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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 270826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Up next to
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful Thursday, last few days of August, believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, but it's an exciting day for us and
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  Speaker 1: fans of Uniqlo. And also I don't think he's awake yet,
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  Speaker 1: but happy birthday to my good friend Iggy. Oh yay,
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  Speaker 1: your bestie. Happy birthday. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: This afternoon, very special day for us. Um, we love
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  Speaker 1: them so much. Our friends over at Uniqlo, we're working
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  Speaker 1: with them again this year for Life Wear Week. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and you're wondering what is Life Wear Week. It's more
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  Speaker 1: or less the announcement and the release of their fall
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  Speaker 1: and winter collection. And I think for, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: our friends over at Uniqlo, right, they've always emphasized on
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  Speaker 1: great quality. Um, it doesn't mean you need to buy
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  Speaker 1: like in bulk, you know, your usual fast fashion stuff
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  Speaker 1: going on, right?
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  Speaker 1: So they want to focus on good quality stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you can keep for a long time that you can
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  Speaker 1: style in any way. And I guess for the jeans
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing this morning, Beryl is back in fashion. It is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been back for a while now since
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  Speaker 1: last year actually. And I'm gonna say this, given how
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  Speaker 1: we love to travel to winter in November and December, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this could be a one-st place for everything. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: for the girls, for the girlies, we've got fleece, we've
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  Speaker 1: got yarn, and all these are washable, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Fleece was white as snow.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so you're trying to be a rapper, right? You
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  Speaker 1: should stick to your day job. It's a reference, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. I didn't actually. I don't think I watched it.
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  Speaker 1: All good. About to open up phone lines right now. 669-11987.
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  Speaker 1: I feel there needs to be an official name for
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  Speaker 1: this segments or something like that, you know what I
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  Speaker 1: mean about something, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a good run. Yeah, we're trying to see
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  Speaker 1: if we can, you know, get more treats for you
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning before you get to school. How
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  Speaker 1: about that? So 669-11987 your conversational skills. Yeah, why not,
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  Speaker 1: as well. And how about requesting for your favorite song
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  Speaker 1: to play for your schoolmate, good friend, or even your
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  Speaker 1: entire school? Yeah, or maybe even if you've already graduated
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  Speaker 1: but you want to give a shout.
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  Speaker 1: to, you know, you're an alumni, you want to give
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to your school, why not, right? Rest assured,
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  Speaker 1: if I heard this in my time in secondary school,
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  Speaker 1: I would have called in every day. You are the
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  Speaker 1: 150 times, I think. That's right. Again, we open the
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  Speaker 1: phone line 669-11987. I want to hear your voice on
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  Speaker 1: radio giving your favorite school a shout out, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: people actually WhatsApp us at 9005.
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  Speaker 1: 50987 and we can't ignore, especially a sweet message like
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  Speaker 1: this coming in from Frex. Hello Frex. You say, hey Sojo,
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  Speaker 1: just a shout out to my three children, Darylyn, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: and Davina. I wish that they have a great day
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  Speaker 1: at school. They go to Rosyth. Oh yay. And uh
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  Speaker 1: there was a follow-up message.
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  Speaker 1: Um, any song will do. I think they'll be so
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  Speaker 1: excited to hear their names on air. Why not, right?
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  Speaker 1: Why not play the biggest song of last year, Sonia? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what, I think it's still popular because
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  Speaker 1: I did a couple of events recently where the kids
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  Speaker 1: just like went insane for it in 2026. It almost
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  Speaker 1: seems
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  Speaker 1: As if March was last year already or 2 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: given all that's happened here in Singapore and around the world,
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  Speaker 1: but hey, don't forget we were on board the Disney adventure. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we were, in fact, I think the first batch of
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  Speaker 1: people to be on board, right? So we experienced everything.
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  Speaker 1: We even broadcasted live on board the Disney adventure.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the one question people are asking back then,
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  Speaker 1: at least in March, was, hey, does it stop anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: you know, does it stop anywhere? And then you go
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  Speaker 1: you disembark, is it always on the sea as compared
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  Speaker 1: to other cruises that they have. Good news is starting December.
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  Speaker 1: 31st on select 4 night cruises on board the Disney adventure,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna add Langkawi cute as a port of call
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  Speaker 1: on day three. Lovely. I mean, I have been on
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  Speaker 1: other cruises before where they stop by.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say Penang. I can't really remember per se,
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  Speaker 1: but somewhere around here. And then, but there's not that
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  Speaker 1: much time, like, you know, you go down for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of hours, you walk, you eat some food, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you like buy some snacks and drinks and all that,
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  Speaker 1: go back, right? But it's honestly a great idea. Lankawi.
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  Speaker 1: I've actually
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  Speaker 1: Never been to Langkawi, I think. Oh, time to go.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I was there was a very long
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  Speaker 1: time ago. So hopefully on day 3 when they do
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  Speaker 1: the whole disembarkation to Langkawi, right, the crowd can mitigate.
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  Speaker 1: So some go to Langkawi and some can go and
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  Speaker 1: do all the rides and all the activities on board
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  Speaker 1: may not even want to go down.
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  Speaker 1: Take advantage of the fact that it's emptier. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm staying on a suite, I'm gonna stay on
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  Speaker 1: board the cruise. If I'm in a suite, I'm never
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  Speaker 1: coming out, dude. Maybe just for a while you go
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  Speaker 1: and eat. Oh yeah, aside, aside from eating and the rides,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my suite the whole way. It's probably the best. Yeah. OK,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weird things happening in Singapore lately. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether it's because people are more like.
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  Speaker 1: Um, efficient about reporting it nowadays compared to last time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm sure there are plenty of, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Just that the ones that go viral are always the
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  Speaker 1: controversial and dramatic ones. So, um, this was over on, well,
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  Speaker 1: it was on the roads and it looked like a highway, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular um car was, was sort of like
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  Speaker 1: um sort of weaving back and forth, OK. So it
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  Speaker 1: looked like it wasn't too stable, right?
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  Speaker 1: And when I looked at the video, I was like, OK,
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  Speaker 1: this is definitely something the driver's not paying attention or
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  Speaker 1: like I don't know what's going on here. So you
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  Speaker 1: are quite close because I think they're being investigated right now.
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  Speaker 1: But um another layer to it was there was another video,
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  Speaker 1: presumably of the people that were in that car. So
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm still trying to, to piece it together
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Two men were struggling on the expressway. They were like
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  Speaker 1: in a tussle, OK. One of them looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was wearing some sort of a uniform and he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to stop this other guy. Did you see the video? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So loads of speculation where someone was about to take
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  Speaker 1: his own life. You think that was the case loads
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  Speaker 1: of speculation about that. So this man was restraining the
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  Speaker 1: other man.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and it was at a bridge on the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the railing at the side of like the highway kind
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  Speaker 1: of situation. So, um, according to videos that have been circulating, um,
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  Speaker 1: the man had earlier gotten into a road accident along
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  Speaker 1: the expressway, OK, presumably because of some bad driving over there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the driver of the car that was
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  Speaker 1: involved actually provided the dashcam footage. So it's being investigated
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  Speaker 1: right now. Apparently, the guy that was, um,
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  Speaker 1: That was responsible for this was shaking violently and he
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  Speaker 1: had slurred speech as well. So I think people put
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  Speaker 1: two and two together and are concerned that some substance
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  Speaker 1: was involved, you know, this is scary, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is very scary. I mean ours are a little bit
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  Speaker 1: risky with some errant drivers and now we've got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with people on Kods, people drink driving.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is why I don't drive. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of speculation as to what
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  Speaker 1: was thrown over the bridge as well. There was an
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  Speaker 1: item that was seen being thrown over the bridge. They
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  Speaker 1: are speculating, is it a, is it like a vape,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, you know. OK, let's see what the
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  Speaker 1: official from the police. So far the driver has been arrested,
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  Speaker 1: so I think investigations are ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Be safe people, you know, honestly, I think if you
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  Speaker 1: can check in on your friends around you, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like sometimes you don't really know what people are going
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  Speaker 1: through and what's going on. That and also to drivers
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  Speaker 1: who are tuned in right now, the morning shift is
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  Speaker 1: not for everyone. We know this. You mean like the
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  Speaker 1: overnight drivers, is it? Those who are doing overnight or
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  Speaker 1: those who start at maybe say 5 or 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: in the morning because sometimes grabbing to work or taking
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  Speaker 1: a taxi to work, I can see.
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  Speaker 1: Very tired and my new fear now is them falling
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  Speaker 1: asleep on the wheel, which has happened one too many times.
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  Speaker 1: You just gotta talk to them to keep them awake.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is not easy. I acknowledge that, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're doing it for long hours. So keep yourself awake,
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  Speaker 1: maybe turn us up a little bit louder. Hello. So
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: earlier on I said, uh, something that will make you
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  Speaker 1: smile here this morning. We know that here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: efficiency is something that we pride ourselves in, right?
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  Speaker 1: But every single time I see like um someone from
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  Speaker 1: another country experience that and they're in awe, it makes
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  Speaker 1: my heart swell. Does it? Do you feel the same way?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when people praise Singapore in their videos and
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  Speaker 1: it goes viral on TikTok, I smile. Yeah, I smile too.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Singapore. We love you. I mean there's been
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  Speaker 1: plenty of those videos of people going like, wow, when
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: they like land in Jewel or like they see, you know,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: all the beautiful things here. Um, this particular tourist did
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: a video that really popped off and went quite viral,
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  Speaker 1: not the first of its kind, I will say.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but apparently he cleared immigration in under 5 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and he was so impressed. He did a whole video
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  Speaker 1: about how Singapore is built different, to which I think
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  Speaker 1: it also reached, uh, reached audiences that have never visited
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  Speaker 1: Singapore before. They've only heard of it. It's like, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it, it almost seems like a, a law, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you don't even know what's going on there.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, is Singapore even real? That's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of sentiment. So, 5 minutes to clear immigration. Trust me,
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  Speaker 1: this did not happen when I was in Europe. And
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  Speaker 1: JFK in New York City. I, I told you about
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  Speaker 1: my experience um during the Tomorrowland weekend coming in and out.
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  Speaker 1: It was
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: It was a nightmare to say the very least. By
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: the way, the Singapore passport, right, we have that little
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  Speaker 1: logo at the front. If you're going to any country
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: that accepts e-passports, you can go there, yeah. Put in
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: extra effort, go and register for it so that you
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: can save all the time in the world, especially in Europe.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Can I just tell you, um, that's the thing, we
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: wanted to do that when we went to the machine
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  Speaker 1: that's supposed to scan you broke down.
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  Speaker 1: It's not working. So they filtered everyone to like go,
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  Speaker 1: go line up in the end. That was the thing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're like, guys, so we waited there for so
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  Speaker 1: long for this video going viral, we say well done
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  Speaker 1: to our friends over at ICA and also Singapore, right?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: If there's one thing I can name.
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  Speaker 1: That we got absolutely right. It's our airport. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. OK, so I'm going out joking right now
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  Speaker 1: on air. I mean, I'm very used to it. It's
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  Speaker 1: part of your contract at this point, right? You sign
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  Speaker 1: off it every year. So what happened was we, we
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  Speaker 1: left our studio, OK.
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  Speaker 1: And usually, you know, sometimes there's some stuff that I
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: gotta do like wash my cups and all that, right? Like,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: can I set the context first and defend myself, OK,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: I haven't even said the story you want to defend yourself. Wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday I was very drained from a long Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I was quite tired and my social battery was 0.
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  Speaker 1: Carry on the story. Thank you. I was also tired
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  Speaker 1: and drained.
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  Speaker 1: But between the two of us, Joakim always leaves me
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  Speaker 1: to fend for us on behalf of us when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to making small talk and socializing with people. Yes,
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: what do I get? Nothing. Nothing. So we were at
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  Speaker 1: the pantry area, OK, and we were exiting already, about
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  Speaker 1: to walk to the lift, and uh there was a
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  Speaker 1: group of people that sort of showed up behind us
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  Speaker 1: from another studio. Like we don't know them, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know them. I think they were guests at another radio station.
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  Speaker 1: So they were walking behind us, but you know, they
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  Speaker 1: smiled at us as they walked through the corridor. We
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  Speaker 1: said hi.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was just gonna all carry on walking
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  Speaker 1: to the lift with them la, behind them, right?
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly Joakim yanks my arm. Hey, don't go first. Don't
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  Speaker 1: go first. He said, stay here first. Then I was like, What?
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  Speaker 1: Like does he know someone there that we don't, are
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  Speaker 1: we not supposed to like someone there or what is it,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: you know, because if my friend doesn't like someone, I
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  Speaker 1: also don't like the person, right? Then, um, he said, No, no, no, um,
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  Speaker 1: I got no social battery, so I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be stuck in a live with him.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, I'm, I'm just gonna stay here first. Come, come, come, pretend,
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  Speaker 1: pretend to take biscuit, ah, take snacks, take cookies. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, dude, you are we like secondary school or what?
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  Speaker 1: Those were my exact words, by the way, can't pretend
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  Speaker 1: to take the biscuittend, pretend. Wow, the Julie's biscuit, very nice, delicious.
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  Speaker 1: To which it got me wondering, right? I mean, admittedly,
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  Speaker 1: I might have done that before, like maybe when I
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  Speaker 1: take the trash out, I don't want to like make
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  Speaker 1: small talk when I'm in my home clothes or something. OK, fine,
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  Speaker 1: like fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: But usually in like office settings or work settings, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really try to avoid people. Clearly we're two very
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  Speaker 1: different people, joking. I do, especially when my social battery
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  Speaker 1: is just zero. Like after a show, most of the
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: time I wanna like take one hour for myself to
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  Speaker 1: recharge again. I'm so sorry it's so draining for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. It is not you. It's just who
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  Speaker 1: I am as a person. Like, like after giving ourselves
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  Speaker 1: on air, I want to just like take 1 hour
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  Speaker 1: or half an hour to recharge as compared to being
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  Speaker 1: in the lift and making small talk with people I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know and I won't remember in 2 weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You literally don't even talk. You leave it to me.
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  Speaker 1: So like what is the difference? I mean, if it's
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  Speaker 1: boss Janice or other colleagues, then it's OK because I'm
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  Speaker 1: comfortable enough with them.
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  Speaker 1: to show them a side of me that yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: tired and it's OK, they know. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: the number of times you said like you need to
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  Speaker 1: have or not, but if it's people I'm meeting for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time and you know, first impressions count, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's why I was like, can we not take the
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  Speaker 1: lift with them, please because I'm very tired. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want them to judge me based on no one's gonna
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  Speaker 1: judge you the interaction. You never know, man. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't, it did not sound like that. It was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: don't go, don't go first.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go stay here, stay here. That was literally how
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  Speaker 1: he sounded. Give me a call at 669-11987 and tell us,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever been in this situation where you intentionally
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: decided to hang back?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you drag your friend along with you because
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to avoid someone or avoid people. You
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  Speaker 1: avoid the lift, you avoid the ride home, let us
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  Speaker 1: know or even WhatsApp us at 90050987. If you do
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: like your answer, what's coming your way? A dining experience
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: for two worth $256 all thanks to Pan Pacific.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is Pan Pacific Orchard, and we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about whether or not you intentionally sometimes hang back to
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  Speaker 1: avoid certain people, be it at the office or maybe
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  Speaker 1: your neighbors, you know, you just don't have it in
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  Speaker 1: you to interact with them. Inspired by what I did yesterday. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not the first time my social battery was
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  Speaker 1: 0 and
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  Speaker 1: Leaving the office, I saw a big group of people
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  Speaker 1: going to the same lift lobby that Sonia and I
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  Speaker 1: usually go to. So I yanked Sonia's arm, saying, Hey, Son, son, stay, stay, stay.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wait. Yeah, stay, stay, stay. Let them go first,
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  Speaker 1: then we go together, OK? I mean, I, I'm honest,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: you can answer this honestly, OK. When is your social
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  Speaker 1: battery 100%?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, it's good. Like after a show when I'm meeting
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  Speaker 1: new people at the show venue, OK, like at an event,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still running on adrenaline and, but I will
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  Speaker 1: say we've been out together many times and I can
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  Speaker 1: see when the battery is draining.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can literally visually see the battery draining and
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  Speaker 1: when it's flat, I can tell. There are 2 places
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  Speaker 1: or 3, OK, where I'm very comfortable to show where
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually tired. Firstly, it's at home. Secondly, it's in
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  Speaker 1: the office, and thirdly, it's next to Sonia.
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  Speaker 1: She understands me. She will start thanking all the convos
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  Speaker 1: for me. 100%. OK, but I want to say good
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: morning to Selena. Alright. Morning, Sonia and Joakim. Joakim, you
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  Speaker 1: are very friendly. I met you twice before. See, you
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  Speaker 1: caught him on a full battery day.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: For sure. Saying hi to Joe. This happens frequently for me.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I have noisy neighbors. Sometimes I go out and I
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: see the neighbors waiting for the lift. I will pretend
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: like I forgot something and go back to the house,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: but actually, I'm behind the door spying through the peephole
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: to make sure that the coast is clear before I leave.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I confess that I'm not that sociable. Most of the time.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just too tired from small talk. Yeah, it's the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: small talk that gets me. I don't mind smiling and
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: nodding at you. OK, fine. That's just one question. No
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: need to talk on the lift journey all the way down.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: If the lift is from 4 to level 1, you
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: are done after the, oh, eaten already lift door open.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: If you're coming from.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: 20 good luck, dude. You're gonna have to come up
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: with some conversation. That's why my AirPods very handy. Just
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: plug in straight away and go into the lift without playing.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Talking about whether or not you are exactly like Joe,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: where you try to avoid people, especially at the office,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: walking to the lift, just like what happened yesterday when
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: he literally yanked me back and said,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Wait here, wait here. There's too many people at the lift.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the office lah. I'm allowed to feel
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that way. But anyway, I wanna say hello to Marilynn
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: on WhatsApp. Morning, Sojo. There was this time when my
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: colleague and I were leaving from work but didn't want
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to take the same lift as our supervisor as we
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: were late for our deadline of the work that she
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: asked us to complete. It's not about socializing. She will
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: give us more side work whenever she sees us. It
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: never ends. One more coming in from Anna.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like Joakim, and sometimes as much as I love interactions,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: there are times where I just need to recharge by myself.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: The other day, there was a mandatory team bonding I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: couldn't get out of, so I forced myself to go
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and went for the free food. After I was full,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I did an Irish goodbye, the act of leaving a
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: social gathering or party discreetly without telling anyone or saying
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a formal farewell. Yeah, I have a friend who's exactly
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like that. She always does an Irish acit. Oh yeah,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you know who she is. I'll tell you later.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: It's not me, is it? I hope not. My, my wedding,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you didn't Irish exit. You made it known that you
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: were leaving. Your wedding. I was Irish. The way I drank. Wow. Um,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: saying hi to here. Funny, funny one here. You said,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I drive Grab and I talk a lot to my passengers.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to promote my other side businesses, ha ha,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: but after a while, I found myself not talking to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: passengers at all. I got tired of.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Promoting my own business, to which I said, What's your business?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Tell us. He said, Oh, I do like ID, cafe, bistro, and, uh,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: crockery retail. OK, so like utensils and stuff. So, hey man,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: like all the best for your side hustles. I really,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: really admire that. Hey, but I must applaud the side
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: hustles of some Grab drivers. You know why? Sometimes they'll
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: put QR codes that you can.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, is it more about your business. That's quite cute.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: That's quite cute. Eileen is on the line right now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: What about you, Eileen? You know, for, for us, when,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: whenever we see our big bosses, um, hanging around the lobby,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: definitely for sure, we will not want to go there
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: because we do not want to have the elevator pitch
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: with them. And yeah, I mean, I will always pull
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: my colleague and likewise, my colleague will also pull me back. OK?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And I think this is.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: This is quite common for everyone and then um as
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: for my husband, he is actually the senior management so
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: there was, yeah, so, so there was a time when
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we went for the uh company trip. So during the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: first day, um, we will have dinner together.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And everybody was actually standing, waiting to see where my
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: husband would sit. I told him, OK, you know, this
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: is what I do. I will always try to avoid
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: my boss. I mean, it's a fact though. I think
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that's a universal thing, Joakim. There was one that just
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: came in, Sonny from FLD. I'm surprised that Joe is anti-social.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Job hazard of being with.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So many people often question mark. FLD, let me clarify something.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not anti-social. If I'm out in the streets, you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: see me, say hello, dab me up, fist bump. It's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the office, lah. OK, I think I suggest let's just
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: not saying this on air. Our bosses are 100% tuning in, dude.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: They know I don't want to see anyone in the office,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: except you. But don't use their broadcast channel to say that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Just say it to me in private. More of your
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: messages coming through right now and uh we've been talking
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: about whether or not you find yourself in a situation
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: where you've tried to avoid people, either at the office,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: at your estates, at home, outside. How did it work
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: out for you? One coming in from Q.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Morning, Sojo. For me, it was the other way around.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The other day my friend and I were in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: lift heading out for lunch, and we saw a group
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of friends coming over through our peripheral view. As we
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: were so drained that day, we decided to have a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: small group lunch and she massively spammed the closed door
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: button instead.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: To shut the door before anyone else comes in, is it?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I guess so. OK. Um, one message here, quite hilarious one. Yeni,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: good morning. He said, hey, Sonia and Joakim, someone in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: my office building uncannily arrives and leaves the premises at,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: at the same time, almost daily. It started to creep
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: me out and I was low-key worried he was stalking me.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I changed my arrival and departure timings. It worked for
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a while. One day, the lift door was about to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: close before it reopened, and he came in OMG as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: if it couldn't be more dramatic. The lift suddenly stopped
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: working while we were on the way down, and we
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: were plunged in darkness. Both of us froze, and there
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: was no movement or sound from either of us. Thankfully,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: my brain started working again, and I turned on my
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: phone's torchlight. The first thing he said to break the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: silence was unexpected and hilarious.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: He said, Why have you been stalking me? What do
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you want? I LOL so hard. I told him that
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I was wondering the same thing about him as well. TLDR,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: we chatted for more, for the remaining one hour that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we were stuck in a lift, and now we actually
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: go to have lunch together and go out from time
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to time. Let's see how this goes. He he. Hey,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, is he or she not your
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: husband or wife.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Not yet, but she ended it with, let's see how
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: this goes. That's really cute. What a cute, cute story.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind being stuck in a lift with a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: complete stranger. She's a lady. You see, you see, you see.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: If you didn't hang back yesterday, maybe there was a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: girl in the group there that was in the lift
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that you might have been. It was a big group
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of 6. It's OK. OK.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You never know. If it's still got a chance. Yeah,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you gotta take the chance, man. This is the universe cooking,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I will take the chance if she's alone,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: not with 6 people in the same lift. I cannot.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That also sounded a bit creepy when you said that,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean cackling and having so much
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: fun reading out your messages and getting your calls right now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I'm all inspired by Joakim pulling, literally physically pulling me
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: back yesterday, just so that we could avoid, um, spending
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: time with strangers in the lift.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He literally physically was like, stop, stop, stop here, stop
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: here for a while. Disclaimer before anyone thinks that I'm anti-social, no,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I actually am very, very friendly. Just that in the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: office and at home and sometimes next to Sonia at events, OK,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: events that involve plenty of small talk, I cannot, cannot.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I want to say hi to Jerry before we go
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: back for our final phone call here. Hey, Sonia and Joakim,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: this topic is so on point for me. I was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: walking to my office building from the MRT station. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: saw my boss at least 10 steps in front of me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: To avoid taking the same lift as my boss, I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: detoured to Mr. Bean and ended up getting a pancake.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Perfect excuse, man. Yeah, at least you got something out
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of it, right? Some of the cheese or peanut butter pancake. Oh,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I love the cheese one. OK, last but not least, Aaron,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: what about you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, so we are staying at a new BTO estate,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and one day my husband and I just parked the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: car and we realized that our opposite neighbor parked at
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the same time. Uh, and so in a bid to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: avoid them we decided, OK, let's get back inside the car.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Car and then my husband was trying so hard to
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: unlock the car and then yeah, the car decide it's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the best time to act up and it was alarming
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: so loudly the whole car park was listening to the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: car alarming and yeah, I'm pretty sure the, the, I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: sure the neighbors didn't see us, yeah, but yeah, a
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: baby was there also he's like 8 months old now,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: but yeah, at that point in time he was 6 months.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, girl, so not worth it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I, I, I was about to say what a way
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to introduce yourself to everyone in your estate, but OK,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: at least your neighbors didn't see you, so all good.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty sure they did. I'm sure they
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: noticed 100%. And yo, this is so relatable, man. There
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: will always be that person or that person within us,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I feel, that will try to avoid people out there. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: not all the time, because I feel attacked.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I admittedly, I told you I do
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: this sometimes when I'm trying to take the trash out
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: at my house. Actually, there are a couple of instances
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: where you yanked my arm and said, Joe, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: A couple of times this happened in our, in our
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: don't like me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Not guest, I think there have been occasions where you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: say Julius be here for a while, yeah, I want
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to just be alone for a while or like too
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: much people. I remember you saying this one phrase to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: me quite some time back. Anyway, we found ourselves a winner,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and it goes to Yenny. Congratulations, Yenny.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And you are, well, bringing your potential future boyfriend to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: this place, Pan Pacific Orchard Hotel, Marcela embracing the Mediterranean culture.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Visit them Pan Pacific Orchard on Instagram and you can
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: even enjoy their 3.5 hour brunch on the weekend. So,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it being the end of August, we are fast approaching
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: something else in the month of September. I know it's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like Apple's version of National Day Rally and to which
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: all Singaporeans.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Lalia, Laila, September 10th at 2 a.m. Singapore time. That
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is where the Apple event will be happening. You can
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: watch it live on Apple TV if I'm not wrong. Oh, nice.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm very sure that a lot of your favorite
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: like tech creators as well will be doing some live updates. Yes.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: So the rumors are a foldable iPhone. Could the Apple
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Ring come out? I mean, I don't know, maybe. You
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: know what I'm most looking forward to.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Apple glasses, it's in the rumor mill, and I really
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: hope they launch one, but I want to see which
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: brand they partner with because Oakley has Meta. Uh, Ray-Bans
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: has Meta as well, if I'm not wrong, Meta glasses.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Let me think. Gentle Monster, and who was it? Was
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it Samsung, or someone else? I don't recall actually. I
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: don't know if Gentle Monster has a no, no, no,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: they do, they do. They are working like an Android one. Google,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: is it? No, no. Google has their own. I could
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: be wrong. You know what? With Apple, they'll come up
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: with their own. I feel.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: like they won't partner up with another brand. They'll just
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: come up with their own Apple Glass. I feel, I feel.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: They just make their own, yeah, they'll just make it. Anyway, um,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: we'll keep you updated. That's all we know for now.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Just got to lock that date down and if you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: happen to be awake at 2 a.m. that time, then
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you'll be the first in the world to see what's
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: going on. Alright, let's see.