so you need all these desperateness for the fried rice, to come up as tasty as it was at that time


eh ya it is actually quite nice it's quite crispy also, actually is damn easy it's just it's just you cut up potatoes, into like french fries shape or whatever shape you wanna make it into chips also can and then you just put it on your baking tray then you you then you sprinkle the salt


then you just mix mix mix then you put it in the oven, then you just okay I just I just turn the knob lah I think it was like one eighty or something I don't even remember


<tamil> அந்த:andtha </tamil> Level-Ae <tamil> தான் பண்ணேன்:thaan panneen </tamil> then you just look at it lah like, from from time to time from time to time and then it'll be like a, it'll be like brownish and then you poke poke it'll be crispy then you take one put inside then taste taste then you just take out the whole thing then it's done already


true and it's not like you all don't drag me that side anyway, so I might as well why not you host something there then we can go there


and then you also want to hang out with your friends, so is it an issue, but the two groups are not going to mingle with each other


not like your brother's friend and your friends imagine if you have four friends then your brother has four friends, ya that's why so isn't like an in issue like isn't like a social distancing issue


what if you have like the biggest houses like those mansion type, ya no you don't look like one you sound like one


you are not the mother of the group you are the safe distance ambassador of the group, no maybe not auntie, what


are you telling are you saying that I am the auntie or are you asking if I am an aunt, okay I agree


okay the mother or not, is a separated from safe distance ambassador, no


uh my mother won't, okay ya your mother will be the safe distance ambassador or if you are <tamil> அந்த:andtha </tamil> rein <tamil> இல்ல வந்தா:illa vandthaa </tamil> okay if you're comparing your mother and you, and then that one I'll understand ya then you're you are the mother of the group


because I was thinking like the person who's always like asking people to drink water like are you, okay do you need you need take a rest that kind, eh yesterday you went all the way on top of the staircase so fast and then we were all dying below okay


hawk, oh so so your your CV includes mother hawk and safe distance


no which boot, which dora have you been watching


monkey that goes up to look, , okay


let me see the next question, if you drop everything to follow your dreams what would you risk, ya


what the hell so you're rich now, but if you drop everything you won't be rich


wait this is assuming that you're not already on the path to following your dreams, isn't it, can what


you know why you know why, no cause Singapore has low crimes, but does that does not mean no crimes, so <tamil> இடத்தில ஒரு:idaththila oru </tamil> low availability but that does not mean no availability


oh okay make sense I guess


maybe you wanted to join NPCC, how did you become a police officer in JC


[orh] okay understand understand understand, (hmm)


, ya so that's the safe distance ambassador lah, a safe entry ambassador what's it called, ah <tamil> சொல்லுங்க சொல்லுங்க:sollungka sollungka </tamil> police officer, ya ya, and I'm just making fun of you looking out for me


no no you look out for me but I'm just gonna say I'm just gonna make fun of you for it


, okay


so now I have a tiny ass table with the whole monitor and a laptop <tamil> அதுக்கு நான் அதை நான்:athukku naan athai naan </tamil> social distancing <tamil> பண்ணி வச்சிருக்கேன்:panni vachsirukkeen </tamil> basically <tamil> ஏனா நடுவில அந்த இது இருக்கு:eenaa naduvila andtha ithu irukku </tamil> err keyboard


!huh!


ya lah so for your Netflix you bought the bedside table, oh, !wow! !wow! !wow!


is it the one you drag and then you put, with your with the wheels and stuff, oh it's just the thing, okay K understand ah ya I understand what you're talking about, oh


what a thought what a thought, Ikea is it, oh, I need to buy a table for this for this set up it's not working and they were like oh it's out of stock then I was like


ya Ikea don't have stock that's why I check online all


no, I saw one for forty dollars, and then I was like okay I want that I don't want anything else, ya it was it was just like, a white table and then it's just like my exact white table I have right now I just wanna put it at the back so that it


extends the table length, ya now I'm waiting for that and then they were like oh we got the legs at alexandra we got the table top at Tampines then I was like eh no actually I wanted to buy that


then I was like like but, who's gonna give me the screws, ya they say leg and table but I didn't actually go and see for the screws lah and I I didn't get actually should go and see for the screws but ya I was like maybe I should just go get the legs here and the table top there


they don't, no they have the full set at alexandra but why would I wanna carry it from there all the way


ya, ya true I do have no other choice but I was like <tamil> சரி:sari </tamil> wait <tamil> பண்ணிதான் பாப்போம் வந்தா வரட்டும் இல்லாட்டினா:panniththaan paarpoom vandthaa varatdum illaatdinaa </tamil> last case or worst case scenario I can go and buy that at alexandra


why you ask him for help is it


and then did he mess it up or something, , you you need another person meh why not you just


be like okay I'm doing this myself, ah I see, handy many a very big builder


, same


, , !wow!,


!wow!, !wah! eh not bad I'm actually impressed


!wah!, , but what is it called in tamil the <tamil> ஆயா வேலை:aayaa veelai </tamil> for this


really, I thought <tamil> ஆயா கழுவி விடுவாங்கனு நினைச்சேன்:aayaa kazhuvi viduvaangkanu ninaichseen </tamil> okay, ya ya interesting, so so wait you wanted to you wanted to become a police officer in JC


!wow! what a divine job


electrical engineering gynaecologists, which one you like more the CSI one or gynae


[orh], , ya, ya ya,


maybe you'll get mobbed, , then it's you


, I don't think so personally I don't want to see any of those blood stuff, and hold I feel like the baby will be so slippery you know what if you just drop it


, you probably need like a, probably be have like a netting downstairs, eh anything a safety netting is always useful for all purposes I feel like they should be more of a standard issue than they are currently


, gonna get me a net


a fisher net, okay I'll make it and then make those fish, fish stockings like you know those fish fish net leggings, yes should make them into that


ya don't do then, I'm not going to wear it ever, that will be the, biggest thing that I've never used in my life if you actually bought it for me


I'll no thank you, oh so so what was the point of that, if I'm wearing pants on top, use it , wear fishnet stocking so that if you accidentally give birth


you can just catch it , ya like, okay but I don't think that will work but


what, oh and the suddenly gave birth in the toilet or something, so you just have to wear fish net, pants all the time, like a


let's not ever suggest that to anyone, oh my god that will be imagine


actually


eh CEO-Kku <tamil> காசு:kaasu </tamil> founder <tamil> க்கு என்ன பெயர் மட்டும்:enna peyar matdum </tamil> I get the CEO my name also please thanks, can, okay wonderful we both co CEO and then for CFO also we both co CFO


then was, err chief financial officer


fishnet Stockings-Kku


!wow! !wow!


do you have anyone in accounting then we put them as CFO, the economics friend, that one ya put that one for accounting, then you can be the electrical engineer for the whole building I be the mechanical engineer for the whole building


ya eh eh we already have a building okay,


ah okay I also know one person, but I got a question mark, !wow! !wow!


!wow!, I got chemical engineer also we see which material is best suited for the fishnet stockings


, then we got data analysts also we we see how our product is selling and then we improve on it


, should have some <tamil> ஜீவன்:jiivan </tamil> what some marketing person, okay we we push one of our friends to go study that minor or something take that minor or something


I don't I don't have it, , advertisement I saw an ad for advertisements the other day we should look into it


I'm not sure might be but I don't know, we should book it, oh wait wait let me answer for the one, ya if you drop everything to follow your dreams what would you risk this one I got my biggest answer food actual edible food


I would risk having edible food every day, like if I drop everything and go somewhere, like new york or something but that's not my dream lah but if that was my dream


then I'll, no have vegan options but don't have like sambal or something like that there what, and I will lose all those food options, so yes


okay next one if you have any unusual superpower what would it be


printing money, actually I saw I saw some Reddit answer for this if you have supermark super power what would you have, and then


it's like something black if you say oh I wanna be like invisible that's like some usual thing but unusual [ones] is like I read something the other okay this was something very long ago but I read so this person said they would like the power to refill things, so if your bank account is like low you can just refill it


if you want food on your plate you can just refill it, and then if and then if you want like agriculture crops you can just refill it, is damn smart right it's like bro next level lah


eh !walao!, maybe you need a starting amount let's say let's say you have it like at like


two hundred K, one million is a bit suspicious I imagine getting, getting called by IRA or something, IRA inland revenue authority


then the other one, isn't ivanka his wife


oh ya it is !oops! sorry, I, oh ya okay I generally avoid, things when it comes to <P1> trump </P1> but it's okay


then, ya so, so you want one million or two hundred K, fifty thousand


okay five hundred thousand so basically you can buy a HDB whatever you want, yes I agree, yes, ya


how about you just refill your garage, you don't even have to buy the car just refill it,


, ya you don't even have to you don't even have to buy all the resources you can just get like one grain of sand and then you refill it


ya and then, and then think about knowledge you can just refill your knowledge you don't have to study, no like imagine if you are studying something new, maybe that doesn't work (hmm)


I forgot something I learned in lecture so refill it, oh my god no no no you can just watch all the lectures right and then look at all those answer sheet like the previous years' [ones]


and then when you're in the exam hall you just refill your memory with it, !wow!, bruh, do you really want to remember everything


which one, she forward it for free, oh solve no I don't know


!wow!


!wow! I see , really, oh in primary school or secondary school in primary school I used to be like that


ya in secondary school I literally have no not checked out any book from secondary school, in the library, oh ya then you will get something right ya ya ya ya then I'll then me and my friends will like religiously doing that and then most of the times we just sit in the library and go through the same three aisles they they only had three rows


and then and then you get those like if you read hundred books or something and then you get some, get some other thing before in your class or something right, ya


I read all the <P1> geronimo stilton </P1> one, true dude it's either you take it from you know when the librarian has a fresh stacks of, written books there to go to dig dig through that and then you take it, and that's the only way you can get <P1> geronimo stilton </P1> books


ya, , no one appreciates geronimo stilton


the same dude like, okay most of the things I'll actually go through the you know at the back of the thing they have the list of all the book then I'll be like okay this one I read this one this one I must go find


and then I'll go and find that one, oh ya dude I actually have the first two books first two or three books of that, I was super religious


it's like those, !wah!, from the library is it, oh nice nice


then now I just can't read anymore, every single time I open a book I wanna go back to sleep, like, cause it's colourful, and you're not actually reading also


ya I also not <tamil> அதே பார்த்தாலே துக்கம் வரும்:athee paarthaalee thuukkam varum </tamil> (hmm), ya but sometimes right you you feel like a textbook will be more comprehensive in everything like


they will help you connect a lot of different things from different topics so I like textbooks


true but sometimes you know when you get tired of lecture notes and then you'll be like you know what <tamil> என் அறிவுக்கு எல்லாம் இது பத்தாது நான் அங்க போய் படிச்சுருக்கிறேன்:en arivukku ellaam ithu paththaathu naan angka pooy padichsurukkireen </tamil> then I'll be like trying to read the textbook and then I will feel sleepy and then in the end nothing goes in, I will be like oh that one is better so I should go try that one and then in the end nothing


so sad, corona <tamil> வந்ததுக்கு அப்புறம்:vandthathukku appuram </tamil> ah


please lah I came so many times in the library to study with you there was no studying happening in the library


okay this one I cannot testify, eh I'm the one who gave you the idea to refill things


if you found a time capsule from yourself ten years ago what would be inside, ya ten years ago, ya


, what, feel like I had nothing worth keeping primary four


I will probably find my <P1> geronimo stilton </P1> books, I mean I would have kept it lah but cause that's what I was reading what what else did I do


, eh primary school I was such a good kid I did everything in that in <tamil> அந்த:andtha </tamil> Line-Lae <tamil> பார்த்தா:paarththaa </tamil> probably have some test with like hundred marks full marks in it then I'll put that inside


ah see things like that, then I'll put inside


why not hundred why is it ninety eight, oh, !wah! like that ah nice


was, so sad but the same I agree


, okay I'm not gonna start discussing my uni results right now it's a bit sad, ah A <tamil> வாங்குனது சொல்லிக்கோ:vangkunathu sollikkoo </tamil> oh I also I got I think I average like eighty some eighty seven or something for my reports


oh it's it's basically mine is basically like err like JC lah you just get all your results back, you get a percentage score


, I see, wait at ten years old we really didn't have anything that was ours to put in a time capsule


put your own self in a time capsule, , and you wanna wake up when you're thirty years old


, eh you started year two already so you can feel more, oh correct ah <tamil> இருக்கும்:irukkum </tamil> lah, but ten years old we really didn't have anything, I can't remember anything from ten years


ya if you are like thirty years old and then, ya if you're like thirty years old then ten years ago you are twenty then you probably did more stuff worth remembering, oh okay cool


I feel like I already have a memory box, so I'll just put the whole thing inside the time capsule, the whole drawer with the whole case I'll just put inside the time capsule


why you don't want it for ten more years is it


but this is assuming that you that the thing is gonna be like changed in ten years, so I don't think it


so, so you're gonna have grey hair by thirty, !huh! really, so sad, , it's time to start investing in hair colour


so sad, bleach it no bleach the whole thing silver so that it's not like oh I'm old it's grey it's like oh I'm cool it's grey


bleach it bleach it first and then dye it silver ya, ombre <tamil> அது என்ன:athu enna </tamil> ombre, oh


, the white where it's white you just put white and then at the end you put in then you change it and then like oh this is this is not my natural hair this is this is my style hair


<tamil> நாங்க எல்லாம்:naangka ellaam </tamil> Youthu,


you know <P1> sachin </P1> ya ya ya, I think I would take, err I'll go make like a QR code then put all the stuff like all those data stuff like pictures and everything


no thank you I don't wanna be ten years older like already for twenty I'm like crying


what what if it was like some security thing, like they want to they wanna see who goes in and out


so what if you had like a barcode in your in your hand then you have to scan that one, ish lah barcode QR code ish


eh ya ya if ya don't have any of those then I also print out all the photos just in case I put print out everything and I put inside, eh ya lah that's the thing so might as well not even try with the barcode


in ten years your value is not gonna increase until that much, your bubble popped ten years ago already, it won't if it does then good for you lor actually what what thing will


appreciate in ten years which property will appreciate in value in ten years, maybe maybe like some sort of technology like you know how those apple like unopened phone kind of stuff and then like you know unopened iphone three GS or something


(hmm), my one still does, I have a no no it's not even mine it was passed down to me from my dad so so it was my only thing in primary five and six


actually ya that's ten years old ya, !wow! this this links the previous question also I'll put my iphone, ya then put it in


ya, or what else, maybe like something that's gonna die out, motorola, the stocks !alamak! I don't follow stocks


(hmm), (hmm) good idea, petrol some natural resource


, pure air or pure oxygen or what, so air, just air just gonna take the air and then put it there


maybe maybe you should go like collect collect something okay collect like hair from celebrities, and then put it because some people might die


then you can like clone or something, !wow! you know where I thought that was gonna go I thought you that was gonna be like if someone dies in the middle then in ten years old I can I can think back of them


, a bit sad, that is my time time capsule


(ppl) imagine you're not friends with someone you you open the time capsule there's their first that's their first


, okay yup okay on microphone, ya hi diana


okay, ya this recording thing quite interesting ah, ah


so, eh so how are you recently haven't seen you for so long, ah, ya ya I think you very busy you are so active for me not not so active leh you are always the one looking for me


ya <mandarin>有有有我有去:you you you wo you qu</mandarin> sign up <mandarin>一些:yi xie</mandarin> eh so these few days ah I was like prioritising on signing up some courses I already sign up so okay lah just wait for them to reply to me


then see how lor hopefully I can get, ah, [orh] <mandarin>有有有:you you you</mandarin> continue lor that one is continue but err don't know lah ah just continue lah but I think important one is to also like make use of the free time you know learn something also


oh okay then <mandarin>那天呢那天做什么蛋糕好吃吗:na tian ne na tian zuo shen me dan gao hao chi ma</mandarin> end up, ah, okay


[orh], !huh!, !wah!


ah ya lor I think that's also very fun lah like experiment try doing a few times to get the best recipe, ah


ah sometimes they will teach you how to like err do it better ah all those tips right, ah


ah <mandarin>你是做那种:ni shi zuo na zhong</mandarin> chinese dumpling lah, [orh] so interesting ah, ah, okay


, ah but the skin, ah, [orh] but <mandarin>那个皮你不是:na ge pi ni bu shi</mandarin> like err <mandarin>买外面的你是自己做:mai wai mian de ni shi zi ji zuo</mandarin> ah


!huh!, !wah!, (mmhmm), ya ya ya ya that's why hor also very fun like try out different different different recipe until you you get what you like


ah, (uh huh), , [orh] okay, how long is the course just one session or a few sessions


ah ah, [orh] okay


same thing with me, , ya, so I already sign up lor so I think I prioritise the use for all these courses I've signed up first see whether can get or not then left any balance then I go and look at some other things


ah, where to start right, ya that's why I was like I was like looking everywhere some IT courses ah a lot of digital things I don't even understand what they are then how to choose then have to slowly like <mandarin>哪一些:na yi xie</mandarin> free <mandarin>的课程拿去:de ke cheng na qu</mandarin> youtube <mandarin>了解一下然后:liao jie yi xia ran hou</mandarin> eh I I confirm I'm interested I'm a keen ah then I I start to sign up otherwise I don't know what to choose


, [orh] okay okay eh


very interesting leh, ah all the, ah ya, then all the elderly like very like you know at home mah cannot go out so they need like someone to to like talk to them also right


ah, ah okay


(uh huh), [orh], okay, oh is it the how what kind what kind <mandarin>怎么样的:zen me yang de</mandarin> KPI


ah, ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah ya lor, !wah!


take this already take that already or not hor,


okay, ah, then you are taking like, taking you are you are like in charge of how many elderly ah


(uh huh), (uh huh), !wah! okay


[orh] okay okay, so so far like two of them lah, (mmhmm), ah, ah then


ah ah, ya lor


ah, ah ah , ah


okay you very nice very interesting thing to do, make them happy hor


ah, (uh huh), ah, , eh but but most of them like <mandarin>你那两个:ni na liang ge</mandarin> elderly <mandarin>他们是跟家人住一起还是什么:ta men shi gen jia ren zhu yi qi hai shi shen me</mandarin> !huh! they are really alone !huh!


!aiyo!, [orh] no wonder they they ah, (uh huh) okay, okay okay ya at least there's still someone else in within the house lah hor


ya no wonder they look forward to like the conversation with you weekly, , me ah I spend the time you know <mandarin>读做我自己想做的:du zuo wo zi ji xiang zuo de</mandarin> lor take up <mandarin>一些:yi xie</mandarin> courses lor like youtube <mandarin>那些免免费的:na xie mian mian fei de</mandarin> mah learn something that I'm interested in lor or I I I do what I like like err watch all the err travel shows lah all these do some research on travel lor so that when travel opens up ah <mandarin>我我又可以就可以去了:wo wo you ke yi jiu ke yi qu le</mandarin> lor


ah, I don't know need to have the money also so see how first lah and also depends ah <mandarin>他们先先开哪一个国家对吗:ta men xian xian kai na yi ge guo jia dui ma</mandarin> of course now I think <mandarin>很多人喜欢日本:hen duo ren xi huan ri ben</mandarin> leh


ah <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> even malaysia <mandarin>到年底都没有希望对吗:dao nian di dou mei you xi wang dui ma</mandarin> like let alone other countries don't know what's going to happen, so no choice lor


!huh! ya to where, oh australia, !aiya!, (uh huh)


(mmhmm), eh but how's their winter like <mandarin>很冷:hen leng</mandarin> mah ah !huh!, ha, how how cold is their winter ah I don't know australia


oh ya lor that time the fire right, ah


(uh huh), should be very windy hor, , ya some more winter I don't know how cold their winter is


but the price leh <mandarin>那个价钱会贵吗:na ge jia qian hui gui ma</mandarin> lobster, ah okay, !haiya!


we all miss travelling lor, ah, ah, ah, !wah! then manage to get refund ah


oh okay partially or or everything, eh luckily lah !huh! since how long ago already


!huh! until now ah, oh okay okay, , so, so I think should be should be soon lah should be soon,


same, ya, ya, [orh] for me actually last time you know also affected the traveling I also canceled the trip initially ah initially they only refund fifty percent but after awhile they volunteered okay okay refund everything luckily


I was, oh no I was going on a cruise, ah, suppose to be in march then I I cancelled lor no choice, ah ya earlier this year


ah, I booked last year, uh ya lor that time still okay then suddenly all the COVID all the all the sudden change in plans


book earlier ya book earlier settle everything then the price also can get good price right, , oh ya lor ya lor confirm one that one confirm that one also very crowded <mandarin>很多人:hen duo ren</mandarin> uh


ah, !wah! <mandarin>他们有有人说:ta men you you ren shuo</mandarin> hor predict <mandarin>到二零二四年才会恢复正常:dao er ling er si nian cai hui hui fu zheng chang</mandarin> leh travelling


how how how how how how is their situation already so I don't understand why until end of this year then then then no


they will review again, ya lor, [orh] okay so they don't want err err any spike or or major change lah so they try to keep things under control ah


, ah, ya lor, cannot lah cannot


eh so any news of any news of your course ah, they didn't they didn't call you back lah, ah you sign up, ah using the skills future one


NTUC ah, [orh] <mandarin>点心:dian xin</mandarin> one okay okay eh [orh] I thought you finish the course already so haven't haven't started lah


eh which which school ah I haven't seen something like that leh, BITC !huh! okay, have time I go and take a look, !aiya! now is like no just spend the time doing what I like lor can try lah all along I like baking but no don't do it often


so now that I have time then can try lah maybe can try, uh


ya lor, ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah <mandarin>对就是蛋糕那些:dui jiu shi dan gao na xie</mandarin> lor


ah, okay, pastry <mandarin>怎么样的:zen me yang de</mandarin> pastry like chicken pie ah all these lah savoury kind of pies or sweet kind of of tarts


ah ah


ah okay, you also like ah okay okay, eh, that one I I never tried before those local Kueh, not good at all these, ah eh


(uh huh), ah that one quite nice usually I buy


ya I think a lot of work you know, ya I look at them ah prepare so so many different kind of ingredients then some of the ingredients are not easy to get at supermarket I don't know where to go and look for them wet market or what !aiyo!


ah [orh] okay okay, ah, , then there's


ah, ah eh <mandarin>你的椰椰浆哪里买的:ni de ye ye jiang na li mai de</mandarin> I always get from supermarket ah don't taste as good leh


then really the fresh kind of err <mandarin>椰浆:ye jiang</mandarin> lah


ah, [orh], okay


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, ya


!aiya! <mandarin>那个我也很喜欢:na ge wo ye hen xi huan</mandarin> but I don't know how to do it, ya, is it !aiya! <mandarin>多么希望你有请过我们:duo me xi wang ni you qing guo wo men</mandarin> !wah! eh I really like that you know you bite into it ah all the juicy juicy what the Gula-Melaka


ya, ah, ah, ah, ah, eh okay


ya lah ya lah I thought so leh then when you mention sweet potato how come got sweet potato, !huh! ah okay okay the traditional ah, ah, ah


oh but the texture is better right when you bite into it ah all this [orh], (uh huh)


[orh] okay okay eh I never ever know got sweet potato version, (uh huh), ah purple colour


ah [orh] so your your colour is different it's not green colour, ha, ah ah, ah


okay, ah, ah, ya green colour I only know green colour one


, ah


ah ah, [orh], ah ah, !wah!, [orh] okay so like a bit still harden inside lah when you bite into different ah


eh it's so nice, ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor <mandarin>可能会可能会:ke neng hui ke neng hui</mandarin> but !aiya! really have to be strict with the diet lah on diet now


ah, !aiya! how come I thought a lot of people gain weight because you know you don't go out as often as before mah so lack of exercise all these


then very convenient ah go to the fridge have food already, [orh] those err err err online online err exercise lah


!huh! which one you join, [orh] but zoom is really a live sessions lah, oh I know it's like err youtube a lot of err err free videos ah how to exercise all this I I refer to those lor not those zoom sessions


, err err, err usually not those err like , err, no no no not zumba those normal ones lah I don't know what they call ah fitness one


I don't know what's their name I see I look at the exercise ah I think I can do it then err I join lor, ah but I don't know whether they have special names for it or not, because for me,


!aiya! it's okay, oh because for me my leg was injured before mah so a lot of things I cannot do ya, so I have to choose those simpler exercises


[orh] <mandarin>好是好了:hao shi hao le</mandarin> but no matter what broken before lah so cannot recover to like fully normal that kind like certain angle ah I cannot bend already, ah


ya at the ankle, ya foot ankle foot ankle so beyond certain certain like I can only bend beyond certain err angle then cannot already, so jumping ah all these also a bit difficult for me


so must be must be those kind of light exercise, , eh how many how many sessions you join per week ah or everyday, ah ah


!wow! each session one hour or what, !wah! that's very long leh


ah, ah


okay okay, ah, ya, ya


some prefer morning some can only do it in the evening lor, ya, ya some even lunch time can squeeze in workout, ah ah


ah, ah ah, okay


, ah ya, ah, eh hiking <mandarin>你去哪里:ni qu na li</mandarin> hike


[orh] <mandarin>在你家:zai ni jia</mandarin> nearby lah, [orh] okay


ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> Sembawang that side


what park which park you are referring to Sembawang ah even the beach ah I I don't find it attractive, ya so nearby, ah, [orh] hot spring ah ya ya ya but I haven't been to there before


, ah ya can try hor one one day maybe can try ah <mandarin>对然后他们还说煮那个鸡蛋:dui ran hou ta men hai shuo zhu na ge ji dan</mandarin> leh I don't know how to go there but I know it's like err err near #chong pang# area lah but I exactly how to go there I don't know must go and check


suppose should not be very far lah maybe one or two bus stops away from #chong pang# then maybe walk in or what not too sure need to go and check how to go


ya, ya once you're nearer then we can see how to go, ya maybe can bring the eggs there lah, ah ya


, !aiya!, how to do that, how you, is it so <mandarin>你成功:ni cheng gong</mandarin> Liao lah


!huh! but like does it taste different from those err <mandarin>在外面买的那样:zai wai mian mai de na yang</mandarin> like err err fresher ah nicer ah or what or no difference quite okay


!huh! <mandarin>比较香:bi jiao xiang</mandarin> ah eh <mandarin>好:hao</mandarin> ah, how long one month two months, ah, okay okay


not enough ah, is it <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> I was I was just about to ask you eh where to get the duck eggs


so, then how how you manage to make the the salted egg chicken eggs, eh, ha what's the difference sakura and the normal egg


is it, but but but sakura egg what like no what what is the difference the the feed the way they they, oh okay, okay okay but sakura can we can find it in normal supermarket or where


have !huh!, !aiyo! that's what I don't have !aiya! I don't know where's the wet market, , ya should be lor everything should be fresher at the wet market uh


oh so, (uh huh), okay, [orh]


okay, ya ya ya must boil but I didn't know eh boil don't boil too long is also something to take note of leh, a'ah, [orh] okay okay then how long you boil it for


ah, (uh huh), like seven minutes eight minutes, ah <mandarin>那么短:na me duan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>那么快就好:na me kuai jiu hao</mandarin> Liao lah, [orh]


, !aiya! okay, ah <mandarin>冲一下那样:chong yi xia na yang</mandarin> lor ah


too salty already, ah


ah, ah, okay, !wah! <mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我最喜欢那个:wo zui xi huan na ge</mandarin> like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> egg yolk <mandarin>蛋黄会油油那样很多油的吃起来很香:dan huang hui you you na yang hen duo you de chi qi lai hen xiang</mandarin> ah


[orh] longer, ah so you tried only err err boiling the first egg lah haven't tried the second one lah


[orh] <mandarin>没有我有:mei you wo you</mandarin> try <mandarin>就是不要煮太久:jiu shi bu yao zhu tai jiu</mandarin> then end up it's the same leh <mandarin>没有煮太久一样:mei you zhu tai jiu yi yang</mandarin> like <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>硬硬干干那样的:ying ying gan gan na yang de</mandarin> I try different brands you know


ah, so that <mandarin>会会:hui hui</mandarin> produce <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> oil <mandarin>还是什么:hai shi shen me</mandarin> !huh!, [orh], ah !huh!


!wah!, eh <mandarin>你真的有研究过的:ni zhen de you yan jiu guo de</mandarin> I didn't know all these leh but I I really like salted egg so much, ya I like I like, but this year very difficult lor no mooncake fair all these very difficult to get the mooncakes already need to order online ya so try to cut down on all those things lor


ya, , thank you thank you, err need to like boil it first lah ah


[orh], ya lor very very like err how to say after after doing it ah I don't know where to put the container,


!huh! [orh] okay like no need special condition like like err humidity ah temperature put in dark room all these lah, [orh] okay okay then should be okay should be easy to find somewhere to store


salted egg ah, ya !aiya! you should add more eggs six is not enough lah, ah


okay, (uh huh), okay, ah, !aiya!


one whole tray is ah one whole tray is thirty eggs ah


eh ah <mandarin>那个盆就可以种了啦那个:na ge pen jiu ke yi zhong liao la na ge</mandarin> pot lah, [orh] but still need to have like balcony all these at least lah


ah, ah is it, I thought must have the sun ah all these, !huh! eh, [orh] okay okay


ah ya ya ya ya I think my family ah they also go and err collect the seeds leh but I don't think they started planting already lah


ya ya, then actually I don't know where to get the soil <mandarin>不懂去哪里买那个泥土:bu dong qu na li mai na ge ni tu</mandarin> all these lor, then need to get the, !huh!, !huh!


!aiya! my place [orh] okay can can can giant err, the what the SSC have


ya, ya we are more used to this, ah more use,


[orh] eh but <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> err like <mandarin>那些:na xie</mandarin> social work <mandarin>那样的:na yang de</mandarin> lah


[orh] okay, eh but <mandarin>我听他们说:wo ting ta men shuo</mandarin> NTUC like overwhelming already you know, ah so the start date maybe like not so soon hor or you want to try you didn't try other err schools lah, maybe can get the date faster


ah I know, I know ah that's why I'm also looking at RP lor because it's nearer my place , ya


how come RP also have bread making, , !huh!


okay, ah


ya <mandarin>对对对:dui dui dui</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我现在看到:wo xian zai kan dao</mandarin> hor like <mandarin>不要以为说面包:bu yao yi wei shuo mian bao</mandarin> very easy to make not easy one leh they have different way ya they have different different ways then I look it !wah! really need to need to be so particular , ya even though I don't understand lah


ah ah, ah


, [orh] okay,


[orh] <mandarin>还有我:hai you wo</mandarin> parents lor <mandarin>还好有他们:hai hao you ta men</mandarin> lah <mandarin>就就陪他们:jiu jiu pei ta men</mandarin> lor spend more time with them also make use of this chance, no ah retire already very old already lah


ya lor, [orh] <mandarin>还有一个妹妹还有一个:hai you yi ge mei mei hai you yi ge</mandarin> sister, !huh!, so <mandarin>怎么样明天:zen me yang ming tian</mandarin> sunday


!huh! [orh] okay, [orh], ah ah


[orh] okay


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


ah


ah !huh!, okay, ah <mandarin>所以你你炒米粉很好了:suo yi ni ni chao mi fen hen hao le</mandarin> lah, , oh


ha


what's the trick ah, ah, [orh] okay


ah, [orh] okay like <mandarin>红豆红豆汤:hong dou hong dou tang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>绿豆汤这些:lv dou tang zhe xie</mandarin> lah


, , ah okay, ah


(uh huh), ah, ah so that kind of like don't repeat lah


variety , [orh] ingredients available or not


[orh] [orh] <mandarin>所以也是有:suo yi ye shi you</mandarin> budget <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah, [orh] <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> budget <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>他们给你们的:ta men gei ni men de</mandarin> budget so you have to like work within the budget lah


ah, (uh huh), !wow! okay okay !wow!, !wow! eh so each group ah how many volunteers ah like cooking for thirty to forty people okay


, !wah!


okay okay, !wah! <mandarin>那个好吃:na ge hao chi</mandarin> ah


meaning like no meaning hor uh like everyday like plain plain food


ah ah


ah okay, ah, ya because I think soup, ya easy to spill while all these transportation that kind not so easy ah so maybe they don't include the soup hor


ah ya that one is really you know very when I see you know I feel very, [orh] ya lor


why ah, ya, (uh huh), ah


ah, [orh] [orh] okay okay [orh] <mandarin>所以那个:suo yi na ge</mandarin> condition <mandarin>是要可以:shi yao ke yi</mandarin> keep warm <mandarin>但是又可以:dan shi you ke yi</mandarin> like reusable lah


ah, ya true true true no wonder


(uh huh), [orh] so it's like at least kind of like times two hor double !wah!, <mandarin>还要:hai yao</mandarin> replace ah


ya then the storage for all these container leh where to put them, ah but in the long term leh


but in the long time have you all calculated it really should be the direction lah


[orh] okay, , (uh huh) then to wash up ah all these


!wah!, up again, , ya


ya it's very interesting sounds very interesting to me, and talk to them, like, ah


okay, ah, okay, ah ya like christmas ah chinese new year all these ah


but I think, ya but I think they will enjoy it right all those major festival, ah


(uh huh), [orh] so plan some activities for them as well lah exercise ah then other interaction play games all these lah


ah, enjoy themselves or not ah, and some even put up performance for them right, ya, ya what what is it the food


ah, ah soup, ah what is it that they like, !aiyo! they sing or other people sing or they enjoy this so that they they enjoy singing ah


, , and sing very loud ah, !wah! <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> mah <mandarin>因为因为有些:yin wei yin wei you xie</mandarin> err <mandarin>要保持活跃不是每个人都会这样子的:yao bao chi huo yue bu shi mei ge ren dou hui zhe yang zi de</mandarin> the very active ah still at that age


so it's good for them ah, ya


try to shorten try to shorten,


ah ya lor like looking forward to this kind of events lah <mandarin>比较热闹:bi jiao re nao</mandarin> ah


!wah! then set up the karaoke system for them


ya, , so they they you all actually have like someone err some funds ah


so they have kind of like, so meaning if I like if I'm interested I can go to the CC and ask them whether <mandarin>他们有这样子的:ta men you zhe yang zi de</mandarin> err elderly <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> volunteer group <mandarin>是吗:shi ma</mandarin> I can find out more from my CC !huh!


[orh], [orh] okay, okay <mandarin>所以可以:suo yi ke yi</mandarin> like try to go and ask around lah if I'm interested like nearby my place okay


(uh huh), ah, okay ah


(uh huh), okay, so so do you, do you also go down, the once weekly one, [orh] okay so you just also like join like recently lah


before the COVID , ah okay of their events lah


eh what type of handicrafts !huh!, what what do they make, [orh] <mandarin>做灯笼:zuo deng long</mandarin> !huh!


very good at all these right


ah <mandarin>很美的很美的什么都做得出来的:hen mei de hen mei de shen me dou zuo de chu lai de</mandarin> ah, ya


then what do they do if they have this senior corner uh, [orh] okay then err regular times they will gather around there right like a few times a week or every evening or something like that right


[orh] anytime you are free you can just go there lah, !huh!, , eh very nice leh so nice ah okay I I remember now <mandarin>我们没有那种:wo men mei you na zhong</mandarin> err <mandarin>组屋楼下:zu wu lou xia</mandarin> senior corner but near <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> near <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> shopping mall hor <mandarin>有一个有一个:you yi ge you yi ge</mandarin> area <mandarin>有一些椅子很多:you yi xie yi zi hen duo</mandarin> senior <mandarin>就喜欢:jiu xi huan</mandarin> gather <mandarin>在那里:zai na li</mandarin> I think that's kind of like our senior corner already everyday I walk past ah seniors gather around there then chit chat lor but they are all uncles no aunties


ya all uncles don't have auntie #ah ma# one, ya lor ya lor, then because, (uh huh) ya good to have like interaction lah remain active still hor


but I think ah during the COVID COVID period ah !aiya! difficult for them to get together but they still want to crowd around together so we were laughing at it, cannot change lah


ya ya I think now most of us use to it already, ya I think except for wearing the masks ah scanning ah everything is like back to normal already no safe distancing one you know people just crowd around


uh during queues or all these, , ya ya ya at least better with the mask, you feel safer going out


, everyone, ya everyone is staring at you, ah ah


, ya, ya that time the other time also I I really ran went out of my house quite a long distance already cannot cannot go back then I was wondering why everyone staring at me !aiya! then I realised luckily I have one spare one in my bag


ya so I must remember ah keep spare in the bag, ya lor <mandarin>我也是放了好几个那样子:wo ye shi fang le hao ji ge na yang zi</mandarin> in case


!aiya! <mandarin>我没有拿我不知道有那个:wo mei you na wo bu zhi dao you na ge</mandarin> deadline <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so err I went after the deadline then they say no more already


wasted lor, , okay lah <mandarin>有拿到就好:you na dao jiu hao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>好过我都没有拿得到:hao guo wo dou mei you na de dao</mandarin> ah


very good [ha] okay, ya, last time they give out the black colour [one] right (ppl) <mandarin>很丑我不喜欢因为刚开始不习惯我出去:hen chou wo bu xi huan yin wei gang kai shi bu xi guan wo chu qu</mandarin> [hor]


okay can you hear me, a microphone to


eh hi #jia yuan#, so it's something interesting isn't it this, like, <mandarin>好像很好玩:hao xiang hen hao wan</mandarin>


try lor, me ah, I busy lor attend class you leh


, I'm I'm glad err you know that day <mandarin>你打给我:ni da gei wo</mandarin> lah, then,


then got write in any or not, err <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> find for job lah


to, oh


I <mandarin>随便做:sui bian zuo</mandarin> lah <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> youtube <mandarin>找:zhao</mandarin> lah, oh,


err then sometimes dumpling, some successful lah but some


not very successful then got to first attempt not so good then try to adjust,


correct, then err share with my friends then they also share with me their recipes, , but some some of it like you need to get the <mandarin>巧门:qiao men</mandarin> you know


ah


so not very successful the first few times then later the filling is okay but the <mandarin>那个皮:na ge pi</mandarin> hor cannot get it right


that means, from the <mandarin>面粉:mian fen</mandarin> the <mandarin>面团:mian tuan</mandarin> do lah then try on youtube some recipes are okay some are not, cannot cannot make it one


because I like baking so ya I do that lah I actually sign up for a <mandarin>包点:bao dian</mandarin> course you know the #dim sum# course, that, it's a three days session and I can use the credit err know the skills future credit


to offset lah then actually, so quite <mandarin>划算:hua suan</mandarin> lah,


, ya maybe you take a look at the website and see like you know what interests you you can also take courses lah


ya lor, initially there are so many courses that I don't even know, ya where to start


ya, those err IT courses ah <mandarin>有时几百块的:you shi ji bai kuai de</mandarin> leh, , [orh] <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, then in the meantime <mandarin>我也是有做义工:wo ye shi you zuo yi gong</mandarin> lah volunteer


I do the elderly befriending, , ya then because of the COVID right err we cannot visit the elderly face to face


so, ya, then err, telephone lah I I do a weekly call to


err a few lah they gave me because I volunteer with the family centre near my house, then they give me the contact number, then I just call lor, err once a week


and, eh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> KPI <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh,


or in fact they got a lot of medicine one lah, then must ask them err like, err ya then err some are on welfare like their meals are delivered by some welfare organisations


then ask them how is the feedback on the meals, ya


they start off with two, two per two elderly, and they are like very old lah some almost close to eighty years old, the ya the two attached that err that I'm err I'm supposed to connect with are like seventy plus eighty years old ah


, ya two of them actually quite interesting you know like err I talked to them then err Kaypoh Kaypoh a bit then,


ah then, ya then they they look forward to my call leh then <mandarin>你觉得很安慰:ni jue de hen an wei</mandarin> lor, , like they they enjoy like someone talking to them, ah then they will tell me things like eh <mandarin>今天我收到一封信:jin tian wo shou dao yi feng xin</mandarin> hor


but <mandarin>全部全部都是英文:quan bu quan bu dou shi ying wen</mandarin> leh, ah, at least they know where is the sender, or or something like that


, ya I mean, it didn't occur to me a simple thing like getting a mail ah for an elderly staying alone, ya someone just help them like oh this is err from err housing board is just an err err err announcement or a notice to them


and it because they they are so anxious, when they receive the letter they don't know whether is it err important or not,


alone, , like they have, they have a flat mate, ah <mandarin>跟他住好像跟他们一人一个房间:gen ta zhu hao xiang gen ta men yi ren yi ge fang jian</mandarin> [bah]


ah, ya, , ya, how about you leh


besides


!huh!, !hannor! !hannor! !aiya! <mandarin>我也是没有得:wo ye shi mei you de</mandarin> travel, so once open


ya, actually, me and my girlfriends plan for a trip this year you know, wanted to go perth we planned it last year


ya we wanted, we wanted to go perth ah like just a short one one week, err in june that because it's winter I never tried winter, eh sorry not winter ah ya is their winter


it's , err perth I mean it's also history lah that because they also don't know nowadays the weather quite unpredictable


, ya, then if it's perth if you go by the seaside stay near the


the coast, ah they say, <mandarin>很大风:hen da feng</mandarin> then can be very cold so you need at least a jacket


[orh] my friend asked me to go is because she say the lobsters are nice


ya, she she ya, then err


ya lor, a full refund, but <mandarin>我还没有看到钱:wo hai mei you kan dao qian</mandarin> leh,


february we applied for the refund, some of my friends got it err last err no this month, earlier this month, I am still waiting


I hope so, if not I have to call them in case they miss out, ya lor


which one, oh which airline, [orh], [orh] but


this year ah, so you booked, you book when, [orh] ya lor


, we all we all <mandarin>怕输:pa shu</mandarin> mah we thought, ya don't want to like err together with the school holidays maybe the price go up


[orh],


oh my goodness,


I also don't know what is, also don't know ah, because their election coming I heard


maybe lah, cause I think now everybody is afraid of second wave


right, don't want err if second wave then shut down again then !aiya! don't know what happen, , ya, ya lor, I


the course, the course, the course that I took, [orh] already confirmed starting next month lah


my the which the the course that I'm doing the <mandarin>点心:dian xin</mandarin> one ah , no haven't that one just to register


err BITC ah, bake err, uh, some but you like baking ah


[orh], I registered with another three friends ah so four of us going, ya, so not too bad lah will be quite fun lah it's like a, to to go and uh bake together ah


[orh] western <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> like err <mandarin>蛋糕:dan gao</mandarin> lah pastry <mandarin>这些:zhe xie</mandarin> !huh!


[orh], that's why


ah, , pastry as in tarts lah, err those err, err pies also okay shepherd's pie, chicken pie


even curry puffs, local local #kueh kueh# I also did before, I I like to make, , I like to make


[orh], ah local Kueh okay ah I did the <mandarin>九层糕:jiu ceng gao</mandarin> during the COVID I actually did <mandarin>九层糕:jiu ceng gao</mandarin> and the other one you know with the <mandarin>糯米:nuo mi</mandarin> below, and on top is the err green Kaya


ya but a lot of work leh, a lot of work


I go wet market mah so it's quite alright, but the like the the bottom layer the glutinous rice right I got to soak overnight one,


, ah


so, no, I go to the wet market, ya they they grate they grate for you at the err at the wet market


ah <mandarin>很耐:hen nai</mandarin> lor can last a long time


but in the fridge can last, so <mandarin>我很喜欢做:wo hen xi huan zuo</mandarin> Ondeh-Ondeh ah


next time next time


ha, err Gula-Melaka, ya, I make but I put more sweet potato, you know outside they sell one lah, they sell the Ondeh-Ondeh is mainly flour


the the dough is mainly made of flour, the, yes so my version ah cause I learn from my grandma last time one lah the Kampung one ah, is they use sweet potato they use sweet potato


uh that means that the because if you use sweet potato is err <mandarin>太重本:tai zhong ben</mandarin> mah, to sell, softer, softer but if you like the Q Q one ah then the portion of the flour is more


uh, ya ya that's why my sweet potato mine big my Ondeh-Ondeh depends on the sweet potato I buy, can be the orange one


or, the purple one ya, the purple one sweeter, ah green colour is sometimes I use the sweet potato but I put the Pandan extract hor I extract the Pandan leaf then it'll be a bit greenish lah but it's not very dark green


, outside if you use the flour one ah you can use err more, the park those Pandan they Pandan extract they sell right those essence ah, you will get a very dark green


, that's why mine is more colourful and then I make it bites just one <mandarin>一口一粒:yi kou yi li</mandarin> like that hor, ah


so after boiling ah there will still be a bit, uh not all melt, ah not all melt, ah still a bit of crunch


oh what happen


I I I lost weight you know COVID, oh


[orh] but I I err joined those zoom classes lah, , they have a few I joined the free ones lah


ya, [orh] you you join which type of exercise


zumba, fitness one lah, aerobics


[orh], I have,


you say, !huh!, oh, oh ya, ya ya ya


I remembered, [orh] is at the ankle right


or the foot the foot ankle


oh when I started off very ambitious ah, I do three err at first do almost five days per week, every morning, ya, ya


because starting don't know what to do mah a lot of time mah, , then every morning wake up hor because that one is free, and I come, err there were two companies, err having it I join their zumba their cardio


and then they have the stretch stretching lah, so they have a schedule timetable then every like they have eight o'clock, nine err then noon, they have then evening they have also to cater for those I think work from home


, so, lunchtime ya then some evening, ya, so beginning too much time don't know what to do so I was exercising I went for


err because that was before COVID mah, then I went for walks hiking, alone lah, ya, then err after that err get lazy already because attend classes and all that because classes normally start like nine o'clock right


then if eight o'clock you go from eight to nine ah then <mandarin>满身大汗的还要去冲凉:man shen da han de hai yao qu chong liang</mandarin> then after that late for class,


ah <mandarin>我去那个我也是有驾车出去:wo qu na ge wo ye shi you jia che chu qu</mandarin> err <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> thomson <mandarin>那边那个:na bian na ge</mandarin> err treetop walk, because, <mandarin>我家这边:wo jia zhe bian</mandarin> lah <mandarin>也有去:ye you qu</mandarin> east coast


, uh but Sembawang the park there also not bad right, I don't know Sembawang, don't know, ah


!huh!, if they open up, they open up that that uh hot spring, I, I haven't been also wanted to go


can leh, but from your place, ya, ya lor ya lor


ya lor maybe you can find out then we can arrange, err maybe I can only meet you like I have to either I take a bus, [orh] no lah MRT down somewhere the nearest MRT I also don't know how to get there


ya then after that can go #chong pang# Makan , oh talk about, talk about egg you know I I try to make salted egg at home, !wah!, oh it's not difficult I send you the recipe


I err, okay leh


you, I but must soak very long, I, what ah at least err three weeks I tried actually I soak for more slightly more than three weeks then we took out


we we took and then !aiya! soak too too few I only soaked six eggs,


, not sold in singapore markets, I use chicken egg, but I bought the sakura eggs


[orh] the sakura egg the yoke ah is bigger, ya, maybe


I think have [bah] I I didn't buy from supermarket I bought it from the wet market, , wet market one the the eggs are fresher leh I feel


oh so I soak it for more than three weeks the other day we took one out just to see whether it's ready, then, err the the trick is also not to boil too long, we boil it


the egg after soaking is still not cooked mah, err ya because if you boil it too long ah then the yoke become very hard, not nice


err they they recommended depending on the size of the eggs lah because mine is not very big the ones that I bought are not very big so they, no five minutes,


then you remove it then on the tap lah <mandarin>冷水的:leng shui de</mandarin> tap


to like stop the cooking


but <mandarin>不是很咸:bu shi hen xian</mandarin> but <mandarin>它的黄:ta de huang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>有一点点:you yi dian dian</mandarin> shining shining <mandarin>油这样的:you zhe yang de</mandarin> leh, ah, uh but <mandarin>不够油:bu gou you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>还不够:hai bu gou</mandarin> so I'm going to leave it for another ya longer


ya, ya, ya I'm so encouraged already from the first egg


, ya but maybe


is err you also put err alcohol, cooking cooking wine lah,


then you like mooncake is it, , and too expensive, too expensive


expenses right ya, I give you the recipe I go and find the recipe then I give it to you, but your you, the container you need to keep it clean lah, that means you use hot hot water


like sterilise it then ya, [orh] I just left it on the one of the kitchen table top one corner lah


ya I tag, , no no, ya I just label it lah like the date


uh the date lah the date that I started, ya, then some was saying you can put some cinnamon as well for added spice


ya but I I just go with the original ah the vanilla that means original original see how is it lor, then dare not, follow fully the recipe for one whole tray mah


just do six, ya, ya, then during the COVID you know what <mandarin>我也有种那个豆芽:wo ye you zhong na ge dou ya</mandarin> leh


, but, no need no need


err you need to be in a dark place, , no


because that time ah, the you know newspaper was talking about all the growing your own stuff, ah


we collected ours also haven't start because haven't get, need to get the soil lah the rest, err nursery


ah, giant also have


should have lah, it's just that uh now hor, like the schedule more or less err settled in already, with my, voluntary work


, ya, you know


I didn't, RP also have leh republic poly, I actually had attended a webinar by RP one but it's a bread making webinar


is a japanese, yes yes it's a japanese japanese err lecture err think he's a chef or chef lecturer, ya


just attempt


not easy one, ya ya so if


if <mandarin>自己做的:zi ji zuo de</mandarin> hor then <mandarin>尽量就是不要放:jin liang jiu shi bu yao fang</mandarin> like <mandarin>我不要放这样多那个酵母那些:wo bu yao fang zhe yang duo na ge jiao mu na xie</mandarin> yeast ah, cause more or less it's like err I don't know it's not


maybe not so sometimes the smell very strong, the yeast


then <mandarin>你有没有:ni you mei you</mandarin> like contact <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> friends, [orh]


, , but they are working no ah


[orh], okay lah spend time with them, so just you and your parents ah


[orh], <mandarin>我明天有去煮:wo ming tian you qu zhu</mandarin> ah, volunteer <mandarin>煮:zhu</mandarin> lunch <mandarin>给那些:gei na xie</mandarin> elderly


then <mandarin>有时:you shi</mandarin> either <mandarin>鸡蛋:ji dan</mandarin> or something lah !huh! <mandarin>三菜:san cai</mandarin> lah, ah then


so before like err because I volunteer there are six groups I volunteer for two groups, that means two sundays of the six sundays I I I cook lah, err one of the group, like tomorrow's group only do #bee hoon# noodles all that lah


ah, then then the other group is rice <mandarin>三菜一汤:san cai yi tang</mandarin> lah, so tomorrow's group we normally do err fried #bee hoon# or fried err fried Mee


you know that that kind, instead of, white rice lah, of course the #bee hoon# got <mandarin>料:liao</mandarin> one lah, , err <mandarin>没有没有炒米粉我已经:mei you mei you chao mi fen wo yi jing</mandarin> train up somebody <mandarin>了我只是用口:le wo zhi shi yong kou</mandarin> train <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin>


[orh] beginning <mandarin>炒的:chao de</mandarin> hor <mandarin>料很多可是米粉不入味的:liao hen duo ke shi mi fen bu ru wei de</mandarin> leh


ah, , ah <mandarin>有诀窍的:you jue qiao de</mandarin> then


then err beginning <mandarin>是这样:shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>我们炒的米粉:wo men chao de mi fen</mandarin> hor <mandarin>料很多:liao hen duo</mandarin> leh cause you try to make up for it right, ya then later later okay lah like slowly you get the you know like


try to sometimes , try to like you know you taste lah, then you soak the #bee hoon#


then err then we normally top it up with another soup normally I do a sweet soup, dessert


err barley you know with the beancurd


<mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> the whole group we have each one each group will have their own group chat, so before their turn you will just say err what menu we will have for this week like we also know what previous week they have cooked, they cook right previous week


ah we try to give them variety lor, then also see uh sometimes not just variety sometimes also see like err supermarket or market what they have like eh this week ah I saw a lot of, ah a lot of hairy cucumber you know those


err, ya so the sponsor will sponsor this program


then we there are like err tomorrow there are thirty thirty elderly lah we have to cook, err full force is forty lah four zero, but


at least five, at least five some groups very good lah they don't need five uh four person can already and, and they are like, they one of the groups I heard is that they are actually the #zi char#


they help they have a, ah #zi char# stall but they just sunday they go and do <mandarin>义工:yi gong</mandarin> you know, ah, yes [orh] they make that time they make the <mandarin>扣肉饭:kou rou fan</mandarin> ah !wah!


ya but cannot always lah because <mandarin>扣肉饭:kou rou fan</mandarin> not very healthy for the, but, eh but, elderly <mandarin>口味很重的:kou wei hen zhong de</mandarin> leh they like, once


once a while lah once a while give them these, if not sometimes also, quite difficult, , ya lor, then at least they got soup they like the soup mah because they say that those welfare


err association also deliver their daily one meals ah, normally is just dry, that means rice and dishes but no soup, so they like our soup


ya, ya but the challenge is that, we are still using a lot of those containers plastic containers which we are trying


so , initially we bought you know we bought err when we started discussing for this project right


they went to look on the Taobao, err what whether they have those Tingkat err containers, keep warm, ya


ya, err, it may be quite expensive lah


because it's like, it's not just forty you know you must cater for those , logistics that means you send it to them, then you have to collect back the old one, double


true so the logistics of this and then after that bringing back you still have to do the cleaning the process


and, yes, ya, so there's, it should lah think have to bring it up again because there were a lot of objections lah because firstly not enough volunteer lah


because all this to keep the costs low, it's true, I mean using the resource would be from volunteers mah, though we have the place we using the CCs kitchen mah


community centre kitchen, then err, couldn't breakthrough lah, not enough err resources people to collect back, and then wash


ah, ya, so I don't know when they will bring this up again already how many years we did this for this is the third year, , but it's interesting ah


I like doing this lor, , ya, then we meet up with the old folks , at least, uh


at least four times a year, ah so that, because it's also a bad very big hassle to meet up with them ah, I mean if it's a consolidated one like they have some festive, err event


, then get their feedback lor, yes yes yes, I participated once ah err


where we had a breakfast, in the CC, so we cook porridge for them so they all come eat breakfast, and then they they had it was an event lah so they have like stretching exercise


ya, ya, ya then get their feedback lor, get like how they find the food that we cook


ya, you know what they like best the old folks, uh uh the food they they like the soup lah but I mean the event, they like, they liked best is


they sing, , those are more like err more more outspoken one lah


ah they like to sing, ya, ya


our our what we say is maybe everytime <mandarin>没有观众:mei you guan zhong</mandarin>


ya, some are quite good lah I mean at that age, at that age <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> you know !wah! <mandarin>他的中气:ta de zhong qi</mandarin> err <mandarin>中气十足:zhong qi shi zu</mandarin> but some !aiyo! cannot make it lah


so those cannot make it one ah everytime the host, uh or the emcee ya ya ya shorten the music also cut short


but can see that they they like this kind of events lah, but err organising such an event is err no joke


ya, ya, and then err resource also, ya the the tentage and everything there's a lot of err work lah so cannot so often lah


and also cost a lot of money, ya normally is organised by the committee there lor the community their community centre they have those senior


citizens err group,


I don't know your side have a not lah but the one that I go to is henderson there, because I think roughly basically over there <mandarin>很多老人住在那边:hen duo lao ren zhu zai na bian</mandarin> leh


ya can, can lah <mandarin>你家里不是有两个老人:ni jia li bu shi you liang ge lao ren</mandarin> lor, , ah, then the other one I told you was the one ah the befriending one right the elderly befriending actually they


they have a family centre so before COVID times those elderly staying nearby will go down to the centre like once a week for activities, you know they play games


they do exercises, they play like, big, , when I wanted to go down the COVID started


ya, so err but they share with me some of the old err photos lah, ah, ya they do like err, err exercises they also have crafts had err handicrafts for the old folks


just, they do some, like, if lantern festival or something they make some like the fish ah <mandarin>灯笼:deng long</mandarin> ya


eh some of the old aunties they're they're they're very good, yes yes, ah yes


paper, ah, they use paper you know scraps


ah then they make flowers


[orh], [orh] like they decorate up the place lor


ya, it's it's open one so like err they can go down, ya, ya then normally near the seniors corner they were cordon off one small garden where they can do gardening


ya


, their, ya lah, , [orh] yours is all uncle, , , #ah ma# busy upstairs looking after grandchildren


, ya but I think it's good, ya


ya because for them ah if, ya, now at least they are I see like more cooperative lah beginning there were some quite uncooperative right don't want to wear the mask


but I see the crowd coming back so also quite scared


ya, at least now I don't see people not wearing masks lah, ya, initially there was once ah, err when it just started


when I went out of my house I forgot to wear my mask, then I see eh, why ah why there's something I miss did I forget to, no no no I haven't I haven't go up to the meet the people yet I was still walking, then is like something is missing but I don't know what


then I remembered quickly run back to my house


[orh], ya now I have more than one , ya I keep more than one in my bag now


oh


that one, not so colourful, [orh]


(mm) is reusable and it's more comfortable


does it work now okay that's good, !yay!, okay just now I was saying I I I I I book gym sessions three gym sessions


forming well I think I need to I think we need to do own like fraser wilson youtube videos, ya we need to do it we should do it on tuesdays and thursdays


yes, [orh], you know


talk, ya, when


about what about the job application is it, the UOB application, then


I call you the other day also you never call me back, last week, (ugh)


ya but <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I'm I I I went out with my parents and he never say anything, now you are not now you're very free ah


what


what, (mmhmm), ya


(mmhmm), what, who, so weird


and then what did he say, is he is he straight


that's so weird <mandarin>你很怪:ni hen guai</mandarin> eh, , ya eh then what happen to the, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>你的那个:ni de na ge</mandarin> then you went to the boot then did you buy tickets for the movie and then


you didn't get a refund, or what happened


I thought you buy you bought advanced tickets, [orh]


I think ya okay I think now I think nowadays right like if someone message me and then, like if I feel like I don't know I shouldn't reply them I just don't reply them


you know that you know jason the guy he he just stopped talking for like, he didn't text me back for like a few months that's why he today he messaged me, like,


it's okay it's okay ya then I just I just I just ignored him I didn't reply, ya, well then after I after talking after a few weeks after liam like we stopped talking actually one week after I start talking to liam, I talk to someone other guy someone someone else


ya he's #keng hao#'s friend, should I shouldn't say people's names right, , ya anyway, , then, ya he eh we actually hit off hit off quickly like quite well at the start


then after that <mandarin>我发觉到他:wo fa jue dao ta</mandarin> actually, like even though I I like, kind of like him I just ignored him after that


ya, he's he's indian, then I thought it was like !wow! it's like !wow! it's so it's such a coincidence because like it makes me it made it so easy to forget liam


you know what I mean, what, but then now is like now because like I just ignored their this other guy so now I'm thinking I'm thinking back about him ya which is, (mmhmm)


I think <mandarin>应该是可以的啦因为他们有那个:ying gai shi ke yi de la yin wei ta men you na ge</mandarin> machine AI machine, , machine learning


ya, because we have a talk for so, we even talk for so long


err is it an advertisement, chinese


oh, is it why but channel news asia <mandarin>是那个英文的:shi na ge ying wen de</mandarin> mah


!huh! you need to translate the the english to chinese, a lot right how much


just tell me, !huh!, ya, [orh]


!chey!, !wah! eh then <mandarin>你没有给我那个这个机会:ni mei you gei wo na ge zhe ge ji hui</mandarin> opportunity


and you end at what time, oh is it


is it live, is it live, oh so you have to go there, oh, translate before you go


translated already, then, then <mandarin>很容易:hen rong yi</mandarin> what


!chey!, okay lah <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> lah eh let me know if you have any other opportunities like this


oh as in like, like, speak the way you speak, oh


I mean I I wouldn't mind like speaking in english


very tired eh, ya, then what, ya I was damn tired lah a lot of work to do I I literally have a lot a lot of work to do


school work, it looks better what, is it because of the the lighting ah, disgusting


that was there was there was there anyone after that after movie person though really, surprising, , ivan


what thing


you go and message the person lah, kidding, I would if it doesn't work would they still pay us, really that's okay lah anyway


we will have talked for another one hour oh you are sometimes that there's red I think it's red if it's too you talked too like too loud, ya, (ugh)


I love them, kidding


I know, because he, he's quite <mandarin>红:hong</mandarin> eh


because he's, ya I saw it I liked it


it's political, cause it's black, , we should ask we should ask #jing yao# to talk to us


to talk, to do this thing as well, I need to start applying for jobs


but you don't you know what you don't want to do that's that that's a good thing, so what did you do with his arms


[orh] shoulder lah then, show me his pic leh


but it's recording right, eh where are these people from ah


the organisation, what organisation, this this thing which organisation


[orh] ya ya ya, wed


they look like that I don't know, it should be students lah <mandarin>应该是学生:ying gai shi xue sheng</mandarin> lah, maybe a maybe like a startup lor


ya, (mmhmm) oh because you just now you call me about the work right the project


(ugh) I hate school lah really


my internship ended last week, ya, not really sorrow lah


not getting paid anymore, (ugh), from where, don't know


I'm single, , I actually feel pretty happy cause like when I when I talk when I talk to this indian actually not he's not really indian he's Kashmiri it's like you know where is Kashmir


like, no that's that is cashmere wool he is Kashmir a part of india, northern like


ya he's he's not bad looking but the thing is, like, if I was I didn't verify, if it was me like one year ago I would have like still continue talking to him, but now I just feel like I didn't want to talk to him anymore cause like


more like this person like just


no lah just like, I said he I mean I told you what <mandarin>他他有在跟其他人讲话:ta ta you zai gen qi ta ren jiang hua</mandarin> like he said


then I don't want to be like a you know, really but it's like quite, this is fifteen this is fifteen right


think it's okay lah


still posting on instagram, , no thank you, no thank you


err, [orh]


ya I very singaporean


what you eating [orh] is just troop waffle, from amsterdam, oh she's at the amsterdam


oh, !wow!


caramel, it it's actually not <mandarin>不是那个不是:bu shi na ge bu shi</mandarin> biscuit lah <mandarin>是那个:shi na ge</mandarin> waffle right


you shouldn't eat too much at night, err, vinegar vinegar, ya <mandarin>苹果醋:ping guo cu</mandarin> apple cider vinegar


cause I had sushi in the at night I'm not really good at digesting sushi,


I love sushiro, we can have that next week, I don't really wanna meet #jing yao# actually I don't really want to be anyone cause I, I very tired


stocks lah


apple is the second the second most valued err overpriced, you should I think you should sell you should sell soon, I tell you after elections right


everything will start dropping like crazy, but I think, but


I don't know I think in the long term you should sell, <mandarin>很累:hen lei</mandarin> leh, we should you should comet to the gym we should go to the gym so you can do legs


did you sign up


oh the the the ten dollars one right, is one person one is it


ya, is it looks fun it looks fun, !huh!


no but I don't understand what what did you say, apply for the the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err


gym membership, then why you didn't, I think #jing yao# is damn busy with his work lah


I can't be bothered him also, family time


(ugh), ya actually I got <mandarin>有有很多人在跟我讲话:you you hen duo ren zai gen wo jiang hua</mandarin> but I don't feel like meeting anyone


, I want to focus on myself


twenty twenty, you cannot be, ya


it's not called pizzaria what do you what do you it's it's called, pepperoni


I don't really like it eh I don't mind lah but it's just not good for my health cause like , what ya


I love the the meat one, ya


we err <mandarin>下个星期:xia ge xing qi</mandarin> are you free, oh what happen


then


(uh huh), what does that mean, [orh]


this is prerogative, you all been talking for very long right as in like, true


but it's true eh I think I feel like it's is it I he's definitely more busy than me but like still


the way people, manage, their time when they're stressed is different lah, ya but I think but also true lah you all very different people lah he so old already, err, but why don't you meet ah


so long already still don't meet, [orh], as an <mandarin>我也是很忙:wo ye shi hen mang</mandarin> but it's just <mandarin>我也是很累:wo ye shi hen lei</mandarin> cause if, I there's if I don't meet someone I can do work instead you know what I mean


I, same


same, it's the same for me, ya and then, and then <mandarin>如果你去:ru guo ni qu</mandarin> meet people right you will lose your focus and then , ya I'm eating I meeting


two friends actually we supposed to meet this afternoon but then one of the girls like cancel, ya that, Yashee and, Harsher Pakistani and indian, then <mandarin>下个星期:xia ge xing qi</mandarin> then they they they shift to <mandarin>下个星期:xia ge xing qi</mandarin> lah then next week can next week I also meeting


lucas and ian from my from NS, they want to they want to , I just I just zoom him zoom with ian and lucas yesterday <mandarin>他很长得很胖:ta hen zhang de hen pang</mandarin> lor, ya, he's he's taking a gap year lah but then


I don't really like feel like going out lah I should tell him maybe cause he say he wanna go for like <mandarin>一整天:yi zheng tian</mandarin> then I'm like


err I got work to do I need apply for jobs, and my CCA also <mandarin>很忙:hen mang</mandarin> then got a lot of things lah like, I'd rather I'd rather spend my time focusing on myself than, go out


ya, what, you plagiarised from who ah


oh then <mandarin>不关你的:bu guan ni de</mandarin> shit lah, usually we usually <mandarin>我们讲话讲到:wo men jiang hua jiang dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>两三个小时:liang san ge xiao shi</mandarin> what


then <mandarin>他还跟我讲:ta hai gen wo jiang</mandarin> then <mandarin>他还跟我讲:ta hai gen wo jiang</mandarin> oh we don't have anything in common


ya , okay I haven't explain to you what I think about liam, so basically, like, we've been talking for three months we've been talking for like average around two or one or two times a week on average


and I think that is like, even though we come from different backgrounds we still manage to have the same way like we think the same way we feel like we feel the same way about things lah, then <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> lah I think he I think he's still too young that's why he doesn't really understand


like it's not gonna be like highs all the time and you not gonna have like amazing conversations everytime you meet the person like sometimes is good sometimes it's bad it's like


sometimes I feel like it's quite boring like like I told him straight in his face, then he was like you no no no he said it's like that one is like sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad then that's why he told me I was like oh ya true ah makes sense you can't expect like even if you go if you go with your friends it's like, sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad right you can't assume like


every is amazing like you are you know what I mean ya, so I think I don't know lah but anyway <mandarin>他不要就不要:ta bu yao jiu bu yao</mandarin> lor as in <mandarin>他没有讲不要他讲:ta mei you jiang bu yao ta jiang</mandarin> he say take a break but then I just like okay whatever


ya I'm such an amazing person


it's crazy


okay what, [orh] you got commission is it


(uh huh), but five customer five <mandarin>顾客:gu ke</mandarin> okay what like


then okay what then the rest of the time you do what you just stand around ah, okay what, excuse me this is just week three eh you wanna talk about end of school ah


week thirteen ten more weeks lah eleven more weeks lah, november lor, I don't have any exam lah so, by fifteen november should be over already, I'm thinking of <mandarin>我去那个申请:wo qu na ge shen qing</mandarin>internship


what eh did I tell you about did I tell you about ester remember <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> ester, I I I I message her the other day actually she message me <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> why you never message me back or like, she said we're supposed to meet on the weekend but then she like flick fishy flick lah I don't know whatever she didn't replied me


so she said, uh <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> zoom lah then we we zoom yesterday, then she said like, this is like there's nothing else I can ask her lah so like she she kinda like segue and say


ya then she say she got her own mentees also she got other mentees to look after, but then she's but then she ask me to apply for a deloitte lor deloitte consulting then she said, I can she can refer me lor, she actually she didn't even say that she just she just say like <mandarin>你去放他名字在那个我的:ni qu fang ta ming zi zai na ge wo de</mandarin> application <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> then I was like how about <mandarin>你帮我你帮我放进去:ni bang wo ni bang wo fang jin qu</mandarin> then she say


ya she's so half hearted lor just like okay lor


ya, err it's not, <mandarin>很累:hen lei</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我去躺一下:wo qu tang yi xia</mandarin> lah I'm so sleepy


I feel like the weather has been so bad


they quite common actually I feel, yup yup, (ugh)


you need to we can't be distracted we have to continue talking, what, no I I skip all my lecturers


lectures, ya


(uh huh), I know right, I don't know I just feel like


, I don't know I feel what do you what do you what you talking about just now


[orh] ya I feel like I mean lecture like, the quality of education hasn't increased, and <mandarin>我们他教我们还要还钱:wo men ta jiao wo men hai yao huan qian</mandarin> like for online classes I don't even listen to the class


ya, what


(mmhmm), (uh huh)


, ya I know what you mean


oh, school is a school is a


, [orh] then he doesn't do anything lah he just


legit, I didn't know your school ah or all schools, how much is your tuition fee ah


crazy ah, as in, I don't know it was I thought it was the same price


oh


but it's like <mandarin>没有意思:mei you yi si</mandarin> lah, if you're not actually passionate if not actually passionate then <mandarin>没有意思:mei you yi si</mandarin> lah


corporate, I think it's, I think you have to you have to balance


as in as in you need to still earn money right, you can still always find other ways to have, , you can find other ways lah


what do you mean, what do you mean I can't hear you, hello I can't hear you eh


I, I can't hear you, #chee ken# I can't hear you, #chee ken# I can't hear you


oh my god #chee ken# are you asleep, hello #chee ken#, just let it run lah because because <mandarin>刚才你:gang cai ni</mandarin> he stop eh


no because I was talking to myself so I was wondering what happened then I was trying to call you cause I cause your face right was at the bed, then I thought you I thought you fainted or something like literally cause your your your screen like is just you and you were lying on the bed and your and your screen was frozen but I think it's okay I think okay I think is okay


I think <mandarin>应该可以:ying gai ke yi</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不要不要想太多:bu yao bu yao xiang tai duo</mandarin> lah, oh my god look look at


because you your wifi got problem not my problem okay I thought what happen to you


why, ya just now your your screen was frozen, good right, we should go to the gym we should go to the gym more


oh my god it's so it's so obvious so obvious, you should go more often,


no that <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> port <mandarin>是多少十八块很贵:shi duo shao shi ba kuai hen gui</mandarin> eh FG SG deal <mandarin>那个两两块五:na ge liang liang kuai wu</mandarin> eh


!huh! then <mandarin>三十分钟十八块很贵:san shi fen zhong shi ba kuai hen gui</mandarin> eh, are you kidding me


mine is forty five zero one, ya lah actually I think <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> submit <mandarin>先啦不然他们看他们想先说什么:xian la bu ran ta men kan ta men xiang xian shuo shen me</mandarin> cause like now too late already lah


you know I was so worried about you just now because you are literally your your head right was like you was sleeping you look like you were sleeping on a bed then I was like what happened are you faint I thought you fainted because he was there you were there talking about your passion and how you cannot find your passion then I thought you very sad then you went to fall asleep or you fainted or something then I tried to call you on whatsapp because I thought you fainted


cause you legit you look you look like you have fainted, ya oh my god look at look at this can you see this


, , I never show you, (ugh) I need to go shopping soon


save money, I need to find ways to, (ugh), let me know if you have the channel news asia right


which one the one that you just


(uh huh), is it to is it the today guy or some other guy,


[orh], [orh], yup


I have nothing to say but, I don't know long distance for me is perfectly fine


ya I think so, I think it's <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> like a bit weird lah if it's like strangers, but


actually what do you do with your mom, the sister, the father


true, ya <mandarin>真的还好:zhen de hai hao</mandarin> lah


ya, I think <mandarin>一个星期一次就可以了是:yi ge xing qi yi ci jiu ke yi le shi</mandarin> okay lah


actually I think I think like weekdays <mandarin>比较好:bi jiao hao</mandarin> cause like actually no lah <mandarin>看看看时间:kan kan kan shi jian</mandarin> lah, ya


ya I mean some places you can lah some places you cannot


set any any specifications like would they allow you to do it or they don't allow, ,


, but I don't think he will reach out to me also !aiya! anyway I feel like reach out now also cannot


I've I've nothing to say lah, , it eh let me know if there's any channel news asia, like


hello eh must talk leh cannot just stop talk


we have to talk #chee ken# we are working for someone you know, , are you sleeping you're not sleeping after this right <mandarin>你还要做那个:ni hai yao zuo na ge</mandarin> project


hello, #chee ken#, don't lag, don't lag again if you lag again I pause again


what are you saying


you know I feel I I I'm thinking of creating a new instagram page, hello #chee ken#, are you listening, #kee en#


eh you say you must talk you must talk properly eh now you never


hello I'm disappointed in you #chee ken#, #chee ken#, how many more minutes there's seven more minutes #chee ken# you can do this


yo, (ugh)


right


hello #chee ken#, (ugh), #chee ken# you have to answer me


there's like literally five more minutes, we can do this, (ugh), I don't have anything to tell you also, life is so boring


#chee ken# you cannot be distracted, how tired


#chee ken#, are you there, hello, hello, #chee ken#, are you asleep


#chee ken#, eh must be, but <mandarin>是有要讲东西的:shi you yao jiang dong xi de</mandarin> leh


ya <mandarin>不要乱来:bu yao luan lai</mandarin> hor, , cause you very I thought you very I thought you very very busy


okay I can recommend you this one very exciting I can recommend you youtube or netflix, youtube or netflix


okay, netflix, of selling sunset, it's like it was it's it's an it's a it's, from in LA it's about like


real estate agents, and they very bitchy and catty but it's so amazing ya, it's ya it's like reality TV lah


ya, I'm I'm I'm I got a lot of work to do so, I won't be going out


why eh, I got a lot of work to do, I don't mind, we can be on saturday night, true


we all live so far away


oh my god I read I read this news like the, the guy, black panther he married, someone he married his girlfriend like last year, but they, kept it a secret


and he's so like he still trains his, he will still, training his body for the show like he so ripped, even though he's sick, so amazing, can you imagine it


ya <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like, like serious, medical condition bowel bowel syndrome and he still manage to work you know, like act ah, and still keep fit


ya, (ugh), oh ya I'm also think I'm also thinking of


a way right where, I'm trying to I'm trying to think of a new invention to invent something, like doing a own start up, and invent something if you are interested you can you know let me know


hello are you awake, #chee ken#


but you you don't you don't fall you don't you don't stop first lah wait until I'm done


(ugh)


ya, tuesday ah, should be okay lah but I think better to we can meet during recess week


no lah recess recess week is halfway, week six, they uh three more weeks later two more weeks later lor three more weeks later, next month lor


eh three, three two one ah three two one stop


okay <mandarin>我们完:wo men wan</mandarin> finally


ya it does work, oh it's so hang


!wah!, ah my god I miss that though, I miss doing that


tuesday and thursday, thursday I'm working


ya, I know what you mean, my god eh that time I think, I forgot what happen


because, #seng ho# he texted me, think a few days back ah, I, ya apparently


, I don't know I didn't I didn't really like <mandarin>管他:guan ta</mandarin> so, ya, and then I forgot oh my god I forgot about that


!aiya!, eh but to be honest right we should hang soon, oh he actually did ask me though on that


no I told no I told him that I was busy that's why with my project which I was, not really you know just now right when


you know what happen, I was, I was super upset, so it's like, you know I did right or not ah


okay so because after work right <mandarin>我就跟:wo jiu gen</mandarin> colleagues so we we took the bus back home, you know <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> bus <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> right so we <mandarin>我们坐在那个第二层楼:wo men zuo zai na ge di er ceng lou</mandarin> you know it's a double decker one


can you lend me your shoulders ya I know right, the, the one with


I mean, the, ya, !aiya! but, but anyway <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> just friends lah ya


!huh!, you


in the end what happened, err, no no I didn't buy it yet <mandarin>所以我们直接就:suo yi wo men zhi jie jiu</mandarin> no <mandarin>我们都没有:wo men dou mei you</mandarin> meet


in a sense


, same, feels so tired now


(uh huh)


you know what it doesn't matter


!wow!


oh this one <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你没有跟我讲过:ni mei you gen wo jiang guo</mandarin> I totally don't, (uh huh)


is like


okay, but whatever it is this hour of chat <mandarin>会是一个非常好玩的一个:hui shi yi ge fei chang hao wan de yi ge</mandarin> chat


because, they don't want us, ya, cause the thing is, oh I read I think !wah! I didn't share with you so tuesday I'll be going for voice over job


in mediacorp is uh CNA one


no, basically, ya, is, ya


CNA, no the thing is I'm just voice over what for for the chinese part for the mandarin side


ya so in a sense they will be sending actually they already sent me the video link so I just have to go in there then do it


but the pay is not bad though, confidential so I can't really tell you lah but then again


!huh!, so I'll start, I'll I'll start at two thirty


the thing is once they got the right pick then <mandarin>就完了:jiu wan le</mandarin> so it's like maybe <mandarin>两点半到十点:liang dian ban dao shi dian</mandarin> I don't know but then again for, it I think it's really, no


no it's studio so I'll be recording via mic, I'm going to I'm going to a studio, so <mandarin>我他没有给我一个:wo ta mei you gei wo yi ge</mandarin> script <mandarin>有给我我一个剧本:you gei wo wo yi ge ju ben</mandarin> so I have to like


they already translated it so I'm just basically, ya


ya, (mmhmm)


I miss you so much, , well


is it bad, you, but ah


no, nope, ya


I will just try it out lah if this one cannot right then #bo bian# lor, I I don't think so


ya I also think so, the !wah! you know actually they really hire a lot of indians in my work I mean, my god in singapore <mandarin>好多印度人:hao duo yin du ren</mandarin> [orh]


eh, no I don't know why everyone is posting that though, is he the main lead


so many people say like !hais! heartbreak, then I was like err, oh my god I just saw even barack obama he went to post a facebook post eh


oh really, he's so free I mean obama, political, lame


#jing hao# too what, no cannot lah only two person leh, two plus


actually I really don't know what to do in life eh how ah, actually you know just now right <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> bus <mandarin>的时候我就在跟我的:de shi hou wo jiu zai gen wo de</mandarin> colleague <mandarin>我们在讲:wo men zai jiang</mandarin> like


so I was telling him, I was saying like I'm really at a loss because I don't know what to do


then he say ya go ahead, (ugh), no <mandarin>你看你看过:ni kan ni kan guo</mandarin> what, no is <mandarin>是我的那个:shi wo de na ge</mandarin> my colleague in my current workplace


I, think it's called, whatsapp group again, oh but never mind I can use my whatsapp


web on, my laptop, so, this is called the, err


no lah but they are using AI all these though


really, oh my god you know I felt so stressful super super stress, ya partly also I'm so annoyed


for, oh last week was the last day ha, finally, ended your, ended your sorrow, sorrow


my god have you looked at the you know who is #pei yu#, from secondary school


!wow! they are quite sweet though she and her boyfriend, me too and I'm available super available, about one


cashmere is a material what, , apparently I don't know but okay


you know that <mandarin>你的那个:ni de na ge</mandarin> recording should be fifteen to twenty CM away from your mouth


okay lah okay lah the the sensor I think should be all right it's just like the same as mine, no


nobody cares, a lot, you can follow him if you want to, feel free welcome


oh but anyway if you look at the clip right they they like they they gave a lot of examples of what should be a good convo to be, like there's a mixed kind of a language thing <mandarin>所以你不可以:suo yi ni bu ke yi</mandarin> like


but then again, no but then again singaporean accent so we have lah lor leh all these


previously


shoot waffle you're right I love it caramel


ah


how is it not good it's quite good eh, I wanna have sushi too


oh my god eh maybe, who is the we, actually me also but I want meet friends


ya I also wanna save


[orh], you should buy apples stock it's really good, , after amazon,


anyway they're splitting their share so it'll still go up it won't go down just saying, after they, after they split the share right it'l be back to hundred plus, dollars, per stock


ya lah definitely, when it reaches it's it's peak again then <mandarin>我再:wo zai</mandarin> sell


legs, oh wait, I I you know I commented on the facebook over there


ya no I think it's good in a sense like you will be very secluded, ah


I wanted to but


I think he can't be bothered right, no no he was


he was telling me like sunday but thing is sunday is like, no I'm working, how is it family time


eh, eh let's go pizzaria again


eh but I wanna go pepperoni again eh shall we


meat, ya actually I really want to eat, and I wanna eat sushi also shall we have sushi


okay so I was supposed to mute uh I was supposed to meet matthew this friday, but then again


are you very busy, are you really that busy or what, then I told him ah Paiseh then I say err sometimes you ah <mandarin>我本身就:wo ben yue jiu</mandarin> ah I'm I was telling him


oh <mandarin>我不想:wo bu xiang</mandarin> reply anyone


like, like even if he's busy he'll still reply me, but then again right I felt guilty after that so I told him [orh] I'm sorry about that


I not, no the thing is we don't really have much in common to talk about, like when I tell him like yes I'm busy then you know what he said <mandarin>他就说你不可能比我更:ta jiu shuo ni bu ke neng bi wo geng</mandarin> busy <mandarin>我昨天五点半做工做到凌晨两点:wo zuo tian wu dian ban zuo gong zuo dao ling chen liang dian</mandarin> so it's like <mandarin>总共:zong gong</mandarin> twenty two hours of work


together, ya lah


he's ninety one


I, so every sentence I will take probably like twenty minutes to thirty minutes to write just a sentence


it's


who's your two friends


(mmhmm), local


, you know what after this I'm still going to do my project, is forty <mandarin>我有四十二:wo you si shi er</mandarin> percent leh


because it's a mathematical like mod so everything will be a equation all these so equation can be very similar, !hais!, oh there's


is because you are, is because, it's because we are best friends that's why


(mmhmm),


, ya,


, you know, I know what you mean


so <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> loss what, well


I know right


[orh] you know what today I was helping a I was helping a colleague, you know I the whole day I'll only serve five customers, and out of which three customers are very very tricky, so for the transaction wise they're super super slow


and, they didn't bother to purchase a warranty, I was so annoyed, no I'm okay but if you are not going to purchase it then don't waste my time, they are like


I don't, but it's just, no I told them I I tell them like


I don't have that, then after that they were like oh okay can then after that they drag me for another twenty five minutes so I spend fifty minutes with them


nine eight hours, somehow lah, eh when's your school ending ah, when's your end of the semester


which is like week ten or something right, which is in november or


which company you want to sign up


, then


she's not very helpful lah in a sense, eh this one nice right


it is eh <mandarin>我真的要学:wo zhen de yao xue</mandarin> pottery, ya I'm gonna learn pottery, I feel like, people who learn pottery are very very


really


oh but you know what


no to be honest right all your lectures are recorded in a sense you are able to refer it if you don't understand


I feel lah, I feel like the school fee is really redundant they can't teach, I'm so annoyed


no I was just saying about how annoyed I


!haiyo!


come to think of it, what up


so <mandarin>三个小时:san ge xiao shi</mandarin> includes your tutorial


it'll be like oh so <mandarin>回答这个:hui da zhe ge</mandarin> poll so how's this poll ah whether uh are you having a good day can you answer, you know those stupid kind of thing


ya he was saying like okay so there's one , this process requires one document then the other process requires two document then after that he will be like eh <mandarin>其实我讲错了这个是那个要:qi shi wo jiang cuo le zhe ge shi na ge yao</mandarin> two document <mandarin>不是那个要:bu shi na ge yao</mandarin> one document so in a sense he's like he don't really know what he's doing


I mean his teaching, no then you know what the third hours is done the third hours is used to do our own tutorial so he will he will set a tutorial all these, then they will he'll ask us to do


yes <mandarin>他就看住我们:ta jiu kan zhu wo men</mandarin> so it's like, ya I don't know what he's doing lah, not say <mandarin>做作:zuo zuo</mandarin> but


more of it is just, didn't you know didn't you know about that


my school at least, per semester is seven thousand seven hundred it's just for four module so one mod is around thousand, four


it is right, eh no sorry thousand eight thousand eight thousand nine


thousand nine


I don't know what's my passion already I don't know where my passion lies within, hopefully


ya, actually <mandarin>讲真的:jiang zhen de</mandarin> lah, going to another topic is really, now when I see like couples walking down like orchard road all these I will feel like


in a sense like I am not able to be participants of such, stuff you know


hello


, for what


oh, oh my, I don't know how it's gonna go, would it be wasted


I know I say I will I'm very very pissed if this is not accepted


can you see me can you see me lying on my bed am I here


triceps lah !aiya! can lah


no actually <mandarin>八块不便宜:ba kuai bu bian yi</mandarin> eh <mandarin>不贵:bu gui</mandarin> come to think of it you have your


it's just, is yours the same


!aiya! don't know them lah


oh my god you oh my god so sweet ah I thought you will be like oh my god what the hell


oh my god so you are concerned about me, oh


please please don't bring me there I don't need a shopping spree, I don't need to waste money again, ya, actually if my colleague is releasing


my my colleague <mandarin>他的他的:ta de ta de</mandarin> the other half is in malaysia


then since march until now, they haven't met each other, so he <mandarin>他在:ta zai</mandarin> is at one of the lower point, I felt like going it in but then again I feel like it's <mandarin>真的很贱:zhen de hen jian</mandarin> if I really like


no it's uh, I show you before one what we cook noodles together, through skype


, I show you the photo before, of <mandarin>他跟他的那个:ta gen ta de na ge</mandarin> the other half, then you say !ee! you like


long distance, relationship <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> lor, eh


they cannot really have much pausing right in their recording, so hard


actually must see eh, some strangers they are very very, ah I wanted to do with my sister but then again it's


it's very hard to get an hour of them doing this, and the thing is right, so when you're reading I don't know what to do then


and if this is free then I mean this is open then ya definitely I will try out lah, ya in a sense


must see first lah, later I got to like change eh have you submitted a plagiarised report then after that you went to amend and submit read again


, ah


ha, Sian ah very lag again


lag again <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh


oh but anyway what was I saying, I eh recommend me some shows to watch eh, I'm very busy but I need my source of a I need my source of entertainment yo


!huh!


is it, hello, interesting, eh tomorrow <mandarin>有什么:you shen me</mandarin> plan ah what's the plan for tomorrow


no I was just asking, okay next, I'm supposed to meet


ah, what thing


and please if eh if not let's meet next, okay next week next tuesday if my recording ends early are you free at night, for dinner


okay, you want to start, like maybe introducing yourself


(mmhmm), !wow!


but what , oh you are unemployed, okay, same here I'm actually also unemployed, , I just, quit my full time job as a HR


and now I'm just like pursuing my passion for baking all the cliche stuff lah, ya I'm actually, I like baking, I'm not so I just taking this chance to like try and see how lah


, usually I make like, fruit tarts, pastry, that kind of thing


but so far like


so <mandarin>我打算就是:wo da suan jiu shi</mandarin> around <mandarin>明年:ming nian</mandarin> to make it full fledge, but for now I just taking some part time job, get by lah, ya , so what is like your future plan what you plan to do


, is it


oh, oh okay


okay


okay, (mmhmm)


ya you become heavy, I, I


is, it's quite interesting cause , baking you really can use, really a very big variety of ingredients, and unlike cooking it takes more time and effort then through processes


you will find a different kind of satisfaction like <mandarin>满足感:man zu gan</mandarin> is totally different one, like ya is from like maybe unrecognisable ingredients or ingredients that you don't even know that existed in that


that that that desserts, ya and I think like what you say lor it's good to market it to like, women ah especially like <mandarin>她们这么挑食:ta men zhe me tiao shi</mandarin> then comes to dessert of course they will at least try, and maybe be beneficial for them as well lah


but that that is also one of the reason why, uh I like to use fruits in my desserts cause, and the funny thing is


really, and the funny thing is I'm allergic to, and I'm allergic to dairy products, ya so <mandarin>很很多人觉得我很搞笑:hen hen duo ren jue de wo hen gao xiao</mandarin> like why why with all these then I like to do baking I also don't get it


but, but at least through like, through these I found out that actually a lot of people also don't like very sweet desserts, so slowly I try to like change my recipes


and slowly I also gained a portion of like err, people who like my products lah, , that likes like unsweetened stuff that's why I like to put like very sour, sour fruits to balance all the sweetness out


, , but,