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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 260526 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Good next.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonya
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. So if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Lego and football fan, more of the same for you
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  Speaker 1: today with the World Cup trivia to win for you
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  Speaker 1: some Lego exclusive sets and not forgetting loads of fun
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  Speaker 1: and catching up to do on whatever happened on Monday
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  Speaker 1: night and maybe even Tuesday morning. Singapore's number one hit
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  Speaker 1: music station.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of rock stars, sometimes footballers, they can be
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  Speaker 1: rock stars as well. So consider my surprise when I
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  Speaker 1: found out that of all people, if you're an Arsenal fan,
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  Speaker 1: not just Arsenal fan, maybe even Barcelona or just a
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  Speaker 1: football fan in general, Thierry Henry was here in Singapore yesterday. Why?
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  Speaker 1: And how the entire world found out he was in
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  Speaker 1: Singapore was I think he shared an Insta story about
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  Speaker 1: watching the Arsenal trophy lift, and he said, my plane
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  Speaker 1: just landed in Singapore. So upon further snooping around, I
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  Speaker 1: realized he was here for a football clinic event.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not wrong, Forrest Lee was present as well. UBS,
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  Speaker 1: the bank was present as well. So yeah, and the
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  Speaker 1: rumor is he's on his way to Hong Kong now
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  Speaker 1: to do more of the same, and I guess before
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  Speaker 1: he covers the Champions League between PSG and Arsenal with
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  Speaker 1: Kate Scott, Jamie Carragher, and Micah Richards on that CBS
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  Speaker 1: show that we love, by the way, I love seeing
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  Speaker 1: all the TikTok clips of that particular show.
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  Speaker 1: So, there you go. Who else will make a surprise
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  Speaker 1: appearance here in Singapore? We have no idea, but for anything,
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  Speaker 1: let us, uh, we'll let you know here on 987.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do our best to be snooping around for any
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  Speaker 1: celebrity sighting. Here's giving you a plot twist. If you
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  Speaker 1: own a BMD, not BMD, a PMD, there we go,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe you are able to ride one, do note
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  Speaker 1: that on the roads here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: You are not allowed to do so. Till this day,
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  Speaker 1: we're still seeing videos of people trying to break the rules,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it gets on TikTok, it becomes a viral video.
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  Speaker 1: The police get involved and maybe who knows, the PMD
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  Speaker 1: might be confiscated and the guy might be in trouble. So,
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  Speaker 1: over at Keppel Road, somewhere near the West Coast Highway area,
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  Speaker 1: on maybe Friday morning at 1:23 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: I think not one but a few people were riding
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  Speaker 1: the PMDs on the road and they were going at
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  Speaker 1: a very fast speed, 77 kilometers per hour, and not
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  Speaker 1: just that, captured on camera was one guy doing a
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  Speaker 1: Superman pose.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, I mean, why? Because one simple bump and
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  Speaker 1: that could be his life. So I think it's on
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  Speaker 1: social media. It's since gone viral. I wonder whether the
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  Speaker 1: police are involved. And don't forget, first-time offenders face fines
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  Speaker 1: of up to $2000 a jail term of 3 months
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  Speaker 1: or both, and non-compliant devices.
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  Speaker 1: will be impounded and the public is actually encouraged to
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  Speaker 1: report errant users via the MyTransport.sg app. So, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's one place to go and I'm very sure the
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  Speaker 1: authorities will be involved. Now, the video is available for
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  Speaker 1: you on TikTok and on social media. Please do not
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  Speaker 1: replicate it. And as promised, phone lines are open over
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  Speaker 1: at 669-119-87. Yesterday, we had Tyler from
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  Speaker 1: Saint Andrew's Junior calling in, telling us about the school
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  Speaker 1: and how his sister loves Taylor Swift's Opalite, so we
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  Speaker 1: played it for him. What song can we get you
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  Speaker 1: today before a public holiday tomorrow? So get your final
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  Speaker 1: shoutouts in because Thursday, Friday, and then it's the June
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  Speaker 1: holidays where Sonia and I will take a break from
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  Speaker 1: this segment. Once school reopens, then we'll start collecting.
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  Speaker 1: all the other schools that we haven't heard from yet
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  Speaker 1: here on the shock circuit. So, 669-119-87. Let us know
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  Speaker 1: which school you're from. This isn't exclusive to just primary
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  Speaker 1: or secondary. If you're from ITE, poly, JC, uni, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a teacher, principal, discipline master, even if you're a
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  Speaker 1: canteen auntie or uncle, let us know what's fantastic about
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  Speaker 1: the school that you work in.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe even the students as well, and we're more
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  Speaker 1: than happy to play you your favorite song here on 987.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Sweet message came in from a parent currently sending her
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  Speaker 1: kid to school on this Tuesday morning, and the and
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  Speaker 1: the message reads, Hi Joakim, just wanted to share about
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  Speaker 1: my daughter. She's from Cedar Girls Secondary School. She's currently
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  Speaker 1: in sec 2 and in the middle of preparing for
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  Speaker 1: her exams. Been seeing her work really hard these past
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  Speaker 1: few weeks, staying.
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  Speaker 1: Up, revising and trying her best to balance everything. But
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  Speaker 1: what I really admire is how she still enjoys her
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  Speaker 1: CCA despite the stress. No matter how tiring school gets,
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  Speaker 1: she always looks forward to it, and it's honestly becoming
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  Speaker 1: a happy little place. As parents, you worry about grades,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but seeing her passionate and happy doing what
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  Speaker 1: she loves reminds me that growing up is more than
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  Speaker 1: just about academics too. Really proud of her effort and
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  Speaker 1: her heart. Can you please play her anything from Harry Styles? Aiyo!
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  Speaker 1: How not to. How not to. You know what, to
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  Speaker 1: this anonymous parent and to this student from Cedar Girls
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  Speaker 1: Secondary School, enjoy this one. If it's your message, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you're smiling in the car right now. It's Harry Styles.
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  Speaker 1: And here's my question. What's in a name and what's
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  Speaker 1: in a logo as well? I'm gonna take you to Japan,
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  Speaker 1: and if you've been there as like most Singaporeans,
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  Speaker 1: You would have definitely tried Ichiran ramen. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I really hope they make it available here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know about quality control. So, as it stands,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, Ichiran, aside from Japan, it is
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  Speaker 1: available in Hong Kong and Taiwan as well. They don't
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  Speaker 1: operate in mainland China. So consider us surprised when all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, a ramen shop in Beijing.
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  Speaker 1: OK, the logo is almost exactly the same, just a
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  Speaker 1: few change in numbers. So according to the Ichi Run logo,
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  Speaker 1: they've been around for 35 years. This Beijing ramen shop
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  Speaker 1: has been around for 65 years. Yes, don't play. The
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  Speaker 1: colors are the same, the design of the logo is
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same. For the noodles, people are saying it
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  Speaker 1: tastes like oil, but it looks very similar to Japan's Ichiran, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the toppings like I like crab meat and
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  Speaker 1: all that, it, it won't be found in Ichiran's ramen,
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  Speaker 1: but it'll be found in this Beijing ramen shop that
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  Speaker 1: has since copied the logo of Ichiran. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I'm asking you what's in a name.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what the Beijing Ramen Shop name is?
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  Speaker 1: I run without the I, I C H R A N.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're going, you're kidding, I'm not. So when
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  Speaker 1: the owner was rightly called on social media and by
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  Speaker 1: some of the press in China saying, hey, your ramen
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  Speaker 1: shop name and logo is very similar to Japan's Ichiran.
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  Speaker 1: Any comment? The owner goes, hello, it's different. Use your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: It's different, OK?
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  Speaker 1: If the colors red, green, and black are exclusive to Ichiran,
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing to say.
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  Speaker 1: The top comment on this article.
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  Speaker 1: The gas lighting is next level. There you go, and
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: you know me, Sonia would always roast me for this.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: I'm prone to leaving my things either in the studio
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: or losing them. The amount of times I've misplaced my
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: office pass.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: And maybe even my house keys. Not just Sonia, but
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Anne Nicole would have a story or two to tell
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  Speaker 1: you the amount of times I have to say, Anne Nicole,
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  Speaker 1: can you please help me bring down my keys, which
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I left under the keyboard of the co-DJ side here
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  Speaker 1: on 987 and give it to the Grab driver. I'm
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  Speaker 1: booking one right now. I'm so sorry for bothering her.
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  Speaker 1: So can you imagine the relief that this woman here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore actually felt when the bus driver of bus
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  Speaker 1: number 10, I, I'm trying to look at the exact
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  Speaker 1: date this incident happened. I don't think it said when,
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  Speaker 1: but the bus driver's name is Mr. Teo Lai Huat. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tuned in by some miracle, take a bow, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Well done.
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  Speaker 1: So why we're clapping for him, why we're celebrating this
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  Speaker 1: is because for Mr. Teo, every time he ends his
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  Speaker 1: shift or he goes to the bus depot, he will
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  Speaker 1: do a thorough check of the bus that he was
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: driving to make sure nobody has left anything behind. On
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  Speaker 1: one of his shifts, he actually finds a diamond solitaire ring.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently that ring was worth up to $35,000 and
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: for a ring like that, it's more than just monetary value,
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely sentimental value as well. So, despite seeing the ring,
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  Speaker 1: what did Mr. Teo do? He turns it in. He
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  Speaker 1: makes a report saying, hey, I found this ring on
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  Speaker 1: my bus.
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  Speaker 1: And true enough, the night itself, the lady who left
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  Speaker 1: the ring there realized the ring was missing, gave the
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  Speaker 1: bus depot a call, and she was relieved that it
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  Speaker 1: was found and she could collect it the day after
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  Speaker 1: and she burst into tears with so much feeling of
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  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I thought something that is worth quite
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  Speaker 1: a high monetary value and personal value.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it's gone forever, but now that she's found it,
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  Speaker 1: all thanks to bus driver, Mr. Teo Lai Hut, we
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  Speaker 1: can all breathe again, and I think she's written in
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  Speaker 1: to thank him publicly, and I won't be surprised that
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  Speaker 1: very soon maybe SPS might give him a certificate or
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  Speaker 1: like a small plaque for honesty. Thank you so much, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Teo Lai Hut, and when asked, all he said was,
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  Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Face in humanity restored. And maybe this might help you
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  Speaker 1: for your next pop quiz if this ever gets brought up.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the longest river bridge in Malaysia, congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to our friends over at Sarawak because they now hold
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  Speaker 1: the record 4.8 kilometers. It's the bridge known as Batang
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  Speaker 1: Lupa Number One.
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  Speaker 1: Bridge, which will connect the coastal towns of Cebuya and Maluam,
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  Speaker 1: where before this bridge was opened, the villagers had to
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  Speaker 1: use ferry services to get back to the main island
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  Speaker 1: and all that for festivals or family gatherings. But now
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  Speaker 1: with this bridge, it will cut short the time for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're wondering where exactly, so, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sarawak is not where KL and.
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  Speaker 1: Johor is the other side of Malaysia where Kota Kinabalu is.
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  Speaker 1: If you are familiar with Kuching, the Batang Lupa Bridge
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  Speaker 1: is about 2 hours' drive away. And if you're familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the Maluam National Park, maybe that could be the
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  Speaker 1: next place you go to for a nice drive or
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: a nice trek, or maybe even a hike. Now, to
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  Speaker 1: give you some Singapore trivia.
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  Speaker 1: as well. If you're wondering, what about Singapore? What's the
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: longest bridge we have? It's actually the sheer bridge, 1.8 kilometers. Yeah,
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: there you go. If you win your next pop quiz,
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  Speaker 1: you can thank me on WhatsApp, 90050987. And what was
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  Speaker 1: a monster to me in primary and secondary school? Mother tongue.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure that you see this piece of
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  Speaker 1: news about the recent IPS survey about how more Singaporeans
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  Speaker 1: are identifying with English or Singlish, but our affinity with
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  Speaker 1: our mother tongue slowly dwindling. Bit of worrying times. We,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to lose that culture of Bahasa Malayu, Mandarin,
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  Speaker 1: and even Tamil here in Singapore, but if I were
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  Speaker 1: to really take the phrase mother tongue literally,
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  Speaker 1: That means I should have been fluent in Korean.
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  Speaker 1: Which is not happening. Every time Christina comes on air
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  Speaker 1: and she speaks in Korean and my mom tunes in, right?
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  Speaker 1: She goes, Hey, look, huh, Christina's doing such a good
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  Speaker 1: job and there you are here, half Korean. Shame.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, mom, that that ship has sailed. I mean, I
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: have tried. Again, if you, if you throw me in Korea,
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to survive. I, I can read the signboards,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I can take the train, I can have very basic convo,
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: but for example, if you want me to, you know,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: go and flirt with a Korean girl using only in Korean,
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  Speaker 1: cannot know how to how to be done here unless
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: she's able to speak in English. And and then in
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  Speaker 1: primary and secondary school here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Um, look, again, I'm embarrassed that I don't know too
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  Speaker 1: much of our national language, Bahasa Malayu, but I, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: low-key feel a bit justified that I'm able to speak
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  Speaker 1: in Mandarin.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it has made life a little bit easier for
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  Speaker 1: me here in Singapore. I'm able to understand when people
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: are talking bad about me. Ah, don't think I don't know. OK,
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  Speaker 1: think the Tongo, OK, and that was quite bad, um,
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  Speaker 1: ordering food as well sometimes in the za or the
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  Speaker 1: taipung store. I, I feel as if if you know
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  Speaker 1: someone else's language, be it Bahasa, Malayu, Tamil.
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  Speaker 1: Mandarin, Hokkien, Canto, or any dialects, right? You instantly are
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  Speaker 1: able to build rapport and connect with that person because
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  Speaker 1: you speak their language and in a way, they, they
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  Speaker 1: cannot mess with you and you, and there's an understanding here,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? But I'm gonna open the
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  Speaker 1: phone lines right now.
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  Speaker 1: 669-11987 or maybe even WhatsApp, 90050987. Again, if you do
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  Speaker 1: like your answers, what's coming your way is a $100
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  Speaker 1: dining experience to Cloud Fields, and look, they believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Singaporean concept of dining.
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  Speaker 1: Where you order to share and order a few dishes
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  Speaker 1: for yourself as well. They're over at Tan Boon Lit Building,
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  Speaker 1: and their signature dishes, massrai. It's the short rib rendang pasta,
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  Speaker 1: the nori clam pasta, kachio e pepe fries, and the
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  Speaker 1: negi Toro kimchi tuna melt.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to have more pictures, please log on
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  Speaker 1: to Instagram and look for Love Cloud Fields. They also
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  Speaker 1: serve drinks made in-house from scratch, including a custom coffee
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  Speaker 1: blend with local roaster nickel and house fermented kombucha. If
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  Speaker 1: this sounds like your thing, we're gonna talk mother tongue today. 669-119-87.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you used your mother tongue fluently?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm gonna keep it very spicy here. Uh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be very honest, for me, it's never. My, my
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  Speaker 1: mother tongue and Mandarin equally broken, but I would rank
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  Speaker 1: my Mandarin definitely better than my Korean. So, let us know. 669-11987.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the news yet, but
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: according to a recent IPS survey, Singaporeans, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to our mother tongue, be it Mandarin, Bahasa Malayu or Tamil,
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  Speaker 1: we are slow.
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  Speaker 1: Slowly losing affinity with it as more now relate to
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  Speaker 1: English or Singlish, much to the cringe of English teachers
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  Speaker 1: islandwide here in Singapore. Stop speaking Singlish. But anyway, gonna
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  Speaker 1: go to WhatsApp right now and just say hello to
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  Speaker 1: a few people. My question is, when was the last
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  Speaker 1: time you used your mother tongue fluently? I wanna say
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  Speaker 1: good morning to Wei Ling, who says, hey, Joakim.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I used my mother tongue, Mandarin, extensively
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  Speaker 1: was while communicating with my now deceased grandmother. I was
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  Speaker 1: visiting her in the home, and for some reason that
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  Speaker 1: day she was particularly chatty. She talked about all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of things from how she missed grandpa who left before her,
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  Speaker 1: to her hopes for me to get married and settled down.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: These topics seemed random at that time, but thinking back now,
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  Speaker 1: I guess perhaps she knew her time was coming and
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: she wanted to get everything off her chest for the
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  Speaker 1: final time.
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  Speaker 1: She passed away two days later. It was the most
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  Speaker 1: challenging convo I've had ever since my Mandarin is terrible,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll forever remember this precious time that grandma and
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  Speaker 1: I had together. Oh, Wai Ling, sending you all the
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  Speaker 1: love and thank you so much for being so open
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  Speaker 1: with us here on 987. Going to our phone lines
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  Speaker 1: at 669-119-87. Jay, how's your mother tongue?
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  Speaker 2: I've always been speaking in my mother tongue, but the
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  Speaker 2: thing is, I think the younger generation, especially, um, my
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  Speaker 2: two children, they are 12 and 7, they've always been
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  Speaker 2: speaking in Mandarin. So it's, it's hugely because our preschools
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  Speaker 2: don't offer Tamil in every school. So, and, and largely
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  Speaker 2: their friends are all speaking in Mandarin. And in the
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  Speaker 2: earliest when they spoke up Mandarin as a second language.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see a reason why I have to like
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  Speaker 2: force them to take Tamil when they're so comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: the language that it's like almost the official language of Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm going to say? I was in
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  Speaker 1: Catholic primary, right, so I was one of 4 non-Chinese boys,
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  Speaker 1: so I, I'm half Indian, Eurasian, and Korean, right? So
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  Speaker 1: whenever I see like a fellow Indian speaking in Mandarin,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be like, hey, friends.
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  Speaker 2: It's so relatable. It's like, come, let's suffer together.
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  Speaker 1: So, but, but how's your Tamil? Is it like or speak?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I am very good in Tamil. I, I
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  Speaker 2: was like an A student throughout all my school time.
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  Speaker 2: So when I have kids, yeah, when I have kids
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  Speaker 2: who gossip in Mandarin in front of me, I go like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, what have I done?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, now your, your kids can speak in code in
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  Speaker 1: front of you. Thank you so much for your call, Jay.
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  Speaker 1: Take care, OK? Thank you. Bye bye. The thing about
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  Speaker 1: the Tamil language is I do not know what it means.
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  Speaker 1: I can never understand it, but Tamil songs of the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: 90s to the early 2000s, I love, man. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it means, but I love it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Look, I love the seraphim, but OK, can this song
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  Speaker 1: be the last one that uses the Macarena as a sample?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That one called Boompala right here on 987, your number
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  Speaker 1: one hit music station. I better be careful how I
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  Speaker 1: say that song title Boompala. Anyway, going back to what's
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  Speaker 1: about how fluent you are when it comes to your
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: mother tongue. When was the last time you used it fluently?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I want to say good morning to Tenny. Tenny says, morning, Joakim.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be horrible in my Mandarin in secondary school,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: used to hate it. Started speaking more.
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  Speaker 1: Mandarin after dating my then boyfriend, now husband, as his
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: family are mostly Chinese-speaking. These days, I have people mistaking
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: me for being from China as my Mandarin sounds very
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: China Chinese, as I'm a swim coach with a couple
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: of Chinese national students. Never thought I'd be able to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: coach swimming in full Mandarin. I have 3 kids of
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: my own, and I have to, and to have them
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  Speaker 1: speak Mandarin occasionally is like wanting their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Teaching swimming in Mandarin. How do you do this? Hey,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you yonga suyanga.
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  Speaker 1: And even the soya. OK, I'm gonna stop going to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the phone lines 669-119-87. Desmond, what is your story? Um, actually,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis I do sales, so
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I do have to handle different kind of clients. So, um.
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  Speaker 1: Being a middle-aged millennial now that I am, I feel
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that being able to speak, uh, Mandarin fluently and I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: can even write and write and read as well, it
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: feels like a superpower nowadays. So, OK, when it comes
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to your sales, my brother, do you find that you
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: lock in more clients and you speak English or mother tongue?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, it really depends on the client profile, but if
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the client is Chinese speaking, uh, definitely I'll be the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: one locking it in. Do you have kids of your own?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: No, I don't, but I do have lots of nieces
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and nephews. OK, so what's it like for your in-laws
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  Speaker 1: or your siblings educating their kids using mother tongue?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they actually find it a challenge. Uh, my in-laws
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: may be all right. My in-laws, because being elderly, they
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: can speak, uh, Mandarin, uh, better. Uh, my, my, I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: can't say, I can't say much about my siblings, so
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they are, they are Mandarin. OK, at least, at least
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that's you lah, Desmond. Thank you so much for your call, man.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You take care, brother. Bye-bye. Thank you. And we're talking
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: about your mother tongue.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Inspired by the results of a recent IPS survey where
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Singaporeans are slowly losing affinity with our mother tongue, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: we are identifying more with English and Singlish. So my
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: question is, when was the last time you used your
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: mother tongue fluently? I want to say good morning to Chris. Chris,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you say, good morning, Joakim. I use Mandarin almost every
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: day as my colleagues from the workplace are mostly from
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: China or Malaysia.
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  Speaker 1: I also speak Mandarin to my elderly mother. I find
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that the younger generation mostly don't really speak a mother tongue.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Not only that, but dialect seems to be on the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: decline too.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: This is why on TikTok, I'm a huge fan of eating.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: She calls herself the Hokkien girl. Her content, yes. If
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the younger generation wants to look to someone to learn
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Hokkien or be inspired to learn Hokkien, to be able
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to speak to your elderly grandparents or parents in the future,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: maybe eating could be starting a whole revolution here. Wanna
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: say also good morning to on WhatsApp, your username is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I'm still Kaliic. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Morning Joe. My wife and I, we use English most
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of the time at home, but we use our mother
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: tongue when we are scolding our kids. Kalide, this is
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my life growing up. This is my mom and I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: at the house. Whenever I do something wrong, she'll go, Hey,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Mica song.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And all sorts of other words I can't say on
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: live national radio even though it's in Korean. Anyway, 669-11987. Hazim,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: how's your mother tongue? Uh, the last time I had to,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it was a telemovie I had to.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Talents for, um, it was literally a Malay movie, so
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that was the only time where I actually had to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: speak Malay fluently. Every other time I actually never speak
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Malays or English?
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  Speaker 1: So my parents, usually we are speaking in English, but
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: then even to my grandmother, it will be very broken
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Malay and like half basically half English lah. So when,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: when did you start losing your affinity with the language?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I never really got in touch with it because
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: like um growing up is from when I was back
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in primary school even it was a struggle for me
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: just to like even pass my Malay so like to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to suddenly having the need to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: To be fluent in Malay for to, to, in that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: telemovie where I had to like direct some talent, it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: was like kind of crazy for me lah. Thank you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: so much for all your calls and texts, sharing with
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: me about your struggles when it comes to mother tongue
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore. I relate to a whole new level,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but yeah, as much as I'm terrible with my Mandarin
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and even my Korean, if we take the words mother
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: tongue literally.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should not lose our affinity. I feel we
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: should keep going because language is such an important tool
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: in our lives. Trust me on this one. Whether you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: speak Bahasa Malayu, Tamil, or Mandarin, the fact that we
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: can be able to speak these languages, it's a gift.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It's a gift. For today's winners, I wanna give it
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to Wai Ling as well as Jay who called us earlier. Congratulations, ladies!
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: For Wai Ling, sharing with us about how she had
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a very nice long convo with her grandmother, and I mean,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: sad for Wayne that her grandma passed away two days later,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: but Wai Ling will forever remember this convo in Mandarin
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that she had with her grandma and for Jay sharing
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: with us how her kids, even though Indian and supposed
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to speak Tamil, they are learning Mandarin and they are
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: quite good at it. So well done to Jay's kids.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Kids, I relate because, yeah, being one of the few
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: non-Chinese boys in Catholic High Primary, yeah, we suffer together. Anyway,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: what's coming your way, of course, a very nice cloud fields,
• 24:50
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• 24:52
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Love Cloud Fields. They're over at Tan Boon Lit Building.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: If you love your football and if you love your Lego,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: bring your love for them right now.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna open the phone lines. 669-119-87. I'm gonna
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: put you through a head to head World Cup trivia.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: The first one to get two points or at least
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: answer one out of three questions right if nobody gets
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the answers. What's coming your way? It's a Lego Lionel Messi,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Lego Cristiano Ronaldo, Lego Kylian Mbappe, and Lego Venecius Junior.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Released, of course, exclusively for this year's World Cup. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: get the calls coming in, 669-119-87. This entire bundle, it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: is worth almost $185 and these are collectibles. It's these
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: things where you wanna own it, build it and store
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it properly because you never know, it might appreciate in
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: value in what, 2030 years' time. Let's see what happens.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So call us 669-11987. And for World Cup 2026, our
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: friends over at LEGO, they've given us an exclusive Lego
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: bundle to play for. We got Lego Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Vinny Junior, as well as Kylian Mbappe. On the line,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on line number one, I have Haikel. Hello, buddy.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Hello. Haikel, who's gonna win the World Cup this year, man?
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for France. For France. Let's see if they'll
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: make the finals again. And on the other line, your opponent,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I have Tristan. Hello, Tristan.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Hello. Tristan, who's your pick to win the World Cup, buddy?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Portugal. Portugal. Alright. So, how this game works is gonna
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: be very simple. I'll be asking you three questions. If
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you know the answer, you say your name, I'll get
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the answer from you, OK?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Alright. Ready or not? Here we go. First question. When
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a player gets immediately sent off, what is the color
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of the card shown to the player? Haiker, what's the answer? Red.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Red card is absolutely correct. Tristan, you got to say
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: your name first, OK?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: OK, so I'll give that point to Haikel. Your next question.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Who is the all-time top goal scorer for the World Cup?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Is it A Tracan, what's the answer?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Messy. Not messy. Michael, do you wanna steal this?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Uh, let me give you the options. Is it A,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Miroslav Klose of Germany, or B, Ronaldo of Brazil?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, closer. Middle up closer is, absolutely correct. And just
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: like that, Haiko, congratulations. Haiko waiting for himself the Lego bundle. Tristan,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he can try again next time, OK? Take care, buddy.