usually uh <mandarin>我们的爸爸妈妈跟我们讲:wo men de ba ba ma ma gen wo men jiang</mandarin> lah, that, we need this uh, we need a degree we need to score well do well in our academic


ya so so, , but I do you think it's because of this, asian culture right that I believe it's called asian culture lah <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> lah, I I just name as asian culture lah, it that sets the the education systems to be to be like this I because I okay I <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> I'm not sure lah but then I think throughout like err <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> malaysia


, china <mandarin>中国:zhong guo</mandarin> ah, like you must get like top, then <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> then you are considered like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> successful in


you parent's eye lah


global <mandarin>的没有这样大:de mei you zhe yang da</mandarin> lah, but but okay so so <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> so so do you err back to the question right <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like


err <mandarin>学校要我们拿很高的分:xue xiao yao wo men na hen gao de fen</mandarin> right, it's because of , the the current err, or <mandarin>他的学校:ta de xue xiao</mandarin> I mean do you think the school is shaped because of the country's culture or do you think it's


, or or it's just the uni only or I not sure, ya


so so so <mandarin>你是讲:ni shi jiang</mandarin> on so so it's the people that is the one that controlling the university how did, do you I mean do you agree or not they they are like <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> like in singapore right it's because of <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> people right that's why, it's not because like uni it's just <mandarin>因为我们的:yin wei wo men de</mandarin> people


you agree with that point right


I always say lah for me I will I will relate these to the, the recent general elections lah talk talking about politics because I I <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like , like like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> okay this is what this what I I read a lot lah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like did they say the older generation the people they are they tend to be more


err, favouring the PAP lah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> they are more , they they they they saw the changes in the PAP and they they felt more comfortable in


environment lah, like they they brought them from somewhere, the Kampung place to somewhere that, eh <mandarin>我的我的国家:wo de wo de guo jia</mandarin> actually not bad one eh can livable one eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> crime, compared to a lot of countries <mandarin>是真的是:shi zhen de shi</mandarin> not bad


ya so so like , , like like what I what I, I can link this thing to like <mandarin>很多人不要换:hen duo ren bu yao huan</mandarin> lah like they don't want change ah, because like, when you reach this kind of age then you see all this kind of stuff, you won't realize that you you will just continue thinking that eh


because you saw what they, they have lah but then but then that is, <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> biased lah when you see you only see the one part only, you never like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> you you need to see another part ah are they really truly good


then maybe <mandarin>现在不好:xian zai bu hao</mandarin> not so good, I I not sure lah because I I I don't I don't know what they do lah so so, so then then like more youngsters like ask lah, they ask I would say


people around our age ah <mandarin>他们会比较:ta men hui bi jiao</mandarin> err tend to be more open to ideas, because, because we we we we really , we are more err educated, we know the society more


I mean no some not also societal we we are more educated we see the, uh <mandarin>我们看到那个:wo men kan dao na ge</mandarin> environment <mandarin>我们觉得:wo men jue de</mandarin> eh, if you, for example in the military if you behave if the commander behave like


last time like this go and like I think I can like <mandarin>你听你的:ni ting ni de</mandarin> Encik <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> confirm like, confirm say eh, the Encik ask you to knock it down you better knock it down but <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> Encik <mandarin>叫你:jiao ni</mandarin> knock it down maybe you just then the Encik also don't give a shit, or something along this line lah but ya so so like the


the tactic you want to train people right, must change lah,


, (mmhmm) <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> [orh] I agree with you


yes, for I I I agree with you lah like, ya the the , I think ya they they really did a good job lah


now is, some some place that even tourist <mandarin>会来的:hui lai de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> because it is not poor it's not cheap it is


then got got this so so I I fell down lah then just nice got this like got this germany german guy, err, that that came to walk at macritchie lah so he was ask so he was asking me lah, eh how how do I go to the exit lah he he was alone okay so so I just talked to him then I said eh uh exit in front then


ah then like since I fall down lah so I I I tell myself okay lah just, just <mandarin>给我一下子:gei wo yi xia zi</mandarin> like to recover lah so meanwhile the recovery period right, I walked in to the exit lah, so meanwhile while walking to the exit right, then he was telling me like <mandarin>他他跟我讲:ta ta gen wo jiang</mandarin> see he he was telling me that


, actually singapore is a very beautiful place lah, and he say that err , err, ya he got extra money ah <mandarin>他他:ta ta</mandarin> he will come back to singapore to stay lah


cause he he find that singapore is <mandarin>真的是美:zhen de shi mei</mandarin> they got their own nature like macritchie reservoir they their lake over at the golf golf area there if if you know, <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> when you see it's, it's like !wow!, you wouldn't find this


somewhere as nice as this place, I mean you will you will ya it's very amazing lah to him ah but because for me I I I see until Sian ah so, ya to him ya maybe it's very beautiful ah so so ya so, so he was telling me that actually singapore is


a very safe country, and, and for him I think he was nineteen years old back then it was like one year ago two years one year ago ya one years ago wait two years ago ah, but then, ya he


he ya he's he was nineteen years old when he dare to, and for him to even travel alone, from some like, europe country, to, asia, I I think it's a very ,


I mean he travel alone lah so so I think it's a very bravery thing, to travel alone and, he choose singapore because singapore is safe, ya so so that that is something that like, I would say like, PAP <mandarin>他们自做的很好:ta men zi zuo de hen hao</mandarin> lah so into


letting this kind of, tourists know that or the world know that,


ya


!hannor! !hannor! <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> [orh]


okay lah I I think, ultimately the these foreigners they


lifestyle lah because they they never been they never experience they don't know, because but for people like us we experience like primary school secondary school <mandarin>为什么我的学校叫这么差的:wei shen me wo de xue xiao jiao zhe me cha de</mandarin> !wah! #hong kah# ah Jurong ville ah !walao! eh <mandarin>这种学校:zhe zhong xue xiao</mandarin> meanwhile !wah! people like like ya okay the same thing applies when you go like uh uh uh nationals


I I no I think I know I mean I like like in general lah


in general like I think we should look at it a balanced view lah if you look at a foreigner like <mandarin>他们讲:ta men jiang</mandarin> singapore <mandarin>也是什么:ye shi shen me</mandarin> but then on the other hand right we also need to look at our own singaporeans as well we cannot just, uh solely like <mandarin>看看看一个:kan kan kan yi ge</mandarin> foreigner <mandarin>讲什么:jiang shen me</mandarin> lah


because a balance <mandarin>是真的蛮:shi zhen de man</mandarin> important ah, this is what I feel lah, ya so so I mean like definitely in every country lah like, err <mandarin>在新加坡:zai xin jia po</mandarin> or maybe we have we see like


it's just because they stay beside the school or something like that, but, but the thing is this kind of stuff right is so, uh difficulties that they face that this kind of small small stuff it's all negligible lah


but I don't know I don't know this this is what I think lah, that's why maybe as a foreigner <mandarin>你会看:ni hui kan</mandarin> eh actually singapore is in not that bad one, ya


, ya <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> endless debate


I think, I I I think you what <mandarin>你在讲:ni zai jiang</mandarin> the the thing that you are going to say right like <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin>


ya to to during the election to give out <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> flyer lah so so like <mandarin>有些人有些:you xie ren you xie</mandarin> like household lah <mandarin>他们会讲:ta men hui jiang</mandarin> like , this this okay I I think nowadays lah <mandarin>比较:bi jiao</mandarin> youngsters youngster right they will tend to they they will be able to voice out they're not afraid of the


the what the government says lah like not not they not afraid of, US <mandarin>跟新加坡:gen xin jia po</mandarin> lah, okay <mandarin>你看在:ni kan zai</mandarin> US right the government okay government sector usually


people will deem them as voting as for the government right, but then the thing right in US right, you got republican <mandarin>跟那个:gen na ge</mandarin>, uh democrats, so so the thing is you wouldn't know who will I mean the the thing is fifty fifty ah always fifty fifty sometimes this side is the government sometimes that side is the government so so the thing is people don't know who to vote the even the government sector people also don't know who to vote


their mentality is they vote who they think that it should be, so they have they don't really have one sided lah like not not like not in singapore ah, like in singapore they have this system whereby oh uh in the government sector


the, but the thing is, it is very toxic lah, because everybody knows like <mandarin>每个人都是:mei ge ren dou shi</mandarin> PAP <mandarin>会赢的:hui ying de</mandarin> leh so so this culture right that people still got this


fear in them that's saying eh, , let's, play safe, let's be safe than sorry


some director or some , senior man some some some very high ranking one right, then you just jeopardize their, <mandarin>不喜欢你:bu xi huan ni</mandarin> they I mean like as a parent you also won't won't one


you also want their, you wouldn't want to jeopardize their life ah so so this kind of mentality is really there lah right now, and and yes, this kind of mentality is involved in the


in in <mandarin>那种比较:na zhong bi jiao</mandarin> old old old old fashion mentality lah that's why I I appreciate that , , the younger generations right they


I mean I mean <mandarin>他他们懂你:ta ta men dong ni</mandarin> vote <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> opposition, ya


ya so so even even if the government tell them eh the vote is err, your vote is not uh, your vote is hidden nobody can see right, but then again, you want to play safe, yup


ya, ya I agree I agree it I mean like definitely like , different system lah, got the pros and cons lah like <mandarin>可以讲:ke yi jiang</mandarin> china communism communism actually <mandarin>蛮好不是蛮好是:man hao bu shi man hao shi</mandarin> is, also how if you think of in their way lah


but then, if you think in another way it's definitely <mandarin>不好:bu hao</mandarin> lah, ya so so it's the same thing I I I believe that it applies to anywhere lah, but in general like, what we would want is


yes yes


yes yes I agree with you lah like, so so <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> , ya so so I think okay this is what I believe lah that uh <mandarin>会比较多:hui bi jiao duo</mandarin> err, err


towards uh people, freedom, because okay what why I got this theory is because, if let's say err we follow by the rule of err north korea lah everybody should, north korea is a communist country lah like why why everybody should treated fairly because those that educated I mean those like the weaker one right


they don't even have to be educated in order to receive a same treatment, ya so so if <mandarin>如果你全部的人的是:ru guo ni quan bu de ren de shi</mandarin> uneducated right yes, it's good it's fair very nice but then if every if got some people were educated one but then, they spent their life studying <mandarin>做东西给:zuo dong xi gei</mandarin> government but then they receive the same thing


], it feels very like neglected lah


but, ya ya ya it it it


ya, so so like like <mandarin>你会听你会觉得:ni hui ting ni hui jue de</mandarin> like there are more, okay I'm not sure lah <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> lah but then I think, there are more defectors right in north korea that, than last time ah, defectors ya so so that's what I think ah <mandarin>因为他们比较:yin wei ta men bi jiao</mandarin> like <mandarin>聪明:cong ming</mandarin> Liao


like , but then the thing is, when they cross over to the board, cross over to another side, actually


actually the bad place is where they stayed, ya


yes yes, agree, , nevermind lah, okay k, okay let's talk about something else if humans no longer needed to work to survive what would we do


if humans no longer need to work to survive what would we do


but but okay do you do you think passion right okay when you talk about passion right, be if but if for someone who don't play mobile legend right they


then they won't say that they have their passion lah, is, because, I somehow want play


, , oh, more money right


, ya you too you too okay,


okay bye bye I stop recording


okay and then you can plug in already ya, okay, plug in already, yes I can hear you loud and clear


oh really, wait wait <mandarin>你是在用你是在用:ni shi zai yong ni shi zai yong</mandarin> Facebook call ah <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> Zoom !aiya! eh shit I forgot what what are you using oh you're using Facebook I forgot, okay


!huh! by Facebook, oh I did okay okay I have never used Facebook to like <mandarin>打电话:da dian hua</mandarin> before so, I wouldn't know about that actually most of the time people will just use I don't know Telegram Whatsapp right it's free what why would you


why would you go and download another Facebook app just to make a call and it's like really clutter my phone leh, but do you even use it


who do you message on Facebook <mandarin>有人用:you ren yong</mandarin> Facebook messenger <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> meh


ya I can tell, are you eh <mandarin>蛮:man</mandarin> curious <mandarin>的你有没有你有没有用:de ni you mei you ni you mei you yong</mandarin> TikTok, actually I don't understand TikTok I think <mandarin>真的是太太多:zhen de shi tai tai duo</mandarin> it's it's like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> era <mandarin>是太多年轻人了:shi tai duo nian qing ren le</mandarin> leh I cannot I cannot leh shit I think TikTok is like too


ya lor <mandarin>太:tai</mandarin> too young for me eh, !huh! the the <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> they are all using as in they are actively using TikTok ah


TikTok is like Instagram or or what


actually I'm I'm I'm just curious what do people do on TikTok cause sometimes I see the videos of people doing, !walao! like <mandarin>全世界都很像:quan shi jie dou hen xiang</mandarin> all the <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> all the <mandarin>小那种小孩子:xiao na zhong xiao hai zi</mandarin> are all using TikTok lor then I'm like


Tik <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> Tok lah I don't know ah, oh they are past the millennial Liao ah <mandarin>以前不是以前不是那个:yi qian bu shi yi qian bu shi na ge</mandarin> millenial so now they are gen Z Liao ah


I refuse to associate as a millennial <mandarin>我们是:wo men shi</mandarin> gen X, oh oh ya oh ya ya ya <mandarin>我们是:wo men shi</mandarin> Y, eh eh for some reason <mandarin>他们很像:ta men hen xiang</mandarin> skip <mandarin>掉:diao</mandarin> Y hor


why is it from from generation Y recently became millennials, oh really


oh talk about your insurance ah


uh


!huh!, <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> or <mandarin>为什么他:wei shen me ta</mandarin> as in <mandarin>他很奇怪他叫你买:ta hen qi guai ta jiao ni mai</mandarin> critical illness you want to buy critical illness insurance


[orh] okay ya whole life insurance is very expensive,


, just for this lah what's the coverage like <mandarin>一百五十块:yi bai wu shi kuai</mandarin> a a month ah, but


!walao!, , (uh huh) but that's true what that I mean that's not a lie that's a that's true what that's not a story


well but we knew <mandarin>做人就是要:zuo ren jiu shi yao</mandarin> prepare for the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> worst case scenario what,


well it could still come true <mandarin>也很难讲的:ye hen nan jiang de</mandarin> what I mean


term cancer insurance eh, but what's the what's the coverage


!wah! actually that's quite a lot which err, okay lah then <mandarin>如果没有这个:ru guo mei you zhe ge</mandarin> ten percent is about okay lah then it's about


okay lah


so this this uh insurance is only cover early stage critical illness ah <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> early stage cancer


oh so this is only cancer coverage ah


basically all cancers lah, [orh] !wah! okay okay ya I also bought something like that


I actually I didn't really go and read what's the changes leh


ya so what did I oh ya because I have a term lah that one covers my err that one covers CI for end stage so <mandarin>我有那个:wo you na ge</mandarin> but then but then <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> you will be always say !aiya! <mandarin>很难讲:hen nan jiang</mandarin> hor the early stage cancer can also be quite expensive then <mandarin>我就在想:wo jiu zai xiang</mandarin> okay fine what's the most likely thing that I will Tio is cancer right then the rest heart attack lah diabetes <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> or maybe not so young yet lah so I thought okay lah early stage cancer so I


I also bought one that is for like all stages of cancer eh but <mandarin>我忘了我还多少钱:wo wang le wo hai duo shao qian</mandarin> eh


oh I think that time when I went to buy I went to Google like I went to MOH website <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> Google <mandarin>一下:yi xia</mandarin> like which is the top ten illness that kill Singapore like you know like for women lah oh what kills you know what's the top killer in women actually <mandarin>你可以去:ni ke yi qu</mandarin> Google <mandarin>一下:yi xia</mandarin> what is the top thing that kills man then <mandarin>你就可以看:ni jiu ke yi kan</mandarin> what is number one number two number three


I think for women <mandarin>好:hao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>真的忘记了:zhen de wang ji le</mandarin> leh, eh actually <mandarin>真的不记得:zhen de bu ji de</mandarin> what was it, there's heart disease lah that there's heart disease also somewhere one


!wah! but early <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> is very expensive hor, !wah! fifty K is so little !aiyo! can imagine you go for one chemo session gone Liao


but, early CI fifty K is also very little


actually <mandarin>你有没有:ni you mei you</mandarin> check <mandarin>一下你有没有去问你的:yi xia ni you mei you qu wen ni de</mandarin> parents <mandarin>你们的:ni men de</mandarin> family history <mandarin>有没有:you mei you</mandarin> err cancer like your <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> uncle auntie lah <mandarin>你的那个:ni de na ge</mandarin> oh my god then your grandparents <mandarin>有没有中过:you mei you zhong guo</mandarin> cancer, !aiya! cancer <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> heart attack cancer


cause I know that


that's that's a generalization even my my kind of lifestyle <mandarin>我活不到那个:wo huo bu dao na ge</mandarin> average lifespan I think I will be below the average lifespan one


is it, eh the stadium is open again !whoa!, to run around the stadium


I assume


wait where's the Bedok gym there's a Bedok gym where is it, where's, oh oh heart beat


oh okay that's true fine


, you didn't warm up is it


!wah! that's very normal sedentary lifestyle for everybody what like you we usually just sit a lot and then we don't exercise and then we grow fat


oh oh you don't have to go for ICT right that's why you don't have to train, because the normal normal now the the the the rest of the people will have to go for ICT <mandarin>一年至少要跑一次:yi nian zhi shao yao pao yi ci</mandarin> one so they die die have to go and train one


no wonder lah so say if you had to go back for ICT you will have to train then if you have to train then maybe you wouldn't like be


ya lor so you have to go back and every year have to do the like NAPFA test and IPPT <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> you call that right


oh my god five click are you kidding me five click


I think <mandarin>你叫我叫我叫我跑:ni jiao wo jiao wo jiao wo pao</mandarin> four hundred metres <mandarin>我都跑不了:wo dou pao bu liao</mandarin> lor, no lah


average lifespan lor, eh nowadays how to do health screening ah


but this it is not sponsored meh or like subsidized by your company, wait you can claim the entire thing or you can only claim like <mandarin>二十块:er shi kuai</mandarin> that kind


err per year ah, <mandarin>其实也没有很高:qi shi ye mei you hen gao</mandarin> right


only, because I have flexible benefit but mine is like for everything everything must err like


Temasek, why you always have so many presentation one or


oh it's the is the second round ha, what do you have to prepare for that, oh is on Monday ah


what kind of presentation like you know like, actually I always <mandarin>觉得很奇怪:jue de hen qi guai</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他们真的叫你做:ta men zhen de jiao ni zuo</mandarin> presentation <mandarin>还是什么东西我觉得怪:hai shi shen me dong xi wo jue de guai</mandarin> lor


I realise that, the job ha <mandarin>跟那个:gen na ge</mandarin> written test <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> zero link <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>你叫我做那个:ni jiao wo zuo na ge</mandarin> written test for what then because when you do the written test you assume that the job will be something similar, eh but then actual job <mandarin>根本是:gen ben shi</mandarin> nothing related to


really I really feel that, !wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Suay eh <mandarin>是上贼船被骗:shi shang zei chuan bei pian</mandarin> lor


the direct the team lead ah, !huh! so you actually you will enter even before the team lead


!wah! <mandarin>有好有坏:you hao you huai</mandarin> leh this kind


, but


but it's very hard to say leh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> the new boss <mandarin>都没有:dou mei you</mandarin> hire <mandarin>到就是:dao jiu shi</mandarin> essentially is a totally brand new thing <mandarin>他连:ta lian</mandarin> new boss <mandarin>都还没有:dou hai mei you</mandarin> hire and <mandarin>讲真的:jiang zhen de</mandarin> hor even if you meet the new boss and even if you do get to meet <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> new boss you get to talk to the new boss, how how much can you tell from <mandarin>一个人的一个人的那个:yi ge ren de yi ge ren de na ge</mandarin> personality from


from <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> like, like during the <mandarin>我就觉得:wo jiu jue de</mandarin> oh my I thought that my team lead had she look like like quite Zai like that kind lah then I thought that oh this one quite <mandarin>醒目:xing mu</mandarin> quite Zai one


then after that I realize <mandarin>被骗真的是:bei pian zhen de shi</mandarin> oh my gosh it really , !wah! she really Cui leh she really cannot make it leh, !haiyo! it's really the Cui, it's like !aiyo! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Cui then I sometimes


or maybe the job is really, the kind of things that we're doing <mandarin>真的很:zhen de hen</mandarin> like, not her cup of tea ah <mandarin>真的不是:zhen de bu shi</mandarin> not really not suitable for her leh <mandarin>就觉得他很烂:jiu jue de ta hen lan</mandarin> leh, !aiya! <mandarin>我觉得他很:wo jue de ta hen</mandarin> like you have no substance


!aiya! I cannot, eh you no substance as a team lead ah then it's very difficult for is very difficult for the <mandarin>下面你的:xia mian ni de</mandarin> subordinates to do work leh !walao! just now I was rushing a lot of things because of her lor


it sometimes you, sometimes you think that you talk to this person you think ah actually very good very good <mandarin>然后进去:ran hou jin qu</mandarin> then realize !walao! <mandarin>被骗:bei pian</mandarin> it's it's I mean it can also end up that way what


oh


well even if you know <mandarin>你的新的老板是谁:ni de xin de lao ban shi shei</mandarin> and <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> background also doesn't guarantee <mandarin>你的新的老板:ni de xin de lao ban</mandarin> is a very good person might be another <mandarin>激动:ji dong</mandarin> manager might be another nice manager very hard to say


err not really ah eh I I didn't jump because of the money I and actually when when I when I when I when I shifted around when I transport around I didn't get


a huge pay raise leh <mandarin>这次可能起最多只是起五十到一百而已:zhe ci ke neng qi zui duo zhi shi qi wu shi dao yi bai er yi</mandarin> leh, so


no <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> jump <mandarin>是因为:shi yin wei</mandarin> I I cannot Tahan <mandarin>我的我的:wo de wo de</mandarin> like you know existing place you just !wah! <mandarin>这个人真的:zhe ge ren zhen de</mandarin> cannot make it then I jump then !walao! <mandarin>这边的人也是:zhe bian de ren ye shi</mandarin> also cannot make it lah


ya ya ya ya, and then what did she say


, that's almost a year leh


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> it's affecting you know, I, there is a limit to how much you expect us, ya ya ya ya ya there's a limit to how much you expect a staff to, accommodate, a boss a personality and character there is a person there is a limit


like, small little things I can close one eye, like okay once or twice I can also let it go but if it's like constantly being so toxic I don't think, and it's affecting if it's like constantly being so toxic and it's affecting my mental health then <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> it's not worth it lor it's just like


ya it's just like for this job I also don't foresee staying very very long here <mandarin>因为我觉得:yin wei wo jue de</mandarin> if it's, like <mandarin>你忙到没有时间吃:ni mang dao mei you shi jian chi</mandarin> lunch <mandarin>你忙到没有时间吃:ni mang dao mei you shi jian chi</mandarin> dinner then what's the point


okay what that's good what


whatever then <mandarin>就不要理他:jiu bu yao li ta</mandarin> so he's just then very childish leh <mandarin>你不会觉得:ni bu hui jue de</mandarin> meh he's just like being


you know, so he's like what a task oriented manager or what


speaking of which, of this task oriented thing so after that I I suddenly realized <mandarin>为什么那个:wei shen me na ge</mandarin> team lead <mandarin>会讲说会:hui jiang shuo hui</mandarin> comment to the other colleague that err that I'm a very task oriented person


because I I suspect is because on Friday right after <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> DD <mandarin>打过来骂我们:da guo lai ma wo men</mandarin> ah, actually it's not really <mandarin>骂我们:ma wo men</mandarin> is to <mandarin>骂他:ma ta</mandarin> I was just like <mandarin>这样一起被骂而已:zhe yang yi qi bei ma er yi</mandarin> lah, so after that <mandarin>因为那个:yin wei na ge</mandarin> teammate <mandarin>就打电话给我:jiu da dian hua gei wo</mandarin> mah then she call me and then she also so what do you think about


err what do you think about the call just now then, actually I I know that she wanted to, like, use <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> opportunity to also bitch about <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> team lead but then <mandarin>我就不要:wo jiu bu yao</mandarin> uh uh bitch about <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> DD then <mandarin>我不要:wo bu yao</mandarin> fall into <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> trap


because I I use the excuse that I want to go and do all the follow ups, which is also true, for all the things that the DD told us to do ah then after that <mandarin>因为我没跟他:yin wei wo mei gen ta</mandarin> bitch about <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> DD so I suspect that's why on Monday she spoke to <mandarin>我的那个:wo de na ge</mandarin> colleague to say that oh ya she's a very task oriented person


then <mandarin>我在想一想:wo zai xiang yi xiang</mandarin> is it because I didn't uh, impression, !huh! what session


it is and it's very strange on Monday or is it Monday or Tuesday I can't remember anyway then there was one day right she, we had a team meeting


err <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sanitise <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> nothing about like none of the <mandarin>激动:ji dong</mandarin> with none of the <mandarin>激动:ji dong</mandarin> and the emotions that she had on Friday evening, so when <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> updated, the other two members <mandarin>他叫我:ta jiao wo</mandarin> add in lah so what do you what do you have to say or do you have anything else to say or at all I want to hear what you want to say then <mandarin>我就给一个很:wo jiu gei yi ge hen</mandarin> neutral <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> account or say that okay we need to you know


cancel <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> meeting and then re-do err reschedule <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> meeting lah <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor then just to keep the, the two DDs in the the two bosses in the loop lor <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> oh so do you have a <mandarin>他好像要:ta hao xiang yao</mandarin> I don't know I don't know I felt very uncomfortable because like, she she felt like she was trying to bait me into a trap <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>好像在挖一个洞给我跳进去你懂:hao xiang zai wa yi ge dong gei wo tiao jin qu ni dong</mandarin> mah like


it's like she she was waiting for me to say something


[orh] ya lor so it's like that <mandarin>就很:jiu hen</mandarin> factual <mandarin>了我们就很:le wo men jiu hen</mandarin> factually <mandarin>的带过:de dai guo</mandarin> everything lor


, same ah same ah same


she's like, not very smart at playing the game ah, like, she's just not very good at it lah I feel


!aiya! it's already no ten point five more months it's ten it's not eleven okay is ten point five


ya so that


so you say ten point five in about one or two more weeks is ten then from ten <mandarin>你就可以慢慢:ni jiu ke yi man man</mandarin> count down from two digit leh you think about it from two digit you count down become one digit then from nine become eight become seven then become six when you become six right I feel that


actually <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> leh <mandarin>不知道我是心里作用还是什么我觉得:bu zhi dao wo shi xin li zuo yong hai shi shen me wo jue de</mandarin> after six months right, time passes much faster after six months, for some reason


ya <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> so that's what I am hoping for that okay I just Tahan I just Tahan the first three months I just Tahan first cause like maybe the first three months <mandarin>是最难懂过的:shi zui nan dong guo de</mandarin> so <mandarin>我懂总之我可以:wo dong zong zhi wo ke yi</mandarin> Tahan and then <mandarin>懂过这个:dong guo zhe ge</mandarin> first three months right, then I will then after three months <mandarin>你就在那边这样忍一直忍一直忍:ni jiu zai na bian zhe yang ren yi zhi ren yi zhi ren</mandarin> then <mandarin>你就会忍到第六个月:ni jiu hui ren dao di liu ge yue</mandarin> after <mandarin>你忍到第六个月:ni ren dao di liu ge yue</mandarin> you just continue


and then very fast you will hit one year, eh wait this year this year


!wah! I have yeah, do it lah , everybody clear leave at the same time ah


, I think there's this, I think for this year if I don't take any leave I have like, ten, ten days I think, I probably, I probably would <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> if I don't clear this ten days right <mandarin>他明年:ta ming nian</mandarin> roll over <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> roll over <mandarin>到明年:dao ming nian</mandarin> and if I


for the full year next year <mandarin>这样加起来不是会有二十八天:zhe yang jia qi lai bu shi hui you er shi ba tian</mandarin> eh, that is assuming, that's a good thing but that is assuming I stay all the way until December


it's likely not gonna happen, I I really don't think it's good


I don't think it's gonna happen soon, I I, at least I feel that if you really want to travel for leisure ah you <mandarin>要等到至少:yao deng dao zhi shao</mandarin> after June next year, my suspicion lah


no I wanted to go Japan this year actually my plan was to, go Japan this year like about October those kind of like timing, no no no Olympic is in July mah I I want to Siam the Olympics but I actually wanted to go Japan and around October like September October then is like hit autumn then I can see the changing the changing leaves


true actually I I do it since I mean ya lah it's true lah I do see it as saving money mah <mandarin>就因为你没有:jiu yin wei ni mei you</mandarin> travel then your travel budget <mandarin>就存起来:jiu cun qi lai</mandarin> lor


next year you can go for a an even better holiday, eh actually I don't like to <mandarin>泡温泉:pao wen quan</mandarin> !aiya! I don't know I I find it very strange Japanese


in Japan, Japan <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> private <mandarin>温泉的:wen quan de</mandarin> meh how does that work like like in a room <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> ah


like they pack the water to your room that kind ah, oh, but then is not okay it's okay if you like it's like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> private only your friends mah then <mandarin>你可以穿你的那个:ni ke yi chuan ni de na ge</mandarin> swimming costume in <mandarin>也没有人管:ye mei you ren guan</mandarin> lah


it's, it's the public ones that are very awkward then they'll be like oh <mandarin>不可以穿你的衣服进去:bu ke yi chuan ni de yi fu jin qu</mandarin> so <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> all the Obasan all the all the all the <mandarin>老:lao</mandarin> auntie all the <mandarin>老:lao</mandarin> uncle


ya ya so the temperature is nice it's not hot then is cooling, then


uh Japan has like Japanese food is like <mandarin>合他的口味:he ta de kou wei</mandarin> and then Japan is very, ya ya she like she's okay with because Japanese food is like Chinese food what <mandarin>就饭:jiu fan</mandarin> lah then all the like Teriyaki lah all the all the fried prawn all this


cause I thought actually, I don't even eat raw food


like <mandarin>就算不会英文:jiu suan bu hui ying wen</mandarin> and now with Google maps <mandarin>很方便:hen fang bian</mandarin> right then you can just take the train then like just travel around around Japan but I I actually haven't thought of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> itinerary lah


problem and actually <mandarin>如果是这样的话我可能会去:ru guo shi zhe yang de hua wo ke neng hui qu</mandarin> Kyoto the area, oh oh sorry <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> Kyoto, sorry, sorry <mandarin>我不是要去:wo bu shi yao qu</mandarin> Kyoto <mandarin>我是要去:wo shi yao qu</mandarin> Kyushu area the further south, cause I haven't been


cause I haven't been to Kyushu area so near like err Fukuoka those, ya cause I realise that, I realise that I always well not say always lah that you know the typical places that we go is always Tokyo err Tokyo Osaka and Kyoto this three like you hit this three triangle


so I realise that I haven't been to the other parts yet and I want to go and see the cat island, (uh huh)


to Kyushu area ah, [orh] oh you know ah before I left so so, so I was thinking okay I will go on a solo trip then I was looking at tickets also I was looking at tickets or where are the possible places that I can go to


flight and then it's like


I think next year if you travel I think SQ will be like !wah! damn damn happy okay <mandarin>一定很多:yi ding hen duo</mandarin> offer <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> promotion


the that time I took Delta, Delta was about I, like low end of


actually okay lah actually to me <mandarin>去日本六百多块:qu ri ben liu bai duo kuai</mandarin> okay lah <mandarin>不会太贵:bu hui tai gui</mandarin> lah like, you know not too expensive not not super super cheap but okay lah <mandarin>也没有也没有贵到哪里去:ye mei you ye mei you gui dao na li qu</mandarin> lah


that is true eh <mandarin>六个钟头:liu ge zhong tou</mandarin> trapped in a plane and some more <mandarin>又是:you shi</mandarin> <mandarin>我们是:wo men shi</mandarin> cattle class <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh !aiyo!


!huh!, oh oh okay


[orh] P [orh] okay you say AM then <mandarin>我就想说:wo jiu xiang shuo</mandarin> !huh! five AM <mandarin>你还不会累:ni hai bu hui lei</mandarin> ah


oh my goodness actually <mandarin>现在老了:xian zai lao le</mandarin> right I realise I, if if I can ah I try not to take red-eye leh <mandarin>我现在觉得老了很辛苦:wo xian zai jue de lao le hen xin ku</mandarin> cause number one, I also cannot sleep on the flight <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> you know <mandarin>有些人:you xie ren</mandarin> hor they can sleep anywhere and everywhere one right <mandarin>他关那个眼睛躺在躺在那边坐在那边:ta guan na ge yan jing tang zai tang zai na bian zuo zai na bian</mandarin> then they can sleep one then I realised I can never I am not the kind who can sleep on planes leh


!wah! <mandarin>真:zhen</mandarin> Sibei <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> it's like Sibei <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> you know so, like <mandarin>晚上十一点飞:wan shang shi yi dian fei</mandarin> then you reach taiwan like five AM or something like that, and then you can only check in at like


so the thing is you reach Taiwan damn early you reach Taiwan like what six AM you reach Taiwan <mandarin>你就算:ni jiu suan</mandarin> like slowly Soh your way to Taipei is still like, know seven AM eight AM it's damn early, then you can only check in so late


so <mandarin>那个时候还记得:na ge shi hou hai ji de</mandarin> !wah! I remember what


AM, AM, why the MRT so late open


how come ah wait wait is it because <mandarin>是一个:shi yi ge</mandarin> public holiday, eh wait I thought Japanese ah I thought <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> will only happen in the Angmoh <mandarin>国家:guo jia</mandarin> I thought Japanese quite hardworking one


Haneda airport is in Tokyo, okay oh that means that time I went to Narita, okay totally no no idea of the distance but okay this is something like Bangkok


oh that's very very near


okay then if you take the normal train eh, I only remember Narita airport has like a lot of those like, oh city centre <mandarin>买:mai</mandarin> actually you can really just go to the airport and buy all the snacks


all the <mandarin>白色恋人:bai se lian ren</mandarin> ah all the chocolates lah all the <mandarin>饼干:bing gan</mandarin> lah everything can just buy at the airport, last time <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> mah


really, what's the difference, what's the difference


oh !wow!, eh wait there's a museum inside the airport, is it interesting or is it free, okay


but then again now that I think about it the last time we went Japan, !wow! many years ago I can't even remember when I went Japan, I went, no I went Japan when I was still in my first job that's like


the last time I went Japan five years ago, then I keep telling myself okay I want to go back to Japan I want to go back to Japan you know I keep telling okay ya, you know Japan is very nice I want to go back Japan but for some reason I've just


never been back to Japan, okay lor show off lor


okay that's true that is err that is <mandarin>这个人生目标:zhe ge ren sheng mu biao</mandarin> find a job with higher pay, oh no my


what kind of what, oh your your boss ask you ah, [orh], at least a ten percent okay ah that's not a lot what for them ah


then ask for twenty then ask for fifteen lor


(ppc), (mmhmm)


so what did she say what did she respond, !huh! she never say anything she just keep quiet not even a thank you or what


which she never respond to that, but, , okay


okay lah and and then she has a job secure <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> mah <mandarin>不用管酱多了:bu yong guan jiang duo le</mandarin> but as as long as the as long as the previous boss


!huh! then she has a previous job already, oh so


to another is it to another agency, oh


then would then did the the previous boss like come and offer her, okay, okay


!aiya! <mandarin>我多么希望被人家挖角但是从来都没有人要来挖我的脚:wo duo me xi wang bei ren jia wa jiao dan shi cong lai dou mei you ren yao lai wa wo de jiao</mandarin> , then that's good what


that is actually very true we should, but then I I actually, the unfortunate thing is <mandarin>我好像还没有遇到一个:wo hao xiang hai mei you yu dao yi ge</mandarin> really like, yah lah actually work so many years actually don't really I I mean cannot name one boss lor


that I will follow wherever this boss go to one leh, like, !huh! you have so many meh


!huh! got so many uh


!wah! then then then it's actually quite unfortunate that, !wah! I work so many years I actually really don't I cannot think of a, I cannot think of a boss, okay lah maybe the previous one, the DD is actually he is a nice person lah he is like


you know you know he treats us like adults like, you you want to take leave you take leave you are in charge of your own time you go and do your work as long as you get it done I don't care what happened so, he he's quite a he's quite an easy going guy lah but !huh! I don't think


okay, but I also don't don't think I will like follow until <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> leh like oh <mandarin>你拉我我一定会过去:ni la wo wo yi ding hui guo qu</mandarin> that kind


, they also follow your boss or <mandarin>他们很:ta men hen</mandarin> trust ha like just follow here follow then maybe pull them to hell


!huh! two three years actually not very long leh two three years do you consider two three years very long, oh and to work for a boss and know them


oh then that's six years already lah


, but it it doesn't mean that I resigned from my previous job I don't like my boss I actually do like I like I like my boss is just, I just got a bit bored, I was I was I was telling my colleague just now in uh in uh oh in the afternoon


ah I left my previous job because I was very bored, cause I stayed in the place too long then I very bored already right okay then I decided to leave very boring then I, then now I'm not now now I'm not bored now in the new job I'm not bored cause I'm always so bloody busy I like OT every single day


ya you are too busy to be bored and then you are, there's just so many things to do and the things that a lot of times a lot of things I just keep redoing and it's abortive work so I just so after that I told her (hmm) I a bit regret last time last err so so I don't know ah <mandarin>以前以前我会以前我觉得很:yi qian yi qian wo hui yi qian wo jue de hen</mandarin> bored <mandarin>以前我觉得闷无聊所以就跳槽就:yi qian wo jue de men wu liao suo yi jiu tiao cao jiu</mandarin> resign <mandarin>对吗:dui ma</mandarin> find another job <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> now I'm not no longer bored but I miss being bored


once you have so okay I feel that this is something you know it's like a


I rather be bored


how come you can see one, eh, if you see mine can you see and ah oh must purposely put <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> hashtag ah


oh, okay so I probably don't have that around mine, actually I haven't even updated eh


oh <mandarin>是这样啊:shi zhe yang a</mandarin> , no the thing is I change job <mandarin>我我我:wo wo wo</mandarin> change job <mandarin>我都还没有:wo dou hai mei you</mandarin> update <mandarin>我的那个:wo de na ge</mandarin> LinkedIn so if you don't know people will still think I'm still at the previous one


oh actually <mandarin>我从来没有担心:wo cong lai mei you dan xin</mandarin> about okay at least, so I have never


I don't know why I I I have never really like worry about probation because I'm just like, is your locks is okay this is one thing that <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> previous colleague <mandarin>他讲一句话:ta jiang yi ju hua</mandarin> then, that really made me like <mandarin>我就觉得:wo jiu jue de</mandarin> eh, it makes a lot of sense so she said this


!huh! you should go and tell complain to the <mandarin>大老板:da lao ban</mandarin> about <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> previous boss so, after that <mandarin>我就讲说:wo jiu jiang shuo</mandarin> you know <mandarin>你要三思你要三思你要在这边混的话你不可以这样子冲动:ni yao san si ni yao san si ni yao zai zhe bian hun de hua ni bu ke yi zhe yang zi chong dong</mandarin> just anyhow go and Pao Toh your boss like this


I only lose a toxic job is that is that a bad thing no it's not a bad thing what


if you so her theory lah <mandarin>他的那个:ta de na ge</mandarin> logic <mandarin>就是你:jiu shi ni</mandarin> feedback <mandarin>的话如果那个老板听的话很好:de hua ru guo na ge lao ban ting de hua hen hao</mandarin> things change things become better <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> feedback <mandarin>如果你:ru guo ni</mandarin> feedback <mandarin>那个老板不听话:na ge lao ban bu ting hua</mandarin> then never mind you lose <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> toxic job in the end it still works out for you so


okay lah it make sense lah as in her logic is sound so okay, but you want to do that you better make sure <mandarin>你有一个:ni you yi ge</mandarin> backup plan ah


that that's like every single day lor <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> every single month <mandarin>不是吗:bu shi ma</mandarin> salary <mandarin>就是要存钱:jiu shi yao cun qian</mandarin> ah, (mmhmm)


well well if you think about it if you think about it right five hundred dollars a month equals six thousand dollars a year, so if six thousand dollars a year you work ten years and you took if you just invest for ten years it's sixty thousand dollars a year assuming you work for thirty years so it's hundred and eighty thousand after thirty years that is assuming there's no


compounding lah you know take out all the compounding and err, and and and and and dividends and everything else that's hundred and eighty about hundred eighty thousand a year lah, so if you think about it hundred and eighty thousand a year after thirty years is that enough


so <mandarin>你觉得一个月五百块够吗:ni jue de yi ge yue wu bai kuai gou ma</mandarin> , so anyway so so basically if you just extrapolate a compound like this <mandarin>你就:ni jiu</mandarin> then is really just for you to see for yourself at the end of thirty years I have this amount of money but


but but but, hundred and eighty K, it's better than zero K


but <mandarin>不要乱乱:bu yao luan luan</mandarin> invest just for the sake of investing lah, digi portfolio DBS ah


I think the management fee <mandarin>很高:hen gao</mandarin> leh for <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> digi portfolio


I I actually I didn't I didn't go and check digi portfolio what I mean what are the err what what's the basket of equities invest in, as in


oh okay, (uh huh), zero point seven


ya this kind of returns <mandarin>你不可以看一个月两个月:ni bu ke yi kan yi ge yue liang ge yue</mandarin> you really must look at it long term, that is true my portfolio drop a lot and, actually I don't really look at it in terms of the how many how much I <mandarin>亏:kui</mandarin> but I just keep looking at it in terms of


(hmm) how much will it recover in in future, and then how, ya it's been fluctuating every single day ah then but for me I just look at it in terms of the, (hmm) how fast can I quit my job, !walao! <mandarin>不想做工:bu xiang zuo gong</mandarin> eh !walao!


increase is good ah, increasing is good


because your digi portfolio only started recently <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> mah


because you only started at, you started two three months ago at the now is <mandarin>八月:ba yue</mandarin> two three months ago was about <mandarin>五月:wu yue</mandarin> so that's when the market is still at pretty low, so your stash away was started like a few years back so that's when you bought in at when the better prices was a bit higher so <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> crash <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> mah so it hasn't gone back to the original level so that's why <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> stash away <mandarin>还是低:hai shi di</mandarin> lah


so it's just like


invest an amount you are comfortable with lor if like, if the amount you invest will make you <mandarin>晚上睡不着:wan shang shui bu zhe</mandarin> then I think there's something not quite right lah, uh oh


how high is your risk, oh you never pass <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> test there are some test that you have to pass right


actually you, there there's no way they can track they can track one


yes okay wait let me stop the recording stop recording


, okay and then you can plug in already, okay but anyway I realise right the thing about using Facebook call is that


we are we are using Facebook now then <mandarin>有时候:you shi hou</mandarin> I I don't know whether it's the connection or Facebook but <mandarin>有时候你讲:you shi hou ni jiang</mandarin> Face you


like I don't know it's like you so, I don't know whether it's the internet connection or what lah, so


ya, oh but I'm, but I'm talking to you on Facebook messenger app now so, anyway I also have Facebook messenger on my, on my phone


<mandarin>不认识的:bu ren shi de</mandarin> actually hor I think as you have already guessed I use


eh


follow them actually you are on


I don't know when


a bit, a bit Bo Liao, it's just Bo Liao lor I I think I also don't know what they use it for, it's


the, the gen Z people, is the gen Z people, they are all on TikTok, yes <mandarin>他们是:ta men shi</mandarin> gen Z


oh wait, X <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> boomer eh <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> meh


X, oh but I think Y <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> millennials meh, I don't know eh I, I was always under under the impression that generation Y and millennials are the same thing


I uh I was under the impression lah but I don't know whether it's correct


yes, and I'm meeting my financial agent tomorrow


life insurance, then <mandarin>我就跟他讲:wo jiu gen ta jiang</mandarin> lah like


it's like Pru Life


but then in you as you know is very expensive, no it's not it's a whole life


if possible I want to avoid that


but, ya lah but but I think at that time when <mandarin>我跟他讲话的时候:wo gen ta jiang hua de shi hou</mandarin> I will still under, so that's that scenario could very well come true at that time


ah ya lah ya lah true that that could have that can happen


that's why I <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> decided to get one cancer one a basic cancer one term for forty dollars


ya that's why as in compared to hundred and fifty <mandarin>一个月四十块:yi ge yue si shi kuai</mandarin> is, far


err, early


, oh <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> critical <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> cancer, ah <mandarin>如果是如果是:ru guo shi ru guo shi</mandarin> critical illness


of all stage of cancer, ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> is a pure cancer insurance, err <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> compare critical illness and the cancer <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> changes mah


significant, ya if


if <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> coverage is sufficient then <mandarin>不需要在买了:bu xu yao zai mai le</mandarin> lor <mandarin>因为我的:yin wei wo de</mandarin> coverage, ya that's


ya, ya, ya correct


, cancer affect <mandarin>最多的:zui duo de</mandarin> lor I feel


ya, cancer lor, I think <mandarin>也应该是:ye ying gai shi</mandarin>, ya that's why <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> I'm <mandarin>我可能会再买一个:wo ke neng hui zai mai yi ge</mandarin> early critical illness but the thing is that right when


ya <mandarin>我知道因为我的:wo zhi dao yin wei wo de</mandarin> when <mandarin>我的那个:wo de na ge</mandarin> insurance agent propose <mandarin>给我那个:gei wo na ge</mandarin> quote <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> hor for the same amount <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> coverage <mandarin>是只有:shi zhi you</mandarin> fifty thousand


the cancer, like <mandarin>中:zhong</mandarin> cancer <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> chance <mandarin>比较大:bi jiao da</mandarin> even though <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> man <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> heart disease <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> quite high up there so that was why ya maybe a few


not that I know of lah


no <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> it's not that it's open is that you have to do safe entry and they limit fifty people, ya


actually gym <mandarin>也是有:ye shi you</mandarin> limit like <mandarin>那时候我去那个:na shi hou wo qu na ge</mandarin>


ya so


ya, ya so


ya lah but <mandarin>以前我就可以跑:yi qian wo jiu ke yi pao</mandarin> like, without pain


ya true


but <mandarin>他还有:ta hai you</mandarin> take IPPT, ya, ya


ya, I, , still so you must run, or exercise more


no is claimable, it's like <mandarin>我们有那种:wo men you na zhong</mandarin> flexi credit mah <mandarin>然后你就:ran hou ni jiu</mandarin> claim <mandarin>到那个:dao na ge</mandarin> credit limit <mandarin>完:wan</mandarin> lor


yes, ya that's why


err childcare lah <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> lor


<mandarin>我们真的是:wo men zhen de shi</mandarin> hor underpaid


and I have to prepare for my presentation next, that's happening next week, for the for my new company, interview


I have to submit on Monday then Tuesday is the interview and during the interview I have to present to them


I don't know, I will, eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> leh, I this is the second time I did a presentation


, (uh huh)


right now imagine <mandarin>是你的大老板:shi ni de da lao ban</mandarin> interview <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>你的老板还在:ni de lao ban hai zai</mandarin> like it's like <mandarin>你的那个:ni de na ge</mandarin> direct direct


boss ah, ya, then <mandarin>我就讲:wo jiu jiang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我就在那边是想:wo jiu zai na bian shi xiang</mandarin> I want to have I want to talk to the, team lead first before I even make my decision <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> is like


she will be very involved in this department <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> is a <mandarin>新的:xin de</mandarin> department, then, then then it's like


eventually the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> team lead will take over a bit more and more lah but until that stage until both of us are like


like there's you <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like you say lah <mandarin>有好有坏:you hao you huai</mandarin> lor <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> on one hand, you don't know <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> I don't know who the person is and, my work style <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>看看很看人的:kan kan hen kan ren de</mandarin> mah


ya so <mandarin>如果不知道:ru guo bu zhi dao</mandarin> whom I'm working with then it's, it's not a very, I I'm not very comfortable with that arrangement lah I want to at least have a talk with the new, that that that boss first, before I make a decision


, sounds like a lot of people I, I know


ya lah


so, ya true but then, but <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> the big boss right then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> big boss hor have zero knowledge about digital marketing <mandarin>也是不是:ye shi bu shi</mandarin> zero lah <mandarin>他上一个:ta shang yi ge</mandarin> course on digital marketing and that's it lor, so


so essentially it's like what it's like <mandarin>我的那个旧:wo de na ge jiu</mandarin> I think that was why I was I was asked for interview <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> hor


then is the same scenario so that was why I suspected that was why I got asked for interview and was shortlisted to the second round but


it's also, ya lah, ya lah so <mandarin>要看:yao kan</mandarin> lor all I can say is that <mandarin>如果我这份工:ru guo wo zhe fen gong</mandarin> I accept it will put me up to market rate


ya I also <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> jump <mandarin>我也是我也是看人的:wo ye shi wo ye shi kan ren de</mandarin> leh


ya, I think I told you also, then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I was very frank to that manager lah like, if I were to stay it was it would be because of you if I were to leave it will be because of JDM


I understand


!aiya! I know about him he tends to be very quick, and very like , so


which is, he kicked me out


like, make things a bit difficult for me so <mandarin>那种东西:na zhong dong xi</mandarin> like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> presentation <mandarin>的时候他就讲我:de shi hou ta jiu jiang wo</mandarin> then the other <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> present, present similar things <mandarin>他就讲:ta jiu jiang</mandarin> good good good good good


he <mandarin>他自己觉得他:ta zi ji jue de ta</mandarin> he's he he also think that he's not cut out to be a people manager, people manager <mandarin>他比较:ta bi jiao</mandarin> solo contributer <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> manager


drink session, drinks I I thought I heard drinks session


ya lor


I think as long as you just keep it politically correct and neutral hor, I don't think anything like


, wait


ya lor I mean it's like actually <mandarin>你有几个:ni you ji ge</mandarin> leave ah, as in ya, I realise


I can take four day work week till end of the year, eh <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> encourage <mandarin>我的公司:wo de gong si</mandarin> encourage <mandarin>我这样做:wo zhe yang zuo</mandarin> eh <mandarin>他们讲因为:ta men jiang yin wei</mandarin> they don't want a situation where


I want to <mandarin>留五天到明年:liu wu tian dao ming nian</mandarin> in case anything happen, anyway <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> anyway I also <mandarin>我也是这样觉得:wo ye shi zhe yang jue de</mandarin> put encash <mandarin>也是不可能:ye shi bu ke neng</mandarin> encash Liao <mandarin>因为经济不好全部人都:yin wei jing ji bu hao quan bu ren dou</mandarin> pay cut


so, it may not be possible we have to we have to like, consume all our leave


so is that a good or bad thing, which is not happening,


<mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> but then <mandarin>我会你有你:wo hui ni you ni</mandarin> take <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> hor <mandarin>明年也是要看你有出国:ming nian ye shi yao kan ni you chu guo</mandarin> mah which also doesn't look likely lah


ya, oh Olympics <mandarin>完:wan</mandarin> Liao


well you can treat it as saving money


ya, ya <mandarin>他们几个人而已:ta men ji ge ren er yi</mandarin> <mandarin>他他他的朋友而已:ta ta ta de peng you er yi</mandarin> lor


just the few of them, that


<mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> [orh], I also don't know how it works leh, but <mandarin>你要你是要去:ni yao ni shi yao qu</mandarin> Tokyo <mandarin>还是哪里:hai shi na li</mandarin> I mean you intended to go Tokyo or


[orh] <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> ha, , ya because I was thinking about raw food


okay


Kyoto <mandarin>太多人:tai duo ren</mandarin> Liao, as in Kyoto Osaka Nara <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> area <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> tourist


Kyushu, [orh] <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah okay <mandarin>好也好:hao ye hao</mandarin> ah


ya, but <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> direct flight <mandarin>的话:de hua</mandarin> hor only SIA have, ya just saying <mandarin>只有:zhi you</mandarin> S <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> I mean if <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> if <mandarin>你想:ni xiang</mandarin> direct flight <mandarin>的话只有:de hua zhi you</mandarin> SIA have ah and ANA I think


that's why <mandarin>我就想你干脆你如果有:wo jiu xiang ni gan cui ni ru guo you</mandarin> direct <mandarin>的话你干脆:de hua ni gan cui</mandarin> take direct <mandarin>还是你干脆换:hai shi ni gan cui huan</mandarin> flight, because for me <mandarin>我去日本的时候我是去:wo qu ri ben de shi hou wo shi qu</mandarin> Tokyo mah then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> take


, I mean for direct flight <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> this is the cost lor and I think


I am more than happy to, to pay the addition for shorter travelling time


it's like, so that was why it was cheaper


PM, ya so <mandarin>去到那边到:qu dao na bian dao</mandarin> hotel <mandarin>五点:wu dian</mandarin> lor


ya correct


ya and and <mandarin>我讲四十分钟:wo jiang si shi fen zhong</mandarin> hor <mandarin>是你要:shi ni yao</mandarin> take <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> express train from Narita


!hanna! <mandarin>是是这样讲:shi shi zhe yang jiang</mandarin> lah, anyway <mandarin>现:xian</mandarin> anyway <mandarin>现那个:xian na ge</mandarin> airport <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> Narita airport it's just


but then leh ya <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> Haneda <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> Haneda is a lot more interesting than, eh eh ya Haneda is a lot more interesting than Narita, Haneda <mandarin>他们有一个那种:ta men you yi ge na zhong</mandarin> dedicated Japan street lah like to showcase the Japanese food then <mandarin>他们有那些:ta men you nei xie</mandarin> museum


ya, ya a small museum


ya okay, if to if I were to go again <mandarin>我就是不会去:wo jiu shi bu hui qu</mandarin> Tokyo Tokyo <mandarin>差不多去到完:cha bu duo qu dao wan</mandarin> Liao uh, so <mandarin>都走了我都:dou zou le wo dou</mandarin> Yokohama <mandarin>都去了:dou qu le</mandarin> but first I need to find a job, with higher pay


complaining to <mandarin>我的那个:wo de na ge</mandarin> manager mah <mandarin>然后他我就讲:ran hou ta wo jiu jiang</mandarin> hor what kind of increment are you looking at, how much increment are you looking at


then <mandarin>我就跟他讲:wo jiu gen ta jiang</mandarin> ten at least a ten percent


I told her very frankly <mandarin>如果我去外面的话我我我不你的这份工我不要做的话:ru guo wo qu wai mian de hua wo wo wo bu ni de zhe fen gong wo bu yao zuo de hua</mandarin> hor


ya I mean <mandarin>他也是问这个:ta ye shi wen zhe ge</mandarin> question to the others to the other <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> mah


and the xiao mei mei hor <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>跟他讲:gen ta jiang</mandarin> within the year


ya, ya the


no as in she has a job <mandarin>因为他的他的那个:yin wei ta de ta de na ge</mandarin> account <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> manager <mandarin>走:zou</mandarin> mah, yes


I don't know <mandarin>我没有我不我不是很:wo mei you wo bu wo bu shi hen</mandarin> close with the the with her supervisor, so <mandarin>我因我我跟他讲:wo yin wo wo gen ta jiang</mandarin> lah is very difficult is very rare for someone to want to pull you over with them


and, ya


I have a few actually


I mean but <mandarin>要看:yao kan</mandarin> job scope lor <mandarin>因为也是要看:yin wei ye shi yao kan</mandarin> job scope lah I'll admit but <mandarin>如果他要拉我过去:ru guo ta yao la wo guo qu</mandarin> and the job scope is nice


I mean they have been working with that boss for two three years already lah so


ya five at least <mandarin>槽槽槽跳槽五年:cao cao cao tiao cao wu nian</mandarin> lah, so <mandarin>我的工作:wo de gong zuo</mandarin> currently <mandarin>三年:san nian</mandarin> ah then <mandarin>再加:zai jia</mandarin> previous job <mandarin>两三年:liang san nian</mandarin> lah so so <mandarin>五年这样:wu nian zhe yang</mandarin> lor then I mean it says something about that boss if <mandarin>他们会跟他这样旧:ta men hui gen ta zhe yang jiu</mandarin> and <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> resign


, too busy to feel bored


you'd rather be bored now,


so he put, he put that


ya, he put a, you don't need to update until you hit nine months


I mean as a, for me I didn't also didn't update until I pass probation at least


!huh! Siao <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin>


ya lor <mandarin>我也是这样觉得:wo ye shi zhe yang jue de</mandarin> but then ah, !hais!,


ya so I mean it's just, I have been investing more I'm or rather I'm trying to invest more, like <mandarin>以前我是放三百块现在我放四百五百块这样:yi qian wo shi fang san bai kuai xian zai wo fang si bai wu bai kuai zhe yang</mandarin> into <mandarin>我的那些:wo de nei xie</mandarin> stashed away <mandarin>那些鬼:nei xie gui</mandarin> [orh]


no, I mean it's the best I can do at the moment lah


ya, I just, get more money and naturally I'll invest more, but


actually your, no


the management fee, ya like stash away <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> zero point eight percent and then digi portfolio is at zero point seven


yah zero point seven percent, but I think for me but at least <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin>


ya <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> some more <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> now it's like COVID then everything is fluctuating


!huh! <mandarin>我的有:wo de you</mandarin> increase mine is like increasing all the time eh


but, but having said that lah my Singapore stash away fund is, constantly negative cannot recover but my digi portfolio, asian fund is always going up, ya <mandarin>我我两三个月前这样:wo wo liang san ge yue qian zhe yang</mandarin> start


ya lah true anyway I think for stash away, ya I was at first thinking for stash away the the risk level is, dissect the risk level is also lower so maybe that's why it may took it may take a little longer to recover


so even I want to go higher <mandarin>我也是不可以再:wo ye shi bu ke yi zai</mandarin> go higher


ah, ya correct


oh <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> ah, oh okay okay, anyway <mandarin>我们已经过了一个钟头:wo men yi jing guo le yi ge zhong tou</mandarin> Liao


okay, can you hear me, eh the recording thing seems like it's a bit soft eh, but is fine , yes okay, right


so , , if you had three wishes first question, first question <mandarin>直接:zhi jie</mandarin> if you had three wishes


I think let's start with something easy man, three wishes is like


let's see, (hmm) (hmm), but then I cannot think of anything cause


ya , but there's so many flavors you see, see that's the thing


everything


then, then <mandarin>不是杯:bu shi bei</mandarin> one what do you call it, okay then I change my answer to <mandarin>快熟面:kuai shou mian</mandarin>


true you make sense but technically cup noodle is a type of instant noodle too eh no instant noodle is type of cup noodle too what am I talking about


true, so technically the <mandarin>煮法:zhu fa</mandarin> can be the same too


true it doesn't really cook well, ya that's true that's true, always like the <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> is a bit harder, yes yes yes


was really good <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> also, that's right , that's my dinner I doubt you'll eat that


but it's not high in fats, it is, really


oh my god, I did not know that, I thought it was just plastic


why, (mmhmm), oh you oh you mean the oil in in the noodle


oh, then, I don't think <mandarin>我会想要分开煮:wo hui xiang yao fen kai zhu</mandarin> just for that ten calories but cool


oh but I got see before the, eh who post ah I think is your your instagram post is it the <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> one the japanese kind the <mandarin>长长:chang chang</mandarin> kind, those ramen those those cook one


ya those are like, I saw that ya I saw that the calories are lower than, but you can <mandarin>泡:pao</mandarin> it too


okay lah those <mandarin>长长:chang chang</mandarin> one cannot, true but, true, but japanese have those kind of <mandarin>杯:bei</mandarin> one <mandarin>泡:pao</mandarin> one and it's legit ramen inside also, so is that healthier


why , ah , , , wait I feel


I feel so unhealthy, but then I think of your answer and I was like nah , what will your answer be !huh! girl, if you can only eat one , #nasi lemak#


no but, no but the authentic #nasi lemak# is not healthy, , fried egg


and there's fried chicken wing, help lah somebody, for real


no I don't take that,


like you see Taiwan they eat <mandarin>豆浆:dou jiang</mandarin> and <mandarin>蛋饼:dan bing</mandarin> or maybe those, no lah <mandarin>蛋饼:dan bing</mandarin> is quite healthy, seems quite healthy


, no but those eh, no as long as why eh why <mandarin>饭团:fan tuan</mandarin> is not, #nasi lemak# also got, #nasi lemak# also got carbohydrate


let's not get started on this #nasi lemak# has <mandarin>炸鸡:zha ji</mandarin> too okay, oh but what if what if you eat those what is that call, you know onigiri you know <mandarin>饭团:fan tuan</mandarin> can have different kind of, things inside ya


the ingredient inside lah, , ah I get what you mean like they are


damn, but processed foods are so nice, like original crab meat has mayonnaise inside


but we need a bit of fats in us also, a bit of fats, so you don't need to take in extra fats


I love nuts oh my god, yes, what's your favourite nut


pistachio, err oh my god is it the one that you need to pluck open, that one can what everytime I eat that one my nails , my nails will


ya and you see peanut you can use your like thumb like your thumb area and like push open but a pistachio cannot sometimes it's so like <mandarin>关那么的紧:guan na me de jin</mandarin> and then you have to use you nails and like


dude <mandarin>瓜子:gua zi</mandarin> you bite with your teeth what you never see how the uncle eat meh you you bite with your teeth , , pumpkin seeds, I have


ah okay okay, oh really I just bite with my teeth eh


no <mandarin>他会:ta hui</mandarin> is a there's a technique girl, you have to you know <mandarin>把它弄直这样一条:ba ta nong zhi zhe yang yi tiao</mandarin> then you put here then you bite


that's where all the technique comes in, yes yes


I think it's green tea flavoured, what happened to nut lover


true, but those not very <mandarin>新鲜:xin xian</mandarin> you know, !aiyo!, true


you know those store


miss, ya, oh my god that one tastes so bad eh I


I know right oh my god last time when I was in primary school our primary school must always use that to <mandarin>包:bao</mandarin> #ang bao#, right oh my god I thought it's just mine


!huh! even secondary school, , , what kind of chocolate do you eat what dark chocolate


oh, rich


where Roshi


ya I love it so nice, okay lah got cheap one you go those ABC shop buy <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> lah


true as compared to others lah, did you just say throw it away


it but it's been so long though since <mandarin>我们吃到那种:wo men chi dao na zhong</mandarin> budget <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> chocolate


what is that, ah ya ya ya that one that one I always see that during new year


no I really like that eh oh my god it's either a small one or a cute one or the square one also a lot of colour one


you know why, cause got no childhood,


, oh what chinese dance


really I last time I in my primary school is it the chinese dance <mandarin>都是:dou shi</mandarin> their ending forever is the same pose one forever is always like that then then they leave the stage


oh my god


what about but what about the guys, oh oh right I forgot about that, it will be so <mandarin>尴尬:gan ga</mandarin> for the dude though


then he <mandarin>莲花指:lian hua zhi</mandarin> also, , cute


, got got the ya very very powerful kind


ya <mandarin>紧身:jin shen</mandarin> one,


no but I I sometimes wonder though like how, very, small


!ouch!


!ouch!, oh, !haiyo!


you experience that before, but won't you, wait when you're dancing you are in what secondary school or primary school, the what the shit they do that to you in primary school


ha but, !whoa! okay okay !wah! your school so


true, but then I still cannot, true but then I still can't believe how your primary school, like did these to you guys


!wah! for a primary school that's really


that's true, after that it just becomes more and more like strict


ya, true you know now like my netball team like my previous netball team <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> after our batch then they stop like cannot have PT cannot have cannot use ball cannot go to the gym, cannot do planks those kind of things like they ban one all this


cause they say is too much on the on the child, oh during our generation already cannot


oh eh true true me too I'm asked to ya lor it's after our batch right then everything becomes more and more like, , ya


ya sia, but then we still we still got categorised under the what strawberry generation, eh oh right I forgot that you were older , whoops, whoops


millennial, millennial or millennial, oh gen Z, I think so


ha, why


what boomers they want to study about it, , , oh my god I don't see you as <mandarin>那种学生:na zhong xue sheng</mandarin> that


really, so nobody really listens in class


oh my god, that's so sad, I feel so bad for the lecturer


but after that leh <mandarin>看到你们可以:kan dao ni men ke yi</mandarin> punish what or like set some rules or something no, you ha ha


!aiyo! two hours late <mandarin>会不会的:hui bu hui de</mandarin> two hours late <mandarin>就不要进去:jiu bu yao jin qu</mandarin> [liao], ya


ah, oh my god that's oh my no that's not very nice


oh no, , but I heard like ITE now getting stricter and stricter, oh no


some got where tie also right, oh


oh, trying to be pops, oh


then what everyone that they <mandarin>抓:zhua</mandarin> is from your class eh <mandarin>做么同一件衣服:zuo me tong yi jian yi fu</mandarin>


, I doubt you guys go early, , oh that's a smart move


but it they won't say meh like cannot wear cannot wear jacket, then some of the school don't allow don't allow eh people wear jacket


and nobody will see, !aiyo! so sad


have you <mandarin>被查:bei cha</mandarin> before, oh oh you dye your hair, , then why he punish you


, oh my god


, it's so funny though, !huh! students are very old


oh, I always thought diploma was the most basic one


cool, how long how long do they think, then what cert, oh oh right but if you graduate under higher NITEC then what cert what cert does it give you


oh oh so is like a higher NITEC cert, (ppc), oh


oh my god the theory just gets higher and higher don't you think so like ITE, then poly then JC then like uni everything the theory goes up for level, oh eh that's nice leh actually


!whoa!, !wah!


then during exam you have to set up a computer, oh my god so you know how to set up a computer, oh my god that's so cool eh,


but maybe <mandarin>你的是:ni de shi</mandarin> computer is it maybe that's why, like maybe more hands on like I have a friend <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> study business <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> in ITE I see she always got exams the she always <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> memorise things I don't even know what she's remembering


!huh!,


oh my god that means it oh my wait they don't set the questions from scratch


oh my god, that's the beauty of past year papers


<mandarin>就连我们的中学都是:jiu lian wo men de zhong xue dou shi</mandarin> you know the the <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> set the questions one okay lah maybe they take reference lah but at least you know they re re do and rewrite the questions


!aiya! but still have to, take into consideration that you know some people just cannot, sit down and, do this kind of things, ya, oh my god <mandarin>那种是完全没有上课的:na zhong shi wan quan mei you shang ke de</mandarin> lah


then how's your GPA doing


ya, !aiya! at least finish your ITE mah


ya, ya, more job options lah, oh I I thought you wanted to say uni then I'm like !huh! !wah!, so


eh nice lah and poly I think poly is good enough lah, diploma to get you a job, but what sector is she in


okay lah I think IT like, I don't know about IT actually but, you need a very high educational like, in the IT industry


IBM sounds so familiar


oh, oh nine dollars per hour, oh my god internship nine dollars per hour that that's quite a lot


this is a very decent part time job already eh , is


nice eh is it a IT thing IT IT industry is like rising and rich


why didn't you continue IT though you will be a rich <mandarin>太太:tai tai</mandarin> now


, but also IT also got a lot of sector right like programming


oh !wow!, there's no like <mandarin>你不可以选:ni bu ke yi xuan</mandarin> track <mandarin>那种东西的:na zhong dong xi de</mandarin> ah


oh, like numbers


no, , !huh! oh really


oh I thought you do one zero one zero with programming also, what


[orh] uh uh, see that's the thing about the one one and zero zero thing it's so cool like it's just two digit


question mark how how how come and teach me how do you come to that that conclusion, left to right


, is, ,


, is eight okay ya, two to the power of three means two times two times two, ah okay okay yes


then what does it have to do with ones and zeros


one two again what !huh!, I thought is zero two eight six


[orh] okay okay, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), why because sixty four to sixty seventy <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> three


oh, two and one you have to put one and one, oh so is still,


oh my god this is so cool


is there no like shortcut way you have to do this whole thinking process, oh my god oh my god


oh my god !wah!


!wah! oh my god then <mandarin>这个是:zhe ge shi</mandarin> the other way round leh, is it


I salute IT people


then can can you can you hack somebody's IP address out,


the eh what's it called ah, the dark eh no what's it called in english, ya you know right the the the <mandarin>暗网:an wang</mandarin> the <mandarin>暗网:an wang</mandarin> thing


is it called the what the dark web no I don't know, yes I'm trying to find, I think it's just called, the dark web


or deep web I don't know, ya it's called the dark web, so scary


that was that was what my brother said too but <mandarin>我觉得我真的不可以:wo jue de wo zhen de bu ke yi</mandarin> eh, hack


ah <mandarin>那也要:na ye yao</mandarin> in, like if if <mandarin>你不认识那边的人:ni bu ren shi na bian de ren</mandarin> <mandarin>很尴尬:hen gan ga</mandarin> eh, why they don't allow


oh, take it as a minor lah,


, !huh! still got twos and threes I thought only zero and one, anyhow lah you


I don't think so, !huh! under bachelor, yes we are


I really doubt so, maybe <mandarin>你去找那种:ni qu zhao na zhong</mandarin> PHD ah masters maybe <mandarin>会有:hui you</mandarin> lah


no no no in our course right I think <mandarin>不会有:bu hui you</mandarin> maybe other course might have, ya, cause <mandarin>我们都已经看了:wo men dou yi jing kan le</mandarin> what I mean if <mandarin>一定:yi ding</mandarin> if <mandarin>一定要比我们大:yi ding yao bi wo men da</mandarin> that means <mandarin>他一定是从国外来的:ta yi ding shi cong guo wai lai de</mandarin> right


right so <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> I doubt <mandarin>他会比我们大:ta hui bi wo men da</mandarin> lah but if <mandarin>他比我们大:ta bi wo men da</mandarin> then <mandarin>就他一个人而已:jiu ta yi ge ren er yi</mandarin> mah


!huh! Malaysia also meh, Malaysia is eighteen, !huh! really oh my god I thought Malaysia is like similar to us


oh I don't know about Malaysia's education system


(hmm) but then their, primary school leh, six years six years that means they take twelve years our primary school is six years secondary school is four years


so ours is, ten years eh eh wait is it, I'm lost, yes ten years, so, oh ya right eh then actually they are they are only like one year younger than us


ah ah then me sorry !aiya! I keep forgetting you different age as me, ya, you you just stay in total lah like their primary school plus secondary school is twelve years, then ours primary school plus secondary school is ten years then plus ah we go poly so thirteen years


so they, they go to uni after that twelve years and we go to uni after that thirteen years so we are one year different so they will be one year younger than me, yes, one year like hello eh as compared to you yes


eh !wah! I I don't wanna be counted as <mandarin>零零后:ling ling hou</mandarin> okay


no lor, no no no, yes <mandarin>零零后:ling ling hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> don't know eh <mandarin>我觉得他是一个很:wo jue de ta shi yi ge hen</mandarin> negative <mandarin>的:de</mandarin>


like <mandarin>零零后:ling ling hou</mandarin> no no no no no


right get what I mean, they are very different


I think I got a feels of who you are talking about but okay, , really what


oh mature, actually I feel like our batch most people are quite, are quite mature, ya, normal normal people


ha, ya, yes I agree


sometimes <mandarin>有一点怕怕的:you yi dian pa pa de</mandarin> sia like when we go there what if you know, the things you know how we talk or the things that we talk about are very different, ya that's true but


if you are different you just


really, right,


can feel it, ya, but honestly <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> until now like our friendship now like I I I don't, you see I keep forgetting like I don't I don't at least I don't feel it anymore


ya, you know like I know like


I am able to you know <mandarin>一定要做出这种改变:yi ding yao zuo chu zhe zhong gai bian</mandarin> but then


ya that's true, ya


ya and because <mandarin>一开始:yi kai shi</mandarin> I think when I, I think you still haven't decided whether you wanna <mandarin>报名:bao ming</mandarin> or


ya then at that time I already I keep preparing myself I was like okay okay I'm going I'm no one okay I need to like I need step up I need to be independent, , ya that's true


ya ya, I can't wait for that whole like oh, experience


you have changed or grown or like, change, right, it's so amazing


yes, , technically <mandarin>我已经成年了:wo yi jing cheng nian le</mandarin> hello ,


!huh! oh oh, my bad, I think the environment around them really plays a part


, I feel like poly was a bridge to independence kind of thing


ah yes and during the process you do a lot of things that, that's required in


you know, when you step out this time, ya sia


preparing them for uni is a bridge to uni, I love it leh I love poly so much


eh I think it'll be a bit different leh in terms of like circle eh not <mandarin>不是每个人都讲说什么进:bu shi mei ge ren dou jiang shuo shen me jin</mandarin> uni <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> then your, you don't have a


ya, ya the system should be <mandarin>大概:da gai</mandarin> same but I feel like it will be more <mandarin>凶:xiong</mandarin> though


yes hopefully like our hall like <mandarin>我们的那个:wo men de na ge</mandarin> dorm, I think that will be nice


oh yes yes yes , ya, and I think mostly <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> mostly are like overseas students also


, it might have ya might, ya ya ya


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> , okay keep that in mind yes


shit that's <mandarin>欺骗:qi pian</mandarin> leh ,


, I am still <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> what are you talking about, , I love it


no lah <mandarin>大学:da xue</mandarin> can already, can <mandarin>大:da</mandarin> yes can can can <mandarin>十八岁:shi ba sui</mandarin> can go already, that's true, club things lah


!huh! really, I think you have to see like which one you will go


, sounds so off <mandarin>为什么学长还是小弟弟这样:wei shen me xue zhang hai shi xiao di di zhe yang</mandarin> so sad


, you wait, you wait, ,


no no no I I don't think so, oh oh the oh no lah not the no that's the <mandarin>竞卖会:jing mai hui</mandarin> what that that's not the <mandarin>学生会:xue sheng hui</mandarin> oh okay lah <mandarin>境外学生会:jing wai xue sheng hui</mandarin> okay I thought you ask like the <mandarin>学生会:xue sheng hui</mandarin> for the school like CCA


oh ya that one I think, I think is a must eh I heard last time I I heard that you know once you, like is you are an overseas student and you get into the school, it's automatic that <mandarin>你是他们的:ni shi ta men de</mandarin> club member so you have to pay the money, ya and it's not


I know right it's not a small amount leh, ya, ya, that's not cheap


okay I don't know other events that they have [lah] okay okay the camp <mandarin>我们有一个:wo men you yi ge</mandarin> camp and four dinners, yeah that's all


should be alright,


, okay so, yup, so, let's say lah if


let's start with the food one so if you can choose something to eat for like the rest of your life


so like just <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> , , but <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> after a while <mandarin>他一定会吃腻的:ta yi ding hui chi ni de</mandarin> what


your <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> is like cup cup kind of <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> or is just like everything, so as long as, no <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> is just the


like instant noodles and cup noodles there's a difference what, right


no is not , like


right, but it doesn't it doesn't really cook well okay fine


ya it doesn't cook well so like it won't taste good, ya but if you cook it then it will taste like, but <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> if like the cup one no matter how you


cook it is still, it's still meh


so are you going to go to Taiwan and then eat <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> everyday, so is that our dinner , that's good, ya but like someone said to <mandarin>减肥:jian fei</mandarin> in Taiwan


it's very high in MSG, it is like <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> is <mandarin>油炸过了之后:you zha guo le zhi hou</mandarin> and then they, ya they they fry the noodles itself then you put inside packaging one, ya


ya, like they deep fry and then they put they pack they package it, no so it's very high in like saturated fats


you cook your <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> and your soup separately, you get what I mean if you cook your <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> on it's own right it will like


cook away some part of the oils, ya then you cook the soup after that so that your soup won't have so much oil, so it it will like reduce the calorie by maybe ten calories


, , ya to make it healthier, get what I mean


(uh huh), healthiest, no but those are not <mandarin>泡面:pao mian</mandarin> those are just <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> in general


but you can't <mandarin>泡:pao</mandarin> spaghetti it won't cook, right, no it's not


it's very high in sodium


cannot eh, #nasi lemak#


ya the authentic #nasi lemak# is just like


rice is carbohydrates, then there's cucumber there's vegetables, you can don't eat the fried chicken wing or you can just take away the skin and eat the chicken, to lower the calories, eh wait the BBC actually state the eh state #nasi lemak# as one of the healthiest breakfast


ya there was this like news article saying that #nasi lemak# is one of the healthiest breakfast in the world


ya so so like, but <mandarin>蛋饼:dan bing</mandarin> is not very healthy to okay is is is one of the healthier breakfast choices they have


but <mandarin>油条:you tiao</mandarin> is not


ya but it's not that healthy like there's <mandarin>肉松:rou song</mandarin> and there's like what <mandarin>炸鸡:zha ji</mandarin> inside too


err okay, like japanese <mandarin>饭团:fan tuan</mandarin> is it, japanese <mandarin>饭团:fan tuan</mandarin> you have to choose like what is the


what is the, filling, does it make sense, like cannot be like processed food


ya, so it must be like, or like tuna chicken it cannot be like, what, crab meat this kind is confirm very fattening one


ya and crab meat has, ya, and crab meat has what is that crab meat has mayonnaise inside, ya


ya so like, mayonnaise is all oil what so you can't, it's not a healthy choice, but everything you eat has like, adequate amount of fats in it already ya, so if you really not enough oil


ya you don't really need it if you need like a bit of, what is that you need a bit of like, or in your diet you just eat almonds or walnuts


right, ya, almond walnuts actually everything I eat a lot of them, ya what else


pistachios, yup, yup, but like other nuts also what okay peanut maybe <mandarin>比较软不会:bi jiao ruan bu hui</mandarin> but


yup, okay not <mandarin>瓜子:gua zi</mandarin> that's what pumpkin seed ah


ya then there's a like, there's a certain like tool to open it


pumpkin seed is it,


I mean of course lah


right


all the gummies


you won't, you know every primary school will do that,


no it's not every primary school will do that like even secondary school, ya ya ya which is quite dumb like I don't even know what to do with it, and I don't eat those kind of chocolate, (hmm)


cause, no I don't eat that kind like very <mandarin>劣质的:lie zhi di</mandarin> chocolate I eat those like, no but like <mandarin>没有啊:mei you a</mandarin> it's like those <mandarin>不好吃:bu hao chi</mandarin> one <mandarin>真的是很便宜的那种:zhen de shi hen pian yi de na zhong</mandarin> lor


ya it's like, ya ya, so if I were to pay more for like


kit kat, or, a Ferrero Rocher a bit too Atas already, what's that, it's nice lah but it's very Atas like I love it but it's very Atas


ya so I won't eat it


I will give it to people or throw it away


Van Houten, but, Ferrero Rocher <mandarin>我没有那么:wo mei you na me</mandarin> Atas <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> relative


but <mandarin>也也是很难吃的:ye ye shi hen nan chi de</mandarin> gummy, ya I know I hate it


chinese dance


it's a, then <mandarin>你就要:ni jiu yao</mandarin>


I'm in a girls' school, ya, it's like hundred percent, I think got <mandarin>男老师:nan lao shi</mandarin> ah like <mandarin>我们的老师:wo men de lao shi</mandarin> is <mandarin>男老师:nan lao shi</mandarin> so


yes, his those


man, eh ya that kind and then like


ya ya always see this kind, those <mandarin>经典:jing dian</mandarin> one, ya


build


the touching your toe one sit and reach


it won't be it won't be just sit and reach you will just sit down there inside your senior will sit on you for like the next four minute, always what like last time I was dancing it's always like that


primary school, ya you cry then you cry ah they won't do anything much, ya, but, as a kid like you are quite flexible as a kid already


ya got, like


like I don't know leh I just, , just have to face it, you just have to face it lor cause, I don't know they their their <mandarin>标准:biao zhun</mandarin> is quite high, and they are that kind that they will aim for like gold with honours


ya, so like, when you do bridge you <mandarin>跌倒撞到头:die dao zhuang dao tou</mandarin> they will just oh <mandarin>你没事:ni mei shi</mandarin> okay can continue, but no one like my our generation <mandarin>好像也没有会:hao xiang ye mei you hui</mandarin> complain <mandarin>家长的那种:jia zhang de na zhong</mandarin> type


very little, ya, , no lah <mandarin>现在可能:xian zai ke neng</mandarin> kids they will complain lor and then parents will do something but back when we were younger no lah


this kind


ya for my, for my secondary school also what like when I was in girl guides also, cannot do all this like no PT confirm no PT you cannot punish them, using PT


err, I did it like my seniors did it to me but I cannot do it to my juniors, eh, ya ya kind of thing I think kids now


I am not under like is it am I, a millennials millennial, how do I pronounce it, millennial millennial, like the, gen


eh are we gen Z, maybe I think ya, so it's like , ya there's a lot, I have to study this in ITE then I like


ya there's a module on it like, one part of the module is about like gen Z millennials and then like, boomers kind of thing, I can't remember,


like, half the time I will I'm not in class one I will just go and take attendance then I said I go toilet, then I will go downstairs and find food and eat, no ah this kind is ITE life mah everyone does that


ya I mean there's nothing to do in class anyways and then you don't go for class you still can score well, nobody goes to class like half the class is empty most of the time


or maybe like you see people sleeping, eh I think he they somehow come come into terms with it since all students does it right so


we will only come back when lesson ends, so technically there's no one around in class like there's no way that he can okay lah there's maybe one or twice when people come in like two hours late and then he got pissed off


right, they just come in two hours late and then like, they were, they will want to, I don't know they just try to get away with it lah so


like there's nothing much he can okay he tried to scold but then they just stand down there and laugh, so, ya so the lecturers kind of gave up on us


ya, they were quite strict in my in my like when I was there already cause like, cannot you cannot dye hair you have to wear school uniform to school


ya and, ya that's for business but like for us, like my class very very <mandarin>坏:huai</mandarin> one we don't wear school uniform one, we just make a class tee or sort of like t shirt and then we wear that to school


then but, ya like okay so the lecturers won't catch it your advisers and lecturers won't catch you but there's this, people called the SGO, which is like the sort of like discipline masters lah which they will go around the school and catch people


then every morning they will just stare at each of the gate each of the gate lah, no no they won't <mandarin>抓:zhua</mandarin> cause like we will either go in late they will okay let's say we


school starts around eight right, so they will be there around seven forty to maybe nine o'clock, so we either go early or we go late, or I got another thing which I always do, no ah eh I go early one okay I go there eat breakfast one


but, every time I see them then <mandarin>我就会穿一个:wo jiu hui chuan yi ge</mandarin> jacket and then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> zip <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> jacket all the way, ya so once I, no ah but if you are cold on the bus is quite normal to wear jacket what


no, we can wear so like, ya at anyways they will only be at the gate so like once you pass then you walk into the cafe and your class right you can just take off your jacket, ya and nobody will see your lecturers won't care anyways


ya but you are if you are out of class and because they loiter around schools in the afternoon so like, ya if you are out of class and then they see you, in something else they can call you and like


ya ya then after that he called me at least three times lah the two years I Kena caught three times, then after that, no I think we need to write like some <mandarin>检讨书:jian tao shu</mandarin> or something then I


I keep saying ya I was like no you guys are the one who ask me to dye darker cause, that time I was swimming so it was quite like


so like, it's not, typically is not really my fault, but, ya, there's nothing much like, they can do


but like <mandarin>检讨书:jian tao shu</mandarin> is a very stupid thing, especially right, no but like ITE a lot of them are very old you know like a lot of the students are very old already


like there's a lot of people who are aunties like thirty plus forty then <mandarin>你你不可能要去罚他们:ni ni bu ke neng yao qu fa ta men</mandarin> what, because <mandarin>他们可能出去做工:ta men ke neng chu qu zuo gong</mandarin> and they just want they want to change a track


like <mandarin>他可能读:ta ke neng du</mandarin> business and she want to go into nursing <mandarin>他最基本的:ta zui ji ben de</mandarin> course <mandarin>是去:shi qu</mandarin> ITE <mandarin>拿:na</mandarin> course <mandarin>而不是去:er bu shi qu</mandarin> diploma, so, not really is like <mandarin>他们可以就是:ta men ke yi jiu shi</mandarin> ITE is the easiest way to get the course


ya, ya so like


<mandarin>他们会去那里:ta men hui qu na li</mandarin> take course lor, it's a better choice and it's a shorter like course year compared to easier and shorter compared to like poly, it depends lah if it's NITEC is three years higher NITEC is two years


ya, higher NITEC lor a higher NITEC in something, ya, I mean it's vocational that's a vocational like education cert so like


it's meant for on job training lah, more direct, probably is more theory base, ya


ya but like I cause ITE really is like, I would say ninety percent practical, ya exams are very easy like exam they teach you how to do in class then you stay in class and just practice three times then exam they will do the same thing


kind of same thing, like, not exactly the same thing lah maybe I ask you to, err set up a computer like what I study is computer mah so they ask you to let's say, set up a computer


so they will dismantle the computer and then you have to set it up you have to build the computer yourself, and know where to put the stuff but you practice like three times you know where to put all the stuff already what, , ya


technique, I know where to put the stuff I know what cables and what things like, ya so like


then then after that you just go and do the exam lor, uh I have to say this but I heard from my lecturer that time that, how the IT teachers choose or do the exam paper is that they have this book with all the questions inside then they just they just have to go there and choose the questions and put into the exam paper


ya so, no they don't so it's like everything is there already they just have to select the questions and put it in then like, if you go and do past year papers right, they will the questions will be there one cause there's a lot of similar questions and I think if I didn't remember wrongly one of my exams the


pass my exam paper and the previous year past year paper like, forty percent is the same question, ya, ya


right


I mean, it is the end cause everything is so easy there, you take no


studies is it ya ya I heard ITE got some people GPA one point something or zero point something, ah ya ya <mandarin>没有去上课:mei you qu shang ke</mandarin> lor <mandarin>不然就是:bu ran jiu shi</mandarin> I have a classmate who sleep for all her class


one point something, , correct ya they say even if you fail your paper it's very hard to get one point something one leh


I mean ya lah as as it just a cert right compared to o level is still a better


like paper, like certification for you but they just don't ya, okay but she got into ah poly, no no lah, I doubt she will study uni lah she's not the study kind but she got into poly


same thing lor like IT sector I think


experience lah experience is still the key like if, you don't have a diploma but <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> programming <mandarin>做到很厉害:zuo dao hen li hai</mandarin> is still, you are able to secure a job outside, for basic job, especially like if you study and when my intern I was doing my internship like very the option of doing working at IBM


it's a very big IT company, ya they they are very well paid like, as a IT student we are paid nine dollars per hour


for internship, err and that is like normal because like there's overnight shift which is twelve or eleven dollars per hour, it has a very decent pay for like IT students


ya it's very little but


I like this kind of big companies they are paying really good if you are you know you are doing well and all, yup


no lah don't have the interest lah <mandarin>我每次都要很辛苦:wo mei ci dou yao hen xin ku</mandarin> I mean I can do well cause <mandarin>我爸爸以前做:wo ba ba yi qian zuo</mandarin> IT and then


ya there's, ya, but <mandarin>你学你就全部都要学:ni xue ni jiu quan bu dou yao xue</mandarin> and I cannot I can do well in like , what is that the network network engineering, but I cannot do well in database management


I am very bad in database management


ya all the like data stuff which I cannot do <mandarin>我每次看到:wo mei ci kan dao</mandarin> I'll be like err I hate it, headache man, ya, so it's like


!huh! one zero zero one one zero did we learn that, that's not programming that's like network engineering, ya programming is like you know HTML CSS that's not even really programming


no lah one zero one zero is like network <mandarin>东西:dong xi</mandarin> binary, binary


then <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> one nine two is, that yeah no it's like


so <mandarin>他是他是八个位数:ta shi ta shi ba ge wei shu</mandarin> and it's like two to a power of zero two to the power of one two to the power of two three four five six seven, so <mandarin>你要算:ni yao suan</mandarin> like one nine two <mandarin>他就是:ta jiu shi</mandarin> one one


eh is it, one zero one one something one something like that, cause the first one is err


wait I can't remember, I think is, two to the power of zero is zero, eh is it, ya to the power of, two, is two, eh two to the power of one two to the power of one is two two to the power of two is four two to the power of three is


eight, right, am I right, two to the power of three, ya so it's like, yup


so is eight lah, ya then two to the power of four is sixteen two to the power of, five is thirty two, two to the power of six is sixty four and then so on and so forth, right


so you need to okay so zero is <mandarin>没有那个号码:mei you na ge hao ma</mandarin> and one is <mandarin>有那个号码:you na ge hao ma</mandarin> I have to add everything, so it you should <mandarin>排成一条线:pai cheng yi tiao xian</mandarin> is one two eight sixty four thirty two sixteen eight four two one right


one two eight sixty four thirty two sixteen eight four two and one, two to the power of seven first, ya so


if zero okay so if you are looking for like sixty seven, you don't need to one two eight cause is a bit too high already so you put one two eight as zero, put it in a straight line lah like like that, then sixty four so, sixty seven is


so you put sixty four is one so now you need another three more to fill up the gap, to get sixty seven


so thirty two is too big so you put zero sixteen is too big so you put zero eight is too big four is too big, then two and one you have to put one and one, because two is


two is sixty four plus two is sixty six, then sixty six plus one, so it adds up to sixty seven kind of idea, err I took damn long to start to learn this cause I didn't understand


ya but it's it's a lot of work during exam though, ya you need to do


you need to draw it out, it, one nine two dot one six eight dot