ya I think so, speaking of which, ya quite close, speaking of which I'm taking him to the vet tomorrow


ya mean, he's, his ear got infection lah as in infection it's just itchy and then a bit smelly so, just err need to go there and then get some <mandarin>药:yao</mandarin> for his ears


ya ya ya at the the the time where he had some fit, epilepsy, ya I will, I mean I'm I'm already paying for consultation so might as well


eh dogs got consultation also okay, too bad cannot co pay five dollars, so expensive, what I mean I always walk out of the vet paying for like at least one hundred dollars so


I am expecting nothing lesser than that, !wah!, so expensive, I pray so


true


and ya he's a lot to handle for one person, he's not very obedient


okay


as in you can only allow one so as I suppose the most important one goes in, the dog and the the owner lah the but usually you go with family, !huh!, or is this for groomers


but then how then how, , but I I would think that someone else is inside with their pet as in like usually people go as a couple or with a family that's why they're waiting outside


, if not know how to treat the pet I mean the pet can't tell you what's wrong with him so I'm sure someone has to say something,


(mmhmm), my batch girl that is at the hospital now right her next month roster she's got frankfurt


and because she's working part time as not part time she's working temporarily at singhealth as in before this her job, her job was like she's, she was a lab, she she works in the lab to do like test samples and stuff, ya so now that you know with COVID and stuff she's like doing it full time lah so she's taken like


annual leave I mean no pay leave for this job, so, so she's gonna take no pay leave for her frankfurt flight and I'm and I wish you could just give it to me she can't, like she can't, ya that's that's the annoying part I mean it if it's so much ahead


I think they should allow though, and then I can give her my off days lah because, oh ya but you can't leave the hotel unless they deliver


yes zeal tee how you know, , ah ya ya, ya ya, she's married, isabelle she's married my batch boy mah like


she's together with my, batch boy the indian batch boy Jaga so they've been together for like five going six years lah for as long as we have joined the company, ya so they're getting married, <mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> so, at that point of time she was still attached but going through a very rocky patch with her boyfriend


and then she broke off with her boyfriend then, together with with my batchmate lah, so they've been together ever since ya


quite cute, so then, gotta buy a Sari for myself, never try !wow! never tried


but apparently, apparently, true but apparently Saris right like indians when they were they like it that the stomach area is Baba one you must be a bit Baba to wear


to show off your love handles, , because generally they they don't like, , , , , can handle more stuff


ya, !wow! err I can just count who left lah one two three


about six left so, I think there's about fourteen of us still thirteen fourteen, not bad lah


ya exactly ah I think I mean no I don't think, we expected to stay this long like most of us like oh after two years Zao already, go back and study already


not yet lah no, no leh we very sore, lazy but everybody is still still flying right I mean still in the company right


has anybody, quit, ,


oh


oh, no the the <mandarin>三千:san qian</mandarin> is for what


but it's for everybody who quits voluntarily or what, serious, oh


oh I see okay okay, , serious


, well, is she a uni grad, is she, will she go back to study okay okay


I mean if she if she got her, oh pharmacy pay quite well, oh, pharmacies pay not bad leh


it's like <mandarin>铁饭碗:tie fan wan</mandarin> lor it's it's always needed especially in this time, then the friend never get in right , it's always like this


oh okay,


[oh] is it, okay, this is before the big R comes about so they give you heads up first you wanna go nicely on your own or you want (ppl)


, yup, eh hi, I'm good thank you


ya yes my name is #ah gao#, , uh yes yes I want to apply for this cleaning officer ah role correct


, yes I'm gonna apply for this cleaning officer role


err what, cleaning experience I have ah, ah, I I always wash dish in my house lah because uh my house where uh all the dishes that's being washed, uh <mandarin>是我洗的:shi wo xi de</mandarin> lor <mandarin>我洗的:wo xi de</mandarin>


yes correct correct, [orh] wash a lot ah wash a lot do you all have machine or not because now I heard uh even in the hawker centre ah now they use machine to wash, is it manual wash


oh ya,


cleaning of the table okay !huh! oh I thought I'm washing only oh so now need to clean table ah okay, !huh!, oh so now is washing cum cleaning table ah


[orh], okay, where got no dishes one you kidding me hawker no dishes to wash, are you !huh! when when is it


oh now you telling me oh I wash this but it's done by machine but I still need to operate the machine right


[orh] make sure that the surrounding is clean okay okay can, of course at home I have told you already I have been washing dish already so to wash, hot is not a problem because I'm I'm earning uh uh <mandarin>我要赚钱买奶粉:wo yao zhuan qian mai nai fen</mandarin> lah !aiya! <mandarin>你不懂的:ni bu dong de</mandarin> lah


, ya


hot never mind ah hot hot can on fan right , !huh!, no circulation, enclosed area


oh okay lor okay lor, ah, okay very slippery okay, that one not important most important is can I know what is your salary like ah


I told you already I've been washing dish since I'm young how can you say I'm inexperienced, , yes what is the difference between your your hawker centre dish and uh my house dish it's the same my house dish porcelain know can break one your one plastic how difficult can it be


I ah I around fifty already, is age an issue


one K okay got CPF, oh got got medical leave


!huh!, no medical leave <mandarin>你开玩笑:ni kai wan xiao</mandarin> ah no medical leave, you allow urgent leave no medical leave ah okay


ah so so work on a weekend got money, oh, oh okay lor okay can can like that I do lor


when can I start work ah,


#ah mao# ah <mandarin>你你我洗碗你要我去去你的公司:ni ni wo xi wan ni yao wo qu qu ni de gong si</mandarin> submit document


!huh! <mandarin>还要还要:hai yao hai yao</mandarin> wait one week


uh <mandarin>我我住:wo wo zhu</mandarin> Geylang <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> lah <mandarin>住:zhu</mandarin> Geylang, ah <mandarin>对离离我的公司很远:dui li li wo de gong si hen yuan</mandarin> ah


#paya lebar# <mandarin>去:qu</mandarin> Geylang <mandarin>也要时间:ye yao shi jian</mandarin> ah


tomorrow of course cannot lah tomorrow I not tomorrow saturday I only can come down on monday


no no no only monday monday, monday eight AM okay I see you in the office, okay can, I know lah I know I know, ya my son told me lah


, , , oh that that one is my my younger child I still got one one bigger one ya he read for me


okay, boss, okay okay see you then <mandarin>再见再见:zai jian zai jian</mandarin> , bye bye, eh hi martha uh welcome to err this is our phone call uh


phone interview for the role of a swimming instructor, okay ah martha uh my name is mr Tan the hiring manager for this uh particular uh uh club, can you uh tell me a bit about yourself


okay, !wah! martha you you sound very good so you teach swimming and <mandarin>你教游泳:ni jiao you yong</mandarin> ah, oh okay


okay


oh <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> ah okay okay uh okay


ah okay, okay so can can you share with me your your your accident


(uh huh), (uh huh), (uh huh), you teach how many to how many student ah, one to how many one to one or you teach a group


oh so one, one one to oh less than then so one time you can take ten children


ten okay ten children so how long is a class, one hour okay okay very good okay because our here ah because we our club ah all our children ah all very pampered one so usually ya we only do the most one to two only because we have very precious ah children so we don't allow ah any accident at all we this place ah well known one zero accident


zero one you know so cannot have accident ah, so uh because of that ah you your eye need to be on the children at all time one no accident allowed leh, ah


oh because in order, no no no special need because they are all our club members and we treat our club with pride, and, I won't say they're rich lah being but before they joined the


but before they joined they can afford to join our club ah they are somebody already ya so all that's why we only have one to two only, ah ya so you you can speak chinese because we all we have a lot of very chinese china chinese people also


oh <mandarin>标准:biao zhun</mandarin> okay okay <mandarin>标准:biao zhun</mandarin>


so this is so call our level one so uh


since you have experience ah okay ah when is your earliest available date ah, anytime ah now lah now now you can come down to sign the document


uh meet you in ten minutes time lah since you say now, you say now what that's why I expect now is now what you say you can


then you must say today lah then you tell me now my now is ten in ten minutes I wouldn't expect you to be here your now and my now very different leh, , one hour you sure ah one hour I because my my teacher is sick today very good so you take over one of class ah ah okay so you start work first I put of course I want to put you on trial to see whether you can do a work or not


ya ya because we want to see your performance no this is a trial one trial one you only need to see how, ah that one we can discuss can be discussed, we can be discussed


ya ya, because if you don't do I do what so since you say you now you can, no today we got class since you say now you can come down then you now come down lah so you can now can come down because if not I'll have to take over <mandarin>你懂你懂得:ni dong ni dong de</mandarin> mah ah <mandarin>你不懂我就要:ni bu dong wo jiu yao</mandarin> take <mandarin>因为你你要来我就给你做:yin wei ni ni yao lai wo jiu gei ni zuo</mandarin> ah


I already have I told you we have a lot of club member we have a lot of people on waiting list, no no I now I is myself and another trainer so you will be the third one but we have a lot of waiting list customer not problem is whether the the fellow got uh can work or not


okay very good, uh, uh then of course of course then you'll be our uh you'll be our part-time trainer lor


, part-time trainer, uh that one can be discussed you come down first ah later you, we must see your performance because this one I cannot say because you know <mandarin>老子:lao zi</mandarin> say don't tell me you must show me so I follow <mandarin>老子:lao zi</mandarin> method understand


eh no no no it's my <mandarin>老爸说:lao ba shuo</mandarin> one my <mandarin>老爸:lao ba</mandarin> say people say, say err, uh don't tell me show me ah understand ah ya, my <mandarin>老爸:lao ba</mandarin> ask one my <mandarin>老爸:lao ba</mandarin> say one


no my father say people always say they can teach but until they can show that they can teach then employ them because there's a there's a lot of people also say they can swim they can teach


you check record also unless you have all the university cert lah of oh no no here different already sport council cert to prove that you know to swim not, I this is what you say for me I only believe what I see


I tell you our salary will be just as good as what you will want, if you meet what I need, , you come first you come and try first then I tell you


that is the whole idea that's the whole idea you must come, the whole idea is you must come I must see that you know how to teach you have the passion in the in in the our club member you can teach because you tell me you tell me I don't you tell me I don't believe I only believe when I can see that's why I told you I told you <mandarin>老子:lao zi</mandarin> also like that say my <mandarin>老爸:lao ba</mandarin> also like that say understand


ah okay other than <mandarin>孔子:kong zi</mandarin> there's a <mandarin>老子:lao zi</mandarin> okay


ah <mandarin>有一个有一个陆家还有一个老子老子:you yi ge you yi ge lu jia hai you yi ge lao zi lao zi</mandarin> not very famous but you know why you not famous low profile, low profile that's why people don't know that's why a lot of people don't know,


ya that's why I told you because they are the I tell you why why this thing happened so I used to have a a trainer also come here say he can teach teach then after that he make angry my club member then my club member complain


ah then because that is over, err king and princess no need just do your job right, ya correct correct, so can ah so I see you in I see you in one hour hehehehe


I already told you already you come then after that I'll do feedback with my client children the children say you good, I I'll take you immediately if the children say


I already say you say can come in one hour already you talk to me some more you will be late, the class is starting at six PM today, you still got time to come down


what equipment you need you tell me since you ask this


what swimming stuff, of course we have ah I told you already our club is all the VIP everything also have you name it we have it even not supposed to have we also have okay,


you see like water cycle lah water bicycle you see not a lot of club have but our club have because VIP one so we also buy water bicycle not a lot of club have one you know, ah


ah you see very established but most important our client need to be happy, correct okay, okay so six before six you can reach ah


<mandarin>很好:hen hao</mandarin> okay, bye, pause, okay okay okay let's go, ya


oh just now I went to err this place call Five Guys, , oh ah Five Guys is a america brand lor go and sell what hotdog


what burger and what sandwich ah, !wah!, !huh!


, it's a I'm not too sure leh but I only know the food is very expensive


well my lunch ah I only eat one burger, you guess how much is it, , !wah! actually is seventeen dollars can you believe it I only have one burger which is called


cheese and bacon, !huh!, cheese and, it's actually the the the food-wise is it's not too bad uh, oh very huge uh very messy ah because


how should I say it, cause it's just like everything then they use aluminium foil to wrap the whole entire burger, ,


ah no not little I have the uh, burger with, ya correct, ah bacon eh did it actually have ya it's called bacon cheeseburger, ya it's seventeen dollars


ya bacon cheeseburger okay ah why why I remember is err


did they they, ya lor that's just what they sell, I the the how they survive is <mandarin>卖得很贵:mai de hen gui</mandarin> lor


, err I told you already lor very messy very big then when I bite that time the juice ah !walao! run all over my hand because I think err don't know what to say lah it's very there's very juicy but it's also very messy


ya then ah I the my mouth cannot bite lah because err bigger than my mouth so I must take err eat in a eat in a small small bite, ya burger bigger than my mouth maybe that's why it's seventeen dollars haha


no lah I still eat lah but ah that's why I say very messy lah that's why I eat until the the burger touched my nose also lah , this place at #dhoby ghaut# lah, I was told that is err <mandarin>十二月开的:shi er yue kai de</mandarin> ah


err so far is only then they ask me err what topping you want ah, then they ask me what topping I want uh so err, what topping, toppings ah toppings you want so I I don't


ya, ya so I say I don't know lor I say all lor, I say everything ya of course you're so smart, you are so smart,


ya maybe there's the reason I greedy also actually I should ya I should have said, cannot leh I hope leh, I still can put side dish as salad or not, but they don't allow


err restaurant <mandarin>很像:hen xiang</mandarin> Billy Bombers ah <mandarin>你有没去你有没有去过:ni you mei qu ni you mei you qu guo</mandarin> Billy Bombers, Billy Bombers you know last time there's a american restaurant called Billy Bombers


ya very similar very, very err very american style lor, uh ya then then I tell you when they asked us then if the the lady very cute she ask me want french fries or not then uh no she didn't ask me want french right then she bring up a cup


then she say ah you want uh you want french fry anot but, I looked at it eh, you give me a cup for what you not selling me drink she say this this is the size of the french fry then I say !huh! a cup put in the french fry, ya that's how they serve lah, it's not like Mcdonalds you know they serve it with a a a french fry uh holder


but uh they serve their fries in a cup, but ah the cup is a, ya so it's is like, so they come in different sizes lor so she, uh I I I cannot tell you lah your err err


you Google lah ha so so you you can see the cup lah but the cup uh the not the cup the the biggest cup ah usually overflow so the whole wrapper ah they also never ask you eat in or eat out, ya so they never tell you pick up small cup all that


ya ya ya it's paper cup then err, then they also never ask you eat in or eat out, [orh] no eat in or Tapao, err s~they never ask you whether you , uh eat eat dine in normally you know go Mcdonalds they ask you dine in or takeaway right


ah they want they never ask because they everything put inside a a brown bag the american style so everything put inside the brown bag so they don't even bother asking you, we we eat in the store


we eat in the store itself, also given a brown bag, ya they put in a paper bag, yes brown bag correct, ya ya then ah peanut peanut they say is what they err fry the fresh cut potato in peanut oil


then there is two sauce Five Guys sauce and what err cha cha cha sauce ah, style ah don't know ya, no peanut oil peanut oil


ya, oh err, got meh I I never maybe I didn't order that one, oh miss Tamjiak one hor ya, , [orh] miss Tamjiak okay alright


ya then milkshake ah you can put any topping you know you know what you know what topping you can put


you make a guess, they you, ya you know they they say ah you can mix inside ah you can put bacon you know bacon inside milkshake one, uh, ah that one I never try


, ya I I don't I don't want eat already go, ya I don't want to <mandarin>抱马桶:bao ma tong</mandarin> lah because eat already I very scary you know or not bacon banana strawberry chocolate


I don't know you try lor you try lor, you try lor


no because it's ten dollars, my friend Blanjah me but I don't want lah then later on we went to have Starbucks coffee cheaper


, ya it's also cheaper, , because I I never drink any water leh you know choke you know, only burger and fries so very dry my throat


I think


no lah no lah cannot like that say lah !aiya!, very long long then try one, ya ya my good friend sometimes I buy, ya lah you see if if I if I'm your friend will you bring me there


if I'm your friend will you bring me there, , okay lah ah make sure you cook ah bring here ah thank you ah, ya american brand


ya, no no that one is err that one that one Eighteen Chefs, Eighteen Chefs, ah different different different uh different


you all <mandarin>你太久没有出门是:ni tai jiu mei you chu men shi</mandarin> mah !walao! <mandarin>还是:hai shi</mandarin> COVID <mandarin>把你关到你什么都忘记:ba ni guan dao ni shen me dou wang ji</mandarin> Liao


ah ah <mandarin>因为你给你给他们钱花:yin wei ni gei ni gei ta men qian hua</mandarin> lah, apparently they have [orh] okay


[orh], [orh] very good very good, (hmm), I I I I think I think it's a matter of time when they total closed down lah I don't think they will survive long


ya correct, err, ya lor so so I I don't think it will last long lah


, is it I don't know leh, I don't know I I told I told you I very surprise I I wasn't aware there's uh peanuts because, err I only


is it ya okay, (ugh), Mothership #simi lai# eh, don't know leh


oh Mothership singapore okay okay, okay, oh okay so what you have for your lunch, okay so what did you have, what


toasted bread okay, , peanut peanut butter,


your cheese <mandarin>不是一片是一粒一粒的是:bu shi yi pian shi yi li yi li de shi</mandarin> mah, quarter okay okay <mandarin>我不懂是什么来的:wo bu dong shi shen me lai de</mandarin> lah, [orh] !wah!


good for health ah wrong marketing ah wrong marketing, !hais!


okay, right, got pot you drink Kopi somemore !wah! ah very Atas leh


, #kopi o# lah, (ugh) , ah #kopi kosong#


you don't test me okay, don't test me don't test me, [orh] okay very good very good


what you what you register, help your sister, what member, what member, !wah!


okay okay member, !wah! so scary must be a secret member, okay okay, okay, can can okay let's do, pause


let's pause for awhile, okay, yup let's start, ya, , why am I the right fit for this job ah okay uh interesting you ask that when you say right fit ah what exactly do you mean by that


suitable for this job okay


okay why and why is my skillset fit for this particular role ah, my guess is ah for my past years of track records I will always be in the technology with different company so uh every company actually I learned uh very much in terms of terms of their process uh how's things are work and err interacting with a varies various stakeholders


and uh and also our I'm also a very good review with my err stakeholders they're very happy with my performance that err I have err engage with them, and err


and that perhaps is what I can bring into your company, it's so called my know-how, and my uh soft skill that I have with, all the various stakeholders I had


how will this role align oh because technology is always in my blood, so in terms of my career plan I always liked to use technology to help with people so with this so-called err, err my career plan, uh that is given in this particular role I I will love to make use of my technology know-how from the various company I work with and I contribute to the company that uh I'm working for for my next company which is yours and uh I hope to err


contribute with all the mistake and all the finding I have learn and not to do and things that I can add value to your company


oh thank you, , okay uh for hundred day roles actually I I do have a powerpoint that is inside my err USB


will you like me to open up my USB and share with you the the hundred day plan I usually have but uh, do you want me to share with you in powerpoint or you just want me to go through it verbally with you


uh, my guess is uh I don't see the projector over at at err, so call at your premises so I I tell you what I'll just verbally err show it to you what is my hundred days plan okay ah the hundred days plan basically you break it down into three parts the first part I want uh need to know what exactly this department uh so call how it how we actually err works I'll I'll be very much like a sponge to err


to actually get to understand how this department work what are their roles and how actually they contribute err to this err market uh how the technology work understand a bit on the process and uh who who is who and there err actually who can help me in my uh the flow of the work as well of course err then the next thing is uh


the stage two which I will get all the low-hanging fruits what what are the things that I can add value quickly uh to the company if I know that there's some uh process that is err we can be corrected I will actually uh note all this thing down


and actually uh input it into a file and err maybe we can discuss more at a later stage uh to tell you all my findings all the different err err improvement programs that I can have uh if there's any client that actually err need so call err


the, any of the client who so-called need the surveys I can actually recommend them uh to the current company as well, then the last stage basically I will discuss with you uh all my different findings uh how can we improve and is is it right to implement all these plan then you also can see that whether I'm managing the the department err correctly then from there we will move on so basically that is my high level view of my hundred days plan


currently am I available yes yes ah just give me a a, just give me err about two weeks I finished up some of the, uh work that I have in hand because currently I'm a freelancer so I'm still have some jobs in hand so I I need to finish up all the so-called work with my various stakeholder after that I'm more than happy err to join the company


sure sure I'll be looking forward to err join your company and can you uh share with me how do how did I performed in this whole entire interview


so how soon can you get back to me on on this particular role, two weeks ha okay so am I the last last few candidates they are looking for or you still have a lot of candidates that you are running running after,


, okay, okay so can you share with me what actually is holding you back from uh hiring me


okay


okay, okay, you are welcome ya can I can I ask you some question, ya, uh can we switch role


yes, I do back the same question okay, okay can it , okay can it can it can you tell me what can you contribute to this particular role first of all can you tell me what role are you looking for


okay what uh first question what attract you to this role and why


why, why, okay


okay, okay, (uh huh), you don't sound very well prepared for this interview can I know why


you don't sound very prepared for this interview because you you you are really thinking through, no because you are coming for this position you shouldn't be you should have been prepared right because as a tour guide communication is your number one needs <mandarin>你知道:ni zhi dao</mandarin> mah


of course


tell me tell us why you're right fit for this job, right


no I say what attract you to this role and why now I you ask you why you think you are a right fit for this job,


okay can you name me three uh uh tourist attraction that you know, okay, okay


okay you know something when you answer me there is a pause for five second, this is really too long already all these things should be at your fingertips okay so I really hope you do your homework if you really want to be a tour guide this is really a napshot


very good very good, pause, okay, what, my favourite favourite food is ah #cha hei mee# lor #cha hei mee# I I like err #cha hei mee#


ah <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> Whampoa <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> ah <mandarin>对对对:dui dui dui</mandarin> #hokkien mee# #hokkien mee#, #hokkien mee#, #hokkien mee# some people call it #hokkien mee# some people call ah <mandarin>炒虾面:chao xia mian</mandarin> ya


ya the the one the one at Whampoa then the name of the store is called singapore fried prawn noodle, I think it was featured in the, uh a lot of the food program before so it's it's kind of a very nice


err one of the better one lah, and usually, uh everytime when I'm went there there is about always there's always a queue, ya so if you have chance you should go to Whampoa <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> #cha hei mee# lor quite nice


!wah! is ever since my teenage time they're they're always there but the price ah, I think ah from three dollar to three fifty from four dollar now don't know, which four err


five dollars already I think last time was two fifty I think it start from two fifty, then dong dong dong dong then now is, around, three fifty or four three fifty or four already, inflation I think


so what's your favourite food, chicken rice ah okay so from where


what the maxwell maxwell market the <mandarin>天天来:tian tian lai</mandarin> ah, what you like <mandarin>的徒弟:de tu di</mandarin> one ah why because less queue ah, shorter queue but chicken rice is the same right whether you


so you're going there for the chili oh my god you just go there for the chili, is it why, then I tell you what you go you you go the you go and eat the <mandarin>徒弟:tu di</mandarin> one then you go to <mandarin>天天来:tian tian lai</mandarin> take the chilli lor they also don't know


right, I you went you go to the <mandarin>徒弟:tu di</mandarin> there to actually uh order chicken rice then you go to <mandarin>天天来:tian tian lai</mandarin> take the chilli lor, since you like the chili


cannot, oh cannot ah but the the <mandarin>天天来:tian tian lai</mandarin> always got touring I think it's inside some of the tourist guidebook, so I guess err a lot of the tourists actually uh, kind of like it


ya, Laksa you mean the maxwell market got Laksa which one which store, no eat Laksa okay maxwell mah, oh okay


maxwell market mah, what else you eat in maxwell, is it you cook the paste yourself, !chey!


!hais! !chey! I thought you so smart know how to cook Laksa with, !aiya! that that is not your cooking already lah is is is, and what


okay okay, okay you are a better cook because of the paste that you bought and not because you can cook the thing that you can cook


, okay lah you buy you buy the paste from NTUC then you do then you can take do eat steamboat also what like that uh <mandarin>海底捞:hai di lao</mandarin> got err the what err, , is it, wait wait wait


you mean the stock is expensive lah, is it oh okay, , okay, right, so


<mandarin>还有什么好吃:hai you shen me hao chi</mandarin> ah, ah <mandarin>对对我喜欢我还喜欢那个:dui dui wo xi huan wo hai xi huan na ge</mandarin> ah, err, uh <mandarin>那边:na bian</mandarin> err <mandarin>上海上海:shang hai shang hai</mandarin> don't know what one


is beside the seafood <mandarin>上:shang</mandarin> err beside the western food facing the church one, the side you know err, last time this store is from queenstown, ya maxwell


then this this store I think is by is is by a shanghainese, ah I used to eat since my first job because my first job was in queenstown, so err they were they first started, ya err talking about maxwell


the this store originally is from uh queenstown then it move to maxwell, err then ah they they want <mandarin>炒年糕:chao nian gao</mandarin> very shanghainese store


ah a quite a nice store lah and the price is very reasonable, you should go and eat, ya, ya maxwell market


still there still there what err, uh when when our payday maybe you can go there and have uh, uh maxwell lah the the the place not so bad, kind of interesting


okay, so, your other other than any other nice food that you know, of, where from where


LOL same


okay and then the third one, !wow! so sweet, okay <mandarin>我的第一个愿望:wo de di yi ge yuan wang</mandarin> I think like you <mandarin>我也是要:wo ye shi yao</mandarin> cancel coronavirus


, yup can do the things I like


confirm some I think global warming ah climate change


actually right the amount of like materials that go into producing a metal straws is also not very sustainable, why


what do you think ya, water can recycle


really, okay lor I guess I don't know man, okay


okay err wait wait let me look at, okay what everyday activity would be a torture if you had to do it for eight hours straight


oh wait actually when they say everyday activity hor <mandarin>我以为他们讲的日常活动是:wo yi wei ta men jiang de ri chang huo dong shi</mandarin> like you know example <mandarin>刷牙:shua ya</mandarin> or like <mandarin>冲凉:chong liang</mandarin> , okay lah maybe lor


that's why it's a question, ha,


K lor I guess


oh ya ya that's super annoying, yup yup,


, but actually like cause cause of the UTI she, she cannot tell that she actually really need to pee you know she just think that it's her UTI then suddenly she's like oh my god I really need to pee then she just pee on the train you know I was standing next to her


ya like she literally peed like through her clothes onto the floor


yup <mandarin>所以她就下去而且:suo yi ta jiu xia qu er qie</mandarin> !wah! like <mandarin>很惊讶的是:hen jing ya de shi</mandarin> hor <mandarin>竟然没有人看她:jing ran mei you ren kan ta</mandarin> sia lah like you know there's like freaking water on the floor and like nobody was looking so <mandarin>我很:wo hen</mandarin> impressed,


eh <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> sia maybe she drink a lot of water that's why, yup what about you,


okay , okay wait ah, okay if you were to eat one dish for the rest of your life what would it be


, excuse me, freak you


, okay lor


one dish ah ya lor I think I'll eat Sashimi don for the rest of my life, ya, I love it


, !huh!


, (hmm), oh <mandarin>我要做那个你懂那个韩剧那个:wo yao zuo na ge ni dong na ge han ju na ge</mandarin> it's okay not to be okay


yup, !aiya! but at least you know she got to work with him for awhile


okay so I cannot read that okay would you rather fight one horse-sized otter or one hundred otter-sized horses


oh, ,


wait dude


actually hor their translation (ppc), it's you know they asked like which genre of drama but the chinese translation make it sound like I'm asking you about the specific show


I feel like you have but I have bad memory, oh <mandarin>那个跳舞的那个:na ge tiao wu de na ge</mandarin> natalie portman


nope


, err <mandarin>我很:wo hen</mandarin> basic <mandarin>的所以我喜欢:de suo yi wo xi huan</mandarin> mean girls <mandarin>还有还有还有:hai you hai you hai you</mandarin> heathers <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> clueless


, , ya and it's okay I'm on a random word generator thing


okay would you consider yourself indecisive or decisive, so from this I deduce that you are indecisive


ya ya ya


, <mandarin>对是的是的:dui shi de shi de</mandarin>


a brand lah, ya


ya I was like sis what


!huh!, !oho! you need to go fix again lor


wait when is your last submission, (ppc)


[orh], (hmm) not bad,


, !huh!


!huh! <mandarin>最难忘的一餐:zui nan wang de yi can</mandarin> ah, okay I don't think this is the <mandarin>最难忘:zui nan wang</mandarin> one but it was like a moment where I ate it and I was like !wah! this is really damn good


okay so right you know beauty world there there's this, (ppc) there's there's this place called oven fried chicken, ya ya ya !wah! like <mandarin>那个那个炸鸡:na ge na ge zha ji</mandarin> right


!huh! wait how much for one piece, eighty cents ah I think is okay lah,


!wow!, !wah!


!huh! <mandarin>每个东西:mei ge dong xi</mandarin> , !huh!, make-up, make-up


ya, , Nah I'm okay no actually I don't know that's a hard question, what should I oh health care it's not like I was asked to be born you know so if I'm sick you know it's not really my fault I didn't asked for it


clothes maybe clothes


I know right first world problems sia, okay


what is something others purchased that you simply cannot understand why


cars <mandarin>为什么:wei shen me</mandarin> leh


oh okay lor I kind of get it, (ppc), yup agreed, okay <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> can you name three things you wouldn't do for a million dollars


okay okay change question


, !huh! what oh wait means what am I supposed to name a a tough food,


, oh, I think I deserve normal mediocre food nothing over the top but nothing too rotten


just a simple home cooked meal, yes of course


I love that do you really deserve that no I'm kidding


, no I don't know


what


ya , ya ya ya ya ya


probably the detergent, oh ya


ya, ya ya, yup


oh I really want to eat lah <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> hotpot sia suddenly, no like from anywhere I want like something that's super <mandarin>麻辣:ma la</mandarin> like so Shiok haha


same, oh ya ya let's go eat let's go, !wah! <mandarin>我很饿:wo hen e</mandarin> sia <mandarin>我刚才本来要下去买可是我就想我等下再吃比较:wo gang cai ben lai yao xia qu mai ke shi wo jiu xiang wo deng xia zai chi bi jiao</mandarin> Shiok


okay so


what would the ten years ago me give to myself now is it, okay ten years ago I was <mandarin>十岁:shi sui</mandarin> so I was in <mandarin>第四年级:di si nian ji</mandarin> so when I was in <mandarin>四年级:si nian ji</mandarin>


probably <mandarin>有一个:you yi ge</mandarin> random the soft toy <mandarin>然后:ran hou</mandarin> some shinee or super junior album


and then like <mandarin>和有:he you</mandarin> handmade card or something, ya what about you, yes


err, yup yup, , yup,


, oh ya


, ya ya


, !aww!


okay cool, wait dude, have you seen the new starbucks cups, no is the is the bunny one oh my god very cute eh maybe I buy I want the


no now there's a mid autumn festival collection oh wait it's taiwan !huh!, eh so cute oh my god you know they got a card with LED colour changing and then they got like


ya ya ya I think so, , , ,


oh, err no it's a swimming pool float, ya <mandarin>很可爱:hen ke ai</mandarin> hor, drink <mandarin>我的咖啡:wo de ka fei</mandarin> lah


B B C


err, , I think you hate, then,


okay lor whatever lor <mandarin>我不要回答你:wo bu yao hui da ni</mandarin> okay next question, next question if each person had a warning label what would yours say, !oof! !oof!


(hmm), cheer up


, !aiya! cause you busy with your assignment what it's like understandable, (ppc)


now I'm looking at our convo to see if you got ghost me but I don't think you got, !aiya! dude I don't care I also always ghost you


oh ya, eh nice DP ah your telegram display picture can move one, I never I never set the moving one


<mandarin>等下我找:deng xia wo zhao</mandarin> okay , okay lor


okay


, [orh] okay


oh !wow!


, okay


!huh!, err <mandarin>我不会:wo bu hui</mandarin> sia, actually <mandarin>我有很多:wo you hen duo</mandarin> app <mandarin>我没有用的:wo mei you yong de</mandarin> sia like <mandarin>现在我有:xian zai wo you</mandarin> mobile legends but I don't play anymore and then you know under my photo and video I have like super a lot of like photo editing apps that I don't even use you know I use


I just keep for fun in case I ever wanna use and then I have like, ya dude and I have freaking nike run club and like my fitness pal


ya and you know you have all the random like, you know like brands you have all the loyalty programs like starbucks innisfree all those, yup, cool, okay


what is the last thing that you broke and how did it happen, yup,


oh your laptop ah, LOL , oh ya,


, , yup, [orh] (hmm)


, ya dude after a while right I swear the iphone battery also starts to become whack


but how how they do that I don't understand, oh


yup yup


!huh!, GG sia


maybe I guess you use your phone too much lynn, oh ya ya I get it


!huh!, , ,


ya it doesn't make sense I'll be risking everything what, , thank you,


ya but you have to make it clear for the person that's doing the script, okay uh ha but it's but you know it's not like I have anything that it's not like I have a dream it's not like I wanna become like a singer or anything oh okay I always I wanna become tik tok famous like charlie jiang jia edison dude <mandarin>你有没有看到那个:ni you mei you kan dao na ge</mandarin> tik tok <mandarin>上面:shang mian</mandarin> hor <mandarin>很多人讲那个:hen duo ren jiang na ge</mandarin> edison ray <mandarin>的坏话:de huai hua</mandarin> sia


tony lopez !aiya! <mandarin>不懂啦我:bu dong la wo</mandarin> dude


the usual lah the usual, ya okay sorry I don't I I don't see the appeal


oh !huh! really meh, okay ah (hmm) <mandarin>我觉得那个那个有好有坏:wo jue de na ge na ge you hao you huai</mandarin> like example <mandarin>那个坏处就是:na ge huai chu jiu shi</mandarin> while <mandarin>可以读别人的想法:ke yi du bie ren de xiang fa</mandarin> uh <mandarin>应该会很:ying gai hui hen</mandarin>


yup <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> sad


eh <mandarin>你很没有礼貌:ni hen mei you li mao</mandarin>


end <mandarin>了可是我们每个人都还有:le ke shi wo men mei ge ren dou hai you</mandarin> article <mandarin>还没有写完所以我们就要继续写:hai mei you xie wan suo yi wo men jiu yao ji xu xie</mandarin> lor <mandarin>写完了才算:xie wan le cai suan</mandarin> end lah, okay <mandarin>我不管我今天不会做我明天我会做:wo bu guan wo jin tian bu hui zuo wo ming tian wo hui zuo</mandarin> okay confirm


, okay <mandarin>第一个是一个:di yi ge shi yi ge</mandarin> opinion piece <mandarin>来的所以我要写:lai de suo yi wo yao xie</mandarin> why texting culture is bad


like like just write opinion piece, define texting culture !aiya! dude it's like you know texting culture lor you know like all the double ticks ghosting all that, phenomena and then I'll be writing about how it affects human relationships


dude <mandarin>我问你三个:wo wen ni san ge</mandarin> lah


oh


oh !wah! resilience


, <mandarin>我觉得跟你一样是:wo jue de gen ni yi yang shi</mandarin> kindness


!wah! important for a person ah, what's the third one, no for me I don't know


ya responsibility lor, because if there's no responsibility right the world will go to ruin


okay, okay if you could only buy ten items at the grocery store to last the next week what will you buy


okay


, oh ya ya calbee's really good


oh ya ya


, err I think so


[orh]


oh, or like baby bel !wah! I have a sudden craving for baby bel cheese okay next


goat milk, cereal


ya you eh when you roast it it's very nice, ya actually I don't know already yup that's all


eh it's not really lor one maybe at eight dollars only, I think, no but it's a lot leh, yup


!huh!, if [orh] ya no you haven't ask me yet, what would we do ah !wah! I think some people will just like start doing drugs and like party party party party, party okay then there are people who achieve their dreams obviously


I used to think that people enjoy like, like music or art, of fashion you know


what about you


yup agreed I also think realistic this one is a hypothetical scenario


good looks, good looks, cause right <mandarin>如果你有:ru guo ni you</mandarin> good looks but <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> body <mandarin>不:bu</mandarin> fit <mandarin>你可以自己去运动:ni ke yi zi ji qu yun dong</mandarin> what but <mandarin>如果你有:ru guo ni you</mandarin>good body <mandarin>可是你不好看:ke shi ni bu hao kan</mandarin> then <mandarin>你要花钱去:ni yao hua qian qu</mandarin> plastic surgery


okay unless unless you are like morbidly obese then you, if you are just like a little chubby or you know like not say like very very fat then I think usually people like they will just like oh ya she's good looking you know


okay when when was the last memorable sunrise you witness, oh sunrise ah oh LOL yup just realised, !huh! I don't remember when was the last time I saw a sunrise eh


ya, oh ya ya, oh my oh my god my life sucks, yup, yes


oh !wow!, that's nice, nice nice nice, , sunrise ah pretty sure like you know last time chalet confirm got see before but I just cannot remember that means it wasn't very memorable lah I think the last time


oh ya no lah but that's not really a chalet I mean like you know those kind of chalet that you really like , you know you stay overnight and then you go cycling oh my god dude cycling during chalet is the best, dude you know like I I only recently found out that cycling during chalet is not a normal thing


ya , #lin hsin#


[orh], oh, eh actually ya sia I don't like to sleep and shower at other places like I rather sleep in my own bed like I can stay until late but I wanna go home you know like I don't like sleepover


oh okay (hmm) depends, okay what food have you never tried


okay have you tried chicken feet, what else have you tried, , err have you oh my god you know in philippines there's this thing called balloon, actually dude ya ya I never try before also I'm quite curious


no the duck foetus looks kind of disgusting,


oh ya


yup do I do we need to clap no right, okay so, bye


okay, can you hear me, okay,


like, oh my god I would, cancel coronavirus like as a whole, right, and then and then <mandarin>我第一个愿望就是:wo di yi ge yuan wang jiu shi</mandarin> err


err,


yup, and money, third one would be, make my parents happy, ya, how about you #tang jia wen#


I agree I agree okay wait, err wait I need to find the prompt oh no I got it okay, how do you think humans will become extinct, oh damn I don't even know how to answer this question


this <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> err err <mandarin>海没有雪了:hai mei you xue le</mandarin> (ppc),


dude but you know it's worse now with coronavirus, cause like you wear mask how do you say mask like you you wear mask then you got all these plastic straws ah <mandarin>口罩:kou zhao</mandarin> then <mandarin>有那个:you na ge</mandarin> err, plastic, straw


then like they they always use all these plastic cutlery to like prevent spread of germs what so they don't need to wash again


, but water you can recycle what, then you can you can like like I order, eh


ya I guess ya okay next, yes


what activity,


uh


so, I thought is anything , why would they asked why would they ask like


for you to <mandarin>刷牙:shua ya</mandarin> for eight hours straight, oh okay fine okay if we are taking it that way then I guess, <mandarin>刷牙:shua ya</mandarin> would be a torture because, you have to keep moving your hand


but if you really if you <mandarin>冲凉:chong liang</mandarin> for eight hours straight you just sit under the water I mean even though you waste, water, okay <mandarin>皱皱:zhou zhou</mandarin> but then like you just <mandarin>坐在那里不用做东西:zuo zai na li bu yong zuo dong xi</mandarin> mah,


okay ,


, [orh]


[orh], I mean <mandarin>我是一样:wo shi yi yang</mandarin> lah then <mandarin>我另外一个就是:wo ling wai yi ge jiu shi</mandarin>


it's like bro just wait, okay tell a story that is funny in retrospect, like it does not have to be funny at that, oh okay I'm tired <mandarin>我很累:wo hen lei</mandarin> okay let's go


okay, yes isn't that the the peeing problem


correct


wait, what, on the (uh huh)


like on the train, wait about how what what do you mean like she pee on the floor, I (ppc)


, what the fuck


probably probably, I don't think I can talk that story bro,


nope now I nope dude none of my story is that like weird, okay let's just go next question I don't think can think of anything


okay, (hmm), it's very difficult question you know (hmm)


dude I'm not like you where like, no because like for you right you have like


I mean anything also eat Jelak, really


, we are different, okay if you get a chance to wake up as an actor one day, which actor will you want to become and why


but <mandarin>可是你现在不:ke shi ni xian zai bu</mandarin> Sian meh <mandarin>你在做:ni zai zuo</mandarin> <mandarin>什么你现在你的生活也不是:shen me ni xian zai ni de sheng huo ye bu shi</mandarin> Sian meh,


I never see the girl before, , but this just in the show it's not a real life , is it


excuse me just character, okay okay I guess I guess okay for me I think I would be,


, harry styles, obviously, because right think about it like even though he's an actor, he also do a lot of like err


then


be him yup,


, , I would rather


I will rather fight one horse-sized otter, because, think about it <mandarin>如果有:ru guo you</mandarin>


<mandarin>只是跟你跟你跑可是如果有一百个:zhi shi gen ni gen ni pao ke shi ru guo you yi bai ge</mandarin> otter-sized horses then like, yup


you you get my you get my logic, , cause like that one whole big thing it's just like ya you just kill one then finished only you don't have to like waste a lot of effort killing like a hundred I mean not killing but as in like if it do come down to that


, yup, err, dude I told you this before right <mandarin>我我最喜欢看的电影就是:wo wo zui xi huan kan de dian ying jiu shi</mandarin> err I mean I got a few lah what


have I told you before what's my favourite movie


ah ah then, err movie called mummy, have you heard of it before, it's by this guy called xavier dolan


it's very, , , ya I don't know how to explain it's like a a very surreal experience watching it, , yup how about you


, yup, you know we running out of prompts already and it's only been fifteen minutes


, dude, okay actually it depends on the situation, like,


that's, yup, but it still depends on the situation, you you catch my drift like when it comes to like project, you have to make a decision I mean sometimes I may indecisive also during the project but most of the time is like there's that one choice when it comes to like <mandarin>食物的东西我爱吃的东西:shi wu de dong xi wo ai chi de dong xi</mandarin> hor then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> I'll be very like indecisive lah or like you know depends on mood of the day if you like have something you want to like really eat then you can choose but the rest of the day is just like


, libra


oh like any generic brand like it doesn't it like can be food or anything, , yo,


, I like the first thing that came to my mind is gucci but I don't even own any gucci things , I don't own any gucci thing dude I don't think I have a favourite <mandarin>品牌:pin pai</mandarin> like the only thing that I have like standardised is what apple


the like products but they all kind of suck


my laptop like I was using premiere pro to like err video edit and then, then out of nowhere, and then it just restarted by itself and this was like the fifth time of this month


and then my touch bar also isn't like <mandarin>它它没有用了:ta ta mei you yong le</mandarin> I cannot like see anything on my touch bar, ya after I submit then have to go and send again, apple sucks


technically this tuesday is my film screening then <mandarin>这个星期五就是:zhe ge xing qi wu jiu shi</mandarin> like after film screening <mandarin>他们会给我们那个:ta men hui gei wo men na ge</mandarin> feedback then <mandarin>我们就:wo men jiu</mandarin> like like err, improve it a bit more because we're showing it to professional on tuesday then friday is like final submission for that film plus like


paperwork, then that's technically my last one, thank you


I got one question for you,


, like the you know like maybe like <NEN> but I don't think <NEN> will be, would be it


, err, oh <mandarin>我我记得这个在我我不知道你吃过吗可是在:wo wo ji de zhe ge zai wo wo bu zhi dao ni chi guo ma ke shi zai</mandarin> jewel airport there's this like sushi place at terminal four


eh wait not jewel at terminal four ya ya ya, and then when terminal four just open there was like this sales for the sushi, and it was like, eighty cents for, one piece kinda expensive but I thought it was I don't know it's expensive is it expensive


eighty cents for one piece is it or like ya something like that, okay but it was like damn like you know like, err Atas kind of sushi wasn't like those kind of like, you buy from cold storage kind, like the standard so I ate it with my parents it was not bad then I brought my friend there cause


it was like damn good, ya, it was like I filmed her experience and then she just kept screaming after she ate her first bite


yup,


, like what what's the one thing you wish that was free, like if you only have to choose one, make-up


(mmhmm) okay , not food or something


, yes, okay okay ya ya that makes sense, err, yup


, oh !wow! what privilege life are we living, uh


what is others, (hmm) <mandarin>我觉得别人:wo jue de bie ren</mandarin> purchase err,


ya ,


this is the one thing that you don't understand, okay, for me let me think that I swear there's like one thing that I I don't understand but hold on


, I guess, one thing <mandarin>一个东西我觉得:yi ge dong xi wo jue de</mandarin> like I don't understand why people, buy is


I mean currently I only can think of like, cars


and also like I don't get like why you buy sports car in like <mandarin>新新加坡:xin xin jia po</mandarin> when like you cannot even race it, I mean you can show off lah but there's like you know kind of no point


, I cannot say this here, , , wait I ask you a question okay go, okay you're dining at a restaurant called karma and it doesn't have a menu simply get what you deserve what food will you be served


ya like like do you think you deserve to like I I think this meant like <mandarin>如果你你:ru guo ni ni</mandarin> you you you, you feel like you should be served sweet and good food or like do you think you are going to be served like bitter food because you are


bitter or something I don't know, that's what I think this question is lah, , , (mmhmm)


because you are so nice to people all your life, agreed, agreed ,


dude I think for me it will be like err, sweet and, sour, pork, but like, , but like <mandarin>有那个甜的因为:you na ge tian de yin wei</mandarin> I I believe that there are parts of my life that I do deserve that because I'm very nice and then there are other parts that's like sour even though like sour part of like sweet and sour isn't that like bad but like


you know, okay ya I don't know what I'm talking about either,


I know , like <mandarin>你你的:ni ni de</mandarin> like <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin>


ya ya that that is the one cause my house is like very like distinct one, and like, I don't know, I don't even know how it like gets there it's just there, but like after you wash detergent then after that like <mandarin>你睡上你的床上:ni shui shang ni de chuang shang</mandarin> hor then


right, then like there's that one smell that comes out, but everyone has like their different home smell, like somehow we all have like a different home smell but it's like it doesn't mean it's like it it <mandarin>很臭的味道:hen chou de wei dao</mandarin> it's just


like very distinct and like ya, and I like mine


I just want eat I just want eat, hotpot, I just want eat oh my god I want to eat <mandarin>韩国的:han guo de</mandarin> like like barbecue, dude like I (ugh) my gosh I've been craving that


for the longest time


!huh! who's to blame, , okay


okay if you found a time capsule of yourself from yourself ten years ago what would be inside like what would you give yourself, ten years ago, you know


ya, oh dang,


, for like handmade card from yourself to yourself, , okay wait I'm eighteen, this year


so that means I was eight, wait does that mean I'm like primary two, yup, yup


basically I think I would have given myself yo no no no wait wait, no wait I'm like nine, ya no that was like when I was like in p three I think that was like I I was obsessed with like one direction


so I think, I would have like given myself, like <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> poster, cause I had like one big like <mandarin>很大的:hen da de</mandarin> poster that were like the the, the uh bedroom <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> then <mandarin>我会放在里面:wo hui fang zai li mian</mandarin> then <mandarin>我现在也是放他们第一个我我买他们第一个的:wo xian zai ye shi fang ta men di yi ge wo wo mai ta men di yi ge de</mandarin> album


you know some of the useless things you buy from your bookshop when you were younger, ya probably one of those things, I I wasn't very like like sentimental then so probably that


probably like one of the letters my mum wrote for me when I was like when I was like nine, cause my mum used to write to me a lot, yup that was ten years ago


, is it the black and white one the black green one, I thought I thought is the black green one the undefeated or something


wait I want go see now


is it the one like it's called moonlight bunnies, wait I wanna, dude the one like that looks like a <mandarin>那个圆圈的:na ge yuan quan de</mandarin> like a globe ya ya that one's pretty cute but I think it's very bulky


is the LED one the one with like the the globe at the bottom, oh no no I see it oh oh oh ya ya ya ya ya oh damn but you also use for what sia, (ppc) okay lor


oh <mandarin>我也是会做:wo ye shi hui zuo</mandarin> tiktok <mandarin>现在我:xian zai wo</mandarin> <mandarin>现在我喜欢做:xian zai wo xi huan zuo</mandarin> tiktok then,


<mandarin>对:dui</mandarin> lor <mandarin>这些东西我喜欢做的东西:zhe xie dong xi wo xi huan zuo de dong xi</mandarin> you know


oh dang, , ,


it will just say warning, like from all angles just warning like, scared already, a a a lot of, emotions


, what would yours be I would ghost you for like ten days but, , ya dude you know I like start ghosting people a lot now I mean I used to do that but it's like gotten damn bad recently


not only that like I see like I see their text and I just don't reply, I got I think I delete it like like okay it's not very obvious but like one or two times


, but like like I mean yours is understandable <mandarin>我们的的的:wo men de de de</mandarin> conversation is understandable but like other people you know


yours cannot meh, is like, I already I I quite long time ago have already what the one that you took of me and #zi yin# when we when we all eating at clarke quay


<mandarin>有:you</mandarin> boomerang ah <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> boomerang meh


okay no no no <mandarin>不是睡觉是那个:bu shi shui jiao shi na ge</mandarin> atmosphere the feeling, like


okay <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> that's why I ask you to picture like imagine you have all these kind of things like it's raining and then, you have like a hot coffee in hand okay, and then you're with your friends <mandarin>你你跟朋友在一起看电影在你的:ni ni gen peng you zai yi qi kan dian ying zai ni de</mandarin>


, then, ya the atmosphere is just very like warm and cosy you can like wear a lot of like layers without feeling hot because of singapore weather, you catch my drift


!huh!


like back pocket, ya right our our pockets cannot finish any any anything


like you see those kind of guys with like their pockets it will be like filled with like you can fit, two phones and then like <mandarin>你的锁匙:ni de suo chi</mandarin> then <mandarin>放你的:fang ni de</mandarin> like


err I don't know you can like put a whole like lot of stuff inside there without it like, not having space but ours you can't even put a phone


err,


[orh] okay you had a period, , oh I delete those already


oh dude dude dude okay okay ya ya ya that one that one I also like like, yup, okay it's not I don't use I just haven't used it in awhile because of assignments


ya ya ya, ya I guess I understand ya, that I broke, oh


what did I break, , does it necessarily have to be me breaking it or like just broke on me, ya , <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> laptop <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> not reliable


it's like whenever I on my laptop like you know when you like make it sleep you just like like close the screen, then when I when you open it is normally just like the screen just lights up right then your touch bar ons, like when I when mine opens it just my <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> touch bar <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> flicker


like it just flickers with light and then it just goes back to black, it it's just my my apple products is just bad


dude they say purposely one leh like <mandarin>他们:ta men</mandarin> like <mandarin>故意让你的:gu yi rang ni de</mandarin> like old <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> iphone, cause of the new of the new updates what, it's not maybe it's not their fault lah but probably is also like partly their fault because they want you to buy like more more apple products so they make their like IOS than your IOS like take a lot of like battery which only like the new like phones can take


so ya that's why my dude there was that one day I was going on my instagram live and then, I was just like <mandarin>我在弹我的:wo zai tan wo de</mandarin> guitar then <mandarin>我在:wo zai</mandarin> like just having fun then


then my whole phone just heated up too much that they had like a flicking screen that warn me and said my temperature of my phone was too hot I had to like stop using it, ya, , apple products and me just doesn't have a thing


it's not that it's just iphone seven dude iphone seven has like a tendency of getting very hot like you know I used tiktok for like ten minutes and it just gets like super hot already like you can cook a like you can cook a egg on it


that kind of hot , if you could drop anything to follow your dream what would you risk, oh no if you drop everything to follow wait let me rephrase let me rephrase <mandarin>如果你放弃:ru guo ni fang qi</mandarin> like


like, everything to follow your dream like what would it, what what would you risk you know, wait this question doesn't even make sense, sorry I'm reading I'm reading the prompt hold on okay let me rephrase it in my own way, like okay what would be one thing that you will risk everything for there you go


, you knew you knew that was what I was trying to say why didn't you just go with it, okay go


, did you did you did you watch the the the the the the willy wonka tiktok


, neither do I but it's so weird


ruined because of tiktok, ya tiktok's just a strange place


<mandarin>因因为:yin yin wei</mandarin> you <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> you very lazy


, , okay, I would, man okay I have like a few options <mandarin>第一个就是:di yi ge jiu shi</mandarin> teleport <mandarin>跟你一样因为我也是很:gen ni yi yang yin wei wo ye shi hen</mandarin> lazy but the thing is right


like, I mean I guess if you want to take a bus like feel the atmosphere than you can because, ya but a second one is read people's minds


like for me for me lah I think is very important because I it's very difficult for me to understand other people, especially cause I think I cannot understand myself so like, I don't know I feel like it's easier to communicate, well were just me


ya, I I see where you getting


<mandarin>我今天要看哪一个:wo jin tian yao kan na yi ge</mandarin> anime <mandarin>我看完那个:wo kan wan na ge</mandarin> banana banana <mandarin>什么:shen me</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你你看完了吗那个:ni ni kan wan le ma na ge</mandarin> banana, oh


, <mandarin>谁跟你们讲:shei gen ni men jiang</mandarin> <mandarin>那么晚才写你们的:na me wan cai xie ni men de</mandarin> article, <mandarin>你明天只说的这个:ni ming tian zhi shuo de zhe ge</mandarin> sentence


but what do you mean define texting culture


, okay


oh my god, oh


oh, , kindness


it's most important


, okay <mandarin>你要你要我帮你做什么:ni yao ni yao wo bang ni zuo shen me</mandarin> ,


what is like, the most important characteristic do you think a person should have


oh, [orh] okay <mandarin>第二个是:di er ge shi</mandarin> <mandarin>第二个就是:di er ge jiu shi</mandarin> , passion, I feel like that's important for you to like have the drive like


live, cause, even though like, you can live day to day if you're not happy and you're not like you have you don't have like a goal that you <mandarin>你要:ni yao</mandarin> like work towards to then, like there's no point in living in my in my book lah


cause passion's the only thing that drives you to do what you want and be happy also, , and <mandarin>第三个就是:di san ge jiu shi</mandarin> err


like ya, wasted for you to have the passion if you like give up easily then


there's no point you know, ya how about you,


, for me


there are like different thing loyalty, courage, resilience passion, responsibility integrity,


ya, I agree,


ten grocery <mandarin>就是可以吃:jiu shi ke yi chi</mandarin> like like <mandarin>那那种可以吃东西对不对不是那种:na na zhong ke yi chi dong xi dui bu dui bu shi na zhong</mandarin> like toothbrush <mandarin>还有:hai you</mandarin> toothpaste, okay okay <mandarin>吃东西我会买:chi dong xi wo hui mai</mandarin> grapes


(hmm), potato chips, that's my guilty pleasure, if not I I binge eat too much like you know calbee, that is my favourite one like calbee like the spicy one is like my favourite potato chip


and then there is, second now the third one would be, err


drinks, Soju I mean but Soju is like out of everything it's the most like


because if it's like, beer you you could get damn bloated very easily, that kind of thing okay then fourth is this my fourth one


, uh it would be, what else do they sell at our grocery store, I mean will be like those kind of like essential things like chicken


you got to have that like in case, and then,


, , [orh]


[orh]


, <mandarin>我也是会买:wo ye shi hui mai</mandarin>


oh <mandarin>只是那个:zhi shi na ge</mandarin> potato like straight up just like potato, okay okay, I get it I get it ya


, I wanna eat cheese also but I've never eaten those kind of like block one cause, they're all damn expensive isn't it expensive


isn't that expensive, okay I guess I'll I'll buy it after I, finish my submissions then, , okay, let me think of a question


, have I asked you this question


okay, , that's what you think that we are


, but technically if there's no job is there a dream, , , (mmhmm)


ya I get it, I mean probably the same, or people will just be more like relaxed, they won't, have, to like stress about


getting food on table, but honestly I don't think it's like I don't think it's a realistic thing to think about because, when <mandarin>我们人类我们的生活只是:wo men ren lei wo men de sheng huo zhi shi</mandarin> like cow


, , (mmhmm),


what is this word, good looks or fit body, okay true


(mmhmm) okay true true true true true true agreed agreed, , yup


no what okay, okay ya I guess you're very on


I agree, sunrise, memorable, you're that one that ask the question dude


dude sunrise okay there's like a few, like theres those days okay I don't know I cannot really have like a I don't have like a memorable one right now, but, you know it's those days where you like overnight on your assignment


you just look out the window and you just see the <mandarin>太阳:tai yang</mandarin> like just like rising you're just like !wow! what a beautiful sun, like the world so beautiful even though I feel so wrecked inside


ya, have you had any memorable


sunrise or do you not remember any sunrise, dude the last chalet the last chalet we had is eunice and


I've never done that, ya no dude okay you can't ask me cause I I've never like really gone to a chalet before, but the first chalet that I went to is kind of like eunice one


like the others one like the others was like very brief lah I just went there and just say hi and bye, cause my my mum has this thing that she doesn't want me to like sleep over I don't know why


like I I'd rather I'd rather not even go into the shower than shower where people will be showering, I don't know it's just a thing I don't know I just feel damn like disgusted


ya, ah, what food haven't


, I can think of something


I think so ya, nope I have not yup I have not tried that I have not tried balloon, kind curious but like the texture just looks very eh


, okay plugin already


okay ready, okay you wanna choose the first, problem


okay, are you writing down,


okay, ya it's okay, three wishes uh okay err


first wish, err don't have to worry about money


uh, ya, so that we so we don't need to because if we get the first wish than don't need to do this interview Liao


oh <mandarin>这个这个:zhe ge zhe ge</mandarin> conversation


cause,


, but wish don't need to be like <mandarin>现实:xian shi</mandarin> right cause I I wanna choose something like teleporting, so that when I'm changing different places <mandarin>我不用花钱不用:wo bu yong hua qian bu yong</mandarin> carbon emission you know


, (hmm)


so what is your


uh


to where anywhere


err <mandarin>华语怎么讲我不知道:hua yu zen me jiang wo bu zhi dao</mandarin> eh, correct ya, wait but, travel into the mind means you think like the person or you see how the person think


!wah!,


(hmm), I,


!wah! I have a lot of questions already, cause I'm like, you, or <mandarin>体验世界:ti yan shi jie</mandarin> right


but then do you, feel the same stuff or you just only, think in the same thought pattern because different right,


(uh huh) (uh huh)


(hmm), #bao ga liao# right,


I feel like I haven't spoken to a lot of people or anybody for a long time, some I'm like


well I feel like actually no right cause, because I, don't have the financial means or uh


visa to be in a certain place, I feel like even if I want to be on my own entirely I cannot, because I'll have to work or like


interact with people or like, I don't know make friends, but it's not a bad thing, which part, err


so I think if I am not in quarantine, I will be I'll have to interact with more people, right, if you want to work or like


I don't know I feel I feel like I'm okay with like small, group people


, , I feel like what you said about the first part is true


I think maybe it's less about like, uh how to phrase this uh how, much time I'm on my own but how frequent, does that makes sense


then I can have video call with like, ten people, then I still have, in person lah but, because I feel like !wah! I one more week no more already leh this


(hmm)


, it's is very hard for me to think about what <mandarin>日常生活:ri chang sheng huo</mandarin> can die because I feel like I was just in taiwan and then, moving around changing places so, so much of the time is spent, with other people which is not something


I like, it, like in terms of like tangible time it becomes less time for yourself right because you are like, people around you all the time not that I don't want to interact how do I say this like


(mmhmm), , I wish I wish I also want


I mean, got, I am not paying for the hotel and like all these thing so, not bad !huh!


(hmm), ya


err, maybe I should say that I'm actually very happy like now in the quarantine because I feel like finally after maybe like, two months of like intensive


I can choose if I want to speak to someone I can just have food delivered to me, and then <mandarin>可以专心:ke yi zhuan xin</mandarin> like watch video


it's hard because I feel like I'm beginning to, talk about my own


how I approach making or what I do with my own, person, cause, I I think I'm someone who doesn't like force or I try my best not to force a project, so


which is a good and bad thing oftentimes it ends up ends up with me being, cause I'm waiting for <mandarin>灵感:ling gan</mandarin> or something, but I also know that


once I get, all these laziness out like, but now I'm beginning to


but video is, oh well, , but I'm not interacting with them though, it is passive you know what I mean it's not like


ya lah I mean I don't, so I feel like I watched like enough video play enough games already then I feel like !wah! okay, suddenly I want to do something already


uh,


ya ya


(hmm), the support is what <mandarin>钱:qian</mandarin> and space is it and time


(hmm), (hmm)


(hmm)


it's not true , (hmm), , it's okay


, you know I misread this just now I thought it was like I find like ten years ago me


but it's <mandarin>你放在里面是什么:ni fang zai li mian shi shen me</mandarin> right, it's stuff that you want, like the person to see


then what you think,


(mmhmm)


secondary four eh doing what


I think it's maple story,


oh, , anything about the kinds of things that I had at that time, like cause, I mean I guess if it's a material


think, O level Liao


(hmm), , (hmm)


I think really not much eh, okay how about you try I feel like there's a reason you chose this, uh


, ya,


illusion , illusion, , how about like how about what you will put for like ten years later I think maybe that will go


(ugh), it makes out the crowd together right


actually though


dear Sonya so,


(hmm),


(hmm), I feel like <mandarin>我十九二十:wo shi jiu er shi</mandarin> also easier sorry, I feel like <mandarin>我十九二十:wo shi jiu er shi</mandarin> also easier to answer than like sixteen is like, do what sia


(hmm)


(mmhmm), and then yours got different right,


your next cycle thirty five ah, why, you know the seven year seven years stuff or no


every seven years is a big, like transformation, or re examination of who you are or confrontation, seven fourteen twenty one twenty eight, thirty five thereabout,


we are all in the cycle <mandarin>里面:li mian</mandarin> lah then you think I can you exit meh,


okay, anyway


ha, cause, I mean there are so many ways, we can, just die leh,


actually most of the problems right relate to like, issues that we are unhappy about, like social politically know, so


this this kind of stuff very difficult for me because I don't think I'm a very funny person, so I think it's very difficult for me to tell a funny story


but you can answer, but I but as in who cannot, make myself <mandarin>好笑:hao xiao</mandarin> you know


so it's in the moments that I don't know,


, you mean what the tech thing just now or,


, ha,


ha, ,


, don't tell everybody can or not


, !huh!,


, (hmm), , (hmm),


very good story, that's why must be <mandarin>演员:yan yuan</mandarin> right that's why got script


I also cannot


ya,


can, can choose question also


I think <mandarin>不可以吃:bu ke yi chi</mandarin> eh ,


the only thing I can think of now is tofu, ya because that's the really only food thing that I'm thinking about


I mean if covered as you get what you deserve then <mandarin>我做了我就拿到:wo zuo le wo jiu na dao</mandarin> right, because I make what,


ya, this kind of stuff


I have a really bad habit I think which is, question the <mandarin>问题:wen ti</mandarin> first


, ya, ya <mandarin>因为我真的:yin wei wo zhen de</mandarin> don't understand the question or like for for instance like what


is this, karma <mandarin>是什么:shi shen me</mandarin> or like what do they mean,


I I think that's one way to look at it the way I look at it is that this question is trying to trick me cause they don't want to give enough, you know structures for you to answer, you know what I mean, no


but <mandarin>我们现在是一个:wo men xian zai shi yi ge</mandarin> structured conversation what, we are looking at prime Sonya


I answer already what I said I said tofu what, I think this is the more lighthearted, uh what approach I use, or I am using to answer this question cause if not can be really like


what do I really deserve and this like <mandarin>佛说:fo shuo</mandarin> or, correct


because I think from my understanding of karma is, so if I'm doing this thing if I think karma there's no what


good bad right <mandarin>你放:ni fang</mandarin> is whatever you invest you get back, so I invest in making tofu than I get back tofu, but then you say like !huh! this answer like !wah! like that like that one


for <mandarin>最近:zui jin</mandarin> [loh], plus is food so


okay I would I would like a model example from Sonya, #chi bey# then cop out sia,


just how how do you explain #roti prata#


so that's the karma is it


, I think it's okay


(hmm), (hmm)


(hmm), but you think there is a karma thing ah or, ya, that kind of stuff


(hmm)


(hmm), yesterday I found this err thing called the geochronic chart, you know there's this thing called natal chart right which is your natal your sun moon , geochronic chart is


is when the <mandarin>啦是中文还是:la shi zhong wen hai shi</mandarin> english, , ya, is this, err geochronic chart I'm not sure how they do it but basically it


uses some position of the moon something with your north south pole, and it charts this, chart, that gives you insight into what your early childhood personal thing per childhood personality is like, and what your possible past


life energy or inherited start is like, ya


err I I think actually I'm not someone who really enjoys, predictions, or prophecy particularly with the future, but I feel like with, I am okay, so I have found that there is a


from my own interpretation there is a, issue or obsession or some kind of, work, to be done regarding, family


and love and sex, for me in this lifetime, and then sex is with, money also, which I'm like ya lah everything is actually no no no not sex in sex not with money I mean like sex and money in the same category in terms of like power and like


is chicken and egg lor, , (hmm)


emo means what !huh!, as in I know but like, what is the state


uh uh, uh uh


(hmm), (hmm), (hmm)


(hmm), I mean also because the world is not in the very good state right I think that a lot of that contributes to <mandarin>我们自己的:wo men zi ji de</mandarin> pessimism


well I think before pandemic already pessimistic I don't know


(hmm), I don't know if it's the same but, I mean there are a lot of people around me or myself who also, like feel this way, but, I


what is it I think my, when if I'm lucky my approach is that, err


actually I can be very small lor I don't need to, I don't know be in office or present a piece or like, sometimes like while I go shower a ten minutes sing song also very nice you know like don't need to


not PG not PG, but it only comes in the shower


, , ya


(hmm),


(hmm), (hmm)


(hmm)


(hmm), no, and then, and then it's like <mandarin>我要这样做:wo yao zhe yang zuo</mandarin> but if <mandarin>我这样做你不喜欢:wo zhe yang zuo ni bu xi huan</mandarin> then I cry,


correct or like I not happy, I mean like in general, and then like in general but ya sure


that's why, uh I think people can change, and those people who desire to change, there is something about their, okay, I think there is a call to every or essence to every person


there's a thing about Sonya that is like oh <mandarin>这个是:zhe ge shi</mandarin> Sonya, right, and I think, no no I think that I think, people who desire change or some kind of like improvement


so there's no way that they could become you know, I don't know, anything too, err


destructive but then sometimes destruction is important, yup


whether that translates is different right, because some people don't even think about that you know which then there could be either the core is very good or very bad


and then I think this desire for change has let me or like other people or to look into like, stuff like <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> and like which I feel like for me has been super helpful and


identifying the, big issues or and parcels in my own life, so that instead of like when something happens I don't just, respond immediately or if I do then I don't like oh <mandarin>因为我有这个东西所以我会这样:yin wei wo you zhe ge dong xi suo yi wo hui zhe yang</mandarin> react so how can I


something like that lah, ha


you are a virgo,


, (hmm), cause


(mmhmm), (hmm)


ya, (hmm) (hmm)


uh, sure, (hmm), I feel like I would say like , definitely there're parts of myself that <mandarin>我已经知道:wo yi jing zhi dao</mandarin> but having


the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> as a language helps me to identify, specifically why, I can feel a certain way I feel like (hmm), maybe for some people like, looking into extra they can


detach them from their own personal life or their own reality which is sometimes I don't know good or not, but for me because I, approach everything so personally, having the extra actually helps me to


step back a bit and like


I I I wanna say no because I, ya I I, I want to say no, because I feel like I use it to, self examine even more


(hmm), (hmm)


uh uh, ya


(hmm)


(hmm), (hmm), (hmm), I felt I never I never approached I have never approached it this way leh it's always like


ah what I feel like shit why and then, think about why and then, sometimes think about, oh because <mandarin>我的这个在这边这个在这边:wo de zhe ge zai zhe bian zhe ge zai zhe bian</mandarin> that's why I have a tendency to <mandarin>这样:zhe yang</mandarin> but I mean they don't explain why I feel a certain way to a certain person right is not like


it's more I don't know err


(hmm), uh uh uh uh, I mean I think that's one way to look at it but I don't think that so much different from like, making a first impression of someone, is the same as like oh I see this person do make up so they care about appearance


like maybe it's a superficial , assessment but then, after time you can see that oh actually this person anyhow do so actually don't care, get it, something like that, it's like !wah! this person virgo but then this one is here then what is what what is where


because I feel like a lot of like our common daily like, self reflection or like, err, cross relational examination of our


does not have, a common language which makes it very hard to, began to examine you know


you know, I mean, I think fundamentally still we are people who, want to use or want to not take as much as we can right cause <mandarin>我们要用身体:wo men yao yong shen ti</mandarin> what


, , you know


okay then, put in the earpiece, so funny is so funny okay


, yes, yes can can okay very good, err


okay the first problem is the, if you had three wishes what would you wish for


no, cellphone, (hmm)


okay one by one, (hmm)


I also wish for the same, number two leh, a'ah


I mean I know technically <mandarin>如果你有这个:ru guo ni you zhe ge</mandarin> first wish you like you said lah then <mandarin>不用那个:bu yong na ge</mandarin> second third wish <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> but, , but the genie <mandarin>给你三个:gei ni san ge</mandarin> you must use lah


ya, !wah!, okay, this one very uh <mandarin>环保:huan bao</mandarin> ah this one, okay very good very good uh


I guess so like <mandarin>愿望:yuan wang</mandarin> why must be reality, reality is boring right that's why,


oh my second wish ah, , !wah!, my second wish,


!wah!, cause <mandarin>我的情绪:wo di qing xu</mandarin> right now is like, a bit


, I, think I wish that I have, the chance to like, actually is like teleporting lah but


I guess is travel lor, ya to travel anywhere, oh but, (hmm)


but also, so is travel <mandarin>不是:bu shi</mandarin> physical <mandarin>而已也是:er yi ye shi</mandarin> ,


ya, mind read


!wah!, , but I think at


think,


feel or think or why they do what they do you know ya cause very hard sometimes right to empathise you know like, like, uh


, !wah!,


!hais!


no such thing you know like, if it's really like


cause experience <mandarin>包括两个对吗:bao kuo liang ge dui ma</mandarin> like where got so neatly ya, ya lor like, ya, I think I think so,


okay, so, okay sorry I cut you say one more time, the last part


(hmm)


okay so , let me try to understand you <mandarin>所以其实你在说的是:suo yi qi shi ni zai shuo de shi</mandarin> like, normally you feel like <mandarin>其实你:qi shi ni</mandarin> don't even get enough like <mandarin>单独的时间:dan du de shi jian</mandarin> then now even in the quarantine you still don't feel like you've got enough


because most people right now <mandarin>他们觉得其实现在是:ta men jue de qi shi xian zai shi</mandarin> very difficult already to be like in the pandemic because they feel already so alone


ha


you are


you know not in singapore, but <mandarin>为什么你要单独这么久:wei shen me ni yao dan du zhe me jiu</mandarin> like, , okay you say like its frequency so


you have too much contact with people too regularly, and, you don't like that


oh okay so now I wait so <mandarin>你现在讲的:ni xian zai jiang de</mandarin> like this whole like, like your time in taiwan is only this few days lah you talking about


oh, or you just bluff people and tell them that <mandarin>你在做一个:ni zai zuo yi ge</mandarin> experiment your quarantine you want to <mandarin>做:zuo</mandarin> like <mandarin>三十天:san shi tian</mandarin> like voluntarily


why cannot, so you need a place lah then you can continue, like


I don't know, I mean, is it just about


like, is it <mandarin>不够空:bu gou kong</mandarin> is it <mandarin>不够空间:bu gou kong jian</mandarin> as it or is it


(hmm), watch video <mandarin>是吗:shi ma</mandarin>


<mandarin>我要讲的是:wo yao jiang de shi</mandarin> then, if you are using <mandarin>你的电脑你的:ni de dian nao ni de</mandarin> computer <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> eh <mandarin>是一样的:shi yi yang de</mandarin> ah <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> phone then, you are not really <mandarin>单独:dan du</mandarin> what


ya I feel lah like to be really alone, you have no connection, with the outside world like <mandarin>用电脑用手机用:yong dian nao yong shou ji yong</mandarin> social media


okay then <mandarin>你看:ni kan</mandarin> video <mandarin>是看什么看人对吗还是看人你看你是要跟人在一起的:shi kan shen me kan ren dui ma hai shi kan ren ni kan ni shi yao gen ren zai yi qi de</mandarin> , you are just watching them like the


(hmm) can, , okay


(hmm), like never ending sia I think maybe that is what I want my wish to be I change ah


proposal <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> language, but if don't write then,


then <mandarin>你就不可以做很多东西:ni jiu bu ke yi zuo hen duo dong xi</mandarin> , I mean, ya but also like


so like


ya, I mean it's like


periphery of knowledge I mean


stream <mandarin>在我们的生命里面:zai wo men de sheng ming li mian</mandarin> then <mandarin>我们可以看到:wo men ke yi kan dao</mandarin> but it's also like, in the first place <mandarin>我们怎么怎么找到这个:wo men zen me zen me zhao dao zhe ge</mandarin> video


who who even like, network [bah] ya


(hmm), ya <mandarin>我也不知道我觉得也是:wo ye bu zhi dao wo jue de ye shi</mandarin>


oh no, okay <mandarin>怎么办:zen me ban</mandarin> okay lah <mandarin>不要紧:bu yao jin</mandarin> okay <mandarin>你不要用到那个部分:ni bu yao yong dao na ge bu fen</mandarin> okay okay


ya, okay <mandarin>我要看另一个问题因为我觉得这个问题:wo yao kan ling yi ge wen ti yin wei wo jue de zhe ge wen ti</mandarin> is quite interesting, the, actually I don't think that's the correct word


time capsule basically , what would be inside


(hmm)


okay ya that's true I mean like, ya, based on now reflecting back what do you think you would find


ya, cause it's not possible what, you can only look back now


K <mandarin>你很年轻:ni hen nian qing</mandarin> I get it, exactly doing what, like what is the first thing, like


ah, oh my god, maple story, okay oh my god <mandarin>你真的是:ni zhen de shi</mandarin> gamer,


then in my extend it is a neopets , primary school, cannot have real pet mah so have neopet lor,


(hmm), what other material things, secondary school, what was precious to you then, maybe ya maybe <mandarin>你放:ni fang</mandarin> type


time capsule, they also never say like <mandarin>是你的选择:shi ni de xuan ze</mandarin> to what you put inside right or is it like it's just like a, snapshot of you from <mandarin>十年前:shi nian qian</mandarin> !wow!, okay


O levels <mandarin>你是什么学校:ni shi shen me xue xiao</mandarin> okay <mandarin>不要讲等一下这个:bu yao jiang deng yi xia zhe ge</mandarin> sensitive topic, better not say ah


, , ya okay besides maple story and , O levels,


(hmm) not really reason is just, I am going down the list of the questions then I didn't like the, I mean not don't like but the previous one <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> superpower <mandarin>我们已经:wo men yi jing</mandarin> sort of answer <mandarin>了:le</mandarin> mah so, then <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> who drop everything to follow your dreams <mandarin>我们两个这个:wo men liang ge zhe ge</mandarin> <mandarin>我们我们:wo men wo men</mandarin> chose <mandarin>这个这个:zhe ge zhe ge</mandarin> <mandarin>算:suan</mandarin> ya <mandarin>已经算是我们:yi jing suan shi wo men</mandarin> choose <mandarin>这个做艺术的生活:zhe ge zuo yi shu de sheng huo</mandarin> is like


don't know whether it's a dream or more like, !hais! <mandarin>不知道是什么:bu zhi dao shi shen me</mandarin> lah, !huh!, ha I was I was gonna say nightmare but maybe illusion <mandarin>也是可以:ye shi ke yi</mandarin> lah , ya ya so


ten years later, , ha


!wow!, , I think <mandarin>我会写一个:wo hui xie yi ge</mandarin> journal entry, or <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> letter


like, dear Sonya, ya lor


no lah but I mean I guess ya don't need to be anything like


then ten years later on a another random day like could be today, then, I'll be interested to see


what was I thinking, cause actually when you ask me about <mandarin>十年前的我:shi nian qian de wo</mandarin> I'm not so young lah <mandarin>十年前的我是二十岁:shi nian qian de wo shi er shi sui</mandarin> okay lah maybe <mandarin>十九二十岁:shi jiu er shi sui</mandarin> so


it was a time of big change for me so actually when you are if I had to answer that question that was actually more, I find that harder to imagine now, !huh!


ha, but exactly but if you, I mean


like feelings and, thoughts, ya, that are linked to the material objects you know so, oh my god <mandarin>十六岁的你已经要:shi liu sui de ni yi jing yao</mandarin> escaped into other world <mandarin>了你看:le ni kan</mandarin> maple story <mandarin>对的:dui de</mandarin> mah so like it's also to see like


I guess like if any threads of things are still the same or, or, have you change so much as a person but


I mean <mandarin>可以变:ke yi bian</mandarin> in terms of like,


I mean even <mandarin>你可以假装:ni ke yi jia zhuang</mandarin> like, pose pose like, fundamentally you cannot change who you are in your life


just become more and more of it ha, and, some people believe though that oh <mandarin>不是你是真的是个:bu shi ni shi zhen de shi ge</mandarin> like, blank slate and will keep evolving and, got chance to like, delete and


like, oh no oh no <mandarin>会不会红线:hui bu hui hong xian</mandarin> again oh shit, , ya don't know lah but


like the older you get, the less your changes


it's not that different sometimes, although, I think, change a lot ya change a lot but in terms of physical things maybe <mandarin>没有没有那么:mei you mei you na me</mandarin> or maybe in terms of physical things


the the <mandarin>改变:gai bian</mandarin> feels like is not that, big or, or it can be but it looks very superficial but I think like to talk about deeper things that have change is actually


like, ya but I think I'm also a bit scared to think about


like, ya, I mean now with COVID everybody <mandarin>也是在想:ye shi zai xiang</mandarin> like oh there's a chance to, like change but at the same time


all these like pandemic and deadly diseases is not unique to <mandarin>我们现在:wo men xian zai</mandarin> mah, so like, it's all cycles, ya, so I'm just waiting for


the next cycle, or is it like <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> can I can, !wow! <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> depressing eh <mandarin>为什么我这样讲话:wei shen me wo zhe yang jiang hua</mandarin> ha, !eww! gross I haven't even thirty yet okay I still got a few more few more weeks so


no, I know seven year itch lah let me <mandarin>说:shuo</mandarin> that one is only for married couple right ha


!huh!, (hmm)


I refused <mandarin>我不我不相信这个:wo bu wo bu xiang xin zhe ge</mandarin> , , ah


true, (hmm), ya I I find it really hard to imagine like, future


true, (hmm), !hais!, scary to think about not scary but like


(hmm), you pick lah,


, yup, eh, like, got potential, tell a story that is funny in retrospect but may not have been funny at that time


, K lah, think, you underestimate yourself


ha, (hmm)


K I can tell you <mandarin>一个:yi ge</mandarin> , I don't know I think is it was quite <mandarin>好笑:hao xiao</mandarin> at that moment already, but not at that exact moment it was <mandarin>好笑:hao xiao</mandarin> like maybe , twenty minutes after that moment


but when I did it at that time I really felt !wow! <mandarin>我很聪明:wo hen cong ming</mandarin> okay I tell, no no no I didn't feel smart at all like dealing with tech issues is is really <mandarin>不是我的专长:bu shi wo de zhuan chang</mandarin> I know what I'm not good at


okay so last time when I was in JC, <mandarin>我是:wo shi</mandarin> , so <mandarin>我们每个星期会去:wo men mei ge xing qi hui qu</mandarin> Bedok reservoir, I have no idea canoeing <mandarin>叫什么:jiao shen me</mandarin> in chinese


Bedok reservoir the toilets is so like disgusting, at that time <mandarin>现在已经:xian zai yi jing</mandarin> like !wah! <mandarin>装饰好好美美了:zhuang shi hao hao mei mei le</mandarin> but you know this was


this is more than ten years ago my god anyway I was like, a shower and that time <mandarin>没有:mei you</mandarin> proper shower you know so <mandarin>我们用的是那那种:wo men yong de shi na na zhong</mandarin> toilet got <mandarin>那个:na ge</mandarin> bidet, then try to just like, clean from there but usually <mandarin>是用:shi yong</mandarin> a mix of that like


wash maybe more of like <mandarin>你的脚:ni de jiao</mandarin> then <mandarin>你会用:ni hui yong</mandarin> more like wet wipes but anyway


so imagine <mandarin>你:ni</mandarin> carrying <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> JC <mandarin>书包很多东西:shu bao hen duo dong xi</mandarin> <mandarin>还有你的你的:hai you ni de ni de</mandarin> <mandarin>你的:ni de</mandarin> clothing whatever so it's always <mandarin>很:hen</mandarin> precarious


after canoeing as usual go and cleanup, then <mandarin>我在用着电话对吗在那个时候:wo zai yong zhe dian hua dui ma zai na ge shi hou</mandarin> then I was trying to put the <mandarin>电话:dian hua</mandarin> in my bag, and then I guess you can guess what happened then oh no


it slipped out of my hand and where did it drop


then later on <mandarin>我们整个:wo men zheng ge</mandarin> team !huh! normally <mandarin>会去吃午餐:hui qu chi wu can</mandarin> this is saturday training lah so <mandarin>去吃午餐的时候:qu chi wu can de shi hou</mandarin> then only then, then I was like eh <mandarin>为什么不可以不可以:wei shen me bu ke yi bu ke yi</mandarin> turn on then I was like !huh!


then <mandarin>我:wo</mandarin> oh shucks then


<mandarin>没有变十十八岁十八:mei you bian shi shi ba sui shi ba</mandarin> maybe <mandarin>十七:shi qi</mandarin> ah <mandarin>十七岁已经有:shi qi sui yi jing you</mandarin> <mandarin>电话的问题我跟手机:dian hua de wen ti wo gen shou ji</mandarin> <mandarin>是没有缘分的:shi mei you yuan fen de</mandarin> like everytime would Kena <mandarin>有问题的:you wen ti de</mandarin> confirm


I think that time last time harder to get second handphone also lah


I'm not very good lah telling story though , take very long to tell sorry , yes <mandarin>演员:yan yuan</mandarin> is depends lah but it's but it's very hard I cannot do stand up ya


it's too hard I know somebody who is very good at it though, but, he doesn't really see himself as an actor but ah he's like, really like natural


so he's like cannot tell now, ya, so ya, K I choose the next story next question,


this is, this is the question that will copy and paste <mandarin>给你那时候在那个:gei ni na shi hou zai na ge</mandarin> chat, it's <mandarin>太好笑了:tai hao xiao le</mandarin> at first, I must I must I must use it it's my favourite question in this this document,


you're dining at a new restaurant called karma, it doesn't have a menu, it simply you simply get what you deserve, so


if it comes in a food form lah


(ugh), really is it just because you did the project on the tofu recently, (hmm), okay, but


you, you deserve tofu, okay, so <mandarin>是因为你做那个:shi yin wei ni zuo na ge</mandarin> tofu, ah


ha <mandarin>你吃别人的豆腐:ni chi bie ren de dou fu</mandarin> , so boring ah, tofu is too obvious for you <mandarin>你刚刚做个:ni gang gang zuo ge</mandarin> project <mandarin>有:you</mandarin> tofu


ya <mandarin>我也是有看到:wo ye shi you kan dao</mandarin> I have seen this many times


it means whatever you mean you think it means, is that it like you


struggle with that, !whoa!


is it I don't know, !huh! I just ask, okay but I just ask you a question and you just answer can or not even say Mcdonald's also can you know


tofu, so boring one okay lah okay lah,


(mmhmm), I mean


(mmhmm)


okay, because you only invest in tofu in like <mandarin>最近而已:zui jin er yi</mandarin> then <mandarin>你就觉得:ni jiu jue de</mandarin> that is your karma, okay


no no model examples, , I mean like, normal food like you know, #roti prata# or, I don't know,


because I like to eat it , ya, (hmm), I think if I really answer this question


ya, so emo right like I don't know whether I deserve anything


but ya, cause <mandarin>我不知道我的付出:wo bu zhi dao wo de fu chu</mandarin> in this life, is tangible or not, you know, ya, so I don't think I will get, maybe it will be like


a ticket for, (hmm)


I believe in karma, I think


I believe in like , past energy, that will carry forward, ya not so much like


like in its completeness <mandarin>到我觉得只是部分而已我觉得会:dao wo jue de zhi shi bu fen er yi wo jue de hui</mandarin> scatter recycle, and, or


ya, I don't think we'll ever, manifest so straightforward <mandarin>我觉得:wo jue de</mandarin> karma <mandarin>是太:shi tai</mandarin> straightforward <mandarin>的:de</mandarin> concept, (hmm)


ya, (mmhmm), , okay


(hmm)


(hmm), (hmm), (hmm) <mandarin>我有一点怕:wo you yi dian pa</mandarin> to find out about this


ya, think, did you find out what you like to find out


oh !wow!, , (hmm)


(hmm), (hmm), maybe, maybe, I don't know


I, don't like to find out about my past sometimes because


makes me feel even more like, like, emotional like, sad, not sad but


the state, what do you mean, it's like <mandarin>已经写在你的生命了:yi jing xie zai ni de sheng ming le</mandarin> you know


then like, !hais!, or in singaporean terms like that lor ha, then I sometimes can make me feel more like, defeated but oh


then , that's what it is like I knew it but most of the time <mandarin>因为你已经知道了:yin wei ni yi jing zhi dao le</mandarin> like you knew it already to me is not really like


super like enlightening is like, you sort of already know it's more like confirmation, and sometimes, sometimes is for things <mandarin>你不要你不喜欢:ni bu yao ni bu xi huan</mandarin> so like to receive that confirmation that oh <mandarin>你真的是这样:ni zhen de shi zhe yang</mandarin> is not a nice feeling lor so that's why I get like a bit


you know about things like, I usually I haven't I haven't been able to find something that makes me go like oh <mandarin>有希望:you xi wang</mandarin> it's more of like, or ah I knew it


so, (hmm), (hmm), ya


(hmm), but I also feel like, before the pandemic, ya, but I think


has been since I was a, probably throughout my whole twenties I'm <mandarin>整十年就是这样咯:zheng shi nian jiu shi zhe yang lo</mandarin> lor, so it's not like of course got moments got moments of like joy and


and, dreams, ya I think still got dreams, but I also feel like it's


this, underlying sense of like, , pessimism, ya, I don't know what is also cause like, so like


, it gets worse this sense of pessimism, but at the same time, but, maybe it's not such a bad thing to just like you know


no you don't have to do the whole like showering thing, because <mandarin>会:hui</mandarin> interfere


okay lah but I get what you mean, I think


anyway in any form or shape or at least, even if like you say to remain small, it has to be like, a remain small in a


you know, eh no not really <mandarin>有意义:you yi yi</mandarin> but like, (hmm), significant <mandarin>的差别是:de cha bie shi</mandarin> what in chinese


(hmm), I mean, I don't think is exclusive to, or


you have made something happen, bigger sense of like oh


then nobody thinks about changing ya, oh no you cry


that's your water sign coming out , ah, (mmhmm)


isn't that scary


then <mandarin>你觉得你自己的:ni jue de ni zi ji de</mandarin> core


oh no, !wah! I need a bit of time to like, like


I don't know, I guess the only thing that is constant for me is that, the more you know


okay <mandarin>我没有这样想:wo mei you zhe yang xiang</mandarin> that was not what I intended the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing, and was going to say that the only thing I know is that, the more I know, the more I don't know, ya


ya, difficult, ya, (hmm), but I didn't think about the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing so


ya but I'm quite sure that of my of my essence being the same even even before the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing, ya the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing just gave me like a, a label to understand the essence by


ya, and I think, part of me <mandarin>是不喜欢:shi bu xi huan</mandarin> like <mandarin>我的:wo de</mandarin> essence so that is why <mandarin>我有这种:wo you zhe zhong</mandarin> , resistance or like


I don't know what's the word like, err inside, that makes me like resist a little bit, and also like, don't really want to know, cause like <mandarin>我觉得我已经知道了:wo jue de wo yi jing zhi dao le</mandarin>


ya, ya, but before you had all these <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing did you <mandarin>觉得你已经知道:jue de ni yi jing zhi dao</mandarin> like, actually


cause the <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> thing is also quite recent mah, is it like last year last last year


do you think <mandarin>你在用星星:ni zai yong xing xing</mandarin> to shirk responsibility , ha


but , , what did I want to say, I feel


like structures or systems or like, you know <mandarin>星座:xing zuo</mandarin> and <mandarin>星星:xing xing</mandarin> to like deflect, a bit, be objective, but, I think what makes things interesting is when


and sometimes I think that <mandarin>直接:zhi jie</mandarin> ness is actually <mandarin>直接:zhi jie</mandarin> ness is actually


why I like, to do things that are not risk using brain so much sometimes like, like, like <mandarin>运动:yun dong</mandarin> or, or like anything to do with moving <mandarin>身体:shen ti</mandarin> lor, cause


ya <mandarin>不直接你会掉你会:bu zhi jie ni hui diao ni hui</mandarin> injure yourself <mandarin>你会:ni hui</mandarin> , or


it sometimes also


what if <mandarin>你已经在:ni yi jing zai</mandarin> predetermined <mandarin>你要做什么:ni yao zuo shen me</mandarin> without actually, answering as directly, as actually, in that moment


but what if actually ya the instinct is, ya it's okay mah


you use it to explain away things or like sometimes like you also like had have you ever met a person that eh


(hmm), (hmm) that's true


(hmm), (hmm)