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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 090726 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: next to
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: a very exciting Thursday. I think particularly for Joe, not
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: related to World Cup or anything. It's like 2008 all
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: over again. Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I'm so sorry, I've
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  Speaker 1: never played it, but we'll tell you why we brought
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: it up in just a little while. Singapore's number one
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  Speaker 1: hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: So I once again will be a little bit blur
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  Speaker 1: later on just after 9. You won't be because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anything about Assassin's Creed. No, it's, it's a game, firstly,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a beloved series. I mean, I've definitely heard
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  Speaker 1: of it before. I just never played it. So some
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  Speaker 1: of the Assassin's Creed will set you in maybe say.
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  Speaker 1: Old time Italy, Spain, OK, they've done one for Japan.
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  Speaker 1: Is it giving like mafia vibes like Godfather vibes? No, no, no, no. See,
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  Speaker 1: clearly I don't know. It's like you belong to the this,
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  Speaker 1: this little group. Oh sorry, no little group, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Of assassins and you're controlling, you're controlling world events. That's
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: what a mob does. When you say mob, I think
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  Speaker 1: of like Peaky Blinders kind of fighting and all that. So,
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  Speaker 1: so for this one, it was a very beloved series
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  Speaker 1: because for Assassin's Creed Black Flag, they introduced naval battles.
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  Speaker 1: You can build your own ship. You can take down
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  Speaker 1: legendary ships as well, black flags, and the story was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the red flags in this, in this game?
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  Speaker 1: So, Ubisoft decided to resync, remake the entire thing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's done by a Singapore-based Ubisoft office. love it. So
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  Speaker 1: we have the two creators coming on board to actually
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  Speaker 1: discuss with us more about Assassin's Creed resync. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: wait to go in-depth, and apparently they told us they
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  Speaker 1: have a small surprise for gaming fans who are tuned
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  Speaker 1: in for the interview.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. OK, so be sure to lock it down
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: if you're awake this early in the morning, um, while
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: you got the insider information. Yeah. Question that we may
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: still sometimes ask ourselves, is it love? What do we
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: know about love? We're still learning. I've been alive for
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: 38 years so far and you're still figuring it out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even dare say I know the closest small
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  Speaker 1: bit to it.
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  Speaker 1: No way. You must have learned something like through all
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  Speaker 1: your previous relationships. Definitely, yes, patience. OK, OK, compromise, and
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  Speaker 1: most importantly, communication, but must apply to the next relationship la.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah. Don't just know it, you need to
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  Speaker 1: apply it. All this knowledge for nothing. Exactly. It's storing
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  Speaker 1: in there somewhere waiting for the right moment to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, stick around because coming up in just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, we'll be giving a school a very special
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  Speaker 1: shout out, one that we dropped by just yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: it was so awesome. And the vice president of the
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  Speaker 1: Student Exco really blew us all away.
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  Speaker 1: With his little talk set on stage, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who Percha Lobang for this, but apparently the gossip columns
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  Speaker 1: have gotten hold of Taylor's wedding breakdown in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the costs and all that. I mean, there have been
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  Speaker 1: some rumors that like
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  Speaker 1: Certain guests actually leaked some photos of a few things,
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  Speaker 1: so I, I don't know, maybe she should reconsider like
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  Speaker 1: why she invited them in the first place. OK, to
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  Speaker 1: put into context here, according to AI, yeah, when I
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  Speaker 1: asked it online.
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  Speaker 1: I asked how much does it cost to book the
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  Speaker 1: National Stadium Singapore. The reply is there is no base rate,
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  Speaker 1: but it can range from 50,000 to $100,000 per day.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just for the location, FYI. There's nothing inside.
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  Speaker 1: That's National Stadium. Can you imagine in the US when
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: we come back, let me break down for you how
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  Speaker 1: much she paid allegedly for Madison Square Garden for three nights.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally just doing it because I can kind of situation.
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  Speaker 1: They don't call it the world's most famous arena for nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but I also did hear, uh, some of her prizes
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  Speaker 1: for the guests like got lucky draw, that kind of situation.
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  Speaker 1: Kati watches, got cars, some branded bags. Like how come
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  Speaker 1: your wedding don't have my, my greatest gift to all
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  Speaker 1: of you is my love and attention, you see, and
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  Speaker 1: my friendship and loads of alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us this morning. Hello. Wow. Took a
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  Speaker 1: huge bite off my mom's sandwich. I saw had to
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  Speaker 1: swallow it. He literally means his mom's sandwich, by the way. Yeah,
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: like his mom made him a sandwich, so sweet, very sweet.
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  Speaker 1: She's been cooking the last few mornings for me. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of miss that. OK, anyway, here we go. I'm
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  Speaker 1: being capoe this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Because apparently the gossip columns in the US, someone must
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  Speaker 1: have passed them the cost breakdown for Travis Kelsey and
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift's wedding, or do you think it's just like
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  Speaker 1: an estimate? I, I don't think so because there are some,
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  Speaker 1: I won't say exact figures, but rounded off figures. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so based off experience, right, who else would have the
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  Speaker 1: breakdown of the cost other than the wedding planner?
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  Speaker 1: If you think about it, like, even my close friends,
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  Speaker 1: or I didn't really have official bridesmaids or anything, but
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  Speaker 1: there were some friends who came to help, right? Why
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  Speaker 1: would I be sending them the cost breakdown? So it
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  Speaker 1: can't be my friends. I'm gonna be a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a skeptic here, the wedding planners.
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  Speaker 1: You mean the wedding planner maybe flex to their friends, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're earning and then if I was
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift's wedding planner, right, the next wine dinner I
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  Speaker 1: have with my friends, I'm gonna be spilling the beans.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: not wine, man. I'm gonna buy the whole restaurant if
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  Speaker 1: I had the contract to a wedding. OK, so again
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  Speaker 1: for context, to book Singapore's national.
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  Speaker 1: Stadium. According to AI, there is no flat rate, but
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  Speaker 1: there is a range from $50,000 to $100,000 per day. OK, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's already a lot. Madison Square Garden in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: apparently it costs a million dollars a day. a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars a day. Taylor had it for 3.
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  Speaker 1: $33 million. And, and on top of that, um, what
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  Speaker 1: about accommodations? People will have to, did she cover their accommodations?
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious. I mean, if you are a friend of
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, you probably have a house in New York
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  Speaker 1: and if you're an A-list celebrity, you can book a
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  Speaker 1: hotel suite yourself, right? OK, so to apply for a
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  Speaker 1: permit around the Madison Square Garden area and for law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement to block off the entire place, $60,000 a day
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  Speaker 1: or in total? I think in total, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Her wedding gifts, like a wedding goodie bag to her friends,
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  Speaker 1: it amounts to $4000 each.
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  Speaker 1: How many people were there, I wonder. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you book Square Garden, but it could
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  Speaker 1: be just for the aesthetic, you see.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be like completely full. So you mean
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  Speaker 1: to tell me the floor of Madison Square Garden where
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: the basketball court is they turned it into something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the only place that was used, but all
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  Speaker 1: the seats were empty. It's like a backdrop. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it could be a backdrop kind of situation. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: did other stuff there, you don't know because none of
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  Speaker 1: us were there. So we were not invited. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I think with the amounts I mentioned already.
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  Speaker 1: It's close to about $4 million or $5 million already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: plus minus is gonna be a bit more. I think
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  Speaker 1: she probably like 5 or 6. So well done to
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift again. Without pictures on your
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: own platforms, people are talking about your wedding. Exactly. This
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  Speaker 1: is marketing done, right? Even the girl that caught the
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  Speaker 1: bouquet posted something and it went viral.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it was a questionable looking bouquet. Let this
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  Speaker 1: be an example for Singaporean influencers. No need to post
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  Speaker 1: 10 times lah. People will talk about it. Thank you, Joe. OK, bye.
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  Speaker 1: About to head to the phone lines. But before that,
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  Speaker 1: just happy to say for all football fans around the world,
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  Speaker 1: we finally had one day of rest from World Cup action.
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  Speaker 1: We've all slept properly.
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  Speaker 1: But tomorrow morning it all begins again, the quarterfinals. We
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: start with France against Morocco at 4 a.m., the timings,
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: the timing. I mean, it's to match the US, I know,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico time difference. I feel for you. And
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: then of course on Saturday and Sunday we've got more
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  Speaker 1: games coming your way. Thanks for the update that I
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: didn't need. I'll just get the updates from you. Just
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  Speaker 1: watch score.
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  Speaker 1: OK, heading to the phone lines right now. Who's on
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  Speaker 1: the line? Hello. Hi. Hi, what's your name? Carla and Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Carla and Georgia, are you guys twins? No, you sound
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same. OK, but do both of you go
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  Speaker 1: to the same school? Yes. And which school is this?
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  Speaker 2: Bukit Timah Primary School. See what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? They sound like they're one person. They're so
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  Speaker 1: in sync. OK, Carla and Georgia, what do you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: about Bukit Timah Primary School? Maybe Georgia can answer first.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Friends and teachers. OK, what about Carla? Playing with
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  Speaker 1: my friends. Yes, I, I used to love, um, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, hopscotch 0 point, like old school games. Really? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: during recess. Hard to imagine, but anyway, Carla and Georgia, primary, what,
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  Speaker 1: what level are you in? I'm primary 4 and primary
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  Speaker 1: 51 year apart. Nice. OK, well, we would love to
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  Speaker 1: get you a song. Did you guys decide on a
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  Speaker 1: song that you both like? Into the Sun. OK, that's
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: coming up for you right now. Take care. Have a
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: great day. Bye.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: You might just be waking up right now. We're with you.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: I know it may seem like a bit of a
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: gloomy day. Yeah, we're going to give you the energy
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  Speaker 1: you need. It could get gloomier if you're a parent
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore and are about to go to the
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  Speaker 1: primary one registrations. Oh, and if it's your first time,
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it could be, it could be the most
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  Speaker 1: stressful period of young parents' lives here in Singapore. Are you,
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 1: aware of what the different phases mean? I don't know anything, man. OK, come.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm not prepared at all. Let me prepare you
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  Speaker 1: for the future in case there'll be a little Sonia
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: or Jeremy running around sometime, OK. What's the important info?
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  Speaker 1: Phase one is your child has a brother or sister
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: currently studying in the school. Admission is guaranteed, so there's
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: no balloting. Really? Yeah, apparently admission is guaranteed. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. Yeah.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Phase 2A, it's for children with other strong ties to
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: the school, such as parent or sibling is a former student, alumni.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Parent is a staff member on the school's advisory management
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  Speaker 1: committee or child attended the school's official.
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  Speaker 1: Affiliated MOE kindergarten. OK, OK, so some sort of affiliation, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's phase 2B for school volunteers, endorse church or
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: clan members or active community leaders, and then there's phase 2C,
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  Speaker 1: the final phase, open to everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Needless to say, right? OK, so if you don't, that's
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: the thing, if you don't have any connections or ties
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: with the school, especially an elite school, right, it will be,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: it can be pretty difficult. So apparently according to a
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: CNA article, there are 867 fewer Primary One places available
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  Speaker 1: in phase 2A.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: That means phase one was popular. So schools like Kenosa
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Primary School, for example, no vacancies left for phase
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: twoA because it's all been taken by phase one applicants. Actually,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to know because I, if I'm not wrong,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Kenosa Convent is affiliated to Saint Anthony's as well. So
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: we had a few like Kenosa girls that came over.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's the same school though.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Sounds a bit different, but so, apparently for phase 2A,
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  Speaker 1: the registration starts today, the 10th of July, and if
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: you're a parent, you will receive the results on 17th
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: of July. May the odds ever be in your favor. Yeah,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: you get the school that you want. Yeah. So take
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: note of some schools that have dropped the number of
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: places and increased number of places as well. I mean,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: do you, do you personally feel when you become a parent, right, um,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: will you be fixated on the type of school your
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: kid ends up in?
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  Speaker 1: Like, must it be a certain elite school or?
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: OK, neither one of us are from like elite school background, right?
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: But would you want your child to have elite school background?
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I won't say elite, but it's I'm familiar with. So
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: for example, if I'm still living in Bishan, you can
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: rest assured I'll do what I can to get my child,
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: if it's a boy to Catholic High Primary. OK, OK. Yeah,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: if not, then maybe Presbyterian Primary that's just across the street.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. So sometimes things don't happen the way
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: we plan, right? Like people.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: getting a flat or an apartment elsewhere, then you're quite
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: far away from your school, then how I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: about that. That's a primary school. OK, well, all the best.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck. hoping you get the one that you've been
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: having your eye on. Coming up in just a bit,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: quite a, quite a unique situation, OK.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: You go to the gym, right, sometimes for training and
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: is it like a pub like a public gym or
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: is a bit more of a private one with your trainer?
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: It's a boutique gym. Private boutique gym. OK, so how
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  Speaker 1: many people would you say there would be in any
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  Speaker 1: one time that you're there? It's 1 to 12 to 2.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so 4 people in the, yeah, so not, not
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: more than 5 people at once, right? And you go
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: during an odd hour. Well, in just a few minutes,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: find out what happened to this particular man's membership after
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  Speaker 1: repeated complaints about something. I'm not going to tell you
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: what it is. It's not, not slamming weights. I know.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that, oh, he's like being very noisy
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  Speaker 1: and inconsiderate to other people. It's not that. Was he
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: grunting noisily? Come on, bro, come on, bro. One more bro, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing to do with noise. Really? Yeah, but there were
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  Speaker 1: so many complaints about this that something happened to his membership.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you more in just a while. And I'm
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: just wondering, has this happened here in Singapore before.
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  Speaker 1: I was just asking Joakim earlier about how many people
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  Speaker 1: on average are there usually at any one time at
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: the gym that you go to, and you said about
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  Speaker 1: 4 or 5. Yeah. So, and you also go during
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a bit of an off-peak time, right, in the day. Yeah, exactly.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: So maybe not that many people. Um, unfortunately for this
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  Speaker 1: man over in China.
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  Speaker 1: His intentions, you know, are, are good. Like he just
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  Speaker 1: wants to stay fit, you know, he went through a
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: weight loss journey. Um, this gym is near his place
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  Speaker 1: and he, he loves, he's very passionate about working out.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: He signed up for a membership that was over like
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: $1000 Singapore dollars. OK. Unfortunately, there were repeated complaints about
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  Speaker 1: his body odor.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I know. So this one is a, this one's a
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  Speaker 1: bit sensitive and it's tough. It's tough, yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: think too many members started to write in and complain.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: They knew that it was this guy saying like, hey,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: you know, um, not that they want to rat out
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  Speaker 1: another gym goer, but his body odor is really too
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  Speaker 1: strong and he perspires a lot. So there were reports
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: of people not even wanting to go near any of
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: the machines that he's touched because the, the, the, the
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  Speaker 1: odor lingers. I think it's just a health thing, you know, people.
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  Speaker 1: Certain people have different health conditions, so I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether he's using any deodorant or like what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to have affected a lot of gym goers there.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Some body odors are genetic, so not even deodorant can
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: help cure.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Or you know, mask the smell for a while. Is
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: there to help? I think there could be medical help
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: that you can approach. Well, this is tricky, man, because
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore, like your yoga studio or spin class
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: or Barry's gym, for example, if the person next to
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  Speaker 1: you has strong BO, I know it can affect your workout,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: you know, it can give you migraine actually if you
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  Speaker 1: think about it, but OK.
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  Speaker 1: So, the gym was quite nice about it. I will
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: say I think they handled it quite, you know, quite well. Um, they,
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  Speaker 1: they tried their best to accommodate. I think at one
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  Speaker 1: point they even tried to move one of the machines
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  Speaker 1: closer to like a corner of the gym so that
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  Speaker 1: he can use it. So they were being quite thoughtful
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  Speaker 1: of him and seeing how he's a valuable member also, right?
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  Speaker 1: But eventually, I think too many complaints, they said, we
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: have to refund your membership, but um here's a membership to,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: here's a suggestion for membership to another gym.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So they gave him some solutions, you know, they even
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: tried moving, moving the machines. I, I got to say
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: props to them for trying. Offering a membership to another gym.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It's a tai chi move. I know, but, but I'm
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: assuming that it could be a gym that they are
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  Speaker 1: affiliated to or they know, right? But you are some
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: other gym's problem now, yeah, like their competitor. So what
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  Speaker 1: if the other.
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  Speaker 1: The gym has the same amount of complaints about the BO.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently what's happening now is that this, this dude,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: poor thing also like I know it's this health-related thing, right? Um,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: he's trying to work it out with the owner of
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: this gym because he said he likes this gym a lot.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It's very near his house. It doesn't make any sense
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for him to travel far out to another gym. So
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: maybe he's trying to tell them that he's seeking some.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Medical help or something for his BO. I don't know,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: but we'll see if there's a follow-up even. So, let's
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: let's role play, OK? OK. You are the manager of
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a gym here in Singapore, alright. In a class of
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: 2019 people have complained about me for having strong BO.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: How would you address this? I'll be like, um, sir,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you know, you're a valuable, I haven't even you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I'm like, sir, you're a valuable member of this gym. Um, unfortunately,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I need to address some concerns that, you know, other
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: people have brought up. So, um, please go to the
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: nearest Watson's and try and get yourself the best deodorant.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: If it still doesn't work, uh, you know, I hope
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that you see a doctor about your body odor.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: The way you communicated this to me, right, I could
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: give you two responses. One is, oh, OK, I hear you.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I understand. 20, are you discriminating against me? Huh? Wow,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I want to sue this gym. OK, let me call
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: my lawyer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I'm very bad with confrontation. How can you say I'm smelly?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not, but you are.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You are, then how? This is why you're the manager,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: anything at all. Let's leave it to the experts it
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to the professionals and uh at least once a week
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I would try to go visit my parents at their house,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: which is in Pasir Ris, which I, I lived there
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: most of my life, in Pasir Ris.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And I was quite disappointed to see this particular piece
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of news this morning when I woke up about um
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: something that happened over in Pasir Ris. It's not, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: wouldn't consider it border crime or anything. I think it's
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: just accumulated over time, OK, um, and I just never
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: really noticed it, although my mom has definitely mentioned this
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to me before, OK. I will say though, I don't
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: think Pasir Ris is the only place that this has
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: happened at.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like multiple different neighborhoods will experience the same thing.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: The wildlife. Nothing nothing to do with monkeys or wildlife.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I would say even at my condo, I see the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: same thing. OK. That's all I'm going to say for now. No,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: not to do with litter. It's about things that have
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: been left behind, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't categorize it
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: as litter.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So like I mentioned earlier to Joe, uh, I usually
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: try to go back to my parents' place at least
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: once a week in Pasir Ris. That's where I grew
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: up and you know, my room is still there, it's intact,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: even though things have been cleared out already and it's
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: being used. But what I didn't quite notice was actually
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: happening was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of people were abandoning their bicycles and their scooters,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: mainly bicycles. So if you walk around your block, right,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just do me a favor next and see if you
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: noticed a couple of bicycles that have been left out.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Like you can tell that it's been sitting there for years.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: No, but under your void decks, some of your void
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: decks at all neighborhoods here in Singapore, you have those
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: bike parking areas, some bikes have been there for like
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: donkey for years, and it's rusting. Uh-huh, yeah, so actually
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it's not just the HDB blocks. I think even in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: certain condos, even my, my place, I see plenty of
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether it was during COVID that like
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: everybody bought a bicycle to go and do their outdoor
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: stuff and all that. Then maybe after COVID, they realized,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: oh man, I got not much time to do this anymore.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: They locked the bike up and it just sits there.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So over in Pasir Ris, the town council cleared at
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: least 105 bicycles left out there in public. Nobody claimed it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I think, um, standard protocol is, especially if it's locked
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: up in the, you know, the estate, right?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: They will have to put a notice there to say
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that like, oh please, you know, kindly remove your bicycle.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: If not, it, it may be removed or disposed of
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: or recycled or whatever.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So apparently, despite that, um, people just didn't clear their bicycles. Honestly,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think they even realized that the note was there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: They probably just left it there to rot for years
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and years. I got so much money to spare. I mean,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you know, during COVID, what, like you could easily get
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a bicycle from any of your neighborhood shops, right? But
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: then again, the more expensive bikes won't be at those
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: car parks or bike parks. I don't think they would
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: just leave it there like that. I was gonna say
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: don't throw it away. Maybe recycle parts that can be used.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they will, yeah. Give it to our friends
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: over at decathlon for the next bicycle fair. Maybe, you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: know what, just, um, let this be a gentle reminder
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: if you do own a bicycle and you've left it
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: out there for way too long, I think go check
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: on it. It might be removed or look for that
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: one Caucasian man who was featured on CNA where he
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: repairs bikes for free. Oh yeah, that would be cute.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You can give it to him and he can repair
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and then maybe kids who want to learn how to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: cycle can use it. Exactly, which you know how to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: cycle now, right? Of course. Hello, I'm just checking.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: About to open up phone lines right now. Um, earlier
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: on during the show, we chatted about this at about
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like 7-ish, right? We were saying, imagine when Joakim and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I become parents in the future. I'm sure this will
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: be a stressful point for us, school admissions. Primary registrations
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to be exact. I think we've always heard of like,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: we've had secondhand stress from it, like hearing from other people.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Sometimes our listeners will tell us or maybe like friends.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Go through this and look, I know this. It happens
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore. Some parents would volunteer as early as
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: when their kids are even 1 or 2 years old
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: at the school they want, or, and this is going
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to be controversial, they make a hefty donation.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Or you move closer to the school, I guess that's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the easiest one, right? So apparently, if you don't know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: we have like what, 4 or 5 different phases here
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in Singapore. Phase one is your child has a brother
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: or sister currently studying in the school, admission guaranteed. There's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: no balloting. I did not know that. Phase 2A for
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: children with other strong ties to the school, such as
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: parent or sibling is a former student.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Parent is a staff member on the school's advisory committee
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: or child attended the school's affiliated MOA kindergarten. Phase 2B
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: is for school volunteers, endorsed church or clan members, or
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: active community leaders, and phase 2C, everyone else I guess.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We would fall under the everyone else if we have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: zero ties. It's not you're like you're not an alumni
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: or anything. OK, but knowing how you go back to
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Saint Anthony's, right? Yeah, yeah, does it count for the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: primary school? Oh, you know, Sonia is a volunteer, we
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: can put her under phase. I hope so. I mean,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I got an award for it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: They gave me award. I can send a picture like, hey, they,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: they gave me an award for contributions to the school.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So I hope that counts in the future if I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: have a parallel universe is entitled Sonic, right, bringing the trophy. Hey,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I got this, OK. Put my child in 2B.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, surely this counts as some sort of volunteer work, right,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in a way. I hope so, fingers crossed, but the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: reason why this is important is because I think for
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this year there are 867 fewer Primary One places available
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in phase 2A. So is the alumni, yeah, there's 867
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: fewer primary places available. That's crazy. That's a lot. Yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that's a lot. But we want to open up phone lines.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: 691-1987. It doesn't matter if you have kids, you're a parent,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or you're not, or you're single, it doesn't matter. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: think the question still stands. Do you think that your
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: primary school education is really going to shape the rest
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of your life? You can answer it as an adult,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like Joakim and I will give you an answer also,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: or you can answer it from the point of view,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: maybe you are thinking of having a kid or you
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: have a kid right now.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: IJ MGS, Saint Margaret's, and for boys who've been to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Raffles or maybe even a what's the school, Catholic High
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Primary or what, they'll say, no, my child must go
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to the school that I attended. They're, they're very insistent
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and even Nanyang Girls high as well. Yeah, but here's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the thing, like I, I can't control like do I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: have a, like what if I don't have a girl
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in the future? OK, like she can't go to to.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: If it's a girl I know you definitely try for
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Saint Anthony's. If you have a son, OK? Which, which
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Catholic school? I know Catholic school already. OK, I know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I believe in that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I just have to think about it. Joseph's I've not
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thought about it at all. SGI is my dad's old
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: school actually, so maybe SGIGI Junior, but I did, uh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: date a dude from SGI before. It didn't turn out
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: so well, so I'm not so sure. Hello.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: One bad SGI boy doesn't represent the whole cohort, OK,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding because my father from SGI also.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Actually, I think that might be the same year. I'm
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. Give us a call 669-11987. Do you
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: really think that your primary school education will shape the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: rest of your life? You can answer from any point
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of view at all. Doesn't even matter if you have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: kids or you don't intend to have kids, you're single,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. In exchange, we've got our last two
• 26:08
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• 26:10
  Speaker 1: friends over at Broadside.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Something special to look forward to, by the way. They're
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: celebrating their 20th anniversary here in Singapore from now all
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the way to the 26th of June. Congratulations, guys. $100
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: by calling us on the topic of primary school admissions
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: because it is the time of the year, I'm guessing,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and you were mentioning earlier on, some parents can be
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: really stressed out, especially first-timers, right, who have never experienced
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this before.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Some will start volunteering before the child is born. No, really,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in anticipation, get their name in the parent support group,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you know, become prominent. Oh, Angela, OK, OK, Angela, Angela
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: from random name. Going to our messages first, our question
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to you today is, do you feel like your primary
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: school education will really shape the rest of your life? OK,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I want to say good morning to Nizam. Morning, Sonia
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and Joki. The government say what?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: School is a good school, right? So it won't matter
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: to me. There's more factors that affect the child's education upbringing, OK?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: And one coming in from Crystal. Hey guys, as a
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: mother of two, I enrolled my children in the nearest
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: primary school to our home simply because it was the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: most convenient. It also happened to be my alma mater. Personally,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that the primary school a child attends
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: shapes who they become. Primary school is a time for learning,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: having fun, making friends at that age.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Age, children are generally less concerned about status or judging
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: one another. I feel that secondary school is where children
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: begin to form their own identities. They develop closer friendships,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: find their own cliques, and are more influenced by their peers.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: That's often when they start to discover who they are.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Can I respectfully disagree with Crystal's statement about the primary
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: school being a place for fun and all that? I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: was from Catholic High Primary. It's the parents.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: That compete, you know, yeah, so it's not really the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: kids or is on hold, but I don't know whether
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: this applies to every school though, because what she's saying
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is that if you don't worry too much about it
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, every school, if you go by that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: logic of every school is a good school, so the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: kids want to have fun, but because the parents are
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: so competitive, it rubs on us, the kids, yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So that's the thing, my parents were not like that. They,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: but yet I did turn out competitive in my adult years.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: But in, I think primary school I was sleeping through
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. I don't remember much. I was like,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I was quiet. I wasn't a great scorer. I was,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I kept to myself, didn't really talk to anyone. I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was very quiet. Like you would not even realize I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: existed back then, honestly, honestly.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I think when I became a radio presenter, it took
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: them a while to realize that I was from Saint Anthony's.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not even joking. Like, and now they claim you. Hey, hey,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: this one ours. OK, let's go. Keep the calls coming
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in at 669-9011-987. Talking about whether or not your.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Primary school education is super important. Does that shape the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: rest of your life? So we're heading to our messages
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: first before Jasmine on the line. Yeah, all this inspired
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: by phase 2A starting today and tomorrow. And if you're
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a parent, you'll receive the results on 17 July, so
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: all the best to you for that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Going to WhatsApp and saying hello to Evan. Evan, you say, morning,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim. I have a daughter myself, and I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: always believe that primary school will not shape someone in
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the future. I think a kid's childhood should be respected
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and try to not put them in so much stress in, uh,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: open inverted commas, good school. It is really competitive. I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: was from a neighborhood primary school and I just completed
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: my master's last year. The key
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Please not to give up, and Evan sends us a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: very cute picture of his daughter holding like a sports
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: day medal, I think so too. I love that. OK,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: got one coming in from Charmaine. Charmaine, you say, as
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a tutor, I think it is important to go to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a school nearby and try to excel where you are.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I have taught top school kids who are doing badly.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Youch. I mean, also at that age, I mean, if
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you enter primary 1 to primary 6, right, I mean, you,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you still don't really, you're trying to make sense of things.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You may not know or understand the importance of all
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this just yet. Can I ask for your do you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: start in primary school?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Literally not, never. I only started feeling pressure in secondary school.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Did you have streaming? Yes, yes, yeah, um, and also
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: during like PSLE I don't think I pushed myself enough,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: frankly speaking, I don't think I did. So given how
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: my streaming was more than 30 years ago, I can
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: share this. So in Catholic, right, the teachers will always say, ah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: you better study for streaming.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Not EM3 EM3. No, really, it was a thing. Yeah,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, this was also the era where a long
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: time ago where people dub certain education choices as bad, right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: And that's why Jack released I'm not stupid. Yes, yes.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You see, he gets inspiration from everywhere, from real life. OK, uh,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Jasmine is on the line. What do you think about this?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the primary school you go to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: really shapes the rest of your life? OK,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I have
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: 4 kids and honestly speaking, I think secondary school days
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: are like the best days of their lives and my life.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know about you guys, but I think about
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: my secondary school days more than my primary school days.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: So which school are you from, Jasmine? Uh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: was from RGS actually.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I think these days the kids are more homogeneous. Um,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: back then, um, maybe in the 80s or the 90s
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: when parents are more um dialect speaking, Chinese speaking, Malay speaking, indeed,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Tamil speaking, uh, I think the differences are more pronounced,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: but these days, a lot more kids speak English at home.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: So that forms like a common language among all the kids.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: So when you go to school, they speak the same language,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: they go through the same pop culture and things like that.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: So you don't really get that, um, you know, or
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: which primary school you are from, or I'm from, like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: for example, ACS or whatever, or maybe those are still
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: more prominent because they have a very uh strong school culture,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: rich history, but I think across the board, not really.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I think secondary school matters a lot
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: more.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: What, what I was curious about is your primary determine
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that you go to it could be easier to get
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: into a secondary school if you're like affiliated or something, so.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I still feel like some people may find it a priority.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, that would be a priority for affiliation, but I,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I guess these days parents are, you know, they, they
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: are all the tiger parents coming out, you know, they
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: send their kids to enrichment classes and things like
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: When it came down to primary school for your 4 kids,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: how many times you use phase one?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Uh, back then, there's actually like phase 2A, so I
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: actually had to pay, um, the alumni fee, which is
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: a hefty sum for, uh, all 4 of, I mean
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: for the 1st 2, and then the first next two
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: came along. So it was the ROI is pretty good
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: because it's divided by 4 kids, so.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I paid that amount to secure that space and so
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: phase one for everybody, yes, um, but having said that, um, I,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: that's because the primary school that I was in had
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: a pretty strong, uh, school culture, and I thought that
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: after they leave the primary school, if they don't, I mean,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: if they don't continue being a SE school, for example, uh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: at least they have that strong Chinese identity in them.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: So I think that's the caveat in, in these things.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: So schools, um, schools with strong history and all that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Um, it's a little bit tricky on that because some
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: people will say that primary schools don't matter and all that,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: but I think schools with pretty strong history, it's a
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: little tricky over there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you for your call. Appreciate you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Have a great day. Actually re-entered the hot 100 or
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: top 100 charts on Billboard actually. Jennifer Lopez was equally
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: surprised because apparently, um, for the first time in 15 years,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: it re-entered the Billboard charts, um, all because of a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: prime video series called
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Off campus, it was a majorly viral moment that featured
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: this song and I think a lot of like Gen
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Z and Gen alphas may not even realize that, hey,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: this was a song from 1615, 16 years ago. Can
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I throw you back further? It's actually a sample from
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a 1989 Brazilian song. Yeah, so it was funny because
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you actually showed me that clip in the studio before. Yeah,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and you said like, hey, do you know Pitbull sampled this? Yes,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: my grandpa used to play it for me. I love
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: that song. It's by the Brazilian band Kaoma. It's called.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: The Lambda. Yeah, and it sounds very different from this version.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: It's very cute. It honestly makes me feel like I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: should be on a vacation somewhere out there. It is. Yeah, yeah. OK, uh, well,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: we sidetracked for a bit, going back to your messages
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: for now. Do you feel like primary school education will
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: really shape the rest of your life? Got a text
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: coming in from someone I know personally actually. Hi, hello, Michelle. Hello,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: my secondary school best friend's wife. Oh wow.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: There you go. I came from a girls' school, Hack girls' school,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: while my husband was from neighborhood primary school. We have
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: 3 primary schools within 1 kilometer from where we stay,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a known Christian school, an SAP Chinese school, and a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: neighborhood school. When selecting my son's primary school 2 years ago,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: we were quite sure we didn't want him to be
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in an SAP Chinese school. This is because both of
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: our primary schools were not concentrated with one race. It
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: was very well mixed, and we always got a chance.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: To interact with other races. At primary school age, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: think it is more acceptable to ask sensitive questions innocently.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: While in secondary school, asking sensitive questions may end up
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: calling your parents, and this is important to us, especially
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: because we want our son to be exposed to different
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: races and cultures and understand theirs from their POV. Wow!
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I love that answer. Michelle. If, if everyone thought like you,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: racial harmony will be that much easier here in Singapore.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: For Rachel, should we get our ministry to call her
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: up or something? She can be the poster girl. Actually, yes, yeah, no, I,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I actually really agree with her. So, um, just sharing
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: my experience, you know, from not just St. Anthony's but
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: also in poly and uni, right, um, you've met most
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: of my friends from my school days. We are like
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a racial harmony poster in your, in your friend group, Sonia.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: You are the minority.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Where's the line? No, it's true because I actually love
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that so much because we cannot, we not only like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: learn more about each other. I mean, now I sound
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: like I'm on a racial harmony campaign. We not only
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: learn about each other, but sometimes we also make jabs
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: or make jokes at each other, and this is the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: kind of like environment we grew up in that helps
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: us to understand different cultures a bit more, you know.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: This is why I will forever fondly back at my
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: secondary school days, you know, my, my Malay friends, Indian friends, Chinese.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Friends speaking the language and all that, but then what happened?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Secondary school closed down. Then, OK. Joakim has been harping
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: on this for quite some time. Hey, you know, I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: feel heart pain. No, every one of you here has
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a secondary school. Oh, like, oh yeah, my alumni. I'm
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: an alumni of something. I say that now.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, OK, like Chong Boon, right? Chong Boon Secondary School.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you still have photos from there. Like there
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: are still people who remember Chong Boonsek, the magazine. Yeah, yeah, OK, keep,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: keep it, keep it. You never know, it's vintage now. OK, um,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: last few messages when we come back and one person
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: will walk away with this beautiful dining experience with 100 bucks.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: What topic here today because it also, I guess, applies
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to us. Anyone who has experienced primary school.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: For not just parents, not just people who are going
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: through the admissions thing right now, but do you feel
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: like your primary school education really shaped you to become
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: who you are? You know what, there's a, there's a way.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there are some parents out there now
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: going to their friends with connections, asking for letters of recommendation.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I know a guy, yeah, or you know, they're going
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to push their kids' sporting credentials to get into their
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: primary school of choice. So you see, that's the thing,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I had none of those.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I had no sporting talent. I had no hidden talent, nothing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, OK, I can raise my eyebrows one at
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a time. I'm not sure if that's considered, that will
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: give you direct entry to Raffles Girls Primary School. I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: just kidding. No, but can I ask, if, if you
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and Jeremy have a kid, would you all start them
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: on the sporting path, like, you know, take swimming classes
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and all that? Funny enough, I did ask him this
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: question before. I said like, are you the kind that
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: really want your kid to go to an elite school
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: because I think he was quite similar to me in
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: a way that we went to like a good school,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: but not top elite, but he made it into an
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: elite school eventually. That's him. OK, renowned, because to me,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I think what's more important is the school culture, the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: people that you're surrounded with, and whether or not you're
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a good person. So these are three things that are
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: important to me. I don't know whether that
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Necessarily equates to an elite school. I actually agree with
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: our previous texter, Michelle's text about exposing your kid to
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: different races and cultures very early on as well. Absolutely.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: We got one more text coming in. I think this
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: is the final text of the day from Miss Po Chu. Hello.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys. My future daughter-in-law shared an interesting story
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: about her family. Her parents sent her older sister to
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a famous primary school, but it came at a very
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: high cost. Long hours spent on transportation, tuition, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Adding parent-teacher meetings. When it was her turn, they decided
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to enroll her in the neighborhood primary school instead. In
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: the end, her older sister graduated from a private university,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: while she graduated from NUS. This shows that once you
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: reach university, you realize your classmates come from all kinds
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: of backgrounds, famous and neighborhood primary schools, different secondary schools,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: junior colleges, and polytechnics. Your primary school does not determine
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: your future. What truly matters is that
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Child's character, attitude, mindset, and willingness to learn. Agree frame
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that somewhere. And you know what I will say I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: only locked in secondary school, so you got time. You
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: have time. Secondary school, I was like, OK, I'm gonna,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and score well because I guess of
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the people around me, they were quite competitive. This one
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: still in the process of I'm kidding. I locked in
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: in other ways, OK, OK, as an adult, right in
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: my career.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: So it's, it's happening now. OK, just. And thank you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: for your calls, your messages, all your inputs, by the way,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: if you want to catch up with it, we listen
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and Spotify, that's the place to be after the show.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: And if you're a young parent enrolling your kid to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a primary school, all the best for today. Phase 2A.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: This is for alumni and all that. Today and tomorrow,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: your results will come out 17th of July. But I think,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you know, we got a mixed bag of people replying
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to us today because it's also relevant to us as
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: adults when we look back and we think.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Did our primary school education really shape me to be
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the person I am today? I think that's the main question. So,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: one person will be walking away with this $100 broadside
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: dining experience today, and it is Jasmine. Congratulations, Jasmine, for
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: giving us a very detailed call. Super detailed. Yeah. So Jasmine,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I think the pork knuckle can feed all four kids
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that you have. That's crazy, right? Yeah, but.
• 41:09
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  Speaker 1: now all the way to the 26th of August. And
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: by the way, if the Germans take anything seriously, it's
• 41:32
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• 41:33
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• 41:36
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• 41:40
  Speaker 1: can follow them at broadside.sg on Instagram. Yeah, pros is cheers, right?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: What are the German words you know? Oh, gong. OK, wait, what,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: what is it? Wait, wait, wait, give me a hint. um,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: football related.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: No, can I have the beer, please? No, wait, can
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I have water, please? No, and bitter. Can I have tissue, napkins. No,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Table for one please. OK, I'm so far off.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. English menu. Thank you. I, I, you want
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the English menu. I got that one.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: OK, um, our guests are eagerly waiting just outside our
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: studio right now. Uh-huh. Um, like we said, very proud
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: moment for us Singaporeans. Yes, because Ubisoft Singapore, their Singapore office,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: they had a huge part to play on what's being
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: released today, 9th of July. Assassin's Creed, Black Flag resing.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: It's like 2013 all over again.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: But you know, hey, even though I'm not a gamer,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: between the two of us, you know, Joakim is the gamer.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: So he definitely has a lot of gaming-related questions to ask.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: But I have some questions too that may come from
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: a standpoint of, I'm curious and I'm excited for the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: fact that this was a huge thing here in Singapore
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and they had a huge part to play. Yeah, so
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: there's a huge weight on creative director Paul Fu and producer.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Justin Ng's shoulders because this game, everybody loved it. It
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: was the most raved about Assassin's Creed back in the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: year 2013. We had naval battles. We can fight with
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: other ships and all that while maintaining the Assassin's Creed story. Yeah, that, that's,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: that's actually a very commendable feat, right, to, to maintain
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: that like sometimes when you
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: When you watch a movie that has been adapted from
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: something or, you know what, you're always like, uh, will
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: they keep true to the story and the characters. So
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: if you're watching us on TikTok or even listening to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: this interview, there is a very special surprise at the
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: end of it. So stay tuned right here on 987. OK,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: so I don't know whether you're going to pay attention
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to this particular award, the Emmy Awards. OK, yeah, nice,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: rewarding the best on television and streaming platforms. I think
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: this will be huge because so many things moved into.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Streaming platforms in recent years. OK, leading the race. I
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: don't know if you watched this. It's on HBO Max.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: It's a medical drama. Have you heard of the Pit? No, um,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I've seen the, the icon, the logo, but I didn't
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: actually watch it. Oh, it's a medical drama. Medical drama. Yes,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. OK, I'm down for medical dramas.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I love it. And then on Apple TV, Pluribus, which
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: I watched, yes, well deserved. So hopefully the lead actress
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: wins it, Rhea Seahorn.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And then for Netflix, leading the way for limited series,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: season two of Beef. Oh really? Wow. Oscar, Isaac, and
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Carey Mulligan nominated as well. OK, I, I enjoyed it,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: but nothing beat the original season though. That one really
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: got me screaming, I know, I know. I was screaming
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the whole way. And then of course, Euphoria, Congress Zendaya
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: nominated also. And in terms of game shows and reality shows.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: And she was nominated for Best Actress Best Actress. OK.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: And are you ready for this, Sonia? RuPaul's Drag Race,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: and I had no idea this was still happening here,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and it's the same host for the last 20 plus years,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: American Idol, not American Idol, that's Ryan Seacrest who's now
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: hosting Wheel of Fortune. Survivor. Survivor is still happening that
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: new season. Yes, Jeff Props has been hosting Survivor. props
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to him.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: For 25 or 26 years, and Survivor has gone on
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: for 50 different cycles, 50 seasons of it. Insane. I mean,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: how ironic or how fitting that its title is Survivor.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: It literally survived all the other reality shows. Come on, Survivor,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I want to see you do a pull out audition. Uh,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: would you think that's considered difficult? I mean, OK, if
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: you enjoy Survivor sidetracked.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: You will enjoy another one called Outlast. It's on Netflix.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: It's similar but it's more brutal. It's more brutal. So
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: and it's shorter, not as long as if you don't
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: have so much patience, you can watch Outlast. So hopefully
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: your favorite television or streaming shows the award for the Emmys.