okay okay that was good, so hello hello Chan, ya <mandarin>我可以听到:wo ke yi ting dao</mandarin> so like you can hear me right


okay ah that's good that's good, so what've what've you been doing today bro


!wah! <mandarin>可爱啊可爱啦:ke ai a ke ai la</mandarin> okay then what you all do with her, !wah! <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> spice level five ah


!wah!, oh, wait


today ah today I've been working on some project lor it's actually I'm writing an essay I guess like article, ya lor <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor, about, actually about like thinking about how


dance and learning can be integrated <mandarin>好像它们很:hao xiang ta men hen</mandarin> , similar lor but also not really lah, because both is very non-linear


ya lor bit <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> right but ya lah, recently a bit lah ya a bit


I mean ya lah I still working on it,


ah eh just now you are telling me about this what <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> rat thingy or something challenge, oh ya mouse challenge


!wah!, ten thousand not bad not bad


true lah, wait then how do we get this mouse sia


it's like it's like a bit like geocaching like that right


like <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> different places and you try and find that kind of thing right


oh not bad not bad quite cool


[orh] so it's like cumulative <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah, get first prize get first prize bro


true, sure let's try let's try dude, but this year online one means what ah how are they restructuring it


!wah! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> Telegram


I didn't know Telegram <mandarin>有这么厉害:you zhe me li hai</mandarin> [orh], ya lah but Telegram can conduct such a big, like <mandarin>这么大的:zhe me da de</mandarin> exercise quite


can ah can ah share lor, okay ah let's go


!wah! supermarket !wah! <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> quite generic sia, but okay lah, !wah! but this one it's like they're talking about the brand or they're talking about like <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> specific supermarket


[orh], but I thought must I thought must be venue mah


oh ya hor [orh]


[orh] <mandarin>所以我们从那个:suo yi wo men cong na ge</mandarin> Telegram hint, we figure out which shopping centre lah or which supermarket lah, then we three


[orh] [ho] [ho]


that's a bit <mandarin>奇怪:qi guai</mandarin> ah, , what kind of hint is that sia


true then those people that <mandarin>找到那个:zhao dao na ge</mandarin> houses then what happened after that ah they go to Google maps


oh guess the


oh, !wah!, amazing


!wah! GG lor


I know a friend ah he does all this kind of servicing <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> Yishun ah, not bad eh ya his price he give you fifty percent off, but actually if you spend a lot ah you know it's damn Shiok one he even lend you this what


Porsche or something for a week, I don't know lah or maybe the company lah <mandarin>但是他:dan shi ta</mandarin> really eh cause one of my, one of my friend's friends lah actually he service damn expensive then


he rented, for either damn free or, I mean damn low price or for free lah it's Porsche or something like that, for ya quite Shiok


[orh], [orh] !wah!


[orh]


oh, [orh] <mandarin>是那个:shi na ge</mandarin> blue SG <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> servicing <mandarin>对吗:dui ma</mandarin> or what


[orh] !wah!, !aiyo!, then


circuit <mandarin>还有两个:hai you liang ge</mandarin> lor, but almost done lah, soon ah join you soon bro


see how lor not sure, maybe ya maybe drive a bit on weekend or something like that


see how bro I steady one bro


not say easy lah but a bit more, intuitive, ya actually quite okay eh I find it quite okay <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> why


ya parallel <mandarin>也:ye</mandarin> okay eh <mandarin>不知道:bu zhi dao</mandarin> why people say like quite hard, no lah, so


I mean currently parents I guess, GG but I mean ya lah lucky lah, not sure, I mean right now I not enough lah


how come


, I'm gone bro I think we need to, take a break, GG, I mean


like


then how was she feeling eh, [orh] I mean but, ya, but you know lah


like <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> like, ya, ya lah but she will get over it one lah I think,


how to solve the puzzle


[orh] so the mouse is at that postal code is it so


ya lah understand oh <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> ah


postal code right like someone's house that one is what, like if someone found that postal code already that means he won already or what


oh so the person that found the house postal code is <mandarin>不对:bu dui</mandarin> one lah


one ah, not, oh so this year they had another edition of it lah


!wah!, but how come suddenly <mandarin>他们这么多:ta men zhe me duo</mandarin> like money eh


the previous one eh, ya lah


then why this one got <mandarin>这么多:zhe me duo</mandarin> compared to the previous one, [orh] so it's like alternate between <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> ten thousand and <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> five thousand


oh, then what does OCBC get out of this


!wah! that is quite, ya lah


[orh] okay understand, , okay [orh] then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> send <mandarin>我那个:wo na ge</mandarin> link [orh], then I take a look


ya got Telegram, don't know eh, currently you got any progress or not


but, you say that like wait so you when you try and answer the questions <mandarin>他们会:ta men hui</mandarin> give you like


[orh], ah


like can you just whack again try and give different answer, [orh]


[orh] but if you, then you can just continue lah, I can go win streak like them


[orh] okay understand !wah!, that's quite !wah! okay


wait the winner's house is the, bro that is legit insane yo


guess ah


what item item as in what <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> item, [orh] <mandarin>所以那个:suo yi na ge</mandarin> final answer <mandarin>是一个地方:shi yi ge di fang</mandarin> then also <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> level


uh like <mandarin>一旁:yi pang</mandarin> like next to a item lah, [orh]


[orh], cause later you get it then they don't tell you anything


true


[orh], but they never say which franchise of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> supermarket lah


#Sheng Siong# <mandarin>也是两个:ye shi liang ge</mandarin> colour, ya


!huh! really ah, , oh, oh I think ya the new one got two only right


ya, true, but then they say it's five hundred metres from <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> supermarket


[orh], !wah!


a bit, vague ah, within five hundred


which is which one


[orh] [orh], !huh! that is so vague I mean that's that's like an empty clue


!wah!


, ya lor <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> [orh] !huh! it's it's not individual one ah


[orh], ah are you here to find, one thousand dollars ten thousand dollars of cash , !wah!


, eh


oh


oh, GG


[orh]


wait ah, I take a look at the, oh lmao


today you spend your three hints already ah, !wah! that's pro bro, wait have you coded a Telegram a Telegram bot before


quite cool


ya but the Telegram bot can like, do a lot of things eh like besides chat they can do like buttons this kind of thing, sqkii [orh] sqkii bot as in the current the mice one ah


ya lor <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> [orh], , quite cool think there's a, wait ah let me find


planning board or something like that, , !wah!, but ya lah


oh, no lah cause I heard, one of my friend created <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> planning board or something like that


but I don't understand lah, how cool though, <mandarin>忙:mang</mandarin> ah ya lor life <mandarin>就是这样:jiu shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor but got time to find the mice lah


!wah! <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> invest ah, !wah! actually, today damn


win Liao lor today the stock market rise, ah <mandarin>对对那个:dui dui na ge</mandarin> vaccine one is it, !wah! <mandarin>赢:ying</mandarin> Liao [loh]


!wah!, all those people in US ah !wah! celebrate


!huh! why you suddenly, mention trump


[orh] [orh] [orh], [orh] true at first I thought <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> biden win, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> stock market <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> rise


but, not really I mean, but Pfizer <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> separate what Pfizer <mandarin>是因为那个:shi yin wei na ge</mandarin> vaccine, right not because <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> biden


but the Pfizer one recently is caused by <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> vaccine what no meh, [orh]


I don't know I mean <mandarin>我还没有学怎么:wo hai mei you xue zen me</mandarin> invest lor


ya but <mandarin>我要开始学:wo yao kai shi xue</mandarin> lor but <mandarin>我不知道怎么开始:wo bu zhi dao zen me kai shi</mandarin> like where to start, really ah Youtube


!huh! what's that


!huh! oh then why would they, like


[orh]


[orh] okay okay understand, okay ah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> ah


hundred fifty dollars ah


!wah!


real estate isn't it a lot of like <mandarin>需要很多:xu yao hen duo</mandarin> capital


then how they, [orh] but okay lah


[orh], as in like <mandarin>他那个:ta na ge</mandarin> father <mandarin>有做:you zuo</mandarin> this kind of things ah, oh, !wah!


am I going to what


!huh! what ORD


sure, ya in you all reach Tinder ah main character is what


[orh] seriously ah <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> guy, but why


but the poison <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> guy yes like <mandarin>好像说也不是很:hao xiang shuo ye bu shi hen</mandarin> strong or anything


maybe maybe another day lah <mandarin>明天:ming tian</mandarin> or something


but, !wah! I don't know who to buy eh <mandarin>因为我有那个:yin wei wo you na ge</mandarin> free chest, uh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> free chest, either what uh, ya either Kai'Sa or like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> support or <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> damage one lor


I don't know who to get, [orh]


and is he good, support character what


no meh, I mean ya lah tank lah tank support, true but he's a tank lah


health pool lah


three blue one right, so essentially <mandarin>三个红色是那个:san ge hong se shi na ge</mandarin> losses or something like that lah then <mandarin>那个蓝色的是:na ge lan se de shi</mandarin> wins [orh]


so you have to either you have to win three before you lose three, something like, ya like hearthstone arena like that


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> ah ya, !wah! really ah you bronze one already ah


there isn't promotion match, ya lor


I think a bit of both lah, !wah! but, what you going ah, like


really ah, [orh], true true


end work quite late lah but, see how lah probably not lah <mandarin>因为我:yin wei wo</mandarin> end work, maybe ah ya


then, but wednesday <mandarin>应该可以:ying gai ke yi</mandarin> ah actually


!huh! [orh] okay, anything big, okay [orh] see how lah


nothing in particular maybe actually wait wednesday wednesday <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> actually tuesday <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> eleven eleven


eh <mandarin>对对:dui dui</mandarin> ya wednesday <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> eleven eleven, that means that means ah


true, true true true, ya I forgot I forgot today is tuesday already I still thought it's monday sia


ya lah, ya lah, ya lah true lah then after that body clock


not really eh as in anyway <mandarin>我现在:wo xian zai</mandarin> don't really need a lot of things like maybe,


so will be very <mandarin>便宜:pian yi</mandarin> one ah


!wah!, okay [orh] maybe maybe I buy, ya maybe I buy for now, screen I mean uh phone cover lah mainly, ya lor but I got the what is it the Samsung S ten E


I don't know eh I go to all the stalls around like #ang mo kio# <mandarin>这样他们:zhe yang ta men</mandarin> say <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> , they say very popular model


I don't think so eh I mean I got it from contract ah maybe other people also, but if I remember correctly <mandarin>有一些:you yi xie</mandarin> like what is it ah


no lah Apple too, too constrained lah !aiya!


[orh], really ah you will go meh


!wah!, actually not bad ah not bad


!wah! then like that it's not even coupling already


you know it's more like, or maybe more like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> , not really like what's the other one the, something like, no no no the, that one where they play <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> country song


and like more of like you just bite, <mandarin>喜欢那个:xi huan na ge</mandarin> atmosphere lah


like what is it


ya that one <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> using nose or mouth or swab or what I remember got one is, ya lor got one is different, (hmm)


[orh] lol, no <mandarin>应该不会:ying gai bu hui</mandarin> lah I don't think so but


see mood lor, !aiya! that one still quite long lah I think maybe


april <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> probably lah, actually <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> actually <mandarin>看那个:kan na ge</mandarin> vaccine lor <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> vaccine how fast


[orh], but I don't know, I think I never bother to read lah but I think maybe got some partnership or something ah I remember singapore got one article they say is


news in US or something like that, go through more regulations and <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> kind of


but ethical stuff hor, but I think got human trials started already, (hmm)


true, so, not a lot lah I mean actually recently not really ah


ya I didn't go I didn't go last year I didn't go past year I didn't go, eh, something like that ah


ya, stay there already lah as in not stay there lah but, uh study, you mean now or what <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> ya <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> quite


<mandarin>很乱:hen luan</mandarin> lah then got a lot of COVID a lot of rest, true lah I don't think I will go overseas anytime soon


oh, I not sure, okay lah


, maybe, don't know lah after this, maybe I settle a bit more articles then I sleep at ten PM


ya I trying to sleep early nowadays you know <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> good for <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> body you know


!wah! go jogging then go shopping, actually <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> jog <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> jog <mandarin>在哪里:zai na li</mandarin> ah


[orh], so from your house can run all the way there already lah or need to take bus or something


(hmm), !wah! not bad not bad


!wah!, girlfriend duties, !aiya!


but ya lah <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> lah, oh ya you, celebrating or not


oh when ah, !wah! like exactly oh at wait he celebrates meh


[orh] but <mandarin>他他:ta ta</mandarin> hosting as in like at his house or, oh shit he cooking ah, I mean other than turkey lah


like he cooking I think like he cooking all the stuff lah dishes, !wah!, not bad not bad


last year he also did it, ya that's why I don't remember eh, #chuan min# doing this kind of stuff


really meh, !huh! serious but firework <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> COVID


oh ya


or is it <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> can't remember, I remember ya got right


ya lor ya lor they still got firework what, [orh] ya lor, that's why if NDP can then new year <mandarin>应该可以:ying gai ke yi</mandarin> [bah]


rio still go, [orh], [orh] so he will still go lah


like like like four years back or something he that time he still not that staunch what, I mean


!wah!, that's good lah, ya, but what caused him to become more


spiritual, !wah! that's quite deep


ridiculous ah


!wah! whoever get that one strike lottery already sia


what you comment oh actually never mind, then, christmas


quite far lah, besides christmas got what other things coming along, Deepavali


wait Deepavali is it next week or something, what you say what do I want to what


!huh! why so random


[orh] so six as in six A <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>只有我们:zhi you wo men</mandarin> ah, he he ask in the group ah


then if you want then he will ask together in the group lah, ya lah confirm lah where got, ya lah


!wah! that's quite pro but wait does Jomin know about <mandarin>这这个:zhe zhe ge</mandarin> outing but he I don't think he'll want ah


!huh! are you serious, so that's the only person he want like he actually wants, !wah! are you actually serious <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah !wah!


but like but like I mean okay but I I I mean I get that feeling ah but <mandarin>我明白:wo ming bai</mandarin> lah ya a bit surprising surprising


any, !wah!, sure I mean quite cool to, see everyone again [orh] <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like how they are doing


!wah! whoever is listening to this quite funny, later the person also from six A eh hi


you never know what like this is a uni project what I think or something, ya <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> market that time <mandarin>说好玩:shuo hao wan</mandarin> eh I speech !aiya! don't know lah


but ya lor then possible what, ya quite funny ah


she's good


but <mandarin>现在他们两个都很老:xian zai ta men liang ge dou hen lao</mandarin> lor essentially they both


actually not like like essentially everyone is just very busy lah cause now also COVID improving then <mandarin>有更多:you geng duo</mandarin> like , documents, like


proceeding to continue with her, ya ya same location <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> ya


see how man now's not the time, actually it's like it's like how, one of my friends also he don't want go overseas eh cause


his girlfriend here quite ups lah, a sacrifice bro, ya


ya lah ya, probably, seven, actually earlier lah


ya six thirty or something like that, quite shag ah, it's a no go bro legit, odd odd working hours should be paid more bro actually it is


ya, exactly exactly I going bed soon already when ten O clock when ten O clock hit


!wah! actually, ya [lor] wednesday or something [lor], (mm) but wait [ah] (mm) [ah]


hi Reshma, did you just wake up


oh okay, why very tired is it, ya I was fine


is it because work stress or something like that, oh my god ya because of COVID and everything right the schedules are very jumbled up


oh my god actually I'm glad that I'm a student now I don't have to go work


ya, ya <tamil>வேலை செய்யனும் ஆனா காசு வருதுலே:velai seiyanum aanaa kaasu varu thulae</tamil> like five days work week <tamil>இருக்கும்:irukum</tamil> but then like <tamil>எப்பிடி சொல்றது:epidi solrathu</tamil>


ya I mean like


ya, ya like if even till today I need to like set aside certain amount of money for shopping for eating for buying stuff and everything like that


but if it's like we are working we are in charge of whatever that we get right so in a way it's better but you obviously you need planning lah if not then all your money you can just keep spending and nothing to save also


ya, ya it's hard like the thing is like when you're working right you, could like possibly get bored of what you're doing so its important to choose like a good career for yourself, like build a good career lah


it's okay it's okay


ya like, true like you know if I when I see people ya it continue


true true like I don't know how people from like our father's generation keep staying in the same company for like twenty years thirty years like I wonder how you all don't get bored but I think they like their career lah so maybe that's why


true true


ya, I know right, but working life is so much different from the student life and everything in terms of holidays and like breaks and everything you only get like two weeks of annual leave but then over here is a three months break just go enjoy and like is like the last four years


before you enter into like the corporate world or something you know so it's important to like have fun also, another thing there's a you know because of COVID and everything there's not much like movies or anything coming on is very boring like watching the same shows all over again


you know I wish there was like some varieties


ya it's like the new normal you know, , , and I'm pretty sure like after they open all the borders like tourism is going to go very high like you know


people are just gonna like just travel everywhere and anywhere they can, so that's one thing also, I can't wait to like travel and like try all the new food and the new please and stuff


just eat and sleep lah


ya, , ya we travelled one time this year


, me too but okay one good things Deepavali is coming up


so I can't wait for all the food and celebration and everything but it's going to be a very like a very how to say ah very quiet celebration this year, without any firecrackers or anything like that


oh that's good news, the oh oh oh, between the, okay, (mmhmm)


that's good news


ya, ya, I remember like, ya


I was like telling myself that like you know the next twenty twenty ya ya when like this new year started I was like this decade is going to be mine, because like I'm twenty one right so like my twenties are starting so I was telling myself that okay like you know this ten years is very important like career wise education wise and everything so I should make good use of everything but then you know


after like a few months and just stuck in singapore over here doing nothing just just online school and everything and I'm just like


actually that was actually suggested in the parliament if I'm not wrong, (hmm) after COVID like many people were working


when many people were like ah proposing like a four day work week but with slightly longer hours each day and then a three day like a off kind of thing because it's very stressful working five days and then like ah with the amount of like work we have it's very difficult to like you know take a proper break


from work and everything and then coming back


ya I mean that is good, because like I feel that in today's world right it's important to strike a balance between like your professional life and your private life if you don't right, it's going to be very difficult to manage things and like as you grow older like you need to keep up with the rigour right you won't have energy you will burn out very easily because we don't know like what to do and who to give attention to and stuff like that you know


so like that work life balance is so important right now that you know you need to have like a very strict things that you follow like during your off day and like workdays not that you shouldn't like mix business and like your personal life together


did you finish Deepavali shopping


Reshma, I can't hear you


ya ya I can hear you now it's okay continue, did you finish your Deepavali shopping


oh ya you were telling me about it, , (hmm)


as long as the person can give you by like friday then okay already lah


oh okay then you will quickly quicker but then like if you need to adjust a bit or whatever ya ya ya then try to find some shop who will do faster for you,


so like she, oh I've never heard of that, no


, oh


(hmm),


oh


how to say <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> a limited number of people <tamil>தான் அங்க:thaan anga</tamil> work <tamil>பண்ண முடியும்:panna mudiyum</tamil> then after they work it's like you know they have fixed number of hours like proper regulations to follow so these kind of works also will take a longer time to finish so that's like really bad for everybody lah but then no choice right now if they didn't follow I mean if they didn't put all these measures in place the spread would have been like not been able to control lah


like uncontrollable spread or something


probably get all those like ear muffs like noise cancelling year muffs and stuff like that maybe,


that's a bit too intense lah you know is like working in a hospital like that, , ya


like really lah really hope everything is gonna be over soon, so that you know at least you take a break for yourself and then like you know like rest well recharge a bit and then work


ya ya ya, true true you can just come over to my place anytime just be like I just want to sleep then you can just sleep do whatever you want no problem


, ya ya hello I'll just knock on the door and be like can I I need to sleep today and okay na the bed is yours


do you cook anything for lunch oh ya yesterday was fun


, !aiyo!


, !haiyo!, ya I know right it was just like raining, and then I'm just like you know oh my god it's such a nice weather to just simply sleep in so I just slept and I just woke up at like eleven something in the morning and I was like let's just get a brunch or something and I'm like done already


but I think that's one good thing about online because like you just have to be there for the particular class or like tutorial you don't have to be there like twenty four seven physically present like you get what I mean


all the way exactly as I save a lot of time like getting ready travelling and you know doing stuff like that, but one thing I miss is like my friends because like you know


uh there were a lot of people from like err the first year and everything but then because of COVID and everything I really can't keep in touch with them because you shift classes you go to different places and then like, you still don't know people from your own tutorial and then you just have to like create like a common room and be like hi im this module anybody can help me please you know that kind of thing


but ya but people are helpful in universities so it's a very good thing lah, ya


give me one minute ah, okay sorry sorry


!huh! my god I can't wait to go back to university and just you know have fun, really oh my god you just like trapped between four walls today I mean like for the past few months


sorry ah oh ya black friday is coming up eleven eleven is coming up do you have anything that you want to buy,


like what


no problem just order and then you just keep first and then later you ship it slowly


ah ya then on your birthday and then ya when is his birthday, oh K you will never forget, jesus you saved me


ya when you are like so busy and you are like !huh! what day is today is christmas oh ya it's his birthday okay I shouldn't forget


I know right, what are you planning to get him though, oh ya


Sonic ear ya Sonic ear , ya, for me it's good I feel that it's good and everything it's not too expensive but you see how because I don't know lah


okay maybe mine is the earlier model oh ya that's the latest one right, like it's fifty percent noise cancelling like when I put like the there's somethings I can't even hear when I take out I'm like oh okay this is the world okay people are a bit talking or something


, ah okay okay okay


ya sounds good ya


ya <tamil>அவன் உனக்கு:avan unaku</tamil> golden <tamil>லாம் வாங்கி கொடுத்தான் அதுக்கு ஏதாச்சும் பண்ணலாம்:laam vaangi koduthaan athuku ethaachum pannalaam</tamil> , , he really loves you lah


ya I know I know like oh ya and then right when you get to watch like metal or leather or whatever you can maybe ask them to like carve some personalised message at the back of it, oh okay


, ya ya, I think that would be like a nice surprise then maybe send him like I don't know uh okay not flowers but maybe


err, ya maybe something else, I don't know chocolates I don't know lah you are the you are the person to decide on that so it's fine


maybe food something that he's missing so so much


like if he comes here oh ya when he goes back to #abu dhabi#, !aiya! it's tough everywhere lah to be honest like even if I'm going back also have to see how it is and everything


find a place and stay there like hopefully by then by the time I go back to australia all the travel restrictions will be like eased down or something because, ah when I was reading the news like a few days ago apparently ah australia and singapore are in talks for travel and stuff like that because singapore it's pretty low now


but then like australia <tamil>வந்து அந்த அந்த மாதிரி பண்ணிட்டாங்கன்னா:vanthu antha antha maathiri pannitaanganaa</tamil> easy, a bit long winded but no choice


ya, the thing is ya


it's good to be fair, but wasting a lot of time plus like you know she's doing graduate medicine and like you know you just said you get older and older and then by the time you settle down I start your career as a doctor will be too late


exactly, , like when I was doing my A levels my father was asking me do you wanna do medicine and then I'm like no daddy like you know I am done with science that part of my life is over


then he was a bit like disappointed like !huh! you don't want to do medicine how about engineering or something like that, and then I'm like no, typical indians, so and then he was like IT IT anything like coding anything like that I'm like nop nop no mathematics nothing I mean I don't mind mathematics just the mathematics part is fine but then like engineering you need a lot of physics and everything I suck in physics so I was like you know the science part of my life is just over completely over I'm not gonna do that anymore and then like now and I'm doing psychology I have so much of like neuroscience to do


and then I'm like are you serious I said I didn't want any science you know what did I actually sign up for


neuro , neuroscience for psychologists then I'm like what's the difference lah,


true, I just can't wait for my exams to be over like once november twenty I finish my exam I'm just gonna tear down the roof I'm just gonna I'll just enjoy the remaining two months and then I'm going to go back


ya ya ya november twentieth is my last exam, no no no I only have one exam


assignments all over, ya , ya a bit


my mother wanted to keep it simple this year because we're not going out much and like just visiting only and then like err we not calling a lot of people home so as she was just like K just clean and then she's also very busy this year with work and everything she setting up her business and all that stuff


so she was like okay let's just buy like sweets and whatever outside I'll just make like a <tamil>பலகாரம்:palagaaram</tamil> at home then maybe like <tamil>அதிரசம்:athirasam</tamil> or something like that home and then <tamil>மத்ததெல்லாம் வெளியே பாத்துக்கலாம் அப்டினு சொல்லிட்டாங்க:mathathellaam veliyae paathukalaam apdinu solitaanga</tamil> because it's very like time consuming you know <tamil>அது உட்காந்து:athu utkaanthu</tamil> fry <tamil>பண்ணிகிட்டே இருக்கனும் அது அப்புறம் எடுத்து வைக்கணும்:pannikite irukanum athu appuram eduthu vaikanum</tamil> bake <tamil>பண்ணனும்:pannanum</tamil> a lot of work


but I think that's a that's like a part and parcel of doing it and it's like one whole weekend because like everybody's working and everything that's why my mother will only do it like every weekend kind of a thing


ya, ya like nowadays most people they just buy it outside you know Suji ah <tamil>இருக்கட்டும்:irukatum</tamil> Suji and like #gulab jamun#, there's so many new things now you know #gulab jamun# cheesecake lah #paneer jamun# so much ya ya ya


it's so good oh my goodness like my mum bought it for me one time when she came back from like some wedding in india, then she say okay okay don't complain ya and then she was like just eat it just eat it don't don't don't say anything then I was like I'll just eat one then I'm like oh my goodness what is this


ya I didn't want to say lah but then ya


ya, no, I've tried #gulab jamun# with ah Rabri have you heard a of Rabri before, okay next time you and I we are going to #kailash parbat# and I'll buy you that you you see how it goes


no it's not sorbet is just like this how to say the rubbery they just make it from the condensed milk and then they put almonds and like Suji and stuff inside it's very nice


and then like I had ah Rabri and #gulab jamun# like two weeks ago or something like that so like the #gulab jamun# was like hot and the Rabri was like cold and then when you mix both to I mean like when you cut a piece and then take a bit of Rabri and then you eat it like something like ice-cream and #gulab jamun#, it was amazing I was like it's better than ice-cream oh my goodness


no it's actually a perfect combination I was like !wow! I didn't know you know , ya ya ya I'm like what is that you know that kind of thing


, I know right I can't wait for all the Biryani people are going to make me especially my family is vegetarian, so that my mom only makes ghee rice or Pulao or something like that but you know when I go to my friend's house to like visiting and stuff they make like mutton Biryani chicken Briyani and stuff I can't wait


, really oh ya you say you don't eat mutton right, okay I'll bring you to one shop is pretty soft the mutton you try eating it then let me know


and then like I used to try in like different different shops like have you heard of Machan'S kitchen in Tekka, but then <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> rice leh <tamil>வந்து அவுங்க அந்த:vanthu avunga antha</tamil> mutton Briyani <tamil>செய்வாங்க:seivaanga</tamil> and the mutten is so soft and like nicely cooked and everything


and <tamil>நான் சாப்பிட மோது:naan saapida mothu</tamil> I'll be like !wow! so nice and then you should try the chicken curry the pepper chicken curry they have, and then like we were like you know we had like I don't know err the you know the coconut water they served coconut water as like a liquor substitute for water lah


because they wanted to be like some kind of ya ya it's very nice and then it was very cooling for the body also and you know how heaty meat can be right once you eat it and everything, so as to neutralise it they can pass you coconut water then I'm drinking the coconut water eating the chicken I mean mutton Biryani the chicken curry it is so good we should go there


, let me know when you have like off, it's a food paradise what like not just indian food a lot like malay a malay food chinese food it's so good


it's so accessible right in singapore


ya like this recently my friend went to melbourne last year december to visit her brother and then she was saying like <tamil>தடுக்கி விட்டா:tadukki vitta</tamil> tamil <tamil>கடையா இருக்கு எனக்கு கடுப்பா இருக்கு:kadaiyaa iruku enaku kadupaa iruku</tamil>


ya <tamil>அது தான் இருக்கு:athu thaan iruku</tamil> like north indian dishes <tamil>தான் நெறைய இருக்கும்:thaan neraiya irukum</tamil> and like Swadesh <tamil>போகும் போது:pogum pothu</tamil> they will have like <tamil>இட்லி மாவு:idli maavu</tamil> and everything and then you have to make it yourself at home


apparatus ya ya ya


, and this time I'm going australia I'm trying everything just save up all the money I have now, just go there and the next two years I don't care about anything , oh ya okay (mmhmm)


ya


that's nice


, ya that's one good thing about australia


that's nice like I always liked dolphins they are so friendly and then like they don't bite or anything like that and then it's cute noise that they make like then I'm like come here come here, come here, because I'm always like scared of animals and then like the only thing that I like is like the dolphin because like I know it won't bite me so I'm K K come here you won't buy me then come here


I mean like later like I don't know sometime in the future if we get time we should like go to like goldcoast or like some other part of australia together then just explore a bit, that will be nice


, true true, really ah


especially like


like you know all those like black cats they sometimes have an emerald eyes and then I'm just like !wow!, I'm like !wow! ,


!wow! that's interesting, ya I like I like I I think I was watching another documentary about owls one day, !wah! was very interesting also like you !ow! you know you know like a lot of things are being said about owls and stuff but have do know that like owls they do this one thing like after a few years of like being born like I think maybe be like thirty years or so they'll fly to the top of the mountain


and then you know they have a beak right so they will smash their beak against like some rock or something so they will break the beak and then will shed all their feathers, so basically err uhm once they shed all their feathers and everything you know the time it takes to grow back the beak and then the feathers and everything that is like they're in in err making them more immune to the surroundings and their life


so that that helps them to live longer, ya like I like !wow! I mean is very interesting I've never seen this before


then I was like oh okay, oh no lah I haven't


ya plus I only have two more months in singapore ya ya I don't I won't go to blackboard anymore is just a Netflix


ya the last the next time I will check blackboard is for my grades and then that's it I'm done, I think december second week or third week ya since it's online right so they will just quickly quickly like it's just auto marking what


ABCD ABCD so they'll mark pretty quickly but, , ya mine is full of MCQ ya, ya


they say fifty percent, so err I think about seventy five or hundred questions depending


, ya I know like my friend is doing political science and she has to write like essay for her finals like they'll give her like three question she has to choose one and then write then I'm like no no no if psychology they do something like that I've never taking psychology again


ya because


true but the thing is like this time when I was doing like second semester like I had so much of things going on at home like you know my father's <tamil>இது:ithu</tamil> birthday and everything like that and, the you know the indian families they have certain traditions they will follow right up til a cetain age and everything like that so my mum because of COVID nobody will come home also so she wanted everything to be like perfect and everything like that so like my whole august was gone like


preparing staff doing stuff I like barely watched lectures thank god for like online everything is recorded and everything, so like that one whole month of school I just spent like downloading stuff just like you know barely attend and I just attend like one lecture or two lecture others all I'll just download and keep so that weekends if I have time I'll watch I just have to like prepare up for my assignment and like my other weekly quizzes and stuff like that that's all I did


then by the time september second week when everything was over and starting back all over again like it was so difficult to catch up so I think that's the one thing I would like sort of, how to say for the next semester I wouldn't do that lah so hopefully when I go back to australia I wouldn't have so much of things to do because I'm just taking care of myself right so there's like not much of commitment to like commitments like in terms of family or whatever so I have more time for myself hopefully I can manage things better


it was just crazy this year, ya cooking is fun to be honest like because you just doing it for yourself I feel like cooking is therapeutic for me


ya that's why whenever I cook something like a lot I'll just call you all like !hey! guys I made this can you all come and try come and try, , exactly


oh my goodness like when I was in the hostel last year I really missed like err indian food like I I thought like I wouldn't miss like before I left my mom was like telling me the last one week she was like go out try some food definitely will miss something, then I'm like nah I'm not gonna miss anything you know I've been eating this food for like the past twenty years


ya people will always say that, oh my god


I don't mind but for me the company's very important like I don't want to just keep like just keep walking and let's just oh <tamil>அப்படியே அமைதியா போன எனக்கு:apadiyae amaithiyaa ponaa enaku</tamil> like not interested like I'm I think for me, like this past one year has been very like quiet like nothing right so the next year whenever I go trekking or something I want like good company like a talk lah like you know like uh like you you get what I'm trying to say just jolly ah <tamil>இருக்கனும் அந்த மாதிரி:irukanum antha maathiri</tamil> have fun


uh, ya I know I know


like you know I'm so used to planning things like okay <tamil>இன்னக்கி இத்தனை மணிக்கு போணுமா:innaki ithanai maniku ponumaa</tamil> like, after coming to australia the ya like first thing I'm talking to my friends and then I like spontaneous plans free ah <tamil>வா வெளிய போலாம்:va veliya polaam</tamil> oh !wow! yes I like this like I don't want to like oh monday three PM we're going out like I don't I don't want that kind of thing that I'm I'm over that already


okay , I know right like you just you just like oh <tamil>இது வந்து இதெல்லாம் செய்லாமா அதெல்லாம் பண்லாமா:ithu vanthu ithaelaam seilaamaa athaelaam panlaamaa</tamil> like singapore <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> my parents are very strict


by nine thirty I have to be home and so much of things like even when I'm going out also you must say where you are going and stuff like that even even even after becoming an adult and stuff like this is I'm living with my parents, and once I'm in australia the the amount of freedom I have like you know I've been compressed and like really like a controlled my whole life once I go there I'm like okay there's no going back you know like go out with your friends like the freedom that you have


I love the freedom I miss the freedom now very liberating you actually find yourselves you know it took me twenty years to find myself !wow! but ya lah it's worth it lah !huh!, oh ya ya ya ya true true


ya , ya get married than do whatever you want then why so until they take my brain just put in a box lah don't need my brain anymore


indian mentality lah <tamil>நம்ம அத ஒன்னும் சொல்ல முடியாது:namma atha onnum solla mudiyaathu</tamil> can't blame them also because <tamil>அவுங்க வளந்த:avunga valantha</tamil> situation <tamil>அப்பாடி:appaadi</tamil> but at the same time like


like basic things for me like certain things I struggled was like maybe like in school I was the only person who used to bring lunch box to school everyone will have like food in the canteen, and then I'll be like why am I the only one bringing lunch box like why why is it happening and it took me like whole of my primary school to figure that out then when I came to secondary school I told my mother <tamil>மா:maa</tamil> I don't want lunch box you know everybody's like buying their own food and they can eat their own food and she was like no no no don't waste money bring food from home then I'm like when did this concept come in you know


ya and like stuff like going out to chalet chalet is like very common end of the year like two people will book then the whole class will be there just hangout like in ECP or something, but for me it was like a huge thing so when I told my parents that oh there's a chalet or something like the minute I said the word chalet my father was like nop you're not going and I didn't even explain finish and he's like no you're not going


the only places I was allowed to go to was like the library the temple shopping mall only to McDonald's


how lah like that, , I know, ya, ya exactly


ya and like the thing was whenever I,


true true, I can't wait to go back, ya nothing fun has ever happen to me before like I mean for awhile yes it was australia but then I have to come back here now I can't wait to go like my father still treats me like some I don't know ten year old


well ya I mean, a small kid ah


ya, they'll be like <tamil>உன்ன நம்புறேன் ஆனா இந்த உலகத்தை நம்பலை:unna namburaen aanaa intha ulagatha nambala</tamil> oh okay ya thanks bye so reassuring


just another ten days only what just finish off the exam then and then I can do whatever I want already


but ya I need to find part time job also <tamil>சும்மா:summa</tamil> I don't want to just sit down at home also, will be boring sia


to be honest in my house it's better that I am occupied if I'm free like you like for example the winter break or something like that, ya my father was like you are free right go help your mother you are free my mother will only come back home at like eight nine O'clock till then what do I do just stay at home like even when I go out also you are not you are not allowed to go out everyday why are you going out everyday spending so much money and then I'm like okay I can't wait to go back to australia already thank


hi, you know I slept and I woke up again


and I'm trying to sleep back but I couldn't sleep, (hmm) did you sleep well last night, I I don't know


ya work has been crazy, like, the hours and everything I'm just overworking so much


and this mine is shift work so you don't have a constant timing to work so it keeps changing which is more tiring


ya, ya better, I also miss my student life, best time ya I know there is a lot of assignments and exams, but I rather do that than to go work


but


ya okay lah can at least go shop when you are working, <tamil>பயங்கர:bayangara</tamil> budget


true lah, ya because when you're working you're doing that full time, so you don't have to do anything else


ya good development, but then I feel like I shouldn't stay at one place for more than like five years five years in a place is like, too much five years already need to jump, I mean now we are still young so you can jump to different countries not countries companies


ya you can jump to different companies and then like you can learn from each different company lah, and so it gives you like more experience in a way rather than just being at one place and that you think this is how it is done


you go different places you know like uh okay so and the culture also changes from one place to another, try to find your, ya you try to find your company that you think it's good for you then you can stay there longer


ya ya as in once you know which company is treating you well and you, find comfortable then you it's okay to stay on longer, if you keep changing also its a lot of changes and you need to deal with the changes need to adapt you need to learn


that's a lot of work as well, ya find a comfort zone comfort spot then just stay


, ya


, I mean now people have adapted to not going out and stuff, and then later it's gonna be like, later I'm gonna feel I'm very lazy to meet because I'm used to it already


ya,


ya true, ya like travelling, now is just like a dream, but I want to travel is like a, but not that we both had a flight this year


I mean we came back to singapore so at least we had one flight this year , so I'm not complaining, !aiya!, I can't wait to go and visit australia again


ah, ya, oh ya <tamil>என்னாது:ennaathu</tamil> ya I saw the news, COVID vaccine <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> they said they're going to bring it <tamil>இந்த வர்ஷம் கடைசி:intha varsham kadaisi</tamil> or early next year


to to singapore lah it's at at, ah duke NUS and oh god I forgot who the other collaboration was with, but it's a collaboration with someone some other country and duke NUS


so they were developing a vaccine


twenty twenty <tamil>முடிஞ்சாலும் நல்லா தான் இருக்கோம் போல இருக்கு:mudinjaalum nallaa thaan irukom pola iruku</tamil> but we really don't know what's in stock for twenty twenty one, now now every new year is just like <tamil>அடுத்த வர்ஷம் கொஞ்சம் நல்லா இருந்த நல்லா இருக்கும்:adutha varsham konjam nallaa iruntha nallaa irukum</tamil> ,


two thousand nineteen we all celebrating like so happy,


(hmm), ya, but at least one good thing is I ask them for like for me for my work right I ask them to give me two consecutive off days, so at least I can rest


oh really I think that, oh is it, oh I I


(hmm)


ya that's one thing but like worrying about singapore's people not taking enough breaks and they're struggling to even take a break because even went there on a break


ya sometimes you know I really wanted to take a break so <tamil>எல்லாத்தையும்:ellaathayum</tamil> handover <tamil>பண்ணிட்டு:pannittu</tamil> I just mute my WhatsApp group I won't even check until my off day is over then <tamil>வேளைக்கு போறதுக்கு முன்னாடி:velaikku porathuku munnaadi</tamil> I'll just open as see what was going on


then once I know everything then I'm like okay lah then I go work now, that's like a better idea I just mute it for awhile


uh sorry I think my wifi was unstable, I can hear you now, (hmm)


no I still haven't I only got the saree but I haven't gotten the blouse right, but then <tamil>நாளைக்கி:naalaikki</tamil> is a what day ah oh <tamil>நாளைக்கி:naalaikki</tamil> is a wednesday


oh my god is so close okay fine, !aiya! I go tomorrow lah lazy, no I'm going for ready-made blouse


adjust


oh someone was telling me the GRT <tamil>பக்கத்துல:pakathula</tamil> there is this shop called college collections or something, you know that place, ya I've never heard about that place then I'm like <tamil>அப்டி ஒரு கடை இருக்கா:apdi oru kadai irukkaa</tamil> like I walk past GRT so many times but I never I never have even see recall seeing this shop


but okay like when I go there I will try to see if there's this show because


ya lah, , because night <tamil>வேல செஞ்சிட்டு காலைல வந்துட்டு:vela senjitu kalaila vanthutu</tamil> and this construction near my place is not helping at all


like the whole day they're doing it only ten PM there will stop, and then eight AM or something they will start and the worst thing is you do construction also there's, there's some without much noise but this one they do a lot of like a they drill the road


and then they lining some I don't know what is it called foundation I don't know what, I really don't know what they actually building eh and it's just so noisy and I'm in like a higher floor I can still hear it and imagine the people just


block <tamil>பக்கத்துலேயே:pakkathulayae</tamil> oh my god and if they are also some people working like shift works, (mmhmm)


, that's true, I mean I'm just surprised like there's so many people working from home nowadays


how are they able tahan this, and there's so much noise going on and you have to constantly focus in work


I did, I got a few from Amazon some from Shopee, and then I got AirPods Pro do that, AirPods ya it does the noise cancelling but it's not like, completely because the construction is really loud


the noise cancelling is helping me but I mean there's still you know we can't be hundred percent, but for me if I want to sleep I need it to be like super dark and has to be very quiet, so I'm just like restless


not sleeping well, and doing night shift and the work has been a bit stressful recently, just constantly working I don't even have like uh oh oh that only one hour break I can actually just have a break but after that I'm just like constantly working not even two three minutes or break in between


, ya ya that's that's what a healthcare sector does to you you just have to constantly keep working


ya like okay lah


ya, even if they stop the construction for like one week it can give me some rest, but then they're not going to stop it just for me right, they have their deadline to meet


ya just be like uh hello ah hi I need to sleep bye I'm just going to take over your bed,


oh man, yesterday was fun, ya I I went downstairs, uh and surprisingly I had breakfast today and I'm like because I woke up quite early


see even if I have time I couldn't sleep, because <tamil>எட்டு மணிக்கு:ettu manikku</tamil> they started the construction


then I wanted to sleep back, but the weather was so amazing


it's like raining


(hmm) nice, ya you don't have to like get ready and then travel go sit down wait


, ya I mean we are struggling together, might as well struggle together and die together in exams


, ah can can, ya but student life is has own


benefits, (hmm) can, ya you miss it don't you


just the one from Lazada for now, black friday <tamil>கு:ku</tamil> black friday <tamil>கு:ku</tamil> I don't know I was actually thinking ah like should I order for him, now but his birthday is only december but the sale in november end but his birthday is on christmas


I don't want to ship it ah it's easier to buy it in, oh okay actually you know what maybe I'll ask one of his friend to keep it then later they can just


not my birthday, twenty fifth christmas day, ya that's why I was like thank god for giving me this like the, like the date is like so easy ya


if not if it's not hard to remember one day but it's sometime it's possible to forget it, uh exactly double the marker


ya I was looking at the Sony I asked you right because I wanted to get him that, ah


do do you think it's it's good


mine is a mean the one I was thinking, oh ya yours also got noise canceling


oh okay, because I was looking at its called Sony WF one thousand XM three, it's just a model name, it's about two hundred and seventy or three hundred around there that that


<tamil>அது போக:athu poga</tamil> like I wanted to get a watch, because <tamil>அவுங்க அவன் கிட்ட கேட்டுருந்தேன்:avunga avan kita keturunthaen</tamil> like


watch <tamil>வந்து கேட்டேனா:vanthu kaetaenaa</tamil> then he said like he likes a bit leather <tamil>முன்னாடி வச்சிருந்தான்:munnaadi vachirunthaan</tamil> but now like he liked the few the metal kind, and then there's this particular watch is is quite nice and stuff but then he was he was also looking at smart watches


right


, !aiya! but love you okay


actually <tamil>அவனுக்கு:avanuku</tamil> AirPods <tamil>தான் வாங்கி தாராளான்னு நினைச்சிட்டுருந்தேன் நான்thaan vaangi tharalaanu ninaichituruthaen naan</tamil> then like okay then this one will be more memorable


oh I was thinking of getting smartwatch instead, , in like a waterproof because I'm on the android right android got so many so many options


Android got so many options, so I'll see which one, you know it's like waterproof and, and bit nicer then I'll buy for him


no not flowers [dah], , ya


okay I'll think about it like I actually don't know what else to, accompany these two, ya ya, ya ya true


and now when like when he goes back right he has to quarantine, another fourteen days


I mean for hers there's no choice she has to study, because <tamil>அவளுக்கு:avaluku</tamil> she can't be wasting another six months because doctor <tamil>க்கு படிகிறதே ஒரு பயங்கர:kku padikirathae oru bayangara</tamil> stress and then you keep delaying it also like no point and they're not accepting any internship she does in singapore


because you know <tamil>மத்த:maththa</tamil> country leh <tamil>எல்லாருக்குமே கிடைக்க மாட்டிங்குது:ellaarukumae kidaikka maatinguthu</tamil> so they want be like fair for everyone they say <tamil>உங்களுக்கு கிடைச்சாலும் கிடைக்காட்டியும்:ungaluku kidaichaalum kidaikaatiyum</tamil> we don't want because some people are not able to acquire some internships in their own country so we don't want to encourage it


I mean you can still do it but


, oh my god that journey I don't know how people can do it such a long journey man, and there's so much to study


typical , uh nop


no because they they need to teach you neuroscience so it can know the molecular details, and like err to understand how the medicine works and how your like chemical system in your body works and everything


so it's not just like behavioural science you just don't observe behaviour you need to know like part of the working workings of the brain, ya that's why they changed the module code name you see was PSY before psychology something now they change to NUNEU


neuro, !huh!, , ya I mean they just change the module name lah it's not going to make much difference


eh wait I thought you only have one more exam, so now you don't have any exams lah, the assignments all


so now you just need to study for one exam okay but ya that's that's not bad but in between got Deepavali so you're you'll be occupied,


but then at the end of the day you only <tamil>இவ்வலோ தான் பண்ணோம் ரொம்ப நேரமா உட்காந்து எதோ பண்ணிட்டு இருந்தோம்:ivalo thaan pannoma romba neramaa utkaanthu etho panittu irunthom</tamil> oh okay you know like <tamil>பல்கோவா:paalgovaa</tamil> is like that <tamil>நீ கிண்டிட்டே இருக்கனும் கமியா நேரம் கிண்டினா உனக்கு பால்கோவானு கமியா இத்துணுண்டு கிடைக்கும்:nee kindittae irukanum evalo neram kindinaa unaku paalgovaanu kamiyaa ithunundu kidaikum</tamil>


, oh


<tamil>அதையெல்லாம் மறந்துற வேண்டியது தான்:athaelaam maranthura vendiyathu thaan</tamil> that's why they they always like, buy all these things to prepare first, and then <tamil>உட்காந்து எல்லாம் முடிச்சிட்டு:utkaanthu ellaam mudichitu</tamil> then they start preparing preparing preparing <tamil>போயிட்டே இருக்கும்:poyittae irukum</tamil> length ah, but that's if you're doing things at home


oh #paneer jamun# is so good man, and then it's a bit long right


ya it's it's so much more better than #gulab jamun#


that's why I was like because #gulab jamun# is like everyone's favourite, have you tried it with ice-cream like vanilla ice-cream


what's Rabri, uh is it like a sorbet


oh


ya it's a weird combination with, ah is weird but isn't is hot and cold, as in when you say it out loud it sounds weird like !huh! but, ya but when you eat is just like damn is like hot is I mean #gulab jamun# is hot and ice-cream is cold so it just gave you some I don't know what combination but it's just so amazing


initially I was hesitant to try then I was like eh no I'm not because I like it, them by themselves I don't wanna combine, then my friend was like <tamil>இல்ல இல்ல:illa illa</tamil> you just give it a try if you don't like then you don't need to eat lah like just take a bite


!wah! sounds nice but I've never tried mutton Biryani, uh ya I don't know why but I just don't like it


ya, oh really ah


, oh okay that's nice


ya let's go one day


man but singapore you can always keep eating eating eating eating, , , that's you can never get bored like there's always so many options for you but the


but the bad thing is like I'm always lost for choice and I'm like !aiyo! I need to make a decision making what to eat today


and next day like maybe japanese uh <tamil>சரி இன்னக்கி நாம சோறு சாப்பிடலாம் வாங்க:sari innaki naama soru saapidalaam vaanga</tamil> tamil <tamil>கடைக்கு போகலாம்:kadaikku pogalaam</tamil> , ya see, very easy just feel like eating just go eat


no apparently melbourne and sydney has a lot of like tamil food


ya,


when you feel like , #hyderabadi biryani#


but <tamil>இட்லி மாவு:idli maavu</tamil> you need the apparatus to make it yourself


err for <tamil>தோசை:thosai</tamil> you can just make it yourself but for <tamil>இட்லி:idly</tamil> you need the proper things to do it, ya


ha morning or ya but you have to cross the river from that side to here then only come, ya lah fun lah


oh I went to north stradbroke island that day before coming here and then I tried their fish and chips you you know that I don't eat fish right but then I was like you know <tamil>இவளோ தூரம்:ivalo thooram</tamil> australia <tamil>வந்துட்டோம்:vanthutom</tamil> fish and chips try <tamil>பண்ணலயா அப்படினு:pannalaiyaa appadinu</tamil> feel <tamil>பண்ணிர கூடாது:pannira koodathu</tamil> so I tried fish and chips


oh my god the fish was like so soft so fresh, I actually enjoyed it, I was so surprised because usually like I don't I don't like the smell of the fish, and this one I'm like, I don't even feel like I'm eating fish it was so nice


and oh my god the fries so good, and oh my god is always you can have a lunch or brunch or anything with a view, like you go to like beach <tamil>பக்கத்துல:pakkathula</tamil> so nice


and I saw lah a lot of a, I saw a lot of kangaroos there stradbroke, got dolphins, and then got whale because it was whale watching time at that time like you know when I went


like they were all like jumping so good, and the dolphins is so cute they will always like going and in a group, nice ah


, I felt like dolphins ah they are like dogs of the sea, , ya, I hate cats man cannot take it


I don't know why but, ya, as in I don't really hate hate but I just don't like them, they look so mean as in they feel like oh I'm the boss like okay fine


oh ya ya the eyes is nice at night it will like glow or something, so pretty


I was watching the as in not I'll I purposely was watching a documentary I was having my break in my you know office and then there was this TV they just newly installed TV but then, why is it not as smart TV I want to switch to Netflix can or not but cannot only have like the basic channels lah !aiyo!


then I'm like okay fine but at least got somethings so err, only one thing that I was able to watch was like a documentary so just change channel, and uh it was like arctic, arctic region some something, and there was this like a fox or animal it was like pitch black


it was so black and the eyes was so pretty, and then err when it goes into the snow right, and the white on black, and I could see like the snowflakes oh my god so pretty, ah so nice and it because the reason why it's black right is becase the rocks


near to the sea is pitch black, so it's when it's going out for hunting food it it will camouflage instead of having a white white fur it has black,


(hmm)


!huh!


(uh huh), oh, interesting, ya like like intriguing I would say


there's this this ah, another is not really a documentary but it's like a, show is called connected have you seen it,


there are like, oh ya lah because you studying once you have your holidays then, Netflix is the only thing you're going to open


, like


the grades so soon meh, will take time lah, still got time, , it's MCQ


oh full full of MCQ your final exam, what are you serious


oh that's nice ah you have everything MCQ for a final final paper, not bad right you don't have to think right as in you still have to think lah, but you don't have to like write essay or something


, ya but once you move to like the other years it will get harder because you're


you know still doing like a base module a basic module, once you go to the core modules, it will get much more serious


ya, and then you will start cooking


I know right, but then I don't prefer just cooking for myself like


, ya lah but okay not so bad, eh just go there there's so many beaches so many places, and err you should go to this ah , uh there's this rain forest


it's amazing, if you like trekking like do do you prefer like natural places like trees and stuff


, they they they the kind of carefree


just like don't don't they wouldn't take anything like so seriously, just like very casual


, then my friend call like eh <tamil>நாங்க:naanga</tamil> car <tamil>லாம் எடுத்துருக்கோம் வா நாம இங்க போலாம் நான் வந்து உன்ன:laam eduthurukom vaa naama inga polaam naan vanthu unna</tamil> pick up <tamil>பண்ணிக்கிறேன் உன் வீட்டுலே:pannikkiraen un veetulae</tamil> then I'm like


then I just went it was so fun, damn fun sia, (mmhmm)


oh my god, !huh!,


you you love the freedom, no as it didn't take you twenty years to find yourself it took you just like a few months in australia to find yourself man


ya but they always get like tell you this dialogue oh <tamil>கல்யாணத்துக்கு அப்புறம் என்ன வேணாலும் பணிக்கோ:kalyaanathuku appuram enna venaalum pannikko</tamil> then I'm like until then I'm not supposed to do anything


ya lah what are you thinking I don't understand, I have no idea


no but you know what they'll do, , they'll they'll try to like incorporate theirs here


you get it, ah


I mean it's healthy in a way, but most of the people here prefer to just get it outside because it's easy they don't have to like prepare, because most of them both the parents are working they really don't have time, so just let the kids by four or no outside


uh, ya,


, ya that's sad


this is the saddest story ever man, oh my god I pity you, oh god okay but I mean my life isn't like so colourful either school <tamil>முடிச்சி வீடு வீடு முடிச்சு:mudichi veedu veedu mudichu</tamil> school that's all


that was my entire like student life, like then, okay lah <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> polytechnic <tamil>போனதுக்கு அப்புறம் தான்:ponathuku appuram thaan</tamil> I went outside I joined a lot of like other CCAs, like you know will have a lot of events okay it was nice and then uni was the most fun


and the work life again oh man, work life I'm just like struggling to get rest,


for them we are always like a very small kid but you, ya no matter how old we are we are still a small kid for them then I'm like, okay I'm a grown up already just just leave me lah I know I know, then they are like no no you are a very small kid and I'm like okay fine


ah , ya oh man


ya for two months it will be super boring at least now you had all the lectures and everything to keep you company and you were like reading this studying that and then later taking this quiz that quiz exam assignment


ah then you need to do house, housework


(ppl) ya man, can't wait for you to start enjoying life


okay so let's it, so what you do today


so <mandarin>你这个:ni zhe ge</mandarin> project <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> about advertisement lah


so <mandarin>他们是跟你筹钱:ta men shi gen ni chou qian</mandarin> lah


then <mandarin>你那个:ni na ge</mandarin> err , extra working hours <mandarin>不可以不可以说:bu ke yi bu ke yi shuo</mandarin> convert to err rest day or off days


okay, today is like


you know I have to wear like safety helmet safety goggles safety boots so like <mandarin>我驾车:wo jia che</mandarin> also right then


if I wear the safety boots ah it's gonna be very uncomfortable is is is like that's what extra protection at like your toe area, that kind so I I


yes <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> oh <mandarin>我的我的:wo de wo de</mandarin> dad <mandarin>也是他也是有中过这种:ye shi ta ye shi you zhong guo zhe zhong</mandarin> ya <mandarin>指甲坏掉:zhi jia huai diao</mandarin> is because <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> because <mandarin>他穿太久:ta chuan tai jiu</mandarin> Liao


then <mandarin>我们其实我是不喜欢:wo men qi shi wo shi bu xi huan</mandarin> lah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> oh


ya, then, oh, oh ya <mandarin>要带多一个口罩:yao dai duo yi ge kou zhao</mandarin> yes


ya and then <mandarin>还要带那个什么:hai yao dai na ge shen me</mandarin> safety vest ah, then monday <mandarin>去的时候:qu de shi hou</mandarin> oh <mandarin>他就开始:ta jiu kai shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>笑笑笑笑:xiao xiao xiao xiao</mandarin> then today <mandarin>我去他就他就来他就讲:wo qu ta jiu ta jiu lai ta jiu jiang</mandarin> !wah! you come again ah


there's some good things to look lah I mean like there's some positive positivity in err, situation because at least like you know <mandarin>我们可以开玩笑:wo men ke yi kai wan xiao</mandarin> and not so strict because sometimes you know security guard <mandarin>我们要去到那边要:wo men yao qu dao na bian yao</mandarin> do registration <mandarin>又要:you yao</mandarin> err


ya <mandarin>这些那些:zhe xie na xie</mandarin> lah so is <mandarin>真的是很麻烦:zhen de shi hen ma fan</mandarin> then <mandarin>还要:hai yao</mandarin> chop <mandarin>如果你没有:ru guo ni mei you</mandarin> chop <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> DO <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> delivery order right <mandarin>他们就不会给你钱:ta men jiu bu hui gei ni qian</mandarin> Liao


one thing I hate about it right, sorry sorry one thing I hate about it right is


ya if if <mandarin>我们要我们要要他们:wo men yao wo men yao yao ta men</mandarin> sign then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> sign <mandarin>的时候又要:de shi hou you yao</mandarin> chop chop <mandarin>我们又有几张纸全部都要一起:wo men you you ji zhang zhi quan bu dou yao yi qi</mandarin> chop, ya so it's pretty hectic I guess


no eh, ya


(oo), okay


but how come <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> go through the kind of like certis cisco <mandarin>的那种:de na zhong</mandarin> certification lah so that means everybody <mandarin>可以去:ke yi qu</mandarin> what <mandarin>不只是说一定要是:bu zhi shi shuo yi ding yao shi</mandarin> policemen


true,


err <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> security <mandarin>的这个:de zhe ge</mandarin> industry actually not not that bad lah <mandarin>因为现在有那个什么:yin wei xian zai you na ge shen me</mandarin> safe distancing ambassador and everything, ya


what they don't care, oh you talking about mask right the other time I was ya I think you are quite true no there is the other time I was err at Bedok mall


I was waiting for my friend to pick me up and then I went to buy the the yogurt, so I bought a yogurt and then I went to one corner and then I took it out my mask, then I saw the guy coming and approaching me


and then I was like alright faster faster take the spoon and faster eat, if not he will then he saw me with the the the Yole lah I think is the Yole yogurt ya he saw me with the yoghurt and then I, then oh then I was like okay you <mandarin>赶快赶快吃:gan kuai gan kuai chi</mandarin> if if I don't eat right later he will confirm approach me ah and I don't know what's the fine now lah is it like three hundred dollars


yes, ya it's like you returning back all the money that were given to you


!wah! reservists do what what is the, oh, okay


, oh how come


okay, their berets, maybe maybe I'm not sure


so you go to the forests and do the racky thing ah, what so what what what they do inside ah


!wah!, you must be very tough,


what, , yes


then when your reservists, you better call them lah if not later thirty years old oh they call you you know for your last reservists


okay, , okay


, so chill


that's very very long ago, okay


so how many times have you been how how many times have you been caught zero


yes, okay


, okay


!wah! you really Keng ah


true true, !wah! that's a lot


ya, oh you went for your wisdom tooth, extraction


yes ya ya I remember, everyday nose bleed, malnutrition ya oh my goodness


no tomorrow I will be eating this <mandarin>剁椒鱼:duo jiao yu</mandarin> okay so this <mandarin>鱼:yu</mandarin> ah is very nice okay this fish very very nice uh


I mean I just went there yesterday so tomorrow I'm going eh was that was it yesterday ya I think was yesterday yesterday I went also, so there's a, yesterday we went there to eat and you know the prawn paste chicken you know what is prawn paste chicken


yes yes so it's the <mandarin>虾酱鸡:xia jiang ji</mandarin> so that chicken right like normally you buy from outside it's in is with the chicken bone and everything but


tomorrow what's what we gonna eat right is without the chicken bone one so tomorrow we gonna eat the one is, they already removed the chicken bone already they already is already in a meat form, and and we ordered that one okay and then we


we eat the fish okay so coming back to the fish the fish right it is made of like I don't know what they say they say is made of like three different kind of chilli, so they call it <mandarin>剁椒:duo jiao</mandarin> because it is what it is like you cut it


you get what I mean cut so <mandarin>剁我剁掉你的头那种:duo wo duo diao ni de tou na zhong</mandarin> that that kind of thing so is they called it <mandarin>剁椒鱼:duo jiao yu</mandarin> lah cause is they use like three different chilli to make it to this chilli paste


you either order grass jelly from the seafood the the store there, or you can go to the drink stall, ya


oh yes, yes


eh bring tissue also ah I'll bring the tissue no worry, ya


yes every week I eat almost every week my ass is not doing well also


my stomach is not doing well, my ass, , I scared, a bit but, I think, the fish is really very nice ya


really very nice, to me lah yes, I think I I think you will like it lah if if you if you can take up the challenge is, it's it's gonna be good ya


oh, does it have the truffle fries the truffle kind of tastes


okay, so it in chinese you called it <mandarin>锅贴:guo tie</mandarin> lah


okay


what spicy level she order, I think by the looks of it is already very very very spicy


damn spicy, I think tomorrow you can you can you can make a better judgment whether if the <mandarin>剁椒:duo jiao</mandarin> is more spicier than the Ramen noodle


okay what happen


okay, your ex colleague,


you offer another solution, okay


yes, ya


for what sia


!wah!


yes, ya I think, ya I think the attitude really very important


true


ya I feel sometimes uh, that could be, some something we can learn also so that we can use it against people next time


yes, okay, ya I also I also feel if I think when we talk more to like other people I think


this in this way then we can learn how to, like spot, ways to tackle them I think at my point is critical thinking I think we need to have, like it need to be critical in the sense that like


for example if I, okay maybe we were in a Telegram channel or for some err maybe some, okay let's just say if you are in the channel that sells


private uh pirated DVD's let's just take for example, then if someone come and ask you !hey! how come you inside the pirated DVD channel, your first stop is not to explain yourself oh why you are inside but the first thing you should be asking is why are you inside in the first place you know like in without answering the person's


err question right you direct it back to them, ya


yes if you say you're you're exposing yourself then they will ask you why you exposed to what do you what have you learnt all of this exposure so that would land you into a bigger trouble, yes


, okay


oh so people use like physical evidence to against them


okay


ya I think nowadays millennials they like to do things on social media and, like just take for example like Instagram then and TikTok I think like they was, it's not like last time whereby we need to share our thoughts on Facebook or anything like last time when we are angry about certain things right then we will like you know


write on Facebook and and then and then like the whole entire world will see but now it gets a little bit more challenging in the sense that like err, we know like they post assorted picture and we know that is directed to us but it's somehow not


it somehow can be a very generic kind of photo, ya, and, I mean millennials being millennials they, I hope they have some form of


err, thoughts about their future also I think, nowadays millennia they, they like to, err spend the time of themselves they like to splurge on stuff and


you know like all those all those money that the parents give them they will just spend it all the way, and err, ya


ya I think is also the same for me ah ya last time also suddenly you like those like very, Atas that kind of err restaurant I think we normally go for, McDonald's like eat the french fries and the and the burger and that's all and maybe collect one of those <mandarin>玩具:wan ju</mandarin> from like the


err, what's that call kids meal ah is it, ah yes yes yes yes yes happy meal ya you go and collect all this kind of kind of all kinds of toys I think it is still I remember one era I even like my parents they all go to collect the you know the hello kitty thing


have there was one year particularly, like !whoa! my entire family just you know go outside and collect the hello kitty you uh you have to buy the happy meal to to get it one


have I, I for I really forget already <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> ya


ya but actually that at a point in time it was very very err <mandarin>红:hong</mandarin> and it was very famous ah I I I mean it has a collectible kind of like value to it, because this is like some sort of like a limited edition yes and


wanted it to collect and there have many uh they have many different design you know they have like a french


ya, !huh! you feel like sleeping already ah


we still got like, do you try try and put <mandarin>一点:yi dian</mandarin> like the eye drop


is it because you wear contacts too long


oh, your work still require to go hospital ah


have I know I have met once before, overwork himself so it was very funny he overwork himself and then we went to see our clinic doctor


called doctor Chiang and, his medical centre is at paragon so you first first thing you come supervised is actually very expensive lah, so we go there and then the first thing he asked us is do you have insurance


so he leverages on uh this, insurance policy to claim and to charge it so high that so that you can claim your insurance and then he can earn a big sum of money


so if you say that you don't have insurance then he will charge lower so that you don't waste money


ya and, ya but the sad thing is you is blacklisted by insurance company, yes because he


purposely charge higher so to claim more, and there are people who can work with him to claim more and then he can split some with the person also, ya


, okay


yes, yes yes, yes


ya, ya, ya I think


I think most of the doctors not all doctors are like that but then I just think they are just some there are out there to really earn people's money and, you know all those people <mandarin>幸幸苦苦赚来的钱:xing xing ku ku zhuan lai de qian</mandarin> is being you know, misuse lah I mean they always charge higher


uh yes ya, I don't know


okay, err beside the medical centre hor


who, don't know, I don't know eh he is from MOH ah


I think I I saw the name somewhere ya it sounds familiar


, like what


oh so they are not allowed to do any advertisement for their own clinics lah, so what did he do


(mmhmm)


okay, ya I know right


(uh huh), okay


then he never, so this doctor he never do anything meh as in like as in, and never like how to say err, never do


, his job as in like sometimes you know you you go there you expect like err err, how would you call it actually you expect him to give you a MC or something, then like sometimes you know like he force he like don't want to give you kind of thing


okay, , okay !wah! I think


think sometimes doctor like that I think, I got nothing to say lah about you know some there's there was this err there is this time I went to see a doctor with my aunty we were in


we were very nearby our house there and then we go and see this err, this cleaning up then uh I supposed to accompany my my grandma to the this, uh clinic so we we we queue up ah like I like very normally lah and then we when we go in the doctor asked the first thing he ask us ask me K so we sat down


and then he ask me why am I doing here I say I'm bringing my grandma to see the the doctor lah then he was like uh actually I can handle here here you can go out


ya, okay


ya I mean if nobody died then okay lah you know, but sometimes you know sometimes doctor are very like anal one


true


, okay


seven, I think you say eight O'clock eh, wait ah I don't I don't know what I let me, I think you say eight O'clock


eight O'clock meet there, ya I think we eight O'clock meet there


sure ah, okay


okay so, well then, few days ago I was err, I was talking to this this girl you know #sin lee# right, ya so you know apparently I spoke to her about this right and then hor she she told me


okay you remember the time when you were together with germaine, you know like she told me that we try not to get together with #sin lee#, you know it's sort of like a <mandarin>报应:bao ying</mandarin> for her, because is is is like she she treat me not to err


go together with this girl and then in the end the break up happen like karma hit her you know really really very bad ya, ya so I was talking to my mum and then like she brought this up then I was like eh actually quite true ah like you break somebody out and then in the end you get your own own karma comeback


ya, ya I think, I think it is really sometimes, like that's why I also very scared to, to like handle your relationship with her cause I don't want the same thing to happen to me because is sometimes is


is really very very very <mandarin>凑巧:cou qiao</mandarin> that you were like get this kind of stuff ah and some more like germaine talk to me and then talk to you and then it feels like, I am the I am the messenger yes I've noticed this uh something like that ya and sometime is it gets very uncomfortable lah cause and sometimes you


have to be very err objective because, if you are not objective then, you won't be able to understand, err like what <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> what uh the <mandarin>对方:dui fang</mandarin> is gonna tell you lor


ya, sometime it's just like them like they


err, how to, ya talking about sick oh ya talking about sick of asking right the other day I ran out to err, meet my


err just friends, like we had this like in person service, ya so we went back to we went back to church ah then, one guy so I was I I was thinking I replied my head so he I was sitting beside this this err this guy and he uh he ask me eh so how err what are you doing now


then the first day you ask never mind ah if you ask me the second time ah after few months ah, I think you are asking me for the sake of asking uh, ya, and oh ya and also


for quite some time already lah cause that time we were in the same CG and then, somehow we our CGs split split up into different group, then he never see me so it's okay that he ask me this question first time but it's sort of like triggered me is like


[orh] okay you ask me this question ah you better be rewind you better be, err you know remembering what you just said ya you better remember what you just said lor because, three months down the road you gonna ask me the same question I'm going to smack you


like literally ya, ya, ya correct, ya and then like, err two days ago I went to meet my this secondary school teacher remember the Starbucks guy that he was my the guy who come to


yes william william ya so I went to meet I went to meet him for dinner lah so basically he he treated me to very nice dinner we went we went #Sushi Tei#, ya then he'll I were showing him the stuff between my soul leader and myself


and then he say err since you not going right why not go to corner stones, then I was like err, ya I mean it's okay lah we he said if you are not worrying is it's better that you go somewhere else but then


I somehow feel there like you know <mandarin>过意不去:guo yi bu qu</mandarin> and , err, I can't bear to leave like the people there alone and he say it's fine to leave there because like, it doesn't really hurt you or are we are we not say hurt me but I feel he he was trying to tell me that like


ya ya I won't I won't I won't I won't die or anything like it's okay to still continue to be friends with them while you are in another church kind of thing, ya


ya and I know the truth that yes I know the truth that we will not be friends anymore and this is like impossible that kind of thing, and, ya, ya


true, ya then he was asking about ask asking about you also


(oo) what I do today ah !wah! today I tell you <mandarin>我跟你讲今天:wo gen ni jiang jin tian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我在做工:wo zai zuo gong</mandarin> then very terrible because


sometimes you just need to manage people's expectation like <mandarin>他跟你讲我这个东西:ta gen ni jiang wo zhe ge dong xi</mandarin> what I need to finish by when


then err <mandarin>还有什么:hai you shen me</mandarin> ah actually right now right now <mandarin>我只是在等我的:wo zhi shi zai deng wo de</mandarin> boss <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> cause my boss she on leave today then I didn't know


so <mandarin>我就直接:wo jiu zhi jie</mandarin> text <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> then talk after that <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> colleague <mandarin>就跟我讲:jiu gen wo jiang</mandarin> actually she on leave that I was like oh shit Jialat, advertisement <mandarin>的那个东西:de na ge dong xi</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> oh okay lor


uh cerebral palsy <mandarin>的人呐有:de ren na you</mandarin> cerebral palsy <mandarin>跟:gen</mandarin> multiple disabilities like autism lah all those et cetera, like <mandarin>自闭症这种:zi bi zheng zhe zhong</mandarin> lor then so


so it's like a <mandarin>好像:hao xiang</mandarin> corporate social responsibility lor then cause marketing side <mandarin>我们要做这些东西:wo men yao zuo zhe xie dong xi</mandarin> for, kind of like a brand awareness <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> because, because like cord blood right <mandarin>那种脐带血:na zhong qi dai xue</mandarin> cord blood


no not many people know actually you'll be surprised actually not a lot of people know, in fact right I think only like maybe two out of five know, so there's a lot of education going on lah you have to like <mandarin>你要去教人家:ni yao qu jiao ren jia</mandarin> you need to


ah <mandarin>不然:bu ran</mandarin> nobody will know what, ya so


err actually <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> company my company <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> OT right, only can claim when <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> events


then <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> suck it up lor, just suck it up lor


like everytime <mandarin>我们拿:wo men na</mandarin> leave <mandarin>我们拿:wo men na</mandarin> off days


because they are they paid us to do work but <mandarin>我们不要:wo men bu yao</mandarin> we we're not in the office, so <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like err okay lor never mind lah just take it and learn oh I mean <mandarin>他也是一个很好的:ta ye shi yi ge hen hao de</mandarin> exposure lah


like <mandarin>你前面很很硬是吗:ni qian mian hen hen ying shi ma</mandarin> like your like <mandarin>你里面那个:ni li mian na ge</mandarin> boots right is so is like so, I don't know how to say but <mandarin>它就是很硬:ta jiu shi hen ying</mandarin> you know


ya,


[orh], then like on top of that right then on top of that <mandarin>你还要穿什么你知道吗现在:ni hai yao chuan shen me ni zhi dao ma xian zai</mandarin> !walao! <mandarin>很麻烦:hen ma fan</mandarin> eh


you go everywhere you need to wear a mask


ya so on top of, , no then on top of <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> prepare like quotation invoice right then high then you all still need to sign <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> DO right <mandarin>不然:bu ran</mandarin> everything is just not that it's not accounted for


ya eh


eh but <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> hor security guard right actually they are, ex policeman do you know that, you don't ah okay so what happened is right talking about like security guards oh <mandarin>你知道有些有时候你去:ni zhi dao you xie you shi hou ni qu</mandarin> supermarket, like <mandarin>那种大间的:na zhong da jian de</mandarin> right you will see like uh security guards oh they go petrol around right


actually <mandarin>你知道他们以前是警察来的吗他们是:ni zhi dao ta men yi qian shi jing cha lai de ma ta men shi</mandarin> like legit <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> regular, sign on <mandarin>的那种刚刚:de na zhong gang gang</mandarin> like <mandarin>他们已经:ta men yi jing</mandarin> ROD Liao <mandarin>不用他们:bu yong ta men</mandarin> break <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> contract Liao, then <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> just like <mandarin>没有东西因为他们老:mei you dong xi yin wei ta men lao</mandarin> Liao mah then <mandarin>他们也没有工作做:ta men ye mei you gong zuo zuo</mandarin> so what they do is that they just become security guard


ya that's why that's why like like <mandarin>以前我爸爸跟我讲:yi qian wo ba ba gen wo jiang</mandarin> ah like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> go secondary school <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> then my dad always tell me like eh your friends ah, whoever <mandarin>跟你讲去偷东西:gen ni jiang qu tou dong xi</mandarin> ah you better don't go and do it because


so they actually won't bang chance for you one they won't give you chance


ya quite it's a very interesting fact


you have to be a like twenty four hour standby ah so, routine ah <mandarin>我会讲是:wo hui jiang shi</mandarin> routine lah


you have nowhere else to go


ya correct, ya then <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> eh safe distance actually <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> safe distance oh they don't bother one leh like <mandarin>你看他们这样走来走去:ni kan ta men zhe yang zou lai zou qu</mandarin> actually they don't they don't care one


then then then


I think is <mandarin>三百块:san bai kuai</mandarin> because, then like you remember like last time government <mandarin>他有给我们三百块三百块三百还是六百块:ta you gei wo men san bai kuai san bai kuai san bai hai shi liu bai kuai</mandarin> I cannot remember then


I always tell my friends like eh you better wear masks I tell you <mandarin>你没有穿:ni mei you chuan</mandarin> mask <mandarin>等一下你被抓跟你讲:deng yi xia ni bei zhua gen ni jiang</mandarin> Jialat ah


!walao! eh, ya then, eh you <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> hor <mandarin>讲到政府:jiang dao zheng fu</mandarin> right my colleague <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> next week <mandarin>要去:yao qu</mandarin> reservist eh, eh Shiok sia then


he's a guardsman, oh just <mandarin>看不出:kan bu chu</mandarin> oh like as in you have the face that you are the infantry type


and but the sad thing is <mandarin>还跟我讲是:hai gen wo jiang shi</mandarin> oh <mandarin>他需要去做:ta xu yao qu zuo</mandarin> COVID nineteen swab test


because the army army says so leh <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> camp <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> Khatib <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> eh <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> #chong pang#, #chong pang# <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> guards camp meh, oh then he say, I don't know lah he say he is guardsman right is the <mandarin>很冷很:hen leng hen</mandarin> chill one very chill one like just sit in the car


don't know what lah don't know what he do lah actually but <mandarin>他有经过那些:ta you jing guo na xie</mandarin> like, racky racky course, got he got, he got he got he got go through <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> prisoners of war training


prisoners of war so, so what happen is that because <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> sergeant mah then sergeant sergeant officers <mandarin>都有都有:dou you dou you</mandarin> go through <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err prisoners of war the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> test, so what they do is right they will make you like you Sibeh tired already [orh] then <mandarin>他们会为:ta men hui wei</mandarin> like like mind mind fuck <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> ah mentally torture <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> so


then after that you just do your thing, ya so like, actually is mentally tough ah he said it's not physical tough is mentally tough because you're so tired then <mandarin>你很累:ni hen lei</mandarin> Liao then you still need to like entertain this kind of thing


ya so, then I got asked him <mandarin>做么你不要:zuo me ni bu yao</mandarin> sign on


up rank ah you know what I mean, ya but (hmm), my reservist !walao! eh <mandarin>不要讲:bu yao jiang</mandarin> Liao reservist, I think government forget me eh


eh thirty years old <mandarin>你不要讲:ni bu yao jiang</mandarin> sia so


then after that he is he was from infantry err then he had to go to taiwan to serve NS


for some reason lah I don't know how he down PES legit he down PES leh then I <mandarin>我吓到:wo xia dao</mandarin> cause, then <mandarin>他就去那个:ta jiu qu na ge</mandarin> Tampines fire station become driver


so he sit down there then drive the truck go Changi village <mandarin>吃那个:chi na ge</mandarin> nasi lemak, then <mandarin>吃完:chi wan</mandarin> Liao right, then <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> err <mandarin>可能去:ke neng qu</mandarin> err Loyang fire stations or something like that then <mandarin>去那边:qu na bian</mandarin> #eng eng cheng cheng# <mandarin>完:wan</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>就回去:jiu hui qu</mandarin> Tampines


and is a day lah then is it becomes like a daily routine, then it's like nine to six ya but that was his only like <mandarin>第一个:di yi ge</mandarin> cycle like <mandarin>最后一个:zui hou yi ge</mandarin> cycle then


ya so technically he only serve his


then <mandarin>他就很像:ta jiu hen xiang</mandarin> ROD ah in a sense, then <mandarin>他就讲可能我也是这样:ta jiu jiang ke neng wo ye shi zhe yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>就是去一两次:jiu shi qu yi liang ci</mandarin> then <mandarin>他就不要再叫我:ta jiu bu yao zai jiao wo</mandarin> Liao, then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> err zero


zero <mandarin>他都不要叫我:ta dou bu yao jiao wo</mandarin> actually I really hope they call me eh cause, like take a break you know what I mean


ya then it's like then the good thing is that when you go for reservist right, then you then you must tell your boss like oh the government asked me to go reservists then <mandarin>你就要跟他说可不可以让我去:ni jiu yao gen ta shuo ke bu ke yi rang wo qu</mandarin> then <mandarin>如果他让你去:ru guo ta rang ni qu</mandarin> oh on top of your


pay right cause I I can't really remember but I remember is on top of <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> pay like basic pay in your company right, the government <mandarin>倒贴你的钱也是:dao tie ni de qian ye shi</mandarin> so you earn both side of the money, if I'm not wrong lah somewhere along that line


cause <mandarin>如果我没有工作:ru guo wo mei you gong zuo</mandarin> right then I need to go reservists my rank quite low eh I only a small fry lance corporal


ya actually I Keng my army days and I really Keng one eh, like <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> I just <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> front liner <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> Keng lor


then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> oh okay lor Keng lor ya so my MC is like, when I ORD right my MC is like hundred and sixty three days, then actually there's very little eh <mandarin>这个很少而已我的几个朋友他们两三百三百多天的:zhe ge hen shao er yi wo de ji ge peng you ta men liang san bai san bai duo tian de</mandarin> eh


so it's like <mandarin>他们的一年没有当兵这样:ta men de yi nian mei you dang bing zhe yang</mandarin> you know what I mean, ya then but my MC game is strong only at the hospital leave


oh my god that one Jialat sia, and just like that oh ya lah then


then ya lor, terrible eh so <mandarin>明天要吃什么:ming tian yao chi shen me</mandarin> ah indian eat the <mandarin>酸辣:suan la</mandarin> eh is it


prawn paste chicken


they cut it


I think hor I <mandarin>我跟你讲:wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> I think <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> order milk, because <mandarin>辣:la</mandarin> ah I really cannot one, I think tomorrow right what I will do is hor


nursing post <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> NTUC oh <mandarin>我去买那个我去买那个:wo qu mai na ge wo qu mai na ge</mandarin> err one point five litre <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> milk, then I just bring over there then when I finish already right <mandarin>吃完:chi wan</mandarin> Liao <mandarin>马上喝就是一边吃一边喝:ma shang he jiu shi yi bian chi yi bian he</mandarin> if not oh !wah! cannot sia


ya no choice lor then just like, but <mandarin>你这样每天这样吃你有每天吗好像每个礼拜:ni zhe yang mei tian zhe yang chi ni you mei tian ma hao xiang mei ge li bai</mandarin> leh I think every week you know,


not scared ah, you not scared ah


fish very nice K lah <mandarin>明天去吃看看:ming tian qu chi kan kan</mandarin> then we know already, , don't know eh


I think I went to north point ah with my colleague then <mandarin>我们去吃那个:wo men qu chi na ge</mandarin> truffle Ramen, !wah! eh Shiok eh <mandarin>我跟你讲:wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> Shiok man, eh no there is a black truffle <mandarin>它是:ta shi</mandarin> black truffle then after that


err what is it ya black truffle then inside <mandarin>它是那种有:ta shi na zhong you</mandarin> truffle <mandarin>味道:wei dao</mandarin> oh, then <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> Gyoza is those, pan fried one so <mandarin>它下面是:ta xia mian shi</mandarin> crisp <mandarin>下面是:xia mian shi</mandarin> crispy then <mandarin>上面是那种很像真的:shang mian shi na zhong hen xiang zhen de</mandarin> like boil steam ah steamed or boiled


ah <mandarin>锅贴:guo tie</mandarin> is really <mandarin>锅贴:guo tie</mandarin> lah then I like it, ya then I asked my colleague then <mandarin>我就跟我我就跟我:wo jiu gen wo wo jiu gen wo</mandarin> colleague <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> !walao! eh you eat this spicy Ramen right then is like, so high is like so spicy then


all you can taste is the spiciness, then for what you order I mean dining how the broth <mandarin>你已经没有那个味道:ni yi jing mei you na ge wei dao</mandarin> only got the spicy <mandarin>味道:wei dao</mandarin> then you just eat, so <mandarin>你在吃辣椒:ni zai chi la jiao</mandarin> oh you know


but they they say, I think she ordered like devil or something I don't know lah like I know it was very spicy quite I can I could smell it, it is it is very spicy <mandarin>它就是闻得到你:ta jiu shi wen de dao ni</mandarin> like when <mandarin>他拿靠近鼻子:ta na kao jin bi zi</mandarin> right <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> oh my god I know I knew it ah it will be very spicy


then then they ask me to try like eat one mouth then I !wah! cannot leh


can I will I will make a good taste good judgment, eh then hor you know <mandarin>今天早上:jin tian zao shang</mandarin> oh !wah! I tell you my dad tell me like err like his company, quite political in a sense where like no it's not political but rather I feel that like


because <mandarin>他的他的:ta de ta de</mandarin> colleague right <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> father <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> colleague right actually <mandarin>是我的:shi wo de</mandarin> ex colleague, so what happen is that


!aiya! very confusing but I don't know how to say <mandarin>他就是:ta jiu shi</mandarin> like


so so the political thing is right like the management <mandarin>觉得:jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>这个人有点不会做工:zhe ge ren you dian bu hui zuo gong</mandarin> ah Buay Zo ah like Lelong king ya Lelong king they call him Lelong king


means that like means that like err <mandarin>人家讲:ren jia jiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你有没有这个东西:ni you mei you zhe ge dong xi</mandarin> then <mandarin>比如说有没有一个:bi ru shuo you mei you yi ge</mandarin> err


then if you will say then there's this scenario where like <mandarin>人家有问过:ren jia you wen guo</mandarin> lah <mandarin>有没有这个:you mei you zhe ge</mandarin> wine then <mandarin>他说没有:ta shuo mei you</mandarin> leh, then as a salesman I feel that like you need to tell people like oh <mandarin>我没有:wo mei you</mandarin> but then


correct you ya you offer the thing then <mandarin>他就:ta jiu</mandarin> just <mandarin>没讲没有就没有:mei jiang mei you jiu mei you</mandarin> lor so it's like, Lelong king ah and like people feel that <mandarin>他不会做不会做:ta bu hui zuo bu hui zuo</mandarin> salesman


then on top of that I heard is that <mandarin>他跟人家讲话:ta gen ren jia jiang hua</mandarin> right, and then <mandarin>你你弄他生气:ni ni nong ta sheng qi</mandarin> oh <mandarin>他会大喊大叫:ta hui da han da jiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就说:wo jiu shuo</mandarin> no lah cannot be lah I don't think so he that time we work together he's not like that eh


then then everyone was shock oh then my dad just say no leh, what I hear is different leh then <mandarin>我就说:wo jiu shuo</mandarin> why ah then <mandarin>他说大喊大叫:ta shuo da han da jiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>不然就是在那边讲话有:bu ran jiu shi zai na bian jiang hua you</mandarin> attitude, then right now what happened is that the


he like you know HODs all these right <mandarin>他们会自己:ta men hui zi ji</mandarin> among <mandarin>讲自己的闲话:jiang zi ji de xian hua</mandarin> you know


but your attitude sucks we don't want you <mandarin>我不要你:wo bu yao ni</mandarin> Liao then I tell my dad like I don't think


then after that <mandarin>拉:la</mandarin> Liao right then he's the one that fired him so is very ugly, correct that's why <mandarin>我跟我:wo gen wo</mandarin> I tell my dad like <mandarin>不会:bu hui</mandarin> one <mandarin>他只能最多只是:ta zhi neng zui duo zhi shi</mandarin> like


then then I tell ya but I tell my dad like, err <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> trust <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>你可以:ni ke yi</mandarin> trust <mandarin>我因为:wo yin wei</mandarin> I don't like this is not my <mandarin>担心:dan xin</mandarin> is not my problem then like <mandarin>你叫我去跟他讲我也是不会去跟他讲:ni jiao wo qu gen ta jiang wo ye shi bu hui qu gen ta jiang</mandarin> because


he must reflect lah you know what I mean, ya he he must reflect even if <mandarin>他今天去一个别的公司:ta jin tian qu yi ge bie de gong si</mandarin> he don't reflect right same thing, ya, but I did tell my dad lah


like I did tell my dad also, actually <mandarin>很重要:hen zhong yao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> hor like <mandarin>怎样讲:zen yang jiang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> quarrel <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> right in the argument, if let's say <mandarin>我们两个吵架:wo men liang ge chao jia</mandarin> eh <mandarin>比如说我跟你吵架:bi ru shuo wo gen ni chao jia</mandarin> then after that someone just walk pass right


but actually in the fact is that maybe you are wrong first because you did something to me so then I just tell my dad like but that's unfair to


like if you are just using this as a gauge point to see whether <mandarin>他是一个很没有礼貌的人:ta shi yi ge hen mei you li mao de ren</mandarin> then you are you can be wrong lah because <mandarin>有些人讲话就大大声:you xie ren jiang hua jiu da da sheng</mandarin> one mah