ya it's so nice, because I mean okay like actually quite a few girls go there now so but, but it's still quite nice super clean, hey go with me to North Hill leh ya he's so you ya is so good eh bathe there !wah! soon


no we must exercise also cause, ya, oh you did , ya was this is a very long time ago, was this like super, last are you sure last year last year I'm I'm overseas already eh hello


it's so long, do you remember


oh really, eh that's super that !huh!, that's that's two and half years ago hor I I I left dragon boat, ya I remember I left one point like I I started dragon boat one point five or like one point two


after one point three years in dragon boat I went to join a club outside then I work, ya hello , super long ago, that's super long that's super long ago


end of sem one I think, you should go gym there


ya, no, I, I feel that


ya it's just I I feel like guys quite, no I mean not guys, guys in general, like uni I didn't know that until I came to uni, no lah no I as in like I don't think they will


no not not the gym people in, no that one where got, not I've I've seen like my friend is not


is is ya not not fit at all then she go then she quite okay she goes everyday eh, ya nearly everyday that's quite good ya still quite, ya then you can see the toilet then can bathe in the you use the toilet ya


[orh] ya just use the toilet ah cause quite nice ya, that I think aunty there cleans quite well, ya and then you have the lockers are so new it's still quite I mean not new it's still quite new, it's like the you know you know it's the pink code locker right


so you type then you retrieve personal password it's very it's very good, oh really but !huh! !huh! you went there ah, oh put inside a wave ah


(ppb) let's go all the way to the waves just to the toilet , oh ya the blue I mean the blue the blue chat is an app, to the whole everywhere


very far wait I want to take bus instead you know, eh we should go wait wait you want go next week


oh you got no school but you oh in school but not no school, oh let's go let's go on Wednesday, how many hours do you need after lunch, no I as in like lunch


I mean even after I eat like one hour, eat I still can go then my mum say


[orh] one hour, there's always there's always you because like at first like no one would go cause


very few people know about North Hill then suddenly now right it's a period everyone knows about North Hill


or like why never try, how you know like what


you don't feel happy after that, like endorphins ah, what sports you want


ya no one go with me, oh four times a week, very Hiong


I didn't know I don't remember you want to join, ya it's quite tough ah


ya and and and and some more, ya ya DBX, and I also think right it's not even four times it's more than that, you really to old as own own self train they said ya, it's not four times my gosh and then some more competition everyday eh


and injuries, got a lot of pack pieces you know in gym ah a lot of stuff


no if people do that to the gym like I think we other people will judge damn hard , what are you doing, no they were just ya they won't ah (ppb), no but I hate it when like people drop the weights, it's it's like so bad for the waist and the floor and like you know


like you take the thing then you would you would for example they slowly control up and slowly, but then down they just drop it so actually they can control they just don't want to, it's like so ridiculous you know, no no it's falling to floor then it's falling the weight weight score got


then I think the girl, in charge went to the try to talk to the Angmoh guy then, he was quite adamant lah then


I don't know I don't know I actually I don't even know whether is about the weight, ya I also don't know but I feel bad for her lah, cause like she was trying to tell him not do it then in the end like he still continues to do it, that's okay then I think, cause got some guys looking then I I was thinking maybe they will like help


my gone then they turn ya, ya it's very


ya so I'm it's quite irritating ya I mean, I it's not really noisy it's not the noise that's irritating it's the fact that dropping the weights and then it's like, you spoiling the weights and then do you I feel like you, you you can control so well but then like when it's no use to you anymore you just


anyhow is drop them, that's one thing ya exactly is I know it's not, your weight it's it's everyone's weight so everyone's weight is a public


actually I got quite a few , (ppb) ya not it's not think about I've been like I already had been like, thinking of what they have a quite long because I went gym lah it's, actual ya the reason few days I have been going alone cause


when if I, if my friend goes with me I need to teach her stuff then is like is a bit, no you can no cause, no cause the thing is like that one I've been going with like for quite a while ah ya


then but for you never lah so it's okay but that one quite a while then it's like, not so in efficient for me ah, inefficient ah cause like I need I'm do if I want do cause now I sweat a lot, then I will like normally go quite hardcore but if I go with friends I normally don't do so hardcore


no lah no we do do stuff together cause like we I never gone with you before what so is okay, ya and what


how come didn't we do other stuff ah, oh they just ran a bit then you stop, so why you go there for


ya I'm ya we pay we pay ya we are paying for it ya, ya we are paying , pay for might as well use the password ya, !huh! why oh


is this new bus also like did you see a new bus, (hmm) did you, uh cause I'm


no don't don't have what year one year two, ya the new bus don't have eh, is a normal like very


ya, not not like the public bus, for year one year two, like the bus like like looks like a public bus, !huh! wait what wait are you talking on the same


is there's a a new bus, that looks like public bus inside, so is like lower at the bottom then you walk you, doesn't it look like public bus like you is a lower one then you go up a bit cause normally


ya you need to, cause normally public bus is like that then you go up a bit, like then there's always like two, like the chairs in front that's high up


why, then there's there's a lot of sports peoples also like sometimes ya, but did you try before


!aiyo! got kids there ah, wait I don't know eh like looks new but I don't know maybe


it's not bad ah, but I think big groups not so much, ya I mean like, that's why a bit boring after awhile like if it's a big group then also sometimes you are not interested but you have to act interested


this one quite interesting eh, deal maker oh, look at this this quite cool, but who would said there are a minus


what's a deal maker, what's a what's a deal maker


ya that's a uh


ya then he remembers, don't don't have a lot of friends do that, no actually


oh I was thinking about something but I forgot


what's that what's that why what are you want got play, [orh] play button, oh but no eh I don't think so


play and pause ah is it you play then you, oh all the level ones stuff like getting to know eh you know this is very good for a date


and what what what <UNK/> how would you, oh even now what does cute no really ya, eh but I I know a lot of, you sure or not you sure or not what if someone you don't like you know


because I know like there was one close friend that, no no I don't want no I no I I I feel that for me like I


cause I I don't know I haven't find someone someone so attractive yet then it's like, I won't like cross a boundary to be so close to them that kind of thing


like I mean, ah no but I feel that there's always there needs to be an attraction first in the first place, cause ya, ya then then I will actively try to talk to you if not I won't I won't actively try to talk to you, same like guys I I feel like guys will also


if he don't find you attractive they won't really talk, no no lah they don't !hais!, and I so I always feel there needs there needs to be an attraction first before like anything, goes on do you think so


but, but I find in most cases for, like what I hear right is for girls, don't have attraction at first some time sometimes don't have attraction then, the guy attracted to the girl then make the girl like him


right, but I also don't get how people cause I know this friend she


she doesn't put a boundary with her friends ah, male friends lor, no as in like, like she like being closer to them like for me I will if I don't find the objective it's like I will like okay ya


close ya someone I I, I I won't if I don't find them attractive, ya I mean it's quite judgy, for me that's why we move


it's the over the years, because we all we see each other everyday


no it's not just two of us, I don't know how it happened lah, sometimes sometimes ya sometimes I try to, will ah flashback


no but it happened it happen , does it need to be, never mind it happen it happens


I think you never really initiate, like you never really do that right, you but I knew for friendship you must initiate ah but not like close friend I think that's quite hard, it's just a natural thing right


ya you shouldn't think oh really have close friend don't think, the Malay, you just talk to them more ah, like from the back I look attractive


I will just talk lah


like ah she would talk to the guy she always say go go talk to the guy , ya, I mean, (ppb) the person the talking to him you can ah get a a good friend, or oh there's two ways ah good good friend after that ya or or like the other way so it's like there's no


everyone everyone is like there I feel that everyone's at there like


I feel, ya but the thing is like you know this unattractive guys !wah! you're talking to attractive then we you hear them talk then you can


cause the way people, carry themselves, that can be attractive too ah, like like you see the person I talk to, decent but then okay he was very nice but then the thing very boring


oh did I tell you, ya did I tell you like I told you did I tell you he got together with my, the friend I told everything about


ya but did I tell you that my friend, the Malay friend, ya cause wait no cause the K before that my friend, uh was in same clique uh later on next sem my friend was in same class


then she my friend knows everything I told her about and knows this guy, ya ya then she go she got attracted to him , that was like oh but I'm okay I'm totally okay cause I don't have feelings for him, they got together like


I I have but just as long and she doesn't tell him what I, told cause I told him everything I told him I told her that she was boring and everything I tell her everything you know, no I've a feeling he'll they are they were attached eh


I feel bad now I shouldn't had cause, cause I now, but then she broke up with him, she broke up with him no but but for her it wasn't boring like cause when I was talking to her she found


him attractive and he he said, why but will uh it was as if like we are talking to different people eh he's, ya she said she didn't found find him boring, but she want very funny, so strange, ya


as if we're not talking about the same person you know, no uh what oh ya remember I told you about his, right then I do you remember about his sister, like he


like his sister is older than him but, the sister always very clingy with him you know, then I'll I I I I felt that, that will be issue if we get together, thankfully no, there was issue with him uh with my friend


the, ya cause I think the sister too clingy, ya, not only that he also too clingy ya ya


ya can understand, why is a nice guy lah I don't know, I think I can understand because I think clinginess when


no is like is like you know Mark and his girlfriend cause if the girlfriend always stick to him and he doesn't mind that's not clingy but if, the girlfriend sticks to a guy that, then the guy doesn't like it then it's clingy


so it's like must be same level of clinginess if not, really like what like what


eh ya that's why I find the thing he's very nice very nice person very easy talk to but, creepy first impression creepy, he doesn't he say he doesn't know like


wait so, you told me there was this guy that you thought he like you right he was in church is it


!huh! really I thought there will


[orh] you don't don't, was it church, what do you mean maybe, wait can I guess who the person is


got a lot people with marks lah, he will wait, no as in I going to mention her name once then I'm not going to mention the name anymore, okay


okay among the people I met that day, ya no as in I will guess some, wait you mean there's a few


both of them I seen before ah


(ppb) wait wait wait then okay the non attach I also see , the non attach one I also see before, I also see for eh


what's his name ah I forgot his name wait who is it, wait I I remember I I I I think his name I forgot his name can remember the face


you know the face, just draw it draw it, no I'm we're we're just, okay okay so are we going to


ya I put my computer back first


what activity do you most enjoy during together with your family, do you, do you do puzzle so everyone like you did puzzle so I, ya but then now


now no time, you mean there's a break, I also didn't know some name, ya


cycling, !huh! really what did you mean you you spend time with ya you travel and and anything and, kay actually true cause everything you enjoy


she got relationship (ppb) yeah I think relationship quite interesting , oh how do you know when to let go of someone how did you let go that guy , I don't know you just, I mean over time what why so like how how do you


let go, oh ya I think I get what you mean, ya, it's just that so ya that you make a boundary don't cross this line


you look for Harshim what did you want yeah, crash and burn no and then okay okay


[orh] don't ask that I don't want I haven't experience that too, what's that how important in having children oh so very important to talk about then


but I mean like I feel like both of us, no but I think both of us want children right because we were talking about, like the clique of us our children hanging out together that's so cool but, I don't think we have one any time soon


doesn't matter lah see how it goes right, especially ya, why, of course he, I feel like


ya it's very true but I also, and also like, I feel that, I, get into powers more for my mum then my my bro my bro in a very like, active my mum, ya it's like very like


if it's not good for me cause I will get the, then he ya then I was like you were ya exactly you ya I get I get it lah like he will always side my mum, then he will never side me ah , no I mean I get what you mean I'm protective then I get so annoyed


no I, like one boy one girl ah is good lah, why why but older older or


ya actually better I don't I don't like being the older girl is so ya, is there someone in this table you would like to know better


ya then no that's so, sweet what intrigues or interest you about this person


!huh! there's a, went to a seminar, and did you


oh ya is so , what what's a perspective one no where who, what that's, but you don't tell that is a, the person you said I would like to get to you know better don't said I want marry


what ya exactly especially if the guy run away


he's trying to gauge his success rate is it you do, is that NTU as in N NTU, was it your church one, oh your church people ah


oh my dad wanted me to join some, some conferences that ya so annoying then I said I don't want


I tell him no don't !huh! you win wait so that's a not one off thing ah, !huh! wait every every Wednesday you talk about boy girl relationship, oh Christian oh I said why


oh god [orh] I see, so I was wondering what , oh but


oh ya you know my dad bought me a book, so annoying eh is like is like as then I I I but I, browse through is like everything I already know don't need buy this book for me this useless book, no is just try is like Christian book lah that, cause like that I'm ya, so I'm basically having like standards for yourself you know need to


ya and so don't cross the boundary don't make things, ya is basically like


(hmm) dating is like exclusive


[orh] there's no obligation (hmm), just a like fishing around, like they alive ya ya ya, ya that one you can ghost right uh


I think it depends right, to be exclusive ya


people were mind blown , ya it's true very true but what about, actually I want to talk about other stuff but I think cannot talk


no as in, the categories that you can't talk about K never mind, oh what what's that moral of the story, describe one important lesson you've learn from the books you, read no they only learn about books leh


how important is marriage to you, is so important, actually I wanna talk about three seven seven A ah but it's not allowed ah ya


ya especially like


ya can you imagine the person leave you after like, they must like you for what your your personality right , that that's the thing like I don't know whether he like he knows of me


the how, cause it I feel that even like friends you know for a few months you won't, no but the thing is how do I revealed the thing is I


no no it was, so so Lup-Sup right ya ya (ppb) I I told him ya I try I I wore quite Lup-Sup before like


but the thing is no as in like talk talking like, like deep conversations I haven't I've yet, but, I mean I feel like I feel like we are we are talking like we we do have deep conversation but


I don't know if we feel like I've never really, I don't really know what's classifies as deep conversations you know, no no no eh eh but I feel like


eh this one may be too try hard that I feel like cause you know like for example, you know if people say oh uh you know, people say oh I have this I am on this dating app for guys normally the bro will say eh this guy's a loser that kind of thing


so we should do level three !huh! you you, that's !huh! this is only level three you mean in level level ten like really very hard lah, !huh! you your level oh-my-gosh level ten


oh what risks have you taken for someone you love the thing is why you don't love anyone, so many


what biggest regret, but I can't remember what's the biggest I mean everyone has regrets ah, oh, body image okay let's let's talk about we got a lot of stuff


(ppb) oh you talk down eh to that book, something about body image ah


oh, oh !wow! okay, when you like the mirror do you check what's it like, how long do you spend in front of the mirror like in the toilet, I feel like I progressively increase amount of time I I I I spend looking at the mirror over the years


probably the trend like last time go back to now what do you


wait so we look it oh you's like more likes, like not so good it's like oh


no but then, he ask you this question so like, he ask me like do you check yourself out in the mirror, oh then like generally I, do but sometimes


ya obviously you know I think girls where we have like our bad days then like !huh! why like that


now no, ah last time I also got I ya, last time a bit lah a bit, like I find that face can't change so you don't think about it right


I mean other parts you can change but not your face right ya, so I think so don't worry about it just leave everything


your dad is confirm taller than you that will be strange if your dad is one sixty something but your sister is, !huh! really so fast, what so far


eh you one six what [orh], oh you don't don't care anymore cause tall like you okay with your height, high heel high heel


when you are allowed to wear high heels, I cannot do you do you think you you'll be okay with a guy that's shorter than you, or is it must be same height and above


ya it's like what's the worst sia, !huh! they wear flat, !huh! wait people wear oh oh you mean like beach


what do you mean, !huh! they wear flats, really !huh!


eh but but I think for me I don't mind high heels, I I like high heels ah ya


ya I need to be tall ya his his, very tall ya


you want to call him now , do not sing only converse in


uh you are referring to the top left hand corner


oh okay yes there is


I can see only one duck that is on the green bush, okay cool yes


I definitely only have one, uh now I can see you have two, so that is a difference


uh I don't have but I have, this two goats which is just beside the green bush, on the right hand side, and is they are both within the wooden fans


it's inside a square, wooden fence, there is two white goats


no I don't have a signage, that is next to the wooden fan, as you describe


can you tell me where is the signage located


is it on the top bottom left or right hand side, okay so I can definitely tell you I don't have


the signboard, on the right side, of the wooden fence of the, two goats


yes I have two sheep's which is, right below, the wooden fence, one of them it's probably the mother sheep or the parent sheep, the other sheep is probably the child sheep


so, there is a total of, two sheep's


no I only have a total of two sheep's, so which is a parent sheep, and a child sheep


I believe you are referring to the yellow hay, so there is two bales, of, yellow hay, which is to the, left hand side, the left hand bottom side


of, the wooden fence containing the two goats


no I don't see any ant or bees uh, on top of the yellow hay, it doesn't really look like, a ant or a bee it looks like something on it


but if you count it, as a ant or the bee then there is, now that I see it


yes there is a sort of wooden, hut, and with the signage saying, SHOP, in blue dark blue colour that says shop, there is one


okay, okay in front of the shop, there is a red signboard


which is next to the door, the signboard is actually red in colour, with the black words


no the words on my signboard, it actually shows, decorative, hat, tins, for sale, that is the words on the red signboard


yes I have, when you open the door which is the, back of the door now it's facing out in front, there is a sign on the door, it's on the red, cardboard, and the word written


on the sign the red, signboard, says, open


if you are asking for the signs on the shop, uh it's just on top of the door there is the word S H O P, shop


when you enter the shop, I believe you will see uh what I can find is on the ground, on the floor of the shop is brown colour, ya so I'm not sure if that is a carpet or


basically it is a brown floor, and there is something white, on top of it as you walk in further, probably that will that may be either a floor cover, or maybe is a carpet inside


the window I can see is on the far left, actually it has uh I would mean, frames, it is uh probably a dark coloured frames


yes it also appears to be dark brown


yes there is some pink flowers which is outside, the walls of the shop, just right below the the window


yes I can also count, four full flowers which I can see, and one half flower, which is appearing there, so I think this is similar to what you have


in front of the shop, I can see there is a rabbit cage, the cage actually, has a green top, inside there's a white rabbit, and there is no other signs that says what you have described


yes I can see, next to the rabbit cage there is a boy, with yellow hair, brown or dark brown T shirt, blue shorts


and wearing green shoes, on his hand, he's actually holding, an ice cream cone, with a two scoops of ice cream


yes I can see a bee, which is actually perched on top of the ice cream, of the ice cream cone


that's right


yes next to the boy, on the right hand side, there's actually, somewhat like a booth probably, it is a blue, in colour, in front of the booth it says


fresh fruit and vege, and, on the table, I can see a box probably, of red, strawberries, one two three four five six of them


on the box of strawberries, and, next to the strawberries, there is this bowl, of, carrots, which I probably can, see is one two three four carrots


with the green leaves sticking out from the top, of the carrots


I can only see, for myself in my picture, which is, on the bottom, right hand corner, only one, sac, one yellow sac, which I believe is potatoes


and there is a red label, on the sac, that probably says potatoes, so I have only one sack


yes I definitely don't have, that empty sack, that is lying on the floor


yes I have, what I can see, there is an adult, an adult lady, with a brown hair, and blue long sleeve blouse, and probably a red uh dress


what she's doing is, she's cutting, some green kind of fruit possibly a pear, a green pear, and she's cutting it, on a chopping board


and there's also another pear so there's total of two pears, on the table, and she's cutting using a knife, one of them on the chopping board, next to the chopping board on the table


there is a salad bowl, and inside the salad bowl, I can see some green vegetables or, maybe I think it is , the green pears, that she's chopping


and probably after she's chopping, she put, the chopped pieces, of pear, into, the salad bowl, next in front uh just right in front of the salad bowl


is actually a child, the child is black has black hair, wearing a white long sleeve, blouse, or a pullover, and yes I can see that she's wearing


uh red socks, possibly red shoe as well, so from the looks of things my picture, and your picture, same, except for the salad bowl


which I can see for your picture is empty, and my picture contains, some chopped pieces, of the pear


right, okay, I can see my picture is different from your picture, what I see is, probably two young, child, two kid


they are probably trying to play some game, and the game is like playing ghost, so what they are trying to do is, they are they cover them self their body, white sheet


and, they probably cut out two holes in the white sheet, so that they can see, as they play, and I can see that uh one of the child, picture is same as yours


two eyes and the white covered herself, and the white sheet with two holes, wearing red pants, and for the second child it's different from yours, the second child, in my picture is fully covered


with the white sheet, the child is wearing a, pair of, blue pants, and, black shoe, while in your picture, I can see the child is not covered in the white sheet


and the white sheet is actually on the floor, so, seems like the child is not wearing, the white sheet and not playing as a ghost with the other child, so that is one key difference


yes, actually this is on the top right, uh of one of the child, there is a person, as what you have described, he's actually wearing a black hat, sorry a red hat a red cap


probably a red star on it as well, his hair is white, and he has white beard, so probably as you described, he could be an old, gentlemen, and he's wearing a blue long sleeve uh pull over


brown pant, black shoe, he's actually on his hand, he's actually doing some work, which I see, he's using a saw, red color handle, and trying to saw


into half, a wooden plank, that I guess, and he's probably half way, through sawing, the wooden plank into half, so looks like yes this gentlemen


he could be a farmer, or he could be a worker, of this area, and I think everything matches as what, you have described, including there's probably, four balances


on the wooden plank


oh okay so now I get your picture, so basically, what I see from your picture is, the old man is not holding on to the saw, he's just standing in, side next to it, the saw is actually still on the wooden plank


and no work has been done yet, while in my picture, the man has already started sawing, and he's actually half way, cutting through the wooden plank plank


yes, I have, a pretty interesting picture, the girl, that you described, is yes black hair, wearing a kind of, uh long one piece


skirt, with, yellow and pink stripes, she's actually bouncing a ball, probably a basket ball, which is white and red in color


and standing next to her is probably, an adult, possibly a coach, or a mother, she's uh actually has orange hair I can see, wearing a green Tshirt


blue skirt, with a dark blue shoes, and she's probably shouting an instruction to the little girl, and she's asking the little girl to shoot


so I can see because there is the word SHOOT, so coming out from her mouth, and probably what the girl will want to do next, is to shoot the ball, to the basketball net in front of her


the basketball net uh I can see there's a red color pole, holding up the board and the net, and in the board in the center of the board is actually a red, rectangle, for the basketball to land on


before going into the net, is this the same as your picture


yes there is it is actually right behind the man, was walking and sawing the wooden plank, the roof is actually a light colour grey, and the wooden is probably a wooden shed I can see


with a white uh board, as well as dark coloured, maybe brown doors and a front side of the roof


yes I have, it is a probably a tractor, that is a, moving, and inside the tractor actually there is a man, wearing blue long sleeve


with both hands held up, and his mouth open, he is actually a green colour tractor, with a yellow cap, and it seems like the tractor is moving because I can see some


movement and some lines and seems like his, waving his hand opening his mouth and shouting, not sure what is he he shouting about but seems like he's, the direction that he shouting is towards


the two person playing the basketball, anyway I think this picture probably looks the same, I don't see anything else, that is different, from your picture


K let me count, one two three, four five six, seven eight nine ten, I counted ten


correct, uh okay correct I missed out this one so it's yes number two different


correct


for sale, so this is difference number four


difference number five correct


yes correct so difference number six


that's uh total until now is, difference number seven


okay correct so now I see, there is total of, twelve differences, in this picture of a farm, with all this activities, going on, some animals


some hardware, some shops and some buildings, that we can see from the picture, so in total as what you have said, there is differences, and there's basically twelve


differences which we can spot


so interesting and so fun, just to spot the differences, but it's uh quite, easy and straightforward, I mean the they didn't give us very fine, differences, that we have to check


and detail


sounds good, in fact uh, that is not difficult, there's so much unbelievable things that can happen in Singapore, that you just have to, recall, and able to describe out, okay, in fact it's a very interesting uh good deck of card


red in colour with the picture of a rooster, and the spelling seems to be very, funny, smells uh small talk, S M O L T O K ah


interesting doesn't seems like, Singaporean to me


sounds good cool


when did did you say when, ah, so the question you ask is, where should, visitors go in Singapore to get, a real sense of the country


okay, I see, and I think I saw the subject that says heart lands, okay, sounds interesting and it's only one point okay so no need to think so hard lah, , so I guess is probably no big secret that


around eighty five percent of Singaporeans actually live in HDB, heartlands, so as a visitor if they are coming to visit Singapore, of course they will go to a lot of touristic places like the zoo


shopping malls et-cetera, but if they really want to see what Singapore it really is the eighty five percent, then probably is no big, secret that they should go and visit our HDB town


they can look at the HDB blocks, the kind of facilities and the amenities that the resident, actually gets to enjoy and live in, the places where we will eat, and such as the coffee shops


and also that the shops uh on the HDB void decks, plus all kind of uh activities uh, that there is like the RCs and the CCs, the resident's community, and the community clubs that we have


sounds good, okay so


okay great so it's my turn to pick a card for you right, okay I'm not going to choose the top one I'm going to break the card and choose the card from here, okay right, this is interesting it's also one point


now the title says TFR, uh and what I can see here, TFR means total fertility rate, okay, and the question is very interesting it it's asking you


would you rather have kids, or pets, sounds sounds like , I don't think you can compare whether kids or pets but anyway, no right or wrong just a just a personal view and


feel free to say what you think


right, okay, I mean sounds I hear what you say, actually I think this question probably comes about because, Singapore has one of, probably the lowest, fertility rate


uh of the world, in fact uh, if I recall correctly there's probably a study, that says that our population is not replacing itself, so this is probably one of the reason why


they are actually, immigrate there's a lot of people immigrating into Singapore, so that the population can replace itself, so I gather, the one of the fundamental, reasons for


fertility is of course , people, wants to there is, there is actually chance for them to, get married, and after get married to have children, but uh I guess one of the difficulty that uh all of us face is


uh Singapore is actually quite an expensive place, to live in, and you have to manage your finances well enough, really, not only just to survive, actually for some people


they actually want a certain quality of life, to have that kind of quality of life, they need to have, maybe certain financial freedom, and even so they also want to


have that kind of financial quality, to give to their children as well, so for some people where they have difficulty, you know even uh having some financial quality life, they will probably


not in a position to have children, or even if they want to have, maybe, one or two, child in the family, so this is, I believe the kind of society


the kind of aspiration that, as a Singaporean we're face with, so, because, people don't have children, I guess, a lot of young couples, or maybe even the older folks


they actually have pets, and they probably find their pets okay compare to, say children, , the dependency is probably not so, strong


you know children is actually your dependent, whether you believe it or not, right, so and, by and large you have to take care of them financially, and not only that even emotionally, you have to take care of them financially emotionally so


I guess because of this so it's not, just looking at the fertility rate itself alone, there are probably a many many factors as well, cool, okay, so you want to, pick the next card for me


interesting, actually, I, don't really use much Singlish, myself, but if I use Singlish, it is probably more of a filler, so as what


people will use for fillers, so for example maybe I tend to say more lah, and the reason probably I say the word lah, is probably to end the sentence or to break the sentence, so that after I finish one sentence I will just say lah


and then pause, and then it goes to the next sentence I'll just continue talking, and when it becomes and when the filler become a habit, I guess it becomes part of our spoken English here


and of course I think the word lah, has, many, intontation, so depending on your tone it can mean something, silly, it can means something funny, or it can be just


a simple filler by itself, so, interesting when, I read the card it says that you think I thought who confirm, they actually interpret it as a, sarcastic response okay


but I guess a, lah is pretty interesting because I, don't think there's any other, race or culture in the whole world that will use this lah, as a fellow, or as part of their language


so I guess this is probably something of my favourite, and I probably used to say lah when I was younger, but now I think I don't think say it so much and I think the younger generation will have their own


jargons or lexicons you know, in fact uh if you ask me nowadays uh young people that I came across, most of them don't speak so much, Singlish anymore, there are a lot of Singlish that we used to we are familiar with like Kiasu and


Kiasi and all these, I'm quite surprised that some of the younger Singaporeans, they they are not very, well versed in it, and probably they will have their own jargon and their own


a version of Singlish, but ya probably to to reply to this question I think, I would say lah is the, my favourite Singlish, so what do you think


yes probably just to add on, I feel that , a lot of schools nowadays, from primary school secondary school, all the way to tertiary uh level, uh what I've noticed


oh along these all these years is that, they actually trying very hard to correct Singlish, into proper English, over these, probably in the last five to ten years, I have this


feeling, okay maybe it's my personal view that, actually Singlish is almost taken into a different form that, from what we see probably ten twenty years ago, at that the younger generation of uh


Singaporeans, they are, their their spoken English is definitely much much better than before, I guess you mentioned a quite a bit about the lah Li lor leh, you know last time we always say these four, probably it it's time to because we speak a lot of dialects


for the Chinese, and then Malays and then Indians they use their own uh mother tongue, or they have their native languages, so and over the years I think Singapore has evolved uh very cosmopolitan


and the use of English is much more pervasive than before, so the spoken, quality of Singapore English actually is very very, quality of English right, so I find that


nowadays people don't find Singlish, that , interesting or intriguing anymore, yeah they are probably interested in certain terminologies that, maybe the younger people are using, rather than, the actual, Singlish


itself yeah that's my view okay, so my turn to choose a card, okay same I'm gonna break the deck (ppb) and choose the card, oh no, sing so lucky we are on the subject of Singlish


and the title of this card says Bao-Ka-Liao, and then, what it says Singapore should become the next, hub, for, the the the the okay so you are supposed to provide on oh you supposed to continue this sentence Singapore is become


should become the next hub for, and uh just now I said Bao-Ka-Liao, and is the title of the card basically what it means, actually is Hokkien, I believe is Hokkien, it means to do everything yourself, ya


it's a sounds a bit negative that the people would say that oh ya, you know I have to do everything, or the boss have expect me to do everything from A to Z, so probably then the, the comment on the card and is asking you


is, Singapore should become the next hub for, over to you


okay I mean it's a very interesting topic, because uh, this Bao-Ka-Liao concept right actually, my, my my thoughts will be the expectation that uh you will actually have to do everything


and then cover everything from A to Z, so of course then it links to what is says here, a as a hub, so if you recall like the way Singapore has develop economically, actually what the government every time when they decide on doing something


they want to be the number one, that is a some sort of target expectation, so for example when Singapore wants to be a financial hub, okay then they bench mark with for example Hong Kong or London or New York, and then they


seek to displace them as the number one financial hub, then there was a time when Singapore wants to be a IT hub, or even the logistics hub, then what the the whole, government or the whole country will gear towards promoting that sector


and then eventually to be the number one in that sector, if I there's also another time when we want to be the transit hub, so people would fly into Singapore and then transit into our airport and that for the need the airport so beautiful


so easy and not for people to come and travel, so this this hub concept ah, it it becomes like uh, to me is almost like a bit like the Kiasu syndrome, there we used to have like, you know if you want to take this exam


you make sure better make sure that you'll be the top scholar, so I guess uh this is how Singapore economy in in a certain sense have grown, in fact uh some of this hubs uh that the government tried, didn't really succeed also, I probably can think of one example which is the intellectual property hub


the government actually wanted us to be a hub for intellectual property so they created a lot of intellectual property, costs professionals, there's even a Singapore International Mediation Center, so, I guess uh we are small


we have uh actually limited resources and limited capabilities and of course given now there's the internet, right, so there's actually a a lot of uh ways and means for international collaboration as what you said, so there's probably no need for us to be a hub


for everything that we want to do, but I guess certainly the what we need to do is, not necessarily to Bao-Ka-Liao but really to be very good at what we are doing, so I guess uh how Singapore have managed to excel is that I think whatever what


the country has set out to do actually we did very well, so for example we were we we we actually went into hard disk right, and then eventually we are the top hard disk manufacturer for for awhile, and then we we actually uh outrank in terms of a lot of international rankings


you know we benchmark and then we can actually achieve the number one position, in fact recently we topped the number one position in internet connectivity, so so I guess uh ya, we don't have to be really the next hub but


really I think if we want to benchmark ourselves we just have to make sure that we actually achieve a, a top position or even the top two position I remember the government always say this, they always want to achieve a top two position, in whatever international ranking


they want to be in, so I guess that also comes with a lot of uh sacrifice, and a lot of efforts put in and, somehow I guess uh there is a trade off lah, in exchange for getting this kind of results I mean


we live in a we live a very different life than let's say someone, from a emerging country or a less developed country, we may not have what they have, and our emotional needs are also quite different, as as one can actually see


yeah, okay cool, you want to continue with the next card okay, you didn't choose the top card you choose a random card in the middle


okay another Singlish word ah or maybe not really Singlish lah I think this Hokkien also right, , I guess uh, Gana means olive right, yeah it's that, that little fruit and then uh Giam uh means salty


so basically I guess what it means is uh if if you describe this person as this means that this person is actually quite, stingy, ya, so I'm surprised that there's a word splurge on here, okay


actually for me , I didn't grow up in a well off family, so uh I came from a very humble family uh my father is actually a construction worker my mum is not working, so and I stay in a in a three room HDB flat for most of my life


so I don't really have things that I really splurge on, in fact I tend to value, money, quite a lot, I I would say that I'm more of a saver, than a spender


so for example if I want to buy something, it would be something that I would need to use, rather than the brand name, or what it, what in can make me and, attracted to or


attract attention for me I would not do that so for example, you know if I want to buy clothes, okay I would probably I won't look at the very expensive, or very outlandish kind of clothes or very bright colours or


you know very new special design the latest design, or even those shoes, like those ah track shoes very expensive kind of track shoes with air inside (ppb), so I would not I would probably stinge on all these things


uh and, if I can buy let's say a very expensive shirt, compare to let's say buying three equivalent, normal shirts, I would probably choose to buy three equivalent shirts, and you get to wear three new shirts than one new shirt for example


of course uh there is trade off I I would agree because buying a good quality shirt, obviously will make you feel good when you wear it, the quality will not like, it will not make yours skin sensitive, and probably it may actually look make a person look better


and make the person feel confident, so I I would agree that uh ya, so time to time I do buy something expensive to wear, although it's very seldom, so I would say that ya I would probably stinge on my clothes


but having said these that was probably when I was uh younger and I don't have much uh income, so actually when I started working, then I realise that ya actually is actually quite important to be presentable


and I actually will try to make sure that, I buy, shirts I buy pants, and instead of trying to maximise the lifespan of the shirt and pants, no if the


shirt is torn or if it's soiled you know, stained and cannot cannot be washed, I definitely will make it a point to throw them away and not to wear them anymore, then compare to if I were younger, ya probably I'll still continue to wear as long as (ppb)


as it can be wear (ppb) it's wearable, but uh, I guess uh over the years I realise that even in Singapore I think, nowadays the younger generation, I I notice that people are much more well dress, well groom in fact I would say


so I guess this is the trend, there's probably reason in it so ya, so this is probably my answer, you have some comments, please


yes actually what I would agree with you is uh actually it all boils down to values, so money is just like a tool, a tool for you to maybe achieve, a certain quality of life


so for example it depends on what you value, so for example if you value your health, definitely you will want to make sure that the food that you consume is must be of a certain quality, and that may means spending some money


then the other kind of value is maybe comfort, some people actually like comfort food, so because it fits the soul, so okay ya maybe you like to eat a certain kind of food that cost a bit more


they're the ones that you usually eat, but it really comforts you right, so that's why you would certainly actually want to spend, the extra buck on it, so I guess uh it it comes down to values what values people more


and there are people who value their image, more then, how they see themselves they actually want people to see them, as a certain image, so that that probably would explain there are people who like brand ambassadors of


they can only go for a certain kind of brands and a certain kind of clothes, then there are also certain people who don't really bother so much such as me, I don't really bother so much about how other people want, to look at my clothes, but of course


now I realised that I have too (ppb), so probably in in when you start working and, when you have to relate to people, and when you have to do presentations, you actually have to care about how other people look at


you, and that means the clothes that you wear, so this is something that I also learn through the hard way, but I guess my own fundamental value is, I'm still more of a saver than a spender, so no matter how much money I have in my pocket


I would still not, spend, my value is I would not spend it and even for comfort food ah, uh unless I have a very very strong craving, I would still not, eat eat it I'll probably save the money for


another month or another year before I actually spend it, just to share with you ah I know a lot of people likes to go for tour, I'm very surprised that people really, they they would actually


borrow money to go tour, borrow, from family friends or even credit cards, just to go to for tour, so they actually would want, to spend their salary next month, so for example this month they go for tour, they actually use their credit card and of course credit card you can just spread your


payment to next month or the second month later, so there are I there are people who are like that but, I'm I'm not that kind of person, and, the my first actually my first holiday is actually almost five years I started work, so a lot of my friends couldn't take it


you know the the moment the first year they started working they all want to go for tour or even second year or third year so for me is like five years and, actually I didn't even really want to go but okay maybe I should I feel that, maybe I should go for a break, and even throughout my whole working life ah


they are actually years like, I can spend like three five years, I don't even need to go overseas, unless I'm forced to you know like for working trips and such, so, this is something that even my my family also


cannot believe cannot accept, because somehow the perception that people like you know, to go for a relaxing trip to recharge them self, but for me, a tour is a splurge, which I feel that I don't really need it


and yeah but, so maybe in this case, I can be a Giam Gana you know, , in with this kind of values, yeah


cool cool okay let's move on to, another card which I have uh picked, uh it say cher, [orh] C H E R cher actually is a short form for teacher yes, I think this is the current one of the buzz word using by the younger generation


which I think in my generation we didn't say cher we just say teacher, so !wow! this is, talking about the teacher who made the biggest difference in your life is


yes actually I do, in fact I look back at a all the education I received, the only teacher that was really really close uh to me, was actually the primary school teachers, because uh


primary school there was six years of primary school and, the teachers are basically stick to, wait I, I think, at that point in time I remember the same form teacher was actually from primary one to primary six, and currently uh what I see the current system is about


two years, so they, every student will tend to have a form teacher for two years, and I remember, until secondary school and then all the way to JC and university, somehow the relationship with the teacher is not so strong anymore


so the teachers that uh are actually, still keep in touch, is actually my primary school teacher and, the she actually really helped me, in the way I study and, she actually remembered me my primary school form teacher even to now


and she's pretty old already, and she's a grandmother already, so time to time we still keep in touch, in fact I had two primary school teachers that I still keep in touch, and I guess


they were quite instrumental in helping me uh to get good result for my primary school, and, that's probably the, the best result I ever had because I feel that probably since after primary school eh , it mean my result


is not so good, and I had to depend on myself to study hard to get the great, rest in primary school I guess, the bonding the relationship the teacher is so much closer, and I think the


very interestingly I think the if you notice the trend nowadays last time when people refer teachers lah, is almost like a parent, the kind of respect, shown, and whereas if you look at the current trend ah, teachers are just like a employee


and some parents are don't even respect teachers, and teachers nowadays are quite afraid to discipline children anymore, compare to last time, so the roles seems to have changed quite a fair bit


in fact if you think about it in terms of Chinese Chinese culture ah, teacher is almost like a parent, the second parent of the child, so even the parent have to tell the child to you know, listen to the teacher obey the teacher as


actually the equivalent of the parent educating the child itself, so when I word when I saw this word cher ah, I find it very funny because it doesn't show the respect you know, when you call your teacher something else than a teacher


I find it very, strange but, even when I look at my my son he said the same thing and I look at all the all of the classmates, and all the young people they all the same thing so it it, it convey a very different kind of message that you know they don't really respect


teachers and, the teaching profession don't command that kind of respect that you know they should, they should get, and even more so that they are the teachers are also quite afraid of children, of a you know students nowadays, yeah


in fact just to share with you my own experience ah, I I also came across uh this article recently about uh this person, who, describe his teacher like he thought that , the teacher hated him


because the teacher really scolded him, very badly, then many years later he realized that, actually, it's because of that scolding, he actually improve and he succeed, so I thought actually that was a very interesting article because I remembered that when I was in secondary four


my first term result was quite bad, and then the I was call to, the principal office and the principal scolded me, because our school uh we have a reputation of good results, so I guess his my interpretation is like okay you better don't bring down the school standard


so I was scolded, quite badly, in fact I still remember until today, so to prove him wrong my, second term result was very good, and I scored almost near perfect scores, and then when I was in JC


same thing my first year result was also quite bad, and because my JC is also quite a good reputable school, so I was call again to go to the principal, and he scolded the whole bunch of us so I thought okay


actually it wasn't , for me is like I can take it lah, can take it but I guess , when the when I look back, so when the this uh this teacher or this principals uh they scolded uh


is actually they really bother lah, they bother about you, and then they want you to do well for whatever reasons okay, so imagine if the teacher don't bother about you they don't care about you okay fine, I don't scold you


and they let it be, your parents decided don't don't do this then, okay fine I mean, as a teacher is just a job, but uh, I mean how will it benefit the child they know and even later in life you know


so I guess is a, is a very, to me is like eh actually it helps me you know, ya but of course the methods and everything is subject to debate nowadays and, nowadays I think the shift in education is more towards love rather than punishment


so, even the a lot of companies nowadays right they don't use the carrot and spinach anymore, even in the army, so, people are going towards collaboration as you mention just now hey you work together we work together we can get things done


if you don't work together everybody suffer, so we what is your choice, so is the same thing, student and teachers work together, I guess this is how the society evolve, in fact there is another interesting article that I came across that this student ah


donated more than fifty percent of his label to his teacher, and ya, so so they are they are actually people who actually make an impact in your life, so whether they are mentor or their teacher so


I guess uh , ya and I I personally I don't like this word called cher I find it very funny but, anyway I can't go against the trend or the flow, so ya, that's it okay you want to pick another card for me


interesting


interesting, actually ah I never really, think about uh which Singaporean dead or alive, do I most admire, I mean probably everybody will think of, politicians or you know


some of the politicians that, actually for me is and I never really, think about because I'm someone who never read about biographies, I never read about people's life story, feel like I never like to read about people


ya (ppb) I rather focus on the, the achievements and, the things that we do, but probably I can also mention that I also have a mentor, which I, still keep in touch is also a Singaporean


actually I realise that what is, what is so good about, this this person and probably, many of Singaporeans that I, think they are in the in our Singaporean society is that


uh there's a lot key uh values and characteristics, a lot of Singaporeans actually have, I think uh probably I would say that like, a a lot of like our, founding fathers the four fathers not necessary the politicians


a lot of people a lot of Singaporean leaders uh business commercial or politics, actually they have a this thing called foresight, which uh I think a lot of uh leaders, in the whole world actually don't have


and because these people actually have the foresight ah, then they are able to align their goals ah, and objectives to this foresight, and they're able to realise and execute it, so for example this this mentor of mine right


I mean he is he is a disabled person, and again he come from a very humble family, so and he's not even a graduate, so but what is so, special about him is that


he can actually, predict ah how a company is going to perform, and based on that ha he actually knows, when, to buy the stock of this company and then when to sell, and


because of that given the kind of situation that he was in, he is a he comes from a very big family, so he has to he actually support his brothers and sisters, even the children for education and all these, and he can actually retire at the age of forty


which was a, very very interesting for me, because uh when I know him he was already like couple of years when I first know him it was like a couple of years before, the age of forty, so when he was a young he was working and then he was sun like me in the IT professional


so you he already has the foresight, that, you know certain things that he he thinks will happen and it will happen, and how he did it ah, very interestingly, thinks a lot, which I think a lot of Singaporeans are like that also but the difference is


you think very very deep, you think so deep that you actually leave no stone unturned, and because you're able to think like that, then you act on it, and because you act on it you take the risk and then you take the action and you do something about it


and therefore you get to enjoy the rewards or even the punishment, okay because as a investor he was he was also punished, in fact also punished many times, so I guess, you know I when I, when I first get to know him I I don't really


follow what he do but I was more interested in how he think, and how he arrived at the decision, so similarly when some of these bosses that I work with, in some of these companies then I realise that eh, actually ah to be a a director ah or to be a top management ah


is quite difficult job, not only you have to manage the people manage emotions politics and all these but actually, you need to have to have a certain talent lah ya since this car is a local talent right, and actually that talent is a is this thing called foresight


so it's very easy to say what will happen but, it's not easy to really think and think deeply what is gonna happen, and, how it's gonna impact you and what you should do to prepare and and so on and then, execution is of course another different subject matter but


I guess in the first place, if if I, is something that I really want to learn also it's like, I really learn how I want to learn how to think deeply and have that type of foresight, so for example like uh our politicians right, they have a vision


they actually have a vision that oh Singapore will be like this, the company will be like this, the department is gonna be like this or even myself is gonna be like this, because they have this foresight ha, they are able to uh you know align themselves their behaviour


the the actions to to do, what they want to do, so for example I met a lot of trainers, as I, in these couple of years right then I realise that these trainers ah eh, actually they didn't really just become trainers


of course some of them through opportunities through fate they become but, actually a lot of them ah actually they already have certain plans, when they were an employee for example, or they when they were actually working or when they actually started working


they already have some plans that okay, by some years later, eventually when I cannot continue what I'm doing, I should be doing something that I can be doing I'm enjoying and I I'm strong at, so they already know that okay


they have certain strengths they have certain, key, carry attributes and carry so, and therefore they aline and train them selves to be a trainer, so eventually when they become retrenched, or they become lay off ah, actually they are already well prepared


and then automatically it becomes a second career and some of them actually excel in it, so in this case it's actually about foresight isn't it, so I realize that this something that I'm , I'm still lacking even at my age ah, (ppb), already going to fifty already but I feel that


I'm not, really good at it and I actually, realized that a lot of Singaporeans are actually very good at it, and because they are good at it in some ways they are successful, and they take care of them selves, and they are able to take care of their families, so this is something that I'm actually always working and striving ahead


so for example like this mentor I have, actually, very interesting you know during the Asian financial crisis right, I actually lost my entire capital I also lost my entire year's uh salary, the next year when the market recover I make back everything I make back even more


not because I follow this person but because I actually, apply and understand what he's doing, then I realized that actually an he is just so good that, I cannot believe I don't believe that he's that lucky


and also I met I interact with many bosses also I don't believe they are that lucky also, some made it some don't make it they have their failures they have their successes but because they have this foresight they have this vision ah, they are able to work


work towards it, so I guess, Singaporeans are certainly a very rare breed lah, because probably because of our unique situation where, you know we don't have natural resources okay we really have to depend on ourselves, and from


for you know from third world to first world in fifty years I think is speak something for itself, so uh, the current leaders I think the business leaders and the political leaders, and even the the family heads for example I think, they have really done a lot


and I think this is a talent that even the whole the rest of the world they are trying to learn from us, the governments the business they are trying to learn from us, and I I guess in Asia, probably nobody can claim this credit, that uh Singaporeans is actually a rare breed


and Singaporeans are unique, so probably this is my answer for two points ya so, what's your take


sorry my turn for me to pick a card yes, !wah!, we seems to get a lot of these uh topic on school (ppb), so the topic the subject of the card says faster finish homework


then the question is, which was your best worst subject in school, !wow! so over to you yes, on homework faster finish homework ah


okay !wow! actually for me ah actually a lot depends on the teacher, so if you have a good teacher for that subject, chances are, you would like that subject, and then you probably do well in the subject


so I remember in primary school I had very good, Chinese, subject teacher, and because of that my Chinese is actually my strongest subject in primary school, and I went on to take Chinese as first language, in secondary school


and , actually when you study language ah, usually the first thing people like to is to read story books, and then when you read storybooks you read the classics, you read poems, yeah, so for me it was a mix between English and Chinese because I'm bilingual


and actually if you ask me ah between these two, culture or language ah actually prefer Chinese, Chinese is very rich in, in culture, just a few Chinese words ah, ya you can actually, say many things


in a few English sentences (ppb) for example, and not only that you say it so beautifully, so I I guess uh if I were to compare, and and I guess , and I realise that for my son right as he's taking his uh primary school now


he use to dislike Chinese also, right, then I read then because of some very good Chinese teachers are, he came across ah, actually his Chinese is very good now, I'm very surprise


and, of course uh Mathematics and Science uh actually is, is actually my strength also lah I I'm quite lucky lah in a sense that , I am quite balanced uh, but I realise something leh


uh you may be good at Maths and Science hor, but doesn't mean that you would succeed leh, in your career leh, so I I realize that actually this a this group of study call humanities are, humanities include literature


it also includes those moral education and all these ah or political sciences and all these, (ppb) I realise actually humanities is actually quite important leh because, uh, it it relates to this thing call EQ lah


so if you're strong in language ah, chances are your EQ tends to be stronger leh, and if you EQ tend to be stronger ah, uh you might be able to relate communicate with people better lah, so then then it opens up to a lot of jobs that the person can do you know so for example he can be a


presenter, he can be a news anchor, or DJ, a lot of these ah Scientist Mathematicians all cannot do one, and of course these people don't need English lah they just they just know that they can do their complex calculations or papers lah


but then again when you publish papers ah, you need to write good English lah, or at least you need to write in, in words and sentences by people can, understand lah, ya and you need to write fast ah, so that's why I think this a faster finish homework ah


actually this thing is uh, is also part of our culture nowadays where, I used to remember I've so much homework everyday you know, it's quite overwhelming leh the amount of homework ah, that, we have to do


and then like my my son ah, actually we, we don't give him so much homework, and but I realise that his uh, his uh peers ah, at, another school ha, very famous school which is very near to my house ah


which he didn't which my son didn't go ah, the children cry you know, because they are overwhelmed by homework, and then I look at my son ah, still quite okay without much homework, so I realise that actually this this this homework ah


actually is , it depends on the school and the teacher, so at at his current year he's not, overwhelmed by his homework, he can still do his homework, and very recently something happened, this one I must tell you


uh you know you know there's this thing call gifted education, so, P three they have to go for exam, so he actually cleared the first round, so he's going for his second round next week, so so we we we were all surprised because


he didn't study for it, and then uh and I think some of his classmates are much more smarter but they couldn't make it, so it's like !huh! what what how can it be, , so then and I was trying to explain with some of the parents that


actually it's not, just about uh, studying for the exam I think it's also about stress lah, so if you are so stressed ah, then maybe you cannot perform well leh, and especially at such a young age ah, they they are still thinking leh they are not that


they are not like adult ah so the stress actually can be quite different, so imagine if you are going for a game or a sport or something, if you don't give yourself so much stress like !wah! you must hit the top ten or, you must win by a certain margin


you just go out and play your game, and then do your work, then maybe you actually you can perform better, so this thing about faster finish homework ah, it also depends on uh the, the emotion lah, ya some people want to


finish homework, and then they go and go and play, like my son like that lah, the faster he finish homework then he can go and play, so there's a motivation ah, and then of course make sure that no mistake, because got mistake you wanna come back and, do correction, because I I will punish him that oh every mistake he got to write twenty times


so after that he knows that !wah! better don't make mistake lah, gonna write twenty times then the next mistake gonna write forty times, so after awhile he he becomes clever already, so at this, in this way uh I'm trying to, I'm trying to help him lah, in fact I I think that


so far I have been quite fortunate that, he can achieve uh very good results uh despite, despite this uh despite me and my wife you know we we don't really, we don't really uh get him to study so hard in fact I don't send him for tuition until this year


whereas I know they've a lot of children, P One primary one they already started tuition, already you know so for for us is like, we had to do it because uh, he actually requested for it some more, and I thought that it might benefit him also


because uh, he may he may not feel it now but certainly when, going to the upper primary ah, I think the the curriculum I was told, is, is a big jump lah, you see the difficulty that we have in our local education is that when you move from one level to the next ah


the jump is very significant, in fact, it's so significant that if you can score, ninety marks, in, this level, next year when you move to the next level you have to give yourself thirty percent discount, so from ninety ah


you're going to get sixty, so if you're getting eighty, seventy ah, and then next year, brace yourself that it was you may even fail the subject, and statistically proven you know, so that's why all the parents are so stressed that oh


must get, full marks, perfect score or eighty ninety marks, and in order to do that ha means that, you cannot afford mistake right, !wah!, so can you imagine the kind of stress that uh, the children feel and some more you have, you got to do it quickly within a certain time


so I guess , it's it's a lot of stress, although they never announce ah but actually a lot of mental cases relating to children, a lot of suicide also happen, but I guess even at work I guess


this is also what we face, so it's a matter of whether the children, they get it earlier or not, so this notion of uh faster finish homework ah, actually I don't really agree lah, nowadays I tell my son that


I I don't want to see mistake, okay I, of course you must finish but I don't want to see mistake and I think so far this strategy has really help lah, so I guess, uh I want to apply to my work in my life, but sometimes uh


you know we have time pressure, as adult, I think we have much more time pressure, and eventually when my son goes to a higher primary or, even secondary school right, I think the time pressure is going to be very very significant, because they have a certain time to finish their studies and exams


compare to a lower prime, so this is my take on it, oh sure sure please


so, and, one of the things that , I mean just to share is uh next week my son is going for his GEP so I I did consult, you know eh what I'm what I'm how to study you know, and what to do so apparent there's nothing I can do


so okay so I just tell my son that okay then you better, study lah what you want to study, so and , and read whatever he can, so that uh in fact, if you nowadays they do MCQ multiple choice question


so, and if you go YouTube ah there's actually a lot of interesting strategies to do MCQ, so one of the strategy is to eliminate the wrong answer, so you have four, choices, so chances of getting it correct is twenty five percent


then so if you can eliminate one then it becomes thirty three percent eliminate two then becomes fifty fifty, so I'm trying to teach my son this strategy and apparently this strategy really really work very well , so most of the time I find that he can actually get the right answer


quite intelligent intelligently, in fact uh I tried to use this strategy to myself and in fact nowadays our education system is quite, quite intelligent also because uh education system also adapt, so last week I also went for exam my CISSP exam


certified information security professional, !wah! this is the, premier exam for all cyber security professional, is so premier that uh very few people pass, the whole world only hundred thousand


ya one hundred thousand, and, the exam is so special you know, normally when you fail you can actually retake again mah, and you pay money and it's very expensive it's one thousand over dollars for one exam, then, so, it's expensive right so if they want to make money right uh make you fail and then you take again lah


but this exam is so special that if you fail, the second you want to take has to be thirty days later, so they give you a time, and if you fail the second time guess what, the third time you want to take, it will be ninety days later


and then subsequently, so on so can you imagine how many times can you take this exam in one year, it's probably a handful, and, if they really want to make money, they actually don't have to do this


they should actually encourage people to keep taking, and the the exam questions are so difficult because basically you spend so much time effort to study ah, and nothing comes out and even if comes out ah, the the the questions are so


well written that it doesn't look like past questions, so the only way to really do well is to really understand the question, and, select the right, MCQ choice, and then the to to to make it even more


challenging ah it's called a computer adaptive test, okay nowadays all exam is computerised, that means you see in front of computer you read and then you use the mouse click and then you select your answer, okay what happens is that, this exam computer adaptive testing every question has a weightage


so that that means the difficulty level, so if it's easy question that means you get it right, maybe the weightage is low, if it's difficult you get it right the weightage is high actually it means that it has a higher mark


it doesn't mean that it's one mark or two marks maybe it's one mark times five, if it's very difficult, and then passing mark or they set it like seven usually they set it for seven five percent or eighty percent, so if you and every question you have to answer to go to the next question


so for example there's hundred and fifty questions, no need to answer all, in fact you don't even need to answer half seventy five questions, because remember it's weightage right, so if you answer all the difficult questions, maybe fifty of them, correctly ah


they will stop the test, and then tell you that you passed, you don't need to finish all the hundred and fifty questions, so, and so the strategy is, if you can finish faster ah


means that either you passed, or you failed already because, that means you you are too far away from the path from the passing mark that they stop the test, interesting right, so what happened to me was when I took the test last week ah, I was almost at hundred and


forty five, at I stopped, that means ah I fail already, so my conclusion is it must be a borderline case, because if, if I can go so far ha that means I can still pass you know if I can get get the right answer


so when I when I explain this to my instructor ah my trainer lah, after the exam ah, so he was telling me he the first question he asked is did you rush through the exam, so I said ya I think I I rushed leh


because how, because I thought a hundred and fifty question right, three hours mah, so within one and a half hours I should have finished about seventy five questions, logically right, so, and he told me that actually I shouldn't think this way


in fact, what I should do is, I don't have to think that I must finish all the question, I just have to make sure that I answer all the questions, as correctly as possible, and then maybe by the time I reach question number seventy eighty


I would have clear it, and and then uh and, by clearing it actually, because I was so stressed and when you're stressed ah, you cannot choose the right answer and because the questions are so, is spell so well written that there's no clear cut answer


so either you know or you don't know, and if you don't know you have to guess, so we have to use the elimination method, eliminating all the four answers until maybe down to the last two, and if you rush ah and you feel stressed ah


you misinterpret a word you miss out one word, you make it a mistake, so unfortunately I think that's what happen to me, so anyway that's what I tell my son, so lucky for him he doesn't have the time pressure because I think he has a lot of time


usually he has a lot of time I don't know why he tell me he has a lot of time to check, and double check whatever, so I guess , the the the key trick here is that uh of course you must study, secondly you must know your work and then when you go to the exam


and do you know that nowadays uh, a strategy even for primary school student ah, the strategy is not to to go through the entire question, the strategy is, go straight to the question what are they ask


once you understand the question then you read the entire question, which I'm very surprised this is what the teacher also tell the student, really so the first thing you do is you must actually I think that applies in real life when you meet a customer


you don't even need know everything about the customer, you just need to know what does the customer want, and based on that, you work backwards, and then you understand what he wants and you deliver to him


so this is something that I think ya actually, is very true you know, so for example if you meet a customer the first time, K you must be very clear that what is it, that the customer wants, for example the just customer just want a report based on all these


points so, you just have to make sure that you deliver that to the customer, you don't even need to know about the customer's history the customer's background, , or, whatever other things that is associated maybe that will come later


but I realise that the first thing is you must know what the customer wants, so because of that and I guess that, this is something that I think , we should all be prepared for lah because as our society evolved right now people actually want faster


it says here faster finish homework, and the way our society evolves even like you talked about software development, they are moving towards a gel, a gel means what you know, it doesn't mean fast no, is not it doesn't just mean fast it means what the customer wants


so you develop a app or software right, you must know what the customer want they want good user experience they want speed, they want graphics, so because, then you do your programming you do your develop based on what they want, you don't have to know who is their demographics who is their background who is their history


that one can come later, so in order to know what they want right, then you must ask the right questions you don't even have to ask ten twenty questions, because, frankly there's no time, you need to, get the app out as quickly as possible you just have to ask one or two question is it price


is it discolour, or is this the speed, so once you know this, straight away you do the app, so I realize that even people like Steve-Jobs right actually they have the vision already that, people can't be bothered to press, ten twenty digits


on the mobile devices, so Steve Jobs straight away say no, no button on the iPhone, actually that is vision you know , he doesn't even want a single button on the mobile phone, but unfortunately


a lot of people insist that they must have a button, so that's why until the end, they actually have a button, and and but and that button actually is useless also, because if you think about it now all the latest phones right, all the buttons are on the screen


so technically speaking you probably don't even need a button, at all, ya even the as you are charging your mobile phone right you can actually charge it wireless, you can even turn it on and off at the at motion


like your watch, so can you imagine, actually you don't even need, a physical button, and for someone like Steve Jobs ah he already have this vision, ten twenty years ago, and then he actually realise it in the form of a product which is the iPhone


and or even, some people call it iPad as well, so this this are really I feel that this are the really key, because he understood what people wants, and he realize it and that's why this kind of product ah, can be so popular, instead of just the


conventional phone or mobile phone as we know it, so I guess this is a to me this is the key talent that , we need to prepare ourselves, and this is something that I been trying to tell my son to do


so in fact one of the things that I've been teaching him is to have this design concept, anything anything, uh it doesn't have to be a computer it doesn't have to be, a physical device, but I guess you need to have a design thinking


uh not not, specific a kind of concept but to have that kind of design mindset, because once you have that kind of design mindset you actually have a vision you even have a foresight that, what is it, that this product should have, and then


the second thing is go and make it, so the design and the maker right actually this two combine ah, so actually, in whatever future skills that actually needed then of course then you go and study, and get the know how of it


but I guess if you can do this kind of thing then, I guess, it's pretty much the future is secured, and this is the way I guess our future is probably gonna be like


okay new seat do you have, a black a greenbush that is on your left hand side, yes I am


I have a do you have, two, uh sitting, ducks, uh or, birds that is on the greenbush


okay so that is the difference okay I have two you have one


let's move to, the goat, did you have tool, uh on the uh a, what you called shed uh inside a box or in


do you have two goats that's, on your right left hand side two goats that are looking uh inside a shed, a box


alright that means this is correct I do have that also, now do you see a signage uh that is, right right next to the wooden uh frame uh it is called, meet Su and pet


do you have a signage that says meet Su and pet


okay that mean that is also another difference cause I have one, so that's difference number two, the original signage is to is located at


just outside the wooden fence where the two white goats are, located, it's on the right


uh side of the wooden frame


do you have okay I had see three two goats two sheep, and the baby sheep, that is looking into the wooden fence, do you have two, sheeps and a baby like sheep


that are facing the wooden frame uh fence


alright the I have a father sheep, and a mother sheep, and, a baby sheep, in total I have three, a family of three sheeps, do you have three


so therefore they are missing one sheep


one of the parent sheep is missing, now let's move, to, the, left hand side do you see two uh grass uh


shack you know the one that the yellow in colour where uh they for the sheep to graze the, the grass the dry grass


yes I am


do you see a little, ant or bee that's locate uh, that's on one of the yellow, uh hay


okay, okay so that's uh the hays has no uh uh in uh in order, now next let's move to the shop, do you see a shop, uh that is just


in front of the pair of haze


okay I have that too, what about, another signage with the, red which is red in colour, and it is look it looks like and with the word designer, designer


is red in colour, what does the, my the word here is designer, do you have a word, that says designer handbags, that is


uh on the wall of uh the shop


and what does the black word says mine you has the word that says, designer handbags do you have the word, designer handbags


for sale, okay done that's a missing because I do not have the word, for sale on the red, board, I only have designer, handbags, okay so that's one, now let's move into the room


uh before you can see they, it is in front of the uh, into the shop, there's a door, and the door has a red signage, and the red signage uh has a sign, do you have a red signage


that is stuck, to the shop uh the door


okay, awesome I have the same, signage as well, how about when we enter the shop, is do you have any, signs, on the uh shop


I see a red car a carpet, that, when you come in to the shop there is a piece of, coloured, uh carpet, is your coloured carpet red, colour


brown colour, so it


okay, I have the same, as, yours, let's look at the window of the shop, is the handle of the window, blue in colour or brown in colour dark brown in colour


the window of your, shop


okay what colour would yours be mine is dark brown, then mine we have the same, the , right outside the shops where near


the, photo uh sorry, the window, frame is there are some, red pink flowers, do you have any pink flowers, that are growing just outside the shop


how many flowers do you have I have, four, full flowers, and half, a flower, on the picture


moving front some uh nearer front I see a, rabbit cage that says by me, do you have a rabbit cage, that says buy me


so okay that means that this is also another difference, now I see, a boy, with yellow hair, and two eyes holding, two ice cream uh


I would say is two ice cream or two scope of ice cream on a ice cream cone, he wears a blue shorts, and a green pair of shoe, do you have, a young boy with yellow hair


brown shoe, two scope of ice cream oh not ice cream cone, wearing a blue, uh pants and a pair of green shoes


okay so you have the same picture, heart do you have a, bumblebee that is, flying towards the young uh to the boy, a yellow bee bumblebee


I don't have that mine is flying towards the ice cream so that's another difference, okay , now let's move, towards the front uh nearer to the right hand side


I see a blue shirt, booth, that says fresh fruits, and vegetable and vege, and inside the booth there is, a red straw uh


pub of strawberries, and a plate of carrots, do you have, a blue, , booth a blue uh vegetable booth with these word fresh fruit and veg


okay so we both have the same, pictures uh on the for the booth, okay now let's most likely, towards the front I see two gunny sack, uh one is filled with potatoes


and the other brawny sack is lying on the floor, there is a piece of red label which says, potato


can you see the words cause is very small I don't seem to be able to, have a look see the words that is written on the red label


so you do not have a sack that is lying on the grass patch there's a one because I have two one is filled with potatoes one empty sack that is, an empty sack that is facing that is lying on the floor


so we can take, now right in front of


I see a mummy, mother who is, cutting, vegetables fruits, on a chopping board, she has brown, hair, uh she wears a blue


light blue long sleeve shirt, with a red over a red dress, and a brown pair of shoes, and next to her is an empty salad bowl, with a young boy, black brown


dark brown hair white, long sleeve shirt, and the pair of red, shoes do you have, a mother and son, on a with a, that is cook uh making sorry cutting vegetable fruits on a table


so their call we have another difference, I do not have any fruits, that is put on the, salad bowl, my salad bowl the salad bowl on the table is empty, so that one that's one of the difference


now let's move back, forward towards the uh upper, right hand side uh, bush is behind, the, mother who is doing uh who's chopping fruits


now I see a white sheet of cloth, that is placed on the floor, it looks like a garden a uh picnic mat, and in front of the mat there're two kids


one, little girl uh with black hair, a green long sleeve shirt blue uh pants, and another one who has a piece of cloth, covered all over her


or him, where uh I think she is uh she has covered her whole body with a piece of cloth, and it only left with, two holes to for her eyes to have to see


do you have a white sheet of a picnic sheet on the ground, with two ladies, uh uh two young sorry two kids one covered up whole whole body covered up cannot be


only left with two holes for eyes and another one which is, a young girl with her bag facing the white sheet


so we have a, from my, correct, uh kid, that is covered up uh playing ghost and the other one is, just walking, now, on your left right right hand side I also see an old man


wearing a red cap I think with a star on it, uh and he has got a beard, he has, he's wearing a dark blue shirt, and uh brown pants with a pair of brown shoes


he looks like he is going he is going to start to do some wood, wood craft, uh, and I see a pair a saw, uh which a red handle, uh on top


of a, uh working board, uh wood uh that he is, uh about to use to do his wood, craft, do you, see, a wood, uh turn, uh wood craft uh table with one


four pairs of, balance stable uh table uh balance, and one red saw, uh I mean a saw with a red handle


oh really uh I think there is a little bit slight difference, because, uh the old man uh, that I have, he has not started work yet he is about to start work so I see that, at uh this is another little difference that we both have


yes, moving forward, I see it pet uh pet a young girl


uh with uh black hair, a red pink and yellow stripe uh dress, and a pink slipper she's she looks like she's bouncing, uh a basketball,


and about to throw to onto the basketball, count , net, and beside her, there is a mother, she wears she has a brown hair


green blouse, a blue dark blue skirt, and a pair of shoe, do you have, a picture like that


I have I do not have the word should, as per instructed uh, that is similar from on your picture so I think that's a difference that we have, cause I don't have the word should


uh on the uh for the instruction, I do have a red and white , basketball uh net uh board with a red rectangle board, uh on at the, a basket a round a basketball net


okay now, I see let's move towards the, shack uh, behind the man old uh old man there is a white, uh


and brown uh shed with grey, uh roof, do you have, a grey roof and a white shed a brown uh door


okay, so you there's, (ppb), okay I think we have similar, uh a picture, now let's may I see a tractor, that is behind the basketball


, bought and the uh it's a young, man or a man in blue, uh long sleeve shirt uh sitting on a, you call it a tractor or mow uh lawnmower


and he seems to be shouting there is two big, grey wheels and a small wheel, do you have the same picture


so, let's see, so now we have in total, twelve differences, do you have three, do you have twelve


okay let's, go back one more round and start a, and let's check, okay, spot, difference number one, the green bush, with two birds


do you have okay so that is one, difference, the second difference is, a wooden signage, that says meet, Sue and Ted


difference number three you should have, a, I have three a family of sheeps which comprises of father mother and a baby sheep, but you've only but you have two so, that's difference number three


now difference, ya difference number four, is, at the shop, okay located at the shop, there's a signage that says designer, uh


but you have a word sale, so, uh that is also another, uh difference, ya for sale I which I don't have that word on my, uh board


yes, difference number five, is, the rabbit cage, I have the word buy me, but you don't have the word buy me, difference number six, is where


the young boy with, a ice cream, two ice cream scoop, and a bee, flying a bumble bee flying toward, ice cream, however in your picture it's, already on the ice cream


right ya, so we, difference number seven would be, uh we have, I have two, gunny sack, one filled with potatoes, and one empty


gunny sack, that, is, lying on the floor, so that's another uh difference, then the, difference number eight would be


the salad bowl on the table, is filled but it on yours, but it is empty for mine, so that's number eight, number ten


eh nine sorry, uh I have a white sheet of cloth, lying on the floor on the grass patch, which you do not have, uh difference number, uh tent


you have two, kids with a with a pair of cloth right, they uh ya they cover which they covered it like they are playing ghost whereas I have only one, uh yes so that's another difference


then uh eleven, difference number eleven is uh, I do not have the old man on my picture is has not start his wood uh work


while, right uh while yours uh has already start is actually doing some wood work, on your picture so that's eleven, and for last one which is difference number twelve, uh I do not have the word shoot


uh, on the floor uh whereas you have a word shoot, on the floor so in total we have all the twelve differences, that we have both spotted uh based on the pictures that we have


yes in total we have twelve, and we have spotted all the differences on, the picture, that, is requested so there isn't and I cannot find anymore difference, from the pictures that uh we have so


I confirm that we that's only twelve differences on the picture itself


you're right so I think it's a quite a easy way for us it was not too difficult for us to spot, now now how while let's go let's uh, start on with another game, and uh it's a


uh this time, uh, it's about, our opinions, that we have, so how does it go, well have you played this game before call, small talk


it's a pretty interesting game , it's about our, feedbacks and our opinions and perceptions of our country, so I will start first


now uh in this card itself the, there the numbers is in accordance to, how, difficult it is or you could say that at the end of the game


uh the person with the most uh points, would win the game, uh so that's how so if you have one means after you answer or you give your opinion this answer this opinion is worth one point, so some


like for example unbelievable, what event in the past make you stun like a vegetable so you have to so this is a bit tough, so we have to think, to give a unbelievable answer and uh there is no right there's no wrong it's just about opinion so if


uh after you finished this three points goes to you, so


uh it's actually uh designed by a Singaporean uh game uh developer, uh I recently met them at the uh Singapore national uh, design centre uh where they were introducing


his second game card game, to uh the public, so I was actually, , considering buying it but I, cause I was in a rush so I


just have a look at it and uh, told ask for the, website so that the next time when I want to I'm ready to buy the card, which I feel that if it's when the time is right for me to buy, and for me to use it for uh maybe our work


or at the game then I will pick up the cards cause there are so many things uh, that we can use now on online we can use free, uh tools uh this is a interesting, I I believe it will make, uh if I give this to a foreigner


uh it will not make a lot of sense because, the foreigner friends of ours will not be able to relate, to the works or the the terms, the Singlish that we use in our country


okay, so, let's start uh with this, uh I'll start with the first one and I'm going to ask you, so you ask me so we how we go about is, I will ask you one question and you will answer ask me one


uh you just pick up the card so, uh the very first card this question is, heartlands I believe all of us live most of us will live in heartlands, where the question is where should visitors go, in Singapore


to get a real sense of the country, the where, where should visitors go


yes, I think the I agree that for us , the best way to have a uh to, to understand how uh Singapore a local Singaporean lives, is to come down to the hard lane


where you get to see, uh different different uh cultures living together, the four national uh, uh be uh the four main groups of people living to Singapore, uh and how diverseness integrate into the living of Singapura


you like, and I think this is the best a very good suggestion to bring them back eh to invite them to the heartlands


it doesn't make any difference


okay this is a very interesting question because uh I personally feel that, it is also very subjective to a person, , how a person's uh uh opinion and his way of living, uh not everyone some people


uh would rather have a pet as a family, uh because they believe that a pet, uh will though, , you know they uh it's much easier to take care, is much easier to


uh and uh if you have like cats and dogs they happen to be very loyal so, uh people likes to keep dogs and cats uh as pets, uh for their loyalties and uh, they can uh, I think one of the way thing is like when you scold the cat and the dog they cannot bark back they cannot sort of say uh


scold you back or you know say things uh rebut uh you back, ah the most you can hear is the perk and the bark of the dog or the animals, whereas if you have a kid, the kid can uh ~buke you back and uh just talk back to you


uh people some people feel that having kids will also have a now a lot of uh, stress because they have to uh take care, and I always hear my friends telling me having a kid is a lifelong responsibility, from the day the child is born


uh the worry starts till the day the boy, you know even after they get married is still a worry so, like why you said total fertility rate, uh is very subjective uh to me this is a very subjective issue because


it is also depends on, uh the personal preference of the individual, whether they want to have children or they want to have uh pets, uh for me uh because I'm not married so uh if I had


married then of course I would uh definitely want to have a kid, uh but I also have no uh qualms about pets uh I won't want , because uh for me I believe that uh a a pet is also a lifelong responsibility, you have to uh bring go back on time feed the dog feed the cat


fishes instead cause even if you don't feed the fish for two days you are going away, uh you don't feel so stressful because like oh my animal has not uh pet has not food


has not been fed because it's a fish, so we can actually more uh uh, you know they they can uh like say a week if you are not around uh you can just they can still survive, whereas uh if you have a pet like a dog or cat you need to bring it to a pet


a hotel to uh to get people to take care of your, your pet while you are away which is just quite , how do I say is actually to me is a a bigger responsibility, because you cannot bring a animal for holiday uh (ppb) but you can bring a kid for holiday


so that's


oh K I'm not going to shuffle I'm just going to pick whatever is in front of me, uh the question for you is you think, I thought who confirm, okay you think I thought who confirm, think of your single favourite Singlish word


or phrase explain guess or make-up its origin, there the word I, they confirm who confirm is a sarcastic response when someone say I think


so your question is think of your favourite Singlish word, or phrase explain or guess or make-up its origin