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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 020926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 1: 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. Well, good morning and
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hope you're having a great midweek
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: so far. I think loads of students are coming down
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: to Teachers' Day. It's a holiday on Friday, 4th September, Sonia.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, on behalf of us here at 987,
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  Speaker 1: we love you teachers. Earlier I mentioned, you might be
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: familiar with this song.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's called Golden from Hendrix, EJ Audrey Nuna,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: and Ray Amy, but can I play you 47 seconds
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  Speaker 1: of a singer whose vocals are definitely God-given, and she
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: has a talk show. She performs on it live as well,
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  Speaker 1: some covers.
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  Speaker 1: Songs and she has decided to take on Golden. Give
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: it up for Kelly Clarkson. Here is playing you the
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  Speaker 1: pre-chorus and the chorus, and she did this live, no auto-tune,
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  Speaker 1: nothing with a full band backing. Have a listen.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Here comes the chorus.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're wondering, can she hit the note? Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, put some respect on
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson's name. The first ever American Idol, and she's
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  Speaker 1: really God-given pure talent. And honestly, you watch Kelly Clarkson
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  Speaker 1: do it, and when you watch Huntricks do it, Hun
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  Speaker 1: tricks have to bring the song down a key, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes EJ
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  Speaker 1: And, and with all due respect to EJ's talent, you
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  Speaker 1: can tell that there's a little bit of a struggle
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  Speaker 1: to hit the high note, and Kelly Clarkson herself, after
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  Speaker 1: she performs that song live, she goes on an interview
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  Speaker 1: saying this song is very high and to hit that
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  Speaker 1: really high note, the born to be part, she had
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  Speaker 1: to really give it her all and locked in. So,
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: there you go. If you wanna
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  Speaker 1: Watch the performance is fully available for you on YouTube.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: We just want to give a big shout out to
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Kettridge Secondary School. We promised you a shout out before
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  Speaker 1: 7 a.m. So whoever's listening in, whoever's awake right now,
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  Speaker 1: this one's for you. I still cannot believe that was
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: a school you relieve taught at. I know, I like
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  Speaker 1: think it was starting to come back to me as
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: I walked the halls. Did it look the same to
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  Speaker 1: you as it did all those years ago? Um, OK, like.
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  Speaker 1: The layout is very similar, like it's pretty much the same,
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  Speaker 1: but they've obviously maintained it and spruced it up, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, um, I think there probably wasn't like air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning in the, in the halls back when we were
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  Speaker 1: in school actually. Wait, the halls were air-conditioned? Were they?
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  Speaker 1: I thought, I thought it was because I was perspiring nonetheless.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: I think it was air conditioned, but.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't feel it. Actually, wait, was it? Now I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: am I remembering it wrong? It's OK. This entire morning,
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  Speaker 1: we've been consumed by news of closures and this is
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  Speaker 1: a major one, I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I used to love going here, especially when after
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: I got my bike during COVID times, right, a lot
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: of people upgraded their bicycles or got, um, or took
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: their bicycle out from storage and started cycling and rollerblading, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I took mine out and I was like, alright, like, um,
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  Speaker 1: let's do a, a very long East Coast cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Um, when it was reintroduced that, you know, you can
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  Speaker 1: start hanging out in small groups out there and uh
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  Speaker 1: you can go out and do your activities and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then all the food courts started opening and everything, right?
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  Speaker 1: So we decided to go on a very long cycle
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  Speaker 1: from one end of East Coast all the way to
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  Speaker 1: Sahi by the Bay. So we ended.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: by the bay and then we eat dinner there. That's
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  Speaker 1: about 11 to 12 km. Yeah, I think if you
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: start from East Coast Food Lagoon. Um, yes, actually we
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: started around there. Yeah. So you know those, um, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many of those bike rental shops, right? So
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: my friends rented some bikes and then we, we went
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  Speaker 1: all the way straight.
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  Speaker 1: So it was, you know, you stop here and there,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the beauty of East Coast. Wait, hang on. So
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  Speaker 1: you cycle to the Makan place and then you cycle
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  Speaker 1: back and you cycle back because my friends didn't have,
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: two of my friends didn't have bicycles. Yeah, whereas, um,
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: some of us already had our own, and this was
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  Speaker 1: just before the wheel and Ride bike.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Singapore, OK, actually, I would say that wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: any wheel and old bikes or whatever other bikes there are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that would be your number one choice
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  Speaker 1: at a park because when you go to the park,
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  Speaker 1: they already have those bike rental shops where those bikes
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  Speaker 1: are better suited for this kind of, you know, casual riding.
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  Speaker 1: And they have gears as well, especially if you're going
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  Speaker 1: uphill and yeah. Anyway, exactly. So you might need, you
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  Speaker 1: might need to drop gear or increase your gear, right?
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  Speaker 1: But we would cycle all the way to Satiy by
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  Speaker 1: the Bay and we enjoyed like the food that was
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  Speaker 1: so good. We just sat there, chilled out, you know. Unfortunately,
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: all those memories will soon be gone because Saay by
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  Speaker 1: the Bay is closing down from the first of October.
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  Speaker 1: That is it for them. Um, there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: new attraction to replace it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's called Wetlands by the Bay, Joakim.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: I am very curious to understand why it's called Wetlands
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  Speaker 1: by the Bay and what else is going to be
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  Speaker 1: opening in Wetlands by the Bay as they reveal more
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  Speaker 1: plans very soon. So are they giving the Marina Bay
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: area like the Sungai Bulo treatment? Yeah, I think they're
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: sprucing it up, but here's what's happening, OK. Wetlands by
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  Speaker 1: the Bay measures about 7 football fields. It's massive. They're
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  Speaker 1: opening in stages from the end of 2028. So for
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  Speaker 1: quite some time, you won't see anything there.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Say by the bay, the car park and a
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  Speaker 1: nursery will be absorbed along with the existing Kingfisher wetlands,
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: which is in the same area. It is 1/3 of
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  Speaker 1: the size of the soon to be completed wetlands by
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  Speaker 1: the bay. So this is gonna, it's gonna incorporate into
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  Speaker 1: Wetlands by the Bay.
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  Speaker 1: options. There'll be a new two-story dining block to open
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  Speaker 1: in 2028. They will replace Say by the Bay. So
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  Speaker 1: to tourists and to Singaporeans alike, if you're looking for
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  Speaker 1: by the bay options, there's Gluttons by the Bay over
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  Speaker 1: at Esplanade which requires you to walk for a little
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  Speaker 1: while or maybe even La Pasar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Gluttons by the Bay is much smaller, I
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  Speaker 1: would say. They have good food too, but much smaller
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  Speaker 1: because Say by the Bay actually could, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was 1000 packs could fit in there if I'm not wrong,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, like you can seat 1000 people.
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  Speaker 1: One thing's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Walk past Satays by the Bay after passing Marina Barrage, right?
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  Speaker 1: You feel tempted to stop and eat, right? I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes at East Coast Food Lagoon as well, the smell
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  Speaker 1: of the food, the local food, you just want to
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: stop and eat and forget or run already. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've done that before at Zion Road. Um, I stopped.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: And one more time, I went for a run in
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  Speaker 1: Pasir Ris when I used to live there with a
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  Speaker 1: friend and um we, we ran straight to the bar
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  Speaker 1: at Pasir Ris Park to have a beer. We stopped
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: for a beer there and we never started running again.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, just to close off with letting
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  Speaker 1: you know some of the stalls that used to be
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  Speaker 1: at Say by the Bay, they, they've moved over to,
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  Speaker 1: I think Clark Quay Club and around the area, so
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: look out for them or maybe even on the stall.
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  Speaker 1: Notice board, have a look. Clark Keys, shut down I
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: think in 2025, my bad. Yeah, so maybe they found
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: themselves another home. But if you're a loyal follower, I'm
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: sure you would have followed where they went already. There
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: we go. Unfortunately though, maybe Marina Square as of March
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  Speaker 1: 2027 next year, it's officially closing for a major redevelopment project.
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  Speaker 1: Like the entire place including the new.
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  Speaker 1: The newer section. It should be. It's gonna be making
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  Speaker 1: way for a mixed-use development. So I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: artist's impression right now, right? It's gonna be luxury homes, ah,
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  Speaker 1: like an apartment upstairs, mall downstairs, a new hotel and
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: office spaces, and it's slated to be completed in 2031. Wow, that,
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  Speaker 1: that's a long one. Yeah, so, you know, the whole
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  Speaker 1: entire NS Square area, Marina Square area, there's.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be plenty of construction works happening, so
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  Speaker 1: be extra careful, especially if you're running there from now
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  Speaker 1: till 2031. Actually, I think the biggest question that I
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  Speaker 1: have um is that there are a lot of high-end
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: hotels that are directly linked to Marina Square. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: how are they going to handle that? The hotels will
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: still operate. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think it's, there's
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  Speaker 1: a Park Royal Marina. There's Mandarin is around the area.
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  Speaker 1: Ritz is right next to it.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. So I mean, not that they will be affected
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  Speaker 1: in terms of business, but there will be a lot
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: of construction around the area and also it could be
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: useful for them because they didn't say they're opening at
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: Marina Square. Oh, they are. Is it a hotel? I
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: thought it was residential. There's gonna be new luxury homes
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: and a new hotel all in one. OK, OK. Well,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: that will be interesting to see.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Speaking of luxury homes, well, if you buy a place
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: there and it's facing NS Square, that's June, July, August,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: you get free fireworks on Saturdays. But other than that,
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: you get NS boys, right? Hey, it's quite a sight,
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: you know, when they march in there to, yeah, yeah,
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: I know, I know. So don't forget NS Square will
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: be the future homes for NDP and also I think
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: for the passing out parade. Yeah, that would be cool.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've actually ever attended a passing out parade.
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  Speaker 1: Like in person. Do you have any nephews that are
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: gonna go national service very soon? No.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: No, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. It's OK. Anyway, I wonder whether they
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  Speaker 1: will still call it Marina Square or will they change
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: the name. I don't know. Yeah, they might change it
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: seeing how there's so many things going on. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be for sure. Yeah, yeah. You remember not too long ago,
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  Speaker 1: the film Dear You sparked off really good conversations, I
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  Speaker 1: would say.
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  Speaker 1: About the screening of movies and shows that contain dialects,
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  Speaker 1: and I was being very careful how I worded it
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: because of the rules here in Singapore, but I did
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: say it's annoying when you watch a movie and that's
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: filmed in a completely different language from what you're hearing. Yeah,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, and, and I'm not, I'm not
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: gonna lie, being a voice actor and dubbing over is
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: very hard. Yeah, it's very hard because
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: They weren't the ones acting in the show. They don't,
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: as much as they try to encapsulate the emotions, it
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: might never be the same, you know. And also it's
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: quite annoying when you see the characters' mouths moving and
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: it doesn't sync up with the audio, right? I know
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: it's my pet peeve is wrong. Um, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to foreign language films, I want to watch it in
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  Speaker 1: their language. Then I'll just take the effort to read
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: the subtitles. I can't French, German, I don't know, Finnish
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: or Danish.
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  Speaker 1: We want to watch it as it was filmed. It's like,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: do you remember Money Heist, that Netflix show? Spanish. It
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: was in Spanish. So it's so funny because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why my default settings went into like English dubbing immediately.
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  Speaker 1: So it was so odd and because I think Spanish
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  Speaker 1: and English, sometimes it, it looks quite similar in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth movement. It took me like 2 or
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: 3 episodes to realize I was watching it dubbed.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: Then I was like, OK, hold up, I need to
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: switch it now. I knew something was off. I mean,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: imagine watching Netflix's Narcos in in full English, other languages
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: the seriousness isn't there, you know, the attitude, yeah. But, uh,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I think the whole, the whole situation with
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  Speaker 1: dear you, it sparked off very healthy conversations here in Singapore, especially.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: And I think it has also kicked off a bit
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: of a trend. Our friends over at Golden Village, they're
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: about to screen the 1990 movie from Hong Kong called
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Days of Being Wild by renowned, the renowned Wong Kar-wai,
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  Speaker 1: as you already know, um, in its original Cantonese language
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  Speaker 1: from the 11th to 13th of September.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: And it's in commemoration of the late legendary Hong Kong
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  Speaker 1: actor Leslie Cheung. Um, he would have turned 70 this year. Oh, beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: So for a limited time, limited screening, I'm pretty sure
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: the cinema halls will sell out very quickly. And you know,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: I did not realize Leslie Chungg passed away so young. Um,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: your parents, our parents would know, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Of Leslie Chung. I've heard his name before. Um, apparently
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  Speaker 1: his birthday falls on the 12th of September. He passed
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: away in April of 2003. He was only 46. Yeah,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: he was only 46. It's unclear and I'm not sure why,
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: maybe an illness or I'm not entirely sure. But, um,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: this is a great way of revisiting films that are
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: very hard to find on.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: You know, your streaming platforms. Most of them don't contain
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of these vintage films. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: when we say dialect, not just for the Mandarin language Hokkien, Teo,
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  Speaker 1: Cantonese and all sorts of other things, we also hope
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  Speaker 1: that maybe in the Indian language or the Bahasa Malaya,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: if there's dialect for any of these, yeah, we hope
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  Speaker 1: it's screened in cinemas. Yes, yeah, I think it's gonna
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: be applied.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: that's it, asking for a friend. Can they, can they
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: screen the IP Man again in the original language? I
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: want to watch it in canto, man. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, that's the only line you know, right? Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're onto something, and it, it could
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  Speaker 1: be a different revenue income stream for our friends in
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  Speaker 1: the cinemas or Golden Village, especially. Um, just FYI, English
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  Speaker 1: and Chinese subtitles will be available.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are priced at $22. They start going on sale
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  Speaker 1: from 3:00 p.m. on the 2nd of September, which is today.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: We have finally found a way to save the cinemas
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore. Yeah, I believe so as well. So fingers
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  Speaker 1: crossed and I think we're very, very excited collectively to
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  Speaker 1: see more of these vintage films in their original language
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  Speaker 1: come back to the big screen. There we go. OK,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: so just uh yesterday actually.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: We threw a surprise birthday dinner thing for one of
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: my close friends who also happens to be my makeup artist.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: So happy belated birthday, Benji. Hello, Benji. You know, now
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: as you're an adult, right, it takes time to, to
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: bring together like 20 people for a surprise birthday.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy. Let alone like I did on Monday night. Not,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: not easy to find the same date, right? So we,
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  Speaker 1: we sat down after the surprise and everything, it was
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  Speaker 1: a success. We sat down and uh we started chatting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, amongst ourselves because we're all split up right
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  Speaker 1: into 22 or 3 tables. And to my surprise, um,
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  Speaker 1: this was a
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  Speaker 1: This was, this happened more than I expected. Um, quite
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  Speaker 1: a few of the girls at the table said that
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  Speaker 1: their boyfriends slash maybe fiance or husband, they've forgotten their
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: birthday at least once before. And I was like, seriously, really?
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Because I don't think, OK, it's impossible for germs and
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I to forget each other's birthdays because they're one day
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: apart from each other. OK, fine. That one is super easy.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the girls said, yeah, like my, she,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: she just got married recently. She said, yeah, my, my
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: husband's forgotten my birthday at least twice. Yeah, but they're
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: still married lah. She said, oh, he's just like that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: To my fellow bros, I think if there's one birth
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  Speaker 1: date you don't want to forget, it could be that
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  Speaker 1: of your, maybe your mom and dad, parents for sure
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  Speaker 1: and your partner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't think it's, you know, gender-related, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just because I was sitting with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of girls and they were saying, yeah, actually, yeah, my
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  Speaker 1: partner also forgot before. Then I asked, so did they
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: do anything to make up for it? Like did they
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: at least plan, did they have something planned?
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  Speaker 1: One of them actually said no, he actually didn't have anything,
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  Speaker 1: but he genuinely forgot. And the funny thing was she
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: said um they were actually up late the eve of
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: her birthday. So presumably we think like, oh, at midnight,
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  Speaker 1: maybe your partner will bring out a cake or a
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  Speaker 1: card or something just to celebrate first and then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the next day, you guys go out and do your
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  Speaker 1: proper thing. But she stared at him when the clock
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  Speaker 1: struck 12, apparently.
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  Speaker 1: And she stared at him and he was like, what?
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: And then she looked at her watch, she looked at
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: her watch and she tapped on her watch, like, you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: indicating that what day is it? What day is it?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And he goes like, what?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And apparently she showed him the phone with the date
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: on it, and he was like, why, show me your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Do
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  Speaker 1: You actually know this person. I'll tell you who it
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: is after I turn off the mic. But to which,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you know, we all just burst out laughing, right? And, uh, he,
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  Speaker 1: he realized shortly after that. I think like a few
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: minutes after that whole thing, he was, you know, very puzzled.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Then it struck him. Last minute booking. That's why, no
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: choice this one, no choice.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: For you, it's a bit of a cheat code because
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: most of the important birthdays for you happen in December
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and your husband's birthday is the day before yours, yeah, yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: which is what I just said I just said that
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: like a minute ago. And then for me, I don't,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I don't forget birthdays easily, especially for my mom, my dad,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: my good friends. Yeah, yeah, the people around you. Um, however,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: there are some friends who are very, very quiet and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: low key about their birthdays, OK.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Um, like they don't plan anything, they don't initiate anything
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: or say anything about their birthdays, right? And, uh, admittedly,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I have done this before. My, there's this group of
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: friends that I hang out with, we actually collectively forgot
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: one of the persons, one of our friends's birthdays in
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: that group.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And we felt so bad because this guy like doesn't
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: say anything about his birthday at all. He doesn't say,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: hey guys, you want to go for a drink or like,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: then at least you know, we can do something also. Um,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and it's not one of those like milestone birthdays that
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you would always plan a surprise birthday for. So we were,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: we felt really bad and we, we made up for
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it after. I kind of realized as I get older,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I'm a bit more low-key in person about my birthday.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Minus few close friends, for example, you, you will ask
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: me what you want or what are you doing what
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: you want to do, give me a, you know, nice
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: steak dinner. My other friends I've always delivered, OK.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I must say you do, you do. And then for
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: my other friends we just meet for a simple, like,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes sami's curry again or they will bring
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: me to their own respective nice fancy dinner and all that,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: which I really appreciate. Yeah, and the thing is that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you used to love like bigger birthday celebrations, right? When
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I was younger, yeah, yeah, it's a very typical Leo thing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You're on the cast, right? Cancer Leo, right? So yeah,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: your Leo side loves big birthdays. Yeah, for sure. So
• 19:12
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• 19:16
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• 19:21
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• 19:25
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• 19:28
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• 19:30
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• 19:32
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• 19:57
  Speaker 1: from Manda. Morning, Sojo. I don't really care about birthdays.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I just want to celebrate with my close friends and family,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that's all. All I wanted for my birthday is to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: eat my mom's longevity vermicelli and red egg. What do
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: we call this? Do you know? Uh, longevity birthday noodles.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: No, I'm serious. They call it birthday noodles. Is there
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: like a proper name for it? Is it a Mandarin
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: thing or something? No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, let
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: me check. OK, you continue reading your message again. Sonia
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: is the worst Chinese friend I have. This year. She
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: experienced kneecap joint pain and I was unable to cook.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I was upset about it, but we ordered Bontongki as
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a compensation. We also missed our ritual, ritual.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Zoo visitation for my birthday. Mind you, I'm 30 years
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: old and I go to the zoo for my birthday
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: every year just because I love the zoo. My birthday
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was last week, 29th of August. Amanda, you have the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: same birthday as my mom. Oh really? 29th of August, yes. OK,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: so I did a quick search here on Chat GBT.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I said, what are birthday noodles called in Mandarin? They said, um,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Chang sho mian, which is longevity noodles, but then I said,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: But what is the noodle? I typed in Chat GBT
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and Chad said, Ah, you mean what type of noodle
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: it actually is. Traditionally they use something very similar to miswa.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Like mianxian or misua for for the longevity noodles. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. I hope this is right. Is that sometimes
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: it's emmian.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: No, vermli is not. It's a different type of, it's miso.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: It's a type of noodle, OK, because when you said
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: birthday noodles in Mandarin, Mandarin brain went. Yeah, I would
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: have done the same. I would have done the same. Well, um,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: any other texts you want to read out? We got
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a couple. We got a couple. So one coming in from,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I think your name is Chia.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Cheer, you say mine is worse. I forgot my best
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: man was my cousin, and I was talking to him
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and saying, Wow, such a waste you weren't there at
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: my wedding. He stared at me for a bit saying hello,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I was your best man.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: There you go. No way. How did he forget that?
• 22:04
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• 22:07
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• 22:13
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• 22:16
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• 22:20
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• 22:21
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• 22:24
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• 22:39
  Speaker 1: just um at a friend's birthday dinner.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: This topic came about um whether or not you've forgotten
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: your partner's birthday before or a loved one's birthday, or
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: has someone forgotten your birthday before. So, um, went around
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the table just chatting about it and it turns out
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: at least 2 people said that their partners have forgotten
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: their birthday before.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And the running joke was that it's always the guy
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that forgot. May that misfortune never ever befall me. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I know it can be a bit disappointing lah, that feeling, right?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Especially if it's a close friend. Yeah, or like your,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: your loved one. How can this be allowed?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: How can this be? We have a text coming in
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: from John. John says, Yes, I shamelessly forgot my partner's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: birthday once. My partner was overseas and I was supposed
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to call once the clock strikes 12, but I was
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so tired that day I fell asleep before that and
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: when and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I woke up, wow, I panicked. I sent a message
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to apologize. From then onwards, I created a spreadsheet for
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: all the birthdays I knew, and I put it in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: my phone calendar reminder so that I'll never ever miss
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: anyone's birthday ever again. Yo, you know what, that's, uh,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that's pretty useful. I should do that and key the
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: key it into my calendar as well. Um, that could help.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Gonna say hi here to, I don't think you left
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: your name, but T.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sojo. First of all, always lovely to hear
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: you both while I'm driving my kids to school and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: dropping my husband at the office. That's nice. So the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: person who always forgets our birthdays is my mom. She's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a mom of 3 and she cannot remember all 3
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of her children's birthdays. My sister is always the one
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that will prompt in the group chat with, good morning,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: happy birthday, so and so. Only then my mom will
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: follow up right after.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Every single year, but unfortunately, I think I might have
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: inherited her memory too, LOL. I don't know why, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I can envision a mom going, la, your last time
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: give me a headache. Now I forget your birthday. Or
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: she immediately panics. Can you imagine? Like she sees the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: message and she panics. Oh, happy birthday. It's either extreme
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: ends of excuses. There we go. I know, um, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you see, here's the problem. If you have group chats
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and people wish you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The group chats, that's helpful because someone will always remember
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in the chat. Oh yeah, but if you don't exactly
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: or that person who always remembers doesn't text in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: group chat and text the birthday girl or boy separately,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: then the rest of us are screwed. I'm just going
• 24:59
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• 25:01
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• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Whenever they say happy birthday, then you are the one
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: that birthday.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I remember this entire time. Yes, OK. We're
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: going to Joe on the line right now. Joe, what
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: about you? Has this happened to you before?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, I've
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: forgotten my, now my husband, then my boyfriend's birthday at 18,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: that was almost 20 years ago. So what happened was
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: that I was supposed to be in Korea for a
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: month-long exchange and it happened to overlap the period that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it was his birthday. Then.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Uh, we just started dating, so my friends asked me,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: texted me while they were in Singapore and I was
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: in Korea, Hey, what are your plans for his birthday?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Then I was like, oh, ho. So I quickly scrambled online,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: found some cake, got my friends to surprise him, made
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a card.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I just pulled it off as if I didn't forget
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: anything at all.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: OK, you still pulled through and came through in the end.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Well done. Like, does he know you actually forgot?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, uh, later on I did tell him because I mean,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: we are married now, so it's OK. I can, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: can still tell him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So you, you made sure that you locked it in first,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: then you told him. But was he unhappy? Was he
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: able to tell he
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: forgot? No, he wasn't. He was so surprised. He texted
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: me when I was in Korea. And then I ordered
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a cake, made sure my friends was able to surprise him,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and then got him a card and everything, so everything
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: looked fine.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: That's so funny, dude. I think um.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I think men are easier to fool than women today
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and we're about to head back into our messages right now.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Have you ever forgotten someone's birthday or has someone forgotten yours?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: We got one serious life hack here coming in from Hakim.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: OK, Hakim says, Hey guys, for my family, I have
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: 5 + 1 birthday to remember, which I have no issue.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: But sometimes when asked out of the blue, I tend
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to jam for a while. Like if I see a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: checkpoint suddenly asked to confirm while checking passport. Other than that,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'm fine. I use all their name initials with their
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: birth date number for my passwords and of course their
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: jerseys with the birth date.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Actually, that is so smart, dude. That is so smart.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Just in case. Judging from the jersey, it is Manchester United. OK, Ken.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: What does it matter to you? I remember all of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you as well. OK. OK, when we come back, last
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: few messages to read out. It's not too late to
• 27:33
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• 27:35
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  Speaker 1: to stir the pot here today, have you ever forgotten
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: someone's birthday or has someone forgotten yours? And
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: We're talking about people that you consider close to you,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, to say good morning to usernames. Hey,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'm here to break the stereotype because the person who
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: never fails to forget my birthday is a female. Oh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it's my good friend Rachel who has been friends with
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: me for 11 years. She dropped the name. Yeah, exactly.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Until today she is here to get my birth date right.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: My birthday is coming up in the next 3 days,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but she texted me happy birthday this morning and told
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: me she'll continue sending for the next 3 days. It
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: has become a running joke, so I'll never let her
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: know when my birthday actually is. If I win this prize,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I may or may not consider bringing her along. Here's
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a screenshot of what she sent me this morning. Cheers,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and the screenshot reads, Happy birthday. I wish you for
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the next 3 days because I don't know which day
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: is your birthday after 10 years.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yo, that's hilarious. And the fact that y'all are still friends,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can take a joke, lah, that's for sure.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: We got one coming in from DMR. Hi Sojo, it's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the woman who birthed me, my mother. Oh man. My
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: birthday is the 8th of September 0809. 1 year she
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: texted me on 9th of August 0908.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday. She lives in Sydney. Oh my gosh, help me.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, that's just something to laugh about, right?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: You cannot beat this one, OK. I had this, um,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even call this person like a friend or acquaintance.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I barely know this person, yeah. So I, I met
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this person like a while back through mutual friends, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: it was just like kind of um at the time
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: where we still added each other on Facebook, OK, in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: school and stuff. So then, OK, at whatever lah. I mean,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I don't really take note of these things. And you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: sometimes they will prompt you like, oh, so and so's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: birthday is today or whatever, right?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: So then I saw this person's birthday pop up and said, oh, wish,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: wish this person a happy birthday. I was like, OK,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I'll just, you know, drop him a message like, hey,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: happy birthday, man. He goes, he replies to me and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: he goes, huh, it's not my birthday. Then I was like, huh?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Then he said, I put the wrong date on my
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: um account so that I know who my true friends are.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Wait, why do I feel we both know this person? No,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you don't know this person. Really? You don't know this
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: person I encountered a similar situation. Really? No, but there's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: no way you know this person. I'm not close to
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: this person, firstly, never introduced you to this person before.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the same tactic tactic, yeah, but why? It's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: so childish. I actually
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Wish people on Facebook a long time ago and Facebook
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: at the birthday function and someone said the same thing
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, I'm just testing you whether you're my
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: real friend, you know, my birthday. I said I don't
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: get it. So unfriendly. Yeah, I got no time for this, man.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I literally, I took 2 minutes out of my day
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to wish you and I don't even know you like.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I was just being nice. I love both of us
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: had the same sentiments. I took 2 minutes to you,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: come on, it's for, look, now that we are, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: more mature, we have less tolerance for these things. OK, granted,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: this happened like years ago, but even at that point
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, what to waste my time. Yeah, time
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: is money. My 2 minutes is worth 20 cents. Wow, balling.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I was having a really good laugh at all these
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: stories coming through today. Have you ever forgotten someone's birthday
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: or has someone forgotten yours? And we're talking about people
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: whom you consider to be close to you. Yeah, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: mean loads of texts and calls coming in. Thank you
• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:30
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• 31:32
  Speaker 1: for today's winner, let's give it to Pela. Oh yeah,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: yeah there we go.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Hey, so bring your good friend Rachel and maybe finally
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: tell her when the birthday is. Just a quick summary
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: or recap of her story. So Pei and Rachel have
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: known each other for almost 10 or 11 years, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Pei has never told Rachel when the exact birth date is.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So Rachel always text with a 5 day period or
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: 3 day period buffer to cover bases, you know what
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but she knows it's around this time.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: That's hilarious, honestly, like, is there anyone that she can
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: ask like around?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: You know, unless Pei actually put everyone up to it
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and said, do not tell Rachel if she asks you. Yeah,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: that could be that could be a good point. Yeah,
• 32:11
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• 32:42
  Speaker 1: all the September babies that texted us actually quite a
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: number of them covering all bases. So next year, 2027
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: marks 60 years of national service. We started in 1967.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: So our defense minister, Minister Chan Chun Sing has said
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in a press release that he has instructed his team
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to come up with something meaningful for NS men of
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the past and present. So it will be even bigger
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: than the usual like vouchers. I know NS men get
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of vouchers and like special deals and stuff
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: with your card, right? Yeah, it's a very small thank you.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Serving the nation, I wonder what they'll come up with.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Like what would they cook up. So they are thinking
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of doing more open houses next year. OK. So I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: think maybe the army recruitment center will go into overdrive,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: you know, NS 60, come, let's give all the exhibitions
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: in the heartlands here in Singapore encourage to put a
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: sign on every day recruit 60 people.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Like that join the force, is it, but I'm sure
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: there will be some vouchers, some coupons, some experiences of
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the various places. Actually, you know, some places when it's, uh,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: SAF day, they, I know this give some massive discounts.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: But come on, 60% discount. That is crazy. I would, that, wow,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: like everyone will use it. Let, let's see what happens.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: So the moment we get some updates about the NS
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: 60 credits or NS 60 vouchers, we'll let you know. 60, um,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: 60 Starbucks coffees.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Or actually that you can redeem or actually, you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: imagine this McDonald's and Min work together 60 piece nuggets.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I mean that would be a sharing the massive sharing
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: box platoon bunk, but you can only get it once
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: one person, one person can go and exploit the system, right? No,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I never say exploit the system. Just make sure that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you have a lot of friends. Can you imagine that
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: nugget shortage in Singapore.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: That's that that wasn't something on our 2026 bingo card. Now,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: not because we've been talking about our friends at Fair
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Price Group all week. As you know, uh, just before
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you get to school at 7 a.m. you stand to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: score a Cheers Breakfast Club bundle and $80 worth of
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Fair Price shopping vouchers. But this was too interesting to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: pass up, OK? I know that you have your, um,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: your reservations about driverless vehicles.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I know you've mentioned it before. I know, I know it's,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: but it could really improve certain areas of the industry
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: or efficiency and all that. And our friends at Fair
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Price Group, they do have a fleet of driverless vehicles.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It's been spotted on the road here in Singapore already.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: So what, what happens is they're using it as their
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: distribution system. So they're using it to distribute um.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Um, you know, uh, items and maybe fresh food and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: stuff like that from their supermarkets, select areas here in Singapore. Yeah, so, um,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I think some people were curious about it because they
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: did notice this driverless. It almost looks like a container
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: with wheels moving on its own, quite cute, it's quite cute,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and it's been spotted on the road already.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Um, they actually, I think someone posted it on TikTok,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, asking like, hey, did you all
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: notice this? OK, so what happens is they use this
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: vehicle to transport goods from their warehouse in the Benoy
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: area to their distribution centers. So it's about 6 kilometers
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: in distance. Yeah.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Um, this is a few months after I think LTA
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: approved their use of these vehicles on the road. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: they aren't on the highways on the streets of Singapore
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: from the, uh, yeah, from the distribution areas, in between
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: distribution areas. So there are a total of 7 of
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: these vehicles right now in their trial, but they still
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: have like F1 safety car.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: As they should. Yes, yeah, yeah, just in case. So
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's a very good plan. Honestly, I think
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: when it comes to all these driverless stuff, we're still
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in the teething stages. Yes, it will probably be another
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: 2 or 3 more decades before we perfect it. I know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: but it's exciting to see we're moving with the times.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Wonder what Billie Eilish is cooking up right now because
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: she's been a little quieter this year. Honestly, given how
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Hit Me Hard and Soft did not win her a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Grammy for the main categories, you can rest assured I'm
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: very sure she's in the bedroom now with Finney.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: producing new music and hoping to give the Grammys a
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: run for its money maybe in 2 years' time. I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: think by now it's a studio. Perhaps. I mean that
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: she started in the bedroom, like as a as an artist.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: There you go. And then now I'm sure she owns
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: like a whole building or something. Or you know, maybe
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the inspiration comes to her in the bedroom. Sometimes, yeah, and,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and typically I think for a lot of artists, they're
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: by themselves and inspiration strikes. I don't know. Anyway, on
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: that note, we are going to hand you over to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: and Nick. We'll catch you tomorrow at 6 a.m.