ya lah ya lah I think we, talk to the, current kindergarten first, and then we, can go and visit the child care, err talk to the principal for the new child care then


after that <mandarin>我们才打算怎么办:wo men cai da suan zen me ban</mandarin> I mean, as of now, we don't have all the figures on hand so, we should talk to all the talk to the, different child care and see what's the price like then we decide


oh ah, [orh] ya ya ya ya


think she did you know, I think <mandarin>十四天:shi si tian</mandarin> if I'm not wrong, !wah! the that time when I went to, my brother house I actually saw her so she was telling me


, the stay ya both the stay and the the swab test


in singapore, after that, if she choose to go back for uh home I think they call it home leh, to <mandarin>还那个:hai na ge</mandarin> swab test


yes, ya if she decided to go back home leh but for this time round I think the company Bao Ka Liao


ya ya I mean as of now, I I I never read into it eh I, think so I think malaysia should have some system that they have to, but <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> malaysia <mandarin>没有那么严他们可以在家里自己的家里:mei you na me yan ta men ke yi zai jia li zi ji de jia li</mandarin> quarantine


if I remember correctly, the straits times says that, you have to


take swab test both in and out, I think have, ya


ah ya ya ya I remember that time


you went to the hospital Changi general hospital, I think, ya I remember but then again ah, from what I heard from other people, the swab test some say not very painful eh I think has to do with the skill of the


the swabber, so, some has err better skill I guess


!huh! I I think, during the circuit breaker a lot of people actually, started doing some home business right I saw a lot of home business came coming up, like, Instagram Facebook a lot of new business already started up


but what's the, start a business ah


Instagram, or Facebook, then you just post on Instagram or Facebook you say since it's free so


can lah


(oo) but, illegal but nowadays got a lot of the, the delivery service what


like err uParcel Pickupp Hero, I mean, last time we never actually look at it but, nowadays I I see a lot leh rather than Ninja Van, there's a lot of <mandarin>小小间的:xiao xiao jian de</mandarin> company


own start-up what I think will have new strategy new style, Pickupp Hero, uh it's it's similar to Ninja Van lor so it's like local courier lor so


, they actually, they will come and take up the parcel from your house, be it the cake be it a package or whatever, then then after that they will send it to wherever you want it to be ah


well I <mandarin>应该是不会很贵:ying gai shi bu hui hen gui</mandarin> lah I think maybe few dollars


obviously I think their agent should be running all around lah but, then of course <mandarin>你要还:ni yao hai</mandarin> premium lah obviously I'm guessing like maybe the normal you pay seven eight dollars


then <mandarin>如果你要:ru guo ni yao</mandarin> special one hour or two hours, maybe, what twenty dollars thirty dollars


!hannor!, then you maybe


maybe their their van are built for all these, I also remember that time last time in US there's a T V show what, cake buddy or buddy, cake boss cake boss, right ah ya ya his name is buddy so


they they always deliver the cake then after that the cake topple or what then last minute they have to, try and save it


[orh]


okay okay, ya worst case scenario I deliver for you


I think I I mean I haven't try it before I think it should be a normal cheesecake that's burnt outside right I mean correct me if I'm wrong I haven't try it before


but so so burnt cheesecake is normal cheesecake right just burnt on the outside am I right, oh I thought I thought <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> baked <mandarin>比较久一点然后:bi jiao jiu yi dian ran hou</mandarin> that's why


!wah! then the, the cost profit cost is actually much better lah you save half the time by you, I think they sell even more it's it costs more than the normal cheesecake right, the retail price, so


you save half the time and then you can sell at higher price so, instead you ya much better right


[orh], a friend actually invited her to go, it's very funny lah she she she call me and she told me that, and then I was like !huh!, where is <mandarin>白沙白沙:bai sha bai sha</mandarin> and then I I translate it direct to english it's like white sands so I was I ask ah is it white sands shopping centre


but she say staycation I was like !huh! staycation at white sands shopping centre, then after that she, start to say that err things like her friend actually, is err, has been to the casino quite frequently lah


then I [orh], then <mandarin>一定是金沙:yi ding shi jin sha</mandarin> not <mandarin>白沙:bai sha</mandarin> so it's marina bay sands, ya, eh


no people dare to go there and stay I think so they actually and then no tourist also


tempt those err casino goers to go back and then stay, anyway, you know right the moment you go into casino the winning rates is always on the casino side so, if I'm the management over at the MBS I also give free room to those casino goers because


ya so you need me this kind of people lah those who don't have luck,


no I think you can you can stay at the hotel but not, go to the casino so in the sense like you can go there staycation but, you don't have to pay the I I can't remember is it one hundred and fifty the hundred fifty into the casino you don't have to pay that if you don't want to go into casino but you just go to the hotel and stay


I assume so so long you, then, err


as as in, after five to allow singaporean to go in for free the casino, [orh] [orh] [orh]


oh ya


wait, actually night time, take roller coaster you see the night the city lights lor, but then again, cover all the attraction right


that's that's the whole point mah because you go one day then you, then you play all the attraction if you go say at five


whether now they actually allow us to use or not


let's say you go MBS if they don't actually allow you to swim , then you cannot use the infinity pool also


then, manhole incident at MBS, what happened


!huh! when go in the bar, [orh] sounds familiar I think, think my friend actually invited me there once but that time I don't know what


couldn't make it


[orh], he, so, and then is he he that's the first time he complained that the leg is is err a bit painful on the heel right


but then he took some, think you took some painkiller and some, anti-inflammation pills, then it it got better lah but till now if he don't take those pills


went to visit a doctor again, then the doctor say something about, muscle not enough, he never build enough muscle, to support his body weight and height


so I assume too much stress on the bones there, so, I don't I I I don't know the full details but I assume that he probably need to go physiotherapy, to completely get it cured


no lah the normal rate normal dosage lah just that, just that the moment he don't eat the painkiller the pain come back


ya it's it's not gout the doctor actually tested, it is it's just that the painkiller doesn't cure the the root of the problem, so the root of the problem is still there ah, so


the root of the problem which is what the doctor say lah highly likely the muscle is not enough to, carry the weight that's why the stress is on the bone, the heel of the I think I don't know right leg, the heel of his right leg, so


the only way to to recover fully it will be physiotherapy lor, to build up his muscle


maybe <mandarin>如果游泳:ru guo you yong</mandarin> can cut down his overall weight, I don't know lah depend on what stroke one, the free style, it doesn't really exercise the leg so


ya, the only only uh benefit <mandarin>游泳:you yong</mandarin> to his case will be weight loss lor so less stress to the bones


I think he he is still he's not that, , he's still okay he still exercise at times, I think recently because of work too much stress so, he stopped exercising that much lah that's why the the


this problem came about, so, I don't think he, really need to you know really go to walking start walking


I think he he just need to, build up muscle maybe go gym, do some leg press then build up the muscle, then it should be fine lah


ya ya ya


ya ya obviously cannot cannot over reliant on the pills lah, but, I mean hopefully the the the doctor says that something if he actually go for a bit of physiotherapy


like a few sessions the muscles come back to, the before the COVID pre COVID, because because he only stopped exercising when the COVID hits that's when his workload increase mah, so


if he can actually go back to exercising for a bit and build up a bit of muscle, then once the inflammation at the bone there is gone, then have them be back to normal uh


ya, ya and he's he's working from home lah also lah so


ya, ya I I think, the physiotherapy some of it can be done at home so since he's working at working from home, you know


at times he can just, get out from his chair and then <mandarin>做做一些:zuo zuo yi xie</mandarin> physiotherapy lor <mandarin>因为在在:yin wei zai zai</mandarin> office <mandarin>做也会很怪:zuo ye hui hen guai</mandarin> right <mandarin>每个人看着你:mei ge ren kan zhe ni</mandarin> so, since <mandarin>他在家里做:ta zai jia li zuo</mandarin> so <mandarin>他可以:ta ke yi</mandarin> just, go to somewhere and just do some physiotherapy


Judo is the the, always slam people throw people around one lah, ah


ya ya ya Judo lah ya slam people body slam and all that I I know I know


so he's like mutant lah they all have special power ah he is a hacker


oh that's I know lah I also read that read about that before it's err, they call it what neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, so basically they can, for example if you are thinking of something your eyes will look at certain direction if you are trying to recall a memory


if you are trying to recall some memory from things that really happen, but if you are trying to make up


err, make up the the things that you going to say <mandarin>你眼睛就会看另一个:ni yan jing jiu hui kan ling yi ge</mandarin> direction, I I can't remember lah either or direction so, ya I think this is the whole skill is call neuro-linguistic, programming they study about


like microscopic facial expression how things like the FBI also use that that's why they can detect liar and all that, no no but, the very well trained agent ah they can actually fool the lie lie detector


quite interesting, uh


ya he's he's also like the mister bean movie like johnny english, that's one episode that he he actually, he has like microscopic expression so people like he was being interviewed or he was captured to


and then they were trying to interrogate him and then he will has this microscopic, err, facial expression that you know you have to like what you say slow down


ya ya ya <mandarin>我不是在那边讲是:wo bu shi zai na bian jiang shi</mandarin> johnny english <mandarin>刚讲而已:gang jiang er yi</mandarin> eh


ya ya ya ya ya that's the one he make a lot of funny uh expression in when they tried to slow down but a lot a lot of funny expression, ya I think when we were still studying way back


ya lor ya


err it's just like normal police officer what, they whenever they shoot they have to write report


it's the same what


so one person was caught, and then just


ya, ya ya so <mandarin>一个人好过全部一起死:yi ge ren hao guo quan bu yi qi si</mandarin> right so, it's a very tough decision I think to leave someone but, someone has to make a decision is like, if everyone tried and then all will die together


so <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> , tough decision but necessary


<mandarin>主主角帮忙:zhu zhu jue bang mang</mandarin> only the, like like the the hero always in a gun fight you know all the bullet will miss the hero but hit everyone else


but <mandarin>主光环光环:zhu guang huan guang huan</mandarin> like Halo Halo ya so all the bullet will just miss him, ya


wealth disparity too big lah, now it but it sounds like a country that has that ha riot right now, before the COVID


[orh] they are like vigilante lah <mandarin>为民除害:wei min chu hai</mandarin> right, but it's not legal, ya lah when <mandarin>你因因为你为顺利而战:ni yin yin wei ni wei shun li er zhan</mandarin> mah


stand on their side one, but then again those rich people will always stand on government side lah


!huh! then that's not <mandarin>为民除害:wei min chu hai</mandarin> that's, that's a bit twisted already right


[orh] ya ya, what's the what's the, name of the show


oh, dramas


something similar but same same but different lah so, actually this err there's this weird guy I I still don't know why his the the show


so so it's still in a mystery his his identity is err pretty much a history mystery, so what he did is he's a very rich guy, and then he adopted, a few kids


they are born on a specific days with special abilities, so adopted them and then trained them up, in this uh umbrella academy, then after that somehow or rather one of the, kid ah


have this uh a special ability to time jam jump, so he jumped, away from their timeline, and then when everyone grow up, he came back, to the current timeline as a kid so everyone has grown up


everyone is like adults but this this one this kid with uh time jam, ability actually came back, as a kid, then he told them about the apocalypse the last day of earth, so they try and save it lah save the save the world lah


eh and then all of them uh some special ability lah some can fight, some can throw knife very well, some can err can fall can control people mind, in doing certain things some can talk with ghost


ya so all have different ability


!wah!, very slow very boring so I will just fast forward lah I'll I'll pass through the the slow episodes, but overall it's still, if you ask me maybe


six seven star out of ten star, ya


well basically actually he, when he jump over to when he time [orh] his his ability start with err like sort of like his teleport, so he can jump from place to place, but then he think that his ability can time jump so


at a specially point of time he actually, uh jump to another dimension and another timeline, but he couldn't do it well, so he actually leave a lot of years, in another timeline and then he grew old


and then he was working for this special organisation called commission lah it's very funny that, this commission is a, like uh another dimension organisation that is trying to maintain a timeline of everything, so they have this scene about john F kennedy the president of US right being assassinated


so, someone trying to change the timeline of by getting saving, john F kennedy, so that will change the timeline, so this commission has assassin, that will be sent to stop


people from changing the time timeline so to make sure the assassin, kill the president, so he was working working for this uh commission, and then suddenly one day he


at that point of time he when he realised his how to use his powers he was like maybe, sixty years old


to the actual, they that the where where where they the first scene start lah, he he became a kid, because he did do some equation correctly


so he he from sixty years become like maybe ten years old primary school kid like that, err <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> I mean it's it's not very well explained in the show but


the the show


actually <mandarin>是我们放错那个:shi wo men fang cuo na ge</mandarin> decimal point, decimal point <mandarin>应该是:ying gai shi</mandarin> point seven five <mandarin>他们放:ta men fang</mandarin> like seven point five example lah can't remember the exact number so it's just the equation wrong that's why


when, teleport <mandarin>回去的时候会变成十岁:hui qu de shi hou hui bian cheng shi sui</mandarin> uh


ah ya lah ya lah ya lah, but then it is, it's it's a bit, there's uh there's, it's very a lot of mystery going on lah the whole show so you have, it it keep you in suspense that you have to keep watching to know what's next, but sometime the the storyline a bit slow let's say lah


[orh] so it's like the whole airplane actually time time jumped to another, maybe five years later like that ah


[orh] you mean <mandarin>那:na</mandarin> season <mandarin>还没有:hai mei you</mandarin> end [lah], okay, I I think <mandarin>我们很累了我们去睡觉好:wo men hen lei le wo men qu shui jiao hao</mandarin> [mah], bye bye


eh you know the, means tomorrow leh you need to go and find miss Poi eh but you are working afternoon shift right


like that ah, like that I will go alone lor, ya lah because tomorrow you work afternoon shift mah then like that I will go like roughly around,


no lah depends lah depends <mandarin>是看他们是:shi kan ta men shi</mandarin> lunch <mandarin>还是什么:hai shi shen me</mandarin> because now COVID not everyone can go in leh


ya lah so, if you want to go probably is around, eleven thirty, ya lah still <mandarin>早上:zao shang</mandarin> lah before their lunch lah, try to go before their lunch ah I think, but we need to know how's their withdrawal like


then we can think about the child care, then if not the child care haven't, we still need to go and sign up for the membership, then roughly take around how long, do you know


(mmhmm), , the thing is, the child care is around seven AM to seven PM


school fee a bit higher, I think, compared to <mandarin>现在这个学校:xian zai zhe ge xue xiao</mandarin> school fee is roughly almost the same lah, think


ya but the school is saying if you, , join their membership


for the for the club then the school fee will be cheaper, as compared to like after subsidy price all that,


how is it like lah so it's like, if cannot, then like that the child care have to wait lor, ya lor ya lor


then no choice lah tomorrow we have to see lah, one step at a time lah


(mmhmm)


okay lor okay lor then tomorrow then we decide lah, oh ya ah, I heard your cousin is coming to is she in singapore already she's from malaysia right


ya, did she serve a quarantine ah, ha so it's like self paid or company one


!huh!, must ownself pay one ah, home leave meaning they have to take her leave off and then, that means she have to take her own leave lah and then go back malaysia lah


[orh] like that like Bo Hua like that leh, then she still need to quarantine in malaysia or not, !huh!


!huh! <mandarin>这样的:zhe yang de</mandarin> ah


!huh!, serious, !wah! <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> swab test is not an easy thing you know because I did once like err few months ago you remember or not


!wah! <mandarin>很痛:hen tong</mandarin> leh, it's like they poke through the nose after that I thought it's done already right, the tongue ah not the tongue sorry the then he asked me to open the mouth


then it's like, put a very long cotton bud, and then it's kinda like swap my upper throat upper mouth


then <mandarin>很像还没有好:hen xiang hai mei you hao</mandarin> eh I think he take like a few times, ya of course <mandarin>他蛮有经验的:ta man you jing yan de</mandarin> lah quite experienced lah I tell you, that doctor maybe he did a lot of swab test but that time I went in not for COVID lah I went in for I think some rashes I don't know you remember or not


ya ya ya


ya but I I know but the doctor itself he he's very skillful already I know he tried to do as fast as possible lah, but then it's still very very uncomfortable, it's like I teared you know I really literally uh I tell you


I actually <mandarin>流眼泪:liu yan lei</mandarin> eh, not because it's painful but okay it's a bit painful lah but, it's like it it trigger like my tears to come up, really like like


the throat part still okay not that bad lah, but the nose part, I think maybe one of the, one of the one of one I don't know which part leh


it's just, once he poked in and then I think it went quite deep, so it's like I feel the pain but it came he he tried to do as fast as possible lor, I can see lah he did apologise to me a few times and tell me like uh it's gonna be very fast so you you tahan a bit lah he say


, but eh, a very bad experience ah, so, better take care of our body lah, during this period especially that time CB ah, the circuit breaker that time


(ugh) was thinking of, doing a home business, that time I was thinking lah now that phase two already what do you think should I start a home based business


if I'm not wrong it's not <mandarin>随便随便:sui bian sui bian</mandarin> lah, it's err of course better to have the food food handling certificate, but if don't have, can but can only do small scale, and then hor


err the news state says or I read from the news it says err, cannot advertise through paid advertise, but you can do through those free advertisement


such as like those uh Carousell those that you don't pay them one, and then


, ya lah like that I think can lah but of course also cannot, err, be a disturbance like to disturb your neighbour right, then your neighbour can go and complain lor lodge a complain like if let's say a lot of people come in come out come in come out they scared as illegal business right then they will go and like


maybe call police and then come and find out why is it then it's not not easy lah not easy to do home business but have to do it, in a way that don't disturb your neighbour lor, ya and then another thing is


have to think of how to deliver out leh


but the but pick up just now you say pick up something


then <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> advance <mandarin>跟他们讲吗还是:gen ta men jiang ma hai shi</mandarin> or like err can let them know like two hours in advance because sometimes ah


let's say if I need a courier or delivery man urgently can they commit or not


oh, but still, K lah still thinking of how to deliver the cakes all that because cakes ah <mandarin>你懂蛋糕:ni dong dan gao</mandarin> ah it's not a very, easy to deliver things because firstly


then secondly, , the person who drive the car cannot like any anyhow drive you know they must be like <mandarin>开车要慢一点:kai che yao man yi dian</mandarin> then the, you know the car at the back of the car


cannot be too hot, so there's a, err a friend of mine, [orh] uh no our cousin err no no our brother-in-law told me, that you cannot use his van


then the cakes will melt, then he say before reach the customer the cakes melt already, so it's because it's very close to the engine, so don't have the chair then, no choice it will be very close to the engine then will be very hard lor


unless ah he go and modify and put some air conditioners ah or what then make it like a chiller like that, then like that, can deliver lah but then it's very expensive eh <mandarin>太贵:tai gui</mandarin> also cannot cannot delivery lah


ya, oh ya ya ya, yes yes yes his name is buddy


eh his cake is very nice, err he's not using those fresh cream one eh you know not ah he use those, fondant, then <mandarin>他那个:ta na ge</mandarin> cake ah <mandarin>不会很快融的真的跟你讲:bu hui hen kuai rong de zhen de gen ni jiang</mandarin> it's it's really very


can <mandarin>很耐:hen nai</mandarin> ah, can can, can , so, that one is easier you can like repair and then it's fondant right


ya ya lor, but of course, I only have one oven so one day only can make how many


ya lor ya I think we can try to deliver it ourselves first lah like the uh nowadays very famous that, burnt cheesecake, ya I think a lot of people like it hor


inside, they try to make it very creamy like <mandarin>软软这样所以:ruan ruan zhe yang suo yi</mandarin> that it's like, then inside must be very soft creamy actually ah <mandarin>它是:ta shi</mandarin> underbaked


it's not well done, but, still can eat lah even though got raw egg of course try not to give children but there are companies I saw they have different type of burnt cheesecake, like some is a bit runny one like underbaked


so it depends on what the customer wants lor


ya ya and then the time is reduced by almost half leh <mandarin>一半:yi ban</mandarin> leh, ah then


it's very high temperature very short time, and then the normal cheesecake ah, , lower by I think, sixty degree eh the normal temperature is one hundred and sixty degree


around there lah


why not hor, ya ya ya I think I should consider maybe we can try lah, let's try baking the burnt cheesecake first lor, ya lor ya lor, and then oh ya just now this afternoon or yesterday you told me your mum say she want to go where


oh what's the, Resorts World name ah, I forgot already, ya I totally forgot err, I know lah ya the white sand is err


and then the, yes yes, but the staycation, I thought should be quite expensive right <mandarin>不贵:bu gui</mandarin> meh


(mmhmm),


ya lah but then singaporean hor, haven't win ah <mandarin>你要白白给一百五十块了:ni yao bai bai gei yi bai wu shi kuai le</mandarin> leh last time is <mandarin>一百块:yi bai kuai</mandarin> right, now it's <mandarin>一百五十:yi bai wu shi</mandarin> leh, like just go in ah <mandarin>你要给一百五十块:ni yao gei yi bai wu shi kuai</mandarin> Liao leh


it's lose already what, I mean like you want to win the one hundred and fifty dollars, like <mandarin>要玩多久:yao wan duo jiu</mandarin> , I was like playing the the jackpot ah


like one cent one cent one cent ah, I use how long you know, almost one hour eh I cannot even lose that ten dollar eh <mandarin>十块钱:shi kuai qian</mandarin> also cannot lose eh, I remember you help me lah, like five minute you help me lose already


also also not bad lah I tell you because, like that at least I can no need to sit there mah I mean like ya lah it's free money I can just, but you see it's still money lah


but still singapore singaporean go in one hundred and fifty dollars, okay lah if unless is free and then you go with your friends then, you just go for free lor then, just <mandarin>住一天住一晚也:zhu yi tian zhu yi wan ye</mandarin> okay lor


oh does it work for Resorts World also ah, also like that ah, but like that also very boring leh, it's like <mandarin>没有东西做这样:mei you dong xi zuo zhe yang</mandarin> okay lah unless it's like Resorts World <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> ah


recently I saw that, from the social media posts that that facebook, that there's a discount for singaporean


and then to go into resort Resorts World that Universal Studios, but I think it's after five PM that means ah <mandarin>晚上:wan shang</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>晚上:wan shang</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>早上很像:zao shang hen xiang</mandarin> not valid leh


no lah I mean the Universal Studios not free leh, but anyway <mandarin>你白天去:ni bai tian qu</mandarin> Universal Studios


halfway through ah, I really cannot take it already, it's so hot, it's like, cannot enjoy lor cannot enjoy anything, the the the most, chilling part or the cooling part


is the fastest roller coaster, because that's the cooling part only, so I think the five PM if let's say five PM go in, it's a bit weird lah because it's going to night time already night time go and enjoy the roller coaster <mandarin>有一点怪:you yi dian guai</mandarin> lah


still not bad lah but we can bring our boy there lah, for a while


that's true and, Resorts World have more things to do lah compared to MBS but your boy say that he wants to go to the swimming pool


he saw it from the, Facebook picture, then he was like saying I want to go then I was like asking him, you sure, then he say I want


I was like okay but now very expensive maybe not then but the Resorts World at least got theme park, and then they have aquarium right <mandarin>至少可以走走看看:zhi shao ke yi zou zou kan kan</mandarin> mah


then that's why I think maybe we can consider Resorts World, compared to MBS, but, we don't gamble lah so I think, we don't really enjoy much


!huh! oh no, then like that MBS, then like that shopping only lor, !huh!


but quite dangerous you know because recently I saw the news saying that, a guy have a accident, the manhole thing, ya ya ya yes


because like <mandarin>有一个洞:you yi ge dong</mandarin> and then he was like walking walking then, then he's guarding, asking people not to, restraining people <mandarin>讲不可以走那边不可以走:jiang bu ke yi zou na bian bu ke yi zou</mandarin> lah, then, in the end <mandarin>他不小心踩那个洞:ta bu xiao xin cai na ge dong</mandarin> then he just fell into the hole


he's very young you know, but of course, we don't know what happen ah still, quite dangerous lah over there, so better don't go to the car lor I think, ya is what one altitude


okay


like that, maybe we consider Resorts World lah because <mandarin>小孩子比较多东西玩:xiao hai zi bi jiao duo dong xi wan</mandarin> mah, ya lor


!huh! like that he needs to eat a lot of painkiller


like that it's not normal leh, it's something right I mean it's not gout, it is not gout is it gout


which area


I think maybe <mandarin>游泳:you yong</mandarin> leh can <mandarin>游泳:you yong</mandarin> helps or not


ya lah but then like err <mandarin>你讲你要:ni jiang ni yao</mandarin> lose weight, maybe, but jogging is like


you need I remember that some people say that you can have quite a big, impact on your knee and your leg, or your feet


then <mandarin>医生讲的:yi sheng jiang de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>医生:yi sheng</mandarin> say like, just try to walk fast, and then brisk walking lah, then after that then try to pace up and then slowly slow jog


then if not the leg cannot recover or the leg will injured even more <mandarin>这样子会更惨:zhe yang zi hui geng can</mandarin> leh


but it's quite hard for him now because, he's driving right, he's driving so his right heel, then he need to press on the, accelerator then his heel like that he will be always feeling painful <mandarin>很痛的你知道:hen tong de ni zhi dao</mandarin> mah it's


it's like, that means the pain okay lah but he he's taking painkiller so <mandarin>应该还好:ying gai hai hao</mandarin> lah, just that, no choice lah have to always depend on the painkiller but, it's still not very good for your health lah in long run


ya, ya ya ya hopefully lor ask him not to carry his daughter too much lah but anyway his daughter is now in what student care right, his daughter in student care can, ya lah he can have more of his me time at home then he can take a rest and go to gym lor


ya, ya lor try not to have too much impact on the leg lah if not <mandarin>这样子很难好的:zhe yang zi hen nan hao de</mandarin> leh


ya eh I recently saw the, err there's a lot of video Facebook and then they


they send me and my friends lah, or they share lah, it's like five minutes japanese style, of uh building muscle just five minutes only everyday, it's very quick and easy, so maybe I can send him those video that he can do at home lah


like <mandarin>只是五分钟而已:zhi shi wu fen zhong er yi</mandarin> just five minutes chop chop done already, and it says that can build core muscle, so I think not bad lah can try, then <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> try lor


like, err japanese <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> drama, I think it's Judo they uses Judo and Aikido these two style


and it's very soft impact but the way that that they fight, and it's not those like very chinese martial art you know <mandarin>那种中国功夫:na zhong zhong guo gong fu</mandarin> ah


it's very soft landing, weird right, ya but it's very soft landing eh it's not like those like just push you down it's like over the shoulder that kind


it uses a lot, ya but this show is very very nice it's about the security of, in japan than they form this team call


like a special special force I think and then, all these people I think they gather how many people ah one two three four five, five people, total four men and one woman


but they have their own special ability, a bit like, some, they are very focused on what they like to do like one can even sniff explosive materials or ingredients


chemical or ingredient in that bomb is already, err one is a hacker


a very young lady she's a hacker very good in hacking like those uh, system like be like very high security government system, then one is a, very good in interrogation


he talk very little he will ask you like one question <mandarin>他看你的眼神:ta kan ni de yan shen</mandarin> then he will know like what you going to talk, or you are you answering him


so if <mandarin>你讲真话你没有讲话:ni jiang zhen hua ni mei you jiang hua</mandarin> or you just simply like, err look at him but he can see are you answering him truthfully or not, he's someone that is very very smart


I thought they use lie detector


oh, I think I've seen it in one of the hong kong drama before he is like a, but that one very <mandarin>夸张:kua zhang</mandarin> lah he he like, super microscopic facial expression, and then ah <mandarin>他很好笑:ta hen hao xiao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>他去他讲那个人在讲骗话:ta qu ta jiang na ge ren zai jiang pian hua</mandarin> and then he knows that he's lying and then he want to prove to people that he's lying right <mandarin>他有:ta you</mandarin> because they they will take video at the back one


then I tell you very funny then he tell all the people, around him that he's lying and then or when he's telling the truth or what or you saying something differently


and then, they were like oh I think you're right he twitch a bit of his eyelid, so it's a bit, funny lah I think


oh I think <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> show <mandarin>不是叫:bu shi jiao</mandarin> mister bean lah I think <mandarin>是叫那个:shi jiao na ge</mandarin> johnny english reborn <mandarin>那个是:na ge shi</mandarin> mah


facial expression <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> I think like, they say, like how many, expression in like one second right per millisecond or per second


but that that movie was quite long ago already eh, right


is it, ya but eh back back to the japanese drama that's like, also not, recently not recent drama <mandarin>蛮久:man jiu</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>很像是:hen xiang shi</mandarin> two zero one seven that drama, but it's very very uh


they form this to fight against terrorism, then again, they realised that, is everywhere and anyone can be a terrorist, and


they have to be, doing it secretly, err will be scared or they will be fear of for their safety and then there will be like


, people will maybe be angry, or maybe they will just, fear lah fear for their safety lor, so they have to do all the things like secretly even they, I don't know is it is it their cultural or what


they cannot even like shoot in the public, and let's say if they have to shoot someone, they have to like answer every single bullet leh <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> imagine mah <mandarin>每一个:mei yi ge</mandarin> bullet <mandarin>他必须要跟他们讲我今天有开到:ta bi xu yao gen ta men jiang wo jin tian you kai dao</mandarin> mah


ya but it's like, even they want to capture anybody right


like public <mandarin>走过:zou guo</mandarin> they have to pretend, and then stay still first, then <mandarin>让那个人走:rang na ge ren zou</mandarin> Liao right then <mandarin>他们才来再继续:ta men cai lai zai ji xu</mandarin> fight


ya but there's one scene very sad lah is like, he's being err charged with, I think treason ah


so this this one of the member right I told you right he's he's very good in, defusing bomb and then smelling of like know what chemical is that, he doesn't have enough time I think they gave like probably one hour forty five minutes


but, there were so many cables you know like probably, hundreds of cable he need to like track every single one of them


, one person was caught by a bad guy right and bad guy put, err, bomb on his body, and then the police try to try to save him but not enough time


so, he they felt quite sad lah that they cannot save this man


but at the same time, they know that if they want to save him, they don't have enough time, and then they might because like danger to the public, and then, no choice they have to


evacuate like, don't know how many, metres or radius of that because they they put him in a house, inside his house lah that that victim house, so, beside that house there's a lot of people living around it


then they have to leave him there, so in the end they really cannot and then they just leave him there


then he just, die over there lor


yes yes and then the other two member, I told you right one is a very good uh hacker and then one is the, the one that you say NL NL NLP


that person, that man and then there's the other two, err they're good fighter very very good fighter, and then they, like anytime that they need people to, Chiong first right that like go


and fight first these two will be the one, so the whole team dynamic ah it's very special one I tell you, but, every time they managed to like, err solve the case those like the other police err department try to solve it right


they will always be the one the first one to solve it


<mandarin>不是光芒:bu shi guang mang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>主角关关怀:zhu jue guan guan huai</mandarin> , yes yes yes, but then ya lah still I ya lah I saw that in in that show because every time they were in a gunfight ah this police officer confirm will be safe one


but then again it's very err very sad stories lah in many, many many err they have different stories and why this like terrorism act happened, many of them have their own agenda like, err one of them


it's around <mandarin>十七十八岁:shi qi shi ba sui</mandarin> maybe, that kind, and then they form this army they call themselves army because they try to recruit a lot of people


and then, so they really admire the or they really studied the french revolution, uh government <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> website


live like, so rich they can, have like abundance of money then no need to think of, like need to work or what, and then some have scandal <mandarin>很像那种不可以不可以给人家知道的:hen xiang na zhong bu ke yi bu ke yi gei ren jia zhi dao de</mandarin> lah


so, they want to turn over it overturn this kind of government lor, ya, like


ya and it's like ya lah they want to fight for the inequality and then, but ya lah like you say the wealth disparity but then again the all these children was being caught same lah by the team before they try to kill another politician because they


killed in the show they actually killed murdered a politician, but of course it's not, err anyhow target lah they targeted those, uh suspected corrupted, politicians, then


after that, you know what, people think that its solved right, in the end online right the show online right shows that more people is going to support this army


yes and it's like it's like their group ah is growing bigger and bigger, so so so


ya you know before they were being caught they actually did not try to, like err kill the politicians you know what they did or not


they want to kill the politician, children, ya that's the thing that's why that team that I was talking about, they they tried actually to really do their best like did their best to find out


from one of the guy they caught, and then the hacker try to hack


name is called crisis ah,


what's that


but then very weird what I mean like that guy, he jump what time jump ah, and then doesn't he feel awkward meh like he he's the, child like he's still a child when everybody grows up already


then you can choose, to, jump back, to that time right , like, like let's say he jump, to the future then he can jump back to the past it's still everybody still, like


probably children age why he jump, to adult age


so you are saying he need to calculate lah


then did they talk


like basically <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like err


same like the manifest lah, you know the the the one that says that plane then it crash, airplane


then disappeared like <mandarin>不见:bu jian</mandarin> Liao right, all these people in that on on this airplane thought it's turbulence, and then, it's like super bad turbulence lah that kind


so they thought they are going to crash then in the end they didn't so it's like just a switch off right, from black out and then to have lights again, then, when they landed, there were there were a lot of police, like were so shocked and then a lot of policemen a lot of police car came to fetch them oh no stopped the whole airplane


and then, they were being told that, they will they were like disappeared for, five years, I think it's five years ah, then after that, they couldn't believe it and then, there's even one like one character


when he disappeared like so call disappeared, probably around <mandarin>九岁:jiu sui</mandarin> ah, then <mandarin>他有一个:ta you yi ge</mandarin> twin sister, then <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> twin sister is like almost that age


then <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> twin sister grow up like five years then grow up to be like secondary school already, then he still nine years old, so, he they couldn't believe that lah because, twin mah one is like, how can it be twin one fifteen years old one nine years old that kind


so after that a lot of mystery like they try to solve like where have where where they disappear to or what conspiracy


I don't know leh now they still don't know because there's some people getting killed, then some people die or some people suicide like committed suicide


but it's just that they are still waiting for their their death, so now the main character all the characters are trying to solve it lah


ya, so far we will we'll wait [lor], (mm) okay bye bye


err, err I'm in my, err, late seventy, yeah, so err when I was young


you know, I I stay in #toa payoh#, #toa payoh# actually err


a lot of utility were not available like electricity, , freshwater, was not supply wasn't there, so err (ppc) actually government


you know err builts err made some taps ah, like a, about, five hundred meter away from our home, so we will go there and carry with bring container to go and carry waters


and then those container actually we are using those ah (ppc), oil, err tin you those know last time they, like peanut oil or you know cooking oil lah they they, they contained in a


tank form ah, so is a tin then about, four to five gallons, so we use those ah recycle open the cover and then, make a handle tie a rope and then


you know with a rope we went and, carrying water, home, so (ppc) everyday we have to at least go and err draw, three times of water lah because at home we don't have much storage thing, to keep water


yeah ah morning wise, sometime afternoon sometime evening err once


yeah carry for the whole family use ah ah ah and and one, need the most because ah all my sister went to work my brother went to work also, I I alone at home after school I will go and help carry water


(ppc), ah we use those water for cooking for, washing, free <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> (ppc)


when then ah, our home, we don't have electricity, a private operated, company ah, err, they using a generator, to generate electricity and then they they run wire to our home


so every month we have to pay about few dollars, for electricity, charges (ppc), but actually the electricity is not full day lah, you know <mandarin>晚上才有:wan shang cai you</mandarin> they they will start at


seven o'clock and err, and then err, finish at, one AM, electricity mainly is for the light yeah (ppc)


you know for the bulbs err to shine so at home we only have two bulbs yeah, yeah correct


that time we are staying at in the Attap houses ah, ah Attap houses


and then err err our family actually we we our family are not, , doing well because my father is a, taxi driver, and then err my mother is a, homemaker lah err


[orh], that time was in nineteen fifty


one, is long ago already have taxi driver, taxi driver very cheap starting fare only, err twenty cent


so and every, they don't count kilometer lah ha they go by, mile lor, per mile they will add like, five cent ten cent like that, that time money value is, very high because money is small but value very high


we don't use to like today dollar, and you know ten dollar we use cents you know half cents one cent, ten cents, , so two cent can buy a breakfast you know


a bowl of, Laksa curry Laksa


we we don't really err buy drink outside lah that time, you know because we have limited money we don't really simply spend, at home lah my my mother would make coffee lah last time


then err, just coffee black lah, and with sugars, and then we just buy some food, from outside, no no no is from coffee seed and they ground it and then


then we put, into a bag you know a cotton bag and then, she will add, yeah on our own we pour coffee powder into the


cotton bag and then pour water, and then, will drink now and then become black coffee ah, yeah that time we didn't even have a chance


we seldom, drink milo or, last time we have ovaltine also lah that kind of thing, seldomly this kind of thing lah only coffee black


uh, when I was a, nine years old


you know, you call it #ang ku kueh# ah


and then uh also sometimes we eat, Laksa curry we call it curry Mee, or #kway teow#


no that time their their curry is, not bad watery one not like today our curry so thick lah, and then uh, and not so, spicy also


so ah in our, young age ah, our lives are very simple lah you know, I I, my parents have err, ten children


so err I am the sixth child, err in our family we have five, boys and five girls


sister


so that time my father is err working as a taxi driver, he didn't earn much, and err we are not, our we are quite, ah you know


and then I I did not all my siblings did not have a chance to go to school, except me and my younger brother, so


my my father have two sister, elder sister, my fathers elder sister is my aunt ah, she don't have any child, so, she adopted me when I was


five years old


that time we cannot afford lah


ah our family Ng lah so, my parents gave all the name ah , all all the all the goods names you know


sounds nice lah my elder brothers, means bright, got money <mandarin>才:cai </mandarin> bright, and then I I'm the


third boy ah, third guy ah in in our house, my name is <P2>wang cai li</P2> and then I have err, and then below me there's one of the child male was given away


but I didn't know what is his name, until today


actually my my my parent that time couldn't afford to raise up my brother the one, after me ah and then was given away and then I didn't even know what is his name until today


I never met him, I, and then I was given to my aunt to adopt when I was five years old lah


err, at that time the singapore still not so well developed ah, is like a third world country


and so ah my aunt stay in the Serangoon, area, so she will stay in her rented house our Attap houses is also a rented house


Serangoon road is somewhere near err, that time we call it err, the near macpherson lah


before macpherson you know, so uh those uh those houses are all wooden houses ah, zinc roof, so my aunt was rented there a house, (ppc), and then my aunt


found that discovered that I need to go to english school so she find a way and, and and then err registered me into, primary school, in thomson road


I know we all chinese ah when we go to english school our first language is english ah, and then err the second language is mandarin ah chinese, that time we don't call mandarin we call it chinese


so right my, aunt really sent me into this err thomson, primary school, it is quite far away lah I have to take, two, three type of buses to reach there at that time


STC ah singapore texan, company ah is is the kind of, call the government type of bus ah


and then eh is like a tram you know, they have two, pole on top of the bus roof and then they run through the electricity on the street one, ya ya something like that


so so I have to take the first type of bus number four, to, to Balestier, and then after to Balestier we take another bus


call #tay koh yat# company ya, there's a few bus company ah, all run by the, private companies, no only one one type of bus run by the government, and then the highest fares is twenty five cent only


ya a lot of different, that time in nineteen fifty something ah in the nineteen fifties, my (ppc), I took the first type of first bus ah is only


five cent fare, and then the second bus also, five cent fare, and third bus ten cent three bus to reach my school, at thomson road, thomson road my school is just opposite the singapore police


training school, you know somewhere they call it err, mount pleasant there


primary school now shifted to Bishan, then they rename it lah, #kuo chuan#, Bishan


you know Bishan, my aunt our family also my aunt family also very poor


ah she don't have any children she adopted, three, girls, and me one boy


I don't have a chance to go to school


err


you know, err


yeah, even that time hard to cope I also don't know what to do lah, I I just have no idea how how to manage it, I just let him know, I I, follow every


but anyway when I come to this primary school ah, I return back to #toa payoh#, because it's, my #toa payoh#, my own


primary school ah


the freshwater we don't have tap we don't have electricity, so when I move to my parents house after school, I help my


mother do all this err homework, and uh, I'm I'm not good in studying also, actually I didn't go to secondary school until I go to work that time


that is a later I will share with you later the story, PLSE, yeah yeah


primary err, leaving err education ah, err yeah, so I I did not manage to, pass, so I just stop high school from there


no no at that time err actually


schools are, quite limited lah you know there are a lot of people don't chance to go to schools, so when I was drop out of school I just, do not have any other opportunities, continuing studying


one thing I know ah actually I saw my neighbors you know, when I'm staying in #toa payoh# my neighbours ah some those people who study english school ah, they are actually


doing a better job you know, they were secured in a better job, like, clerk clerical job


so they they they earn a better pay lah those who study, chinese school ah I realize that they, didn't manage to earn more than the english school


correct then, in in in english education highly demand at that time


so I was dropped out from school and then I start to do all these odd jobs you know when I was, err working fifteen years old, I drop school at, fourteen, cause I start at nine


err err I start my primary one at nine then I jump to primary three, then from primary three to primary six I drop out of school I was fourteen years old so I stay at home


err actually is not a part time job lah sometimes help helping people, to carry things, you know like provision store help to, ride bicycle to transport, goods you know


groceries


err, after I left school, when I was a, fifteen years old, uh I do some odd job part time and then uh I follow people to go into


construction work, you know, those err, building construction, and then I, I went there and then, do painting job


yeah, ya at that time singapore the the


that


is, that's why a lot of people doesn't know, that err things has change a lot you know, and it's very, very different from today


olden days you don't have a, strictly rules and government didn't really, err look into it properly


at that time singapore was under err, the colonial of err england ah british colony so, ah is


that was after, I was born, during the world war two, yeah you know world war two was the, japanese occupation in singapore, I'm born in nineteen forty three, exactly


the japanese ah you know invaded singapore and then they occupy singapore for, three years, three year eight months lah, so at that time was rule under japanese so our


our parents that time ah we were so poor that I when I was a kid, I don't even have, the chance to drink milk you know, so when I was kid ah how do my parent feed me


it is very expensive during the japanese occupation even condensed milk very expensive is like few few hundred dollars in japanese dollars, we can't afford to buy, so my parents


brought me up with, no money you know, those ah, today we call it what, Ubi, not sweet potato the white type


ah tapioca, so we were using the tapioca and my parents used them to grind into powder and then, mix with hot water and like starch for me to eat, I was survived by that


no no no the <mandarin>薯粉:shu fen </mandarin> actually, , we we boil it ah and then after that ah boil just like potato, and then you go and pound it lor, then become like starch, with hot water then become starch and then you


so actually in my age ah, if I recall it back it is quite sad


err atomic bomb at err Hiroshima, in that place that's why the japanese surrender, so in japanese and err


singapore government become the first person to rule, government minister is david marshall, so that time, don't have #lee kuan yew# yet


ya so that time I still I finished school already after no after the world war two after I, my education primary, school primary six I left school, err fifteen sixteen years old I start to work already


I work part time job I work painter I work you know help people, I work in a carpenter's shop furniture making shop all kind of work I do


actually in all my job that I do ah


I I love most is painting job ah, painting job you know you paint houses paint, windows, it's a construction lah is actually a new building


new building we paint wall then we have err you know opportunity to paint different colours, about, water paint you know they call paint, for walls is yah lah yeah is actually by the contractor


err supervisor, they instruct us ah, you follow their you know, their contract and and also their agreement, what to do what to paint lah ha requirement of the house


no we were paid very low two three dollars per day, when I start working only one dollar per day, you know, that time when I was in a


so, in my sixteen seventeen years old, I I get one dollar plus two dollar the most, but that time the the money value start to grow, much higher, when I was


five six years old, why six years old two three centre can buy food, but when I was a, fifteen sixteen years old ah we need twenty cent thirty cents to buy food already


yeah inflation start to rise ah you know a lot of things


err, Jurong ah


I was still staying #toa payoh# lor, err I'm twenty plus I, found a job, in Jurong, factory, is a actually uh my first job


working in official company ah, is call a leather, manufacturing company, leathers means err actually they using those err


cow skin you know, those, buffalo skin, and then, I dry it heat it up, grind it, and then, make it into


leathers, for for the leathers ah no no leathers are actually for making yeah some clothing warm, a winter wear or shoes


handbags you know, no just produce leather itself the material yeah


so the resources came from the, the cow lah, from I I believe it was from Taiwan lah they imported those, as singapore don't have so much cow the skin skin


ah


you know ah actually they are frozen ah, cause ah they are, just raw know


, so working in a factory of course we are a factory we have all kind of machine lor, first they have to, the the raw skin ah they have to


trim it lah, trim away all those fat ah, and then uh also, you have to remove the hair, then ah you have to go and, dry it up in the [ho]


a heating room you know


heating room lah so heat heat until the skin become dry one sheet like hard


then we have to send to another department to, sandpaper lor, to grind


no that company no more exist, because that when, the company in singapore that time was nineteen, sixty around nineteen sixty, so err, singapore


Jurong industrial estate was started, in err, around nineteen sixty, no no is is in Jurong town


now they have all the roads name, change already lah now it's err #jalan ahmad ibrahim# and all the way to


Tuas, the Jurong town ah, and err Pioneer road Pioneer sector all these ah under, Jurong town, so during the nineteen early nineteen sixty, Jurong town was developed


into a industrial estate, so these are company which I worked in is call, err, is general leather, manufacturing company


err actually I I apply myself that time I don't have education I just, went to the off, the, company and then, approach the people and say I need a job lor


because in singapore that time ah you don't have much opportunity to go to factory to work, you know at least singaporean


like very few, company, that time exist, yeah Jurong is a developer yeah, it is developed into a industrial estate that's why I go to the industrial estate to look for a job lor


so I happen went there and found this company and get a job, from there I started to work in factories, that is my first job lah I work for about, one year plus, and I left


no no err after I, left that company, err I, I went to, find other job in nineteen


sixty five, I found a shipyard job, in Jurong, no that was Jurong shipyard and Jurong shipyard actually was err


Jurong shipyard was a company ah, joint venture, by, IHI, err now is bought under Keppel yeah


formerly is err, own by, singapore government, and IHI, you know what is IHI mean Ishikawa, heavy industries


yeah, yeah it's a different different section yeah different division (mmhmm)


so that time Ishikawa is a very, advanced shipbuilding company in japan, so they build all those lah, heavy tanker, and then they they joint venture with singaporean


company, and then started the Jurong shipyard


all of course have many other, when I was working in the shipyard I start to, realise that ah we have many other shipyard, some run by american just like the oil rig company


so when I work in Jurong shipyard for, certain years ah, two three years ah I start, explore, and find out, which are the bigger company, that I can join


yeah yeah so when I work in Jurong shipyard now my pay was, only, one hour you know how much, forty five cents per hour


when I started working in Jurong shipyard


so <mandarin>我在那边做多一间大公司来的:wo zai na bian zuo duo yi jian da gong si lai de </mandarin> Jurong shipyard


actually Jurong shipyard is a ship repairing company, when I work in there ah, my department is err repairing, ship repairing, Jurong shipyard also build new ship, they call it new con


there are two division one is reparing one is new con, I joined at repairing, so I was trained there, from there I started learn how to do, metal work


yeah, so actually my, second job I love the most is a shipbuilding job, from there ah I learnt a lot of like, mechanical engineering


job you know ah knowledge ah how to, piece metal the part how to assemble how to fix it back, no in Jurong shipyard I work I stay there quite comfortable


err my pay was from forty five cents raised until seventy two cents per hour, yeah then was given uniform to wear and then every morning you know japanese company we have to do exercise before we start work early in the morning we will assemble together


oh actually I do err regular hour, that means err we start at, seven forty five, then finish at four thirty


ah seven forty five when we reach there then will do, morning exercise until eight eight fifteen then we start, ah then they will assign us to, the location to work ah, ah and then err evening normally Jurong shipyard every day have over time


at least two hours lah if you like you can work three or four hours sometime they work overnight also, oh yeah according that time err singapore work, workers err regulation is that when you work after fourty


err after, forty four hours per week ah the rest of the, overtime pay will be one point five, so if that, overtime falls, on sunday, or public holiday ah it will be doubled


yeah, after err this Jurong industrial estate estate was established ah, the workers are you know


pay and all the, terms ah, will be established well, so we we we will paid according to the government's rule lah


correct, so I do a lot of overtime when when I work, in the evening I everytime I work at least two hour extra


seventy two cents per hour , so after working there for, two three years ah, I started, halt, I discovered that there are other company


with with better prospects ah, cause I was thinking that I had to, get married prepared myself to get married you know at that time I really think about I wanted to marry you know, but if I don't have secure good job ah


how do I marry


before <mandarin>你成家你要立业:ni cheng jia ni yao li ye</mandarin> means have a job, err


secure income, so I started to find ah, other opportunity and then I, happen to found, another job in, Sembawang


back then in singapore today is what is a a a town, in israel right that time I didn't know is is the the name of the town


is a ship build is a oil rig, building company, ah so that the I I discovered that ah


oil rig ah is the, most ah ah you know, income high income making company, so I join this company there, I came from Jurong shipyard ah was seventy two cent per hour


when I came to ah, my pay was one dollar and twenty five cents, per hour, that was in nineteen seventy


nineteen sixty plus I was sixty five sixty six, shipyard yeah I left Jurong shipyard I join, Sembawang shipyard


again, (oo) actually I, rode in ah although my, education was just primary school mah


I always practice and, learn how to write letters to company, not very fluent english but at least people can understand ah, I I need to, find a job


well, and my background is a from the ship repairing company, ya at that time we don't have email all this you just have to write, hard copy letter and post they they replied with the letter (mmhmm) I went there for interview


after I received that that, the letter and in it happen that person who interview me is a filipino, guy, in his err mid forty filipino guy, so he says ah


our company is a new company they need a lot of, people, err who are, dilligent, hardworking guy, and then you know honest people


ah I I from the shipyard I learn a lot of skill lah, like welding, how to cut steel steel cutting you know, bending iron, heat up, , sometime metal need to heat up in order to to form it ah


you can hammer, round bar can hammer into flat bar, by heating up the metal, when I join Sembawang shipyard in nineteen seventy


seventy one, I work for five years, , mum already born, I I that time I two


two child nineteen seventy plus, I have a, jeffrey, elder son, and I have janet my second daughter, ah


but we didn't really do family planning also lah, you know so I concentrate on my job


I promote very fast, when I join then initially ah I was just a skilled worker only, then from the skilled worker I started promoted into a charge hand, charge hand is mean just like a a a leader you know


charge hand my pay ah from one dollar, twenty five cent ah, reach one dollar and, fifty five cent, so how long like, about five years


from one for hourly paid ah, one dollar twenty five cents, until I draw on monthly salary of, six hundred and fifty


I left, as a position position of a senior foreman, when I when I join the company I was a worker and then after a few, less than a year I join become a, charge hand


oh actually in that shipyard, initially I just a steel steel worker, and then secondly, I for promoted into the charge hand my job is to


assign people on a job, I'm learning about in between I was sent for training, no entire different


is a more on the management side already because when I, promoted into charge hand ah, I was sent for training, learn how to read blueprint, learn how to draw


ah blueprint drawing you know, is is an american, company, joint venture singapore


you call it actually it is a oil oil rig, building company, they built oil rig you know what is a oil rig


ya actually, oil rig ah is


you oil actually was taken from the deep sea


oil rig ah so they have to build a oil rig different type of oil rig ah some they are called jack up, some is a semi submersible


you know what is called semi submersible, they sink down halfway, and then stationed there, they pump water into the the all the the compartment tank and then the, the whole rig ah


submerge down means sink halfway and then ah then it stabilized then they throw anchor, , four corners ah, those station it, then you can start drilling the in the middle of the


the the platform ah there's a hole, they have special machine, err to drop down the drill into the sea with pipes no actually during my employment the company we have seminars ones you know


they will show us ah, the videos you know and movies about how the operation was done in the deep sea, show how does the, rig work, so we have a lot of training, we have knowledge learning all those things


small village


about


so when you go and draw the water <mandarin>是你每天早上去:shi ni mei tian zao shang qu </mandarin> or is it in the afternoon


you carry for your your family or like the whole building


but last time the electricity I mean <mandarin>家里都没有什么电器:jia li dou mei you shen me dian qi </mandarin> what use electricity for what


last time your home the electricity the electrical appliances is no <mandarin>电视:dian shi </mandarin> right is only the light at home ah


this was in nineteen what, when was this


when was this it was in nineteen, which year was this in, that time already got taxi driver, I thought taxi driver is err


half cent


and does it come with a drink or


the coffee is like the <mandarin>南阳咖啡:nan yang ka fei </mandarin> type ah so the #ya kun# style ah


is you they do it on your own or


!wow! okay that's homemade fresh coffee in the morning


ovaltine now still have lah we not so


let me ask you a question so <mandarin>你小时候最喜欢吃的午餐是什么:ni xiao shi hou zui xi huan chi de wu can shi shen me </mandarin> what what is your, can be a noodle a rice or a snack


you know,


so you eat, curry <mandarin>面:mian </mandarin> in the morning isn't it that like very heavy so so much gravy and


it's a very big family


actually talking about education ah I thought only the girls last time didn't go to school cause they <mandarin>重男轻女:zhong nan qing nv </mandarin> how come your older brothers also never go to school


the one that also went to school also got adopted by your


actually quite common for people in the past to just give the, kids away to neighbours or like sell them away because of the, family circumstances ah, but your siblings the chinese name really very


very <mandarin>发:fa </mandarin> leh is all so prosporous and very onward looking and yeah


but when you were moving to your aunt's place was it like too different did you all like at very different


err estates or was it like just, the building was like side by side to each other


but your


cause I mean I thought most schools then were, malay schools or chinese schools


two, three type of buses means must <mandarin>换三个:huan san ge </mandarin> bus ah


oh is not run by the <mandarin>政府:zheng fu </mandarin> is


but last time twenty five cents and now twenty five cents is actually quite a lot ah


is it now they shift it to #toa payoh# already


primary one <mandarin>有一点迟:you yi dian chi </mandarin> it's like two years later than the normal intake right


my own


but, (oo) more convenient lah since its so near


you're not good in studying you study until secondary school that's very high for olden time


err primary school leaving education


but actually if you don't pass your PSLE were you supposed to stay back or, are they like most people just drop out of school ah


like how come people what will make people choose between their english schools and <mandarin>华校:hua xiao </mandarin> because there seems to be a lot of people goes into the, chinese schools and there are a lot of people goes to the english schools like who what what's the difference


besides the first language


I think it's the nature of the job the <mandarin>华校:hua xiao </mandarin> type is a bit more because you will be dealing with the normal chinese people around so if you have the


I mean cause you have the competancy in the english language then you can meet all the <mandarin>外国人:wai guo ren </mandarin> that come in because that time trade was just booming and starting


so actually can you like just, memorable one like the interesting one maybe today don't have already


you know, but <mandarin>这是你几岁的时候:zhe shi ni ji sui de shi hou </mandarin> you said you were fourteen


so they let a fifteen year old into the construction site to help them


actually thinking of it now if, I cause I'm doing construction right if I see on site there's a kid that's like <mandarin>十五岁:shi wu sui </mandarin> or even <mandarin>不要讲十五岁:bu yao jiang shi wu sui </mandarin> talking about the eighteen year old young teen ah I feel very uncomfortable cause now to even go on site even for me I need to do


the security check, and I need to be authorized before I can even <mandarin>进的场地:jin de chang di </mandarin> so can't believe that last time, people can just fourteen year old be on the construction site it's really very dangerous, what


yeah times have really changed so much


but I think maybe <mandarin>以前政府有太多东西:yi qian zheng fu you tai duo dong xi </mandarin> I mean singapore was just starting then so likely they had too many other things to worry about that this may seem secondary


oh yeah we are british colony


this was a before the <mandarin>第二世界大战:di er shi jie da zhan </mandarin> or was it after


I know I think I heard before is it condensed milk


even condensed milk is expensive


would be, I don't know what's that, oh sweet potato ah, tapioca


was that what everyone


is funny hor you all have the equipment and everything to grind your own


(oo)


I mean last time times were really different and it was really tough especially after the <mandarin>世界大战:shi jie da zhan </mandarin> so


oh is it the atomic bomb


(oo), yeah I think you were still, maybe you were still schooling then


but you know I always tell my friends that I work a lot of different type of part time job cause I work at a, IT fair before I worked in retail stores


check <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> cable ah, and, ya I really I think I did quite a lot, from like wedding gowns to shoe shop to selling


computer stuff but yours is really haha, painter and, moving on construction site is really, I think now if you want to find this kind of jobs you probably didn't have


so out of, so out of all this, memorable can you remember which is the one that was like, most fun or pays the best


but mainly all these paintings <mandarin>是在一个家里面还是:shi zai yi ge jia li mian hai shi </mandarin> you can paint outside


好 吧, but the paint colour is not choose chosen is the client choose right actually by their contactor


their contract and also the agreement, so how much were you paid last time was it per hour or is it per job done


, it's


ya cause that time was when the economy was really growing very quick


where were you staying then, so when you're twenty plus you found your first job at Jurong


but the the items you all make is like what furniture or or like clothing like shoe


but that factory is mainly is like a one stop, from the production to the manufacturing of the goods or <mandarin>只是晒干:zhi shi shai gan </mandarin> (oo) producing the material itself


oh okay so it's only the skin


so when the skin <mandarin>进口过来他是:jin kou guo lai ta shi </mandarin> how does it look is it like bloody in anyway or is it quite clean, oh my god I can't imagine


is like working like you think you are working in a leather factory but it feels more like you are working in a supermarket


so is some some kind of drying room


have you ever you know in times like now where in the internet is so evolved have you go and try to search this company to see if they are still around


the the industrial estate is the one in Jurong west, or like #taman jurong# that side


so this company like, you work there how long did you work there for


so after you left


was this is this the start of or not yet


j, is it now is the Jurong shipyard now Keppel


okay okay, no


oh I think now Hajima is still existing in singapore I think, I think they are doing <mandarin>那种的工地:na zhong de gong di </mandarin> construction <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi </mandarin> right, oh but it's still the same company I didn't know they came into singapore so long ago


I quite curious ah because at that point err US and europe they were also advancing really quick right so


!wah! last time you already <mandarin>这样聪明:zhe yang cong ming </mandarin> to try and


five, forty five cents per hour


but that was


so <mandarin>那时候:na shi hou </mandarin> Jurong shipyard was like the biggest or like or their other companies that were more prominent


I see you really like doing all this metal things because now at home you are also trying to do it yourself all these new <mandarin>铁:tie </mandarin> using your <mandarin>铁工:tie gong</mandarin> skills to do up all these like extra fixtures and window grills


knowledge


so ya after Jurong shipyard, all the way <mandarin>你是做:ni shi zuo </mandarin> shipyard already lah like in shipping industry and


!wow! haha, you are so happy when you say seventy two cents


so your your


morning your shift hour like is by shift or by fixed working hours


so seven forty five you go in and do your morning exercise ah


so <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> OT <mandarin>工钱:gong qian </mandarin> is it like double


or still the same


oh so I see that the OT pay structure didn't changed much since last time ah


well I think they trying to, the first industrial estate they are trying to regularised it, as strictly as possible lah to set precedents for all the other upcoming


so your OT <mandarin>你一定是赚很多钱啊:ni yi ding shi zhuan hen duo qian a</mandarin> that's why <mandarin>你一直要:ni yi zhi yao </mandarin> OT


see quite on a, but now my your hourly, ya <mandarin>七块:qi kuai </mandarin> about


I can't believe times are so different when I was working if they were to offer me seven dollars and twenty cents ah I won't even consider ah cause my lowest paying part time job


was nine per hour, only went up, ten per hour twelve power fifteen per hour and then now yours is not even you work one whole day maybe not even my one hour pay, times were really different


why will you think of this <mandarin>你是有你父母的压力还是:ni shi you ni fu mu de ya li hai shi </mandarin> it's from your own desire


so this second company that you worked with full time is also in the shipping or


oh now people working in the, offshore industry they are actually making alot of money, 'cause it's it's really like commodities


so this was how many years after it was almost


so this is, immediately after you left to Jurong shipyard or, how long did it take for you to find the second job, how long did you take for you to find this second job at Sembawang


and already have the given the fact that <mandarin>你已经有在船厂做工过:ni yi jing you zai chuan chang zuo gong guo </mandarin> you have experience


method


so how long, Sembawang the shipyard <mandarin>你在哪里:ni zai na li </mandarin> work for how long


wasn't that the time that mom was born, (mmhmm) mum is born nineteen seventy


(mmhmm) <mandarin>一男一女啊:yi nan yi nv a</mandarin> did you think of having more kids or did you wanted one boy one girl


when you work so your total time in the shipyard was how long


and this five years your pay jump from one plus to how much


was I am assuming six hundred and fifty is a lot for last time


so what when you when you left what was your job scope, on the shipyard


but in mainly still the same lah the job scope is repairing ships and looking at the materials


learn how to read the drawing all those ah


what's the name of the company again, oh why the american company has a israeli city as the name


err is those err offshore ship that draw oil from the ocean correct


so <mandarin>他是出去大海:ta shi chu qu da hai </mandarin> to <mandarin>探那个油:tan na ge you </mandarin> to look for oil inside the sea


oil rigger lah it's like a vessel right


so halfway in between in the water lah,


so did you have any opportunities to go off the sea to look at all these operations or or you mainly station in the office


okay, so I think today has been a very interesting and uh, good time I actually really


err, ya it's very, it is an eye opener to see how times have really change <mandarin>时代真的从一前到现在很不一样从吃东西到:shi dai zhen de cong yi qian dao xian zai hen bu yi yang cong chi dong xi dao </mandarin> the place you all live the place take the water yeah


yeah, so ya hoping to be able to, hear more next time, so okay, we will end the recording now, well


why she never come


[orh]


it's better, then can own self self study with our friends


ya I'm going to find a job soon


<mandarin>我也不知要做什么:wo ye bu zhi yao zuo shen me</mandarin> eh <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> I think


maybe after work already, then need to go back school what, ya then can finally


australia <mandarin>很好玩吗:hen hao wan ma</mandarin> I never go there before eh


I think you need to


I like eating spicy leh <mandarin>很好吃:hen hao chi</mandarin> eh


where do you feel like going after exam


ya cause of covid right then they don't allow


!wah! <mandarin>你这么起来这么早起来去这样你不是很累:ni zhe me qi lai zhe me zao qi lai qu zhe yang ni bu shi hen lei</mandarin> meh


then


[orh] no wonder I see you only sundays got go to the gym, ya I think <mandarin>我们应该等那个天气比较好的时候没有这么:wo men ying gai deng na ge tian qi bi jiao hao de shi hou mei you zhe me</mandarin> hot <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> then we go there


[orh] <mandarin>你有没有看那个:ni you mei you kan na ge</mandarin> part one <mandarin>我好像那时候:wo hao xiang na shi hou</mandarin> never watch before the part one, like that <mandarin>等我们看一起看:deng wo men kan yi qi kan</mandarin> part one <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> then we <mandarin>才:cai</mandarin> go cinema to see part two


ya maybe but, I think should be by


<mandarin>怎么:zen me</mandarin> leh [orh], you don't like romantic


[orh] <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sad leh


ya, ha <mandarin>她喜欢当:ta xi huan dang</mandarin> asian ah


one younger brother also I think or is it twins


[orh], is it interesting


I always use the


debit card to pay cause got the visa


shoes, ya so cheap leh I think you should really buy the shoes next time I teach you how to pay in #tao bao#


ya the weather nowadays all so humid


!ee! <mandarin>谁叫你昨天:shui jiao ni zuo tian</mandarin> sleep so late then sleep also few hours only


can also eat barbecue not filling meh


[orh]


[orh] <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> hardworking leh girls school already go gym also


a'ah


okay


but I know


[orh] but I know the KFC got new one come out right


you like a lot of cheese


three plates of meat <mandarin>他吃的完:ta chi de wan</mandarin> ah


then you eat how much, [orh]


ya <mandarin>而且她还每次去买:er qie ta hai mei ci qu mai</mandarin> kimchi


when is her birthday, ah, then err


!wah! <mandarin>这样她不是要:zhe yang ta bu shi yao</mandarin> meet <mandarin>很多人因为她有这么多:hen duo ren yin wei ta you zhe me duo</mandarin> friends


!wah! <mandarin>你这么厉害还可以自己:ni zhe me li hai hai ke yi zi ji</mandarin> fix


[orh] <mandarin>可是不是有时候:ke shi bu shi you shi hou</mandarin> hot <mandarin>有时候:you shi hou</mandarin> cold <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> meh


<mandarin>我也是想去那边住一下:wo ye shi xiang qu na bian zhu yi xia</mandarin> I want to try living in a cool country ya


[orh] I have school until three o'clock but we can meet after that I want go to orto and drink, ya I feel like eating thai boat noodles somemore <mandarin>那边有很多:na bian you hen duo</mandarin> flavour I want to try


ya <mandarin>她吃:ta chi</mandarin> cheese <mandarin>到很夸张:dao hen kua zhang</mandarin> leh I don't know how she do it I really don't like cheese, I don't know cheese just tastes so cheesy I prefer spicy food


I feel like eating korean food cause they have a lot of spicy food


ya <mandarin>我们每次都是吃比较便宜的:wo men mei ci dou shi chi bi jiao pian yi de</mandarin> food, ya


[orh] <mandarin>我没有去过:wo mei you qu guo</mandarin> #pulau ubin# did you go there before


[orh] <mandarin>我很想去:wo hen xiang qu</mandarin> leh <mandarin>怎么你很像去很多地方:zen me ni hen xiang qu hen duo di fang</mandarin> then I never go there before


you like to eat sweet things too much eh


ah !huh!


island in singapore


eh <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> australia <mandarin>找你过后我们再去:zhao ni guo hou wo men zai qu</mandarin> korea then we can play longer so


[orh]


[orh] I want go many countries now but then I no money and then covid <mandarin>然后就不能出国:ran hou jiu bu neng chu guo</mandarin> also


there


[orh], [orh] <mandarin>我有去过:wo you qu guo</mandarin> Langkawi <mandarin>很好玩它还有:hen hao wan ta hai you</mandarin> chocolate to eat leh <mandarin>它的:ta de</mandarin> chocolate like so many different kinds


buy a phone in malaysia


(mmhmm)


I think you more you more independent then her


a'ah


[orh] you want to be a doctor next time


Penang Laksa <mandarin>他们有些是很:ta men you xie shi hen</mandarin> sour then I don't like I prefer more spicy one


like


today she's starting her uni, ya


oh then now he wants to get other jobs so he studied in poly


!wah! <mandarin>他们很久了:ta men hen jiu le</mandarin> no wonder <mandarin>已经想到要:yi jing xiang dao yao</mandarin> get married already


[orh] <mandarin>难怪你要去:nan guai ni yao qu</mandarin> australia <mandarin>读书因为:du shu yin wei</mandarin> you know so many people there then you can like hang out with them play with them also then you won't get bored


but if <mandarin>是我去的话真的是一个:shi wo qu de hua zhen de shi yi ge</mandarin> cause I don't know anybody in australia


[orh] <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> singapore <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> minimum wage <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> only other countries have minimum wage, [orh] singapore <mandarin>的什么都有不是它有:de shen me dou you bu shi ta you</mandarin> like


singapore citizenship change to australia citizenship, you want to get permanent residents but you don't want to become a citizen in australia


ya <mandarin>要自然一点:yao zi ran yi dian</mandarin> if not <mandarin>也可能你找到的:ye ke neng ni zhao dao de</mandarin> also not very good for you


cycling is it considered cardio


cycle <mandarin>去了再:qu le zai</mandarin> cycle <mandarin>回:hui</mandarin> ah, how long is it, so that means <mandarin>总共是四个小时因为回去又:zong gong shi si ge xiao shi yin wei hui qu you</mandarin> come back


yes <mandarin>这样我们应该:zhe yang wo men ying gai</mandarin> meet leh, okay


[orh] <mandarin>我现在也是想吃健康一点这样也才不会:wo xian zai ye shi xiang chi jian kang yi dian zhe yang ye cai bu hui</mandarin> so unhealthy, need to be healthier and then exercise a bit


[orh]


uncomfortable then also a bit feel like vomiting I also <mandarin>不是知道为什么:bu shi zhi dao wei shen me</mandarin> leh


exercise <mandarin>很多了然后也流汗很多:hen duo liao ran hou ye liu han hen duo</mandarin> leh


[orh] <mandarin>我看到很多人生病也是:wo kan dao hen duo ren sheng bing ye shi</mandarin> they make cake with protein powder


the cake


[orh] <mandarin>这样不是很好你就可以赚多一点钱:zhe yang bu shi hen hao ni jiu ke yi zhuan duo yi dian qian</mandarin> then next time you can go travel and buy your own things


[orh] <mandarin>这样如果很多人的话不是:zhe yang ru guo hen duo ren de hua bu shi</mandarin> still need to queue very long


ya lor <mandarin>我想去我很久:wo xiang qu wo hen jiu</mandarin> never go USS already


[orh] <mandarin>我很想搭:wo hen xiang da</mandarin> roller coaster I very long never play all these already like very fun


ya I also, that time I go taiwan then I also go and play very fun but then afterwards, I


my teachers right they, when I go to school they are not there and we have to do their our project


uh another lecturer tell us if he tell us twelve o'clock it means he coming at two o'clock


so it's like


ah, ah


then like


ya lor, ya lor <mandarin>他们一直要叫我们:ta men yi zhi yao jiao wo men</mandarin> sign contract sign contract <mandarin>这个不行:zhe ge bu xing</mandarin> eh


!wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian leh but I can't wait to graduate


ya lor !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian


uh western australia then uh I can when I can drive I will go and bring myself to places further than that


then like, I'm I'm also going to uni in australia so it's very convenient if I know how to drive,


, I miss traveling so much


I I want eat chicken rice wanton mee also, !haiya!


, !aiya! but never mind lah everytime I eat <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> I end up eating with three cups of #teh peng#


ah eh <mandarin>你要去哪里吃:ni yao qu na li chi</mandarin> hawker centre <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> shopping centre


ya lor !whoa!,


I also want to go swimming but now swimming pools aren't an option, ya


ya, ya I'm still going but I have school in the morning so I don't know how things go next week


ya lor !wah! sad, but I can still go cycling eh I feel like cycling at east coast park now but it's so hot


I was playing games until midnight then I got, tired and I fell asleep on my table, I woke up at seven AM eh


ya very short lor <mandarin>我很累:wo hen lei</mandarin> leh


(hmm)


uh <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> never watch


ah <mandarin>可以啊:ke yi a</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>你知道吗看电影的我很想看:ni zhi dao ma kan dian ying de wo hen xiang kan</mandarin> robin hood again


and I had to leave it early, eh I don't know leh, I only hope it's coming out soon


!wah!


I don't like romantic too cringe


!wah! <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> marvel <mandarin>我最喜欢的就是:wo zui xi huan de jiu shi</mandarin> black panther <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> captain america


ya lor


then like, people say she only take roles that requires her to be asian


!wah!, !wah!


ya it's very interesting but I forgot the name I only know it was about some olympic race runner


eh, oh ya, you know you always buy from #tao bao# how do you pay the shipping I want to buy some things but I don't know how to pay the shipping


ah <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> lor


ya #tao bao# has everything like food the clothes shoes


okay, !wah! this weather is so hot lately it's killing me I'm so sleepy


!haiya!, can't wait for exams to be over I want to go skating, oh my friend came back from myanmar the other day and now she's doing her quarantine at some hotel in novena


then err


ya lor !whoa!, I also want to go skating and kayaking you know sherilyn say that she will go kayaking with me because she needs to exercise


!haiya! then <mandarin>那一天我记得我又这么多钱因为我们早上早早去吃:na yi tian wo ji de wo you zhe me duo qian yin wei wo men zao shang zao zao qu chi</mandarin> korean barbecue, eleven AM


!haiya!, ya lor !wah! she lousy leh


ya need to get fit you know I want to get abs


(oo) we can go cycling cycle from east coast to Changi lah and back, next week, wait no no no not next week after exams


september <mandarin>第一号就是完了:di yi hao jiu shi wan le</mandarin> lor, okay, !wah!


<mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> [orh] !wah! I remember every week last time during o level I have to go there for tuition


I think so mac and cheese bowl right I saw it on the bus when I was coming here, (hmm) <mandarin>我有吃过啊可是一好像不喜欢了因为他们的:wo you chi guo a ke shi yi hao xiang bu xi huan le yin wei ta men de</mandarin> cheese <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> cheesy <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> taste


(hmm) a little bit, oh what <mandarin>你知道那一天我跟:ni zhi dao na yi tian wo gen</mandarin> regan <mandarin>去吃:qu chi</mandarin> korean barbecue right then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> disgusting eh <mandarin>他把全部丢进去那个:ta ba quan bu diu jin qu na ge</mandarin> pot <mandarin>里:li</mandarin> stir fry


then he still want to order more so he own self eat three plates of meat


half a plate


eh !hey! <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> lor, what


, !wah! we should buy her kimchi again for her birthday,


ya lor !whoa! like why ah


, !wah! speaking of cupcakes I have to choose a birthday cake for my grandma for her birthday is coming up


september eleven, nine eleven, (hmm) I'm thinking about buying her her favourite strawberry cheesecake, then , because of covid this year she cannot have a big celebration with her friends so I don't know what's going to happen


and maybe like will ask aden and calista to come over and all that, this year <mandarin>就是应该是她:jiu shi ying gai shi ta</mandarin> one time meet one friend <mandarin>那样:na yang</mandarin> lor


celebrate lor


oh my grandma ah everyday at home she using her phone you know that day she scold me because the wifi breakdown then she cannot , she cannot access the internet quickly


then you know <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I can control Sinju'S wifi, cause parental control so now everyday her wifi closes at ten PM


, ya lor, then like you know uh my, I going to apply for uni in perth next year and noah was telling me don't go to perth go to melbourne cause he says perth is disgusting


, I can sleep in t-shirt and long pants and I won't wake up sweating over here I sleep in shorts and my bra and


eh I'm going to rent an apartment there you should come over and bring #zi xuan# also, then we can travel together and then you can try the weather there also then if you like you can come there for uni


!wah!, I was, walking home and


I suddenly blackout so I cannot see clearly then I nearly walk into wall, ah <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> lor


ya lor, !wah!, tomorrow wait tomorrow is a wednesday


and thai boat noodles too


ya lor it's been so long since I've go to that part of singapore it's too far from me to go usually


!wah! <mandarin>以前我记得:yi qian wo ji de</mandarin> after secondary school we will always go to eighteen chef then elina mix the cheese and ice cream and eat it together


why why don't you like cheese, (hmm) I like a little bit of spicy but not crazy spicy


I want to eat sundae, no we should totally go eat at some Atas restaurants right then after that like it's been so long since we've spend properly on food


<mandarin>我看到:wo kan dao</mandarin> arab street <mandarin>那边有很多我要试试一下:na bian you hen duo wo yao shi shi yi xia</mandarin> leh


, [orh] <mandarin>我也要去做:wo ye yao qu zuo</mandarin> photography eh <mandarin>你应该可以跟我去你要:ni ying gai ke yi gen wo qu ni yao</mandarin> cycle <mandarin>还是你要搭:hai shi ni yao da</mandarin> van


uh the last time I was there I was it was after o level eh


so it's been some time, no lah is that time #zuo ling# bring me there then she buy me food too so I remember the


now she's in malaysia and she's not coming back


ya lor, !wah! I've been seeing all the recipes online and like !wah! I want to buy an air fryer how does your what I know you bought one recently


ya lor I like coffee but the smell is too strong now now I don't even drink coffee a lot but I can still take black coffee, no the starbucks, caramel macchiato is the best sweet tooth


no I don't have diabetes eh I exercise so much don't curse me


I saw this <mandarin>这个在:zhe ge zai</mandarin> uh <mandarin>抖音上面的:dou yin shang mian de</mandarin> then they say can make cheesecake with the air fryer then it tastes good, eh can lor then next time I bring I bring the food here then we make with your air fryer


!wah!


<mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> cars


cars <mandarin>那里很:na li hen</mandarin> expensive <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> uh it's like ten k after, ten k if you buy a used car but for brand new cars it's expensive, but I heard you can get cars for as cheap as one thousand


I think maybe I don't buy a car first I just buy a bicycle then after one semester I see how things go then I buy


ya lor no choice lah <mandarin>因为爸爸妈妈要我拿到:yin wei ba ba ma ma yao wo na dao</mandarin> degree


play and study at the same time, no lah, I want a degree to further my career and like I was looking at diploma courses in australia and it's only one year diploma and two year degree so it's the same time as uni in singapore so I can change my


, degree too, cause bachelor of science then I study engineering so I can do bachelor of science


<mandarin>其实可以:qi shi ke yi</mandarin> four years degree lah <mandarin>可是读:ke shi du</mandarin> diploma <mandarin>好像是:hao xiang shi</mandarin> save time


then like <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> covid period <mandarin>很危险:hen wei xian</mandarin> then err <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> err <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> lower their <mandarin>因为他们要:yin wei ta men yao</mandarin> more foreign students to come back


[orh] <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> you have to stay there right and the school is very far from city, oh [orh]


[orh] sherilyn lah she was ah telling me to we can go island hopping then <mandarin>她说就是:ta shuo jiu shi</mandarin> uh <mandarin>带:dai</mandarin> natania <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们在:wo men zai</mandarin> saint john <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> Kusu picnic


don't need passport it's fifteen dollar ferry ride I heard, ya lor, then <mandarin>现在我们都现在:xian zai wo men dou xian zai</mandarin> holiday <mandarin>所以那个比较好:suo yi na ge bi jiao hao</mandarin> lah


we can arrange a day to meet, a'ah <mandarin>等九月的时候去:deng jiu yue de shi hou qu</mandarin> lor


then right after graduation I going australia already then we have to arrange for another time to go to korea


ya lor !wah!, then like we fly back at all the weird timings also then we cannot plan our trip properly


oh ya like two weeks holiday one week in australia one week in korea


, eh we can meet in Bali if you want leh


cause australia is near Bali, then like I want to go to this island in Bali but that time I didn't get to go cause my sisters don't do water sports


ya lor !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian leh


sherilyn say uh after we graduate from poly she she want go like malaysia thailand indonesia all these on one trip


!wah!, !wah!, !wah! I never go Langkawi before eh I only go to Penang and Melaka and KL that time that time I live in KL for three months, because of my dad's work and my dad lost three phones in that one month


ah, !wah! so cheap ah


then like you know she is saying that she want to go to harvard medical school now


then she saw their school fees is two hundred and fifty thousand a year for foreign students


!wah! she have to study very hard I also don't know leh but now she keep saying she want this want that but then actually she don't know what she want also


ya lor, then like, oh she was also saying she want to she wants cyngie to move in with her when she move out because uh she wants cyngie to cook and clean for her everyday


!haiya! !aiya! <mandarin>她不会:ta bu hui</mandarin> independent <mandarin>的啦:de la</mandarin> can't wait for her to grow up, ya lor, !wah!, I at least I can cook and clean by myself now but the only thing is when I go to australia I have to do everything so I have to clean the toilet and everything by myself


I don't know but maybe a chemist that's why I'm thinking about studying, pharmacology if im if I go to australia


[orh] !wah! I miss Penang hill that time I went with my grandma my grandma brought me to Penang then I I remember I skip like three days of school because of that


ya lor I can see I only try Penang Laksa one time it was so spicy, [orh]


[orh] [orh] [orh] <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> [orh] Malacca trip <mandarin>的时候我那时有吃过:de shi hou wo na shi you chi guo</mandarin> leh


[orh], I remember malaysia have a lot of peranakan food my school brought us to Malacca that time actually right the funny thing is my parents don't want to let me go but my teachers talk to then they finally allow me to go


the first time overseas without my parents


!wah! so far ah then you should go and visit her in indonesia maybe can try some of her food also, [orh]


!wah!, oh


<mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> lor


ya, then he wants to get marry after he graduate from poly also


hor, don't know


ya but then the only thing is I need to go to church regularly, ya lor, !wah! <mandarin>可是没关系啦那里:ke shi mei guan xi la na li</mandarin> australia <mandarin>很好玩他们的:hen hao wan ta men de</mandarin> minimum wage <mandarin>也是比新加坡:ye shi bi xin jia po</mandarin> higher <mandarin>我可以一边读书一边做工因为他们的:wo ke yi yi bian du shu yi bian zuo gong yin wei ta men de</mandarin> limit for international students


only twenty twenty hours a week, ya australia minimum wage is like twenty dollars an hour


ya lor, then like, if I work I have to giv thirty percent tax, but other than that everything is okay


no eh I don't think need cause I not working in singapore, I only have to pay tax here if I work here


[orh] <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> citizenship <mandarin>我不要:wo bu yao</mandarin> change leh <mandarin>还喜欢新加坡的:hai xi huan xin jia po de</mandarin> passport <mandarin>可是如果:ke shi ru guo</mandarin> australia <mandarin>让我拿:rang wo na</mandarin> PR <mandarin>的话这就是可以:de hua zhe jiu shi ke yi</mandarin> lor


ya lor


then like <mandarin>你知道他们说:ni zhi dao ta men shuo</mandarin> uh


!wah! eh <mandarin>我要叫:wo yao jiao</mandarin> food delivery <mandarin>你要吗我要叫:ni yao ma wo yao zhao</mandarin> koi


[orh], no lah actually where got I drink quite little already


I'm trying to cut down so after exam I'm going to diet and cut do a cutting diet then I exercise everyday


gym, ah cycling <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> swimming <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> cardio lor, can ah <mandarin>可是我要:ke shi wo yao</mandarin> cycle <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> Changi <mandarin>好像一点点很远:hao xiang yi dian dian hen yuan</mandarin> leh


<mandarin>我们可以在在:wo men ke yi zai zai</mandarin> parkway meet lah then <mandarin>一起:yi qi</mandarin> rent bicycle then <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> Changi, then like !wah!


[orh] <mandarin>就是那个:jiu shi na ge</mandarin> cutting diet <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> low carb high protein, then like <mandarin>我我要吃:wo wo yao chi</mandarin> more spinach <mandarin>其实我有做看到一个:qi shi wo you zuo kan dao yi ge</mandarin> list lah


ah then like I want to cut down on sugar also so


, is, it's bad lah but after exercise you have to drink isotonic drinks cause you need more energy


then it's <mandarin>你知道到那一次我:ni zhi dao dao na yi ci wo</mandarin> competition <mandarin>的时候我去:de shi hou wo qu</mandarin> mix red bull <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> hundred plus <mandarin>那个我:na ge wo</mandarin> vomit leh


[orh]


<mandarin>是咯就是一天:shi lo jiu shi yi tian</mandarin> one cup only


[orh] my parents are going to renovate the kitchen <mandarin>他们那一天跟那个:ta men na yi tian gen na ge</mandarin> contractor <mandarin>说:shuo</mandarin> then <mandarin>他们说要把全部弄到比较高一点点因为我们买家的时候:ta men shuo yao ba quan bu nong dao bi jiao gao yi dian dian yin wei wo men mai jia de shi hou</mandarin> everyone was a little kid so we were all short but now we everyone taller so she's gonna make everything equal to our high


, I curious leh


so it will be a challenge for them also they don't have me to help them, [orh], holiday <mandarin>的话其实我没有打算回来新加坡:de hua qi shi wo mei you da suan hui lai xin jia po</mandarin> eh


ya <mandarin>因为我的:yin wei wo de</mandarin> plan <mandarin>了就是在:le jiu shi zai</mandarin> perth


then err <mandarin>可是在:ke shi zai</mandarin> sydney <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> hotel lor


<mandarin>我有去过:wo you qu guo</mandarin> sydney <mandarin>可是已经很远了我最后一次去的时候我是:ke shi yi jing hen yuan le wo zui hou yi ci qu de shi hou wo shi</mandarin> sec one


[orh] <mandarin>有啊那一次我带一个朋友去:you a na yi ci wo dai yi ge peng you qu</mandarin> sentosa <mandarin>我们搭:wo men da</mandarin> cable car <mandarin>去从:qu cong</mandarin> mount faber


a'ah


<mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> puss in boots right <mandarin>很好玩:hen hao wan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我也喜欢那个:wo ye xi huan na ge</mandarin> roller coaster, eh ya lor then like !wah! it was so fun I remember screaming because I was scared of the roller coaster but after that it was fun


but then afterwards we just like, we just like we play but then one time the roller coaster was taking so long so we just left


but, <mandarin>跟:gen </mandarin> family <mandarin>出去:chu qu </mandarin> lor then err