super loud super loud bro put your mic away, uh uh uh, bro bro my my volume super low you know my volume is two eh


oh ya then, hello, you try talking, ya ya is better ya is better, okay, I keep hearing the the wind


eh okay faster talk, I don't want do this again man


bro I can hear your fan, I don't know I keep hearing boom boom boom boom boom, no it's like constantly keep got the


boo boo,


, oh okay, eh bro I don't think we can do this, eh


no bro this is like our fourth time trying I I don't want to do this shit anymore, okay, anyway right, eh kelly


anyway right, you know, , there is what's what's exploding kittens ah, !huh!


it's a game, oh really, I don't know I asking you, eh


, cause my friend tell me that, he he playing exploding kitten then I don't know what the fuck is that


but I don't know what type of game right, okay, !aiyo!


kelly <mandarin>我要玩:wo yao wan</mandarin> Mahjong, you don't even know how to play


you don't even know how to play Mahjong, , everybody plays shooter one


(hmm), this is so hard


bro, let me tell you


bro it doesn't work like that, err no <mandarin>你不可以你:ni bu ke yi ni</mandarin> like, super unnatural


and right, I really don't think that we can we can I think , I


oh, #wanton mee# lah you got eat before or not the Eng'S #wanton mee#


scott Eng'S #wanton mee# is


eh I that day I just went only when ah yesterday I think, yesterday is monday right ya yesterday I just went bro


is <mandarin>很很贵:hen hen gui</mandarin> you know like we, we never even order that much right then after that two person is twenty seven bucks eh, we literally never order a lot we order, ya twenty seven


ya is expensive right I also don't know why but it's, quite <mandarin>好吃:hao chi</mandarin> lah I would say, so


ya when but I think is too overpriced


I very long never go already


ah


what you talking


oh really, nevermind what, the bell curve is, then not that steep ah


then


why, I don't know lah but now I know lah


just now you say what


!chey!


oh well


I was thinking right, and the chinatown there, but, !huh!


#ang mo kio# ah, I don't know man, and I want to eat Mooks and you know that time you eat the <mandarin>忆滋味:yi zi wei</mandarin> right, that one I don't think <mandarin>很好吃:hen hao chi</mandarin> eh to be honest lah


what [orh] #lok lok#, I think the that time right you remember we go the one at


is it at chinatown also, ah, you remember the the when


the one, the one that charmaine went to bargain with the, with the owner one oh that one right I honestly think that one is the best like quite good


ya they got then they got mud crab bro


is it, although is,


ya bro


what the fuck the that time that we got out there I like right <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> problem, !huh!, bro


no no no no no wait wait bro you listen, you know when <mandarin>你吃:ni chi</mandarin> the <mandarin>酿:niang</mandarin> the <mandarin>酿豆酿豆腐:niang dou niang dou fu</mandarin> right


you know the the you go and Kiap Kiap the thing one then after that you, ya you know that one, ya isn't called is <mandarin>酿豆腐:niang dou fu</mandarin> is called <mandarin>酿豆腐:niang dou fu</mandarin> ah


, okay okay, , ,


okay okay Yong mark Yong Yong #yong tau foo#, ya lah when you eat #yong tau foo# you add seaweed chicken the soup is also they just put the seaweed chicken inside the soup also Nua Nua one what then you also eat what


right, mine was not that long also, ya bro


what, , , eh no you know that day we eat the what right <mandarin>忆滋味:yi zi wei</mandarin> ah


the clam thing, charmaine go and put on my plate, and then you don't even know what the hell is it, ha, I, the dick looking clam oh my god okay


ya ya, is is very you


okay, but I was not


I didn't eat a lot I ate I ate quite a bit eh, but I didn't eat the fried broccoli I didn't get to try


oh


(hmm)


(ugh), (ugh), eh


err <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> ah, that day I just saw, from facebook right


there's this, oh you know that cafe called creams, the one that looks very, the one with the autumn vibes, nevermind I think you don't know it's okay


no but, the thing is the reviews not good is just very pretty, the food not nice one


is it called #ang mo kio#, is it got OCD


think is OCD is not near #ang mo kio# Mooks lah but, there's one ice cream place in #ang mo kio#


oh really, go search eh tell me I want to know


oh but then you just <mandarin>看到:kan dao</mandarin> lah, oh, !chey! okay okay


we can go and eat Mooks then we go eat ice cream, , normally Mooks around ten dollar per pax only what


ya but we order so much right one person pay like fifteen dollars, !wow!


, bro no


, acoustic cafe, why I like hear this before ah


I remember I hear this before, it was, one of my


this is for brunch, why not you just, is where is like, bank is you know, wait so the Mookata is like beside is in a coffee shop right then the ice cream is just right beside


(hmm), I tell you already OCD is the


I think right, don't find lah I don't think you can find, ice cream near


oh I ate at OCD yesterday, it's okay lah like normal lor, is it called green affair eh no I went to lickers before lickers not bad


oh my god I wanna go but, I never, and is it is at #ang mo kio# right I don't know it's quite near


you got eat, !huh!, ya ya I want to eat also, I want to order truffle fries


then you can just suck it up


I think, I eat, I eat, I, !huh!


your your sister ask you whether you got what, oh,


(oo) (oo) , !aiyo!, okay let me sing to your song, (ppc)


ya, chinese chinese, I only know how to sing chinese song, (ppc)


oh wait oh wait wait


I forgot the lyrics bro <mandarin>怎怎么会:zen zen me hui</mandarin> what <mandarin>怎么会:zen me hui</mandarin> what


okay okay , my turn


I know


okay, okay faster now you sing, , sing at the


!huh!, what's this song ah why I hear before


I feel like I got hear before I think y'all sing in K before right, I, I tell you I !chey! I know I know this song


, oh


, (hmm)


oh, I don't like ah I want my voice to go lower honestly


no my, (hmm), no I say that my voice right, err sound very annoying cause like, very high pitch


shut up, !eww! bro


that's, the


the very annoying one lah, (hmm)


look wait wait wait wait, let me let me, let me they tell you something, #wa ga li gong#


#li diam#, oh my god you damn, you damn you damn , Jiak Kantang


no you know when people say you Jiak Kantang one right that means like you #ang moh# one, no but that's like, that's like basic


it doesn't matter people always say so you learn


you sound like the malaysian, oh ya did I tell you


ya you were like, eh I tell you I am not sure whether I got tell you before you know that time I work right, I work at the night shift then the aunty was like, err


ah then she keep no wait so so right got one aunty hor


ya ya she's like, super desperate until right, you know cause <mandarin>我们做:wo men zuo</mandarin> part time <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> what right then after that she go and text err a part timer, whether


I was saying, the aunty, the aunty asked me <mandarin>你几时要结婚:ni ji shi yao jie hun</mandarin> like she asked all the part timers, then I say like


then, then she was but I think <mandarin>三:san</mandarin> like thirty years old is like normal what right, like, ya lah then I say <mandarin>三十岁:san shi sui</mandarin> then after that she was like


then, I don't know lah she like


, eh but they very poor thing eh, you know I heard right the supervisor tell us


I think like eight hundred dollars or seven hundred dollars, I'm not sure lah that's what the supervisor say lah like that's their basic pay


is the you know the


and they earn like <mandarin>七百块:qi bai kuai</mandarin> but that's so little eh like domestic workers, B, so cannot be right, but


maybe, that's after shift allowance, no no no so no no, so so one one month right they work fourteen days in total only cause is like one week they work is like


this is the called the three four three four shift


no lah, I think, maybe cause <mandarin>他们还没有加那个:ta men hai mei you jia na ge</mandarin> like, confirm got shift allowance one cause that time <mandarin>我做工:wo zuo gong</mandarin> right


I also got shift allowance so they confirm also will <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> shift allowance, I get eighteen fifty no I got additional eighteen fifty per day so my my per day pay right is


twelve time ten then <mandarin>再加一个十八块半:zai jia yi ge shi ba kuai ban</mandarin> so I earn <mandarin>一百二十八块半:yi bai er shi ba kuai ban</mandarin> per day


ya, ya basically, I don't know like the supervisor say seven hundred dollar then I also like !huh! so little cannot be right


that's their basic, talk in chinese, ah


(mmhmm), ya


they're they're uh they're they're, !huh!


no but some intern like that one, free labour bro


they take advantage


ah then


, ya, but, oh wells


what to do


what, !wah!, eh <mandarin>很快:hen kuai</mandarin> sia, not bad not bad


ya, I don't think so okay, you know I keep, okay you know let's say, let's talk for another eight minutes,


seven minutes I only wanna talk about food though, I really love food, food food food, eh


you know what happen to the ellen degeneres, she got like scandals ya, I don't know, like her her company


okay never mind I don't know <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> change topic I never I never go and read the article, no I just know that like her staff and all were badly treated


ah


insensitive oh


!aiya! but she, james corden taking over her show I think


that's why I saw from the news lah but anyway, !aiya! ellen <mandarin>那个人:na ge ren</mandarin> right I think <mandarin>她可以退休:ta ke yi tui xiu</mandarin> Liao, right, ya lor


all these peasants she also don't care


, like the carpool and everything right quite funny lah


, oh ya


you know the rich and good cake, if <mandarin>你听过:ni ting guo</mandarin> like it's super good, like, I never eat before then that day <mandarin>我我去:wo wo qu</mandarin> jewel right then I saw the I saw the shop but then the shop was closed


no I I I think the pandan is it pandan or is it Kaya the pandan or Kaya one right is the, is the nicest one I heard


ya I want to buy both but that time I go there is not open, is, another one like no lah like super far don't want to travel all the way there just to


so jewel is the most, I want to buy back, for my family to eat, ya bro


they don't do delivery anymore cause after circuit breaker


(hmm)


oh ya eh eh bro bro bro you know, you know right, that day that day my <mandarin>爸爸跟我讲:ba ba gen wo jiang</mandarin> right


but then is like is like like that actually I I got the photo of the fish but I keep thinking that's catfish I didn't know it was arowana, ya then I always thought that is catfish like I always thought like cause our fish very big then I thought it was catfish then


no but anyway our arowana is orange colour, I I don't know lah but then is the orange one and then it's like my dad tell me right is like you know you buy like that like small small one


ten inch I think, is like one point five K eh, then I just like why would you spend so much money on a stupid fish , oh oh then wait wait so we also bought a fish tank that like is super big like one point seven K lah that's last time then


is very big you know the fish tank is very big, the fish right keeps keeps jumping out of the fish tank, ya even though the fish tank is super big but then, like like I don't know what happen but got a few time the arowana keep jumping up then


my my parents just like let let go, just they say they <mandarin>放走那个:fang zou na ge</mandarin> arowana then I just, but I think the arowana die already lah confirm die lah like I I don't think it can live in the wild also


oh really


no lah yours is a pond bro


oh oh, ya ya mine also I got I see is like and the arowana is the only thing inside, but like okay lah whatever anyway my dad say that the flat thing right


with the arowana like came out or something, so it kept jumping


!huh!, I think very expensive eh


eh oh my god bro, one minute one hour our five minutes already, but, but I don't think they will listen all the way also


ya, I think I think they will like listen, like you got try to


I don't know leh but cannot be they spend one hour like, to listen right, !aiya! but okay lah I mean


err we tried our best, I mean then it it then okay lah anyway I just talking to you what


ya , okay bro suck it up, okay, it's fine, it's fine


next week I have to go to


then my school reopen already, I got night class leh, seven to ten, monday


two, okay


okay, bye bro see you oh ya we need to end


are you ending, now, close already


I don't know maybe we cannot hear okay wait, wait wait I need to where the heck is the I cannot find my oh here it is I'm blind


I'm very loud, right now, right now


is it is it you never you go and put the volume that like volume damn damn loud


my my mic like that is it better, first time first time first time I hear people say I loud, eh actually right can't you volume down a bit on your laptop I don't think is my mic eh


hello K is it better now, hello, hello, hello, okay I scared you cannot hear me so


, so oh ya that time I wanted to rant to you about my but then I already say already about my timetable what, you can hear my fan what the heck why would you hear my fan my fan like no sound one eh


always cause I knock the table, boo ah maybe cause I'm putting my my microphone upwards instead of downwards cause you see ah my microphone is here


like now it's here cause you say I very loud mah


I think can, I think we can do it don't don't say you don't say we cannot do it at least right I mean even if you don't get chosen right at least we get our money


yes yes, that the game is it


uh it's a game what no meh exploding kittens, ya, the exploding kittens not a game meh, ya it's a game


, ya what why you why you ask me exploding kittens then I tell you it's a game then after that you eh me I tell you you want me don't know what you want me say


do you okay okay why you ask me what is exploding kitten, obviously if he say that he's been that that the exploding kittens right that means it's a game right


, oh it's a card game it's a card game it's a card game


wait <mandarin>你要玩:ni yao wan</mandarin> Mahjong, I also want to <mandarin>玩:wan</mandarin> Mahjong I very long never play but right now cannot, right now cannot, I, !huh!, what I know I tell you that time I told you I learnt already what I learn from my friends what then I play with them


we play we play shooter way, ya they teach me within like thirty minutes and I managed to get it


eh got sometimes I win one hor okay I quite I was quite impressed by myself you know that day right I went over to play you know they teach me right, oh I got when one game then the rest of the game I I err the like you know like even out lah I think end up I never eh did I did I earn oh I did earn a bit I did earn a bit


I remember then they say !wah!, they quite shocked cause I I managed to learn the game quite fast, I'm proud of myself , eh at least hor I never I never I not like lorena right I never give people head when I learning how to play Mahjong


so, what you doing recently , I cannot I wanted to use chinese right but then I was like thinking how to make him natural then I couldn't think of anything so I just like, you know what okay what


I trying to get over the chinese portion okay , I know I know it doesn't work like that


, how how how to make it natural, eh damn annoying eh don't give yourself


don't don't curse touch wood touch wood, , !huh! what what what's that


no I got eat before #wanton mee# but I don't know what is the what whatever #wanton mee# that you say


okay, okay <mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> I want to try to the Kovan <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> but they say that no good already


why, how much, what the shit two person is twenty seven dollars what the shit this is damn expensive sia


so so do you rate it


food king good


I mean like, I don't even know where's a good <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> place like I cause like you know the <mandarin>日日红:ri ri hong</mandarin> their standard also drop already


oh my god you know right, you know like like like like how to say , my my what you what, my teacher ya she today she just send our oh my god we got a B what the heck RIP


okay no okay I so I was talking about our teacher so right we today she tell us she going to give us she gonna to send us her feedback and our report, and stuff like that, then like then after that like she say


like basically right she told us during class like today she say oh in our whole cohort right she only give one a sia, bruh she only give one a eh that whole report one a sia then she say the average the average is B eh !wah! then we all just like


(mmhmm) no you don't understand man means convert I mean okay luckily for our group we got the average score we got B but confirm got a lot of people got C plus one like what the heck sia our whole cohort one a sia what the heck


is is damn Jialat eh she legit damn strict you know like this teacher legit damn strict I don't even understand she, she very bad so like okay lah she's she's very nice when she wants to be nice, but no she got this how to say


how do I put it ah like, you know some people they, got this feeling like you can feel like they, if you are not up to that standard they look down on you a bit


she purposely use she no she purposely use like very Chim terms, like how the, like okay, err for example I don't know okay okay let me uh instead of saying differences she like to use dissimilarities what the shit like like like nobody uses no really nobody really uses the term but this is not even the worst you know I think like there was this


time right she wanted she like the word is legit just the the the word can be used the word that can be used to replace the word is described and I don't know what word she use ah let me go and search, I swear to god it was like some, ah delineate !walao! she go and put that in our paper leh then like you know we got one hour time limit right then we look at the freaking delineate then like what what the heck is that then we go and searched out the word


then we go search out the word then we find out the word means described then we like !huh! waste our time eh like you know can't you just use like layman terms that people people use meh and what delineate please lah like I mean like if you want to describe then describe lah what delineate you know that kind of feeling


I cannot already I don't know okay I I guess you don't know how to feel but a lot of us a basically right like she very particular about grammar and english also like got this one person right she do the paper


like I think her like her score all that is quite okay but like I think her grammar and stuff like that uh her writing of sentences was not very, complete like the teacher feel like a lot of grammar like grammatical errors


then she go and like she go and email and say oh come ah, what's this ah err come back to me like like send like send her email back right, like to discuss about like her english like the teacher ask her to go and write back to her because she wanted to teach her some english


then I was just like, I don't know lah I mean, !wah! shit I just cannot lah she's a very okay like honestly right her teaching style is okay lah it's good lah but like, in terms of I feel like how she


how she does somethings like for example the layman terms thing I think is really leh why can't you just do it that for the sake like I understand if you like to use beautiful vocabulary but I feel that it is unnecessary then why do you do it


like why, like you know what's the meaning of delineate meh, if I tell you what's delineate, exactly exactly that's the thing but then she go and put it put it she go and put it in our test paper eh we got time limit you got one hour time eh and we need we need download then we need to still submit within the one hour eh so that one cause that test was a open book but her questions are legit the very


the application damn strong one you cannot find answer anywhere is <mandarin>自己:zi ji</mandarin> is your <mandarin>自己要要:zi ji yao yao</mandarin> like like using what what you know right then you just go and apply like real life situation then


oh no I I say <mandarin>你只要:ni zhi yao</mandarin> but after that I use english to replace, , anyway then I okay then ya I was saying right then after that like we have


I mean you must know lah we have a time limit so we don't have time to go and search up this kind of like, I mean, if you want can't you just make it easier lah like, we already like <mandarin>慌张:huang zhang</mandarin> we got no time to even think of how to answer the question cause the question all very long they're all very application question got one question is that report question seventeen marks


is is not enough time leh one hour only leh then like you still want to give us like like this kind of terms, is like okay if you use this kind of terms right and the meaning is like like like to describe something like very elaborate okay fine fine


describe leh the freaking word can be used can be replaced with describe, oh wells ya, wait wait I'm just going to go and take a look at the at the at the the feedback that she has given for my group


(uh huh), ya


okay honestly right I felt I feel like the the #lok lok# is nice, but other than other than that, ya the #lok lok# no the that okay the fried broccoli is actually damn good I don't think you got try but the fried broccoli is legit damn good, other than that right is like meh you know it's like very meh so like


which one


during intern, eh actually that one [orh] very worth eh cause they got they got crab is it I can't remember or something like that


ya no no you know but then the thing is that right that one right is because we got discount if it wasn't if it wasn't for charmaine, eh <mandarin>我们是学生我们没有没有钱去付:wo men shi xue sheng wo men mei you mei you qian qu fu</mandarin> or something and I cannot remember lah she just say we got not enough money


I just know that she said, , no no she say that no she say that cause err most of us no is is no she didn't say about <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> the <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> is only her she never reach <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> that's why she can but she say that we are we're just students only


we cannot afford to pay those adult price something like that I remember I remember very clearly then I still I still remember I give the remark, eh I think they're also not paid enough to deal with this shit ah bruh then we know we think so bro no I I remember right that day right !wah! I damn disgusted by by by by you


cause you freaking go and put the seaweed chicken inside the soup then Nua Nua one freaking disgusting no I not not new not tilted eh I say I say that day right I very I very shook I very shocked


is shock factor not tilted lah why would I be tilted bro right I not not not not angry or anything it's just like it's just damn funny is like, suddenly we dig up then suddenly got these the seaweed chicken


ah I listen I listen ya,


, is #yong tau foo# lah please


I died eh young <mandarin>豆腐:dou fu</mandarin> I freaking, I was like what is this foreign thing I first time hear one <mandarin>酿豆腐:niang dou fu</mandarin> eh then I was like okay okay you continue continue


yes yes yes yes definitely yes, is like, okay okay you see right they don't cook it for that long


they say they don't cook it for that long, it was damn long bro did you not see bro it looked so soggy eh you can you can ask you ask err jaslyn and charmaine I think they'll remember also it was like damn soggy brother


no #yu ting# #yu ting#, I like I like I like I like to eat hot pot you cause you whenever you find something that you don't like inside your plate then you throw it to other people, love it ,


ya ya ya ya, (mmhmm), , bro it's just bamboo clam why you never eat before meh


, cannot lah eh but honestly ah the <mandarin>忆滋味:yi zi wei</mandarin> I think is that I thought like my friend say it looks nice then I tell them honestly I I find quite meh I feel like very oily I cannot I don't like I don't like too oily


ya, ya that's why I tell you that day I eat I was like what the shit man I need to cleanse my palate leh like really it was that it was the the <mandarin>油:you</mandarin> was not just like here the <mandarin>油:you</mandarin> I felt it on my face you know that's how <mandarin>油:you</mandarin> it was


no I, no no no no eh usually when I eat K BBQ I don't really feel that much but this one I really felt like the moment I stepped in the moment you start cooking the first the first thing you start cooking already I feel like the oil already sticking onto my face bro as that's how bad it's okay it's like it's like munch but worse


it was it was bad


you didn't eat a lot though, you didn't eat a lot though


oh my gosh Jialat Jialat you know you know right okay okay I tell you this okay I read out to you our teachers comments, okay so right our sentence this sentence is, err what's that as for its ambiance the physical and the physical evidence the team has also come up with recommendations to specifically target these problems which will be discussed as well


teacher wrote too colloquial for academic report, he saying that our words that we use like the come up with right is too, not not not fitting of the report


like like you should use better words, then she got one one comment right the recommendations provided will help differentiate the last, from it's okay, from in this company I think this one was uh this one was an error we never check properly but


teacher wrote question mark write properly sia !wah! she really damn straight forward sia I cannot eh then she write abstract is sketchy and inadequate in both content and clarity


oh my god then she write, why this descriptive work evident academic report is factual and objective, , bro she ask us to go and do bro this is a freaking like we are supposed to go and evaluate the service right so a lot of these right is like


based on our evaluation of the service cause we go experience ourselves lah then you go and search the internet right obviously the internet don't have that many information regarding the only the reviews were will review like some certain thing but certain things like this right they don't have the information


but then heck eh she like totally like forget the fact that it is based on our X V like it's not a not it's not like a, the got people do carousell all these right I feel like that carousell all these right there is actually people who do like research as well but we're doing on a freaking cafe eh where to find where to find the the like like all these information I feel like she always


(ugh), (ugh), so Sian sia, what


cream, where is it I don't mind to go and eat after my my my exam


oh, eh you know right the the one near our #ang mo kio# Mooks that place right got a cafe now eh got this no got this place got sell ice cream eh the prices not bad eh, I want to go there


err I don't know whether it's called O C wait let me see, I just know they sell ice cream, what's that


no then no that is definitely is not that, it's not that cause this one is legit is like a few stores beside, the #ang mo kio# Mooks, ya, wait ah let me see


ya that's what I'm trying to find, I trying to find right now, cause like we oh I just went there mah then like I don't know like I cannot but ya I see the old I see I I search right then suddenly the OCD cafe pop up but I don't think is this one cause the one that I search for is


not so not so glamorous one the one I search for is like a, just a small a small little shop that sells ice cream and that you can sit inside also, and like ya, and it's


I don't know what's Mooks in chinese ah sorry, is that even a word for Mookata in chinese


bruh eh I don't want to eat Mooks okay Heng right Heng right I think we're not going to eat !wah! that time remember we eat the Mooks we eat don't know how much sia


ya lah as in okay ah I mean talking about I'm not talking about the the amount of money that we spend we talking about the amount that we eat that day we don't know how many like remember that time we eat with austin sean they all, then they they don't know order don't know how many sia like the the lists the list so damn long sia


, help lah, help lah I really I don't know I cannot okay like honestly right the worst the worst will forever be that one day I I will never


I will never ever go that that that that dark place ever again, no no thank you really I have traumatic experience traumatic experience


it's not I don't think it's it's just <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> only I don't think it's I think it's just like a like a little small one so I don't think it'll be very


very err very known let me search, is this what what's this, it's called err is it called acoustic cafe


wait no I don't know whether is it called acoustic cafe what does this sell eh but this acoustics cafe like sell like four point eight star not bad sia, ya but I, I have no idea I I don't know what it is


eh <mandarin>可是这个没有没有冰淇淋:ke shi zhe ge mei you mei you bing qi lin</mandarin> eh


it's really just a few it's really just a few stores away from the Mookata, ya, no the ice cream is like okay you know those like little stores you know those little stores they have like the the the Mookata is in the like in the coffee shop then beside will have those stores what those like really rented rented stores it's in one of those stores


but I don't know why cannot I think is it because it's very new and then like they never really I don't know leh like it's eh they just I just know they sell ice cream, and the prices are legit not bad but then I don't know what's the name


let me find, where art thou they keep on giving me OCD I'm not looking for that hello


ya I know but I'm not looking for that I swear to god like like okay wait wait let me let me search this, uh, uh


!wah! I swear to why is it so hard to find, so hard to find this cafe, , maybe they don't even have a name sia,


ya what, I looking eh looking at what I found so far I don't think I can find as well, oh but I I I I craving I I want to go to cafes sia I but I just eat ice cream at upper upper theory that day


it's not bad, how is OCD, oh, have you went to the workbench bistro


okay let's go let's let's, ya it looks it looks good sia I see I see it looks good like it looks good, the dessert looks not bad too, wait is it desert wait do they have no no no that's a different one but the food looks good


the food looks good like got what crab meat linguine beef burger buffalo wings chicken stew, oh I don't like truffle fries but okay, , I don't want truffle fries


y'all can eat but I just gonna watch y'all eat it's fine with me, just don't put that shit right under my nose it be fine, oh they put okay I'm just looking for like cafes at #ang mo kio# and like they give like what this twenty grammes


twenty grams it looks good sia like is that it has like ice cream on the waffle and the waffle looks really good, and then like, why are we looking at food now


then <mandarin>你去吃啦:ni qu chi la</mandarin>


ah, , no my sister ask me if I got measuring tape, measuring tape


ye boy, , I really don't have like


is your song gonna be chinese english or what are other language you can sing you can sing in spanish not mexican err <mandarin>马来语:ma lai yu</mandarin> oh sing chinese ah okay sing ah


(ppc)


, oh my god you you want sing <mandarin>歌:ge</mandarin> you you don't even know the <mandarin>歌:ge</mandarin> then you still want to to you don't


<mandarin>怎么:zen me</mandarin> uh <mandarin>怎么:zen me</mandarin> err <mandarin>怎么能亲你轻易说要结束:zen me neng qing ni qing yi shuo yao jie shu</mandarin> I think so, yes yes yes go go go


, oh my gosh


!wow! amazing, amazing


I sing what what what song


then


is is the is the song it was an old song but JJ Lin popularised it


, very bad sia my mum really damn bad she my mum is like I think you don't don't try to sing chinese I think you stick to singing #ang moh# like you sing all those like western songs


cannot lah you know I tried to sing I tried to sing I tried to sing like korean or or or what's that japanese also I also cannot ya because I cannot catch up with the words, ya I know my friend she does it very well she sing the japanese song like Macam like she sound japanese eh then I'm like


!wah! I cannot relate leh I really only can stick with western english songs I think my voice is really, ya, ya plus like okay you see right, honestly right did I tell you before about my my friend that time she say she say about my voice cause basically not not my singing voice basically she was saying that that day


I just woke up you see like we just woke up to do a presentation rehearsal then after that we are just like we're just saying our parts then err we rehearse our our our words right after we we we rehearsed one time then my friend suddenly say, eh callista, why you why you sound like you're trying to seduce the teacher like that I was like what the shit I was like I confused leh I was like


well I think it's because right when I just wake up my voice a bit deeper, then a bit Sasa, can my voice go higher, I want my voice to be like #yu ting's#


, no I think I think I think like, like honestly right like , okay lah I'm okay with my voice it's just that, it's just that I feel like there are sometimes [orh] it goes damn low hor then like even people can notice but I never notice <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> sia


you know I remember, ya ya ya ya what you say what you say, really meh I think okay eh maybe cause I used to it maybe I'm very used to this annoyance already dealing it with it since year one of poly


it's it's like, when you you hear this voice you can immediately it's like very distinctive you're like okay this is #yu ting#, eh bro really I think your voice is one of the most distinctive like you really it's like okay got some people they sound the same


but I feel like very easy to tell your voice, cause your voice is the, the the , I never say that I never say that okay but is not we don't find it annoying


you know annoying is the really whiny whiny voice, ya ya, no lah I think I think the most distinctive one is your laughter the best, okay lah maybe not very not say distinctive but quite similar to spongebob one also


but like, how how is it, err wait wait I need, what


yes yes, !wow! I totally understand thank you


I what I what, what the heck is that, but that's hokkien I'm not hokkien


but I'm not hokkien, okay okay I I sorry I'm sorry can you can you please repeat your statement and then I I shall I shall I shall like take in this information and then I'll absorb it into my brain so that I will remember next time


, ah


(uh huh) (uh huh), I don't I don't think so I don't think so


(mmhmm), !wah!


like like like god god daughter god like god son kind of thing right


!huh!, oh


well I mean okay, (uh huh) (uh huh)


like currently lah


I guess I guess right like last time because is earlier mah like last time the age like for like marriage right the normal age usually people will get married is like twenty five, then after that slowly it increase to twenty eight then slowly increase again I mean honestly like as the years increase right it'll just keep on increasing lah honestly but


ya lor, I mean maybe for her she wouldn't she wouldn't understand ah but, think okay leh but I think cause she she you must understand lah she aunty ah so her generation is the period where, like twenty eight is honestly right twenty eight it's not it's not say very it's not say very early as well like got confirm got people get married at twenty eight one


confirm got people get married at twenty eight like I think our our but our generation right we don't mind to like I think got my friend got tell me before like she say think she latest thirty thirty two, ya she say latest thirty two get married but I think she say roughly around thirty years old also


like the optimum optimum, why


!huh!, what what job you do again


alright, this is very little leh


ya it's is is very little it's really damn little, I don't know leh like I don't know I don't know I don't know why your supervisor would say that lah but like that's really damn little if it's really true it's very little like I don't think I think oh at at least will earn <mandarin>一千两百:yi qian liang bai</mandarin> like you know I I would I would say like err


like I mean I, maybe like, plus plus right cause you see ah twelve is is twelve hours every single day right like I mean monday to friday is it, ya then


oh, ah ya ya ya ya I understand, but okay you see ah fourteen times twelve so they work in one month one hundred and sixty eight hours


eh their basic eh if it's eight hundred their basic pay is like five dollar per hour only eh is damn little sia is like four four seven four eighty like that


plus like plus like how to say , they're working at the very abnormal timing is like usually at the timing right you're paid more cause that time is that nobody want to work at the time so usually people would pay more but


what the heck sia they, they only earn less than five dollar per hour and it's not say


is it oh they got shift allowance, what what shift allowance you get


!huh! but you earn so much per day hor you think about it [orh] you you eight you like that you eight days you already if if it is


how can how can it be sia, how can it be, ya lor cannot be is is really damn little leh


oh my god this reminds me of the time that my my my sister want to go and intern at this company, like ah this this bakery, this bakery [orh] it's like uh I think the they're very famous for their their their cakes and pastry lah they really the quite well known lah but I cannot remember what is it called


then like like so my my sister want to request whether can intern there like like cause she got break mah, so she go and request, then I feel okay if you honestly right you're not looking for interns right you can just say you're not looking for interns


you know what you know what they say or not they they they they tell her, they they are okay but their shifts are usually right they're they're the but then uh okay so for the intern that she take, is


they only allow midnight shift, so is the one that that time the shift right but not only that you know, they say that this will be unpaid interns so they don't even want to pay sia, they don't even want to pay her eh


ya but I mean it's a midnight one eh you cannot describe you don't even give allowance leh then I'm like eh this one is this one basically asking for like, it's not even cheap labour is free labour bro it's free labour eh I'm like what the heck eh you at least give a bit also cannot give a bit eh they they they literally just told her like that then I was like


we took my sister we told our sister eh note eh I mean told my sister we tell her don't take it ah like honestly like even though that shop is well known for but like, is really not worth lah I mean it's at a very weird timing some more it's like you you what time ah


you she start work at twelve midnight, ya then after that till the next the next no next morning so it's really a midnight shift, like usually during the night shift [orh] and then you see ah transport transport, how how she gonna travel there and how she gonna travel back she err gonna take cab all that right so then take cab all that right you also need money to to take right that timing like usually more expensive also


so, is like my sister at a loss eh like , is like you help them do work right although you might learn a bit of skills here there maybe you will learn you will never know cause like honestly right like they they won't they won't let you they won't


I don't think for this kind of place they will like got have time to go and teach you, like like in depth go and teach you a lot of stuff I think they will make you just do like those basic stuff like that cause, I don't know lah then I feel like it's gonna be like that, then like I mean I cannot like I feel like if that's the case you can tell people you want to pay you going to give unpaid intern and then give at such a weird timing and stuff and everything like that then might as well you say you're not you're not looking for interns ah


who the heck is gonna take up I mean unless the person is already like like like they really really really want to like I feel like it's really making you taking advantage eh like, cannot is really this is like I cannot even say cheap labour cause is the is literally not it's not even cheap it's free labour leh


oh wells, just shocked I mean


oh not bad not bad but I don't know whether we said enough chinese I feel like not enough, yes


you're hopeless, !huh!, what scandal, what scandal


!huh!, !huh! then you ask you ask about the ellen degeneres and then, ya bro I mean okay honestly right the ellen degeneres right I think a lot of time a lot of people say talk about her it like I feel like she she really <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> she's


they say that she very two faced or something like that like very she's not very nice like like I I think I hear from people before like those that I was watching this youtuber or something like this youtube got invited to the show


so like, err the youtuber thought like maybe like she'll get to say hi to ellen degeneres before the before the show started or whatever but no lah she never meet, then only like only during the during the talk when the when the how to say when when she's supposed to go on stage then she get to meet ah and then like talk and stuff like that but afterwards [orh] ellen also never really like like err like really


you know it's just all for all for the the that time for on stage right then like she was friendly and stuff after that right like she she never really go and come and talk to her ah kind of thing it's like it's like a it's like oh you're it's just for business you know that kind of thing


and then I think a lot of time a lot of people talk about how ellen treats her her her like her staff ah like she did they say that like they don't they're not really, paid well also something like that then I cannot remember but I I just know that err it's not just is not just for her staff but like she always ask very


very err, not appropriate questions ya insensitive questions to the to the guests also, then like like like honestly I think a lot of people a lot of people already say that they don't like they really do not err they can see how ellen is not a very good role model like it has been said many times already


so like I'm not surprised that she got into a scandal lah cause so I I remember like like for a few years already people have been saying that she ya her character not very good, but finally she in like finally is like got got got people say about it you know finally is like is like like really


I mean, really, oh but, ya lah honestly like bruh honestly she's so rich already <mandarin>退休:tui xiu</mandarin> also like nothing nothing much to her lah


, like like like bro her house is humongous please like she legit she legit is very rich like I think it doesn't matter to her whether she she like retire or whatever


but honestly james corden is is a good host I feel like he so far so far, what what, like what he has done so far, ya quite fun and he makes it entertaining he doesn't ask insensitive questions I would say also


like can tell lah like I got I don't know why like my youtube suddenly show me then I just curious that I watch then you can tell like you can tell uh the guest face like like when she asked the question they're they like uh that you know that kind of like, like why you asking this kind of question then like some of them trying to dodge the question where she continue you know and then is like is like you already can tell that they are not comfortable with those question but as she still she's still want to prompt


and like you know continue, ya, anyway back to food, what food what other food do you want to eat


ya ya ya ya ya you never eat before meh, oh it's nice it's nice I uh we always order the durian one and the pandan one


pandan, ya ya pandan is the nicest really the pandan nicest, B, don't want to the jewel one go there's another one


oh that's true lah, the other one is, where's the other one ah, mask is at is at Kandahar street I don't even know where there is sia but then I know that my my we what we always buy from that but the pandan one is good it is really nice their cakes is really nice


I don't know I I know I don't think my parents ordered delivery from them before so I think they always go to store and buy


but I not very sure maybe I mean ya the only two the only two cakes we always buy right is legit just the durian and pandan we ever buy any any other other flavour, cause we like durian ah there the pandan is really very good and my mum loves pandan so it's is ya the rich and good one is is definitely


I would say it's nice lah it's seriously nice, but I know got one time we got say that maybe the standard drop a bit, after they become popular, cause last time my my parents like when I heard about rich and good right I was like I was asking my parents oh you all want to hear about this way right then my my parents say ya they buy before like the last time that time the one the cake is is the rich and good one what then after that I was like oh


then after that like afterwards I think cause we always the things is they always buy cause I don't know I don't know why but like is a very standard thing like we have like some, gathering with like our relatives and stuff then they'll buy that cake like the the the rich and good cake it to whatever then after that like I think got the most recent time when we bought it they say like the they feel like a standard drop a bit like not as good as previously but still okay lah still quite nice but is not as good lah


I don't know how how true is that cause for me I feel I feel like, I #sama sama# lah maybe it's cause I'm not picky I I #sama sama# one I'm like oh I think I still I still enjoy it


, oh


eh arowana and catfish very different eh, no catfish black colour one, ah ya ya is the is it the wait is the golden arowana is it


ya ya the golden arowana, (uh huh), ya, (uh huh), ya


no but where did the fish go though that's the important thing, ah, (uh huh)


the arowana jump out of the fish tank


ya I I think die already that's right, honestly right err, like if the arowana I think if the arowana jump right is more likely cause it's <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> stress there's either stress


I feel lah all the things that okay I don't know how big your tank is I'll say that like the first of all arowanas need very big tanks like if your tank is as big as the one at my house then I think should be fine


no we never put in a pond bro we put in the tank, the tank is like is like like


I don't know sia, uh ya but anyways anyways ya they they you need a lot of space for arowana sia so that's why like understandable why fish jump like last time also we got this fish also like it it don't know why we we jump out of the water then after we we only discover it the next morning cause like you jump out at night so


of course jump out already right then we like is is out of water what so it die ah then of course my dad damn sad lah but like we cannot do anything about it we we everybody sleeping bro not as if the fish jump out we call can hear we cannot hear mah, so like the next morning then after that like they like right my dad go bury lor Bo Pian


I mean he sad lah I mean you know I mean honestly arowana is damn is is expensive lah that's why when people when people say what name like those people who know fishes right then you say got arowana all that then they like oh those are very expensive fishes or something I didn't even know I just know that my dad owns arowana cause like my dad loves fishes but then like


bro then after that like the thing is that right err I think, cause I think the most uh the most, expensive like the one that like , my my father lose money to right is our stingrays sia cause the stingray also not very cheap sia but a lot of the stingray that I don't know how they die what a lot of thing already die


and like you know like the like you buy a small small stingray also, the small stingray like that, let me go and search ah stingray, ya I remember [orh] they say [orh] those baby stingray you can sell for nine hundred plus dollars


oh but I don't think we say finish chinese eh, oh


really, isn't this basic


I don't even ya that's the thing I don't even know how they how they even, , say whether got


!wah! if if if really ah I will be damn angry eh, ya lah I know lah I'm just just like you know cause like you already know that there's there's gonna be money but then we tried so many times


life, life there's no other, let's go and eat soon, as in not soon but like, soon wait what am I saying like after my exam my exam is next week my exam is next week I'm not prepared


I mean your school reopen not say you at night not free mah, your your night class when


at night class meh, it's okay lah monday I also got school I only no school tuesday wednesday thursday, I literally no school eh okay no tuesday I got school but tuesday mine the school is in the morning nine to eleven right


online lecture so is I'm at home lah so like is still considered as not really going to school so I ya


(uh) ya boy ya boy okay me me we shall end right right now, now


hi so today I'm with brandon here and err we're gonna just talk about some like some very general topics lah I mean you just talking about err currently currently we're talking about err


china and err ya we both have very very interesting viewpoints on china which just so happens because you know, I'm like you know just writing a document lah, and I'm writing kind of an essay of sorts just talking about china and their new economic infrastructure belt road initiative thing


err but err I mean belt road initiative has a chinese name right would you happen to know what that is maybe, ya


ya so the chinese name of belt road initiative is <mandarin>一带一路:yi dai yi lu</mandarin> lah so <mandarin>一带一路:yi dai yi lu</mandarin> is just <mandarin>一带:yi dai</mandarin> right <mandarin>一带:yi dai</mandarin> is like the you know the <mandarin>腰带:yao dai</mandarin> you know belt like that, ya and <mandarin>一路:yi lu</mandarin> is road lah so it's just belt road, belt road initiative lah okay so basically right the entire idea of belt road initiative ah is a china's form of extension lah to reach out to the rest of the civilized world err in terms of physical trade routes


ya so I mean, so we both know that this is a it's kind of a throwback to the silk road that they tried to do back then right back in what seventeen hundreds maybe earlier


even earlier than that right that was like some marco polo thing ya ya, some some some some wild stuff going on in china right so actually actually you know I I was just like I just looked it up you know there is an actual name like a full name for the belt road initiative in chinese which


has been shortened to just this four like this <mandarin>一带一路:yi dai yi lu</mandarin> thing that we were just talking okay, ya no the actual name okay it's gonna be a long one okay this is , let's see if I can even read this right cause like my my chinese damn shit lah so is yours lah but


maybe I had better chinese


very very long, okay but, ya ya


right so with that said though right cause we both are like are singaporeans lah right then, we helped ourselves are experiencing some very interesting err


deals with china and then we we ourselves as singaporeans have very interesting views on their citizens in general lah so I will just wanted to ask you lor like like what's your general impression of the chinese people


(mmhmm) okay


[orh] okay, so that's your your take on this lah okay then what do you think okay of uh, how do I say this err, because


if if you are maybe you haven't really catch caught up on the uh on the news lah but uh, singapore is kind of a different case because you know like majority of the BRI partners right ah like sort of like poorer nations right so china's investing into them


but singapore's kind of the reverse cause we are investing into china, ya it's a bit it's a bit different ya so what what do you what do you think of the uh


like, what do you think right is, why is it so different like why are we investing in, in china for example instead of you know the reverse


(hmm)


okay


(hmm), so actually , you you spoke about the, about about china sending their people all over and and and singapore sending uh and and we know that singapore is you know like sending a good amounts of money over to china to invest in china right


but what do you think this this err this does for you as an as an individual like do you see yourself, you know a career in china for example


I see I see okay so err your reasons for trying to enter the chinese market are I think I say are partly inquisitive and also a bit a bit you know like Kiasu Kiasu kind you know like or why why how come they do this how come they do that right but okay so speaking of china lah right we are chinese singaporeans err


and just so happens that there is a chinese aspect of this conversation they were supposed to have and it just so happens we're talking about china right so actually right okay lah , so I I I want to ask and I want to give you a little challenge here lah okay and get you answer the next few questions in only chinese


okay ah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> ah, Mai stress ah Mai stress Mai stress okay don't stress don't stress, okay don't stress ah okay now so <mandarin>第一个问题:di yi ge wen ti</mandarin> ah okay


uh, !wah! this one I also must think know I must think how to ask the question because I myself cannot, form the question in my head immediately ya eh true it's err, we don't really use the err chinese other than the the speaking part and even then it's like


uh


okay ya,


wait but I I I think I think the million dollar question right you spoke about your #bak chor mee# lah correct the million dollar question is #mee pok# or #mee kia#, #mee pok# right yes,


(hmm) true true okay so okay lah eh err, what you were saying okay is that chinese is not exactly, a day to day speaking language right but then


from time to time, based on who you interact with, you know if you talking to your #ah gong# #ah ma# uncle aunty all this kind of thing, then maybe use use the use some chinese lah right even though it's a bit rusty but


they would like they wouldn't have it any other way lah right so okay, then like that is called Bo Pian lah


ya ya we are both ninety eight yes


okay ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> because sorry ya


right


the the chances lah the the the opportunities lah to to use <mandarin>华语:hua yu</mandarin> right is actually not a lot leh considering, you know err like outside of lesson hor like I mean, I can't speak for everyone but


for myself lah right my <mandarin>家里:jia li</mandarin> my parents my dad we don't really use chinese to communicate actually cause I grew up in quite a dialect heavy household


so , it that's an interesting question right cause, like dialect, I mean for for us chinese right like dialect is, err dialect obviously has its roots to chinese lah right to <mandarin>华文:hua wen</mandarin> as a language right so <mandarin>你讲你是广东人也是福建人:ni jiang ni shi guang dong ren ye shi fu jian ren</mandarin> right this kind of thing but then


it's it comes a point where there are interestingly, right like some of the elderly lah I I my uh, my own grandmother for example right she only speaks teochew but not standard chinese which is quite interesting like she kind of understands standard chinese right but then when <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like try to speak to her in like


standard chinese right, she just, ah [orh] and then just err you know just give you back the reply in teochew, so


ya so actually you see that as ya sorry, ya so actually you see that there's like a bit like of a a sort of language barrier per se the thing is it it's funny isn't it because it they're both time well


heavily heavily rooted in the chinese language itself, right but then like we, somehow have difficulty speaking our own dialects and then err the older generation has difficulty speaking normal chinese lah right and then


you have a nowadays we are all very english educated lah right all very english educated then when it comes to chinese ya honestly I I don't even dare to think of the last time I used chinese


for a formal err, like a formal talk to people you know


[orh] ya ya ya


okay so speaking of that right so there's there's a few


differences here lah right cause, the partner lah right <mandarin>他们的媒体在在跟他们交通:ta men de mei ti zai zai gen ta men jiao tong</mandarin> lah right


then, in, instead of err <mandarin>就讲你跟你阿嫲你讲:jiu jiang ni gen ni a ma ni jiang</mandarin> okay lah


right so it's very interesting because, locally okay <mandarin>我们的华文:wo men de hua wen</mandarin> is we learn enough to get by, alright but we we get by


and then when it comes to actually using the chinese ah, you see then then you have your what you describe what the the brain freeze that you think a how to say ah <mandarin>这个这个这个:zhe ge zhe ge zhe ge</mandarin> this one that one you know open this one that one open <mandarin>开这个开那个按这个按那个:kai zhe ge kai na ge an zhe ge an na ge</mandarin> right


ya, right but also I think I want to recount a few of my personal experiences lah so you know recently I've been playing a lot of a path of exile with a few of my malaysian friends lah


right, ya it's true like the they is a bit different right but the thing is they are so near us right across the border only


but then their chinese like damn power right


in a sense, my malaysian friends are kind of reverse singaporeans does that make sense


I mean, yes exactly so they when err when when my err malaysian friends right they speak in chinese is very smooth right


but for us when we speak in english it is very smooth, right then you you when you hear their when you hear their english it is it is a lot of influence on on the way they were brought up right like uh I I I remember one of them was err asking his wife ah to turn on the aircon so the way he said turn on right is err <mandarin>打开:da kai</mandarin> you know


is the most chinese way of saying things right


ya <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> right <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> ya, but you see when when people say <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> right, then they try to mentally


they try to think in, chinese, then they try to translate it into english so it becomes a direct translation, so when he was telling me, to, turn on something like turn on a spell turn on a skew or something like that and say open open skew open this


you know, like open,


and and I would say that I've I've had some uh, experiences watching a professional chinese dota players lah and then like the chinese competitive commentary all this kind of thing lor but then


their chinese that they're using right is, I would say is, is standard chinese yes right obviously some of some part of the language you know must like


must adapt to the colloquial colloquialisms of dota, right and and that it that is fair lah but then, the chinese in general still stays very very standard right like unlike us singaporeans not even trying to ah make anything colloquial but somehow the chinese still very Chapalang right


it just exist ya, so the that's one very interesting thing ah then you can see like a lot of differences between chinese singaporeans right


chinese malaysians err chinese china chinese right, and then the different ways that we all use chinese even though it's it's like a common language lah, right


but, it's interesting because I've had a lot of like china chinese friends throughout, the years I've been in school lah in army lah, here and there lah right, but I've never once heard them say


open, something


okay


so , so did he ever like get to like a point where you're like you know you just be like oh <mandarin>这个袜子要这样卷那个衣服要这样折:zhe ge wa zi yao zhe yang juan na ge yi fu yao zhe yang zhe</mandarin> okay <mandarin>折了放进去那个:zhe le fang jin qu na ge</mandarin> plastic


okay fair enough I I wouldn't say it's down to the upbringing err no sorry it's I wouldn't say that it's down to that the place that they were brought up in I would say it's more of the environment they're brought up in lah cause like it it is quite prevalent quite obvious lah in in some singaporeans as well like especially in singapore where this culture I think most a lot of asian countries have this culture lah of


of err hiring a maid for the household right, and err I myself I've I had a maid until like I was about ten years old that's when my mom kind of like you know it's like okay my boy won't like jump off the sofa and break his leg or something lah


so that's that's the, that's the kind of a, deciding factor right that we took away the maid but other than that we actually had a maid throughout and then the maid actually takes away so much of the the personal responsibility that you have to


you know that you have at home lah right cause, , because a lot of things that like you think about it ah you have right in a in a household lah like what does a maid normally do right like cooking lah cleaning lah, err cleaning the house in general washing like laundry right


err then still must take care of general household affairs groceries this and that, and, especially if you have young kids, right the maid kind of becomes like a second mom in a sense


right and I think this is something very prevalent amongst asian countries which might explain why you, met err your err BMT mates like that ya,


it's it's it's err, which is quite err interesting lah because you know it it changes it really very much changes the way, that you see err the day to day things that you do lah I mean, if if I if I had no maid throughout right then a day to day


day to day thing that I will do is laundry right, but if I had a maid, my day to day things you know would have one less thing to do right so I'll have you know it's like study sleep eat right


but for some people it's study sleep eat laundry, ya that kind of thing so okay lah might be getting the order wrong you get the idea lah so having a maid really makes things a lot easier okay but in that in that way ah okay


I think we've we've kind of like drifted off the topic of the singlish lah, right the singlish the chinese the the usage of it right and I think is also partly to do with the fact that cause like you know in


in malaysia and indonesia especially right there I can't really speak for china cause I I don't really I'm not really very close with their country, err but, in terms of err the chinese


who live in malaysia and indonesia right, they have, certain tools and certain extent of knowledge of Bahasa right Bahasa Melayu Bahasa indonesia


right and these are I would say I I I feel lah that these are also factors, in a in the way that they that they use their english as well as their chinese actually


actually no I don't think it really affects their chinese cause their chinese is still really good, ya, but it's mostly I would say it's mostly the the english that gets affected right cause you're trying to speak in english but then you remember the things that are in chinese and you remember the things that are in Bahasa Melayu


right and then, you agree, you know depends on what what language you think in right cause for us it's second nature to think in english right what numbers do you count with you count with english numbers


right, but maybe to them, you know satu dua tiga empat all this is very natural to them, right, so this can affect err the way that they they process information lah and of course the english that they speak lah as a result


okay


okay so, , speaking about this convenience thing right okay so, convenience, is would you think that this convenience is a good thing


or does it happen to just be a byproduct of singlish, okay and because of this sorry, ya so if you


if it is a byproduct of the singlish right and obviously it's a good byproduct lah right cause it really shortens uh lengthy, topics and err lengthy things you know err I recall this err this poster you know like the like why they're explaining why singlish is the best language around right cause


ya like what a this guy called tom was like you know, look what you have done right and then in singlish it's just see lah, ah <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> lah ah this kind of thing right


so, I mean but with this convenience don't you think it has brought some issue as well like, obviously the reason we don't use singlish in a business environment right is like it just very err unprofessional lah right


it's unprofessional and then like you know, singlish depending on who speaks it ah got different style one leh, like like like chinese singlish got certain style, malay singlish got another style


indians singlish also another style, and more recently with more and more foreigners coming here okay not say more recently now COVID but, err even the foreigners got their own style of singlish now


ah ya that one that one is something that I've yet to, I think I think that's a you know it will grow into you kind of thing lah with time lah you know like


ya, but


true true true, woodlands represent here yup , but err yup I mean


we what you just talked about I think I think it's been we we kind of agree on the on the fact that a singlish brings about a lot of convenience and a lot of but also can be seen as a unprofessional lah right cause of


how , okay


, okay, so going forward lah like would you think that , you know it would be healthy for example say singapore were to


you know similar to the oh speak good mandarin err program back in the past right by err, by mister #lee kuan yew# back then right do you think they would have a speak good english thing, in the future


you know where it kind of like because speak good speak good mandarin was supposed to promote, the use of standard, mandarin, over dialects, it was specifically targeted at dialects right


but do you think there would be a a programme a similar programme for speaking good english instead of singlish, we had right ya


sorry I need you to explain that


okay


the oh ya ya ya the sounds right cause like okay lah I I not sure about you lah but <mandarin>我是觉得这样:wo shi jue de zhe yang</mandarin> lah because, like


is a, is the pronunciation of of chinese is obviously is very you know Bo Siang is err, english one lah you know and and the thing about singlish ah in general is that it's not


it's not influenced by one single language what right cause singlish is something that is made in well I would say lah made in singapore and then we export it to malaysia that's why they now speak like that also


right okay it is it is a is a export lah I don't think they speak like this originally right, but err I mean I I won't know but sorry yes correct so because of all these influences lah so I think this kind of proves your point because uh you know our singlish is you have err loan words from


Bahasa Melayu you have loan words from tamil right, ya you have you have loan words right like like in Bahasa Melayu you would say uh you know your, err what's that, uh


you have you have things like you have your things like Sekali Sekali is a is a is a malay word right but, we somehow all understand its meaning you know it is to mean what if, or the possibility that something that can happen right but then you see like like like in in


in our local context lah we hear the word a lot and but a lot of us still can't even spell that word leh, ya because Sekali is a malay word right is S E K A L I


right, and but a lot of people, don't know how to spell it, right even though it is such a common thing in the language, so


, ya again you know


ya it it comes back to the point lah it brings a lot of convenience right we just sorted two syllables into one right, and uh, two characters even


and err there there's actually there's a lot of I I I think there's a lot of similarities lah like we kind of share the same similarities cause you you earlier you were talking about some of the taiwanese right, and I think taiwanese are also equally guilty of shortening


err chinese words lah right they have they have the same thing <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> become <mandarin>将:jiang</mandarin> right and they can even have it in a written form, I'm not sure if you've seen not sure you seen like videos like by the taiwanese like youtubers or what but when they have subtitles right it's very strange you know their subtitles


ya, it's, it it is


ya ya, but I I I think it is it is it is fair to say that even though they speak different right their chinese songs nothing like our chinese even though it's already different


ya, and also like the our use of chinese right is just I would say lah for now right like I think if I asked you to speak full sentence in chinese you know I think both you and I will struggle and this is fair right


, ya


ya ya we did that before right so I I think I think that is, because I don't know about you but drinking brings out a very err, unrestricted, version of yourself where you are more


courages and you are more likely to do something, ya, that that is fair, that is fair and I think I think if we say okay after drinking we speak like mostly chinese or all chinese right err you know that that more more of us will actually do it lah but the thing is it shouldn't be part of you know like use if if it comes down to this you say that alcohol remove shame right


and we speak more chinese, then, by so called reverse psychology would it be fair to say that we are not speaking chinese, due to a possible sense of shame


okay okay I I just wanted to I just wanted to bring this up right but when you just did your internal monologue where you says <mandarin>这样子怎么讲:zhe yang zi zen me jiang</mandarin> right you just went <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> again


is it, it's it's it's so natural right that even though like you know we say ya ya singlish erodes the language blah blah blah right but I think, at the end of the day lah right cause I would say lah it is safe to say that singlish would still be here for very very long time alright


and also that singlish is err indispensable part of singaporean culture right


okay ya ya, ya okay then in in that if that's the case lah okay right err have you watched the crazy rich asians, right so what do you think I mean cause obviously it was it was filmed in singapore or a good a good part of it lah right what do you think is about what do you think about the accuracy lah of the portrayal of singaporeans in the in the movie


, okay


, but uh would you would you then right because I mean I I I'm not I'm not too sure if I'm taking your words out of context lah but you just mention that you know err


the ultra rich right they speak very westernized english and by contrast they don't speak much singlish or at all, right, would you then go ahead to say that singlish is more for


the, the day today you know the average joe, so it's it's also you know division by, in a sense lah class right


okay ya


okay, and you you think that the stereotypes are accurate lah to an extent, but obviously I think I think for the sake of theatrics right their tone ah a bit out of proportion lah and and I think I think that's that's fair enough for a movie right


but err okay then, okay enough of the movie back to, ourselves as singaporeans right okay and we we earlier we mentioned that earlier you mentioned that you know singlish is gonna gonna stay in singapore for a very very long time right


what do you think right okay like by the time you have children right, how would you tackle the issue of them growing up speaking singlish


you know obviously you want them to speak proper english


our fault lah


, ying e, [orh] yo <mandarin>勉强没有幸福:mian qiang mei you xing fu</mandarin> ah, ah ya true true true


you know <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> try, to


okay uh sorry ah so what you're saying is again <mandarin>你这边:ni zhe bian</mandarin> on your <mandarin>英文的方面:ying wen de fang mian</mandarin> right you use your parents what they did for you is they put you in an environment


and where <mandarin>你只可以讲英文:ni zhi ke yi jiang ying wen</mandarin> at british council, right so this is a very contrasting thing right then you get back home to your parents and you speak what your parents sorry


singlish right


, okay okay, then would you would you say that is is ineffective in the sense that, in the end you're still exposed to singlish anyway


okay, so with with that said lah okay we spoke, a lot about singlish it uses its origins right how it started out err and its influences lah on us as as as singaporeans and and and the future of singlish right but


the I think the million dollar question now is hor would would what would we, use if you didn't have singlish, right can you imagine the singapore without singlish


, cause


because if it's I mean if if the, but if you know if any minister thinks that oh yes it's it's it is eroding the language including the identity of of a mother tongues as well as english a bit like ya I think in english it's it's it's gonna be safe lah because you know a very global a kind of language err you know lah I mean <mandarin>你去到那里也是用:ni qu dao na li ye shi yong</mandarin> english <mandarin>的吗:de ma</mandarin> like you know


you you go to any Angmoh country right you don't suddenly bust out the chinese right but if you speak english <mandarin>有可能:you ke neng</mandarin> they understand you right even though they don't they don't look I mean you you can go to like germany and they speak only the german there


right but you you your first instinct is to speak to them in english right, so I I think that it's okay english will be safe for very long time to come lah that one no problem but singlish ah okay


I'm not sure about you lah but, every time I go overseas right it warms my heart lah you know you go to a crowded area then you should, it is true warms the cockles of my heart when you know when you hear a fellow singaporean somewhere in the crowd and you hear the most singaporean thing ever


you know, and the other time I I was in japan right with a, with you and a few other guys we we heard a few singaporeans but I think one of the most memorable experiences was uh this singaporean family it was so singaporean lor


err I was because one of the days I went hiking alone right, then the the singapore family was !wah! they they very funny one they they were a bunch err a few kids lah I think three three three kids maybe something like that and two parents


and they are trying to get a photo then ah they were like you know they were like trying to look for person to help them take the photo lah then they, then they go up to a person then they uh sorry sorry err can you help us to take a photo like like very very very polite that kind of you know there's proper english lah I'll say !wah! eighty ninety percent


proper english or something like that right but then, the moment the, the the person holds the phone for them ah then you hear eh boy ah <mandarin>来:lai</mandarin> leh, ya and to hear that, overseas ah I I think ah is is a very soothing lah I mean


not say not say that I'm home sick cause that was like only like a one week lah but, it's just a it's just very soothing to hear singlish spoken in a foreign land


and I I think I think err with the use of our singlish being so being such an important part of the our lifestyle right like you know


it is a very unique thing and only singaporeans had it and then, I think I think you know past few years or whenever they had they call it what err err you ever watch NDP or did you watch it this year


this year as well I thought that was last year, okay okay this year but , basically I mean the the way I see it lah right is err


you know they always have this segment is like all singaporeans celebrate and NDP overseas right I think I think it's it's a very cool experience to have cause like you know you have your your your you you have this bar full of Angmohs right


or wherever they are lah you know some I I think this year's one was in germany or something, it's, it's, this group of singaporeans right and they wear the most singaporean things ever but ya lah some of them got the you know the I love SG the that that thing but some of them you know the typical singaporean lah you know they wear


bermudas and then slippers,


and I I think I think it'll be fair to say that that image or singaporean is is a kind of caricature of us isn't it


it's kind of a caricature of the entire, ya I mean you know for the guys it's like singlet bermudas, slipper, you know this is I would say is is a is a caricature of our culture lah but you know it's it's so true it is so true


you out go there right now you'll probably find like you know you go to the coffee shop you see all the uncle sitting in one corner drinking tiger confirm all of them are like wearing something like that, something along those lines you know


ya so I think we had a very fruitful discussion about the singlish err this this conversation certainly I think, you know, china we went from the BRI from economics and then we talk about china and then we talk about the use of chinese and every went to singlish right that's is is a lot of things but mostly is the singlish part which I I think I enjoy this part of the conversation the most okay err hopefully you can do more of such recordings with you lah in the future or rather a decent informal recording slash podcast type of things lah cause you know we we we we both learned a lot and then


gain insights from each other ya, and I think, we haven't really talked about like the really really hard questions lah and I think we can save those for another session no problem lah, but err ya I think I'm going to call it here okay


okay and err do you have any last questions for me, or any last points you wanna bring up


okay then thank you so much brandon for being here and I will end this recording


two one


belt road ah, oh I don't I actually not sure about it, the chinese name ah, oh ya heard of that


correct correct, (uh huh)


might be I think it's even earlier they were they were in talks with even ancient greece back then


bro #xi jin ping# bro


okay it's just it's just a it's just a very roundabout way to say a big and err a really big silk road that they're gonna be reconstructing throughout err asia all the way into europe lah


(uh huh)


growing up right we see we see two types mah we see the ones that are down to earth that are hardworking


then you also see the other ones which are entirely snobbish you know those really really rich ones that actually, err, don't doesn't really care about our society and then they just do and, crash whatever they want lah


that's the that's the that's the general take lor, oh,


correct, yup, correct ah


okay, err given our, our education status in the world we are we are we are known as a, when you call that err


our education is an export, and in that sense because china is up and coming and they you know in their recent project with the err the four urban cities that they're building right the four technological urban cities


they have been sending their people all over the place just to gather knowledge, we invest in china's market is for the fact that err if you can get a cut ah just a just a small slice of what they have right


uh whatever market that they have, it will bring a lot more to our economy than than we think, then, we bring in all these rich chinese people right is because you know we raise the value of our country mah, but in that sense that also brings in


err a number of problems lah which we may or may not like to, to address, china is, then it's like the the news articles that have been coming out africa is being turned into china's china, that's how they get uh cheap labour like you know


incredibly cheap labour and you have countries african countries that give like leases of of like a millennia, nine hundred and ninety nine years to china just to like gather whatever they want from err from that region


yup, okay my the industry I'm entering is games lah


so, you you know singapore cannot cannot survive one right, so Bo Pian have to have to find have to find rice bowl outside uh with that said ah, china is how do I put this china's internet is being controlled by by


by basically tencent, the biggest game company in china in no you might even put it in the world because it's so closed off, and everything is said in chinese so nobody wants to interact with them, uh


the world only has the world has to travel to, like you know across oceans across roads to get to each other but china you can just stay within china, and develop your own projects


err everything is all centralized you don't have to go anywhere else, and, the industry though it's humongous and it's, err it's really difficult to enter as a as a foreigner from err


from all the investors that you have seen uh that come that have come and gone in china so long as you have just a bit just a tiny slice right slice of that pie ah, you are you're more than successful already and you, you are more than enough to to look elsewhere


like I, I do want to try and enter the chinese market to to have a to have a go at how they actually produce games err of there are a more interesting reason is also because of the the fact that they copy so much crap


why they copy so much, but I want to get to know, all of these things like these behind the scene things err, so that you know in future if I go to other companies maybe I can help protect them better


correct lah


(uh huh), ah


read chinese right okay K K


brother we only use


eh we only, we use chinese to to accent our english mah, it's like in in some situations, like I do find myself expressing in chinese especially when speaking with elders elderly mah


so I would instinctively just swap to chinese, ya for example like you know ordering like just ordering food right, for example at the Kopitiam you would, if it's a


ah, #mee pok# lah brother !oi! you cannot you eat #mee kia# for what


!walao! eh


okay we grew up we grew up in a very different time lah we experience the older side of things and uh and the newer side of things


so then naturally we naturally we are able to, to to swap on a fly especially, err we understand the difficulties of the elders of our elders, how they can mostly speak in dialects and chinese and them adapting english is a bit difficult ah


the younger generation lah you, depends on your, and where you grew up lor, my side is, what's that ah


the classes that I had right, there was there was a mix there's there's there's a good mix, it's just that chinese was, more to accent whatever you wanted to say, then after that from


uh then after that from secondary school also same thing, and we see we join we split up for our chinese classes right, ah then, even though we go to that class we sit there just copy everything then after that [orh] <mandarin>这样子:zhe yang zi</mandarin> lor


ah, like you just look at how broken my god damn chinese is right now holy shit


ah


I mean would you would you consider dialect as part of chinese


ah ah okay okay, I got I got something a bit more interesting okay okay I got something to say, what's that ah it's like how when we, when we understand the the dialect but we don't know how to reply in that dialect so that they can understand


it's the the they are doing it back to us, you get that feel, no no no you go ahead go ahead


, ya


there there there isn't, many chances where you are forced to use formal chinese, other, what was that ah, okay in army right, so I was part of err I was part of this


I was sort of the tyre division so television and then err it you know recently in the news there was this a exercise cooperation


then, all the you know all those kids in HQ they are all like, you know some of them have are quite heavily JC educated, then in JC


ah in JC ah, I think there's this program where you get to write off chinese for the second year, if you can just pass chinese in the first year ah then from there ah the, the the boys in my office were all ACS boys


and their chinese !wah! all Chapalang one, all all of them Kanasai one, it's, incredible ah then our, our branch heads ah tell them eh you all go and hide, you all go and hide don't don't don't don't go and talk to them


then the best part was because we are media team, uh media team right we have to go around take photos all these kind of things, !wah! everything, so you talk to them that time ah !wah! Jialat you know


then you explain to them then it's like, eh [sial] ah the F stop lah


the shutter speed ah the ISO ah wait wait wait, then you take a step back right how to explain to them then because you don't know how to explain all these kind of things, they just point to the camera okay <mandarin>这个你这个你上的时候:zhe ge ni zhe ge ni shang de shi hou</mandarin> err


!wah! then you feel like a complete, waste of freaking space man, we spend how many years in in uh, learning chinese or like six primary primary one to six


, correct correct


ya that I that I that I agree, err


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor,


they are they are damn strong lah not gonna lie


what I would, like you know browsing across like malaysian videos malaysian youtubers, very hard to get them lor the, it might be, a front against


okay lah no I don't want to get into this kind of conversation cause it might spark some, really bad shit, err, but I think their they want to keep true to their roots lah, especially with you know cuisine being such a big thing in malaysia as well


the the way they speak is also quite significant to to to the chinese there lah being, being that they are the other minority there, and we are the majority here


okay, you you you say like that hor, actually it's true lah think about it right you think about it right the malays in singapore are the chinese in malaysia, isn't it


yup yup


(mmhmm)


ah, uh


(mmhmm), actually ya hor interesting also


we play so much dota together then, err we have actually never watched, like a pro game being commentated in in chinese


(mmhmm) (mmhmm)


the chinese exists somehow, ya


ya ya ya


(mmhmm), actually right


now that I think back, I know I know of this Jakarta chinese, so indonesian chinese, I think


what's that ah, err, he's he's annunciation ah the pronunciation of words, all very very clear it's all pretty much china chinese, type already then during


during NS period I managed to I met up with, I met up with this taiwan chinese, !wah! taiwan chinese taiwan chinese is a completely different ballgame, the guy is they got a bit more slang they got a bit they are a bit


I would say they are a lot more comfortable with the language where it is not as err, as regimented they they don't speak in in almost full proper chinese they, they are a bit more lax with the language I would say lah, they're they're a bit more open to


the borrowing words from english lah, they they, like whenever he has a question especially because well I'd like to, book during BMT I had to I had to struggle with translating everything into chinese for an entire section on malaysians


which was !wah! that one Jialat ah that one the whatever the sergeant or lieutenant say, if you go and, you go and translate everything over how the hell you supposed to translate everything over again


then you slowly bit by bit you guide them oh my god


eh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> leh, okay


I don't know what was with them ah but it's like they've never fold their clothes never done a bit of laundry never done a bit of err of chores at home you know, like I like like you would assume, I don't know if this is elitism lah but you know


you will assume like everybody who have, err, especially in malaysia, !wah! !wah! !wah! this really makes me sound like a dick, that they would they would have done a bit of laundry in their life mah, !wah! then comes to army where they just give you a they just give you a pail and a a a pail and then it's like ah Nah


go and go and wash your clothes like that was the first time I've seen know they don't know how to fold clothes they don't know how to they don't know how to scrub their clothes they don't know how to wring out water one leh, instead


yes yes


it's true it's true


(mmhmm) (mmhmm), that that, that that batch of BMT mate


!wah!


(mmhmm), correct correct


ya, !wah!


(mmhmm), yup


yes definitely, that their chinese still it is still tip top condition, for some reason lah, I I don't know


ya, (mmhmm)


that's true though, (mmhmm)


I will also go to say right our singlish ah, our singlish is, too convenient already, imagine you imagine right, err,


if if business meetings were completely conducted in singlish ah that's it leh the the the entire meeting in a one hour meeting can be finished in uh fifteen minute


it's a byproduct of singlish, okay if you look at


, err okay wait you go ahead the question then I try


(mmhmm)


ah, ah <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> lah <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> lah, err when we are young that time ah <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> lah, the


correct correct, correct, ya definitely have definitely have


definitely have, correct correct


the Angmoh singlish is the one that I don't like, , ya


but okay put it in okay err I've been, oh you know that I'm taking a third language which is japanese and then err because of because of that right I got into reading up err


reading up slang err like you know in Japan you have different country err not different countries different provinces that uses err different slang, then I was like isn't this, similar to our singlish then when you actually break down singlish singlish removes


like seventy to eighty percent of the the entire language and we break it down into, such few, like short bursts and we can understand each other due to our, it is the locality lah we we we understand each other


from singlish right even though it's like a, you know even the intonation of, err just one sound I would say it's not even a word, err, that would actually, define what


that person means, so yes definitely convenience comes along with it then, but with this convenience right it also comes with the erosion of language ah, it it for example, err


you know japanese right, japan recently has been globalizing a lot they have been err opening up their doors especially to to the western side of media err they've been getting into all these kind of a different conversations in japan they and japanese as a language


cannot keep up, it's like not you know our, our chinese also mah, how did you translate over thomas edison


ya, ya, ya thomas, like, singlish is a blessing in a sense for its locals, but it's a nightmare for foreigner


it's it's our own, it's a very local thing lah how do I put it, it it does give a lot of uh, a lot of convenience in life but then again right, it also erodes, a majority of err


the practice of speaking, a proper english proper proper chinese proper malay, then when we actually come to business right come to business terms, and like initially when you when you talked about err getting a slice of china's pie about us investing in china I think that really comes back and bites us in the ass


cause, for the fact that, we are not practiced in in speaking the proper language, err, like you know I told you about the the the, the exercise right where we have to speak to to the chinese


!woo!, the my commanders had to, they had to prep like two weeks in advance in chinese or like that to study the date the night before right it's almost like an exam you know, to speak properly, which is a bit sad lah


but you see our chinese is so local then it it's but it can't be used anywhere else, and then, err us as citizens we will, we want to we all wanna go overseas, then you know it's like this american thing or you have to dull the ghetto


ah then us singaporeans we also got this ghetto what, without our Beng mah, ya, it's like you go to orchard you don't you don't speak like #ah beng# what you go to go to you go to woodlands ah you will let it flow that kind of thing


I would say, I will say yes it's unprofessional but the the the I wouldn't classify being unprofessional with singlish as the major thing


the major thing is the erosion of the language, of the use of a of the use of the language ah, which is what I'm worried about, ya


(mmhmm) (mmhmm)


it's also ya use of standard mandarin lah, yes


yes, actually we had leh, ya we had that movement going on problem was


err, there is, okay lah in singapore you look at it right, you you will see two types of singaporeans mah the ones that can control the other ones that are a bit more free with, err how they use it


so, it's, okay it we have to teach, the the use the control we have to teach you have to let them know about the control of the of this particular ability that we have


so like err they can they can also practice speaking proper proper english in chinese but at the same time you know in more informal context right they have the the chance to be free lah, so you can just do whatever they want


because if you think about it right if you speak so vehemently in singlish and for example you know like chinese english so you are so, caught up in a speaking chinese singlish right, it does one day effect


or err affect how they, who they converse in english, ah


yes, ya actually that's true that's true, we


like they like what they call it mah singapore is the Rojak of language,


in virtually everywhere ah if you think about it, we have like, Bahasa we got tamil we got chinese we have


ya ya, correct correct, yes


that's true


(mmhmm), okay you see right, ah what's that


then, when err when I was speaking to those china chinese err taiwan chinese


then they like eh they get so weirded out, err, I think it's our intonation lah our intonation really ah really really


like cuts down on a lot of our effort in speaking, two two two characters into one


so from this you change to sauce, not bad not bad


ya, yes, , have ah


ya, !ee!, oh what's that taiwanese


they they were all at the edge, all trying to find girlfriend ah so they went to <mandarin>把妹:ba mei</mandarin> then after that the way that they


the the, it's true lah subtitles wise they very different, the way they speak also very different lah


it's true, the the taiwan chinese is, it's a completely different, it's, its own subset of chinese,


we will go through this err the brain the brain reboots it goes through multiple filters then it will be oh right I'm supposed to say this word this character is this word, this kind of thing


no lah do you have the do you, dude we should actually do this more the dota, the time you play dota you play dota then I like eh, speak only chinese or a dialect


then it was then with drinks on the side then I was, ya we did that once


it removes shame, and alcohol removes shame so you just do whatever the hell you want


, ya I would I would say that mah, okay, uh


taking taking up a third language right I've learnt a lot, for one is that I'm actually more conversational if I were to actually take alcohol before my lesson wouldn't recommend it to anyone listening to this afterwards, but ya


it's actually more fun if you then I actually had more fun with the language because I was more willing to, to just let go, and I would actually, like I would still be sober and I would actually learn more


adversely, to then what people would think so sometimes I would like take a shot before class then our entire class and then the Sensei will be like, yo your face red did you drink again it's like yes, but


like she knows already because I've attended her class for the past three three four years, then, but the thing is it will be more enjoyable because, you know learning like learning a language it's so much easier if you if you converse in it


so when it comes back to chinese right, it's a lot easier for us to to to talk to each other if it, if it's the fact that we are, err, we are conversing in the language lah we don't have that shame of like, oh I don't know this word


err then you you ask yourself <mandarin>这样子怎么讲:zhe yang zi zen me jiang</mandarin> then you will sit there like uh uh uh uh okay then, you come up with some really dumb way of like addressing this particular object or item then the opposite party just looks at you


it's like, !huh! with that very !huh! look, ah, ah, ya lor you tell me how, it's so ingrained already


ya, it's you need, you can't speak singlish you can't be part singapore, there's no way man


it's about the identity, yes


, , that's a good question


there are certain things which are like but there's a lot of a lot of other things which you don't get to see from day to day, the you know crazy rich asians where they have to be part of the title they have to be true to the title it's just that they don't show the, err


they don't show the more commoner aspect of uh of singaporeans they show like the ultra rich, so and then if you look at the ultra rich in singapore they speak err, they speak super westernized err english err


ya I think that's basically they speak super westernized english their taste and everything in, err in food in clothing in all of that right it's all, err, it's all very very Atas


but you see, okay the who's that ah the the nick young right then got his mother and then got his grandma, his grandma is china chinese confirm because of how the way that she speaks, and then, it affects ah


the <mandarin>媳妇:xi fu</mandarin> the daughter in law which is nick young's mother, I can't the character played by michelle Yeoh, and she dresses in certain cases right she dresses very very chinese what chinese like, so it's like


there's extremes in in the ultra rich lor that you don't get to see in like everyday singaporeans, but there is there is some truth to it lah but, then again it's also from a director that, they grew up to be ultra rich


so you can't really blame him to not know the the, the more common aspect of, err of life, it's like you cannot you cannot get anyone you cannot get him to expect if he if he has been eating like ten dollar plate plate of ten dollar chicken rice for


the entirety of his life right when you present him a three dollars plate of chicken rice you say that this three dollar plate is better than the ten dollar plate he won't believe you one