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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 170426 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 2: next to
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 2: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Well, it's officially the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We're so excited because there's a big music festival this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Hope to see you there.
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  Speaker 1: And also an NTUC Eco Green run. If you're doing it,
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  Speaker 1: all the best to you.
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  Speaker 2: Are you? No, I'm resting.
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  Speaker 1: OK. After 2 times
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  Speaker 2: I'll be done at the music festival. Yes. Singapore's number
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  Speaker 2: 1 hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: So today being a Friday, congratulations, you've made it. I
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: know people are wondering when is the next public holiday.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: It's May 1st.
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day. Labor Day. Yeah, OK. Do we, do, does
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  Speaker 2: it apply to us?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but maybe we get off
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  Speaker 2: in lie. OK, so we still have to be here
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  Speaker 2: on May 1st.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no. So if anyone's wondering when Labor Day is
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  Speaker 1: this year, it's on a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: So play your cards right. I will say that song
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of how this one particular piece of content.
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  Speaker 2: stood the test of time. Do you remember like ages ago, um,
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  Speaker 2: everyone used to do like what's in my bag or
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  Speaker 2: find out what's in my bag,
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  Speaker 1: right? I mean, it's still ongoing evolution.
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  Speaker 2: It has evolved, um, but I, I would say that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing that just never really went away. At one point,
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  Speaker 2: people started leaving comments like, who cares? I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what's in your bag, but it seems to have come
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  Speaker 2: back in a different way, shape and form.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're on TikTok and scrolling through and it
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  Speaker 1: lands on your FYP, if you don't care, just scroll lah.
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  Speaker 1: Why must leave the comment there?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I don't know. Do you, can you explain the
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  Speaker 2: psychology behind why people leave hate comments? I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: just have time to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, when we come back here on the circuit again,
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  Speaker 1: loads of things happening over the weekend. Of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania Weekend. There's Premier League football, and on Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: here at Media Corp, it's gonna be very crowded.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be there for any one of those.
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  Speaker 1: Neither.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be at Palm Tree Music Festival dancing. You're
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  Speaker 1: having fun. I'll be watching it at home just to
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  Speaker 1: cheer for our local actors and actresses. We go from
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  Speaker 1: bad to what's going to be red carpet glitz and
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  Speaker 1: glamour this Sunday right here at Media Corp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not that.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, how long has Star Wars been around? Ah, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's been around since I was born. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, right, I'm sure it's been here for
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  Speaker 2: the longest time, like since our parents' time.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice way
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  Speaker 1: to recognize our efforts and of course our talents from
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  Speaker 1: Media Corp's Channel 8 or Media Corp as they call
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  Speaker 1: themselves now. Want to say congratulations to all the nominees
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  Speaker 1: for Best Actor. We got Chen Han Wei Taker. We
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  Speaker 1: got Desmond.
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  Speaker 1: Richie Koh, Romeo Tan, Shepin, what a lineup. I really
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  Speaker 1: wonder who's going to win. It's almost like anyone's game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, quite a number of them are veterans, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're household names.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of nominees, of course, the one show
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  Speaker 1: that has dominated all the nominations, Emerald Hill. The Little
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  Speaker 1: Narnia Story, of course, because for Best Actress, you got
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  Speaker 1: Chantelle Ng, Tasha Lau, Jessica Liu, all.
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  Speaker 1: Representing Emerald Hill and then Cheryl Cho from Perfectly Imperfect
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  Speaker 1: and Hong Ling from The Spirit
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  Speaker 2: Hunter. I mean, give them some love and if you
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  Speaker 2: want as well, we actually did a little uh hilarious video.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Go check it out on 987's Instagram and TikTok. It's
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  Speaker 2: a potential reactions at the Star Awards ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, for the top 10 popular male artists here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Walks away with an award. Thomas Copankivich. I
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  Speaker 2: mean, fingers crossed. I hope so too. Do it for
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  Speaker 2: the plot, you know, because if
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  Speaker 1: Thomas wins, the internet wins. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: yeah, love it. Yeah, the everyday person wins. Now, before
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  Speaker 2: we open up phone lines in just a bit, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got 4 tickets for you to catch
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  Speaker 2: Media Corp's Cloud nine. The reason why we're doing it
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  Speaker 2: during this time is because sometimes you want to go
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  Speaker 2: with your friends, right, to, to experience.
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  Speaker 2: Music concerts and all that, it being at an affordable $28.
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  Speaker 2: Some people may be OK to drop it. Some of
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  Speaker 2: your friends in school maybe they're unsure. So we want
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  Speaker 2: to solve that issue for you. Bring three of your
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  Speaker 2: besties for a night to remember, and
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  Speaker 1: we're very sure it's a safe party, as compared to
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  Speaker 1: whatever's in the news now as of late.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's just not go there.
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  Speaker 1: That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: That one is piping hot tea, man. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Um, before all of that, I just want to say
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  Speaker 2: congratulations are in order to our friends over at the
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  Speaker 2: Singapore Zoo. You will now spot 3 Sri Lankan leopard
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  Speaker 2: cubs making their debut and their first public appearance. Is
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  Speaker 2: that how you say leopard?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's a
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  Speaker 1: Sri Lankan song.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. It's a popular leopard, leopard, leopard.
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  Speaker 2: About to open up phone lines right now and right
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  Speaker 2: at about say 7 a.m. ish, we do have a
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  Speaker 2: special shout out going out to a really cute group
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  Speaker 2: of students that we met recently. But first, opening up
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  Speaker 2: phone lines for your MediaCorp Cloud nine tickets.
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  Speaker 1: 669-119-87. Give your school a shout out. Tell us what's
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  Speaker 1: great about it or what used to be great about
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  Speaker 1: it if you're from maybe graduate.
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  Speaker 1: Situated already. And if we do like your call, what's
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  Speaker 1: coming your way? 4 tickets to Media Corp's cloud nine.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, my first ever experience attending like a music festival
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  Speaker 2: or concert with my friends, it was the best thing
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  Speaker 2: ever because you feel a sense of like liberation, independence,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and you know that you're going there to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the music you like. Yeah. So this is definitely
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  Speaker 2: the vibe we're going for. Give us a call right now. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, who do we have on the line? What are
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  Speaker 2: your names?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, my name is Renee and I have my sister
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  Speaker 2: Natalia here and my other sister. Wow, so many of
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  Speaker 2: you in the car. Hello, thank you for calling. OK, come,
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  Speaker 2: take us through it. Who's from what school or are
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  Speaker 2: you all from the same school? Mommy and my sister
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  Speaker 2: Natalia are from IJ Primary. And then our youngest, and
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  Speaker 2: then the youngest sister Katerina, she's in little schoolhouse. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: she's still in preschool. OK, so cute.
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  Speaker 1: Renee, so what's amazing about IJ Primary? Tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Because we still got
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  Speaker 2: like canteen food is really good. Really good. OK, wait,
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  Speaker 2: which one is your favorite dish of all time? I
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  Speaker 2: think it's the seaweed fries from.
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  Speaker 1: Seaweed seaweed rice,
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  Speaker 2: seaweed fries lah, not seaweed
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  Speaker 1: rice. The rice. So, Renee, anything exciting happening in school
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  Speaker 1: this week or next week?
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  Speaker 2: Not really. It's OK. The most exciting thing right now
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  Speaker 2: is winning cloud nine tickets.
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  Speaker 2: You are scoring 4 tickets to come on down to
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  Speaker 2: catch 8 wonderful acts, and that includes 50/50.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, Renee, so tickets coming your way for sure. How
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  Speaker 1: about getting us a song? What song do you want
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  Speaker 1: to hear play on 987 for you? And
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  Speaker 2: who is it going out to? Can I have anything
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  Speaker 2: from Cats? You got it. This one's coming up for you.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy, Gabriela, and we'll see you at cloud nine, OK? OK,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us here today. Now, um,
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  Speaker 2: like we said, we have a special shout out going
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  Speaker 2: out to a really cool group of girls that we
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  Speaker 2: met over, um, a few days ago, and we actually
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of a message from them. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you were there over at Methodist Girls' School, be
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  Speaker 1: on standby after news, weather, traffic and sports. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: giving you a shout out and we're gonna press play on.
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  Speaker 1: little voice note that you sent us. So,
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  Speaker 2: um, we haven't heard it yet. We're going to hear
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  Speaker 2: it for the first time on air, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: just a few minutes. a lot since he released the
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  Speaker 2: album actually. It's mine. It's
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: the new Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out loud for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but honestly, very sweet and great strategy over there with
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  Speaker 2: Bruno Mars. For now though, we would love to give
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  Speaker 2: a shout out to the girls from MGS that we
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  Speaker 2: met just what was it, 2 days ago?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. To the ladies of the Sapphire Society, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for having Sonia and I down to your school.
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  Speaker 2: It was so, it was such a great experience, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate the enthusiasm and because all of them
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  Speaker 2: are really interested in public speaking, right? They asked really
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  Speaker 2: great questions, and we can only hope that we'll go
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  Speaker 2: back again.
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: wish I was that eloquent and clear in my diction
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  Speaker 1: when I was.
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  Speaker 1: 13 to maybe say 1617 years old in
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  Speaker 1: secondary school.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which was the age, right? It's their age right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So hey, we just want to say to the girls, um,
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  Speaker 2: all of you have so much talent, you have so
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  Speaker 2: much potential. We love to hear you on air, on stage,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on TV someday, perhaps, maybe that could be
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  Speaker 2: in your future. But for now, they actually sent us
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  Speaker 2: a really cute voice note. We haven't heard it just yet.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have
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  Speaker 2: a
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  Speaker 1: listen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for coming to
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  Speaker 2: MGS.
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  Speaker 2: Society.
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  Speaker 1: Why, why do I feel like a K-pop girl group
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  Speaker 1: just gave us a shout
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  Speaker 1: out here?
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  Speaker 2: They're the cutest. They're the cutest. And we also know
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of BTS fans when we were
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  Speaker 2: chatting about music. So I want to hit play on
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  Speaker 2: this one going out to the MGS Girls, Sapphire Society.
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  Speaker 2: We love you. Hope to see you again very soon. OK,
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: so it being the month of April already, pretty sure
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: people are planning for their
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: Um, Q for holidays, possibly even booking their year-end holidays
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  Speaker 2: already or just planning where to go.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say that's too early because I
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: like to plan my holidays the year before. Actually, yes,
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  Speaker 1: why do you laugh? I'm a planner, OK. Yes, you are.
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  Speaker 1: So if anyone has recommendations of what I can do
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: in Bhutan or what to eat in
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: Bhutan, but that's not.
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  Speaker 2: In time, right? That's happening in June. Yeah, 2 months' time.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: I, I planned to go to Bhutan last year sometime
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  Speaker 1: in September
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  Speaker 2: already. Oh, OK, OK, yes, is that friend that will
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: block his leave 1 year in advance.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: To which, can I just
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: be honest with you, I actually watched your episode of
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  Speaker 1: Travel SSB.
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  Speaker 2: 00 my God, it's so old. There
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: are a few things
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  Speaker 2: I want to try. I didn't go to Bhutan for SSB.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: I went for another, it was another brand. It was
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: a client, client trip, yeah. I think it was for
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: back then it was under Changi Airport Group.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: I remember one of your pictures in the Bhutan outfit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You look like a Bhutanese princess.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, because at that time I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: if there's any handsome Bhutanese man, I'm staying here.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: This was not a very fruitful conversation. OK, so this is,
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: of course, good news for us here in Singapore and we,
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: we always feel very proud when news like that comes out,
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: you know, but it also indicates certain changes in the
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: world that may not be so good for other countries.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: What can top us having more CDC vouchers?
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: The Singapore dollar has strengthened even more against the Japanese yen. Alright.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: SG. You know what this means? I'm guessing in the
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  Speaker 1: month of June, that's everyone's gonna
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: flock to
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  Speaker 2: Tokyo. So, um, I think if, you know, anyone is
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: planning already their maybe ski or snowboarding trips year-end, they
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: might already start booking, to be honest, because certain things
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  Speaker 2: can snap up really fast and if you secure it now,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you get it at a better price. So now
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  Speaker 2: it is 1 Singapore dollar to 125 yen. Yeah. So,
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: In the past, I think this was like years ago, right?
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  Speaker 2: How I would calculate my, like, uh, do my, my
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: conversion in my head from yen to SGD is just
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: minus 2 decimal points, right? Because technically it was about
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: 100 yen to 1 SGD around there,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: around there to calculate
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  Speaker 2: more convenient. Yeah, but now that it is 125 yen
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  Speaker 2: against 1 Singapore dollar, the math needs a bit more
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: math in.
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  Speaker 2: It's not so straightforward anymore because you won't get an
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  Speaker 2: exact cost.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing a calculator wherever you go in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but um the Japanese yen has continued to weaken because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they remain heavily exposed to imported energy costs.
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  Speaker 2: So it's basically what's happening in the world that's affecting
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  Speaker 2: Japan quite heavily. That said,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a music fan, Sonia, I know you love
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  Speaker 1: this band as well. In the month of August, August 13th, 14th, 15th,
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  Speaker 1: can you keep free?
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  Speaker 2: 14, 15th.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Japan together for The Strokes.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: They're performing in Japan. They're not coming to Singapore. No,
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  Speaker 1: so their world tour, the comeback tour is only in
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Japan exclusively. The rest are maybe in Europe and America.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Actually, you know what, I think they picked the right place. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Japan is the perfect spot for the shows. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as big of a fan as you, I think.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Julian Casablanca,
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  Speaker 2: man, that guy, take a listen. So
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: think one will be in Tokyo for them and night
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: two in Osaka. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Take your pick. 22 nights in Japan. Lovely. OK.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's hoping we have the time to go there
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  Speaker 2: and make your bookings. Robert's gonna be in Singapore very
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  Speaker 2: soon for cloud nine.
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  Speaker 1: I read
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  Speaker 1: this article and I thought of Sonia Chew immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, OK, what? What scam now?
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  Speaker 1: And the second thought is, I wonder what we can
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  Speaker 1: do as a society to help people like these,
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  Speaker 2: like me, is it? Yes. What scam is it related to?
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  Speaker 1: Not scam.
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  Speaker 1: Package not package. It's the other one that I always
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  Speaker 1: make fun of you for hoarding.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, I'm not a hoarder. I'm not a hoarder,
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  Speaker 2: just clarifying,
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  Speaker 1: OK. Have you seen your car in your locker?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen my car recently? It's very clean. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing inside, only my jacket, some shoes. Yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 2: so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Keep going
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  Speaker 2: more
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  Speaker 1: shoes.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so, I mean, yes, as much as it's tongue
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  Speaker 1: in cheek for me and Sonia, but this is actually
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  Speaker 1: an issue because I just saw that there's an article saying,
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  Speaker 1: volunteers clear Yishun hoarder's house multiple times. The same person.
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  Speaker 2: OK,
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  Speaker 1: over a period of time, guess how long the period
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  Speaker 1: of time is?
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  Speaker 2: Um, a year?
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  Speaker 1: No, longer.
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  Speaker 2: 10 years. 10
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  Speaker 1: years is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So these volunteers have been focusing on this one
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  Speaker 1: particular Yishun flat for 10 years. They've cleared it, but
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  Speaker 1: neighbors say it takes them less than a month for
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  Speaker 1: the hoarding to start again.
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  Speaker 2: But they need psychological help, you know, because this is
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  Speaker 2: a condition. So
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  Speaker 1: apparently it's an elderly couple and the husband is the
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  Speaker 1: one who wants to throw away things. The wife will say, no, no, keep.
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  Speaker 2: But how do they accumulate so many things?
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  Speaker 2: Within a few months. So
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  Speaker 1: in the pictures, what I'm seeing is loads of newspapers,
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  Speaker 1: spoiled umbrellas, plastic bags.
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  Speaker 2: Are they
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  Speaker 2: taking things from somewhere else and putting it in their
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  Speaker 2: house or what? I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently it's flooded towards the corridor areas now, which,
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  Speaker 1: which it's a fire hazard. It is yeah and they
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  Speaker 1: might have gotten a warning from town council to remove
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: these things and maybe even our friends over at SCDF.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I wonder what the next moves are, man, because
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  Speaker 2: this one, it sounds like they really need some
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: medical help. But the powers that need to be very
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  Speaker 1: carefully and it becomes social media news, the comment section
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  Speaker 1: will lamba whoever it is that handles the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I've always had great respect for the volunteers.
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  Speaker 2: I know some people that do it, and I've met
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  Speaker 2: them and they told me about how they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: clear up certain people's houses. It is not pretty at all.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the hoarders actually have hoarded to the point
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: where there are things living in your house that you
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: don't want. OK, I'm just, I'm not going to say
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: it because it's my greatest fear, amongst other living things
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: that are in the house, OK, pests and all that. Yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: And focused more, maybe in parliament in the future, there
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: might be some discussions about it. But yeah, if you
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: know anyone who is a hoarder, maybe you can text
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: us over at 9005097. What do you usually say to
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: them to try to try your best to get them
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: to stop doing this
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: habit?
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Actually, remind me of a really random.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: OK, and I don't know if I shared this with
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: you before. OK, I'm going to keep it vague because
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but um, it's
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: related to someone that I wasn't in touch with for
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a long time. We reconnected and um this person invited
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: me to their place, OK? Say, oh, I actually, I
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: live nearby, like, do you want to just stop by?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I was like, of course, of course, it's a nice area,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: by the way, nice area.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: And I was like, of course, yeah, like, and it's,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: it's like when you catch up and no time was lost,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: you know, that kind of feeling. So obviously, we've had, you,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you know, you feel great about it. So I went
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: over to this person's place and to my shock and
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: sheer surprise, this person is a hoarder, and I don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: think they realize it. And they, they do live with
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: someone else, their partner, um, and I'm guessing both of
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: them just don't realize it anymore.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: But it was my first time experiencing this, and this
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: person is like a millennial, OK, it's not an elderly
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: person at all, because you might think immediately, oh, hoarding
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: or elderly, you know, you might make that connection. So
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I was really shocked and it was things like,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Um, things in their room that you don't expect to
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: see in the room. I don't even know how to start,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: but it was pretty scary and the smell was, it
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: hit me immediately when we stepped in.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Well, the habit of hoarding does not prevalent here in Singapore.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just that that concerned me because it was
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: a it was a classmate of mine from like a
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: while ago.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: There you go. I think the pictures and the articles
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: available for you on our news website. Just go have
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a look for yourself if
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you want to.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: 87 secret.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: itself.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Good morning guys. It's Frida. Hello Frida. How are you today?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And do you feel like you could be 80 richer?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Shooting my shot now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Here's hoping that luck is on your side as well.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do with $8000 if you win? Honestly, um,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: at the top of my head, first I got to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: win that money and then maybe sharing it or going
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: on a trip. OK, sharing it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: OK. Win first, then do all these later. Are you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: ready to play, Frida? Yes.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Listen very carefully.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: For $8000 what is the 987 secret sound?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Um, changing like the gears on the bicycle. Changing the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: gears on a bicycle is your final answer?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You are incorrect.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yo, your chance to play
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: 987's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: secret sound continues.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: That sound.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Fedda, we are so sorry. You know the answer we're
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: looking for and apparently according to boss Janice, this was
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: just said yesterday. Oh, it was. Yeah. OK. You must
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: tune to every show to eliminate all the wrong guesses,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: OK? Thank you so much for trying though, and don't
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: give up, OK, Frida? Have a great weekend. Thank you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: One guess win big.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What's that sound? About to open up the phone lines
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: right now. I'm gonna
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: put on my pseudo property agent hat.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: dear, bro Joe.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Prop Joe like prop next, but prop Joe
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Joe and now is it yeah is better anyway, look,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I think property agents islandwide here in Singapore, they're all
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: focused on one area right now.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Ah, because there's a lot of developments going on,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: right? Yes, and if I'm not wrong, OK, this is
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: from friends and people that I know in my life
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: who are property agents. They're saying that T Gardens it's
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the first like condo launch, private launch over at the T.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: So in the area is mostly BTOs or BTO and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: it's still developing because I was there to film some
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: content piece about the central cooling system a few weeks ago.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, looking at it, I went, OK, there's still a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: lot to be done
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: because it's a new, a new
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: area.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you would know that ACS Primary is shifting
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: there very soon and it will be a co ed school.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be the the bus interchange will be underground.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: The roads will be above ground. It's a car-free town
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and all that. But for now, yes, plenty of, uh,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: developments happening. So that's why the, the, the, the theme
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: now is, OK, you buy Tega Gardens now, then you
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: sell it in 5 years. So they're kind of.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Marketing it to be the next Punggol, to which I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: went running from Serangoon to the Punggol coast area and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, OK, as a local tourist
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to another part of Singapore that I don't really go
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Bishan,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it's actually very nice and, and running along the, the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: riverside where I face Coney Island, it's actually very peaceful.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: It is, it is, but would you live there?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That's the question.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: That's the question
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is asking.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Would you?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Because I know that we all know here on 987,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you always say you don't want to live anywhere except
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Bishan. Yo, I'm, I'm a Bishan boy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: We know
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: this,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: but maybe when I retire from everything at 60 plus, OK,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: if I want to view the river for the rest
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of my retirement life, you wake
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: up to it, maybe
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I would
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: know, but is it
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Does it an unblocked view though? Yes,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: there's a, I mean, Coney Island is right there. There
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: are a few Punggol developments where they call it the sunrise.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: OK, so that means there will be nothing in front
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: of you. Yeah, OK,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: famous red bridge that runners and cyclists would know about.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, would you live in an unfamiliar to you, like,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: for example,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: would you want to give it
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a shot?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, look, I've moved about a bit throughout
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: my life, you know, I started in the Katong area
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and then, you know, we
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: moved about nearer towards Changi and then towards Pasir Ris,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Pasir Ris Tampines area, and then I moved to Siglap, right?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So mostly, I know it sounds mostly east side.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I am open to it. I'm open to it only
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: because I drive. OK. So that is an important, I
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: feel that's an important factor. Like, are you able to
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: get to places easily and quickly? That being said, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: know some friends who do live in Punggol and or
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: or Sengkang and all that, and they do sometimes lament
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: about how long it takes for them to get to places,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: which we already know that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: For someone who has lived in Pasir Ris for a
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: long time, I have a bit more patience with the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: duration of time that I get, I take to get
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to places, but if I were to have a preference,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And if, if there's, if there's, if I could choose,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to have to drive more than like
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: 20 minutes to get to my workplace, you know what
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I mean? But that's just my
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: point of view.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Now for people who are considering Tengga, if you're wondering,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be Honga MRT,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Hong, yeah, yeah,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: right next to Tega Gardens and even the Tengga Estates
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: as well, and I think somewhere maybe 7 minutes down
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the road there's Brickland MRT.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I wonder how the traffic traffic is in that area
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: like during peak hour because I know.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: My friends who do stay around Punggol Sengkang and all that,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the traffic can build up quite badly during peak hour. OK,
• 23:20
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• 23:27
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• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Would you want to live, I mean, here in Singapore
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in an area that's unfamiliar to you?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Because of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: potential of it,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you know, I, I honestly think that a lot of
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: couples who BTO, they may be moving to places or
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: moved to places that they're not familiar with because sometimes
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you just don't get the area that you want.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: And yo, some Punggol flats now are transacting for almost
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: $1 million already. I
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: mean, I think it's very generous in size some of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the places, yeah. Give us a call 669-11987. Maybe you're
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: experiencing this right now or you've already experienced it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Would you live in an area that's unfamiliar to you?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: You can also send us a WhatsApp message discussing about
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: whether or not you will choose to live in an
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: area or you're open to living in an area that's
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: not familiar to you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Inspired
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: by all the property agents now hyping up Tunga Gardens,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the first private launch over the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: area.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's also part of their job, right? So yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they're, they're really doing the brochures, the online explanations and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: all that, very nice videos as well.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, to answer your question, let's go to WhatsApp
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: right now. I want to say good morning to Jay.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Jay says, morning, Sonia and Joakim. During my 2024 BTO selection,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I was actually very close to choosing Tenga, but in
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the end I went with Chu Chu Kang since it's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: just down the road, and Tengga still felt quite ulu
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: at that time. The traffic along the CCK Jurong stretch
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: has already been quite crazy ever since the.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: BTOs started coming up, so I can't imagine how crowded
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it will get once everything is fully developed. Probably similar
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to how Punggol is now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing, because from what I was saying earlier, right,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: having lived in Pasir Ris, um, there, there's only like
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that many ways out of that area, you know. So
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: people who are living in like Sengkang, Punggol, Pasir Ris,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: they're all taking the same stretch of road out.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: To go to Yishun,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the highway, right? Same thing. I want to say
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hello to Patrick. Patrick says, Hey, Joakim and Sonia. Patrick here.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: My wife and I stayed in the West ever since
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: we were born. Moved to Sengkang when I got married.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Never regretted it, especially when we stayed just with so
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: many amenities around our place swimming complex, NTUC, hawker center,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Sheng Xiong, etc. all within.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: 5 minutes of walking distance. The kids' school is also
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: just below our block. Such a great place. Never regret
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: buying a BTO
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's sweet. See, that's the thing, because now that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: area is becoming more developed, right? They may not even
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: have to leave their hometown.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: And one coming in from WL. Hey guys, I stay
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: at and I love it so far. It's peaceful and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: it's
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Almost everything that's needed. Honestly, Singapore is so small. No
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: matter where we move, we will always adapt very quickly
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and traffic over there is pretty OK.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Pretty OK for for now, for now, before more people
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: move there. Yes. OK, we're gonna head to our phone
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: lines in just a little bit, but keep your stories
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: coming through and if you are experiencing it right now,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: let us know. Would you live in an area that's unfamiliar?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Familiar to you. And welcome back to the conversation here.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: The question is, would you consider living somewhere here in
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Singapore that you're unfamiliar with? Yes,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: inspired by the first launch of that area, Gardens. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: wonder what the balloting queue would
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: be.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Don't know, man. I mean, look, uh, what is the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: most developed area nearest tonga right now?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: You would say. I'm, I'm not familiar with that area. Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: like it's surrounded by a few other areas, is the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: most developed, OK, OK, because earlier on we heard from
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Bernice and she said Sembawang, she doesn't mind staying there forever,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I guess. Let's head back to our messages.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Say good morning to Jay. Hey, Sonia and Joakim, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: lived in the west for 22 years when I was single,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: stayed in the east for another 22 when I got married. OK,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I just disclosed my age.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Just moved to the north side a year ago, so yeah,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I'm open to staying anywhere in Singapore, but I don't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: think I can afford the south side. So expensive la.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So far I lived in the north side since my
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: block is just 2 minutes away from the MRT, but
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: still east side, best side.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: That's what we always say. Come to the east.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Another one coming in from Morning props and sons. Stop it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: East side is the best side. I can never see
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: myself being anywhere else. Growing up in Pasir Ris and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: now in my own home in Tampines, being in the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: east is just the best. I once even ended my
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: relationship with a person because we both can't compromise on
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: anything home-wise, and she was so persistent on the west
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and me in the east. I'm glad I'm now happily
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: married to an eastie, so yay!
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I definitely did check with germs. Like I was like,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: what if we eventually decide to get a place around
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: East Coast together? Because you know, he has his own place,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: it's a bit more central. I'm in East Coast, as
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: we all know already. He's open to it. He said
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the air there is different.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: That's what you said. OK. The air feels better in
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: the East Coast.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: remember I was going out with this girl, right, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: she knows that I love Bishan so much. So we're
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: having a very healthy flowing conversation, and all of a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: sudden she asked me, So what did the girl you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: want to marry doesn't want to stay in Bishan? There
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was silence for two minutes. You break up with a girl,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is it? I didn't know how to answer that question.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I said I'll do my best to try and convince
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: her to live in Bishan.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the wrong answer. That's why you all broke up.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Incorrect. You shouldn't be trying to convince her.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But I quote the great Jeremy. The air is different
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: there also.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: The air is different East Coast, not Bishan. OK, we
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: got our last few stories and messages coming through now.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: And the question today is, would you live in an
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: area unfamiliar to
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I want to say good morning to Hamir. Congratulations, buddy,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: because he just moved into Tega two weeks ago. Oh,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: nice.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: And he shares, yes, I'm still very unfamiliar with the area.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Because only 3 people, including me and my wife just
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: moved in. Sometimes I will get lost finding my own
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: house that I have to waste my own
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: block.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, this is early stages, right? Yeah, it's,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: it always feels like that when you're the first few
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: people in an apartment block.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Wanna say hello to JM who says, I think we
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: don't get to stay in whichever place by choice. Our
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: parents chose it because of financial or work. Who knows?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: The debate will always go on depending on which area
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is developed the most. Wherever you stay, home is the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: best.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. That's such a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: model. A text coming in from Morning, Sonia.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I've been living in the central area since young. So
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: when I got married, I BTOed my new house in Punggol,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: as there's no other area at that point in time.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Everyone told me, Hey, Punggol, very far, very ulu. After
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: living there for five years, I feel that it is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: not bad and maybe like what Joakim says, I want
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to move back there at my retirement age.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: OK, OK. Well, OK, so here's the thing, I think
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: that the location matters in this stage of your life
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: as well. Like if you are super, super busy shuttling back.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: And forth for work or you want to move because
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of your, I don't know, future kids' schools or whatever,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: that's also another consideration, right? So that's probably one of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the reasons why certain schools are getting shifted to different
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: areas as you've noticed in the last few years. OK,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: maybe in the future, right, if it's not Bishan or
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Punggol for me, maybe the Greater Southern Waterfront BTOs, OK,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: it should, uh, MOP by then already. So hopefully I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: can get one for myself at my old age and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: enjoy the view of Sentosa.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: OK, it's either Sentosa or the other side facing the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: uh Outram Marina Bay side. Yeah,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: but can you choose though? Like if you ballot for
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: it or something, are you allowed to pick or resale, resale.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Whoever's selling the place, I got to see the view,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: make sure it's unblocked. Got to examine the area, so
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I gotta go and see the URA master plan and see.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Would they develop the forest into something
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: else?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Yo, Jo and I are such different people. He's planning
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for his old age right now, right now, in 2026,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: he's planning for when he's 80.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: What's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the saying, 5 steps ahead, correct?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: You're 50 steps ahead.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I can't decide if this is a good or a
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: bad thing because you need to focus on the now
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: as well, you know. Anyway, um, here's your chance to
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: walk away with a pair of tickets to be the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: first in Singapore to catch Michael. It's the movie based
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: off Michael Jackson's life. And uh we
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Ask you this question today. Would you live in an
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: area unfamiliar to you? Where would he live in Singapore?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: let me think.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Definitely 6th Avenue penthouse.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Actually, 6th Avenue, OK, maybe Bishop's Gate, you know, Bishop's Gate,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of GCB I think.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: The jewel of Newton, is it the Balmoral area. Anyway,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I think what's, uh, let's give it to Bernice who
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: called us earlier. OK, congratulations. Bernice, congratulations. Those tickets
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: are yours and you can join us. 987's movie night.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: That's next Tuesday. Hope to see you there. 21st.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: April you'll be among the first in Singapore to catch Michael.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I, I don't want to use the phrase
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: no spoilers allowed because we know
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: we know the entire story. No, but I'm interested to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: see how they adapted it on screen. So I think
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: that will still be a surprise.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Jaffar Jackson, take a bow, my friend.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us here today. OK, so, like
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier, $300,000 regrets. What do you think this
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: could be?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It's a bit too little to be a BTO amount
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to a house or could it be? I don't know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: maybe the estates.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Um, actually, I think 2000 is enough to get a flat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: it's actually not related to any of the Singaporean things.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So not even a scam.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: No, not a scam, not a scam.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: $300,000.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Something that cost 3000
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: 100,000
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: dollars by Gogh. It is not a physical item.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Like a material item. It's not something that you can
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: take home with you. cryptocurrency. It's not crypto either. OK,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I'll just tell you, OK. Kris Jenner spent $300 sorry,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I know a plot twist right. I know. She spent
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: $300,000 on a facelift, OK.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I joking is face palming right now. OK. Let me
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: hold on. Let me, let me give you some context,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: give you some context, OK. So if you recall, I
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: think it was a few months ago, she celebrated her
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: 70th birthday. So she's the same age as my mom
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: and close in age to, to my dad as well, OK,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: because they, they got me pretty late. Um, that's why
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: they're older than your mom, right? Actually, I think your
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: mom's a bit younger. So then she debuted her new
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: face with her face lift and everything.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So many compliments were pouring in saying, wow, Kris Jenner
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: looks great. What's her doctor's number? We need to have
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: it and all that, right? And now it's been a
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: few months and apparently she's complaining that her face lift
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: is not lifting anymore. It's starting to droop.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: The lift
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: went to the basement
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: so bad,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: so bad.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And to which I think a lot of plastic surgeons
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: have started weighing in online. I saw some like local,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: you know, um, aesthetic and plastic surgeons also give their
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: two cents. Um, the fact is that the moment you
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: do the face lift, apparently, it will look very, very
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: taut and very good for a while, but the moment
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: all the swelling goes down, the healing happens, all the
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: proper healing happens, right, you will start to see the
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: real results.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: To which Kris Jenner's not happy, OK, because she said
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: she spent almost half a million dollars and the facelift
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: is starting to sag.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: To which I feel I'm so grateful that the people
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: that we are surrounded with like your mom, my mom,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, our friends, parents or whatever. Firstly, we
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: don't have 3000 to spend on a facelift. Secondly, they're
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: not concerning themselves about that at all. I,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: feel that we should put this question to aesthetic doctor
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore and ask him or her what went wrong.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, it's not that anything went wrong. They're saying
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: that this is a realistic result for someone who is 70.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: 70 years old, but she wants to look like 30
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: No Botox can hold it,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: right? It's not Botox. It's a face lift, surgical. This
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: is me being clueless. But, but can I also just
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: point out, yeah, yes, there's there's the ladies who do
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: it and the men do it as well because you know,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the movie is going to be out in cinemas very soon,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and I think that the world premiere, right? Michael's brother.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Jermaine Jackson, his face is heavily Botoxed
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: maybe too
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: much,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: too much.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Someone is pulling the back of his head. It's scary.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: It's scary. Yeah, too tight.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: So the day I ever do Botox or fillers or whatsoever,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: slap smack you, please, yes, but even if I do,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: you have no reaction because you cannot have any expression
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: in your face.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: That's quite true.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: So the Premier League's official Instagram account, which is Premier League,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: sending all of us Singaporeans into a frenzy. Because if
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: you see this post, Sonia, Majulah Singapura, and they put
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the picture of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer, and some
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of the players there. We got Holland, we got Odegaard,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: we got Bruno Fernan, Kauru Mitoma is there as well.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Japanese
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: bro. Yeah,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Mitoma, yeah, that's him.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: What team does he play for?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Uh, uh, team, not country,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: right?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, Arsenal.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Never mind, I'm moving on. Um, what's the answer? Brighton
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: and how would I have guessed that? OK, so if
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: you were to look at this post, what would you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: think it entails? Like
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: a meet and greet or
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: something? Yeah, me too.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So these players are gonna come here. So I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: thought
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: they're gonna announce like, oh, Premier League team is coming
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to Singapore because usually they tour Asia in the month
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of July, like a preseason thing.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Is it a break for them then they come,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: but this year I don't think they will because it's
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: World Cup. So June, July, they're all gonna watch US, Canada, and, uh,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and Mexico. But my answer and my theory is I
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: think they are announcing the official launch of the Premier
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: League streaming app.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: OK, that has not been available here.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: No, it's a new thing. OK. So I think Singapore
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: is among the first few locations they're gonna launch it at,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to which, as a football fan, I mean, yes, we
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: have our own Premier League app now. Well, well, well done.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But if your team is playing in the Champions League.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That means you still must stay with your telco that
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: brings in the Champions League, and then you're paying for that,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna pay for the Premier League streaming
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: app.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: OK, I, I have a question. So for the Premier
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: League streaming app, they can't, they only stream Premier League
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Premier League football, OK, which is different from Champions League.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know about whether the FA Cup
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: fall under there as well or the League Cup.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Do you get any other perks like, you know, behind
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the scenes, documentary, like, you know, like try to survive
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff when it comes to F1,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: maybe, but that's specifically for the Premier League. OK. So
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: if you want to watch your Spanish Premier League or
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: what else, Italian league or what, you got to stay
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: with the telco providers. Well,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: in that way, everyone makes money, I guess.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Football is becoming very expensive, man.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't relate.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And if I look at this year's World Cup tickets,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: it's like crazy, right? Is it 5 digits?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: You would think that Diego Maradona might rise on a
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: dead and play a game of football as well. How,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: how much is it? It's like going for 4 or
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: 5 figures, 4 or 5 figures, and traveling fans are
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: complaining about it. The people are just really angry that
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: it's costing so much. How do
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: people get money for this?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: So they're driving up, they're driving up flight tickets.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: They're driving up hotel prices. They're going to drive up
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: food prices as well. It's gonna be a very expensive
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: World Cup.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: And yet people still go. Yeah,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: so thankfully us at Media Corp here at MWatch, right,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: if you want the entire package, it's the same as
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the last World Cup, $98.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: OK, really good
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: for you. Better sign up
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: now before it's too late. Slightly different form of food
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: news here today. OK. So you, you might have heard
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: over the past few months or even in the recent
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: years that when it comes down to food reviews, right,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: it can get a little bit tricky.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Because people may even start leaving fake reviews to ensure
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: that there's a negative impact on a particular restaurant. Or,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: for example, if Sonia and I have our own individual
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: hawker stalls and we are both rivals, we are both
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: selling chicken rice, OK, I could maybe create 10 or
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: 20 different fake accounts and go.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. That's what they call it, kind of like
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: a bombing.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Um, some consequences may be in store now if you
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: are caught leaving fake negative comments. OK, slightly different type
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: of food news here today. It's not really about recommending
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a certain place or a new opening or whatever, but
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: it's quite interesting because I think in the recent years,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: especially with the rise of even more food review websites.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: and that you don't even need a site right now.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: You just create a social media account. You can easily
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: make or break an eatery. OK, do I sing it?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You can.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: 123, food news, news. Sonia with the warning. Food news.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I don't
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: know. OK, so you may have read recently, and I
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: think we, we addressed this on air as well.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: About a particular eatery that came under fire for that, uh,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: bringing your own drinks into the eatery thing, yeah, the
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: outside food and drinks rule, yeah. So you can go
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: ahead and read up on it on your own because
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: they found themselves in the center of this.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Um, situation where there were a lot of mixed opinions
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: and reviews. So I think some people were defending the
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: restaurant saying like they have a right to have their
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: own rules, you know, it's their own business. Some other
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: people were saying like, hey, but they should have, you know,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: a little bit of flexibility could have gone a long way, right?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: And it could have prevented this whole saga online. worms. No,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: so what happened after that incident was that some people
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Who have not actually gone to this particular place started
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: leaving comments, and it brought their rating down massively. OK,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: so I think on like a Google review or something,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: it went down to 2.6 stars, which is quite bad lah.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Anything below 3 stars is bad, right? Go bombed, yes.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: So that's the term that we use now in the
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: recent months and years where we see other people getting
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: this too, maybe from competitors or people that don't like them.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: So, there was actually a legal team that was consulted, um,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and I think our friends over 8 Days Eat actually
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: published this. The problem with reviews is that you are
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: entitled to your opinion, so you can dislike something like
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: we could have eaten at the same restaurant and
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I loved it, but you hated it, and that's your
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: own opinion. So it's very hard to take legal action
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: on that. However, if they're able to find out that
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: this person has not even been to the restaurant and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: they're just review bombing, it could be a cause for,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: it could be a reason.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: To amount to a defamation suit.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: So my question is, will actively look at all the
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: reviews and sue every
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: one of them
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I know. I don't know because that's gonna take quite
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of effort, um, but if they're able to
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: find that the statements are untrue or recklessly without any
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: belief or truth and they've never been to the place,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: they can take legal action.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Because if
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: let's just say if out of 10.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Six of these reviews are fake reviews and it brought
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: their rating down from what, a 4.something to a 2.6, right?
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: That's actually a very drastic effect.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: It's huge. I mean I'm glad that we're clarifying this
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: is a possibility I think.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: A lot of independent F&B owners struggle sometimes because they
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: don't know how to deal with it. Like what are
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: the next steps? How do they fix the rating?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: And by the way, if you think you're hiding behind
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: an anonymous account, we are safe. No, you're not. There are.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: There are ways to find out who you are, whether
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: on Google reviews or TikTok or Instagram.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: There
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: are ways and people can be very determined, especially if
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: it's their business. Yeah. So that's just a little warning
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: I I witnessed our darling Sonia Chew frantically typing on
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: her laptop, and then I asked her, what were you doing?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Are you filing taxes?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, can you not out me like that? Show is
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: ending already. Why do you want to bring up, drag
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: up this unnecessary information? And she says,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: yes. So by the way, don't forget, ah, today is
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: your last day. Tomorrow
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: is of April finish. I'm still early. Tomorrow is the deadline.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: You like almost an entire
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: month. Yeah, I was doing other stuff. I'm still within
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the deadline. What's wrong with that? That's why they give
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: you a deadline. I'm one day.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: It shows how we are so different from each other
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: drastically different. I got mine on the first day done,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: finished settle.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: For all, I
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: mean, I think there's a benefit of, you know, just
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: waiting it out for a little bit, you know, just
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: be a bit more precise, yeah, make sure I got
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: the right documents.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: So again, if you need to file your taxes, so.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, thank you, thank you for that. And of conversation,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: because I don't want my parents hearing this. They're gonna
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: nag at me, OK.