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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 170926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 2: Good next
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 2: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. And just
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  Speaker 2: like that, I believe your listening comprehension PSLE exams are
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  Speaker 2: done and you're looking forward to the next round, which
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  Speaker 2: will be from 24th of September onwards. We wish you
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  Speaker 2: all the best in the meantime. Happy Thursday. Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the
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  Speaker 2: show.
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  Speaker 1: Singapore's
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  Speaker 2: number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still checking in on Joe. He said he's coming
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  Speaker 2: in today, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to him. Like, is he
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  Speaker 2: on the way? What's going on? I was waiting for him,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll keep you updated. Um, not sure what, what
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  Speaker 2: happened there. Anyway, very good morning to you. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me this morning. And it's a really exciting day
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  Speaker 2: for me, just a bit of self plug. Later on
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  Speaker 2: at 5 p.m. I'm launching my first shoe collaboration with
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  Speaker 2: local brand Pretty Fit.
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  Speaker 2: Um, honestly, this is designed for everyone. Like literally, students
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  Speaker 2: are messaging me, um, adults are DMing me, like all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of people, you know, people who have been following
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  Speaker 2: me for a long time. The drop happens this evening,
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  Speaker 2: 5:00 p.m. There are 3 types of shoes, 3 designs
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  Speaker 2: in total. So there's flats, sneakers, and heels, and um,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really excited to be sharing it with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a project that's, you know, 9 months in the making.
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  Speaker 2: And I know every time I say that, people are like,
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  Speaker 2: ah yeah, why you purposely choose 9 months? I'm like, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It legitimately took almost, almost 9 months. Yeah, as of
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  Speaker 2: end of September, it would be, it would be 9,
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  Speaker 2: I think. But yeah, um, I'm truly very stoked for
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  Speaker 2: it and it's something that I really love and I
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  Speaker 2: think based on the response from some of my followers already, um,
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  Speaker 2: I have faith that you will love it too.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're curious, we're actually gonna be doing like
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  Speaker 2: a little launch event later this evening, after which it
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  Speaker 2: will be released at 5 p.m. Pretty Fit's website and
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  Speaker 2: all of their stores islandwide. You good, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: I'm alive. Are you alive? I'm alive. OK, just checking.
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  Speaker 1: I don't sound like a wow. Yesterday was just one
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  Speaker 1: of those days when my nose was running cross country.
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  Speaker 1: Went to go see the doctor and the first thing
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  Speaker 1: he said to me, guess the two words.
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  Speaker 2: The haze?
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  Speaker 1: No allergies. When I walked into his office, hey you again.
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  Speaker 2: That's words.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. But yes, I, I really think it's
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  Speaker 1: down to the haze. So please, if you might feel
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  Speaker 1: as if you will fall sick because you're outdoors and
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  Speaker 1: the haze is bad, wear
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  Speaker 1: a mask.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just check you ran outdoors, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: Over the past few days, you confirmed it I think. No,
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was going with the one reading where
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  Speaker 1: it was like really unhealthy
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  Speaker 2: affects people differently though.
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  Speaker 1: blame.
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  Speaker 2: So
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  Speaker 2: much news recently about the right system, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to your cans and your bottles and all that, right?
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  Speaker 2: And um I don't know how often you go to
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  Speaker 2: the supermarket to restock your drinks at home or does
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  Speaker 2: your mom do more of the shopping?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we do the online shopping, shopping because my mom
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  Speaker 1: loves buying in bulk. OK, so every month there'll be
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  Speaker 1: some surprises that await me outside my door when I
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  Speaker 1: go home. Oh, stacks of Olong tea, Coke 0, 100+.
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  Speaker 2: She got like a big dinosaur at home drinking up
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  Speaker 2: all the drinking all the liquid.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So, if you're wondering why maybe you see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like canned and bottled drinks going on
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  Speaker 2: sale these few weeks, it's because from the first of
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  Speaker 2: October onwards, it's an offense to sell drinks in Singapore
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  Speaker 2: without the return right logo. So it's like a flash
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  Speaker 2: sale now, like they're just, OK, everyone buy up our
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  Speaker 2: drinks that don't have the logo so we can generate
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  Speaker 2: new
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  Speaker 2: ones.
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  Speaker 1: Really clamping down hard and making sure that we recycle
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  Speaker 1: and we are more sustainable. But also, can I say
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  Speaker 1: this nowadays when you go to the hawker centers or
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  Speaker 1: kopitiams or even some of your favorite restaurants, right, when
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  Speaker 1: you buy a canned drink, I always tell them, Can
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  Speaker 1: you please give me the can?
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  Speaker 1: because if they don't say anything,
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  Speaker 2: they know
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  Speaker 1: they will keep the can and then maybe after they
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  Speaker 1: finish work they go and deposit the thing and get
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  Speaker 1: the 10 cents
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  Speaker 1: back.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I've not come across a situation where they kept
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  Speaker 2: the can
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  Speaker 1: before. Yeah, that's why there are some restaurants I know
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  Speaker 1: they don't serve the Coke Zero or a gassy, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I'll say, Oh, can you bring the can over
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  Speaker 1: it because I pay for the can already and you're
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  Speaker 1: charging me 10 cents more,
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  Speaker 2: right? Then what are you gonna do with it?
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  Speaker 1: Return in the machine.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but what if you're going out?
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  Speaker 1: There's a machine nearby.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 1: The BCRS machines are actually quite easy to find.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, OK. So let's say you're like having a dinner
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  Speaker 2: date in like Orchard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, depends on the setting. Dinner,
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  Speaker 1: I will judge me so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting some messages right now at 90050987 for your
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  Speaker 2: dedications and your texts.
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  Speaker 1: Want
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  Speaker 1: to say good morning to Jia Xuan of Bedok South
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  Speaker 1: Secondary School.
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 2: almost went Bedok South or Bedok. they were in my
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  Speaker 2: choices actually because I live near. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a Bedok South.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Bedok Green if I'm not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Is there
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  Speaker 1: Bedok anything else?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, no, heartbeat at Bedok maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Simangbodok.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've been an East Sider my whole life,
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  Speaker 2: so if I didn't, you know, end up going to
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  Speaker 2: Saint Anthony's, those were my next few choices actually.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me, but I realized Simpang at Bedok, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: closer to Tanah Merah than Bedok I know,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still in the Bedok area, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Cheat my feelings, you know. I was like, Hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: go Simpang Bedok. I took a train to Bedok. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: where's Simpang?
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  Speaker 2: OK, it's like, it's like how sometimes people call Paya
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  Speaker 2: Lebar at the east when it's not really the east.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's not, I would say it's more, it's closer to
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  Speaker 2: the central area than the east, like it's very central east.
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  Speaker 2: If you're talking east, it's like Pasir Ris.
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  Speaker 2: OK, Joakim, never mind, move on. What's the message that
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  Speaker 2: we have here today? Josh Shen
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  Speaker 1: says I want to give a shout out.
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  Speaker 1: To all my classmates doing N-levels very soon. Could you
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  Speaker 1: please play something from Leve? Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Right, of course. Can you play on this one? So, um,
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  Speaker 2: I know Joakim has never been on dating apps. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: neither one of us have
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  Speaker 2: been.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you see me, my likeness or
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  Speaker 1: my name on a dating app, it is not me.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't. Yeah, um, it was very funny because
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  Speaker 2: Earlier on in our career, right, I think the chances
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  Speaker 2: of seeing ourselves on dating apps were higher, but now
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  Speaker 2: I guess we're a little bit more established. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think people will use our know. Although I do recall,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was only like 2 years ago that
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  Speaker 2: Some, a follower of mine took a screen grab and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is definitely not you, right? I was like, hell no.
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  Speaker 1: They may not know a scale exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, um, with all these apps now, it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of um changed the dating scene a lot, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in the past, I guess in our parents'
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  Speaker 2: time or even like when we were out there clubbing,
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  Speaker 2: dating and all that, we would meet people like in
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  Speaker 2: person and then, you know, ask for each other's numbers
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  Speaker 2: or like hit up a question or a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But now so many dating apps and you are literally
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  Speaker 2: filtering through people before you even meet them. I
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  Speaker 1: mean, a decade ago, like 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, I
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  Speaker 1: remember the hashtag Tinder,
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  Speaker 2: yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where couples actually got together and they got married. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah, I've got actually two friends who have had successful
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  Speaker 2: relationships and ended up in a marriage. I have the app, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to say hi to this um millennial,
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  Speaker 2: she's a millennial, OK.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is, I'm just going to call her Dionne. Dion. Yeah, um,
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  Speaker 2: I think her full name is Dionis. I hope I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying your name right, but anyway, call you Dion Dionis, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call you Dion, OK. So she's 32 right now.
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  Speaker 2: She has swiped to the bottom of the barrel on
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  Speaker 2: dating apps already. She's swiped, swiped now. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: say swipe until finished already, OK. She decided to turn
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  Speaker 2: to TikTok to find a husband after spending close to
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  Speaker 2: $1000 on.
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  Speaker 2: Dating apps and it hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 1: Dion, I'm all in support for you, but please not TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: It's the worst place to
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  Speaker 1: find a husband.
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  Speaker 2: It might be a cesspool for kind of dodgy people,
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  Speaker 2: but she, I quote, she said, I've officially run out
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  Speaker 2: of men in Singapore on dating apps. I'm outsourcing my
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  Speaker 2: husband's search to TikTok now. TikTok, you find me one.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. There have been close to 7000
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  Speaker 2: shares as of now, and she's cute. She's an attractive girl,
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  Speaker 2: a woman.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and very valid feelings, I will say, because I
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  Speaker 2: do know of fellow friends in the same age group
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  Speaker 2: that have difficulties finding men as well. Do we have
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  Speaker 2: a shortage of men here in Singapore or
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  Speaker 1: what?
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  Speaker 1: Offer the flip side, but I might sound
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  Speaker 1: very
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  Speaker 1: OK, not high expectations, but maybe picky,
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  Speaker 2: but men can be picky too. That's true. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's gender related. I know of men
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  Speaker 2: who are picky until they just cannot settle down like
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  Speaker 2: with a partner. Yeah, I'm not talking about you, by
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you look so guilty? I wasn't talking about you. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: no, no, no, because there are other friends around me, right,
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  Speaker 1: who are always questioning about my dating life. Just picky lah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, no, I'm not. Then if it's again one
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  Speaker 1: or two people saying that I'm picky, it's OK. But
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  Speaker 1: there are like 5 or 6 people thinking that I'm picky.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes I sit down and reflect on my actions.
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  Speaker 1: I actually, no lah.
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  Speaker 1: I get ghosted like one thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely not being picky. D Gaga, the Dead dance
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  Speaker 2: right here on 987 or very soon, Mama Gaga.
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  Speaker 2: Mama Gaga or lady Mama,
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  Speaker 1: sorry. You know, I saw a comment somewhere. The baby
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  Speaker 1: will already be saying Gaga's name at the start. Exactly,
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  Speaker 2: exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Gaga Gaga said my name. Anyway, we go from Gaga
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  Speaker 1: to Formula One.
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  Speaker 2: Happening in Singapore very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Next year's schedule is up, by the way, and for
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  Speaker 1: the Singapore Grand Prix happening on the exact same date
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  Speaker 1: October 8th, 9th, and 10th. I mean the same weekend
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  Speaker 1: of October.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say not exactly the same, but the
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  Speaker 2: same time, same period of time. So
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  Speaker 1: that
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  Speaker 1: one is done and dusted, but some returning races next year,
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  Speaker 1: we're going back to Portugal for the Porti Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 1: June 18th to 20th and also a place where it
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  Speaker 1: might hold plenty of memories for Mr. Hamilton because this
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  Speaker 1: is where he won his 7th driver's championship, the Turkish
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prix in Istanbul happening October 1st to 3rd, and
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  Speaker 1: then they come to Singapore. I wonder whether would there
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  Speaker 1: be any jet lag or whatsoever because usually, usually before
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  Speaker 1: Singapore they have.
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  Speaker 1: A bit of a break, but this year they're going
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  Speaker 1: to Malaysia for the Grand Prix, and then they'll come
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  Speaker 1: to Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll be acclimatized by then. In fact, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure that they're used to this whole like jet setting life. OK,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And for Max Verstappen, no home race for him. The
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  Speaker 1: Dutch Grand Prix has been dropped. But if you're thinking
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  Speaker 1: next year, so will it be the Belgian Grand?
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  Speaker 1: Prix or will it be the Basa Grand Prix? It
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  Speaker 1: will be alternate alternate,
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  Speaker 2: right?
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  Speaker 1: So next year I think it will be the Belgian
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 2: There we go. OK,
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  Speaker 1: but OK. Fans are a bit up in arms over something.
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  Speaker 2: The sprint races,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, sprint races look fun. I think Japan is going
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  Speaker 1: to be introduced into a 10 sprint race weekend, but, um, again,
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  Speaker 1: as a newly inducted Formula One fan, self-proclaimed.
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  Speaker 1: The Monaco Grand Prix is quite boring to watch, lah.
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  Speaker 2: You
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  Speaker 1: think
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  Speaker 2: so?
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest, but actually
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  Speaker 2: it's a challenging, it's a challenging track.
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  Speaker 1: I think
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  Speaker 1: people will also come to me for this, but Monaco
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  Speaker 1: and Singapore Grand Prix a bit similar, very hard to overtake.
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  Speaker 1: It's really down to the driver's mental, uh, attention.
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  Speaker 1: And how focused they are to make sure they navigate
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  Speaker 1: the corners correctly and all that and also time their,
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  Speaker 1: what's that Mario Kart button, the battery button to boost
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  Speaker 1: and all that, right? But they're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: sprint race in Monaco to which Formula One fans are like,
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  Speaker 2: what? Like why? We want to see some overtaking. No,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's, it's challenging in a way where it
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  Speaker 2: is very sharp, like the turns are very sharp and
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  Speaker 2: it has its own challenges. So we'll see. I mean, OK,
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  Speaker 2: I was in Monaco just before the race.
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  Speaker 2: a waste. No, actually, I don't regret that because it
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  Speaker 2: was starting to get very, very, very crowded already. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: I was in South of France for my honeymoon, right,
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  Speaker 2: and we ended, I think Monaco was like the last
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  Speaker 2: few stops for us. So we did like a just
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  Speaker 2: a day trip to Monaco because I was told it's very,
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  Speaker 2: very small. I mean, as you know, Monaco is pretty
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  Speaker 2: teeny tiny. If you thought Singapore is small, Monaco is
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  Speaker 2: even more densely populated with especially yachts and supercars and it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's not, um, it's not a joke, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you go there, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's really filled with yachts and supercars for real, like,
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  Speaker 2: like I felt like I was stepping onto a set
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  Speaker 2: of a James Bond movie.
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  Speaker 1: Sentosa, is it like 30
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  Speaker 2: and the yachts are like 10 times the size of
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  Speaker 2: the ones you see in Singapore. It's no joke for real.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think the real billionaires are not saying that
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  Speaker 2: there are no billionaires in Singapore. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 2: it's a very different culture here, you know, versus the
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  Speaker 2: yacht culture overseas, especially in south of France and Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Like what you said earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Sentosa Cove. Yeah, really, really. But also, don't forget this
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  Speaker 1: year here in Singapore, we're in for a treat. We
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  Speaker 1: have a sprint race. Yes, yeah, so Saturday will be
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  Speaker 1: quite a fun day to watch the qualifying and the
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  Speaker 1: sprint race, and then Sunday is the race, of course.
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  Speaker 1: And
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  Speaker 2: I think, um, all the, a lot of the drivers
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  Speaker 2: are going to be doing lots of activations across Singapore
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  Speaker 2: as well. So keep your eyes peeled. You might just
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  Speaker 2: catch your favorite one out there. We need to end
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  Speaker 2: this argument right now that we kicked off unintentionally earlier
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  Speaker 2: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: When honestly, I can't even remember what we were talking about,
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  Speaker 2: but we were arguing about where and which area is
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  Speaker 2: considered the east and where does it end? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you said a phrase that made me overthink because
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  Speaker 1: I said oh, we're going to the east, the Lebar area.
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  Speaker 2: Then I said that's not considered the east.
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  Speaker 1: I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised,
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  Speaker 2: although I did say.
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  Speaker 2: Disclaimer that geographically and on the train lines, yes, it
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  Speaker 2: is still on the east-west line, correct? And you often
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  Speaker 2: change trains. Paya Lebar is a place where you can
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  Speaker 2: change trains, change lines, yeah. OK.
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  Speaker 1: Can I list you a few locations and you tell
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  Speaker 1: me whether it's in the east or not, alright? OK.
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  Speaker 1: Bugis and lavender can you let me finish?
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  Speaker 1: Can you let me finish first? OK. Bugis and Lavender,
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  Speaker 1: roughly still around the town area. OK, thank you, central area,
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  Speaker 1: so I won't say that. For me, the east starts
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  Speaker 1: at Kallang.
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  Speaker 2: OK, I would still consider Kallang to be a very
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  Speaker 2: central location. I don't actually consider it the east. I
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  Speaker 2: know that once again, I know before you say it's
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  Speaker 2: Sonia to be stupid lah, it's on the it's still
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: considered geographically, yes, it's considered the east, but I just
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: don't see Kallang as the east. I see it at
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the most central east.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're, you're inching towards the east side, but you're
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: not in the east, you're inching towards the east, yeah,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Paya Lebar. No, I already said I don't consider Paya
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Lebar the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: east.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but is before Paya Lebar. You're inching closer. Eunos. Yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I think that's, that's pretty east already. Yeah, because Eunos
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: quite near Bedok already.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: So I guess starting from you know,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I think that one is considered east side lah. Yeah,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: but anything before anything that's after that on the line.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I feel that's more central, like it's central east. I'll
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: come up with a new term, central east.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: How did you come up with this conclusion?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: OK, I, how long does it take for you to
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: take a car from Kallang to the central part of Singapore,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: like City Hall, for example? Is that what you would
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: consider central part of Singapore, City Hall?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: mean, if you're going from Kallang, there's Merdeka Bridge and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Nicoll Highway all the way down to City Hall area,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: so it's quite fast actually.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly how long?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: I don't
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: drive, but OK, fine.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: When you take a grab, let's just say like less
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: than 10 minutes, 10 minutes, like less than 10 minutes
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you're there. OK, that's not the ease.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying from my point of view, once again,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: these opinions are mine, OK? So I don't feel like
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: it's considered the
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: east. What is the sweet spot for the, like the,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: like the, the bull's eye for the east side of Singapore?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I think,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I think anything past Bedok, Bedok and beyond, that is
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: your like, you're like a hardcore eastie.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Bedok and beyond. I wonder whether the people who live
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: in Kambars, would they agree? OK, you know what, we're
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: gonna open up the phone lines right now. 669-11987. Joe
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: and I could not come to an agreement about this
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and he, he.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Considers Kallang as the east, um, you know, give us
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: a call, let us know what you think. There's no
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: right or wrong. Once again, these are my opinions. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: know that on the train line is still considered the east, yes.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: You can also debate the north, south and west because
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: for me, I feel like the north starts at the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yo Chuang.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: OK
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: it's a very long gateway into Y and all that.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: But then again, we also don't live in the north.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: So what do the siders? I'm curious.
• 18:22
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• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So give us a call and let us know. It
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter where you live here in Singapore, OK? Not
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: just about the east. Where does it start and end
• 18:52
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• 18:55
  Speaker 2: or west or central? Give us a call right now
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: or drop us a message. We're having a great time
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: laughing right now, because Joakim and I were just in
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a friendly argument this morning about the different areas here
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: in Singapore. What's considered east, what's considered west, north, south, central,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and so on.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: And um Joakim, you know, he said something that made
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: me explode earlier because you said something along the lines
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of Kallang is the east. I mean, like I said, geographically, yes,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: it is on the east line. Yes, I know, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it's as central as it gets lah. Anything that takes
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you less than 10 minutes to get to town is
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: not the east.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: OK, let's just put it this way. Come on. You
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: drive from you because you've never stayed in the extreme east,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that's why you
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: No, no, I've had partners who lived in the east
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and the west and the northern part of Singapore. So I,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: in my mind, OK, if someone says, oh, I stay
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in Kembangan, or the east lah. Oh, I stay in
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Eunos or
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the east,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: OK, Eunos is pretty east.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Like I said, Kambangan is, um, I don't know, let
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: me think about it. It's, it's still on the brink.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It's on the cusp.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: OK, fine. Let's go to WhatsApp. OK, 90050987. Want to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: say good morning to a lot of people, by the way,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: texting us in. Want to say hello to VC. VC says, morning, Sojo.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I grew up in East Coast area. I moved to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Mountbatten and now Kallang. Mount Benton and Kallang quite close
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to each other, lah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I always tell people I'm an Eastie for life. By
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Sonia's logic of Kallang distance to City Hall, it's only
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: about a 5 km run from Kallang area to East
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Coast Park. Joakim, please verify running route distance. She's correct.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It's very short.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It's 5 km. It's really very short. Yeah, that's the thing.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: So I don't consider it. OK. I want to say
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: hi to Catherine. You said, I totally agree with Sonia.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: By the way, just check Property Guru for locations. The
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: areas are clearly segregated.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Speaking of segregation, I want to say good morning to Ray. OK,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Ray says morning guys. Ray here. Perhaps where I would
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: use as an absolute reference is the CDC map, the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Community Development Council District map. You can overlay the MRT
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: map and you will see.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: That the east ends around the Kallang area where Joe
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: mentions. I know. OK, we finish first. OK,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: which is a huge tributary from Singapore River. So I'm
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: looking at the CDC map right now. We've got 5,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: so we've got 5 mayors here in Singapore. So as
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it stands, yeah lah, um.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: The Kallang area because I see, OK, I call it
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the ovarian route. OK, I see it as the borderline
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for the east side of Singapore. So after you cross, wait,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: after you cross the bridge over Marina Barrage Tanjong R,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you're in the east.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I said already, it's my opinion. A coming out already
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Alien coming out. It's my opinion. I'm not talking about, yes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I know geographically it is considered the east, but I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: wouldn't call it like true east side, OK, like true
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: blue east side. I don't
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: consider that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And then using the CDC map,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: oh my God, if you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: go towards the Outram side, you're in the west already.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: see, how can Ultram be considered the west.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Somebody help.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Please, OK, keep your, keep your obedience coming through. Joki
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: just calculate at me having a meltdown.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Joakim and I, we cannot come to a conclusion with
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: our argument this morning.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Where does the start here in Singapore? Where does
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the west, the north or the south?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: What
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: is considered east, west, north and south? I mean, yes,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I know by right we look at the map, but
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: left who are like going with feelings. Wow,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: OK, this is the first time I've heard you say
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: by left left.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's either like by wrong or by left,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: by wrong or by left. OK, here we go. I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: want to say good morning to Shahzul on WhatsApp. For
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: someone who used to commute on MRT or bus to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: work almost daily and then ride or drive for work,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I observe my perspectives change often where the east is.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: If I take public transport, Kallang onwards is the east,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but if I drive after Paya Lebar, I will be
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the east. See, I think the perceptions differ based on how.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Define central area lah. Like now we can easily access central,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so the central circle is bigger. The SG infrastructure is
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: much more efficient now. So if our LTA friends to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: thank for this friendly argument, as our public transport becomes
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: more efficient and well connected, I won't be surprised if Joakim's, uh,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: perception may change in the next 5 to 10 years.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: If you want to be objective, then take East Coast
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Park as a point of reference, I guess. OK,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: OK, yeah, I mean, I, I, I totally agree.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I think it could be a differing view because of
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: like our preferred mode of transport, and I think sometimes
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: when you're in a Grab or a private hire car,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: you're not really noticing things around you, right? You're just
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: kind of like chilling, so you're not thinking of these things.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But when you're on a train, then you're looking at
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: it from like the station and the line and which
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: color is the line. If
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we are using Shari's point of view, East Coast Park starts,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: know what,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: actually that's OK, East Coast Park is big though.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it starts with, you know, Tanjung. You cross
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the bridge, yeah, it's there, it's there, and then it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: goes all the way to Tanah Merah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, quite far out, you're right, yeah, yeah. So that
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: whole stretch you're saying that's the east, which
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is quite stadium,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: right? It's not.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, I don't trigger you, OK,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I can see you sweating and perspiring.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I am actually I took off my jackets popping. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: took off my
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: jacket. I want to say good morning to Jessie. Jessie says,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sonia and Joki. I completely agree with Sonia.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I stay in Paya Lebar and I feel that it's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: central east. It takes me less than 20 minutes to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: get to town by car.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I remember telling my husband when we were looking for
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a place to move to a few years back that
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: anywhere from Eunos onwards is a no because it is
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: too east. Also, can I say Paya Lebar is amazing.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We have 4 malls next to each other. It's so
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: convenient and amazing food and culture along Joo Chit, which
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I consider the east.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, OK, is the east.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I love it here. Hope you have a great day.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you for that. You see, so it
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: is very central. So, OK, I, I think so far
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: we've got what, about 15 more minutes till we wrap
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: up this topic, right? Um, my definition of what is
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: considered the east or what's considered north, south, west, whichever,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: is the proximity to town and how fast you take
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to get to town.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: If it's anything below, like, you know, 15 minutes, you're
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: not that far out. You're quite central. That's my definition. OK.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: But then again, once again, everyone is entitled to their opinions.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: can't contribute to this part because I
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: never mind. Denise is on the line.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Never
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: mind is on the line right now. What do you think? OK, can, yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: so me and my husband are both in the car
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: right now, so both of us agree that Palebar is
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: in the east. So after that we got to like
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Kallang and Dakota. I was like, Oh, confirmed in the east,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: as long as the old airport road is like east side.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Then he said, no, it's like central. Then I say no,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: how can you? So he said National Stadium is directly
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: in the center of Singapore, but I said the map
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: is not. It's like leaning towards the east, right? Yeah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: so it's like a brand new.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: A whole new argument. So yeah, so until now we cannot, um, confirm.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So now we just heard like the CDC mapping. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking whether should we vote, but I don't want
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: my feeling is that. So yeah, you know, Dakota, kla, yeah,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: all this is like easy for me. OK, OK. You see,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it's very based on your feelings according to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the official map, ah, the CDC official who did the map,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: who did the map.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Ask our mayors in Singapore. Uh, the National Stadium is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: right at the east side. It's sitting right there.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: The National Stadium is not in the east.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: White is so central. It's so central. I want to
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: talk to your husband, right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: He's here. He's here. Yeah, he, he already whispered. How can,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: how can
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: stadium be in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: east? He was like mumbling. That's what I said. Oh
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: my God, thank you. Thank you to, to Denise's husband.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Sonia. Look at this yellow portion. It says southeast. OK,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you see this little curve here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: where the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: stadium is.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It's so central. What are you talking about? Stadium,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: National Stadium
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: central one. See, I also say.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Guys, I don't know if we'll be able to, like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you know, get a, get a resolution to this today,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and I feel like in, uh, maybe next week or something,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: we gotta get some map expert here or somehow.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Some expert. That's right, yeah, I agree.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But, but can I say something?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: No, OK. What do you want to say now?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: OK. According to the map, the national names in the east,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: but if I'm not wrong, you know, the McDonald's? Yes,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it's in the central of Singapore.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: You know what this is, we're never going to end
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: this argument, you guys. We're gonna get a conclusion. Thank
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: you so much for your call, Denise, and.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry I sparked off a new argument for
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: you and your husband this morning. Thank you so much.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: You're most welcome. Have a nice day. Bye-bye. Bye bye.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Now when it comes down to the areas here in Singapore, north, south,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: east and west, how do you define them? Like where
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: do they start and end for you? We're going back
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: to our messages first.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I want to give you a text from Derek who
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: answered all points of our question today. OK, OK. Derek says,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hey guys.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: For me, the north starts from Yio Chu Kang. OK, valid,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: valid because from Yio Chu Kang MRT it's really the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: gateway to the north. It's quite a long ride. The east,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: this one debatable, the east starts from Bedok.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, OK, I don't disagree. I mean, it feels
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: very east side, you know, you know onwards I feel
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: west starts from Clementi.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, OK.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I agree,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and he
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: says City Hall is not central. If you think about it,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Toa Payoh is actually central.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: If you look at it from a map point of view,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: is it OK?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: One more coming in from Kenneth. Kenneth says, Hey guys,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I can't help to detect the pride in Sonia's voice
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: protecting her east. It reminds me of a friend who
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: always tells people that he stays very near the city.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: When I push him further, he says, Oh, I stay
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: quite near Marina. Where does he stay? Geylang.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Amen. Whatever floats your boat, dude.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And then one more coming in from Nick. Nick says,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you are a master plan says the E starts from
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Paya Lebar and Kallang is central. You can't get more
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: official than that. Wow,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: OK, fine, fine. I mean, look, like I said, like
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I said.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Um, sometimes it's our own opinions and our own feelings,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: and I do agree with one of the listeners that
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: texted in earlier saying that it, the definition changes when
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you're looking at different things. So are you looking at
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the train map? Are you looking at it from a
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: driver's perspective or like walking or what? It
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: changes as much
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: as Nick says the URA master plan is that it's official, right?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It's like playing Uno. Do we really follow the official rules? No,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: we have our own way of doing it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: The lines are blurred. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Back to the discussion, Sonia, don't smile, smile all, OK?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: We're still in heated
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: terms
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: smiling because someone came through with this. OK, go. OK, um,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: saying hi over here to V. You didn't quite leave
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: a name. Um, you said Chat GPT has spoken.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Kallang is generally considered central Singapore, not really the east.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: More precisely, it actually sits in the central region. So
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: think of it as city fringe or central east. See.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I told you. So here we go. Through rough orientation,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: central could be considered places like Kallang, Lavender, Novena, Toa Payoh.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: The east would be Geylang, Yunos, Paya Lebar, Bedok, Tampines,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Pasiris. And this is why sometimes Chat GPT gets it wrong,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you know. What do you mean? This is why anthropics
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: open the office here in Singapore, not open AI.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Please, please, OK.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Like I said, we can agree to disagree, and with
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: only like 5 minutes left to this argument, I don't
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: think we can come to a conclusion.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: You ready? I got one
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: more for you, OK. Username is a babushka doll, the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Russian thing. Good morning, Sonia and Joakim. Kallang is east.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I used to wonder about the boundaries of Singapore too,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: but it all.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: It became clear when my work started involving the maintenance
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of parks in the southeast of Singapore. It stretches from
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Tanjung R Promenade PC all the way to Changi East
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and from Bidadari Park down to East Coast Road south.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So there you go, a quarter pie of Singapore for you.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Ah, OK. Say hi to Elgin.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I think living in Paya Lebar is not really the east,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: but you cross over to the opposite side, I might
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: count it as some sort of the east. Eunos is
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: part of the line if you want to draw the line.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Chuchet is right opposite, but it's not central, it's more east.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: OK, I got one more short one,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: last one, last one.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Edwin says.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: That person who said Tanjung rule is in the east
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: is correct lah. Just like in the past, the Berlin Wall,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: one step east, one step west Germany. Mountbatten Kallang is
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: true blue Eastie. National Stadium in the east is very debatable,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: just like Media Corp in the west.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're in the west la.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Oh no, this is another, another argument. Is this area
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: one North considered the west? To me it is. No,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: West is like Clementi. OK, Clementi is not that far
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: from here. That's true, that's true, that's true. We're quite
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: near Dover, Clementi. OK, we're quite near. I would say
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: central west.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Quite fast to get to town if you drive from here.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Cheryl is on the line. You're final caller of the day, Cheryl.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: What do you think? To be honest, right, I grew up, uh,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: seeing how the trains only had the east-west, which is
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the green line, and then the north-south, which is the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: typical red line which we call. So it was just north-south, east-west,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: and I still remember just SMRT guys drew it this way. Sorry,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: sorry to say.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: boogie be as
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: as it wait, wait, wait, Cheryl, that means Tanjong Pagas
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: in the west
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: cannot.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: But Cheryl, where do you live? Which part of Singapore
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: do you live? I grew up in the east and
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I studied in the north. OK, so you grew up
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in the east. Which part of the east? Uh, OK,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: and I like how you calculated the distance, right, from
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: like Bugis Kallang into town, right? So yeah, you are right, Sonia.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: The east line is one of the shortest.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Because from Kamangan to City Hall, I remember it's always
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a 12-minute ride. OK, incredibly short. Wait, so you live
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: in Kembangan? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. OK lah, that's
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: borderline east. Borderline. you're, you're inching closer, but you're not
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: exactly east east.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Kembangan is the tunnel towards Bedok MRT, so I guess
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: it's the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: gateway to the gate.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: OK, so it's not inmbangan, is it? It's,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: it's, you're inching closer.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call, Cheryl. You have
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a fantastic day. OK. Bye-bye. OK, so what's going on
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: with our friends at MOE?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a question for you. When you were in primary school
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: or secondary school, how big was your class size?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I would say close to 40 at times and my
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: index number was always towards the end. So I remember
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: once I was index number 32.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Sonia.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my registered name is Sonia Nicola Chew, which my
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: government name, right?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Which people are always very confused. They're like, huh, where,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: where did the Nicola come from? You made it up, right?
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I was like, no, it's in my eyes,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: guys.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, OK, so I think, um, maybe.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Over the last few years we realized that perhaps maybe
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: our teachers are a bit very I think it's difficult
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to control 40 kids in the in the classroom. Yeah,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, especially if there are 40 jokis.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say that, but never mind you said it,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: so it's OK.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I think our friends over at MOE are gonna try
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a pilot system now, OK, just 6 schools first where
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: it's smaller classes and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Redesign teaching. So I think these six schools will be
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: actually your alma mater, Sonia Saint Anthony's Convention Primary, I
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: see Woodgrove Primary, Chang Te Primary, Commonwealth Secondary, The E Secondary,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and Jurong Ville Secondary. So they want to see if
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: by reducing the class size whether will it improve students'
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: learning and allow more individual attention, to which I say
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: it does. You know why.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Not just in schools, ah, you know, all your gym classes, like,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: for example, you go to Barry's gym or your BFT
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: or Anytime Fitness, whatever class they offer, right? You have
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a group of 20 or 30 people doing the workout
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: at one point in time.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: You are kind of like instructor, look at me. Am
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I doing it correctly or
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: not? Yeah, my, my.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Am I doing the push-ups correctly? You, you want that
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: sort of like nurturing. So maybe same feeling but applied
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to the secondary schools or primary schools
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: here in
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Singapore. Well, I, I would say I always respect teachers
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: for being able to, you know, try their best to
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: control the class.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: At the same time, you know, your, your attention has
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: to be split amongst so many people, right? So I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: think this is actually a very good, good move.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how the pilot goes. If it turns out, well,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: maybe they'll apply it around schools here in Singapore,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: add one more thing. Um, this also means, I'm looking
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: at you, Joe, it's harder for you to get away
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: with falling asleep in class.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: That's quite true, right?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: That's true. You
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: know, I remember my young and foolish self, right, because
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I was sitting at the corner of the classroom, which
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: is directly at the window. OK. I chose specifically that seat.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So when I fell asleep in class and my teacher
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: calls me out for it, I always say, ma'am, I'm
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: at the corner. I'm sleeping. I'm not distracting the class.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: You said that. Yeah,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I said
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that. No.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Foolish, but that that was my reasoning. But ma'am, I'm here.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I'm at one corner. I'm sleeping. You are, you are
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: teaching to the people who want to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: listen to you.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you feel bad now. Here we go.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: She's gonna say, but I want the best for you. Yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I know
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: because I'm invested in your growth. You're not wrong.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: She said it like that, but in a more strict
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: stricter tone.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: There we go. I'm invested in you. That's why. You
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: think I do this for fun?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Can you bump up the the seriousness
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: a bit.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Joakim, I'm doing this for you, for your own good.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: You think I want to do this? Uh, scared, right?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: All the PTSD coming back. Time for some delicious home
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: dining related food news right now.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: 12,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: 3 food
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: news.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Just adding the effects.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Foods. Sonia with the good news, the effects nobody asked for, OK, OK,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: where are we going? OK, we're going to a home
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: dining place actually, OK. So here's the backstory of this, um,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: the creator of this entire home dining concept meal and everything.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: He was, or rather, he is an eye surgeon.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: And um he's a top eye surgeon actually. So I
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: just want to say hi to uh Doctor Tan, Doctor
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Donald Tan. Um, I'm, I'm guessing that food and whiskey
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: has become his passion over the years and, you know,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: he seems like a very established doctor over the years already.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Now, he's dishing out elevated beef banh mi, like the
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Vietnamese banh mi, and Peranakan inspired cocktails at his private diner.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: It's called Whimsky, if I'm saying it right, I hope.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: And this is on the back of him building a
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: career of four decades as one of Singapore's leading eye surgeons. Beautiful.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It's incredible. So I'm just scrolling through it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Looking at the um the photos right now. When was
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: the last time you had a really good banh mi, the,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: the Vietnamese sandwich?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: It's been a
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: very
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: long,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: very long time,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: but it was over at the Geylang area.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: OK, OK, because Ju Chi and all has very good
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Vietnamese food. Um, how it started was that during the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: pandemic time, he realized he found himself spending a lot
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: of time at home as we all did, right?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: And his medical practice reduced to just like once or
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: twice a week and fewer patients because they were encouraged
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: not to go if it's not an emergency, right? So
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: then he started to experiment with different whiskey and he
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: created his own blends, which is why he also serves
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: in his, at his private dining. So he called this
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: R&D research and drinking.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to research your alcohol, of course,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: you must taste it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, you must taste it. So today, he hosts whimsky
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: dinners um once a week for groups of 8 to 12.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: The sessions are held on Fridays and Saturdays. You have
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: to reach out to make a booking and I'm assuming
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: he's not going to be posting his address.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Like that. That's why you kept asking me where it is.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: So I'm guessing you have to just reach out. Um,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: you can make a booking via the, the number that's
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: available online. OK.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Eye surgeon, and whiskey. My stereotype is
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Bukit Timah
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: King Albert Park, yeah,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: there is that the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: West
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Bukit Timah.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: That's considered West, right? OK, that's west.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: You know what, with you, I don't know anymore. I'm
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: questioning myself. Yeah,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I'm confused also. OK, anyway, please, if you're interested, they
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: have a full write-up complete with beautiful pictures on 8
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Day Eats. One of my most reliable sources when it
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: comes to food. They always do such, um, in-depth writing
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: about all these new restaurants, especially when it comes to
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: like passion.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So please contact. He has got a WhatsApp number or
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you can reach out on Instagram as well. This
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: one will make the millennials very happy and maybe even
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: the
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: parents
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: as well. I'm sorry, which boy band is coming back?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Westlife. Oh,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I was just kidding. No, no,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I was just joking. Yeah, so because they are so
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: popular and
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Both shows sold out for next year, Jan 16th and 17th.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: They're gonna announce a third night.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, January 18th. I actually, OK, I did
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: a quick search on our, in our library and you
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: know how because we're a top 40 station, right? We,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: we do have to revise our library every once in
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: a while. Um, can you guess how many Westlife songs
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: we have in our playlist? 4. You're very close. We
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: have 3.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Can I guess? Can I guess? OK, but if I
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: let you go,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: um, actually, no, we have Uptown Girl.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: OK, OK, a Billy Joel cover.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: We also have Starlight.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Which I have to say I'm not familiar with this song.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: new song from them.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe. OK, what about Swear It Again?
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's not. Yeah, we have this one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: You know what the beauty of these boy bands from
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: like the early 2000s. What the beautiful thing is, is
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: that because throwbacks have become such a thing with the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Gen Z and Gen alphas, right? Like it's just universal now. Like,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: people of all ages still know the lyrics.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Well done to Westlife. They know that Singapore is the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: ultimate cash cow. I think
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: they got Singapore PR at this point. I feel
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: On that note, we had such a good laugh this morning. Um,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: what a great conversation we had over our topic as well.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Please log on to me, Listen and Spotify to catch
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: up with all the laughs.