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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 081026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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Speaker 1: Alarm you need the shock circuit with Sonya and Joakim.
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Speaker 1: 987. Yeah, Solo and yours here today. I'm loving that
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Speaker 1: song by Croy Sivan, even though Joakim hates it. Um,
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Speaker 1: I just think we have essentially, sometimes we have a
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Speaker 1: different taste in music. Like I like something that is
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Speaker 1: party related and like, you know, dance music, even though
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Speaker 1: I can't dance, and Joakim's a bit more, I think
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Speaker 1: he's a sentimental guy. That's why he might prefer ballads.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, good morning. Thank you for joining me here today.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be solo and yours. So much to catch
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Speaker 1: you up on over the past 24 hours. It's been
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Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. I think you would have noticed by now
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Speaker 1: Singapore is in full swing when it comes to Formula
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Speaker 1: One action and safe to say, I mean, I don't
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Speaker 1: know whether it's because like we are in the thick
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Speaker 1: of it or anything, but it seems like here in Singapore,
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of events going on. I'm not
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Speaker 1: even sure if other countries are doing this many activations
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Speaker 1: and events, but
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Speaker 1: If you go around, you might see all the hosts
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Speaker 1: of Singapore have been activated for, you know, every day
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Speaker 1: this week leading up to race weekend, but of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, race weekend itself is not going to be
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Speaker 1: touched when it comes to other types of events that
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Speaker 1: you see out there, you know, meet and greets, public appearances,
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Speaker 1: because they're locked in and focused from Friday all the
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Speaker 1: way to Sunday. So,
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Speaker 1: You can expect um yesterday and even today, there'll be
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Speaker 1: plenty of activations and chances for you to cite your
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Speaker 1: favorite drivers as well. It was so funny because yesterday,
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Speaker 1: which I'll tell you more about my experience yesterday, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just uh your favorite F1 drivers that showed up.
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Speaker 1: Some of your really out there popular regional celebrities were
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Speaker 1: here in Singapore too. I think some international celebrities might
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Speaker 1: have been cited, but
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Speaker 1: Um, I want to give a big shout out to Sangwan.
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Speaker 1: I really did not expect to see him at both
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Speaker 1: events that I hosted yesterday, but maybe we have some
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Speaker 1: faith over there. But I'll be posting something up on 987's, um,
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Speaker 1: TikTok page and uh maybe some pictures on their Instagram
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Speaker 1: later on this morning as well. So lots to catch
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Speaker 1: you up on. Now, you might have seen this already circulating,
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Speaker 1: but this just came in yesterday night, uh, last night,
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Speaker 1: last night, when, you know, we're in the midst of, um,
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Speaker 1: race season here in Singapore. It's all about
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Speaker 1: The, it's all about the sport. It's also about being
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Speaker 1: an honest competitor and, you know, for our Formula One drivers,
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Speaker 1: it's a totally different ball game altogether, but something else
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Speaker 1: that we also look forward to a lot here in
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Speaker 1: Singapore are marathons, right? And we've done that flawlessly ever
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Speaker 1: since marathons became a thing here in Singapore. Like I
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Speaker 1: have to say our organization, everything has been pretty stellar
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Speaker 1: here for a small country like us. Unfortunately for this
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Speaker 1: fitness influencer from China,
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Speaker 1: She, um, celebrated a personal best over at a super
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Speaker 1: big marathon, OK. This is one of the highlights. It
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Speaker 1: is the Berlin Marathon, and I think I've heard Joakim
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Speaker 1: definitely say, talk about Berlin Marathon before. I've got some
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Speaker 1: other friends who are big on marathons. They say that's
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Speaker 1: the dream, that's the goal. It's one of the, the
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Speaker 1: biggest marathons in the world that you have to, you
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Speaker 1: have to end up at if you are an enthusiast
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Speaker 1: when it comes to running, right, in marathons. Um, unfortunately
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Speaker 1: for her,
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Speaker 1: She made a very bad decision, midway through the race,
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Speaker 1: or rather, maybe 3 quarters or somewhere about there, maybe
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Speaker 1: the final quarter or so, she decided to hitch a
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Speaker 1: ride from a biker to finish to the finish line
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Speaker 1: to collect her medal, and she registered her timing that
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Speaker 1: included her on the bike.
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Speaker 1: And it was out there, like the evidence was out there,
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Speaker 1: the receipts were out there for everyone to see. Apparently
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Speaker 1: people took pictures and videos of her boarding the bicycle
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Speaker 1: and getting there. She is like, by the way, she
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Speaker 1: has like half a million followers on Xiaohongshu. She's quite
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Speaker 1: a big, you know, influencer, and she even has like sports-related, uh,
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Speaker 1: endorsements back in China and all that because she's quite
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Speaker 1: a popular fitness influencer. So she, uh, I think she
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Speaker 1: tried to defend herself by saying,
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Speaker 1: Um, you know, she wasn't feeling well at some point,
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Speaker 1: you know, she was comfortable at first and she wanted
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Speaker 1: to persevere, but she didn't feel so good, um, after
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Speaker 1: some time, and she was caught sitting on the back
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Speaker 1: of a bicycle around the 30-something kilometer mark, and for
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Speaker 1: a full marathon it's about like 42 kilometers. So she
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Speaker 1: hitched a ride for the final like 5 km or
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Speaker 1: so if I'm not wrong. 5 km is still long, uh,
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Speaker 1: by the way.
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Speaker 1: Um, I think the issue that people had was if
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Speaker 1: you're unwell, just tap out. But I think the issue
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Speaker 1: people had was that she hitched a ride and she
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Speaker 1: registered that as her final timing. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: So that, unfortunately doesn't work well for her. She's gotten
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Speaker 1: dropped by, you know, the people endorsing her, the brands
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Speaker 1: that are endorsing her, she's dropped right now.
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Speaker 1: This is just, it just goes to show that you
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Speaker 1: are being watched at all times. People are very alert
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Speaker 1: and now with social media that's out there, you know,
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Speaker 1: it can get out there in like 5 seconds. There's
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Speaker 1: no hiding and for someone of her level, I must
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Speaker 1: say I was quite surprised that she did that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she should have thought better at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: you know, but maybe she'll find a way to bounce back.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but people are really not very supportive
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Speaker 1: of her right now, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: Got a couple of messages coming through right now. I
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Speaker 1: want to focus on a message coming in from QY.
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Speaker 1: You said, Good morning, Sonia. I was there at the
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Speaker 1: McLaren events at the Puma store at River City. I
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Speaker 1: saw you hosting. I heard you before I even got there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know, I'm known to be a little bit loud.
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Speaker 1: And um, sorry, QY, you continued saying, I'm such a
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Speaker 1: huge Lando fan. I actually managed to catch a glimpse
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Speaker 1: of him. I'm so happy. I got some videos, even
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Speaker 1: though I didn't manage to actually talk to him, say
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Speaker 1: hi or get an autograph. It made my entire day.
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Speaker 1: I was there since 9 a.m. in the morning and
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Speaker 1: just catching a glimpse of him really just made my
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Speaker 1: heart swell and I could tear up just reliving the
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Speaker 1: moments from yesterday seeing Lando Norris in person. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for being a great host. Oh, thank you, QI.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate your message. Honestly, it was a very exciting day.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'll, I'll definitely fill you in on the
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Speaker 1: whole entire experience after 7 a.m. Um, got tons of
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Speaker 1: DMs from yesterday. I think I haven't processed a lot
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Speaker 1: of your messages just yet, but, um, so many of
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Speaker 1: you were asking, hey, fill us in more about the
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes yesterday when you met Charlotte Claire and
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Speaker 1: Lando Norris. For sure. I mean, you will slowly start
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Speaker 1: seeing lots of.
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Speaker 1: Content going up. In fact, last night it was pretty late,
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Speaker 1: but like 10, posted a video of a little segment
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Speaker 1: that we did behind the scenes that wasn't available to
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Speaker 1: the public to watch. But if you were on the
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Speaker 1: live stream, you might have seen it. So there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be plenty more moments with Charles Leclerc from 313 Puma
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Speaker 1: that will come out very, very soon. In fact, I
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed our little talk show segment.
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Speaker 1: We did it for about what, like 15 to 20
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Speaker 1: minutes or so. And it was such a rare opportunity
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Speaker 1: because he was so calm and chill. And I think
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Speaker 1: it was also beneficial that it was indoors. So he
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Speaker 1: wasn't really exposed to the heat or anything and he
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Speaker 1: really sat there and spoke to us for 20 minutes straight. Um,
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Speaker 1: so it's such a privilege to have him there. Then
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Speaker 1: we scooted over to Puma Vivo City, which was very,
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Speaker 1: very hectic.
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Speaker 1: But fun at the same time and the energy and
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Speaker 1: the crowd there was just insane, right? Because I think
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Speaker 1: the layout of Vivo City, interestingly, where the Puma store is,
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Speaker 1: is very advantageous. It not only gives you visibility from
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Speaker 1: the 2nd and 3rd floors in a
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Speaker 1: Quite, I think, I think they're in quite a good position,
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Speaker 1: to be honest, when I looked at the crowd, and
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Speaker 1: even on level, on the level that the store was at,
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Speaker 1: I think people generally, all his fans had such a
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Speaker 1: good view of him. He did linger around in the
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Speaker 1: front for quite a long time. We had an official
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Speaker 1: store opening.
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Speaker 1: Um, people flew in from all over the world just
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Speaker 1: to see him and be up close. So honestly, I
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Speaker 1: was so grateful to our friends from Puma Singapore for
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Speaker 1: making it possible. Um, we did play some games with
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Speaker 1: Lando Norris that will be up on socials as well. So,
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Speaker 1: maybe I'll do a little collab post with 9872 so
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Speaker 1: more people can see it. But whatever it is that
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Speaker 1: you're doing over the next few days, I think your
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Speaker 1: entire feed is going to be swamped with
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Speaker 1: Images and videos of your favorite drivers, so you're not
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Speaker 1: gonna get a break from that for sure. I hope
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Speaker 1: that you embrace it and have fun over the next
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Speaker 1: few days. Um, seems to be slightly cloudy this morning
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Speaker 1: and a slow start to the day cause I'm definitely
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Speaker 1: feeling it from yesterday and the
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Speaker 1: Entire crazy week, but that's precisely why I feel like
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Speaker 1: I don't have enough endurance to do something like High rocks. OK?
8:31
Speaker 1: If Joy were here, he would 100% laugh at me
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Speaker 1: because he has been trying to get me to do
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Speaker 1: Hros doubles with him, which has not happened. I've been
8:38
Speaker 1: giving all sorts of excuses, not gonna lie. You know,
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Speaker 1: I injured my ankle recently. I was like, yeah, my
8:43
Speaker 1: ankle is still not healed, but I've been back playing
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Speaker 1: paddle and doing other things. It's just, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I can commit to a whole high rocks
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Speaker 1: competition just yet, right?
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Speaker 1: But Hirocks Youngsters is coming to Singapore. That's the actual,
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Speaker 1: the actual title and the term.
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Speaker 1: The reason why they're saying that is because it's for
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Speaker 1: kids between the ages of 8 to 15 years old.
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Speaker 1: Happening here in Singapore, by the way, in November, so
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Speaker 1: end of November 28th and 29th, there's going to be
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Speaker 1: Hrocks youngsters. I'm just so curious about the weights that
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Speaker 1: they're gonna incorporate into, you know, some of the challenges
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Speaker 1: and the obstacles. I mean, I call them obstacles, but
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Speaker 1: I think in High rocks or fitness people, they call
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Speaker 1: it stations, right? To me, it's a challenge or obstacle, OK.
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Speaker 1: Um, but this one has different age-specific categories. So you
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Speaker 1: have 8 to 9 years old, there's 10 to 1112
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Speaker 1: to 13, and then 14 to 15. Naturally, I think
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Speaker 1: by the time you're 14 to 15, if you're really
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Speaker 1: into sports or you're even like representing your school, doing stuff,
9:43
Speaker 1: you're probably at a certain level that's, you know, on
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Speaker 1: the way to doing Hierros adults already, right?
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Speaker 1: But it'd be very similar to the adult competition. There
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Speaker 1: are still 8 exercise stations, including the kettlebell farmers carry,
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Speaker 1: sled push, lunges, and many, many more, but the running
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Speaker 1: distance is going to depend on the age group. So perhaps,
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Speaker 1: you know, the younger you are, the, the less running
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Speaker 1: you have to do.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm gonna ask for permission whether I can join
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Speaker 1: the kids one because I'm not ready to do the
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Speaker 1: adults one. And besides, I think I meet the minimum
10:14
Speaker 1: height requirement when it comes to these teenagers. Like we're
10:17
Speaker 1: probably around the same height. If not, I think I'm shorter,
10:19
Speaker 1: to be honest, whenever time, whenever we go down to
10:21
Speaker 1: like school invasions and stuff, I blend right in into
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Speaker 1: the school. So I should be able to qualify for
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Speaker 1: High Rocks youngsters. Um, you can read about the full
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Speaker 1: rule book online and.
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Speaker 1: And I believe registration begins today. So go check it out.
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Speaker 1: Here's hoping that you managed to push your kids to
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Speaker 1: do something fun at the end of November. Tons of
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Speaker 1: events going on and this happened yesterday that inspired the
10:44
Speaker 1: topic for today. I just had such a good laugh
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Speaker 1: because I met so many of you, um, wonderful F1
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Speaker 1: related fans or maybe even your fans of some of
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Speaker 1: the Asian artists that came here to Singapore, made appearances
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Speaker 1: over at some of the events yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And I spoke to quite a lot of, especially the
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Speaker 1: girlies who look very, very slay, by the way. All
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Speaker 1: of you dressed up to meet, um, you know, Lando
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Speaker 1: Norris and Charles Leclerc and some of your other favorite
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Speaker 1: celebs too. And one thing that I found in common
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Speaker 1: with a lot of these girls, they actually openly said
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Speaker 1: on the live stream that they ditched their partners to
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Speaker 1: come down to the event.
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Speaker 1: And to see their favorite stars or their drivers, you know,
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Speaker 1: and one of them was actually even video calling her boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: who wasn't even in Singapore actually. She flew here because
11:29
Speaker 1: she wanted to catch Formula One and she's a huge
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Speaker 1: Charles Leclerc fan. So she was um video calling her boyfriend,
11:35
Speaker 1: sort of like rubbing it in his face that Charles
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Speaker 1: Leclerc was right in front of her at um Puma 313. So,
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Speaker 1: It kind of got me thinking, right? Are there moments
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Speaker 1: where maybe you're such a big fan of an artist
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Speaker 1: or you really want to catch a concert or some
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Speaker 1: sort of event where your favorite, most inspiring artist of
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Speaker 1: all time is going to show up. Would you go
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Speaker 1: by yourself, like just solo? Would you rock up by
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Speaker 1: yourself and ditch your partner?
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Speaker 1: Or would you want your partner in life to come
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Speaker 1: with you, you know, because what I noticed was that
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Speaker 1: a lot of the girls actually had their best friends
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Speaker 1: with them, or one or two of the girlies said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my friend, I dragged my friend here today for emotional
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Speaker 1: support just to be here, help me take videos, like
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Speaker 1: if I'm able to interact with, you know, my favorite
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Speaker 1: star and all that. So, would you
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Speaker 1: Go the distance to attend something alone, be it a
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Speaker 1: concert or an event, you know, ditch ditch everyone else
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Speaker 1: and just rock up by yourself, or do you need
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Speaker 1: someone with you? What do you think? Let me know. Um,
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Speaker 1: based off my experience yesterday when I was live streaming
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Speaker 1: and hosting two separate events where your favorite F1 drivers appeared,
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Speaker 1: and some of the, you know, huge Asian celebrities were
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Speaker 1: there as well.
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Speaker 1: I did notice quite a lot of people, they rocked
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Speaker 1: up by themselves because they simply are big fans of,
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Speaker 1: you know, either the drivers or the celebrities, and they
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Speaker 1: made new friends on the spot, like in the fan
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Speaker 1: pit and the fan zone, right? So, I did ask
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Speaker 1: a few of them on the live stream, whether or
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Speaker 1: not they would have liked if their friend or their
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Speaker 1: partner was with them, and most of them said no.
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Speaker 1: They just wanted to rock up and like support their
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Speaker 1: favorite driver, right? And just be there in the atmosphere. OK,
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Speaker 1: so going to messages first.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say hi over here to Kay. Katie, you said, hey, Sonia,
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Speaker 1: I actually would like someone to be with me. I'm
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Speaker 1: scared of being around strangers and to me, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of awkward being alone. Having someone that I know around
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Speaker 1: is definitely more fun. I don't disagree with you. I
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Speaker 1: think that even though I am by nature quite an
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Speaker 1: independent person and I will, I will rock up to
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Speaker 1: do things by myself, but to me, the preference is
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Speaker 1: to have a shared experience with someone, you know, like
13:36
Speaker 1: when I'm traveling,
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Speaker 1: Some people ask like, hey, why don't you do like
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Speaker 1: more solo travels? I'm like, because I'm the kind of
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Speaker 1: person that likes to yap with someone that's with me
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Speaker 1: and be like, oh my gosh, this is so cool,
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Speaker 1: or have that shared moment together, right? Like be it
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Speaker 1: your bestie or your partner in life or whatever. It's,
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Speaker 1: it's something that I prefer. That's for sure. OK, um,
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Speaker 1: saying hi to Andy. You say, good morning, Sons. Now,
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Speaker 1: my partner and I, we would both ditch each other
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Speaker 1: for something we like. I would ditch her just to
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Speaker 1: watch Spider-Man because she would ask too much questions. Oh, no,
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Speaker 1: that's me.
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Speaker 1: And she would gladly ditch me for Blackpinkk or BTS
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Speaker 1: concerts because I get awkward in any social settings. Ah,
14:13
Speaker 1: I guess Match made in heaven. You guys sound like
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Speaker 1: you balance each other out really, really well. I asked
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Speaker 1: you this question here today, based off my experience yesterday
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Speaker 1: when I saw plenty of people rocking up solo to
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Speaker 1: catch their favorite drivers, and most of them are, are girls,
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Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, they ditched their boyfriends, their partners, whatever,
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Speaker 1: like at home and they, they.
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Speaker 1: just wanted to come down and see their favorite celebrities
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Speaker 1: and F1 drivers. So my question to you was, would
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Speaker 1: you go for a concert by yourself or would you
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Speaker 1: watch something by yourself or catch your favorite celeb without
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Speaker 1: your partner and you kind of prefer it that way.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it could, it could be, you know, it
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Speaker 1: could be something that you're very passionate about and you
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Speaker 1: don't want to like, put your partner through that, right?
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Speaker 1: Or would you rather have someone with you to be
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Speaker 1: in those moments to experience it together?
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Speaker 1: OK, um, more of your messages coming through right now.
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Speaker 1: And I'm saying hi over here too. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you left your full name. It is Kim, you said. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Um, good morning, Sonia. It's my first time ever writing in,
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Speaker 1: and I have to share my excitement about the upcoming
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Speaker 1: BTS concert. My girlfriends and I were super lucky. We
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Speaker 1: managed to secure tickets. Yay. Ticketing war was real, but
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Speaker 1: we survived. Here's the funny part. All of us are
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Speaker 1: either married or engaged, and we have one golden rule
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Speaker 1: that we always remind our fiances and husbands and boyfriends of.
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Speaker 1: We loved BTS.
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Speaker 1: we even met you guys, so you have no say
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Speaker 1: in this. Sorry boys, you knew what you were signing
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Speaker 1: up for. BTS came first. I want to give a
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Speaker 1: special shout out to my husband, YH. Not only was
15:42
Speaker 1: he super supportive of me getting concert tickets, he even
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Speaker 1: joined the ticketing queue and temporarily became one of the
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Speaker 1: girls by joining our girls' group chat to help us
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Speaker 1: secure the tickets. Imagine being the only
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Speaker 1: Guy in a chat group full of armies panicking over
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Speaker 1: concert tickets. So thank you to my husband for supporting
16:01
Speaker 1: my fangirl life. On a side note, my husband and
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Speaker 1: I have never been to USS for horror nights because
16:06
Speaker 1: he doesn't like spooky things. I went with my girlfriends
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Speaker 1: a couple of times. I want to bring him to
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Speaker 1: have a good laugh at him that night. Wow, uh,
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Speaker 1: what a lengthy message, but I really enjoyed that, Kim.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the effort to write
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Speaker 1: that in and
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Speaker 1: I love how you're repaying him and his support by
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Speaker 1: going there to laugh at him. I mean, that's a
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Speaker 1: perfect relationship right there.
16:26
Speaker 1: We have Ray on the line right now. Rayne, what
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Speaker 1: about you?
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Speaker 2: Personally, for me, I don't have any like biases or like, um,
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Speaker 2: how to say like this kind of pop stars that
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Speaker 2: I admire, but I will use an example of my girlfriend. Like, uh,
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Speaker 2: last Saturday, I think it was a weekend concert, right?
16:41
Speaker 1: Yes, I was there. I was there.
16:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, she, she got last minute, uh, tickets with her, uh,
16:46
Speaker 2: from her colleague. It was like super last minute and
16:49
Speaker 2: we had other engagement.
16:50
Speaker 2: Uh, that we were supposed to go for a movie
16:53
Speaker 2: session by the Austrian embassy. There was a closing gala.
16:58
Speaker 2: Then after that, obviously she had this opportunity. I simply
17:01
Speaker 2: told her, don't need to think twice, just go for
17:03
Speaker 2: the weekend concert. And then after that I'll go, I'll
17:05
Speaker 2: go to the closing gala on my own, uh, but
17:07
Speaker 2: if I can find someone, fortunately I did find a
17:09
Speaker 2: friend to just bring along. And after that we just
17:12
Speaker 2: went our separate ways on that day.
17:14
Speaker 2: That's really cute.
17:15
Speaker 1: You know, that's really cute. I think it's super healthy
17:17
Speaker 1: to have a relationship like that, like knowing that, you know,
17:20
Speaker 1: your partner's not going to have an issue with it
17:22
Speaker 1: because you know how important it was to her, right,
17:24
Speaker 1: to catch the concert.
17:26
Speaker 2: I think it's more of being pragmatic about the whole
17:28
Speaker 2: thing because I always like, you know, I, I feel
17:31
Speaker 2: like I always tell people that, um, how you should
17:33
Speaker 2: act in a relationship is, you know, if you, if
17:36
Speaker 2: you are not sure whether the thing is right or
17:38
Speaker 2: wrong to do, just reverse the situation. If you were
17:41
Speaker 2: in the other person's spot, would you want that to
17:43
Speaker 2: happen to you? I think it's a very good metric
17:45
Speaker 2: to calculate or like, oh, should I ditch this or that,
17:49
Speaker 2: or should I, uh, tell the person, because at the
17:51
Speaker 2: end of the day.
17:52
Speaker 2: The relationship is something for you to build lifelong and
17:55
Speaker 2: if you guys can't cooperate on small, I, I feel
17:58
Speaker 2: like these are small things, then I think you shouldn't
18:00
Speaker 2: be together in the
18:01
Speaker 2: first place.
18:02
Speaker 1: I, I really like. I mean, I lost count the
18:05
Speaker 1: amount of times that I left my own alone, um,
18:09
Speaker 1: that I think you will burst out laughing. Um, he
18:11
Speaker 1: came to attend a wedding with me, like of a
18:14
Speaker 1: friend that he doesn't know, OK, it's my friend. He
18:17
Speaker 1: doesn't know anyone there.
18:18
Speaker 1: Last minute I got a magazine cover shoot, OK, and
18:21
Speaker 1: obviously it's something that I can't turn down. So I said,
18:24
Speaker 1: I gotta leave to, to go for this, and I
18:28
Speaker 1: told him like 2 days before, and he said, Huh,
18:30
Speaker 1: but I don't know anyone there. And I said, Do
18:33
Speaker 1: you want to just leave with me then? And we
18:35
Speaker 1: just leave at Ang Pao, and he said, No lah,
18:36
Speaker 1: it's not so nice. So he stayed on at the
18:38
Speaker 1: wedding with total strangers, and he doesn't even know the
18:41
Speaker 1: bride and groom.
18:43
Speaker 2: I think that's very admirable because I feel like when
18:46
Speaker 2: you are, when you're in a relationship, you are an
18:48
Speaker 2: extension of each other.
18:50
Speaker 1: Yes, I totally agree. Thank you so much for your call, Ray.
18:52
Speaker 1: What a great chat with you. Have a nice day, OK?
18:54
Speaker 2: Alright, you too.
18:55
Speaker 1: Bye-bye. We're talking about my experience yesterday when I saw
18:58
Speaker 1: plenty of people come down by themselves.
19:01
Speaker 1: And they told me live on the live stream that
19:03
Speaker 1: they ditched their partners to come down to say hi
19:05
Speaker 1: to their favorite F1 drivers because they just, you know,
19:08
Speaker 1: they're passionate about it, right? And most of them are
19:10
Speaker 1: like beautiful girls. They, they really dressed up for the event.
19:13
Speaker 1: They came down, they were laughing about it, took videos
19:15
Speaker 1: to send their partners to say like, hey, you know,
19:17
Speaker 1: I'm here, kind of thing.
19:18
Speaker 1: I thought that was really cute, but my question to
19:20
Speaker 1: you today was, would you show up alone and just
19:24
Speaker 1: rock up to something that you're passionate about without your partner,
19:27
Speaker 1: or would you need like your bestie with you or
19:29
Speaker 1: preferably someone with like, I don't know, emotional support or something,
19:32
Speaker 1: because some of the girlies brought their besties down for,
19:35
Speaker 1: for support and for uh good camera angles. Gonna say
19:38
Speaker 1: hi over here to Chris. You say good morning, Sonia.
19:41
Speaker 1: My wife has absolutely no interest in anime and cosplay. So,
19:46
Speaker 1: when I go for overseas events like in KL for example,
19:49
Speaker 1: she would go out shopping or eating with her sister
19:52
Speaker 1: while I go for the cosplay event. By the way,
19:54
Speaker 1: I also cosplay and I go down, enjoy myself. After all,
19:59
Speaker 1: You'll both still enjoy the KL trip together, kind of.
20:03
Speaker 1: I like that. You know what the funny thing was,
20:04
Speaker 1: what I didn't expect were the kind of messages and
20:07
Speaker 1: stories coming through today that proves what a healthy relationship
20:11
Speaker 1: looks like, you know, and that I didn't make that
20:13
Speaker 1: relation initially. I just thought it was a cute topic
20:16
Speaker 1: or it's funny.
20:17
Speaker 1: But thank you so much for your messages and your
20:19
Speaker 1: calls earlier. Thank you for joining me here today. Now,
20:21
Speaker 1: I may be solo, but I've replaced Joakim with a
20:24
Speaker 1: beautiful girl here today, so I have no regrets when
20:27
Speaker 1: it comes to that. You will be familiar with this
20:29
Speaker 1: competition called World Skills. It's not the first time that
20:32
Speaker 1: we've had students, um, that represented Singapore here in our
20:35
Speaker 1: studio for that, and, uh, my guest is also a
20:38
Speaker 1: familiar face. Say hello to Republic Polytechnics, Charmaine.
20:43
Speaker 1: Hello. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? It's been
20:47
Speaker 1: a whole year since you were here in the studio.
20:49
Speaker 1: I've been good. It's been a lot since the past
20:52
Speaker 1: one year. Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to be here. Exactly.
20:56
Speaker 1: And it's, it's always so nice to see like our
20:58
Speaker 1: very own students from Singapore representing us and then winning.
21:01
Speaker 1: I mean, OK, it's not always about winning. It's always about,
21:04
Speaker 1: you know, the experience and everything, but secretly,
21:06
Speaker 1: You of course feel happy if you win something, right? Yeah.
21:09
Speaker 1: Tell me about your experience this year in Shanghai. Yes,
21:13
Speaker 1: so it's been, it's been a year since uh worst
21:16
Speaker 1: cases ASEAN. So that was in Malaya and through that
21:21
Speaker 1: I have had um many friendlies along the way. So
21:24
Speaker 1: I went to Australia in June this year and then, um,
21:29
Speaker 1: I won the best foundation as well as a gold
21:31
Speaker 1: medal over there. So that was a friendly that I
21:33
Speaker 1: had and I met a few of my competitors internationally.
21:37
Speaker 1: After that, I went to Shanghai to compete on the
21:40
Speaker 1: international stage. Yes, and I got the best nomination as
21:43
Speaker 1: well as a silver medal. 27.
21:51
Speaker 1: Crazy. How, how's your mindset going in because, you know,
21:56
Speaker 1: you don't want to be intimidated. At the same time,
21:58
Speaker 1: you need to have a good head on your shoulders
22:01
Speaker 1: to be like, OK, I'm focused and I, I want
22:04
Speaker 1: to do well. Does, does winning even cross your mind
22:07
Speaker 1: or you're just focused on the task?
22:09
Speaker 1: I went in with a goal. OK, OK. So I
22:15
Speaker 1: went in with a goal to achieve something that I
22:18
Speaker 1: really wanted from the very start when I joined WorldSkills.
22:20
Speaker 1: So that is to win a medal and to make myself,
22:23
Speaker 1: my coaches, as well as my family proud. Yes, I mean,
22:26
Speaker 1: so you know, for the sake of our audience members
22:28
Speaker 1: who may not be so familiar with what WorldSkills is about,
22:31
Speaker 1: I was actually saying.
22:32
Speaker 1: Earlier that it is the world's largest international skills competition,
22:35
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like the Olympics of vocational skills
22:38
Speaker 1: in a way as we would dub it, right? Can
22:40
Speaker 1: you take us through the competition process, just in case
22:43
Speaker 1: people are wondering like, what do you do? OK, so
22:46
Speaker 1: I'm in the restaurant category. So, uh, throughout our international competition,
22:51
Speaker 1: it's across 4 days. So throughout the 4 days, we
22:54
Speaker 1: have
22:54
Speaker 1: Um, many different tasks to complete. So we have fine dining,
22:59
Speaker 1: so we have to serve a table of 3 and
23:01
Speaker 1: 2 at the same time, and we also have bistro dining,
23:04
Speaker 1: so we had to serve a table of 43, and
23:06
Speaker 1: 2 simultaneously, simultaneously as well as banquet dining and barista
23:13
Speaker 1: and bartending. There's so many things, so many things going on.
23:17
Speaker 1: I mean, for you, um, I know that there's a
23:19
Speaker 1: lot of like multitasking going on, you have to really
23:21
Speaker 1: keep a clear mind. What was the most challenging part
23:25
Speaker 1: of this process for you? The time it's uh
23:29
Speaker 1: Very squeezy time that we have this time around because
23:32
Speaker 1: um for banquet dining, usually we have 3 courses within
23:35
Speaker 1: 90 minutes, but this time around they increased to 6
23:39
Speaker 1: courses within 80 minutes. Yes, so it's very squeezy, but
23:44
Speaker 1: it actually feels like a real-life, I mean they're trying
23:47
Speaker 1: to simulate like a real-life situation, right? Because
23:50
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I go for like events or even like
23:52
Speaker 1: wedding dinners at places, sometimes you hear people saying like, oh,
23:56
Speaker 1: there's a delay or like, you know, maybe it's uh
23:58
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not moving as fast as we want.
24:00
Speaker 1: I can see that there's a lot going on back end.
24:03
Speaker 1: Ever since you joined these competitions, and I'm assuming, you know,
24:07
Speaker 1: you have a bright future ahead of you in terms
24:09
Speaker 1: of your career, what were some things that you now
24:12
Speaker 1: appreciate more in the service sector, like compared to when
24:16
Speaker 1: you were just a consumer back then?
24:19
Speaker 1: Definitely when it's busy, I will try my best to
24:22
Speaker 1: wait a little longer because, yes, correct, because we know
24:25
Speaker 1: like what's going on behind the scenes as a service
24:28
Speaker 1: staff myself. I think the only problem is like when
24:31
Speaker 1: people haven't experienced and that's how we like sometimes lovingly
24:38
Speaker 1: won that title for ourselves, right? Singaporeans like to complain
24:41
Speaker 1: and all that.
24:42
Speaker 1: OK, we're gonna take a short break. I think you
24:44
Speaker 1: actually have a few friends joining us on TikTok live
24:47
Speaker 1: watching you and even Republic Police tuned in. OK, we'd
24:51
Speaker 1: love to hear more from you in just a bit
24:53
Speaker 1: and also the reactions of your family, friends, and maybe
24:55
Speaker 1: even your classmates from RRP. I am still with Republic
24:59
Speaker 1: Poly's Charmaine who has been with us. She's got plenty
25:02
Speaker 1: of very
25:03
Speaker 1: Proud um lecturers and I think family and friends joining
25:07
Speaker 1: the TikTok live stream right now. Thank you for joining
25:09
Speaker 1: us and thank you for doing our country so proud
25:11
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you. Um, it's not your first time
25:14
Speaker 1: here and it's not your first time also like chatting
25:16
Speaker 1: about WorldSkills and how passionate you are about it. Um,
25:19
Speaker 1: in case you just joined us, she also claimed the
25:21
Speaker 1: best of nation award, which I wanted to address right now.
25:24
Speaker 1: The challenges in the Best of nation award actually quite complex,
25:28
Speaker 1: quite a lot of things. Um, I zoomed in on
25:31
Speaker 1: the bartending challenge. Can you tell me a bit more
25:33
Speaker 1: about that? So, that is more complex because we have
25:37
Speaker 1: to memorize a list of cocktails and then we wouldn't
25:40
Speaker 1: know until the day itself, the bartending itself, yes, which one.
25:46
Speaker 1: So it's mystery, so we'll get 3 and 1 mystery.
25:50
Speaker 1: Yes, remembering and memorizing 27 recipes, that's insane. That's insane.
25:57
Speaker 1: It's a lot. Yeah. How, what was your, how did
25:59
Speaker 1: you compartmentalize and plan for that?
26:03
Speaker 1: Usually I go, I memorize by the easiest one first.
26:07
Speaker 1: So usually the minimum one is 3 types of alcohol
26:12
Speaker 1: followed by 4 or 5. Some example like Long Island
26:16
Speaker 1: iced tea, there are 7 ingredients in that. It's correct.
26:20
Speaker 1: No wonder we always get headache.
26:23
Speaker 1: Oh yes. So that is the cocktail that I remember
26:27
Speaker 1: the last. Yeah. And can you tell us a bit
26:30
Speaker 1: more about what was chosen for you to, to make
26:33
Speaker 1: or what was selected? So,
26:36
Speaker 1: OK, I don't really remember the three, but, yes, but
26:40
Speaker 1: um we were given 3 mysteries and one that was
26:44
Speaker 1: um created by our
26:48
Speaker 1: Wskis um director himself. Oh, OK, so it's a special one. Yes, correct.
26:54
Speaker 1: So it's a special one and then we were given
26:56
Speaker 1: a recipe on the spot. So we have to prepare
26:58
Speaker 1: the ingredients, the glassware, the garnishes, and then we have
27:04
Speaker 1: another 20 minutes to prepare.
27:05
Speaker 1: the drinks to our guests. And so they rated, I'm
27:07
Speaker 1: sure based on like the visuals, the flavor, the taste,
27:13
Speaker 1: how balanced or not. And if it's level meaning like
27:16
Speaker 1: to the brim, or what do you mean by that? Oh,
27:20
Speaker 1: so they need to look like totally uniform.
27:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as easy as you think. I'm sure
27:24
Speaker 1: that now that you're so well versed in all of this,
27:27
Speaker 1: when you go for your own like family gatherings, are
27:29
Speaker 1: you the go to person? They're like, OK, she's got it,
27:31
Speaker 1: she's doing the drinks. Does that happen? No, just to
27:34
Speaker 1: open wines actually. So you're very useful in that sense. OK,
27:39
Speaker 1: so now you've got both medals with you today. You've
27:42
Speaker 1: shown it to the, have you shown it to the
27:43
Speaker 1: TikTok live stream just yet? Not yet. Show it, show it. Yeah,
27:46
Speaker 1: flex it. It looks really heavy. Yes, it is. It is.
27:51
Speaker 1: This one is the best of nation. Yeah, that's the
27:53
Speaker 1: one with the the turquoise straps. Yeah. And then the
27:57
Speaker 1: orange strap is my silver medal. Thank you so much
28:01
Speaker 1: for bringing that down and for sharing it with us.
28:03
Speaker 1: What's next for you now that you know you've already
28:06
Speaker 1: achieved a certain level of accomplishments in Republic Poly and
28:09
Speaker 1: then you're going to graduate soon. You mentioned that you're
28:12
Speaker 1: gonna full-time work full-time very soon. Anything else that you're
28:15
Speaker 1: gonna do or pursue or you can share with us
28:17
Speaker 1: on air before I let you go?
28:19
Speaker 1: Um, yes, I'll be continuing, uh, my full time with
28:23
Speaker 1: my internship place previously. So that is fin dining as well,
28:26
Speaker 1: and then maybe pursue my further studies in the future.
28:30
Speaker 1: And anything you'd like to say to, you know, aspiring
28:33
Speaker 1: young people who also want to take on a similar
28:35
Speaker 1: path to you and hopefully win big at WorldSkills next time.
28:38
Speaker 1: Anything you want to share?
28:40
Speaker 1: Um, I would say if you have the passion and
28:43
Speaker 1: the resilience for it, uh, go for it because it's
28:46
Speaker 1: a very fun journey, although it's long, but it's very fulfilling,
28:49
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much for being here.
28:56
Speaker 1: Would you like to say
28:57
Speaker 1: A big thank you to one of your, any of
28:59
Speaker 1: your RP supporters or you know, your, your friends. Yes,
29:03
Speaker 1: I would like to thank my coach, Miss Yannie. She's
29:06
Speaker 1: been there through all the long hours, the long trainings,
29:09
Speaker 1: as well as the different competitions. Miss Adeline, my expert,
29:13
Speaker 1: so she's the one that's
29:15
Speaker 1: Making sure that everything is on point before we head
29:18
Speaker 1: off for every competition. My chef as well as um
29:22
Speaker 1: all the lecturers that have been helping me along the way.
29:25
Speaker 1: So it really takes a village, right? Yes, we don't
29:28
Speaker 1: see that. We don't see that. Thank you so much.
29:30
Speaker 1: You know, it's always a.
29:31
Speaker 1: It's pleasure having you here and you're always so happy
29:33
Speaker 1: and you radiate so much joy and I wish you
29:35
Speaker 1: all the best. Thank you. And of course, you know,
29:38
Speaker 1: it's been such a wonderful hour or so chatting with Charmaine,
29:42
Speaker 1: in case you missed it, please log on to me,
29:45
Speaker 1: Listen and Spotify after the show.
29:47
Speaker 1: Today, gonna be another exciting day. Um, I'm not sure
29:51
Speaker 1: if I can say who I'm meeting just yet and
29:54
Speaker 1: which F1 driver I'm meeting right after the show, but
29:57
Speaker 1: I will fill you in when I get the green light,
30:00
Speaker 1: when I get the green light for that. Uh, but
30:01
Speaker 1: in the meantime, I'm sure plenty of your favorite celebrities
30:05
Speaker 1: and DJs here in Singapore doing lots of coverage across
30:08
Speaker 1: the islands with many different F1 drivers and if you
30:11
Speaker 1: spot your favorite, you know, of course, please leave a comment.
30:14
Speaker 1: And, and show some love and support as we wrap
30:16
Speaker 1: up to race weekend.