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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 090426 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Singapore, wake up.
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  Speaker 1: next to you.
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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, and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost Friday. Yes, the weekend is almost here. Back to, um,
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  Speaker 1: business as usual this week after a short work week.
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  Speaker 1: Your final 2 days to win Leve tickets here on
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  Speaker 1: our show. Be on standby for that. Conan Gray first,
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  Speaker 1: Singapore's number 1 hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: It's Steve Aoki with Regard, New York, also featuring Maisy
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  Speaker 1: right here on 987, Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you've seen this. I'm sure you have. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Aoki has always been compared to, um, this rice
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  Speaker 1: cooker logo.
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  Speaker 1: That somehow looks like Kim. Can you just type Steve
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  Speaker 1: Aoki rice cooker? Just type it right now. Steve Aoki
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  Speaker 1: rice cooker. OK. Do you see it? Do you see
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  Speaker 1: the rice cooker? The rice cooker brand is aroma. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God the design kind of like looks like Steve,
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  Speaker 1: a sketch of Steve Aoki because of his mustache and
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  Speaker 1: his long hair. If you were Steve Aoki, would you
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  Speaker 1: rather be compared to a rice cooker or Asian Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: Actually both he's been compared to both and
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  Speaker 1: And to be honest, um, do you remember that trend
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  Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, Dad, what were you like
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  Speaker 1: in the 90s? So he did that trend and he
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  Speaker 1: put pictures of the rice cooker. Hilarious. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much she was paid just to do that small
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  Speaker 1: little one, but I really love her so much. And
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  Speaker 1: Tod making his way back into the music scene. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's been posting again about the stuff he's
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  Speaker 1: been working on, so we're really excited. OK, bit of
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  Speaker 1: an update. Joakim isn't feeling so well, and he's decided
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  Speaker 1: to head on home.
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  Speaker 1: So the last couple of, uh, last 5 to 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for waiting and for being patient. We're just
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  Speaker 1: discussing like, what to do because I think he's having
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  Speaker 1: a pretty bad migraine today. So he's decided to go
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  Speaker 1: on home. And I was like, bro, then why did
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  Speaker 1: you come in in the first place? Like, you came
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  Speaker 1: on twice and then you decided to go back.
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  Speaker 1: I think he thought that maybe the migraine will go away, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is, it happens. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's the heat, lack of sleep, or I don't know, dehydration,
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  Speaker 1: many things. Sonia with you this morning. Gonna be solo
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  Speaker 1: for today, but coming up in just a couple of minutes. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this one is exciting and it gives us a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a heads up, OK, because it's happening on the
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  Speaker 1: 22nd and 23rd of April.
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  Speaker 1: During these dates, we encourage you to drop your phones,
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  Speaker 1: just don't touch them and look into the sky because
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  Speaker 1: this is not gonna happen, I think for a, for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time, OK? And this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: visible here in Singapore. I cannot wait to tell you
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  Speaker 1: more about it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh why you should probably try and stay up late.
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  Speaker 1: This is the only time that you should stay up
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  Speaker 1: late during this period, um, specifically those days that I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, 22nd, 23rd, but, um, I think during that
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  Speaker 1: period of time, 17th to the 23rd, this will be visible.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 1: is in just a bit. Like I said, it's something
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  Speaker 1: for you to block, OK, these dates, 22nd and 23rd
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  Speaker 1: of April specifically, because something is gonna happen that only
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  Speaker 1: occurs once every 60 years, 60, OK? So I am
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  Speaker 1: not sure whether some of us may even live to
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  Speaker 1: see the next one. I mean, morbid, but it's true, right?
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  Speaker 1: 60 years. I mean it's the Lyritz meteor shower, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be visible here in Singapore. How incredible is that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think
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  Speaker 1: OK, I've never seen a meteor shower before in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life. Um, the, the closest that I got was
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  Speaker 1: in New Zealand when it was, you know, um, very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very pitch black, and they don't have a lot of, uh,
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  Speaker 1: high-rise buildings and stuff. It's mostly nature, right, in most
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  Speaker 1: parts of New Zealand. So if you drive out far enough,
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  Speaker 1: it's very dark, and if you look up, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: might even see like what we call a shooting star
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  Speaker 1: or the whole sky is like a blanket of stars,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: It is not the most common here in Singapore. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: we've got major light pollution. I don't mean that in
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  Speaker 1: a negative way, but because we're a city and we're
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  Speaker 1: very dense, right? So there's a lot of light pollution
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  Speaker 1: and the skies are not always that dark, if you notice.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to go to places like parks, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wide open spaces where there's no city lights,
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  Speaker 1: there's no buildings. So try to do that. Parks, beaches, reservoirs, um,
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  Speaker 1: experts are saying, yeah, open spaces, but also,
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  Speaker 1: I think our friends over at Science Center Observatory, um,
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  Speaker 1: they will not be holding a specific viewing session for
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  Speaker 1: this meteor shower. It does hold stargazing sessions on selected Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: so you may still be able to spot it if
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  Speaker 1: it falls on a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But um the Lyritz meteor shower is actually named for
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  Speaker 1: its radiant points near the constellation Lyra. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: no expert, but it sounds magical and maybe you can
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  Speaker 1: make a wish if you do catch the meteor shower.
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  Speaker 1: This is happening once again, only once every 60 years,
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  Speaker 1: visible here in Singapore, 22nd and 23rd of April. So,
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  Speaker 1: if there's one time that you want to ask permission,
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  Speaker 1: From your parents to be out after 11 p.m. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: with them, you can go with them. This, these are
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  Speaker 1: probably the dates, OK? 22nd, 23rd of April, catch the
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  Speaker 1: meteor shower. I really hope I managed to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Time to open up phone lines, 669-11987. The show goes
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  Speaker 1: on and we would love to hear from you. Now, um,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days back when I did, I was
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  Speaker 1: live on TikTok at night.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of you were like, hey, can we still
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  Speaker 1: call in if we're not currently in school? Like, what
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  Speaker 1: if we just graduated, but we want to give our
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  Speaker 1: school a shout out. That's completely fine. Like we're completely
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  Speaker 1: OK with that. So give us a call, 669-11987, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're still currently in school, tell us why you
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  Speaker 1: want Joakim and I to come drop by during your assembly.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to. In fact, I think we have one,
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  Speaker 1: school visit in 1 to 2 weeks. So we'd love
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you. Phone lines are open. You can
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  Speaker 1: get a song in and a dedication. Call me right now.
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  Speaker 1: Giving a shout out to Celine, your line got cut
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  Speaker 1: off just like a few seconds into our call, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: and you were so excited.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you would call me back, but you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. If it's fake, you managed to
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  Speaker 1: call me back. 669-11987. Taking shoutouts right now. Your dedications,
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  Speaker 1: your song requests. Who do you want to give a
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  Speaker 1: shout out to? Sonia with you this morning. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: flying solo. Um, as you know, earlier on, Joakim has
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  Speaker 1: decided that he's gonna stay home and go home because
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  Speaker 1: he had a really bad migraine. So, uh, yeah, drop
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  Speaker 1: him a DM. Tell him, feel better soon, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure whether it could be maybe
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  Speaker 1: the heats, dehydration, lack of sleep. By the way, um,
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: if you know, was there any like football match last night,
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  Speaker 1: don't have, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes I'm wondering like if there's a football match,
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  Speaker 1: did he wake up or did he have to like
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  Speaker 1: stay up late to watch it and stuff. So I
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  Speaker 1: did a quick search. Not that I don't trust him,
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  Speaker 1: but I just wanted to be sure. So if you
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  Speaker 1: know anything, if there was a match or something that
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  Speaker 1: he might have been catching, just, you know, let me
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  Speaker 1: know about that.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, hope he feels better very soon, but now
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna head to the phone lines, 669-11987. We lost
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  Speaker 1: Celine earlier who got cut off. She was in the
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  Speaker 1: car with her parents, but not to worry, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: head back to the phone lines right now to find
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  Speaker 1: out who is on and what song you want to
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  Speaker 1: hear this morning. It is a time for you to
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  Speaker 1: really give a shout out to your friends, to your
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  Speaker 1: school as well and tell us why you want us
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  Speaker 1: to come down.
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  Speaker 1: So let's head to the phone lines now. Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Who's this? Evans. Evans, what school are you from? Andrew Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Andrew's Junior. Yay! We got another one from Saint Andrews. OK,
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  Speaker 1: what song can I get you today and who is
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  Speaker 1: it going out to Evans? Light Switch. Light Switch by Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: Truth? OK, and anyone that is going out to in particular?
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  Speaker 1: All my friends. Gotcha. It's coming up right now and
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  Speaker 1: you have a great day. I hope to see you
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  Speaker 1: soon at St. Andrew's, OK? OK, bye-bye. Now coming up
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  Speaker 1: in just a few minutes, you know our friends from Grab,
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  Speaker 1: they're constantly innovating. They've got new stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And if I can safely say, if you're tuning in now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure all of us have a Grab account and
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  Speaker 1: we use it at least once a day.
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  Speaker 1: Either for, either for transport, for deliveries, groceries, or even like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, food ordering, the most obvious one. We touch
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  Speaker 1: the app at least once a day, right? Safe to
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  Speaker 1: say that. Um, in just a couple of minutes, find
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  Speaker 1: out what they're launching.
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  Speaker 1: Um, during Grab X 2026 where it was unveiled actually,
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  Speaker 1: and it's part of 13 AI powered features that were
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  Speaker 1: unveiled at Grab X 2026. Quite exciting stuff. Cannot wait
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  Speaker 1: to share a little bit more with you and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like the future is very bright with Grab.
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  Speaker 1: Um, seeing how some of these things I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I might have seen in the US, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: introduced here in Singapore just yet. Sonia was here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me here today and uh like I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, some exciting stuff happening with our friends over
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  Speaker 1: at Grab. And like I said, we would open up
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  Speaker 1: that app at least once a day, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I do, that's for sure. Ordering food clearly has never
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  Speaker 1: been so easy. I think here in Singapore, we've become
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  Speaker 1: a bit of like um,
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  Speaker 1: An ordering community, right? Like we just, anything you can
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  Speaker 1: just order like whatever it is, groceries, um, maybe even,
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  Speaker 1: you know, things that you need essentials from like your
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  Speaker 1: nearest uh Watson's or whatever, you can even order those
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  Speaker 1: things now. It's incredible, right?
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  Speaker 1: But over at Grab X 2026, Grab has announced many
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  Speaker 1: upgrades and many projects they're working on. Part of its
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  Speaker 1: uh 13 AI powered features that were unveiled at Grab
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  Speaker 1: X 2026, and this is their like annual showcase. So
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like just to tell you what to expect
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  Speaker 1: in the upcoming year or what they're working on. I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to highlight two, OK, because there's so many,
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  Speaker 1: highlighting two. Something that I've seen over in the US before. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was just in LA like a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Or even less than a year ago. Um, they're pretty
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  Speaker 1: advanced because they've got things like autonomous vehicles already running,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, one of them is called Waymo, it's
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  Speaker 1: very common, and I took Waymo like really quite a
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  Speaker 1: number of times. It's also a bit cheaper than, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your Ubers and stuff over in the US. And something
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  Speaker 1: else that we were seeing milling about in LA.
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  Speaker 1: These little robots that are just going along the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like they're just on their own. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like a crate because it's holding food inside. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like food delivery service like DoorDash or whatever they have
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  Speaker 1: in the US, right? And these little bots are just,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing, controlled by the satellites and stuff. They're going
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  Speaker 1: along the sidewalks, they even cross the road, they get
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  Speaker 1: to people's houses and all that. It's pretty crazy because
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  Speaker 1: you don't see that in Singapore just yet. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: it's being developed.
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  Speaker 1: And true enough, Grab has announced they are pursuing some
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  Speaker 1: of the best technology in the world to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they have autonomous vehicles, CCTV cameras, very soon, robots as well.
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  Speaker 1: But they did note that they're not meant to be
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  Speaker 1: a replacement for their drivers. It's more of a superhuman
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  Speaker 1: extension of the drivers. What does that mean? I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll find out very soon how they're going to, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: calibrate this and how they're going to involve robots and
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  Speaker 1: AI in their whole entire ecosystem.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool what I saw in LA. So if
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  Speaker 1: that is what's going to happen here in Singapore, yeah, I,
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious to know how the delivery riders are going
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  Speaker 1: to feel, but once again, assurance from Grab is not
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  Speaker 1: meant to replace the drivers. The second thing that's quite
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  Speaker 1: interesting is Grab stays, a hotel booking service. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, why have we not thought about this sooner,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, right? Like make hotel bookings a little
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  Speaker 1: easier because in Singapore, I feel like we do have
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  Speaker 1: a very strong culture of staycations as well. And there
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: are many platforms. There are so many hotel booking platforms,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: The, the, the interesting thing is because all of us
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  Speaker 1: already have Grab on our phones. I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: really smart actually, and I think this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be an AI first hotel ecosystem to offer competitive last-minute rates. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: music to our ears, right? I think all of us
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  Speaker 1: are definitely going to give it a go at least once.
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  Speaker 1: When was your last vacation, by the way, if you
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  Speaker 1: just think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't quite remember my last staycation. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: very long time. Yeah, have a think, when was the
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  Speaker 1: last time you did a stay and will you use
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  Speaker 1: this on their new upgraded app? Good Morning. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining me. Well, we're about maybe 15 to 20 minutes
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  Speaker 1: away from opening up phone lines for $7000. But here's
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  Speaker 1: a little um food for thought, OK? If you're tuning
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  Speaker 1: in now and you've already started working, most likely, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're on the way to uni or poly or
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  Speaker 1: wherever it is that you're headed to.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: 7:30 right now, yeah, I think it would be the
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: tertiary students that are on the way to school right now. Um,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: do you know or do you remember what your starting
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: pay was after graduating? And if you're still in school
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: right now, if you're in poly, uni, or ITE, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an expectation of how much you are
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: going to be paid the moment you graduate? Have a
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: number in mind and I've got some stats to share
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  Speaker 1: with you in just a while because this really took
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  Speaker 1: me back to my
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Well, my first job while I was graduating, which is
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  Speaker 1: this job that I'm doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so I asked you a question earlier. Do you
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  Speaker 1: still recall like what your very first job was out
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  Speaker 1: of uni or after graduation, and what was your starting pay?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have that number in mind? OK. Well, some
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  Speaker 1: stats have come in and I'll share, I'll share with
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  Speaker 1: you what mine was, OK, in just a bit. 46.9%
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  Speaker 1: of private uni fresh grads here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Have found full-time jobs within 6 months of graduating, very
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  Speaker 1: good news, and the median gross salary has been holding
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  Speaker 1: stable at about $3500 here in Singapore. Um, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot because I remember back then when I
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: was in uni, mine wasn't a private uni, but I
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: think it should be kind of similar-ish in a way.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the big differences, uh, differences are.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I think there might be another follow-up article soon perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: My starting pay was not even $3000 at that point. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether it was because I was still
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  Speaker 1: in school, like I was still in uni at the time,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: then midway through, I graduated. So that was my story, right?
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  Speaker 1: If you've been following me since back then, since I
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: started at 987, I was still in university back then.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know whether that kind of affected the, the,
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  Speaker 1: the pay that I got when I just got out here,
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  Speaker 1: and also I had zero negotiating skills. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think I was just more of like grateful to
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  Speaker 1: have a job offer at that time, but, you know, you,
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  Speaker 1: you build yourself up from somewhere, right? And to be fair, they, well,
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  Speaker 1: my company, which is MediaCorp that I'm working on right now,
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  Speaker 1: working with right now, um, you know, they've actually given
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  Speaker 1: me a lot of opportunities over the past, what, like
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  Speaker 1: my entire career, right? So you, you grow, and in
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  Speaker 1: any industry, that's the same, you know, you start somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: you grow.
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  Speaker 1: And whether or not it's the kind of pay that
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: you expect, I think the, the most important thing is
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  Speaker 1: to not try and compare too much with your friends,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: especially if you're from different industries. Every industry has, you know,
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  Speaker 1: varying starting pays, so I will say that, yeah. If
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: you are graduating or maybe this year could be a
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: final year of graduating very soon, or maybe this took
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: you back to the time where you just graduated and
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you started work, well, yeah, just a walk down memory lane.
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  Speaker 1: And here's hoping that if you're getting out of school
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  Speaker 1: very soon, you are going to get your dream job.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: 87.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: What's that sound?
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  Speaker 1: What's your name, bro? Shal. Hello Sharyl. How are you doing? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm on the way to work right now.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I can hear that. I can hear that. How have
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the Hari Raya celebrations been so far for you and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: your family? Well,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Well planned. OK, very nice. OK, well, you know, this
• 15:50
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• 15:54
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• 16:00
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• 16:02
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• 16:12
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• 16:20
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• 16:22
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• 16:24
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• 16:28
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• 16:31
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• 16:33
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• 16:48
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• 16:52
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• 16:55
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• 16:58
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• 17:16
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• 17:18
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• 17:21
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• 17:25
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• 17:27
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• 17:30
  Speaker 1: So today, we're focusing on Mr. Eclectic. Now, look, I've
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: dated a fair share of people where, you know, we
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: all have our quirks and our various qualities, sometimes qualities
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: with open inverted commas because some people just can't tolerate
• 17:45
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• 17:48
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• 17:50
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• 17:53
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• 17:55
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• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Certain things that uh could be deal breakers, could be
• 17:59
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• 18:02
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• 18:05
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• 18:13
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• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Has there ever been a time where you dated someone
• 18:21
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• 18:24
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• 18:28
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• 18:30
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• 18:35
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• 18:36
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• 18:38
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• 18:41
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• 18:44
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• 18:46
  Speaker 1: little quirks and, you know, eclectic things about your partner
• 18:50
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• 18:52
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• 18:53
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• 18:56
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• 19:01
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• 19:04
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• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Bei's tracks here this morning and we're talking about Mr. Eclectic,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: her track, you might recognize it. Sounds like this.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And no matter how you take this song, you know, you,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you can have different perceptions of it, you can take
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: it differently, but to me, I wanted to open up
• 19:25
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• 19:27
  Speaker 1: quirks about people that are deal breakers for you, or
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: have you had an experience before where, you know, maybe
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the person that you were dating has
• 19:36
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• 19:39
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• 19:42
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• 19:48
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• 19:51
  Speaker 1: messages first, uh, before we head to the phone lines,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so we've actually got Jenny hanging on the line. Um,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure whether you want me to say
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: your name here text-wise, but oh.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you left your name. It's Al. You said, we
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: went to a nice cozy restaurant near Hajji Lane, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he offered to pay. I didn't expect that. I was
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: prepared to go Dutch. So I said, order and we
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: could share. Um, he ordered 2 to 3 dishes to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: share and 2 cocktails. Towards the end of the dates, um,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: my date actually took out the iPad and asked if
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see new policies her company has to offer.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Oh no.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I was so shocked. My mouth was like open and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: my jaw was on the ground when she tried to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: sell me some insurance policy. After one hour, she realized,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sign anything and uh she just left.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Like she just packed her stuff, maam, like finished exams already,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: didn't even say bye, and I paid almost 90 bucks
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: for dinner, LOL. Oh no. Actually, I wish Joakim were
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: here for this because he had the same experience with
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a girl.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That, um, you know, I, I think he told me
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: this story. I'm vaguely telling it right now, but he
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: mentioned that, you know, it's quite a cute girl, you know,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: they talk on and off and um this was a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: few years ago already, and they reconnected because they met
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: at some, I don't know, like work thing or some event,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and she actually said, hey, like, let's catch up, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he thought it was, you know, like a genuine catch
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: up or maybe even, you know, something casual to get
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to know her, but if I'm not wrong,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: He didn't know that she was in insurance at that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: point in time. She had just started like part-timing or
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: freelancing and she also pulled out the iPad and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Tried to get him to buy insurance. Oh gosh, this is, yeah, yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it has happened more than just to more than just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: uh UL, so you're not alone on this. When we
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: come back, we've actually got some callers hanging on the line. Uh,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: good to hear from Jenny as well and more messages
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to read out, very, very interesting ones. Please stay tuned.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: We are giving away concert tickets to Love's sold-out show.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And today's conversation is inspired by her track Mr. Eclectic.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Any interesting quirks about people that you feel are deal
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: breakers or maybe through your own experience, dating them, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you felt like, OK, I really can't deal with this quality,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: open inverted commas, quality of this person or these quirks that,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't think I can be in this
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: relationship or on the flip side, have you never experienced that?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Like in your current relationship, you're feeling
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: You know what, we complement each other perfectly. We don't
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: butt heads on anything. Yeah, I would love to hear
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: your stories. Um, you can still send me messages 90050987.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: There's still time for you to call me 669-11987. But
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: first we have Jenny. Jenny, what about you?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, I had one,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: and, uh, it was also because I was an idiot.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I was dating two people at the same time. And, uh,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: because of that, I think I, I sent one to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the brink of, uh, well, he, he hid in a drain.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: That was then I thought, OK, this
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: is it. Wait,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: can I just clarify, he hid in a drain?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, he did. I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thought it was metaphorical for a moment. OK, wait, can
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you please just give us some context like what happened?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Why did he hide in the drain?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I think because he was, he was.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Really upset and uh my friend called me and he
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: told me he's hiding in the dream and I'm like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: what?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. So that was his, um, it was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a reaction, like his reaction to finding out, OK, OK. Yeah,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: because I,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I was one of a kind then also.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Girlfriend, I feel you. I know you. I mean, I,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I think we've all been there, maybe not all of us,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: but I personally feel you and um, you know, in
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the past when we, when we dated and, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: we're impressionable, we're younger, we're more immature, we don't really
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: think of other people's feelings in that moment, right? I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: think we
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: like maybe 1020
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: yes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, girl, if it was 10-ish years ago, I can
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: name a couple of interesting characters I dated.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And you know what, at the end of the day,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sometimes I wonder, am I the interesting character? Like sometimes
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I could be. We're talking about the little quirks that
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you may have accepted or maybe those were deal breakers
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in a relationship or someone that you dated before.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Um, really interesting stories coming through. We, we have a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: voice note coming through from Jay, but I, I'm not
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: sure if you want me to say your name, so
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go with the initial Jay. And TLDR
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Jay told me that she was dating this tall, handsome
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: man years ago, and everything was perfect. Like he checked
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: all the boxes, he was great on paper, nice to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: look at, you know, just handsome. Everyone thought he was cute,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and she introduced him to his, uh, some of her colleagues, right?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And without her knowledge, he actually got the numbers of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: two of her colleagues and apparently started asking them out
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: as well, and they all did not know. So, all
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: 3 of them were played basically, and he was not
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just 2 timing, he was 3 timing. So, when she
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: found out, she actually confronted the colleagues and to which
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: they said, I had no idea that
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You know, he was going out with the 22 other
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: people because his story that he crafted to them was, oh, no, no, no,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they're just friends or just like platonic, but mm mm,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: this guy got busted, to which I replied to her
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and I said, we got so much time? Like 2
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: timing is already bad enough in terms of like sorting
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: out your schedule. How on earth do you 3 times?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: That's a skill right there. Not that I'm, not that
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I'm condoning it, just saying, how on earth do you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: have the time?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: OK, when we come back, we've got more callers coming
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: on and uh more messages too. I believe one coming
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in from Q.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And also, um, HY, OK, I'm going with your initials
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: here today just in case because some of these stories
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: can be quite spicy. OK, heading back to our messages
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and then phone calls, um, all this inspired by Lee
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Wei's Mr. Eclectic. I asked you, has there been someone
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that you dated before with a really interesting quirk, something
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that was either a deal breaker or maybe you felt, hm, OK,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I can, I can deal with it. It's fine.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Um, going to messages for saying hi to HY, you said, hey, Sonia.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: There was a date who always used the word basically
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: in almost every sentence. Initially, it didn't register in my head,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but the more we chatted, the more I kept hearing basically, basically,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: basically from her. It basically felt like I'm listening to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a broken.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Broken recorder, stuck on the word basically. Needless to say,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that was basically a deal breaker for me. I basically
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: couldn't stand it and strangely enough, her words and voice
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: lingered in my head for days and posting it now,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: sending this message to you basically reminded me about the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: word all over again.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I love that message. I said, actually in our industry,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: we call that a crutch word. Whenever you find yourself
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: filling up, you know, empty spaces or silences with a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: certain word, the most common words are like, basically is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: one of them. I think apparently could be one of
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: them as well. I don't know. There are many different
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: crutch words, right? But it was hilarious. Thank you so
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: much for sharing that. Ivana's on the line as well.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: What about you?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, um, I thought of my husband, who, I mean,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I know he loves seafood, but I was
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So surprised when I, we went out for a family
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: dinner and get the whole fish. He basically cleaned the
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: whole fish. You know how, I mean, we eat with
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: our hands and stuff, but then he cleaned, he will
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: eat all the meat, then the bones are left on
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: his plate, clean, basically the bone.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: he's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: got, he's kind of got a skill there. He's like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: your official fish deboner in your family.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, correct. So he learned it from his mom.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: OK, so this is a quirk that you never realized
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: until I guess you guys got together and stuff. But
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: this is a positive one. I mean, for once, it's
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: not a negative trait. It's good, right?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's officially spoiled you, you know, so
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you can't eat fish with with anyone else anymore.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, if I go to restaurants, uh, buffets,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and I feel like, oh, there's like prawns and I
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: think he'll he'll peel it for me as well.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Oh,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you see, this is what a relationship is about.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call, Ivana. You have
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a great day,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: OK? Thank you. You too. Alright, bye-bye.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: What entertaining stories we've had this morning. Thank you so
• 28:11
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• 28:13
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• 28:16
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• 28:19
  Speaker 1: By the way, it's the second to last chance for
• 28:21
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• 28:25
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• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Our friends over at UOB, they've managed to get some
• 28:31
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• 28:34
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• 28:40
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• 28:42
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• 28:45
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• 28:48
  Speaker 1: is happening on the 19th of May, just a little
• 28:50
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• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And it's my pleasure to say that today's prize goes
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to HY. Congratulations, HY.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: You are today's winner for that pair of Cat 3
• 29:05
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• 29:11
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• 29:14
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• 29:19
  Speaker 1: food news, well, something you might have missed earlier on,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I made sure it was a public service announcement because
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we've got a few weeks to prepare for this. 22nd
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and 23rd of April. These are the dates you have
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to lock in.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: OK, because why? This incident, or rather this occurrence is
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: going to happen only once every 60 years, 60. So
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: for a lot of us, this may be the only
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: chance that we get to catch it in our lives
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: because in another 60 years, I mean, I'm really not
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: sure if I can even be walking around anymore, OK?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Can I go first with Khaled and Griffin. I'll share
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: more with you in just a bit and why you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: must lock 22nd and 23rd of April down. But of course, um,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: if you've missed it, this is gonna be quite an
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: event of the year. In fact, it's not gonna happen
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for another 60 years, so you better lock it in.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: 22nd and 23rd of April of this year, OK?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: A meteor shower is going to be visible in Singaporeans,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in Singapore skies, and this is known as the Lyritz
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: meteor shower, only happening once every 60 years. What happens
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: is you can expect to see about 10 to 20
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: m traversing the night sky per hour. Can you imagine that?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: How crazy is that?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I don't even know whether Singapore is not really known
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to be a good ideal location for like stargazing, for example, right?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Because from what I know, we've got a lot of
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: light pollution simply because we're a city, and we've got
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of buildings and for most of us, if
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: you notice at night, if you live in apartment blocks or,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you know, places that are quite dense, you will see
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that the sky is not very dark. So as a result,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you can't really see stars, right?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Versus when I was in New Zealand, for example, it's
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really just open fields, open land, you know, you've got
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: your mountains, there's no one staying around there, there's no
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: high-rise buildings. So at night, you know, you're always greeted
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: with a blanket of stars in most parts of New Zealand.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: That's the beauty.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of it and there are even points, certain points in
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: New Zealand where they recommend for the best stargazing experience.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: In Arizona, I had that as well. Oh, it was
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: so beautiful. Don't think I'll ever witness that again in
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: this part of the world, unfortunately, but 23rd to 22nd
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to 23rd of April of this year, it will be
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the brightest. Now, the meter shower will be active between
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: 17th to 26th of April, but I think 22nd, 23rd
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: were locked in as the most ideal one for Singapore.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Um, best viewed after 11 p.m. So if there's any
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: reason at all that you want to stay out late,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: use this as a reason, OK? Tell your parents like, I,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I need to catch the meteor shower, it's not gonna
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: happen again in the next 60 years, but observers, you
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: should seek darker locations, according to our experts, parks, beaches, reservoirs,
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  Speaker 1: open spaces far away from the city lights. So, uh,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: preferably facing the east as well.
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  Speaker 1: How to know where I'm facing actually. Maybe I need
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  Speaker 1: a compass or does iPhone have that? I'm hopeless when
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it comes to this. Don't ask me to navigate anything, OK?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I rely on GPS and like we mentioned yesterday, it
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was a gentle reminder that um yesterday you had just
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: 12 hours left to leave your comment for that Disney
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: adventure bundle, his or hers bundle. So we're giving away
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: both separately, 2 winners. Uh, we're gonna go through all
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the comments very, very soon because they're like.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Over 600 comments, unique comments actually. So it's going to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: be quite a rough one. But as of this morning,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I have shortlisted a few. I think Joakim has, has
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: shortlisted some of his favorites as well. So we're going
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to take the weekend to really just read through the
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  Speaker 1: ones that we shortlisted and see if we can come
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to an agreement. It's so challenging, you guys, like I,
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  Speaker 1: I swear, like, when it comes down to picking.
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  Speaker 1: A good comments from a pool of really great comments
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  Speaker 1: and how you pick the best one. That's just, yeah, it,
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  Speaker 1: it gives us a bit of a headache. Maybe that's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: why Joakim got migraine today. He didn't come for work.
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  Speaker 1: He was stressed about that, maybe. So, um, the winner
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  Speaker 1: will be revealed at the start of next week. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for your love in the comments. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up in just a few minutes, this is related to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: food news, OK? And it particularly pertains to people living
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  Speaker 1: over in the Ang Mo Kio area.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever felt a little bit cheated, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an announcement was made and then you felt really strongly
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  Speaker 1: about it, and after that they backtrack and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: actually it's not happening anymore. Well, this is what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Ang Mo Kio right now. I'll tell you more,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: but it's a good spin because now I think it's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: become a positive piece of news. OK, it's time for
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: some food news, and this is particularly applicable to you
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  Speaker 1: if you live in the Ang Mo Kio area.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I've never lived in Ang Mo Kio, but I
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: had some aunties who did, uh, in the past, and
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  Speaker 1: from what I understand, yeah, there's plenty of stuff there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got a lot of amenities, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of food, but perhaps if you stay near Ang Mo
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  Speaker 1: Kio Avenue One, you might be one of those that
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: would frequent this coffee shop very often. I mean, all
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  Speaker 1: I know is that it's called Ang Mo Kio Avenue
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  Speaker 1: One Coffee Shop, and previously, it was announced that they
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  Speaker 1: were closing.
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  Speaker 1: So I think clearly there were a lot of mixed reactions.
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  Speaker 1: People were like, why, why, why, why is it closing?
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  Speaker 1: It's a Sin Foodie Coffee Shop, by the way, Block 215. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and it was set to close on the 15th of April. So,
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  Speaker 1: I think initially, the operator made the decision to close
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  Speaker 1: due to issues with um certain areas. The outdoor refreshment
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  Speaker 1: area was one of them.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And he informed the store owners about it at the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: end of March. He and the landlord apparently were supposedly
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: continuing negotiations, and the good news is, they finally managed
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to settle the issue in a friendly way, just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days back and they allowed the coffee shop
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to continue operating. Yay.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: So I think just some, you know, inspections required and
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  Speaker 1: uh certain other things they, they need to settle before
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: they actually continue, but it's been peacefully resolved, really good. Um, however,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: some of the store owners, I think they've got mixed reactions.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Most of them have decided to stay. I think.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: actually, all the tenants said that they'll be staying, including
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: a very popular uh Mukata stall, even though they already
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: found another space. But I guess if they already built
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: like a following and a fan base there, right, it
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: would be far easier to continue building the business in,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in that area that you already know is good. But
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I think um the landlord has said we're trying our
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: best to compensate the tenants, you know, so um that
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that's always a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: So great news to our friends who live very near
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: this Ang Mo Kio um Avenue One coffee shop. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: know how it feels like to have something that has
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: been convenient for you for years and years. Some people
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: may have stayed there their whole lives, you know, and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they're used to it. They made friends with a coffee
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: shop auntie, uncle, whatever.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: To have that ripped away from you always feels like,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you know, a tragedy, and um I felt that way too,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: when some of the store owners from certain coffee shops or,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you know, places that have been there for very long,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and when they decide to close, I'm like, no, this
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is part of my daily routine. What will I do now?
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I'll feel so lost. I'm sure you might feel that
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: way about your kopitiam auntie who makes your coffee every
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: morning or like sells you breakfast, right? It's almost like
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: your family at some point.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: OK, well, great news then. So if you live near
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the Ang Mo Kio area and you are rejoicing about this,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: drop me a message, let me know. And like we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday, it was a gentle reminder that um yesterday
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you had just 12 hours left to leave your comment
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: for that Disney adventure bundle, his or hers bundle. So
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: we're giving away both separately, 2 winners. Uh, we're gonna
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: go through all the comments very, very soon because.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: There are like over 600 comments, unique comments actually, so
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to be quite a rough one. But as
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of this morning, I have shortlisted a few. I think
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Joakim has has shortlisted some of his favorites as well.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: So we're going to take the weekend to really just
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: read through the ones that we shortlisted and see if
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: we can come to an agreement. It's so challenging, you guys,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: like I, I swear, like, when it comes down to picking.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: A good comments from a pool of really great comments
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and how you pick the best one. That's just, yeah, it,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it gives us a bit of a headache. Maybe that's
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: why Joakim got migraine today. He didn't come for work.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: He was stressed about that, maybe. So, um, the winner
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: will be revealed at the start of next week. Thank
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: you so much for your love in the comments. Well,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me this morning. I was solo.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: It was fun.
• 37:32
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• 37:33
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• 37:35
  Speaker 1: after we wrap it up. And it's a bit of a,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: it seems like it's a bit of a gray cold morning.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: In fact, because of my laziness, I did not go
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: back down to my car to grab my jacket. I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: forgot it this morning. So I was like, OK, at,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: at 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., I'm gonna go down, but
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: it never happened. I just got too busy on the show,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: so I've just been freezing the entire, the entire 4 hours.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: So I really thank you for the laughter that kept
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: me warm this morning. I hope that you had as
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: much fun as I did. I'll catch you tomorrow at
• 38:01
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