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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 080626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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Speaker 1: Wake up.
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Speaker 1: Good next to you
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Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit.
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Speaker 2: Still me by myself for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: What a big weekend we've had. Uh, thanks to our
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Speaker 2: friends at Chris Flyer. I'll tell you more later on.
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Speaker 2: But we're going to kick off a brand new week
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Speaker 2: and a great day ahead. Monday, 8th of June, Grant
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Speaker 2: Perez kicks us off first this hour. Stay tuned. Singapore's
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Speaker 2: number one hit music station.
0:31
Speaker 2: And just yesterday after Kris Flyer Fest, I actually joined
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Speaker 2: uh some friends over at the Sentosa area and had
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Speaker 2: dinner and, you know, caught up and stuff and um
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Speaker 2: I heard all about what happened over at the Sentosa
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Speaker 2: Cove Marina. I'm just catching about it this morning. Look,
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Speaker 2: I didn't have time to read the news yesterday, right,
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Speaker 2: but surely I saw.
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Speaker 2: I mean, a mixture of um the yachts over in Monaco,
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Speaker 2: of course, Monaco Grand Prix, and the unfortunate situation in
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Speaker 2: the Sentosa Cove area, but thankfully, um, a later article
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Speaker 2: that has been released, I think maybe later last night
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Speaker 2: has uh has revealed that everyone is safe and the
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Speaker 2: crew is safe as well since the fire broke out
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Speaker 2: on a luxury super yacht, and I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of details still not disclosed. They're still doing investigations, but
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Speaker 2: a couple of friends who actually live in that area
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Speaker 2: saw and sent videos.
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Speaker 2: To us. It was pretty scary, man, like the smoke was,
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Speaker 2: it was thick black suits and apparently it was going
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Speaker 2: on for 2 or 3 hours. So I'm very relieved
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Speaker 2: to see that in the updated article, everyone's fine, um,
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Speaker 2: no casualties or anything at all. So that's, I think
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Speaker 2: that's the most important, but, um, you know, it's not
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Speaker 2: something you would expect to see, especially not here in Singapore, right? Um,
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Speaker 2: it is a beautiful place and I can't imagine the
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Speaker 2: damage that it has done to, to a yacht like that. So.
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Speaker 2: Just glad everyone got away unscathed.
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Speaker 2: The Seraphim is about to continue and uh whatever it
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Speaker 2: is that you're up to this morning, if you're already
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Speaker 2: up nice and early and you're heading to the gym,
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Speaker 2: you're heading to work early, I got you covered with
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Speaker 2: some great music to keep your energy levels. Jen, I'm
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Speaker 2: so excited for the weekend here in Singapore. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the weekend that just ended, yes, that was great, but
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Speaker 2: the weekend in Singapore, I've never caught Weekend Live in
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Speaker 2: concert before and I'm unsure whether this is gonna be
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Speaker 2: like the last time he will make such a big
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Speaker 2: tour in Asia, in our region, you know.
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Speaker 2: So I'm really, really excited for that. Um, got myself
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Speaker 2: a pair of tickets already. So I texted Germs, my partner, husband,
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Speaker 2: very weird to say that. And I was like, hey,
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Speaker 2: I got us tickets for the weekend. And he was like,
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Speaker 2: oh my God, that's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, so that's one of the concerts I'm very, very,
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Speaker 2: very excited for this year. Aside from BTS, of course,
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Speaker 2: which everyone has struggled to get tickets for, so we'll
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Speaker 2: see whether there's gonna be a second wave or I
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Speaker 2: don't know what else that's gonna happen, you know, closer
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Speaker 2: to the date. It's still, still early days. Don't give
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Speaker 2: up hope just yet in case you didn't manage to
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Speaker 2: get your tickets. Uh, coming up in just a bit, um,
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Speaker 2: aside from concerts, something that our friends across the causeway.
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Speaker 2: will be very, very, very proud of, um, and it's
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Speaker 2: food related. I'll tell you more in just a bit,
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Speaker 2: but this might just get you craving for this particular
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Speaker 2: dish for breakfast. Speaking of game time, this is probably
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Speaker 2: one of the most intense competitions when it comes down
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Speaker 2: to the culinary world, OK? I want to give a
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Speaker 2: big shout out to our friends from across the Causeway
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Speaker 2: because in a recent MasterChef episode, there was a MasterChef
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Speaker 2: challenge and this Malaysian contestant, she's only 27.
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Speaker 2: She won that challenge with a dish prepared in just
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Speaker 2: one hour and you will never be able to fathom
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Speaker 2: how she did it in one hour, OK? Because we
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Speaker 2: live in Southeast Asia, we know that certain dishes, right, um,
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Speaker 2: even for our hawkers and all that, it is impossible
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Speaker 2: to just prep in under an hour. They take hours
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Speaker 2: from the ingredients, you know, to, to chopping it up
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Speaker 2: to sometimes you even need to boil a broth for
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Speaker 2: hours and hours to get a stock.
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Speaker 2: Their challenge was in 1 hour and she made a
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Speaker 2: roti Channai dish, OK, with curry. How did she make
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Speaker 2: it in under 1 hour? That's crazy. Um, this is
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Speaker 2: a World Cup cook-off challenge and it was inspired by
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Speaker 2: her family and her culture, of course. I think, um,
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Speaker 2: it is, the base is like a Malaysian coconut curry, right?
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Speaker 2: There's also coconut rice, um, cucumber and pineapple salad.
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Speaker 2: And uh Roti Chennai, of course. So they were saying
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Speaker 2: that this was voted like the best World Cup watch
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Speaker 2: party food, and I agree. I mean, look, this is
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Speaker 2: the kind of stuff I would love to have. I,
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Speaker 2: I'm Asian through and through and
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Speaker 2: Very Singaporean as well in terms of my, my palette
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Speaker 2: and my taste, right? So I would love to have
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Speaker 2: this readily available, but unfortunately, after looking at all the
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Speaker 2: pictures and the clips and the videos, it is not
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Speaker 2: something I'm able to order now at 6:49 a.m. in
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Speaker 2: the morning. In fact, sometimes Joakim and I have, um,
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Speaker 2: cravings for like prata, you know, things like that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it could, could be available, but
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Speaker 2: Um, pretty difficult with our location. I don't think we
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Speaker 2: found one that's like worthy of paying for, paying that
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Speaker 2: much in the morning for just the two of us. So,
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Speaker 2: sometimes we'll try and tag team with like muttons, for example,
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Speaker 2: we'll text them, you know, hey guys, do you want anything?
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Speaker 2: Can we, can we bundle it up together so we
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Speaker 2: get more orders? But yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm really, really happy. So this is such
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Speaker 2: a big achievement for especially us in Southeast Asia to
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Speaker 2: see some of our dishes being represented out there. I mean, that's,
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Speaker 2: that's pretty cool, man. So big shout out to Jamie
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Speaker 2: Tan representing Malaysia and the Team Asia Pacific. So that
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Speaker 2: kind of includes us in a way, right?
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Speaker 2: Tim McCray about to play first, the perfect song to
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Speaker 2: play right after the Monaco GP. I can't believe I
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Speaker 2: was just there like a week ago before the actual
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix. It was already looking very exciting. Welcome to
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Speaker 2: the 8th of June, Monday. Still solo and yours for
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Speaker 2: the rest of the week. And when I came across
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Speaker 2: this particular, um, story, it really, really made me smile
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Speaker 2: because at 73 years old, I don't know, I can't
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Speaker 2: imagine myself there yet. My parents are close in terms
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Speaker 2: of age.
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Speaker 2: Um, but they are very busy with the dog that
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Speaker 2: we have. We adopted one called Maxi, as you know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of years back, and she's become an absolute
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Speaker 2: queen and princess of the household. But this particular man
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Speaker 2: by the name of Uncle Ong, as people fondly call
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Speaker 2: him now, he's about 73 now, and he took it
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Speaker 2: upon himself to feed over 30 cats, 30, 30 cats
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Speaker 2: daily in both Kallang and the Hougang area.
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Speaker 2: Despite having a neck brace, he has bad knees, he's
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Speaker 2: got a bad back, but he's been spotted by a
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Speaker 2: lot of residents around the area just um doing this
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Speaker 2: every day, you know, day in, day out.
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Speaker 2: Um, he, he's decided, you know what, like he's, she
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Speaker 2: just wants to do this because it's his passion. As
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Speaker 2: a result, because a lot of um members of the
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Speaker 2: public have noticed him doing this, right? They've been helping
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Speaker 2: Uncle Ong buy cat food over the past couple of
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Speaker 2: years to shoulder his financial burden. Now, buying cat food
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Speaker 2: and pet food, or if you're a pet owner at all,
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Speaker 2: you would know that it's not cheap to, to take
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Speaker 2: care of a pet. And these cats, they're quite independent already, right? I,
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Speaker 2: I believe cats, they can
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Speaker 2: Do their own thing throughout the day. Like you just
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Speaker 2: leave them at home. They, they probably film a whole
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Speaker 2: reality series and then you come back and they're just,
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Speaker 2: they're just there to greet you or maybe they don't
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Speaker 2: even greet you. I don't know. I mean, that's what
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Speaker 2: I like about dogs because they always seem to need
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Speaker 2: you around, right? So yeah, cats are super independent, but
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Speaker 2: they still need to be fed. Um, and here's the backstory.
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Speaker 2: Uncle Ong used to spend
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Speaker 2: More than $1000 of his monthly salary just on feeding
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Speaker 2: cats before the public came in to step in and
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Speaker 2: help him, right? And although his physical condition has deteriorated,
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's just aging and he has to now
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Speaker 2: wear a neck brace. He still keeps up his nightly
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Speaker 2: cat feeding in these areas and it's just so sweet.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think at the end of the day, um,
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Speaker 2: he's come up to say that he's very grateful for
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Speaker 2: the public support, but he also said, beware of scammers.
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Speaker 2: Because, you know, sometimes people may pretend like they're doing
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Speaker 2: something good to get money from the public, right? And
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Speaker 2: they're not actually doing something good. So he's just warning
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Speaker 2: people out there, beware of scammers, don't, you know, I
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Speaker 2: hope people are not using his name to, to get
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Speaker 2: donations or whatever, but if you want to help, I
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Speaker 2: believe you can contact SNS Pet Shop.
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Speaker 2: Um, they've got an email address, so just go look
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Speaker 2: it up, but this story just really made me smile
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Speaker 2: this morning. He has found his purpose, and that keeps
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Speaker 2: him going every day a little reminder, the next time
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Speaker 2: you're traveling, you got to be extremely careful, OK? Um,
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Speaker 2: this reminded me of all the times where I did
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Speaker 2: a couple of things that may have put myself in
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Speaker 2: a slightly more dangerous position when, you know, I was
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Speaker 2: filming overseas and things like that, you know, adventure and
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Speaker 2: all that, right?
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Speaker 2: But sometimes you just want to experience life. However, there's
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Speaker 2: a difference between experiencing travels and life safely and um
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Speaker 2: not being too careful. So, this Singaporean woman, she was
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Speaker 2: over at a waterfall in the Selangor area and she
9:03
Speaker 2: accidentally slipped and fell, and this is alleged, OK? We
9:07
Speaker 2: still don't really know what happened there, but allegedly she
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Speaker 2: slipped and fell at a waterfall.
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Speaker 2: This is at an eco Forest Park and thankfully, she
9:15
Speaker 2: was very lucky. She was found in time. She had
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Speaker 2: to be carried down on a stretcher by the local firefighters.
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Speaker 2: This literally just happened on Saturday, by the way.
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Speaker 2: So the, the rescue team was immediately dispatched. Um, they
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Speaker 2: hauled this stretcher up, you know, to help evacuate her,
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Speaker 2: and she was immediately handed over to medical staff that
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Speaker 2: arrived at the scene to examine her, but the authorities
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Speaker 2: and the, the experts also reminded the public, please prioritize
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Speaker 2: safety when you're going for your recreational activities, you're hiking,
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Speaker 2: you know, at waterfalls, rivers, if there are any on-site
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Speaker 2: warning signs, please heed them. They're not there for fun.
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Speaker 2: They're definitely there for a reason.
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Speaker 2: And one more really important point, they encourage visitors to
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Speaker 2: wear proper shoes. Um, I, I remember this ages ago, uh, we,
10:04
Speaker 2: we were filming a travel show, right? And
10:07
Speaker 2: It's the kind of thing where we just really go
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Speaker 2: with the flow, but I think one of the, the
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Speaker 2: guys in the camera crew, he did not wear like,
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Speaker 2: he did not bring proper sports shoes. So he was
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Speaker 2: wearing like slip-ons for hiking, you know, like, and we
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Speaker 2: hiked up like Mount Bator, that kind of vibe, and
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that everyone was safe because he, I
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Speaker 2: think slipped a couple of times because of like the
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Speaker 2: lack of grip on his shoes, but we, we really
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Speaker 2: did not know better. I mean, I did not have
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Speaker 2: proper hiking shoes.
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Speaker 2: Shoes either. I was wearing like normal running shoes, which
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Speaker 2: is still better than slip-on shoes, but still not great, right?
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Speaker 2: It's still not proper hiking shoes. So, um, if you
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Speaker 2: are going for any adventures anytime soon, please be careful.
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Speaker 2: Um do not participate in dangerous activities during bad weather,
10:49
Speaker 2: especially as we know it's, it's been, you know, it
10:51
Speaker 2: can be quite unpredictable sometimes, so please follow the advice
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Speaker 2: of your local guide. Don't go on your own. I
10:58
Speaker 2: think that's the most important part. Don't go off on
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Speaker 2: your own, right?
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Speaker 2: Um, this one was, uh, uh, uh, I think it
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Speaker 2: was over at, I want to say, I want to
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Speaker 2: say Thailand, but yet I feel like it was Malaysia,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, once again, it was filming and the guide said, OK,
11:14
Speaker 2: there's this particular place where you can actually free jump,
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Speaker 2: and it's about 10 m. OK, so it's only if
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Speaker 2: you want to do it. There's, there's no one forcing you,
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Speaker 2: only if you want to do it. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: me being me, I was like, yes, I want to
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 2: So I went ahead, I did it, and they did
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Speaker 2: say you got to keep yourself very straight, like when you,
11:34
Speaker 2: when you jump in, your, your body has to be
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Speaker 2: very upright and straight so that your feet pierce the
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Speaker 2: water and you just jump in straight, you know, if not,
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Speaker 2: you might get injured. Unfortunately, for one of our other
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Speaker 2: crew members, he, I think, panicked or what, like when
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Speaker 2: he jumped off, I think he panicked and he landed
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Speaker 2: on his back instead of piercing through the water straight
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Speaker 2: with your, with your legs and your feet.
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Speaker 2: So I think he had a bit of a back
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Speaker 2: injury after that. Oh no.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, coming up right after 8:00 a.m., um, this
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Speaker 2: is quite unfortunate, but it's been inspired by my own,
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Speaker 2: one of my besties, OK? If you followed my wedding
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Speaker 2: YouTube series, you would have seen and been introduced to
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Speaker 2: a lot of my very close friends. I mean, none
12:17
Speaker 2: of them are in the industry. They are, well, some
12:20
Speaker 2: of them work in the media industry, but they're not
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Speaker 2: like artists or influencers or anything like they're all out of, of,
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Speaker 2: of the limelight, right? And
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Speaker 2: Uh, we've been very tight friends since school days. So,
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Speaker 2: very unfortunately, one of my friends who celebrated her birthday
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Speaker 2: just a few days ago, um, we went for, we
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Speaker 2: went for a celebration, like sometime last week, OK, uh,
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Speaker 2: ahead of her birthday. On her birthday itself, she unfortunately
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Speaker 2: fell really, really ill, like with, I don't know, a
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Speaker 2: stomach bug or something was wrong with her, her tummy.
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Speaker 2: Um, and she had to be hospitalized. So that was quite,
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Speaker 2: it was, we were horrified because we were like on
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Speaker 2: her birthday, she got hospitalized. In fact, it was, I
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Speaker 2: think the, the morning of her birthday, she got hospitalized,
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Speaker 2: and she's been there ever since. It's been a few days.
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Speaker 2: So we feel really so bad for her, you know,
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Speaker 2: because um it was, we were celebrating a lot of
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Speaker 2: milestones for her. She just announced something to the group and,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's a happy time. It's a happy time.
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Speaker 2: So I felt really, really bad for her. She's still
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Speaker 2: there now and she's texting me this early in the morning.
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Speaker 2: The only reason why she's up this early in the
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Speaker 2: morning is because she's still in the hospital.
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Speaker 2: And I think like they do rounds or like there's
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Speaker 2: a breakfast thing or something and yeah, that's why she's
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Speaker 2: texting me this early in the morning, which has inspired
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Speaker 2: today's topic that I'll open up phone lines for later on.
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Speaker 2: I don't think she can tune in right now, so
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Speaker 2: she has no idea that I'm using this as a topic,
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Speaker 2: but I'll let her know. Um, she is a very
13:48
Speaker 2: close friend of mine, so I think it should be fine.
13:51
Speaker 2: But I think when it comes down to celebrating birthdays,
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Speaker 2: maybe even anniversaries or or big moments, sometimes things may
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Speaker 2: not go the way that you expected it to be
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Speaker 2: and um it might mess up in one way or another.
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Speaker 2: How do you deal with it and how do you
14:08
Speaker 2: take it in your stride is another question. So I
14:11
Speaker 2: would love to delve into that in just a bit. Every,
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Speaker 2: every time it's a Monday, right? I will get standard.
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Speaker 2: I'll get texts from the usual people, um, my closest friends,
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Speaker 2: of course, and at least one or two will say, uh,
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Speaker 2: I can't believe it's Monday already.
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Speaker 2: I feel you. That's the reason why I'm here, to
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Speaker 2: give you energy in the morning because um nobody gives
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Speaker 2: me energy in the morning, so I have to self-hype,
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Speaker 2: you know, before I get to work and as a result,
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Speaker 2: when I get on air at 6, I'm already energized.
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Speaker 2: So that's, that's my job and I'm here for you. So,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna open up phone lines, 669-11987 or you can
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Speaker 2: even drop me a text uh 90050987. This just happened
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Speaker 2: to my, one of my closest friends a few days back, OK?
14:53
Speaker 2: In case you missed it earlier, I gave you a
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Speaker 2: very quick um TLDR earlier. This was just a few
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Speaker 2: days ago when we celebrated her birthday, and it was
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Speaker 2: a hit, a hit of her actual birthday. So we
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Speaker 2: did dinner, we went karake, you know, we, it was
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Speaker 2: super fun. Like everyone had fun, and I came to
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Speaker 2: work the next morning feeling very tired, but it was
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Speaker 2: worth it. And she was quite quiet for, for the
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Speaker 2: rest of the, the morning, like on her actual birthday, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, naturally we texted, wished her again.
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Speaker 2: And everything, but she was really quiet. Then sometime in
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Speaker 2: the afternoon, uh, or late morning rather, she goes, hey guys,
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Speaker 2: like I'm not feeling so well, like I'm really not
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Speaker 2: doing so well. Like she doesn't know whether it's food poisoning,
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Speaker 2: is it related to, I don't know what we ate
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Speaker 2: or something, but everyone else was fine. So then, um,
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden things started to escalate and uh
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Speaker 2: got a text from her sister saying that she's going
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Speaker 2: to the A&E.
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Speaker 2: And she's likely going to get hospitalized and we're like, what?
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Speaker 2: We were all freaking out, right? And we're so worried because, I,
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Speaker 2: I mean, nobody wants to catch food poisoning, but look,
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Speaker 2: I was going to go to town with a restaurant
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Speaker 2: if something really that bad happened to my friend or
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Speaker 2: any one of us, right? So I was ready, I
16:04
Speaker 2: was on standby. It's like, guys, we, this is serious.
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Speaker 2: But it turns out it wasn't food poisoning. I think
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Speaker 2: she's had a very bad, um, gastric-related situation.
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Speaker 2: And I think, you know, the late night and like
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Speaker 2: our drinks and stuff might have aggravated it. So she, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think it might have just brought out something that
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Speaker 2: she didn't know was such a big issue, health wise.
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Speaker 2: So she's still there. I think hopefully she'll get discharged today,
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Speaker 2: but we were just saying like, what a way to,
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Speaker 2: to celebrate your birthday. I mean, we had so much
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Speaker 2: fun that on your actual birthday, you went to the
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Speaker 2: hospital like, man.
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Speaker 2: This could have happened to any one of us. Like,
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Speaker 2: I just really feel so bad for her, and it
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Speaker 2: is a wake-up call though and a bit of a
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Speaker 2: reminder for us to really take care of ourselves and
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Speaker 2: don't ignore the warning signs, right? Um, something as simple
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Speaker 2: as not really eating well day to day may cause
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Speaker 2: like really bad gastric issues, and I know my, my
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Speaker 2: mom always nagged at me about this last time, but
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Speaker 2: we only learned the hard way, like, you know, like this,
17:04
Speaker 2: this is us. This is how we learn. So, 669-11987
17:08
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17:12
Speaker 2: Has an unfortunate incident or just something bad happened on
17:17
Speaker 2: your birthday or your friend's birthday before? Not necessarily even
17:20
Speaker 2: something bad, but something unexpected or unfortunate. Let us know
17:25
Speaker 2: and uh also tell me how you dealt with it
17:27
Speaker 2: and how you came out of it, right?
17:30
Speaker 2: 669-11987. I would love to give you a beautiful dining experience.
17:34
Speaker 2: This is at Wild Sea Cafe at One Flower Hill.
17:36
Speaker 2: It is worth $100 situated over in beautiful Sentosa. Love
17:41
Speaker 2: it so much, Lady Gaga. You have no idea how
17:44
Speaker 2: loudly I was belting this out in the studio when
17:47
Speaker 2: my mic was off.
17:48
Speaker 2: I think actually, I'm not sure how soundproof our walls are,
17:53
Speaker 2: to be honest, because sometimes I can hear a little
17:56
Speaker 2: bit of the other DJs from the station opposite us, um,
18:00
Speaker 2: you know, if they're getting very excited or something, something happened.
18:03
Speaker 2: So I'm pretty sure they can hear me singing very badly. Anyway,
18:06
Speaker 2: the topic here today inspired by one of my besties
18:09
Speaker 2: that just happened a few days ago. We're celebrating her birthday.
18:12
Speaker 2: Everything was great, super fun.
18:14
Speaker 2: Um, we were just talking about it in the chat,
18:16
Speaker 2: then the very next day on her actual birthday, she
18:19
Speaker 2: fell super ill, um, didn't know what was wrong, got hospitalized, A&E, everything.
18:25
Speaker 2: They identified that it wasn't food poisoning and, you know,
18:28
Speaker 2: the rest of us were fine. Turns out she had
18:30
Speaker 2: a very, very bad gastric issue that I think has
18:33
Speaker 2: been bubbling under the surface for many years and somehow,
18:37
Speaker 2: you know, uh, the fact that we went for drinks
18:39
Speaker 2: and maybe we stayed up a bit late, it triggered it. So,
18:42
Speaker 2: she's still there.
18:44
Speaker 2: The whole weekend she's been there, it feels so bad
18:47
Speaker 2: and uh she's hopefully, fingers crossed, officially getting discharged today,
18:51
Speaker 2: but what a way to celebrate her actual birthday, right?
18:54
Speaker 2: We felt so bad. So my question to you today
18:56
Speaker 2: was actually,
18:57
Speaker 2: Has there been anything unexpected or unfortunate that happened on
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Speaker 2: someone's birthday before? It could be a loved one, it
19:04
Speaker 2: could be your own birthday. I mean, we can't control
19:06
Speaker 2: these things, right? Uh, I'll tell you mine later on,
19:09
Speaker 2: but first, I got a message here from Angela. Hey, Sonia,
19:12
Speaker 2: it just happened two weekends ago actually. It was my
19:15
Speaker 2: birthday on Sunday, and my husband and I were prepping
19:18
Speaker 2: for my birthday dinner.
19:20
Speaker 2: Um, we're hosting our relatives when I got informed by
19:22
Speaker 2: my mother-in-law that my daughter puked 3 times. So we
19:25
Speaker 2: had to stop all prep and went over to my
19:28
Speaker 2: mom-in-law's place to pick her and send her to the doctor. TLDR,
19:31
Speaker 2: my daughter puked 7 times throughout the entire day, and
19:35
Speaker 2: some of the puke landed on me. My birthday wish
19:38
Speaker 2: was literally used for her to hope that she recovered fast,
19:43
Speaker 2: and I trust that she did, right, because this was
19:44
Speaker 2: 2 weeks ago, so.
19:46
Speaker 2: I hope she's back to normal and eating and, you know,
19:48
Speaker 2: having fun again. Thank you so much for sharing, Angela. Um,
19:51
Speaker 2: I really hope that you managed to have a belated birthday.
19:54
Speaker 2: I mean, in moments like that, you don't even think
19:57
Speaker 2: about your birthday anymore, right? You just deal with the
19:59
Speaker 2: situation at hand or you deal with the problem. So, um,
20:02
Speaker 2: I feel you and I hope that you, uh, your
20:04
Speaker 2: husband maybe took you out for a nice birthday date
20:07
Speaker 2: or something. That could be quite cute, right? Now, when
20:09
Speaker 2: we come back, more of your messages, quite lengthy ones
20:12
Speaker 2: coming through as well, so I gotta vet through them
20:13
Speaker 2: first and read through them and
20:15
Speaker 2: Um, some callers hanging on the line. Still time for
20:18
Speaker 2: you to call me 669-11987 or drop me a message.
20:22
Speaker 2: Let me know, was there ever a situation where something
20:25
Speaker 2: unexpected or almost unfortunate happened on your birthday or a
20:29
Speaker 2: loved one's birthday, or maybe even a special occasion? It
20:32
Speaker 2: could be anniversary, it could be something, something, Christmas, New
20:36
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. Talking about unexpected or unfortunate things that may
20:40
Speaker 2: sometimes ruin a special day, you know, it could be
20:42
Speaker 2: a birthday, anniversary.
20:43
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve countdown or something and uh speaking of
20:46
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve countdown, this one just happened like it
20:49
Speaker 2: uh the the recent New Year's Eve countdown of 2025, 2026, right?
20:55
Speaker 2: So my friends and I were in Bali, and back then, uh, we,
21:00
Speaker 2: we booked a couple of like restaurants, you know, we
21:03
Speaker 2: planned the party that we wanted to throw in our
21:04
Speaker 2: villa that very night. I'm not sure if I actually
21:07
Speaker 2: said or told this story on air. I might have
21:09
Speaker 2: told it to Joakim and then I don't know if
21:11
Speaker 2: I said it on air.
21:12
Speaker 2: Um, but since, you know, we're on the topic of
21:14
Speaker 2: things that ruin special occasions, um, Jeremy, my husband, which
21:18
Speaker 2: is very weird to say right now, I'm still getting
21:20
Speaker 2: used to it, he got like super bad case of
21:22
Speaker 2: Bali belly on New Year's Eve itself, and um, it
21:26
Speaker 2: was so bad to the point where now if you
21:29
Speaker 2: need to stand by this number, OK, I'll, I'll, I'll
21:31
Speaker 2: send it to you if you need. But recently, there's
21:34
Speaker 2: been a lot of clinics that have popped up in
21:35
Speaker 2: Bali to deal with this Bali Belli situation because I
21:38
Speaker 2: think
21:39
Speaker 2: The hospitals are overwhelmed and if it can be solved with,
21:42
Speaker 2: you know, a drip or medication that a doctor, a
21:46
Speaker 2: mobile doctor can come and administer for you, then that
21:49
Speaker 2: will solve the problem greatly, right? You don't have to
21:51
Speaker 2: worry about getting stuck in a jam on the way to,
21:54
Speaker 2: to the hospital and all that.
21:55
Speaker 2: So I called, I tried, I tried like 3 different numbers.
21:58
Speaker 2: 2 of them, one of them didn't get back. Um,
22:01
Speaker 2: the other one said, sorry, they are dispatched all their
22:03
Speaker 2: doctors already, they don't have any more because New Year's Eve,
22:06
Speaker 2: you know, too many people getting sick, I guess. Finally,
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Speaker 2: the third one replied. So they came down in about 40,
22:13
Speaker 2: 45 minutes, which is already very fast by Bali standards,
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Speaker 2: and managed to solve the problem. So I was so relieved,
22:20
Speaker 2: but
22:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you could tell, New Year's Eve, not what
22:23
Speaker 2: I thought I would be experiencing. Hopefully, this year's one
22:26
Speaker 2: will be better, counting down into 2027. Anyway, back to
22:30
Speaker 2: your messages first before phone lines. Um, saying hi here
22:35
Speaker 2: to Brian. You said, morning. A few years ago, I
22:38
Speaker 2: actually got tested COVID positive a few days before my birthday.
22:42
Speaker 2: So I was quarantined in my room on my birthday itself.
22:45
Speaker 2: I briefly popped out after dinner to the living room.
22:49
Speaker 2: To sing song, cut cake with the family. Since we
22:52
Speaker 2: were all masked up, I couldn't even blow out the candle,
22:54
Speaker 2: so I fanned it with my hand. Then I had
22:57
Speaker 2: to quickly cut my slice of cake to bring back
22:59
Speaker 2: into my bedroom and continued my isolation. At least my
23:02
Speaker 2: recovery was smooth, so I didn't feel totally miserable during
23:05
Speaker 2: the whole isolation. Uh, I feel you. I mean, look,
23:08
Speaker 2: if you said it was a few years ago, maybe
23:10
Speaker 2: it was at the time where it was still quite,
23:13
Speaker 2: quite bad, and, you know, you don't want to spread
23:14
Speaker 2: it to your elderly, your parents or your, your older
23:17
Speaker 2: folks in the house, right?
23:19
Speaker 2: Ah, completely get it. OK. So, one more message here
23:23
Speaker 2: from John. You said, morning. Um, we were celebrating my
23:27
Speaker 2: partner's birthday at a posh celebrity restaurant while overseas when
23:32
Speaker 2: my partner bit on a broken piece of wire buried
23:36
Speaker 2: inside the toasted bread. Oh my goodness, what?
23:39
Speaker 2: Um, this almost dampened the whole entire celebration, and they
23:42
Speaker 2: didn't even bother to apologize for it. They only gave 20%
23:46
Speaker 2: discount for the meal after the complaints. What a horrible
23:49
Speaker 2: dining experience. And uh eventually we went home and finished
23:52
Speaker 2: a big tub of ice cream for a sweet ending
23:54
Speaker 2: to the day. Oh, no, that's horrible. Uh, but you
23:58
Speaker 2: know what, at least, at least you still had a
24:02
Speaker 2: sweet ending, right? And what, what's most important is both
24:05
Speaker 2: of you are fine.
24:06
Speaker 2: OK, we got Jen on the line. Jen was in
24:08
Speaker 2: the midst of telling me about your young daughter. What happened?
24:10
Speaker 2: When she's 5, we are going to celebrate her birthday, right, but, um, unfortunately,
24:15
Speaker 2: she had some, her cheeks suddenly expanded. It's like swollen
24:19
Speaker 2: is growing inside, swollen, yeah, swell, very, very.
24:23
Speaker 2: Badly, so no have to brought her to bring her
24:26
Speaker 2: to the A&E Mount Avenue, and she has this kind of,
24:30
Speaker 2: I think, I don't know what it is that like,
24:33
Speaker 2: like just something that she has to draw it up.
24:35
Speaker 2: It's like some fluid, yes, yes, so we celebrated her
24:39
Speaker 2: birthday there the next day.
24:41
Speaker 2: And decorate the whole room. Oh, you're so cute. I mean, look,
24:45
Speaker 2: you adapt, right? You adapt, but thankfully it was, it
24:48
Speaker 2: was nothing life-threatening or serious, right? Yeah, no, but being
24:52
Speaker 2: a parent will be very worried. I'm sure I'm sure,
24:56
Speaker 2: under the knife, you know.
24:57
Speaker 2: I know, I know. I mean, look, I'm, I'm not
24:59
Speaker 2: a parent, but I can't imagine the, the bride here,
25:02
Speaker 2: physical right here on 987. Her entire wedding is just insane,
25:06
Speaker 2: you know, so beautiful. Very happy for her, surrounded by
25:10
Speaker 2: uh genuine close friends and family. That's, that's the best
25:13
Speaker 2: way to go. Anyway, back to the topic here today.
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Speaker 2: Has something unexpected or unfortunate ever ruined a special occasion?
25:20
Speaker 2: Hopefully not a wedding, but you know, maybe a birthday
25:23
Speaker 2: or it could be New Year's Eve countdown like what
25:25
Speaker 2: I shared earlier or just a special occasion, right? Um,
25:28
Speaker 2: so many messages coming through, like I said, actually pretty, um,
25:32
Speaker 2: pretty lengthy ones too.
25:34
Speaker 2: Say hi over here to R. You said, hey, Sonia,
25:38
Speaker 2: today is my birthday. Hey, happy birthday to you. Happy
25:41
Speaker 2: birthday to you, and everything has been going well so far, thankfully,
25:45
Speaker 2: though I can't guarantee what will happen once work starts,
25:47
Speaker 2: ha ha. One birthday I will never forget was a
25:50
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. On the 7th of June itself.
25:55
Speaker 2: Um, my, my son suddenly developed a very high fever
25:57
Speaker 2: and a severe cough. His breathing became so labored that
26:01
Speaker 2: he was breathless and his whole body was shivering while
26:04
Speaker 2: he was crying and trying to sleep. We were so
26:06
Speaker 2: worried and had no choice but to rush him to
26:08
Speaker 2: the A&E where he was subsequently admitted.
26:11
Speaker 2: After the doctors ran tests, we found out that he
26:13
Speaker 2: had RSV, respiratory syncyal virus. I don't know if I'm
26:18
Speaker 2: saying that right, a respiratory infection that affected his lungs
26:21
Speaker 2: and airways. It is quite serious, but thankfully, we made
26:24
Speaker 2: the decision to bring him in early and get him treated.
26:27
Speaker 2: The next day, which is my actual birthday, 8th of June,
26:30
Speaker 2: he was already feeling much better after receiving treatments and IV.
26:34
Speaker 2: Since I was staying in the hospital with him, we
26:36
Speaker 2: had a small cake that came with a hospital meal.
26:39
Speaker 2: It was a very simple celebration, but seeing him recover
26:43
Speaker 2: was the best birthday gift I could have ever asked for. Thankfully,
26:47
Speaker 2: everything turned out well in the end. Oh, I'm so
26:50
Speaker 2: happy that this was, this, you know what, was a
26:52
Speaker 2: good memory at the end of the day. I mean,
26:53
Speaker 2: you never want to revisit that, but you are grateful for,
26:57
Speaker 2: for his recovery and for the small things in life, right?
27:01
Speaker 2: Sometimes it makes you smile, just small celebrations that makes
27:04
Speaker 2: you smile. Happy birthday though. I really hope you have
27:06
Speaker 2: a good one.
27:07
Speaker 2: And why are you working today? That's the question. Don't
27:10
Speaker 2: you have birthday leave or some sort of, I don't know,
27:13
Speaker 2: leave to take?
27:14
Speaker 2: Why are you working today?
27:16
Speaker 2: Have a good one regardless. OK, more messages coming through
27:19
Speaker 2: in a while. I didn't realize this would really strike
27:22
Speaker 2: a chord. So many unexpected things happening on special occasions.
27:27
Speaker 2: The conversation continues in just a bit. Uh, just a
27:30
Speaker 2: quick recap here. Based on real-life experiences, my poor bestie,
27:34
Speaker 2: one of my best friends, she unfortunately got hospitalized on
27:38
Speaker 2: her birthday itself from a bad gastric issue, and we
27:41
Speaker 2: were just celebrating her birthday with her like, you know,
27:43
Speaker 2: 12 hours before that.
27:45
Speaker 2: And uh she had to be admitted into A&E. So,
27:48
Speaker 2: saying hi to some of our listeners that are just
27:51
Speaker 2: texting in right now. Honestly, so many very lengthy ones.
27:54
Speaker 2: I asked you, was there anything unexpected or unfortunate that
27:58
Speaker 2: happened on a special occasion before? And I'm saying hi
28:02
Speaker 2: over here to Jolen. You said, hey, Sonia. Last November
28:06
Speaker 2: was my husband's birthday month. I was already 8 months pregnant,
28:09
Speaker 2: by the way, just weeks away from my due date.
28:12
Speaker 2: We decided to celebrate with a buffet dinner.
28:15
Speaker 2: Not long after we started eating, I suddenly felt intense
28:18
Speaker 2: pains and cramps. Before we knew it, the hotel staff
28:22
Speaker 2: had to call an ambulance and I was on my
28:23
Speaker 2: way to the hospital. It was my first ever ambulance
28:26
Speaker 2: ride and definitely not how we imagined my birthday celebration
28:30
Speaker 2: would go. Thankfully, after being checked, everything was fine. Turned
28:34
Speaker 2: out to be random 3rd trimester pains and the baby
28:37
Speaker 2: was perfectly OK.
28:38
Speaker 2: Fast forward now, baby is 6 months old. Oh, congratulations.
28:43
Speaker 2: We finally made it back to the same buffet at
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Speaker 2: Ritz-Carlton for a proper celebration for advanced Father's Day celebrations.
28:52
Speaker 2: It's now a funny memory we can laugh about with
28:54
Speaker 2: the little one in our arms. That's so cute, Jolen.
28:57
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sharing that story with me. So, so,
29:00
Speaker 2: so cute.
29:01
Speaker 2: Um, many new texters coming in. Jem says, something my
29:06
Speaker 2: mom reminds me constantly every year. On her birthday, she
29:10
Speaker 2: needs to get admitted to hospital because of me. She
29:13
Speaker 2: went into labor the night of her birthday, and I
29:16
Speaker 2: came out the next day. That happened more than 30
29:19
Speaker 2: years ago, and I'm still reminded of it till this day.
29:24
Speaker 2: That's really cute and I'm sure that because both of
29:27
Speaker 2: your birthdays are back to back, it's just a very
29:29
Speaker 2: uh busy birthday month for you. Um, it's, yeah, I,
29:33
Speaker 2: I get it. It's such a coincidence, right? But these
29:36
Speaker 2: are the stories that you will share for the rest
29:37
Speaker 2: of your life and it will continue to make you laugh.
29:40
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for these heartfelt messages. I, I
29:42
Speaker 2: did not expect so many of you to have had
29:44
Speaker 2: experienced um unfortunate things or unexpected things happening on special occasions.
29:50
Speaker 2: And we're talking about unfortunate or unexpected things that happen
29:53
Speaker 2: during special occasions, and honestly, this just really struck a chord.
29:58
Speaker 2: Frankly speaking, I did not expect so many messages coming through. Um,
30:02
Speaker 2: I wanna try and squeeze in a couple more before
30:05
Speaker 2: we wrap it up and uh, give, uh, give the
30:08
Speaker 2: winner the prize here today.
30:10
Speaker 2: OK, so saying hi here to, let me get your,
30:14
Speaker 2: let me get your name here. You said, hey, Sonia. Oh,
30:16
Speaker 2: MG I just heard you reading out this lady's message
30:20
Speaker 2: about Ritz-Carlton buffet.
30:22
Speaker 2: Um, 4 years ago, we were supposed to be there
30:24
Speaker 2: for their Easter brunch to celebrate our parents' birthday, but nope,
30:27
Speaker 2: our twins had their own minds. They decided that they
30:30
Speaker 2: want to arrive on my mom's actual birthday, so we
30:33
Speaker 2: couldn't make it to the buffet, but we did it
30:35
Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving last year with the twins. Such a perfect
30:38
Speaker 2: buffet because they loved it too. Maybe Ritz-Carlton has a
30:42
Speaker 2: certain magic on pregnant mommies.
30:45
Speaker 2: Hey, I hope someone from Ritz is tuning in right now, man,
30:48
Speaker 2: because this could be a perfect like marketing stunt for them. That,
30:51
Speaker 2: that is simply hilarious. Um, thank you so much for
30:54
Speaker 2: your message. I think that came from Mel. Yes, thank
30:57
Speaker 2: you so much for that.
30:58
Speaker 2: OK, um, that's all the time that I have right
31:01
Speaker 2: now because one person is walking away with a wonderful,
31:05
Speaker 2: wonderful treat. This, I really want to go to One
31:08
Speaker 2: Flower Hill over in Sentosa launching their new dining concept
31:11
Speaker 2: at Wild Sea Cafe and Wild Seed Bar and Grill.
31:15
Speaker 2: And this is a Western Japanese.
31:17
Speaker 2: Inspired, uh, dining experience. In the day, guests can enjoy
31:21
Speaker 2: Japanese inspired drinks, moder a cafe. At night, it focuses
31:25
Speaker 2: on Wagyu meats, grilled dishes, cocktails, and this is all
31:28
Speaker 2: within a very lush hilltop garden atmosphere. Today, I've got
31:32
Speaker 2: to give it to Birthday Boy RY. Congratulations.
31:37
Speaker 2: Yeah
31:39
Speaker 2: Actually, I don't know if um you're, you're a dad
31:42
Speaker 2: or a mom, because I didn't really get your full name,
31:46
Speaker 2: but anyway, I only got your initials, but your message
31:49
Speaker 2: really touched me and, you know, we're talking about celebrating
31:52
Speaker 2: the wins, right? And you know, when it comes to
31:54
Speaker 2: a situation where you have an unexpected incident or something
31:58
Speaker 2: unfortunate happened on your actual birthday, you just lock in.
32:00
Speaker 2: And you try and deal with the deal with the problem, right?
32:03
Speaker 2: You don't even think about yourself anymore. So, I want
32:05
Speaker 2: you to enjoy this treat. Since today is your birthday,
32:07
Speaker 2: you may not get to go today, but you can
32:09
Speaker 2: go for a belated belated birthday celebration, and this is
32:13
Speaker 2: worth $100 over at Wild Sea Cafe at One Flower Hill. Congrats, Enjoy,
32:19
Speaker 2: and we'll see you there very soon. This calling my
32:22
Speaker 2: name right now is this dumpling Shop. OK, I have
32:25
Speaker 2: to say.
32:26
Speaker 2: The famous Yang's Dumpling from Shanghai has officially opened here
32:30
Speaker 2: in Singapore, and this is over at Bugis Junction. It
32:33
Speaker 2: started drawing long lines over the first weekend that it
32:37
Speaker 2: was opened here, which was, I guess, just the weekend
32:39
Speaker 2: that went by. Um, it's a famous street food store
32:43
Speaker 2: in Shanghai, apparently that started in 1994.
32:46
Speaker 2: Um, it quickly grew to become like a must-visit spot
32:48
Speaker 2: on a lot of food lists for people that visit there.
32:50
Speaker 2: In fact, you know what? China is on my list.
32:53
Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't been back to China since, I
32:55
Speaker 2: don't know, like half a lifetime ago. The last time
32:58
Speaker 2: I went there, oh wait, no, I went to China for,
33:01
Speaker 2: for filming, but that was like Hainan, Hainan Island, so
33:05
Speaker 2: slightly different kind of vibe, but I did hear very
33:08
Speaker 2: good things about other places, you know, Shanghai has developed
33:10
Speaker 2: so much and all that.
33:11
Speaker 2: Um, but yeah, their, their dumpling making is apparently excellent,
33:15
Speaker 2: and they're super iconic. They have more than 400 stores islandwide.
33:18
Speaker 2: They're finally here in Singapore. So you can expect that
33:21
Speaker 2: traditional kind of like Shanghai, Shanghainese pan-fried pork dumplings, um,
33:26
Speaker 2: meaty fillings, very soupy juice, um, in the, in the
33:30
Speaker 2: dumpling also with that pan-fried crispy bottom with just sesame
33:35
Speaker 2: seeds on the top. Well, it looks so good. Uh,
33:37
Speaker 2: I really, really like, I'm drooling just looking at these pictures.
33:40
Speaker 2: Um, they go for about 790 for a plate of 4,
33:43
Speaker 2: and I think the prawn dumpling version is 1490 for
33:46
Speaker 2: a plate of 4, but I'm mildly allergic to prawns,
33:48
Speaker 2: so I don't know whether I'll go for it, but
33:50
Speaker 2: if it looks that good, I might just go for
33:52
Speaker 2: it and pop an antihistamine later.
33:55
Speaker 2: You know, I love food. I love food too much.
33:57
Speaker 2: I will still eat my favorite beach root prawn mee, OK?
34:00
Speaker 2: Just take the risk. And, uh, many other dishes that
34:03
Speaker 2: you can expect, but definitely go for the dumplings. Now, um,
34:07
Speaker 2: if you do a lot of maybe um business or
34:10
Speaker 2: you travel up to China quite a bit, this is
34:13
Speaker 2: pretty interesting because my last experience when I went to China,
34:16
Speaker 2: I felt like I wasn't that locked in into that
34:19
Speaker 2: ecosystem because everything is digital there, right, with their own
34:22
Speaker 2: apps and everything.
34:23
Speaker 2: So the good news is now, Singapore users can tap
34:27
Speaker 2: on DBS remits to transfer money to your Weisin Pay wallets,
34:32
Speaker 2: which is the digital RMB wallet within the Weisin and
34:36
Speaker 2: WeChat apps. I'm not super familiar, but my friends who
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Speaker 2: travel up and down a lot, they know that everything
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Speaker 2: is quite digital now, right? Um, so if, if you're
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Speaker 2: not familiar as well, this is a mobile banking app
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Speaker 2: under DBS. It just launched, like, I think on, on Friday.
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Speaker 2: So funds sent through DBS remit are credited to the
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Speaker 2: recipient's wallet almost instantly. So you can use it for
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Speaker 2: other payments, transfers, other services within the WeChat world, as
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Speaker 2: I call it. Um, so I, I think there will be,
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Speaker 2: of course, some registration related stuff if you've never tried
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Speaker 2: it before or some verification, but ever since they launched,
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Speaker 2: I think, officially, they announced it in February, there was
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Speaker 2: so much interest in it.
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Speaker 2: And the number of customers using this service has quadrupled. So,
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Speaker 2: congrats you guys, very, very good, very good move there.
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Speaker 2: I think other banks are definitely going to move into
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Speaker 2: a similar service very soon. It is only growing at
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Speaker 2: a rapid pace, this particular sector. So, um, do keep
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Speaker 2: a lookout in case your own local bank starts to
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Speaker 2: launch certain things and you find it useful as well,
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Speaker 2: that could be great. But for me,
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Speaker 2: Haven't made plans to travel to China just yet, um,
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Speaker 2: and I haven't found much use for my apps yet.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I think, I don't even know if I've
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Speaker 2: like my WeChat app anymore, to be very honest, but
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Speaker 2: very soon, I would love to plan a trip there
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Speaker 2: as long as I can navigate around. I mean, I,
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Speaker 2: I might still have to use like translation app and
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Speaker 2: all that because, you know, I'm the most hopeless person
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Speaker 2: when it comes to Mandarin.