my god I forgot what is what uh thirteen reasons why I think I told you about it, thirteen reasons why on netflix but I finished that one, no it's not a chick flick it's like some teenage thing but it's quite depressing cause it's about


it's about a girl who commit suicide, and then she recorded thirteen tapes, and and she says this uh and each tape represents one person who affected her life in a certain way and she says


these are the thirteen reasons why, update now lah, no it's not it'll that'll be damn damn scary if it's real and then she send and then she got someone to help her deliver the tapes to each, person so that they will listen to it


it's kinda sadistic right, but they and it sounds really warped but when the way they make it it, it is a nice way to develop as in they develop each, character as in they show each character


I don't know it when I watch it it wasn't warped it was very nice and sad at the same time, because it shows like how, each random person can impact you in ways that you don't, see it coming and you don't imagine it


and you yourself don't know !huh!, like it was seen it will show like you it is like instances where it's very trivial to the person who did it to her, but to her it affected her a lot


ya why, so something like that, lying in a very expensive in your face fuck care way ya yes something like that


and without blinking you know always like can use the word always that kind of shit then you're like what the fuck, mindfuck man, I wonder if they have to keep censoring my my my recording


oh okay, oh I have no idea how they gonna do this, why you so clever, okay so what genre of movies TV shows or dramas do you enjoy the most


I don't think porn counts so you have to tell me something else


!wah! are you still watching the, what westworld is it, oh you finish two seasons, no idea I didn't watch it, how did you find the time to watch it


oh ya ya I still I still remember those days when my afternoons were free


ya I know right shit happens ya, okay


!wah! okay, okay, oh as in the guests are allowed to do anything they want


so most people go there to inflict, pain


okay


okay, but they rape what the the the robots, and do the robots feel pain


they do


so what's the conflict you know every storyline there's a conflict to solve


so there are people who are trying to stop it, I don't know uh I hate spoilers uh


it's a thin line, [orh] the robots are conscious, do they know that they are programmed, they don't know, they thought


[orh] really they thought they are humans ah, then how, then don't they wonder why are they there


as in they program as though like they're they believe they are uh human beings living in that place and have, like certain errands they need to run, okay, so sad


then the you very cold ah, then is there like good people in the show


like people who don't who are trying to, help them


oh well K I'll find a time to watch it


okay [orh] they realise that they're robots, how did they realise K never mind that's spoiler


how they how they realise, okay


ya why not


because the bottom uh, but what's wrong with that because the bottom line is not who's alive or who is not alive what we always root for the victims what


I mean who is not human or who is human, ya it's like if you don't take care of your toy then your toy's a victim lor


ya it's like toy story it makes me feel that toys should be taken care of, ya, and like


like like the way ya the way toy story does it, you mean you torture your toys


right unknown, who knows, code and memories, ya


it's like that movie AI, did you watch that one about this, my god what's his name this you know the sixth sense that kid


uh ya that kid very popular as a kid actor, he acted as a robot boy, you never watch that film it was really good, so it's the same it's similar but, it's super sad


fuck you which show I intro to you is not good eh slytherin was damn good right, !huh! you didn't watch it then what did I [orh] fight club you watched it right, !huh! it's #bo liao#


what what do you not like about fight club, it's but it it makes you wonder about all


like there's this concept where he's like you know he trying to buy all sorts of shit to, fill up his life and then the guy just blow it all away and then he explained, like it's all the stuff like tyler that that that he the his imagined partner like all the stuff that tyler explain right


to to to reinvent his life I thought that was pretty interesting, like then when he was burning his skin, then he was telling him to like wake up to the pain or something like that ya that kind of intense shit, like I think


like I think we all need a bit of that, like like to remind yourself like why you're alive ya, ya ya ya so why is that not a good film


cause it's not easy to watch is it, it's not easy to understand


and the most mind blowing part was he's schizophrenic like he he actually imagined this guy, so cool oh ya anyway about the AI it's about this boy they managed to program like what you said, feelings and emotions into this robot boy so this this


mum her son right I think went into some form of coma for many many years, so she, then she was like like very, sad about the kid ah then the dad the dad thought that,


getting this robot boy for her was a good idea, then at first she was very like insulted lah she was like how can you find a replacement for our kid then he was like, okay if you really don't like this idea he'll take it away but then end up he stayed and then, at first the boy acted like a robot


then supposedly they gave her a code they say that if you tell him this code, he will be able to have emotions and he would he will really see you as his mum, so she decided to go for it ah then the boy got really the boy like the robot like turn into a real boy


and got very attached to her, so at first she was happy like that lah then eventually her real son actually came out of the coma, so the movie shows how she tried to balance the two of them, and then like even, the AI also started to


be like learn stuff like jealousy and then started to want to compete with the real boy with the real son ah, then the sad part was halfway through she realised that, she didn't want him anymore so she just she just drove him to some forest and then left him there


then the rest of the ya it was damn sad then the you can see he's like, like a real kid he really like damn scared and damn stunned like why she will do this to him, but the the really sad part was he spent the rest of his time right trying to find


his way back to her, and it shows his journey ah so he met other AI and then what he learn from them, but yet the whole time right because I think it's because it's programming ah he never like, he never stopped like wanting to find her back ah


it was very sad, then it makes you wonder also like but but this one is more in a, viewpoint of the AI rather than, rather than, the viewpoint of the humans


ya, I suppose so ya ya every, ya it's very easy to throw away things, ya my fridge is super dying thanks to me


but things I'll make me clear <mandarin>的</mandarin> mah oh no it's not really clear I have to go home and eat, I have to call her later I think she's like busy


okay, are you still cold, why is the aircon very near you or what


what do you like to do in your free time, really, what do you normally watch


so how long you did that for, oh ya when did you started your, oh ya I keep forgetting how did you know about freeganism


probably but I don't remember, no I remember the good stuff too


another another blogger, replied to one of your posts


so that was in october


right, !huh! really you email him to


you said !hey! can I meet you ah, how did you contact him, facebook, okay, then keith gave you his number


you all are long lost brothers, so you met him at national library, national library got place to sit meh


[orh] the cafe then you just sat on the floor, eh you ask to then when when you contacted him to ask to meet him what was your reason or what reason you gave him, [orh] then you you said can I talk talk to you about it


do you normally do this kind, like you contact people and then ask them to meet you so you can find out more stuff, oh ya you are the


wait then oh oh ya, so in october was already your third year of not working, then what did you do for the first two oh ya you did a lot of random stuff


then when did you stop doing all this and just Nua every day, [oh] okay, (ppo) see you


hello Vadnu, ya, yes


on the on the left corner, ya okay, paul and paul and kim cafe ya


yes yes yes, selling some food products or drinks


but they also sell drinks and some light food maybe lah I'm not sure, oh the sea lion, sea horse or sea


possible possible, and this guy is sitting on, K there is also a signboard there the cup of drink with the straw


in the same compound, ya, oh I see I see okay


which picture, oh ya ya the guy was sitting on the, lap, stuck there


possible yes yes, and what is he doing inside the car, ya, maybe relaxing


you know why, his hair you can see it's raised up, okay yes yes yes I think I don't know it's a little boy or


it looks like to me a young boy maybe ya, ya ya ya, so where have the parents have gone to


ya ya ya, maybe branded, continental cars, maybe they went to buy some drinks or something


maybe that place they're allowed to drive in maybe we don't know


castle correct correct, when there're kids there, true true, and also the tide if it is high tide


it'll come in the car cannot exit, true


below the, shore forecast , shore forecast, today quite sunny


become more soft, you have to tow the thing out, no way is it


like that have to use some other means lah wire or what to pull out lah, good idea, they should not have driven should park at the car park and then walk in there yes


but well they have done it, so what we can do no no one is there the driver we don't know whether he's inside the cafe, or they are the one who, making the another, thing just in front of the cafe there are two person standing


uh one lady and one guy, maybe the other we don't know who they are, today sunny lah


ya ya, possible possible should be should have done no cars beyond ya, ya, cars should not be there it is for people to, move around


and enjoy the beach, true


but it they may have a sign but we don't see any here, you never know, ya you see they put shore forecast sunny


then they know that there won't be any rain or possible, drizzle or anything so they dare to take the risk ah, as long as they don't injure anybody while driving in or going out


ya run around, but there should be some form of enforcement in the beach right there is a beach, warden, should be there


ya ya ya, that's what, they should have then uh that man he has violated some, safety rules by driving in, we don't know


correct, ya ya ya where there's children playing and doing sandcastles and all this


two chair ya


and it is also I think it is not appropriate to keep somebody boy like that in the car alone, no no whether running or not running


is they either should've brought him along, call whatever somebody stay with him, what happen if there's an emergency


ya where is he going to run he doesn't know the place maybe he young boy


shelter, but my side uh there's a shack to rent, you know on the right side if you see near the beach, there is a shack they can take shelter but I don't know whether it is for


people to take shelter or for the those clients coming there to buy those who buy drinks, wait but they put there shack to rent, you have


in the dustbin there beside it, anyway the vending vending machine beside on the right, push once, maybe you need put coins or something to


have a refreshment, bought there uh


ya, ya ya ya it is only for, I don't know, come ya you sit


also you you won't be able to withstand the rain maybe it's just to keep the food or what uh drink but you buy, holding


ya ya ya just burgers and all these ya, but it is closed at the moment, to come there ya


ya that thing you see on the on the sea itself, there is one boy is playing in the water


and you'd be surprised to see there is no sea warden there, they should have all this, ya and I must have, you must have a lifeguard


surfing also, this small boy should have a, where are they gonna go to, the beach is very rough, you must have uh


ya and then they flow with the waves, on the curve, no lifeguard nothing


to blow the whistle you see, or to see doesn't go deep inside and all these and get stranded


ya ya ya, hovering ya, ya ya it's a very really, can be dangerous


ya but at the same time you see the boy there then there are two person here with the , poncho or something they open up they are you know catching they looks like a crab, and they got some line there


don't know what what it is they are trying to do there, they got spade they got pail on the left ah, in front of the shack


but it is not can't be a pond or anything you see, that's why I said the, canvas yes yes that's why I say the


but then you see there are two uh their clothings look like a handbag


on the top and then below also got some clothing, it maybe their personal uh, ya ya ya ya possible possible


don't know how they organise themselves


possible possible, and then pour it there is it , so they, the water there lah


okay ya but the, I don't know the they have dug out some soil I believe, see behind the I think the lady there are two I don't know it's a slipper or sandal or what I don't know also, or what


they are trying to make a drain or what from there to the sea there's a line you see, connecting to the, small ya, straight into the sea


but it's incomplete ya incomplete maybe, okay now


ya they will hide, or they we never know maybe, they brought or what we also don't know


ya ya, ya ya, maybe they found, in the sand inside crab normally they have they make holes used to stay you know inside the sand


can't say, but normally along the beach, they they normally dig holes and they stay, but it I think it's quite uh far away from the beach water you see


true true, they're trying to do it that thing with the spade or whatever, but it is incomplete


if it is, ya ya it's a short time they spend they maybe teaching the children how to, K now do this ya play by themselves what do you expect in the beach you know


like the boy you know on the one doing the sandcastle, maybe he's part of this family, so they they they let him do what he wants to do you see


and this boy maybe part of their family also, the one in the sea uh playing with the uh what floating uh foam or whatever, I don't think it's surfing, maybe just


ya ya ya cannot you have to either swim with it or whatever use as a float, ya lah or he has to surf surf mean must have wave, otherwise very hard to surf


ya that's why, maybe they are part of their family maybe you know, and this boy in the car, maybe one member of the I I believe so lah I'm not very sure, maybe he don't want to join, boy ah girl ah


if you think very big of that ah all come together then they do their own things, maybe he maybe the parents must have uh discipline them discipline him


don't play a fool eh you know you are at the seaside anything can happen


sit in the car ya, right below, playing football


right below, ya ya ya, one is trying to kick to the other guy with the red pants


green can, ya ya all all like from the same family maybe, ya


ya then they you see if you look a little bit onto your right you see the old lady, sitting in the chair is she is doing sewing, knitting ya lah I mean sorry knitting ya


it is possible it is family and then they have a dog, uh you see, very interesting, but actually all this I believe so it's part of their family, this one the husband and wife may sit here under the umbrella


the children play around


lady, ya ya, quality time she's spending lah, ya ya ya, let them play and she watching them


possible ya that's what I'm thinking also


so they drive the car and uh bring the mother over or the mother-in-law or, his father-in-law, you know all come together they set up, ya ya ya


and it's sunny today too, so there is no risk of uh, rain or anything


is it oh, I don't see any sign here, mine is, shore forecast sunny sun, it's on right there


possible, ya true true, maybe they didn't update


much people to come here lah, the other thing you observe there ah, beach volleyball lesson, I think they also set up a volleyball netting


and all these with the dog there, later they may you know teach them how to you know play, you know how to play volleyball, you see or not


no no not conduct maybe they want to play they can play there's nothing, possible I don't know maybe they playing or what, uh or it is the provided by the management of the this place


could have put up lah


I think if you say that I also would agree that the beach uh the table, and the umbrella, all these things could have been also maybe provided by them we don't know


how would people go to the paul kim and the shack buying drink and where are they going to sit, you, for them to sit and


ya, ya possible possible, uh possible, see most beaches uh they will have umbrella or sometime they have the


you know stone table and all these, so people can come use the beach, and they have also just next to the shack there is a dustbin, to prevent littering and all ya trash


ya ya, ya it's very clear and is green colour


ya but then the place is not open only the drink maybe you just push put your money in coins, but the shack they said to rent I don't know it could be vacated


ya, then after that he put up a sign whoever want to rent you can run it uh you run, ya ya small business is uh all small time business you can't make much money but uh


we we, we don't use country name she said country name people place all, just about this thing only we talk ya true other countries they may have, other than that, they set up even barbecue pit you know drink all this depending on where and which part of


the beach they do all, even we do not know the paul and time ah earlier we talk, is whether open or not they don't even put the sign there they should say it's open, only they put cafe but no any movement


ya ya the drink one the drink drink stand ya, ya ya ya ya, true true maybe not much people


ya ya ya, it's actually family outing place for the whole family, you know, everybody, but I think for this particular day


I think it's all interrelated we do not know because the lady wouldn't come by herself without any, ya so maybe it's her grandsons, or her son or whatever


ya picnic, ya ya, they have to bring the dog to the beach , true, they have to bring sometimes they let them swim in the water ah it's good for the dog


no, those branded dog breeds ah they they will have to bring to the beach every week or two weeks once, you know you just bring them you go in it will swim with you then it swim back


some of them can swim really very well, ya lah ya but then he watching the boys, the watching the boys playing the volleyball I mean the football


so I will chase, ya chase the ball, actually should have provided something for him to play also you see, ya ya ya wait ah


I mean he can play, or the old lady, can uh dialogue with the dog instead uh she's concentrating on uh, so what else we need to discuss more


you see anything uh, in particular we have covered most, almost all, sorry


ya knitting correct correct knitting some kind of, woollen woollen stuff lah, ya ya, ya maybe soft or what


oh I see I see, signboard ya ya signboard is also green


okay, the green what


but then you look, which one you're talking the bin right the trash bin, [orh] I see that one is a light very light, ya ya, ya very light


ya ya ya, sitting in the car green colour it is blue my car my one is blue colour, the pants it looks like grey


ya, I don't know maybe yours, but I see he wearing a blue colour T shirt or something then he wearing a, grey or black colour or dark colour pants


ah ya you give me a minute I write this uh she wants me to fill up the, forms lah, hold on I fill up and then we communicate again, shall I put down the phone on the receiver


table ah hold on just one second


ya shall we continue, ya lah


correct true but it is self uh operated one, ah okay ah, can


hello, ya ya ya, okay now uh, oh fill up the forms no


okay continue, ya, ya ya all all the, things we can observe, we have covered


hundred percent, correct


yes, I do, I do, I have, wait ah


ya stories you see the green card, tell a story about a crazy coincident


crazy , that is what is stated there, hypothetically fun lah, tell a story about crazy coincident how to be coincident


it need two parties it need two parties to, be coincident, somebody else also do the same thing


ya ya ya, but it's, must be crazy you know the incident must be crazy, that's a, yes


okay


oh I see


oh I see ah


oh a slide ya


oh I see, and you're all playing with soap and water


the instinct lah


oh I see I see, ya ya ya that one was a big splash old days ya, there's there that's a real slide it goes round and round and then they throw you out in a


big pool, ya ya ya


no I don't think so lah it's possible because when they do a slide like that, they would have done some research and uh what are the chances ya, ya


not maybe uh but I can't recollect uh maybe the volleyball field or whatever you know, ya your memory is very good


certain certain thing you can speak out certain thing you can't speak out because


when you're young kids ah they do a lot of weird thing you know, can still remember, ya ya ya


yup, ya ya ya, possible I have I have to recollect lah


you know, so many things I do, but crazy the word crazy makes me think, it may not be crazy it may be crazy or not I don't know, you know crazy means, people like say that is not right


old days ya, correct correct correct


in those old days lah I remember near the river


ya ya even including stealing, fruits from people


they got lock ah, , mother


and climb up the, (hmm)


my son, you here it's only, so the fright of it


okay oh correct correct, ya


ya correct, it is still there I think, I, some of the houses ah ya


ya ya ya the petrol cars are they are here more than used to be in the old days, you know


ya lah but now all the people have gone through, uh fifty years of uh, living and then, so many thing has taken place all this way all these days, you know, for people to do all you see you want to


do these crazy thing is not possible these days, you'll end up, ya, ya ya it is a thrill yes, even I remember ah I remember, you know uh I also stay around that area


I tell you what we do, you know there is your the drain there is a monsoon drain I think is not a river, very big and during heavy rain, I remember, I stay my very far place there


and the, during the heavy rain it's clear crystal water running, and you know what we few fellows will do, we'll go and jump and swim without realising it can pull you under the bridge or under the tunnel lah and all these


you know and sometime those guards in the private houses ah, will come and shout know !oi!, what are you all doing ah you get carried away and go under the tunnel get stuck there you'll die you know this and that


so we all quickly go and climb the other side how to climb, there is only one or two place they have the you know the, what do you call ah railing what do you do then I tell you, it is really funny you know the fellow will go and take the stick


you know, stick stick to gather out, he will somehow uh climb here climb use this use this fellow climb carry the fellow you know, while that kind of gushing water, we carry one fellow it's not very high lah the


the the platform or the, the, ya so what do we do we push ah another fellow will, raise back to push running water know one fellow catch already enough already


then the other side know the other side the, guard cannot come because it's very difficult he had to go very far to come, so all of us climb up lah one after another three four fellows, so many crazy thing it's possible to do lah but


now I also difficult to recollect all but, if you give me time, then can remember because they as child they are going through the current time, ya ya they want to do these go to the


yes yes yes, ya ya ya ya, old days we used to catch fish you know


catch fish, catch spiders you know, every time Kena mosquito bitten, Alamak tell you then you know the spider fighting you know spider fighting, can become real fight know use match box and all


very interesting lah what to do old days now where got people go catch and spider all, crazy thing ah ya ya, next card ah wait lah


what what is this, what, describe the, describe the tastiest thing you have eaten, in as much details as possible, what do you have


Mysore oh I see


who is <tamil></tamil> uh, why, oh of the <tamil>மகாராஜா:maharaja</tamil> lah okay okay


ya ya


they have a way to do this lah you know they know the, art of cooking such food, ya


I have also travel like like you know I used to travel old days, outstation for football, rightfully and all this, they have seen all these things there lah in these countries you know outstation


you know thirty forty fifty fellows going, this some places certain food, I tell you you cannot stop, eating it, you know bamboo shoot


you know or not it's actually arranged we are going, about sixty of us lah including the officials and all, with one engine that is a


steam engine with a coal coal fire, going far place, so we stop at one station there there's no itinerary for this train for us, you want you can spend time we we very scared


because the amount of sound the engine makes ah very scary so one station we stopped you know, this is only a bamboo shoot, they make some kind of not a porridge lah it's a soup lah, but I tell you one bowl you eat ah take ah


you want to eat some more eat some more know, I I think you may have tried but now I don't know whether you have heard these places, definitely it's quite far from the place where we used to land and it's very far inside


and that driver of the train come and tell us, eat as much as you can don't worry not enough they they they got it inside, they can eat, and it's very nutritious lah very very tasty, it is I don't know coconut milk come out what they add and all this ah


very difficult to describe the taste, you know, so uh usually this is all in , different country got different, way of cooking things you know and it's very healthy food


you know, so I don't know lah you have seen all these, even some places got river big river they have restaurants, you know, be it those type of


food ah, either use fish or this, chicken or what they they have a way of doing it you know, you can eat, ya uh these must be a specialty of the place


so likewise they have many but all these traditions are today, dying, not many children of the parents want to do this, so if they don't do who going to do, even for just like us


you see but then they want to, want to make a living and this one, you want to eat, the best, you know the awesome thing, you know, how much


details you want to tell, !huh!, there are so many intricacy of doing this food, you know, so I really appreciate these people who you know really do the cooking that time and all these you know


and we used to reward them lah when before the start of the train ah, all we give lah some money and then give it to the the the guy lah, one bowl maybe cost, five dollars ah we give ten dollar lah let them take lah it's okay lah you know


and they're very enthusiastic to help you know, to enjoy you know they're not saying uh cannot this cannot that, the whole place all got bowl and then they got people washing the thing behind


it's all happening lah not many place lah only those, country that are developing only lah develop country they, uh all these not very much I, ya ya ya you see we are gone to


sorry, ya, strangest thing ah, I don't know I can't remember what strange things


strange thing have to recollect back lah, ya


ya ya


ya ya ya, but, usually the drivers of the car owners they won't go, you know why you know they carried and throw


ya ya when in the sea is safe but it is better not to go near


no no don't have we don't have our weather we don't have tropical, tornadoes usually US


ya it comes like a funnel like that ah


ya but the most most often than now ah tornadoes ah they need, this hot, air and the cold air, some places it strikes ah !woo! you can see, very obvious it might destroys uh districts you know


I think you have seen, very very strong that's why they don't dare to, go near it because tornadoes they turn left and they drive off to other ways


(mmhmm) sorry, the other one I have uh few card uh another two green, I have purple, which card any card, wait ah


it no more silly, silly super decided by a person ah, thought provoking every morning you can take twenty minutes, pick an upcoming


you could stop ageing uh this could be the thing lah thought provoking, you could stop ageing, how old would you like to look, would you like to look forever


thought provoking one ah what


sixteen


ya lah, ya, thought provoking, you see like myself too I'm ageing also, okay


if this exactly is written if you could stop ageing how old would you like, to look forever, exactly, can you stop ageing there is no way you can stop ageing but the age will increase


your physiques may not change much, correct or not, some people they have diet, the way they, take themselves, and then the way they conduct themselves they are careful


then how old would you like to look forever forever cannot, forever you can't be the same you can for some time until for some age, after that it's going down the hill, true or not, ya so for


uh how old you can come cannot come back can go forward only, you know in say let's say for for instance ah I give you a example if you are seventy years old


and if you look, fifty plus, that is quite okay, you know, ya ya


(hmm) ya ya ya, but do you think is this will be good


ya it's only maybe yes it can be done but, ya, but uh


no, too young also people will know that we are not too young, ya


how can we we are seventy can't be sixteen years old so your look, ya


ya lah you can go for grooming you can go for, you can go and do, ya you a physiques also of a


but I think taking medication and cosmetic and all this, or the plastic surgeries and all this this thing they do it won't last long, just ah I give you example ah I have guys ah, who had who when they are in the early thirties or


late twenties ah they go and tattoo, you know tattoo here tattoo all over, you know, when you grow old, what going to happen shrink, your body shrinks body metabolism


you cannot be you're even whatever medicine you take ah, it's not going to your skin will wrinkle, just like that you see


yes, you must take good food


complexion, correct


oh okay, what is a thing that I am most, ever done ah impressive thing


what impressive thing I, maybe I do it but I cannot, at this point recollect lah, what impressive thing, maybe can give me a hint what


okay, oh I see I see, ya lah it's good thing lah


that's what I do, that's what I do you know you see this in november yes sorry ah


ya ya ya is you you give me the point to recollect you see, every year I go overseas as only, the temples and all that and, I exclude the temple, temple parents have done everything okay


from all I recollect but what do I do now, for the last five years, I don't go also, I make arrangement last year I didn't go, you know, I the anniversary


I'll go and do in homes as what you said you know, uh about seventy old people, then sometime schools catholic schools catholic uh church homes, all in my place there


we give uh food you know, they will even ask we don't give us vegetarian give this, it's all like something that you are giving feed you know, plus whatever their bedding and all this you know <tamil>பாய்:paay</tamil> those mat lah blanket lah this and that


and I feel ah very very uplifted know when you do that because you can see in their face ah, you spend how much only some small bit of money, you know, so I used to go and do for the home


you know but lately why I don't do for home is, we nowadays we just, go to the management ask them to cook and serve what they like, you know why, there are other issues related to this


this serving the elderly all , uh young kids, some of them cannot stomach it you know it is good food, but they cannot some of them they can complain, oh I have diarrhoea I have this so that's why nowadays


we just go there, and ask how much one day what are you going to do what are the things you going get your cook to do they have their own cook, but they are sick of eating the same food, but okay we want to do this how much you want just give them the money and then on that day you go


you get the children around they will do some prayers and all this, just let them eat, and then give all the those small small items you know, ya soap lah this one towel lah one blanket lah one uh mat lah whatever you give it to them


you know and they're you know all type sometime tattered they just small kids you know they don't take care you see, so this is some of the things that I have done, that's all I can recollect for recent time


beyond this I want to I can't recollect much, in singapore, ya that's why


this is really something very unique, what do you think, erect the statue


how do you want the, [orh] I see I see, how, I don't know how to, say the statue how it going to look and uh what are the


uh intricacy in making the thing, to you see we have seen a lot of statue here even in all over, but, you see sometime you see certain statue you immediately will say this is so and so


even after maybe fifty hundred years or or maybe, correct, true or not, how would people know that this is so and so, that is why


ya that's why how, I do not know my thing


true


ya ya, true true


ya, ya ya ya you are doing it, from old days, that is correct, it is nice to, see that so the statue how are you going to build the statue


a replica, you only can have one or two things in your hand, what you can do is you have the books in your hand and your golf bag you hang it on your, shoulder ya that's good enough


and then you have a action of yourself, your, your mark you know, maybe your hand gesticulation, or something you take a picture and then ask them to do


ya ya ya it's possible lah but uh, at this point of time, what can you do much uh see okay now I have one thing here, personal ah, describe your past five years in five years in under five sentences


how how would I describe, past five years in five sentences only, yes, five sentences


okay one, three four


okay five sentences you've done well, yes yes, like for me


very simple, I'm already, worked, for so many years, thirty over years okay I have to say only in five sentence


I have enough, I, somehow surviving, I recently I I I like to travel, you know I travel many countries, the last two three years okay that's


two, I, enjoy what I like to do in life, three, I, have circle of friends who are really dear to me


you know so I'm always keeping them all the time together with me, then I do things, very funny very unique that, you know when I go like, my hometown


there, I like to do all these things instead of wasting the money and giving it to somebody, and the last one, I like to stay, healthy and I'm healthy now


that's all I I I don't know what to say more than the five five sentences, you agree, that's good enough, yes all these makes me very happy


you see, so now what we're going to do with the card some more continue ah


[orh] I see two people, two animals next to you, and what is animal, oh I see I see two animals lah


okay, and you must, what animal, can't I like dog, okay


dog, and, of course not cat, because it's animal, okay no one more animal what animal I can't have elephant in my house


that's why I say okay one is


ya ya, all the coconut tree and the banana tree all finish okay my dog I like, for the one animal you can, believe if you really train and bring him up bring it up


it will be the one last to follow you, until you go, and it's a very I mean very very very very grateful animal dog okay then another one, cow, you know


you know cow like it given give birth you got calf it's so nice to play with them, and they also give milk, they are very auspicious animal, you know, they dog and cow they don't have a problem


they are always very


ya ya, ya, not not our place here ya you can have anywhere you want like I go outstation I can have what I don't mention the place, I I had all these


these is the two animals I think I can go a long way, it is not the dog will protect you, will take care of your you know whatever it is yours, and at the same time the cow


you you bring you look after them they will be looking after you they giving you milk, they giving everything to you, and you must take care of them these are two animals really faithful, you know


and and you can't keep for very long too, until they live with us, you know dog maybe I don't know this is a belief I have these two animals are grateful animals, you agree


so, ya two grateful animals I can't have a cat cat all, are not animals that are grateful, they eat in your house they you are the master they don't care they go down and they eat


somebody else and then they, they uh they they they don't think back they cannot think back animals they don't have, six sense ah so, these two you can, these two animals you can, keep them they protect you


you know especially dog, nobody can come into your place, unless you give permission, and I've seen this, people have this, old days I have seen in in even in our place in uh


can't mention the place they had the cows all here, but now because our environment so small our place small, you can't have them, even for prayer you used them


ya a lot of use, cows, you know even their urine you use them, for prayer if you believe in it, dog everything


single thing without worrying about the consequences, would be, single thing without worrying about the consequences, there is no


single thing what single thing that, without worrying, I also can't think at this point of time there too many thing we are thinking, doesn't come into your mind, but when you go out of this room ah you have so much ideas


but uh, single thing it's okay okay it's something you are giving to them for


okay, but that's only one day they can do, poor thing ah okay


ya well what to do, they they they did not have the chance in their earlier days, three independence days, they worked at they worked


no no definitely it is dollar and cents I agree with you, but, that time nobody thought about all that


now I, I think I have one regrettable thing now, which I have to raise


ya because the question must be from here right


ya see


visit for six months, oh I see which country


the only country I can, well if it is six month


I can even go thailand, uh sorry cannot mention the place, ya, ya, thailand can, you see there are so many thing you can do there one, you can travel you can see the life


lifestyle of people there, the rich and the poor, then you also can see the, how they you know their courtesy the the way they pray second the third thing, how they pray to their


god, how they celebrate, to him, (uh huh) how they respect their king, and all the and you can see this from end to end if you travel, and if I have the opportunity, I will go but I will go


there is nothing to regret, you know you see the those monks, living in the, deep jungle in a monastery, they never seen the world, where I've seen sometime they walk the road, you know barefooted with a bowl in their hand


and all those saffron the clothing, rain shine they are going, maybe few days, they will walk and take rest and they go, and you see all these ah


what is the sacrifice these people have are doing, not only that, even they go to other sectors other parts, the world, thailand, you can stay longer than that, you can go and


do, uh snorkelling you can go and do swimming go inter island, you can do a variety of things there, you won't get tired won't provided your health permits, you know for six months


should be okay, you know, you take care of yourself, and you travel, because you are provided with everything, so you don't have to worry that you don't have this you don't have that, no need to do all the expensive air travel and all this


I mean by, road, or rail, you know there are lot of things to see there, as I said earlier also, the people over there, the different different different different type of things they do


what they do in the south you don't have in the north, what they do in the east they don't have it in the west, and they are all one people, you know, the most peaceful people, on earth


I doubt, they do anything more than what their king, ask them, that is one of the thing I wish I have nothing more there may be many many many things


more to that, so !hey! that's all I have to tell you, I can talk talk what for no no meaning


province by province


[orh] I see I see, very peaceful, ya you don't uh don't need to worry about your six month you see


ya ya you can do anything you want


ya ya ya, that's what I also tend to think there's so many things we, yes yes yes of course, you know why, it's a eye opener, uh ya ya


ya ya ya, it is you experiencing it you see ah, so it is very great thing, done very good very very good, then, I also have travel all the places there


about forty days that is insufficient, earlier days, ya, it's not enough, not enough, not enough not enough


it may be, but difficult difficult to stay six months one stretch like that you can you have to come back, then go again


you may come as a changed man


ya okay, excellent, you've said, I have one story here what is the most frustrated you have ever been with a person, but person I cannot mention, because it is not correct


you see, I tell you now, this is in singapore, you know I studied in this school, and the, they had all the things, you wanted


as a student, and it is a memorable school, most people in singapore, even today, they love the school, for what it was


what happened to the school, is because of one person, we did not have conservation, we did not think through, so frustrated they just brought it down


and the, uproar, started, and, for the time being it was stop and during the time ah no I can't mention the name, and it was that person was responsible


and they did not had, and it was all brought up and it happened to be the founder school, and what, the people did was stop it at that, you know stop it at that


they made the motion and all these, and then they stopped it, that is how some of the schools which were year marked for break , demolition cannot this a historical thing you know, historical thing


the, and it's so sad, every time I walk past this thing it's so frustrated, seeing concrete jungle, when other countries, preserve the oldest building


few hundred years also, that is, civilisation, he here break, old building and building new one, just nothing it's a concrete jungle


so I only frustrated with one person, it's the person, so I don't have to say the person who I think the whole, old people in singapore know those who have studied those who have including you you know


many schools, all all the old old buildings, then came the conservation, too late, too late, it could have been a museum or what


you know everything was stopped from breaking, that is the biggest thing, I think I could recollect very vividly, you know we really heartbreak when they're breaking, you know, and it was a founder school know


okay, you tell me,


correct


I have a small input before you wondering now you know this this few add info, you see you have not been exercising you must go and see a doctor first, whether this is possible what is can I do this can I do that then he would have told you what to do


after that they continue, ah then


step by step


ya ya you have the, chance to help him


you took a taxi, that's


that is where you get cure


they couldn't save him lah because there is not much time, you you gave him a good advice but he didn't want to take it, go with you go and check and take a second opinion this and that


and and the other thing ah end of it ah you know even today, it can be for anyone for us, we must, you see now the this kind attack you know strokes, heart


he has got to go within an hour or two to the hospital, and to maintain the thing, you must have aspirin, you know five hundred MG, no no no for for to protect you to go to the hospital doctor only can handle you if he can see you


if he see the dead corpse what he going to do, ah wasted his life


hospital, Alamak wasted his life


and he's a cause of his uh loss of life, no have to take them ya that's a good thing know can do


nevermind this only one, you did for me what bring the eye eye doctor and all this, nevermind lah just come you mean to say if I don't pay you won't pay ah


we must find the right solution ah right remedy, so what the, can can can


so many lah all all very tough question they asking


I think yes, difficult situation


ya ya ya I know I'm trying to think


education, knowledge


ya ya ya


ya ya ya he he has a different view altogether


the same thing uh brother ah I'm telling you my experience, when I finish my, A level, I exceeded by one point, I was playful, I was doing sports cross country this and that in the days


and I exceeded supposed to be fifteen I got sixteen, so, that is at final deciding point for my whole life, okay, I should have


just listened to the teacher there are three teachers came to my house #putu mayam# shop, #tanjong pagar# this real life I telling, they come and see my father and ask say where where is this boy and all that he's inside where is his father


I if I mention the name you know cannot mention, so they come okay, we have gone and seen the ministry of education, for him, and the school supported him and now they gave him


gave him a clearance to go and do, some university degree or whatever, so now he got a placing in law


so my father said I don't know what my son want to do this and that, ya he he this is a issue in the school but we got him now, could you please send him, to go and do further studies


then this three teachers cannot be talking and talking to my father and the relatives there, and I also not keen, I did not get it in the first place by one point so never mind I will find my way


so I did my own I, my father never in all in my life you know my father after that come and told me you are given three months, son I'm alone know my mother is not here all all bachelors eh, come


go and do your studies that time where #bukit timah#, you know #hwa chong# junior college next building, that's the only one nineteen sixties late sixties I think, go you are given three month go anytime go and do it


go and do your whatever you want to do, was so , fed up, no I told my father leave it to me I can handle, I go and apply for a job I got it, I worked, then I got promoted


twice, my head of department K now you go for senior officer course go, that time all was supportive of me in the working place, anything any assignment they give me I do it


you know do it better than what, anyone can do, so very very uh, you know serious about the thing, so I got the whole job and I got it done and I stand up on my own foot, I did my own wedding I did everything on my own


until today I stand on my leg I never flaunt myself or go and begging or whatever you agree, I never, I I I had everything I wanted in my life, so I'm happy I have done everything I ought to do I do it not only with a degree


which I should have done it, that is a eye opener to the world education, uh still at that age most of the, students are all O level A level, if they can survive I cannot survive


very big ya that's why they gave me the bloody job, and that one big salary you know, all I spent friends this that, from that time my father stop, uh telling me what to do


oh he has put his own hand and come up, no regret, even if if he had gone to do that, he may end up in some place for some, floor, so leave him alone


after that he never talk to me much he never say anything, ya, I live my own I worked thirty seven years, thirty seven years, I would have worked even now, this one my personal thing I'm telling now


I didn't, I took it, on my own, and I come up, today I still, how many years more than sixteen seventeen years I I I retired, I I don't have any regret I don't go and ask anybody for a penny


what I have or what I get I just spend, don't think about tomorrow tomorrow may not come correct or not, ya tomorrow may not come, my my my closest people are my friends not my relatives


you can see I don't have much relative right you know also, very soon you will know how many, but I don't even I don't keep anything much with them, that is why I worry I only with my wife only now


okay carry on, somehow some people will help you you see why you are good hearted you are helpful, no life goes on, not everybody will


who has a PHD and uh whatever they are successful no, ya, I travel also very very widely last three four years very much


so I I don't regret, I have a very supporting person, what I have here got uh so many okay


wait ah here some all tough lah, what useless subject ended up being useful to you later in life, then they have another one what embarrassing fad did you subscribe when you were, young ah I already tell just now


okay then what is one of the weirdest thing that you have googled recently, then if life had an achievement system


what would some interesting achievement to get, how did you accomplish something that you thought would be impossible, that one, oh google ah


ya wait ah, where is it where the google, wait went where, ya, okay I will read again ah personal thing what is one of the weirdest thing that you have googled recently


greatest, weirdest you know W E I R, weirdest yes, not greatest, weirdest


weird lah something weird, or you want to change, change ya, third, wait ah, superpower what


get a new superpower decided by the person to your left, what do you do with it, how did, you accomplish something that you thought would be impossible


we have talk many things all are co-related, if if life have, take that one, uh okay how did you accomplish, something that you thought would be impossible


yes, yes, ya, yes


ya ya ya, it is not going to work, ya must you must


ya, true true, to look for a fruit, doesn't matter


god created that , stealing no doubt you know no one minute stealing no doubt it is for the stomach we are not selling


ya, ya ya ya, the ingenuity in you


must be positive thinking lah


ya it is a living example


ya, ya ya ya ya ya, that is why I also had the same problem, my father also cannot afford to send me to the U it's not free getting a place is very difficult okay, I want a place but how is my father going to


send me the semester so expensive that time, that time money is very expensive you know you have five dollar in your pocket one week you can go know, ya but he can't I cannot tell my father eh you cannot afford


but I, thought over that, then they gave the three month


ya ya Satay club, but the same same thing they also do for me they can be rich children poor children they all do know same


ya ya, how much ten cent twenty cent only everything, ya


ya ya ya back, ya man mean can spendthrift that time you see, and it's all very cheap things there, you know five cent three cent two cent, like that, ya your life will never ever come back


is it okay or not I think, okay lah you call you go out first ah okay I


okay I don't put down but you go go out tell see what she say


hello, ya I I you see what you have uh okay ah, describe, your past five years five sentence you did already did already, wait ah, okay


from childhood, I never had dream childhood, uh there there are some dreams lah childhood


no, I I I I only have one thing, which my father used to say, don't steal don't gamble uh don't go and disturb people don't get people into trouble ha always be


live within your means whatever you earn, so that is how I keep all these you know, even until today my friend say eh you eat already wash your mouth already they just purposely disturb me know because my father used to tell, they will come #putu mayam# shop what


eh you wash your mouth and go, how can you eat already just run like that, my father will tell then they will ask me what did your father say he say eat right, you never wash your mouth, !huh!, go and do all this, then go


okay okay you tell me


ya ya, or stat board


all the footballer, ya ya, don't even have direct telecast all this ya, TV only came in the eighties what


I think TV came in the eighties right, sixties ya the black and white ya ya ya, community centre only we watch mostly lah


uh no need lah, all that


ya we you are successful I also I can say, my I did so many thing like you, okay lah you have done well lah


no need to be rich to be happy right, ya that is the important thing, what we and you and me can do others cannot do know, you can be millionaire they cannot do


either they they are constrain or they are, other things family don't let them do cannot do this cannot wait you have to do this, better don't leave


you materialised, enough is enough


you see most of my as you say ah I agree, most of the thing ah is only after my retirement after fifteen years ah, I really, enjoy my life, you can ask all my friend nobody ah they will all say enjoy like him


he have the car he have the house he have the enjoyment, good sir very good job everything he have and he never disturb people never put people into trouble, you know, it's only one failure


that one is gone already the old old story, never turn back, never never turn back, never turn back yes, that's why we succeeded in a way or rather


something different, today can be, rainy or sunny or what we still go and do what we want to do


ya ya true, now we leave [ah], can put down [ah]


hello, you're not supposed to mention my name, okay now ah you look at the photograph on your table


uh in my photograph, I can see a small house, a shop like that on the left corner, you know, yes it says tom and paul's cafe


uh do, do you see that, do you have something like that there, what do you think they are selling


ya because uh my side I think they are selling peach juice because I can see a picture of a signboard, on the pavement


ya but it could be because uh on the door I can see a seahorse, a seahorse, or could be they're selling some uh fish and chip maybe it's a fish and chip outlet what do you think


and then, ya ah the


ya that's what I said I think they're selling some fruit juices because it mentions there's a peach juice, do you notice something, very funny in that picture


that is a red colour car parked on the road side, ya but it is not a road it is a beach how can a car be driven into the beach I'm sure the tyre would have got


stuck in the sand, and then I I I, no I don't see the driver anywhere around there


but I see one, one, no, uh what I notice is that there is a little boy sitting on the car with a seat belt on


ya it's a young young kid down there, but looks like a very nice, looks like a very nice sports car


and with the door, that the door is open but nobody seems to be around, ya could be but uh it's very funny to see a car driving straight to the beach and parking in the sand like that


and then, I think it must be very dangerous because you see further up


there is another little boy, playing, building sandcastles, you know how can they allow someone to drive a car in like that


when they notice that uh kids playing on the beach, ya but I think the shore and the sand and the beach


you know the shoreline it's quite far away, and furthermore I also notice, that


there is a, weather forecast signboard, placed on on the beach, say again


ya it says, ya because I my side it the forecast is rain, and what happens when it rains, the sand, will all become, softer you know


and then the driver will be having a big problem to drive out the car or maybe get people to push, ya tow also I doubt the tow truck can go in


ya could be, you know, but I think it is not a good idea to let the car to drive in there, what do you think, yes


maybe I think they should put a signboard like what they put at the shore forecast you know, to say that no, no no cars, beyond this point, so in that way they can keep out keep out the cars


no more cars beyond ah, yes you know in some countries you know


they demarcate the zone where the parking area is and where the car can be allowed in, ya but the thing is that I think this guy may be a stubborn driver you know


he don't cares what's happening, he simply drives the car in and parks down there


no no if it's not, say that someone is going to get injured you know they should practice safety this a beach you know in the beach children will run around, you know nobody expects a car to come to the beach and park at the uh beach like that


ya but I don't see any beach warden today, there's no sign of anybody


know, never mind we will leave it to the authorities to look into all this, you know we can always uh, put up a report to some, department and highlight to them do you know the danger of the car going to the beach like this


and children playing, you know and then you notice next to where the car is parked, there is also a a big umbrella


ya with two chairs, you know, so basically, know if it's more of a place for children and adults who come there spend their time leisurely


rather than, yes sit down relax you know take out your food basket, spread it over the table enjoy the day, instead of you know, sitting there and worrying there's a car coming in and a car going out


with children running around, yes I I I don't know whether the car engine is running or not


ya that's another good question, you know like I say, on my side of the beach the weather forecast is rain


you know, and I noticed that there is uh one two three four five six seven, including the boy will be eight person, what happens if it rains there is not even


a proper shelter


oh do we have a shed to rent you know but uh, ya but our, what that is a vending machine you know


ya coming to the shed, I I I think my shed looks more like a hamburger or a, shed that selling burgers ice creams, you know basically because I all I see is there is a big lock


big lock you know halfway there, and I I don't see there is enough, space for people to stand if it rains, you know it can't shade ya it it can't


ya it is more like a small uh, small uh what do you call that a small stall, selling fast foods you know, selling hamburgers ice cream you know something like that


ya because I I think today might be weekday and they don't expect too much of a people to come there, so, maybe they only open the weekends


yes, yeah, uh ya you ya there's no lifeguard there


and the boy it seems to be like going surfing, ya if not when they have surfing you know the the wave


because I know these surfers they like to cut the wave, yes you know what happens if uh he this boy gets into any trouble


there seems to be no one you know like a no lifeguard or safety, personnel monitoring the activities there


you also never know you know like australia when, they go surfing and all that they will also have a signboard and helicopter uh hovering over the sea you know, looking out for, for sharks patrolling the area swimming in the area


ya you know, you you can never cannot tell what is, beneath the sea


no, I I don't think it is a, I don't think so it's a, no no it it it it looks more like a small uh puddle of water


maybe they may have spread some, canvas canvas sheet, you know but looking at the shape of the, the coloured portion the blue coloured portion, you know


it doesn't look like a canvas, ya it could be some uh look like a uh not clothing maybe could be some


some bags which they had bring along you know, and then they spread all these things down here, and then use it as a weight to make sure that the canvas doesn't fly out, but I don't think so it looks


I don't think so it looks more like a canvas maybe, by looking there, you see there is a pail and there is a spade, you know, and, what I believe


they would have, dug up the place down there make a small hole like a pond like that, and then, and then, use the pail to carry the water from the sea


pour it there you know to make it like a small pond and then decorate it with some shells, you know some shells and all that, but I'm really surprised to see a crab running around at the place which is quite far away from the sea


ya the ya that's a small, uh they are trying to create a small stream, flowing out to the sea


but like I said, it's really very , very funny to see crab, so far away from the sea normally it you know a crab doesn't, run around in the beach when people are playing like this


before they they catch the crab for barbecue, or maybe it could be have a uh, small uh rubber or plastic crab you know for decoration purpose


you know they they they dug up the pond, could be, maybe it could be a dead crab


ya ya I think I think so it could be a dead crab you know because uh looking at them


like I said it looks like a pond and then they put up some, maybe could be some stones and all that you know next to the pond to decorate it, and then they got, they got some shells also lying around the small like


stream like, flowing out to the sea, ya, look they are not running a construction company to go to the beach and rebeautify the place it's just that they just try to make themselves busy


yes, ya ya could be you know why, ya could be because uh


no to it looks more like a surfing you see you can't be standing on a, on a foam


ya, if you don't have the waves there you can't be surfing


ya maybe you know is he, maybe the boy is very upset showing his tantrum I don't want to get out of the car


ya because, looking there, you see, there's one boy surfing, one boy with his sandcastle, and then one small boy sitting in the car, and then, I also notice


there are two boys, playing playing, ya beach football, yes


ya and and then you notice the guy in the red pants, the cap which he's wearing, and the boy who is building the sandcastle the green cap, they all look similar


so so, ya maybe you're right you know they must be from the same family, ya


uh no ah she's not doing sewing uh what what she's doing uh she's doing knitting, and then ya their family dog, he he he is


ya, no I I I think the the boys' parents if you look at the picture, you see there is one kid in the sandcastle


one kid in the car, there's one boy in the sea surfing, two kid playing football, and then the elderly, lady


sitting in a, reclining chair, in her own world you know knitting, ya with the grandchildren maybe could be the grandchildren, and


and I think the, the one who uh building the pond, you know, the man and the lady, could be the parents of the boy, you know


you know ya, like you say know spend quality time at the beach, all by themself, ya, ya and, even though it's sunny but the weather forecast says that


you know they're expecting rain maybe later on in the day, [orh] yours you know


maybe the they may not have a they may not have updated the shore forecast sign, because your yours says sunny, mine says rain, you know


like I said you know, like I said you know this may be a weekday, so they really don't expect people to come in there to, ya much people to come and spend time or maybe, the forecast is only for the weekend


ya ya ya, I I I don't exactly say you know that they going to conduct class to, play, you know, no no the net if I believe is also part of the beach setup


you know, ya they they they ya the, the the the manage uh what you call that the authorities you know who who who who maintain


who maintain the, beach, trying to create activities for people who come there to spend their time


ya could be the table you know the table the beach umbrella, you know, maybe this could have been provided, by the authorities you know it's part of the beach set-up


you know like I said it could be a weekday because on a weekend means, I'm sure that


ya which is good you have to prevent littering you know, and and the, and the bin is also, very strategically


placed in the open area, so that you know, anybody who comes out from the cafe with takeaways you know they also can see the bin, and someone buys things from that like I said know it could be a hamburger hut


you know they also can throw whatever rubbish back into the bin, ya like I said


could be that, yes could be vacated maybe the person you know, ya to start up a new business


to cater for the people coming to the beach, no you see wait wait wait if you look at all this uh small, what shall I said these kind of small sheds in


australia and all that along the beaches, these are people, who don't, do not do it on a full time basis, they are basically more retirees you know, and over the weekend they like to spend


some time interact with people and they may be a, ex-cook, no you know


you know these are all


I I, no I think I think the cafe is open you know why, normally this kind of cafes when they close, you notice there's a signboard on the pavement, peach juice


you know, when they close they will carry this signboard and put back, ya you know they will carry back the signboard keep it inside the shop and lock it up, and the signboard only comes out when they open up the place for business


you know, that shows that the place is open for business for the day, ya no you don't necessarily say that it's for the whole family the beach is for everyone to use


ya ya, like


you know, like we discuss earlier it looks like, more like a family outing to spend some quality quality time, and the beautiful part they have not even forgotten their dog


ya ya, ya some some some dogs like to, uh swim


ya the, yes the the salt salt water is good, ya maybe the dog must be thinking why when are they going to pass the ball to me


so that I also can play with them, so I also can play with them, ya they should they should have given a bone to the dog at least


cause someone play with the dog


no, no I think, no I think, I think the old lady


I think the old lady is uh knitting, is knitting some maybe it is, ya it's a small woollen cardigan or scarf for the grandchildren


and, I think these people may be a, may be irish because you see the old lady is also wearing a green hat, the boys also wearing a green hat, the other boy is also wearing a green hat


the painting of the cafe is also in green, the signboard is also green


it seems like the green seems to be the favourite colour of this place, what do you think, I said the the green colour is a common colour


no, I'm talking about the cafe, ya the cafe is in green colour


the signboard is in green colour, the boy sitting in the car is wearing a green colour pants, ya it's a blue colour shirt with green pants right


but one thing very surprising about this beach, you don't see any palm trees or coconut trees you know, lining along the beaches you know


it's just all sand all the way, you notice that or not


okay okay, don't put down the phone, no no no put it on the table, just leave, don't talk anything just put it on the table


are you still there


yes uh, but uh what I see like you said the stall is you know the stall is for rent, and, and then they have a drink vending machine by the side of it


ya it's self-operated I think maybe that, that vending machine I think belongs to somebody else


yes you agree with me or not, I think basically we have covered everything here ah


like I said basically we have covered everything here ah


ya we have covered everything you know, so what I suggest, we we you put this aside, and and then, you notice you have a do you have a pack of cards


okay what you do, you read me your first card


ya ya don't worry about the green card okay what does your card says, tell a story about a crazy coincidence


what crazy coincidence they want to know, ya I know it's hypothetically fun


well basically coincident, ya, yes, uh it's maybe like you know like you want to do something


and then, on that same day, some somebody else also, does the same thing


yes yes I I I I remember this you know, what happen was you know when we were in the army, you know every, once a week, we will have what you call a area cleaning


and you know what we did, just outside my barrack, there was a slope, a concrete slope, you know, and maybe about eight eight nine feet slide you know


so what we did, somebody came up with this crazy idea, we started having fun you know the surface was very smooth, so we poured the soap water, and we use it as a slide you know we went sliding


playing around, and then, at the same end of the building, there's also a slope something like that but belonging to a a different barrack


I mean a different squad, and then the instructor who was in charge of that building, comes by


to our place, where we were all, playing the the soap water with the slide you know make it like a slide, and, he comes there and looks at us he starts laughing


he say you guys, I don't know where you got this crazy idea, I just came from the other end, the guys are also doing the same thing what like what you people did, pour the soap water there


and they turn it into a playground sliding down, you two guys what discuss this before or what, so we said you know this is the first first weekend we are doing this area cleaning


we would, ya , you see the children instinct in you automatically comes in, when you see something you become innovative, and then we pour the soap and, turn it into a playground


so while you do the area cleaning, you also have fun, enjoying yourself, it becomes more like a slide, like you see in east coast park you know where they have the water running down the slide and then you lie down and slide down all the way into the pool of water


ah ya the big splash, yes that was really


crazy you know the first time when you go up, and you stand at the top, and look at the pool below, and before you do the first time


you'll be thinking, should I do this crazy thing, what happens if I fly out of the slide


yes , but you see when the big splash just open in singapore at that time, and we are looking at the slide something like this for the first time, and then after we go in and then we do the slide two three times


then you will realise oh this thing is safe, so when you were in the army you cannot spend time in big splash, you're in camp, so the big splash became a mini splash, we also did the same thing


the next squad fellow also did the same thing see what a coincidence, what, what about you you have any idea something like that, which you all did


ya could have happen like I said long time back, no, sometimes you know, when you sit down and think of all the crazy things you did


ya but now, you can speak what happened thirty years ago


nobody is going to say anything, you know they just laugh at you, you know, like, my card, reads, what crazy things did you do as a child


do you remember what you did as a child one just one one event


yes, you know uh I I give you an example what I did, you know when when I was, how old let me see, maybe


thirteen years old fourteen years old, at uh next to my school you know there there was this landed property houses, so and then they have all the fruit trees down there


and, one of the house where they had these fruit trees you know the rambutan tree the mango tree, it belongs to a inspector of police, ya lah old days you know


and then what we used to do, we used to break take the bicycle, and cycle round this estate, and then we were looking at the trees, because you know when those days when we are young we always enjoy climbing up trees plucking fruits


and, house you know and then this, this house belongs to the inspector, and we knew he he was a police inspector, and the house got fence got gate


and we also knew that, in the day time, he's out for work, the only person there, is an old lady in the sixties you know could be his mother or mother-in-law


so what we do we cycle down there park the bicycle by the side of the drain, and then, one fellow will climb up the fence, jump onto the tree


climb up the tree, pluck the fruit start throwing out to the drain, where we'll be sitting down there collecting all these things fruits you know, and then the old lady on hearing the noise will come out, and then she she will start shouting at the top of the voice


and then when and then we know that old lady at the age can't do anything, you know and then she'll say you know I'm going to call, my son, and report to you all he's a policeman he's going to catch you


you know, and then, the fright is never mind but we know we won't be coming back, and then the moment when we see, any car that pass by the road, the guy from the tree


will quickly run you know climb down, climb over the fence you know, climb down and climb over the fence because the tree was next to the fence you know from there you can just like hop onto the fence climb down take the bicycle


with the fruits we run into the back alley of the estate, you know those at back to back houses they have a small back alley, so once you go into the back alley, the cars cannot chase you


and the back alley you know they got so long way you know left turn here right turn there, we all escape that way, ya ya the the house is still there


but, you know sometimes when we pass by those houses, I used to sit down and think you know, what kind of crazy things I used to do those days, if today we do like that the policeman will immediately come and catch you


yes, all these crazy things we did as a child we never bother about anything


yes but those days the thrill you know when you see one fruit tree, you know when you see


ya ya it's a monsoon drain


railing


I know the because when you stand at the top of the railing, you you you put a stick, a pole , ya


ya climb up then run away, ya nowadays children don't


nowadays children don't do all these things ah, because they they they are pampered they want to swim they go to the swimming pool, but our thrill was to jump into the drain, correct or not you agree with me


ya, nowadays you you go to


yes, yes, yes although we we we do, ya we do all these kind of crazy things those days, what what is the next card you have


tastiest thing I have eaten, uh I think the most tastiest thing I have eaten, was uh when I was overseas, you know I I I was staying in uh


in Mysore, uh #lalitha mahal# palace hotel, and then, they had this uh, beautiful


the king's ballroom where the king is to have his dinner you know but, the the, but palace has been converted into a hotel, and then one of the speciality there, was a fish


which was supposedly to be the king's favourite dish, yes, you know, and then, they named it after him


they call it the fish #haider ali#, you know and, he's a he's <tamil>மகாராஜா:makaaraajaa</tamil> of uh Mysore, and then


you you can't say the fish is fried, you can't say it is, you know, and, I have not I have travelled so extensively


in india, but have not, really eaten a fish like this, and, every few years once when I pass by that place, I will always make it a point


to go there, eat the same dish, it is, and it's really very very tasty


even the friends who I've brought, there and also introduced this dish, they also really loved it, what about you


ya it's basically like the speciality of this place, ya ya ya now all dying


and everybody does shortcut


, you don't get ya you you don't get it in a developed country already, okay now now


now let me ask you another thing, what what is the strangest thing you have ever seen or experience


you know okay never never mind uh, see basically you have work, near the sea most of your life, you know one one day I was, in the seaside, you know


and all of a sudden like a sun you know nice beautiful sunny weather, and, after a while immediately you see the rain clouds forming


and suddenly the weather changes, so you know on a rainy day you don't swim by the seaside, you know the currents will be strong windy, so I was taking a shelter


in, one of the, shelters along the seaside you know, and then, far out in the sea, I saw like what you call


tornado know, you know because, I I have seen tornadoes on TV appearing only on uh, in US and all that, you know you don't experience it here


and then this thing like a tornado know the water all rising up, to the sky, no no this one was in the sea


so so I was stand, so no there were quite a few of us standing in the shelter down there, I said, this is very strange, you know we have never seen a tornado or heard about tornado in this part of our region


you know it was only after a few days, ya you know, and then it was only after a few days, and then we came to know from the papers ah


that, this is what you call a water spout, it is not a it looks like a tornado, yes it you know, it's a, water spout


I really can't remember you know they say due to some climatic change in the weather and all that, that this kind of strange phenomenal thing happens, and it's


yes yes I know, because their the wind is very strong


what's the other card you have, the what's your other card you have, never mind uh you just take one card


any card


thought provoking, you know there is a saying in tamil, they say in tamil <tamil>என்றிலும் பதினாறு வயசு:enrilum pathinaaru vayasu</tamil> that means, uh you'll always look


even though you have aged, you look as sixteen years old, then naturally I don't want to look as sixteen I don't mind looking as twenty five, because at that age we were very slim very fit


always raring to go, what what you say


correct, so what did what what is the if given a choice, you like to look as a twenty five year old or you like to look at thirty


no I know I know you see , no you see, do you know that in today's modern science


they have come out with all this anti ageing cream, and then they have also find ways to break down your DNA, you know, thorough scientific medication treatment, they they they have transformed a seventy year old guy


to look as though he's forty five years old forty years old, but this is this is through medication, okay now I'm asking you a question


if you are given a choice, how do you like to look, like, thirty years old forty years old thirty five years old


no like I told you right that saying in tamil, you always look like sixteen years old, you know, you see like like like I said the scientific medication can transform a person


from seventy years old, to say forty years old, so, basically, say you look as, you look like you are fifty, so you want to look like thirty five


you know, there's nothing wrong what, you have the , ya, you will you you you will have the looks of a thirty five year old guy, but you have the wisdom of a fifty year old guy


see you can have both of the best of both world, ya these are only short term


the the only way to maintain yourself, you have to go back to the gym to work out, and then use ah no no see you can't define you eat good food you see the food we eat is always good food


you know you you have to use a body moisturiser cream, you know so that, to to make your skin, complexion you know oil it, to maintain, the skin


you know, okay just put put that aside now I I pick up a card it says, what is the most impressive thing, that you have ever done


okay, okay the most impressive thing that I've done, was, in the, quite sad to say in the nineties


around nineteen nineties, every year I used to do, charity, you know overseas know where I feed, on an auspicious day in a temple function


uh I I used to feed around three thousand people, you know, I I I used to pack all these thing from the restaurant you know pack it in small tupperware box, and then bring it to the temple you know after the temple ceremony


and then, you know in india, there are so much of old people beggars all sitting along the streets you know, and, and one wait let me finish first let me finish


so, what I did, I used to bring my son with me, a couple of time I brought him, every year know I when I go and do this I'll bring him along, after everything finish he was a small boy


about maybe seven eight years old, I will give him, four, four tupperware box in one, every every trip you know, he will walk out from where the pickup point for the food is


walk on the street give to all the old people sitting there, walk back take another four box, walk to the next point and give you know, I think that is the most impressive thing I have done, to help people know


feed them, and one day you know when I was doing it on my tenth year, and there was this old lady who came by you know, and there were a lot of people in the queue and I was just distributing the food


and she just came and told the people standing there you know, this guy, has been coming here for so many years on this auspicious day, and, giving food by the thousands, to everybody who comes to this temple to pray


you know, may the god bless him know I was very impressive when I heard that, that this lady I was very impressed by this lady, that she remembers you know there are so many people who comes to the temple to


to do <tamil>சேவா:seevaa</tamil> and all these but she remembers exactly which day which event, and who I used to come with those sort of thing you know, can you remember anything


now when I think that's that's good you know, I I, I ask you another another thing I have here, it says a statue is being erected in your honour


what action would your statue be doing, something unique which you have never thought of your life


how how how how do you want the people to, no no no no they say they erecting a statue, how do you want the people to remember you


no no how you want the statue to portray yourself, you know uh if you ask me, I I I'd like to have a statue of me


carrying books in one hand, and on the other hand, I I may be carrying my golf equipment, or a tennis racket, you know, to emphasise that look


as much as education is important, sports is also important, in your life to keep you fit


you know, you know while you are educated you know, you you live, a very, safe, maybe a fulfilling life you know you can achieve whatever you want to do with education have


but at the same time you must not also neglect sports, because sports also is very important as it contributes, you, to have a healthy lifestyle, so you must have the both of


uh both world, to keep on moving in life, sports and uh education, will must work hand in hand in tandem


you agree with me


I just, you know, ya in one hand and I'll I'll have the books


shoulder, you know that, you know


that that's how I like to be depicted


okay


five sentences, okay sentence number one, I have worked very hard the last five years


I have lived a very healthy lifestyle, engaging in sports, number three as and when, the number third sentence as and when time permits


like they say all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, so I spend whatever time I can find travelling, as I have travelling number fourth


while have done all this things, I have also not neglected the good friends who have been, with me who grow up with me, and touch base with them, uh and then the last one


and I always make it a point, to go to temple and thank god, thank you for this beautiful life


ya, you you must be happy with what you're doing, yes


I'm I'm gonna ask this very interesting question it may it may sound silly, okay, if the two people next to you


okay there are two people next to you, were animals, what animals would they be


ya, what what animal would it like would you like to be next to you, yes


that I will call you silly, it uh how you gonna bring it out for a walk


ya but uh you you may not have a problem having a dog and a cow I also have the same idea I also like a dog, because a dog is a man's best friend I also like to have a cow but looking at where we are staying now, it it is not practical it's practical to have a dog but you can't it's not practical to have a cow in the house


ya, two grateful animals


yes I know, okay ask you another question


okay, if, if you can do a single thing, without worrying about the consequences, what do you do


no if I can do a single thing without worrying about the consequences, I would like, straight go to NTUC, take all the fruits down there


and distribute to all the old people who go around the streets, selling tissue papers, selling picking up cardboards to make a living


you know, yes you know so they have food, you know not exactly food but they got fruits to fill their stomach with, you know at least for that day they will not resort to going on the streets collecting cardboard


going to food centre, you know, because, we call ourselves a first world country, but how can it have people doing all these thing in a first world country


all these old people who have you know, which, their age, you know, yes they've work all their life you know they didn't make enough money or whatever it is


you know I just tell that, open up the food court, okay at whatever these people come and eat


all the money should be billed to the government, the government should pay that for the day for the that for these people


yes, okay never mind I I throw you another question, this one you will have a lot of thought


okay I limit you only five minutes that's all, okay, this one very thought provoking ah, when I give you this question you must tell me why you want to stay this place


what are you going to do there something very concrete and what is so interesting about this place, okay, assuming, expenses were paid, what country would you want to visit for six months


it not necessary be a place where you have visited, or it can be some place where you think you want to visit, six months all expenses paid


where you like to go, why you like to go there and what you intend to do for six months, this is this is what I want to ask you


no no you can mention the place this is like uh nothing, because they are asking you which country you want to go


if I am given a chance I'd I'd like to go china, know, because every state in china they they have their own, different culture


different history, different historical places, you know, and, I want to start off from, Shenzhen in china


and then travel up you know I want from there I want to go down, to Guangzhou, to Chengdu, not just country by country, visit uh the


ya province by province province you know, uh then I want to travel up, up the uh mountainous region in Yunnan, then come back down again


I want to take the train, go all the way to Beijing, after seeing all these places, I want to go up the great wall of china walk the great wall of china


and then, travel to inner mongolia, you know, go to the countryside, after I finish all these things


the last part of the journey, I want to travel along the silk road, take the silk, yes, you know trace the silk road you know immerse in the culture along the route


I I, yes I don't have to worry about my six month you know, and these six months


will open the door to, a lot of beautiful, educational, historical, windows to me, which I think, I will treasure a lifetime


you know, and with what I have seen, maybe I can even, use this experience, and go down to you know small communities


you know children in the school, share with them, you know, tell them the world is not, just sitting in your room, with your laptop or computer, there are so much of things to do in life so much of things to see in life


and so much of things to learn, by looking at this beautiful world, it doesn't mean that if you don't speak the language, you cannot go there and experience all these things


you know, you agree with me or not, because travelling is one thing, it's an eye opener to the windows of the world you know


and the experience you gather from, travelling, just by looking, feeling, and experiencing, no money can buy this


or nobody can take it from you


ya even even six months in china I'm telling you it's not enough, it's not enough so you you have to target, like say if I want to go to the main places you know this this area this area this area while I bypass some of the rural areas you know


the outskirts, no no no I I don't wanna come back, I I don't want to see, this part of the world for six months, I I want to immerse


no I really want to immerse in their culture, you know in their surroundings their lifestyle, and experience, a different difference way of life


no my one, I had this very good friend of mine he's a very dedicated fellow he is very successful man in life, good job good house family he has the money everything have, you know


he was already in his fifties you know enjoying his life, when when one day he they found out that he had a heart problem, you know, and


after that he started to exercise, the problem is, you have not exercise all your life, so you go to the gym, you do a twenty minutes workout


no, no he went to exercise, no he went to exercise it's not that he didn't consult the doctor by consulting the doctor only he know he came to know he has got a heart problem, you know, so, you have to slowly


exert your body again to exercise, yes and that step by step, in the first step already it affected him, and he was back to hospital, then I told him, I said


and then you know I have all my medical friends, so I told him, you know we book a holiday, we're going for a holiday to this place, I said bring your medical files, come with me


I got I got the hospitals I got the doctors I got everybody, just come there, seek a second opinion, it's everything free for you because you are my friend


you know I have the, come with me it's all free, and we went for the holiday, when I arrive there, I ask him for his medical files I say let's go and see the doctor


he says no I left it at home I said never mind, we, we will get the hospital to do the test for you, we'll do all the test again, and


analyse it, and seek the opinion of the doctors, he says no no no no no no no we do it the next time, I said no you must remember time and tide wait for no man


you know you are already here, you're just going to spend, one and a half days you know you go in the morning to the hospital, to check for an hour then you come back then you go back again another two hours of checks


then you come back, then you go back in the afternoon say another one and a half hour then you call it a day and then you come back again next day, maybe, in the morning, one hour, then after that they will come back with all the results


you know, the panel of doctors will sit down, and see what is the next step to take, to move on, no no no no no I do not want to do it now


K comes back to singapore, two months, you know we already bought the ticket again to travel again, he says uh I I I told him again make sure you bring all your files


he says yes yes yes I will bring, you know what happened, three days before he three four days before he travel, middle of the night, heart attack


the moment you know that your heart is not functioning properly, simple common sense will said I call for an ambulance I rush to the hospital, you know what he did, no


he went and lock himself in his room, trying to suppress and control the pain, because he was scared of going to hospital


you know, and then the family calls me because they know he's my best friend and says he has got a heart attack, we and it was he locked himself in the room we had to pester him to open it up, he was holding his heart we call for an ambulance we put him in an ambulance


he's on the way to hospital now, so I rush down, when the ambulance arrived at the hospital, with him, it was already too late


he died in the ambulance, when I saw that I was so frustrated I had all these things with me I have all the friends with me who could've helped him, you know


you know I I was really broken when I saw him in the hospital


no we we don't worry about the medication part you know , you know no the the frustration came in


I had brought him to the hospital, and says just walk inside, and do the test, my friends the doctors have already arrange the facilities for you, and it's all free you know


it's a big hotel I mean a big hospital, he just refuses to walk inside, you know


it it it's a very educated man, good job, million dollars, millions of dollars of cash in the bank, but


it's stubbornness you know I was damn frustrated, he was so stubborn and then man I'm not gonna do now that's all, life, you know, a trend nowadays any of my good friends if they have anything


I will bring them straight, force them, come, you don't you don't have the money I have the money come, I pay for you, go, go and check


you know, because, we know we can save somebody, you know, shall we do


one more, shall we do one or two more, what what do you have down there, okay I ask you one simple one


okay, this is very thought provoking ah, if you can return to any previous point in your life, change a decision, pick up from there


what would change, no no if you can return, to any previous point in your life, okay


you change a decision, a decision which you have made in your early life lah you know, you change a decision, and pick up from there


you understand what I'm telling, you know, what would change, okay if I if I am given a, a choice like that again, I want to return back to school


because, yes, around at one, at one point of life, when I wanted to go to university to study something else, my dad said no


you don't do this, I suggest you go to university and study this, you know, so I just got frustrated I said no, I don't want to do this I don't want to do that, I find my way


you know, I said I find my way I go and do my things, and I go and face the outside world, no regrets I I I did fine, you have seen me I did fine, you know


but I think, if I had, not been that stubborn at that point, and went to do, either one of what I wanted to do or what my father suggested


the life would have been different, ya you know, that that is what I would like to change, you know


but anyway no regrets now we have already done whatever we want to to do


ya, ya those days O level A level very big


ya, ya, like you like you also ah you know


you know


you know, like like you also sixteen seventeen months already since I stop working, very tired, no regrets you know, because life life will goes on you know and we have achieve no we we have


we we we have already achieve whatever in we want in life we we lived a good life, enough to eat good holidays


a a hand you know a handful of friends, shall we do one last one, one last one, what you have down there


okay let you take the one on google, what is the greatest


what it says, weirdest or greatest, you know what


oh weirdest, change change change I never I only weirdest thing what weird is the weirdest thing you have googled


yes, I I tell you what we we take that one, yes, well like like you said


for us those days, doing O level A level was the biggest thing, you know even when the parents want to send us for university studies, we had to listen to the parents you study this you study that and if it's not your interest


so what, so with whatever we have, we move on, correct, and with all the hard work the struggle


the up the down, you know, because, see we were born in a generation, where, we had survival skill, you know


like I said if got no money to buy fruits, you just walk on the street you see whose house you can whose house you can climb up to pluck the fruit, you know it , it is stealing in one sense but to us it's


one is mischievous I know I climb up nobody will catch me, you know it's, you know it is survival and and you will know the group of friends


they they will tell you in the neighbourhood, which house will have which fruit, at which, season, the thing will ripe, and we we keep track of all these things


see we we had the survival skill, you know we had the survival skill, you know with whatever O level A level we go on the street, and as we work


in the working life we climb up the ladder step by step, you know we gain the confidence of our superior officers, eh along the way, you take some courses


and then if you're good in hands on job you show them what you can do, you know, you take one peak at a time and improve on that and improve your life, you know


when anybody sees you today, and when you tell them, with what you have studied what you have achieved in life, and what you are doing today


it will become like an eye opener to them, you know, the, the experience which you have got or I have got, a guy who goes to universities studies and comes out


he cannot sit down and relate with us, because through our working experience, we will overshadow him, and make him look small


with his whatever degrees he has got, because when it comes, to solution, finding and implementing it, what we have achieved in our lifetime


lifetime and earn, uh let's say what we have achieved and learn in our lifetime, we can use that to implement and solve whatever problem or solution that arises


but with his paper qualification, he will be staring at a blank wall, thinking how to circumvent it, do you agree with me


oh wait, no wait, no I must also tell you something when when you have that five dollar in the pocket


on the quiet what you will do you will call all your close friends in the neighbourhood, break everybody and spend there, spend the five dollar first, yup


you said look I got five dollars today know, I know you all got no money come let's go, we will spend the money five dollars, we don't, we don't worry about tomorrow, when tomorrow come someone will bring a five dollars


then we will enjoy that five dollar together again, that was the beautiful life, ya but but that was the


but that was the beautiful life we live, okay I think we've been sitting down, for almost such a long time man, back all aching already we will call it a day


ya I think should be okay, okay ah, okay okay okay, okay okay, okay


hello, hello, hello


ya you want to do one more, okay, oh that one I finish, okay I I give you this one


what dreams from childhood have you achieve, what what what were your dreams during your childhood


you you you must be like james luther king I had a dream, I'm sure you must have a dream