ya so I don't know lah like tell you to be honest ah <mandarin>我越大:wo yue da</mandarin> right <mandarin>我有点不想要跟人家讲话:wo you dian bu xiang yao gen ren jia jiang hua</mandarin> cause is very, like <mandarin>人家会用你的:ren jia hui yong ni de</mandarin> words what you say right then they will just


like <mandarin>套你的话:tao ni de hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>用你的话:yong ni de hua</mandarin> against your own self


I feel like like how do I say, like okay lah like take for example like my brother ah like <mandarin>拿我哥哥来讲:na wo ge ge lai jiang</mandarin> he feels that like, like even though err I ended my previous relationship right


then <mandarin>他就认为:ta jiu ren wei</mandarin> like err <mandarin>不用紧:bu yong jin</mandarin> lah like, technically he say lah he just say like that lah technically <mandarin>我是我他是他:wo shi wo ta shi ta</mandarin> mah <mandarin>这是我是我我哥哥是他自己:zhe shi wo shi wo wo ge ge shi ta zi ji</mandarin> so


when, is that when <mandarin>你讲话:ni jiang hua</mandarin> right <mandarin>人家会问:ren jia hui wen</mandarin> like out of a question <mandarin>人家会问:ren jia hui wen</mandarin> like err maybe you all talk talk talk talk talk then out of the question people will ask like


eh how is this guy then <mandarin>你就会跟他说:ni jiu hui gen ta shuo</mandarin> eh oh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>他这样这样这样怎样怎样怎样还是他现在在跟谁在一起:ta zhe yang zhe yang zhe yang zen yang zen yang zen yang hai shi ta xian zai zai gen shui zai yi qi</mandarin> you know what I mean, whatever shit lah you know this kind of thing ya so so it's actually <mandarin>套话出来:tao hua chu lai</mandarin> that's why I tell <mandarin>我哥哥就跟我哥哥讲:wo ge ge jiu gen wo ge ge jiang</mandarin> you just be careful lah ah


, ya, correct, if not <mandarin>就是你给他那种:jiu shi ni gei ta na zhong</mandarin> like, layman answer ah like how do I say sometimes being too specific <mandarin>不是一个很好的事情:bu shi yi ge hen hao de shi qing</mandarin> because


then <mandarin>还有什么:hai you shen me</mandarin> ah then I also learn one thing uh, like when <mandarin>你要讲闲话:ni yao jiang xian hua</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你不可以:ni bu ke yi</mandarin> like, don't share it through emails <mandarin>不要讲出:bu yao jiang chu</mandarin> email <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> don't share it across like Whatsapp or Telegram all this


really don't do it because why you can't control like <mandarin>谁会看得到他如果:shui hui kan de dao ta ru guo</mandarin> screenshot


then that is like you are still screwed lah you know what I mean so


ya quite scary lah but as in so far <mandarin>我没有遇到:wo mei you yu dao</mandarin> lah but


correct, correct, ya, so, like that lor then I'm like, as in how I say like, they just took their words against their words ah ya


so, then still got what but, I think a lot of times like my parents tell me all those political things right I don't believe, like I I believe but I don't


think our generation will use it, because, somehow or rather ah I feel that like this coming millennials we all are more, oh I see, more bonded and loyal


if you realise lah


, oh ya, you are right actually like this morning I think this morning I was like no not this morning but rather this afternoon I go and eat like lunch with my colleagues


then <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> just tell just stay down there lor then we eat right, you know who came in or not like those still in like, poly lah okay like poly secondary school that kind of like that kind of stage right then they just go in and eat like Saizeriya there I was thinking like


what the heck when I was in secondary school I don't even eat all these sia I eat like, then I eat the the best meal I ever had was like McDonald's and like mac spicy was the like luxury


ya kid happy meal happy meal


limited edition


then got the SIA one, ya, well you know that <mandarin>我的眼睛要关:wo de yan jing yao guan</mandarin> Liao,


I got buy eh I got buy <mandarin>我有买我去:wo you mai wo qu</mandarin> err Watsons <mandarin>买:mai</mandarin> then after that


don't know ah then but <mandarin>放:fang</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>他真的会眼睛比较:ta zhen de hui yan jing bi jiao</mandarin> clear, you know I don't wear contacts eh <mandarin>我不穿:wo bu chuan</mandarin> contacts <mandarin>去做工:qu zuo gong</mandarin> one cause


seven fifteen leave house then go Punggol


I go hospital lah like I go hospital meet people if not I'll I don't care one, I'm lazy lah, err actually I haven't been to hospitals before leh, like <mandarin>我没有去过:wo mei you qu guo</mandarin> hospitals cause


they actually go lah and, I think this job let let me see a lot of things


like <mandarin>你看医生:ni kan yi sheng</mandarin> hor <mandarin>全部都很像:quan bu dou hen xiang</mandarin> they spend like, how many years, but then do you know that right <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> actually <mandarin>为什么要读这个:wei shen me yao du zhe ge</mandarin> medicine right


then the rest is just I want the money I want to suck people money


ya, (uh huh)


!wah! eh actually quite smart ah this guy <mandarin>有道德:you dao de</mandarin> as in <mandarin>不是有道德:bu shi you dao de</mandarin> lah but more of like, err as in, morals and ethics are very subjective lah I feel so


oh shit


oh ya lah but it's quite normal to see all these, then <mandarin>我有看过那些医生:wo you kan guo na xie yi sheng</mandarin> right like how do I say that when <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> meetings hor then, inside the meeting we will be like oh so how they went with this like doctor from this clinic


then <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> like consultant <mandarin>他们就会讲:ta men jiu hui jiang</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>会长:hui chang</mandarin> hor you need to like Sarca him you need to like tore him Sarca him, then make sure like err <mandarin>你的因为我们要:ni de yin wei wo men yao</mandarin> doctors <mandarin>帮我们写:bang wo men xie</mandarin> articles mah so


so it's like (ppc) so it's like in like med med school right like medicine schools right like before <mandarin>你穿那个:ni chuan na ge</mandarin> before you are commissioned to be a doctor right training doctor


then you must take the oath you must take the doctors oath, like <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> err


I am out I'm all out for saving people's life <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> all the way <mandarin>要救人:yao jiu ren</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我不是:wo bu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>那种要钱而已:na zhong yao qian er yi</mandarin> like actually is bullshit lah just freaking bullshit


don't bother one lor, ya


ya, so it's like, so is like <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> your lose is <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> gain, your lose is my gain lah something like that ya <mandarin>讲到医生:jiang dao yi sheng</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你知道我家楼下那个:ni zhi dao wo jia lou xia na ge</mandarin> doctor Gan


okay basically <mandarin>我家楼下有的那个:wo jia lou xia you de na ge</mandarin> err doctor <mandarin>他是叫:ta shi jiao</mandarin> doctor Gan <mandarin>在我家楼下而已你记得我:zai wo jia lou xia er yi ni ji de wo</mandarin> we go eat the, err prawn noodle you remember we go eat the prawn noodle at my house downstairs


ya then <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他的那个那边不是有一个:ta de na ge na bian bu shi you yi ge</mandarin> clinic lor <mandarin>旁边有一个:pang bian you yi ge</mandarin> clinic, beside <mandarin>一个杂货店有个:yi ge za huo dian you ge</mandarin> clinic <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then ah, ya correct so do you know they right


you know who is err #gan kim yong#, doctor is it doctor #gan kim yong# no as in


no no no he's not <mandarin>他的哥哥还是弟弟是:ta di ge ge hai shi di di shi</mandarin> MOH <mandarin>的人来的:de ren lai de</mandarin> like <mandarin>你知道有这个:ni zhi dao you zhe ge</mandarin> like you got read the newspaper <mandarin>最近有:zui jin you</mandarin> like pastry mah then <mandarin>不是有这个人叫:bu shi you zhe ge ren jiao</mandarin> #gan kim yong#


ya <mandarin>他是从:ta shi cong</mandarin> MOH <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so right like do you know that right like MOH got this specific rule call PHMC which is <mandarin>他叫那个:ta jiao na ge</mandarin> private hospital medical


medical clinics, a private act ya correct so, is to govern all these people one lah you know, is to govern all the people from their has like private hospitals and medical clinic private medical clinics right


you cannot out outrightly just tell people like you come here I give you this I give you that you cannot do that, ya, ya <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> by right <mandarin>是不可以:shi bu ke yi</mandarin> lah but by left you can play around the words lah


ah he didn't do anything lah but I think, his attitude as a doctor is not very good lah, then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> his attitude as a doctor like <mandarin>我叫一下那个:wo jiao yi xia na ge</mandarin> doctor Gan <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> attitude <mandarin>不是很好:bu shi hen hao</mandarin> ah because


still reading newspapers you know


then on top of that <mandarin>他还:ta hai</mandarin> just like ah <mandarin>来今天你你找我什么事情我就:lai jin tian ni ni zhao wo shen me shi qing wo jiu</mandarin> err, I thought you are supposed to like how do I say yours like firstly in the impression K <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> you're not even like a doctor anymore you look like you are my friend


then look like <mandarin>有点不像医生:you dian bu xiang yi sheng</mandarin> eh, ya then on top of that right talking about insurance just now then he's the type of doctor where like err


like cause my dad buys like high blood pressure and high cholesterol err medicine mah then what happen is that if let's say the, company insurance can claim one right, then this doctor will like very easy give you MC


ya so <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor


err, no I think <mandarin>他很容易很容易要:ta hen rong yi hen rong yi yao</mandarin> MC <mandarin>这些:zhe xie</mandarin> but <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like


it's like he doesn't act like he's a doctor he acts more like he's just out there to like, #eng eng cheng cheng# in life, then I'm just like that lor then but okay lah I think he is okay lah not bad lah


eh you, you try


ya, ya <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like they just sort of like, how do I say they they they talk to you in a very weak in a very rude manner then on top of that they don't empathise with you ya


but no choice lah some some doctors really just out there to <mandarin>赚你的钱:zhuan ni de qian</mandarin> ah


ya no choice lah as in no lah it's okay lah, you can't stop them lah, ya


ya actually the doctor Chong the one beside the medical the chinese pharmaceutical one !walao! eh that one he, he <mandarin>讲话:jiang hua</mandarin> a bit <mandarin>欠打:qian da</mandarin> lah honestly


but <mandarin>不是病到很惨:bu shi bing dao hen can</mandarin> right, but you just want to rest, then you ask for MC right then the doctor will like be like


!aiya! <mandarin>给你:gei ni</mandarin> MC <mandarin>做么:zuo me</mandarin> you work I thought you are supposed to work, then I am like then I'm like what you talking I'm sick as in


ya but to him is that you only see me when you're like freaking sick then I am like oh okay lor, ya ya, eh tomorrow seven O'clock


right did I say seven seven thirty right I say seven thirty right, eight ah eh I thought I thought <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> seven thirty eh


okay around there lah around there lah but, about there lah cause <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> cause <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> try <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> route right, until six thirty from company to Punggol is about six thirty


so about there lah, seven thirty seven forty five lah, ya


, and,


ya ya ya ya, then what she said, ya


ya ya


it will one leh, karma is real man


ya I agree


ya agree agree <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> sometimes we just, take people as like oh <mandarin>只是讲话而已:zhi shi jiang hua er yi</mandarin> but actually <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> they are not talking you know what I mean


like it's just like they asked for the sake of asking that kind of thing


then, then then then


ya man, but how long has he not been seeing you


like remember lah, ya I agree


ya agree agree, so, oh william william


and then, then, (uh huh), again


but the the the truth is that you'll never be friends anymore


in fact, as in the person must be more


I cannot say <mandarin>宽容:kuan rong</mandarin> eh <mandarin>宽容:kuan rong</mandarin> is a, is uh not a right word to use on them but I rather I will use, maturity, ya like you just have to be matured about how like even though <mandarin>你已经不在那个地方:ni yi jing bu zai na ge di fang</mandarin> but


you are still you you are still who you are [lah] in a sense then like just as friends still okay [lah] you know what I mean, ya ya but they are not [lah] so no choice


, okay can, okay doing well doing well, how are you you in NS right now


yours your side leh you're admin right, ah


what would I wish for ah !wah!, I mean, okay three wishes ah like legit one ah


okay okay okay okay err, three wishes, maybe get a good job lah I mean <mandarin>你也是:ni ye shi</mandarin> finance <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> right I mean <mandarin>我们都知道:wo men dou zhi dao</mandarin> ah finance get a good job then for the rest of your life quite stable so that's one then number two


(ppc), err, maybe like, it's like my family everyone is, healthy all then like <mandarin>大家都很高兴这样:da jia dou hen gao xing zhe yang</mandarin> lah then like <mandarin>不用愁吃不用愁穿:bu yong chou chi bu yong chou chuang</mandarin> ah ya then last one I think it's ah


for this COVID to quickly end ah cause you know I like I like travel a lot lah then like <mandarin>在新加坡:zai xin jia po</mandarin> also very Sian so ya lah I hopefully can travel soon lor oh ya then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> leh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> three wishes


ah okay, ah (ppc), , okay, ah <mandarin>不用愁不用愁:bu yong chou bu yong chou</mandarin> right <mandarin>不用愁:bu yong chou</mandarin> right


ya lor ya lor ah then <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> leh last one, eh if like that, #bo pakay# lah <mandarin>你这样讲它是:ni zhe yang jiang ta shi</mandarin> three wishes leh then <mandarin>你这样多:ni zhe yang duo</mandarin> then <mandarin>几个:ji ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> wish <mandarin>不完:bu wan</mandarin> how


okay lah okay lah I mean, true it's true it's true it's true it's true, ah


is it is it, like <mandarin>他是是一个一个很:ta shi shi yi ge yi ge hen</mandarin> like <mandarin>几个:ji ge</mandarin> list ask you about life those kind ah


, , !wah! <mandarin>第一个放弃什么:di yi ge fang qi shen me</mandarin> ah, !wah! this one hard leh I mean this is a this is a very, good question to ask ah cause okay cause from young right


I want to be a pilot ah so, the reason why I study finance is cause, uh I got this, condition ah colour deficiency since young then actually <mandarin>以前从小学的时候:yi qian cong xiao xue de shi hou</mandarin> I wanted to be a pilot then until like even now lah but


cause along the way when you decide like especially after O level or <mandarin>你要决定:ni yao jue ding</mandarin> like what is your next step so, ah that's why I chose finance ah but, if let's say to <mandarin>放弃:fang qi</mandarin> right like give up, probably like finance and like a well paying job to go and become a pilot


pilot seems very glamorous ah but actually after you do research <mandarin>你飞来飞去:ni fei lai fei qu</mandarin> then , you wanna start family also very difficult then you are like everywhere all over the place everywhere around the world it's, it's hard if you want to start a family ah but I think


if for me ah if it's like to chase after this dream since childhood then <mandarin>我我我会要做:wo wo wo hui yao zuo</mandarin> lor cause I mean it's, it's something that if you want to do since young lah <mandarin>你真的会去追求:ni zhen de hui qu zhui qiu</mandarin> ah all the way, ya then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> leh


their own like to follow their own dreams what


I mean <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> <mandarin>你做什么东西也要花时间:ni zuo shen me dong xi ye yao hua shi jian</mandarin> what I mean everything you use time to time to time to do lah I mean okay lah sure okay ah


(mmhmm), okay okay, okay true true okay <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> ah


ah, ah


Tio Bo, time travel <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> leh, it


like <mandarin>你知道你你知道那个:ni zhi dao ni ni zhi dao na ge</mandarin> outcome <mandarin>但是你要:dan shi ni yao</mandarin> go back in time to change it so that it won't be a bad bad outcome lah, [orh] okay


ya correct, ah


ah, !wah! <mandarin>最小气的理由:zui xiao qi de li you</mandarin> ah


honestly ah actually is just maybe the, like the way maybe the way the person talk like the voice like if I find, like the you know the like sometimes you know when people when people talk like the their voice naturally very #gao wei# I don't know whether you I don't know whether you you get get what I'm trying to say but


like err sometimes <mandarin>你听一个人讲:ni ting yi ge ren jiang</mandarin> lah maybe this person is not a bad person or like maybe this person very nice but because of the voice ah or like the way they speak then you find that eh !walao! that guy #gao wei# this person then after that like or you just don't like this person or another one is like the the like how to say ah like the looks cause if let's say


like <mandarin>你以前你遇过一个很:ni yi qian ni yu guo yi ge hen</mandarin> Niao <mandarin>的人:de ren</mandarin> then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>这个新的人你遇到:zhe ge xin de ren ni yu dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>很像那个以前这个很:hen xiang na ge yi qian zhe ge hen</mandarin> Niao <mandarin>的人:de ren</mandarin> then of course <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> I mean for me it was like eh then <mandarin>我想到:wo xiang dao</mandarin> eh like !wah! <mandarin>以前这个人:yi qian zhe ge ren</mandarin> so Niao then, after that now I look at this person then I also will tend to not like this person lah but I think that's that's quite natural lah I mean but this this this this is for me personally ah then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> leh


(ppc), ah okay lah okay lah so so so quite quite err, so quite ya it's quite normal lah cause like you see people you will definitely confirm will judge one then <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> is, cause everyone human judge one <mandarin>你第一个你第一次看到一个人你就会开始:ni di yi ge ni di yi ci kan dao yi ge ren ni jiu hui kai shi</mandarin> judge Liao


, ah


ya lah okay you pick you pick you pick the the best better ones lah, ah,


ah


I think <mandarin>我要:wo yao</mandarin> just <mandarin>打那个大只的真的:da na ge da zhi de zhen de</mandarin> like serious just whack the just whack the the the the one that the big one because like that is like you can


Tio Bo


ya lor ya lor, oh <mandarin>你也是打一只:ni ye shi da yi zhi</mandarin> ah, ya lor ya lor, if not <mandarin>你打:ni da</mandarin> die to hundred like Xia Suay eh


ya lor ya lor, but <mandarin>一百只小子的:yi bai zhi xiao zi de</mandarin> then <mandarin>人家笑你:ren jia xiao ni</mandarin> then say eh how come this one all so small then you cannot whack then then of course lah even if I lose I lose to one big one at least I I more Shiok right, ya


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor then, ah, okay, !walao! eh !wah! <mandarin>你这个问题:ni zhe ge wen ti</mandarin> or the person that come out with this question !walao!, pick one ah


!wah!, one like regardless of <mandarin>那个价钱是不是:na ge jia qian shi bu shi</mandarin> doesn't matter if it's cheap expensive , okay,


I think, !wah!, it should be should be hawker #zi char# like got one got there's this stall at, beauty world ah cause I I think, I came across that place about five six years ago then <mandarin>那时侯我是跟我的老妈去:na shi hou wo shi gen wo de lao ma qu</mandarin> macritchie hiking then <mandarin>我们从:wo men cong</mandarin> Bishan <mandarin>那边走到:na bian zou dao</mandarin> all the way to the other side of macritchie so is #bukit batok# eh what #bukit batok# #bukit timah# there


then after that so we walk to beauty world side have dinner cause just nice mah we end around evening time so after that we go there, we came across this place ah then like eh like quite solid so then we go and try so from then on after that we go back so they serve like, our local


dishes like beef #hor fun# all the #zi char# dishes lah then I find that, !wah! that place the food is very nice and then also like quite reasonable then also the whole environment there quite chill lah so, I mean if you if you ask me to pick, probably that lor is is affordable they serve good food and then like <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> local <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> you can't really get tired of it ya then ya ya lor then you eh


I mean <mandarin>真的很难选:zhen de hen nan xuan</mandarin> lah but if <mandarin>你问我是这样:ni wen wo shi zhe yang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> lah, ah, ya lah just choose one lah


okay, , but <mandarin>你不会吃到:ni bu hui chi dao</mandarin> Sian meh you everyday eat <mandarin>好料:hao liao</mandarin> you won't Sian one meh


oh ya ah true ah true ah true ah like the what the <mandarin>鲍:bao</mandarin> the <mandarin>鲍鱼:bao yu</mandarin> the abalone chicken one the Myojo one, oh okay true true true sure interesting


, wait ah let me see, discussion I mean okay lah now pretty much it oh ya eh then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> uni <mandarin>怎样:zen yang</mandarin> ah, uni <mandarin>你有拿到:ni you na dao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> spot Liao right


[orh] okay okay cause I, I also got uni spot already then I also going to, plan to disrupt ah eh but this, but like the whether they approve I thought is like so called like entitled so to speak cause


we err oh ya if you need disrupt that means you enlisted october also right last year, ya lor ya lor then, confirm they need to give us this chance to disrupt or not cause, we are a few months behind our


we are a few months behind our, peers err like same batch one so I think they should, this one should not be an issue lah, then you going to, ya lor ya lor cause I also I think I spoke to my


my who ah my my boss already say just, apply once next year like jan jan come [loh] then like at least got, at least there's more time to, err, like for the application to be approved then like at least they can plan [loh]


ya eh then you're still so you gonna what gonna study finance still lah, okay lah true, ya lor lor it's more familiar in that sense lor


cause I got like I know some of my classmates they going to change course like go to I think accounting, then like one even want to go and take psychology okay lah I mean accounting still related but then another guy want to go and take like psychology it's like I mean your poly diploma is banking or like finance related then you go and take psychology like a bit weird lah but I mean okay lah is


it's up to up to my friend lor cause I think he also along the way lose interest ah, ya lor ya lor


, oh ya lah true lah true I think for me ah I I will probably not, ever choose accounting cause I got two cousins they they one studying, accountancy now in uni then the other one started working already really damn damn Jialat ah like the work schedule and everything especially when they go for audit


!walao! they, they can come back at like what three or four in the morning then next day nine need to be in office again, it's crazy ah ya lor ya lor it's it's crazy sia like that !wah! then you imagine if that's like what you will be doing for the next five six seven years of your life


I think you also cannot I think you also cannot last one ah you probably won't be able to last ah,


okay, !walao! true true ah I mean <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> is you must once you have a goal then you just work towards it lor I think, it's still achievable lah cause


good thing is that, I think generally in finance the starting pay is, my I think for for graduates like <mandarin>应该是:ying gai shi</mandarin> like, above average, so then like if you starting out you already, how to say it's like ya it's it's better for you in a sense lah cause like compared to your peers


you already <mandarin>你比他们赚:ni bi ta men zhuan</mandarin> like <mandarin>更多:geng duo</mandarin> every month already lah so, can ah I think can can work towards that lor it's not impossible lah but ya can, can be done ah can be done


, but it's two years lah some more now is like our more productive years then need to go and serve army not ideal lah not ideal lah not ideal, ya lor ya lor ya lor you so quite ya


true lah true lah !wah! but !wah! now circuit breaker I don't know eh like, I don't okay my my side we we on the like previously we did, cohorting lah but then now like it just feels like quite Sian ah cause in singapore also really so like if


let's say once the, they lift the travel ban ah cause I think next week right they're gonna start this travel bubble in hong-kong so like you visit there then you come back you don't need quarantine all but I think okay lah th~that being said more for business lah but if let's say right now they, lift the travel ban already which is the first country you like just just wanna hop on the the next flight out then just go to


ya like <mandarin>不用想那个机票多少:bu yong xiang na ge ji piao duo shao</mandarin> I mean like now now if oh korea ah why eh, okay , like that only meh (ppc)


, oh ya ya ya cause <mandarin>他们那边:ta men na bian</mandarin> market bigger right, oh really meh ah FILA from originally from korea one ah


I didn't know cause bro cause I also I mean <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> I know this brand FILA lah but then like, I I just thought that you know cause FILA last time <mandarin>以前是我们买:yi qian shi wo men mai</mandarin> like <mandarin>小学的时候:xiao xue de shi hou</mandarin> we buy the their school shoes to wear then after that like it just kind of faded then only like recently more it's more it became more popular because I think a lot of the chinese like to buy FILA now so like then recently then I only know there's like [orh] FILA this brand but then like


I dont really go and follow them lah like I know like for cause I I prefer Adidas lah personally, then I know like oh Adidas is from germany cause ya lah so, !wah! I didn't know sia learning something new everyday


ah okay, , like solid one lah


!huh! serious ah, , ah correct correct yes


ah okay, (ppc), (oo) !wah! that but that means it's the one you go to, considered good lah cause I I think been to korea once or twice only lah like not like I don't go very like, don't go a lot so I think once or twice only that time I go the korean barbecue like okay leh I mean


the is is kind of more lik it's considered premium ah like the meat is err good, like <mandarin>很好吃:hen hao chi</mandarin> everything there is like very authentic lah I mean of course I mean it's in korea lah but, like you say the service like okay leh like they don't really do it for you like, it's more like a hands on it's more chill even though like the the kind of meat is like


its considered more premium I don't know okay ah maybe maybe like <mandarin>你去不同的地方的:ni qu bu tong de di fang de</mandarin> service will be different what so


ya correct, ah serious ah, !walao! eh, so what they just sit sit outside the convenience store then they just drink #lim jiu#


!wah! crazy, okay eh then your eh, , then your eh that time you you went there how long again ah I forgot already


okay, then you came back lah


(uh huh) (uh huh) then you came back, oh okay okay very nice eh very nice eh, oh you you got injured there right I think that time your what skiing incident, !wah! Toh lah that one


!huh! what, it's like <mandarin>干脆不会讲这样:gan cui bu hui jiang zhe yang</mandarin> it's like eh no shit you you injure already of course need go hospital lah then <mandarin>去哪里回家:qu na li hui jia</mandarin> meh no what


[orh], (ppc) [orh], oh but


oh ya that's good that's good okay ah not so not so bad lah but I think it must have been a, very different experience ah cause you don't you <mandarin>你很少听到:ni hen shao ting dao</mandarin> like people go overseas then they go and do things then injured lah I mean as for me ah cause, my like I I mean nowadays a lot of our friends travel what then like


I think you are the only few that like <mandarin>说我出国:shuo wo chu guo</mandarin> then get yourself injured kind, ah why leh


true lah true lah <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>你人生要去体验一下:ni ren sheng yao qu ti yan yi xia</mandarin> mah, true true true, , try something more exciting lah right correct cause is so happens that coincidently <mandarin>那边下雪:na bian xia xue</mandarin> then singapore definitely won't won't won't snow one lah so ya lah true lah true lah make sense make sense


eh that one fake one <mandarin>那个假的:na ge jia de</mandarin> that one crazy <mandarin>浪费时间:lang fei shi jian</mandarin> that one you go then then what the snow also fake one, then <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> like what <mandarin>一下子:yi xia zi</mandarin> then <mandarin>你去一下子:ni qu yi xia zi</mandarin> then <mandarin>这样贵:zhe yang gui</mandarin> lah no point lah no point ah


I think so !wah! <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> snow city I think <mandarin>我小时候去一次而已:wo xiao shi hou qu yi ci er yi</mandarin> then after that <mandarin>我就觉得:wo jiu jue de</mandarin> like eh <mandarin>这个骗人的:zhe ge pian ren de</mandarin> then after that I never go already anyway my my parents also don't believe in this kind of thing one ah cause if you really want to experience snow actually nowadays, nowadays to travel like <mandarin>出国:chu guo</mandarin> right you don't need a lot of money as in like if you book early you plan beforehand ah is affordable one so ya lah you can just


you know you just plan nicely if your schedule permits then just go and fly off like and experience all these mah, ya ya ya lor ya lor, go which country I think, my answer also quite obvious lah I mean you know probably ah probably go thailand lah cause


I mean you know you I I I learn thai what and then like because my dad has a, business there also so of course, it's quite is is is is like a, second home I will say it's like quite familiar because from like since young our my my dad will bring our family like to


more like different how to how how to be like you know like <mandarin>有一点不同的地方:you yi dian bu tong de di fang</mandarin> like usually like if you go as a tourist hor there will be this fixed places that you go to but then like he like since young he brought us to like the more off the beaten path kind of like places so then from there then my interest then after I go and learn thai then after I find that eh actually quite interesting so


it's that sense of familiarity lah then I also like the, like you how like how you like the korean food I like thai food a lot because I find that the flavours are like, top notch ah like it's it's a very it's a like the cuisine has very complex


, taste to it lah because they believe in, or like a dish has to have like five taste elements like sweet salty sour spicy and like has to be oily for, for these like thai dish to be considered like nice or like delicious like thai people want to eat lah so


for me I'll go back to thailand then it's like it's more of experiencing the kind of like, night market culture there cause I I like like all these night ah night market like err night market stuff a lot lah it's it's not like really buying things but then you go there


you go and walk around with people, you know you see different things then after that it's like along the way you buy some street food lah so, and in singapore you don't really get a ya we got #pasar malam# lah but then like the #pasar malam# I find that , like, it's not the same ah you know cause I think over there also the culture there and also like


the the space where they can do all this is definitely much more than like singapore lah so I find that, ya lor thailand ah probably go thailand, and also to go there to be able to practise my thai lah cause you stay in singapore


not a lot of places to go and practice ya I'm taking lessons lah but then like, it's always good to go there go to the you know the country, where you're learning the language from then you interact with the locals from there I think ya lor, that's pretty much it lor, thailand lor ya


, correct correct, , correct lah I think, okay I think it's not


, correct correct, , wait I think for this this question ah it's actually


you know it's actually a very interesting question cause if you see right like ya like as as like I think both of us will be we go to the country where these cuisine from let's say like korean food like your barbecue or like for thai your thai food green curry, going to the source is always where you can taste it at its most authentic


you know where you know that it's really local and, it's as real as it gets lah but then if let's say for things like in singapore, so I think also it's also a bit more realistic lah I think in a in a sense that if let's say like you're getting a korean barbecue from, in singapore


generally I think a good rule of thumb is that if let's say this, like let's say okay it's a korean restaurant then let's say this korean opens it, I think it it generally won't be too far off and like you said lah like they will try to adapt to our taste buds which I think, might not be a bad thing actually it shows that there's


that there's actually like cultural diversity in you know like they have the willingness to share the food because maybe to them they realised that okay maybe for singaporeans ah , maybe we can't take a lot of spice so maybe like for the korean all your army stews maybe they put less spice and then they add more ingredients inside to kind of like entice people to come and eat which I think is


is a symbol that you know people, they are proud of their cuisine that they want to share so that's why they made tweaks to it well it may not be the most authentic lah but I think if let's say you know in if let's say you can accept it and then from there then you go and find out more then I think that's that's also part of the part of the


part of globalisation ah cause as our borders are getting less and less defined, where information is more available then like you can travel so often I think it's good lah in the sense that, err you know when you learn more about other people's culture and especially in singapore because we're already like multiracial society so


you know if you add more like more people from different nationalities in actually it's quite good lah to be able to, like you know like <mandarin>了解他们的文化:liao jie ta men de wen hua</mandarin> understand a little bit more about them cause sometimes whatever we think or we see on mainstream TV or like, you know like all the videos you see on like Youtube and everything like <mandarin>真丝的:zhen si de</mandarin> might not be


you know it might not be the same as what you see in the videos lor so maybe like <mandarin>真实上:zhen shi shang</mandarin> is, a bit different ah so if you ask me would it taste better maybe not like if you ask me I'm generally more for like the really authentic kind of food like let's say korean barbecue then I say go korea or like for like thai food


you know you go to thailand and eat it, but, I would say that it is good and I think it's necessary for people to, tweak it according to our like try and cater it for singaporeans why because then, you know people will be more interested when people can actually you know eat it's available for


for the masses then people generally will be like eh what is this about like eh what is this dish like or where does it come from how do you make it kind of things so I think like it's, necessary I think I think it's good but ultimately if you are just talking about taste-wise


I would not prefer but then again like I said being realistic you can't you can't to fly to korea every week so if let's say like it's as good as it gets like it's basically like open by maybe a local like for korean barbecue korean for thai food like a thai then I think ya it's good enough because


they know their stuff because they are from there and then after that they put in their own inputs, they based on you know our preferences and then they sells a dish that, they find that will represent their culture well lah so I think it's good lor ya then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> leh I mean how about you like what what do you think will you like say


, why all okay maybe to to change it will you, frown upon it or will you like encourage like this kind of things like these kind of things so it's like like like <mandarin>你所讲的:ni suo jiang de</mandarin> so is like if let's say, we are selling you a dish then he just add they will tweak it and make it


better or more suited for our taste buds lah,


correct correct ya,


(mmhmm), ya


, I heard you wrap you wrap the meat inside the pork belly right you warp the pork belly inside the the lettuce then you put all the other like condiments and sauces right


, okay okay,


okay okay, , #tom yum# #pad thai# [orh] thai #kway chap#, ya !huh!


okay true true , ya but the is but is in the, the thai the thai chinese style lah version ah, ya lor ya lor ya lor


true lah understand understand it's it's your it's your it's your own yes that's how it feel lah to to us to leave like nothing one cause I think food this kind of thing is a very, it's very subjective one there's no absolute it really is based on individual preferences lah cause like you know whatever you find is nice I might find ya it's okay not not fantastic but then maybe like something like friend was like !wah! eh it's like eh you gotta die die you got to try but like then <mandarin>你会觉得:ni hui jue de</mandarin> so it's like eh like oh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> meh like oh <mandarin>很好吃:hen hao chi</mandarin> meh


ya it's like that kind of thing lah but then like just now you mentioned your friends like when you tell them you teach them say [orh] oh eh you can like you know wrap wrap wrap the meat inside the lettuce and everything then you still go and, barbecue the Kimchi but what is the reason <mandarin>为什么你讲:wei shen me ni jiang</mandarin> like oh eh err <mandarin>不可以这样做:bu ke yi zhe yang zuo</mandarin> it's like eh it's like [orh] err can like that eat one meh or like eh why is like why why why do they why do you think ah they have this kind of like


reaction lor I mean cause no doubt you I mean ya you you went there to korea for, and definitely the culture over there you will experience the real one ah so like why do you think you know, they


, oh okay okay okay okay okay, okay


okay okay, okay okay, oh so it's like very popular also lah


okay okay can, , eh okay leh, ya lor ya lor so if like let's say you go out like go town area go there it's not too


not too inconvenient, true true


ya lah true true true correct correct correct


you make a good point okay okay okay, nice nice nice but will you, want to go and learn korean I mean cause you say you like the culture right so I think part, [orh] you know ah [orh] okay okay


like what conversation or is it like conversational, so, ah okay, okay okay, so you like <mandarin>你去那边的时候:ni qu na bian de shi hou</mandarin> then you pick it up from like you pick up from your all your exchange students ah


okay okay, quite cool leh but then will you want to go and learn further like more, more in depth like how to read, or like write or like speak more and converse more and don't know cause I mean cause you say you like the, culture right so I mean do you do you do you have that like plan or you just like Nah it's more for like it's just conversational will be enough then it's like you go there you more like to immerse yourself in the culture <mandarin>去那边的去体验体验:qu na bian de qu ti yan ti yan</mandarin> the kind of thing


(mmhmm)


true true ya I mean after all after all they say like, like when you communicate normally in chinese they say what [orh] <mandarin>沟通:gou tong</mandarin> means like you know as long as you can, you can ah, get your message across you can communicate that's the most important ah I mean true lah cause I mean now english english is like the international business language then like chinese is more like


but then like ya lah I think ya lor true lah true lah you what what what you say is true cause the it's especially


because it's so widely used so, technically, wherever we go you use english there will be people who understand whatever you're saying


ah, serious ah


true true true, english ya lor can lor can lor, I mean make sense, because ultimately it's like anyway next time when you go out to work, we probably only gonna use english ah


ya true true true I think for me, [orh] for me lah I think wait the the part of the reason why I learn thai is because, I realise that you know cause you know finance what I think in singapore they is quite, like the market is small so it's like


like you know if you learn a new like a third language some more it's like in ASEAN so eh for me I think, !wah! eh my thinking is a bit different but I'm thinking more long term ah so it's like <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> ah if, after we graduate so in singapore finance you know the finance industry is like quite saturated then


I intend to go and do like wealth management next time so in wealth management in singapore actually is already like considered quite saturated lah cause I intern I intern ah, I intern at the wealth management place lah ah in poly so


I'm thinking more of like in next time in the future so let's say like, you know you after you graduate then if the market is too saturated, you go to err south east like especially like our surrounding


our surrounding neighbours lah so it's like you go there you have more opportunities there it's like you're opening like <mandarin>给自己铺更多的路:gei zi ji pu geng duo de lu</mandarin> ah you know like like some something like that so it's like , at least you have something to fall back on ah and I mean, err living let's say like if you have to live abroad living abroad is not easy ah but then I think it's also it might be a good experience lah so to me I'm I'm quite like prepared to just say like oh it's like you go overseas and work


for maybe like a few years just to experience then you come back lah because, not everyone gets the chance to do that and I think it's also good exposure good opportunity ah so I think for me, that's that's part of the reason why I started learning thai lah is to give myself more options lor cause


ya lah I think in singapore it's kind of is is very competitive so it's more of, having second options lor


okay okay I mean I think good point ah it's just chinese ya lah cause my I think I told you ah my my department err in


you know my internship err was in charge of north asia so a lot of my colleagues ah they from like mainland china hong-kong taiwan so I think for me personally chinese I think it's okay lah about there because I took higher chinese in, secondary school, it was and I think I did pretty okay not not not not not the best but I think because of that foundation that set up so now I think I'm still quite I think I'm still quite confident lah and then after like my intern experience I think I still quite confident in my chinese so for me and china


is anytime because like you say lah it's growing so much then you have to prepare prepared cause, they are now like the largest and the most powerful asian nation, and they have so much potential so it's like I I I kind of like semi tell myself is that in in future don't be surprised if let's say you need to go china and work because that's where all the


you know like because they have just because of their sheer size and the number of people then also their people over there are willing to work, very hard and those people are very smart ah like damn bloody smart kind of like genius two hundred IQ that kind of people lah so ya lah I think


for me, go and experience it's good to go and try so for me I think I still, quite open-minded it's like you know I will go overseas but but like I said lah maybe like for a few years


not like extended period overseas, ultimately, it's still better than to be in singapore cause all your friends are here family are here definitely after awhile you'll start to miss them lah so ya I think that's just my personal take ah


can lor can lor, ah, !walao! eh <mandarin>这个是:zhe ge shi</mandarin> interview meh <mandarin>很像那个:hen xiang na ge</mandarin> !walao! everytime go interview where do you see yourself in five years okay lah but, honestly ten years ah


!wah!, good question cause, !wah! ten years ten years ten years that's like when we are what, thirty already right ya thirty already, hopefully ah by then, have a stable job at the bank that's paying that's paying quite well


definitely lah ideal situation then maybe, about to get married or like in the process of thinking is like starting a family ya then, hopefully then then my parents still be like healthy all lor then ya lah is, think is a lot a lot of it is like what what generally what people will visualise like very


very ideal I see myself honestly I can't tell lah but this where I hope to see myself and that's where I will work towards it lor other than that and cause you can't you can't just oh travel into the future to see ten years down the down like what the hell you'll be doing or like how will you will be doing but ya lah this how I


hope that I will see myself in about ten years time ya, then you leh


, true true true, but then like if let's say you say you start off with BTO then ultimately where's the end so it's like ya you say you from there you upgrade then <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> upgrade <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>几时:ji shi</mandarin> or like when are you going to stop it's a condo or like you wanna have like a


semiD, ya ideally like ideally, okay okay nice nice


ya cause anyway now what, , now also, quite hard to say is is is really , it's really like what we kind of know what we want to what we wanna do versus what can we do


you know kind of thing


ya ya I mean I roughly roughly already have a plan already lah because after, after uni then after that especially and before err, uni ends during uni you know what what was some of the things what are some of the goals I want to do then after that once I graduate you know start to plan about


finding a job and everything lah cause we don't like you say lah we don't have a lot of time <mandarin>我们输别人都输两年:wo men shu bie ren dou shu liang nian</mandarin> Liao like for our female friends they, they are two years ahead of us then like if you compare with, people in other countries


ah like <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> Liao so ya lah just just just work hard towards whatever you want [loh]


!wah! <mandarin>要要免费可以免费:yao yao mian fei ke yi mian fei</mandarin> ya lah I mean if it's cost of living is like quite high !wah! <mandarin>免费:mian fei</mandarin> ah, , it must be one thing or like you just like a category


one thing, !wah! one thing ah, , one thing one thing ah, I mean okay ya maybe I'll say err


maybe I say, I don't know water or electricity I mean cause like I say, eventually the price of water increases and then it's like because these are the things that <mandarin>你每天需要用的:ni mei tian xu yao yong de</mandarin> then is you know if it's it becomes free to use then at least you don't have to go and worry about all these there at least you can


channel your energy and money into you know different things that you want to do so it's like, so if let's say now I don't have to pay for like utilities ah even water or just electricity because all these are like very basic mah <mandarin>很基本:hen ji ben</mandarin> then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>你真的需要用的:ni zhen de xu yao yong de</mandarin> so I find that if you have all these free then


you don't have to go and worry about paying lah it's like less all these bills so after that you can concentrate more on like your goals you know whatever you want to do them and because another one is health care so I think, for me maybe is, okay actually you know what change it I think healthcare cause healthcare is like super expensive in singapore like <mandarin>你去买保险:ni qu mai bao xian</mandarin> all these right it's at the end of the day I think it's still not enough to


cover and especially err if you like when you start ageing ah, like more problems <mandarin>比较多问题:bi jiao duo wen ti</mandarin> so, ya I think healthcare lah cause healthcare very important and it's super expensive in singapore


and ya ya


ya true true true correct correct so with health you can go and do whatever you want without health you also you also Lan Lan like you said lor your you if you you have a few house but then you can't stay in it also no point what at the end of the day right


yup but would you consider like moving to another country to stay I mean if let's say eventually cost of living really very high then like your savings is is enough for you to lead a comfortable life in another country will you do that or you just continue to stay, in singapore


okay eh bro very long never talk already how are you ah, okay ah, oh, !aiya! NS ah !wah! quite Sian eh !walao! actually nothing much to do leh bit then


!aiya! <mandarin>每次做:mei ci zuo</mandarin> admin <mandarin>的东西也是很:de dong xi ye shi hen</mandarin> Sian <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> what like !wah! and then some more, still got like a lot of stuff to do then like now going to have the peak period already so like <mandarin>很多东西要做:hen duo dong xi yao zuo</mandarin> leh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> leh


ya admin lah like a lot of last minute stuff also !wah! never mind never mind I ask you I ask you I I I I I saw this across err while scrolling Facebook ah if you had three wishes ah what would you wish for ah


of course legit lah !walao!


three wishes !wah!, two


yes yes, last one, wish for more wishes lah !walao!


!aiya! <mandarin>不用紧不用紧:bu yong jin bu yong jin</mandarin> okay next question


okay next question ah, oh <mandarin>它是一个:ta shi yi ge</mandarin> list <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> ah <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> Facebook, ya ya ya it's like, ya it's like one


ya ya ya it's like one entire list lor, but then ah but then ah next, moving on <mandarin>如果你要放弃全部的东西:ru guo ni yao fang qi quan bu de dong xi</mandarin> hor


uh, actually <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> question <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> hor, [orh] well paying job okay okay <mandarin>你懂我会放弃什么:ni dong wo hui fang qi shen me</mandarin> mah


!hanna! <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lah


then


ya lah then <mandarin>第三个问题:di san ge wen ti</mandarin> ah


!wah! <mandarin>你这个:ni zhe ge</mandarin> #siao lang# leh, ,


okay, err, time travel


I mean, ya lah ya lah <mandarin>就是这样讲:jiu shi zhe yang jiang</mandarin> lah that's why then <mandarin>可以弄我自己一个:ke yi nong wo zi ji yi ge</mandarin> better person


okay okay <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> hor, oh


!wah! <mandarin>这个这个太过份:zhe ge zhe ge tai guo fen</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>过份:guo fen</mandarin> Liao, eh <mandarin>来你是有什么:lai ni shi you shen me</mandarin> okay <mandarin>如果你不喜欢一个人:ru guo ni bu xi huan yi ge ren</mandarin> hor


ya lah


ya lah ya lah <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor but then , !aiya!, okay never mind, post ah <mandarin>很长:hen chang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可是不可能问你每个问题:ke shi bu ke neng wen ni mei ge wen ti</mandarin> mah Siao


better ones ah !wah! <mandarin>我看一下:wo kan yi xia</mandarin> ah, okay okay


ah ah ah, then <mandarin>要跟叶问一样我要打十个:yao gen ye wen yi yang wo yao da shi ge</mandarin>


, , oh ya true ah true


, actually <mandarin>我也是打一只:wo ye shi da yi zhi</mandarin> ah, I rather die to one that die to hundred, is I mean that's true lah


ah <mandarin>对对对:dui dui dui</mandarin> but <mandarin>一百个:yi bai ge</mandarin> leh, true true true


and !aiya! <mandarin>所以你懂新加坡很多东西吃:suo yi ni dong xin jia po hen duo dong xi chi</mandarin> lor


like if I were to choose one in singapore like probably, probably will be like something related to abalone, cause I I like seafood ah so


then like just ya and some more it's premium item ah then one dish for the rest of my life then I just eat something premium ah might as well what, , that's why you can <mandarin>正:zheng</mandarin> until


like different mah like sometimes cook Mala then like sometimes boil then go and like if you really want right just put your abalone in your maggie ah also can what nobody say cannot what


ya lah exactly, eh, we so long never talk leh


ya ya ya I got spot already but then like I still waiting for, err what's that called ah , next year cause next year now NS mah then it will eat into my ORD time so I'm going to apply disruption, then like


err then like, cause, I don't know how it how it works so like, it depends ah like, cause sometimes the process they they did say that it may not get approved so


I don't know how lah but obviously I'm going to try ask ASAP ah so like easier


ya ya ya october lah that means, go back two months


I mean we'll see how it goes


, ya I think probably going to do finance ah not like , in a sense whereby it's more of like something that I know already so might as well just continue doing


oh ya ya ya ya that's true that's true, oh ya


I mean I did consider going to accountancy also but like, it is technically something that I know how to do but I not sure whether I can do or not, cause I see people in accounting right !wah! they damn shag eh !walao!


oh ya ya ya heard you say before


no lah, ya just give up ah like probably cause for me I aim to reach financial, err freedom, by age thirty thirty five


very tight ah but, not impossible lah if you actually hustle properly then I don't think <mandarin>会有一个问题:hui you yi ge wen ti</mandarin> ah


ya lah in a sense it's not impossible but you really really need to work damn hard, cause like you see ah we NS then like we waste a lot of time already like not really waste lah we took quite a very long


ah ya, ya exactly, that's why ah


which country ah, korea lah, , no lah you know, you know me I I'm quite into the korean culture mah especially the food there then the fact that like you know those branded stuff like FILA Guess whatever is you can get them quite cheap


so then some more, no in a sense yes then some more FILA originated there then Guess also the prices there not as exorbitant ah, yes what the hell you didn't know


, I mean okay continuing whatever I said just now ah so basically the food there also very nice like korean barbecue !wah! that one sick I tell you, you eat korean barbecue in korea right and you eat korean barbecue in singapore right it's damn lot of difference I tell you cause like the korean barbecue in korea right the standard is like !wah! fucking up there


so like, ya as in then the fact that the service there also quite good mah like there are actually like usually the restaurants that I go to in singapore right is you own self cook, but then in korea one right it's like they see you cook ah !wah! they cannot take it ah they help you cook one


ya then, then err how do I say ah the fact that what I mean by service very good also is that they do give free soup like that time you know I got tell you I go korea exchange


ah then, the korean barbecue at <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> how do I say ah <mandarin>我学校的那个外面:wo xue xiao de na ge wai mian</mandarin> ah !wah! !aiya! the moment you go inside we order already the soup just come immediately so it's like every two pax they give one free soup so like we go there and in like six six people ah so they give three soup !wah! then the soup is like damn top notch it's damn good


eh


ya ya ya then the fact that the, the korean drinking culture lah that one they quite solid also like in the middle of the day at ten AM or in the afternoon like I mean now cause of circuit breaker you see people drinking in afternoon already ah but then before circuit breaker you go the to the bar it's not even open what <mandarin>没有人在那边喝的:mei you ren zai na bian he de</mandarin> what but then in sorry in korea they literally drink at what ten AM


like you see all the uncles ya you see all the uncles sit at the convenience store there then they drink, ah yes yes that's why then then like, sick ah quite sick quite sick


then ya lah exchange quite fun also lah that's why I quite inclined towards the korean culture like the actually the education there, it's quite, chill, four months technically ya three-ish month


then I took, awhile like a week or two to travel around korea, to like just buy and shop and whatever lah, ah ya ya ya, with a broken ligament


ya that's why, ah, ya !wah! I tell you that one stupid lah I go all the way down cannonball then the staff there damn bullshit ah !wah! eh he knew that I injured and then <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> you need to go to the hospital right no, no shit I need to go to the hospital but he tell me oh you walk straight like literally said <mandarin>走直转右:zou zhi zhuan you</mandarin> !aiya!


okay so are you going to help me you or not I had to I had to limp there myself ah, not really go hospital he tell me to go to a first aid but they call it hospital so like technically that is a first aid centre


then Bo Pian ah I just, had to ice my ligament that area then end up I come back to singapore then they tell me oh you have a broken MC I was like what the hell, then okay ah I mean it's not that bad it recover already so it's fine


ya very little ah that's why like I mean okay the skiing thing honestly is also I Suay ah, like, you never expect yourself to get injured also what then some more you go overseas you technically cannot limit yourself to like [orh] this one I don't want do <mandarin>那个不要做这个不要做:na ge bu yao zuo zhe ge bu yao zuo</mandarin> like


ya lor some more it's snowing eh then like Siao snowing don't go to ski then what you do sia watch the snow meh I mean like can ah but, you go there is <mandarin>刚好:gang hao</mandarin> snowing


I mean there's snow city ah is that what you ah ya snow city then like Siao, , money fly


that's true that's true but !wah! you leh you leh you wanna go which country


I see but then you know actually we got a lot like singapore technically is called a like <mandarin>很多很多人来:hen duo hen duo ren lai</mandarin> singapore right so it's like they bring their cuisines here so like international cuisines in singapore they probably will change the taste and stuff like that what do you think of it ah


like do you like it better or do you, prefer the original I mean original will definitely be better lah but then because the taste are changed to suit singaporean's tastebuds mah so like what do you think of it leh do you think like it will be nicer if you go with original one or like


honestly for me right if it's korean barbecue then obviously I want to like eat the <mandarin>那个真的东西:na ge zhen de dong xi</mandarin> lah but then, in a sense where by if you cannot expect singapore restaurants like like okay there's definitely some restaurants that will be able to meet the like the korean barbecue standard that I have technically experienced in korea lah like the closer [ones]


will be the #Don Dae Bak# that one that one actually very good so like, I mean they do give like free flow stuff like you know the eggs ya they give free then like okay that's a good thing but, to a certain extent they also have to take it to singapore's singaporeans's tastebuds lah but then


if I were to choose ah I would obviously if it's korean barbecue right I will definitely prefer the korean one lah because it's technically authenticity is there, then the fact that most singaporeans do not know that Kimchi can be eaten barbecued !wah! that one I damn tilt that time I tell you ah I go korean barbecue with my friends !wah! they tell me you can barbecue Kimchi one meh like


obviously can ah if cannot then I barbecue for what then I tell them to try they like no lah cannot lah it's not meant to be barbecued then I like #ji tao# what the hell confirm is can one because I eaten it before and it's damn good it gives a really a new taste to the to the food itself lah like to to the veggie itself and then


for korean barbecue it's not just about meat it's about the flavours like the Kimchi like together lah like you know some the lettuce together with the pork belly then the Kimchi, ah then you eat together


ah ya ya, ah ya ya ya ya but then they say they tell me no no cannot cannot one it's not eaten like this <mandarin>不是这样吃:bu shi zhe yang chi</mandarin> then I'm like, !walao! <mandarin>我跟你讲可以你讲不要信你不要信我:wo gen ni jiang ke yi ni jiang bu yao xin ni bu yao xin wo</mandarin> then okay lor <mandarin>我自己吃:wo zi ji chi</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>你们随便你:ni men sui bian ni</mandarin> lor


ya lah <mandarin>就是这样讲:jiu shi zhe yang jiang</mandarin> lah like, if it's thai dish cause I'm not really a fan of thai cuisines since I do lah I do eat #tom yum# stuff lah but like, Nah like if you ask me to eat #pad thai# that kind of like err


like there's what ah what's that called ah the thai #kuay chap# what I don't really think that it's, I don't really think that it's that much of a hype ah honestly speaking like nothing much lor it's literally just #kway chap# ah, like


ya lah technically if I want to eat like the more peppery version might as well ask you eat #bak kut teh# like #bak kut teh# I mean it's my, quit a go to food for me


it's more


no leh no leh I think it's more of like they are very used to [orh] Kimchi cannot be barbecued it's like it's like implanted into their head already oh Kimchi cannot be barbecued it has to be eaten cold that's why that's why they are not very like how to say ah open lah but then this is I mean I'm not blaming them because technically


I tried the barbecue when there was the Kimchi there and then that specific restaurant didn't really have the Kimchi taste that I was looking for so like obviously, the, change in flavour when barbecued right it's not really up there up to my expectation lah then like I mean I told them to eat


they I mean <mandarin>我自己吃:wo zi ji chi</mandarin> Liao also like quite disappointing lah cause like, !wah! I thought it will taste like this but then end up it taste like that then like !wah! <mandarin>心痛:xin tong</mandarin> but then okay lah it is what it is [loh] then end up I just go to the korean restaurant that I was at the the #Don Dae Bak# ah that one !wah! eh that one legit damn good you should go eat with someone like go eat with


eat with like other people lah your family or something because it's really like the vibes there is quite chill, though it gets busy sometimes but then the food there is really damn good they do serve buffet options ah so can just go, though you need to make reservation


that one definitely need, ya it's damn popular I think it's somewhere in outram park then you walk like five minutes reach already, ya the food there is really like top notch ah it's like one of the better in fact if not one of the if not ya if not one of the best in singapore lah honestly speaking and they open until quite late also like one two AM then some more it's in CBD area


ya, in a sense yes lah like it's more of like people can go there and chill after like you know friday nights then oh like you go eat something good like okay lah just eat lah then they do sell Soju there so like


like you know lah korean barbecue definitely do with Soju one lah but then the thing is Soju in singapore is, yes Soju in singapore is very expensive so like I mean I wouldn't go there and drink Soju ah I just eat the korean barbecue then I go to somewhere else to drink because bars definitely have better deals as compared to


the restaurant itself lah, definitely one what, ya lor <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor


ya conversation lah like I literally, ya that's why that's that's the thing ah


err I mean, we go exchange then, err they did go through with us like oh what to expect during school then like they attach buddy system so like there were two uni students there they attached to us like me and my my


my my roommate ah cause we are from NYP then together go to there then ah okay lah they attach us together then also got like two malaysians who also go there for a exchange program so, we go there then the four of us plus two korean


buddies lah then they taught us how to introduce ourselves and like the basic koreans greetings, ya


honestly speaking ah even though I am interested in the korean culture, but, I do not think that I will actually be that interested to learn how to write how to read korean I mean to a certain extent okay the interest is there but like hor


I mean what's the point err english is, is like quite a proficient language ah then like everybody is using english then even like you go to korea there are people in like okay you go to town area to shop like Myeong-Dong Hongdae


they all know how to speak english, so like, what's the point lah I mean honestly ideally it would be good to converse to them, err in obviously korean lah but then if they can speak english then why do you even need to bother about like I mean


consideration, but then so long as these kind of thing you get your point across can already what, like one


but honestly speaking ah chinese ah I can speak, I cannot write my chinese except for my chinese name my chinese name confirm I know how to write one but then my chinese really damn Cui


when like you ask me to write compo now right oh <mandarin>在一个风和日丽的早上:zai yi ge feng he ri li de zao shang</mandarin> that's the only thing I know how to write the rest is like I really have no idea ya as in I'm not very good with composition ah, ya I'm not very good with composition but then like it is what it is ah I don't even need to take chinese already so just do english ah


english is good enough ah


ya exactly but err because for me I going to like work in a bank ah, so, not really like I mean to a certain extent chinese is important but then if you are going to work in a bank and that end definitely everyone there can speak


a certain level of proficient english mah so just use english to communicate lor it's nothing one what, then like <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor I mean that's my that's my opinion I don't know about yours what do you think


I see but like I mean they did say like china industry also expanding ah so like I think like definitely like like cause you know that I intern at Citibank then they did tell me that say if I want to, go find job my supervisor lah my intern one <mandarin>他跟我讲:ta gen wo jiang</mandarin> err <mandarin>如果你要一个工作你可以回去:ru guo ni yao yi ge gong zuo ni ke yi hui qu</mandarin> so I like okay lor then I just go back ah then easier mah then if they do have like overseas opportunity right then


just go for it lah nothing wrong one mah then, like I mean unless please don't just don't send me to china lah I think they will all laugh at me , ya lor <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor but like otherwise I think


I will still prefer working in back end in singapore lah obviously, that's all I mean like you did say that you want to go into wealth management but for me I'm more even though like okay I go poly I do finance but then, for now ah I would prefer like


honestly because my after doing what my intern my like I basically after doing what I did at my intern company right, it's more of like [orh] like <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> I really like open open my eyes ah like you don't do whatever the hell you are studying


rather you are supposed to pick up something new like I go my intern there even though I'm from finance background I have to do programming so I see already I also shocked, but like okay lah it was a good experience and then the fact that, programming also quite sought after mah like programmers are actually quite sought after due to the fact that is like technology is advancing then like banks will always implement new products and stuff like that so like


it's also programmers are always highly sought after lah in my opinion lor like after doing what I did, so it's like okay ah just like I will do like self taught programming like go online find courses and stuff like that lor


ya, so like, I mean in a sense, whereby work is work, but then obviously don't say until like your language also like that bad lah like to the point that you can't even converse or type properly


so like okay lor then just I mean if it's really that bad then obviously I would ask me to go brush up on it lah


I see okay ah eh this topic quite mundane already ah we talk about something else ah !walao! so dry, eh if you ten years down the road where do you see yourself


I see, err I I think I got say just now err ten years down the road like thirty years old !wah! I I would want financial stability financial freedom but like cause for me I I see things quite far one so like I mean I didn't used to see things quite far but then for now right I'm like after going to NS !wah! <mandarin>我真的想开了:wo zhen de xiang kai le</mandarin> Liao sia


!wah! it's like I want to do this I want to do that then I have so little time but then obviously time is <mandarin>你自己要自己找出来的:ni zi ji yao zi ji zhao chu lai de</mandarin> lah, but like, okay lor like okay so what what during my NS thought process that I was telling myself ten years down the road right it's more towards like oh


finding a family cause I intend to get married early then like start a family early then start planning things earlier lah like then like I think I I did share with you about some of my goals previously like [orh] err example, getting like fifty K by like what twenty five that kind of stuff


but then if you think about it ah do you think it's possible a bit hard lah cause technically next next year I'll be going uni so like three years already then like quite, you haven't even start working then you want think about, fifty K like a bit impossible lah I mean unless you actually really go and hustle properly and


you that lucky confirm can but then there is also this like, mental blockage whereby you like sometimes you tell yourself oh like I can do it then the next day you just suddenly no gas already, so like ten years down the world obviously financial stability is one thing ah very important lah


then like, get a house then like obviously start with a for me ah I will want to start a BTO flat then I slowly upgrade, ya lah like this lor like ten years down the road it's pretty much get a house then like it's all the like like what you said the


basically everyone whatever everyone is thinking of lor like oh get a family get a house financial stability stuff like that, nothing much one lah like quite normal lor like typical typical, thirty year old thirty thirty thirty year old things ah


ideally ah ideally


ideally ah would be, a bungalow lah three storey bungalow ah, I mean words are words ah, it honestly, see how much effort you put in and then stuff like that lor like


ah don't know lah we'll see how it goes ah, ya we just wait


ya I mean what can we do honestly not much lah cause, we are quite limited mah by our like our time but then, if you actually think like maybe you can start planning lor what you want to do lah after you ORD and stuff like that


ya lor ya lor and then and the cost of living also quite high ah then what do you think like if you could wish for right one thing that will be free, if it magically appear


one thing lah


ya actually same actually same I also think healthcare will be free better cause like like what you say ah my points is is is basically the same as you lah like


healthcare, like even now when you, go out buy medicine it's not cheap what like healthcare wise I would say it's like hand sanitisers and stuff like that lor so like, I mean quite important lah like with COVID all hand sanitisers now actually quite expensive already the price like go up like Siao


then I mean they did say recently like yesterday I think they did say that <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> vaccine <mandarin>出来:chu lai</mandarin> Liao ninety percent then okay lah, then but then it will still take time before it develops mah, so healthcare then some more if the vaccine come out confirm very expensive one


like okay lah most likely the government will just say lah oh if there's like stage whereby people go get vaccinated, but to a certain extent there will still be definitely some cause by the government mah then even after this COVID is over you never know when down the road you will fall sick or like plan to fall sick Choy lah but


you never know one what <mandarin>这种东西很难讲:zhe zhong dong xi hen nan jiang</mandarin> what, so like okay lor, healthcare ah healthcare really very important lah like the rest like [orh] err house free got free house but you poor health also no use what, you poor health you bloody stay at the hospital also no use that one become your house already


ya lah you also Lan Lan cannot do anything what


so like health lah I mean think health very important lah, like !wah! damn Sian ah damn Sian ah, !hais!


I mean, (mm) ya I think I'll just continue to stay in singapore [lah] I I mean I grew up here so to a certain extent


okay can you hear me, (ppc)


you okay can you hear me hi, so there are no red bars now right, okay so this is the third time we are re-recording this we have already spent thirty minutes on this <mandarin>三十分钟了哦啊这个:san shi fen zhong le o a zhe ge</mandarin> master student ah


!huh!, so you you come up with the nine dollar ah


not clear is just you never read, please lah okay you tell this guy listening it's not clear okay my friend say not clear,


, correct lah


okay <mandarin>行了:xing le</mandarin> okay [orh]


I think we can used vulgar language lah


err in in chinese of course, you know you you know how the chinese always use <mandarin>粗话:cu hua</mandarin> in chinese one sometimes in hokkien somemore like #chee bye#


ya (ppc) ya if if may be ya


was it, err ya think solo solo is quite long solo is quite long fifteen minutes, I think ours is like ten minutes than overall is group presentation, (ppc)


you have to you have to defend her thesis also right


[orh] oh it's for masters only I didn't know that, cause my my uni don't have any, depends I mean I don't even have to write a thesis to graduate, , some some of them need lah but I don't need lor


oh it's okay I have no intention of pursuing higher studies I've had enough, , probably an MBA at any at best I guess, but that's


ya that's if I don't start a business before that lah, (ppc), what you mean feedback, no my fan is not on, I'm not even moving no one's moving only you or maybe got ghost lah !woo! !woo! !woo!


europe ah okay, eh <mandarin>你不要用你的:ni bu yao yong ni de</mandarin> china accent , okay, okay okay just now the china accent got erase okay so now we only singapore accent okay


okay, eh okay okay okay <mandarin>我相信你:wo xiang xin ni</mandarin> okay, (ppc), , , , hundred percent pure you know hundred percent


hundred percent singlish, (ppc), oh


oh ya ya then my china friend that time also say they ask me err so hor what do you call straw how do you say straw in chinese, then I say <mandarin>吸管:xi guan</mandarin> then they very shocked cause they say eh, I thought singaporeans all say <mandarin>水草:shui cao</mandarin> one


ya, well actually before that I actually I heard of <mandarin>水草:shui cao</mandarin> before but, I felt that,


have, so what is south south use <mandarin>汤匙:tang chi</mandarin> is it or, no usually they seperate into north and south that's the biggest difference


ya, ya I still remember the time when you cannot differentiate between south korea and north korea which has the most dangerous one


(ppc)


ah okay never mind it's fine it doesn't affect recording, ya so I think is like should be JC onwards cause I also don't know much about korea until like JC so poor, it is you you suck at geography


I think I got an A two I think, , !aiya!, !huh!, (hmm) cannot lah we can we cannot travel now what so no use lah


me too me too I want to visit so many people


I wish singapore actually had like nice scenery you know, like the one thing we have is like


that one I don't know lah I don't go hiking, , no, no the thing is right nature is supposed to like when you see right you must go !whoa! I'm like so small compared to the world you know


then like I felt that when I went to japan like you go go like there's this temple of I think is <NEN> pagoda or something, it was like you can see from there you can see mount Fuji directly it's just directly opposite mount Fuji it's like so beautiful


it's so beautiful even if it's like on a in the regular streets right the whole row of sakura trees in full bloom is like !wow!, (ppc) or even their parks their parks is like so big extensive like when I actually go there right I stand there or sit there or lie there right can feel nature embracing me I don't know how to explain this feeling is like nature like


healing me, it really takes a lot of stress away and my I can feel that my mindset change lah, then when I come back to singapore is like very, filled with buildings, was like very suffocating is like all like artificial


singapore <mandarin>缺大自然:que da zi ran</mandarin> lah but they are doing their best lah you know like the flower dome, and all that, (ppc), (ppc), is I think is not really whether it's natural or not it's more of the scale


nature must dwarf you I think, or be pretty I think


(ppc) ya, ya, sand also fake one, (ppc) that one is <mandarin>那那不是:na na bu shi</mandarin> fake <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> sand <mandarin>那是我们买进来的:na shi wo men mai jin lai de</mandarin> sand <mandarin>这不是新加坡的:zhe bu shi xin jia po de</mandarin> sand thailand <mandarin>泰国的:tai guo de</mandarin> sand


okay lor <mandarin>你要看:ni yao kan</mandarin> you you want look at it that way then okay lor, (ppc), Tokyo Kyoto <mandarin>和:he</mandarin> Osaka


(ppc), err some sometimes sometimes some of them


for example I told you about that guy right, that guy, so this guy is an exchange student lah from america to japan he was there as as he was the an exchange student at the same time as me lah so we still keep in contact even till like this month


ya we talked about things like the US elections we also talk about things like the, err, oh ya about how he about his, relationship with the japanese girlfriend he made


ya and he also like join the army you know, then this no the thing is is cannot you cannot say like that lah cause is the the US army is very generous in terms of


(ppc), oh but it's not like he's not leh I cannot tell you cause apparently is like top secret but he is in more of a non combat position lah


ya, ya but is I cannot tell you lah okay at least not over this call lah , ya ya okay okay then was just that was just a joke like from the previous conversation you can't say that


later they got deleted, don't lah no it's not like natural already that's why I I'm not after the first convo first topic that you visited that was elaborated upon just now I just like move away from that


ya like the korean class and all, (ppc), why okay ya so I already told you how the teacher is like the first teacher is like short pretty korean and the teaching method is like telling jokes making your class a fun one that's why I really enjoy it cause I can actually make jokes and we and the class can make jokes and we were like very we freely interact with the teacher then the second one that I went to is like today's like makeup class and the teacher is like you know very


very fierce and domineering lah I told you already right she's like tall pretty and korean also then like, (hmm), when I want to talk, she's like, she has absolute command command of the class you if you the funny thing is like every time she ask err do you have a question class in korean


err then she will just swiftly answer oh no questions, like one second after ya she don't give chance cause like most of the time there are no questions for this one but I forcefully ask question lah I raise my hand all that


how old I think they all around our age ah twenty six twenty seven twenty eight, (ppc), in my, my my my for the teacher for my class like in korea right


she majors in, in english studies lah, and so she can speak korean very well cause she's a korean lah so she come over to she actually worked in a company before but I think she decide to change her path


and, (ppc), I, !huh!, err, eh why suddenly like that ah code switch code switch (ugh)


oh <mandarin>因因为我在我要解释东西的时候:yin yin wei wo zai wo yao jie shi dong xi de shi hou</mandarin> right err <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> revert <mandarin>回去:hui qu</mandarin> like


ya ya cause I like to convey the meaning properly mah ya ya ya, ya ya ya so she's like ya so she's like stricter lah personally I prefer to first teacher ya ya then today I


technically can lah if you don't want to make up all the way lah but I I still prefer my first teacher so I don't unless necessary I won't be making up anymore lah cause I have to make up cause of my NS obligation mah, two weeks never go lucky the first day the first week only need to go on the tuesday


err they will still charge me but, it is all the same cause in the end I attended that class as a makeup class, ya, ya so


and it's free best part, (ppc), ya because you're not in singapore what, (ppc), you can at least get a free course you know free course lah


oh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> because like


you know how I how since JC days I'm like


it's like how it's the same for jap for anime lah is like suddenly one day eh how come I can understand the show eh how come I can understand people speaking japanese, ya so, so I actually like you know what I I learnt japanese I hit a roadblock in the grammar part then now I'm just stockpiling Kanji cause I can't stand the fact that I can't read (ppc) I can't read Kanji anymore I can't read words just because I don't know Kanji when actually you know I already know how how all those words


sound like and how those words what those words actually mean lah like all those words so I can't actually speak the japanese the language here I can't really say the words here cause this is like, a recording for like singlish and you know, like chinese lah


but you know I mean right, , I think some of the credits is err is just for, just for the beginner lessons lah


so like, so like japanese like


(ppc), got a lot of things lah even can programming and all also


(ppc), ya I think I think you can just go back to, you can try more singlish, I think we are all reverting back to proper english


(ppc), !aiya!


internship


(ppc)


(mmhmm), early day care


uh, (ppc), (ppc), err err listener actually he's really singaporean chinese it's just that, got some chinese tutor you know from china, change his accent


I let the listener be the judge of that lah he's like the third party in this conversation but he cannot talk


you stop sabotaging the the recording ah <EX2>ka ni na</EX2> later have to repeat again I slap your mother slap you cannot slap your mother


!aiyo! I beg to differ, (ppc) but okay lah


, (ppc)


that's because last time we didn't study hard for chinese, (ppc), ya but really actually now I studying, ya


oh is it ah, [orh] so it's the same, same lah


just pronounce it different ah, [orh], well for me lah for me ah, right now you know I doing the Kanji practice right, err, sometimes after after I memorise some of the words ah, when I


it's actually like making it it's actually slowly replacing the chinese words in my memory so some of them got some extra strokes right then I've been doing it like for practice right then it's like slowly erasing it the the original chinese character in my have been my brain you know


(ppc), actually next time I study chinese lah, !wah! forget everything, (ppc), but then there are some people who will who are polyglots you know they know everything


they know all the languages, nice, , !aiyo! why I move my phone away for a while hope it still can record


I can't, ya ya I I unconsciously moved it over to my right, it's the same distance from my mouth lah so it should be okay lah,


(ppc), everyone everyone got everyone is imperfect


!wah!, yes yes yes


ya lah but singaporean is like you know this this is what the surveys this is what the recording is for ah to test your simultaneous your ability to simultaneously code switch into different languages you know, code switch into different languages mah, (ppc)


it's probably some very complicated word, , ya lor, so what else can we talk about ah, (hmm) actually NS this time reservist this time was pretty alright


it's, ya ya it's like you know they at below they smoke you know, then it's like I never breathe so much secondhand smoke in my life


okay no I breathe it every year because of reservist now, , okay, ya probably it they say firsthand smoker less health complications than secondhand smoker you know


so I think maybe I should join them lah in the end in the end !wah! that's why the army converts everyone to smokers you know


, !aiya! I I don't like lah it's no good for health lah and no good for your wallet health also, oh is it, new fact new fact, ya you never tell me before mah


(ppc) how did it feel like


it fills your lungs


!huh!, oh, oh no <mandarin>我要惨了:wo yao can le</mandarin> I think next year I'll be trying already


!aiya!, (ppc)


oh, !wah! okay so that's one way of hanging out with them lah for me I just go stand there, that's worse ah


I just, so this week the first week is mainly err course prep and, !huh! we cannot talk about reservist <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> activity meh


can just, got classified meh is like all the very basic then everyone know everyone go through the same thing mah, okay lah so it's like uh live firing lor, then weapon proficiency test lor


then err UO UO training and protection defense lor, (ppc), think don't need don't need go that far to talk talking about camp name lah, (ppc), the west lah


, (ppc), ya sia, far sia that's why I always have to spend either spend on taxi or ask my mum come and pick


it's thirty plus, thirty three, that time err when I book out err for the first week I'm supposed to rush to celebrate a friend's birthday right, !wah! they book out late sia, no as in that time they told us is book out six PM leh !walao! in the end like what seven plus eight PM


, ya the second week also the same, I want to vomit blood everytime listen to their lies


no but actually the camp this time was the reservist this time was okay if I if I look at it another perspective, so actually right I went in there very sad cause I miss out on a chance to take a blue prism course you know


blue blue prism course blue prism course so it's like err err how how do I say it so err the RPA robotic process automation course, ya then ya <mandarin>我我的:wo wo de</mandarin> company, then after that after the course right <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> push <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> take <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> certification exam


(ppc) cannot cause is they one shot go through everyone


(ppc)


err, I decided to change my mindset a bit so like, you know how I like, don't really like the my platoon mates lah


ya not not really okay lah O okay okay lah not really don't like but okay okay, I can, urm <mandarin>也不是很:ye bu shi hen</mandarin> close lah


(ppc), ya but mine is


ya but mine, ya but mine is like err even in camp right <mandarin>我们只会:wo men zhi hui</mandarin> like oh hi how are you then we at night also leh during free time we won't like hang out, but this time


have lah have lah but it's like, oh platoon ah in other platoon have lah but then, within the platoon right close to my section lor, ya lor


ya so anyway this week this time reservist cycle I decide like change things up lah like, like just approach it with a different mindset so like, I put down my pride lah then I make the first move I'm like act friendly with everyone


say kind words, do kind action like offer to help offer to carry their bag like you know how when booking in right, they my my company is the worst lah we have to go all the way up to the top, of the building ya the top floor it's like about five five six floors lah


so so right there's this guy then I will at the start lah so I bring up my bag already then I go down lah I don't know I forgot why I went down but I see my other platoon mates going up lah so I offered to carry their bags for them


ya, ya cause I went I go to gym also so like it's really it's really no kick to me lah plus that guy was like smaller than me can you believe it smaller than me skinnier than me smaller than me, ya ya he's quite small so anyway I I help that guy lah I offered the guy I think he quite happy I just carry for him then it's like it's like actually quite light to me now since I work out so I just carry for him then he say say oh okay lah not bad I think he was happy about it lah then then it's like then it's like one one of the act of service lah then another one was like err oh help them refill bottle all that shit


err carry their matador, you know, ya, then help them dig dig the shellscrape, I think they really they really I think it really worked out lah like then got another guy cause he worked out also he worked out


it's like five days a week kind of workout, five days then he's body really noticable it's like last time he damn lanky, (ppc), (ppc)


he got two, got two two matador on his arms , is it what the hell that's crazy man, (ppc)


no lah is move, already, !wah!


!wah!, actually that's my motivation also but I !wah! I I need to up my game ah cause I only two times a week


ya <mandarin>厉害厉害:li hai li hai</mandarin> I think I got to up my game seriously <mandarin>真的我要:zhen de wo yao</mandarin> up <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> game, like not there lah, it's really not there what really really got a bit lah but really not there yet lah


you feel only lah, you go stand next to the real one lah, then you feel then you can also feel lah how inadequate you are lah can feel ah don't even actually don't need to feel lah can see lah can


ya but I really respect their dedication cause like he's like, he got a child already you know, he got a baby already and it's like about one month old, (ppc) ya all the all the malays got babies already


a lot of them, I don't, ya what the


(ppc) , ya lah he go home party ah party until got baby come out mah


(ppc), then <mandarin>打掉:da diao</mandarin> lor, ya lah he made his own bed then he has to lie in it lor he dig his own grave he has to lie in it now


I for me if I really no money I will <mandarin>打掉:da diao</mandarin> one, I tasted what being poor is like it's not fun, it's not right it's not right to do that to your child lah, (ppc)


so, (ppc), maybe it's just the AI listening to this cause they have to use it for machine learning


AI ah AI, it's okay should we cheer up


ya ya so anyway relationship with platoon, up went up well they at night we also got hang out then I I actually got I also talk to my sergeants and all then I actually got a list of people, who have


like they have interests in some fields thet I'm interested in so I intend to follow up on these connections outside of NS, good sia so like some is like dating some is like investing some is like robo adviser


you know some is like (ppc) supply chain, !wah! cause really lah it's every dog has their days lah you cannot look down on any one lah some of them is really respect them lah for example one of these guy ah I met, like IT guy lah but he's also very very lazy but now he's like a changed person lah and like


he's less lazy he's more like on the ball he's mind calculates prices very fast cause right now he's like a reseller he purchased he is like, he sells drinks to coffeeshop at all, then what he do is that he go and


when he left right he poached all the clients away cause like he is very good at relationships, and he on his own right he go approach like manufacturers in singapore he gets like the the prices, he like negotiates deals with them right get it for cheaper than like NTUC and all


then he sell to people outside, he sells on like Shopee lah he sells directly to to people and all that, so it's like, !wah!, he really he really he he calculates the price, prices damn fast ya he has to memorise all prices in the market he has to see what does take into account the seasons and everything


!wah!, , he he makes a few hundred a month as a side job a side business leh, he still have his main job, his main job is selling to coffeeshops lah, for a company selling drinks Pokka Yeo's


side job is like err he gets things from manufacturers drinks included, and all the, drinks included and all that other stuff like err


it's like random assorted stuff, ya random assorted stuff then he sells on Shopee like cheaper price ya, then, ya the funny thing is that one of my sergeant right it's like works in Shopee is a product manager err then then that guy go and conveniently complain to him eh why Shopee like that ah make me do this make me do that very bad to seller


!wah! then he !wah! the sergeant like Dulan , , ya that's why he's he the whole time until he dare eh you say you got do so much at Shopee


ya the sergeant also quite ya, (ppc), ya but ya I'm I'm satisfied with the connection I made there and how I tested, like, being saying kind words okay ya so that guy who works out five day five times a week right


he's like, not a very very fierce person lah are not not very nice lah but I don't know whether he mellow or not but each time I I just said !wah!, you looking very good ah the muscle very big, uh then he like very happy just like he's like at first he stare at me like !huh! this guy talking to me


(ppc), eh no it's like it's like true lah it's like <mandarin>真心话:zhen xin hua</mandarin> and, it's just that some people don't like to vocalize their <mandarin>真心话:zhen xin hua</mandarin> also what ya so it's like praise lah so I just say him is he he really deserve it what five five times a week and he actually looks lanky I mean doesn't look lanky anymore


ya and on top of that is like he does it when his wife is pregnant and, when he has a child lah, so, really got some I just give credit where it's due really then he also smile then next few days also very kind I mean the whole reservists also very kind so like


(ppc), to be to be honest I'm very proud of how far I've progress lah, really really you also know how bad I was last time then, ya, then the third thing third thing good about N good about NS is that I actually won the top twenty percent this time


like if you perform well in the NS right, ya then they will give you some award, ya they will give you like vouchers, they'll give you they will give credits to redeem for vouchers and other stuff


ya lah this guy listen to this guy ah you know, (ppc), !wah! one time very impressive hor,


[orh] imagine you get thirty percent for a test, (ppc),


okay okay so like ya so anyway right last time I try very hard to get get it lah, but I think what prevented me from getting it is like interpersonal skills like even if they give it to me the platoon might not approve ah, might think like eh this guy ah don't deserve it eh or


ya and actually, I was not that helpful also lah this time I actually helped my sergeant some other guys dig their shell scrape as well, so like, so I I, the sergeant will feedback lor cause and the sergeants also get it


the PS also get it, ya ya so, down there got at least three sergeants [bah] two sergeants and one PS there they look at me digging lah


ha actually I think I'm the one only one digging it very hard the sergeant also I remember , ya so so I dig dig help them dig also lor like ya I think that's why they recommended me cause like last time I also never get so like


really lor my progress in interpersonal skills and helpfulness like, helped me clinched it, (ppc)


ya I'm just going to apply workplace mindset to that also , find ways to help out, show your value prove your value maintain good connections good relationship, !aiya!, you you want you want to get out there don't want to do this kind of things


do your business well,


(hmm), I think it really depends on your MBTI type lah like for me my the way people like me think right is, very structured, so as it says, ya


ya it's so my method may not be suited for everyone some people thrive in chaos, for example the ya


ya thank you it was like really really very important lah really that you find a way you go and explore ways that, work for you


ya that's just ya, and that is my worst place of area of improvement , six months, not even six months not even six months


I don't know leh is that the same for everyone around you


ya maybe maybe you can your accent can switch a bit, no as in for


ya, code switch lah, we're supposed


, oh it doesn't it doesn't have to be in like the psychological field ah, I can see ya


, !aiya! eh don't make me get I've to do okay we do extra minutes okay I give discount to the guys


urmn, (ppc)


err


be able to do backbend, so right now my progress in hand stand is like, I can do it already, handstand awesome, backbend almost done splits is like so painful


then I also want to learn learn urm, do learn my japanese and korean, then finished with chinese that will be the end of my language learning journeys, should be lah


(ppc), ya should be can lah should be can I don't think it's impossible per se, really meh you're going to work in japan soon what


no lah it's like err what't that I want, eh what what is that again the japanese JLPT is what, L five, N ah N two you just need N two only, you're already N two more than


is it, just, !aiya! don't worry lah you once you get out of school right you have a lot of time to focus on japanese


ya actually for me right, err I made a lot of progress in my personal development right is because I ended school


ya, and also I dare say right you just now you mention that


ya but I don't think a lot of people are disciplined enough to do that, at most one hour, I don't know lah I don't


I am also working I work part time also as a student what are you talking about


, okay lor never mind, regardless of what, they do right I will just keep on going my way, I don't really


ya, ya and watching anime, and going to clubs


party boy before COVID, COVID eight months already right eight months already, oh sure I believe you


ya you know I really don't believe you right , you are very ya, , ya


actually adulthood


ah that is that is where the magic happens it's like even if you are shag right you still have to push out that one hour, (ppc)


, ya budgeting your energy ya that make sense


err ya


(hmm)


, okay ya so so so the summary is that, sometimes you really have to force everything into work, then on the train itself maybe you Nua a bit or you just read a book cause some I got a reading list from my friend


in army !wah!, !wah! he really work for like three four years his


hello you can hear me ya I can hear you, and the and the thing is playing and recording my voice, ya okay don't have


, you enough ah


eh the instruction not clear how is it my problem sia !walao!, it's not clear lor please, , ya sia the english not clear one !walao!