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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 050626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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Speaker 1: Wake up.
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Speaker 1: Good next.
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Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. And it's finally Friday.
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Speaker 1: Woo hoo hoo! Welcome to the weekends. But if you're
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Speaker 1: on June holiday mode, every day is a weekend, right?
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Speaker 1: But for us adults, yes, we've made it to the weekend.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to guide you through and we still got
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Speaker 1: that Lazada shopping experience worth 100 bucks. Singapore's number one
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Speaker 1: hit music station.
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Speaker 1: Inviting you into the weekend already. What plans do you have?
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Speaker 1: I'm curious. Um, for me, got to attend a friend's wedding.
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Speaker 1: It seems like 2026 is the season of wedding, so
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Speaker 1: maybe it's just a coincidence and, uh, all the millennials
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Speaker 1: are getting shipped off to be married, so maybe that's why.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's, that's this weekend and then on Sunday, oh.
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Speaker 1: I've got something exciting to tell you about Sunday in
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Speaker 1: just a little bit. If you are planning your travels,
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Speaker 1: because you know what they say, right, it's never too
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Speaker 1: early to predict and forecast where you want to go
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Speaker 1: and your travels and your holidays, especially when it means
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Speaker 1: you could be saving a lot more money or even
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Speaker 1: collecting enough miles perhaps to fly business, treat yourself for
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Speaker 1: the first time. I'm telling you to go. This coming weekend,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be quite busy.
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Speaker 1: Because aside from a friend's wedding on Saturday, Sunday is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a full day for me over at Jewel
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Speaker 1: Changi Airport, and I'm so excited for this one because
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Speaker 1: they're back for the 3rd time, and they want you
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Speaker 1: to walk away with 250,000 KrisFlyer miles. Now, I was just, uh,
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Speaker 1: talking to my friends right and I was saying, yeah, Singaporeans,
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Speaker 1: we have a passion for food. We have a passion
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Speaker 1: for traveling.
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Speaker 1: But we also have a passion or maybe even a
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Speaker 1: secret passion for collecting KrisFlyer miles. I mean, seriously, if
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Speaker 1: you're nodding to yourself right now, and you know how
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Speaker 1: it's like to accumulate KrisFlyer miles, I'm with you. Um,
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Speaker 1: please first make sure that you download the KrisFlyer app and, um,
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Speaker 1: the KrisFlyer Fest is happening 6th and 7th of June,
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Speaker 1: so this Saturday and Sunday. Both days, you'll be able
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Speaker 1: to go down from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., but
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Speaker 1: the bulk of the activities will be happening.
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Speaker 1: Um, between maybe 10 to 6, 10:30 to 6 thereabouts,
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Speaker 1: then I think there'll be performances as well. There's going
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Speaker 1: to be tons of stuff, so please come down. Um,
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Speaker 1: there are little booths and pop-ups too, so you can,
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Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, you could also be using your
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Speaker 1: KrisFlyer app to be paying and collect some miles at
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Speaker 1: the same time. That's what they did last year and
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Speaker 1: the previous edition. So that's what I hope they're going
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Speaker 1: to continue doing.
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Speaker 1: And if you, uh, if you come on down, you
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Speaker 1: can also find out the best ways to earn and
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Speaker 1: redeem miles and even stand to win up to $20,000
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Speaker 1: worth of prizes and the ultimate prize of a quarter
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Speaker 1: of a million KrisFlyer miles, that's $250,000. So, I'll be
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Speaker 1: hosting the whole of Sunday. Hope to see you there.
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Speaker 1: I'll be there from 10:30 onwards, all the way till
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Speaker 1: about 6 or so.
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Speaker 1: So like I said earlier, what could be more rare
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Speaker 1: or even more difficult to get than striking a 40 ticket?
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Speaker 1: Usually when you say, oh, I, I won the lottery,
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Speaker 1: it's like 1 in a million chance, right? Like what,
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Speaker 1: what are my chances? Um, this one, I would say
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Speaker 1: it's a 1 in a billion chance, but it's not
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Speaker 1: what you think. It's nothing really quite related to winning
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Speaker 1: money or anything.
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Speaker 1: But a 2nd 1 in a billion spherical egg, which
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Speaker 1: means it's round in shape, has been found by yet
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Speaker 1: another Singapore family in the same month. So, I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure if you kind of saw the news or social media,
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Speaker 1: maybe I think it was last week of May, um,
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Speaker 1: or maybe second last week of May, that a spherical
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Speaker 1: egg was found in a family's home where they bought
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Speaker 1: the tray of eggs, right? They found a spherical egg.
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Speaker 1: And on the twenty-seventh of May, another family found a
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Speaker 1: spherical egg, which is a very, very, very rare thing
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Speaker 1: to happen. Um, um, how rare is it? Well, you,
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Speaker 1: you just think about it, it's round in shape, it's
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Speaker 1: exactly like a ball. Usually when you see your eggs,
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Speaker 1: they are like pointy at the top, right? But this
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Speaker 1: one is clearly like a sphere.
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Speaker 1: Very cute, to be honest. Um, and I think that family,
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Speaker 1: the second family, had a ball of a time with
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Speaker 1: it because they love eating their eggs, you know, they
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Speaker 1: make eggs every morning and all that. So they actually
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Speaker 1: saved the egg, they didn't cook it.
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Speaker 1: And they even measured it and I think their son
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Speaker 1: and daughter would check on it every day to make
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Speaker 1: sure that it's safe in the fridge. Um, they're thinking
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Speaker 1: that they may want to sell it, and here's the
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Speaker 1: reason why. In 2015, a woman in Britain actually auctioned
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Speaker 1: off a perfectly spherical egg that was hatched by her hand,
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Speaker 1: and guess how much it sold for?
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Speaker 1: $827 Singapore dollars. That's almost $1000 for a spherical egg,
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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you this, right? The spherical egg is
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Speaker 1: smaller than the normal egg. So, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: they'll do with it because don't eggs go bad after
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Speaker 1: a while? How do you preserve an egg? Now, now
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Speaker 1: I wanna know because previously, if you wanna
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Speaker 1: Preserve like just the shell or something like, you, you know,
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Speaker 1: there are ways to knock out the yolk and the,
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Speaker 1: the egg white inside, right? But if they don't want
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Speaker 1: to damage it at all and keep it in its
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Speaker 1: perfect shape and form, original form, how do you preserve it?
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Speaker 1: I'm very curious. So, we'll see what this family decides
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Speaker 1: to do. I think they've um affectionately named it already,
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Speaker 1: their thoughts of selling the egg with proceeds going towards
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Speaker 1: helping patients with a certain syndrome.
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Speaker 1: It's a condition that affects one of their friend's daughters.
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Speaker 1: They're thinking of doing that, but we'll see. And coming
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Speaker 1: up right after 7:00 a.m. we've got tons of prizes
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Speaker 1: coming your way, including a $100 Lazada shopping experience. But
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Speaker 1: one thing I'm very excited about later on this morning, um,
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Speaker 1: I'll have the opportunity to speak to the Kid Leroy. Yay!
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Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to him ever. And I think when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the Kid LeRoy, um, on the back
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Speaker 1: of so many viral moments, right?
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Speaker 1: Especially he's collaborated with so many people. I mean, look, you're,
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Speaker 1: you're Justin Bieber's of the world. I think Jong Kook,
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Speaker 1: Central Sea, he's definitely, he's um collaborated with them as well.
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Speaker 1: And of course, you will not forget this song.
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Speaker 1: Probably and arguably still one of the most viral moments
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Speaker 1: for the Kid LeRoy, so we can't wait to speak
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Speaker 1: with him. That's happening later on. It will not be
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Speaker 1: aired live because he's calling in from somewhere else and there's,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a big time difference. We're gonna need to
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Speaker 1: edit that first before packaging it for our show. So,
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Speaker 1: you'll get to hear it probably maybe next Monday or Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: but I'm really looking forward to that. So I'll be
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Speaker 1: toggling quite a few things during the show here today.
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Speaker 1: But oh well, it's Friday. I'm in a good mood.
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Speaker 1: I hope you are too. Now, I had a question
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Speaker 1: for you earlier. I said, would you take notice if
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Speaker 1: some cash disappeared from your room, for example? I'm not
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Speaker 1: talking about just like $10 or $5 talking $17,000 OK?
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Speaker 1: This happened um here in Singapore, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: A domestic helper decided to steal $17,000 worth of cash
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Speaker 1: from her employer's children, and they're only like 11 and
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Speaker 1: 12 years old. Unfortunately, it was to fund online gambling. Now, I, OK,
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Speaker 1: I don't really know how this online gambling stuff works,
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Speaker 1: but from what I understand, you know, sometimes you see
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Speaker 1: ads being fed to you and like, oh, it's like
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Speaker 1: easy money or something or you can play slots online.
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Speaker 1: Um, yeah, those things can be pretty, can be pretty
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Speaker 1: dangerous because you lose money like in a blink of
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Speaker 1: an eye, right? And who's even policing it or who is,
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Speaker 1: who is even the organizer behind it? And what are
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Speaker 1: they doing with the money? Like, I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: it's even regulated. So, unfortunately, she fell prey to online
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Speaker 1: gambling and
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Speaker 1: The whole idea of getting rich fast, maybe she was
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Speaker 1: in a bad position, she needed, she needed money, that's
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Speaker 1: why she thought, OK, maybe this gambling thing is a
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Speaker 1: good idea. I'm not making excuses for her, but it
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Speaker 1: must have been a very huge moment of desperation because
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Speaker 1: she reportedly began working for the family in March of 2025, um,
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Speaker 1: in quite a nice neighborhood, and once she came across
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Speaker 1: this online slot machine game on Facebook in early Feb,
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Speaker 1: She discovered that she constantly needed to top up her accounts.
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Speaker 1: So she considered, you know what, I'm going to steal
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Speaker 1: some cash from the children. Uh, I know this feels terrible.
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Speaker 1: She found a box containing cash and a key in
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Speaker 1: the drawer, so it wasn't exactly.
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Speaker 1: difficult to unlock the box. Um, she stole, initially, she
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Speaker 1: stole $1000 and she met a man who helped her
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Speaker 1: convert the money into her own currency, deposited it into
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Speaker 1: the gaming account, but she quickly lost all of her funds, as,
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Speaker 1: as you know, with gambling, right?
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Speaker 1: To recover her losses, what she did was she stole
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Speaker 1: some more. Over the next two days, she stole another
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Speaker 1: $4000 another $6000. To avoid suspicion, she left $1000 in
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Speaker 1: each packet, but I think too much was stolen. The
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Speaker 1: bulk of it was stolen anyway. In total, it was
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Speaker 1: $17,000 and she claimed that eventually her gambling account was
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Speaker 1: frozen and she couldn't claim any of the money back,
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Speaker 1: even though she won some rounds. She's claiming that, oh, she,
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Speaker 1: she couldn't get the money back.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, guess what? The children obviously discovered it. I mean, 17,000,
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Speaker 1: that's a, that's a stack. I'm not talking about like
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Speaker 1: just a few $5 notes, you know, this is a stack.
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Speaker 1: So their mother questioned the helper who admitted it and
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Speaker 1: uh she was subsequently arrested. She pleaded for leniency. I
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Speaker 1: think she really knows she made a mistake. So I
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Speaker 1: think um we'll see what happens. She's not in a
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Speaker 1: great spot. I believe her family as well, you know,
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Speaker 1: in some poverty back in her hometown.
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Speaker 1: But still not an excuse to steal from your employer's kids.
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Speaker 1: While I do feel for her, and I do hope
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Speaker 1: that they come to some sort of resolution and her punishment.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the eventual punishment will be, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: I I got a bit of a soft spot for her.
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Speaker 1: I do feel her. My family's helper is also from Myanmar,
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Speaker 1: and I understand the situation can be a little bit
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Speaker 1: difficult to explain right now back, back home.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, let's see where this goes and um she
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Speaker 1: will still need to face the consequences of her actions eventually. Well, yeah,
10:06
Speaker 1: upon returning to Singapore, a lot of heat here, a
10:08
Speaker 1: lot of sunlight, but in Europe right now because it's
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Speaker 1: Euro summer, right, there's also very, very, very crazy sun.
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Speaker 1: Um, crazy heat as well, but the air is dry, crisp,
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Speaker 1: and cool. That's the difference. And the waters, like when
10:22
Speaker 1: you go to the beach, it's actually cold. So you
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Speaker 1: get this nice like yin and yang kind of situation
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Speaker 1: and you don't feel that hot. Um, I could somehow
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Speaker 1: tolerate the heat in Europe, but in Singapore, it's just different.
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Speaker 1: I'm so sticky all the time.
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Speaker 1: But one thing that, um, you know, a lot of
10:39
Speaker 1: people may not realize would be the bugs and the
10:42
Speaker 1: mosquitoes in certain parts of Europe, OK. So just if
10:46
Speaker 1: you're going very soon, because this is the peak of
10:48
Speaker 1: Euro summer right now, and I think, well, a Monaco
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Speaker 1: GP is happening this weekend. We actually saw the setup
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Speaker 1: of the Monaco Street circuit, which was very cool cool.
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Speaker 1: Because it's really similar to Singapore, the way they do
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Speaker 1: it up, and a lot of people always compare Monaco
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Speaker 1: to Singapore, right? Like we are both small countries or
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Speaker 1: city-states as we would identify as, and we both have
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Speaker 1: street circuits. Singapore's seen as one of the more affluent countries, right?
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Speaker 1: Developed and affluent, and similarly to Monaco as well, you
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Speaker 1: will see crazy beautiful apartments and buildings, and somehow people
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Speaker 1: walking around just look very rich, you know.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I was like, hm, maybe I should have
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Speaker 1: dressed a bit better for Monaco.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of fancy people out there, but yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 1: for more of my travels, I'll be updating very soon,
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Speaker 1: but uh over the past two weeks, I've just really
11:40
Speaker 1: been living in the moment, so I didn't really post much.
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Speaker 1: I think I only posted like one or two things
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Speaker 1: from my trip so far. So we'd love to share
11:47
Speaker 1: more recommendations in case you're curious. I was 3 years
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Speaker 1: old when I realized there's a food republic in Beijing,
11:53
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's just Beijing, it's across China actually.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just, maybe because I haven't
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Speaker 1: visited China in a very long time. I just never
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Speaker 1: noticed it. Um, but it's been there for about 26
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Speaker 1: long years. Just announced though, Food Republic is about to
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Speaker 1: exit Beijing after 26 long years, but they'll focus on
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Speaker 1: its network of nearly 20 other Food Republic stores across China.
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Speaker 1: So it's not over. Um, but I think for Beijing,
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Speaker 1: it was over in the Oriental Plaza shopping mall.
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Speaker 1: And uh that is their last Beijing outlet closing on
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Speaker 1: the 15th of June at 8:00 p.m. Um, the, the
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Speaker 1: closure was announced with customers with membership or store, store,
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Speaker 1: store value cards. I think they can process their refunds
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Speaker 1: as soon as possible. That's what they said.
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Speaker 1: Um, and here's some fun facts. China's first Food Republic
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Speaker 1: store actually opened in Shanghai in 1997. How did I
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Speaker 1: not know this? Are you as clueless as I am?
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you've been traveling to China, maybe
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Speaker 1: you would have realized, but I think that tenancy lease
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Speaker 1: um would be expiring.
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Speaker 1: And our friends who are at BritTalk, which is the
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Speaker 1: company that owns the food court chain, right? They said, hey,
13:06
Speaker 1: you know what, it's just, it's just it. Yeah, time's up,
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Speaker 1: and I think they just focused on their other networks
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Speaker 1: and expand their business plans. So, it is not totally goodbye.
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Speaker 1: They still have a very strong presence over in China,
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Speaker 1: so good for them.
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Speaker 1: Um, but the next time I go to China, I
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Speaker 1: want to make it a good one, you know. If
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Speaker 1: you have any recommendations, please drop me a text right now, 90050987.
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Speaker 1: So many of my friends have been saying, sis, go
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Speaker 1: to China, go to China, you don't know what you're
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Speaker 1: missing out on. It's really developed so much and there's
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Speaker 1: so many things to, to explore. They're like living in
13:36
Speaker 1: the future.
13:37
Speaker 1: I know, I know. I've seen a lot of the videos,
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Speaker 1: but give me your honest opinions, drop me a text,
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Speaker 1: 90050987 if it's convenient for you. About 10 to 15
13:46
Speaker 1: minutes away before I open up phone lines at 669-11987.
13:51
Speaker 1: Since I'm alone, I would love to chat with you.
13:53
Speaker 1: In fact, friends that are very close to me and
13:56
Speaker 1: you know, my, my own partner says that
13:58
Speaker 1: I don't stop talking. I mean, I, I do, I
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Speaker 1: do when I'm alone, I don't really talk or yet,
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Speaker 1: but I do enjoy conversations with people. So that's why
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Speaker 1: this hour, next hour gives me so much joy. I
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Speaker 1: get to chat with you and get your opinions on
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Speaker 1: this one, which would be a very Singaporean thing here today.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you more in just a bit, but it's
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Speaker 1: got to do with queuing, OK? But not, not what
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Speaker 1: you think. It's not what you think. I'll fill you
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Speaker 1: in in a while based off a quite a sweet
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Speaker 1: story that I saw this morning.
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Speaker 1: But in exchange, I've actually got something from Lazada that
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Speaker 1: you cannot miss a $100 shopping experience. 66 is tomorrow,
14:36
Speaker 1: by the way, they're celebrating a big one. So, if
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Speaker 1: you need some fashion or beauty finds or gadgets, maybe
14:41
Speaker 1: even travel essentials, Lazada 66 sale has something for everyone.
14:47
Speaker 1: It's a perfect excuse to finally add to cart and
14:49
Speaker 1: just shop away. Like I said, I, I can tell
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Speaker 1: which one of my neighbors love to do online shopping.
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Speaker 1: I see Lazada packages.
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Speaker 1: At their doorstep quite often. For more info, visit their Instagram,
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Speaker 1: Lazada_SG or you can even log on to their website
15:03
Speaker 1: for more deeds. That is Lazada.sg. Talking about queues and
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Speaker 1: cutting queues right now, a very, very Singaporean thing for us.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we get defensive, sometimes we dedicate time to queue
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Speaker 1: up for something we're passionate about. But this particular Malaysian
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Speaker 1: woman has come out to thank a group of Malaysians
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Speaker 1: and Singaporeans.
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Speaker 1: Who apparently let her cut the airport security queue because
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Speaker 1: she was about to miss her flight. So what was
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Speaker 1: going on was she was flying in from, um, Kunming,
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Speaker 1: China to Johor, Malaysia, found herself facing a very long
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Speaker 1: queue at airport security. Now, this is where we really
15:41
Speaker 1: take Changi Airport for granted. Every time I come back,
15:44
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yo, our efficiency is unmatched, but she
15:48
Speaker 1: only had about 10 minutes left to check into a flight,
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Speaker 1: so she was panicking.
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Speaker 1: Uh, to her surprise, travelers in the queue, they were
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Speaker 1: mostly Malaysians and Singaporeans. They actually made way to let
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Speaker 1: her go first when they understood her situation. Now, she
16:03
Speaker 1: said it in a very nice way, um, but she
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Speaker 1: also said, it is the spirit of strangers willing to
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Speaker 1: make way for you when you need help the most,
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Speaker 1: and she was very grateful for it.
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Speaker 1: Because it was unforeseen circumstances that, you know, um, got
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Speaker 1: her quite late to the airport. So, they actually, the
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Speaker 1: Singaporeans and Malaysians went, go, go, go, you can't miss
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Speaker 1: your flight. We're not on the same flight anyway, you,
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Speaker 1: you just go ahead first. And the kindness did not
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Speaker 1: stop there. I think the people continued to pass the
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Speaker 1: message further down the line, telling everyone to let this
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Speaker 1: lady pass through to catch a flight. So, a lot
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Speaker 1: of them understood their situation.
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Speaker 1: Um, one person reminded her to tell the security staff
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Speaker 1: about rushing in to catch the flight so that they
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Speaker 1: will also let her go first, you know. So eventually
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Speaker 1: she passed dozens of people, got to the front of
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Speaker 1: the queue, she made it and uh they all waved
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Speaker 1: goodbye to her, which was so cute, right? I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can imagine.
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Speaker 1: As a person in desperate need of help and you're
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Speaker 1: by yourself as well, and you look back and all
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Speaker 1: these strangers have just made way for you, they wave
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Speaker 1: you goodbye. I mean, it's a core memory for you.
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Speaker 1: You remember it for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Um, it has happened to me before. Someone has asked
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Speaker 1: whether they could go before me, and I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: my story in just a bit, but I want to
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Speaker 1: hear yours. 669-11987 or drop me a message, 90050987. We
17:23
Speaker 1: understand queuing can be a sensitive thing because time and
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Speaker 1: effort has been put in, but have you ever been
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Speaker 1: asked by a stranger whether they could go, go first
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Speaker 1: before you?
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Speaker 1: Or have you ever had to ask someone to cut
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Speaker 1: their queue before? We're talking about queue cutting and if
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Speaker 1: people ask politely, is that OK? Um, an incident where
17:42
Speaker 1: this Malaysian lady said she almost missed her flight due
17:45
Speaker 1: to unforeseen circumstances and
17:47
Speaker 1: The the queue to immigration was so long, but she
17:50
Speaker 1: saw that in the queue, it was mostly Malaysians and Singaporeans.
17:53
Speaker 1: So she politely asked and explained her predicament and they
17:56
Speaker 1: actually all made way and let her go first so
17:59
Speaker 1: that she would catch her flight. So, a nice show
18:02
Speaker 1: of kindness from strangers. My question to you is, have
18:05
Speaker 1: you ever been
18:05
Speaker 1: In a similar situation where you have had to ask,
18:08
Speaker 1: is it OK if I cut the queue? Do you
18:11
Speaker 1: think I can go first, or has someone asked you
18:14
Speaker 1: that question before? Heading to our messages first, quite a
18:17
Speaker 1: few coming through. I'm saying hi to YW. You say, morning, Sonia.
18:21
Speaker 1: I rarely get cut cued. I know, sorry, this is
18:25
Speaker 1: very Singaporean.
18:26
Speaker 1: But oh my goodness me, I brought my 5 year
18:28
Speaker 1: old son and daughter to the toilet. My son, with
18:31
Speaker 1: the big marble eyes, went to ask the auntie in
18:34
Speaker 1: the queue in front of us, Auntie, can you let
18:36
Speaker 1: me go first? I'm very urgent. I almost wanted to
18:40
Speaker 1: bury myself in the ground. I never taught him this.
18:42
Speaker 1: The auntie also best lah. She said, no, auntie also
18:45
Speaker 1: very urgent.
18:47
Speaker 1: But if a similar case was to happen to me, I,
18:49
Speaker 1: I would let the boy go through, but you clarified
18:52
Speaker 1: that the auntie is relatively old. Maybe she's really very
18:55
Speaker 1: urgent or she's got a medical condition, um, but uh
18:58
Speaker 1: YW also clarified, I did not teach him this. I
19:00
Speaker 1: don't know where he learned it from. I've never done
19:03
Speaker 1: that before.
19:04
Speaker 1: And you even sent me a picture of your son.
19:06
Speaker 1: He indeed has those puppy dog eyes, you know. How
19:10
Speaker 1: do you say no to that? Like, I'm, I'm sure
19:12
Speaker 1: he'll get anything he wants with those eyes. Let's be real. OK, um,
19:18
Speaker 1: messages coming through here. Um, Ali, you said, morning, Sonia.
19:22
Speaker 1: A middle-aged uncle asked if he could cut my queue
19:24
Speaker 1: at the supermarket. I had a basket full of items
19:28
Speaker 1: and he was only checking out a bottle of water.
19:33
Speaker 1: I think it's reasonable, so I let him go first.
19:35
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I actually feel quite bad when I
19:38
Speaker 1: see people with just one item and I have a
19:40
Speaker 1: whole like trolley full of it. So, um, to be honest,
19:42
Speaker 1: I would have done the same as you. In fact,
19:44
Speaker 1: I offer if they want to go first, if they
19:46
Speaker 1: only have like one or two items, right? OK, when
19:48
Speaker 1: we come back, more of your phone calls, 669-11987. Let
19:53
Speaker 1: me know, was there ever a time where someone tried
19:56
Speaker 1: to cut your queue? Could be for a valid reason,
19:58
Speaker 1: or you might have had to ask for that favor
20:01
Speaker 1: from a stranger. Let me know.
20:02
Speaker 1: And in exchange, you could be walking away with a
20:05
Speaker 1: $100 shopping experience to Lazada 66 sale happening tomorrow. You
20:09
Speaker 1: can snag a whole bunch of discounted items. I would
20:12
Speaker 1: love for you to have that, OK. So call me
20:14
Speaker 1: right now. I've been talking about cutting queue, a very,
20:17
Speaker 1: very Singaporean thing, but inspired by um this Malaysian lady
20:20
Speaker 1: saying that she was running so late for her flight
20:23
Speaker 1: and the immigration queue was way too long, security check
20:25
Speaker 1: and everything.
20:26
Speaker 1: And a bunch of Singaporeans and Malaysians who were in
20:29
Speaker 1: the queue actually let her go first. So, basically, dozens
20:32
Speaker 1: of people parted and let this lady go through, to
20:35
Speaker 1: which it's a moment she will never forget. And that's
20:38
Speaker 1: why I wanted to ask you here today, has anyone
20:40
Speaker 1: ever asked or requested nicely?
20:43
Speaker 1: To cut your queue or maybe not so nicely, I
20:44
Speaker 1: don't know. Or have you had to ask someone whether
20:47
Speaker 1: you could cut their queue before for whatever valid reason?
20:51
Speaker 1: Going to messages and I'm saying hi here to G. Morning, Sonia. Usually,
20:56
Speaker 1: if they're elderly or parents with kids, I don't mind
20:58
Speaker 1: letting them cut the queue. I have done that, whether
21:01
Speaker 1: it's waiting for the lifts or boarding the bus, but
21:03
Speaker 1: in general, I think as long as you ask nicely
21:05
Speaker 1: and you don't barge into the queue, I've no issues
21:08
Speaker 1: unless I'm also in a rush.
21:11
Speaker 1: Um, good point, because this happened to me when I
21:13
Speaker 1: was boarding a flight to, uh, to the UK and
21:17
Speaker 1: it was a work flight. I was with my clients
21:19
Speaker 1: and some other people, and this couple, OK, they were
21:23
Speaker 1: also on the same flight, actually, they were also on
21:26
Speaker 1: the same flight, and I know that there were some
21:29
Speaker 1: delays in, um, I'm, I'm not sure why, actually, we
21:32
Speaker 1: were running late for some reason or so. I don't
21:34
Speaker 1: know why.
21:35
Speaker 1: But anyway, um, we got there, we're going through the
21:37
Speaker 1: security check. Security still seemed pretty calm, you know, and yeah, there,
21:42
Speaker 1: there was no last call announcement just yet. And this
21:46
Speaker 1: couple barged past us, tried to cut my client's queue basically,
21:51
Speaker 1: and just put her back there and say, our flight
21:53
Speaker 1: is leaving, our flight is leaving. Let's go first. She
21:56
Speaker 1: did not ask nicely, yeah.
21:57
Speaker 1: To which, you know, my client was very gracious because
22:00
Speaker 1: we're all on the same flight. There's, we're already at
22:02
Speaker 1: the security check where this is the only flight they're boarding.
22:06
Speaker 1: There's no other flights in that area already, only the
22:09
Speaker 1: security check for that flight, to which she stayed quite
22:11
Speaker 1: cool about it, although I thought it was really rude, um,
22:13
Speaker 1: but thankfully, the staff actually said, sorry, sir, ma'am, like,
22:17
Speaker 1: you know, you can't do this to other people because
22:20
Speaker 1: we're all, they're all going on the same flight, so
22:22
Speaker 1: please get back to the line.
22:23
Speaker 1: To which I think they felt quite pricey and they
22:26
Speaker 1: just quietly picked up their stuff and went back. But
22:29
Speaker 1: I was like, why make a show of it, right? Like,
22:31
Speaker 1: clearly we're all boarding the same flight and if I'm
22:34
Speaker 1: here in the security check, chances are you're not going
22:37
Speaker 1: to miss your flight. Yeah, they, they will let us through.
22:40
Speaker 1: Anyway, we've got uh Jacob on the line right now. Jacob,
22:42
Speaker 1: any such situation happened to you before?
22:44
Speaker 2: Someone asked me to cut my queue. I was at, uh,
22:47
Speaker 2: you know, Chingy show. I, I was at the toilets, right?
22:52
Speaker 2: One person asked me to cut the queue because I
22:55
Speaker 2: need to pee, but he needs to poo, and he
22:58
Speaker 2: was last minute one to come poo once.
23:00
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
23:03
Speaker 1: So did you let him go?
23:04
Speaker 2: Yes.
23:04
Speaker 1: OK, that's very kind of you. And you think he
23:07
Speaker 1: was telling the truth, right? Yes.
23:08
Speaker 2: He, he's not just watching his phone in the toilet
23:11
Speaker 2: like my father does.
23:13
Speaker 1: Talking about queue cutting. I know it can be a
23:15
Speaker 1: very sensitive topic sometimes, but
23:17
Speaker 1: When asked nicely, and if it's a really valid reason,
23:21
Speaker 1: I'm sure any of us would allow someone to cut
23:23
Speaker 1: your queue, right? Yeah, it happened to me once more.
23:26
Speaker 1: I don't know why I always witness this, but um
23:29
Speaker 1: this was a chill one. I was at a coffee cafe.
23:33
Speaker 1: This is a cafe, and I saw this dude run through. OK,
23:37
Speaker 1: so I was already in line. I ordered my, my
23:39
Speaker 1: coffee already. This guy ran in.
23:42
Speaker 1: And um before I could complete my order, he said,
23:45
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm in such a big rush. Do
23:47
Speaker 1: you think I can just grab an order first? I
23:50
Speaker 1: was already halfway, right, ordering. So I said, you know what, yeah,
23:53
Speaker 1: you can take my order, but just process his first,
23:56
Speaker 1: you know, in that case, because I wasn't in such
23:58
Speaker 1: a big rush, to which he was very grateful. I
24:00
Speaker 1: think maybe he was late for a meeting or something
24:01
Speaker 1: or maybe he woke up late and you desperately need
24:04
Speaker 1: caffeine to start your day, to which, bro, I say
24:06
Speaker 1: I understand you 100%.
24:08
Speaker 1: Um, more messages coming through here, and you didn't leave
24:11
Speaker 1: your full name, but you go by XR and you say, hey,
24:15
Speaker 1: good morning, Sonia. Um, this happened over at a theme park. Now,
24:19
Speaker 1: I won't say which one, but, um, this particular theme park, yes,
24:23
Speaker 1: pretty popular. A lot of people queuing up, you know,
24:25
Speaker 1: and especially during holiday season, um, people can get really
24:28
Speaker 1: cranky standing in line.
24:30
Speaker 1: Um, unfortunately, my kid wasn't feeling so well, but he really,
24:34
Speaker 1: really wanted to sit on one of the kids' rides
24:36
Speaker 1: before we made our way home, and we decided to
24:38
Speaker 1: just call it off halfway, to which I think one
24:41
Speaker 1: of the families in front of us noticed and said, hey,
24:43
Speaker 1: you want to just let him go first? I mean,
24:45
Speaker 1: it's just a kid's ride. It's not like Battlestar Galactica
24:48
Speaker 1: or something, you know. So it was, um,
24:50
Speaker 1: A really kind gesture, and I really hope that in
24:53
Speaker 1: the future, I can repay the kindness to this family. Oh,
24:57
Speaker 1: that's really sweet. I mean, look, when it comes to kids,
25:01
Speaker 1: I'm sure in the future, maybe I will know, maybe
25:03
Speaker 1: I won't. I don't know yet. But um it can
25:07
Speaker 1: be hard to also manage, right, because people get cranky
25:10
Speaker 1: and tired and
25:12
Speaker 1: You know, it's, it's the kind of thing where you
25:14
Speaker 1: just want everyone to have fun, but at the end
25:16
Speaker 1: of the day, I think the adults need a full
25:18
Speaker 1: day to recover from that too, if I'm not wrong, right?
25:21
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your calls, your messages. I mean,
25:23
Speaker 1: lots coming through about queue cutting and if you're asked nicely,
25:27
Speaker 1: will you allow someone to cut your queue? I have
25:30
Speaker 1: to say, today's prize has to go to Jacob. Jacob,
25:35
Speaker 1: he told me a hilarious story and he even outed
25:37
Speaker 1: your dad for his, um, toilet behavior.
25:42
Speaker 1: Which was related to the topic, OK? So, um, go
25:45
Speaker 1: listen to, uh, me listening to Spotify for the recap
25:47
Speaker 1: if you would like. But you're walking away with a
25:49
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25:53
Speaker 1: happening tomorrow officially, but they're already running some great promotions
25:57
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25:58
Speaker 1: So if you want to go traveling, you know, you
26:00
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26:03
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26:06
Speaker 1: Log on to Lazada_SG to find out more. Now, like
26:09
Speaker 1: I said earlier, Singapore's culinary scene has two new stars.
26:14
Speaker 1: I want to say congratulations to Chef Cheng.
26:19
Speaker 1: And also chef Stanton Wong. I hope I'm saying your
26:22
Speaker 1: names right, I didn't butcher it. So chef Cheng Yen
26:26
Speaker 1: P was crowned champion at the Global Pastry Chef's Challenge,
26:29
Speaker 1: while Chef Wong placed 3rd in the global chef's Challenge category.
26:34
Speaker 1: So I think Cheng also received the best cake award
26:37
Speaker 1: in her category. That's quite crazy. I mean, the finals
26:40
Speaker 1: took place um around my wedding weekend, actually May 16th
26:43
Speaker 1: to 19th.
26:44
Speaker 1: Um, this was at the World Chefs Congress and Expo
26:47
Speaker 1: at the International Convention Center Wales. This is in the UK.
26:52
Speaker 1: So I think about 40 finalist teams from various different
26:54
Speaker 1: countries competed across a lot of different categories. So, for,
26:58
Speaker 1: for Singapore, I mean, we are a small city-state, country, right?
27:02
Speaker 1: And we love to see ourselves represented on the big stage. Um,
27:07
Speaker 1: I believe one of the winners is actually a junior
27:09
Speaker 1: sous chef over at the Western Singapore.
27:12
Speaker 1: So, uh, got some experience over there and some of
27:14
Speaker 1: their creations are just incredible. You have to go take
27:17
Speaker 1: a full read. Um, I think Cheng's pastry category focused
27:21
Speaker 1: on technical dessert work, so they had to create chocolate
27:24
Speaker 1: and sugar showpieces, plated based on a theme.
27:28
Speaker 1: So it was very, very impressive um dragon that was
27:32
Speaker 1: built up. I don't know how they did it, but
27:35
Speaker 1: it really looks like something out of Game of Thrones
27:37
Speaker 1: or something. It looks incredible. OK, it looks incredible. So,
27:40
Speaker 1: please read the full story on 8 Days Eat. They've
27:43
Speaker 1: done a really good coverage on them and uh pictures
27:46
Speaker 1: included as well. So congratulations. Two new shining stars returning
27:51
Speaker 1: back as heroes to Singapore, so we can't wait. Maybe
27:54
Speaker 1: we can get them on our show or something and.
27:57
Speaker 1: They can teach us a thing or two, especially for Joakim.
27:59
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know how to make instant noodles in
28:03
Speaker 1: the kitchen, OK? He should tell you his stories about
28:06
Speaker 1: how he ruined the simplest dishes. Now, once again, like
28:10
Speaker 1: I said, appalling behavior from tourists, especially at beautiful attractions.
28:15
Speaker 1: such as Nara Park in Japan. OK, so, you know,
28:19
Speaker 1: I've never been to Nara Park. I've seen tons of
28:21
Speaker 1: videos though. I've got friends who've been to Nara Park before. Um, I,
28:24
Speaker 1: I do hear that some of the deer can be quite, uh, mischievous,
28:28
Speaker 1: and they, they already know that the humans are there
28:30
Speaker 1: to feed them and love them, right? But a video
28:33
Speaker 1: has gone viral of a woman allegedly sitting on a
28:38
Speaker 1: deer in Nara Park, and not just that, this deer.
28:41
Speaker 1: had been injured prior to this. So it's, um, it's
28:45
Speaker 1: leg is actually injured and it can't move properly. This
28:49
Speaker 1: woman goes, it can be ridden, it can be ridden. Apparently,
28:52
Speaker 1: she just decided to, um, sit on it. So after
28:56
Speaker 1: the deer escaped her, she chased it down and she
28:58
Speaker 1: sat on it the second time and even she, she
29:01
Speaker 1: even started bouncing on his back. She only left when
29:04
Speaker 1: the deer finally swung its antlers at her out of
29:07
Speaker 1: defense and the volunteer said, Yeah, this, this just injured.
29:10
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
29:11
Speaker 1: And volunteers were very furious and heartbroken to see a
29:14
Speaker 1: tourist treating an injured animal in such a disrespectful way. Um,
29:18
Speaker 1: and you know what, it doesn't even matter if the
29:21
Speaker 1: animal's injured or not, whether or not it had a
29:23
Speaker 1: prior injury, you should not be sitting on them. They're
29:26
Speaker 1: not your toys, right? Um, the Nara deer, by the way,
29:30
Speaker 1: are protected under Japan's cultural properties protection law. It is
29:33
Speaker 1: a national, natural monument. They're protected, like, you know, like
29:37
Speaker 1: UNESCO heritage, that kind of thing, they're protected, OK.
29:40
Speaker 1: So the authorities are very mad. They say this is
29:42
Speaker 1: highly inappropriate. I believe that there will be um some
29:46
Speaker 1: punishment if they can actually identify this person.
29:49
Speaker 1: But, um, according to the news channels, they're saying people
29:53
Speaker 1: need to be more aware that such actions can harm animals,
29:57
Speaker 1: and they also flagged other risks because you can also
30:00
Speaker 1: contract other diseases, right, through direct contact with deer or
30:04
Speaker 1: wild animals, but of course, this woman has been condemned online,
30:08
Speaker 1: she's been ripped online. netizens are just condemning, although they
30:12
Speaker 1: did not actually reveal which country she was from, and
30:15
Speaker 1: it's quite hard to identify actually.
30:17
Speaker 1: Um, video is not exactly, doesn't give the clearest view
30:21
Speaker 1: of her face either. Anyway, please, let's, uh, let's just
30:25
Speaker 1: behave while we're overseas. I don't want to be blacklisted
30:27
Speaker 1: from a country. Oh, I've been quite a busy one
30:30
Speaker 1: this hour. Um, I've been on and off Zoom and
30:34
Speaker 1: my show because the kid Leroy coming to Singapore very soon.
30:37
Speaker 1: So we decided to have a little chat with him,
30:39
Speaker 1: catch him while he's on the road, and we're
30:41
Speaker 1: Very excited to welcome him to Singapore. It's happening so soon. I,
30:45
Speaker 1: I hope you managed to get your tickets. This is
30:47
Speaker 1: happening on the first of July, so you can still
30:49
Speaker 1: try and sneak your tickets in, but we wanted to
30:51
Speaker 1: get a bit of an exclusive peek into who the
30:53
Speaker 1: Kid Leroy is and his life and what to expect.
30:56
Speaker 1: And I managed to ask him quite a, quite a
30:58
Speaker 1: lot of stuff actually. We spent some time chatting.
31:01
Speaker 1: And looking back at his debut work and thinking how
31:04
Speaker 1: much he's evolved over the years, although he's only what, 22, 23,
31:07
Speaker 1: and um, you know, his view on love, he sings
31:10
Speaker 1: a lot about it and so on. So, um, do
31:12
Speaker 1: catch it. We'll be airing that interview next week. Don't
31:15
Speaker 1: go anywhere. And uh the solo show continues next week.
31:19
Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying it just as much as I am.
31:21
Speaker 1: While Joakim is still away in Bhutan, he's been sending
31:23
Speaker 1: me updates every single day without me asking.
31:26
Speaker 1: And I, I, I asked him like, hey, am I
31:28
Speaker 1: really your only friend? You update me when you land.
31:31
Speaker 1: You update me about what you're doing and what you're
31:33
Speaker 1: wearing today. He's like, yes, you're my only friend.
31:37
Speaker 1: So yeah, um, um, he will be back very soon,
31:40
Speaker 1: but he's been updating about his travels, of course, constantly
31:44
Speaker 1: on socials. But I hope you're gonna have a lot
31:46
Speaker 1: of fun this weekend. If you have no plans just yet,
31:50
Speaker 1: come on down to the Kris Flyer Fest happening both
31:53
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Sunday, but I'll be hosting on Sunday. So
31:55
Speaker 1: if you're free, please, yeah, um, 10:30 onwards. It's going
31:59
Speaker 1: on for the whole day and I'll be there till
32:01
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32:03
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32:06
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32:09
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32:12
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32:20
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32:22
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