progress <mandarin>先:xian</mandarin> lor cause, actually right my initial my initial reading schedule for the Hegel and marx one right was a lot slower so you see ah you see for number one right it looks like twenty pages right three to page three to twenty three right by it's preface section one to thirty seven my initial one right I actually wanted to break it up into two section one to section seventeen or something right section twenty something ah


which is we can go at a slower pace to understand what you trying to do but this one we trying to squeeze two thinkers together, so we have to move slightly faster for phenomenology, which is already a very difficult text on its own


uh <mandarin>哪一个哪一个:na yi ge na yi ge</mandarin> Leuven module


Heger is under modern philosophy, but Heger also under historical introduction uh two last week


uh, uh or the first week of september latest cause first week of september right will become a bit more difficult to find housing because a lot of places Kena rented


settle settled in, !wah! oh my god so sweet, [orh] okay okay, I I understand no no I understand understand some more she say she got a lot of question for me also I haven't go and like I haven't go and like err meet up with her


I haven't go and ask him yet ya I go and message him now, actually later later finish this first I go and message I ya ya speaking of this I want go talk to


the other the the other time !wah! <mandarin>我们去打麻将我们我们我们打输给金明的老妈:wo men qu da ma jiang wo men wo men wo men da shu gei jin ming de lao ma</mandarin> then I forget to go and ask him


!wah! I cannot remember eh <mandarin>他讲什么语言:ta jiang shen me yu yan</mandarin> ah !wah! uh , !wah! I !wah! I really cannot remember our


!wah! I think so sia, !wah! I I go and ask him first I go and ask him first


ya I really want to go and ask him, !wah! eh and and also another thing ah I have not seen Nozomi for damn long eh I quite curious what he doing now


no ah no ah no ah he he he he this kind he will he think very funny one


you today scold the last week confirm reply one, but this kind he just like uh okay lor


he now a bit he now eh you say first you say first


yes yes yes she really nonstop play one so so so you know so you know speaking of the just now we talk about the hammock right


she really very addicted, by the way you know she rank one already


so so so your <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> budget that kind ah, , then you got follow not


oh okay okay, makes sense makes sense, ah ya ya don't go and don't go and craft the card first, you have to wait a while I really suggest right wait another two weeks


okay, okay, okay


then what is the then what is the package that they they they show you


tier salt that's how you I think that's how you pronounce it I think it's tier salt, ya ya okay okay ya ya ya that that that that one that one that one damn #cha cha# okay okay very good very good you do something else


okay, okay


hello, okay on we go, yes can start already


no I said we can start already, [orh] okay so, me and shannon <mandarin>我们今我们昨天去:wo men jin wo men zuo tian qu</mandarin> staycation


then, it's actually, it's actually, it's actually a super good deal sia, I think <mandarin>那个整个东西:na ge zheng ge dong xi</mandarin> is like we spend, three hundred and


twenty dollars eh three hundred and twenty dollars, and then, no <mandarin>一晚一晚而已一晚:yi wan yi wan er yi yi wan</mandarin> three hundred and twenty dollars but then <mandarin>包包:bao bao</mandarin> dinner, then dinner dinner <mandarin>我们吃那个:wo men chi na ge</mandarin> uh the


the big bone one <mandarin>叫什么:jiao shen me</mandarin> big bone one <mandarin>叫:jiao</mandarin> tomahawk <mandarin>对对对对对那个:dui dui dui dui dui na ge</mandarin> tomahawk then <mandarin>我们把那个:wo men ba na ge</mandarin> bone <mandarin>跟那些:gen nei xie</mandarin> extra fat <mandarin>带带回家:dai dai hui jia</mandarin> give Toto so so so just now before I start recording right then we give the phone to Toto mah then <mandarin>他他你你你靠近他:ta ta ni ni ni kao jin ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>他一直:ta yi zhi</mandarin> growl damn scary like he being a little bitch lah


like he he he like it too much, I think for now yes cause <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> bone still got like meat on it like a little bit of meat, then he then he damn happy


then she say okay, so now he's he's outside at the living room eating the bone he damn happy


then ya so we went to it's at Hilton, the orchard road there, then, I could I I got to go to the gym twice lah so quite Shiok


no but, ya I drag I drag shannon one time then I teach her how to squat lor


I never take photo I think shannon maybe, then and then the service staff there like super nice at first like when <mandarin>我们我们刚刚去的时候:wo men wo men gang gang qu de shi hou</mandarin> [orh] then the queue very long


then like we queue queue queue halfway right the guy say like eh uh you don't need to queue lah you go inside the restaurant and wait then later we call you, then, then after that right we I go and ask the guy lah


uh is the registration done already then he said oh sorry ah you all have to like join the queue get register then go wait for your room in this place then we like what what the fuck, so we go back out then we go and ask the person lah like eh what's wrong what what happen then he like bring us to the like I think he's more like a senior staff he bring us to concierge that side then he just help us do everything then after that right <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> like <mandarin>出去的时候:chu qu de shi hou</mandarin> ah then raining then <mandarin>我我一直找那个人:wo wo yi zhi zhao na ge ren</mandarin> then like keep asking him stupid shit lah eh <mandarin>可以给我这个可以给我那个:ke yi gei wo zhe ge ke yi gei wo na ge</mandarin> then I then I like eh sorry sorry bro like we are the we are the many problem guest lah !huh! then he like [orh] no no worries no worries


so I think after this <mandarin>我会去写一个:wo hui qu xie yi ge</mandarin> like good review for him lah, cause like you know when you work F&B at have you work F&B before or like service that kind


part time, so so I thought then the the the dinner the dinner the the the waiter also quite quite nice


so ya gotta give them a commend, at least


ah <mandarin>那个十块钱的:na ge shi kuai qian de</mandarin> one hour


[orh] uh <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> set up, the army outfield <mandarin>的时候我们去带:de shi hou wo men qu dai</mandarin> lah then more <mandarin>舒服:shu fu</mandarin> you know no need sleep on the floor


no but but now, no but now you take your hammock I must see what the hammock looks like first lah but now you see the hammock


no no no but now now that you haven't go yet right then


I think he won't mind for a short while but he will struggle after that, so now he's outside at the gate there biting his bone he damn Shiok


then


[orh], see who


Kanina <mandarin>我一个:wo yi ge</mandarin> deck <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> then you want to I just nice one deck only then you all want to


K lah, I see how maybe, maybe I'll come maybe no


oh, no <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I like the reason why, I I keep asking you like, I want to use my my shards right it's cause <mandarin>有那个:you na ge</mandarin> what's his name ah


bring out one of the the spell card, start with V one, the tutor card start with V start with V


ah vabion vabion, ya then <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> craft vabion but then you say wait for the expansion


[orh], oh I need to tell you like


!wah! this one this one hype so <mandarin>那天我我我我去做:na tian wo wo wo wo qu zuo</mandarin> Toto <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> dog exam mah


then over there she cause she worked at #ngee ann# poly then she do the she's like a lab tech, so so she know how to solder then <mandarin>她就她就教我:ta jiu ta jiu jiao wo</mandarin> lor


then she like take she gave me like a cheap solder iron and everything then she teach me how to do so I do do do do do already right then like all the switches in already, then I come back to shannon house right then <mandarin>我按按按按按:wo an an an an an</mandarin> then like my F eight key right and my N key like letter N ah


rate of of like, then so cause it's like my soldering damn damn noob, like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> solder <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> then like <mandarin>没有放好:mei you fang hao</mandarin> then <mandarin>里面有:li mian you</mandarin> bubble


then so <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> air bubble right, like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> contact not strong


then the dog right he lie on the floor


actually you should come and see it cause like, if I bring back Bedok then like shag already, like before


I might go if I go gram party I will go back Bedok tonight, we see how lah, cause if I don't go gram party right like


no no no no, no <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> as in, like you just <mandarin>来:lai</mandarin> for a short while ah


oh I mean like you straight away go #boon keng# you can come here first then see then continue take bus go what or you can change to take MRT instead


no lah see what you want to do lah, but M


you you see you see how later lah, no then then no bid


err maybe more, no no let me think let me think, okay <mandarin>我买:wo mai</mandarin> key cap, that one, I think got almost two hundred sing


so, then, so the whole thing, about eighty dollar for the switch eighty dollars for the switch eighty one for the switch


I think <mandarin>有六百多:you liu bai duo</mandarin> almost <mandarin>七百:qi bai</mandarin> maybe have, no no no no okay this is Rabak lah but like


!wah!, I see already <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> !wah! damn Sui, think she know she, so no no, she know everything she know everything everything she know


everything I tell you here she know, okay but then no <mandarin>所以我的:suo yi wo de</mandarin> solder like fuck like messed up already right then


then I keep going out of the room I unscrew then screw back unscrew then screw back then after that like solder here and there right then Toto sitting at the corner of the room then he <mandarin>一直看我:yi zhi kan wo</mandarin> then he like judging me like !wah! this guy damn noob sia he don't know how to solder then he keep going in and out of the room what he doing he then give me that the eye right like !wah! damn judgemental then I'm like !wah! Toto why you like this when you lick your balls right I also never give you this eye


then like, you open the door right then <mandarin>一直撞它:yi zhi zhuang ta</mandarin> then like Dulan


he sleep with us what so I keep going in and out


shannon's room right then then he Dulan [orh] he like !walao! why you keep opening the door why you walk then like how many times you want to go and re-solder this thing you damn noob sia he like got that face lah, but


ya lah, Nani, no he lie on the floor he ready to sleep already


shannon shannon say, he say ya shannon don't don't ya don't worry shannon know then he's like why ah you always hide stuff from me is it then I say


what, ya no you know why she you know why she, you know why she know


ya but I tell her everything else ah the board <mandarin>她从淘宝买:ta cong tao bao mai</mandarin> then my I cannot read mandarin like I cannot read like well enough to buy things from <mandarin>淘宝:tao bao</mandarin> so I had to ask shannon to


no because these people they damn smart sia they they have a website for international lah they sell the #ang moh# right three hundred US dollar, then on the china website it's a china company ah then the china website right on <mandarin>淘宝:tao bao</mandarin> right they sell three hundred and sixty sing


so they really go and <mandarin>吃到那个:chi dao na ge</mandarin> #ang moh# eh they just Jiak only, they think the #ang moh# don't know how to read <mandarin>淘宝:tao bao</mandarin> then they go and rip them off


so the guy who teach me how make keyboard right he quite funny one ah he very good at using <mandarin>淘宝:tao bao</mandarin> then after that like this time he last time he tell me eh like <mandarin>他要买那个:ta yao mai na ge</mandarin> HDMI cable for his com, then <mandarin>他就问那个淘宝:ta jiu wen na ge tao bao</mandarin> seller ah he's a china guy he's like eh <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> HDMI cable


he the guy list two two different one one expensive one one cheaper one but both looked the same then he asked eh <mandarin>这个有什么有什么分别:zhe ge you shen me you shen me fen bie</mandarin> like


then he say tell him he tell he tell him oh <mandarin>如果你要:ru guo ni yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>如如果你要:ru ru guo ni yao</mandarin> support <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> family ah <mandarin>你就买那个比较贵的:ni jiu mai na ge bi jiao gui de</mandarin> he just straight up tell him that in the <mandarin>淘宝:tao bao</mandarin> chats ya damn funny


then that's oh but I !wah! that guy he really very smart shannon's friend he also he also do law in shannon's school one he's the top student from nottingham but like not her batch lah a few batch


this this guy, this guy <mandarin>新加坡人:xin jia po ren</mandarin> god he go, !huh! [orh] ya he he from he from poly one then he eh #ngee ann# poly he same poly as you


accounting ah [orh] <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> #ngee ann# <mandarin>读:du</mandarin> accounting then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> nottingham <mandarin>读读:du du</mandarin> uh, he wrecked


he he he wreck everybody in in marks he singaporean god


wait <mandarin>你爬上那个:ni pa shang na ge</mandarin> building, then got


no clue, #buay sai#, I really don't know, I never go Outram before


I only know Outram got canton got cantonment, so like third floor then <mandarin>上面还有:shang mian hai you</mandarin> attic


what what is grip what is, okay, but what is grip


[orh], okay


ah so what you think your unconscious trying to tell you


!wah! that sounds wild


uh <mandarin>我昨天:wo zuo tian</mandarin> also got like a weird dream I think now I I I recall my dream from yesterday, so <mandarin>我我我我跟你讲:wo wo wo wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> okay so last night right we sleeping on the the very nice bed


like king size the very nice king size bed then suddenly right in my dream I I like fighting some #ang moh# guy I don't know lah he piss me off or something then I just fighting him so I fight fight fight fight then the guy like uh he quite noob


like got got grappling so it's not just like punching and kicking got grappling so he like never try to get my back then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> like I so I tried get his back ah


okay lah that basically I tried choke him from the back I try to choke him from the back, I put him in ah in a choke lah, triangle choke, so in my dream right I finally got the triangle choke then I pull him over right then I try and go choke shannon in the dream


lock <mandarin>住那个:zhu na ge</mandarin> bicep then I like put my head my head behind his head then I choke him like really to like put him to sleep already then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> choke <mandarin>他的时候:ta de shi hou</mandarin> [orh] in real life I go and choke shannon


then she wake up leh, then she wake up then she start scolding me like what happen <mandarin>她他以为我:ta ta yi wei wo</mandarin> like nightmare right then <mandarin>抱住她因为怕我怕:bao zhu ta yin wei pa wo pa</mandarin> then she ya then she think carefully right why so aggressive no this guy is choking me


but <mandarin>这个不是第一次:zhe ge bu shi di yi ci</mandarin> eh like, like <mandarin>我们睡觉的时候:wo men shui jiao de shi hou</mandarin> hor like <mandarin>有一次我:you yi ci wo</mandarin> like


like miss, I just swing


Kena #hum ji bang# already, but I don't know eh like I always dream fighting one but I never fight people in like real life


why, no no no no I rarely fight I always de-escalate


cause, what's the question


ya but this one I strong I winning, so normally <mandarin>是我:shi wo</mandarin> like <mandarin>打人我:da ren wo</mandarin> punch <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> then like <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> damage, but <mandarin>这个我我我我在:zhe ge wo wo wo wo zai</mandarin> winning then like quite Shiok but then when I finally got the choke


I ready to finish the fight already then then I realise I choking shannon then I just wake up sorry baby sorry baby


this, is like two AM three AM like that


eh <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> can <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> recording <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> stop


ah <mandarin>我不知道:wo bu zhi dao</mandarin> I think it's is it okay if you just open the the door for joshua, then we stop, so I think you just


I think we <mandarin>你不用:ni bu yong</mandarin> pause lah <mandarin>你你你帮你帮:ni ni ni bang ni bang</mandarin> josh <mandarin>开门:kai men</mandarin> then we all just pause here lor then after that, you you just don't touch the recording lah


no <mandarin>我懂我懂:wo dong wo dong</mandarin> I think, I think


don't don't touch ah I scared, okay okay you go send him off first ah, I don't know lah just, make it easy [orh], you just


hello ya ya okay, but I think that that time they can just skip [orh], think <mandarin>不会有问题:bu hui you wen ti</mandarin> lah I don't think how it should affect the thing


eh marx in marx in chinese what's his name, like what people call mark marcus


mark marcus, marcus, !wah! I see the the schedule I a bit scared


slowly, okay <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> I I haven't been reading hume <mandarin>那天那那:na tian na na</mandarin> no, no uh, on sunday right, like <mandarin>我已经开始:wo yi jing kai shi</mandarin> then <mandarin>我读:wo du</mandarin> introduction like


like maybe ten twenty pages already, but then <mandarin>那天我我我跟你讲的时候:na tian wo wo wo gen ni jiang de shi hou</mandarin> I was like reading in the the introduction again, then


I think <mandarin>我已经读了:wo yi jing du le</mandarin> like, maybe another five six pages then <mandarin>我问你:wo wen ni</mandarin> eh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> reading <mandarin>要做什么:yao zuo shen me</mandarin> then <mandarin>你跟我讲了:ni gen wo jiang le</mandarin> right then


then the I think, I read about an hour in you tell me oh it's <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> next next thursday <mandarin>不是现在不是:bu shi xian zai bu shi</mandarin> this thursday then <mandarin>我就开始玩:wo jiu kai shi wan</mandarin> gwen <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> shannon <mandarin>回回回到家了:hui hui hui dao jia le</mandarin> so


that's why I text u, ya I at shannon's house all the way


correct no lah I need to I need to cannot cannot got a lot


okay


oh


okay lor but like okay okay so so so I think, what what you can do right is <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> sacrifice <mandarin>我一点点:wo yi dian dian</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> Leuven is can continue one what


or even if


he Bo he #bo pian#


okay <mandarin>我去看:wo qu kan</mandarin> uh okay ya so so what, you you say you say just now what you say


but I don't mind doing, okay but I don't mind doing Heidegger also so it's okay


everybody


true true true, not only dense, they write until like


okay okay oh I


bi-weekly oh <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> oh we doing bi-weekly not every week


oh ya ya ya, every week


K K but, but okay at least for eh josh josh josh <mandarin>要做:yao zuo</mandarin> philosophy also for school


oh okay okay, cause for for for for me and Noz right like


oh uh <mandarin>下个星期:xia ge xing qi</mandarin> I need your help


I think, I we can start doing the cost breakdown for belgium, okay


cause <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin>


online ah


okay okay, I I I cannot open anymore books already I got like


uh, marx and Engels reader


culture industry so, uh then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Hegel secondary text


eh actually not that much, but oh plus my marx dictionary so, ah plus plus capitals plus capitalist realism


I think eh, okay but I you do you want to you want to see the, do you do you want to see the secondary text, maybe maybe maybe if the thing quite good then like we you can we can go and edit the


reading list, okay


, cause <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> secondary text right even though it's secondary text, like <mandarin>他写的方法:ta xie de fang fa</mandarin> right is like they he write already right then after that like he talk about oh Hegel says this like Hegel'S trying to make this point


then <mandarin>他从全部的:ta cong quan bu de</mandarin> primary text Jiap Jiap Jiap Jiap all the excerpts then he one shot throw you then he explain them


see interpretation so you want us to oneself interpret okay okay, ownself, ah then we can get like outside like outside interpretation or maybe we we can wrong then can clarify


like purposely purposely go think wrong one then like we can know what is wrong, like <mandarin>好像我们读:hao xiang wo men du</mandarin> [orh] then we read already then after that like


we interpret really very wrong, then when you really very wrong also can learn learn like why you really very wrong, is that what you trying to do


or you want creative you you want more creative interpretation


ah okay, oh okay


[orh] the Dalis ah not creative until like shawn say Dalis Dalis the first , that one very creative what


when when when shawn said that right you know what's the first thing I thought of, bruce Lee, cause you know the that, no but that bruce Lee quote, the bruce Lee quote really fits very well into what


shawn was saying the water <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> a lot of side one


yes yes yes did you include the other things that I want like how like I want all of Hegel'S big terms, to be inside the seminar, like those that he uses a lot


okay okay okay !aiya! I


, okay


modules right


okay, !wah! quite hype, eh uh


oh, I <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> don't mind going earlier one lah the only thing is like


and settle in, help me settle in, also cause


then, Rahim <mandarin>有你有你有没有去:you ni you ni you mei you qu</mandarin> psycho Rahim


eh but then eh remember that time Rahim say <mandarin>他要打麻将:ta yao da ma jiang</mandarin> then he want to you all want to like flip everything into what what's his uh dialect ah not dialect


his uh mother tongue, urdu is it or what, read, that that one that one really very lame should, should go and


that one should, should <mandarin>真的去:zhen de qu</mandarin> go and translate, then after that !wah! that one confirm play, then <mandarin>我们我们拍:wo men wo men pai</mandarin> video <mandarin>放在放在:fang zai fang zai</mandarin> Youtube


eh just now I send the meme to the to the group right


then he do you think shawn will angry or he like whatever, cause like


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


K K K, !wah! the


socrates online then I like !wah! this fidelity really addicted sia


!wah! what I think I rank fifteen only


no <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like once I got used to the the deck, I I didn't I use a a modification of a net deck like the net deck give me


budget deck ah, so I follow the budget deck the the budget deck <mandarin>教我那个:jiao wo na ge</mandarin> progression


then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>慢慢慢慢去换:man man man man qu huan</mandarin> lah


so <mandarin>我放那个:wo fang na ge</mandarin> heymann, their they they use some weird shit lah but so I use the heymann protector


then great sword also go and damage himself right then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> heymann protector plus one


then <mandarin>我再放那个那个:wo zai fang na ge na ge</mandarin> wolf the the the six power one then every turn damage one opponent damage the other one, then the heymann protector plus again


that's my basic combo, do you understand, the package that they show me is uh let me see


okay, pirate captain herbalis


turkish raider Tursich Tursich raider, got bear bear elder bear, I don't know like the combo like, it's it's just all damage one just


ya, I think one that I would like to play is the alchemy one cause I see <mandarin>那那个:na na ge</mandarin> priest [orh] you know <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> damage one to your left then heal the other one


hello, ya can,


, , ya,


, [orh] mine was err two years lah because uh I was obese and also err for me right we were under the old IPPT system which had five stations I think yours you all did three stations right so I think


yours in a in a way, ya, ya so, ya so technically uh these new method right it is easier to pass but hard to get gold, ah but whereas the old system uh a lot of people had trouble passing so and also I since I was obese right uh I had to go for additional two months of BMT so my BMT was close to five months five months plus minus


so err after my BMT I was posted to, our my vocation was called ah regimental police lah so now yes so now is known as security troopers


so basically err we will go to clementi camp for our course training so that is err around three months then after that will be posted to the different camps in singapore so usually they will allocate the camp which is near to your


where you stay lah so since I'm staying in #pasir ris#, , ,


army or BMT, BMT lah, ah, okay


ya it's true lah I mean what you say is true


so ah <tamil>அதனால பாத்திங்கனா:athanaala paathinganaa</tamil> so because of that right ah the bonding between the unit mates it's I think ah it's more stronger than err, the bonds which we had during BMT but our BMT was fun in a way that uh everytime when we book in we will always be looking forward because the first ten weeks right it's conditioning phase so during that conditioning phase we will we will not be issued any weapon or anything so the main focus is to lose weight


so ah for every week ah there's this thing called the biggest loser so they will calculate they'll take your weight when you book in and before you book out they'll also take your weight so during these five days the person who has lost the most number of weight


ah will be given some err like a prize or something lah, so uh how was your BMT


I mean when you say you say you had difficulty is it IPPT or, all the other things lah I mean the route march err there are a lot of other physical task


[orh]


, , ya, I think a lot of err, err a lot of like enlistees when they go for BMT the biggest change is err IPPT in BMT is done by the elite system so it's a machine counting


so I think sometime ah ah eliss hub so I think that that is one reason like err some people they don't perform as well as they are expected to perform because sometimes the counting is not err done err accurately


okay like like for me I would say the sit ups is quite uh, quite accurately counted is more of the push up only the push up sometimes ah, sometimes sometimes you don't, go low enough or sometimes if you it all depends on the system lah because I have taken in different err camps


so different camps ah the the the sensing level is a bit different so, most of the time,


, , ya


okay, [orh]


ya, oh you did twice


, oh okay


, ya okay then for my experience on sit up and this one a lot uh not sit up sorry push up right, the what they say right the first push up how low you'll go that is what the system will take as a gauge as a mark


so so some people who don't go as low as expected but they just go a bit right so <tamil>அதுதா வந்து:athuthaa vanthu</tamil> cutoff <tamil>போனமாரி:ponamaari</tamil> so ah <tamil>அடுத்த இது வந்து அத வச்சி நம்ம அவங்க செஞ்சிட்டு இருந்தாங்கனா அதுக்கேத்த மாரி அந்த:adutha ithu vanthu atha vachi namma avanga senjittu irunthaanganaa athukkaetha maari antha</tamil> counting <tamil>போகும்:pogum</tamil> so this is err I mean this is very subjective because different camps and different


times you go right the system is very different so I I I think you do you count manually is better but I think why they why they introduce this system is, so that there's no any physical contact I think this is useful during the this kind of COVID period and also they want to make the IPPT uh system faster that means err


especially when you go into reservist ah you'll find that your schedule is very tight and how they organise IPPT is those who have taken IPPT during their window frame ah they will not be called for IPPT uh


again during their reservist so as long they have cleared, so once they have cleared means during reservist they no need to do so that that time is their administration time and they can rest and usually when you go to reservist right your IPPT will be on your last day which means your book out day I mean not book out your last day of uh


uh and ICT lah correct correct last last day of in camp training will be the friday usually will be friday morning, so after after your IPPT you will do your area cleaning and do all the outpost stuff and err they will actually


how IPPT is organised is by platoon lah so they they'll go by platoon and sorry company level because uh for ah reservist right is one battalion you see so one battalion will comprise of four companies


and one company will have close to five to six platoons and there'll be HQ and all that so it's actually a very large err, it's a very big size group but what will happen from my experience, from my experience right the first three ICT you will see a lot of people the low key you'll see a lot of people but after that when high key kicks in that's when a lot of people will ah take differ they'll differ for some reason some people <tamil>சில பேருக்கு கல்யாணோ நடக்கும் அவளோட:sila perukku kalyaano nadakum avaloda</tamil> I mean they'll get kids and all that so <tamil>அதனால:athanala</tamil> you'll see the number of people at each ICT will go lower and lower currently right err the previous ICT which I went


uh it is more than, one thing is because these uh high key is conducted in a period where it not it might not be conducive for everyone usually the low keys will be


ya so, okay as far as as ICT is concerned they will cater to the university schedule as much as possible it affects those who are in the <tamil>மத்த படிப்பு படிக்குறாங்களா:matha padippu padikkuraangalaa</tamil> polytechnic lah <tamil>மத்த இது செய்றாங்க:matha ithu seiraanga</tamil> once you go to <tamil>அவங்களுக்கு வந்து கொஞ்சோ பாதிப்பா இருக்கு:avangalukku vanthu konjo paathippaa irukku</tamil> because if you look at the university calendar it is more or less standardised among all the singapore universities


so if you if you noticed most of the ICT in camp training will take place in december for low key, ah this year a lot of units were cancelled due to COVID and mine also ya ya mine also was cancelled, so


but,


ya, ya one of, ya my one of my friend Kumaran I think you know him right he was not allocated a unit for five years, ya


not NS ah reservist, ya ya so so he just I have done close to six cycles he have just completed one I think, and this year he supposed to go, but he will due to COVID and that also got cancelled


look because the thing is if they don't allocate you before your your before you ORD right the chances of them delaying is a lot because I have no I had known a few cases where they don't know the unit like two to three years two to three years is err


is, ah it's usually that long but you see ah if you don't do your low key during your, err during your university period right because for him for my friend he started with high key the first one they call him for high key already


he didn't go by the three err three low key then and there are seven high key he never go by that form because since they delayed him right he was attached to some unit and that unit had err because since he was <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> unit <tamil>வந்து ஏற்கனவே ஆரம்பிசிடாங்க:vanthu etkanavae aarambichitaanga</tamil> but since he joined halfway his first ICT was high key already


then he was a bit lost lah because he don't know anyone he he cannot bond with anyone and this, and and the and the sad thing is it this when this unit when this battalion is going to MR when err when they are going to go inside military reserved he'll be thrown out from that battalion and attached to another battalion halfway through his uh reservist cycle


so, you understand or not because this the this thing right so as for my unit is concerned we are supposed to MR in two thousand and twenty four because, before I ORD right they showed us the ten year plan already what they're going to do and each reservist cycle what you can expect and all that so our plan has been laid out


so now we go right everytime we will see the same err err the same uh uh captain the same and <tamil>அவங்களா வந்து:avangalaa vanthu</tamil> they volunteer themselves, ya they will follow through until we MR until we step down as a battalion


ya so, my my unit, ,


, okay, what can you, can you tell what do you want to do during the high key sounds interesting


, ya,


okay,


is it like a field camp for you all like you must stay over there, oh


okay I've seen before I've seen before I've seen before, oh okay okay


[orh] okay, , I think, I think I think


ah,


oh okay no I think I think ah you see ah what the skills you learn is very applicable to real life but I mean since I was posted as a security trooper, [orh] okay basically we are in charge of the security of the camp so we need to check people for contraband stuff


err then ensure that no things get lost from the camp and all that lah so basically we will do all the checking in the visitors and checking out them ah <tamil>அப்புறம்:appuram</tamil> went <tamil>அந்த வண்டியில வந்து நம்ம கடைல வந்து இது பண்ணுவோ:antha vandiyila vanthu namma kadaila vanthu ithu pannuvo</tamil> scan <tamil>பண்ணுவோ:pannuvo</tamil> ah so


as part of operations we will sometimes have surprise check lah so surprised check means we since I was posted to Hendon it was a red zone camp, so you know red zone you're not allowed camera handphones at inside inside the camp, some camps is green zone but inside certain areas are red zone but this is total ah this is totally red zone


so people will try, ah ya ya it is it is Hendon will because uh inside Hendon there's special operations and there are a lot of I mean err there are a lot of secret information inside the camp so it I I don't think it will be a green zone anytime soon


it's still a red zone I think ya still a red zone, but uh when I was posted they still use the old school method of err, booking in there was no like scanning and all that lah so we had to physically write in a log book


everything we need to ya ya everything we need to physically write but the thing is the traffic inside Hendon is quite low usually in the morning only there will be a lot of contractors ah all these workers coming in but since due to COVID situation I think not many people will come ya usually in other camps the high err the high traffic camps ah can we can say #pasir laba# because a lot of units will go there for their training a lot of buses will go there they have bus lane and all that so that is one of the hard


err one, ah, err reservist people one thing about Hendon is we don't have people coming for IPPT or ICT training so it's since since this is only reserved for commandos and no other units can actually come in for any other purposes the traffic is very little and and the and the bond between the commandos and because we are part of the infantry right because we will wear different beret


and when and since err since there's there was this rule when I uh when I was posted there that we're not even though I'm combat trained I'm not allowed to carry a rifle so only the sentry posts will be guarded by the commandos because they need a red beret person to guard it they don't want uh infantry ya so we will just be doing the service kind of job


which is just to check, we will not ah then then, security trooper


[orh] during our period I think it was err ah like security trooper then they put bracket service or combat something like that, they'll put in bracket lah but but uh , I'm I I mean the only thing the combat does which they will not do is we'll just take the rifle and stand at sentry points lah that's the only difference other than that err is the same and another thing


another thing we had a jetty point uh which other camps not many other camps would have so we need to do we need to guard the jetty area because there were few cases of people swimming and swimming close towards the camp I don't know from where they come some people will go for fishing all because it's the Changi area is famous for fishing you see


so <tamil>அவங்க அவங்க வந்து அந்த அவங்க படகுலயும் கப்பல்லயும் வந்து போய்ட்டு அப்புறம் அவங்க:avanga avanga vanthu antha avanga padakulayum kappallayum vanthu poyitu appuram avanga</tamil> swim <tamil>பண்ண பாப்பாங்க இங்க:panna paapaanga inga</tamil> so <tamil>அவங்க கிட்ட வரும்போது:avanga kitta varumpothu</tamil> we need to go to the that side and err, we need to, we need to alert err <tamil>ஒரு ஒரு:oru oru</tamil> warning <tamil>மாரி தரனும்:mari tharanum</tamil> there's a siren for that


ya ya ya because err yours combat right, did you have any chance to go overseas during your army


[orh], how was it ah


okay,


okay, oh


[orh], how many people uh how many, [orh] okay okay so so it's it's like on a rotation basis lah so if there's a unit there then there will be like


four from your unit going there to help them do all these kind of vehicle related stuff lah maintenance stuff, okay


, okay


okay okay I mean it's good, so you're chosen because you were you did well for in your course lah during your course study you did very well


oh okay okay okay


[orh] okay,


, [orh]


, ya I know


[orh], ,


, okay okay


okay, ,


, , okay


, okay,


what do what do they fire ah what, okay


GPMG ya like GPMG, okay okay, oh okay okay


wait actually can no actually GPMG can brother because GPM, ya you have to shoot lah, [orh]


[orh], oh


oh okay okay okay okay okay, ya ya, true true


, oh okay okay


okay okay okay


ah correct, , [orh] okay


oh okay okay,


, , [orh] so ah <tamil>இவர:ivara</tamil> workshop <tamil>கு கொண்டு வந்து:ku kondu vanthu</tamil> still must repair lah still you must repair the part


ya ya ya I understand over there lah the the workshop over there, oh okay okay okay okay


[orh] okay okay can, so


I mean , which part of your army did you like enjoy the most for me right I enjoyed the before we ORD we need to come back to our base camp which is Clementi, okay basically I just give you a overview ah how the whole thing works lah so after BMT once we go to our Clementi camp right so each platoon


ah is assigned so platoon one is a air force camp platoon two is a navy platoon platoon three and four is army platoons so platoon one and two right, they'll be assigned to navy and air force bases so when we come for the three months course before we ORD we will not see our friends from platoon one and two


we will only see we will only see platoon three and four, platoon three and four will form a company and <tamil>இந்த:intha</tamil> that three and four <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> will be three redivided into sections ah into


why we don't see people from the air force and navy is because they will have their own reservist ah separately


navy units are called squadrons so they will they will ah they will go for sea soldier course after this three months course at ya sea soldiers they need to know how to swim how to dive because as part of their operations they go out to the sea right so what if their boat capsized or something happened so they need to go for additional nine months course


then for those, sorry sorry err err three months nine weeks course, and so so the the course in Clementi camp is, three months so that then they'll go for additional three months lah so before we ORD since for our reservist they will convert us into rifle man so why we are convert back to infantry is because they are not enough people in the infantry units lah so that's why they convert they are converting us into infantry men so last time our like few batches before us all during their reservist they will go back to their camp and do the same ah checking again


that means they'll do the ya they will because they're called ah regimental police so they will go back to their own own camps which they did all their duties but for us we will they'll bring us back together and they'll give us more training so that is when we'll be assigned the different weapons lah so I'm a second saw gunner in my section


so one section will have one one, uh it's called NSTT it's called uh nationals national service transition training or something like that ya national service transition training so it's into your


your reservist, so actually our reservist is more tiring than our active days because during our reservist we will have, ATAC which is the unit evaluation, so


ya coastal defence, uh, okay basically we guard the the coastal areas lah, ya basically is that one but then err let me explain more of my how the ATAC thing works lah because okay


NSTT and okay NSTT lah err NSTT lah <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> we will, ah NSTT lah <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> we will have our, err we will be trained our respective weapons so in the in the course before we are posted to the different camps right they'll train us in err all the weapons that means you'll be firing GPMGM sixteen <tamil>எல்லா:ellaa</tamil> weapons uh <tamil>நம்ம:namma</tamil> file <tamil>பண்ணுவோ ஆனா:pannuvo aanaa</tamil> once we come back to these right it's very err specific to your weapon so you need to go for


ah so that means the matador gunner will go and fire SAR twenty one and their matador, so during the matador live ah during the matador live firing we'll all be resting so it's like very divided so


from the different plattons that the matador gunners will form up so it's like it'll be very separated lah the way they organise the thing will be very separated, but that, ya ya ya ya ya ya no no no no no no no the map since <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> section lah <tamil>வந்து ஒரு:vanthu oru</tamil> method or gunner <tamil>இருக்குறனால:irukkuranaala</tamil> during NSTT all the method or gunners will go for the mathod or live firing everyone has to fire


ya but we will not see that live firing lah only they will see but they will all fire the real matador, #pasir laba# #pasir laba# Pasir


ya is one by one and it is not continuous after one firing I think they will take one or one hour break or something


if because if let's say ah the thing ND and <tamil>அதுல வந்து:athula vanthu</tamil> ND <tamil>னு வந்து என்ன சொல்றாங்கனா:nu vanthu enna solraanganaa</tamil> the thing fire ups but it doesn't blast


but <tamil>அங்க அந்த:anga antha</tamil> live firing <tamil>போனவங்களா சொன்னாங்க இந்த பக்கத்துல இருக்குற:ponavangala sonnaanga intha pakkathula irukkura</tamil> range leh <tamil>அந்த அந்த அந்த நேரோ இருக்குல:athurumama antha antha antha nero irukkula</tamil> I will shake actually you can hear the shaking of the that err


ya ya we okay that range right during the range we will all be have the M two O three <tamil>வந்து அந்த:vanthu antha</tamil> grenade <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> they will not fire so method or gunner will bring their twenty one so we will have that range ATP <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> we will have separately but this


okay during ATP means okay the saw gunners whether there's not much change so we'll have the bipod then we'll shoot M the M two O three means they will have their grenade attachment but there'll be no grenade inside, then M two then the the matador gunners they'll just bring their SAR twenty one so it's basically they will have their own weapons then fire you cannot have go inside the range and fire the matador inside what


but but for IMT right the one the one we do with the graphics kind of training like the video game kind of a that one that one you each person will have their individual weapons that means the matador gunner will have their matador and uh because matador you fire once you throw away the weapon you can only fire once


ya so so once he fires right he just throw away the weapon then he will defend himself using the SAR twenty one, this matador because coastal defence ah is to take large objects lah large ah like


ah, ya so, so my weapons are is basically for firepower it doesn't have a very good accuracy <tamil>அது:athu</tamil> firepower <tamil>எதுக்கு நம்ம தரோனா:ethukku namma tharonaa</tamil> so that the enemy will be scared to stand up


so this this is something like GPMG, ya saw saw second saw so ya, so one section will have ah two saw, two M two O three


ah section commander section commander is usually SAR twenty one one matador, ya because section commander will have all the comms equipment lah so that is heavy enough for the that person


ya so , SAR twenty one SAR twenty one is nothing compared to this one because this this this weapon


it's a weapon you carry using the hand it's not like it's not a sling weapon and also the the the weapon is very long, no you can sling but when you sling right it is very long it's not as short as SAR twenty one it's a very long weapon


ah so this one when I sling right everytime you sling and walk right confirm will hit your bag or hit, in front of your ya it's very uncomfortable so we'll just stick and since there's a bypod right we'll put the bypod then and we are firing we'll use the bypod point is same lah


, ya once okay once you go to unit right once they assign your weapon means that is the weapon you will see I'll never touch SAR twenty one again


there's no SAR twenty one live firing for me ya, ya we go if we go for range right when we go for range the firing is in, ah saw, each person will be given the assigned weapons okay


ya ya ya outfield also lah outfield also our our individual weapons, but outfield we are firing blanks lah so it's okay


all the all the support units right okay so each battalion will have support units so like drivers and all that are part of the support units the medical the so all the support units right they will fire hundred metre range with their SAR twenty one


these hundred metres will remain constant but, ah for us right err the second live firing was three hundred metre range, ya ya ours will get harder so the next one we need to do a ten click route march then after the ten click is technically live firing so it's like


no no this thing happens during our reservist so reservist how it works right not, during reservist right your first reservist you go you'll go for this is constant for all the units lah so you go for your first reservist right you'll be going for family shoot so family shoot is a familiarisation


so <tamil>அதுக்கு வந்து காசு இருக்காது:athukku vanthu kaasu irukkaathu</tamil> you'll not if you even you get marksmen they'll be in <tamil>காசு இருக்காது:kaasu irukkaathu</tamil> second one you will go for the proper one then you will get money then after that two years later you will have another err shoot is not ah every ICT you'll go for shoot


err <tamil>ரெண்டு வருஷோ மூனு வருஷதுக்கு:rendu varusho moonu varushathukku</tamil> and each time you go right for us it will get a bit difficult and difficult but for y'all for the support units is is always SAR twenty one and hundred metre


ya, some ya ya is the difficulty level for us


no range is, no I think right, , for your range right will be safe because, uh because the range is something where they expect even the PES C uh PES C


ah, err but but what I would say uh reservist is uh also a good time to earn money because you go for reservist right okay let's say let's say you train yourself you're fit okay you get at least uh oh silver for your IPPT you'll get three hundred dollars for that then if you go for range you get marksmen which is easy to get you'll get another two hundred dollars so that is five hundred dollars <tamil>அது போக:athu poga</tamil> if you top thirty ah percentage thirty percentile who do well in their in camp training


we'll get err we'll we'll get vouchers and rewards accordingly, so you can earn up you can get up to thousand dollars in awards I mean this is uh excluding the pay they are going to pay you for your four or five days or maybe the two weeks so this is the amount of money you can get during your reservist so reservist is a nice time to get some extra cash lah especially okay


ya ya for me I okay ya for me IPPT cash is a bit hard to get so when I go for range I'll get the two hundred lah because the two hundred is is quite easy to easy to get lah so so I I would I would suggest ah at least try to maintain ah silver I think <tamil>நாம:naama</tamil> train <tamil>பண்ண ஆரம்பிக்கனும்:panna aarambikkanum</tamil> because <tamil>நா நா நா வந்து அடுத்த மாசதுக்குள்ள:naa naa naa vanthu adutha maasathukkulla</tamil> eh <tamil>எடுத்தாகனும்:eduthaakkanum</tamil> brother <tamil>என்னோட இத:ennoda itha</tamil> because <tamil>என்னோட:ennoda</tamil> birthday is february ah february right I have never taken because because of reservist they close everything and now there's no ICT and there's no IPT training so I cannot go for IPT also so I think I I think maybe next week when when we have time we start training lah we just ah we just go and run because if you if you get your silver right ah during


you will three hundred on the spot they'll that means after after the result, ya PayNow you then you go for your range range is compulsory I mean maybe not they're not the not the first year second year you go for your range and some more SAR twenty one hundred metres it's easy to get


but the only difference you'll you'll notice is err you might you might experience the targets coming from different thing lah is like it's not like a individual thing already it'll be section level kind of ah marksmanship, combat shoot but when when you go when you during your NS did you go for


okay okay, so so they will take the average then they'll divide by ah by the correct ya ya ya


so so this the same thing lah so every time when we go for firing right the saw gunners are always put at the blame because saw <tamil>வந்து ஒழுங்கா:vanthu olungaa</tamil> aim <tamil>பண்ண முடியாது:panna mudiyaathu</tamil> it is not a weapon to aim at a target so it's very hard because we use we cannot use the scope you know we use ironside to fire


ya because we don't have a scope, only the weapons with scope is M two O three, ah SAR twenty one actually M two three M two O three is just a modified, yes, uh the attachment will affect okay standing position you are firing right


it's very hard to hold the weapon straight because because of the weight which is pulling it down below because of the grenade holder right and that thing is super heavy, your your, ya, ya your forearm must be very


ah, ya ya correct lah


personally I like the I'm I mean the what ah, the indoor the indoor indoor range lah because when I when we were firing err during our NSTT right it was hundred percent marksmanship then there was a lot like <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> soccer match <tamil>பாத்து பாக்குறமாரிய இருந்துச்சு எல்லா:paaththu paakkuramaariya irunthuchu ellaa</tamil> cheer <tamil>பண்ணிக்கிட்டு:pannikittu</tamil> because I remember right only two of them they went for this shoot


and after the uh and also the good thing about ah indoor range is you no need to wait until the night fall after the day you finish you can go, ya so so it's like, when I first, is very fast and since there's aircon right you don't feel the when you wearing all the all the gear ah you don't feel much heat and you can like really concentrate aim and shoot so it's like very ah it's very nice


ya ya the blanks and all that waste time


I I I I remember when we went there we didn't pick up the rounds you know, the I don't remember because during my reservist right, ah, what since it's a whole battalion two companies will go for range two eh sorry two company will go for indoor range two company will go for the normal one the outside one


[orh] never had lah, but okay lah army reservist


for my reservist, ya because for you for you you not sure yet right,


or driving course, actually I was chosen for driving course lah during my NS time but then since I had history of heat injury


they say I cannot continue, I went I went lah I went to the Bedok, during my time it was Bedok need to go Bedok, ah #kaki bukit# <tamil>அங்க போன மொதல் நாள்தா போன:anga pona mothal naalthaa pona</tamil> <tamil>அதுக்கு அப்புறம் வந்து அவங்க சொன்னாங்க:athukki appuram vanthu avanga sonnaanga</tamil> heat injury <tamil>இருக்குறனாலே முடியாதுன்னு சொல்லிட்டாங்க:irukkuranaala mudiyaathunu sollitaanga</tamil> so after that I was because


so last time we the the


ah so what will happen is if there is L three so L three okay we are divided into three response force lah L one L two and L three so L three is err RHQ level regional err sector <tamil>கு வந்து:ku vanthu</tamil> so <tamil>எங்க இதுக்கு கீழ வந்து ஏழு:enga ithukku keela vanthu elu</tamil> camp <tamil>இருக்கு:irukku</tamil> so <tamil>இந்த ஏழு:intha elu</tamil> camp <tamil>வந்து அங்க அங்க இருக்குற:vanthu anga anga irukkura</tamil> troopers <tamil>போடுவாங்க:poduvaanga</tamil> so each <tamil>இப்ப வந்து நா:ippa vanthu naa</tamil> #Hendon# leh <tamil>இருக்கேனா இந்த வாரதுக்கு வந்து ரெண்டு பேர வந்து:irukkaenaa intha vaarathukku vanthu rendu pera vanthu</tamil> choose <tamil>பண்ணிகுவாங்க:pannikuvaanga</tamil> ah as L three response force so during that activation they will go and stay in Selarang lah they just have to stay there for activation to happen


so if let's say any camp in trouble means they they need to drive the vehicle and go there so that's why they need to, there's, ya ya correct you have seen the security trooper that thing right, so they need to drive to the camp and do they need to do enhance ah enforcement enforcement thing they need to do and from our base also enforcement people will come in lah


so actually actually during our course there's this thing call err exercise I I cannot remember the exercise but it's a twenty four hours thing you need to guard the camp and uh and that exercise was very fun, like


ya so like the so the there there'll be intruders lah so you need to defend the camp so the intruders will can be ice cream man ice cream man <tamil>மாரி வருவாங்க:maari varuvaanga</tamil> then suddenly they'll take the gun and start attacking you so it'll be quite physically


ah it happens during our training in Clementi lah before we are posted out yo, ya it's actually quite violent in it'll it's quite violet it's very physical they'll really come and whack you is actually actually the sergeants will be whacked more ah more by the man


ah <tamil>கண்ணலா போட்ய்டு ரொம்ப:kannalaa poittu romba</tamil> violent ah ah I I mean <tamil>யாரு மேல கோவோ இருக்குதோ அதுல:yaaru mela kovo irukkutho athula</tamil> <tamil>தீக்குர மாரி எல்லா பண்ண ஆரம்பிச்சிட்டாங்க:theekura maari ellaa panna aarambichitaanga</tamil> like it


it went out ya it went out of purpose,


again lah, which are you lah you'll you'll be driving lah


oh, [orh], okay lah so so your reservist mainly is you'll be doing driving driving driving lah, okay will it be stay out


stay out or stay in ah, [orh], because because for us right ah for my battalion since there are not enough bunks right the support coy will actually book in each day


ya lah ya lah true lah I mean the outfield part, outfield part, ya lah outfield no choice lah need to stay in but since since the uh <tamil>என்னது மத்தவங்கல:ennathu mathavangala</tamil> differ <tamil>பண்ண ஆரம்பிச்சதனால இப்போ அண்மைல வந்து அந்த:panna aarambichathanaala ippo anmaila vanthu antha</tamil> support coil <tamil>இருக்குறவங்களா:irukkuravangalaa</tamil> they stay actually support coy right they'll will come one or two days before us


gabriel ya can you hear me brother hello, gabriel ya so yesterday I was telling you right about my army I just ORD ah in february, and it's been like ten months already lah since I ORD


ya but my army right was actually shorter than the, a normal one lah because everyone says army is two years right mine is actually one year ten months only, that's because I pass my IPPT


and then my BMT right was only two months <tamil>ரெண்டு மாசந்தா:rendu maasanthaa</tamil> brother, (uh huh)


, ya ours only had three stations push up sit up and two point four


(mmhmm) , , uh, oh ya


ah, oh okay okay, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm)


get any friends from army at all it was really very rush


ah in BMT, couldn't get any friends in BMT, it's like, this that one after another so we really didn't get the opportunity to


sit down talk to your your your buddies, your BMT mates make friends it was really rushed lah I I you know I actually regretted passing my IPPT I was like I shall just fail IPPT and serve the extra two months and at least get a good bonding with my BMT mates that's how I felt lah during my BMT but for you I think you five months right you would have definitely forged good bonds with all your BMT mates lah


err ya


(uh huh)


, eh oh


, [orh]


I was just mostly at home so <tamil>என்னாச்சுனா:ennachunaa</tamil> I gained a lot of weight <tamil>ஆனா:aanaa</tamil> I had like not a lot of weight but I I did gain like err a significant amount of it and then also my fitness level actually drop because like during this four months I didn't have like any PE lessons or any opportunity to actually go out to run okay


so my fitness level dropped so when I went to ah BMT I actually struggled a lot brother like, there were people like me also lah who are struggling a bit, but majority of them were, actually quite fit because my IPPT I only


manage to just pass it like the passing point is sixty one right I got about sixty sixty five


ya, ah actually actually only the my main difficulty was only IPPT lah I was


it was quite easy for me to adapt to this kind of, uh route march and all that like route much wasn't really okay route march was tiring and all but it wasn't something that I couldn't do I can I can do route much I can go to outfield and I can


so I actually I actually failed my first two IPPT, ah, (uh huh) ya


err ya the eliss hub eliss hub,


(mmhmm), ah, correct


okay okay, (mmhmm), it's like the the the the machine keeps asking you to go down


even more but then you're already there like <tamil>எப்டி சொல்றது:epdi solrathu</tamil> if if it's a manual count right if it's counted by a person or someone or buddy confirm that push up will be counted even sometimes the instructors will say you're ah okay you have you have done the push up for me what was happening was I was at eliss hub I was doing sit ups okay and then my uh you know there will be instructors right


the non army instructors, ah <tamil>வெள்ள சட்ட போட்டுட்டு நிப்பாங்க:vella satta potuttu nippaanga</tamil> so they they were actually standing there and then this guy was standing in front of my my uh machine my sit up machine okay, and then I was doing my sit ups and he was saying okay okay do do do correct correct correct then he was counting for me you know then but then but then I was like looking at him why is he counting for me the machine wasn't counting you know


but that that err instructor who was looking at me he was like looking at my posture and all everything he was actually counting, but then the machine wasn't counting so I went to tell him err sir how come the machine didn't count then you're counting then he said oh then maybe the machine is err wrong like maybe it's not


sensing you properly so I had to go and do again you know, I did twice, that was the IPPT I passed lah actually I I had to do my my sit-ups again and then they added


uh actually the I did like about forty five around there, okay but the machine only counted thirty three, ya so it's like more than ten sit ups that didn't counted lah I mean you can actually


ya, , ah for push up, ah, (uh huh)


ah, (mmhmm)


<tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> correct


ah,


okay, (mmhmm), oh okay


last day of ICT ah, (uh huh), (mmhmm)


ah, !fuh!, (mmhmm)


okay, oh, ah okay okay


some people might be studying and all still in university still in school or something like that is it, oh okay okay


ah, because of COVID, okay okay, ah <tamil>எனகொன்னு கூப்டவே இல்ல:enakonnu koopdavae illa</tamil> brother, they will a they never even tell me what unit I'm going to go to because I check the NS portal right oh <tamil>அங்கவந்து:angavanthu</tamil> doesn't reflect


it just says err HQMAS which means according to my seniors right means uh pending, they are still allocating the unit for you, so I haven't gotten my unit yet


(mmhmm), ya, !fuh!, then ah <tamil>அதுக்கு அப்புறம்:athukku appuram</tamil> he start, uh NS is it


ah, (mmhmm), , !aiyo!, ya


oh it's okay still acceptable,


oh, three low key seven high key, (mmhmm),


ya correct you might you might be thrown into some new unit and you don't know


ya, oh, oh okay okay okay


ya, (mmhmm)


ah okay okay


people, follow follow follow through lah all the way


okay okay okay, I see I see ya <tamil>ஆமா எனக்கு:aamaa enakku</tamil> I I don't know lah because I was a technician in the army, so I don't know what will happen to me in reservist because err there's something call err <tamil>நீங்க சொன்னிங்களே:neenga sonneengala</tamil> the high key and all that so our during my my err


my NS time there's we had this high key lah it's called maintenance field training so that's our high key <tamil>ஆனா:aanaa</tamil> what happened was I was sent to driving course


I miss the high key, err is actually err the name the name actually suggest what we do lah maintenance field training I I tell you first I tell you why I didn't go because I had to go for driving course right


diving course is three months, okay so because of that and then they put this this MFT thing ah, like during my driving course so I wasn't able to go for it


so <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> MFD <tamil>என்னா பண்ணுவாங்கனா:ennaa pannuvaanganaa</tamil> is actually err it's actually outfield, and as technicians we repair tanks and all that right, or just vehicles class four vehicles so what we do is we go outfield and repair the vehicles


ya it's a it's a field camp we have to stay there in uh we have to stay there in, the outfit area for four days, but we don't have to we won't have to dig shell scrape what we do is we stay in this vehicle


it's like a five tonner five tonner <tamil>தெரியுல:theriyula</tamil> five tonner <tamil>மாதிரி:maathiri</tamil> actually five tonner <tamil>மாதிரி இருக்கு ஆனா பின்னாடி வந்து:maathiri irukku aanaa pinnaadi vanthu</tamil> will be like a room and then it has a crane, so what happens is we will sleep inside there


okay ya and then and then we'll of first few days will be, first few days will be actually err a theory kind of day so what happens is they will teach you what you're going to learn in BMT I mean what you're gonna learn in MFT and all that and then the last few days we will be sent to outfield


and then they will err they were assess us so we'll have to like do simple simple task lah like change the tire for this vehicle change battery that kind of things, in outfield so what so


so what happens is in back in workshop right we have like a lot of tools, so we are able to do it err fast and all that efficiently but then in the field we don't have all the tools we only have limited tools


so changing the changing some stuff and all right will be a bit hard like changing tire in a in outfield area is actually quite challenging lah, but the thing is that I I only got to hear all these stories I didn't get to experience it because I was sent to driving course


ya, (uh huh), ST what do you what do you actually do as a security trooper


(mmhmm), oh okay


okay, uh, ah


!huh!, [orh] okay okay okay, red zone areas, ah is it still a red zone camp no right


oh it is, oh


[orh] okay okay, ah okay okay okay


!huh! oh okay, (uh huh), people now ya true true


oh ya, ya correct correct, #pasir laba# Kranji my my camp is Kranji Kranji also has quite a high number of traffic because it has a lot of units inside Kranji


and a lot of ICT people come there reservist people come there, (mmhmm), ah okay okay


, okay, very little, ya


ya, oh okay, guard the commando camp, ah


which okay just to check just a service uh service trooper service trooper right that's what it's called, ah no the service trooper as in those who are not carrying rifle are called service troopers


ah okay okay okay


but uh but, [orh]


oh okay okay, ya correct


stop them, oh interesting interesting for for us we didn't really, uh oh ya we did err guard duty, and but ours is a bit different I think because we had to carry rifle and all that


, , ya, and our camp was a, CSS com camp so we were the one supposed to guard the camp


ya I managed to go to taiwan, during my army days, err it was fun lah so how it works is we are supposed to


how it works is err we'll be attached to this unit, and then we will go overseas for one month so I was attached to err a OCS coy OSC company


so officer cadets so they are training to become uh officers for motorised infantry, okay so the thing is called MIOOCC, ya


and that their exercise actually three months, they will be spending three months in taiwan but then our we only have to spend we have to spend one month in taiwan because we have to go, one week ahead of them


to prepare all the tanks all the terrex in taiwan, ya, , uh from our side from our side there were four six people who went there two regulars and four NSF


, , ya so what happens is they have this MIOCC every uh


two times a year, once in april the other time is in december, so the one I went was in april so what happens is every, okay the regulars are mostly the same people they don't really change who are the regulars who go overseas


okay but then the NSF right four NSF right so everytime they, everytime the exercise happens they will choose four different NSF to send them overseas, okay so I was chosen for the I was chosen for the april one


ya, it's not it's not about course and all because uh this is after we go to unit so they just choose whoever they want


ya because once you are in unit they don't really care how well you did in your course or anything, ya they just see how like whether you are capable to work and then they'll just ask do you want to go, so if you are interested they don't mind lah they don't mind taking you in into the team


ya, ya but, going to taiwan wasn't really very shag lah it's <tamil>அந்த அந்த இது இவங்க இருக்காங்கள அந்த:antha antha ithu ivanga irukkaangala antha</tamil> officers for the officer cadets <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> training <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> it's really very very tiring


we will stay in our own err our own bunks, okay so how, how the thing happened how the thing works is err, do you know what's a terrex


ya so it's like something like a tank so these people are actually part of motorised infantry, uh they don't travel by by by they don't walk okay


so terrex <tamil>வழியாதா வந்து எங்க போனாலும் போவாங்க:valiyaathaa vanthu enga ponaalum povaanga</tamil> and these officers are the ones who are going to guide their platoon or their section in the future, okay so they need to have the terrex license and they need they're they're supposed to be capable to command the terrex


they need to be good vehicle commanders and at the same time good vehicle operators, so eh there will be like ah


and what happens is they take turns <tamil>ஒருத்த வந்து:orutha vanthu</tamil> vehicle commander ah <tamil>இருப்பா:iruppaa</tamil> then <tamil>இன்னொருத்த வந்து:innorutha vanthu</tamil> vehicle operator ah <tamil>இருப்பா:iruppaa</tamil> then <tamil>கொஞ்ச நேரோ கழிச்சி:konja nero kalichi</tamil> or <tamil>அடுத்த நாள் வந்து:adutha naal vanthu</tamil> they swap <tamil>ஒருத்த வந்து:orutha vanthu</tamil> vehicle operator <tamil>இன்னொருத்த வந்து:innorutha vanthu</tamil> vehicle commander ah <tamil>அப்டி இருப்பாங்க:apdi iruppaanga</tamil> so <tamil>இவங்க என்ன பண்ணுவாங்கனா:ivanga enna pannuvaanganaa</tamil> ah the throughout the three weeks the first week will be they will go for navigation orientation and navigation <tamil>மாரி:maari</tamil> so they go into the ah err nearby forested area


and then <tamil>அங்க போய்ட்டு:anga poyittu</tamil> they will just err go around <tamil>எங்க போறது:enga porathu</tamil> they will give the normal normal commands and then they will drive


and then they load it and then they fire so there's this uh huge area huge plot of empty area okay they will go there and then they'll fire, uh, ah no no no <tamil>இல்ல இல்ல அந்த இந்த:illa illa antha intha</tamil> terrex leh you can mount weapons


so there's uh automated machine gun there's hand, no no no no not not not GPMG this is another type of ah machine gun, okay ah this is all the all the guns right are designed to be mounted on top of a vehicle


ya GPMG cannot be mounted onto a vehicle mah <tamil>இது எப்டினா வந்து இது:ithu epdinaa vanthu ithu</tamil> we can, but GPMG you mount to a vehicle but you have to shoot right, ah <tamil>இது வந்து அப்டில்ல இது வந்து:ithu vanthu apdilla ithu vanthu</tamil> <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> vehicle issued


so <tamil>நீங்க வந்து:neenga vanthu</tamil> terrex <tamil>குள்ள உக்காந்துட்டு:kulla ukkaanthutu</tamil> you have to just use the buttons and joysticks, to fire, ya <tamil>அந்தமாரி:anthamaari</tamil> so GPMG is can mount to a vehicle but you have to be there to shoot, ya <tamil>அந்தமாரி இல்ல இது வந்து எப்டினா:anthamaari illa ithu vanthu epdinaa</tamil> there's a trigger mechanism and they have hand grenades a few a few types of weapons lah


okay and then the last week right, is their outfield, so outfield <tamil>அப்போ:appo</tamil> weapons <tamil>எடுத்துட்டு போவாங்க:eduthuttu povaanga</tamil> and then but then they will only fire blanks


so <tamil>ஆனா எங்க:aanaa enga</tamil> job <tamil>என்னனா நாங்க வந்து:ennanaa naanga vanthu</tamil> uh err have to follow them only, ya


at one time right uh


, so <tamil>என்ன பண்ணுவோனா வந்து:enna pannuvonaa vanthu</tamil> we will err, in singapore it's called five tonner right in taiwan there's something similar to a five tonner but it's called #zhong zhan#


okay so what happen so we'll go to all these area and the outfield area and the navigation area and all that right we will stay in this #zhong zhan#, we will just sit inside there okay we'll just wait


and then we will just run to the place or we'll just go there


we will ask lah <tamil>என்ன வேல பாக்கல:enna vela paakala</tamil> kind of thing so they will say they will say right roughly this is not working so we know [orh] <tamil>இந்தமாரி வேலலா:inthamaari velalaa</tamil> it's just a menial task you don't have to bring your entire team there so what we do is we will only send two people


so <tamil>யாராவது ரெண்டு பேர் மட்டும் போவாங்க போய் என்னானு பாத்துட்டு:yaaraavathu rendu per mattum povaanga poyi ennaannu paathuttu</tamil> they will replace or they will repair on the spot


okay so what we do is we take that part out we replace the part


and then we bring back that part to repair it in our workshop, ya, uh, depends lah we won't workshop meaning bring it back to singapore


ah not not not in the workshop in taiwan, ya, ya so we we'll bring it back we sometimes we won't repair we'll just I'll send it to army logistics base and then they will figure out what to do with it


ya that's how it works, but okay lah my army was fun


(mmhmm), okay, ya


, (mmhmm)


okay, [orh] okay, platoon three and four


okay, ah


(hmm), err, oh


oh, !wah! nine months ah, ah, [orh] nine weeks course okay okay okay


okay


ya, ah, (uh huh)


ah, oh okay okay so all this all this happens during the three month course lah the rifleman conversion course, [orh] NSTT


[orh], your NS man ah reservist unit lah, ah, [orh] okay okay, uh


ah, you are part of the coastal defence right, so what want do you actually do as part of the coastal defence


[orh] okay, the NSTT lah


oh <tamil>ரெண்டு:rendu</tamil> weapon, okay


(uh huh)


[orh], oh #pasir laba# lah you are allowed to fire matador


ah


!wah! <tamil>அவளோ நேரமா:avalo neramaa</tamil> ah, ah, oh


oh because <tamil>எனக்கு எங்களுக்கு வந்து:enakku engalukku vanthu</tamil> I'm err ATP <tamil>வந்து எப்டினா:vanthu epdinaa</tamil> is inside the indoor place


the range is like indoor, ah, okay


ah, okay okay, okay


okay, oh okay okay oh well, , ah okay okay okay


, ah


saw oh okay okay saw okay


(uh huh), okay, (uh huh), oh okay, and one matador


oh actually SAR twenty one itself got a lot of IA honestly


oh is it, ah, okay, oh it doesn't have a sling


SAR twenty one SAR twenty one is actually quite compact, oh okay okay okay, okay


oh okay but you guys you guys will have to go for outfield and all right <tamil>அப்ப வந்து:appe vanthu</tamil> outfield room <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> you will bring err saw saw rifle


oh !wow! so you need to spend your outfield with uh saw gun, ya, ah okay okay


no I am not asking about range I'm asking about err outfield, oh okay outfield also, it, ah <tamil>ஆமா ஆமா:aamaa aamaa</tamil> but still you have to carry that err weapon


and it will be quite uncomfortable, (mmhmm), ya ya correct medics


ah correct hundred meter range, ya, oh is it


[orh] this all this all this happens in NSTT is it, oh reservist <tamil>அப்போ:appo</tamil> okay


(mmhmm), family shoot family shoot <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> familiarisation shoot


ah SAR twenty one and hundred metre okay okay <tamil>ஒங்களுக்கு வந்து ஒரு ஒரு வருஷமோ:ongalukku vanthu oru oru varushamo</tamil> or <tamil>ரெண்டு ரெண்டு:rendu rendu</tamil> everytime you go for I ah <tamil>இது:ithu</tamil> shoot


ah okay okay I think <tamil>எங்களுக்கு வந்து:engalukku vanthu</tamil> they never really tell us about range and all like I really don't know much about my reservist, ya even even those who went for the high key right <tamil>அப்ப சொன்னல அந்த:appe sonnala antha</tamil> MFT high key


(mmhmm)


PES C ya I mean definitely the we will have range lah <tamil>அது தெரியும்:athu theriyum</tamil> range <tamil>இருக்கு ஆனா:irukku aanaa</tamil> like I'm just saying that in my unit they never tell us much about reservist, ya


ah okay, ya, ah okay okay okay


ah, !fuh! !wow! not bad


[orh] okay okay okay, ah so so you're saying don't don't slack in reservist lah try to , try to have the momentum throughout


in reservist also ah, ah, (uh huh), oh okay okay


okay, oh IPPT eh, ya correct


ah right right right right, training lah ya, ya you'll get, three hundred is it


PayNow they'll PayNow you, (mmhmm), correct


[orh] it's like combat shoot lah, ah ah


ya correct correct correct they'll take the average correct, ah okay okay, ya, oh


oh !wow! okay, ah


ya M two O three is SAR twenty one it's just the attachment right, ah okay ya correct correct


oh we when standing position with SAR twenty one M two O three is hard, ya I find I find the I find for SAR twenty one right because I've only fired SAR twenty one I find the squating position one of the best positions


it's like the stable one, ya squatting position and actually uh fox hole position fox hole is actually very stable, (uh huh), IM the indoor range ah


ya, ya


oh okay okay okay, ya ya they will just off the light, ah ya, it's actually very fast lah


ILBV and all ya, when shooting ya correct like in in BMT time you have to wait for the thing to become dark you need to actually wait for night nightfall and then ah you have to look for the this right what is it the eh rounds right


we have to look at ya you have to look in the dark however <tamil>இதுவந்து:ithuvanthu</tamil> night lah <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> off the lights and then you want to like pick up all the the blanks and all that right it's actually quite easy because there's no grass and all that


err, ya


ya, okay okay, !huh!


[orh] okay we never had outdoor range after BMT, ya never had, ya


err ya same I I don't know brother, ya, ya but err


Thilava like the part whihc I enjoy more than army is actually my driving course brother, ya


(mmhmm), [orh]


(uh huh), [orh] okay okay, ya, (uh huh)


[orh] okay, ah same same mine headquarters also Selarang, okay okay


(hmm), [orh], okay


ah, okay, ah okay okay okay


PSCV, ya I've seen I've seen the vehicle shop, oh


okay okay okay, (uh huh), oh is it


, ah okay okay so this happens this happens in your actual camp


[orh] training in Clementi leh okay okay okay ya, [orh], ,


[orh] it's very violent ah it's can be dangerous, , oh <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி:antha maathiri</tamil> okay okay


ah okay okay <tamil>எங்க:enga</tamil> eh for me ah the reason why we were sent to driving course because we need to drive the recovery vehicle, so reservist <tamil>அப்போ என்னாகுணா:appo ennaagunaa</tamil> we will go for this MFD


the maintenance for ya we'll go for this maintenance crew training again and then <tamil>அதுலவந்து அந்த:athulavanthu antha</tamil> the recovery vehicle <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> will be err the drivers will drive ah recovery vehicle, ya ya correct


so <tamil>அது அது வந்து:athu athu vanthu</tamil> actually err, that one is actually class five, so we will actually send for that also class five


ya, driving ya mainly will be driving, according to, no no no no will be stay in ah the MFD part will be stay in, ya but ah


ya, [orh], stay out, uh maybe maybe maybe that might be the case because ah for for high key and all we will have to stay stay in because it'll be outfield


ya <tamil>அதுக்கு வந்து:athukku vanthu</tamil> we need to stay in [ah] the outfield part we need to stay in, [ah]


okay you can start, okay, ya


yup there's one big spike


oh, damn this is tough okay


so today was a very long day <tamil>ரொம்ப:romba</tamil> shag day, like I had to go to the dentist dental dentist clinic today to meet them, and, ya it's a start up company so they don't really have any funding to give as any salary so


ya, and I was like they ask me like so we are looking at this four ML engineers who should we hire, that is my job now I need to evaluate, actually ML engineers, cause I'm the HR manager, I'm like ya this one has a lot of experience this this guy seems like he's talking quite sense


for one guy I was legit like oh I I learned something from his submission then it's like oh this is very good I learn something from him


ya so, ya, ya correct but he'll be like a full time there I'm an intern he'll be a full time


ya then went to gym, and to NUS ya so from Serangoon go to kent ridge, then go to the tuition centre, ya, not a tuition centre it's a childcare centre for coding class


#bukit panjang#, so it's a long travelling day ya


it is free, err I don't know, free MRT pass so ya that's how I see it


ya, which one, for where active SG, ya two bucks and plus the problem is not the money actually the problem is


getting this slot, the that one is a hassle so, err my tuition thing is they they gave me the contract like for one week


so this entire week I'll be I'll be just going to #bukit panjang# every single day and teaching, monday to friday and next week monday, it's quite nice actually


today was the last lesson for one of the girl so she gave me like a card and say bye stuff like that, quite nice, it's not really coding


it's not coding lah it's just they they brand it as coding to sell to parents, they play with lego blocks and then like they there's like some, like it's like if you press play and do something you can customise how the object to move around


so they call it, ya experiencing computational thinking to press play to move


ya, , ya is damn joke like when I entered for the first time in another kindergarten, they were like oh are you the coding teacher then I was like , yes


, no lah everyone thinks it's a joke, I had to get like a I had to get like a Xray for teaching in childcares


because ya and the doctor's like, , and then I said ya I teach coding to kindergarten students


from [orh] you're really teaching babies okay fine, ya, the company will cover mine is but it's not that much lah fifty dollars


ya for december and just if they give me more side hustle jobs I'll just do lor, this one like they damn annoying sometimes they will like two days before the actual thing they'll be like are you free for the next one week, the like, it uh do you really like plan like this for your entire company <tamil>ரெண்டு நாளுக்கு முன்னாடி:rendu naaluku munnadi</tamil> are you free


so you teach drama is it, like you teach, right


, I always feel like, like that kind of feel like for when they give their contract right, and that's like so last minute right


it's like, that's they probably have a network to like just ask people so if I say no they'll probably like reach out into the air the job applicants and all of that


but they rather go with someone they already know and worked with, ya they can it's just a hassle for them, so when they ask like one day before or like, I feel damn pressured I'm like okay okay okay I will do


I just sound busy bro like smart


ya I think december period like I would have given up on finding also then one person just said, okay just come for a recommendation letter then I said


, so ya I think he wants to start a start up, his a israeli guy like a israeli dentist, I don't know if is his wife, or like err another israeli person


like she's ya so these two people are the ones who engage me and then they like they came up with the idea, ya I think they have given I think as a start up is damn interesting they just like have done the same pitch like a million times I think, so like when the first time I


to like ya for investors or something so the like the first day that I went in right, the guy just spent like ten minutes giving a fast like speech and there's no stutter nothing it was just like every good things about his company like why we need this something like that and I was like !wow! okay ya he's done this a ten thousand times okay


ya so


uh, first week was nothing actually first week was just reading the articles like whatever articles they had they just dumped it on me like here read and I didn't read a single article, I was just playing games the whole day, I was like I can't play more games than this the game is not ending today


I'm only fifty percent done the game or anything, and I think I might have fucked up my laptop by playing the game my battery is now like


, ya , ya but, it doesn't ya I think it has fucked up already so, one year only


ya correct ya, ya, a lot of my stuff are very high CPU consuming


and even my my even my work stuff like programming stuff is high CPU consumption, that also like burn up the whole thing and it runs on burn the whole thing, so you have snakes laptop is a apple M one chip


ya, and that is actually my laptop is like one point one


I mine mine was like already like already in the sale of the sale kind of places


ya but I think for tech I'm on your side for that like for tech I'm like okay it last longer it's better also if not you just spend more on like substitute products


no lah our thing, no lah I think I agree with you like, I am starting to look pay more attention to like a physical appeal of stuff now


I guess like my bicycle right I was, I could have bought my bicycle for fifty dollars lesser, if I wanted like a traditional bicycle with like the one with a lot of, the spokes ya


but I chose the fancy like the uh, three spoke kind of the I don't know what it's called but you've I don't know have you fancy one ya, nothing to do with the branding is the same brand is just the wheel looks nicer


, so ya it's really the the only change its customising your bicycle parts, so for fancy wheels it was fifty dollars more, and I was like okay let let's just


I used to like run a lot, to get rid of my depression and everything


then, ya I always wanted to buy like okay I'll reach this place much faster with a bicycle, , ya so I was like okay let's buy one so like I think breakups like can get you into a whole spending spree to fill your emptiness with items that's when I bought the ipad


what else did I buy, I bought a cap why do I need a cap, uh oh I even bought a recording like voice recording


too on shopee, but it was twelve dollars so I was like okay it's fine I want the high quality youtuber setup, I would have almost bought a gimbal, the video gimbal


, gimbal would have been a bad purchase that would have been seventy bucks, ya, the other cheap ones didn't look good so I was like okay never mind not getting that


no not now, it's, the thing with this the what condenser


ya it's, I was like quite serious about like starting a youtube channel at one point ah, youtube channel is so lucrative right I just cannot believe how lucrative it is


it would be ya, do you oh okay you wouldn't know ya, I have this family friend, who was an auntie she's just like, posting tamil videos, on youtube


and she got like twenty K subscribers, ya, facts ya, and then I was like !wow! and my mom is lowkey jealous she's like


you can sort of, she just post on facebook she just post in whatsapp groups and like eh watch my videos


ya so ya, I I was like looking at the what's the some youtube metrics thing where you can see estimated earning


so it was like from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars anywhere in between, per month, so ya, and it's an exponential growth so !wow!


isn't she an accountant


<tamil>என் வீட்டுக்கு வர சொல்லு:yen veetuku vara sollu</tamil> was a great show on prime video


travelling is a big burn


I just came back and I just slept I just woke up like ten minutes before I woke up


tik tok, it it's


ya, I think there's, I think there's something for everyone there


there are some channels just dedicated to mocking people dancing eh


which one, what you taking protein ah, ya europe you watch the reviews to buy, you watched like a youtube reviews to buy, I was like why didn't I think of that of course I should've done that


everytime you just scroll through and be like intuition what do I feel about this, damn,


vanilla raspberry, I bought vanilla nice, but I still have two KG of coffee caramel to finish


I bought five KG of that and I just gone down on two point five, no I buy in a way that's like, hundred and one dollars


I buy like that just get one dollar above the hundred mark, so this was the combination that get me made me reach that so just okay


no she was like scolding because it was taking up like one whole cabinet in the kitchen, I already had two point five and there's another five KG coming in and now I bought another two point five another one KG , now I've close to like


ten KG of protein in the house, it is insane, I bought indian inspired mango that is I'm quite interested to try it but my mom told me to finish the two point five first before


but ya she had the concern as well like the artificial that thing, like, sometimes she won't even give me like I I like kept telling her like every morning can you just give me can you make it or something and then she's like


one day she won't pull the sentimental card <tamil>நீ என்னத்த கலக்குற:nee ennatha kalakura</tamil> , ya, ya, and now I'm just like I will I will ah now I'm like I will mix it you just clean it can you is that uh do-able to you


right ya


yes yes !wah! come on stress buy all of it


oh okay


buy this one this one is quite good


(mmhmm), well okay, this one I bought for, thirty dollars thirty thirty thirty six dollars thirty six dollars it was normally like forty five dollars or something


and it's but audio quality wise I can't really tell the difference my twenty dollar one from also sounds the same as this is just a twenty dollar one is like bigger, this is like tiny


as in like ya the I bought one a few months back, that was quite massive like the earphones itself is massive, like this one is like tiny


it is tough, just get all from the protein shake, but you get sick of the flavour right you get sick of the flavour right


!hey! !hey! !hey!, dude I'm gonna just try this it should it looks fine sometimes it's just sometimes when it's dry then it doesn't work


yes, I will, I will pull some hipster look, who


oh she's she's supportive she she's like ya don't cut your hair just keep growing, it's getting better now it's getting better ya


no I think I made ah I think the previous one like scarred me a little bit, I don't think I'll fall that much ever that kind of thing like you know how Vikram talks to karina like how he


ya so I think, I wouldn't ya I wouldn't fall the same extent so ya, and ya I made a mistake with like the first few dates I was legit like just


trying to literally replace whatever I I was, with with monica like the I was like trying to even use the same inside jokes or, it was just weird like when I tried to bring it up she wouldn't get anything like she would be like just blinking randomly


, , ya like there was have you seen <tamil>டில்பச்சாரா:dilbachara</tamil> the, hindi movie, no they


which one, uh our tamil word and our hindi word kind of thing, like there'll be one tamil word that both of us will understand I mean I would understand all tamil words but


she will like understand that one tamil word and I would understand that one hindi word or something like that, so it was like, it was like an endearing thing so when I say that it's something like that so I try to say anything and monica they <tamil>தங்கச்சி:thangatchi</tamil> for him


what happened, so like, then we were like selecting something and she's just staring at the some menu blankets or something then I was like


ya I was just taken aback for a second, , ya, ya it was like that so the first few days is just like me trying to like err convince myself that this is a new person


with all these I haven't told her I haven't told her these kind of thoughts like oh I thought of that girl, ya


okay, , there's


, like I know that if I, reject now and say like I will definitely be like kind of thing like she electronic like she's correct in a lot of things


like it would be so easy with my parents it would be, it's just the sparks it's better, ya it's it's comfortable it's just


convenient it's comfortable and now we're getting slowly into the banter stage at first it was a bit of off sync in the banter


and I would say something then she'll be like, what ya ya ya it was like that, I was the the first debate we had was abortion like she was pro life


and I was like, I see marriage to pro, what pro life ya


oh wait wait it's pro choice pro choice I'm a pro choice, she was like she's hardcore like the democrat everything like, SJW or whatever ya then I'm slowly like


okay , aggressive


ya she she's like she's against Uniqlo, like the ya the the child labour, ya what it's a bunch of other SJW stuff


no even she has a bunch of Uniqlo shirts and she's like ya but sometimes the clothes ,


you know for a second I was like, ,


it's convenience eh it's like when they are willing to compromise their values for convenience


it is hypocritical and I think they will acknowledge okay at least monica acknowledged like she was like ya, it is but I tried to do what I can you could try harder


I'm barely at home actually my mom gets super pissed


then she'll be like


it's like, I can do something now, discuss his ideas I guess


ya uh I wanted to create a channel to support him because now I have the mic, and


facts high quality high quality, I haven't thought of lighting


oh ya I did, uh, it was fine


ya in terms of like I think I got hung up all over the storyline more than the, the camp itself, ya


he won't he won't commit murder , oh ya ya


no no one wanted to plan and then I was like <tamil>தானா வந்து</tamil> I will come the whole plan will come up with the whole concept planning everything, dude that point my leadership was nothing because I was Ponning the red cross like every single session and then all of a sudden I was like I was like this opportunity is like eh okay ya I'll do it I'll do it don't worry


, ya the by organizing it like gain respect for like everyone it's like oh !wow! that's amazing


she's sleeps at like three something, by not no err what spark or what I mean is that, like in the case the early stages there was no like we were not like texting each other everyday or something


it was like okay we meet once a week, I don't know what like we had a bump like I had a bump her up like eh so are you free this week, I have this I had to had to be the I'm not into you that much bro ya


ya, so every week I had to be like !hey! are you free this week, so it was like that but the <tamil>பழக்கம்</tamil> was like, from the get go of like expressing interest, both of us were like just texting like when the first five days we just texted like almost every


like every every second every minute and we'll and things like that, it was like that it was like that like I've seen the whole chat right like I've downloaded the entire chat and seen, to delete my delete it from my phone I just downloaded it and stored it in a on my separate folder on my computer


these we have like forty eight thousand messages in the first two weeks, and over then, and like, okay to give a relative comparison after the first first four weeks the entire message is about


like one million, ya, one million messages, out of one million the first like within the first four weeks itself is forty eight thousand, and calls also like it was just very like both of us were very hyped up at that point and that's what I mean by there's more spark


and I think it's, ya, and I think it's, it makes sense for like in person meeting versus uh online dating kind of thing, online dating you already like oh I think you look good


and the assumption is like okay let's just see if we click, I guess ya


does she like me or not, that anticipation is there, ya correct, like for in real life it's like okay let's be friends for awhile okay let's not get into the friend zone just be friends for awhile


and then like see if you have any sparks like it's a whole process ya, works naturally, that's why if like if monica doesn't work out I'm not gonna be dating like it's fine


, no lah I can I can I've been practising to talk to random people nowadays not nowadays like post, july worst to come like once uni started I was just like talk like I found someone interesting like guy or girl like I'll just like okay


and I just try to make a conversation it's not that hard if we normalise it like if we if we convince ourselves that it's normal, it's not that difficult, and I like, ya, and ya quite successful I see ya instagram followers


it's all they're good for, contacts for me contacts


who uh monica she's working now, ya


she's twenty three like, twenty three she's like, twenty first, ya


she okay her parents rented a condo here, and that is her house, but since she's so lonely in singapore, she she rented another room with her friends in, another condo with her friends and this one she's paying for herself


she pays for this her parents pay for this the other house, which condo, which one the the friends one or the family one


ya, ya she pays close to eight hundred dollars in rent


no one nothing is there, ya


parents' place ya, ya, when the parents are not in singapore for like


ya they're coming back it's just COVID and, they went back for some COVID medical emergency at home and then they just stayed there


oh ya no no parents rented a place in singapore at a condo


oh


ya I met Kavian, and his girlfriend, that was quite early actually I was like, trying not to react too much I was like oh it's just contacts


no no no not like that like, like meeting friends so soon that kind of, should we met I met her met them at like


at the rate that I was going at, two months is equivalent to level one lah like one day and like my bio story ah


something like that that's how slow it was every week we'll just meet once or, because not even every week it's like even sometimes two weeks once that kind of that rate, now it's like like twice a week the kind of frequency


put tik tok videos okay lah I think for, I think for acting it's tik tok is


ya the they'll you'll definitely get traffic over there


oh submit the files is it oh that one we can figure out ya


I will ask her like we just keep the, we keep the audio and we'll, I'll ask her first, I actually told her I'll text her tomorrow like today morning


and this <tamil>ஆஷிஷ் லூசு:asish loosu</tamil>


ya it's fine, I'll probably just go to the gym, eh by the way uh next week thursday


Vignesh and I were thinking of inviting monisa what do you think, record <tamil>பண்ணிடுவீயே:panniduviye</tamil>


you guys ditched me and Ignesh


, so ya that's when, I like we all got jealous we just gathered


ya no lah they they they all like, ya there there's a lot of, great people


monisa was talking about her her break up and I was like okay ya


oh ya ya ya,


this is the the fear is what is keeping your relationship alive


okay ah, okay nice solid


can we on the fan, are you from the clinic


!aiyo! that's okay lah it's as long as we try, our conscious best


I don't think will be possible to, completely not cutting each other because it's unnatural, and


HR manager,


is a ya hiring people to be your assistant <tamil>மாதிரியா இல்ல:mathiriya illa</tamil> that's a completely different field


for school ah, oh my god


Serangoon, gym closer to Serangoon or #bukit panjang# is it


but is it worth the travel,


how much is the two bucks is it, for per entry, err SG ya active SG


so what clears up next week <tamil>ஏன்:yen</tamil> next week


(uh huh) not bad not bad, like you do they actually learn coding or, like is there a lot of assessment


oh okay okay so it's more of experiencing the fix


so even your


(uh huh)


not bad like actually costs covered like born by the uh


it surprised you there it's see it uh just like letting that too


the whole act like I'm trying to get acting gigs right so especially when comes to TV


that's it, uh, ya for for for the ones I went to so for the one of them I went to was I was his assistant <tamil>மாதிரி:mathiri</tamil> so when there was group work my job is to because they'll be divers at different parts of the school I think it was cedar actually ya it was cedar


so that ya so that was secondary school this is primary school so the thing is so that guy he's also a director in for and what not so he he's asked me twice lah so he ask me are you free this weekend <tamil>ஐயோ இதை கொஞ்சம் முன்னாடியே சொல்லிருந்தா:iyoo idhai konjam munnadiye sollirunthaa</tamil> because this period right was when I was doing my rehearsals also so I can't skip that to come for this


I couldn't go for both the dance he called because of rehearsals because it's the last minute so <tamil>உனக்கு:unaku</tamil> so I'm saying like I can relate to that in a sense that it here so ya


so the the guy doesn't <tamil>சால்வார்ஸ் சால்வார்ஸ்:salwars salwars</tamil> is more theatre based lah he his the main purpose behind one thing is basically wants tamil theatre to have more exposure, this guy is basically a director for <tamil>வசந்தம்:vasantham</tamil> so he gets hired by production companies stuff like that


so ya it at least the theaters I right it's uh our schedule was for monday wednesday to friday and the fixed timing there's rehearsals so you get into a sort of routine you can plan your routine around it, the <tamil>வசந்தம்:vasantham</tamil> side of things media side of things is quite abrupt so now that you know I went for a rehearsal uh rehearsal audition right so the like there might be morning shoots like <tamil>காலைல நாலு மணி அந்த மாதிரி:kalaila naalu mani antha mathiri</tamil> sort of like !aiyoyo! I was like so it's quite irregular in that sense lah


oh (uh huh)


, right are you the only one or


, I mean not bad is also a source of income lah