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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 090626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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Speaker 1: Wake up.
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Speaker 2: Good next
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Speaker 2: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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Speaker 2: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to
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Speaker 2: a beautiful Tuesday. Hope your Monday treated you well. If not,
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Speaker 2: no worries, let's wash that away and get some good
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Speaker 2: juju and energy for today, OK? So we're going to
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Speaker 2: kick it off here. Gracie Abrahams, Lady Gaga, and more.
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Speaker 2: Stay tuned and good morning. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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Speaker 2: Uh, I went to get my coffee as usual, and
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Speaker 2: I realized that I'm running out of coffee beans. Any
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Speaker 2: recommendations at all? Like, are you a coffee bean person?
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Speaker 2: Do you use coffee beans from scratch? And what, what's
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Speaker 2: the best one? Because usually I like the one over
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Speaker 2: at uh New Bahru. So big shout out to
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Speaker 2: The people over at PPP, that is one of my
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Speaker 2: favorite cafes. It's also because I like the flavor profile
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Speaker 2: of the coffee beans. So, if you're tuning in now
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Speaker 2: and you have no idea what I'm talking about or
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Speaker 2: you don't like coffee at all.
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Speaker 2: Or you're a tea person or maybe you're like Joakim,
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Speaker 2: kind of allergic to coffee. He's, he's actually one of
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Speaker 2: the only people I know that are allergic to coffee.
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Speaker 2: I think the only other friend that I have that
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Speaker 2: doesn't actually like coffee just doesn't like the taste. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: by far, he's the only person I know that claims
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Speaker 2: he's allergic to coffee. Hm, we got to test the
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Speaker 2: theory next time.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, um, stick around. More fantastic music coming your way
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna catch you up on what you might
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Speaker 2: have missed yesterday. Also, what to look forward to during
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Speaker 2: the show later on. I'm very happy to invite, to
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Speaker 2: be inviting a few special guests to the studio. Station,
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, every time I hear that song,
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Speaker 2: I keep thinking,
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Speaker 2: It's a combination of like Billie Eilish and Bella Porch together.
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Speaker 2: Like she sounds a bit more like Billie Eilish now.
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Speaker 2: Maybe some info. Anyway, later on during the show, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna invite a very, very cool bunch of students and
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Speaker 2: I believe one of their teachers might be coming as well, um,
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Speaker 2: to come on down and join us during the show. Now,
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Speaker 2: the question is, sometimes you might wonder, right?
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Speaker 2: Um, whether or not there's a future beyond academics, you know,
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Speaker 2: if you're not that great at certain subjects, or maybe
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Speaker 2: you're struggling with certain subjects, I mean, I know I
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Speaker 2: struggled with like math, um, a math, especially science, things
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Speaker 2: like that, right? It can be really challenging.
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Speaker 2: So, at 9:00 a.m. we're going live with the team
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Speaker 2: behind a student-led series. It's called Unemployed by Unboxed, and
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Speaker 2: they're discussing life beyond grades and the importance of um
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Speaker 2: why we should be exposed to street smarts and uh
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Speaker 2: real-world skills exposure from a student perspective. So they're actual
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Speaker 2: students right now, and I'm just very curious where this
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Speaker 2: is gonna go because they're also gonna do a short
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Speaker 2: interview with me off, uh, off-air, and they are the
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Speaker 2: ones fully in control conducting it.
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Speaker 2: And I could tell that they were quite excited. At
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Speaker 2: the same time, I'm sure a little bit nervous. It's
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Speaker 2: their first time on live national radio as well. Then
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Speaker 2: we're gonna record a short podcast for them. So, I'm
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Speaker 2: very curious where this is gonna go. I mean, one
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Speaker 2: of my passions is to always try and be in
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Speaker 2: touch with the students, right? And
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Speaker 2: Um, as much as I can, as much as we
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Speaker 2: have time and it's possible, we'll definitely do it. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: hit us up. We'll try our best. We'll definitely try
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Speaker 2: our best to. And I asked you a question earlier,
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Speaker 2: when was the last time your flight was delayed or
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Speaker 2: you missed your flight? And was it within your control? Like,
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's our fault, right? If we miss a flight
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Speaker 2: or we're late or, yeah, I mean, the worst thing
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Speaker 2: possible is to miss your flight.
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Speaker 2: The things beyond your control, however, would be, you know,
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Speaker 2: other types of delays and then maybe you had a
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Speaker 2: connecting flight, but because of the delayed previous flight, you
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Speaker 2: also missed the connecting flight. So, sometimes beyond your control. However,
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Speaker 2: for this particular lady from Malaysia, unfortunately, she missed her
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Speaker 2: flight after her three year old kid doodled on her passports.
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Speaker 2: I know, you might think and wonder, ah, why didn't
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Speaker 2: they just
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Speaker 2: You know, make an exception. However, her passport was deemed
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Speaker 2: damaged and as you know, you cannot like draw anything
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Speaker 2: on your passport or put any stickers or design your passport.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that is a strict no no, right? But
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Speaker 2: she took to social media to share her experience because
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Speaker 2: uh it was just, you know, a ridiculous situation. She said,
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Speaker 2: my heart wants to cry. Um, the funniest part is
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Speaker 2: her kid was seen smiling as he held up the
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Speaker 2: damaged passport.
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Speaker 2: He drew like, I think he drew a dinosaur, and
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Speaker 2: then he a caption in a subsequent post read, I
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Speaker 2: hate dinosaurs. She then visited, you know, the immigration department
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Speaker 2: for help and um they unfortunately deemed it damaged, so
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Speaker 2: she couldn't, she couldn't use it. She had to obtain
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Speaker 2: a replacement passport and it was held back. So she
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Speaker 2: was actually held back for a couple of days, if
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Speaker 2: I'm not wrong. So didn't board her flights. Um, she
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Speaker 2: reflected on her entire predicaments and, you know, it's, it's.
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Speaker 2: It's funny at the same time, it's a face palm
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Speaker 2: worthy moment, right? She said she was not upset because, uh,
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Speaker 2: her kid is still young and he has no idea
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Speaker 2: what's going on, and he was still laughing after the incident.
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Speaker 2: So she, he has no clue what is happening. Um,
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Speaker 2: but you know, just so you know, just keep your
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Speaker 2: passport close to you and make sure that no one
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Speaker 2: else has access to it because you don't want to
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Speaker 2: be found in a situation like that, right? Um, for me,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, it wasn't quite anything similar to this.
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Speaker 2: When I was coming back from France on my recent
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Speaker 2: honeymoon trip, right?
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Speaker 2: Um, we were just having a lot of blues, you know,
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Speaker 2: we're like, oh, coming back early, I yeah, so sad. Um, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: there were two delays on the flight coming back, one
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Speaker 2: of which was actually a medical emergency, and I've never
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Speaker 2: been on a flight before where there was a medical
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Speaker 2: emergency that had to, um, have the plane divert to
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Speaker 2: the nearest airport and stop there, but I'm so glad
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Speaker 2: the guy is fine. I think they managed to get
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Speaker 2: him to a hospital in time.
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Speaker 2: So, on the back of things, like one of the
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Speaker 2: stewards that I got to know a little bit better,
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Speaker 2: you know, he was talking to us and he told,
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Speaker 2: he told me that there was a passenger on board
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Speaker 2: that had a heart issue, and they actually went on
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Speaker 2: to the PA, like the announcement system, to ask if
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Speaker 2: there were any qualified doctors or nurses on board, to
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Speaker 2: which two people, you know, came forward to offer their help.
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Speaker 2: Um, but they deemed it quite urgent because I think
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Speaker 2: this passenger was in and out of consciousness. Um, he
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Speaker 2: had heart issues, so they had to immediately hospitalize him.
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Speaker 2: It was quite scary, I have to say. Um, they
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Speaker 2: pulled over to the nearest airport because I think Singapore
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Speaker 2: was still like 6 hours away or so, so he couldn't,
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Speaker 2: he couldn't wait. So we pulled over and the delay
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Speaker 2: was all in all about maybe 2 hours in total.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but, you know, in such situations, you just, I
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Speaker 2: just hope that the guy is fine and I, I
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Speaker 2: don't know him, he's a total stranger, but I just
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Speaker 2: hope that he, he managed to get hospitalized in time,
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Speaker 2: he got the right treatment and he's good now. Could
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Speaker 2: have happened to any one of us or any one
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Speaker 2: of our relatives or parents, you know, so it's quite,
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Speaker 2: quite scary.
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Speaker 2: Yup, all the best on your trip. I know just
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Speaker 2: the start of June holidays, I'm pretty sure a lot
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Speaker 2: of trips are underway or planned very, very soon. Well,
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Speaker 2: if not, something to make you chuckle or maybe even
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Speaker 2: face palm this a.m. Haven't done this in a while
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Speaker 2: since I've been back and since Joakim's been gone, but
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Speaker 2: it's Bodo crime, Bodo crime, Bodo crime, Bodo crime.
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Speaker 2: And if you've never heard this segment before, this is
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Speaker 2: where we actually break down face palm worthy crime moments
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Speaker 2: where you actually wonder why do even, why do people
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Speaker 2: even do this in the first place, OK? I'm taking
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Speaker 2: you to Sembawang right now, where this particular resident says
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Speaker 2: that she has noticed a man loitering outside her home.
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Speaker 2: OK, and that, that's always weird. I mean, I've I
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Speaker 2: experienced my fair share of that before in the compound,
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Speaker 2: but not, not right outside my home, right? So this
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Speaker 2: man loitering outside her home looking a little bit suss
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Speaker 2: and all that, eventually discovered that her Adidas shoes worth
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Speaker 2: $300 or more actually, were stolen. So, um, her neighbor
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Speaker 2: was the one that informed her about this mysterious looking
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Speaker 2: man behaving suspiciously outside the, the corridor.
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Speaker 2: And I think it was the neighbor's domestic helper that
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Speaker 2: was the one that reported it to, to the resident,
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Speaker 2: you know. So the domestic helper actually tried to scare
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Speaker 2: him away, prompting him to put the shoes down and
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Speaker 2: flee the scene. So, initially, she believed, hey, maybe nothing
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Speaker 2: was stolen, right? It was only later that she realized
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Speaker 2: a pair of sneakers she owned was absolutely missing. Um,
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Speaker 2: and she lamented saying that she really liked them, only
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Speaker 2: worn them a few times, so it's pretty quite, it's
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Speaker 2: quite new.
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Speaker 2: And um there were other footwear in the shoe racks,
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Speaker 2: so she concluded that this guy is only targeting more
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Speaker 2: branded sportswear type of shoes, you know, and uh he,
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Speaker 2: he was very calculated about it. So he must have
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Speaker 2: had loitered around there quite a number of times. Apparently,
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Speaker 2: it's not the first time. She was previously a victim
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Speaker 2: of shoe theft about 2 years ago and reported the theft.
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Speaker 2: So I think residents in the same block also reported
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Speaker 2: missing shoes.
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Speaker 2: So, hey, you know, it's, it's just the kind of
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Speaker 2: thing where I, I, I believe guys, if you have
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Speaker 2: expensive shoes, right, don't put it outside. Really, really. And I,
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Speaker 2: I've also learned, well, I didn't learn the hard way,
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Speaker 2: more like my neighbor learned the hard way, and then
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Speaker 2: I put my more valuable shoes inside. Um, and I
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Speaker 2: also installed a CCTV. So actually, it's very affordable to
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Speaker 2: do it. You can get it, honestly, I think my
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Speaker 2: dad bought it for me for like $30 or something.
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Speaker 2: Um, on, on, uh, e-commerce platform, and it works really well. So,
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Speaker 2: the main reason why I put it there initially was
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Speaker 2: because of deliveries, you know. Sometimes you order stuff and
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Speaker 2: then it arrives like in the middle of the day
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Speaker 2: when you're not at home, so at least I have
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Speaker 2: that CCTV camera to sort of communicate with them, like
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Speaker 2: I can talk to them via the camera. Either that
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Speaker 2: or I can also just make sure that they're putting
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Speaker 2: it in the right place and no one is tampering
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Speaker 2: with it, right?
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Speaker 2: On a couple of occasions, did I see some suss
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Speaker 2: looking people like kind of looking at the package or just,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe just loitering outside my door. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Um, and then they kind of look around
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Speaker 2: and they saw the camera and they walked away. It's
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Speaker 2: funny because I can see you like in real time.
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Speaker 2: It's always quite entertaining, you know, to be honest. I
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Speaker 2: used to activate like the motion sensor where I would
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Speaker 2: get an alert every time there's movement outside my house,
10:26
Speaker 2: but then there was too much going on because when
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Speaker 2: neighbors come and go, it also triggers the, the action sensor, right? So,
10:33
Speaker 2: sometimes for fun, I just look back, I just look
10:35
Speaker 2: back at the playback, you know, and see whether anything
10:37
Speaker 2: interesting happened over the day while I was not home. Anyway,
10:41
Speaker 2: something that we've been all looking forward to. Taylor Swift, yes,
10:44
Speaker 2: she's also a 2026 bride.
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Speaker 2: Um, got a new track from her and a little
10:49
Speaker 2: shout out. I wonder whether this was, uh, this would
10:51
Speaker 2: be true, right? Because you, you want to have faith
10:54
Speaker 2: in people and I'm not sure if you're tuning in
10:57
Speaker 2: now whether you are very, um, particular about putting the
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Speaker 2: right things in the recycling bin because over at my, um,
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Speaker 2: the place that I stay, right, there's a specific recycling
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Speaker 2: area and I, I'm quite happy to see that people
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Speaker 2: only put, you know, boxes, cartons, paper bags, and recyclable
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Speaker 2: stuff over there.
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Speaker 2: And uh I think there's a bin for like all
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Speaker 2: your glass items as well like bottles and all that
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Speaker 2: or yeah, it might, it might all be, I think
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Speaker 2: mine doesn't segregate them, it's just all in one area.
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Speaker 2: So they're all blue colored bins.
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Speaker 2: So, over in the Tampines area, I'm gonna chat about
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Speaker 2: this in just a while. I've always been curious to
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Speaker 2: know whether there's anyone that puts other kinds of rubbish
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Speaker 2: in the recycling bin. It's like, you want to believe
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Speaker 2: that it doesn't actually happen, and like, why would that
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Speaker 2: even happen in the first place, but find out what
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Speaker 2: was found in some of these bins. And uh this
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Speaker 2: brings us to an all-important question, OK? We always wonder
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Speaker 2: whether we're recycling properly.
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Speaker 2: And I know, I know in the past, there were not,
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Speaker 2: there were not enough um designated recycling bins in the past, right?
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Speaker 2: Maybe during our parents' time and all that, but now
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Speaker 2: we're definitely more aware and I'm very proud to say
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Speaker 2: that over at the place I, I, I live at,
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Speaker 2: Um, the recycling bin area is always full. Like people
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Speaker 2: are always constantly putting it there and putting it in
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Speaker 2: the right spot. So, it looks like it's right. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I only see cartons and paper bags and, you know,
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Speaker 2: glass bottles in that area and all that, so I,
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Speaker 2: I wanna say that's correct. Um, going over to Tampines
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Speaker 2: right now and shout out to Tampines MP Charlene Chen.
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Speaker 2: Um, she decided to go on a mission to find
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Speaker 2: out whether people were actually recycling properly. And I, I'm
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Speaker 2: not paid to say this at all, OK, but I've
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Speaker 2: always been curious to know whether people dump all kinds
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Speaker 2: of rubbish in those blue bins, you know, B L
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Speaker 2: 00 B I N. Coincidentally, it is in the color
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Speaker 2: blue as well, so it's quite a cute name.
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Speaker 2: Um, so they decided, you know what, we're going to
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Speaker 2: dig through it to see what kind of things people
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Speaker 2: are putting inside and whether we are truly ruining recycling, OK?
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Speaker 2: Because correct me if I'm wrong, I, I'm not entirely
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Speaker 2: sure whether once like stuff that are not meant to
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Speaker 2: be recycled are put into the recycling bin, they have
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Speaker 2: to manually sort it out. They can't just throw the
13:12
Speaker 2: whole thing in the recycling area because it's essentially ruined, right?
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Speaker 2: So, I'm digging through the blue bin and they found
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Speaker 2: several recycling mistakes, things like a half-eaten sandwich. Oh no.
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Speaker 2: Um, Styrofoam, uh, I think fried rice was found in
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Speaker 2: there as well that included the box and the plastic bag.
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Speaker 2: I think, uh, toilet paper, used paper towels were in
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Speaker 2: there as well, cigarette butts were found in the recycling bin.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, like, so people are saying that, you
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Speaker 2: know what, um, if there's food waste in there, there's
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Speaker 2: going to be pests, and you don't want the pests
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Speaker 2: to get in there. It's going to be essentially bad, right?
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Speaker 2: And you're going to ruin the whole recycling process.
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Speaker 2: So, um, sorting through recyclables, sometimes you may be confused
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Speaker 2: what can be recycled and what can't be. I remember
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Speaker 2: I did a video quite a while back, but I
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Speaker 2: collaborated with 987 on what to test you on what
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Speaker 2: can be put into the recycling bin and what can't.
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Speaker 2: This was already quite a while ago, like I think
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Speaker 2: it was late last year. So if you're curious, just
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Speaker 2: go dig it up. I think it's somewhere on TikTok
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Speaker 2: as well, so check it out there.
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Speaker 2: Um, but if you know what, if you have any
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Speaker 2: elderly folks at home or people you know are not
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Speaker 2: exactly recycling properly, please encourage them to put the right things.
14:29
Speaker 2: At 7, you'll get to hear from Kid LeRoy very,
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Speaker 2: very soon. Uh, one of the questions I actually asked
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Speaker 2: him was, how did his view on love change over
14:37
Speaker 2: the years? Because, you know, for the longest time, he's
14:40
Speaker 2: been producing music, releasing new global hits, right? And he's
14:43
Speaker 2: only 22 at this point or 23 at the most.
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Speaker 2: Um, and I just wonder what was my view on
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Speaker 2: love at like 20.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I, I first started going out with someone
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Speaker 2: at like, I think I was 18 or something, but,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't think I had the whole like, yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to marry this person or I'm going to
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Speaker 2: settle down with this person for life. Whereas, I know
15:06
Speaker 2: some of my friends had that, um, had that mindset,
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Speaker 2: you know, they dated someone, and I actually know one
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Speaker 2: or two people that ended up getting married to their
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Speaker 2: first boyfriend ever, like that they met in poly.
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Speaker 2: One or two of the people that I've met in
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Speaker 2: school actually did that. So, it is possible, but your
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Speaker 2: view on love might change just like the kid LeRoy,
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Speaker 2: and he will share some of his thoughts and feelings
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Speaker 2: on that. You get to hear it very soon and
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Speaker 2: also see him on stage. So, and I'm about to
15:35
Speaker 2: open up phone lines because this caused a bit of
15:38
Speaker 2: a funny conversation between my friends and I.
15:41
Speaker 2: Now, I, I'm not the most athletic person, OK? And
15:44
Speaker 2: if I, if Joakim were here, he would be laughing
15:46
Speaker 2: at me about this particular topic because I haven't told
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Speaker 2: him just yet actually. He, however, has sent me like
15:52
Speaker 2: 4 videos yesterday of him hiking and I'm like, Joe, like,
15:57
Speaker 2: you OK? He's like, yeah, I just miss being on
16:00
Speaker 2: the show with you. I was like, really, just enjoy
16:02
Speaker 2: your break.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, um, he's the more athletic person between the
16:06
Speaker 2: two of us, as you can tell. But recently in,
16:09
Speaker 2: I guess, in 2026, I picked up playing paddle. And
16:13
Speaker 2: I know it's a very Singaporean thing, we call it
16:15
Speaker 2: paddle and overseas apparently people say paddle, but, you know,
16:18
Speaker 2: that sounds so pretentious, right? So we just say paddle.
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Speaker 2: I don't know which one is right, to be honest.
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Speaker 2: People are telling me like conflicting things. But anyway, regardless
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Speaker 2: of that, the sport is actually pretty fun. Um, I'm
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Speaker 2: not the most ambidextrous or coordinated person.
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Speaker 2: But Avery and I have played together before actually. We, I,
16:35
Speaker 2: I called him up to join one of the games
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Speaker 2: and he said I was not bad.
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Speaker 2: He said I was not bad and he's also quite,
16:42
Speaker 2: you know, in the beginning stages, right? So we, we
16:44
Speaker 2: had a lot of fun. But in the, um, I
16:48
Speaker 2: think in the last week of June, there is something
16:51
Speaker 2: that is, that interested us, um, a couple of us,
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to Bali for a paddle camp, OK?
16:59
Speaker 2: I know this is so unlike me, to be honest.
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to be, um, a supportive partner, I guess,
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Speaker 2: but at the same time, I kind of picked it
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Speaker 2: up and I, I quite like it, right?
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Speaker 2: So it's going to be a 3-day thing and I'm
17:12
Speaker 2: just going to go there and try to brush it up,
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Speaker 2: you know, brush my skills up and make sure that
17:16
Speaker 2: I win more games. As of now, I don't think
17:20
Speaker 2: I'm on a very good winning streak. Um, and I'm
17:23
Speaker 2: not quite sure. I'm not quite sure whether I'm playing enough.
17:26
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I don't think I'm getting enough practice in. That's,
17:29
Speaker 2: that's the only problem.
17:30
Speaker 2: So anyway, going for that. So when I told my
17:32
Speaker 2: other girlfriends about it, they were all shocked, you know,
17:34
Speaker 2: they were like, what? Are you that obsessed with pedal
17:37
Speaker 2: right now? And I said, you know what, I don't
17:39
Speaker 2: consider myself obsessed. In fact, to convince me to play, Jeremy,
17:44
Speaker 2: my husband, had to um buy me a cute outfit first.
17:48
Speaker 2: That was his strategy. I didn't ask him to do it,
17:50
Speaker 2: but he really wanted me to try, so.
17:53
Speaker 2: Listen up, if you're in a couple right now and
17:54
Speaker 2: you're trying to convince your partner to do something. So
17:57
Speaker 2: he actually went and got a cute outfit. He asked
18:01
Speaker 2: some female friends for their opinions and managed to get
18:03
Speaker 2: a cute, cute tennis-looking outfit, and then he also got
18:08
Speaker 2: me 3 beginner lessons to, to start off and a racket, OK?
18:12
Speaker 2: So this was his attempt to try and get me
18:14
Speaker 2: to do something with him, right? Do an activity, and
18:17
Speaker 2: he knows that I'm not the most sporty person.
18:19
Speaker 2: And as a result, I quite like it. And it's
18:21
Speaker 2: actually quite fun. It's social. Sometimes there are even like parties,
18:24
Speaker 2: you know, and people pull up drinks and stuff to
18:27
Speaker 2: to like the peddle game. Um, birthdays have been done there,
18:31
Speaker 2: so it's actually quite social and fun. I wanted to
18:33
Speaker 2: open up the phone lines, 669-11987. Now, in my partnership
18:39
Speaker 2: and in my, in my relationship rather,
18:42
Speaker 2: He is obviously more obsessed with paddle, and he honestly
18:45
Speaker 2: went straight head first. He was very, very keen on
18:49
Speaker 2: learning and then he became really good at it. He's
18:51
Speaker 2: just sporty in general. So he's good, right? Whereas for,
18:55
Speaker 2: for me, I don't think I've ever found myself obsessed
18:57
Speaker 2: with a sport or a hobby before. I wouldn't call
19:00
Speaker 2: myself obsessed with Pilates, but
19:02
Speaker 2: When I look at him, I'm like, yeah, he's definitely obsessed.
19:05
Speaker 2: And I see some of our other friends that got
19:07
Speaker 2: converted because of him. They're obsessed too. And they're mostly
19:11
Speaker 2: the men, by the way, that go headfirst into this obsession.
19:15
Speaker 2: It's quite crazy. Um, give me a call, 669-11987. Have
19:19
Speaker 2: you ever become super obsessed with a sport or a
19:24
Speaker 2: hobby or, or something, I don't know, it could be
19:26
Speaker 2: collecting blind boxes. I mean, that's, that's also something to
19:29
Speaker 2: obsess over.
19:30
Speaker 2: Um, or do you know someone around you who is
19:32
Speaker 2: very similar to the guys around me right now getting
19:35
Speaker 2: so obsessed with racket sports? Give me a call 669-11987.
19:39
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Speaker 2: can even drop me a message that's why you said morning, Sonia.
19:52
Speaker 2: I can completely relate. My boyfriend is obsessed with pickleball.
19:58
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I knew this was gonna come, right?
20:00
Speaker 2: Some of these messages are gonna come. Um, and then
20:02
Speaker 2: you said, anyway, uh, so he's tried to convince me
20:05
Speaker 2: to play pickleball for the longest time. I tried, um, I,
20:08
Speaker 2: I don't mind it, to be honest. I just find
20:10
Speaker 2: it a bit like an oversized table tennis kind of situation,
20:14
Speaker 2: but the only thing is that the court we always
20:17
Speaker 2: go to, we never ever get the indoor one. It's
20:20
Speaker 2: always the outdoor.
20:21
Speaker 2: Court, and I think I've turned about 5 shades tanner
20:24
Speaker 2: since I've been trying to be a supportive girlfriend. Now
20:28
Speaker 2: he has thoughts of going pro and joining tournaments just
20:32
Speaker 2: to push himself. I think I would just stay as
20:34
Speaker 2: a cheerleader on the sidelines. Oh man, thank you so
20:37
Speaker 2: much for sharing that, Zach. Why, I mean, I can
20:38
Speaker 2: totally relate. Um, I, I was, I'm, I'm you, actually.
20:42
Speaker 2: I'm you. I joined, I started playing paddle because of
20:46
Speaker 2: my partner, right? And I can't say that I'm pro.
20:49
Speaker 2: I'm far from it, to be honest. Sometimes I don't
20:52
Speaker 2: know what I'm doing, you know, I like get on
20:54
Speaker 2: the court, right? I just hope for the best. I
20:57
Speaker 2: think that's my strategy. I just like, and when something
21:00
Speaker 2: good happens, people think that it's intentional, but it's not. It's,
21:04
Speaker 2: I think it's sheer luck or I was just there
21:06
Speaker 2: at the right time or my, my racket happened to
21:09
Speaker 2: hit the ball at the right time at the right angle,
21:11
Speaker 2: but everyone thinks that it's a strategy, and I'm like, hm, OK,
21:15
Speaker 2: maybe let me just let them think that way.
21:18
Speaker 2: OK, more of your messages pouring through right now. Um,
21:22
Speaker 2: quite funny ones coming up soon that's not related to
21:24
Speaker 2: sports or hobbies, and thank you so much for joining me.
21:27
Speaker 2: I'm getting some hilarious answers right now. Um, speaking of
21:33
Speaker 2: obsession with paddle, and I think my friends think that
21:36
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with it. I'm really not. I kind of
21:38
Speaker 2: enjoy it right now since I'm getting a bit better
21:40
Speaker 2: at it.
21:41
Speaker 2: But I would say a lot of the men and
21:43
Speaker 2: the guys around me are obsessed. In fact, I've seen
21:46
Speaker 2: some of my friends' boyfriends and husbands get converted, also
21:49
Speaker 2: because of Jeremy, my own partner, right? And he's the
21:51
Speaker 2: one that convinced them that, hey, come and try, come
21:53
Speaker 2: and try. And it ended up that they got so
21:56
Speaker 2: obsessed with it. Some of them are even going for training, um,
22:00
Speaker 2: getting a coach, upgrading their racket. It's quite, quite insane.
22:04
Speaker 2: So I wanted to find out what are you obsessed
22:06
Speaker 2: with or have you ever found yourself in that situation
22:09
Speaker 2: where you got very, very obsessed with a sport or
22:11
Speaker 2: a hobby, or do you know someone around you like that? Um,
22:14
Speaker 2: going to our messages now, Jessie says, morning, Sonia. There
22:18
Speaker 2: was a period of time where my husband and I
22:20
Speaker 2: were very obsessed with Bayblade. Whoa, that's vintage, man. I mean, yes,
22:25
Speaker 2: as kids, we know what it is, but I think
22:27
Speaker 2: there's competitive, uh, competitive ones as adults, right?
22:31
Speaker 2: Now you said both of us played the first version
22:33
Speaker 2: when we were kids, and to see the new Bay
22:36
Speaker 2: Blade kind of rekindled our childhood experience. So, we ended
22:39
Speaker 2: up buying many, many Bay blades, like more than 100,
22:43
Speaker 2: so that, uh, now that we have jobs and we
22:45
Speaker 2: have money so we can spend on buying toys, there
22:48
Speaker 2: is a Bay Blade community.
22:50
Speaker 2: They host Bay Blade tournaments weekly or even daily. Sometimes
22:54
Speaker 2: we play once or twice a week. We were good
22:56
Speaker 2: at it. Not the best, but good. I guess that
22:59
Speaker 2: was where the passion for Bay Blade came from, being
23:02
Speaker 2: rewarded for something or being good at it. Oh, that's nice.
23:06
Speaker 2: I mean, how, that's a very, very cool and unexpected hobby.
23:10
Speaker 2: I didn't know that that community still exists. Thank you
23:13
Speaker 2: for educating me this morning. I appreciate it.
23:16
Speaker 2: We also have Angeline on the line. OK, Angeline, what
23:18
Speaker 2: was it that you were um or are obsessed with?
23:21
Speaker 2: OK, I was so obsessed with netball at one point
23:24
Speaker 2: before COVID because it was such a fun sport and
23:27
Speaker 2: reconnecting with my friends from school. Were you a netball
23:31
Speaker 2: player in school?
23:33
Speaker 2: Yes, I was a netball player when I was in
23:35
Speaker 2: my secondary school, yes. So then, you know, after the
23:38
Speaker 2: secondary school time, I, I know a lot of us,
23:40
Speaker 2: like we make a lot of friends, you know, in
23:41
Speaker 2: the CCA and stuff, and then you'd like drift off
23:43
Speaker 2: or you stop playing the sport. What made you pick
23:45
Speaker 2: it up again as an adult? Uh, so basically, right,
23:48
Speaker 2: I had a friend who asked me for the game
23:50
Speaker 2: and then went to Kallang Netball Center and I picked
23:53
Speaker 2: it up again. And I've been loving the sport since,
23:56
Speaker 2: but COVID hit and then we stopped for a while.
23:59
Speaker 2: Did you pick it up again after COVID then?
24:01
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, of course, of course, I'm still playing, uh,
24:04
Speaker 2: with Tripro currently, yeah, and it's National League. shout out
24:07
Speaker 2: to them. Wow, I hope they win the game. That's crazy. Well,
24:12
Speaker 2: nicely done. What an inspiration. You know, last time when
24:14
Speaker 2: I was in school, right, whenever there's netball or captain's
24:17
Speaker 2: ball during PE, nobody wants to pick me on their team, OK,
24:20
Speaker 2: because I'm.
24:21
Speaker 2: Super bad. Talking about obsessions that you have. It could
24:24
Speaker 2: be you, could be a loved one, could be just,
24:27
Speaker 2: you know, your partner, someone around you. Who is the
24:29
Speaker 2: person that's obsessed with either like a sport or a
24:31
Speaker 2: hobby or or something along those lines right now? I'm
24:34
Speaker 2: getting some great, um, some great messages coming through before
24:37
Speaker 2: we get back to the phone lines. You heard from
24:39
Speaker 2: uh Angeline earlier on. OK, so saying hi over here
24:43
Speaker 2: to Stella. You say good morning and congratulations to you
24:46
Speaker 2: on your marriage. Uh, thank you.
24:48
Speaker 2: My husband picked up squash a while ago and he's
24:50
Speaker 2: been obsessed with it ever since. He still plays in
24:53
Speaker 2: local competitions and even goes overseas for friendly competitions and
24:57
Speaker 2: is actively playing in tournaments. Now, during the days where
25:01
Speaker 2: he was trying to chase me, um, he tried to
25:03
Speaker 2: get me interested in squash too. Unfortunately, I have absolutely
25:07
Speaker 2: no ball sense.
25:10
Speaker 2: After a few attempts, I decided the squash court was
25:13
Speaker 2: not for me. I did like jumping on the trampoline instead. Oh,
25:16
Speaker 2: that is cute. OK. Uh, one more message coming through
25:20
Speaker 2: here from Jess. You said, I have a colleague who
25:24
Speaker 2: is absolutely obsessed with racket sports.
25:28
Speaker 2: Especially pickleball. When pickleball first became the latest craze, he
25:31
Speaker 2: jumped on the bandwagon with full force. Being from the
25:34
Speaker 2: people and culture team, oh no, he didn't just play
25:37
Speaker 2: the sport, he practically became its biggest ambassador in the office.
25:41
Speaker 2: He started organizing bi-weekly pickleball sessions and would get really excited.
25:45
Speaker 2: Every time we successfully booked a court. Before long, he
25:48
Speaker 2: had played in almost every pickleball court in Singapore and
25:51
Speaker 2: would even give detailed reviews on which ones were the best.
25:55
Speaker 2: If you need court recommendations, equipment, advice, or someone to
25:58
Speaker 2: play pickleball or talk about it with, he was your
26:01
Speaker 2: go to person. His enthusiasm was so infectious, many of
26:05
Speaker 2: us ended up actually trying the sport ourselves. Some people
26:09
Speaker 2: follow trends, but he practically turned pickleball into a lifestyle.
26:14
Speaker 2: Dude, that is so cute, honestly, I'm, I, I really
26:16
Speaker 2: smiled while reading that message. I mean, to some people,
26:19
Speaker 2: it may be too much, but to others, you know,
26:22
Speaker 2: it's quite inspiring. So I love that story. Now we're
26:25
Speaker 2: talking about obsessions because I am going for a paddle camp.
26:29
Speaker 2: In Bali at the end of the month. Although I
26:31
Speaker 2: will say I'm not obsessed with it, it's because the
26:33
Speaker 2: people around me, even my friends are starting to get
26:35
Speaker 2: so obsessed with racket sports, right? It's infectious, you know, and, uh,
26:40
Speaker 2: I just have more fun now that I know how
26:43
Speaker 2: to play a bit better if you get what I mean. So,
26:45
Speaker 2: one more message and I'm gonna head back to the
26:47
Speaker 2: phone lines before we wrap it up here. AT says, morning, Sonia.
26:50
Speaker 2: For me, it was actually rock climbing. Picked it up
26:52
Speaker 2: during COVID.
26:53
Speaker 2: And even after COVID ended, I had a coach that
26:57
Speaker 2: could pick up techniques faster. I can learn to climb
26:59
Speaker 2: safer as well. A few years on, life has changed
27:02
Speaker 2: a little. I became a parent to 4 cats. Oh, cute. Lately,
27:07
Speaker 2: I was encouraged by a group of friends to participate
27:09
Speaker 2: in cat shows. With that, there's also things to learn
27:12
Speaker 2: and routines to keep. 2 of my cats recently won
27:15
Speaker 2: some awards and we're participating in another one later this month.
27:18
Speaker 2: I guess that's the new obsession.
27:20
Speaker 2: And here are some photos for you. This is my
27:22
Speaker 2: youngest kitten. That is adorable. Is that a Maine Coon? Girl,
27:26
Speaker 2: you have so much dedication, man. That, that's actually crazy,
27:29
Speaker 2: but I love that. Thank you for sharing your passion
27:31
Speaker 2: with me. We've also got Min on the line right now. OK, Min,
27:35
Speaker 2: tell me, go ahead. What's your obsession? So I like
27:38
Speaker 2: to clean windows.
27:41
Speaker 2: Wait, so far all our responses have got to do
27:44
Speaker 2: with hobbies or sports, but yours has got to do
27:47
Speaker 2: with cleanliness. Can I please find out how you discovered
27:50
Speaker 2: your obsession with cleaning windows and, and why, I mean? Yeah,
27:53
Speaker 2: so every time I see there's water stains, so I clean.
27:57
Speaker 2: Then sometimes after I clean, right, then the next day again,
27:59
Speaker 2: then I have to clean again. Of course, it's only natural.
28:03
Speaker 2: I mean, I look at my car windows, I want
28:04
Speaker 2: to give up, you know. Do you provide services for
28:07
Speaker 2: that or is it only for your family and loved ones?
28:11
Speaker 2: No, it's only for my own house. So sometimes when
28:14
Speaker 2: I post on my Instagram story, then my friends are like,
28:16
Speaker 2: can you come to my house and help me clean also.
28:20
Speaker 2: Have you ever, then another friend was like, uh, I
28:24
Speaker 2: think you should open a cleaning company. OK. So did
28:29
Speaker 2: you ever consider that honestly? No, no, I don't don't
28:33
Speaker 2: really think I have the capacity to do that.
28:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, sometimes when you turn your hobby into
28:39
Speaker 2: a business, it may have the opposite effect. It may
28:42
Speaker 2: make you lose your passion for cleaning windows.
28:46
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sharing, man. That's hilarious. You
28:49
Speaker 2: have a great day, OK, and happy, happy cleaning. Now, oh,
28:53
Speaker 2: so many great stories coming through about obsessions that we're
28:57
Speaker 2: talking about sports or hobbies or, you know, a person
29:00
Speaker 2: that gets locked in very easily when they get interested
29:03
Speaker 2: in something, right? I mean, I'm sure we know that
29:05
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29:07
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