so essentially you're doing a research lah, and the, what's the err, thing is every year they will give you a different question


and you will be evaluated on like how interesting your project is how thorough your research was and also at the end of it besides a report you also need to submit a err you also need to do a presentation


and that presentation will also get you marks and the presentation not only the presentation there will also be a Q and A segment and the Q and A segment you need to answer really well because it will really give you your bonus marks and so <tamil>ஏன்:yaen</tamil> group <tamil>என்ன செஞ்சோம் னா:enna senjom naa</tamil> <tamil>நாங்க வந்து:naanga vanthu</tamil> presentation prepare <tamil>பண்ணிட்டோம்:pannitom</tamil> so <tamil>இன்னும் கொஞ்சம்:innum konjam</tamil> time <tamil>இருக்கே:irukae</tamil> extra time <tamil>இருக்கே என்ன செய்யலாம் சொல்லிட்டு:irukea enna seiyalaam solitu</tamil> all of us went to go and look at our parts and think of every possible question


that the person could ask us, we also referred to we call it a question bank lah and we even referred to <tamil>எங்களோட:engaloda</tamil> seniors <tamil>ஓட:oda</tamil> question bank <tamil>உம் பாத்துட்டு:um paathutu</tamil> they will like oh <tamil>இந்த இந்த மாரி கேள்வி கேப்பாங்கனு:intha intha maari kaelvi kaepaanganu</tamil> so <tamil>நெனைச்சா மாரியே:nenaicha maariyae</tamil> presentation <tamil>அன்னிக்கி என்னோட கேள்வி வந்து நான்:annikki ennoda kaelvi vanthu naan</tamil> question bank leh prepared <tamil>பண்ண ஒரு கேள்வி:panna oru kaelvi</tamil> so <tamil>நானும் என்ன அது போட்டு இருந்தானோ:naanum enna athu potu irunthano</tamil> err answer <tamil>அதுல போட்டு இருந்தானோ:athula potu irunthano</tamil> I just answered accordingly lah and I think it was a good answer because I saw them nodding at me and I was like ha ha ha that's great


ya, we also referred to we call it a question bank lah and we even referred to <tamil>எங்களோட:engaloda</tamil> seniors <tamil>ஓட:oda</tamil> question bank <tamil>உம் பாத்துட்டு:um paathutu</tamil> they will like oh <tamil>இந்த இந்த மாரி கேள்வி கேப்பாங்கனு:intha intha maari kaelvi kaepaanganu</tamil> so <tamil>நெனைச்சா மாரியே:nenaicha maariyae</tamil> presentation <tamil>அன்னிக்கி என்னோட கேள்வி வந்து நான்:annikki ennoda kaelvi vanthu naan</tamil> question bank leh prepared <tamil>பண்ண ஒரு கேள்வி:panna oru kaelvi</tamil> so <tamil>நானும் என்ன அது போட்டு இருந்தானோ:naanum enna athu potu irunthano</tamil> err answer <tamil>அதே athae</tamil> I just answered accordingly lah and I think it was a good answer because I saw them nodding at me and I was like ha ha ha that's great, oh, I tell you ah, out of all the things right I would say that project work is the most relevant one


it's just that whether or not you make it to research based, most of her own careers require not careers most of our university life requires some form of research <tamil>எப்போயாச்சி நீ ஒரு:eppoyaachi nee oru</tamil> research paper <tamil>படிச்சே ஆகணும்:padichae aaganum</tamil> like <tamil>இல்லையா:illaiya</tamil> I bet at some point you would have had to read some research paper


engineering <tamil>கு ku</tamil> my business one <tamil>நான்:naan</tamil> HR lah <tamil>இருந்து கூட அவ்ளோ:irunthu kuda avlo</tamil> research paper <tamil>படிச்சிட்டு இருக்கேன்:padichitu irukaen</tamil> because I need to read on like business management and principles of studying learning and everything, so most of these required to read research papers in that sense research is necessary going through the research process itself maybe maybe necessary for some may be less may not be necessary for some <tamil>ஆனா அந்த:aanaa antha</tamil> project work leh <tamil>என்ன முக்கியம் னா:enna mukkiyam naa</tamil> are you able to work with the people or not


like, ya it's it's it's very important I I wouldn't say that they should remove it the I think the reason why this has come up is because JC <tamil>நூனே:noonae</tamil> there's a very huge emphasis placed on working as an individual


and so people who realise that project work is not something that is dependent on an individual's strength, they immediately like oh is this necessary but at the end of the day yes it is necessary if you feel like there's some sort of unfairness your group mate never do enough work you need to voice that out that's the whole point


you know, ya, ya,


, right,


(mmhmm)


, that's good, right right ya


oh okay, our JC one also one year


JC have but we okay so <tamil>என்:en</tamil> JC <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> because it's for I mean my JC <tamil>கு:ku</tamil> I went for six years right so the first four years <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> you need to do a bit of history and geography and <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி:antha maathiri</tamil> but once you go to JC itself unless you choose that module you don't have to do it


exactly secondary four, sorry, ya


, , err, okay mine wasn't that kind of choice mine was err


wait let me how do I explain this, okay so the thing that we get to choose is whether we want, err biology, or we want physics, or whether we want like advanced literature advanced humanities so if you go into the like biology or physics one right so you take biology chemistry or biophysics if you go into one of those then you would have to do


one year you would have to do a history module and one year you will have to do a geography module, if you go into the advanced literature or advanced humans I think it will change a bit


ya but either way like our geography and our history all was like, I don't know lah it seems like quite a joke to me, because, like the history we learn also like we didn't learn anything useful like <tamil>நான் என்ன நெனைச்சேன்னா:naan enna nenaichaennaa</tamil> history <tamil>நா:naa</tamil> you talk about the major important events <tamil>நீ வந்து:nee vanthu</tamil> world war two <tamil>பத்தி பேசுவ:pathi paesuva</tamil> err err maybe independence <tamil>பத்தி பேசுவ:pathi paesuva</tamil> but no the first year we spent learning about some


don't know what dynasty I'm so sorry I forgot the emperor's name, it's it's the guy is the guy with the the huge tomb, Qing dynasty is it, I don't know


the only thing I remember from that was that when he died his like his men didn't want the villagers to know he died yet because they were like on a journey right so they carried like, err


ya that's all I remember, but then


ya, I remember Qin dynasty I remember I remember we did gulf war


ya but I don't really remember much I remember there was one do you remember which is the one with the Y shape bridge, there's supposed to be a Y shaped bridge that connects the nations or something


I can't remember lah but I remember that my teacher wrote model essays and gave it to us and I just tried to memorise it also, so, but our geography, I really thought our geography was quite


quite useless like, okay so the first geography, thing that we learned was we learned a lot about clouds, and I have no idea why but I just remember like cumulonimbus lah this that the evaporation it's basically the evaporation and raining cycle but they required us to put like use so many like official terms and stuff like that and I was like shouldn't you be using like this geography time to talk more like isn't that more geology


right raining and stuff isn't that more geology I thought geography is like geographical location, so I just assumed that they will be teaching us more about the you know err


, we didn't learn any of that, it it is but we didn't we didn't go into it I did learn about like cliffs and


ya the gauge and like cliffs and stuff like that, but err we, oh we don't have how to read maps, ya that's why I say it was very very useless and we were very confused as to what was going on and I remember because like at the end of the paper you will have like an essay question an hour essay question we sort of like compare these three rivers or something like that


and I had only memorised two of those rivers like I only remembered two of the rivers my friend memorised all three but he got a five out of eight and I got an eight out of eight and he was like what is this what is this unfairness why is it like this


ya, , ya


I err I think there were pictures involved I definitely remembered that and I remember there was the long long essay question at the back, ya, ya around the same, but err I remember when going to JC <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> I initially thought eh maybe I should do english literature


instead of, err biology, because biology <tamil>என்னால செய்ய முடியும்:ennala seiya mudiyum</tamil> but biology <tamil>ரொம்ப:romba</tamil> memory then I was like <tamil>பேசாம:paesaamae</tamil> english lit <tamil>என்னால செய்ய முடியும்:ennala seiya mudiyum</tamil> because I can write and I love like


arts, but then my parents wanted, a more, stable, err option which I agree with also because after I mean I see where they're coming from lah because after JC I had the choice of


going to like biomedicine and stuff like that or I could have gone into like my business but if I had, taken english literature the most viable option for me would be


art school, like ADM and stuff like that but if that's not what I want to do for my future as a career, then that would have been really , a real disadvantage on my end


ya because I I I mean I feel like, it's usually because he doesn't know what he wants to do and he wants a safety net, that's or at least that's why I went to JC it's because I had no idea what I wanted to do


and I wanted a safety net and in that sense JC was very safe because it gave me two sciences two arts, and a project work, and if that isn't like useful enough I don't know what is lah


but I remember I did suggest to my teachers that like, from secondary school itself right they should sort of , they should have some sort of entrepreneurial course or something for the students because when I went into business school I had no idea about like


I had no idea anything related to finance anything related to the business world but I know my friends knew economics because they took economics but <tamil>அது கூட:athu kooda</tamil> is like not entirely, it doesn't encompass everything a business student should know


, did your parents want you to go JC


, ya


, (mmhmm), (mmhmm), right, ya


let's say we have someone who was in my position right except that the difference is that person knew they were going to do business okay I didn't know but if that person knew that they were going to do business


honestly the most advantageous thing for them to do would be to go to polytechnic because if you come to JC, you have nothing there that helps you, build you for business, like there're there's a very like closed out mugger style


which is not what you need for business for business you need to be open you need to be talking and stuff like that those things I got because of my personality and because of, my because of like my drama environment and everything so that was advantageous for me but I can think of a ton of students who were in my JC who if they know they want to do business they should have just gone to polytechnic


because once you come to university itself you see the advantage that the polytechnic kids have over you, they are so much more open there's so much they're specialised in something already they've learned things beforehand, ya no also right also I think that JC should teach people about accounting


like no, we don't have


oh okay I mean I didn't do those right,


I my school didn't have because I think IP program right, so they just wanted to focus on those subjects that like , will be tested for A levels, and obviously accounting is not one of it


do you know there's actually, there's actually a A levels for drama, ya


ya same, but I tell you if you do POA for A levels right the chances that you can get into banking and finance is like super high


payroll


when I first entered business school my parents thought that I would, do like I'll go into something like banking and finance, even I thought I would go into banking and finance because it's like the most err, stable job


it's the most stable it's the most high earning you know very useful


ya, in place, ya


, ya, , that's why, that's why the thing was it was quite err how to say


it was quite nerve racking because if I hadn't secured this internship <tamil>என்னோட வந்து:ennoda vanthu</tamil> like <tamil>நான் அடுத்த வருஷம்:naan adutha varusham</tamil> graduate <tamil>பண்ண போறனாலே:panna poranaalae</tamil> so <tamil>இந்த:intha</tamil> internship <tamil>மட்டும் கிடைக்காமே இருந்து இருந்த:mattum kidaikaamae irunthu iruntha</tamil> I would have had to extend means I cannot graduate together with all my friends and everything which to me like okay lah it's not the end of the world but it'll be nice to graduate with all my friends


and it'll be nice to have my family there and everything I mean I don't I, honestly don't even know whether convocation can still happen lah, it'll be kind of sad if it can't but at least, you know


at least I will, did it, when ah


ya it didn't happen, oh I thought you say it did happen, ya it didn't happen, well maybe it'll will be better next year


ya, it's quite depressing eh, ya, that's why, but honestly


ya go on, ya ya ya they did, ya, I am going to be very honest if by the time I graduate I cannot have a convocation right I am going to go do they give you the graduation like the robe


they still do is it okay so if they, so if they don't have a convocation then I'm still going to wear the damn robe and I'm going to go do a photo shoot in it and I'm going to just like


whoever lah my friends if it's still only five people I'll grab five of my friends and be like guys I have graduated, those five friends better buy me a flower


ya hello I sit here I worked my butt off for three years you know how much I died during that three years of business school a lot and immediately after that I need to start working so these people better give me a pat on the back


I'm already going to give myself a pat on the back today just for securing an internship because it's been such a process, ya


ya, then, no I don't know, anyhow, because I, I had the feeling that they would err open phase three before


like december, because I feel like christmas is a time, there's a lot of like oh seasonal greetings and and I feel like that's a time economy really gets boosted because people are buying gifts people are going out to restaurants people are in the festive mood they care a little less about how much they are spending


and stuff like that so I think by then they would try their best to, to open phase three, and, ya we'll see how that goes, I always love to walk through the christmas light up though like I have this tradition where either with one of my friends or my partner or something we would get a Starbucks like one of the christmas drinks and then we would walk along the christmas light up at orchard


I mean they had a deepavali light up I know that they have like a they said that there will be a light up but not, not very intense is not like every single shopping centre is going to be having something I think it's just the general road will have a light up


ya, that's sad


they will probably start like end november only, now it's still oh no no no I think they will start mid november because now they're still selling halloween drinks


ya oh my god I need to try that drink before they run out, they are going to stop selling, I'm not supposed to drink sweet drinks


to be very honest I've been waiting for you so that we can get it together, because I know that you might want to try it as well, no it's not the pumpkin spice one you know it's a new one it's like chocolate and strawberry


it makes it, is the one that looks like there's blood on it, ya that's why I want to try then I I usually try new things when I'm with you


so I wanted to try it, so you won't try it


okay lah so today's tuesday right, you ran yesterday you ran, then today and tomorrow you run then thursday when you meet me we can get Starbucks


I'm going to run tonight and then tomorrow because I have a morning class I'll probably


, also do night lah, yup, I hate jogging but I do it because it's faster than


other things, swimming, I used to swim a lot like I had a gold medal so I, I I mean not medal gold award so I love to swim and I feel like okay for me


I like individual sports because I'm not good at sports, so if I play with anyone I feel like I'm going to let them down so anything that involves a team I don't like but any individual sport I'm okay with or rather better at


and swimming because I just feel like swimming, you don't feel, the tiredness that much until you get out of the water, like when you're running right even if when you're running you tend to get breathless and stuff like that even when you're swimming you do get breathless if you haven't swam in a long while but the fact that like the water sort of makes your weight feel a bit lighter you feel like you have momentum and stuff like that but then of course once you get out of the water you feel like death lah


I love swimming, nice


sorry ya there's a life, there's a lifesaver one, no I stopped at gold


, , (mmhmm)


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm) ya, I tried kayaking before and I actually really loved it I wanted to go kayaking after that but then err my mom was very hesitant


because she's just scared that I'll like kayak and like fall over into the water or something and I'm like you do realise I can swim I do know how to swim she was like I don't know, she's just not comfortable with the idea


oh, , yes of course, (mmhmm)


, (mmhmm)


, I was in, err I was in symphonic band for a while


for about a year and a half I used to play the trombone


you know right ya actually honestly I felt like in the entire band that was probably the easiest for me to learn, because your notes I couldn't read notes by the way I, I didn't know any music theory whatsoever


but your notes you can sort of remember in terms of it's just one two three four five six or one two three four five and then there's one key you can hold with your thumb and that's six so it's like about


those are all the possible notes you need to remember and then it's whether you blow with high pressure or low pressure for other instruments like let's say trumpet or clarinet or whatever they have the three keys on top right so the different combination of keys will make different notes and clearly there's a lot of combinations right so I was just like oh my god okay in that sense this is much easier


but then when a new band conductor took over, he said that, the initial band person just put me under trombone because I was tall, because like if you need to sit and play you need to be kind of tall in order for that uh so he wanted to find out what my draw was actually which instrument it was actually suited for and they found out that I am supposed to be a clarinet player


given the strength of my jaw it's not easy to play clarinet sia, , because unlike your recorder right because recorder <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> you're blowing the air but for clarinet you're not blowing air you are buzzing


you are holding the reed they call it a reed you're holding it between your teeth and your tongue and you're like sort of biting down on it and you are buzzing which is making the blowing noise, but then before they could get me to


learn a whole new instrument from scratch I quit I was like listen I don't want to do music I want to go and act so I'm going to join drama, and so I appealed to join the drama club and I was that was great english drama was amazing


took part in SYF, took part in local our own stage productions, it was fun, sorry


, , , (mmhmm)


I, I in terms of , recorder


ya I learned quite a number of songs for trombone I actually knew how to play quite a number actually I knew how to play the trombone parts for phantom of the opera, for how to train your dragon the theme song, and err Totoro


and something else also I can't remember some winter winter classic, ya,


[oh] we knew how play lion king, we played circle of life


okay hello, how are you


, eh I used to watch Pepsi Uma so much you know, I used to so much I used to love her


, I also realised because I decided to be a genius and skip dinner, because Subway made me really full, but then I'm going


not not necessarily lah I'm so full


because I never run the past two days I keep telling myself I'll go run <tamil>நா விடிய காலைல எழுந்திருச்சு:naa vidiya kaalaila elunthiruchu</tamil> I'll go run the problem is my brain doesn't want to listen to my alarm like my alarm rings and my brain does not pick it up, literally even before calling you like at seven thirty-ish I went to take a nap I set my alarm for eight and I


, ya, oh


, oh my god, when's your show, (oo) november six


, okay let me think, because


what was it movies


<tamil>சரி:sari</tamil> err


, that's why err err err


here and there ya so err but it grew out quite a bit lah <tamil>மேல உள்ளது இன்னும் கருப்பா தான் இருக்கு கீழ வந்து:maela ullathu innum karuppaa thaan irukku keezha vanthu</tamil> got a bit of blonde so they say there's a way to find out whether your hair is damaged or not so because <tamil>எனக்கு முடி அவலவா:enakku mudi avalavaa</tamil> like, thick ah <tamil>வளராது:valarathu</tamil> is very thin and <tamil>எனக்கு நெறய முடி கொட்டு:enakku neraya mudi kottu</tamil> so when I straighten my hair they say the way to find out whether your hair is damaged is like okay this is for straight hair lah you hold it up


and if it stands straight means it's damaged and when I was doing it that day I realised that all the way up till where I had highlights was damaged which meant like this much of hair, so I was like <tamil>சரி:sari</tamil> maybe <tamil>இதனால தான் வளர மாடிங்தோ:ithanaala thaan valara matingutho</tamil> or whatever nonsense so I told my mother that because you know traditionals at the right


err for indian traditional at a if we like short hair doesn't really suit my traditional at a so I told my mother <tamil>சரி:sari</tamil> Deepavali <tamil>கு அப்புறம்:ku appuram</tamil> we go and cut my hair let's just chop it like the last time I did


and then err, and then we'll see how, and then we'll then don't color or anything lah just chop it then let it grow <tamil>வளர்ந்தா:valarnthaa</tamil> let it grow


ya, because I remember telling everyone that


no it's, no like as in I told my friends lah I didn't tell random people but ya because the past two times I chopped my hair two times like, to have really short hair and both times I did it the first time was break up the second time was like a was like a whole bunch of things no no no the first time was break up plus <tamil>பார்வை:paarvai</tamil> just ended


and the reason there was a life crisis was because they never did the getting out of character session, and the transition period was so tough like I was acting like a girl who's like fiancee really just died and it doesn't help that while you're going through that you're actually going through a break up also and I like my brain was so confused I was like okay that's it I need to chop my hair off and then I went and chopped my hair and


that's why and then after that the second time was, what was the second time I think the second time was, something oh another break up also I don't know lah but basically everytime there was some sort of crisis going on I chopped my hair that's why I remember my ex saying like while I was in the relationship still


we were like oh you know don't cut your hair I was like why then I was like if I see with that hairstyle it reminds me of when we broke up the first time then I was like oh okay so the second time we broke up I was like


that's why I ask Zarah I was like can I like should I cut my hair then he was like cut lah then I was like but you don't like my short hair you prefer me with long hair he was like you do what you got to do I was like but what if you think I ugly he was <tamil>அட போமா எனக்கு:ada pomaa enakku</tamil> I don't have time for this


and I think that's the most like that's the most boyfriend answer you can get, in this day and age I don't have time for this, ya


oh my god I put this, I put this <tamil>எண்ணெய்:ennai</tamil> , it actually helped okay so there was this period where I was putting this <tamil>எண்ணெய்:ennai</tamil> and because when I was young and everything I hate to put oil on my hair I always be like !ee! later people like make fun of me or whatever so I refuse to put oil on my hair then now like I put a bit of the oil then like my mother will make me drink this vitamin thing I don't know then my hair will get a bit thicker


but then something will happen and I'll stop doing it and like my hair will fall off, oh my god ya I have I have the vitamins though


, , but how have you been how have you been getting along with your new hairstyle


(mmhmm), (uh huh)


(mmhmm), ,


, (oo)


I mean who knows it it it may, you may choose to, keep doing it, would you keep doing it


(mmhmm),


ya, I remember,


I realise that like my hair often gives the illusion of being , because it's long right ya of being thick but like literally like like


when I twist my hair together or something this is half my hair, ya but you're, ya but you are a guy


no because like my my mum my dad all right they now are very worried about their hair fall and everything because <tamil>அவங்களுக்கு நெறய முடி கொட்டுது:avangaluku neraya mudi kottuthu</tamil> but the thing is they used to have a really really thick hair and it started to fall when they only hit their forties or stuff like that


and they are, exactly so they are putting pressure on me now like even if I don't care now right they are putting pressure on me,


no <tamil>அது கூட:athu kooda</tamil> like they will blame me back they'll be like <tamil>ஆமா நீ தான் என்ன எண்ணெய் போட விடல:aamaa nee thaan enna ennai poda vidala</tamil> I'll be like I was a child just ask me to shut up and put oil in my hair lah you think what I'm gonna run out of the house is it


why, oh, ya, I thought you meant the asking me to shut up and and put oil in my hair wouldn't work I was like I mean it worked for other things like they want me to eat vegetables or whatever also that's what they did what <tamil>மூடிட்டு சாப்புடு:mooditu saapudu</tamil> this one also could have just been <tamil>மூடிட்டு தலைல போடு:mooditu thalaila podu</tamil> but know


even that day like I told my father because I I actually wanted to start taking care of my hair and stuff so because I agree that I don't take care of my hair that much and I probably should because I straighten my hair so frequently right so I told my father I was like <tamil>எனக்கு சீயக்காய் வாங்கி தாங்க:enakku seeyakkai vaangi thaanga</tamil> it will be ya because last time I used to put a bit of my hair then


but then in the end we never did it so I've just been trying trying my best to coconut oil


, ya


, uh, !aiyo!,


that's why, !aiyo! !aiyo! ah that day that day I was talking to Sundar right


because the last time I told him, no because that day I told like there was once I told him that I was like can you just give me assurance that Sara is doing a good job then he was like why then I said because right now I'm missing out so much time with him that at least if he does a good job I can like <tamil>மனச தேத்துறேன்:manasa thaethuraen</tamil> myself and be like <tamil>சரி பரவால ஒரு நல்ல விசயமாச்சு செஞ்சிட்டு இருக்கான்:sari paravala oru nalla visayamaachu senjitu irukaan</tamil> if you do it can you imagine if he's doing a shit job and I'm missing out the time for no reason


!aiyo! oh my god I okay I don't know speaking of <tamil>அழக்கூடாது:alzhakoodathu</tamil> I find that like sometimes because I I don't cry in front of people right


and like the very few times I cried in front of people their reaction is so funny because they don't know what to do, ya they like don't know what to do in that situation like for, for my brother


he actually for some reason he was already prepared he had a box of tissues in his bag like not even a packet he had a box of tissue because I told him I wanted to talk to him and stuff like that and he came to NTU to talk to me this was last year last year


and then as I was talking talking like I suddenly just started tearing up really badly and then he was like okay hang on and then he just open his bag and took out like the box of tissues I was like what the hell he was like no I just I just had a feeling I was like okay amazing


ya, pick and choose what,


I remember after A levels after my biology paper I started crying


I cried so intensely outside of the hall and that was the first time my like my best friends saw me cry and they were my friends for, four years already at that point, and they never see me cry before except like on on at drama they've seen me cry before lah but that one wasn't actual crying right so they saw me cry and then they were like oh shit and so they like came to me and they were like trying to find out what happened because they thought I was crying because either I never study enough or like I screwed up my paper


but what happened was I was crying because I saw my friend cheat and he got caught, like for actual A levels and that guy was in the same class as me since secondary one like we were friends since secondary one so it was six years of friendship already and I saw him cheat and get caught and I was like so like part of it also angry at him like I know like there maybe was some circumstance that got him to do that or whatever but the fact that he wasn't like responsible enough


to not do it, just, exactly because there was a whole tug of war situation happening in front of me like he was seated two tables in front of me and like the invigilators sort of were like can I check your paper and then he was like no and then the invigilator


that's the best part no, ya then err like the invigilator lifted his paper and then saw like the cheat sheet and then he like sort of took it and then this guy was like try to pull it back and then there was like a tug of war and I was like oh shit but the thing is after that thing happened I still have like ten twenty like no ten MCQ questions left and I could not concentrate at all like I kept reading the questions again and again and again and nothing was going into my mind


and so I was not only angry at the fact that he got caught and I was also angry at the fact that I couldn't fucking do my paper properly because of him, I was like fuck what the hell then, one of my other guy friends he like he's my friend but then he like we are not super close lah so emotions wise he he don't know how to handle so he like didn't like although my best friends were with me he sort of didn't know whether or not to get involved so he was just like Shobah are you okay then I was like ya I'm fine


ya he's super sweet


he damn cute though, , oh no no no no no is like is like a very brotherly feels, like when I see him I just want to go hug him because he's such like a sweet boy


he has a girlfriend, , to be fair he his was like in secondary three also we were in the same class then he sort of liked this girl and everyone was like making fun of them but like she didn't like him or anything then he just like oh okay like he just he didn't tell anyone either then after that once they've left JC then like he sort of figured out that she liked him


then err they got together and it was quite cute


, oh my god yesterday I could not sleep so my plan was to


no because I wanted to sleep by like, ten forty five, so that, and I was actually very sleepy, I wanted to sleep at ten forty five wake up at five thirty, and go run


and I had this whole plan as well okay I was going to go run I was err gonna come back shower and everything I was going to clear my room do some work go get breakfast at Koufu because I've been craving like Koufu breakfast like the coffee shops set breakfast and then I can study and then ya study all the way till I have lecture and everything then err I can do this recording with you but then


instead of sleeping at ten forty five I got so sleepy at six I took a nap, ya so my nap was from six forty five to no it was from six thirty to about eight something


so <tamil>அது செஞ்சிட்டு:athu senjitu</tamil> <tamil>வச்சிட்டு:vachitu</tamil> I realise that at , when ten forty five came I wasn't sleepy so I continued doing some work till eleven thirty eleven thirty I went to bed and I realise I was still not sleepy I just kept scrolling through social media and everything didn't work then I decided that I got hungry


ya, you know really because sometimes like you just keep scrolling scrolling until like there's so much you're looking at you just get tired you like ah <tamil>அடச்சீ:adachee</tamil> then you like


oh, , maybe I should try that, ya


, , , then err I couldn't fall asleep then I found I realised that I was hungry because I ate dinner at five thirty


and, that's why I was like in the indian <tamil>ஒடம்பு வந்து:odambu vanthu</tamil> fifty thirty dinner <tamil>சாப்டா தாங்காது ஒரு ஏலு எட்டு மணிக்கு சாப்டா தான் தாங்கும்:saaptaa thaangaathu oru yelu ettu manikku saaptaa thaan thaangum</tamil> so I got up I had one instant noodles so I made it and then I after eating I still wasn't sleepy err I did a bit more like like editing work because I had like one of my projects I need to edit the video


then I went to sleep but when by the time I slept it was like two something, I still did want to wake up at five five thirty but it obviously didn't happen because my, !wow!


why you like this, ya ya


!wow!, ,


ya I keep yawning sorry, I don't know I did not do any work today except I attended one lecture and I don't know why and it's freaking me out because we are like in week nine or ten or whatever it is


ah, , and ya I probably need to be doing something which I don't remember


ya, , eh the running


actually true today I felt quite, quite weird because, most of the days like I will have someone to interact with even like in in real life like something will make me leave my room


you know, I went to buy lunch but then I bought lunch and came back and I don't really interact, that's why so sad, no my way of celebrating was in the amount of food I bought not what food I bought


, no by that time by the time I left my room it was already err


what time did I text you I think around two thirty or something, , but ya I don't know, I


ah, ,


, !aiyo!, it's bad I'm already thinking about what I'm gonna eat tomorrow


ya because I got freaking scared like, no the thing is right like <tamil>இப்ப வந்து எனக்கு:ippa vanthu enakku</tamil> like had I gotten like had I wanted to get dinner what I probably would have done was gone to MacDonald's to buy it the salad by the way


their salad is actually not bad because the chicken is the grilled chicken, and their grilled chicken is really good and the sauce was nice is like japanese dressing


last week I saw you, drama week drama week, probably I feel like I saw you quite recently


no it's it's it's, it's not like some, it's not like I'm on any like supreme diet all that I'm just trying to avoid fast food err try to avoid fried food


fried food and, fried food and sweet drinks [dah], the only drink, ah <tamil>சேச்சே அதுலா இல்ல:cheche athulaa illa</tamil> there are a few people who will be err, will be excused for Metoo people are currently you and Zarah


I this is bad but I still do miss the thailand food that I always like, and I don't know why I miss it,


no, I never had it because I I found it expensive, as in I have like to deliver and only I only get delivery when I'm here, ya ya ya


(oo), damn, do they have do they have green curry, I want


I wanna go, (uh huh) I no friends sia, like my stupid boyfriend, why, eh hello you don't okay you got FYL you got this you got that I call you all to go also you can is it


what, okay, (mmhmm)


, , (mmhmm)


ya but I don't wanna do that I don't want to put you through that I don't want you to, like you can focus


fair enough, , , okay lor


okay then you let me know when you're free we go Sanuk kitchen, I'm meeting Zarah I'm free after four


who, who, !aiyo!


ya , you are the you are the ideal listening ear,


, , oh, , friday lunch dinner


, fair enough, , actually ya I might come back to NTU <tamil>தெரில:therila</tamil> okay because my friend always oh friday I got class till twelve thirty okay because


my friend usually she will come to NTU to study, she's from NUS so she will come NTU to study with me and then we will, no it's like sometimes you want to get away from your usual environment


ya so last time it used to be we'll take turn sometimes I'll go NUS sometimes she will come NTU but now that I'm staying in hall then it's easier for for both of us especially because I got class in the morning, so it's she will come she'll be here at like eight AM and she will start studying


ya like because whatever work she procrastinate over the week right she will push it to friday so that she will come sit with me and do, that's why, err ya


so I will let her so if you confirm, that we're going then I will I'll let her know lah then I'll ask her whether she still wanna meet or she want to skip this week or something


so friday ah, amazing, , err, about, twenty something minutes twenty five minutes


ya, oh my god did you know that actually can do like, two hours I don't think continuously but two hours <tamil>குடுத்தா:kuduthaa</tamil> then they'll give hundred dollars


no because <tamil>அன்னைக்கு நா:annaikku naa</tamil> Zarah <tamil>கூட சென்ஜென்ல:kooda senjaenla</tamil> then after that she say err <tamil>ஒங்களுக்கு யாருக்காச்சும் யாருக்கு யாராச்சும் தெரியுனா இந்த மாதிரி செய்றதுக்கு:ongalukku yaarukachum yaarukku yaarachum theriyunaa intha maathiri seirathukku</tamil> then let me know so we say okay we'll let you know but then the people we ask they were like I can do but I don't have friends to do it but then Zarah and I already had done


then she said okay you can do with other people also so I was like oh okay then I asked you and stuff then after that she said by the way you guys also can do another one we'll give another fifty dollars then I was <tamil>சரி செய்ரோ:sari seyiro</tamil> so I don't know whether it's for this one also I think later I will send her a message lah just to ask if


can do the other one also you know what I'm doing I'm doing another paid study, basically <tamil>என்னன்னா:ennannaa</tamil> you see the good thing is I, I always say my immune system is quite tough like it's it's pretty good


for a very unfit person it's surprisingly good, like <tamil>எனக்கு:enakku</tamil> like I got from my dad <tamil>எனக்கு என் அப்பாக்கு:enakku en appakku</tamil> sick <tamil>கே வராது:kae varaathu</tamil> but if we fall sick, it will take quite a bit to, ya like


ya, , ,


ya,


what if you don't know what am I suppose to do, oh man, oh but ya it's it's very the opposite of my mother because <tamil>எங்க அம்மாக்கு:enga ammakku</tamil> like, it's like, ya it's like almost like everyday something's happening like <tamil>தலவலிக்கு முதுகு வலிக்கு காத்து பூந்துரு:thalavalikku muthugu valikku kaathu poonthuru</tamil> gastric ah <tamil>இருக்கு:irukku</tamil> some nonsense lah so my father and I like cannot really relate and it has gotten to a point where we are like <tamil>ஆமா எப்போது அப்புடி தான இருக்க போது:aamaa eppothu appudi thaanae irukka pothu</tamil> that sort of thing


, no because some of the things I will I have started scolding her already because she <tamil>ஆவுனா:aavunaa</tamil> will gastric pain gastric pain so I was like what time did you eat did you eat on time or not she was like <tamil>இல்ல வேலயா இருந்தேன்:illa velayaa irunthaen</tamil> I was like you are literally like


fifty years old what is it gonna take for you to eat on time you keep scolding me saying oh <tamil>என்ன மாதிரி இருக்காத நேரத்தோட சாப்புடு:enna maathiri irukaatha naerathoda saapudu</tamil> how about you start eating on time then she then she'll like no she will try to give excuse


uh <tamil>அதா:athaa</tamil> , ya then err ya so because my immune system I think is quite tough then there's like this err skin care research in singapore and basically they were doing like a study lah on people who use like females who use face serum like a moisturiser <tamil>மாதிரி:maathiri</tamil> they basically one of the companies approach them and was like we're gonna release this face serum we just want to make sure that it's okay for all types of skin


they gave me the face serum so everyday after I like usually I use face serum after I wash my face right so instead of using that serum I must use this one so at any point like if I feel like it's itchy or any redness or something I can just stop and I can just tell them if I finish like the one month of using it and everything I get seventy dollars


I get seventy dollars for putting a cream on my face, for thirty days


so so when I first started using it like it felt a bit sticky or like I had like one two pimple because I usually don't get pimples then err, I don't know now I started using it and it's really good lah because my I actually like kind of want to know what this product is because I'm not supposed to know what brand or anything but at the end of it I kind of want to know because I have very very dry skin like <tamil>எனக்கு இந்த பக்கோ:enakku intha pakko</tamil> and everything like the age of my nose and stuff


it will be a lot of dry skin and it'll be very flaky so like if I put powder or anything like you can clearly see all my dry skin but ever since I started using this it's like no dry skin at all, so that's been good and I'm getting seventy dollars for it so that's great


actually I saw another one you know let me see if it's no let me see if it's applicable for you, I generally don't know because the one, no it wasn't for hair growth it was for do you drink coffee


ah, okay then it's not for you probably, I because I, ya it was for me because there was like this research thing so oh okay never mind they needed chinese people never mind err lucky I never sign up they basically wanted people to drink like they will give you like this coffee


err like sample thing and then you just drink and, you, must do a, urine test once or something but it's in NTU lah like at the fullerton there so if you do then the end of it I think it's for it's a one month project or something


or like you can you can say how long you can commit to it and then the reimbursement was hundred and fifty dollars, ya jesus indeed, I don't know lah


ya ya ya you it's a Telegram group it's called NTU, ya I'm serious there's a Telegram group they send all the paid studies and everything there, ya ya ya I I will send you the link or something I'll add you or something


, ya because they always send then even today like the skincare one that I'm doing right they sent another one that says , there was a eyeliner version so for another seventy I do this also but then they said like they do need to stop using this product for like fourteen days then only they can let me use the other one but the


like the study period called was clashing ya so they didn't let me do lah then I was like okay then they sent me an


ya, , it's quite funny, ya that's how I found this this current thing we're doing also they publicised on Telegram and then I got Zarah to do with me


ya, (mmhmm)


uh, ah, ,


ya because the one I I honestly don't know how whether or not I'm gonna get the referral


ya, ya


NTU meh, , , let me think I'm like looking at all me for inspiration


uh <tamil>என்:en</tamil> room leh <tamil>என்ன இருக்கு:enna irukku</tamil>, , eh you know my


the final eh I sad the last one I got a B plus, okay the reason why I'm sad is because in order to get err err, second upper when I graduate I need to get at least four point two for this semester and that and next semester


which means I should be aiming for an A minus across all my modules, which for art I don't know whether I'm gonna get because the first assignment I got an A minus my second one I got a B plus and most of the marks is gonna be for the final thing which is very scary to me and the final assignment is a self portrait and the self portrait is err like you can do whatever technique lah but he just expects you to


be expressive about yourself, so, what I wanted to do actually was I had two routes to think about it so either I was gonna do I was going to follow a photo of me in traditional wear


and like make the background a bit like indian and stuff so something about being proud of my culture and stuff like that lah and I was going to make it look as close to the photo as possible, or I was going to do another one which was I paint my face normally but then I wanted to have cracks like portions cracked off and it's like underneath there's a layer and that layer is something different


, no because the, no because the layer that I want I like I wanted something like let's say I paint a grey portrait of myself right and then the underneath that I wanted to have like those like like a gradient rainbow like that


ya so something like that lah but then I err, I in theory it sounds great, whether it plays out a not I'm like going to need a lot of brown paint if I'm gonna paint myself


which like the hard one of the harder things about painting like a face is, no is the amount of the same colour you need, like can you imagine I like create this much of the paint already then I paint finish right I need to try and mix that exact same tone again which involves the same amount of like the same red blue and yellow colour and I'm like


it's a miracle that I got there in the first place, and this one I don't know I need to start on it soon I don't know what's happening


I'm doing err oil and acrylic she's doing watercolor, so her final is landscape painting, mine is self portrait,


no our first assignment was sort of the same it was the one where we had to do different techniques err and paint an apple, the second actually second one also was kind of similar it was for like still life painting the one was when I had to paint that one was my pooh bear and and winnie bottle


and then, that's the one I got a B plus for I'm so sad, and then, ya, and then no because initially when I showed him he was like oh that's nice that's a nice set up then I was like alright so I initially wanted to have the bottle like near pooh bear's hand so it looks like he just drank it but then if I put like that then like the bottle needs to be slanted and that's like too many technical problems there


then he was like okay it's okay, but then I don't wanna run,


I must, I need to, no let me, let me tell you why I need to run first of all, first of all it's because my <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> for Deepavali is already pre-bought


I don't have a choice but to fit into it, and can I tell you when this <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> was bought it was bought, four years ago


no I haven't, no because I haven't worn it before because <tamil>நாங்க வாங்கிட்டு:naanga vaangittu</tamil> at that point when we went to india we found like this boutique and that boutique sold <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> that was like expensive for india price but very cheap for our price right so


ya exactly and so because we went there then like the <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> fit because usually like I'm very tall right so they don't really have <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> that like fits my body that well and at that point when we went err I had lost weight as well so I could fit into a lot of the <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> and my mother got so excited she decided to buy five different <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> for me


out of out of which I've only worn three two I haven't won and because last year my grandfather passed away right so by right <tamil>இந்த வருஷோ:intha varusho</tamil> I not supposed to celebrate Deepavali but my mother said my parents are not gonna celebrate I will still like


not say celebrate like I won't, ya because she said because <tamil>நாங்க எங்க பாட்டி வீட்ல தங்கி இருக்கோல:naanga enga paati veetla thangi irukkola</tamil> and they will have all the visitors over and all the food so like it's a very fine line like <tamil>அவங்க குடுக்குற சாப்பாட தான் சாபுட முடியும் அங்க யாரு இருக்காங்களோ அவங்க கிட்ட தான் பேச முடியும்:avanga kudukkura saapaada thaan saapuda mudiyum anga yaaru irukaangalo avanga kitta thaan pesa mudiyum</tamil> what am I suppose to do so she was like <tamil>நானு அவ:naanu ava</tamil> so like


so she just said lah <tamil>நீ வேணுனா:nee vaenunaa</tamil> celebrate <tamil>பண்ணு:pannu</tamil> just that you don't take part in the prayers and everything so I was like sure doesn't sound like a problem to me then I was like, then err


, you will come run with me, oh because I have never run with anyone before


because, ya ya ya like because okay this is gonna get depressing real soon no because when I was younger and everything I was I as genuinely overweight right and like my actual weight and I also looked very much overweight and because of that I was made fun of a lot so


whenever even when I went to like secondary school and JC and everything I used to get so scared of just PE lessons that the day before I will burst out crying at home saying how I didn't want to do PE the next day and during PE lessons itself if it involved any like running and everything I'll be so scared about like who's going to see me run and like people are gonna judge me whatever


so ever since then I don't like running with people I don't I can gym with people, that I don't mind, but I don't like running because I know I cannot I cannot keep up with people or even if I know I'll be faster thaan someone right I just don't like running with someone that's why my mother will always be like oh <tamil>அண்னே கூட போய் ஓடு:annae kooda poyi odu</tamil> like because my brother will go for jogs and everything right and my <tamil>அண்ணா:annaa</tamil> also has been like no no it's okay I can just like match your pace we can go


I'm like ah ah sorry no not happening if I'm running I'm doing it on my own I don't mind gymming like I'll go to gym with Zarah I went to gym with Lochana I've went to gym with quite a number of my friends, I but I actually do do stuff at the gym like I don't fool around a lot in the gym


like I used to love doing like you know the cycling, with the resistance, ya I do that and then treadmill a little bit I used to do the the bicep thing


and then I used to do a bit of pull ups I hated doing the ropes but Zarah, you know Zarah keep like asking like he kept making me do it he was like no do it's good for your core I'm like I don't want to do this and I oh the thing that I did love to do though was you know the thighs thing like you sit down and then err you like rest your knees on some some padded thing and then you need to either squish your legs together or you need to push it out


I I don't know why but I love doing that probably just because no because I know that like the part that I want to lose most weight usually for me is my arms and my thighs so when I'm doing that I feel so proud of myself I'm like yes I'm doing it <tamil>என்னன்னா:ennannaa</tamil> there was once when I was doing it you know how like the one if you are doing the pushing in version the moment you relax it just automatically pushes your leg


all the way out right so if it will just be spreading in front there so I was just like doing the exercise and ya well like I was like doing doing then at one point like I had to take a break right so I stopped and I I'm not supposed to be looking at this I was like <tamil>அடப்பாவி:adapaavi</tamil> !aiyoyo!


and then I continued doing, ya that was funny, you need to do with someone,


aww, , I think it's because I can't run I can do gym I can't run the reason why I


, eh that's what I do for running


see, the thing is when I run near my house right I like to run near my house the route where I run because it's I'm very familiar with the route, the problem is, there are so many places for people to see me run because right around my house right there's a secondary school there's a primary school there's a polytechnic there's two bus stops


and all of those are within the circle that I run in and I'm like are you kidding me so I will wait until it's like the weirdest time so I will go run at like nine oh seven because that's when it'll be fine so I'll go run then and there was once I told my brother like it makes me nervous because I feel like people will be looking at me you know what was his advice


run faster they won't see your face, I was like I was like well in a way it does make sense but I was like wrong person to give that solution to


hello


ah


, !huh! (uh huh)


!aiyo!


it's okay guys <tamil>நம்மளால முடியும்:nammalaala mudiyum</tamil> all is not lost yet <tamil>அந்த மாரி பேசிட்டு இருக்கோ:antha maari pesitu irukko</tamil> right now


err show <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> november six


but <tamil>அதா:atha</tamil> err


<tamil>என்ன இருக்கு:enna irukku</tamil> , , uh uh


uh uh uh, uh


<tamil>நீங்கள் தேந்தெடுக்கும் தலைப்பு:neengal thernthaedukum thalaippu</tamil>


<tamil>முடி பின்றதா பத்தி நம்ம பேசலா இன்னைக்கு:mudi pindratha pathi namma pesalaa innaikku</tamil> , yes <tamil>எனக்கு நெறய இருக்கு முடி பின்றத பத்தி பேச:enakku neraya irukku mudi pindratha pathi pesa</tamil>


(mmhmm) , ah okay <tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> (mmhmm)


(mmhmm) (mmhmm), (mmhmm)


uh , okay okay


uh,


, (uh huh)


(mmhmm) ya ya


, , , uh


uh, (uh huh), <tamil>அட போங்கப்பா:ada pongappaa</tamil>


, (uh huh), ,


, as you can see


as you can see I am in very clear need of it right now okay !wah! so please


how I say <tamil>ஒன்னு:onnu</tamil> like I don't know again like I'm able to rock it then second more than <tamil>வந்து என்னன்னா:vanthu ennannaa</tamil> is it's, easy to maintain easy to like <tamil>என்னா சொல்றது:enna solrathu</tamil> it's not annoying <tamil>போன:pona</tamil> hairstyle <tamil>வந்து என்னன்னா:vanthu ennaannaa</tamil> like <tamil>அத வச்சிக்கிட்டு நா வந்து:atha vachikittu naa vanthu</tamil> every <tamil>ரெண்டு நிமிஷம்:rendu nimisham</tamil> second <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> I have to like


maintain comb and then I'll be like <tamil>அந்த பஞ்சபூதங்களே என்னை நெருங்கி வராதீர்கள்:antha panjaboothangalae ennai nerungi varaatheergal</tamil> and all that kind of stuff and everything


err so another is is okay lah like err like how I say it's damn nice to play cricket with this, bowling <tamil>பண்றபோ உள்ள ஓடி வரபோ ஒரு:pandrapo ulla odi varapo oru</tamil> joy, like <tamil>காத்து:kaathu</tamil> effect lah <tamil>வருது:varuthu</tamil> ah


I I err <tamil>இப்போதைக்கு அதுதான்:ippothaikku athuthaan</tamil> idea, because because


okay because things oh <tamil>எதுவும் மாறபோறதில்ல:ethuvum maaraporathilla</tamil> because


oh no <tamil>தண்ணி:thanni</tamil> then like whole day I'm just like <tamil>இப்புடி இப்புடி அப்ப எதுக்கு:ippudi ippudi appe ethukku</tamil> you know is like, I don't know I think I'll maintain it for the time being until like, like you know like <tamil>இல்ல இபோ வந்து:illa ippo vanthu</tamil> is the only way is to do is head transplant literally <tamil>அது அந்த:athu antha</tamil> stage <tamil>வந்திச்சி:vanthichi</tamil> and it's and it's ridiculously expensive right cosmetic surgeries are one of the most expensive err stuff that exists so


or best or best <tamil>டு இத பாத்து ஒரு பொன்னு ஏய் நல்லாருக்கு:tu itha paathu oru ponnu yei nallaarukku</tamil> ah then <tamil>அப்புடின்டா:appudindaa</tamil> will I <tamil>வச்சிருக்கம்பா நீ கவலபடாத:vachirukampaa nee kavalapadaatha</tamil> , <tamil>நா எப்போது இப்புடி தாண்டா வச்சிருப்பேன் நீ கவலபடாத:naa eppothu ippudi thaanda vachirupaen nee kavalapadaatha</tamil> can can can


quite thick , ah ah ah


I mean <tamil>இங்க பாருமா:inga paarumaa</tamil> you are literally showing it to a guy where if you show one strand already I'll be like eh <tamil>எவ்ளோ அடர்த்தியா இருக்கு:evlo adarthiyaa irukku</tamil> literally, I uh uh, ah (uh huh) ah ah ah


(uh huh) uh, then for us is like fast forward right


ah


ah, as in definitely definitely that won't work okay because they need it for later arguments


okay ,


(mmhmm), ,


ah well, see <tamil>பாத்தியா நா என்ன சொன்ன ஓங்கிட்ட நம்ம ஒரு:paathiyaa naa enna sonna ongkitta namma oru</tamil> topic ah <tamil>சொல்லுவோ ஆனா நம்மலே:solluvo aanaa nammalae</tamil> flow leh <tamil>போயிடுவோண்டன்ல பாதியா:poyiduvondanla paathiyaa</tamil> see


<tamil>ஆனா நீ:aanaa nee</tamil> usually interesting ah <tamil>எதாச்சும் ஒரு:ethachum oru</tamil> topic <tamil>வச்சிருபியே:vachirupiyae</tamil> !wah!


err <tamil>எங்க இருந்து ஆரம்பிக்க எங்க இருந்து முடிக்க:enga irunthu aarambikka enga irunthu mudika</tamil> err, , ,


(uh huh) , <tamil>சே என்ன ஒரு நல்லவனா இருக்கா:chae enna oru nallavanaa irukkaa</tamil>


ah, (uh huh), (uh huh), (uh huh) (mmhmm)


ya


, (mmhmm) <tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> (uh huh)


(mmhmm), (uh huh) uh (mmhmm) uh uh


well you see


(mmhmm) (uh huh)


(uh huh) uh uh uh, (uh huh) (mmhmm)


(uh huh), uh uh (uh huh) (mmhmm)


[orh] okay okay K, oh okay K, (mmhmm)


(mmhmm) (mmhmm), to like, [orh] [orh] no I didn't read enough to


(mmhmm)


<tamil>பாத்துறாதீங்க பாத்துறாதீங்க:paathuraathinga paathuraathinga</tamil> , (uh huh) (uh huh) (uh huh)


(uh huh) , uh


uh, (uh huh) ya,


, oh like like attractive voice <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி சொல்றியா:antha maathiri solriyaa</tamil> or like personality [orh]


[orh] okay okay can


damn it


(mmhmm) ya, okay


but ya


, uh okay oh ya need okay , uh okay (uh huh)


(uh huh) (mmhmm) , ya ya ya uh (uh huh)


ah okay okay,


, , <tamil>கொஞ்சோ இரு கொஞ்சோ இரு:konjo iru konjo iru</tamil> scrolling through social media will make you sleepy <tamil>எந்த ஊர்ல:entha oorla</tamil> does this work


ah


just put that


, , , <tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> uh


(mmhmm) (uh huh) (uh huh),


, , and then I forgot to bring the storyboard and then I left it at home


addicted I'll be like <tamil>இல்லனா இருக்குறதே மறைச்சிட்டேனே:illana irukurathe marachitaenae</tamil> , ya


no it's okay, oh, , week week nine I am assuming is week nine ah right now I'll be so screwed up but


(mmhmm) ,


uh


, you know my band IC know just see err <tamil>அதுவந்து என்னன்னா நா அவங்கள கூப்ட ஏன்னா நெறய:athuvanthu ennanna naa avangala koopda yaennaa neraya</tamil> changes lah <tamil>வர போதுமா:vara pothumaa</tamil> err err the so I need to drop you <tamil>ன்னு கூப்ட அவங்க வந்து:nnu koopda avanga vanthu</tamil> lesson learned leh <tamil>இருந்தாங்க:irunthaanga</tamil> so I would say then <tamil>அதுக்கு அப்புறம் இப்ப தான்:athukku appuram ippa thaan</tamil> she just called me


then I say sorry [dah] <tamil>நா:naa</tamil> call leh <tamil>இருக்கேன்:irukaen</tamil> cannot take then he was like no worries I just ended mine you call me when you're done so I was like okay [dah] sorry then <tamil>இதுக்கு ஏன்:ithukku yaen</tamil> sorry all then I was like soon you will know ,


then she's like oh no <tamil>என்னடா பண்ணி வச்ச:ennada panni vacha</tamil> <tamil>சரி சொல்ற சொல்ற வர வர:sari solra solra vara vara</tamil> ,


uh , (mmhmm),


dramaing last week ah !huh!, oh shit ya drama week was last week oh god err right


search <tamil>பண்ணு:pannu</tamil> health <tamil>வேற சொல்லிட்டேன்:vera sollitaen</tamil> I cannot be, okay can, just don't have the limitations when I come when we go out okay that's my only


(mmhmm)


you've but have you eaten in Sanuk kitchen in in JP, dude is really good eh eh it !huh!


oh <tamil>அந்தமாரி சொல்றியா:anthamari solriyaa</tamil> okay okay ah delivery ah that one will make sense lah but no Sanuk kitchen is one of those rare places where the supper is good and the Cusis is cheap


yes of course it's a thai <tamil>கடே:kadae</tamil> they do have green curry


, eh


Nah I trust me the past two weeks


like I literally just


friday <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> !aiyoyo! friday <tamil>அந்த பொண்ணோட:antha ponnoda</tamil> birthday <tamil>அதுக்கு மட்டும் நா போல நா எனய குழி தோண்டி:athukku matum naa pola naa enaya kuli thondi</tamil> dude she's been threatening me for two weeks I'm not it's not even reminding threatening


<tamil>நீ என்ன பாக்கல நா குதிச்சிருவ:nee enna paakala naa kuthichiruva</tamil> then err, ah <tamil>ஆளே அம்மா தாயே:aalae ammaa thayae</tamil> okay <tamil>இந்த பொண்ணு நானு இன்னும் இவளவு வந்து:intha ponnu naanu innum ivalu vanthu</tamil> we got damn close this semester <tamil>ஏன்னா:yaennaa</tamil> because like she realise like oh Paarthan <tamil>கிட்ட:kitta</tamil> can talk about life stuff


and it's like, it won't be that bad which I'm starting to see is like some recurring theme right now, now that I think about it, so so, so I was like okay so <tamil>அதனாலே:athanaalae</tamil> we got damn close


so she say <tamil>என்:en</tamil> party <tamil>கு நீ வரல:ku nee varala</tamil> <tamil>உன் மூஞ்சிலயே நா முழிக்க மாட்ட:un moonjilayae naa mulika maata</tamil> and I was like okay okay <tamil>தப்பா நினச்சிகாதமா:thappa ninachikaathamaa</tamil> oh wait it's not friday it's sunday okay okay can <tamil>நல்ல வேல ரொம்ப இல்லயா:nalla vela romba illayaa</tamil> <tamil>அப்புடிலா நம்ம:appudilaa namma</tamil> actually we can do on friday


friday lunch lunch better because err knowing my <tamil>வாழ்க:vazhlka</tamil> right now they definitely <tamil>எவனோ ஒருத்தன் ஒரு:evano oruthan oru</tamil> meeting <tamil>போட்டுருவா:poturuvaa</tamil> evening lah, so I can go with you lunch and then like uturn <tamil>எடுக்கனும்:edukanum</tamil> please thinking you and then go back


, , uh


where got such <tamil>நல்ல:nalla</tamil> good friends all, (uh huh) uh oh okay okay (uh huh)


, jesus okay, (mmhmm)


okay, interesting approach but okay, yes can can,


okay okay can lah can can, Sanuk kitchen ladies and gentlemen, yes


<tamil>என்ன பேசலா:enna pesala</tamil>


(mmhmm)


uh (mmhmm) uh uh uh


okay okay, (mmhmm) (mmhmm) (mmhmm) (uh huh)


(uh huh), uh okay


okay okay uh, , it'll be it'll be quite rabak is it


[orh] okay that one I can understand, , uh , uh


is is is a bit like me lah is like, ah <tamil>இதுல தலவலி அந்த மாரிலா வராது:ithula thalavali antha maarila varaathu</tamil> but <tamil>எதாச்சும் வந்திச்சினா:ethachum vanthichinaa</tamil> it's like oh <tamil>ஒங்க:onga</tamil> kidney <tamil>காணாமப்போச்சு:kaanaamapochu</tamil> oh


no the kidney one <tamil>என்னால இன்னிக்கி வரைக்கும் மறக்கவே முடியாது:ennaala innikku varaikum marakavae mudiyaathu</tamil> it's like <tamil>ஒங்க:onga</tamil> kidney <tamil>தண்ணியா இருக்கே:thanniya irukae</tamil> [dey] <tamil>அதுக்கு என்னடா அர்தோ:athukku ennadaa artho</tamil> , it's very watery I don't know if it's good or bad why is this a question


oh god, (mmhmm), uh


uh uh (uh huh) (uh huh), oh I thought I thought you were going to say like oh <tamil>மூக்குசளி:mookusali</tamil> today is monday, like me


, (uh huh) (uh huh)


she said she said err <tamil>இதலா நேரோ இதலா கேக்கவேண்டி இருக்கு:ithalaa nero ithala kaekavaendi irukku</tamil> ,


, (uh huh) okay, (mmhmm)


, but but you


it's not some dangerous cream know sure not, uh oh okay okay


okay okay, , (uh huh) !huh! (mmhmm), (mmhmm) (uh huh) oh okay (mmhmm)


, oh okay okay oh okay okay


seventy dollars for taking care of myself <tamil>நல்லாருக்கே இது:nallarukkae ithu</tamil> , is like is like, is like <tamil>அரசாங்கோ:arasaango</tamil> is a <tamil>ஏமா இந்த பொண்ணு பாத்துக மாட்டிங்குது:yaemaa intha ponnu paathuka maatinguthu</tamil> we <tamil>காசு குடுத்தாதா:kaasu kuduthatha</tamil> charge <tamil>உண்டு சரி:undu sari</tamil> sir <tamil>ஏமா இந்தா எழுது வெளிய நீயே ஒழுங்கா பாத்துக்கோ:yaemaa intha eluthu veliya neeyae olungaa paathukko</tamil>


!aiyo! , hair growth


ya no I hate coffee, this one sounds more for you,


, (mmhmm) (mmhmm) (uh huh)


okay , , okay jesus ya lah prayer can


, are you are you serious oh my god, oh my god can I have access to this group


(uh huh) (mmhmm) (uh huh)


sounds great , , (uh huh) uh [orh], uh okay


the you know the one where , you remember <tamil>நீ மொதல்ல சொன்ன:nee mothalla sonna</tamil> the finance <tamil>பத்திலா பேசுவாங்க:pathilaa pesuvaanga</tamil> we should do that and then Neeraj <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> wanted to do with me then he said then he said Jee <tamil>எப்பவேணா கூப்புடுவாங்க:eppavaenaa koopuduvaanga</tamil> ready ah <tamil>இரு:iru</tamil> I'm like [dey]


(uh huh) uh, okay, smart move


classic, okay how is all the NTU and err, life life <tamil>பத்தி பேசிட்டு தானே இருக்கோ:pathi paesitu thaanae irukko</tamil> anyways


<tamil>சரி சரி:sari sari</tamil> artists artists <tamil>டோட கஷ்டங்கள்:toda kashtangal</tamil> please inspire me


ah uh uh uh (uh huh)


(uh huh) (uh huh), okay and, (mmhmm) (uh huh) uh


(mmhmm)


okay, (uh huh) (uh huh) (mmhmm)


(uh huh), right, okay (uh huh) (uh huh) (mmhmm) okay


(uh huh) ya like colour is it ah okay okay,


(uh huh) (uh huh), is the procurement uh


wait err is Vishoni doing the same module as this as you


[orh] okay okay, no because I just because I just saw her and then she's like oh <tamil>இப்ப வீட்டுக்கு போய் நா வரைனும்:ippa veetukku poyi naa varainum</tamil> then I was like, I was like is this the same thing as her's then I was like okay


okay, , uh, yes


<tamil>அவரு வந்து:avaru vanthu</tamil> wine bottle ah <tamil>பாத்து அவரு காண்டாகிடாறு:pathu avaru gaaandaakitaaru</tamil> <tamil>போனோனே என்ன வரைய சொன்னா என்னத வரைறது வரஞ்சிட்டு வந்துருக்க:pononae enna varaiya sonna ennatha varairathu varanjitu vanthurukka</tamil>


(uh huh) (uh huh) (uh huh), okay, okay okay


, currently


!aiyo! <tamil>கடவுளே அடிச்சுட்டா:kadavulae adichuttaa</tamil> uh, (uh huh)


what last year ah, <tamil>அதுக்கு பெரு:athukku peru</tamil> Deepavali <tamil>சட்டல அதுக்கு பெரு:sattala athuku peru</tamil> used <tamil>சட்ட:satta</tamil> okay two completely different things , okay okay


that's that's the story of literally every i come from ya, (uh huh)


(uh huh) !wow!, very good


(uh huh) okay uh, you can like at least like, enjoy a bit ah


it because okay I mean Deepavali uh I have no other choice I have to act like as if I am caring about my health after semester one


okay, (uh huh) okay


(mmhmm) (mmhmm) , (mmhmm) (mmhmm) (uh huh)


(mmhmm) okay uh after that (mmhmm)


okay (uh huh), (uh huh) uh


(uh huh) uh, , (uh huh) uh uh


uh okay, (mmhmm) , (mmhmm) ah, (uh huh) right


, (mmhmm), eh no one likes the ropes


, (uh huh)


ah ya ya ya I know what you're talking about ya ya ya, , (uh huh) (mmhmm) (uh huh)


(mmhmm), uh, weirdest weird to say


(uh huh) , (uh huh)


, I no I don't mind running with people but I hate gyming with people


it makes me so god damn conscious I hate it running <tamil>ஆச்சு:aachu</tamil> I don't mind, I mean you you do realise who you're talking to right <tamil>இபோ மட்டும் என்ன என்ன என்ன:ippo mattum enna enna enna</tamil> #usain bolt# <tamil>டோட சித்தப்பா பைய சரி:toda sithappa paiya sari</tamil>


[orh] <tamil>நா என்ன:naa enna</tamil> #usain bolt# <tamil>டோட சித்தப்பா பையனா:toda sithappa paiyanaa</tamil> ah running ya no <tamil>அதுலா ஒண்ணுல்ல நானே வந்து முக்கி முக்கி எங்கயாச்சும் உருண்டுடுதான் போவ சும்மா இரு பாக்கல:athula onnula naanae vanthu mukki mukki engayachum urundututhaan pova summa iru paakala</tamil> it's just, I prefer doing that as a group you see but if it's gym right gym <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> I'll go only odd hours I'll go like at one AM two AM or go like correct ah lunch timing so that there's


so that there is no one I don't need to worry and then I go go there, (mmhmm) (uh huh)


(uh huh) (uh huh) ya


(uh huh) , (mmhmm)


(uh huh) what what was it he said, damn what a what a brother,


okay now I put on earpiece, hold on, well nice nice so it's beginning


, Naan ah actually why Naan why you don't want Prata you don't like Biryani


and everything, ,


wait Naan they don't use oil ah then how they cook Naan


oh, , so wait you say they dip it down to something right what do they dip they what do they dip it down to,


, oh wait so you are using something like steaming lah


oh oh interesting, so <tamil>அதுனாலையும்:athunaalayum</tamil> favourite lah not because it's tasty or, ah


I mean okay lah but I prefer Prata to Naan lah, err I mean okay Naan, okay not say it's because of the butter err butter chicken


but then I believe the, main dish to eat with butter chicken is more of Naan right, so <tamil>அதுனாலயே தான்:athunaalayae thaan</tamil> because of the butter chicken is why I buy Naan not because I like Naan, ah so


so for you you said you like because it's healthy, , okay Naan and Prata, why do you prefer Naan again because of the oil lah but in terms of taste, Naan or Prata


Prata usually I eat two lah, for me two lah,


not that,


I mean ya Prata any time of the day can lah ya I didn't know Naan cannot eat for breakfast <tamil>வெளிய:veliyae</tamil> ah


ah, I mean err, I mean technically Biryani, ah ya I mean, I got hear of people doing Biryani for breakfast but I know it's not conventional lah


so, you say okay Naan is thicker than Prata, but if you were to choose ah more filling I mean thicker lah that's why more filling


so if you were to choose Naan and Biryani like you will go to err err for example you go to a shop, got #dum briyani# and got Naan, if <tamil>இப்போ என்ன சாப்பிடுற:ippo enna saapidurae</tamil> like okay if like tonight they're going


what will you buy Naan or Biryani,


, then they buy okay you buy both is it


you can lah


, ah correct, !aiyo! okay lah ya that's true, err


versus Biryani


ah


I mean, anytime anywhere Biryani except probably not I mean conventionally lah like lunch dinner, not breakfast <tamil>அந்த மாதிரி:antha maathiri</tamil> I mean breakfast <tamil>சாப்பிட்டு இருக்கேன்:saapittu irukaen</tamil> but err conventional I'm talking about conventional way lunch and dinner


Biryani <tamil>இருந்தா சாப்பிட்டுருவேன்:irunthaa saapiduruvaen</tamil> like is the premium food you can say, that I consider it the premium food Biryani, so <tamil>எப்பவுமே:eppavumae</tamil> Biryani <tamil>தான் வாங்குவேன்:thaan vaanguven</tamil> on top of fried rice the nasi goreng everything, so <tamil>இதெல்லாம் இது பண்ணும் போது:ithellam ithu pannum pothu</tamil> err how to say


so fried rice err


so nowadays different food lah for me


Karan you haven't answer the question


, oh


, I mean if you think about it, for example a shop called sixes at Tekka


, correct lah okay but another example is err a shop called Gandhis


there's something unique about that place, then they serve the, the vegetable all I think you if you go there you order Biryani if I'm not wrong


correct, ya we got go together, what


for me Gandhis is known for <tamil>வெள்ள சோறு:vella soru</tamil> not Biryani, then,


, ya that's true that's true


like there's a lot of variety of things there, ah for example a coffee shop in Marsiling


ah chicken rice <tamil>மட்டும் தான் வாங்குவோம்:mattum thaan vanguvom</tamil> ah


ah ya lah true lah


I like but if you compare like what you just said the previous point about err, err <tamil>இல்லாட்டி:illaati</tamil> you go to err no like al-ameen, okay if you go al-ameen <tamil>ஒரே சாப்பாடு சாப்பிடறதுல:orae saapaadu saapidarathula</tamil> you will rather try other food


that's a point for al-ameen why this point is not applied to the chicken rice shop coffee shop


, , I mean ya true lah that's one fact lah, let's say opinion <tamil>என்னான்னு கேட்டிங்களா:ennanu kettingalaa</tamil> I feel that


why we go to the chicken rice coffee shop, to eat chicken rice


okay I never try the chicken rice stall below my block


but I I'm supporting you as in like <tamil>இப்ப வந்து:ippa vanthu</tamil> Marsiling that chicken rice right if I'm travel all all the way there it's just to eat the chicken rice, not to try the mixed rice stall ya so, ya lah <tamil>நான் என்ன சொல்ல வரேன்னா என்:naan enna solla varaennaa en</tamil> coffee shop <tamil>கீழயும் சாப்பிடலாம்:kizhalayum saapidalaam</tamil> but


ya exactly it's a common place


actually no more than one year ago how when was the last time you went


oh !wow! nice nice, eh that's actually very long ago, but okay lah two years ago I think you should go soon, very soon, later we will be going al-ameen


ya, maybe lah later either al-ameen or cannot go chicken rice shop because chicken rice shop is too, too late already, ya that's why, err okay lah I heard it's still there lah


heard the nasi lemak shop is still there, but err see don't know lah I never go before I mean I never go like how long already the nasi lemak shop, !aiya! last time also, exactly, !hanna! that's why I thinking also


err now we'll go with err western fast food, McDonald's or KFC, every food item in it


yes, why not KFC


actually ya last time right, when I was in primary school KFC, and I was in primary school right I was like KFC had this err


dessert kiosk also, KFC had, they they sell the chocolate hot fudge hot fudge sundae


[orh] you saying that one you know the ice cream lah, okay so last time long time ago, causeway point KFC has this ice cream kiosk the kiosk dessert kiosk also


but then <tamil>என்ன வித்தியாசம் னா:enna vithiyasam naa</tamil> they had this toppings you can put, so <tamil>இப்போ வந்து நீ போய்:ippo vanthu nee poi</tamil> McDonald's the ah McDonald's <tamil>வாங்குனா:vangunaa</tamil> it's just normal ice cream right then for example you got special only then only you got toppings like for example lah you want to buy a milo McFlurry


you buy sundae ice cream right then they have topping bowls like one is the rainbow sprinkle one is the chocolate rice one is M&M one is err


so basically you can choose lah so in the sundae ice cream <tamil>வச்சுகிட்டு:vachukittu</tamil> each topping is around twenty cents, so <tamil>நான் என்ன பண்ணுவேன்னா:nan enna pannuvenaa</tamil> last time I used the buy sundae ice cream then I used to buy the M&M, but then I think now got closed down then I


ah, ya and I never see since ever since then I never see KFC doing it already, okay either primary school or kindergarten around there


it's very very long ago very long, then I'll buy the mini M&M, then I will take the mini M&M pour into the sundae ice cream


close the sundae ice cream then I'll let the the M&M melt, err not melt lah dissolve into the ice cream, I think no that one you got see me do, last time one of the time I think very long ago I don't know whether you can remember or not I used to do that


ah ya ya ya the Ben & Jerry's one, because last time KFC did this then KFC after that I think they stop this ice cream thing


okay lah I mean I don't know why they close it down I think it was good, the sundae ice cream is similar,


err okay mudpie is it's not really my favourite but, but mudpie I feel at some time some point of time should be too


chocolatey, ah overrate I mean not overrated lah over chocolatey like <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> very heaty, and it depends on the mood again whether you want to eat mudpie or not but if you say my favourite McDonald's ice cream


and it's sort of special, ah normal McFlurry, that's my favourite because it's the price got value and it's way cheaper, and also lah but okay my second favourite is sundae ice cream ah that one classic


Nah, ya that's the best part that's why I buy lah so usually <tamil>வாங்கும் போது:vaangum pothu</tamil> if they put very less chocolate ah then I'll be like why I buy this !aiya!


that's why but okay lah I mean other ice cream also I still but I think McFlurry is better, it's a it's a unique thing, I feel, wait what's your favourite again


mudpie ah, oh <tamil>ஆமால்ல:amalla</tamil> why why don't normal oreo, ah oreo McFlurry


before that all, really even when I, even when we buy back the mudpie you never you never buy meh


before last year, oh, interesting interesting, it's a fun fact


like not ah err talking about our perspective non conventional leh so Burger King or Texas Chicken


why Burger King, uh true true


I feel like chicken is too err flowery ah, no flour as in what I'm saying right


you eat and eat then you will get sick of it like, one chicken when you finish ah you'll feel one kind you will feel like <tamil>என்னமோ ரொம்ப சாப்பிட்டு:ennamo romba saapittu</tamil> like very unhealthy feeling, ya that's why I stop eating KFC chicken also like I mean I not stop eating lah reduce the number of time I eat KFC chicken


nowadays wait last time when we eat ah, when you eat finish you will still be a bit hungry, you get what I mean then now when you eat ah, like because they put a lot of flour right then after the flour is very thick, then after that it's like okay so one example I can think of you know the <tamil>ரொட்டி புராட்டா:roti parotta</tamil> buffet we went


so <tamil>ரொட்டி:roti</tamil> Prata buffet the first time we went remember the very first time we went, ah twenty fourteen right so the Prata there all very thin, correct the normal Prata the normal err decent Prata then all the flavour they give


twelve Prata if I'm not wrong is it, is it twelve, can you remember, you ate how many


ten right, appetite <tamil>இல்ல:illa</tamil> the Prata got thicker


because they put a lot of flour inside, so the Prata thicker means right you you got more chewing time you makes you full faster, that okay <tamil>இதே:ithae</tamil> technique <tamil>வந்து இப்போ:vanthu ippo</tamil> KFC <tamil>இது பண்ணுது:ithu pannuthu</tamil> KFC added flour inside


okay I don't know if they added flour lah I just feel like nowadays when I eat KFC I get full really fast, and the after effects of it is like very unhealthy, you know bloat bloated means it's good bloated versus like unhealthy


full you know, you can feel the <tamil>என்னை:ennai</tamil> in you all,


okay Burger King okay I was talking about Texas Chicken, Burger King okay, I mean I, ah what sorry, okay lor


ah, that's true lah it's true but okay lah I also, actually no not true when we go Texas Chicken right


it's because err one of our friends feel like eating Texas Chicken if I'm not wrong, ah so okay lah KFC being long queue also is one one thing lah, err then


ya lah correct lah and also I think, err so, correct correct so


, correct correct so <tamil>நாம வந்து என்ன பண்ணனும்னா:namma vanthu enna pannanum naa</tamil> when you first open we think we went there like, quite frequent


, but you all you don't feed the unhealthy meh the KFC one, when was the last when was the last time


I last time I ate McDonald's's slash KFC is like two three months ago already


oh, wait where they open


ah ya ya, oh they open there ah, oh, what what's the got any special


or is it a normal KFC, oh it's been quite long since I went north Plaza also


!wow! !wow! nice nice


we shall test your memory, good that's very good, see don't need to test lah which is your favourite moment, favourite memory


from secondary school, but you must pick one


ah specific one, can be about anything, ah, oh wait where was the thing again where was the cross country


ah correct correct, ya that one was where we had the class t-shirt already right, is it


ah I mean ya lah, that's true lah that's true


ya, wait there got Sakura correct, how was it, really


okay lah I mean I never tried Sakura before lah I only tried Seoul garden, it's still open meh, !hanna! it's been so long since I went there also the


admiralty park area, ya that side, correct lah ah, !wow! !wow! !wow!, ah ya vending machine


very very good point very good point <tamil>அத பத்தி பேச வேண்டாம்:atha pathi pesa vendaam</tamil> , what is your favourite polytechnic moment


ah, is it, you mean what the like those foreigners stay there one ah


ah okay, oh why


oh what was the dance about


(oo), [orh] !wow! !wow! so you were representing school of engineering,


oh, so so it was a english dance was not a tamil dance


oh eh show us the video of you dancing


very good very good but then you wait you acted in state show also, year two got do anything


oh ya that's true, like I only know you were the policemen for the year three err stage show, you acted right I remember you were a policeman what story again


, oh


, oh where was the ending, oh, oh nice interesting interesting, wait but I remember that time when I saw the stage show


the <tamil>கடைசி:kadaisi</tamil> part right when they ending off part right, remember that that one


ah ya lah ya lah no the one thing I remember is like like the <tamil>என்னமோ:ennamo</tamil> the ending concrete <tamil>இல்லாத மாரி:illatha maari</tamil> then after that they just err, like okay the final dialogue finish right then you look at each other oh final dialogue finish already then after that come and bow down to the audience


err ya ya ya


ah, !huh! really ah


but then if let's say err you are given a chance to act in a TV show, like minor role


correct, uh,


okay now the the rule is, maximum <tamil>பத்து பேரு:pathu peru</tamil> can be in front of the camera without mask, err with social distancing


ah, !huh! cannot lah


okay disco confirm more than ten people there's a lot of people dancing behind got see lucifer


ah lucifer you know already the ah Netflix show then when fix the scene in the, uh the the the the disco there are the bar ah


but if you, but you think about it ah, because err my CCA


so the dancers <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> plus the actors and calefares must be equal to not more than ten, so that's the current IMDA rule lah <tamil>இப்போ வந்து:ippo vanthu</tamil> phase three <tamil>போறோள்ள:porolla</tamil> phase three


so it might change up might change up you never know, so ya lah, but okay wait have you you acted in any, short film or anything, no ah


never act in anything before ah, oh nice nice


[orh] okay lah what do you think of stage, okay I know you never do, acting in front of camera before, stage acting versus camera acting


there'll be a lot of shots need to be taken like very weird angle, so <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> shot <tamil>வந்து ஒரு:vanthu oru</tamil> err maybe have to take five six times this is excluding mistakes


excluding mistake so, what I've seen is err, normally like the one shot they had taken more than, thirteen fourteen shots before


to complete one shot and the one shot is around err, one minute, okay, it will take around half an hour to forty five minutes to the complete a one minute shot


so <tamil>அத பத்தி உன் கருத்து என்ன இது:atha pathi un karuthu enna itha</tamil> mind lah <tamil>வச்சு:vachu</tamil>stage stage is you go there, you you perform one time sweet and solid, done, ah ya lah ya lah


but then you see the actual performance, you perform one time, and then you're done with it


no okay uh, okay not about comedy script only like err, okay a sad scene or shocking scene, if you are doing a stage show, there will be the responses to to like boost you up when you're acting so like <tamil>நீ வந்து:nee vanthu</tamil> you are doing a sad scene right


and then err people were like err you can hear the the the deafening silence around the whole, the whole theatre, that means you know you are doing a good job then you continue doing better <tamil>அதே மாரி ஒரு:athae maari oru</tamil> comedy scene <tamil>வந்து நீ வந்து:vanthu nee vanthu</tamil> you have achieved err the the the comedy you you make people laugh in the theatre so <tamil>அது வந்து ஒரு:athu vanthu oru</tamil> boost <tamil>குடுத்து:kuduthu</tamil> it will give you confidence to perform the next act properly err better


, I mean ya it goes out the same way but you think about it you get instant response to it and


what what if the whole thing become okay


okay err I think nervousness the only way to get it out, is to, believe in yourself lah, okay dry run pumping <tamil>இருக்குள்ள:irukulla</tamil> dry run pumping, the purpose of it is to err get used to the theatre surrounding <tamil>இதுக்கு:ithuku</tamil> theatre <tamil>பத்தி சொல்றேன்:pathi solraen</tamil> theatre surrounding get used to the voice projection and everything but nothing can prepare you for the crowd


nothing can prepare you for the crowd, but then, and the actual day come right, when you get to character I believe, the crowd won't matter, what do you think


actually how did you do it,


, , no but I'm talking about like, the first time you see the crowd, because usually ah usually <tamil>நீ பண்ணும் போது:nee pannum pothu</tamil> is in front of your seniors in front of known <tamil>மூஞ்சிகள்:moonjigal</tamil> known faces but then now err at that instance right you you made the entry to the to the stage


you made the entry to the stage you are seeing all the whole crowd for the first time <tamil>தெரியாத மூஞ்சிகள்:theriyaatha moonjigal</tamil> you are seeing potential err like high people who have acted in err so <tamil>அந்த நேரத்துல அந்த:antha nerathula antha</tamil> instant lah what did you feel


, correct correct, but we still answer how at that instant


the first time you see the crowd, the, ah from the back ah,


, ya


correct lah I mean okay lah actually it's a good for us also because that time remember we came, we came right before your scene


ya because err the queue was okay we reached okay what time did it start again, okay example it started at six thirty okay, six thirty right, then six thirty lah <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> then we think we reach around, six thirty five six forty


then there was a long queue, so by the time we went in, it's right before your scene, so if we enter right the curtain was closing


err so just nice we saw your scene lah we never see the starting scene, I mean we came to see you act what so,


ah yes yes I did I acted in two stage, , and then what's the


don assistant yes yes, you can talk in more english, yes yes, okay ah


you talking about the err the first one right, ya the first one acted, okay as don as as the gangster role all male, took me around, four months five months


uh okay my problem while acting right my tamil, the the pronounciation for tamil words wasn't that great, at that point so I


so, what what happened was like I keep messing up the the the pronounciation of the words, and then I had to go through training for that lah a vigorous training, so basically my tamil err was great was was good enough to


to enter err for the actual stage show, so <tamil>அதுக்கு வந்து நாளு அஞ்சு மாசம்:athuku vanthu naalu anju maasam</tamil> vigorous training, including err voice projection and all, so ya lah so remember I keep asking you about the instant about when you see the the crowd right


so in my instant my when my reaction in my experience when I first instance see the crowd, mine was like, I couldn't see the crowd, because the light right, the okay you know you all sitting at the the the the chair area all


so it's very blinding, so I can't really see any of the audience, so at that


ah, ya because you cannot see anybody the light is too too bright, so when there's no audience then after that I just perform everything normally lah then after that like like example if you remember one of my act is I the the the my co-actor were


pull a chair away, you know you know where I will do the I will say hello to everyone, my my entry scene I will say hello to everyone, and then I will come back I'll try sit down but then the chair won't be there so I will fall on the floor


ah so <tamil>அதுக்கு வந்து ஒரு:athuku vanthu oru</tamil> instant instant laughing, ya ya so wait you got remember remember the whole scene not


ah ya lah okay lah understand it's too long ago, so ya lah, ya so I think ya so basically based on that instant response I managed to get onto the rest of the scenes lah with confidence and ah


the first scene what I wanted to achieve is make people laugh and people laughed, so <tamil>அதுனால வந்து:athunala vanthu</tamil> I took that as a motivation to do the rest of my scenes even better, more confidence, ya lah, so, ya <tamil>அடுத்த கேள்வி:adutha kelvi</tamil> please


err, I mean you ask me I always prefer stage, ya because err I've done like camera production like err music videos and all


and err it takes too long, the music video takes too long too much err, you keep doing and doing and doing again then you will get very, tired of it lah


so I think stage is better for me,


, ya I mean okay, I like the dry run idea also because err, it makes, okay for my experience okay talking about now the latest one the latest one I acted, when you are doing dry run dry run and bumping dates for your stage production right


it feels like the theatre becomes your home for that one week, ya the theatre becomes your home for one week then the people in there all like becomes your you see them almost every day twenty four hours okay not twenty four hours lah maybe


more than, three quarter of the day you will be seeing everyone the same faces for the next seven days, correct correct you also right, so it has a different feel


and making properties all also, ya lah actually I I like dry run pumping as compared to, err short film when you film short films all right the the kind of thing, that one is not really the same feeling is more of getting the job done


it's more of getting the job done as early as possible, correct, yes yes I believe I've answered that question next question,


okay that depends err camera voice projection, err, I don't think you have a not every err production have a specific, microphone know the the lapel, attached to you


ah correct correct I know, I mean okay for us we were trained to project okay now I talk about stage first ah, theatre <tamil>கடைசி:kadaisi</tamil> seat <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> must hear my voice without any microphone lapel


so the microphone and lapel is there to help us with err like, how to say, so that we don't need to to strain our voice, but then in that case the lapel spoils then I have to project my voice lah, in my case lah but for


now talking about short films right, short film also, if you don't talk loudly, the camera may pick up ambient noise


so if you don't talk properly right the ambient noise will, will will absorb your voice, then it won't sound as can still hear you but it'd be very, ya which is very like err unpleasant to the audience


so usually <tamil>என்ன பண்ணுவாங்கன்னா:enna pannuvaanganna</tamil> they have these err like a boom microphone, you know what's a boom microphone, ah so the the boom microphone is there to pick up your voice, ah so,


ah okay there's okay I from what I've I edited last time when I saw my friend edit so basically err they can they can try reduce but your voice will be affected, you get what I mean it won't be it won't be like a normal voice like <tamil>என்னமோ:ennamo</tamil> very soft ah <tamil>அந்த மாரி வரும்:antha maari varum</tamil> or the other way is dubbing


so for example they dub <tamil>பண்றேல:pandrela</tamil> so you must err match your your lip sync, the exact words and all, so <tamil>அது பண்ணணும்:athu pannanum</tamil> so it's basically, extra work lah


but then boom microphone and this err lapel all is also extra money, so you will for short film have to choose extra work slash or extra money, !hanna!


exactly what will you choose,


, , I see interesting interesting


okay I mean okay if it's a, people would prefer equipment, than editing, correct right so but equipment expensive they either have to, okay some short film err groups I know what they do is <tamil>இந்த மாரி:intha maari</tamil> project lah <tamil>பண்ணிட்டு:pannittu</tamil> then they earn money from the project


, correct lah but err, ya so what happens is err


not a lot of people are coming forward to, to support, the the the film okay talking about the tamil film industry, tamil singapore local tamil film industry not a lot of people are coming forward to, send right so because of that like they are struggling so


they have low quality camera low quality microphone everything so, and their projects does not really succeed because no one go support them, channels now like some you know some YouTube channels with short films


you go see right the sound quality may not be as good, you will hear a lot of ambient air noise everything, because they don't have, proper err microphone equipment and all that, so ya


my short film ah, okay lah not short film that one is err, ah music video, see that one no dialogue that one is just dancing


ah correct okay ah okay ah what we did was we use our phone to record, so if you go watch the video again right you will see my hand holding the phone, on my friend's shoulder, so it was it's very casual but I'm still recording his voice and our voice


then you will realise right when if you hear the audio properly right, you can hear the center guy's voice very clearly, but you cannot hear my voice properly and you cannot hear the the furthest the further guy properly


ya lah wait did you act anything, okay ah you came in the TV show before Deepavali TV show, okay that one the how many shots did they take


, but how long did it take, two hours how many shots how many minute


oh !wow!, okay lah I mean good lah fifteen minutes you complete in two hours that's actually quite good, but okay lah it's more of a game right actually


oh ya Pongal correct correct, so, wait I forgot what happened there what did you say there, what did you say in that show


, , oh !wow! so who's your favourite actor


!wow! !wow! !wow! okay I actually know that already, nice nice, exactly, yes I believe we have, another three minutes


hello


come on lah getting older must take care of health also right,


they <tamil>அவரு பெரிய:avaru periya</tamil> like <tamil>பெரிய பானைல பெரிய:periya panaila periya</tamil> pot <tamil>அந்த:antha</tamil> Naan <tamil>வந்து:vanthu</tamil> all the way they will dip it down and to, use err heat to make it hot


err it's like a big pot and then it's err fired at the bottom lah so it's like they are basically just making it hotter from all the way down, and then they will it's basically the same you cook not exactly the same similar to the way


err


ya ya ya taste it lah taste it lah the taste I mean come on lah you also like right, uh uh okay lah


uh, , yes yes correct


[orh] okay okay <tamil>புரிது புரிது:purithu purithu</tamil> so you like the ya, healthy and delicious at the same time is like is the is the best of both lah


, !wah! okay that's a bit difficult but, okay let's face it lah Naan is actually you notice it's thicker right like it's filling like you eat one Naan ah


you or maybe two full already but Prata one or two enough, [orh] two enough ah serious ah two enough ah


okay one thing good about Prata Prata <tamil>மொத்தம்:motham</tamil> the whole day <tamil>எப்பவுமே சாப்பிடலாம்:eppavumae saapidalaam</tamil> like


I mean I've never heard lah I mean Naan usually it's like for dinner or lunch right for the heavier type of meals <tamil>ஆனா:aanaa</tamil> Prata meal any time of the day can right


I mean I mean not say cannot lah but this you've never heard of it like similar to eating Biryani for breakfast lah I mean you never heard, you very rare you hear people do it, ya ya like more filling


ya ah ah


like like err like Biryani order <tamil>பண்ணுவேன்:pannuvaen</tamil> at the same time leh Naan order <tamil>பண்ணுவேன்:pannuvaen</tamil> so like maybe <tamil>கொஞ்சம்:konjam<tamil> Biryani <tamil>சாப்டுட்டு ஒரு:saaptutu oru</tamil> Naan <tamil>சாப்டுட்டு அப்புறம் கொஞ்சம்:saaptutu appuram konjam</tamil> Biryani <tamil>சாப்டுட்டு:saaptutu</tamil> okay lah <tamil>எனக்கு:enakku</tamil> okay, !hanna! I'm okay lah maybe but <tamil>ஆனா நான் வந்து ரெண்டு:aanaa naan vanthu rendu</tamil> order <tamil>பண்ண மாட்டேன்:panna maataen</tamil> maybe <tamil>ஒரே ஒரு:orae oru</tamil> Naan and <tamil>ஒரு:oru</tamil> Biryani


<tamil>ஆமா ஆமா:aamaa aamaa</tamil> ah ah


like like <tamil>என்ன சொல்றேன் வந்து ஒரு தடவ நீ ஒரு:enna solraen vanthu oru thadava nee oru</tamil> for the for the, unless you tell me <tamil>அந்த கடைல:antha kadaila</tamil> nasi goreng mutton now good


mutton dishes lah <tamil>எல்லா அவ்ளோ நல்ல இருக்காது:ellaa avlo nallaa irukaathu</tamil> then okay lah <tamil>அப்டி இல்லனா:apdi illanaa</tamil> like you crave for something else right don't feel like eating the same thing again right


[orh] ah I mean,


ah Gandhis


!huh! got ah


okay lah <tamil>அப்டி சொன்னேன்னா:apdi sonneanaa</tamil> like like I said lah if you if that particular shop is known for one that one particular dish then it makes sense lah to order that dish whenever you go there, but if but if your shop is err generally err neutrally good in, most dishes then it doesn't make


much sense to order the same thing every time, ,


[orh] the S eleven ah


queue ah


they have no err al-ameen <tamil>வந்து ஒரு:vanthu oru</tamil> they are not known for any particular food this particular coffee shop is known for the chicken rice stall, but al-ameen is not known for any particular food


their Biryani is good their Naan is good, you can choose what you want depending on what you're craving for on that day


ya correct correct


<tamil>ஆமா:aamaa</tamil> err <tamil>நான் எப்பவுமே:nan eppavumae</tamil> err


ah, later okay


close by err ya ya, still there still there still there


err,


ah , okay


[orh],


, okay, primary school ah <tamil>நான் ஏன் பாக்கல என்ன வருஷம்:naan yaen paakala enna varusham</tamil> two thousand eight ah


!wah! !aiyo! !aiyo! <tamil>கண்டிப்பா:kandippaa</tamil>, okay okay okay


[orh], [orh], uh !wah!


eh <tamil>எனக்கே புரிது:enakkae purithu</tamil> err, ah the top ah


ah


over, , McFlurry


, sundae ice cream <tamil>ஆனா அந்த:aanaa antha</tamil> chocolate cream <tamil>மேல இருக்குள்ள அதுதான்:maela irukulla athuthaan</tamil> the best part down there


it's okay it's okay,


oh before that time I order McFlurry sia, oreo


(mmhmm)


ya Burger King Burger King <tamil>ஏன்னா:yenna</tamil> err


!wah!


uh uh twenty fourteen uh ya


<tamil>ஆமா ஆமா இன்னைக்கு நீ தான்:aamaa aamaa innaiku nee thaan</tamil> champion of <tamil>நீ தான்:nee thaan</tamil> highest lah, oh , I think I hit two figures ten, nice enough already uh


uh uh, ,


[orh] like bloated feeling ah


[orh] okay okay, , ya ya make sense also <tamil>அதான் இது வந்து:athaan ithu vanthu</tamil> Burger King <tamil>பத்தி பேசுறல்ல:pathi pesuralla</tamil> or texas Burger King


McDonald's err Texas Chicken or [orh] okay okay okay ya


Burger King McDonald's lah <tamil>கிட்டத்தட்ட:kittathatta</tamil> KFC lah, along with the Jollibee oh ya ya


if you ya ya,


no I don't feel that because, I don't eat that so often lah in order to feel the unhealthiness, at least one month ago lah


eh once a month too often meh, !wow! okay lah because it's


north <tamil>உனக்கு:unaku</tamil> north plaza <tamil>தெரியுமா அந்த:theriyuma antha</tamil> the republic polytechnic <tamil>கொஞ்ச:konja</tamil> err


uh uh that one is standard lah like fast food chains, the, coffee shop <tamil>இங்க போனேனா:inga ponaenaa</tamil> everywhere also don't have what,


err from when from, from where, !aiyo! secondary school ah, err, okay


[orh] you mean like one specific one ah, !aiyo! err


twenty twelve twenty twelve [orh] where ah <tamil>இடம்:idam</tamil> err <tamil>இடம் வந்து:idam vanthu</tamil> republic polytechnic admiralty park lah on the running route, , graduating class


technically I was also it's just that because so many people from my batch also didn't come back what I mean, technically as long as you are secondary four you're already considered a graduating class regardless of whether you come back to secondary five or not, because there's a possibility you won't come back also what


!wah! !aiyo!, that area lah


oh ya vending machine


polytechnic moment ah