what is one thing I wish was free , (hmm), oh ya school fees


err, that's why


no haven't yet, okay later help you apply, but, yes sia, like right now, I feel like school fees cause education is a necessity for all, ya like <mandarin>如果没有:ru guo mei you</mandarin> degree then


like <mandarin>一个好的工:yi ge hao de gong</mandarin> then, like, cause you need a degree so I feel like, maybe they should make it like cheaper like especially overseas uni cause not everyone can do so well to go into ya local U so


!wah!


ten K leh, ya


that's true, ya poly eh that one is just, I think cause poly we got more like


more amenities, , but at the same time, diploma more important than A level cert, ya


ya so what we're paying for is the the paper itself for the diploma, ya, ya that's true


!wah! that's damn scary


right


!wah! that's damm like, ya


I feel very <mandarin>尴尬:gan ga</mandarin> cause, and embarrassing, ya


retain ya, that's why come poly eh, ya right


but it's not meh, that's true, that's true that's true, that's true I also don't like but okay lah now poly can


that's why, not that bad not that bad ya poly not bad lah like


I mean last time I also wanted to go JC but then now like I don't really I don't really regret my choice like for to poly, like I mean cause, everyone say like JC better cause you can go into uni ya


ya why if no no the okay the wait A level part is, it's important cause if you score well it's damn good but then if you do damn badly it's not gonna help you at all


ya that's true


walking,


same, ya ya lor like, because period keep staying at home then like


then like, uh, how say uh, like you just feel like every every, movement is very like, ya


yes definitely ya, and then


ya, okay


, because like last time when I went to korea then, then like that I keep walking and I keep shopping I mean ya [loh] <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> like, that shopping part is fun


damm pain ya, ya ya right, I just wanna okay ah I just hopefully


Siam too can go back to school then, we can just keep fit, ya same, ha, I also don't want to stay at home and exercise so stupid


that's true, that's true that's true, ya


that is true, like I feel like, okay lah but it's quite easy to get in lor


that's true, that's true that's true, but, I understand when we took our, human resource exam like going to die like that


oh my god ah I very long never take never like, like <mandarin>写一个:xie yi ge</mandarin> whole, test ya


ya right


ya, ah


[orh], [orh], !wah! damm smart, ya


that's true, but I very scared that our next sem they will be harsher on us cause, cause we already this sem very easy what, because of the HBL then they


ya lor, and then we got computing we got DBS module, ya, we have to do that and we have B com, so that all of them oh my god imagine and then we have so many interviews


B com you have to sit for interview ya, ya, okay


what genre of TV show or drama (hmm), , I think, I think comedy


yes, yes, and then


!wah!


ya that's right, , oh man


ya, then


ya, ha, ah I mean okay lah I cannot really understand, like I I mean okay I like korean drama


but then when it comes to chinese dramas, it's like some of them in like, like some of them <mandarin>有很有趣:you hen you qu</mandarin> but then, some of them is like damm I cannot relate, ya, ya


ya, , ha ah


[orh], running man, [orh], that's why that's why


ya, ya ya, that's why, then (hmm)


I trying to watch the it's okay not to be okay, cause everyone say that it's damm good, the king ah,


ya, you like the male lead, !wah!, you should watch extraordinary you, it is, eh #cha ru# eh I forgotten


handsome handsome very handsome , !wah! oh gosh ha, extraordinary you no no it's it's eh korean show, my gosh he's he's damm cute I love it


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


ya I did, ah I love it, I know right and the girl quite pretty leh like like for her old age like she very pretty


ya ya, a bit a bit unpractical, ya, ya that's true ya, ya


I feel like there's too much, too many shows for me to catch up for me to <mandarin>重看:chong kan</mandarin> sometimes, ya


who is that, ya ya ya hor wait but, what show is it, I love #bae suzy# ya, she very pretty


ha, ha, [orh] I think #park soo-jin# very pretty


ya, ya she from miss A, ya, okay but got a lot of err, movies that I want to catch up on


ya, oh my god


actually, tom holland, ya tom holland then after that got this one show called greenland I think very, greenland or something ya greenland it's out now lah but then I think it's those very like <mandarin>刺激:ci ji</mandarin> type of show like


I I don't think so I think it's like, it's like thrilling, ya, no <mandarin>不是吧是好像:bu shi ba shi hao xiang</mandarin> like, err (hmm),


like they trying to escape or something I don't know, ya I really like those shows like maze runner all these like they try and escape, or like hunger game oh my gosh I love hunger game


yes, wait wait wait what


ya ya ya, oh my god oh my god I'm damm excited, okay


I love it oh my god I love it, is she gonna have another uh it's gonna be escape room two anyway ya they confirm having another, ya


(mmhmm) that's true, get out, no


okay


okay, colonised, okay


ha, oh my, it's called get out


okay it's out already ah is it scary or not, okay


ha !wah! then must be very good, okay, ya


oh oh what's that, got a lot of err like, horror coming out now that I watch got this japanese one like about a bridge or something


I actually like also but I damm scared to watch, ya oh that day I watched scream, the no


ya, ya lah scream mah, it's on Netflix ah, it's a series though it's not a movie


oh there's a teenage version on Netflix ya, oh my god


(hmm), oh my god mid solar is damm scary, ya actually okay ya it is really like you play with psychology a lot


I also, chinese movies ah only chinese movie I watch is those like, eh err, ah err, eh the


no no no, it's all come out of cinema one, yes, ha, it's something like I loved wait I used to love


high school romance ya very nice, same, !aiya! chinese shows not very nice


like the movie, ya taiwan, not like those like teenage love


yes , action ya, ya ya ya, but different country different specialisation lor, like !aiya!


romance, apocalypse ya, oh ya those are damm good I really like apocalypse shows I, I always wonder like what will happen if singapore actually has a real apocalypse, like I don't know if you will be safe or not cause we like usually people stay in high rise what then after that like


don't have meh, I think I don't think I don't think it will be that severe that they will climb so high


like it's only unless you like, show yourself out of the window then they will want to come to you but if you don't like if you cover the window they won't ya


!aiya! please ya I'll sacrifice myself go #Sheng Siong# buy, !wah! how very scary though and then like ya


bird box, wait wait wait that one is cannot open your eyes right, oh ya ya ya, oh ya ya ya ya, ha how to cannot open eyes one then that's damm Suay ah


ya lor, then got people right then what if what if singapore have hunger games with other countries


then you Kena selected, really meh, oh my god cause you, ya, ya ya


wait no but we got the brains, I I feel like I'll be the one that like just hides, ya then like then like I'll just wait for sponsors oh I just wait for the sponsors


ya peeta mellark, ya ya ya, oh my god I really wanna watch it again I'll go I'll go on a hunger games binge, oh ya then


ha I mean I mean honestly the first, hunger games was the best to me then the second one okay not bad


it's they send her back I don't even know why, ah, I, no no no it was it ended damm abruptly then then from hunger game three right then I didn't like understand what's going on already


I think so ya, ya, but that one I don't understand what's going on, they like kidnap peeta then like I I forgotten lah it's


ya so I've been trying to, ya josh hutcherson was my childhood crush, cause I really love peeta mellark ha, !aiya! actually everyone's childhood crush is zac efron I say


#lee min ho#, ha oh my god <mandarin>我小时候我一直:wo xiao shi hou wo yi zhi</mandarin> like


those like biography books like that oh my god, !wah!


[orh], oh my god, ya, she she very old already so


hee hee ya okay lah but she very she's still very active for her age, ah


ya, ya that's why I like a lot of my family members tell me like prepare


then I very sad like eh, when I was seven


then like my mom was like okay err , like I'll just give you a dog then, then like okay lah like when I was younger she was also young so she like


ya like okay lah I mean I I don't know why like they always think that, okay I mean okay ya it's true my mum always


clean up after her stuff, but then it's like it's like dog I feel like animals are like, you should have one in every household, like or else it's just human then is like, like got no


ya, ya


, , ya


, ya, right, got a lot like those dogs that like, like were like, I saw like, like they when you cry then they will like comfort you you know


ya shit that's damn #sia suay#, (mmhmm), ya sure, I mean even if I got allergies right I would still wanna a dog


ya, cause like anyway, you all gonna grow up already so it's like you get dog now so very hard like imagine


ya so now it's like not a good time, ya


, ya lor but then it's very sad when like, when like err you grow up with a dog then like they suddenly die especially like during like example like, your very important times of your life like like O level period PSLE period then your dog or like your your cat died then it's like


I think it will take a very like mental toll on you, ya it's damn sad


how, , oh shit


oh shit


ah, how big was the rabbit


you got two more rabbits then <mandarin>你妈妈让:ni ma ma rang</mandarin> meh, ah


oh shit, should have separate them, ya


okay are we ending, okay


, then


then <mandarin>他就玩他的咕咕:ta jiu wan ta de gu gu</mandarin> bird, , okay


but you don't have to like go through that thing


I feel this is, no, eh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like, no this is not excuses I'm just telling you like <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> ah philosophy <mandarin>它不成立:ta bu cheng li</mandarin> like, okay <mandarin>它不是:ta bu shi</mandarin> okay <mandarin>这个它又不算:zhe ge ta you bu suan</mandarin> philosophy ah <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> rule ah <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> rule <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> thinking actually <mandarin>它不成立:ta bu cheng li</mandarin> what


sorry


err the rock,


no no <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> meh, oh sorry ah <mandarin>我没有看:wo mei you kan</mandarin> I'm not a fan of fast and furious


ah sorry , like <mandarin>做他:zuo ta</mandarin> like, okay buff is actually <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> because <mandarin>他有他:ta you ta</mandarin> because <mandarin>他最近在:ta zui jin zai</mandarin> market <mandarin>很慈祥:hen ci xiang</mandarin> what then <mandarin>他可以:ta ke yi</mandarin> he can like err try a lot different roles and different different


then like, uh


, like [orh] <mandarin>他有时候他是扮演:ta you shi hou ta shi ban yan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>很成功的:hen cheng gong de</mandarin> businessman <mandarin>有时候他是探险家:you shi hou ta shi tan xian jia</mandarin> then sometimes ah sometimes <mandarin>他是那种:ta shi na zhong</mandarin> like comedian


okay lah basically I just think that !wah! <mandarin>有他这样的身材:you ta zhe yang de shen cai</mandarin> then <mandarin>跟这样的那个:gen zhe yang de na ge</mandarin> fame and the, the money !wah! really steady ah, hor


!hais!


, err <mandarin>不要再读了:bu yao zai du le</mandarin> lah, err <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> how about <mandarin>你先讲啦:ni xian jiang la</mandarin> I I'm not sure


why chicken chop, ah okay


err okay then for me, err actually <mandarin>我也不懂:wo ye bu dong</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我觉得我:wo jue de wo</mandarin> #pai dai ji#, do too much already then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> like err actually I also don't know I think <mandarin>一定是那种很:yi ding shi na zhong hen</mandarin> awful <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> food


probably, [orh] <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> is good


then they they they they are called they hell, restaurant because right


very hell-ish, , uh then <mandarin>它的:ta de</mandarin> food <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> serve in, ah <mandarin>那种什么:na zhong shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> broken hand broken finger then <mandarin>或者:huo zhe</mandarin> broken skull


uh correct correct, !wah! that's disgusting, okay


oh <mandarin>还需不需要分享:hai xu bu xu yao fen xiang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我们不是昨天一起一起经历而已:wo men bu shi zuo tian yi qi yi qi jing li er yi</mandarin> meh


!wah! err, Senoko, then back to office then go to your school, then go to the school already we go, err Ubi


Bedok, uh Ubi Bedok <mandarin>还有哪里:hai you na li</mandarin> ah err, Ubi Bedok, err <mandarin>还有哪里:hai you na li</mandarin> oh


then that's all lah I think, like, ya I saw you text me


ah okay so <mandarin>讲到:jiang dao</mandarin> Channel NewsAsia I thought <mandarin>有人不是讲要跟我:you ren bu shi jiang yao gen wo</mandarin> share <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> everyday news channel !hannor!, ya <mandarin>我没有我讲我要听你讲:wo mei you wo jiang wo yao ting ni jiang</mandarin> what <mandarin>你自己讲你要跟我讲的:ni zi ji jiang ni yao gen wo jiang de</mandarin> what how is this


, !walao! that's like, !wah! <mandarin>一个小时半:yi ge xiao shi ban</mandarin> ah


uh should be lighter I think,


subside <mandarin>那个是一个:na ge shi yi ge</mandarin> Chim Chim <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> #ang moh#


oh <mandarin>你有吃早餐:ni you chi zao can</mandarin> ah, oh okay


err is #siew dai# not #seow dai#, Siew, ah


(uh huh), (uh huh)


, scoop, S T R


, , (uh huh)


wait !huh! so is there ah red <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> red in colour


(uh huh)


say out the colour first then read out the words ah


uh


(uh huh), going err err along with, uh, uh


, , , greens stop, uh, uh


oh but actually <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> if <mandarin>那个真的:na ge zhen de</mandarin> happen hor !wah! <mandarin>你来新加坡你会:ni lai xin jia po ni hui</mandarin> Sibeh Jialat eh, uh


on your laptop, , uh okay uh, uh


uh <mandarin>什么叫:shen me jiao</mandarin> the bug,


uh, then <mandarin>下面:xia mian</mandarin> leh,


then like


#pak jiao# eh <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> leh like,


okay then but no but you see now is only got adult <mandarin>还有小孩:hai you xiao hai</mandarin> mah, oh okay


okay


you should bird already man


why cannot just bird her


what you want to eat


wanna bet, grass jelly with soya milk, !walao! then <mandarin>妳:ni</mandarin> then <mandarin>妳:ni</mandarin> then <mandarin>妳:ni</mandarin> might as well <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> !huh!, then you should have tell me just now mah you keep on asking me ah <mandarin>你要吃什么你要吃什么你去:ni yao chi shen me ni yao chi shen me ni qu</mandarin>


sexist


ah <NEN> lah, K, uh okay


Abuden, uh #ar bo# #ar bo# <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> hokkien mah, uh Makan Makan <mandarin>马来文:ma lai wen</mandarin> mah


!aiya! but, lah


[orh], #ah mi#


err <mandarin>什么然后:shen me ran hou</mandarin> leh


#ah si# you wanna err ah <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> uh <mandarin>想想一下他就:xiang xiang yi xia ta jiu</mandarin> ah nevermind you don't need lah you no friends you loner you sad then #ah si# <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> like !wah! #ah si# <mandarin>就很:jiu hen</mandarin> hurt, err


if you if <mandarin>妳:ni</mandarin> !huh!


uh okay, err


err, if not normally don't won't happen one what !wah! but <mandarin>那天我喝的:na tian wo he de</mandarin> like really Jialat sia <mandarin>我会到家:wo hui dao jia</mandarin> hor


ya I think so, !wah! <mandarin>我回到家我:wo hui dao jia wo</mandarin> just like Toh sia, then after that <mandarin>我的手麻痹脚麻痹:wo de shou ma bi jiao ma bi</mandarin> eh then <mandarin>我怀疑:wo huai yi</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>我是不是心脏麻痹:wo shi bu shi xin zang ma bi</mandarin> I ah I I dying already is it !wah! #si eh# Jialat


then after that I


don't want <mandarin>喝茶:he cha</mandarin> they say ah <mandarin>喝茶:he cha</mandarin> kills sperm cannot I don't want, , [orh]


meet <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> friend, ya


(uh huh)


like before <mandarin>你跟讲:ni gen jiang</mandarin> err before you, you you err <mandarin>那个叫什么啊:na ge jiao shen me a</mandarin> like <mandarin>你下课了:ni xia ke le</mandarin> like <mandarin>你跟我讲啊你要你要出来了的时候我才:ni gen wo jiang a ni yao ni yao chu lai le de shi hou wo cai</mandarin> [orh] okay


err the <mandarin>那个墙壁的:na ge qiang bi de</mandarin> edge lah, !wah! Sibeh Tia eh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> like pain eh


#ah si#


cause


err cause, so that is like for thorough check <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> mah so friday night <mandarin>还是可以给:hai shi ke yi gei</mandarin> like #ah si# <mandarin>用电脑:yong dian nao</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>我在想:wo zai xiang</mandarin> eh like whether should I buy a new laptop


no that day I said I wanted buy then after that #ah mi# <mandarin>就讲:jiu jiang</mandarin> no err #kor kor# <mandarin>你拿回你的:ni na hui ni de</mandarin> laptop eh <mandarin>我你拿我的:wo ni na wo de</mandarin> laptop then <mandarin>我拿你的:wo na ni de</mandarin> laptop then <mandarin>我们叫:wo men jiao</mandarin> #ah si# <mandarin>去买一个新的:qu mai yi ge xin de</mandarin> laptop then I think !wah! <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> idea good then err that day <mandarin>我们就在说服:wo men jiu zai shuo fu</mandarin> like <mandarin>我跟:wo gen</mandarin> #ah mi# we are like convincing #ah si# eh you should buy a laptop you should buy a laptop then #ah si# really thinking then she like oh ya probably I should buy the touch screen one


then after that <mandarin>我就讲:wo jiu jiang</mandarin> no touch screen one very lousy one cannot, then after that she like really meh how come <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> ya very lousy


, then


uh,


I think <mandarin>这个你有跟我讲过:zhe ge ni you gen wo jiang guo</mandarin> what, [orh] <mandarin>我好像每天拿砖块去学校这样:wo hao xiang mei tian na zhuan kuai qu xue xiao zhe yang</mandarin> like so heavy


mine is I don't know three point seven or three point three around three KG <mandarin>就对:jiu dui</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>啦:la</mandarin> nearing four ah, then <mandarin>那时:na shi</mandarin> like because when <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> wanted to buy <mandarin>的时候我的:de shi hou wo de</mandarin> mother <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> like no no no you shouldn't you shouldn't buy <mandarin>你要想:ni yao xiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你每天要带去学校:ni mei tian yao dai qu xue xiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>那时候讲了:na shi hou jiang liao</mandarin> probably <mandarin>不用紧:bu yong jin</mandarin> lah cause <mandarin>我会玩:wo hui wan</mandarin> game mah then <mandarin>我就想:wo jiu xiang</mandarin> <mandarin>玩:wan</mandarin> game <mandarin>带去学校不用紧:dai qu xue xiao bu yong jin</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们就玩:wo men jiu wan</mandarin> lor


Dell ah


crowd, !whoa! then <mandarin>你还要挤:ni hai yao ji</mandarin> then <mandarin>你还要拿着你的:ni hai yao na zhe ni de</mandarin> laptop !wah! <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> #si eh# #pek cek# Liao


[orh] <mandarin>等一下讲到这个你你还记得昨天不是跟我讲:deng yi xia jiang dao zhe ge ni ni hai ji de zuo tian bu shi gen wo jiang</mandarin> ivory lor <mandarin>你知道为什么是:ni zhi dao wei shen me shi</mandarin> ivory mah, ivory <mandarin>就是那种象牙:jiu shi na zhong xiang ya</mandarin> rhino <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> horn


, ya


what is farming in singapore, (uh huh)


like you don't need the land don't need the land then you can plant one right


(uh huh), of singapore ah


!huh! then <mandarin>我刚刚讲:wo gang gang jiang</mandarin> Liao, would use that is formed but the Temasek and german ya they okay <mandarin>我没有起床是:wo mei you qi chuang shi</mandarin> german urban environment


for, oh you want to move ah


up to you ah, if you want you go lor, then go lor,


uh buy two two times BTO ah, uh, so doesn't mean that <mandarin>有七千多个人就一定七千多个人都会:you qi qian duo ge ren jiu yi ding qi qian duo ge ren dou hui</mandarin> bid <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> lor


uh <mandarin>对啊:dui a</mandarin> so, like, uh so actually <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> eh it's very okay one


either SBF or we buy resale what I thought we say already but then you say you don't like resale


but bigger what more spacious, like, please lah lesser year <mandarin>只要够住到你死就可以:zhi yao gou zhu dao ni si jiu ke yi</mandarin> Liao


choose your own neighbour <mandarin>有点难:you dian nan</mandarin> leh,


so actually <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> mah <mandarin>你看那里有一个:ni kan na li you yi ge</mandarin> frog eh


lame


one thousand is equivalent to a five room eh, ya <mandarin>这不是那时候讲好的:zhe bu shi na shi hou jiang hao de</mandarin> meh like err


err <mandarin>可以不要再讲钱:ke yi bu yao zai jiang qian</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我很:wo hen</mandarin> shag Liao


how about you tell me like design <mandarin>这种我还:zhe zhong wo hai</mandarin> okay, err


then what if let's say like, eh <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> study room like <mandarin>那个叫什么啊:na ge jiao shen me a</mandarin> ah bedroom like <mandarin>可能有一片墙不是黑色:ke neng you yi pian qiang bu shi hei se</mandarin> lah but maybe grey like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> dark grey


no lah !walao! whole room you think what <mandarin>要进去里面邪教:yao jin qu li mian xie jiao</mandarin> meh lame


where got good, if I am, actually <mandarin>我觉得不会:wo jue de bu hui</mandarin> eh


I rather <mandarin>自己:zi ji</mandarin> design lor, ya Lobang is one thing but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>毕竟是自己的家:bi jing shi zi ji de jia</mandarin> lor then like


like I feel very


err <mandarin>这方面的那个:zhe fang mian de na ge</mandarin> knowledge because you really put effort to research mah, !huh!


resale <mandarin>为什么会没有时间:wei shen me hui mei you shi jian</mandarin> leh


then, no as in I'm saying like


when you haven't move in then then when you move in already then right then after that when you


[orh] okay lor


ya then you can <mandarin>放:fang</mandarin> acrylic what like those cover, then don't want lor


like this makes your ceiling look higher mah like it's a it's a deception lor like <mandarin>你被你自己的眼睛:ni bei ni zi ji de yan jing</mandarin> like lah <mandarin>就是被自己的眼睛骗这样啦:jiu shi bei zi ji de yan jing pian zhe yang la</mandarin> like you will feel !wah! <mandarin>我的家好像比较高这样:wo de jia hao xiang bi jiao gao zhe yang</mandarin> something like that


whiteboard, (uh huh), I thought you say is some plastic or some glass


uh okay


like movable not really like mean err <mandarin>那种一个一个木板:na zhong yi ge yi ge mu ban</mandarin> but then like like probably, like you know <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> how to say ah the those kind of <mandarin>隔间:ge jian</mandarin> ah like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> board


why not, no I am saying that kind of concept but then like instead like


but then it's a sliding wall or sliding, whiteboard, then very cool mah, acrylic, (uh huh)


acrylic actually, err okay lah, it's quite fragile, like when


ya, that's why I say like if you want probably we can like find


, something like acrylic but it's not acrylic like I don't know what is it called already


err okay lor then <mandarin>妳跟他:ni gen ta</mandarin> Gope lah <mandarin>到时候你:dao shi hou ni</mandarin> Gope ah <mandarin>不要叫我:bu yao jiao wo</mandarin> Gope <mandarin>就可以:jiu ke yi</mandarin> Liao


ya like, but then


oh that one ah I sent <mandarin>妳那个:ni na ge</mandarin> ah, ah, (uh huh)


uh, uh


squeeze, (uh huh), uh


then like, deception


ya but <mandarin>我觉得这:wo jue de zhe</mandarin> like <mandarin>自欺欺人这样:zi qi qi ren zhe yang</mandarin> leh like if <mandarin>你要你干脆放一个:ni yao ni gan cui fang yi ge</mandarin> err <mandarin>那个叫什么:na ge jiao shen me</mandarin> opaque door rather than <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> err like seen see through <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> door like I feel very no privacy eh, like if let's say when our house got no like imagine


(uh huh), (uh huh)


ya but if let's say the glass door right <mandarin>你要移来移去:ni yao yi lai yi qu</mandarin> right curtain <mandarin>哪里不可以移来移去的:na li bu ke yi yi lai yi qu de</mandarin> what, curtain <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> fix <mandarin>在一个:zai yi ge</mandarin> point <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> what, no meh


ya <mandarin>你去看別人的:ni qu kan bie ren de</mandarin> curtain <mandarin>都是:dou shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>这里是:zhe li shi</mandarin> window then <mandarin>上面是那个:shang mian shi na ge</mandarin> curtain curtain <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> hanger, then after that <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> curtain length is fixed one there mah


can ah then second of september see lah


err, for what, in woodlands ah, okay what, quite ya


ya but quite okay what, ah okay, last time you just have to pay hundred K twenty percent mah hundred K


then plus , err, hundred K plus hundred !wah! two hundred K ah, but why <mandarin>装修:zhuang xiu</mandarin> and <mandarin>家具需要:jia ju xu yao</mandarin> hundred K leh, that time we that time remember <mandarin>我们算也是:wo men suan ye shi</mandarin> no not hundred K that one <mandarin>我们算:wo men suan</mandarin> hundred and fifty K


but now we are saying SBA you are saying SBF, uh okay lor


uh okay


SBF, open booking, uh


then okay what, then we can see that also, ya, meaning


[orh] okay lah then then very good what, instant noodle kind of concept <mandarin>就是我要先泡先吃的那种我不要:jiu shi wo yao xian pao xian chi de na zhong wo bu yao</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>我要泡:wo yao pao</mandarin> Liao then <mandarin>我等七年后才可以吃那个面:wo deng qi nian hou cai ke yi chi na ge mian</mandarin> like err


uh okay ya but


recent years like upcoming year upcoming year, uh where, ah #ah bui# <mandarin>家:jia</mandarin> behind lah, okay


three gen is what, (uh huh) so then you can get a five room ah, (uh huh), three gen is the the the the jumbo flat I am staying is it


uh okay, uh ya lah, stupid lah, okay ya then continue


ian <mandarin>的家三楼:de jia san lou</mandarin> leh


why leh


ya but then can be prepare err <mandarin>那个叫:na ge jiao</mandarin> prevented <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah, you can <mandarin>放那种像:fang na zhong xiang</mandarin> err #feng yi# <mandarin>家那种那种:jia na zhong na zhong</mandarin> hide pitch <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> ah, or you can put those err insect repellent or you basically you just don't have holes like holes as in like


uh <mandarin>他们会找那种:ta men hui zhao na zhong</mandarin> err how to say like, pest terminator kind then also good what then just every time when pest terminator come just close all the window close all the door and then after that you just err


close all the window close all the door all those then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> aircon lah


yes correct


okay


okay ah <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> lor, then we go apply lah, first time <mandarin>都没有过:dou mei you guo</mandarin> eh


probably lor try lah, I don't know don't want say ah


but #wang xue <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> #jian chen# like one time <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> eh, ya <mandarin>我们也有:wo men ye you</mandarin> stable job what


oh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> basic ah ya, oh <mandarin>我想要吃东西:wo xiang yao chi dong xi</mandarin> eh


I feel like eating I don't know maybe err some dessert, I don't know where have


park where car park lah, uh


circuit road leh, [orh]


err <mandarin>还好啦还:hai hao la hai</mandarin> but I am just saying lah I don't think <mandarin>我会吃啊这样迟:wo hui chi a zhe yang chi</mandarin> Liao, seriously


but I forget already like <mandarin>我忘记那个它的味道它的:wo wang ji na ge ta de wei dao ta de</mandarin> ya the the taste already, ya lor


I am a bad boy


K lor <mandarin>有我们就去:you wo men jiu qu</mandarin> lor <mandarin>没有就不要去:mei you jiu bu yao qu</mandarin> lor I mean <mandarin>有我们就买:you wo men jiu mai</mandarin> lor <mandarin>没有就不要买:mei you jiu bu yao mai</mandarin> lor


but


why you suddenly <mandarin>有那个:you na ge</mandarin> ice Kacang craving, then, what time you end school tomorrow


!wah! like <mandarin>一整天啊我本来还想:yi zheng tian a wo ben lai hai xiang</mandarin> okay <mandarin>如果是:ru guo shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>下午的话:xia wu de hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>可能我们早上吃如果是早上的话我们下午回来的时候吃三点半:ke neng wo men zao shang chi ru guo shi zao shang de hua wo men xia wu hui lai de shi hou chi san dian ban</mandarin> like <mandarin>不三不四的时间:bu san bu si de shi jian</mandarin> sia


what time, then how come you say


so how


okay this is our third time recording so the question will be


actually hor <mandarin>我蛮想:wo man xiang</mandarin> try <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> one day opposite sex, , like you know <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> drama right then after that <mandarin>那些人:nei xie ren</mandarin> right <mandarin>他起来:ta qi lai</mandarin> eh how come I become a guy like when you wake up then they become the opposite sex


eh <mandarin>我没有这样讲就是:wo mei you zhe yang jiang jiu shi</mandarin> like you know the experience right, , err <mandarin>男孩子:nan hai zi</mandarin> can go through the simulation of like the pregnancy the child childbirth


but then <mandarin>你要感同身受因为:ni yao gan tong shen shou yin wei</mandarin> need to have empathy stop finding excuses, it's not even a philosophy <mandarin>这是我的:zhe shi wo de</mandarin> philosophy


this thinking, am I right, of course, okay


who do you want to become, it's correct, ya lah fast and furious <mandarin>他也:ta ye</mandarin> he also act in fast and furious


one two three four five six seven ya, one of the constant actor


ya, nah it's okay, it's okay why why you want to become the rock, !wah! buff


oh ya ya ya, variety, (mmhmm)


okay, eh <mandarin>你认为:ni ren wei</mandarin> what would be the worst buy get one oh what would be the worst buy one get one free sales ever


I think the worst would be, , actually <mandarin>我觉得每个都很糟糕:wo jue de mei ge dou hen zao gao</mandarin> if I don't like the thing


oh [ho] nice, oh coffin coffin correct correct correct eh not bad ah not bad ah I like your answer


, what food will you be served


I think I will get a chicken chop, I don't know it just came across my mind <mandarin>因为我又没有做什么坏事:yin wei wo you mei you zuo shen me huai shi</mandarin> then <mandarin>我是吃素的:wo shi chi su de</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> chicken chop <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> mock meat <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> chicken chop <mandarin>不是真的:bu shi zhen de</mandarin> chicken chop <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> chop


okay next,


(mmhmm), hell


(mmhmm), oh it's like the, themed cafe


!wah! then I'm like (ugh) I don't understand why would people go there okay nevermind let's not judge them, err


are you going to travel today, then, (uh huh)


go Ubi ah, I thought is start at Ubi, Loyang ah, eh <mandarin>你今天没有去:ni jin tian mei you qu</mandarin> Loyang <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> meh


eh <mandarin>跟我一样然后:gen wo yi yang ran hou</mandarin> leh


!wah! I got share the link to you what


I did you never watch, okay K so basically err <mandarin>我忘记了你要给我看那个:wo wang ji le ni yao gei wo kan na ge</mandarin> title then <mandarin>我才知道:wo cai zhi dao</mandarin> okay <mandarin>像我今天五点多起来:xiang wo jin tian wu dian duo qi lai</mandarin> then <mandarin>五点多我起来我泡茶:wu dian duo wo qi lai wo pao cha</mandarin> then <mandarin>我一边泡茶我就看:wo yi bian pao cha wo jiu kan</mandarin> Channel NewsAsia then <mandarin>我看完:wo kan wan</mandarin> Channel NewsAsia <mandarin>后我就去:hou wo jiu qu</mandarin> err


because like <mandarin>我学校我家那里:wo xue xiao wo jia na li</mandarin> got primary school what, then parent have to send their kids to school, around seven what I did text you what


no lah I think eh, no I was


then I wait for the rain to get smaller then before I drive, [orh] thanks thanks


[orh] okay so I wait for the rain to get, to stop lah, then ya


that's for today <mandarin>然后我到学校:ran hou wo dao xue xiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就点那个:wo jiu dian na ge</mandarin> breakfast set, then, NIE lah


#siew dai# okay, Mo <mandarin>到九点九点我就去我的:dao jiu dian jiu dian wo jiu qu wo de</mandarin> classroom and then the class start at nine thirty


and then <mandarin>我们今天学新的语言学:wo men jin tian xue xin de yu yan xue</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> lecturer right is actually quite interesting eh, then ya so then we learn


about okay then, okay <mandarin>今年他叫我做一个:jin nian ta jiao wo zuo yi ge</mandarin> experiment, then it's called stroop, O O P


eh so they talk about like err obeying your cognitive and disobeying your cognitive <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like err, ya something like that <mandarin>然后他就给你看那个的:ran hou ta jiu gei ni kan na ge de</mandarin> colour like <mandarin>你应该在:ni ying gai zai</mandarin> Facebook <mandarin>看过就是那种:kan guo jiu shi na zhong</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果是:ru guo shi</mandarin> red then they will say in red


like the word they will spell out the word red and then the colour of that word the font is also red and then <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> follow <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> like, so on and so fall lah <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like red blue black, orange brown and then jump


uh ya so the got two round the first round is all correct one <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like the correct correct word with the correct colour then the second round is you only can read out the colour


but then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> then they will err distract you with the wrong


you have to say out the colour than read out the words


okay so there is two round one is totally correct one, the other one is you have to say out the colour of the words but then the words is the wrong, one, for example the colour is in blue but then it's spell out red


then <mandarin>第二个:di er ge</mandarin> round <mandarin>那个错的:na ge cuo de</mandarin> right <mandarin>我花了四十秒:wo hua le si shi miao</mandarin> so <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> right experiment <mandarin>就是告诉我们:jiu shi gao su wo men</mandarin> like when something is with


our, like if something is against our thinking right you will process slowly, then if something is err, going along <mandarin>还有那个:hai you na ge</mandarin> correspond with our thinking <mandarin>的话我们就会:de hua wo men jiu hui</mandarin> process faster <mandarin>然后老师用的那个:ran hou lao shi yong de na ge</mandarin> example <mandarin>就是如果你在一个:jiu shi ru guo ni zai yi ge</mandarin> country right


red you stop then green you go if you go another country is like red go, green stop then <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> reaction direct <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>比较慢:bi jiao man</mandarin> process so it's the same logic


ya ya and then after that <mandarin>她因为她是一个:ta yin wei ta shi yi ge</mandarin> research scientist and then she got like err she share with us a lot of like research method then


okay okay no open, open what open not on then when you open your laptop then the laptop <mandarin>那里不是有一个:na li bu shi you yi ge</mandarin> band


like <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> band, then they will put


then after that they will trace your eyeball, then after that they will track like where you are looking at then <mandarin>她就讲很多:ta jiu jiang hen duo</mandarin> marketing right <mandarin>都是用这种:dou shi yong zhe zhong</mandarin> technique, so this is one of the research methods also


then they will design at the right, if you have the tendency to look at the left, then they will design like things at the left <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> like supermarket they will put the most


I don't mind <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> something like that <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like if their, target audience is <mandarin>小朋友:xiao peng you</mandarin> then <mandarin>他们就会放在小朋友的:ta men jiu hui fang zai xiao peng you de</mandarin> eye level if their target audience is at err like for <mandarin>大人:da ren</mandarin> then <mandarin>他们就会放在大人的:ta men jiu hui fang zai da ren de</mandarin> eye level <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> ah something like that <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like


with marketing


I am giving an example I don't really know how it's been conducted


then after that I, went to eat lunch with you


ya one hour but then like actually <mandarin>很快就:hen kuai jiu</mandarin> end Liao like the


no ya but I cannot


that's the end of my the day, so after this submission are we still eating


the sir


don't want


women are all like that no lah this is a race err sexist it's just me


K <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> try to <mandarin>用:yong</mandarin> chinese and english


eh but dialect <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> singlish leh, Makan


ya lor


okay next


why so random, then #ah mi# <mandarin>跟谁做他跟谁:gen shei zuo ta gen shei</mandarin> pair #ah si# ah


oh ya <mandarin>你知道啊他在那里:ni zhi dao a ta zai na li</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我们去我们去吃的时候:wo men qu wo men qu chi de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>他也在:ta ye zai</mandarin> same building


okay lor fine


then <mandarin>他没有叫:ta mei you jiao</mandarin> #ah si# <mandarin>做:zuo</mandarin> meh, what the


[orh] <mandarin>明天六点做工:ming tian liu dian zuo gong</mandarin> ah


okay, now that you cannot drink Kopi O


is not good


[orh], right last friday


(mmhmm), ,


can you stop with all those topics or not, okay next


kelvin lah


!wah! <mandarin>他有这样多:ta you zhe yang duo</mandarin> friend hor, so happening, oh ya I go sign up for GrabHitch already


text you ah, then <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> leh, yesterday you knock onto what what did you knock onto


the edge ah, !wah! Pa meh, how come you knock in onto the edge, doing exercise ah


so whose laptop are you using now, then #ah si# use which laptop, what about you, oh she bring that to school now


do you think my parking improved, okay cause what


that is true, for what


then, ya touch screen a lot problems <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> err, like <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> poly friends right they buy the touch screen one then after that Lenovo, then after that <mandarin>一次两年内他们就一直修一直修一直修:yi ci liang nian nei ta men jiu yi zhi xiu yi zhi xiu yi zhi xiu</mandarin> until #ling ting# <mandarin>生气:sheng qi</mandarin> eh


err <mandarin>他就没有买了:ta jiu mei you mai le</mandarin> lor <mandarin>他就换成:ta jiu huan cheng</mandarin> MacBook, Lenovo, like <mandarin>很多人买:hen duo ren mai</mandarin> yoga cause like before you enter poly then <mandarin>它不是会:ta bu shi hui</mandarin> send <mandarin>你一个:ni yi ge</mandarin> brochure like <mandarin>告诉你有什么:gao su ni you shen me</mandarin> promotion then after that


ya then my first laptop was Dell then was a gaming laptop


!wah! <mandarin>很重:hen zhong</mandarin> eh


[orh] [orh]


oh ya for the news right, singapore is focusing a lot on like recycling ECO ECO stuff


, , so I think we are taking a lot of steps towards like the ECO side


then after that err <mandarin>新加坡也是有:xin jia po ye shi you</mandarin> invest on the those, plantation ah is it called plantations <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> the farming oh sorry farming in singapore, means like cause they want to be err sustainable like on our own


then after that they invest on this german technology to plant, plant like tomato lettuce


then like to plant, within the country <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like they hope that to reach thirty percent of our


to cover at least thirty percent, of our usage, next, ya I got send you that one so <mandarin>今天的:jin tian de</mandarin> CNA news <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> about plastic recycling then


err ya and then the development vegetables seeds variety for err vertical farming oh ya vertical farming so ya ya you're right <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> singaporeans may soon be able to look forward to fresher and tastier homegrown produce that is farmed vertically Temasek and german ya ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> okay <mandarin>我没有记错是:wo mei you ji cuo shi</mandarin> german urban environment lah okay


okay <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> err then <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> singapore news tonight <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> business about business sides about business side we talk about the smartphone shipments in china


ya <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor, anyway <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> I am thinking if I should, go for err, are we doing anything on the weekend


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> what do you think


middle, ya I think I will go what, I can drive mah, ya then after that <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> HDB <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> right


like <mandarin>他讲现在有:ta jiang xian zai you</mandarin> around seven thousand like in the morning err four PM ah around seven thousand eight hundred and sixty two of err like application they received around seven thousand plus which is crazy lah <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> crazy meh


!huh! <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> eh, first day only eh, or is it because they planned very long already


[orh] might, what you mean by <mandarin>两次机会:liang ci ji hui</mandarin> [orh] can buy twice ah


, no what I mean is like !wah! so over


okay lor, then <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> apply <mandarin>哪里:na li</mandarin> woodlands ah


ya ya but you want to wait for the SBF right, err, cause more expensive what


but lesser year eh


how much do we have to fork out <mandarin>不差很多你知道:bu cha hen duo ni zhi dao</mandarin> right <mandarin>我读:wo du</mandarin> right like, but then resale right <mandarin>它的年比较少:ta de nian bi jiao shao</mandarin> like less year


but then more expensive eh, but then don't need wait lah no need wait is one thing then the other thing is err, it's already like developed it's already like mature already you get to choose where you want


because <mandarin>如果是:ru guo shi</mandarin> resale <mandarin>的话它它已经:de hua ta ta yi jing</mandarin> built <mandarin>它的那些要:ta de nei xie yao</mandarin> build <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> Liao what like bus stop supermarket, primary school like <mandarin>这些东西:zhe xie dong xi</mandarin> you already know what, then you also can choose your own neighbour also


so, I mean <mandarin>如果你去看那个家:ru guo ni qu kan na ge jia</mandarin> when you go for viewing for the flat then <mandarin>你看到那个你的:ni kan dao na ge ni de</mandarin> neighbour [orh] <mandarin>如果你不喜欢:ru guo ni bu xi huan</mandarin> like you dislike that person then you won't buy already what right


so you can choose your neighbour, right or not, !wah! <mandarin>我们为什么这里会有青蛙:wo men wei shen me zhe li hui you qing wa</mandarin> sia


ya <mandarin>所以比较贵啊:suo yi bi jiao gui a</mandarin> no meh


like what is your main concern when it comes to buying


one thousand, one thousand <mandarin>蛮小:man xiao</mandarin> eh, eh


okay okay, so you won't settle anything lesser than five room, ya, then <mandarin>我们要:wo men yao</mandarin> set <mandarin>多少:duo shao</mandarin> sia


the bank ah <mandarin>我们不是去:wo men bu shi qu</mandarin> Courts then <mandarin>我问你:wo wen ni</mandarin> then <mandarin>你忘记了:ni wang ji le</mandarin> ah, oh design lor


cause there's some modern design then <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> like grey wall, grey ceiling <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> grey floor tiles like those uh like <mandarin>暗色系的:an se xi de</mandarin> I don't want <mandarin>暗色系:an se xi</mandarin> one


I want bright one I want like <mandarin>白色米色:bai se mi se</mandarin> wood cosy cosy cosy kind, chinese style one, bedroom


okay <mandarin>一片墙:yi pian qiang</mandarin> okay, but cannot the whole room, very scary I don't like, I don't like <mandarin>暗暗:an an</mandarin> ah


will you find designer, will you find ID


right, we got Lobang what


but do you have time or not, do you have time


but <mandarin>你做这些还好:ni zuo zhe xie hai hao</mandarin> but then <mandarin>如果是那种:ru guo shi na zhong</mandarin> like, packing <mandarin>这些我觉得应该要:zhe xie wo jue de ying gai yao</mandarin> done before that like floor tiles painting <mandarin>这些我觉得:zhe xie wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>要做好:yao zuo hao</mandarin> Liao then <mandarin>你才可以:ni cai ke yi</mandarin> move in


ya, what is that


you like ah, I don't like eh


trick eye museum ah, I want to have a wall that is whiteboard, I told you before what, I want one of the wall to be a black whiteboard


ya whiteboard ah like can


uh, ya <mandarin>我可以做那个:wo ke yi zuo na ge</mandarin> but then <mandarin>那个不可能是一个:na ge bu ke neng shi yi ge</mandarin> whiteboard, like imagine when you wipe things then after that <mandarin>那里有一:na li you yi</mandarin> like got the gap I don't like


I say I like, sliding door ah


whiteboard, using the acrylic ah is it called acrylic, acrylic, ya then become the sliding door


!huh! <mandarin>很危险:hen wei xian</mandarin> eh imagine got kids so then


that one three room flat <mandarin>没有没有你:mei you mei you ni</mandarin> send <mandarin>我的是:wo de shi</mandarin> four room flat, like


not squeeze like pressurised ah, uh uh uh, I don't know something like that


like glass door it's just to create <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> like , ya


cause they want the light to come in, then <mandarin>你可以放一个:ni ke yi fang yi ge</mandarin> curtain


K lor


when do you want buy the SBF opens on september second of september


woodlands ah <mandarin>还是我家这边:hai shi wo jia zhe bian</mandarin>


like for the size that we want, maisonette ah


okay meh


(mmhmm), !hanna! so expensive eh


, so when you are talking about like


[orh] [orh] sorry <mandarin>我不是在讲:wo bu shi zai jiang</mandarin> SBF <mandarin>我要讲的是:wo yao jiang de shi</mandarin> opening booking ah something, open booking ya <mandarin>我是讲:wo shi jiang</mandarin> open booking


then <mandarin>他是九月二号才:ta shi jiu yue er hao cai</mandarin> open, (uh huh), but then <mandarin>那个很快的:na ge hen kuai de</mandarin> leh


cause like on our right


right


you mean <mandarin>最近近近几年:zui jin jin jin ji nian</mandarin> recent years or like this time round


around admiralty there, around there, err <mandarin>有一个地方:you yi ge di fang</mandarin> only one there is like three project, only one or two project have five room


but then very hard for us because <mandarin>我们不是:wo men bu shi</mandarin> three gen we are not applying for three gen, three generation staying together, no five room


bigger than five room, <mandarin>做么你讲话要像:zuo me ni jiang hua yao xiang</mandarin> malay <mandarin>这样有那个:zhe yang you na ge</mandarin> slang ya lah


okay


okay lah !huh! <mandarin>不喜欢二楼三楼:bu xi huan er lou san lou</mandarin> eh, I don't know leh they say not good what the where


but <mandarin>那个很多蟑螂:na ge hen duo zhang lang</mandarin> cockroach <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> pest <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> correct one, engage in, like how


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


engage in the company


okay lor, so you fine with low floor ah


okay lor, if you are fine then I am fine lah if you are willing to spend the money to help me engage all those, pets pest control then I'm fine


then <mandarin>又要看那些:you yao kan nei xie</mandarin> grant


then will get, more grants


just <mandarin>没有抽到:mei you chou dao</mandarin> lah


like chance, ya ya, 对 在 里面 我没有


that's why


which dessert what dessert at where, where, this timing eh


circuit road <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> park <mandarin>哪里:na li</mandarin>


can I eat please, like specialise in soursop <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> store instead of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> dessert store


or or <mandarin>你可以做:ni ke yi zuo</mandarin> comparison cause that time you already try the dessert one right so now you try the soursop one, how it taste like


right, <mandarin>我饱啊我刚刚不是在吃:wo bao a wo gang gang bu shi zai chi</mandarin> almond


!wah! <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> rude leh <mandarin>你很坏:ni hen huai</mandarin> leh why you so bad one


<mandarin>我应该:wo ying gai</mandarin> just not eat anything


then <mandarin>还要去:hai yao qu</mandarin> circuit road mah, !huh!


basically we just changed our mind in one minute time,


ice, ya I also I also can we, ice Kacang


tomorrow I end school at around , err three thirty


nine thirty,


[orh] [orh] eh actually <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> end <mandarin>很早:hen zao</mandarin> eh


okay start, <mandarin>很奇怪:hen qi guai</mandarin> leh so weird to record this conversation but okay lah let's start


ya nevermind lah just try lah err but we need one hour uh


, ya actually I think, , a bit <mandarin>难:nan</mandarin> lah but let's try lor maybe we can talk more than more than one hour we'll never know


err <mandarin>最喜欢动物:zui xi huan dong wu</mandarin> ah okay lah my favourite is dog lah because I have a dog mah my her name is coco my favourite


ya, [orh] ya ya ya,


ya actually for me ah, ya, I don't really have a another another anymore I like, but <mandarin>大象:da xiang</mandarin> is true lah <mandarin>大象:da xiang</mandarin> is just like human, their brain works like us they very family oriented


, so, <mandarin>大象:da xiang</mandarin> is not bad lah, but I think for me I still like dog the best, ya lah, ya lah


no, no but after coco then I find that, , I know more about dog, then I realise !hey! really dog really very loyalty


can but tomorrow we going the dog park ah, !wah! coco will be very excited, we're going to see the brother Teh Peng ah, and the what they call what the shipyard gang ah


but whoever lor I think she will be happy lor at least can go out and play with other dogs, that same breed as her


, then, err make her run lor, then she will sleep the whole day tomorrow


actually why so early ah, is the Sembawang park is previously we went, previously you, [orh] ya Sembawang park <mandarin>很大:hen da</mandarin> it's like got this slope mah like <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> like a lot of people bring their dog stay one it's very very big mah


then all there dog like a small err a park for the dog ah, fence up those type ah, [orh] okay okay okay


the biggest ah, the better one ah, (mmhmm) (mmhmm)


!wah! tomorrow what time nine nine <mandarin>九点:jiu dian</mandarin> ah !wah! a bit early hor but nevermind we just try lah I think should be no problem you can wake up and go, the most we go a bit late lah, but you got their the the rest of the


you got their contact right, through instagram you can communicate what, !hanna!, ya lah Teh Peng stay where ah


[orh] near lah [orh] !hannor! , then the other leh the other one what's the girl name, our stay Yishun ah


nearer ah, I think the rest of the rest maybe also around there


the rest of the the the rest of the other dog leh, and she she rescue she adopt, you never know who who know, since since she can name it as what shipyard gang ah


what do you mean by overlap, [orh] I see I see okay okay


okay, , the favourite subject ah the favourite topic (mmhmm), okay lah you start first ah


ya,


ya it's true lah but no choice what now everybody, not not only not only us ah the whole world is facing this problem so, we have to, struggle first lor hopefully everything will be back to normal by next year


or the virus will be gone, but anyway, it's true lah it it affect a lot of people like for for myself, I like when I I cannot work from home for my job nature


ya when I meet my my new supplier, then I feel very funny because like they wearing masks I cannot see their their their whole face then I also don't know how they really look like so imagine when we go outside we we meet each other we also don't know whether he is he he or she


so like a bit funny then the best thing is, err due to this COVID cannot human contact, then, then after that my my supplier come and meet me then


and I was like this is this is very natural what human and human shake hand I also wanted then suddenly I realise !hey! cannot then I say !hey! <mandarin>不可以握手:bu ke yi wo shou</mandarin> leh then he say oh ya hor ya hor then , like, this


like how to say, then like, then like err recently, one of my colleague


then very sad she cannot go back


the father, ceremony everything burial a bit already over then no point she go back, then come back if let's say she go back then she come back singapore she will quarantine another fourteen days, so in the end she decide not to go back and err


the whole the whole err, ceremony the burial everything she, by zoom lor, then she pray to computer


ya even they go back hor, actually also worry, they worry for themselves they worry for their family also, like their family also scared


then singapore also got COVID case, then their family member also like relative also say !wah! you all come come back singapore ah, they will scared that you are the you carry the virus over, so, , now like everybody in malaysia I think they still like live normal life lah


but, when they heard that err people coming from singapore they a bit scared, then I got another two more colleague err three more colleague, during CB period they went back malaysia, so now because after that, malaysia also go MCO


so they three of them stuck in malaysia cannot come back, then, ya


so, ah we call them up to check <mandarin>他们在:ta men zai</mandarin> malaysia how they survive then they say they do part time job, help out in like, not the store lah whatever, then got one they he go and drive grab lor


, then now err government <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> PCA, err latest is is a malaysia government <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> singapore government, periodical


communicating, the what ah a duck, a I can't remember what lah err it's for those err people that, in malaysia, they they stay in malaysia they go back malaysia then they want to come back singapore to work


then singapore company, need to apply this PCA for them to come back, ya or so so is like <mandarin>的政府:de zheng fu</mandarin> try and help is it like malaysia in singapore they they liaise then they can help, ya, each other lor (mmhmm)


ya so this PCA is for two ways ah that means like, err err malaysian want to come back to singapore to work then singapore companies have to apply lah, the let's say, some singaporean also go malaysia to work what


once they come back like malaysian they come back singapore to work they at least have to work for three months, then they can go back go back malaysia, , this is something different ah so, err our HR already start apply for two staff ya but one thing is very sad is that


err the the staff themselves have to bear the all the cost leh, the day but luckily lah they only SHN for seven days instead of fourteen days


then err they have to bear the cost lor the accommodation costs then have to go for a swab test, then the best thing ah, err ya


ya <mandarin>老板是可以出钱:lao ban shi ke yi chu qian</mandarin> lah, but to be fair to <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> lah <mandarin>什么都老板出:shen me dou lao ban chu</mandarin> is a cost to them lah


they I heard from my colleague my HR is that


for this PCA to apply, then you must make sure, when your staff come back here they got a place for, SHN and then SHN must go either hotel, appointed hotel


err, and what else ah, err, cannot cannot ya ya, then the, then the cost


err <mandarin>一个晚上:yi ge wan shang</mandarin> one night stay, err sixty plus seventy dollars, seven days how much already


ya, ya if they are clear lah if they are clear from the swab test they are they tested, they are err okay then they can back to be, they can back to normal lor, but the rest hor when during SHN right


they are not allowed to take public transport like for example the women from malaysia custom they clear they go to singapore customer right, ah they are not allowed to take public transport like bus MRT


unless unless they have personal vehicle like they they take their own motor, motorcycle or car can if they don't have right the they have to at the singapore customs they have to call they have err, we have we err given them a specific number lah don't all these are the and the taxi and the grab ah they specially cater for COVID one ah ah <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> then you cannot flag down taxi <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> ah then you have to call this number then you tell them that I'm serving SHN now you have to send me to the hotel that I'm staying lor


ya lah to protect lah, it's like there's like ya lah is to protect and then in case they really got any virus or what then end up like just because they bring back the malaysian let them work but then <mandarin>害到:hai dao</mandarin> or you know can can ya lah it's true long and then all this caused the staff have to have to pay lor ya then even their goal of swab test also they also cannot take public transport but I think <mandarin>这种事:zhe zhong shi</mandarin> give and take lor like I mean if you choose not to come singapore you choose to wait then you have to in a way suffer lah cause you are in malaysia you got no job you very uncertain but if you choose to come back at least you know you can come back to work it's just that before you can start to work you have to bear a lot of course lah but at least it's a one time thing once you are clear right then <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> continue working ya


ya lor it's true lor then all this cost the staff have to pay lor then even they go for swab test also they also cannot take public transport


, , ya, then we calculate for them if for them to come back singapore they need to pay about maybe


thousand five to two thousand, sing dollar, then, but the problem is this this this agreement between singapore and malaysia, the the slight difference ah is that, when it's like singaporean, go to malaysia


for for malaysian come back to singapore SHN is seven days, but for singaporean or malaysian, go back to malaysia, SHN is fourteen days no no err seven day spread so ah <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> like malaysian right as in when they come back singapore a clear there are seven days you you then they start work right then because their house is in malaysia they got no house in singapore ah so so you must make sure


, , err so you must make sure, they have a they they can they got a place to stay here lor now it's the company responsibility


ya so you must make sure that they willing to come back here and stay and at least three months


or more if let's say for those daily community one, err temporarily not they cannot do lor ah some more it's not open yet what (mmhmm)


true lah, then the best thing is I got another colleague she's pregnant, she also malaysian, so her her due date will be somewhere around


late october so very soon she have to go back malaysia already then now she start to look looking at err those hotel in JB, then err she said, estimate cost for her to go back having the serve the body SHN will will cost her about


at least two thousand Ringgit, !wah! not more expensive leh ya more expensive, cannot afford lah then the best thing she said, eh


why she said ah, then we ask her say eh you like that go back, then you stay at hotel, alone you, what you what you scared of ah you know what she said ah not ah


there is what she scared !hais! then I said !huh!, then ya hotel <mandarin>很多鬼了:hen duo gui le</mandarin> , uh


ah don't know ah we also don't know then we my colleague they all also like like broke because, , actually, come to think of it lah


ya so in ah to her that she is back at her country already but she serving as it in a in a hotel room four walls


then fourteen days all alone leh !wah! I cannot imagine leh I never try before how how you say, then we start to tell her I think you have to download a lot of err


then, err, ya she's pregnant lah so I think she like to sleep lah then can sleep lah, [orh] <mandarin>你去学织:ni qu xue zhi</mandarin> knitting


knit knitting, ah at least like got something to do then err Dana ask her to err read read books, then she say !huh! <mandarin>读看书啊我睡觉比较好:du kan shu a wo shui jiao bi jiao hao</mandarin> then err then we also tell her


oh then you have to buy tidbits leh, then pregnant ah very <mandarin>馋嘴:chan zui</mandarin> ah like to eat what


no no no as in in malaysia SHN also not allowed to go out, [orh] same thing still the same they now like singapore side


when you serving SHN right strictly you are not allowed to step out of the hotel room then food wise food wise or usual or when you book the hotel right if you they'll have different cause like err you want the hotel to provide you, food wise err usual err when you book the hotel right they'll they'll have different course like err you want the hotel to provide you


the standard meal or you don't want then you like you want a la carte a la carte means you everyday you tell hotel what you want then they will prepare then you pay extra lah, ya it's standard meal lor


, , ya that's why is a cost what


ya it's you your currency break is different lah of course malaysia is cheaper


, ya lor that's why


that's why I I we asked the colleague right eh <mandarin>你不你:ni bu ni</mandarin> actually we ask her to go back now, the earlier the better but she she say she don't want to go back so early because company say only when she got what thirty six weeks of pregnancy then


she got pay, if she now she start to go back she will be all unpaid then she say !aiya! due to money no choice you have to bear with it


possible because this we also told her tell her this is her second pregnancy, the the baby might come out earlier, that's why then she said nevermind she take the risk


ya actually <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> we propose like why not because her husband also in singapore so we say why not <mandarin>你跟老公一起:ni gen lao gong yi qi</mandarin> go back then she say don't want because in malaysia the rules is


no matter


(mmhmm), maybe not going back lor


ya but hygiene and, ya


allowed one lah, , but I think malaysia still cannot that's why she said no point the husband go back


so maybe not not not, err ya lah can lah the husband still can see the baby lor


after <mandarin>她生:ta sheng</mandarin> then


because, ya because ah <mandarin>她是:ta shi</mandarin> late october mah <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> if her if her, if the baby come out on just


on time hor, that means err she will have two months confinement mah so roughly ya most <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> after chinese new year come back


ya lah if not hor if not next year chinese new year very poor thing leh a lot of those, foreigner in singapore like china from china from malaysia, they all they all cannot back their home town to celebrate chinese new year


ya lah very sad lor cannot, cannot err you know spend time with your family members some more, they have err they didn't, since COVID start they you cannot go back malaysia already so, how many months nine months one year


ah, ya, ya, imagine one year ah <mandarin>你看不到你家人:ni kan bu dao ni jia ren</mandarin> leh


ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor then err, every week <mandarin>都回:dou hui</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> every weekend <mandarin>都回:dou hui</mandarin> malaysia now suddenly all cannot go back


ya Kena break in all these thing


the seat, that's why they also said there and then I ask them !huh!, then your your fridge got, food all these thing or not ah some say yes maybe <mandarin>生虫:sheng chong</mandarin> Liao


err some have some don't have , they their house in JB but their family members don't stay in JB maybe some other state lah


so they also say !aiya! don't know lah then the I got one more colleague is like, they she stay in she she stay in JB but she's she's not belongs to JB she belongs to other state


so she rent the house there, so due to this COVID suddenly she cannot go back then MCO everything then, but, she's still paying rent, until now every month she's still pay rent then I ask her like discuss with the owner lah whether during this period can


reduce the rent or not but the owner said no


all her things inside the house leh if let's say she tell her owner [orh] <mandarin>我不要租了:wo bu yao zu le</mandarin> then owner will throw the thing out of the house what


ya lah possible lor then no choice lah


then in singapore then because err, she her her mode she her mode of err, everyday she will in out singapore and malaysia what so because due to this she cannot go back, then now, in malaysia she continue to pay the rent and singapore she have to pay another rent again it is very difficult lah


that's why that's why, , a lot of people suffering, so especially those foreigner malaysian, they all hope that all this thing will be cleared


ya that's why government say what you have to, prepared to stay with them, for a few years


what to do, is it, (mmhmm)


of course lah !wah! ya some more now err, !wah!, the best thing is now because of this COVID construction site or affected, !wah! our view also affected because we our contractor


really got a hard time to come to our place to work


ya, and some more now ah err the costs ah in all increase, then I ask my supplier why now the cost so expensive he say not the raw material costs increase is the manpower costs increase because now they shortage of manpower so


that's why now become a labour labour very very very very, very <mandarin>珍贵:zhen gui</mandarin> ya because the supply go down but the demand go up !huh! ya ya then her testing is like a, ya, ya, then the best thing is like err, two days yesterday


two days ago my my supplier just call me say eh she already confirm the job already say she will be doing but she just call me say, I might need to postpone leh cannot make it I say why, is it recent there that day one of the dorm


said is clear but because one guy Kena COVID, eight hundred quarantine err my worker inside, now they have to quarantine for fourteen days and see how the situation, you know so cannot start work


ya stress, ya they scared leh, most probably because of err they also scared that they will die because you see their their people all all fall sick then I think they see news in their country a lot of death case so they're worried ah


another thing they also scared that they will become jobless because they also say !aiya! singapore no job then the boss will say I will send them back


ya lah because they I think they they, for singapore government they they have do their part lah they send those people that can speak their language go in to dorm to, like, as a social worker like that like err tell them not to worry tell them ask them to know take care of themselves


ya give them like a positive err news lah


meat


ah, ah


ya ya


, but now they, then then then <mandarin>很可怜:hen ke lian</mandarin> leh they got no freedom, they they are not allowed to go out even even even they now


if their dormitory is clear they are allowed to go to work ah, they oh what they can do it everyday, they only allowed to go to a workplace, after workplace go back dormitory they like not like last time mah after work they still can go buy like


they still can go nearby buy grocery or make friends they are not allowed to do that anymore so they they like sort of they don't have their freedom anymore lah


, but I think, but I think now recently they going to release, the the tension a bit lah that means they err they like


they will like say okay, give them schedule like this dormitory okay, this group of people how many people fifty person ah ah I, give them one hour they are allowed to go out to buy groceries to go out do whatever they want one hour


at specific area ah then after that they have to come back again err let them go out room a bit lah


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


ya singaporean will say <mandarin>为什么不可以:wei shen me bu ke yi</mandarin> ya long too you know, how long to go


what time we start ah, !huh!


there forty four minute what,


food, why not we start with, favourite food either prefer food, a lot leh how to talk how to say


favourite food, !huh!


very difficult leh how to choose <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> you choose <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> then high in carbohydrate <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> other vitamin


err what err err nutrient ah every


!chey! [orh] I thought you say only one specific, food, okay lah of course lah if let's say I will say #cai png# lah


err #cai png# also got got got got <mandarin>辣椒:la jiao</mandarin> one what, err #cai png# <mandarin>汤也是:tang ye shi</mandarin> what


!huh! but now <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> tested


you can try it start from tomorrow, then one month later we come back and talk about this topic again then you tell tell tell tell me how you feel


everyday every meal we eat, the same thing, you have today you eat err <mandarin>米粉汤:mi fen tang</mandarin> the next day you eat what but it's still fish soup mah


ah, err


one of the food that eat for the rest of my life ah , I think I'll eat <mandarin>鱼圆面:yu yuan mian</mandarin> leh


, can, we can try and see how is it


(mmhmm) (mmhmm)


ah my I got I got one cousin hor he can do that, he err during because he his study in UK, university in UK then err


then after that he continue with his PHD in UK so, throughout the whole, I think how many years, seven eight years, share he has been only eating fried rice from the same store


ya, everyday, ya


like her <mandarin>他的他的:ta de ta de</mandarin> normal meal lor standard meal <mandarin>都是:dou shi</mandarin> fried rice lor, ah then then the I heard from my aunty say that, when he when she go over UK to visit him


then the the the the so called the canteen stall aunty, know <mandarin>认识我的:ren shi wo de</mandarin> aunty Liao then tell the tell my aunty say, your son [orh], everyday ah no fail ya sure come fried rice ah until ah I when I from far I see him ah ya <mandarin>我已经:wo yi jing</mandarin> I already get prepared already


well then what you want to eat later, !huh! I thought say tomorrow start, but but you say you hungry already what


in trend ya


ya but that one <mandarin>你要是一个:ni yao shi yi ge</mandarin> duck lover lah, ah but <mandarin>我不是:wo bu shi</mandarin> ah, I I don't really like


per person


err


ya, ya, ya but provided <mandarin>他要好吃:ta yao hao chi</mandarin> lah


is it very nice, oh


(mmhmm), err I will try lah, ya maybe it's like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I still I eat duck ah


just that I won't eat a lot, who knows ah maybe <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> duck really very nice leh I will eat what


!huh!, (mmhmm), [orh] lunch and dinner only ah err ya lah who will eat breakfast for for


!huh!


(mmhmm), but I think for then maybe they want to, to like err in in in the end they want to collect some data


say usually what type of people come over their restaurant, to eat for what purpose then like maybe in future they will have more promotion on specific group like for business for celebration all these lah


Sekali Sekali you call them they go through the same thing again they will ask you


(mmhmm)


the a la carte one lah,


how special


, excuse me how big is the duck, the size of the duck is <mandarin>就是这样大:jiu shi zhe yang da</mandarin> what do you mean by <mandarin>几个皮而已:ji ge pi er yi</mandarin>


but, ya


ya, Peking duck expensive is because the making process, and very complicated what that's why expensive but usually you eat Peking duck is like they will serve you the skin


with the to wrap then it then the meat they will go for, they will cook another dish for you what


then <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> choose not to have another dish you just leave the meat, like that then you just eat lah, ah then you don't have to pay extra lor


ya, then you can countdown already yes you are right


acceptable then we can continue the rest, oh ya the quality, ya


(mm), K we going to stop already bye bye [eh]


okay let's start, okay so ya lor I think it's okay we have to codeswitch lah we have to switch between english and chinese


but I think it's it's not that hard lah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> we normally also got like that talk mah but because we must record like I feel a bit self conscious right, ya but err !hannor! <mandarin>不见得我们平时讲话讲一个小时:bu jian de wo men ping shi jiang hua jiang yi ge xiao shi</mandarin> but okay I think <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> just try talk normally like say whatever we want lor cause there's no specific topic we must talk about mah <mandarin>所以我们要讲什么就讲:suo yi wo men yao jiang shen me jiu jiang</mandarin> lor


ya anyway we must take note <mandarin>我们不可以讲话讲太大声:wo men bu ke yi jiang hua jiang tai da sheng</mandarin> like you must see your sound wave lah <mandarin>如果变红色:ru guo bian hong se</mandarin> means we talk too loud Liao ya err that's the requirement lah so we we just take note lor we don't talk too loudly


ya lah I mean of course coco I mean of course <mandarin>我们喜欢狗:wo men xi huan gou</mandarin> lah we all <mandarin>爱狗:ai gou</mandarin> one what but other than <mandarin>狗:gou</mandarin> leh, but okay lah this one is like recently previously err it was not really my favourite animal lah but you know cause I went night safari mah


ya then I see the the elephant like they look so cute lor, ya plus you know that time in india the elephant, err I don't know I forgot what's the exact thing lah but something about the that elephant eat the firecracker or something like that ya ya then they stay at the river cause it don't want to like <mandarin>伤害别人:shang hai bie ren</mandarin> or something like that ya and then like <mandarin>大象:da xiang</mandarin> also very <mandarin>聪明:cong ming</mandarin> lor so ya lor okay then you leh


is it, , so you, so you still dog lah no other no other animal ya you just you are just being biased right cause got cause got coco


(mmhmm), , ya okay, okay then why not we talk about dog instead


ya, , ya lor, ah Teh Peng ya


ya but <mandarin>不懂不懂会不会有别人:bu dong bu dong hui bu hui you bie ren</mandarin> lah cause, ya


some more <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> coco <mandarin>也是很久没有去:ye shi hen jiu mei you qu</mandarin> dog park Liao, hor, ya, , ya, ya but then so early I don't I don't even know I can wake up or not


nine o'clock so ya lor, I think I don't know maybe they want to meet earlier so not so hot lor


ya Sembawang park <mandarin>很大:hen da</mandarin> it's like got this slope one like <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> like a lot of people bring their dog there one it's very very big one, !huh!, dog run lor like normal dog run <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor or okay okay ya so ya lor I I got say before like other dog instagram I see they always bring their dogs there lah


ya, ya so ya lor I I got see before like other dog instagram I see they always bring their dogs there lah, one one of the biggest lah


or whatever you know like like Punggol park like that but it's just very big lor, ya but I also don't know how it will be lah so ya lor, ya


ya ya lor, ya, , ya, no I I <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> like <mandarin>其他人是谁:qi ta ren shi shei</mandarin> I only know Teh Peng lor


instagram lor


Yishun that's why for them is near then <mandarin>一定迟到的吗:yi ding chi dao de ma</mandarin> ya that's why, she stay Yishun also the foster also stay Yishun, ya that's why I think they decide to to meet Sembawang cause it's like nearer for them ya


I , but <mandarin>他不可能:ta bu ke neng</mandarin> Jio <mandarin>全部人:quan bu ren</mandarin> mah <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> cannot have everyone there what, ya lah don't know, ya depends lor


ya but ya anyway when we talk I think we also must take note that <mandarin>我们不可以:wo men bu ke yi</mandarin> overlap, ya, like <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> then <mandarin>你你等我讲完:ni ni deng wo jiang wan</mandarin> then <mandarin>你讲:ni jiang</mandarin> , ya , ya so as much as <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> try normal conversation but I think we also try not to overlap each other if not the recording won't be clear


ya okay so moving on, why not we talk about, COVID situation now,


err okay err about COVID I think <mandarin>要讲:yao jiang</mandarin> for me, I feel is no difference to my life lah as in, like, previously I was at home all along mah so to me it's not much difference but then <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> start work Liao then it's a bit different lor like


I can really see how COVID affected everybody lah, like you must remind them err do safe entry ah must take temperature then if <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like temperature <mandarin>很高:hen gao</mandarin> then they cannot come inside they must wait outside


ya so that that's one thing lah then another thing I think is


like everyone's worried about err what is that during COVID is pay cut lor, then ya lor then your boss tell you err maybe next few months will have pay cut so ya lah financially also err everyone seems to be affected lor


ya, , ya


, ya


ya like <mandarin>很奇怪:hen qi guai</mandarin> right


, ya I think ya lor this COVID really change everything lor like even like don't say about like like err like your, relative pass away or anything like even you go back to see your family members like malaysian they all stuck in singapore cannot go back ya lor plus like you very uncertain lah because you don't know when


like this situation I mean this COVID situation like will be okay lah so, ya lor <mandarin>所以很难:suo yi hen nan</mandarin> lor


almost <mandarin>四个月:si ge yue</mandarin> I think


[orh] so so it's like the <mandarin>政府:zheng fu</mandarin> try and help is it like malaysia and singapore they they liaise then they can help


help people lah right


, , oh


, , as in <mandarin>你是讲:ni shi jiang</mandarin> malaysia come back singapore, all the SHN whatever whatever <mandarin>是他们自己要充钱:shi ta men zi ji yao chong qian</mandarin> lah


ya ya I mean especially in context when your, your your workers all like not singaporeans a lot malaysian at the end of the day <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> like very hard for the boss lah ya if they have to <mandarin>出钱:chu qian</mandarin> all the time


ya, ya,


staying


so <mandarin>他们不可以去:ta men bu ke yi qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>朋友家住:peng you jia zhu</mandarin> ah in case in case they they carry the virus lah, , ya


, ya, but but then <mandarin>他们是:ta men shi</mandarin> SHN <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> cannot stay friends house lah but after that if they choose to stay it's up to them right there is no control lah


back to normal


ya, so what grab


, , ah


oh so they also cannot <mandarin>自己叫:zi ji jiao</mandarin> Grab <mandarin>这些:zhe xie</mandarin> oh, but I think all this is like at the end of the day <mandarin>政府:zheng fu</mandarin> do is for a purpose what cause it's it's


it's like there's like ya lah it's to protect and then in case they really got any virus or what, then end up like just because they bring back the malaysian let them work but then <mandarin>害到:hai dao</mandarin> you know <mandarin>跟惨:gen can</mandarin>


but I think <mandarin>这种事:zhe zhong shi</mandarin> give and take lor like I mean if you choose not to come singapore you choose to wait then you have to in a way suffer lah cause you are in malaysia you got no job you very uncertain but if you choose to come back at least you know can come back to work it's just that before you can start to work you have to bear a lot of cost lah but at least it's a one time thing once you are clear right then <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> continue working


, wait <mandarin>所以那种:suo yi na zhong</mandarin> like malaysian right as in when you come back singapore they clear their seven days already then they start work right then because their house is in malaysia they got no house in singapore what


[orh] so as so, so they they the malaysian once they come they are not allowed to go back ah I mean if they go back cause <mandarin>我要问的是:wo yao wen de shi</mandarin> if they go back then they must SHN fourteen days in malaysia again what right ya ya so you must make sure that they willing to come back here and stay days and stay and at least three month


and stay,


oh ya, ya lor I think <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> this period of time it's just really, have to adapt lor like there's a lot of changes <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> if <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> survive <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> is really, Bo Pian lor, ya


ya,


, ah but if <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> choose to give birth in singapore is not worth more expensive lah right ya more expensive


ya, (ppc)


I mean, okay


I mean if not what you all what you all expect her to say that I scared to be alone


!wah! but I wonder if imagine <mandarin>她回去:ta hui qu</mandarin> right then suddenly like she's serving her as err at stay home notice then suddenly she need to give birth then how then like, like Sekali she really got like, the virus out do know uh we also don't know then we my colleague there also like like broke because


then fourteen days or alone leh ya lah I cannot imagine lah I never try before how how you feels say then we start to tell her, ya, ya


ya, ya


!huh! meeting [orh] knit


, , but actually when stay home notice now because it's not like <mandarin>以前:yi qian</mandarin> like you know hotel will


like hotel are responsible for you they will provide you food all these so if <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> stay home notice now the food wise like will it be provided or like you can you are allowed to <mandarin>自己出去买:zi ji chu qu mai</mandarin> or how does that work, no I mean in context of like current situation even in singapore <mandarin>因为以前是:yin wei yi qian shi</mandarin> hotel <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> provide <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> mah because they're meant to hold people who came err come back from overseas or whatever


then food wise


, , so at the end of the day the food is you must buy from hotel lah, !wah! like that even more cost leh imagine <mandarin>你住那房间一千块:ni zhu na fang jian yi qian kuai</mandarin> like per night okay lah <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> per night like maybe you will stay err per day is like okay say


cheapest is maybe <mandarin>一百:yi bai</mandarin> then <mandarin>你还要还:ni hai yao huan</mandarin> food you still must be seven days !wah!, ya but but on the bright like on brighter note is right I mean if you are singaporean lah then if you want to go in malaysia for


I mean <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> actually <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> singaporean <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>做工的:zuo gong de</mandarin> lah or <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> [orh] okay maybe <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> but <mandarin>很少:hen shao</mandarin> lah, ya then but anyway if they go back to malaysia they have to still fourteen days, but at least, the cost there is cheaper lah imagine you come singapore you must serve for fourteen days it's !wah! it's very hard leh


ya, , so at least okay lah maybe by then <mandarin>你算到来:ni suan dao lai</mandarin> right you serve seven days in singapore compared to fourteen days in malaysia right, actually <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> almost about the same price lah


cause you know ya because malaysia is cheaper but then you must serve another extra week, ya ya lor


ya, ,


ya it's it's must take the risk lor cause Sekali really later she wait wait wait but then who knows her delivery end up must be earlier, then ya


, if <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>我还要出钱我都还没生我孩子我就已经出钱:wo hai yao chu qian wo dou hai mei sheng wo hai zi wo jiu yi jing chu qian</mandarin> Liao then <mandarin>我孩子一出来:wo hai zi yi chu lai</mandarin> !wah! I still must spend money of course you can <mandarin>尽量:jin liang</mandarin> whatever you can earn right you just earn now lor ya


separate, [orh], , ya lor, wait so, so her intention is <mandarin>她早一点回:ta zao yi dian hui</mandarin> before her due date right then


oh ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> leh I think singapore also like that


ya some more like the delivery ward is more sensitive cause !wah! all babies lor, I thought I think singapore context <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> Liao I remember I read somewhere that they increase you know they they let loose all this


ya so I I don't know the the cap lah but then I know that you are allowed to visit already so probably like your <mandarin>老公:lao gong</mandarin> or whatever like maybe your partner only lah is allowed to come and see,


!wah! like that so sad hor like it's supposed to be a happy occasion but, but because of COVID now got so many restriction, ya lah after <mandarin>她生:ta sheng</mandarin> lah


which is next year lah,


, ya but hopefully but before the end of the year things will become better lor


ya, ya


like whether celebrate or what lah I think you just being able to you know go back to being able to go back to somewhere where like you know your home lah ya cause it's really quite sad lah I cannot imagine cause I mean I'm in singapore so to me I I'm not affected lah but then in terms of if let's say I put myself in the shoes if I example <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>做工:zuo gong</mandarin> then I'm stuck now then I cannot come back oh my god it's damn Jialat


<mandarin>没:mei</mandarin> I think <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> one year but going one year if at the end of this year <mandarin>还没好:hai mei hao</mandarin> lah, ya it's like it's like going overseas to study but and a word I think the worst thing right <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> mentally you are not prepared for this is like <mandarin>突然间:tu ran jian</mandarin> then you got no you got no time to make arrangement or anything at least like like <mandarin>你出国读书:ni chu guo du shu</mandarin> you already know okay I won't see you for year so to you is like okay lah this one year is difficult but I can get through this cause I mentally ready know


but then those because of COVID suddenly like some more malaysia like it was quite <mandarin>乱:luan</mandarin> at first like <mandarin>很多东西:hen duo dong xi</mandarin> suddenly just like stop, then like a lot of people like !huh! like you know they never expect so, ya lor so <mandarin>很乱啊:hen luan a</mandarin> ya


, ya


ya lor ya actually ya that's true ah some more I think <mandarin>很可怜:hen ke lian</mandarin> is right you imagine your whole family is in like working in like err singapore, then <mandarin>因为你:yin wei ni</mandarin> because of COVID <mandarin>不可以回去:bu ke yi hui qu</mandarin> then <mandarin>你一回去:ni yi hui qu</mandarin> Sekali like your house is like mess ya ya then <mandarin>更惨:geng can</mandarin> you lose even more actually ya


oh ya oh ya that time err the news article they got show, malaysia the cinema all that all all you know ya all moldy and everything, ya lor


, oh ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> oh ya I totally forgot about that ya but then <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> colleague <mandarin>真的这样可怜:zhen de zhe yang ke lian</mandarin> meh like they don't have family members that can go and check


, ya, I,


, ah, , ah


, , ya, ya at the like okay lah I think on the owner side <mandarin>因为他也是需要钱:yin wei ta ye shi xu yao qian</mandarin> so you know to them is like like as much as it's quite heartless lah but


you if you put yourself in the opposition you probably will say must pay also ya , ya,


ya, ya no and then also make sense to me is that why the owner say no because


true lah like ya <mandarin>你没有用什么:ni mei you yong shen me</mandarin> lights like all the other facilities you never use ya but then okay lah it's also hard on her mah maybe it's like who knows how <mandarin>他也是:ta ye shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>很缺钱:hen que qian</mandarin> you know


like her only income maybe through rental all that so, like ya lor Bo Pian lor is really survival of the fittest now lor, , ya


, ya, ya, it's very difficult lah ya


, ya hopefully lor now I think now the worst thing about COVID is that, we got no idea where it's from then everyday in the news you hear different sources saying like it's from different course but then when they check then they say it's not


so it's like very uncertain lah like if you can't even find a course right then how how would you ever be gone


ya , ya, what to do, okay !wah! it has been almost, half an hour we still got, another thirty minutes to go


okay so , !wah! this COVID, COVID COVID topic can talk a lot about it hor, ya


, ya ya lor or as what that say you also what like, err because of err what is this COVID then a lot of things stop then imagine <mandarin>你是做:ni shi zuo</mandarin> construction <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then like like <mandarin>你做一半:ni zuo yi ban</mandarin> then your metal all rusty


then after that they allow you to go back to work then, if you have to restart everything all over again, ,


, ya, , ya cause the supply go down but the demand go up ya


ya


ya, okay lah but I think I think at least now better because <mandarin>他们已经:ta men yi jing</mandarin> start to clear most of the foreign workers so ya lor at least they can come out and work and I think, it's also quite poor thing on them because they stuck for so long right


then they must be very sad lor, ya like like you like like what you say that time that there was a lot of like suicide case right <mandarin>因为他们很寂寞很:yin wei ta men hen ji mo hen</mandarin> stress whatever, ya


, ya, ya and I think cause <mandarin>他们也不可以做工:ta men ye bu ke yi zuo gong</mandarin> then I mean it is a reason they come to singapore to work to get a better standard of living but yet because of this situation they're stuck they got no income then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> maybe <mandarin>他们要:ta men yao</mandarin> send money <mandarin>回去给他们家人:hui qu gei ta men jia ren</mandarin> but because they cannot work now so ya lor


ya, , ya lor but I think I think what is nice to see is that hor most of them they also still very appreciative like as in for as a singaporean I feel bad because I think


in the when COVID first started right I feel the foreigners are the ones that are overlooked, like you know <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren</mandarin> like forget that their their existence lah and then they forget that they also a potential, like human beings that will Kena the virus so ya lor at start like


you know like not much attention was paid towards them then suddenly one Kena then everyone in the in within the same housing or within the same, what's that thing called <mandarin>宿舍:su she</mandarin> ya they all also Kena then that's when suddenly all all of them Kena have to send to testing ya so I think like this is like in a way it's like singapore's fault like we never really go and take care of them


ya but then like I see they very appreciative lor like they go and thank like you know like !wah! thank you singapore for doing all these that I ya lah like they very appreciative so I think that's like good lor like they still very positive lah you know


ya, ya but ya lor but because of <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> situation I think like <mandarin>很多人比较:hen duo ren bi jiao</mandarin> aware of like you know how they are being treated, like I don't know like <mandarin>你有看到吗:ni you kan dao ma</mandarin> but that time at the start when they were still quarantine then got people come out and say that


I think cause they are swab testers or something like that at the dormitory so <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>发现到:fa xian dao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>他们的:ta men de</mandarin> living condition <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Jialat, ya like they see !huh! they don't even have mattress their food they eat is like rice with curry you know like don't even have any staple of like carbohydrates or whatever eh not carbohydrates like protein ya so I think that's when like <mandarin>有人:you ren</mandarin> like <mandarin>出来讲:chu lai jiang</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> post on social media <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> !wah! err like <mandarin>很过分:hen guo fen</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>他们帮我们做工:ta men bang wo men zuo gong</mandarin> help us build building you know they work so hard for us but then yet that the reality is that they are treated this way you know like without them hor <mandarin>我们不会有:wo men bu hui you</mandarin> like we don't even have a house to stay lah honestly because they are the ones behind it you what ya then


ya then that's why people say like you know we should do something about it, ya <mandarin>是有:shi you</mandarin> lor as in I think that's why I feel like at the end of the day no matter how bad COVID was right I think it still shine a light in our life some way or other like like <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> like this foreign foreign worker situation like because of COVID people like <mandarin>发现到他们:fa xian dao ta men</mandarin> you know <mandarin>他们可怜:ta men ke lian</mandarin> err like


but once like <mandarin>有人出来讲:you ren chu lai jiang</mandarin> right then that's where you feel like !wah! that then I can you know contribute <mandarin>我可以帮忙:wo ke yi bang mang</mandarin> ya,


!huh! as in like, no lah that, ya


ya, ya but I also like what you say lor I think <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> is all precautions you know because at the end of the day <mandarin>你要快点:ni yao kuai dian</mandarin> clear <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> cluster once you clear this cluster then at least they're free to do what they want lah ya but as of now is <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just <mandarin>要忍:yao ren</mandarin> lor like it's a bit more <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> lah


ah, , , ya


ya but okay lah one thing I think <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> like, good about like foreign workers is that, I think they all got very simple mindset, so I mean like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> compare a foreign worker compared to <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> like singaporean, if you will ever put in this situation I think hor everyone confirm complain


and <mandarin>一定讲:yi ding jiang</mandarin> like !huh! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> unfair like I got human rights what <mandarin>为什么不可以出去:wei shen me bu ke yi chu qu</mandarin> you know like confirm one lah I mean even that time you know when they announced the circuit breaker everyone was so unhappy about it but they never see the bigger picture that all this is done like <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like got like got reason lor that government is trying to help mah to reduce this situation


ya ya so I think at least foreign workers or like good for, them good for us also is that it's easy because they are quite simple minded they quite agreeable like <mandarin>你叫他们:ni jiao ta men</mandarin> okay <mandarin>你没有办法你十四天不可以出们:ni mei you ban fa ni shi si tian bu ke yi chu men</mandarin> I think they will be more cooperative lah compared to if you tell them to a singaporean


ya, ya lor <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, ya, so !wow! it has been forty three minutes, err we have to hit, one hour lor


ya, err I mean <mandarin>你算回:ni suan hui</mandarin> lor I think I guess we start at about, four, ya, okay so


what other things ya lah that's why <mandarin>我讲你可以算回:wo jiang ni ke yi suan hui</mandarin> mah <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> minus <mandarin>掉:diao</mandarin> you already can roughly see when we started, ya, okay so err we talk about, COVID we talk about animals, what else can we talk about


why not we start with, favourite food either favourite food


(uh huh), okay lah let's start with something if let's say the rest of your life you can only choose like <mandarin>一样:yi yang</mandarin> food, what food will you choose


no lah <mandarin>你没有去想那种:ni mei you qu xiang na zhong</mandarin> health part lah just saying in terms of like <mandarin>你真的:ni zhen de</mandarin> Bo Pian <mandarin>你没有选择:ni mei you xuan ze</mandarin> like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> stay home notice then <mandarin>你只可以选一样食物:ni zhi ke yi xuan yi yang shi wu</mandarin> then which one will you choose


!huh! <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just <mandarin>吃白饭:chi bai fan</mandarin> for the rest of your life, no, ya as a <mandarin>没有讲:mei you jiang</mandarin> nutrient but then <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> like <mandarin>你喜欢什么:ni xi huan shen me</mandarin> lah <mandarin>你要是白饭:ni yao shi bai fan</mandarin> meh <mandarin>你没有去想:ni mei you qu xiang</mandarin> like oh maybe <mandarin>白饭:bai fan</mandarin> with like <mandarin>鸡蛋:ji dan</mandarin> or you know


but you can think out of the box mah <mandarin>如果你问我我讲:ru guo ni wen wo wo jiang</mandarin> #cai png# lor, ya but actually <mandarin>我不会讲:wo bu hui jiang</mandarin> #cai png# lah <mandarin>我会去讲:wo hui qu jiang</mandarin> I think


steamboat, and steamboat oh <mandarin>没有没有:mei you mei you</mandarin> I will say Mala, okay what Mala you got all different types of ingredients then <mandarin>你也可以选:ni ye ke yi xuan</mandarin> maybe on days <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> Sian Liao then <mandarin>你不要放这样多那种辣椒:ni bu yao fang zhe yang duo na zhong la jiao</mandarin> lah then it's not so spicy


then if you feel like !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian Liao then you add more chili then you can put soup version also, ya lah I mean <mandarin>菜:cai</mandarin> Peng <mandarin>是我:shi wo</mandarin> suggest the mah right, ya ya lah that's why I say <mandarin>菜:cai</mandarin> Peng is one of the potential


choice ya but okay if <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> realistic lah <mandarin>不要讲这种有很多:bu yao jiang zhe zhong you hen duo</mandarin> option <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> I think <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> rest the food that I'll eat for the rest of my life, this is a fish soup, ya


!aiya! <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> if <mandarin>我真的要死:wo zhen de yao si</mandarin> then then if I meant to die then I no choice mah but as in just <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> food on its own lah <mandarin>我会选:wo hui xuan</mandarin> fish soup lor


like no matter how long you eat that right <mandarin>你不会:ni bu hui</mandarin> Sian <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> cause, then I mean that's what I feel lah I don't know <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you</mandarin> try <mandarin>过:guo</mandarin> lah so ya, err <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> lah so weird then one month later we'll come back and talk about this topic again then you tell tell tell tell me how you feel


but it's still fish soup mah


at the end of the day, it's okay lah, okay then <mandarin>我讲我的了:wo jiang wo de le</mandarin> then <mandarin>你你也是要讲:ni ni ye shi yao jiang</mandarin> you choose one, just think lah I mean


it's just a example mah, , oh okay, then we both can try <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> try one month <mandarin>吃鱼圆面我:chi yu yuan mian wo</mandarin> one month <mandarin>吃:chi</mandarin> fish soup


ya I think I can lah honestly <mandarin>我觉得我是可以:wo jue de wo shi ke yi</mandarin> cause I mean <mandarin>我吃东西:wo chi dong xi</mandarin> I feel at the end of the day it's like, I hungry then I eat you know,


, no but I think I think <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> right if you tell me I can eat fish soup for all my three meals but if you tell me I cannot eat other things right like <mandarin>我不可以:wo bu ke yi</mandarin> like <mandarin>喝:he</mandarin> okay <mandarin>不要讲喝:bu yao jiang he</mandarin> lah like I cannot eat snacks !wah! I think like that one cannot


like if you ask me my main meal I have to always include fish soup inside I sure can one but <mandarin>你讲:ni jiang</mandarin> completely hor all the other things in like all the other food <mandarin>我不可以吃:wo bu ke yi chi</mandarin> right


ya no but some people is like <mandarin>你叫他吃一样东西:ni jiao ta chi yi yang dong xi</mandarin> for the rest of their life like they confirm must eat that right and they sure cannot mah but as in <mandarin>我在讲:wo zai jiang</mandarin> like <mandarin>我是可以:wo shi ke yi</mandarin> but not completely eliminate all the other food ya


ya lor, ah, eat one food for the rest of their life, ya


, , ah


, (uh huh), just <mandarin>是一样的东西:shi yi yang de dong xi</mandarin> lor, as in like fried rice <mandarin>而已没有:er yi mei you</mandarin> like <mandarin>另的东西:ling de dong xi</mandarin> oh but <mandarin>他还有吃别的东西:ta hai you chi bie de dong xi</mandarin> lah right as in it's not like <mandarin>他只是吃:ta zhi shi chi</mandarin> fried rice fried rice fried rice all the way


oh,


, <mandarin>吃我的:chi wo de</mandarin> fried rice


, ya I mean <mandarin>你不要这样讲你我以前也是这样:ni bu yao zhe yang jiang ni wo yi qian ye shi zhe yang</mandarin> mah remember when I was in primary one, almost half of my half of my semester school life