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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 051026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Good morning
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  Speaker 2: sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: Shock
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  Speaker 2: circuit with Sonia and Joakim on 9887. Joe is here officially.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what? He forgot his pass this morning. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he was scrambling and um we, we, we
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  Speaker 2: refer to this as a mission impossible, what we mission.
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  Speaker 2: Mission Impossible
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  Speaker 1: mission. A mission impossible task. How about that? So all
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  Speaker 1: Sonia has to do is press the lift, send it
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  Speaker 1: down to level 1, and then wait for me at
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  Speaker 1: level 7. I don't know what's so difficult about it.
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  Speaker 2: I came, I came down.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, well done. That was you being extra careful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to come down. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can, you can actually.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good thing that you did.
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  Speaker 2: OK,
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  Speaker 1: so that I can press to go to level 7
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  Speaker 1: as
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  Speaker 1: well.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, OK, explain something to me. So if I
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  Speaker 2: said this is the 1,000th time I'm asking him, OK,
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  Speaker 2: so I send the lift down to level 1, how
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  Speaker 2: will you press the lift to level
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  Speaker 2: 7?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you send the lift down, the lift
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  Speaker 1: to
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  Speaker 2: level 1, you have to press
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  Speaker 1: the
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  Speaker 2: button
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  Speaker 1: immediately.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I have to press the button from level
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  Speaker 2: 7
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  Speaker 1: immediately going up or going down.
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  Speaker 2: OK, that's too much brain work in the morning, so
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  Speaker 2: I just sent myself down.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you make it sound like a math? This
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  Speaker 1: is very simple. Even a nursery school kid can do this.
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  Speaker 2: So mean. You're not supposed to roast me this early
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: at least I roast you and no one's tuned in.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: that.
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  Speaker 1: But good morning to you if you
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  Speaker 1: are
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  Speaker 2: though. There was a meme or a post, right, of
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  Speaker 2: Troy Sivan, Charlie XCX, and Madonna. They were doing some
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  Speaker 2: award-related presentation at the, was it the VMAs recently? I
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  Speaker 2: think it was the VMAs, right? Yeah. And um, when
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  Speaker 2: they stood on stage together, Madonna in the middle with
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  Speaker 2: Troy and Charlie flanking her.
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  Speaker 2: Um, the social media space was just like, oh, look,
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  Speaker 2: it's Madonna and her two kids, like in a good
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  Speaker 2: way because both Troy and Charlie XCX, they're very quirky
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  Speaker 2: and edgy in their own way, and they almost could
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  Speaker 2: come across as like Madonna's real kids, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with
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  Speaker 1: Lady Gaga being their cousin or their aunt, the aunt. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: in the music sense, it does kind of makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Strike me that yes, they could be siblings and parents
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Anyway, here in Singapore, speaking of music, look,
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  Speaker 1: Formula One fever is upon us. The Bahin Grand Prix
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  Speaker 1: in Malaysia done and dusted. Some rumors are circulating that
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  Speaker 1: some of the drivers are already in Singapore trying to,
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  Speaker 1: I won't say get acclimatized because they were in Malaysia,
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  Speaker 1: but to get used to our Singapore heat and humidity again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, at least it's not too far.
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  Speaker 2: Far off from what they experienced in Malaysia. Although I
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  Speaker 2: will say hopefully the fact that here in Singapore, maybe
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  Speaker 2: we have more trees surrounding the areas that they are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, driving and doing activities that hopefully is a
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  Speaker 2: bit cooler.
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  Speaker 1: So I think starting tomorrow, Wednesday, and maybe even Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: you could be chasing your favorite Formula One drivers at
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  Speaker 1: plenty of events
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  Speaker 2: so many options
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  Speaker 1: here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: There were a couple of um social media compilations of
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  Speaker 2: the different locations you can catch different drivers. So hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: those are the most updated. Make sure you check that out. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: like I mentioned earlier, this took about 16 years and much,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of delays, I would say, but it's finally
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  Speaker 2: come to pass. Can you guess what it is? Transportation related.
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  Speaker 1: MRT station is? OK,
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  Speaker 2: you're
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  Speaker 2: quite close. You're getting closer.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you realize, the Thomson East Coast
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  Speaker 2: line, OK, wrong. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: alright, I was gonna say from Caldecott or was it
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else? There's actually one station that it skips. It's there, OK,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm guessing they're just waiting for more traffic from humans,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll open the station.
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  Speaker 2: What was it gonna be called?
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  Speaker 1: It's the one between Caldecott and Upper Upper Thompson, I
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  Speaker 1: think it could be Bukit Brown, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they, oh, Bukit Brown there's
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  Speaker 1: a station there.
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  Speaker 2: OK,
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  Speaker 1: but they haven't opened it yet.
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  Speaker 2: OK, OK, like the cemetery. Yeah, but,
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  Speaker 1: but that that that piece of land has been slated
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  Speaker 1: for houses in the future. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: OK, OK. Well, um, it's not that, but you were
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  Speaker 2: getting closer. It's actually the Johor Bahru Singapore RTS link.
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  Speaker 2: 16 years and a delay finally is coming to pass, um.
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  Speaker 2: I think it faces a couple of last um hurdles,
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  Speaker 2: but I believe that um the service between Singapore and
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  Speaker 2: JB will open for passenger service two months after its
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  Speaker 2: original estimated date. So, it's gonna be drumroll, February of 2027.
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 1: mean, we've waited 16 years.
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  Speaker 2: What's another two months?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was meant to open at the end of
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  Speaker 2: this year, but I think probably they need to run
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  Speaker 2: some last checks and just make sure that it's all good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, um, trial runs and all that that are
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  Speaker 2: in place to make sure that it's safe and good
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  Speaker 2: to go. So Feb of 2027 is definitely the period
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  Speaker 2: of time we're looking at. OK, that's
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  Speaker 1: Singapore to JB. What about the high-speed rail from Singapore
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  Speaker 1: to
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  Speaker 2: that one, they were talking about it for a long time, right?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where the conversation is at at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Another 16 years like that. OK, fine.
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  Speaker 2: We're very patient, don't worry. We've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: shoutouts to read out first before we get to the
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  Speaker 2: phone lines.
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say for N Levels today, Sonia,
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  Speaker 1: it's the written paper for math syllabus A happening from
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  Speaker 1: 8 to 10:00 a.m. So all the best to you
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  Speaker 1: for taking it. Wanna say good morning to NW on WhatsApp. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim, please help me share this. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: to all your papers, Rayyan. I have confidence in you
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  Speaker 1: nailing all of them and heading to the school of your.
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  Speaker 1: Choice love mom and dad. There we go. That's so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it is one more coming in from Jia Xuan,
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  Speaker 1: who says, Hey, Sonia and Joakim, I'm doing my N-levels today.
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  Speaker 1: I want to wish all my friends all the best
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  Speaker 1: as well. We've worked hard for this moment. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: it together and hopefully we can go to O levels
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  Speaker 1: together as well. Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that is a very key moment
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of us. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: felt that way, but it was a big life change.
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  Speaker 2: In those moments, right? And the thing is you don't
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  Speaker 2: know whether
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just like a click mentality for us, right?
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  Speaker 2: We like feel more comfortable if we know, oh, at
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  Speaker 2: least 1 or 2 friends and I are going to
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  Speaker 2: the same school, something like that. Yeah, and you won't
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  Speaker 2: be so. Yeah, you won't be so alone, but you
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  Speaker 2: realize after a while you can't make decisions based on that, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in primary or secondary school, I really
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  Speaker 1: say this treasure your friendships. There are some people from
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  Speaker 1: secondary school I still keep in touch with. It's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing
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  Speaker 2: friendship. It's the cutest thing. OK, we're gonna head to
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  Speaker 2: the phone line.
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  Speaker 2: Right now. Hello, who's this? Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Shane.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Shane, which school are you from?
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel's. And what level are you in? P4. Any exams
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  Speaker 1: happening for you as we speak? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: no, but tomorrow there's a listening comprehension. OK for P4s. OK,
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  Speaker 2: all the best with that. Do you have a favorite
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  Speaker 2: subject in school or anything? I do like English
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  Speaker 1: and maths. Shane, what's the best thing about St. Gabriel's Primary?
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  Speaker 1: tell us. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: soccer. Alright, OK,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and Gabriel Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: So is there anything you want to say on air
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  Speaker 2: or like a shout out that you want to give
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  Speaker 2: to anyone? I want to give out a shout out
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  Speaker 2: to all my soccer CCA mates and my schoolmates. Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they hear this and you have a fantastic
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  Speaker 2: day ahead, OK. Well, one thing dominating our local social
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  Speaker 2: media space for sure was the weekend live in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a 1 minute 32nd compilation video of
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  Speaker 1: the amount of times the Weekend hit Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: Singapore, do you
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  Speaker 2: And how he wove it into his set so many times, right?
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  Speaker 2: But the guy's vocals are like perfect, man.
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  Speaker 1: OK, I was saying this to Sonia. This is the
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  Speaker 1: closest to a new age Michael Jackson that we'll ever
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  Speaker 1: get to in terms of his tonality and his musicality.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can hear the references and the inspiration, right?
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  Speaker 2: But which pop star wasn't inspired by MJ? That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: So the weekend, really the staging, the dancing by the dancers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I saw him dancing before, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy he had an A stage and a B
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  Speaker 1: stage where he was a lot closer to people at
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  Speaker 1: the back of the national
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  Speaker 1: stadium.
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  Speaker 2: So we had, I mean, we were, we were watching
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  Speaker 2: the concert together in the same row in the same
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  Speaker 2: section and everything. Um, great, great visuals for a petite person.
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  Speaker 2: I managed to see.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, thank goodness. And
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  Speaker 1: somebody actually explained the TLDR of the meaning behind the
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  Speaker 1: weekend staging for this concert.
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  Speaker 2: I think we
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  Speaker 2: probably saw the same post.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it shows him going from the weekend as
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  Speaker 1: like an idol and all that going back to a man. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it's like a rebirth kind of moment and it
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  Speaker 2: could be signifying the next chapter of his career because
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  Speaker 2: this is it.
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  Speaker 2: For the weekend in that sense, yes, with that branding,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: let's
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  Speaker 1: see what he will do in terms of his next
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  Speaker 1: album or his next single, but I know that he'll
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: be in Korea very soon, October 7th and October 8th
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  Speaker 1: at the Goyang Stadium. So it kind of makes you wonder,
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  Speaker 1: is he still in Singapore resting for a bit before
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: he flies there, which is just 6 hours away?
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  Speaker 2: Possibly. Where else would he be hanging out at?
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  Speaker 1: Lanka,
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  Speaker 2: just go for some relaxing. I don't know, man. I wonder.
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  Speaker 2: No one even knows where he's staying here in Singapore
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  Speaker 2: or anything. Or
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  Speaker 1: do you
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  Speaker 1: think he knows any of the F1 drivers can catch
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  Speaker 1: up in person over a meal before going to? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: probably they will like shut down a restaurant for them
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  Speaker 2: or something. You go.
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  Speaker 1: I know if I share this with you live on 987,
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  Speaker 1: you are definitely gonna say I've entered uncle mode for
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  Speaker 2: sure. You already entered.
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  Speaker 2: Did you just say I entered uncle mode for sure?
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  Speaker 2: You entered it like years ago. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are a few things that I've done since I
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  Speaker 1: was very young to which my friends say, Hey, uncle,
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  Speaker 1: you know. For example, waking up early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: to go to the coffee shop to read my papers
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  Speaker 1: and eat yakun kaya toast.
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  Speaker 2: I've not
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  Speaker 2: heard that before. You did that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when,
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  Speaker 1: when in my early twenties, OK, for example, if, uh,
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  Speaker 1: school at night.
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  Speaker 1: starts at maybe say 10:30 a.m. So what I'll do
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  Speaker 1: is I used to have newspaper delivery. I'll bring it
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  Speaker 1: to the coffee shop opposite my place to have a
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  Speaker 1: kaya toast and some, uh, tasi kosong.
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  Speaker 2: So basically you deprived your mom of reading the newspapers
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 1: My mom will read it first. So once she's done,
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  Speaker 2: she's done, then you,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll take it and go and read it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, very interesting. I never knew that about you.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Long time ago, it's almost as if you're seeing a
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  Speaker 1: cycle of behavior repeat itself. Remember how a long time
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  Speaker 1: ago you used to have aunties and uncles waiting for
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  Speaker 1: you to finish your can drink and they would go
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  Speaker 1: immediately and take the can
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  Speaker 1: from you?
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  Speaker 2: I've not actually experienced that like personally.
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  Speaker 1: This, this behavior was quite prevalent in maybe say the
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  Speaker 1: late 2000s.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: OK. Are you about to tell me you're that uncle
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  Speaker 2: now or?
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  Speaker 1: With a twist.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you going with
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  Speaker 1: this? With a twist, OK. So this involves the BCRS machine.
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  Speaker 2: OK, yes, I guess as much. You are officially 100%.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of it. OK. OK. That's the worrying part.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. That's the worrying part.
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  Speaker 1: Want to throw you back to the month of March
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  Speaker 1: or April 2026 where they announced the whole BCRS scheme
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  Speaker 1: and the machines and yours.
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  Speaker 1: Actually actually did a campaign to promote the use of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, Hey, what's me doing then doing the
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  Speaker 1: campaign if I don't practice what I preach? So ever
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  Speaker 1: since it became a thing, I realized whenever I go
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  Speaker 1: for canned drinks or bottled drinks at the hawker center,
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep it with me, and I'll go to the
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  Speaker 1: nearest one and return it. So I get 10 cents
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  Speaker 1: back each time to my DBS Payla account. Now I
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  Speaker 1: realize when I go to a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: No, if I order a can of Coke Zero, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they serve it to me with the can, I
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  Speaker 1: will say, Oh, please, let me keep the can. It's OK.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they know what I'm going for.
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  Speaker 2: But actually, technically you don't need to say what. Like
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  Speaker 2: you can just take the can with you. They won't ask,
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  Speaker 1: but some of
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  Speaker 1: them will clear the cans or some will give it
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  Speaker 1: to you or some will give it a drink without
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  Speaker 1: the can. Oh, so in a way they cut my
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  Speaker 1: 10 cents.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you always think of it in such a
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: negative way? I mean, OK lah, they also
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  Speaker 2: Let the restaurant earn some money, lah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're already paying for the food and service tax
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  Speaker 1: and GST and all that you should, yeah. So now
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  Speaker 1: I realize I'll try to keep the cans, and if
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  Speaker 1: I see a BCRS machine nearby, I'll go to it. OK.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday though, OK, was at the Tanjung Paga area. So
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  Speaker 1: I was walking around with my Coke Zero can looking
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  Speaker 1: for a BCRS machine, empty can. Yes, couldn't find one.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, never mind, you know what, I'll go
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: and hold this cat and maybe walk to Maxwell and
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  Speaker 1: see if there's one. Don't have,
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  Speaker 2: but isn't there like an app to show you the
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  Speaker 2: map locations
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  Speaker 2: or something like
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  Speaker 1: I, I, I think the site's a little bit glitchy.
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  Speaker 1: I tried looking for it, couldn't find one, so I said,
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  Speaker 1: never mind. You know what? I'll hold this can,
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  Speaker 2: go home, right, and
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  Speaker 1: go to Bishan and go to the machine that I'm
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  Speaker 1: familiar with. I went to the machine. The machine was full.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't return to the point where you couldn't even.
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  Speaker 2: So one can that that
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  Speaker 1: circle where you put the cans or bottles in, it
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  Speaker 1: was red because it's full and that machine, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: just outside the Shengxiong near the bus
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  Speaker 1: interchange.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got to increase the amount of machines. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whenever I finish my runs at night and I go
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  Speaker 1: to the Shengxiong to get like a bottled drink, I
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  Speaker 1: realized there are a lot of people, maybe say 5
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  Speaker 1: or 6 people in the queue with.
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  Speaker 1: Bags filled with cans and bottles with the BCRS logo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so now I'm just wondering whether people actively going into
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  Speaker 1: rubbish bins to take it out,
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  Speaker 2: or could it be, are they elderly people or
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  Speaker 1: a little bit? It's a, it's a mix of ages
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  Speaker 1: like some look in their 40s, in my age as well,
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  Speaker 1: or even aunties and uncles from the Merdeka or pioneer generation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if they are keeping active by walking around
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  Speaker 1: and collecting cans, if they see it in the open, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but to go into a rubbish bin and take it out,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 2: mean I wouldn't jump to that conclusion and I hope
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  Speaker 2: that they're not doing that because it's a hygiene as well,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: but it's, it's good in a way and yet it
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  Speaker 2: does every time you
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  Speaker 2: You see a good initiative, right? There's always gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a slightly strange or ugly side to it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing they are not doing anything wrong because
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: people are openly leaving their cans there despite knowing there's
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: a BCRS return scheme and all that. So yeah, uh,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: as I, as it stands, I've collected close to about
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: maybe 30 cans and bottles,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: earned $3. Woohoo can get another can drink.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I think just 1 or 2 depending on where
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: you buy it
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: from.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: No, the earning 2000
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: dollars.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, how many cans and bottles do you
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: need to collect? I mean, I just realized that I,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not a great contributor when it comes to that
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: because when was the last time you saw me have
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: a canned or a bottled drink?
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Like, hardly ever.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: I don't drink canned drinks.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Asking for a friend, when you do have that can
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: drink with me, ask me,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: when was that?
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Whenever
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I can't even tell you when I had a drink
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: So anyway, uh, let this be a reminder for example,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: if you're keeping canned drinks at home, if it has
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the BCRS logo, go and get your 10 cents don't
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: know how many cans you have, go,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: go.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of um supermarkets and places
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: are having flash sales on their old stock that don't
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: have the logo, so they need to change it ASAP.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: So um don't miss those deals. How often do you
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: eat out, joking every day, every single day, at least
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: one meal. Actually, me too, to be honest, and especially
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: since I moved out from my family home years ago, right? Um,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: My mom is not going to be too happy to
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: hear this, but I pretty much grab food like delivery
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: a lot. Not just that, Foodpanda also like if I
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: see whatever tickles my fancy on either, I'm always ordering.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: So that's why when I read this article, I went, yeah,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I'm one of those Singaporeans contributing to our sodium intake
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: that's very high.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, OK, I try my best to
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Go for like healthier options, but regardless of what you choose,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I think just eating out alone will still have a
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: higher concentration of that compared to just eating like a
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: home-cooked meal, you
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: know. And also, let's call a spade a spade, alright.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: They sayier options, but the places that we get the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: food from, from these healthy places, very expensive. It's it's
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: very high.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: It is. So I do try to cook sometimes I
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: do but
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: In busy moments, I mean, let's be real, it's not
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: gonna happen
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and I can't cook whatsoever.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I know, I
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: know. So if my mom wants to rest that day,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I'll just go and buy like fish porridge or or
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: maybe like a salad
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: bowl.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, so porridge, salad bowl, fish soup, you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: kind of options are still OK. But,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: but
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the soup itself if you get from the hawker center,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: right I mean.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, not to speculate, but the sodium content
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: in the soup is very high.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: So, so, so this is something that I noticed about myself, um,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: over the years, right, I noticed if I do eat
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: at places that are way too heavy-handed with the salt
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: or like MSG even, I can tell, like my, my lips,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I think I've got a reaction to MSG in general.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: So the, the, the outer corners of my lips, right,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: like the, the border of my lips will start to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: get very red and start to itch. So that's my
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: reaction to MSG or a dish that's too high in salt.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So I remember a long time ago our friends over
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: at HPB were doing consume less sugar, right? So Singaporeans
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: are consuming less sugar, we turn to salt but our
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: sodium
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: very high.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Anyway, we want to address this in just a little
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: bit because there's a new stat about more and more
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Singaporean adults eating out. Um, it's so funny that we're
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: doing this particular topic today because I had to pick today.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: To bring some leftover soup that I had from yesterday
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: that I didn't drink. Joakim walks in and he was like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: this is the most aunty thing I've ever seen you
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: do in the morning because it's like those Chinese soups,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you know, that you get from the hawker center type.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: It has a pork rib in there, right? with tomato
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: slices
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: and carrot, radish, yeah, yeah, it's like a.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Something like ABC soup, something something like
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I, I won't make fun of your auntie habits because
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: honestly I I love my soups in the morning as well.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I, but the only problem was that I went
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: to heat it up twice in the microwave.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's our microwave pantry, OK.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Is it that
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: microwave issue because it's not scalding enough. I need it
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to be scalding hot. OK,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: calm down.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Um, this, this also brings us to our topic of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the day. How often do you eat out or do
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: you buy your, your
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: meals?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: OK, so according to some stats, Singapore adults are consuming
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: more sodium and calories while eating out more is often
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: identified as a key factor. So in 2019, I think
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the same study
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, it showed that 6 in 10 people ate out
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: at least once a day, but as of this year,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: 7 in 10 people eat out at least once a day. But,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: but here's the thing, it's relative, right? We are all
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: busy at work and then wanna go for your run
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: clubs or keep fit or find social
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: activities.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, chances are you have no time to cook.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Where got time to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: cook
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: exactly? I mean, unless you are very dedicated and I
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: know some people who like do meal prep stuff, like
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: they will cook a lot of stuff and then they'll
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: freeze certain things so they can just, you know, defrost
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: it and use it in a week.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I, I subscribing to to eat meals. I remember that era,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: where it was very high protein and all that, but
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I realized it's very tough, you know why?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Um, if I, for example, subscribe to all three meals, breakfast, lunch,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and dinner,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: you have to bring it with you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And if I make social plans, it will waste, I'll
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: waste the dinner
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: for one meal. Yeah, exactly. So it's tough to find
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the right balance. I mean, unless you're very dedicated about it,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: then unfortunately you have to cancel your social plan.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So the good news is for our sugar intake, it
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: has fallen.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And 87.3% of residents now get enough physical activity. Well done, Singapore.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That's very good.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: We are moving and our sugar intake is lowering, but
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the sodium and calories is going to be very tough
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to combat
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this one.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but one thing at a time, I guess, um,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: maybe the fact that we're getting more physical activity is
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: balancing it out a bit more. I
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I mean you shared how many times.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You eat out a day. For me, it's almost every day. Yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: OK, frankly, it's at least one meal a day will
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: be on food delivery apps or eaten out and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you always say that I'm a creature of habit, right?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: But places like Din Tai Feng, for example, or maybe
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: even Subway if I get the wrap, it to me,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: it's considered, at least in my point of view, a
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: healthier option. Yeah,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: no,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree as compared to.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: all the usual suspects of the hawker center and all that. Yes,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: once in a while I indulge in my chicken rice,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and now I've got this newfound obsession with the basil king,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Basil King,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: like a Thai, Thai rice,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: where you can
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: choose the amount of egg yolks you want, protein and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the minced chicken, protein also.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the minced chicken got a lot of seasoning,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: for sure, for sure, exactly. But look, I mean, it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: so hard to avoid. Come on, it's really so hard
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to avoid and
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Sometimes when I go to like a food court or
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: hawker center, I want to go for the healthier option,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: but then, you know, Chouel calls out to me or
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: calls out to me, yeah, I just can't resist.
• 21:59
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• 22:04
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• 22:08
  Speaker 2: And the question for you is, do you agree with this?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Like how often do you eat out or do you
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: order from a restaurant? Let us know. Or
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: if you do eat home cooked meals on the daily,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: let us know your way, your ways so we can
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: learn from you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard. Yeah, it's a commitment. Rumor has
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it that she might be dating Kimmy Anselli, um, yet
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: to be confirmed by any official sources. I one will
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: wonder whether it was something that fans created and they
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: like started this whole rumor, but
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Must come from somewhere,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: right? Kimmy Antonelli and Olivia Rodrigo. That's a Gen Z
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: right there, man. Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and, and mark my words, Kimmy's gonna get more handsome
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: as he ages. I feel like every time I see
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: him now, um, be it on like, you know, race
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: broadcast or like even social media, he's slowly maturing. Do
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: you realize
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that? He reminds you of a very young Tom Holland.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: He's growing up. Yeah, cutie
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: pie.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: OK, back to our topic of eating out here in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Singapore and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Eating habits. All this inspired by how according to the news,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Singaporeans, yes, we're consuming less sugar, well done, and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we are active, but we're consuming more sodium and calories.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So I want to say good morning on WhatsApp to Liz. Hello, Liz. Morning, Sojo.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We used to have a helper about 4 years ago,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: but when she went back to her home country, we
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: decided to embrace our new lifestyle, takeaways on weekdays and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: home-cooked meals on weekends. Honestly, as long as the children
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: are
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Nobody is fighting and everyone survives dinner. My husband and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I consider the day a success. At this point, dinner
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be anything fancy. If the kids are eating,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: we are winning. OK,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: OK, I feel you. I mean, were you a challenging
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: eater back then? Do you remember? Did your mom ever
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: tell you? No,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I, I ate almost everything except saba fish.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: So specific. Yeah,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: because my, my mom's Korean and she loves the saba fish.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I think she had to prepare for it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: And I realized it smelled very fishy, and I didn't
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: kind of like it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: But as you, as you got older, did you appreciate it?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I mean,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for, for, for the fact that I can have my
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: sliced fish porridge now from the Teochew store.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: That one is
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: a win. So, why?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: OK, OK.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And when I go to Oakase, I'm just like, I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: don't think about it, just eat it. I, I enjoy
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it like that, but when it's steamed and you know
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you can see it in front of you
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: need to. OK, Joakim doesn't like to see the whole
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: fish in its entirety, I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: think you're right, right,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: with the scales and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: everything.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Whenever I go to the NTUC or the wet market,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: always about the area.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Yeah, it can be.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Want to say good morning to Yunti. Yunti says, Hey guys, hello.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Single mom of one, I don't usually eat out. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: will cook almost every day. Due to when my payday
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is not yet, not here yet, I usually save up money.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: My mom told me that every penny counts, but when
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it comes to my payday, then I'll bring my daughter
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: out for dinner or order from GrabFood at least one month,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: one month,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: once, once a month, yeah. I mean, I don't know
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: how we survived prior to our food delivery services being
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: available in Singapore like.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I, I still remember when I was a kid, right,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: like growing up, um, my, my mom cooks pretty much
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: almost every day, cooked pretty much every day for dinner
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and stuff, especially, but, um, when we had the chance
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to go out on weekends and get food, I will
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: always be the one to have to run down and
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: get the food, like the tapa food, because we just didn't,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: there was no Grab or Food Panda back then.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, back then that was delivered to us was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Pizza Hut.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: pizza, McDonald's, KFC, Domino's even. I can't think of any
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: place that had delivery which was considered healthy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I get what you mean. Yeah. Um,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: when we come back, more of your messages and we
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: still got time for your calls. OK, so we're talking
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: about the amount of times you eat out in a week.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Pretty sure that with the rise of all your delivery
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: services in Singapore, it has.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You know. Yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I want to say hello to Sids on WhatsApp. Hey, Sojo,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: my family used to buy 2 to 3 times dinner.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Like they'll buy back 2 to 3 times per week,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: but now it seems like whenever we buy from outside
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of the same amount, it's never enough and food is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: getting more expensive. My husband and I now decide just
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to cook every day, and we only buy once from outside.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Unless the kids want to treat the family during their payday,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: they're doing their internships now. OK,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: OK. No, I, I think, and here's, I mean, my
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: own opinion, I think some places that I've been used
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to ordering quite a bit, they've reduced their portion size actually,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: some places, some places.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're paying the same amount or even more, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: then some of them have really, it's gotten quite
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: little. One more coming in from June. Morning. Weekday dinners
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: are almost always home cooked because my mom cooks and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: my husband and I will head over for dinner. It's
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a blessing as I work long hours.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: And it's impossible to prepare dinner and also my culinary
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: skills are not exactly great. Weekends we usually eat out
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: unless I'm in the mood to cook. Working full time
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and having to clean the home on weekends does take
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: its toll. So not cooking means one less thing to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: clean up. I agree.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: So, you know, um, sometimes I will get moments of
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: inspiration where I really want to cook dinner. Like I
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: will just have a feeling. I mean, I don't know.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't think you can relate, but all
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of a sudden I'd be like, OK, I'm craving this,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: and I feel like making it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So last week because I was recovering from my sinus infection, right,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I felt like having like Japanese hot pot, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: like where you, but I didn't want to go out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So since I was on MC, yeah, shabushabu, so I
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: texted germs and I said like I'm going to make
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: like a shabu or sukiyaki kind of situation. His reply was, actually,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: can we do something simpler? I don't want to wash
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So I had to be like, OK, I'll reassure him
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: that I'll use as little cutlery as possible.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I, I don't think it's the cutlery. It's more of the,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: plates
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and the bowl and the steamboat bowl and all that
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and the pots and pans.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: So, uh, I still did it and he still washed it,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: so we're good.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Like I find it very easy to wash cutlery, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the frying pans and the pots and the pots
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: didn't use any frying. Yeah, so it was just the
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: shabu pot that was it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Just make sure you use the correct thing to scrub
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: it with and also get rid of all the oil.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: But still it's an extra chore if you decide to cook.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: That's the only thing, yeah. When you think of someone
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: like Dua Lipa.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure she has her own personal chef following
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: her for her tours, not just her, even people like
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the Weekend or, you know, your F1 drivers, your footballers.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You know, I always thought that people with personal chefs, yeah, la,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: OK la, very rich, la, OK, yeah, I will make
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: fun of it and I'll scowl at it, but as
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I get older, I realize that actually having a personal
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: chef isn't too bad an idea if you can afford it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Um, OK, it doesn't make too much sense if we're
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: just based here in Singapore like this and you have
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: a personal chef, but I mean, if I look at
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: it from a POV, yeah, OK, Dua Lipa, your F1 drivers,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: your other, you know, artists that are on tour, they
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: are obviously earning a lot of money, but can you imagine, OK.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Being an athlete like an F1 driver or footballer is
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the same as like going on tour, like, you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: your Taylor Swift of the world or whatever going on tour,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: because you're traveling to so many different countries and each
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: country's cuisine is so different, it may not sit well
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I, you
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: know, in Singapore, you,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you only go to Bishan and here.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, our, our studio, these are the two places where
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you eat. I know already when we host
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: events, we go to different areas here in Singapore. The
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: taste buds in Tuas is different from the taste buds
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: in Changi.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I cannot believe that you're saying that. I'm just kidding,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: OK?
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: He's not kidding.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Just trying to justify maybe one day having a nutritionist
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: slash personal chef to help with the diet.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's where you need to look for your future wife.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: In the medical zones
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: use the first
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: date,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: just, just hang about the clinic
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and match with someone from HPB. Just kidding. I want
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to say good morning to Justin. Justin says, hey, Sojo,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a delivery rider, and to be honest, a lot
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: of people in Singapore actually order delivery, especially during public
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: holidays or weekends.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: That's just, you know, our way.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Of giving ourselves a break, I guess from the chores.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And one coming in from David. David says, ever since
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I was diagnosed with high blood and high cholesterol, I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: make a drastic change in my diet. That is switching
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to having more fruits, vegetables, lean meat and proteins with
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: very little carbs and no gravy sauce or even the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: sweet stuff. Even if I have to eat out, be
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: in hawkers or restaurants.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I have to be mindful of the choices I make.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I'm glad with the changes in my recent checkup. I'm
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: back to a healthy range. Guys, choices matter. Eat wisely
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: before the body puts a toll on you.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Oh
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: no, you got a point and just say like, oh,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: it doesn't affect me because I'm still young and all that. OK,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you might think of it that way, but here's an
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: example for you, OK.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I had a, I have a very close friend. She's
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: not 30 yet. She's still in her 20s, and she
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: during her university days actually got diagnosed with like pre-diabetes
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: from drinking too much like bubble tea every day. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: she was like mid like what, early twenties at that time.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: bubble tea cup.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So it's not always about the age or your stage
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of life. It's really how you consume your food and
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: drink.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you can, it's very easy to check
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: your blood sugar levels. They patch that you can wear
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: for almost a week or 5 days you did it
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: once in a while just to understand why I keep
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: waking up in the middle of the night.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Massive
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: food hunger cravings or
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: sugar cravings,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: yeah. OK, we're still figuring that out, by the way.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm just on this journey.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: You know, you watch my sleep score, right, I can
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: see the huge chunk of red that shows I'm awake
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: for 20 minutes. Yeah, I'm awake. Yes. So I remember
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: last week when this made the news, all of us
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: were talking about it here on air and on TikTok
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: How GovTech, they are gonna pilot a dating app called
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: First Date where government staff from agencies will be able
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to match each other. Then I said, Oh, would you
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: date someone from the same ministry or same agency? To
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: which maybe someone heard it or whatsoever, because the next
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: day they put out a press release saying, hey guys, uh,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: people from the same agency won't be
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: matched.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Because I think that might be a bit of a conflict, right?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Like if you're too close in proximity.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: So for example, you won't match with someone in affairs
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: match with someone from Home Affairs.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: OK,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: that's cute. That's a cute
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: match.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Can learn about each other, you know what I mean,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: or what, don't worry about that one.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: And apparently these public offices have up till today to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: sign up for it. So they haven't mentioned how good
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: sign-up rates are, but I'm very interested to see what happens.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I, I think it's a good idea because you
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: a portion of people who are like dodgy who have
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: dodgy behavior on other types of apps,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Again, some concerns are saying that hey, the questionnaire you
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: all give us, uh, it's kind of restricting our options,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And again, I'm curious to know what the difference between
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: this dating app and others that are readily available on
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: your app stores, right? This one only matches you once
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: per month. It's like
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a matching cycle.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: So they give you time to go out with this person,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: get to know this person and see if he or
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: she is your fancy. If not, wait till next month
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and move on.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Then you got time.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: What
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: went wrong?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: And then you realize it's me.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Oh no. OK, ah, here's the thing, you know, the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: dating stereotype of how all men are the same or
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: all women are the same, right? Can you imagine because
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of this, people are saying, yeah, all these men from
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Home Affairs, all the same one, all the women from
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment, all the same lah. Yo,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I'll be curious
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: to know, man, if there's some sort of like anonymous
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: confessional out there. I'm sure that will happen.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: There will be one.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: OK, time for some food news. Let's go.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: sad or happy?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's, it's, it's positive for now. It's positive.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Ask you sad or happy, you say positive. That means
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: there'll be some tinge of sadness.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, will be
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: 123, food news, food news. Sonia with the good food news.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's sad but still hopeful.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: So if you follow the news about Punggol East container.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Park area, um, it's supposed to be stated for residential redevelopment,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to which I think it was met with quite a
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: lot of bittersweet reactions from people
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: going, huh? Why not? Let's do a petition. Let's keep
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it here in the Punggol area.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: know because I think for a lot of the tenants there,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: you know, it's become a regular place for the residents
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: around the area. So I can understand like remember last
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: week we just did that topic about something that you
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: are so used to seeing.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And you know, growing up with or visiting that you'd
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: be so sad if it relocates or moves, and this
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I feel is what people think about Punggol East Container Park.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: if
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not wrong, I think a pickleball place is, I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: don't know what it did just open or has it
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: been there for a while, play pickle because whenever I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: run past, I can hear the pop pop.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, you hear it, is it OK? But, um, the
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: good news is, despite, um, a lot of, I guess,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: people being quite upset that many.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Many of the tenants had to like move out already.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: If I'm not wrong, they started moving out once they got,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: some of them already relocated or they found another place,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: OK just in case. But 4 main tenants at Punggol
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: East Container Park and Tebing Lane, which is a nearby
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: area as well, will be offered a lease extension of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: up to 1 year. So they still have 1 more
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: year to function to the end of 2027. Um, their
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: current tenancies.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: were due to expire actually in December this year, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: they wanted to start their residential development, but I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: the development timelines have been adjusted, so they can still
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: accommodate at least for the 4 main tenants that are
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: over there. Um, not all of them were stated, but
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: City Sprouts, which is the master tenant of, um, the
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: container Park, they did secure a new place at Pasir
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Ris Park already because I think they want the farming
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: thing to still be part of their, you know, their culture.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: So they, they will still be around for a little bit,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine what a busy leases extended because
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: they run a business, they must also search for a
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: new location and settle everything within
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: 1 year.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which, by the way, as you have experienced from 2026,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: it goes by in the blink of an eye, so
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: you never know.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: But, um, hey, this is at least some good news
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: for the people around the area. You still get a
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: sense of normalcy for another year. And
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: if you want to enjoy them, make sure you go
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: within the year before they move up from 2027 onwards.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: We should probably,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I've never actually been there.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, you should.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: It's actually a beautiful location. Yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: it is. OK, I'll make an effort. So
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: inspired by sightings at the weekend concert, loads of influencer
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: baddies next to me doing selfies.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: And everything. Oh yeah, and once every 5 minutes the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: poor security guard in yellow in front of us had
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: to go and chase them away like, hello, you can't
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: stand in the staircase area.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a hazard.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And then towards Sonia's
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: right,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a bit of an interesting sight.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: OK, so, so when I got there, I, um, I
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: got there just before Joe actually. So we're carrying some
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: like beers and stuff, right? sat down, had our drinks
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and everything.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: There was this poor thing like this very lost looking
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: auntie that was sitting next to us. OK. Um, she
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: was very quiet, didn't say anything. She was on her
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: phone like most of the time and, you know, she
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: just curious because I was like, oh, hi, you know
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, but I think she's not from Singapore.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: She doesn't really speak much English. So she just sort
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: of like waved and smiled. So I was like, OK.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Then just waiting around, I was like, who is she
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: watching the concert with? I'm so curious. Lo and behold,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: her son shows up, OK.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And he's grown up. He's a grown-up. I think he's
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: at least like in his twenties or something. And throughout
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: the entire concert, this mom of his is just there
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: for the vibes and accompanying him, OK? Or maybe she
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: paid for the tickets. I don't know. He was belting
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: his lungs out, singing all the X-rated words that we
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: cannot say on air.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Um,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I, I, I wouldn't bring my mom to a weekend concert.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, all his.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Lyrics,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So, but I, I have a
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: feeling his mom doesn't understand English very much. Yeah, so
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: she can only speak Mandarin, I think. That's why she's
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: very quiet, but he knows English, like he knows English,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: so he's belting out, he's screaming all the X-rated words.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my God, I love it. I
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: love that for you. Enjoy
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: yourself.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: My mom will be like, Who are you calling?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Joe, I don't think that you would be bringing your
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: mom to a weekend concert. That's for sure. Yeah,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: yeah, you know, I'll bring my mom to go and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: watch like Celine Dion or something if she's here in Singapore.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I brought my mom to watch Boyz to Men. Ah yes,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: that's the kind of concert you bring your mom
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: to
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: 100% screaming for them.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: You know what, they are auntie killers, you know, the
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Boyz II Men.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: You made your mom feel 19.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, 20. I don't remember another concert I went
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to that I saw so many people around my mom's
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: age just like throwing themselves at Boyz II Men at
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the band.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I got one
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: for you, OK. The next time you come to Singapore,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: bring your Air Supply.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's not a fan though. Yeah, she's not a
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: fan of Air Supply. She finds them annoying actually.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Sorry, who are we to judge, but
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: You know, my mother, like, I don't like very annoying.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I'm like,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: OK. Well, she's almost as direct as you are. Yes,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: extremely. She's very savage. I can see where you get
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: it from. Thank you for kicking off your week with us.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: It is going to be a busy, hectic week, or
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: maybe if you are not exactly the kind of person that,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: you know, indulges in the F1 season, perhaps it could
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: be a time for you to be traveling, maybe you
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: booked a short trip overseas. I don't know.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: OK, look, only because you are hosting.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I think what, 2 or 3 different F1 events and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: for yours truly I'll be at 2 hosting one of them.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow we will give you our schedule so you can
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: make plans on what time to go to the areas
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and where, because I think there's one day where, especially
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: on the 7th and the 8th, who, you might be
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: running up and down Orchard Road or I dare say
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: from Orchard all the way to Sentosa.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, those two days because typically, you know.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: When it comes to outdoor-related activations for brands, they're not
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: going to do anything from Friday onwards. Yeah, so it's,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be Wednesday. It's limited to Wednesday and Thursday already.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: The one thing we can confirm is for the Tommy
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Hilfiger event with Cadillac. It's Checo Perez, Sergio Perez, and
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Chou Kuan Yi. Val Teddy Bottas won't be there. He
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: might be cycling somewhere here in Singapore.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: He's a funny
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: dude
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: though. Check out Mount Fable. He could be there. He
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: likes his uphills.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I like his contents. Quite funny. Anyway, uh, we'll catch
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Stay tuned.