you'll be served bad at karma , and then for me I'll I think I'll get nothing , , I don't know, anyway ya it's a pretty cool lesson


what would be the worst buy one get one free sale ever


<mandarin>大胆:da dan</mandarin> how dare you


I mean I guess, whatever I if I want to buy anything and you want to give me another free, cause why not


ya ah tough, so good looks or fit body what would you prefer, precisely , I think right <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> listen to <mandarin>我们的对话也是有一种:wo men de dui hua ye shi you yi zhong</mandarin> entertainment [orh]


, fun job ya, okay, go ahead, I have my answer, , good looks I don't know man I guess like


I never really cared much about


ya so, looks


oh that's true especially for guys hor, ya that's true, ya good looks is if <mandarin>你有钱:ni you qian</mandarin> then <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> plastic surgery lor but you can't exactly train <mandarin>出来:chu lai</mandarin> good looks sia


I guess


!wah!, cause it's your face leh it's like


same me too


oh <mandarin>有很多人讲:you hen duo ren jiang</mandarin> kylie jenner, is only pretty <mandarin>因为她有钱:yin wei ta you qian</mandarin> , I mean


ya, but kendall <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> natural though her sister, right, and her face <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> I think kendall didn't have anything done at all, ya so amazing


oh I know when they lose cheek fat dermal fat ya, oh, eh <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren</mandarin> accuse <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> of having plastic surgery eh


, , so maybe just


ya more worth lor, ha, okay lah for me, I think not actor lah I want to be singer


I wanna be, yes


portray herself is just, who I can see, myself liking a lot like, ya I think I think <mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> eh then I see her, instagram all those she also <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> actively


you know so <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> like caring then oh then her her music also nice you know ya


ya so overall <mandarin>我很喜欢她的:wo hen xi huan ta de</mandarin> image, , ariana and her worked together on


uh ya , jade


!aww! !aww!, like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sentimental, oh, oh <mandarin>你有看:ni you kan</mandarin> ah


!wah! eh I also considering eh, how many seasons though, what is crystal


so !huh! so they just, they just change the cast of, this specific character every season, !huh! <mandarin>很奇怪:hen qi guai</mandarin> eh then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> viewers <mandarin>不会很:bu hui hen</mandarin> confused meh


, okay thanks for not spoiling


oh


oh so is like <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> same me but, !huh! she's not the only !huh! !wah!


K lah but at least <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> favourite character the one you watched the show for <mandarin>她没有:ta mei you</mandarin> change right throughout all


oh one of the main ah is it like <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> victorious, same position kind of


oh ya victorious have a main main kind of ya this one don't have is it, [orh] so cool, fight for <mandarin>那些家产:na xie jia chan</mandarin>


[oh] okay that's the end of it


hi ah <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> summer then you eh, ya my, like my mother say she wanted it to be like the singapore weather you know like <mandarin>夏天:xia tian</mandarin> you know


uh hospital <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> she was like okay I got a name for her like summer ya, ya,


[orh] <mandarin>我华文名比较好笑我我华文名是:wo hua wen ming bi jiao hao xiao wo wo hua wen ming shi</mandarin> uh #lin yu#, ya so it's literally singapore weather you know , ya


ya interesting, , !wow! what would I wish for ah,


, ya


, ya, ya, ya, !huh!


you <mandarin>你看什么戏:ni kan shen me xi</mandarin> sia why got <mandarin>翅膀:chi bang</mandarin> one, [orh] oh ya ya ya ya


, wait wait what is lucifer about


[orh], oh


oh so cute,


, but what what but then like <mandarin>如果你的狗:ru guo ni de gou</mandarin> like secretly hate you <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> , maybe it pounce cause like <mandarin>它要:ta yao</mandarin> you know like food


ya attack you then you like ya for food, , , <mandarin>三个愿望:san ge yuan wang</mandarin> ah like actually I never really think about it leh but I guess like my first one will be like yours


like, especially in singapore !wah! <mandarin>你一定要有钱的你没有钱:ni yi ding yao you qian de ni mei you qian</mandarin> [orh] you cannot even do anything, ya, !wah! ferrari ah


err, I I I, ah that kind,


okay good point good point , ya, second wish ah err, I guess second wish would be , err it's a bit lame but I guess like


, curing diseases I guess, ya, ya cause like , like <mandarin>最近我阿公:zui jin wo a gong</mandarin> like <mandarin>他得那个:ta de na ge</mandarin> tuberculosis mah so like, true story though but ya then it's like


I feel quite sad lah like you know I want to like, make sure that he's well and everything cause, like <mandarin>他是我的唯一阿公:ta shi wo de wei yi a gong</mandarin> mah ya so I guess that will be my second wish, ya then, uh <mandarin>第三个:di san ge</mandarin> ah


oh <mandarin>我我真的没有想到:wo wo zhen de mei you xiang dao</mandarin> eh but I guess, I think, ya ya, like really


then okay now I ask you like so if you drop everything to follow your dreams what would you risk


oh , oh


ya, ya, it's quite sad lah like, it's like <mandarin>你要做什么:ni yao zuo shen me</mandarin> then like, you can't really do it cause


of this, ya, ya


(mmhmm) , okay <mandarin>其实这个我有想过:qi shi zhe ge wo you xiang guo</mandarin> like I wanted to be invisible, once ya, but then like I also don't know eh like it's either that or like, like teleportation


you know like like those, oh my god it's perfect cause I'm always late ya so like imagine I just wake up I just brush my teeth then you can immediately like teleport to school


or like go and work !wah! <mandarin>很很很享受你懂:hen hen hen xiang shou ni dong</mandarin> mah, ya


, oh, [orh]


[orh], [orh] you oh


oh, ya, !whoa!, but like where where you go italy, oh


oh , [orh] oh but but quite cool eh ya


oh my god ten years ago !wah! <mandarin>我们几岁:wo men ji sui</mandarin> ah ten years ago, I think I <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I think I also eh


uh


uh, !huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah , !huh!, oh my god


, oh my god oh my god <mandarin>有一点:you yi dian</mandarin> like awkward leh


, oh my god so, ha


[orh] like the ball the paper ball is it [orh], ya ya ya damn ya damn fun


ya, ya I I remember like like every recess like, me and my friends then <mandarin>我们我们每次就会在那边:wo men wo men mei ci jiu hui zai na bian</mandarin> like <mandarin>一直打那个球:yi zhi da na ge qiu</mandarin> ah then <mandarin>我们每次玩那个懂吗那个:wo men mei ci wan na ge dong ma na ge</mandarin> monkey <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> game mah, monkey


then ya ya ya but like it's <mandarin>很好笑:hen hao xiao</mandarin> lah ya ya ya


ya, , oh no


[orh] ya, ya thirty cent <mandarin>可以买零食:ke yi mai ling shi</mandarin> eh, ah ya lor, fifty cents, oh my god so cheap ah last time


for, ya,


ya I think ya up to three, ya


ya, !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> deep eh <mandarin>那这些:na zhe xie</mandarin> questions


so sad, !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> deep eh <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> question, society ah, I think it's like it's not very much of society but it's like mostly like


then <mandarin>他们就会讲你:ta men jiu hui jiang ni</mandarin> mah ya, like I <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I don't know if this is considered a label but it's like <mandarin>他们就会讲:ta men jiu hui jiang</mandarin> like


like, sad thing is my cousins are very skinny, so like


ya so everytime when we meet right then they'll be like eh like why like this two so skinny then you're like not that skinny, then, ya


have you heard of human library, ah it's it's like this


it's like this little sessions where you get to talk to people of like different kinds of background, so like like <mandarin>那时我去的就是有一个:na shi wo qu de jiu shi you yi ge</mandarin> fat shaming <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> mah


so that time I went , I was speaking to the person who was fat shamed lah so she was like sharing to me about how she was also being like fat shamed by everyone around her, which it which made her very depressed ah and made her very suicidal


ya then, ya, ya


ya, I mean I think , ya then okay ya so what label have you been given


ya, <mandarin>这样年轻就问:zhe yang nian qing jiu wen</mandarin> Liao ah <mandarin>男朋友:nan peng you</mandarin> !aiyo! , !aiya! <mandarin>他们要你几岁结婚二十岁:ta men yao ni ji sui jie hun er shi sui</mandarin> ah


ya ya , ya


ya, ya then they they won't understand like why you don't want to follow, ya, ya but then what are your thoughts on like people who have like kids very early and like get married you know like shotgun


makes sense ah but I guess like you know like chinese new year <mandarin>如果你们早生孩子的话:ru guo ni men zao sheng hai zi de hua</mandarin> then, ya


oh my god ya, ya, !wah!,


memorable meal, eh you say ah you say first


(uh huh), (mmhmm),


, it's because that's the only thing he can eat oh my god teach you shouldn't you are kind of vegetarian <mandarin>吃素的人就是这样可怜吃素:chi su de ren jiu shi zhe yang ke lian chi su</mandarin> ya so nather what was your most memorable meal, ya, !wah! most memorable meal ah


(hmm) let me think let me think, honestly I think every meal that I had is very memorable , !wow! so cliche ya so they cannot eh I think like the most, but I I think like the most memorable one I had was like


like the one that my dad cook cause like, like we ya like I I love my dad's cooking my my my my dad is, err the the funny thing is like


like my dad loves chinese food, ya ya ya


ya <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> ya like <mandarin>很有味道这样:hen you wei dao zhe yang</mandarin> compared to the <mandarin>普通:pu tong</mandarin> one


ya I don't understand ya I don't understand


then ya then <mandarin>我就每天一直求他:wo jiu mei tian yi zhi qiu ta</mandarin> lor <mandarin>求他因为我很喜欢吃:qiu ta yin wei wo hen xi huan chi</mandarin> mah <mandarin>你也是很喜欢吃:ni ye shi hen xi huan chi</mandarin>


!wah! <mandarin>真的真的:zhen de zhen de</mandarin> leh ya so <mandarin>我就一直求他:wo jiu yi zhi qiu ta</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>好像求他:hao xiang qiu ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>一年这样:yi nian zhe yang</mandarin> eh, ya


ya <mandarin>一一定要我吃我的麻辣:yi yi ding yao wo chi wo de ma la</mandarin> then, ya worth it so worth it eh <mandarin>这样好吃到我们请我们阿公吃也是:zhe yang hao chi dao wo men qing wo men a gong chi ye shi</mandarin> eh, then <mandarin>我阿公还打包回家讲明天还要吃:wo a gong hai da bao hui jia jiang ming tian hai yao chi</mandarin> ya so !wah!


ah <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> dad okay lah err <mandarin>勉强:mian qiang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>勉强:mian qiang</mandarin> okay lah ya, ya


I knew you gonna say that, oh, ya


okay ah <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> taxi fare <mandarin>会起价那些因为比较少人:hui qi jia na xie yin wei bi jiao shao ren</mandarin> mah, eh <mandarin>比较少生意:bi jiao shao sheng yi</mandarin> sorry ah


ya econs ah , ya but then like apparently some like some company


like, somehow the demand eh, ya because of the I don't know why also lah but anyway they <mandarin>起价:qi jia</mandarin> then they just say COVID ah [orh] okay lor , ya uh can't really do anything


uh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>一两次而已:yi liang ci er yi</mandarin> lah, ya , uh ya , ya


so, if humans no longer need to work to survive what will we do


(uh huh)


wait is it fiction, oh


ya, !wah!


ya, ya


ya, so so like what you're saying is, what what will we do to <mandarin>打发时间:da fa shi jian</mandarin> will be like, shop eat just


!wah!, !wah! okay ya, like a dream ya, oh !wow!


ya sia ya lor, what everyday activity would be a torture if you have to do it for eight hours straight studying


ya like <mandarin>我们每天都这样做:wo men mei tian dou zhe yang zuo</mandarin> Liao lor what you talking about, ya, ya and like some more <mandarin>那个是:na ge shi</mandarin> like eight hours <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh


ya, ya lor


ya it's it's quite Sian lah actually, ya especially when you work so long it's very Sian one eh, ya,


ya, is is not, but you know in sweden right like <mandarin>他们真的有那种:ta men zhen de you na zhong</mandarin> like four five day work week !wah! I I, if I want to migrate I will go to sweden eh, like <mandarin>他们什么都很爽的:ta men shen me dou hen shuang de</mandarin> leh like


it's very high, it's very high if I'm not wrong lah like I think uh <mandarin>我去年好像上过一个课:wo qu nian hao xiang shang guo yi ge ke</mandarin> lah then they say , like sweden had one of the highest quality of life, around the world, ya so it's quite amazing actually


ya so like if I go plus sweden got ikea meatballs , really, oh my god


, ya, yeh, maybe cause it's cheap then like we psycho ourselves into thinking that it's nice


[orh] like last time our JC ah, , ya , ya, oh eh <mandarin>你的题目:ni de ti mu</mandarin> eh, what is the pettiest reason that you would dislike someone


dislike someone


ah, oh my god, , ya, oh no <mandarin>我的我的我的:wo de wo de wo de</mandarin> reason very petty one eh


mine hor is right the person don't even need to talk to me like if I don't like the vibes I just don't like the vibes, like ya, ya <mandarin>就是有那种:jiu shi you na zhong</mandarin> like like


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


, oh my god yes ah rihanna ah, ya then she everyday move the camera all


ya, but <mandarin>你不可以跟政府讲:ni bu ke yi gen zheng fu jiang</mandarin> eh it's not a very good job ah


can please your husband also , , oh,


oh, amazing


!wah! chef, [orh], ah


pasta <mandarin>长大:zhang da</mandarin> , ya, eh wait ya, is that a skill


oh ya that's that's very cool ya, (uh huh),


[orh] [orh] <mandarin>我在那边想:wo zai na bian xiang</mandarin> like <mandarin>有一点贵:you yi dian gui</mandarin> ah , oh


oh, ya it's it's the it's very cool lah, uh


err I got try to make a bucket hat before, ya, [orh] no no no but croquette uh crochet you mean croquette I was like thinking of the food croquette


you know the mos burger croquette burger , no but no I I I made the bucket hat out of my old uh pants before, ya, ya like, cause <mandarin>我也是像你:wo ye shi xiang ni</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我看那些人做那个那种:wo kan na xie ren zuo na ge na zhong</mandarin> up-cycling things right then it's like look ah look damn cool I also wanna try


ya so and I happen to have a sewing machine at home so I try lor then I just cut cut cut cut !wah! but cannot eh like, it's very hard cause the the thing is like too big then here is too small, then the when you wear is like <mandarin>怪怪的:guai guai de</mandarin> ya we're might I I buy online from shopee right <mandarin>然后我的那个:ran hou wo de na ge</mandarin> shape <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> weird then err <mandarin>不用:bu yong</mandarin> mah but then again it's like, ya


I, ya <mandarin>是这样的:shi zhe yang de</mandarin> lah like you you go , you go #tao bao# this kind of shopee this kind of place buy right


ya it's !aiya! cheap lor so what else can you do, oh eh actually I very into like drawing eh recently but then [orh] my drawing skills is damn bad, I draw [orh] the know those you know now like a digital art is quite trending


like ya <mandarin>人家就会:ren jia jiu hui</mandarin> like colour like your face, ya that's why I want an I pad yes, ya ya but ya lor like actually actually wait let me show you I think I have


eh oh no I don't have never mind, okay but ya, , ya okay ya so uh ya lor so I'm very into like drawing but I think, I think I tried before and then it failed terribly lah so uh ya if ya look the the guy ended up looking like some lizard


cause the eye is damn weird, [orh] okay cause uh the way that people do it right is like <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>拿一个照片:na yi ge zhao pian</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>你在那个照片上面:ni zai na ge zhao pian shang mian</mandarin> then you like draw, you outline the


ah something like that it's like a reference then you like draw over the the <mandarin>照片:zhao pian</mandarin> then you like colour inside lah, so that's what I did but then I don't know why when I draw right then the guy eye look like like lizard like the eye bulging out of the socket like that then damn damn weird lah so I was like okay lah


ya, ya but ya lor but I guess like I want to learn lor how to draw then you know like you know those fashion designer always draw the the dress right like <mandarin>他们画很美:ta men hua hen mei</mandarin> eh like, ya they always draw like the <mandarin>模特:mo te</mandarin> then got the <mandarin>身材:shen cai</mandarin> !wah! damn nice I want to try


ya amazing eh like <mandarin>我现在一直在看这种东西:wo xian zai yi zhi zai kan zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> like !wah! how they do sia, ya ya, it's like don't know where they think, from of all these ideas


oh is it you , uh ya but I guess the second skill that, I think I also want to learn how to cook like you, like ya cause right now right now when I cook is like


all #chao ta# one so cannot ya, ya <mandarin>我只会煮:wo zhi hui zhu</mandarin> instant noodle eh, okay egg egg I think can ya


pancake cannot I cannot do the flipping thing, !wah! okay lah flex lah , oh


(oo) oh my god, [orh] like the <mandarin>做好的:zuo hao de</mandarin> ah !chey! then that one not that good what,


okay say whatever makes you happy , !wah! then the third skill that I want, !wah!, oh actually hor like one very cool skill that I wanna learn is like speaking, like any language fluently


ya ya ya, but not fluent lah but then I try lah ya maybe end of the sem, ya, but ya lor like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> cool eh imagine <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>泰国:tai guo</mandarin> then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>马上会讲那个泰语:ma shang hui jiang na ge tai yu</mandarin> then <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> like


like uh, like <mandarin>西班牙:xi ban ya</mandarin> like spain ah then you like immediately know spanish !wah! damn cool, ya and then you can bargain also


ya, ya, ya, ya money makes the world go round


err so what genre of, or TV show do you enjoy the most, ah


, [orh]


I think for me is uh, I watch I prefer to watch like those kind of comedy kind of show, like, you know modern family, ya, ya modern family like <mandarin>很好笑:hen hao xiao</mandarin> eh especially <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> sofia vergara !wah!


she's damn funny like I love her accent then she everytime like Hola jay , ya, oh ya


ya ya ya I also watching it now <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> I think it's very relatable to like our, our world now no meh, eh don't spoil don't spoil <mandarin>我还没有看好我还没有看完:wo hai mei you kan hao wo hai mei you kan wan</mandarin> okay


ya <mandarin>我还没有找那个:wo hai mei you zhao na ge</mandarin> mother yet, , ya, what does that mean okay never mind


!wah! think of story a bit hard to think sia, !wah!, funny in retrospect but may not have been funny at that time, in retrospect ah


!huh!, oh <mandarin>你是讲你的:ni shi jiang ni de</mandarin> friend <mandarin>还是讲你自己:hai shi jiang ni zi ji</mandarin> oh,


oh my god, oh my god ya, I can't really think of a story that is like not funny at that time, but I can think of a story that is funny at that time but it's like a bit lame now , you know last time like me and my friends right


you know how dabbing was like a trend last time


like, like he very retarded one I mean okay he's not retarded he's very , , he's very uh, ya he's a he has a very entertaining side ya very funny, ya very interesting guy lah then everytime hor I see him hor


then like out of nowhere he will like just suddenly dab one eh, so like imagine like I walk past him in the canteen then he will just suddenly dab then I'll be like uh dab cause like I don't know what to do, ya


!huh!, is it , is it, [orh] no no no secondary school secondary school, ya but maybe it's like <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>认识:ren shi</mandarin> somewhere you know


ya like like ya out of nowhere eh, right, ya, how do you think humans will become extinct


, !wah! actually quite scary, ya


ya, ya lor, oh my god what if COVID is the reason everyone goes extinct


what if right COVID was what if like a similar pandemic like COVID wiped out all the dinosaurs, that's how they die , I don't know lah actually I do you want to travel back in time to like see dinosaurs I kind of want to but I'm like scared


ya, ya, ya then what if you go there you like, like you step out five minute then you get eaten as long as you step out right ibis <mandarin>一种:yi zhong</mandarin> time botanist <mandarin>你出去你不可以:ni chu qu ni bu ke yi</mandarin> vichy and then like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Jialat oh my god apparently ya shit


, oh my god <mandarin>很怕人:hen pa ren</mandarin> eh ya shit oh my god


what, obviously one horse sized otter, right, , ya


ya hundred it's like the <mandarin>小蚂蚁:xiao ma yi</mandarin> you know like become bigger, !eeyer! ya who isn't, oh shit


, oh my god


oh, (oo), oh


ah then how, !ee!


!ee! oh my god I cannot <mandarin>想像:xiang xiang</mandarin> sia, !wah! protect eh


!wah!, oh interesting


oh my god I I think I think I think I'm quite a terrible person in this life eh, ya like <mandarin>你是好人:ni shi hao ren</mandarin> or <mandarin>坏人:huai ren</mandarin> ya, oh my god ya


!wah!, very hard to but what food will you be served, how does this relate to food I don't get it, oh oh uh okay ya


uh karma, ya, !wow!


, you


, ya, oh my god I'm quite a bad person eh I will just use it eh


ya, how is that good so you


it's kind of bad what don't you think you're just gonna leave it there for someone else to use it then what if someone else


but how are you so sure that someone else won't take it, !wah! so philosophical


ya, !yay! so no


no, , interesting interesting


(hmm), (hmm), I guess something that we don't need, like, what do we not need, ah


eh (hmm) maybe buy one girlfriend get one free girlfriend cause why , no but I'm a girl


, , ya


ya lor like what what could be bad ya I can't think of any also, ya, I wonder who's the one thinking of all these questions some quite funny eh okay


ya it's a fun, <mandarin>蛮好玩:man hao wan</mandarin> eh <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> project ya, good looks or fit body


I also , good looks right yes I knew it , , ya


ya, can cover also mah the body, like clothes baggy clothes, , ya


ya, uh <mandarin>练的:lian de</mandarin> mah, ya, ya like it's I think it's easier for them to build muscles as compared to women


ya so can train mah so might as well good looks right choose good looks right ya, ya lor , ya eh but do you know the scary thing is right when you go plastic surgery you don't really know how you will look like until you finish it


like <mandarin>你们可以:ni men ke yi</mandarin> like plan <mandarin>好:hao</mandarin> like [orh] <mandarin>你要这个:ni yao zhe ge</mandarin> nose <mandarin>你要那个:ni yao na ge</mandarin> nose but then <mandarin>你出来的时候:ni chu lai de shi hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>一定会:yi ding hui</mandarin> a bit different on your face one ah, ya then what if they screw up also then you must go again eh then <mandarin>花你的钱:hua ni de qian</mandarin> sia


ya ya, ya must, ya


plastic surgery, ya lah like everyday ya, !hannor! <mandarin>有一点:you yi dian</mandarin> sad leh , but ya


oh, ya it's kinda true, ya,


ya, but sometimes right you know when some people lose weight right their face shape changes completely, so, ya so I'm like thinking like is it really plastic surgery or is it like when you lose weight cause you know uh khloe kardashian


ya she like lost a lot of weight now but then she looks very different now, ya but ya it does look like plastic surgery but it's just like like <mandarin>就想:jiu xiang</mandarin> lor like <mandarin>你瘦:ni shou</mandarin> Liao then


like <mandarin>你会一直这样想吗:ni hui yi zhi zhe yang xiang ma</mandarin> ya, ya ya ya, ya better ya


if you get a chance to wake up as an actor one day which actor would you want to become and why, oh, ariana grande oh my god


oh my god


ya, ya she has a very good voice, ya, I think for me like have you heard of this person called elizabeth gillies


, ya victorious ya like


I like both, like I like her as a person like you know her as a person she like she's very funny and then like, like <mandarin>她每次:ta mei ci</mandarin> like post <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> photo with the arianna and like her old cast mates, !wah! then it's damn cute lah like, ya like very close then she always like quite funny also ya so like


ya you you should watch it it's, three but the funny thing is like the crystal keeps changing I don't know why


uh there's this character inside that keeps changing everytime for no reason, ya ya ya so every season it'll be a new crystal then I like


ya <mandarin>很怪:hen guai</mandarin> hor cause like the storyline technically continues but then they change her, no <mandarin>很好笑:hen hao xiao</mandarin> cause okay okay lah it's a a bit a bit spoiling the show but it's like, like season three right there was one part whereby she was sort of


thanking the husband for like helping her with, something ya ya then after that she she was just like saying lor like, like , I know what uh thanks for helping me do this lah last time then it's a bit weird cause I remember like the previous season it was another girl


who was acting as crystal, but then like suddenly the third season she's like oh thank you for helping me do this like, ya then, she's not the only character that change so you should watch


ya a lot of the characters keep changing, ya, ya <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> lor <mandarin>很怪:hen guai</mandarin> lor, ya that's the most important part


I I think she's the main ya she's quite kind of the main, ya


no but victorious the the main was tori mah, ya lor, this one she I would say she is the main main but it's more about the family drama, ya, ya


oh, okay


okay, okay


(ppc) but I'm actually looking on MyCareersFuture looking on few different lah many of MyCareersFuture but I applied so many know, hundred I think I applied like hundred a day eh a job I still cannot find


!wah! you work for the uh swabber ah so (ppc), their job is like very high risk one right


no meh I thought six days a week


so what's the net net salary like how much you earn a month for this job, okay lah not bad already lah three K not too bad already lah, no but what's your like main


what's your main career, oh you're a actor or actress or what


(hmm) <mandarin>那你:na ni</mandarin> so you're working at MediaCorp lah you're working like those kind of freelancer job or, private company or what


, dance studio ah dance studio ah


oh okay okay okay


eh quite cool leh because, yeah quite cool because I'm also like learning dance I'm like learning salsa at uh orchard road there dance and motion so quite interesting lah what kind of dance actually, tell me what kind of dance you do leh


dance ah what what dance no you tell me lah what kind of dance first cause I'm not interested in all kinds of dance eh


what what no what's the the like what's the name of the dance like, how's the dance like


okay lah later you show me lah what's your free movement like ah you know just check it out see how is it like, for me I'm more like a sports person, but recently I have like trying to learn new stuff as well like dance


ah learning new languages , , !wah! a lot man a lot like I used to play hockey last time when I was in school lah but now I'm doing mainly gym


everything ah gym exercise I do some static exercises as well by myself (ppc) (ppc) trying to put on weight lah also I'm cooking, , yeah yeah trying to like cook as well so I, uh yeah I'm quite, trying to learn as many new things as possible lah <mandarin>想要好像:xiang yao hao xiang</mandarin> everything


ah ah not really that lah but like everyday <mandarin>我想:wo xiang</mandarin> you know improve on something in my life you know so I'm trying to learn as many things as possible now lah, yeah, , yeah


so how you never find any like any like those kind of long term job ah, (ppc) (ppc)


, yeah that's true that's true


like you teaching students lah trying to recruit students oh okay okay, yeah never heard about this dance before the free movement dance, never like, is it contemporary dance or what, contemporary oh okay okay okay understand


okay interesting, , so what <mandarin>你怎么找的找得到这份工作:ni zen me zhao de zhao de dao zhe fen gong zuo</mandarin> lah, voice recording


, Facebook oh,


no but that's only for first trial then after that like it'll be twelve dollar an hour, ya but I'm not sure whether it will only be regular or not, yeah


nine hours lor, maximum nine hours


yeah lah but most people can't like stand working for nine hours right even one hour after that we are like out already so the way I look at it I think I will just like do one hour a day then at least like have a bit of extra but I will find another job lah this is not my main job lah I will go and like find uh like normal full time job


yeah yeah sure yeah yeah of course of course and not just like I think being interesting enough is not important like you can be the most interesting person but <mandarin>如果你的性格:ru guo ni de xing ge</mandarin> ah or your like the way you talk the way you're not a good conversationalist right


then it'll still be boring as well you know what I mean like some people are just don't have the speaking ability yeah, ,


I have no idea also you I'm very bad at chinese I'm the worst person to ask, !wah! then <mandarin>你现在是跟谁住:ni xian zai shi gen shei zhu</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你是一个人住还是你跟:ni shi yi ge ren zhu hai shi ni gen</mandarin> family


oh okay okay, , oh okay


eh <mandarin>你还没有跟我讲那个那边的租金多少:ni hai mei you gen wo jiang na ge na bian de zu jin duo shao</mandarin> ah


the, !huh! <mandarin>那么小:na me xiao</mandarin> ah, oh you can use the space outside lah okay okay okay, then okay lah no problem lah, but <mandarin>那那边的地方是好像是一个:na na bian de di fang shi hao xiang shi yi ge</mandarin>


, , I don't think


really meh, but chinatown to me like not very Ulu leh, like we need try, oh okay okay okay


<mandarin>现在我是想找一个好像地方来放我的我是做那种:xian zai wo shi xiang zhao yi ge hao xiang di fang lai fang wo de wo shi zuo na zhong</mandarin> vending machine ah


ah ah, not really I'm like okay I'm kind of like start my own vending machine business in fact it's already been started but I'm like looking for locations to put like a storage space lah ya that's true but also like to do some preparation work


(ppc) for my vending machine, like maintenance all this thing lor like maintain and then like check the machine all this ah


no I need also I need also that is also part of the business model but I need a place to store the vending machine right ya, ya ya and then also I need to put the machines, err


ya like you only earning like up to the rental of the vending machine but if you really want to like make more money right you must do all the way to up to selling the thing up to making the software everything


ya if you capable enough lah ya lah, that's what I want (ppc) I don't want to like if you just do the vending machine rental I don't think can make a lot of money and I for me it's a waste of time, and probably also not like


yeah sure,


, , , , okay lah eh don't talk about work already lah damn Sian talk about something else lah,


oh many different types man, what sports why you dress sportswear today are you doing sports ah


oh okay okay, can do like what kind of sports, oh really ah, okay okay okay , actually I'm thinking whether you can just do the movement now while we're talking


no but I scared like you'll be out of the thing you know, correct correct correct because yeah , because they want us to talk I think better not lah maybe towards the end we do like until like fifty plus right then after that we we go and you can do the the movement lah you showed me a bit because as long as we talk like (ppc)


fifty minutes right and then they cannot say like eh you never do the thing really do fifteen minutes for you you still want so much ah just watch the person dance only what, okay so what else !wah! now I damn Sian because now there's no more like those kind of event already those kind of gathering I like to go and like do those kind of like


gathering lah meet people everything lah but now nowadays no more already, like try out new activity this kind of thing lah


ha like what, (ppc)


(ppc) (ppc)


<mandarin>那:na</mandarin>, really meh, really meh but who are the people that go for this kind of event


, no but are they like singaporeans or what the people who go for this kind of events, , !aiya!


actually I wonder right, whether we can switch on the TV while we're talking I think cannot lah because too noisy, yeah,


eh <mandarin>你不是你不是你不是什么:ni bu shi ni bu shi ni bu shi shen me</mandarin> buddhist meh <mandarin>可以吃:ke yi chi</mandarin> beef <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> meh <mandarin>可以吃这个牛肉的:ke yi chi zhe ge niu rou de</mandarin> meh, (ppc) (ppc)


(ppc), , okay


(ppc) (ppc),


, what's the name of the shop,


(ppc)


oh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah !wah! !wah! !wah! <mandarin>越来越严格:yue lai yue yan ge</mandarin> ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah


orchard central, ,


, (ppc) (ppc) (ppc) (ppc), what else what else, what else to talk about


what I like to do I already told you like most of what I like to do leh, other things ah waiting for this restriction to end ah then I can


ah <mandarin>习俗:xi su</mandarin> ah, yeah yeah thirty three countries so okay lah


ya including malaysia but thirty three is quite a lot leh, how many countries you have been to, five or six ah, so you don't like travelling ah


is it true that artists is is like, is it true that artists the salary is low I don't think so right not all the time right


ah, okay they work very hard lah, MediaCorp right


yeah yeah I'm sure lah, but I see some of the celebrity they are not like poor one leh like the celebrities like those like, channel eight celebrities or what they quite rich one you know maybe through sponsorship or whatever lah, ya


, yeah actually I also like applying those random job like those kind of extra job, Calefare <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> lah, ah


ya, <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah, but some of these actor they (ppc) (ppc) straightaway they are really like quite good already right


they don't start from Calefare one right, yeah, like for example if you go star search right, then you straight away get spotted you already like quite top-notch already right, yeah not like, for what I don't I'm not really interested in this kind of thing I don't like it when they put the make-up on my face


yeah, is feels, , like quite weird lah, yeah, but you must wash it off eh you must use like all the special the make-up thing to wash it off, you can't use water right


the for for the food one ah, four, ,


eh <mandarin>那你演过哪一种戏:na ni yan guo na yi zhong xi</mandarin> ah,


yeah


(ppc) (ppc), oh is a monologue ah, so only one person ah so, oh you are the only for how for four minutes ah


four minutes, !wah!, so how was it you got give the thing for any competition or


, oh, then the


!wah! really where at where, oh really ah, but why you decided to become a monk


for the experience or what


, mm, !wah! so how, how long were you a monk for


six years, so you wanted to actually be permanently a monk or not, what was your, !wah! really ah


!wow! that's crazy man, no but why did you decide, like to be a monk


then


so <mandarin>但是你:dan shi ni</mandarin>, !wah!


really ah, that's crazy man, but okay you know as a monk right the food is all free one right you can just eat the food right yeah, so what else you do every day tell me about the daily life ah


(mmhmm)


ya please please share the full full story because I (ppc) I'm quite interested in fact I even wanted to be a monk but for a short time lah like few weeks only, (ppc) (ppc)


north east of what north east of thailand, oh, Chiangmai ah, Chiangmai there is


eh then <mandarin>做和尚现在不可以吃肉:zuo he shang xian zai bu ke yi chi rou</mandarin> lah, oh


oh, , ,


, his face, , forest monastery yeah oh in the forest one lah, oh in a forest one ah, !wow!


eh but you, ever heard of those gangster monks or not I saw on the news, in thailand especially


should be, yourself lah, I know but how come they can this kind of thing can happen one ah like they have guns and everything those kind of gangster monks, they have guns everything one they're doing crimes one


you don't know about that ah in thailand actually, yeah I mean they can't lah they shouldn't be lah but they're doing all the crimes


!wah! you never heard about it ah since you were a monk in thailand


, because of favourite, monastery with tiger


, but how come got the tiger they go and make it like they drugged the tiger is it


oh okay, so saved a lot of ya, I know but


(mmhmm), I know but the tiger right , no how do they keep control of the tiger


oh man


oh man, that really sucks , eh but how come monk can travel one lah


, , well, <mandarin>和他们:he ta men</mandarin>


oh okay okay okay , interesting,


so you meditate everyday ah, now leh, , (ppc) (ppc) doesn't really help you lah


ya lah true lah, but very hard also lah to to your own thing and then , not easy lah, you know what I mean right, ah, !hais!


, oh <mandarin>你们有自己的房间:ni men you zi ji de fang jian</mandarin> ah


!wah! <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> leh


ah ah !wah! I didn't know being a monk is so relaxed one, so can relax no not much rules one ah actually, is like quite easy leh for me the way it sounds, I can do it also


no but I thought being a monk you must like abstain for all these things one abstain from like, phone all this thing the luxury of


but if I really want to be monk right I'm not going to take my phone ah I will cut myself out completely and be a real like monk you know, ya that's what I'll do I don't want to do like halfway like take the monk and then go back to the hut play the bloody phone that's not like real monk at all


that's like what's the point might as well be outside right I will do like okay one week or two try damn intense one real intense hundred percent monk, like those kind of very disciplined type mah, then don't use the phone anything lah then after that


ha, disrobe what, what do you mean, ya lor I just try one or two weeks only lah, go back to my normal life ah


just to experience ah, ya not so serious lah six six years


!aiya!, so is that your most interesting experience ever


okay what's the most important lesson you learnt from being a monk, lifestyle okay you teach me lah then I wanna I want to learn like what you learnt you know then I can like


implement it in my life as well,


no but it's very hard in uh this kind of environment you go there, in the monk place ah, yeah, oh


, , , (mmhmm)


yea, oh skinhead ah


totally ah, !wah! you must feels very good without the hair right, , I like the feeling without the hair, ashame lah, don't want lah I look like crap without the hair, really ah I look damn bad


but if I go monk I confirm I will cut lah, I don't like to have hair actually


just experience ah, (mmhmm)


what's so good about meditating anyway, what's so good about meditating, to, but what's so good about like having a good teacher


wrong what's the wrong what's the right way, wrong ways like what you say lah, it was like a counsellor, no but


I know but no my question is what's so good about meditation, the act of meditation itself, so another thing isn't it think you have so many


ya ya ya that's why I'm


, but how does it help you thinking about parts of your body,


, , !wow! sounds very extreme


ya , !haiya!


ha <mandarin>你什么:ni shen me</mandarin>, (mmhmm),


how do you end the cycle of life and death, that's not possible what when you die, then it ends already, I know but how do you end the cycle


have you been ever in that stage before, but how does it feel like actually to be like so, high level of meditation


okay okay, okay, K let's change topic


ya, in theory, six PM ah


sixty, six AM, you know I just only woke up right, ah


do my own thing lah, on the laptop ah


the the money is not enough, and I need to pay for the rental everything, for this place, we'll have enough time


I don't have enough time that's true I don't have ever have enough time and in fact most of the things I do right there's never ever ever enough time, there are a lot of things that I'm not doing already like I don't have enough time to do all the things, but in life there's never ever ever enough time, so I yeah


because I want to improve myself I want to like make something, like okay my role model right is elon musk you know who is elon musk right, ya so like, he is trying to improve the world you know so I see things the way as he see it lah


to try to improve the world make like some invention, or like make something that will improve how humans live their life lah, so I wanna like have this kind of vending machine right to actually <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> , err


improve the life of people lah, you know I mean, ya, for all these things ah so you gotta work hard lah, that's the only way, work hard and not be lazy, yeah


anyway you only live once like what you say, life is short,


sometimes, , !aiya! <mandarin>这个是我的我的早餐:zhe ge shi wo de wo de zao can</mandarin> eh


no I message you then I go back to sleep, ya, ya, so you shouldn't be surprised lah that's why when I saw your message right I was still sleeping then I saw oh you message me then I quickly like go down and meet you actually I was like still sleeping and if you if there was nothing today right I will sleep until like six plus


no no no it's a rented flat so I got roommates but most of the time they're working or what lah


I mean if I'm working I wouldn't be here as well when I'm working right I, , I'm not here most of the time one actually, ya, in a way lah but , I mean I like this place ah it's very near to my parents' house


cause I don't like it I want to have my own space


ah sing dollar, you ask the factory to design for you specially, but there are some machine like this like, one of the vending machine is called the bubble tea vending machine is a new one actually


ya so is a robotic arm help you to put all the different thing, and then put the drink like that, so have lah it's very possible but it's very beta stage all these kind of vending machine,


ya that's why I'm interested in now, exactly that's why that's why so we must invest in the future, ya ya ya


ya ya ya of course of course, ya we must invest in the future


!wah! my chinese is really damn bad man, ha


no the infrastructure is already there the driverless car is really very advanced already


ya ya ya ya ya but you know singapore is not the advanced country in america there's a lot of this shit already


it's very advanced and the Tesla Tesla from elon musk one, it's very advanced, it's very advanced but there are still like some casualties ah but, their car right is really like autopilot already, so you can drive from one place to another right without like without like being there but you must look lah sometimes will have error one


autopilot autopilot, ah, , !aiya! <mandarin>累不累你困不困讲到困了:lei bu lei ni kun bu kun jiang dao kun le</mandarin> ah


bye bye


then what about you, (mmhmm)


okay, actually is it really very hard to find job ah I think not very hard leh I see a lot of jobs also like post like


oh


err previously I I was working as a swabber at err


for HPB there one and then uh the contract kind of ended, and then so now I also like kind of like no job ah


uh <mandarin>不会:bu hui</mandarin> leh not stress at all then then after that hor I worked at also at the, airport also doing swabbing ah not airport I mean the the CEC the Changi exhibition centre so yeah also doing the same thing and yeah it's okay


but you don't get to work every day ah I mean at the Changi there you don't work every day


uhh maybe about three K a month okay lah just for the time being [loh]


yeah kind of performer lah call myself a performer,


well I I mean I started off as an actor I was trained at lasalle so I started off as an actor and then slowly like I get


but slowly you change and you kind of change into dance and then go into movements stuff like that yeah, I also like in my life I also go into buddhism a lot


yeah I'm not really working for MediaCorp I'm working freelancing I'm freelancing before


uhh <mandarin>自己的:zi ji de</mandarin> research <mandarin>还有自己的:hai you zi ji de</mandarin>


okay (uh huh) (mmhmm), salsa ah salsa, we can <mandarin>我们可以做一个:wo men ke yi zuo yi ge</mandarin> <mandarin>可以做一个:ke yi zuo yi ge</mandarin> dance [loh] <mandarin>等一下等一下可以做一个:deng yi xia deng yi xia ke yi zuo yi ge</mandarin> dance session


don't know leh don't know how to say leh how to describe ah, eh, it's basically about free movement lah it's about freeing your freeing your whole body and so it can move whichever way you want to move


what kind of sports you do


put on weight


<mandarin>因为他的时间的那个:yin wei ta de shi jian de na ge</mandarin> <mandarin>所以我就不太喜欢啦因为通常他们都需要:suo yi wo jiu bu tai xi huan la yin wei tong chang ta men dou xu yao</mandarin> commit to <mandarin>那个时间:na ge shi jian</mandarin> do the job yeah I rather use the time to do arts and do what I want to do


!aiya! we only have one life eh, okay lah I think I still can


I still can pay for a few months and then <mandarin>我那边也会有:wo na bian ye hui you</mandarin> I will try to find some income as well [loh], yeah


, yeah it's contemporary,


oh oh this one ah this one I was I think I yeah I saw it on Fastjob Fastjob ah, where did you see it then I saw in Fastjob


oh Facebook, yeah I saw on Fastjob because I was just scrolling through the thing lah just scrolling scrolling, then I saw the link oh, eighteen dollars per hour ah I think I think eighteen dollars also not bad lah


oh okay, uhh from what I asked from the person <mandarin>他是说:ta shi shuo</mandarin> err


per hour ah


oh okay, but <mandarin>我要我问他是不是有一个给我们去然后:wo yao wo wen ta shi bu shi you yi ge gei wo men qu ran hou</mandarin> no you can do it at your house so <mandarin>我就觉得:wo jiu jue de</mandarin> eh can do it at your house then <mandarin>他怎么:ta zen me</mandarin> so that means we don't clock by nine hours that means we literally have to talk for nine hours


but ,


, yeah yeah correct, yeah


but sometimes I stay at my studio lah so I have some personal space as well


uh <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> actually <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> aircon but I try not to use the aircon because <mandarin>我不要他的:wo bu yao ta de</mandarin> rental <mandarin>变得很高因为:bian de hen gao yin wei</mandarin> I think the <mandarin>最那个最:zui na ge zui</mandarin> expensive <mandarin>的就是:de jiu shi</mandarin> air conditioning


among whatever you're using cause I don't really use a lot I use like, at night I use the light of course and then, some fan uh fan I also don't really use I will just open the windows ah


but but but <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> room <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> room <mandarin>是一个很小的:shi yi ge hen xiao de</mandarin> room I think it's about


like, oh I can use the space outside [loh]


yeah, uh it's more uh <mandarin>因为那个地方挺难找的我觉得很我觉得会有一点困难找啦可是:yin wei na ge di fang ting nan zhao de wo jue de hen wo jue de hui you yi dian kun nan zhao la ke shi</mandarin> uh I think if you frequent that place <mandarin>就不会难:jiu bu hui nan</mandarin> [loh]


anyway now <mandarin>现在有:xian zai you</mandarin> GPS, it's not difficult at all,


eh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> don't say like this leh <mandarin>有时是很难找有些东西你找不到的:you shi shi hen nan zhao you xie dong xi ni zhao bu dao de</mandarin>


it's not Ulu but there's alot of place like <mandarin>歪:wai</mandarin> here <mandarin>歪:wai</mandarin> there one


uh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> ya [loh] <mandarin>因为我的房间很小:yin wei wo de fang jian hen xiao</mandarin> mah


vending machine, oh okay, okay, oh okay


oh so that means you are renting spaces, to put your things there


oh but <mandarin>你不需要:ni bu xu yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>租一个地方:zu yi ge di fang</mandarin> to put your things there oh and then and then people go and buy things right you need to find a


oh store what you have lah


oh <mandarin>所以你自己有东西卖:suo yi ni zi ji you dong xi mai</mandarin> lah okay, oh


commission okay, ya


I <mandarin>我觉得也是比较多样化:wo jue de ye shi bi jiao duo yang hua</mandarin> lah <mandarin>你如果要卖这个卖那个:ni ru guo yao mai zhe ge mai na ge</mandarin> then your life will become more and more colourful, because you are you will have to get in touch with different people and then, like you will, know the new stuff ah what what the youngsters like or what what are the elderly people what what suits them what touch them


okay [loh] then what do you do okay I know you do a lot of sports right, I also like to do sports


err not really ah today no lah but I might be doing I might do eh actually my space my space also is meant for sports one, uh movement movement is a kind of sport [loh]


actually is a sport is a ya


yah lah


yeah social distancing, but <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> uh there are still some activities happening ah, there are still some activities happening ah like some uh uh like some groups they they they have tour around like to some uh like err


uh like the Bukit the #bukit timah# lah or I don't know what the


err, I mean <mandarin>是一个:shi yi ge</mandarin> online <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> group lah online group then they sometimes go to uh uh the


the, some Ulu places ah Ulu places, so you can join them also what


(mmhmm) <mandarin>新加坡其实也是有很多东西玩的:xin jia po qi shi ye shi you hen duo dong xi wan de</mandarin> ah, , I don't know leh but sometimes I mean sometimes I also go alone to to


uh <mandarin>我觉得这些都是:wo jue de zhe xie dou shi</mandarin> singaporean <mandarin>才去:cai qu</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你觉得现在现在都没有什么外国人:ni jue de xian zai xian zai dou mei you shen me wai guo ren</mandarin> mah <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> , ,


too noisy lah


uh okay I <mandarin>我吃了一个:wo chi le yi ge</mandarin> burger, with a double double


but anyway uh (ppc)


okay <mandarin>既然你们要出家那你们就应该吃素这样:ji ran ni men yao chu jia na ni men jiu ying gai chi su zhe yang</mandarin> so, so it started from there lah that the the <mandarin>吃素:chi su</mandarin> that thing started from there it's not it's not it's not a rule laid down by #sakya muni#


eh <mandarin>我讲什么:wo jiang shen me</mandarin> ah, burger ah <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> burger actually <mandarin>很小个:hen xiao ge</mandarin> leh


okay <mandarin>算了我忘记在哪里吃了:suan le wo wang ji zai na li chi le</mandarin> anyway the burger is very small but <mandarin>有两个:you liang ge</mandarin> patty then I tell the person I want to make it medium rare but the person still <mandarin>听成:ting cheng</mandarin> medium well <mandarin>所以就是:suo yi jiu shi</mandarin> okay lah medium well <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> medium well lah yeah so it comes so yeah [loh] but it's quite nice also lah it's quite nice also lah


don't know eh I didn't pay for it because it's supposed to be a company for my friend <mandarin>的一个:de yi ge</mandarin> yeah so


uh I forgot already but uh actually <mandarin>我们是要去:wo men shi yao qu</mandarin> harry's, harry's <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but then after that uh we


, so yeah so we we went out then we went into orchard central eh central central orchard eh central orchard or orchard central, orchard central yeah so we went there and then


one of the little house there lah forgot which one already, to eat [loh], but my friends already eaten so they just have like drink or beer or what


but anyway I don't drink beer so, err, talk about what you like to do [loh]


but I mean there are still other things you want to do mah, oh <mandarin>旅游:lv you</mandarin> ah,


!wow!


oh, including like malaysia all these ah, yea it's a lot, maybe around five or six [loh]


I like <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> because <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> arist so <mandarin>我的钱我的收入是每次很有限的所以:wo de qian wo de shou ru shi mei ci hen you xian de suo yi</mandarin> I can't really go unless like, ha


it actually depends also what you do [loh] and also depends on, actually <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> depend on different people lah different people they're different


they also have like <mandarin>他们拍广告就会有就有收入这些:ta men pai guang gao jiu hui you jiu you shou ru zhe xie</mandarin> [loh]


ya, yeah not everybody yeah, yeah,


oh, maybe at the beginning [loh] if you're used to it, ya [loh], yeah you must use actually olive oil is very good for removing make-up any kind of make-up olive oil is very good for


yeah uhh you like if you want to remove olive oil you can buy those uh from pharmacies uh they're they're different gradings lah different gradings


oh yah [orh], <mandarin>应该:ying gai</mandarin> is from my school time until


until then I I got sign up a company to, to do uh I sign up a company and then I start a show I do a show called uh what


, ya I think I can find it


actually is a mix ah mix, I I write the script myself actually no ah I didn't write it the script myself I write the story from a book and then I re-adapt it into a into a one person's monologue and then


ya, ya is a monologue, I'm performing it, more than one hour there, by myself, ha four minutes <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> ah I think for, more than one hour leh


no useful competition ah I think <mandarin>以前没有什么:yi qian mei you shen me</mandarin> competition <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh , uh, then, good ah anyway <mandarin>然后我:ran hou wo</mandarin> then after that


ya at thailand


thailand <mandarin>泰国:tai guo</mandarin> ah, ya, , for experience for


different things lah for different things in life lah like, , whatever he says is correct lor so just


go and see how it is ah, so ya, is peaceful very good experience lah, uh I was a monk for six years six years


six years, , my plan (ppc) my plan ah my plan is to be a permanently be a monk ya


that I really , want to fight for


so, ya <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor, but <mandarin>我可能会回去:wo ke neng hui hui qu</mandarin> ah is okay


ya, oh as a monk ah, uh I actually I went to different places so they have like different different things that you do every day lah like


, okay one , maybe I can share for share err, share the share the the


maybe I can share like two or three places and then , ya share share like a few places lah hor


oh okay uh ya , okay okay the first one I I will talk about is like uh uh err ah more poor poor ah poorer, , oh I shouldn't call it poorer I should say actually a monastery it has nothing much one so


how should I call it, okay there is a more (ppc) at a more rural place, the monastery is located at a more rural place, uh at Isan at north east of Isan


northeast of thailand, is called is part of Isan ah part of Isan, not Chiangmai is uh, in #udon thani#, #udon thani#, okay so I share one place first okay that that place is quite uh so the


we don't get much food but, everyday there are rice and there are some, veggies there are some veggie there are some meat stuff and they cook it in other ways ah, and then


uh <mandarin>因为是小城小城的可以吃大城的不能吃:yin wei shi xiao cheng xiao cheng de ke yi chi dai cheng de bu neng chi</mandarin> uh it is just like what I said just now <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> the <mandarin>不能吃肉这个:bu neng chi rou zhe ge</mandarin> comes from china so like uh like


but <mandarin>那些从泰国传进来的:nei xie cong tai guo chuan jin lai de</mandarin> but <mandarin>他们在这边也是:ta men zai zhe bian ye shi</mandarin> I I mean theres a few monastery also like become like they don't they don't ask people to offer meat


but just so the people generally they just offer like, veggie stuff and, it's okay also, so I think they also accept that they also eat, , veggies but it is not a new world lah


yeah so ate simple and then just, got work to do after that you gotta clean up the Sala the Sala is the main eating hall the eating hall is where that people


where the people, uh come and make offerings and these things ah, ya I went where I went is a forest monastery, ya


ya kind of in a forest, then some are on the mountain some on the forest ya, so ya so


got lah I think there are lor at some places but uh I, ya, but anyway they should be changed , if they want to down if they want to down the road then you should change


yourself lah , I mean, what thing, gangster monks then what they do, guns no, I don't think oh okay I don't know about that


okay , actually I don't think monks can possess guns , okay ya lor this one I don't know eh


, I did not hear about those things when I was there, but when I come back there I heard about all these things


yeah there and there's also a a monastery where there's tigers and all that but I didn't go there lah, you heard about that right, tigers and, ha


uh I think the <mandarin>环境:huan jing</mandarin> is also like, uh, a is part of a forest where is the forest tradition but then I I think they didn't do the things in the correct way lah so


I mean they make it into like tourist spot they so ya so uh, ya , uh at first I think the abbott is


he has he has a heart for the tiger so he kind of, like see a lot of tigers are being killed by people so they, like save them ah put them in monastery and stuff like that ah, so the purpose is to


like uh, is to save the tigers lah but then eventually as the, the numbers of mouths grow so the, the thing changes [orh] so it becomes (ppc)


not so not so pure anymore lah not so good anymore lah, so, ya I think they drug the tigers I don't know I don't know what is the news said is they drugged the tigers what I heard see from the news or heard from the news ah


is that they drug the tigers so that the tourists can take photos nearby and then they so ya, , yeah


ya, I didn't go there lah but I heard that as well, hm, can travel ah you can only not travel during


the pansa, Pansa is like during the rainy season that three three or four months three months I think three, three months you cannot travel is only during those three months


then that the others you can just travel whenever you want to, uh like people will give money and then some of them they do prayers they do to do like those funerals and things they come get money from those things lor


and then but the monasteries that I went to err is they, emphasise on meditation also ya which is


which is what I like lah, when I was there lor , now uh I still meditate but not so much


a more but more control controlled time that I can meditate lah because if I work then, becomes, you cannot really do, what you want to do because the time you sell to other people if you work


so if you want to do your own things you have to, do your own way lor , ya, it's not easy nothing is easy


four AM wake up then you go to the main Sala to


do some cleaning up, and then we go Bintebat Bintebat is you go to, get the food lor the villagers villagers outside will like give you food lah will give you food


then after that


ya, ya actually ya it's not bad, uh if you (ppc) (ppc) if you have then you have [loh], uh <mandarin>可以用:ke yi yong</mandarin> lah but


ya is your own, ha


ya it's not so difficult lah it's not difficult lah I mean anyone should go and try it, ya lah, basically the five the five is the main five precepts lor or the eight precepts


ya, ya


that's true


and then after that, you disrobe then after that you disrobe ah, then after that you disrobe, I don't know you said one or two weeks, ha then after that


ya lor, okay lor


, ya , I wouldn't say most interesting ah is most novels I mean I learn a lot there lah so, I mean I learnt a lot there lah so


important lesson ah it's not lesson leh is a lifestyle is a lifestyle is not lesson,


ya you can you can go and do what you use you say want to do lor you but you do not have to become a monk you can just stay as a lay person, no you just you go there you go to thailand find a place and then you


stay there for a few weeks, ya in the in the monk's place, but I don't know if they have space ah you want a space you probably have to write to them before you go down but to them so that they


write to them so that they know, I mean email to them ah so that they know, that you are going down so they will like reserve a space or whatever, you can search on, ya


when I was a monk we do it every every month I think every one month, ya every one month between


totally lor till, okay lah, then shave ah,


ya but you don't have to become a monk to stay there if you just want to stay there for uh two weeks or three weeks you can just go there and just stay there


then if you like you can stay longer, if you really really like and you want more time to meditate you you can then maybe you can be a monk


you must find a good teacher lah, I think the most important thing is to find a good teacher, then you won't you then you won't go the wrong way lor


wrong way is like what you say lor like uh like the monks that have guns lah or what if that is the wrong way lor so if you if you if you follow the wrong teacher then you probably go that way lor [orh]


meditation it clears your mind it keeps you, so that you don't think of this and that you don't think of so many things and then you can calm yourself down and then uh later stage you can go into (ppc)


uh Vipassana which is you have to think of like the the thoughts of your body, and all these things lor, then you won't have likes uh lot of sex drive sex sexual thoughts I mean I mean the thought is still there but once it comes you you know what to do to overcome the thought


so basically the that you keep thinking about those things, then when you have the sexual thing arises you use that to affect it so you


like that lor, because the main purpose for uh, for a monk is to, attain is to


achieve, a, nirvana, which is to cut off the cycle of life and death


that's the main aim lor, but a lot of people are like, like inclusive of me is like you go in overall than it you are a kind of,


you forget what you eventually was so, ya lor, so if you have a good teacher <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> guide you back to your, he will guide you back to


(mmhmm), want to end the


cycle of life and death lor, no it doesn't end there, yeah that's that's the thing how do you end it


so the is the way to end it is through meditation and after you understand you when you get the happiness from meditation you can sit longer right so you can sit longer and longer then you you might go into different stages of Samadhi


Samadhi is a concentration stage and then when you get out of it, you will get out of it eventually will by itself so you can have you been ever in the stage before, so you can,


not really ah no leh I was always playing around , you just feel like you drop into maybe maybe actually there are different different people feel different things ah but like for me I feel like I drop into like a pot a pool of water


so, it's very cooling and you just you just stay there, for a while and then, like you are thinking to come back and then you you you you go back to your concentration you concentrate on your on your whatever you want to concentrate so you concentrate there so you can stay longer


yeah then, ya then after you when you are more and more used to it then you can start your, you can start your thinking about the dead body isn't there lah


you mean what time I wake up yeah, today I will wake up around, six ah


six AM, yap, ha, really so what time did you sleep


, okay so what did you do at night, (ppc), okay


but then don't you think you don't have enough time


ya, life is short but long sometimes but sometimes it's really short


<mandarin>你刚刚起来:ni gang gang qi lai</mandarin> mah, but actually I I I message you at two plus or three plus ah, oh no wonder


flexible ah, you you stay alone alone here, oh oh


then this place wasted leh


then why don't you stay with your parents, the independence, ya


, eh <mandarin>有没有一个售卖机是有:you mei you yi ge shou mai ji shi you</mandarin> like got hand coming out like got hand like ah this is for you this is for you like that so you had <mandarin>有没有:you mei you</mandarin> ah


ah <mandarin>自己:zi ji</mandarin> design lor, you mean you design as in you design the thing


oh, oh okay okay okay


, but is is the future mah is the future of ya


even like even like the sell the no driver car kind of thing I think next time like, ya the companies will just buy the car they won't employ people to go and drive the car anymore they just buy the car and then they set the thing where to go where to go and then they just fetch the people


<mandarin>很多的硬体的东西:hen duo de ying ti de dong xi</mandarin> mah even along the road there should be more uh signals or sciences kind of things


oh autopilot okay


I've been fine how are you, it's so hot I really cannot take it


!eww! I don't want to see that


I swear , (ppc) I don't want to know what you do behind closed doors


did it rain like yesterday I think it rained yesterday right, maybe my area


(ugh) Yishun is not that bad lah please, okay firstly Yishun has like everything okay I have market near my house, there's #khoo teck puat# hospital I have a hospital near my house what else I have I've #chong pang# have nice food nine two five chicken rice nine two eight laksa


#chong pang# #nasi lemak#


yeah it was disgusting, it was disgusting, okay NUS Mala is disgusting and #yew tee# Mala is just as disgusting but like can can we it's not even comparable okay can we not compare disgusting stuff


really !huh! okay but Yishun park is good like Yishun park ah is really really good


okay, oh oh anyway chong pang had this really really good Mala shop but then they closed down without notice so yeah I'm still upset about that let's not bring it up


eh it's so sad Mala <tamil>அங்க ரொம்ப நல்லா இருக்கும்:angka rompa nallaa irukkum</tamil>


okay let's see it


, did you know that Mala is not like a huge thing in China


it's not so my uncle went to China and he told me that in China right for Mala they use leftover food so it's like it's kind of like, street food or something it's it's really cheap there so people don't really eat it as much it's just a big thing here only


I think it's more singaporean like cause that time I was talking to my malaysian cousins about Mala and they never tried lah before I mean they have it there lah but I guess like it's not as famous as it is here


really no a lot of my malaysian relatives eat very spicy stuff they like Belacan


okay but it's different ah Sichuan chilli is different from Sambal I guess but we don't use Sichuan chilli for everything it's just Mala


chicken rice normal chilli lah


okay nice I'll ask him to make chicken rice oh my god you should try his #nasi lemak# Sambal oh by the way my father's vegetarian so all the Sambal and everything he makes he doesn't add shrimp in it so it's vegetarian, but it tastes like then the real one the real thing


it's Belacan Belacan is not vegetarian all you can smell the shit is it shrimp I think it's shrimp you can smell the shrimp in it


yeah, you you eat Belacan on vegetarian days


oh my god


!wow!


(hmm), interesting


to be very honest with you I am not a very religious person, like I'm hindu like I do go to temples now and then but like we don't really follow all the practices and rituals I guess as as much as other hindu families do


like I don't go for <tamil>தைப்பூசம்:thaippuusam</tamil> I don't like yeah I I really don't do prayers like every week and stuff I mean we do pray but, just not that much lah


uh #ganesha hanuman#


okay I'm like the wrong person to ask I I don't know much about hinduism and all my gods


ya, err my father made a you know Lontong curry like without the rice cakes thing but like just the curry (mmhmm) yeah I don't know if your mum makes it but yeah he made that he made #sambal goreng#


it wasn't very spicy he put a lot of Kicap inside so anyway everyone in my house don't eat spicy food except me ya so


honestly I don't even know anymore but yeah and he made #ikan bilis sambal# to which also wasn't spicy by the way he put tomatoes in it


it should be a crime right, I mean you have to put tomatoes in Sambal but like not so much lah


I mean it didn't taste like tomatoes it tasted like Sambal just not spicy, err I mean #ikan bilis# is naturally salty so we don't really put a lot of salt in the Sambal when making it (hmm)


oh my parents my uncle and my cousin are here so my uncle and my cousin they actually live in Malaysia they have a house in Malaysia but


ngee ann poly leh, !wah! I was from #ngee ann# poly by the way thanks, hello


that is so sad


, oh <tamil>இரண்டு வருடம்:irandu varudam</tamil> oh <tamil>இரண்டிர வருடம்:irandira varudam</tamil> ah


(hmm), (mmhmm)


I see must've been hard for her though harder a lot harder for her to handle two kids on her own and without a partner there physically there


ah that's nice so, yeah uh my mom used to travel a lot lah but ya she was there it was just maximum three weeks to a month each time


maybe every year like once a year or so, ya that's not too bad it's like a holiday for her okay not exactly she had to work but ya


uh honestly I can't recall right now so where have you been for holidays other than India


I've never been to India


what why what does that have to do with my face


uh no my grandma was from Malaysia


Ipoh, ya, !huh! you just said from India


oh ya ya ya my grandma was from there also, you just, !huh!, uh she would have been eighty eighty eight


ya, guess we'll never know


ya so have you been to Ipoh, ya so I think like three to four years ago my family and I decided to take a trip down to Ipoh to Perak where my grandma's hometown was


so we went to visit her neighbours who were still there actually so my mum and my uncle used to go up to Perak err when they were young, to uh like visit my grandma's side of the family so the neighbors they know the neighbours very well as well so they so we all decided to go and visit on christmas and yeah I saw my grandma's old house also


yeah I mean it was like really tiny house lah but I think in the olden days that was like how houses were


I mean yeap <tamil>இப்ப நம்மக்கு சின்னதா இருக்கும்:ippa nammakku sinnathaa irukkum</tamil> lah but, ya at that time ya it was like it was interesting


okay I mean Penang food is nice Ipoh I guess like it's all around the same area so, #char kway teow# #char kway teow# is good


it's around the same areas it's like an hour away right, Penang is not an island, it's not


okay Google and show me later, whatever, hello Coke is unhealthy


you know you can use Coke to wash toilet bowls right


it's probably cleaning your insides like more than you know, no it's not good


well history is interesting, not for me, ya so


uh it's been okay I mean I was there for like what a few months only so, it wasn't very long but I I did enjoy my time there I was just starting to get used to it and then COVID happened so here I am but !hey! no regrets cause like I I managed to meet my new nephew who was born in june


ya and like going out with my friends more and I think I would have missed out on a lot if I if I'd stayed back


no lah I think I'm okay yeah I'm fine


what race, oh racism !wow! oh my god I have to tell you about this, incident that like so anyway I saw this job at on


you know there's this tele group called jobhitch ya so <tamil>அங்க நிறைய:angka niraiya</tamil> like ads <tamil>எல்லாம்:ellam</tamil> post <tamil>பண்ணுவாங்களா:pannuvaangkalaa</tamil> so <tamil>நான் ஒன்னு பார்த்தேன்:naan onnu paarththeen</tamil> it said okay I honestly can't remember what it was for but I think you had to like read sentences in english


yeah I don't know I don't know if it's like some transcription thing I'm really not sure but ya you're supposed to read sentences in english but then the criteria was you have to be singaporean chinese or malay


yup just like that, singaporean chinese people or singaporean malay people can apply for the job basically


cannot I guess so yeah so I decided to text the person directly and I asked like does this job involve speaking in mandarin or malay so I asked him very nicely by the way


and he was like it's already stated in the ad that you need to speak in english, then like he was so rude then I say oh cause like you only stated you you stated like singaporean chinese and malay only ah then he was like only the race we need singaporean chinese or malay then you know what he did


so he screenshotted my message so when I messaged him right I copied and pasted the ad lah and I was like hi is this job available so he screenshotted my own message and he put it there he circled the part where it said you have to speak in english like you have to read the stuff in english and then he was like it's already stated there


he was so rude


but I honestly don't know if they will do anything about it lah


uh it is supported by MOM also like there's been err and I think there was an article that was released yesterday or the day before yesterday about about <P1> pritam singh </P1> bringing up the whole job discriminatory ads and stuff yeah


so hopefully, the government will do something about it lah cause I honestly think it's not fair like it's fine if you need like a certain race just for like the the accent or something I don't know but I mean it should be clearly stated in the ad ya


ya, ya


what which ad oh this ad no I just wanted to know if like they were discriminating against indians, like I just texted him very nicely to ask that I mean like obviously I didn't ask him like directly I just ask like is it like an english speaking job or what


ya I mean, ya honestly, should I ask you


(hmm), (mmhmm)


oh, uh have you been to the states before


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


yes oh my gosh I really want to go I want to go to disneyland, I love Disney, and ya I've always wanted to go to disneyland so, I mean I'm not gonna go to Hong Kong disneyland I heard like cause my aunty went there once and she said the mickey mouse was speaking in chinese and like nah man I'm going to disneyland in the states


I thought you are scared of roller coasters,


(mmhmm), !whoa!


!wah! spoiling your friends ah, !aww! must have been an experience


(mmhmm), !wow! spring break I mean I've only seen it in movies


but I can't remember but there's a movie called spring break by the way, I can't remember but can Google it


I mean


I my memory is really really bad, like I said it's really bad , I know it's not good but what can I do


I know like the amnesia games is it, I'm sorry dementia games, my bad my bad


I told you my father cooked, oh so yeah I skipped breakfast, no I woke up at like, ten thirty so I just ate lunch straight lor


assignments <tamil>செய்திட்டு இருந்தேன்:seythitdu irundtheen</tamil> lah


primary school, primary school is different and we didn't have recess week in primary school, okay recess is for eating I can't be eating for one whole week


I have a sweet tooth what can I say, okay let's not go there


okay wait hold up chicken and waffle it's not a dessert kind of dish it's a main dish


because they pour maple syrup on it right, !wow! okay well I mean I've only seen it in pictures I've always wanted to eat it but like, ya you should go though


like they don't have it in a lot of cafes, okay I'm not gonna go to Swensen's and eat chicken and waffle, I don't think it's worth paying like fifteen dollars or twenty dollars for


(hmm), ya !duh!, because okay if you're earning in USD that's different but if you bring your money like from SGD and then you spend in USD your heart not pain meh


social drinking


well I drink when I go out with my friends like maybe three or four drinks and that's it, I guess, ya and I don't like I I avoid whisky or vodka


I'm sorry I mixed it up whisky and vodka, okay okay enough


some indian accent coming out


okay you know you know why that happens it's because like in tamil right like tamil alphabets there is no W, I mean there is no W because like I mean how how am I supposed to explain that


there's a V in the tamil alphabet, I mean because when we speak in tamil we're used to like saying


things with like the V sound like instead of so sometimes you get it mixed up so I mean it's definitely an indian thing lah that I can tell you


but I don't make that mistake when I'm talking to people like professionally but when I'm conversing with my friend and I'm like really into the conversation that I'll make that mistake, it is when I'm like not conscious of my speech and my presentation


oh what am I speech therapist


and <tamil>அது ரொம்ப சத்தமா இருக்கும்:athu rompa saththamaa irukkum</tamil> so


ya so what plans do you have later


what company does he own, what do you mean you don't know and you want to be a part of it, I mean it's not just about money right you have to like what you're doing and you have to have the passion for it


(uh huh)


(hmm) I mean he's okay but I guess like <tamil>ஆனா அவனுக்கு வந்து:aanaa avanukku vandthu</tamil> like business mind <tamil>இருக்கு:irukku</tamil> lah


I mean I think it's only like against PDPA rules if you take a photo of someone, I don't think so


like ya


!huh!, who did that like


does he know what group chat it is


(hmm), oh my god must be someone out to get him ah


oh my god there are so many psycho people out there I swear, so many I mean okay I guess labeling them as psycho is not, ethical it's not right


I mean some of them just need help and it's not nice to call them psycho okay my bad I'm sorry or they just need help, no not everyone as in these people really need help like IMH kind of help


no oh my gosh I'm not getting into politics


it's not easy like you saw like from the past elections right there was so much beef between the opposition parties okay I we can't call them oppositions right


I thought you not supposed to use the word opposition, I can't remember but again I can't remember, but ya okay well anyway yeah so they had some issues right like the <P1> raeesah khan <P1> thing ya so I feel like


ya it's just it's just not I mean it's politics what can you expect right, and I just never thought politics would be like that in Singapore


I guess I never really paid much attention to it because this is like the first time I'm I was voting, so ya, how old are you man


I don't know like thirty, that's oh you don't look that old


what who that is not an offensive comment


okay, which was like ages ago lah by the way, twenty years ago


bullied for not being able to grow the facial hair, okay first of all people grow facial hair like in secondary school


at thirty seven


I mean I guess it's good I mean Singapore weather so humid it's really hot, it is hot though it is really hot could be like I don't know thirty four degrees


says the person who uses aircon everyday, it's still every night like every single day right


no, no, ya, what do you mean someone like me what do I look like, or who do I look like


no I don't use air con because I don't have air conditioning at home, I would have one but I won't use it everyday, I wouldn't use it everyday I will use it like


when people come over or what or when it's like really really hot on days that I can use the fan I will use the fan, okay it's really hot today I'm I'm not gonna comment on it


oh I sleep pretty late like after twelve


I'm that's why I wake up at like ten o'clock or ten thirty everyday, !huh!, no lah my body clock is like that


that's not too bad but like I'm assuming because of your job you have to wake up pretty early right


!huh!, is that even a place, I know Klang is in Malaysia but is there a university of Klang


there is no university of Klang stop messing with me I've been to Klang before okay, I have relatives in Klang, I have relatives in Klang and I'm pretty sure they they don't go to university of Klang okay they go to KL for uni


eh, is it recognized in Singapore


(hmm) I don't know I, what what do you want me to say, I mean obviously everyone knows what's a PHD


okay why don't you just tell me what you want to hear, okay


a PHD, I mean it's education lah


I'm pretty sure a lot of people have done their PHD in the the same field before, interesting okay have fun gaining knowledge


okay !wow! okay can, whatever


what do you mean next oh we're meeting next week, err, we can eat at oh my gosh I've been wanting to go to this KBBQ place, I am kim I think it's called I am kim at SOTA


yeah it's been there for like a very long time but it was closed because of COVID and they just opened it up again and like it's so worth it by the way okay I mean I'm talking about student price you're not a student but


do you have a student card, okay well if you go during lunch there's like buffet for thirteen dollars plus plus but I'm pretty sure we won't go above like fifteen or sixteen dollars which is fine right


that's pretty affordable actually all things considered, ya and it's like it's a buffet, yeah anyway I I was like thinking we could go there, cool I think that's pretty doable eh (hmm) when are you free, uh next week I am free on maybe tuesday or thursday


!huh! <tamil>புதன் கிழமை முடியாதா:puthan kizhamai mudiyaathaa</tamil> like I'm free on wednesday I guess, no I'm not free on wednesday, interesting, it's ok we can plan again, can we can hash it out you know in the days to come I have a couple of things coming up as well you know


busy busy man, what about you are you intending to you know do something part time again


err I've been looking for a part time job but I've applied for so many by the way but a lot of people haven't gotten back me I don't know why I think the job market's really bad right now, it is, even for part time jobs so I decided to just take it slow and let's see what I get


don't worry you know just have faith you will definitely get something that you want and something that you deserve because end of the day you have been a hard worker <tamil>உனக்கு ரொம்ப:unakku rompa</tamil> experience <tamil>இருக்கு:irukku</tamil> and good things will come to those who wait patiently


okay thank you though, anytime alright let's catch up soon, okay


!hey! <P2>diviya</P2> so how have you been, it's a very hot day lah, !aiya! oh my god look at it look at my sweat patch


I'm serious though like I don't even is it because I don't shave my pits that's the reason why it's so sweaty


it's so funny though not going to lie but ya it's a very hot day it's been very hot recently as well


isn't that bad, alright okay NUS Mala versus #yew tee# mala which one would you rate higher


it's not bad


isn't that the place we ate the first time when we went out to go and have Mala


wait wait wait now I'm confused I thought when we went out to eat Mala for the first time <tamil>நீதான் என்ன:niithaan enna</tamil> Yishun <tamil>பக்கம் கூட்டிட்டு போன:pakkam kuutittu pona</tamil> leh, Yishun park <tamil>தான் நினைக்கிறேன் ஏன் தெரியுமா:thaan ninaikkiraen aen theriyumaa</tamil> I parked at block four two something and that's opposite Yishun park I remember that well because we walked a fair bit to Yishun park I never had Mala at #chong pang# before until that day


what a waste I guess I won't be able to ever taste that Mala unless you know they relocated did they relocate or did they shut down for good


you have the potential to become one you know you could start your own franchise <P2>diviya</P2> Mala, I mean you would probably create the perfect sauce noodle combination you know just add a bit more sauce


right then what people usually have alright and then you know make it spicy and nice <tamil>நம்ம:namma</tamil> <tamil>சாப்பிட்டோம் இல்லை அன்னைக்கு:sappittoam illai annaikku</tamil> <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> combination <tamil>தான் ரொம்ப ருசியா இருந்தது:thaan romba rusiyaa irunthathu</tamil> that's perfection right there you know


if Yishun park Mala has that amount of sauce, perfection it's pretty good, is it not


wait so it's only a singaporean malaysian kind of thing or is it just Singapore


!huh! I'm not surprised, singaporeans tend to like the things a bit more spicier than malaysians I don't know I just find it that way I don't know whether you've realised it


but Belacan is different from chinese spiciness


so isn't that the more chinese style chilli as opposed to anything


alright okay hold up, alright you're telling me, all the Belacan all the chilli has shrimp in it


oh no, I didn't realize that so all this time when I'm vegetarian and I have chilli it's not vegetarian


but nowadays you know I'll take it three days and just say !hey! man yo <tamil>சாமி:sami</tamil> you know I'm good alright I can't I just can't eat


funny story actually I've thought about taking the <tamil>காவடி:kaavadi</tamil> on multiple occasions but I think you know the whole the sort of strict fasting that goes behind taking the <tamil>காவடி:kaavadi</tamil> you know


uh <tamil>சுடு தண்ணீர்ல குளிக்க முடியாது:sudi thanneeriil kulikka mudiyathu</tamil> I have to bathe in cold water the whole idea is basically to live like someone who has no material possessions


like you're a poor person or like there's no one else besides you and god so that you have that connection with the higher power


everywhere god isn't above god is actually within each and every one of us and it's up to us to decide whether or not we wanna, look within ourselves and find god because the whole idea is


yeah I mean I think it's it's interesting you know religion is interesting have you ever thought about uh your religious outlook


interesting so


I mean I can see that uh <tamil>இரண்டு சாமி சொல்லிட்டு ரொம்ப பயப்படுத்துற என்ன:irandu saami sollittu romba payappadutthura enna</tamil> I mean end of the day it doesn't really matter what, or who you pray to or what you believe cause I think what matters more is you know you being a good person you


doing what's good knowing that something is good and you know living a good life I think that's more ya I think that's more important so what did your father cook today


(mmhmm), (oo) <tamil>உரைப்பா செய்தாங்களா:uraippaa seythaankalaa</tamil> or was it not spicy


wait are you sure you're not adopted, what nonsense is this <tamil>தக்காளி வைத்துக்கொண்டு ரொம்ப அநியாயம் செய்கிறார் உங்க அப்பா:thakkaali vaitthukkondu romba aniyaayam seykiraar unka appa</tamil> but honestly though like how does #ikan bilis sambal# taste with tomato


but he overloaded it with tomatoes lah, I see was it salty or was it


then what about so who do you live at who do you live with at home, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), I see


oh <tamil>எந்த:entha</tamil> poly


so my <tamil>சின்னம்மா:chinnamma</tamil> she's here she's been here for the past six months and she's you know she's she's dreading every moment of it she hasn't seen her husband


you know she has like two kids of her own and she hasn't seen them and they're pretty young so like, it's been, you know it's it's it's it's there's a lot to take into account lah


yeah it is you know and I feel like it's it's bad mainly because you know these are developmental years for, for kids growing up you know I think my my nephews are ten and eleven each and you know they you know it's it's it's formative years where you want your parents to be around you know I remember when my dad went to India when I was that age uh <tamil>எனக்கு எனக்கு ஒரு பத்து வயதா இருக்கும்:enakku enakku oru patthu vayathu irukkum</tamil> so I can relate to not having a parental figure around it's it's hard


and like we'll tour around different parts of south India uh Tamilnadu rather and you know because my dad used to work in the ministry of foreign affairs uh he is I mean he he he he works in the


uh he works for Singapore in uh immigration lah you know ICA so <tamil>அந்த சந்தர்ப்பம் அவங்களுக்கு கிடைத்தது போனாங்க:antha santharppam avankalukku kidaithathu ponaanka</tamil> lah


uh , having to handle both ah me and my sister it wasn't easy handling uh prepubescent me I suppose , ya


I mean she did help she did have help from her side of the family you know the uh


and I think that was really helpful for my mother and this reason why I always you know help my <tamil>அக்கா:akkaa</tamil> whenever I can ya


so I mean were your parents always around or


and what kind of frequency was that like, that's not too bad


so like do you know what countries you mum has been to, (oo)


the moment you land in India you will be able to understand what I'm saying because you will be seeing, a lot of things that you haven't seen before in your life and you will be appreciative of what you have here in Singapore I tell you kid you not


like you know the prayer room there's where I go and like pray to him and say thanks man


cause I mean he was born in India ya is anyone born in India from your side


oh which part, as in (ugh) let me clarify my paternal grandfather from India my maternal grandfather was born in Perak Malaysia


how old is your grandmother


oh she would have, my condolences I'm sorry but it would have been freaky if they knew each other you know


I guess we won't, no I have not been to Ipoh have you


!whoa! that's pretty trippy, I guess I mean <tamil>அந்த காலத்தில அதை எல்லாம் பார்க்கும்போது பெரிய வீட்டு எல்லாம் ரொம்ப:andtha kaalaththil athai ellaam paarkkumpoothu periya viitdu ellaam rompa</tamil> I mean it was a rarity what you wouldn't expect


so what else did you like do in Ipoh besides you know visiting family and stuff were you was there any local delicacies that you got to try was there anything good to eat


I mean I wouldn't say it's an hour away I would say like it's I know it's up north and Penang is like an island you know, Penang is an island, yes it is


Penang is an island, if Penang is an island


no it's not that unhealthy <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> Sprite <tamil>எல்லாம் கேட்கவில்லை:ellaam keetkavillai</tamil> leh <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> root beer <tamil>கேட்கவில்லை:keetkavillai</tamil> leh <tamil>நான் என்ன கேட்கிறேன்:naan enna keetkireen</tamil> I'm asking for a Coke zero


that's good what isn't that good, this is the reason why I am a history major can't do this science man


it is interesting but it's not for everyone I guess, clearly


tell me about you know studying overseas how's that been


nice


fair enough so tell me what do you feel about


race in Singapore, ya like what do you think about racism in Singapore


yes yes, (mmhmm)


okay


wait let me clarify what you just said you said singaporean chinese or malay that means singaporean chinese or malay or singaporean chinese or singaporean malay


(mmhmm)


what nonsense is he on about, you know like I feel like this kind of people <tamil>நமக்கு:namakku</tamil> <tamil>இன வேறுபாடு கண்டிப்பா இருக்கும் சிங்கப்பூர்ல ஆனால்:ina veerupaadu kandippaa irukkum sinkappurla aanaal</tamil> it's this kind of


discrimination that is unnecessary in our country you know I think the fella could have explained why this races were important or why were they needed for this criteria you know he could have specified that a bit more the ad is a bit discriminatory already uh in general you know what you should do you go to TAL


dot SG and report <tamil>பண்ணு:pannu</tamil> lah


I am confident the government will take action uh is this government bond I don't know


mmhmm


I mean it should be clearly stated but if it's not stated I think that's a bit ridiculous I mean if you ask me personality right I think, why did you even bother approaching for the ad then


I mean okay lah I applaud you for your efforts you know, but


you know, if you ask me right, if you ask me I think it's better that people just try to learn to respect each other and you know we build a better Singapore from that


so you know recently we are having COVID err spikes and all not in Singapore right uh well not really in Singapore but around the world you know I was supposed to go to the states in may and


professors whom have become close friends you know lifelong friends I'm talking about you know <tamil>என்:en</tamil> classmates <tamil>அவங்க எல்லாம் இன்றைக்கு வரை என்ன:avangka ellaam inraikku varai enna</tamil> FaceTime <tamil>பன்றாங்க இல்ல:panrangka illa</tamil> message <tamil>பன்றாங்க:pandranka</tamil> wait ah but ya but do you want to go to the states


why disneyland


that's the thing like after my first one so usually I go to the most terrifying one first after that I'm fine like I went with my friend who came to see me from the states ah from Singapore rather and he wanted to come to the states uh for his graduation trip


and he said he really wanted go to Orlando so I was in #north carolina# at that time so for three days


that's right <tamil>முக்கி முக்கி குடித்தான்:mukki mukki kudiththaan</tamil> lah, it was and I mean we did a lot of fun stuff we went comic book hunting and then uh so I said we spent four days in Orlando right


inbetween correct so that was in cumulatively like together altogether and then inbetween ah what we did was we went down to Miami went to Miami I go to this cigar bar, ah that I've been to before for spring break that's


ya, it's like the movies but way wilder ya what movies did you watch that had spring break in them, who's acting in it


I realise one thing out of this conversation, you tend to forget every single thing


it's not good, I know but that's not good


I mean there are multiple ways to increase your uh capacity to remember, amnesia games that's the first time, amnesia is


you forgot again is it, ah this is just too fun for me lah so what did you eat this morning


but that was afternoon right, you forgot


you wake up pretty late nowadays ah, !wow! what a hard worker for once I'm hearing that you are doing work up till late at night usually it's <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> Netflix <tamil>பார்க்கிறேன் நான்:paarkkireen naan</tamil> Facebook <tamil>பார்க்கிறேன்:paarkkireen</tamil> <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> Instagram scroll <tamil>பன்றேன்:panreen</tamil> and it looks but we're now her facebook baker air lanes exams korban eh I have a holiday time


what did you do what did you do during recess in uh primary school


take a break right, but you had recess right everyday right, yea, when it comes to you right that's very much possible


!wah! that's even worse you know like how much calories are in sugar right, (mmhmm)


thank you very much, so they have a couple of things <tamil>நான் எனக்கு ரொம்ப பிடித்த:naan enakku rompa pidiththa</tamil> dessert <tamil>என்னென்ன:ennenna</tamil> chicken and waffle


you have to try the american chicken and waffle and realise how sweet it is


they pour a shit ton of maple syrup on it like a lot, why why haven't you tried eating it


they have it in Swensen's, why why not


okay that's fair you know I only pay like seven US dollars for chicken and waffle in a proper restaurant


do you do that, wait why


no eh I mean I was working in the US lah and I wasn't making making much every two weeks maybe I made like hundred dollars, I I became an alcoholic in the states I kept on drinking every day do you drink


what do you mean by social drinking everyone has their own definition nowadays, so you're a lightweight


interesting, say that again sorry how do you pronounce the drinks that you just mentioned


sorry sorry sorry repeat that again, whisky vodka whisky vodka


ya that's right but apparently there's a thing like you know to mix up your W's and V's together for some odd reason oh well I mean most singaporean indians I know have the issue of saying using W for V except for their own names like my own name starts with a V uh <P2>vignesh</P2> so


like I wouldn't say <P2>vignesh</P2> but some like when it comes to like vodka let's say im pronouncing like the W vodka like how you pronounce whisky with V whisky, I I don't know who's the


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), why is there no W


you mean there's no V right, but that doesn't explain why we pronounce words that start with V it's it's something


I see cause


so it's an easy mistake to make I suppose


maybe I should learn from you if that's the case do you have any tips that I could follow


I mean !hey! if you know how to do you know if you can help me if you can you know be able to code switch properly in a professional environment <tamil>அது எனக்கு ரொம்ப உதவியா இருக்கும்:athu enakku rompa uthaviyaa irukkum</tamil> good tips


alright fine you can give me some later, oh look, it's windy finally the whole day it's been pretty


I mean if you just had some air conditioning I guess it would you know help but


the car's air conditioning system is spoilt so like we can't do much about it, I mean yeah it'll be noisy as well but you know


so <tamil>நான் குடிக்க போறேன்:naan kudikka pooreen</tamil> , what to do lah


so this kid I mean I teach his I tutor this kid the guy was calling me out this uncle he he's my national service friend's uh uncle so like


you know he's pretty uh close to uh me in that regard I've been drinking with him in the past you know I'm not crossing any boundaries by drinking with him even though I'm teaching his kid and what not but, he's a nice man you know who knows maybe he will offer me a full them gig in his company


that's the best part I don't know some business in China, I mean end of the day if it means making some money it's making some money what


I don't know man like too soon, neither did I


(hmm), I remember that's against like privacy laws and what not though, but


a certain place also what if you think about it, so you know I I do feel that


it's important to respect other people and what not because I mean end of the day what do you expect to do when you know when your information get revealed out of nowhere


I don't know like it appeared in some sort of anonymous group chat and then because of that you know he he was kinda fearful for his life, strangely no you know it's but he kept on getting like weird phone calls <tamil>வெவ்வேறு பேர்:vevveeeru peer</tamil> uh I mean like from different people they they called him and then <tamil>தொந்தரவு செய்வாங்க:thondtharavu seyvaangka</tamil> lah


I mean probably lah if you think about it like end of the day


might have been an ex girlfriend or a boyfriend you know I mean nowadays anything is possible, ya


why is that so, they do need help you know everyone needs a bit of help


they do but end of the day like I just hope people can just respect each other and you know try to forge a better future for you know for everyone, I do believe in collective responsibility of things and I do believe that it's important that we you know come together as a people as a country address the issues that are


problematic for us and, do our best


I would love to be an MP do you do you have any intentions running for office, why not


we can call them opposition that's what they are they are opposition to the governing body, then what are you supposed to use


ya that's true


I mean quite honestly it's always been like that historically, really I didn't know this was the first time you were voting I voted three times before this


I'm pretty old <tamil>எனக்கு ரொம்ப வயதாகிவிட்டது:enakku rompa vayathaakivitdathu</tamil> like how old do you think I am, I'm thirty seven


well I I'll take that as a compliment nowadays I guess but when I was young you know I used to be offended when people call me very when they when they say I look youthful


I mean especially since when I was in, NS you know, like , it was ages ago you know oh my god that was like what