ya but if this is a career for him right so, we, I think he's not going to do it long because, he doesn't want to harm his body and so so, I mean hopefully he takes care of his body lah we don't want him to


to to fall sick easily or, you know lose track or gain any health issues ah


special ah <mandarin>他是:ta shi</mandarin> special


!aiya! I think everyone's like that lah I think at twenty six people start getting, people tend to when we work our office jobs and cushy lifestyle right we kinda, we kind of, you know eat a bit more exercise a bit lesser next time when you have family


ya it all goes down the hill lah pass twenty five


, that's quite good right to eat so much food actually like it's a, it's a dream buffet right you get to eat everything you get to eat in huge quantities


(mmhmm)


ya it's true lah we're getting older lah I mean buffet, we always go for the higher premium stuff prawns and clams, the lobster everyone's like that


ya we will usually go for those simple dishes ah so


you know I mean when we go for buffet, okay lah not that bad lah, it's okay to splurge once in awhile


oh I think now during this now what's happening in the world the COVID nineteen situation I think, buffets are getting lesser and lesser, because we don't want to mix about, , I think the restaurants are also cutting down on buffet operations because we don't want to


to have a lot of, what you call this like customers touching a shared shared portion of of a like single dish lah let's say some more now restaurants are doing right they are


they are proportioning, I mean you order based on what you want and then the staff will get it from you so there's not much cross contamination, in the dishes between customers ah, ya so you still get the same usual fare of your buffet spread but then


it's a more customised service I would say where the staff serves you, ya so you just get to sit down and enjoy eating ah with your friends, instead of the usual like you go about or you just grab whatever portion you want I think that also encourages food wastage


is that for wastage


(mmhmm), was it a la carte menu or do you all do a buffet price


oh ya it's always a la carte ya so so ya lah I mean it's the same because you are not paying for the buffet right it's a a la carte thing right


I I mean <mandarin>你不可以讲海底捞四块一个:ni bu ke yi jiang hai di lao si kuai yi ge</mandarin> sauce ah <mandarin>海底捞本来就是很贵的:hai di lao ben lai jiu shi hen gui de</mandarin> so I mean <mandarin>四块钱:si kuai qian</mandarin> for <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> sauce I know it's expensive


, ya but you see the business concept of <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> is the service right I mean on paper you're not paying for the service but all these little little additional costs from each food that you pay for right that goes into the service right I mean <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> offers so many options for everyone like manicure services for the for the ladies you err you have the


handphone handphone what you call that plastic cover to prevent the the soup spills on your handphone even have


like <mandarin>偶尔一次四十块一个人当然很贵:ou er yi ci si shi kuai yi ge ren dang ran hen gui</mandarin> but, ya <mandarin>一年一次:yi nian yi ci</mandarin> mah we do it for the service I mean we enjoy the service we enjoy the attention the staff gives us so ya why not one once a year twice a year for celebrations


it's worth the price


I see because ya lah but, I think singaporeans are more willing to spend, we try we like to pamper ourselves lah


ya so I think for me ah personally I think once once or twice a year for a good occasion I think it's okay it's perfectly fine


markets Kopitiam hawker centres


the western countries ah


our hawker culture is dying


ya correct, I think that there's always an issue right err <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> what you call that err


ya so it's it's quite a quite a pity ah because, these these hawkers in singapore


they bring in a lot of err they they have twenty thirty years close to forty years some even, err, like this tradition age old recipes ya which are going to die out because


because just no one is willing to go the youngsters are not ready to go through hardship ah I mean they put in, easily ten to twelve hours a day standing up it's hard work you have to face a boiling fire


you have to face err hardship standing standing the whole day, I mean


(mmhmm),


it's a much different lifestyle from what we're used to lah, right


ya lah, ya that's why we need to thank our pioneer and Merdeka generations right the grit and determination that they put through to build our country, and also to sustain it for thirty or forty over years


ya so


(mmhmm), ya I think I I think I have I think I've seen a few


this program I think it err, it helps like those young aspiring hawkers right, to to learn the crafts of all of all these older generation hawker so because they can't find successors right so this programme helps to


err NTU NTUC in singapore helps to bridge this older generation hawkers to this new aspiring hawkers so that, uh they they can find suitable successors ah to their business and then also can, can carry on the recipes down down the line


ya so, and then they provide grants and subsidies for their new store operations, ya so they're doing a lot of this , err I think these subsidies at uh all these, they call this social hawker centres social enterprise hawker centres I think some of these are I think one of the more popular [ones] is it's in err


Yishun Yishun park hawker centre the one we've been to, ya so it's a quite a new concept they are trying to trying to , embrace a new, new generation of, a new era I would say of hawker


of hawker culture where where where how you will envision our future hawker centre to be like so it's uh young hawkers uh new recipes new creations new innovations new, new fusions of different different cuisine and then on top of that we also try to infuse a bit of of technology into into it lah so we we have cashless payments we have err we have what you call that


online wallets to store credit you know so you don't have to use cash uh all payment transactions are seamless they are, they are convenient for the consumer, and then we also get to enjoy uh interesting new and interesting foods at the same time lah from all these new hawkers so ya I think it's a win win for


both the customers as well as, the hawkers ah and it's also it's also it will do well for our, err future food, our future food pacing I guess ya cause it's it's such a pity lah I mean with all this err hawker centres are to to go out


go down the drain ya not so nice


ah yes,


(mmhmm) , yup


, ya I think err <mandarin>这次的疫情冠状冠状病毒:zhe ci de yi qing guan zhuang guan zhuang bing du</mandarin> ah ya


I think it just it decimated a lot of businesses ah, so, I think it's quite err I think it's quite sad that, there are a lot of F&B businesses are are affected by this


all these age old hawker, hawkers right they're, so they're not really in touch with technology they're not really in touch with I guess cashless payments online delivery services


so this COVID pandemic they were hit pretty hard lah, think during the phase two


phase one lockdown right where only F&B businesses are opening up, ya they they they probably suffered pretty badly ah I think some of them said mention eighty to ninety percent sales drop especially in the central business district areas


ya so, I err but luckily I think there was some initiatives by the banks and the governments, I think they rolled up some ambassadors to help, help all these hawkers, they will settle some of their online delivery platforms uh they're working with uh Grab or


or Foodpanda you know to because, customers cannot dine in, so what they're left with is uh online delivery to to sell off their food is through delivery platforms lah


so, I think it's a good thing lah that the banks and governments was was stepping in to help them out, ya if not, they were they're bringing in zero revenue for the time being also


ya I think so also so ya lah I mean everyone suffers lah in this, in this COVID pandemic ya


ya, ya exactly


ya it's always, it's always full of events there, ya


, exactly so I think, I mean everyone's looking out for each other, you have err we always remind each other to wear our mask


and sanitise, ya all these are to fight the COVID virus ah and I think thankfully we are quite, we were quite successful in, in fighting off the virus I mean albeit err


a small small clusters happening in the sorry not small ah I think it was pretty large in the dormitories, ya but I think other than that


it ya so I think, ya


, , the, the new precautions ah ya


I think what's good about our government is uh what they set into law right they they make sure the citizens are able to follow through like if they mandated mask for you to, for to enter certain premises or when you're out right or or let's say this err this mandatory tracing


tracing programme where once you enter a facility or anything you have to have to do your safe entry and stuff like that I think, it's good I think what they did right was like before they put it they set it down in in law they made sure the citizens have the


the means ah to to actually follow through like if they require they mandated mask right


the reusable [ones] ya so that, there is no there is no way you cannot say that oh I don't have a mask or err this is a new, what you call this new, this is something new to me because we have already given provided you with


so, ya I think that's good lah like even the safe entry


safe entry program where you need to, to scan your , to scan your QR code into before you enter a facility ya they made sure everyone, err with a smartphone or I mean basically everyone have smartphones in singapore ya so basically they made sure everyone follows it through lah and for the older


this new new normal they will say, ya I guess that's why we're so successful in in curbing up this virus and then, ya because we just had the means and then we had uh, active citizenry uh I guess that's the word


ya so, ya so I think, is perfect lah so, I I mean COVID is not going to get


it's not going to go away for some time so we just have to hunker down and then, err get used to this new normal lah, ya


the one on the ship is it, I think it's err ya cruise liner


that was at the start is it, what was the, was that at the start of the of COVID, oh so that was the recent case lah ya so


to put it into context this is about the, I think recently when we are about to enter phase three, a recent cruise liner that went out to to sea, I think when they were doing their routine swabbing testing


uh they are they're required to do a swabbing test before they board the the ships so, uh he came back as a negative case but I think when he was on board the ship through I think in in the middle of the journey


they did another separate test they found out he he tested positive for COVID, ya so ya he tested


so once once they found out he had COVID and then they rerouted the ship back to singapore, uh they immediately isolated all of his, uh close, whoever he was in close contact with lah


so uh subsequently test tested them for any, any uh COVID nineteen I think all came back negative only that one guy so they isolated him but I think the, the silver lining is although we are starting to enter phase three


uh, we are prepared for it lah so


I think they quickly clamp down on the single case uh identify any close contact, and then subsequently began to treat the the person lah, ya so I think we'll we are quite on a steady route back to recovery


ya it's just that sometimes one or two cases might come up I mean, ya so


ya the vaccine, I think it's out in some of the western countries also, and they're trying to vaccinate I think uh, some of the more vulnerable groups like the elderly the front line workers


I think they are starting to do it up in I think britain or maybe some parts of america, ya so, I think it's I think it'll come to singapore one day


what do you think


we will have a


I think it could be four five years ah till we get airlines back to full operation


, ya


ya, ,


, , yup


you get to see many different things right, those farmlands and stuff like that ya, those farmlands right is always different from the city


another area lah I will guess it's, ya so it's different from what where you're normally living in ah ya so that's why I think


yup


, , ya


they get assaulted


to take their chance their chances on you lah right, ya,


, ya exactly so I think <mandarin>最重要出国时候要要做好心理准备要做自己的资料吧要看看看那个国家威不威胁有没有可以带:zui zhong yao chu guo shi hou yao yao zuo hao xin li zhun bei yao zuo zi ji de zi liao ba yao kan kan kan na ge guo jia wei bu wei xie you mei you ke yi dai</mandarin> uh


ya you want to check whether, err like whether guns are allowed in the country because we don't want to, to, you know get attacked or you want to be physically or mentally prepared


to defend ourselves lah because it's it's a whole lot different, ball game ah in singapore and and what we're experiencing overseas we have different laws gun control laws are in singapore are pretty strict whereas you don't really know about the other countries


and then you also don't know the intentions of the people there whether they harbour any ill intentions or ill will against certain races or people with asian ethnicity ya so I mean just be mentally prepared don't


stay stay as a group stay safe, make sure everyone is safe


ya so that's not very good lah ya so remember, ya exactly so you want to keep our passport safe, ya always make sure you have you on you or, having a locker in the hotel, ya


because losing your passport you kind of, you kind of have no identity when you're overseas you probably have to go to the police and then sometimes if you don't even speak the local language, how you going to communicate with the the officer you probably have to end up in a


singapore embassy overseas ask for help, ask for some form of recognition, to recognise that you are actually a singapore citizen and then ask for their help, to send you back to the country or anything ya so


ya you don't wanna be in that situation lah so always, always protect your passport always, make sure it's close by you or it's locked in a, in a safe ah in the hotel


but, I don't want we all I think it's err it's always important to be safe ah as long as you have the, proper safety, protocols like you know


you are, you are aware of your surroundings like you know what's happening around you don't get so, caught up by the crowd by the new, the new scenery around you that you forget about your surroundings or what's what's happening around you


ya so


I think it's good to always be aware of your surroundings ah, especially I think it's ah I think a pro tip will be to always carry your bag in front of you your wallets maybe try not to put them in your your pockets try to put them in your bag


like since you will carry your bag you're carrying your bag right in front of you I think, uh if there are any attempts at pick pickpocketing I think, you'll be you'll be more alert lah because if it's at the back if you are carrying out your backpacks on your back


I think it will take some time for you to realise also, ya so you don't want to wait until the hotel back at the hotel and then you realise


that it's missing and then you can't remember where, where you misplace your wallet it'll be harder to report the case lah, to the police


, I see


ya the whole itinerary probably spoilt right ruin their holiday, ya so I think, it's best not to


I think even though you are you are two people alone lah I mean try to travel as a group, try to stay with locals you know, find out where where are the good places to go to don't go to those shady areas just make sure you are well protected, ya


ya but you always you always want some local advice right I mean you don't want to go there blind make sure you do your research I mean if you are going to all those shady places all those less populated places just make sure you have the right advice you have the right guides you know to or you do proper research before you go into the place


ya and then just take necessary precautions ah ya, cause out there you don't have a I mean you, I'm not saying you cannot trust the police force but we don't know how they operate ya it's not it's a different


it's a different context as compared to the to our singapore police force we we don't feel as safe there, ya so, ya just make sure you keep yourself safe, let's not talk about holidays let's talk about something else how about


how about, so how about what you we've been up to, so I heard you just did your real estate insurance sorry your real estate license recently right


two weeks, yup, ,


, practical lah right, it's practical right the questions,


ah


, , so <mandarin>你有没有熬过夜:ni you mei you ao guo ye</mandarin> like did you spend exceptionally long hours on overnight to study


burn midnight oil or you any, any study tips do you have


, alright


okay you can put on your earpiece now, ya can can hear you


uh I'm ethan


uh yesterday <mandarin>我跟你一起去:wo gen ni yi qi qu</mandarin> north point then we go and eat err what's that monster curry,


so it's not it's not it's not ya the serving is very huge and <mandarin>三十块:san shi kuai</mandarin> but the I think it's just nice for both of us just that the <mandarin>饭啦:fan la</mandarin> the <mandarin>饭:fan</mandarin> quite <mandarin>少:shao</mandarin> ah so we had to order a <mandarin>第二碗:di er wan</mandarin> lor then then the <mandarin>第二碗:di er wan</mandarin> the second bowl that came really a lot so we couldn't really finish it last night


!wah! but but yesterday we really died eating ah we tried to be like zermatt Neo


ya the pro eater, ya but his his figure is still quite good leh like, like you see ah like he has six packs and he is so skinny but he he is a competitive eater


he eats like five to six times more than us I really phantom how he does that


we are like, shit leh we are like eighty KG so so


ya uh apparently I've read some research they say that competitive eater uh pumps their stomach lining, so <mandarin>他们肚子会松掉:ta men du zi hui song diao</mandarin> you know like they will loosen then uh when they get older right they cannot feel


hungry they don't feel <mandarin>饿:e</mandarin> then then err, so in the long run right when they're older it's quite detrimental to their health, and their stomach and in the long run when they're older their stomach starts to


you know err when we are full there's this receptor the neutrons that sends the signal to our brain lah so when they are full but because they over eat and they overstretch their stomach, err they feel that


err the stomach, neutrons ah the receptors doesn't work as well so in the long run right when they're older especially when they are old they will they will start feeling very hungry most of the time and uh they cannot control their hunger and they don't know when is it to be full so that's that's actually quite scary ah if you think about it like


like when we are old then we feel that !wahseh!


like both of us our our loved [ones] have alzheimer's so what if one day we have alzheimer's and we, and we don't even know how to feel hungry, !wah! that's quite scary right


, but but okay lah we are also not that bad ah I mean the amount that we eat is like more than average that's why we fat lah


ya lor I still remember back then when we were eighteen we were like <mandarin>多重:duo zhong</mandarin> ah err we were only like <mandarin>五十八公斤:wu shi ba gong jin</mandarin> eh fifty eight KG so


just a matter of, six years, we gain like nine KG no no no how heavy ah fifty eight, now we are eighty oh that's about twenty two KG ah twenty two KG


actually, then the <mandarin>一只鸡:yi zhi ji</mandarin> just shared between you and I and maybe nigel right three of us


then we ordered each person ordered like extra bowl of chicken rice, cause we find that it's too little back then back then <mandarin>我们还是这样吃:wo men hai shi zhe yang chi</mandarin> then we were still like fifty eight KG so we, we don't feel the the


impact of overeating but right now right now as I age ah currently my age I feel that when I start eating , when I start eating


, when I go to buffet I stop eating volume, and, the amount of food that I can intake is very little, then I always go for like the higher premium things like err seafood


but even then I also cannot take that much now at my age so I feel that, err really as we age, the amount of the the the the the, our body


it's not as, what we were used to have, ya, basically


you also ah but but err but I still like to go for meats lah cause I like the like the protein, but


but do you still go to buffet, ft


ya this reminds me back when I had uh experienced err like I went <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> with my friend, like last month or so so right after COVID's err the lockdown end then I remember I remember this is my second time going <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> so then


the first time I went right, I still remember we can like err <mandarin>自己去拿那些配料:zi ji qu na na xie pei liao</mandarin> like the sauce, err the chilli like you just, then mix mix mix mix mix then can bring back to your err you can bring back to your table but right now like the last that I went right


we are not allowed to do our own mix like we cannot even go, out of our table everything is done through, the, the ipad, online lah then


then the the most ridiculous thing is right, they actually charge us for plate I think the plate is four dollars leh the sauce, the sauce, is I don't know leh it it I think it


I don't know is it for wastage or not but I just know that when I heard that they, charge us four dollars for a just a sauce eh like the plate of sauce, four dollars I think is four dollars I feel very like eh last time it was free now need charge money so it it feels


err, it's it's always a la carte one what, it is


ya no I I each person can, each person can spend up to forty plus dollars for high tea lah but don't you find it ridiculous like all the other restaurants right all the <mandarin>配料:pei liao</mandarin> is always free like <mandarin>自己来:zi ji lai</mandarin> or or like you you don't expect a restaurant to charge you money for chilli


but <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> does that so I feel a bit <mandarin>不甘愿:bu gan yuan</mandarin> you know


(mmhmm)


and make sense ah, ya


!wah! so they target price sensitive people like you ah but for that actually it's true ah like <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> charge, people who, charge people who


are willing to pay for the money and not like Niao that, Niao that few few dollars for me because I don't re- I dont really go to such restaurants so I find it very, painful to know that I need to be charged four dollars


(hmm), that often, like even if I meet, even if I meet up with you, I will still


, I will prefer going to like Pasar you know the Pasar that we always go and eat, ya the Kopitiam those places, it's like, like it's I feel like it's a asians kind of


err, is unique to us to asians, like you don't find this kind of, Kopitiam places in the english countries, like ya the western countries usually you usually usually you


you only see restaurants and, like just restaurants when I went to like england or america but for singapore malaysia indonesia you just see like the road street


err food delicacy and not, just solely in restaurants so I really like this aspect of, asia, but I do notice that such traditions are


decreasing, like like have you read on the newspaper article they state that, they state that, ya ya ya hawker culture is dying because the young the youngsters nowadays


don't want to go through such hardship so many of the ones, our parent's generation who, who is popular during our err parent's generation is dying down like dying soon because they cannot find successor


like, like do you know of such shops do you patronise such shops


ya, yes


so I think their normal routine especially for those who, err sell in the hawker centre they wake up, like I I do know of some that wakes up at three just to prepare the ingredients so that they can serve the first crowd


like six AM so they wake up at, three AM, err like recently there's numerous stories, that is popping up in facebook or on the on the internet just saying like


the the hardship that they face, err opening up, hawker centre, like they had to wake up at three just to prepare the ingredients, then, they work nonstop to six to receive their first customer


then all the way to the afternoon crowd, so they just keep working and working and working and not resting so


is like, like like I have I like if you ask me to wake up at three AM everyday I maybe one maybe for a week consecutively that's the max I can go


but if you ask me to do it for a living, to wake up at three AM <mandarin>每天:mei tian</mandarin> leh <mandarin>每天:mei tian</mandarin> it's like, it's really a bit, out of my lifestyle I would say that's


that's why that's why I I understand where the youngsters are coming from they say that, they say that, they cannot, err endure the hardship, the difficulty I totally understand because I myself I cannot


withstand this three AM and standing in front of fire, just, it it's just difficult I feel, right right right


ya sia, then but then there's also a recent trend like the most latest trend is


it is because of the government initiative to, what's the word to introduce the youngsters to go to hawker centre there's actually a lot of grants and reliefs that the governments are providing for them to


err start this hawker lifestyle so, I remember reading this, article last year it it it states that the government will provide err free, training on how to cook


hawker food, like if you don't know how to cook they will provide you you you read before


, right right right


correct


ya but the latest latest latest trend that happens this year it is actually what happened during I mean not during after COVID situation so


so a lot of people lost their job then, then they feel then they like you know like, you see most of them are like like forties fifties actually then they're they only know how like a single craft


err then, you then they suddenly lost their job they cannot do the career switch the pivot, and they find it very difficult so actually, like you just just this one or two months right


once after the phase open actually like during the COVID situation when the there's lockdown we, we saw a lot of news says stating that uh restaurants closed down ah what the seafood jumbo then a lot of shopping malls cannot sustain themselves such as


at or even KTV like #teo heng#, like it's like, like #teo heng# KTV cannot even, sustain, like survive the the expenses it's like this #teo heng# thing is it's really


, accompany us since when we were young so it suddenly it closed down is like, it it feels sad lah, but, this can shows how much the lockdown has really


uh damaged companies, but so, because the companies cannot sustain themselves they uh have to retrench a lot of, employees then but you see that recently, uh right after COVID situation then suddenly


suddenly you see, a lot of new retailers popping up to, do their own startup, in in the food space


have you noticed that


it's just, ya so actually during this COVID situation the government really, provided a lot of reliefs a lot of grants, that


if not I think a lot of businesses especially those sole proprietors cannot sustain lah


ya just it's it's good to see that they actually, the economy is picking up, is like, like back then I still remember during COVID situation


err, go out, is is we cannot even go out to buy food it's not recommended, so so if you go out and buy food you have to go home immediately so


!wah!, Tampines hub, the place that's so crowded for me is for me it's #ang mo kio# hub


then I see then, like at the start, there was like most of the shops still open but subsequently when uh, COVID locks like, like the government, restricted even more shops to open then you will start to see a lot of shops are not open it feels so dead it feels like a zombie town leh


ya it's true it's true I feel that singaporeans tend to follow the law, whereas for the western countries I at the start lah, at the start you hear a lot of like, resistance


what freedom don't restrict my freedom and stuff like that, whereas for the asian country although we will like apprehensive, day zero day one, like when, when they haven't


when when they haven't fully formalised the date to wear the masks so there was still a bit of like !huh!, must we really wear so weird, but when the government singapore government set a date


like uh next monday you have to wear a mask, actually to my surprise everybody started wearing like and stopped and didn't complain at all like there were of definitely be some outliers like


they will just don't wear, and singapore government was still very flexible in a sense that they just sent a lot of warnings, but


we only took, the most I if I'm not wrong, to adapt, to the whole, situation correct, ya


correct correct


so but , ya


ya but uh like recently recently, err, I uh I agree with you that singapore singapore government has done quite pretty decent in restricting uh


COVID pandemic situation but, have you read on the latest news the, what's the, what's the


ya the one on the ship is what what what ship is that again carribean ah, carribean ya so it is like, so as like, is the whole eighty nine passenger got


is it eighty nine ya all contracted positive, at the start what do you mean, no no when they are about to come back to singapore


ya the most recent case one


(mmhmm),


really, then then where is he, like where


ya so, so plus the recent, the vaccine is still not, proven yet, ya


ya as it is still in the


ya but, I foresee like a lot of, none of us predicted that, this COVID situation is going to last more than <mandarin>两年:liang nian</mandarin> mah like at least the to the end of next year but personally I feel that


I feel I feel more optimistic, uh, more optimistic that, in a way that I feel that, this situation


will recover sooner than what most people think, it is so I think, err hopefully by the by next year we be able to find some vaccine and life will go as per normal


what do you think, I don't know I feel I've I personally feel more optimistic


like, I feel that like most of them say uh it's going to be at least twenty twenty two but I feel that next year mid of next year, hopefully lah maybe


not free but, more more how to say, we have at least a vaccine, to cure, COVID COVID, what do you think you think is <mandarin>两年三年:liang nian san nian</mandarin> ah


ah ya to full operation, personally I feel that, uh because I'm being optimistic


if once the vaccine is found and it's proven, I believe the airline industry will start hitting back to its norm or, rather it will even exceed pre COVID situation because


err during this lockdown period the whole world not just singapore, the whole world is feel so, clustered and feel so, uh bored lock like in their house they want to travel


like, ya it's really very unhealthy it's like, you just want to go out and feel different air, different atmosphere and just let yourself loose it's like


is is is not is not as bad I I feel personally I feel that it's not as bad if you are in overseas but in singapore, in singapore, because our country is so small


is <mandarin>真的很小:zhen de hen xiao</mandarin> you know, it is like we are one of the smallest country, then <mandarin>我们怎么走都是一样的:wo men zen me zou dou shi yi yang de</mandarin> like, like for you <mandarin>就是去:jiu shi qu</mandarin> Tampines hub for me <mandarin>我就是去:wo jiu shi qu</mandarin> #ang mo kio# hub


then <mandarin>我我们就是一直走一直走一直走你要出去:wo wo men jiu shi yi zhi zou yi zhi zou yi zhi zou ni yao chu qu</mandarin> mah okay <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> #ang mo kio# hub <mandarin>你要出去吗:ni yao chu qu ma</mandarin> uh okay <mandarin>我们去:wo men qu</mandarin> Tampines hub and if you feel you if you feel even more ambitious more outgoing then <mandarin>我们讲:wo men jiang</mandarin> eh <mandarin>你要不要去:ni yao bu yao qu</mandarin> town then town what consists of what orchard somerset #dhoby ghaut# uh raffles place city hall but basically most of these five places


is considered what we called as town, then if if you are even more courageous then <mandarin>我们就会去:wo men jiu hui qu</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>你要去:ni yao qu</mandarin> sentosa <mandarin>吗:ma</mandarin> err and or <mandarin>或者你要去:huo zhe ni yao qu</mandarin> MBS <mandarin>吗:ma</mandarin> marina bay sands so is basically


I feel even more cooped up


you can still see, ya you can just go to uh the outskirt even the outskirt is even bigger than err <mandarin>新加坡:xin jia po</mandarin> then or, ya ya then if you want to go experience a new town a new


what they call it a new, what I don't know lah it's called it's not country but it's called a, a a a a new state lah a new state, ya, ya and then you can just go to


ya precisely it's like it's like, I I I think I remembered telling you that uh when we were eighteen <mandarin>我跟你讲过我其实是不喜欢出国的一个人:wo gen ni jiang guo wo qi shi shi bu xi huan chu guo de yi ge ren</mandarin> do you still remember


I think is it I think it's quite sometime already so you don't remember but then when I was young right I personally feel that, err why do we have to travel, it's like you can access everything online


like [orh] I want to see, I wanna see, the those special monuments, then I will just Google it and it is just so convenient


then plus when I was young I always hear the stories of, err people getting robbed


people getting, especially asians like they will get robbed then, ya assaulted, so it is very


it it it builds up the fear in me, so so like like like I I I I saw a documentary where asians get assaulted by three err, native americans


so, so, they are huge they are like two meter and stuff like that and they will usually trail behind asians, and when is less crowded they will start


start, to, ya their chances to the extent that, they would even take out guns sometimes, but mainly knives ah


so like singapore although we are, no we are actually very sheltered in a sense, where we don't see much violence especially in terms of , robberies


correct correct


ya the most important is losing your passport, , it's like


have you encounter anybody who has lost their passport, , err


so I saw I, I think I remember reading an article is like this asian lady, uh lost, if you need to like not just


not just the money but the entire bag because they robbed the whole bag from her lah, then, so meaning her handphone is lost, her her money is gone, uh passport is gone so


and the worst thing is, it was together with her fiance, then, was supposed to be a honeymoon, then they lost everything


just on the trip but because of this first day robbery their whole, itinerary


but during honeymoon wouldn't you want to go, europe


you mean, ya


so uh it's only been, it's only been, the previous week, then I just took the last paper so this real estate lah


so, it's that there are two papers there were two papers, and each paper test different aspect of property but mainly is with regards to the law


like, the law, ya in singapore the property law, so but, even despite studying so much the exam is really <mandarin>靠经验:kao jing yan</mandarin> one, is it is <mandarin>不可以一直读书读书读书:bu ke yi yi zhi du shu du shu du shu</mandarin> then then expect to pass the exam like because


sorry again, ya ya is very, practical and in a sense is very abstract, it is, ya it's a very practical experience like practical question


that you wouldn't gain, if you just study the book so for me uh, I really don't have any experience neither do I have friends in this industry like all my friends are in a banking or in the marketing business industry so for me to just go


alone, and, I took the fastest route meaning uh october was my class, and I took the earliest exam date which was november so I didn't have really have much time to study


I only have, like one month to study and it is, quite notoriously known to fail people like I heard of, people failing seven times and retaking seven times so it's very difficult


but


for what property, err, basically, err I know it's difficult because we all have been through it but don't burn midnight oils and don't cramp everything towards the last


uh stretch, in instead be consistent is it how how do you define consistency is basically err whatever the teacher is teaching, you must understand, and


the questions that they test you or they give you as homework, you must be able to answer them, if you are able to reach to this kind of level then I feel that


err more or less prepared


basically it's just that, err <mandarin>最主要的是你要:zui zhu yao de shi ni yao</mandarin> be consistent lah


then, ya, so what's your tip if you have to share


so start already ah okay I'm gonna clap now, err can hear my clap, okay can alright


oh, yeah


!wah!, , sounds sounds quite shag ah


but at least at least <mandarin>有钱赚:you qian zhuan</mandarin> lah, yeah, to be honest like my out of the okay I did F&B I and I did warehouse I prefer warehouse over F&B


okay, okay so warehouse I I work under NTUC ones at ubi and the other one under Pet Lovers, so right Ubi <mandarin>很简单:hen jian dan</mandarin> ah <mandarin>他叫你拿什么你就拿什么:ta jiao ni na shen me ni jiu na shen me</mandarin> lor like <mandarin>它叫你拿一个:ta jiao ni na yi ge</mandarin> err cause for under NTUC <mandarin>他叫我它叫我拿那些:ta jiao wo ta jiao wo na nei xie</mandarin> we are in charge of the the old people products


kind of err items so <mandarin>他叫我:ta jiao wo</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>帮我拿三个:bang wo na san ge</mandarin> err box <mandarin>我就帮他帮他拿三个:wo jiu bang ta bang ta na san ge</mandarin> box lor after that <mandarin>他就把它:ta jiu ba ta</mandarin> cling wrap <mandarin>起来:qi lai</mandarin> and send off to an outlet


so that is that was basically under the NTUC after that <mandarin>我就去:wo jiu qu</mandarin> Pet Lovers Pet Lovers <mandarin>比较简单:bi jiao jian dan</mandarin> lah so Pet Lovers <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> one department of Pet Lovers <mandarin>就是给他们:jiu shi gei ta men</mandarin> pack <mandarin>东西给那些:dong xi gei nei xie</mandarin> outlet like you know, like Pet Lovers <mandarin>有一个在:you yi ge zai</mandarin> northpoint <mandarin>一个在:yi ge zai</mandarin> #bukit panjang# so whenever the the shop ask oh we are running low on combs can you send us combs then we okay lah we all we all send you the number of combs you need


so that's one part then the other part of Pet Lovers right they ask us to, like home delivery, ya, so, I was handling the home delivery area lah, what thing


ya, ya lor, ya lah so basically like I, in the warehouse I I need to know where the things are so <mandarin>比较容易拿:bi jiao rong yi na</mandarin> lah, like <mandarin>我知道那个东西在哪里很:wo zhi dao na ge dong xi zai na li hen</mandarin> probably spend like five minutes go and take it and I can settle my settle an order sheet lor


ya that that's, but, it was eight dollars an hour <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> under agent I wasn't under Pet Lovers I was under agent agent pay me eight dollars an hour but if I were to work under Pet Lovers itself right <mandarin>可能有十二块:ke neng you shi er kuai</mandarin> an hour


it was it was good money lah, but but #bo pian# ah I didn't know of the job I didn't know of the job so I had to, I cannot just cancel my contract and work for Pet Lovers because I have to wait six months after my contract with my agent ends


so I I basically missed out the the four dollars, so it was, ah but it's gone already it's long time ago lah it was not I was right after I ORD like maybe last year eh no this year sorry this year


ya after I I ORD on february ah, from army, ya lah <mandarin>有自由:you zi you</mandarin> Liao ah


two months, after Tekong <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> they will send you to a camp, #bukit panjang# <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> mostly on the on the west side lah west side <mandarin>很多很多:hen duo hen duo</mandarin> camp lah


plus all your trainings will all be in the west, this one this one you after Tekong then you just see where you go lah you cannot cannot choose one ah


actually, ah ya ya ya, it is so basically the after <mandarin>你做:ni zuo</mandarin> after <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> Tekong hor okay lah <mandarin>他们讲他们给你们选:ta men jiang ta men gei ni men xuan</mandarin> lah like <mandarin>你想去那里你想做什么:ni xiang qu na li ni xiang zuo shen me</mandarin> they'll ask lah


but you know lah SCF <mandarin>是讲讲而已:shi jiang jiang er yi</mandarin> lah whatever you choose have to take it with a pinch of salt lah you may not get your ideal, , ideal vocation, so


after after you after Tekong already right <mandarin>你才能等:ni cai neng deng</mandarin> like, has been, has been decided and you can check it on the NS portal <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> NS portal <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> then you oh I need to report to #bukit panjang# camp I need to report to Kranji camp


as a infantry trooper as a as a guards trooper or as a or under navy security guard under under security trooper <mandarin>很很多:hen hen duo</mandarin> different vocation one lah, oh


ya ya lah its just, ah no no no no no <mandarin>我的是:wo de shi</mandarin> no infantry <mandarin>是去森林这样去做:shi qu sen lin zhe yang qu zuo</mandarin> night walk, eh


, !aiya!, plus it's a it's a pretty bad pay lah, plus it's it's a stay in vocation so I have to stay in from sunday sunday night book in


friday night book out, ya, so this <mandarin>重复重复:chong fu chong fu</mandarin> for the whole two years lor book in book out book in book out, but


vacation <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> lah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> but very short lah, short lah eh <mandarin>他可能给你一两天而已:ta ke neng gei ni yi liang tian er yi</mandarin> lor but probably like <mandarin>如果那些你的:ru guo nei xie ni de</mandarin> officer in command <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> OC ah <mandarin>如果他:ru guo ta</mandarin> smart he will be like okay <mandarin>来:lai</mandarin> I make you all guys your life easier I will combine all the leaves that you have right and I'll give it to you during december so <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> he give from monday to friday so <mandarin>你就说你:ni jiu shuo ni</mandarin> friday book out right if friday you go home saturday sunday you stay at home <mandarin>他给你:ta gei ni</mandarin> five days of off from monday to friday you can stay at home until next weekend so you have like five plus four days of staying at home


that's what my OC did lah, for our christmas, ya is good but usually like that one lah to is is is a is a sort of a welfare law <mandarin>这对我们好:zhe dui wo men hao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>如果我们在:ru guo wo men zai</mandarin> christmas


okay lah but got guard duty lah my friends still go have still have to go back to camp lah to guard duty, sia guard duty <mandarin>你去做:ni qu zuo</mandarin> you go back to camp you walk you walk around the camp make sure no one no one enter the camp then errors like <mandarin>谁会去:shei hui qu</mandarin> camp sia which person which normal person would would try to go into camp


there's nothing inside, ya <mandarin>有枪:you qiang</mandarin> lah <mandarin>有枪:you qiang</mandarin> lah okay lah, but also no <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> life


actually quite <mandarin>容易用:rong yi yong</mandarin> lah, ah, oh ya talking about the wish yeah


yeah you were saying, yup


!wah! <mandarin>那个那个那那个仇恨:na ge na ge na na ge chou hen</mandarin> ah !wah!, !wah! where where was this where was this ah


[orh], !wah!, !walao! I stay Yishun eh <mandarin>不要吓我:bu yao xia wo</mandarin> leh, I only stay a few stops away ah


yes, eh ya Yishun is the ghetto of singapore lah, it's the ghetto, <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> Liao lah <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> #ah beng# Liao lah that that used to be probably if ten years ago probably have lah but now all Yishun is left with is old people


spread out one lah they will probably go around singapore lah pretty sure not not Yishun anymore


oh YP, YP Beng with with their <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> lah, ya, ya, I don't know I don't know about them lah !wah!


stay away from them lah, have to have to have to stay away lah and you're talking talking about the wish that you want right, your first wish is uh what ah you eat food and you never get never change size, for me is, forever fit


ya forever fit then <mandarin>你你第二个愿望:ni ni di er ge yuan wang</mandarin> leh


, interesting you get money anytime you want money <mandarin>这样不用做这样不用做工:zhe yang bu yong zuo zhe yang bu yong zuo gong</mandarin> Liao lor, yeah you can do whatever you want ah


money makes the world go round, ya


ah !aiya! that's why it's called a wish lah it's a any wish, I wish


ya it's why they call it wishes and not reality, , okay, if I were to have ya ya life is sad okay now what about me what wish would I want on


to be honest like (hmm) , (hmm) I would say I guess never sick, like sickness yeah


I I don't mind to be honest I don't want to get too heavily sick like if okay lah when I talk about sick probably like more of like terminal illnesses lah, !wah! if, !aiya! it's no point having a fit body no point having a fit body and a lot of money when you get cancer


to be honest there's no point, unless or, ya


as I yeah I I thought I nearly had COVID sia at one period of time, like legit like that's what I I that's yeah so basically like okay I was still working for Pet Lovers mah so


if you're suspected or you got any like chest pains or any respiratory respiratory symptoms right you go down and you have a have a test !wah! then after that because of that right I had to rest for ten days, ten days but then Pet Lovers right okay that that's how Pet Lovers <mandarin>开除我:kai chu wo</mandarin> lah


Pet Lovers didn't have the patience to wait for my result so they like okay nevermind uh you just best if you don't come to work anymore lah, i'm like oh okay, oh well, but I I don't blame them to be honest uh they were tight lah they were quite tight on their


they are quite tight so okay lah <mandarin>这样他这样就开除我:zhe yang ta zhe yang jiu kai chu wo</mandarin> lor ya, ya after after a while right <mandarin>他就跟我讲:ta jiu gen wo jiang</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>你没有:ni mei you</mandarin> COVID you're normal I'm like oh okay, oh well but just nice lah I I was about to start my I'm starting I'm in uni now right now what so


I just I was like I was getting started to go to uni so like !aiya! !aiya! doesn't matter lah I'm not gonna work anymore, just nice lah , uh JC I went for the JC route


yeah you what poly ah, oh Nanyang poly, oh #lim yio chu kang# ah, is it, Nanyang poly ah because my my JC is right next to your school


ya, yeah anderson JC ah


ya what, ya what <mandarin>你们:ni men</mandarin> Nanyang <mandarin>那边不是很多很多东西吃:na bian bu shi hen duo hen duo dong xi chi</mandarin> ah plus they also not that expensive affordable


!aiya! we we we contribute to the queue lah, is it, like I know there's a subway there and then next to subway there got some western store on the right


ah okay Manam ah ya ya ya ya ya <mandarin>记得记得:ji de ji de</mandarin> Liao !wah! long !wah! !siala! that was like when I was that was when I was your age sia


ya that was like !walao! two years ago, ya technically speaking I'm not wrong lah uh finally can use that phrase ah, not wrong lah


no lah don't don't say like that one lah, not really lah because some you just try to go uni lah I guess


a bit stupid to give up right now lah you're just like what you're you're less than thirty years old if you give up


, uh NUS lah, yeah , yeah


ah no no no college entrance exams, uh, yeah apply using your your A level results or your GPA, I guess, can appeal lah ya it's it's I mean you you really you you're gonna take a big exam lah actually not really a big exam your


you guys already have a have a cap right like GPA right is it, ya ya you all using the GPA lah, but but worst come to worst if you really cannot go anywhere sign on lor


sign on lah army, not really ah okay lah but when you go army you are entering as a, as a lowest life form is what they call it cause <mandarin>你出去:ni chu qu</mandarin> as a what private lah coporate lah or if you go to command school <mandarin>你可能:ni ke neng</mandarin> become sergeant ah


or even better <mandarin>你去:ni qu</mandarin> OCS you become officer, but but you are still considered a very small part of, compared to regulars ah regular <mandarin>那些有有两:nei xie you you liang</mandarin> like the higher rank officers lah so if you sign on


at that point ah it's already a part of your life already it's <mandarin>一中生活:yi zhong sheng huo</mandarin> Liao it's your it's every day you do that every day so you'll probably be very fit


like really ready to go out to to the <mandarin>森林:sen lin</mandarin> to live for another two to three days


, eh you, yeah eh you never know ah you'll never know I got friends who tell me they they don't want die die also want to finish NS and get out of there


after two years tell me eh actually ah NS <mandarin>不错:bu cuo</mandarin> leh


I mean it's a it's a last last ditch effort lah <mandarin>如果你没有你没有做工没有钱:ru guo ni mei you ni mei you zuo gong mei you qian</mandarin> what what can you do, in singapore you got no money what can you do so might might as well sign on, yeah you you sign on you have a place to sleep you have a place to eat


and you're being paid, I mean it it sounds good to some people I know some people they entered NS with that mindset to sign on, because they they <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> they feel that probably they probably cannot get a job after NS


plus it was the COVID season, because we ORD during the COVID season so like, very hard to find a job because like basically <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> under four SIR four singapore infantry regiment, like most of my friends are a mixture of JC and ITE


ya, -EMPTY-、


then that's how some of them ended up signing on, eh not bad lah they they just they just finish the they all all right now all my friends who sign on right they all became sergeants


not bad lah, yeah they're fit they're, I assets, no they they fit I mean they were fit before they ORD they were already fit lah we all quite we're we're all fit lah we all can all of us could either get a silver or or gold for IPPT lah so


so that's why lah, why but


I also hate running but to be honest like in camp they'll be like okay guys let's let's begin a short run ah !wah! you just keep running and running !huh!, and there's no way out lah you can't just say eh I don't want run anymore they they won't let you stop like that lah they'll they'll push you lah push you to run


after after three, consecutively just keep running and running and running


bro my, bro I I've been there and, I've, yeah I I I get what you coming from I was I've been there done that


before before army <mandarin>我不是跟你讲我去拿个:wo bu shi gen ni jiang wo qu na ge</mandarin> #toa payoh# stadium lor, my my first timing !huh! for the track my first timing on the track was


ya back then lah then after that inside ready when they really make they make you run and run and run !huh!, !wah! your timing will keep dropping you won't you won't even realise it you will find it easier and easier to run,


ya but to be honest lah, yeah do you to be honest do you run very often, ya, [orh] if you walk a lot if


get ready for your get ready to walk a lot during night time lah, that's that's the army army life, ya I I just I just tell you how the, this is what we do this is what infantry does lah see whether you will like it or not so


example we have a three day two night mission okay we go out in the jungle for three days two night, so we will start walking from nine PM all the way until next day five AM


with a, yeah yeah, yeah it's it's just <mandarin>很辛苦:hen xin ku</mandarin> lah say already, ya I think must <mandarin>拿着枪拿着拿着背包:na zhe qiang na zhe na zhe bei bao</mandarin> !walao! we just keep walking for like a few kilometres in the dark


and half the time walk half halfway walking and you feel like sleeping one, so ya nine to five is your walk, okay, ya so basic, I know I know it's so basically first day you walk nine PM to five AM you walk after five AM already hor around seven AM you have to attack an area


attack as in like, so basically like it's a mission lah so they have to stimulate enemy over there there's a enemy camp is in this area you guys must walk to that area which is probably seven kilometrres you walk with your backpack and your gun everything through the jungle walk from


nine to, nine to nine to five lah nine PM to five AM walk lor after that once you reach already around ten AM you attack, you attack until probably four PM, three PM eh two PM to four PM lah


after you after you will fight already right you have killed the enemy right you must start digging shell scrape ah dig Liao !wah! dig <mandarin>到很很惨:dao hen hen can</mandarin> lah <mandarin>很累:hen lei</mandarin> ah <mandarin>一直:yi zhi</mandarin> dig <mandarin>一直:yi zhi</mandarin> ah after that <mandarin>你你:ni ni</mandarin> dig then <mandarin>你以为:ni yi wei</mandarin> okay Liao <mandarin>可以可以休息了:ke yi ke yi xiu xi le</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> encik <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> come over <mandarin>跟你跟你讲:gen ni gen ni jiang</mandarin> hor eh your shell scrape not deep enough dig more


!wah!, then you are like !wah! shag continue digging, because a shell scrape it's like a it's like a it's like a mini coffin so basically if, if enemy were to drop bombs on us right we can hide in the hole


yeah it's pretty interesting lah you hide inside the hole, ya ah boys to men lah basically lah the the same exact thing lor like, but theirs is Tekong Tekong Tekong not that not that shag Tekong they don't they don't do it back to back, then after that after that you after digging ready hor you see your shell scrape you cannot sleep you must stay alert because right after right after you attack your place very likely your enemies will send reinforcement so you must wait for them to come and you must kill them


so no matter how, ya, okay so okay so


to show that they are enemy, and also right, they, and some also quite smart lah <mandarin>他们给你一个:ta men gei ni yi ge</mandarin> gameboy system so <mandarin>他们给你一个:ta men gei ni yi ge</mandarin> item called a chocolate bar you put around your your your vest, you are wearing a vest what so it's like a <mandarin>你玩过:ni wan guo</mandarin> laser tag mah


ya ya basically laser tag in the jungle, your gun ya, not bad lah it's pretty fun lah that's all your gun when they will put a they put a laser a laser gun to your to your weapon so you'll be firing blanks you'll fire but no bullet will come out when you fire like your gun will vibrate then when your gun vibrates the it will shoot a laser out and if the laser were to hit


eh your enemy your enemy will die lah that's how that's how it goes lah, it it's a pretty pretty high tech to be honest pretty high tech


(mmhmm), until enemy come lor <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> lah sia probably like <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> twelve hours plus, you have to protect the area you have to protect the area until reinforcement comes what


very likely also right after you dig shell scrape people will attack your area so you must be protect it even more, so <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> you protect <mandarin>你一直:ni yi zhi</mandarin> you dig your shell scrape ready you look foward <mandarin>看前面看等一直等一直等:kan qian mian kan deng yi zhi deng yi zhi deng</mandarin> oh until until your your commando or whatever <mandarin>跟你讲:gen ni jiang</mandarin> okay guys wrap up you're done can take a little break now we'll take a four hours sleep after four hour sleep you'll continue walking


walk for another seven to eight hours same thing then you attack enemy again, what thing the fight ah


rest <mandarin>可能可:ke neng ke</mandarin> four hours to five hours if we're lucky lah, we have a four hour four hour, four to five hour to sleep bro we're not we haven't slept the past day yet if you if you think about it we have we have walk and dig shell scrape for the past two days


we have not slept yet, then after that next day <mandarin>等:deng</mandarin> after that <mandarin>等到他讲:deng dao ta jiang</mandarin> okay guys lets continue after <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> rest Liao hor !wah! we walk another another seven to eight hours


yeah, ya ya exactly yeah <mandarin>一直走一直走:yi zhi zou yi zhi zou</mandarin> army <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>一直走:yi zhi zou</mandarin> lor, that's why <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> army <mandarin>就会有那种:jiu hui you na zhong</mandarin> group march lah, must go what four click twelve click eighteen click twenty four click


then then, oh click is KM they call it there they they abbreviate kilometers as click, four ah, four click eight click twelve sixteen twenty twenty four click then our CSB you must go up to


thirty two click, ya, it's not just walking lah it's just, it's walking with a few pack and your weapon


ah ah no the uh the one is POP it's after your Tekong, so from ya from after after Tekong after two months right you will finish your first twenty four click after your twenty four click already right you have to walk from walk from the tekong ferry terminal there in singapore you walk all the way to the floating platform


ah then that's when your parents will see see you like oh, to be honest like for me, not


yeah they will just see you walking lah all the all the all the foreigners all the everyone who's out out that night will just see people at night walking, like their face like damn shag they just walking, yeah the


it's it's to be honest it's it's not it's not that shag, but because okay because okay lah for me it's my bodyweight is like like what eighty plus KG, then my backpack my backpack is like probably ten KG plus so it's not that painful for me but then I got friends right who are like forty fifty KG they also need to carry the same weight as me


cause everyone's field bag everyone's field bag is the same, so <mandarin>真的那个重量有有有:zhen de na ge zhong liang you you you</mandarin> difference lah, carry carry <mandarin>八个钟头:ba ge zhong tou</mandarin> ah <mandarin>一直走:yi zhi zou</mandarin> ah !wah! <mandarin>不容易:bu rong yi</mandarin> lah for them for me easier


ya, yeah


it, I just realize we're we are completely ignoring all the the prompts they are giving us the suggested prompts ah ya


yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah especially yeah, especially for you ah yours is coming soon ah


!aiya! keep it with a open just do it with an open mind, don't don't be too, yeah yeah that


yeah it's just to be honest NS is just you #tiam tiam# just do whatever sergeant says don't #kay kiang#


, actually not really lah that that's the that's a sketchy part about SAF lah cause it's everyone is all the all the higher all the commanders they are like !aiya! everyone is just #chao keng#


you know that idea so anybody who who really showed signs of fatigue or like or like really cannot make it they will first linked it to uh #chao keng#


ya but it's it's, it no, okay lah they will give it they will give you more training lah to they'll give you more they will give you lower level trainings but give more of it lor but I cannot exactly blame it I know because there are people who really #chao keng# lah


or I mean, yeah who really you everyone knows that it's #chao keng# one lah they people who can two point four ha you can run nine minutes eight minutes, then you tell me you cannot you cannot do a simple exercise


ah it's just #chao keng# lah, of course lah of course <mandarin>会有:hui you</mandarin> lah


whole two year journey I only saw that guy twice


after that first time I see him was in my camp <mandarin>他回来:ta hui lai</mandarin> because after a six months six months uh MC, ya


then after ah you know what the funny funniest part <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> <mandarin>他去那个:ta qu na ge</mandarin> office hor <mandarin>那个我们的:na ge wo men de</mandarin> officer our captain ah our highest our Tao lah <mandarin>我们的:wo men de</mandarin> company <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> Tao, regular ah say who are you <mandarin>你谁来的:ni shei lai de</mandarin> they don't know he don't know


he like I don't know you existed the oh you I'm here to extend my err, extend my MC for another year, one more year bro not one month one year then after that never see him the second time I saw him saw him right he had his pink IC


, yeah, ya but if you get caught for if you get caught for #chao keng# ah can be sent to sent to detention barracks heard <mandarin>过:guo</mandarin> DB mah


ya DB lor so basically <mandarin>你被你:ni bei ni</mandarin> detention barracks basically a jail for for soldiers


!wah! so basically when you enter you must enter the prison with no hair and no clothes, is err you because they they they scared you smuggle things inside so you enter they will shave your head then you enter you must so you do you do a full bodies fashion take off all your clothes then they will they will give you the prisoner clothes lah like the I forgot what colour they give you already


and is it blue ya they just give u a blue outfit they just you just wear I think, you think freedom in NS is bad right it's even worse in detention barracks so everything you do ha


like <mandarin>连连:lian lian</mandarin> move move out of your


but <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> they, it's <mandarin>没有那么久:mei you na me jiu</mandarin> like example if you get caught they called it malingering ah #chao keng chao keng# called malingering lah if you get caught malingering depends on how long you malinger or whatever right <mandarin>可能:ke neng</mandarin> two two months inside, it's not like like they don't they rarely give in years unless <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> AWOL


you know what's AWOL right, AWOL uh absence without leave, so I means you you, you go you did you didn't come back to camp for too long for no reason never <mandarin>没有给交没有给交代:mei you gei jiao mei you gei jiao dai</mandarin> lah


then, okay, ah


, yeah


, !wah! that that's a, ya it's like one they they'll involve police to go and bring you back to camp and send you to DB, the example like if you AWOL for one year you go to DB for two years


and the thing is right you're example okay you have to serve for two years but then if you AWOL AWOL for one year right you haven't serve your two years yet so you will not only will you get sent to DB for two years you still must serve your full two years of NS you don't cut short by one year


you still have to go, ya you can AWOL for forty five years you can AWOL for forty five years or maybe that one too old already at that point they'll be like, they will just give up already they they'll find new instead forty five year times two ninety years eh ninety years in DB a bit stupid ah


ya, ya just, yes but <mandarin>很少:hen shao</mandarin> lah <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> singaporean <mandarin>很少:hen shao</mandarin> lah is most of them will just end up going to NS lah that's the most common one follow the rules just go NS


, ya lor, you you go in five days a week you cannot eat any like KFC ah fast food ah


eh you'll get used to it, in the yeah in the beginning <mandarin>有点有点不容易吃:you dian you dian bu rong yi chi</mandarin> lah but


!aiya! only after one year later one and a half year later like ah that's that's normal lah, it becomes like, first meal at Tekong ah chicken rice if I'm not wrong


but actually over the years over the years the the food in SAF has been getting better and better lah so, have to be funny eh that that have that will be good lor


ya, okay, (mmhmm), no meat


what the


!wah! okay that's that that sounds terrible actually


okay lah but NS the camp probably might have, one or two meals that are like that, but not that <mandarin>严重:yan zhong</mandarin> lah not the point where it is rotting ready lah


but you'll feel like you're eating you're eating solid paper, then <mandarin>一直吃一直吃:yi zhi chi yi zhi chi</mandarin> you'll be like <mandarin>我我吃这个干嘛:wo wo chi zhe ge gan ma</mandarin> like I have no I don't taste anything, then <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> you and your friends just down there sitting on the table stare at each other just eating non-stop like like just eating with no emotion


I mean there was one point right at one point right my we all saw what they were serving right all my friends we all just took we just took the drink we didn't get the food we just sat on the table just drank water , end up we end up getting we got scolded by our sir lah so


uh damn stupid sia you get getting getting scolded for not eating, yeah, , ah then after that we then we're like eh sir then you eat lah


then sir was like ah okay nevermind lah nevermind ah nevermind, ya lah sometimes when we are we if if the sir is on a good mood we can joke lah but then sometime you can tell he's pissed lah we we just #tiam tiam#


okay I I think one of my friends he he said, oh no you got cut off, yeah ya wait yeah, you want say that again


okay that's true, ya


ya, ya lor


it's like that lah it's, yeah it's a to be honest like I only care in army cause if I don't listen my sir can charge me for insubordination and I can get to I can get sent to DB and also they can they can hold me back during the weekends


like eh my book out day don't don't take away that's that's the only things I have left, but they reservice Liao two weeks three weeks <mandarin>而已:er yi</mandarin> mah I'm getting paid like my my normal pay two to three weeks I get to relax inside camp I don't mind lah you hold me back you can't hold you back anymore what, I not scared already what


yeah so like, yeah, yeah


yeah it's it's it's normal lah I mean like we'll probably understand it when you when you enter army like you will care a lot now but after you ORD ah you'll be like ah I care for what it's not really a need anymore


that your attitude will change ya once you get your pink IC your attitude will change so much, I mean like after two years you get a pink IC lah you will change


ya, I no I example like you'll get your when you enter Tekong you'll get your green IC then they will take your pink IC, they'll they'll take a pink IC so after two years they'll return you your pink IC


yeah, so so yeah that's how I that's how it goes ah but I army you have a lot of funny stories ah, interesting lah that's a !wah! !wah! ghost story ah <mandarin>鬼故事:gui gu shi</mandarin> ah, actually <mandarin>有有有:you you you</mandarin> ah I mean <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> really <mandarin>鬼故事:gui gu shi</mandarin> more like something that happened


back in the day that still, I can't not really I kind of heard that it happened so basically my, in in four SIR lah <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> it was in #lim chu kang# camp back in the day, okay okay to be honest now <mandarin>现在:xian zai</mandarin> four SIR <mandarin>已经没有:yi jing mei you</mandarin> Liao it's no it's uh we I'm the last four SIR


last four SIR batch there's no more four SIR already it's a it's a batallion ah there's no more there's no more four SIR already, so what what the story was right before #bukit panjang# camp they were all in #lim chu kang# #lim chu kang# camp and #lim chu kang# camp used to be from one guards I think and they have a statue there


they have a statue of a guy to commemorate a a person who died back in the day out of out of like I forgot how he died ah but basically he died and they commemorated uh a statue for him, yeah he he he he's wearing the SAF uniform plus he is holding a SAR twenty one


ya ya then that's the guy then he basically he people started seeing a lot of weird shit, in in the army, they say what err ya you do guard duty you do with your friend so it's, a buddy


you and your friend you will walk around camp do prowling ah ya so u in front then you all side by side left right then all of a sudden you feel that eh why why got third person joining us at the back, ya that's ya ya that was the story, after that what other what other versions of


okay that was one part of it after that they say sometimes at night at like three AM you can see the he okay the statues name is called #yi lan# the guy is called #yi lan#, they realise that the the #yi lan# not not sir #yi lan# he was a trooper he was just a normal private #yi lan# I think private #yi lan# he he was he was seen during the okay there's something called the obstacle course


the standard obstacle course SOC ah SOC <mandarin>听过:ting guo</mandarin> right SOC ya ya ya he is doing it backwards


ya that's one part, so then after they realise that they, uh no not okay not not that kind of <mandarin>倒反:dao fan</mandarin> more like he is doing it backwards like, in the other direction


exorcists lah, hello ya ya like it yeah yeah I can hear can hear ya <mandarin>听到听得到:ting dao ting de dao</mandarin> so they they they hire all these priests to go and clean the place to exorcise the demon


then the demon say err they say they say something is not happy but we need to find out how to fix the issue so basically what what they decided to do right was, okay I think it's the statue let's in order to appease the statue let's uh up rank him every two years so right now he's from a private he's up rank to a


staff staff seargent, that's like, like quite a number of ranks above private lah, so ya that was the staff seargent then our so what happened what happened to my friend was right we all went to #lim chu kang# camp we have seen staff sergeant #yi lan# before at at the at #lim chu kang# camp then his thumb drop onto the floor


my friend picked up the thumb and brought it back to #bukit panjang# camp, I he he I don't know I have no idea what's wrong with him then after that ah my sergeant come talk about eh why the fuck you all bring it back why why you all bring it back are you all are you all stupid why you all bring it back this kind of stuff <mandarin>肮脏:ang zang</mandarin> one eh you cannot play one eh you can get cursed eh so he okay the the sergeant a bit scared so he took the he took the thumb he threw it into the green the big green dustbin


ya, what our I I don't know luckily I wasn't part of it I I don't care eh but it's not me interfering with that ghost so he he himself the sergeant go and take the thumb <mandarin>把它丢掉:ba ta diu diao</mandarin> ah after that on that night all of them woke up at two or three AM in the morning at the same time


they all sat up in the room lah the that whole bunk they they they sat up at the same time, and they saw each other like eh why you awake I'm just like this is like then he's like why are you guys awake why you all awake then they all don't know why they were awake at two at three AM


like there was no noise there was no alarm but they all they all sit up straight then after that I think six months later the our our commanding officer our CO decided to bring staff sergeant #yi lan# from #lim chu kang# camp to #bukit panjang# camp


cause he believes he believes that staff sergeant #yi lan# is not there to to curse us he is there to protect us so ya


ya then at that night where they the night ya the night the night before the the statue was shifted to our camp the same thing happened to all of them again they all woke up at four AM


but this time to the sound of the like the window know the window pane, !uh huh!, it slide out and crashed, all the windows panes slide out, that's why they woke up lah


ya, I I I'm just happy I heard about it and not experienced it


no lah it's why would, army got no clock one ah where got clock one sia, no lah it's standard standard clocks lah or you use usually I use my own phone to set alarm


bro you know you know the last time the uh a rifle was taken out of Tekong was it Tekong or a I think out of Tekong right he took he stripped his gun he brought the piece out piece by piece everytime he book out so by the time he uh by the like fourth or fifth week he he took out the whole gun and he also took out a few bullets right then after that just nice he the reason why he took it out was because his girlfriend was cheating on him with another guy


ah <mandarin>被:bei</mandarin> <NEN> ah <mandarin>被人家:bei ren jia</mandarin> <NEN> Jialat then ah <mandarin>就拿一个枪:jiu na yi ge qiang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>去射死他那个女朋友跟他的新:qu she si ta na ge nv peng you gen ta de xin</mandarin> boyfriend, ya that happen before so I think that's why they all very particular about <mandarin>子弹那种东西:zi dan na zhong dong xi</mandarin> lah


it's it's normal lah it's, if <mandarin>事情:shi qing</mandarin> happen before it can happen again, so I yeah


yeah, it's like that one lah so it's a bit a bit shag, for us lah cause like you know you didn't lose the bullet then you don't know where the bullet went to I know I had my book out my book out got pushed back to for instead of friday afternoon it pushed back to saturday afternoon


you push back one day cause we spend the whole night finding for it wasn't even a bullet it was finding a battery, it was like they came back they they lost a recharge they lost a rechargeable battery, SAF issued rechargeable battery you cannot just buy a rechargeable battery outside so all of us were just going around the camp finding that stupid battery


ya, ya, but it's like that lor <mandarin>就这样:jiu zhe yang</mandarin> lor if we nothing we can control lah


ah <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> cubicle, ya i went to taiwan, ya


ya, ah, ya, it's an open shower it's not really open shower is got cubicle but got no door so open shower lah


ya, it's normal lah, eh but the toilet not bad got hot water, don't eh, I don't think so ah no hot water there's no hot water in singapore I think most of most of the singapore normal camps don't have hot water unless you're an officer officer all the toilets all got special one lah


no don't need sign on to become officer don't need sign on, you can be in if you go OCS if it's okay lah only like maybe ten percent of your ten percent of a batch will go to OCS


ya even err even those who are mentally strong or physically strong or those who can who can take the leadership role all those all your Tekong sergeant gonna ah this person can take it so they send the person to OCS


must stand out lah, err not exactly some some bodybuilder <mandarin>跑不动: pao bu dong</mandarin> one <mandarin>他们太重了:ta men tai zhong le</mandarin> muscle <mandarin>太大了真的跑不动:tai da le zhen de pao bu dong</mandarin> got like that one lah I mean I've seen yeah have got some I got the really really buff people right they they can they can lift a lot of weight they can


okay, ya just <mandarin>刚刚发生:gang gang fa sheng</mandarin> Liao so you can put back to bluetooth lor, okay


, ya lor that's a very good thing [orh] <mandarin>有钱赚就好:you qian zhuan jiu hao</mandarin> [orh] that's like you know this kinds of jobs right main thing is just to earn money can already


okay what actually does warehouse do ah I never understood eh like what you do for warehouse, (mmhmm)


old people products


[orh], so it's just more like picking lah, [orh], what thing


, !wah!, not bad sia


I had to


[orh], !ouch!, okay okay


, so ORD means you like legit do need do anything Liao <mandarin>就是你已经有自由了:jiu shi ni yi jing you zi you le</mandarin> Liao lah means just like just like oh <mandarin>已经没有去:yi jing mei you qu</mandarin> Tekong Liao, [orh]


okay where is the camp at ah also it's like different camps right I heard, [orh]


ah, !chey!


okay lor


[orh],


spot, ah


!wow!, [orh]


is that what infantry does, !aiyo!


oh my god, !wah!


what, no vacation wait is there vacation, !ee!


(mmhmm), [orh] not bad sia good leh your OCD, ah


!ouch!, pain


it's just it's just literally a camp only, <mandarin>如果那个人会用那个枪:ru guo na ge ren hui yong na ge qiang</mandarin> lor that's all lor <mandarin>除非你会用枪:chu fei ni hui yong qiang</mandarin> lor <mandarin>去拿:qu na</mandarin> lor


oh, I mean shooting mah that's legit very cool sia


!wah! how you get gun in singapore what the hell


, uh, uh, Bishan <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> I think Bishan food court I really really unclear


!huh! Yishun ah, !wah! !wah! Yishun ah !wah! Yishun Yishun our good friend Yishun they say Geylangs the worst right you never see Yishun


oh my god, eh but legit you there got got #ah beng# there or not ah legit


ah <mandarin>难怪:nan guai</mandarin> lah, you know, you know what's now the <mandarin>黑社会:hei she hui</mandarin> or not the now the <mandarin>黑社:hei she</mandarin> is all #ah beng# ah all the <mandarin>小弟弟小妹妹:xiao di di xiao mei mei</mandarin> all the YP and all the all those people oh my


oh ya <mandarin>小妹妹:xiao mei mei</mandarin> then got gang sign gang gang gang sign !woo! !woo!, !woo!, uh gang sign, I cannot I sometime


!walao!, (mmhmm), hundred percent


!wah! <mandarin>第二个愿望:di er ge yuan wang</mandarin> ah honestly <mandarin>如果有第二个愿望就是:ru guo you di er ge yuan wang jiu shi</mandarin> like on command right <mandarin>我就有钱:wo jiu you qian</mandarin> lor <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> oh like I need seventy dollars then my wallet open it will have one seventy dollar right there <mandarin>就是这样子:jiu shi zhe yang zi</mandarin> command on money money on command yes money on command is the right term I want to use <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> money on command


, , I know right


just just like, oh I, like oh I need this I need this amount of money right now <mandarin>它就会突然:ta jiu hui tu ran</mandarin> <mandarin>起来我就有那个钱我就可以就是帮人家:qi lai wo jiu you na ge qian wo jiu ke yi jiu shi bang ren jia</mandarin> lor <mandarin>或者是我买我喜欢的东西:huo zhe shi wo mai wo xi huan de dong xi</mandarin> then it's like so much more easier


but is it even possible or not <mandarin>这种:zhe zhong</mandarin> wish , (mmhmm), wishes are not not easy to get that's the like the saying


, it's the truth of life life is, (mmhmm)


never sick uh err, I mean that's cool but then you not able to call in sick for work anymore already leh


[orh], ya that's damn scary honestly, true I know right I know ya, it's like right now lor this COVID right it's like everyone like really trying to like !wah! I hope I don't get COVID hope I don't get COVID but still go out every day


!huh! serious why


!wah!, oh my


[orh], !wah!


!ow! that's so mean


[orh], on their pay lah basically <mandarin>就是不够钱:jiu shi bu gou qian</mandarin> lor,


, [orh] you graduated from poly or from JC


ah, I go to Nanyang poly, the #ang mo kio# branch one, ah that one that one correct correct correct


correct your JC students always come here and always Makan our food one I don't know why like when I was in first year right I see a lot of uniform I see a lot of uniform like eh why got so many uniform ah there right it was like oh it from JC then I'm like ah why suddenly JC come here one


correct, I mean I don't blame you all lah so I'm like


, that's the worst thing, !aiya! <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> uh <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah


Manam Manam ya Manam is still there, Manam is still there, yeah oh my, when I was your age !wah! two years oh my god


there's I mean, now you I, now I go around like see all the students in their school uniform right it's like oh my god legit like in poly already it's like !aiyo! I cannot catch up with them already


cause once you reach poly or like JC it's like two sides already it's like officially your two sides already, true lah


, , ya lor like just continue lah just like keep trying lor <mandarin>然后你就一定有会有东西发生的:ran hou ni jiu yi ding you hui you dong xi fa sheng de</mandarin> lah <mandarin>如果你不:ru guo ni bu</mandarin> try <mandarin>的话什么东西不发生你就会失败你的生命浪费掉这样子:de hua shen me dong xi bu fa sheng ni jiu hui shi bai ni de sheng ming lang fei diao zhe yang zi</mandarin> so it's like <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> worth it lor <mandarin>直接把它做:zhi jie ba ta zuo</mandarin> lah by the way what uni you go


, oh my god wait so like do you just is there like a like a college entrance exams like like you need do an exam then go inside or you just apply


oh just apply only ah, ah


ya it's called GPA correct ya we have the GPA, oh, ah, !aiyo! sign on but sign on like is that actually really tough like like what you sia actually when you sign on


, !wah!


!wah!, holy oh my god I got, oh my god <mandarin>我肯定不可以的我会:wo ken ding bu ke yi de wo hui</mandarin> kick <NEN> sia <mandarin>这种东西去森林生活:zhe zhong dong xi qu sen lin sheng huo</mandarin> my


oh my god, !wah!


literally nothing, oh, !wow! feels pretty cool


ah, true true true <mandarin>你说得对:ni shuo de dui</mandarin> like


(mmhmm), oh, ah


!aiyo! oh my god, then like


ah so, oh my god I could never get there <mandarin>我的身体:wo de shen ti</mandarin> ah <mandarin>一跑一下子我就死定了了:yi pao yi xia zi wo jiu si ding liao le</mandarin> <NEN> oh my god


!wow!, oh, !huh! what !aiyo! legit right my two point four right I'm <mandarin>我真的没有跟你开玩笑:wo zhen de mei you gen ni kai wan xiao</mandarin> ah <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah I took like seventeen minutes just for two point for only


!wah! and NAPFA <NEN> sia <mandarin>真的不可以:zhen de bu ke yi</mandarin> cannot cannot <mandarin>真的不行:zhen de bu xing</mandarin> cannot


oh <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor, oh, it's like


I mean ya lah cause your body will get used to it already lah, no I'm more of a cardio walk walker I walk around lot I walk a lot, for me it's I walk


(ugh), , uh


why is is people always say oh I got a nine to five job your one is from oh I have to walk from morning all the way until next day five o'clock in the morning what !walao!


[orh] hor, (ppc) ,


!wah! why why, ah I see that in ah boys to men


[orh], oh, [orh]


so,


ah, okay


ah, oh


!huh!, oh


oh my god


oh not bad leh four to five hours just chill


oh that's very true, oh my god just thought of that


!walao! you're like the walking dead you know the walking dead just walk walk walk walk walk only <mandarin>没有停的直接:mei you ting de zhi jie</mandarin> walk eh,


ah


!wow!, , wait then, [orh], oh oh ya I heard it's like before you ORD you to like walk like from like your what base from your camp to all the way to some stadium then when your parents are over there then you all throw the army hat then it's like oh ORD ready


that's it you still have


, oh my god is it tough, then, everyone can see you eh legit everyone sees you over there everyone on the street can see you


, oh okay, oh really serious why


!whoa!, !huh!


true true true, ah, oh I #si mei kia# <mandarin>一定痛得要命:yi ding tong de yao ming</mandarin> for <mandarin>他们因为他们那么他们那么轻对不对哪里有要:ta men yin wei ta men na me ta men na me qing dui bu dui na li you yao</mandarin> carry <mandarin>整个一个整个:zheng ge yi ge zheng ge</mandarin> field pack eh it's like <mandarin>你要走到很真的走很长的我看:ni yao zou dao hen zhen de zou hen zhang de wo kan</mandarin> ah boys to men <mandarin>他们是真的是走到完:ta men shi zhen de shi zou dao wan</mandarin> leh <mandarin>这是走:zhe shi zou</mandarin> !wah! <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> not easy <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> not easy


, ya lah it's okay lah I mean we're still talking about still talking normally what just talk lor every <mandarin>这是是算对了吗我们讲普通话而且:zhe shi shi suan dui le ma wo men jiang pu tong hua er qie</mandarin> army <mandarin>真的是很重要:zhen de shi hen zhong yao</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我们:wo men</mandarin> singaporean


(ugh) help me I I help me help me, ya lah it's actually a good thing lah if I don't have NS right I think I'll be like like after if I don't have NS right in the future I confirm get like a lot of like health problem already NS is like help you clear your body for a while


just do just don't #kay kiang# don't try to act smart don't be YP just say okay sir I go do I just do okay sir I go do because I know I know like I heard lah it's like ya lah they very like how to say very fierce very strict scream at you but the thing main thing is they still respect you lah as a human it's like when your body say no right they will say okay your body <mandarin>你真的是:ni zhen de shi</mandarin> body <mandarin>说:shuo</mandarin> no <mandarin>对不对真的是:dui bu dui zhen de shi</mandarin> stop Liao <mandarin>全部:quan bu</mandarin> stop stop stop stop stop attend to the one that really needs help lah so they actually still respect the people over there a lot lah I heard


!huh!


!aiyo!, , that's not right their body already says no no already what then they still want to like say like oh it's because you never keep fit it's because you never do this you never do this not right what


oh I mean


!wah! <mandarin>有这种人:you zhe zhong ren</mandarin> ah, !aiyo!, , !huh! !wah!


, !wah! that guy is the best at #chao keng# bagus to him


props to him, ,


six month MC six month MC <mandarin>都有这种东西:dou you zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> meh,


ah, , !wah! it that's oh my god


MC for one more month


uh I mean I mean let's be honest that is some kind of skill already ah until to the point you can #chao keng# for like the almost the whole whole period of NS it's like


what is


what actually happened down there ah they Kena torture ah <mandarin>就是被打:jiu shi bei da</mandarin> ah, oh my god naked ah


!huh! <mandarin>难怪:nan guai</mandarin> lah, blue, I think blue I heard I !wah!


, what's AWOL, ah okay okay okay okay


ah, oh you know <mandarin>我有一个故事跟你讲就是:wo you yi ge gu shi gen ni jiang jiu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>就是我有一个:jiu shi wo you yi ge</mandarin> neighbor <mandarin>对不对他也是要去:dui bu dui ta ye shi yao qu</mandarin> NS eh <mandarin>那我一天就是:na wo yi tian jiu shi</mandarin> like okay <NEN> <mandarin>开门结果:kai men jie guo</mandarin> police <mandarin>来:lai</mandarin> eh police leh <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like <NEN> I never do anything just like hello uh you live here right boy boy just like yes I live here I live here sir I leave here I scared mah then he take out a picture say uh do you know this man


!wah! it's my it's the neighbor son eh neighbour son eh then I'm like ya I do I do know him I do know him he's like oh he my neighbor ah then he ask me like oh <mandarin>你你几时有看过他你有看过他吗他有来这里吗我就:ni ni ji shi you kan guo ta ni you kan guo ta ma ta you lai zhe li ma wo jiu</mandarin> like oh <mandarin>没有没有看过他:mei you mei you kan guo ta</mandarin> leh <mandarin>他就跟我讲说:ta jiu gen wo jiang shuo</mandarin> [orh] <mandarin>这个男的他他:zhe ge nan de ta ta</mandarin> trying to avoid NS <mandarin>他没有来:ta mei you lai</mandarin> NS <mandarin>很久了:hen jiu le</mandarin> so <mandarin>我们要找他我就:wo men yao zhao ta wo jiu</mandarin> like oh okay okay okay thank you sir then i'm like anything I update you lah ah then I just walk off cause I was like damn like oh i'm not about to take part in this it's like nope


no thank you leave me out of this imma just go and go <NEN> oh my god it was intense, it's like that right


[ho] !wow!,


what, !wah!, jail already ah


ya lor might as well just find the person just like like you come back also your body cannot take it ready you just like I find new lah just just go away lah just go away don't want talk to you already


ah, ya lor just like I think NS is just for you to get fit lor like what you say I <mandarin>你说对:ni shuo dui</mandarin> lah <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>就是帮你减肥:jiu shi bang ni jian fei</mandarin> lor <mandarin>那就是帮你帮你的:na jiu shi bang ni bang ni de</mandarin> system like get back into shape and like <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> train you to be more mature lor just like that's it lor


(mmhmm) ya I heard the food quite there is like not that good I'll be honest I heard from my brother lah it's like not that good, ah


[orh], okay, [orh]


ah I, so I tell you ah about my about my poly freshman my poly freshmen the freshmen orientation


is the catering food right but then right the there is no chicken no meat one eh no meat one eh no the meat right is like is like one small cube like that one then the you know the when you see a vegetable right when you know it's about the point of rotting already right is that it cannot eat right it is like not safe for consumption right legit right I see now on my vegetable right it's not green colour one


it's it's like it's like transparent right then right got like some weird spots on it one eh weird spots on it one eh then I'm like !huh! what is this and all my all my other friends is like, what the heck is this what is this crap like what the hell like and then like we ask like our like seniors like eh is this or not then they're like ya ya this is legit so end up right


almost like the whole class never finish their whole meal cause it was like so bad the rice right is like not cooked one, it can can hear the crunch one can hear the crunch from the rice one its like oh my god I thought Nanyang poly got budget one leh end up like I don't think so


that's just it was just nasty it was just one hundred percent nasty


ya, ,


oh my god, oh my god is a


!aiyo! eh <NEN> like what the hell is wrong with y'all why you never eat ah you all got problem is it


, oh eh so you all actually like sort of like talk back to your to your sir like eh sir then you try eat lah then he is like eh ya


ah I heard like usally, err ya, sorry sorry Paiseh Paiseh


so I heard is like usually the sirs right always Kena get pissed off by the reservice of people, cause like no need do anything mah, that's what I heard lah it's like it's like cause the thing about sirs right I heard lah from my my brother cause he also Kena reservice he also like got the post what he ORD already so it's like right the the the reservice people right is legit older than him eh so right legit


they really just Chao they just legit one thousand percent don't care one cause it's just reservice plus if they don't do it right at most they only fined fifty dollar only cause the main thing is they finished their ORD already so it's like they legit couldn't give two shits about the about my brother and my brother that time was like twenty twenty plus also like your age also then it's like


come back right you very Seh just sit there like then I'm ask him like !hey! bro why you okay like you okay or not then he's like !wah! #sibei sian# lah he's like why why <mandarin>我跟你讲那边那些:wo gen ni jiang na bian nei xie</mandarin> reservists our uncle ah <mandarin>那些人:nei xie ren</mandarin> ah <mandarin>真的是不关我们的真的是随便乱的我跟他们讲对明白把那个枪对不对用完之后要:zhen de shi bu guan wo men de zhen de shi sui bian luan de wo gen ta men jiang dui ming bai ba na ge qiang dui bu dui yong wan zhi hou yao</mandarin> polish <mandarin>一点点对不对他们连:yi dian dian dui bu dui ta men lian</mandarin> polish <mandarin>都不要直接丢掉了这样子:dou bu yao zhi jie diu diao le zhe yang zi</mandarin> it's like <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> like !huh! <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> ah !wah! or so I've made so is that legit is like reservice people don't care one


, ya lor, that's why I get it lah like sometimes the sirs is like legit not happy because the is because of the reservice people like I heard it's like the legit couldn't give two shits about the people there just couldn't give two shits waste of their time it's just like [orh] just chill here lor then go <NEN> lor go smoke then like come back then just do just chill lor it's like then they also cannot do anything


I'm gonna learn a lot when I go army


oh wait uh you mean your green IC, really meh now now I thought now the normal pink IC is different meh


ah okay, ah <NEN> okay I get it I get it


, got ghost stories you got any ghost stories to tell, oh [orh] <mandarin>就是鬼故事:jiu shi gui gu shi</mandarin> lor


okay #lim chu kang# oh my god


(mmhmm) <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> leh,


ah, (mmhmm)


, ah buddy


, !ee!


okay #yi lan# sir sir #yi lan#, ah okay I heard of it heard of it <mandarin>我有听过我有听过:wo you ting guo wo you ting guo</mandarin> ah ya ya ya ya <mandarin>就是那个你要过很多东西:jiu shi na ge ni yao guo hen duo dong xi</mandarin> lah


(mmhmm),


, !aiyo! !wah! <NEN> sia


oh


!wow! okay lah okay,


, what the hell is wrong with him,


, !aiyo!


!wah!


oh my god why oh my god, oh


!aiyo!, , !walao! <mandarin>大拇指:da mu zhi</mandarin> oh


!huh!, ah ha, (ppc), !aiyo! !aiyo! oh my !wah! !walao!


, oh my god I I cannot with that I swear to god I cannot I'm sorry I really cannot, ya that's the main point, then err the wait you know the alarm clock you know is the clock at NS right is it like the red color like very scary like those you see in horror movie one like is it like the red colour like one line number one


!aiyo!, ah okay oh ya then I also like my brother got tell this funny story right so he book out right apparently his friend right got hold the gun right he say your gun is like your wife you don't lose it didn't then then the bullets is your children cannot lose it and then one of the one of his friend apparently lost the bullet like one bullet right apparently you have to flip out the whole entire Tekong right even put down #halimah yacob's# picture right just to find that one small bullet eh it's like !huh!


!aiyo!, oh !wah!


uh <mandarin>你这样你说对:ni zhe yang ni shuo dui</mandarin> ah <mandarin>老师讲就是:lao shi jiang jiu shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果以前真的有发生过:ru guo yi qian zhen de you fa sheng guo</mandarin> right that's no saying that it won't happen again lor <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> like oh <mandarin>真的是:zhen de shi</mandarin> eh


ya,


oh okay oh my god, !hais!, , !aiyo! not worth it lah !walao! ah battery only what's the big deal I mean ya lah you cannot buy outside but like not the whole Tekong just to find that one battery


!walao!


[orh], oh <mandarin>那边是:na bian shi</mandarin> open shower lah


oh okay lor I mean like normal lah, ah, i mean like, wait Tekong got hot water not


!huh!, ah can tell the officer what so it's Iike must get good treatment mah


cause they sign on mah, ya lah, it's not surprising, !huh!


it's those very fit fit one right very buff one right


ahah basically be a good bodybuilder can Liao <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> lor be a bodybuilder can help already , !huh! really meh


!wow!


hello can you hear me


oh is it so so you mean be visible then boleh macam pergi lelaki punya toilet , right so you can sneak inside ah like guys and and said oh oh the guy yup lovely no ah you don't do that ah


it's a sneaky sneaky you know, wait wait what what kind of superpower is that ah print print do it print do it oh wish wish oh ya ya my bad my bad


oh ya ya ya ya okay so your first wish is actually to have a superpower like jadi invisible


oh ah okay okay can can one superpower and lagi satu is nak what you just wanna be like rich begitu or you you you you want to


oh ya get the money but you see ah you never specify like I want a certain amount of money like you you must describe it right, err you want money but who knows err money to support your family maybe ah one thousand lah give you


, eh so like you have to give a number also right, oh oh you have to give a number or like describe it in a way says that, like like we we can estimate like oh okay okay this much ah oh okay


ten ten K only you have one freaking wish and err ya apa yang kamu tanya is setakat ten K [jer] ten thousand


spoiler reboot


ya ya but out of like like like if you is you you crave for a wish then you just ask for a freaking ten K, like eh I I bet like other people oh I have a wish okay lah aku nak one one million but but kalau one million macam sikit sangat ah maybe I want


hundred million because it's like a wish right ah ya ya maybe a hundred million won't dry up ya or maybe maybe , I nak err satu satu juta satu juta is it uh one billion I don't know


like ya but asking for a billion maybe oh ah for generations


okay so so you you so you you you don't intend to use it like a wish but you intend on, ah to to to to receive like a sponsorship, , okay okay fine fine it if that is your wish I mean as a genie I will gladly give it to you ah since you are not that greedy


your wish is granted okay K K, where no you must answer the last that the third wish you you nak kena answer the the ya


ah oh ya you you cuma minta jadi err invisible tak ada orang boleh nampak then you setakat minta err, you wanna you you wanna have like err sepuluh ribu [jer]


two wish, ah okay


that the portion of our longevity, so so like uh you wanna drink the portion of err dracula lah right, only without err only without sucking blood lah jadi err so tak hisap darah ah tak apa kira macam err friendly vampire lah [kan]


yup yup that just so okay okay so to summarize , your wish your hajat hajat is untuk dua is superpower


then lagi satu is okay lah a a genuine err general wish ah, ah hajat yang tepat lah [kan], goblin apa pula goblin what's


oh my god okay okay I I do not support K, no no no no no no no I refuse


no the I am I am a non K person I do I do not , what I watch I watch no lah netflix err but then the non K side of life I watch err


what right apa ya uh , I think tengok cerita-cerita macam psychological thriller err those err political err zaman dulu-dulu punya like you know the olden days


then err also macam bunuh-bunuh orang punya like those murder kind of scenes, ya then recently err I start on Anime, eh is not cartoon eh dia bukan eh


I okay okay okay good good oh on netflix, okay ya ya ya I was sad that kiss Anime got dumped


oh well, then err ya I don't have much Anime sites, I only have one but I'm not gonna say it I also don't use it much lah ever since kiss Anime got down, I never


is it Anime flix okay okay can Anime flix dot IO right, okay I will bookmark it and, ya I will bookmark it then yup I bookmark it so hopefully it is


as good as you say it is, so I put it under my bookmark bar okay can, okay err ya, oh uh just now you were saying err, you nak tahu [kan] my three wishes also


you forgot about it right you wanted to know mine, okay mine is okay let's say from my first wish actually I never even think about getting wishes like


like I don't know I feel like so fake ah really can get wish meh, but if I were really to think about it eh like on the spot (hmm), my wish is


K lah I really want money ah so I don't have to stress about working or whatever shit, and pass down to the generation also lah macam maybe ha, K lah since err just now I give you like a hard one I ask you for quantity [kan]


what is err, what is uh million in malay ribu err juta err


okay lah then like that kalau nak safe


think ya I mean ah might as well go big right


ya seratus juta I think that seems fine like because you see ah , let's say err


one million then you're down to err nine hundred and ninety nine million then if you want a, renovate it to your extend that you wanna buy this you wanna buy that I mean the money just like getting shredded away like quickly


, eh genie err boleh tak minta lagi satu err macam err add on wish begitu I I aku tak nak pakai wish nombor dua kau macam nak ya just uh add on to my first wish


then genie say you Siao ah, so I think uh ya just to be safe ah seratus juta lah, that's my first wish so I can do whatever second ah second


second apa ah, , second second second which kind of wish I wish that,