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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 060726 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 1: next.
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  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. A terribly
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: difficult day to wake up to. At the moment I
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: got to work, I noticed all the floors are wet.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: It must have rained overnight. That and also breaking news,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Brazil are out of the World Cup. Norway have qualified. Wow.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Is that a good thing? Singapore's number 1 hit music station.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Jokim just reminded me like 5 minutes ago that it's
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Youth Day. I didn't even realize that. Ya. So happy
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Youth Day to us. So, so, so it's, it's a
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: school holiday. Yeah. Why don't we get a work holiday
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: for this? It's Youth Day, lah. Yes, but we're, we're
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  Speaker 1: working at a youth station. But actually you have a
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: very important point. What you know, if youth in Singapore.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: It's considered to be somewhere around 15 to 35.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm barely skipping the barrel here lah, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm making it into the youth segment. By right, you
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  Speaker 1: should be having one last youth day to yourself. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: If we go by how to define you if you're
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  Speaker 1: young at heart, you just don't qualify. That's just our
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: own definition to try and get off from work. Look
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  Speaker 1: at us trying our best to bargain for a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: I mean live on air. One extra day is very important,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: you know, like.
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  Speaker 1: You can imagine how happy most like students were last night.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Probably they don't have to have Monday blues, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a couple of camping over the East Coast. No,
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: no wonder there were more people than usual, like last
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: night and loads of flying kites over at the Marina
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  Speaker 1: Barrage area, but also look, it's been rather cloudy here
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: in Singapore. Please make sure you avoid open fields if
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: it's about to rain.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Because I think in the news as of late, there
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: was a lightning strike over at Pasir Ris. It's really
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: sad to me about this. Yeah, yeah, it's terrifying. So
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: be safe, have fun, and you're probably not tuning in
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  Speaker 1: to us right now. Please sleep on our behalf. Vanessa Lee,
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  Speaker 1: take a bow, breaking a 30 year old Singapore women's
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  Speaker 1: half marathon record. Madness. It was set in 1996 by
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  Speaker 1: one Yvonne Danson.
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  Speaker 1: Her time was 1 hour 16 minutes and 29 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Vanessa Lee's time as of yesterday morning Singapore time, 1
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  Speaker 1: hour 16 minutes and 4 seconds. Wow. She shaved off
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  Speaker 1: 25 seconds. I'm gonna take a bow, Vanessa Lee. Well done.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it may not seem like a lot
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  Speaker 1: to the layman, but it's quite
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  Speaker 1: A big difference. Yeah, yeah, it's a huge difference. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: make a difference. And for Sean Goh also with Puma,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, what a year for Puma here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: He improved his 10 kilometer record. He set it in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: His current timing, if I'm not wrong, it is 30
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  Speaker 1: minutes and 41 seconds, breaking his previous record of 30.
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  Speaker 1: minutes. Exactly. So he broke his own record. His, his
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  Speaker 1: biggest competition is himself. I would not be surprised if
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  Speaker 1: Sean keeps up this way and he's not a full-time athlete.
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  Speaker 1: He might actually go half an hour. That would be
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  Speaker 1: so cool. He might go 29 minutes and below. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's when I put things into context kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: This is, this is um 10 km, right?
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  Speaker 1: 10 kilometers, right? 1 kilometers and Vanessa Lee, it's half
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  Speaker 1: marathon 21 km. Yes, I was gonna say that in
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes I think I can barely make 5 kilometers,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like 3.5. Hey, you know what, for running, it's subjective.
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  Speaker 1: You are running your own race, you know your body's limit.
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  Speaker 1: For the fact that you can run 5 km in
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes, well done to you barely barely enough 3.5 kilometers.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: You didn't hear the finishing sentence. Well, while they were
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  Speaker 1: doing that yesterday over in Australia, congrats to Xuan, Nicole,
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  Speaker 1: and Richard as well. Um, we had our Disney run. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was quite cute actually. I saw some pictures. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think our friends from Uniqlo were involved as well,
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  Speaker 1: so that was, that was pretty cute at Sentosa. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't involved in either one of those, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You, that's right. Not even in my sleep. Coming up
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  Speaker 1: in a few minutes, um, let's test to see how
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  Speaker 1: much in the know you are of, uh, what students
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  Speaker 1: and the youth like to eat since it's Youth Day, OK? So,
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  Speaker 1: not too long ago, um, there was a frozen yogurt
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  Speaker 1: shop that opened in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: That drew like massive crowds and you always see school
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  Speaker 1: kids there after school. Yochi, exactly. Recently, something else opened
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  Speaker 1: near Yochi that has also started drawing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: crowds of the same demographic. Is it yogurt as well? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not yogurt. What is this? It's a tea shop.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, youth and tea. I mean, tea can be brought
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: bubble tea. Everyone loves bubble tea, right? It could be
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  Speaker 1: any different types of. I'm not, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: specify what type of tea. When you said tea, right,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was like, you know, little fancy places
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  Speaker 1: with tea cups, like a ses, OK, so like high
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  Speaker 1: tea places. No, no, no, OK.
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  Speaker 1: It is not, I wouldn't call it specifically, it is
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  Speaker 1: not a bubble tea shop, I would say, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a tea shop that is really popular amongst the same demographic.
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  Speaker 1: Should I know about this place? Yes, maybe, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess by the look of your face you don't. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's Molly tea. You've never heard of Molly tea? Really? OK.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind all the details on what's going on with them.
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  Speaker 1: Um, not specific to the one here in Singapore, but
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  Speaker 1: just in general. Can we audition to be a dancer? Yeah,
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: I know, right? It's not even a dancer. It's like
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: a visual. Like he can scan and we do all
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  Speaker 1: those weird dance moves. Yeah, if you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you've seen his videos, you know. Anyway, um, I
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: was asking and testing Jo's knowledge of what's new in
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  Speaker 1: Singapore in terms of like F&B, you know, what's popular.
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  Speaker 1: And stuff. Um, he has not heard of Molly tea.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you ask me what's new in
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  Speaker 1: Singapore in terms of food, I'm just going to guess
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  Speaker 1: another Mala brand, right? I mean, and you're not even
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  Speaker 1: wrong when you say that everywhere now, every single place.
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  Speaker 1: But this place is something that, you know, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: so many people talk about. I haven't personally tried it,
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  Speaker 1: but um, they made the news quite recently. Molly Tea,
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  Speaker 1: they've actually got very pretty cups, you know, takeaway cups,
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  Speaker 1: their designs, the emblems. However,
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  Speaker 1: It bears a striking similarity to the Louis Vuitton logo.
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  Speaker 1: So, Louis Vuitton has pressed charges and they've actually won.
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  Speaker 1: So now Molly Tea has to pay Louis Vuitton $1.96
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  Speaker 1: million Sing dollars for logo trademark infringement. $1.6 million pocket
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  Speaker 1: for Louis Vuitton. I don't know. I wonder, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they are a China-based tea brand. I think they're quite
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  Speaker 1: big in China as well. So, you know, aside from
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  Speaker 1: paying the $1.96 million.
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  Speaker 1: They have to do something about the logo though. So
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  Speaker 1: the logo is not going to be the same, I'm assuming, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like they can't keep the same logo. On that note,
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  Speaker 1: China winning the warfare, man. They are taking over the
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  Speaker 1: world using food. And here's the thing, despite like what
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a bit of a negative.
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  Speaker 1: Um, article, they just got so much free publicity. See,
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  Speaker 1: people who didn't know what Molly T was now know,
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  Speaker 1: and then you might be curious about it. So all
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  Speaker 1: the funds coming in, they will use those funds back
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  Speaker 1: actually to pay Louis Vuitton, but you know what, based
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  Speaker 1: on this, you know who I'm worried for next? Chachi.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know, I know, actually the Dior, right, the
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Dior Dior looks quite similar. So I actually talked about
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  Speaker 1: this to my friend who's a lawyer who was, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about this particular case as well. And he
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  Speaker 1: actually brought up a point saying that that is not
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  Speaker 1: the same. It is not the same situation as what
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  Speaker 1: Molly Tea and Louis Vuitton are facing.
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  Speaker 1: Um, for various reasons, which I won't bore you with
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  Speaker 1: on air, but apparently it's, it's harder to, to win
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  Speaker 1: a case like that, the Dior back one compared to this.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we are not lawyers. We just, we
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  Speaker 1: just like to argue with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Did not mean for this to happen, but somehow, um,
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  Speaker 1: legal matters have, uh, dominated the headlines over the past
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. Everybody's suing each other now. Yeah, um, 7-Eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Has decided to sue a sporting giant, Joki, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking a big brand, OK. 7-Eleven in the world of sports. What,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: what do they have in common? What's the 7-Eleven jerseys? No, no, no, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually related to shoes and they've decided to sue Nike.
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  Speaker 1: Over these Air Max 95 shoes that also have the
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  Speaker 1: colors orange, green, and red that bears striking resemblance to
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  Speaker 1: the 7-Eleven logo. You know, you know how it looks like, right?
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  Speaker 1: So they, they've sued Nike. I mean, they, they said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look, this is a blatant copy. Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: design is just an upfront copy. The shoes also were
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  Speaker 1: reportedly slated to release on July 11th, which is
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  Speaker 1: Which works out to be, what is July 11th? OK,
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  Speaker 1: in the US it's 7-Eleven. Yeah, yeah, 7-Eleven.
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  Speaker 1: So somehow, somehow it's widely associated with Seven-Eleven Day, you know,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: we just randomly say it sometimes, right? So, um, some
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  Speaker 1: 7-Eleven stores actually have their free slurpee Day promotion, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps, um, it kind of looks like there's a
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  Speaker 1: collaboration going on, but apparently there isn't. There's no partnership
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  Speaker 1: going on. It was just something they wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: But it confuses me. I'm like, why would anyone approve that?
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  Speaker 1: It does really look like a collaboration. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: the shoe. Yeah, yeah, I agree, right? It looks like
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  Speaker 1: they've worked together on this shoe and both Nike and
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: 7-Eleven will share the profits, but no, that's not, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the case. Yeah. So anyway, um, apparently they tried
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  Speaker 1: to resolve it, but it didn't work out. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure where it's going to go with this.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping you in the loop for sure. That said though,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: if you're going by dates, Sonia, yeah, what can I
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  Speaker 1: say about 67? Oh my God. By the way, today
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: is International Fried Chicken Day today. So be sure to
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: go and get your favorite meal from KFC or something.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: International Fried Chicken. It should be a holiday. What? International
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Fried Chicken Day. OK, we deserve.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Because that has some significant meaning here in Singapore. Before anything,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: some breaking news coming your way for the World Cup
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: game between England and Mexico. It's been delayed because of
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: weather conditions. It is terrible in Mexico City right now
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: over at the Azteca. Oh no. I will let you
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  Speaker 1: know the latest kickoff timing. Apparently maybe it could be.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Either 9 or 10:00 a.m. Singapore time. OK, so like
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: an hour, an hour or two. OK, we'll let you know.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, uh, what not to do in
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: the event of a venomous snake bite. Frankly, I don't
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: know what I would do in that, in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: What if I'm alone? Let's just say, OK, for example,
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  Speaker 1: you and Jeremy are walking, OK, venomous snake bites Jeremy. OK.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: What would you do? I actually don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to, am I supposed to suck out the venom? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: please don't do that.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. That's exactly what I was going for,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: because I, I, I will probably kill myself. not say
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: kill yourself, no. So a lady in China, that's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that happened to her husband. Her husband got
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: bitten by a venomous snake, a king cobra to be exact.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how did they? Where were they? OK,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: in Yunnan, China. I'm not too sure which area. So
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: given on what she's seen in the
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Movies or in dramas, right? She went to go suck
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  Speaker 1: up the venom, thinking, OK, I will cure my husband.
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  Speaker 1: She was gonna, it's because the body absorbed the venom
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: and she started to feel dizziness, fatigue, nausea, and all that.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: She called the hospital. So thankfully the hospital had the
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: anti-venom for both the husband and the wife. OK, so
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: both of them, they're OK.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: OK, so then what do we do in this, in
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: this situation? Call the ambulance immediately. OK. What if you're
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: in a place where it's gonna take some time for
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: them to get to you? Do you just not do
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  Speaker 1: anything like
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: You know, her actually attempting to do that might have
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  Speaker 1: lessened the quantity of venom in her husband's system, right?
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think it works doesn't work that way, OK, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those cases where prevention is better
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  Speaker 1: than a cure.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, don't go hiking. That's it. No prevention.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: It's not don't go hiking, OK? Go, but look at
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  Speaker 1: where you're going. Don't go and take selfies. Look at
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  Speaker 1: your phone and text your friend or what. Look at
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  Speaker 1: where you're going. Take in the nature and the view.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, but I can also take in nature
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  Speaker 1: from my house, you know, so I mean, why subject
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: myself to getting bitten by a snake? You know what?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I love that for you. Thank you. So just last night,
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  Speaker 1: I know this is not the usual thing.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a huge party last night and it
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  Speaker 1: was a Sunday, yes, yes. I went home at a
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  Speaker 1: respectable time of 9 p.m., so it's not so bad. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I, I was definitely getting my heart rate up
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  Speaker 1: with the cardio and the dancing because we're celebrating the
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: launch of Madonna's brand new album. Wow, Madonna is I know. So, OK,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: here's the thing, right? I never expected us as a
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  Speaker 1: top 40 pop station, a youth station on 987.
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  Speaker 1: To be playing Madonna songs, right? I mean, OK, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that her, her career has spanned across like our
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: entire lifetime. I mean, our parents listened to Madonna, right? Um, you,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't expect like, oh, after so long, she's
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: releasing another album. This is her 15th studio album. It
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  Speaker 1: was released on Friday, um, Confessions 2 is a sequel to.
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  Speaker 1: Her 2005 album, actually, that's how long ago this was.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful congratulations to Madonna. I must say though, the year
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: 1958 in the month of August, it gave us Madonna
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  Speaker 1: on the 16th of August and it gave us Michael Jackson. Wow,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: what's up with that date, man? On the 29th of August. Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Something in common there.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are calling this one of her best works,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: by the way, so please do have a listen. It's
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a dance anthem track, so it will be great for
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: your gym work. If you want to just motivate yourself
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: to feel like a hot girl, you know, yeah, play it.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Can I read to you a text my flamboyant male
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: friend sent me? OK, Joakim, I know you're a straight man.
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  Speaker 1: OK, but I'm gonna do my best to make you
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  Speaker 1: love this album. It's beautiful. If you love music, you
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: will love Confessions too. I'm on his side, by the way,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: because I was, I, I checked my stats this morning
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: because it says, oh, activities you did not log from
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  Speaker 1: 6:30 all the way to 8:30. It was like dance, dance, dance,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: dance dance.
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  Speaker 1: Well done. I'll go have a listen to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely have a listen. Look, and Madonna is the living
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  Speaker 1: example of it. It doesn't matter what age you are,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you will still love her music. It doesn't matter whether
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: she's been producing music since our parents' time. It's still
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: relevant to this day. She is the queen of pop.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I just wonder whether Sabrina Carpenter in maybe 40 years'
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: time be like that exactly like Madonna and what she's
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: doing now. Possible, yeah, she definitely thinks she's an icon
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  Speaker 1: for sure, right? So.
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  Speaker 1: Um, have a listen. We're actually playing some of the
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: tracks on 987 already. We're about to open up the
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: phone lines. This is regarding something that we have to
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: do every single day. Yeah, um, according to a general
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: household survey 2025 done by our friends over at SingSat,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: perhaps the Department of Statistics want to send love to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: our friends.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Over at Sembawang. Why? What happened? According to the survey, right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: residents in Sembawang, they had the highest median traveling time
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: among Singapore towns at 50 minutes on average to get
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: from Sembawang to work. Wow, OK, that can be, is
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  Speaker 1: that by car or by public transport? I think it
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: could be both, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: The average time is 50 minutes. OK, in general, in general,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: followed by at 45 minutes, also want to give a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: big hug to people over at Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Chua Chu Kang, Jurong West, Punggol, Sengkang, Tengga, Woodlands, and Yishun.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently when interviewed by the papers and the press, right,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: some people were saying that, yeah, um, my 55 minute
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: travel time from Punggol includes a 5-minute walk from my
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  Speaker 1: house to the bus stop, followed by a 10-minute bus
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  Speaker 1: to Punggol MRT.
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  Speaker 1: And then Punggol to Serangoon MRT that I must change
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  Speaker 1: train to Caldecott MRT. Then 10 minutes walk to my office.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, not so direct a way for
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: them in the morning, especially, yeah, and for a Bukit
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  Speaker 1: Panjang resident who wishes to remain anonymous.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: OK, uh, when she commutes via shuttle bus, it takes
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: 1.5 to 2 hours travel time oh my gosh, to
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: get to work that she that she does in the
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: east side of Singapore. Oh, so it's an opposite end. Yeah,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: so imagine Bukit Panjang to the east side.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Since, I don't know whether you want to consider like
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: changing jobs, man, for this.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: So people actually do that by the way, because it's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: too far. So apparently Sembawang West Member of Parliament, Ms
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Poh Leean said that she has not received complaints from
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: residents about long traveling times. But here's my question. If
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I complain to my MP, what can my MP do?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It will take years before anything can be done. That's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the thing. It could take another 10 years or something
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: for a new like highway or whatever me a private bus,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: No, no, you complain to your MP. What can you do?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing, right? Like I know friends who,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: for example, they moved out into like or wherever, and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they move being mentally prepared that the traveling time is
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot longer. So they already know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: they're already aware of it. I guess it's just different
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: when you actually live it. So again, I don't think
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Singaporeans are lazy, but ever since work from home became
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a thing, if you tell me you live in Bukit
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Panjang and you work at the Changi Business District, then yeah, la,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I know work from home could be a better option
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: for you because every day, 2 hours to and fro,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you'll be drained, even before you hit work. Look, when
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I went to poly because I live at the opposite
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: end of Singapore, so I cannot lah. But yeah, so
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I took an hour and a half.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: every morning and if the traffic is bad, it might
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: be even longer. So I, I completely feel you on that, um,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: being someone who's lived in the extreme east before and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: then going to school in the extreme west. So we
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: want to open up phone lines right now. Yeah, we
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: do survey 669-11987. It doesn't matter whether you're in school
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: or work or whatever you're doing in life. How long
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: does it take for you to commute every morning?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, give us the exact details. Like you stay in Fernvale,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you must take the LRT to the Northeast line. You
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: must change to Dhoby Ghaut somewhere else. Let us know. Yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: tell us 669-11987. We actually got a beautiful prize coming
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: up for you if you call us or send us
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: your messages this morning. And we're talking about how long
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: does it take for you to get to work and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: school every morning. Yeah, um, inspired by yet another survey.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I mean we love our surveys here in Singapore. How
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: else we find out what the people are going through.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So people over at Sembawang, unfortunately the highest median traveling time,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: 50 minutes on average, followed by Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Chu Chu Kang, Jurong West, Punggol, Sengkang, Tega, Woodlands, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Yishun at 45 minutes. OK, so regardless of where you live.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it has to be one of these areas.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Just tell us, on average, how long does it take
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: for you to get to work and school? I mean,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I shared earlier that because I used to stay in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the extreme east and I went to school in the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: extreme west, it was 1.5 hours like every morning and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: then coming back also, you know, about there. OK, so
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: back when we used to do the evening show, where
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'll take the train from Bishan to One North and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: then the walk up to Media Corp.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: A close 40 minutes or so to work. Oh, really?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Because the walk depends on how fast I want to walk, right?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: If I take a slow one, it'll be another 10
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: minutes from the one MRT. OK, well, we're heading to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: our messages first to see what you're saying. Wanna say
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: good morning to Kelly. Kelly says live survey report.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I take about 1.5 hours to commute to work. I
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: got to take the feeder bus to Hillview MRT station,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: travel to Newton Station by the downtown line, then transfer
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to North-South Line and get off at Yio Chu Kang Station.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: After that, another feeder bus to the industrial area of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Ang Mo Kioyi.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Dude, that, that sounds like a lot of effort, man.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You know, as I was reading this, I was planning
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like Kelly's travel route, but unfortunately that's the fastest way
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for her. Yeah, no, I'm sure she would have figured
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it out by now. Yeah, I got a message here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You didn't leave your name, but you said, good morning.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So I stay at Bukit Panjang and have worked.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: At Changi Business Park before, commute used to be about
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: 2 hours. This includes walking to the bus stop, taking 966,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: change to train at Eunos after a 5-minute walk, change
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: train again at Tanah Merah. I'm still in Bukit Panjang,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: but I've switched jobs to Bukit Merah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I actually thought I would have an easier time because
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: if I take the feeder service, it's an 1 hour
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and 15 minute bus ride to work that I can
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: sleep on, right? Um, walk to the bus stop, take
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the feeder, change, and walk another 5 minutes. But I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: thankful that my parents don't really need a family car nowadays,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: so driving saves me a lot of time. The only
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: difference is I can't sleep on the commute anymore, so
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: during traffic jam, I just cry. By the way, you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: might think, oh, Bukit Panjam, Bukit Timah, Bukit.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: But the nearby kits. No, it's quite a distance still. Don't,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: don't get fooled by the name. Having a really great
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: lively conversation on and off-air right now talking about how
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: long it take to get to work and school. Want
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to say good morning to Randy on WhatsApp. Morning, Sonia
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and Joakim. I'm currently residing at Bidadari Hillside while my
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: workplace is located in the Oh no Boonlay area. Oh dear.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: My daily commute involves taking a feeder bus from my
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Estate to next, followed by the circle line to Buena Vista,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: where I transfer to the east-west line and continue on
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to Boon Lay. From there, I take another feeder bus
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to my workplace. Depending on traffic conditions and bus waiting times,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: my usual commute time ranges from approximately 1 hour 15
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes each way. Yo, you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing because we always say that in Singapore,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, there's no.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: place that's too far, right, considering if you've been to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: other countries, you would know, right? I mean, so, so
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that's why when you hear of people traveling for 2
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: hours or more here in Singapore, it always shocks you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So for example, if Singapore like this, maybe in the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: traveling time. We've got Dinesh on the line right now.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: What about you? OK, so basically I'm in the armed
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: forces and I'm so, so I stay in Sembawang.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: OK. Yeah, you're just the person we want to talk to. OK,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: go ahead. Tell us the, the way you take in
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the morning. Yes, so I'm in Sembawang. So actually I drive, right?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So in the morning I leave home by 7, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: by the time I reach my SAF ferry terminal, right,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: it takes me about 8, 8:15, and with all the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: roadworks now going on in Changi, right, it takes quite
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a while. Travel time itself, and then I got to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: take the ferry in. So that's about another 15 minutes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So just travel time to to work and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Back home, right, it's about 3 hours. You know what, sir,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: at this point, just stay in la. Uh, actually, my son,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you know, he, he, he actually didn't want me to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: share this here, but I have to. He's spray hunt. Uh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he goes for a lot of shoots. Even today it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: youth Day. I'm bringing him out for a shoot. And yes, uh, yeah,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: so that's how it works. I got to rush back
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: sometimes I got to bring him for shoots and all, but.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So lovely talking to both of you guys today. Thank
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you so much for your call. Take care, Dinesh. Yeah, OK,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we're talking about the amount of time for you to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: travel and get to work or school every single morning.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I must say though, I, I love whenever people WhatsApp
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in because I get to read their usernames, right. Some
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: are very creative. I want to say good morning to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Fat Boy Salim.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Salem, I love it. Hopefully that's his email address also.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It's a wordplay on Fatboy Slim just in case. Morning, Sojo.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: A not so subtle flex. I used to only take
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: 7 minutes to walk to and fro work. Holland Close
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to North Buena Vista Drive just down the road from
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: us here at MediaCorp. The perks I can sleep in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and still be.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Very early. I still reach home when the sky is bright.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I save money traveling. The cons, you get sick of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the food options because technically Monday to Sunday in the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: same vicinity, so much so that in the weekends sometimes
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I force myself to head out just so I get
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to eat somewhere new or have a change of environment.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: But I'm paying my penance now since I changed to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a new workplace in the.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Civic district. So the commute now is about 30 minutes
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: by train or 45 minutes by bus. OK, well, um,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: sometimes a change of environment is not a bad thing, right?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: That's right. OK. So, um, this may be an unpopular opinion, but, um,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I don't really think that I foresee myself ever wanting
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to live too near my workplace.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like it's a little too much. Like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: so I won't see you in the upcoming Bloomsbury. You
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: already know I'm in East Coast. You already know I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in East Coast, but you get what I mean, right?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you want a different scenery. Like if not, everything
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: is just in one place. OK, then how? Honestly, right,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: if you weren't an East Coast girl, I'll actually peg
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you for a Holland. Oh really? Yeah, because why a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: bit similar to vibes, is it a little bit like Gardens.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So there's a new condo in Holland. I see you there? No,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not used to staying in this area and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: don't foresee myself doing that. Fair enough. Can you imagine
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: if I actually move near our workplace? Anything and everything,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: they would just call me to come down to the studio.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So you know people la. Then you ask me live
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: on air like that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, with a partner like you, ah, it will be
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: out there on air because you are the worst secret
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: keeper and the worst spy ever. You're not wrong. There
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you go. We've got Jermaine on the line right now.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: What about you? How long do you take to get
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to work?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I used
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: to work at Plus Checkpoint.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and I, and I stay in Pasir Ris.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Hey,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: we could have been neighbors. I used to live in
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Pasir Ris for most of my life, actually. Yeah, I mean,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: so what's it like taking the PIE every morning all
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the way to Tu? How's it? Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So last time before I bought the car, I actually
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: took public transport. Yeah. So I, so I take about
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: 2.5 hours to reach, yes, yes.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: What do you, what do you do during those 2.5 hours?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Do you sleep or what?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Because it
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: was my first job, so I was very scared and then.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: It was my first job, so I, I always like
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: did work on the train at the start, yeah. So
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: after that, I think it's not sustainable because every day
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I spend 5 hours actually on public transport. So by
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: the time I reach home every day after work because
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I end work at about 6, so by the time
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I reach home it's about 8:30 and then next morning
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I have to wake up at like 5:30 to get
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: ready again just to, so it wasn't sustainable. So after
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: that I started to sleep on the train and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I have a question for you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Are you still in the same job right now?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm in
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the same job, but then because we had another, another,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: another lab that was opening at Changi, so my, my, my,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: my boss transferred me to Changi.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Alright, well, well, well done to your boss for doing
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that for you. You are very thoughtful. I'm very happy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: for you that you no longer have to go from
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: east all the way to the west side of Singapore. Hey,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Pasir Ris to Changi, that's, that's so much better, man.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I feel so relieved for you, Jermaine.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your call. You have a great day, OK.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. We're having a great convo right
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: now on and off-air, talking about how long it take
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to get to work and school every morning. Saying good
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: morning to Sid. Morning both. I used to work at SAFT. Oh, where,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: where is that exactly? All the way at Boon Lay.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Oh no, OK, OK, that's the officer cadet school area
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: But I lived in Punggol. Oh dear, that's even further
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: than Pasir Ris, right? In 2002, there was no bus, MRT,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: or LRT service in Punggol.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I had to leave my home at 4:50 a.m., walk
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: 15 minutes to Sengkang. Take the first bus to Pasir
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Ris MRT to Boon Lay Feeder Service to Discovery Center.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Walk 10 minutes up the hill to my office. One-way
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: trip takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to 3 years.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: This was daily, sorry, 2 hours, sorry.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: 2 hours, 45 minutes to 3 hours daily for 2 years.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: That's mad. What happened now? This person changed jobs, is it? Hopefully. No, no, but, OK, OK.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Or he has a car to drive to work. Yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that's just, you know, I always wonder, right, because with
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: weather like that here in Singapore, if you have to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: do so much walking, by the time you get
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: The office, you're probably like perspiring like crazy. Like I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: hope there's a shower facility or something. That's just scary. Yeah,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we've got Cynthia on the line. What about you?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: In
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: around 2017 to 2020, I was newly married and then
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I had just moved to my BTO at Bangkok, which
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: is a very new area, so there was only one
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: bath at my place.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And the bus is like a loop that loops like from, I,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I believe it's like Hougang to Serango. So it really
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: like detours and take the longest route ever. Yeah, so
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: from my place to Hougang, which was supposed to be
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: maybe only a 10-minute drive, it was a 20-minute bus
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: ride every morning. From there, I will have to try.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Transfer to, uh, circle line to Serangoon and then from
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the circle line, I have to go to Buena Vista.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: And then at the Buna Vista, I have to change
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to the east-west line to get to Jurong where my
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: office was at. And, and that's not the end of it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I still have to walk 10 minutes from the Jurong
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: MRT station to my office.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think it was almost a 2-hour commute
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: every day and I did that for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: 3 years.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And, and you did your research. That is really the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: only way, is it? There's no other way.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: It
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: was the fastest way. Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: ironically,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you know, as people are telling us their transport routes,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the train lines in my head because
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: she said Bangkok back then.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I would think Bangkok to Outram, then one direct train
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to Jurong, but what she's doing is faster to Buena
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Vista is the lesser of two evils, yeah. Well, um,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: so you said this was the case during that time,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: so you changed jobs, is it?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I mean,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: COVID happened, so I, I then got to work from
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: home and then I subsequently had kids. So I, I
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: knew that this was not going to work. A two-hour
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: commute every day. I think I will have to pay
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: so much fines to the childcare because of the late pickup.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I changed
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: jobs.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Uh, OK, I see. So you found a solution. It's
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: much better now then.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Now I drive,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: so yeah, it
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: solves it's much better, a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: bit of your problem. Yeah. Let's just say if you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: weren't driving, Cynthia, would you consider moving to Jurong? Uh,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I don't work in Jurong now, so yeah, because I
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: changed jobs. So, uh, I work somewhere in the harborfront area,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: so it's, it's much more direct for me now because
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I stay on the northeast line. Yeah, just a
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: straight line down from Bangkok. There you go. Fantastic. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: bet the two-hour commute.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: It's not something you missed for sure. Thank you so
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: much for your call. Have a great day, OK? I
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: feel bad for talking about Harry Styles' ex after we
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: just played a song. Sorry, um, we also did play
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: her song right before his, so I knew it. I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: knew you. Congratulations to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. Look,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: for weeks, I've been saying there were rumors that her
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: wedding will happen on the July 4th weekend over at
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, and true enough, yes, it did.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: All the signs started pointing there and naturally, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: with superb stalking skills from all your paparazzi out there,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they did find that, oh, a lot of celebrities are
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: flying in during this weekend. Why? So I kind of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: saw some videos on TikTok where Taylor's wedding, or Taylor
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and Travis's wedding, had a bit of leftover food. She
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: actually catered them in trucks and gave it to all
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the swifties waiting outside cute Madison Square Garden. That's cute.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But OK, I, I disagree.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That Taylor Swift staging her wedding at Madison Square Garden
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: is narcissistic. I disagree because I believe she has the money,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and she has to invite a lot of people. If
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: she can afford it, OK, book it, lah, you know
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Here, here's the thing, I think what's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: happening is a lot of people are comparing their wedding to,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: for example, Zendaya and Tom Holland. That was the total opposite,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: super lowkey. I mean, look, Dua Lipa, I think somewhere
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in between, right? It wasn't as massive as Taylor's, but
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: With with weddings and personal celebrations, unfortunately, there's no right
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: or wrong. It's, it's a preference. Maybe for Tom Holland
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and Zendaya, they're a bit more low-key. They wanted to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: keep it more, you know, quiet and classy and stuff, right?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But I feel quite bad for Taylor Swift people like, oh,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: she's so tacky, she's doing this and that, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but guys, the reality is because she can.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she can and she's inviting plenty of A-listers, so
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I don't think a hotel ballroom will hold it and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: security as well. And a couple of people who are
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: working for the wedding got fired. Oh, for what leaking
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: stuff is it leaking stuff, trying to sneak in phones.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Apparently guests and police officers and the staff over at
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, they were not allowed to bring.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Their phones. Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's, it's Taylor
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Swift and Travis Kelsey, man. They're like the couple of Hollywood.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: So is she now known as Taylor Swift Kelsey or
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: she's just gonna keep her last name? Did did Selena
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Gomez change her last name? No, on Instagram? Yeah. Well,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you know what, her branding is too strong. I don't
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: think she will change her last name. Travis Swift it is.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: OK. It doesn't have a, doesn't have the same ring
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to it. Yeah. It's true, yeah, same exact same initials.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Food news is coming up, but, uh, this is not
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in food news, but I just want to say Happy
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: International Fried Chicken Day, because just showing big love to
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: our friends over at KFC, right? So, fun fact, you
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: have to actually vote for your favorite. So it's either
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: like original or crispy.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I'm always Team Crispy. I don't know about you. I'm
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on Crispy. Yeah, so we have been on the same side, but, um,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: whichever side won for today and tomorrow, which is 6-7,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: 6th and 7th of July, it's a coincidence, but you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: they are giving you this deal. Whichever team wins, today
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and tomorrow, you get to enjoy meals at 670. Yeah,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: so I think that's fantastic. We'll find out um when
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you go to your store near you.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Original or crispy, but I love the zinger burger. I'm
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: sure it has. Yeah, that's so, that's so good. I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: think the zinger burger can give quite a good fight
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to the McSpicy. Well, it's, it's it's equivalent, right? I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: guess I don't think there will ever be a collab
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: on this, but there should be a challenge. I don't
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: think so, whether you prefer the zinger burger or the McSpicy.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: This is gonna divide the nation, that's for sure. Yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: make it fun. But yeah, we got our food news
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: not related to fried chicken. Just wanted to give that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Humble, simple meal that's so satisfying. A little shout out
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: here today. As you know, it is durian season right now.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It's been going on for a bit and it's the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: best time to get your durians. They are so delicious
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and in season. I mean, I know it's in season,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: but we're seeing.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Loads of news about durian here in Singapore, whether it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a stall giving it away for free or crimes involving durians, yeah. So, uh,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: this has nothing got to do with crime or anything
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: at all. In fact, I, I categorize this as a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: very interesting piece of food news because
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: This, you know, when you think of buying durians, you
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: would naturally think of what, for example, where would you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: go to buy your durians? OK, Geylang, yes, but now
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: there's been a rise of, and I just want to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: give a big shout out, I'm not paid to say this,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: but durian times, I, I patronize them a lot. Um,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: they actually send it the shell and everything to you in, uh,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: vacuum sealed boxes. So it's actually a really great gift
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: if you want to just
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Send it over to someone who loves durians, right? But
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like, for example, if you're going to buy
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: durians in Singapore, you got to go to the grungy heartlands, man.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'm talking like Geylang. OK, there's one at Serangoon. Yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: you can, but what if you don't even live near there,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: you know, so that's why some of these stores, they
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: have found a way to deliver it straight to you
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: super fresh on the day off. If people can travel
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: 50 minutes to work.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Will you travel another hour to get durians? I don't know, man. Like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, you tell me if it's the best of
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the best, why not? Yeah, OK, it's helpful. I think
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: delivery and other things are helpful for people who cannot
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: travel out. OK, yeah, so that, that definitely is good,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: but this story coming up next.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just very curious about this durian seller's neighbors. OK?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why and explain to you why I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: said that in just a little bit. Stay tuned for that.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Interrupt your food news with a quick football update because
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Joakim's been screaming in my ear for the past 5 minutes.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, after 39 minutes of play, the score
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: is Mexico 0.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: 2 Jude Bellingham scoring in the 36th and 38th minute.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: So my prediction was correct. I'm gonna have burst the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: blood vessels celebrating in the studio. Hey, your eye.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I'm serious, it's red on your left. Don't. Why do
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you think I don't play poker ever? Don't try. Oh no,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: your face.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I have terrible cards. I have cards. Oh no, stop it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Give us food news. It's time for some news. Let's go.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: 123 news news. Sonia with the good news doesn't work
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that way. So the reason why I was bringing this
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: up is because durian season is happening right now. We're
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: very happy for that, you know, but please hydrate if
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you're indulging in durians. There's this particular durian stall that's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: running from a place you would never expect, OK.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine one day you wake up and you
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: realize your neighbor is selling durians from the house? Yeah,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it really is. So this property agent runs a durian
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: stall from, um, the parents' semi-detached home over in Pasir Ris.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: It's called Pao Chiak durian, OK.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Um, and he's, he's been doing this now. The question is,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: do his neighbors complain about the smell? I mean, I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: curious because I love durian, but can you imagine living
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: next to someone who sells durians? Can you imagine? Just
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: wondering for you. If, if I was a considerate, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: might actually go around asking, Are you OK with durians?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: You OK? Can I open shop here? Then I give
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a small. Yeah, I mean, I guess, or give durian
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: if they not? Why not, yeah, um, so.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: You ran business from, you know, a residential estate may
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: sound like a bit of a recipe for trouble, right? But,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: but like you said, it hasn't been the case. Um,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the smell isn't so bad, you know, apparently because I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: guess they do it out in the open. Neighbors have
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: not really been complaining. In fact, they've been really supportive
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and they became their regular customers. Every time during durian season,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: which is middle of the year, this happens, and I'm
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: sure actually if their, their neighbors are durian fans, this
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: is good. This is good for them. You don't have to.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You travel far, you just cross the road next door.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Did you say where is it? I mean it's in
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Pasir Ris. Pasir Ris. Yeah, so it's one of those, um,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: it looks like one of those landed properties in Pasir Ris.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: It's his parents' house because he actually doesn't stay there.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: He stays in Tampines in a flat. So, but this,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: this I guess is the perfect destination, um, and he,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: he just has a passion for it, you know. Yeah. OK,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: durian is green in color, right? Mexico are wearing green. Mexico.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. I mean, my
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: prediction was England will win this one. That's why. Reading
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: this piece of news, we should have been porridge sellers lah.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: And what on earth would make you say that? Can
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you imagine the owner of this porridge place in Geylang
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: is able to stay in a Brockhampton Drive landed home
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: in Serangoon Gardens and own and drive a Lamborghini Aventador. Wait, wait,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't, I wouldn't underestimate these hawkers, you know,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: because they do earn they earn an honest living.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: But also like they have to sell a lot of
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: dishes and the, the amount of, I don't know, the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: amount of hours put into it. So that one I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: don't know about how many bowls he he sold, but
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: he got arrested for evading taxes.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: And here I was saying, yeah, you make an honest living. Whoops,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: evading nearly $3.8 million in taxes and using the proceeds
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: to buy all the assets over the course of how long?
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. So I think the police found out.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: There you go. This should have been categorized as crime.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You know why? You know, you always call me a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: bad criminal, right? Like if I were to ever be
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: a criminal, I'll be caught in like 5 seconds, right? Yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I think one thing for sure, when you look at
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: all these stories that come through sometimes.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: You should never toot your horn so loudly when you
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: are doing something like illegal, like I have $3.8 million
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: worth of taxes I've not paid in my bank account.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Let's not go buying a Lamborghini. I ain't gonna buy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'll just buy like a simple Honda, OK, OK.