but then like, how, how how like you if you go there if you buy everyday right like it's just gonna increase your chance by a bit it's not confirm that you get it anyway right,


but okay lah I mean, it's it's just your daily necessity then you you participate in a lucky draw it's not like, participate in the lucky draw it just so happened that you shop there, then you just participate ah so like


it's not really like, hope you get it's just, not like it's hoping you get but it's not like you just, you go buy stuff from there just for the sake of entering the, lucky draw it just so happen that you you, buy stuff there then you just happen to like oh I can just maybe earn some money


from this lucky draw, , [orh], yeah sia I I also will want


like out of nowhere somebody call you then say eh you just need to choose, Sheng-Siong <mandarin>超市:chao shi</mandarin> !hannor! they just choose <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> then


yeah but like also not guarantee <mandarin>千倍:qian bei</mandarin> mah, , but also not guaranteed <mandarin>千倍:qian bei</mandarin> imagine you get like <mandarin>十倍:shi bei</mandarin> only, , like you buy


buy like, Maggi Mee then like six dollarn then you get sixty dollar back eh, worth, , yeah but like what are the chances man


still have still have, yeah, I remember my friend, yeah I remember my friends still like got go to the studio before then watch, then she, then she then she recorded then she show us damn funny


I was like eh why you over there you never participate is it, oh, (mmhmm)


[orh], I think I think got got like intermissions in-between lah, but they got advertisements mah when they <mandarin>播:bo</mandarin> advertisement like okay intermission three minutes


!wah! during, , okay lah will you want to go there like watch the show


yeah, , ah waste time right, but sound cool leh like like <mandarin>久久一次去:jiu jiu yi ci qu</mandarin> like like you'll never get an opportunity like this


oh my god, I would eh,


because you see all the actors and actresses like, they wear damn well, , then you just clap clap clap clap clap


, what, [orh], after work then I will just I was thinking of


going to the gym, like <mandarin>去锻炼身体:qu duan lian shen ti</mandarin> ah, like you just need to maintain a healthy lifestyle lor


you, yeah you leh do you exercise often, [orh]


, but like the more you don't want to do the more you have to do you know, okay lah just just find time lor like, I


, like very boring ah


, but, I think like if if it's only like one person that's always


pushing you then like,


[orh], well like I think you should just like is like <mandarin>习惯:xi guan</mandarin> lor like if you keep going then you build up this habit, then, then you will keep doing it regardless whether like


you are busy or not lah because, make time for it lah you know, so like if you are willing to


you can do it lah you just need to, it fits in your schedule and everything


[orh], , [orh], I I just enjoying ah


okay lah it works different things lor like like gyming is is just focus on because when you gym you, yeah you when you do the exercises right you are most of the time isolating the muscles, so like let's say you want to do like or like bicep then you just do bicep curl then you only work the bicep curls mah


compared to like, when you play sports then you just want to, be stronger then you just keep practising like it works the same muscle but like, the gym is more targeted, in that sense


(mmhmm), [orh] yeah true, what kind of sports do you, yeah what kind of sports do you like to do


yeah,


oh you enjoy rock climbing,


, ah right right right,


[orh], oh, you fall quite quite far right


(oo), !aiyo! <mandarin>会安全:hui an quan</mandarin> mah, thank god <mandarin>我也会怕:wo ye hui pa</mandarin> leh


[orh] but if you are like in the air like ten metres like how much can a cushion help you, !huh!


rock, ,


uh, !wah!, ,


like free free climbing, then then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> film crew right have to seek his approval like acknowledgement like okay if anything happen like, like he he should be like focused on it lah because he


like don't <mandarin>不要:bu yao</mandarin> bear <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> responsibility of causing him to fall, yeah so so like they have to go a few times then like just prepping him off, like recording him climbing the the mountain by himself


use harness lah , like because they, yeah they climb beside them yeah so their actual, yeah but because they got harnesses as well so it won't be as


yeah like imagine watching someone beside you free climb a mountain, like you see him, !wah! you you see him fall you confirm like tramautised leh


I I I won't dare to like, I wouldn't even dare to like be the person filming it because like, !wah!, but like you you won't know like you won't be able to bear the responsibility that


happens sia, for myself


like <mandarin>打篮球打到大:da lan qiu da dao da</mandarin> lah, so, like <mandarin>如果我们要:ru guo wo men yao</mandarin> like, bond like not bond lah like like, spend time together <mandarin>我们可以:wo men ke yi</mandarin> like <mandarin>打篮球:da lan qiu</mandarin> lor


so it's just our pass time cause we've grown up doing this kind of thing so like we also got closer like through basketball lah because


like sit down and chit chat, kind of thing


!wah! then call <mandarin>政府:zheng fu</mandarin> confirm fine <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> leh <mandarin>三百块:san bai kuai</mandarin> eh


once you put a, like just once, the pandemic like better then we just, okay lor then


work it back to our schedule, like, when, [orh] cause, like


basketball is like leisure, play so competitive then like, like you play so competitive then, it runs like, like there's it's not fun anymore lah because, you are just playing this sport to get better


to win, like, to win like championship which honestly, in some sense <mandarin>是还是:shi hai shi</mandarin> okay <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah like some people want to be competitive in that sense, but like, basketball is like something I love, so <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> like I don't want to like


ruin the fun out of it lah, you know like, then that's why I just I just never like, went on to like, play competitively lah because, it's just for me it's just a pastime


so like, so, other sports ah, err


I remember like when I was, damn young like primary school I used to play a lot of badminton, cause, so they always they always like


ah got a lot of sponsored sponsored programs and all so like, they like got carnival then they will give free rackets for you all to play, yeah, yeah they'll give like it's not like Li-Ning that kind of standard Yonex that kind lah but it's like


still good enough still can it's quite, yeah then, then all the rackets all like quite solid one, yeah, so like, then I remember this one time like, this carnival like fund-raising event


like <mandarin>带我带我们的父亲去跟我们一起玩:dai wo dai wo men de fu qin qu gen wo men yi qi wan</mandarin> so it's like me and my dad played against like another student and their dad


I think so, [orh] yeah yeah yeah yeah so right, oh mine don't have mine don't have, yeah for me it's just like a lot of like just go go to school


play like play games together, like cause like our school, quite cool lah every time got, got carnival and all, then like every time damn fun cause like you get to skip class, like no lesson then you go play


not skipping class lah it's like we don't need to we the whole school is declared not having class mah so not really skipping lah, yeah so like me and my friends always just go around play games and all then got this one


one time is like the teacher will sit in this, like latch then below is a tube of water so if you throw you throw the you throw the ball into the target right then you will you will dunk your teacher you know like, (uh huh), !wah!


the vendor ah, (uh huh)


(uh huh), the principal scared ,


yeah but it it it goes to the school in the end , ya principal's, the principal scared of getting getting soaked ah maybe he never bring extra clothes and all


yeah I remember that time I also went then like, my teacher just give me like fifty dollar to just to just throw because like, the fifty dollars is just to donate mah then he just, he just like give us it to pay the person then you just throw then like because it was like


like my school's the secondary school so like the teachers I don't I don't really know so like, like a bit awkward so I just like, yeah it's like the primary school and the secondary school doing together, yeah a lot a lot of people


yeah, sixteen years old sixteen to seventeen because got, N levels somemore, yeah all is is damn big is a huge is damn big event


yeah, but then like honestly quite fun lah cause like, you get to spend time with your friend then like just mess around play around here and there, yeah


!hannor!, like <mandarin>我们很:wo men hen</mandarin> nuisance meh, yeah, no wonder <mandarin>我们的老师都见不到他们的:wo men de lao shi dou jian bu dao ta men de</mandarin>


yeah maybe that one <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> hide in the staff room , , yeah, but <mandarin>老师还:lao shi hai</mandarin> okay lah like you get to inspire, like next generation of students so like


to me like <mandarin>很多满足感:hen duo man zu gan</mandarin> lor, like if <mandarin>他们他们可以:ta men ta men ke yi</mandarin> like excel in their work then you just like !wah! you can, you know feeling like oh I help this person like, improve and everything


[orh]


!hannor! no <mandarin>可是那个不是最惨的东西最惨的是:ke shi na ge bu shi zui can de dong xi zui can de shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> talk behind <mandarin>你们的:ni men de</mandarin> back those like <mandarin>他们讲你的坏话:ta men jiang ni de huai hua</mandarin> like behind you then like, you also don't even know like <mandarin>你不会知道的:ni bu hui zhi dao de</mandarin> then like, it's like suddenly you don't even know why <mandarin>你的班不喜欢你:ni de ban bu xi huan ni</mandarin> you just like


what to do, yeah that's like, like it's it's damn bad it's like you cannot plus sometimes you also won't know then it's just like, !wah! why does my class hate me ah is is there something I do


yeah, but quite funny lah, like I mean on a student's side and teacher's side teachers also like quite fun also like their holiday is school holiday leh like you get like


but if you Chiong I mean if you take secondary school the exam is the holiday is after the exam mah, right


yeah, yeah cause the exam because because the holiday is is for you to, prepare for, prepare for the exam whereas like, holidays in primary school to secondary school is like, to reward you for working hard the entire term


I mean it's called a holiday for a reason, like it's for people to


ya but like you need to know how to like, like, enjoy mah like <mandarin>你你:ni ni</mandarin> work hard for like the entire four weeks of the term, then after that right end of the like after that you still want to study, then to me like as a student like !wah! in especially in secondary school like


!wah! damn shag like I want to be able to like, like enjoy, you know,


ah, !wah!, really meh I don't really see in secondary school though secondary school me and my friend just


everyday wake up then play game together then like, then we always go out, , different different, different secondary school different setting lah


!huh! you all will go this kind of thing, !wah!, secondary school like during holiday we just like, find what's the next next like most interesting game then we just all play together


then we just like !wah! this game damn fun then we just spend an entire holiday playing it then come back, then we come back we just like, !wah! how to study again ah , yeah but like quite fun lah like it's more it's so carefree lor then like


then like we don't have to like suddenly like, you don't have to always like worry about work and everything like studies, then only when school start then we start like worry like oh shit today got, you know like the homework or not you got do homework or not then sometimes


don't have homework got homework then we just every like in the early in the morning we just like eh can let me copy let me copy then you quickly quickly do, you know, yeah then, yeah


yeah I mean sometimes, , , sometimes sometimes I also I also let people copy then it's like eh this one correct or not I was like, okay lah I don't know then like !aiya! never mind lah as long got do can already


yeah, yeah I was like [orh] if you want to care about correct or not then you do own self do lah you know, yeah damn funny, yeah, miss secndary school time secondary school like


like everything like very carefree you know, I I I remember like after after secondary school go into JC then JC like, damn stress cause it's like, like you you go there right the first day need to study like first week need to prepare to study already cause like


you only got a short period of time, so got short period of time then like, !wah! then need to, need to study damn hard then like, when you fall behind then like !wah! you feel like, why am I so stupid cause like everyone else is doing the same thing then they


(uh huh), four years


[orh], I don't know ah <mandarin>有时候:you shi hou</mandarin> like there got one time <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I just like from sec one I see eh you go primary school already ah then once I finish


secondary school then I eh you still in primary school is it ah yeah I primary five this time ah, !wah!, then like, like it's it's so long lah but, I feel, in compared to JC JC JC is short


yeah, !hannor!, like


, ah


(uh huh)


oh I I agree like, JC <mandarin>我读两年:wo du liang nian</mandarin> then


then, then like <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> okay [lor] then like, like


, hello, err okay lah just now I do a bit of ZUU


then, I watch some videos, , -, food video , like you know people <mandarin>吃很多:chi hen duo</mandarin> one, yeah


yeah I watch that one lor then I also watch I was watching a, yeah, I got this, they were like they are like youtubers,


then they are siblings, so like err the older brother, he <mandarin>帮那个弟弟:bang na ge di di</mandarin> go and, get like a blind date, yeah, and if you are using, what <mandarin>谈谈:tan tan</mandarin> ah the the new


blind dating app thingy, ya so basically his, he want to like, do a prank on his brother lor, you leh what what did you do


(uh huh),


if somebody new also,


oof, yes, it's okay can win next time


ah dinner, yeah then like there were like damn a lot of corn so the entire soup just tasted like, sounds a bit, (hmm) yeah but


just drank the soup only but it's damn filling,


yeah, err show ah, I just now I was watching , this Netflix drama


then it's like it's quite scary cause it's about a, cult, it's a korean drama, then it's about a cult then like, then <mandarin>她她的弟弟:ta ta de di di</mandarin> like, commit suicide lah


then <mandarin>她的妈妈也是:ta de ma ma ye shi</mandarin> like, she sad until she go crazy, yeah so like err, then the cult approach the family approached the <mandarin>爸爸:ba ba</mandarin> then like


but honestly I think it's like they <mandarin>下药:xia yao</mandarin> into the water to like make you hallucinate and stuff, ya so basically, yeah, right, so like they, they gave the father like a lunch box to eat


then the lady like put the water over the lunch yeah then say like oh it's holy water it's good for your body then after he eat already then he started to hallucinate, then he start to think that like oh the cult the god that the cult have is like the true god and like whatever ah, so end up he bring


his family like his wife and his daughter to the, the stay inside the church like the cult church, yeah, very creepy right then, like everybody there got eat the holy water so they all


and only yeah then only, yeah exactly, then only the daughter cause she refuses to, take the holy water so she knows that everybody is being like crazy like they're not


in their right mind you know a bit <mandarin>神经病:shen jing bing</mandarin> one, yeah so, that one is only episode five lah actually , , one quarter maybe, yeah so


yeah so I'm at the part where she starts to like, , realize that she should do something about it lor around there, , yeah, you guess you guess who is the actress


yeah it's the same, the girl, #Seo Ye Ji#


what the, you only got one person right


gross , , okay okay <mandarin>我也是很喜欢:wo ye shi hen xi huan</mandarin> okay, you are just overly obsessed with that one person


, yeah


Arcknights


[orh], like thriller <mandarin>这样的:zhe yang de</mandarin> lah, yeah


yeah


, interesting maybe I'll watch next time


I still prefer like, Korean dramas, yeah I don't know leh like, sometimes like the pace that they go is very slow


then some of like their humor right, like, I cannot understand, so like <mandarin>没有这样没有这样好笑的:mei you zhe yang mei you zhe yang hao xiao de</mandarin> lor


no lor !hey! !hey! !hey! you never watch enough no, , oh my god got the red line !oops!


fall in love , yeah kind of


yeah but some some Western shows can like, like the one you watching like what The Crown is it, the british royal family one


, oh is it, drama


, oh oh no,


yeah, yeah yeah yeah


so Bo Pian they they just both Tahan it ah, !huh!


[orh] like when they were very young that time ah, like in my head she's just like, like a old Ah-Ma


oh shit, , oh my goodness, oh no wonder, then <mandarin>她没有她没有:ta mei you ta mei you</mandarin> like brother meh


[orh] <mandarin>我有看到那个:wo you kan dao na ge</mandarin> Margaret, I watch that part yeah


yeah <mandarin>她要她要嫁给那个男的:ta yao ta yao jia gei na ge nan de</mandarin> right then after that, they separated them and something, right


, yeah I gets I gets so <mandarin>可怜:ke lian</mandarin> though


oh no spoiler , sads


!aiyo!, (uh huh)


oh no


, yeah sia very <mandarin>幸苦:xing ku</mandarin> leh


, yeah, yeah it's quite slow that time I I watch right, I yawned so many times sia that


yeah I mean if you are interested in that that kind of history, then for you it'll be very like <mandarin>有趣:you qu</mandarin> lor but for me


not a history person, boring excuse me ,


my kind of shows I like thrillers but cannot be too scary also, yeah I cannot take horror, but like thrillers and <mandarin>那种警察:na zhong jing cha</mandarin> one


then they must solve the murder case is kind of, stuff yeah or like, some romance show I guess, like some romance show is quite nice


no lah like, Korean romance shows, got those kind of like the really like very like lovey dovey, and like the whole story just surrounds the romance those kind a bit boring like it's very predictable and <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> that the <mandarin>女主角:nv zhu jue</mandarin> and the <mandarin>男主角:nan zhu jue</mandarin> just end up together


yeah but, if it's like, romance in, another kind of setting so like, okay let's say like a a school drama then like there will be other sub plots within the main plots ah, yeah then <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> more interesting lah


, yeah then sometimes like the sub characters, sometimes they very funny or like they're more interesting than the main characters


err, shows lah I'm definitely not a reading kind of person, cause reading, as in reading is nice if the book is really that interesting cause like


like you can think of the character like how they look like how they sound like by yourself, so it leaves more to imagination lah but then, there's not a lot of interesting books , no leh like


I find it quite difficult to find interesting books and I'm not really into fiction, yeah like sometime I feel fiction a bit, cringe lah


that's why it's very hard for me to find interesting books, yeah like I'm I'm quite interested in like those kind of, what do you call that, like non-fiction then like people talk about like oh they did this this is their experience


yeah those kind but normally those kind, yeah it's a bit boring at times if like they they don't know how to write interestingly, that's why <mandarin>我看:wo kan</mandarin> drama right


, drama still got more than books and then drama like, , you just Netflix then you just pay one time and you can watch so many book you buy and buy and buy then after that ah like


very <mandarin>可惜:ke xi</mandarin> to buy, nah not my kind of thing, yes <mandarin>我没有耐心:wo mei you nai xin</mandarin>


yeah, oh my god those kind are like, read to sleep one leh


why would you even read that I still don't understand


it has meh, like in what way, no <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin>


exactly


!huh!, !huh! <mandarin>有这样的东西:you zhe yang de dong xi</mandarin> meh, so his eye is like a laser eye


oh <mandarin>所以那个小人是:suo yi na ge xiao ren shi</mandarin> like


, okay


!aiyo!, oh, I see I never really like


watch or read like, Lord of the Rings Harry Potter, Narnia yeah you know those kind of like fiction then like the very, magical kind of things


, last time like Channel Five they always like <mandarin>他们会重播:ta men hui chong bo</mandarin> right like the Narnia and then Harry Potter, yeah and yet I still never watch like I will watch like clips of it, but


I always leave halfway, <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> some more


yeah, oh my god yes


I remember how he looks like leh then he grew up to be the very like , the very obnoxious guy


that kind then there was the very sick guy, with leukemia also remember the leukemia kid, , oh my god I still remember everything eh


, yes sia, but those kind of drama damn funny like even if you missed ten episodes right, when you come back, you won't be very lost


yeah


yeah , then always got the entire gang of the like <mandarin>大哥:da ge</mandarin> all this all these kind of people come out


yeah, true


last time got PSP though, , Gameboy


yeah, our local nine PM drama <mandarin>没有这样:mei you zhe yang</mandarin> boring leh,


like halfway through the drama right then they will promote like oh healthy living, and like, like fight against diabetes like <mandarin>很假:hen jia</mandarin> lor it's like <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> drama drama <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like


propaganda , yeah it's like <mandarin>广告:guang gao</mandarin> then they drink the like chrysanthemum tea right then they will show you the brand one, then it's like damn awkward and damn funny


ya Netflix, it reminded me of the, Sheng-Siong that one, , yeah


yeah Saturday night right


like the person that <mandarin>中:zhong</mandarin> right, then if the like <mandarin>打不出:da bu chu</mandarin> right then it's like, like the people watching, it's like


we feel so wasted for the person, yeah, like !oof!, your major chance is gone


oh my god but if that person like bought like a drink that's like three dollars , eh actually not bad leh yeah sia, yeah sia, oh my goodness


so rich meh, I guess


[orh] the, Sheng-Siong <mandarin>全是为了你:quan shi wei le ni</mandarin> , that's their only advertisement man, yes, [orh], okay, !chey!


that advertisement damn funny,


yeah, I mean for our age group lah but I guess, the older age groups they still rely on like TV, a lot more


yeah true, eh but you never know eh


like maybe like, people that are so desperately want to win the like the Sheng-Siong lucky draw right purposely travel like, across the island to find a Sheng-Siong


it's like gambling lor I guess


yeah but !wah! those people that, they buy, who don't want sia


I will be shook though if I suddenly like hear that


I'll be like hello who is this, eh <mandarin>倍倍:bei bei</mandarin> is better than no <mandarin>倍:bei</mandarin> leh


right like people paying you to eat the Maggi leh, quite Shiok ah that life, yeah but now now no more already right was it, still have for real


it has been going on for ages man, what the hell , oh my god, that is so random though but I've went to


like the Mediacorp studio before, but it's actually damn squeezy like the seatings right see the audience seatings is super <mandarin>窄:zhai</mandarin> one leh, so I don't understand how like the audience can sit so long


but it's a live it's a live show leh Sheng-Siong show, [orh] maybe, yeah damn funny then like then like


like this is the stage right then the director you see him at the side then he tell everybody when to clap lah then like when to quiet and everything, Sheng-Siong show, no


yeah sia then like, cool you will go meh, I don't need the opportunity


, then like okay maybe maybe


yeah, yeah, yeah


what you gonna do tomorrow, , !wah!


!wah! <mandarin>这样凶:zhe yang xiong</mandarin> ha <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> , something new


you will break the momentum, then you end up like stopping forever


but it's hard , , yeah I mean if <mandarin>你有朋友一起去:ni you peng you yi qi qu</mandarin> gym then at least, there's that need for you to go what but <mandarin>你自己运动:ni zi ji yun dong</mandarin> right then <mandarin>没有朋友:mei you peng you</mandarin> like like


yeah it's very boring and like there's no reason for you to go also , yeah, yeah there's nobody to like eh today must exercise with me ah there's nobody to say that what so even if you stop right


nobody is there to like eh you cannot stop, you know that kind of thing


no lah if it's a pair then you will be like take turns lor I guess like when the person one person got feels on this day the other person got feels on that day


yeah


, yeah but I <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like exercising, play soccer lah then you will like you run and exercise while playing then your mind is focused on


yeah so it doesn't feel that boring or like stressful to exercise


building muscle right, yeah


yeah I mean like, (uh huh), it has a different kind of exercise also lah like game is more of like to build, the muscles up like strengthen the muscles, but like stuff like badminton like the running kind it's more of like cardio sweating and like get your heart rate up


yeah it's like it's like HIIT you know that kind of thing, sports ah , err, I don't mind doing like active stuff lah like I quite like doing like playing badminton


or like going swimming, then if they're not so, not so common one will be like rock climbing, yeah, yeah like <mandarin>那次:na ci</mandarin> I went with my friends, to this like, community center lah then they had this rock climbing wall inside


then like, is <mandarin>真的很好玩:zhen de hen hao wan</mandarin> though like, cause it seems difficult right but when you actually like, finish it, yeah like !wah! I can do this eh


yeah and there's also like, like sense of like, excitement not excitement what's it called adrenaline like when you are so high up then you look down, like the first time confirm <mandarin>是会怕:shi hui pa</mandarin> one cause when you let go right


you will really just drop down that kind of thing, yeah like cause you wear the harness right then it will suddenly like pull you back up that kind, yeah so the first time, like when you first start climbing you just like climb a bit then you drop first like get used to the feeling


okay lah below <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> like like cushion ah mattress, so the most <mandarin>跌倒:die dao</mandarin> a bit [loh]


actual mountain already bro , yeah yeah yeah yeah


then I watch already my heart want to drop out you know right but I mean <mandarin>他喜欢:ta xi huan</mandarin> [loh] then <mandarin>他喜欢就好:ta xi huan jiu hao</mandarin> lor


, !wah! really is daredevil this kind of people


true true


[orh] so they climb beside him , !wah! they also must be quite brave eh, it is still scary bro , man no


!wah! if he fall right you will be like, you'll be traumatized for life leh


, yeah same, cannot cannot cannot, yeah


never really go and <mandarin>打:da</mandarin> leh, !wah! like even basketball court also ah


yeah lor, , yeah true,


then like why why you never join basketball CCA, like why you never join


okay


yeah


yeah, then like other other games eh what what other games do you play I mean like sports


oh really, !wah! , !wah!


very ups leh, my school racket all <mandarin>破破烂烂:po po lan lan</mandarin> one you know


Shioks


oh yeah yeah I knew it's a it was a program what right, the, the dads and their child one, then they got the camp overnight in school one also, oh really


so your favourite part is skipping class lah !huh!, yeah, holiday


oh <mandarin>我知道:wo zhi dao</mandarin> then you throw the ball, you know my class did that for one of the like our school carnivals, like my class called in the, the machine, yeah the vendor


then like we were the ones that did the machine they didn't have we wanted to put you know how you always like, err okay like to dunk this teacher there's this amount of money, that kind of thing then we wanted to put the principal leh, then we really got all the money lah everybody like is there ready for the principle to come out and get dunked but he hide in the office you know then he never ever came out


yeah lah then we all like !wah! damn it , exactly then he's the principle then he sit down there then he never come out when it goes to the school


yeah so end up like other teachers like just fill in for him lor, yeah so nice


oh the carnival is a joint carnival ah


that's a lot of people , that's like seven years olds to like, thirteen eh, sixteen years old leh, , oh !wah! eh yeah right oh my goodness that's like


the age gap, yikes, yeah


I can imagine how like chaotic it will be


, and purposely <mandarin>不要来学校:bu yao lai xue xiao</mandarin> at all, yeah lor like that principal , ah but <mandarin>做老师也是不容易:zuo lao shi ye shi bu rong yi</mandarin> hor


yeah but, naughty student, a lot lah , yeah <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> like purposely come give you a hard time


well if you meet those kind of students right confirm <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sad lor, yeah


, but students <mandarin>全部都是这样的:quan bu dou shi zhe yang de</mandarin> then like <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> like create nicknames for a teacher,


yeah quite sad, must like win the class favour


eh but school holiday they they either be marking the paper like exam paper or they are preparing for exam paper leh, yeah only only JC then is like


err exam is after the holiday, they are shagged bro


supposed to be, revision period also lah but then people just take it as a holiday like legit holiday, the the the mid sem breaks are mainly for revision leh actually but the December holiday then is really holiday cause like primary school especially


December they won't give you anything one


you are wrong man like, especially ah March holiday September holiday all those one week one week one right and the mid, err, like the June holidays right, you know those kinds are where the crash course start to come in all tuition teachers right come and <mandarin>出:chu</mandarin> the crash course like oh if your child come for these right then


it's a one week program then can like, increase the marks everything yeah, bruh all my friends go for like tuition one sia


yeah my friends always then we like we will <mandarin>介绍:jie shao</mandarin> each other eh my I going for this crash course this, this err this coming week eh you want to go together then we will all go together one , yeah I go I attend tuition with my friends one leh, then like eh your tuition teacher good or not ah then we'll all go together that kind of thing


, !wah! our life really very different hor


yeah sia need to restart the motor, yeah true


oh no, then it's always that that poor soul that did his homework, then people will start borrowing from him, then also cannot say no then just like uh just copy but change a bit lah ha you know


I also don't know , yeah wrong then do correction lor


, throwback man schooling times, yeah


shag man


but actually secondary school like


four years right, but actually <mandarin>很快的:hen kuai de</mandarin> leh, like the four years pass very quickly, I feel lah


yeah lah no <mandarin>不多:bu duo</mandarin> that's why I say pass quickly what, yeah like primary school <mandarin>是最长:shi zui zhang</mandarin> one <mandarin>六年:liu nian</mandarin> leh how,


he's still in primary school, so cute


JC is express train then you just zoom


and yeah but anyways, primary school six years but, because like you are growing up right, so honestly doesn't feel that long when you are in primary school, cause it's so fun in like you're growing up everything is like changing every day so it doesn't feel as long like JC right


although <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> only right but I feel like JC, cause it's so intense


hello okay, hi


, , so, so, !wah! today is Monday ah, !wah!


[orh], [orh], then err what you go and buy ah


(mmhmm), (uh huh),


(mmhmm) (mmhmm) but today Monday not a lot of stalls right


ah, so did, so do do you do you go suit err marketing to buy for tonight's dinner, (mmhmm)


hawker food, , !huh! serious ah


which which which market do you go ah


OCC, eh, not near not near church lah


eight hundred plus oh, there's one with the childcare one right, ah level two or level three one ah, [orh] level four, so inside there is market ah


supermarket or the normal wet market, supermarket only lah


, quite tough nowadays, where, err OTH ah


[orh], so, eh <mandarin>我我我有我有去过吃过一次:wo wo wo you wo you qu guo chi guo yi ci</mandarin> I think the foodcourt is called the Fei-Siong right, [orh]


, then how <mandarin>你们每次去哪里买:ni men mei ci qu na li mai</mandarin> other than that place, quite quite limited choice


, why, , don't like to go market,


ah, , so to not so for the next few day <mandarin>你你还会:ni ni hai hui</mandarin> which day which other day you will want to cook


, ah then,


, [orh],


ah,


ah, ya, food


, oh <mandarin>我以前:wo yi qian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>是做那种:shi zuo na zhong</mandarin> <mandarin>杂货店的吗:za huo dian de ma</mandarin> eh <mandarin>不不不:bu bu bu</mandarin> err not <mandarin>杂货店:za huo dian</mandarin> those err, I think I would say also a canteen ah a canteen


so right <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> ah <mandarin>因因因为:yin yin yin wei</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你你:ni ni</mandarin> actually <mandarin>你你做:ni ni zuo</mandarin> almost everyday you do mah, so you are being forced ah to think very very quickly on your feet


okay so it's like <mandarin>我们在我们的:wo men zai wo men de</mandarin> brain right <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> brain <mandarin>后面那就一直在那边算算算算:hou mian na jiu yi zhi zai na bian suan suan suan suan</mandarin> so, you might think that !aiya! <mandarin>有可能吗算得这么准:you ke neng ma suan de zhe me zhun</mandarin> mah actually err they already quite err they know what is the unit price mah


everyday, practice make permanent nah , , ya true


, (uh huh), ah, ah


, (uh huh), how you verify how you


, so, so do you try do you really go and measure


, oh serious ah, [orh],


[orh], ,


ah, then <mandarin>你回来:ni hui lai</mandarin> leh


, [orh] actually <mandarin>如果你要在:ru guo ni yao zai</mandarin> market <mandarin>买东西:mai dong xi</mandarin> hor wet market right


, so so meaning right ya


uh they will <mandarin>他不会吃你的秤头:ta bu hui chi ni de cheng tou</mandarin> lah, I cannot blame them lah because because <mandarin>他用的是那种:ta yong de shi na zhong</mandarin> like a needle type of, weight mah


cannot be undecisive to cut the the meat right


or minus one dollar you know that kind of thing ya,


, ah, [orh] [orh] [orh], fair


, , ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah


<mandarin>这个很会做:zhe ge hen hui zuo</mandarin> sales


, ya, I mean <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> lah


under the Hot Passion card lah, consolidated <mandarin>的的的的的:de de de de de</mandarin> grocery lor


, ya, , ya


ah, , ah


ah


ah, ah, ah


!huh!, what, , ah, at least <mandarin>他还有一个:ta hai you yi ge</mandarin> way out ah <mandarin>跑掉:pao diao</mandarin> ah I mean


consistently go to the same stall every week same stall, ya you should try this one


ah, [orh] the fresher one, , ,


ya so far , I think the other more challenging stall is the fish stall, fish


you know I mean, ah ah ya lor ya then <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> mom in law <mandarin>他每次去他的:ta mei ci qu ta de</mandarin> regular <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> fish mongers stall right


then <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> because of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> what ah safety distancing so sometime during the week the the the Saturday, a lot of people right come to buy, eh <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> Batang <mandarin>一条:yi tiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>我三十分钟后我才来:wo san shi fen zhong hou wo cai lai</mandarin> collect you know


then then then then she will wait until like when the crowd is lesser,


ya ya ya then,


ah no choice ah because


then <mandarin>他们就:ta men jiu</mandarin> sell online lah or err err online to order or they even have auction leh, facebook auction , yes, ah


, err, ya because fresh food mah


see ah very smart right, then after that then after that hor they just like Google err like Facebook message their, ah their their contact then after that they private message the delivery address lor that means hor he he was


ya serious ya <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>最近那些:zui jin nei xie</mandarin> news ah <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> I think Channel News Asia <mandarin>还是那里:hai shi na li</mandarin> they were talking about this type of ah young generation hawker lor


ya, they they if they don't do this right


example <mandarin>如果你做工:ru guo ni zuo gong</mandarin> right <mandarin>如果你现在:ru guo ni xian zai</mandarin> go back to work right, right you will you will only buy on the way back home mah


ya ah, so, , , ya lor that's why, and anyway <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> leftover from Sunday <mandarin>的东西来的:de dong xi lai de</mandarin> not the fresh things


, , ya, the stock is more the more fresher food why not


, , , , ya


Round Market [orh], , (uh huh)


[orh]


market <mandarin>的没有:de mei you</mandarin> meh market is so perfect meh, ah


[orh], ya


in fact <mandarin>现在买菜还比肉更贵:xian zai mai cai hai bi rou geng gui</mandarin> ya, eh <mandarin>可是如果你买:ke shi ru guo ni mai</mandarin> Australia <mandarin>的那个好像:de na ge hao xiang</mandarin> err broccoli ah from NTUC ah <mandarin>是是挺:shi shi ting</mandarin> is quite fresh one right I mean price is quite okay right


ah broccoli ah, ,


ah, no lah keep doing keep watching the youtube you'll be all right


ya, !aiya! how is it ah,


ah, there's a hole,


oh quick quick go and change ah, ah


ah, ah, ah


[orh] Isetan is it or Tangs, ya ya, ya,


ya ya <mandarin>我还是很挺喜欢去那边买东西的:wo hai shi hen ting xi huan qu na bian mai dong xi de</mandarin> very very complete hor then a lot of demo you just feel very complete lah when you go there, like you can see everything


, , , , [orh]


, [orh] uh, oh


ah , yes


, , , quite nice, then


ya, ha, I see, ,


ya lor,


we click ah we click,


hello, okay very good


ah


(uh huh), ya !huh!


, is it in an open air or in an enclosed room


okay


you are the number four, fifteen sixteen then the number seventeen <mandarin>的人走来:de ren zou lai</mandarin> what happen what would the lady do, , oh I see


, , [orh], then how how was the exercise how was the uh


, [orh], ah, mostly ladies or or mat there are men


, ya, so, ah, how old are they


those people who come, oh,


!wah!


closer


ya, ya, so what kind of exercise


, cannot coordinate , ah ah


so she enjoy or not, ah <mandarin>开心:kai xin</mandarin> lor, ah, ah


but <mandarin>他他们这个有:ta ta men zhe ge you</mandarin> level different level <mandarin>的对吗:de dui ma</mandarin> level one two three beginner, [orh], (uh huh)


(ppc)


she's your, she, and she can teach you !wah! thats good lah eh share share the recipe ah then more fun


twenty years , ah


ah, ah, , err there was one time err afternoon <mandarin>的时候他说:de shi hou ta shuo</mandarin> oh err when to meet you all lor err when she was supposed to be doing her fast


uh uh,


, [orh] <mandarin>我懂哪里:wo dong na li</mandarin> PS cafe ah


menu,


[orh], [orh] [orh] [orh], [orh]


[orh], , ah


ah, [orh], foody <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> food


, , yes yes,


ah, !huh!, [orh], [orh], or maybe your spice food a little bit more reduced a bit lah


ah, [orh] <mandarin>下次:xia ci</mandarin> lor hor, ah ah, ya


ah, but I think they are quite, , they are <mandarin>随和:sui he</mandarin> at least


, ah ah ah, ah, , !aiya! try lah since you are the


then <mandarin>你就:ni jiu</mandarin> plan out the menu lah I think you need to do a menu plan leh, ah, [orh] [orh] [orh]


eh <mandarin>或者:huo zhe</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你先:ni xian</mandarin> plan <mandarin>你一个一个礼拜的:ni yi ge yi ge li bai de</mandarin> food menu right


, [orh], (uh huh)


ah, yes, come on


salmon fish <mandarin>是冷冷冷的地方的鱼:shi leng leng leng de di fang de yu</mandarin> come from where come from those, other place one mah is come from cold sea what, ya wherever lah other place right is not the <mandarin>热带鱼:re dai yu</mandarin> what


it's not those like err tropical fish right, so is frozen already then he come to the market right, he he defrost ah, then after that you see, ya how to slice, ya so might you might as well buy from this kind of err <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> err


err fish right fish market, err frozen <mandarin>的他用那种:de ta yong na zhong</mandarin> machine ah <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> cutter


ah, ah


one kilo about seventy dollar than the


err quite quite quite good leh they already slice up for you, ah so very simple then hor for codfish right what you can do is right you just take out <mandarin>你解冻了:ni jie dong le</mandarin> hor, then you just err kind of like steam it hor <mandarin>它不是有一点水出来:ta bu shi you yi dian shui chu lai</mandarin> lor then after that just pour a little bit of the Japanese ah sauce


then <mandarin>上面放一点那个:shang mian fang yi dian na ge</mandarin> garlic ah like fried <mandarin>好的:hao de</mandarin> garlic and garlic oil right, simple and nice easy, yes yes this one you can steam lor


ah you can steam it lor, or maybe next time you don't don't <mandarin>煎:jian</mandarin> you can just, grill <mandarin>你说你的:ni shuo ni de</mandarin> oven <mandarin>很大:hen da</mandarin> hor,


, , then, fried on the pad,


ah, ya


, ah, ah, I mean simple lah hor


ah, ah, ah, ah


ah, , Din-Tai-Fung, order home ah should eat there <mandarin>在那边吃:zai na bian chi</mandarin> lah


quite ok what ah, [orh] what, her test is coming meh, !huh!


she go to school, ah


ah, [orh] preparing for exam, , ya of course,


, ah,


, , ya, so far she can still cope with the <mandarin>那个压力:na ge ya li</mandarin> lah


but but but I think <mandarin>她她他有她是会的啦:ta ta ta you ta shi hui de la</mandarin> she's quite good, she she got the capacity one ya just you must encourage her ah keep keep encouraging her


[orh], [orh] [orh] [orh], [orh] hard lens to sleep [orh] control the eye ah to improve the eye


how much is the lens, !huh! !huh! she what,


, so she wear the lens to sleep lah


[orh], oh oh oh eh <mandarin>我好像有听过这个:wo hao xiang you ting guo zhe ge</mandarin> I ever hear this I ever hear so err one one church friend ah telling me this technology Fabian


he ever shared with me, [orh] [orh] [orh] so the control ah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> control ah


ah, two years eh


ah make another pair, after how long <mandarin>他算你便宜一点吗:ta suan ni pian yi yi dian ma</mandarin>


ah, ah, oh !wah! okay, [orh] [orh]


not bad hor that means, no when ah on the on the third year you pay eight hundred dollar lah


ah, okay


, (uh huh)


perfect eyes !wah!


ah, too late, ,


ah, , so ah so that means err <mandarin>第一:di yi</mandarin> first and second year is uh, that means <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> guarantee <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> err <mandarin>你可以用:ni ke yi yong</mandarin> for two years lah


and adjustment


ah, [orh], [orh] [orh] !wah! quite good hor


, , what Netflix ah, [orh] [orh], [orh]


[orh], [orh], ah, !aiya! is a form of like entertainment <mandarin>给他们那:gei ta men na</mandarin> ok lah


, Spotify is good hor, , enjoy the music lah, can play background hor on the background, ya


after <mandarin>你用完了这种这种这种这种:ni yong wan le zhe zhong zhe zhong zhe zhong zhe zhong</mandarin> technology hor


now ah I got a habit of reading, the, the bible on the, computer let's say for example now I do my


err bible study right then <mandarin>因为好像:yin wei hao xiang</mandarin> for example <mandarin>我再做一个好我我就会用:wo zai zuo yi ge hao wo wo jiu hui yong</mandarin> highlight lah then <mandarin>我就会读:wo jiu hui du</mandarin> ah


mind <mandarin>会被:hui bei</mandarin> distracted lor like <mandarin>你不可以:ni bu ke yi</mandarin> focus <mandarin>你会想到:ni hui xiang dao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我想在看一下:wo xiang zai kan yi xia</mandarin> Youtube , , ya keep on want to go and watch want to go and watch lor


, , ya, , addictive addictive, ya


ya lor true, so !aiya!


, they cannot find support from who <mandarin>就比较麻烦:jiu bi jiao ma fan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>对吗:dui ma</mandarin> where can they find support from


good lah, , ya true,


, [orh], oh very good that's a very good attitude


cannot cope with the timing, , !aiyo! !walao! okay, ya


ya, , when in need, when in need ah when she is in need right she will automatically tell you I think I need tutor then then I think during those time is the best because


they will go for it themselves for themselves, for themselves ya, correct


, ya true


hello sister, hi how are you, <mandarin>在做什么:zai zuo shen me</mandarin> !aiyo! !aiya! <mandarin>一样:yi yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>每次煮完饭就要洗刷刷:mei ci zhu wan fan jiu yao xi shua shua</mandarin> then now ah now I can talk already now can chit chat already


, ya, yes of course , even though I don't really like cooking you know


nothing much to choose lah always #char bee hoon#, the easiest choice ya those yes correct


just those err, Kopitiam like the downstairs those coffeeshop, , Monday still ok, ya still okay surprise hor


ya I went to the supermarket lor, as usual but you know, supermarket, the <mandarin>菜:cai</mandarin> ah !aiya! cannot make it ah, ,


ya even though is cheap but you have to really look through !wah! so many spots lah or problem mah then you have to <mandarin>丢掉:diu diao</mandarin> already


err the one nearby my place can just walk there within five minutes, just opposite the block, err it's actually err near the CC actually located inside the old CC


ya community club, , community club, eight hundred plus ah I also don't know


not near the church, nearer to my place, ya, yes, the childcare is actually at level four


, inside there is market, err supermarket ya supermarket, supermarket inside


ya, because the, the community club right the office actually shifted to the bigger place you will know where ah, they have a nicer building mah


ya lah they shifted already, yes, have you been there before, !huh!


the food court is not Fei-Siong, the food court uh, ya <mandarin>长城:chang cheng</mandarin> is still there as usual, but so many stalls ah, yeah so many stalls ah is like


not much still err a few stalls actually <mandarin>倒闭了:dao bi le</mandarin> because, a lot of err ya a lot of err shops there also


, other than that place, !aiya! <mandarin>没办法:mei ban fa</mandarin> must go to wet market but today is Monday good leh I like Monday because wet market not open , ,


don't like to go market, !aiya! what to do ya lor, but


and I'll be meeting those few stalls which I have some interesting things to say, , ya , the fish the fish err fish stall ah !wah! you know what the the hawkers err I mean the stall owners ah


!wah! their calculation ah <mandarin>他的算学:ta de suan xue</mandarin> ah <mandarin>数学:shu xue</mandarin> ah or whatever ah, so good ah I really don't understand how they can calculate so fast you know then sometimes I'm thinking are you sure you are correct in your calculation <mandarin>你算对还是错:ni suan dui hai shi cuo</mandarin> !aiya! <mandarin>太贵了:tai gui le</mandarin> leh <mandarin>有一次我讲太贵了:you yi ci wo jiang tai gui le</mandarin>


then the person look at me is like only like like nobody ever say this kind of word to her, , in the end <mandarin>讲不会我的东西很新鲜:jiang bu hui wo de dong xi hen xin xian</mandarin> no need to give discount , then she's like err <mandarin>小姐快点:xiao jie kuai dian</mandarin> ah because behind long queue ah then everybody looked at me then I so Paiseh okay


faster faster, ya but you know what is very interesting how can they remember like for example err <mandarin>三文鱼:san wen yu</mandarin> ah <mandarin>这个价钱:zhe ge jia qian</mandarin> ah okay <mandarin>我要买:wo yao mai</mandarin> Batang another <mandarin>价钱:jia qian</mandarin> ah so it's very confusing then I was thinking !wah! then she looked at the scale then she said oh this one is almost almost a half kilo you know okay this is the price !wah! then I was thinking !wah! <mandarin>你会记得这么多:ni hui ji de zhe me duo</mandarin> price meh


in the end ah <mandarin>他跟我:ta gen wo</mandarin> total <mandarin>的时候他要拿纸跟笔出来:de shi hou ta yao na zhi gen bi chu lai</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>写写写:xie xie xie</mandarin> then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> total total then <mandarin>他讲对啊你看啊:ta jiang dui a ni kan a</mandarin> okay then ah in my heart I'm thinking err okay lah whatever you say lor because I cannot, and I know how much err per kg of salmon you are charging me right


people behind will, will make some noise


, oh, canteen okay


they are trained everyday ah, [orh], I see I see so practice makes perfect, so practice make perfect lor for them, !huh! , okay so mathematics-wise ah they are genius, ya then another stall very more interesting leh this uncle I buy the fresh pork from him mah


somebody recommend say this stall quite the pork is quite fresh lah so <mandarin>我就相信就去:wo jiu xiang xin jiu qu</mandarin> lah then ah <mandarin>我就跟他讲我是想煮那个:wo jiu gen ta jiang wo shi xiang zhu na ge</mandarin> ah you know like , braised pork


you know cut the meat lah then after that !huh! this is five hundred gram <mandarin>他就放在那个:ta jiu fang zai na ge</mandarin> scale <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> scale <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> facing him lah so I can't see the scale right <mandarin>他就讲:ta jiu jiang</mandarin> okay five hundred gram !wah! like very very very accurate lah <mandarin>一刀下去就是五百:yi dao xia qu jiu shi wu bai</mandarin> gram <mandarin>没问题:mei wen ti</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>我就讲:wo jiu jiang</mandarin> okay <mandarin>好我在:hao wo zai</mandarin> err order <mandarin>别的别的肉:bie de bie de rou</mandarin> okay after that ah, ah <mandarin>因为有点不对劲:yin wei you dian bu dui jin</mandarin> leh then <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> <mandarin>可能是:ke neng shi</mandarin> uncle measure <mandarin>错还是什么啊:cuo hai shi shen me a</mandarin>


that's the thing then <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> eh <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我家里有一个:wo jia li you yi ge</mandarin> small digital scale, from one gram also can make can can measure, , because I use that for baking baking needs mah so <mandarin>我就有一个小的:wo jiu you yi ge xiao de</mandarin> digital scale


so <mandarin>我就有:wo jiu you</mandarin> ah, ya, then I really got measure lor, because I'm thinking something is very wrong leh eh I I hold the the packet of meat ah then I'm saying oh dear is like


then I say okay lah then I go and measure the the pork !wah! is only four hundred and fifty gram leh, !wah! then I say !wah! my my my hand can also be raised scale eh , then I said !wah! maybe uncle hear me wrongly ah or maybe he just okay lah this is five hundred gram but he don't want to add on for me or I was just thinking to myself so many possibility right


you know <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> err <mandarin>跟我讲五百:gen wo jiang wu bai</mandarin> gram, then <mandarin>我觉得是讲我还的价钱到底是四百五十:wo jue de shi jiang wo hai de jia qian dao di shi si bai wu shi</mandarin> gram <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> five hundred gram I also don't know I also very confused so actually scratching my head also don't know what happened I say never mind then the following week I go again leh


because actually I was thinking give him another chance lah maybe he hear wrongly or maybe I too soft ah you know wear the mask he cannot hear me ah


then <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> leh <mandarin>还是五百五:hai shi wu bai wu</mandarin> leh


oh <mandarin>是啊有这种:shi a you zhe zhong</mandarin> err <mandarin>小贩:xiao fan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>不诚实的:bu cheng shi de</mandarin> (oo) really, oh, okay


oh yes, , , oh <mandarin>也有可能:ye you ke neng</mandarin> hor


!wah! not bad leh then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>这个应该是:zhe ge ying gai shi</mandarin> trustworthy right then okay fine let me give him a try lah okay try this stall let's try this stall


then <mandarin>我就觉得我我故意的去看那个:wo jiu jue de wo wo gu yi de qu kan na ge</mandarin> weighing machine, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> weighing scale lah, then after then <mandarin>他讲你看:ta jiang ni kan</mandarin> eh don't worry lah eh I I give you more lah <mandarin>我给你很多的你要你要五块钱而已你看我给你很多的其实六块钱的不用紧五块钱就够了:wo gei ni hen duo de ni yao ni yao wu kuai qian er yi ni kan wo gei ni hen duo de qi shi liu kuai qian de bu yong jin wu kuai qian jiu gou le</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>很爽快:hen shuang kuai</mandarin> leh


ya, <mandarin>所以呢有时候去超市:suo yi ne you shi hou qu chao shi</mandarin> hor is better you know


because ah they really have the price tag and then they print it out for you paste it there so, actually they every cent they collect lah of course , , ya


points lah whatever, ya but then if you go to the supermarket !wow! you have the air con you have the privilege


and then you can self serve yourself ah the check out which I like so much you know, yes because you can really pack your thing nicely, ya and you can take your time to pack as well, so how plus and minus lah everytime


then one more another interesting thing that happened was at the you know those <mandarin>买杂粮的那些那些摊位:mai za liang de nei xie nei xie tan wei</mandarin> ah, then <mandarin>我买了我我买东西好像买:wo mai le wo wo mai dong xi hao xiang mai</mandarin> sample leh


very tired and boring so okay next week I buy lesser so I cook lesser meal is okay then what happen then I ask the aunty okay I pick some err potatoes lah and then <mandarin>洋葱:yang cong</mandarin> lah <mandarin>姜:jiang</mandarin> all this kind of thing lor then after that err ya <mandarin>我就选选:wo jiu xuan xuan</mandarin> and I take quite long to choose leh


like choosing time you know maybe people thinking behind !wah! this fella take so long to choose ah okay never mind then I choose already I give it to her then after she told me err <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> ah <mandarin>六块九我说六块九:liu kuai jiu wo shuo liu kuai jiu</mandarin> aunty


ya so <mandarin>有时候你买:you shi hou ni mai</mandarin> sample <mandarin>就是这个问题:jiu shi zhe ge wen ti</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>有时候我去他看到我他就讲来来来快点来买:you shi hou wo qu ta kan dao wo ta jiu jiang lai lai lai kuai dian lai mai</mandarin> err <mandarin>买马铃薯:mai ma ling shu</mandarin> because sometime I will buy I will buy some for making soup,


not bad hor, correct, correct, ya, yes


then aunty say okay lah I know what you mean <mandarin>他就快点去拿:ta jiu kuai dian qu na</mandarin> then she go and refill the the the the the, potatoes ah for the fresher one she say come I show you all my fresh potatoes then so happily oh can pick already,


by then, ya but going to market is like fighting a war man, , why, ah


, yes yes, ya, so correct


ah, ,


[orh], , ya, !wah! so good ah she, oh she's regular customer already


show face only can already sure buy this fish sure that thing ah, ya just like everytime I walk pass that stall she, she say <mandarin>小姐小姐你来买:xiao jie xiao jie ni lai mai</mandarin> Batang <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>你叫我小姐我才会来对吗:ni jiao wo xiao jie wo cai hui lai dui ma</mandarin> !wah! this uncle also <mandarin>很会做生意:hen hui zuo sheng yi</mandarin> leh


, , yes


correct, then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> watching, , [orh], eh but online <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you</mandarin> try <mandarin>过:guo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>好:hao</mandarin> meh


!wah! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah so happening, oh I see okay !wah! Facebook auctioning ah, !huh!, so <mandarin>你去标最低:ni qu biao zui di</mandarin> lah


ah, oh, okay actually <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> try hor


, yes


oh, very enterprising, cannot survive


, correct, that's true that's true, ya, wet market also #gui leow# not open


stalls are also closed already, ya that's on Monday, , last time I don't know Monday also go to the market people ask me why I come, the oh <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> hor


, but ah supermarket, !wah! <mandarin>可是人很多:ke shi ren hen duo</mandarin> leh, so many people there to really !wah! force their way in you know some even now the safe distancing right some markets ah


you still have to based on certain what your NR what your IC number digit and then you can enter is just like, oh dear so hotcake,


I think, that's the reason why


oh actually, actually <mandarin>我没有去:wo mei you qu</mandarin> err <mandarin>我是去:wo shi qu</mandarin> round market, round market <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> vegetable stall vegetable stall


then I was thinking go buy buy two I cannot finish leh


ya, but if you


oh yes they are cheap lah <mandarin>便宜啦可是:pian yi la ke shi</mandarin> hor like what I say lor <mandarin>你买一包:ni mai yi bao</mandarin> right <mandarin>你要丢半包:ni yao diu ban bao</mandarin> lah


err <mandarin>瑕疵:xia ci</mandarin> ah or whatever I'll just throw away, market <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> it really really is a not perfect lah but it's better much better quality


then they say ah from another place !huh! they give you want it or not, then if you go supermarket right don't have <mandarin>金马论的:jin ma lun de</mandarin> cabbage, ya, yes so different source, ya so no choice lor what to do


<mandarin>买鱼算是最贵的:mai yu suan shi zui gui de</mandarin> lah,


from Australia, oh, oh broccoli, broccoli <mandarin>要看怎么样煮:yao kan zen me yang zhu</mandarin> lah <mandarin>我不会太会煮:wo bu hui tai hui zhu</mandarin> broccoli like <mandarin>我煮了:wo zhu le</mandarin> then <mandarin>我的我的女儿讲有一个味道:wo de wo de nv er jiang you yi ge wei dao</mandarin> leh then she not really happy to eat then I say err then she say go and ask #ah ma# how to cook I say oh okay then #ah ma# will think I really don't know how to do housework


, especially cooking cannot make it , keep practicing lor do you know something about the wok that I bought, in July it's very interesting leh <mandarin>那天:na tian</mandarin> ah I I don't know lah I was washing mah then then <mandarin>很奇怪:hen qi guai</mandarin> lor that day I don't know why my eyes ah become I can see you know the


eh how come there's one place that I can't did did I not wash clean or something there's a spot that cannot come out lah then I'm thinking okay lah then I use the use the , dishwasher the thing to, to wash properly, guess what happen


oh lucky ah I still have the box with me leh then, !wah! the box say something like so magical, will not chip leh, ah then I say will not chip ah !wah! really if can state this ah meaning that this must be very super good right you know will not chip mah so I called up the store right then the store [orh] then I say err cannot leh how come this one I just bought like less than two months ah and I'm not really a heavy err user


ya <mandarin>有时有喜欢就煮不喜欢没有煮的那种:you shi you xi huan jiu zhu bu xi huan mei you zhu de na zhong</mandarin> lor, then after that hor <mandarin>我说为什么有一个洞啊他讲不会:wo shuo wei shen me you yi ge dong a ta jiang bu hui</mandarin> chip leh, then <mandarin>那个人听了是莫名其妙:na ge ren ting le shi mo ming qi miao</mandarin> lor then after that, err say okay lah then you err take a photo they say bring <mandarin>你你可以把它带下来吗给我看我说:ni ni ke yi ba ta dai xia lai ma gei wo kan wo shuo</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>我从我的我的家带到你们的:wo cong wo de wo de jia dai dao ni men de</mandarin> Orchard road !huh! <mandarin>给你看我的:gei ni kan wo de</mandarin> wok <mandarin>等下你跟我讲没问题我不是要浪费我的:deng xia ni gen wo jiang mei wen ti wo bu shi yao lang fei wo de</mandarin> taxi fare <mandarin>然后我就想想有点不划算:ran hou wo jiu xiang xiang you dian bu hua suan</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>我就说:wo jiu shuo</mandarin> ok lah then err


Tangs


yes it's nice, yes, yes, but <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> ya <mandarin>现在更少人:xian zai geng shao ren</mandarin> lor <mandarin>因为主动措施:yin wei zhu dong cuo shi</mandarin> and all these things ah so a lot of people also shop online


ya but my wok <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> shop online lah so no choice lah


ya so cheap, ya so <mandarin>可以开了:ke yi kai le</mandarin> lor ya so I think I don't know lah hopefully I'm not the one who make a hole lah but then ha cannot be right since you say it won't chip mah then I'm thinking eh last time also I got use this kind of wok before what how come ah got hole last time I never got hole ah but also don't know why I throw it away


ya maybe because I really never cook, for years and years and years I'm lazy type weekends ah I just want to rest after everyday work Monday to Friday, weekends I just want to go out enjoy myself have a good meal !wah! <mandarin>去餐馆吃:qu can guan chi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>还要自己去下厨啊我不要:hai yao zi ji qu xia chu a wo bu yao</mandarin> leh


hello hello, <mandarin>那天我刚刚:na tian wo gang gang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我刚刚跟那个跟另外一个:wo gang gang gen na ge gen ling wai yi ge</mandarin> sister Grace lah <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> cute leh <mandarin>他说:ta shuo</mandarin> okay lah <mandarin>他要:ta yao</mandarin> join <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>很好啊不然我们一起去:hen hao a bu ran wo men yi qi qu</mandarin> lah then hor <mandarin>你懂你懂那个:ni dong ni dong na ge</mandarin> the exercise <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> twelve to one PM


which is noon time, in the end <mandarin>我们去到那边我跟他讲说我没有找到:wo men qu dao na bian wo gen ta jiang shuo wo mei you zhao dao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>为什么呢:wei shen me ne</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> !huh! <mandarin>那个地方:na ge di fang</mandarin> !huh!


i'ts very popular and because <mandarin>现在的那个:xian zai de na ge</mandarin> ah, ah limitation mah safe distancing hor <mandarin>只有十六个人可以去:zhi you shi liu ge ren ke yi qu</mandarin> only got sixteen people, how ah, so the only way is


is open air, so we have to go there early to queue up, don't then is ok then we all go there and queue up chit and chit chat lah, ya then make some new friends also


, , number seventeen <mandarin>的人就:de ren jiu</mandarin> bye bye <mandarin>因为那边的:yin wei na bian de</mandarin> security guard <mandarin>说:shuo</mandarin> cannot ah <mandarin>你们不可以参加了:ni men bu ke yi can jia le</mandarin> then <mandarin>他们因因为他们有哪些哪些:ta men yin yin wei ta men you nei xie nei xie</mandarin> lines ah barricade or whatever you know they make you go and err queue up first then !wah! many things to do lah then after that temperature screening as usual lah


then, I was we went there ah ya forty five minute earlier just to queue up lah so kiasu a bit but that day ah very funny lor, that day not many people eh


so two ladies are very lucky they just walk in ah but people like us, mostly mostly they ladies only,


!huh!, err, they range from like , twenties ah all the way to sixties also, the age group is actually quite big leh


ya then after that, want to take photo group photo, put on the mask again, then you know the camera man say what


smiling eyes ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, ya


I also cannot make it ya the music ah I only focus on their music then after that forget to move also


then sister Grace say !wah! she totally hor <mandarin>不要听音乐看那个老师:bu yao ting yin yue kan na ge lao shi</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>快点老师:kuai dian lao shi</mandarin> err right hand <mandarin>我就快点:wo jiu kuai dian</mandarin> right hand you know that kind of thing <mandarin>我说:wo shuo</mandarin> so I actually <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> right hand <mandarin>你应该:ni ying gai</mandarin> left hand


ya even if you cannot, follow is okay you are there to sweat it out you know there to relax mah err let go of your stress, so no don't err stress yourself, ya, she enjoy I think ya then she say but then after that !huh! when I come home !huh! I received a text from her leh she say ah eh next time ah <mandarin>我们可以选别的节目吗:wo men ke yi xuan bie de jie mu ma</mandarin>


too fast for me already, actually there's no level is like ya even like err newcomers right <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> only say sometimes they will brief lah some teachers !huh! <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> they will brief they will say okay if I right hand you come up with your left hand because we are mirror image


ya so sometimes <mandarin>老是会讲:lao shi hui jiang</mandarin> some some teachers they take it that, I start the music follow that's it ya if you do wrongly never mind just laugh and just err enjoy yourself and just relax and destress that's all you know that kind of thing so ya


quite fun lor then I say is okay lah then I keep encouraging her never mind let's err you know go again, ya this week


<mandarin>我说你是这个大厨:wo shuo ni shi zhe ge da chu</mandarin> leh <mandarin>你她是我的我的:ni ta shi wo de wo de</mandarin> err SOS line


ya teach me, , of course yes she already


she already more than twenty year experience already, ya she's a veteran in this cooking, !wah!, ya she can cook so well,


gathering ah


oh I see okay <mandarin>那时候我记得了:na shi hou wo ji de le</mandarin> oh we went to err East Coast lah, because one of the friend right she just recovered lah, so we say okay lah so long never meet right then we say we catch up we go East Coast for lunch


ya like that lor, then <mandarin>就去那边吃:jiu qu na bian chi</mandarin> but <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Atas leh <mandarin>那个地方:na ge di fang</mandarin> is very expensive, in the end


ya, ya, ya but then the service so-so lah service very so-so lor, so-so ya but then the, oh really, I see it's not, its not Michelin right


ya when the bill come hor then we are like everyone quite surprise, ya <mandarin>因为我们早上已经吃了我们只是去那边吃一个:yin wei wo men zao shang yi jing chi le wo men zhi shi qu na bian chi yi ge</mandarin> brunch then after that [orh] then then we advanced to another place to to buy frozen food


!aiya! <mandarin>跟他们这些:gen ta men zhe xie</mandarin> veterans ah, !wah! stay home mothers ah !wah! really <mandarin>都是:dou shi</mandarin> food food food <mandarin>煮煮煮:zhu zhu zhu</mandarin> all this kind of thing lor, ya I'm I'm the I'm the only one odd one out [loh] !huh! oh I see but I gain a lot of experience from them very good lor they teach me a lot of things


ya go and buy beef lah, another market another, , !wah! sister you also very clever hor, !wah! you also veteran lah <mandarin>你吃好料:ni chi hao liao</mandarin> one lah


!wah!


ya so <mandarin>那天我就买了:na tian wo jiu mai le</mandarin> beef flank lor, then as usual lah you know <mandarin>我的水准不好的:wo de shui zhun bu hao de</mandarin> so I need to Google, oh go and see Youtube anybody cook beef flank, !wah! then <mandarin>看了几个:kan le ji ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> okay copy <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> in the end hor, my family say <mandarin>这个口味太重了:zhe ge kou wei tai zhong le</mandarin> !hais! !aiya!


ya, ya <mandarin>对了因为这个调味料:dui le yin wei zhe ge tiao wei liao</mandarin> is very strong for my family so, they don't really target


hor ya spend so much time leh can y'all appreciate but they got eat lah so ok lor, ya so far ok lah my cooking actually not so nice lah but then ha you know they still eat lor


because nothing to eat already mah, better than Grab lah you know Grab here Grab there, really not nice


ya sometimes demand ah, that's why I always ask I always ask them like tomorrow I'm going marketing right then <mandarin>我就最伤脑筋的:wo jiu zui shang nao jin de</mandarin> yes that's the worst, then I think then I'll have to think oh my god what to buy again then err okay, then when I ask them they say err


everything is okay fine fine no problem you decide lor <mandarin>你决定就可以了:ni jue ding jiu ke yi le</mandarin> lah, ya but actually say so lah but then <mandarin>我决定就是我伤脑筋:wo jue ding jiu shi wo shang nao jin</mandarin> lor, ya they just <mandarin>饭来张口:fan lai zhang kou</mandarin> lor


ya, menu plan ah, ya but that's the challenge lor when you go to wet market right <mandarin>你要买的材料:ni yao mai de cai liao</mandarin> !huh! <mandarin>不一定会有的:bu yi ding hui you de</mandarin> right, ya so that day ah if let say not fresh !huh! you also don't want to take leh, ya today


ya, yes


, actually ya ya sometime my mother in law they all right I don't know how they make it hor !wah! very clever leh they can buy so much ah and then say okay two weeks already done already, finish buying already how can ah they keep so long ah, eh but actually just now when you in the afternoon right you did talk about err the the the the salmon fish ah


ya is it really true that they really <mandarin>解冻:jie dong</mandarin> then after that we go and froze again ah, !wah! that is serious leh, oh dear, !huh! oh dear I didn't know leh, ya but if I ask them tomorrow ah they will say that


!aiyo! these are all fresh lah never heard heard heard before faster is not fresh , , oh, oh Norway or something like this right


oh, yes, oh oh, oh oh, defrost hor if not how they slice hor


oh my goodness, at least they are more properly pack


oh that's nice, oh, oh <mandarin>我还不懂:wo hai bu dong</mandarin> leh


feeling, , sixty odd dollar ah, oh, oh, [orh] so is like you no need to okay


oh okay ya must really go and try


okay, , oh simple and nice hor eh I like to steam leh because ah no need to mop floor after after cooking


that's why I did just now lor ah my goodness, grill <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> !wah! oven <mandarin>我就要洗到:wo jiu yao xi dao</mandarin> ya <mandarin>要要花很多时间去清理:yao yao hua hen duo shi jian qu qing li</mandarin> so I think ya lor then I think of the <mandarin>清理:qing li</mandarin> part ah I'm thinking !aiya! better not leh


lor so until now my oven ah very clean leh, only when I bake, only for baking yes, baking I also sometimes only lah also see see my mood lor


ya sometimes my my daughter will say, , so ya ya that's do something for baking


err <mandarin>没有了要去想怎样去要去要去问朋友了:mei you le yao qu xiang zen yang qu yao qu yao qu wen peng you le</mandarin> leh because ah I keep repeating dishes also eh because I feel that no need to think


ya last week I cook this hor can edible right okay lah this week do the same thing lor make it easy like I always choose make life easy for myself , , , ya, if not ah then, ya sometimes may family don't really enjoy porridge lah but I like porridge so much


ya then I will tell them it's good porridge is very good for your complexion lah eat lah eat lah, actually is because ya actually I, ya actually it's because ya correct it suit my taste so ya but sometime I don't feel like eating rice you know then rice ah if no soup then I feel that !aiya! a bit dry lah you know very hard to eat lah


ya like just now like that lor then I feel !wah! cannot leh, then yesterday my my girl go and order, err take away food, then she say


!aiyo! <mandarin>吃不饱:chi bu bao</mandarin> ah, yeah


ya she come back home very late already then still go outside and eat, ya exams are coming


ya, , there are so many exam coming out see I also blur


when she exam ah I I also exam , feel nervous for her, then I thinking how come you exam I feel nervous ah so funny hor, then I thinking oh my god I I I mean I when I recall back my own fears last time when I was in school too ya of course there are so much butterflies


ya I think so, a lot of thing ah semester then can do, ya if too fast cannot make it


it's err still okay but, !wah! sleep very late also how, so at night she sleep late, then tomorrow she will be very, tired and err difficult to wake up again then


!aiya! <mandarin>在去在课室打瞌睡:zai qu zai ke shi da ke shui</mandarin> again lor then how, then I say !wah! you like that lah cannot leh, then every night I must go and knock her door


ya, ya, I encourage her to sleep early , so sometimes when she use the phone right I will nag at her lah cannot Tahan I will just nag at her I


ya I say cannot you always using the phone !wah! <mandarin>眼睛又不休息:yan jing you bu xiu xi</mandarin> then later you tell me your eye pain then how, then everytime eye pain then must bring you to optician again and check, then optician say how many hours do you sleep ah, oh


yes it happen before because she wear a special lens hard lens to sleep, ya, control the myopia, myopia control actually it's very expensive lens lah that day she broke it leh !wah! my heart also want to break already oh because ah she broke the lens leh


because she ya when she wash right and then she sleepy sleepy then the lens ah drop lor then drop drop mah then after that when she pick it up that time ah !wah! there's one break sound then I'm thinking oh dear that's it that's it, no more oh my my money down the drain already !wah! so worried


she wear the hard lens to sleep, ya it's a technology so the next morning !wah! <mandarin>眼睛一亮:yan jing yi liang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>就看得很清楚:jiu kan de hen qing chu</mandarin> already, it lasts a few hours lah, actually it can last like


ya, ya ya, ya, ya, this one is because two years ago she already she already wore these lens, ya so that time


can control the myopia actually it works lah, but then you need to pay quite a lot, the first batch we we paid right is about a thousand six or thousand eight I think, two years ah two years only two years


two years lor then after two years then err, ya, but then don't break lor so that day !wah! after she break then I'm thinking oh no choice already quickly I text the


the optician the the optical shop, then I say how ah it break already leh she not careful lah then after that err, err actually that was after like oh three four months lah after the lens replacement then after that


the person ah say okay let me check for you lah actually the boss lah the boss was also their service is very good so the the boss actually said okay I check the record lah <mandarin>我叫我的:wo jiao wo de</mandarin> staff check lah, then after that the staff err <mandarin>打给我:da gei wo</mandarin> lor <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> ah


actually okay <mandarin>我帮你:wo bang ni</mandarin> check !huh! !wah! <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> lens ah under warranty ah


ya if you take good care of it right never break never have any problems ah, then the lens actually you can err you can wear it for two years then after that leh , after two years you must go and check your eye power then of course you need to replace because wear and tear mah


so the lens may not be good condition already lor then she say !aiyo! !aiyo! my eyes now getting very dry lah all these so got some effects also, but the ya the correction of vision is pretty good about eight to ten hours lah then she will like perfect eyesight like this lor


ya no need to wear oh ya wear to sleep,


<mandarin>我就是有问:wo jiu shi you wen</mandarin> leh, ya


correct lor, ah what to do


correct, after that ah after that never ask already we hope we hope that ya actually this one will help her all the way until she probably in her teens like


err she advisable lah to wear until like maybe eighteen nineteen when you know the myopia control right, more or less is err quite stabilized


ya correct lor so not bad lah I think worth the investment I was I convinced my husband to let her, let her wear lah because my concern is that because, for me my myopia is err super high so no choice so I say !wah! then later if it's err in the genes err then ah and then and then worst ah she keep using computer and and the devices and so on right


!wah!, then I say !wah! you read ya


but she always go and watch err Youtube her favourite err Korean pop stars idol all those group lah ah keep on listening to their songs


watch their dance ya, then, correct correct correct, !wah! actually <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Spotify <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> lah, ya <mandarin>不错不错:bu cuo bu cuo</mandarin> very good leh, ya


then I also enjoy , ya very nice because music is really, can play can play on the background correct, ya not bad lor so


, CD,


Google, Google , !wah!, ya


then <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> tempted hor <mandarin>这样容易看:zhe yang rong yi kan</mandarin> right, ya that's why I say I cannot start err drama lah once I start hor !wah! I have to finish the sixteen episode keep on chasing cannot stop one


ya how to stop ya, so sometimes cannot ah, so sometimes cannot blame our children ah, because <mandarin>我们也是一样:wo men ye shi yi yang</mandarin> bad example


ya correct, ya


so is an avenue for them to destress lah, children also need to destress what, keep on studying also cannot make it lah, ya then they look so stress also then we are more stress


I can even read the book and guide her lor, then after that sit beside her !wah! like !wah! really like tutor like that leh


then after that, now ah secondary school cannot I cannot understand already all the topics, ya <mandarin>我要自己:wo yao zi ji</mandarin> try actually <mandarin>是因为他功课太多了:shi yin wei ta gong ke tai duo le</mandarin> <mandarin>所以他跟我讲不要再给我:suo yi ta gen wo jiang bu yao zai gei wo</mandarin> tutor <mandarin>了因为我:le yin wei wo</mandarin> I cannot I cannot have enough time tutor <mandarin>就是说:jiu shi shuo</mandarin> more homework to do


if <mandarin>对吗:dui ma</mandarin> if tutor !huh! don't give homework then the parent go after the tutor !oi! I engage you for what ah, ya lah you have to teach my child what then no homework one ah !wah! so good ah, ya then we will make complaints right then cannot, then the tutor also headache ah


so my girl also very smart lor, tell me <mandarin>读完了:du wan le</mandarin> I will try on my own but we have to give them the trust and give them the time, to adjust lah, , if not ah then


for themselves ah ya when they ask ah they are serious about it already


so they want to study and then ya actually this one I am not so worried about this lah, it's just that not enough sleep not enough rest lor then she looks so


ya, , Google and Youtube is our best friends hor, you can learn so many thing


ya !wah!, is <mandarin>挺晚了:ting wan le</mandarin> leh we need to sleep already ah, okay ,


okay <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> [ah]


damn tired then


#bo liao# ah, why like in what sense


oh


my interview err, my interview, no lah friday, friday was the <mandarin>那个失败的:na ge shi bai de</mandarin> friday was the failed one, that one that one


then, then thursday thursday was the, ya then, it was okay lah then my my cause I was inside the room right


okay lah whatever lah, ya eh eh I don't know lah like, its damn scary because like, I don't know like


or from cause you study psychology right, then then like can I ask for your expert opinion, like err like what what kind of therapy do you think, can like can like help in this situation then I'm like


what , as in I I not even expert enough leh I I don't know lah !wah!, a bit scary, !huh! then I just like come up with something lor that <mandarin>已经学够了:yi jing xue gou le</mandarin> lor, ya that in album mah


ya lor ah I, I don't know leh I don't thats really testing


but then like okay ah then, then, ya I I don't know hopefully I can take but then


character referee leh, reference check reference check, ya ya ya and then the the thing is right, err cannot cannot be friends leh <mandarin>不是那种:bu shi na zhong</mandarin> like normally <mandarin>我们我们:wo men wo men</mandarin> ya <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> normally <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> lah


then, err, cause from from your organization then like organization also like, does it mean like internship place or like school professor then <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> internship place leh then <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> ok lor <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> cause internship is like recent then I'm like err okay then you go ask my supervisor somemore need two leh


ya I I feel like I feel like they legit going to like call that kind, this this time round


!hannor!, ah, , , , okay that arent funny


err, I don't know lah <mandarin>还有我的家人:hai you wo de jia ren</mandarin> right, ya,


ya lor


smart, smart, intelligent


, I don't know leh I I I havent been looking, ya, ya


that time your, UOB, did they get back to you


[orh] !aiya! you don't say like, !wah! that time that time you <mandarin>你你:ni ni</mandarin> interview inside like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> interview <mandarin>进去的时候:jin qu de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>你也是讲不可以:ni ye shi jiang bu ke yi</mandarin> then <mandarin>结果:jie guo</mandarin> leh


[orh] <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> because they NS ah, [orh], [orh]


ok lah <mandarin>不是个:bu shi ge</mandarin> bad thing lah like they, , oh my god


ya,


[orh]


[orh], I see I see,


!wahseh!, what he plans to do with his life, !huh! forever ah


oh, !hannor! !hannor! !hannor!


oh my god ya ya ya


[orh], [orh] oh my gosh, he is damn smart guy lah


!huh!, err okay lah <mandarin>来讲:lai jiang</mandarin> criminal lah


ya its damn interesting,


!huh!, like <mandarin>他们忍受:ta men ren shou</mandarin> each other for so long then then talk


eighties, !huh!


divorced ah, [orh]


interesting, !wah!, !huh!, err


major responsibility is more like, err, manage website


ya, basically the information lor then , talk to other stakeholders, like go and see what are the emerging trends right now


within the mental health space in singapore, ya, !huh!, I think I think maybe talk to like err


I don't know SME startups to see, to see whether like whether the kind of, mental health issue that, arise from their workplace is is similar lah or is it different then, ya things like that lor


then


thats very good, one, ya then, like throw out throw out a lot of ideas lah like ya, so <mandarin>因为他们是:yin wei ta men shi</mandarin>


, so basically


according to <mandarin>可能他们上司跟他们讲:ke neng ta men shang si gen ta men jiang</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>今天有这样的这样:jin tian you zhe yang de zhe yang</mandarin> project <mandarin>要你去:yao ni qu</mandarin> settled <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> something like that lah


it is, ya so basically maybe the the supervisor like tell them [orh] err they need to come up with a solution for this then, then so the maybe the rest of the week


ya, [orh] <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> lor ya


!huh!


elaine ah eh <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他应该读完书了:ta ying gai du wan shu le</mandarin> lah <mandarin>他那时候是半功倍读:ta na shi hou shi ban gong bei du</mandarin> right


!wahseh!


, dont know lah,


you know the the those kind that like you always update that kind, full of insta story that kind


uh thats a possibility also lah, ya <mandarin>他那种:ta na zhong</mandarin> Sibei pops <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> ya


I think,


feel lor, ya, ,


ah,


dont know lah <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> lah, ya, !huh!


[orh], eh <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> leh eh <mandarin>很久了:hen jiu le</mandarin> leh


, , !huh!, , means ah


no, ah I wonder how his, how is he doing now


dont know, maybe hes doing well lor, interesting, wait so <mandarin>是那种:shi na zhong</mandarin> high end <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> ah high end the airline ah


but maybe because its like sponsored by w t mah


no lah maybe maybe ah ya true, true, but <mandarin>他就是很:ta jiu shi hen</mandarin> passionionate [loh] in this area


at that point of time ah, dont know, happy Liao, [orh] err <mandarin>要要要拿到那个:yao yao yao na dao na ge</mandarin> tender


caucasian company <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> leh


then they didn't get it


I think its the same for all their other companies also, ya, eh actually right you know this <mandarin>这种的:zhe zhong de</mandarin> situation right is is like


its really like very reflective for society today, foreigner, foreign talent


ya they raised it leh, ya


!huh! how come,


[orh], !wah!


okay, so <mandarin>为为什么谁谁:wei wei shen me shei shei</mandarin> support him and why <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> and say, who who who are against him and why


, !aiya!, its damn bad actually I actually think some of the some of them right, ya like the travel allowance thing


the like ya the pay everything, so, I don't know lah okay is is the the the interviewee that lecture end up lecturing the interviewer that one is like a bit ridiculous already lah


, , but then by lecturing him you will waste even more time what


, interesting interesting, err, I don't know leh like <mandarin>现在的工作这样难找:xian zai de gong zuo zhe yang nan zhao</mandarin> then, I don't know lah but I mean if you have the the experience in that area of expertise then


then


, most likely lor thats the case lor, , , true


, but then I feel like, you know once you get a job right or like at least, permanent one like like, what everyone, manage to find lah, then is pretty much quite stable from then on


, exactly, !wow!


eh that means he damn smart lah, no no as in like I mean he has its own firm, oh okay ,


oh, but <mandarin>他是它是什么有人会找他:ta shi ta shi shen me you ren hui zhao ta</mandarin> ah, as, !huh!


, cute


oh my god


, , , eh bro my english cannot make it lah


, I will suffer throughout, !huh!, I don't know


oh my god eh eh that is a huge cut leh, but then but then whats the point I mean I mean like if you take masters then


so, does it actually help, uh,


eh but


cool, eh are they very smart,


but thing is how how did he get admitted,


interesting interesting, I eh but my english not proficient enough leh


ok what what what is considered bad writing to you, what


!huh!, oh eh but still good enough what, at least <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> credential is there mah, like Hwa Chong, Nanyang


strange strange


interesting hor I I can never understand literature especially that book you know the greek get to be I'm just like, no no, I I went to what was that spark notes ah remember last time got,


as in <mandarin>我跟你讲:wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> right <mandarin>其实:qi shi</mandarin> right


ya actually <mandarin>其实:qi shi</mandarin> right, reality right


, maybe you are bias


oh


, logic


(ppc)


okay, ah, I just ended class I damn tired, damn tired !wah! the lesson like a bit <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> #bo liao#


like as in like cause is non examanable like like is no finals you know then its all like project, that is all project then like how to say


like <mandarin>现在学的东西有什么用:xian zai xue de dong xi you shen me yong</mandarin> right is like you just need to write on research paper mah, then I just go and read my own research report do my own research can already what, just feel like err like Bo <mandarin>没有没有用:mei you mei you yong</mandarin> lah you know what I mean


its not like if its examanable then I go to class then, otherwise then a bit pointless lah, then you leh eh how was your interview ah, how was your last wednesday right


ah, but you also


how was it,


!huh! then how your answer, but it's like that what like, but it's like that one what like if I go for like law interview then you will be like oh, as a legal counsel for this company what would you have done but it's like


, (uh huh)


!huh! <mandarin>什么什么是:shen me shen me shi</mandarin> character referee <mandarin>就是你要找人:jiu shi ni yao zhao ren</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>要找人:yao zhao ren</mandarin> refer <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> lah, ah okay okay, [orh] sorry


is it because government organization they like more <mandarin>严:yan</mandarin> when it comes to background check, ah


but okay lah <mandarin>有可能:you ke neng</mandarin> cause you know like <mandarin>现在很多那种:xian zai hen duo na zhong</mandarin> case <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> sexual, misconduct case then like they also scared is err is our government organization mah then you know standard on their organizations or maybe you know they really doing very stringent check lah I don't know


constitutional law paper ya <mandarin>我还去拿那个:wo hai qu na na ge</mandarin> assignment then <mandarin>我朋友讲:wo peng you jiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你去哪里因为他他他要我的:ni qu na li yin wei ta ta ta yao wo de</mandarin> notes mah then <mandarin>我讲我不在家我现在:wo jiang wo bu zai jia wo xian zai</mandarin> send <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> then <mandarin>他讲你去那里:ta jiang ni qu na li</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>我去买鞋子:wo qu mai xie zi</mandarin> free shoes, then she was like !aiya! actually err even though next week got paper but if got free shoes I also will go then I was like thanks for validating me


yes ya yes ya I mean like you give me the additional two hours I also like not necessarily will translate to better grades lah, you know me, me thank you thank you


eh so how if like as in do you have any or current interviews a not, take a break lor take a break


[orh] <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah, cause err I did it after I was like super tired like is also on monday so my class in the morning then my second class until ten then usually by then I really drain so I also never really try


ya, I never try, so you law <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> ah I am also not at oxford right


oh but it was really surprising it was really surprising I didn't think I was going to make it cause, like how how to say ah <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> interviewer <mandarin>两个他一直:liang ge ta yi zhi</mandarin> arrow <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> but I think is because like <mandarin>我没有讲很多:wo mei you jiang hen duo</mandarin> plus ah like the other two interviewees right are all guys so if they failed the first time round right they can still retake cause they still in NS what but for me is I only got one shot


that's why they keep grueling me leh, ya ya because they NS so they still got chance lah if they don't make it then they still ok but for me like the interviewers know that it okay cause it as it cause then if you don't go into law for this year then thats it what so <mandarin>他们一直问我他们会一直要我:ta men yi zhi wen wo ta men hui yi zhi yao wo</mandarin> feedback anything what do you think


ya but after that after that he like the interviewer right he became my prof like for criminal law and then you know at the class, after that I found out right that the other interviewer actually their father inside


ya so cute right, I don't think <mandarin>他要跟他的爸爸一起工作:ta yao gen ta de ba ba yi qi gong zuo</mandarin> lah but is just have fun lah you know, but its quite true lor is like but you do have read the framework caused the older one right he hes super old like hes a damn like hes a very compassionate prof because he used to be a judge


but he he does he he taught us criminal law but I don't think when he was a judge he only handle criminal matters


but <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> father <mandarin>教的是:jiao de shi</mandarin> criminal law


ya, quite interesting lor, at first we saw like oh same last name but then doesn't really mean a lot at first then now we realize its father and son, but got got another another case of father and son also but different faculty <mandarin>他是他的儿子:ta shi ta de er zi</mandarin> right <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> faculty of law <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> law prof <mandarin>他教:ta jiao</mandarin> constite but eh <mandarin>他很厉害他:ta hen li hai ta</mandarin> oxford law <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> PHD right <mandarin>他现在才他毕业才二十九岁:ta xian zai cai ta bi ye cai er shi jiu sui</mandarin> leh


ya hes super Zai then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> hes one of the youngest prof, keep your prof lah, and then why not like some people just like being a prof what


then <mandarin>他的爸爸:ta de ba ba</mandarin> but then <mandarin>他爸爸不是不是:ta ba ba bu shi bu shi</mandarin> law, outside of law school and hes like oh my son is also a a professor and faculty of law but I'm not as smart as him


so quite quite Zai quite Zai, err but I don't know leh I think like some people <mandarin>它本身他就不喜欢:ta ben shen ta jiu bu xi huan</mandarin> practice cause <mandarin>我有一个:wo you yi ge</mandarin> prof right like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> year one <mandarin>的时候他教我们:de shi hou ta jiao wo men</mandarin> contract law


then <mandarin>他讲他讲本来他一毕业:ta jiang ta jiang ben lai ta yi bi ye</mandarin> right <mandarin>他就要当:ta jiu yao dang</mandarin> prof <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> to be a prof right back then right you need to be a valedictorian, then <mandarin>他还讲我没有:ta hai jiang wo mei you</mandarin> team ya then you know what he said his exact word I can remember he seemed so proud of himself and are rightfully so lah he was like


I wasnt available I wasnt forcing my cohort but I was for, like that is super Zai you know, like dude imagine he fall at a cohort but he he couldnt be a prof cause he wouldnt vest, so #bo bian# he he practice first lor then he said he hated every minute out of it


so when he could be a prof right then he just like jump at a chance, ya, that's why some people that's why err like they will prof the rest of their life one, cause they like like research and then, and like pushing like


because when you write right like research paper then our judges pick up on the right then maybe he can pick up the ideas and then they maybe do legislate not not so much that job side lah but they can push for legislative reform, in their judgment so I think thats what the prof actually want


like <mandarin>很多人要跑去:hen duo ren yao pao qu</mandarin> ISIS right a lot of like err what their radicalist tried to like go to ISIS right to join like to go to Syria and join ISIS


also our our reform that we were pushing for our research right is like a bad samaritan law so <mandarin>他的意思就是:ta de yi si jiu shi</mandarin> like err, like <mandarin>如果你看到有坏事:ru guo ni kan dao you huai shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>比如说你看到那个地铁站有一个:bi ru shuo ni kan dao na ge di tie zhan you yi ge</mandarin> bomb


then you know you know its gonna explode but you do nothing about it should you be penalized for it, so similarly if you translate that to the context of like, err radicalism so its like oh you know your friend right wants to go to Syria to join ISIS so she are you harbour a duty to err


like report it, so that was our like question lah


could happening are you under any obligation legal obligation to actually call the police that's the thing that we were asking, but like <mandarin>其他的:qi ta de</mandarin> group the actually quite actually now that I cant think about it like three years down the road, actually <mandarin>我发现我们做的很多:wo fa xian wo men zuo de hen duo</mandarin> project right <mandarin>这些:zhe xie</mandarin> project <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> criminal law <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> project <mandarin>其他组还有我们组的其实他很多东西都很:qi ta zu hai you wo men zu de qi shi ta hen duo dong xi dou hen</mandarin> relevant


eh <mandarin>有一个组他做的是:you yi ge zu ta zuo de shi</mandarin> voyeurism so now if all the upskirts <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> but <mandarin>他们的是比较:ta men de shi bi jiao</mandarin> like skewed towards like using drones cause back then drones wasnt like regulated you don't need a license to import drones drones into singapore but now you need what


and then is the question was like oh if you use drones than you fly it, then you <mandarin>去偷拍人家:qu tou pai ren jia</mandarin> like HDB right then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> think <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> think <mandarin>你要怎么讲去:ni yao zen me jiang qu</mandarin> then like what laws were cover it and what law should cover it so <mandarin>他们做的课题就是这样子:ta men zuo de ke ti jiu shi zhe yang zi</mandarin> then one group <mandarin>是做:shi zuo</mandarin> terrorism lah


thats why <mandarin>蛮:man</mandarin> interesting <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then <mandarin>还有一个:hai you yi ge</mandarin> group <mandarin>我记得他做了:wo ji de ta zuo le</mandarin> scouting, then when you but you didn't consent to like okay you only consent to sex but


with condoms on for example so if the partner right actually took off a condom that is he under any like, as in <mandarin>他会不会:ta hui bu hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>坐牢:zuo lao</mandarin> or something lah you know <mandarin>所以他们做的:suo yi ta men zuo de</mandarin> like <mandarin>现在这些东西都很:xian zai zhe xie dong xi dou hen</mandarin> relevant <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but <mandarin>三年前:san nian qian</mandarin> like you know


as bright eye law student like I I think is not bad, ya so a lot of this kind of thing but criminal criminal <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> interesting


then <mandarin>他们很喜欢:ta men hen xi huan</mandarin> like <mandarin>现在叫:xian zai jiao</mandarin> alternate dispute resolution <mandarin>所以如果你可以不上法庭:suo yi ru guo ni ke yi bu shang fa ting</mandarin> right <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> mediation right <mandarin>你可以和解庭外和解:ni ke yi he jie ting wai he jie</mandarin> right they recommend leh


ya so <mandarin>所以现在很多这样子的所以你如果不要当律师你可以去做:suo yi xian zai hen duo zhe yang zi de suo yi ni ru guo bu yao dang lv shi ni ke yi qu zuo</mandarin> mediator <mandarin>你可以去做:ni ke yi qu zuo</mandarin> like negotiator, ya this kind of thing ah quite interesting lah like I went for mediation court before then , it's quite interesting, because the couple


then <mandarin>那个老婆讲是他的:na ge lao po jiang shi ta de</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个老公讲我要:na ge lao gong jiang wo yao</mandarin> fifty percent, then <mandarin>那个老婆讲没有你什么钱都没有付到我应该拿:na ge lao po jiang mei you ni shen me qian dou mei you fu dao wo ying gai na</mandarin> one hundred percent, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> uncle <mandarin>就讲我不可能只拿:jiu jiang wo bu ke neng zhi na</mandarin> ten percent what


exactly


exactly <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> exactly eh because because theres also the thing on our minds is like !huh! <mandarin>你们都结婚了现在都五十多年了:ni men dou jie hun le xian zai dou wu shi duo nian le</mandarin> oh I give up I gave up I gave away the age then is like <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> giving through so much anyway the woman the woman was like okay they are both in their eighties


eighties, at right right then they are not from they didn't grow up in singapore so they were like from Hong Kong and China so they've been through all their communism


and then they like fleet the country come to singapore start a new life together than about forty eighty something, and then now you try to fight for your matrimonial assets, at eighty something, then the thing is the process is going to take two more years or like one or two more years then I just like oh my god you should have settled


so the judge actually I feel like mediation like actually not just mediation but, like the family court judge right <mandarin>他们很有同情心:ta men hen you tong qing xin</mandarin> cause you deal with this kind of affairs right it takes a than personality, ya, so he he super nice lah like he he trying to push


for a settlement, like <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> like <mandarin>你可以看的到:ni ke yi kan de dao</mandarin> cause <mandarin>我在那边:wo zai na bian</mandarin> right then <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> intern


human aspect to it it's not just like dealing with regulations which I I really dislike, eh is very sad lah if you ever have a chance to like intern in this kind of organization right is is quite interesting ah


err <mandarin>最后没没有已经:zui hou mei mei you yi jing</mandarin> divorced Liao <mandarin>他们现在只是分那个组屋:ta men xian zai zhi shi fen na ge zu wu</mandarin> but that girl also very <mandarin>可怜:ke lian</mandarin> lah like both their account is like you don't know whether to believe them <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> like you cannot believe hundred percent what people tell you lah thats for sure