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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 030726 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Good next to
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit.
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  Speaker 1: It's officially the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: All you got to do is to hang in there
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  Speaker 2: and get through Friday, your work or your school, and
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  Speaker 2: we are finally there. Still up for grabs, your final
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  Speaker 2: chance this week to walk away with a Cocoa Island,
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  Speaker 2: Singapore experience worth $100. Stay tuned. Singapore's number one hit
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  Speaker 2: music station.
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  Speaker 2: And tomorrow, like I mentioned, it's gonna be the first
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  Speaker 2: time uh Avery and I are hosting like an actual
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  Speaker 2: client event together after so many years. I know it's crazy, right? Um,
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  Speaker 2: did you not, did you know that tomorrow is actually
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  Speaker 2: International Fried Chicken Day? I had no idea, OK, until
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  Speaker 2: I received this brief like a few weeks back, right?
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not complaining because I love fried chicken. But
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  Speaker 2: that could also be one of the reasons why I
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  Speaker 2: got a sore throat after Bali because we ate a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fried chicken.
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  Speaker 2: In a different form, obviously, you know, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was so good, the food there. Anyway, um, KFC is
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  Speaker 2: celebrating this year's International Fried Chicken Day with the first
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  Speaker 2: ever KFC carnival over at Scape Outdoor Plaza. So, tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: we'll be there 5 to 10:00 p.m. Avery and I
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be there from, I think between 5 to
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  Speaker 2: 9 if I'm not wrong. I'm sorry, 6:30 to 8:30.
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  Speaker 2: What am I talking about? And you are gonna get
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  Speaker 2: to pick the team that you're on. So you're either
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  Speaker 2: crispy or original.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go for Crispy. Yeah, and Avery
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  Speaker 2: can't take spice, so just FYI if you can't take
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  Speaker 2: a spice, you got to go to his team. We
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  Speaker 2: get to play some games, you know, like collect points
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  Speaker 2: and unlock more chicken, and you can even win a car. So,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many details, you have to calm down for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: KFC Carnival over at Scape Outdoor Plaza. Um, the whole
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  Speaker 2: event starts at 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: And ends at 10, but Aves and I will be
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  Speaker 2: there from 6:30 to 8:30. So make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: come on down, please don't miss out. Honestly, like it
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  Speaker 2: will be so much fun and on a Saturday evening,
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  Speaker 2: if you still don't have plans with your friends, grab
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  Speaker 2: them and come down. It's in the heart of town anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so easy, right? So come and say hi. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see you and take some photos, why not?
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  Speaker 2: and give you some chicken. The kid LeRoy was just
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  Speaker 2: here in Singapore, um, two days ago, if I'm not wrong, right?
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  Speaker 2: 1st of July. Did you manage to go?
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to hit play on his song in just
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  Speaker 2: a while. I remembered that, you know, when we did a,
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  Speaker 2: when I did a little chat with him on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: he was actually on the move and said he was
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  Speaker 2: going to be in Asia very soon. So yeah, how,
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  Speaker 2: how did the show go? Let me know. Let me
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  Speaker 2: know if you've, um, if you managed to, to catch it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: in just a few minutes, gonna give you my true
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  Speaker 2: feelings about the brand new Yakub Peach, which I've had
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  Speaker 2: the pleasure of trying already, um, sometime a few days ago, actually,
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  Speaker 2: last week. It was it a few days ago, last week? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the beginning of this week. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I'm so confused now, lost with time. But yeah, um,
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  Speaker 2: got to try it ahead of its official launch and
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you know. Um, and I was just saying
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  Speaker 2: that I managed to try the Yakob peach flavor ahead
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  Speaker 2: of its launch. It's, it, uh, it's officially available via
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  Speaker 2: home delivery already on the 1st of July, but it's
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  Speaker 2: dropping island-wide in retail stores and supermarkets from the 6th
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  Speaker 2: of July. So you've got 3 more days before you
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  Speaker 2: can walk to your nearest supermarket, you know, or convenience
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  Speaker 2: store and buy it. But um, when I tried it,
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  Speaker 2: I opened the pack and immediately when I opened it
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  Speaker 2: and tasted it, it was really peach. Like it really,
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  Speaker 2: it tastes truly like the Japanese peach, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like, is it momo? Yeah, the Japanese peach is momo, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it was delicious. But, OK, I will give you
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  Speaker 2: a balanced view here. The only thing I did not
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  Speaker 2: realize all these years, I guess because now Nutri-Grade is
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  Speaker 2: a thing, right? I did not realize that it was
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  Speaker 2: Nutri-Grade D.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, OK, I, I'm not the most like
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  Speaker 2: health conscious person, I will admit, and Joakim knows this,
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  Speaker 2: but I will say that I'm not like the biggest
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  Speaker 2: sweet tooth. Like I don't need, I don't really need
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  Speaker 2: much dessert. I don't buy any sodas or sweet drinks
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  Speaker 2: or anything when I go out. In fact, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: just drinking water or coffee with no sugar, which some
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  Speaker 2: people think is diabolical. They're like, what? How can you
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  Speaker 2: drink just coffee with no sugar, but that's just me.
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  Speaker 2: And I did find it a little sweet, but it
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  Speaker 2: seems like I think all the yaku flavors are Nutri-Grade D.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if that's the case for all, but it does
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  Speaker 2: seem like it. Um, I will still stick to original though,
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  Speaker 2: but peach was a very refreshing change and refreshing flavor.
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  Speaker 2: And I also realized that I never really touched orange anyway,
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  Speaker 2: like even when my mom used to order yako, right,
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  Speaker 2: to the, to the, to the house.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, peach, give it a try. If you are
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of like Japanese peach flavor, I think
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  Speaker 2: this one is definitely for you. Dropping in stores uh
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  Speaker 2: 6th of July, just 3 more days. 3rd of July, yay,
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  Speaker 2: we're at the weekend, finally, weekend's here. You just have
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  Speaker 2: to last one more day, full day of school work,
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  Speaker 2: but I got you covered. I want you to give
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  Speaker 2: me a call right now, 669-11987. If you're on your
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  Speaker 2: way to school, um, on your way to work, I,
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  Speaker 2: I would love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: Phone lines are open, 669-11987. As you know, we always
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  Speaker 2: get shoutouts every morning and Joakim and I try to
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  Speaker 2: collect as many different schools as possible because we have
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  Speaker 2: restarted our school visits and we are, we've got a list,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a list already of schools that we're visiting
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  Speaker 2: very soon. Joakim and I can't cover everything, so it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be spread out across, you know, other DJs in
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  Speaker 2: the station too.
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  Speaker 2: But it, it helps if we just get a sense
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  Speaker 2: of who you want to give a shout out to,
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  Speaker 2: which school you're from, what's great about your school ahead
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  Speaker 2: of us going there, right? So phone lines are open
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  Speaker 2: and you can even request for a song. As usual,
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  Speaker 2: just before we hit 7, we like to take your
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  Speaker 2: calls and your shoutouts, dedications, and also requests for a song, right?
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  Speaker 2: So this is what we want to do every morning
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  Speaker 2: and collect as many.
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  Speaker 2: Schools as possible before we start our school drop again.
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  Speaker 2: So we're heading to phone lines right now. Hello. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. Good Morning. What's your name? Sarah. Hi. Hi, Sarah,
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  Speaker 2: which school are you from now? Raffles Girls Primary School. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: tell me more about Raffles Girls and what's good about
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  Speaker 2: your school. What do you love about your campus? Um,
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  Speaker 2: the food and the programs.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. You know, a lot of students call through and
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  Speaker 2: say the food, right? So it's almost a bit of
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  Speaker 2: like a competition right now. What was the specialty of
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  Speaker 2: your canteen? Maybe like fish ball noodles. Oh, sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: That's something we can't get right now, not in Media Corp.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get it.
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  Speaker 2: OK, any special shout out this morning to your friends
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  Speaker 2: and do you have a song that you want to hear?
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  Speaker 2: From 90, she said, that's a really good song coming
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  Speaker 2: up for you right now. Um, unfortunately, this piece of
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  Speaker 2: news made me tear up yesterday when I saw it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get to address it in the morning because
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  Speaker 2: it was reported.
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  Speaker 2: Um, late yesterday afternoon, but we just want to send
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  Speaker 2: love to our friends over at the Night Safari. Their
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  Speaker 2: white Bengal tiger, 13 years old, has been euthanized after
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  Speaker 2: a long battle with cancer, and he will be very, very,
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  Speaker 2: very deeply missed. Um, they made a very difficult decision,
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  Speaker 2: but they wanted to let him go peacefully. I think
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  Speaker 2: they exhausted all available treatment options already, so.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's kind of, it's kind of painful because being
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  Speaker 2: a dog lover and an animal lover, and also since
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  Speaker 2: my family has a dog, right?
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  Speaker 2: I, I just don't want that day to come, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I know we will most likely outlive our dogs.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing, right? Our pets, and you will have
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  Speaker 2: to go through the tough process of losing a beloved
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  Speaker 2: pet or seeing your pet suffer and then having to
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  Speaker 2: make a tough decision to put them down, if anything.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, one of my friends just had to go
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  Speaker 2: through that and it was, uh, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: very painful, not, not a good, not a good feeling
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  Speaker 2: at all, and
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  Speaker 2: It puts you in such a, a bad place also
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  Speaker 2: where you don't even know whether you want to have
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  Speaker 2: a pet anymore, right? I mean, I'm sure you can
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  Speaker 2: relate if you've experienced it. But yes, we're sending a
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  Speaker 2: lot of love to our friends at Mandai Wildlife Group. Um,
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  Speaker 2: this was definitely a challenging time for them. I saw
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  Speaker 2: some pictures that they shared and, you know, I think all, um,
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  Speaker 2: all the zookeepers that have cared for the tiger has
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  Speaker 2: really have really just gone through an emotional time, so.
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  Speaker 2: Um, we're sending a lot of love. Thank you, Pasha,
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  Speaker 2: for the memories. A senior tiger at 13 years old,
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  Speaker 2: you have lived a nice long life, and I think
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  Speaker 2: this was just the best and most humane thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: You are such a great tiger. Love you. But as
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  Speaker 2: we always say, scams are all around us, right? And
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  Speaker 2: the fact that scams are getting more and more sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: is also quite scary.
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  Speaker 2: But people are also getting more sophisticated in the way
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  Speaker 2: that they do these things. It's not just about technology
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  Speaker 2: or about, you know, how convincing a website or a
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  Speaker 2: link looks anymore. Sometimes when you meet people who are
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  Speaker 2: very charismatic and charming, I'm not a scammer, I promise.
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  Speaker 2: Joakim's not a scammer too, even though he may be
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  Speaker 2: charismatic or charming, I don't know. But you know, you,
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  Speaker 2: you may be in a situation where, oh, this sounds
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  Speaker 2: like a really good investment or this sounds like something
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  Speaker 2: I might want to do. This man, a Thai man
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  Speaker 2: who's only 31 years old, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: He posed as a millionaire.
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  Speaker 2: To scam victims in Singapore of almost half a million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And guess how much he had in his bank account
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  Speaker 2: at the time? He had $32. That's crazy, right? He
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  Speaker 2: had $32 in his bank account.
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  Speaker 2: And desperate times call for desperate measures, like I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: and he managed to defraud victims in Singapore of about $400,000.
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  Speaker 2: So here, here was the whole, the whole plan, OK. So, allegedly,
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  Speaker 2: he said, oh, you know, I, I'm, I'm good with
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  Speaker 2: opening restaurants. I know people and all that. So he
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  Speaker 2: actually ran into a Japanese national who was looking to
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  Speaker 2: open a new Japanese restaurant. This was in the year 2023.
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  Speaker 2: So he had gotten to know this Thai man.
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  Speaker 2: Um, a customer who patronize the existing restaurant. So knowing that, um,
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  Speaker 2: this Thai man had experience in the industry, they started
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  Speaker 2: discussing a potential joint venture to open a new restaurant together.
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  Speaker 2: So then a few months later, during the discussions, the
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  Speaker 2: Thai guy brought up an exclusive investment opportunity. He said,
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  Speaker 2: you can trade shares in the US and he claimed
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  Speaker 2: that it was a very special insight deal that could
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  Speaker 2: only be executed through him.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that at the time, they probably already had
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  Speaker 2: some sort of friendship, right? Talking about um business and
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  Speaker 2: opening a restaurant together. So, um, he told Dai Chi,
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  Speaker 2: who is the Thai guy, told the man that an
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  Speaker 2: investment of between $70,000 to $100,000 would yield a 30% return.
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  Speaker 2: So he said, yeah, the profits are going to be
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  Speaker 2: really good, it can cover your expenses for many, many
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  Speaker 2: months or channel into the new restaurant, restaurant venture, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately, this guy believed all his claims, and it
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  Speaker 2: just went on and on.
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  Speaker 2: And the deadline arrived, nothing happened. Um, it started getting
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  Speaker 2: very suspicious, um, and they started to, to wonder what
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: was going on here, you know, so they kept pressing
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  Speaker 2: him for payment, but apparently he keeps stalling, kept stalling
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  Speaker 2: with various excuses. So he started to forge statements to
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  Speaker 2: prove his financial standing. So he's getting deeper and deeper
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  Speaker 2: into this crime already, right?
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  Speaker 2: And it was just, it was just such a huge
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  Speaker 2: um lie, a web of lies almost. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to read what else he tried to lie about, it's
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  Speaker 2: all available for you in the news channels already. It's
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  Speaker 2: too many for me to list on air right now,
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  Speaker 2: but he has since
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  Speaker 2: declared bankruptcy, and he admitted that he's only, you know,
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  Speaker 2: managed to return a portion of the money to some
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  Speaker 2: of the victims. But um the case is still ongoing
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  Speaker 2: right now and the prosecution is now seeking a jail term,
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  Speaker 2: quite a lengthy jail term for this guy and compensation,
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: of course, for the victims. So we'll we'll see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes. But, well, you see, sometimes when a person
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  Speaker 2: is too charming or too convincing, something is wrong there.
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  Speaker 2: But, um, at the end of the day, I think
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  Speaker 2: you got to really just look out for yourself and
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  Speaker 2: take care of your own assets and your own interests.
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  Speaker 2: Don't trust people too easily, is the moral of the story, right?
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  Speaker 2: And if you own a dog and you walk your
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  Speaker 2: dogs every day, right, you would sometimes wonder like, will
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  Speaker 2: you run into anything or will your dog sense anything
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  Speaker 2: or come across anything interesting, right? Um, this particular person
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  Speaker 2: walking a dog.
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  Speaker 2: realized that he, I think I noticed some kittens over
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  Speaker 2: at uh Patia Road near a drain, OK.
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  Speaker 2: Um, went to take a closer look. Turns out, OK,
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  Speaker 2: they really do look like kittens, like cats, but turns
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  Speaker 2: out they were civets. So, civets, well, I guess they're
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  Speaker 2: a form of cats, right? Civet cats are um known
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  Speaker 2: in the Southeast Asia region. Um, and I believe this
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  Speaker 2: person took the kittens or took, took the civets and
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  Speaker 2: put it in a box and then called for help after. So,
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  Speaker 2: he remained with the civets till they were picked up
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  Speaker 2: by officers.
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  Speaker 2: And um I think that was very useful because I
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  Speaker 2: think in response to some queries from reporters, our friends
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  Speaker 2: at N Park's group actually said yes, they were alerted
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  Speaker 2: to the incident, and that is definitely a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Just make sure that they are, they're safe because more
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  Speaker 2: often than not, they got separated by
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  Speaker 2: Um, their parents or their mom, right? Now, while civets
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  Speaker 2: may resemble cats, they're actually an entirely different species. Um,
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  Speaker 2: they're categorized by their long, sleek bodies, short limbs, a
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  Speaker 2: long tail, a pointed muzzle, and, and small ears that
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  Speaker 2: you notice as well. So they're omnivores and free roaming creatures,
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  Speaker 2: so you can find them in forests, parks, mangroves, or
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  Speaker 2: even the urban environment, like, you know, this person found
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  Speaker 2: the civets at.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I'm just wondering, like, are civets the same as
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  Speaker 2: civet cats? Now do quick chat GPT, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: I said, OK, I searched about civet cats. Let me see,
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  Speaker 2: is there a difference? I wish Joakim were here for this,
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  Speaker 2: you will laugh at me, between civets, aren't they a
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  Speaker 2: form of cats, civets and civet cats.
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  Speaker 2: OK, wait one second. I'm just searching right now. OK. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: there is a difference. Civet cats is, people keep saying
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  Speaker 2: civet cats, civet cat, but a civet is actually a
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  Speaker 2: mammal belonging to the another family. Despite the common name
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  Speaker 2: civet cat, they're actually not cats. What? OK, I, I
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  Speaker 2: was 2 years old when I found out about this
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  Speaker 2: because I always thought about that luwak coffee, you know,
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  Speaker 2: civet cat coffee, they always call it.
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  Speaker 2: Um, which I actually tried before when we were doing
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  Speaker 2: a travel show previously. So they're not actually cats. So
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  Speaker 2: the species used to produce kopi luak is the Asian
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  Speaker 2: palm civet.
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  Speaker 2: So when people say civet cat coffee, they're actually return, uh,
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  Speaker 2: referring to the, the coffee processed by civet, not a
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  Speaker 2: true cat. Oh my gosh, I'm learning so much today.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Did you know that? Coming up after 8:00 a.m., a
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: very relatable situation that I found myself in quite recently. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so I was on the way to Bali just this
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  Speaker 2: time last week, right? For a weekend trip. Yeah, last,
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  Speaker 2: last Thursday, last Thursday, I went off to, to Bali.
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  Speaker 2: And I completely forgot that one of my friend groups
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: actually said, hey, can we do like a Zoom call?
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: because a lot of us are not in the same country. So, um,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: for those of us who are in the same country,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: it still gets a bit difficult to meet sometimes, you know,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: life gets in the way and all that, right? So,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I got a text from one of my friends in
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: the group saying like, hey guys, so are we still
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: on for Saturday morning?
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  Speaker 2: And to my horror, I was, oh my gosh, sorry guys,
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  Speaker 2: like I completely forgot to tell you that I was
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: going off to Bali and you know, I had this
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: whole like paddle camp thing and, you know, I've got
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to do all this stuff and I can't, I definitely
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: can't log on during this time. I'm really sorry. And
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: after I replied that, one of the other girls replied
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: and said, oh my gosh, sorry guys, I'm in Vietnam.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I can't, I can't do it. And then another girl
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  Speaker 2: comes through and says, I am so sorry. I have
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: like deadlines and work stuff and I definitely can't log
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: on too. So, it turns out like half the group
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: couldn't log on. I wonder whether the call actually went
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: through and this was just like a Zoom call or FaceTime,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: you know, it was already so challenging.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And it got me thinking about all the times where
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: now in our adult years, we sometimes have to make
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: plans like 6 months in advance. Do you, do you
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: feel me on that? Sometimes it's like, it takes months
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: before the group can get together again because the last
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: time this group got together was for my wedding. Like
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: that was the last time everyone was here in town.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I want to address this in just a little bit,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and what was the record amount of time that it
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: took to make a plan with a particular group of friends? Well,
• 16:51
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• 16:52
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• 16:59
  Speaker 2: up phone lines right now. I think you can definitely
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  Speaker 2: relate to this one. in case you missed my story
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: earlier on, I said when I was on the way
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: to Bali just last weekend,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I got reminded that my one of my girl groups
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: actually wanted to schedule a call because half of them
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: don't live in Singapore anymore, you know, grown-up things, right?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Like real life things. Everyone just has their own lives now,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and they tried to schedule a call because the last
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: time we were all in person together was actually during
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: my wedding. And that's a very rare occasion. I think
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: now the only time that we have all, each and
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: every one of these girls of the group.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: In person in Singapore is during someone's wedding.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And this is only the 2nd wedding so far, so
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you can imagine it's difficult to get everyone together. So
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I felt really bad because I completely forgot about this
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: call and I couldn't join because I was going to
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: be quite busy in Bali doing this like wellness camp thing,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: which wasn't very much wellness at all, if you ask me.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I think we balanced it out with some uh not
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: so healthy food and drinking after the Pearl camp.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so we, we were, we were supposed to
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: meet online and I said, oh I'm sorry, so sorry, guys,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: like I completely overlooked this and I'll join the next one,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to which two other girls then chimed in and said like, oh, man, sorry,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I also can't join. I, I, I can't join as well. So,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the call happened in the end,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but can you imagine that's just like a FaceTime catch-up,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: where we're talking about in-person catch-ups. How long
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: does it take for you to make a plan with
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: your friend group? For example, how much in advance do
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: you need to plan?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Uh, I'll give you an example. For some of my groups,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: it could be like 1 month, it could be 2 months, sometimes. Um,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: it's never gone past more than 2 months because that's,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that's just crazy. I can't predict anything past. Actually, I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: can't predict anything past a few weeks, to be honest,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: but 1 month is already a stretch, you know, I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: try not to make too many plans ahead of time
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: because you never know what's going to happen, like work, family,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: you know, other sort of commitments and all that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: So, the question for you today is, what kind of
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: time frame do you need to make a plan with
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: your adult friends now, like in this time of your life?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Because if I'm not wrong, it, it becomes, it gets
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: longer and longer, like as you grow.
• 19:17
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• 19:19
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• 19:58
  Speaker 2: back to the topic here this morning, inspired by my
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: own encounter.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, last weekend where a failed, I guess, failed catch
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: up on FaceTime inspired this one. my question to you is,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: how long does it take now for you to make
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: plans with your friends? Because I feel like as we're adulting, right,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it becomes longer and longer. Like it used to be like, hey,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: you want to meet this week or end of this
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: week or this weekend, and then suddenly it becomes like
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a next week, 2 weeks, next month.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Hopefully, no one has gotten next year yet, but who knows, right?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Especially if people start to like migrate or move, move elsewhere,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: then that, that could be a real problem. But heading
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: to phone lines right now and also your messages first.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Let's get to that first. Kim said, morning, Sonia. Whenever
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I meet up with my friends now, we always make
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: plans for the next meet-up just before we part. Now,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the reason is we have to secure a date before
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: we say bye.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: But that's also the group, you know, it makes real
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: effort to meet and it's average now about 1 to
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: 1.5 months in advance. I totally feel you. It is
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a month on average for my group of friends now
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: as well, to be honest. Um, if I look at
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the breakdown in my core group of girlfriends, 2 of
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: us have gotten married, but we're still living normal lives. Like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it doesn't really affect me, to be honest.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Like the whole getting married thing, it has not changed
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: anything about my life, which is good, which is good,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you know, I still, yeah, I still prioritize uh meeting
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the people that are important to me. It doesn't change
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: um my social life at all. But who knows, right?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, in the future, when some of us have
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: kids or whatever, it definitely will change. And then one
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: of my other really close friends, she's getting her house sorted.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: She just got her apartment, so very happy for her.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Um, and the other one's really busy with work. The
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: others are not even in Singapore, so I completely understand
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: what you mean. OK, saying hi over here as well.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: We've got another message coming through from F. You said, hey, morning, Sonia.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Usually I make plans with my friends to meet a
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: week or two in advance, but there are some friends
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: who always claim that they're busy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Probably maybe 1 month or even 2 months in advance,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: which when we end up meeting, they also, it also
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: doesn't happen because they just claim that they're busy, to
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: which I replied, oh man, their priorities are quite clear then,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and uh, he said, yeah, man, I just meet some
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: other friends who are more free.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Actually, I, I realized this throughout the years that some
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: friends that I've made in like my adult life, not
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: from school, for example, um, may be more readily available
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to do spontaneous plans. So, so I would say different
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: groups of friends for different things. That's how I, that's
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: how I segment my friends now, you know, and it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that the school friends that we've had.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: since poly or secondary school. It doesn't mean that we
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: care about each other less. It's just that I feel
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like we have a bond for so long that we
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: can literally pick up from where we left off, you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: even if it's six months later or a year later.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like it's any different, right? Do you
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: feel me on that? Um, we still have more messages
• 23:06
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• 23:10
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• 23:13
  Speaker 2: How far in advance do you have to make plans
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: with your friends now that we're all adulting? Let me know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Talking about how far in advance do you have to
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: make plans now with your group of friends as we, uh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: we've adulted or are adulting. I feel like we're constantly
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: adulting for some reason, like whenever, sometimes I just feel
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like a kid, you know what I mean? But we're
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: adults already, right? So heading to our messages first, seems
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: like a very text-heavy one here this morning. Say hi
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: to S. You said, every friendship group has one of
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: these people.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I live in Singapore now, but I grew up in
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: London and every year I go back to catch up
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: with some of my musician mates. We start planning a
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: month in advance. Yes, there's always this one guy who
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: just won't commit. The funny thing is, he's got the
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: fewest responsibilities. He finishes work early, weekends are usually free,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: but every time you ask, it's, oh, I don't really
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: know what I'm doing that weekend.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I completely understand illness, family emergencies,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: or genuine last-minute issues, but refusing to commit because something
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: better might come along, that's just disrespectful to everyone else
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: who's made the effort to organize their lives. Every friendship
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: group has that one person though. Why are they always
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the hardest to pin down? Incidentally, we're planning this year's
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: gathering this month.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: No, I completely understand as, um, you know, I, I
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: too have a friend like that, and it's just, it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: just the way this person is. I mean, we've grown
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to accept it, but at the same time, we used
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to be way more affected by it as a group collectively,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: but now we're just like, you know what, maybe this
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: person is just like that, and we, we do still
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: love her very much, you know, so um it's whether
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: or not you want to accept it at the end
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: of the day and
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Um, whether or not this person even realizes, so yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I hope he realizes. OK, more messages coming through. Um, here,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: one coming in here say, good morning, Sonia. For me,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: gatherings are quite a project because I'm usually the organizer
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: for my army mates. We have a chat group of
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: about 50 people. Wow, that's a lot.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And we try to meet once a year. Organizing it
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: is almost like managing a mini events, and it usually
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: takes me about 3 months. In the first month, I'll
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: propose several dates and everyone indicates their availability. In the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: second month, once the date is more or less settled,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'll shortlist a few venues and get everyone to vote
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: their preferred location.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: By the 3rd month, I have a clearer idea of
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: attendance numbers. I make the reservation and I send out
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a few reminder messages to see if anyone else wants
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to join at the last minute. In fact, our next
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: gathering is happening next Friday, so very timely for this topic.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Out of the 50 people in the group, about 8
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: have confirmed so far. It may not sound like a lot,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: but considering everyone has their own family commitments, work schedules
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and priorities nowadays, I'm quite happy whenever we can still
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: get a small group together to catch up and relive
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: our army memories. Oh, that's really cute actually. To be honest,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: 8 to me is a big group already, you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: because all my friend groups, I don't think we exceed
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: past 6. Yeah, and it's honestly easier to catch up
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: in a smaller group, right?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: OK, more of your stories coming up. Very nice lengthy
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: messages coming through. I, I'm definitely gonna get to more
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: of that in just a bit. And we're talking about
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: how long and far in advance do you need to
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: make plans with your friends nowadays as we're all adulting,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: we're all in different phases of life.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: No, it gets, it gets challenging sometimes. And, you know,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: my friends and I realized like sometimes we can plan like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: months in advance and lock the date down, right? For,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know, someone's, someone's maybe like hosting a party
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: at a house party or something, OK? And it requires effort, right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: And up until the very last minute, there will still
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: always be at least one person that will bail out,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you know, or flake out, right? And we're always wondering like, why?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: We already booked this way in advance. OK, sometimes I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: know it's not in our control. Like if I have
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a very important work engagement that I need to do,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: then obviously I'll explain to my friends, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Um, as much as possible, we'll try to make it, right?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: So back to our messages for now. Rich says, good morning, Sonia.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: My group of friends are all the same, except that
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: one left the group. During our teenage years to our
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: early adulthood years, we don't really plan, just same time,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: same place every Friday without fail. Now, however, with commitments,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: we only see each other during maybe trips. We'll say, uh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: we will say for the 3 to 4 days, everyone
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: will stick to activities like shopping, you know, cafes and
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: all that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Um, everyone usually brings their partners to come along, so
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: we'll take the chance to go for a trip, you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: we could extend or reach a bit earlier and have, uh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: time for our friends to catch up. For 3 to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: 4 days, the group will have fun together and have
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the best memories every single year. Oh, that's really nice,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to be honest. I mean, it's quite tough. It's already
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: difficult for us to plan anything here in Singapore.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think we can even plan a trip overseas.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Like, only, I think only one of, one or two
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: of my group chats, um, has, have our plans ever
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: made it out of the group chat, if you know
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: what I mean. For the rest of it, it's very,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: very difficult. Like, people only travel for people's weddings nowadays. Yeah,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: it's uh, it's sad but true, right?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: OK, I think we've got still more messages coming through.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Like I said, a very text-heavy one here today. Good morning, Sonia.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: No planning needed nowadays with my friends. Life is still
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: getting busy even without clubbing, and uh none of us
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: are married, but we're busy with gym, with golf, with work.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Impromptu works for us, to be honest. We've come to
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a term that not everyone will appear a time that
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Not everyone will appear even if we set a date. However,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: we do have an unspoken rule. We try to plan
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: at least a month ahead for all of our birthday celebrations,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: but then again, still, not everyone will appear like you
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier on. We even have that one friend who
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: will only update if she can attend at the very
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: last minute due to work commitments. 99% she will appear
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: after we're all done with dinner.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Don't we all have that one friend? Come on, right? OK,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: when we come back, one person is walking away with
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that $100 experience. You know what? If you love coconut water,
• 29:21
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• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I want to read out just two last messages before
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: we call it a day here and uh award the winner.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: The question today is actually, how far in advance do
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: you need to make plans nowadays as we have begun
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: our adulting or we're already adults, right?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And it's getting harder and harder to make plans, especially
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: in a group. Um, saying hi over here. I'm not
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: quite sure if you left your name, but your, your, uh,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: message totally cracked me up. You said, hey, good morning, Sonia. Um,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the last one, we actually took about 4 months to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: make plans. It was a trip to hike Mount Fuji.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Why did it take 4 months? Because we all have
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: to get visas from our wives.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And a train before the hike. Visa from the wife
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: cracked me up, dude. OK, um, one more last one
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: here today, saying hi to M. Good morning, Sonia. For me,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: it depends on the friendship dynamics that affect the meetups.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I have a close friend in the States. We speak
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: like a few times a year, but the moment either
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: one of us are in the US or Singapore, we
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: naturally pick up from where we left off. So the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: plan to meet up could be as long as a
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: few months to a few weeks depending on airfare.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, I have a group of ex-schoolmates,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: so we meet up in Singapore every few months. We
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: just use our like a WhatsApp poll to fix a
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: date or time. Lastly, another group of girlfriends, we chat
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: every other day. It can invoke the supper clause or
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a random meal at the drop of, at the drop
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: of a notice. I have those friends too, and those
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: are the friends that I made in my adult life, actually.
• 30:56
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• 31:33
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• 31:35
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• 31:54
  Speaker 2: has a book club, OK? And it's, it's just so
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: rare nowadays to, to see people pick up a book. Personally,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I grew up loving books, like the physical act of
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: reading a book, right? And yeah, I, I grew up
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: in um, in the age where we didn't have a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Kindle yet or anything. Um, and even though when I
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: was in school already, there were phones, and in secondary school,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: my friends had iPhones already, which was a rare site
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: because iPhones were like super expensive back then.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: But when it comes to the act of reading a book,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it's still something that I'm hooked on and I will
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: still do it. I'll still lug a book around with
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: me when I travel or I, I leave a book
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: in my car, actually, that's how I complete books. So
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I leave one in my car, I leave one in
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: my bag.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: And I leave one at home. So then everywhere I go,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I can pick up a book and just pick it
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: up from where I left off. I don't know, some
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of my friends say they can't do that because they
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: need to just stick to one book and finish it,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: but I tend to, yeah, I tend to disagree. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: think you should try this method of mine.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Dua Lipa opening this library though for banned books is just,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it just cracked me up. I mean, she is just
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a rebel and she, I love the way that she
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: does this. Um, I think a lot of these books
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: that are not able to be found in other sources
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  Speaker 2: or maybe you, you can't buy, somehow she's managed to
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: get a hold of them and she's opened up this
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: beautiful looking library. I'm still trying to
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Verify whether those images that I've been seeing online and
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: on Instagram are the actual pictures of her library, but
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: if it is, she's got great taste. She's got great
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: taste in music, in fashion, in books, and in men, obviously.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And just before I get to food news, I just
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: wanted to applaud Gracie Abrahams. Um, she's young, but she
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: actually responded in a very mature manner to accusations about
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: her being a nipple baby. Like people are saying, oh,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: it's nepotism, you know, she's, she's got famous parents. If
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: you don't know.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Um, her parents are actually acclaimed filmmaker, JJ Abrams, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: she's got a CEO mom, Katie McGrath. Those names might
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: sound very familiar. So, um, they, they're very important people
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: in the film and TV industry, right? So people are
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: just saying, yeah, she just got there because of her parents.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And Gracie actually accepted those comments with a lot of grace,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: ha ha, pun intended, and she actually said like, hey,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: you know what? Yeah, I acknowledge that I've got famous
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: parents and they paved the way for me.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: They've allowed me to have, um, you know, a very
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: privileged life to take my time to explore and discover
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: what I wanted to do. So in regards to that, yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I acknowledge that the fact that my parents are very
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: successful and famous have allowed me the time and the
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: luxury of, of exploring these interests. So maybe that's why
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I managed to make the music that I'm making today.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And I thought that was such a great response because
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: the instant reaction sometimes when people are being thrown, oh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: you're such a ne baby, they usually get quite defensive, right?
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think she was generally quite applauded for
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: her ability to just stand up and accept it, you know. Anyway, um,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I've gone on a little too long about that, about Gracie,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: but uh just impressed by this young lady and the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: way that she responded. Time for some food news, food news.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Sonia with the good food news, and I'm going back
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: to my roots here, my Hokkien roots, even though I
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: can't really speak a word of Hokkien except the bad.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Words. A beloved heritage Hokkien restaurant, Bengyang has officially reopened
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: because they closed its no frills Jurong flagship store last
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: year after 48 years. So you might have actually grown
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: up with it. Your parents might have grown up with
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: it as well. Your grandparents might have known it, um,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and people are wondering, oh, where are they going? Oh no,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: because where do I get my kong bakpao and my
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: fish maw soup and my Hokkien mee now, you know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: they have resurrected. Guess what?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: From a no-frills store in Jurong, they've now reopened at Shangri-La, Singapore. Like, what?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: That's just so unlikely. I never expected that. It is
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: part of their new culinary residency. Um, it's not intended
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to be permanent, but what they've done is that Shangri-La,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Singapore has transformed the garden terrace, which is um sort
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of an indoor outdoor event space.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: At the hotel itself, and this is now the restaurant's
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: new home. The seating area is about for 80 guests
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: or so. So, even though they're saying that it's not
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: say permanent for now, I, I don't know what the
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: future is going to be.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Um, according to our friends at Shangri-La Singapore, the goal
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: was never to reinvent Bengyang. They want to give the
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: heritage brand a platform to reach new diners who may
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: have never discovered them before. That's why I said, even
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: though it might sound familiar to you, maybe Jurong is
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: too far for you or you've never been there before. Um,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: this is going to be quite an interesting twist because
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: it looks a bit more fine dining now, I would say, um,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and I'm hungry just looking at these pictures, that's for sure.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So we'll see how this goes on.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Um, I think guests dining there till the 10th of
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: July will even receive a welcome gift and a sure
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: win giveaway. So we'll see what the future holds for
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: our friends over at Bengkang, but for now, you know
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: that you can celebrate them and you can enjoy them
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: over at Shangri-La, Singapore. Yeah, that's always a good thing,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: new place for you to explore now.