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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 030826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Up 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. It's just me by
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  Speaker 1: myself this morning. Joakim's called in sick last night, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll be with you every step of the way this
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning. I can't believe it's August already. We're looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to a long weekend, I'm assuming. Anyway, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: kick it off here. Cortis on 987, Singapore's number one
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  Speaker 1: hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: And like I mentioned, over the weekends, full of National
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  Speaker 1: Day celebrations already across a lot of different heartlands, and
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  Speaker 1: I actually got transported to somewhere that's the total opposite
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  Speaker 1: of where I live, because you know, I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast, right? And uh I made my way down
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  Speaker 1: to Ayer Raja on Saturday and I spent half a
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  Speaker 1: day there. It was actually so cool because I got
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  Speaker 1: to meet so many of you that otherwise I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be able to meet. I think a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: were surprised to see me there.
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  Speaker 1: Um, big shout out to students from Queenstown Secondary School, uh,
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  Speaker 1: lots of, I think Tifa Primary as well, so many
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  Speaker 1: students were there, and it was just so eye-opening because
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  Speaker 1: you realize that each neighborhood here in Singapore is completely different. So,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the area of Pasir Ris, and
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  Speaker 1: prior to that, it was Katong. So I've always been
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the east side, right? And I always
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's going to be a different specialty in
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  Speaker 1: different heartlands. Like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: East Coast, we've got like your hawker food, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your Hokkien mee, um, it's really good. We've even got
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  Speaker 1: some famous sita shops there as well and many more.
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  Speaker 1: There's too many to cover in Bedok area, which is
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  Speaker 1: quite near me as well, you know, everyone knows like
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  Speaker 1: the soup bachomi, right? Or Bedok 85. So when I
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  Speaker 1: went over to, uh, to Ayer Raja.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the locals there were telling me there's a
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  Speaker 1: very famous fish ball noodle place there and the uncle's
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  Speaker 1: like a total boss. He's been there for, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: his entire life, I think. And I walked past it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was, uh, it was off peak hour,
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  Speaker 1: so he was chilling. I don't think there was any,
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  Speaker 1: there were any customers.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, he was just chilling outside, taking a nap,
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  Speaker 1: and even while he was taking a nap, he looked
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  Speaker 1: like a boss. So if you live around Ayer Raja or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe the West Coast area, you, I think
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  Speaker 1: might know who I'm talking about. I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: actual name of the fishbowl noodle shop, but it's plastered
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  Speaker 1: with pictures of, I'm guessing.
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  Speaker 1: Famous Channel 8 people that have gone to his shop
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  Speaker 1: before and other regional actors and actresses. It's just full, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just one wall of pictures. Any surface that
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  Speaker 1: is able to be covered is covered with pictures. Then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, there was, there's a famous Nasi Lemak that
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  Speaker 1: I managed to try because they were giving that out.
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  Speaker 1: And a big shout out to their neighborhood Vaai place
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  Speaker 1: that was also doing free giveaways, so very, very generous. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it was really heartwarming to see because I, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've always grown up in a community like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It, it was the kind of thing where
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  Speaker 1: I moved around a bit when I was, when I
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  Speaker 1: was much younger, so I didn't keep that many friendships
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  Speaker 1: from when I was a kid. In fact, if I
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  Speaker 1: could find my two
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  Speaker 1: Neighborhood friends that I used to play with when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, one of them, her name is Natasha,
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  Speaker 1: and the other one is Aya because she's a, she's mixed.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's, her mom was Japanese or something. Her
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  Speaker 1: mom is Japanese, so I don't even know whether they're
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  Speaker 1: still here in Singapore. But yeah, how funny or incredible
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  Speaker 1: would it be if you're able to find the childhood
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  Speaker 1: friends that you lost touch with? I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to do that. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: they're here in Singapore anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it brought back some memories. Coming up tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a very exciting guest joining us and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to just let you know that we've confirmed it.
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  Speaker 1: She performed over at Tomorrowland, Belgium of this year that
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  Speaker 1: I just came back from, um, well, last week, mid
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  Speaker 1: of last week, yeah. Can't believe it, man. Time truly flies.
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  Speaker 1: And her name is DJ Lickey. She's gonna be here
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  Speaker 1: in the studio tomorrow to tell us about her experience
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  Speaker 1: spinning at Tomorrowland Belgium. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Just big shout out to our friends over at JBL
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  Speaker 1: because she was over at the JBL stage. It was
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  Speaker 1: extremely hectic and chaotic. She brought a flavor of Singapore
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  Speaker 1: to the stage and we can't wait to have her tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: She just dropped me a message like a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: ago saying, hey, Sonia, like, um, we're good to go,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Are we confirmed for tomorrow? I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. So she's coming by tomorrow and we just
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to grill her, find out what went down.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I think for a lot of us as well,
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  Speaker 1: we're just curious, right? Like what's the next step? Is
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  Speaker 1: she gonna take on the big stage in the future?
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  Speaker 1: It'll be really cool. So, we cannot wait. It's, it's
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  Speaker 1: always great to shine a light on the local artists and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just people who are making an impact out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we need to show them more support
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  Speaker 1: and love to make sure that they achieve their goals, right?
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  Speaker 1: So we can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: To really give her that time on national radio tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: She's also a big fan of the show, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: really grateful for, so we cannot wait. So, Nicky, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. On that note, coming up in just
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  Speaker 1: a bit, you get to select your songs that you
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  Speaker 1: want to hear just before you get to school or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even before you get to work. You want to
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  Speaker 1: give someone a special shout out, that's you.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, morning. What's your name? My name is Anna Mae.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Anna Mae, which school are you from? I'm from
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  Speaker 1: Bukit View Primary School. I'm in Primary 5. What have
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  Speaker 1: you enjoyed so far about Primary 5? Yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really fun activities like the camps and the show.
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  Speaker 1: Like they take us to a lot of fun places.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. So what do you love the most
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  Speaker 1: about your school?
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't think Joakim and I have visited your
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  Speaker 1: school before. Can you tell me what's good? I love
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  Speaker 1: the teachers and the teachers are really nice and I
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  Speaker 1: have really good friends there, so I enjoy it. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like you might want to give them a shout
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  Speaker 1: out this morning. Anyone you want to name on air?
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  Speaker 1: Elisha and Yann. They're my really good friends and I
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  Speaker 1: thank them for being my good friends.
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  Speaker 1: I love that energy. Thank you for that. OK, you
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  Speaker 1: got any song in mind that you would like to
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  Speaker 1: hear before you get to school? Sienna Spiro. Great Expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Great Expectation. OK, that's coming up just for you in
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. OK? Thank you. All right, you're
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  Speaker 1: most welcome. Have a nice day. Bye-bye. Bye. Now, a
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: lot of um concern and scrutiny around Ariana Grande right
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  Speaker 1: now to the point where this just dropped literally like
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  Speaker 1: hours ago before I got to work.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, she made an announcement that she's taking a step
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  Speaker 1: back from visibility after her tour because she's doing her
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  Speaker 1: music tour right now amid endless ongoing public scrutiny, and
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  Speaker 1: I have to say it's been, it's been quite bad.
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  Speaker 1: I think people have been
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, OK, 50% of the people are just
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  Speaker 1: criticizing the way that she looks because she's lost quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weight. The other 50% are genuinely, I
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  Speaker 1: feel concerned about her, saying that, is there something wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Is she, is she sick? Is she not telling us something?
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  Speaker 1: Because we all know based off um experiences with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for example, Chadwick Boseman.
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  Speaker 1: And many other Hollywood celebrities, they were secretly going through something, right?
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  Speaker 1: They were going through either um a terminal illness, something
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  Speaker 1: really bad, but they didn't want to make a public
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  Speaker 1: statement about it, or maybe they were just dealing with
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  Speaker 1: it in their own personal way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just unfortunate that they're in such, they're in
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  Speaker 1: the limelight, right? So, people generally feel that they can
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  Speaker 1: just make comments and have opinions. You, you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not wrong, like you can have opinions, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it also affects them for sure. Whatever Ariana Grande
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  Speaker 1: is going through right now, I really hope that she
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  Speaker 1: figures it out.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it is, I think, positive that she's taking a
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  Speaker 1: step back. Maybe it's to also give herself a moment
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  Speaker 1: to clear her head and think of what to do
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  Speaker 1: next or maybe deal with whatever she's dealing with right
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  Speaker 1: now because I, I'm not gonna lie, it is a
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  Speaker 1: little concerning, not from a, not from a point of criticism,
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  Speaker 1: I would say.
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  Speaker 1: But just, you know, as fans who love her and
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  Speaker 1: who love her music, we're, we're generally very concerned about
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  Speaker 1: her health. But her spokesperson actually said she will be
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  Speaker 1: taking a step back after she completes the Eternal Sunshine tour,
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  Speaker 1: but she looks forward to finishing it, ending it on
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  Speaker 1: a high note, healthily and happily, then taking a much
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  Speaker 1: deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led
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  Speaker 1: to endless scrutiny, but the tour has been a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: experience for her and she's loved every minute of it.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, is it possible that she was just very stressed?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she has so much stuff going on, right?
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  Speaker 1: Aside from planning for a tour, she had Wicked. She
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  Speaker 1: also had other projects going on. I mean, it must
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  Speaker 1: have taken a toll on her. So, we're sending her
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  Speaker 1: love from 987. I don't think she can even hear
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  Speaker 1: us right now, but I hope she feels the energy.
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  Speaker 1: We're sending her all the love that she needs.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: So feel better. Now, coming up after 8, I want
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: to give you a big heads up right now because
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: we're counting down to National Day itself already. So whatever
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: it is, whether you're going down to actually catch NDP
• 8:50
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• 8:52
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• 9:34
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• 10:13
  Speaker 1: We've caught TikTok CEO's, um, speech just yet to the
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: NTU PhD students saying hi to Mr. Chuw show. No,
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: we're not related, even though we have the same surname,
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: and they're not that many Chu's around. According to my friends,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, don't really, it's not the most common
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  Speaker 1: Chinese surname. But yeah, I wish we were related. That
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  Speaker 1: But he, he did have some very good and strong
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  Speaker 1: points in his speech. It was a 10 minute long
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  Speaker 1: speech and I just wonder whether I can catch the
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: full 10 minutes of it. If it's already been published,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: if you have the link, please let me know. But
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: one particular thing he said struck me and I want
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  Speaker 1: And I'm giving a big shout out to one of
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  Speaker 1: our pride and joy, TikTok CEO Mr. Chuu Shozi, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's always made the news. People love him all across
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  Speaker 1: the world, and he actually did a 10-minute or so
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  Speaker 1: speech to the NTO PhD students, and one of the big, um,
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  Speaker 1: statements that came out of it was, seek out the unknown. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he was in the midst of sharing his experience, you know,
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  Speaker 1: growing up in an analog world.
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  Speaker 1: He launched his career in a digital world, right? So
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  Speaker 1: now he leads TikTok in an AI enabled future as well. So,
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  Speaker 1: a lot that he learned throughout his entire uh course
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  Speaker 1: of his career and sometimes, you know, when I look
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  Speaker 1: back what I studied, for example, back in university or
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  Speaker 1: in in poly,
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  Speaker 1: Things have changed quite a bit, right? Like, you know,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: if you were in MassCom 10 years ago versus now,
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  Speaker 1: I think some of the courses may have changed as
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  Speaker 1: well or improved on, or maybe they've eliminated some things
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  Speaker 1: that are not as relevant right now compared to 10
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  Speaker 1: or 20 years, 20 years ago, maybe. So, that, that's
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  Speaker 1: definitely something that we always adapt, we have to adapt to, right?
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  Speaker 1: Especially in an industry that is as fast-paced as media,
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  Speaker 1: for example.
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  Speaker 1: Even advertising or business. I mean, there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fast-paced industries that are affected by new technology and
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  Speaker 1: the new world. So when I saw this, he encouraged
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  Speaker 1: students to seek out the unknown. It really got me thinking,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: you know, all the times that I wondered, actually, what
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  Speaker 1: would I be if I wasn't doing this, for example, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this career that I, career path that I
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  Speaker 1: eventually took is not the one that I set out
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  Speaker 1: to do initially.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be a journalist and well, while it's still,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: while it is still in the media, it's very different,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I was very set on the fact that
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in news. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: a news journalist. I'm going to be like a Diana
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  Speaker 1: Sur or something or a Glenda Chong, right? That was
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  Speaker 1: what I thought I would be when I was growing up.
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  Speaker 1: But the universe has other plans and sometimes things just change, right?
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  Speaker 1: Let me know, what did you think you were going
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  Speaker 1: doing now? Let me know. Is there a big change?
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  Speaker 1: Is it something that is completely off from where you
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  Speaker 1: thought you would be or what you predicted?
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  Speaker 1: almost $150. I was just addressing the TikTok CEO's speech
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  Speaker 1: to the NTU PhD students about how you should seek
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  Speaker 1: out the unknown. And of course, he also addressed how
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  Speaker 1: um he grew up in an analog world and things changed, right?
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: He launched his career into a digital one, which is
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  Speaker 1: completely different from what he studied back then.
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  Speaker 1: And it kind of inspired me to ask you this question.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of seeking out the unknown, right, what was something
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  Speaker 1: that you intended to do when you were young? And
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: is it what you're doing right now? Or is it
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: very much different? I'm gonna head to messages first and
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: say hi to Atia. You said, morning, Sonia. I've actually
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  Speaker 1: been studying engineering my whole life, but I guess the
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  Speaker 1: universe has other plans for me right now. The line
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  Speaker 1: of work I'm in is so unrelated to engineering.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see myself in this sector, but here
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  Speaker 1: I am. Even people around me were shocked. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: working in the healthcare sector right now as a business
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  Speaker 1: office account officer.
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  Speaker 1: And it is way different from what I have studied,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm thankful for this choice because I met so
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  Speaker 1: many great people with a lot of talents and the
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: support I have from my colleagues are amazing. Happy Monday, Sonia.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Atia, for this message. Um, really
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  Speaker 1: warmed my heart, and it goes to show that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the universe might have different ways of throwing curveballs at you,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes if you embrace it, it might come out completely.
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  Speaker 1: Completely successful, you know, it's just like my current choice
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  Speaker 1: of career right now is totally not what I expected.
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  Speaker 1: I shared many times that, you know, I thought I'd
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  Speaker 1: be a journalist when I was in school. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll be a lawyer because I was in debate team, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, yeah, I can see myself
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  Speaker 1: being a lawyer, but hey, I didn't end up doing
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  Speaker 1: any of that. So life has its way of changing,
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  Speaker 1: changing your path sometimes and it's whether or not you
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  Speaker 1: end up embracing it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, uh, more messages coming through and some of our
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  Speaker 1: callers hanging on the line too. Say hi over here
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  Speaker 1: to Barry, who said, this is such an interesting question. Honestly,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: it's something I think about when I'm lying in bed
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: or having one of those frustrating days at work.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I'm currently in cybersecurity, but growing up, I always wanted
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: to be a vet. I've always loved animals and I
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to make a real difference in their lives. In
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: the end though, I wasn't quite sure if I could
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: handle the job. My fear of blood didn't exactly help.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: So instead of diagnosing sick animals, I ended up diagnosing
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: cybersecurity problems. It's not quite, quite what I imagined.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: As a kid, but I still get to solve problems
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: and protect others just in a very different way. Hey,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I love this message, Barry. Thank you so much for
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: sharing that with me. I, I smiled. I found, I
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: found myself smiling the whole way, reading out your message.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I too am an animal lover, but I
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: don't think I could be a good vet at all.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just be their emotional support human, hug them, maybe,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: maybe I could do that.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Anyway, thank you for your messages and um coming up
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: in just a bit, I'm gonna get to some of
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: your phone calls. And just last week, we gave away
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: tickets for you to catch Alex Warren live in concert
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and hopefully you have a good one. It's gonna be
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: really great. Big shout out to Alex Warren. OK, so
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: we're on the topic right now of uh whether or
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not you set out to, whether or not you've pursued
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: what you set out to do as a kid. You know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you always imagine that, yeah, OK, I'm gonna be an
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: astronaut or I'm gonna be a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: No one else. I'm gonna be a banker or I'm
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: gonna be a doctor. Did it kind of take the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: same path? Did your, did your future career kind of
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: go that way or did it leave you in a
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: completely different path altogether? So, I'm going to your messages
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: first before we get to Sandy, who's on the line
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: right now to queue. You said, morning, Sonia. When I
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: was young, I wanted to be a vet. Hey, this
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: is the 2nd person that said you wanted to be
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a vet.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I love dogs, and if I'm being honest, I'm an introvert.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I'd much rather negotiate with a golden retriever than a human. Unfortunately,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the universe had other plans. I ended up in business
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: school and university and somehow graduated straight into sales. Now
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I spend
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: My days in customer facing meetings, pretending my social battery
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: isn't flashing at 1%. Until date, my dad still wonders
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: how I ended up here because I wear my heart
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on my sleeve. Oh, cute. I hope it's not too
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: late for you to pursue it. Do it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's not too late, please. I would love
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to bring my dog to your future clinic. I mean, hopefully,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I don't have to bring my dog to the clinic, but,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you know, it's inevitable, right? Humans need to see doctors
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and animals, especially dogs and, you know, whatever pets you have,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: need to see vets. So don't give up. Maybe it's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: not too late.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Um, Sandy is on the line right now. OK, Sandy,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: did you end up doing what you set out to
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: do as a kid? Uh, no, it's nothing like what
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I predicted. I wanted to be a scientist and do research,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: new things, but I'm in the IT industry. OK, OK.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: So what changed then and did you actually study?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: And pursue courses and schools that would have led you
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to be a scientist back then. Um, I loved the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: science back then, but then when I went to the uni,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: science wasn't what I expected, you know, it had nothing
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to lead me to where I wanted to do, uh,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: like invent things. So then I got this illusion and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I just picked the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The most convenient. But do you like it though? I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: still like it, but it would be more exciting to
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: be a scientist to create new things.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, um, Sandy, I think it's never too late. I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: know that, I know some people who make like mid-life
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: career changes, and they still achieve what they wanted to,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: like it's a passion thing, you know. Yes, I agree. Exactly,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: never too late.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sharing, Sandy. Have a great day, OK?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Songs of all time, of course, the likes of Lining, Cesari,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: so many more on the road ahead right here on
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: 987 as we count down to National Day itself. Yay,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: long weekend. I'm not sure what you have planned, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: we do have more calls and messages coming through right now.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Talking about whether or not
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: What you set out to do as a kid is
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: eventually what you pursued as an adult, and all this
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: inspired by TikTok CEOs Chuu So Ti doing this 10-minute
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: speech to our NTU PhD students, and I was just
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: looking at the summary of it. It just kind of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: got me thinking like, am I doing what I set
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: out to do when I was much younger, like in school?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: The answer is no, although it's still in the same
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: field of media. Um, I did not expect myself to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: be in the public eye like that. Definitely not. That
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that was a surprise to everyone, I'm very sure. So,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: more messages coming through right now. Um, Anonymous came through
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: with a text. I fell in love with psychology after
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: secondary school, but didn't make it into the new psychology
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: diploma program after O levels. I took on gaming thinking
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it was something fun, only to face coding every day.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Regardless, I decided to study psychology after foregoing signing during NS.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: 8 years have passed since then, and I'm currently a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: psychologist within the forensic field. The world really has its
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: ways to gravitate you back to your roots. So to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: all the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Aspiring psychologists out there, hang in there. PS gamer turned psychologist.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That's so cool. Thank you for sharing that with me, Anonymous. Um, yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: by the way, just so many incredible stories coming through
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Um, you didn't quite leave your name. I'm just gonna
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: call you S. You said, hey, Sonia, Happy Monday. Well,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: when I was young, I wanted to be a policeman.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Then I wanted to be a magician because my parents
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: put me in a tuxedo and immediately I went magician.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But now I'm actually a videographer and video editor. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: guess I make magic behind the camera and in post-production now. Also,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sort of in my mid-career change and studying to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: be a property agent.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So hopefully I can make magic for people's home dreams someday.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I'm hearing? I'm hearing that you
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: want to make a lot of magic and I'm completely
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: down for that, OK? Don't ever let anyone take that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: away from you or dull your sparkle, I have to say.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you for that reminder this morning, appreciate it. When
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: we come back, we still do have another caller on
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the line, um, saying hi to Firdaus in just a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: little while, um, but you know, hey, I guess at
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, a lot of us pursued
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: something that we didn't expect to do versus what we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: imagined ourselves doing as a kid, right? You know, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: all have these big ambitions or
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: We visualize, oh yeah, I want to be, I want
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to be a doctor, I want to be an astronaut,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I want to be um a scientist. Actually, 2 or
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: 3 people actually DM'ed and said they wanted to be
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a scientist when they're growing up and uh many more
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: messages coming through. So I'm gonna read out a couple
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: more before Firdau's on the line. A sent me a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: message saying, morning, Sans. When I was a kid, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was forced to want to become a doctor. Well, I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: guess my parents got only 20% of what they want
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: because I was a medic during NS.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: OK, but what are you doing now? I'm curious. I'm
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: curious to know. OK, um, more, more of your messages
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: coming through, but first we got Firdaus on the line.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: What about you? What's your story of what you intended
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: to do as a kid versus now?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I was a kid. I'm doing right now. OK, OK,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: opposite of I
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: want to do.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: So what do you think changed along the way? Like
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you wanted to be a chef.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Initially, but now you're in HR. Like, so, tell me
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the journey.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: During my time when I'm in school, uh, the, uh,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: opening for chef school is not many as they are
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: only shut at the moment of time due to stability
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: kind and now parents approach of it influence, yeah, that's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the reason why I actually go the normal path, so-called
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the norm of what people usually do.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Ah, for stability wise, being a chef has always been
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a passion part of me, lah. So I actually do
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: it on the sideline kind of things.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, so it's, it's quest.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, correct.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: OK, so, so what do you do then that um
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: maybe like private dining for your friends or
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Just a passion thing or what is it that you
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: do to scratch that itch?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I'm actually more of a pastry kind of chef, so
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I actually like to bake. So, uh, during COVID, I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: actually opened up a home-based business for cream puff.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Are you still running right
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: now?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: On and off request orders kind of thing,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, since you're on national radio, right, why don't you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: tell our listeners if they want to place an order,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: can they still do that with you for cream puffs? Sure,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: sure, sure. They can actually request for it. It's purring
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: P U R R I N G.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Purring puff. OK, gotcha. I love cream puffs. I love
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a good one. So I have high expectations for yours.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Firdaus. You have a great day, OK?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And after all your responses, your messages, your calls, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: just want to say, Firdaus, you're today's winner. Congratulations. You
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: also just sent me a message saying and apologizing that
• 24:12
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: crime-related news that are absolutely face palm worthy, OK. We,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: we don't make fun of anything that is severe, serious.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So when people get hurt or injured or where a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: serious crime is involved, no. These are the ones where
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you just wonder, why did they even try to do
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: this in the first place. So I did one earlier
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this morning, not expecting another one to surface, and I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: guess it's our lucky day. Taking you to Bedok North
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: today for Bodo crime, Bodo crime, Bodo crime, Bodo crime.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: This man broke into a temple in Bedok North, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling I know which temple this is
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: because my school that I used to go to, Saint
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Anthony's used to be in what is in Bedok North.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So I kind of can figure out which temple this is,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I think. This man broke in and stole from the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: donation boxes of all places. This just happened on the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: last day of July, July 31st actually.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And cash that was worth close to $400 was stolen
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: from these donation boxes, but clearly, there's CCTV and police
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: cameras everywhere. The man was arrested within 3 hours of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the reports. Oh, man. They recovered cash amounting to $290
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: which is um less than the amount that he stole.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: They also believe he might be linked to two other
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: unreported cases of housebreaking and theft at the same temple.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Where almost $2000 in cash was stolen. So, he will
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: be charged, um, and I guess his sentence and his
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: punishment will be released very soon, but our police, uh,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that the police are advising us to please secure openings
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: like doors, windows, have good quality grills and, you know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: padlocks when you're leaving your premises unattended.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Another thing that I say, be very careful about that
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I feel I've heard stories about before, if you're having
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a wedding very soon, make sure that you assign someone
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that you can really trust with security, you know, and everything.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: If you are expecting a lot of guests and you're
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: expecting quite a big amount in your Angpao box, you
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: definitely want a trustworthy person to secure that bag, OK?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I will tell you first. That's for sure. I'm so
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: grateful I had a, a good person for that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Time for some food news. It's making me drool right now,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: but I want to give a big shout out to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this pair of siblings because we were talking about how
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: when you were younger, you probably thought, yeah, OK, I'm
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be a doctor. I'm gonna be um an accountant.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm gonna be a scientist, very aligned
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: with what we were speaking of during our topic earlier
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: on between 8 to 9.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And I asked you whether or not what you set
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: out to do is eventually what you pursued as an adult.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I think this is super relevant to today's piece of
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: food news. Saying hi to these brothers, um, just, just
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: giving a big shout out to the Lee brothers, I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: just gonna call them Scott and Troy. They actually left
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: FinTech and they're trading jobs to sell very tasty hakka
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: yong tofu.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: At uh Chinatown Complex Food Center and it looks so legit.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, this has got to be my
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: next stop right now. Um, they've journeyed across the causeway
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to learn how to do, I think the springy Malaysian
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: style noodles. So it's, it's got like dark soy sauce, um,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: crispy lard, and then they've got that Hakka yong tofu
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: style that they serve up with it as well. They
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: just want to make the best food that they can.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I believe that Scott has a bachelor's degree from NTU.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And um did, did business analytics. Troy has a degree
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in marketing from Queensland University of Technology. They are just
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: somehow pursuing their passions at a very young age. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: think they're what, like barely 30. 1 is barely 30
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and the other is like 31 or something.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Um, but it is honestly looks very legit, can't wait
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to try it. I think, um, the, the answer to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: whether or not it's worthwhile is if you go down yourself,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you got to give it a try by yourself, man.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, the fried yong tofu looks crispy and delicious.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: They've been documenting their entire journey online, and they painstakingly
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: tried to perfect the recipe as well, which I think
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: is very close to perfection.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So big shout out to our friends over at Eight
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Days Eat for showcasing all these beautiful pictures that are
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: making my stomach growl right now. No kidding. Please visit them,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: 02148 at Chinatown Complex. It's in the red zone area.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: If you're not too familiar, it's called New Horse Noodles,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: New Horse Noodles. They're open Thursdays to Tuesdays. So I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: just prepping you to get ready to go down tomorrow.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Why not, right? Thursday to Tuesday, 9 9:30 a.m. to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: 2:00 p.m. they're closed on Wednesdays.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Make sure you check them out. Wanted to give a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: big shout out to the people of Ayer Raja. You
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: know what, the residents there, thank you so much for
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: being so welcoming and warm. It was my first time
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: ever hanging out with you. It was a half a
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: day or so, and I just, my biggest regret was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: not trying that famous fishbowl noodle place.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The one with the uncle that's like a boss, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: he has like plenty of pictures of, um, I'm guessing
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: his favorite Channel 8 artists who have eaten there with him, yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: plastered all over his walls. So I don't know the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: exact name for it, but I was told that his
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: fish ball noodle place is super popular and so is
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the um nasi Lemak over at, at the Ayer Rajah
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: area as well. So people who live over in the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: West Coast area or around Ayer Raja.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: And if you are very familiar with the place and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you grew up there, well, you know, I, I felt
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the warmth, that's for sure. And a big shout out to,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to Queenstown Secondary School. It was so lovely to meet
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: all the performers who actually trained under 53A, 1 of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: our favorite live local bands here in Singapore, and, um,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you know, they took the stage, the Indian Dance CCA
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: took the stage as well. It was really, really awesome. So,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be the last time that I'll
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: be there, I feel it's not that far away from
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: our office here at Media Corp. So,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I might just hit back there to try the fish
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ball noodle. I'm dying to try it, honestly. It's just
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: talking about it makes my, makes me drool a little,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just kind of salivating a little bit. Anyway,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: on that note, which heartland will we head to next
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: or which school will we head to next? Joakim and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I will have that answer for you later on in
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the week. More school visits for sure.