the first segment being the audition, I so audition right everything <mandarin>所有的:suo you de</mandarin> audition will be at home


so, people will send their uh talent, or whatsoever her singing or whatever through video and send it to, the student life director, then from there from there right she will will look through lah


it's eunice, K so


and then from there right she'll choose like say the best twenty five, top twenty they will perform for the talent show, so the idea sounds okay, however


okay however she wants it to be physical, damn it don't sound so but ya you get the point


you apologise to who we know how each other how long already, what if they like it eh


that's true okay back to the point back to the point don't deviate, okay so the thing is, now she wants it to be physical like a physical event, it's quite tough because you need to go through a lot of safety precautions like


it's quite hard, err as of now right just this last saturday


I just hand the whole entire role over to her and she has yet to make a single meeting a single decision, yet, eh eh eh hello don't like that my successor you don't say


okay okay fine fair enough, sometimes a white lie is good to say also, ah ah no lah of course not lah but apparently apparently like when I talk to her she's like


keep keep telling me things like oh !wah! I don't want do already


but then, so what are your plans for talent show have you made any plans yet she's like, uh I'm uh I got most of I got the layout there but I haven't actually started anything yet !wah! I I tell you I tell you so


I tell you I tell you ah so, in october right on the fifth of october I had a meeting with my friend but with all my group my entire group, and then no I had a meeting with my that <mandarin>去年去年:qu nian qu nian</mandarin> last year last year I had a meeting on fifth of october tell everybody what to do


finish the proposal by next week, and even after that I still wasn't able to find time to finish my event


so what makes you think now she haven't even start anything she can make it in time for the actual event, that's why I'm worried for her


that's true that's true, that is what I would like to say as well and I told her like I shouldn't give her too much help


okay so the thing is with me as a previous director <mandarin>我们应该帮现在的:wo men ying gai bang xian zai de</mandarin> director, but the thing is right now okay a bit of context she just had her birthday two days ago


so I don't think she has the


stop apologising, anyway continue on so the thing is she just had her birthday two days ago so I don't think she's in the mood to plan for anything else and the reason why I said this is because I uh in a way I still join back okay calm down <mandarin>冷静:leng jing</mandarin> please listen to me first I join back student life comm but I joined as a very minor character


so like all the <mandarin>漫画:man hua</mandarin> all the uh anime we all know we all know the the side characters yes I was I'm the side character now I'm not the main character, so


I'm just watching over her lor, so like I wanna ask if, if it were you if it was you who Kena this situation


brandon, okay sorry boss sorry boss


err but apart from that also I ya I'm sounding very needy <mandarin>对不起我我我我现在有太多问题:dui bu qi wo wo wo wo xian zai you tai duo wen ti</mandarin> ah but listen hear me out hear me out


I I'm sorry boy what so you have no problems at all is it


but you have bills, no


okay lah, it's decent but, I would rather save the money for myself cause okay so the reason why okay no <mandarin>你听我讲:ni ting wo jiang</mandarin> it's not because I don't want to err give you the money


or legit not give you the money I wouldn't want to give you the money anyways , I treat


I treat you to a meal eh, that cost over fifty plus dollars, that time when we meet when <mandarin>那时候我们在:na shi hou wo men zai</mandarin> NEX mah then I said okay to apologise I treat you the two of you what


[orh] cause I changed the time mah we were supposed to be earlier, then I came late like three hours late


no I don't want you to get used to it, no, too bad, go earn, pity


I'm giving tuition now, ya and here's how much I guess how much they pay me


per person, ya per month, okay so err to give you a bit of context <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> err since august august I have been err giving tuition to two primary school children


ya lah <mandarin>小学:xiao xue</mandarin> lah but because I think <mandarin>小学:xiao xue</mandarin> is, a decent level


ya I get what you mean uh the thing is the the pay the problem is not, on teaching, the problem is trying to keep their attention


well you're technically oh you're technically twenty two this year so, twenty three


!oi!


whatever lah whatever


nudge your head ah nudge, is this a Q&A now


ah sure okay I mean, ah want some airtime is it, ah okay <mandarin>好的好的那我就给你一个机会讲话吧:hao de hao de na wo jiu gei ni yi ge ji hui jiang hua ba</mandarin> uh well brandon


now these days how many uh, how many visual novels have you read


oh


that's like every single student every average student out there


who doesn't go to school <mandarin>在家里待在家里睡觉起床:zai jia li dai zai jia li shui jiao qi chuang</mandarin> study, I think so


I swear this is becoming a podcast already you are literally educating the people watching or listening to this


actually, cause okay so the thing is having a podcast right, and it must be uncensored ah cannot be like [orh] very wholesome otherwise not fun


sure sure sure


then, show you your dominance, and then hump #yi jiang# on the bed, my apologies <mandarin>对不起这些东西你不需要听到的:dui bu qi zhe xie dong xi ni bu xu yao ting dao de</mandarin> but


no no no no no no no no no no no chill chill chill, I I I swear , no but no no no no no as in


now we're talking about wholesome stuff I'm just quoting some examples from previous times talk about NS mah so like the thing is <mandarin>很久:hen jiu</mandarin> like <mandarin>很久没有见到我们朋友:hen jiu mei you jian dao wo men peng you</mandarin> lah like long time never see #wei jie# #jia lin# err okay I don't know whether you still wanna you still miss #zheng jie# or not but that's another thing


but I think we have been seeing shawn more often lah so


true, I think more of <mandarin>兄弟:xiong di</mandarin> than <mandarin>好朋友:hao peng you</mandarin> lah, as in true what we've been through so much shit together


quite a lot of things happened what


really meh, then what is australia in chinese, whatever whatever whatever it's called whatever we went to australia


okay okay we we don't reveal too much, I


basically for uh for those who listening right what we did to survive was basically just sleep


under the wilderness, okay no,


okay the thing is this , you talking about time skip right


ya that's true, but, this is something we have experienced even there's no time skip this is not no video game


(ppc) you don't have to put it that way but okay I think they get it I think they get it


just Toh, I think I more I think I woke up two hours then go back to sleep more often than wake up six hours later


ya man


[orh] okay


holy shit, no no no as in , ah ah I mean if you want to put it that way sure


!oho!, [orh] singlet is it, I see I see


your final form, ya lor


okay depends on, whether the people liked it


okay okay okay okay


okay we try to okay we try to come back to reality <mandarin>不要讲这个不要讲这个了:bu yao jiang zhe ge bu yao jiang zhe ge le</mandarin> okay we come back to now, come back to the next topic [orh] so, do you miss japan


especially the convenience stores


ya we did


I beg to disagree it's not because it's expensive that's why it's good but more of like it's good so it's okay to be expensive


correct


oh ya !wah! <mandarin>讲这个:jiang zhe ge</mandarin> ah <mandarin>难:nan</mandarin> eh cause the thing is our schedules, are quite, I don't know whether it clash


no no


it's because of this job right now my parents are thinking whether I should self-sustain myself


how's it been doing it for how's it how's how has it been doing for you


of course <mandarin>你要做:ni yao zuo</mandarin> of course you must do your job <mandarin>好:hao</mandarin> lah otherwise what's the point


actually well they kinda like me and the okay wait not that not that kind of like, I'm like a #onii chan# to them so, that I it it


okay so basically they I act like a big brother to them lah <mandarin>大概一个哥哥教一个妹妹一样咯因为:da gai yi ge ge ge jiao yi ge mei mei yi yang ge yin wei</mandarin> both of them are girls


when I teach you you apply I test you you got it okay, #pang kang#, ya man


eh those were , unforeseen circumstances


you think I can, damn it , and just when I thought all was over and I found my uh laser sight end up I lose the D-ring


no and the thing is I Kena three extra !hais! never mind okay anyway, no yours was just a joke


that's why I say it's a joke , no no no <mandarin>我不是:wo bu shi</mandarin> I'm not talking about that <mandarin>我不是在讲那个我是讲:wo bu shi zai jiang na ge wo shi jiang</mandarin> after


but you waited an hour right


wait what, okay okay, that is true


okay <mandarin>好吧好吧我们不要再讲这个:hao ba hao ba wo men bu yao zai jiang zhe ge</mandarin> let's not talk about this anymore this is bad memories


now we talk about this, how much you planning to bring money


I mean <mandarin>我是觉得我是觉得:wo shi jue de wo shi jue de</mandarin> this entire uh project


uh algorithm algorithm


don't worry I believe the people who heard


brandon don't worry I believe the people who watch who listen to your recording appreciates the effort that you have done for them and they will


err okay I mean usually we don't talk about topics so wholesome but


if we go japan, how long are we staying there


(hmm),


okay, no problem


I'm technically free from my schedule


sure graduation trip sure, although I don't want I don't want to ask, sure eh I want to I want to try to the Omakase really brandon we should


no no as in, but if you if you do it in singapore right you don't really get the okay I'm overseas kind of feeling but


well I mean, you know that time at Odaiba uh we actually


that was, uh ya that's true but


isn't it the best thing to do whereby we try to figure out which is the best for value best for money


it's to enjoy ourself not to save money we do not want a repeat of our previous japan trip right, whereby a certain someone a certain someone is lacking funds


no you think, , effort effort


that's true, no but it's okay but you think about it like


ya I owe him I lent him six hundred, about about about there lah


no but the thing is he pay you back first so it doesn't matter what I'm worried what I'm actually salty about is this


no you must you must see you must understand


so I think it's right he pay you back first


secondly shawn's father is very particular about ya you know #zheng jie# is, !hannor! <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


I I guess #zheng jie# also slightly slightly afraid of the father the thing about it it's not afraid of us it's afraid of the parents


at least at least everything everything that I paid in japan is all my own money I did not ask my parents for a single cent, but you did use your did you use your mother's money at all


baby savings, oh, wait what


!wah! eh, eh <mandarin>不公平:bu gong ping</mandarin> eh what what's this eh, oh bloody hell, not so what you're saying is that, he actually paid you back, under the false pretence that


you borrowed money from your mother, !wah! you you !wah! you devious little smirking little !wah!


and the thing is for you it's a very big thing because you have constantly been complaining about your bills


!wah! this is not fair but anyway the matter is over he paid me back and I'm actually quite happy that he paid me back, not as much as I uh


why you asking me how I know


you think about it like the last time he had a girlfriend he broke up because of his uh A levels mah,


cause the thing is err, K cause the thing is this <mandarin>他一开始:ta yi kai shi</mandarin> hor


eh alvin how've you been dude


ah me also same ah you do what kind of exam ah


ya, !wah! sounds sounds like a hassle ah, 给 a


!aiya! political science ah economics ah what what what what else law ah !aiya! alvin


what can you do with politics ah <mandarin>我出去做工:wo chu qu zuo gong</mandarin> what kind of work I can do one


for you


!aiyo! alvin


no no no no ya ya ya I was raised speaking english but <mandarin>可是你看我也会做:ke shi ni kan wo ye hui zuo</mandarin> uh <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> mother tongue languages ah <mandarin>我也:wo ye</mandarin> study uh chinese


!aiya!


ah that's true that's true


, ah <mandarin>我知道我知道:wo zhi dao wo zhi dao</mandarin> so you, what are you doing now


[orh] so when do you think you can #pang kang#


, uh I don't get what you mean gotta elaborate a bit more


ah, , new experience ah


!wah! stammering is it then your


<mandarin>对对:dui dui</mandarin> , !hey! eh


so sad


it doesn't inspire confidence, ah


!aiyo! why you waste your time on that club ah, ah then, it is your job but


ah portfolio portfolio, ya okay okay so what <mandarin>你可以用这个:ni ke yi yong zhe ge</mandarin> portfolio do what ah


for what kind of job what kind of job you wanna do ah


, ah ya makes sense makes sense, okay


!aiya! eh it's tough for everyone dude


so just <mandarin>不要做:bu yao zuo</mandarin> events lah, don't bother, !wah! it's what constitution <mandarin>你们有:ni men you</mandarin> constitution


okay


(mmhmm)


ah <mandarin>她她可以用那个:ta ta ke yi yong na ge</mandarin> internet ah <mandarin>用:yong</mandarin> internet <mandarin>做这个:zuo zhe ge</mandarin> talent show <mandarin>用:yong</mandarin> zoom ah zoom zoom zoom zoom call


YouTube live, original mah, good what


uh, curtains why curtains, oh <mandarin>那那那如果你们在做这个:na na na ru guo ni men zai zuo zhe ge</mandarin> talent show <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> uh uh


!huh!, (mmhmm)


!aww! my cousin's name is eunice can can carry on, ya eunice okay ya I get you carry on


however, [orh] physical


apologise eh apologising to the people listening to this ah what if they are a girl ah what if it affects their sensitivities ah


you like it ah you know my number already ah I fill up the form


, I don't know it's I don't know did she manage to like figured it out


useless ah, okay okay okay okay just have to speak I had to speak my thoughts right okay


honesty best policy correct, it depends ah is she going to commit suicide over this no ah, of course lah


then then why did she, why did she apply for this job in the first place


you tell me what, okay okay


what happen


(mmhmm), okay, so, ah cannot make it ah cannot make it already ah


lose already ah, !huh!, !aiya! she's not your problem anymore ah you going to leave already what it's her it's up to her already ah and if you keep helping her and then she may not put in the effort to improve ah then what can you do nothing ah


just let her learn on her own ah, ah <mandarin>为为什么你你要:wei wei shen me ni ni yao</mandarin> fuss over this shit


, !wow!


minor character okay, okay okay okay


okay


!wah! Kena what kind of situation like she my my successor not doing her job is it then I have to


ah one year I have one year experience already <mandarin>一年:yi nian</mandarin> experience so if <mandarin>她不要听我的话:ta bu yao ting wo de hua</mandarin> then, what's the what's the point ah she just doesn't have the respect she doesn't have the listening ear or she just not in the correct mindset to


uh you know learn from her her betters ah, so, ya what, alright, I am not I not not trying to do anything funny with her


and just uh, saying what I will do ah because, I am gonna #pang kang# already this is not my problem anymore ah it won't be my problem uh very soon so, I just, if she's not going to listen to me I already try my best right you try your best already right


ya so if she doesn't listen and I try my best already then what can I do, uh <mandarin>我跟我跟她说:wo gen wo gen ta shuo</mandarin> okay <mandarin>你可以听我的话可是如果你:ni ke yi ting wo de hua ke shi ru guo ni</mandarin> you don't want to listen to my advice then you know maybe


you just leave it up to her ah if she fail then learning experience for her ah, if she succeeds then !wah!


good ah, ya, ah true


ya you you always have a lot of <mandarin>问题:wen ti</mandarin> ah , I my life ah it's uh not that problematic one I don't think so I I don't have depression I don't have anxiety I have no mental illness


give me free eh alvin take my tuition eh take my english tuition you need you need help with english right ah <mandarin>你你可以听我的话我的英我的英文很厉害:ni ni ke yi ting wo de hua wo de ying wo de ying wen hen li hai</mandarin> right


pay me money fifty dollars for lesson !huh!, good deal right, eh


!oi! !aiya! eh you need to support your friend eh we did NS together two years together you know !huh! I I give you premium treatment premium rates !huh! I give you two hours for the price of one and a half hours you know that mah


!huh! you did when, [orh] that's right what were you apologising for ah !wah!


ah, oh ya thanks for the free meal ah eh not bad not bad, I could eh eh uh do it next time ah I can get used to it


eh pity me ah, ya pity me


you have job do you have a job, oh ya ya you're teaching like little kids math right, how much do they pay you


per lesson, per month, oh, (hmm),


isn't it it it's easy ah no no english <mandarin>小学:xiao xue</mandarin> is like, it's kinda tricky but like if you you teach math is it, ah you teach math uh at the primary level <mandarin>很容易啊因为:hen rong yi a yin wei</mandarin> math math <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> uh <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> simple <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> formula not even formulas uh primary level math is just like


very simple equations like this plus this equals this and then you learn about fractions and decimals, it's all very like you know, very direct you don't have to use I don't remember using any formulas or having to memorise too many things for primary school level math


ya it's all about like <mandarin>你看那个:ni kan na ge</mandarin> word equation then you decipher what they want from you, like it's more of like trying to answer a riddle you know


ah ya ya ya ya primary schoolers are, what they call call me boomer, eh, then they get very impressed when I know about memes I was like what the hell I'm only twenty two I feel so old the new generation


old man already I'm the uncle right uncle already, twenty two year old uncle, ya you are twenty three or twenty four


!wah!, elderly man already, you gonna get dementia soon, oh wait sorry you already have dementia right


ah eh eh sorry whoever's listening to this I am , eh alvin ah, alvin this is for comedic effect, it's it's a recurring joke have you heard about it


wink wink nudge nudge, why don't you ask me some questions


!huh! not Q&A <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> just now you talk a lot about your problems ah not really your problem lah but your successor's problem lah, so I oh I spend a lot of <mandarin>时间:shi jian</mandarin> just listening to you ah so


ya and I we need to do this like fifty fifty mah,


visual novels ah eh, I actually don't, I think you know <mandarin>那那个:na na ge</mandarin>


the only division what I actually read ah, like like like you talk about like uh regular novels then actually regular novels I also haven't been reading a lot ah, like it's mostly just <mandarin>我每天是:wo mei tian shi</mandarin> uh <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> YouTube videos then <mandarin>做一点点:zuo yi dian dian</mandarin> err study a bit ah


then I attend my Zoom lesson, then I go to sleep then I wake up then I watch <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> YouTube videos again, and then rinse repeat lah quite sad lah


is this uh is this the NEET life <mandarin>我好像是我在:wo hao xiang shi wo zai</mandarin> living the NEET life Liao, [orh] err for the person listening to this NEET is err, not in employment education training or work I believe ya that should cover it so basically they're just like uh useless bums just lying at home doing nothing


I I I mean why not, you know if if my bad singlish doesn't work out if it like, if it fails then


who knows maybe you could like do a podcast in the future just talk shit, !aiyo! !aiyo!


ya of course not wholesome ah I not that wholesome no no no <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> wholesome in life, err to certain people ah, then I no no then I get to know you a bit better then I comfortable with you already ah then I show you my true colours


, !oi! eh eh eh you don't reveal this kind of things on the on the podcast ah, alvin alvin


alvin alvin are we going to have to re-record this whole thing because you couldn't


okay


#zheng jie#, eh now dude the two of us always like the three of us now <mandarin>我我们三个人:wo wo men san ge ren</mandarin> always meet together like once every few months or sometimes once a month


, then, <mandarin>我们我们去那个:wo men wo men qu na ge</mandarin> wallaby <mandarin>我们去那个:wo men qu na ge</mandarin> australia


dude how dude how am I better at, this than you I'll no you you you look it up actually no I don't think you can look it up we are supposed to be


!huh! but it's it's like not that like, secretive what, like people talk about it all the time, okay okay you know what alright the gist of it is is right uh when we went to exercise uh wallaby


we uh, our vehicle caught fire, and then we got stranded in the desert for like three days three nights and you know we went out hunting for animals and then we <mandarin>我们把那个虫:wo men ba na ge chong</mandarin> uh no we took the stick and then we pierce the the <mandarin>虫:chong</mandarin> and then we uh actually should should we be telling this it's kinda savage


actually actually, what we did to survive, mentally


oh ya ya ya we we were we skip time so like you know in you you know in like certain video games you can there's like a time based system so like, you can there's a day night cycle and then you you there's a the option to


skip to a certain part of the day, no like, in in certain video games you have the option to like like for example if you have a quest that you are you need to complete at night


so you have to like just find a place to sit down and then just skip time to the night lah, like skyrim then there's like witcher, bunch of like mostly RPGs actually all RPGs


very easy it really comes very easily to us cause literally nothing to do just, lie down, nothing to hear, make sure you are in the shadow of the vehicle and then just


and then wake up, then wake up and then you see how much time you managed to to skip and then like if it's like six hours !wah! good closer to rescue, if it's like one or two hours like ah shit have to go back to sleep again


ya very frustrating when that happens, like also there uh I'm also uh recently, very bad


I tend to wake up, at night, and go to sleep in the afternoon, I have uh


I have friends overseas, that I talk to, and then like I don't I don't really need to like be in the most presentable state when I


ah ah <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> I don't really need, to


look nice to look not tired, so I just every day I wake up no not even wake up, it's in fact before I sleep usually


why you holy shitting for dude, okay and then just cruise lah


they don't question me I don't have to like stand up and show them what I'm wearing cause I'm usually wearing pyjamas, they just think it's, think it's just a regular shirt ah


appropriate for lessons, !wah! if I ever I take off all my clothes how then they no oh no one day I'm going to uh, just take off all my clothes be naked and then I just move the camera to cover my face so they don't actually


I is that considered public indecency cause well I'm still at home, eh whoever's listening to this


ah no I'm not going to make that joke never mind never mind, nah dude it's too early I don't even know the person listening to this I don't wanna


!huh! what's the topic, I really like japan I miss the weather I miss the uh convenience stores this type of thing, !wah! you know japan eh okay to whoever's whoever's listening ah the japanese convenience store is actually really really good like compared to singapore it's like leagues ahead of us like <mandarin>你看他们有很多:ni kan ta men you hen duo</mandarin> uh ready-made meals <mandarin>很好吃的:hen hao chi de</mandarin> ready-made meals


ice cream corn dogs [orh] do you remember the corn dogs, that ya they had so many things and then the people there are so polite


the wide selection literally you can survive in japan with just convenience store food and whatever that you can find in a convenience store honestly so good, 很 好吃


uh, ya ya ya, japan is just, it's just a very good place to go man, people really should go there more often I'm not you know what, no no no I was going to say that if only it was cheaper but I think japan is good because it's not cheap


no no no it's expensive in japan because like they have a lot of like


funds you know, ya they, there's more uh money in the economy for them to, improve like the convenience stores to have a wider selection to like motivate people to do better jobs you know that's how I feel ah


so alvin when are we going next


!aiya! <mandarin>我我也要钱:wo wo ye yao qian</mandarin> eh alvin can you treat me japan trip, eh alvin why you like this leh, !huh! !huh! !huh!


you poor thing, like my parents tried to do the same thing to me when I uh got into army they were like okay, you getting paid by the government you don't need our money anymore uh you pay for all your bills


it was actually it was pretty okay when I was in army <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> uh, uh, because like I I spend most of my time in in the camp anyway what, so don't have to worry about like food


or, actually no worry about food a bit but it was more of a luxury cause you go nights out, uh then I use the, extra money cause I had a lot of extra money, to, buy


all kinds of shit lah, then err, end of the month ah, okay I I okay here's the thing I used to have a lot of bills a lot of insurance uh stuff to pay


I don't pay as much anymore <mandarin>因为我:yin wei wo</mandarin> edit the term ah, so not as hard for me right now but still have to pay like I don't know how many hundred dollars ah


but then, now I out of army already I have no stable income I don't have like a proper job, and like you you you know you know about <mandarin>补习:bu xi</mandarin> already cause err uh I used to give english tuition ah


projected <mandarin>补习是一个:bu xi shi yi ge</mandarin> uh cost efficient job ah, no cost is efficient lah but like, like <mandarin>做:zuo</mandarin> one to one half hours of work and then you can get like what fifty dollars


you, ya ya ya ya then there's a but ya there's also the pressure of like uh, because <mandarin>你有:ni you</mandarin> responsibility lah over the student and then the the the parents and the student also trust you to help them ah


so, you have confidence, in yourself to teach the little children alvin, of course they of course they kind of like you alvin you are like a like a softball lah


you're not supposed to speak japanese


<mandarin>哥哥妹妹:ge ge mei mei</mandarin> okay


#pang kang# eh I love that word #pang kang#, I hear a lot in NS #pang kang# Liao ah remember the times when we couldn't #pang kang# <mandarin>是因为你:shi yin wei ni</mandarin> lost your shit


eh ya bullshit okay carry on, eh all of us are shag ah all of us are shag and then you the only one that you have to go around helping


!aiya! alvin, this guy ah okay okay let's let's not dwell on this anymore let's move on


eh alvin alvin don't worry I also Kena three extra before, not okay mine was mine was such utter bullshit okay cause like


I put the rifle next to the sergeant, and then, oh that one [orh] ya my extra extras, I try to okay it's not even my fault you know because it it's just that I press the button and then suddenly the system broke


but it's not supposed to be up there uh not supposed to be up there permanently right <mandarin>你看是:ni kan shi</mandarin> , oh ya , uh I press the buttons uh then the specs will go up lah, but then I should be able to press the button again then the spike goes out already ah


not well maintained what the whole thing spoil just because I press one button, it's not supposed to be like that one, and then I, but you know because


I was there and then there was a bit of an incident so, I Kena extra lah


actually is, okay okay


they <mandarin>给我钱:gei wo qian</mandarin> if I, do a voice recording you know so I was planning on like saving up this kinda money for vacations and like for leisure ah


but then I I thought it will be simple ah like [orh] just talk I am a good speaker I know good english so should be easy ah then I see the fine print oh shit I have to speak in singlish accent I have to speak in like


so like, ya I saw like some like voice recognition software right


okay algorithm but like , seems like a waste lah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like spend so much time when you were child, like being taught okay if you wanna get good job you need to be like


at least like in internationally speaking if you want a good job you need to know how to speak good english ah so you can communicate well ah, then now, I see this is a good opportunity then I, I'm just not used to speaking in like chinese and then english back to back ah


ah <mandarin>知道:zhi dao</mandarin> ah, very uh, frustrating ah


this is harder than it should be ah, okay ah it's fine ah, as long as I have alvin it's uh not as hard ah, alvin is a very good conversational partner


eh alvin alvin I'm giving you compliment you just accept okay don't err me


err, okay okay we need to figure out like how long, no like like <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> not how long it's uh


eh no alvin ah we're talking okay <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> uh


eh <mandarin>给给我好吃好吃的:gei gei wo hao chi hao chi de</mandarin> meals and then I'll be very very fine you you can do whatever you want just take me to a comfortable place not not in the summer not hot make it nice and cooling


a bit cold, so you can wear fancy clothes ya !huh! what I mean, doesn't have to be winter can be spring or autumn


eh <mandarin>可是:ke shi</mandarin> we don't have to do it like, while we are studying right like we could like save up until like end of like, our uni uh then


ya graduation trip ah like we have ORD trip then we have graduation trip, then we just go there and chill ah, eat more then you take us more shady spots


authentic experience ah then you just get the japanese chef to do it ah


uh I mean, that's just like, mental ah, like it's just the atmosphere


that sushi shop after we I forgot, we were walking in the streets and then we were walking while it was raining and then we went to some sushi place I remember [orh] [orh] it's a sushi place in japan it's gonna be nice and then it just ended up being like singapore sushi


so like I feel like if you go to Omakase <mandarin>在新加坡里面:zai xin jia po li mian</mandarin> it's not gonna be like uh, the worst experience I think it'll be pretty decent like like okay I understand <mandarin>你你我们可以去:ni ni wo men ke yi qu</mandarin> uh <mandarin>日本:ri ben</mandarin> uh eat the very fancy high quality Omakase then ya then you probably had the best of the best there but those will be like super expensive and I don't think we'll be like going for that kind of Omakase


!huh! what's wrong with our previous trip


oh


is it really effort it's more like, I think it's mostly <mandarin>时间:shi jian</mandarin> because we wasted time like, worrying about him ah, is


!huh! like alvin alvin alvin <mandarin>你知道为什么他:ni zhi dao wei shen me ta</mandarin> pay <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> back first <mandarin>吗:ma</mandarin> it's because <mandarin>我是一个:wo shi yi ge</mandarin> serious person


like, <mandarin>所所以可是可是你可是你你说是:suo suo yi ke shi ke shi ni ke shi ni ni shuo shi</mandarin> oh <mandarin>这是我的钱:zhe shi wo de qian</mandarin> so <mandarin>他想:ta xiang</mandarin> ah <mandarin>因为是:yin wei shi</mandarin> alvin <mandarin>的钱我可以:de qian wo ke yi</mandarin> uh not pay him back for long time lah maybe he just forget about it


!aiya! <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> your fault ah you you didn't like, you're not careful enough ah


oh ya he showed up he showed up to the to the airport uh before we left and then everyone's like oh shit, serious business


uh, ya so like we both have backing ah and then we made sure that okay we, we brought up those excuses <mandarin>所以他知道:suo yi ta zhi dao</mandarin> oh it's not just I don't get in trouble with just them I get in trouble with like the parents also so mean more serious issue but for you


your parents never give you guarantee what so, it's just you all alone ah one V one, [orh] it's also all my money what


ya


ya, alvin, big brain


ya <mandarin>对对对对对可以讲这样啊是:dui dui dui dui dui ke yi jiang zhe yang a shi</mandarin> [orh] sorry dude err, after army not making as much money so I have to borrow from my parents ah, and then I pay them back uh over time ah so


ya my bills are, why are my bills so big, actually not as big anymore ah I I settled some stuff


ya true, have you been keeping in contact with #zheng jie#


like, very sociable ah he he talk a lot lah so he he can make a lot of friends ah just that if he talk too much to the same people then


it's like we kinda see what kind of person he really like ah, is it because of A levels wait what's the story again


and then and [orh] and then (err) <mandarin>那个女朋友说她要:na ge nv peng you shuo ta yao</mandarin> focus on studies is it


, , hello, ya


yes I can hear you,


err my day has been, okay lah it it it wasn't the best but


it wasn't the best lah but then, still happy that, wednesday is over and, can't wait for friday


(mmhmm), 我 最近, uh I went to work, then, err


I work I worked in the office in the morning <mandarin>然后下午我就回家:ran hou xia wu wo jiu hui jia</mandarin> Liao, then <mandarin>我下午在家做工:wo xia wu zai jia zuo gong</mandarin> lor


really meh


[orh]


a whole foot long


!wah! <mandarin>你你很会吃:ni ni hen hui chi</mandarin> leh,


Tampines


oh


, okay sorry, ya


, you added every <mandarin>料:liao</mandarin> ah


you know I knew, , you know when you eat, em black beans <mandarin>会放屁:hui fang pi</mandarin> one leh, true


no, then after that, why eh


(mmhmm), they wanted to show you how heavy the burrito is


ya I think err <mandarin>那时候我去买:na shi hou wo qu mai</mandarin> right then, err there there was a sticker there that say if it's


(hmm) (hmm), compared to your Subway this morning <mandarin>那个人给你这样少:na ge ren gei ni zhe yang shao</mandarin> cheese


(hmm) sure sure


and then you <mandarin>给他们赚很多:gei ta men zhuan hen duo</mandarin> profit leh


I think because <mandarin>他新的:ta xin de</mandarin> mah so, he he very generous, !wah! y'all built rapport Liao


ya sia usually


oh,


(oo) interesting,


this is a sad banker, , ya lor


, like a recruit, then, then after that, you went to <mandarin>婆婆的家:po po de jia</mandarin> ah


it's still quite a lot


[orh], (hmm)


, ya lor


, !aiyo! <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> cute, , !huh! that means <mandarin>以后我们去吃:yi hou wo men qu chi</mandarin> you will also deep in water ah


!ee! but it will be cold, [orh]


uh, ya


ya I think <mandarin>老人家:lao ren jia</mandarin> quite they would drink


哈, you had


you also <mandarin>餐饭:can fan</mandarin> and noodle, but for them it's like it it it, like a dish lah


so cute, they still cook it, [orh]


[orh], so cute, , I ate, I ate the


korean Bibimbap in the afternoon, then <mandarin>我买哪个:wo mai na ge</mandarin> err, the <mandarin>黑糯米:hei nuo mi</mandarin> ah it's like this a dessert


ya, no no it as in, it is found in like food court lah you know <mandarin>红豆汤绿豆汤捣蒜:hong dou tang lv dou tang dao suan</mandarin> then you can find pulut hitam there also


okay pulut hitam is in malay lah I guess is a malay dessert I don't know but it's like a <mandarin>甜汤:tian tang</mandarin> lor, ya ya I bought that for my mum, then, err ya that was my <mandarin>午餐:wu can</mandarin> then after that <mandarin>晚餐:wan can</mandarin> my dad cooked lor


today he cook err, lady finger <mandarin>鳕鱼:xue yu</mandarin> and, err what's that, chicken breast, ya


ya, ya quite nice leh because I I don't know how he cook the the chicken breast then is very like <mandarin>嫩:nen</mandarin> and very soft


ya <mandarin>嫩:nen</mandarin> tender tender ya then after that I ate like a <mandarin>榴莲:liu lian</mandarin> mooncake like one quarter lah it was leftover, it was leftover


ya, ya then


I wasn't very hungry in the morning, but <mandarin>香蕉:xiang jiao</mandarin> is healthy


because I don't, it's only today lah <mandarin>平时我吃很多的:ping shi wo chi hen duo de</mandarin> leh, as in much more, , yes I plan to buy err <mandarin>牛奶:niu nai</mandarin> and cereal tomorrow for breakfast


ya, no if I bring to work then I'll be more motivated to eat


ya lah you see the coco crunch <mandarin>的广告:de guang gao</mandarin> they make until like, !aiya! just let me


just let me live a little, I eat the greens one the the healthy one


but today, today I feel like coco crunch, okay ya


I can't wait for the weekends eh, !ee! y'all always go NEX one


how come he he suddenly want to meet you, !huh!, in the


ya lor


I think, his his mood like <mandarin>上上下下:shang shang xia xia</mandarin> one leh, , like like the weather did he say what he is gonna <mandarin>请你吃:qing ni chi</mandarin> or not


which one, oh, that one that one look quite <mandarin>好吃:hao chi</mandarin> leh


ya, do your business


the digestion so fast, I think it


you eat my dad's <mandarin>那个辣椒:na ge la jiao</mandarin> right


ya, !aiyo!, no I told her <mandarin>我们在录音:wo men zai lu yin</mandarin> then she cannot come in but then she still come in


okay sorry whoever is listening , I think is a machine like you know there's an app that can process words into codes


I did ya I did that for my thesis also, but <mandarin>不准:bu zhun</mandarin> one


, well what's that, ya


, I think zoom also got <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> caption leh, ya


and, we not meeting right


sad, I'm gonna, ya, I think so I am gonna block off as admin time lor I don't really want


ya I think today I <mandarin>一半一半:yi ban yi ban</mandarin> because, I just couldn't stand being in the office


so I was like !aiya! <mandarin>回家:hui jia</mandarin> lah, ya, then ya friday, friday <mandarin>在家做工:zai jia zuo gong</mandarin> lor then then my brother also working from home then dad cook lor


I think, ya, my dad cooking fried rice tomorrow which he is gone <mandarin>留给我:liu gei wo</mandarin> for friday


so I can eat that for friday lunch, !aiyo!, 哼


no I think <mandarin>这个蚊子是:zhe ge wen zi shi</mandarin> artificially, I don't know what are they called, they don't, they don't bite right


you don't think they bite, oh ya, what colour, oh really


oh no, !wah! then


oh yes, saturday


eh saturday, saturday right <mandarin>我朋友结婚:wo peng you jie hun</mandarin> I think it's at two o'clock also


I'm not sure leh but it's on zoom lah so


but I, but, that means <mandarin>会会很早去:hui hui hen zao qu</mandarin> leh, also cannot cannot go so early right, the wedding ah


he is getting married at err,


fifty lor, ya lor quite sad leh <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I was quite looking forward <mandarin>可以去看他结婚:ke yi qu kan ta jie hun</mandarin> eh


I think think I will, attend, finish then, I will go church


attend while, on the way lor <mandarin>在那个:zai na ge</mandarin> train or bus


family, ya, , ya <mandarin>看:kan</mandarin> lor if they show face then <mandarin>我也:wo ye</mandarin> show face lah


ya are we going anyway after church, fellowship


, no lah I think #paya lebar#, also, nowhere else that can


fit <mandarin>这样多人:zhe yang duo ren</mandarin> eh,


rest of the two, [orh], eh but !wah! I quite surprise <mandarin>她终于:ta zhong yu</mandarin> like show some interest in, where coco goes


, but then, Buay Gam <mandarin>到现在还是:dao xian zai hai shi</mandarin> Buay Gam ah, ya lor <mandarin>看了有点生气:kan le you dian sheng qi</mandarin> but oh well


[orh], (mmhmm)


(mmhmm), no but, you would <mandarin>突然间:tu ran jian</mandarin> like, like your voice will be choppy, then suddenly like disappear like chop off


no lah but <mandarin>没有没有很多:mei you mei you hen duo</mandarin> lah, no lah


I'm a girl though <mandarin>当然不会:dang ran bu hui</mandarin> experience


I'm I'm a bit sleepy leh


, what are we doing on sunday


and we doing anything, !aiyo!, sad


!hais!


, , !hais!


sixty two days <mandarin>很久了:hen jiu le</mandarin> eh, okay okay okay, ya, special


I want but special day more special, one one one zero is special, special day once a year, once in a lifetime,


ah see <mandarin>我讲对了:wo jiang dui le</mandarin> , !hais! do what


always, eat though,


!yay!, what's that


oh that is jewel's chinese name, !wah!, wait what, are you sure you're pronouncing it right though


oh my where did you learn that, but that was quite some time ago with jewel open already meh, err oh ya oh ya oh ya


interesting, sounds like my uni, ya, I thought it's some like Kopitiam name leh,


oh man


yours eh, [orh]


, ya I think you can set at ten but usually <mandarin>你们比较快:ni men bi jiao kuai</mandarin> one I think guys lah


they very draggy eh, no it it drags <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> like nobody want to share so there are a lot of like pockets of silence


ya, like the facilitator hor <mandarin>他就会问:ta jiu hui wen</mandarin> okay like move on to the next question and then like silence then after that okay okay okay I share either me or adeline, you imagine adeline's voice she'll be like okay okay I share share I share


ya, I don't think lydia is joining


I think usually rachel is the one who starts the ball rolling


I have lah but must give me some time to process and, form up my sentences, my mind a bit slow


, ya, is #zhong yu# going, I wonder how he's taking care of baby


ya, (mmhmm)


wait you mean on the sunday itself you ask ah, !wah! so late Liao,


[orh]


, , but this, this week <mandarin>每个人都可以去:mei ge ren dou ke yi qu</mandarin> ah, eh I realised wayne <mandarin>不在这个:bu zai zhe ge</mandarin> group eh


he don't want ah, who,


interesting, who is his mentor is there I didn't even know mentor,


interesting interesting, he's older than you, oh same age,


I thought he was eh, I I don't know eh like <mandarin>你们全部的年龄:ni men quan bu de nian ling</mandarin> I I keep forgetting not forgetting but just I blend <mandarin>每个人的年龄:mei ge ren de nian ling</mandarin> together


like everyone, everyone is twenty four, no lah I I just assume everyone is the same age, (hmm), no no I thought


I thought he's twenty four lah, but I know your age mah, ya lor, no


I got session morning and evening


I need to prepare for the session, ya lah don't need lah


but then if I daytime <mandarin>我需要:wo xu yao</mandarin> approval


ya, it's okay, I will save it for a full day time off, haven't <mandarin>拿:na</mandarin> leave eh


ya I haven't err submit on the portal, I need


the day before submit also can the day itself submit also can, ya I should do it later since I have my laptop now, !yay!


(mmhmm), this friday err what time ah, morning ah


(oo), , this week


this one <mandarin>是做那个:shi zuo na ge</mandarin> X-ray <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> ah


so cool eh, I think brush teeth also or maybe that is the next one, then he, they will help you to do scaling and polishing before braces what


scaling scaling, no no no, , quite expensive eh


eh <mandarin>八十:ba shi</mandarin> ah, in my mind, in my mind it was not eighty


ya but, ya then I think <mandarin>八十:ba shi</mandarin> is okay


!woohoo!, (mmhmm), this makes me like <mandarin>怀念的:huai nian de</mandarin> circuit breaker days


, !wah! I was just looking through like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> the Instagram and looking at the archive like the stories, then I I read I stroll all the eh I stroll I scroll all the way back to circuit breaker period


!wah! got the feels eh ya ya ya, want to see my stories from circuit breaker, if the the feelings that I feel a bit, like <mandarin>怀念:huai nian</mandarin> the kind of feeling


ya, !wah!, you remember days stuck at home, (mmhmm), , (mmhmm)


, can't remember leh, can't remember but I know I bake quite a lot


I forgot that I can make <mandarin>蛋挞:dan ta</mandarin> leh when I look at the <mandarin>蛋挞:dan ta</mandarin> I was like, those were nice , ya, , what pimple


new one, oh no


[orh] hor 在怪这个,


we digress, hopefully, eight thirty, but then I was thinking right if I work until eight thirty hor I might as well stay until nine


then I can claim <mandarin>免费的:mian fei de</mandarin> taxi, which day, ya correct if it's admin then <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> lah


, ya, I but I'm doing on video call


, !ee! I don't want the client to see my house like no privacy


I don't know must use company one lah I don't cannot use personal one, one account shared by everyone, ya


ya cannot I want to ask how to use <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> because we have Microsoft teams, I don't know how to use that to meet clients but I can ask tomorrow


ya lor, but must ask also, and then if not just WhatsApp video call lor, (mmhmm), of course


, Shiok mah


ya true, ya


, !wah! I can't remember the last time I had I had aircon eh, I think since like err ten years ago


true but it's different <mandarin>你懂:ni dong</mandarin> like <mandarin>那个床:na ge chuang</mandarin> if <mandarin>冷冷:leng leng</mandarin> right then, !wah!, so Shiok


ya, then if it, ya then it feels like you are in IKEA, ya, is called IKEA


ah, ah okay lah I understand


ya, and the the smell if you leave your window a bit open, and the wind, and the sound


before we started recording lor


one one hour one hour ago, (mmhmm), ya


, !aww! so cute, she listen everyday


, so cute, tomorrow got cell group right


oh mans means <mandarin>明天我不可以:ming tian wo bu ke yi</mandarin> join cell group, who is sharing ah, (hmm), prepare already


it's okay you always can


zoom zoom, , yes yes it's a gift, and a privilege, , this voice recorder quite cool eh you is very it's very sensitive


ya like, it really detects <mandarin>我的声音:wo de sheng yin</mandarin> to, the exact, sound, ya, !wah! quite cool


even when I laugh right <mandarin>它就跳:ta jiu tiao</mandarin> like okay


who that, no I never


I never see, , ya, where he learn one


where one year,


!wah!, so, so quite accurate, ,


, when you see one, , okay


later I go see, , sensor sensor


today got any COVID case or not, eh that <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> cases in <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> community eh


err I think today is the first day after awhile


ya, err not sure [orh] two, ya lor I think today no more, err, !wah!


can't remember leh, I no longer like you know very <mandarin>专注:zhuan zhu</mandarin> on the news, ya ya I used to be, very interesting I like to read but now no more, ya


no lah, , I like I like to read but then, ya, I hope that !aiya! don't know when this will last I was just talking to adeline just now we <mandarin>我们在讲:wo men zai jiang</mandarin> eh if only <mandarin>现在可以出国:xian zai ke yi chu guo</mandarin> then we will be in taiwan


because no like before COVID happen <mandarin>我们已经:wo men yi jing</mandarin> decide like october november <mandarin>出国了:chu guo le</mandarin> like take AL, ya lah then like !wah! Sian


you could even already be that


you can hear me now, okay that is good


how has your day been, eh just now you say good


now you say okay lah


nice, two more days, so, how has your day been


I, okay, me ah , this same lah work, I mean you know


woke up at five oh no I didn't wake up at five, I woke up late eh actually today and then, I rush, to work, and then I as end up I still late for


ten minutes, !wah! then Sian, no I haven't I haven't been late for awhile so but <mandarin>今天:jin tian</mandarin> a bit, a bit <mandarin>不可以:bu ke yi</mandarin> so I rush a bit I ran a bit lah so not too bad


err and then, then work for the entire day until, two, oh anyway I ate, I think I told you but I ate, a whole foot long for subway


okay I ate I ate no I ate <mandarin>一半:yi ban</mandarin> Subway for, breakfast at eleven, and then around


then I ate the other half !wah! then, super super <mandarin>饱:bao</mandarin> one, no I I thought I could do better than


than, I was hoping to eat a bit more ah but but well, that was it


okay maybe I can


!aiya! over there <mandarin>很多小孩子:hen duo xiao hai zi</mandarin> lah so, not very fun then very, very small also I don't know don't know what to do there, those smaller gyms they only allow


err thirty people, ya, (mmhmm), ya they, they they they allow fifty for


those <mandarin>比较大:bi jiao da</mandarin> one lor, I mean of course lah like !duh!, you talking about food right, !wah! today


today really I overload my my diet quite a bit, morning slash brunch right <mandarin>我吃了一个:wo chi le yi ge</mandarin> foot long, and then


and I ate the Stuff'd, and that was, one full burrito is not a Kebab anymore it's a burrito so I finally got it right, and burrito I added everything, like


ya I added every <mandarin>料:liao</mandarin> I saw actually I saw the <mandarin>黑豆:hei dou</mandarin> right the black bean, and, and I saw mashed potato, cause I don't really like black beans


I don't really eat beans ya I don't eat bean, and the mash potato I feel like very, uh and adding that to


but, !aiya! I was thinking I want to gain weight right so, and then the kebab was so heavy the burrito was so heavy


err even if I don't eat I also will <mandarin>放屁:fang pi</mandarin> ah so, eh but that is you also


but, but no regrets because I think I will I will start eating that more often leh, cause, and it's quite value for money because it's only six eighty, for a five hundred and


the gram, !wah!, ya lor which which was much heavier than what they stated at the, at the board, cause I don't know if you bought Stuff'd before


when I, they just put a, my packet of food on the weighing scale and and that is where I collect my food, ya I think so


ya do you know about that


!wow!, oh no wonder, !wah! I thought they will give as little as <mandarin>那天我买那个:na tian wo mai na ge</mandarin> kebab, but no eh, !wah! this burrito ah


she <mandarin>加:jia</mandarin> the chicken she scoop one chicken right one scoop then I was like [orh] maybe she will give <mandarin>两个:liang ge</mandarin> scoop, !wah! then she added more and more and more then I like !wah! nice, this is the real, the first two times that I I've ate the same that kind of wrap


so I finally got the order right, okay lah is just <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> cheese <mandarin>有点少:you dian shao</mandarin> but other than that, it's not as is still not bad


actually, and I'm a regular customer I go there everyday eh


probably, of course lah but only it's just that one person, they're really mix, and he he really <mandarin>加很多料:jia hen duo liao</mandarin> one his tuna right !wah!


casually touched the tuna, err <mandarin>那个那个:na ge na ge</mandarin> bucket and then, they scoop, like never pack the whole scoop full then then unload on my sandwich one, but this guy right is a he's a


ya but uh we kind of know each other not know each other lah but we like hi to each ah ya ya I mean rapport for


more loaded sandwich, eh but he's really good, ya <mandarin>那个我不懂:na ge wo bu dong</mandarin> because, I ask him then he say <mandarin>有时候晚上做有时候早上做:you shi hou wan shang zuo you shi hou zao shang zuo</mandarin> so quite unpredictable


because he I don't know leh he speak malay and then he seems quite foreign with the place, but he know where is the the building that I'm working at leh so


quite surprising, err, I didn't know what to say how to say lah like, I didn't I didn't like go into details so I just said DBS building so maybe <mandarin>他以为我是个:ta yi wei wo shi ge</mandarin> banker


wear blank and then come alone everyday


then the head shave also, wonder what he doing, recruit express,


err <mandarin>我去婆婆的家:wo qu po po de jia</mandarin> after that, !wah! no I didn't go to <mandarin>婆婆家:po po jia</mandarin> straight I went to my grandma's house, after going to, to, and then <mandarin>打包那个麻辣:da bao na ge ma la</mandarin> right !wah!


err Mala


so, that can be better lah I mean that can be better or not not not as good depending on the stuff that you choose


ya but <mandarin>有点有点油:you dian you dian you</mandarin> and <mandarin>咸:xian</mandarin> today


I say <mandarin>小辣:xiao la</mandarin> because, sometimes <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> want to eat mah, no lah I will I will deep into the bowl of water and then, wash away the chili and the oil, and and and <mandarin>我也会这样:wo ye hui zhe yang</mandarin> eh because is really very oily


and that's that's a new trick that I learnt after after <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> ate Mala, no like the bottom


secretly, !aiya! then just, take like porridge water lah because she everytime got one, and I don't know why <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> like to drink


she will just separate <mandarin>那个那个水还有那个粥:na ge na ge shui hai you na ge zhou</mandarin> and then


ya maybe is that taste that will bring them back to the past, eh you know my, a lot of her daughters


err is something they used to do lah because last time not very rich mah cannot really afford, and and that's that's their childhood flavour


even, even my mum does it, and they would, no lah like really rice and fried #kway teow# like


no but mine is side by side because I eat everything what I'm a glutton or what, they like the taste, the taste will, bring them back to that memory


ya, I tried it I I took quite awhile to start to appreciate it, no lah it's not purposely cook it just that if there is <mandarin>粿条:guo tiao</mandarin> and then they will have rice on mah then just put together in one bowl and eat lor


ya, to, what do you eat then


!huh! what's that, I never I never heard of that before, is is what a malay dish, chinese dessert then you say in malay


!huh! with what,


wait <mandarin>嫩嫩嫩:nen nen nen</mandarin> is what soft, [orh], tender


why, but breakfast is important as you know right, you know why you <mandarin>整天没有力:zheng tian mei you li</mandarin> and feel very tired


because you didn't fuel yourself in the morning, , don't sound like it though


milk and cereal okay but, but <mandarin>牛奶:niu nai</mandarin> cereal got <mandarin>营养:ying yang</mandarin> meh


it's just, eh hello coco crunch <mandarin>这种是小孩子吃的:zhe zhong shi xiao hai zi chi de</mandarin> then <mandarin>你跟我讲:ni gen wo jiang</mandarin> can


no you should start eating adult, adult kind of, cereal man, but you said coco crunch just now


, weekend, oh right weekend


so <mandarin>这个这个拜五我会:zhe ge zhe ge bai wu wo hui</mandarin> meet andy, he suggested NEX what


I mean, he just wanted to celebrate my birthday like out of a sudden so I said eh <mandarin>已经过了一个月:yi jing guo le yi ge yue</mandarin> and then back then you tell me I ask you know I ask him then he


then !wah! then I I see already eh !wah! seriously, but, ya lor don't know what's up with him lah, then <mandarin>今天我问他:jin tian wo wen ta</mandarin> then he say no today he initiate first, then he say


<mandarin>去吃你的:qu chi ni de</mandarin> birthday the meal and then, I was like what, it already <mandarin>过了一个月:guo le yi ge yue</mandarin> and then he


then I say !wah! that time you told me this then now you tell me this then he he feel bad , use against me then, then I say you say one what


don't know what's up with him lah seriously


the one he ate with, daniel, and then another one is don't know what already but should be going to that one lah he say quite nice,


I don't know maybe, K lah now you now I cannot talk about food anymore my, my brain even my brain full of food already so


!wah! this one of the rare times eh when I ate so much that, after my meal I immediately went to the toilet to


!wah!, it's like so full eh, after the one point five, Subway the nine inch Subway no it's not digestion is, I think it's from yesterday I cannot be no food will digest so fast one


ya but is is not a painful kind of err <mandarin>上厕所:shang ce suo</mandarin> err is the no space <mandarin>没有位了:mei you wei le</mandarin> I need to release, some


some things, !wah! I feel I feel bad for, the person listening to this conversation


!wah!, I saw that


[orh] okay lah <mandarin>不用经:bu yong jing</mandarin> lah I think,


not sure who will be listening to this but, maybe, I saw the video I saw the video err that's why they


I don't know if you got use zoom meets or not, it also meets the did I just say zoom meets is google meets


zoom meets zoom google <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> google, then don't know the sentence don't even make sense one, quite funny


ya <mandarin>我也是觉得有:wo ye shi jue de you</mandarin> but, ya ya then that time <mandarin>那时我开:na shi wo kai</mandarin> hor then !wah!, pull my attention away during during our meeting, I just distracted


oh ya so, these weekends


you work from home the whole day right


you might as well work from home the whole day you can save quite a lot of time travelling, okay


it's okay, , okay


dad cook, then, okay


there's a mosquito <mandarin>飞来飞去:fei lai fei qu</mandarin> you will hear, always like that, I think I'm already immune to dengue eh, I think whoever needs the cure for dengue just just bring me to a lab test


wolbachia, wolbachia, they I don't know I'm not sure, even if they bite I also don't know is it them or not


I have gotten so many mosquito bites, ya, cause I've been I don't know because


and even in the outfield right when I was in army <mandarin>我也是每次每次看到那些黑白黑白:wo ye shi mei ci mei ci kan dao na xie hei bai hei bai</mandarin> so I don't think they are dengue lah, a lot of us, just got bitten by them also nothing happen


ya lor, so saturday, saturday what, until two o'clock


and then go, well I'll be early for, for service eh, because I'm not serving


where where is it ah


his church, how many people will be attending the actual live one


oh okay


okay lah zoom I think you can, save #ang bao#, ya, but two is okay lah because two


which will be, , as in <mandarin>到:dao</mandarin> church


, cause they also cannot see your face one right they will be busy doing all the ceremony,


oh right, (hmm), no I think there will be quite a lot on zoom so I don't think they will know each other


I mean dinner dinner <mandarin>我们去吃:wo men qu chi</mandarin> dinner, the


do you have anywhere like


ya, err join <mandarin>你们的:ni men de</mandarin> cell group for dinner, oh no no not not


has coco been joining y'all for cell group then I was like, eh no has has she been joining y'all, has she been joining your cell group, then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> reply <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> no lah only only today for dinner and then with the


the rest of the two, err #liu yuan# and, #shu yong# ya


she never meh


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor !aiya!, for jolene


and I was like err okay and then adeline also texted me then I like, then she say, and then she rolled her eyes as usual no adeline rolled her eyes


as usual, usual adeline, is my voice getting very low


choppy, oh okay I try to speak, okay


I think it's the I think it's the <mandarin>晚上:wan shang</mandarin> the voice, ya I I feel it it's it's the nasal, the, going downwards that, okay lah I think you you don't really experience it


ya, , me too, is a


still, twenty seven minutes, okay lah, guess you can just, talk about, the weekends, may have something to look forward to


sunday, oh ya one one one zero, , err


no, !huh! what do you say, I mean, what you expected so


ya it won't be what you expected what I already warned you, okay lor then don't wait lor don't wait


eh, is still a special occasion what, eh can we just talk about one one one zero first


it's still a special occasion what, what you don't feel so, then you like, you like don't want


one one one zero only once a year you, no it's, err okay, but


ya sunday, can do other stuff lah, , do what go and eat like then do what,


I don't know we'll see


maybe we can start the day, by going to, jewel


impressed or not, I can say I can say jewel in chinese eh


, I don't know I don't know about the, the correct word lah but that's the pronunciation, ya <mandarin>星耀:xing yao</mandarin> Changi <mandarin>星耀星耀:xing yao xing yao</mandarin> Changi


I work in the airport yo, yes, jewel open for quite long already what, ah see


this is the first time that, I know a chinese word that you don't know leh


I'll be the one leading


who is the one who usually drags, you mean every question keep dragging meh


then why don't you speak


wait then, if it's not rachel facilitating <mandarin>她不会讲:ta bu hui jiang</mandarin> meh, rachel, rachel <mandarin>不会讲:bu hui jiang</mandarin> meh if she's not the one facilitating


how come you don't want to say leh, but I thought you always have things to say one


form up oh but then I mean, if single thought <mandarin>进来:jin lai</mandarin> just <mandarin>直接放出来了:zhi jie fang chu lai le</mandarin> lah


, he said he will try to come, !wah! eh last week last week quite sad for me eh


okay lah but, honestly is a blessing in in disguise so no complaints but still quite sad, I reminded I asked if everyone can


err can make it for whatever sunday <mandarin>早上那个:zao shang na ge</mandarin> meeting and then, after that, somehow diverted into, err, how was the baby doing and then just became a joke


and then, err don't know stuff like, josiah joining the army and then all this kind of carry how many kg bag all this kind of nonsense, and then my question was completely drowned to the bottom of the, the deepest part of the ocean


ya lor then, and then !wah! no one reply eh, the entire morning and then


almost almost <mandarin>下午:xia wu</mandarin> already, ya on sunday itself, I mean no one reply ah I already asked quite a few days ago, so maybe I don't know <mandarin>可能他们:ke neng ta men</mandarin> acknowledged but never reply this kind of thing so I asked again then <mandarin>又没有:you mei you</mandarin> reply


then I think, around eleven then #yong xian# say oh err sorry I cannot, and then all these kind of things, then I will try to make it for next week, and then, and ya lor the other guy which


it's andy he never reply also then, after awhile then, then he !oops! then go and reply


then I was like what, but okay lah blessing in disguise, I wasn't really ready that day also


ya #zhong yi# <mandarin>有问过:you wen guo</mandarin> wayne then he say he don't want, ya he just, ya he just feel that is not really for him like the


dynamic, ya he also didn't really want #zhong yi# to, kind of, mentor him also, there isn't anyone lah


then is quite weird for me to be the one because, ya you know it's not older than me it's just, same age lah I mean he's older if you count count the months, you know he's not older than me right by age


!huh! how come eh, why eh, oh but he look older meh


!huh! then how come older than me, then how come older than me


[orh], oh, I see, wait can you work from home tomorrow


but you don't need, three hours to prepare what, and your time off <mandarin>还会还会加多一点:hai hui hai hui jia duo yi dian</mandarin> eh


, alright, okay then


what did you say, but it's for next friday right, then <mandarin>你要多久之前:ni yao duo jiu zhi qian</mandarin> submit


oh then okay lah, correct eh wait, this friday is my dental already


(oo) but we going alone,


ya lor, what did you say


sorry what did you say again, X-ray <mandarin>还有那个:hai you na ge</mandarin> moulding, I I think I cannot remember the sequence that <mandarin>他那时跟我讲那个:ta na shi gen wo jiang na ge</mandarin> sequence


oh that's not brush teeth what


I thought why go to novena and brush teeth, scaling they do you remember how much did they say, okay eighty is quite okay ya in my mind it was eighty also


!huh! no lah, I


I think hundred, , oh we are left with, thirteen minutes


one hour passed quite fast, I mean of course it's fast it has always been fast, ya sitting in this position also


, Insta story


, oh ya I remember those, times when we, just stream and then do those workouts, ya


it's quite a, it's quite a nice time, you know, and then


, it's like never eat is it


oh ya you baked quite a lot, you can do it again


oh no you look at this, !wah! shoots


then, so, tomorrow you will work until what time


why leh, but how come that day cannot, oh because you got a session at night is it


oh so that's why can claim, I see, oh, so actually can do from home one lah


oh right video, video or zoom ah, wait your company <mandarin>有给你:you gei ni</mandarin> zoom ah


[orh] !wah! then, cannot use together lah when other people using


okay, !wah! <mandarin>完全没有开那个:wan quan mei you kai na ge</mandarin> aircon Liao eh, ya


aircon, really ah, okay then I should on air, and more frequently


I don't on aircon one eh I'm so used to, the fan already, eh but yesterday was so hot, I on the top speed for the fan, and was still sweating


why ah what happen ah, since when


K lah you have aircon every day at work also, , [orh] then the floor also cold


IKEA, you know uncle karl's daughter right, uncle


but, rain I think rain itself has its own, feeling eh


like its own coldness, ya, and the trees


what time, that was, very long ago what, feel so long ago


well anyway today right <mandarin>婆婆:po po</mandarin> very funny she, ya she ya quite happy, she talk quite a bit and then, then she ask me to change her radio for her and everything she don't know how to on


ya and then, already nine plus what so


ya I'm go I might be lah but no I I I'm not sure, either me or my sister, oh right


alright, I will be the one, no we are doing philippians


and I haven't prepared yet, [orh] don't tell me that anymore man, I don't wanna take that for granted


ya, not an entitlement, why eh


the exact pitch


there's this YouTuber that he speaks really well, chinese, he's a #ang moh#, then he goes around to order food in


chinese, and then he impress all the all the american chinatown, err, those people that are from china, err like Fuzhou dialect and all this kind of things


you know all those language that we cannot understand he can speak, he I think he spent one year in Beijing, and then he can he can tell ya and then he continue studied


to study or or, study lah continued to study, and then, what else ah ya even the those local chinese restaurant owner's right and servers they can tell that his accent is from Beijing


ya he say eh <mandarin>你的腔有一点像:ni de qiang you yi dian xiang</mandarin> Beijing <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> then after that ya then he surprised them with the local dialect and then they like all stun


no it's it's quite a popular YouTuber his name is called, eh his chinese really very accurately then he say


ya quite quite <mandarin>准:zhun</mandarin> one very impressive, and !wah! I can, okay never mind I'm not gonna say it here


, I think got ten


when was the last time, it was zero, you used to be very <mandarin>专注:zhuan zhu</mandarin> on COVID news


I think you were the most <mandarin>专注:zhuan zhu</mandarin> person I in no no like, err around my circle


oh right now is october already, we could be travelling very very soon eh


hi, err I'm good today how are you


oh what have you been doing


oh, ah, I think you can take a chill pill and just relax, why it's better to sometimes it's better to be relaxed and feel lesser stress then you can perform better


I think it won't be it's not so easy to fail lah, because I've


always been quite lax with my studies, yes, average , yeah, so how has COVID changed your school life


ya there's like not not a lot of human interactions so bored, (hmm) ya but I think I'm sick of using my phone every day


yeah I guess like too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing


, I don't know maybe school has been has to resume back to normal then I will cherish using my phone more


sorry, err, yeah I I did that during my internship also when I have nothing to do


uh, uh not really I think they also don't really care


yeah and I don't really have anything to do, yeah, I think everyday, no leh I think everyday I'm just there to like sort out some paperworks and then I'm done for the day then the rest of the time I have nothing much to do


well maybe two hours and then I will like sit around and use my phone take selfies,


yeah, no , yeah then what did you do during your internship


oh that's nice


[orh] then what what did you work as what do you actually work as


oh, oh so you oh ya so you handle customers' complaint so you are like a customer service


so they will send you their faulty issue one is it


oh okay


oh, oh how was so what did you have at the buffet, ya


(hmm)


oh, so, so it's all for free right


oh, oh so you had it with the clients I thought you had it with your colleagues, oh, !huh! for what


oh so I thought they are they are from the they are overseas staffs


oh, so your company has a sales department that sold the machines to them is it, oh that's cool


then how do they do you know how do they source for the clients, I see


really, really, I mean, ya I also don't really know, ya I have a friend working in the sales role like she's working in the medical device I think the medical device company


then she has she has to like, go around hospitals and sell the doctors and the nurses her equipments, yeah


ya so so yeah she has to like approach them like coldly with coldly in a cold approach I don't know how, ya but it's in real life


I am not sure leh I think she actually went just turn up like that, but like can bribe them with food lah she say she will buy McDonald's for the staff or whatever, yeah


ya but, but she need to buy some freebies for me, ya I think that's too much lah don't think he would he will end up losing money


than to earn ah, yeah I can how about you


!huh! <mandarin>什么是:shen me shi</mandarin> merit , translate


merit <mandarin>只是中等:zhi shi zhong deng</mandarin> it's average, no, merit is just mediocre


how about we communicate in Chinese then, (uh huh)


yeah


(uh huh), pizza , ah, pizza, pizza I don't know


oh,


I thought you don't like tomato, oh you, where did you buy it from


well you know like, you know like I went to Sweden right then the frozen pizza there is damn cheap eh, like a large frozen pizza right I think it was only like


it's the large size lah, then it was only like three dollars leh if I'm not wrong, ya ya then in Singapore right the regular size is already, like seven dollars what the hell


uh yeah I think so it's at FairPrice, ya it's like, err I don't know I only saw that brand in FairPrice


the HouseBrand oh okay, I think the small one also very quite not very not very cheap eh


think it's around five dollars which is the same as what Pizza Hut sells already, no ah the pan, the pan pizza is five dollars, uh yeah


oh, (hmm) as in


ya it's five dollars takeaway, ya then the regular size is ten dollars, I think Domino's one is more


err yeah is around the same lah but I think Pizza Hut is cheaper, err I have I think I have only eaten Pizza Hut , for the promotion lah because they have the cheapest price


oh I think tried Domino's then everything just tastes the same lah everything it's just pizza mah


oh I I mean the Pizza Hut chain is just opposite my house , so I don't think there's much difference, , I guess it's


it's genes, yes, , help


, uh I don't know I think all pizza tastes the same to me , I think the good ones taste like cost a bomb


oh I, I think overseas right the pizzas are all cheaper, than Singapore because like it's not a local thing in Singapore


yeah those are like imports, how much


err twenty dollars, !wah! per plate, so expensive


you know I think overseas study overseas is quite expensive


oh, really I went to Sweden eh and all the foods are like so expensive, ya then the only cheap ones is like the fast food restaurant so I think I only had like Burger King


there and it wasn't like very cheap, I can't remember I think is ten dollars, ya it's quite expensive


about seven dollars, I mean ya still more expensive lah


and the worst thing is that right they their salmon like their sashimi right so expensive lah I thought Sweden is very near to Norway and I think Norway has a lot of salmon but it's still very expensive


uh I don't think so I think they I I don't know where they get the salmon from but I spoke to Norwegians right then they say their stuff there are also very expensive so yeah, yeah that's so weird right


but they find it expensive means is beyond their means, ya I also don't know lah


then how was the, how was your exchange, why


, what, !wow! !wah! so extreme, oh I


I went to, I went to Sweden right then ya but my face start to crack lah and I didn't bring any moisturizer so I have to buy there, actually right the moisturizer there are like quite expensive but I managed to see one brand Nivea


ya it's quite cheap like three dollars sing ah so I just bought that, ya then it was I never even finish it because we got called back, I don't need that in Singapore


uh, moisturize already will make my skin really oily, no as in I don't even need to put and my skin is already oily


not really, yeah do you use moisturizers in singapore


!wow!, but, I I think is the moisturizer


maybe you are conditioned to it already, yes so you should stop putting, oh my god, you can finish my moisturizer also


, yes how how you know, oh damn why why don't want use


!huh! really, uh, maybe that's why it's so cheap


yeah, uh why it won't bleed it's just dry, like flakes there will be flakes, ya ya I know right


ya then when I put my make up right it'll look very weird, ya I know right, ya but luckily I got the moisturiser then it's not so bad


then, lip balm I don't have a lip balm, I, yeah it cracked also, so, so I use the moisturizer as lip balm


I don't know I'm not dead yet, oh wells, ya then after that we got called back due to COVID


ya but I think it's like a blessing in disguise, like I yeah I think, COVID is really a bad thing ah for the world but like one thing that


that is good about it for me is that like I actually managed to pass my exchange modules, if, ya as in no it's not because of this pass fail because right without COVID like everything will be like the exam will be held in real life


and then like because I was like too much into the, playing and whatever then I sort of neglected my studies, so if, because of COVID then exam went online and, it's sort of easier to pass lah so ya that's like a


, think that's like a good thing a good thing about COVID but yeah it's not overall is a bad thing ah ya, ah yes yes, yeah I think they will open book lah because it's anyway it's online


no lah I think it's open book so yeah, I do not engage in unethical acts


my god, (uh huh)


!woo!, yeah it's nice, I don't know it does not matter


yeah oh my god it's like, exchange was the first time lah I just barely pass all of my modules


exams became online, no I'll get karma for that eh


yeah,


actually not really eh I think cause I really played through it so, yeah, I guess so and like, it's like burning my money lah overseas the exchange


every month is about like one K plus, yeah, yeah they reimburse lah so ya that's another thing


, no I don't I have insurance but the insurance is a bit useless eh, no never maybe cause it's cheap lah


, , nice, oh nice then your insurance it was it like greater than the insurance amount you pay


(mmhmm), , oh, then did the school pay you back


as in did they pay you did they also pay you back for the air tickets


oh my god so it's like another free two K ah, but you also can claim back you also claim back from insurance already


so you get can get two K lah from the school like free, no as in, other than the ya, like extra money


ya so lucky


oh was it free, I didn't even know that


, ya when I came back from Sweden like the first flight to Dubai was quite empty, then after that the second fight was very very full, yeah


uh not really packed lah it's just every seat was filled lor, yeah, yeah !wah! but I like actually I like airplane food leh


but I like eh like they have some fillet meal right or something chicken fillet meal, yeah I like to select, I like the selection


!huh! what do you mean, I like all of the airplane meals, no lah I think that one is only for Emirates lah


but actually are you can you actually go cause I see like there's no food there leh, oh


like at the all the way at the end ah, ya but I didn't I didn't really go and explore but I don't think I recall seeing a pantry eh it was just a toilet


yeah, ya there's always like some air stewardess and stewards standing there so I thought it was like the resting place for them


uh yeah, oh what, you can, I mean you are not even gonna sign up for that


you can they have the meal right for like four hundred dollars, airplane meal


ya like


oh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> meh, oh


oh my god it's like a, oh, oh yeah <mandarin>那个叫什么:na ge jiao shen me</mandarin> sea urchin is it


what is it in Chinese, that's seafood


ya it's very creamy, oh, nice oh my god, yes


but you know yesterday I had sashimi Don, at the Umi Nami, then it was quite bad leh I don't know why, I think because maybe their sashimi is not very fresh, no not mushy it's just I don't know why it's not as nice as I expected


yeah, don't want, really, ya maybe it's cause of the bad sashimi Udon uh sashimi Don I had


sounds, , LOL, uh oh my god I love sashimi


eat where


oh I don't want, I'm sick of it


maybe, maybe I will want to eat again on saturday, yeah oh my god, I shouldn't spend so much this month eh cause I


my tuition stopped already, !huh!, stop until november end of november, so that's like two months ah


yeah that's, yeah because now is actually the exam period or like they just finish exam so I don't think they want to like so fast find a new tutor


yeah I will, no lah but, but the problem is these two months I have no income, so it's, ya <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor


!huh! I think they all know already, uh yeah then maybe , yeah I was like thinking of getting some money from High Leon, then I was like up five hundred dollars


and, yeah I was up five hundred then now I just sold it at a loss of four hundred, like like within a month oh my god what the, not really but yeah


as in, I don't know because I can cover it with the previous earnings, ah it's okay lah but I never really earn a lot lah I I still


I still earned like about two hundred, ya it's like not at least not like ten dollars ah


and I'm not very proficient in this so I don't really want to like put in more money and then lose money and yeah


no I have no opinions because I had I never follow the news , yeah yeah yeah I saw Donald Trump is like oh my god very lame kid leh like he he keep trying to it like talk when Biden ah Biden is talking


like, ya like he he want to disrupt his train of thoughts


yeah, uh what


, yeah


!wah!


oh my god <mandarin>你妹妹会煮饭:ni mei mei hui zhu fan</mandarin> ah


oh !huh! food


!huh! <mandarin>那个巴刹有卖冷冻食品:na ge ba sha you mai leng dong shi pin</mandarin> meh, oh then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> spam fries <mandarin>不是要:bu shi yao</mandarin> fry <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> meh, oh then <mandarin>那个排骨:na ge pai gu</mandarin> leh


oh, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin>


!huh! like how, so, ah, !huh! but it's enough for, it's enough for your family meh


one small cup, so so the five of you eat the four of you eat one small cup of rice, how how big is a cup


okay lah that's like a bowl what how is that a cup,


oh, so it's like #lo mai gai#, ah okay okay okay, oh so is it


ya <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> Gong Cha, yeah how come


ya damn Shiok


ya lah, yeah


but right, but right like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Gong Cha cause I ask for less ice, then ya they I think they really give me lesser ice and also lesser pearls that's like the the least pearls I have seen in a bubble tea


like, like so little like normally they will give like one third right you will see like, yeah <mandarin>很多:hen duo</mandarin> what, like one third or one one quarter one quarter


then it's like so little I think only got like ten pearls ah I finished it within like, a few mouth, ya cause you know you know normally right like when you sip on a bubble tea like you would sip until the end there will still be pearls right


ya then like just now I I drank until halfway no more pearls already, what the hell, you mean lesser ice, oh


ya maybe they thought I want lesser pearls is it, or maybe they I don't know ran out of pearls, yeah they ran out of pearls


what, !huh! so I'll be fat after more bubble tea, !huh! bubble tea oh it's milk milk tea


but what about the salmon I'd rather be like a salmon, I love sashimi, yes I love it self sustainability


oh my god you know Umi Nami right, their Don is also quite nice like cause we ordered three bowls right two bowls of salmon Don another one bowl is like salmon plus tuna plus a little bit of prawn oh my god


I have never seen that leh and that's like the cheapest Don there leh, yeah, yeah, yeah I but I maybe it was like it has been too long since I ate there I can't remember what was in in the cheapest Don already


ya and then the salmon Don right they have like some vinegar cube you have tried right


vinegar cube, like vinegar but it's in cube jelly jelly cube form, !wah! I love it leh, the two of them also don't like I love it


yeah, ya last time I used to do that, ya like when I was very young


cause I like, I like anything sour and spicy, ya like I ate another cup today


one , !huh! then how many did you give me that time ah, oh my god, I now I suddenly


!huh! what ya, then after that I chose it over my Maggi Mee eh


yes, but I think the maggie a bit disgusting eh, no no the Nongshim one Shin ramen, ya actually is quite nice I don't know why I don't like it I think it leaves a very unhealthy feeling after I eat


but after awhile, after awhile it'll be like quite Jelak, no, yeah yeah the noodles are thick


but the <mandarin>酸辣粉:suan la fen</mandarin> is like more flavourful, I will cook it until there's no crunch


ya like if it's crunch means it's not cooked yet, !huh!


oh, why don't you just eat the crunchy noodle, uh yeah I know right some people like the crunch eh


, oh really actually can it be eaten


oh, so actually can eat ah like Mamee, oh ya ya I think is the ya wax is the right word like whenever I eat the instant noodle right you will like have uh this waxy feeling


what, [orh], ya


ya ya put again lah like cook again, ya maybe I should try, , yeah, oh


ya so today the <mandarin>酸辣粉:suan la fen</mandarin> right I put like, my Harajuku egg, it's damn nice oh my god I can imagine right like I if I save some of the <mandarin>酸辣粉:suan la fen</mandarin> Chap right


I think it will become damn nice eh, but it's not very hygienic eh like I already ate the, no leh but I think the soup like


it's very little in the first place, if you add, if you add too much water right then the taste will be very diluted like I tried before, uh like


maybe leave like a like uh, a small finger's length, after that, you fill up the whole container with water then you leave the a small finger's length of


space ah what do you call it, ya that's why maybe that's why it's not nice


not really, !wah! I really like vinegar and !wah! Shiok, you know, oh you can buy me the vinegar jelly I love it


ya, yeah I will, so Shiok, is damn nice leh


have you have you planned for my birthday yet, (uh huh)


hello, hi how are you


good also but tired I just had a long day today, err basically my class started at nine so I had to wake up at eight to go get ready, then even though it's like study from home it doesn't feel like it


still need to wake up so early, yeah


if I too relaxed I scared later, no stress then I take things too easily then fail, why how you know


oh really and how have you been performing, err I think now


it's been pretty boring to be honest, like err, ya lor everyday wake up then cause don't have to go to school mah so just stay at home then, just take one day as it comes but doesn't really feel like school started leh


ya, ya, even even lectures also seem very boring ah but the good thing is you can, I mean you can use your phone during lectures and the lecturer won't know lah


, why too much already ah, !huh!, oh no is there anything that could change your mind on that


, during just go sneak to the toilet to use your phone


you have to, never mind you have to go to the toilet to use your phone then that's the kind of, appreciation that you will, that you will find next time,


serious so you just <mandarin>偷偷:tou tou</mandarin> go to the toilet and just chill there for, for two hours, !aiyo! , did anyone find out


so chill ah, uh you mean at at the internship there, oh I thought they would abuse interns eh I don't know I just had the impression, those big companies will abuse interns and make them do everything


so on average how how long do you think you actually work a day


, , really, if you send me some of the selfies,


err, let's see, my day usually starts off with, uh two one to two hour long breakfast with my colleague, yeah, so after that


then err, I will I will get to work for the next half an hour to one hour before I take my toilet break, it's a it's a daily scheduled thing ah so, and I take my toilet break all the way to like what eleven


and eleven work on a bit and then it's lunchtime, ya so like, usually we just go out I I either go to like nearby Clementi because, the (ppc), the place that I worked at they have a shuttle bus because of ya because of Clementi so there's some pretty cheap food over there so I just go and eat otherwise I just buy from the canteen below my office ah


yeah, oh I was, like my job scope was supposed to be like a global service support intern but, that's a Chim name lah in layman terms it's just a call center for customer customer service


ya so basically I just go and fix fix other people's machine when they breakdown and stuff, but it's cool lah can get to interact with other customers, err


err not really complaints but more of like if their machine breaks down, then err I'll be I'll have to be the one that goes eh that tries to troubleshoot and see what's wrong like where went wrong and how to fix it, that kind of thing


yeah, err (ppc) yeah some of them actually do but there are some where like in the middle of experiments the machine crash, so then they'll take a picture of what happened then they'll take a picture of like the log they send us the log files then we try to decipher what went wrong


and how to fix it lah how to salvage whatever, they can if not they have to restart the experiment and a bit Chor-Lor ah, yeah, uh but actually there was a time when new customers came in like new clients that came in so like they they were they were at the they were at the office there training for like one week plus then on the last day we all went for buffet


at Raffles City there it was damn Shiok, err I had, oh the funny thing is because they serve steak and foie gras over there, at the buffet so at first I thought the foie gras was like potato because they they put like


the foie gras on top of the steak but after I eat the foie gras I realise I didn't like it so, I just went up to the to the chef then ask him to okay then I have more of the beef but I don't want the foie gras then he low key he gave me the weird look but was like err okay I'll give I'll give you a whole plate of of beef if you want because usually the serving is just one steak and one foie gras but in the end I got like a whole plate full of steaks instead


it's damn Shiok, ya then [orh] then they also order free flow period beer which was damn which was damn Shiok also like beer plus steak, and other seafood, ya customer eh was customer the


uh entertainment budget to entertain clients, oh the clients plus colleagues because it was the last day there mah, before they fly off the next day


because they have to go [orh] the clients were overseas were from overseas, ya they were from Vietnam ah, so they actually flew down to Singapore for to train with us for one week, yeah


yeah there are overseas overseas company that err that are looking to purchase our equipment so actually we sell we sold them our equipment already so the company sent down some engineers to like, learn how to use the machines and stuff, ya so we actually trained them also lah train the customers on how to use the machines


yeah, ya they have a sales department also, , err !wah! that one I not sure leh maybe word of mouth


yeah, either that or like cold cold call insurance agent hello are you looking for for new machines for your hospital, I don't know eh, if not how sia


ya if not how sia then hit up all the different hospitals in Singapore and sell them stuff


oh, in a way,


cold call that's why I call cold call lah, [orh] but but that means you have to make like an appointment first lah cannot like uh out of the blue knock on their door that kind right


!huh! really, !wah! like that also can ah, !wah!, that's like an aircon man suddenly knocking on your door then like asking you hello you want aircon or not and like randomly out of the blue


give you one free aircon is it, to bribe you , yeah


maybe his his aircon from Taobao one you know Taobao all so cheap it's just uh whether or not you can translate to Chinese eh from Chinese or not


err


merit <mandarin>是:shi</mandarin> err


no average is pass, yes distinction is is is higher than average highest of the average, no are you saying my Chinese is mediocre only


, challenge accepted


<mandarin>哪里不是我的女朋友说我很帅:na li bu shi wo de nv peng you shuo wo hen shuai</mandarin> eh


err, pizza <mandarin>就是那个圆圆的大大圆圆的:jiu shi na ge yuan yuan de da da yuan yuan de</mandarin> <mandarin>上面有:shang mian you</mandarin> cheese


sounds like #pi sai#


tomato, tomato <mandarin>是番薯:shi fan shu</mandarin> eh no, tomato, !huh! but margherita is I don't know if nice eh it's the sauce it's a sauce base ah so it's tomato sauce plus a lot of cheese so I think the cheese just overwhelm the tomato sauce


ya quite Shiok, frozen one my mum buy one buy from NTUC, I never see the brand eh, (uh huh)


how cheap is cheap, how much is that, (uh huh), so cheap, eh that's cheap right


!huh! so much meh Singapore so ex meh, oh shit, is it the Atas brand that's why, oh cause I know got a lot of different other brands ah


then got the house eh ya got the HouseBrand also actually HouseBrand not bad, their FairPrice brand of pizza but it's a small one ah I don't think they sell, I don't think they sell the big ones eh


really ah ah forgot already eh it's been a long time since I last went NTUC eh, pizza so cheap meh I thought theirs is ten dollars minimum no meh, and their set deal


just the pizza itself, oh I didn't know that I thought cause I remember the meal being like closer to ten dollars, like during the lunch promotion or something like that, so I thought like the, the pan is the smaller size you have right the personal pan


oh oh maybe is takeaway offer, !wah! Domino's is how much ah, two regulars for Domino's two two regulars for twenty two dollars


really ah !wah!, do you which which pizza uh pizza chain do you prefer, !huh! only Pizza Hut


oh you never try like Domino's or other brands ah, no it's different like can taste difference one


uh but I think Pizza Hut the the best way to eat it is like at the restaurant itself, because like err, and when you try for yourself right the crust is still very fresh so like the base the bottom part of the of the of the crust is still crispy one but if you takeaway then the the crispiness is gone already ah so the entire base might be soggy


!wah! Shiok eh, oh but Shiok Shiok Shiok so lucky eh how are you not fat


oh really, oh, oh, we shall see about that in fifty years time


but Domino's pizza the crust very chewy eh that's what something I like about it, yeah, no no no no no no you haven't had good pizza yet


uh actually not quite eh that time in in UK cause I went to UK for exchange mah, there was this uh sourdough pizza place that my cousin recommended actually very good leh and it's not really expensive also eh, for the quality I think it was like


less than, less than ten pounds, and it was damn big it was like our, I would say large or extra large kind of size pizza


yeah, oh maybe, oh it's just like how Singapore food overseas are like expensive as as hell


yeah oh my god I remember at Newcastle there, uh we ate like Singapore food lah ya this restaurant sold Singapore food over there you want to guess how much a <mandarin>烧肉饭:shao rou fan</mandarin> cost, no you're supposed to guess guess first


about there, yeah per plate what the heck sia, yeah I didn't okay, not didn't expect it lah but like we're all craving Singapore food pretty badly that that night so like


and we heard it was and we heard it was not bad lah cause one of our friend's, err, brother stayed there, stayed with us so so like he sort of recommended the place to us, ya lah but it's like uh eat once to fulfill to satisfy your local cravings and then never again that kind of that sort of thing


depends on what you eat I guess there are some like those staple food, aren't actually very expensive like, in London their fish and chips weren't like very expensive leh I think we below


between five to ten pounds you can get one plate that is pretty big sized eh there was, I think my first night there first like first no second night there the fish and chips right was so big I couldn't even finish everything


and it was less than I think it was like seven pounds okay ah fourteen sing ah about there, but still a lot


oh how much was it, ten sing, oh my god


(uh huh), okay ah a bit more expensive than Singapore eh Singapore five dollars right, okay ah compared to Burger King though, !wah!


, but do they use Norwegian salmon or do they like purposely fly the salmon from Japan


(hmm), they also find it expensive ah, , but I'm guessing they earn a higher pay also lah to afford that the cost of living over there


got so Jialat one ah they go there they work the the the money they earn there can only let them <mandarin>吃草:chi cao</mandarin> meh a bit sad


exchange, I would say pretty, it's a, bittersweet kind of feeling ah, like, uh exchange was fun because you get to explore stuff and be outside of Singapore lah cause like you know Singapore so hot twenty four seven all all the while but I went during winter so I went to


UK during winter time so it was very cooling it was a new experience lah cause I never, and I think I never stay in a place that, was so cold for so long before, so


ya but the first few days my body had to adapt lah so my and my whole skin just crack, cause it was the weather was so cold and dry over there, ya so I have to spam moisturizer then, like everytime after I bath


yeah yeah pretty extreme ah my sensitive skin mah, yeah, yeah oh then, (uh huh), oh serious which


oh shit, oh but wasn't very expensive right, (uh huh)


comparable ah, oh shit can use it in Singapore also mah, why nothing wrong with no no harm getting your skin more moisturized then become softer


oh I mean is it you put too much that's why, oh oh how about your kneecaps I I heard the kneecaps and elbows are like the easiest place to get dry like you know this part over here


really, !wah! not bad, I actually do eh like, because I I I actually okay before UK started before I actually started I never had a habit of moisturising my face that kind of thing


I'll put yeah of applying moisturiser lah so in UK cause I heard the weather was dry was very dry especially during the winter time so like err my parents my mum lah and my friends advise me to put moisturizer if not my face will crack and it will be damn uh disgusting feeling lah


so yeah that's, so like imagine putting moisturizer on your face after you bathe every every day for like how long was the exchange for ah, two months, for two months straight you put moisturizer everyday like literally day and night sia !wah! I cannot cannot believe it leh then afterward became a habit so I came back Singapore I think this habit just stuck with me lor so even up to now


it's been eight months already, yea I've I've been like putting moisturizer every night sia I can't believe it eh, but my face still oily, Sian , no leh but I think the moisturizer part I don't know if I don't put moisturizer my face feels a bit dry like I can feel the difference eh


maybe ah my face become weak reliant, no no I I need to at least finish this tub to finish it first gonna finish already


no I I think I know which one you're yours is yours is the the flat blue colour one right, my sister uses that also, oh really oily ah I tried before last time in


I think Australia or something like that, then I try putting on my face !wah! damn oily I cannot it's like, ya you can feel like a layer of of, on your on your face is quite disgusting eh like that will be like, I I don't need to wait eight hours for my face to feel greasy again I just really


maybe okay ah but then if, you have nothing then I guess it's better than nothing lor rather than your skin just crack up and then, you bleed all over,


try it then your skin will crack mah then your lips will bleed, flaky and then like dandruff on your face, eh you Kena also ah


!ee! like flaking off ah, !ee! oh my god they must think you got like you're zombie or something, oh, oh okay lah then you never put the lip balm all over your face


!huh! you you you don't have to use ah your lips never crack, , because you never use your lip balm, !huh! but can can eat meh


no maybe like that one cut your lifespan by ten years, ya so sad


why leh


, oh yeah cause pass fail right


, !wow! what a


the silver lining lah to all the bad that has happened, was it was your exam open book, , , you can Google your answers without them knowing also


oh, is it <mandarin>真的:zhen de</mandarin> meh, actually I get how you feel eh because there was this one module which I took when I was taking the some like very mathematic mathematics heavy module which I I really didn't understand anything at all


so like like I think I was studying it almost every day during exchange there, which was at that's why I said it was bittersweet the bitter part was the actually having to study for exchange because like engineering


yeah, so like even after studying so much I didn't understand anything and was wondering how I was gonna pass ah because there aren't really cannot really cannot make it lah, ya so that when COVID hit and they announced that all the exams were gonna be online then I was like yes at least can open book


then, open book is one thing the past year paper questions right, !wah!, the past year paper questions and the final exam questions they like never change like that sia, and if it's open book right so like, confirm free for all already


ya so like ended up from almost, from like probably failing the module, guess how much I got, does not matter it's it's still a pass a pass is a pass


got so Jialat ah


, , Choy Choy Choy touch wood touch wood, uh my god !wah! miss exchange eh