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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 240626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Good next season.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning, and I
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: hate to break it to you, Joakim, but uh today
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: is my version of Friday because I'm going for a
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: weekend trip tomorrow onwards. Why did you leave me alone?
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: It's just 2 days. I'll be back really soon. Don't
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: be so cling. Take me with you.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Singapore's number one hit music station.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: If you support Portugal for the World Cup, did they win?
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: You'll be smiling today. Oh, nice. Cristiano Ronaldo, we have
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: lift off. The man scored 2 goals. He looks happy.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. Wait, so give me, give me
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the history. Like, was he, was he doing well in
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: the World Cup? Um, not exactly. Oh, OK, like.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: It was a little bit off form for Portugal in
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: the World Cup in past tournaments. I kind of remember that, yeah,
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: but I'm very happy for the man. He scored 2
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: goals against Uzbekistan. Final score, Portugal 5. Uzbekistan 0. But
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: if you're a footballing pundit and expert, it's expected from
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Portugal to whack Uzbekistan like that.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens to them in the next game. But,
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Uzbekistan is not, please just fill me in on this.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Uzbekistan is not a place that is known for football,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: or is it? Actually for Uzbekistan and Jordan, they are
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: two of the strongest teams in Asia. Oh, OK, nice.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe the world stage, not so much.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: In Asia, they're very strong. They'll get there. I'm sure
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: they will get there. And sometimes I think it's also
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: a very much of a mental game when you go
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: in and maybe, you know, you think like, oh, I'm
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: going up against a really good team like, yeah, and
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: then you see these names, you might get into your
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: own head and get intimidated as well. This is just
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: an assumption. I mean.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Cape Verde, for example. What a story they're having and
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: just finished England against Ghana. It's 0-0. 0, I thought
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: England was one of your top favorites. Maybe England's doing
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: their best to not finish first in their group. Why?
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Because it could be, it could lead to more difficult
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  Speaker 1: clashes if they do. Maybe they want to finish second.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Ah, OK, I can't. The math is not messing. It's
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  Speaker 1: OK because if you, you face a different set of teams.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: If you, you face a different set of teams as well.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: So you mean you are losing strategically? Is that what
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do? I won't say losing as in
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: throwing away the game, but maybe they just want to draw. Well,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: they did, right?
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe that was the goal. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the topic of getting refunds, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about this before, and you did also say that
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: when it comes to refunds, our moms are probably the
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  Speaker 1: best at it. I will call for backup. I'm getting
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: my mom's help. Honestly, I think so too. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: something that I feel is a service they should provide.
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  Speaker 1: Our moms, you know, I mean, OK, my mom is
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: pretty much retired. She doesn't.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Um, but your mom is also, I mean, she's still working,
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: but eventually she'll need a retirement plan, right? Maybe she
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: should join forces with my mom and start a refund services,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: you know, know how to get refunds. But for this one,
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit tricky because usually when we talk about asking.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: refunds, maybe we're speaking of um an unpleasant experience at
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: a restaurant or maybe an order that went wrong, or
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: maybe an order that didn't come at all, like your pillow,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: for example, which I'm sure you did not get a
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: refund on. Yeah, I'm sure I got scammed scammed. Um,
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: but taking you to a luxury store right now, OK,
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: and um, I'm on the fence if I want to
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  Speaker 1: say which luxury brand this is. It's a big brand.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: It's a very big brand. OK, I'll just say it's
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  Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton. OK. It's Louis Vuitton and I
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  Speaker 1: I, I don't know, I don't know whose side to
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  Speaker 1: take on this, but hear me out first and then
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: you give me your, your opinion, all right? This lady
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: in China, she went over to get a Louis Vuitton
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: bag and it was supposedly something that was quite rare,
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  Speaker 1: which after seeing it, I do think that it is
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  Speaker 1: quite rare. In fact, it's a bag that is an
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: ostrich leather, ostrich leather, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So I had no idea ostrich leather as well. I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's ostrich skin basically, right? Um, and it is considered
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  Speaker 1: pretty rare in terms of a texture and a material.
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  Speaker 1: But she actually paid quite a bit of money for it,
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  Speaker 1: like 18,000 Singapore dollars, OK, $18,000 Sing dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And now she's trying to seek for a refund because
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  Speaker 1: she said she was misled by the staff on the
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: rarity of the bag.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Rarity meaning, for example, your la boo boos or your
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: whatever that's a collectible actually I think she has a case.
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  Speaker 1: You think so? Are you sure? Why? I mean if
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  Speaker 1: it's proven that the staff did indeed say oh this
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  Speaker 1: is very rare.
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  Speaker 1: Exclusive, better get now, better get now. It's in a
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  Speaker 1: way misleading the customer. And you think you have a case,
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: but you can argue that you should do your own research, right?
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  Speaker 1: When you're buying, when you're spending this much money on
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: an item, of course, the salesperson is going to push
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  Speaker 1: you for sales.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: OK, but here's the thing, no one really knows what
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: transpired personally between the salesperson and her. It's a he said,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: she said, you know, it's not like they had a
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: body cam and they have the receipts for that. It
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: would be so funny. Yeah, um, but you know what,
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: the way that this sale unfolded, she's claiming that it
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: was a bit unethical, and then she's also claiming that
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: there were inconsistencies in the color of the material when
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: she discovered it back at the hotel and then she
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  Speaker 1: wanted a refund, but
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: The staff was saying that, but when it comes down
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: to leather, and as you know, when you buy leather
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: and things with textures, right, it's going to be inconsistent.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Like bag A is not going to look the same
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  Speaker 1: as bag B. And we, we already know this, even
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: with leather jackets, maybe even denim, right? It's, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if she really does have a case,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: but she doesn't even want an exchange right now, even
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  Speaker 1: though the staff offered an exchange of the exact same bag.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Like they said, we'll bring it in from another outlet,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or something, but we'll exchange it, but we
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  Speaker 1: can't do a refund. I'm absolutely sure there's an internal
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: investigation right now. We'll see. And the staff member is
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: being asked, did you tell her it was rare? Yeah, right.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: What did you say to her?
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to know, right? But look, uh, Louis
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  Speaker 1: Vuitton has not publicly responded to any media queries, so
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. They're definitely doing a little investigation
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: internally right now. And then when the press release happens,
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: it will be very just skim the surface of whatever
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: happened during the investigations. We'll see, but this, if, if it's,
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: if she has a case.
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  Speaker 1: This really does sound like the salesperson trying to make
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  Speaker 1: a sale. And unfortunately, it may or may not reflect
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: badly on the brand, which was never the intention, right?
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: Because we, we all love beautiful things and it's not
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  Speaker 1: the brand's fault. Maina Bay sales people are pushing for
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  Speaker 1: a sale.
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  Speaker 1: Like whenever you want to buy a luxury item, please
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  Speaker 1: do your research ahead of time. But if you're the
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: kind that like, oh, I really like it and I
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: don't care whether it's rare or not, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to drop this 20k on this item, then do what
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  Speaker 1: makes you happy, you know, and don't, don't turn back
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  Speaker 1: and regret after that. And can we be your friends,
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: because if you can drop 20k on something like, like tomorrow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just drop on us we don't mind. I don't mind.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Joji with the Kim Leroy first on. Walking around my
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: new Bishan estate yesterday, Bishan Ridges, where the BTO, I
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: think is TOP and people are moving in. All the
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: renovation works are being done, and a couple of our
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: colleagues here at the same level, they're gonna be neighbors
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: with me. Oh, I, I know who want to give
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: a shout out to the Mutton's producer, producer Jim, Jim,
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna be a neighbor of mine as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That said though, um, when it comes to renovations, if
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: For example, you're going to go through renovations for your place.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Would you go and give your neighbors like small ango? Um, yes, actually,
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: so I, I didn't exactly do much renovation, but there
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: was still a little bit of, uh, things that I
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: had to do, you know, that required maybe like just
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: one or two days. So I did put like a
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: gift bag in front of my neighbor's house, but at
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: that point, not all the new units were occupied just yet.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: Like not, not everyone had moved in. So it was
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: just the two direct neighbors next to me. Yeah.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Come back here on the show. I'm gonna take you
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  Speaker 1: to Punggol, where over there also is BTO universe. People
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: are moving in. BTO Universe. It is a BTO universe
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: over there, and renovation works are being done. Find out
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: what this one young Singaporean couple did for their neighbors
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  Speaker 1: to in a way, tell them, guys, sorry, paise about
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  Speaker 1: the renovations, give chance, give chance. Taking you to BTO
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  Speaker 1: universe here in Singapore. Hello, Punggol. By the way, I
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: love their, I love their tagline. Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 1: It's BT.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: It's like be together, but BTO is capitalized with the
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: very nice billboards and all that, and I burst out
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: laughing because I was like, did I come up with that?
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  Speaker 1: It really just made me laugh. It was cute. OK,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: so I must say that the Punggol area, yeah, having
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: run past there a couple of times now, it's actually beautiful,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: especially Punggol coast. I was making a joke where maybe
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: when I retire, you want to go there, right? And
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: I want like a nice view of Coney Island and
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: the and the sea and all that, I'll go there
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  Speaker 1: and stay.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, you did mention that. You did mention that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but of course loads of young people or couples moving
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: into Punggol doing renovation works. There's this one particular young
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: couple where a way of saying, OK, neighbors, we are
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: paisy about the noise and drilling and all that. Give
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: us some chance. They gave their neighbors $10 NTUC vouchers.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: OK, that's cute. That's cute. How many, how many neighbors
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I received it? 4 or 5 on the same floor, right? Yeah.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: So the comment section, so nice of them. If only
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: all neighbors are like this. That's sweet. Actually, my neighbors
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: have done the same for me as well. Um, I
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: think there was a young family that moved in somewhere
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: down the corridor, and honestly, it didn't really affect me
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: that much, although, yes, if you're in in the daytime,
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: which sometimes we are because of our odd working hours,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: we can hear.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but they actually gave a very, very nice gift bag,
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: and it was around about, uh, CNY. So in that
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: gift bag had Lim Chi Guana, yeah, and a handwritten
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: note from, I think they had a little daughter or something,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: so they got the daughter to like sign off on it.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: It was very cute, so cute. Yeah, so I was like, oh,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: that's really cute, very good choice to do also because
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: it will soften your heart and then make the neighbors go,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: so cute, OK, go and drill, go and drill. But,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: but I have to, I have to say, I have
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: to say that, um.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: On, on several occasions when other neighbors that are not
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: so friendly, uh, do these renovation works and all that,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: sometimes they don't even like, they don't say anything or
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: they don't, you know, come around on your door to
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: try and say hi. They don't, yeah, they don't. I
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: think it's something I definitely for sure. But there was
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: one comment that read, oh, so nice of them, but
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: make sure the ren works don't last, open inverted commas forever.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Because uh you might have to top up the $10
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: after that. Just going through uh the official wedding photos
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: from Sonia's wedding night. Yeah, so sidetrack for a very
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: short while, um, I did not realize that wedding photos
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: take so long to process and understandably so because the
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: photos from like tea ceremony to after party.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: How many thousands of pictures were there? You can only imagine. Yeah.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: So they did say the lead time is usually about
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: like maybe actually my friend's photos took like 3 months. Crazy,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: but um they said between like 4 to 5 weeks
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: they can get it to me. So this is around
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, it's around 4 weeks. That's why we're
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: looking at it. Anyway, sorry, we sidetracked because we were
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: just having a good laugh. We go from wedding photos
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: to something really stupid. OK, um, imagine this here and
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: this is crime related. OK.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: You get charged for the same thing, not once, not twice,
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  Speaker 1: but 13 times. I guess this warrants the jingle. Bold crime, crime, crime, crime.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: I don't have the exact location, but this involves the
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: crime of
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Littering. No, I thought, I thought you were gonna say
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: feeding the pigeons again. No, no, no. So the same
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: man who's, I think 40+ this year, since 2000, he's
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: been charged with the crime of littering 26 years ago. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: 13 times, yeah. So the most recent one, he was
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: charged in May 15th of this year, where he got
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: fined $2500 and he had to do 12 hours of
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: corrective work order wearing that vest. So I think our
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: friends over at NEA, they released another advisory saying hey.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, new rules here. If you're caught
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  Speaker 1: littering the first time, it's $2000. Your subsequent charge will
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: be $4000. 3rd or more, $10,000 no questions asked. No
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: jail time, right? Or yeah, see, that's interesting because if
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: you're charged for something of the 13th time, you obviously
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: you not learn your lesson. Yeah, you would kind of
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: think there would be some jail time, but OK, well, I'm,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't wish that upon anyone.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: But that's just, that's just interesting because if he's been
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: charged so many times, they must be also keeping an
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: eye on him somehow, right? So we also have some
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: good news coming in from our friends over at NEA
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: the amount of rat burrows, it has gone down here
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: in Singapore. That's great.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Well done. I have come across some pretty big ones before.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: They look quite well fed, man. I got to say.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: What are they eating? I wonder. All the leftovers from
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: the hawker stalls and all that. Exactly, exactly. Finally, a
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: song from Tyler that doesn't sound like water. I knew
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: you were gonna. Yes, well done, Tyler, because it's that,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: it's that beat, right?
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: That beat, right?
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: OK, I don't have no sense of rhythm, but you
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, right? The Afrobeat, the dance.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Man, I realize I can't sing and clap at the
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: same time. OK. You can't sing and clap at the
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: same time and at different time. So, stop it. You're
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: embarrassing yourself.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: It's not computing. I never realized that I can't clap
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: and sing. I'll give you one more chance. Wait, what
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: the beat for water is?
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Right, Make me sway, make me hotter, make me lose my,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: make me.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: If you're having a laughing fit right now here on 987,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: you're welcome. I just thought it's not my brain is
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: not braining. Like the moment I start seeing my, my
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: clapping goes out of sync. And if you're having the thought, hey,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: that's what my mom says as well. Can you, can you,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: can you stop? There you go. You try la. You try.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: You make me sway. Make me harder. I asked for it.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Make me.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Anyway, coming up in just a bit. Something quite unique
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: happened over at one of our favorite home and furniture
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: stores here in Singapore. More unique than your clapping. Sorry, nothing,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: nothing can beat my unique clapping that was fully intentional,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: by the way. I'm just trying to make you look good,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and let your talents shine. So when I say one
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: of the most popular
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Home and furniture stores slash chains here in Singapore. What
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: would you think of immediately, I think one of two.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: It's either I. Yes, OK, nailed it. Taking you over
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to IKEA Tampines right now, which by the way, as
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: an insider, when they open the Tampines outlet, we're all
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: very excited because the area where IKEA is, they've got
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: really big warehouses and other, other shops there as well.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I think there's a massive giant there.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: A giant giant. It's a giant giant giant and Ikea
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: mega megastores, exactly. So really great news for Easters when
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: that happened, right? We were so excited when, when we
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: noticed them opening. But over at the Tampines.
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  Speaker 1: Outlet because it's really big. So they have plenty of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: those showrooms and show flats as we call it, right,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: where they can showcase like the different types of furniture
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: or how you can put it together, um, you know, and,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and just from an aesthetic point of view, like which
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: is your style, that kind of thing.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Typically, you would see people just walking around viewing, maybe
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: touching and feeling some of the items to take a
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: closer look, right? Having intense discussions with your partners or
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: family members. But have you ever seen anybody sitting down
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: in the showroom like it's their home and um
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Eating at the dining table. I've seen people lying down
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: on the bedroom. Yes, I've seen that, but they don't
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: like actually sleep there for 3 hours, you know, in
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the dining room, not yet, no. So it has happened. Um,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: apparently there was actually a kid and what seems to
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: be like his grandma or something, um, and family members
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: sitting at the table and just digging into his food,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and it was tapa, like it was tapa food. He
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: had some drink there and he was just digging in.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: So I believe that um someone actually went up and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: said to the grandma, like this isn't allowed technically, but
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: her response was, he's just a kid, let him eat.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, I'm paraphrasing because I don't know whether she
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: even said it in English, but the gist of it
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: was that he's just a kid. OK, lah, I'm on
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the fence with this excuse. We can't always use that
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to defend behavior that's not really allowed over at IKEA.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Right, so our friends at IKEA have responded. They said, Hey,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: we actually have our restaurant facilities. Please go there and
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: eat instead. Don't eat in the showroom. I think it's,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: it's more of like a hygiene concern. And if, let's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: just say, you know, plenty of people are touching the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: table and like looking and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: You know, the surface is dirty, right? And what if
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the kid eats off the table, the food drops on
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the table, he eats it, then he gets sick, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they want to blame IKEA for it, for example. So yeah,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: our friends at IKEA did the right thing. I remember
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: my first few times at IKEA Tampines, right? I got frustrated,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but I realized this was my own doing. You got lost,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, I, I, I, I was always thinking
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to myself, oh, to get to the dining area, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: have to walk the whole IKEA areas. How do you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: mean you don't have to? You don't have to.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: There's like a, a flight of staircase stairs going to
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the dining area. Oh, I didn't know that. Just take
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: it next time. I just took it as like a journey.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like, OK, I mean, I think they want me
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to shop and look around, so I just took the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: journey lah. So you and I are quite similar in
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that way. That's right. Just that I never realized that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: till now. Yeah, now, now you do. There you go. OK,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: not exactly in the news. This one is a personal observation. OK.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Marina Bay. What's going on there? We have a problem. Why?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: In what way? I love Marina Bay. I don't know
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: if you've been there recently. You know Gardens by the Bay.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Going out from Marina Barrage towards Gardens by the Bay,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you now cannot cycle.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know this. There is a big sign
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: on the floor that says nor road for cyclists. OK,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: is there a reason why? Yeah, because I think loads
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of people are walking up and down, cyclists are not
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: keeping to their lanes. Like there might be accidents, is it?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Pedestrians as well and all these run clubs. So the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: path is being occupied by pedestrians where I doubt there's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: enough space for cyclists.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: To navigate through those areas. Yeah, and even as a cyclist,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's desirable, right? Yeah. So it goes
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: from Say by the bay to maybe the other entrance
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of Gardens by the Bay after the Flower Dome. OK,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: but just to be clear, if I'm cycling from the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: East Coast area, I can still cycle to by the Bay, right?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You can, but you got to go like a detour,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: another path for you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Oh really? Yeah, but, but it's nothing too difficult. They
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: actually have like a label on the floor where you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: can go to. Can we apply that same concept to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the one Fullerton area? Is it getting too crowded there? No, look, man,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: whenever I go for a run there, right, off-peak hour
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: is OK, but from 4:30 to maybe say 7 p.m.,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the sunset hour where you get a call.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Combination of tourists, people taking photographs, your run clubs and cyclists,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: they're all trying to navigate the areas on their he
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: ride and any wheel. I really hope that no one
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: has gone into an accident and because people taking pictures there, right,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you know how they do it. They'll take a picture,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they'll QC straight away without looking up, and they are
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: walking at the same time. So they're oblivious to the surroundings. Yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I know will happen.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure. So, I mean, this is a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: similar situation, I would say to uh if you snowboard
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: or you ski, for example, OK, in areas that are
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: very crowded or populated, um, if you're not a very
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: good snowboarder or skier like myself, I wouldn't consider myself
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: great because I only go like every once in a while.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: My biggest fear is, and it has happened to me
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: before actually, my biggest fear came, came true.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Is that I'm just minding my own business and someone
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: crashes into me and it has happened and I'm so
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: relieved that nothing like terrible, like we didn't sustain any
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: bad injuries, but it's the kind of situation where snowboarders
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and skiers are trying to navigate their way and it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: difficult because sometimes
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Movements are very different, right? So you cannot predict whether
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: this person's going left, right, straight, like to the side
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and crashes happen all the time. That's why
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: next time at the one Fullerton area, if you hear
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: anyone going, look up, look up, or like ring the bell,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: it's me, it's me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just making sure the tourists know that I'm coming
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: towards them as a runner, and there are people who
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: are cycling behind them. I think this, I think this
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is why like in places like Thailand they keep honking
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: just to let you know like we're here, right? Don't
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you think? Safety first. Yeah, please take care of yourself.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: This just happened.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: OK, at about 6:15 when I went to make my
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: coffee and stuff, as per usual, you know, I grind
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: my beans. I go out, make my coffee. Um, sometimes
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I run into people at the pantry or sometimes I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: might have left something in the fridge. I'll go and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: get it, right? Whenever something happens to Sonia, you must
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: understand my favorite podcast is on. Tell us your favorite
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: show is on. Yes, come. Um, I, I wanna, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: wanna list out why I felt so frustrated earlier on, OK,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and I'll share this with you in just a few minutes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's got to do with what people put in a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: shared fridge. OK, a shared refrigerator, especially.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: In the office, I mean, I get that sometimes for
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: big families, you, you obviously you share a refrigerator downstairs
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: as well in the kitchen or you know, you just
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: put the stuff that you want to put in there.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So everyone might have their own things, they label it, right?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Especially here in the office, you label it. Now it's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: got nothing to do with people stealing anything, but I'll
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: fill you in on one of my observations and why
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm frustrated in just a while. I was gonna ask you.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's a legit problem, but.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the judge of that in just a bit. OK, OK,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: tea time. Here we go. Yes, I'm ready to hear
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: about the fridge in our pantry. Yeah, so, you know, I,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I think I spent more time there than you because
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I make my coffee, you know, I do my French press.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I store some stuff in the refrigerator like yogurt, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: when I left for a vacation, I actually told you
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to finish up the yogurt and guess what? When I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: came back, it's in the exact same spot.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I, I, I don't think I enjoy yogurt as much
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: as you do. Oh, but it's good for your gut.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: From the way you described the amount of time you
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: spend there, you're opening a shop there or what? I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: might as well, honestly choose cafe. I choose carefully. Put
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: on the refrigerator.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Anyway, uh, you know, we've had many adventures there from my,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I think it was like my overnight oats bowl being
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: stolen to, uh, other, other people reportedly having their stuff
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: taken as well. Have you found the culprit? No, but I've,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: since then I made sure I labeled it properly because
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I think I'm not sure whether I forgot to label it. Yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: but even so, that, that's not a reason to take
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: someone else's food anyway.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: The point is, this morning when I went in, I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: left an apple in a container in the fridge just yesterday, OK?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And it's meant for like part of my breakfast, right?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You know, you see me setting up my breakfast stuff
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Just opened a restaurant at this point.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So I went there and I opened the fridge to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: retrieve my apple. It was there. It was there, but
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: what greeted me was a pungent waft of durian.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Somebody in this office decided to store durian in the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: common refrigerator without vacuum sealing it. Question mark. If you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: had vacuum sealed, sealed it multiple times, it's to trap
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the odor so it doesn't come out, right? Don't get
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: me wrong, I love durian. I really love it. Like,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in fact, I just, I just ate it over the weekend. Like, uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Jeremy and I finished like one whole serving together.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: But when you store it in the fridge like that,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it tends to trap and smell really bad after a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: few days, and everything in there starts to smell like
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: stale durian, you know, you know that pungent smell. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: it's a common refrigerator, it could be a bit inconsiderate.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It is. Is there a name? Do we know who's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: durian don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Um,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: but even so, I don't think durian is the kind
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of thing that you should store in the common refrigerator,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: especially if it's shared.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I love durian, but I cannot imagine if there's someone
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: here who like absolutely hates durian and had to put
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: or retrieve food in there. This is not the first time,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: by the way. You know what was in there prior
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to this durian incident? I'm not saying it's the same person,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it may not be the same person. It could be. Um,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: what else smells bad? Let me think.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's. No, no, no, thankfully that's not as common.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: It was kimchi. Oh no. Yeah, so, OK, here's the thing.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I love kimchi too. I mean, I love it, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: how I store it at home is that I double
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: zip lock it. So even if it's in a jar,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I put it in a small ziploc and then it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: goes in a big zip lock so that it seals.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: When it comes to kimchi, vacuum seal. Yeah, you got
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: vacuum seal it somehow. Actually, sometimes even the ziploc is
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: not enough. You got to really like wrap it up
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and seal it or something on a container. Yeah, exactly.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So, going to open up phone lines right now. 669-11987,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: be it at home or maybe you live with roommates
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: or maybe in the dorm or in your office, right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Have you ever come across a situation where someone was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: quite inconsiderate with the things that they placed in the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: shared space, like a refrigerator, cabinet, storage area?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna out my mom on live national radio here. No,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: she doesn't have a bad habit of placing pungent things whatsoever,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: but she has a bad habit of placing things in
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the fridge and forgetting all about it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Until two or three years later, I'm like, why is
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the same? I'm asking myself why is the same chili
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sauce bottle there? I checked the expiry date, expired in 2024. Mom, please,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it's your fridge.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised. I thought she would, she seems like
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the kind that would clear it up. My mom with
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: groceries is OK, but with all the chili sauce bottles
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and all that, she'll leave it in there. We kind of,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: we kind of overlooked that because I think for most
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: of us, we always think, yeah, I will find use
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for it someday. I'll use it tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: then before you know it it becomes 2 years. So yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: whether it's durian or expired chili sauce, let us know
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  Speaker 1: call us 669-11987 in case you just joined us. The
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: question is, have you ever come across an incident where
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: someone inconsiderate put
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: A pungent item in the shared refrigerator or maybe they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: just put something that was like expired or you know, you,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you came across these situations, especially in shared situations. Talking
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: about inconsiderate people who leave really stinky items in the fridge,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: especially when it's a shared refrigerator or storage space, could
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: be in the office, could be in your dorm hall
• 28:46
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• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I got the same experience too. In
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: my office fridge, it's shared with my colleagues. Usually I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: will buy some bottled drinks for the team to share.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Then I saw chachi. I thought someone put it to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: cool and drink later. Days later, I saw the chachi.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: It is still there. Curious me, I went to go
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: take a look at the drink. What shocked me was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that it was dated early 2025.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The drink is still in the fridge. No, as I'm
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: typing this. Are you kidding? That's been like a year,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: more than a year. Frederick, but you better check for
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: bacteria and the worms. It's probably got like mold in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: there already, especially if it's a milk-based drink. Oh my God,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's 8:25 a.m. in the morning. Please don't. One
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: more coming in from Miss Tay who says, morning, Sonia
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and Joakim. I love this topic. I completely feel you. Sonia,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: my colleague buys a week's supply of frozen seafood.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And puts it in the office fridge. Puts it in
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the freezer freezer, I mean. I asked why once and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: she said must grab when it's on offer. When I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: noticed the stuff remains in the fridge for a few days,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I reminded her and her answer is my home fridge
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: is full. Oh my gosh. That should not be what
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the office fridge and freezers are for lah, to be honest.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: This is why some people don't deserve good things and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: nice things. Yeah, yeah, and just to, just to recap, OK,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: before we head to phone lines and more messages in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a while, take a break.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Um, it was because I went to the fridge this
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: morning to retrieve an apple that I left there yesterday.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: To my horror, I realized that someone left durians in
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the shared refrigerator without sealing it properly or vacuum sealing
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: it or even whatever. The whole fridge smelled like stale durian, OK?
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And I love durian, but this, this is not it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Don't put it in the office fridge, guys. Like you gotta,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you gotta put it at home, man. Just gonna open
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: my email. Hello. This one I think is estate, estate,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: not HR, yeah, yeah. Give us a call 669-11987. Have
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you ever experienced this before where you have a shared
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: storage space, be it a refrigerator, a cabinet or something,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and someone
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Put something in there that's quite undesirable and smells bad.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Hi music station. Sonia and Joakim here with you. About
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to head to the phone lines. We've got Jie Ling
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and Farid Hanging on the line, but first, more messages
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: coming your way. This all inspired by my unpleasant experience
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this morning when I went to the kitchen at the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: office pantry.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And I went to get my apple. I realized someone
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: left durian in the fridge, OK? And from a durian
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: lover myself, I think this is the ultimate no no.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You have to at least try and seal it into
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a container and then zip lock it twice. Before anything, look,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I love durian too, but time and place. There's a
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: time and place for it. Want to say good morning
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to an anonymous.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, please don't share my name. I work in
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a restaurant. I love all food and I respect people's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: food culture and I love my colleagues, especially my Filipino colleagues,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: but they love to keep some salted fish and bagoon.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Bagoon is like a shrimp paste, like a paste, like
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a sambal, like kind of situation. OK. The fridge smell.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, and when they eat, it smells too. Maybe eat
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: at home and not in the common fridge in the office.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I understand, I understand. Look, like there are some people
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: who cannot take balaan as well. The smell of balachan,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: and some balaans are more pungent than others, so I,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't leave a jar of balachan in the fridge
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: in the office, lah. Pungent is the word. Yeah. OK,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: we're back with some callers.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Hanging on the line and more of your messages. Please
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: feel free to send us more stories. We're having so
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: much fun with this here today. I'm so glad that
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you can relate. That's it. Given how I was in
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Manila last year for the Superman junket, right? I tried Bagong. Yeah,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: very good. So you like it. I love it. Yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: but not to be kept in the fridge. Yeah, I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: know I'm assuming that's what our listener is saying. Yeah,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: we're just having such a good laugh here in the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: studio today.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Um, look, I guess this is a common problem when
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: you have a shared storage space, be it a refrigerator,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: cabinets or whatever, right? People tend to just chuck things there.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, not just our refrigerator, look at the cabinet
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in our pantry, the amount of cups and mugs that
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: have been there.
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  Speaker 1: That no one has touched in like years. It's like
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a dumping ground. I think at the end of the year, sometimes,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you noticed this, Joe, like they
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: actually brought out all the cups, put it on the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: side and said like, please claim it. And if no
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: one claims these, whatever cups that are left here, we're
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: going to toss it or recycle it. But every year
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: it gets cleared, but somehow it piles back up, right?
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: It comes back. So, hey man, similar situation with the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: office refrigerator. Things can be left in there for a very,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: very long time. Here we go with messages first.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: One coming in from May. Hey guys, it's very common,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: especially in office fridges. The pantry auntie spends a lot
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of time cleaning up the fridge every week. There are
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: always leftover lunches, half-eaten salads, unfinished sliced cake that is
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: left without the box, and almost 3-quarter uncovered fresh cream
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: cake sitting beside the half-eaten salad. The smell of the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: fridge whenever you open it hits you like a stale
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: overnight tea worn by a sweaty athlete.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I told the auntie to put a plate of baking
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  Speaker 1: soda with lemon essential oil dripped on it and leave
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: it there for a few days. Things are better now
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and the auntie throws out all the food at the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: end of every month. Yeah, you have to, or maybe
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: even every week, to be honest. Some of these stuff,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: like it will just rot in the fridge, right? Actually,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I realized a common culprit for office fridges, a half-eaten
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: birthday cake.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because no one can finish it and they
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: just chuck it in there forever. That's the thing. So
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: shouldn't it be our responsibility if we are the ones
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that had the cake, right? If no one eats it within.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: One or two days, just you got to toss it out,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: no choice. That's why for my birthday, don't buy me
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: a full cake. One slice slice will do. Thank you.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Or maybe just like get you a steak cake, like
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a steak cake at dinner, not in the office cake. Yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I mean just put a candle on the steak la
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: burnt ends or what, you know, OK la.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You can put all the candles there. Just bring me
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: there and eat. I see. OK. Hint taken. Thank you.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Jie Ling is on the line. OK, please tell us
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: what happened and who's the culprit that always puts disgusting
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: things in the fridge. Yeah,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: so I'm
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: actually the problem.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the self-awareness is real. OK, since we're on it, tell us.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: So I once left, um, uh, a bottle of barbecue
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: sauce in my fridge for over 5 years. 5 years.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: And this is, yeah, this is just one of the
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: many things I like to keep in the fridge for
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: a long time, and it drives my husband crazy.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: OK, wait, so you said one of the many aside
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: from barbecue sauce. What else? What else is in there,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Chi Ling?
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Tell
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: us.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Like your mom,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: like there's chili sauce, there's mayo, there's like, that's like
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the spring roll wrap, you know, like the poopa wrap.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: That one you can't keep for too long, you know.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: know.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: It's not like I use, I will, I will still
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: use it, but it's just I, I always have this
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: like reason, reasoning with my husband, right, like as long
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: as it's cold and it's in the fridge, it won't,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: there won't be mold and like it won't go bad,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: so it's like
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: it's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I think that's a small case of hoarding, you know.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I've just cleared all of them out. So,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: that's fantastic. Well done. What other deep dark secrets do
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you find in there, in your, in your refrigerator?
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: nothing bad
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: at this moment.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Just, you know, just mold lah, yeah, I guess. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I think, uh, the record is the barbecue sauce of
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: 5 years. That's insane. Actually, that's longer than some people's
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a big discussion with many of our listeners about whether
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: or not there are some inconsiderate people.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: That put really stinky items or things that go, go
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to waste or start rotting or going bad in a
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: shared refrigerator, especially in the office and maybe as a
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: in a dorm room, for example, a hall. The next
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: two messages might creep you out, Sonia. Are you ready? OK,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm scared. We got one coming in from username Yaohan. Hello, Yaohan. Hi.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: We have a fridge in our pantry.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: My colleagues like to buy vegetables, fish, etc. to store
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in there. And one time there was a packet that
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: was already rotten with worms inside. Oh yuck, and nobody
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: bothered to clear it. Oh yeah, because no one wants
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: to touch it, obviously, right? They know who they are,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: but they refuse to do it. See, here's the thing.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: So what would you do in those situations because as
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: a colleague, if you already know who that person is.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Why do you want to do their dirty work and
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: toss it out? Maybe they should just pin a note
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: there and call that person out. No, I'll be very
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: loud about it. The next group meeting. I'm like, Hey, hello,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: someone's vegetables. Yeah, please stop. Yeah, please. Actually, I'm of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the opinion that the office refrigerator is not a place
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: to store your like fresh food items. Most people are
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: OK unless, unless, let's just say, you know, you went
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: out on a lunch break and you happen to see
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: like something at the supermarket and you want to like
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: take it home.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: So you just store it for a couple of hours,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: then you bring it back with you. That's fine. That's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: fine as long as it's not anything pungent, smelly, you know, whatever, right? Again,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it's always a few bad apples. I know. OK, one
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: more to creep you out. creeping me out. One coming
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: in from Jay. Hello, Sojo. My brother used to store
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: in our family.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Fridge, a can of live worms. Literally, it's food to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: feed its precious aquarium fish. Open the fridge and the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: first thing you see are hundreds of wriggling live worms
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: greeting you. So disgusting. My super patient parents were understanding
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and allowed it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe he should have his own like mini fridge in
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: his room to store these things. Like I wouldn't mix
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it with my fresh food? No, no, the lid comes
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: loose and the worms are crawling all over the fridge
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: that in for me, man. That's, that's the stuff nightmares
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: are made of. Everything's happening. Inconsiderate people that put, put
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: things in the shared refrigerator or storage space that might
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: go bad or just smell terrible. Um, Farid is on
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the line. OK, what happened, man?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: So, um, back then when I was studying in US,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: there were 4 of us that was renting this apartment. Uh,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: there's this guy, he was the last to join. So
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: when he arrived, we were telling him, basically telling him
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the common house rules and saying that we only have
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: 1 fridge, we just, the rule was to just buy
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: enough to last you a few days so that each
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: of us has enough space for everyone. But this guy
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: keeps buying stuff from Costco.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, massive portions, right? You
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: know, Costco only sells stuff in bulk, right, and we're like, bro,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: what we already told you not to buy too many stuff,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: and he's like, oh no, you know, um, I'm just
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: trying to save money and stuff, that's kind of flawed
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: logic because he keeps buying stuff like um he bought
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: two bottles, gallons of milk.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was like, oh, it's selling 2 for 1,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: and you were like, uh, are you gonna be able
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: to finish the milk? And he said, yeah, yeah, sure,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: no problem. Yes, you know it's very tough, right? Milk
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: only lasts you a few days. In the end, he
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: had to throw out the one whole bottle of milk
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: because it's expired, so
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: he's wasting money, do you? How do you settle
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: this?
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: We just keep.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, reminding him and also at one point we just
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: uh just ignore him because besides sharing the fridge, right,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: we also like shared like common items like, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: toilet rolls, cooking oil and stuff and he would be like, oh,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I don't use this type of toilet rolls, uh, I
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: don't use this cooking oil, so because he doesn't want
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: to chip in and then you're still using toilet roll,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: it's only one toilet roll, you know, in the toilet.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Dude, this is the kind of person you don't want
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to share a space with, man. My very colorful, Sonia. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Oh man. Hey, sorry you had to go through that,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: but thankfully you graduated and you're done with that already.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing the story with us. Thanks entertained
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: by all the honest stories that were shared earlier. Thank you.
• 41:00
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• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I guess for today's winner, let's give it to Jia
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Ling who called us earlier. Thank you very much, Jia Ling.
• 41:10
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• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Jia Ling being very self-aware, saying that she's the problem, yeah,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: leaving a barbecue sauce of five years. And it's not
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: just that, I think there were many more things that
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: were collecting bacteria.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: mold in there and apparently it drives her husband mad
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sauce and all that. Yeah. So, hey, um, for the self-awareness,
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• 41:53
  Speaker 1: very heartwarming, but also
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Makes me feel quite um feel quite heart pain la
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: as a as a Singaporean would say heart pain. Here's
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the thing, because, you know, you always joke that I'm
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a bit of a hoarder, right? Yeah, OK, I'm not,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. I'm very messy. I'm disorganized.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: OK, my house is not exactly visitor ready. Disclaimer, when
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I say hoarding for Sonia, it's tongue in cheek. Yes, yes,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: because I know she likes to keep things and it's
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: quite messy. Yes, it's messy, it's messy, but I also
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: acknowledge that there is a serious problem when
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Um, hoarding becomes a real psychological problems. Yes, it gets
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: out of hand. And, and I know this also because
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: one of our mutual friends actually helps out as a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: volunteer to clear cluttered houses and especially elderly people who
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: struggle with hoarding issues, you know. So these volunteers actually
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: cleaned an elderly woman's very cluttered flat over in the
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Bedok area. She remains anonymous, of course, um, and guess
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: what they found? It is nothing scary or creepy.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: In fact, they found gold coins and gold chains that
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: are worth thousands and thousands of dollars hidden beneath all
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the clutter that she was living in, and this poor auntie,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: she's about, I mean, she could have been our mom
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: or something, no, she's about close to 70, I think.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Um, she didn't even realize that it was there this
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: whole time. I think she forgot about it because it
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: was hidden under the mess for like years and years
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and years, and it, it, whatever you're imagining a cluttered
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: house to be like,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Newspapers, plastic bags, trash bags full of, I don't know
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: what's inside as well. Um, that's exactly how it looks. Yeah,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it's exactly that. So the cleanup efforts, you know, I
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: got to commend them because all these coins and gold
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: chains and all that, they're worth so much money. She
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: never realized it was there. Um, she's been living in
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: this environment for years, so that's why it really made
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: my heart, um, break when I saw some of these pictures.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: But I think for
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: The repairs are still needed for her flat, repainting, replacing
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: some broken doors, cabinets, and the volunteers actually covered everything. Oh,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: well done. So, so really, really sweet. I don't know
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: what we do without volunteers like that. I remember in
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the past, Channel 5 and Channel 8 used to have
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: shows where they were clearing all the hoarding stuff and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: all that. And actually, and I like how they didn't
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: take this out of the drama series or the show.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: The homeowner and the show host would have a very
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: hard time agreeing on what to remove, and the homeowner
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to let all these things go because she
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: or he thinks that, no, no, no, I must take
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: care of this. I'll find a use for it in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the future, but it's been so long, it's been doing
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: nothing over there. It's very much psychological at the end
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: of the day, and I think the fear is that
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: when you have too many things in there that can degrade, like,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, stacks of newspapers, magazines, blah blah,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: it can attract.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Things like termites or a pest issue, you know, and
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: also you will affect your neighbors around you with the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: smell and all that. So hopefully if an MP is
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: called to intervene.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: There could be a mutual solution for both the neighbors
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and the person who unfortunately has a hoarding problem. Yeah,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: so our heart goes out to all of these people,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: but also to the volunteers. Honestly, big respect. Really, really,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: so much respect for you. I know Joakim is about
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to laugh at me for this one, OK, we go.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And uh it's not that I did anything, trust me,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't do commit any crime or do anything wrong,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: but if I were a criminal, we would know. You
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: would know, and I might have done something like that, OK.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: So, there was a, a bit of a strange, um,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I would say it's almost, it's almost like a scheme, OK?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: It's a scheme. Because of a glitch on PayPal, um,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: these guys actually realized there's a loophole. So they created
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: this scheme where they earned kickbacks. OK, I'm just going
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: to summarize it. It's a very long story. It's a
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: very long story, but just TLDR because of a glitch
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: on PayPal, the sites, um, they, they were able to
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: earn money from that scheme, OK?
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: So this guy got roped into this, let's just call
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it a PayPal glitch scheme, OK, where they were so-called
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: selling laptops, but actually they're receiving the money back and
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: getting a kickback from it as well, um, provided no
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: one found out about the glitch, la, right? So this man.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: felt guilty about it after some time, even though it
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: was going, it was going well, you know, no one
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: realized nothing was going on and a bunch of his
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: other friends were involved in this scheme as well. Um,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: after earning some money from this scheme and even recruiting
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: some other friends into it, he was overwhelmed by guilt
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: and decided to lodge a police report on himself, incriminating himself.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I think he couldn't deal with the, with the, the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: responsibility of holding this secret and the guilt just overwhelmed him. Um,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: so he decided, you know, I'm gonna turn myself in,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: but in, in turn, it actually incriminates everyone who's involved
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: in the scheme, obviously. Everybody gets into trouble. I can
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: imagine his other friends.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Hey bro, hey bro. Not that we're encouraging crime of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: any kind, whether if it's petty or serious, no, we're
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: not encouraging it. But you understand what I mean by
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: if I were a criminal, this would be me, right? Yes,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I turn myself in and that's why I'll never do
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a crime with you. But please give me a chance.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: But give me a chance. Can you imagine after we
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: do the job, you immediately go to some police station
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore? Hello police unreported crime. I did it
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: with joking.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: And you're like, hey, why? I will hit you. Anyway,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so here's what happened. Um, he's given a short detention
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: order of 14 days and will also have to perform
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: 70 hours of community service within a year. Um, I
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: don't know what happened to the friends, but that's, that's
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: for him in particular. We'll find out what happens, what,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: what will happen to his other friends. I'm just particularly
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: curious to know what the result is for the person
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: that
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Um, started this whole thing in the first place, the ringleader,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the ringleader. So we'll see. I think, um, there will
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: be a follow-up story very soon, but for now it's
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: still under investigation and we're yet to find out what
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the final punishment is. I mean, just imagine it's a
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: very warped version of Ocean's 1112 or 13 where he
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: ropes everyone in and then Danny Ocean himself goes to
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: the police. Hey guys, sorry, can't deal with the secrets,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do a crime. You can handcuff me now.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my God.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Uh, anyway, um, moral of the story is choose wisely,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I guess. No, don't commit a crime. Yeah, don't commit
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a crime, but if you ever do pick me, I
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: will help you. I promise, I promise, I promise, promise.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I swear, I swear, go and play.