so it's quite far ya ya, correct so I saw the the the old man, !huh! serious ah,


(uh huh) (uh huh)


okay okay, okay, okay, oh so you have started already


[orh], ,


but which ah, sorry you say, oh no no I was saying that was it a weekday or weekend that you were there, oh sunday okay okay


oh okay okay, okay okay


, oh so the basically you're supposed to go to those places again ensure that there are no people crowding lah


correct, okay, so do you actually like do you actually catch a lot of people not wearing mask or you have to catch a lot of people that's actually like, crowding, no safe distance


, , [orh] okay okay !wah!


so that means what, you are paid by per day is it for <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> safe distancing, oh per hour okay okay, okay okay, so that means like, okay so eight dollars an hour but how many hours are you required to work


okay okay, and then you you've got to get the you gotta go down to the office is it the MOM then you need to get a badge or what they send to you or what


[orh] so many of you, okay


eh got vest meh I see those people <mandarin>都没有但都没有穿那个:dou mei you dan dou mei you chuan na ge</mandarin> vest <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> leh, I see only , what's the colour what what's the colour of the vest


oh black, !huh! really ah oh my god because, okay okay, ya, , because those I saw right it's just the red colour lanyard with the, you know the the the the tag that says the safe distance ambassador or something like that I didn't see anyone with a vest before


oh interesting


ya I think wearing the vests also good because it's like sort of like authority mah, ya because if you are just having a lanyard you are like just any other person people don't feel like I need to comply to you,


!wah! interesting interesting, , , like this one also on you mentioned any <mandarin>再找的时候:zai zhao de shi hou</mandarin> then you'll come across this code switching thing also right


eh interesting eh


, , oh but oh but I also have to I have to register also right or you said you register on my behalf, oh okay okay


but later I still need to go through the <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> the website that you give me that I those you go through the steps right to submit my audio clip right, should be right, separately [orh] okay okay


okay eh quite interesting code switching


oh, [orh] okay okay like those mobike those kind right oh my god yes some of them so that are left in like I don't know leh <mandarin>荒山野岭:huang shan ye ling</mandarin> leh


okay


okay, ah, !huh!


okay okay, but what was the reason that they you're not shortlisted did they say why, okay okay but <mandarin>现在还有很多这些:xian zai hai you hen duo zhe xie</mandarin> bikes meh, I mean actually I don't really see around anymore


I know, , I know a few of them close down if I'm not wrong, like after a while I think one or two actually closed down


is it, there's what I also don't know oh there's ofo then there's mobike actually I only know this two leh what else are there


!wah! actually I don't I don't know, oh because I can I don't know cause I cannot cycle also ya, okay actually I can cycle but the thing is I had a very okay so I only know how to cycle when I was uh


err because my cousin she lived in the landed property mah so she has a big space in front of her house so I was much younger like primary school that time I'll go over her house to stay over during holidays then the maid will teach me the maid will teach me how to ride a bicycle


ya correct so I knew how to ride the bicycle, when I was very very young back then like like primary school lah so when I grew older right I think when I was like, I think <mandarin>十七十八岁:shi qi shi ba sui</mandarin> when I was in college


ya so my friend had a chalet at err #pasir ris# those #pasir ris# chalet at the ya correct then, because like <mandarin>没有事情做:mei you shi qing zuo</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>就是:jiu shi</mandarin> rent bicycle then <mandarin>骑:qi</mandarin> right, then after that <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> !wah! was then I also a bit scared because I haven't rode since when I was twelve years or I only learn how to ride since then


so twelve to like seventeen eighteen is like !wah! five six years later, so I also a bit scared but anyway because <mandarin>每个人都去:mei ge ren dou qu</mandarin> mah then <mandarin>你不可能不要:ni bu ke neng bu yao</mandarin> joined the friends what, so I just went I rented one then I ride so it was quite funny I mean the experience was okay at first so I managed to cycle


so as long as it's a straight line right like a straight road right I can cycle but you need me to turn right I cannot turn so I need to get off the bike then I turn it was quite funny I still remember, know <mandarin>有一点:you yi dian</mandarin> confident lah


then I think I got overconfident so uh there was a small like a small hill, ya like so I ran up the hill right, then when I came down right !wah! shit I cannot control the bike I was quite I was quite scared because <mandarin>因为你下来会很快:yin wei ni xia lai hui hen kuai</mandarin> mah


so actually you need to brake lah you know you need to apply a bit of brake so that your bike will slow down ya but I think because it happen too fast, ya like the ya it happen too fast so and I couldn't I couldn't control the bike so I fell, ya so I fell off then uh at that point of time was quite bad I actually scrap my elbow


then ya I scrap my elbow then I kind of like, err but I think I hit my knee or what lah because my knee was swollen and then I remember the bike also the chain I think the chain came off or something I can't remember so someone else actually err


like, the help me take the bike and bring it back to the the bike shop lah, ya so after that <mandarin>我就我就没有骑了:wo jiu wo jiu mei you qi le</mandarin> lor , ya so ya realise like you don't know leh cause I think when I was young my mother never


cause I'll I'm the only child mah so my mother very, that kind of thing ya so I think she she don't want me to get any of those kind of stuff lah


then, swimming also because when I was young I cough a lot, so I was quite sickly <mandarin>对我一直咳嗽:dui wo yi zhi ke sou</mandarin> then my mother has been bringing me to see like different kind of doctors, so that's why she also a bit scared to let me go swimming because swimming she scared <mandarin>会着凉:hui zhao liang</mandarin> mah you know like in the water in the cold water some more


ya so that's why she never like let me go swim ah kind of thing, ya correct so I think ya lor then after that I don't know leh so I feel that certain things you got to, do when you are young, I think when you grow older you just kinda


ya not as maybe not as good as acquiring these skills maybe you still can but, I think when you're younger you are more flexible you are more nimble I think she <mandarin>学东西比较快:xue dong xi bi jiao kuai</mandarin> lor <mandarin>小:xiao</mandarin> I mean and when you're younger, ya


like for example piano also like I always wanted to learn piano but my mother also say mah last time I think <mandarin>钢琴很贵:gang qin hen gui</mandarin> then <mandarin>就没有买:jiu mei you mai</mandarin> that kind of stuff, so it's like I've always wanted to learn the piano lah but of course now you can learn not say you cannot but


no but that's the thing if he's forcing them to play ah that means they don't like it you know, if you get what you mean,


I don't know leh I feel if it's like if they really like piano right, they will want to go and practice one, that's how I feel


that kind of thing, ya, , that's why I don't know what's better like because if your parents actually not say force lah but want you to learn a piano or you're learning for the sake of it it's like


that's why I think some of them never really continue like maybe they learn till like grade six or seven then they just drop it because not their passion lah not not what they really like


ya, but I think now, ya I think is like how to say ah like actually tried lah but I think


, okay I used to, when I was in the secondary school I was in band mah so when I was in band was playing the trombone, but I always wanted to I always wanted to learn the saxophone, so when I was working uh maybe a couple of years when I was in suntec ah I think that kind of thing


oh that was about five years ago already, like I bought myself a saxophone and I went to, ya so I went to Yamaha and learn, okay but the thing is ah uh like like learning an instrument right like you mentioned you need to practice every day hor


but I think it's just like after work you come back you really quite tired you just don't want to you know pick up the saxophone and play so I realised up to a point where, the only time I play a saxophone right was only when I go to the lessons, which is


and and up to that point of time <mandarin>我觉得我在浪费钱:wo jue de wo zai lang fei qian</mandarin> because, then <mandarin>你回家你就:ni hui jia ni jiu</mandarin> like you you don't play as much you know, so after a while I feel like, not like I'm not making full use of my


the money lah in a sense like <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like like like wasted my money lor so that's why I also stop, ya so I feel all these thing is really, ya you really got to, love it enough to want to practice every day


and then some more saxophone <mandarin>很大声:hen da sheng</mandarin> leh , ya it's really very loud is it is really very loud, because I played for my friend's wedding before, I played for my friend's wedding before ya ya ya I played I played I played that uh <mandarin>月亮代表我的心:yue liang dai biao wo de xin</mandarin> I remembered


eh no need no need no need mic no need mic one you know, is that loud so, can really hear from the stage through the end to the to the last person at the at the hall one is really quite loud so, so you at night you also don't want to practice so late because then like <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> disturb <mandarin>到你的:dao ni de</mandarin> neighbour lor


ya so the thing is but you only come back at night mah so some times you come back at night you also quite tired so after dinner you just sit down you Nua a bit then maybe by the time you want to practice is about ten o'clock nine plus ten already then it's like uh (oo) then maybe you play a while then you feel a bit Paiseh then you don't play anymore


so I think ya lor very hard leh like I think this kind of thing, ya lor unless you have you really have the passion for it and you really love it a lot, but I feel like this kind of thing is merely from young leh <mandarin>我觉得从小要开始:wo jue de cong xiao yao kai shi</mandarin> lor


it's at home lor ha nothing is at home, ya it's at home, ya like I never thought of selling lah ya lah I can sell lah but


never never sell lor, okay, okay guitar <mandarin>我也是也学过:wo ye shi ye xue guo</mandarin> but guitar right yes, one thing I didn't like is I have to cut my nails every week


so I have to cut it such that I can press the the strings mah


ya then <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> !walao! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> Sian eh sometimes I want to paint my nails whatever I cannot do it then is I got to cut my nails then <mandarin>我就:wo jiu</mandarin> I don't want, no lah but it's quite it's quite fun lah when I was err when I was learning it because I have a relative my err relative friend ah he actually teaches guitar so he was quite nice he actually he actually uh pass me one of his err because <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> you know as a as a


teacher usually have a number of guitars mah so he just pass me one that he seldom use, ya lor so I played from that ya ya so he actually came down very nice lah he taught me for free so he came down he'll teach me


ya, , like I stopped all this err and now writing lor write my calligraphy lor


ya at least that one easier to upkeep lah like there isn't much of a heavy, like I like cause like saxophone and guitar a heavy mah this one can write I can write anytime you just paper and pen


so it's it's much easier, eh actually you invest a lot leh because you know why you there's because you will, everytime you will see a different kind of pen right you want to try it out because it, ya because the pen is, it it might be the same pen but actually it's different lor the quality


[orh] so you end up buying a lot of brush marker cause I use ya you you end up buying a lot of all this err pens just to you know try out and then to see which one suits you best kind


ah okay that's why it's a lot of thing it's not just a brush it's also the paper, so different paper, , like so okay so at first right when I just started right I didn't know mah or what paper so I just buy from know popular those exercise book


so okay so when you write right the it bleeds to the next page


the surface is not smooth enough so that's when you gotta research then you start researching lor like those professional calligraphers what they use so then you will go and buy those papers it's not expensive it's just that is better quality paper so that you can write as in the the ink goes onto the paper more smooth smoothly and then the ink doesn't bleed as much through the next page


so there's more control, so there's another kind of brush marker right where <mandarin>他比较乱:ta bi jiao luan</mandarin> so is harder to control as a beginner


ya then after that I went to like, because I think now know youtube instagram you know there are you can just look at people ya a lot of videos mah then you will then people will ask them what pen they use that kind of thing ya lor so from there then I, like you will go and find err a pen that's suitable for beginners that kind of thing so I started from there so you buy the the the marker where allows you to have more control then when you got better that's where you can use the <mandarin>比较乱的:bi jiao luan de</mandarin> brush that kind of thing ya so actually there's a lot of uh knowledge behind it also so I also didn't know


ya so I also didn't know, until I really sit down and started it, so you end up having a lot of markers you end up having different kind of papers because you just want to experiment to see what's best mah, [orh]


okay but that's the thing, okay usually these people right they use a software to do it one they don't really do it by hand because when you do it by hand right


there might be how to say errors like maybe the word supposed to slant this angle but because <mandarin>你用手写:ni yong shou xie</mandarin> mah sometimes your words don't slant all of the words don't slant at the same angle, so actually there is a software that allows you to, you can write by hand


but then the software allows you to amend the amend your words, like make it smaller bigger, ya but there's also software that allows you to just straight away write that means you use the ipad ipad then maybe the stylus ah then you can just straight away write write using their software


but I didn't really invest in that lah because I don't think, like I mean I think I only do that if I really want to you know go down that, the the the path lor of designing posters whatever so now I'm just doing it as a like a hobby lah like friends birthday <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> then <mandarin>我就会画一张卡给他们:wo jiu hui hua yi zhang ka gei ta men</mandarin> lor that kind of thing like


and then I also put my services on carousell lah like if they, have have have I mean once in awhile I'll get people who wants to, like have a birthday card and that kind of thing ya lor so ah but it's like really hobby lah I'm not I'm not doing it for the for the money


ya but very little lah this one not even some income like maybe one month I get one or two orders then maybe each order maybe <mandarin>十二十三块那种:shi er shi san kuai na zhong</mandarin> so no lah cannot survive lah it's just really for fun


uh it really depends on the design like if I only need to write words right that's that can be quite fast like maybe one card <mandarin>如果只是写:ru guo zhi shi xie</mandarin> happy birthday <mandarin>那个字:na ge zi</mandarin> right, maybe five ten minutes max I'll finished writing but is


okay it's more of like if I want to do designs on the cup like I want to draw like for example happy birthday around the happy birthday and to have border of flowers so those kind of course I will take longer, ya lor so I sometimes also very hard to charge because


like, I also don't know whether you want charged by per card or you want to charged by how to say how err how much time you spend on the card kind of thing so, ya lor <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> lor <mandarin>很难:hen nan</mandarin> justify <mandarin>也是:ye shi</mandarin> so I don't so I just usually just charge about, my range about twelve to fifteen dollars lah regardless of the the design


ya, but sometimes really like might not be worth it lor like you mentioned let say if you spend a lot of time on the card but you charge this amount only, so !aiya!, but it's okay lah like I mentioned <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> it's not something that I do everyday you only comes in once in a while so I do it as like


but I take it as like a chance for me to practice lah, like they pay me to practice lor , ya ya, eh not bad <mandarin>我们讲一个小时了:wo men jiang yi ge xiao shi le</mandarin>


yes !wah! not bad, !wah! achievement achievement achievement I hope this one I don't know whether this can be a long term then is okay what then you just talk lor


okay okay thank you, ah, need to clap meh I don't think so lah I think we can just end


okay let me read the let me read the thing, , no leh don't need no need don't need, don't need


okay ya ya I think we cannot stop ah, just the tick the tick the ya the tick the tick button, okay okay see you okay bye bye


okay can okay, okay (mm) bye bye


hello, eh actually right I want recommend you err like TV show but I'm not sure if you want to watch it because is in like Chinese


and it's like about those yeah it's a <mandarin>选秀节目:xuan xiu jie mu </mandarin> so like, , to not not all over the world lah I mean like all over Taiwan


but the Taiwan version, but it's actually very entertaining to watch cause quite quite funny, no no all over Taiwan I made a mistake


yeah yeah it's like K pop but live, but then I also got very annoyed with them like, you know they record all their songs right in the studio so


then they they will perform the dance live, but then, they still sound very bad I don't understand like, how can you still sound like, you are not even trying to sing, oh my god sorry sound very bad but like err


is true, is the the the <mandarin>唱歌:chang ge </mandarin> is like pre-recorded everything is pre-recorded backing track pre-recorded all the, everything, they are saying err everything they are singing is pre-recorded


and then it really sucks I don't know why, eh but I saw the recordings one of the one of their I think I'm not sure if is dance practice, but they were singing the <mandarin>相见你:xiang jian ni </mandarin> that song


then I wasn't very intrigued by it, like is nice but, a bit weird leh like, it's not what I had in mind for a girl group lor like, yah


is it is it like <mandarin>很有综艺感:hen you zong yi gan </mandarin> that type, oh


like, err, so it's all like, pre what's that pre-determined by, your the producers


ya like, the other time I was watching a what's that <mandarin>我的我的歌:wo de wo de ge </mandarin> what is it called <mandarin>中国好歌声:zhong guo hao ge sheng </mandarin> or something like that one of the variations but then like everyone was saying like


this girl doesn't sing that well, but somehow the <mandarin>导师:dao shi </mandarin> will <mandarin>冲下来:chong xia lai </mandarin> for her, !huh! so how does the voting go


[orh], !huh! then how to, how to <mandarin>出道:chu dao </mandarin> if the person is not good,


, so it's just <mandarin>有人气:you ren qi </mandarin> then they just got voted in


oh but <mandarin>他最后是有进去:ta zui hou shi you jin qu </mandarin> lah, talent-wise right, ya and oh the daily <mandarin>五二:wu er </mandarin> got one I think


they were trying to substitute one person because one person had to go out, then this person was the highest err what's that most viewed on their <mandarin>抖音:dou yin </mandarin> which is tiktok ah, then, err


ya she got voted in but then she suck so the next round of elimination she got pick she she got like voted out again, so sad,


like, I don't know eh I see I not every episode I will read the comments, then everyone will be like, eh <mandarin>这个人很差:zhe ge ren hen cha </mandarin> leh


then they will just vote they will just not like the person, yeah, is on is on Youtube, ya but new episodes come out every Friday yeah


, that's why see every Friday my story will be like


I have been watching Pokemon, but I I feel like I won't recommend that because I feel like Ash really got quite dumb, the more the seasons came by, I think yeah there's a lot of logical fallacies that I didn't realize they had


as compared to when I was young then like, I feel like when you were young like, then you will just like oh yeah this will happen this will happen but <mandarin>你不会看出他有问题:ni bu hui kan chu ta you wen ti </mandarin> is like different now like you can think more logically then like now it'll be like <mandarin>做么他会这样:zuo mo ta hui zhe yang </mandarin> ah but he meet this situation before leh !wah! how come he don't know how to deal with it ah that sort of thing


haven't been watching much, I kind of like I gave up at episode four of the


, oh


(oo)


(oo), but Sherlock <mandarin>不是很多:bu shi hen duo </mandarin> episodes <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> meh


oh


that's true that's true, it's like binge watching, ya same


oh you know during summer I started playing those hidden object games , no it's like err how to say, I don't know if you played it before like but, is something like a treasure hunt is like there's a whole story arc


but then the character gets thrown into this place then you have to do a lot of you have to do a lot of random things to like clear the stage, then in the end you will you will see the whole story, ya but I have been obsessed with those during summer, then like now I still continue playing


but then because school started then ya like no time to do, a lot of things


so <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> rank <mandarin>很高:hen gao </mandarin> lah


wait so <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> ranking <mandarin>是怎样的:shi zen yang de </mandarin> like it doesn't matter how many games you win meh


oh I thought you must also like, go up the ranks


oh then does it matter like, what position you are or they just increase everyone in the top ten


oh, so is it the rating <mandarin>一直在上面的:yi zhi zai shang mian de </mandarin> lah


is okay


your your ranking can go up again , !huh! so <mandarin>你你:ni ni </mandarin> summer <mandarin>只是玩那个而已:zhi shi wan na ge er yi </mandarin> ah, I


that's true, ya actually


what's that addicted to gaming,


that's true likely next, next year <mandarin>都不可以:dou bu ke yi </mandarin> next week next year <mandarin>要做:yao zuo </mandarin> internship, err


no as in next year summer like, but <mandarin>很多人要去找:hen duo ren yao qu zhao </mandarin> internship mah like is is a good competitive edge, is good also actually I think because have like


our major is like <mandarin>很多:hen duo </mandarin> on the job experience, like on the job learning so I feel like, maybe <mandarin>要去:yao qu </mandarin> like, get internship so you will learn more, then next time can people will hire you more easily actually I very I very worried about my job prospect next next time leh


I feel like I'm more interested in product development, but then that one I really don't know if it's like, how to say only for the top field


!huh! but <mandarin>我是其中很笨的人:wo shi qi zhong hen ben de ren </mandarin> leh, , , that's true eh I heard some people going like there's a new major like double double major or minor


but it's relating to like media, then, like, those who took CS ten ten, they were going into like there's a new media major or double major or minor


yeah, media, something relating to like marketing or something like that, but it's related to their coding stuff they did in CS ten ten that's why like they were recommended but I think


that's cause like, they did well in CS ten ten also lah, I think so because CS ten ten is the <mandarin>基础:ji chu </mandarin> to like, , all the coding skills I guess like because 2 K doesn't really teach us a lot of it


I feel lah personally, actually right <mandarin>现在我们做完:xian zai wo men zuo wan </mandarin> the lab one right I abit


think I should have gone for CS ten ten, I feel like I'll be able to cope I hope, but lab one <mandarin>又不是:you bu shi </mandarin> coding <mandarin>的东西:de dong xi </mandarin> like mark down


yeah that that's the thing the work wasn't the work wasn't hard but it was just tedious and very sian, ya I got quite annoyed with myself like, I think


at night like close to like ten ten to twelve that period I was using it to watch that lecture, !wah! then I was questioning myself I was like why am I doing this now is week one leh how can like why is my time management so bad then I realise right it's all because of the stupid course two K lab leh


yeah <mandarin>因为那个我花很多时间:yin wei na ge wo hua hen duo shi jian </mandarin> then by the time I finish right, ya lor there's no time, I did take a very long time to finish then it like it made me have to watch the lecture at night I was so pissed like


at night <mandarin>不是:bu shi </mandarin> free time <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> meh like, like I shouldn't be doing all this especially it just is just week one like come on, now


right right it feels like it's not week one, ya lor !hais!, but I guess, life will only get harder


which lecture, course ah, err, then I just, like I just went to read the slides on my own lah then <mandarin>我读完了就:wo du wan le jiu </mandarin> leave the meeting


yeah, , like <mandarin>整个就在那边:zheng ge jiu zai na bian </mandarin> read off the slides read off the slides he doesn't value add also then what's the point of me going for lecture when I can just watch the lecture video or read the slides on my own and save like a ton of time he took one and a half hours leh


I think, yeah I thought he was going to, teach Python but guess not


ya <mandarin>不是今天的:bu shi jin tian de </mandarin> I was, then I was questioning why he upload like two times of the same thing then I was like what's he doing


I also wanted to do lab today because, it's like <mandarin>你越早做越好吗:ni yue zao zuo yue hao ma </mandarin> you get it out of the way


yeah <mandarin>应该是:ying gai shi </mandarin> like, earliest probably <mandarin>明天早上:ming tian zao shang </mandarin> lor, oh my god ya <mandarin>明天早上有两个:ming tian zao shang you liang ge </mandarin> lecture


I think I'll wake up for it, okay lah it's not like those two lectures are like useless if is if is you ask me to wake up at eight AM for course two K I will say no, but if is FST I guess, I should try


, okay lah <mandarin>喝咖啡:he ka fei </mandarin> lor


!wah! <mandarin>真的:zhen de </mandarin> meh <mandarin>他不让你在里面坐了一整天:ta bu rang ni zai li mian zuo le yi zheng tian </mandarin> ah, err


and <mandarin>会有:hui you </mandarin> like background noise right, is that the whole point, , yeah I feel like everyday in my room also


ya man, maybe eh I think library <mandarin>是:shi </mandarin> okay <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> you probably just need to register with them to study, public library


or <mandarin>你去找他们的:ni qu zhao ta men de </mandarin> website lah


!huh!, oh <mandarin>等下一去找那个:deng xia yi qu zhao na ge </mandarin> website lor like <mandarin>你看那个:ni kan na ge </mandarin> NLB <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> website


it's like Wednesday morning eleven twenty, actually I quite scared leh because you know I feel like they will record the interview


then it's gonna be a bit awkward, I really hope none of the profs are inside okay I don't want to, , I rather have just the three like the president vice president and the two vice presidents there interviewing me


I rather not have the prof inside, Paiseh, I think they got some professors like


they'll call, I think I saw like her, err one of the profs lah in , the FST meeting room with them before


err I really like cannot read her leh, I very scared for tutorial with her, ya because actually, like she had one session with the year ones last Friday right


then I feel like she got call people, !huh! <mandarin>你没有出现:ni mei you chu xian </mandarin> as in <mandarin>你不要:ni bu yao </mandarin> attend tutorial ah


, I not sure leh I feel like tutorial tutorial attendance <mandarin>不是:bu shi </mandarin> graded <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> meh


, yeah, you just you just pray hard you don't get like selected, actually


yeah you know the freshies very cute like I really see like err they are they're really like how we were last year, you know last year <mandarin>她有那个:ta you na ge </mandarin> class participation right, then <mandarin>有不是你有那个:you bu shi ni you na ge </mandarin> quiz lor, then we all thought


we didn't we at first we didn't know about the quiz right so <mandarin>我们都以为要:wo men dou yi wei yao </mandarin> like answer question if not like we don't get class part marks mah, ya then, like they actually thought the same thing eh like <mandarin>我有一个:wo you yi ge </mandarin> freshie <mandarin>他讲:ta jiang </mandarin> oh err


he like after a period of time, he was like okay I did my part already hope I get my class part, I remember feeling like that last time also, last year ya but then after that at the end of the session <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> prof <mandarin>就跟他们讲:jiu gen ta men jiang </mandarin> err err the class participation is through the quiz so as long as you got do then <mandarin>就:jiu </mandarin> okay Liao


yeah, eh not not quiz lah what's that feedback survey feedback feedback yeah yeah yeah


ya Doctor Kim !wah! she's the best, , !huh! <mandarin>你讲多一次:ni jiang duo yi ci </mandarin> sorry


!wah! speaking of that you know


is not urgent but because <mandarin>我们这个:wo men zhe ge </mandarin> sem <mandarin>有很多:you hen duo </mandarin> group work, so actually will be good to get started also like <mandarin>你做一点点做一点点:ni zuo yi dian dian zuo yi dian dian </mandarin> then you won't leave everything to the back that's what I was thinking lah, then in the


, ya then because <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> German yesterday <mandarin>也是会:ye shi hui </mandarin> like <mandarin>越来越:yue lai yue </mandarin> intense, because got vocab test, !huh!, is it <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> forum the post


ya lor not <mandarin>就是那个:jiu shi na ge </mandarin> in place of oral lor <mandarin>因为:yin wei </mandarin> German <mandarin>没有:mei you </mandarin> oral, yeah


(uh huh), eh no, the alphabet is the easy part I swear


it's like <mandarin>你要:ni yao </mandarin> choke <mandarin>这样子:zhe yang zi </mandarin> hor like okay, I figure out right you need enough saliva, ya because you when you have enough saliva in your mouth right then <mandarin>你做那个声音:ni zuo na ge sheng yin </mandarin> hor then it will come out nicely


oh oh your sister didn't learn also ah, it's okay eh are you


you are going to try for Korean next time, yeah leh actually Korean is a good language


, is it


oh, like, I've been watching ok majority of the Youtubers I watch are like Korean especially those cat ones lah, so like when they talk actually I quite proud of myself I started watching like a few years ago then until now right recently


you know that channel I was like ranting about on Instagram sometime ago the one that got her channels stolen away from her, by the company so recently she got the channel back, then she started uploading again, but the thing is right she started uploading on the old channel without English subtitles


but I don't care lah I just watch, ya then I was quite proud of myself I can understand most of the things I can like I know what she was doing, so actually not bad means my Korean actually improve,


it's like, sometimes, okay there's the a few different ones lah there is one of them like, she always like go and disturb her cats actually <mandarin>烦它们:fan ta men </mandarin> lor, then but her cats are all very zen like they are all very chill they they like just take it


ya then she will like always talk to the camera then like insult sometimes she will insult the cats but it's a playful insult, quite funny, then like got another one this one is the one that got her channels stolen away from her she regularly grooms her cats


ya so, , then, like usually she just post videos on like them running away from her or something or like complaining but she does have another channel that , she because this in her house she has this very long corridor


then she always buy different materials to let the cats crossover lah obstacle course like that lah, she did bubble wrap ah water land mine, err what's that memory foam the whole layer then she let them walk, the cat is very cute they don't dare to step


okay firstly number one my house is not cat proof lah but then definitely that one is can change one


then, like is to make your house safe for the cat so like example <mandarin>你的窗口:ni de chuang kou </mandarin> hor <mandarin>都要有那个:dou yao you na ge </mandarin> invisible grill


then <mandarin>你只怕他们跳出窗口:ni zhi pa ta men tiao chu chuang kou </mandarin> lah, especially for a like apartment or flat is very important, , ya but they are also very curious then some of them is like too curious for their own good


you know the saying the curiosity kills the cat, ya something like that ya sometimes they really don't know what like they're very eager to go and see but they don't know what, is there is actually dangerous, so any <mandarin>你看养猫的人:ni kan yang mao de ren </mandarin> hor is like


it's either the windows always close or they got like those grills to prevent the cat from going like jumping out, ya landed not so bad but for like, high rise flats quite important lah I think


yeah, and she don't like cats because cats usually scratch, but the thing is right cat there's a reason why cat scratch also mah


, like if you they scratch your furniture means you are not providing them enough scratching poles, or like you're not doing enough to , calm the predatory instinct in them


there's a cat scratching pole, yeah and all these things is very important because <mandarin>它们是:ta men shi </mandarin> like, lion and tiger the relative right they are considered relatives, then they are also predators mah so they have a hunting instinct in them that you need to satisfy as a owner


yeah, interesting right,


then, oh,


so cute, but, you step ah, is it


is it like a those small small like a chihuahua is it, (oo) toy poodle, eh <mandarin>那个也不是很小:na ge ye bu shi hen xiao </mandarin> what


is stuffed toy size lah standard stuffed toy size around there right, chihuahua <mandarin>比那个更小:bi na ge geng xiao </mandarin> you cannot get chihuahua


no like most small dogs like to bark quite a lot also, but like you see like, they don't bark as much I feel


, oh yeah <mandarin>因为大只:yin wei da zhi </mandarin> hor


after you get married, or like or like once you get enough, once you earn enough to get a house lah


yeah, I really want to earn a lot of money in the future so that I can provide for more cats, , I already okay next time I I realise now my my next time house [orh] cannot be HDB because you can't, have cats in HDB


is it <mandarin>那总是:na zong shi </mandarin> like


oh the color is it, ah


oh, , , oh ya <mandarin>是他们养的:shi ta men yang de </mandarin> but like I think as long the neighbors don't say anything is fine


yeah actually <mandarin>这种东西:zhe zhong dong xi </mandarin> is like, I suppose if your neighbors don't complain then there's no issue technically there's you have big dog also can your neighbors don't complain can already,


oh, can actually get the breeds that like don't shed much, then maybe they will be more willing and receptive to adopt


oh yeah that's true, good idea,


like, ya so CCA has been like suspended indefinitely, that's why I'm looking for a new CCA also lor because like okay, free because I don't like the new structure right but


err for FS err not FST, the animal shelter one, they cannot open up the shop like on the shelter that side they don't allow visitors, so, we cannot go also


they have their, like they have their own workers there which is okay like they can they can take care of them is just that don't have the volunteers that to take them out on walks weekly lah, but because they have to reduce the number of people going in and the group size also so I think is generally not a very what's that


arrangement is not good arrangement to like have CCA, so often, yeah, but now is totally cannot go ah they are not accepting visitors, so we are considered visitors even though like we are volunteers


, ya lor that's why I go audition for the other one, the the the mando-pop one


yeah I sign up for it cause I was like I was like, okay lah it's a two round audition then even if I don't if if like, I just go and try if I don't get in round two then, like I know what like at least I tried lor, yeah, then I'll try harder for FST lor


ya okay <mandarin>他们的:ta men de </mandarin> first round is like


then second round is a if you get through the second round is like a, live Zoom so <mandarin>你要在那个:ni yao zai na ge </mandarin> Zoom <mandarin>唱歌那个比较:chang ge na ge bi jiao </mandarin> scary


yeah, but, not not recording lah but like Zoom lah, but for those instrumental those playing instruments lah they still can go into school for CCA provided


like they can play together if they're from one the same zone, ya it's quite restrictive if not same zone then Bo Pian cannot go together


no leh only got those two, you leh, you got anything else you are interested in


oh yeah that's the thing you ask me about also right, ya I forgot about it, but, they confirm not on ah, that one <mandarin>不是:bu shi </mandarin> like is is it contact sports that one I thought that one was follow them do the punch or something like that


oh but they got guard right, they are like when they do CCA when they spar they got guard right so it's not so bad, oh do you all have guard, !huh!, so if you fall then like you really bruise leh


!wah!


(mmhmm)


oh yeah that's true <mandarin>现在好像很多:xian zai hao xiang hen duo </mandarin> imported case, because, of the economy


actually I I realise right cause COVID affects the whole world, then you realise the whole world's economy is very bad right, then it's like <mandarin>大家一起死:da jia yi qi si </mandarin> ma, so actually, is technically not a bad thing ah it can curb inflation right


right right right , not sure if it works, okay ya that's true


, ya I think <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> this year the graduate <mandarin>很:hen </mandarin> Sian like it's really very hard for them to find a job, and <mandarin>很多公司:hen duo gong si </mandarin> like


then don't want to hire people want to cut costs made the employees go for unpaid leave all that


but at least, you can build up experience, like it will help you in the future


ya lah that's why that's why I want to find internship for next summer, oh I never think so far


but I feel like we, may need to take a bit more of biz mods next, sem or something, I think


so, that one is a UE but most people will still take, yeah, I was thinking about taking a biz mod because, if you got experience right then <mandarin>以后你可以去:yi hou ni ke yi qu </mandarin> business side you don't need to be you don't need to limit yourself to


just the food side of things, better job prospects lah, then then year four <mandarin>还有时间:hai you shi jian </mandarin> I think the other time I remember <mandarin>我有:wo you </mandarin> calculate then


I think in year, year four sem one, we have FYP or FYI or something like that right, then that one is sixteen MC so you still need take one more mod after that, then year four sem two <mandarin>好像还有:hao xiang hai you</mandarin> space for like two or three more


UEs, either UEs or mods you haven't fulfilled like any requirements you haven't fulfill yet lah, , so yeah I was actually think about doing biz modss but, biz mods <mandarin>有点可怕:you dian ke pa </mandarin> because of the class part


, oh yeah cause seniority


ya but actually my my friends like, my cousins telling me to like , treasure the time in uni is the last sense of school you will have


depends, actually I'm wondering what a masters in FST will help, me with also leh


, ya but like <mandarin>是这样的:shi zhe yang de </mandarin> what because is <mandarin>很多东西要记:hen duo dong xi yao ji </mandarin> then your brain <mandarin>不可以把全部东西记下来:bu ke yi ba quan bu dong xi ji xia lai </mandarin> so like you will forget some parts lor


, same


so, you can't really do it also


ya but a lot of the things the questions is like you have to wait for her to teach first mah


I think I never see the face before


!huh!


oh <mandarin>我以为:wo yi wei </mandarin> okay I saw her name in the whole name list lah then I thought she was life science <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> leh, oh


at least <mandarin>你有认识的:ni you ren shi de </mandarin> lor <mandarin>我一个人在我的:wo yi ge ren zai wo de </mandarin> group <mandarin>里面:li mian </mandarin> leh


I think <mandarin>他们只是分配:ta men zhi shi fen pei </mandarin> questions, so like you you distribute the questions first then you work on it then like, before the submission you just discuss again make sure everyone answers correct which makes sense, I guess


, video, IFT the team lor the thing about food labels


video video the deadline <mandarin>比较长:bi jiao chang </mandarin> actually, yeah, yeah but because we can start ideating first


stress


I think okay lah can try, try lor, ya leh actually, I hope will be accepted I don't want to


waste like, get one more hour, I don't have time


, yeah, I think, they didn't, ya but, all they all they said was that it's own time own target recording yourself


yeah, oh they didn't they didn't say how often the recording needs to be also eh, right, I don't remember seeing like oh every week need one recording or something like that hopefully not lah


ya I think, more than that, it's a good way to earn money while at home lor


, same doesn't everyone wish to be rich then <mandarin>我可以有很多只猫:wo ke yi you hen duo zhi mao </mandarin> leh


err <mandarin>那个我还没算:na ge wo hai mei suan </mandarin> eh, I think <mandarin>我看那个:wo kan na ge </mandarin> the the numbers right it makes me very Sian, it's really quite a lot


it is no and then you haven't count like your living expenses <mandarin>你去那边那个:ni qu na bian na ge </mandarin> like <mandarin>生活费很高:sheng huo fei hen gao </mandarin> leh, because <mandarin>他们没有:ta men mei you </mandarin> like affordable food options it's not like Singapore like they have hawker stalls but, they have to actually like cook and prepare their own food for affordable meals


is it oh <mandarin>因为他们没有:yin wei ta men mei you </mandarin> transportation costs


oh then everyone cook together right, , yeah I guess, because <mandarin>他们他们:ta men ta men </mandarin> like it's hard <mandarin>你出去吃:ni chu qu chi </mandarin> is like what


confirm more than ten dollars SGD ah


like, !wah! that's a lot leh oh no


so they buy groceries and cook ah, oh, okay I think that's how most students overseas do it, like <mandarin>我的朋友也是这样他也是:wo de peng you ye shi zhe yang ta ye shi </mandarin> like every week she will meal prep


yeah it's healthier but <mandarin>你会吃得很闷:ni hui chi de hen men </mandarin> lor because <mandarin>你好像每天吃一样的东西:ni hao xiang mei tian chi yi yang de dong xi </mandarin> leh


oh yeah, , it's like <mandarin>他们:ta men </mandarin> err spring spring going to summer but mostly spring


I think when <mandarin>我们要走:wo men yao zou </mandarin> is their hottest period of summer which is good thing, yeah, ya so it's like next year the August


same I'm so excited for I was so excited for it then like now that I think about it COVID really like very annoying, it depends on <mandarin>你去你要去哪里:ni qu ni yao qu na li </mandarin> like


they had second wave in Melbourne and eh is it Victoria, I think that that's in Melbourne yeah


it's in Sydney, err, I think they are on the same side of Australia, like which is good


oh is it like random road trips


what is BTT like


but I think <mandarin>他是有读过:ta shi you du guo </mandarin> lah maybe like, before the ten minutes revise a bit then <mandarin>就进去:jiu jin qu </mandarin> lor


this month, !huh! then very soon


eh <mandarin>你是:ni shi </mandarin> private right <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> driving, okay lah so at least in that case is more flexible, I think largely <mandarin>你会要做:ni hui yao zuo </mandarin> night lesson lor


but Bo Pian mah like is is practice for the future I guess, , because if not like you will be driving only during the day,


Heng ah, oh is the start of the like the rain like it won't let up one right it just keeps falling on the screen I see before very scary


I think, yeah I around there around there, (hmm), , oh there's no water in your room


[orh], you should bring a cup next time, , then <mandarin>你喝:ni he</mandarin> lah,


I'm doing German I guess I think I want to move on to like learn the numbers first, like, we'll do it in tomorrow's lesson actually


like tomorrow is alphabet and numbers, because like after that the workload will be quite a lot, especially cause like after the lesson's tomorrow right but like Wednesday will be quite busy Thurday also quite busy, then Thursday is the next lesson already


yeah, but we got the interview also, then got the interview then got Darwin


then


ya actually, get the lecturer is the lecturer is nice that's why I'm ok with attending their physical lecture


ya but if it's like cause like that then no, yeah eh you know when they ask like what's that ah what kind of question will come out during the exam, then I was like what the hell is that how y'all study


like cause <mandarin>他们都是:ta men duo shi</mandarin> engineering <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> right, then I was like what the hell, is this engin culture


[oh] okay so we're done, okay okay, yeah


hi Carina,


oh what is it, !huh! DD


!huh! they they they get people from all over the world, only


(mmhmm),


!huh!, !huh! as is in even the <mandarin>唱歌:chang ge </mandarin> is not live and they still sound bad


oh, maybe you should watch <mandarin>青春有你:qing chun you ni </mandarin> eh, I really think is, (mmhmm)


why, oh, but everything is quite like amusing


and like, err okay to be honest is like a bit staged but I think is very is very it's very amusing lah like is a like you got nothing to do then you just watch


but it's just to like <mandarin>打发时间:da fa shi jian </mandarin> one you know, !huh! what is that


scripted, or do you mean like the results, !huh!


oh but but <mandarin>青春有你二:qing chun you ni er </mandarin> is like a popularity one leh like the <mandarin>中国人:zhong guo ren </mandarin> will vote


like you the the people in China will vote for the person they like online then like so like even if the person is actually even if the person is not that good at like singing or dancing the person can win because is like a popularity is more of a popularity contest than it is err


talent talent show lah, I mean I guess


err people like you hor I guess if you are popular you , you earn all the money anyway, ya I don't know lah but, some of the people who made it to the final group ah also really not that good lah I think


but I guess, yeah <mandarin>有一个是:you yi ge shi </mandarin> like <mandarin>他以前:ta yi qian </mandarin> <mandarin>演过戏:yan guo xi </mandarin> one that's why people like her I think I think she got she got like fans, from before joining the show


then I think she was like number one she was in first place all the way, until like the last few episodes, then, another person another more talented person overtook her in the end, but like everything


yeah yeah but <mandarin>第二名:di er ming </mandarin> ah but, I don't think she was very deserving of <mandarin>第二名:di er ming </mandarin> ah, yeah


(mmhmm), , ok at least at least she got voted out if she is not good


oh, oh that's quite good I guess you watch on where though you watched on Youtube or like some app or website, [orh] is on Youtube like, every week will have


oh so you watch every Friday, , , I see, then you have any other shows to recommend like dramas or, I don't know what have you been watching


Pokemon,


oh,


oh, !huh!, then any other shows, what about like , Korean dramas, oh


, [orh] <mandarin>我最近又有看那个:wo zui jin you you kan na ge </mandarin> I've been re-watching the Sherlock on Netflix, actually


yeah, very <mandarin>好看:hao kan </mandarin> leh actually, like is super it's super interesting, and exciting to be honest, ya, ya ya ya it's like, very unexpected the you know


ya the plot is right the plot is very good lah, I think, and like, I don't know how many episodes there are is not a lot <mandarin>好像只有:hao xiang zhi you </mandarin> like


eh <mandarin>我看一下:wo kan yi xia </mandarin> ah I think it's likes ten episodes or something only, so, err


yeah but is not a lot of episodes, ya anyway <mandarin>就算我看:jiu suan wo kan </mandarin> K drama <mandarin>也是:ye shi </mandarin> like


, so it's the same thing, yeah, , I'm very sad that school has started cannot binge watch shows anymore


, !huh! like treasure hunt,


oh, , , oh


well during summer, I was addicted to PUB-G, , err, I mean rank is not uhm


dependent on your <mandarin>实力:shi li </mandarin> you know, it's just that if you play a lot your rank will just naturally go up , I mean it matters lah but


I mean it's not very it's not that hard to be high ranking I think, if you every day <mandarin>玩到很迟:wan dao hen chi </mandarin> like <mandarin>我:wo </mandarin> it's quite easy to be very high ranking


[orh] ya lah <mandarin>你要赢:ni yao ying </mandarin> lah but, okay lah you don't have to <mandarin>赢赢:ying ying </mandarin> like because it's like <mandarin>一个一个:yi ge yi ge</mandarin> game right there are like, fifty teams, so if let's say you are in the top, like ten teams then they'll increase your rating already mah you don't need to be like first


oh ya lah they will they will see your, like the the closer you are to being the champion then your rating would, increase more lor


err I mean like <mandarin>我:wo </mandarin> put in a lot of effort lah, then, ,


!aiya! I hope so, , mostly


maybe I should have found a job, but then again , ,


I guess so eh, , but then is also the only time where when you can stay at home and truly do nothing, right


!huh! <mandarin>这样快:zhe yang kuai </mandarin> meh, next year, [orh]


oh that's true


but to be fair our major doesn't have a lot of people


right, don't say that, but I feel like the better ones will probably go into, more intense jobs


with media, and food science, oh


oh, so it's only those who, did CS ten ten that got offered, oh


, !aiya! anyway I don't think I would have survived in CS ten ten anyway


really why, but you know I actually took so long to finish the lab one eh, I mean ya lah but it's like is so tedious you know


yeah it was so tiring to do


then, !huh!


or like you, oh you felt like you you took a very long time to finish is it, oh


yeah lor that day I was very like upset because, like when I submitted the lab one right I was like Walao eh is is only is only week one


so Sian sia, actually hor, have you watched the lecturer like the lecture today


the course one yeah, or you like, just left then you never watch, (mmhmm)


oh


actually like just <mandarin>做么:zuo mo </mandarin> lah, then should we start on like too soon is it we can start anytime we want we can right


oh <mandarin>不是今天的:bu shi jin tian de </mandarin> ah, , , !huh!


eh, ya lor


but <mandarin>明天:ming tian </mandarin> <mandarin>明天早上有:ming tian zao shang you </mandarin> FST sia, !huh!, I ain't going to wake up for it <mandarin>我应该起不来:wo ying gai qi bu lai </mandarin> leh


I even if I wake up, for it right, , actually <mandarin>我明天想出去读书:wo ming tian xiang chu qu du shu </mandarin> sia


<mandarin>应该:ying gai </mandarin> cafe ah library <mandarin>好像不可以读书:hao xiang bu ke yi du shu </mandarin> now, because of COVID


err I mean <mandarin>我有约朋友:wo you yue peng you </mandarin> lah so maybe it will be less awkward but


I just mute myself [orh], anyway, err no , !aiya! <mandarin>我在家里:wo zai jia li </mandarin> like <mandarin>很:hen </mandarin> Sian leh we can just stay in the room


, , like, public library ah <mandarin>还是学校的:hai shi xue xiao de </mandarin> library


oh <mandarin>那天我有:na tian wo you </mandarin> pass by <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> Bugis Bugis <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> library, but <mandarin>好像都没有人在读书:hao xiang dou mei you ren zai du shu </mandarin> leh <mandarin>好像每个人:hao xiang mei ge ren </mandarin> like go there to borrow books or what only


okay maybe I will check tonight


so, how do you think, [orh] then then <mandarin>你有:ni you </mandarin> sign up for <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> FST society right, oh then <mandarin>你的:ni de </mandarin> interviews <mandarin>是几点:shi ji dian </mandarin> ah


oh my god, oh my god, I feel like it's quite possible though


I feel like don't know leh maybe like the actually who is in charge of FST society


is it only students or like got professors in charge


oh my god, I'm quite scared of her sia, , oh you scared she call people to answer questions


oh, but if, as in, if, yeah, actually


is ah is graded lah <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong </mandarin> leh, okay maybe I should just attend it, I shouldn't get on her bad side


on for the FST tutorial not not tutorial FST society,


ah,


eh, eh but last year the class part <mandarin>是:shi </mandarin> free <mandarin>的:de </mandarin> right


oh ya hor I forgot about the quiz leh, , oh ya ya ya ya ya ya, , actually I miss doctor


is it Kim Kim from, prof Kim, yeah, actually for this for this mod will there be two lecturers or is it only LLP


this pro this this mod is it only, LLP or got more than one lecturer, (uh huh), , okay, [orh]


actually <mandarin>我这个:wo zhe ge </mandarin> weekend <mandarin>没有去:mei you qu </mandarin> supermarket leh but , no but it's not urgent right is like week nine is it


[orh], that's true, well maybe I can go see tomorrow actually since I'm going out, yeah


[orh] <mandarin>你有没有看那个:ni you mei you kan na ge </mandarin> assessment thing for the German, like


[orh], , okay, actually


but like


really, I I don't even know how to pronounce the C H eh


, !huh! <mandarin>真的很难:zhen de hen nan </mandarin> leh, like over the weekend I practice right like to myself then I just sounded so weird


like when I spoke, !huh!, no, no don't have my sister learn , Korean last time


, it's ok next sem I will learn (hmm), yeah probably, I actually quite want to learn, I think it's quite useful skill


like when you watch , yeah, I think is also relatively easier compared to like the European languages, because I feel like it's quite similar to like Hokkien or Chinese


I know some will sound like the same, or at least they sound similar at least they sound similar to Chinese, some phrases at least, yeah


(mmhmm)


oh, but you watch, oh


, actually if you watch when you watch cat videos what why what what what what do they talk about even


oh


oh, herself


why leh


[orh], but, but I thought cat <mandarin>很聪明:hen cong ming </mandarin> one


I see


then <mandarin>狗:gou </mandarin> eh, , oh <mandarin>你妈妈怕狗:ni ma ma pa gou </mandarin>


oh you mean like, they don't scratch it for no reason, oh you actually have to buy things for them to scratch


then I got trauma, yeah, I will prefer a bigger one because I'll be worried that if the dog is too small then I accidentally step on it or something


, yeah, last time I went to my friend's house then like her dog was so small no I didn't step but like I was so scared that like like because he was so small then like I cannot really see where he is, then I was so scared I step on him


it's like a toy poodle I think, I don't know what is it called toy poodle but something ah toy something


, ya ya ya ya


err that's true, maybe I'll get one but then golden retriever like cannot cannot <mandarin>养:yang </mandarin> in HDB leh, no space, yeah


!aiya! anyway my <mandarin>妈妈:ma ma </mandarin> won't let me <mandarin>养:yang </mandarin> one ah, , , that is if I get married,


, maybe, don't know, need to graduate first, find a job


, eh actually my neighbor got got cat leh


no it doesn't, it doesn't look like a stray cat to me it looks like, it doesn't look like a normal cat that you see on the streets leh is like, it looks a bit like Garfield you know I mean is like


very very, yeah it's it's not but it's not like you know like those kind of stray cats on the streets is like, the <mandarin>毛:mao </mandarin> is very <mandarin>短:duan </mandarin> one, like then, but the cat is like super fluffy like the the <mandarin>毛:mao </mandarin> is super long


I don't know I if you know what I mean, like it looks like, like those store bought kind, like looks very exotic, yeah


, , that's true


and, err !aiya! but <mandarin>他们也是很夸张:ta men ye shi hen kua zhang </mandarin> one lah


yeah, and then like yeah lor very Mafan also, maybe I will get one when they retire so like they will have something to do


with all their time, right, ya but I don't think they're gonna retire anytime soon, so , we'll see about it actually <mandarin>你还有去那个:ni hai you qu na ge </mandarin> volunteering mah


!huh! like, to


then <mandarin>谁:shui </mandarin> take care of all the pets not pets animals


[orh]


oh, so sad, what other one, [orh] so you ended up signing up for it


wait, [orh] so then how how how does the audition take place because, you cannot go there and sing right so <mandarin>你唱歌:ni chang ge </mandarin> over Zoom


I thought also cannot have CCAs anyway so, it so like even if y'all, even if you can enter the CCA then how are y'all gonna have your CCA sessions


oh so it's like recording lah, [orh]


!huh!, so if they are not from the same zone, what, , then did you sign up for other CCAs or other


other activities, oh, I, I don't know what to sign up for leh


I actually wanted to sign up for the MMA one this sem but I guess that's not happening, yeah, so sad, I don't know but


I mean now also cannot have contact sports what, I don't know lah but, , I have a friend in judo right then


, recently they came up with a petition to, resume contact sports because, like she said, (hmm)


, I don't know about MMA but judo don't have, err we learnt how to fall properly so we know how to fall lah


but she said is different, because like now in place of fighting a real person they use like rubber bands right, those kind of resistant resistance bands, they tie to the wall then they practice like that but she say is like very different


so they the the the national team I think she is in national team or something, so I think they started like a petition or something, cases are also very low right these few days


yeah actually I don't know why they want to allow travelling I mean allow like visitors from, other countries or


, but, I don't know isn't it better to be safe than sorry


yeah, , , , but also people are losing their jobs


I hope the economy, gets better by the time we graduate because, yeah, so we're I think we are quite lucky we don't graduate this year


yeah, yeah


yeah, I <mandarin>听说:ting shuo </mandarin> like <mandarin>很多:hen duo </mandarin> graduates right, they all like they're all intern-ing now because they cannot find a job


oh that's true, , maybe we should start finding, we look, or is there any like company that you are looking at


, I don't know I feel like I'm so unproductive


actually next sem how many compulsory mods do we have


!huh!,


but hor


!huh!, oh


oh then I will probably take like Biz mods in year four lah, anyway I think it'll be easier to get also, in year four, right, yeah,


school is so Sian, yeah


actually do you think you will further your studies, maybe you can do like nutrition


actually hor, even though <mandarin>我我:wo wo </mandarin> JC <mandarin>有读:you du </mandarin> bio but


oh but the deadline is like so soon leh, true,


I didn't know that they were from FST, as in I didn't know their names


ah then <mandarin>他还有一个是:ta hai you yi ge shi </mandarin> like <P2>Rachel Khoo</P2> or something


oh <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong </mandarin> leh maybe <mandarin>我记错:wo ji cuo </mandarin> or something, but okay lah maybe if you


oh, that's true, oh ya hor then <mandarin>那个:na ge </mandarin> video the project right for FST


[orh], maybe we should start on that soon also


but <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de </mandarin> video <mandarin>比较:bi jiao </mandarin> , requires more effort, okay oh my god school


actually


I don't even know if our record if our, I don't even know if our trial will be, accepted


yeah, , but if it gets accepted, then we have to do, more recordings right, did they did they say how many recordings we are supposed to do


okay


oh they didn't, , okay lah I guess it's quite worth the money, if I did a normal if if Elisa did her normal job right she will need like


two hours plus, to get eighteen, yeah, okay lah is not bad lah I guess, yeah,


I wish I had more money


like, yeah, actually <mandarin>我觉得最贵的是:wo jue de zui gui de shi </mandarin> accommodation eh


but actually <mandarin>我朋友有讲:wo peng you you jiang </mandarin> hor <mandarin>如果你:ru guo ni </mandarin> buy like groceries right actually is a lot cheaper than Singapore leh, because it's, there's all local produce then, like she said if you buy groceries with with friends right like if you stay in hall or like you stay with your friends


then you all share the groceries like she say is actually quite affordable, ya then you all just eat together, I don't know lah,


yeah I guess, , like the meal in UK right is like the same number in Singapore like in in a restaurant the same restaurant price but it's in pounds


like the number is the same but you must like yeah, I think is two point something leh I'm not very sure, yeah


so she say like they very rarely go out to like, eat or something, yeah they usually cook, in the hall in their house


actually that's healthier also right I guess, but if that if that's the case then every meal they eat outside is like, a treat mah


then it feels like, you know it doesn't it feels more exciting to eat outside, actually if we go in, if we go for exchange what kind of weather will it be in Australia


oh, actually when is it ah we're going in year three sem one right


so, oh my god I really hope you can go


but actually Australia <mandarin>不是很多:bu shi hen duo </mandarin> cases right


then the dessert restaurant that you wanted to go which which part of Australia is it, oh is it near Queensland


actually part of the reason why I want to learn driving now is that if we do end up going to Australia for exchange, then if you want to go and explore, outside of school right we can rent a car or something


then we can drive around, yeah, then I will know how to drive, but for now I have to study for the BTT, actually I don't know why they say that BTT is very easy eh like when I was looking at the notes right


there are a lot of road signs that I've never seen in my life you know, is the, is I think it's just like MCQ or something but there are a lot of road signs like they will ask what this road sign is for and things like that but


[orh]


[orh], , driving eh, it's like if I passed that and then I have


yeah, , yeah yeah yeah my my sister say is enough time to study for it lah, but I scared like if I want to do like practical lessons right I don't know whether I'll have time, because, because school


and lessons, yeah, I guess so


!wah! night <mandarin>很难驾车:hen nan jia che </mandarin> eh, well I guess so


then <mandarin>那天:na tian </mandarin> oh my god it was raining so heavily and she couldn't see anything on the road and she was so stressed, ya lesson lesson, but yeah she say she couldn't see anything and she was so stressed


yeah, , yeah, , so how ah we have , about one or two more minutes


okay, so I can't wait for this to be over I'm actually quite thirsty


I have but, , I have a cup of coffee beside me actually


[orh] before the next lesson, [orh] tomorrow's lesson is, oh, okay


Wednesday Wednesday got what ah Wednesday only got GH right, oh, okay lah, Darwin I am going to watch over the weekends ah, probably


no it's quite interesting actually, actually is the only lecture that, I can sit through, like the entire thing


without taking breaks, okay lah I like the lecturer so is okay


that's true but I felt like he was, I felt like he was getting bullied that day


say where else like, oh <mandarin>一厅一厅一个小时了:yi ting yi ting yi ge xiao shi le</mandarin> eh


ya stop [mah], okay, I stop [ah], one, two three


ya so you've been prepping for his birthday right


, but, it's part of your effort lah don't don't be so stressed about it lah


but stay in class will <mandarin>二人世界:er ren shi jie</mandarin> meh , !wow!


I mean I think it's quite romantic lah you know in its own right it's a kind of a pre-A levels kind of <mandarin>爱情:ai qing</mandarin> uh


no <mandarin>我完全理解因为我自己的:wo wan quan li jie yin wei wo zi ji de</mandarin> birthday hor <mandarin>我也是:wo ye shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>有一点寂寞的在家里度过啦:you yi dian ji mo de zai jia li du guo la</mandarin> cause of freaking circuit breaker but it's okay cause err I mean like !aiya! no matter what the love language is and all that right I think like don't have to worry so much lah I mean like err <mandarin>那个男人也是:na ge nan ren ye shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>选择你的:xuan ze ni de</mandarin> eh (ppc) so I'm sure that <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> know he will appreciate whatever you do lah he knows what your love language is what as long as there's like the <mandarin>爱情:ai qing</mandarin> there I think it's like solid


, it's just you it's really just you and and my classmates okay


, , eh <mandarin>你懂我姐姐笑你:ni dong wo jie jie xiao ni</mandarin> <mandarin>她说你们:ta shuo ni men</mandarin> <mandarin>你们很:ni men hen</mandarin> funny cause like <mandarin>你们去:ni men qu</mandarin> <mandarin>找她:zhao ta</mandarin> right then <mandarin>你问她:ni wen ta</mandarin> eh Ruien err sorry <mandarin>你可以帮我先还吗:ni ke yi bang wo xian hai ma</mandarin> then <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> like Kena <mandarin>她吓到:ta xia dao</mandarin> eh


, stupid one ah so okay love you all thanks I not lonely lah ya


(ppc)


I know (ppc), !aiya! I'm a bit sad also , what ah, tomorrow I have, err GP then I have lit then I have the Desu, maybe I'll see my math teacher <mandarin>那个你喜欢的那个:na ge ni xi huan de na ge</mandarin>


err ya <mandarin>因为他教他教学他他蛮好的啦他他是:yin wei ta jiao ta jiao xue ta ta man hao de la ta ta shi</mandarin> not bad <mandarin>的啦他有技巧的啦:de la ta you ji qiao de la</mandarin> ya <mandarin>他可能会进来:ta ke neng hui jin lai</mandarin> lor <mandarin>跟我们:gen wo men</mandarin> like <mandarin>讲一些:jiang yi xie</mandarin> parting words ah but yeah no cause oh but we have like (ppc) Google meet lesson on thursday also with him cause err I think <mandarin>他有点不舍得他有点:ta you dian bu she de ta you dian</mandarin> uncle <mandarin>的啦:de la</mandarin> you know


, ya kind of actually today was our last official math tut lah cause tomorrow is Desu mah he just pop in only ya, then I studying in the library after Desu


(ppc), (ppc), , , , , ya


I have, GP, oh cause right <mandarin>今天:jin tian</mandarin> <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> GP teacher right <mandarin>他很:ta hen</mandarin> like


but it's okay, <mandarin>我不懂:wo bu dong</mandarin> leh <mandarin>没有没有没有听到:mei you mei you mei you ting dao</mandarin> eh <mandarin>应应该是没有啦哎呀我的:ying ying gai shi mei you la ai ya wo de</mandarin> class <mandarin>很很无聊的啦:hen hen wu liao de la</mandarin> !wah!


but <mandarin>最近有一点:zui jin you yi dian</mandarin> drama leh <mandarin>我有一点不敢:wo you yi dian bu gan</mandarin> ya <mandarin>有一点:you yi dian</mandarin> like tense atmosphere think everybody a bit like stress lah you know cause like I mean exam <mandarin>要到了:yao dao le</mandarin> mah so <mandarin>每个人都:mei ge ren dou</mandarin> like <mandarin>很压力:hen ya li</mandarin> lor then <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> like <mandarin>动不动就会哭这样:dong bu dong jiu hui ku zhe yang</mandarin> leh <mandarin>哇我跟你讲我真的很怕:wa wo gen ni jiang wo zhen de hen pa</mandarin> eh <mandarin>我不不敢乱乱来:wo bu bu gan luan luan lai</mandarin> you know


, no but precisely <mandarin>因为他们有压力:yin wei ta men you ya li</mandarin> then you should like, (ppc), (ppc)


but I am but I am not CTU rep leh I got no power sia, the, , ,


(ppc),


err funny story so there was a bit of drama today cause like , like you know like <mandarin>我的班:wo de ban</mandarin> right <mandarin>有几个女孩子她们:you ji ge nv hai zi ta men</mandarin> like very outspoken mah got a lot of strong opinions then err <mandarin>她们在想:ta men zai xiang</mandarin> oh maybe we should like do a teacher's day card for one of my lit teachers then they were thinking err but we don't really want to do it for the other teacher then today they come up to me and they they were like oh we think that you're like the only person in class who would be willing to do the card for the other teacher so what do you think we should do then I was just like !huh! like what that's like so rude right I mean like <mandarin>人家教我们这样久她们不可能:ren jia jiao wo men zhe yang jiu ta men bu ke neng</mandarin> like <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> like <mandarin>一点点感激:yi dian dian gan ji</mandarin> like like <mandarin>感恩的心:gan en de xin</mandarin> right so I was like very disappointed then then I said you mean y'all really have like absolutely nothing to say to the teacher at all and then they were just like ya I mean it's okay right I err we are not gonna have anymore lessons she won't find out then I was like bro like that's such a sad thing to say and like


they I think I don't understand why everybody is like so like antagonistic against this particular teacher lah like I mean we should all have more empathy right like teacher also work very hard one what and know teachers lives are like so difficult like ya I I I don't know lah then there's just a lot of like weird fights nowadays in my class I have no idea what's going on then like


ya okay honestly right <mandarin>她是:ta shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>比较传统的啦:bi jiao chuan tong de la</mandarin> like <mandarin>我想因为她可能:wo xiang yin wei ta ke neng</mandarin> like <mandarin>她的家里:ta de jia li</mandarin> <mandarin>她们是:ta men shi</mandarin> like chinese brought up like teochew chinese kind of background and she said like her mother is like damn strict last time so like I feel that she's just a bit like <mandarin>保守:bao shou</mandarin> you know like a bit more conservative and but it doesn't necessarily mean that she's like a bad person like I do not understand why


throughout these two years right people like perceive her as like some like fear as monster like damn scared like that but like , ya why don't people understand like I feel like last year it was a bit better people could still understand a bit but <mandarin>可能今年:ke neng jin nian</mandarin> like <mandarin>她有一点比较严肃了因为她觉得:ta you yi dian bi jiao yan su le yin wei ta jue de</mandarin> like J two <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> mah <mandarin>我们应该:wo men ying gai</mandarin> like step up then I guess people just feel very very stress and like somehow vulnerable so like they suddenly become damn like !wah! angsty eh vulnerable I scared lah ya


, ya like she explained so many times that like she has our best interest in heart and I I really understand that lah and I mean she looked so upset when she was going through that also like obviously it's not that she wants to make people cry or like make people feel bad about themselves what like <mandarin>我我不明白啦为什么:wo wo bu ming bai la wei shen me</mandarin> like <mandarin>人家他们只会看:ren jia ta men zhi hui kan</mandarin> like <mandarin>体面:ti mian</mandarin> you know they just think that like oh it's us versus her it's not okay <mandarin>大家都是:da jia dou shi</mandarin> like


we all just want to get A you know who !wah!, immature ah


err <mandarin>今天她是问我啦她讲:jin tian ta shi wen wo la ta jiang</mandarin> eh err where is whoever whoever is she not in school then I said ya she said she's not feeling well then she asked me oh is it like emotional or physical then I was like I'm not very sure then she was like so it's probably emotional then I was like ya ya I think so lah ya I think she she definitely feels quite bad lah like


she's a very nice person you know plus, if you understand like her life like she lives alone and like she's like, an elderly person lah so it's not very nice to like treat her like, treat her with the same standards as we treat like


younger teachers to have like more energy and like more like patience like we have to understand it's just her generational kind of like teaching style mah !aiya! I don't know lah


, yup , ya <mandarin>她她最:ta ta zui</mandarin> celebrated <mandarin>的时候:de shi hou</mandarin> hor <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> like <mandarin>时不时:shi bu shi</mandarin> eh just nice hor <mandarin>我在吃饭的时候她就会打给我:wo zai chi fan de shi hou ta jiu hui da gei wo</mandarin> leh then <mandarin>我就没有:wo jiu mei you</mandarin> pick, up then <mandarin>我看到那个:wo kan dao na ge</mandarin> missed call <mandarin>我跟你讲我吓到:wo gen ni jiang wo xia dao</mandarin> leh <mandarin>很多次:hen duo ci</mandarin> and <mandarin>因为我没有:yin wei wo mei you</mandarin> save <mandarin>她的:ta de</mandarin> number mah <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> <mandarin>她不喜欢人家:ta bu xi huan ren jia</mandarin> save <mandarin>她的:ta de</mandarin> number <mandarin>她怕我们去:ta pa wo men qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>打给她:da gei ta</mandarin> then <mandarin>我看到:wo kan dao</mandarin> six something something something then <mandarin>我吓到:wo xia dao</mandarin> you know then <mandarin>我在想:wo zai xiang</mandarin> oh my god did I do something wrong so I everytime I will call her back then I'll be like oh hi is anything wrong then she'll she just call me to like <mandarin>催:cui</mandarin> people to hand in their homework it's quite funny ya I'm like her


secretary (ppc), err <mandarin>她就是因为有:ta jiu shi yin wei you</mandarin> COVID mah then <mandarin>她就特别去学:ta jiu te bie qu xue</mandarin> lor <mandarin>她跟学校借那个电脑:ta gen xue xiao jie na ge dian nao</mandarin> <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> like <mandarin>因为她家里没有:yin wei ta jia li mei you</mandarin> Wi-Fi <mandarin>她还要借那种:ta hai yao jie na zhong</mandarin> mobile data kind of thing ya then after that <mandarin>她讲她哇她讲她今年真的学到很多:ta jiang ta wa ta jiang ta jin nian zhen de xue dao hen duo</mandarin> like <mandarin>科技:ke ji</mandarin> <mandarin>她很:ta hen</mandarin> like <mandarin>开心:kai xin</mandarin> !aiya! <mandarin>她:ta</mandarin> quite cute <mandarin>的啦:de la</mandarin> honestly


[orh] <mandarin>她讲她是真的不要啦因为她:ta jiang ta shi zhen de bu yao la yin wei ta</mandarin> okay in her own words right she calls phones like a devil device like <mandarin>她她就是觉得:ta ta jiu shi jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>她对:ta dui</mandarin> <mandarin>那个电话对身体健康不好所以她觉得:na ge dian hua dui shen ti jian kang bu hao suo yi ta jue de</mandarin> <mandarin>很像看太久:hen xiang kan tai jiu</mandarin> then <mandarin>眼睛就会不好:yan jing jiu hui bu hao</mandarin> then err posture <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>退步:tui bu</mandarin> <mandarin>然后她有讲过:ran hou ta you jiang guo</mandarin> like <mandarin>自己:zi ji</mandarin> some personal emotional experience lah that made her like really hate the phone something like that ya so


, don't know I kind of respect it lah but it must be very troublesome ah especially during circuit breaker


, <mandarin>她她家里有那个:ta ta jia li you na ge</mandarin> like <mandarin>家里的电话啦:jia li de dian hua la</mandarin> but I think <mandarin>她她是在学校:ta ta shi zai xue xiao</mandarin> check e-mail <mandarin>的因为:de yin wei</mandarin> <mandarin>她家里没有:ta jia li mei you</mandarin> Wi-Fi mah <mandarin>所以她应该也是在那里:suo yi ta ying gai ye shi zai na li</mandarin> check IMB lor which is why right <mandarin>我真的很佩服她:wo zhen de hen pei fu ta</mandarin> eh <mandarin>因为:yin wei</mandarin> hor means that <mandarin>她可以:ta ke yi</mandarin> like check <mandarin>到很仔细:dao hen zi xi</mandarin> <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> like <mandarin>每天就会:mei tian jiu hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>策划好她自己的:ce hua hao ta zi ji de</mandarin> plan <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> so <mandarin>她就不会:ta jiu bu hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>在家里:zai jia li</mandarin> panic mah


!wah! so means that I think she really got very good organisational skills , !huh! like that means like if she can cope without a phone and like without internet at home means settle everything outside of like her home eh which is like such a good work-life balance


(mmhmm)


(mmhmm), confirm have one (ppc) like I believe that , there's just this clique in my lit class and like when one person say something you know the clique they will just like kind of agree even if they don't necessarily agree and like


I'm pretty sure that the other class people cause my class is two classes mah the other class people they probably like feel less strongly than, my class those girls and also like my male classmate he's like usually very emphathatic I'm pretty sure in his heart like <mandarin>他是有:ta shi you</mandarin> like


, , err no I think culture is always evolving you know like maybe in the past (ppc), your two Angmoh teachers they probably had like even even a a different style from what they're doing now also maybe they were like more energetic more like intense but maybe now they're a bit more mellow so I think that like no matter what !aiya! culture will always change ah people will always come and go and no matter what like


at least the students like the spirit of HP I think it kind of remains the same it's still about like you know the arts the humanities focusing on the abstract and like does right non <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> let's say Singaporean <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> teacher I think that <mandarin>他们也是:ta men ye shi</mandarin> like <mandarin>很有料的啦:hen you liao de la</mandarin> like <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> like channel that Angmoh energy if they wanted to but I don't know is that necessarily a bad thing if like it were it were to become very like exam-focused not very sure


, actually right my own teachers (ppc) are very similar to doctor Herr like today my teacher was just talking about how err like <mandarin>他拿出来他的:ta na chu lai ta de</mandarin> syllabus but <mandarin>我跟你讲:wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他:ta</mandarin> file <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> documents, into <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> file right it's damn thick leh I think it's like she trying to flex lah like she trying to say that eh if I can do it how come y'all cannot but anyways then she brought the syllabus doc then she show us that like the learning objective of lit is to develop personal responses so she was like that's why err I don't like it when like y'all ask me what does this mean what does this mean because


I cannot tell you what it means you have to find


he like really you know, thinks about his dreams and like his love and his life and I was thinking will I ever like, risk so much and give so much just to attain an ideal that I think about I was just like nah I don't think lah I will ever do that I think it's very noble you know that's why we love lit as so personal (ppc)


, (ppc), , (ppc)


(hmm),


, maybe y'all need to read those like they never give y'all critical readings like the academic kind, (ppc), (ppc)


(ppc), (ppc)


(ppc), (hmm)


, err , so I think like for the contextual issues like for example what each word might mean right I think that one it's always helpful to refer to readings cause readings will there are all the scholars they will tell you mah this is just straight facts so once you have the straight facts that's like the basic level right then <mandarin>你就:ni jiu</mandarin> like <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> move on to like <mandarin>一个比较:yi ge bi jiao</mandarin> like <mandarin>深奥的那种:shen ao de na zhong</mandarin> understanding right then I think it's more important that you keep reading the text and instead of getting opinions from other people that will definitely screw you over I think cause then you you you you kind of think in terms of a very fixed mindset which I that's why I don't like that my for Gatsby right !wah! <mandarin>跟你讲我们的:gen ni jiang wo men de</mandarin> readings right is damn thick bro is like too much already I only read one ya then


like, I think you have to understand the , to understand the like main themes lah of each text so maybe like it will help if you list out all the themes and then you try to look at if you don't understand something from a micro perspective you try to look at it like from macro like place the event in like the sequence of larger events throughout the text so maybe that will make more sense like I know Wordsworth got a lot of like paragraphs that is just like what the hell is going on right so I always like


look at the book like <mandarin>它的整体看它:ta de zheng ti kan ta</mandarin> <mandarin>他这个人到底在讲什么:ta zhe ge ren dao di zai jiang shen me</mandarin> so like what is his main point right so, you kind of like use , episodes and and you piece them together to fit this kind of development arc ya then I think it's very imporant to remember that for paper three right it's always about the development of the mind and self it's not just about mind and self so you'll have to look at how things evolve throughout the text and like how the textual evidence can support that lah so maybe it it won't make sense if you look at this


particularly philosophical Wordsworth verse paragraph but if you take that philosophical tone as like, a look into like, more enlightenment at this point in time then it might make more sense so you focus less on what each thing individually means like how it pieces together in the larger narrative I think that will help and like make you a bit less confused lah


but !aiya! I <mandarin>我也是不懂啦:wo ye shi bu dong la</mandarin> I mean <mandarin>我们做:wo men zuo</mandarin> lit <mandarin>这样久了:zhe yang jiu le</mandarin> right <mandarin>有时候我也是:you shi hou wo ye shi</mandarin> feel like I'm just kind of winging it cause like, you will just kind of go with the flow you know then you read the sample essays then you like get some inspiration ya


no lah please <mandarin>我老师给我们的:wo lao shi gei wo men de</mandarin> hor <mandarin>他很喜欢给:ta hen xi huan gei</mandarin> senior <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> essays and the thing is senior's essays right


(ppc), (ppc), (ppc)


nuances like some are some are here like very hopeful some are like maybe here at the point of collapse and some are here which is like totally collapsed already so if you can illustrate that there are all these changes I think they will be quite impressed cause you show a wide range of like your understanding of the poems


(ppc), (ppc), (ppc) <mandarin>没有那个是:mei you na ge shi</mandarin> err one one side of it only like you don't know if you look at it in terms of because


poems are about the personas also what not just about the poet so , you can just look at what the persona is talking about like , there will definitely be differences in the state of mind what it can't all be chaotic some could be anguish some could be crises of identity some could be like existential crisis so like I think there are always like


subtle differences that you can flesh out to show how it develops, ya, (ppc), (ppc) , , , , (mmhmm)


, , (oo) I like paper three more cause I feel like paper one paper one like <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> standard lor <mandarin>所以他就是考你的:suo yi ta jiu shi kao ni de</mandarin> basic <mandarin>的那些技巧:de nei xie ji qiao</mandarin> <mandarin>看你会不会:kan ni hui bu hui</mandarin> like <mandarin>读那个:du na ge</mandarin> text err <mandarin>就是找出那些重要的:jiu shi zhao chu nei xie zhong yao de</mandarin> devices lah which I think it's interesting and I I do like Gatsby and my my play which is playing for time and I actually love the


poetry of comparison that's probably my favourite section out of all six sections like I love the unseen anyways but I like paper three more cause paper three is like is like more interesting lah <mandarin>就:jiu</mandarin> like, it's like so rare that you'll examine mind and self like that that's like not a common thing that you'll examine in the other subjects like all everything else is like so so rote so like theory but it's only like during paper three that I can like write about things like identity crisis or like you know err she feels a sense of detachment from reality !wah! <mandarin>这感觉:zhe gan jue</mandarin> like quite Shiok <mandarin>的啦:de la</mandarin> like feels feels very refreshing ya


but I think like


I guess it's kinda true but I feel like even when it's repetitive right it's still more enjoyable than repeating for paper one cause paper one <mandarin>整天就是讲一样的东西:zheng tian jiu shi jiang yi yang de dong xi</mandarin> like for playing for time right <mandarin>我们就是在讲:wo men jiu shi zai jiang</mandarin> [orh] it shows that err the trauma of like the holocaust whatever whatever or what power corrupts or what is morality like that's like always the same same thing then for Gatsby <mandarin>就在讲:jiu zai jiang</mandarin> err <mandarin>梦想:meng xiang</mandarin> (hmm) <mandarin>梦想很重要:meng xiang hen zhong yao</mandarin> <mandarin>还还是讲什么:hai hai shi jiang shen me</mandarin> err <mandarin>有钱人:you qian ren</mandarin> err <mandarin>并:bing</mandarin> <mandarin>不一定会是最:bu yi ding hui shi zui</mandarin> err <mandarin>有价值的人:you jia zhi de ren</mandarin> <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> only like paper one <mandarin>其实整天也是在重复一样的东西啦:qi shi zheng tian ye shi zai chong fu yi yang de dong xi la</mandarin> so <mandarin>没有那么有兴趣啦:mei you na me you xing qu la</mandarin> but paper three right


okay lah <mandarin>是有一点重复啦可是我是觉得他的:shi you yi dian chong fu la ke shi wo shi jue de ta de</mandarin> questions <mandarin>可能会比较:ke neng hui bi jiao</mandarin> different <mandarin>的就是蛮难:de jiu shi man nan</mandarin> predict <mandarin>的今天我们做一个:de jin tian wo men zuo yi ge</mandarin> practice question is about a , how does the writer use setting to show a mind intention and <mandarin>我没有做过:wo mei you zuo guo</mandarin> setting <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> question <mandarin>我会觉得:wo hui jue de</mandarin> setting actually a bit difficult cause we're doing it for a woman in mind the play and ya I think it it's quite interesting lah everytime you you link like a literary feature to an effect on like the audience don't you feel like it's very rewarding like you feel like you're the audience you're like writing a critique !wah!


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, no, eh but lit <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>没有对错的:mei you dui cuo de</mandarin> leh like <mandarin>如果有老师敢讲你错:ru guo you lao shi gan jiang ni cuo</mandarin> hor okay lah <mandarin>要要看你的证据啦:yao yao kan ni di zheng ju la</mandarin> so <mandarin>如果你的:ru guo ni de</mandarin> like textual evidence <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> support right I think like any reading is possible right if you feel like it's more positive connotation that's your own reading of it technically


okay maybe it's just A levels sucks but I don't think like anyone can like fault you for a certain interpretation that's like , that's like defeats the whole point of lit you know, ,


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, , , no but I think it just shows how subjective like arts marking is it really depends on your marker's style which is like such a pity right like we can't test arts in a different way but like I totally get it like I think I feel like my teachers are like really lenient towards me like when I got my blogs back right cause my playing for time essay I did PBQ then you have to talk about outside of the


extract also right I didn't talk about outside of the extract for like half my essay cause like I didn't have time and then like she gave me a super good mark even though like I felt that my points were literally just like , regurgitating like what I learnt from the past cause I felt that was a really hard question then I just feel like it's quite unfair cause I think my teachers really like me and I'm not like trying to like flex but I just feel like they are very biased towards me and I feel feel very bad for like if they might not like someone else's style but it might not show that person is not good at lit you know it's like such a subjective art that like <mandarin>就觉得:jiu jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>有点有点不不不好啦:you dian you dian bu bu bu hao la</mandarin> like <mandarin>如果我们通过考试来:ru guo wo men tong guo kao shi lai</mandarin> like <mandarin>看一个人对在在这方面的一些:kan yi ge ren dui zai zai zhe fang mian de yi xie</mandarin> <mandarin>一些:yi xie</mandarin> skills you know


, images that repeat right <mandarin>做一定要很重要的如果他在你:zuo yi ding yao hen zhong yao de ru guo ta zai ni</mandarin> passage <mandarin>出现然后你不懂:chu xian ran hou ni bu dong</mandarin> <mandarin>在:zai</mandarin> book <mandarin>哪里里面也有出现这种东西:na li li mian ye you chu xian zhe zhong dong xi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>哇你损失很大:wa ni sun shi hen da</mandarin> but the thing is right (ppc) (ppc) <mandarin>么你:me ni</mandarin> <mandarin>如果你太:ru guo ni tai</mandarin> focused on like <mandarin>记住你以前:ji zhu ni yi qian</mandarin> analyse <mandarin>过的:guo de</mandarin> hor you run the risk of forgetting the question which is quite risky I think that's what happened to you so I think you need to like strike a balance like you can have like certain certain consolidation for themes so like you just put some point forms like what are the main ideas here like maybe like topic sentences and stuff and like key symbols but at the same time you'll kind of you've to understand you have to know your text quite well lah like I feel like <mandarin>不用不用去:bu yong bu yong qu</mandarin> like <mandarin>仔细的:zi xi de</mandarin> underline <mandarin>每一个:mei yi ge</mandarin> sentence or what but


but at least <mandarin>要知道:yao zhi dao</mandarin> like certain things where does it happen in terms of the sequence of events I think that's, that's probably better like everytime I do a PBQ right the question always is something I don't expect like even if I know that passage like for example we did this literally the opening


a passage of Gatsby right and the question was about a what does this tell you about Nick's understanding of himself which is the narrator ya and I I I was just like !wah! interesting interesting so you'll really have to adjust your perceptions and like see the passage in a new light which I think will be quite difficult if you really studied too hard


in terms of line by line ya (ppc), (ppc) (ppc)


(ppc) remember that and especially with like subjective narrator kind of books right like Gatsby and I think you also have I think it's very important to like look at how, the narrator describes certain characters cause there will bound to be patterns so you kind of have to pick up those patterns ya like recently I've been trying to re-read Gatsby I don't know if I have enough time to read it whole day I only did one chapter so far then <mandarin>我找到:wo zhao dao</mandarin> hor <mandarin>很多新的:hen duo xin de</mandarin> code eh like <mandarin>我从来没有看过的因为我以前:wo cong lai mei you kan guo de yin wei wo yi qian</mandarin> study Gatsby right <mandarin>我真的很讨厌他:wo zhen de hen tao yan ta</mandarin> cause <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> like <mandarin>太难理解:tai nan li jie</mandarin> then <mandarin>他很:ta hen</mandarin> complex mah please lah <mandarin>人家:ren jia</mandarin> wrote it in like


a hundred years ago and it's still so relevant but like after I re-read it then I kind of picked out a lot of codes because after , that you think about it when you were first reading that text you didn't understand the text at all but now you will understand all the themes and like the relationships and like the point of the whole novel right when you're looking at it again like you you will gain insights and your mind will naturally sort it out into its own like tables one so you I think it's damn important to re-read but you don't necessarily have to underline and analyse line by line but you have to re-read I think that's like super important


, it smells manageable, honestly I have been neglecting my section C my my my playing for time cause I I feel like I'm I'm lacking a lot in Gatsby cause Gatsby is very hard to understand so I'm gonna focus on that but I'm going to start my playing for time tomorrow


ya and unseen we did a lot of practices in class so it's it should be fine eh, err, so <mandarin>我就有:wo jiu you</mandarin> prioritise <mandarin>那些:nei xie</mandarin> like, err <mandarin>这两个星期啦:zhe liang ge xing qi la</mandarin> like <mandarin>一直会:yi zhi hui</mandarin> <mandarin>我是觉得:wo shi jue de</mandarin> err september holidays <mandarin>还有时间啦可以做那些:hai you shi jian la ke yi zuo nei xie</mandarin> paper two cause a lot <mandarin>跟你讲:gen ni jiang</mandarin> right <mandarin>我下个星期三考:wo xia ge xing qi san kao</mandarin> ELL and paper one ya


so <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> next week <mandarin>我有:wo you</mandarin> <mandarin>我有那个:wo you na ge</mandarin> GP ELL lit <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> math and the thing is <mandarin>今天我做一个:jin tian wo zuo yi ge</mandarin> vectors <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> practice right <mandarin>发现:fa xian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>因为我很久没有:yin wei wo hen jiu mei you</mandarin> revise vectors <mandarin>我一个:wo yi ge</mandarin> question <mandarin>都不会做:dou bu hui zuo</mandarin> <mandarin>我我有一点怕怕:wo wo you yi dian pa pa</mandarin> err <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> <mandarin>明天开始我会:ming tian kai shi wo hui</mandarin> <mandarin>练习我的数学还有我的那个:lian xi wo de shu xue hai you wo de na ge</mandarin> paper one lit ya then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> ELL <mandarin>我是有做一些:wo shi you zuo yi xie</mandarin> practice lah so <mandarin>应该还是可以:ying gai hai shi ke yi</mandarin> but ELL <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> <mandarin>我跟你讲我是:wo gen ni jiang wo shi</mandarin> stuck at B for like


two years already and I'm trying so hard to push it up but it's like !wah! really very difficult ya but, ya <mandarin>要有信心啦:yao you xin xin la</mandarin> I think <mandarin>我相信我的新的老师因为我今年:wo xiang xin wo de xin de lao shi yin wei wo jin nian</mandarin> <mandarin>换了一个老师:huan le yi ge lao shi</mandarin> right <mandarin>我发现了:wo fa xian le</mandarin> hor <mandarin>她是:ta shi</mandarin> <mandarin>当:dang</mandarin> EL L <mandarin>开始被教的时候她是第一个老师:kai shi bei jiao de shi hou ta shi di yi ge lao shi</mandarin> eh <mandarin>她是:ta shi</mandarin> pioneer <mandarin>来的:lai de</mandarin> and like I didn't expect it cause she's quite young lah but !wah! now I have like new-found respect for her and I I kind of trust her judgement ya


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ya paper one is next friday morning then I have lit in the afternoon , <mandarin>不用经啦:bu yong jing la</mandarin> paper one lah <mandarin>可以:ke yi</mandarin> just <mandarin>做啦:zuo la</mandarin> like statistics , uh <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> forty percent pure math


, , eh I thought it's sixty stats forty pure eh, , for paper one am I wrong, , oh so it's forty, forty stats


[orh], oh my gosh you are right, (ppc) <mandarin>我真的要去:wo zhen de yao qu</mandarin> practice <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> vectors leh over , !wah! <mandarin>我跟你讲:wo gen ni jiang</mandarin> know know integration right it's like so difficult like I never uh realise how difficult it was then I kept scrolling up and and like ya really have to like notice everything !wah! it's damn difficult


ya so, ya I think, , quite interesting lor , ya but good luck good luck for your revision ,


okay, ya correct, but right now I think I'm mostly done but I feel really bad cause I didn't honestly plan really well lah I had a plan to do something key theme because like you know lock mah so ya but then !aiya! this whole week was just very like boring I mean like very like busy so I just like kept dragging until now it's very Cui cause it's just random things put together like for example I have a card then I have also like a mug and like stickers it's just random things that like I know he would like but then I'm not so sure that (ugh) it's very like there lah cause I know I can do better for birthdays and like if other people's birthday I can like do until like that then


but then I feel that I think his love language is like gifts so that's why cause he always make ya a lot of things for me and, obviously he values this kind of like material giving and receiving a lot so like for his birthday I feel very like (oo) like I need to do something that is like DIY <mandarin>心意:xin yi</mandarin> ya I know that he will get my <mandarin>心意:xin yi</mandarin> but then at the same time it's obviously like a bit not there I feel cause for me personally I want to do like the experience like oh <mandarin>我跟他去看电影然后:wo gen ta qu kan dian ying ran hou</mandarin> like <mandarin>我一起吃晚餐然后就在:wo yi qi chi wan can ran hou jiu zai</mandarin> Sentosa <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> <mandarin>又走一走:you zou yi zou</mandarin> but then I wanted I proposed that but then he said that he wants to study tomorrow on his birthday ya <mandarin>所以:suo yi</mandarin> tomorrow <mandarin>我们会:wo men hui</mandarin> order GrabFood in and then we just stay in class and study yes it !hais! it's very sad lah


okay ah <mandarin>你呆到:ni dai dao</mandarin> like after <mandarin>六点就有二人世界了:liu dian jiu you er ren shi jie le</mandarin> unless the the the guard come in lah but ya


but <mandarin>就很可惜:jiu hen ke xi</mandarin> lor cause <mandarin>他的:ta de</mandarin> birthday is like is <mandarin>十八:shi ba</mandarin> birthday and then for all the people's birthday who have been before for example like, April right they can have a very nice eighteenth birthday but <mandarin>那些六月过后的:nei xie liu yue guo hou de</mandarin> is just everyone have no time and then their birthday is just like <mandarin>匆匆忙忙的度过:cong cong mang mang de du guo</mandarin> and then


, okay firstly eh hello <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> circuit breaker birthday <mandarin>我们帮你过:wo men bang ni guo</mandarin> lor so ya <mandarin>你还:ni hai</mandarin> complain hello


<mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> slap <mandarin>你啊:ni a</mandarin> what lonely lonely you every five minutes got batchmate send you things, who send you something who send you food ah don't think I don't think we forgot ah who send you flowers ah, !huh! !hais!


, eh but <mandarin>你不可以这样:ni bu ke yi zhe yang</mandarin> hor <mandarin>我们就:wo men jiu</mandarin> <mandarin>我们请一个:wo men qing yi ge</mandarin> driver <mandarin>过来帮你送:guo lai bang ni song</mandarin> flower <mandarin>送到你的家:song dao ni de jia</mandarin> come on <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> birthday <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> lonely <mandarin>你在讲什么话:ni zai jiang shen me hua</mandarin> hello


, I say first it's Peile not us ha (hmm)


(hmm), , err okay lah your birthday , no ah May was still quite, May was still quite okay knew you know like now right the birthdays for September we are literally ah for our class for example we are literally lumping all the A-level birthdays together like Claudia's birthday okay Rison birthday is three days later and then Mott birthday is tomorrow right we're just lumping them all together to celebrate in the last two days so it's gonna be very like crazy speaking of which it's only two days of school left


, so what do you have tomorrow, !hais!


that's so lucky but it's your last official math lesson tomorrow,