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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 050826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Good next
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning and as
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  Speaker 1: of last night, we've officially wrapped up our NDP ticket giveaway.
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  Speaker 1: That means 3 more days to a long weekend here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore, the National Day weekend. Yeah, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be fantastic. So we're here to give you the energy
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  Speaker 1: you need to survive the week and countdown with you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and stay with us. 1 hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: Not literally the weekend that is happening in a few days,
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  Speaker 1: but the weekend live here in Singapore, month of October actually. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if people are counting down
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  Speaker 1: to two different types of weekends. The concert, October 2nd,
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  Speaker 1: October 3rd, and the long weekend, and the long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So whenever we play a weekend song here on 987,
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  Speaker 1: I'll always check Ticketmaster.sg to see how his ticket sales
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  Speaker 1: are doing. Yeah, it is safe to say.
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  Speaker 1: Both nights, it's almost sold out unless you really want
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  Speaker 1: to sit at the corner. Oh, like those, uh, what
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  Speaker 1: do they call that nosebleed seats, is it like in sports,
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  Speaker 1: in sporting terms? I mean, nosebleeds, bleachers, but for this
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  Speaker 1: one is really the corner of the stage. So he
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  Speaker 1: has the little cross section of the stage, right? Only
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  Speaker 1: if he goes forward, then you can see him. If
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  Speaker 1: he stays on the main stage, you might have to
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  Speaker 1: strain your neck a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a, it's like when I go to church
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays, and then sometimes we end up getting the
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  Speaker 1: seat that's specifically this row that's behind this really huge pillar.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't see anything that's going on like up there.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that. And then the priest also cannot see
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  Speaker 1: me sleeping, so it's OK.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I don't always sleep. I don't always sleep.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to be sleeping at a concert, la.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I won't be. What a waste of money.
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  Speaker 1: Probably too, yeah, exactly. Like go there, go to church.
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  Speaker 1: It's free. Hey, but you know what I realized after
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  Speaker 1: National Day parade, we got loads of happenings. Malone in town.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole F1 season is coming, so naturally
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  Speaker 1: this is how it's like, and then Big Bang. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and BTS.
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  Speaker 1: Not forgetting. Sorry, I was in the midst of catching
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  Speaker 1: Joakim up on something, um, personal, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: getting funny. So I mean, it's one of those stories
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  Speaker 1: where your girlfriends or your fellow bros will sit you
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  Speaker 1: down for a while and give you the circle line
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  Speaker 1: station format. No, I'm, hey, I'm giving you a very no.
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  Speaker 1: When I say circle line station format summarize it really
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of detail in it, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: very important journey.
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  Speaker 1: To go one big round, then we get to the
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  Speaker 1: end point. Hold on, but I'm already giving you like
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  Speaker 1: the express version. Oh really? This is the express version, dude.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't even take. It was while while Martin Garrix's
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  Speaker 1: song was playing. OK, is only 2 minutes and 30 seconds. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I've sat longer than that. Yes. So be grateful. OK.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very grateful. One day when I come to work
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  Speaker 1: and I give you only one-liners, you will regret it
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be very sad.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, that's true and that is exactly what my mom
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  Speaker 1: says as well. What do you mean? Whenever my mom
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  Speaker 1: tells me whatever happens for her day or something that
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  Speaker 1: happens in her life, right, I always tell her, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: don't take circle line, go north-south line, top to bottom. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But she will still give me as much detail as
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  Speaker 1: she wants to because sometimes the details matter.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot just give you like the, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: straight up, uh, shortcut. And then with my mom, I
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  Speaker 1: always have this habit, I guess what happens in the end?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give her my opinion. I'm actually right, but she
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  Speaker 1: wants to tell the story. Yes, so can I just
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we have to open up phone lines
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  Speaker 1: at some point for this, but um, OK, sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: point is not whether you are right or not. No
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  Speaker 1: one cares if you're right. In fact, you are irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: in this conversation. What we want to do as partners
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  Speaker 1: or as or as your mom, parents or family members
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, we just want to tell you something. Like
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  Speaker 1: we just want to communicate it to you or get
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  Speaker 1: it off our chest. I don't need the like the.
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  Speaker 1: Solution. No, I don't need like to know whether you're right. Yeah, fine, right?
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  Speaker 1: You tell your mom this, she will agree with me, OK,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to say between my mom and you,
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  Speaker 1: your story is more interesting, more spicy, right? spicy for
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  Speaker 1: my mom is, it can be Irene do.
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  Speaker 1: Auntie Irene, Auntie Maureen, all the k. About to head
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  Speaker 1: to the phone lines right now over at 669-11987. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my
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  Speaker 2: name is Natalie. I'm a very big fan of 987.
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  Speaker 2: I've been listening for a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. So Natalie, tell us which
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  Speaker 1: school are you from?
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  Speaker 2: I'm
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  Speaker 2: from CHIJ Secondary.
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  Speaker 1: OK, Natalie, when you say you've been tuned in to
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  Speaker 1: us for a very long time, right? How long is
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  Speaker 2: long? A few years already.
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  Speaker 1: OK, really? OK, well, we, we feel ancient right now.
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  Speaker 1: We really do. Anyway, Natalie, tell us more about your
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  Speaker 1: school and what you love about it.
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  Speaker 2: My school
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  Speaker 2: has so many fun celebrations, like this thing called IJ Fiesta.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a school carnival that we, that
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  Speaker 2: we kind of have like.
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  Speaker 2: Every end of the first term and we, so for
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  Speaker 2: National Day, we are having some dance parties in the
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  Speaker 2: school and we get to wear our red color shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice. So are you dancing as well,
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  Speaker 2: Natalie? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: no, but I'll probably dance with the crowd. OK,
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  Speaker 1: OK, so it's like a concert situation. It's a rave. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sounds cute. OK. What song can we get you today
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  Speaker 1: and what's your dedication?
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  Speaker 1: Who is it going out to?
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  Speaker 2: I think I want to play this for all Singaporeans,
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  Speaker 2: like dedication to all Singaporeans on Home by Kate Chan,
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  Speaker 2: my friends and my family and all the other Singaporeans
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  Speaker 2: that
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  Speaker 2: love this song.
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  Speaker 1: Go, it's coming up for you right now. You enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it and have a great day at school, OK? OK,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Natalie. Bye bye. Bye. OK, so we got
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: some drama in the world of CDC vouchers.
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  Speaker 1: It should be pretty straightforward for most of us, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have a registered address. So for example, you and
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  Speaker 1: your mom will have to share the CDC vouchers, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how you guys split it, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you find your ways to, maybe you use
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  Speaker 1: the regular one and she uses the supermarket one to
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  Speaker 1: stock up your house. Sorry to sound disappointed or or what,
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  Speaker 1: but CDC vouchers drama. Yeah. No, but when I tell
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  Speaker 1: you what happened, um,
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  Speaker 1: You, you might understand why this lady is very concerned, OK? So,
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  Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, your CDC vouchers are directly linked
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  Speaker 1: to your registered address, right? So you have to have a,
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  Speaker 1: for example, if 3 people share one address, then the
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  Speaker 1: whole household will share those CDC vouchers. If you happen
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  Speaker 1: to live alone, you get to spend $200 worth of vouchers,
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  Speaker 1: or however much it has been assigned that particular time.
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  Speaker 1: For this, um, but this lady, she's in her 50s
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  Speaker 1: and I'm assuming one day she was, uh, deciding to
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  Speaker 1: go get some supermarket shopping done.
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  Speaker 1: She realized that, eh, what happened to my vouchers? And
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  Speaker 1: she claims that the CDC vouchers were redeemed by the
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  Speaker 1: previous homeowner that didn't change his address. So, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder what went on there because um maybe,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's hard for the system to detect, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like they don't know what the living arrangements are. So
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  Speaker 1: for example, if the previous person didn't change the address,
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  Speaker 1: one might assume like, oh, OK.
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  Speaker 1: There's 2 or 3 people living in the same household.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that red flaggy, you know, but she
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  Speaker 1: decided to make a police report because she said she
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  Speaker 1: was able to redeem her own vouchers for the past
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  Speaker 1: few years, but it seems like maybe the previous homeowner
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  Speaker 1: might have gotten away with it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh just didn't update his address at all for
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  Speaker 1: dodgy reasons because she's also been getting some other like
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  Speaker 1: sorts of letters and uh things like debt collection and
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  Speaker 1: all that and she's now worried for her safety. So
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  Speaker 1: I think the follow up to this is she contacted
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  Speaker 1: our friends over at the ICC. She made a police
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  Speaker 1: report also and she was informed that the man has
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  Speaker 1: actually changed the address already and the ruling is apparently
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  Speaker 1: if you move somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: you have 28 days to report a change of your
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  Speaker 1: residential address. But the thing is, he was still able
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  Speaker 1: to redeem the vouchers. So I think, so where's the
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  Speaker 1: loop what's the loophole here in time or didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it within 28 days. Yeah, so, well, that's the, that's
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  Speaker 1: the best explanation, right? Like that there was a bit
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  Speaker 1: of an overlap. However, the fact that he realized, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can still claim, he go and claim it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he no longer lives there. I mean, come
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  Speaker 1: on lah, bro.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder whether some laws have been breached here or broken.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, I think so. I'm sure it is. I
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  Speaker 1: think so. Either that or he has to somehow pay
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  Speaker 1: her back or something. Yeah, but the legitimate concern now is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if for example, the previous homeowner had any dodgy dealings
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  Speaker 1: or whatsoever that's a scary one. Yeah. Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 1: the lady is right. So hopefully she's all OK. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So fingers crossed for her and hopefully this doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: to anyone else. Just be very vigilant, I guess, and
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  Speaker 1: double check. If you think that something's amiss, you might
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  Speaker 1: be right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this could have been a reminder to go and
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  Speaker 1: redeem your CDC vouchers and enjoy it. Just used it yesterday. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: well done. Um, so I, I feel quite, um, wealthy
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  Speaker 1: when I walk into the hawker center with my CDC vouchers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, for everyone else here in Singapore, this could
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  Speaker 1: really come in handy. We know, we know 100%. Alrighty,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: so with regard to drink driving here in Singapore, something
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  Speaker 1: that I feel we are reading a lot of when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the cases that happened in our country.
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  Speaker 1: So there are plans to lower the legal alcohol limits
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  Speaker 1: proven and backed by science and all that. So if
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  Speaker 1: the new rule comes into play, if you drink, don't drive. Yeah, exactly. That,
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  Speaker 1: that's the common slogan that we know, right? Actually, I'm
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: very curious to know as a, as a petite person
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  Speaker 1: versus someone of your size and height, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Does it, does it differ if let's say both of
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  Speaker 1: us had one glass of wine, like one single glass
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  Speaker 1: of wine? Does it differ? Isn't it not relevant to
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  Speaker 1: your liver functions that's why I'm curious because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they said it's backed by science. I also want to
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  Speaker 1: know the science behind like how different people process alcohol
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  Speaker 1: differently because I believe that plays a part as well,
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  Speaker 1: how fast you break down your alcohol, your drink, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying.
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  Speaker 1: with my car. No, no, no, no, no, don't drive.
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  Speaker 1: Don't drive. We just drink one glass of wine and
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: see who. No, but how do we measure? It's, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about see who, who's gonna be drunk after one
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  Speaker 1: glass of wine. You never know. Neither, neither one of
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: us will be though. That's for sure. You never know.
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  Speaker 1: But again, don't take that risk. Don't exactly that. And
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: there's this viral video now on TikTok about how they
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: should change the slogan.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Don't drink and drive, but no, if you drive, don't drink. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the, it's like the don't love your job,
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  Speaker 1: your lover.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that one? To be honest, if you drive, don't drink.
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  Speaker 1: That slogan has been around as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think different companies or different alcohol brands have used
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  Speaker 1: that slogan before to try and give a change to
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  Speaker 1: if you don't drive. Yeah. Well, OK, so here's my,
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  Speaker 1: my solution is because sometimes, sometimes it's difficult because I
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: might be out the whole day, then I meet my
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  Speaker 1: friends for a drink, for dinner, then it becomes drinks, right? Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I also feel like unwinding. I want to have it
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 1: If I do decide to eventually have a drink, I'll
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: have my valet number on standby. That, that's, that's my
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: backup plan. You just gave me a very good business
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  Speaker 1: idea and a slogan as well. Like I should open
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: a valet service. My slogan is alcohol question mark. Make
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  Speaker 1: the call. Thank you. Wait, wait, can I tell you
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: the one that I, I call? OK, OK, hold on,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: I give you that slogan. I remember it. It, it
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  Speaker 1: cracked me up as well. The Valetervices, alcohol, make the call.
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  Speaker 1: You see, it catches on. But Joe, you can't, I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I will not trust you with my car. So bad. OK,
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  Speaker 1: it says here, hold on, I'm opening up their profile picture. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not very exciting. You drink, we drive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's straight to the point at least straight
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  Speaker 1: to the point. It still gets its point across. They
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  Speaker 1: got promotion now so not bad. So I always keep
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: them on standby just in case. Frankly, the, the cost
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: of like hiring a valet could be the cost of
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: you getting a grab bag at midnight. You are for real. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so just, just do that with the surge and all
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  Speaker 1: that have one on standby. So I believe on social.
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  Speaker 1: Media in the news today, all you read about could
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  Speaker 1: be about Maju Forest or Gilman Barracks and what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to those areas. I mean, OK, I am
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  Speaker 1: actually glad that Singaporeans are so invested in this, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest. I, I'm enjoying the commentary online. OK, so
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  Speaker 1: I must say in parliament yesterday, very eventful, yeah, um,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: Long story short is and in my personal opinion, enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it while it lasts, because it will still go under redevelopment,
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  Speaker 1: but the question now is how much of the forest
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  Speaker 1: do they clear? That's still up in the balance, and
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  Speaker 1: it's up to us now for the public to really
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  Speaker 1: send in our opinions.
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  Speaker 1: And our expert takes on it or really how we
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  Speaker 1: feel about Maju Forest or Gilman Barracks. So what did
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  Speaker 1: they say about Gilman Barracks? What's the latest update for
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  Speaker 1: that one? Um, I mean, basically watching the highlights of
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: whatever happened yesterday in Parliament, it was more or less
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  Speaker 1: MPs putting forward questions about, oh, why can't we just
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  Speaker 1: build it over here or over there, and most of
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  Speaker 1: these questions.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I could say there was a rebuttal and it really
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  Speaker 1: sounds like no, we've decided on Maju Forest and Gilman Barracks,
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  Speaker 1: but now we are gonna work on how much of
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  Speaker 1: it to clear. That's still not confirmed, but the redevelopment
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  Speaker 1: will happen. And did they say what they're redeveloping it
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  Speaker 1: to property or houses and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a shame. OK, but here's my question, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So places like Gilman Barracks remind me of Dempsey, for example.
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  Speaker 1: Now if they were to ever touch Dempsey, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: very upset. I don't think they will. There's too much
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  Speaker 1: that has been developed there already. But the thing is
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  Speaker 1: for Gilman Barracks.
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  Speaker 1: If let's say they don't decide not to reclaim it
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  Speaker 1: and like do their own projects and stuff, will, will
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  Speaker 1: there be additional changes made to help support the businesses there?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm not gonna lie, it can be quite quiet sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Especially those areas where it's like weekdays, maybe people don't go. Weekends, OK,
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  Speaker 1: no problem. I think people go drink, have dinner and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but how do they survive?
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  Speaker 1: Like on a day to day basis, like, will you
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  Speaker 1: go and support them? Because I know they have over
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  Speaker 1: there in Tropicana as well, but Gilman Barracks as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it can be quite quiet at
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  Speaker 1: times at Gilman Barracks. I will, except for the people
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  Speaker 1: that kind of work around the area, they will patronize
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  Speaker 1: the the the shops there. But you also can't eat
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  Speaker 1: the same thing every day, what, you know, the Labrador.
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  Speaker 1: Alexandria area. So if you really want your voices heard,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: there could be an extension of public feedback. You can
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: log on to form.gov.sg and look for the feedback form
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  Speaker 1: for EIA at Sunset Way and just fill in your
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  Speaker 1: opinions and hopefully they listen. Will they, will they? I
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  Speaker 1: mean if thousands of people do it.
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  Speaker 1: They, they have to listen and take in our opinions
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  Speaker 1: and maybe decide, OK, we won't clear so much, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just clear a bit first. I think the strategy is
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to alternative suggestion. Yeah, yeah, so maybe that might help
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: Of environment-friendly groups here in Singapore banding together. That's why
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I said I, I'm liking the conversations online posts and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: all that. So this upcoming story I'm going to open
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: up phone lines for, I haven't told Joakim just yet, OK.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: It just happened last night. Can you stop videoing me?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Enough. The reason why I'm, I have a face mask on.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: What's a, sorry, I'm not promoting any brand or anything,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: but this is the mask known for like you have
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  Speaker 1: to leave it on for like 2 hours at least.
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  Speaker 1: So
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: By the time I end, we end the show is done,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: because I have a photoshoot later. I need to put
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: on the mask. I mean, this is the worst I've seen,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: but it's not, it's not, yeah. Tell us your story.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: But if it was a certain month, you might be
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: a bit scared lah, which is coming up, yeah. I'll
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: tell you in just a bit, but, uh, this has
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: got to do with, with being in a public space
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and wondering if I should tell the waitress or tell
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: this person or not, OK.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It just happened last night, so I haven't even told
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you this story yet. Find out more in just a
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: little bit and in exchange, you might walk away with
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a lovely price. Dyson. Yes, I'm not wrong, special for
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: our nation's birthday. It's worth almost $150. Very nice. Your
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: chance coming up next. So early on, I asked you, um,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and I wanted you to answer very honestly, do you
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: think personally think that when
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: We go out and have meals or have drinks or whatever, right?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Are we very loud when we're like talking and yapping
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and laughing and catching up? OK, if you, me, Justin,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and Vernon of the Muttons and our friend Sam, if
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we are catching up, I would highly recommend that we
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: take the corner table, the quiet corner room, because we
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: could be quite loud and our laughter gets a bit
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: out of hand sometimes, but if it's.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You and me, yeah, are we, are we loud? No,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think we are. I feel some shade coming here. No, no,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: because I, I'm the kind of person that, OK, for example,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: on a date night, right, or if I'm catching up
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: with friends and they put me in the middle of
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a table with two people next to me, yeah, I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: don't like it because you're an introvert, no, it also kills,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it also kills the convo and to be honest.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, we are so close to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the point where I can understand what the couple on
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: my left are saying, people on the right are saying.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I try my best to keep it as
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: quiet as possible. I mean, but you know, drinks, you
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: might get kind of like loud and boisterous. I don't know. OK,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Jeremy thinks that I'm very loud. I agree. He thinks
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: that I'm loud and he's like, how can so much
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: noise come from such a small person? You were born
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: with a loudspeaker inside your diaphragm.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: OK, thank you for the shade. Um, I was a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: very quiet kid, just FYI, OK, like I was really quiet.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: So you're making up for lost time. Maybe, yeah. So, um,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: when we go out sometimes and you know, I'm just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in the moment and talking and laughing and like, or
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you a story that I'm very passionate about,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: sometimes Jeremy will stop me and he'd be like, can
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you use your inside voice?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Use your inside voice. She's like, use your inside voice
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because maybe we're at a restaurant or something. I mean,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the last we had last Thursday, thank you very much
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: for burns, by the way, you're welcome. I mean, the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: restaurant was quite empty, so I couldn't judge, and the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: moment that people came in, they were noisy. Yeah, exactly.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So they drowned out our voices. Yeah, so that's the thing,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: when we, when it started to fill up, right?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And every table was pretty much occupied and the way
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that the layout is, our voices don't bounce off the walls.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, right? Like it didn't feel
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: that way at least. However, why was this question asked
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: to me this morning? Because yesterday, or rather last night,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and it's not me, I'm not the one that made
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: noise again.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Um, I found my match. OK, I've, I've met my
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: match in terms of noise levels. So, I went to,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to visit a brand new Izakaya around his, his place,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and I've been curious about it because I was like, oh,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: it looks quite legit, you know. Then when we peeked inside, oh,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: actually quite a lot of people at about 6:45, 7, thereabouts,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: which is an early-ish work crowd, I would assume. Near
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the Robertson Key area, yeah. So there's a new one there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And uh it seems like the staff, they're also Japanese.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So I was like, OK, it looks legit. They got
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: promotional offers and all that. Why not, let's just go
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: try it, right? Yeah. So then you sit down. Um, overall,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that it was super full, maybe it
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: was 50 to 60% full at the time. Um, good
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: for them since they're still brand new. And we were,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: we were sat next to this table of 3 people, OK.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So when we sat down, I was like, OK, still
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: quite chill, you know, I ordered a simple beer and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: some skewers and you know, like dishes and stuff like that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: As the night progressed, one of the guys at that table, um,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: who I think might be someone important at that table,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I think he might be the boss, gathering from the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: conversation that I was listening to, which was very loud.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Um, he had the loudest laughter I've ever heard in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: my life, like in my life. Was it like rich people?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It was a little bit, a little bit of that,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the rich laugh, but also the bad guy villain kind
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of laugh. So it was a bit like this, I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: need to stand up for this. Hold on, wait.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And it's like he's laughing from his diaphragm all the time.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He's like, wow.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Ah wow this is Santa Claus meets Vincent Price, who
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: did Michael Jackson's thriller. Yeah, yeah, it was a little
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: bit like that. So every time he laughed, which was
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: very often, and the more like highballs they had, the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: louder his laughter became and um the more often it happened.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Like Jeremy and I will literally look at each other
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and try not to laugh because I, I told him
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I cannot hear my own thoughts at this point.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I swear. At this point, if it's happening frequently,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I would join in the laughter. No, I would look
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: around and like, a good time? Yeah, exactly. I would
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: join in. I swear I'm not even joking.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: After we left the restaurant.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: After we left the restaurant, um, he was saying, oh,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: no wonder that there was another couple that came in like, uh,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: after us. They sat quite far away at another table,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and he was jokingly saying, maybe that's the reason why the,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the waitress actually gestured us to sit at the other
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: end instead because those three have been there for quite
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: some time. Then I was like, oh, maybe, maybe, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have made a difference. His laughter is so booming.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I tell you, people from Boon Lay can hear it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: What were you gonna tell the waitress? I wasn't, honestly,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be a buzz and, and actually
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't mind it because I have some self-awareness that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm quite loud sometimes. So I didn't say anything, but
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I just wonder whether anyone will say something about it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: For example, let's say if you're at a restaurant, OK,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: or maybe it depends what restaurant you're at. If you're
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in a public space or a restaurant and someone at
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the next table is making too much of a scene
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: or causing a ruckus or so loud until you cannot.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Let me hear your own conversations. Would you tell the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: waitress or the waiter or the restaurant manager about it?
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Or would you tell them nicely like, hey guys, like,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you know, we're also trying to catch up. Do you mind, uh,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lowering your volume? Would you say that, or would you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: just ignore it and then leave for the next place?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: For example, if I'm at Sushi Samba, OK, OK, where
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: there'll be the dancers, the drummer and all that, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a catch up, good vibe kind
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of night also can, yes.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You must be very aware there'll be music and dance
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and all that loud, yeah, but if I'm at, um,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: very like, OK, Oakase restaurant for example, where it's the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: chef who's hosting you and all that, yeah, I would
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: have a convo but not at maximum volume. Yeah, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: some people don't have the awareness, you know, they just
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: go max volume. Yes, and there has been one occasion
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: where I was at an Oakase restaurant where once on
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: date night, and the three people.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Opposite me were very loud. But the chef, they didn't
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: say anything. Not the chef, but the server. The server
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: came to the table saying, sorry, can you turn your
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: volume a little bit down because you are inconveniencing your
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: other guests, our other guests. It was, it could be,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: or maybe they took it into their own, you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was quite annoyed in the middle of the table, you see,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that's a time and place for everything, right?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about awareness and maybe they've had one too
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: many sake or something to to notice. But give us
• 24:28
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• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a situation where you're dining
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: out or you're enjoying a drink?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And there's a super noisy group of people next to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you or super noisy pair of people next to you,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: let us know and let us know what happened as
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: well and if you dealt with it at all. I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: love how we're going from noisy people to our prize,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the Dyson hush. OK. And you know what, it's pretty quiet.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I was just asking you about whether you've sat next
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to a table that was super noisy at a restaurant
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: before or a bar or
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Anywhere in a public space and could you take it
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: or did you do something about it? I mean, in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: some situations I'll be very understanding if it's a bachelor
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: party or a bat, I'm not gonna be like, hey,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: can you keep it down, you see that they're having fun, right? Yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I will join in. I'll make friends, but
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I think it it depends on the context of where.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And what's the situation because I definitely have seen, been
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in situations where I'm OK with this group making noise
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: because I can see they're having fun, but another table
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't deal with it, and they went and told them to,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to quieten down. I might give you a very unpopular opinion.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I feel as if if the mood is good between
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the two of us, we won't mind. But if one
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: of us is in a bad mood or we're having
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a bit of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: You're irritable. Yeah, that's it. That's a problem. That's it. OK,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go to our messages in a little bit first. Um,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna say hi to John first. Plenty
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: of times, it's like selfish people traveling on buses, trains,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: or public places, blasting noise. Some elderly are really loud also. Um,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: loud voices live longer, LOL. Well I encounter such situations.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I'll usually just request for the waiter to shift me
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to a quieter table instead of confronting the group. Wow, OK, that's,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that's pretty considerate though. Got one more coming in from
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Jasper who says, Morning, Sonia and Joakim. I remember there
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: was once I was drinking with my friends in a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: pub where you can sing. The table next to us,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a group of 4 or 5, was playing games and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: making so much noise that we couldn't even hear the singer.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Oh no.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Actually this reminds me, oh, sorry, finish first. So what
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: me and my friends did was we will bring our
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: drinks to their table and cheer with them. We do
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it so often that whenever they are playing games or
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: making very loud noises, we would distract their thing that
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: was going on and eventually the noise died down. So
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I guess if someone keeps coming to your table to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: cheer with you, it means you're too noisy. You know
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: what's up. It's a sign. It's a sign. It reminds
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: me of this.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Um, TikTok video I saw of this girl who was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: at a Jenny concert in the US and uh she
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: was unfortunately next to this fan, like super fan, standing
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in the, the mosh pit area. This super fan was
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: singing at the top of her lungs, totally off key,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: like completely off key. So in this girl's video, all
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: she picked up was that fan singing because she's right
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in front, and her caption was when you can't even
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: hear Jenny singing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And it was really like na na na na na
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: na na na na na that kind of singing. Was
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: she clapping off rhythm as well? I don't know, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: that's me. OK, to be, to be clear, I wasn't
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the person in that video. I wasn't it. We're still
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: taking your calls and your messages. More of that coming
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: up soon. Uh, we would love to, uh, find out
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: from you. Have you ever sat next to someone or?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: A table that was making so much noise in a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: public place. Let us know this particular question based off
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: my experience yesterday. Quick recap in case you just joined us.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I was at Izakaya and it's a new one, so
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not super full yet, maybe 50 or 60%. Food was
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: very good. Um, if you want to know the address,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it's actually along Mohammad Sultan. There's only one Izakaya there now, OK. Um,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: so go check it out. It's right next to, it's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: right next to Craftsman Coffee.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: That stretch. Yeah, so it's a new, it's a new place,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: next to 7-Eleven, you know, that area. Thank you. So anyway, um,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I actually sat down next to this group of three,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and this one guy had the loudest laughter I've ever
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: heard in my life. His voice is booming. He sounds
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: like he swallowed a JBL speaker.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'm serious. He literally sounds like he swallowed a boombox
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and then subconscious. He literally sounded like that, OK, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: he was like, like that kind of laughter. You actually
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: do a very good job imitating rich laughter. I think
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: more like villain laughter. He sounded like a villain, a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: bit of both, yeah, there you go. So it inspired
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: today's question. Have you ever sat
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: To a table that was super noisy and what did
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you do about it? Say good morning to Sarah on WhatsApp.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Hey Sonia and Jo, I was having lunch at the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: restaurant on Sunday. Heard of it? Yes, over at, right?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: The one with the famous soup. I'm, I think so.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I think so. There was a big table of seated
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: behind me with a loud toddler who wanted to be heard.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Next to me was a middle-aged gentleman, and he turned
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to look at the loud toddler.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: The mother of the toddler immediately asked, Yes, can I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: help you? The gentleman requested the toddler not to scream
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: so much. The mother replied, This is a restaurant. If
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you cannot take the noise, don't dine outside. I was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: shocked with her reply. And when this big table of
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: young families left, the couple and their friends deliberately turned
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to glare at this gentleman who was so baffled by
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: their self-entitlement. Honestly, that kind of reaction is uncalled for though.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I mean the fact that you, you think that it's OK.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: The the argument, the argument is that for most restaurants
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that don't have a policy where you cannot bring kids,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you know, technically you are allowed to be as as
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you want to be, but it's up to your own discretion, right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: One more coming in from Melissa. Hey guys, I have
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a group of about 7 girlfriends. We are really loud
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: whenever we are together, but more in terms of laughter
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: instead of talking volume. We usually meet to hang at
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: one another's house for dinner. On the occasions we meet outside,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: we always are mindful to find a location who doesn't
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: mind the noise or isn't as well known yet. We've
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Been to casual cafes before and have had next door
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: tables ask us to lower our volumes because they can't
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: hear or speak to their kids. Perhaps we are in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a bit of our own world, so we don't mind
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the feedback and also most of us are moms anyway,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: so we get where they're coming from. Moms on the loose.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Why do I feel this will be you and your
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: poly friends in maybe say 10 years' time?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of us right now in Singapore. That's why,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that's why nowadays we meet at hawker center.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: No one's gonna complain. We were at Maxwell Hawker Center
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on Friday, having like, like hawker food and beers, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: we were loud and laughing, and no one, no one complained.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Can imagine I read it through that this Sonia very loud.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Stop it. Lucy's on the line right now. What about you?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Have you experienced this before?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: We
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: were with my husband, my grandkids, and the people there
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: were talking very loudly. So my husband was very, very annoyed.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So instead of him doing the dirty work, he told
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: my grandson, can you go and tell those people to
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: lower their volume or don't.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Talk and this boy really go and do it and then,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and then they kept quiet.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: So you use, you use the kid to ask them
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to keep quiet, very smart, very smart. They really dialed
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: it down. Yeah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: they really
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: dumb, but I do not know their reaction because they are,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah. But anyway, my grandson did the work lah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Did you give your grandchild a nice big fat ang pao?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Just asking.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: No, he's our favorite, so he always has stuff, only
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: need to give him that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I see, I see. He already gets the treats, dude. Yeah,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you go and tell the people uncle buy you toys.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: mites right here on 987. Sonia and Joakim here with you.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Back to more messages before we get to Sharon who's
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: hanging on the line.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Talking about whether or not you've been in a situation
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: where you had to sit next to a table at
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a restaurant or in a public place and they were really,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: really noisy. Did you do anything about it? What happened?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Let us know. We got one coming in from Rachel.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Good morning to my favorite duo. Rachel. I'm very sensitive
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to sound, and it triggers me to a certain extent
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: depending on the setting. If it's a bar, it's OK,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: but sometimes in a cafe or restaurant, it's too much.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: There was a family.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Oblivious to their kid who was screaming and squeezing her
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: filled balloon stop till they left. Oh, that sounds skin crawl.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I'm deathly afraid of balloons and my ears were hurting.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Her dad was just in his own world while she
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: was going around screaming with the balloon. I'm quiet, but
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: when provoked, I get quite intimidating. I was ready to
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: go and confront the family, but my partner doesn't like confrontation,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: so he just puts his noise cancellation earpiece in my ears. OK, OK, yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it reminds me of this time where I was
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: at a cafe. It's a dog cafe, OK, but, um,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: this particular cafe allows dogs indoors as well. So, so
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I was sitting down and you know, Maxi's relatively quiet
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: unless you go and get her into her zoomy mode, right,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: then she was like, she might bark, but hardly ever.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: She only barks at home most of the time. Next
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to us, there was a table and there was a dachshund, OK,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying it right.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And this dog is so small, but so noisy. And
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: are you calling me a dog?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Again, it is always a small one. It's always a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: small to medium dogs, dogs lah, not humans. So, so
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Jo is giving me this look like, you know, you
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: know what you do. Um, this dog couldn't stop barking.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I think he just wanted food from the table, but
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it's like the yippee yaye kind of like.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: What a great job of imitating the dogs. Yes, well done.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And everyone around this table, they were looking at kind
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of like glancing at them, glaring, you know, because they're
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: all dog owners too. But at the same time, it's
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: like that person had no awareness or rather, the owner
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: chose to ignore and just pretended like nothing was happening.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I think the owner. No, that's the thing. I think
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: so too.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we've got Sharon on the line
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and last few messages. So back to more of your
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: messages before Sharon, who's hanging on the line. Question is,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: have you ever sat next to a table that's making
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: so much noise and what did you do about it?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Saying good morning to Minnie on WhatsApp. Morning, Sojo. Every
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Friday night, my hubby and I will stay up to
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: have a couple time catching up on dramas together.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: We will always hear one of our neighbors and their
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: friends laughter. I tell you, it was quite scary at first.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It sounded just like a banshee. Hey Sonia, am I?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It starts to get really loud
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to the extent somebody called the police because it was
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: that loud and scary, but somehow it doesn't work. They
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: still do that every Friday.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: What? Wow. You, you know this neighbor. Do you know that?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I'm so curious now, do they know this neighbor? have
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you ever seen it and it just like echoes of
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the walls. Oh man, that's kind of creepy to compare
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: laughter to a banshee, it's quite scary. I mean, my
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: parents used to call me a hyena, so I'm not
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: sure if there is anything.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Better or worse
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Joking, you're supposed to be my friend. Hello. Are you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: on my side or what? I'm your friend. That's why
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'm very honest with you. Yes, I'm not a hyena.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I don't sound like a hyena. I can't lie. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: don't lie to you. I, I sound like a, um,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you know, beautiful butterfly hopping between flowers. Hey, Sonia, if
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that's what you think, good for you. I love that
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: for you, Sonia.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, OK. Self-awareness. Sharon is on the line right now. Sharon,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: have you ever encountered this before and what did you do?
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, OK, uh, this is not in the context of
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: any cafe or any restaurant, but more like watching musical
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: quite a number of years ago, Phantom of the Opera.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Oh no, that kind of context is that you're supposed
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to be seated.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And listen to the singing, uh, but this person was
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: humming along throughout the whole 1.5 hours, and I'm like
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: paying the $130 just for listening to the person singing. So,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: but I didn't, I didn't dare to tell the person off,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: so I glared at the person a few times, but
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: obviously the person was like, uh, self-indulged in, indulged in
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: her own singing. So I had to endure and I
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: can't move anywhere, you know, because it's a.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, ticketed seats, you see, so I just have to like, OK, alright,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: this one of those episodes, maybe I'll buy another ticket
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: again.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So the fact that he wasn't very bad singing. Yeah,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: correct.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: No wonder. But also it's not musical etiquette you should
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: listen to the songs, but I wonder if sometimes people
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: are oblivious about it. Like, you know, when I'm at
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: home alone or I'm in the shower and I hear
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a song, I kind of like sing along with it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: But maybe we bring that lack of awareness, you can't
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: do in a musical.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's correct. So, but, um, then I learned
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the lesson that I will not do it to another
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: person again, you
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: know.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, thank you so much for sharing your story
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with us and we, we don't wish this upon you
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: ever again. May you have good seats with good seats
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in the future. Take care, Sharon. Have a good day.
• 37:50
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• 37:53
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• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and it's a portable fan that you can bring around
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: with you. It honestly is small but powerful, just like
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: some of the laughter and the noise levels that people
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: are giving us today. I thought you're gonna say just
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: like me.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Hey man, like, you're not wrong, you're not wrong. But
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your messages and your calls
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: this morning. Really cracked us up. Yeah. The question was,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: have you ever sat next to a table that's super
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: boisterous and loud and noisy, and what did you do
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: about that based on my own experience yesterday? So you
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: know what, congratulations to today's winner. Wanna give it to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: #tmms on the loose.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Melissa, OK, we found that really entertaining and you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: at least you guys are self-aware and you will find
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: places that are also equally vibey and loud so that
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you kind of don't, you know, you don't disturb other people.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: So Melissa, congratulations to you from the heat here in Singapore.
• 38:46
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• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It's worth almost $150. Look, even though it's small, it's mighty.
• 38:57
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• 38:59
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• 39:03
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• 39:06
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• 39:08
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• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Visit their website, Dyson.com.sg or their IG that is Dyson_SG.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: The official name for the blue is in Cobalt. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: cobalt sold out. Yeah, it's OK. You can have the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Carnelian Sky one, I think. It's a Singapore exclusive for
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: National Day. There we go. OK, so, um, this juice
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: vending machine.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Has made the news in more ways than one over
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: the past few months. And I feel for them because
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it almost isn't their fault at all. At this point
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: there's only one juice vending machine here in Singapore there's more. Yeah,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: so I know we're talking about juice.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Which is the orange juice machine that I love, and
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: we have one here in this uh in the office.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I think it's the most prominent. It is. There's one
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: literally at my house also and many places where you
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: where you walk to. I noticed there was another one
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that has apple juice, but I don't think it's the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: same company. And it's called something else like.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I squeeze or I something, I don't know,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: something else. Why must always be in front? I don't know.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I wonder as well. Anyway, regardless of whether it's the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: same company, I have no idea. But for this particular
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: case of the i juice vending machine, you would have
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: known that there was a, there was a guy that
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: got caught for.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Licking the straw and putting it back, right? $600 fine, OK,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: let's move on that was, that was what happened previously. Now,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just making the news yesterday, and apparently the incident
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: occurred on the 2nd of August. This poor uncle, lah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: this elderly man got his hands stuck in the Ajuice
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: vending machine over in the Hougang area, OK.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: It's a developing story because it's yet to be, it's
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: yet to be revealed how and why his arm got
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: stuck in there, because I'm looking at some of the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: pictures and videos. I'm wondering why was it in such
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: an awkward position. Again, I'm speculating here, just food for thought.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: We have used the juice machine before many times, and
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we know once it's done, it will push the cup
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: out to you, right.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the pictures in the video. There
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: is no reason why your hand should go all the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: way in like that unless the stuck. No, I'm just
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: gonna speculate unless he was trying to reach in.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And pull out an orange and try to be funny
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: with the machine. That's an orange, bro. Again, that's my
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: thought and speculation. My, I wonder whether it was because
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: it was taking too long to come out, but you
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: got to be patient with it because, you know, it
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: goes through the squeezing the ceiling of the cup and
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: then it comes out. Isn't it a countdown timer they
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: have for you as well? I think it's sort of
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: some vending machines have a function.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: They only release the latch when it's done. So I
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: can't remember whether, I don't know whether all their machines
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: are the same or whether or not it took too long.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Then he was wondering whether it was stuck. He go
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and pry it open and try and, you know, grab
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: it up, then it jammed up the whole system. See,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: now I'm I'm invested too. Yeah, so we'll see what,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: whether there's any other developments because I think the various
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: um
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Publications have reached out for comments. They've yet to get
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: more information. So I think ijuice themselves are looking into investigating.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: But you know, SCDF was called in and everything. So
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I hope the uncle is OK. But whether they like
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: it or not, ijuice has been in the limelight again.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is a good publicity for them. Great, but
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I can imagine having a headache right now. Someone going, Why, why?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I know curse this year. Hey, let's look at it
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: from a positive light, man. Now everyone's talking about Ajuice.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I juice, now is the best time to spin it
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: your way. Let's go. OK, so you mentioned Singaporeans, as
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: we know, nostalgia. Yes, we do. I mean, we dig it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: So what's happening now? I mean, our grandparents, they have
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Air Supply and Engelbert Humperdink who always seems to come
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to Singapore for a concert. Almost like he's got a
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: PR here or something or he never left. Tell me,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: when will you be? Oh, he's the one that sang that.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: That's it, or maybe a version of it. And then.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: For our parents, maybe it's people like Michael learns to rock. True, yeah,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: or even I would go as far as to say
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Westlife and Backstreet Boys. Yeah, yeah, my mom grew up
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: remembering them listening to that or Michael Jackson, I guess.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: For us millennials, Sonia, this band for some strange reason enjoy,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: they enjoy coming to Singapore and it's a pop like
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: mainstream pop maybe because there's money to be made here
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: as well. Maroon 5, they're coming back.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Why you sound like you're pinching your nose. You got
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: a sinus problem ah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: So, you know. Hey, look, man, like memories, lots of
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: great memories. Maroon Five's music, um, and I think in
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the recent years also.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: This is with Sizza and uh Cardi.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: They've been, they've still been pretty active in the recent years. Yeah,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: so they have a tour and it's happening here in
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Singapore 12th of February 2027 at the National Stadium, OK,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: proudly brought to you by our friends over at Visa,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: UOB and Live Nation. Oh, I love that. So when
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: are tickets going on sale, do you know? Yeah, so
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: it looks to be on 11th of August 2 days
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: after NDP at 10:00 a.m.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: OK, so lock it down if you are keen. I
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: think they've been here before, but it was a couple
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of years ago. Oh, many times many times. I only
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: attended their concert like once. So maybe given how UOB
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: are the sponsors, right? If you have a UOB card,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: maybe got special deal for you or maybe a bundle deal.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: You will be not bad. They brought in Gaga last year, yeah,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: they did.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Maroon 5. I'm very proud to say that my first
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: credit card was UOB and I still have it. The
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: same one. Well done. Coming up in just a few minutes.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Here's a gentle reminder for you to check your e-vouchers, OK?
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Especially if it's issued to you online or a digital
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: voucher or something. Wait, wait, wait, today seems to be
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: very voucher CDC vouchers got e-vouchers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: it kind of, it was inspired by the fact.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: That I realized I had a lot of e-vouchers racked
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: up on because of my link points that I never checked.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I never checked it. No, no, no, I want it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Now I realize, I realized I'm like, oh, I got
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: this amount. I'm gonna use it right now. I think
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: my mom wants to take some from me too. But also,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: another drop of vouchers that you don't want to miss.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: So yesterday, um, I came to a realization that I
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: had a lot of link points. OK.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: And it's because the, the card that I use for
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: certain shopping, it's got a direct tie with Link points, OK?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: It's Trust. They do have, they always promote it or
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: they got this partnership, whatever. So. Yeah, yeah, and zero
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: FX fees and all that. We're not promoting it, it's
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: just genuinely what we use or what I use rather.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: And when I actually realized like, oh my gosh, I
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: accumulated these points directly into my app, and I didn't
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: even notice it. I didn't realize. So now I'm like, OK,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna use these vouchers. I'm gonna use
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: it to get my groceries. Then speaking of which, uh,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: e-vouchers wise, you can enjoy $61 worth of e-vouchers, Sheng
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Sheng vouchers, and
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: More at places like Changi City Point, the Clementi Mall, Kinex,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: places like that for National Day Month. So, gentle reminder,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: please check because I think um our friends over at
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the Elegant Group, they have various special promotions and I'm
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: guessing their main partners are Changi City Point, Kinex, Clementi Mall,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: and so on. So please go and check, especially if
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: the ones.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Uh, if these malls are near you, only because you
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: mentioned National Day Month and all these vouchers and e-stuff, right?
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: That's $61 yeah, um, look, MINDEF and people from NDP
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: will not call your handphone to tell you you have
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: tickets to. Oh yeah, yeah, they won't, they won't. So
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: if they call you, just put on the phone, OK,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: it's a scam.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: So please check it out, especially if you live near
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: these areas. You don't want to miss out on these
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: e-voucher drops that they're having, and you know, if you
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: miss it, it's gone lah because the month of August,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you know, will zoom by. if you don't want you
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: accompany this person to go like a boyfriend for rent.