what time did we start this, oh okay oh no it's gonna end, I need to ask you, a very important question, I need to ask you a very important, how do you know that you truly love your partner


wait no but the last one was me answering you what, oh cannot no you must we must must take turns, very important that you play by the rules


no, no then after that after that you ask me, stop it I didn't tell you, don't tell you


fine then we don't talk, want to play this game, sure I got nothing to lose (ppb), ya precisely, you ask me another question


ask me another question, ask me another question, oh my brother, actually no I don't think so I think it's my father


I think it's like my father taught me a new understanding of love, like, like my father, like he just like do things for you, no do things like are you are you even listening


okay like he will go out of the way to do, and I think like that's one, part that I recognise as love


okay, interesting how you want to talk first, okay, can, alright, okay


no that's the whole point of the, that's the whole point of this, right


okay, okay, two rackets


ya I have two I have one box of rackets, I rarely have two, this


okay, I have uh, three, necklaces of thoughts hanging on me, ya correct, ya, okay, and then uh


there's a shark with uh, a lady a lady fishing for shark, half what, it is half, thought half what, it's in the middle still what, you fold your paper into half you see


okay, it doesn't look friendly ah


okay, I guess, yes in the black pot


and the red pets they came, okay, uh ya already cover that, two rackets, no I have no tennis balls


then, yes, and let's see, wait what about the the tents right it's incurred each by one string to the ground except for the


correct correct, ya three pax, ya, okay


smoothie I have a blender on the table, pictures, yeah only one


yeah four black squares, I have mine is just love shack one night only


yeah correct, and is black doors, Tax one, in gray wheels, just taxi


mine one right hand drive, one, two side mirrors, yeah that's a


just start from bottom up lah


with warms, all black, two person pushing


they red colour car, push, and the other guy on the right says hey Paul


no mine just says push, green shirt black pants white shirt, white long sleeve shirt, with a watch and, jeans and red shoes


yeah there's a top on the red on the blue seat


no seat belts, why would the dog need the seat belt, grey


there's no rims oh black, I wouldn't call that rims, ya I do


there's a guy, in a blue cap and a, green orange pants, slippers, yelling hey Paul waving his hands, just one hey Paul


ya I do, with a black colour ribbon at the bottom although I think that's a, I don't know


okay, oh then the beach we have one which is the beach, north beach, to the beach, white with black words, black arrow to the right


blue rubbish bin filled with trash


ya, one is lighter shade than the other, with a bird on top, oh ya that's one


to the right, there's two, no the sandcastle, I have two blue flags and two red flags, ya, and then


ya, red pail with yellow shovel


that's twelve, okay, that was only eight minutes do we have


two twenty, we need like fourteen more of this , okay lah later then play lah, let's talk


uh then, throughout the whole movie


Wu-Ling get a big giddy, but you write those for like five minutes max


oh okay okay, Venom is the new spiderman is it, uh yes lor


oh okay, see lah, how much were the tickets


do you pay student price, I went uh, Paradigm-Mall right, I went Paradigm-Mall with, violet ones right, yeah the ice skating then we went to watch a movie


then I the cause the when you book the ticket is a self, check in not self check in you buy it yourself right on the counter, correct so when I open the thing right I saw, got uh normal price, student price senior citizen price


then I go and compared the price of course lah pick the student price, then I thought I was thinking can lah just take in the end they check just show, ask her you got your NTU card she say ahve , they said we just show lah and then you say pretend we don't know, the worst case just refund then buy or top up the price for the new new ticket


ya maybe so we we bought and all I think only, nine ringgit or something lah damn cheap very very cheap, then we walked in right and the check in right, look no nobody one eh is a they just scan the ticket right


so actually any anybody could report, that's quite good


blue packs are that, interesting


is it smell


babe but you were supposed to, tickle your feet if tickle your feet then you supposed to take off your shoes right


maybe, the earliest possible time is December, cause I have intern what I can't go on a, I can't go on a weekday now and I don't really wanna go on a weekend


I think I will go next week, gotta choose the timing, no next week next month I mean, gotta choose appropriate timing, I don't wanna take like this month cause I just took one last month


if I take every month it's very obvious


should try eh it's quite fun I really quite enjoyed myself, this is per entry right but honestly one hour is enough, after that is just, a bit boring ah


fun right


so it's a bit of free fall ah, I think it's new it's still okay, don't know leh, I think if maybe five years from now or something you want to go back and do it again


because like that time when I did the rock climbing module in #Ngee-Ann#-Poly right, I found out that all these like auto, belaying systems right they all have uh, lifespan not by time but it's usually more by how many pulls


that kind of stuff because there was a, so it's the one in #Ngee-Ann#-Poly is not just a rock climbing wall got rock climbing wall you got, flying fox got high elements you got, I don't know what do you call that but you literally you just hook yourself and then you just jump down


so you get a bit of free fall then it will slow you down, so during the, the whole module was quite fun lah, in essence like they teach you how to tie rope how to belay people everything, but then I think the last lesson we pretty much finished everything already


so the, only thing to do was like just have fun [orh] so go and do whatever you want to do, so everyone did the flying fox !wah! that time you just jump and then you land right it was quite fun because you get like one second of free fall, before it starts slowing you down, and then because that one no instructor kind is you just hook on the carabiner can already you don't have to do anything


once you your harness is proper right you just hook the carabiner to your harness tighten then you just jump so there was, ya sports module so that day itself right I think I jump like five six times I think it was so so tired , just jump go back up jump


fun ah that one, but I always realised after I climb then the fingers very painful, for like the next day or two ya I think because I heavy


maybe the she jump a bit then the person belaying pull tighter


that's true, I think weird plays a large part, a lot of the, people I see who do rock climbing they all very, very tone very lean very skinny


this is true have have you seen those like speed climber kind, but I feel that one a bit a bit like play cheat leh, because the person belaying is like really pulling so fast right, that you are kind of like lifting the person's body weight


no because you start at the bottom right then you got something belay you right, serious


yeah


I I remember the time in in poly was doing the module right, there was once I was climbing, cause I quite the time still quite big size right actually I think about the same of now or slightly heavier, I don't know why the person belaying me was quite skinny right the smaller size than you not not raw skinny but


skinny enough lah then, uh it was a guy lah like skinny skinny like from the, uh something like that lah, so it was climbing climbing climbing, then I think I slip then I fall then he wasn't expecting


!wah! he !vroom! he he literally from what they told me lah they said that that he lifted up like, I think, maybe like, uh one quarter to half meter like that, before he fell down


but then because you know when you belaying there's always somebody behind the belayer to pull right, by right lah you supposed to have so the guy, was like uh he behind then he lift he he his hand lift up then he put in down again, quite interesting


I'm not sure eh, yeah I think so but this


this is true, by by right when you belay you you pull then you pull the the back string bag right so there should lock the, the thing so even if you drop by right, if you're heavy enough lah, you couldn't fly and then the the the string will still remain


interesting, later lah, haven't talk finish yet , okay I tell you what I did just now, so, just now I had something on at at I had this class at SMU


from twelve to three PM so I signed up for this course, because uh, so this course is uh it's called, data science, something ah data science computing or something like that, it's by this organisation called Singapore-data-science-Academy


sounds very, official right like government like, but actually Singapore-data-science-Academy is just a name they use it doesn't mean like, like backed by, founded by the government or something, so right


I signed up because for students, aged twenty five years and below right it's hundred percent subsidize, you guess how much is the course fees for six week, one lesson each week, three hours only, so eighteen hours of of curriculum lah


two thousand five hundred, so I saw the price I was like eh !wah! very steep aye but then I realise that it was uh fully subsidized hundred percent so okay lah just go lah, so I signed up, then when you sign up you have to pay, a hundred dollar deposit


then uh, so that secures your seat which is not refundable, then after you make the remaining payment of two thousand four hundred dollar, then at the end of the course right then you wait for I think six to eight weeks then


so when they after I sign up right they send like this email telling you the instructions what you need to do, and then they send this link, to tell you that this is a list of this is part of a list, of approved course courses


by MDA, so I went to click the course right, then uh went to see the lista, so you can see like all the different companies offering, and all the course they are all essentially the same thing eh it's all, this one I attended is a Python programming one


so they teach you a bit of basic Python programming and, data science like entry level lah foundation level, (ppb) soon, everything is all, like Python programming introduction to programming


uh introduction to data science easily I think thirty forty different courses you know, some held by the same company, others held by different so I went to click a few right they are all the same kind already go in right, very nice website the same kind of, kind of like a bit like Scandinavian modern kind of layout


in the technology in the in the, format lah of the website, and then each class, is about twenty five to thirty people, can you imagine one class they charge I go in I went to calculate right two thousand, five hundred dollars


multiply by uh twenty five people right, that's about, sixty over thousand, and then this period right of these six weeks right have, three lessons per week, Monday one class Saturday two class, so as a company you hold this right you earn hundred and eighty thousand


just from holding this type of stupid class eh


but I don't know leh I when I saw that whole list right, the immediate thing which came to me right was that, this is all just a way for all these companies to earn money and they are only successful because the government back it hundred percent, subsidise


the class right practically ninety five percent of the students are hundred percent subsidised one, undergrads NSF uh NSF waiting for uh university, yeah because like last time I have a friend right uh, he did


so Singapore has this like skills, future thing they give you five hundred dollars, five hundred dollars right, so but most of the time you don't use this five hundred dollars for most people, so what my friend did right is he went to create a course right, for people to attend, then after that you uh


you sign up, you pay the five hundred dollars for the course is a online course is certified one you do the online course already right, then uh he will give you ninety dollars or something, so it's kinda like a win win, a bit very shady right


so when I thought about this right, immediately came to mind that this is this is like that kind of scheme, makes a lot of sense eh it's a lot of money eh


yeah that's why it's I I I really think it's it's it's like like like that lor


initially yeah initially I was quite interested leh for this course, then after I went to read a bit I see, I'm not expecting much today I go there right the guy teaching is like, maybe like our age ah, like maybe our age, okay he talk also okay but


is really very quite slow very basic, honestly I think if I go YouTube and learn also I can learn, and then, what you mean materials


I'm not sure eh everything we do are online, so like you do the coding online the materials they provide lah everything you just have to bring your laptop, and then you do everything there


okay what but you don't need WiFi to do coding what


cause their WiFi all dedicated to call centres , no what it's not linked what


education I realize is, more of a money grab than anything, and then you know today when I went the class right, they say that oh lunch is provided !wah! not bad right you know what they provide for lunch not, no they provided uh, Four-Fingers Burger eh


everybody one Four Fingers Burger eh, yeah that's why two thousand five what at the end of the class right they have a like a short quiz lah, so like the show then you you, you cannot like those online polls you submit your answers, then the is very short lah the whole exercise finish in five minutes just to motivate you to like


encapsulate all your understanding of the, lesson of that day right and then they, of the top three winners right you get a prize, third prize ten dollar voucher second prize, twenty dollar voucher, third prize I guess, based on this trend I


eh sorry third prize ten , third prize, because if you want to promote uh, winning is not everything mah , I don't know but I think forty or fifty dollars, every week eh they gonna do this


for the next six weeks, everything is crap sia, Alven lor Alven uh, I think he was using Instagram or something it was some influencer who was advertising this you know


ya lor, some influencer then I saw like eh okay lah look quite legit quite interesting anyway don't need to pay then sign up lah, plus I figured !aiyo! next year graduating already, don't, ya partly that but also partly I realise that like


don't really have that, anything very exciting to put on my resume ah, mine ah, so like


okay first firstly right how long is your resume one page or two page, two page ah got so much things to write meh, you undergrad only eh, but as in important things eh, can you but I mean you undergrad you got two page then people with exact level leh


exact level must be what three page ah, I just did it eh I just did it, never


cause if I put it invites questions then I have to lie eh so I so I rather not not put it


in bullet points right


because Violet is do was doing up her resume also right then she ask me whether I put one page or two page, I said one page then she said she feels that it should be one page also but the people at tell her two page, but she don't feel that, it's really necessary not say necessary it feels a bit excessive to put it two pages eh


ya no I have got I can lengthen but, somethings like a bit uh unnecessary lah


partly that then you also you don't want to, I feel like you shouldn't list everything you should only list like relevant, relevant stuff, but true lah I mean like got not much to write like, I mean the school part you write I write like okay I write NTU, then uh


can bracket honours , uh what else ah, no leh the, I only three point, zero cannot, cause this sem is not graded, even next I don't know I never count but I I didn't bother


!aiya! doesn't matter lah, I asked my current company the employees right they say you class no class also no no difference everyone same pay, really only government, has that distinction and some company still have


but quite rare actually, so I put university internship, then after that is, polytechnic one, then polytechnic one got a bit more cause I can put, no sorry uni one I can put a bit of hall stuff


cause I did plan some stuff but that's just like one line, have I did, okay lah not really plan but like you said lah play up play up your achievements ah so I did that, then , poly one I can put like the toastmasters one I was vice president


so that's one line, then , so I included that so I included all my internships and education together, then


I can't remember, I can't remember what else I had, but those were like the main things [orh]


soccer team captain also wanna put ah, secondary school you still wanna put ah, I would I didn't even put anything about my secondary school I feel it's too far to, even for people to seriously consider eh


eh you really put everything eh do two months also put ah


one garden volunteer, uh garden volunteer, charity targeting the marginalized and disadvantaged in Singapore


!aiyo! I wouldn't put all this leh that's why, okay lah do I have, I got help at the, Salvation Army before but once only I think for one month


no, I help to, the thing is that it was a lot of it is not , it's not project based, it's just go and see whatever they have then you go and do, so like someday have packing stuff then there was one day I went to their childcare to paint


then how I don't want to put all this eh, I feel like it doesn't, pick anything eh


I intend to seriously write my, resume again come November, mid November lah hopefully, I guess so


I'm thinking of asking my, uh intern supervisor also, like as a based on what she seen in my resume, what do I need to improve on then based on what she had seen what what really stand out lah


I don't know eh, really not close with, anybody eh, yeah correct


I thought you put your professor, oh you didn't ah, I think, private don't really need to put reference right


I've never heard any of my friends mentioning about, referees eh, why why no appropriate


but how would they know on believable ah ask lah but, that's true


but you need to make pass fish, how many rounds before, can pull some strings


eh but he next year fifty years old already ah, I don't think you get to choose eh, I don't think you get to choose does he get to choose, not you he


I don't know eh


but I think pass, wait ah I won't lah I don't think he will go that long, once you pass sixty two you will, recontract right your pay cut by half leh, why am I talking so loud but it doesn't seem like it's loud ah


looks so soft leh


you realize what what trouble you're in now , too late already right eh no lah still got time


but this time there's no, not just that leh you can not, it's different leh I feel the mindset


you go to NS it's like you know whatever man, who cares if I screw up


it's not wrong, I think you can start subscribing for Straits Times look out for your name soon


so okay what that's quite a fit size what, you can have a belly and still be fit what, that time when I very fit also I got belly


what the shit, !wah! that's creepy eh


that's you go and put it for what that's a, Brunei is a muslim oh Taiwan , I thought Brunei Brunei muslim country you pray what


!wah! crap


even if I experience I don't know I don't want to talk about all these eh, I really find it's really pointless eh when you say like how, how like, what brings people together I think, I mean you are not wrong but there are better things to talk about to bring people together eh


like using that as a justification for, two years right is like, anyway, you know recently Brunei they got this, the guy died right, he was actually my


ha during BMT right he was in my company he's uh, not really the company sergeant major like I I don't know what what rank but one step below one, he was a staff sergeant at that time, so I never interacted with him much lah but


I think the one time I remember I interacted with him right was when, was when I was a, I think towards the ya towards the end of my BMT when I was selected for, platoon best right so four platoons each one got one


I was but it was more of a, fitness than anything lah, no not true anyway, so anyway uh, after you got selected right then uh that was ones one section where he


like this guy lah the guy who passed away, he said like each one of us, like together lah as a group of four, to tell us you know that that like just have a short talk like that lah so is telling us of you know you, moving forward you know uh, if you want to make a full use of your


and as experience or something then he was giving some tips and everything lah then he came to one point when he was giving, kind of like individual comment and uh advice to each of us so is very one, to I think I was the third, then he came to me right


he was saying, you ah, you need to watch out, at the time ah I a bit cause the time I did smoke you know , then I was like a bit a bit stunned ah I suck, like eh why why need to watch out like that, and then after that he said that like he he said oh


he said I observed you ah when you do things which is very true like, he said when he observed me doing things right, sometimes I like to take shortcut and I always look around observe whether got some people look at me before I do or not, and then at that point of time right it was quite a


I wouldn't say like a wake up call but it was quite, a very accurate description of a somebody said after, and the thing is I never ever talked to him before, so, at that time it felt very, yeah I wouldn't say is like a like a big realisation or something lah


but you know is not often that somebody say something about you telling you their faces, unexpected but very real that's the thing was very real and, everybody can say that, yeah he said like, you know you're probably go to command school maybe SCS or OCS when you go there you know you


you cannot you cannot pull it out of stunts anymore everything, yeah he said that, he said like you know you, sometimes not about finding like all these shortcuts something you just gonna do or something I I cannot remember the exact details but, it was along those lines lah


yeah, not bad lah he very, (hmm) okay lah I mean I never interacted with him much but based on that, I would say, yeah


correct like I think two hundreds plus of us, I guess that too late now


I wonder if, if I did actually, listen, do you think it will be had been different I don't think so lah


car brands and models, I don't know leh actually I have never seen never sat never seen


oh pretty much settle already I plan everything already yep, except the Taiwan Taipei part lah


yeah but apart from that everything I settle already, uh December then can book, one month in advance then can book, you really sure need to put locals contact


but it didn't say it didn't mention anything about that on the website eh, national some


it didn't mention eh


I I did when I booked the accommodation right, then uh, I was talking to the, I I think the worker lah it wasn't the boss so I was talking to the person


I was talking in Chinese lah I was telling them about this trail I want to book, she just referred me to the thing I asked her about uh having need need needing to put a local contact down, or something she said something about don't need leh


I'm not sure that's what she said, okay


yeah the trail lah, I I see how lah I will just come closer to the day I'll try to apply if really need then I'll contact the, accommodation, will ask again lor, if not worse come to worse I'll just go down on the day and then


ask them directly because anyway I am only eh, the day I will intend to go and hike is not a weekend, is a weekday I think is a Thursday or Friday so I guess should be okay, no think it is Tuesday or something


so should be okay lah


yeah I I plan out everything then there's one, there's a, there's a hot spring inside the, #Taroko#-Gorge right, I want to go for that one but is closed to public, is a kind of waterfall where


no as in, officially is closed but a lot of people still go, like skirt around the barricade and whatever, but that a lot of people said is is really dependent on the weather how the monsoon season is this year if you want to go in January


whether has it seriously because they closed it because it was seriously in one year, so until it became to a point where, it was not safe, yeah yeah I saw, but have to wear right


they said is at the entrance there's a guy sitting there right, oh then okay lah


join, join my BMP commander


think cannot eh I can't remember, that's true


how much do you bring ah that time, now is how much


based on how much I'm setting aside right (ppb), I'm setting aside two thousand five hundred leh, but of course I'm not gonna bring all but I just don't know how much I need to bring, no haven't I got to pay on site yeah, but is still too much lah, I calculated the accommodation right


the budget was uh, the budget lah the budget was, fifty, per person per night, but we didn't hit fifty at all lah


most of the places were like thirty, or forty a night uh I don't think I think only got one place we hit like one hundred for one night only, south of Taipei there's this, hot spring place


can't remember, let me check, why I'm having meaningful conversation


that's Malaysian guy ah


borderline fail or just pass, don't know whether, does it really translate to anything significant for him or not


!wah! no analytical, type of questions at all more like just observing, stating observing stating


cannot lah like that, I think you might have been better staying in Malaysia eh


ya, uh rough lah or Wulai is the place the place with this Wulai right, the there's hot spring water in the room


go there then, should be okay lah, it's only one night market there it's this one really


just go there to eat [loh] ya I don't know I don't but now there's only one that's probably that one lah, no the all these parks right quite interesting eh when I read


every so, uh most of the time right these parks are, kind of like refurbished last time it's not always like that last time it it used to be a industrial area, then after the industries move out or something right then they converted this park into a place for


people to host, like events, galleries screenings or just for people to like hang out over there I think not bad leh quite interesting, plus it's all free free entrance so just go lah


I was bored at work so just plan everything ah, not really


like really just track paperwork [orh], it's honestly really quite boring job lah, plus there's only not say so much you can do as an intern but, somethings very hard to, for them to, somethings very hard for them to teach me because


a lot of it is, you kind of need to acquire over many many years because the job itself right is not technical, but the documents you are revealing is technical which is very contradictory, okay so I so for example right


correct which is uh okay so this department I mean right, they are apart from my boss there is one contract staff then there is one don't know


four other guys who are, uh four four other people who are doing this job lah, and they are they all came from, also pharmaceutical background but they some used to be manufacturing some used to be in testing so they all, kind of have uh


like a more concrete kind of, understanding of uh the processes before they came into this department, so that really help because when you review the documents right okay so for example, there's this thing you you do is uh one of the main things ah is called


requalification so you need to qualify whether, okay wait okay like okay the most recent right is that they wanted to, upgrade these tube sealer, which is basically uh


ah something like that lah basically you, channel the liquid into this tube, then you will clamp the tube so you can transport this tube of, substance right from one place to another place you do this because, if you do if you do it like put in a beaker and carry right you be exposed to the environment by doing this you ensure that it is sterile and


septic it in the because if you do it in a control environment you bring there, you are not exposing it, everything is very, clean one ah in in pharmaceutical everything very clean, when you want to, bring in this equipment right it's not just apply to the vendor then you


get quotation then you bring in then you install you must go through a very very thorough process, first you must sign up, okay if you really want to go from the start right you must list out what is your requirements for this machine, then after that the the engineering people with the people using it they'll discuss about all these things then they finalise already right then they go source for


the equipment which they want to use, after they source for equipment you get the quotation everything whatever right okay so you confirm you want to buy this one, then you must do a, like a, (ppb) what is it called ah (ppb), okay like you want to do the the validation the qualification right first you need to do you need to do two steps


you need to do a installation qualification which is, when you take the item right you must ensure that it is in the condition that you expect, and then when you install right you must make sure you are installing it in the correct way so everything you must list down like the steps and everything


and it can be very simple things like, check that the serial number is this one then, so you must have a, what you want to, the the observation to observe what you actually observe then you must have a pass or fail, then somebody must sign off so it it applies to everything like


when you install the software when you run the software everything, so (ppb), that's like installation lah then performance would be, so you say that you want to like let's say you want to use this thing in this room this room is maybe, let's say it's a cold room so it's like less then zero degree Celsius so how can you make sure that


this, equipment will operate in zero degree Celsius every single time so you must, create a test not I create somebody else will create they will create this test, so that when you do finish this tests right you can say for so you must be a very logical, in some sense you need a bit of technical


ya you need it need it needs to be sequential you need to make sure that, it's coherent lah so, they will do this test everything they will draft out the the protocol then they will do the test then they will, after they finish everything then it comes to us, then we will analyse, everything lah make sure that the coherence is there


the things you suppose to fill up they fill up and can be very simple things like, you never, tick, the box which says approve then you must send back to them make sure they go and tick, that kind of thing, no there's no actual cost in


school, you learn on the job lor (ppb) but it's also, so this one is mainly, this process mainly derive from pharmaceutical industries because last time, they don't have such stringent checks then end up you release


they release medications which resulting in people dying lah, but the (ppb), so that was the, so that's the whole, reason (ppb) why we do all these check


so the the mainly when all these documents come then you just check, but sometimes it's very difficult to check because it's, uh like the steps right can be quite technical lah (ppb), and then you ask me to check then how how I check, so end up I just have to pass back to the person who is doing it


ya (ppb), I think it may can be quite interesting but, most of the time it's not lah


I feel like I but based on what I see right the people working they don't, you not everyday not every hour of the day you are there working one, like you see my department ah !wah!, they everyday can spend like one hour just talking to each other about everything else but nothing about work one


very relax one eh, but this department is, is not unique to this company every pharmaceutical company has it so, and it's there for because of the uh regulations and requirements


so the job will always be, you will not, be, redundant ah so to speak


not really safety is safety this one is different (ppb)


first come first serve ah


this cheap


nobody walk up to them, but so weird go for this type of autograph session when they are not the act they just like impersonating them what


oh okay okay , now you pay thirty dollars how they cover sia


wonder how they earn money thing set up, probably (ppb)


ready, backed by (ppb), MC, call


there's a kid lah, kid is what how how young, hit is not remembering things leh


memory is so bad


cheap holiday


honestly cannot remember much eh but, no I do important things I remember, biggest impression is not so important ah


I don't know leh like when I was young also all the holidays my family went to were all to, I really speak very loud I cannot speak louder already, yeah anyway I was saying


see that's quite soft what when I'm talking quite loud what, yeah so I was saying that I went to, like when I was young oh okay biggest impression right biggest impression when I


do my family trips in, Malaysia right is this blue colour fan in the car, no because, last time when we, custom, only, apart from the current car my family is driving right, last time my dad buy car he always buy all the second hand one


the people drive ten years them came by ah very very bad one lah, so, and those with cars he always used to drive to Malaysia so like on the highway right it's always very hot, no not engine overheat the air con always works, in the, at night he doesn't work in the day


in the day's like blowing hot air, and then, like this uh is this Moncars specifically right the window wind down already can not wind up, so and I and then you when you're driving on the highway like one hundred hundred and ten U you also don't really want to wind the window down


cause very noisy, and really can not uh so so we always wind, you always have to like just crack the window a little bit then there's this blue colour I don't have this thing before, and last time every almost every car have one, is this small little fan about this size then the blade is blue colour in the metal cage


quite classic car fan lah so we always had this, fan in the car right and, then was like the only, biggest impression because it was quite, torturing to, sit in the car


plus that's not the only thing I look at but then that's the one of the things I remember [loh], like every trip is just blue fan, turning


now it's quite hard to find, no lah it's it's just like a normal fan


like that he's a, vintage electric fan, you lousy lah you


have I told the not really taxi driver okay taxi driver but not in a taxi cause it's my uncle my uncle is a taxi driver, not really interesting, conversation more like hilarious conversation do you know he like to talk about the politic and all this of things right, so there was this one story he


headache uh drink uh Chinese-New-Year reunion, this uncle Ray very weird one lah some of the stories he he talk ah I don't know whether he he telling because he think is funny or he, what do you like strongly believe it or something


he was saying the , the time they uh while he was saying, #Lee Kuan Yew# uh, oh the wife had a hear attack right, so they were saying uh she had a heart attack in London I think


I remember her heart attack was, some somewhere else so like after that they took like emergency flight back on a SQ flight back, so then you see ah, actually that's not the the real the real story the real story right is that they went to, London correct for a


meeting international meeting or something, then after that they were saying that oh since we are already in London why not let's go to Switzerland to look at our private, like our bank account, who who goes to the bank to look at it's not like they have one vault for you, then got your all your cash stacked there it's not that kind of era anymore what


so anyway you were saying that, uh then they they took the fly over to Switzerland, then when open the bank vault lah, !woah! the wife say got so much money she got heart attack, !huh! that's why that's how they have a heart attack then she flew back


!woah! I tell you ah listen already ah, also don't know how to reply leh some more he say until like he, really believe it leh, old lah like older than my dad right, probably like sixty, plus already lah, no no no now sixty plus so


they really, but really leh when you are, I really think I really do believe right that because of the nature of the job you don't have, people to talk to right there's no mental simulation right anything your mind can grab onto


like simulate or stimulate your mind or make sense give you some excitement, you will really cling on to it and, you really make make make it, you really believe in it lah


so now, oh apart from the market Hui-Da got a road already lah


how old was this guy, creepy ah, never go sign up for your metoo movement


yeah I know you told me


but honestly what what did he study


then how come he can go overseas and study, he did meh, oh after O-levels he went


that's was what Vania's brother did as well


!huh! what you mean you don't want serve you don't want serve then you, shouldn't you go there study you won't you should, yalor


don't know leh


made of one piece of wood, in Singapore have meh


how much did that cost ah, yeah actually that's quite cheap eh, considering that, like you buy a decent table is already two K


three four is not too bad considering it's so big, I think nice leh if you have like that as the center piece in the house if you link like, if you got like open concept kitchen right you use, that together with uh like dining table I think very nice eh


staircase so long leh cannot right, no as in is it even possible to to bring it because, the table so long you cannot, is not like you can bend the thing, staircase this cannot be just go up like the


recently at work I was quite bored right so I go and read up on quite a lot of things lah, mainly like, adult thing kind of stuff, what is how to adult I read like, all the money smart dollar and cents all these other things lah


things got to do with like insurance house all these, then you know the website the Qanvast Q A N V A S T, yeah this website which they, if you want to renovate your house you go there you can look for design ideas based is a Singapore based website lah so


uh all the different houses their, the ID will go there upload their, projects and then you can you can see lah look for inspiration and contact them, and they, did this survey right, !wah! the average, uh amount right which uh


home for a BTO right, is fifty five K eh, yeah, average lor they didn't say what did they include just, average how much, a couple spends fifty five K but I'm assuming


this includes like built-in wardrobe bedside table bedframe, but probably not, definitely not things like mattress, what else ah, yeah


but actually a lot of the renovation right I realise that, people do these days right is not because of nice eh you have to do it one, like, a lot of things gonna do is storage, storage all this we use carpentry carpentry work in Singapore very expensive


yeah, very expensive


!huh! but cabinet a bit hard leh, as long as is build in think is a bit hard to do on your own, is is I feel I find is not the, the big things which is the problem the small things like, the hinges, how to drill the the thing properly I think quite hard leh


to get it right like if you have two doors everything, sliding sliding mini must have space, or you mean just oh okay okay I get it


I wouldn't spend so much of my first house ah and I know I'm not gonna stay therefore what's the point , it's very hard to incorporate that into your selling cost in the future, cause next person buying probably would renovate also cause


it would be their second house, ya but I can see a lot of things quite essential one black, a lot of it is storage ah (ppb)


you really can't run away from it, ya ya lah, it's not about hard is is more about you need to do it and they know you need to do it that's why they cannot afford to mark up so hard


say until very easy like that, I think you do is a big different leh, some more it's so big you definitely at least two person, correct


you do lah, I don't think it's that simple I don't know I feel like when I do a lot this stuff, things right in the end is you two right you realize their, the things you don't think about is the one a big excuse problem not the the things that you think about


and is always the very very small small things, like getting the line straight that kind of stuff, making sure it's aligned, think those are the, where to the tolerance is smaller one right I think is more difficult especially when it come to edges


you know you need to fit perfectly wah that one I think very hard, [orh] that's true, ya then how, then very hard to correct when you don't have the actual equipment also


that you gonna do all these right you cannot possibly buy everything to size what, or let's say you even you buy already you need to trim off like one one let's say five M M how how you trim off five MM you cannot use the handsaw what very hard


ya lah that's why I'm I'm saying like it's this type of small things which, I guess if it's at the back it's okay, cause you don't see it


I think there are some things I would do lah but like, definitely like painting I would do it myself, that one you can save like a good, at least, hundred to a thousand dollars, you know you paint one whole house is thousand plus, for everything lah manpower


labour, you can, a lot of people just get from Nippon-paint


don't know leh, probably works I don't know lah, actually it's not difficult if your house is fully empty, that time I paint my room it was difficult because I cannot bring the table out cannot bring the bed out, I spent a lot of time shifting things around then like wah very squeezy cannot move


but actually if it's vacant very easy


ya lah of course but, ya so like the things like, if you want to, build in like a, wardrobe those type of stuff


like like it's like if you never do all these things before then you you do you take up such a, big task right, you will definitely make mistakes one, then after that the top if it Senget, then you put on you put on for the next first years eh at least, then you will see uh correct


so do you even want to do that that's why I say some things can do, small things I think can ah, I think anything built in a bit hard, because of the just because of the fittings


what do you mean, no like when when I say built in because you need to like really, you need to measure, to really seal nicely with the wall, that was what I mean I think things like painting, uh electronics you can


actually do yourself if you spend a bit of effort to read up on, the proper wiring, not that difficult lah actually as long as you are not making new homes new wiring I think it's quite quite simple


still have ah, maintenance


I think two hundred fifty dollars probably the guy just don't want to pay to dispose lah


ya don't want don't want dusty really troublesome you need to clean what work for the workshop will not work for your home, dusty, no but walls not so much this type you hang right your things become very dusty one


oh okay okay, I thought you meant to hang stuff there


not the whole house lah maybe like the main, like a main panel right then you can use it as a decorative disc so you don't really have to drill, think that will be nice then you can constantly have changing, wouldn't say art piece lah but whatever you want to put


yeah (ppb) then the rest just paint [loh], tiles


concrete very cold, I think it depends on West, it's cold only if the weather is cold [huh], but I not staying East mah I staying West what


you staying East meh, East where got new, and you know concrete will even no matter what concrete you use it will it will slowly deteriorate one right


it's not as lasting, it will start anytime you drop things it will crack not crack lah chip a bit, no I think you can look into because like the current, floor


yeah the current floor like those, I'm not not so many really laminates lah like even those paste on like those wood all those right now it's really quite good already, (ppb) it's not like last time where it's creaky or it doesn't align now it's really quite good


yeah yeah yeah, but this type of thing you don't really want to buy cheap one lah, as the risk is just not worth it let's say it's it's good right okay good


if not good how you already shift all your furniture in leh then how , same piece, not worth it lah I feel


what will I queue for (ppb), (ppb) oh queue I thought kill K I L L


no lah that one my grand that one my, father's cousin house lah, for not funeral lah Chinese-New-Year, !huh! not really related lah I don't know even how, need to ask


never, I don't think she is performing anymore eh


she was quite into yoga for a period of time


financial freedom lor, think you there already eh everything you want to do also can do, you don't have to think about, yeah, yeah who said


I don't want get it leh when people said right okay so that time right I went back to, uh for reservist last year right, then, so I told you about this guy who always said he very rich very rich but end up he always go around borrow money from people never return one right


then uh, so we were just talking about him when we were, think queuing up for something then, this guy in front oh no no no !hanor! !hanor! <mandarin>他也是欠:ta ye shi qian</mandarin> he also owed me money then never never pay me back, then I asked him owed you how much owed like five hundred dollars or something like quite quite a significant amount


then, don't understand their mindsets leh they said like !aiya! nevermind [loh] I mean, they like to use this phrase uh, what kind of logic is there then the by their logic that


money not important lah just throw away lah you give me lah, money just give me lah you can earn back what, don't understand leh


yeah you never have a chance to accumulate ah (ppb)


true happen one lah matter of times already, oh primary school ah


ya ya ya, really ah


that means the life's the earning is really lesser lor, fifteen years ago ah, ten years ago, not more than ya fifteen years ago, fifteen years ago fish ball ten cents in school now still ten cents


then put the chili, remember or not, ya (ppb), how did I know you ah


don't remember eh, that's why pirate (ppb) got sea, she said I don't remember anything, reserve brain space for more important stuff


why you spend so much time remembering this time all already cannot remember hor, you know how


you know like how your kidney have a six amount of, capacity right, uh maybe the brain is also like that so the more you use now less, capacity you have in radio order


no it it depends, it depends whether you see like this networks as like a muscle which grow with more use, [orh] like a kidney which deteriorates more use, so that you know the in the genes right there's this thing called the telomeres ah, T E L O


no so is this is like a something which you actually has a length, so the boss stress you are ended up more, I wouldn't I don't know whether, but okay I know for sure the most stress you are right it actually grows shorter and that's why actually, kills us make make you die early lah


ya ya, ya correct so that she, lengthen it right (ppb), not sure I want that too


if you know what I remember I don't know why, I remember primary school right, having a lot of disgusting things got to do with saliva, do you remember, ya he keeps biting his then then like dripping and then the


Kenneth was sitting beside Pei-Yi one time then he sneezed, he sneezed on her right ah choo !wah! that one was funny, then there is a the Saroniah the girl right, the Indian girl ah Sahana, then uh, I think she


then she eh, think she and Kenneth got split on each other before I think have then he Kenneth went to, split on the back of a bag you know her her school bag, I remember a lot of things having got to do with


saliva


I wonder if he still does that, so long already ah (ppb) that's like, eleven


twenty five fourteen years already at least


I think he aged he aged early, he's what forty now right, !huh! really ah


what car is he driving now, which is what ah (ppb), the Honda right


normal lah, who will stay there for so long, if you really think about your future you won't stay there for so long, why ah have you ask did you ask him, why he stay there for so long


don't whether this private tutor really can last, very hard to say eh (ppb) although is, more certain that, yeah getting the students being more because you you gonna operate as a business you gonna operate as a


school anymore it's very different eh, number one there will be lesser and lesser students, what area, yeah there's not much new developments for kids to eh is there


yeah lah yeah lah so new kids come with fairly, new developments right you must have developments at least, assuming you start going from P one which is very sad, so you must have developments which are at least seven years old


correct, yeah accommodate to the students there lah


oh you know I work at this uh like I intern at this company ah quite good leh like they have, free ya they have free gym membership you know, so now every week I go for like, two to three times, it's a True Fitness !wah! shiok eh go there don't need bring towel


then you can attend classes, I went for like, a few exercise classes, ya just show your staff pass, I didn't bring eh honestly can forge one ah


(ppb) it's not it's not like it has some hologram or what no it's just very basic print on card, your name, show then they, K in your name and handphone number that's it, you probably can get away with


it for a while, but if ya correct, better mah


could be could be you know, you will be surprised at the amount of money


company spend organisation spend on okay so uh there's this, recently during work right I was uh, it's this new equipment which they wanted to buy, so this new equipment is a protein purifier, basically you put the protein in then you want to purify it for drugs lah


you guess how much is this, I don't know the exact specifications nor, uh what lah but, it's about, table top size you can fit on this table maybe about until this big, six K ah


forty plus thousand, for this one machine like that and then the best part right forty plus thousand right then you can have add ons, I don't know how they add right add add add add add right easily nine ten items right until over ninety over thousand eh


made by GE one


actually it's not that far-fetched lah, (ppb) who say nothing special it's curve so the homeless people cannot sleep


that's true, was talking to Violet's father right, cause he runs a scaffolding company, so, he the, that time just recently only did the F-one project


so after that uh, not the whole thing lah so usually they contract out, uh no no no no so he said that scaffolding one usually they contract out, to one pers one company then this one company


will subcontract out to a few people then he do the main contract he will do some lah, think like the one he did right, it was one he said quite critical one where because they don't want to disrupt the flow of the road so you must


they didn't want to set up the thing too early, so they only want to close that area one day before so you have one day twenty four hours to set up the whole scaffolding sitting, he said about two two three hundred over people right in twenty four hours, so he say uh he did that one and a few others right I think like


I think hundred over two hundred K leh, ya and, uh I don't remember the exact numbers right but uh he told me about a few others lah, a lot of them right like, if let's say the project cost about is about hundred thousand right


usually the nett the cost right is only about twenty K only, thirty K twenty thirty K max, so the profit margin is really quite high


is very interesting to see how all these, like scaffolding construction cranes, all these types of more B-to-B kind of businesses right how they going to fold out in the next, few years because you see now right there are


a lot of them they are very, Chinese company kind of style in Singapore they are not, like operated by AMNC that kind of, of format so there's still a lot of like under table dealing, not so clean cut not so clear cut you know that kind of stuff


but if all these people they start to retire ah, you I think quite interesting lah they will probably sell out some of the business to like the big, conglomerates but


okay so recently I got I was watching this eh not watching I was listening to this podcast called Lullaby, Jordan-Harbinger, so this guy's history quite interesting he went to university he finished his law degree


then he became uh, I think he work in some finance industry or something O seven then after that O eight crisis he, he was retrenched, then he started uh being like a pick up artist with one of his friend


like pick up girls you know how to pick up girls using pick up lines all these type of stuff for a period it will quite a craze, so they did like did all these uh, they they did like all these workshops and


they did like all these workshops and uh, stuff lah then they managed to build the brand up quite a lot, and then after that the company split again, and then, he now he has his own podcast, so very interesting that day he was talking about this topic about


how safe safe, safe spaces are destroying, are not actually safe they are actually destroying us so safe spaces like, okay so like the example he gave right is that now in universities right especially in the mainly in the US


when especially when in social sciences all these when you talk about more controversial topics right, sometimes like your reading might be a bit controversial, and then somebody might take offense, then when these students or group of people take offense right they write in and say that you know you should take these down or something


and then, uh most of the time right these lecturers all these lecturers just take it down because it is very troublesome to go and fight it, so this has led to a culture where the students are, yeah correct so and then he said the worst thing right is that


people take offense at things where, you cannot reasonably say, that one will take offense with it and and it's not like, uh is come to a point where okay if let's say, there really is something, uh okay no like the statement could


potentially offensive to, to a particular racial group, but then you, is not offensive to you but because it has the potential to be offensive, then uh no not potential


yeah it has the potential and you feel that is offensive right then they think that is offensive is different from, uh currently where you think about is there a intent to be offensive, yeah, so, it can


it, I don't know after I watch that after I listen to that podcast right I realise like it's playing out in a lot of scenarios which you don't, which I which you don't realise like there was one recently one right, uh even in Singapore right okay so this phenomenon only happens to people born


realise they realise lah it's only it was only happening to people born after nineteen ninety, five or nineteen ninety eight, there's this this group of people somehow their upbringing right was, done in such a way where


take offence at a lot of things, one recent one right I saw was that this this JC student in Singapore right, he went to complain and say that Coffee-Bean put up this uh signage right which says that


you know it's discriminatory towards JC students who who say that you cannot study here, but how is that discriminatory but you see you understand the approach where he feels that it's discriminatory, ya correct ya I found like a few


ya ya ya and, and uh he was saying that, when all so this problems right mainly happen, is a very big thing in US in mainly the Ivy League schools, so he say that these people right when they go out and work right if let's say you go out and work in like some other not like a big city like New-York that kind right


when you work there it's , if your boss says something then you take offence at it but everybody else don't take offence because they don't have that kind of upbringing as you right it's okay, you will just be shot shot down and shut shut off but, if uh


you go to and work in like Silicon-Valley that kind of places, you take offence right it's not only you you have a group of similar minded people, seven or maybe even ten of you all who take offence right then the company has to really look into this and


treat it as a serious problem when actually it is not, very interesting


(oh) wait wait okay so there's this one, uh this this guy in China right he drove his son to school in a Ferrari, then after that the, it no it didn't the only thing why it caused a scene right was that the parents, didn't


want this guy to drive the Ferrari to school they say use another car to drive the son to school, but he say why I cannot I earn the money myself why I cannot drive, so like the focus is, the parents are saying that they don't want, they want to protect the children from all these type of uh


scenarios, but in actuality you should expose them to all these type of scenarios it's more like, you don't pave the way for them give them like the proper shoes to walk, that kind of stuff, so HE, another example he was saying was , in US a lot of people got peanut allergies right (ppb)


don't know why it's such a big thing there, then they find out that actually right, in the nineties or two thousands right when they found out about this peanut allergy thing right they blew it up, also don't know which idiot went to blew it up, then a lot of the of them right stop, their children from eating peanuts even though they are not allergic


that disease hold like, clout over peanuts, so because they don't eat peanuts right, subsequently they don't develop the immune system to be immune to be peanuts


so that's how they, yeah so like another, main point of the, of the podcast was how, you think you are protecting your children but you are just actually not providing them with the


actual (ppb) skills correct, yeah the situation yeah correct, quite worrying leh


yeah [loh]


at where, at where


that's a bit extreme though, they were trying to be objective here but, think that's a bit extreme


cannot imagine sia you have a kid you need to teach them everything (ppb) everything


that day I told my parents, I say uh I don't think in the future I will see myself having, (ppb) like why why don't want then uh (ppc), so after I stated my reasons everything then they will say like uh


it's not just about the monetary thing she say that you cannot, you, must consider the the social aspect of having kids, they said then when you, uh when you are old then you don't have


that social interaction of having kids because you, is very difficult to rely on friends when you at that age, as they probably have their own problems, to deal with, you cannot maintain that kind of uh relationship and lifestyle you have with your friends when you are


you're twenties or even thirties when you are fifties, but then is when you actually need the, actual, interaction, but I don't know leh it seems like


(ppb) not convinced but understand what do you saying but I'm not, yeah not convince lor, then you if you were me you look at you look at uh Bryan's uncle


fifty years old then he realises, is I also don't really want to be in the position eh


really, cause that day I asked you you said don't want, really, like I know, I know like adopting a kid sounds like the better thing to do everything but


as in I feel it comes with its own set of problems lah, is not really, what if let say you adopt, but


later got some problem, but not maybe not even so fast down lah let's say you thought one year later, then you have oh got down syndrome or something, or I don't know lah something act that man


or maybe got ADHD, one year down the road that kind of things, yeah I know is not something you can control but, correct but you see when you have your own kid right you are more, not say in like more persevering in


uh tackling the situation, whereas you know if it somebody else keen you you have that, I feel that you were always have that options to blame, you know


but when he some then when you think is someone's else fault then you feel that you know I don't have to be so, yeah correct


hello hello, okay, let's start with this one, K you shouldn't let me see yours, wait wait wait must strategist how to do this properly


if not like looking all over the place, okay so let's start with the top, left, no with the


let's see how do I say this we should start with the left side left half of the picture first, okay starting from the top then we'll move down then the right side then top down again ah, okay so you want to start first on the left half


two rackets yup I have two rackets do you have a box of rackets under the table, correct one box of rackets as well, do you have three socks with, images of a yaks


on them, two okay I've got three, is it sea are they like seashell necklaces bags kind of thing you have three is it


I have two, K so that's one missing


uh okay, fair enough okay so a shark, is your shark angry, does your shark look I mean who knows maybe the shark could be a happy shark mindset, angry shark


okay same does the lady fishing are you sure it's a lady not a fat person, or fat man, okay the person fishing, is he or she wearing the yellow, cap


black top red pants okay good, let's go back to the lady selling a crab on the table, uh two rackets on the table, okay, five tennis balls, knew it


is the lady wearing a green sleeveless top and blue bottoms, let's go down to the smoothies, yes


the one on the top right, correct and I got three packs at the bottom, okay four legs on your table, okay let's move down to the smoothies


okay how many options do you have for your smoothies, only one, okay I've got peaches and plum, so you don't have plum, four black squares on the side do you have that


okay wait how many blenders do you have, what about that strange sign at the on your right, love shag life tonight, uh okay so that's one difference


cause mine says live tonight, okay let's move down there's a, there's a white taxi with a brown stripe down the middle like your Ford GT kind of stripe


correct black doors what's the number plate, this one same yellow lights, North, yes Northshore taxis, ok wait mine says Northshore taxis


yeah mine's right ah how many wipers does yours have, okay same was wondering, same, uh what about in front of the taxi is there anybody, lady in the bikini, uh wouldn't call it sexy for you but


red guild and the green thing right okay, okay let's move, back onto the, uh right half, starting from the okay bottom, how many bird


three birds, okay, good good, moving up, and this speech for the two people pushing only says push


oh okay I'm missing that, so the guy on the right says one two three push, okay I suppose that's one difference, the two people pushing what are they wearing


okay, yes, what about the guy in the green top is he wearing a orange cap


what about the red vehicle, is there anything inside for you, blue seat, blue seat, mine is pink, green seatbelts


oh mine has a seatbelt, I don't know so there's two over there, uh what are the colours what what's the colour of your red vehicle the wheels, the wheels


great okay, what colour are the rims, black, i mean who knows, do you have a grey shadow underneath, what about the back of your vehicle


green and orange, slippers, I got no hey paul


the guy waving his hands, I've got no speech on that, your red vehicle do you have a spare tyre on the back


wait how many do we have now one two three four five six seven eight nine ten, moving up, yours just say beach, oh mine says to the beach


what colour is your sign, white with black words and black arrow, the left of your sign do you have anything, yes same okay now let's count some rocks


uh one big boulder with two, which look like that in front, okay, E T S, again uh


oh I don't have a bird, so to the left of that, how many smaller rocks do you have, I've got three, okay and then to the right of it, okay so no I think that's about it uh


oh yeah sandcastle, so your red flags are north south blue are East West, okay good, how many doors does your sandcastle have, in the southeast direction right


bottom right, pale yellow shovel yes correct I think that's about it ah, I don't know count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven ya twelve good


see so systematic that's how we should do it, fourteen more never mind lah we can play a new game


oh ya for the extinct, so you know when you go to USS right, you have this kind of very immersive rides whereby your whole chair vibrates you have, jets of air jets of water coming out at you


this is exactly what they have at Paradigm Mall, ya, so the whole movie is synced, to the motion, I mean you ride those kind of USS stuff you don't exactly get very giddy eh


ya but it's not like your whole train is vibrating throughout the entire movie eh, it's only during the wait have you even watched this, oh the show is quite good, I mean Venom is not Spiderman it's like same I mean it's the same as saying


Superman is the same as Supergirl, Supergirl, Venom he's the antihero, good guy want to be, but ya I mean if you you should watch it over there


cause I went there, oh bloody cheap, no student price but it was only twelve Sing, on a weekend, for four DX


for the ice skating right, ya correct then after that you just scan it right


bastard so you took the student price


just five Ringgit handshake ah


ya but anyway the whole four DX thing right, so apparently this four DX is a Korean company, so your chairs they are four seaters ah, then during the, all the action sequences the whole chair vibrates a lot


then because I mean Venom action movie what so you have those car chasing scenes, especially the last like half an hour when its just action packed right so your chair is shaking all the time, and then even in your chair you have those small little, ya so when you hear the bullet whizz by you can just


then you have small little jets in front so when it's raining right then you have like, uh mist coming up, and then there are I think like those kind of tornados fans at the sides, so during even during the car chasing scenes you can feel the wind


as if you are riding in a, convertible ah, they say have but then I couldn't smell anything, then even at the bottom of your seat there are this there's this thing which tickles your feet, I don't know what for but then I didn't even feel any tickle, I even lifted up my


no no no it tickles your leg the, lower, ya your calf the back of your calves, so ya throughout the whole movie


really good you should try


oh go see doctor Mark lah, your your friendly neighbour neighborhood doctor, [orh] that's late


oh right right, uh okay okay, ya but that day when we went there, cause I went with uh Jenine Ross and Dion, so the four of us, we wanted to try the ice skating but


super pack, ya like that whole ring was just full of people


ya but I know that day when we went there, it was actually very crowded, so we didn't we didn't bother trying or even waiting, then we ended up in the rock climbing instead which was, surprisingly good, uh then there was this one because during the one hour session


you get to try different walls of varying difficulties and then you have two instructors, so the group size even on a weekend was quite small you know, only eight of us, so even though there were the eight of us right


it's a very good interval whereby your break is just nice for you to, to loosen up a bit before you start your next climb, so I remember like the first, four walls, the instructors would belay us, and then on the last wall it's a those


auto belay systems, so the guy told said to me just climb ah the thing will catch you, so I climbed all the way to the top, and then I when I wanted to come was like oh shit like no tension, cause you know when when you're the guy belaying you can feel the tension then you relax no issue lah


when it came to the auto belay system, I reach the top I wanted to come until I count oh like crap, no tension, then I look back down then the guys were busy, so I was like okay maybe I try climbing down, and then the the instructor spotted me climbing down it was like !oi! don't climb down


so I think I got the video uh Ross took a video I spent a good, like ten fifteen seconds fiddling around like how to come down, so eventually I just let go, because the thing is that the moment you let go right, the system captures you really fast


and then just lowers you down uh really nicely, but it's just that, split second in between like the moment you let go until the thing catches you ah, not no no free fall surprisingly, it's just, trusting that stupid thing up there ah that it will catch you ah


if not you die [loh]


lifespan ah, number of, the school of high elements ah


play around [orh]


so it's just not like sports modules ah


cause I know for me, but other than that was quite okay eh, I know there was this part, oh there was this other oh so group of eight right there was this, aunt with her two nephews


very big sized you know the woman, bigger size than Bryan shorter than Bryan but, easily, I would say she is easily hundred kilos ah, she climbs really well eh, ya I was super surprised


but ya lah see the person or down below Jialat, ya but !wah! the way she climbs ah, and she is like, I I would say at least forty years old, I mean if even for me I I climb that kind of stuff already I struggle a bit


but then oh I see the way she climbs ah, fantastic leh, and even Ross also surprised me quite a bit she but I think Ross like lah that's why, yeah, correct correct


yeah but I think also you don't take too long to climb the wall lah, cause the more you hang on to it ah, the more strain you feel, yeah like within eight under ten they can reach the top, crazy the way they


but I think, wait but I thought those kind I know for Olympics ones they don't leh they don't, at the edge of this pull so at the top they just jump in, is it Olympic I don't know leh but I saw


no no not pull, I don't recall cause I saw the one those kind of Olympic uh speed climbing, they basically just run up the wall I don't see anyone belaying leh


but I know what you mean by the person below will pull you up to give you that extra boost lah cause for Ross, she got stuck at one point, then to not kind of delay the whole group, the guy below was really pulling her up also I mean not really pulling her up just to move up lah but rather, giving her that extra boost so she can reach for that next


next thing


like uh Elvain kind of size ah, oh shit


so for that brief moment your, your rope no tension at all lah, oh yeah correct correct yeah


okay okay but I know for this kind of pulley systems, each pulley what cuts the weight by what half is it, oh okay, because there was no way that


that belayer will be able to, really pull that woman up, cause she was huge, got really big size yeah, oh correct correct, locks it in


cause I know the other time I was using the pulley system was when I was in Korea, when I was in Korea and


I was helping that guy react to, haul some logs from near the river bed, huge logs which he wanted to cut up for firewood ah so, it was just the two of us and there's no way that we could, even if we lifted it up right we can just do at most a deadlift, we can't carry it upslope


so he went to pull out some pulleys after that he drew it on his on his uh chalkboard, I don't know how he does it ah but he just can visualise everything in his head calculate everything in his head then he just draws it draws out, so we went to the, to the river bank then it was like okay, I put one pulley here put one pulley there we pull


quite light eh, ah I think that log would have easily weighed about two hundred kilos or more, so the moment we pull it all the way up then we just loaded it onto his truck then we went back down [orh] to chop it, ya


okay


I would say, easily thousand two ah, what the heck


what the heck


oh okay


no wonder my friend said my friend was saying, cause uh that time I went went back from reservist right, then my S one, which my friend my our age actually he gives these kind of, tuition outside no he teaches all that stuff outside, as a part time job ah


so you were saying, by doing this alone right if he goes into it full time he can earn easily more than twice his current salary eh, and his current salary at GIC uh, about eight K you know


university ah


ya correct correct


I mean even if you look at those the what you call it uh woke, the five hundred dollars what you say again, uh SkillsFuture thing right you look at the courses I went to look at all the courses all overpriced you know


it's all overpriced just because, government gives you five hundred dollars ah, like I see some of the courses ah, very basic stuff you pay what, seven hundred dollars for that kind of rubbish ah, not not worth it eh


but then what kind of materials will you get, course materials lor, oh so that means today is like the first round ah


cause I know that time I went you know that, gem prelude the thing to India which I did, someone, two of sessions actually was, set aside for basic coding programming stuff, India, so very good then the guy who was supposed to teach it I mean the


it was bullshit ah it was crap you know, firstly the WiFi in that, classroom we were, having our lessons in wasn't working, even when it's working right it's super slow, but the thing is online


so there were I mean even such a slow internet and then you have, twelve of us stepping on that same bandwidth ah, I think if I just hook up one dial up system probably faster, so in the end right I think out of the twelve of us


only one or two could do the thing, then the rest of us we were just sitting there watching, come on like India, the WiFi is terrible, true true


then even their schedule also, on paper is one thing ah but then some halfway through oh this lecturer cannot make it that lecturer cannot make it, everything all gets jumbled up you know so that piece of paper they gave us ah, is good as toilet paper ah


true true, what fried Beehoon, budget so high ah


wait wait wait first prize ten dollars second price twenty ah, !wah! I also want to win I also want to lose leh, wait so what's the first prize


how did you come to learn about this thing, MDA ah or Albert, I can see where that most of the money goes to lah


full use of it lah, serious, come come come go through your resume with me my resume !woah! looks perfect you know after Ross went through with it


two page, two page, I have a lot of things to write


no, cause the thing is, did you even go do your career power up properly, did you did you attend those NT did you attend those NTU CAO things I did so they say


I mean one page, is a bit short especially if you have internships, NS experience it's, true true


uh because you see for my for my, resume right even though it's two pages long, the first section it's my academic stuff lah, then, the section after that is, my work experience, starting with most recent which is this twenty five degree woodwork thing I'm doing at lah


followed by my Roger and Sons and then, my NS stuff so that takes up a good three quarter of a page already leh, because in these ones I don't list like every single damn thing but rather, I put down okay what like, say I let this I spearheaded this I was responsible for this


then I just list, yes bullet points, then my NS I did quite a lot what outstanding leh I surely had to do a lot, so I mean usually you just play up all these, rubbish lah, and then in my second page it's about


volunteer experiences like what I do what I've done all that stuff lor, then it adds up just nice all, two pages oh and relevant courses to, for whatever stuff, but I suppose one page


ya lah depends, ya lah exactly ah


ya it's not I mean it's not a by and hard rule I mean if you have nothing to fill up that second page ah you just leave it as one ah


you don't I mean you don't want to you don't want it there to invite more questions right, the important stuff ya correct


second lower right, you know, can pull up


oh that's true that's true


okay let me show you mine, I think this is, not this is not the final version but Ross helped me add it edit it lor


cause I saw Ross, I saw her resume, oh fantastic you know, the educational part of it of first class honours, uh scholarship, and then, polytechnic, gold medalist


then under, some MOH scholarship as well, then even her research got published, I mean her, yeah lah that thing got published as well !wah!


so even with the, I mean like Ross was saying you just put in those adjectives of, especially to make it, a bit more relevant to the job you are looking at just look at the job description, job requirements ah


yeah especially the job's specifications they do say oh you are you will be responsible for leading a team of whatever then you put, oh, I mean like, it's relevant


to what I applied for, you don't, yeah I know exactly, too far back, in the application they actually ask if you've done any sports before, if you've taken up any leadership


uh positions in, whatever CCAs cause they ask you to list on, at least three CCAs, wait the two months is for what ah


the two months is for what ah, alright okay okay, you don't have ah


what stand there ring the bell donations donations


or ad hoc, it's not about, so yeah exactly what I did over there


like what you say ah ad hoc stuff ah but rather it's, the kind of people you interact with eh, so I'm all those kind ya lah I was, contemplating, whether to put that down as well but


because in my cover letter I stated something along the lines of, being, having good communication and interpersonal skills, in the resume since the thing extended to one and a half pages I was like okay maybe I'll just fill it up with


this other, things you would write the back, to show that okay I worked with various different type of people before, backup the part if they asked, what interpersonal skills have you or what areas have you applied this in lah


cause it when you apply you to submit everything, and partly because I, tried to steer away from, not having any CCA in university, because the girl next to me, she got, she got asked why don't you have any CCA in university


then the moment I heard I stunt you know I was like oh shit better not, I better whatever I talk about right better stay it away from oh why didn't I have any CCA in university


but think if you're not going to apply to government sector it's


then what about character referees, in case you need, anybody or, in that position to say right


cause even for mine I've to list two character referees, one I put my ex boss fortunately he haven't retired yet, cause I know like even said army said you want to retire but haven't retire so lucky ah he still there, then the other, referee I put was, Joshua the guy who my work helping out at right now ah


so I mean the side from these two ah, no I didn't, I didn't, so aside from these two, I would be quite listless as well because in that application if you don't put two you can't, proceed I mean you can't progress on


I don't think so, not the I know of yeah, I even did consider asking Bryan's father you know, but I I was thinking how to appropriate might that be


I mean if character referee would, probably be somebody somebody who you have worked with before but this is more like a friend only eh, true lah, ya lor like in what capacity do you know this person


I did let Bryan's father know that I made it to round three lah got shortlisted for round three then he said if you want to, go to back it is ah let him know ah, so I know it


I think I'd set the organization all tour, which is about three three or four years one I think five perhaps, so you know when I went last week for the round two right


I don't think he's gonna retire in fifty five eh, wait whom I get to choose, oh, I think you can still extend your contract eh


I mean on contract basis ah, cause I know my NS boss is been on, contract basis I think every two years then renew contract, then maximum you can do up to sixty some I think sixty five sixty six or sixty eight


yeah, K lah that's still enough time for me to


(oh) ya true ah, what was it I wanted to say ah, oh yeah so last week when I went for the second round


in the morning we had the document verification thing, and then they also took measurements of, for our uniform ah, that when that was the only time when I realised like what the heck like why, I hate uniforms you know, and then when I was trying on like


the fit for the stupid cap thing I was like what the heck man, yeah I was like, like what did I sign myself up for, I mean is like going for NS all over again leh taking measurements and then I look at I look at that


that, cardboard policeman I was like !wah! that is damn ugly leh


this is your career at stake over it over here, you know I told you did I tell you when I told all my friend that I, applying for police right you know what was his first response a not, !walao! eh you look like one of those easy to bribe policeman ah


I mean okay lah I'll play good cop bad cop if you give me five hundred I let you go, I might as well chop one spot in, prison already right


but yeah [loh], !wah! speaking of which ah there's this guy, I met at the interview, so when he told me he used to be a Commando I stunned you know, he is like


when Bryan was slim, that kind of size, no no no but rather he his belly was very obvious


but it's like the lembik soft soft kind of like, tofu look you know, but then when he was telling me when he was in Taiwan, he cause he he was a commando recce, so they were, up front and then it was just him and his buddy so they walking through this farm area


all muddy grassy then he stepped upon this like oh nice marble thing very cold, so he thought okay nice place to sleep lah so he slept, next morning he woke up oh shit that's somebody's grave you know, the best part was when he woke up he saw the person looking down because the photo was up there what


yeah, so, he Buddhist what so he go and put his biscuit there then pray pray a bit then quickly go off, I don't know sorry lah sorry lah don't Taiwan Taiwan, ah he was in Taiwan


then there was this other this other guy, he was doing some exercise, so he said he was in Lim Chu Kang area the cemetery over there lah, so it was just him and his buddy they were walking around then they were looking for a place to sleep so he they slept somewhere [loh]


then in the middle of the night he got up want to go toilet so he just go like a few steps away and pee, next morning he woke up he realised he pee he peed into a grave, and it's just not any grave you know, the Malay cemetery the grave for babies all those I think unborn babies right he peed inside


**, **, then the best part ah, balance of that, I think because those kind of big mass grave ah


then that morning, someone came down to like take one of the babies up to do some prayer lah, and that was exactly the spot he peed at [loh], then they all talking about their NS stuff I sit there I quiet only lah my NS good life lah everyday go home


sit in office, then they talking about how bad like heat rash was, then I was like I don't know I never experienced any of this before


how it brings people together, correct correct, I can't remember why oh, it's very shallow


the guy died lah


platoon best my ass, best by default lah


two years ah


very unexpected ah


they say that to you


nice guy ah, or what oh true, that's quite observant ah especially among when you have so many people ah, ya not bad not bad


should have told him you also better watch out from above ah


since when you listened anyway, oh you know speaking of which ah, during the interview, one of the, the interviewer actually asked one of the guys, who mentioned his leadership experiences in SCS


so he mentioned oh he was in SCS he led these he led people doing this doing that you know the interview asked, why you never go OCS, this kind of thing also want to ask you know is like asking ah why you assistant director only why not director


K you wanna do this now, free talk, topic prompts ah okay let you choose


car brands and models, I don't know ah, what's Brian's new car ah, never sat in it before


holidays, ah how's the Taiwan prep coming along, everything ah, then the old trail thing ah


ah so late ah, how you gonna book there, ya correct have to put a local's contact


cause I know the the other time also, which website, have to, if you, if you download the form, if you download the form


it's stated there, under one of the sections that it that it must have a local contact, local address even their I think ID or something like that, ya which is actually super annoying ah, but you know


I know there are those tour agencies you just pay a small sum they can it do for you


don't have, hitting against my lip ah, testing hello hello okay, hello, okay lah can


ah what were you saying just now, oh right the trail okay


weekday ah, cause I remember that time when I went, the it's actually a very short trail to get to that, part where you are at the cliff edge


it's I think, three KM at most, but because at the start it's very steep, so it seems like it's a lot longer, and I remember that day oh your yours is in winter so not too bad because I went in summer


[orh] hot like what you know, then, by the time cause I brought like my bottle and Ross brought her own bottle and she drank so much you know, so by the time when I was coming down I was so thirsty, cause she drank all my water, ah ya and the trek down was actually very short


felt very fast ah, ya


close to public then how you go there, ah ya lah same lah


you saw the pictures you saw the pictures of that old trail people wear that helmet right, I went there no helmet you know, apparently not ah, ya, but they didn't give us a helmet


it was only when I go when I came back then on the bus then I was thinking ah oh ya no helmet lah, I mean good is good lah but then if something drop on your head then too bad [loh], because there's always that real chance that something will just


slide off and drop on your head lah, can if you want can , but I think over there if you fly a drone ah, fantastic


bring one small drone lor not like they'll do a bag check at the entrance as well, cause uh beautiful the gorge, also quite, surreal ah if you drop down and, really dead ah cause it's really narrow I think the whole path wasn't it about like this wide


ya, oh that time when I went ah, I change at, one is to twenty four, now the rate is like shit, twenty two or so I reckon, ya, but I didn't that time we went for


eight days, I didn't bring a lot of cash cause I didn't do a lot of shopping then whatever stuff was prepaid already accommodation all that paid, beforehand


ya we didn't spend much, mostly on food only ah, thing worth buying


what the heck, but your accommodation all paid beforehand oh go there pay cash ah oh okay ah


South Taipei, thank you for checking your phone and letting me see, ah very soft again ah, hello hello testing testing okay


speaking of which ah, that student I'm tutoring, his recent SA Two right you know what his teacher said about it


better than his SA One, which means ah, either borderline fail or just pass yes, ah I heard that that was like the best news ever ah


either way lah I mean, high forties low fifties, can finally die in peace, can finally, actually no lah I mean it's a it's, a lot has to do with the


I would say it's structural because it's, he he went from NA to NT now, and so because of that right his exams, a lot easier comprehension you know how they do the comprehension not, for us we did comprehension then must answer all the questions right for them right


they get many statements, then true false true false true false like, was this mentioned did this happen, do you think this was the case, so true false ah, ya ya correct correct


ya, then there's another component which is speech, so, you'll have two people talking and then you have the speech I mean the text ah then, several, blanks and then several statements so you need to arrange how does the speech flow


I mean I can see why he passes ah but, a pass is a pass, ya lah but I mean, ya correct, but I told you he top his class for ah no he top his cohort for Mathematics and Chinese


ya then I see the thing, I let me see the thing that you check for me on your phone, wah so detailed ah


oh ooh oh oh, I can totally imagine what will happen, so the scooter thing, more or less


oh I think I went to the #Dong Da Men# night market, it's crap lah, very, !aiya! tourist trap lah, if I'm not wrong it's the one it's the one by the beach right


near the beach one right is it, Hualian cultural creative industries seriously


wait what kind of pub is this


Shilin night market, Hui-Da'S favourite


actually you go to work what do you do ah, still same thing as before ah, compliance ah


so is more of industrial knowledge already ah stuff which you only learn by doing the job for a period of time ah


like gasket kind of thing ah


sequential ah


this kind of stuff do you learn it, like in your course, then how do they learn then how do they learn how to do all this kind of stuff


sounds boring as hell, I don't think I can I I don't think I can see myself doing doing that kind of stuff everyday ah


so pretty much the safety officer lah, true, oh you know that day I went for the Carpenter's concert right I mean that, thing by Jeremy-Monteiro


not bad ah, not bad, one hour long he covered most of the hits, ah he had he invited guests, to sing along some of it, there's a very small cosy theatre ah recital hall


ya, and whether you get the cat A or cat C, there's no real difference, no it's not first come first serve but rather it's just a difference of, think four seats in between from the first row and back row, so it's no real difference the only difference is


whether whether you are seated at the, sides or in the middle, ya, other than that music was good, quite worth it lah I would say, we paid about thirty per person


ya thirty, cheap cheap, hello hello testing testing


hello, ya so we did that [loh] that's good, and the best part was, at the end of the concert, ah there was supposed to be an, autograph signing, session outside, but then the thing was that because they took so long to come out


by the time they come out everybody left, ya so they they all they just sat there [loh], they sit at their table, just sign for like less than ten people and then, #pang gang# ah go home


correct lah correct, ya but the thing is Jeremy Monteiro he really he's released a lot of albums and I don't know there were some books on sale as well so I suppose whoever wants to get those signed can sign ah, !wah! fantastic especially they he got this friend to play ah saxaphone


very good, ya so yeah I mean Jeremy-Monteiro and friends what, friends yeah, then there was this nigro lady from San Francisco who came down to sing, very good voice


yeah lor I also don't know eh cause I think that whole that recital studio I think, two hundred max, two nights only, two night concert


sponsored by by some bank, yeah so I suppose they help to cover, quite a good portion of it lah, and you know that Esplanade is a non-profit-organisation


surprising ah I also didn't know Ross told me, arts council I suppose yeah that whatever new name they have lah, so I would suppose that translates to cheaper rental of space ah


hopefully ah hopefully, come let's have some small talk


#kai kai# which place in Singapore, made the best impression on you as a kid, !walao! eh must ask meh kid lah when your mother still use the word #kai kai# when you were come let's go #kai kai#


still use that on you no right, made the biggest impression okay lah for me would be Malacca lah


because my grandmother, last time I think like from K from as long as I remember from K two up till, primary school, every year like June December holidays we will go to Malacca


then my grandmother would come along, visit relatives over there as well as because she's got this huge piece of land, which is under her name, ancestral land, so it's like basically one, huge ass Kampung lah, ah so you go there ah see the old house I also don't know for what


it's like really one big Kampung with many different paddy fields, and then one house which belongs to her sister still there but totally run down, yeah lor so just go there see see I also don't know for what nostalgia


and then visit relatives ah, ah he don't remember shit anyway ah


rubbish


testing testing, hello testing, ah okay


#pok kai# one lah, engine overheat lah


ya, correct


because that's the only thing you look at lah, oh okay I think I know what you referring to


then the front thing will, the front thing also turn right is it, you think I thought who confirm, think of your favourite Singlish word or phrase


I never see before ah, cabby, never see before also ah, okay cabby what's the most interesting conversation you've ever had with a taxi driver


uh [huh]


how how old is your uncle, so that means by now about seventy ah


when self amused, just amusing their ownself ah, I remember there was once I was


going to Varnia's place, meant is not not a cabby just some random Uncle on the streets so I was, you know, Ruida's that stretch and then there's one petrol station there, oh no not petrol station, the post office, can't remember if I tell you what


okay but there the whole stretch Ruida's one lah, so you know the post office over there right, then I was, at the traffic light waiting for the light to turn green, headed towards signature park, then this guy he comes up to me


then he I I realized he started looking at me, then he sudden, suddenly came up to me he, touch my shoulder, then he he, he started making very lude comments you know, until I got, ya I got very creeped up this old uncle like I think that was when I still was in J two


so this old man in his like late fifties or late sixties he just comes up to me and he, he said something like, boy ah you have nice arms, you know than man and man can also make love, then I stand there I stun, like what


then I tell him ya I know, then after that he ask me where am I going, I said ah I going to my girlfriend's house, then I quickly walk ah fortunately I walk quickly walk in front then just signature park just up ahead only ah, ah then creepy you know


sixty plus I reckon I say ya


I told you right I met Varnia like I think in year two, plum you know, her brother shag though, he after, O-levels


after O-levels he went Australia to study, he needs to come back and serve NS ah, I mean like you should at least cleared NS before you go and study not come back and then, still two years ah you lose you lose your relevancy ah


no idea no idea, probably business [loh], you know like how Kenneth he went overseas eh no he came back, he after his uh O-levels, he went overseas


so I think you do like a one year pre-U thing then you, start uni, but you know his brother a bit like a softie that time I accidentally I smack him on the arm one time then !ouch!


I know one of the reasons why the brother went overseas as well to study was he doesn't want to serve NS, I mean not like, I mean okay lah family got money [loh] but, ya [loh]


I mean either way if you don't serve ah that means can't come back to Singapore anymore ah, I mean technically can lah the family can afford it but, they already have house here and all that, I also don't know


oh you know last week ah, cannot remember last week, very recent lah I think past two weeks only, twenty five degree workload right the place I'm working at, that guy over there he date this, hill just leverage table


oh it's about one meter wide, about two and a half three meters long, ten C M thick, huge super huge and damn heavy, middle middle section ah so it's from a local tree those in the those kind of they call what African Mahogany


ya Singapore have a lot, a lot of the trees you see those really huge Thicks ones ah with the, a bit reddish brown that's the Mahogany, this guy he bought one lor, he bought the entire middle piece


he got Joshua to mill it and make it very nice, then came to the delivery, so I went over to his to help with the installation at his place, this guy's house is at Pheonix road over there just behind MINDEF


ah that front porch of his ah, bigger than my living room you know, his front porch alone bigger than my living room


so that guy, about three four thousand under quote leh, I mean not under quote lah but it's very cheap a good deal you know


that kind of size especially, correct so it's essentially a centerpiece lor, is it a buffet spread or not


when it comes when it came to moving that piece right, initially the four of them they tried to carry it but then cannot too heavy cause easily more than three hundred kilos, so Joshua he called, he managed to he managed to get


six Bangladeshi workers to come and help, call them say then they say okay six people come, end up ah three people turn up only you know, !walao! ah, so in the end there were six of us lor, me Joshua one other guy and three of the workers so we carried the thing


then it's on the second floor the wood slab was on the first floor so we called to crane it into the second floor, ah lucky, I mean thank goodness for the crane ah, if not we'll have to carry up the stupid staircase


whoever is at the bottom ah die ah, it will be


super impossible, so we craned it up, ya lor and then from the second level balcony we have to carry it all the way to the middle of the, of the his living room


is it the hall to adult website


ya heard of that before


home reno ah