ya, actually <mandarin>空的飞机也:kong de fei ji ye</mandarin> still okay because err we can carry cargo lah but <mandarin>如果你现在去:ru guo ni xian zai qu</mandarin> err like airport, like


err


ya actually everyday the numbers like, like it's just numbers to you ah, ya a few hundred <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lor, no I I I follow the the Telegram gov dot SG or <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err Channel News Asia <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> Telegram lor


ya, I, I I I don't purposely, err, if if there's like a headlines then, then <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> send <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> err <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> Telegram ah


oh ya


!wah!, ya lor


I flew SQ two SQ one usually SQ two is err <mandarin>日本:ri ben</mandarin> then go to, then go to uh america but uh we just did the japan err


the japan side, so we flew err, is, Narita


ah, ya err Narita LA LA Narita then Narita sing, so <mandarin>差不多七天到九天:cha bu duo qi tian dao jiu tian</mandarin> lor


uh no err some, captains <mandarin>他们的:ta men de</mandarin> pattern <mandarin>是这样可是:shi zhe yang ke shi</mandarin> for, err us depending on how they plan the manpower, then err <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> err <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> pilots <mandarin>会回去:hui hui qu</mandarin> LAX <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> pilot <mandarin>会飞回去:hui fei hui qu</mandarin> err singapore


ya, will go back err some of them will stay back to fly another flight some of them err <mandarin>回家:hui jia</mandarin> lor


ah san fran <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> err LA lor, ya


err we stay near err the Disneyland there then the second time err closer to, err city centre lor


I think uh, LA <mandarin>也是蛮:ye shi man</mandarin> err <mandarin>也是蛮:ye shi man</mandarin> err <mandarin>肮脏的:ang zang de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> not as bad as san fran


ya ya actually I think it really depends on err <mandarin>你在哪里因为:ni zai na li yin wei</mandarin> err like near our hotel err LA was okay, err, it wasn't city centre it was a more


slightly closer to err the airport lor so, so <mandarin>你要去哪里一定要驾车的:ni yao qu na li yi ding yao jia che de</mandarin> lah like not many things are close by, but it's ya but in central we were like city centre city centre, so <mandarin>真的很多:zhen de hen duo</mandarin> err err homeless lor


both sides of the coin lah, ya, ya, then err <mandarin>很好笑:hen hao xiao</mandarin> because it was my first time in san francisco right so uh the captains and the first and the other first officer


err <mandarin>他们跟我讲:ta men gen wo jiang</mandarin> okay err, we open the map lah then then then <mandarin>他们讲:ta men jiang</mandarin> this lane down south you do not walk there this so, from this lane onwards you either go north or you go one whole big round err back to uh back to the hotel


ya cause cause err there was this ah is <mandarin>真的不安全因为:zhen de bu an quan yin wei</mandarin> like they said if you walk down there err not only will the homeless like


because they, they see like sometimes they will see that you are you are not like err white then they will, they will try to err do something funny lor


ya, hotel is very close to


like err one hotel is very close to Disneyland ah other hotel is, like some shopping centres lah so it's quite okay


uh ya but, err <mandarin>我我们没有:wo wo men mei you</mandarin> rent, rent car to drive lah I think, maybe in a few years time if I'm back there I will do it lor


eh but Uber is, Uber <mandarin>蛮贵的:man gui de</mandarin> leh, or is it okay ah I don't remember leh


like thirty minutes leh


, oh ya but the US ya lah, actually I tried taking Uber once


then, err I turn on the television then <mandarin>我们看:wo men kan</mandarin> NBA lor, then then <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> realise that eh <mandarin>其实我们在:qi shi wo men zai</mandarin> LA <mandarin>我们可以去:wo men ke yi qu</mandarin> live <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> mah then err, ya


so so err <mandarin>我去找那个:wo qu zhao na ge</mandarin> tickets so tickets were last minute tickets were <mandarin>差:cha</mandarin> like <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> fifty over dollars lah, ya so quite okay mah then then after that err it was me and two other people


then <mandarin>我们看那个:wo men kan na ge</mandarin> uh then, so it's about I think <mandarin>四十五分钟:si shi wu fen zhong</mandarin> or like err like thirty minutes to, to the stadium lah the staples centre is it staples centre


in LA ya I think it should be staple centre, err, ya new york Knicks one is the madison ya ya so so staples centre lah, so <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> I think thirty to forty five err minutes


but, we remember that LA has a traffic, ya so I think err, err traffic that's why I think


so, you I wanted to go but I cannot go alone mah


then the then <mandarin>其他的:qi ta de</mandarin> cabin crew <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like !aiya! err <mandarin>不要去:bu yao qu</mandarin> lah then I was like okay lor never mind lor


!aiya! okay lah but Clippers <mandarin>也:ye</mandarin> like I think this season <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> lor, ya, was it like regular season <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> err play off already


I, can walk there or


okay lah that's okay, then that's okay lor, but I think err <mandarin>如果你:ru guo ni</mandarin> like


we have quite a few cases of people getting robbed lah, ya lor


, ya


ya, ya


oh is it, ya lor


ah


!huh!


ah then, then could you all find it


then you all you all don't care


[orh] they cordon off the area lah, !wah!, that sounds damn scary, but did you ask err did you ask the


the hotel the the person what happen


!huh! so so <mandarin>他讲到:ta jiang dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> common like that lah, but I think that is the scary thing that, that, ya that it's so normal that that this type of like lethal danger it's


ya it's an acceptable ah norm like [orh] <mandarin>不要紧:bu yao jin</mandarin> lor


ya lor, like <mandarin>不准的:bu zhun de</mandarin> lah


ya Lyft, I think Ryde was err in err singapore one leh, Ryde was Grab <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> competitor mah <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> mah


as in the outlet or the like err shopping street in err downtown


!huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah, oh ya then I can say that oh , then, authentic stuff lah


like very common lor


ah, !wah!, but I think one of the problems with uh <mandarin>美国:mei guo</mandarin> or LA is, is err like you said lah the things are really very sparse


err <mandarin>我我们我们上次要去:wo wo men wo men shang ci yao qu</mandarin> outlet <mandarin>的时候需要:de shi hou xu yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>找三个人一起去:zhao san ge ren yi qi qu</mandarin> cause, cause if not, you walk it will be I think about like err half an hour


to like, and and it's not very far on the map lah but, err <mandarin>你你你要走的时候:ni ni ni yao zou de shi hou</mandarin> it's like, err thirty to forty five minutes lor


err orange county ah, I think <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> orange county outlet store


ya but speaking of, ya, ya, but I think if you have seen one outlet, it's all


ya err so err


then now our other hotel it's err closer to err, closer up north lah, ya which is err which is a little bit more, err convenient lor


I I, it's like fast food but better lah, but <mandarin>蛮便宜的:man pian yi de</mandarin> so so I have no complaints but but it's really quite yummy lor


Shake Shack definitely Shake Shack


ya in In-N-Out really just feels like err, like a in between of err McDonald's and Burger King, okay lah it's it's like a, err <mandarin>美国:mei guo</mandarin> version of err


of, of a decent burger but, I think Shake Shack is <mandarin>他们的:ta men de</mandarin> patty is good, then err they have err they serve beer also which is nice lah


!huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah, nobody told me leh, okay lah but if you think about it ah


a long time lah because, I don't think anybody will be going to <mandarin>美国:mei guo</mandarin> anytime soon


not exactly directives lah but we have err plans to, err, to increase the number of flights soon, err <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果有人我们就飞:ru guo you ren wo men jiu fei</mandarin> lor


but what I really, want to do is to go back to london, ya lor


like for, not even full capacity lah maybe like half capacity <mandarin>一年半:yi nian ban</mandarin> lor, but, ya lor, but we don't really have a choice because, because if


if there's no vaccine or, like the virus is not controlled then


ya, actually <mandarin>现在没有:xian zai mei you</mandarin> retrench <mandarin>就好:jiu hao</mandarin> Liao, err this month I will be going to Beijing in err fifteen of august


ya but honestly <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> one to two flights a month, will be err not bad already lah like


, we still, we still get to fly to maintain our currency lor


no lah, and err we are we are err <mandarin>美国现在:mei guo xian zai</mandarin> facing like a peak, err COVID, then err, err, australia


also <mandarin>差不多:cha bu duo</mandarin> it also not doing very well, and err new zealand close close up doors again,


plans with them to have like this green corridor thing I don't know if you, read, about the green corridor thing lor, then err europe also


like <mandarin>不是很好:bu shi hen hao</mandarin> lah, so honestly, not, not too good lah, ya


but where's the first place you you want to go to, if you can travel


no no no, like err say err for example <mandarin>他们明天:ta men ming tian</mandarin> found a vaccine, then then err then you have leave, for seven days, in september


then err <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> err singapore airlines <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> free ticket, where would you go, ya free ticket


!wah!, but <mandarin>七天而已:qi tian er yi</mandarin> leh, but <mandarin>七天而已:qi tian er yi</mandarin> leh


actually speaking of south africa ah, err do you remember when my sister got married, ya so err, a couple of months before they got married err <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> south africa together mah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> err my sister used to work at Great Eastern


about fourteen days, then err err shaun and I, and err mother goose we we went there, earlier lah then uh then my sister was err working mah


so so in south africa ah, the wines was so cheap it's like, it's like you won't even believe it one, you pay I think <mandarin>新新币:xin xin bi</mandarin> about, uh


ya, and the wines are really very good


oh ya <mandarin>也是很便宜:ye shi hen pian yi</mandarin> ah, oh ya that's true ah


ya but one thing that really surprise me, err when we were in south africa was err, was how


I was expecting like a lot like majority of the people to be err blacks but


ya, then the further then we started out on a road trip lah so, the further you drive, from the city, err the whiter they become, or depending on what jobs they have so actually south africans err like where we were lah we went


err from the city then <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> drove out to, err Hermanus or like Stellenbosch, err towards err I think east ah we drove east, ya then the whiter and <mandarin>他他们变白:ta ta men bian bai</mandarin> lor


ya but I really want to go back to err south africa cause I wanna go to the Kruger national park


ah <mandarin>我们我们上次去的时候:wo men wo men shang ci qu de shi hou</mandarin> like we didn't have enough time so, so, we were like okay


ya but they stayed on err they stay on a little while more, err err, shaun and err my sister lor


I think <mandarin>他们去:ta men qu</mandarin> a bit up north <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> err Botswana, and they went to one national park but I'm not sure which one but they said, err it was okay lah, but one interesting thing was that they were glamping okay no I I said it was glamping but <mandarin>他们讲:ta men jiang</mandarin> is err real camping lah


but basically somebody set up tent a tent for them then they will stay outside with the animals, err I think, err <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> like a few nights <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> stay like outside in the tent then a few nights <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> err stay in like a better like a


not resort lah <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> like, like not the super nice type of hotel, but the pictures, were really <mandarin>很美:hen mei</mandarin> lor


if I'm not wrong, actually very similar to aussie the err not winter but maybe like spring like in between the, like a in between type of weather, like, I remember running in the morning in like fifteen degrees or ten degrees


ya ya we err like, morning exercise


err we were at Hermanus so so we were close to, err we were close to the coastline, then <mandarin>我们早上起来的时候:wo men zao shang qi lai de shi hou</mandarin> nothing to do then we were like okay lah <mandarin>我们去我们去看:wo men qu wo men qu kan</mandarin> err <mandarin>我们去看风景:wo men qu kan feng jing</mandarin> then we just ran a little bit lor


ya by the coast it was actually very beautiful leh, then err, ya so because, because of like the views I I took a lot of like pre-wedding type of photos for


err shaun and err and my sis lor, ya like the the photos that you saw during the wedding it was, err most of them, err were taken at the in south africa lor


!huh! <mandarin>你你有去:ni ni you qu</mandarin> lah, err it was at Grand Hyatt mah, ya I remember, err


john was there leh, actually ya <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> how come ah


ya ya ya it was a very popular day it was eleven eleven, ya it was one of those like err like, err <mandarin>全新加坡:quan xin jia po</mandarin> want to get married on the same day type of uh date lah, was it eleven eleven ah


!wah!


err , I think


!huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah so sad


!wah! that is <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Suay lor, but honestly unless okay lah but, it sounds bad but unless it's like a very close friend or, !wah! <mandarin>我真的要去:wo zhen de yao qu</mandarin> the wedding I rather


I rather, not go lah but ya lor


!aiyo! <mandarin>他没有朋友:ta mei you peng you</mandarin> meh, okay but, but I have a I have like a one rule, that I'm going to try to uh, that I'm going to try to have for like my wedding lah <mandarin>如果:ru guo</mandarin> I get married lah


is that , err, I never see you for one year, err then, right


I think that will be a good err, rule of thumb so you don't need to get so many tables hopefully lah, no lah, because my sister clock the big one already so I can just do a a small one lor


, actually quite, ya the wedding banquet, was quite big it was the Grand Hyatt


Grand Hyatt the ballroom like the main ballroom, so I think <mandarin>真的真的蛮多人的:zhen de zhen de man duo ren de</mandarin> but, but that, is the problem lah I I don't, I don't number one I don't have so many friends but number two <mandarin>我真的不要:wo zhen de bu yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>太多人:tai duo ren</mandarin> lah


ya lor


oh actually that's okay leh, but you see like, they will tell you like minimum, don't know how many tables then then that's why


like clock the tables lah <mandarin>他需要:ta xu yao</mandarin> invite <mandarin>人:ren</mandarin> to fill up the the table lor, ya


!aiyo!, !wah!


oh ya actually <mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> right then then then you can just, because they serve err ten people table then <mandarin>你可以吃:ni ke yi chi</mandarin> err then <mandarin>你们六个人可以吃:ni men liu ge ren ke yi chi</mandarin> err like more more things ah


ya, but I think err, one of the problems with like a chinese, weddings is that


like show face, ya <mandarin>做大:zuo da</mandarin> so, but <mandarin>现在很多人:xian zai hen duo ren</mandarin> like they don't really like to go for weddings [lah] so


ya I can hear you, eh so, !wah! the I think today


then err afterwards err just helping my mother run some errands, ya actually nothing much lah


!wah! actually err <mandarin>蛮多人的:man duo ren de</mandarin> leh, I I think I think is is because monday leh, oh shit ya err tuesday but I mean


ya lah, so, you guys went to <mandarin>打:da</mandarin> sorry, no the Safra ones is quite okay eh


but ya so last time I used to go to the one at the Yishun stadium right, like all the young the young folks ah


so I started going to the Safra gym lor, ya ya ya, ya so now now I'm doing like err <mandarin>每个月还一次:mei ge yue hai yi ci</mandarin> that kind of thing


err I pay the off peak hours rate so is about the sixty four ah, ya lor but <mandarin>我只可以在:wo zhi ke yi zai</mandarin> off peak <mandarin>的时候才去:de shi hou cai qu</mandarin> lor, uh so weekend and public holiday is quite troublesome


until, err I think afternoon, then at night, eight PM until <mandarin>十点:shi dian</mandarin> like that lor


off peak off peak during weekends, alright but !aiya! you know I'm not a <mandarin>早起:zao qi</mandarin> person what, so like sometimes I don't sleep all the way lor like I, I err ya six thirty then I haha


ya ya ya


ya lor ya lor, so gym is because they


ya ya two fifty ah, ya ya ya ya ya !wah! but I now that I have been going to the ones at Safra ah !wah! I


ya lor so might as well, eh then then your leh <mandarin>你们去打:ni men qu da</mandarin> golf ah


, [orh], [orh]


uh, !wah!, [orh], but what you all Jio this morning one ah


because yesterday <mandarin>你昨天才跟我讲的:ni zuo tian cai gen wo jiang de</mandarin> you want to do this in the afternoon


I know the range lah, ya range ah your ya, but then then afterwards err all go home already ah


[orh], [orh], eh but, ya what no no you were saying, [orh], but


ya, ya lah


did, ya lah hard lah


so like like err will they interested or something,


eh but I find this cook quite flexible leh, ya lah ya, ya lah


okay lah I mean try try lor if even <mandarin>不及格:bu ji ge</mandarin> ya, anyway this is this is still paid what


ya, ya <mandarin>可以买一包烟咯要不要:ke yi mai yi bao yan ge yao bu yao</mandarin> , ya so I mean !aiya! just try try lor also nothing to do what


uh, ya ya I saw


, ya lah, uh, ya


, all all the way at the far ends of the city lah ya


ya, , , ya


eh it's like is like a summer job kind of thing ah like or maybe when we are, ya, uh ya


, ya lah ya,


hard lah, I I don't I don't think we will go there lah, I I was quite I was well I was quite ya


ya I mean ICA


ya !aiya! like, uh, ICA boss ah, uh uh


uh, !wah!


, ya, ya, ya ya, but how how's the oh so it's like a back end thing lah


, [orh], [orh] <mandarin>那个不你不你不喜欢的老板啦:na ge bu ni bu ni bu xi huan de lao ban la</mandarin>


ya, ya lah I think you should you should do it lah uh


but I mean, if you are taking up this job ah <mandarin>你是算:ni shi suan</mandarin> so-called civilian mah like some something like a sub comm kind of thing right


no, no lah like I to me honestly ah I will take the job lor four K leh


uh, oh, , [orh]


[orh] [orh],


ya, ya ya, uh


how how long is the geek, oh [orh] so


[orh], uh, uh, ya, ya I I, okay I I don't mind hor <mandarin>六块半:liu kuai ban</mandarin> if I go and work in the bookshop


five days a week lor, no lah maybe I do like err err you know I do closing <mandarin>到晚上十点:dao wan shang shi dian</mandarin> that kind I'm okay what


ya <mandarin>读书啦:du shu la</mandarin> I mean <mandarin>如果有人进来我就跟他们讲:ru guo you ren jin lai wo jiu gen ta men jiang</mandarin> hi do you want to buy a book, okay what, quite I think okay leh


like eh !aiya! but how to find these kind of job also lah, I don't think you see those kind of <mandarin>小小的书店:xiao xiao de shu dian</mandarin> hor, they where will want to hire now, ya there is so many of them like struggling to stay alive ah I don't think they will hire at most Popular lah but like hard ah Popular imagine !wahlan! eh I almost <mandarin>三十岁:san shi sui</mandarin> already leh then I go in Popular I still have have to check the books !wahpiang! that one cannot cannot


!wah! sure, sure sure cannot one I sure #buay tahan# then !wah! still everyday need to <mandarin>跟那些:gen nei xie</mandarin> auntie <mandarin>吵架我:chao jia wo</mandarin> !wah! #buay tahan# I tell you


ya cannot cannot take it, uh


, , ya


okay, okay your your life is like, so much more productive than mine lor, you eh that that time I saw so your <mandarin>老婆:lao po</mandarin> took the video of you doing HITT ah was that the HITT thing, uh


no err insta story you, ya <mandarin>我看你像一个白痴:wo kan ni xiang yi ge bai chi</mandarin> leh, ya I follow your wife after she err texted me asked me to do your your birthday celebration thing ah


ya then I follow her then lor why I I cannot follow your wife meh, then I saw then I saw I, ya I was wondering whether you are like doing yoga or something like !huh! what is this guy doing


uh


ya, ya uh, ya, uh (uh huh)


ya ya that's not my thing as well, I I also, sorry the universal studios ah


yoga I think they are opened ya, ya ya ya, but, I, possibly don't want to try yoga lah I I also think <mandarin>蛮无聊:man wu liao</mandarin> for me lor


true, true, but I I, hard lah <mandarin>等下:deng xia</mandarin> hor meet <mandarin>到同性恋:dao tong xing lian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> tired one leh, no no is not, I think is at


I tell you is very tired one, I mean okay based on what my friends tell me right they say a lot of them are


are, their sexual preferences is, the really meh you got go meh, ya according to my


like I mean <mandarin>那些男的都是大多数都是:nei xie nan de dou shi da duo shu dou shi</mandarin> like like that one lor, ya, so !aiya! I mean yoga probably not not for me lah I I think gym is err I I


it's more my thing, ya so today err my chair finally came already


have meh, [orh], lame, ya no you know why I take that photo or not


I'm not as lame as you lah but, is is for the warrenty !walao! like I mean <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> leh <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> extension is quite a lot you know, [orh] so you will have to send them the link, you have to send them the link so your your post must be err public so they have to see it lah then err then they will reply to you in five days whether your post is approved or not


but I mean minimum minimum effort but I get to, extend my warranty okay lah just do it lah, ya and the chair !wah! so I picked up the fix myself


the option, so the chair the chair actually supposed supposed to cost I mean if you want them to fix for you right it's about thirty bucks, so I elected to do it myself lah, !wah! Xiong ah that one, really quite Xiong


ya ya ya you're right I tell you because for the first time ah you have never seen like I mean this is the first time you doing the chair hor !walao! then I, it's not the screws leh is like you figure where this part goes where that part goes


have like I mean it's just photo lor but there's video lah but I I was too lazy to watch the video, !aiya! but the chair the chair really quite Shiok ah quite Shiok, about thirty minutes


[seh] !walao! eh <mandarin>不要小看我:bu yao xiao kan wo</mandarin> leh, I am a after all SAF officer okay, SAF officer okay I, trained trained by the military


no lah, ya, eh but you can go, , no I didn't


ya, !huh! really meh you mean err, the actual parade ah, the ground parade ah


!huh! really meh, why what what happened


uh, ya, ya, ya, ya ya, ya


uh, uh, uh, ya


ah ah ya lah ya lah !wahpiang! our time also sign extra


!hanna! <mandarin>一定一定:yi ding yi ding</mandarin> sign extra one lah, then the second one, uh, ya contingent ya ya


, , ya, ya ya ya, ya can hear me ,


(hmm) ya, , ya


ya, , !huh! , !walao! eh


ya, sure sure Paiseh one lah, !aiya! you know I think, major at most, you go Lim a bit of Kopi that's it lah


[orh] but, (hmm) , oh is it, !huh!


!wah!, !wah! <mandarin>累:lei</mandarin> leh, lame, eh but did you hear the F fifteens doing the roar of unity ah


!wah! I didn't hear anything leh, I was just like happily sleeping, ya, roar of unity I !oi! <mandarin>我都不知道:wo dou bu zhi dao</mandarin> hor the whole thing <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> err taking place


in the morning, I I just assumed


!huh!, well I just I just assumed it will be about five PM I woke up then I went in my IG story then I see !huh! <mandarin>完了:wan le</mandarin> eh everybody already outside finish already


, oh, uh


, the leopard tank ah ya ya ya, ya ya ya I seen it before, uh,


ya, uh, I can't I don't remember it to being very loud eh but


, ha


uh, uh, eh but I heard hor like this kind of tanks when they lose balancing when they go down the roads ah they will damage the roads one


because err our roads not meant to take this kind of err ya then afterwards they basically they have to go and <mandarin>补:bu</mandarin> the road lor, can't remember I don't know lah but !aiya! I just


possibly I don't know lah for sure, then, err, you so there's also the the flag fly past also right when when did they do it Padang


[orh] [orh] okay okay, ya !aiya! but, still ah I think it'll be quite Shiok ah to do if you are all those guys piloting the aircraft, I I think the air fifteen quite cool leh


ya, [orh] ya ya ya, ya ya ya the apache ya ya I know I know


ya ya then like


because they I think the apache system they have some kind of facial recognition, software you know something like they can detect faces or whatever, ya lah basically detect the team I I think so lah I'm not very sure I can't remember


ya ah ya lah is trained to the eye lah so they will just follow they will follow where your eye movement, and, ya it's quite I but I uh


no I I I phoned with some of the apache guys that came over, a few of them lor but they okay leh they say to I mean, everybody prefers the lifestyle here lah, I think I think it's funny because of the


ya lah ya lah like because err one of them that I met hor he told me ah <mandarin>他跟我讲他:ta gen wo jiang ta</mandarin> went through, no err, he's


so okay spencer went through CPL right like he paid for his own stuff, the this other guy [orh] <mandarin>他的名字叫:ta de ming zi jiao</mandarin> jason, jason went through SSD leh, so I ask him I ask him <mandarin>为什么你不要直接去:wei shen me ni bu yao zhi jie qu</mandarin> like you know err go through then err take pay for your own CPL these things he say !aiya!


!aiya! for what just come through SSD lor, then he came Jalan court did hours, so he basically so he spent two years lor, but but when I heard the story I'm like !huh! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> waste time leh but <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> but <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> okay lah apparently err he had quite a bit of farm with his batch boys so I did err we were in san francisco together lah then he told me he ya he keep buying drinks for his batch boys lor because he was the only one that had like I think a job for so many !hanna! and I mean as a apache pilot you earn quite good money also lah


ya lor so he say !wah! he every weekend <mandarin>他们会出去去喝去:ta men hui chu qu qu he qu</mandarin> all these things, ya lah, ya lah ya


ya lor but you waste you waste !wah! <mandarin>蛮多时间:man duo shi jian</mandarin> leh, (ppc) I think their CPL ah I think spencer <mandarin>跟我讲他:gen wo jiang ta</mandarin> but okay spencer paid for his own ATPL [loh] so he studied for his own ATPL when <mandarin>他还在:ta hai zai</mandarin> service, uh so that one quite a hassle


ya lah ya lah have lah definitely have lah, ya lor ya ya ya for sure lah, ya


ya, ya, ya lah quite Sian lah actually, ha ya lah ya so spencer spencer did that lor, spencer ya he he told me lah he it will take him a good study for his ATPL I think


you you remember err I think, the, I'm sorry, [orh] ya ya ya ya ya, then <mandarin>你记你记得几个月前:ni ji ni ji de ji ge yue qian</mandarin> like one of them sent a video of a basically it was this


ex ATC guy then he just nice got into SQ, before <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> COVID thing happen, ya <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> send <mandarin>的啦:de la</mandarin> basically <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> he he was a, he was a tower controller lah in err Tengah


then <mandarin>他去:ta qu</mandarin> I think <mandarin>他不可以进:ta bu ke yi jin</mandarin> any company at all, then afterwards <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> went to the revlon or something <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> flying school ah then afterwards he managed to get in he also take leave and go and study lor


ya, ya but now have you heard the rumours from, did they tell you today, Haikal <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> he heard from Feus


that the they want to terminate all the trainees, but


(uh huh)


uh, ya , ya lah ya like somebody just decided oh err


ya I don't know like why why they will do something like that [loh] some some guy decided one day [orh] <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> just <mandarin>起来我跟人家讲:qi lai wo gen ren jia jiang</mandarin> hor this guy pass away then don't know what you what what you trying to achieve also, so when ken said say on Whatsapp ah I also like I straightaway laugh like !huh! doesn't make sense what why would why would anybody want to spread this kind of rumour


ya, no he his his deadline is august thirty


thirty first, [orh] <mandarin>你们做三点啊:ni men zuo san dian a</mandarin> how come you all can get the three PM slot sia


no lah eh we can we can go have a drink what, ya lah we can go I honestly not even planned for what when Zhong


uh, !hanna! I think, last week earlier last I mean last week when <mandarin>我们去喝咖啡的时候:wo men qu he ka fei de shi hou</mandarin> then with I got say #zhong zhen# and me we got say lah we want Jio see this week anybody free call for drinks


uh I I thought I wanted to wait for you all to play golf but didn't know it was today, ya anyway so much time, ya is twenty fifth


oh


[orh], ya lah and you just make sure you have ample sleep lah so your blood pressure won't keep on like shoot up or something


ya lor, no, look no urine test right, okay I mean no blood test, but, because Medora got urine


ya, but, ya lah ya, it's actually like last year lah, ya


ya I think I put one on my end, I can't remember I, so I also don't really care ah, and then I I was just thinking ah those guys that this year not bored one ah


they Sian they cannot go Medora, they have to go uh, ya a bit so, ya lah


I I I I think is definitely because of the COVID thing lah, ya they didn't lah, ya they didn't lor, ya but anyway ken said this year we also because of the COVID thing we won't have the board board interview so essentially is like is just like last year ya it's just like last year ah


so <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>一群:yi qun</mandarin> doctors, ya I think there's one err psychologist or something so they will just like see lor whether you got exhibit some kind of


weird symptoms or whether mentally you are sound, ya it's just like they just !aiya! honestly I think what more can you see there's nothing you can see not much you can see, so is I think it's mostly just like a formality more than anything else lah


but but Boliao one lah then you you know Pranesh was damn nervous, because oh we were saying that all of us didn't have to do blood test right but Haikal said he need needed to then after that when Pranesh when to check his due list Pranesh realized that he also got blood test then he start to #kan cheong# already he message Haikal that day when we were having coffee


then he he ah you know Pranesh is worried what then afterwards we say because I remember that err thirty years old like every five years we have to do the blood test, so we say ya lah <mandarin>三十岁:san shi sui</mandarin> need to do ah then then err Pranesh start to ask around eh <mandarin>谁三十岁:shei san shi sui</mandarin> ha then [orh] Farhan Farhan also <mandarin>三十岁:san shi sui</mandarin> then Farhan <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> Pranesh message Farhan already tell him faster go and check


see like <mandarin>一点点一点点:yi dian dian yi dian dian</mandarin> he start to worry already


(uh huh) , ya eh but he,


ya lah ya, uh, ya


ya uh uh, he doesn't go straight to the point lah, he always like to feel he want to feel the ground first


!aiya!, I I I guess we could especially when you because you guys were living together for that for that six seven months what, I, I totally haven't seen him for since when when was the last time we met


why, ya lah but we have been organizing what


[orh] [orh], uh,


ya, uh, uh, ya,


uh


eh but the last two times when we did open the Jio thing he he didn't even come for once, ya lah during the day lah so I was thinking, ya possibly because err he's working now lor but you're right lor I don't think we will see him lor because


somemore he's married now, Prashan ah


!aiya! but I mean afterall his he is one of us what, uh, uh


ya it is what it is lah


like never Jio, , uh


eh ya actually who knew about what he is doing right now ah, [orh] then he told you ah, ya, uh


ya ya ya I heard, I heard he has really like changed like twice or something, ya ya ya


, [orh] I know ya ya ya ya, , ya I because after after Zhongzhen told me what what it was all about then I realize eh


then I ask Zhongzhen eh how come he never Jio then Zhongzhen say I don't know leh, I don't know then okay lor then #gei gou# everybody is just like, Nuaing lor I think he he is the only one among us that's working right now or something right


okay eh then how come you don't join us last week, , [orh] is it because of the fried chicken


ya ya <mandarin>他们去:ta men qu</mandarin> golf ya ya <mandarin>他们去:ta men qu</mandarin> golf, [orh], like they were all quite surprised to see me eh I was like !wah! bro for you guys I wake up super early today


no I I I wake up, I wake up at eight I go for a run and !wahlan!, I tell you I really hardworking at


oh how long did it last, no lah that was the only day lor, and it's all a lot a lot of effort okay, then then we went to drink err coffee at the singapore coffee, it's, then so it's okay first is more err err expensive than arabica


second second there was this Chai, at the working there !wah! she is damn Chai, !wah! she's, ya ya damn Chai I even with her mask ah I can


eh <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> !wah! you have to go there man, well, ya, Haikal Haikal Haikal, ya Haikal he went the day before, no Haikal went the day before


so he said it is err it's quite nice place lah so ya, eh singapore coffee is quite expensive man


and, and, good money [orh], it's really good money leh one Kopi nine dollar


same lah, ah ya ya ya, ya, ya and but, the the singapore coffee's place right, their coffee is a bit more fancy lor we had like what a ice Kopi shake or something I can't remember already ah


then it's like twelve or twelve or fourteen dollars then I drink already then I err okay lor nothing special , okay lah you can go there and err people watch


uh, uh, ya lah ya lah, ya


eh but you know I went to over easy at #fullerton one#, so I was drinking beer over there then I saw the as in okay lah I saw it when I was there already !wah!, guess how much one pint


okay lah not so bad ah but <mandarin>十七块:shi qi kuai</mandarin> for one Heineken, ya then I'm !huh!, ya I was quite shocked leh because I'm so used to the <mandarin>十块:shi kuai</mandarin> per pint kind of err concept ah <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> suddenly !wah! <mandarin>十七块:shi qi kuai</mandarin> then I !huh!


sorry, , suddenly <mandarin>你叫我:ni jiao wo</mandarin> eh because, I'm paying one point seven times more than my usual err pricing


ya ya the view so okay so I wanted to take a alfresco setting, then I was with somebody I was basically I was on a date lah then she she told me she wanted to sit inside because like she is afraid of, like she wanted aircon


then I was like !wahpiang! eh, at least, ya so sounds okay you think about it ah seven PM around that place right beside the water how how humid can it be


ya you get ya you can think of breeze coming through but she said [orh] she want take aircon then somewhat I made the resignation then I have to err excuse me miss can err do you still have seating inside, !wahlan! Sian then luck they have ah


uh ya I should have done it lor, okay because after that we also never talk already, err she's she's err quite interesting she's a bruneian, err ya but she studied in err


perth, uh, ya lor, ya no more already, uh and then


no lah have to see how how how it's like mah, if, I mean honestly my business during after COVID has not been very good ah, and honestly it has not be very good lah quality and quantity wise both at splits ah very poor both have suffered tremendously


ya especially me lah bro especially me, I can feel the crunch on all aspects, ya


ya ya I'll pay lah that's why it's damn Bohua ya lah damn Bohua, then, no some some will some will, some, ya some will some will like oh you let me do it let me do it I'm like you know it's fine don't worry I I know it's all just err ya just put up a show ya now I feel good about it that you try to like put off lah but some of them will just


they didn't they they ya they won't even acknowledge, ah so she was one of those lor she didn't even acknowledge so I was like okay lor whatever, and !aiya! because of all the beer somemore I drank quite a bit of beer !wah!


tired, ya my brother was telling me he say Tiger he bought two cartons for sixty eight, ya he say national day some it's sixty plus lah he was telling me


[orh] ya lor about there lor sixty eight, ya seventy ya, he was telling me it was the national day special or something, so you bought meh


why leh uh, uh, uh, uh


uh , uh


now I just err


err my my friends stays in in #pasir ris# lor, then ya then, we we will all of us will just go over there, have a drink then I told you I I told you about the strong co right


!wahlan! strong co is !wah!, suck I okay I tell you what's the best flavours, and peach


ya <mandarin>柠檬:ning meng</mandarin> taste like sprite, ya okay if you buy if you buy the grapefruit one you can taste it, but the lemon one the lemon one is <mandarin>柠:ning</mandarin> is really sprite eh


uh, uh, ya, uh uh, uh


uh, [orh], [orh] ideal leh, uh


ya, then, ya overkill overkill, the first time I tried it right, I bought four tall cans I was thinking to myself !aiya! how bad can it be #tio bo#


ya I know so we just have


[orh], okay lor just one hour two minute lor, so what what are you up to tomorrow


what you going to teach her ah, because you you keep bragging to her right


you you brag to her so that's why she wanted to come over and learn from you one, eh but you haven't bake for us leh, !wah! my birthday really by then we already start working already


I mean russia is really released the vaccine, ya lah ya lah I know ah, and


where got case, [orh] new zealand got it again, but is err what is is like a community thing lah is not imported, uh


uh, uh,


<mandarin>一百零二啊:yi bai ling er a</mandarin> ya, uh, ya


ya lah, ya ya ya and is, this virus thing is very quite a pain in the ass so what the are are they going to order another lockdown


, [orh], ya,


[orh] okay okay so the southern island is still fine lah in the sense, ya lah I


ya but you never know, you never know, (hmm) I got try got try but then maybe if they started coming back with all the circuit breaker again ah then my new year eve is spent at home lah


faint faint I then I'd rather be working lah lame I rather go out and work, !wah! sure tilt one I tell you


yup, okay I stopped already [ah] okay


okay hello can you hear me, okay, so what do you do today man


[orh], oh, was the gym very crowded


really meh, it's tuesday


ya ya ya everyone wants to work off their


but is it but is usually err is usually, is it usually err <mandarin>小弟弟:xiao di di</mandarin> or like people people our age


, okay true true, uh


[orh] okay lor [orh] the one that you the one that you you you paid for earlier lah before the series started, oh err <mandarin>多少:duo shao</mandarin> leh


okay ah <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> mah, [orh] [orh] so only off peak then you go ah


[orh], wait that's the off peak or peak, [orh] oh that's okay what, [orh]


[orh] oh you wait until the morning then you then, no last time last time the, the gym I used to go to at err #bukit batok# err when I'm staying there !walao! a lot of err <mandarin>小弟弟小妹妹:xiao di di xiao mei mei</mandarin> all the all the trying to impress each other you know it's


and the gym is gym is err <mandarin>很小:hen xiao</mandarin> leh like is, then like you want to wait for your machine right you need wait for like ten minutes that kind


ya and then ah, ya and <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> also lah right, !hey! !hey! !hey! then must bring your own towel also


ya lah you already you are already paying a membership there already what so, ya, we all <mandarin>打点:da dian</mandarin> lor err, in the morning we went there


then err those we have winston myself Farhan and Zhongzhen lor then they had, then I came a bit I came a bit later lah so, , then as in as in like they haven't started playing yet lah so I came a bit later


and then, eh really there's like there's like, err <mandarin>三个:san ge</mandarin> stories right, and


it's all full, so we we we luckily <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> luckily to managed to get one find the one corner that where there is four, four slots for us lah


no lah with err Farhan will usually just Farhan will Jio us lah like, ya I mean I was I I afternoon <mandarin>回来:hui lai</mandarin> mah


no lah it's only a few like we didn't go to the, we didn't we <mandarin>我我们没有去那个:wo wo men mei you qu na ge</mandarin> main course lah we only went to the range only, range was like !walao! at most one hour then tired already


no lah we went to eat lunch cause I I drove my, I drove my my mum's err I drove my mom's car lah so, she she going to babysit my my nephew so


so I borrowed and then err, ya so I drove so after we went to eat at err east coast <mandarin>吃点吃点:chi dian chi dian</mandarin> then err, just talk out for about two three hours, then after that then after that then after that go back lor


cause every everyone, sorry, no cause everyone had nothing to do in err the afternoon


you know, err talking about talking about talking about err err, talking about finding jobs, like how like how like how like eight dollars


in eight dollars an hour is err, is is not enough lah


I don't I I I don't know leh I don't I mean they ask that mean they you you go and die lah or what but, like like not really like not not that not that interested lah, so, ya lah but I mean we we don't really know what is the


the full you know like like the, ya you know like they the I mean there's this okay okay I won't say cryptic but you know it's it's not err, ya I mean like you do not know how like like what's the criteria again then how stringent they're going to be


ya lor ya ya, !huh! this one is paid also ah, [orh], [orh] okay


okay lah ya better than nothing lah, ya ya ya, can can can, ya that's true that's true


ya no I mean like my after <mandarin>我我回我回来的时候:wo wo hui wo hui lai de shi hou</mandarin> then I was just looking at err, I spend like about one hour just looking on the the fast jobs lah


there's some that is, actually now ah like even the, err <mandarin>今天的:jin tian de</mandarin> the papers right, they were also mentioning about err all these err there's actually a lot of jobs available now


all at because of the E because of the E-commerce boom, so there's a lot of err jobs at the warehouse which there are a lot, a lot of jobs at like packers you know but like the locations, err <mandarin>不是很好啦是在:bu shi hen hao la shi zai</mandarin> like Jurong


Jurong west err <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> err, like, you know like the expo that kind, like all the far end one lah so like you know I mean, then you see the the shift hours also it's like !walao! eh like


like seven thirty to seven seven thirty to seven thirty it's like, you know by the time you you, then you take public transport there, you know it's like by the time you you everyday you do that then it's damn tiring lah


ya so it's ya lah so it's more for like I guess those, student the students that really need the money lah but, I mean okay I wouldn't say I don't need the money but, I mean thankfully our job is still paying us but <mandarin>但是:dan shi</mandarin> you know like


you know cake the more I mean the more you have the better right, but it also I mean but now as in there there's still time to be picky, so you know I I was telling the guys err just now that


you know ya we can be picky now lah but you don't know maybe six months down the road all of us out of job, then we will be looking at those eight dollars an hour, err maybe like oh eh eh eh actually those are quite good lah you know


I I mean, I mean just, , no I mean we were just saying lah just like if that ever happens lah, NUS


!wah! <mandarin>不要啦:bu yao la</mandarin> !walao! <mandarin>我回去那边:wo hui qu na bian</mandarin> with my, with the tail in between my legs, it's damn Sian lor everyone will laugh at me leh, no do you know that err <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I think, err


the boss the boss that I like lah the boss that I like the boss that I got along with very well so like I still keep in contact with him, then <mandarin>他跟我讲:ta gen wo jiang</mandarin> err <mandarin>如如果你要有:ru ru guo ni yao you</mandarin> err four K there's a four K job


but it is err you know like so now they're opening the err err, government is opening those green lanes right, like you know like <mandarin>中国:zhong guo</mandarin> err or Australia


then, so is to process all these people lor, to see whether they have proof for all these err travel lah you know, no so they so so the government I mean the government came out just new office for


for you know for for <mandarin>这种人:zhe zhong ren</mandarin> you know <mandarin>去要去:qu yao qu</mandarin> overseas, then they, they have to apply through the government right, so they open up this new office to to spearhead them lah and err, so it's like !wah! I was like eh <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> leh err four K


err you know I and then, and then you know it's working back at like my workplace and uh it's just supplementary income right, err err the person in charge right


is is is the guy I don't like lah like the guy I really I really hate lah, he said, uh uh then then then, then, then I was like !wah!, four K <mandarin>一点难:yi dian nan</mandarin> err turn down ah


then I was like, no no no no then after that I I I I I I say okay I'll I'll let you know tomorrow lah, let you know tomorrow then err


then I was like, so I spoke to my wife about it lah then she was like err, I think I think you better don't lah you better don't lah, better don't lah cause err if you do that ah I think


ya lah true lah but you know there's still that, there's always going to be that you know like, I'm sure you you are like in army like the the the some sergeant or platoon commander like you know like screw you, even now you still feel a bit like !wah! like you know receive it you you will be like !wah! you know


I mean I I feel that way lah, uh ya okay sure sure sure talk big talk big, no but the thing is see ah like in july I I <mandarin>我不要:wo bu yao</mandarin> vote for government


because government they're very strict on all this moonlighting, okay okay their so-called moonlighting means like like, okay so if I let's say I join ah it's a contract basis, this is like is full time leh


then if I have like you know if if I get rostered for for for work right


job to do lah I I can't, so then after he was like actually ya lah actually actually best not to best not lah you know this one is more for like maybe those people in between jobs, or want to, maybe try to get a leg in into ICA or like some government job lah then maybe they err better suited for those guys


[orh] it's like err you know it's it's not err <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> err <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> specify err I mean <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> specified date lah cause like you don't know how long this thing going to last right, so we looking at those all those all those


other things on the internet lah all the, I wasn't even joined this err telegram group chat the part time SG part part timers SG


then it's like !wahlan! eh I don't want lah, eh lame lah


eh you <mandarin>一千:yi qian</mandarin> you <mandarin>每天要做工:mei tian yao zuo gong</mandarin> leh, ya you eight like eight thirty to six you know like you want to work this kind of hours for <mandarin>六块半:liu kuai ban</mandarin> leh


uh


ya, ya ya ya exactly they they dying already lah, ya, ya


uncle uncle, ya ya sure fine one sure fine one


ya but


then after that I play with my cat a bit, then, I will, sit down, err in front of the TV, watch err either err Youtube <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> Netflix


then, I will before err lunch I will, I do one exercise, one HITT, after that, err cool down rest, go and shower


then after that err, then


then watch Netflix with my wife, it's damn boring lah, ya no, ya okay


oh ya ya I was doing the HITT, she took video oh you follow my wife ah, [orh] okay okay okay


okay, [orh], [orh] I didn't know you follow my wife what, ya ya ya ya I I was I was doing it then lah I was doing it then, no no no no


no no cause okay I, it was !hais! it was it was


then it's damn is damn painful for me lah cause like you know I'm I'm not very flexible right actually most people are not most guys will not be right


then I was like !aiya! I was like, ya after that I was like nope nope nope I I I I mean I'm sure is is very good for you, but like, like for me is just like [orh] I just couldn't do it lah


you go and I'm sure I'm sure you can go and, find err, ya eh but <mandarin>那:na</mandarin> ya eh the universe studios universe studios <mandarin>开:kai</mandarin> already right, no yoga studios


ya should be open right, but you can you can meet people what


[orh], okay, no eh but there's eh but there's actually <mandarin>有有很多有很多男孩子去哪去:you you hen duo you hen duo nan hai zi qu na qu</mandarin> leh yoga


no, no lah it's not lah, no no is not is not is not I mean like according my wife lah


there's like normal but it's like it's like it's like only like err, like only like <mandarin>十巴仙:shi ba xian</mandarin> will be guys only, ya


[orh], I see I see, ya


your what your chair (ugh) lame lah, your eh your insta story is your Instagram post is damn it's damn lame lah eh what set up, your what expensive computer


plastic container on your wall, the pink colour one , why cause you want


[orh], ya you are very lame one your very lame like that what, okay


[orh] but they give you on the spot is it or, apply ah, [orh], I see, [orh]


[orh], okay lah #buay pai# lah #buay pai#, ah okay !wah! !wah! Jialat Jialat Jialat already


okay, ya, ya ya especially eh I I can imagine with you especially lah


uh


so it took you how long to fix it, [orh] okay okay lah thought you I thought you going to say like three four hours, like like three four hours is err three four hour sorry what's that


[orh] I see I see I see I see, I see I see I mean I I was also I'm also a SAF officer but I've met a lot of, I have also met a lot of like like idiots lah who accept officers lah


I see I see, again okay noted noted, eh eh did you did you see did you see the err national day parade


ya, ya the actual like the the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin>, ya like, and and sad to say lah is, the two screw ups is I see is the commando the commando guys the commando guys screw up lah


one is the, err <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> president <mandarin>来的时候:lai de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> flag will go down right, you know they will do the sing national anthem then the flag will will be on the ground, then we you know when they raise it then you got the they'll have like three seconds to find the hole put it in then bring their hand up right


so the commando guy when he brought it up he he is he is it was Sengnek a bit lah, then <mandarin>他他不可以找:ta ta bu ke yi zhao</mandarin> err


still he was still trying to find the hole ah, then like then it's like the worst time to the camera to be trained on him you know like it was, I I I don't know as in like I know last time like during my time is just sure just sure sign extra <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> lah


okay I I mean it is it is not is not a, so it's not a big screw up but, it is a is a screw up lah nonetheless, ya, then err <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> commando the the contingent commander


so you know there's the the <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> parade commander right then <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> contingent commander, contigent commander usually <mandarin>是一个:shi yi ge</mandarin> corner officer, cause the corner officer will be the commander contigent is always on the left, you looking at the parade is always on left hand left hand side right


hello, hello, ya so it's always on left hand side, so, you know so he will the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> president <mandarin>来的时候:lai de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> will the he will he will greet her


and then is also they still got the cameras on him right like now is not no longer on the parade commander already no longer on the president it's on it's on him, then he will walk with the president, you know together with president to inspect the guard of honour right


so this guy is err, he he's SM guy lah !aiya! I don't know who he is but, we based on his his the the his badges and all that he can tell is a SF SF SF guy lah SM major, his one of his err


one of his err foreign wings right, err came off the like one of the pins came off so it's hanging it was hanging down, ya so it's like what the hell I was like oh my god like


of all the times right like he also must be kicking himself after this lah like, to screw up right he's screwed on the on the actual days, you know never secure it properly lah, ya and I don't know whether I don't know what's the I don't know whether I don't know whether this one will Kena anything or not


ya, ya ya, hopefully lah but but you know last time got one err, one LTC the parade commander, the national day he screwed up the one of the commands


ya so one of the command is he he <NEN> LTC, ya really really like my, ya he's he he he he he ya


ya <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> screw up <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> command lah, ya, , oh you sleeping lah


[orh], a'ah, eh this one everyday they everyday they keep blasting you know like, parade this time what what you can expect


you know, eh no but you know the <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> mobile column right


so <mandarin>是早上十:shi zao shang shi</mandarin> err <mandarin>十点:shi dian</mandarin> so I I woke up I woke up for that lah so I went out with my niece and my, my my nephew and my niece, eh no joke man like I'm not sure if during your time <mandarin>你有看过那个:ni you kan guo na ge</mandarin> err <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> leopard tank


no but you got see in real life or not last time, you got see ah, okay so like, my time the the leopard thing haven't come yet, so it's still the older the older version lah, and then the older version was loud lah but then this one right, oh my goodness I was like I was like okay my my nephew and niece like hands covered the ear already lah


but I was like oh my god is damn loud man, ya, ya and but I I I swear like when it was rolling down the street right


it was a bit, it was like !wah! like you know like it's really, and then like, I mean it to be fair it's really quite impressive lah it's really quite impressive like to see like the, the, the tanks rolling down lah is


and it's so big man it I didn't realize how big it was, is it, oh, true true true


[orh], [orh] but okay lah my the road downstairs look look okay leh, but maybe maybe they maybe they put something on the tracks lah like, you know like


ya, uh it was around the it was around, no they okay the flag flypast went through the Padang but it flew around singapore also lah


ya but, !aiya! don't lame lah that one every year can see ah, ya, ya man ya man


err <mandarin>飞那个:fei na ge</mandarin> apache, he did he did a lot I think if I'm not wrong he did <mandarin>那个最后一个:na ge zui hou yi ge</mandarin> the parade where #lee kuan yew#


when l#ee kuan yew# was still around lah, so he said that when he was doing the flypast, cause you know that that camera quite powerful one right


ya so he was saying like !wah! when they <mandarin>哇他们在飞的时候:wa ta men zai fei de shi hou</mandarin> then <mandarin>他他去看那个:ta ta qu kan na ge</mandarin> !aiyo!, ya it's quite cool lah but actually cause I think for them is damn boring lah


then just fly, detect faces


no lah they their, their helmet, their the cameras is trained to the eye what, ya so it, ya it follow where your eyes is looking, which which is which is which is I think it's freaking amazing lah, and like


, uh, [orh], [orh], ya lah ya lah


ya, ya, but


ya lah but I mean here you need to wait, long time to get in lah, who spencer ah <mandarin>啊那个:a na ge</mandarin> spencer ah


[orh], [orh], , ,


[orh] okay, [orh] okay lah


!wah! the money lah, quite a bit lah quite a bit, [orh] eh but but you join SSC


then <mandarin>你不用还钱嘛对不对:ni bu yong huan qian ma dui bu dui</mandarin> compared to CPL is I mean it's a pro and con lah, you waste you waste one year lah maybe one year


uh, [orh], !aiya! like <mandarin>有有:you you</mandarin> pro and con lah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> pro and con lah, I mean at the end of the day is like depends on like you know like where


you know


then <mandarin>有有很多:you you hen duo</mandarin> stress <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> like you know what I mean or not, then you imagine you study CPL while while you are having a job, Sian


err I don't remember, uh


[orh] okay okay, [orh] okay lah good lah good for them lah, what


uh, , [orh] <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> rumour okay okay, !aiya! !aiya! you know


you don't know who to believe one lah


ya then they never right no you see so <mandarin>我不明白的是:wo bu ming bai de shi</mandarin> right is how come such rumours can come through I mean how such rumours right, like can can even can even exist


it ya it's like one day I I just make up one rumour of you leh, err eh eh guys err bow, bow, Poh pass away already leh right, eh eh spread the news spread the news


ya, ya it's damn weird right, ya


he he never ah he never say why ah, eh you know err winston also doing on the on the twenty fifth


ya so so so <mandarin>我们我们做完了:wo men wo men zuo wan le</mandarin> then err bye bye, <mandarin>我们坐在外面:wo men zuo zai wai mian</mandarin> bye bye Poh, okay we we meet you another day


we meet you another day, ya lah just joking lah, no I mean I I don't mind, no as in I I don't mind going for drinks after that like I feel that we we should, we should celebrate a bit


this week ah


[orh], err you want this week or next week lor any any week lah, twenty fifth is twenty fifth right cause


then <mandarin>要回去:yao hui qu</mandarin> airport again, ah ya, then I was thinking whether I want to change my medical then I was like !aiya! !aiya! !aiya! just there's


is not going to make much of a difference also lah, ya just just drink more water and then err, maybe do a exercise before I come out


!wah! not sure leh, no I think shouldn't have lah shouldn't have it should be the normal eh no no no eh maybe got urine leh, so <mandarin>应该会有:ying gai hui you</mandarin> urine err, but that's all the normal stuff lah !aiya! then


it's damn, ya lor should be but just now there is the CAS guys lah so we cannot, eh but your the the the drinking one right you got put I didn't put zero lah I put one lah, I put one or something


I I I never I I don't want to push the limits too much


ya yes must go eh, actually is eh, actually <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> err <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> fair right, like why they they also never explain why they, like consolidating everything into one place


ya lah I mean but like you know I mean like with COVID but like so like what so the, so is


ya lah, is the normal lah ya, eh but do you know what the


[orh] so <mandarin>是一个:shi yi ge</mandarin> interview lah, ya, okay okay


I see, why, uh, uh


ya, ya I think so


ya lah ya


in in in you know like it's during the like in you know during the most like very stressful period, then <mandarin>每次:mei ci</mandarin> eh <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>这个怎么办:zhe ge zen me ban</mandarin> and <mandarin>他他的问题啊:ta ta de wen ti a</mandarin> you can tell is loaded one


you know it's not straight to the point one it's like it's not like, eh Poh eh I ask you ah this one ah eh this one how is err eh eh why ah eh I ask you ah, this one ah, then you can you can read through the lines why he is asking you this type of question you know, it's not those like simple it's like


is like living with him ah make me more more stress also leh, ya, ya I want to like that's, you do it like that it it it it it err you know


it takes people off the wrong way, ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> is the is the, is the living together living together one that is crazy


I tell you you will never see him you know why


so they're staying with him at the moment, , ya so during the day he won't come out, but during at night, you know like, okay firstly he won't firstly okay firstly he doesn't organize


so <mandarin>他不会:ta bu hui</mandarin> organize, usually is only a few people will come out right, like you me Zhongzhen err winston, err I don't know who else already lah


so it's like you know it's usually it then, then it's like, but you know if it's, it open Jio if there's more than we can sit more than five people err maybe I'm sure he will come lah maybe just not maybe is just


it's such such close contact when there's not enough people to spread the love you know, ya but the last two times is during the day one what


he won't he won't call us one he won't call us so, but I mean like to me is I'm indifferent lah I don't really care lah like, you want you Jio lor don't want Jio is is I don't feel like losing


no Tio as in like you want to call you call you don't want to call to me it's like, eh I mean I make the effort, you know what I mean like I don't I don't I don't want to force people to to make the effort you know I don't want to force you to do thing do something that you don't want to do, so it's like if he come it's great lah but if he don't come also like


to me is indifferent lah you know like, you know, like even okay I I your end okay to be to tell you the truth lah okay


ya never Jio lah !wahlan! eh, eh this type of good, this kind of good err #kang tao# ah eh, eh must share lah I mean maybe


maybe, don't share when you're applying, but share after you get it already eh it's like you guys I have this job you know, no one knew except when I Jio him out that day for drinks what


to give him the err ah to give him the to give the #ang pow# then ask him what he's doing now, cause I know he was doing some other thing before this one, he said something else, ya a few times already so it's like so many times ah he change ah then never never


you know, then <mandarin>有一点:you yi dian</mandarin> like eh #kan lin nia# like, eh this type of thing share lah you know like maybe don't err don't share when you're applying but, after you get it already ask got still got space it's like


and the money is like you know


ya ya, (uh huh), eh I I don't know I don't know don't ask me don't ask me, I don't know I don't know, eh ya I think so


[orh] I have something on in the afternoon I think, and I didn't feel like didn't feel like going out for coffee lah, no no no actually that day err they did <mandarin>他们去:ta men qu</mandarin> golf mah in the morning


but then I something on in the morning, then after that when after that I finished I I was I was quite tired already lah then I was just like (ugh) I I was too lazy to go, to go out the house


okay cool, they were like they are like a'ah wish wish Pohium come, ya ya but how but how long did it last


like how long have you been waking up at eight, ya ya so so so so hardworking, okay okay, ya I saw I saw the thing


okay , okay, pretty eh, okay okay chill bro chill bro


okay okay okay ya cool cool cool story bro okay lah anyway who, who who brought you all to the that place winston ah, ya I swear these guys right, sorry


[orh], I swear I swear these guys they looked for the most expensive coffee places in singapore, they google most expensive already present singapore okay let's go there


it's damn even eh even the arabica also I was like what the, then, ya


and the taste is the eh to me okay it don't taste like the kopitiam coffee by it taste like Starbucks, to me it's no difference like, like and I rather drink kopitiam coffee to be honest with you lah


[orh], ya it's oh it's ridiculous it's ridiculous one like


#tio bo#, when you go to bar is err let's go find the cheapest beer, one day is eh let's go find the most expensive


uh, okay then, okay


twenty dollars, ya normal lah all these places <mandarin>没没有:mei mei you</mandarin> happy hour also, ya ya


no you, well you must know the right place to go, ya, ya ya ya


correct correct correct but you got the view lah, uh, okay


okay, so you cannot cannot see the view also ah


ya it's quite nice quite a nice setting also the sun setting, ya, then, eh


[orh]


a'ah like like chinese or, [orh], so where did you meet her on a on phone ah, then then no more already ah


so all your date <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> all your dates <mandarin>是是是这样啦:shi shi shi zhe yang la</mandarin> like one hour only ah


bad lah both bad lah, !aiya! ya is tough times for everybody, , so so


on the first date, you pay ah, they they will act lah they act like oh eh okay nevermind we split lah, we we we we split lah we split


ya but at least they say lah, ya, like just blindly


ya, eh you you know now eh Sheng Siong ah, the beer is damn cheap eh


ya it's eh sixty eight meh, ya third no, thirty nine dollars for twenty four, seventy eight lah seventy okay maybe now you know about even more special lah you know


ya ya ya it's crazy man, no I haven't buy yet but I saw it the other day cause I was, it then the other day also I think two two or three weeks back


the the bottom came out, ya all <mandarin>全部那个:quan bu na ge</mandarin> beer <mandarin>在地上:zai di shang</mandarin> then I was like oh my goodness


then like <mandarin>有有:you you</mandarin> everybody just look at me I was like, and my mind was like <mandarin>帮忙啦:bang mang la</mandarin> !walao! just stare at me, then luckily there was this kind soul that come and help me lah, then I just put everything back in the box then I, a'ah okay [loh] I was like what should I do with it ah


then I just err quietly put it back onto the shelf then I took a new box, these these cans all row over the floor already you know what I mean


oh


like his place ah his place ah, uh, oh


uh, ya I know, ya ya ya it is and is you cannot taste the alcohol one right, ya, okay, no


ya ya ya no so usually <mandarin>我在日本的时候:wo zai ri ben de shi hou</mandarin> right <mandarin>我去:wo qu</mandarin> Seven Eleven, I will buy one strong one pint the big one or strong zero, then I'll buy two pints, of beer, then the the flights is at usually in the morning I mean if you get the pattern right then


I will study about the flight then I will start drinking as I start as I start studying lah, then I'll then just nice I'll stop when it's the cut off period, then it's just nice time for bed, you know, so it's like ya then it's like bam bam bam everything will, you know like I will be then I'll have a <mandarin>很好的:hen hao de</mandarin> sleep you know very


very nice sleep then wake up in the morning you know, but I will never drink that like, I will never buy three strong zeros, I think that one is a bit, ya


ya ya !wah! is bad is bad is bad, ya it's very bad, eh we already talk for fifty eight minutes already leh, err two minutes okay how about that


in case got any like like the start got some some issue lah, uh, ya lah but, err


nothing much but my mother-in-law is coming on thursday to learn how to bake sourdough, so, so that err thursday can bake lah then on thursday can show how to make it


!aiya! eh this eh <mandarin>这这种东西是:zhe zhe zhong dong xi shi</mandarin> called sucking up man, without them knowing you are sucking up, last time I mean I'll bake for them also what once in a while


err your birthday I bake for you lor, I doubt lah I doubt it lah I doubt it, now is already august already leh you think four months time you things will be back to normal meh, ya lah you eh eh but eh that one must take it with a pinch of salt lah err


got case already leh, new zealand, ya after hundred and two days


err starting <mandarin>有有四个人:you you si ge ren</mandarin> in the same household, then err then now they're


in one house, then err, , ya I think like they encouraging work from home and all these things lah but


then this thing comes back again, so that means this you know this virus is very sneaky leh like, when it when when when they when <mandarin>他们讲:ta men jiang</mandarin> asymptomatic right


in new zealand right they they don't even know that they have it, so, so they're the rolling I mean they're they're rolling back some err liberties already lah I mean now


because before this was it was now as in like before this case, err the stadiums err


is the first country in the world and the only if I'm not wrong the only country where they open the stadiums, to allow people to watch, so, but then now I think they're holding back some restrictions already lah so I'm not sure what's going to happen but


but !oi! is only auckland <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> only auckland, ya only auckland <mandarin>而已啦:er yi la</mandarin> so, !aiya! so !aiya! I don't know lah is is quite


#tio bo# like you and then you think about it like, there's only four months from now eh, ya I mean I'm praying for the best I praying for the best also lah but, you know it ya so


eh but you know if there's good news maybe next year, err <mandarin>新年你会在:xin nian ni hui zai</mandarin> Singapore, for the first time in three years


uh, ya lor but at least at least at least in Singapore what, err no eh, no eh imagine if ya okay err no circuit breaker everything release already but then they still got


(ppl) !aiya! okay already I think it's (err), okay then I I will pause [ah] in three I will stop it in three two one


hi yvonne it has been quite a while since we last met how have you been


then sometimes I'll help out with the housework and sometimes I'll watch a bit of dramas here and there lor


ah but actually outside very hot also lah sometimes hor I <mandarin>冲好凉:chong hao liang</mandarin> step out of the toilet <mandarin>就满身大汗:jiu man shen da han</mandarin> leh then everyday at home I just on the air-con lor


my socks ah soak until I can squeeze one singapore river out you know


!huh! <mandarin>我没有听过这个:wo mei you ting guo zhe ge</mandarin> news leh


[orh] ya lor eh anyway have you been watching dramas lately, ya <mandarin>我在看:wo zai kan</mandarin> korean drama I was watching crash landing on you you know #hyun bin# <mandarin>他超级无敌帅:ta chao ji wu di shuai</mandarin> in the show


uh ya secret garden


oh basically it's a <mandarin>爱情故事:ai qing gu shi</mandarin> lor so #hyun bin# is like a north korean soldier, who like he's he's patrolling around the demilitarised zone, then very ridiculously one day the female lead landed in north korea while paragliding


then like because it's his, he and his men <mandarin>的疏忽:de shu hu</mandarin> uh who who let her to coming in into north korea so he, he cannot like report her or anything so he had to


because he has to protect his men mah because it was his men who like , not like like uh like, he has he protected her then along the way they just


fell in love with each other lor


oh but okay lah I think like besides the romance right the show got show like how the north korean's live


then, <mandarin>你懂他们没有冰箱的:ni dong ta men mei you bing xiang de</mandarin> leh and then like the show like show them like preserving their meats with like salt, and then every night


oh, like <mandarin>那个女主角是最:na ge nv zhu jue shi zui</mandarin> lucky <mandarin>的因为那个女主角是演:de yin wei na ge nv zhu jue shi yan</mandarin> like from south korea <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so she didn't need to like change her accent or anything


but ya lor, you see ah the country like so many people tried to escape the country


[orh] <mandarin>我只懂他是那个:wo zhi dong ta shi na ge</mandarin> #kim soo hyun#, so <mandarin>好看吗我我有想要看:hao kan ma wo wo you xiang yao kan</mandarin> lah but then phase two Liao so like uh <mandarin>有一点忙:you yi dian mang</mandarin> lor what is the drama about


oh sound interesting leh like <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> like, topic <mandarin>没有听过:mei you ting guo</mandarin> the <mandarin>题材:ti cai</mandarin> like quite <mandarin>新鲜:xin xian</mandarin> right


suddenly <mandarin>完完:wan wan</mandarin> change topic change <mandarin>到这样远:dao zhe yang yuan</mandarin> ah, but okay superpower <mandarin>让我想一下:rang wo xiang yi xia</mandarin> ah


so if I can <mandarin>瞬间移动:shun jian yi dong</mandarin> right !wah!


so then how about you what superpower will you want


oh ya then then ya this sounds like a very good superpower


to make the world a better place to live in, and since you mentioned about superpowers, have you watched like the avengers before


oh okay so like uh which superhero do you like most, I think the guy who acted as like captain america, what's his name again ah, err


oh okay lah but <mandarin>我也没有这样花痴:wo ye mei you zhe yang hua chi</mandarin> lah okay out of all the avengers I think I like iron man the most lah cause, he's really very smart and it but it's just that his superpower is like he build that, armor suit lor


[orh] ya lor I'm I'm not sure if like


like they were because I heard like there will still be some avengers movie but I'm not sure they will make him like what <mandarin>起死回生:qi si hui sheng</mandarin> or something like that, but anyway ya <mandarin>虽然我觉得:sui ran wo jue de</mandarin> captain america <mandarin>很帅:hen shuai</mandarin> then <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>我蛮喜欢:wo man xi huan</mandarin> iron man but if I have to choose I want to be spiderman because he's very fast and then he's very witty


!wah! <mandarin>你把那个:ni ba na ge</mandarin> super villain in the show <mandarin>想成:xiang cheng</mandarin> like oh !wah! <mandarin>想成他:xiang cheng ta</mandarin> like


tangible benefits but <mandarin>那个地球的未来:na ge di qiu de wei lai</mandarin> who knows when the earth will be disrupted


because of COVID so like people like sometimes we avoid eating outside right, then people always Dabao food, and then some people take so many cutleries eh like <mandarin>一个人是有五张嘴就对了:yi ge ren shi you wu zhang zui jiu dui le</mandarin> they go home they cannot use their own metal spoon and fork meh


ya actually hor singapore should really just enforce the bring your own bag <mandarin>的计划:de ji hua</mandarin> like I think, ten years ago when I was like fifteen when I first went taiwan right, I was like I got a culture shock you know because like they already started charging for plastic bags and then some shops also don't give like


like because I have never experienced it before what then I went to buy something and then they don't give me plastic bag at that time I still thought like !huh! <mandarin>为什么你们的:wei shen me ni men de</mandarin> plastic bag <mandarin>都不要给我:dou bu yao gei wo</mandarin> then like more a lot of the stalls also started using paper bags which which are like because paper mah it's recyclable but don't know why singapore is not doing it


ya, ya and also recycling lor you know like err <mandarin>我去日本旅游:wo qu ri ben lv you</mandarin> right, while there <mandarin>我住:wo zhu</mandarin> Airbnb <mandarin>全部的:quan bu de</mandarin> Airbnbs right they expect you to sort out the recyclables properly, like they will uh have like different bins for like general waste like combustibles recyclables so actually should really just start in singapore lah our rubbish our recycling bins right those that the very big ones like below our blocks are just full of rubbish [orh] because like people just walk past and treat it as normal rubbish bin eh


no leh <mandarin>什么来的没有听过:shen me lai de mei you ting guo</mandarin> leh


oh, you mean the selective selective act attention is it selective attention it's like KFC lor, I think quite good already leh I always see like people right <mandarin>一直按那个:yi zhi an na ge</mandarin> straw from <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> dispenser then <mandarin>按很多出来因为他按很多出来:an hen duo chu lai yin wei ta an hen duo chu lai</mandarin> then <mandarin>没有人就会要用那个外面的了:mei you ren jiu hui yao yong na ge wai mian de le</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>有时候按太多到有些掉在地上:you shi hou an tai duo dao you xie diao zai di shang</mandarin> cannot use already and then like last time they used to put the saucers right to put the sauce <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> to put the chilli sauce the outside then I see some people Koping a lot of saucers home eh


ya but have to start from young and like start in school lor I think it is like quite hard to change their mindset of like our parents or our grandparents' generations though, because like it is their lifestyle to do all these things already like I tell my mum like mummy <mandarin>不要用这样多:bu yao yong zhe yang duo</mandarin> plastic bag but then she is like


so like, the government needs to maybe make it a law like fine them like a few months ago remember like uh when like uh COVID first came in


until the government imposed that three hundred dollars fine and then like have to get people to go around catching them


very funny lor you know like I watch their, I think their parliamentary so like they were saying uh why they don't want to wear mask lah then because they say like


I heard they say something very funny they say uh you do you know why we don't wear mask, it's the same reason why we don't wear underwear because things got to breathe <mandarin>他们神经病的:ta men shen jing bing de</mandarin> lor like because of <mandarin>他们的:ta men de</mandarin> rights then they don't care about like public health because wearing like mask is like for public health mah like if I wear mask then


so ya lor so <mandarin>你觉得人类会怎样被:ni jue de ren lei hui zen yang bei</mandarin> extinct leh because of this climate change


uh ya lor important to like the ecosystem right, but I think right we might be wiped out by another pandemic leh you see in two thousand and three during SARS we thought it was very bad already I <mandarin>我几个星期不可以去读书:wo ji ge xing qi bu ke yi qu du shu</mandarin> my parents <mandarin>都觉得:dou jue de</mandarin> it's a huge problem Liao and <mandarin>那时候:na shi hou</mandarin> I don't remember like my


parents like needing to work from home I remember they still went to work leh, and but you look at COVID nineteen now, the kids couldn't go to school for like what two months leh and then like my sister from march until now still working at home you know it has been what five months already


ya lor and then like I think the worst thing is like what the economy <mandarin>你看每个国家:ni kan mei ge guo jia</mandarin> like <mandarin>这边:zhe bian</mandarin> lockdown <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> lockdown then !wah! I don't know this, we will like


!wah!, what err I, Wuhan is it, so, so how did the trip go


and, !wah! china the last time I step foot in china was like what err let me think, I think about sixteen ago sixteen years ago when I was like twelve years old my parents like brought me there like as a reward after PSLE


I went to Beijing that time so which part of china did you visit


!wah! but uh Beijing ah, honestly it's like quite long ago eh like <mandarin>十六年前:shi liu nian qian</mandarin> I can't really remember lah but I, remember I did went to <mandarin>万里长城:wan li chang cheng</mandarin> lor although <mandarin>我好像没有爬到完:wo hao xiang mei you pa dao wan</mandarin> eh I remember


gentle, and also like when I went it was winter so I only remember me like !wah! panting really hard


oh <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我以为爬得完:wo yi wei pa de wan</mandarin> eh I think like , there's a certain distance that <mandarin>他讲说你从下面爬:ta jiang shuo ni cong xia mian pa</mandarin> you're supposed to <mandarin>爬到那里:pa dao na li</mandarin> lah but I think <mandarin>我都没有爬到那个可能:wo dou mei you pa dao na ge ke neng</mandarin> like first stop or something like that


but anyways, last time [orh] people always very scared to go china because of rumours oh the toilet <mandarin>没有门:mei you men</mandarin> or like <mandarin>很肮脏:hen ang zang</mandarin> or like <mandarin>那个我听以前我听我妈妈讲她去上海的时候:na ge wo ting yi qian wo ting wo ma ma jiang ta qu shang hai de shi hou</mandarin> right <mandarin>她去吃东西:ta qu chi dong xi</mandarin> then like <mandarin>有那个:you na ge</mandarin> rats running around in the restaurants


oh ya lor like coffee shop the toilet right <mandarin>我是绝对不会去的因为真的很肮脏:wo shi jue dui bu hui qu de yin wei zhen de hen ang zang</mandarin> like I don't know why people like to step on the toilet bowls, when they go to the toilet, or like sometimes they I don't know how the toilets get choke also lah then <mandarin>好像没有人管这样:hao xiang mei you ren guan zhe yang</mandarin> lor


and but we are still using cash like most of the times in singapore and also err I just heard they started using five g already is it


ha ya lor


the <mandarin>马桶:ma tong</mandarin> right <mandarin>可以洗屁股:ke yi xi pi gu</mandarin> and <mandarin>可以保温的:ke yi bao wen de</mandarin> leh, just that the


but err I guess this is also one of the memorable part of the travelling lah like to interact with the people there


oh ya but I think, I think the thing about like food in japan is like they really very <mandarin>讲究的:jiang jiu de</mandarin> quality, but and like they really sell things which are really fresh lah and like <mandarin>我每次去那种:wo mei ci qu na zhong</mandarin> uh market right


but, ya things are really quite expensive in japan like you say the three four dollars for a packet of fresh milk actually <mandarin>在那里你买也是蛮贵的:zai na li ni mai ye shi man gui de</mandarin> Liao uh


but I think, <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> [orh], uh <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> singapore there is like really nice ramen also if you really like ramen like with globalisation right anything can be found everywhere, you know those Calbee chips that people always buy back as souvenirs from japan


those like I think, put in cups then they look a bit like french fries but then it's crunchy one


ya lah <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> don-don-donki like sell <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> imported goods Liao I used to buy back a lot you know like all these snacks I have to because my mom right she will always but want to buy back for like colleagues and friend so like like after our tour then she will go and like purposely want us to go and find all these shops to buy the luggage ah <mandarin>挤啊挤啊挤啊:ji a ji a ji a</mandarin> just to bring back for others


oh err ramen the one I tried is called like uh Marutama ramen, at #tiong bahru# there lor, I think what's special is that like their broth is, like, oh like when I eat ramen lah I really like the broth lah I keep drinking their soup one I think the broth is really good and I think it's made from chicken


and <mandarin>好像没有加味精的:hao xiang mei you jia wei jing de</mandarin> leh, eh <mandarin>我记得你很怕猪肉的味道:wo ji de ni hen pa zhu rou de wei dao</mandarin> hor like usually ramen the soup is like a Tonkatsu made from like <mandarin>猪骨:zhu gu</mandarin> so I think you will really like this one eh


uh I'm not sure if if it is really near leh cause I think I took the train straight there and I don't really know the exact address lah but ah let's find a date then we meet up with the rest then you will find out whether it's near where we used to work or not


(mmhmm)


(hmm), what will it be ah, I think hor, I will choose hotpot you know why because there are so many <mandarin>汤底:tang di</mandarin> that you can choose from, so like on some days right when <mandarin>你觉得你没有胃口:ni jue de ni mei you wei kou</mandarin> you can drink the tomato soup like <mandarin>酸酸的:suan suan de</mandarin> then <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> like


on days where like you feel like you need a challenge or like you feel very stressful or you feel very sad you can go for <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> lor


and also like you can put whatever you want in, like , those those with those ingredients with like fish paste that kind it will become #yong tau foo#


but I think like the thing about hotpot is that , is the feeling of everybody eating together lah which is why I really like eating hotpot


oh actually ya lah like usually <mandarin>菜饭:cai fan</mandarin> is like my go-to also it's like the best if you want to eat balanced meal like if you eat <mandarin>鸡饭:ji fan</mandarin> right they only give chicken and rice they don't even give the cucumbers anymore


or like if you eat <mandarin>鱼丸面:yu wan mian</mandarin> it's just a piece of pathetic like lettuce, make me add money when like, I wanted to have when I when I want to have like more vegetables in my meal


ha but I think like eating right is the best if you can cook lor but unfortunately I can't cook lah can you


, !huh!, cooking need common sense one meh like what common sense


!aiya! but I think


or simply I will just go Dabao lor


err I will probably try to learn like because err I think <mandarin>大人可以吃外面的:da ren ke yi chi wai mian de</mandarin> then if I have kids like <mandarin>小孩子:xiao hai zi</mandarin> it's better for them to eat like home cooked food also lah, like but probably very simple dishes lor


but if like my husband or my kids like really eat likes like fried food then I'll tell them [orh] sorry lor <mandarin>你在外面吃了才回来:ni zai wai mian chi le cai hui lai</mandarin> lah


like everytime when my mum wants to cook fried food I always tell her !aiya! we just eat outside lah, but ah ya lah <mandarin>外面 他们:wai mian ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>一直从用那个油一样的油:yi zhi cong yong na ge you yi yang de you</mandarin> I think, then <mandarin>我妈妈讲在家用的油是:wo ma ma jiang zai jia yong de you shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>新鲜的:xin xian de</mandarin> mah like she don't reuse the oil


oh air fryer ah I don't leh I don't I don't have air fryer but last time uh when my friend right she got a new house then we bought a air fryer for her as like a housewarming gift lah, so I ask her like oh how is it like the air fryer she say actually it's convenient but then the inside <mandarin>很难清洗:hen nan qing xi</mandarin> lor


so like my mom usually just throw all those ready food like what uh seafood


add what seaweed chicken and nuggets into the oven to <mandarin>烘:hong</mandarin> lor, and it works also leh so like I don't think we need a air fryer also


but !wah! you even tried baking ah like my mom she's a good baker so <mandarin>我只是出一张嘴就可以了:wo zhi shi chu yi zhang zui jiu ke yi le</mandarin> lor I just eat whatever that she bake, but even though my mom has been baking for many many years right this kind of thing was still happen sometimes also like different recipes bake <mandarin>出来的东西:chu lai de dong xi</mandarin> will taste different one


err no eh I never thought of it before because my mom uh, she don't she only bakes when she's in a good mood, like she says <mandarin>心情好的时候我做出来的东西比较好吃:xin qing hao de shi hou wo zuo chu lai de dong xi bi jiao hao chi</mandarin> so like when like she is maybe upset with something like she will refuse to do anything lah and then like she ever like try to bake when like she wasn't in a really very good mood then like <mandarin>做出来东西她一直觉得:zuo chu lai dong xi ta yi zhi jue de</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>不好吃:bu hao chi</mandarin> although like <mandarin>我是真的吃不出:wo shi zhen de chi bu chu</mandarin> lah


so I don't think she can bake for a living, lor, like uh bake <mandarin>玩玩就好:wan wan jiu hao</mandarin> and like, and she's working also mah so she don't have the she working full time also so she don't have the time also, and like I think food and beverage is


and I think being a , a hawker <mandarin>也好还是:ye hao hai shi</mandarin> baker <mandarin>也好:ye hao</mandarin> I think quite <mandarin>辛苦:xin ku</mandarin> so usually have to work very long hours like I always see those videos they interview like hawkers or like bakers they they have to like wake up at like what err <mandarin>三四五点:san si wu dian</mandarin> to like start going to the shop to prepare the ingredients and all


!huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> meh <mandarin>我没有听过:wo mei you ting guo</mandarin> eh so <mandarin>夸张:kua zhang</mandarin> leh but, ya lor , all these desserts right are like super expensive, like uh egg tart uh I'm not sure if you ate one like err I bought one from, I think


at the basement of Takashimaya, !wah! <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> egg tart <mandarin>要:yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>三块钱:san kuai qian</mandarin> leh eh <mandarin>三块钱:san kuai qian</mandarin> I can eat a proper meal, eh but <mandarin>刚才你讲到那个发糕的:gang cai ni jiang dao na ge fa gao de</mandarin> right my mum also bake like a steam <mandarin>发糕:fa gao</mandarin> right she she also don't allow us into the kitchen you know because like like <mandarin>乱乱讲话:luan luan jiang hua</mandarin> right then like the <mandarin>发糕真的没有发:fa gao zhen de mei you fa</mandarin> leh so it's so funny


and, and ya lor so the desserts are like really expensive now


ya ya is eh ya ya Taichung Taichung correct they got like new flavours now like I think recently I tried some pandan flavour one


oh ya lah but then <mandarin>香:xiang</mandarin> is <mandarin>香:xiang</mandarin> lah but I feel like sometimes it's not really worth it because like it's really very expensive


ah, no leh I only drink Liho now lor because like the first time I drank it right I didn't drink ah any bubble tea anymore but, I'm trying to cut down on bubble tea because it's like really unhealthy lah I think


all these foods right have to eat in moderation lor, yeah


oh I think it's like , some chinese tea ah <mandarin>大红袍:da hong pao</mandarin> milk tea I like because of the aroma lor ya have you try it before, oh okay I think that


I think next time we can like try it together I will treat you ya, okay okay we will talk next time bye


ya it has been quite some time I think I'm good lah generally, okay lor life has pretty has been pretty much the same


cannot do much with this virus out there I've been spending most of my time at home


!wah! so <mandarin>乖:guai</mandarin> still help your mother do housework, !wow! !wah! I really <mandarin>变成猪:bian cheng zhu</mandarin> I haven't, I haven't do exercise for like damn long already, this is why although I have a park downstairs this virus makes it very difficult for me, to go and to even want to go down to exercise there's a lot of people outside I don't know why everybody is training for olympics or what


and I also have I used to go down to the badminton court below my block to play badminton but I don't I cannot do it anymore because there's, some, a group of people playing some, I don't know what


some ball downstairs very noisy lah, a lot of excuses


!wah! so rich


, your socks can squeeze out so much water like a river


luckily !wah! <mandarin>真的很怕人:zhen de hen pa ren</mandarin> luckily singapore quite free from all these natural disasters, but I think things uh might be different, when things might change with climate change


ya you know drama is not really my style lor right, anyway <mandarin>你在看什么戏:ni zai kan shen me xi</mandarin> korean drama ah your korean drama


#hyun bin# uh who ah that that guy from the secret garden ah, [orh]


uh <mandarin>我只知道:wo zhi zhi dao</mandarin> err <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> jawline <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sharp lah


!wow!, love story so typical of korean drama , !huh! then then <mandarin>我是男的我都不喜欢我看了那个:wo shi nan de wo dou bu xi huan wo kan le na ge</mandarin> trailer then <mandarin>我讲:wo jiang</mandarin> okay I'm not going to watch this drama


[orh], !huh!


!wah!, so ancient like <mandarin>古代:gu dai</mandarin> like that, then hor <mandarin>我看他们的钱:wo kan ta men de qian</mandarin> hor


!huh! [orh], oh anyway <mandarin>我看只有:wo kan zhi you</mandarin> I think only the leader and his family <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> afford to <mandarin>出国读书:chu guo du shu</mandarin> lor


anyway <mandarin>我看他们要出国:wo kan ta men yao chu guo</mandarin> anyway to, keep up with current affairs so that they can know how to, like hide things from their people don't let their people know that okay actually <mandarin>外面那么发达的:wai mian na me fa da de</mandarin> and try to keep up with times to


earn money from it, anyway hor <mandarin>我有我在看那个:wo you wo zai kan na ge</mandarin> korean drama leh are you surprised


there <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> lor , my first korean drama I think in like, five years, the last one I was like I think goblin, anyway <mandarin>我也不知道什么风我看到那个戏的:wo ye bu zhi dao shen me feng wo kan dao na ge xi de</mandarin> poster <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> !wah!


anyway <mandarin>我在看那个:wo zai kan na ge</mandarin> it's okay not to be okay have you heard of it


anyway <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> drama is about like, healing


problems in real life and how do you move on in life


anyway [orh] <mandarin>他虽然在:ta sui ran zai</mandarin> netflix <mandarin>很红:hen hong</mandarin> lah but I I but it's not really doing well in korea


but I think right that the korean audience should really be the ones watching leh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他们的那个社会:ta men de na ge she hui</mandarin> hor


the highest, mortality rate for youth right is actually from suicide leh, I didn't know, that in singapore <mandarin>他也是这样高:ta ye shi zhe yang gao</mandarin> leh, until recently <mandarin>我看到那个:wo kan dao na ge</mandarin> news <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang</mandarin> actually the leading cause of mortality for youth and young adult in singapore is also suicide so scary leh I think it's also a serious public health problem


anyway oh I came across an interesting question that day then I thought that I should also ask you I am interested to know what your response will be like, okay so the question is if you, can have any unusual superpower what would it be


!wah! <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> power <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> cool <mandarin>好像很有用:hao xiang hen you yong</mandarin> like very very useful superpower to have, , for me I think


I would want the ability to influence the thinking of like the world the of the people in the world, like <mandarin>洗脑:xi nao</mandarin> for the whole world


both, like a dictator control your actions and thoughts, but anyway I think, the world is like not in a very good state now and nothing much can be done, to make the work, a better place like at a at a large scale


although individual effort and small group effort can help but I think it's really, too small to change the world for the better lor


!hannor! !hannor! <mandarin>更不用讲直接把他们的脑:geng bu yong jiang zhi jie ba ta men de nao</mandarin> directly change them make them like that believe that they are born that way, like reboot their whole system


ya I think I watched like the first episode the first the avengers, and the last two, is it endgame or what actually <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I <mandarin>我不太记得太多集了:wo bu tai ji de tai duo ji le</mandarin> lah but anyway I think I <mandarin>我有:wo you</mandarin> watch


haha, but <mandarin>我记得他:wo ji de ta</mandarin> lah but I don't really know the individual characters like very well I know only like captain america iron man spider man


and the black panther ya those <mandarin>小小:xiao xiao</mandarin> one, I don't remember <mandarin>因为我没有真的追全部的:yin wei wo mei you zhen de zhui quan bu de</mandarin> avengers movie


[orh], then <mandarin>他没有:ta mei you</mandarin> superpower right but iron man so sad leh, I love you three thousand he died in the movie


<mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> that that kid lah that spider man that kid lah but still go to high school oh I don't remember what he does actually I only remember he <mandarin>飞来飞去飞来飞去:fei lai fei qu fei lai fei qu</mandarin> all around the building to save people


for if I, were to, be a superhero right I think I will be thanos haha, I think he's like really powerful lor to be able to fight all the avengers like


all of them, also cannot fight him eh still need to use so many methods, and still need to have so many tries to be able to, defeat him, and anyway right <mandarin>虽然他:sui ran ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>很像是:hen xiang shi</mandarin> that that bad guy the most evil guy in the world


but I think , I think like he's wiping out half the population so that, there will be more enough resources for like all the people in the world


cause it's like overpopulation now, and the damage to like, with like less population the damage to the earth will be not be so huge lor


of course this is like, and I also don't know like if other planet is really is suitable for us to live in it's like okay maybe those rich people run there


they maybe like, they cannot accommodate so many people then the place will self destruct and they will also die there, so lame anyway right the climate change is bad now leh I think it's no longer called the climate change it's called like


climate emergency, then although there are so many activists promoting the cause right, I think like it's really not enough lor


ya lor ya lor I don't know they take so many for what leh, I never take one if my parents as or who take [orh] I will scold them, that day right last saturday I went to the supermarket with my auntie, then hor, we we were buying things then we were when we were making payment at the cashier I took out my recycle bag I was like okay


I told the cashier okay K, then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就放进我的:wo jiu fang jin wo de</mandarin> recycle bag lor


ya lor why like we so <mandarin>先进:xian jin</mandarin> but so but yet still so <mandarin>落后:luo hou</mandarin> I don't know why lah like, developed but still developing but, I think maybe implementation <mandarin>会一点:hui yi dian</mandarin> problem lor difficult to get to gain the stakeholder buy-in like so like the people will think like okay


ya lor so angry leh if I see those people ah like I'll be I'll be so angry I will scold them, because I really recycle very seriously, I will separate my paper, and plastic and others, and I will definitely not put


what can not be recycled inside, anyway I think hor this all because of selective attention have you heard of selective attention


you know paper cups or paper cover straws and plastic bags a lot of things there are all made out of plastics, but the restaurants the retail shops, just act <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> kind to the environment and just ban like okay ban the straw then


ask you to bring your own bag, then, other things right people will still anyhow use is like if they don't mention people will think that okay


to really solve the problem right we need to like, we need educate the public like, plastic what is not good and what is bad and really to mitigate the climate problem right


we need to have like clean energy and like, proper ways to rear the meat animals lor like the, like the cattle, breeding the cattle really emits a lot of uh methane which is really really bad for the climate for the environment


and, [orh] this is bad this is bad then it will like mislead the other the public


to think that others are good, ya lah


plastic product mindlessly, anyway just half education is like really more dangerous than no education