eh now <mandarin>现在全部都是那些:xian zai quan bu dou shi na xie</mandarin> old movie don't even know, what is it about


hello ya eh <mandarin>听不到你讲什么讲:ting bu dao ni jiang shen me jiang</mandarin> again, (uh huh), wrapper, [orh]


lawn, err ya ya ya


okay, okay I gonna reach half an hour already, but is only at <mandarin>二十六分钟:er shi liu fen zhong</mandarin> !haiya!


!hannor! <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> and cure <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> recording right


(uh huh)


still need to upload right, need to upload the thing, can you send me the thing on on telegram, like the registration thing


ah after that, no haven't yet, no not a wait wait no <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> fill in <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> registration form <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> but then 那个 singlish recording step by step


guide must follow, no recording


[orh] <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> send <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> lor, okay thank you


!huh!,


, what the hell !aiya! it's always like that one


but then <mandarin>我很讨厌这种人:wo hen tao yan zhe zhong ren</mandarin> leh okay, I hate it okay I don't like I don't like it when we move from


oh you know Dee-Kosh


ya, what sexual harassment or something


nicole Choo is harassed by Dee-Kosh are you serious


okay, what's cancel culture


[orh], [orh], feel lah I feel you know I feel like ah because the way <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> act <mandarin>有点:you dian</mandarin> like gay


but gay, but, but I must I must say right <mandarin>他那那时他不是一直:ta na na shi ta bu shi yi zhi</mandarin> feature those guys in <mandarin>他的那种:ta de na zhong</mandarin> in <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> video


they are legit very handsome and cute, I will give credit to them, but the thing is you know you know when I when I


no when I read the thing right then <mandarin>我就想说:wo jiu xiang shuo</mandarin> like is this really Dee-Kosh cause firstly right telegram you can just change the name then you can just change it to Dee-Kosh then like can be Dee-Kosh talking to you what cannot, maybe people are just using the


famous the fame of Dee-Kosh to just push everything to him, but not really very concerned about it that's just one question that pop out of my mind, like


you know it's like <mandarin>你你的:ni ni de</mandarin> <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> telegram right <mandarin>你可以换成:ni ke yi huan cheng</mandarin> #yi bing#, then <mandarin>去找:qu zhao</mandarin> rachel chat, they don't they won't know <mandarin>你是:ni shi</mandarin> #si jia# what they will take it as <mandarin>你是:ni shi</mandarin> #yi bing# what <mandarin>因为他们:yin wei ta men</mandarin> firstly <mandarin>他们只是用:ta men zhi shi yong</mandarin> like username to check on telegram right


so don't know, so nicole Choo


oh no, song, nicole Choo was overseas


[orh], oh is it


ya, ya, <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> eh


but what err, err, so, what does Dee-Kosh and nicole Choo <mandarin>之间有什么啊为什么会:zhi jian you shen me a wei shen me hui</mandarin> cancel off nicole Choo that's my question


Dee-Kosh like her


, !aiya!, there's always mean people out there trying to like, bring down someone, but <mandarin>我看:wo kan</mandarin> nicole Choo right <mandarin>她的:ta de</mandarin> dressing right !wah! damn revealing


which is like, , can, say like !wah!, can say but confirm <mandarin>有有人会讲为什么他这么:you you ren hui jiang wei shen me ta zhe me</mandarin> slutty <mandarin>为什么他:wei shen me ta</mandarin> dress <mandarin>到这样子:dao zhe yang zi</mandarin> [orh]


I mean ya this is one way she dress and it's people's perspective of <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> so just take it if <mandarin>她真的不喜欢:ta zhen de bu xi huan</mandarin> then <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> in the first place <mandarin>她没有:ta mei you</mandarin> like


!huh!, !hais!, sad lah


but then, Nah it's not for me this whole situation is not for me, it's a good thing that I'm not popular or something [orh]


no I just feel like <mandarin>如果她不喜欢她:ru guo ta bu xi huan ta</mandarin> should voice it out lor, like, the just saying ah like <mandarin>你看她:ni kan ta</mandarin> bully right I mean actually bully is part of growing up, you know, part of growing up


then it is, like you you get bully by jess, then I also got I got bully, then, it's just how you deal with it lor


hello, like you <mandarin>不喜欢:bu xi huan</mandarin> you just, ya


some people <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> just hate people for no reason, like ya, ah, but then hor ya haters gonna hate okay so right, ya I was I will call them my kids because ya


I teach them so I was like, then <mandarin>我讲说:wo jiang shuo</mandarin> ya you being rude to <mandarin>他们也是:ta men ye shi</mandarin> what <mandarin>他们每次都讲:ta men mei ci dou jiang</mandarin> no no no no no !wah! there's this guy right I there's this boy I fucking hate him leh like to the max right


I want to quit my job eh, it's like so rude


like, rude <mandarin>他又讲说他自己:ta you jiang shuo ta zi ji</mandarin> rude, like cannot realise <mandarin>他自己的:ta zi ji de</mandarin> problem


!wah! even more worse eh <mandarin>我告诉你啊:wo gao su ni a</mandarin> cause <mandarin>有一次:you yi ci</mandarin> I cause I'm so stressed about this, this , eh mummy <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I feel like I want to talk to the parents about him like


like <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> behaviour <mandarin>要怎么:yao zen me</mandarin> like how should I like talk to the parents, you know as a typical parents right <mandarin>他们会想要听:ta men hui xiang yao ting</mandarin> good things about


then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> mummy <mandarin>就说了一句:jiu shuo le yi ju</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你跟他你你讲给他:ni gen ta ni ni jiang gei ta</mandarin> parents <mandarin>也没有用:ye mei you yong</mandarin> is example right <mandarin>他是他在你的班然后他给你:ta shi ta zai ni de ban ran hou ta gei ni</mandarin> control <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> control <mandarin>不了他关我屁事:bu liao ta guan wo pi shi</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> instant triggered leh it's like


can you get the can you get the fact that I'm trying to saying that I want to work with the parents to bring a better behaviour for your kid err, for the for my student eh for your kids <mandarin>然后我:ran hou wo</mandarin> mummy <mandarin>跟我说这句:gen wo shuo zhe ju</mandarin> ah it's like


no wonder <mandarin>我老弟这么坏:wo lao di zhe me huai</mandarin> lor no lor <mandarin>我老弟这么:wo lao di zhe me</mandarin> spoiled kids spoiled, ya, you get what I'm trying to say, then then after that right then hor !wah!


like


okay, we want something good for this kid okay, so I'm asking for you and me to come up with a solution okay <mandarin>你不要跟我讲说他在你班:ni bu yao gen wo jiang shuo ta zai ni ban</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你不可以:ni bu ke yi</mandarin> control <mandarin>他所以是你的:ta suo yi shi ni de</mandarin> fault !wah! instant trigger leh like


!huh!


annoying eh, ya so ya, but it's okay, I'm gonna do this


!huh!, oh no


ya continue, ya continue


post <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sweet <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> hor actually <mandarin>后面:hou mian</mandarin> they have a lot of problem just that you don't know


hello


hello, ya ya can but your noise <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> uh


oh my god, what's with the fire alarm at my condo sia,


(hmm), don't know, not yet, !huh!


, true, okay lah I see how first, because <mandarin>就算我要:jiu suan wo yao</mandarin> study uni ah <mandarin>我想要去:wo xiang yao qu</mandarin> physical class <mandarin>我不想去:wo bu xiang qu</mandarin> online class I feel like online class is useless


(hmm)


is it, are you in your room or <mandarin>还是你在你:hai shi ni zai ni</mandarin> mummy <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> room, no wonder


you know what I feel like I will, like, fail this trial, but I don't care, because, because firstly I got the fire alarm thing


what thing timing, !huh!, [orh] my timing ah, err my timing now is forty eight thirty two, still got fifteen more minutes


!huh! why <mandarin>为什么为什么要:wei shen me wei shen me yao</mandarin> call <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> to talk for one hour


okay so can you can it be like I fail you pass


[orh] <mandarin>看先:kan xian</mandarin> lah when will you know the result ah


it's okay, (hmm)


what, !wah! so sweet ah, ah so sweet


buy ah, and so <mandarin>你们的:ni men de</mandarin> E essay <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> paper base lah, don't have how come don't have


so you all MSA you all do report then ESA you all also do report, that's the what


K never mind <mandarin>我不要跟你讲:wo bu yao gen ni jiang</mandarin> about <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> academic already <mandarin>讲到我很:jiang dao wo hen</mandarin> confuse, K but then you all still need to be graded what


!wow! are you serious, so is hundred percent on MSA !wow! eh god bless no is is seventy percent on MSA thirty percent on the rest


!huh!, okay okay sixty forty god bless


tertiary, okay


food court open I want to go eh I want to go and eat sia err, I miss food, is the Kampung chicken open


like I miss lah I miss there


I mean the like ya, , eh


start a topic


uh, !wow!, you do plating right or you do dessert


what is a saucier <mandarin>我忘记了:wo wang ji le</mandarin> [orh] [orh] the sauce one, err


did did you prepare vegetarian, but <mandarin>告诉你:gao su ni</mandarin> ah chef <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> chef <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> chef lesson <mandarin>最好的一个:zui hao de yi ge</mandarin> thing <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> right


at the end of the class you will get to eat your food , ya congratulations for you man, pizza


doesn't look


know what, I don't know cause I never make my own pizza no no no <mandarin>我知道有一次:wo zhi dao you yi ci</mandarin> chef <mandarin>不知道哪一个:bu zhi dao na yi ge</mandarin> chef right, err <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> make <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> lemonade


with the chia seed, don't know what I feel like <mandarin>我要生病了:wo yao sheng bing le</mandarin> eh


I gonna, okay I gonna, I just gonna maybe next week


!wah! good good better have flu man, I don't need to saw my kids for five days


oh,


(mmhmm),


(mmhmm)


you see this is the third time okay from the recording to here is the third time, !aiya! it's okay lah, fail then fail


ah, I I never go check on a red strand lah but I know that <mandarin>好像我有一个:hao xiang wo you yi ge</mandarin> eh, so


err really ah something I find it very funny, he actually he's a very funny teacher but he also very strict pastry, I remember right that time right <mandarin>我在做那个:wo zai zuo na ge</mandarin> err apple pie menu A it's apple pie for menu A


then cause, then <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> lay out that that, like <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> lay out nice nice


oh my god I'm done it's one hour already you know when when would we know our result ah, how


okay, K I end this recording now, I should right, K let's just, then it I pause or put a tick


okay okay I'm gonna stop now I'm done talking <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> extrovert <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> side <mandarin>已经:yi jing</mandarin> gone <mandarin>了已经:le yi jing</mandarin> fly away already after this one hour of talking, I I don't know why people can like talk for non-stop eh <mandarin>我不可以:wo bu ke yi</mandarin> eh I like


ya already turn off, I don't even know why I agree to do this with you, I don't know


ya it's not okay lah, eh hello but provide good listening ear okay


err I have no idea what's a singaporean accent I don't think I have a singaporean accent as well


err <mandarin>几句话的话呢还是用那什么:ji ju hua de hua ne hai shi yong na shen me</mandarin> leh lah lah lah I think you I can understand and ya definitely can recognise that's a singaporean


true confirm ah


err, are very unique, to singapore


some some of the words lor inflection some of the one, (hmm)


err


I mean ordering food is simple lor but holding a conversation


ya till my siblings to everybody is english ah I'm I'm quite #ang moh pai# one, ya that's that's me


ya have to be because my my parents don't understand


the english


then, !wah! so your nephew


three languages


(hmm)


but it I think it's because they my my my, my sister and I mean their their side my families they they all speak english ah so


ya so


oh, but, oh okay


(hmm) <mandarin>我那我了解了解:wo na wo liao jie liao jie</mandarin> ya understand


ya <mandarin>会应该会用华语吧:hui ying gai hui yong hua yu ba</mandarin> ya


my my first language is still english ah I'm still more comfortable, uh in in english ya, err <mandarin>如果用华语的话真的要想:ru guo yong hua yu de hua zhen de yao xiang</mandarin> I have to think what to what is the word have to translate it


ya so , err and also during my work also <mandarin>比较多英文吧:bi jiao duo ying wen ba</mandarin> ya so, quite, ya I'm just so just so used to just one language


chinese


ya so I I will usually just use it chinese ya use chinese to to speak, ya even with my colleagues ah I I mean I feel my colleagues they <mandarin>比比较擅长是用华语啊那是:bi bi jiao shan chang shi yong hua yu a na shi</mandarin> , err I'm not used to it, that's the thing


ya, err


[orh] err, I don't have many <mandarin>客户:ke hu</mandarin> who are, like


ah, so anyway you know me for for so long already have I ever use chinese before , eh <mandarin>有吗:you ma</mandarin>


oh I ya ya ya, I think I can switch,


ya even even now hor even now I'll have to, have to be cautious lah I have to know what to say


ah


(hmm) okay


(hmm) different names for colours lah ya ya


pearl white lah


so, that but also what what other words for white


pearl white uh


(hmm), eh [orh]


was it a webinar, [orh] <mandarin>是自录的啦:shi zi lu de la</mandarin> okay, (hmm) (hmm)


oh okay okay


(hmm)


ya what does what does he mean


the the, err, ah your taste would be more refined, more enhanced


eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> eh err there's a restaurant in singapore, err


so you got ya lor you go in you just dine everything in the dark okay


touch uh , (hmm)


, (uh huh) okay


ya, that's the thing you know ah you mean you need you have other senses


I mean there are still other other things that you can do ah, other senses (hmm), , if I go blind one day ah <mandarin>啊如果我:a ru guo wo</mandarin> (hmm) <mandarin>盲:mang</mandarin>


will be very I think would be very difficult, because , then you have to re-adjust


to something, you are also used to seeing something isn't


<mandarin>那个是:na ge shi</mandarin> ya, then <mandarin>很多东西还没有做过:hen duo dong xi hai mei you zuo guo</mandarin> leh


braille


[orh] ya, visually handicapped, err your or, ya I think disabled in general ya


(hmm), ya actually whether you know braille or not actually <mandarin>也没什么没什么差别:ye mei shen me mei shen me cha bie</mandarin> lor <mandarin>说真的:shuo zhen de</mandarin> ya you will be using your your your hearing


ah <mandarin>多过你的你的触摸还是那个那个:duo guo ni de ni de chu mo hai shi na ge na ge</mandarin> braille <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lah actually, (hmm) <mandarin>我真的没有想过:wo zhen de mei you xiang guo</mandarin> so I I I I'm quite scared, if I ever, am handicapped


with bae


, !wah! !wah! but let's say I give you a choice ah let's say, will in which one which one will you choose


ya <mandarin>你很你很爱运动也是:ni hen ni hen ai yun dong ye shi</mandarin> you are quite active also ya


amputate <mandarin>有点严重啦但是:you dian yan zhong la dan shi</mandarin> but ya lah


eh but you can use prosthetics ah


err ya lah ya <mandarin>对啦:dui la</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个还要钱对:na ge hai yao qian dui</mandarin> you need to go through amputation lah


well what I'm saying is !wah!, if you ask me ah <mandarin>如果给我一个选择的话:ru guo gei wo yi ge xuan ze de hua</mandarin> (hmm), I would I might choose, hearing ya <mandarin>如果听不到的话还:ru guo ting bu dao de hua hai</mandarin> okay <mandarin>因为我在想:yin wei wo zai xiang</mandarin> actually


ya lor, like what you say you know I, I just amputate and then, get a prosthetics, but ya lor I


you cannot see anything I think that's quite bad , !huh! err what will I do uh


err <mandarin>第一:di yi</mandarin> I I I I <mandarin>我希望:wo xi wang</mandarin> I hope I hope I have enough insurance bought enough insurance , !huh!, ya but <mandarin>需要钱啊因为:xu yao qian a yin wei</mandarin> if if I go blind


I cannot work eh or at least I don't think I can perform my job, as a financial adviser, ya I think


I cannot do my job, ah <mandarin>如果没有工作的话呢:ru guo mei you gong zuo de hua ne</mandarin> then <mandarin>钱哪儿来:qian na er lai</mandarin> ya, so still need money ah <mandarin>需要需要钱过活的啊:xu yao xu yao qian guo huo de a</mandarin> so , ya but what to do, do some ya lor I have to think of a different career lor <mandarin>下半辈子:xia ban bei zi</mandarin> I mean you have to do something mah you cannot just stay at home right you must


ya lor, I don't know, ah that's one usually handicapped, must really use your hands lor do something with your hands, ya , , (hmm)


then <mandarin>他们会请那个盲人不是:ta men hui qing na ge mang ren bu shi</mandarin> that ya, the dine in the dark


ya <mandarin>有工作做啦就是这样而已咯:you gong zuo zuo la jiu shi zhe yang er yi lo</mandarin> that's all I can do I think just very scared, (hmm)


what options are available err, !wah! I mean if


ya true true, err but <mandarin>我觉得选择不多:wo jue de xuan ze bu duo</mandarin> leh I mean if you're blind there's no really nothing much not many jobs out there, that you can do, at least if you have no hand no legs


I think, but but if you cannot see


I I think the options are a bit more limited,


!aiya! very sad that's the thing, !wah!, eh let's look at the questions eh this one the questions quite eh eh <mandarin>这些题目:zhe xie ti mu</mandarin> actually <mandarin>蛮有有趣的:man you you qu de</mandarin> leh


actually I don't understand this one oh my err if you drop everything to follow what will you risk, (hmm), their prompt lor, ah, ah which page ah <mandarin>哪一个哪一页啊:na yi ge na yi ye a</mandarin> err


I think this is page two I think, ya


(hmm), actually ya but what's your goal what's your dream in the first place, (hmm)


ya, , you know


!wow!


, they have conviction uh they have passion, (hmm),


actually you ask me no uh not very sad ah <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> it's okay ah, I think (hmm)


(hmm), err then back to this question <mandarin>我会冒什么险:wo hui mao shen me xian</mandarin> I mean <mandarin>我有:wo you</mandarin> for me, I don't know what, I don't really think I will risk anything but the most I will risk is


ya if I want to !huh!, err, (hmm), actually my if I want to follow my dream my job will be in singapore lah <mandarin>会在新加坡:hui zai xin jia po</mandarin> follow my dream ah


err, actually very cliche lah I really want to just travel, I want to experience different culture I want to stay in a in a place for for like a one month two month and then I move,


ya and may not and <mandarin>那些地方不一定是那种一定要豪华的:na xie di fang bu yi ding shi na zhong yi ding yao hao hua de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> three !wah! five star hotel and all that you understand to be can be in some mountain somewhere it could be in some in some forest it could be in a city ya so <mandarin>不一定:bu yi ding</mandarin> ah but


but if I want to do something like that means I really have to be out of singapore mah hor I have to travel and I won't and I probably won't come back, like ya anytime soon,


but it's okay <mandarin>我们可以继续:wo men ke yi ji xu</mandarin>


ya ya, oh okay we we <mandarin>我我们在:wo wo men zai</mandarin> we can lengthen the the the recording by a little bit ah <mandarin>我们延长一点:wo men yan chang yi dian</mandarin>


ah <mandarin>你你刚才说什么呢:ni ni gang cai shuo shen me ne</mandarin> what did you say you say I I I can still do something right, [orh] (hmm)


ah


adventure,


ya, ya ya, you feel very Sian


ya actually I think


I think singaporeans are very safe, then there's no need to take risks, that's the thing I see I see people you know they


they change their their their their <mandarin>他们的工作:ta men de gong zuo</mandarin> hor it's like, ya everything is very safe lor, ya, not like me lah I mean I I take risk lor, err my my job used to be very stable <mandarin>很稳定的:hen wen ding de</mandarin> then after that now I change to something a bit more


different a little bit more risky, ya, so <mandarin>很多人就是这样讲咯:hen duo ren jiu shi zhe yang jiang lo</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>你你现在做这行:ni ni xian zai zuo zhe xing</mandarin> !wah! your you know, !wah! <mandarin>你真的是:ni zhen de shi</mandarin> !wah! you are you are you are really taking a big risk err


three years already, err it's my third, (hmm), three years ya, no no lah as as a financial advisor no lah only only switch in


twenty eighteen what, before that I was a I was in recruitment <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> , err <mandarin>说实在的:shuo shi zai de</mandarin> ya lor, people say that I take a lot I take a lot of risks but <mandarin>我觉得人生如果你不冒冒几次的险:wo jue de ren sheng ru guo ni bu mao mao ji ci de xian</mandarin> <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin>


if you day in day out you always do the same thing, very everything is so predictable, uh your job ah one after another it's the same job like you're engineer then you're forever a engineer


err like for example, then if you got an opportunity to do something different you don't dare to do it because, you don't dare mah you know singapore is very safe you are brought up in that way you cannot take risk, uh why give up a a a job that you are familiar with and then you do something different


ya <mandarin>除非你很多钱:chu fei ni hen duo qian</mandarin> lah, ah unless your family got money ah then no problem lah you can do whatever you want


(hmm) you fail also never mind also okay


very difficult, so I I quite admire those ah, who who really spend a lot of time and effort lah they really give up everything ah, like just to to follow their dreams so


you know lah so so I thought this one is a good question this prompt, ya what would you risk, ya especially in singapore, that's the thing, ya lor


ya lor if I if I if I follow my dream then, ya I will not I will not be do my job of course I don't think I can do my job, very much, err, need money, ya I will be I will be out there alone


good and bad because you know but , a bit lonely also right then you come back imagine you go round around the world you go and travel and all that you come back after one two years ah, everything will be very different already people have moved on


ya but I, me I don't think I have those skills eh <mandarin>没有那种没有那种那种:mei you na zhong mei you na zhong na zhong</mandarin> skill leh


ya, but I mean be a blogger and all that would be an interesting thing I mean, okay what I mean if you can write really well you just travel from place to place and then you just write a few articles on the place on the restaurant and all that


I don't think I can really write very well lah so (hmm) I don't know, I can talk lah that that's I think a good skill I think I guess I can talk but , like writing is not my writing is not my forte I must say,


videos ah, I actually thought of that leh doing videos but, don't know whether anybody wants to look to to listen to me or not or to see me ah don't know leh, that's the thing I I very camera shy also lah


, no correct it's true what I very camera shy one, !huh! selfie [orh] no lah I don't take I take selfies is to record moments


eh if you don't take picture after five ten years you don't even know what you have done leh, so must take picture one, I take picture and I post it and I save it so that I know what I've done


correct or not, so must record, what


ya of ya no lah I mean you can just remove a few lah ya


ya, that's true, why don't you get an external hard drive, oh sorry hard disk or whatever you call it


ah, ya


!huh! really ah, I I don't use computer anymore lah I mean, nowadays I just use my laptop yes


so far okay leh, so far okay, but I mean I don't have a lot of stuff <mandarin>我的我都:wo de wo dou</mandarin> laptop, I only got like those word document power point slides and all that actually ya my


I don't take up lot of memory space, I uh from time to time I need to remove stuff, ya that's why I hope that's what I usually post things on facebook, or instagram and all that then I just then I can remove the photo lor everything is on online already


[orh] ya ya ya, ya but I never I don't need the original lor okay I mean I I probably still keep the original somewhere but


to me it's at least some it's online you see, so even if let's say my phone spoil you know everything corrupted I lost all my photos at least I know that you know, whatever I've posted, it's still there mah, ya that's the thing of course making sure that instagram and facebook they don't <mandarin>倒啦倒的话就:dao la dao de hua jiu</mandarin> that's it lor all everything is gone


otherwise, ya because all my memories are online I mean, I use instagram for like what eight seven eight years maybe so


at least quite a number of things already online already, ya will be a waste lah if, you know they're all gone then I have to go and dig all my photos I don't even know where my photos are they're all in different places lor I don't really ya, and some of them in my old phone also I think don't know whether old phone can still work


[orh] sort uh ya maybe I should lah, ya never never use never done that leh, maybe I should lah maybe I should


!hais! I don't know, !hais!, [orh] you ya I think I should do that lah true, ya haven't used my laptop much ah my laptop is only mainly for work


ya I don't really, my my laptop ah, I bought it when I started work here so what three years, so still quite new ya


err ya I think it's windows ten when I bought it was already windows ten, correct ten right ya, it was windows ten, okay, eh I'm looking at another prompt leh, this one looks interesting


unusual superpower, unusual superpower what would it be, ya, ya of course that's unusual what


I guess


, okay that's true that's true, ya flying ya, in the sense of freedom, ya actually I when I saw when I saw this I was thinking !wah!, what kind of super power would I want


I would like to read people's mind, ya it's, ya I mean, you, you will not know that I know mah I mean I know how to read minds mah


important no not say it's important but I think it would be good, it'll be interesting to see what people


are really thinking about, what's really important to them, ah, because ya lor I mean if, ya people will just say whatever they want to say and, but, once you can read their mind uh then you at least you know exactly what they're thinking about


what they really want, (hmm), life will be a lot easier I think, I feel, what's next uh you


then, then at least err, no but then at least I can I can use I can


I I, no ah no I I think with the superpower I can, dictate my own actions a lot better


I can choose to buy it for you I or I can choose to change my action, but ya


honesty uh, but I I I think it is honesty, to the max, because you cannot lie, you know, is I mean if you will know that I got the superpower right you cannot lie to me one because I read your mind mah you can say something but what you really are thinking about what you really desire is actually in your mind already so


you cannot lie ah, so I, [orh] give me an edge uh no lah no lah


how is it useful to me is it, how how do I benefit from it right ya, ya so so


I mean I mean let me let me let me put it this way I I I think it would be, for me it would be, interesting to know people's true intention, or what do they really want, sometimes, I just find it easier to navigate lah


I I think maybe because of my work also I find it's just easier, it it it may be easier if I can read your mind like say ah okay this this this is actually what you want, ya


I can read your mind you know so, ya so I say this superpower is not hundred percent, useful or beneficial or it can it's a double edged sword lor, ah


ah not say just job but it's just, I know what people are thinking about


that that would be interesting, ya but it it but it comes with risks, like it comes with risk it comes with, it has downsides to it lah, ya it's not hundred percent good


err ya


err, well, ya lor, (ugh), like I said it's, no uh I said


oh, sad uh err, maybe I don't know, but I just think that it is really interesting superpower to have lah, it'll be interesting to have but how it how how I can use it benefit myself and all that I mean I I have never thought that far lah I just think that it's something that


it will be interesting, to know what people are thinking about lah that's the thing but sometimes like ya like I said there are things maybe I don't want to know, ya but because I can read your mind I don't have a choice right I will know ya there that's the thing


you know, let's say, err ya, that's the thing any like I said I mean this it's it is a powerful it's a very powerful


superpower lah, ya I mean it's not just like oh I can fly or I can walk through walls actually walk though walls also quite quite powerful but, ya, and then <mandarin>猜透人的心:cai tou ren de xin</mandarin> I think that is actually a very powerful thing because human desire is unlimited


ya so if you know the person's desire and you know everybody's desire and truth, truthful thoughts and all that ah !wah! <mandarin>我觉得你:wo jue de ni</mandarin> you can conquer the world lah, cause you ya lor, you can really navigate this situation but


no this is not all about power it's just, is it power, no I think it's just gaining power you know what you want to do lor, upper hand ah, actually it is not really upper hand lah I just want to know and then I can


I can at least I can dictate my action mah let say you liked me but actually you don't then then of course I walk away mah I mean you know at least I have a choice right it is as simple as that lor like you say you like me but in actual fact you don't then , I


it may be very difficult lah to accept but, at least I know and I have a choice mah other otherwise if I don't know I will just oh okay you like me and then


I think, if I know maybe I can do something about it, that's the scenario I'm thinking about, you give me more choice mah if you because I know what you're thinking about other than


ya, , it's just something for me to think about, yes yes, (hmm) what else do we have


[orh] ya true


let me think <mandarin>什么超能力呢:shen me chao neng li ne</mandarin> err what will I choose , actually flying is not bad


it could be a nice, balance to, the readings of minds, no because mine very serious very very very, heavy for a while but flying is just


jean grey uh, I don't know I think jean grey can do a lot other things ya err, ya, oh I know I know it'll be interesting to be invisible


!huh! why uh, then you can you can go to a lot of places, undetected


ya, (hmm) I just think it'll be it'll be, !wah! actually if if I'm invisible and I can read someone's mind !wah! that's very powerful


, no not of course I'm I can be visible and invisible lah I mean, if I'm permanently invisible then that's not a superpower then I think that's a curse uh


ya


oh having that superpower ya, I mean if you know everybody know exactly what people are thinking about, I I think it'll be both lor it'll be either very liberating because


at least if people like you and and they say they like you and they actually mean it lah I think it's very liberating, but I think it can also be very


err surprise of life uh ya


ya true, true, ya


actually err I mean it it it it is really a double edged sword, that that that this this, ,


ya I I guess in a sense true


true, ya, , oh I know I wouldn't mind teleporting actually, since I want to travel right, then if ya if I want to travel, out of singapore ya I can just teleport


I can stay at one place, for, a extended period or whichever or I can just come in and out anytime I want, ya


!huh! beyond earth uh no lah earth earth enough already lah, err no lah earth enough already, ya, err


going to ask me to go where go mars or go whatever no lah, !huh!


ya lah go to another galaxy lah ah, don't need don't need, ah earth is big enough already earth so many places I haven't been to


ah I think enough, enough for me to explore, ya lah, but , I have to have some normal life what I cannot be teleporting my entire life for the next forty fifty years what


right I still need to work at least have a normal life eh then I I teleport because, ya, you know I want to go and I want to explore,


[orh], okay eh but you you are using your superpower for for


for illegal or for, improper means mah, ah <mandarin>我是正派的我是正派的:wo shi zheng pai de wo shi zheng pai de</mandarin> I will use my my superpower for myself I will not harm other people or steal money or anything


err ya lah (hmm), but <mandarin>这样危险的东西:zhe yang wei xian de dong xi</mandarin> !aiya! <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> I want to live my live peacefully uh ask me go and steal money from someplace or some, cartel or what no lah no lah, to


my personal purpose of having a superpower is just to go from one place to another, very fast, !huh! , that's a good question


but, !wah! I don't know why what I don't I don't even think I don't think I want to show eh share it to anybody leh I mean what's the point, is there any point, so let's say if I tell you I can teleport


ya how would you feel ya (hmm) okay vincent <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> teleport, ah <mandarin>对咯我给你看咯只是这样而已咯:dui lo wo gei ni kan lo zhi shi zhe yang er yi lo</mandarin> ya but but that's the thing is that I have to show it to you


no but what if I the the the the skill is only for me I cannot bring you along mah because, let's say the superpower only apply to me


!huh!, exactly so I don't want to tell you,


no I won't tell anybody because the power is mine I am the only one who who can use it what, that that's what I think lah, ya, it only works for me then there's no point for me to tell anybody what


ya but but okay lah if if I can teleport with someone else then okay lah I mean I definitely want to share the superpowers with someone else what


err ya but same as flying what


[orh] [orh] [orh] like oh okay lor I mean, err okay, fair enough ya ya ya


err ya okay, ya, I don't know, I mean, this question I just take it as literal lor if I have a superpower I'll use it on my own I mean I I assume I'm the only one who can use the superpower


ya lor ya I mean if it's if it's that restrictive then, ya lor I if I choose teleport then of course I teleport alone lor I mean but, having said that at least when I teleport I meet new people, so, not so bad ya it's not it's not like I teleport and I I ya I mean


that's the thing you see the beauty is I can teleport to another country I make friends there and, ya lor, you know that's the beauty I can make friends everywhere what, that's the thing


if I oh ya, ya, ah eh oh oh anybody err, if I have a superpower


and I can use the superpower on someone else or with someone else, then ya, ya, I I will share it with a special person or people that I trust lah, or people I want to share my my my power with like


obviously I want to teleport with someone that I enjoy company with right I mean why I want to, ya lor, , that's the thing, maybe it's not even one person maybe if I have the power I can teleport many people


!wah! better still, right then I can take my entire family is it everybody you know <mandarin>十多个人:shi duo ge ren</mandarin> just teleport and then ya we are in somewhere else already, okay what, that's not that's not ya, if I have the power to


ya teleport many people then okay ah, ya family friends you know maybe my team whoever, ya we just teleport, ya like one fine day I want I want to I want to eat baguette, I don't want eat singapore let's go paris go paris and go and get my baguette


why not that's the thing , and you or we like vietnamese food right ah we just go and teleport to to vietnam straight away, ya lor


can just teleport there, ya go and do some trekking and then after that, as and when you think !aiya! trek enough already don't even need to you can trek up, and then teleport out don't even need to come down


ah [orh]


yes correct, but but that's that's the thing about but that's the thing about superpower mah, you you you miss out


experiences like whether is it flying reading minds teleporting, err you you miss, the, normal life, that that's what I say you got any superpower the you if you can choose a superpower you know, ah you miss ya I mean


just having a superpower makes life a lot easier lah, ya so, is that really what I want uh well, like let's say I say lor any superpower that you if you can choose a superpower there are there are consequences lor


that's what I feel, ya some more than others lah okay lah back to your flying lor, what's the bad what's the worst thing that can happen , I don't know or I guess, ya


get knocked by aeroplane, or if ya lor I cut short my travelling life that's it what, so , ya, so some some certain certain superpower maybe not so bad lah, ya I'm sure there are many many that we can think about that will have repercussions


but you are right what if I can teleport then I miss all the adventures of moving from one place to another because I can just, go to the place straightaway, ya you will not have the experience of the journey there's no journey to talk about one because I go to point A and B just like that instantaneously


ya, ya lor may not be very fun anymore lah because, ya there's not journey to talk about, but let's say it makes life easier if I climb a mountain, after that I just zoom out lor I just teleport out


, I don't even have to climb down


(hmm)


err <mandarin>我的人生就会一点乏吧:wo de ren sheng jiu hui yi dian fa ba</mandarin> yes I think , ya


ya (hmm), I think it just depends how you use it lor, like I think spider man or uncle ben said I think it's uncle ben right


uh with great power comes great responsibility, spider man's err, ya his uncle mah, ya uncle ben right ben right I think ben parker I think ya ben ah


ya lor with great power comes great responsibility so you must know how to use your power wisely, just because you can teleport doesn't mean you have teleport all the time right, there are certain things that you might not want to teleport and you just enjoy life


enjoy the process and all ya, that's the thing lor, I mean ya lor otherwise life is just too fast what you just teleport but


I want to go supermarket fly, I'll be like !huh!, ah I I want ah ya I want go, outside and eat food fly you know what I mean sometime it'll be nice to slow down flying means you just cut short everything what or


ya, that's the thing, ah fly oh ya of course lah I also want to fly, doesn't mean you have to fly all the time right you want to go out want to go out eat chicken rice still want to fly seriously just go and go out walk or something lah doesn't have to fly all the time what


right, ya lor, yes, that's the thing


it's already over an hour already eh, I think ya I think should be okay <mandarin>吧应该:ba ying gai</mandarin> okay [bah], I don't know leh hope so


ya it's just that I don't know just think about code switching, I don't know whether am I


(hmm) <mandarin>对选我们谢谢想再听我们讲话的话就选我们:dui xuan wo men xie xie xiang zai ting wo men jiang hua de hua jiu xuan wo men</mandarin> okay


eh <mandarin>不错嘛我做:bu cuo ma wo zuo</mandarin> podcast, ah I think that that will be very interesting right


ah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> ya economy not doing well lah so we also need money ah so, ah, we can we can do as many hour as you want us to do,


yes, of course yes, yes we are very good, err we will try to improve our mandarin and try to mix as much as possible, ah and make this this podcast as funny as possible


three languages uh ah okay


but <mandarin>那个真的是半桶水啊:na ge zhen de shi ban tong shui a</mandarin> !aiya! that one I really cannot lah, cannot hold a conversation in hokkien one


don't even know whether I'm speaking hokkien or not some of the terms or the words, (hmm), oh ya (hmm), hokkien is a common language lah or common dialect sorry it's a common dialect but honestly a lot people hokkien now also #tze pua# #tze pua# <mandarin>一半一半:yi ban yi ban</mandarin> one ya their hokkien is no it's like you can tell it's not it's not fluid one it's not fluent one it's just


few terms here a few terms there a few phrases here just ya, ya very few people can speak hokkien fluently, ya that's why ah see that's why I want to teleport I want to go to another place and to learn the language ya I can !wah!


teleport also <mandarin>我可以:wo ke yi</mandarin> learn <mandarin>我可以学他们的语文:wo ke yi xue ta men de yu wen</mandarin> lah, ya that will be very interesting


err, that's ya I think must submit so I think, so what we finish, !huh!


err it's one of the form ya one of the forms we need to, to submit, ya


okay, okay I think, wait ah I think I have to mute again, to microphone, so


okay, so that one is recording then now we just talk for one hour right, then I look at the, date is like fifty to ninety percent in english singaporean accent


which <mandarin>我觉得是:wo jue de shi</mandarin> <mandarin>有点奇怪:you dian qi guai</mandarin> lah because what what exactly is a singaporean accent that one I don't really know because it's so vague, if you want me to do err, media, singapore accent then it will be


a bit difficult I think, or or maybe singaporean


yes, the person is from singapore


but also you don't necessarily have to hear the leh lah lor what like if they speak english from afar you hear it in that sense


right especially if like I don't know for me wherever I go malaysia, I know I like once I hear somebody is talking I know okay singapore from singapore


ya ya ya, I I do I do agree, so


but that time we went Kuching I got speak mandarin you no meh, like order order food <mandarin>的时候我不是有叫:de shi hou wo bu shi you jiao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>华语:hua yu</mandarin> or maybe you are not around lah but cannot be what like <mandarin>我们买那个叉烧包:wo men mai na ge cha shao bao</mandarin> I I I spoke to the lady


mandarin, okay that's


but then when you speak mandarin to them


that is only when you meet them right or, talk in mandarin, so


but there there's, [orh] what, [orh] eh [orh] okay, cause for for us is we speak english most of their time and


I think so mandarin is more of like, ah since young my sister wanted to give him like a worldly view so when my mum was babysitting him when he was here


she will speak to him in malay, that I will speak to him in mandarin, and so at home ah, when he was back with his parents then I don't know lah maybe my sis will speak to him in mandarin then the father speak to him in


english, but, ideally there was the thinking lah but right now I think


that was when he was a baby, but now like I don't really think he has any notion of it except for mandarin which he learned in school and english, but when when I see him right, err very funny cause


ah but


yes so so the thing is that I myself right because I I don't know if even, I I don't really speak to him in english and if I do it's more of like when I really cannot, find the words already


then I, Bobian I just have to do it lah then I'll speak, because since young when he was a baby I'll have always been speaking to him in mandarin, it's like


even when he was in an, tummy, ya I was already doing that, you get you get my point because, so, so it's not like I I don't know it's just a conscious thing or once I see him


like <mandarin>你看到你的朋友:ni kan dao ni de peng you</mandarin> then


you you you you mean <mandarin>你跟你的:ni gen ni de</mandarin> client most of the time <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> english meh, then


then, but then, oh I I didn't I didn't realise that cause I to me I always thought you are very well versed between the both of them, then wouldn't you like err, when don't you have any elderly clients like that those like let's say and if you don't then aren't you going to lose out from that share


oh [orh], okay


english and, chinese very like you can switch, easily lah but I, like when you're ordering, you sound fluent lah so I so that's my


impression lor, , that's good enough what


but I don't know ah like recently I was watching some youtube cause I was just letting it play in the background I mean I came across it through, like regarding some


I don't know then I realise that it's not really at first I thought it's more of like general knowledge but now after looking at a few of the


like lie, it's not, like


the yes correct, so the the most recent one that he talked about which like it for us in in english we refer to read as like, uh vermillion, rouge you know there are different shades of it and you have a uh a term for to describe that particular shade


yes so I I never knew that for chinese they that actually there is, this as well like he was talking about <mandarin>白白色:bai bai se</mandarin> you don't just say <mandarin>白色:bai se</mandarin> it's too frivolous it's too simple when you talk about when you talk about white in english you have your cool shade you have your warm shade you have your white that look there's cream white correct or your your your pearl white all this so the the same goes for chinese what it should also have


ah you didn't know right so, so I was I was damn star struck I was like !wow! I never knew that chinese got so many I I which is it made sense because I don't think a language should be that simplistic it that's it like


to be broken down to just one word or one, you ask


ya I I mean I, maybe I don't know he's he said he said a few examples which I don't remember, but it he he did gave some examples and then he talk about like


uh red and blue I think I don't know but he mention about that so I was it was quite interesting lah he stopped and, the I think the attendees that they will listen to it are mostly , I think they are related to it err buddhism but


but then it's his talk, err it was a recorded version so it I don't think it's a webinar but it's err, ya so and he seems quite popular cause like different channels have his video so <mandarin>他会很像不同的:ta hui hen xiang bu tong de</mandarin> video <mandarin>他会讲不同的:ta hui jiang bu tong de</mandarin> theme


so it's like when I'm when I'm painting ah <mandarin>他他就在后面讲话讲话:ta ta jiu zai hou mian jiang hua jiang hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就听:wo jiu ting</mandarin> lor like cause nothing in my head what I just painting only what


err listen to something useful lah something interesting so that was what I came across recently then also he was talking about, you know how, err people as individual we really depend on our sight


a lot, ya <mandarin>他讲我们:ta jiang wo men</mandarin> like and then without sight like, a bit helpless <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> then also but then it then he use eating like an example you always look at it you always taste it


and he said that it's last time the <mandarin>吃的东西会有一种味道:chi de dong xi hui you yi zhong wei dao</mandarin> which nowadays you don't really have that


I don't really quite get what he mean but, what I, understood was maybe, food don't really, uh have that thick fragrance of the smell of it but it's more of like a mix of taste that people are always striving to look for but they have forgotten about smell maybe I don't know


it's


dine in the dark is it, have you gone


ya I heard, and I I heard it's quite interesting eh ya eh if <mandarin>如果有机会:ru guo you ji hui</mandarin> I don't mind but the thing is okay back to him so he will say that, and then he was like saying how we err left out


other senses, and, not only, when eating but in in our daily life like for example touch, we totally neglect it, we don't really rely on it much


and then, he gave, ya, he gave the example where I think is, somebody close to him, was err


is it <mandarin>看不到:kan bu dao</mandarin> or something, basically lose one, like because of of sickness then I think he the she just lose that particular sense, then the doctor the doctor reminded the family don't forget


that, so I think she lost her sight or something because due to paralyse uh she was paralysed but yet, the doctor reminded the family that !hey! don't forget the touch because even through touch even though oh even though she may forget all these thing


somehow, it could trigger certain thing, so, yes, ya


but, have you ever, have you ever thought about it


but, regarding, but regarding braille <mandarin>你觉得:ni jue de</mandarin> everyone know how to read meh


it is


but the thing is <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> you look around you do you think, uh, you don't you hardly see much braille what at unless you are talking about lifts, maybe along the grab poles, I find, we are we are not very friendly to the blind and the visually handicapped


or or even disabled people per se lah it's like, it's, is that


!wah! you you really cover everything eh I only ask you about sight I have not yet go go into different component <mandarin>你就包到完:ni jiu bao dao wan</mandarin> Liao , but then you but also must what if what you know like if given


I don't know <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> sometimes <mandarin>我是有想啦:wo shi you xiang la</mandarin> like, if given a choice not not if given a choice if let's say, really, with my you know you don't know then you just lose sight, what will happen


I don't know, ya,


like I rather, don't hear anything, because I I I'm a very visual person so if let's say if I can't see anymore then like then <mandarin>我这样不是不用画画:wo zhe yang bu shi bu yong hua hua</mandarin> Liao


then also, err, and then I need my legs cause I I just have no patience to, cause my legs will take me around I enjoy walking I enjoy


you know just getting about, I don't know lah but I know there's wheelchair I I <mandarin>我是有想过:wo shi you xiang guo</mandarin> like if <mandarin>如果没有如如果被车撞:ru guo mei you ru ru guo bei che zhuang</mandarin> then


need to amputate one leg or lose both legs, ya I mean I will just come just


then then I rather then what's the point right if you have leg but you can't use, like might as well, you know it's like too, too


that that then then why would then this then that's then in order to do that you need to amputate what you need to go through amputation before you can use prosthetics what, other otherwise it's just having legs and not being able to use it


and, it's


but let's say <mandarin>真的是变盲:zhen de shi bian mang</mandarin> then what will you do, but then what what why do you say that


why do you say that I think insurance <mandarin>只是给你钱而已吗:zhi shi gei ni qian er yi ma</mandarin> what what else can they can they do or am I


no I


but I don't err but it's only because we are like, do you think it's because we do not know what options are available that's why we feel, like, I, cause I I, I think that there's definitely more than


but, is what, that all these jobs that are available for a person that cannot see right


ya,


which one, which one that which one is, where, where oh which I is that your question or is that their prompt


which page, , [orh] okay I highlighted that if you drop everything to follow your dreams what will you risk


you drop everything to follow your dreams what will you risk, I also really do not get this question like if you drop everything you are already risking oh okay so I I guess it's like


if you want to follow your dreams you have to drop everything so what you're risking, in that process what do you have to forgo, err, so you asking me


actually I'm a very dreamless person eh like <mandarin>讲真的:jiang zhen de</mandarin> like, since young I never knew what I wanted, not to say I never knew what I just don't know what I want to be lor,


I just don't have lah like, you ask me whether I want to do this I don't I don't have a specific yes or no, but there are certain things that you you asked me whether I I I will I will go


do I will yes probably yes or no lah but what I want to be, what are my interest that one is just <mandarin>我觉得很难回答有些人:wo jue de hen nan hui da you xie ren</mandarin> like you ask them oh what you do you like they'll they'll tell talk to you very passionately they'll they'll tell you oh I want to be this I want to become teacher I want to go do this or they will give you one whole list of their


their what sort of ladder they want to climb, and also they got goals ah, for me I don't have goals ah, up to uh you ask you ask me now also I probably is just


quite sad right


ya but but the thing


and do what, and do what then what's your dream, you you you you have not


actually <mandarin>未必:wei bi</mandarin> ah like you can replicate somewhat of it somewhat of the experience I would I wouldn't say you will get the whole experience but, I do I do see like sometimes singapore have, quite a bit to offer


but but but <mandarin>不是有电话:bu shi you dian hua</mandarin> then <mandarin>他怎么:ta zen me</mandarin> record <mandarin>他不是不可以:ta bu shi bu ke yi</mandarin> record Liao


[orh] but, okay ah, hopefully they don't void uh they don't void the


oh ya well cause I don't know because I even though singapore will be small I I just find like there are still pockets around singapore oh


ya then what if it's a emergency, ya cause I okay cause I I found like in singapore that definitely there are I feel like there are things that you can


go and do and, it's just that , maybe the environment or the culture of it is, ingrained in such a way that, it's full of rules and restrictions that people don't dare to do it and


you know it it just kills that sense of, like wonder that sense of explore ya that that adventurous that you get


even though I don't really speak the language there, whereas in singapore every time I come back I feel a bit moody so I it could be a ya it could be a psychological thing like though when you are brought up you you you are brought up in this environment so the moment you step back


you you you don't entertain this, openness this thoughts this like you know, so


how how how long have you been doing this


eh actually that's quite short leh, three years is quite short eh, I I I thought it was like five ten years already,


[orh], recruit


I think so I I really think so like, ya like <mandarin>那些有几有钱:na xie you ji you qian</mandarin> those that that dare to come up usually there are some form of backing one


then you will risk your in that case you want to travel though you are risking your job, your stability


once you travel <mandarin>你是没有钱:ni shi mei you qian</mandarin> meh why why cannot be like while you travel


be a blogger or post thing and then you know if you earn a side, income they may not be much to fund the whole thing but, or when you travel you I don't know become a


busker and then earn something and then just to cover some


then can do video what if can talk, if can talk then can do video what


ya right, said says, says the person that takes a lot of selfies


ya lah ya lah true lah, but then but then I've been trying to delete my photos so


cause like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I just <mandarin>觉得:jue de</mandarin> that , occupies space lah so those that <mandarin>很多张:hen duo zhang</mandarin> then <mandarin>我慢慢慢慢:wo man man man man</mandarin> delete lor or those that I think I just sort like let's say for a trip or for a particular event I will I try to pick out, a few


ya lah it's not to say I will or I'm deleting <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> it's just <mandarin>一点啦:yi dian la</mandarin> then try to free up my space lah because in all the new phones now they their their photo size quite big


then if I transfer to my computer my computer getting, lesser no more space already, ya lah but the thing is the thing about all this thing is I don't know I owe it so you know like for those USB port right


I think it's because of our weather after awhile my computer USB port stopped working one you know, did you experienced it before like it just doesn't detect when when you connect it <mandarin>他只是:ta zhi shi</mandarin> like


okay it so even even laptop <mandarin>也是这样:ye shi zhe yang</mandarin> mah you when you connect your USB like thumb drive to the side <mandarin>你不会觉得:ni bu hui jue de</mandarin> sometimes <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> detect sometimes <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> detect meh


ya, so, so did, but wouldn't it but <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> online then <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> resolution <mandarin>也是不不是说很大:ye shi bu bu shi shuo hen da</mandarin> what


like let's say if you want to print it, then you are then you lose the original file already mah then


that eh ya lah then old phone then <mandarin>你怎么样:ni zen me yang</mandarin> start up <mandarin>这样不是:zhe yang bu shi</mandarin> I think <mandarin>你你应该学我慢慢有时间就:ni ni ying gai xue wo man man you shi jian jiu</mandarin> sort a bit sort a bit


cause everytime everytime I will transfer my photos to my computer one, so my, how old is your laptop


okay lah, eh but so is it windows ten or not now everybody <mandarin>在用那个:zai yong na ge</mandarin> windows ten Liao


[orh], okay


unusual superpower, I always want to fly does that count, , !huh! ya lor okay lor then, if I can fly <mandarin>就最好:jiu zui hao</mandarin> lor


teleport is like <mandarin>就到了你又没有乐趣没有什么:jiu dao le ni you mei you le qu mei you shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>新鲜感:xin xian gan</mandarin> just you know


!wah! dangerous sia, I must stay away from you, but why why <mandarin>为什么你要:wei shen me ni yao</mandarin> not want to read people mind


is that it is that really important to you


[orh]


so let's say you know you aren't you you you are able to do that then what happens, what's next


, yes, yes


but so, but how is that different from, like err, like that you are not encouraging the person to be truthful to be honest you are encouraging or you by by by were acting against what the person has uttered has voiced out just because you know what the person really wants by reading the mind


it's not I don't know I just find it's not healthy, cause, the person may say one thing but he because you know something else that portents to that, then it's like you are you are not encouraging honesty lor, you not encouraging


I I knows so I'm trying to see what sort of situation where that err superpower, actually give you an edge I mean okay lah maybe in, a very not to say not no not to say give you an edge let me let me think of a way how to


put it properly, ya, yes like like knowing something, it I knowing something does it isn't going to change, it's as good as not knowing it because it's it's like if a person say


yes but in actual fact you don't want or you mean no, knowing it by just by taking the person's word for it for it how is it going to be any different from let's say you know, I mean


okay, okay


so you are, so this is ya


so you chose this superpower because you have this some a part of you want it to help you with your job


okay, ah


okay, so I, I do get the interesting part like I do understand that but I just don't get like


you know like what is the point of having, this superpower if, it's going to bring me, disappointment sometimes


like you ask a person do you like me or do you love me the person say yes then actually it's no or the or the person say no actually it's yes so it's like you know it that the person can't even be truthful what is a what uh what's the point of asking the question then


so so I so that's why I feel very painful just, listening to it, to , to you when you when when when you said that you want this it's like !wow! I think it's


I don't know ya I feel very sad, definitely definitely it definitely will be very interesting but also


(mmhmm)


yes, so you must be prepared to go through that, whatever you have wished for lah


ya ya, what true, that's true


ah ah, so so at the at the end of the day it's still about power lah


in some sense, because, the upper hand


can can


right, ah, okay okay I get you, can can


I don't I don't really think about it lah but, so far I've been thinking about flying but let's say if you got another choice , superpower,


isn't that, it, then like that it like that isn't that jean grey, from wilt, x-men


do I want another superpower, maybe what oh, why


unless you are talking about white house or like reuters restricted places then okay lah then I'll give it to you lah


okay if you are invisible and can read someone's mind can you be visible back or either or is that like invisible forever


okay, okay but okay back so so back to the reading of mind part I don't know I find like


that one is very powerful in such a way that, you are the only person on earth that has it, wouldn't it be a very very lonely feeling then


like because you yes, ya


but because you know everything already there's nothing going to surprise you anymore, then in that sense also you you are robbing yourself of the, mysteriousness of life the surprise that life have the wonderment


the you know so many much things that are uh actually beyond our control, but just because you're now become like somewhat omnipotent, wouldn't that rob you of, that wonderment on any


already <mandarin>你不会觉得:ni bu hui jue de</mandarin> meh


ah then it's like it you're in a world with with people yet alone


that's what I feel, so, ya, so I'll stick to my flying, okay, ya


so does it does it include beyond your earth beyond earth will will you teleport to


another world are are we going again that realm, why why restrict yourself when you have superpowers


not not mars ah but it you know like you watch movie <mandarin>他们有:ta men you</mandarin> star trek star gate <mandarin>这些东西:zhe xie dong xi</mandarin> that then you travel to work


ya, what, or or can go to the moon, but you you teleport teleport quite fast what when you teleport no need to travel


quite fast mah, maybe that's


why must you work when you can teleport you can go to the bank and get money


but the, but the gang the the gang <mandarin>的老大:de lao da</mandarin> also illegal what


okay so at least people


so,


but <mandarin>如果是我:ru guo shi wo</mandarin> then <mandarin>我会我会叫你带我去:wo hui wo hui jiao ni dai wo qu</mandarin> what, then bring me along what I don't you you can teleport good lah but bring me along


ya lah that's why <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> that's why <mandarin>我问你:wo wen ni</mandarin> will you will you will you tell anybody


so that that's if you that if the power only works for you right


okay, then then then it brings back, well we will we will we will go to that part first we will go to that part later I mean so if you cannot tell any if you if you won't tell anybody then it go it brings back the old question <mandarin>这样你不会觉得你自己很孤单:zhe yang ni bu hui jue de ni zi ji hen gu dan</mandarin> meh


like if you can if you can keep it will keep track you you can you can keep going to different places and experience different thing so experiences and memories is usually tied it's a shared it is it's much, uh more enjoyable or you you or you are or is much more uh cherished if a memory is shared in some ways isn't it whereas compared to let's say if a person keep going here going there alone alone alone


and experiencing everything alone then, that isn't that, having a superpower but then it doesn't bring as much, happiness then, that's my thinking lah


cause cause flying flying you can bring the person on your back what that's what I that's what I feel lah I mean


if if you can if you it it if you can fly it should be strong enough to maybe carry a child I think lah so


okay, can can, okay yes, uh oh ya that's true okay then make new friends


right, but why so so let's go back to the question that we we talk about what if you can bring somebody along will you tell the person


will you tell anybody I mean, not to say will you tell the person will you tell anybody


will you tell anyone, yes


, , , , , I


, okay I never thought about that


okay, okay <mandarin>环游世界:huan you shi jie</mandarin> lah okay lah


, ya I want to go #kiat tian#, four hours bus ride


but then the thing hor they said so if we can teleport then it robs us of the experience of let's say you know encountering that, that old lady that try to kidnap us, you know I I still find that I I still think about that I think that is quite interesting not to say it's one of my fondest memory of that trip but it's like


it's this things that you you won't, be able to, control and somehow it's not that it makes good memory as well but it makes an interesting experience and make that the trip so must interesting don't you agree to to get your adrenaline going


yes, and is that really what you want, an easier life


ya, get knocked get knocked by aeroplane


but if it makes life easier, so then to look at the bigger picture then isn't that, something about life as well like your or all your life overall if you want your life to be all smooth filling uh smooth sailing easy going


you know like no, uh no hardship


wait wait wait what did you just say, [orh] okay


I think that's my fear


I think so


makes sense, that's true, ya, okay lah so must have some control lah


okay,


, that's true that's true but I still thinking about flying ya I still want to fly


but I


is it, but the front part we did some recording right but the clapping one so I think should, okay do you think it's, should be more than enough, okay


I I think we covered quite interesting topics today


and, ya and Japalang lah


, it, you can, you can do a bit of Teochew lah <mandarin>我会尽量听一下跟你学:wo hui jin liang ting yi xia gen ni xue</mandarin> lah


can, hokkien I I, I also cannot ah a lot I know a lot of people know hokkien but I cannot <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I'm I'm Hakka actually I'm hokkien


but my, ya, , ya


but it, I think if you want learn hokkien must go KL or Penang, the


okay <mandarin>这样我们应该是算成功了吧:zhe yang wo men ying gai shi suan cheng gong le ba</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们现在要做什么:wo men xian zai yao zuo shen me</mandarin> must submit to the form right, I think it's do you know which form


do you know which one that we have to give it to them cause like I think it's the is it the form that has the video inside


okay lah err <mandarin>不用:bu yong</mandarin> I I think let I'm going to I'm going to stop my recording then I continue discussing with you let me stop


hi claire so what's up with you


, oh <mandarin>我最近一直在:wo zui jin yi zhi zai</mandarin> <mandarin>为我的大学准备:wei wo de da xue zhun bei</mandarin> because I'm going to metfilm london very soon in october, so I have to do my visa I have to book appointment and ya I think I'm gonna take like three weeks at most three weeks


yes <mandarin>我现在非常兴奋我觉得我的大学生活是非常美好的然后又在伦敦在伦敦太有趣了有很多很多好看的景色然后:wo xian zai fei chang xing fen wo jue de wo de da xue sheng huo shi fei chang mei hao de ran hou you zai lun dun zai lun dun tai you qu le you hen duo hen duo hao kan de jing se ran hou</mandarin> uh <mandarin>虽然生活费贵了一点:sui ran sheng huo fei gui le yi dian</mandarin> but everything's okay ya I really got my accommodation down to ya


okay


(ppc), oh because the situation is really bad like the COVID situation is really bad in america as we all know


no but then the thing is I want to enrol as soon as possible like this year because I already took a gap year before so I cannot like you know ya my my parents are really like they are losing hair and stuff so I have to I really have to like you know settled down as soon as possible then I went to then I went into audition for metfilm and another school


are you applying for student tier four visa, I'm like, yes, then you must you must need like a IELTS qualification then I was like


okay uh haha so does that mean that I have to go for IELTS, then they ask me again, are you going for are you applying for tier four student visa I say yes, anyway ya this just this very useless conversation just keep went going on and on so I was so


ya ya ya I was so angry so I was like okay fine I'll go for IELTS then I actually went for IELTS oh, ya, I got I got seven point five


it's upon nine,


a british lady, and then so basically she's asking me a lot of, like oh so , how organised are you how neat are you like this kind of questions so I was like actually I'm not a very organised person then guess what she did she shook her head okay she was like no no no okay ya


she shook her head, exactly I thought that was just like a very simple conversation because I was trying to be honest with myself you know like be honest with my own opinion but she really shook her head like that she's like no no


and there was like , but, ya


(hmm), (mmhmm), ya it's weird right how come it's only me, ya I know until next year right


oh


(hmm), (mmhmm)


speaker, , (mmhmm)


(mmhmm)


, what so she doesn't stay on campus, oh no why


her own, okay that's exactly why did I have two other tenants living with me


(ppc), oh, oh hundred sixty pounds a week, oh my god, ya I was like what are you staying london or what I was so confused


(ppc) apparently, (ppc)


, can you stop yourself,


(ppc), oh my god hundred and ninety pounds per week is some living in some what hotel


, , london , okay but apparently


apparently I heard that the metro was really bad like the subway


who says,


haha no eyebrows, you are so mean, I'm not a coffee person I'm a tea person ya


, okay, wait, wait I have to ask very very serious question, very serious question, no


no dude are they wearing mask, this is very important right, like, I really heard that most of them don't wear mask then I am really be like why why


, (uh huh), what is mumps


(uh huh), !huh!,


oh my god, !huh!


(mmhmm),


!wah! is like a very long queue you know you will never like (ugh)


, , , but you have to pay more money lah


but I'm very scared leh, is he wearing mask eh eh mask is such a common thing leh, everyone know but they are like, why like why are we wearing mask, then I'm so scared you know


like right now, please I pray I pray, okay eh by the way


yes I think so


(ppc), okay


then after that so two two years my longest holiday was, two weeks, that's my longest holiday okay, longest holiday, very very harsh I know so everything is very very like intense so I'm thinking that I might not even return to singapore in the first year because you have to when you come back you have to self quarantine for two weeks that's gonna be my holiday my holiday going to spend on self quarantine no


better right


why not you come there why why not you go over, so you are saying that I'm paying my plane ticket just to see you lah, !huh!


ya grace, ya, ya, eh <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> close friends <mandarin>的眼光真好全部都看上英国:de yan guang zhen hao quan bu dou kan shang ying guo</mandarin>


(ppc), and praising your friends as well


wait UCL is university don't I will do it myself university of colombia is it, oh columbia college we want we <Z> UCL university columbia, leh ah london


wait wait what is it called, you laugh at me for what, you also don't know what


under, bachelor of, fine arts I think


plain is that called white paper or is a plain paper, ya


, why, no, I am sixteen oh ya I saw that I watched, no


what okay okay the funny thing is I actually went to apply for lasalle but the thing is, just this year, they closed down the application for film, just this year when I'm about to apply I was like oh my god you know what I should just like trust in our local


(mmhmm)


oh, no, !huh!


oh my god <mandarin>所以我就说:suo yi wo jiu shuo</mandarin> mah <mandarin>你搬过来吗:ni ban guo lai ma</mandarin>


because <mandarin>你要养活你自己:ni yao yang huo ni zi ji</mandarin> right, you also have to <mandarin>养活你:yang huo ni</mandarin> mother


ya I know I know ya, me too I have a father I have a mother I have my grandfather and I have relatives in china you know just waiting for me


it's, what, I thought you were you were going to share like a very emotional story, okay, okay


okay sorry, !hey! this is a private matter ya let's keep it in the closet, keep it in the closet ya


I was trying to be poetic there, okay claire just listen listen right because , you know I was thinking that, they say go to london for two years


do you think I will date there, no, do you think I will date there, oh no, I I I think that I will only have the opportunity to, date my course mates okay and that's quite sad


because we are we're all so busy you know, oh I see


(uh huh), no oh my god then that's the worst thing ever must separate your private lives and your professional lives okay, study with your boyfriend


what might as well study yourself I think that's more efficient, ya


oh my there's a idiom there , okay, (ppc), !aiya! let's be intellectual, you know what is this in chinese


is literally the literal translation <mandarin>一石二鸟:yi shi er niao</mandarin> oh my god you don't go with <mandarin>两只鸟:liang zhi niao</mandarin> first <mandarin>两只鸟一个石头:liang zhi niao yi ge shi tou</mandarin> doesn't make sense


that is like the most irrelevant idioms you will ever use, did you did you think you can just go to anyone, ya lah you cannot just go to anyone and say eh <mandarin>你很得意忘形:ni hen de yi wang xing</mandarin> oh oh hor hor cannot do there is very rude, is a negative connotation ya


and you say it in such a sweet voice #lu ying# <mandarin>你很得意忘形:ni hen de yi wang xing</mandarin> eh like that


ya think I'll just cry cry on the spot, hear me sobbing


don't stop there, okay anyway I was talking about my love life right ya I was thinking


ya, !huh!


, what so so young


you are twenty years old


that's a insult to everyone of us what you mean we're not young we are just you know


gill oh sorry I mixed it up with grace sorry it was another one ya sorry


, what, ha ha,


eh <mandarin>我发现:wo fa xian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你你们这些的就是你这些朋友的男朋友的名字都听起来很像:ni ni men zhe xie de jiu shi ni zhe xie peng you de nan peng you de ming zi dou ting qi lai hen xiang</mandarin> fictional character


, Kim is joking listen she just joking


seven, it's like oh my god stop it's like starting your own kingdom there


, that you want soccer team, no that's why I tell you all the ladies right they are actually very smart <mandarin>他们就是一点一点慢慢来的她们不会跟你说他们一下子要多少可是她们会慢慢慢慢的:ta men jiu shi yi dian yi dian man man lai de ta men bu hui gen ni shuo ta men yi xia zi yao duo shao ke shi ta men hui man man man man de</mandarin> you know


, , okay wait okay seven years right you have to think about it, you have to raise a kid you know from primary school to secondary school then to college then to university, oh my god you have, sorry you have to go through that process like seven times okay


unless you are rich AF then you know that's another issue, okay


(uh huh), (mmhmm), ,


, that's why we're here we're here recording our voices and like, ,


oh my god, okay okay ya oh no <mandarin>我们两个现在像两个:wo men liang ge xian zai xiang liang ge</mandarin> tomato


!aiyo!


ha, oh, !wah!


, (mmhmm),


, wait how old were you,


oh my god, oh my god, ,


I got


ya <mandarin>米粉汤:mi fen tang</mandarin> doesn't sound right to me at all


it was so bland I felt I was drinking some sink water okay, then they shove it down okay it would they shove it down my throat then I was like oh as the same reaction I gagged and I was like just you know vomited everything up from then onwards never ever put <mandarin>米粉汤:mi fen tang</mandarin> for me okay or else I would just flip the table and just !huh!


!huh!, !wah!, okay so, ya ya ya is <mandarin>公主病:gong zhu bing</mandarin> is called what princess syndrome is it is that in english


right, no, no do not <mandarin>不要泼那个脏水:bu yao po na ge zang shui</mandarin> okay


I know, ha ha, okay but it's quite sad if let's say I go to UK right no one will ever be able to communicate with me in chinese then I'll be like uh


, okay honestly I was hoping that at least I can see some chinese speaking friends there and you know, doesn't matter about the race is just I just need some, I need some chinese speaking like friends there


and the eh <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin>


okay the same species right


okay you're just shading me right now, I just


eh do you think I'll come back smoking , , I already, what uh wait isn't weed wait weed is like isn't it drugs or something


you know, ya I feel like we should move on as well, with no listen I was talking to my mum about it okay I was like, then my mum was like


I think that if you want to go overseas right and you want to go to london UK you have to mingle with the UK people like the british people, you know, right


exactly now I go for school what, like what okay, ya but I feel that I should also ya make some local friends there you know


(mmhmm), ya, that's true, where were you planning, japan


oh my god I kept , please come to london I beg I beg, yes I agree


I agree like honestly if you compared to japan right I really do think that london is a better you know your case a better choice, literature confirm you have to go, eh eh honey literature you confirm have to go to like


you know, like, ya unless you are learning like japanese literature then you should go to japan but you're learning english right, you learning about japanese literature in english


what, oh wait #xiao ting# is in japan, but like her universities there right, okay wait


, (mmhmm)


, that's a lot


, (uh huh), NUS


okay, how about next year


do I care of that new game, I'm not a gamer girl


oh my god, can you


sure, ya,


, eh <mandarin>三个月:san ge yue</mandarin> eh,


#xiao qing# <mandarin>是学什么的:shi xue shen me de</mandarin> what is she learning, and she studying in japanese language


no but like you know when you go there you have to <mandarin>你就好像我去英国要:ni jiu hao xiang wo qu ying guo yao</mandarin> take IELTS <mandarin>她去日本是不是要:ta qu ri ben shi bu shi yao</mandarin> take <mandarin>那个日本的那个:na ge ri ben de na ge</mandarin> test


!huh!


advance her career in japan, !huh!


but is very very hard for, for, female to, succeed, in japan work industry


!aiya! <mandarin>有点辛苦为她担心而已:you dian xin ku wei ta dan xin er yi</mandarin> , (uh huh), oh


it's the the best thing, really


I think so, I, and and japanese people they're very polite you know and like ya so I feel like oh my god, I'm so welcome there !woo! !woo! like ya ya


Tokyo, you are basically one of the main stream, tourist


!huh!, so ya ya ya


or actual beds you mean like not mattresses


okay, (hmm), (hmm), what


that's why I don't want the scholarship you know, because if I take the scholarship right ya I really have to commit and do work five years so like five year mass in singapore I


I cannot in, !huh! you I'm AMDA, what, oh ya ya ya new york new york film academy offered me the scholarship


from where, (mmhmm)


ya but you know the you know california arts one year right it's literally fifty five thousand


ya fifty five thousand what's american dollars, ya ya ya


oh that's true ya my price like doubled


of of the, that's so mean, it's more, (mmhmm), ya so I don't have to go overseas for this you see everyone is just going overseas for


when ya when it comes to art, I mean honestly my my parents are like, !aiya! why not you just study in singapore then I'm like, honestly


okay enough


then what is good in NUS, what are you talking about you a student from there, uh ya


oh wait charlene is in SMU right


vicky's is in SMU


ha ha, , !huh!


that's such a, that is such a, I would say pretty to the traditional standard


ya, see what what kind of definition you have for pretty and beautiful,


I was saying something, ya ya, I mean yes but I really don't have the course here and even some of my film like friends, they just advise me to go overseas then I'm like yes okay sure got it


ya true


!huh!, scholarship, you got offered, but you applied for like for UK or what USA


oh, you applied for japan, what course,


I know, yes I know that


so what is the coverage how how much


thousand, oh that's a lot sir, oh my god sir why are you, why, but (ppc)


ya, your mum, how about your mum like, isn't she, wait but why does your mom doesn't wanna like, support you for awhile


!wow!, I don't think uh (mmhmm)


!huh!


, true, ,


!aiya!, (mmhmm),


you mean your joint programmes, oh, so means that you have to go to australia for another few years another two years, (ppc), that's so cool eh honestly


it's very hectic lah, ,


but I feel like two years is enough honestly, I had two years is really not and like it's a it's a very rare opportunity for you to like you know go to two different countries and meet like make friends


, a lot of people chose NUS, I mean yes


, true, and the fees are okay are manageable


err is forty eight thousand pounds two years, honey that's like


<mandarin>我还没有算上我的:wo hai mei you suan shang wo de</mandarin> living fees eh


, for for film right there's a final year project thing there's a FYP thing


and they don't cover your fees you must go and look for the actors yourself you must look for a crew yourself so everything it's your own budget your own production costs, and that can be like ya that can be like what how many thousand, that's a lot ya <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> legit ah I tell you


they do but like they don't like for your FYP is totally up to you


yes harris, oh ya


well let's just do or closing statement let's do a closing statement


ft, I'll do a cosy in chinese did, oh <mandarin>谢谢大家:xie xie da jia</mandarin> as P woman


I'll end the conversation


okay


like I've been gaming <mandarin>因为我们买了:yin wei wo men mai le</mandarin> switch mah, , you eh what have you been up to


oh your accommodation is down okay before I continue right you must make sure that your recording hor, doesn't have any of the red lines also right


wait also <mandarin>你不是去纽约:ni bu shi qu niu yue</mandarin> mah like I thought you going, then how come suddenly now is london, ya but, ya but COVID won't last what for three four years


back and forth ah, oh you went for IELTS did you do well, did you fail, upon what


oh my gosh #lu ying# <mandarin>你太厉害了吧:ni tai li hai le ba</mandarin> oh my gosh, too smart


(ugh) control, so much talent


why would she shake her head


oh my gosh, eh but, ya ya but that means that, no but uh that means that we'll have a lot of friends in london okay I will have a lot of friends in london ya


ya because, grace and came <mandarin>他们两个都:ta men liang ge dou</mandarin> they're not going back


cause the situation, okay lah they were saying that is not, very safe, to go back, then grace had a whole thing with her accommodation and everything also <mandarin>然后她要叫那些:ran hou ta yao jiao na xie</mandarin> <mandarin>然后他要叫那些:ran hou ta yao jiao na xie</mandarin> movers


to like, okay so the whole thing was her parents right at the beginning of this <mandarin>他们叫她:ta men jiao ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>他们叫她:ta men jiao ta</mandarin> okay they called her at like five and said that she had a like plane ride at like nine


so she was like frantically packing ya she was like frantically, packing, and she didn't bring a lot of her things so like her two thousand dollar wacom tablet


what is it, okay anyway ya, , ya so, then her accommodation <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> this was in march you know


so her things have been there since march


and like kept trying to take her things for her but they they just won't let them go in but then eventually one of them manage to get in cause they were still living there so he managed to go in get into her room packed all the things <mandarin>然后就送回去:ran hou jiu song hui qu</mandarin> lor to no not


to singapore leh to a like, this storage facility, and she like next year right she has no accom, so, <mandarin>对咯:dui lo</mandarin> ya


this year she stays on campus <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> she said she don't want to stay on campus, cause I I don't know leh she said staying on her own apartment is in her own apartment is safer like not alone lah


, not alone but like, she wants, to room with other people not room but like she wants to house share with other people,


oh so <mandarin>你住的不是:ni zhu de bu shi</mandarin> school apartment ah is uh your own apartment


, !wah! !wah! !wah!, hundred sixty pounds


for a week ya because it's school accommodation what and they have a lot, , , a week a week did you think it was a month, no okay okay but she's not in central london <mandarin>你的是:ni de shi</mandarin> zone one <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> zone two <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> check mah


what is that <mandarin>什么是:shen me shi</mandarin> W five


oh oh you're going to rich people school , !wow! !wow! !wow!, (hmm), I'm I'm not doing it, , , anyway no so Kim'S accommodation right is more expensive I think Kim'S accommodation is like hundred ninety pounds


per week, ya, oh okay her room is very nice but uh and her like food is provided lah but it's more expensive because she's in zone one and grace is in zone two so that's like according to the london london london metro or something stop laughing at me


oh ya


me I say <mandarin>我保证:wo bao zheng</mandarin> after five hours your make up will be gone you might as well <mandarin>不要做:bu yao zuo</mandarin> makeup


I'm telling you, you do you do then after five hours when you are in london you tell me how it is


I promise you you will have no eyebrows you will have no eyeliner no foundation no blush


okay don't even drink coffee because your lipstick would be gone, I'm telling you, okay don't drink don't drink no water no tea nothing


if it's not a serious question I will scream, , I should, hope, I hope so what do you mean


oh I I don't know leh okay okay but okay there was this when grace are still in london ah so it wasn't much ah then she was like she was saying okay she got mumps who in this day and age still gets mumps how do you even contract


mumps is like the thing that we get vaccine for like when we're really young like all of us in primary school I think get a vaccination for mumps and somehow she managed to get it still in london so she was like coughing like shit and she was like in pain as she was wearing a mask and she was like then she went to take the bus to go to the hospital and like


people like actively avoided her, and ya and the bus, driver right, like I think accidentally skipped her stop or something so she had to ya she had to get down and walk you know


to the hospital and the at the hospital right so when she texted me was already late at night already lah for for me for me, eh no no no no no it was late at night for her so when she texted me <mandarin>差不多已经到九点十点这样然后他三点:cha bu duo yi jing dao jiu dian shi dian zhe yang ran hou ta san dian</mandarin> hor


and she said that she was waiting for so long, and luckily her friend was with her lah but, ya eventually they went in and then they told her it was mumps lah, but


I don't know leh,


no, I think right, cause there's a difference between private and public she went one is uh public because I think she didn't want to pay, but, private <mandarin>的你应该是要:de ni ying gai shi yao</mandarin> like call for to make appointment


then you go down does that make sense, I I think so I don't know leh I don't know what the healthcare system in UK is like, scared about what


ha, no I I don't know how it's like lah cause I I'm not there, so I don't know if they're wearing masks or not I I mean I should hope they're wearing masks right it's just like a such as simple thing late okay after this let's go and search whether people in london are wearing mask


no after this I say after this


wait <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> so short, two years oh my gosh that means that means, when you graduate I won't even be done, right


yes yes yes yes I'm listening


that's very harsh, that's very harsh


no but but, no okay if this whole thing is over, then no okay is <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> first holidays <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> at the end of this year right


when when is your <mandarin>两个星期:liang ge xing qi</mandarin> holiday


no lah come back oh my gosh #lu ying# you will miss me I promise you


why not you pay for my plane ticket to go there, your parents don't exist ah


oh, are you sure you UK and Beijing


uh <mandarin>对啊对对:dui a dui dui</mandarin> ok that I agree that makes sense, (ugh), ya I think I should, okay I want to visit cause there's so many people there right, but also, grace came you


and it's all like my close friends you know, ya but, (ugh), you just want to praise yourself just say ya


anyway, okay K <mandarin>他们的眼光啊:ta men de yan guang a</mandarin>


what the, this is like thirty seconds of you just trying to figure out


I don't know search it up, later, what, ya, I just know it's called UCL does it matter it doesn't matter not my uni never mind


different ah <mandarin>因她的是:yin ta de shi</mandarin> design, and or eh, design design ya ya ya design, so what, what are you going to graduate with, bachelor of arts is it bachelor and arts


say that again slowly


isn't that so poetic <mandarin>当一张白纸:dang yi zhang bai zhi</mandarin> you know in in what's that called the sound of music <mandarin>他不是:ta bu shi</mandarin> you know she sang and she was like


I am a piece of paper, the arctic, oh my god if you are sixteen going on seventeen is that one where she sings with the boy in the pavilion, ya ya ya sing for us, come on come on okay anyway


okay #lu ying# I've decided for you it's time for you to come to lasalle


they either really hate you, I want, oh I was gonna say maybe is they really hate you


they are like oh, we cannot have her in our school, eh <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> #dong lu ying# oh,


oh yes excuse me


oh that's fair, I have a family I have a mother


ya ya ya, okay okay okay let's talk about how my grandfather is dead


, no I'm kidding, anyway, no, no I'm joking how many times do you want to hear me complain about the


about his funeral oh my gosh, slip it in a court it when are you saying


oh, okay, oh my gosh how poetic is keep it in the closet is not poetic at all, yes


you going to come back speaking like this, yes, yes


I mean, I mean I oh then don't date lah !huh!, ya, if you so I mean okay if you date your course mate then


when you go out on dates right with your course mate, you all could study together and that will count as a date, why I would love to like


if I had, uh ya, why not, ya, I'm fine with both, or either


!huh! it's just, I'm I'm ok with it isn't it nice if I can kill two birds with one stone, intellectual, something you learn in primary school


anyway, no, tell me


, exactly why I never use idioms


why, maybe when we go out maybe at some point in time if I just see you I will just tell you #lu ying#


#lu ying#


cry now, now now now, actress, oh my gosh mediacorp,


ya ya ya, I would like to say something oh my gosh <mandarin>我真是:wo zhen shi</mandarin> I was so shocked the other day you know so you know I have


okay you know I have the group of seven right, no no my like group of seven like close friends <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> vicky joey grace kim, okay okay anyway, three out of seven of them have long term serious partners that they're planning to get married to in the future


is it ya I'm very confused right now she's like their, the other day I was at her house and I was telling her , oh no she was telling me ya if by the end of uni shaun and I still dating will get married and I was like


excuse me, I was like excuse me your, and then she was like, ya we're not young anymore you know and I was like,


old, I, you know I was so shocked and the thing is, okay gill is dating chester and they've been dating for two years already, and they, gill ya, no


gill is dating chester and they've been dating for two years ready they have plans on like BTO, on like, marriage and on where and how they want to have their wedding, and like how many kids they want to have and we were saying right with the seven of us were talking the other day and they were like no six six six of us we're talking the other day and we were like so how many kids you want to have and then she was like


it feels like two is the minimum right and I was like the minimum, two is the minimum, two is my max I was like two


I felt like I was going crazy it's like everything that they do right <mandarin>他们是要吵架的:ta men shi yao chao jia de</mandarin> you know, we were play mario party right and literally all we're doing is going down the river, and they have to argue


so okay and then joey is dating wayne


no they're real I promise you they're real, then vicky was like ya ya ya I want at least like


three or four, and I was like err okay sure power to you, and Kim was like, Kim was like I want seven, no she's not she's like okay


I remember I said I want seven but whether or not I can actually have seven is another conversation and I was like, seven seven is like a whole Kampung


, it's like it's like <mandarin>她要她要开始一个:ta yao ta yao kai shi yi ge</mandarin> soccer team you know, and like okay how do you break it to your husband, I want seven kid


no no no Kim <mandarin>不是这样的人:bu shi zhe yang de ren</mandarin> but like how do you just tell your husband like okay at this time at this year I want you to impregnate me so that I can have one by the next year like , how


college and university are the same thing my dear, can you made can you imagine raising, seven teenagers, okay but she's rich


but, right now no #dong lu ying# right now who anyone of us who


exactly, from the person who has to take, no from the person who has to take a loan to study and the person who has to take the intensive two year cost to study the two of us


no, (ugh) okay anyway moving on oh no


battle, oh, fart


okay okay okay tell me more flex flex on me your knowledge of the two words of tomato


!huh!, no, in my family we call it #fan ke cao dan#


I'm not so complicated, I'm a simple girl, I mean would you rather say


like legit you <mandarin>我有一次:wo you yi ci</mandarin> right <mandarin>我们去一个餐厅吃:wo men qu yi ge can ting chi</mandarin> then their appetiser right was this cold cherry tomato or something and supposedly was very nice and so my whole family was like eat it eat it you so good you such a good girl eat it <mandarin>吃那个番茄:chi na ge fan qie</mandarin> and I was like


bitch oh no sorry I was like, I was like I don't know I was like I was, oh my gosh was I in primary school or was I in, I okay anyway


anyway I ate it, I ate I ate it and then I wretched, I legit like went like , like that, and and like I couldn't keep it down I like puked it back out on my plate


ya so that's how much I hate tomato and now my whole family the like they just don't force me to eat tomatoes anymore cause I will puke it back out


you don't have a food like that meh, !huh! are you telling me that you will eat anything


oh, ah


, did you, ,


oh my god


what's this what's this <mandarin>公主病:gong zhu bing</mandarin> ah, oh ya ya ya, maybe it's cause we are only children,


, oh my gosh #lu ying# my goddess intellectual so smart using all these big idioms on me, ha ha


bold of you to assume that people can communicate with you in chinese right now


I mean, I I think right, in schools in general lah the international students tend to stick together right at least in grace's school as in like she was telling me that the international students stick together


err


ya maybe got some aliens then you can, ya, oh ya no no no okay you can like, you can like add in small chinese words into your thing and see who gets it and see who doesn't smoking


oh so fake, you cannot like that, cannot, please don't, please don't, but I I I I think you will encounter


weed, I I think it is I don't know if it's legal leh, anyway moving on


okay okay, I think you should also like you like wherever you go right I feel like you should


like at least make friends with a few of the people who actually live there, if not you go for what, you know, oh ya I guess err, no if I


ya like if I go for student exchange programme, I want to get to know the people there right, oh my gosh speaking of student exchange programmes, know my application got rejected cause of COVID


I was, ya japan or, or actually I was thinking of london, oh my gosh no okay I was thinking of london cause it's very good for my degree


of course you agree (ugh), place for literature lah I know lah I know but japan is so fun


london, uk, who's to say that I who's to say that I don't want to learn about japanese literature


just maybe in english, but but but but but but but, but #xiao ting's# in japan that's going to be so fun, not now she's in singapore now, cause COVID mah


ya Waseda, which is one of the, one of the better options for me, if like, okay so, I went to look at the options right cause I have to map out my my modules before I go over


like, because they cannot find modules that match, so it has to like piece together


because if not you won't be able to complete a degree right, like my degree requirements ah, ya


so, I want to go, but the options are very few so I actually only they let you list up to like six options I think


then the rest were all like UK, I was looking at , I don't know how to pronounce it I don't know whether it's low borough or love borough, or love borough or, low borough, I don't know but it's a university


cause they have an english literature programme that is paired is partnered with, my uni, yes, , anyway, ya


so <mandarin>我有看:wo you kan</mandarin> lor, but, too late lah rejected, next year lor <mandarin>他们刚刚:ta men gang gang</mandarin> sent <mandarin>了一个:le yi ge</mandarin> email so I'm, I will look at it, and re map out my modules on my gosh I've been procrastinating so much you know I just bought a new game


yes please care please care, I just no listen listen listen I just bought a new game called little nightmares and is very good I bought it after watching I bought it after watching


this guy and his friend play, and the art is so good, please it's like a it's like a sort of mini horror game, but it's so good I actually I was going to play and then you texted me and reminded me that we have to do this so


thank


eh, let's meet


is, I I don't know I feel like it was fun, oh <mandarin>没东西没话讲了对吧:mei dong xi mei hua jiang le dui ba</mandarin> rendered speechless


, if you can complete a whole degree in three months


I will literally bow down to you, you will be working twenty four hours I promise, ya, #xiao ting# she's doing, comms


journalism, I'm not sure if it's changed


oh my gosh #lu ying# did you think that I was going to take all the courses in japanese are you kidding


yes <mandarin>就像你你一样咯:jiu xiang ni ni yi yang lo</mandarin> build connections live in japan and then see how, she was thinking of it I think when she applied for japan but now I don't know what she wants to do


, I don't know about that


I <mandarin>我们都不熟悉:wo men dou bu shu xi</mandarin> ah right


!aiya! well, it is what it is if if she if she decides to come back she decides to come back lor


ya I mean, does dessert count as like a career advancement, reason like you know,


ya they're very polite, but <mandarin>我其中:wo qi zhong</mandarin> hor, ya, sis have I even been to that many parts of japan


I mean I've only been to Osaka Kyoto and


oh I like Kyoto lah Kyoto'S fun, but, ya I like Tokyo the best why I don't know I think is location I think is where I was staying eh but where I was staying in Kyoto was very nice is like you know those kind of


, I mean the house is not a tatami house


no not the futons anyway


the place I stayed right it was right next to one of the very very nice like, like, per say hot spots, but every single time that I've I've gone right