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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 290626 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Good next to you.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show. I am back from Bali with tons of
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  Speaker 1: adventures to tell you about and happy first day back
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  Speaker 1: at school after very, very long June holidays. Well-deserved rest
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  Speaker 1: as well. We're going to kick it off here with
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  Speaker 1: some Jack Harlow, Singapore's number one hit music station.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Nearing the end of June, but first day back at school.
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  Speaker 1: We are so happy to be with you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if I was a student, I'd be so sad because
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  Speaker 1: the moment the World Cup gets juicier, I have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to school. I cannot stay up late anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they have their ways of catching
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  Speaker 1: up with what's been going on, but it's quite funny
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned it because yesterday being the
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  Speaker 1: Final day of holidays, right? Um, I landed pretty late
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  Speaker 1: last night as well, so I'm running on almost no sleep. But,
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  Speaker 1: but I know that there are a lot of families
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  Speaker 1: and students that are possibly feeling the same way because
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  Speaker 1: the airport was jam-packed. It was so crowded, full flight
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  Speaker 1: coming back for me from Bali.
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  Speaker 1: Um, while a lot of them were actually tourists doing
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  Speaker 1: a layover in Singapore, I, because, you know, June holidays technically,
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  Speaker 1: if you traveled, I think you would have traveled a
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  Speaker 1: bit earlier, but I guess for some families, maybe something
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  Speaker 1: going on overseas at the time or they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make this specific weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I ran into some Singaporean families with kids who have
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  Speaker 1: to go to school. They looked so sad when they
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  Speaker 1: landed here, and we were waiting in line for, uh,
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  Speaker 1: our private hire car or taxi, right? And some of
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  Speaker 1: them waved and said hi and say, Hey, got, got
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  Speaker 1: show tomorrow or not. They said, Yeah, I've got school
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Then they both went, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: God, it was sad. So you know what, in that case,
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  Speaker 1: it's something we've not done in one month, Sonia. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're opening our phone lines before 7 a.m. Exactly. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: in less than 10 minutes you can call us over
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  Speaker 1: at 669-11987. Let us know how your June holidays went.
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  Speaker 1: Let's catch up and request for your favorite song to
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  Speaker 1: play here on the shock circuit. I want to write
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  Speaker 1: in a report to the MDDI here in Singapore? Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even the IMDA. I want to report Sonia Chew's
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  Speaker 1: Instagram account. Can you, can you stop it?
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  Speaker 1: Never declared the use of AI. What is this video
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  Speaker 1: of you doing push-ups? Is that even you in the
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  Speaker 1: first place? It's me. It's me. I knew you were
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  Speaker 1: gonna say this. Yeah, what happened there? So, OK, um,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you a bit more about my paddle
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  Speaker 1: camp trip later on after 7 a.m., but since you
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  Speaker 1: asked now, you're the last person I would think of
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  Speaker 1: I know when it comes to a sporting, but well done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of you. No, but you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I actually I'm not feeling
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  Speaker 1: so well today. I think.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I think I overdid it and I'm really,
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  Speaker 1: really tired, but also coupled with the fact that late-night flight,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I barely slept last night, just, just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: quieten the mind, you know, because we have like things
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  Speaker 1: to do this week. I'm back to work, so I
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't, couldn't fall asleep. But um, in regards to
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  Speaker 1: the video that you were talking about, the push-ups, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just give it to you right now. Um, it was
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  Speaker 1: a forfeit or rather a punishment because I kept making
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  Speaker 1: the same mistakes on the court.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, for, for paddle, OK, just think of it
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  Speaker 1: as a bit like tennis training, right? So, so they
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  Speaker 1: break us up into groups and because I'm a bit
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  Speaker 1: more of a beginner, they will group us up with
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  Speaker 1: more beginners and then there's like the more intermediate or
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: pro people. OK. Jeremy obviously at the pro section, OK, he's,
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  Speaker 1: he's not.
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  Speaker 1: near us. That man can do no wrong. Yeah, and um,
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  Speaker 1: so we did our own training, but it was so
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  Speaker 1: useful because I've never, you know me, I've never been
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  Speaker 1: a part of any sports CCA, um, any sports club, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So this was my first experience with a, a three-day
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  Speaker 1: boot camp kind of situation, right? And we did drills.
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  Speaker 1: So meaning to say they will repeat the same actions
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  Speaker 1: over and over again until you get it.
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  Speaker 1: So, it was funny because once you start doing that,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, OK, I got the hang of it.
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  Speaker 1: muscle memory, but do you realize something, when they put
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  Speaker 1: you into a fake match situation.
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  Speaker 1: Everything goes out the window lah like it disappears from
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  Speaker 1: your brain. What's that Singaporean for it? Yeah, maybe like
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  Speaker 1: you already know. You practice so many times, right? But
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  Speaker 1: when the day comes, you're like, wait, I forgot what
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  Speaker 1: to do. Or what's the other one? Kuchingura. What's kuching kura?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Don't auntie say it's the same meaning as kalang kabo, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is it kukura? Are you sure or not? OK.
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  Speaker 1: Now we, we need some aunties to verify this. Please
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  Speaker 1: message us. If your parents have said the phrase, let
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  Speaker 1: us know or your grandparents or whoever. Please, please let
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  Speaker 1: us know. That would be really funny. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I had to drop and do 10
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  Speaker 1: push-ups because it's too long to explain, but you're right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Even though you're not feeling well, I can see your
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  Speaker 1: triceps definition. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That means
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  Speaker 1: you did a lot of push-ups, only 10, only 10.
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  Speaker 1: And 20 squats, but that was another punishment. Happy first
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: day back at school. We know there might be mixed
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  Speaker 1: feelings about it. Some of you may be really looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing your friends again. Some of you may
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  Speaker 1: be struggling to open your eyes this morning. There's a
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  Speaker 1: bit of irony there, you know. Happy first day back
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  Speaker 1: at school. Yes, Majority of people will go, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not true. That's not true. I mean, OK, one
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  Speaker 1: thing I was looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Two back then when school reopened was to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with all my friends. That was the one thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't need to catch up at 6 or
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  Speaker 1: 7 a.m. in the morning. That, that is, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? If you told me like 9 a.m., sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go. I mean, there are some schools that start
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  Speaker 1: a bit later. So if you're tuning in now and
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  Speaker 1: you're already on the way there, chances are you have
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  Speaker 1: to be there by 7 or 7:30.
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  Speaker 1: So we want to make your morning a bit easier
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  Speaker 1: and a bit better, OK? Why not we open up
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  Speaker 1: phone lines right now, 669-11987. We have missed doing this
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  Speaker 1: because over the past month, it's been pretty quiet this hour. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So give your school a shout out, hopefully get a
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  Speaker 1: new one starting today and request for your favorite song.
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  Speaker 1: But before that, you tell us how your June holidays went,
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  Speaker 1: whether you went overseas or you stayed at home or
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  Speaker 1: you went for a nice chalet with friends. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: you did. Let us know. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: 97.
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  Speaker 2: Hi,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. A bit of a sleepy sounding family here.
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  Speaker 1: Who do we have?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jeremy here.
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  Speaker 1: And who are you with?
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  Speaker 2: Your son. OK,
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  Speaker 1: what's what's the son's name?
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  Speaker 2: One of my sons Tutu and my other son is Sean.
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  Speaker 1: OK, which school do you both go to? Sinan
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  Speaker 2: Primary.
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  Speaker 1: Sinnan Primary. And how was your June
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  Speaker 2: holidays?
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 2: missed school.
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  Speaker 1: You missed school. You see, Jo, there are people who
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  Speaker 1: miss school.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you miss school? The friends, the teachers, or
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  Speaker 1: the studies? Yeah, of course, it's always about the people, right?
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  Speaker 1: But it's good. It's good they feel this way. OK,
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  Speaker 1: to really energize you and make you feel better, what
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  Speaker 1: song can we get you today? OK, we will do. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy yourself and have a great day. OK. Take care. Bye-bye.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Bye bye. So of course, the moment I came back
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  Speaker 1: to the studio, Joakim was like, so how was your trip?
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  Speaker 1: How did it go? Paddle camp, um, fitness camp, it's
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  Speaker 1: unheard of when it comes to me, right? Yes, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've never pegged you for somebody who would
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  Speaker 1: actively go for these things unless somebody forced you or
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  Speaker 1: you were like, OK lah, since I go for you lah. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so you're right on both counts. so sweet. OK, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: but here's the thing like I actually
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy paddle as a as a sport in the game, right?
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  Speaker 1: And you know me, I don't have any prior training
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  Speaker 1: in like racket sports or whatever. I know how to
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  Speaker 1: make a racket, that's for sure, but not racket sports.
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  Speaker 1: Just for this entire life of mine, is it pronounced
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  Speaker 1: paddle or Padel or? Um, so I believe that it's
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  Speaker 1: meant to be Padel, like, especially overseas, like in Europe
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  Speaker 1: and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you say that in Singapore, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: very pretentious lah. Exactly. Like no one, no one says
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  Speaker 1: Padel here. You just say I'm playing paddle. I'm playing paddle.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just a colloquial way of saying it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think your next pick me, bro or pick me, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play padel at Dempsey.
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  Speaker 1: Which actually has a very nice court there. But anyway, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that aside, before I even got to the hotel, the resort,
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  Speaker 1: or the training camp, OK, the wellness camp rather, um,
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  Speaker 1: I got stopped again at uh at the customs check
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  Speaker 1: in Bali, and I knew Joki will appreciate this story
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  Speaker 1: and laughed at me about it.
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  Speaker 1: Because he always, always has a good time cackling at
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  Speaker 1: me for being stopped. OK, can I ask, can you
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  Speaker 1: describe to me the kind of face, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: energy you are exuding while walking towards the Bali customs? OK, so,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: so how it works is that, I mean if you've
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  Speaker 1: been to Bali before, it's not that big of an
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: airport departure, I mean arrival area, right? Yeah. So you
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  Speaker 1: get your luggage, you walk through, now you have to
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  Speaker 1: basically go through like a
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  Speaker 1: A quick QR code scanning system where you have to
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  Speaker 1: fill in a form prior to that, right? So you
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  Speaker 1: fill in the form, should be no issues. You just
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  Speaker 1: walk through, they scan the code and you're, you're, you're
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  Speaker 1: on your way. So I was with this group of, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing tourists that got mixed up, some people from
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  Speaker 1: the SQ flight, some people from elsewhere. So just walking by,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it was a group of maybe like
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  Speaker 1: 10 of us in the line. So I came out
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  Speaker 1: from the QR code scanning, and out of all the
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  Speaker 1: people that were in the group that I was with,
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  Speaker 1: The guy pointed at me, singled me out, and pointed
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  Speaker 1: towards the scanner, like the, the, the custom scanner, OK?
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  Speaker 1: Just me, ah, only me. So I went, I was like,
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: oh man, not again, you know, I wasn't thinking about,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't even thinking about it. I was giving the
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  Speaker 1: most normal face, keeping my phone after the QR scanning.
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  Speaker 1: Um, giving a nice gentle smile, you know, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So I was like, I didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: remotely suspicious. Hang on, wait, show me your gentle smile. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting my phone back.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: What? What? What's wrong with that smile? That's my, that's my, like,
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that, that's my, that's my, um, friendly. I'm arriving
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  Speaker 1: into a country smile. Sonia, next time, eyes forward, just walk. I,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't making eye contact with. I know, no need
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  Speaker 1: to put gentle smile or what, just put your default
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  Speaker 1: face and just walk straight. I have tested my default
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  Speaker 1: face before and it still didn't work. Can anyone help
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  Speaker 1: me with this like on.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Someone, anyone, uh, I, I don't know, a body language expert.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: I need to find someone who's in that field. Just
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: don't travel.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Or, or the next time you travel, can I please
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: come along with you? You want to just witness this.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: You walk in front of me, I walk behind you.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Let's see who gets stopped. I think you get stopped again.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, you know what, if you ever,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's right to do anything illegal,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: but if you ever want to do anything, please don't
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  Speaker 1: invite me with you, OK? Yeah, so to the immigration
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  Speaker 1: police of other countries and nations, because you stopped Sonia Chew,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: the actual criminals are getting away away. So don't stop her.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Don't waste time with me.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: That, that's what a criminal would say also.
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  Speaker 1: My hole is just getting deeper and deeper. Um, look,
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  Speaker 1: I really hope no Singaporean was involved in this. Our
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  Speaker 1: friends over at Japan, and look, lah, if I work
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  Speaker 1: for the Ministry of Tourism in Japan, right?
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll be the most stressed out minister ever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, because how are we going to deal with overcrowding,
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  Speaker 1: over-tourism in Japan, to the point where we're actually offering
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: tickets or very cheap rates to go elsewhere in Japan, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: other than your usual places like Tokyo, Osaka.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: See, the thing is, would you say this is a
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: good problem because while other countries are struggling to get
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  Speaker 1: tourism up, they have over-tourism. I mean, it is somewhat
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: a good problem in a way, in a way. It
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: depends on how you look at it. Yeah, yeah. It
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  Speaker 1: also comes with, you know, bad behavior and then of
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  Speaker 1: course with snowboarding and all that.
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  Speaker 1: You know the snow monkeys in Japan. They're very cute.
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  Speaker 1: They always like, are they the ones that dip themselves
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  Speaker 1: in like the on sand? They soak themselves in on sand. So.
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  Speaker 1: Jiko Kudani Monkey Park, hopefully I'm saying that correctly, a
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  Speaker 1: popular place in Nagano, Japan. It is known for the
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  Speaker 1: snow monkeys, the wild Japanese macaque. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Sounded like you were trying to spit or clear your throat,
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  Speaker 1: but from August 2026.
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  Speaker 1: This Japanese snow monkey park, it will now cap daily
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  Speaker 1: visitor numbers and move to online ticketing because of bad
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  Speaker 1: tourist behavior. What are they doing to the monkeys? OK,
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  Speaker 1: the minor ones, but they're still serious. People feeding the monkeys,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: touching the monkeys, chasing the monkeys down. That one, yeah,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get people who will do that, idiots. And
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  Speaker 1: then the next one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very curious as to why, OK? You know how
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  Speaker 1: the snow monkeys bathe in the on sands, right? It's
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: natural springs.
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  Speaker 1: Are people going into the on sand? The tourists, no,
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  Speaker 1: they want to bathe. Why the snow monkeys. I can't
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  Speaker 1: decide what's worse, to be honest. Exactly. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's very hygienic for you as a human being. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what's in the hot water in the in
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  Speaker 1: the water in the hot springs, yes, yeah, I mean, look, um.
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  Speaker 1: I love an on sand. I love a good natural
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  Speaker 1: on sand, but animals can be very unpredictable. What if
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  Speaker 1: you go, you're basically invading their bathtub, you know. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not. Although they may recognize me as one of them,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They may be like, hey, our long
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  Speaker 1: lost cousin. But you know, essentially, if we were to
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: put it simply, right, you're basically visiting someone's house, right?
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: You visit someone's house.
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  Speaker 1: You don't shower wherever you go, just jump straight into
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  Speaker 1: the bathtub. That's what people are doing. Uh, there are
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: other metaphorically speaking, incidences of bad behavior as well. So
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: apparently a cherry blossom festival near Mount Fuji in Fuji, Oshida.
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  Speaker 1: I love that place, by the way, I'll gladly go
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  Speaker 1: back just to sit on a bench and look at
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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji. It was canceled after residents complained that their
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: quiet lives were under threat.
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  Speaker 1: With complaints of trespassing, littering, and people defecating in their
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: private gardens. Why? I have so many questions. Do they
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  Speaker 1: have CCTV? Can they catch these people? I'm sure they do,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they've given the footage to the authorities already.
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  Speaker 1: But I really hope no Singaporeans were involved in this
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  Speaker 1: kind of bad behavior, especially bathing with the snow monkeys.
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  Speaker 1: That one I cannot understand. I don't get it. I
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: don't get it. You go and try Mandai Wildlife Reserve.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing, police waiting outside. But the question is,
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  Speaker 1: what is the eventual goal of that? Like, is it
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: for content or what? Because you can't post it. The post,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: once you post it, you get arrested. What? It could
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  Speaker 1: be for content. It could be for all the culture,
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  Speaker 1: the experience, the healing zen of the Japanese spring.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing healing about that after you get caught by the authorities,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: but you know, they're not alone on this because other
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  Speaker 1: countries I've seen recently, especially on, you know, TikTok and
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and all that, um, tourists going into like fountains, waterfalls,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: places that are they specifically have a sign there that
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: says you cannot enter, but there are people doing it for, for,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: for the cloud or for content. On the topic of monkeys,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: how was Bali? Oh, Bali, I was in, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Planet monkeys. We drove past the monkey temple, monkey forest, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: monkey forest, but there's also a temple there monkeys, and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I swear, I swear, we saw a monkey, several monkeys
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: roaming around, but one of them squatting outside holding a phone.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not joking, I'm not kidding. And this reminded me
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of Joakim, not, not because he looks like the monkey
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: or anything, no resemblance, but it's because your phone.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Stolen by monkey in 2019, yes, at Uluwatu. I was
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: holding my phone. I was telling my ex-girlfriend, Hey, please
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: keep your stuff, and out of nowhere the monkey snatches
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: my phone. But that, OK, the rumor is the trainer
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: trains the monkeys to do these things so that you
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: tip the trainer for them to get your phone back
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: for you. That's how they earn a bit of pocket
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: money on the side. That's the rumor. I'm not going
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: to confirm anything. OK, OK. Well, that personally has not
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: happened to me, but
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Um, I did see a monkey carrying a phone. There
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, I wish I got a picture of that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Could have been my phone. OK, time for some Bodo crime. Joakim,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: can you explain to our wonderful listeners who might have
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: just joined us for the first time what is Bordo crime? Yeah, OK,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: so when it comes to the serious crimes here in Singapore,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: we will never ever touch them or laugh at them,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: but when it comes to
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: To crime that just makes you think, what were they doing?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: What were they thinking? Can you please explain yourselves? That
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: one we classify as border crime. Exactly. And this one
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: unfortunately happened again at another durian stall. I don't know
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: what's going on. Which location? Um, I'll let you know
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in a bit. Should I sing the jingle first? 123
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and crime, crime, crime.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Today we are going to at top durian station.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: So I was scrolling to try and see where is
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Top durian station situated at.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: And um I need to do a quick search on
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: that in just a bit, yeah, because it doesn't say
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: in this particular article. Oh they got a lot is, OK, well,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they didn't specify which particular one, but I think if
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not wrong, you're right. The store in question, even
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: though they have many chains, is the one at Block
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: 154 Bukit Batok Street 11 because they have one at Yishun,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: so I was gonna say Yishun, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a chain. It's, yeah, it, I wouldn't
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: call it a franchise. They've got several shops. So yeah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to specify, it's in Bukit Batok, the boisterous street of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Bukit Batok. Let's take it away. Unfortunately, this durian stall assistant, um, he,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing he might seem to be quite a good employee, OK,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: because he was entrusted with
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Uh, the code to the safe where during Chinese New Year,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe they got a lot of sales and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, right? So they will have to have
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a safe so they can keep all the, the proceeds, right,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: from the sales. So this assistant, he was entrusted with
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the passcode. Unfortunately, he ended up stealing almost $18,000 worth
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of cash.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And proceeded to gamble the entire sum of money away
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: at MBS. Oh, this combines and bling habit. I know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I know. So this is just very unfortunate because
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Giving him the passcode, that gives him so much power, right,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in a way, but also kind of silly for him
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to do that. He's probably the only other person who
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: has a passcode. It's not like he was even trying
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to get away with it. Maybe he thought to himself
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: he will win and double the cash and then he
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: put the cash back. No, I don't. It rarely does,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but maybe that was him being optimistic. Was he caught
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on CCTV? He was caught. So, um, during the CNY period,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I think this was, uh, 18th Feb to 22nd Feb.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Um, the supervisor went on leave, so I think he
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: took that as an opportunity to be like, OK, you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: no one knows, no one knows what's going on. $17,300
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: disappeared from the safe on separate occasions. For the first time,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: he attempted with something a bit smaller, so I think
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he took stacks of $50 notes. This totaled to $1000.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: 2nd time he thought, nobody said anything, he sat.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: He kept up the remaining $16.3,000 in cash, gambled the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: stolen money away, and guess what, he even borrowed money
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: from customers and friends. Yeah, so, um, I think what
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: happened was over 50 customers turned up to collect debts
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because they all, maybe he sort of said some pitiful
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: story and they lent him some money.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: So as a result, he not only owes that almost
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: 180 back to his employer, he also owes other customers money.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing. No, so far, no. I think they're still,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: they're still looking into it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Um, but what, what the friends and people are saying
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: is that he seems like a neighbor to them sometimes,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you know, he's a good friend and they trusted him
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and they said that he promised to pay the rest
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: back when he received his salary. Unfortunately, he got arrested. Yeah,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: that's lending money.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: You got to be very careful and perhaps maybe, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I say this if you can afford it, it should
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: be money you're prepared to lose and never ever get back. No,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I completely agree. Um, but I guess the silver lining
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: is that apparently he really expressed a lot of remorse
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and not just to supervisors, his colleagues, but he's been
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: appealing for leniency. He said he really is very, very
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: sorry and he understands the seriousness of his actions. So
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: hopefully he's not.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: saying it to get out of the situation, you know, I,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I have faith that he, he really feels bad and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: he gets the treatment he deserves in terms of the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: gambling addiction. I know and maybe that self-exclusion program that
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: both Marina Bay Sands and RWS they have with their casinos. Yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but not durian stalls lately happening, making the news for
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: all different reasons. There was one, I think last week
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: over at Tampines, they were giving away 1000 kg of
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: durian on the daily queues.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: That's great. So yummy. OK, so I haven't filled Joakim
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: in on this just yet, but I wanted to get
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: your thoughts, OK? And I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I know what you would do in this situation. OK, people,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'll give it to you first. My podcast is on.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Let's go. So over when I was in Bali over
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the weekend, it was meant to be like a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't call it a fitness retreat because it's,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, we still go drink, we still eat like
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: really amazing Balinese food. It's not like we're eating clean
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and strictly going by a schedule, you know, a fitness retreat. But,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: but I will say that it, for me, it was
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: quite intense because I don't usually do that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Much like physical activity, cardio, um, drills and stuff when
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it comes to any sort of sports. So it was
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a new experience to me and I think my body's
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: just very exhausted from it. To our friends over at MINDEF,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: do a sponsored campaign with Sonia. Make her go for
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the SAF SAF VC for 2 weeks. 2 weeks.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: 2 weeks BMT 2 days with the Singapore Armed Forces
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Volunteer Corps. Can I start with 2 days? No, 2
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: weeks is a bit pushing it. Like, have you seen me? Hello.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: You know, for us men, national service, you try to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: go and tell your inject or sergeant.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: OK, this one is different. You try lah. I'm kidding.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. But yes, that's always the fight, right? Anyway, um,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: what happened was when I was over, when I was
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: in the hotel, um, we booked the same hotel basically
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: for 3 nights, OK? So 3 nights I was like
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: ready for this restful weekend, and then, you know, we
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: wake up early, go for peddle camp.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Um, eat nice food, you know, we end off, then
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we can go chill out by the pool and it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: was just meant to be super fun, relaxing, and some
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: training to some extent, right? Um, unfortunately, the first night,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and we encountered some very, very, very noisy tourists that
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: were also staying in the same hotel, OK. So, this
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: hotel is quite big and the hallways are very long.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And it's mostly made up of wood, right? So as
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you can, the sound will travel. It's, it's one of
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: those slightly rustic, you know, Bali, right? It's a bit
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: more rustic, right? So the sound will travel for sure.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: First night, there were very loud cackling noises coming through,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: but it was maybe like twelve-ish at night. So, OK, la,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: maybe I thought these people are having fun, you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: just came back from a party probably, and yeah, I just, OK,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: never mind. I'll just, I'll just let it slide and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: not say anything about it, OK.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Um, but allegedly they made more noise at an area
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: nearer to our other friend's room. So she got the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: brunt of it. So she was very frustrated. She said
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: she only slept like 2 hours that night. So we
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: felt really bad for her. We said, OK, we'll, we'll
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: hopefully it doesn't happen again tonight. Lo and behold, um,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this was the last night, OK, so the next, basically
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: next day, which was yesterday, Sunday, we had a mini tournament.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So we want to be like at our best, right,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: well rested.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: My gosh, at, I want to say 3 a.m. or so,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: like 3-ish, they started going at it again.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And then they started laughing. I think they were maybe intoxicated.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Sounded like it. They probably just came back from somewhere.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And I woke up from it, OK, I, I, I
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: was jolted awake because of it. I didn't want to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: check the time because, you know, you know, both of us, right?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: We've got this anxiety with the timing and all that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: When you wake up and you see like, oh man,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I still have 3 more hours to sleep, but I'm
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: already awake. What am I going to do, you know?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Did Bali witness angry Sonia? Yes, yes. OK, about time
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that unleashed. Hold on. So I, I just want to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: give you a disclaimer. I was not, OK, I don't
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: think I was rude or mean or anything. I don't
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: think so. I don't think so, OK.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: But I figured that they sounded very, very near my room,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and I should just take things into my own hands
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: because I've done the whole like calling the front desk
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: before and it didn't really work out, you know what
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I mean? They will always be very nice about it
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and then they'll come back again, the noise will come
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: back again, like after a while, right? So after, I
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: don't know, I want to say 2030 minutes of them cackling, laughing, shouting, screaming, um,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: just all the sound reverberating down the hallway.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I stood up and germs was like, what's going on?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: What's going on? I stood up, I went to the door,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I flung it open and my first thought was,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I was just like.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Then he kept quiet for a while, then he started
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: laughing again, and then guess what I did? You went
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to the room.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Guess what I said next? Shut up.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Knowing you, I did that and I don't usually do that,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: but it was so frustrating because they were going on
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: for so long. So they actually, they actually left after that. Oh,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I heard them like sort of scramble and then they.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: To which I think maybe other people around were quite
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: grateful that that happened. You tribute. Hey man, um, it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was one of those things where I feel it was
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: out of character, but I was just really frustrated because
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it's two nights in a row. First night, close one eye.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Second night, this was way too late. I checked the time,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it was 4:30. Exactly, it was 4:30 and I was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: so like riled up from it. I was like took
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: some time to fall back asleep.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: That's my story. Can you just for dramatic purposes, can
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you reenact the way you said shut up? Shut up.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, like that. Yeah, maybe that's why my throat
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: pain today.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Give us a call 669-11987. Yeah. Let us know, have
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you ever been in a situation where you're traveling or
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: maybe you had a staycation?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And the rooms around you or someone that's staying in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a room around you made so much noise that got
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you so frustrated and what did you do? I'll give
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you my story when we come back. OK, well, recounting
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: noisy people invading the peace over at what's meant to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: be a Zen vacation or a wellness getaway or something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sure this has happened.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to, to most of us. You know, you, you check
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: into a hotel, you're going for a trip and you're
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: looking forward to having a good night's rest, but unfortunately,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you get stuck next to a noisy neighbor in the hotel.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Inspired by whatever happened to our darling Sonia Chew at
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: 4:30 a.m. with her big head and face going out
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of the room yelling, shut up.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, that was a different side of me that germs
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: has not quite seen, I think. Forget Mount Bor, the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: active volcano. There's a Mount Sonia, yeah. And don't mess
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: with this one. The eruption could be anytime. Yes, I've
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: seen it. Last erupted, uh, what, 12 years ago. Anyway,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I wanna say good morning to the moon.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Recounting a noisy night in a hotel, I was in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the Middle East, and the guests next door were having
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: parties every night in their room, and they only dialed
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: about maybe say 6 a.m. After a few nights like that,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I cannot tahan, so I banged on the wall to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: signal them to be quiet. Instead of keeping quiet, they
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: banged back and moments later I got a call from
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the reception saying my neighbors next door.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Complain about banging on the wall coming from my room.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The nerve. What, the plot twist, man. Seriously, I'll be
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: so mad. OK, here's what I would do, and I'm
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a very, OK, could be an overthinker, could be a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: personality type kind of thing, right? I'm the kind of
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: person where if I walk into a hotel before I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: check in, I'll observe the staff first. OK, I'll look
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and see if there's anyone of authority.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There within the staff members because I know if I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have problems, at least there's someone who can handle it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and not someone who go like, hi, sorry sir, you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: know we get complaints about your room too but the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: thing is you can't guarantee that because in the middle
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of the night that person may not be on shift shift, yeah,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: they may not be putting the high ranking person with
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: authority overnight. So if for example, the room next to
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: mine is really noisy and it's 2 a.m. in the morning.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely calling reception. Yeah. If it's still noisy, I'm
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: going to go to the room myself and knock say,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: hey guys, come on lah. You know, it's into your
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: own hands. OK, so, funny enough, right, this happened when
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: um Jerm and I were on our honeymoon as well, OK.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: So you know, in Europe, some of the hotels are
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a bit older. They are beautiful, but I think the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: walls are a little bit thin and compared to the modern,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: some of the modern hotels, right? So there was this
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: one place we're staying at, beautiful place, beautiful view.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Um, the person who booked the suite next to us
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: had parties every night till like late, OK, and they
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: were playing like kind of music.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And I can hear it from the, from the sleeping
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: area in our room. And initially I called, we called
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the reception, we said, hey, do you think you could
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: go check it out because it's really, you know, it's,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's going on for quite a while. And I was genuinely,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I was in a good mood. I didn't want to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: get into any, you know, fights or whatsoever, right? So
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: they went ahead. So I said, OK, fine. Next night
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it happened again, OK, like in the middle of the night.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: So I was like, is there a point even like
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: asking the reception again, maybe this person is like a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: high spender, you know, seeing how this, it's a nice
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: suite next to us, I think it's one of the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: nicest ones that they booked, right? So I was like, OK,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do because um the next
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: morning when we went to breakfast, we did see a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: couple of um
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I don't want to generalize, but they seem quite scary
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and sketchy, the people that were living in the suite
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: next to us. Yeah, so I don't know, we don't
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: know the backstory, right? So I didn't dare, like we
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: didn't want to get ourselves into any trouble by knocking
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: on their door because it seemed like, I don't know
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: what kind of parties they were having. I'm just gonna
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: leave it as that. The both of you on your honeymoon,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: let them hear you back. All the activities, let them
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: hear it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They want different kind of sound. Gerry is on the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: line right now. Have you experienced this before?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I was
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: staying in a hostel. Oh no.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Right, opposite, it's actually like a room, entertainment room where
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: like kids, I mean like students can hang out there,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: watch TV and all that, but you know, being uni students, right,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: most of them actually hang out there till like wee hours.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: So I don't understand why when they want a party,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: they have to like open the door when there's actually
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: you can close the door.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: And knowing that my room is just opposite that door,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: so that day I was actually trying to sleep because
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I had to like catch a morning bus to go
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to another city. They had to like party all night
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and open the door, so I got so pissed off.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: We went to the room and they actually use uh
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: like a stopper, not knowing that that that stopper is
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: actually one of, uh, don't know what my friends say
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: it's like actually specially made snooker stick.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: So I took that and then just smashed it on
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the floor. Can you all just keep quiet? They actually
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: all went quiet but the person who owned the snooker
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: came to me and said, Why do you have to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: smash this? This is actually specially made. Uh, I don't
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: know what lah, with what material. They say, but you
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: all make so much noise, and how, why do you
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: use an expensive stick to stop a door?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: True.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: So David, I have a question for you. Are you
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a teacher now by any chance or discipline mistress?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I'm a,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I'm a netball
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: coach.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: good news, Sonia. Based on my experience over the weekend
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: about noisy neighbors when you check into a hotel, sometimes
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: these things not within your control. You don't even know
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: whether they're going to be throwing parties every single night
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and all that, but it has happened to the best
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: of us. Um, after reading out some of these messages
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and some of your calls, we're back with more stories.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Say good morning to Cecilia.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: On WhatsApp. Morning, Sonia and Joe. I had the same
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: experience as Sonia. We were at Batam for our company's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: retreat and I bunked in with our HR officer. We
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: were soundly asleep when I heard people chatting and laughing
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: loudly in the wee hours. I was very agitated, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: it went on for some time. In my days, I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: tried to open my eyes and sat up on the bed,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: about to shout when I saw that the TV was
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: turned on.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Our HR officer was grinding her teeth in her sleep.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: The TV controller was on the floor. I freaked out
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and picked up the controller to turn off the TV,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: jumped on the bed, covered my head with the comforter,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and the thumping from my heartbeat was even louder to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: my ears than the sound from the TV earlier. I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: thought the room was haunted. Oh no. Oh no. OK, look,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: some
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Actually, some of these hotels, maybe it's also because it's
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a bit old, like the hotel we were staying in,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I think even though it's well maintained, I think some
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: of the electrical circuits or wires are not exactly the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: best because we did, we kept hearing the thermostat clicking
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: as well, you know, the, the air-con thermostat. So it
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: kept going like tap tap tap tap, which is quite creepy,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and then once in a while, the light will.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Flicker or turn on, right, and it happened to our
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: friend's room as well, but we concluded that it's just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: because it's, you know, a lot of these hotels are
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: much older. OK, here's my story very quickly. Let's go.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: This is, this happened to me in Spain. I don't
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: know whether I told you this last year or not,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: but I was in Barcelona towards the final leg of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: my trip and my hotel.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: OK lah. Let's just say for two nights in a row.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: There were sounds of passion. Oh no, you mean, OK, OK, OK,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: sounds of passion coming from the room next to me.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Oh no. And I was thinking to myself like, OK, yeah,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: you don't want to interrupt, right? Do I want to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: interrupt them because, you know, if, for example, one day
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: if there are sounds of passion from my room, OK,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: this is too much for the morning joking, I wouldn't
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: want to be interrupted also, if you know what I mean.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: He's talking about his passion for football. Talking about um
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: having unfortunate noisy neighbors when you check into a hotel.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's beyond your control and then you
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: don't know these strangers. It's, it's can't decide what's worse, right?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You want to relax, then you've got a noisy neighbor.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: So I think for Sonia and the same kind of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: person we call the reception. If that doesn't work, then
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: we are taking matters into our own hands, which is
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: exactly what I did in Bali over the weekend and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: actually it worked. It was effective.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: We raised the voices coming from the level of the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: hotel room you're in. I mean, I, I went there
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: for a restful weekend and it was not restful. In fact,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I gave them one chance already the previous night. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: let them do what they wanted to do. OK, I'm
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: gonna give you a very bad stereotype, OK? Could it
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: be because it's Bali? There are certain types of people
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: when they go there, right, they feel like they are
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the king. Yes, you're not wrong. You're not wrong.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I think the unfortunate thing is also because in terms
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of like, let's say currency, right, when you go to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: places like Bali, not, not just Bali, by the way,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: suddenly you're like, wow, your money's multiplied, and maybe you're
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: able to stay at a much nicer hotel in that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: country versus your own country, because it's, you know, price
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: point wise, right? And there are a lot of entitled people,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: so they just feel like they can do what they want.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, we've got time for one last call. Pearly,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for being patient. What happened?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I went to Batam, supposed to be a relaxed, chill
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: with hammock, everything. Uh, so the first night we went,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: everything was as expected, relaxed, very.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Chill. Then my husband said, hm, not that resort, we
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: should come again. The second day, while we were napping,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: relaxing in the afternoon, a bunch of ladies and girls
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: came to the resort with their
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: speakers.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Could be a bachelorette party, but yes, keep going.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: And they stay at the VR behind us. Oh no.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Then they were playing music. OK, never mind, they play music,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: very restrict, but they start to car. OK. Pearly out
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: of tone.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't know Pearly, were they Singaporean? No, just checking checking, yes.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm Dave right here on 987, Singapore's number one hit
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: music station. Thanks for joining us here this morning.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: OK, only one person can walk away with this lovely
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: treat here today thanks to our friends who are at
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Paul Bakery. Love them. They recently went through a bit
• 37:08
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• 37:10
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• 37:24
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• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, and you, you could stand a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: chance to walk away with this simply by telling us
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: about your experience, which I personally shared over the weekend,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: having noisy neighbors, other tourists, other people who are staying
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: in the hotel that just cannot stop talking or making noise,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and the $100 dining experience the Paul Bakery.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It's going to. Dewi, you talked about your uni dorm situation,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and I think hall can be just as bad as
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a hotel situation. Let's be real. Yeah, to catch up
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: with all the hilarious conversations and stories we've had, please
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: log on to me, listen and Spotify after the show.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: We go from all the talk about migraines to something
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that gives me a lot of joy.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Um, today I'm going back to my alma mater once again,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Saint Anthony's. Hello Saint Anthony Kian Convent. I know, you know,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I've always said yes, I was there primary, secondary school
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and all that, 10 years of my life. So every
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: year I, I, I try to go back at least
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: once or twice for, um, talks or like school visits
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and all that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: So this, this is my 2nd time going back this year.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: The first time was to receive an award, so that
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: wasn't exactly, I didn't do much. I just went up
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: to receive an award. Well, at this point, given the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: amount of times you've gone back there voluntarily to give
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: talks and to motivate the girls over there, right, if
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: you had a daughter, does this count as like, you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the parent volunteer time which you can put her in
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that that that scheme if they have it like an admission, yeah, yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I guess also alma mater, maybe you got a higher chance.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but um.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I hope if I have a future kid like she
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: does well on her own. Are you a little Sonia
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: walking around one penny and garden and all that? Then
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I'll have a migraine. But anyway.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: So, well, of course, to catch up with the talk
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: about migraine, it's on Media and Spotify. But later on,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I'll be going down for career day. So cute. So
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: what they do is every year, they'll invite um girls
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: who have attended Saint Anthony's back, you know, all the
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: alumni in different industries. So everyone is from a different background, different.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Industry could be architects, could be from banking, and for me,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you know, media, and then we'll go back and do
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a career session with them. It's just about 30 to
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: 45 minutes each person, and they get to ask us
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: questions as well. I actually Google, are there any politicians
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: in Singapore from Anthony's? Do you know? I don't, not
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that I know of. OK, fine, at least no active ones.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Right now, we don't have any, I think, yeah, but anyway,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: there are plenty of very, very successful women that always
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: go back for a career day, and I think regardless
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of what school you're from, you have your own version
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: of this too. So this is just my way of
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: giving back. I love going back there. It brings back
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: so many memories, and I will keep doing it for
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: as long as I can. See, they closed the secondary
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: school down your secondary school.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I have nowhere to go back to to talk, right.