but the ya but the thing is <mandarin>我不懂我有没有我有没有把握:wo bu dong wo you mei you wo you mei you ba wo </mandarin> lah, P two P two <mandarin>没有:mei you </mandarin> science <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> meh I thought P two got all four subjects


or is it only got two subjects, okay


the thing is is it, is it I have to <mandarin>交那个:jiao na ge </mandarin> form again


ya the thing ya that's the thing lor


ya so do I end this or what, okay bye bye


ah yes err ya you can call me <P2>uma</P2> or you can call me <P2>faith</P2> whichever is easier for you


so ya, ah


yes it's better to stick to one market because ah then it's easier to keep track of what's uh happening around us right now with all this uh COVID situation it's better to stick to certain places rather than moving around Singapore I think we are increasing our chances of getting you know more infections


ya ya, true ya it's better to stay but you can't keep on staying at home I cause I believe the situation is going to like stretch to another maybe what one year why I also don't know lah that's like how people say one year some people say two years but I'm not looking forward to wearing the mask for that long


ya, ya true true and then ah so how you are using what kind of mask


(mmhmm)


that's that gets a bit tough down there because <tamil>அங்க வந்து:angka vandthu</tamil> uh over there is like they actually can't hear us and then they keep asking us to shout and I'm a person quite soft spoken so it's getting very difficult for me lah like to shout at them ya


exactly exactly and that and and and especially you know old people I'm afraid to offend them because they think we're not giving them respect lah like what lah this girl shouting at me and all this but I'm not actually I'm trying to raise my voice but it turns out to be like shouting


oh I think ya so


ya so I told him ah go and get buy for me chicken rice so ya you know it's singaporean's favourite food chicken rice then settled


we do not have hawker center but we have this coffee shops, mine is a newer estate so it's a bit like more coffeeshop coffeeshop and then I won't say it's a new estate also lah but I don't know why they don't have a proper market they don't have a proper all this last time when I my old my mom house the oh !wow! that was like every market had a big coffee shop like that


and then you have so much of varieties over here the varieties is so limited, and I keep on like if you never cook right I just gonna to eat the same thing over and over again


you know to live near parents of course there's always there's a definite advantage I used to stay with my near my parents' house in #toa payoh#, ah but but that was like twenty over years back so and that moment I just started working and everything so I couldn't afford to buy a flat in #toa payoh# itself because #toa payoh# flats are so expensive so I shifted to a nearby you know Serangoon area because the houses there were cheaper


but now to think about it right I could have just should have just try to buy in #toa payoh# because I very convenient ah over there #toa payoh# is like, every a stone's throw away <tamil>எல்லாம்:ellaam</tamil> you you get everything you know, ah that's ya ya


oh <tamil>நான் இங்கிருந்து:naan ingkirundthu</tamil> bus <tamil>எடுத்து:eduththu</tamil> ya


I see so your children uh they will eat in school itself


so <tamil>ஒரு நாள் சாப்பிட:oru naal saappida</tamil> uh ya


ya so <tamil>ஒரு நாள் சாப்பிடலாம் இரண்டு நாள் அப்புறம் மூன்றாவது நாள் நானா இருந்தால் முடியாது ஏன் என்றால் நான் இன்னொன்னு வந்து:oru naal saappidalam irandu naal appuram munraavathu naal naanaa irundthaal mudiyaathu een enraal naan inonnu vandthu</tamil> <tamil>வீட்டில் சமைக்கிறது:vitdil samaikkirathu</tamil> one thing <tamil>இன்னும்:innum</tamil> healthier,


so bad you know but the one you buy like from other country ah certain countries they the smell ah how much you wash also the smell is like very bad


ah ya the GI level is much higher so, it slowly burns off the sugar and yes because uh year two thousand and after my uh my uh my last child was born two thousand seven


I had gestational diabetes so to overcome that I had to change my whole diet no I put on a lot of weight for his pregnancy <tamil>வந்து:vandthu</tamil> the pregnancy alone I


so ya so, and then that that that that has the southern weight gain right I had ah gestational diabetes I had a lot of health issue after putting on so much of weight so I told myself that okay you know what I have to do something before


in a diabetes is like a killer, so ya so <tamil>அதுக்கு அப்புறம் வந்து நான் என்ன செய்தேன் என்றால் வந்து எல்லாத்தையும் மாற்றினேன்:athukku appuram vandthu naan enna seytheen enraal vandthu ellaaththaiyum marrineen</tamil>


so a lot of hard work ya a lot of hardwork you like I always feel like easy to put on weight but very difficult to lose it


I understand and also because this is a PSLE year for him does he does some stress eating also


that is another thing right so nowadays is uh since they out of home for so long we don't know how what they eating what they're doing outside sometime during these school hours I mean doing ya we know they've been in school all that but you know they can always go to the provision shop nearby and and get whatever stuff they want and then eat on the way or what we


you know all I ya so it's healthy eating is very important do you realise one more thing that we're dropping losing hair nowadays or not


and then ya I'm just like wondering eh what lah I mean for me right now is very difficult because I got err because of the COVID thing and everything I got kicked out of a job so I'm jobless right now so I'm still on the look out for a job


ya so at this point of time this junction no way I can spend that kind of money on just hair I feel like it will be very selfish for me lah to take that money and and spent it what if I don't know because after forties to get a job is very very difficult so


I'm just thinking of retraining in different field and getting back to the job market, I used to work in a school uh as an admin


it's a private school, kind of because uh at that point of time they couldn't conduct a lot of classes uh and at the centre right so they switched over to this ah online programme where my services were not really needed


so eventually yes so they told me to take a major major pay cut or to leave but they were actually giving the to leave our, as a main choice lah because they think that you know ah even after pay cut you know if there's no job it's very difficult for us to pay you and all that so they were just like telling me to please leave so I left the company


(uh huh)


they are actually everyday their being called up for interviews and everything my my second daughter <P2>jessie</P2> got a job uh, already so she'll be joining after august fifteen around there the other girl ah her her degree is uh more on uh international law like political science so the job scope the or whatever she's getting it's like more narrowed down because you know political science and all that is more narrowed down


so ya she has been getting interviews or online interviews and all that but nothing has been, promised to her yet ya


ya the situation is getting very bad so I I really I was very upset like initially when I had to leave the job then ya because uh, it's a monthly salary where


ah <tamil>அதுக்கு வேற காசு கட்டணும் வேற:athukku veera kaasu katdanum veera</tamil> so


so <tamil>நானும் அங்க தான் இருந்தேன்:naanum angka thaan irundtheen</tamil> but <tamil>என்னம்மோ வந்து:ennammoo vandthu</tamil> uh shift <tamil>வேலைனால வந்து ஒரு இரண்டு பேர்ரும்:velainaala vandthu oru irandu peerum</tamil> shift <tamil>வேலை செய்றனால வீட்டில் வந்து அப்போ அந்த:veelai seyrannaala vitdil vandthu appoo vandthu</tamil> uh


sometimes uh we think too much about the family and then we prioritize our self lesser sometimes but then I think we have to rethink about


uh, at this situation right or any situation right the career choices are very very important I think


ya definitely ah they value people benefits are good pay is salary will be credited on the day they say they'll credit, so and they have a HR department to run the whole thing, uh so everything is more stable I would say whereas if you go and get yourself into a very small school or something like that then ya you will get


you will not be getting your salary on time benefits are like, when I first joined this school which I was working in it wasn't it's not small school it's quite well known but when I joined I had a lot of benefits like a gym membership blah blah and everything you know then eventually when one of the partners left they took away all that benefits


and then our benefits shrink and shrink and shrink and then they made another major mistake of opening another branch overseas couple of branch overseas then always this branch got hit terribly so they had to close it down and then a lot of things just started down sliding you know like


so I would say that, COVID nineteen actually they uh even the the better companies they also are doing quite badly


<tamil>ஆமாம்:aamaam</tamil> so


ya true so a lot of these jobs were cancelled even those who join as a crew members they were deployed at the at the hospitals and all that, so some were not really keen to work in hospitals but then you are like no choice you have to work in the hospital and those who just train to become like a pilot and all that right they were also like not given a job


and they end up being like Grab drivers and all that so I would say that we have been very blessed if we have a, a monthly salary coming in at this moment


so what do you do during your free time what do you do during your free time


no I've not


I see I see cause ah, ah swim <tamil>பண்ணுவேன்:pannuveen</tamil> but <tamil>இப்போ அதுவும் முடியல:ippo athuvum mudiyala</tamil> because of the <tamil>இதனால:ithanaala</tamil> so ya uh <tamil>நிச்சயம்மா நிறைய வந்து சமைப்பேன்:nichsaiyammaa niraiya vandthu samaippeen</tamil> like uh


!wow! I'm impressed that he can get a star for tamil uh


oh that's very good because uh, my household was very different we we spoke mostly in english so my son took his PSLE last year and his tamil was I was thinking he is going to fail but he got c lah, so he manage to like scrap through his tamil the rest of the subjects was good tamil was the one I was really very worried so yup so now he scraped through


uh <tamil>இப்போ எப்படி இப்ப இப்போ எல்லாம் நிலைமைக்கு வந்து:ippoo eppadi ippa ippoo ellaam nilamaikku vandthu</tamil>


so this year still got PSLE is it, oh is it


no I think this is the last batch of PSLE because they say they are going to not do PSLE won't be next year onwards there's no more PSLE what


I see so how do they actually err get to choose the secondary school since there is no aggregate


ah do you spend time teaching your kids


ah that's good lah then you have an advantage that you your your husband knows the education system quite well so yes that is an advantage, and uh <tamil>இப்போ வந்து ஆசிரியையா படிக்கிறது வந்து ஒரு ஒரு என்னது:ippo vanthu aasirayaiya padikkirathu vanthu oru oru ennathu</tamil> <P2>ryan</P2> <tamil>வேலை வந்து இப்போ இது இருக்கும்:velai vanthu ippo ithu irukkum</tamil>


private tuition tutor <tamil>ஆகிறாங்க:aakiraangka</tamil> they can work as and when they want to it's like a freelance and they say that if they are very hardworking they actually match up the salary for of a teacher


oh okay that's good so oh you're working there for ten years !wow! that's a, pretty long time and ya DBS is actually doing very well like one of the top uh banks in Singapore so ya good good


I mean ya I'm glad so now you work fully from home or you have to still going to the office


oh that's good so !wow!


exactly that's why I'm just looking at Facebook I'm looking Instagram looking at things which is not even wanted like the past few days I've been watching this <P1>vanitha vijaykumar</P1> the one of the indian Cinema-Lae <tamil>வந்து:vandthu</tamil> this woman got remarried or something like that she is shouting one person is shouting and I was watching that that day


then I was thinking <P2>uma</P2> what are you doing lah what kind of useless thing are you doing watching all this then I quickly stopped it took a book and started reading and then that's when I was thinking I was telling my husband you know what I got to retrain myself in other profession, before I become like those ah


serial aunty where I will just sit down and watch serial after serial or something like that and lose the ya my that like it's not doing anything for myself at all like it's just making me very heavily what do I call it ah very <tamil>எனது ரொம்ப:enathu rompa</tamil> very slow


very slow ya, so


!wow! that's a lot because I'm also my my wifi is also very laggy but then everyone has their own phone so maybe that's why maybe you're sharing your data that's why I think


ah


I had a Myanmar uh maid sometime back when she came in she was such a nice person so we also I also treated her like a daughter you know a very small nice girl and everything after three months working she told me ah maam can I have a phone I want to listen to music uh


and and all that you know so I say okay you know alright since you are doing very well I'll give you a phone but you have to be very careful of the usage, what she did is everytime she take the phone to wash toilet right she would she would wash toilet for one hour because she was using her phone her Facebook her Instagram whatever


and then eventually uh she started making a lot of friends in this Facebook and everything so usually I will leave her like a a certain amount of money to buy uh bread or egg whatever runs out right, madam started using that money to buy cosmetics whitening product perfume


ya and then ah the children didn't have breakfast because there's no egg there's no milk there's no bread so when I ask then she will say no maam you didn't give me money the first time I did the mistake I say really I forgot you know and I trusted her so I gave again but this time what I did is I took a video of the the time the thing


she didn't know that I took a video and I also wrote it down so the second time also madam say no you didn't give me money I say I thought I give you fifty dollars she say no no you didn't give I show her video right, then I say now I want to check your room and when I checked her room so many cosmetic so many things just started coming out


and then I realised ya right you know how well you treat them I really really treated her like a family member and err, then when I confronted her she was so rude so rude ah super rude I called I I the next day already I book a ticket I want to send her right she brought all her Myanmar friends downstairs they all waiting to beat me up you know


that was really really they were all standing there when I was like trying to wait for the taxi right they were all standing then and and like looking at me so what I did I quickly take the phone and then I, pretend to call the police lah you know after that they realise that some that I am doing some this one and then they left so I tell you maid is just an additional pain if you really really don't need it ya


they not they don't come cheap you know because they want everything like this Myanmar maid she only like err she want certain things like only certain products for her she won't share our toiletries and then err certain things like uh she wants only certain


uh Vietnam Myanmar Myanmar Myanmar food so <tamil>இதுக்காக நம்ம போய்:ithukkaaka namma pooy</tamil> uh <tamil>அந்த இடத்துக்கு போய் அதை எல்லாம் வாங்கிட்டு வரும் இது எல்லாம் ரொம்ப காசு வந்தது:andtha idaththukku pooy athai ellaam vangkitdu varum ithu ellaam rompa kaasu vandthathu</tamil> but


uh <tamil>இல்லை:illai</tamil> one hour ten minutes


hi hi is this uh


ah ya I know it was you lah I saw you I I actually I saw you ah in the conference then that's why I remember we we actually I exchange numbers right that day


ah I I actually I actually <tamil>வந்து:vandthu</tamil> saw you at the market that day but then you seem to be you know in a rush so I didn't I I didn't dare to you know disturb you did you saw me


at the west coast market, ah


ah, oh ya lah because now also with the uh current situation we also ah it's best if you always go to the market near our house lah


yes, ya that's why because right now the situation also very scary lah that's why I'm also like you know scared to go anywhere you know , I most of the time I stay at home ya


ya that's why I also very uncomfortable right but of course you know we have to because of the situation we just have to like you know adjust lah we just have to get used to it, ya


I'm actually ah using I actually mostly use these ah disposable mask lah because I'm really not used to the cloth mask the cloth mask like come really close to my face ah I really like , you know have have like troubles talking to people and all that so I I don't really dare to like use that so I I usually use the ah disposable one then after that I just uh throw away


ah ah <tamil>அன்றைக்கு வந்து பத்து வல்லிக்கு தான் நான் வாங்கினேன் நான் என் என்னோட வீட்டுக்கு கிட்ட உள்ள கடையில ஆனால்:andraikku vanthu pathu vallikku thaan naan vankinaen naan en ennoda vittukku kitta ulla kadaiyil aanal</tamil> online <tamil>ரொம்ப வந்து:romba vanthu</tamil> ah <tamil>விலையாக விற்கிறார்கள் அதான் ஏன் என்று தெரியவில்லை அதான் சிலது வந்து ரொம்ப:vilaiyak virkirarkal athaan aen endru theriyavillai athaan silathu vanthu romba</tamil> scam <tamil>பன்றாங்க:pandranga</tamil> lah


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm) ya that's why, ya, it's like so hard you know then we have to really like and then then some some people you know we shout at them then you know they also like uh like get offended like because they think we are angry with them or what but actually we just want them to like you know hear us over the mask you know


ya, that's why lah I know, (mmhmm), ah <tamil>ஆமாம் நான் வந்து இப்போது தான் வந்து இப்போ தான் கொஞ்சம் நேரத்துக்கு முன்னால வந்து சாப்பிட்டேன் இன்னைக்கு ரொம்ப வேலை:aamam naan vanthu ippothu thaan vanthu ippo thaan koncham naeratthukku munnal vanthu sappittaen innaiku romba velai</tamil> lah <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> ah <tamil>ஏன் என்றால் இப்ப நான் வந்து வீட்டில் இருந்து வேலை செய்கிறேன்:aen endral ippa naan vanthu vittil irunthu velai seykiraen</tamil> so <tamil>வந்து இந்த:vanthu intha</tamil> coordinate <tamil>பண்றதுக்கேல்லாம் ரொம்ப கஷ்டமா இருக்கு ஏன் என்றால் நான் வந்து:pandrathukkaellam romba kashtama irrukku aen endral naan vanthu</tamil> actually <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> ah


like <tamil>அந்த அந்த நான்:antha antha naan</tamil> actually <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> senior position <tamil>இருக்கேன்:irukkaen</tamil> so <tamil>அதனால நான் எல்லாரையும்:athanala naan ellarayum</tamil> oversee <tamil>பண்ணனும்:pannanum</tamil> so


, , oh


ya, ya ya that's why your your your your your food uh it your your house downstairs got uh hawker center is it, (mmhmm)


ah, ,


!wow!, oh god ya I mean near where I live also you know because, I mean actually ah because I actually live and I don't really live close to the MRT station so I my block there also I I live in avenue four clementi avenue four so my block downstairs actually ah don't have uh much uh shops also so much variety so


usually I have to walk like ten minutes to the MRT station to the mall lah and you know now like also very crowded right because now we have to queue to get into the malls and then scan the QR code before they let us in also


, ah <tamil>ஐந்து வருடம் ஆக போகுது அதனால்தான் வந்து இப்போ விற்கலாம் வந்து:ainthu varudam aaka pokuthu athanaalthaan vanthu ippo virkalam vanthu</tamil> plan <tamil>பன்னிட்டிருந்தேன் இந்த வருடம் ஆனால் இப்போ வந்து இந்த பிரச்சனைனால அவ்வளவு வந்து அந்த:pannitturunthaen intha varudam aanal ippo vanthu intha pirachanainala avvalavu vanthu antha</tamil> agents <tamil>எல்லாம் வந்து:ellam vanthu</tamil> meet <tamil>பண்ண முடியாது:panna mudiyuathu</tamil> so <tamil>அதான் எப்படி என்று பார்த்துக்கொண்டிருக்கிரேன்:athaan eppadi endru partthukkondirukkiraen</tamil> lah


ah <tamil>இங்க விற்றுவிட்டு:inga vitruvittu</tamil> maybe <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> maybe <tamil>என்னோட:ennoda</tamil> parents <tamil>விட்டு கிட்ட வந்து:vittu kitta vanthu</tamil> uh <tamil>கிட்ட:kitta</tamil> ah <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி வந்து பார்க்க போரேன் அவங்க வந்து:antha mathiri vanthu paarkka poraen avanga vanthu</tamil> avenue, one <tamil>இல்ல இருக்காங்க ஆனால் இங்கை இருந்து அங்க கொஞ்சம் எட்ட:illa irukkanga aaanaal inkai irunthu anka koncham aetta</tamil> so <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி வந்து:antha mathiri vanthu</tamil> <tamil>பார்க்கலாம்னு இருக்கிரேன் நான்:parkkalaamnu irrukiraen naan</tamil> parents <tamil>விட்டு ஏன் என்றால் அவங்க வந்து கொஞ்சம் வயதானவர்கள்:vittu aen endral avaga vanthu koncham vayathaanavarkal</tamil> so <tamil>அவங்களக்கு அந்த:avangalakku antha</tamil> <tamil>அவங்களக்கு ரொம்ப:avankalakku romba</tamil> like <tamil>வந்து வெளியே பொய் அவங்களுக்கு அந்த:vanthu veliyae poi avankalakku antha</tamil> market <tamil>இல் எல்லாம் ஜாமாம் எல்லாம் வாங்க அவங்களால முடியாது இப்போ அந்த:il ellam jamam ellam vanka avankalaala mudiyathu ippo anthu</tamil> current situation <tamil>அல்ல:alla</tamil> so <tamil>அவங்க கூட வந்து அவங்க கிட்ட கொஞ்சம்:avanka kuuda vanthu avanka kitta koncham</tamil> close ah <tamil>இருந்தோம்னா வந்து பார்த்துக்க:irunthomna vanthu parthukka</tamil> easy ah <tamil>இருக்கும்:irrukkum</tamil> lah


, ya, oh


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


oh, ya that's why I used to work there lah and then you know everything was like so convenient because last year actually I was transferred to a branch there then


you know I I didn't really have to like you know uh I didn't really have to suffer for food all everything there are so many choices of food there there's like there's Delifrance there's McDonald's there's like so many options so I really enjoyed working there actually


oh


ya they'll eat in school they will eat like in their canteen they always like to eat outside lah that's why they they don't like they don't want to like wait till they come home then you know they get so hungry because my my son is actually in err primary six and my, ah daughter's in primary four so they they both are like quite busy especially my son so their schools don't really finish that early sometimes only return home at around three or four o'clock like that so


I usually just ask them to eat outside also and they also like you know happy they cause they like they actually like one ah food stall the noodle stall in their canteen because the aunty there they say they cook ah the the food very nice so they just ah eat there then they come home lah so I also no need to cook for them


(mmhmm), !aiyo!


, oh


, (mmhmm),


ya that's why ah because some of them I think they use a lot of I don't know like , ah ah they they use a lot of like you know insecticides and all that for their plantations then that's why like you we wash also the smell is like still there and all that but then basmati rice is also actually quite good my parents all actually are used to it so they always cook that is I think is also healthier than normal white rice


, oh no


, okay, oh no


, , ya, ya


, , ah


ya that's why ya, , ya that's why especially you know like during this , during this uh quarantine period like many people also you know like you know put on weight and all that so that's why you know my my children also they you know my son is actually like really he he really like you know uh put on a lot of weight because he always you know just


sit at home and then he do absolutely nothing I told him to exercise he also don't want to listen then, you know how many times can we also nag lah because I'm also like working I got a treadmill at home all he also don't want to do then, uh you know because you he actually he don't like brown rice so he always you know buy ah from outside then because he's a bit of a picky eater so he always buy all the fast food from outside then you know he he consume all that right then now he like put on like you know five KG but to start off with already


he was really like you know he he was really a a heavy like he uh overweight child then that's why now the the school they saying they have to send him for the exercise uh classes already so every morning he has to wake up early for the for some rise and shine programme


they call it's before they go for classes, uh I think so you know because you know sometimes ah because I don't really keep like you know snacks all inside the house so I think whatever actually he whatever he buys actually is for either from outside or from the school sometimes I find like you know like potato chips bag all in his in in his room is like very


big one you know not the not the uh <tamil>ஒரு ஆள் சாப்பிடற மாதிரி இல்ல ரொம்ப வந்து:oru aal sappidara mathiri illa romba vanthu</tamil> uh


so <tamil>நான் வந்து இதையெல்லாம் வந்து:naan vandthu ithaiyellaam vandthu</tamil> stop <tamil>பண்றத்துக்கு இப்ப நான் வந்து அவனுடைய:panrathukku ippa naan vandthu avanudaiya</tamil> pocket money <tamil>கொஞ்சம் வெட்டி இருக்கிறேன்:konchsam vetdi irukkireen</tamil> so


hopefully he he stops eating all that lah,


ya, ya that's why,


ya that's why because we all like you know because nowadays like these days all like you know the like our work all is actually fully ah computer based so we just like sit at one place and then we do then we don't really like you know exercise much actually we should ah then


I I actually I also gained weight actually our whole family also we all like gained weight but my son is the worst lah, ya,


dye <tamil>பண்ணதான் கேட்டேன் ஆனால் அவங்கள் வந்து என்ன:pannathaan keetpeen aaanaal avangkal vandthu enna</tamil> chemicals use <tamil>பண்றாங்கன்னு தெரியவில்லை:panraankannu theriyavillai</tamil> so <tamil>நினைக்கிறேன் இனிமேல் வந்து செய்யக்கூடாதுன்னு இல்லாட்டி வந்து நினைக்கிறேன்:ninaikkireen inimeel vandthu seyyakkudathunnu illaatdi vandthu ninaikkireen</tamil> natural <tamil>அந்த:andtha</tamil> organic


(hmm), ah, oh, !aiyoyo!


, ya


oh oh dear, ,


ya, oh dear I'm so sorry about the fact that you lost the job lah because uh actually what did you used to work as


oh I see and you got ah retrench, oh, and it and you got retrenched is it,


(hmm), oh, ,


oh, oh dear that's why lah you know like like I mean I know that the situation now is like very, bad lah because I I think we are like you know uh slipping into recession and all that because of the COVID situation and also like you know many people


many and especially you know all the private companies ah they won't like you know think twice you know if they if they really like you know if they feel that they don't need your your services anymore they will just uh straight away retrench you many, I've heard like three four of my friends also like uh Kena retrench like that then you know sometimes I also like you know help them to find job lah then I I ask around but really you know the job market now is really bad you know


then you knows uh is is is really like uh, I don't I don't know like you go into Gumtree or now like looking for jobs you like last time all you can like find like you know thousand over jobs now is like only like you know two hundred or maybe even like just like hundred job listings like that only then is like really it's day by day is going down


, (hmm),


, !aiyoyo!,


ah <tamil>திடீரென்று சம்பளத்தை வெட்டிருவாங்கள் அந்த சம்பளத்தை வந்து:thidiirenru sambalaththai vetdiruvaangkal andtha sambalaththai vandthu</tamil> Late-Aa <tamil>வந்து போடுவார்கள் அந்த:vandthu pooduvaarkal andtha</tamil> ah <tamil>வந்து:vandthu</tamil> like <tamil>உதாரணத்திற்கு வந்து:uthaaranaththirku vandthu</tamil> fifteen <tamil>பதினைந்தாம் தேதி வந்து நம்மளுக்கு வந்து போடுனும்னு சொன்னாங்கன்னா:pathinaindthaam theethi vandthu nammaalkku vandthu poodununmnu sonnangkanna</tamil> ah <tamil>போட மாட்டார்கள் ஒரு வந்து:pooda maatdaarkal oru vandthu</tamil> month end <tamil>வரைக்கும் மாதம் கடைசி வரைக்கும் காத்திருக்க வேண்டும்:varaikkum maatham kadaisi varaikkum kaththirukka veendum</tamil> lah


<tamil>அதனால தான் நான் விட்டேன்:athanaala thaan naan vitdeen</tamil> actually ah <tamil>அதனால தான் நான் விட்டு இப்போ வந்து அந்த:athanaala thaan naan vitdu ippoo vandthu andtha</tamil> ah <tamil>இப்போ நான் வந்து வேற வேலை வந்து இதை அச்சிவந்து:ippoo naan vandthu veera veelai vandthu ithai achsivandthu</tamil> private company <tamil>தான் ஏன் என்றால:thaan een enraal</tamil> bank <tamil>தானே:thanee</tamil> so


, oh okay , oh


ya the the employers also you know they they take very long to you know like process you know like they take very long letter like to like to tell them to tell us like you know whether we are selected for the position or not then you know many of my friends are like they, go all the way down then you know they they call them up then is like they if they email them and ask that's it because usually they will like you know


send a letter like to the house saying that you know we are either we are shortlisted are not shortlisted but then you know for my friend all like they don't even like you know tell that like they if they keep on calling them ah then their number just gets uh blocked their email, just like you know I just doesn't gets responded so they also like very stressed lah because ah you know like they just lost their job and they need to like find a new job but then ah you know they also not able to find you know


(uh huh)


oh, ,


ya because only if you have a good job only you know we can like also support a family right if not is like really you know if not like this is really very difficult lah you know like we join like some , like you know like private companies then ya I mean even if we join private company also we have to like read up on them and you know see whether you know like they're they're actually they're well known or not I mean don't it's it's best to always like not join all this ah small small companies because


these companies they are really you know they if if if, like anything they'll guess ah if they if like they'll just like anyhow you know just err retrench people so we really have to be careful of the company that we join also so MNC all these is still okay because they they you know they generally they value people


ya, , (hmm), ya


oh, oh, , !aiyo!


, oh,


, ya that's why lah you know now I mean because you know this ah pandemic it just uh, came suddenly you know like out of the out of a sudden nobody really expected this whole year to like you know turn up like this and then it just came suddenly and nobody really


ah <tamil>அவங்கள வந்து:avangkala vandthu</tamil> err <tamil>நினைக்கிறேன் வந்து இரண்டு மூன்று மாதம் வேலை இல்லாமல் தான் இருந்திருக்காங்கனு நினைக்கிறேன்:ninaikkireen vandthu irandu muunru maatham veelai illaamal thaan irundthirukkaangkanu ninaikkireen</tamil> lah, especially <tamil>அதான் அந்த அந்த அந்த:athaan andtha andtha andtha</tamil> especially <tamil>அந்த:andtha</tamil> tourism industry <tamil>அந்த:andtha</tamil> flight <tamil>எல்லாம் வேலை செய்றவுங்க அவங்கள நினைக்கிறேன் வந்து அந்த:ellaam veelai seyravungka avangkala ninaikkireen vandthu andtha</tamil> circuit breaker <tamil>முன்னால இருந்தே வந்து ரொம்ப:munnaala irundthee vandthu rompa</tamil> ah


, , ya


, , ya, ya


ya that's why lah so that's why you know I always you know I, I very ah happy lah that you know at least I have a job you see, because I see so many people around me like you know suffering because some of my friends like they have like you know big families and all that you know like they and then they have like no support at all then some of them like you know like they have a big uh family then both they and their spouse they both of them like they


ah lose their job ah then really like they in a very bad situation lah now then I try to help them lah you know like by helping to like find jobs and all that but then really you know it's like really not enough jobs these days so that's why I have to like


you know like ah like I I also like try to just uh you know like err try to console them you know like tell them you will be fine and all that then, some of them like they they're like you know apply for financial assistance scheme and all that ah cause they really in a


very bad shape already you know some of them they will like really earning very well you know like even more than a a like more than at even more than me and then now like they suddenly without a job ah then, they all like just like spent last time all they just like you know spend their money on useless things then now they you know now they lose their job then without any savings then now they regret they feel the pinch of it you know


sorry, ah during my free time I actually I just ah you know I I actually like to play this err I I actually like to watch ah err videos like watch the all the YouTube videos and also videos on the TV all the serial and all that and ah so


I also like to you know like play the games all you know like the farming simulation game you try before or not, ah okay because actually this games I I actually you know they they belong to my children they, love to play all these you know like err you know things like uh uh uh like games like Harvest Moon and all that so they they like to play it on their game console so sometimes you know because they also like taught me how to


play and all that then now I uh I also like enjoy it so when they are in school and all that if I'm really like free or what ah then I just ah take it and then I just ah ah play then is is actually quite fun maybe you should also like you know try but, is actually like a is actually a paid game that means you have to pay you have to like purchase the games is not like a free download you know


oh, (hmm), oh


ah face to face so ah he he has to he has to go to the tutors house err you know it's actually quite near us only so it's just like a ten minutes walk then he just goes there every saturday so, ya so he cause they both are teaching very well so I just ah decided to continue with it at first I told them you know I only try for one month but then even like you know


but then he seems like learn a lot then from his uh from his CA one to SA one he actually, ah really ah improve you know because he's uh CA one he he actually ah failed then his SA one he actually, ah improved to to a grade C for maths then ah you know I was so quite impressed then he say that


tuitions all help then I just err you know keep it lah his ah his other subjects are quite okay actually ah his his like his actually his main strength is in the languages he gets like a star for for all his err, languages science he okay lah he can at least get a b every time but then maths is the one that is really uh you know lagging a lot


ya that's why


, oh, , ah okay


ah, !aiyoyo!


<tamil>அதான் இப்போ அவன் வந்து கொஞ்சம்:athaan ippoo avan vandthu konjsam</tamil> average <tamil>தான் எல்லா பாடத்தையும்:thaan ellaa padaththaiyum</tamil> pass <tamil>பண்ணிருவான் ஆனால் எல்லாமே வந்து ஒரு:panniruvaan aanaal ellaamee vandthu oru</tamil> b <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி வந்து எடுப்பான் ஒன்ணுத்திலயும் வந்து:andtha maathiri vandthu eduppaan onnuththilayum vandthu</tamil> like, ah a ah a Range-Ukku <tamil>வந்து:vandthu</tamil> ah ah <tamil>போகமாட்டான் ஆனால்:pokamaatdaan aanaal</tamil> p four <tamil>வந்து அது வந்து அடுத்த வருடம் ஒரு பெரிய:vanthu athu vandthu aduththa varudam oru periya</tamil> jump <tamil>இருக்கும் தானே:irukkum thaanee</tamil> P five <tamil>இல்லை:illai</tamil> so <tamil>அதனால தான் வந்து:athanaala thaan vandthu</tamil> err


uh yes still have because ah it's actually it's a national considered a national exam lah so the PSLE will still go on ah some of the exams I think the CA two the prelims all that is actually cancelled due to the situation


no next year onwards there's ah no ah aggregate that means err there's no you know like, total score so it's actually more like you know like you know A or B C it's more like you know like how they calculate for the O levels lah not like the


not like the aggregate points anymore so like that I think it'll be easier for them because they only see the overall you know whether they score a they score B or what that but then they don't really see the aggregate points so I think they're doing it to reduce the competition


I think it's like depends on you know like how many As they got how many Bs they got and all that so that means all the I think probably probably all the you know the top schools like raffles all that will ah will need them to get all As and then the others


the other schools maybe like you know they will allow maybe As Bs or even like it you know like err c or what I I think is calculated like how it's calculated for O levels lah I also don't know I have to actually ah check also


yes err actually err you know especially my son actually err you know like every night I sit with him to uh, do the so that he knows how to you know do the homework both me and my husband because my husband is a teacher so he will so he'd because he's actually a primary school teacher right so he will know the syllables and all that the best so he also helps me so I also like help him out at times then ah


that's why we especially for maths also we try our best to you know like coach our son so that he becomes better at it


ya that's why, ,


yes that's why <tamil>நான் வந்து:naan vandthu</tamil> actually bank <tamil>இல்ல வேலை செய்கிறேன்:illa veelai seykireen</tamil> so <tamil>அதனால தான் அன்றைக்கு வந்து:athanaala thaan anraikku vandthu</tamil> , meet <tamil>பண்ணெண்:panneen</tamil> so actually <tamil>நான் வந்து:naan vandthu</tamil> bank <tamil>இல்ல வேலை செய்கிறேன்:illa veelai seykireen</tamil> so I actually work in this ah DBS bank so


over there actually I'm the senior ah financial advisor there so, I oversee all the you know all the people all the other bankers working under me and I also do a bit of like you know like HR work and all that lah so is more balance so because I'm actually in the management position so I I've been working there like for ten years already so I have ah I have more uh I've like certain like you know


benefits and all that lah so I'm quite happy there actually because you know now I also can like work from home and all that so I'm quite happy I'm quite contented with the job there lah,


yes, ya that's why,


I only like you know go to the office you know when I have to like meet clients or meet err or or like you know if if I have to collect any documents if not I fully work from home other than that, because you see ya because my office actually got a you know like got a minimum uh capacity like maximum how many people can be there you know because of the social distancing and all that so


they don't really you know let ah employees work from the office just yet but it's also better lah you know now I can just ah, you know like wake up late and and and and start my work also so it's more relaxing also but also you know also is quite boring lah because everyday like stuck at home also it's really quite boring right


, !aiyoyo!, (hmm)


, oh


, ya


ya, ya that's why


it's also very like you know it's also like a like a it's also like a really huge waste of time lah and then also like you know if like you know sit down all day at home and you know using it like just you know like browsing through Facebook or even YouTube ah like you know sometimes because


for the for the past uh you know three months I'm also like you know working from home and all that you see then like this if if if I if like I if I keep on like you know like sometimes because I also like you know after work or even like you know during my off days all I just you know like ah browse through Facebook YouTube all


the data really gets uh gets ah, uh run out easily you know because actually I only have ten gigabyte then I before the quarantine I don't even I usually I don't even err err use up like you know five gigabytes but then, now like I using like you know like fifteen twenty gigabyte and then I paying extra lah so that's why it's like really my kids also sometimes they like you know take my phone and use ah then it it then they they really is you know so like you know like err spend all my internet you know then


I I'm so like you know shocked because sometimes you know although I have home wifi right the wifi system that I have is actually really slow and laggy so usually I use the, I use you know the the mobile data ah so ah you know now I'm I like you know like pay like two hundred three three hundred plus for my internet you know


ya, , ya I also don't know I was also like shocked you know every month the bill comes ah I'm I'm I'm really scared I'm like


you know like even like scared to open it you know how much would I have spent and all that, because err that that's why my my husband also like scold me you know why are you so much because he's, he's not really like an internet savvy person he don't really like to you know he doesn't even actually have a Facebook account I'd I don't know why also lah then he also likes you know scold me you know like how come I using so much and then I'm I'm just you know wasting my money you see you knows that that's why lah and then I'm trying to I'm trying to you know


err err using stop using so much of internet lah because


ah <tamil>எப்போதும் வந்து:eppoothum vandthu</tamil> TV <tamil>பார்த்துக்கிட்டே இல்லாட்டி வந்து இப்போ எல்லோருக்கும் வந்து எல்லா:paarththukkitdee illaatdi vandthu ippoo ellaarukkum vandthu ella</tamil> helpers <tamil>க்கு வந்து அந்த:kku vanthu antha</tamil> phone <tamil>வேற வந்து இருக்கு முந்திலா வந்து அந்த மாதிரி இல்லை பாருங்க:veera vandthu irukku munthilaa vandthu andtha maathiri illai paarungka</tamil> so <tamil>அது வேற வந்து இந்த:athu veera vandthu indtha</tamil> internet <tamil>வேற வந்து:veera vandthu</tamil> use <tamil>பண்ணிகிட்டேயே இருக்குங்க வேலை சேயும் போது:pannikkitdeeyee irukkungka veelai seyyum poothu</tamil> so


oh,


(mmhmm), oh, oh god


, oh, oh oh dear


oh


, !huh! really ah, oh dear


oh, ya that's why, ya that's why lah you know those like additional headache lah they all like so scary eh in your case


ah okay so <tamil>வந்து அதான் இப்போ நான் வந்து:vandthu athaan ippoo naan vandthu</tamil> uh <tamil>நானும் வந்து எனக்கு வந்து என்னம்மோ வந்து:naanum vanthu enakku vandthu enammoo vandthu</tamil> ah


okay can okay thanks bye bye bye


start Liao lor start Liao lor, hello <P2>vivian</P2> can you hear me clearly or not, eh you must you must make sure that you can hear me you know because if you cannot hear me ah then I also cannot hear


can hear ah


what is that !huh!, making <mandarin>一个很大的被:yi ge hen da de bei</mandarin> you mean blanket ah, [orh] handmade or what you use machine to make ah so special one got got got this kind of thing one meh


so paid one ah, who want to do for free got so free Bo ya


tomorrow I'm going back to salon leh I go back to salon to work ah the <mandarin>老板娘:lao ban niang</mandarin> lady boss say !aiya! now the salon very busy but then the staff come back already still ask me to go back to work, sure or not I think they I think they ask me go back ah just make use of me only leh you know or not I got tell you or not


ya I'm I'm doing like like those like those things ah like they very very lazy to do one ah then I and go like shampooing lah the blow dry lah this kind of thing like need a lot of effort one


ah, okay lah get paid lah but Sian lor recently very Sian eh recently very Sian that's why I go and do all sort of things


yeah, ah, yeah


!huh! everyday forty fifty cannot lah


at least ah minimum ah <mandarin>最少:zui shao</mandarin> ya, so now you're at home ah, then you got Nua whole day or not or you got go out keep raining leh !walao! I want to go run ah want to go to do do workout ah workout at home only lah want to go run one leh then keep raining then the floor like #dam dam ah neh kuan# how to run


you know got once got once got once I fall down in front of a bus stop eh like like few months ago ya really


ya I fall down you know how I I actually I finished running already and then you know after you finish running you feel like like you want to like still jog a bit [right] then after that I tripped over the drain and then fall down luckily no one see


ah , someone wearing the mask mah so no one can see even people see me ah they cannot <mandarin>认得我:ren de wo</mandarin> like cannot recognize me ah


, actually do nothing also quite quite tiring hor, I do nothing hor more tiring eh ah


and then yesterday I couldn't sleep because this morning I'm having my uh I went to the to take my bike theory lesson quite no exciting ah because I expected ah


I go to the lesson [orh] is the basic theory lesson [orh] which is the same same same [orh] all the #sama sama# one [orh] like the the one I took when I take my when I got my car license is the same lesson then I don't know I go and do the same lesson for what ya same lesson so is repeated lor


is doing the is is the same lesson [orh] no no different the lesson which I did like five years ago, ah same thing [orh] but you pay pay pay pay money again [orh] then I ask them leh eh this one I take before already behind mah last last five years ago I already pass already mah then why need to take again they said it's like that lor because you pass already hor then five years already they think you forget mah they <mandarin>怕你忘记:pa ni wang ji</mandarin> scared you forget ah scared you like you know uh need to refresh lah then ok lor


ya is <mandarin>这样的:zhe yang de</mandarin> is <mandarin>这样的:zhe yang de</mandarin> ya is <mandarin>这样的:zhe yang de</mandarin> so those people that just pass recently ah they go back ah I think like like more than one year you need to take again already, it's just a theory only leh it's not even the practical I go for the theory only the theory lesson only ya


and then after that I come back home go and eat chop chop chop up go and eat at the the <mandarin>巴刹:ba sha</mandarin> there actually my house <mandarin>巴刹:ba sha</mandarin> there quite a lot of good food leh one day you must come and try it, !aiyo! you know me so long already you still ask where am I staying you you no <mandarin>没有心:mei you xin</mandarin> leh you you no heart one leh


you know Jurong is very big or not you know how big is Jurong


ya #chinese garden# the <mandarin>中国花园:zhong guo hua yuan</mandarin> there then my one is the what they call that the <mandarin>裕华:yu hua</mandarin> market


!huh! really meh you don't eat pork one meh <mandarin>没有吃猪肉的:mei you chi zhu rou de</mandarin> meh !huh! since when I thought you eat everything


you choose not to eat lah oh ya ya ya ya ya ya okay okay, !wah! okay okay eat outside also cannot <mandarin>偷吃偷吃:tou chi tou chi</mandarin> #tao jiak tao jiak#, #eh sai buay#


!huh! #tao jiak# lah <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> but <mandarin>你是不喜欢吃:ni shi bu xi huan chi</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>你会不会觉得说:ni hui bu hui jue de shuo</mandarin> like err <mandarin>你吃了:ni chi #liao#</mandarin>then <mandarin>你会内疚:ni hui nei jiu</mandarin> you feel guilty or not, not not guilty lah just that you have your stand lah something like that [right]


that when is the last time you ate pork, can recall or not


[orh] but that one is the the the the the the wanton mee [right] it's not the pork is nice is the noodle just the noodle only sometime people eat one wanton mee [right] they go for the char siew or the wanton [right] but the particular shop [right] is called the you go and google lah very famous one almost forty years there already


ya is the noodle is the noodle I tell you the noodle is so chewy and then <mandarin>很有弹性:hen you tan xing</mandarin> and then when you eat ah it will not stick in between your teeth one eh not like other noodle like that then also the #la jiu# the <mandarin>辣椒:la jiao</mandarin> chilli is most most important ah I think


I think for for us ah I think for us ah a lot of people eat ah they eat food ah because of the chilli eh is the chilli that compromise the food not the food that compromise the chilli, ya then then eat other thing lor you come you eat the the Zhouk also can you know the Zhouk for the the teochew one teochew one ah no no don't have one is fish one


sliced fish one ah also nice sliced fish one the Zhouk [orh] ya or you like #dim sum# you tell me before you like #dim sum# [right] ya #dim sum is the my house here the coffeeshop ah (ppc) <mandarin>那个叫什么那个叫:na ge jiao shen me na ge jiao</mandarin> err err the #tiong bahru# is not #tiong bahru# lah is my house here but the the <mandarin>招牌:zhao pai</mandarin> [right] the signboard is #tiong bahru# Pau


ah #tiong bahru# Pau also very famous one then morning ah you need to go down very early if you go down like eleven ah then most of the the food ah <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> item hor <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> menu <mandarin>差不多有:cha bu duo you</mandarin> like <mandarin>五十五十种不同的点心:wu shi wu shi zhong bu tong de dian xin</mandarin> hor ah #dim sum# la <mandarin>不同的那个那个那个:bu tong de na ge na ge na ge</mandarin> #dim sum# hor so by eleven !huh!


only left like the the Pau only the rest all will finish one so need to go like very early they start as early as like, err I remember you know why once I went to clubbing mah last time then I came back like uh four AM then four thirty ah we go and eat open already eh


four thirty AM open already, hello ya, AM ya ya ya really


eh !wah! only professional will know how to say <mandarin>凤脚:feng jiao</mandarin> leh people will <mandarin>凤爪:feng zhao</mandarin> ha <mandarin>凤爪:feng zhao</mandarin> ha <mandarin>凤爪:feng zhao</mandarin> [right] ya normally people will say <mandarin>鸡脚:ji jiao</mandarin> one


ya <mandarin>他他腌的很很好吃:ta ta yan de hen hen hao chi</mandarin> ya <mandarin>流口水了:liu kou shui liao</mandarin> [right]


early bird catch the worms mah


<mandarin>有一首歌这不是歌来的:you yi shou ge zhe bu shi ge lai de</mandarin> it's just a quote


and then it is a song ah or what, really meh !wah!


what is that your kitten [orh], you come again the sound you come again make the sound again ahead you folding something ah


what you doing what your money box, !wah! #ah neh wu lui# ah money box leh


!wah! one for five dollars ah, quite quite expensive leh your coconut <mandarin>怎么这么贵的一粒椰子外面买:zen me zhe me gui de yi li ye zi wai mian mai</mandarin> hor at most one dollar fifty cent only how big is your coconut !huh!


pudding ah inside got pudding one ah, ah coconut juice


how to make coconut juice is coconut water what the the coconut inside got water #wu zui# eh mah is water what, ah okay and then then


ah, but I, ah but I tell you coconut is #heng suay# one eh because I always buy the coconut to drink because very hot mah then I want to <mandarin>吃了:chi liao</mandarin> hor I want to drink already like like like <mandarin>喝了很凉这样:he liao hen liang zhe yang</mandarin> [orh] then some coconut hor you see outside like very big [right] then once you open up [right] the water [right] is like sourish one then never mind then the the flesh [right] very tough you try to use the metal spoon ha to dig ah


to scoop ha to Orh hor also cannot Orh one leh then you end up don't know have the flesh to eat then the water also sourish one I don't know why the water would turn sourish eh is it rainwater or what because coconut is collect rainwater one mah, I think it's the <mandarin>雨水:yu shui</mandarin> the <mandarin>雨水:yu shui</mandarin> hor they they because coconut on tree ah then they the collect the <mandarin>雨水:yu shui</mandarin> too much hor then evaporate or something chemical reaction ah should be like that you never drink like sourish coconut water before meh I bet you have lah


no no no it's not spoil is is some coconut water they they have this sourish taste one which is I don't like I like the like very mild like sweet taste one, maybe they put sugar lah I think they put !huh!


the coconut is it the the the small one white colour one is it or is it the green one with the skin one, ah the like the thai coconut like that lah like <mandarin>那个那个泰国的香野这样:na ge na ge tai guo de xiang ye zhe yang</mandarin> ah something like that lah


[orh] <mandarin>泰国香野:tai guo xiang ye</mandarin> okay, <mandarin>香爷爷:xiang ye ye</mandarin>


lucky is <mandarin>香爷爷不是臭爷爷:xiang ye ye bu shi chou ye ye</mandarin> ah, majority of the time is hard


okay then got pudding ah pudding, ha, then you keep in fridge ah you keep you eat when it is chilled lah


why leh is not no need to keep frozen one mah it ya it will spoil lah if you never put inside fridge, #yi eh chao sng# eh #chao sng# eh you know #chao sng# you know what is #chao sng#


[orh] [orh], so how how you sold five, eh you sold six ah


!wah!, leh fifty ah !wah!


!aiya! just now never tell me I go and <mandarin>搬:ban</mandarin> the <mandarin>货:huo</mandarin> just now I go and help my friend do the barbecue equipment I so hot you know sweating all over and then I'm I'm I'm having a temptation to buy coconut and then I buy the the the the packet one you know the packet one the what fresh coconut or something like that


then got the pulps pub what is that what is that call the pulps ah pulps inside got the the flesh one ya pulp pulp [right], no it's not flesh the word is call what P U L P or or something like that what is that


pulp no everytime when you when you see the the the fresh juice advertisement ah then they will say it comes with real fruits what the the word you you know what I'm talking about


!huh! pulp [right] pulp pulp, really meh ya that that thing lah then I I eat !ee! not nice one hard hard one hard hard one eat until my my jaw very pain because still need to bite mah


ya lor I think I I think I a lot of complain I don't know why I feel like very #pek cek# eh recently


!walaoeh! like like <mandarin>你忽然间觉得哇全世界都对不起我:ni hu ran jian jue de wa quan shi jie dou dui bu qi wo</mandarin> like the whole whole world own you like that you got this kind of feeling or not then you blame on any shit ah any any small thing that happened ah then you blame blame it blame blame it on the thing or the the the person but you don't blame on yourself one <mandarin>没有这种感觉过:mei you zhe zhong gan jue guo</mandarin> meh <mandarin>我每次有这种感觉:wo mei ci you zhe zhong gan jue</mandarin> leh I think it's not good leh


ah, but if you wake up wake up unwillingly eh like you you being forced to wake up that kind of wake up eh


#du lan# [right] like like very #gao wei#, I got tell you before [right] my mum hor always like to wake me up [orh] like I I'm a a light sleeper lah like <mandarin>我很难睡着的:wo hen nan shui zhao de</mandarin> like if very hot hor <mandarin>很热:hen re</mandarin> hor very hot [right] the weather hot [right] cannot sleep and then if the bedsheet ah more than one week never change [orh] also cannot sleep


then if I got I got work tomorrow very early lah let's say like today I I'm supposed to wake up wake up at seven thirty mah <mandarin>七点半要起床:qi dian ban yao qi chuang</mandarin> I know tomorrow I need to wake up very early I also cannot sleep under pressure then hor, then hor !wah! my mum hor !huh!


but but I kind of like like this word leh <mandarin>我觉得在很像很顺:wo jue de zai hen xiang hen shun</mandarin> very smooth <mandarin>很顺口很好讲:hen shun kou hen hao jiang</mandarin> leh like like !wah! very shaggy, shaggy means means like you're tired until like like no words can explain


no shag shag is shag is you you still can tolerate one the tolerance level is still like maybe eighty per cent only shaggy then she she always will say this word [right] shaggy max


shaggy <mandarin>就是很像哦:jiu shi hen xiang o</mandarin> like [orh] <mandarin>你已经是不行了完全是累到不能再累了:ni yi jing shi bu xing liao wan quan shi lei dao bu neng zai lei liao</mandarin> like like <mandarin>我我不可以我只是:wo wo bu ke yi wo zhi shi</mandarin> like


non non not important one <mandarin>不重要的问题:bu zhong yao de wen ti</mandarin> like she can come in the middle of the night [orh] then I finally fall asleep already then she will shout eh


why can't she wait until tomorrow morning, ya then then she ask me the question [orh] is like <mandarin>我不会回答的我也我怎么回答她这个问题:wo bu hui hui da de wo ye wo zen me hui da ta zhe ge wen ti</mandarin> because <mandarin>你都不懂这个人是谁了:ni dou bu dong zhe ge ren shi shei le</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个号码:na ge hao ma</mandarin> the number [right]


I also don't know the number don't come with any name or err even caller ID cannot recognize then you ask me you think I'm god meh then err wake me up because of this thing, and is not like one time two time eh ah


no what you you search the dictionary ah


no they they they give you examples lah of how to use the words shaggy how to spell spell the word out <mandarin>怎样:zen yang</mandarin> spelling spelling, S H A G G ya ya shaggy [orh],


but shaggy sounds like


a bit what broken, a bit Cui Cui, you know Cui [right] Cui Cui actually is a army army term of like broken or like cannot make it CMI thing ah like that then they call it Cui ya they call it Cui


ya, anyway talking about army I'm going back to reservist october, what again every year have to go back one like I just go like that you talk until like I just go back like that


ya, ya but this time round ah my IPPT really Cui really cannot make it, you think I can get gold meh you look at my face <mandarin>你看我的脸你看我的肚子你看我的肚子:ni kan wo de lian ni kan wo de du zi ni kan wo de du zi</mandarin> look at my tummy I where got don't have tummy


no really got tummy one I got tummy because beer I drink beer beer got tummy one and then I like to eat like like supper supper


!huh!, ha, it will also make you fat because of the gas gas <mandarin>你不要跟我讲啤酒没有气哪里可能啤酒没有气啤酒没有气就不叫啤酒了:ni bu yao gen wo jiang pi jiu mei you qi na li ke neng pi jiu mei you qi pi jiu mei you qi jiu bu jiao pi jiu liao</mandarin> ya


because so cheap [right] seventy two dollars for twenty four bottles


how many ML, ah okay lah standard lah, bone density is what


ah okay so so so so <mandarin>现在我要考你啊:xian zai wo yao kao ni a</mandarin> <P2>vivian</P2> you read out the whole description ha the just now you say the what <mandarin>骨质:gu zhi</mandarin> ah the flavoring no additive, eh what eh what what is that the the no additional colouring flavoring all these [right] you read out the whole thing in mandarin go


no I'm not crazy really


okay you you you you you say then I try try see I can or not <mandarin>我试看啊:wo shi kan a</mandarin> see ha see ha


ah, craft ah craft ah actually craft craft craft ah means like craft is a adjective leh so in mandarin ah


[orh] okay


ah ah [orh] [orh] you mean it it it brew in in like they manufacture not manufacture lah they they they they brew it in like small batches so that the quality will be good consistent


right, what is mop and hops mop <mandarin>是那个拖拖拖拖把我懂:shi na ge tuo tuo tuo tuo ba wo dong</mandarin> mop what is mop


M [orh] [orh] [orh] okay okay ah okay okay


ya ya you know how I know this because I host the the the what thing the the nutri g thing ah, neutri g not neutrogen neutri g milo


eh no I not joking with you <mandarin>为什么要跟你开玩笑我:wei shen me yao gen ni kai wan xiao wo</mandarin> #gong zhen de gong zhen# eh


got <mandarin>有小小麦:you xiao xiao mai</mandarin> lor


ah !hannor! <mandarin>很久没有讲过了:hen jiu mei you jiang guo liao</mandarin> lor [orh]


!wah! !wah!, !wah!


what is the flavour what is the flavour what flavours, I like I like dark beer a lot I always go for dark beer


okay, eh don't tempt me leh, !wah! ya actually I also want to talk to you about the talk hor


!wah! good good good salesman leh you see over the call already selling me already !walao! I go there cannot escape already lor, the beer ah <P2>vivian</P2> <P2>vivian</P2> <mandarin>这个啤酒:zhe ge pi jiu</mandarin> [orh] is a beer the beer you can you can promote until like it is a supplement like that


good for the bones lah what healthy to your joint lah promote, what uh less uh less risk of getting uh diabetes lah all these sounds like supplement like that but you're promoting beer


ah this one I know this one I hear before


but <mandarin>凡是什么东西:fan shi shen me dong xi</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>太多:tai duo</mandarin> is too too much is no good also, antioxidant ah also have ah !wah!


(ooh) (ooh), so Shiok, so Shiok


and three dollar one bottle, , ah !aiya! everytime you #gai siau# me the Lobang also good one


some people never share one [orh] some people they keep to themselves one leh


like like after he get already hor then he tell you eh I I buy this at how much got promotion ah this and that and then I say why you never tell me when the promotion is on then he keep quiet quite selfish eh <mandarin>这种人:zhe zhong ren</mandarin> hor, never share one then next time I got do good thing also never share again only the bad things I share with him


ya ya, , what thing quite fun, ya


but how can I how can I finish so much oranges it will turn bad what it will spoil what


juicing, yah, all all around singapore I know the machine I got see before, ah


[orh], ha then the oranges is take out from the machine one ah or or fresh one


no because they put inside the machine of course can last for one month lah the machine sure got some special function <mandarin>有什么功能:you shen me gong neng</mandarin> can last longer one, ha


no lah you you you no lah my pattern ah you should know one mah <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> pattern I won't keep one lah I will buy and resell , eh my my my


ah my, ya ya ya my mom also said this eh you see the oranges ah you don't choose those like very smooth one ah the skin ah means sour one eh you must choose the the skin like #jiao jiao# one the #jiao jiao# hor and then do you know what is #jiao jiao# #jiao jiao# is like like got wrinkles one got wrinkles one wrinkles one [orh] ah #jiao jiao# one [orh] then like


like very err what's the word to use ah very uh the skin very thick one not thin one when you tear out the skin ah you see the skin thick hor then #jiao jiao# hor then not smooth one !wah! that is the most sweetest one, this is how you pick orange you know


ah eh I can do this eh I buy hor then I go to the market resell lah because my <mandarin>脸皮:lian pi</mandarin> also very <mandarin>厚:hou</mandarin> one mah, like the like the african <mandarin>犀牛:xi niu</mandarin> like that you know the the <mandarin>犀牛:xi niu</mandarin> ya the <mandarin>脸皮:lian pi</mandarin> very no need to drive I just bring the whole box there and then Lelong can already fast fast sell fast fast go lah


no I just my downstairs there only mah at the void deck you dare or not ah, uh sell five for


five big one [right] quite big one [right], because it's supposed to be big mah if not how to squeeze the juice [right], so it how big like like okay can you take a ball to #agar agar# #agar agar# tell me #agar agar# #agar agar# how big #agar agar# how big like like uh like like bowling ball like that


, no tennis ball is very small eh not not big leh, orange, oranges will be bigger than tennis ball see see who can think of a ball


that can match with orange, no I won't know what I cannot see how how the oranges look like inside the machine you think what I I got the laser eyes ah can see through ah


!huh!


replenish ha


ha, ooh, the orange is cold, ah ha


eh my house downstair got one eh tomorrow I go and try really ah because I go and buy the fresh one ah three dollar fifty cent got ice one, really ah


I also don't know what I'm doing, !wah!, thirty eight minutes only, eh same same as me leh #sama sama sama sama# summer summer


ya already talk for, I feel like everything you also say fresh <P2>vivian</P2> I think you can be ambassadors for all these machines already leh


!huh! you tried before the salmon ah machine one eh, ha, that's why ah these kind of thing ah I need to find friend like you to to to be the white rat you know white rat is what


what we mean in chinese ah <mandarin>就是白老鼠白老鼠就是那种:jiu shi bai lao shu bai lao shu jiu shi na zhong</mandarin> like you know they test you know in in ya experiment in in those medical ah then they put the white rat to, to try the medicine and all these [right] then we call <mandarin>白老鼠叫白白老鼠来试看就可以了:bai lao shu jiao bai bai lao shu lai shi kan jiu ke yi le</mandarin> ya


but is good lah at least you do like that ah everything you try here and there mah better than me everything go and spend expensive money end up ah the the product is the same or even like even lower quality and then I pay more


three fifty is with ice somemore ah, ya and then the ice is like half cup ah, oh, ya


!aiya! now already august already leh you know or not few more days only leh, august already leh <P2>vivian</P2> august eh you know how many months already or not, eight months already leh eight months already leh, normally during this month ah !wah! very busy you know national day <mandarin>国庆日:guo qing ri</mandarin> [right] ya normally during this month ah I need to go and remember the pledge because everytime do the hosting need need to say pledge and then it


can forget one actually I only remember the first two sentence only , sometimes I forget and then sometimes the word like mispronounced so I need practice like the the the the the the


ya like the CNY [right] CNY I still remember that one okay that time you teach me until now I can say for you to listen the ten verse


ya this one I forever can remember you know that time you tell me this [right] it was so good that the the client [right] and the customer was so shocked that I can say all these ten verse at once ah without even you know stopping you know they were so surprised !wah! this guy come with really prepared to to come you know prepared already to come !wah! have to thank you you leh


say wrong thing, every everything got the number one mah then she will try to say a <mandarin>成语:cheng yu</mandarin> what like <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> if if six one ah then she will say <mandarin>六六大顺:liu liu da shun</mandarin> ah then if if if nine ah


ya you see she [orh] she ya ya ya she told me she taking some online thing lah !aiya! online ah skillsfuture skillsfuture you know the one can reimbursed one ya


I don't know leh she's been taking so many courses eh until I I I I also lazy to ask her already because you know she's doing this kind of thing !huh! no need to pay no is err you can use your skillsfuture credit lah because now we got one thousand dollar mah


two nine eight meh two nine eight is okay mah so you can go for like three to four courses


I went for that one is four five zero leh more expensive ya, ya eh eh you also know ah <mandarin>你也知道啊:ni ye zhi dao a</mandarin> surprised that you also know eh


that one ah I don't you know the first lesson she teach us what or not she teach us out to breathe, breathe in and breathe out how to ya breathing is important lah but ya this kind of thing anyone can teach one mah it's not like something that need to be skilful to teach I can also teach people how to breathe in and breathe out what


breathe in and then hold your breath for five to six seconds or as long as you can hold your breath don't breathe out and then slowly


ya have eh how you know ya ya ya got


okay lah actually I I I feel that I got learn something lah but I think it's also pretty a bit on the high side !huh!, second class starts start to teach the err hosting already lor so we do the the live demonstration lor she demo one time and then ask us to demo lor talk on the mic she give us the script also lah !huh!


what do you mean by really dare, daring meh you can also teach I think you can teach better than her, [orh] <mandarin>这样是你的意思:zhe yang shi ni de yi si</mandarin> ah this is what you mean ah so now I get it already because just now I catch no ball you know #liak bo kiew# ah catch no ball


ya then [orh] what you mean I I now I know already ya, oh no lah really meh I thought her interaction was very good one eh


because once [orh] I hosted for her [orh] and then she say oh you're no good err you know you got a lot of things need to improve then I accept lah because of course she she's my so ah teacher lah <mandarin>老师:lao shi</mandarin> mah so then she said oh one day you come down I will host for twenty minutes and then you will see


and then also very big action [orh] when she talk the hand must wave here wave there and then must <mandarin>叉腰:cha yao</mandarin> you know like she talk she like to <mandarin>叉腰叉腰:cha yao cha yao</mandarin> the hand on the hips [orh], ya like <mandarin>叉腰:cha yao</mandarin> suddenly out of nowhere then after that


no one hand one hand <mandarin>叉腰:cha yao</mandarin> and one hand holding the mic, ya she said you need to know how to <mandarin>她讲:ta jiang</mandarin> you need to know how to how to portray yourself so that you know anytime you look presentable anytime you will be looking err looking nice on camera you know you won't be like like a you won't be ah ah


so that you won't be like a <mandarin>木头:mu tou</mandarin> you know <mandarin>木头:mu tou</mandarin> like <mandarin>木头:mu tou</mandarin> is err called what like like block like that ah, she said try try to uh put in more emotion [wor] more emotions when you talk you need to put in emotions like story storytelling like that lah storytelling like that ah


ya this is one thing I respected lah her lah like <mandarin>什么东西都可以什么东西都可以:shen me dong xi dou ke yi shen me dong xi dou ke yi</mandarin> I think she think she is best


, never mind lah, she already she's a past tense already past tense


a bit #siao siao# like that hor, a bit #siao siao# and then she like to #tay gong tay siao# also, haha I I found one more person that that is in the same shoes as us already so now is three versus one ya and then more coming up ya


eh one guy lah junior emcee you don't know one lah also own payment, no lah not ten dollars one lah the ten dollars one already don't have already ten dollars one I I don't think she even give ah


ten dollars one like !huh!


[orh] he is complaining ah or or or what he's like telling everyone he is doing the hosting


[orh] [orh] okay okay okay ah, okay


ah, a lot of what a lot of what a lot of what strength ah [orh] he mean protein ah he mean protein will give you strength ah but he straight away use the word milo gives me a lot of strength okay


ah, !aiyo! for goodness sake even if it is the case then you only paying people ten dollars that is the standard you are expecting what then you just pay and then move on [loh] you you like that don't want pay then make people a laughing stock you know


right, is obvious what this is like a normal person what just talking as a normal person what is not professionally trained or what then you ask people to work !walao! eh this one I really don't know what to say until people ya until people post here post there and then !wah! still don't want to change over a new leaf


change over a new leaf also can my style of talking can or not <mandarin>我就是这样子讲的那个叶子:wo jiu shi zhe yang zi jiang de na ge ye zi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他的叶子:ta de ye zi</mandarin> hor because <mandarin>有一面叶子:you yi mian ye zi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>已经臭了嘛:yi jing chou liao ma</mandarin> so <mandarin>另外一面叶子:ling wai yi mian ye zi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>还是新鲜的:hai shi xin xian de</mandarin> so <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> just turn over eh ya correct lah turnover


ya not change change is throw away then take a new leaf I think she need to change ah because both sides also rotten ya so <mandarin>不可以他:bu ke yi ta</mandarin> turn over no matter how she turn like #roti prata# like that flip here flip there is the same one


ah ah my sister ah she got what, eh she never tell you meh, ha


oh because I think she also need to pay a lot of things ah so even if she get ah I think also Buang ah you know Buang also everything need to pay lah but at least for her to Tahan, to Tahan for some time, ya better than nothing ah I also helped my dad to get what


initially my dad couldn't get, and then I go and appeal I go and make appointment, then I go there and and and you know, in chinese we in hokkien we call this err KPKB ah ya I don't want to say out the word KPKB you know KPKB ah #kao pei kao bu# then because the person don't want to serve me leh because I I went there ha full of like uncles ah those like <mandarin>老:lao</mandarin> #kok kok# one ah the uncles like seventy years old those private hire car car err drive grab one ah then they go there and appeal mah then the the staff ah keep entertaining them eh keep talk to them because they also very


loud mah then they try to calm then calm them down lah then I am there like for one hour ah then they think like [orh] this <mandarin>小弟弟:xiao di di</mandarin> you know like not no no one lah no need to entertain him one then who knows I <mandarin>发飙:fa biao</mandarin> you know I like talk like very loud I say is there any one that can help me now and then and then


everyone look over here ah and then after that uh someone came and talked to me and then after that ah I sort out things there leh straight away, then after three weeks ah received already because you do online ah very <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> eh very Leceh eh and then is like a guessing game eh, ya it's like a guessing game you go there then straight away they tell you lah you lack of this document lack of that document then err they they tell you lah what to submit ah


ah what to show what to prove your document [orh] all this and that, ya my dad so happy now


ya la about there la, ya ya about ya ya about there lah (ppc) so no lah could have could have been been worse lah but see how lor for him I told him lah if if die die cannot do F&B but because he only know how to do F&B mah then cannot go and work other job also


my dad ah hawker lor tell you before already mah he sell the #bak chor mee# laksa, ah ya #lor mee# you know #lor mee# you like #lor mee# the <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> Chap one #wu chap# one you know #chap chap# no you can ask without pork pork is just the <mandarin>烧肉:shao rou</mandarin> only but sometime the <mandarin>烧肉:shao rou</mandarin> not fresh then he replace with the what's that call the


but #lor mee# is a lot of <mandarin>功:gong</mandarin> you know


a lot of <mandarin>功:gong</mandarin> you need to prepare, can lah just special especially for you lah halal one but the oil is the what oil leh he using the ya because got use the


do you know what is the <mandarin>猪油渣:zhu you zha</mandarin> ya ya ya ya pork lard ya, but I tell you one thing [orh]


no #bak chor mee# doesn't work this way <P2>vivian</P2> you cannot like it's not like the the no is not like the #yong tau hu# like that you can pack the sauce chilli and ketchup separately one the #bak chor mee# ah because (ppc) you need to cook the


ah after you cook the noodle [right] you need to mix with the sauce if not if you wait for awhile to mix ah then the <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> after you <mandarin>打包:da bao</mandarin> you bring home ah the <mandarin>面:mian</mandarin> will evaporate then become Pong hor Pong already [right] then you try to mix with the sauce ah the sauce cannot absorb inside the noodle already ah


the logic is like that one, that's why lor you see you see want to eat one noodle ah we we already talk about this a lot of people don't want <mandarin>打包:da bao</mandarin> noodle one


NTU you mean the school ah, the school people ask the grab driver go and deliver to their house ah, ha


[orh] okay okay I heard before yeah yeah because last time I work at the NTU starbucks there I think I try before leh, okay only leh <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> leh, so so leh so so so so only, ha so so only leh I think the best #bak chor mee# is the fifty nine the Bedok one but now I think also


standard dropping already ya, ya so my dad, other than cooking he cannot do anything also old already lah then I tell him like see how lor if the next few months ah business still CMI [right] then go and work for people lor because got the skill mah ya I go and do


now how to do one week !huh!, what group buy, you mean do a group chat and then ask people to buy ah


ah, , I know that one that one for the last few months ah before facebook ah workable but now really not so much already because people can go out and eat already mah


and then the I got tell you [right] because his his area ha the (ppc) the coffeeshop [orh], also not very convenient because opposite ah now err during the renovation for the new BTO and then people want to cross over ah is like got a lot of blockage ah then <mandarin>不方便:bu fang bian</mandarin> hor then #zhor deng# <mandarin>顶来顶去这样:ding lai ding qu zhe yang</mandarin> then


ya like, parking also don't have leh they tear down the whole parking lot leh,


need to think of idea lor that's why these few months I've been helping him lah think of idea that time I do the donation also not much ah a few hundred dollars but okay at at least help him to get by a few days,


ya ya ya no no not free is err err what what you call that is uh the they will absorb ah fifty percent lah, not totally free lah


that is market <P2>vivian</P2> that is market that's hawker centre for him is a coffee shop because the coffee shop got one owner the owner got rebates from the, err government that's why ah no no not not hawker centre but I help him to get the GSS everything also mah job support scheme so he can pay his worker


and then now I help him to finally now the worker wash dish only mah wash the bowl only mah then now I err finally uh he got the QR scan already so happy for him just few weeks ago I set up for him already no three hundred dollar <P2>vivian</P2> <mandarin>三百块每个月:san bai kuai mei ge yue</mandarin> for for five months


yes so very easy you just set up the QR code ah you you just make appointment with nets [right] e nets [right] and then they go to your store to set up the QR code there, so very simple straightforward no need to have the machine or terminals or whatsoever hor <mandarin>不用的他:bu yong de ta</mandarin> just paste <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> sticker <mandarin>在你的:zai ni de</mandarin> store <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> hor then when people come and pay [right] they can pay using paylah lah grabpay lah uh err all these whatsoever this uh what what you call that the uh


err what what payment ah like no need to, err no need to, pay cash one lah ah cashless ah cashless payment lah and then ha the criteria is very simple leh one month ah, only need twenty transaction ah minimum confirm have one mah one day one person pay by one one person pay by using the paylah can already mah if not then then ask the office crowd people anyone they can pay one mah then you hit ah one month three hundred dollars for five months until october


ah that time I ask him to do hor then he say <mandarin>不要啦很麻烦等下这个那个我不会:bu yao la hen ma fan deng xia zhe ge na ge wo bu hui</mandarin> then now do already ah he say eh <mandarin>很容易:hen rong yi</mandarin> leh <mandarin>哇早知道我早一点做这个很方便:wa zao zhi dao wo zao yi dian zuo zhe ge hen fang bian</mandarin> leh <mandarin>我又不用跟顾客收钱有时候手油油:wo you bu yong gen gu ke shou qian you shi hou shou you you</mandarin> hor <mandarin>又很肮脏这样子然后:you hen ang zang zhe yang zi ran hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我有时候这样子:wo you shi hou zhe yang zi</mandarin> uh <mandarin>做的话:zuo de hua</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我手我又可以卖多一点:wo shou wo you ke yi mai duo yi dian</mandarin> leh because <mandarin>我省时间:wo sheng shi jian</mandarin> mah then now he said very good now he very happy


ya now you, if you just I can refer you you just if you got friends ah anyone they want ah no need to be hawker you know like coffee shop also can then if you got that kind of like small restaurant ah the below the HDB that kind [orh] like some sometime they got stall one also can ah must be F&B must sell food one


ah then I give you the person contact hor they do very fast because my my dad the (ppc) beside my dad the stall hor sell the <mandarin>斋米粉:zhai mi fen</mandarin> one hor now haven't set up leh because they don't have a friend to help them do mah then they the government come and do for them ah they will take


long time because now a lot of people want to set up because they they see the money [orh] <mandarin>见钱眼开:jian qian yan kai</mandarin> already mah you know what I mean ah then they !wah! everyone now want already then the next appointment ah must wait until two months later than can do eh then which means to say you Lugi six hundred dollars already leh, ah so the earliest you set up ah the the more money you can get lah


so that one is my friend lah ah so apparently she help me ah very fast ah less than two weeks ah the guy go down and set up already, ya


okay can, I I okay, okay tomorrow I think tomorrow hor I go salon then I think at night first lah then I go to your house drink that one three dollar one, but <mandarin>你不要算我你不要批评你不要算我:ni bu yao suan wo ni bu yao pi ping ni bu yao suan wo</mandarin> lah testing testing lah then after that nice I will buy you know my Seh one lah you know my my my my style one lah hor I like I would buy one ah can ah


ah can lah can lah you say you say treat me you say you want me pay you know I also will pay one lah but you, ya must try try first mah everything ah must try first you try already you like it or not like it then you will know mah


okay I go and I go and #pom pom# shower and then after that I want to Kuns I want to Kun already because tomorrow need to wake up early, bye Sayonara


ah okay okay, yes yes I can hear you very clearly no problem


ya can hear you I can hear you loud and clear no problem, ya, tomorrow I'll be having a meeting at hop station lor then after the meeting at hop station I'll probably be going to the what you call err global mascot then I'll be making <mandarin>一个很大的被咯那个被:yi ge hen da de bei lo na ge bei</mandarin> hor <mandarin>是很特别的:shi hen te bie de</mandarin> patchwork one [orh]


ya lah patchwork blanket, ya lah, !huh! have have lah that one quite interesting and somebody ask us to do it so we do lor


ya lah of course paid one ah hello how can we do free job !aiyo! now the times are so bad already cannot do free lah


good ah that means they like you mah, of course sure lah, why leh do no no are you doing all the shampoo or what


oh then do you get paid for doing all those things ah, then okay what


well small small money become big big money mah


everyday forty fifty at least lor, ya lor, ya ya


no lah,


ya lor !aiya! you don't anyhow run here run there wait you fall down, oh my god, !wah! that's damn dangerous [orh]


how, ah, oh my god


what no lucky you're okay ah what see only, so dangerous, !aiyo! so dangerous my goodness


!aiya! is like so tiring, I think actually do nothing is the most tiring


!wah! so exciting


ah same lesson then, ,


!aiyo!, (mmhmm)


ya what you eat, where are you staying,


no I I I know is Jurong but I don't know Jurong where mah west or east ya lah that's why, !wah! ya ya ya so nice


oh !wah! but I don't eat pork ah


no I very long never eat pork already


no I choose not to eat cause my boyfriend muslim what, how to eat


no leh is just that


ya is a matter of principle [bah], eh in #guang zhou# two years ago #guang zhou# lor


, uh


!wah! !wah!


#la jiu jiang# ah , ya lor ya lor


Zhouk also got pork base what, oh fish ah !wah!, ya I like #dim sum# ya ya ya


oh


!wah!


oh my god


, so early four thirty, !wah! I'm still trying to digest that lor four thirty my gosh I think I still dreaming away lor


ya ya ya ya ya,


[orh], !wah! !wah!, ya la I I miss eating #dim sum# more


but four thirty AM really too early already what, four thirty too early already mah


eh <mandarin>好好像有一首歌:hao hao xiang you yi shou ge</mandarin> hor <mandarin>是这样的:shi zhe yang de</mandarin> leh, I forgot already ah but I remember I remember when we are kids but I remember when we are kids that time hor sure got this <mandarin>早起的鸟吃虫先:zao qi de niao chi chong xian</mandarin> ah


ya ya I remember is like a cute cute song, ya ya ya super cute one super cute, can you hear the sound guess what is that


no guess what is this sound, , no lah I'm shaking my money box shaking my money box !wahseh! got money leh


no ah today I sell six coconut so he pass me thirty dollars, ya lor eh the coconut damn nice eh but is more where got (ppc) where got so cheap this one hor is a coconut pudding so how they make the coconut ya ya is is very very special


so this chef err created this err coconut pudding using only coconut juice so the coconut juice ya, ya lah they call it coconut juice lah is coconut water lah


and then hor he put this seaweed err #agar agar# powder in together with evaporated milk, and then after that hor it become a pudding lor and then hor inside hor is still the fresh coconut leh so hor when you scoop the pudding hor you can get to eat the coconut flesh also damn damn nice


ah ya heaty [orh], , ah


ah, no no no, !huh! got such thing meh


no lah cannot be lah, that one spoil already you're not supposed to drink that


okay this one this one why is the sweet tasting type and is the thai coconut no no no cannot put sugar, they never put sugar this one is the natural taste of the coconut water because hor if you put sugar


no no no no small white one, ya lah is the <mandarin>泰国香野:tai guo xiang ye</mandarin> lor <mandarin>香野:xiang ye</mandarin> sounds like a you know fragrant daddy fragrant grand dad <mandarin>香爷:xiang ye</mandarin> !hannor!


!anna! eh then [orh] the coconut flesh [orh] is quite nice some sometimes the coconut flesh is a bit hard but most of the time [orh] they got the soft soft one, no lah I ate five hor only one is hard the rest are okay


ya damn nice that one [orh] you can taste hor is pure coconut with the evaporated milk and #agar agar# only and then it's so soft it wobble wobble very nice ah


no is definitely have to be chilled one what , no no not frozen chill chill, ya lah chill, ya ya no lah it it not supposed to not put in fridge is is food mah is dessert mah so you put in the fridge you can last for five days


this coconut pudding is very special no lah altogether I sold fifty ah last week I also sell fifty this I also sell fifty, ya but this one very low profit lah it's just that I like to eat the coconut so order together got free delivery


!huh! !aiya!, ha ha


, what pulp coconut flesh lor


P U L P is pulp, like orange sacs ah, the S A C orange is orange sac


with pulp [orh] pulp pulp pulp pulp is correct but you don't call that ya but you don't call pulp for coconut, ya


you very funny leh want to eat [orh] must


ah


, no leh


every day I wake I am very happy one I'm like !yay! I'm awake


[orh] ya,


!wah!, cannot sleep <mandarin>喝酒啦:he jiu la</mandarin> , there's no such word that's shaggy lah I don't know how come your sister keep saying the word shaggy I'm like what is shaggy there's no such word I mean there is a word called shaggy but shaggy means a lot of hair


that's why [orh] I was like what is shaggy what does she mean by shaggy so so, okay so what does shaggy mean to you


that's just shagged that is just shagged as S H A G G E D


ya lor that's why I'm like what in the world is shaggy what is shaggy what is she talking about sia


there's no such word,


no I mean <mandarin>不认识就:bu ren shi jiu</mandarin> block mah block and err report lor report and block lor


, <mandarin>你是神仙哦:ni shi shen xian o</mandarin> you know what is shaggy or not shaggy means long messy hair or fur leh


no I mean I know this all along but right now I'm reading from the dictionary one of hair fur et cetera long and messy or having long messy hair of a a huge shaggy white dog the youth shook his shaggy head you know


S H A G G Y lor, ya lah that's shaggy but that doesn't mean you're shagged out until very very shag until very very tired it doesn't mean that that's why I'm like what the what the


then sometimes she like to she want to say something very funny one eh like [orh] the box hor you see the box ah the box hor not very nice ah but never mind ah is okay ah a bit broken a bit broken


I think she say broken or something like that no no she say another word I forgot what is it already, ya but she never say Cui leh she say another word in english


ya CMI can't make it, , again, [orh] no wonder every year every year when you tell me okay lah every year when you tell me lor then I just ah go back <mandarin>当兵:dang bing</mandarin> again ah


eh can get a lot of money one [right] if you get gold, you're slim what


you where got tummy you so skinny !walao! you crazy eh your sister and you [orh] both hor crazy one eh so skinny [orh] keep talking about your very fat I'm like !huh! which part is fat your eye is fat or what


eh talk about beer do you know that hor I got this offer hor seventy two dollars for twenty four bottles of beer leh that means three dollars a bottle only eh this is craft beer craft beer hor got no additives no preservatives so it doesn't make you fat


no no no no different different different


ya ya I drink everyday what, because now so cheap ya lor, okay you see ah err three three o lah you see ah drink craft beer for nutritional value lower the risk of cardiovascular disease improved bone density due to the bone developing elements silicone bone density lor your bone your bone err how dense your bone is so it's not a brittle


ah <mandarin>强壮:qiang zhuang</mandarin> [orh], as in it it won't be so easy for your ya lah


ah


err okay ah see ha, craft beer has nutritional value, ya craft beer


ya lah specially crafted handcrafted beer


ya, yes yes and not only that they put many different types of malt and hops inside


!huh! , malt M A L T, not mop hor <mandarin>不是那个:bu shi na ge</mandarin> err <mandarin>弄干净地上的:nong gan jing di shang de</mandarin> leh


[orh] <mandarin>大麦:da mai</mandarin> and hops hops hops, !whoa! <mandarin>有大有小啊:you da you xiao a</mandarin> <mandarin>大麦小麦:da mai xiao mai</mandarin> don't know you sell beer ah


[orh] neutrogen, (ppc) !huh!, oh <mandarin>大麦跟小麦对:da mai gen xiao mai dui</mandarin> I thought you joking with me


it it reminds me of the <mandarin>经过的路过的别错过大麦小麦什么麦都有:jing guo de lu guo de bie cuo guo da mai xiao mai shen me mai dou you</mandarin>


oh ya anyway it lowers the rates of err cardiovascular disease improved bone density lower risk of joint issues like arthritis increase high density lipoprotein levels which will help to lower cholesterol lower instances of diabetes as well


plus is very tasty lah and uh, every season [orh] there is a craft beer to match every season [orh] so the what what what they do with all the good craft beers [orh] is that it's quite impossible to find a bad one [orh] is all very special one and is fresh they call it fresh beer


they got a lot of flavours okay for example the stout do you like stout ya same lah so hor this (ppc) this one, you have to try this one the knock meal down stout the knock meal down stout hor has chocolate flavours chocolate espresso flavours so when you're drinking it that time you you can smell the chocolate and taste the espresso the coffee is very very nice


come come come come you one person only I don't have five of us here what only asli and I, ya lor you want to come or not I got a lot of stout I I bought one carton you want to buy one carton also or not order this week next week can get


because very good is very worth it is super super super worth it then the other day even better


ya lah eh <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> do you know that stout was actually first created [orh] to to our you know infuse you with vitamin b


ya lor it is a supplement it's meant to be a supplement, ah <mandarin>但是这个:dan shi zhe ge</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你你可以拿很多你可以喝很多:ni ni ke yi na hen duo ni ke yi he hen duo</mandarin> stout is full of antioxidants and stout can neutralise free radicals ya so the benefits of err drinking stout hor is really awesome leh


got antioxidants it gives you strong bones got calcium somemore leh vitamins iron and it's so tasty, ya lor worth it [right] eh I #gai siau# <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> [orh] all of these hor very good lobang one eh don't play play hor


ya lah got good deal must share mah, no they buy already they sell again, ha


ah ya lah


!hanna!, !wah! you also #cek ak# leh super #cek ak#, but okay lah quite fun lah hor


getting all this good deals [orh] I give you another better better deal okay oranges one whole carton of orange [right] one hundred and thirteen oranges twenty KG going for twenty six dollars where can you find


no no no this oranges are special ones these are for juicing you know the juice ya the orange juice machine, ya the orange juice yes yes yes


ha you see before [right] ya that one is err my my friend owns a part of the company lah so he give me this Lobang say hor for the whole month until end of august [right] I can sell his oranges for him, ya


no lah before you put into the machine is inside the box so we buy that box we don't have to buy those inside the machine one , can last no lah it just need to be chilled can already as long as you put it in the fridge [orh] the orange can last for six months this one is australian oranges


ya lah that's why you buy then you resell but eh must tell you first this one [orh] the oranges hor don't look pretty that's why is so cheap the outside the skin not nice looking one


ah ya


wrinkly one ah ya lah,


!wah! I didn't know like that can pick anyway they already pick all the oranges for us we just need to sell only,


eh ya hor you can drive leh, the box very heavy heavy leh twenty KG leh


(ppc) actually good idea leh you sell five oranges for how much, ya ya big big one, ya ya


!huh! I don't know leh <mandarin>你问我多大:ni wen wo duo da</mandarin> crazy one you, no lah more like tennis ball [bah]


bigger than tennis ball more a little bit lah is like you blow it up, ah you you you know how big how you you know how big the oranges are in the machine [right]


can see what can see no no no they they is transparent one can see one


, do you know that the the oranges in the machine is super fresh because ah everyday they almost sell out then they always have to replenish the orange [right] and is only two dollars eh two dollars for one cup they use about four to five oranges eh


, no ice no ice no nothing they squeeze it fresh but it's cold lah because hor the machine is like a is like a fridge mah,


you go and try is called I jooz, ya lor that's why only two dollars, ya what are you doing man


!wah! funny leh I thought hor we talked for one hour already but don't know why is show there only thirty eight minutes leh, oh I think is because [orh] when we call each other earlier we were talking about the other things how to troubleshoot everything


ah ah ah, oh ya ya ya very fresh and then they got the smoked salmon smoked mackerel


machine I like the machine mah, ya ya ya I tried I bought salmon and I bought the smoked salmon and I bought the smoked mackerel also


no lah I Chiong first mah, ya the experimental one ah


my goodness that's crazy ah


ya lor three fifty is more expensive than two dollars what , !walao! this one no ice eh and juice from five oranges no added water no water added, even better [right]


!aiya! my goodness, , can you imagine eight months already


, ya lor national day !aiya!, you can forget one meh


what


Huat ah !wah! you damn good leh you really very very good eh, ah ah prepared


why ah ya everything


ya lor, ya lor that's why I was,


ya ya ya err which one ah which one ah good or not


don't need to pay meh don't need to pay meh


ya ya I got eh I got five hundred plus five hundred, but that one course is like two nine eight leh


ya, oh !wah!, oh that's the emcee course that's so lousy oh my gosh


eh lousy emcee teaching lousy class !aiyo!, no breathing is important


ya lor the technique breathe in


and then breathe out slowly and then did did she ask you to put your hand on your diaphragm, from that one is a standard thing mah all the singers will do that


ya, !huh! is she teaching singing or emceeing


[orh] [orh]


!huh! then the second class what she teach what she teach ah the second class


!wah! she really dare [orh] she really dare hor , she very daring , that's why I'm saying she's very daring cannot teach anyhow teach still dare to charge people so much money


!wah! eh she really not she's not fantastic as a emcee lor I mean she's good for announcements only because her chinese is good but ya other than that I wouldn't use her as a emcee


not really leh, ah ah


that's not a good position what


ya I mean nobody holds like that one what you <mandarin>叉腰:cha yao</mandarin> for what


!wah! she is really very daring lor !aiyo!, I can't imagine why but okay really lah it's like oh my god


it's like OMG, !aiya! she's one crazy person ah, can really do ya can really do this to people I don't understand [orh]


ya, !wah!, oh my god who else


!aiyo! oh my god ten dollars per hour you want to owe people money


, [orh] yeah there was there was this guy on facebook wrote about her also, eh no no no this one was a very long time ago he was complaining that [orh] he already all ready to go down and do a milo roadshow err and he's gonna get paid ten dollars an hour


complaining ah, he is complaining of course lah, she he he is a guy he actually said !wah! I practice the whole night long lah and all these thing then hor you know what he uploaded how he was speaking I was like oh my god it's terrible


he was like you know ah milo hor is very good for health ah because hor milo hor give you hor a lot of strength leh, then I was like strength leh ya


no that's why I'm like err err that doesn't sound right, ya and then after that he was like oh but I don't know why she said I'm not good enough and then she doesn't want to pay me now


ya lor that's why


, no ah quite ridiculous [right]


turn over a new leaf, no lah eh you know how this <mandarin>成语:cheng yu</mandarin> came about a not


ya lor so turn ah is not change over ah


ya lor, eh did you go and do the SEP thing ah did your sister get it did she try to you know appeal


ah ah, oh she managed to get it ah, no leh she never say anything leh I the last time she still say very stress cannot get this cannot get that


ya lah


ya lor today [orh] you manage to get also, ah !wah!, time table ha #kao pei kao bu#


ah,


, !whoa!


!wah! !wah!, !wah!


!wah!, not nine lah seven lah


ya lor january <mandarin>现在是七月而已:xian zai shi qi yue er yi</mandarin> leh


eh what what kind of F&B is he doing uh, ah, !wah! laksa ah


ya but all got pork I cannot eat but laksa I can eat, ya lor ya lah I like #lor mee#


#lor mee# very nice, ya I know but very nice eh if he can make a halal one hor, I think


ya lah pork lard also mah, do you know that the during this this COVID time [orh] all the hawkers they do very well leh with all the takeaway and deliveries eh


no no no you are supposed to <mandarin>打包:da bao</mandarin> with the sauce and the noodle separate mah


#bak chor mee# dry one what dry one is okay what


stick together ah, [orh], then can mix with the sauce [orh] then just ingredients separate lor, eh you know [orh] on


no no no got got got you know the #bak chor mee# err at NTU [orh] so far away [right] so far away [orh] people hor willing to pay ten dollars delivery charge [orh] for five packet of noodles eh


ya the BCM, ya ya ya