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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 160626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: 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. Oh well, good morning.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Guess what? This is not a false alarm anymore. We're
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: finally back together. Hello. What did I miss for two weeks?
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, stomach flu and all that lah. I
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  Speaker 1: got no tea for you, you know, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I got no gossip. Singapore's number one hit music station.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Finally, it's two voices and not one because we took
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: turns to disappear for quite some time. That's OK. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're back. You had a fantastic honeymoon. I had a
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: fantastic break and I'm looking at you to see what's changed. Nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a few shades darker, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: When I actually, I think I faded off a bit already,
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  Speaker 1: but the moment I came back, I was actually like
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  Speaker 1: at least 3 shades tanner. By the way, I might
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: have shed a tear or two because of you in Bhutan.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: What did I do? Uh, I think you might have
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  Speaker 1: shared this on air already, but I saw the video
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  Speaker 1: with you and your parents. Aiyo, I. I didn't share
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  Speaker 1: it on air. Really? OK, I didn't. So the, the
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  Speaker 1: video of Sonia, I think you bought your parents a car, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: an MG car, of course, and Ayo, your dad looks
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  Speaker 1: so happy lah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like, you know, you know, cars and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what what are considered like boys' toys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like for you, it's for you, it's sports related, PlayStation, yeah, gaming,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your, what else, Lego, yeah, things like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So for my dad, it's, you know, he has like
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  Speaker 1: these toy cars at home, and then actual cars. So
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  Speaker 1: like he's actually so excited. It's their first time owning
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: a new car. So, what's your dad's?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a Maserati. No, no, no, he's
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: not a Maserati guy. It was his vintage like Porsche 911.
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  Speaker 1: But this was when that's how he asked my mother
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  Speaker 1: out lah. That was the era that he was driving Porsche.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: But as you know, back then in those days, how
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: much was a vintage secondhand Porsche, so cheap. It's like
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: no such thing right now. So yeah, you can buy
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: a motorcycle, I think with the price. At this point,
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: given your dad's taste, right, I'm very sure he was
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  Speaker 1: a spy.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: In his, in his prime, in his heyday, yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: did you end up with my mom? She's the worst
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  Speaker 1: spy ever. Exactly. I see where I inherited it. The
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  Speaker 1: enemies won't suspect a thing. I was just gonna say
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  Speaker 1: it's scary how fast time is flying. This time last
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  Speaker 1: week I was waking up to the best sunrise, and
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  Speaker 1: the view of the sub-Himmalayan region over at Bhutan. Trust me,
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  Speaker 1: I know how that feels. Like I, I was just
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  Speaker 1: sharing with our listeners that I think.
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  Speaker 1: I've had the worst post-holiday blues on earth this round,
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  Speaker 1: especially because, um, I think, I don't know whether it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's the kind of thing where you experience a really
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  Speaker 1: impactful holiday and then when you come back, it just
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  Speaker 1: hits different from the other types of holidays you've experienced. Like,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: do you feel that way for Bhutan?
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes and no. I'm getting like bad holidays, man,
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  Speaker 1: even till now. I think my Bhutan was the right
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: amount of time, and time back in Singapore before work starts. yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean for a location like Bhutan, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you can do like 2 or 3 weeks or so.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit long, you can, you can really if
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  Speaker 1: you're doing like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which I would
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  Speaker 1: love to do sometime. It's so funny. I saw this one,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in Bhutan, they were promoting this thing
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  Speaker 1: called the snow hike or something.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like during the colder season, which of
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  Speaker 1: course did not clearly not obviously. I mean, I did
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: the bare minimum of what I needed to do and
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: I'm done.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: Also, on the context of time flying, it's the 16th
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  Speaker 1: of June 1 month as a married woman. I know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing has changed, by the way, it's still the same.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, is there any difference, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that that's the number one. Everywhere I'm going, people are
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: still saying, hey, congratulations. I, I mean, it's not that
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: far away. I guess in wedding context it's still quite recent.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but, but most people's first question will be, oh,
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  Speaker 1: how's life as a married woman? I'm like, it's the same, guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's zero difference. Do you get people staring at your
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: womb or belly? No, it's been 4 weeks. Why are
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: you going on about analyzing it, you know, any growth
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  Speaker 1: or any movements over there? It's maybe because I ate
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: too much since I've been quite unhinged since wedding time,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It feels good to be back to have
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: a friend to talk to again on air, especially.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: I think um for the time that we were both
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: away separately, did you get listeners texting and saying like, um,
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: don't be so lonely, OK, or like, hey, keeping you
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  Speaker 1: company while joking or Sonia is away. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the 3 days before your wedding and then 2 weeks
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  Speaker 1: of your honeymoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, lah, a bit lonely in the studio sometimes and
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: you know, and I was sharing this with Sonia on
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  Speaker 1: the Tuesday when I was flying to Bhutan. I did
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: the show with her and I said this off-air. There
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: was some sometimes I was actually talking to myself in
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: the studio when the music was playing, thinking that you
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: were around.
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  Speaker 1: Just sharing about my day to anyone here that will listen.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's like that that I wish there's a
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  Speaker 1: CCTV here somewhere just to see the craziness I pretty
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: sure there's some hidden pinhole camera installed by Boss Janice. What?
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: No way. So she has a lot of dirt on us,
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: I guess. Either that or one of our colleagues, OK.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Coming up in just a little bit, coming up in
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. I don't suppose you have the
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  Speaker 1: stomach for this right now since you've had a bad,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: was it stomach flu over the past few days? It
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: was painful. I know you, you're not the first person. Like,
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: in fact, I know two people who have had gastroenteritis
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: in the past two weeks. Of all things that gave
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: it to me, it was a banana milk.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Protein drink. Yeah, that's just confusing you drank it here
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: in Singapore. So I'm guessing it was contaminated or dirty. Maybe, yeah,
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: maybe slightly expired. You see, that's why I am always
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: the expiry bully. I always look at the expiry date. OK. Anyway, sorry,
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: you will not have the stomach for this right now
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  Speaker 1: because it's related to durians and and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you can stomach this at all.
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  Speaker 1: Duan, no, right, not for you right now. You've probably
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: been eating porridge the past few days. Give me a
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: few days. Yes, yes, to get back into your form. Yeah,
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: to get everything back to normal first. Yeah, OK, well, Shakira,
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: Euro Sumer right here on 987. I have to say
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: that song started to grow on me while you were
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: away for some reason. Euro Summer I didn't quite like
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: it initially when I heard it.
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  Speaker 1: But the more I heard it, I'm like, oh, OK.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: You see, it says so much about Shakira's horrible World
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  Speaker 1: Cup song. If Euro Summer is going on you as
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: compared to Die Die, oh, that's true. That's true. Let's go.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, you know, sometimes when I say
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: that that song title on air, I don't feel like
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: it's very, uh, very hard to say that.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually Italian for let's go. Yes, I, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't sounds a bit ominous. OK. Anyway, um, I,
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  Speaker 1: I actually forgot to say that this is a crime.
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  Speaker 1: At 6:50 a.m. in the morning. In fact, while you
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: were away, there were so many stories. What does this
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: say about when you leave, the crime goes up. When
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: I come back, the crime rates go down. SPF call me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Anyway, it's time for crime, crime, crime, crime.
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  Speaker 1: And where are we going? The jaded streets of Jurong East.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: Haven't been there like for B crime. What's negative word
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: that starts with jinxed. Yeah, OK, both are quite negative. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: there's this durian store over in Jurong East, and, and
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: by the way, it is durian season right now, OK.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that, uh, prices of durians over in Malaysia
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  Speaker 1: are very low right now and there's like an abundance
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  Speaker 1: of durians. So this is time for you to go
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  Speaker 1: eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Um, this Jurong East durian store, they, they've been there
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  Speaker 1: for a bit. They recognize their regulars, you know, they,
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  Speaker 1: they see people in and out, right? On the 14th
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  Speaker 1: of June, which is just two days ago, at 3:30 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: a man was caught on CCTV stealing 9 durians from
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  Speaker 1: this durian store, and you know what the, the name
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  Speaker 1: of the store is? Ho Jia durians.
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  Speaker 1: They saw him and caught him red-handed on their surveillance camera,
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  Speaker 1: which is very clear, by the way, it looks 4K,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. And um they, the employees were the
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  Speaker 1: ones that discovered it the next morning when they realized, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how come?
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  Speaker 1: Our shelf of durian, so many lobangs, like there's so
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  Speaker 1: many empty spots, you know, and he took 9, so
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: that's a lot. That prompted them to go look at
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: the CCTV footage, and they finally found it, and they
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  Speaker 1: recognized him as an existing customer, like basically someone who
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: has shopped at their store before. So they said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, they didn't do anything, hoping that he'll come
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  Speaker 1: back to pay for it or something, but he never did.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and the owner said actually if he had difficulties
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: and really wanted to eat durian, he could have just
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  Speaker 1: told us, I would have treated him to some, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to steal it. So you see, I mean,
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: not worth it like guys, not worth it. On that
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: topic about durians, I realized durians have been in the
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  Speaker 1: spotlight for Singapore the last few days. I think a
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  Speaker 1: recent video.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Twitch streamer, Super Cat cake, yes, yes, sitting down
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  Speaker 1: with the London mayor himself, Mr. Sadiq Khan, having durian,
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: to which there was a comment I saw on social
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  Speaker 1: media which got me thinking, you know, and I think
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: this came from our friends across the causeway, OK, how
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  Speaker 1: is the durian Singapore's national fruit when most of it
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: is imported from us?
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, good question. It's a good question. Have we
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: ever called it our national fruit? Yes. 00, we call
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: it our fruit or fruits here in Singapore. I thought
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: it's king of fruits. I never knew we called it
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: our national fruit. Yeah, the esplanade is designed after a durian. Well, OK,
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: but the durian is native to Southeast Asia in general, right? OK,
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: you know what? For the fun of it, fruit of Singapore. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Does it come out as the durian?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Durian. Really, ah? How did I not know this? I mean,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: I just thought that it's representative of our region. That's it. Exactly. But,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: but the question makes sense. OK, so who was the
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: one that decided that this is a natural food? Now
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: I need to find out. Can I, can I, can I?
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna ask. Oh no, you're kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it? Who decided that the durian is Singapore's
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  Speaker 1: national food?
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Let's see what Singapore's national fruit, sorry, Taiping, tying fruit. OK,
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: let's see.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: The short answer is nobody did. Singapore does not have
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  Speaker 1: an official national fruit. Huh? You see? Guys, you see? OK.
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  Speaker 1: The idea that the durian is Singapore's national fruit comes
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  Speaker 1: from popular culture and tourism. There was never any official
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: government declaration. They're just enthusiastic about the durian and landmarks
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  Speaker 1: like Esplanade are often nicknamed the durian. But nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: said that it was our national fruit. Guys.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Wait, how can there be no government endorsement when the
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  Speaker 1: esplanade is shaped as such? OK, you want us to
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: call someone right now? No, it's OK. Who do we
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  Speaker 1: know from which ministry? Which ministry do we reach out
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: to to find out? This one, I think maybe. Anyone
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: tuning in now that can direct us to the right
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  Speaker 1: ministry to question about durian as the official fruit should
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: be acting minister David Neo. MCCY, yes. I think he
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: seems to be awake at this hour. I think he
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: looks very fit. He might be going on a run
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: or something.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: OK, if anyone has info, please let us know who
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: we should hit up. We are very happy to be back,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: as you can tell, and we're just yapping away nonstop
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: off-air as well. I mean, I thought I fixed my
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: sleep cycle in Bhutan, then the World Cup started. Oh,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: this one. I'm not even surprised. I'm not even surprised.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me, what was, what were the matches recently that
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you caught that were at an odd hour? Once every
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: 4 years. Give me a chance, OK.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: No, so it's, it's nice that Saturday and Sunday when
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: you wake up at 10:00 a.m. there's a game or
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: 9 a.m. there's a game. So it was back then
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, like Kid Central Pokemon at
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m., something to look forward to. But, uh, I
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: think some of the mouth-watering games will happen tomorrow, and
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: I think also on Thursday morning at 1 a.m.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: It's Portugal against DR Congo and at 4 a.m. it's
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: England against Croatia. you should just forget about what's gonna happen.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna watch it for sure, right? I will
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: come to work with Panda Eyes only because, yes, there's
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: a small investment.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: In Portugal and England, this is exactly what people said. Like,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: literally even our social media team knew that you were
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: gonna do this. Hello, it's once every 4 years, and
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: I've been saying this for 4 years ever since the
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  Speaker 1: last World Cup. My pick to win this year is Portugal, England, sorry, OK,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I picked Portugal. The football romantic will all say Portugal
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: because they want to see Ronaldo lift the World Cup. Oh, wow,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just picked it because they sound good.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: And they are pretty strong. They are also with Puma,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: so if they win, you win. Oh, obsessed. I knew that.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Can you get them to send you a jersey from Ronaldo?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, because he's so free, right? Autograph it for you.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: He's so free, just sitting around signing, signing shirts. Singapore's
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: global SEA ambassador Sonia Chew requests for a jersey. He
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: has no clue who I am.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: OK, he has no idea and he doesn't need to.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: When we come back though, we got some news coming
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: your way involving Google reviews. If you're the kind of
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: person that loves to read Google reviews for restaurants, for
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: beauty parlors, what other things can you leave Google reviews for?
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Mostly F&B, like mostly F&B, right?
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Of services. Oh yes, yes, yeah. Do, do you read
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  Speaker 1: reviews before you go? I mean, sometimes I do if
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: I'm very unfamiliar with the place, but typically I just
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: go and experience it for myself, you know. If you're
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: a regular Google review reader, you would know that there
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: are at least 5 or 6 common accounts that are everywhere.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Oh really? They are like the expert commenters, you know. OK, exactly.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Do they get something out of it?
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Like do you get vouchers or something? Just enjoy having
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: their voice heard and be be critiqued, yeah, a little
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: bit or critique, critique something, yeah. So, yeah, I would
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: look at active accounts, but of course in this day
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: and age of technology, people can now fake Google reviews
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: and they can even give you a search, for example,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: if Sonia owns a business.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm selling the exact same thing. Like you basically, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I want to sabo you. I will pay someone to,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: you know, can you go and search Sonya's account with
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: all these one-star reviews. And now scammers are doing this.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: They'll purposely search your business and then they will send
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: your business a WhatsApp text saying, oh, if you want
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: me to remove it, you want me to remove, you
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: pay me this amount. I'll do it for you. Isn't
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: that a crime?
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Kinda locate this person or this person, they could be charged, right?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: So if you can't really track where it comes from,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: then I know, I know. So unfortunately, a beauty chain
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: was hit by dubious chain of one-star Google reviews, and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: they were offered the same thing, you know, on WhatsApp. Hey,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: you want me to remove this for you, you pay
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: me this amount.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: They left it alone for a while. Yeah, yeah, and
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: nothing has happened has happened. The reviews are still there though. Oh,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I was just scrolling through it right now. Um, honestly,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: those reviews look super suss. Like the names, the profile,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: it looks really suspicious. If any, any discerning customer will realize.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: That's fake. So yes, be extra careful and be more
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: discerning when reading reviews and always just look out for
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: the official accounts that leave it as compared to all
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: these fake ghost accounts that will leave weird comments. Well,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad that it got the attention of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: media outlets because they've since posted about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that will help them with their reputation
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: at least, because look, businesses, man, it's damn difficult to run.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder what 987's Google review. Is there even a
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Google review of 987? Nothing.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Don't start the reviews. Don't start. Maybe Media Corp as
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a whole. I don't know, man. I'm scared to do
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: this live. Wait, wait, wait, I'm scared to do this live.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Media Corp. Media Corps. OK. Nothing. Nothing also. OK, that's
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a good thing. I'll take it. I'll take it on
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Google about other places. I don't want to say anything.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Um, Dua Lipa's been kind of quiet since her wedding season.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I think she's having fun, maybe on her own honeymoon
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and all that, but can I just bring your attention
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to something that a lot of my friends fell for, OK,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and it's related to Dua Lipa.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: So, I'll just let you know right now, there were
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: some photos of her wedding that was supposedly released and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: they were really cool photos. It was very on brand
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: for Dua. There was like, you know, champagne, the cake fell,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: you know, like her three-tier cake fell and she was
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: caught like.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Trying to catch the cake and she had this shocked face,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: but she still looked really pretty. Can I guess? Yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: it was AI. It was AI. There you go. It
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: was AI. So honestly, like it looks so real to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the point where at least 2 or 3 of my
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: friends shared it with me.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: And they, they say, he, her cake looks like yours,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: or you know, something like that, right? And she's like,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: they say, oh my God, I love her wedding photos.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I said, me too, just that this is AI and
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to which my friends were like, what? I could not
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: even tell that this was AI. And I think because
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the account that originally posted it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: was not in English, like it was a Spanish uh
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: art artist or something like that, or editor, and nothing
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: was in English, but I did go to the comments
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: section to check because I was wondering like, how did
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: other people post photos of Dua's wedding before she even
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: posted it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And they were really nice photos.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: On that note about AI, I remember reading this when
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I was in Bhutan. I think it was the makers
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of Cloud or an AI software that can we all
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: just pause development of AI for a while? I think
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it's advancing too fast. If the makers of AI themselves
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: are saying this, and you know what, they probably already
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: know more information than us, to be honest. Yeah, they
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: know what's up, so.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Does that scare you? I mean, it surely it scares
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: me a little bit, man. I've always said this about
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: technology and AI have a life of its own. Has
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: no one seen Black Mirror or Terminator? Has no one
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: watched the series or the movie? Come on, people. So
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that the question now is, was that based on real-life
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: findings already? Like, do they know something that we don't.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I mean you can generate something I guess, but whether
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they will really use Dua Lipa's likeness, it was, it
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: looked exactly like her. That's the thing it's been manipulated
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that's the thing, yeah. So I think some some softwares
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: are quite advanced I guess because people were convinced that
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: those were the real.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Pictures. Oh, and by the way, you know the TikTok
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: trend we're supposed to say, uh, the same phrase but
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in 5 different tones. Yes, yes. There is a conspiracy
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that people are using that to AI your voice to
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: clone your voices, but something to um make sure that
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you know, especially if you're a driver.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And I actually didn't realize this was going on right now. Um,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you know, your ERP gantries, right, that you sometimes see
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: on the roads? Do, do your, when you take like
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: taxis or or grabs and stuff, um, do you sometimes
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: try to avoid those?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: ERP gantries, especially if it's peak hour or I mean,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: we say, but knowing us Singaporeans, you're always in a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: rush to get to somewhere. Yeah, so you still end
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: up the way. From the 1st of January 2027.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Those gantry-based ERP systems, they're slowly going to get phased out.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize this, but we're switching to the satellite-based
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: ERP2 system, which is, I think part of the reason
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: why we were all encouraged as drivers to switch to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the OBU system. Um, OK, so if you're not familiar
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: with it, if you're not a driver, they changed our systems,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: In phases, if I'm not wrong, I was one of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the first few. I got the alert to go change it,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so I had to go down and and make the switch. Um,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: as of now, I think some of my friends only
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: recently did it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So, the user experience of ERP 2 is going to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: be quite different and how they're going to indicate um
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that it's an ERP zone uh with markings on the roads.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So they're going to paint it in this really quite
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: nice bright blue color. Yeah, there was a period of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: time they were asking the public for feedback and people
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: had a lot to say about it. Yeah. So, um,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: they will indicate it on the road that you're sort
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of like entering an ERP zone. That's the intention. That's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the intention. So.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Um, they're starting to trial it, uh, they're trialing it already. Currently,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: those participating in the trial will get alerts when you're approaching,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you know, the ERP locations and all that. So you get,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: once you get into the alert zone. Also, changing very soon,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the roadside electronic parking feature. I know it's quite confusing
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because this one short form is REP.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: There's an ERP and an REP. Yes. So we, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: we love our abbreviations. So this roadside electronic parking feature,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: REP allows you to park in your specific location. You
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: have to select on your OBU like which, uh, which
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: street you're on just for accuracy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And you no longer have to like manually end your session.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: The moment you leave the zone, it will, it should
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: be able to detect like that you've left that zone
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and it will end the parking for you, supposedly. So
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: let's see how it goes. I mean, I, I'm not
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: part of any trials. I didn't get any.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Any notification or any anything at all. So we'll see.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I think only about 1000 or so people are part
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of the trial if I'm not wrong. I mean, from
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the way you described it, this sounds like a much needed,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and a beneficial one, not like those.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: For nothing must go and change something that's working, you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? No, exactly, yeah, so it all
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: makes sense now, I guess we have more use for
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that OBU unit. Just giving you some trivia here, OK.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The ERP gantry was introduced on April 1st, 1998. 0 wow.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Wow, OK, that's been a while, a while April Fool's Day. Yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I guess it's a, yeah, like you said, a much
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: needed change. It's a 28 years, 28, right? Yes, 28.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It'll be, it'll be very useful for us, especially with
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: roadside parking and all that. Speaking of which, I nearly
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: got into a situation with a random driver over a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: parking lot on the side. Why? So I, sorry, this
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: is totally off track.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we haven't seen each other in a while. So I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: was on the way to Pilates class, as you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that area very difficult to park, OK, because all parallel parking.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: If not, I have to park in a building nearby,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: which is a long walk. So I, uh, I saw
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a guy who was coming out already. So I, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: put my hazel light on, OK, and I'm waiting there
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: for him to come out. He comes out, the car
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: behind me.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Soups into the lot. So why, why do I feel
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: like you've told this story before, but it's the same situation,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: different day? No, wait. So here's what happened. I turned
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: around and I could see him right there because the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: road is very narrow. It's very narrow. So I sort
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of shrunk and I gave him the like, what are
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you doing kind of face, you know, like the, hey,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I was waiting here. If, how would I describe that face?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I know, but I gave that face. OK, I'm like, huh,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: like why? So then I think he felt bad. He
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: reversed and went back out.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He, he left the, he left the parking lot. So
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, small win. I won. Anyone see
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that guys? I won. OK, that's all I wanted to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: share for that one day you felt like the biggest
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: dog in the world. Yes, but there was no one
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in my car to celebrate with me. Never mind. No
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: one saw that. OK, time to grill you about the trip, man.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, we know what we know on social media,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: like we've seen your photo dumps and all that. Oh
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we've seen that giant.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yak, which you tagged me in. Thank you for that. Yes,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: very flattered. I mean, look, it's so sweet that I'm
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: still thinking about you and overseas, right? Actually, boss Dennis
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: dropped me a message saying, ah yeah, why he tagged
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you in the picture? Still thinking of you got separation anxiety,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Nobody will understand our unique friendship and relationship except you
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and me and Jeremy, OK, I dare say so, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: your parents. I'm just really laughing at that, to be honest.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But anyway, tell us about your trip. I mean, beyond
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: what we've seen on, you know, your photos and stuff. Look,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: for the past.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: 7 or 8 months, ever since I got back from
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Spain last year, I planned this already, like, OK, I'll
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: give myself something to look forward to. Maybe sometime in
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: late May or early June I'll go somewhere and the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: past few of my travels have been to places in Europe,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: like 1012 hours away and New Zealand. So I thought
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: let's go somewhere nearby where I've not really explored. Hey, Bhutan.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: So when I told people I'm going to go Bhutan,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: their reaction is, huh, Bhutan, why Bhutan? But it's beautiful
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and I was just sharing with Joakim that my experience
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in Bhutan, although it was quite different because it was
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: work related, but I still felt like it was quite
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Chemical altering for me. Like, exactly, like it altered my
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: emotions and my brain and stuff in a good way.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So the trip was beautiful, clean air, carbon negative country, yeah,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I was in the car a lot, but once you're
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: walking the trails and trekking, and thankfully my guide, what
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: up U Gwen.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And my driver Tin Ley and look, the roads are
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: not Singapore roads. No, not at all. They're not laid
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: out so nicely. Yeah, the mountain roads are, you got
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to have some skill. So Tin Lay kept us safe,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you know, we were awake. There was a 5-hour drive
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: from Ganta Popjika Valley back all the way to Paro
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: where I was dreading the drive, but the drive was seamless.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It was long. It was bumpy. We stopped every hour
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to make sure we were all OK, did some stretching.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: We had some tea.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: The food in Bhutando is so good.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I love that they love spice as well. I mean,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: they call dumplings momo, but the best meals that you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: will have in Bhutan, if you're going, tell your travel
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: agency and your guide that you want to go for
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a home cooked meal. Yes, it's beautiful, and this place
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that I went to, it's called Traveler's Farmhouse by this grandma,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: we call her Auntie Choden. I feel like we, I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: might have been to the same one. I don't know
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: whether it's the same lady, but we went to someone's house.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: As well, so I wonder if it's the same lady? It's,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I think it was in Paro, but it's been so
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: many years for me, so I can't recall exactly. Look,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: everything's the beef was grown in her backyard. The rice,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the asparagus, the broccoli, the potatoes, the chili, and look,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Bhutanese cuisine, Emma Dasi, it's chili cheese. I love it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So it's, it, it quite literally is what we describe
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it as chili.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Plus cheese, OK, but it works because for their climate,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: for the environment, like you want that little kick, you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm somebody who appreciates other people's religion and culture.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So I learned a bit about Buddhism, went into monasteries,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and also the Bumra Trek where you go 4200 m
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: above sea level, then you descend to Tiger's Nest, the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: most beautiful trek I've done in my life so far.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I kind of wish that I did that Bhutan trip
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: in the later years of my, like, more recently because
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I think my fitness level back then was really bad.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So I struggled, I struggled together with one of the cameramen, right?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Both of us our fitness levels not so great. So we,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: we trailed behind quite a little bit, but we still
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: managed to make it eventually. You can always go back,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but also given recent events, I do want to say this,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: when it comes to Bhutan.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: If you're gonna do what I do and really enjoy
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: it as a whole, there's a certain level of fitness
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that it requires because you're gonna go uphill, up slope.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: You'll be breathing very quiet and the air is thin
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: because of the altitude. So, uh, when I reached the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: summit of Boomra, I had a little bit of the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: altitude sickness, and altitude headache. Yeah, one of our, one
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of our crew members had altitude sickness. So bring Panadol.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Sleep it off and you'll be fine the next morning,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: but always listen to your body first, then listen to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: your guide. I think it's more of like if you
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: are physically ready to do it, you also want it
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to be memorable and you want to be safe. You
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: know what's the one thing I hate about traveling though,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and this happened to me during a sabbatical as well,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: especially during the peak period of COVID. Like you keep
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: yourself so safe from.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Illness and sickness, right? The moment you come back to Singapore,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you just fall sick. That's what happened to me during
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: our sabbatical. Like I caught COVID for the first time.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I caught COVID too. Oh yeah, we, we were laughing
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: about it. They were saying that despite being away from
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: each other for 2 months, we both caught COVID. So I,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I had a really fun time with my friends for
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: like 2 or 3 weeks, 3 weeks in the US, OK.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The moment I came back, day one of coming back,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I started to feel my throat starting to itch, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: it turns out I had COVID. And for me, maybe
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the Bhutanese food really reset my body. It's so clean, right?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The moment I had something processed like a protein banana
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: milk drink, yeah, like a milkshake, stomach flu.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I think it was something was wrong with that drink
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: for sure. It was definitely contaminated. Well, OK, I'm angry.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: We're gonna touch on this in just a bit. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: think it's our bodies's way of telling us we don't
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: want to come back to work, to be honest. Yeah,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: we'll touch on that and hopefully you have some stories
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to share. I want to open up phone lines right now, 669-11987.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I think this, this is a bit of um very.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Recent sore point for Joakim because you came back from Bhutan, well,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a number of days ago, right? And I'm guessing it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: because you want to just calibrate and get back into
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Singapore time zone and your habits here in Singapore and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: stuff before coming back to work, which was my intention
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: as well coming back from my trip, right? But sometimes
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: when you come back,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Your body just gives up, ah, and you fall sick.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, the number one concern of us when we
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: travel sometimes to an unfamiliar country, we might think, oh no,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is the food clean? Will I get food poisoning? Is
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the ice safe to drink or even the tap water
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: drink with, yeah, tap water. And to your surprise, hey,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I'm OK. Yeah. And then when you come back to Singapore.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Something as random as a bottled drink might give you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a stomach flu. Yeah, you, you never know. I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: was it a stomach flu or was it food poisoning
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: because those are two different things. Uh, OK, what, what
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is gastroenteritis, stomach flu, right? No, gastro, you know what,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Gastroenteritis is related to food. Doctor Chew
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: is in the house.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Dude, I'm not a doctor. IT as well, food poisoning
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and stomach flu. Maybe it's related. I don't know. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: drank something contaminated. Yeah, anyway, trust your doctor. You went
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to see him anyway. I don't trust me. I don't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But open up the phone lines, 669-11987.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure this has happened to the best of us.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You keep well during your vacation. You have such a
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: good time only to fall sick the moment you come
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: back home to Singapore.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just your body's way of saying, I don't wanna,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go back to work. I don't
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: want to go back to school. That or maybe a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: drastic weather change. You just got back from negative temperatures. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it happens. And then you come back to Singapore's 32, 33. Yeah, yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So give us a call 669-11987 or drop us a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: WhatsApp message 90050987. Has this ever happened to you before?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: You have the best vacation ever, only to fall sick
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the moment you land back here in Singapore.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And if we do like your answer, hey, we are
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: pampering you this week. Las Palmas at Courtyard by Marriott. Yes,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: so beautiful. They offer stunning sunset views and Palm Springs
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: is actually the inspiration. So you're in for a treat.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Way to rub it in my face, Sonia. I mean,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: of course, like, you know, all our, our topics and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: things that we talk about are always inspired by, by
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: real-life situations, right? And as you already know, the moment
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Joakim landed back here in Singapore, everything was fine when
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he was traveling. The moment he got back immediately.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: fell sick with stomach flu, which is the irony of things, right?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: You worry that you catch this while you're traveling. I mean,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I was hoping to be here with you yesterday celebrating
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Hamilton's win. I know it could have been a fun
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: show as well, but it's all good, it's all good.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: So we're asking you this question here today. Have you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: ever experienced the same thing? You travel, you have the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: best time of your life, you didn't fall sick at all.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: So you're like woohoo, triumphant. The moment you come back, boom, flu,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: food poisoning, I don't know, whatever it is. How do
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you cheer again? Woohoo.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: It's me. My, that's my small little celebratory noise. OK,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: we got one coming in from Frederick. Hello, Sonia and Joakim.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I did. At the start of the year,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I went to Pu Kwok, Vietnam with my group of friends.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: The trip was awesome. We had plenty of awesome food
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: on the last day of the trip. We had lunch
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: at a seafood restaurant. We had
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Loads of oysters. After returning back to Singapore, a few
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: days later, I fell sick, vomiting and diarrhea. Had to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: take about two days to MC from work. A lot
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of my friends also fell sick. Oh no. So yeah,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: it's 100%. You know, the funny thing was, I was
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: in Bali, um for a countdown of 2025 to 2026, right?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: So I was quite cautious about it. Like I didn't
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: want to eat anything raw, you know, I didn't want
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to eat oysters or like sashimi and all that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So my friends had raw oysters and sashimi. They were fine.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Jeremy was the one that got food poisoning. He didn't
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: even touch the raw stuff. It's like, where does it
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: come from? You never know. Could have been the ice
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: in the drink. Did you figure out where it came from? No, no, it's,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it's too hard to identify. Maybe the avocado wasn't properly. Um,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: saying hi to A didn't leave your name. You said
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: morning Sojo, and welcome back Crowe. Hello, A. It's been,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it's been 3 months.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: His nickname. No, no, it's too funny. Stop it. Um,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: he says, I think it's not about the weather change
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: or coming back from a different environment. It's about what
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the next day or next few days bring, which is work.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Your body will say, you are sick, you are sick.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Imagine coming back from a holiday and you still have
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: maybe 4 to 5 days of leave. Your body won't
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: be sick. But my body's always telling me that I'm
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: sick from Sunday night to Thursday night. Come Friday night,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: suddenly I'm energetic.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That's so true, by the way. That is so true.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: You have a new lease of life on Friday, I feel. Yeah,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I can name some colleagues that are like this. Can
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you not look at me like that when you say
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that sick the whole week suddenly Friday night? No, I'm no, I'm,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I'm tired the whole week. I still come to work,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: but Friday, suddenly I got energy. I wonder where it
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: comes from peddle and all that, you know. Yeah, I
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: actually sent Joakim a video while I was at another
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: bar on Saturday, and I didn't realize that he was
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: at home puking.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, I had no idea. Anyway, we're still accepting your calls,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of course. We've got time for that. 669-11987. Having a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: lot of fun with this today.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Um, have you ever traveled, had the best time ever
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: on your vacation, only to fall sick the moment you
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: came back home? Let us know. In exchange, we've got
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: a beautiful treat coming your way. All thanks to Las
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Palmas over at Courtyard by Marriott. OK, so we're drawing
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: inspiration from Joakim's pain, because the moment he came back
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: from his trip, that seemed like such a fun trip,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: you know, and it was very healing and all that.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Got sick the moment he came back, but I think
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this happens to the best of us. It really does.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: The body healed so much. The moment I touched processed food, boom,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: food poisoning. Anyway, I wanna say good morning to, I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: believe your name is Annie. Annie, are you OK? Are
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you OK? I was in Ho Chi Minh with my
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: sis with my sister this March for a shopping trip.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Being first.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: My first time in Ho Chi Minh, I was quite
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: amazed how cheap everything was and literally have this feeling
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like I'm spending like a millionaire. But of course, we
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: are still very cautious of what we ate throughout after
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: hearing scary stories of food poisoning. So on the last
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: day after the moment the plane took off, I had
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: this nauseous feeling, and I thought, eh, why is my
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: motion sickness this bad? But the feeling never went off
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: even after the seatbelt sign was turned off.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I suspect it was the ice coffee I had
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: at the airport because that was the only beverage we
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: had with ice. Yo, you see, that's the thing, you
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: got to be so extra careful and sometimes even when
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: we are extra careful, um, I don't know whether this
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is being paranoid on the next level, but my friends
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and I were saying like, oh, we should use mineral
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: water to like brush our teeth and stuff, like especially
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: because of belly. So I did that. I did that
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: and thankfully we were fine, but we all know that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Jeremy wasn't fine.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: He laughed at me for using uh mineral water to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: brush teeth. He has an acquired stomach, you know. No,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: his stomach's not great either, but anyway, we're heading to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: phone lines in just a few minutes and uh we'll
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: find out your stories there too. 669-11987. Have you ever
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: experienced the same thing as Joakim? You're perfectly fine during
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: your trip.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: But the moment you get back home, your body just
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: shuts down and you fall ill. Talking about how sometimes
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: your body just knows and it shuts down the moment
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you come back from a really fun trip, you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and perhaps it could be attributed to the climate or
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: something we always say, but some people are saying, I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: think it's psychological. You just don't want to go back
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to real life, you know.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, stomach flu isn't funny. Yeah, definitely. You had
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a you had a rough weekend. So let's see any
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: similar experiences. Yeah, sure. I want to say good morning
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to Jane. Hey, Joakim and Sonia, in 2017, my first
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: solo trip to India, it was also my first date
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: with my now husband. Oh, interesting.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: He showed me the beautiful Himalayas and it was my
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: first time seeing snow. Temperatures were 13 degrees. It was
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: such a magical 10 days spent getting to know each
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: other more. The moment I got back home to Singapore,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: my body was a wreck. I had hives all over,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: bruises from falling while walking in the snow, and even
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: ran a high fever. What a trip. You know what,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I sometimes feel that I need to allocate a week
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: to recover from a trip because your skin goes like
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: out of.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Wack, you are not the same. You need, you need
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: a few days to recover. To which the question on
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: every Singaporean's mind, where got enough leave? Never enough time.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: There never is because you need a vacation to recover
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: from the vacation. Another text from an Annie coming in.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: My recent trip from Japan was awesome with loads of
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: sashimi and wagyu. The moment I touched down at the airport,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I felt my tummy churn while waiting for the door
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: to open. My face turned white, and I couldn't walk further.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Oh no. I had to let out a fart. Oh no!
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Are you sure this is safe for reading out on air?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: The fart became something else on air. OK, so you
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: can't read the second half of the message. I knew
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: what happened and I had to take a small inch
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: for every step I made. Oh my gosh. Yikes. Yikes, yeah,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: yikes is right. Anyway, we have Jia Yi on the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: line right now. What happens?
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I had
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: an experience back in China, so I was on my
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: very last day and then I was about to fly back.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: But then, I suddenly started getting very nauseous ever since
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the moment I woke up. So, I realized um I
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: might have something like a stomach flu. So I started
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: like vomiting, and then even worse is that when I
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: got onto the plane, I still had like the vom
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: vomiting still going on. Yeah. Yes, it was so horrible then.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, OK, let me just write this out.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: But then I decided to go to the toilet, then
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I had my last like purge, and then I was like, eh,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I'm completely fine again. I was like, I don't feel
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: bad anymore. I feel, in fact I feel amazing. I
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: was like, everything is out of my system, yeah. But
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: then I was like so hungry, so, I decided to
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: get um a cup noodle. So I bought a cup noodle,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I ate it. Yes, then I woke up in like
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: 30 minutes and
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I had the same like stomach flu feeling all over again,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: so I was back to like vomiting and purging
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: again.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Did you ever find out what caused the first one?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, actually, looking back at the photos, I think there
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: was this oyster I ate that now looking back, it
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: looked completely not fresh. I don't know why I decided
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and eat it.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: It's, it's always the oyster. I don't know why it's
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: always the oyster, I swear. OK, this is where all
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: those AI glasses will come in handy. Hey, AI is this?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Fresh. Down to our last few stories, messages and calls
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: about whether or not you've experienced coming back from an
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: epic trip, only to fall really sick the moment you
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: came back to Singapore or maybe even at the tail
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: end of your trip. Want to say good morning to Claire,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: who I believe shares the same religion as all two
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: of us. Sonia here on the show. She's Catholic. OK, hi.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: What has it got to do with this story? Morning,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joy.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I fasted from bubble tea for Lent. Oh, OK, so, um, TLDR,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you are supposed to sacrifice something or give something up
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: during this period of time. It can be like meat
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: or the simple pleasures in life, you know. After Easter,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I was expecting to get my first bubble tea, but
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: guess what? I had diarrhea so bad I fainted in
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the toilet?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Wait, what? From bubble tea, you know, I think it's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the sudden sugar surge or something like that milk maybe
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: even Safe to say I don't drink bubble tea anymore.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: My husband said I can save more money from now on. Actually, facts, man,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: like we spend quite a lot of money on drinks,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you know, like even going to the cafe to buy
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: like a latte or something, that's what, $7 or $8.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: 1 hawker meal.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: How much is it now? Like, what? 8? No, less
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: depends depends on what you order, I think, yeah. OK,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Brandon's on the line. What happened man? OK, so, um,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I had a work trip, not really work trip, but
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a trip with my colleagues, and then we went to Malaysia.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: So we went to some part, further north. So we
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: went caving. There were two parts to the cave, so
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Um, the first part of the cave was the easy route,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: and then, uh, some of us decided to take on
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the challenge and go to the, uh, there was a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: narrow entrance, um, crawl underneath, and then, um, we, I
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: think we drank, drank a bit of the water in there.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, because you are crawling, OK. So we went back, um,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: all those that didn't go into the other part, they
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: were fine, but all that went in underneath and then
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: drank a beer of the water, we all had uncontrollable
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: diarrhea for about 2 weeks. 2 weeks, that's really severe.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: What does this remind me of the time we had
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: a tan beach, the water. I couldn't explain that. I
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: was fine.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I think you know what, I eat too much spice
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: with it. Like everything that goes into my stomach dies.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe your stomach is stronger than mine. I had so
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: many hilarious stories coming through. I told you people can
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: relate to this. One person's gain, or rather one person's
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: pain is hers or his pain gain. Are you hello,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: can you? What's going on? You come to work for
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: almost two weeks and you can't English. Your pain is
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: your gain. Congratulations to your, your pain is their gain.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Wait,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, they were sharing painful stories. OK, OK.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: So one person's pain is that person's gain. OK, done. OK. Congratulations.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Are you?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: We've been away for too long. We forgot how to work.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: You forgot how to work. Yes, congrats, Jia Yi. You're
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: walking away with this beautiful dining experience. It is worth $100.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I believe you get a wonderful view of the scenic
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: landscape as well of the district Courtyard by Marriott Singapore Novena.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: They want to take you to Las Palmas, Novena's only
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: rooftop bar. Beautiful. We're talking a sundowner happy hour from $9.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: From Tuesdays to Thursdays, 8:00 p.m. to midnight, or weeknight
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: twilight featuring $10 spirits with mixes and 50% off every
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: second signature cocktail. Sounds like this could be a post-dinner
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: place after a nice date if it's going well to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: carry on the convo. Yeah, so congratulations. Please enjoy. It's
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: worth $100 or we invite our guests in. I was
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: just joking.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And while Joakim was away, it seems like there was
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of Bordo crime-related news. And if you've only
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: just tuned in to us, you don't know what that is.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: We highlight certain incidents that we will classify as crime,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: but nobody gets hurt. It is not anything severe or serious,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: more like face palm worthy moments that make you wonder
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: why people even attempt to do it in the first place.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, some crimes committed here in Singapore, it's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: one of those things where
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Like why do you even try? Why do you try
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to do, is it? Take these five men, for example.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: 5 of them. They were aged between 19 to 24.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: So like maybe, you know, ITE poly or uni age
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: or JCH, right, you're probably hanging out at night at
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: 2:30 a.m. at Woodlands Close, and they see an unintended motorcycle.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: What did they do? They give it a push start.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: It started, started, went for a joy ride. No, no.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Did they even have a bike license? I'm guessing not.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. So after going for
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: a joy ride, I guess the police report was made
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: by the owner. The owner realized it was gone, like
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. It was recovered because
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: it was stolen, as in they didn't put it back.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. At least put it back, guys.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, way to make it more obvious. Yeah, so
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the police were able to establish their identities and all
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: of them were arrested within 13 hours. Oh my God.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: There you go. How you jumpstart a bike asking for
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a friend? I wouldn't know if I don't know if
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I knew, would I tell you? Not on it. No,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: but to my bros out there here in Singapore, let's
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: not be stupid lah. Yeah, this is just a moment, man. Can,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: can we find better ways to spend our time?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: This is an excellent use of free will, guys. Now
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: it's World Cup season. Yeah, it is. Anyway, uh, when
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: we come back, we would love to invite a lovely,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: lovely couple to the studio back together after us taking
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: turns to go on leave. I think it's almost been
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: like a full month since we've had a proper show together,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: aside from that one crossover that we had before you
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: left for Bhua. But it's good to be back. I've
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: missed you. I've missed work, and this is lock-in season
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: for me and oh my goodness.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Goodness, I am 38 in a month plus time. That's true.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: The countdown begins actually quite soon. Any, any plans yet
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: or like, I mean, last year your mom threw you
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: a surprise party. Yeah, I don't think it will happen again. OK, not,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: not for this, maybe at 40, maybe a big one.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Then I'll throw myself a birthday party if I'm not
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: married by then. Oh, so if you are, then you're
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: going to leave it to your wife, your future wife. No,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: if I, then I'll throw the wedding party.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: No, I meant, I thought if you're already married by your,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: by the time you're 40, then your partner will do it, what?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Like your life partner will do it, not me, not
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the radio partner. I wouldn't burden lah. Why? It's quite fun.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, to plan for I mean she's a planner
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and she loves doing things like that, why not, right? OK. Alright, anyway, um,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: you still have time to think about what you want
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: to do for your thirty-eighth, I guess. You've got a
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: little over a month, you know, text someone to bring
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: you or who shall take the responsibility this year.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Just kidding.