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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 200426 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Good next.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning and welcome
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: to the show. Last, well, 1.5 weeks of April. Can
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: you believe it? It's gonna be May. I know that
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: joke has lasted for too long. Decades. If you know,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: you know. Top is going to kick us off here
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: with Desperado, his latest track. Stay tuned. Singapore's number one
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: hit music station.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: It's Tyler with Zara Larson. She did it again right
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: here on 987. I feel like Zara Larson is having
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: a major comeback right now. Not that she ever faded
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: away or anything, but you know, she's, she had a
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: moment a few years ago where she released a lot
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: of singles, right, a lot of songs. Won't be too
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: long before she gets called into Coachella, maybe. Yeah, and
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden during, was it the Grammys,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: I think she, she blew everyone away with her vocals.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: She looked fit, you know, she looked like she was.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Taking care of herself, so very happy for her if
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: she makes a massive comeback to the music scene. So
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: on that topic of Coachella, how happy are we for
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Billie Eilish? Oh yes. I mean, she wasn't performing, but
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: she was partying with Hailey Bieber to Justin Bieber's Weekendwo set.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: So cute. And then the one less lonely girl moment
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  Speaker 1: which has gone viral now. I feel as if 13-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Billie Eilish is smiling somewhere. Yeah, yeah, that, that probably
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  Speaker 1: healed her inner child somewhere. But also fans.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: You were right about the speculation of Sabrina Carpenter's set. So, wow, fantastic,
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: fantastic show. So I think all the highlights are available
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  Speaker 1: for you on YouTube, if not on TikTok. And in
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: the world of sports right now, I'm gonna confess something.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: I'm multitasking as we speak. I'm watching a WrestleMania, and
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: they're kicking off in one of the biggest matchess matches ever.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Brock Lesnar and Obafemi. Don't, don't make fun. It's the
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  Speaker 1: morning matches. I also work in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the logic in that? It's been a while since
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: we've had a DJ led music festival in Singapore. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can you name the last one?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, no, right? It's been way too long. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: things like Ultra Music Festival have exited Singapore a long
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: time ago, right? And this was, I think, closest to
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  Speaker 1: what we know of Ultra Music Festival back then because
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  Speaker 1: it starts in the day and then it stops at
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: about like 10:30 p.m. or so.
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  Speaker 1: And then you, you find a lot of people looking
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  Speaker 1: quite lost after like, do we go out or do
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  Speaker 1: we go home? I'm in Singapore. I know. I would
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  Speaker 1: love to share a little bit more about that in
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  Speaker 1: case you're tuning in and you've never attended a DJ
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  Speaker 1: music festival. When I say DJ,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not like, um, singers. It's just pure DJs,
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  Speaker 1: the whole set. Yeah. So let's summarizes on TikTok, I'm
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  Speaker 1: seeing two different sides and two different stories. I completely understand. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so when I posted about going to a music festival
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, I had two reactions. First was, wow, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a long time since we've seen any sort of
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  Speaker 1: DJ music festival in Singapore. Second response was, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know that this was happening.
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  Speaker 1: So I think um for what it was worth, there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that much promotion about it. Palm Tree Music Festival. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the crowd was decent though, it was pretty full and
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: the mosh pit area was full as well. I saw
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Palm Tree Music Festival were the Instagram ads. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I was scrolling once in a while I see
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge like summit but it was very subtle,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody really even, I, I think they didn't push
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  Speaker 1: it that hard.
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  Speaker 1: Um, also because I guess the names Lasso and John Smith,
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  Speaker 1: it sells itself already, right? But also we've got our
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  Speaker 1: own local DJs, you know, Jade Rasi was there too,
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  Speaker 1: and there were other, some other supporting DJs as well.
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  Speaker 1: They were really good. Credit to Marlo, yes, Marlo as well,
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  Speaker 1: who was there. So, um, the only thing I would
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  Speaker 1: say that did not quite work and will not work
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  Speaker 1: for Singapore is the heat, OK.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, right, with the daytime festival, um,
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  Speaker 1: but of course, we're grateful that it didn't rain, so
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  Speaker 1: that was a relief. And actually when we got in,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty nice. Like it was cloudy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the sun wasn't so crazy. So I think we
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  Speaker 1: appreciated that. It's just the humidity is something we cannot
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  Speaker 1: change in Singapore. So that's one side of the story
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok though, yesterday I was having a field day
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  Speaker 1: scrolling and seeing people.
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  Speaker 1: People post their reviews. People actually bought those general admission tickets.
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  Speaker 1: They say, well, the DJ sets were great, the queue
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  Speaker 1: for the drinks, it was very long. It was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: So I, I did hear about that and also the
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  Speaker 1: food queue, like the, yeah, to get, to get food.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't eat in the end because at
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  Speaker 1: the festival, at least, I ate after the festival because
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: I did have some friends warned me that the queue
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  Speaker 1: for the food is very, very long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you might not want to go there if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to miss the set. So I didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of my friends who were actually missed because
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  Speaker 1: they spent 45 minutes queuing for drinks. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I say, just go for the set. Forget the drinks.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Forget about it. Like, really, really. Honestly, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: if the music is that good and you don't, and,
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  Speaker 1: and you love music, unpopular opinion, you don't necessarily need drinks.
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  Speaker 1: If you love the music that much. I do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a beverage. So, here's the thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: with any festival, unfortunately here in Singapore, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a swarm of people. They're all gonna want to get
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  Speaker 1: drinks at the same time, right? Um, I think what
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  Speaker 1: we can also learn as festivalgoers or maybe a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them haven't been for a festival in a while,
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  Speaker 1: maybe consider pre-drinking before you go there with your friends,
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  Speaker 1: hang out with your friends, go pre-drink.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and then when you get there, you got to
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  Speaker 1: be strategic about it. If you see the queue is
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  Speaker 1: too long, forget it. Just go, go. You're paying to
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  Speaker 1: watch A Leo and John Summit. Don't go and wait
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  Speaker 1: for the drink. And disclaimer, of course, follow the rules,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you're legal and don't binge. I wonder what's
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  Speaker 1: the next outdoor festival-ish setting here in Singapore. Maybe Formula One.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: I have to say I, I really enjoyed myself, like the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the queues aside, right, um, I, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that it brought me back.
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  Speaker 1: To my poly days because, you know, the 202015, 2016 time, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was a time where I feel it was peak
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  Speaker 1: music festival season. There were so many music festivals, indie
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  Speaker 1: music festivals, you get Laneway, you Ultra Music Festival, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of festivals in Singapore. So that was what I
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: grew up with. It was, it was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a blast from the past. So on that note about
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  Speaker 1: Formula One, guys, it's April. It's about time we get
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  Speaker 1: Wave one of the headlining acts are this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so keep a lookout. That's going to happen very soon. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that is a smaller scale music festival. So what, whoever,
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  Speaker 1: whichever artist come down for that, they will do, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: a more summarized set. Yes, like not a full set,
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: but still you get the best of everything unless they're
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: like the headliner, for example. Now, before you get to school,
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: just about 10 minutes away from opening up phone lines, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we would love for you to walk away.
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  Speaker 1: With some cloud nine tickets. Yes, so minus 3 weeks away.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh May 9th. It's only 3 weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: 2 weeks if my time serves me correctly. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: around 2 to 3 weeks before we see 50/50 hit
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  Speaker 1: the stage and a bunch of our other very talented
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  Speaker 1: local artists. I'm actually very excited for KClick. They're getting
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  Speaker 1: loads of people saying, oh my God, I cannot wait
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  Speaker 1: for it to be here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I want to see what they do and
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  Speaker 1: of course in Bahasa. Hm, yeah, so I think the
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  Speaker 1: special thing about cloud nine is that we've got such
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  Speaker 1: a wide variety and different types of artists. So it's
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: not just like one specific genre, you know. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's really cool. And I'm very glad we locked
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  Speaker 1: in yeah, because she's going, I believe, and she still
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: remembers us. You know what they always say, remember when
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: you're famous. Yeah, they grew up so fast, but anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We have not 1, not 2, but 4 tickets for
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: you every day. It is time to open up phone
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  Speaker 1: lines before you get to school. So giving your school
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: a shout out, whether you are currently studying in there
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: or maybe say you're an ex-student whatsoever, let us know
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: and if you call in automatically what's coming your way,
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  Speaker 1: 4 tickets to MediaCorp's cloud nine happening on May 9th, Saturday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be fantastic and the countdown begins so soon.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: 987. Hi, my name is Shane. I'm with my daughter
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Renee and Reagan. Oh my wife. Hi, which school are
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: they going to? OLGC. Our Lady of Good Counsel. So
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: both of them are going to the same school. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So cute. OK, so I guess if you call in
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  Speaker 1: and you win those tickets to cloud nine, all four
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  Speaker 1: of you are going as a family. Yes. Well, the
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: good news is you're winning it.
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  Speaker 1: And Renee and Reagan enjoy school today, OK? Oh, you're
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: the cutest. Can we get you a song this morning?
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Gabriela by Cat Eye. Gabriela, OK, we just played Cat's Eye,
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to break the rules a bit today.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: I'll play you Gabriela, OK? Alright. You take care. Enjoy.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Have a good day. Bye-bye. Olivia Rodrigo with a new
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: track dropped.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Dead right here on 987. Drop Dead was nothing more baby.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Drop dead gorgeous, drop dead handsome. I was wondering what
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: happened to pop punk princess Olivia Rodrigo. She was, she
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: was taking a well-deserved break, I think, you know, these
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: artists like they go on world tour for like quite
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: a while, right? And she was very active over the
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: past few years. OK, maybe not pop punk, pop rock,
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: pop rock princess, yeah, um, but we're very ready to
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: play her new tracks. Anyway.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: Um, something that has, I guess, become quite a bit
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: of a cause for concern over the last couple of
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: years is Songkran. So I, I'm not, um, addressing Songkran,
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  Speaker 1: I know has a deeper meaning to it, and I
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: love my Thai friends, you know, the meaning of Songkran,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: that there's so much more to it than just a
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: water festival, right?
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Um, but I, I believe, you know, the concept of
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  Speaker 1: these Songkran parties have changed so much over the years. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: it's become a bit of a tourist attraction. Secondly, it's
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  Speaker 1: become unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: A situation where people actually get hurt at these parties. OK,
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: at the risk of sounding, I don't know what xenophobic
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  Speaker 1: and all that, no, I'm not, but looking at the
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  Speaker 1: news right now, right, it's mostly a lot of tourists
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  Speaker 1: and foreigners I know who, who think that, oh yeah,
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: it's your festival in Thailand, so we're just celebrating it
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  Speaker 1: with you. There are people that don't want to be
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: involved in the spraying of water and all that. There's
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: one viral video of the van driver. It was very
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: sad to watch trying to work.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So I think there were two different videos. One
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  Speaker 1: was the van. The other one was actually a Songkrann festival,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: not in Thailand, but people adopted it, you know, in
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: other countries. And apparently this EV started emitting smoke after
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: like people just sprayed it relentlessly. And who's going to
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: be responsible for that or like fixing your car or
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: replacing the whole car? Like that's crazy to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I'm not verify this. I saw this on threads
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  Speaker 1: and on TikTok. If you're from China and you're carrying
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  Speaker 1: China SIM card. The moment you land in Thailand for Songkran,
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  Speaker 1: they will send you an automated message saying, please behave yourself. Oh, OK,
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: so directed though? Exactly. It's interesting. OK. Well, unfortunately, another
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  Speaker 1: incident has occurred. A Thai lady has taken to TikTok
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  Speaker 1: right now and all social media platforms to warn the
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: public that, you know, even though she was very careful,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: she didn't accept any drinks from strangers or whatever, she suspects,
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: and I think this is still under investigation, she suspects.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: That she was actually exposed to drug-laced water that was
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: sprayed from a water gun at a club. And this
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: happened just like a week ago. Um, if you are
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: not familiar with, you know, some of these terms, it
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: is also known as a date rape drug, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: And it's used to take advantage of people, obviously. So she,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: you know, said it occurred at a Songkran event at, uh,
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  Speaker 1: at this club and she was actually trying to be
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: very careful, but she said the water was deliberately sprayed
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: into her face and her mouth. So that's what she's
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  Speaker 1: saying right now. I think, um, there's gonna be investigations ongoing.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Her medical certificate actually confirmed that this substance was found
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  Speaker 1: in her body, and she said she did not accept
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: any drinks from any, any strangers. I mean they can
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: trace it, right? Yeah, so she's filed a police report.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: We'll see where this goes, but take this as a
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  Speaker 1: fair warning. So I've been to Songkran before.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: Um, it was for work, work-related things. So we were filming, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I think at that time, this was a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, we were not that aware of how rowdy
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  Speaker 1: it could get, and we were already in not such
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: a rowdy place of, of Thailand, you know, and once again,
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  Speaker 1: this is not on our Thai friends, we love them
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  Speaker 1: and what it stands for, but it's unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: The tourists that were very, very rowdy, and after a while, actually,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: my camera crew, they were like, I think we should
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: get out of here. They were like, you know what guys,
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: let's get out of here. It's getting a little bit
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: crazy at this point. Maybe if it's Songkran time in Thailand,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: I just want to avoid it for a while. I'll
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: go after Songkran or before Songkran. It's almost as if
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: going for Mardi Gras or even Mexico's Day of the
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  Speaker 1: Dead festival where
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: If you're gonna go, you know what you're in for.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Keep yourself safe and observe the boundaries and protocols, I guess.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Please don't spoil. I mean, now that has become such
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: a big thing that term is used very loosely all
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: of festivals. Honestly, I think it comes to know. But
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: what is not too late to take care of yourself,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: I guess, just be careful.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Justin Bieber with Nicki Minaj. We just had to put
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: this one in, of course, he's trending again, especially all
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: his older songs. And you know, Joakim, I have a
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: confession to make. The moment this song went viral, right,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: my poly group chat popped off because
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Years ago, um, 23 of us actually went to Ion
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Orchard and we filmed our very own music video according
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: to this song. You know what this means, right? You
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: gotta post it. I, OK, it's very embarrassing.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: But I've already edited it. I've pieced it together because
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know what phone we use, but iPhone 6
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: or something. I have no idea what we use. And
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: it was like 3 megapixels or something, the video. Hey,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: it's OK. I edit, I put it together already because
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: it was chopped up into pieces and we never put
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: it together. I guess we didn't have cap cut back then.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It was like we have to export the final cut
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: and then
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Put into the phone. Yes, I will post it this week. Alright,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I will, and you are welcome to have a good laugh. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Loads of things happening over the weekend here in Singapore
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  Speaker 1: and for yours truly, you were at the music festival.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I was at the theaters, not the cinemas, the theaters.
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  Speaker 1: Physical theater, yeah. So for Friday night, I was at
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Wild Rice Funan SG, and I caught the Christians. Now,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: if anyone here is thinking with the title.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: So like that, oh, it could be an attack or
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: parody on Christianity. Actually, no. If it is, why would
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: it be staged in Singapore? Come on. Exactly. So on
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Friday night, there was actually a talkback session where the
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  Speaker 1: director Glenn Gui, the playwright, uh, ordered the Singapore version
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  Speaker 1: of the playwright, and we had a Shane Majoki who
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: plays the lead. So is it, is it an adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of an existing play from overseas? Yes, so, so the,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who wrote the play.
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  Speaker 1: Alive. So before staging it, they had to contact him
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and make sure that everything is in order, and he
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: approves it before it stages. It gets staged here in Singapore.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: So I actually asked the question, what was the conversation
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  Speaker 1: like with IMDA to stage a play like this called
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: The Christians? And Ivan Heng himself took the mic and said,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: let me answer this. And he was going on about
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: how when he first read the script, he felt compelled
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: to stage it, and he wrote into IMDA as a
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Early as April last year to get the approvals, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they got the advisory, I think it's advisory 16,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and for them to stage it, you, you know that
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: it's not an attack on a religion it's not. It's
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: not gonna cause any, you know, yeah, big differences. So please,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: if you can go watch it. It will, it will
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: ask you questions, and I hope you are up to
• 16:09
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty. So this interesting piece of news over the weekend
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and I was just thinking only Australians can do this. OK. OK,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: it involves a buffet and I think it was Australian themed.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've tried this before, crocodile meat. No.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: OK, look, I, I know this is
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Not new to us Asians, you know, like it it, yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it's been available at several places, but usually only at
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: specialty joints though, I will say. OK, so I've tried
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: crocodile meat. Yeah, does it taste like chicken? OK, people
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: always say that it really does, but knowing that it
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: comes from a crocodile, it just makes you think differently.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So at the MBS buffet, I think to celebrate.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Culture or something like that. What was seen on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: buffet spread, crocodile meat and feet. It wasn't just, yeah,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it wasn't just meat, it was the paws, right? Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Do they call that paws, crocodile paws? What do you say?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It looks like you're having a dinosaur or something like that,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, OK, I'm just surprised
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that it was presented in that way because I'm not
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: sure if it was very popular. Did people actually eat
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it or try it tried it. So it's to celebrate
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Australia Day.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I, I don't know how I feel about this, man.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But are you adventurous? If you were to go, would
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you try it? I, I don't know if I will take,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: take it in its entirety. If it was presented differently, like,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you know, um, your, the way that they serve chicken
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: cubes or something, like, yeah, OK, maybe I'll try it,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if I can stomach putting the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: whole crocodile feet on my plate or foot on my plate.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: It makes me wonder whether kangaroo meat, but I don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: think so. Oh wait, no, there is, there is, OK.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Kangaroo and Davidson plum pie. Wow. OK, see, at least
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it was in a pie. I don't have to look
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: at it like in a scary way. The kangaroo. No,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: but OK, from what I understand, um, there's an abundance
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: of kangaroos, in fact, overpopulation of kangaroos. That's why sometimes
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: they end up roadkill, you know, or um, they end
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: up as food.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: There's more kangaroos in Australia than people, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: So in terms of buffet, let's go to a more
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: normal regular Singaporean buffet for us here in Singapore. What's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the first thing you run towards? Um, you know, um,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: my mom always says like why I always go for
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the cheap stuff, but I always love the local delights
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and the carbs. So if there's a laksa station, I'm there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's the first thing.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Um, if there's anything related to Hokkien mee or Chakwete,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I'm there as well. That's why my mom say very
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: bohua to bring me I'm very carby. I'm a carbie Barbie.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Wait, I have a shirt that says Carbie Barbie.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: OK, for yours truly, if it's breakfast buffet, yeah, I'm
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: running straight to the omelet station. OK, yeah, I like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that too. I want my omelet made fresh and hot,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: but if it's like a regular buffet buffet, of course
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you know where I'm going to. Yes, the roast, the roast, yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: In fact, that's something I will go to like somewhere
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in the middle. I don't know. I love my Asian delight.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: If you have room after all the carbs. That's the thing, right?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So that's why my parents always say no point bringing
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: us to buffet because we're all like not the best buffet.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And that's the first place I bring you to for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: our first meeting? Meet the buffet. This is in 2010. Anyway,
• 23:45
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• 23:49
  Speaker 1: When it comes to buffets, what is the first station
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you rush towards the moment you get in there? Or
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: is there a station that you don't really patronize? And
• 23:59
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• 24:01
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• 24:05
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• 24:07
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• 24:11
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• 24:13
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• 24:15
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• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Let's head to messages first. The question is, inspired by
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a very interesting buffet spread that we noticed went quite viral, um,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: someone cited actually crocodile feet or paws at a buffet
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to commemorate Australia Day as you would. OK.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I mean there are other things that they're famous for,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but OK. They have kangaroo and plum pie as well.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So in a, in a very interesting context, what's the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: first thing you zone into a buffet? I want to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: say good morning to James. James says, hey guys, for buffet,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I will top up with 2 times 6.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Fresh oysters and end with a steak, pink with no blood, yummy.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like medium rare. Uh, Spencer says
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the first station I rushed to is actually the dessert station.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: If I eat it after my meal, I may be
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: too full to enjoy it. Oh man, OK, well, hey,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: everyone has their own habits, right? I would say. Actually,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm very surprised. I'm very surprised because we have other
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: texts saying the exact same thing. What? Yeah. Heading back
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to our messages and we got a couple of callers
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: hanging on the line. The question for you today is,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: what is the first thing you zoom straight to at
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a buffet?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I'm inspired to learn from our few texters, Sonia. One
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: coming in from Waitta. I surveyed the line and going
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in and focus on high value, high-cost items like seafood
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and carved meat things we can't eat usually and look
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: for the same portion to test them first like crab, oyster,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: or seasonal items and steak before going for desserts. For desserts,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: my tip is to always
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Look and share the first round and then everyone can
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: sample and if they're really good, then consider going for 2. Wow,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of strategy going on. Exactly. It's a buffet,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you know. OK, here's the thing, right, actually, um, I,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I trust that our listeners know what they're
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: doing at the buffets. There were some moments where I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: went to a buffet, right, and um there's a guy
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: in front of me. He actually wiped out the entire
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: crablike station.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Despite noticing that there were quite a few people waiting
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: patiently for it, I just wonder whether there's a certain
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: etiquette or is it really just like, hey, first come,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: first serve. What? I'm not in the wrong, you know.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I want to say hello to Lian Tie. Morning, Jonia.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: My usual strategy learned from my wife is to sample
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: everything and then channel our inner Zermat Neo and whack
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the nicest item.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, look lah, if we're going for a really
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: nice buffet, chances are that might be your only meal
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of the day. You just leave some for us. Yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: leave some for us. Is serrat allowed at buffets? Is
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that's a question I've never asked him. I mean, if
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: he eats like a normal a normal, maybe. Does he ever?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen him eat like a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: normal person. I'm sure he does. I love eating challenges.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I know he does like a lot of intermittent fasting.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Preparation for these things and he is a professional competitive eater,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so I mean if I were a restaurant owner had
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a buffet section, I think I'll close it off, it's OK.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Go somewhere else and eat. Anyway, his diet is on
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the line. What about you? I will go straight to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the dessert section. Wait, dessert first before anything else. Yes,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: because I'm so obsessed with my sweets.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: That is such a weird choice, but hey, no hate whatsoever.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: This is very interesting. So then what is the order
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of your, like your eating at a buffet? Dessert and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: then dessert followed by my protein, uh, which is basically
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the meat, and then followed by my carbohydrate, uh, which
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: is basically either the pasta or the rice, and, uh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: my drinks. So that's about it. She goes in the reverse.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So Hidaya, do your friends and family question your routine
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: when it comes to buffet? No, they don't, because they
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: know that I'm a sweet tooth monster, so I'm like that. OK,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: so then tell us which buffet in Singapore you've experienced
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: has like the best dessert spread for you? I think
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the one at Swinson in the airport. Do they like
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: my number one choice. Do they have ice cream buffet
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: if I'm not?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: They do, yeah. Oh yeah, they do, they do because
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they are really like uh ice cream brand, right? So
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: when you go to the airport, it's the exaggerated version.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So basically there's like of the fountain and then the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: ice creams are like so much more flavors than what
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you see in a normal Swensen shop. So yeah, you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: can trust to know all about Swensen's I'm guessing. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: she knows it inside out, probably try all the flavors. Yes, yes,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I agree. Thank you so much for your call. You
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have a great day.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Bye bye. For now, we're focusing on this. What is
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the one section of food that you zoom in for
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: at a buffet? Want to say good morning to Jadis
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: on WhatsApp. Morning, Sojo. The one thing I really enjoy
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: in a good buffet is a good cheese selection. Not
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: all places have that, but the good ones give you
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to try a spread that you otherwise don't
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: often get to. One of my favorites is the one
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: at the Ritz. Oh, OK, OK.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: That's cool. One more coming in from SQ. Morning, Soakki.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday. My first section will have to be checking
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: out the chef's signature, as every restaurant will have their
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: unique signature item. Next, I'll be checking out live stations
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: as it's cool to see the chef in the making
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of yummy food. Next, I will head to my favorite section,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the seafood section, to make sure my money is worth. Yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, hey man, the meat and seafood section,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: very busy doing the buffet.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, yes. Lynette, what about you? All
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: the specials for the season. So we always try to
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: go to buffets for like Easter or Christmas or New Year, right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Then they will sell something special or they will, uh,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: have like the truffle duck at Hilton Estate. They'll have
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Wagyu foie gras. So those are the wuhua things you
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: must go for those first. But
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: very smart. She mentioned estate, by the way, which is
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: what we're giving away today.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, actually that's our favorite place to go for a
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: buffet really. So anytime they have something special, we will
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: go there. Yeah, my husband's crazy about it. OK,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: wait, so I have a question. So here's the thing,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: during special occasions like you mentioned Easter, Christmas, and all that, right?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: The cost of the buffet is gonna go up. They're
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: gonna increase it for sure. You find it worthwhile still?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, because you don't really get some of these specials, right,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: in the usual buffet. So, after all, a buffet is
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: a special occasion, so a little bit more. You'll get
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: something more special and then
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: yeah. So what do you zero in for? What do
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you go for? Oh,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: OK, besides the specials, I really, really like the Indian food.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I really like all the Indian food,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you, you're like me, at the beginning of the meal.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I don't care lah. Just eat lah, right? I mean,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: after all, that's what the buffet is for. So just
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: go for the, you know, uh, palek paneang go for
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: all the tandoori
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: chicken, man. Look, my theory is, yes, I know some
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: people have strategies when it comes.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to buffet, but I need to go for the things
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: that give me a lot of joy and just, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: if it makes me happy, whatever, you know, I'm not
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: going to go with any strategy. Bryani rice and a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: curry gravy. Exactly. There you go. That's why, that's all
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I end up eating in a buffet because you're too
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: full after that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nanette for your call. You have
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a great day, OK? Thank you. You too. Down to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: our last few messages here. Our question to you is,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: what is the first thing you usually zoom straight to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: at a buffet? OK, Elston, you give us your entire list. Morning,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim. I enjoy eating buffets, and I like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to reward myself on payday each month with a very
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: good one. I always look forward to starting with oysters.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Then the lobsters followed by sashimi because these are my
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: favorites and they are quite expensive, so I don't eat
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: them often. I also usually don't do dairy, so this
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: is monthly treat motivates me to work hard and gives
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you something to look forward to. It feels very worthwhile
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and satisfying. Wait, so does he eat dairy at buffets? Oh,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: he doesn't at all. He's probably like lactose intolerant or something. Yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: please don't, don't ruin the buffet. I have a friend,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you know her.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: She's lactose intolerant, but when we go to places that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: are famous for, like, you know, cream-based pastas or anything
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: with cream or cheese, she'll bring her medication with her,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and she's, guys, I'm going. But hey, please don't try it, OK,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: because I think everyone has different, um, tolerance tolerance, yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: One more and one last one coming in from Papa
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Papa Quack, I think.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Good morning. For me, definitely the sashimi and other seafood items,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: followed by steak and other meat. I round it off
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: with a hot soup or laksa. Take a break before
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: starting again. Round two. I mean, as long as the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: buffet doesn't have a time limit, I think you're fine.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You can hang out for the entire duration of the buffet.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Honestly, when it comes to buffet, right, and I'm not
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: too sure how much of a fan of meat buffets
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: people are, but the one over at 6th Avenue, it's
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: been there, it's been an institution now, the Brazil restaurant, yes, yes, yes.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Very good service and very good meats. Yeah, go there
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: with a big appetite if you can. Thank you so
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: much for all your texts, your messages, your calls here today.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It seems like the concept of buffets, truly very well
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: loved by Singaporeans, and a question to you today in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: case you missed it and you want to catch up
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on me Listen and Spotify. What is the one particular
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: station at a buffet you will zoom straight to the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: moment the buffet begins? Yo, if Sami's Curry had a buffet, bro,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I'm there, we are there. The mutton mysore, the chicken tandoori,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and for you the basmati rice.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say, but we have to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: cancel all the plans after that. Yes, because I will
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: knock out, and I'm gonna whack all the pads, but
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think for today's winner, and because she's so knowledgeable,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: she even knows the menu about estate as well. She does.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Let's give it to Lynette. Alright, Lynette, like a loyal customer,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, we want to reward you and thank
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you for being so in-depth with your answer. But as you,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: as we always say, very challenging for us to pick
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a winner every morning. We, we appreciate each and every
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: one of your answers.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we debate, by the way. So Lynette, of course,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: what's coming your way is no stranger to you. A
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: nice dining experience. The Estate Restaurant over at Hilton Singapore Orchard,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and they have a new Sunday social champagne brunch. I'm
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: very sure I'll see you there every Sunday from 12:30 p.m.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to 3:30 p.m. There's a live DJ and premium dishes
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: like Boston lobster, fresh seafood, and indulgent desserts. Oh, there's
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: foie gras as well and you can enjoy Moe Shandong, uh, champagne.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Um, kids and families can actually have fun at the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: dedicated junior corner with other activities too. So yeah, check
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it out. You can follow them at Estate Restaurant on Instagram. OK,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: so Ho Chin Minh City is a place that I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: absolutely love. I've only been there once before and I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: had such a great experience. Um, a lot of my
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: friends are also trying their best to go and pay
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: them a visit.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It is a really great way to have an escape
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: where you want, you know, great food, great shopping. Vietnamese
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: brands are really up and coming. They've also got like
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a really nice cafe, nightlife and art. I'm a Vietnam,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, are they very far apart?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't go to Hanoi. So I've
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: only been to Ho Chi Minh. I don't know about
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the distance or geography, but if you are traveling,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: To Vietnam in the future, specifically Ho Chi Minh City,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and I believe they may start rolling it out maybe
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in other popular areas as well. But for now, Ho
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Chi Minh is one of the most popular cities to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: visit for tourists. They're introducing a mandatory pre-arrival declaration form
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that you have to fill in. So it's something like
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the SG arrival card in a way that you do
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: on your phone digitally.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And I think um the reason why they've introduced it
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: is because they're trying to ease congestion at the immigration lines,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: which is, look, that is, I mean, a welcome change,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I would say. Um, so this new rule applies to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: foreign nationals entering Vietnam as well as overseas Vietnamese using visas.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: So please take note about that because the authorities say
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and warn you, if you don't fill it up, it
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: might lead to.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Longer waiting times at immigration. This also gives us a
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: clear sign that tourism in Vietnam, it's going up. I mean,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for them. Um, the Vietnamese hospitality is great.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: They have great coffees, great cafes, like I mentioned, food
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: is great, so fresh, lots of vegetables. Um, there's nothing
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: to hate about Vietnam. I do see myself going to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Vietnam very soon. I think you will like it, but
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I do want to spend two weeks there so I
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: can see everything.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you can do a little bit
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: more of like the hiking stuff or maybe backpacking if
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you are interested in that. I don't know. I'm sure.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So just something to note because recently I was on
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a work trip. This was to, uh, to Thailand and I,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I was with um
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Some other personalities from other countries, OK, and we're all regional,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: so we just kind of met on the flight and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: prior to taking the flight, I was told you have
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to fill in a pre-declaration form. So, I was reminded
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: like 2 or 3 times by the representatives. So I said, OK,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I'll do it for sure, right?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the ladies that I was traveling with, not
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from Singapore, they didn't fill it in. So they got
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: held back I think like 30 minutes. They, they were stuck.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: They got brought into a room and all. I was like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: oh my God, I can't live without them. That's painful
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: because we're sharing the same transport to the hotel, so
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: stood there for like 20 minutes or so, but
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Just a reminder, check it, especially if you're traveling with friends.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You want everything to be seamless. Allow me to give
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: you today's news. When we come back here on the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: short circuit. Yeah, I'm gonna promote my proud area of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Bishan again. We all know that you will never leave
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that place, but this one, you know, over at Tanjung
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Paga there's that humburg steak place.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: OK, I mean there are triple cheese like with the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: with the free flow salad bar it's the one facing Tower. Yes,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, yeah. If you enjoy a place
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: like that and maybe Tanjong Paga is too far for you,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: there's actually one over at Tampines and now one over
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: at Bishan. Find out what this store is. Alright, this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: time around, the tables have turned. Joakim is the one
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: with food news today. Why not you sing the jingle one.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: OK, let's go. 123. Food news, news, joking with the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: good food news. Good, good news. Never happened before you
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: doing the jingle, but OK, um, I was walking around
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Junction 8 over the weekend and I was wondering, hey,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: why got long queue? Like what has opened up my knowledge?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: The mayor of Bishop I was gonna say that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Help man. Seriously. OK, so I realized, um, something has
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: taken over what used to be a ramen joint. OK,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that before the ramen joint it was PastaMia. OK. You're
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: still pretty salty about that. I can hear it in
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: your voice. OK, but if you heard of barri barri steak,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: have you heard of it? No, actually not yet. OK,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: so it's a very famous Hong Kong tapan concept which
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: has won over the Tampines area and they've now.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: at Junction 8. That's why the sneaking queues. So I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: took some pictures yesterday and I, I noticed a free-flow
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: salad bar. And if you like your meat on a
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: hot plate, yes, they got like Wagyu hamburg steaks, they
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: got oyster blade steaks. They got all these A4 and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: whatever kinds of cuts of meat you like. So go
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: give it a try if you want to, if you
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: live around the area. And what's the price point like?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Do you know? Is it affordable? So I'm looking at
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: some of the menu items, uh, Australian oil.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Mr. Blade steak tappon, it could be 24.90 or 26.90 depending. Yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: pretty reasonable. I'm assuming the quality is good. Of course,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you know, of course with the free flow salad bar,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: get your vegetables in as well. I'm done for that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So I think you could give the one at Tanjung
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Paga a run for its money, but whether it is
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: as good, I haven't tried it yet, but let us
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: know if you have tried it. Do you remember like
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the first time we went to the one at Tanjong
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Paaka was with the muttons, mutton, and the funny thing
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: is the muttons don't like vegetables.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, therefore they're called the muttons, but when we
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: went there, it was so funny because I really love salad.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I love vegetables, and they were just like having a
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: good laugh because they don't like it. I mean, you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: bring Sonia to a meat place, what would she? Enough, enough,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: enough vegetables. Hey, I have a balanced diet. My gut
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: is great, OK. OK. Now, as you know, I just
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: posted on Saturday. I, I usually don't talk that much
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: about my wedding prep or whatsoever unless people ask me, right? But, um,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we are releasing a new miniseries this week, and the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: teaser was out on Saturday.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: This actually sparked off something quite interesting. I wanted to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: share on air in just a while about a tiny
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: miscommunication with a friend. But also, can I, can I
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: say my piece, about what? About how you treated your
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: wedding despite being a media personality. What? I'll surprise you later. OK.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We did not run this by each other. He doesn't
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna share, OK. Before we wrap up
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the show, um, on Saturday, I posted a little teaser
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: trailer of a miniseries that we're doing, and it's, it's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: basically a very raw reality style series, and it'll be
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: posted on all of Media Corp's platforms. By the way,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the Quai.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Trailer had no chance. Wow, you know. OK, so, um, I,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: it's a collab post between 987 and myself. So please
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: go check it out, um, both on TikTok and Instagram.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: But the funny thing was, a few weeks ago I
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sent out the official invitations, right? So the save the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: date was sent like late last year. So then I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: sent out official, you know, invites with all the details,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to which I want to say hello to Edwin Goh, OK,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: this actor here, as you know. So I, I did,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you know, we've known each other for a while.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And I sent it to him. So in my message,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: as you received as well, I said, please RSVP by
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: a certain date. OK. I think it was like 10th
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: of April or something, if I'm not wrong, 10th or 11th.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: To which he said, um, he replied my messages, oh, no,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I have a shoot the very morning of your wedding,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: so I don't think I can attend.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So I said, it's OK, no worries, we'll catch up
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: next time. It's fine, you know. And then, um, on
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the 11th of April itself, I received a message from Edwin, congrats, son,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: so happy for you. Then I was like,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I was like, uh, why, why did he congratulate me for?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Can I guess? Yeah, he thought the wedding was 10th
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: of April. Oh no, he didn't read properly, so he
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: thought when I said please RSVB by the 10th of April,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: he thought 10th of April was the wedding day. Edwin,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: were you responding while running or what? Come on, to
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: which I said, bro, if the wedding is on 10th
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of April, why would I send you the invite like
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: one week before that?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Then he said, I, I thought it was a last
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: minute invite. I said, no, RSVV by the 10th, to
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: which he said, so he went back to look. Oh,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: actually I'm free. I see you there.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I burst out laughing because I was like, you know what,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and he sent the same message to Jeremy, OK, because
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: they used to hang out last time too. He sent
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the same message to which, uh, this is the difference
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: between bros and girls, OK. Germs replied, thanks.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: OK, this one a bit too much. Jeremy. He said
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: he figured out roughly what happened and he couldn't be
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: bothered to explain, so he just said thanks, to which
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I explained, I said, hey, wrong date lah, bro.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, end of story. Jeremy's replied a bit too much,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: but OK, bro. Can I, can I say my piece
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: now please on this date, 20th April 2026. OK, I'm
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: very thankful as a normal human being, right, that the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: only
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: The time you shared about your wedding was maybe the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: proposal itself, which was, you know, early 2025, 1.5 years ago,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: not so far away. I mean, I found out, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I shared it only early 2025. Yeah, thank you for
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: not milking your wedding.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: No, really, thank you for not milking your wedding, giving
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: us useless mothership CNA headlines. OK, OK. And the only
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: time we're actually singing is when the wedding is almost
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: a month away. I mean, just to be fair, I
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: think there's no right or wrong way to do this
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: because people can be very excited. It's a big thing
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: in your life, right? But
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's, it's more tied to your personality type. Yeah,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you know me lah. I don't have time for this
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: kind of nonsense. So thank you very much for not
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: milking your wedding. I'm very proud of you as a
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: media personality. It shows that there is a clear distinction
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: between what you do publicly and what you do privately.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I think, like I said once again, no right or wrong,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: you have a right to share your journey if you're
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: like very excited about it and if you have more
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: that you want to share, but I think just I'm
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: inherently not a very
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Uh, wedding bell kind of person, you know, and I've
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: just never really envisioned that, oh, I must be a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: princess wedding, you know, whatever, you know. I'll give you
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a heads up, OK, your wedding, I'll be recording my
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: own roast. Oh no. So you already wait, don't please
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: don't tell me you prepared the roast already. All done.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I'm a planner. I'm a type A. I can do
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: it now, but no, I'll save it for the wedding
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: night itself. Can I ask you something? Yeah. Did you
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: start planning when I told you I got engaged? Yes.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Actually, I started planning a long time ago already, even
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: before I got engaged, because like, I mean, I know
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: it's going to be the man for you and you're
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the woman for him as well. Thanks. So I just
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: start taking notes and yeah, identifying things to cho chote
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: you all about. My, I caught my mom trying to
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: ask germs some questions like over lunch. Like germs, I
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: need to ask you some questions. I think she's writing
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: a speech or so. I think they all cry. So cute.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: We're all gonna cry. Very cute anyway, um, yeah, that,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: that's it. I just wanted to share something funny that,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: you know, miscommunication.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: But um, watch out this week. The episode, first episode
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: drops this week. I think it might be probably Wednesday
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: or Thursday if I'm not wrong. What's it called? Um,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Countdown till I do. It's just Countdown till I do. Yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: So is nothing fancy. Sonia Chew series or is this
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be for everyone else's wedding as well in the future?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: It's just focused on me counting. Hopefully you managed to
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: catch marshmallow Set recently here in Singapore. Yes, over at
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Marquee Singapore. Anyway, on that note, we're gonna get out
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: of here, hand things over to Anne Nicole, but tomorrow
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: we've got a special guest.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Joining us. Yes. Speaking of public hygiene, representing Public hygiene Council,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: we have Minister of State, Mr. BM King joining us
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and Dr. Christina Liu, I think for what, the 3rd
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: time in 3 years running Sonia. There are no strangers
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: to our show, by the way. I feel like we
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: should give them their own segment by now because they're,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they're both so so well spoken. Brought to you by
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the Public Hygiene Council. Why not, right? I, yeah. So
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: we'll catch you tomorrow. Make sure you tune in on
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: TikTok Live as well. We'll be there. Meantime, we'll catch
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: you at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.