ya I'm trying to kinda, err the new current company is actually submitted my application already so just waiting for approval so if the government doesn't give approval as soon as possible then I wouldn't be able to do anything with the company itself I couldn't start work I couldn't do anything else I'm just in the midst of waiting so I'm kind of worried as well because err there are a few people that I've met and they told me that they actually couldn't get approved by the government itself so they will be they they have to be sent back and head home all these things so part of it I'm also quite <mandarin>担心:dan xin</mandarin> about this kind of things you know but ya I mean like I say if I couldn't get then I'll just head home so ya have to think about about what will happened to this house again like usual we have already planning out so much lesser much lesser things to think about already but ya like if I'm here at the end of june ya probably think of moving out as well to another place with lesser humans so I don't have to deal with a lot of humans


ya I mean like that's the part where I do think of you know like at the end of june I'm not gonna stay at this place because the owner is I'm pretty sure he's gonna increase the price again and it's not worth it to pay for this kind of houses anymore for that price so I'll move out find a better place so hopefully that got a cheaper option near nearer option to my new work job too so ya


probably it's time for you and fern to go for house hunt or a room hunt, ya I mean like


Honolulu hawaii ya that's the that's the one we've been too I mean like it's a very new experience ya ya ya ya ya I've been on a Honolulu flight before so it's quite interesting I kinda like I'm excited too lah you know it's my first time going to states then when we got on the flight was excited reach Osaka we have to do a transit in Osaka and was quite fun we landed maybe a day we rest and the next day we fly off to basically fly off to Honolulu from Osaka itself so when we stay one day in Osaka it was so fun we were playing <mandarin>我们就:wo men jiu</mandarin> <mandarin>就跟:jiu gen</mandarin> captain <mandarin>在喝酒:zai he jiu</mandarin> and also go out with all the crews in that particular one day in japan and then of course then after that we went to shopping we kept a lot of things in the hotel as we are coming back you know from Honolulu to Osaka to have a rest before we head back to singapore so that's the whole route like and we went to Honolulu for three days it was a mad timezone difference so we have to we have to like you know took awhile of rest to stabilise our own time zone so to you know lesser down the jet lag and all these thing and then we head off to shopping so most of us err the first day of course when we landed we straight away from the airport we head to our hotels already from hotel we will go just right across our hotel there's actually this bus station that actually brings you to the premium outlet so it's a specialized bus all the way to premium premium outlet so of course everyone rushed to premium outlet just to shop and premium outlets as big as like maybe five blocks so everyone is like going crazy running here and there shopping and ya I mean like a lot of the crew spent a lot me myself spend about like thousand four hundred sing dollar worth of items so I mean like ya when you are there and it is not not much of chances of you being there spend as much as you want then come back and you'll get to you know probably sell a few bring back a few for your friends all these things so ya we went there there was a quiet nice place then at night I was supposed to meet up with one of my states friends from hawaii but apparently he uh our time didn't match we didn't met up then we I head out with other crews to you know to have meals so we went to have like shrimps and rice but it's basically overpopulated by japanese is a place where it's a little japan with a few hawaiians those polynesian guys is the rest of them are just asians basically a asian small state


so ya it's a place that I would like to head back to just to have a few you know to enjoy myself even further because of course of work I didn't get to go a lot of places but good enough so I was rushing too I head to like three different beaches one one garden and also one premium outlet and also maybe like for different restaurants and a lot of us did shop a lot of shopping instead walking around was pretty convenient in hawaii rather than taking buses but ya I mean like walking gives you a lot more joy of looking at things but if you are tired of course we did as well take cab back to our hotel because we are carrying a lot of stuff


ya I mean the weather is good sun tanned skin like usual and of course you get sunburn after a while being out in the sun, so


ya but it has to be, ya but they they want it to be natural so it has to be naturally code switch not just everytime you speak in chinese the whole sentence so <mandarin>我感觉:wo gan jue</mandarin> that's how they want it lah but if ya I mean like definitely I could do the code switch thing


ya because ah your content <mandarin>有很多中文:you hen duo zhong wen</mandarin> already so I'm not sure how it goes but ya I mean like this is the first time so I don't know how it is supposed to go because as I saw on the list it says it has to be minimum the fifty percent in english so if <mandarin>你每次在说中文:ni mei ci zai shuo zhong wen</mandarin> then <mandarin>没有说英文我就要代替你讲那个英文的部份:mei you shuo ying wen wo jiu yao dai ti ni jiang na ge ying wen de bu fen</mandarin> to fill up the percentage of the english version rather than not doing anything you know


(uh huh)


(mmhmm) ya understand


(mmhmm), ya I mean like


(mmhmm) (mmhmm),


ya I mean like I've been to places that has snow lah so I do understand that feeling those fluffy white snow from Chitose and also those snows in <mandarin>哈尔滨:ha er bin</mandarin> pretty different so ya I guess that's how you differentiate the both of the snow


ya ah


ya I mean I know that feeling to keep yourself warm in a very cold place where you get a taste of the hot soup <mandarin>就是那一个感觉:jiu shi na yi ge gan jue</mandarin> give you very warm feeling very comfy type of feeling


ya that's good I mean like <mandarin>他们就会:ta men jiu hui</mandarin> you know <mandarin>帮你:bang ni</mandarin> is something that it's very good I mean like they helped you out at least they can convey the right message to the lady if not I mean the they also <mandarin>不懂要怎么样做你的头发:bu dong yao zen me yang zuo ni de tou fa</mandarin>


ya I mean like curl up hair ya definitely people will think that oh another korean guy


putting on contact lenses


that, that's very true it will only be painful when you don't wash your contact lens err thoroughly like <mandarin>不清洁:bu qing jie</mandarin> there are still bacteria on it then yes it will be very difficult for you to put on because once you put on you will have this <mandarin>痛感觉:tong gan jue</mandarin> on your eye because uh it's dirty because your eyes are usually clean if there's dirty things on it you will be painful just like how you will rub your eye when there is dirty things to rub off the you know dirty material off your eyes so


ya that's why it's painful but it's not painful for you to put on your contact lenses is just sticking on only it's just a, it's just a plain like <mandarin>透明的东西:tou ming de dong xi</mandarin> on your eye


I mean like, I mean for effort if you start off is it in the first place yes you will feel it's very awkward because there is a layer of things in front of your eyes like <mandarin>他会看到一个影子这样子:ta hui kan dao yi ge ying zi zhe yang zi</mandarin> but if let's say you are used to it already you won't feel that there is contact lenses because if you are used to wearing glasses you'll be all pretty good with a contact lenses because now you have lesser of this like a frame of


you know the picture, so you will only just have a clear vision to be able to look at other people without having <mandarin>什么问题:shen me wen ti</mandarin> on your eye like that


so lesser problems too so you will have pretty good view when you put on contact lens err if the power matches but ya I mean is but it's not painful at all <mandarin>不痛:bu tong</mandarin> it's not like <mandarin>不痛的它是不痛的它就是那个感觉:bu tong de ta shi bu tong de ta jiu shi na ge gan jue</mandarin> the feeling the feeling is like scary but it's actually not painful of course prolonged use of contact lenses depending on which kind of lenses whether it's thick or thin will harm your eye but other than that it won't


it'll feel painful you will feel painful only when the contact lenses is dirty <mandarin>肮脏:ang zang</mandarin> then very how do you say long duration already <mandarin>长期用:chang qi yong</mandarin> like every time you put on your contact lens and you use it for pretty long some say it last up to twelve hour then yes it's moisturised enough to last to twelve hour but of course you will always wear lesser than twelve you will always wear ten if you wear anything more than that it will be a it'll be painful will be reddish your eye will be reddish not painful but reddish


so ya that's the part


ya but glasses will prevent you from being a pilot, and you probably have to lose your current <mandarin>工作:gong zuo</mandarin> because of because of this as well


what,


oh god


okay I mean like there are people like that I mean like <mandarin>有些人就是这样子就:you xie ren jiu shi zhe yang zi jiu</mandarin> I mean like there's no point doing anything else to them like let them be


ya I mean like I do I have this kind of err experiences too like I have this few encounters that are pretty weird too like I say, there're, there are people that I met that you know on flight look pretty good <mandarin>出去手出去走接受:chu qu shou chu qu zou jie shou</mandarin> them look very ah


like they can just put on anything funny thing is like especially when you have people that wears differently out you know like <mandarin>他在念在做工的时候:ta zai nian zai zuo gong de shi hou</mandarin> is very different


and with makeups and everything but all of a sudden she remove makeup I got a shock of my life when I met them like in australia on the road thinking that they are just some other girls


well lah


okay I mean like err there are a lot of girls like that too in our company like they they looked pretty good but on pictures but they are not so <mandarin>漂亮:piao liang</mandarin> on real life just look average


err it really depends on the person like I say I mean like <mandarin>有些人就是:you xie ren jiu shi</mandarin> you know try to impress the person when they like someone so, eventually some will work out some will not <mandarin>因为有些有些:yin wei you xie you xie</mandarin> people will be like okay ah ya we don't get we don't get along but we could try to understand each other so that we can be better together you know to understand each other sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't so <mandarin>要看那个个人自己:yao kan na ge ge ren zi ji</mandarin> whether they can be able to accept or not


so at times it is the part where you you can go along tag along with the lie firsts and maybe eventually something else will work out but sometimes it just didn't work out, so ya I mean


you will find out one day that not everybody is perfect they do seems perfect on social media on Facebook on Instagram <mandarin>看了好像很美很:kan le hao xiang hen mei hen</mandarin> lavish live err enjoying life but in the other hand they are just a pathetic little human


I find that if you get together and you start to get to know the person if you find it okay then you get together longer if not then you say goodbye it's a process of learning with each other you are trying to develop something from him he's he's trying to develop something from you


ya the feeling is not really good if you will drag on and drag because things is gonna get more worse and <mandarin>会变成一个很大的问题:hui bian cheng yi ge hen da de wen ti</mandarin> so it'll be a just a big problem so and it's hard to solve later on it'll just be a relationship problem all over again


so, K I guess that's how we end here you've gotta go


a hit take ya


yeah I upload already can cut, okay good to go


ya that's the thing but <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> one hour


prompt, oh ya <mandarin>我在看:wo zai kan</mandarin> err, quite a lot of questions wait ah I send the link first, [orh] you have ah, [orh] <mandarin>这样不用:zhe yang bu yong</mandarin> Liao ah


okay, one of the questions quite interesting, you are dining at the new restaurant called karma it doesn't have a menu you'll simply get what you deserve what food will you be served


!wah!, <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> question hor, you answer already but it feels like you know like a bit <mandarin>不要脸:bu yao lian</mandarin> you know like, you are implicitly telling people like what you what you think you deserve like oh I'm very good I deserve this this this this that


so I think like this question also like kind of reveals your, self esteem in a sense also I think


I think we are supposed to take turns to talk lah but let's say if it happens that we accidentally talk over each other then <mandarin>没有办法:mei you ban fa</mandarin> lor, right,


no lah I think so far it's quite okay what we are not cutting into each other's conversation, ya we shall see


why would you say that though


you simply get what you deserve ah, I would like to think that I deserve good things so, <mandarin>最好是我想吃的东西:zui hao shi wo xiang chi de dong xi</mandarin> lor


, question I think this question is better if you like can like, ask a friend like what do you think I deserve to be served that kind of thing, ya


sure, this one is the second last page I think


ya, it's just that if we happen to talk about more, err personal stuff then whoever's listening I hope you have a decency to not divulge any of such knowledge


, ya lor, because they have our names mah, K lah but I suppose, ya


!aiya! never mind lah we see how, so, if you had three wishes what would you wish for


let's say for the sake of argument lah <mandarin>你只可以选三个:ni zhi ke yi xuan san ge</mandarin> you cannot you cannot choose more wishes unlimited wishes you like you you have these three wishes and, that's all you get like what would you choose


ah ah ah okay, so a place you can truly call your own number one <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> leh


brooklyn bridge, okay


so house of your own number two travel the last one


more time ya <mandarin>时间又很难讲:shi jian you hen nan jiang</mandarin> hor, ah ah, ya I think that would probably be one of my, my wishes also <mandarin>好的对象:hao de dui xiang</mandarin> uh


I think, the one to do with the house also important like, but I might be more specific because I would want like, all the tools at my disposal I don't have to hunt for this and that or like make do because I don't want to spend money to buy things


then, basically a house whereby the kitchen is really equipped for cooking lah I would think and allow me to like, experiment and do things, I don't have to share the space with my parents and my grandma and the helper then like sometimes cause it gets to the point whereby we have to


err I have to either do my stuff in the kitchen and the helpers do it outside or vice versa that kind of thing then people always walk in and out then no space like sometimes I feel bad because like my parents they have to eat their meals in the, in the living room


instead of in the kitchen where the dining table is, sort of also , that's one so perhaps more spacious house with like nice kitchen, then we mention <mandarin>好的对象:hao de dui xiang</mandarin> also


off the top of my head I think


I don't know leh, I don't know if I should be selfish or if I should like you know like, ask for something that, will benefit [orh] I wish human beings were more understanding or I wish, err people would be


less judgmental err I don't know ya but if I were to talk about myself, ya everybody <mandarin>的很:de hen</mandarin> vague that's why so like , I think the three wishes the question that maybe they should like I don't know


angle it okay lah but if I were to take it point blank I would like a house with a nice kitchen I would like


well let's just go left field and say that you know I would like to be able to eat as much food as I wanted to without getting fat, yeah that's very helpful for someone who loves to eat and hates to exercise, ya


how do you think humans will become extinct I'm pretty sure stupidity is the top of my list uh


err, what was the show I watched [orh] the show that I watched that I told you about recently is broad church so, inside the show there's this guys <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> uncle lah basically , he was one of the two people suspected for murder of this kid


err this kid is a eleven year old boy err and the thing is that this guy who was suspected they actually found out that, he was previously convicted for underage sex so, a lot of people thought that he was the one involved but actually <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> so the thing is that I think eventually uh it was revealed that you know


what he was prosecuted for was basically he fell in love with his student who was underage at that time, so they actually got married after he, came out from prison, had a kid, err


but I forgot how the the wife, and the child died or something like that ya something happened then they separated then the man moved somewhere else to like get away from his life and everything so how the man, died eventually was basically people bullied him into it into suicide lah that kind of thing so like <mandarin>被:bei</mandarin> bullied lah then his life was being splashed all over the papers and then like everyone was going nuts and everything then he couldn't take it he committed suicide and in the end he was innocent lah so people were very


err affected by it like there was one scene because it's a very small town so the pastor actually addressed the the community like the the the whole, err I forgot what's the word for it already then he basically said something like you know , what did he say ah fuck forgot what exactly he said but he basically chastised the people for being


err allowing mob mentality to take over them that kind of thing and ya so in the show basically they they there was a point in time whereby the guy just, err no a few guys actually, got some people together and almost killed him what but he didn't err he was protected by the person


who was the father of the boy who died ya so that was what, so quite interesting so but when you're watching it it feels very real lor like like you're thinking, as an outsider <mandarin>你你在看的时候:ni ni zai kan de shi hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>你在想:ni zai xiang</mandarin> like I don't think I'll I'll ever be that blind or stupid to to believe something


at that point in time and like just take you know rumours on the papers and whatever to to to to be like that but I don't know leh if I were to ever be caught the situation, would I be patient enough would I be err rational enough to go and do research and find out like what is this going on


before you jump to conclusions and then, err they basically assumed lor like err because it's not proved that he is innocent therefore he must be guilty that kind of thing so ya I'm pretty sure, humans will become extinct because of stupidity or and or ego


[orh] no it's not based on true story I don't think it is lah based on what I saw on Wikipedia I think <mandarin>就只是一个普通的:jiu zhi shi yi ge pu tong de</mandarin> drama <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> lor ya but the acting was really good so


I quite like it david tennant and olivia colman and who the fella jodie whittaker, jodie whittaker <mandarin>最近好像:zui jin hao xiang</mandarin> I think the biggest role she did was err doctor who she is


she's the most recent doctor, jodie foster ,


let me see jodie whittaker, movies wise not many uh she hasn't been in much movies it's mostly british television


uh forest whitaker yes, err forest whitaker I think, almost, no lah forest whitaker is a, american, african american actor, jodie whittaker <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> white, brit


err forest whitaker did, the last king of scotland, it's a movie, where he portrayed this ugandan ugandan dictator called #idi amin#, and <mandarin>他拿奖:ta na jiang</mandarin> leh academy award BAFTA award golden globe award


screen actors guild award, for lead acting performance, just for one role he got also many awards , ya very Zai, you leh how do you think humans will go extinct


, end of humanity lah I think <mandarin>那:na</mandarin> question <mandarin>也是有讲:ye shi you jiang</mandarin> mah how do you think humans will become extinct


sounds familiar


let me see Osaka it says, social media was abuzz sunday after reports object emitting intense light has been spotted falling from the skies, err Gifu prefecture was able to capture the shooting star on camera


the fireball believed to be a bowl like a type of shooting star often compared to a full moon for its brightness could be clearly seen could be seen clearly from, parts of western and central japan Gifu prefecture where is Gifu in japan let's find out


Gifu japanese prefecture it is in, just above Nagoya apparently, Nagoya is !aiya! I share screen lah easier for you to see then you can see what I'm seeing


share, err Nagoya is here, you can see my screen right, ya Tokyo is like far far here over here then Gifu <mandarin>是这边:shi zhe bian</mandarin> lor


but Nagoya <mandarin>的上面:de shang mian</mandarin> so, err actually I'm not very familiar with japanese, geography also, so what would you call this the centre of japan


I don't know ya it's quite centre, I can't remember who was saying ah I think it was my chinese teacher uh <mandarin>他上课的时候跟我们讲过:ta shang ke de shi hou gen wo men jiang guo</mandarin> like he was saying china right


china is like a leaf, and japan is like caterpillar that want to invade china, ya that's what he mentioned, something like that


and then I also seem to recall who are saying, was it italy italy looks like a boat or something like that, high heel ya is it what is it italy let's trace the


the thing out, why is it not tracing wait ah, kind of it looks like a stiletto, supposedly, interesting so you thought it'd be something like a


phenomenon uh meteor or something


, although I think now probably global warming more likely lah the flooding, rising sea levels melting glaciers, probably not unless there's like some freak weather event


then I don't know lah <mandarin>全世界:quan shi jie</mandarin> tornado lah, volcanoes all erupt lah


ya, in july a similarly bright shooting star was observed moving from southwest to northeast in the sky above Tokyo, it was later identified as a meteor after fragments were found in neighbouring Chiba profecture prefecture


several fireballs are observed every month on average but it's rare for people to hear anything interesting, [orh] speaking of


curious sights this morning I went for brunch with, #rui qing# stan and #chun hao# and another colleague #wei hua#, then we were passing by I think we were taking KPE, then we saw I think it was commandos they were doing parachuting


ya you know from like err rivervale that side you go down, err Buangkok east drive Tampines road then KPE


into the expressway ya so we saw people doing err, err airborne parachuting I think, probably commandos lah if not then maybe special forces, ya we saw them while we were on a car


probably lah, ya, , I only remember they said that they will they will they will vacate the air base and move their operations to Changi and


err Tuas and where is that, Sembawang I think, twenty thirty !wah! <mandarin>还很久:hai hen jiu</mandarin> leh <mandarin>十年:shi nian</mandarin> eh


then I also forgot what they said the space will be used for when the air base is cleared are they going to like demolish the whole place and like build I don't know, err


residential oh ya hor


, it's probably something my parents will say cause like today we went to after brunch we went to, Serangoon gardens my village, to buy ingredients because I'm helping grace to cook for one of her party so I've made spaghetti sauce so we were buying stuff


then one of the lift I think <mandarin>有一张:you yi zhang</mandarin> sticker <mandarin>它那边写:ta na bian xie</mandarin> do you know that my village used to be called paramount theatre that that kind of thing then I was reminded of like my my my mum and my dad cause my mum used to live in Serangoon gardens mah so, err


that she will talk about how some places have changed like where the movie theatre used to be, where the NTUC fairprice used to be like along like where is that Maju avenue, and then they moved here and there so quite different now lah now I'm trying to think as as a kid because I will frequent


err I would frequent, Serangoon gardens quite a bit also so I'm trying to recall like what was it that I saw, or what was it that was there


last time ya lor, I have to find a way to take seventy three the only way in was seventy three remember, we would and in the past err


then take seventy three then it was quite irritating, because we have to walk all the way to #yio chu kang# road then wait for seventy three, and there's only ever there's there's only only one bus to wait for what so


err seventy three, Serangoon north <mandarin>转:zhuan</mandarin> right I think


then seventy three all the way down, and then we would, alight I think one or two bus stops before the circle because err we would have to walk in to


where my godma aunt used to stay so it was a little bit away from the circle lah but okay lah not that bad , in the past


ah ya ya ya ya some of the buses seventy four <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> aircon lah I think when I was in poly


I think when I was in poly <mandarin>好像还有搭没有:hao xiang hai you da mei you</mandarin> aircon <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> seventy four like there was once, err usually I will take train from Dover then Outram park then <mandarin>转:zhuan</mandarin> northeast line <mandarin>回家:hui jia</mandarin> but I think some days when I was really bored or like nothing to do I'll take seventy four home


then, ya I remember taking non aircon seventy four on the way home when I was in poly that was what two thousand and seven two thousand and eight already leh so ya I think, oh fuck but that's twelve years ago


shit it's been twelve years since I was in poly, , ya, what the hell


like today also I was talking to a friend bcause recently Marvel Studios announced a lot of new things, err in their line up for Disney Plus for the movies and everything then we were saying like [orh] kevin feige started all these like thirteen years ago then I was like what it's been thirteen years since the first Iron Man movie


ya correct


then after that they went on but err ya, it's been twenty over films and don't know how many series already ya,


, okay lah I guess I mean pop culture


ya, some movies also I don't know thanos , although okay because I like MCU lah so I'm quite invested in the movies so I will follow


then <mandarin>会看:hui kan</mandarin> lor so let me see ah, I'm running through the list of, movies now


okay I can very confidently say that err of all the movies that have been released right, if I didn't catch it in the cinema <mandarin>我在家里看或者是:wo zai jia li kan huo zhe shi</mandarin> like maybe on T V that kind of thing so I've seen every single movie in the MCU as of now


ya so all twenty plus films I've seen every single one of them,


ya ya black panther is MCU, your two is which one, [orh], iron man one black panther okay what that's two


err maybe let me just rattle off a few names, err thor, captain america avengers, iron man three thor two, captain america two winter soldier err guardians of the galaxy


avengers age of ultron ant-man, captain america civil war doctor strange guardians of the galaxy two spider-man homecoming that was the first err spider-man film, err what's his name tom holland was spiderman thor ragnarok was thor three


black panther avengers infinity war ant-man and the wasp captain marvel avengers endgame spider-man far from home, all these are the movies in the MCU canon


, they just announced a whole bunch of movies subsequently I think today, there were some that were already announced that they are in the works already err some just got confirmed today like they finally fixed, the directors and the screen writers for some of them and like err


also confirmed some of the cast I think, then television series <mandarin>也是有蛮多的:ye shi you man duo de</mandarin> lah but I think a few quite a pity because they had they they cancelled it Netflix stopped it already after like, a few seasons like daredevil was really well was really well received


err a lot of people like the actor also what's his name charlie cox, err rumours has it that he'll be reprising his role in the third spider-man film, that will be coming out in twenty twenty one next year


in fact I, ya actually in fact I think next year there's going to be a lot of movies being released because of COVID they had to stop they had to pause lah, err, what was that black widow


and then #shang chi# legend of the ten rings these two were supposed to be released this year and eternals I think, but they had to push back and they had to adjust their release schedule because of this because you know COVID then they had to change


okay lah, where would you have been when all these movies were coming out, you would have been in uni actually, army uni, then back in singapore already


let me see ah, iron man the very first one is two thousand and eight, black panther twenty eighteen so the two movies that you watched are ten years apart,


(uh huh), , black panther, actually most of the movies that I watched I watched by myself recently I mean number one


err, it's more of, by the time I Jio friends or my friends Jio me to go and watch it's either, I've lost interest or they've lost interest or all all no time so I'd rather watch myself and number two I would prefer to


err watch a movie by myself with no one disturbing me lah unless it's something that we agreed toto go and watch together or something, ya, like ah I will, recent borat watch party that was nice


interesting, ya


, social, the documentary on Netflix is it


criticize it I think it was one of my colleagues or one of my friends they were saying that err, crap I forgot what he or she said, I think something about err


did the show actually present anything about solutions or things about like how to move on, not a lot ya I think I think that was probably what he criticized about err, like the show doesn't really present any solutions or like you know how you can how you can change this or like err what


people can do like what corporations can do to to help stem this, but ya, the other one that I actually did watch Netflix the david attenborough I think err what's it called let me try and find my, watch screen


that one is interesting because he has talks about how the world has changed since, he is started being err, err naturalists are represented [orh] a life on our planet yes but towards the end he actually does mention certain things like things that humans can do


to help reduce or to help slow down, err how quickly the earth is changing or dying ya so I thought that was okay lah like at at the start quite, , sad, but at least <mandarin>到最后他有讲:dao zui hou ta you jiang</mandarin> lor like what we can do


to do certain things and help, then, because I have been binge watching the crown that led me to watch, two, documentaries about the royal family so quite interesting lah that one one was quite pro


royal family and one was quite more pro, diana so, quite balanced lah I would say the points, because I watched both so you can you get to appreciate the thing, a bit better


, but <mandarin>你看的那个:ni kan de na ge</mandarin> whose line <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> the the old one with drew carey or the new one with what's her what's her name, the new host, ah yes Aisha tyler


they are, they are still around right, these three, the one that I think I got to know because of this was err what do you call that


mock the week, the british one something similar lah I would say


current affairs lor like some parts they talk about news and all that, then, but I'm assuming that when they talk or when they speak there's no preparation beforehand so


err


ya correct, they used to have regulars on both sides I think then they changed to, only hugh dennis


ya ya I noticed but some of his jokes fall a bit flat leh I feel ya, or maybe, don't know lah not deadpan enough perhaps


no audience to hear no leh I I mean, with the audience, ya


yes milton jones err quite weird I would say <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> jokes <mandarin>有些:you xie</mandarin> like err


it's weird but some of them work ya and quite but his lyric quite funny, err, who was the guy who was no longer on already frankie boyle is it the super offensive one the scottish guy, ya


there are quite a few who are quite funny also but, I find that in general when it comes to like such shows right I don't like the people who, use like shouting or like purely just use vulgarities to to get the point across that kind of things like, very Sian so I appreciate like wordplay deadpan humour


or like uh subversion of expectations that kind of thing ya that one is quite nice


, , ah yes like the scenes from a hat that one


but there was also some I think, then they will press I think there's some roulette or something then they will have to talk on the topic for don't know how long until like, err the host is uh satisfied dara o' briain ya


, but even then it's a bit of improv also what like you you you unless they were told beforehand to prepare materials for all those err topics otherwise they have to improvise on the spot also


, unless it is things that they probably would not talk about uh like comedians they always have a few certain


themes or certain areas that they always talk about lor, like yesterday yesterday I was watching this err do you know doctor jason Leong this american not american malaysian stand up comedian


he used to be a doctor err some of his jokes quite funny but some parts I didn't really appreciate, like , he basically criticized traditional chinese medicine and say that you know it is not real err, err because the reason the argument that he gave is that because you've never heard of any other occupations or or professions that are called traditional like for example you you've never heard of traditional pilots


you never heard of traditional this and that then I'm thinking to myself ya lah I mean given the the fact is that lah but you cannot deny that, thousands of years of chinese medicine, are based on actual research and scientific basis and whatever like people actually died and, have benefitted from it so


like some of his jokes you'll feel that it's a bit stretched, like very far and some parts the delivery, the build up was very good but then the punchline was very anti climactic then I like !wah! very Sian some parts so, but quite nice lah to see like comedians


who will be talking about things that we are more able to relate to like you know as a southeast asian singaporean kind of thing ya, he has


oh that makes him one year younger than me what the hell


trying to find out, he moved to the US to study engineering where he also started performing comedy as a hobby chicago


then he worked as a data scientist before pursuing comedy full time in twenty nineteen, so he's actually quite, new leh like up and coming star


yes, but I suppose, but I suppose he also know, he also knows what works for, for his target audience lah because


quite stereotypical lor if you look at his his material like the the typical cantonese accent hong kong accent


ya, I have not seen any of his stand up routines before maybe we should check them out sometime


uncle roger, yes, [orh], I think I have seen


them before, what's their most famous, video ah <mandarin>我忘记:wo wang ji</mandarin> Liao I remember there was one, or something


I'm trying to see let me just go to their channel and see if there's any like, videos, mega compilations


I seem to recall there was one that I I watched quite a while back, but interesting lah that he has one let me see ah, I'm looking through his channel now and there's one


he has a YouTube playlist where he actually interviews like actual stars, so I suppose he probably commands enough of a, star power or presence to like for people to know cause who did he interview the rock kevin hart


jack black karen gillan, awkwafina tom holland chris hemsworth, game of thrones, ya lah so I suppose, he is famous enough to do stuff like that


ya, but his style works lah I suppose like, from the no frills he was able to make like a whole channel out of it and then he's even doing like proper reviews already, like I'm scrolling through now, he actually has like proper reviews of like game of thrones episodes


and things like that, risk, [orh] game of thrones okay lah, long winded and then season eight was just a shit storm lah <mandarin>很乱:hen luan</mandarin> a lot of things


that didn't really make sense, so I think, I was basically spoiling myself for some parts I just read the trailer synopsis on err, Wikipedia


(uh huh),


depends lah like ya actually recently I've only started like watching mock the week again because I happened to stumble upon, some old videos then, some some of the new ones also, but then I also have like phases where I watch like err talk show interviews like err graham norton show that one I enjoy because he actually allows the the guest to speak


ya unlike the american ones who always like cut over the celebrity <mandarin>真的来讲好多废话:zhen de lai jiang hao duo fei hua</mandarin> uh or do a lot of things to just make people laugh and whatever so , not really nice then


stephen colbert, conan oh conan o'brien brian is it, conan o'brien oh okay


I don't think I've seen much of his stuff but there was one that I saw of him interviewing err steve irwin when he was still alive that one I wasn't very impressed, because he wasn't very nice to him lah basically


[orh], conan without borders let me, Google that


oh !wow!, quite a lot leh, mexico israel ghana


ya I saw, is it german conan gets an in person fan correction from a german super fan , conan takes jordan schlansky to his favorite italian restaurant, conan trains to become a sausage master


armenia, conan , rents a family in japan


okay, ah, (uh huh), !aww!


nice,


K I will check out, conan without borders, one of these days


the ignorant american stereotype is it or, <mandarin>给我:gei wo</mandarin> Google again conan o'brien


interesting, [orh]


okay lah I think it's not they are going to pick out our sound, (uh huh)


[orh] there's an option that you can leh <mandarin>你可以去调:ni ke yi qu diao</mandarin> err under settings you can make it such that, the screen will stay on as long as you are recording,


I , then <mandarin>没有钱拿而已:mei you qian na er yi</mandarin> lor


okay, why though


err


but for them are they doing like recordings of , like, are they talking to someone or is it just like of themselves, [orh]


interesting, ah, cause just now I was telling #chun hao# about this I was actually telling the the whole group that I had brunch with today lah about this thing then we were saying that err, if this is not a scam then this will be the easiest twenty five bucks I've earned like one hour of talking and I will get it


then what did #chun hao# say let me find err, he asked me if it is for one of your friends projects or something, for for a friend study then he said I once participated in the study which required me to record myself saying many random sentences


-, this one should be more interesting as it is a convo, then I was telling him I don't know if I can code switch enough with you because like in usually we speak I tend to stick to english like compared to certain friends


[orh], but do you have friends who are JC grads who, tend to speak more in, mandarin for instance, like I would say easily hor err a lot of my #sin ming# friends right err friends from #sin ming#


ya I think it's only a few of us that we will speak more in english but most of us will speak in in mandarin ya


#ang moh# class


I think for them they are looking more at, between languages lor because like to my knowledge, err, I always use the term code switch to talk about like for example when I, am changing between languages like for example


err when I speak in english and if I don't code switch to think in english I will end up making a lot of grammatical errors that I will that that that are not errors in chinese you know like the grammar rules the syntax and everything so for me I was registered that as code switching but


it seems like for this study they they they are they are they are referring to code switching as just changing between languages, and even then it cannot be things like for example you only change uh certain words or you only use certain things or you purposely forced the the conversation to go in one way that kind of thing


ya so, actually why not let's go and Google about code switch, in linguistics code switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages or language varieties in the context of a single conversation


multilingual speakers of more than one such language [orh] sorry sometimes used elements of multiple languages when conversing with each other, thus code switching is the use of more than one linguistic variety in a manner consistent with the syntax and phonology of each variety


in the nineteen forties and fifties many scholars considered code switching to be a substandard use of language, since the nineteen eighties however most scholars have come to regard it as a normal natural product of bilingual and multilingual language use yes because you cannot


say that it's just that usually go, they even go into say things like for example, the rationale of code switching or quoting someone changing topics say something in secret


err to get something to fit in a conscious effort, inter sentential switching, when the switching occurs outside of the sentence


intra sentential switching when the switching occurs within a clause


intra word switch, ya, , both also have lah I would say I think in singapore it's quite common to see uh both


the one that I'm seeing is intra word switching it's interesting I don't think I've seen this before, intra word switching occurs within a word itself such as at a morpheme boundary


err oh they are talking about, what is this, an african language mixed with english, here the english plural morpheme as appears alongside the


Shona prefix Ma which also marks plural plurality sorry , err ya I would suppose are there any equivalence in singapore singlish chinese


uh, if you were to switch like for example I don't know if you apply like past tense to a


like for example if you don't say err, err, is it done no that's almost english already wouldn't change


err die ded but it's still within english mah it's more of like the past tense of the grammar, it's more of like if you speak in chinese then you add the the ded behind for example err <mandarin>衣服洗了没有洗:yi fu xi le mei you xi</mandarin> ded I don't know, ya or, err ya actually not much of that lah we we we we we usually only


use that to bastardise english and not so much like chinese, that I've noticed lah I think, K but interesting code switch, are there anything else


code switching example code switching in psychology, excuse me, PTY-, is code switching normal no we're all freaks, courses code switching sorry


ya <mandarin>我们已经:wo men yi jing</mandarin> hit <mandarin>一个钟:yi ge zhong</mandarin> Liao


yes, eh <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> hit one hour already or ya could be something like that


okay shall we stop the recording then, then we need to figure out how to send this thing because we're we're looking at the, need to access the link or something haven't press yet shall we count to three


one two three stop


your speaker is out is he, okay


code switching prompt, I have I have I I I opened on my phone ah <mandarin>我有开:wo you kai</mandarin> Liao


maybe, eh is it we have to only one person talk at one time cannot cut or


whoever is listening to this good luck to you , I think just now got one


but never mind, err, I think I will be served lukewarm, err, lukewarm


kopi O, anyhow say one, don't think ah just <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just like <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> just <mandarin>讲出来:jiang chu lai</mandarin> lor then you


like what,


I try another one ah, oh, that's the last question, right, eh no


[orh]


, civil servant ah


first


very typical <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> like <mandarin>第一个就是:di yi ge jiu shi</mandarin> more wishes


err


then, err, !wah! <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> leh


maybe something <mandarin>有关:you guan</mandarin> travel <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> lah


last one ah, err, err, maybe maybe maybe err


err <mandarin>好的对象:hao de dui xiang</mandarin> ,


, , true true true


okay any how point on one <mandarin>随便:sui bian</mandarin> lah !huh!, okay, how do you think humans will become extinct


[orh] sorry, [orh] sorry <mandarin>讲错:jiang cuo</mandarin> that one I thinking jodie foster


[orh] <mandarin>她的爸爸:ta de ba ba</mandarin> ah


ah


!wah! not bad, err, extinct ah


err maybe because, maybe, err, hard to hard to imagine the end of the


the world leh, actually I think like when <mandarin>我们讲:wo men jiang</mandarin> end of the world actually, the end of the world is the end of humans not the end of the planet, like


so at first I was thinking like


in japan got one, like, got one video


, Tokyo <mandarin>还是哪里:hai shi na li</mandarin> uh <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> lah


[orh] Osaka ah


Nagoya is where


, [orh], ya


, actually hor


is it,


high heel, ya lor


if the dinosaur thing is true then , ya possibly something like that


but, not enough to kill off the last person lah,


ya lor because of <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin>, like some kind of <mandarin>世界末日:shi jie mo ri</mandarin> thing lah


KPE, oh, [orh]


#paya lebar# air base lor, last time I NS got got this kind of thing will happen also what


not official lah but I I don't know official or not but I hear is like, don't know ah they say like by twenty thirty everything move out don't know


residential lor


then it's like <mandarin>下一代:xia yi dai</mandarin> then you tell the, the kids like oh last time in our school actually is the air base the runway [ho] [ho] [ho] [ho]


Serangoon garden very, Serangoon garden quite hard to get to ah last time I always think


!wah!, into #yio chu kang# road


[orh] then


, non aircon bus


always seventy four <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> aircon


as in the whole, Marvel thing or, every year got movie come out got movie come out then <mandarin>不懂:bu dong</mandarin> which year, somebody say oh got twenty movie already, in the universe


like thinking down there lah, , how come I don't know that ah


a lot of these pop culture <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi</mandarin> I don't really know sia


so like nowadays people <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> thanos <mandarin>这个:zhe ge</mandarin> thanos <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就是:wo jiu shi</mandarin> , thanks okay sure thanks no problem I don't understand but sure


!wah!, I think I watched iron man, err, black panther <mandarin>有算:you suan</mandarin> mah


err then two, black panther and iron man one, then I don't know what


then I don't know what else is in MCU , no, no


correct I watched two only,


[orh], on your computer screen


no I never watch all these movie, what was I watching ah, nonsense YouTube


army, ya


, I remember like, err, thinking oh this should be a movie I should watch, then


then I come out like quite good quite good


, , Borat


you got see social dilemma, the


err not a lot


, !wah!, in the time that I binge watched whose line is it anyway yesterday I could have watched a documentary,


new, aisha tyler


colin ryan, wayne, then the, fourth one usually change,


, err, format, it's, it's similar err


but, okay lah can <mandarin>可以算是:ke yi suan shi</mandarin> improv but, it's more, sometimes they just talk about


current, things, ya


err, got some, usually hugh dennis always got the answer for one of the segments, I think hugh dennis is the only regular


like


did you see nigel Ng made it to mock the week,


maybe no audience to hear the laugh, the


the audience actually socially distanced leh, maybe, maybe better if he bring his uncle roger personality


but maybe that's not the point lah because, actually <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> leh milton jones is, like, okay lah he got his own character milton jones you got see milton jones


ah


I remember mock the week I watched a lot in the UK I first got introduced there, then I think I watched a lot, a lot , ah the thing that is like whose line is scenes we'd like to see


ah that's stand up lor


I am sure they have their own routine stages like quickly select from past routines


don't know


oh,


I can't believe, nigel Ng is, one year older than me


, egg fried rice video video, then bom, all the asian


but I think he got lucky leh with the with the uncle roger one then he just riding the wave now


, actually my one of my favorite now it's ozzy man reviews


err <mandarin>最:zui</mandarin> famous <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> I don't know leh because, I watched a lot of them already so I don't know which is the most famous one


, the


, like a, a lot of the <mandarin>明星:ming xing</mandarin> that come to australia then don't know how come he also interview them, but, actually you will see his earliest videos hor like


but <mandarin>我也是没有看:wo ye shi mei you kan</mandarin> game of thrones


actually my my, it's the, it's, I think my media consumption style is like


it's not go to the same shop and eat but like, -, it's always the same like the same type of thing then repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat like, like okay like <mandarin>假设:jia she</mandarin> like


now, this week I watching grand theft auto fails then, for about three four days <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> just, fail video fail video fail video fail video fail video then <mandarin>过后:guo hou</mandarin> it's like


suddenly oh change to instant karma then instant karma for like <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> week <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> then, after that it will be <mandarin>回去:hui qu</mandarin> to wrestling then ya it will just, be the same type


but it's not, like <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> TV series <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> you will be progressing actually okay lah <mandarin>讲:jiang</mandarin> wrestling also a bit of progression


, , there's one american


that is the best, conan,


maybe you see his conan without borders


japan greenland


[orh], ah ya that one , the armenia one is because his assistant is from armenia then


they go to armenia, err, then, the funny thing is like, he like because at the time his assistant was single mah


and they go matchmaking then got this old lady like, like showing her profiles of, this guy that guy <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> then actually because of that episode there was there was her now husband watch that episode but I forgot how they they ended up meeting but they they ended up meeting and then they got married and it's because of that episode


like, the husband was like, she single, ,


not bad lah like he is not afraid to make a fool of himself like


so sometimes when travelling he will play up the, american, that, you know, how to say


like he will , a bit lah a bit lah, like he will play it up a little bit lah


but he also is very good at, err, being awkward or making people feel awkward, somehow it's still funny lah


oh no, I moved my phone then got the loud loud noise


because like every few minutes I will open my phone, to, check like, is it still recording


[orh], so I keep touching my phone, then I always see like, some waves


quite funny like, for my work I also have to listen to interview transcript, then, some of the kids in the transcript they just say hello, this is ASMR


, like <mandarin>他们讲:ta men jiang</mandarin> into the recorder like that, then, some they named the recorder bobby, hi bobby,


think <mandarin>熟:shu</mandarin> Liao mah like they they see this thing like how many times already, then, in the group discussion then they, hi bobby, whoever is listening to this


group discussion lor


but like <mandarin>他们懂:ta men dong</mandarin> lah they are being recorded


my code switching is most, on the mark when, speaking to my friends in NS but actually particularly the ones the friends who, like


are not JC grads, I think


, [orh] I was quite I was from quite a, sort of ya


got some, higher chinese lah but, if you catch them on a regular day like mostly


mostly, english lah, but I thought code switch <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> it's like from


different registers like, not just between language but also like


a lot of , a lot of mine is like, more of like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> intra sentence <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but


[orh] like, like <mandarin>挤在一起:ji zai yi qi</mandarin> like that the the word like, err


malay maybe I don't know


eh <mandarin>一个钟:yi ge zhong</mandarin> sia, I bet the same sentence is repeated across many many recording


for the chinese one, eh <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> hit <mandarin>一个钟:yi ge zhong</mandarin> Liao, or, eh <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> hit <mandarin>一个钟:yi ge zhong</mandarin> already


okay


yup got it, let's plug in, yup, right finally


oh my gosh, crashed, but never mind can restart okay continue


, ya, okay how do you start this, conversation, ya anything right, casual


<mandarin>我吃泰国餐:wo chi tai guo can</mandarin> leh bro , how do I explain thai food in chinese, no but it's like thai dishes, okay no there's


no there is one thai dish though wait wait we gotta like, make sure it's alternate ish, Tio


okay start with what I ate, let's see, the the the the which one


then I don't know what do you call it, really is it called that


okay, ya and then I have another soup, I have the standard like the the pork rib, like the <mandarin>炖汤:dun tang</mandarin> kind one, ya ya ya ya, and then


err it's not a thai dish that my mom cook lah but it's like from a friend some spicy super spicy meat balls it's like, though I can I can eat <mandarin>辣:la</mandarin> one but, it's insane


uh no you will choke, you will choke, ya you (ppc) kind one, !wah! that that cough was loud


, yes, yeah basically I had that, no I I think my my spice level is high enough so I don't I don't get that that often


yes, what is it like what


!wah!, I think it's <mandarin>大辣:da la</mandarin> level eh, like I the thing is this one is is strong, I mean it's just strong


it's punch you in your face kind, uh yes, it's instant !wah!, #kong kah kiao#,


you cook ah


no Mcspicy is never a a judge of spiciness,


, got that weak meh, okay but, my mum cooks lah but


okay my mum actually cooks almost everyday so it's different and I eat thai food everyday


[orh] did your parents hoard


my mum just what <mandarin>直接:zhi jie</mandarin> panic, ya lah, you know like, hall lor in the kitchen lor, buy tissue paper buy rice buy Maggi


!walao! eh then, is when you see right you like !wah! Paiseh, ya ya ya, then you just follow the same way


was it was it a movie no it's a real thing, no, (uh huh), no no


serial killer, really ah


what the hell is


oh I think I heard, and then what did it mean


was he chinese, then why is it the zodiac killer he watch jackie Chan ah, if fifty two years uh jackie Chan ya lah he was ah probably just very young


maybe, he, he looking for seventy two virgins ah


that's what he's doing man, I mean ya lah go watch mind hunter


got ah the japanese one I did I did a research on it before, the the cannibal guy, ya ya that one that one


uh, was he serial I can't it was a very major case though, I think no no he's more not more serial killer less serial killer more sociopath, ya ya, ya ya ya


yes it was damn messed up


japanese, no but I remember was it this case or another case the person willingly, uh volunteer one to get eaten


ya ya ya it was a woman, I remember I was one


oh yes I I did a whole skit leh okay not I did lah my friends did, I don't know man they uh, no no clue I I saw like bunch of the questions, it's like what do you think of human existence or something


I mean if you can go that far then, anything is possible to talk about, is it, Sian


but sure, you know that day I was I was trying to figure out this joke, after fighting flame wolf, then I was telling iris but then I I couldn't convert to like chinese so it took me a while


it was like, err wait wait wait wait <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> ya, yeah, how to change it ah


no it's supposed to work in chinese but it took me a while to ya, to translate, yes


you know why, 'cause he become dirty,


that's how I do by, I don't know, it just comes one,


you told me before what, solidarists


nothing, (uh huh),


but some people do do that though, true, #agak agak#


but most people don't do eh, no ah no I have seen before, do at arm [orh], do dragon


I want do dragon sia


was it, I thought it started from the <mandarin>汉人:han ren</mandarin> that era


, no leh


(mmhmm), yeah that one you that one I know like only only the emperor can wear gold what or yellow, oh


no but they also only emperor can wear yellow, , probably


from what, err true true


was it wait wait wait wait, wait wait healthcare different story man yeah that one is going to a different field already


no not true, different country different, there's ya ya that I think asian countries more, maybe


is <mandarin>看情况:kan qing kuang</mandarin> one what, if if you, capitalist nation not true ah, oh yeah don't talk about <mandarin>政府:zheng fu</mandarin> sorry,


, oh that one different though


that is god, that's a god that's a god, yeah, did you did you went to their did you go to their website


they have one website only that you can access and they actually sell err legit merch, you can buy a north korea cup, ya ya a north korean mug


for fun lah, I remember I went to their website like long ago couple of years back I'm pretty sure it changed now, because like it was, it felt like like <mandarin>那种三岁小孩:na zhong san sui xiao hai</mandarin> make one, it's like


super badly scripted, oh yeah yeah, singapore technically singapore singaporeans can go north korea what


ah yes yes, eh, ya you cannot cannot, do you know about the the family that has a burger shop in ko~korea


they have a they have a north they have a burger burger shop in north korea, yes, yes how can you not know that


dude it's on a newsman, I mean I mean was it was it, no no no it was so long ago already they were they were that they published it


no no no not the <mandarin>九点新闻:jiu dian xin wen</mandarin> kind of, it was I think it was facebook lah probably, oh yes you are right, oh my gosh, is lag


GG uh, what else, sorry


wait ah


wait what oh, what else, what what new topics should we talk about, that is not political, !wah! Siao eh, is that acceptable


no but, I honestly cannot describe my job in chinese, like I mean even my previous job it's it's super difficult like


but it's like, the the you see the thing about this kind of thing social things right is that they changed their title, ever so often, I to I don't know ah like


like you know mental disability now is not called mental disability, or like err not not okay not mental sorry the word I was looking for was , physically handicapped


ya you know you can't use that they don't use that time anymore, physically able, ya bro, it is I mean yeah it's a sensitive topic but I'm just saying it's the


it's how they change the the terms of this thing to just make it feel, I don't know, it doesn't make sense


it doesn't change the condition, it does not change the condition of what they are


it's like it's like, !hey! are physically handicapped yeah I know that !hey! yeah physically yeah, physically abled like it it doesn't make sense, being physically like when you say someone is physically abled right it doesn't sound like they have a handicap you know I mean which they are


it's quite misleading, and ya that that's what, no by the words of george carlin, does not change their condition


snowflakes


ya lah <mandarin>坐轮椅:zuo lun yi</mandarin> lah but, yes, no I mean I mean doing those is fine it's it's like, doing all this to to help them it's okay but like for you to just go and change the term just because


people are so sensitive to it, it's like, what the hell man, yes it's like, PTSD, they don't quite PTSD anymore also, (ppc) I I'm not exactly sure cause it's not a term that (ppc) sorry


it's not a term that singaporeans use a lot anyway but overseas they change the terms, you don't get PTSD one leh Zopeng Zogang


correct lah, no PTSD one, what Zaopeng IC


one year ten months bro, do I look like a weakling to you


it was compulsory what no meh, it was not, oh yeah yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't, dumb though, that two year that two months


ya ya oh okay but to be honest err the schedule is a lot better ah, like if err if you go the one year ten months right they really pack you like nobody's business, ya ya it's like !wah! everytime


play badminton, then you over there nine o'clock last parade they nine o'clock eating snacks


!walao! eh, but ya lah that's that's the give and take [orh] you want extra two months or you don't want ah, that's why I've been what was I doing then, I was working part time


yeah, waiter, yeah bro, uh restaurant restaurant, pretty uh bistro lah more of bistro than restaurant


sorry, uh !wow!, it was more french, but it's like bistro level so it's like not like the most expensive dish is like sixty


not super Atas not super Atas but really good food, like they were they were known for their poutines if you know you know what's a poutine, not not vladimir putin know


ya their poutines were awesome, no they closed down, Bolui


but the funny thing is like so that that place was the it was the first first outlet and they opened a second outlet which is smaller, and that second outlet was doing a lot better, then the first outlet it was at clarke quay eh err boat quay you know Kanpai there, upstairs


so uh the usual customers were japanese, yeah, ya ya all the they a lot of them stay there, a lot


ya that area it's somehow it's full of japanese people, yes, but but it's strange because like, I have never seen that many japanese people


just like that you know what I mean, ya lah ya lah but this this one is just you see them around, yes and also


and there's not just french it's western food also like poutine is poutine is french if I'm not wrong


ya so ya, pretty cool, but they closed down cause too little people


err too little customers, like their, their weekends right it's insane it's overly packed super crowded and weekdays is empty eh sad as hell man, like there was a weekday I did right they we only saw six customers


in a bistro yes, as in from the the time I start work ah which is like probably two, two ten, six customers, !huh!


boss rich, boss very rich, but we can open cannot cannot sustain no point ah, but it was Shiok ah, cause you Zuobo ah


that one different, that one cause of COVID, it's quite sad, ya food essential but like, not, like the thing is that, the ones that suffer right it's not the economy class and the the fine dining actually


it's the the bistros this kind one, the in between yeah, cause economy class <mandarin>大多数都是:da duo shu dou shi</mandarin> like me and you will will go eat one what right then fine dining <mandarin>是那种:shi na zhong</mandarin> rich people go and eat one what


then this in between one eh where like people like us want to treat ourself once in a while you're not going to go there during COVID what, so like that lor they suffer lor


so yes it's always the middle one that suffers


same thing for any situation ah, low income get benefits, high income, do whatever they want middle in the middle suffer, I will lead anything to, political one sia I tell you


all my conversation can go political one, it's the, sociology mindset, down with capitalism


social psychology is a bit different though


I mean I studied some things like there are things there are main concepts that are similar also to that like very specific concepts, but ya, we'll probably just bore the person listening to this so no point


yes, study something that is interesting but cannot find job, how


ya lor, that's why I applying for government what then, just waiting for their reply now lor


confirm confirm, but no choice lah I mean the things they also, see my my letter already what and then like as in they, they just waiting to call only ah, I do that's why


so whether they want to hire is another thing, is how long they wanted to take to reply, they can, some do though some don't some they really just take their time one


actually no leh, uh I'm not too sure but what I heard is like, if they take three months means they actually and they get to you right means they actually very desperate, because they cannot find anyone else


then they have to lower their standards then they looked for you, correct, I mean that's what I heard lah but I don't really care cause


now lah before this I wasn't in this mindset ah sadly, , I mean yes no I mean now is cause I'm broke


, mean when you're unemployed that long, (ppc), COVID not a good time to leave your job


because I had other plans that all failed, yes


it failed, funny thing is I don't even talk to him though, which you know which is why I don't I am not going back to the cafe, as in I don't even like I know if I asked them right they will hire me part time one


yeah, I mean it's a very good chance that they will still they will let me work there lah but like !wah! cannot sia


correct


it's it's not it's more of lax cause I like cause I just disappeared like that technically, no never is just all these happened then we just we know it's not gonna happen already


yes but to be honest I think it wasn't a very good idea either, the concept, it wasn't was okay but, I don't think would have worked


and pure specialized coffee, which means pure pourovers, no thing is the one thing was because it saves a lot of money, machine wise, no but


you know how much is a expresso machine or not bro, at least ah at least


bro depends on what you're looking for and that is without having a grinder know, no grinder, you still need to add your grinder which a good one is about five K


ya so like basic also ten k and like you know if you do pure pour over the method we are talking about right you reduce your cost right from ten K, to, one thousand


ya but, but also if you do a if you if you bought espresso machine and everything then you're just another coffee shop anyway lah, so yeah I mean in the end I I also don't know, I don't think we have a very strong selling point it could work but like


you must really have a lot of money prepared first, in case it fails, correct


and you need the money to Tong that long, so, so ya cannot lah and this COVID thing happens like there's no way you going to you're going to do it, it's no way it's going to work because it works, on people being there


bubble oh really, oh I remember and the one thing that was, that was going to push this thing right is you have to brew you have to have the place the cafe like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> CBD area


because you want to push it too, working people that don't have a lot of time then they can enjoy this fast paced and then go, it was basically a take and go


yes but the thing is everyone work from home what, you open at CBD no one's gonna be there


so, it's definitely not going to work out, until this whole thing is over, for sure so no point lah, correct correct


no leh but then, not just me ah like <mandarin>大多:da duo</mandarin> all of my friends right, they rather work in office


correct correct correct, yeah like I mean that should be how it is what like if you if you can get your work done what's what's the difference


forcing you to come to office it's like going to school like that, is that those old mindset [orh]


but then they also want to leave work early, ya some lah then like they must oh err <mandarin>老板还没:lao ban hai mei</mandarin> #pang gang# <mandarin>你不可以:ni bu ke yi</mandarin> #pang gang# that kind of thing, !wah! I hate that kind of nonsense the most


no eh it's it I mean japanese yes but then, it's very asian I mean you korean drama same thing what, it's just a asian thing it's not really japanese just do it very, too harshly


I mean their work suicide rates are quite high ah, yes so, cannot compare


oh yes, no but that is a that is because of their culture what which is wrong ah


like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> after, after work must go Ginza go drink with your boss, then don't go home sleep in office, yes <mandarin>失败的:shi bai de</mandarin> man


so <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> lor, then like you only see your wife once a month, like I I read this article before like what is that is the super traditional one know <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> err husband sleep in office then only send money to wife wife doesn't work


then <mandarin>那那个:na na ge</mandarin> wife wife job is just to take care of kids, ya the the most traditional way and you see the strongest in japan, when you think it's like from china


it probably originated from china, ya lah china a lot of money eh, land bro they got land, yes


their resource is land ah


, that's why must up the price


, then you must make it super like hipster Atas, must make it so Atas that people think they want to buy


because it looks good, but has no value like supreme, yeah it's called it's called a fad, yes like the supreme brick ah


err like what was that brand, what was this brand that used to be super cheap then now like all of a sudden


ah forget already, like my friend used to say like at Walmart it costs twenty dollars and now it's like hundred over, !wah! what what's the other hipster brands ah


yeah I mean I don't wear any of those that's the problem that's why I cannot think of the name, it's not Fila but Fila is one of it, Fila did, no, Fila shoes bro


Fila shoes, if <mandarin>小小学的时候是:xiao xiao xue de shi hou shi</mandarin> like sixty dollars fifty dollars one eh


Converse, but ya Fila was sold in Bata, that's why you can buy Fila shoes from Bata, now you cannot, correct, not their own brand I mean Bata does sell like other brands also what like Crocs not Crocs sorry uh Crocodile what what


what's the brand, with the crocodile <Z> symbol, help ah Lacoste is it Lacoste yeah, yes, singapore ah caterpillar also have what


steel known for steel toes ah but, yes, !wah! still cannot remember what's that


for shoes, ya which means like, so if if your shoes are sold there it's not that expensive lah


I thought I thought you say ABC mart sia, no


[orh], okay, ya lor


!wah! I'm racking my brain to think what brand that is leh, but I can't even I can't even think of it, that yeah like I know like they were very famous for like err you know their shirt is the red


white blue one, it's like Fila but it's not Fila, Fila also red white blue, basically red white blue is the netherlands flag what, but yeah but it's like this brand that they were selling a lot people were wearing this shirt


never mind


but I don't think I mean okay I don't even see people that often so I wouldn't know anymore


ya you don't you don't even see this kind of people already I mean they still exist ah but everyone wears black now, ya you always see people wear back one and like, no no no Fred Perry was always expensive


but like now most people are just wearing black, I think so


cannot remember Liao, I remember I was talking about it in uni, ya I not sure who I was talking to about this


oh my gosh I want to google this, never make a single friend


[orh] !chey!, [orh] I needed to, I I kind of was forced to make friends in class


yeah, my first sem right I went into class I sit at one corner, never interact with anyone, at the end of the sem had project that's why


no choice, [orh] no but my very first project I worked with these two seniors, surprisingly, no no it's err because this is a elective that people can take also


cause intro class it's intro course, it was the intro course what intro course for my core what but other people can take intro course what, so these are the people like seniors in other, like err what what what other other other other majors then they just come here to clear


their elective, err, they actually did eh actually no ah, I mean the there were three of us one of them was like top top student in the class, not even our major eh top student


in the class in the class not the course, but he top the class, !huh!, err yeah actually my my prof did


err she she showed like in class the score lah, yeah, and like not not like who scored what but like then she show, like top three was, ya <mandarin>第一名几分第二名几分:di yi ming ji fen di er ming ji fen</mandarin> da da da then I was like fourth place,


luck I studied hard okay, but then my my group mate was first, yeah I did in uni, ya lah in uni lah <mandarin>中学没有:zhong xue mei you</mandarin> lah


err not near school, never


ah Crossfire no I never go there, nope, I never play during school hours and during school days


!wah! <mandarin>你不用去回家吃的:ni bu yong qu hui jia chi de</mandarin> ah, , very nice, like I remember every time right


after school <mandarin>打篮球打到:da lan qiu da dao</mandarin> like, no <mandarin>四点:si dian</mandarin> sometimes depends what time release, then the moment I go home right I just lie on the floor sleep, I wake up seven already


I only know everytime I go home when I go home like the the sun still up, then <mandarin>起来的时候:qi lai de shi hou</mandarin> !wah! eh


oh ya ya ya then always turn yellow, nice, never had to do that thankfully


!wah! I remember, I always went to my, oh we never <mandarin>打:da</mandarin> LAN you know why cause we'll go my friends house play Xbox, like we will always go, if you don't play basketball then we go my friend's house Sengkang


then everytime right somehow I reach his house right I just fall asleep on his couch, then never play


no I sleep I sleep, correct, because like cause usually we how many of us ah usually there's like five or six of us what then like only four people can play only, then is I go there chill one ah sometimes


then I just sit on his sofa and sleep, !hannor!, then just take bus home, so fun


I mean I always go Sengkang only [orh], got direct bus or my house got direct bus lah


so, very convenient, err fifty two minutes but need to minus the previous one as in minus the, the sound thing


so probably another ten minutes, yes


dry dry speech, oh, probably


[orh], ya lor like eh err how's the weather today, ya, no it has to be it's been hot and cold eh


like I think got one day I know it was like consecutive three days in a row ah hot cold hot cold right then my nose I thought I got COVID, !wah!


no but then my my my dad all got work lah so like could be them but then like, but then I wouldn't be the one affected what they will be affected first what but they could have asymatic or whatever that word is lah


a sympathetic whatever, oh my gosh I need to brush up a bit, but ya it was damn bad eh cause like, then, I don't know is it when you get older you sneeze louder


true, like my dad sneeze right from first floor I can hear him one then I know it's my dad coming home, yes he sneeze damn loud like like really, then I realise cause <mandarin>我是每次:wo shi mei ci</mandarin> like <mandarin>四点五点睡觉:si dian wu dian shui jiao</mandarin> one correct


then like, then it's always at that timing right my nose becomes super sensitive then I will start sneezing, during that time lah, no which is the as in I thought I was sick what, cause I was sneezing like six seven times know in a row


that kind, then I thought I got COVID and then the thing is like I'm sneezing at four five AM, and it's damn loud like I can hear the neighbourhood echo kind one, ya correct ah


and like the road is not even near my house, , but ya


but my sneeze is scary sia like can you imagine seven times in a row in the middle of the night, damn loud, eh that day my, I think just yesterday


got some guy will start shouting at like eleven PM, just some guy was shouting something like it was cannot really hear properly, cause he was just shouting but it was loud ah like <mandarin>那种:na zhong</mandarin> you can tell he's from like first floor or like don't know where one


I couldn't ya I couldn't see where he was, but it feels like, but it feels like he was like downstairs like first floor


[orh] but mine don't have but he shout twice only the first time <mandarin>他在:ta zai</mandarin> he's like, then he shout like very stress, something like that lah around those lines like like I think


I was scared I will see someone jump that kind one, then he shout finish but he he was scolding he was scolding, then like some got, that ya probably like me ah, then some guy from like some guy from seven floor I saw his head stick out ask him shut up


he really shout eh Diam lah, oh bunch of friends that one can call police already


okay that one different, oh


if they feel he's a threat they can handcuff him, oh you can see ah, oh the thing is, [orh] mine cannot see, I just look down the like I cannot see where where is that guy


I was hoping I could see, it's been too long man, oh ya ya Tio Tio


hopefully, cause by right they say once vaccine is released then can, chill a bit already, can slowly go back, I don't is it considered fast


but SARS took SARS was faster eh, SARS was way more potent, but the thing is


and SARS was also quite a <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> ah, SARS was very contagious, technically yes but SARS also was almost as contagious as COVID they came from the same strain eh


must remember, I don't remember but what I remember was, both was actually equally contagious and SARS was very lethal, I think the maybe the main difference was that err the


SARS couldn't stay airborne, if I'm not wrong, that's why, SARS died, if exposed too long the the the virus dies compared to COVID


no but as in no it's it's airborne but the thing I think it doesn't survive as long as COVID, that kind of thing cause, SARS was passed through air what, passed through sneezing what err pass through err water water vapour


dude yo're only one year younger than me, need, but the thing is they also quarantine fourteen days, but it worked because I think, firstly singapore didn't have many cases


but we had deaths ah, I think secondly it should be because it doesn't survive as long as COVID, ya, can't remember why already but there was there was a reason why SARS didn't last as long as COVID even though SARS was deadlier


way deadlier, SARS death rate was thirty per cent eh, or was it something I know the highest was swine flu, swine flu death rate was the highest followeed by SARS


I hungry already


oh not that one, I don't know, oh I can hear I can hear I can hear


yeah yeah, you're supposed to close your window eh, oh okay lah then never mind lah


my stomach just growled, what time, no I mean I just ate, and just now was technically four hours ago already


did you ever, have you ever been in a state like you was too hungry that you don't want to cook


dude you've never meh you are so hungry that like you got no strength to cook, true that too


ya lah it's it's too much effort to cook when you're very hungry, that that too that oh yes yes yes that's why I don't usually brush teeth until I like, I'm super ready


you can you can just wash your mouth you can gargle, you just rinse properly because <mandarin>牛奶是:niu nai shi</mandarin> calcium


a bit lah but it's not as bad, you don't get plaque what so all you need to do is just rinse with Listerine, because you won't get anything stuck no plaque build up


yes, then again it doesn't work for me but, ah <mandarin>喝酒喝酒最好喝酒会睡觉:he jiu he jiu zui hao he jiu hui shui jiao</mandarin> yes


no it's the best


what, !huh!, (mmhmm)


err, I don't know but if it gets me to sleep it's good enough, I don't care


get into the mood to sleep, is it the same thing though, like like sometimes I just my brain too active, ya so like I need something to make sure that it helps me me stop


so <mandarin>喝酒最好:he jiu zui hao</mandarin> [orh], Tio


that's how I can twenty four hours don't sleep one what, can, in poly and uni you can don't sleep because you got work to do, different


yeah I get that but then like when I'm in bed I like but I cannot sleep, #buay sai#


okay we're at one hour five minutes Liao Swee lah, got ah ok lor


okay, we kept the recording


bye bye


three two one clap, , did you get that, nice let's go, must change back to, !wow! ya earpiece, okay


yeah, that was quite hard to do, what, [orh], then I can just continue talking


can just talk about anything not, like


dinner lah, as in, [orh] or you can tell me in english what


ya lah ya lah like taking turns ah like <mandarin>你讲一句:ni jiang yi ju</mandarin> then, or I mean if you are telling a story then, one person will be listening more what


ya what did you, pig trotters, oh nice


my family calls it that also, ah


the ABC soup ah, Shiok


uh choke, like your, like your throat, dry until cannot take it


ya that cough was loud ,


[orh] then must be damn spicy, is it like, I ate


there's


strong like, is it the subtle kind or the punch you in your face, straight up, !wow!


although that time circuit breaker because everytime cook at home, then, no lah uh as in take my my house cook ya, then my mom doesn't really eat spicy, so over that two months right think I lost my ability to eat very spicy like last time I eat


Mcspicy, is no kick one, ya lah ya lah as in last time is no kick like like some people will find it spicy what but, that time before circuit breaker it was no kick then after circuit breaker ended


then then I <mandarin>回去吃:hui qu chi</mandarin> the Mcspicy right !wah! I cannot take it sia, ya lah like two three months two three months never eat spicy, suddenly don't know how


ya lor


that time also <mandarin>不可以出去:bu ke yi chu qu</mandarin> like only one person from the household to buy essential groceries or what, no lah I told them not to


then they like !wah! <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> tissue paper, let you don't have tissue paper to use one


buy a lot ah, then put where, no space to walk lah, cause that time


ya cause that time the america situation what everyone just, rush to buy tissue paper, it was quite insane this year is quite insane


well I was, watching a video have you heard of the zodiac killer, no ya it's a real thing it's this serial killer in america, do you know what is serial killer in chinese


I think you don't, well make a guess, ya lah but that's just a murderer what what's a serial killer


yep, serial killer lor like just kill a lot of people, ya so basically, at that point in time he left a cryptic message


then no one could solve it for the past fifty two years, then, ya then recently, like a group of people solved it


quite cool, err it didn't really mean anything lah he was saying like err cause he say he going to <mandarin>天堂:tian tang</mandarin> then he kill all those people, to, make them his slaves


no he's american, jackie Chan wasn't even born at that time was he, ya lah, he he was lah he wasn't famous he wasn't jackie Chan jackie Chan


yeah,


don't know eh but america got a lot of, crazy serial killers, ya lah mind hunters okay lah maybe not just america maybe the world


japanese one, [orh] the one who ate the polish women woman, he was a serial killer meh he just killed that one person right


ya ya, ya that time he got <mandarin>上报纸上新闻:shang bao zhi shang xin wen</mandarin> everything what then


then after that, he came out and became a celebrity, yeah it's


it's weird, like, what people think, [orh] that one is another one this one is it was uh


polish right polish, ya, then he, took photos what, and, of the of her body after he mutilated her


then he put inside the fridge, yeah, is this too gore for this, okay lah


ya lah, I think they they say like don't talk about politics ah


ya lah, what, (uh huh), what took


does it work in chinese or only, err, I don't know


why, , he become dirty, what the


that is, some creativity right there, how do you even come up with that, uh <mandarin>狼:lang</mandarin> oh ya speaking about <mandarin>狼:lang</mandarin> like


ya ya, then, like I like wolf what like how they're, pack animals but also can be solidarity


at the same time, the what, they can hunt alone ah or in packs basically, yeah


do you get it, ya lah but maybe they don't know chinese as well, you know what is <mandarin>狼狈:lang bei</mandarin> you know right


ya like, like, have what, quite common but


if I want to do like I wan to do a big piece, no point <mandarin>做小小:zuo xiao xiao</mandarin> no lah not dragon I'm not into dragons, dragon is like, like <mandarin>中国文化皇上:zhong guo wen hua huang shang</mandarin> ah is it symbolize


dragon yeah no meh, ya lah at, that was after all the


before, no but before that, like <mandarin>龙:long</mandarin> is a representation of all the <mandarin>皇上:huang shang</mandarin> what that's why they are called, [orh] no they are called <mandarin>天之子:tian zhi zi</mandarin> but you know their, their robe, the chinese call what the their <mandarin>袍:pao</mandarin> ah it's called <mandarin>龙袍:long pao</mandarin> what


err I guess <mandarin>袍:pao</mandarin> is just the form of clothing, like you know we watched the


err, then, always wear the yellow robe, yeah


no only the emperor can wear dragon, isn't it yeah only, no lah it's a, noble nobility thing nobility is that a word, noble


yeah, but is quite insane how times have progressed, like you


or of that level then now like, just, or even health care for that sick


no lah as in last time you need to be rich, but now it's like a basic, err, need is it is it


given, in, err that's true in different country different ya lah but generally


generally like the whole world, progress, over the times what, ya lah ya lah


what is capitalism, never hear before, [orh]


can talk about, the north korea one or not, oh yeah that's a god, did you read his story like he say he born from some star or something


what a legend, no leh


cup, why would I want a north korea cup, but that doesn't make sense


, I mean got the like, from <mandarin>中国:zhong guo</mandarin> you can travel to, north korea, under some program


can lah but you still have to go through china right, yeah


what franchise McDonald's, or their own ah, !wow!, I didn't I didn't know that how how will anyone know that


[orh] like when recent, last time when news is <mandarin>报纸:bao zhi</mandarin> lah not like, that


but, [orh] but I don't have facebook hello,


what


okay, (ppc), what thing


ya lah ya lah yours is not <mandarin>感化院:gan hua yuan</mandarin> meh


why, then what's it called


physically handicapped, then now is what, low, abled, nah I guess it's a sensitive topic


as in make them


like <mandarin>我们没有用不一样的眼光看他们:wo men mei you yong bu yi yang de yan guang kan ta men</mandarin> lah, like ya lah like, you won't look at them in a different light ah, it doesn't


but I think maybe


but maybe, (mmhmm) ya, ya I guess


but nowadays, mean people more sensitive, like


here and there got more, err, mobility friendly, err, architecture being built


like to help, not not just <mandarin>轮椅:lun yi</mandarin> like like some can go up the stairs, like you know at the side of the stairs


what then is it called


[orh] but actually singapore don't have what PTSD I mean I mean not that we don't have but, it's not as common because, we never clarified lor


Zopeng also Jialat [orh], Zaopeng IC, Sibei Tokgong, did you serve two years or one year ten months


nice, how I know some people strong in army but like they can't be bothered to take NAPFA in poly, no no don't need can ya


don't have what like at most you just go to the what's it called PTP


what schedule, [orh] not slack [orh]


ya <mandarin>在那边纳凉:zai na bian na liang</mandarin> ah


go in, good life, I think not worth ah two months can do a lot of thing eh outside as a, as a free man, but you got work after poly ah, [orh] what you work


as, waiter, (uh huh), for what, [orh] what cuisine, what cuisine


[orh] not Atas one ah just


ya ya I know, I know


is it still open now, oh oh actually after poly I also got go and work, at Muchachos, ya but I work one week and I think one or two weeks ah then


I stopped working and I became a customer like just go there and eat,


yeah, oh boat quay that area got a lot of japanese one


is it oh I didn't know that, because town just more expats then, like, ours, neighbourhood


I mean if you go to a those Izakaya bar


yeah, [orh] not common ah, ya I think just more #ang moh# ah


asian ya not asian for sure, too little people as in little, too little [orh]


the entire day, uh


[orh], yeah, oh yeah now COVID also a lot of, restaurants


closed down cafe, oh but food is essential eh, do you know mid


the middle tier, yeah


uh


(mmhmm), [orh] ya lah anything can go


, I also took, I took, uh applied social psychology


and, how you view other people how other people look at you, then, why people do certain things


, it's very wide


ok lah I guess is, kind of thing


ya, but they're hard right if you want to work in government, local uni confirm chance right


[orh] but, ya lah but you got the <mandarin>经验:jing yan</mandarin> ah, maybe they got a lot of levels go through


or maybe


but if they desperate why would they wait for three months, [orh], that is indeed quite desperate


, last time more <mandarin>随便:sui bian</mandarin> what right, just <mandarin>做工:zuo gong</mandarin> then, go out have fun


ya lah, hard to find


like what you really want ah I mean there are jobs out there, for sure


ya lah don't leave your job why you leave your job, oh ya you wanted to open a cafe, but, open cafe during COVID


confirm Toh, why, where tell Kun, [orh]


why eh, , uh


[orh], but you all never like bad terms, [orh], you just like <mandarin>慢慢:man man</mandarin> drift apart


why leh, the concept as in the neighbourhood, cafe, oh I think okay what


as in rental wise lah, machine got government sponsor what <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> meh


got <mandarin>三四万:san si wan</mandarin> meh, is without one, oh


I guess maybe when like you start up you can get, a more basic model then <mandarin>慢慢:man man</mandarin> when <mandarin>你有钱:ni you qian</mandarin> then


, ya lesser ah, ya lor


ya lah, I think you need to Tong, what half a year one year before you actually see results


ya after putting money, yeah


but recently I hear got a lot of people open bubble tea, ya bubble tea, bubble tea shop [orh] Bedok, Bedok like those neighborhood bubble tea ah


oh but, ya lah, work from home


ya and like <mandarin>他们要喝咖啡:ta men yao he ka fei</mandarin> by the time you deliver they maybe don't want already they want like instant


but even this whole thing over now right, everyone know that you can just <mandarin>在家:zai jia</mandarin> meeting


, no lah, ya like when need when you want to go office as in you have the option of


like <mandarin>我今天要在家:wo jin tian yao zai jia</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就在家:wo jiu zai jia</mandarin> but I still get work done, I think the concern is like


ya it's a more traditional mindset lah like they want to see you in action


ya not all bosses lah some, oh yeah, that's the, that's the very japanese like


asian lah ya ya asian,


they work until die leh, the, but they are also very hard workers


I hear from cheri say, like <mandarin>他们生病:ta men sheng bing</mandarin> right they will force themselves to go to work and not take MC one, ya ya is their work culture


ya ya if you go home early


got once a month so <mandarin>夸张:kua zhang</mandarin> meh,


, china now more


china now more <mandarin>开放:kai fang</mandarin> leh, they got resources lah, and


people also what, got what <mandarin>十亿:shi yi</mandarin> ah their population, you sell something cheap like <mandarin>一毛一分钱:yi mao yi fen qian</mandarin> to like ten per cent of china population <mandarin>你也是算到:ni ye shi suan dao</mandarin> Siao


but whereas like you sell something in singapore got ten percent buy maybe you not very rich also, cause, ya cause we small


hipster


(uh huh) ya lah, uh, no what as in supreme in general actually they retail quite


as in quite cheap, damn <mandarin>贵:gui</mandarin> eh, from where one


what's that, err I don't know I just buy Uniqlo, Uniqlo is cheap and good, ya lah


but Fila never become expensive what wasn't it always this price, no meh, fila shoes, Fila shoes


Converse, oh I did not know that


oh, or like they branch out to become their own brand ah, I don't know I don't


don't look like crocodile one lah but I know lah, Bata got sell lacoste, which singapore sia, caterpillar is the [orh] I know caterpillar


got Lacoste meh, Lacoste is the <mandarin>鳄鱼:e yu</mandarin> right, I thought they got their own shop


carrier, [orh] [orh] you know ABC shop in singapore is like <mandarin>杂货店:za huo dian</mandarin> that kind, wait wait ABC mart


ABC shop as in in singapore, no meh


like random stuff, but in japan right ABC shop is the sell shoe one, just google lah


[orh] cannot google something you don't know


red white blue turn brown, it's like, it's like Fila but not Fila I have no idea, (uh huh)


now never go out much ah, everyone wear black, [orh] Fred Perry


(uh huh), is it some young punk brand


oh no, we too old for this, uni


, I don't know my only friends in uni are from singing club like we go to class, I just <mandarin>坐在那边:zuo zai na bian</mandarin> never made a single friend for three years


in lecture lah cause, ya cause my lecture as in my course don't need to project with other people <mandarin>全部都自己来:quan bu dou zi ji lai</mandarin> what, yeah just <mandarin>考试:kao shi</mandarin> don't don't need to group mate


but, your first sem no project meh


ya then eventually also need, [orh] why your course got senior one they remod ah


[orh] first year got elective one meh, [orh], [orh]


then they carry you ah, those, in the course


[orh] dean's list kind, got show, class one ah


[orh], [orh], it's luck


you got, you got study one meh, in uni only ah


away from school LAN ah, Crossfire


but you still wear school uniform go and play lah, [orh] <mandarin>回家换衣服:hui jia huan yi fu</mandarin> one ah, [orh], then that's not <mandarin>打:da</mandarin> LAN, as in <mandarin>打完篮球:da wan lan qiu</mandarin> then evening <mandarin>去打:qu da</mandarin> LAN


yeah, that was the life


, , pll


and so hard cause it's white then very hard to scrub off


[orh] ya lah sometimes have lah, play PS, ya


Sengkang far sia, just watch people play ah, [orh] you go to other people house to sleep


nice,


, in secondary school I never really travel out of the east


super far sia I think, up until poly ah then, I go by myself Sengkang before that I never go by myself before, [orh]


how long has it been we talk how long already, as in, it's after clapright


yeah, yeah


it's a taiwanese term, like when you got like you got nothing to say then you just


ya ya no today super hot, , maybe your cat go and bring COVID for you


ya ya, asymptom


, cause singing, from first floor, uncle Lee


yeah, oh you got <mandarin>鼻子敏感:bi zi min gan</mandarin> ah


[orh], it's the weather ah,


sure loud, like those those like once in a while <mandarin>有一辆:you yi liang</mandarin> pass by, yeah


sometimes just <mandarin>很吵:hen chao</mandarin> [orh], like <mandarin>他们改那个:ta men gai na ge</mandarin> engine, ,


what thing eleven PM


downstairs, eh my house also have sia, my house also have sia that day


just shouting, then, then got police come catch him, but


uh, [orh], destress ah, [orh], mine was some, uh <mandarin>找不到工作:zhao bu dao gong zuo</mandarin> or stress lah


COVID lah, , mine also got some like twenty year old kid ah with his bunch of friends then he just shouting like in chinese


like, ya like, then the police come right then I saw like from my window I look down then the guy half naked like <mandarin>没有穿衣服:mei you chuan yi fu</mandarin> then the police like try to calm him down


like want to touch him ah then he tell the police <mandarin>我没有动你你不要动我:wo mei you dong ni ni bu yao dong wo</mandarin> hor then then, then the police just handcuff him, , quite funny


ya lah ya lah cause he he was pointing fingers at the police like, ya ya can see, it was at the car park below my house


Jialat now people all going crazy, okay lah but now got vaccine already what


but it's, it's quite amazing how they develop vaccine so fast, it's fast it's super fast like a normal vaccine testing usually requires like <mandarin>十年:shi nian</mandarin> or more


maybe SARS wasn't as potent, was it


isn't COVID more contagious, COVID the particles smaller


as in like, die ah, oh


[orh], they still still can pass through air, ya lah ya lah


but I don't remember that period like got <mandarin>要戴:yao dai</mandarin> mask, no as in need to wear mask that time


ya ya that was like everyone stay home lah, yeah


easier to get rid of ah, ya


so high, ya swine flu by millions, it's too Chim it's some


chemistry thing, never understood chemistry, got the bird, the noisy, no no no the other one, the multiple echo one


if if I imitate the bird will the machine learning learn how to be a bird, ya you heard right, that one background noise how to cancel am I supposed to go and kill the bird


it's closed it's closed, it's close the my window is closed the bird is just so loud


[orh] just now you never eat right, uh


err, no


never, no lah never, like, brush teeth, then get in bed already then realise too hungry but like <mandarin>有一点不想起床:you yi dian bu xiang qi chuang</mandarin> cause too much effort


no it's too much effort to, brush teeth again and do the whole procedure again, that's


no but you brush teeth already then you realize oh I'm actually hungry I need to eat


rinse ah, but isn't there sweeter like not say like still got sugar what


ah, oh ya okay but <mandarin>牛牛奶:niu niu nai</mandarin> also help you sleep better


no <mandarin>喝酒睡觉:he jiu shui jiao</mandarin> the quality of sleep isn't that good, is it like I read some scientific article like say when you drink and sleep like you don't go into as deep of a sleep


like you know got sleep cycle like got deep and light, then when you drink, you don't go into the very deep cycle


as in not don't go maybe you stay, don't stay as long in the deep sleep cycle