:zhe ge shen me</mandarin> hokkien lesson meh


eh fun fact, that day ah not that day ah quite some time ago ah when I was reading my textbook hor for I don't know which subject hor they were saying that right there's no such thing as multitasking okay it's just that it's not that you do multiple tasks at the same time it's just that your brains switch very fast because it's still very like <mandarin>灵活:ling huo</mandarin> you know so that <mandarin>他他:ta ta</mandarin> switch <mandarin>很快:hen kuai</mandarin> right so you can do multiple things so called multiple things at one time lah but then at the end of the day <mandarin>你还只是有两只手两只脚而已:ni hai zhi shi you liang zhi shou liang zhi jiao er yi</mandarin> what you cannot be doing like eight things at one go


it's more of like you know you use your mouth to talk while you iron clothes perhaps or you watch TV while you so call <mandarin>写写字:xie xie zi</mandarin> lah but <mandarin>这种你到底是在做什么:zhe zhong ni dao di shi zai zuo shen me</mandarin> lah in the end


good question <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> depends on <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> definition of multitasking [bah] but multi means


I don't think that it's really considered multitask ah that is more like <mandarin>做白日梦:zuo bai ri meng</mandarin> but you know one can dream


yeah you must dream it to achieve like <mandarin>人家讲的:ren jia jiang de</mandarin> mah don't go where the path may lead go where there is no path and create a, create a road or something like that instead ah !aiya! something like that <mandarin>他讲得很:ta jiang de hen</mandarin> Chim the word <mandarin>那时候我走那个:na shi hou wo zou na ge</mandarin> like I was on the way to bus stop right then the quote was there then they just say yeah you must go where there is no path and create your own instead <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> blindly <mandarin>跟住风走跟住人家的脚步走:gen zhu feng zou gen zhu ren jia de jiao bu zou</mandarin> because just because they have been there and things go fine don't mean that that is the best thing like people also thought that the earth was


flat until somebody found out that it was round


no lah like okay lah okay lah !wah! <mandarin>讲太多废话:jiang tai duo fei hua</mandarin> like my point is just that, a lot of times, a lot of things are in trend but those might not be, yeah those might not be suitable for you and at the same time it could be


not like the thing is I guess facts are only


yeah it's like you you can decent lah I mean if that is the truth then you can follow the truth lah but if it is people start <mandarin>出来: chu lai</mandarin> the rumours I mean rumours spread like wildfire


like I don't understand lah really you can tell the you can tell people the truth


and, yeah but people don't believe you but when you tell people the lie or maybe


like so called <mandarin>谣言上加盐加醋:yao yan shang jia yan jia cu</mandarin> eh, yeah, I don't know maybe maybe that's why people have been going right the path that was there


I guess


but it is very unfair to your readers who are unable to


and they don't know at the end of the day


yeah I think there's a saying right <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> the blind lead the blind make the whole world go blind or something like that right


!aiya! <mandarin>妈咪你每次看我们的:ma mi ni mei ci kan wo men de</mandarin> generation we are not as bad as you think we are


no lah don't like that say lah !aiya! <mandarin>你这样太夸我们了我们:ni zhe yang tai kua wo men le wo men</mandarin> it's not that we are better at it its just that we have more exposure to it, then we are given more opportunities or or yeah in a sense opportunities to actually explore them more we need to use Google more for our projects and everything


just that when Google came out you're already working mah so different mah


but to bring back the point mah not everything on Google can be trusted also lor I mean the internet is a very scary place it has truth but you also have lies, and a lot of time when you really go in, like completely blind you also don't know which is the truth which is the lie


yeah lor true lah


but hor <mandarin>妈妈很好笑:ma ma hen hao xiao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他们出一个:ta men chu yi ge</mandarin> toy hor, some like lie detector test then <mandarin>你把你的那个手放在那个:ni ba ni de na ge shou fang zai na ge</mandarin> lie detector <mandarin>上:shang</mandarin> mah so actually I think it's supposed to be based you know those police that <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> lie detector lah but <mandarin>这个是那种:zhe ge shi na zhong</mandarin> game lah <mandarin>他们玩的那种:ta men wan de na zhong</mandarin> cheap cheap the <mandarin>不懂什么:bu dong shen me</mandarin> game <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> then you know you just put your hand there


so what happened is that they will actually, err say say things or whatever then after that if is a lie then they will electrocute you, yeah if it's quite cute lah but then hor you know hor I found


yeah yeah something like those I think so from what I read since like it but then hor the funny thing is right that this game this lie detector hor is not very foolproof eh you know hor <mandarin>如果你有:ru guo ni you</mandarin> sweaty palms hor <mandarin>他就会一直电你:ta jiu hui yi zhi dian ni</mandarin> eh so the thing is because I think the person created it with like maybe like associated with like you know if you if you are lying your hand will sweat then maybe your your heart beat faster mah cause if you lie <mandarin>你很紧张:ni hen jin zhang</mandarin> then after that for some reason like people with sweaty palms play that game right everything they answer <mandarin>就算是真的:jiu suan shi zhen de</mandarin> hor


yeah true lah <mandarin>就是有些人真的是紧一紧张的时候那个:jiu shi you xie ren zhen de shi jin yi jin zhang de shi hou na ge</mandarin> palm <mandarin>就会:jiu hui</mandarin> sweat <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> what, just like, how some people when they're very nervous then they will laugh


not not that they're laughing at you they are not also laughing at a situation they just don't know what to do then they just laugh


no lah I understand lah it's a bad habit to have lor but one of my friend also have this habit then she was saying that she tried very hard to kick, but you know lah what they say it's old habits die hard, then <mandarin>这种东西很难改的吗不可以不可能一夜之间改的:zhe zhong dong xi hen nan gai de ma bu ke yi bu ke neng yi ye zhi jian gai de</mandarin> and the best part is I think she didn't even realise she got this issue until we pointed out to her


(mmhmm)


yeah so like we were telling her about it she say she also trying to change that lor so


we'll see we'll see how it goes, so <mandarin>妈妈你有没有什么人家:ma ma ni you mei you shen me ren jia</mandarin> hor <mandarin>的那种恶习惯:de na zhong e xi guan</mandarin> or like you know bad habits of people that don't <mandarin>怎么讲:zen me jiang</mandarin> ah it's like your pet peeve you cannot stand one


yeah


okay lah I mean everybody entitled to their own view lah <mandarin>你有东西东西可能你喜欢有的东西你不喜欢喜欢:ni you dong xi dong xi ke neng ni xi huan you de dong xi ni bu xi huan xi huan</mandarin> so <mandarin>这种东西很个人的:zhe zhong dong xi hen ge ren de</mandarin> lah I guess


yeah lah


oh <mandarin>穿黑色:chuan hei se</mandarin> ah


oh okay lor


oh


okay lah black lah black lah, okay at least I learn new thing ah I guess <mandarin>经一事长一智:jing yi shi zhang yi zhi</mandarin> but more like <mandarin>我真的是不听老人言吃亏在眼前:wo zhen de shi bu ting lao ren yan chi kui zai yan qian</mandarin> lah


but mummy hope that <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> filtering skill <mandarin>不是把好的全部:bu shi ba hao de quan bu</mandarin> filter <mandarin>走坏的留下来:zou huai de liu xia lai</mandarin> [orh]


yeah lah I mean <mandarin>年轻人:nian qing ren</mandarin> no we should wear other colours that we can wear other colours everything we wear can be played off as fashion


but you know you see yourself more than other people see you so at least if you are happy with what you wear I guess, you will be happier when you go out and see people also


maybe lah start one step at a time start from you lah so <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> happy already or not <mandarin>现在我告诉你为什么我穿:xian zai wo gao su ni wei shen me wo chuan</mandarin> black


but I can have like, if I can think of one now


that at the current moment ah, is to be able to, uh like talk to my grandma lah cause she recently passed away, ya


but,


so this is the less close one, so <mandarin>我有点后悔:wo you dian hou hui</mandarin> cause, but if with my other grandma got a lot ah, but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, should have been more lor


, !wah! second ah, I think, what what about you eh,


but <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> but <mandarin>我看到那个我同事要:wo kan dao na ge wo tong shi yao</mandarin> tesla like


, okay, , but <mandarin>你不会觉得:ni bu hui jue de</mandarin> like


but so your your biggest wish in life <mandarin>是中:shi zhong</mandarin> toto ah, nothing else, one wish


then what about like family or something or like <mandarin>可能你的:ke neng ni de</mandarin> health, or, oh


, true ah that's true, uh , was it a mistake to have, torn the ACL, or do you think you go back you still have made the same mistake


over zealous ah


, , ya, actually I think you also know ah like okay if since you talking about ACL tear then I'll just say cause


like I think I suffer the same thing as you for me ah I also injure my eye in army ah, then that was like four weeks ago, so like, it was just because of a bacteria then <mandarin>它:ta</mandarin> grow like in my eye, but then (ppc) like, err so now my eyes is like


partially scarred, and I cannot see, a little bit lah my right eye, but then like same as you if I turn back time now right, if I was still at I I would choose to have my eye injured, because, uh


because of this right then I was able to see my grandmother for the last time, because I went for medical appointment which was near her house, then I decided to go and visit her if not I wouldn't have lah


cause of my injury ah, , actually <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> a few reasons ah cause my parents no cause when we in camp right on that day, I was eating some sunflower seeds with my friends then, we were talking about how dirty sunflower seed are


then we were just like putting it on my friend's bed, then I think, cause I recall like afterwards, my eye started to feel pain ah, then my friend say oh could it be the sunflower seed like dirty then got into my eye, and I think it's also quite funny ah but up till now I still don't really know maybe could have been just a random bacteria


, , yup


what the, okay, true that's the that's the best , that's the best answer already lah of course everyone choose to sleep what,


, , there's this saying ah <mandarin>他们讲如果我们每天睡八个小时:ta men jiang ru guo wo men mei tian shui ba ge xiao shi</mandarin> right


, oh


, but I feel like nowadays <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> like, like everytime I hear people say like


damn tired damn tired, ya


ya, ya but it it seems that I have no friend that


uh mummy <mandarin>你会不会觉得:ni hui bu hui jue de</mandarin> like, err like <mandarin>现在的人:xian zai de ren</mandarin> like <mandarin>年轻人啊:nian qing ren a</mandarin> like


then she tell me actually <mandarin>不会他们以前早睡:bu hui ta men yi qian zao shui</mandarin> because, so like, , ya, ya it's like so easy for us to lie on a bed and have something else to do [orh] <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>看看手机看电视:kan kan shou ji kan dian shi</mandarin> but last time our parents like


think is quite interesting lah


, somewhat compensated ah, true lah true lah I do enjoy taking naps lah I think, but talking about like this err, this taking naps thing right remind reminds me of this uh


recently there's this, uh diet, that you eat, every four hours, so you set a timer, so you don't actually have like three meals a day but you eat every four hours but you eat like less lah not like one full meal


, ya but I heard that is got some benefits one


, okay, err online gambling ah, okay to be honest I think like uh I have uh


like I will not shy away from saying that I have engaged in such activities before lah, like, err then I think at one point of time, I got win some, <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> like


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, actually <mandarin>你讲赢:ni jiang ying</mandarin> right <mandarin>当然是:dang ran shi</mandarin> sounds good ah <mandarin>输当然是不好:shu dang ran shi bu hao</mandarin> but then, for example I think like <mandarin>很多人会会讲:hen duo ren hui hui jiang</mandarin> like


<mandarin>你赢了你会赢更多:ni ying liao ni hui ying geng duo</mandarin> but I think it's a very grey area to say and it's not very like, err clear cut lah to tell you that oh actually gambling winning is not that good, but from my own experience right I can say


err, then <mandarin>我有:wo you</mandarin> teach tuition mah, then when <mandarin>我要去:wo yao qu</mandarin> teach tuition <mandarin>的时候我会觉得:de shi hou wo hui jue de</mandarin> like


then I might as well go and, gamble fifty dollar, so like this kind of thoughts will surface in my mind and I feel like, like <mandarin>钱的:qian de</mandarin> value right when we gamble we lose the


we lose the value lor, we don't really see


, true, actually <mandarin>最近我是在:zui jin wo shi zai</mandarin> sorry ah cause I don't know why but all my topics have to


run around my grandmother but recently I've been working on a memorial from my grandmother, then <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like, , then <mandarin>我阿公死是在一九七零年的时候:wo a gong si shi zai yi jiu qi ling nian de shi hou</mandarin> so like


my grandmother will think like, like to my grandma is like she became a widow for fifty years lah, so when I saw this picture I was just like !wah! it's quite a amazing photo lah but I was asking my dad <mandarin>做么:zuo mo</mandarin> like


that, so, I think it's very interesting ah but <mandarin>我们没有:wo men mei you</mandarin> keep <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> newspaper but I'm looking back into e-resources in NLB to try to look for article don't know it's in which newspaper but


, ya but it takes some stuff takes some time lah


, <mandarin>我我希望是啦我希望她会看到:wo wo xi wang shi la wo xi wang ta hui kan dao</mandarin> ya, okay lah I think it's a good way for me also to like


to like, , at least can do something <mandarin>因为我不要:yin wei wo bu yao</mandarin> like,


ya ya lor, then recently [orh] <mandarin>我有我也是看到:wo you wo ye shi kan dao</mandarin> newspaper


got this err, there's this, community organisation called crime library, err


this seventy year old auntie I think, she found like her, real blood relatives so like around seven of her of her siblings, but then she grew up as a only child lah as an adopted child cause <mandarin>以前她的:yi qian ta de</mandarin> real, uh birth mother right give <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> away


then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> then I was <mandarin>去看:qu kan</mandarin> crime library <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> facebook, two given away children, which I hear barely anything lah my parents don't really know anything about them also, ya


ya, given away when one month old so like that one is like no contact, ya


ya lor it can cannot help if like they don't know their real name right, or like ya lor


yes I have served in the singapore army, what about you ,


so, I think from the surface level is like !wah! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> shag sia, but then, over time right <mandarin>你会经过很多:ni hui jing guo hen duo</mandarin> tough times, then alongside you <mandarin>会有:hui you</mandarin> like


and I think that like, going through these right with these people <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> you know this <mandarin>词:ci</mandarin>called , this idiom called, so like it's really through the hard times that like, err you pick out lah those people that


you that is genuine to you and those who really want to help you [orh] and you know that these people are going to be there for the rest of your life, and I'm glad to have made some of these friend lah <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> army


right


okay lah that's good, ya so I think like it's a, it's the same thing lah like you go through tough times then your, your tend to unite also ya, , have you seen the new movie Mulan


oh, ,


<mandarin>刘亦菲:liu yi fei</mandarin> right, ya, I think so too but I haven't watch ah I've, from the trailer I was very excited but, err from the reviews right especially the there's this one review I saw from rice media, then, uh they give a four point five out of ten


they say like okay the the scenes are quite exciting, then they say like you can count the amount of times they say you cannot count the amount of times they say qi, and bring honour to my family is that true


so during COVID period right, I know like most of us had, a little bit more free time than usual so


true true true


it's true it's true actually I come from a, I come from a family where my parents don't know how to save money, so my parents actually don't have any savings in their bank account, err


, like, like for for <mandarin>我自己我是以为哎呀我以后会会省的啦:wo zi ji wo shi yi wei ai ya wo yi hou hui hui sheng de la</mandarin> but I never ever save money


so I think it was until like when I go into army then I start to, , , like really long term have an allowance ah


then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like feel like lost out lah but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like sometimes this is like uh family teaching also, save, then, ya but at least now I think it's better cause


but saving money I also think is not really a very good thing ah cause recently I read an article is talking about this err


ya so like, I think need to make the money grow over time


, save money


then, but instead of like investing lah cause it's something that <mandarin>他们不会学嘛:ta men bu hui xue ma</mandarin> cause we know that the, the perious generation wasn't always so educated, like nowadays people,


!wah! this is a very tough question sia, , !wah! if humans no need to work ah, meaning like uh maybe like all the jobs all taken up by robots that kind ah


, oh so like we have everything lah, !wah! then I think life will be very very meaning meaningless eh


cause a lot of err, satisfaction right actually derives from what we do in our life mah


about themselves


ya, then there's then there might be no purpose lor, ya


!wah!, no eh I think like humans no of course that's not what I'm saying lah cause humans actually work for, generally of course is work for money but then, , <mandarin>当然:dang ran</mandarin> there's a lot of things to gain from it lah that's why we always say oh <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> work <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> job <mandarin>你一定要:ni yi ding yao</mandarin> work something that you like what


I think to be honest right like <mandarin>我们看:wo men kan</mandarin> environmental problems, human <mandarin>变:bian</mandarin> extinct ah


err <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like, then that's where human really be extinct, I think <mandarin>我我还没有:wo wo hai mei you</mandarin> thought deeply into this topic but what do you think eh


I think ya true, but <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> but <mandarin>你觉得哦:ni jue de o</mandarin> , earth lah, do you think it can be saved by humans


because <mandarin>我是觉得啦:wo shi jue de la</mandarin> like, then <mandarin>会拿下去的那个:hui na xia qu de na ge</mandarin> blue colour <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> bin


but <mandarin>我是自:wo shi zi</mandarin> but <mandarin>我本身觉得啦虽然有这个:wo ben shen jue de la sui ran you zhe ge</mandarin> habit but, I think what we can do as an individual is very very little, even though


uh a lot of these environmental impacts such as like, pollution ah <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> ya air pollution, caused by businesses ah


uh country like Beijing, ya but then I feel very <mandarin>欣慰:xin wei</mandarin> ah for about those countries like taiwan and japan where they take like environment, very seriously, ya but I think it's still important lah to to acknowledge the idea that err


even though is is is less we still need to do it [orh] ya, just a part


I really think like you know how, like how we promote ourselves as singaporeans to other countries is that we say that oh we are a very green and very clean country, but that's because like we have all these rules right and laws that


uh governing us and I think at a certain point of time maybe like ten years back, and a lot of singaporeans were like very very scared err !wah!, singapore got like a lot of laws cannot make us litter that kind, but I think like over the years it seemed like, people have become immune to such laws


, because the intention


of not littering wasn't, so like when, err <mandarin>可以不用被抓的话:ke yi bu yong bei zhua de hua</mandarin> right <mandarin>我们反而会去做:wo men fan er hui qu zuo</mandarin> because the intention is


is uh is faulted mah it's not valid already hor


ya like for example if I look at people in taiwan right like we all know like taiwan people, very kind and they are like of good morals lah uh we people who have been there always say that oh they are very nice people, and I agree because err I think, the other time when I was in taiwan right


uh I was with my sister, then she dropped a tissue paper on the floor like by accident, then got this auntie will, uh, eh <mandarin>你你:ni ni</mandarin> uh uh


like it's just like a very common thing to do to remind each other to be clean ah but then in singapore in singapore will, like, oh what if <mandarin>那个人打我:na ge ren da wo</mandarin> or something like that like it's just something that


it's not acceptable lah


, !ooh!, damn <mandarin>没有啦:mei you la</mandarin> err, looks or personality ah <mandarin>你是说:ni shi shuo</mandarin> in which aspect like, relationship or like friends or


I think for <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> hor err


like, so, we still have to look at looks, but


but <mandarin>如果她的:ru guo ta de</mandarin> personality


work <mandarin>一些:yi xie</mandarin> dustbin work, but


oh <mandarin>是不是因为:shi bu shi yin wei</mandarin> like <mandarin>最近很多:zui jin hen duo</mandarin> err, migrant workers like they like get COVID then like, therefore the pay so high is how much the pay, oh okay, !wah!


true true


<mandarin>因为我我也是有一个:yin wei wo wo ye shi you yi ge</mandarin> err my mother got tell me before about <mandarin>她有一个:ta you yi ge</mandarin> colleague


ya Kena Rabak ya but actually like but I cannot take it okay so <mandarin>肮脏我觉得我是:ang zang wo jue de wo shi</mandarin> okay lah but, cockroach <mandarin>跟老鼠我觉得那个是我最不可以:gen lao shu wo jue de na ge shi wo zui bu ke yi</mandarin> take it


but <mandarin>你如果看到老鼠你:ni ru guo kan dao lao shu ni</mandarin> okay, ,


okay, so just now you ask me a question you say uh, for you


, so err what so if you can name three qualities of your partner what would you what would it be


, kindhearted understanding okay I think that's enough, ya


oh my partner ah, , , like in singapore uh we tend to rely on our parents a lot but I like people who at a younger age they seem more independent


and mature lah, ya and I also think, , uh <mandarin>不需要说很:bu xu yao shuo hen</mandarin> kindhearted


bad boys ah, uh,


!wah! this is actually a very challenging question because I think everyone , starts from a, different, uh family setting ah so not everyone can is like, !wah! can buy a house uh


at a young age, , but logically in singapore ah, the standard way is what err find a girlfriend, or boyfriend then your marry, then before marry maybe BTO mah, so


it really depends lah but I think like, so say a standard singaporean guy he will, maybe you go poly or JC then maybe if you go uni then you will graduate around twenty five twenty six, cause of army mah, then twenty five twenty six probably lah if you are lucky you have a girlfriend already then


you all decide to settle down then maybe at the last year of your uni you decided to BTO, for a house that will be built in like three four years, so that


ya, but I think for guys really no rush, uh cause,


but, ya, ya cannot like say oh because now everyone nowadays all very tired so like, err last time people not tired maybe last time people also tired ah


!wah! biggest accomplishment ah,


predetermined, ya <mandarin>我也是这样觉得:wo ye shi zhe yang jue de</mandarin> like, nowadays people, actually what we talking about


uh


then for <mandarin>我我有写过几个:wo wo you xie guo ji ge</mandarin> I think like about <mandarin>七八个这样:qi ba ge zhe yang</mandarin> then <mandarin>都有:dou you</mandarin> like, uh published into <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> magazine


so that one is like the biggest accomplishment to me lah uh not biggest lah but a good accomplishment if I if I have to think of one lor, ya but if you had to choose one to talk about now but would it be


ya I understand lah honestly, then what about ,


, clif <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> pearl


like <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> uncle auntie for christmas I think, I think <mandarin>她的:ta de</mandarin> father


then <mandarin>他就在跟:ta jiu zai gen</mandarin> uh <mandarin>我这个另外一个男生朋友讲话问他:wo zhe ge ling wai yi ge nan sheng peng you jiang hua wen ta</mandarin> eh uh next time what you want to do in future, oh I got no dream


uh <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> pearl had to choose a boyfriend have to choose clif cause


but then like at that point of time when I heard that right like I was just like , cause <mandarin>我自己坚定:wo zi ji jian ding</mandarin> right, like <mandarin>人你觉得梦想对你好是:ren ni jue de meng xiang dui ni hao shi</mandarin> okay but <mandarin>你如果没有梦想:ni ru guo mei you meng xiang</mandarin> right, cause like,


I see people before <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like, try to achieve <mandarin>一个梦想:yi ge meng xiang</mandarin> right, then when <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> achieve <mandarin>一个梦想:yi ge meng xiang</mandarin> then afterwards then what, whereas if you like just let life go with the flow


like <mandarin>不需要:bu xu yao</mandarin> like, accounting then <mandarin>你就做:ni jiu zuo</mandarin> accounting for your whole life


, , then I I ask you one question ah err, do you think right err, so


, I think that's a very practical way of thinking lah cause like sometimes, so that day I was just talking about future career with this friend called gideon, then he was just telling me about this like very practical side he was saying


, like <mandarin>他他问我:ta ta wen wo</mandarin> what is the quality you look for a job, then <mandarin>我就跟他讲:wo jiu gen ta jiang</mandarin> oh err, and but it must be something he's good at not necessarily something he likes lah


but he say like if I'm good at something then I will naturally like doing it, and if it earns me good money then money is also some some factor of uh happiness mah, ya but <mandarin>我觉得他这样是有一点:wo jue de ta zhe yang shi you yi dian</mandarin> like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> practical lah


true true, actually I I I ask you ah don't you think it's quite disgusting like when we in camp [orh] <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> like <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>穿:chuan</mandarin> uniform


, right


, like for example err when I go outfield right


but like when I'm at home ah


truly it takes a lot of effort lah to to want to be clean especially when everyone is like smelly then you like, !aiya! you you you just kind of like screw it, like <mandarin>不用经啦:bu yong jing la</mandarin> !aiya!


don't go through a lot of hardship so


as a singaporean in this first world country is quite a, good lah good experience lah to experienced enough


, okay


!wah!, a perfect day ah, a perfect day to go by, to me it's just, no hiccups [orh]


like that's what I always ask for like, like I can be like very busy and all but I just hope that it's smooth, like really like, uh like <mandarin>我打:wo da</mandarin> Grab, or like


like just like that [orh] then I think that will be a perfect day for me, what about you


, I agree lah because err for me I I know this is a bit sadistic, but then when I like I find Instagram a quite toxic thing so when I look at, Instagram sometime I see those like very adventurous people, like for example they always go out and and and like


skydive or they go do parachuting they go swim err they go do water sports, but then for me I just feel like err , these people so adventurous then I'm not doing it then I'll I just feel like this sense of satisfaction during COVID that


like this this people got to be locked down so they cannot do it, also, I just feel like a little bit of uh sadistic happiness that these people cannot enjoy what they like to do,


, err how's your


how's the, health of your family


, ya, I think uh your condition is a bit similar to my father, like maybe I can share with you his experience ah so <mandarin>他以前是:ta yi qian shi</mandarin> like


then he he's also a a boxer cause I think like in in in those old days army got those like extra curricular activities then he's a boxer lah then he can eat like seven burger at one go that kind, so <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> like then <mandarin>他有:ta you</mandarin> eight pack <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> strong <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then <mandarin>他很喜欢:ta hen xi huan</mandarin> like active


but then like I think after <mandarin>他去做工:ta qu zuo gong</mandarin> then <mandarin>他可能:ta ke neng</mandarin> like do office job then <mandarin>他可能:ta ke neng</mandarin> Nua Liao, uh not as active as before but <mandarin>他三十岁他就:ta san shi sui ta jiu</mandarin> Kena <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> chronic


but err it's like uh cannot cure kind where your large intestine have a, ulcers lah, so I think <mandarin>蛮蛮痛苦的:man man tong ku de</mandarin> but then, err


like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> fire alarm hor <mandarin>每次响:mei ci xiang</mandarin> leh like out of nowhere <mandarin>它会:ta hui</mandarin> like ring, then because <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> fire alarm ring right so <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> lift <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> stop, then <mandarin>我们就全部不会:wo men jiu quan bu bu hui</mandarin> take lift so this is something that I really hate about my camp


does this happen to you as well, [oh] okay


eh nicholas


oh I see


oh like that quite meaningful leh then uh second ah second, for me ah my biggest biggest wish ah is to strike the toto ah, I tell you because when <mandarin>我中:wo zhong</mandarin> toto [orh]


double your money, ya, in my opinion ah <mandarin>我是觉得它会啦:wo shi jue de ta hui la</mandarin> because telsa stock is very


I feel that is a very undervalue stock now so it will it will be, it will rise up in the future in the long term, because it will take the world by storm,


err second <mandarin>可能就是要:ke neng jiu shi yao</mandarin> err,


to strike the toto, oh secondly ah I think, cause recently ah I suffered a ACL tear when I was outfield


so maybe my second biggest wish is to like, good condition, <mandarin>所以我以前因为我以前很喜欢跑:suo yi wo yi qian yin wei wo yi qian hen xi huan pao</mandarin> marathon


ya, honestly I feel that


over overly ya, because of that accidentally injuring myself lah but then again, if


I went back to the situation right, err I would have done the same because it's a it was a very, err crucial moment lah so and I wouldn't know what to do also, ya


but actually what was the cause of your injury ah, the your eye, damaged eye ah


oh <mandarin>我觉得可能你以后可以:wo jue de ke neng ni yi hou ke yi</mandarin> like clean up your area a bit, quite bad it's quite bad


okay for me ah


I I'm not a very , someone they can focus for very long, very easily distracted


no not really some people would err prioritise, other things over sleeping


uh, but doctor recommendation <mandarin>是要睡:shi yao shui</mandarin> err at least seven hours daily


I think different age group then the recommended, hours are different


oh <mandarin>因为现在:yin wei xian zai</mandarin> I think, uh most of the guys on my friends in the twenties they always err


until very late in the night, doing work, or just not sleeping, so if this one really, really hurts the body cycle the body clock of a person


very hard to fall fall asleep


yes I agree, yes, everyone but maybe nowadays the, but people nowadays take a lot of uh short naps


to like err regain their energy throughout the day lah so, I feel is somehow compensated, yes


so it's like shorts next, is a new thing ah, uh okay lah but, okay sounds cool


okay, err, actually recently uh there's this err online game, online gambling is like, becoming very popular, , I I I think is illegal but I still see some of my friends doing it err what do you think about it


yes, or gambling in general lah like, Toto four D, and maybe soccer betting


this err , this idea is a totally understandable but I also feel that, gambling ah, small gambling can maybe like, give you some cheap thrill


very, when when you're bored maybe can gamble a little, err a little bit of four D a little bit of toto I feel that it gives a hope of like striking a fortune, err which is


not wrong ah because everybody got the idea of err, being rich fast, then <mandarin>最近你在做什么:zui jin ni zai zuo shen me</mandarin> leh


but, it's tedious lah, it's tedious, so err, ya but I feel that your grandma will be very happy


oh <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> don't be sad, eh don't be, don't just just have something to, uh like uh remember your, your, grandparents ah


!wah!


oh very hard to find mah singapore, you know it's so small the but the population is very big so it's like


, recently ah, recently, , err


for me <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> currently still serving I only have about one to two months left


tough journey there's a good times bad times


oh I see so, like


we are damn close, we go through tough times together, err happy times also, ya then, my superior was a very demanding one, so it, like really unites us then we try to


like, uh we have to be together in order to like, meet the demands of him


but, but <mandarin>我们十二个人都:wo men shi er ge ren dou</mandarin> try our best, throughout the we always help each other so, so each of us suffer lesser lah


in that sense ya, yup


Mulan oh yes I recently just, rating ah <mandarin>我会给一个:wo hui gei yi ge</mandarin> six out of ten, six of ten rating


err <mandarin>是不错:shi bu cuo</mandarin> lah it's about this it's just a classic story but maybe they revamp it into like a, real life edition, the girl is very pretty though


but, it's just part of the story ah no choice one


for me during <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> COVID period ah, investing, then try to read up [orh], really, takes a lot of time, and uh, feel that err but it's also I I feel is essential for the future ah we can't just be


but, let the money become more lor but , , ya so but, ya so I feel that maybe ah


maybe schools should, implement like a, like a learning session for people for students to start investing when they are young, if not


, control their expenses all of that thing ya


so, so it's like if you don't invest you let your money, get eroded by the banks ah


very they, they are very careful if they're spending


, ya and then my, think my family is also quite disapproval of like, err ordering in all this because it


is very expensive and, , then also I don't think they really know how to invest


so their money is all, saved in a bank, and uh with a, , but err ya <mandarin>可能他们是比较:ke neng ta men shi bi jiao</mandarin> layman


save, for when they when they retire, ya


okay I ask you ah, if humans no longer needed to work to survive what would we do


maybe you can think of it this way or you can think of it as a, just we don't need to work for money already


then maybe they get satisfaction from it right


so you are trying to say, humans only work for money ah


so , japanese got this saying like they got this idea, of life ah is like, you have to balance between what you love to do and what can earn you money, so like that's the perfect balance


yes,


, AI lah overtake the world, because everyday, it's trying to learn about us, then more and more, that it will try to overtake us


and, we are we are all trying to make, AI have a mind of of its own, so what if one day ah <mandarin>它们:ta men</mandarin> so advanced that, they know that, we're not really needed in this, in this society and they can it can completely be run by them


then err in this case, this it might really cause humans to become extinct, but this is just


looking at, like how, people nowadays ah, waste resources, unbalanced


more and more unliveable condition, which may one day


saved by humans ah, try to,


try to grow more tree all that, trying to save the environment, ya, but then, honestly <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> all things must come to end, come to an end lah


maybe


I think taiwan and, japan are really, leaders in this aspect ah


really very clean, the oceans are also very clear, because, like japan they train <mandarin>她们的:ta men de</mandarin> citizen ah to be very, very uh well disciplined, all the trash


what is supposed to be then it's easier for, recycling process to happen


more than, because of out of their own values that they do it right


err <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> leh, actually, err socially accepted job, like the waiter ah, banquet server


, ya <mandarin>我只是做:wo zhi shi zuo</mandarin> this two kind of job, but then recently ah <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> came into a job offer, it's a


socially really, it's really not accepted by many people <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> but the pay is really very high, err I think is to like,


, but then


ya so is, even though it's like a legit job the society needs it, is a essential job ah but, people find it unacceptable lah


oh Kena Rabak ah


like you will force yourself to, to go and do it, ya


yup, honestly I think at first, is looks first, then slowly you must err, go and slowly understand the person then see if the personality is good


to me uh, if you have good looks but your personality is shit is <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like, might as well don't have the good look, I think


, kind hearted,


, qualities of your partner, ya


okay lah


, okay then I ask you, , when, when do you think is suitable when do you think


is suitable for someone to buy a house


(mmhmm)


okay I see, okay but do you think, people in singapore is getting


, okay, okay let me ask you, what do you think is your, biggest accomplishment of your life


and, to be honest, no challenges no tough times


for someone to have like a very, , very striking accomplishment, ya, because now, nowadays


the life <mandarin>都很:dou hen</mandarin> smooth, very, easy just go through the, from primary school secondary school, then go JC then go army, so it's like a very, is a very


ya predetermined path


for me, biggest, accomplishment, I, I really don't have one


dreams ah, difficult to achieve ah but <mandarin>你就是有一个:ni jiu shi you yi ge</mandarin> dream


then <mandarin>你才会有:ni cai hui you</mandarin> motivation to go on in life, , ya even though you might not, accomplish it, like in your entire life but, I think is, very, important to continue


I agree, I agree means <mandarin>就是你故意啊要有一个:jiu shi ni gu yi a yao you yi ge</mandarin> dream, might as well, , don't have the dream then just, just do what you like at the present moment


ya lor


ya your hobby


, but


if there's a separation right, even if you, screw up your job you still have a hobby, so it's like two separate thing, ya


maybe like err, he will, because


he's not very happy about it, ya, ya


, ya I think <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> army <mandarin>的人因为:de ren yin wei</mandarin>


one uniform set, not not very, pleasant ah <mandarin>我是这样觉得:wo shi zhe yang jue de</mandarin> but is practical is practical


disregard, like army too much until like,


that they like, will just think that army is just a, it's just, very secondary and then they won't like, make the effort to smell good, feel good like have a, clean uniforms smell good so have a good impression because


people treat, army like a very secondary kind of thing


I see, okay lah ya, because I think singaporeans nowadays, , too comfortable in the modern world


ya, so, maybe army is a, toughen up themselves, okay but now I want to ask you, what how would you describe err


perfect day to go by, for you


okay, that's some err that's a very, for me actually is also about the same lah I just want to, like a fuss free day, maybe just even like just resting at home I'll I'll be happy


so, during the COVID period, during the, , the period that where everyone was in a lockdown mode, I, actually find it very


to do whatever I want and, I think, like not obliged to go out, like because I think, during normal days


then maybe you will have the, pressure, like you are pressured, to also follow suit


oh so it's like


weekends having fun, but me, ya


yes, my family they're in


very good health, , very I'm very, happy that, that there's nothing for like nothing, nothing affecting them, ya but for me I


ya like I said earlier I have suffered a, okay my leg cannot, just function like, how it used to before, so


I cannot do normal exercise, which I think is quite, quite bad because I, I used to be a very active person, play sports with my friends but nowadays because of my condition I can't


!wah! that's a, to


(um), not really my camp


okay so right, talking about my trip to japan, ah I remember lah like, I went to japan for seven days then after that


I did a lot of things ya but the the most exciting part of my my trip there right I went to Disneyland and DisneySea, then !whoa! the rides damn good sia like okay so right I I went, okay eh Disneyland is kind of boring actually it's like for Disneyland for for for like kids one it's like kids and couples you go there like you dress up


you look pretty and know, then err Disney <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> DisneySea maybe, got more things, DisneySea got like roller coaster rides and all that, !aiya!,


is it similar to the USS in singapore


really, cause I I feel that when I go USS in singapore right it's like


quite good sia, okay like I spend two of my birthdays in USS then, I don't know lah like no no matter how many times I took that ride side still damn fun uh, but like the okay maybe ya the food like you said, got more variety over there because freaking


USS only got the, turkey leg only bro, like, it's like kind of a scam, so expensive, like what what kind of foods do you have


oh ya err talking about KFC right have you tried the, the chicken steak, I think that's the like legit the best thing ever at KFC ever, uh invented sia that introduced to, to their


what fast food restaurants fast food chains because like, uh, my my my go to right is always the cheesy cheesy melts, for KFC but then right after ever since they introduce the chicken steak right !wah! is, the best thing ever is like damn bang for your bucks also lah like you spend like what eight ninety for cheese fries and another complete meal


then right, but the saddest part about it is it only come out for like what one, like one two week, no uh but ya one two week then they took it away so it's like, quite depressing lah like


I love <mandarin>麦当劳:mai dang lao</mandarin> sia


oh I'm part of the student union so, I, has been busy with a lot of activities like planning for camps and and stuff


like err, how to say ah, like, I don't know, I know a games and activities for the freshies lor like, we, plan interactive games so that we can bond with the


the year one students that come in, but also right , it's been a bit like, stress lah like cause like a lot to do mah then, err


so I have been taking, kind of like a back seat, for my student union duties, like I give it, like I I told my my leader, like my president that I, I need I focus on my, stuff in my course


wait wait uh what's your course again


okay okay lor like


like err <mandarin>不想很便宜:bu xiang hen pian yi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> like, student price lor, like err


err


ya, err, speaking about food right, recently I also tried cooking Mala for myself so that I can save money because


uh as you know I am from a business course but, I have culinary err elements in my course as well cause I in I'm from F&B lah, culinary catering management that's my course


err the subjects for the first, one and a half years so I study things like business statistics business econs business law and all that like err, tough tough stuffs lah , some of them quite tough lah


now I'm in the culinary side of my course right now so I have been doing cooking and stuff, so, err out of curiosity right and because I would save money because


err eating outside, like eating Mala outside it's not cheap, like eating in my school at certain price outside <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah, so, I have been trying to cook Mala for myself but


that's all I shit ah, I I uh, but it was a good effort lah it was a good effort like I heard you recently cook something also right what did you cook


okay so right err talking about spaghetti right oh ya you know recently my, exams right like so called my alias lah it's like called commis challenge then I have to like


err prepare err, like three course meal, so I've been like cooking a lot spaghetti as well recently like, so the requirements will be right up to like, cook, err a pasta dish a salad dish and a steak dish


like, like


ya, then, then <mandarin>好吃:hao chi</mandarin> lah, so <mandarin>我我做:wo wo zuo</mandarin> tomato cream pasta tomato cream seafood pasta


okay so err, what I did like tomato cream seafood pasta I use like seafood like prawns, and


err, err squid prawns and squid ya that and then I use lemon as well, like for my pasta and then for my salad dish I use err, arugula, and


some pickled radish, it's like okay lah I am not salad so I kind of forgot like what what I put in there already I only in only talk about pasta ya, and like we did err we have to plate our dishes and all like we have to


put everything within three hours, and present that to the judges, so that they can like evaluate our dish lah, like okay so uh


I, cause our plating was very nice we we use angel hair pasta we twirl the pasta so that it looks like a, cocoon then we put in the, the middle of the plate then we surround it by the seafood


like the prawns they give us was !whoa! damn big sia, like damn big like legit you you never see this kind of prawn before one like don't even know where the hell the school get money to buy this kind of thing, like, ya free flow one sia like you just, take then you


spam uh, then like err so we use like two or three prawns then we like, cover we put the prawns on top of the pasta lah, cause like for the steak dish right we use the, err like strip loin with bolognese sauce and


some cream spinach, like do you are you do you eat steak does your family eat beef


err I normally eat medium rare


or, medium well but mostly medium rare lah !wah! damn funny sia you know err, uh one of my teammates right not my teammate lah like all my classmates so we are supposed to prepare the dishes in groups of, four, then err, !wah! one was damn Jialat sia they cook the steak right they cook it uh like well done then is like


like, when you eat the steak right it's like biting on to tire sia, it's damn rubbery like I I don't know what the hell they were thinking say lah like how can you screw up a steak man like, okay lah like if you cook it like medium well


but like not well done lah until #chao da# right, so be stupid lah if you ask me, ya I think a steak cook well done is actually a eh, a horrendous, like is a waste of a good steak like why would you do that to a steak


so, err, like, what else do you like to eat


!wah! bro you know right speaking of a japanese restaurant and I tried applying to japanese restaurant recently, bro, damn, shag bro, like I applied to like three or four right


until until now they haven't reply me sia, I say is because of the COVID situation lah I I had experience working at, a japanese restaurants before like my first ever job when I was fourteen was at err japanese cafe called Hoshino coffee I swear is scam people money one like


err floor lah like serving everyone one person only leh like their staffing was damn bad like, err, the manager don't know how old ah thirty thirty plus years old right but like he like don't know how to call the staff come down one like where got normal restaurant call one person only call one fourteen year old boy serve all the customer


a bit stupid lah then like they they give me seven fifty per hour like a bit scam lah like, seven fifty per hour to lead the damn restaurant like come on lah, like imagine a fourteen year old doing a better job then a freaking thirty year old sia like a bit


embarrassing lah but, okay, not gonna say anything man


<mandarin>没办法:mei ban fa</mandarin> like


I agree ah like, banquet is one of the shittiest jobs lah honestly, like damn, the, manager everytime all right like, like to bark at people right then after that they sit one corner <mandarin>翘脚:qiao jiao</mandarin> only


like they didn't help one sia, !wah!, damn bad eh, so you got like okay so my worst banquet experience right was, right, again, bad staffing, like bad management sorry like they don't have enough


workers, because like you know banquet how how they work right it's like they they anyhow any tom dick or harry can come join one right, like they just everyday they will hire people to come join, cause not be not many people want to be part time banquet


I mean like full time banquet workers are like come on like that is a shit job man, so err like I said the the management was damn bad then not enough people, I was at like some


hi high end, hotel, like saint regis or something, so what I had to do right I was like me and like three other guys that is like around my age like nineteen or twenty, they they all had to


freaking like carry like, four hundred plus chairs sia, to fill up the entire banquet hall it's like damn stupid lah like four four teenagers, and to fill up the banquet hall then the worst thing right is the


damn bad, he he sitting one corner right playing his phone eh and he watching YouTube leh then he like he legit we you know we stack the tables already right then we, err, we like one by one


we move the table lah then we move the first table to corner and put and put all the chairs in order nice nice he sit in a on a chair right and then after that he he he <mandarin>翘脚:qiao jiao</mandarin> down there sia like he legit he puts his leg on the table then like he playing phone playing his phone and then like when we ask him what to do right he will always say you think leh you think leh


you my manager or I your manager sia you think what


like


like this particular banquet right like you said right !wah! the hygiene I one thing I realised right there is a trend right that, a lot of restaurants okay maybe just a lot the restaurants I work at all right all the banquets I work at right their hygiene like shit ah, damn bad uh like


like okay I'm kind of like a clean freak when it comes to like, your, kitchen utensils because you know you are eating with it and you are cooking with it, then like, sometimes right especially the cups, you see like all the the I don't know lah all the the shit at the bottom of the cup I I don't know how ah how they clean one like


damn bad like even they wash finish already right you smell the cup right smells like the the drink before you know but then like, if like you keep changing drinks then like like the cup ultimately in the end will smell like shit lah like if you don't wash it properly


you know like me and joseph right we also work at this okay this one good experience lah like, because it was a last minute job, like I just need money lah then I just call joseph come work work with me lah, then like, uh we go I forget what's the


but the banquet place already but like at first it was like very fierce the, the manager was like one filipino guy then, like he got after that then like we get to see performance ya, because it's a formal event is like some company


award award giving ceremony or some stuff then, like after we serve the food already right we got nothing to do what we serve all the courses already, so during the award giving ceremony we cannot serve what because everyone want to watch the


whatever award they giving lah then, cause, uh ya the performance very good lah like they they already had a few good bands up there


ya then you know joseph is also a musician himself so he like, !wah!, a bit, shock lah


!wah!


wait wait wait you you walked barefoot ah like wait how is that possible man


wait you you hit your quota then you finish already then can go home ah


!huh! so means you get one thousand pieces you


earn twenty dollars only then like wait then isn't it like quite,


!wah! bro I think if I I was doing your job right I just go burn the flyers sia like waste my time eh, well I, I don't know leh like


err, you think getting paid, by the hour better or like, getting paid by how many you distribute better cause like if it's me right I am just gonna like, anyhow uh like throw away ah , like who would want to take your flyer also


like ten thousand pieces right


okay true but like ya and I mean like to a certain extent mah you cannot like I do all that lah but like, err, what about or have you done like you know those


like when when you were younger have you done, those err, those what you call that ah okay lah basically like you you go around like, go to people house then you sell sell stuffs like I don't know like ice cream magazines and all that like sort of like those you know like those boy scouts


like, a bit, cause err when I was in primary school I did that lah and then like, err, I I know like a bit like <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> because like, like how how old was I only like what


nine ten, then you have to carry the damn trolley around, it's you see !wah! really very very <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> like you one person, you you go in groups of two or three right at first like cause they split you up, then you one person err one person will have to carry the thing then


if like you go and groups of two one person will carry the thing then err and another one will just like give out the flyers give out the what, sorry what flyer give out the, the ice cream or the, magazines lah, then like you have to go up and down every single block like


!wah! damn tiring lah


uh uh shag


eh, actually right now I you you want to go shoe shopping soon or not I I, cause later I I going to sell my shoes uh my air jordans, then I like I selling for like, three hundred plus, then like !wah! eh now I see online right cause got the Shopee nine nine also but then like I see online got a lot of nice shoes sia like


err I think I want to get, I don't know like okay so, I had this shoe in my mind for quite long already like you know alexander mcqueen, ya but then like a bit like expensive lah like


I have to save up so much just to buy one damn shoe right a bit waste hor, no meh


ya so I don't really have a lot of shoes lah so ya that's why I sometimes buy one pair I spend a bit more lah


but then like I also a bit broke lah so, like depends lor but then like you know got feels to buy shoe one like you suddenly like you wear shoes damn long already then you know you want new shoe my shoe I wear like, my older shoe lah it's like


I bought my first like, go out shoes lah like go out shoes when I started like caring about shoes like sec three, or like yes about sec three start sec three I bought my, don't know if you remember lah my Onitsuka Tiger, the the the grey colour one


okay okay ya but don't so bad lah okay but I wear until like damn bad sia the shoe condition I I threw away


already like after secondary school, last time underage secondary school, cause like, damn Tong because like I wear everywhere sia ya I was damn obsessed with it because that was my first shoe then my, my second shoe was like


my second pair of shoe ah, I think is my, Nike air max ninety seven, you know the, at first right you know when I first buy right there is like, it's grey and white you know it's just, grey it's like freaking dirty you know then like damn expensive to you know to go and clean it up like you know you clean at home you can only clean until so much only like it wouldn't be


like sparkling clean, then like you go outside wash your shoe right, pay them like what forty dollar, fifty I see it like one, shoe cleaner right he pay freaking, forty like he's not not he pay sorry he request forty to fifty dollar for the for the frigging sole for shoe only leh if I wash the entire shoe it is going to be hundred plus then might as well I go buy a new shoe


ya and I know lah <mandarin>我我用:wo wo yong</mandarin> err


toothbrush toothpaste like, I know it sounds stupid lah but like, I I I learnt this from my friend, cause err using like whatever toilet brush you have is a bit too big lah so you use the toothbrush instead, cause smaller easier to you know fit in shoes and all then like


at first when my friends tell me, err use toothbrush I mean toothpaste I thought he joking sia but like it works leh, but then I can say like it only works to a certain extent like, it doesn't really clean your shoe fully, unless you get like what professional help


so, ya that's that lah, but then like I also feel like buying shirts sia, I running out of shirts to wear already sia like you realise I have a lot of black shirt right but then like watch I only have two or three pieces only


you think you funny right , to be honest right like a few of my shirt I take from my girlfriend one so it's like , you know cost effective


a bit, good good good shit lah good shit then, err


you know, hard to find a job now you know, then err, I don't like buying from H&M like like their shirt only got like what only a pinch quite nice


like all the graphic tees like a bit extra sia


ya lah I mean err, it's alright lah but like, like H&M Cotton On like you said the shirt quality isn't even that good but, I I think I like only go there by the basic necessities like plain white shirt plain black shirt berms


cargo chino pants like those kind of things lah like, I don't really buy their or maybe their you know their button up shirts, but then their are like graphic shirts shit like a bit like nice, err


oh ya I I like to go #pak tor# and go out with my friend lah, [orh] gabriel, recently right I, actually ya most of the time I go out at night I don't go out in the morning lah cause like uh sorry got morning afternoon cause the exit or weather damn bloody hot ah


I recently went to watch Mulan and, err, you know the the new mutants the X-men one


like I really wanna watch that for damn long but err, Mulan was like, okay, my review of Mulan maybe a bit fraud because like, I never watch the original Mulan like you know the the cartoon one lah like, so


it will be a bit flawed lah like I I don't have a basis of comparison so, I think the live action is quite good lah quite good like, I really liked it like, it's not like, according to my girlfriend she say it's very very different lah like


it's not similar I mean it's similar but like, there are new characters involved like don't have the waht's what's that what's that, the talking dragon the pet dragon, eh you got watch the cartoon


okay so ya but, okay then I think you will like it I think it's quite good lah like , like it's very, action oriented, and because what my girlfriend say is like, the


the what's that called ah the, the cartoon version right that cartoon version is, is more like the how how the movie goes is like is more focused on their training before the, the the the war because like you know that they are training for the war right


like you focus on the training, then you go to the war while the the like, the, live action version is more focused on the action of the war, how they fight, and


ya you know all that, the ya all that stuff lah then, like what what movies have you watched recently


eh ya I mean, I, I'm a big fan of black panther ah so, ya, but he passed on so but like err, ya I idolise him because like you know like


like the news was revealed like before that I idolise him because he is damn hard working like you you can go and google his body transformation, he used to be like michael B jordan you know the villain in black panther he also had a, huge body transformation like but then a check with right the main character


in, black panther, he's like what fifty plus and he is so ripped, like !wah! it's frigging crazy man, uh, then err also right, like hearing the, knowing the news that he


was fighting cancer, while filming the movie is also, even more, crazy, I mean like, how how sia I how how you film like three movies and cope with cancer


know what I mean, so ya I I really admire them you know


that's kind of sad man but okay, going on to the more cheerful things oh ya so back to, to err the movie I would had the new mutant right so is about he


are quite dark like I love it man I love it when superhero movies are dark, ya because so, , it's like M eighteen lah so it's like good stuffs, so err, err, how you call that ah like so right it involves like a group of


characters that are like about teenagers or older, so they are held in this facility ah, and they are told that they there to become better, to like, help them control their powers and all


ya lah but then, act in actuality they are there, you know what it's probably spoiler lah but like they are there to like, , basically okay I will try not to spoil it for you so


bad things, will be done to them, you know the doctors will do bad things to them right, ya, ya okay that's all I tell you then like, there are some like scary scenes so right be ready for that, ya, and also an another a movie I watch is like


some chinese oh ya <mandarin>我忘记那个名字了:wo wang ji na ge ming zi le</mandarin> but it's like, err, the oh [orh] the bridge the bridge, like some chinese horror movie


err I think that does a lot of plot hoops like, like characters can, do a lot of things that, can make their situation better but then they are a bit like


not the very bright you know, ya,


ya but I think uh the ending, !wah!, Jialat sia ending, I I find that, cause it's like, eh it's like they are trying to force a sequel


you get what I mean like they are trying to like, for a part two, because err okay so you you watch the movie already right the ending basically right, you know how the the curse, is still ongoing because of that guy


and then that guy, go and, involve the camera lady, into the curse so it's like, ya like I think that he can end curse but then he go and eh and it's like they tried to force the the sequel you know for like part two


it was like kind of clear that


oh err I have been watching Netflix recently ah but like, I my favourite series is like how I met your mother, like I think you should know that


now nowadays I very Sian like I very bored, and, nothing to watch also like there's a lot of things to watch but nothing to watch you get what you mean like asking that interesting lah like


I just waiting for good new series will come out, my classmates keep watching err keep asking me to watch friends but then like I watch a few episodes then will be like damn boring lah then like, like


find a bit waste time lah


ya sia I I really a lot man like, I I don't know why lah I like, as kids right you always want to stay up late, you know like


it's fun lah but like also really stupid lah I everytime eh, I remember every time in secondary like this, early secondary school like what lower local sec like ah I always go school sleep also like I legit sleep in school more than I still at home sia


it's bit dumb then I everytime Kena complain by my teacher they call my friends and stuff, but to be honest is good memories lah it's all the stupid stuff that you during primary sec sorry but stupid stuff that you during secondary school that were


I don't know stick with you, because like you make friends that way what, you born that way


!wah!


!wah! <mandarin>如果我是你的:ru guo wo shi ni de</mandarin> table mate <mandarin>我我我会很大力的打你:wo wo wo hui hen da li de da ni</mandarin> sia


like from now on right I will learn to sleep properly, and because like, cannot lah like now I go school also like, actually now I don't really go school a lot lah but like then like online lecture all that I also feel like sleeping lah, so have to you know


buck up, go to a good university


roller coaster, !wah!


ya <mandarin>大概大概一样:da gai da gai yi yang</mandarin> lor err <mandarin>但是他们的:dan shi ta men de</mandarin> like


err, ya


, what I remember there lah like in hong kong, it was very very long ago but then like, the food they have is err it's just like normal fast food, like they have a fried chicken there I think, they had a KFC restaurant lor and then


it's just very packed damn packed, I mean that's the only one I visited lah so, that's all I know and, the food was very expensive, is I mean is a tour, as a tourist destination so ya


attraction


uh, in


original chicken two piece


err, err


!wah!, classic angus cheese burger


then


ah, err then what about err, your school what have you been doing in school


bike, what what activities have you been engaging in


I think that


oh my course ah err, industrial and operations management ya, basically is it sounds very weird right it sounds like it's like under business school of business but then like I'm actually like under school of engineering lor and then like


, is actually not very fun, like err, basically what we do is just like err, normal mathematics and about err, it's like err probabilities like that right


and then it will help us to learn about, also like, err how like normal, supply chains like manage like certain of their, err products like the, uh err distribution like that lah


like basically how the business and the operations everything like that lor it's like nothing interesting, ya oh by the way your school right the food how is it do you like it and what do they have


err <mandarin>三层肉:san ceng rou</mandarin> ya


uh, err <mandarin>我个人比较喜欢吃:wo ge ren bi jiao xi huan chi</mandarin> like,


uh


uh as you know I'm from a business costs but, I, so I take business


so right, like


I, ya I was a learning to uh


cook err aglio oglio, the spaghetti, ya, so, I actually like it was like my second time trying only lah then, it turned out, quite, well I guess


ya because err, you want to know how I learnt it actually I was watching YouTube while I was cooking, ya so like I just pause the video and then play lor and then follow step by step, and then err


the food actually turned out quite well ya, and my brother my parents also liked it lor, it's like, pretty good


like


err, eh not really lah it still quite foreign to me and, ya


ah <mandarin>韩国餐啦:han guo can la</mandarin> err, Kimchi


!wah! <mandarin>每次我去:mei ci wo qu</mandarin> err <mandarin>寿司店的时后:shou si dian de shi hou</mandarin> hor


err <mandarin>摆喜酒的然后我就:bai xi jiu de ran hou wo jiu</mandarin> err


!wah! <mandarin>一直跑来跑去真的很累:yi zhi pao lai pao qu zhen de hen lei</mandarin> oh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> manager hor


workers, because


then right I, I I go