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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 110626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Next.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Still solo
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  Speaker 1: and yours for the rest of the week, but coming
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  Speaker 1: up during the show, a lovely dining experience worth $100
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  Speaker 1: at One Flower Hill in Sentosa Wild Sea Cafe. Can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to tell you more, and I really just hope
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  Speaker 1: you have a fantastic day ahead. Stay tuned. Singapore's number
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  Speaker 1: one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: It's been what, a couple of months or maybe 2
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  Speaker 1: months or so since she did that epic uh reveal
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  Speaker 1: on the stage in Coachella, right, with Anima. That was Coachella, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the next big thing, Tomorrowland will happen very soon. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's at the end of July or so. Two weekends,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. Lineup is sick, it's crazy. So we're very
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  Speaker 1: excited to see um what else unfolds for Tomorrowland. But first,
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  Speaker 1: later on during the 9 a.m. hour, just after we
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  Speaker 1: hit 9:00 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited because this lovely guy, um, he's, I
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  Speaker 1: think 31, and he's decided to take it upon himself
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that people, uh, network and interact a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like it's bringing back the old days
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  Speaker 1: of like kampong spirit, you know, that our parents used
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about or our grandparents used to tell
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  Speaker 1: us about. We watch it in movies, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: see it enough. Honestly, even when I was growing up, um,
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Pasir Ris like most of my life in, um, OK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say what block, but, but I lived
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  Speaker 1: there most of my life and for the most part, right,
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  Speaker 1: the void deck was empty, you know. I'm not really
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  Speaker 1: sure why, um.
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  Speaker 1: Whether or not people just don't hang out in that
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  Speaker 1: particular void deck, maybe there's another preferred void deck where
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  Speaker 1: people hang out at near the community garden. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: that before. So, so that could be the case, but
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  Speaker 1: Sheen Pang decided, you know what, I'm gonna bring void
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  Speaker 1: deck community dining back or perhaps make it a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Um, he's decided to make lots of soup, give it
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  Speaker 1: out one day. It became such a hit, and he
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  Speaker 1: noticed a lot of residents just like mingling, talking to
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  Speaker 1: each other. I thought that was really so cool. And
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  Speaker 1: this is such a heartfelt initiative. We decided, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we want to bring Xan Bang onto the show because
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  Speaker 1: I think the perception is that, oh, we only interview
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  Speaker 1: celebrities or we only interview, um, famous people.
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  Speaker 1: Um, or influencers. No, that is so not true, especially
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  Speaker 1: not on the shock circuit. We want to bring attention
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  Speaker 1: to stories that the regular person and the regular Singaporean
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  Speaker 1: out there has to offer.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, that feels very, very fulfilling to me. So,
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to catch Shem Bang with us and find
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  Speaker 1: out more about his story. Like what, what inspired him
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  Speaker 1: to do this is, has there been requests to replicate
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  Speaker 1: this in other neighborhoods here in Singapore? That could be
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  Speaker 1: really cute. I think he's on to something for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just after 9:00 a.m. and uh something that
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  Speaker 1: happened to me just yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: has got me in a bit of a sticky situation today.
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  Speaker 1: I can't turn my head to the to the right
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  Speaker 1: properly to check my blind spot when I'm driving or
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  Speaker 1: to my left, and I cannot believe this, but um
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  Speaker 1: I think I slept on the wrong side of the
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  Speaker 1: bed yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And when I stretched, like, I don't know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a random stretch. I was yawning, I stretched. I somehow
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  Speaker 1: like pulled my shoulder muscle. I don't know whether it
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  Speaker 1: was because it was my first time going back to
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  Speaker 1: Pilates after a month and all my muscles felt really
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  Speaker 1: strained and one wrong pull or one wrong stretch, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, messed up my shoulder muscle the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: And anyway, super stiff, um, as of yesterday afternoon and today,
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  Speaker 1: that I cannot really turn my head. So I'm like, help.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced this before? I'm sure you have, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like it's one of those stupid things that I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had a better story for it. In fact, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I should come up with a better story
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  Speaker 1: instead of, oh, I yawned and stretched and pulled a muscle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I should be like, yeah, I, I fended,
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  Speaker 1: I fought off a bear or something, a ferocious animal.
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  Speaker 1: But that's me. And um yesterday throughout the whole Pilates class, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I still went to Pilates despite having um a slightly
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  Speaker 1: injured shoulder. Um, I had that, you know, that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that medicinal patch that you put on your sore muscles. So,
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  Speaker 1: I've never actually gone down into the store like Watson's
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  Speaker 1: or Guardian to purchase one for myself because I used
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  Speaker 1: to just like steal it from my dad, right, when
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  Speaker 1: I was living with them. I went down to buy it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh I basically smelled like a, like an uncle
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  Speaker 1: the whole, the whole Pilates session. Like the girls were
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  Speaker 1: just laughing at me because it was slowly peeling off
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  Speaker 1: as I was doing the exercises. So, hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: Rose actually. What a cute pairing. I mean, is that as,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, hint of new music coming perhaps? You
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  Speaker 1: never know, to be honest. Like every time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: celebrities post that they're hanging out together, I'm like, yep.
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  Speaker 1: There might be a collaboration coming up. Speaking of which,
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  Speaker 1: Ariana Grande's, uh, new music, definitely want to check that out.
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  Speaker 1: But on another note, like I was saying earlier,
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  Speaker 1: Um, even though our police here in Singapore have warned
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  Speaker 1: us many, many times, countless times about concert ticket scams,
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  Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to big concerts like BTS, for example, um,
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  Speaker 1: they definitely put tons of, of warnings out that beware
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  Speaker 1: because people are going to prey on you and if
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  Speaker 1: you're so keen on watching this particular artist, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I understand how it feels when you have a passion
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  Speaker 1: for something, when you really, really, really want to get tickets, um.
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  Speaker 1: You want to believe in the best of people or
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  Speaker 1: the good of people, right? You, you just always say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: other people will get scammed, but not me. I won't
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  Speaker 1: get scammed. I, I know what I'm doing. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we usually think, right? However, at least $68,000 has been lost,
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  Speaker 1: even after repeated warnings about ticket scams. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: actually a bit over $680,000 to be honest. And uh
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  Speaker 1: I wanna take a guess at
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  Speaker 1: Which particular platform, um, scammers approach victims on the most,
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  Speaker 1: it was actually X. I mean, previously known as Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually X that they've been reaching out the most. Um,
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  Speaker 1: of course, aside from X, there were other platforms they
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  Speaker 1: reached out to as well, you know, Instagram and other,
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  Speaker 1: other platforms too. But those, I, I guess, uh, X
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  Speaker 1: became the most easily accessible for most people to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to potential victims, right? And uh some screen grabs
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  Speaker 1: were actually shared with the news channels and
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  Speaker 1: Posted right now. You know, they asked for transfers and
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  Speaker 1: the tickets never arrived. Obviously, no QR code was sent, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So the police are saying, please, please remember, purchase concert
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  Speaker 1: tickets only on authorized platforms, the biggest one being Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 1: We know that it's challenging, it's difficult, we understand, totally
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  Speaker 1: get it. Um, but I'd rather you try your best
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  Speaker 1: to get that and, you know, if a friend can't
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  Speaker 1: make it, then sell you the ticket rather than
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  Speaker 1: Then paying some stranger and hoping that the ticket arrives,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? So, um, here's hoping that you,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tuning in now, you did not become a
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  Speaker 1: victim of a scam. Now, my question to you earlier was,
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  Speaker 1: when was the last time you took a piece of
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  Speaker 1: paper out, used a pen and wrote something extensively? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it could be a letter, it could be
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  Speaker 1: an exam, which we used to do all the time, right?
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  Speaker 1: Um, giving some love to our friends over at ITE
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  Speaker 1: right now. Um, unfortunately, the examination system at ITE went
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  Speaker 1: down during an assessment just a few days ago. So
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  Speaker 1: I think, um, there was a student from ITE College
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  Speaker 1: East that posted about the incident, and, uh, this student
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  Speaker 1: got up at 6 a.m., you know, reported to the
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  Speaker 1: exam venue at 8:30 for a test that will take
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  Speaker 1: place at 9:00 a.m., right?
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  Speaker 1: But apparently nobody could log on and the system had crashed.
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  Speaker 1: So the internet connection was fine, apparently. So they waited
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  Speaker 1: in the exam venue for like 22 hours or so
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  Speaker 1: before the invigilator came in and said, um, you can
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  Speaker 1: come back another time.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they were given an alternative date because
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  Speaker 1: the whole system across all three ITE campuses were down.
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  Speaker 1: So it's, wow, that was quite, quite intense. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've ever heard of that, heard of this happening before.
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  Speaker 1: But in the comment section, I think other students started
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  Speaker 1: chiming in and saying like, oh, yeah, similar experiences and
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  Speaker 1: Um, our test was rescheduled. So I think, um, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them took the exam 5 days after the
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  Speaker 1: system went down. So maybe that could be a good thing,
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: you know, you got 5 more days to just recap, refresh,
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  Speaker 1: study a bit more in case you didn't manage to,
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  Speaker 1: to complete it.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but I believe that they worked on it and
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was resolved and um all examinations were
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  Speaker 1: gonna be, we're gonna proceed as scheduled using printed scripts. So,
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  Speaker 1: I am not entirely sure whether in primary school.
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  Speaker 1: Secondary school, I'm sure that you still write your examination answers, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: have kids who are in school right now, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know. But I believe that for the most
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  Speaker 1: part in secondary and primary school, you still have to
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  Speaker 1: use like pen and paper. But as you go into
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  Speaker 1: like poly days, even for me when I went into poly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we even touched a piece of pen
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  Speaker 1: and paper because we were on our laptops or tablets
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  Speaker 1: all the time already, and everything was downloaded onto your laptop.
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  Speaker 1: So we barely wrote like a like a written essay,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Um, I do miss those times.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I really enjoyed writing and reading. I was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a nerd back then when I was
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  Speaker 1: much younger.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the one time my, my hand actually
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  Speaker 1: like almost cramped up was during my pure literature exam
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  Speaker 1: during O Levels. I was just scribbling and writing away.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize at the end, my hand felt like
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  Speaker 1: a claw, you know, because it was in that position
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  Speaker 1: for so long. But yeah, those were the times of
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  Speaker 1: written essays that really got my hand cramping up.
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  Speaker 1: And on today's episode of Bodo Crime, Bodo Crime, Bodori, Bodori,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to Changi Airport Terminal 3 again. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why people keep trying to steal from Changi Airport,
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  Speaker 1: which is like the worst possible idea ever. Not saying
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  Speaker 1: that stealing is a good idea in general, but why
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  Speaker 1: Changi Airport? That's only one of the most heavily guarded and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, surveillance place here in Singapore, right? There's so
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  Speaker 1: much surveillance everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, this particular lady, she's from Indonesia. Unfortunately, she was
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  Speaker 1: arrested for stealing two bottles of skincare worth almost $1000
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  Speaker 1: Singapore dollars. Did you manage to guess what brand it is?
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  Speaker 1: It's actually Lamer and as you, as you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a skincare um enthusiast, you would know that each bottle,
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  Speaker 1: like their, their, their moisturizing cream.
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  Speaker 1: Can already be worth like $500 right? Plus, I think
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  Speaker 1: she tried to steal like an eye cream or something.
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  Speaker 1: So in total, it was um more like about $800
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  Speaker 1: Sing dollars, you know, thereabouts. Very expensive, OK, very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, when I had the opportunity to try it
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  Speaker 1: last time, I used it so sparingly, like super, super sparingly,
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  Speaker 1: and uh it's great, but it is very expensive. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these, these two bottles were discovered missing. It
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  Speaker 1: was like um a jar rather.
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  Speaker 1: And it was missing from the Shilla Duty Free store
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  Speaker 1: in Changi Airport Terminal 3. So I think um they
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  Speaker 1: had a loss prevention officer. I didn't even know that's
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  Speaker 1: the title. They reviewed CCTV and observed this woman behaving
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  Speaker 1: like super suspiciously.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and she was entering and leaving the, she entered
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  Speaker 1: and left the store without making any purchases, but upon
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  Speaker 1: further checks, they were very sharp. They confirmed, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: the items were missing. So they lodged a police report immediately. So,
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  Speaker 1: if convicted, she may be sentenced to imprisonment for a
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  Speaker 1: term of up to 7 years.
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  Speaker 1: A fine or maybe even both. Um, hey, man, that's
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  Speaker 1: a heavy price to pay for two bottles of skincare that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, worth about 800 bucks. I mean, yeah, it's expensive,
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  Speaker 1: but what's more expensive is the time that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to waste and spend if she gets, you know, imprisoned, right? So,
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  Speaker 1: Well, please, you know, don't ever do this. Don't even try, OK?
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  Speaker 1: Changi Airport, very high security over there. And it may
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  Speaker 1: be tempting because, you know, skincare products like that can
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  Speaker 1: be so expensive, but let's just do it the honest
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  Speaker 1: way and save up like dollar by $1 right? I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to open up phone lines for this after AIDS,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: but uh just wanted to plant the seed here, OK?
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  Speaker 1: Big conversation yesterday. Uh, no, it's not about world events
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  Speaker 1: or world politics, although some people may consider this a, uh,
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  Speaker 1: very important world event, where Yaku Singapore has decided to
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  Speaker 1: drop the orange flavor and switch it out for peach. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the internet is very split right now, very, very divided. Um,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, I don't know where I stand because I've
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  Speaker 1: never tried the peach flavor before.
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  Speaker 1: Um, usually, OK, I'm a bit boring, but if I
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  Speaker 1: ever do drink Yako, it's original. I don't want like
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  Speaker 1: the flavors and stuff. In fact, OK, don't come at
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  Speaker 1: me for this. I'm not a real big fan of
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  Speaker 1: the grape flavor. I know, I know, I know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an anomaly. I like the original flavor. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: when I go to an ice cream shop, for example, right, um,
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  Speaker 1: I will usually pick vanilla. Here's my reason, OK, here's
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  Speaker 1: my reason.
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  Speaker 1: A very good gelato or ice cream shop will do
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  Speaker 1: a vanilla flavored ice cream perfectly, OK? Even though it
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  Speaker 1: seems like the most basic option, but if they do
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  Speaker 1: it well, they really do it well, and you know
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  Speaker 1: that that ice cream shop is really good. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tuning in now and you are an owner
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: of an ice cream shop, you can, you can dispute that,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, but that's just how I see it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like, you know, when I go to a cafe,
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  Speaker 1: I will want to try just their regular coffee like
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  Speaker 1: straight up, right?
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  Speaker 1: Um, I don't like adding flavors to it and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just me as a, as my preference and
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  Speaker 1: as a person. So, um, right after 8, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: wait to open up the phone lines because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like us Singaporeans, we have a lot to say about it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I saw some comments yesterday and this morning
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  Speaker 1: as well on some of the social media posts that
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  Speaker 1: were put up by different publications. People were saying like,
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  Speaker 1: how dare they not consult us first before changing the flavors?
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  Speaker 1: Because some people genuinely like the orange flavor, right?
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get to that. So, uh, keep, keep your,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: you know, keep your thoughts there and hold your horses.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to open up the phone lines in
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  Speaker 1: just a bit. OK, about time. I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: your opinions and your stories as well. So, just announced yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Much to, I think everyone's shocked and surprised, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: in a good or a bad way. Yaku Singapore has
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  Speaker 1: announced that they're removing the orange flavor and they're changing
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  Speaker 1: it to peach. Now, I thought that most people would
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  Speaker 1: be like, OK, yeah, orange was the least popular flavor anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but the internet is divided. I think people are, there
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  Speaker 1: are a portion of people, you know, that that are
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  Speaker 1: fans of the orange flavor. Um, this is a big
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  Speaker 1: change because I think they've not done any changes for like,
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  Speaker 1: Eons. Years and years, right? This is the first major
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  Speaker 1: change since they were introduced here in Singapore. I think
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: this was like way before a lot of us were born,
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  Speaker 1: like 1979, they were introduced here and I was reminiscing
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  Speaker 1: that I recall at my, when I used to stay
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: with my family, right?
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  Speaker 1: In, in the block, there'll be this auntie, we call
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: her the Yaku auntie. She will come around and she's
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: like the official reseller for Yakut or something. Maybe she's
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: a distributor, I don't know, but she has the rights
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  Speaker 1: to it. So she will go, go up every floor
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  Speaker 1: and she will sell like Yakut subscription or maybe not
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: even a subscription, just, you know, week by week if
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: you just want to get one. And it comes in
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  Speaker 1: a pack of what, 5, right? So it's just nice
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  Speaker 1: for one week. So,
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  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, those brought back memories, but like I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 1: I will always go for the original flavor. I know
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I'm very boring, but I don't really want the flavors
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: in the yak. I just want it plain original. It's
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: just like Greek yogurt.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Or any sort of yogurt. I always go for no flavor, no,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: or original, um, even coffee. I'll just go for like a,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you know, latte or like a cappuccino or a long black, right?
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  Speaker 1: I won't put fancy stuff in it because all the
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: times that I've tried variations of it, you know, put,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: put other ingredients in it, I didn't quite like it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: So I just go straight up, right?
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So I want to open up phone lines right now, 669-11987.
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  Speaker 1: I know the internet is divided, but are our listeners
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: divided as well? Let me know. How do you feel
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: about this and beyond the world of Yakuts? What are
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: some flavors that you really, really love in some, some
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: of the items like ice cream, candy, or drinks, or
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: on the flip side, what are some flavors you avoid
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: like the plague, and you always wonder why do they
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: even introduce this flavor in the first place?
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Let me know, 669-11987. Let's have some fun with this today.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: You can also drop me a message, 90050987. 0 yes,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: the internet is in a frenzy right now after Yakot
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Singapore has announced, goodbye, orange flavor, hello peach. So they're
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: replacing orange with peach, which yeah, in theory sounds about right,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: because I always had this impression that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: The orange flavor was probably the least favorite of all, right?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I've ever seen my friends or
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: even myself pick orange like by choice. In fact, I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was just saying that I just like original, that's it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: So I'm heading to messages first before we head to
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the phone lines. Got a lot of cute responses coming through.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Say hi to Adeline. You said, morning, Sonia. Funny thing
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: was I was just at a Korean restaurant last night
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: with some of my girlfriends from school, and they actually
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: give yako as like a post-meal dessert, complimentary, but I
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: suppose they already included the cost in there, but
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, I also enjoy the original flavor. At the most,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: if there's no original, I will go for green apple.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: That's my next favorite flavor. But in regards to everything else,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I typically like going for chocolate. OK, so I'm assuming
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you're talking about like ice cream or milkshakes or other
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: things like that, right?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: OK, I'm also saying hi here dude. You didn't delete your,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: your full name, but CY dropped us a message saying, hey, Sonia, honestly,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I'm quite bummed because orange flavor is always the rejected
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: one and my family will always take everything and leave
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the orange one for me. As a result, I'll have
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a plenty, plenty of stock of orange flavored yaku in
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: my fridge. Well, hey, the good news is I think
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you still have um a little under a month or
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: about a month.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I can't recall when was the date that they're really
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: pulling it off the shelves, but if you want to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: stock up, this is the time. I guess it's just
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that with probiotic drinks and yogurt type of drinks, you
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: can't keep it for that long, right? It still has
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a shelf life even though it's sealed, so.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, stock up while you can, that's for sure. When
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: we come back, we're heading to the phone lines and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: more of your messages. There's plenty of time for you
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to drop me your stories and your opinions, 669-11987 or
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: drop me a WhatsApp message and let me know. When
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it comes down to flavors, could be of drinks, desserts, food, whatever.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: What are some flavors you absolutely love or you really detest?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Like you just wonder why did they even release this flavor? Now,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: we're talking about different types of flavors when it comes
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to your desserts, food, drinks. What is something that you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: gravitate towards and what are some flavors that you absolutely avoid?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And you wonder sometimes why and how did it even
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: become a flavor that's marketed out to the public in
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the first place. All this inspired by Yakut Singapore swapping
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: out orange for peach, and it was so funny because
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I was just cracking up some of the comments, right? Um,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: some funny Singaporeans were saying, how dare they not how
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: dare they not consult us before making the change? I'm devastated. Uh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the internet is very split. Some people are saying, uh,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: no loss lah, you know, no one wants the orange
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: flavor anyway.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Some mothers are saying, no, I love the orange so much.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to find out from you, what are
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: some flavors you love and hate. Um, saying hi here
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: first to Ann. You said, morning, Sonia. This is the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: only ice cream I eat, and they, I hope that
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: they will come back to the shelf. Um, they will
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: come back every year during this period. It's super good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And I zoomed in on the picture. It's actually a
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: strawberry Haagen-Dazs crispy sandwich version. Oh, so it's like a wafer.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Kind of situation. I have to say, I don't usually
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: gravitate towards strawberry flavored things, but Haagen-Dazs ice cream in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: strawberry flavor? Yeah, it hits the spot, I have to say,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: because you can actually taste that original flavors of strawberries
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and there are strawberry chunks in there as well, right?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so thank you for making me crave this, but
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I think you just showed me a screen grab that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you are probably going to order it very soon. It
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: could be in season because when I went to France,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: it was like berry season. So, cherries were also in season, blueberries,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: strawberries were super in season. In fact, they were selling
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it quite cheap because um they're really ripe and all
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the fruits are being harvested like constantly, right? So they
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: want to get rid of the stock as much as
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they can. They can't keep it for too long because
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it's very ripe.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So, uh, to end, if you love strawberry, next time
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you go to Europe, go during the summertime. Wow, the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: strawberries hit the spot. It's different, OK? Really hits different. Um, OK,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: we're going to the phone lines right now before getting
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: back to your messages. Karissa, what about you? Uh, I
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: usually go for simple things like vanilla. Me too. That's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: about it. Pistachio ice cream. Oh, same, same, same.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I wonder what it is about other flavors that I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: don't gravitate towards them at all, you know. Yeah, I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: just stick with what I'm comfortable with, like what I've
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: been eating since, I guess. Then what is it about
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the green apple and even the grape that turns you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: away when it comes to the yucco flavors? Because I
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: know a lot of our listeners so far are saying,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: do not take away green apple and grape. They'll be
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: very sad.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Actually, green apple is really good, but grape tastes like medicine,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: so that might stir. Yeah, I know that's the thing.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, I might be stirring the pot also,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: but I personally don't like the grape. So somehow we
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: have very similar taste buds. Karissa, thank you so much
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for your call. I'm just on the phone lines right now,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: but I wanted to hit to our messages first. Got
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of hilarious ones coming through, all inspired by
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yakut Singapore replacing orange with peach and the internet is
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: up in arms right now. They're split.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Um, some people love the idea, some people hate it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Brand has come through with a message here saying, morning, Sonia.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Can you tell McDonald's to please bring back that grape jam?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I love the grape flavored jam. I'm missing it so much.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They swapped it to strawberry, and I actually stopped having
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: big breakfast ever since. Oh no, because of the grape jam,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: are you for real? OK, well, um, I don't know
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: if anyone from McDonald's is tuning in right now, but, uh,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: if you want to gain brand back as a customer,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: bring back the grape jam.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's the question today. What are some flavors you gravitate
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: towards or some that you really absolutely hate? Gonna say
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: hi here to, oh, you didn't leave your name. I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: just gonna call you H according to your, uh, your
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: WhatsApp username. Morning, Sonia. Actually, the change of flavor or
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: change of anything will cause an uprising from the consumers
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: because you can't please everyone.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: They come up with a different flavor of yaku, it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a good innovation. But to totally remove the orange is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: not great. Everyone likes their own flavor. When I was young,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the original is the one that I don't drink, but
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: now I do because I prefer it less sweet now.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I used to drink, uh, lots of drinks in a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: coffee shop, you know, almond drinks and all that. They
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: used to pour it from a plastic bottle. They don't
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: sell it in Singapore coffee shops anymore, but the best
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: flavor yet, but the best is the flavor that you're
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: used to. For example, durian ramen, who likes that, but
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: other people like it, right? I hate it, but other
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: people like it. So, in conclusion, it's just your own
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: preference and they shouldn't remove it completely.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Wow, that was a long one. Thank you so much
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: for your message. I, I think you're very passionate about
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the different flavors and the fact that they're removing it completely.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: We're heading back to the phone lines in just a bit. Now,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: when it comes to flavors, I think we're very particular
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: about it because it's something so personal, right? Like I,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I was just sharing that I find myself not being
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: too adventurous with like ice cream flavors.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Or even chocolate flavors. I know that there have been
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: some brands in the recent years, they come up with
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: like local inspired chocolates. I'm not gonna lie, I saw one,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I think I actually received it as part of a gift.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: It was like, um, bakute chocolate. I'm like, huh, I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: don't really know. OK, I didn't end up trying it. Um,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine how there's, you know, savory sometimes could
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: combine well with like dark chocolate, you know, or.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, orange and chocolate. Some people hate it,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: some people love it, mint chocolate, you know, I think,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I think Joakim loves it actually, if I'm not wrong.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Some people find it that find that it tastes like toothpaste, right?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So it's very subjective. Angela is on the line right now.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: What is something that you gravitate towards or you absolutely dislike?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: All this inspired by Yakub swapping out their flavors. Growing
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: up as a child, my favorite was always like.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Grape followed by orange, green apple, and original. OK, so
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: orange is quite up in there. It's quite high up. Yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it's quite high up and because you know, like, there's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: only one of each flavor except the original. So growing
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: up as a child,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I have two brothers and then we always fight for the,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: for the grapes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And who usually wins? You mean they don't let you win.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: You're the only sister.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm the oldest. Oh, OK,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: so hierarchy, that's
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a hierarchy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the thing is, sometimes it's like pass the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: fingers first, you know.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I understand. I, when I have meals with
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: my friends that have siblings, right, it feels like a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: war sometimes. I don't know what they're rushing for, but
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they're always rushing to finish like the food on the plate.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's like sometimes you get home, you open the fridge, hey,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the middle one is gone.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So it's like bummer, you know, so the second one
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that I would go for would be the orange, but
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I don't remember what my brothers liked as their second choice,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: but yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: That's that. Yeah, but what about the people around you,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: like your loved ones and stuff? Is there anything they
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: avoid or they love?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: There's one thing that I absolutely hate ever since I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: was a child.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Uh, great.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: No one from FNN is tuning in.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: And thank you so much for being so passionate about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: flavors this morning, all inspired by big conversation, how the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: internet is split right now about Yaku swapping up orange
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: for peach. And while you would think like, oh, most
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: people's reaction would be positive, right? But
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It seems to have brought out a segment of the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: audience that really loves orange flavored things. Although a lot
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of my friends around me don't like orange flavored anything,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to be honest, um, except orange juice, but that's about it, right? Every,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: everyone else really dislikes that artificial orange taste. I personally
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I'm OK with it, but like I mentioned earlier, I'm
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a bit of a boring person when it comes to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: flavors because if it's ice cream, it's got to be vanilla,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: because that's the mark of how good the ice cream
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: shop is, in my opinion.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Anyway, today, only 1 person can walk away with a
• 26:30
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• 26:34
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• 26:38
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• 26:47
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• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Father's Day very soon. As you know, uh, my dad
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and I, we're like besties. Love him so much and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I really wish that he could enjoy this, but no,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: we want to give this to you, you and your dad.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to enjoy this Father's Day. So we got Elvin on
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the line right now. Elvin, hello, good morning.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Hi, good morning, Sonia.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Hello, how are you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: today? I'm good. It's been a rainy morning, I guess.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I can
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: hear it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Everyone who has called me so far, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: hear the rain coming down on the car windshield and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: all that. Drive safe, please. So, Father's Day coming up
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: very soon. Are you personally a dad as well? Uh,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: not at the moment. Not at the moment. OK, same. Yeah,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not a parent either, but
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: We want our parents to enjoy, right? Especially Father's Day,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Mother's Day, and all that. It's coming up very soon
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: for Father's Day. Tell us, what are three things in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: your dad's starter pack that sums your dad up the best?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It can be iconic things that he says, does, or,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you know, things that he always wears. What is it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that identifies your dad the best?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Uh, my dad loves collar polotis, right, um, with specific
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: sports brand, so he wears that so often, and, uh,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: second item will be one of his favorite shoes. It's, uh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can say the brand, but yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: there's this one particular brand that starts with H. It's
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: really comfortable.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And the last one,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: yeah, the last item is the most iconic item ever.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Whoever knows him would definitely know it. He needs to
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: carry a comb with him around every single
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: time. A comb.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And where is this comb from? Is it like a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: old school type of comb?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Uh, OK, so it's like the, yes, old school kind
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: of comb.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you know, you know that's this
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: SQ com, the blue one, yeah, the blue one specifically that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: So before he takes any photograph, right, he will need
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to pick up a comb and he starts back swiping
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: his hair.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That is so cute. Alvin. I have a sensitive question
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to ask. Does he have a lot of hair?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He does. He, he actually just turned 70 yesterday. It was, uh, yeah, we,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: we love him so much. My family loves him so much.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: He's a pillar of the family for so many years
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of us and also right now I just want to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: give back to him and all, make sure that he
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: gets the best.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I love that. You know what, I wish we had
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a comb in this Father's Day starter pack right now.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: We don't, but what we do have is this Father's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Day experience. It's a bundle worth over $700. It's yours.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Congratulations. Yeah, what you're enjoying is a one night stay
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: over at Hotel Waterloo, Singapore. Tickets to attractions in Sentosa,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: dining experience at Rice Restaurant at MBS, Skyer Premium Power
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: bank from Metapo. Almost, I swear, this is gonna be
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like the best weekend of your dad's life.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Sonia. My dad would love it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: All right,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: have a good one with him.