that one, that one is a scam, that one is the <mandarin>汤包:tang bao</mandarin> okay is that that <mandarin>包:bao</mandarin> that makes the taste, that cook already then the taste come out hor then you that one is not called you cook one that one I also can cook I buy the pork rib then <mandarin>我放那个汤包:wo fang na ge tang bao</mandarin> inside then I on the fire then I put water !wah! that one I also can cook that one that one is a flute that one <mandarin>不是你:bu shi ni</mandarin> cook <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> okay that one is Macam you tell me I eat steamboat right !wah! <mandarin>放那些:fang na xie</mandarin> ingredient <mandarin>进去:jing qu</mandarin> ah !wah! <mandarin>那个就是一餐:na ge jiu shi yi can</mandarin> Liao


hello that one that one no count, Okonomiyaki is you long time already know how to cook


it's always that same few, okay then let's say what you want right


what new thing you want to cook, , what new thing you want to cook, now you very long time never buy crab already eh, you at the <mandarin>煮炒档:zhu chao dang</mandarin> even more expensive they anyhow quote you one what forty dollar sixty dollar ah you might as well buy prawn your eh prawn not prawn <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> might as well buy the <mandarin>螃蟹:pang xie</mandarin> yourself then you you steam


but you also never steam you very long never steam the crab Liao leh


I don't like salmon fish you every time buy the salmon fish you cause you buy one whole salmon fish then you make us eat one whole salmon fish then where's my cod fish <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> Liao


then every time you buy one whole big salmon fish, ah cheaper but then I have to see the salmon fish every single day, you never think about our feelings, I don't care just buy


you go and <mandarin>讨价还价:tao jia huan jia</mandarin> with the auntie lah, ah too bad lah cause they think you rich cause you confirm rich


then you just buy the cod fish here since it is cheaper than NTUC already, you every time <mandarin>虐待:nve dai</mandarin> us, every time what cook what plain rice lah then what don't know what veggie lah no is you never cook new stuff this I know cause every time


no then every time you !wah! we say we want to go out and eat right then you always say what I got this chicken ah I got this fish ah


if <mandarin>好吃:hao chi</mandarin> then I got nothing to say sia


what are you talking about, the promoter promote their products also don't need money what what you talking about


eh I cook for myself hor don't need cook for you hor I know what I can I know what I can cook I know what I'm capable of cooking, I stay in amsterdam I cook on on my own every single day okay <mandarin>我自己去那个:wo zi ji qu na ge</mandarin> supermarket <mandarin>买菜我自己:mai cai wo zi ji</mandarin> plan <mandarin>我要吃什么和那个都还没有晚上我已经早上都知道我晚上要吃什么了那种:wo yao chi shen me he na ge dou hai mei you wan shang wo yi jing zao shang dou zhi dao wo wan shang yao chi shen me le na zhong</mandarin> okay


I really got everything under control then I see the fish I also buy my own fish okay buy my own fish then I see what meat got discount lah then I buy the meat also okay it's called forward planning then it makes you want to look forward to dinner if not you every time !wah! think about dinner ah don't know how to cook every time eat the same thing you must have different ideas like one time cook stir fried Udon one time cook err rice fried rice then one time cook Kimchi fried rice then one time cook


err maybe like <mandarin>炸酱面:zha jiang mian</mandarin> then another time cook like <mandarin>刀削面:dao xiao mian</mandarin> then another time cook pasta with salmon ah see you everyday got this kind different ideas then one day is steak with salad or steak with fries you know all these kind of thing like very easy one like you just think about brain storm a bit about what what new things to cook !wah! I tell you it's just


chop chop then five days very fast one


ah when one day can make Omu rice ah then see


there's no other choice then you then you cook then if you then we don't eat if we don't eat your porridge then you say !aiyo! <mandarin>我煮了没有人吃不煮了:wo zhu le mei you ren chi bu zhu le</mandarin> lah you see threaten see this is called bad example where got mother threaten children say !huh! you don't eat finish then next time I don't cook already this call threaten


ah, this is call nobody eat then you threaten people


no I cook or I eat I add Ajinomoto meh no what


ya but you still can cook things that are healthy and yet those don't need to say taste super good but at least tastes like medium standard you know we lower our standard for you lah okay <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> standard <mandarin>都没有那么:dou mei you na me</mandarin> high <mandarin>是你自己整天:shi ni zi ji zheng tian</mandarin> then <mandarin>你整天要煮整天要讲我很累:ni zheng tian yao zhu zheng tian yao jiang wo hen lei</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我很累:wo hen lei</mandarin> then after that you go and cook


doesn't even make sense, ya but you cook every single day already eh what how many days you wanna cook you cook almost five days six days in a row


you also never rest, that's sometimes then every time you say oh <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> chicken <mandarin>拿出来:na chu lai</mandarin> Liao, oh <mandarin>我的鱼拿出来:wo de yu na chu lai</mandarin> Liao ya


get used to it, ya I'm telling you you should be used to it next time when everybody go out and work everybody go out and study nobody got time already I tell you


you still have to ask everyday no difference, no auto we're not a machine, if auto we never say means Bo Liao don't have already


you only ask in the chat what you mean one person ask so many people you only need to ask one time only okay you just lazy only, you also don't you text each person privately just text one time only


what <mandarin>以前用:yi qian yong</mandarin> snail mail where <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> email <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> send letter


nowadays nobody pick up phone one I tell you, nobody even use call, you give people five hundred minutes of call they only use, less than one hundred, no you must think <mandarin>有时候人他们在那个:you shi hou ren ta men zai na ge</mandarin> MRT <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> MRT <mandarin>这么吵:zhe me chao</mandarin> how to hear you tell me then if you can hear yourself okay Sua sometimes the other person can't even hear you so who want to answer phone on the MRT


cannot hear


you always call when I'm schooling correction


exactly just text easier, just if <mandarin>按都可以送过去:an dou ke yi song guo qu</mandarin> why need to talk


look at your son lor, social issues, I'm sure you know when agnes is at home, he's at home now everyday every single day you don't need to look for him he of confirm sleep lah pregnant women until twelve twelve PM one <mandarin>那个是太阳:na ge shi tai yang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>就算晒到屁股也是在睡觉:jiu suan shai dao pi gu ye shi zai shui jiao</mandarin> one there's no difference


no honestly sometimes people ah like they <mandarin>三更半夜:san geng ban ye</mandarin> they work better like cause it's quiet so the the environment is better that one I understand but then agnes is not even preparing for any exam there's no exam to prepare for okay there's nothing that anyone is ya if you are not preparing for something then you have no reason to sleep at midnight at after midnight


but you see again wasting time is subjective it's like <mandarin>他觉得:ta jue de</mandarin> he's not wasting the time then he feel like it's not <mandarin>就是不是:jiu shi bu shi</mandarin> lah it's like it's like you know he think !wah! <mandarin>玩这个:wan zhe ge</mandarin> game damn <mandarin>爽:shuang</mandarin> right it's worth but he said one you all watch drama what then <mandarin>我看你看你的:wo kan ni kan ni de</mandarin> drama <mandarin>我玩我的:wo wan wo de</mandarin> game lah what's the difference


so you see then how to how to debate, ah then he say I happy what ah then like that lor


ya so how are you allocating your time, make for yourself


if you don't have this concept right wake up !wah! must have breakfast I tell you that is that concept is if okay if you are working then I guess you must have you must have breakfast but if you are not working especially in a job where you don't need to use your like a lot of brain energy or any energy right then you can don't eat one you just wait until lunch cause what you think about it if you nine o'clock start work by the time lunch right is only three hours away


ya sometimes less than three hours away so it's okay one <mandarin>不会饿死的新加坡:bu hui e si de xin jia po</mandarin> nobody nobody die of hunger one, exactly, ya where got


ya lah <mandarin>不会饿死的:bu hui e si de</mandarin> I tell you singapore I tell you the government is damn nice already I tell you seriously the what COVID ah every time giving money giving money all these people just coming in they just come right then they just want to apply more money only they're just looking for one thousand and one ways ah this one apply that one apply everything also apply you go to the E two I ah that center


!wah! you take courses they pay you ten dollar per hour to take the course eh, ya it's Macam like you working like that okay you need to pay the course fee lah but the course fee is like fifteen dollars so if the whole that whole you listen to a lesson for a whole day lah it's like eight or nine hours so is like if it's eight hours I eight times ten eighty dollars then minus the cost fee about fifteen to eighteen dollars then you will still earn sixty over dollars eh


just by listening of course you must pass the test there is a test that you must pass but you just listen to one day of lesson ah you can earn sixty sixty over dollars, ya, tell you the government is like really all a lot of money then all the auntie uncle ah just go there and apply


exactly you can earn money they're paying ten dollars per hour if you are NTUC member you earn eleven dollars per hour, all these uncle auntie ah they they can they don't know but they will come right down to the centre and then make sure you sign <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> letter


and then ya, exactly, they <mandarin>喝咖啡:he ka fei</mandarin> only ah !huh! is like some information sharing session networking ah I tell you <mandarin>他们他们:ta men ta men</mandarin> networking <mandarin>比你还快:bi ni hai kuai</mandarin> ah


they time <mandarin>我朋友讲的我的朋友:wo peng you jiang de wo de peng you</mandarin> then I was just like oh my goodness, then like <mandarin>我朋友三十天后就收到钱:wo peng you san shi tian hou jiu shou dao qian</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>为什么我还没有收到钱:wei shen me wo hai mei you shou dao qian</mandarin> ah then you see all the problem come in


they like to ask this kind of question <mandarin>我的朋友:wo de peng you</mandarin> tell you the government give the money is case by case basis <mandarin>你朋友有老婆:ni peng you you lao po</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>你朋友没有老婆:ni peng you mei you lao po</mandarin> right then of course the the money come easier cause like don't need like lesser things to check you see then the elderly like to go to the their self employment thing then every time <mandarin>问为什么我朋友有我没有:wen wei shen me wo peng you you wo mei you</mandarin> then I'm like !wah! faint sia like <mandarin>你朋友跟你一样:ni peng you gen ni yi yang</mandarin> meh they also never think before they ask this kind of question


ah faint, we are literally a vault


I tell you <mandarin>有一天会用完的:you yi tian hui yong wan de</mandarin> that's why <mandarin>你们用完:ni men yong wan</mandarin> ah we still need to fill it back up !wah! congratulations ah for the you never hear you never see the news meh they already say already then next time our our GST not just seven percent ah then become ten percent ah eat for what sia eat bread Sua lah ya just eat gardenia bread <mandarin>土:tu</mandarin> nutella <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> Kaya lah !haiyo!


what service charge GST nonsense <mandarin>现在用以后:xian zai yong yi hou</mandarin> have to pay back one, you think what <mandarin>用用用:yong yong yong</mandarin> happy happy all the uncle auntie all very happy also


ya right exactly by the time they bye bye already who is paying for the money !huh! us lah only we remain to to pay back the money ah I tell you


and, exactly lor so our life right ah <mandarin>越来越辛苦:yue lai yue xin ku</mandarin> ah !huh! who who going to compensate us I tell you this world is going to become like a world of people all the <mandarin>精神病:shen jing bing</mandarin> all the mental illness all what something somewhere somehow wrong one


so stressful you see everyday like you say everyday also nine to six everyday nine to eight you know some people, it's called the quality of life has fallen but I rather I tell you I seriously say I rather I go back to be a farmer I go and be a farmer <mandarin>我去当:wo qu dang</mandarin> ya lah <mandarin>去当:qu dang</mandarin> farmer <mandarin>种我自己的菜:zhong wo zi ji de cai</mandarin> Sua don't need a lot of things one


it's still the basic necessity you are filling your basic, if you are born rich then I nothing to say lah that one your basic is already for free your your father mother probably leave like like like what <mandarin>两三个屋子给你:liang san ge wu zi gei ni</mandarin> ah then <mandarin>什么一个一台车:shen me yi ge yi tai che</mandarin> ah that one I tell you that one is after that right is you work right you don't even need to work you just wait for the money to come rolling in only that's why I say I tell you people got different starting point


ya, exactly, just see how how how well your kid end up only lor <mandarin>有的好就好:you de hao jiu hao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不好的:bu hao de</mandarin> then good luck to them lah like they just squander all the money away lor


no we never expect anything hor we expect the basics until we can work that's all, but is the competition


only wanna give me Attap house ah Attap house also can lah where


ya lah, you know how big the land it is a not your own house ya one basketball court eh whose house got basketball court one you tell me whose full length basketball not half length basketball court okay can play a full game okay her family rich ah then the car you see park there !wah! two audi one audi one land rover then you see the house ah the house like <mandarin>破破烂烂:po po lan lan</mandarin> lah but I tell you the whole that whole land ah I tell you


you sell ah at least worth few million, hello four five cars is even an understatement eh you never see how broad that whole place is, is damn broad, see I tell you her her grandfather lucky ah grandparents buy confirm is grandparents combined family lucky ah <mandarin>那个屋子:na ge wu zi</mandarin> is theirs already


mummy why you got no foresight ah


physically my foot lah, how you all physically stress


we also need to work very hard what you talking about everybody needs to work hard this this don't say this era periods era everybody also working hard everybody also dying everybody also struggling just to live


is only good for people who really want to lie down and do nothing or they really really really love to work from home nobody else will say that this COVID is a good situation, why the people would say it's a good opportunity


think about what, think about what <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> future Liao <mandarin>还:hai</mandarin> think


thinking is not a good in our before yet for the older people ya thinking is good they can settle for the middle aged people lah got some crisis right and then they think about what they want to do well but for young people it's it's it's a tragedy eh people cannot find job leh what's there to think so much time we think we think about how sad we are how we got no jobs how we need to fight for jobs how the economy is crushing how what are we going to do with our lives there's not good in our


that's only good for older people that's why older people like it cause they can't you can slow down drink their coffee at home and think about what you want to do in life, but for young people it's a tragedy it's a flood it's a earthquake it's like it's like <mandarin>你要他们做什么:ni yao ta men zuo shen me</mandarin> it's like it's like everybody <mandarin>事业:shi ye</mandarin> or like [orh] those who change job those who Kena retrenched ah they think about why I Kena retrenched isn't that even worse that's why people divorce case high lah ah <mandarin>什么家宝:shen me jia bao</mandarin> lah all these nonsense all start to come out why cause people got too much time to think


that is a tragedy you too much time is not as to think it's not a good it's good only if you are going to slow down your life right or forty or fifty or whether you like or what should I do with my life you are twenty something years old you will only think about how sad your life is you cause you cannot there's so much missed like people miss school miss exams then no job all this the government the government could feed them meh no what your future is still your own lah you can't rely on the government


it's called different people got different perspective but then I tell you older people will benefit from COVID but younger people don't


and those people who are struggling to survive Siao eh ask them wash you wash bowl no bowl to wash also how to survive <mandarin>那些洗碗的:nei xie xi wan de</mandarin> !huh! <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> you say <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> dishwasher auntie ah five dollar six dollar per hour no dishes to wash how


okay


my first wish ah, okay lah at my age of course is err health is more important to me lor so I only hope that I can be <mandarin>健健康康:jian jian kang kang</mandarin> you know then cause I want to go travel


you know so for in the past so many years working the taking of the family you taking care of the family so you know I think I have to plan for my err the rest of my time you make fully use of it so besides travelling I think also need to learn new things ah


cause we always say mah <mandarin>吃到老学到老:chi dao lao xue dao lao</mandarin> mah, so <mandarin>每次就是要这样:mei ci jiu shi yao zhe yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>你要要进步不然以后你怎么样跟你的孩子:ni yao yao jin bu bu ran yi hou ni zen me yang gen ni de hai zi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>跟你的孙子:gen ni de sun zi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>跟外面的人:gen wai mian de ren</mandarin> ah <mandarin>接触你需要进步:jie chu ni xu yao jin bu</mandarin> mah


cause when you're healthy then you can do a lot of thing if you are not healthy then you can't do anything right or not


can lah but you won't be everyday lie down there let's say you stay in the hotel then everyday you lie stay in the hotel room then must well you stay at home better save money you go there you wanna see more thing you want to have eye opening you know to see more thing that you never see before so of course lah if you are healthy you really can walk further right that is what we always say


and then ah certain thing <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>在你脑海里面很深:zai ni nao hai li mian hen shen</mandarin> rather than <mandarin>你只是看书:ni zhi shi kan shu</mandarin> lah <mandarin>还是看:hai shi kan</mandarin> on the line <mandarin>你去看一些:ni qu kan yi xie</mandarin> online you also can see a lot of places lah very nice but when you're actually there that is a different feeling


right or not ya <mandarin>你要身在其中:ni yao shen zai qi zhong</mandarin> mah <mandarin>你不只是看:ni bu zhi shi kan</mandarin> picture <mandarin>看电脑上面的:kan dian nao shang mian de</mandarin> scenery that is no meaning at all I find


ya <mandarin>也能够陪你:ye neng gou pei ni</mandarin> lah, old people wish, , , no what cause <mandarin>你你跟你朋友好朋友:ni ni gen ni peng you hao peng you</mandarin> you know err <mandarin>可能有些认识几十年的朋友:ke neng you xie ren shi ji shi nian de peng you</mandarin> then you know last time maybe you all don't have time together cause everybody busy their own work their own family or whatever you know but when come to a time that everybody is free like <mandarin>你的朋友也有空:ni de peng you ye you kong</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>有时间:you shi jian</mandarin> Liao


then <mandarin>就可以大家:jiu ke yi da jia</mandarin> you know <mandarin>在一起多聚会:zai yi qi duo ju hui</mandarin> lah <mandarin>多什么:duo shen me</mandarin> I think it's a very good things lor cause nobody can live err, so called independently without any anybody help what right or not so maybe at that time you help me I help you in certain err circumstances so this is how the friendship build up you know that kind of thing


you make it more stronger more deeper you know


you will then you you will be able to do the thing that you like the thing that you want to do sometimes cause of certain circumstances you cannot you got a lot of thing you want to do when you're young but you can't so you have no choice but when you come to a certain age then you then you can do it so is still fulfil your wish lah is just that it takes some times lor not at the early stage but at the latest stage


third <mandarin>愿望:yuan wang</mandarin> ah, I actually hope that third <mandarin>愿望就是国家平安:yuan wang jiu shi guo jia ping an</mandarin> lor


what old turtle you live in a society you live in the country if if your country is not safe then, ya but die peacefully died in your own country


you know, that's why, that's why we have to pray for them every country we must pray for the leader okay the leader is very important they lead the country they implement the policy you know so if you have a good government of course the people will not suffer but if you don't have a good government don't have a good leader then the people will suffer


I mean I don't I don't mind you know cause as what you said they're inter related you know every every country cannot live by live alone by themselves


okay so we need to help each other just like it's just that from a family brother sister to help each other you know parent and children have to help each other, extend no extend out until a country <mandarin>就从一个小爱变成一个大爱:jiu cong yi ge xiao ai bian cheng yi ge da ai</mandarin> you know


that's why you have to educate your people is very important that's where children when young you have to educate them and cannot be


selfish you must love your neighbours as and all, loving your own people your own family people


sound like a, ah that one I don't really agree lah I don't agree that that's why I don't agree that every school is a good school cause just like


five finger, you know five finger you look at it you got long and short what and then they may serve different function also but how you need to do to make them coordinate to each other and not fight to each other that is important and that's you educate them that's why I said you know <mandarin>世界上:shi jie shang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>一种民养白种人:yi zhong min yang bai zhong ren</mandarin> mah


use your own talent to help someone that is certain area that is weaker so I think, this is very important if you educate this the the children when they are young, and then school also got good school and bad school but the government must know oh this this school is not so strong or this school is not so good you make them good


you don't go and help those already good school then you still help them more then the weak one you don't care then become they in inter related in between the school they will fight they will compare, right or not so


no you can have competition but it must be a right type of competition okay and not those competition that you hurt each other that's why we always say <mandarin>良性的竞争是好的:liang xing de jing zheng shi hao de</mandarin> okay it's a good it's not say no good then and another thing we also accept that not everybody the same some will be more clever some will be at the middle some will be at the bottom okay so but we have to accept it lah


then the stronger one will help the less fortunate one, that is wrong that's why I say then the richest become rich lor


no last time I remember when we young ah we have this moral education we teach we we will have this book called <mandarin>好公民:hao gong min</mandarin> you know we teach the we teach the we teach the moral education then we teach the children must respect the parents must respect the teacher respect the senior you see so that's why this is what we have input in our mind


and we always also said the oldest must take care of the youngest but nowadays no everybody only think of themselves self centred as long as I'm good I don't care about other people you know I show myself I'm outstanding I don't care about other people


so I think that is wrong, become very self centred everything you put yourself first, then what happen


that's why to me ah I always think that the less fortunate need to be helped


no you can have, the highest the medium and the lower but I said if you are very rich help the poorer that need help don't think that you know you go into <mandarin>践踏他们:jian ta ta men</mandarin> that is not right understand I know it's a competition world but


it's a competitive world but you have to bear in mind you know otherwise ah this society have no love at all, right or not


basically I believe that singaporean err they are still very helpful they still have love you know that type of thing that's why sometime you see when something post on the internet or something post on facebook and then


you know that somebody need or what then everybody start to flew all flow in and help already it is where it so from there you can see actually singaporean is still you know err full of love they still have a very kind heart only


ya, okay


no lah, you know, love is the greatest among all, , okay what you want,


okay


can is can, oh those that are communist country ah but still they still need tourist lah basically


eh country


so basically it's a shelter lah you need err shelter


actually one thing good about singapore is you cause we are a so called a multi races country you know so we actually quite fortunate that we we have a chance to try all the different type of food you know ya that's why so and hawker centre is basically a very common err place for us as a singaporean we can eat some food that is err cheap and nice you know ya


the restaurant ya lah restaurant you pay a higher price cause somehow you pay for the service you pay for the ambience you pay for the environment the atmosphere all these that's why I think, it's it's okay lah sometime you pamper yourself for certain occasion I think it's also good lah it's not say


one thing I don't like is that


actually sometimes ah, actually sometimes ah when when you finish your meal in a restaurant you take a look of it !wah!


the service the service charge or GST lah whatever all these add up actually that amount hor sometimes, sometime you can go to have a meal in the hawker centre serious,


ya seventeen dollar, you you can actually have two meal there already at least, then nowadays where got so much service, every time sometimes ya want to cut down manpower cause


!haiya! that's why that's why I say you know cause of err manpower ah basically lah Singapore oh the salary the the salaries is in the high end side so of course you cannot get a lot of err manpower that's why we rely so much on foreign worker no choice


you know work foreign worker will be so called we pay lesser lor, so besides travelling what else second one is get a house


you can just,


same lah, ya that's why I said you were sincere to people you open up yourself I believe that the other party can feel it so they also do the same thing


that's why I still prefer last time you know when we are young ah, ya <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> lor, even you say you want to have privacy but privacy until err in a way that you don't even err talk to your neighbour you don't even know who is your neighbour you know that kind of thing so I find that very funny lor


ya I know that's why sometimes you have to automatic and be more sensitive on it like you know eh your neighbor maybe rushing out for something or rushing out for work or or pick children or whatever then you don't talk to them so long


okay what I find that at least you know I I can do something for her that is actually I feel proud of it you know I I don't feel it's a burden or anything if I can help people within my mean why not I will do it one what you know seriously


have lah sometime if she got time and we we so called the right time and err and the right place ah then we will talk


no sometimes of course lah sometime you have certain same topic then it's easy to communicate mah you can start the ball rolling right that's why you will always say sometimes you know you need to know a person you it also take time what this is why neighbour actually is very very close to each other even closer than your relative or whatever you know


actually ah sometimes ah like you know maybe we can still start with some Kampung spirit lah eh happen that oh !aiya! I don't have egg I run out of egg, maybe maybe I I should don't feel err Paiseh you know embarrassing or what <mandarin>不好意思:bu hao yi si</mandarin> I I can just go and knock at their door you know say eh I run out of egg you got egg or not can I borrow two from you or whatever something like that so you start a conversation


then it you know then in future they also they also if they need need same thing happen to them they need help they also will open their mouth cause eh my this neighbour very err friendly one you know she she's not that kind of like you know shut her door out that kind of thing you know so it it is is have to start with somewhere you know that's why


when people know eh this lady or this man this this person my neighbour you know is approachable then they will they will kind of approach you if they need help also they won't feel embarrassed or they feel that ah Paiseh you know don't want to disturb people that type of thing so I think it's always err you know you have to find an avenue to start err


you can find avenue just like what you say you know friends can be come from all the different avenue what right so, I think is a mindset lah I always say, it's a mindset that you you you you want to start you know


just like if you want to learn something you also have to make a determination to start once you start then you will continue you know that kind of thing, I already have ,


I already I have three neighbour that I talked to them before okay you know I made #agar agar# for them, children and then I also say hello to the dog there they everyday the rusty stood down there you know sometimes I find that he's very boring I say hi


you know so that's why he recognise us he he you know even the dog recognise us he won't treat us like a stranger cause he will see us everyday and sometimes even we go closer to him to greet him that's why he won't bark but if some stranger


if some stranger come near to to the door then they will bark cause they find that this person to dog especially very sensitive, they know, oh this this this person that I never see before


this person don't stay here then they will bark, ya even even animal also know how to differentiate identify the people so, okay lah so far, you know the three neighbour that stay next to each other one width ah


you know they also know me you know so talk to them it's just that you know sometime of course lah different timing you know, by the time they come back home is sunset morning they go out so basically nowadays ah house all is like hotel you only come back here to sleep only next day you go out again


I find that nowadays the house is like a hotel , , ya I know I understand


this day is a routine


ya, they save and go holiday that is their main main aim to work hard,


it's the same thing


agree that's why you know and always err prepare yourself get ready for it cause once the opportunity come then you can do it and not start to oh panic and and err so called err


arrange your learn you know that's why we always say on <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> ah err <mandarin>机会是给那些有准备的人:ji hui shi gei na xie you zhun bei de ren</mandarin> you know, ya, that's why I I another thing I don't like people waste time seriously I cannot stand people everyday doing nothing one leh that's why I also you know I also force my not say force myself lah ah I also Jaga myself you know I I don't want to waste time everyday I must make sure I do something you know I don't want to let the time just passed like that


ya, I cannot go back the time ya, whatever is miss is miss already, ya


I actually, I everyday also do a lot of err housework also sweat, or sometimes, I walk, ya, I walk also considered as a exercise you know


actually ah actually I actually I discover ah you know china ah all their their what <mandarin>大神:da shen</mandarin> ah


they, ya no no they go to the park to what <mandarin>那个广场舞:na ge guang chang wu</mandarin> hor every morning you know, they all all gather together then they dance exercise you know then they make friends also but so far


singapore don't have yet lah, have lah okay, [orh] ya ya that one ah that that one is inside the aircon err that one is err need to pay and err dance lah okay lah


!huh!, can lah can rejoin again lah can find but now COVID what how to how to go even botanic garden I like botanic garden botanic garden every morning ah !wah! you see all the people then they somebody be a leader then they will teach the people to do the exercise


like that, ya I like I like I like I like botanic garden, last time last time when stay around there I ever from from my house I run to botanic garden


early in the morning, serious, early in the morning and then !wah! I tell you ah that time skip the sky is still dark you know it's about like six o'clock I wish that you know the sky still dark and then you you sit there you can smell the flowers smell really oh the air is very different you you feel very different cool and very refresh


it's good lah but now stay so far, still have to drive, !wah!


!aiya! there's so many people there all go there early in the morning to exercise, everybody do together one what this one is not say individual coaching no individual coaching


actually I I really err respect them admire admire them <mandarin>佩服他们:pei fu ta men</mandarin> serious they they every morning go there you know just to exercise and then also teach that people you know really lead the whole group lah it's it's very good ah !huh!


ya lah that's why that's why you must make use of the time


just like your school timetable like that right, you you you know err you have to on monday do what tuesday do what


of course lah all these have to be you know, err plan a timetable, do the thing that you want to do


ya but sometimes certain thing that I cannot plan it now I I'm a person who will will plan thing I will will not want to so called last minute I I do thing last minute is unless it's unexpected one then you have to do you know, otherwise normally I would prefer to have some planning I I won't just live like that day by day I'm not I'm not this type of person


so there's it's,


oh my gosh, cause COVID you cannot go for movie you only see from the TV


okay lah so far I see err, I see the china programme, cause or taiwan no ah


err ya lah I I I'm I'm looking at the some of the cause china got different different err channel mah they got more channel err so I I I look out for those err very interesting err topic to watch I don't really err watch those err TV series ah but at least ah I saw some of the okay let's say I watch the mammamia


and then that one not bad ah how is that not bad let's talk, that one not bad what


ya lah this is this is the mother those err mother they show their talent what they have you know ya, cause they give some empathy mark mah so of course lah


but also got another program not bad is err the err teach how to cook the hong-kong one the maria


, maria that, that lady also not bad she teach you a lot of different type of dishes she really know a lot and she can sing also surprisingly


never it's not say I never try, no you must tell me what you want to eat then I can prepare the ingredient and cook


hello, no I did try eh I did cooked before, what did I cook ah okay what you want you want to eat I cook lor


I can cook curry chicken, I can fried nice #bee hoon# I can err cook err herbs chicken err then what, the <mandarin>黑鸡汤:hei ji tang</mandarin> you know the chinese herb chicken soup I can cook ah I cook the #bak kut teh# not bad what right


you all like it also what, you all like the the soup, err


no then I cook Okonomiyaki ah, I cook err, that one, that one I learn from auntie nancy restaurant also, ya


so what else let me see, err, my fried rice also very nice eh, ya


cause you all only eat you all only preferred if I cook something new you all may not want to eat that's why I'm trying to cook your favourite food, (hmm), cook crab lah


eh crab very expensive you know or not one crab can cost how much, cannot lah crab eh sometime one crab costs about twenty five dollar of course lah outside also selling about fifty dollar one crab big one ah the sri lanka crab


now eat a lot of salmon fish what you all


, cheaper right if you buy one


but I never cook every meal what, ah !wah! you want to eat cod fish ah cod fish very expensive eh one kilo one kilo ah fifty I think fifty five ah, no that one you cannot bargain one the uncle will not let you bargain cause


cause he he know that cod fish is is compared with NTUC supermarket he's already selling cheap already that's why he won't, okay lor how did I know you like cod fish you like cod fish also


!wah! eh everyday cook new stuff where to eh


of course lah if I if if the fish got those ingredients of course you have to clear mah then what, buy and throw meh


ya what that's why, that's why, !aiya! <mandarin>讲容易做很难:jiang rong yi zuo hen nan</mandarin> lah that's what I can say you know


!haiya!, I never see you cook a a meal for me, !aiya!


wait wait you go and ask the those mother who everyday cook one what did they tell you the comment is <mandarin>我都煮到不知道要煮什么:wo dou zhu dao bu zhi dao yao zhu shen me</mandarin> Liao, ya everyday we don't know what to cook


easy to say than than ah


eh hello it's not easy you know have the preparation everything you put a lot of ingredient in the porridge nutrition you know, ah, no cause I don't add Ajinomoto just like that


I prove to you ah you said you eh mummy your soup no taste but I find that you know why no taste cause I don't add Ajinomoto but outside those people who cook the soup they all put Ajinomoto ah Ajinomoto not only soup a lot of thing even fried veggie everything


you know so that's why


cause I still believe that you know cooked food at home is the most healthy, no lah that's why monday to thursday I cook lor friday at restaurants


ya that's why that's why friday always we go out for dinner we don't cook what, right, no lah cause cause you all also don't tell me whether you all want to come back and eat or not every time I scared to text you all call you up hello who is coming back for dinner


please advice, , why not you all auto


let's say you, I one person must go and ask so many people


now is ya lah got this err whatsapp chat group is different lah but sometimes also never


that's why nowadays the people so lazy


you call them just want to talk to them vocally talk to them you know like, then they


I know that's why you must, that's why we we also we also understand lah we automatically we very auto one or this is the so called of schooling time then we don't call so we normally call after school, if you


ya if you are in the in the school if you are working then we also don't call you during your working hour normally if we call during maybe try and call lunchtime or what or we normally text first unless it's urgent one than call otherwise you know


cause ah <mandarin>就是暗暗的:jiu shi an an de</mandarin> zoom <mandarin>过去暗暗的:guo qu an an de</mandarin> zoom <mandarin>过来:guo lai</mandarin> so so you you see ah why the people nowadays like the face ah like so moonsless ah motionless cause


no no there's no expression one and when they want to communicate or they want to talk ah they dare not to open their mouths so cause they seldom practice they seldom talk they only use your finger zoom


that's why that's why sometime uh a person at home you also don't know,


I don't know ah you all youngster nowadays ah day become like night become day


cause you never planned what you want to do that is the thing well he is waiting for the enlistment he should go and do something and not just to waste time staying at home lying at home that is called wasting time that is the part that I cannot


I cannot take it


but before I watch my drama when I'm watching let's say I watching drama or variety show that is my rest time cause I already completed my task so when I sit down to rest then I I watch my show or I watch my whatever program that I want to watch right but I don't just whole day sit there and watch you know


that is not right you must allocate your time do your timetable, right or not, morning wake up if err need to prepare breakfast then prepare breakfast lah if no need nobody want to eat then then I just err ya I just make for myself or if I don't want I want to go out and eat then I just just err go out lor


ya, it's okay actually, ya that is what I say before what singapore where got people die of hunger no news that you can see this is not india or what you know those err third world country


so, but okay lah basically, err singapore consider as a very safe country, and


also we have a very good err government ah, at least you know you you you you you compare with other country that's why we will always say you know <mandarin>比上不足比下有余:bi shang bu zu bi xia you yu</mandarin> cause if you compare those very rich family you are not that rich but you compare those poor one you are in the middle so it's okay


ya, ya


so good ah, okay


!wah!, !wah!, no wonder no wonder I I heard those auntie uncle say eh go go go go for the lesson can earn money


!wah!, !wah! that's why, they very good you know they really, !wah! they suddenly very informative leh they got all the information eh !wah! they <mandarin>一个传一个:yi ge chuan yi ge</mandarin> you know <mandarin>可能一个:ke neng yi ge</mandarin> uncle <mandarin>传另外一个传传传:chuan ling wai yi ge chuan chuan chuan</mandarin> then the whole bunch of uncle ah


ya networking, ya ya ya I agree I agree that's why a lot of things ah they know ah sometimes,


, !aiya! luckily ah we got lucky ah it's it's true what that we got a lot of err reserve, , otherwise how to give money to all these people


they they going to increase, nutella <mandarin>已经很好了:yi jing hen hao le</mandarin> that one is Atas one already , !haiya!


by the time they bye bye already, , ppo if if singapore the if if singapore is is the government reserves there right going to use almost finish our government will think of a way how to so called put back add back the the reserve and then that would be the next generation the next next generation have to think about how you know they have the they how to take money from you all already


your food, your shelter so called ah cause if you buy a house how much money you have to come out you know it, this is the basics ya this is call your basic need lah


of course lah everybody got different starting point lah cause you cannot expect all the parents the same right you know some will poor some will rich some in the middle


but children also cannot expect parent will give them all lah, ya ya we I I also can't give you and now you all much thing as long I provide you all the basic


!wah! <mandarin>你以为什么屋子你以为要屋子就屋子:ni yi wei shen me wu zi ni yi wei yao wu zi jiu wu zi</mandarin> meh <mandarin>随便一个:sui bian yi ge</mandarin> Attap <mandarin>屋就是你的:wu jiu shi ni de</mandarin> meh, Attap house is even more expensive eh you see the you see the Buangkok err Kampung there the house leh


ah lousy lousy but that piece of land how much you know, ya your friend stay there you know right, ya


park there !wah! all, audi ah !wah!


that that like that piece of land is belongs to the house is err


!huh!


ya what


of course lah we we have to work very hard leh, !haiyo!, actually this COVID quite good but economy cannot lah


no no this this is a time that made the people stop down stop okay stop the activity maybe leh okay lah just for one two month is okay is enough so that for people to think about it okay cause so other days they don't have time mah everyday in and out in and out of the house work you know oh only work sleep eat and sit


now at least you got more time you certain thing you cannot do right then you can stay at home so you, can think, okay give me some quiet time to think


ya actually is


!aiya! actually <mandarin>人生短短:ren sheng duan duan</mandarin> you know


okay that's great, should we just start, they are gonna be listening to our shitty uh shitty oh my god


err, very sensitive


have I mean like recently I did so many things sia like, oh my god, ya I don't know why like I was just I don't know leh I think I am just a light sleeper or something


like I tried to sleep but then like, can always hear the freaking fan like just I don't know why then every every one hour I will I look at my phone and it's like


oh my god I need to tell you oh my god I have like this one friend hor then hor <mandarin>他一直讲他:ta jiang ta</mandarin> very poor lah don't know <mandarin>什么都不可以买啊:shen me dou bu ke yi mai a</mandarin> everything also cannot I'm like what the heck anyway hor she and her brother they argue about freaking animal crossing


animal crossing eh just cause they have to like share some island or something, I don't play it lah then after that her mum freaking <mandarin>买她一个:mai ta yi ge</mandarin> her own switch like just to get them to stop arguing I don't understand ya


ya lor, oh I bought my own


it's quite fun what


that's just cause you can't play lor !walao!, okay lor <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor, like that lor just like that lor,


honestly no what the heck so much <mandarin>压力:ya li</mandarin> sia, for me start seventeen august


some ah like one of the group is like that so I really cannot like <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> sia really


!ee! your <mandarin>头发:tou fa</mandarin> swish swoosh against the freaking phone later the recording


oh my god my friend just told me about that actually I was going back home with my friend then she going to US to study right then she said she go for some can't remember whether she went for some talk or she went over to the US to do some interview or whatever right then she


yes and then <mandarin>他跟那个人:ta gen na ge ren</mandarin> at the their NTUC there right and then she was like can I buy some like can I buy something and then they were like !huh! <mandarin>什:shen</mandarin> like okay maybe not <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> but it was like !huh! what did you say then she has to keep repeating and repeating even though she was just talking with her singlish accent eh I don't even understand


ya is like they just really don't understand our accent they will just make us <mandarin>一直讲一直讲一直讲:yi zhi jiang yi zhi jiang yi zhi jiang</mandarin> until don't know when lah I don't know


she had to imitate them, ya <mandarin>听不懂:ting bu dong</mandarin> one, I mean it's kind of like how err sometimes right when you listen to some of the overseas scholars like the foreign scholars like when they talk to us we really sometimes don't understand lah


ya cause the <mandarin>音掉啊:yin diao a</mandarin> the accent is super, ya that's why they probably use like I'm fine thank you but then we are like what <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> again <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> you're welcome thanks a lot that's why


weird, wait we're recording right you make sure you are recording it set five minutes and thirty one seconds current, let's looks at some of the prompts leh I feel like I won't be able to answer them well but


sure, but they can hear our conversation, whoever who do this I wonder if they will listen to all the full one hour


I mean it's probably like a project right, oh Paiseh


, mutton no mutton <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> mutton no mutton <mandarin>的故事非常很搞笑:de gu shi fei chang hen gao xiao</mandarin> but should I say but we talk about this all the time to be honest


okay so whoever wants to no I'm just kidding but the story goes that there was once, !wah! you cough until my whole sentence gone already ah


so the story goes we were at Lorong five #toa payoh#, and our dear brother


but he goes brimming with confidence ten mutton got mutton but the guy at the shop just be like what the heck no mutton and it keeps going on


the punch line of this story <mandarin>就是那个:jiu shi na ge</mandarin> no mutton got mutton no mutton got mutton, code word within our family


we waited like <mandarin>半小时:ban xiao shi</mandarin> okay like


ya ya literally <mandarin>你在干嘛:ni zai gan ma</mandarin> excuse me come back leh, he has a lot of <mandarin>故事:gu shi</mandarin> he has also like


knee bursting open and then he call mummy and daddy and then they were like <mandarin>不用紧:bu yong jin</mandarin> lah like who cares man don't need go see ambulance, ya put plaster


I really think that if anyone listen to us say this <mandarin>故事:gu shi</mandarin> they will be like <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> what is she talking about cause half the time we are like using code word


they will hear mainly bone <mandarin>爆炸:bao zha</mandarin> blood and what ambulance security guard, put plaster


he didn't understand do you I, oh


oh my goodness, what else what other words do they even call it, dressing is like <mandarin>吃:chi</mandarin> salad


Hosei Hosei, people are weird I remember my friend the same friend who had trouble in the US right she was telling people about harry potter


ya like they were just having a conversation about harry potter right and then they didn't understand when she said hogwarts they all said hogwarts and, yes they all said hogwarts and she was so confused because whenever <mandarin>跟他们说的时候:gen ta men shuo deshi hou</mandarin> right they be like hogwarts hogwarts and she be like hogwarts hogwarts and they are like what what I mean honestly to me if I had to go to a random country and like talk to people and then half the time they are like <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> err <mandarin>听不懂:ting bu dong</mandarin> leh


ya like when they ask you an obvious question and you start doubting yourself that feeling is really like damn bad, true lah, I mean of course


can one lah


no leh I beg to differ sia like I'm I think it's <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> if you have a, like if you have a lot of <mandarin>经验:jing yan</mandarin> like with people who don't speak very well you sort of start to recognise like you have an <mandarin>印象:yin xiang</mandarin> of some words that they would say wrong or they would pronounce funky like really weird right then you sort of can recognise it faster when you talk to people who don't really speak it the same as you like you can recognize what they're trying to say faster


as opposed to if everyone really like purely only pronounces it a single way then that one very hard to recognize cause if you heard it for first time you be like !huh!


who as in, that's why that's that's what I'm talking about like like the <mandarin>感受:gan shou</mandarin> is not good at all


I think it's because like <mandarin>他们的舌头:ta men de she tou</mandarin> right is like all over the praise all over the place I remember reading somewhere english speakers have their tongue place at like certain places then chinese speakers have their tongues place at <mandarin>不一样的地方:bu yi yang de di fang</mandarin> like that lor so naturally ya naturally you will sound very weird if you try to pronounce certain words like for example if you ask us to speak in like


spanish or or what ah, ya korean japanese they all so funky what


why always why always you ask I ask, what did you eat yesterday


!ee! your


wait when was this, that's a very rare occurrence


how would I know, he all over the he place also don't know he


why we exposed him


to me right


it's just really odd like it's not <mandarin>浓:nong</mandarin> is that how you say it like it's not <mandarin>浓厚:nong hou</mandarin> like you can't feel it it's not very deep, it's either like it's a very superficial kind of like <mandarin>味道:wei dao</mandarin> you know it's like salty or like sweet or like that's it there's no like you know when you go out and eat right then you will say <mandarin>食物:shi wu</mandarin> is like got a hint of sour sour ah <mandarin>有一点苦还是什么:you yi dian ku hai shi shen me</mandarin> then this one is like salt sugar cubes


ya pepper, but I feel like she is getting very close to making a good err #bak kut teh#, ya I feel like her pork ribs right she just takes away like those old cucumbers or whatever that's called it will actually taste okay I don't know there's like always there's this one thing that's isn't quite right


but it's like <mandarin>还可以吃:hai ke yi chi</mandarin> like that lor, I will <mandarin>我会吃但是:wo hui chi dan shi</mandarin> hor inside I will feel like something's wrong, oh


wait what does he say he always say #liang zi qi# is it #li zi qi#


I think she overcompensates, using whatever that she loves like for example if she has to use lemon right she will just use a lot of lemon, like for example you know the Saba fish right <mandarin>煮的时候:zhu deshi hou</mandarin> hor she will be like <mandarin>放那个:fang na ge</mandarin> lemon <mandarin>放那个:fang na ge</mandarin> lemon you know then all you can taste is lemon okay lah but fish is quite I don't really like fish so I can see why it helps


seasoning, I don't know eh I know people cook with lemon peel that's quite odd also I feel


oh my god speaking of lemon right I I saw like a listing on carousell for lime I feel like we should grow lime leh, ya lor


yes very <mandarin>远:yuan</mandarin> for some reason right everything that I find online hor they always end up staying somewhere like Jurong like why <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> why would you do that


we usually stay like central lah, and this is like the most like populest place in central


oh my god speaking of <mandarin>下雨的天:xia yu de tian</mandarin> right like I remember there was one time hor I still remember this like it's as though like I <mandarin>梦:meng</mandarin> like that you know it's really as though it's like <mandarin>做梦:zuo meng</mandarin> like that like really I must tell you that time we it was raining quite heavily but not super heavy yet so me and <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> walk like near the you know there's this part before you get into block four there's this red colour house right


with a lot of shoe like you know everything is like being covered like that after you cross the road there at the old folks home there and then you cross the road right then there's this like red colour like <mandarin>红色:hong se</mandarin> tiles and like a lot of trees that kind of thing ya


no leh I think it was <mandarin>红色:hong se</mandarin> eh but like whatever lah, err what happened was that it wasn't raining that hard but then as were approaching like where you cross over right it started raining super heavily like I don't even know what's going on eh like


then it flip then we stop right <mandarin>在那一时刻:zai na yi shi ke</mandarin> like at that moment right the freaking tree branch drop down eh it was damn huge it was like the size it was like oh maybe not one meter ah a bit smaller like seventy CM it was very huge and it just drop right in front of us then I remember looking at it like today is the day <mandarin>死掉:si diao</mandarin> you know like really


I could have seriously just died or like <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> could have had like this huge concussion and then <mandarin>头晕:tou yun</mandarin> and fall down and like that's it you know, ya <mandarin>头破血流:tou po xue liu</mandarin> ya that's it you know


ya but it was it's very creepy ah like, like, something not right at how <mandarin>准:zhun</mandarin> was the


ya the timing of the umbrella just like flipping on itself ya lah I always think back to that story when I think of something like really creepy cause like, it's really just if not for that umbrella right you never know what might have had happened ah


I don't know but I always feel like umbrella gives me like, makes me <mandarin>不舒服:bu shu fu</mandarin> like that why I remember I was here like a lot of stories about how like


I don't know I always like feel like very creepy leh, then on the I remember on the last day of my previous job or something we were talking about ghost stories everyone had like really shit ghost stories but then we were trying to go to the pantry at level twelve cause like it has more food selections and it has like hot chocolate and stuff so we were like


ya and it was super <mandarin>安静:an jing</mandarin> okay like literally no one was around cause it's already nine PM what we work until very late in the office right, and then we were talking about it and then the one of the guys was like oh my god I would like turn around to scare you but then I was like super creeped out because we were walking along this really narrow corridor and the very end is the vending machine is like a setting for a freaking <mandarin>鬼故事:gui gu shi</mandarin> okay then on the right there are a lot of doors and they are like to the directors officers so what happens is that it's a like sort of translucent door and then you can see inside so it's all dark so it's like very creepy lah


like there's like a single light then you can see like the outlines of all the tables and chairs but then all the doors are opened so it's like quite dark ya so I had like just really like unsettled feeling of walking through that


QO oh (uh huh)


ya honestly did anyone even think about it like really <mandarin>想到:xiang dao</mandarin> right you know like this type of thing, oh seriously what's the plan


[orh], meeting point lah


that's not a good then they will probably just like they will probably isolate you even more that's it, since you all are already like isolated just isolate longer


ya lor I mean no choice what <mandarin>没办法:mei ban fa</mandarin> right this kind of thing to be honest


err, no choice ah, I wouldn't either, QO


, ya I mean that's true I think that's no lah don't think about it so hard I think is something something must be happening outside whatever


oh my gosh, I feel like I sometimes get the urge to watch something really scary then make myself <mandarin>很害怕:hen hai pa</mandarin> then at night right like <mandarin>要睡的时候:yao shui deshi hou</mandarin> right then you just imagine <mandarin>在你的门那里:zai ni de men na li</mandarin> got something weird ya I don't know lah I always have like this fear but whenever I tell people like everybody just be like !huh! <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> I don't understand


ya like they don't find it scary you know but to me it's like <mandarin>很害怕:hen hai pa</mandarin> like that I will actually like like you know in chinese they always say <mandarin>愣住:leng zhu</mandarin> right and you would freeze like you stand rooted to the ground that kind of thing is really I really experience that before like that that one time I walked into the kitchen right and it was super late at night and then the freaking towel just drop down and it was there for the entire night it didn't move so like it dropped the moment I took one step to the kitchen


ya that's why I literally froze you know I froze and then at that time <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> was sleeping here right so I froze ran back into our room and be like <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> please wake up like <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> like please wake up and then I forced her to wake up and walk me to the kitchen toilet cause I just wanted to throw something that's it you know but I was so scared cause it was very very weird


oh no as in like those very late at night so no one outside what otherwise why would I call her like it's around two plus already so it was quite scary yes <mandarin>很害怕:hen hai pa</mandarin> shiver shiver


I think she was a bit like whatever but she always tell me about like <mandarin>鬼故事:gui gu shi</mandarin> this kind of stuff so, ya sia like don't bullshit lah but really leh at that time <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> Leng <mandarin>住:zhu</mandarin> eh really


!wah! really the more I think about it the more scared I get like sometimes it's just like your mind it's really your mind playing tricks on you this is creepier the more I think about it cause our mind is so screwed up why


!ee! don't say that, , I don't trust their <mandarin>理由:li you</mandarin> whatever <mandarin>理由:li you</mandarin> they have it does not exist there's no semblance of reasoning or logic in their


okay let's just end that topic, I don't know sia like


anyways, , anything interesting happened at work today


it's okay lah my previous job also was kind of like that I think it's because they experienced a lot of technical difficulties setting up and plus everyone work from home right so once in awhile <mandarin>有一个人不在:you yi ge ren bu zai</mandarin> and then <mandarin>打电话:da dian hua</mandarin> then this person like oh you <mandarin>打电话:da dian hua</mandarin> to another person please then you will be like what the heck <mandarin>因为要打:yin wei yao da</mandarin> then you will be like okay lor <mandarin>打电话:da dian hua</mandarin> lor then ah someone random answer then you are like can you please fix this for me then the person will be like


oh wait until <mandarin>星期一:xing qi yi</mandarin> thanks and then you like what the hell I mean I hear my supervisor then he everyday just go like says the f word in chinese all the time then I'm just like cool, that's why I come back and very <mandarin>粗鲁:cu lu</mandarin> now in chinese


ya lor but I think it's like the nature of the job lah like there was one really tough call right that he had to handle and the entire time I think the person just kept calling him like the B word like err


ya then he had to reply he's like sir I am not a bastard please do not call me that


ya lor I mean some people are just that, I I ya I don't believe in that kind of thing like when they always say customer is on top I feel like that like there's sense to it there's logic to it only when there's respect being displayed if there's no respect being shown at all on either side right then it does not hold it's not it shouldn't be followed cause like if you go and see right


ya lor really


wait this is true eh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> eh like really hor sometimes I listen to some of the people who answer me on the phone hor like really leh cannot make it eh, like <mandarin>真的没礼貌:zhen de mei li mao</mandarin> you know they really have it's just so it's just so bad I don't know where people learn it from like


I mean I understand some of them if let's say they they also while on the call they will explain oh my god I'm running out of money lah how come I call so many weeks ago you all still never process my refund what kind of refund policy is this I need to settle this or like I need to clarify this matter with someone who's like of greater authority like your supervisor then that one I'll be like oh okay you hold on a moment


well let me <mandarin>找我的:zhao wo de</mandarin> supervisor come and help you lah like <mandarin>我也是不可以帮你:wo ye shi bu ke yi bang ni</mandarin> what this kind of thing I also cannot tell you then she honestly my supervisors just be like okay tells you the same thing, that's why lah but I think that one is also like depends on the people is like if <mandarin>老板:lao ban</mandarin> never tell you anything


you also cannot do anything what, they can only like repeat <mandarin>从复一遍:cong fu yi bian</mandarin> and <mandarin>又一遍:you yi bian</mandarin> like the <mandarin>故事:gu shi</mandarin> same thing one always the same thing sorry it will happen soon wait


but the the work that I did was like a special project so I can see why it was not thought out well like well thought out, yes <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> I wholeheartedly <mandarin>同意:tong yi</mandarin> like really


good lah, ya lor, but I mean it also makes sense because like why would you <mandarin>打电话:da dian hua</mandarin> to helpline if you don't need help


ya, it's like how sometimes you go to the vending machine then you are like what please work and then something like <mandarin>被卡住:bei ka zhu</mandarin> then you are like what the heck calls the helpline because some of them quite funny got one guy he call me right and then he was like usually okay if I kick the machine and then I just have to be like err sir yes and no you're not supposed to be kicking the machine


ya and then I just pause and then he like proceeds to kick and you can hear it through the line he's like why can't this damn thing work and then you're like okay sorry sir maybe you can try another


yes <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor like, some of them they don't honestly I don't even know why they would call if they are just gonna tell me that they gonna kick the machine which they know is already wrong but it's as though calling me and telling me makes them feel a bit like better about themselves I don't know


go to the CC and collect that is the standard SOP <mandarin>每次都这样讲:mei ci dou zhe yang jiang</mandarin> and then someone was like you want me to be like a blur Sotong and then I'm like yes I'm sorry you just have to be like that things are just like that already cause he kept complaining that he went to one machine then out of order then he went to another machine but then he already <mandarin>扫描那个:sao miao na ge</mandarin> QR code already right so he can't do it at the different machine machine ya so he was like


why do I have to be like a blur Sotong and then I was like ya to be honest fair I agree cause he say he <mandarin>走来走去:zou lai zou qu</mandarin> like some blur Sotong like that cause he kept going to the stupid same few machines lah then he's like oh this machine cannot work then maybe I go back another day try the machine again oh cannot work again pay for my petrol fare then I'm like


like now I'm already telling you the solution to this is not as though I'm telling you to like go and try the stupid machine again like


don't know what like you also don't know the hours right then after that like she just said you know it'll be better if you go and call the CC yourself cause we don't work under PA we wouldn't know and then the woman was like screaming like you crazy how can you don't know like it's your job something like that


then honestly you can listen through our headphones eh like all of us were wearing our headphones we can still hear screaming like even from the other side someone walked over and was like !whoa! what happened lol crazy eh really and it went on for like at least ten minutes need what so we always just like stop like mute and then you just flip the mic up so we can


so we always just like stop like mute and then we just flip the mic up so we don't listen, but it's quite dumb lah like why like <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> why would you do that


tomorrow, you go do your thing I go do my thing but then my the person that I am talking to like I am conversing with on carousell <mandarin>他们没有回答:ta men mei you hui da</mandarin> leh <mandarin>什么都没有讲:shen me dou mei you jiang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> seen <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> message <mandarin>但是什么都没有说:dan shi shen me dou mei you shuo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> leh


ya but <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> what I mean I would rather just pick up when I have a ride nearby right rather than I have to go myself still must pay <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> transport fare leh


but they won't pass by the area what


but I'm not going to school what now is all HBL, at all fully HBL


ya lor everything is just so weird now cause of COVID to be honest, ya, I mean of course it's subject to any changes depending on how things pan out


have that's the worst part you know about this whole thing is like you don't let us <mandarin>见面但是还要做:jian mian dan shi hai yao zuo</mandarin> group project then what are you trying to get us to do though like we can't even see each other's faces properly because honestly during a class like why would you


so attentive and so participative that you leave your camera on, ya that's the thing ah but I think err to combat that what happened is that the school just made it so that every team is randomly assigned but the problem now with what class I'm allocated to is that <mandarin>所有人都不知道:suo you ren dou bu zhi dao</mandarin> I don't know so many people like


unpopular timings lor so there's not a lot of freshmen in it


friday mornings, ya that's why I sacrifice my friday


ya I like it was err okay I did a lot of reverse psychology okay so the thing is in the first place fridays are really unpopular because of the timing and whatever everyone wants a short work week right but then I have my monday free so I was willing to sacrifice that already so okay then choose friday but then friday there's different timings you got morning got afternoon and then morning is more likely that people have preassigned mods


so okay I go morning then morning also must depend on like how many spaces left some spaces only left seven some spaces only have forty something space left so in my head I was like okay so when I ask around right for example daddy confirm bid the forty one right got higher chance of getting it right but then there's some people who have a lot more money than me I only have max forty dollars these people <mandarin>有六十多块:you liu shi duo kuai</mandarin> how am <mandarin>怎么:zen me</mandarin> bid leh <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> right


so of course I was like okay I need reverse psychology to staying like overthink a bit seven spaces less people would bid cause they will be more scared right so okay lah I bid my max of forty dollars so I won, but I think I was lucky cause the median bid was forty dollars and then the minimum was thirty four so I think it could have been that all of us bid forty and this one percent bid thirty four so if let's say I bid like I don't know what number then I still may not have gotten on like thirty nine point O nine cause some people some classes right is really to the zero point zero one decimal even you same number right still cannot


ya lah so a lot of thinking ah I feel like this bidding thing is like so <mandarin>乱七八糟:luan qi ba zao</mandarin> everything's all over the place you must <mandarin>想这么:xiang zhe me</mandarin> must think so hard you know I don't understand <mandarin>想到:xiang dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>不可以睡:bu ke yi shui</mandarin> eh really


it kind of teaches you how to like I mean you have to plan a lot more if you have like something that we have to do as compared to if you do like the NTU style than NUS style because NUS style is like they give you choices and you just rank some of your choices it's like there's not a lot of


consequence to it and then they allocate for you like based on which one is most suitable to you but I also don't know the details lah so <mandarin>不可以说先:bu ke yi shuo xian</mandarin> lor I don't really know what really goes on


NTU according to darrel is like err you choose to accept what they issue or drop and it's more like time based like you have to be the first one to click rather than like you bid a amount cause ours like you have opened the classes for bidding during this period of time then you go and read any you decide on how much you want to bid and then the problem the reason why it gets so complicated is because in the first place our first term


is protected which means certain classes have reserves spots for freshmen only and that means like the bids will be low of course freshmen what you bidding against a smaller pool of people as compared to like <mandarin>这么多人:zhe me duo ren</mandarin> you know the whole school then err there's also for your credits that are not being used starting from now on you can carry on over to all your other years so you must think already okay so if let's say I bid very little right means I can


save more means that the next round I can bid more and then some people who never save cannot bid or like it's kind of thing then you must also think cause after every term you can fill in some survey and gain more credits how many people would keep doing that and then oh every year they also top up hundred dollars so from there how much would people that kind of thing and then people who are exempted from some modules they have more credits to bid so thing kind of thing must think very hard lah


ya lor that's why, ya like for example I have one friend right she tried to bid with her friend then of course it's unsuccessful because it's so popular right so she ended up I I met her the other day like <mandarin>驾车的地方:jia che dedi fang</mandarin> right she was like I have to do philosophy now


I remember like I <mandarin>笑到:xiao dao</mandarin> my <mandarin>肚子痛:du zi tong</mandarin> like that cause it was so stupid you know like it was so why is this why I think the title of the course was literally called why is this or like what is this or something it's like something really dumb it's just like <mandarin>听了要:tingle yao</mandarin> I really think it's real leh


econs but this this these classes that we are bidding for right now are uni cores so you have to do these modules it's just that they give you certain categories then you within those categories you choose like one mod that you have to complete that kind of thing


I mean you must think ah do you want to try hard for another course that you have lower possibility of getting and then you end up doing like one module short or would you rather just go with a very cheap module


so this kind of thing is like I think the only good thing that come from this is that I decided to plan way ahead during for my entire uni life


to be fair it's like the content of a course can be very like vastly different right one trip <mandarin>不一样的因为:bu yi yang de yin wei</mandarin> hor like some of the classes <mandarin>很简单:hen jian dan</mandarin> so you just go there <mandarin>听听话:ting ting hua</mandarin> just like answer when the professor ask you question then you just [orh] [orh] <mandarin>可以可以:ke yi ke yi</mandarin> understand <mandarin>明白:ming bai</mandarin> then done


but then some other classes like for example the stupid philo one is probably just like really annoying and like really like, very


to be fair I took that mod the easy to score one which is why I paid so much money but I'm quite interested in it though it's like year three year four philo that we took


so ya it's better than okay the other choices were computational thinking and the other one was managing in a volatile uncertain world which I was actually interested in until my until I realize that the my preassigned mods was like super heavy like business law and stuff like that so it seems very hard


like <mandarin>不简单:bu jian dan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> must go and find <mandarin>一些比较容易的:yi xie bi jiao rong yi de</mandarin> course to go and take lor, yes exactly <mandarin>不然我就死掉:bu ran wo jiu si diao</mandarin> lor like seriously I heard from my seniors right that she did so badly like <mandarin>不及格不及格:bu ji ge bu ji ge</mandarin> and then after that she was like crap because she took in poly she already took a mod called business law it's just that it was like <mandarin>比较轻:bi jiao qing</mandarin> like very


doesn't really go very deep into the topics lah but then when she did the actual mod during uni she failed leh like she really couldn't like she didn't even really know why like was it she couldn't understand or is it because she wasn't answering right and then after that she studied so hard then she end up getting like A minus or something but then her other mods suffered a bit


like for the first few term I think the first term I think she didn't really understand, ya lor I mean I don't want to be in her situation also where I'm like struggling already with a preassigned mod then I take one or even like tougher mod I rather not


exactly lor, that's why this bidding thing can cause me to have insomnia <mandarin>睡不着:shui bu zhao</mandarin> eh really there was this one day where I really like <mandarin>不可以睡:bu ke yi shui</mandarin> and then after that it was as though I was at my sleepover again like I could hear what's going on like I'm not deep sleeping I'm just closing my eyes


and I think like in some sense as in whatever that they're saying in support of like having such a stressful thing or like having such a stressful system it makes sense but that's not what's really happening so something needs to happen like something good needs to happen right for progress to be made in the right direction right cannot just like keep sugar coating with like your theoretical or hypothetical situations that you are thinking about is more important that you change our reality what


but then they are like no but hypothetically this is what is supposed to happen but then people are like but that's not what's happening now no matter what you say like no matter what happens


then they should have just do something else


you will never get a correct reflection of what people enjoy because people who have no choice but to bid for something will just end up bidding for something super unpopular cause like my friend the stupid philo class like <mandarin>每天去那里:mei tian qu na li</mandarin> <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> this book looks there's so much meaning to it I don't know like it's probably just gonna be some shitty thing where like you must always question


err ask a lot of questions about life about like why you are doing something I don't know, ya it's just something stupid like why I can't remember the name of the course but it was really dumb like some stupid question like what is this or like why is that


yes the category was critical thinking so I think that's what they are supposed to do


you look at the road should I cross or should I not cross


yes why is the road straight why can't it be curvy


okay I think it is recording, okay what do you want to say I thought you have a lot , that is a lot of prompts leh


no tell me about your friends, I thought you say you got plan a lot, tell me about the stupid sleepover that you had, where you didn't sleep


!huh! the thing just starting so slowly the time just passing so slowly I don't know, ya that's like


I also don't play lah actually there's nothing much there I don't think it's very fun, !wah!, like mario kart not very fun I don't understand why you all play, no it's not you just sit in that stupid car then you <mandarin>转来转去:zhuan lai zhuan qu</mandarin> and then afterwards just like that right


that's true but I don't think is like an exceptionally good use of my time


are you excited for uni, when does school start, that's next next week


is that all they talk about


!aiya! so sad actually right sometimes, actually right you know when I studied in australia right then sometimes I want to say something then they don't understand then I feel very sad


so she did they didn't get what she meant by I want to buy something, so stupid one ah, my friend told me right


ya my friend told me in UK if they don't speak in the fake UK accent, ya they always don't understand eh that's so sad


[orh] you mean like the, different actually the words used is also different


but it's okay you won't experience that, ya it's at five minutes and thirty one seconds currently


, who


to listen, maybe, maybe they get paid a lot to listen you're not supposed to interrupt me


, tell a story that is funny in retrospect, but would not have been funny as that time


you should say it say it, (ppc) I feel like we can never stop saying that <mandarin>故事:gu shi</mandarin> like it never ends


no mutton , , it's actually quite funny


that's cause we were sitting there for super long, !huh! got so long meh


I think it was funny cause he was like


I is waiting for my Satay that was so funny


put plaster, then all the blood just be like pew pew pew fireworks and then the security guard be like oh no oh no


ya explain the story well enough for them to understand anyone that hears us will only hear some part of it


put plaster so stupid you know there was once this reminds me I was at ikea in cameron they were selling like the plaster it's very <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> it's only like one dollar two dollar for this one big packet of plaster


ya and it was like <mandarin>有那个小的:you na ge xiao de</mandarin> and <mandarin>大的:da de</mandarin> and the <mandarin>大的:da de</mandarin> is like for can cover the <mandarin>疤痕:ba hen</mandarin> anyway so then I went up to the guy and I was like do you guys sell plasters and he didn't understand me


no he didn't understand what plaster is, cause they use a different one ya so I was like wait <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> ya and then my brain just couldn't handle it I was like what's another word for plaster


and I just kept I was like uh, I was like err you stick it over a wound and he just looks so confused <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> he was like !huh!


you know there's blood then there's cut then you have to cover it and then after like a super super long time he finally got back and he was like oh you mean band aid


and I didn't know that they call it band aid I thought it was plaster


, caesar salad, ya so anyway that was my experience buying plaster it was so strange, ya


she was just talking randomly, is it hog warts


but it's okay I think like you can learn a lot of things lah


actually I don't think it's about your pronunciation, for example right sometimes, I mean even if we like pronounce it as a little bit <mandarin>怪怪:guai guai</mandarin> right I think most people are still able to understand as in you cannot understand those second language speakers at all but in fact if your english is very good you should be able to understand right even if there's an accent difference


ya lah I mean for the first time of course you will like learn Leng <mandarin>一下:yi xia</mandarin> and then you will like sorry can you repeat actually I feel very bad for them leh cause they I think they think they are saying it right but actually it's not right


the second language speakers lah, !aiya! just <mandarin>厚脸皮一点:hou lian pi yi dian</mandarin> then just whatever lor you know it's not much lah I mean just have to adapt to the way the speak if not no I cannot understand you that's so sad actually sometimes right their accent is also super thick like when I listen to the voice recording or the video recording right sometimes I have to slow them down and take super long before I can even like <mandarin>了解一点点:liao jie yi dian dian</mandarin> what they are saying


err like korean, ya like no one can pronounces samsung the same cause they pronounce it the korean way


no it's not samsung samsung I don't know how they do it cause when they pronounce the a is usually like ah ah ah


what are you doing ah we should begin the prompt okay like tell me what you ate yesterday, okay <mandarin>你问:ni wen</mandarin> lor


, ya so right maybe I can say that time daddy brought us to velocity or novena square two or whatever that place is called lah and then he ask me what food we want to eat then I was like okay let's just walk around and then he brought us to this korean stall then I was like okay lor eat here


then afterwards we order already right some korean food, what <mandarin>几十啊:ji shi a</mandarin> it was like when you and darrell were not here I can't remember why you all were not here, ya I think darrell what was he doing


why every time he not with us ah, Kurabura


, ya that's true


so then you daddy you know daddy like fried chicken right like korean fried chicken then we sat down and ordered the beef hot pot and then <mandarin>突然间:tu ran jian</mandarin> we saw the poster for the korean fried chicken on our left and we realise oh shit


it's so sad but actually the hotpot was quite nice lah you know the soup that mummy made that day the Wanton soup not Wanton soup the one that the fishball one that's the korean soup, but she added the MSG so it was very salty


I think we're gonna get <mandarin>糖尿病:tang niao bing</mandarin> but whatever, it's <mandarin>没有味道:mei you wei dao</mandarin> one


it's like the kettle soup what


pepper, !huh! #bak kut teh#


I know what you mean, ya it's not bad, ya I think they call it Umami man, oh ya ya ya


ya it's that <mandarin>味道:wei dao</mandarin> eh like the stupid chinese show that daddy likes to watch, like I ya I don't know ah, #liang zi qi# also


ya then I think I don't know mummy has this over, using pepper, ya


but even when she's cooking she put the lemon people use it as a garnish but she use it as a cook like, ya damn weird right


they they bake the <mandarin>蛋糕:dan gao</mandarin> with lemon peel inside, not bad eh, how much is it


cause a lot of people stay there the Jurong clan is huge #pasir ris# also a lot


ya just cause we never stay outside of, ya the only time we stay not central was in Sengkang


then I was in a car right and I just like I cannot I cannot open my eyes


then at the end have the yellow flowers where all the <mandarin>蜜蜂:mi feng</mandarin> fly around one then, no it's the <mandarin>蜜蜂:mi feng</mandarin> the flower <mandarin>我不知道:wo bu zhi dao</mandarin> the <mandarin>黄色:huang se</mandarin> flower


!wah! that's damn creepy


I guess god was trying to save you all


the timing right


do we still have that umbrella, why, !aiya!


I think it's just full of shit, don't listen to all this <mandarin>鬼故事:gui gu shi</mandarin> lah


ya I know what you mean


you know when I staying in the what is it called when I was staying in the QO right, ya it doesn't tell I was deathly afraid that was gonna be some kind of fire alarm and that I will just have to run out of the room right with surrounded by surrounded by all the all the COVID patients


!huh! the plan is get out and run to the <mandarin>火灾:huo zai</mandarin> like the


run to the area you area that you are supposed to be like like the <mandarin>聚集点:ju ji dian</mandarin> ah, what is it called in english, ya the meeting point ya, I also don't know why that's anyway like if like can you imagine if we all had to run to that one point and we all like the COVID patients


ya just like okay, ya everyone forty more days of isolation <mandarin>住在你的房间:zhu zai ni de fang jian</mandarin> and <mandarin>吃:chi</mandarin> all these kind of <mandarin>不好吃的:bu hao chi de</mandarin> shit food ya


eating that shit food seriously makes me so Sian, so Sian by the time of that fourteen days seven days


I don't want to do that again, I haven't even done it before


ya but my SHN wasn't really considered QO, isn't that weird, don't you think that's weird


I doubt so lah


what's your problem


!eww!, I would have got the shit out of there


but it must not have been very late at night though <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> sleeps very early


actually for all you know the ghosts are just hanging around, no but why would they come and scare you, like what's the <mandarin>理由:li you</mandarin> they have no <mandarin>理由:li you</mandarin> to come and stay


maybe right they just want to go about their own life you live and cycles, like they don't have a reason to come and like go and scare you that's so stupid, you don't go around scaring people


right, no I just sat there for the whole day and use my phone it's damn stupid


it's okay it's <mandarin>免费:mian fei</mandarin> giving <mandarin>钱:qian</mandarin> only, really, you just sit there and then you do nothing for this one or two days and then they just give you the money I think right seriously they just too much money


!ee! so not


I don't understand why people are like


ya he should just hang up these type of people because they never respect you so you don't have to respect them as well like you have the right to just say like sorry you're not respecting me so I don't have to provide you with the service


ya it's like that one what's the point of being like ya ya we're fine and like no sir don't call me that


will you show respect to this kind of people really, cause you go and see right some of the places like bus stop or whatever there will be like a <mandarin>牌子:pai zi</mandarin> that say or like if you don't like if you use vulgarities towards our workers they have the right to send you away lah so I think that should be the same for everyone


what's the point of allowing people say bad shit about you it doesn't make sense lor ya like but actually, ya it's more like <mandarin>没大没小:mei da mei xiao</mandarin> eh, they really think that just cause it's through the phone right so then they don't need to like respect people like hello <mandarin>你没有家教:ni mei you jia jiao</mandarin> meh


ya why would you go on the phone to ask for help and then be so rude to someone you have never met that's so random and just so uncalled for


ya lor your supervisor know meh


I'm sure there's a specific department to deal with it


so much money also no use


but then there's so many people who is wearing a mask now so I guess in a way it's also, no one see all the bad shit


ya lah so like I guess it's only five percent it's a collateral I guess it's five percent of everything become shit


because they need you to answer when the thing when kicking doesn't work, you need to know what to do to get them mah actually quite stupid ah then like that how if never start leh


go ask him go to the petrol the CC station, I don't understand it


ya people already say go to CC why they don't want just go I also don't know


what, （ppl), my friends from the US when she was working at IRAS like the call centre there was also there are also a lot of people who called in and then <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> a lot of <mandarin>坏话:huai hua</mandarin> lah they were like just saying a lot of bad stuff then she say right every time her supervisor <mandarin>遇到这种情况:yu dao zhe zhong qing kuang</mandarin> the moment he meets this kind of situation right he will just immediately mute the call and then transfer the call to waiting and make wait until they hang up


he was like yup just let it be cause he say if not they will just continue and be angry for very long then in the end you also waste your time then you <mandarin>浪费自己的时间:lang fei zi ji de shi jian</mandarin> when you can be helping a lot of other people who is on hold


but it's okay lah ya lah because think about it right we are really not paid enough to go and listen to people say this kind of shit, like why I must stay here and <mandarin>受你的气:shou ni de qi</mandarin> when actually I'm just here to help people then you're not even being fair to me so okay lor like if you don't want <mandarin>尊重:zun zhong</mandarin> me then it's okay lor then I can just leave


ya you can go back to waiting, if you want you just wait until someone pick up your call if not just hang up


, what's the plan tomorrow


ah then obviously <mandarin>明天:ming tian</mandarin> cannot pick up lah, ya but for all you know on sunday right they might go out to buy groceries so you might have another chance to be in the area


you never know actually I don't think we'll go and get groceries already lah just going out


but if you are going to school right you are going to take the circle line down, at all, at all you don't have to go school at all, !wah!


okay that's so weird, for the whole semester


so there's no group work ah is there group work


can you imagine I probably would choose like terrible group mates because


ya it's definitely harder online, what do you mean by unpopular class as in like the unpopular timings or like


how bad is the timing, but it's in the morning right


oh not bad what


I'm not very sure what's the mentality behind this bidding but it's so


then for NTU leh


I think like that very <mandarin>白痴:bai chi</mandarin> very <mandarin>浪费别人的时间:lang fei bie ren de shi jian</mandarin> ya you go to university not to learn how to bid for shit but you are going there to study so why must you make it such like is a competition for the students to be able to get a spot in a course that they want to study


so stupid it's like wasting people <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> time eh


but what she studying as a major


so philosophy was within a category of many other courses which she didn't get so she had to do the philosophy


this is a classic example of how bidding is so stupid I mean why can't the university just see properly like oh err like this course is very popular so there's gonna be like a large number of students who's gonna bid for it and so we're we're supposed to direct more resources into it and make sure that you know everyone can study what they want but no they force you to bid and forced people to go for courses that people don't like so isn't that a reflection of the teaching sucks


and they should just X that course why do they still have that professor on payroll


it's easy score A that kind of thing, then that's not in the spirit of <mandarin>学习:xue xi</mandarin> you know !aiya! Kiasu ah singaporeans see they will only take courses that they think they can do well in


such a such a stupid reflection of what education is supposed to be like


ya so she didn't even know why she failed, oh my god that's so sad


that's so sad see then now people are forced to study shit that they might not be interested in, and they are paying for it so it's like


see cause people unnecessary stress then they are like <mandarin>为什么这么多人要自杀:wei shen me zhe me duo ren yao zi sha</mandarin> then I'm like are you not looking


it's like everyone is already telling you it's too stressful and you know it's stupid then why do you continue with it and then be like oh


this is a stupid kind of <mandarin>压力:ya li</mandarin> is <mandarin>压力:ya li</mandarin> that comes from having to deal with <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> is not from having to study the ending is not even quintessential to my university life so stupid


ya everyone keep saying that it's not very good and they are stressed about it so I don't know why


I suspect right the school just has to give like courses have to open courses for some professors and then they realize that a lot of people <mandarin>不喜欢:bu xi huan</mandarin> the course, they are offering ya but then they have no choice because the professor is a professor in that area so they end up offering a course that is like that but then no one wants to take it so then now this is the kind of stupid mentality it comes with we all have to bid


!huh! that's a course


they are thinking about their life


kidding, how are they going to test this, then how are they going to test this


why is the road straight, why are there not enough cars （ppl), , I want to laugh lah but seriously I think sometimes I think philosophy is like huge crappy waste of time


why pizza do you eat pizza with, err what's that called, with the pineapple or no pineapple, why pineapple very nice, you need fruit right so pizza is your carbohydrate then your tomato sauce would be


your tomato sauce would be the the what is it called, is it under fats, under fats then you will need fruit, you will need fruit but tomato sauce is freaking all sugar it's all sugar


no I don't like green capsicum


K but it was me right one dish I'll eat for the rest of my life would be, would be , err err ice cream


because, because right you know <mandarin>冰淇淋:bing qi lin</mandarin> right, then


no but you know ice cream right <mandarin>你可以放:ni ke yi fang</mandarin> nuts <mandarin>你可以放:ni ke yi fang</mandarin> uh


uh chocolate


there's also dried foods right, then you put the dried fruits lah on the ice cream lah you know the dried durian that type the the durian ya


do you want repeat


why why do you want be small


but then when you are small right you can't even bring that thing out, then what's the point let's say you have a big ass diamond ring right then you become small then you will become


small diamond ring which is useless, can I though antman ah,


princess <mandarin>中:zhong</mandarin> hor, who will you choose


mermaid


but the thing is, but the thing is when you are, underwater right you cannot see anything also what it's very dark


so do you wanna be like aquaman, aquaman quite cool right, why the actor very <mandarin>帅:shuai</mandarin> eh, look at the I see the muscle, [orh] yours so big ah !huh!


yours so big ah , other than aquaman eh is there any other water, water


water, superhero, what's that, aquatic heroes, what's aquatic heroes, but only got aquaman right but no other heroes right


why mermaid you want to wear seashell bra is it, then, !wah! your boobs very big ah, ah then


why you don't ask me, what superhero I'll be


err, what superhero I want to be, I've always liked captain america, , I've always liked captain america I don't know why


it's like it's like your childhood dream you know every time people is like [orh] which superhero you like then the other girls always be like oh captain america, I think cause we only know captain america, no meh


no I don't like superman he very cocky, batman I don't even know batman existed, batman is just a black figure over there, why do you mean why it's


just like there are his powers is reached, when you are young you're not like, those aiming to be rich #tai tai# so don't you sure, so you don't look at it like that


and then, other than eh still got what other superheroes, who is that


don't know I only know got a silver guy, ya he's quite cool but I don't know what's his name and all that shit, what does that mean


!huh! so he's not from earth, I mean he's I can't even see his face it's silver, so I think captain america, you know you know this funny story really I tell you I tell you there was this once right I told my friend right I like captain america and then


and then you know what my friend say oh do you know the actor is married then I was like, damn I didn't know that, I was kind of sad but that was like what in primary three primary four


I just say I like captain america as like you know idolised kind of thing, but you are still not answering the question about okay let's go to the next one


good looks or fit body, fit body but if you are fit and your fat leh what if you look fat but you are fit what if it's like me I looked fat but I'm fit, yes I am


but which one first one or the second one, which one, which one good look or, fit body


good body or fit body


cure,


you see ah, your future, ideal type right, what's your ideal type


pretty but when you're old they also become Cui right


yes he does talk a lot, the person that he get together if with must be able to listen to him talk every single day for twenty four hours


okay other than that leh


back than in countryside you don't have electricity you don't have


you don't have anything here why is your children wanted, what if your children want it


you have each other is that all you need what if you all fight


, , what's so bad about the city that you don't like


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