but like what you say lor maybe I can also like market this out to, people like, in likes to like , telling them that oh there's like different <mandarin>体制:ti zhi</mandarin> and stuff,


, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm),


, have adverse effects lah to a person, well maybe


, oh


kind of true, like how they differ, then <mandarin>一瞬间:yi shun jian</mandarin> they will like <mandarin>瞬间老化:shun jian lao hua</mandarin> because they don't really take care of themselves they just like bathe after giving birth and stuff, and they they really age too much after giving birth


, ya apparently uh in, like, for the #ang mo's# lah they really not being racist but they really have like, report saying that actually asians really grew like


really really have longer lives than people, in the western countries, mainly just because of the diet, reasons only, so, but also like the malay's ah like my malay friends right


then, it's interesting how like the malay know about the chinese physicians then they even want to try like my malay friends also want to try


which is quite interesting eh, like last time, like last time my colleagues the family all got some genetic issues lah like they have high cholesterol in their, in their family members, then is very funny and she will always ask me like oh what you all chinese eat ah


why you why you all don't have this and that lah but actually it's a misconception lah all chinese also have, some kind , like illnesses you just maybe it varies around like the races cause plainly what we eat,


eh but I got a question to ask you eh, there's always this debate whether like uh the <mandarin>西瓜:xi gua</mandarin> is <mandarin>凉性:liang xing</mandarin> or heaty one so, what exactly is the watermelons, like


(uh huh),


okay


(mmhmm), oh okay, but recently the durians really got this pungent gassy smell, which is not present which is not present last time cause my family is a durian lover


then they don't want already so they only pick those without the pungent smell, got some people mistaken the pungent smell as like <mandarin>比较甜:bi jiao tian</mandarin> or what


then they go and buy, I also don't get it is so unnatural the smell, ya,


(mmhmm), , I don't know why there's always this debate around like my family and friends


then they say like, [orh] then you need to add the some they got the argument lah so like they say it's heaty then you need put like salt then it become, all kinds of rubbish then I just like !aiya! just eat it cause it's nice lah stop asking


ya lor,


, (mmhmm)


, I think they are they have like the highest GMO foods, cause they're really good at GMO, and that's about it


ya, but is, quite nice lah like at least singapore got a very, big like variety of imports, like from taiwan china malaysia, so at least he still got choice lah


and fruits are really cheap, if like you go overseas like japan or korea oh my god their apple is like damn expensive


it's not really lah, like when I go japan right they are very obsessive with like, perfect fruits that means fruits without any bruises and very vibrant colours, so they will literally export all the, all the like


so technically we are just eating the <mandarin>瑕疵品:xia ci pin</mandarin> lah they are eating all the premium foods, , , definitely


not really leh I also don't so apparently right when I go japan the fruits were so, expensive right I don't eat any fruits, and I got constipated I went there for three weeks right I got constipated the entire week cause I haven't been eating any fruits and vegetable


is damn surprising I thought like japanese eat very healthy, I actually is really just high starch high, then you really can't shit cause they rarely eat vegetable outside, it was so bad


I went for backpacking too, err, Kansai area which is like Osaka that area, so I went to rural side like Okayama Hyogo all the,


ya ya ya , ya so, ya regardless you go to the countryside is still expensive the fruits, so expensive,


, maybe because I eat out all the time lah, maybe people like at home they will cook vegetable, but usually in a restaurant you can't really see it like vegetable dishes


then is is like the whole supermarket they have this whole, shelf of all those like vegetable juice, just for constipation I'm like oh my god they feel me I need these juice, and after drinking for three weeks right I turn orange cause


one of the highest uh content of those packet juices is carrots, when I came back she's like eh <mandarin>为什么你这样黄的:wei shen me ni zhe yang huang de</mandarin>


it was , !wah! but shitting there is oh my god, ya lah, I went there with my sister like for my graduation trip lah


and we were on billy budgeted, we we really like save try to save money as much as possible lah then we go and stay like those #ulu ulu# houses, like the door no lock that kind one then cherry cherry wooden kind of style


oh my god then I was, it's very scary lah but then, it's quite fun lah, I mean as you grow older you won't enjoy this kind of experiences, anymore so, when I was young I thought that everything is interesting but now I look back to it it's like oh my god everything is so scary


ya, oh it's too expensive so our budget for per night it was just twenty dollars, so you really like search for those


really damn Ulu kind of places to stay, , but we managed through lah, we spend a lot I think the most, uh we spend it on transport cause the countryside the only transport that we rely on was the local trains which is damn expensive


but anyways so what kind of countries did you go before, (mmhmm)


oh, (mmhmm),


(mmhmm), , [orh]


, oh no


(mmhmm), (mmhmm)


, (mmhmm),


so how many like how long do you spend your time there, six weeks,


oh


(mmhmm), (mmhmm), (mmhmm),


, , if


, (mmhmm)


it's


last time, last time my mom does like #zi char#, so I help out at her #zi char# store, and lettuce is damn cheap it was is like, you can buy in very big bulks then for like a few dollars


like one dollar plus, but my favourite is like sweet potato leaves but I don't know whether there's nutrients lah, , oh I thought the <mandarin>很多风:hen duo feng</mandarin> one was #kang kong#


, I didn't know, I didn't know you can cook like #kang kong#, ,


but, I'm not really a good a a big fan of vegetable lah I just eat it for like health purposes, in the end, I'm a meat eater,


but then, I try my best to just eat it for the sake of like my health lah


so I just eat the green whatever green there is on the table, ,


as in for me is cause when I was young my parents don't really like, earn much, then my grandparents is actually a butcher in a uh in a in a hawker centre, so like


I mean in the market lah the wet market, so , uh every week we will go we will go visit our grandparents then my grandparents will pack a lot of like meat, for us, so, my mum really just cook whatever


they give us, like, to to, to get by lor so she will buy like, very very little vegetable for us to eat cause, for vegetable to her that time is like additional expenses that she need to purchase


ya lor, so <mandarin>我们是肉食者:wo men shi rou shi zhe</mandarin> but at least I grew up at least when I grew up then I eat more vegetable lah cause like


and that's one of maybe my main reason for constipation ah ever since young cause, ya then it screw my whole digestive system up already,


ya I'm trying my best , , , ya lah but it's okay lah I just try to drink more water for now then eat more vegetables lor and


my favourite fruit is like guava so, it kinds of aid my digestions system like more lor, so I kind of find my own secret recipe of like how to counter for my own body lah


I, I heard that also then the the fruit store that I always visit, like [orh] <mandarin>你这个你要吃这个:ni zhe ge ni yao chi zhe ge</mandarin> then <mandarin>你这个要加这个:ni zhe ge yao jia zhe ge</mandarin> I don't know whether it's like a marketing gimmick or what lah I just okay okay


, oh no wonder


, there's lots of like pesticides and like pollution


especially like salmon, there's a lot of uh metal, poisoning,


, you need, you need to take in more like red meat too like, usually they say the pork liver, to <mandarin>补:bu</mandarin> all the shit


oh but, I like pork liver also, but they say is one of the most toxic uh parts of the body lah cause there is where they, they kind of like cleans all the toxic


from there so, for the toxic that haven't been cleans we are eating them lah , through the organ ya


okay okay,


, and


there's, there's like two parts of HR lah <mandarin>一个是:yi ge shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>你是:ni shi</mandarin> admin part <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then <mandarin>另外一个是:ling wai yi ge shi</mandarin> like business partner


be the like <mandarin>中介啦:zhong jie la</mandarin> towards <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> manager, or like, uh the usual lah anything that <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> manager <mandarin>不想做的很像要裁员啊还是要:bu xiang zuo de hen xiang yao cai yuan a hai shi yao</mandarin> like <mandarin>调你去哪一个:diao ni qu na yi ge</mandarin> department you'll never hear that from the manager


so that's that's why like HR always, will be the like, then when


like <mandarin>工钱还没有到:gong qian hai mei you dao</mandarin> and everything ah then they will start screaming and shouting at us actually <mandarin>工钱我们都会做因为:gong qian wo men dou hui zuo yin wei</mandarin> is according to MOM guidelines, however usually the biggest problem that <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> face as the admin part of, our side is that


ya, which is, ,


<mandarin>其实:qi shi</mandarin> I'm a chinese speaker, at home, and, like what you say lor <mandarin>熟悉的人我比较:shu xi de ren wo bi jiao</mandarin> comfortable lah, , it's like


, then, , I like what they say lor like <mandarin>你讲华语的时候会有一个:ni jiang hua yu de shi hou hui you yi ge</mandarin> personality then <mandarin>你讲英文的时候有一个:ni jiang ying wen de shi hou you yi ge</mandarin> personality


like


actually <mandarin>你认真去看人家:ni ren zhen qu kan ren jia</mandarin> right, like for like me myself <mandarin>我讲英文的时候我会:wo jiang ying wen de shi hou wo hui</mandarin> try to be more formal <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> that is like one of the language that I use during my work time lah


like, so ya lor


, , (mmhmm)


, , was, ,


I <mandarin>我其实是:wo qi shi shi</mandarin> like, part of Kampung-Glam, but then


chinese


but of course lah <mandarin>他们骂人的时候都是:ta men ma ren de shi hou dou shi</mandarin> hokkien lah, , every time they scold all kinds of vulgarities, since we were young,


the funny thing is they, eh <mandarin>谁教你的:shui jiao ni de</mandarin> but actually <mandarin>是他们啦:shi ta men la</mandarin>


(mmhmm),


I think, I think there's a big difference lah with <mandarin>闽南语:min nan yu</mandarin> and hokkien, it's actually so like the <mandarin>福建:fu jian</mandarin> in china right, got <mandarin>五个:wu ge</mandarin> different <mandarin>族:zu</mandarin> so like these five places right are all like


like <mandarin>每一个州都会各一个很大的山:mei yi ge zhou dou hui ge yi ge hen da de shan</mandarin> so technically even though is like <mandarin>五个周:wu ge zhou</mandarin> right living in the same, they don't really interact with each other at all cause of the big hills


and that's why everyone in that different <mandarin>州:zhou</mandarin> right they speak different kind of, like


but then the <mandarin>闽南语:min nan yu</mandarin> the part right is another <mandarin>州:zhou</mandarin> uh different <mandarin>州:zhou</mandarin> entirely that's why, like the language that we use here right the hokkien right is actually very very rare similar to what they really used in china


and how like <mandarin>闽南语:min nan yu</mandarin> also is very very very very similar to the, like one of the poorest one and that's why <mandarin>我们讲的话全部是:wo men jiang de hua quan bu shi</mandarin> vulgarities <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> but


I ask my grandma before lah cause she will go back to her her home place some time then she was like, like is is their culture lor like this they they feel like swearing and scolding each other is their norm


, ya, so is like ya lor so like we we we are from that poor village where everyone is like, like even cantonese right


we are not really from the the <mandarin>广州:guang zhou</mandarin> so a lot of the cantonese people in singapore right we belong to this, place called, Siap so it's not <mandarin>广州:guang zhou</mandarin> so we are all from Siap


and this Siap place right is you know where the <mandarin>红头巾:hong tou jin</mandarin> come from, the vulgarities (mmhmm), err some of them comes from Siap, so like <mandarin>红头巾:hong tou jin</mandarin> doesn't really originate from


like, uh <mandarin>年轻的女孩子:nian qing de nv hai zi</mandarin> lah that never get married and stay here lah


then, it's damn funny so like my grandpa right <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> like I said earlier my grandpa stays in, ah work as the butcher in <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> wet market, then <mandarin>他每次骂人的时候:ta mei ci ma ren de shi hou</mandarin> is damn <mandarin>恐怖:kong bu</mandarin> one leh is like a cantonese that <mandarin>我完全听不懂:wo wan quan ting bu dong</mandarin> because is all kinda of vulgarities


then they work the same, #ham ka can# but in a very weird accent that I we we usually don't really hear cause, is like they came here they really normalise the the the, the the cantonese really it's no longer like


, it's not like the hokkien's where they just do whatever they do there then they come here with a with the same language, but the, the, Siap people they try to like uh talk more proper cantonese


towards the <mandarin>商人:shang ren</mandarin> cause the <mandarin>商人:shang ren</mandarin> here right usually originate in <mandarin>广州:guang zhou</mandarin> so the rich people is from <mandarin>广州:guang zhou</mandarin> but like the labours are all from Siap, so in order to like normal lives with them then they start speaking I in the proper cantonese lah that's how we get the cantonese here la


but then, you sometimes you go and like talk to those old people right, then you like oh my god,


ya because I work in the like <mandarin>我在巴沙做工:wo zai ba sha zuo gong</mandarin> then <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> <mandarin>有很多那种:you hen duo na zhong</mandarin> cantonese <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> customer <mandarin>老老的:lao lao de</mandarin> cantonese customer, then <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> like err <mandarin>我是新加坡人:wo shi xin jia po ren</mandarin> , like they will scold you lah <mandarin>讲你不知道你从哪里来:jiang ni bu zhi dao ni cong na li lai</mandarin> and stuff


it's quite funny, but majority of singaporeans are still like hokkien's lah,


, white minority compared to the rest


, (mmhmm)


, uh huh


!wah!


(mmhmm), ,


I get that often also, but then inside I'm just like, I grew up from a hawker centre <mandarin>你不要来惹我我不会来管你:ni bu yao lai re wo wo bu hui lai guan ni</mandarin> but <mandarin>你一惹我:ni yi re wo</mandarin> right oh my god what kind of vulgarities also can scream out


but in my family yes lah we speak way louder than others like my boyfriend will scold me like, eh <mandarin>我们在外面你可以讲小声一点吗很吵:wo men zai wai mian ni ke yi jiang xiao sheng yi dian ma hen chao</mandarin> eh ,


then ya, , not really like punch people in the face lah


then I like why you like that one why you so funny one <mandarin>他就讲:ta jiu jiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你够了你不要虐待我:ni gou le ni bu yao nue dai wo</mandarin> #orh cheh# #orh cheh# #orh cheh#


ya but I don't care lah even like in front of his mother right <mandarin>我也是这样继续打:wo ye shi zhe yang ji xu da</mandarin> then the mother then <mandarin>他会:ta hui</mandarin> complain mah <mandarin>他讲说:ta jiang shuo</mandarin> like <mandarin>妈人家打我你没有看到:ma ren jia da wo ni mei you kan dao</mandarin> then the mother was like oh <mandarin>我没有看到就没有事没有事不关我的事:wo mei you kan dao jiu mei you shi mei you shi bu guan wo de shi</mandarin>


ya lor that kind of thing, I don't know leh, (hmm), oh actually we met on tinder lah, , , so


I don't know if this is too much information but, we started off like FWB then we, , then we, advance from there lor,


oh, true


oh, ,


I mean no rush lah usually, everytime like <mandarin>你盲目的去找:ni mang mu de qu zhao</mandarin> then <mandarin>去追求:qu zhui qiu</mandarin> right


but when you like stop finding then <mandarin>你自己爱惜自己的时候:ni zi ji ai xi zi ji de shi hou</mandarin> when you, when you love yourself more people will start noticing you cause you are you you portray like <mandarin>你很有自信:ni hen you zi xin</mandarin> then <mandarin>你很有魅力:ni hen you mei li</mandarin> and stuff, then normally is during that period <mandarin>人家才会:ren jia cai hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>被你吸引到可是如果:bei ni xi yin dao ke shi ru guo</mandarin> like <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> insecure


like <mandarin>没有自信:mei you zi xin</mandarin> then <mandarin>你很:ni hen</mandarin> quiet <mandarin>你不会去表达你自己那个:ni bu hui qu biao da ni zi ji na ge</mandarin> charismatic <mandarin>的那个:de na ge</mandarin> side <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> right then <mandarin>往往人家就会:wang wang ren jia jiu hui</mandarin> like, do nasty stuff on you lor


(mmhmm)


mask ah,


, oh


(mmhmm), (mmhmm),


ya lor,


I mean, some people just have their own conception, I mean it's not wrong in their side lah, maybe they heard, bad stuff or whatever, I don't really care, I mean, everyone has their own way of thinking whether right or wrong who are we to judge also


uh huh, oh


last time when I started using like dating app, I was like seventeen only, , so started I started out with like ok-cupid


because it's, so I've been using it for like


then end up I just went to <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> private university then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> try out


then I do the the the entry test then I managed to went in, so I did like UOL, don't know if you, , I was in so my first year I went to this very like small local private university then I transfer out to SIM


uh on my secondary year I transfer to SIM lah to do the UOL, I was doing business management ah, then I was doing part time


to, so I tried to like uh work, work, and then I pay my university years uh university fees through the years lah, so


so the only, ya the only like <mandarin>乐趣:le qu</mandarin> of my life at home right is to like, find friends or like, social uh like social media or dating apps lah


social media <mandarin>也没有人去管我:ye mei you ren qu guan wo</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就看:wo jiu kan</mandarin> dating apps lor <mandarin>我会:wo hui</mandarin> specify lah I am here just to, then throughout the years


I really meet all kinds of weird weirdos online lah like especially got <mandarin>这个男的他是一个:zhe ge nan de ta shi yi ge</mandarin> #ang moh# <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> then <mandarin>他喜欢穿女生的内裤跟内衣:ta xi huan chuan nv sheng de nei ku gen nei yi</mandarin> but <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> straight


like we we we talk not because like we are looking for like someone special lah we just talk cause like uh we we click then we make friends lah so I was talking to this guy for very long leh cause like we make we become like sisters like that but he's a #ang moh# lah then you keep like joking about


uh <mandarin>有些女孩子的很小粒啦有些女孩子很大粒啦:you xie nv hai zi de hen xiao li la you xie nv hai zi hen da li la</mandarin> like all the very, not very nice thing but that is like, between the two of us lah, then also got meet some, but I do realise there's there's a lot of insecure guys lah out there


but you are insecure about, like whether <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> the job, err attractive towards people then I even meet people that is married but then they use the app to talk to people


there's all kinds of weirdo online, but I did, met this err,


I also don't know lah usually when they they're married then they talk to me I'll just blocked them and report them lor cause I mean that is, is wrong in so many levels


then, but I did take this time, uh <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> undergoing like, divorce I dated him when <mandarin>他要准备离婚:ta yao zhun bei li hun</mandarin> he already move out of his house then he's doing like the divorce papers


then <mandarin>他会做:ta hui zuo</mandarin> comparison with <mandarin>他的他的:ta de ta de</mandarin>, like be it praises or compliments but I don't like it when he compare it


and it's quite, starting it feels like quite exciting but <mandarin>后来:hou lai</mandarin> it's like !wah! is getting, eh sorry, it's like getting weird weird <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> then


(mmhmm)


okay sure


okay, I done the crapping , ya


ya so, , and I'm actually like working out my portfolio, like for


, uh design portfolio and, ya I also do stuff related to food , like you know like , traditional medicine like <mandarin>中医:zhong yi</mandarin> that sort of stuff


ya, so, I have an instagram that documents like, so, so like, right now, cause of covid like people are more


interested in taking care of their health so


so you don't like , so your body won't be too cold or too hot ya that sort of stuff, ya, I'm like, I'm fun employed


ya fun employed for now, ya,


oh, what are your baking, what do you bake usually


[orh]


oh that's interesting, ya same here same here


me !wah! I have a lot of things I want to do leh, hope, I'm thinking of getting like, certify for,


Kampo like its traditional japanese medicine, more strong than traditional chinese medicine, because, a Kampo has its roots in, ya but


current traditional medicine is closer to like, like the later dynasties all that, so, there is that also but I also hope to like


learn more south east asian languages like Bahasa or Melayu, ya, so you can learn like more, about the regional herbs here, so there's that and


a work wise I can't really say much cause like I have a lot of interest and I intend to pursue everyday it's just a matter of like when to do it, ya, I like, cause


it's one thing it it helps me like understand myself better another thing it's like, I think these are things that would be able to like be monetised in time to come, ya so I don't really


I guess I don't really rest the way people think I would rest, ya, and actually baking is something I'm also interested in getting to, know


cause baking is a, ya so a lot of things like like let's say the <mandarin>比较寒性的那种蔬菜水果:bi jiao han xing de na zhong shu cai shui guo</mandarin> after you <mandarin>烘烤:hong kao</mandarin> right


it will be less, like


actually in singapore interesting thing as I realise a lot of girls like they think that they have a <mandarin>寒性:han xing</mandarin> body but actually their body is <mandarin>偏虚:pian xu</mandarin> so, if there's a way to make like desserts, healthier or like


just through desserts and like usual food to tell <mandarin>调调节他们身体状况:tiao diao jie ta men shen ti zhuang kuang</mandarin> I think a lot of girls won't have so much uh


ya, ya, so there's that, bed, ya which I hope to, market to different people


, ya,


, ya


, , oh my goodness oh no


but it's okay


and a cause for me or country, for me


, cause for me what I do is , how I say this, it's very funny I realised speaking, to people about this cause I usually just do


ya but uh I do like fermentation also so


so some people when they take it right they get like uh like explosive diarrheas cause they're on like uh cold constitution kind of stomach, ya so, after like I ferment it then it changes the state like it'll help to balance out


the corners but, cause it's like broken down, ya so there's why I do I do like cooking and


ya I tried medicinal desserts like more towards japanese style but, I think some of the herbs that I like to use that, , is is japanese but is like more rare for


people here so it's a bit shocking when they try it so I'm not intending to sell anything yet, ya, but I do make my own like Kombucha Kombucha and all that, for that,


and also my tea blends like, right now, uh, I was thinking through like selling, the tea but, because singapore has, singapore has a lot more diverse parties than like


we think we do so learning to like, plan something for everyone that is not too strong but is still effect like there's not too harsh but still effective, it's a huge challenge, ya but I feel that that's the same way for you also for like baking cause it's really like not for anyone


but for baking is like, the risk is less high then like mixing the herbs, cause if you do the wrong one like you can, like some people, ya


cause I was quite shocked a lot of people here like, , like let's say for ladies right like during period all that a lot of people don't know what they should not be eating that kind of stuff, it makes it worse and, a lot of people like to


lose weight or like to bulk or like do clean eating they usually just boil and eat salad, but it's actually not very good for your body cause it's too cold is really too cold and, the thing is weather also affect our health right so


right now, even though it's summer time, and then usually at this timing you have this thing called <mandarin>暑热:shu re</mandarin> like summer heat, but now is


like asians don't really hear about cause, they are they really don't tell young one, ya


oh my god, ya, as in now they trying to <mandarin>坐月子:zuo yue zi</mandarin> like they do have like <mandarin>月子:yue zi</mandarin> program in america and I think and some western countries they're trying to bring it in


but is just not the habit, ya and, oh I cannot I I when I see the stuff right I just get very scared , ya,


, that's quite


actually, , I it's very hard explain this, but like, I think it depends on like, the weather also, ya cause some sometimes one of the things that I learn right was


usually we're brought up, cause my family we, it is just a knowledge that's like pass down at both sides of my family they were very strict on, like this kind of dietary stuff and it wasn't like a counting your calories but is like oh <mandarin>你这个这个这个你有这个这个这个你要吃这个这个这个因为这样这样这样:ni zhe ge zhe ge zhe ge ni you zhe ge zhe ge zhe ge ni yao chi zhe ge zhe ge zhe ge yin wei zhe yang zhe yang zhe yang</mandarin> that kind of thing


ya , so <mandarin>西瓜我是觉得:xi gua wo shi jue de</mandarin> like, you have to see the weather, you have to see the whether there's one thing and,


how do I say this cause I used to do like food purchasing, I also don't think all <mandarin>西瓜:xi gua</mandarin> are equal like people who think that all fruit species like even, if you get the fruit from another country right it would change everything


so don't buy do it because sometimes like, ya <mandarin>你们觉得是热性:ni men jue de shi re xing</mandarin> right it could be like from the pesticides that were absorbed by the food


ya, like <mandarin>榴莲:liu lian</mandarin> some of the, one of the ways to pump up the fruits to make it go, like faster right they'll put like certain chemicals, and then some people they feel like


when they eat it down the throat right there's like a scorching effect, then is it oh is heaty but actually that one is the pesticide is not the heat, ya


ya I don't know, ya, ya that's why


ya there's a certain like pungent smell, that is linked to durian and there's another one that's like you just know is the fertiliser and you don't know what kind of fertilisers they use cause sometimes they could be using pee and shit


there's not processed properly, ya, so


, , cause this is the first time I heard it but the salt one I don't believe it does help you cool down, ya, maybe if you all like blend


like you all pair it with certain ingredients might not be so like so called heaty, ya but I also cannot like advice cause, , I don't know what country your, fruits have been from, that sort of stuff


like I, I think is maybe cause of like will cause of like <mandarin>事业病的关系:shi ye bing de guan xi</mandarin> right then like now, I had when I go out right I cannot like I cannot just buy things I really cannot just buy fruits, !wah! I was like doing like the purchasing for food company last time right then at first it was like !wow! I was quite fun but then after that when you go out that time right it was just like


counting the <mandarin>价钱:jia qian</mandarin> and then you are like oh, they earn so much profit I not gonna let them earn profit that kind of thing, ya


but I think it's a good habit to have lah like don't know which countries in general I'll always, suggest to people like don't buy like fruits or vegetables from USA, or like the meat if you can don't get from USA if you eat beef cause


they have a lot a lot a lot of hormones and like a lot of chemicals, it's a lot of stuff is like unreported but most people don't know


, , but they have their own fruits what that's quite cheap I think


okay ah, but then won't it be like so called cheaper also, for them


, oh where did you go


, me areas


I think cause, cause my friend


so this is the first time I'm hearing this, ,


, , , oh, oh you went there with your friends


okay what, but how come you never stay in like a Ryokan or something, okay,


that's why I went to korea to study for like, summer school, and then I lived in like a totally like no foreigner, kind of neighbourhood, so or like I live on top of one hill it takes me like two minutes to walk down and like <mandarin>走上去十分中:zou shang qu shi fen zhong</mandarin> cause it's that steep


ya and is like, cause for me I always end up going like ghetto places without knowing, so, like the fruits there were like damn cheap, ya just <mandarin>水果:shui guo</mandarin> that that kind of thing cause it's big and like is


nutritious so your body won't crave for more, ya but I was just like super Suay like super super Suay cause like, it was an induction stove and nothing that I cooked right, would stop flowing out of the freaking pot


like no matter what pot I use right it was always overflowing, it was always overflowing and then, like after that it will like today and then you will want to like off itself and then one week later my fridge spoilt


like I I could it doesn't like, sustain my meat so it's damn smelly, then <mandarin>你冲凉的时候:ni chong liang de shi hou</mandarin> right it's like the water leaking out and because it's a small room like I wanted to experience that kind of life rather than like a like a fancy nice apartment


even though I regretted it like into three weeks of staying there, ya and I didn't have a proper bed so I was staying on like a futon all the time like because indoor and is not even like properly like indoor kind is is damn flat and thin so everytime like I need shower I need to roll up my bed


ya and then like that whole puddle of water like like just


ya , was like six weeks, then I just, did I think for me was temporary happy because the vegetables that I like damn cheap


, ya, and they have this thing called service, where like you buy one set of meal and you can keep refilling your rice and vegetables cause they have a lot of side dishes


ya, so it's like every set there's five side dishes and I just sit there eat for up to three hours, and, like, so that's like the middle of the hill cause I live on top of the hill so the hill's like that and I'm here and then the middle here's like the aunty shop


this Ahjumma shop with like, the the side dish in the bottom of the hill is a five dollar like student budget, err buffet, so that one also a lot vegetables so is okay like for me I'm like like really happy


cause, , ya mainly like presbyterian, so I'm very happy I don't even bother eating like, meat like pork or chicken, but chicken is cheap, ya and the seafood is amazing


cause I wanted like live seafood and everything ya, that was fun, ya but I hoping like after covid I hope to travel around malaysia, ya cause they have a lot of like


vegetable plantations and they're actually doing this thing that's really cool, called reforestation and they are working with their native tribes to like repopulate, the forested areas to grow local species


ya, that's so like instead of just eating #kai lan# and #kai lan# #kai lan# that sort of stuff, you, they are hoping to educate people more but like local species and different stuff like


!wah! at this point of time I can't think of anything english or mandarin cause I usually like, name the vegetables in their local name so, they have stuff like , #sayur lodeh#


it's like, Tagalog for a type of plant, that err, it's really good for like vitamin c and it grows like on very lousy soil


so it's very easy to grow it, ya is usually used in like malay or like, arab dishes, and actually is available in singapore also is really very cheap because it's available regionally is only three dollars per KG


and that one KG can make you two pots of soup, and soup, is good for like your bone health and is good for vitamin c, in, it has like vitamin k also, and it's only for three hours like in comparison to say like acai berry which is just like white sugar and is a lot of white sugar cause natural acai berry is not sweet at all is really really not sweet at all is the pain of my existence okay for like food industry especially in like when you need to find like the freaking like acai berry is cheap is not at all you are just paying for sugar I cannot cannot for a love of my life like emphasise of this anymore


because <mandarin>它真的是加很多白糖白糖:ta zhen de shi jia hen duo bai tang bai tang</mandarin> feeds your like, ya and and some and the thing is like a lot of people were given their lifestyles they probably have it but they don't even know, until they start having like bigger lumps that kind of thing


ya and it's just it's just nonsense lah I really don't like like all those, like talk about super food cause, everything, the moment you make it a super food, everyone will just eat that food but they don't balance everything else and then the next trend comes another food is a super food but actually all vegetables are like


so called super food in, in their like own bred lah except for lettuce cause lettuce will absorb all the shit, like lettuce farming is the scariest one unless it's hydroponic right in recent years or unless you grow it yourself I won't dare to buy it


cause the soil one you don't know what shit is absorbing you really don't know, ya, but, korea was fun


ya, ya


#kang kong# it depends cause actually #kang kong#, the ones that like usually locals are at exposed to that one <mandarin>是有风:shi you feng</mandarin> and


but if you managed to get #kang kong# from like thailand like the thai style #kang kong# or burmese #kang kong# is like red colour, ya


cause , for me I'm like exposed to quite a lot of southeast asian cultures like I'd like to make friends or that kind of thing, and then like in my family there's a lot of intermarriage so we just learn from each other, so


like, for burmese stuff, like one of my latest obsessions going Peninsula plaza buy vegetables because they have a lot of like interesting vegetables there, and that's how I found the red #kang kong# and you cannot find like our local #kang kong# its harder


but it's really good for soup, ya, you can try, ya, but


, why, , ya


, oh no why do you okay actually I don't understand why do a lot of people like meat ah


[orh], oh, it's okay you can still alter it


I can let, if you don't mind me going into a talk about guard micro bio I can educate you a little bit


, <mandarin>二八啦:er ba la</mandarin> need to


to avoid constipation,


no I think is not, ya, , that's my grandparents they were like <mandarin>他们是吃斋的:ta men shi chi zhai de</mandarin> hawker, ya


how to say ah I think even though we were like so called chinese we've been in like the straits area for my family has been in the straits area for like a few generations already so


it's like you know like, you kind of like chinese that sort of stuff, they're really <mandarin>华裔:hua yi</mandarin> lah, , I guess cause we are like <mandarin>华裔:hua yi</mandarin> that why's like our


our digestion like whatever we eat is, different from like let's say those people host like <mandarin>阿公阿嬷:ah gong ah ma</mandarin> like straight from china when you come here then you really can see the difference cause like my family we use a lot of herbs then, we also have a lot of like different curries you know like there's this thing called #saya nangka#


Nangka is like a jackfruit curry from, ya and chinese people also eat lah, ya so we ate all sorts of like curry like banana stem curries like, whatever you can make into a curry made into curry like durian also made into curry that kind of stuff


ya, so , and and also last time they also rear their own pigs so cause of that I cannot, I I cannot stand the smell of like meat of the time


ya the <mandarin>血腥味:xue xing wei</mandarin> is a bit too strong that's why I prefer seafood, but then cause of like current situations right like I don't dare eat the seafood, , it's not just that


heavy metals right, you know why cause they dye the seven fish, the colouring is that also and, ya like I think for singapore to ensure smooth supply of fish here


uh now they probably do a lot of staff to store in the cold store, and is not good for your body so I rather just like go, vegan or flexitarian for this time being


which is a challenge for like


, actually that one I don't mind leh, oh


, oh, ya I like all the <mandarin>肠的东西:chang de dong xi</mandarin> oh by the way just to inform you have twenty more minutes I think you need to speak a bit more chinese just in case


ya but <mandarin>是不是:shi bu shi</mandarin> like, , just a reminder cause I feel like, we always end up like speaking english ya and I think you need to speak more than me cause I've been talking more, so the last


twenty minutes I'll leave more time for you to talk, ya


oh


, ya <mandarin>你比熟悉的人比较比较:ni bi shu xi de ren bi jiao bi jiao</mandarin> comfortable okay ah then


oh, ya, because for me my family like, after that, we mix a lot of different languages in and dialects so


like, I can't really put a finger on like what is my mother tongue actually, , ya I used to speak more like hokkien


ya, , ya


, , !wah!, that's how you all learn


but actually, actually for me right, I didn't learn hokkien from for other people, then last time I wasn't in like a neighbourhood school so like, when I went to and I hear people speak hokkien are just like why they so rude


like it is like <mandarin>满嘴都是脏话的那种真的是满嘴都是脏话:man zui dou shi zang hua de na zhong zhen de shi man zui dou shi zang hua</mandarin> then


because like I speak to my <mandarin>长辈:zhang bei</mandarin> hokkien right then I come out and I hear all these I'm just like what's they so rude one, ya, I know used to it


!wah! I don't know I very village


the #ham ka chan# that kind is it


, !wah!


oh, ya, but I also


ya, but at home we we speak <mandarin>闽南:min nan</mandarin> lah that's why I went out at that time then they always like <mandarin>为什么讲得轻声细语:wei shen me jiang de qing sheng xi yu</mandarin> then I'll feel like but this is not my personality cause actually like, as in those people who know me one right I'm like


it's just that, I don't like to raise my voice, ya, and like for me, I talking at this


volume is more comfortable, , ya, but it's like if you mess with my family then obviously like won't lah cause that you know that time there was this like uh MRT breakdown like this this period time it was the trend


for the MRT like <mandarin>一直一直:yi zhi yi zhi</mandarin> breakdown that one, then I couldn't get taxi to where I was supposed to go I was so angry this guy nearly like, he wanted to steal my cap right and that was the first time I yelled at a random stranger I was like


get away from my cap like ten metres away I was like don't you dare get away then that guy was so shocked I also shocked but whatever I got my cap so so those times but like, usually you won't really


I I don't understand like the stereotype people have of like #har kow# women cause like I don't feel like we're very fierce but maybe it's cause like, I'm like this I don't think I'm fierce, ya and my problem with working in time is like a lot of people think I'm too soft


ya so, ya, and, , it's not very good


, really


oh ya, okay I I get what you will mean lah but it it's a bit funny if like you're <mandarin>开心:kai xin</mandarin> then like that then <mandarin>打过去一拳:da guo qu yi quan</mandarin> that kind of thing


, oh where where did you meet him, po, it's okay I don't judge


okay it's all right I've had, like similar issues, but I left it cause it's, very unhealthy lah, like for my case it's very unhealthy then, like it just feeds a lot of like insecurities


I feel for me, ya, and that also <mandarin>毕竟:bi jing</mandarin> that person is like overseas so you don't know whether like at that point, so you never know whether like, you will do the same thing, and it happen because


like he cheated on me also because of the tap, the, ya, so for me now I'm like I'm just enjoying my single life, ya


but,


ya, so for me like, that's one issue but another thing is like I cause I like a lot of things, like I have a big appetite for a lot of things, so like, I


at first, like, I thought okay ah like it could be just like a part of your life kind of thing you know just <mandarin>只是玩玩而已:zhi shi wan wan er yi</mandarin> then after that when you want something serious right, it's, the last relationship I had even though was so called like serious


like, it just cannot keep up, I feel like if you do this, on both ends is very like cruel for that person


cause, , I used to be very scared of dating like, singaporean guys


and, it never mattered to me, but, to those, guys that I was with, it mattered, and, I can I could never ever shake off that


burden, I feel, ya cause for me I like it doesn't matter whether you like <mandarin>精英学生:jing ying xue sheng</mandarin> a not and also like cause I retain, before so if you really have someone who's like <mandarin>精英学校的:jing ying xue xiao de</mandarin> and <mandarin>你很顾这种东西:ni hen gu zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> usually I won't be like interested in them cause


there's more to life than just like these brands and you should go around and like, make friends or that kind of thing, ya and then another thing is like, okay so my my mom she's she's she needs help like taking care of herself so we do have help us to help take her take care of her


and, cause I go out with them like, like I go out with them then I would hear like


service staff or like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> taxi uncle, cause, like you know like cause of this covid thing we cannot take the, it's better to minimise the risk to, just grab straight, to certain places to get the stuff then come back cause


if they, Tio anything right then my mother Tio then, it's like the risk is very high ma, ya then they just like, then that time we took the cab right then the uncle ask here ask there then after that like wanna make it sound like oh you're you're a maid that kind like you know you can feel some people when you feel when they're talking you did is like


to begin with the job that they're doing is a honourable job cause I don't think a lot of people want to do this job, and they're are serving their family but like, I don't know why, have like a lot of people like to make them remember like


you are a maid and and the and the definition of like maid like it doesn't, it just doesn't sound, like nice it sometimes feel like an insult and I cannot like explain why, ya so like


for me, I think it's like if is both ways one lor, even if I date someone like who is so called from like similar education background but like don't have like the moral standing in the same values then is pointless


or they try to keep up with whatever I'm doing and all that, then is very tired for them, that I also feel very tired because like after a while, the general trend is, the guy will feel very insecure cause


like, I think problem, the problem with a lot of people is that when they, hear me talk like this, which is my normal volume and is actually considered very loud for my family, cause we all talk very softly


so the eight there's a <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> image that, they have of me that is totally not true of me, ya, so now I'm like


it's not like I'm, searching but I, I'm also christian so I like, decided to okay maybe let's just leave it to god and then, when the right one comes I think god will like


point out, ya and maybe I have already met that person, but if he's not like prepared at the right time, right then I rush into it is also like, ya it's also like ruining it ma


so, I rather like, cause I date for marriage so I rather like, wait it out and then the right time like just hit it and then, proceed on to like the next phase of life lor


ya, what is like a very convoluted like train of thought at this point of time, , ya, but I don't judge lah like if people are from tinder or that kind of thing, ya, so cause I also don't understand why people want judge that so much because it's none of their business


that is it's none of my business that like you guys start or FWB like as as, uncaring as that sentence might sound, ya


, , , but the scary bit right of tinder was I was looking at like certain


so I on facebook <mandarin>但我真的看到:dan wo zhen de kan dao</mandarin> like some guy like he stalk, his tinder match in real life, like he stalked her using the location, and even though she didn't want to talk to him anymore and he went to like her workplace that kind


ya it's those kind of security stuff that I'm more like concerned about these days


, I never heard of okcupid


oh


all you're in SIM


it's okay I understand


, oh no,


oh no


that's very that's very sad though cause like if you are married you should talk to your wife


, eh wait, sorry ah just to not to cut you off but our one hour is up so I'm just gonna


we can continue this talk but we can, like, on your end and my end we you want to off it, okay


ya I have some questions for you, so I'm just curious can you tell me more about yourself like what is your job


then <mandarin>你为什么会参加这个:ni wei shen me hui can jia zhe ge</mandarin> Singlish project


!wah!


(hmm),


!aiyo!


ya, wait out of curiosity right may I know your age, and <mandarin>你住在哪里:ni zhu zai na li</mandarin>


oh my god, and I'm also thirty two, ya


Anchorvale and then you know what anot, I want to learn swimming eh, the sports complex correct


no way block what , ya, !huh! <mandarin>我也是看不到:wo ye shi kan bu dao</mandarin> leh, Lepak one corner


!wah!, oh my god, okay


ya,


okay, okay, okay previously right <mandarin>我是一个:wo shi yi ge</mandarin> watch designer, and then I was working in Hong kong for eight years, then because of the social unrest that began last year and then <mandarin>现在有这个死人:xian zai you zhe ge si ren</mandarin> virus


so I was also fired from my job, and then previously when I, so I really I just nice I get the PR, so anyway they don't want me already then I just come back lor


so, ya so from, I I actually lost my job in April then I only came back in June, because I have to settle a lot of shit lah after staying there for eight years, then <mandarin>回来:hui lai</mandarin> serve <mandarin>那个两个星期的:na ge liang ge xing qi de</mandarin> notice in this very hateful hotel at


err near banquet ah Rendezvous Hotel, then that was in June so until now I also can't, find a job, but I've been, very busy lor <mandarin>就是每天:jiu shi mei tian</mandarin> hor


all the errands a lot of admin stuff, err reorganizing myself and my space lah that's what I want to call it, because I moved eight years back of shit from Hong Kong, then <mandarin>回来一个小小的房间:hui lai yi ge xiao xiao de fang jian</mandarin> then <mandarin>很多东西要:hen duo dong xi yao</mandarin> clear [loh]


ya and then I, I have been picking up gardening recently then Nparks <mandarin>也是在:ye shi zai</mandarin> promote mah <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> seeds they sent us the seeds all that, ya did


okay so, my success one my successful one <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> Moringa plant, you know Moringa, then apparently this seed very magical


when you eat right, err if your body is not healthy, but when you are healthy eh no when you are, when you are healthy, ya okay I would when you are healthy right is very sweet, when you are very not healthy right is very bitter


so the amazing thing about this plant is the moment you plant it right every part of the plant can be used, to benefit your body in different ways, so because it's so <mandarin>厉害:li hai</mandarin> right so the thing <mandarin>也是很能弄湿:ye shi hen neng nong shi</mandarin> so because actually <mandarin>我我没有那个:wo wo mei you na ge</mandarin> green fingers


so this is the only plant that so far I come back to Singapore I managed to grow successfully, the rest like, Choy-Sum, I think after two weeks the after the first first seedling sprout right is that one <mandarin>不难:bu nan</mandarin> but to maintain it <mandarin>就很难:jiu hen nan</mandarin> so I haven't gotten a full edible


err, Choy-Sum yet lor, ya, apparently within six weeks you should be able to get them but my six six weeks till


like half dead lor, I tried two only then one because of like you say the heavy rain right, !wah! then <mandarin>喷喷喷:pen pen pen</mandarin> then <mandarin>那个大雨:na ge da yu</mandarin> like that, come in like, horizontally then the whole plant just fainted


!hais! ya lah, then I quite, oh then all my neighbor's got plant things one but, they take up a lot of the corridor outside, then <mandarin>有一些:you yi xie</mandarin> right <mandarin>我看清楚是有病的:wo kan qing chu shi you bing de</mandarin> plants leh so I don't dare to put my plants near them also


ya they say can spread one, ya, ya lor <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor


, , ah, but <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> sprout <mandarin>了那个草你可以做什么那个草不可以吃的对:liao na ge cao ni ke yi zuo shen me na ge cao bu ke yi chi de dui</mandarin>


because you need to repot


, ya


I didn't know that one can regrow ok <mandarin>我有空我去:wo you kong wo qu</mandarin> try,


ya,


ya each household <mandarin>只可以:zhi ke yi</mandarin> apply, !aiya! try lah just throw they say just throw then you will grow already some


, ya it's a very deep rabbit hole


oh then yesterday right, because of my years overseas mah, then <mandarin>我就报名一个:wo jiu bao ming yi ge</mandarin> gardening the course leh, so yesterday was the lesson


one session hor <mandarin>两百二十块:liang bai er shi kuai</mandarin> leh, very expensive right, but <mandarin>还好:hai hao</mandarin> they give a lot of freebies <mandarin>就是有那个:jiu shi you na ge</mandarin> soil <mandarin>有哪些:you nei xie</mandarin> plastic pots <mandarin>还有那些:hai you nei xie</mandarin> seed lor and then they give us six different seeds ah


ya so quite, , , ya lor, did you use your SkillsFuture


how to get rich ah


oh sorry I don't know , how much again the course


, so <mandarin>你是跟你的朋友去:ni shi gen ni de peng you qu</mandarin> lah, your mother understand anot,


ya, !hais! Bo Pian


so it's only because, ya ya ya that was what I heard previously


, October


okay okay then did you think of what you want to sign up next


ya, why are you interested in cooking


oh, I see, err, I prefer to cook I'm not the baker kind, cause I don't really like dessert also


, so I can't sit down for, coffee and cake too often with them my body starting to have some reaction to gluten


to flower to eggs to sugar, I feel like my body can't process eh, like, err <mandarin>以前:yi qian</mandarin> right <mandarin>只是吃:zhi shi chi</mandarin> pizza pasta <mandarin>会有一点:hui you yi dian</mandarin> bloating


but now sugar right, ya


what what what is your usual diet, ,


oh but also good to be everything lah


!wow! that's new


ya, ya


ya, tell me about, ya what is it about


oh,


ya, ,


ya,


okay <mandarin>你有没有:ni you mei you</mandarin> try


cut, , oh my god I I drink also but I take zero sugar lor


ah, I don't understand those people call those spot fresh tea then have no fresh fruit water and then no pearls everything don't have


that's why I cannot I I love my pearls also so it counters off for the zero sugar that's how I feel


ya apparently, what's your favourite brand,


you you tried the <mandarin>吃茶三千:chi cha san qian</mandarin> already, ya


!wow!, ya, ya


ya, then <mandarin>你觉得呢它的:ni jue de ne ta de</mandarin> tea, , so that's your usual order lah a normal milk tea


ya, , oh, oh, chrysanthemum milk


ya it's very it's very bland to me, ya maybe, then <mandarin>你的你的:ni de ni de</mandarin> err pearl <mandarin>是什么:shi shen me</mandarin> from from Playmate the three one lah


!aiya! I haven't try, no because actually I had my first cup, only last week, because in Hong kong right we we we have the <mandarin>吃茶三千:chi cha san qian</mandarin> there also but like you said lor all no queue one


then Playmate Playmate isn't available in Hong kong, and then I was very interested so I'll I'll but I wanted to try I forgot they they have the new pearls the chrysanthemum, pearls ya so I only tried the pink cactus


oh


ya, ya should be lah very mild, then the sesame one eh


, that means it's not very <mandarin>不是很:bu shi hen</mandarin> impactful lor, ya


white colour <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> right, oh golden , I like Koi also, !huh!


ya the old school one ah, I like to bite and chew chew chew chew, !hais!, is it Gongcha


it's not real pearls lah , ya lor, eh your there Hougang now got the <mandarin>吃茶三千:chi cha san qian</mandarin> eh I saw long queue,


so ridiculous lor


why ah


Singaporeans prefer their Koi lah


it's the other side right ,


oh that one iTEA right , oh my god


no further than that NTUC very near, !hais!, I saw that day the queue


ya lor, but my cousin <mandarin>讲那个:jiang na ge</mandarin> pearls <mandarin>不是很好吃:bu shi hen hao chi</mandarin> leh


that, ya lor, how the trend start ah


okay, my favourite used to be <mandarin>天仁茶:tian ren cha</mandarin> you know


you know Eslite a not, the Taiwan Taiwan twenty four hour bookshop, they got <mandarin>卖茶叶蛋:mai cha ye dan</mandarin> and those tea ice cream one


got leh but, !aiya! some more <mandarin>我那天有看到:wo na tian you kan dao</mandarin> but I don't remember where, but the Hong kong one <mandarin>真的很好喝:zhen de hen hao he</mandarin> they have this tea called the nine one three, king king of tea ah Cha #cha wang# #cha wang#


ya , ya


ya leh I I of course I'm trying to look for a job lah but never get any response eh, okay so I'm very sick of doing design already initially when I thought right if I came back to do design I only want to do for myself because if you


okay so my major is product design then I did before toys, err furniture lifestyle goods some electronics but I did watches for six seven years


ya then in Singapore right to survive the UNI, and UX UI that kind of design lor which I don't like ya so err <mandarin>当时回来的时候是想跟那些有一些大学的朋友做开一间:dang shi hui lai de shi hou shi xiang gen nei xie you yi xie da xue de peng you zuo kai yi jian</mandarin> production company


then I have a friend who is majoring in animation she majored in animation and she used to head a team of animators, then <mandarin>我是做:wo shi zuo</mandarin> three D <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> so I'm very hands on I like to make props prototypes


and then I can operate err different machines like


but because of the COVID, and because of the funding issue now temporary this idea is on hold, so <mandarin>我找的工作:wo zhao de gong zuo</mandarin> right is nothing to do with all these so it varies from everything from being a crop scientist


and then they are willing to train train people from three K eh with zero experience they can you three K to train to be a crop scientist, crop so like just now I was saying the gardening thingy lor I think like urban farming that kind


and then but they also never reply ah got but didn't reply me, I don't know which requirement I don't meet, and then, fun right


ya lor, ya, and then another dream job is err art teacher of autistic kids


ya, but I think I need to get a basic cert in early childhood or something like that that's why I don't meet the requirements


, ya <mandarin>不多:bu duo</mandarin> two two K something lor <mandarin>我已经很:wo yi jing hen</mandarin> desperate <mandarin>了:liao</mandarin> imagine a few months you never work


ya then that time in Hong kong was worse because rental there is very high, ya then <mandarin>回来:hui lai</mandarin> at least <mandarin>有个家啦:you ge jia la</mandarin> but also very stress because your family will be, I don't know sort of there's this pressure although they don't voice out lah


ya, err artist she calls herself the knitting fairy or crochet fairy


ya, ya <mandarin>她的名字是:ta de ming zi shi</mandarin> Kelly Kelly Limerick she always on the newspaper one


ya, K L K L L Y, , correct, ya


for a short period of time mah, but <mandarin>她不像我:ta bu xiang wo</mandarin> I I don't look like that one <mandarin>我很:wo hen</mandarin> normal ah ya ya ya, , out of the world right


ya a bit,


then how do you dabble how do you let yourself err play with the creativity


(oo) ya, (hmm),


initiate


ya,


ya, , (oo), !whoa! !whoa! !whoa! !whoa!


Pinterest


ya, !huh! but <mandarin>你也是很多:ni ye shi hen duo</mandarin> talent eh <mandarin>你又:ni you</mandarin> yoga <mandarin>又:you</mandarin> swimming <mandarin>又:you</mandarin> can baking, , ya lah <mandarin>做好玩:zuo hao wan</mandarin> lah but very few people I know get I mean like have such a wide range of hobbies interests


so how often do you do or do you teach yoga


oh, Tras street, ah okay


!wah!, literally a sad box eh


ah correct lor hot yoga lor ,


ya, ya oh you still have to turn on the heaters ah, !huh! oh my god


oh true true true


ya, I, very typically all the females


will do, ya like it's like every time after work you will hear some of your colleagues rushing off for yoga class, ya, then I, you can opt for English if needed


but lesser lah definitely mostly in, Cantonese, but some of the names are not I think it's universal lah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> the the Indian names ah, ya


ya sanskrit, and then we have a lot of what mindfulness event wellness event, and then Adidas will organise a yoga event twice a year or something, then you can sign up and then they have different booths for different kinds of yoga different kind of mindfulness practice lor


ya so quite fun, I sign up with a gym, they are free apparently they are famous for the yoga


then, Waterfall <mandarin>香港的啊香港的不是新加坡:xiang gang de a xiang gang de bu shi xin jia po</mandarin> ya


I, ya because everytime you go in then straight away the lights dim and then they will start doing it already there's no time for


socializing lah so called, so my whole point of joining so many of, events and activities is to know people to meet people mah


canceled my, membership and then, I joined, a contact sport, you want to guess what contact sport I join


ya, , no Chinese one Chinese one


a form of martial arts


jiu jitsu ah, , no,


ya ya ya, almost, I tell you the answer, correct correct, ya


ya, but the practitioner, Foshan Fashan is a nun who invented it


ya it was built for girls actually so ip man is a very small old guy so he is suitable for his build lah, the original ip man ah not the #yan ji dan# not the Yan Yan , ya ya


ya ya ya he got appear in the movie if you got notice is a very small old guy that eh that's his son, they all look the same one he and the two sons, ya


I think only one point six, ya, so I practiced it for


three four years eh almost, the first two years <mandarin>比较努力:bi jiao nu li</mandarin> lah so the rank rose faster, then the last couple of years I think the Shifu already got nothing much to teach us, or maybe we really start to be complacent lah


ya, then the thing is that the problem with, for me is that there are very little females who join such sport, so when you want to spar or fight with people right is a bit inconvenient because they can't hit your chest mah


ya, it's not on purpose not on purpose


ya, okay lah,


, ya


okay I go and Google, okay, because previously


Hougang , okay okay, okay I'll go secretly and don't tell him that I also know


okay good


oh, !wah!, are all these sports, affected during the COVID the the circuit breaker that time


, I see


, ya hor


but <mandarin>那个两个:na ge liang ge</mandarin> <mandarin>那五个学生不可以:na wu ge xue sheng bu ke yi</mandarin> fight each other eh, , but fight <mandarin>老师也是会动到:lao shi ye shi hui dong dao</mandarin> that means is okay lah wear mask fight <mandarin>很辛苦:hen xin ku</mandarin> leh


oh,


!wah! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> complicated, then for your yoga leh, no need to wear mask


oh, ya


, , !hais! ya


, !huh!


!huh! so sad, ya, !huh!, then your swimming class


how do people or or which school are you with


ah, I see,


ya lor oh what's your price like ah, one hour right


, , !aiya! !whoa! so Sian


!wah! so stress


okay, , !hais! so Sian, any tips on how to overcome the fear of water


, (mmhmm) not that I remember


but somehow after diving really just can't swim lor


ya, actually all the while okay, but, I eh I cheated leh <mandarin>他们没有看到我:ta men mei you kan dao wo</mandarin> cheat eh


my hand is holding the side holding the edge of the pool , ya


got the life vest <mandarin>就没有这么怕:jiu mei you zhe me pa</mandarin> but, err, yeah I can hear the


!hais!, ya but at least I still survive lah,


even old people, scuba dive like a pro eh so when if you you don't know right or you can't right like very weird lor


ya, we have a lot of sea cucumbers and sea urchin , ya


, ya, oh


eh, oh


ya, ya,


ya, ah, ya


ya, ah


ya, Lobang ,


ya, !wah! sounds nice though


ya, ya, ah how big was the sea turtle


, ya, ya


, ah so cute


, ya ya lah ya lah, ya


dive <mandarin>了几次啊:le ji ci a</mandarin> ten, plus times


ya but it's all those day day trip err just rent a boat with some fellow divers and go out, err will have one who is a licensed


coach ya instructor, then actually my ex was a dive instructor also, but I didn't learn from him, ya, then I think the memorable one is <mandarin>我们出去:wo men chu qu</mandarin> catch crabs lor but they only come out at night


so we dive at night, , ya, ya, no small crabs, but still can still can eat one


ya <mandarin>也是可以:ye shi ke yi</mandarin> ya, err we will open it like a, like you bite those, you know those Korean crabs, you bite bite the shell then inside the Zar will come out


ya, not not so not so tiny until there is no meat lah, ya still have still have, ya


called we call it squidding ah, have you have you heard of it, ya catch squid but <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> fishing they they will, I don't know what's the English word for it is where you use a hook and then you when they come then you just raise it


get caught onto the hook, ya but they also only come out at night, err really depends on luck, I I had a very lucky shot


where somehow the whole boat of thirty people right other than the the fisher the driver who is a fisherman, only I managed to caught, ya the whole boat eh none of them manage to catch ya


ya that day very Heng also don't know eh, ya so but the problem is we all catch I think, also around thirty so <mandarin>分到来是一人一只而已:fen dao lai shi yi ren yi zhi er yi</mandarin> lor <mandarin>是小小只的:shi xiao xiao zhi de</mandarin> lor !hais!


but the whole boat never catch <mandarin>就是每个人在吃我抓的:jiu shi mei ge ren zai chi wo zhua de</mandarin> leh


, ya, I used to go Punggol for prawning


can spend the money eat a good meal, ya, then your favourite dessert place leh just now you're talking about dessert


you made [lah]


okay


okay so right now I am teaching yoga and swimming


ya cause , and actually I also started doing Foodpanda delivery lah, because <mandarin>之前:zhi qian</mandarin> err circuit breaker err during because of COVID then I got


retrenched from my full-time job, so during CB err <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> serving my notice, then quite stress lah, then after that, I decided to ya join <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> Foodpanda delivery lor cause a lot of people


went onto this platform because it's like <mandarin>比较容易:bi jiao rong yi</mandarin> err to sign up, so I joined them then I did, like for one month I was doing Foodpanda delivery then quite challenging I would say


because of the weather that time in August sometimes actually not sometimes it's like almost everyday <mandarin>他会下雨:ta hui xia yu</mandarin> lor


then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like <mandarin>在雨中:zai yu zhong</mandarin> cycle cycle then go and deliver food


ya so <mandarin>我会觉得:wo hui jue de</mandarin> like, respect ah <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> respect those err, riders who had who have been doing delivery for like a long time whether they are on motorbike or whether they are cycling


is, ya, what about you, I am thirty two and <mandarin>住在:zhu zai</mandarin> Hougang


oh, oh !whoa!


ah, oh eh Anchorvale wait err you are near, eh you are near the swimming pool, you are right there right opposite


oh my god my brother stays there, err then after that <mandarin>楼下是那个:lou xia shi na ge</mandarin> Lepak


ya ya ya the, muslim restaurant, oh <mandarin>你是:ni shi</mandarin> same area lah , , Hougang green


the shopping mall, you Arnold's chicken, err <mandarin>在那边:zai na bian</mandarin> lor


, !whoa!


oh, (hmm)


(hmm), (hmm)


(hmm), (hmm), (hmm),


oh that's nice that's nice what have you been planting, sounds familiar


(hmm)


(hmm), how how many weeks do you need to grow them,


, , oh


, oh


okay, okay I I tried my hands on some err, growing some stuff but not from the seed, so is like some, err some fruits and vegetables


you can like chop off


but in the end <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah it didn't grow big enough to to be use it's just like test only see whether really got anything grow out lah eventually all die also ah, the only thing that was


!huh! need to what, plant in soil lah so


but there was one which was quite like grow quite fast is like a, ah, lettuce ah, but I think I bought is, #bok choy#, I think it'a called #bok choy# lah when I bought it so so you just cut off all the leaves then you have the whole big base just put them in water and then you like the the leaves will start to grow out again


ya, after few days <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> leaves <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> like become a bit dried up so


everyday can see see grow a little bit,


but you need, pot and soil ah so you need go and buy all the fertiliser and, ya


that's why then like !wah! Sibei <mandarin>麻烦:ma fan</mandarin> like means like if you want to grow must really go and start to learn the whole process of like, buying the pots the soil the I don't know what you need


, (hmm), (hmm), (hmm)


okay ah, !wow!, ah, then


oh, (hmm) (hmm) (hmm)


oh I did I use my first five hundred but I still had to top up, for a course which I can never understand uh I took a REITS course, err like, like in no no REITS so R E I T S like an investment course to like how to invest in REITS real estate


, we use the whole five hundred after that I think still need to top up like a couple of hundreds


no, , so it's like <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> like err !wow! <mandarin>两倍两倍:liang bei liang bei</mandarin> just <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> wasted


ya but there's err another err five hundred err payout to SkillsFuture I think in October we will get the next five hundred


eh that one


no eh I don't know, ya, , so now <mandarin>现在没有钱:xian zai mei you qian</mandarin> so waiting for, the next payout


no err I don't know whether like got cooking classes, on SkillsFuture but I don't know whether I think have, but whether it's <mandarin>划算:hua suan</mandarin> to


use it via SkillsFuture because I think there are other cooking err, open companies, outside that maybe have a lower rate, also


actually not not really cooking lah I'd rather bake lah cause I I don't know how to cook one , do you cook


that's not a bad thing that's being healthy right ,


(hmm), okay what kind of reaction, (hmm)


oh, I recently also start to feel like bloatedness


but I never really changed my diet, but I have, I eat a lot of biscuits bread err then food


err, meat vegetables everything lah I eat everything


but in terms of health right cause now I've been recently I've been introduced to, this new diet called the carnivore diet, so I'm just, ya is is, one of the latest err so called diet fad lah like after like previously you have like plant based vegan


those kind then err, maybe like keto, keto diet ya so now there's a new one err carnivore just watching some, videos on Youtube and seeing what people are saying about it lah because every single thing you have people who support and people who like


totally like, ya but this, so this carnivore diet <mandarin>它是:ta shi</mandarin> like, err if you go to very extreme err ends


it means you only can eat meat salt and water, everything else cannot so no sugar is like a zero carbs is really the very strict one lah is zero carbs so no sugar no fruits no vegetable no


no rice no, err seeds, any of that stuff, and then it says that it will , it will clear, it will help to clear your system because


meat, most of the meat the body can absorb and and use all the nutrients or whatever in the meat, whereas if plants and now this carnivore err people on carnivore diet are saying the plants, some vegetables err actually got toxins toxins in them


but then another theory is, actually all these <mandarin>菜的:cai de</mandarin> fiber is


cause you the body cannot break break the vegetable down entirely that's why they end up, err as waste and then they help to like move the bowel lah but they are still, err waste mah means they are still in a some sense some sort of toxins ah


so the, the diet right people who are on the carnivore diet like strictly, claims that, they can it manage to heal quite a lot of their health problems


whether it's psoriasis like a very severe skin problem that you know <mandarin>很没有没有:hen mei you mei you</mandarin> cure the, but on this diet, they got better, err depression anxiety ah people with that they also say


after I on this diet I'm not anxious anymore I don't get depressed anymore and it's like over quite a long period of time, but then when they try to introduce back vegetables then they they feel, the mood, all this mood swings right come back


very fast, yeah a diet


I do but I order I so I cut down to zero percent sugar sometimes and but I have to order the pearls


exactly, ya


ya me too, yes exactly so I'm like okay I it's just I'm not the drink is not no sugar it's just reduced sugar because all the sugar will come from the pearls lor which is the most unhealthy stuff also lah


ya, !wah! I was just having this discussion with my cousins yesterday we were like, I don't have a favorite brand I drink I drink most brands ya


I haven't had it in a long time I had it, way way back


when this then I think their first outlet opened in Clarke Quay, then I felt that the packaging was quite unique because they didn't use plastic bag


ya so it's like oh okay that's good they are trying to so called save the earth no plastic bag then use this in a paper ring and a string


ya, I it's just nice to me usually , ya


but I will go for like sometimes I will go for depending on which stores then see what kind of tea they have lor sometimes earl grey lah, ya, yesterday I ordered from Playmate, chrysanthemum milk tea


like bitter lah, ya


oh <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I tried the chrysanthemum pearls


okay have you tried their three pearls, oh


ah, okay ah I thought it was okay only lah so I I forgot how pink cactus taste like <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> cause yesterday I only ordered chrysanthemum then the last time I order I ordered burnt caramel pearls


so burnt caramel pearls were slightly sweeter lah I think caramel mah, ya


ya, sesame one <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> I cannot remember <mandarin>了啊:liao a</mandarin> like, , ya ya it's not like if given a choice I think I like just


rather go back to normal normal pearls, ya, golden, ya


now Liho, Liho also changed their black pearls to golden pearls, but actually I like the black pearls, ya exactly, same


you know got white pearls right, there's white, pearls I think I think Gongcha or Koi maybe they have but I also don't like cause it's


ya, so I don't know what it is also exactly, ya, very long


, I think can sometimes the waiting time can go up to thirty, or more minutes, err ya ya ya


ya, , I don't know why leh or maybe, okay but Hougang mall <mandarin>楼下有:lou xia you</mandarin> Gongcha so that one usually <mandarin>没有什么很长的:mei you shen me hen zhangde</mandarin> queue, so if you want <mandarin>泡泡茶:pao pao cha</mandarin> you can go downstairs


maybe they that Koi level one so when they walk in ah is near entrance, very it's at good space lah <mandarin>对吗:dui ma</mandarin> ya lor people willing to wait lah !aiya!, I cannot the other time I I wanted to buy


err bubble tea so I went into Hougang mall then I see the the Koi shop !whoa! <mandarin>没有人:mei you ren</mandarin> leh I damn happy, ya the queue on the other like !huh! but like !walao! damn long


I I left and, err I went to like some, other like, I think Itea or don't ya ya ya Itea


, eh, NTUC <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah


oh, oh, there's sprouting everywhere now this this new bubble tea store


is like I <mandarin>忘我忘记了因为喝过一次很久很久:wang wo wang ji le yin wei he guo yi ci hen jiu hen jiu</mandarin> their first outlet yeah I thought like


everybody ordering from them, don't know but my cousin say she likes the, ya


no leh got such a store, I don't know


don't know, oh


oh, !whoa!, okay, interesting


so nowadays err you just run errands, what kind of job are you looking for


what kind of design, ,


, okay


oh oh oh ya okay,


oh, ,


, crop, ya, ya, still got oh


!aiyo!, !wah! but ya that sounds very that sounds very cool ya, ya


ya !wow!, (hmm)


oh, !whoa!,


, ya, oh okay


how how how big is your family like who are you staying with, oh okay


oh, oh, !whoa!


Instagram handle <mandarin>是什么:shi shen me</mandarin> fairy oh, K L, K L L Y, !wow! err is that Japanese or Korean


!wow!, !whoa!, !wah! <mandarin>她的:ta de</mandarin> style,


, !whoa!, !wah! I actually love art also


, (mmhmm) now not so much lah but I've been wanting to restart doing polymer clay, stuff back back when I was younger I used to like make little small figurine


then I tried to make like necklaces and earrings out of them but I think quality not really there lah like I don't know what kind of, err <mandarin>东西:dong xi</mandarin> I need right to to like maybe stick the thing ya to make it like make sure the things don't drop out


so I I struggled with that and then like I just stop, ya then like err <mandarin>不好意思:bu hao yi si</mandarin> so I stop selling lah but I make I enjoyed I enjoyed making them and right now I think like I follow a lot of


polymer clay earrings makers like the earrings are not the kiddie figurine ones but they make like a design or pattern, kind of thing ya, do some water colour then I use use my Ipad on the procreate app then apple pencil


I usually just copy like I will go on err Pinterst then I ya see something then I try to copy lah so I'm not say like <mandarin>自己可以画:zi ji ke yi hua</mandarin> from nothing I need to like look at something and then I just try to copy


err baking <mandarin>是做好玩而已:shi zuo hao wan er yi</mandarin>


ya I do a lot of random stuff also, , right now actually is considered everyday I am scheduled for classes I teach maybe about two classes a day


oh I'm under this studio called Sweatbox yoga then <mandarin>他有三间:ta you san jian</mandarin> outlet lah <mandarin>一个在:yi ge zai</mandarin> at Orchard <mandarin>一个在:yi ge zai</mandarin> err Turf City which is at err #Bukit Timah# there then the third one is at Tras street


ya <mandarin>它是:ta shi</mandarin> Tras street <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> #Tanjong Pagar#, ya then that one is err we are actually using a boutique hotel err the rooftop then put one studio on the roof


very very small space ah ya, ya, ya ya it's really then because if if


ya but <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> correct correct so <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> actually <mandarin>是专门做:shi zhuan men zuo</mandarin> hot yoga, so at that studio <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like I will ask the students like !wah! because I by that time I walk there ah !wah! <mandarin>我进来已经满头大汗了:wo jin lai yi jing man tou da han liao</mandarin> then I'll go in and like err do you all still want me to on the heaters ah


ya then they then they say don't want lor, ya the heaters are there lah so like at at night at night or if like <mandarin>下雨天:xia yu tian</mandarin> then still need to turn on ya but but if the wet if it's the afternoon class and the <mandarin>太阳:tai yang</mandarin> is out there <mandarin>很热:hen re</mandarin> then then they will like okay I I don't want I don't want the heaters and then inside we will like open the doors a little bit get some breeze in


ya, oh <mandarin>你以前有做:ni yi qian you zuo</mandarin> ah, is it popular there


(mmhmm) , right, are the classes conducted in what language


oh okay, right, , sanskrit


oh, yup yup,


ya, (hmm), oh okay


, oh, ya ya,


oh what err, contact sport ah !whoa! contact sport I will think of rugby , Hong Kong contact sport


soccer, , eh err BJJ


oh wait <mandarin>哪一个:nai yi ge</mandarin> , ok ok wait wait err taekwondo is Japanese, Chinese wushu


so, !wah!, kung fu kung fu, !wah!


okay okay ya cause I I think of Ip Man


oh, oh, oh, ya ya, oh okay okay Donnie Yen okay okay


oh original Ip Man is <mandarin>小只:xiao zhi</mandarin> one lah, oh, I don't know, okay


okay okay, !wah! so how how did


okay, ya, oh, but you mean if you were if you spar with another girl <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> hit chest ah


oh, oh oh okay okay, right right ya, !whoa! interesting


I have err, I have a friend whose brother is teaching, err <mandarin>咏春:yong chun</mandarin> and he is one of the he's like he's quite young he's, couple of years younger than us, and he like, try to do his own school


ya and he actually did it quite well he like went up onto like newspaper also, !wah! his name err err, I think ah I think his name is <P2>Daryl</P2> ah


, oh okay and he's staying around err


upper Serangoon upper Serangoon ya quite near us, , let me see whether it's yeah <P1>Daryl Yeo</P1> <P1>Daryl Yeo</P1> ah wing chun search <mandarin>了: liao</mandarin> straight away come out


then


ya, ya sia, yes every everything stop right everything stop during circuit breaker then phase two


err when there's some sort of reopening, err because there's five pax limit mah, so your your sports that requires like


I ya but martial arts I think still can lah because martial arts you


no no no I think no need when actually I don't know leh if, okay if you are doing exercise or something strenuous you don't need to wear mask, I think the contact contact wise still okay you keep within your group of five


then <mandarin>你不可以跟别的:ni bu ke yi gen bie de</mandarin> group mingle, ya, ya, yoga, okay so we wear mask


then but also also have to limit to five pax or based on studio size if you're studio is much much bigger you maybe can put in a few more extra mats based on some, square square meter per I don't know how many square metre you can put one


one mat lah ya, so it's quite Jialat err a lot of studios are suffering ah, ya cause cannot cover, they not enough revenue like you're operating way under capacity


ya so the other time I saw on IG err <mandarin>另外一个:ling wai yi ge</mandarin> studio then <mandarin>他的那个老板他已经:ta de na ge lao ban ta yi jing</mandarin> like, three four years, then <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> like


three four locations also, and then recently he had to come out on IG and then, ah appeal appeal to like his members to ask them to come back, to the studio


ya ya ya I was like !whoa! I listen also can I can feel <mandarin>他后面他的:ta hou mian ta de</mandarin> emotions


swim, swimming <mandarin>我做:wo zuo</mandarin> private, so not a lot of student, err usually I do one to one so there's no issues with like class size, but otherwise err mandate from government <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> limit to five pax also lor


less than that [orh] is, fifty, you have fifty minutes the booking slots are by per hour but your swim time is actually just fifty minutes


but from the time they let you go in into the pool it starts the the there's a clock right that starts the countdown, so you you walk in you change you go to the pool <mandarin>已经四十多分钟:yi jing si shi duo fen zhong</mandarin> left only, ya


ya then once the timer hit zero there will be like I think some alarm, and then the lifeguards will chase you out, ya


difficult lah, ya


then did something happen


ah ah ah, oh


you mean even after going to scuba diving, ya


ya, I think is okay, , oh, okay, !wah!, really <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> diving <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> err <mandarin>不会怕:bu hui pa</mandarin> meh


!huh!, !aiyo!


ya ya ya ya, and then nobody believe you that's is very horrible, did they, oh my god, !wah!


you must really be, you must really know what to check ah check everything properly all your equipment all your gear, cause <mandarin>你一个:ni yi ge</mandarin> leak <mandarin>而已啊:er yi a</mandarin> is


ya, so they


oh they have a lot of err err spots that they can scuba dive is it, oh oh that's nice,


ya I also dive I I love I love diving, Tioman, err Tioman is quite the usual spot lah, so I've been to Tioman I think like three times


then I like I don't want go back already like if I can, I will not want to dive at Tioman already lah, ya then another special place that I dive out of Tioman okay the not so special place is Krabi


and then the the special place is Philippines at Cebu, !wah! <mandarin>那个真的很:na ge zhen de hen</mandarin> !whoa! eh <mandarin>印象深刻:yin xiang shen ke</mandarin> okay ah I tell you got got this place in Cebu they call it I think it's called, Moalboal the the location lah


is known for it's sardine run so you have like, I think is tens of thousands is like thousands of sardine small ones, right and they're like right at the very close to the surface


so you they are very easily accessible you can like just walk from the, from the beach you walk walk walk walk walk over then you just swim a little bit, they are there already, ya so so I okay lah so I Google I read about it then like okay so I wanted to go and see this sardine run so I went to like book a dive err trip with some school over there


so we were diving


like overcast then you look look look closely eh


so I see already okay very interesting so after we finish our dive we came up then I I ask the the dive people lah can I just borrow the snorkel and the fin then I just go down see the sardine run then I'll come back, then they said okay


ya so after that I go I go to the shore then I swim over then I, I am like literally now swimming with the sardines, so ya so so the sardines they will all uh they will avoid, like the humans and everything so when you try to like go through them they will form this like


err vortex like they will just, ya and then very nice they will form all these shapes, concave convex shape around you, ya then you like swim through them they !wah! suddenly one cave they form one cave for you


ya so that was, err <mandarin>我只是用一个:wo zhi shi yong yi ge</mandarin> Gopro then <mandarin>乱乱:luan luan</mandarin> aim, ya but I managed to capture some of it lah which is quite amazing and then at that time is <mandarin>刚刚好:gang gang hao</mandarin> lor so


ah it's swimming with the sardines then then, opposite me, I see this like shadow coming towards me, is a sea turtle


ya, is I, is I quite quite big lah quite medium size lah but like it was alone and then it was swimming directly towards me and I'm like, I'm alone okay there are other tourists and and other people like around this whole area but it was me and the turtle and the turtle was like swimming towards me then I'm like oh my god this is my chance I'll never get like


this chance to be so close to a sea turtle, so after that like right it swam to me then after that I take my my Gopro and then I started selfie-ing both of us together swimming, , it's a short one only lah so after that it surface then I go up then I like take a picture so I got a lot picture of the head poking out


then ya then after that we go back down then after that I see got other all the other err people inside water so I just like shout out to them I said sea turtle sea turtle then everybody come and like, go and like go and see lah the sea turtle ya so okay lah at least I had my solo moment ah very happy


ya, ya so that was very memorable that one, what's your what's your memorable dive trip


oh okay


oh, oh, you dive and catch ah


oh cool, are they big crabs or small crabs, then <mandarin>是拿来吃啊:shi na lai chi a</mandarin> okay, , eat with the shell, oh


like oh okay, oh, okay, oh nice


no catch squids, oh


oh, is it easy to catch, oh, ya


ya, , oh my god, !wah!, ya


okay, so thanks to your <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> fisherman <mandarin>的船长:de chuan zhang</mandarin> managed to catch twenty nine


ah, oh,


oh, oh interesting I've never like <mandarin>钓鱼过:diao yu guo</mandarin> or <mandarin>钓:diao</mandarin> whatever, but


ah, ya ya ya the, the containers there ah


ya,


true, I don't have like a favourite dessert place per se err, but recently during CB


(err), my favourite dessert that I made was a cheesecake


eh so you are you are on holiday now right are you, , are you looking for any part time jobs or whatever or not


why though, but like why though but like <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> for <mandarin>我我的:wo wo de</mandarin> friends they all all looking for a job leh they like they all come and ask me eh you want to work together or not


why why why you dont want to find <mandarin>走:zou</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我们一起去找一个:wo men yi qi qu zhao yi ge</mandarin> lah then


, oh true though <mandarin>我我:wo wo</mandarin> hor is like how to say I will I look on fast jobs right like out of like, ten applications <mandarin>我只会收到:wo zhi hui shou dao</mandarin> like <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> or <mandarin>两个:liang ge</mandarin> application size like <mandarin>很麻烦:hen ma fan</mandarin> and like everybody will ask you for your age then like I think there's cause like


you know there's actually a lot of those temperature screeners then after that <mandarin>我去找:wo qu zhao</mandarin> right <mandarin>他们都讲什么说:ta men dou jiang shen me shuo</mandarin> or err you can, I don't know I just damn scared I feel and like there are some admin one but the admin one right they always need like twenty one years and above


then I don't know lor <mandarin>很难找:hen nan zhao</mandarin> then eh then since on holiday right how's your how's your semester cause err this semester HBL mah then <mandarin>不是在家里一直做一直做:bu shi zai jia li yi zhi zuo yi zhi zuo</mandarin> lor, how's your school


I, all of my like assignments was all group project then I dont know why is it because of HBL or or because mine is new class like we were not familiar with each other


but then <mandarin>他们都很懒惰:ta men dou hen lan duo</mandarin> like, I have to force to keep the assignments moving on


ya then I don't know eh cause yours is food science right yours is cause yours is food sciences then is more on like, err assignments and exams was it better though


true lor, for now ah for now, nah I <mandarin>我不是跟你讲过我现要带弟弟吗:wo bu shi gen ni jiang guo wo xian yao dai di di ma</mandarin> every Saturday to abacus class to accompany him for like two hours, then I want to find job because like <mandarin>可以赚钱:ke yi zhuan qian</mandarin> oh ya then my sister found this job for like Foodpanda err how to say at this #Ang Mo Kio# avenue ten it was super easy so basically right it's just online you know Panda Mart they got online order


then basically she just <mandarin>去看:qu kan</mandarin> those, like I went there, last Friday I had I go and deliver some things for her ah


the aircon <mandarin>超级爽而且:chao ji shuang er qie</mandarin> right, !wah!


but then


what do you watch


[orh]


then after that, then after that <mandarin>我我们不是在那边讲我在那边我在那边跟那个我们的朋友我们在那边一起讲:wo wo men bu shi zai na bian jiang wo zai na bian wo zai na bian gen na ge wo men de peng you wo men zai na bian yi qi jiang</mandarin> the drama is super nice, I I tell you, it that drama you should go and watch


is like damn nice I don't know then English drama don't know leh not really my type and my Netflix I cancel my Netflix, because damn expensive is damn expensive then after that because I also share with my sister mah then my sister and their friends they don't want already


because ya then after that, there is no one to share with me so I cannot


oh ya ya ya, is like, it's like I got watch err her previous movie which is called like <mandarin>三生三世十里桃花:san sheng san shi shi li tao hua</mandarin> like the movie version


but in Singapore is it released online or what cause got some some countries is released online right then a lot of people say they don't like because they want


they want it err in theatre so that they can have the experience, and and because err this is like the, this is like the only Disney princess that is asian you know then like a lot of people they want it on theatre mah I dont know leh is it on theatre or is it gonna be on online


we should wait for we should wait for our friend first ah then after that <mandarin>我们再看:wo men zai kan</mandarin> like <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> after <mandarin>他有没有空:ta you mei you kong</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们再去看:wo men zai qu kan</mandarin> lor


I want to watch more dramas while I search, for a job you know


!huh! <mandarin>五十七个而已:wu shi qi ge er yi</mandarin> oh my god that's that's very very little leh I think you can lah your GPA very good though like for me right, I don't know eh, is like, I I got go and see because and because mine is in business right so I went SMU mah because


I mean we we most of us only take a look at NUS NTU SMU because those those are the big three then after that like <mandarin>我看很难:wo kan hen nan</mandarin> leh it's like the GPA is like three point nine something for the ninetieth percentile


then the tenth percentile minimum is also like three point seven three point eight, is like <mandarin>再努力:zai nu li</mandarin> you know but then, !aiya! because err I don't know to me like


obviously uni is like, you have a brighter future no matter what because you have that degree, I don't know leh I hope I can get in lor like, I scared though what if I can't get in


oh ya eh <mandarin>你刚才在那边讲:ni gang cai zai na bian jiang</mandarin> about transferring course I think I will because <mandarin>我选的是:wo xuan de shi</mandarin> events mah then because of this COVID nineteen then the events industry was !wah!


there's like, I N G but then I don't know, I think if it's me right because I learn abacus for so many years and I think I'm quite


or some math related field like econs I don't know, but SIT I mean SIT is not bad idea also because, is still a Singapore uni, and actually right I have heard a lot of my teacher saying that


ah the companies don't really look at your like which school you are from, basically it's just your cert if you have the cert means okay <mandarin>他们就会:ta men jiu hui</mandarin> accept me lor


internship like what about you


same like <mandarin>我很怕:wo hen pa</mandarin> then but I think is <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> right


it will be fine like if you do well if you listen if you can do work on time if we don't slack right I think everything will be fine but I feel that actually the internship, demand is quite little in my opinion but then it's fine it's an experience mah


but for my school right because I'm in events right, actually I am very very scared because we don't know how long is this pandemic gonna last, then I just damn scared I just damn scared that oh by by next year when we do internship we can't I for my class and me myself


I can't do like events so what am I gonna do, don't know and, because right have to stay three months in school, three months outside of school so, I don't know ah damn scared but I think it will be fine and !wah! the best thing is if I go the internship outside the company then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> company <mandarin>喜欢我:xi huan wo</mandarin> right


then !wah! <mandarin>我就可以拿他们的:wo jiu ke yi na ta men de</mandarin> the sponsorship <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> lor that will be the best actually, !hais! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> poly so stressful


I don't know but, I mean <mandarin>我老师没有跟我:wo lao shi mei you gen wo</mandarin> mentioned it before but like, I mean if I have to do it obviously I'll try to find the company that's the best suited for me


I wouldn't see which company is the biggest, but I'll I'll go and actually find about the company's culture or like, ya I don't know I think that would be the best


I think <mandarin>我的是:wo de shi</mandarin> OCBC <mandarin>我老师完全没有跟我们讲:wo lao shi wan quan mei you gen wo men jiang</mandarin> before, but based on my sister bills my sister was also from the same school as me so based on her experience right those banks one right is actually for those


accountancy and banking students


Grabfood delivery, so, actually <mandarin>我很怕到时候到明年:wo hen pa dao shi hou dao ming nian</mandarin> right, I really don't know where would I go, so


ya and, and the thing is this year right actually for my module cause it's events right we are supposed to hold a real life event but then because like we cannot meet each other people we cannot meet like, anybody at all like you cannot even organize any event so


oh my god same leh <mandarin>我觉得一样:wo jue de yi yang</mandarin> lor like <mandarin>我们都没有:wo men dou mei you</mandarin> experienced first hand then <mandarin>我很怕以后出去完全不会:wo hen pa yi hou chu qu wan quan bu hui</mandarin> or like, it like at least <mandarin>我觉得你的还是会有:wo jue de ni de hai shi hui you</mandarin> company <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> intern company <mandarin>我觉得那个是最基础的东西:wo jue de na ge shi zui ji chu de dong xi</mandarin> like for it for us to move on or for us to get a job experience internship is a must in my opinion however <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> right <mandarin>我都不懂我会不会有:wo dou bu dong wo hui bu hui you</mandarin> any internship eh that's the worst thing eh


like imagine if <mandarin>我们没有:wo men mei you</mandarin> cause I mean <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> there's a high chance that we are not gonna have an internship, for events company instead we are gonna stay in school and just plan those virtual those virtual events lah which I think that it's good but then is not that good like


I would honestly prefer err, real real life events ah, !hais! <mandarin>好压力:hao ya li</mandarin> [orh]


!huh! <mandarin>为什么你的:wei shen me ni de</mandarin> group <mandarin>只有两个人:zhi you liang ge ren</mandarin> though like that's so, bad leh like <mandarin>两个人:liang ge ren</mandarin> like normally you say one group should have three to four people basically you are gonna cover more people leh


the why though !wah! damn stressful leh


!hais!


oh eh I I read it also but it's not New Zealand New Zealand cannot cause <mandarin>他们还是:ta men hai shi</mandarin> scared cause <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> numbers <mandarin>还是在:hai shi zai</mandarin> increasing it's Brunei I think is Brunei, , !wah!, I think I think I think <mandarin>我没有讲:wo mei you jiang</mandarin> before right is like the country Taiwan Taiwan is <mandarin>我没有去过我很想去:wo mei you qu guo wo hen xiang qu</mandarin> then <mandarin>我现在一直在看那些:wo xian zai yi zhi zai kan nei xie</mandarin> youtuber on those Youtube


like, or <mandarin>滴妹阿滴滴妹不懂你有没有听过:di mei a di di mei bu dong ni you mei you ting guo</mandarin> but, they are all super good youtubers and like the things they showcase the things they showcase about their countries is


super good super fun I never go before eh I really want to go you got go before right


I don't know leh <mandarin>我都没有去过啊你问我:wo dou mei you qu guo a ni wen wo</mandarin> how do I think how am I supposed to think okay but <mandarin>真的他们很多夜市:zhen de ta men hen duo ye shi</mandarin> there they have their games are like so cheap like so much cheaper than Singapore the Pasar like #pasar malam#


and right they have a lot of games and a lot of, things to play like I saw this, I saw a youtuber like the youtuber creates like videos of them going to like the <mandarin>夜市:ye shi</mandarin> to play all sorts of games


I see oh my god I remember you posting on your Instagram stories


like last time when you go like those <mandarin>泡泡茶:pao pao cha</mandarin> those food, !wah! I just want to go overseas leh like when can this be over


err true though true though like Korea !wah! <mandarin>很多帅哥很多:hen duo shuai ge hen duo</mandarin> Oppa


and like, and like remember we got watch those the hair stand like the recently Was It Love It's Okay Not to Be Okay, !wah! they legit damn nice it's damn pretty, but I don't know I think if I were to go Korea Korea quite expensive well like


I I don't mind going to Korea but then there's also, !wah! <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> sushi then after that <mandarin>那边也是有帅哥:na bian ye shi you shuai ge</mandarin> okay for example <mandarin>佐藤健有没有佐藤健超:zuo teng jian you mei you zuo teng jian chao</mandarin> handsome but like I to me right


I would want to go, Asia first then after that I will go Europe but like !wow!, Taiwan Korea and Japan is like, top three I would go first


a lot of my friends go before leh but <mandarin>我完全没有去搞笑:wo wan quan mei you qu gao xiao</mandarin> like <mandarin>我去的都是:wo qu de dou shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>中国:zhong guo</mandarin> because <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> mother <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> hometown <mandarin>在那边玩:zai na bian wan</mandarin> what


I want to go concerts, concerts, it's like


ya ya ya you know I get it I get it [orh], but America I don't know is like a bit far to me instead I want to travel finish Asia then Korea right <mandarin>讲到:jiang dao</mandarin> concert, I think <mandarin>我们可以去那些:wo men ke yi qu nei xie</mandarin> big three <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> company JYP SM YG or even like Big Hit


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


like, cheap cheap <mandarin>的地方:de di fang</mandarin> lah so, !wah! Taiwan <mandarin>真的好想出国真的我现我现都做梦做梦都要出国去:zhen de hao xiang chu guo zhen de wo xian wo xian dou zuo meng zuo meng dou yao chu guo qu</mandarin> sia


oh ya talking about, Taiwan, I don't know leh, what's good in Taiwan like what's the best thing to eat in Taiwan


[orh] like actually I think <mandarin>大肠有点恶心:da chang you dian e xin</mandarin> I don't know it's like like, but then those fried fried cuttlefish those <mandarin>海鲜我很想要:hai xian wo hen xiang yao</mandarin> try


I don't know leh to me <mandarin>还是有点小贵:hai shi you dian xiao gui</mandarin> but like I think the universal studio USS is damn cheap like yesterday I went to search right usual price is like eighty plus dollars but


for one day ticket lah but yesterday I went to search like if you buy with mastercard or like even if if it's like normal price is like forty plus dollar for single day one, is damn cheap cause and I think it's because I heard that they want to promote like the tourism part right because like they cannot come at all


ya I will go though I think I will buy and go want to go


oh ya ya we should go eh like