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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 120826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Good next year
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the
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  Speaker 1: shock circuit. Good
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  Speaker 2: morning. Welcome to, well, the middle of the week already.
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  Speaker 2: It's a short work and school week for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us. So I hope that you have your
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  Speaker 2: energy levels up. I'm here to keep you company with
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  Speaker 2: some of the best music ever this morning. Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I would say that this week, still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty on the quiet side because I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you preparing for your PSLE O Levels, uh, PSLE
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  Speaker 2: O Levels, what am I talking about? PSLE oral exams.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness there's not something called PSLE O levels, OK?
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  Speaker 2: Taking a while for me to wake up and start
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  Speaker 2: up the engine this morning as well. I'm very, very
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  Speaker 2: tired these couple of days, but it's my fault. I
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  Speaker 2: did it to myself, and I hope that you're feeling
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  Speaker 2: much better than me this morning, more alert, more awake,
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  Speaker 2: and if you are preparing for your PSLE oral examinations, um,
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  Speaker 2: my friends at Tanan and myself, we're dropping an oral
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  Speaker 2: exam video very soon.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure if you recall, like, um, a
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  Speaker 2: few months back, we did a collaboration where we taught
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  Speaker 2: each other, um, English and Mandarin, OK? So we have
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  Speaker 2: to read each other's scripts. And it's just hilarious, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: like I, I think they're just basically laughing at me
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  Speaker 2: at this point and my inability to speak Mandarin and
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  Speaker 2: vice versa because we get the DJs to also read
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  Speaker 2: the English scripts and all that. So, this time around,
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  Speaker 2: we're taking on past exam questions and papers from PSLE.
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  Speaker 2: So this one is the oral exam. It's coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I think it should be dropping today or maybe tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: but sometime these couple of days. So please watch out
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  Speaker 2: for it. It's gonna be hilarious. Um, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: it myself, but I think the editor said that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were having a ball of a time editing it.
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  Speaker 2: So I have faith, I have faith. Uh, watch out.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a collab post between 987 and 933. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: there was something, um, that was a word that was
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  Speaker 2: used to describe me back then when I was in
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  Speaker 2: school because during
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  Speaker 2: Certain um classes and during certain subjects, I would quite
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  Speaker 2: literally daydream and the teacher would catch me a few
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  Speaker 2: times and she'd be like, stop daydreaming, huh? What are
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  Speaker 2: you looking at? What are you looking at outside? that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing. So yeah, I did get, um, I
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  Speaker 2: did get called out a couple of times. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why. I think for me, because my attention span is, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I had an issue with attention span in the
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  Speaker 2: past as well. Um, aside from reading,
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  Speaker 2: Um, novels like language and like, you know, English, lit,
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  Speaker 2: this kind of humanity subjects, where everything else would make
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  Speaker 2: me just zone out. I don't know if you feel me,
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  Speaker 2: but it really depends what your interests and your strengths are, right? Anyway, um,
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  Speaker 2: coming up in just a bit, something interesting coming from
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  Speaker 2: our friends over at NUS. Now, as you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: had our issues and our struggles and um I guess
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  Speaker 2: change constantly, rules that are constantly changing and shifting because
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  Speaker 2: of AI, right?
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  Speaker 2: And I can only imagine what a different environment it
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  Speaker 2: is now in school with the presence of AI and
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  Speaker 2: chat GBT and many other different platforms. Whatever you use,
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  Speaker 2: cloud or anything that you use, right? So, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what our friends at NUS are doing and what
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  Speaker 2: the freshmen have to go through as well. Just before
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  Speaker 2: we open up phone lines to get your dedications and
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  Speaker 2: song requests before you get to school,
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  Speaker 2: Going over to NUS right now, um, you know, NUS,
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  Speaker 2: one of the top universities, not just in Asia, but
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  Speaker 2: in the world, I would say it's quite coveted. The
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  Speaker 2: students at NUS are about to get chat GPT access. Now,
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  Speaker 2: before you wonder, eh, what do you mean? Don't we
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  Speaker 2: all have chat GPT access? Nope, nope, nope, it's different
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  Speaker 2: because what they have is chat GPT EDU. It's education
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  Speaker 2: by OpenAI. So, it's an official collaboration between the university
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  Speaker 2: and OpenAI.
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  Speaker 2: And the staff members and students and faculty will all
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  Speaker 2: have access to this, to really try and strengthen their,
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  Speaker 2: their platforms, their services, their growing portfolio of um AI platforms, right?
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's encouraging the, the use of AI
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  Speaker 2: in an ethical way and in a good way, of course,
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  Speaker 2: because this is specifically for their courses that, um, that
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  Speaker 2: are applicable, you know, and that may be more relevant
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 2: And I think with Chat GBT EDU there's stronger privacy, security,
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  Speaker 2: and administrative controls by the university. So, conversations and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: other types of conversations and data within the NUS workspace,
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  Speaker 2: they are not used to train open AI models. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they're assuring. And I think the interesting thing is
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  Speaker 2: for the freshmen, which means actually the students that just joined, right,
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  Speaker 2: in case you're, you're unsure about university terms for now.
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  Speaker 2: Um, they actually have to have a course. It's a
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  Speaker 2: compulsory course for AI literacy before they even start their, their,
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  Speaker 2: their courses with NUS.
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  Speaker 2: So times are really changing. If you are tuning in
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  Speaker 2: right now and you are a university student, or, or
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  Speaker 2: you're about to apply, or maybe you're just reminiscing on
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  Speaker 2: your uni days back then, yeah, things are really different now,
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  Speaker 2: but it's kind of a pretty exciting chapter for our
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  Speaker 2: friends over at NUS. I do want to give a
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  Speaker 2: big shout out to a couple of people who have
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  Speaker 2: sent me messages this a.m. because you are taking your
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  Speaker 2: PSLE oral exams.
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  Speaker 2: Examinations just before we get to, uh, we get to
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  Speaker 2: our phone lines and I think I'm gonna say hi
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  Speaker 2: over here to Cici. You said, good morning, Sonia. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for the shout out. Uh, my siblings
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  Speaker 2: are taking, uh, my sibling is taking the PSLE oral
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  Speaker 2: exam this week and I just want to say good
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  Speaker 2: luck to everyone out there. I've been through it already
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  Speaker 2: and um sometimes it's not easy, especially Mandarin.
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  Speaker 2: OK, I get you. 100% understand. Also, you didn't leave
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  Speaker 2: your name here, but I think you go by the
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  Speaker 2: initial of Jay. You say, good morning, Sonia. I want
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  Speaker 2: to give a big shout out to my daughter who
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  Speaker 2: is taking PSLE oral this week as well.
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  Speaker 2: All the best, my friends. Um, I know this might
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  Speaker 2: be a stressful time for you, but we're here to
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  Speaker 2: help ease your stress as much as we can, OK?
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna head to the phone lines now. Hello. Hi. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: who's this? Hi, you remember me? Zara. Zara, Zara, nice
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  Speaker 2: to hear from you. Which school are you from? MGM.
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  Speaker 2: What song can I get you this morning? Animal Cats. OK,
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  Speaker 2: I got you. And who is it going out to,
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  Speaker 2: my dear? Everybody knows. Everybody taking PSL.
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  Speaker 2: OK, gotcha. And all the best for your PSLE oral
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  Speaker 2: exams this week, OK? Thank you. Yeah, you're gonna kill it.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna get an A.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good day guys. Coming up in just a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes. Now, when you buy a secondhand luxury item,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure if you're tuning in, you might have
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  Speaker 2: done before. I mean, I certainly have, especially when I
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  Speaker 2: go to Japan, it's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: to see the kind of collections they have there because
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  Speaker 2: vintage shopping is huge for them, right? But even here
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  Speaker 2: in Singapore, even though we're still trying to get there
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  Speaker 2: in terms of luxury vintage shopping, there are quite a
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  Speaker 2: few sites and links and popular places that you can
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  Speaker 2: search for secondhand items. And even so, I think on
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  Speaker 2: your usual reseller platforms, people do resell their luxury items, right?
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  Speaker 2: Although sometimes I do get a bit curious, what's the
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  Speaker 2: origin of this particular bag or this watch or you know,
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  Speaker 2: just this item in general, especially if you're spending quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of money on it. In a, in a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes, you're gonna hear one of the most bizarre
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  Speaker 2: stories about a secondhand item being bought by this lady
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  Speaker 2: and her finding out where this designer bag actually came from.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, it's nothing supernatural or weird or creepy because I,
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  Speaker 2: I admit, sometimes I do wonder about that, like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know whether I watched too many horror movie trailers where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you go and buy some secondhand thing, then
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  Speaker 2: there's a spirit inside or one of those things, right?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, it's nothing like
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  Speaker 2: that at all. I've, I've bought my fair share of
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  Speaker 2: secondhand items and uh, and it's fine. But, you know, just,
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  Speaker 2: just a random thought that crossed my mind.
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  Speaker 2: So find out what this lady, what happened to this
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  Speaker 2: particular lady in just a little bit. Before I get
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  Speaker 2: to the story, I wanted to give a shout out
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  Speaker 2: to A. You said, morning, Sonia. Today is my daughter,
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  Speaker 2: Ray Ann's birthday. I hope I'm pronouncing the name right
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  Speaker 2: based on the spelling. I want to wish her to
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  Speaker 2: stay healthy, happy, and cheerful always. If you could play
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  Speaker 2: a song later on, Blue by Yun.
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  Speaker 2: She listens to 987 every morning and hopes that you
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  Speaker 2: and Joakim can visit North Vista Secondary School very soon. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Ellen. Thank you so much. OK, I'll try
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  Speaker 2: my best to slip that song in in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of minutes, OK? When I, when I have a moment
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  Speaker 2: and where there's um a blank space there, I will
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  Speaker 2: slot it in for sure. I will try. But happy birthday, Rayyanne.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you have a great one.
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  Speaker 2: Taking you to Shanghai right now, where we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: uh buying secondhand luxury items, OK? So here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's growing. The vintage culture is growing here
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  Speaker 2: in Singapore and there are more and more vintage shops
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  Speaker 2: carrying luxury items at, you know, quite reasonable prices and
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  Speaker 2: the demand is there for sure. So, for this lady
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  Speaker 2: in Shanghai, she decided, oh, you know, I, I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get this secondhand designer bag and it's um,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Chanel, OK? So it looks pretty, very nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's white in color.
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  Speaker 2: And she decided, oh, she found this one online and
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  Speaker 2: decided to purchase it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a limited edition bag. And when she received it,
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  Speaker 2: she realized, hold on, it's the same bag that had
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  Speaker 2: gone missing from my own house, from her own house,
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  Speaker 2: the year before. So, she walked into um the police station,
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  Speaker 2: I think, holding the bag that she had just received
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  Speaker 2: after buying it from this secondhand platform.
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  Speaker 2: And she reported the case and said that this is
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  Speaker 2: the one that was stolen from me. And the funny
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  Speaker 2: thing was she had spent what, like close to $8000
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  Speaker 2: on this designer bag in 2025, OK. She carried it
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  Speaker 2: once and then she left it at the lobby entryway
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  Speaker 2: by her front door.
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  Speaker 2: More than 6 months later, she realized, hey, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen this bag in a very long time. And she
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  Speaker 2: searched and she searched and she couldn't find it, right? Um,
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  Speaker 2: but lots of people had come in and out of
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  Speaker 2: her home, including a home organizer, um, cleaners, and many
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  Speaker 2: different types of stuff, but still,
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  Speaker 2: She never suspected that the bag would have been stolen.
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  Speaker 2: She would sometimes complain to her friends like, Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: can't find it. The bag vanished into thin air. And
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  Speaker 2: I think like her friends and maybe her family members
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  Speaker 2: said like, you know, you've got so many bags and
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  Speaker 2: you've got so much stuff. It's probably somewhere. You just
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  Speaker 2: got to look harder. And you know what, that is
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  Speaker 2: very real, OK, because for me, that is an issue. However,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a Chanel bag, it will not go missing
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  Speaker 2: under my nose just like that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, you know, those trinkets or like a necklace or bracelet,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes these things go missing quite, quite easily if you
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  Speaker 2: don't keep them properly. But anyway, um, one of her
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  Speaker 2: friends got very curious and searched for the same model
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  Speaker 2: online and the listing actually showed up. Everything matched the style,
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  Speaker 2: the condition, how it looked, and it said that it
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  Speaker 2: was bought in Japan. So finally they found it and
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  Speaker 2: um they're still trying to prove, I think, as, as
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  Speaker 2: of now, like who was the one that stole it.
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  Speaker 2: It's really difficult, but it was resold about 5 times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, can you believe it? How crazy is that? Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: moral of the story is, um, please make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you look out for your items, especially things that mean
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  Speaker 2: a lot to you. Make sure you keep them properly and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, store them in a place where you can
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  Speaker 2: see and it's, it's visible. So I think they're trying to, um,
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  Speaker 2: definitely trying to deal with the person that stole this
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  Speaker 2: right now and that the case is still developing. So
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  Speaker 2: be very careful out there.
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  Speaker 2: And make sure that the people that you let in
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  Speaker 2: your home are the people that you can trust. It's
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  Speaker 2: a short work and school week, right? So it's not, not,
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  Speaker 2: not too bad. Hopefully, it's not so bad for you. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I think this entire week too, Joakim and I will
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  Speaker 2: be working on something pretty exciting with our friends over
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  Speaker 2: at Uniqlo. I just wanted to give a bit, uh,
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  Speaker 2: give them a big shout out because they've been so
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  Speaker 2: supportive and in the local scene as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've been very, very, very supportive and a big presence
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  Speaker 2: and who doesn't love.
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  Speaker 2: Uniqlo, right? Like I'm literally wearing a Uniqlo t-shirt now
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  Speaker 2: as we speak. They are launching um some new collections
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  Speaker 2: very soon, so please keep a lookout for that and
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  Speaker 2: come tomorrow, you will get to see some content from
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  Speaker 2: both Joakim and myself where we will be showing you.
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  Speaker 2: Um, how we put together certain fits for the next season,
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  Speaker 2: and believe it or not, if you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: we're already in the month of August, right? Before you
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  Speaker 2: know it, the whole like fall winter collection's gonna drop already. Like,
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  Speaker 2: that's just crazy. Time is flying by, I break my heart.
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  Speaker 2: Hearts right here on 987. Thankfully, she's over that phase.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: She's over the heartbreak. She's found the man of her dreams,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they're so happy together. They're so gorgeous
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  Speaker 2: and cute together. It's, yeah, it's sickening, you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, why are you guys so perfect? Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, um, taking you over to, unfortunately, a mosque right now. Um,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't too long ago that someone was reportedly, well, was, uh,
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  Speaker 2: reported to have stolen from a temple in Bedok. I
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  Speaker 2: remember it was Bedok because I was telling Joakim that
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  Speaker 2: it's very near my old school, Saint Anthony's. I, I
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  Speaker 2: remember that. Um, for this particular mosque, though, the location
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  Speaker 2: wasn't revealed in, in the news, but a 42 year
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  Speaker 2: old employee of this particular mosque will be charged.
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  Speaker 2: For allegedly misappropriating more than $14,000. That's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money from these donation boxes. Now, I, I think the
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  Speaker 2: problem is when it comes to places of worship, you know, when,
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  Speaker 2: where people are religious, they go there to, to pay respects.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing you would think they're doing is stealing
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  Speaker 2: the donation money, right? And I also feel this way because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when I go to church every Sunday, at
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  Speaker 2: least I try to, I try to go every Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Um, there are donation boxes, right? However, usually if you're not,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not, if you've never attended like um, a
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  Speaker 2: Christian or a Catholic, I guess, service before, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure how it's done in a Christian church, but for
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  Speaker 2: Catholic churches, what they do is they um have assigned
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  Speaker 2: people to go around to collect the money, the donations,
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  Speaker 2: and then they lock it up in a box after.
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  Speaker 2: So then I think only specific people can have access
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  Speaker 2: to it. So it's very, very strict.
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  Speaker 2: However, I'm not sure about certain other places with like
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  Speaker 2: public donation boxes where you can just put it in
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  Speaker 2: because yeah, there are such things, right? So, um, for
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  Speaker 2: our friends over at the Singapore Police Force, they received
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  Speaker 2: a report actually on the 16th of May, is it?
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  Speaker 2: That's my wedding date, um, alleging that this man had
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  Speaker 2: misappropriated the funds and um it was entrusted to him
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  Speaker 2: because of his employment. So I think they might be
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  Speaker 2: feeling a little bit betrayed now. Um, how can you
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  Speaker 2: even trust easily anymore, right?
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  Speaker 2: The offense, however, carries a maximum sentence of 15 years
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  Speaker 2: in jail and a fine, by the way, so that
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  Speaker 2: 140 definitely not worth it. Still a developing case, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens, but if you are in a position
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  Speaker 2: of power sometimes where you have access to these things,
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  Speaker 2: what was it that Spider-Man said? With great power comes
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  Speaker 2: great responsibility. Was that Spider-Man? Don't kill me. Did I
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  Speaker 2: get it right? Now, just yesterday, um, I found myself
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  Speaker 2: having to go to the CBD area.
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  Speaker 2: And I was reminded about this particular car park, OK,
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  Speaker 2: because I ended up at this building again. And to
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  Speaker 2: be very honest, I don't think it is like the
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  Speaker 2: building's fault or like the designer's fault. Although, OK, OK,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. You, you, you let me know. OK,
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  Speaker 2: you let me know. Um, this car park is Marina One, OK,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: or is it called One Marina? Let me check.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is it called Marina One or one Marina? Um,
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  Speaker 2: Marina One, OK, Marina One in the CBD area. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I remember quite a while back, I had to go
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  Speaker 2: there to meet someone, um, it's for a work meeting
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  Speaker 2: and to collect something. So, from what I understand, there
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  Speaker 2: are actually many, many lobbies, and the place is quite big.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are unsure where to park, that is
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  Speaker 2: the nearest to your location, there are many lobbies to,
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  Speaker 2: to look for, OK. If I'm not wrong, this is
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: the same building.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Because there's this area called like Hearts at Marina One
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: and then there's Marina One, like the, the office blocks
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: and residential and all that. So, the previous time being
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: my first time going there, I thought I just go
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: and park and then I'll figure my way out, right?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Big mistake because the moment I went up, I walked
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: pretty far out that I didn't register where I parked.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't take a photo, I didn't take a photo
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: of the lobby. So, after all that chaos, and I
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: finally was like, OK, I'm done for the day, I
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: went to look for my car, I think I took
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: like 30 minutes to locate my car.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: To which, thank goodness, um, my EV has this app
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: where you can actually locate your vehicle, although it may
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: sometimes be a little bit wonky if you're underground, right,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: because of my network and stuff. So it took me
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: quite some time, but I finally managed to, to locate it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: And yesterday when I, when I was told to go
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: back to this building, I was like, oh, no wonder
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I have PTSD from parking here, that's why I never
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: came back here again.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: But yeah, um, it's just one of those things where
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: like you really feel frustrated with yourself because I, I
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: felt like it was just, I don't know, it's just
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: my fault. Like I didn't take note of where I parked.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I should have taken a photo, so that it would
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: be easier, right, to know which lobby to come down
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: from exactly. Now, I'm not sure if you're something, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: you're like me, where sometimes you get just so frazzled,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you forget to take photos or you forget to register
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: where you've parked.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: If I'm with people, then, you know, we can have
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: that shared responsibility, but most of the time I'm by myself. So, yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I have no one to blame but myself and sometimes
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: complicated car parks and complicated lift lobbies. So give me
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: a call, 669-11987 or drop me a message 90.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: 050987. Have you ever found yourself in such situations where
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you either got frazzled and you forgot which lift lobby
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: you came down from and you got lost, or maybe
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you couldn't locate your car and you took forever to
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: just like walk around pressing the button, beeping, hoping that
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you hear something, which is also what I did, by
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the way, and it turns out I was not even
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: on the right floor, you see. So that's the problem
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: when they have like,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: B2, B3, B4, like you really gotta remember which basement
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: area you parked at, which floor you parked at. Give
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: me a call 669-11987 or drop me a message. Have
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you just ever gotten lost?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: In a mall. I know it sounds so ridiculous to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: get lost here in Singapore, but are you like me?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Have you found yourself in situations where you either couldn't
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: locate your vehicle or you just got completely lost looking
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: for a place? Let me know. And I was just
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: talking about how yesterday when I found myself in the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: CBD area, um, it brought back a bit of PTSD
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: for this particular parking lot, and I, like I said,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's entirely the fault of the design,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: because I know, yeah, some malls and car parks can
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: be extremely complicated.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: But I, I also should be taking note of where
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I'm parking. It's just sometimes when you're rushing, you just park,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and then you sell, right? Then you're like, you never
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: register like what floor you even parked on, and especially
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: in places where there's B2 to B5 or I don't know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: however many floors there are, and.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Some are, you know, some are car parks for like
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: season parking or residents and the rest are for public
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: and it's just kind of hard to register sometimes when
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you're in a rush. So I was talking about this
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and asking if you've experienced the same thing because my
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: worst ever one was when I actually was at Marina One.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: The previous time, and I didn't, you know, I didn't
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: take a photo of where I parked and the lift
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: lobby that I took, and in the end, I took
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: like 2030 minutes locating for my car, realizing, oh my gosh,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even on the right floor in the first place. Uh,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: but thankfully I recovered, I managed to find it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So many messages coming through now and I have to say,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: about 4 out of 6 messages that I received in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the 1st 5 minutes of opening up our phone lines
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: and channels, all pointing towards one place, Suntec parking lot.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, man. Like, my friends over at Suntec,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: we love you guys and I go there pretty often.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: In fact, when I was a kid, my parents used
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to love going to Suntec, so, yeah, I'm familiar with
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the place, but I just wanna give a big shout
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: out to a few people who are sending through some
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: messages for now, OK? Um, Ivana says, morning, Sonia. Suntec
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: parking lot. I was lost there a number of times.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: One time,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I got the lobby right. I got the exit door right,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: but I made the wrong turn. Instead of turning right,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I turned left and I wasted more than half an
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: hour looking for my car. I learned my lesson and
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: took a photo whenever I parked there, or brought more
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: people when I parked in Suntec. More people, more brains
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to remember the parking location. You're so right. Um, tech
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: also sent me a message. TH, you said, hi, good morning, Sonia.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: For me, it's Suntec City parking lot.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Same, like you, I did not take photos of the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: place and also I didn't note the lobby that I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: went out from, and I took nearly one hour looking
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: for my car. After I have dinner with my family,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I asked them to wait in the air-conditioned area until
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I find it and then I sent them a message.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: My gosh. OK. One more here. Um, OK, that is
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: not slamming Suntec right now. Someone here, you didn't quite, oh, Fred,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you said, morning, Sonia, totally relatable. Small car parks still OK.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Big car parks, I'll definitely have an issue, especially RWS.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Once I parked my car at Sentosa. I thought I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: knew where I parked. I spent quite some time underground
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: trying to locate the car, like I literally walked the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: entire area.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Ever since then, I will take a photo of the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: area I parked at and note down the lot number
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: as well and what area. Well, yeah, sometimes it's helpful
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: if they have like a color or I think some
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: car parks have like an animal or some sort of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: motif attached to it, right? So.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I'll take note of it now. Yeah, it can be
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: very frustrating. When we come back, we've got Janna on
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the line and more of your messages. They're just coming
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: through right now. Keep calling me 669-11987. I would love
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to hear from you in exchange, a buffet experience for two.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It is worth over $200 over at Peppermint. This is
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: by our lovely friends at Park Royal Collection at Marina Bay.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: It is just beautiful, really can't wait for you to
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: try it. And it seems like this particular topic.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Just resonates with so many people. I don't feel so
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: alone anymore, to be honest. I'm talking about getting completely
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: lost while looking for your car at the car park
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: or just not taking note of where you've parked, especially
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: at places where there are many different levels, many different lobbies, like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I tell you, some malls, right? There's lobby A to E,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: you know, like how many lobbies do you need? I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: am eternally confused and have sworn to just take a
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: photo ever since, especially since yesterday I went back to
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a car park that I realized, eh,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Have I been here before? And I was struck with
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: some PTSD. I was like, oh, this was the place
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that I got lost for like 30 minutes trying to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: locate my car. I'm saying hi to Irfan, who dropped
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: me a message. Morning, Sonia and all tuning in. You're
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: not alone. I used to do delivery at the CBD
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and Marina One is one of the car parks I
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: used to have a problem finding my van. AC, I'm
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: not alone.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Um, but as time goes by, you get the hang
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: of it. One of the car parks that I had
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: a problem with, and, uh, don't judge me, yeah, is
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the airport. Jewel, if I'm not mistaken, I couldn't find
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: my car and I had to use the find your
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: car kiosk located at the lift lobby, but thank God
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: for that. If not, I would have spent the whole
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: day running through the car park. Have a good day, everyone.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. OK, uh, more messages coming through here. Wow,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: a long one here from Steph actually who dropped me
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a message saying,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Morning. Listening to your story reminded me of my friends
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and I. We were at IKEA and maybe we were
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: too excited because it's been a while since we last went.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Each of us had something to pick up. So, after
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: checking out, we decided, you know what, we'll wait with
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the trolley while the other two went to get the car.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And surprise, the car was not there. We walked through
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the entire car park looking for it. I took one side,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: my friend who is the owner of the car took
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the other side. Nope, nothing. We couldn't find the car anywhere.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the friend who was waiting with the trolley was
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: calling us, Where are you guys? We were literally walking
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: around the car park thinking we somehow lost the car
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and we thought, OK, maybe we should check another level,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and there it was. Till today, I still don't know
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: how all three of us forgot which level we parked on.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Um, by the way, you, she also sent a video
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: of them looking for the car in 2022. That was
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the year that they lost it. Oh, I'm supposing this
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: was like an IGS or something. How hilarious. You spent like, what,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe 2030 minutes looking for it. Crazy
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: stories coming through that's just making me laugh and smile
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: right now. Janna is on the line. What about you?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Of course we always get lost at Suntech, so my
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: experience was at Utama in KL and.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Suntec but x 5 with like 3 different levels of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: car parks, that's huge like different wings and it was
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: not me, it was my friend, and she, she did
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: not take note of where she parked and and you
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: didn't help her.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we tried to help her. We were like, can
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: you think? Where did you park? What did you see
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: when you went up the lobby? And we just had
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: to spend like 1 hour looking for the car in
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the hot car park. That was like the worst experience ever. Wait,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I have to say, I'm with a group of friends,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I will delegate I'll be like, guys, OK, if there's
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: like 4 of us in this car, all of us
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: have to at least remember something, OK, like at least
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: remember the floor.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: No, she parked the car by herself. We met her
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: at the, yeah, so that's why we couldn't help her.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I see, sorry, sorry, shouldn't have blamed you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: After that, I made sure to take a photo of
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: wherever I parked every time because of this. Yeah, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: know what, you're right. It gives PTSD because it's so
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: much time wasted and sometimes I wonder like, oh my God,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: what if I can't locate my car?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Like it's here. I know it's in this building, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: where is it? It's so frustrating, right? Yeah. Oh man.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't help that uh most car parks have terrible
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: ventilation as well. Yes, exactly. OK, I'm gonna get to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a couple more messages here that that really made me
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: laugh as well. We're talking about getting completely lost in
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a car park when you forget where you park, you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: didn't take a photo of like which floor you're at
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: or which lobby that you took the lift up from.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: No, I, I really got concerned because yesterday I went
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: back to a place that I remember getting super lost
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: at previously when I, I think I walked for like
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: 2030 minutes and I found myself like, ah, how come
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'm at the same place again? Like what, what in
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the inception is this? Like, you know, one of those moments, right?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Um, OK, saying hi here to A, you said, morning, Sonia.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: For me, it would be my very own HDB multi-story
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: car park. What? I have the memory of a goldfish.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I always forget where I parked the day before. Hence,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I have to do a sweep floor by floor to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: find my car. It would seriously irritate my family members,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: especially if the car is located on the higher floors.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Why don't you just take a photo of the floor
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: next time? I mean, since you, since it's your house, right?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Like all the time.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: OK, message here coming through from Andy. You said, Morning Sos.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I have a good habit of remembering where I park
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: in malls by first, remembering the first shop I see
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: upon entering for, uh, entering the mall. That indicates the lobby.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: What I have trouble with is my own HDB car park,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: same as the, the other guy just now. Once it
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: took me 10 minutes to find my car, OK, 10
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: minutes not so bad for me.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Um, at Marina One, it was 20 minutes or even
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: close to 30, but then again, this is your house, so.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I don't have an excuse for you when it comes
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: to that. OK, I've got like at least 10 more
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: messages coming through in just a bit. I'll try to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: read out as many as I can. I'm just seeing
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: through all the hilarious stories coming through right now. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: was talking about my experience getting completely lost at the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Marina One car park. Um, yesterday was fine when I
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: went there, but going there reminded me of why I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: didn't quite like going to that building.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Because of the multiple lift lobbies and the getting lost,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: but like I said, I wasn't alert either, and I
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: didn't go and take photos of where or take note
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: of where exactly I parked and which lobby, what letter
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: that lobby was and all that, so complex sometimes, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: certain places, but it's also whether or not we have
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the presence of mind in that moment to take note
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of where we parked.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Anyway, saying hi to Jasmine, you said, hey, morning, Sonia.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: So I had drinks and got tipsy while at a
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: mall with my friends. Stubborn and stupid me told them,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I'm fine and I'll go home on my own. I'll
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: find my way home, don't worry. We parted ways at
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the restaurant.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I knew my way to the escalator, but I was
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: so wrong. The corridors just seemed never-ending with no escalator
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and lift in sight. I made my way into a
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: toilet and sat at the cubicle to rest. Before I
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: knew it, I fell asleep and woke up when the
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: lights and air conditioning was switched off, yelled out at
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the janitor, and finally managed to open inverted commas, escape
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the mall and figure my way home.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Yeah, that's, that, that's pretty scary. Like, what
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: if they locked the mall up and they didn't even
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: realize that they were there, like that would have been.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Not great. I would not want to be in that situation. OK, um,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: more messages coming through. In fact, I don't think I'll
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: be able to read out everything. You didn't quite leave
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: a name, but I think it could be Kate. You said, hey, Sonia,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: once I walked out of Raffles City after dinner, I
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: clicked my key fob and I heard absolute silence. For
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: 30 agonizing minutes, I wandered up and down basement 3,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: sweating profusely.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Manually checking every silver sedan that I saw and seriously
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: questioning my sanity. Finally, a security guard noticed me and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: my mounting despair and offered to look up my license
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: plate on their system. He took one look at the screen,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: gave me a very pitiful smile, and said, Miss, you're
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: on basement 3. Your car park is right, your car
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: is parked right next to the elevator on basement 2.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I had to take the escalator of shame up one
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: floor where my car was sitting right there in the open.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Oh no.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Right? That's what happened to me at Marina One. So
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I was at a completely different, I was at a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: completely different floor in lift lobby. So I feel you 100%.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I really do feel you. OK, um, I'm gonna take
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: a quick break after this one. You said, good morning, Sonia,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Jasmine here. I was out with my twins who were
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: about only 6 years old at Suntec City carpark again.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I really hope at this point, someone who's from Suntec
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: City Management is tuning in. Please send me a message
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: or drop me a call. Please, please, I beg you.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: This would be so fun.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Anyway, you said, um, we looked out for our car
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: at B1, but we couldn't find it. Then I realized
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: after walking almost the entire floor that I parked at B2.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: The same thing happened when we went to Disneyland in Orlando.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Now I need to make it a habit to take
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a picture of where I parked. Absolutely. Honestly, such a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: challenging day for me to pick a winner because so
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: many messages coming through and I didn't even manage to
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: read everything, every single thing up, right?
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Out on air. Um, so I'm really sorry if I
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: didn't manage to read your message. I hope to at
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: least to reply you via text in just a bit.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: But only one person can walk away with this lovely
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: experience here today, and we're talking a buffet for two
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: at Peppermint's at Park Royal Collection, Marina Bay. It's a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: halal certified buffet restaurant to satisfy every appetite and craving
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that you have. So, think grilled meats, freshly prepared seafood,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: a generous selection of Asian international dishes, and for
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: During this time, starting from today to the 31st of October,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: they are presenting their new buffet menu, Roast and Grill,
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  Speaker 2: the Smoke and char collection. So it honors every tradition
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  Speaker 2: of fire lit cooking, right? So think Jasper grilled prime proteins,
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  Speaker 2: wok fried signatures, you know, you've got that wok hay,
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  Speaker 2: you have clay pot dishes like fish maw and white
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  Speaker 2: pepper chicken collagen soup. Oh, sounds so good.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one of their signatures would be the
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  Speaker 2: seafood and lobster Laksa Tower and not forgetting their dessert spread.
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  Speaker 2: So please visit Park Royal Collection Marina Bay on Instagram
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  Speaker 2: for more information. And today's winner is Janna. Congratulations, Jenna.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, very, very challenging for me to pick
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  Speaker 2: a winner today and I'm so sorry if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: manage to read your stories out because look, this really
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  Speaker 2: struck a nerve. I think it really related with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us because getting lost and not remembering.
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  Speaker 2: where you've parked or not just the car park in general,
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  Speaker 2: some places have confusing lift lobbies to even locate how
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  Speaker 2: to get to the train or your bus stop or
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: like to even exit the building can get very complex,
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  Speaker 2: as we have read from some of our listeners' experiences earlier.
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  Speaker 2: So I, I feel you, and it's precious time wasted,
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  Speaker 2: and on top of that, you get frustrated, and then
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  Speaker 2: you get, you, you start to wonder like, am I
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  Speaker 2: tripping out? Like, am I dreaming? Why can't I, is
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  Speaker 2: this Inception? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: To catch up with all your hilarious stories and, and
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  Speaker 2: my story as well. It'll be on me Listen and
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  Speaker 2: Spotify after the show. Now, like we just got through
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: a very big long weekend for us here in Singapore, right?
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  Speaker 2: And I know, well, a lot of us, we, we
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: love having our own National Day parties and you know, we,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: we want to stay here in Singapore for that and
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  Speaker 2: just maybe stream the parade or do something that's related
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  Speaker 2: to Singapore during that weekend, but
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: It also is an opportunity for people to travel, obviously, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think at least, I don't know, half my friends
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  Speaker 2: were out of town, either in Bangkok, Malaysia, you know, um,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: different parts of Thailand, Indonesia, things like that. So, some
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: stats here, there were some large crowds going into JB
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  Speaker 2: from Singapore over the long weekend, but the usual hotspots
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  Speaker 2: that Singaporeans typically visit for, you know, food, drinks and
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 2: They reported less than expected sales. They said despite the
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  Speaker 2: crowds and and the hordes of Singaporeans going to JB
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  Speaker 2: they're not seeing the same kind of sales anymore. Underwhelming
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  Speaker 2: sales was, you know, what was quoted from this article, um.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the long queues and congested traffic at the Causeway area,
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  Speaker 2: it just didn't seem to translate into, into people buying
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  Speaker 2: or eating at the usual places anymore. So I think
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  Speaker 2: when some of these store owners were interviewed, uh, I
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: think there's a very famous bakery called Haphu Bakery, if
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong. It's a tourist shop favorite. It's famous
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  Speaker 2: for their banana cakes, and I've tried it before. When
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I went there, I bought some.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Back to, um, an employee actually said, like, you know, typically,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: during long weekends, especially Singapore's National Day, it will be
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: crowded with Singaporean tourists, long queues at the counter and
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  Speaker 2: all that. Um, unfortunately, surprisingly, this year, it was not
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  Speaker 2: the same, and they're saying, hey, I think tourists in
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  Speaker 2: JB especially, and not just Johhor Bahru, but Johor is
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: so big, right?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: They have more options now for shopping and dining. They
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: may not even be in JB specifically. They may be
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: in other parts of Johor now. Other types of shopping
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: malls or maybe even get out of central JB. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I believe there are other popular towns as well to
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: other cities and states, so maybe.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: It's a case of Singaporeans just getting bored with the
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: same places that we've been used to, right? So that
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: could be a big reason. Um, another interesting stat is
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that more visitors have been seen at temples and heritage spots.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I think, um, if I'm not wrong, the Buddhist and
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Taoist temples in Batu Bahat, they drew way more tourists
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: than usual, and many of them were from Singapore.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: And like I mentioned earlier, you know, as Singaporeans, we
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: love nostalgia and that's why we love the likes of
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: bands like 21, Big Bang, who's coming to Singapore. Fantastic. Now,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: yesterday actually marked the launch of their concert tickets here
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: in Singapore. Big Bang Singapore happening very soon and the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: first day of ticket sales really saw a surge. Over
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  Speaker 2: 300,000 people in line on the first day. Can you,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: can you imagine that? It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I think a big fan actually shared a screenshot of
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a queue number and said that it was like insane.
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  Speaker 2: The sheer demand for these tickets, I think, um, various
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: fan groups showed that their queue numbers exceeded 500,000 as
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: well at some point. So Tuesday's ticket sale is limited
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to fans who hold an official VIP membership on the
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: BSage platform and they completed a whole survey to participate
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: in the session. However, um, some fans are saying that
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: they joined the queue without fulfilling the requirements, which could,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: you know, have had the potential to make the numbers
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  Speaker 2: even more, right? So I'm really curious how, um,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: How things worked. I think there was a lot of
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: anxiety over getting tickets and all that. So, the tickets
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: for yesterday's pre-sale sold out at about 3 p.m. More
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: tickets will be available this week, not to worry. I
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: think our friends over at Ticketmaster are trying to keep
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: things under control right now.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's crazy because uh these tickets are priced between 158,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: which is OK, quite reasonable, to 498. I mean, some concerts,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: you know, concert ticket prices vary, right? This one seems
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: pretty OK compared to some other concerts that we've seen,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: but this is their first performance in Singapore in a decade.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So I think that's one of the reasons why the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: demand is just so insane. Um, 2016 was their.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: VIP made VIP fan meeting tour. So this is going
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to be a big one for them. I mean, I
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: personally don't mind catching the show, although, uh, I don't
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: know all their work. I just know they're popular ones,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and I've had the pleasure of meeting, uh, actually, I
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: met quite a few of them before, I think, I
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: think I met at least 3 of them before, if
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong, um, Top and G Dragon being 22
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  Speaker 2: of them too, and, uh, Tay Young, Tay Young, I
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  Speaker 2: think I might have seen him in passing at an
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: event or something like that.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: But watching them perform, no, I've never done that. So
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: here's hoping that there will be some more spare tickets.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: But something about it reminds me of like Tomorrowland. Take
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: me back. I just saw that um our friends at
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Tomorrowland have posted a few more destinations actually that they're going.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: You know, the end of this year, they're going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: be in Thailand. Apparently next year, they've announced places like Ibiza,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: it's going to be in their list as well. If
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong, Vegas might be in the works too.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: So, it'll be really interesting to see how it translates,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: but from what I understand from friends who have been
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: to more than one Tomorrowland, or they've been to like
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: maybe the winter version, they say, oh, the winter version
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: is really cool too, but nothing can beat Belgium. It's
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: still the OG.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: So, uh, that's still yet to be determined, I would say.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I think you still have to give some of these
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: other countries some time to, to develop it and see
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: where it goes. But of course, nothing ever beats the OG.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: We get it, for sure, 100%. I understand. Like when
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I went there, I don't think I even explored like
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  Speaker 2: a quarter of the place, which means I need to
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: go back again, at least 2 more times to be
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: able to complete the whole thing.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Uh, one of my friends who's been there at least
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: 3 times said only on the 3rd time did she
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: confidently say, yes, I have explored every single area. So,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: that's what it is. Anyway, coming up in just a bit, sorry,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I digressed after hearing that, that Baby Rexer track that
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I love. Some food news to make you drool. Time
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: for some food news. I want to give a big
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: shout out to this pair of Korean siblings. They are
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the epitome of the hustle culture, I will say, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: they've done so well for themselves.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: At the same time, also helping their family.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: After clearing their parents' 5000 debt, they decided to open
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: another barbecue restaurant. It's called Soul and Go. They actually
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: took over their parents' struggling K barbecue Seoul restaurant, um,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: out of necessity. They worked like seven days a week,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: no break to clear off $500,000 worth of debt in
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: a year, and they actually shocked everyone by taking another
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: $500,000 loan to launch their own upscale diner at National Gallery.
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  Speaker 2: So, really good location, I'll have to say. Um, they
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: go from, they went from being in survival mode to
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: like running their very own place. I think that's really impressive.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Just FYI, um, the K barbecue spot was actually at
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Conrad Singapore Orchard opened by their parents in 2013, and
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I've actually been there once. Um, I didn't make a,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't say anything about it, but I went there
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: and it was so legit. I loved it so much.
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  Speaker 2: I was introduced to that place by a friend who
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: said a lot of Koreans like going there.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Uh, now, when he took over in 2024, it was,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: it was a struggle, right? And you know, FNB is
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: really not easy. So I think that's why they shocked
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: everyone by opening yet another one. it's called Soul and Soul,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Soul and Soul.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I believe, or was it, is there a typo here?
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I thought it was sold and gold initially. Anyway, um,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: this is over at National Gallery Singapore. Um, and they said,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: you know, at first they wanted to do it out
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: of passion, out of duty, um, because they've already gone
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: so far in terms of like F&B, right? But they decided,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: you know what, long term, what do we want out
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: of this? Do we really, really want to go back
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: into F&B? Do we want to continue to, to grow
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: it and all that?
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: So they decided, yeah, you know what, what's next? Let's
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: get it. Even though there's a lot of anxiety and
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: what feels like deja vu and they've been there before, objectively,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: they're in a better position, I think. Um, they actually have,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: have learned a lot from the previous, uh, from the
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: previous business already. And I was right, it's called Soul
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: and soul. There's no typo in there.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I literally thought I read Seoul and Go at one point. Anyway,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the meats are grilled by their staff in the open kitchen.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: They've got 8 charcoal grill stations. It looks beautiful, very minimalist,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: very zen. I see some cold noodles as well. Oh,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I love that so much. So if you want a
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: full rundown and photos, our friends over at 8 Days
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Eat have you covered. Please go check it out and enjoy.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: You're gonna drool looking at all these photos that are, wow, beautiful.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Um, please go check them out, National Gallery level 5,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and they're open daily for lunch and dinner. Don't forget
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  Speaker 2: to show your support.