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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 291026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: next.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us here today. Just one more
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  Speaker 1: day before the weekend is officially here, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we've got a long weekend very soon. Yes, so T Pavali,
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  Speaker 1: but for O levels, oh, we got some science and
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  Speaker 1: literature papers happening today. So good luck. Singapore's number one
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  Speaker 1: hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: And like we mentioned earlier, all the best for your
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  Speaker 1: upcoming exams if you're taking any today. Um, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be an intense week, but hopefully you get to rest
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  Speaker 1: and relax over the weekend. Yeah, because I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: the O levels calendar. Yeah. Uh, it more or less
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  Speaker 1: ends on the 10th of November. So hang in there,
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  Speaker 1: maybe say close to 2 weeks before you can really celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: The end of your secondary school journey. Yeah, I've been
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  Speaker 1: seeing some of the primary students on PSLE trips with
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  Speaker 1: their family and stuff. It's pretty cute. Um, did they
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  Speaker 1: mention when that is not yet not yet. We are
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  Speaker 1: waiting with bated breath on when it will be announced. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sending you lots of love. You've done your best. Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: it's a mad rush. It'll be the results and then
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  Speaker 1: the posting results. Yeah, for sure. Wow, I don't miss that, man.
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Being pretty stressed about that, like kind of worried. I
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  Speaker 1: was the next best thing and I got my home
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  Speaker 1: away from home. Yeah, and, and every time we go
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  Speaker 1: for a visit or when we went for the Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: which is my alma mater,
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  Speaker 1: Lamenting like, oh man, like I don't even have my
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  Speaker 1: secondary school. It's actually very sad. I know, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: must be a strange feeling like not to be able
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  Speaker 1: to go back I loved that so much. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my secondary school so much. I hope Ariana's OK. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as we all know, was it like 1 or 2
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago that she shared about the passing of her dog?
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  Speaker 1: that was last week. Was it last week? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: I just went to visit my parents last night and
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  Speaker 1: uh wanted to give Maxi a big giant hug because
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  Speaker 1: I just love her so much. And my mom took
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  Speaker 1: this ridiculous video of me like scrunching her face up
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  Speaker 1: and just like messing with her and she just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like smiles and I don't know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in her small little brain, but I hope she knows
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  Speaker 1: that we love her. My big sister is showing me love. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: give me more. When I, when I show you the video, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's more like my big sister is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, like, ever since hearing about Ariana
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  Speaker 1: Grande's dog passing away, you know, it's, I've never had
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  Speaker 1: a dog in my life. Maxie's my first family dog,
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  Speaker 1: even though she doesn't exactly live with me, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: very attached to her, as you know, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: want the day to come where like I have to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye to her. I know it's morbid to say
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  Speaker 1: this in the morning, but
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  Speaker 1: If you have a pet, any pet doesn't need to
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  Speaker 1: be a dog. Go give it a squish and a
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  Speaker 1: hug this morning. Even goldfish, it don't squish it. OK, yes,
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  Speaker 1: pet is fine. Don't squish the fish. You had a terrain.
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  Speaker 1: I had a terrapin called Polly, like many years ago
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  Speaker 1: that grew so big we couldn't take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: We had to find a pond to release her into. Um, ethically,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we're going to find out where. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: had a hamster called Peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately didn't live very long. Yeah, I got sick and
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  Speaker 1: then anything else? I had guppies, but that wasn't really counted.
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  Speaker 1: It was some like school project that we had. Did
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  Speaker 1: you name your guppies? That one I can't remember. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but that, that was about it. I didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: other pets. And then followed by Max Max, yeah, for
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  Speaker 1: a long time I didn't have any pets. Yeah. Mine
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  Speaker 1: was my golden retriever.
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  Speaker 1: time ago. I didn't get to meet that Goldie. No,
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid. I know we didn't know each
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  Speaker 1: other as kids, but yes, CJ, hope you're doing fine
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  Speaker 1: across the rainbow bridge, my friend. I'm pretty sure all
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  Speaker 1: the dogs that have crossed the rainbow bridge are kind
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  Speaker 1: of like just having a party and hanging out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to believe that. OK, even the naughty ones, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: even the naughty ones, they deserve to have fun too.
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  Speaker 1: They had all the fun already on planet Earth being naughty. Maybe,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're like the prefects have to be born as
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  Speaker 1: prefects give them some responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: What a random conversation. Actually, Rome, a place that I
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  Speaker 1: have not been to. You need to go. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know. It's just that the last time I went
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  Speaker 1: to that region, that area, I just didn't, I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen to stop by Rome. It wasn't on my itinerary.
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  Speaker 1: When you go to Rome, aside from the Vatican and
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  Speaker 1: the Colosseum, make sure you go to old town Rome, OK,
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  Speaker 1: and look for this very nice restaurant called Nanarella. Nanarella, yes.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: Is it very legit? It's Jo's.
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  Speaker 1: Others approve. OK, so she became a connoisseur in multiple cuisines. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: because my mom is a bit picky when it when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to food, yes, right, right. So when I
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  Speaker 1: picked the restaurants and I brought her to, of course, Asteria, Fortunata,
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  Speaker 1: and Nanala, she enjoyed those two because my biggest fear
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  Speaker 1: is dining with a picky eater. Yeah, I, I do
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  Speaker 1: know one person. I will not name this person on air.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but there's this one person that, uh, is in,
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  Speaker 1: I would say constantly, constantly in a situation where I
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  Speaker 1: have to eat with this person, OK.
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  Speaker 1: And um this person is known to be extremely, extremely
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  Speaker 1: picky to the point where like sometimes this person won't
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  Speaker 1: eat if the menu is not to his or her liking.
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  Speaker 1: So why not let this person dinner or lunches and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we do that, but uh when this person picks,
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes not the rest of our liking. Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So to give him or her credit, uh, they always
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  Speaker 1: just go like, you guys pick, and then I'll see.
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  Speaker 1: There's something on the menu that I like. If there's
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  Speaker 1: anything I miss about Europe, it's how cheap the wine is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you might think it's cheap wine, but it's
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  Speaker 1: still very good wine. The price of a bottle of water,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Italy and Spain. When we come back though,
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: something that will give you all the feels that happened
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  Speaker 1: 18 years ago, and these two current stars recreated their
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  Speaker 1: vlog from 2008 for a makeup brand commercial. 2008.
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  Speaker 1: Was it just was on the rise during that period.
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan. OK, OK, er, er era, good start, good start.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a girl or a guy? Two girls girls.
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  Speaker 1: Not from Singapore. Not from Singapore, of course, no. That's
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  Speaker 1: very broad. So two global superstars recreating a vlog that
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  Speaker 1: they did back in the year 2008 for a makeup
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  Speaker 1: brand commercial. Were they called vlogs back then? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: still called vlogs. I mean 2007 onwards when MySpace, YouTube
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  Speaker 1: and Facebook became a thing.
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  Speaker 1: People were exploring long form content back then and I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy to see the cycle repeat itself. Yeah, isn't
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  Speaker 1: Instagram introducing like 90 minute reel or something like a
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  Speaker 1: mini movie on Instagrams. Ah yes, yes, that'll be interesting actually. So,
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  Speaker 1: wanna take a guess on who these
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  Speaker 1: Two global superstars are OK, they're both female. They're both
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  Speaker 1: female actress or actresses or singers or could be like
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  Speaker 1: a triple threat. They can act, dance and sing. Miley, OK,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting close. close. Someone in the Disney with a
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  Speaker 1: Disney pass.
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  Speaker 1: Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato is correct Demi Lovato. And one more,
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  Speaker 1: same surname as me. Selena Gomez. You are absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Demi Lovato.
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  Speaker 1: Right, what are they up to? So what happened is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Selena Gomez has rare beauty, right? Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I love her products. So I think both of them
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  Speaker 1: actually recreated a vlog from 2008 to promote rare beauty,
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  Speaker 1: and they do it now in a Q&A format. They're
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  Speaker 1: all grown up now. It will definitely give you the
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  Speaker 1: feels from 18 years ago. I just scrolled through.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Selena posted it on Instagram actually, and um it's
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  Speaker 1: got that like vintage feel to it, and they filled
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  Speaker 1: the whole room with props that you would only recognize
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  Speaker 1: from the early 2000s. I love it, which is so cute. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to see them having fun together. Yeah, all
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  Speaker 1: they need now is the Jonas Brothers to join them
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  Speaker 1: on the scene. Oh my God, yeah, let's see what
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  Speaker 1: happens the circle.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I'm, I know you pretty well in
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  Speaker 1: terms of like, you don't go to our neighboring countries
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  Speaker 1: to do like medical or any sort of procedures. No,
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  Speaker 1: you just do it here in Singapore. Just yesterday, very
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  Speaker 1: interesting office, one of our colleagues was like, hey, yeah,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: my Botox this and that. I was like, oh, OK.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: And then they all looked at me. Joakim, do you
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  Speaker 1: do Botox? I was like, No, I don't. He skin
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  Speaker 1: is so good, so naturally, so jealous. Botox is not
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  Speaker 1: for your complexion. I, I, I don't know. It's for
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  Speaker 1: your like lines. Again, if you hear anything else, you've
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: heard it here first on 987. I've not done any
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  Speaker 1: Botox or anything invasive. Actually, both of us are quite.
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  Speaker 1: Noobs when it comes to those things. All I use
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  Speaker 1: is LaRoche sunblock and other skincare lah, not just the skin. OK. Anyway, um,
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  Speaker 1: I do know quite a lot of people that like
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  Speaker 1: to go to neighboring countries to do other types of procedures, um,
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  Speaker 1: not just aesthetics, but, you know, medical stuff as well, because, OK,
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  Speaker 1: to be very fair, it is much cheaper. It is
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  Speaker 1: way cheaper, but you are paying for a plane ticket
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  Speaker 1: to fly there.
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  Speaker 1: No, so according to my friends, even if you pay
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  Speaker 1: for the plane ticket and your hotel as a bundle
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  Speaker 1: together with the medical service, it's still cheaper than Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm guessing that's what they're saying. It's places like
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  Speaker 1: Thailand or Malaysia where it's very advertised like it's McDonald's,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thailand is really catching up in terms of aesthetics.
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  Speaker 1: This woman, um, Singaporean woman, she went to Johor to
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  Speaker 1: do some, um, teeth fillings, OK. She's dental, uh, dental procedure. Um,
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  Speaker 1: she visited these dental clinics in Johor and she suffered
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  Speaker 1: complications after getting these fillings at two different clinics, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So this happened in September, not too long ago. She
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  Speaker 1: said the first incident took place early September at a clinic.
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  Speaker 1: She had cleaned her teeth at a different clinic previously,
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  Speaker 1: but in the same dental group, but she couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: an appointment at the original clinic, so she went to
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  Speaker 1: another outlet, but under the same group. So you would
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  Speaker 1: think that like, oh, it's safe, you know, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're used to doing Raffles Medical here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: chances are, whichever Raffles Medical you go to is pretty
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  Speaker 1: much similar service. It's down to whether or not
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: you have like a preferred doctor, for example, right, and
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you're comfortable with taking someone else, to
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  Speaker 1: which sometimes I myself would feel like, OK, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: just wait for a few days till the doctor comes back,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll see the same doctor just to be safe,
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: just to be safe. But perhaps she wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: stay there for too long, so she just went. Um,
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  Speaker 1: she thought the process would just be filling of materials
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  Speaker 1: in her teeth. She allegedly claims that the dentist was
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  Speaker 1: drilling her tooth with no warning. This is her claiming it, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So, it's still under investigation right now. She spent over
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  Speaker 1: $100 at this place and the tooth became super inflamed.
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  Speaker 1: I think the area around it as well, and she
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  Speaker 1: said never in my life she has experienced this kind
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  Speaker 1: of pain. So, unfortunately, um, they said that the nerve
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  Speaker 1: in the tooth was exposed and now she has to
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: go see a senior dentist to fix the whole situation.
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  Speaker 1: So she's saying, now I want to tell everyone that
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  Speaker 1: it may not be worth it to go all the
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  Speaker 1: way to your neighboring countries for treatment just to save
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  Speaker 1: money and she regrets it. I mean, could this be
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: a peanuts monkey? Yes, in a way, but I just
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  Speaker 1: want to have a disclaimer that not all clinics are
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  Speaker 1: like that. And it's not to give our neighboring countries
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  Speaker 1: a bad name. I, I know of friends who have
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  Speaker 1: gone to neighboring countries and they love it, and they
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  Speaker 1: keep going back to the same clinics to do their procedures.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not all clinics. Some do, but also some
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  Speaker 1: come back with a bit of botched procedures. That's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: now you have to pay even more money to fix
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  Speaker 1: it in Singapore. Exactly. So please make sure you do
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  Speaker 1: your research again, like your interior designers and contractors, what
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  Speaker 1: works for your friend might not work for you. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what, um, here in Singapore, we're not
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  Speaker 1: exempt from these situations. I just read a case, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a week or two ago of an
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic doctor.
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  Speaker 1: That's, um, I'm not sure what his punishment is about
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  Speaker 1: to be, but he, he botched like several patients uh procedures,
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  Speaker 1: and it resulted in some, I don't know, bad outcome,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a, it's a Singaporean aesthetic doctor. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's a bit of a cycle, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know Singaporeans who go to Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: And Korea for their procedures, but then for Singapore, maybe
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  Speaker 1: say our friends from around the region like maybe Indonesia,
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  Speaker 1: they come here for procedures and all that. Yeah, right,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: you're not wrong. Just take a walk at Paragon Medical Center.
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  Speaker 1: You will understand what I mean. That one is not ours.
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  Speaker 1: I go Paragon. I go to the basement to buy coffee. My, my,
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  Speaker 1: my ENT is there. OK, he's good. OK, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What up, Dr. Tan. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there he is. I'm so sorry. My mouth is full.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a peanut butter sandwich. I enjoy it. I
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: enjoy whenever you take a bite out of something at
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: the wrong time here on the show. Yeah, I was like, oh, OK,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: 25 more seconds, la. Guess not. You underestimate your mouth
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  Speaker 1: size sometimes. anyway, OK.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I want to be a fly on the wall for
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: this particular meeting that happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm very sure you'd have seen the videos and
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: the articles now on social media and from our local press, where, yep,
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  Speaker 1: Minister Shanmugam, Minister Gan Kim Yong, and Minister for Sustainability
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  Speaker 1: and the Environment and Minister in charge of trade relations, Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Grace Fu, they were present for a meeting with the
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  Speaker 1: senior leaders of the 10 Singapore-based companies served legal notices
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  Speaker 1: over the transboundary haze. Yeah, OK.
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  Speaker 1: OK, this is what it isn't. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: name and shame. It is not a, oh, you're guilty
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  Speaker 1: of everything. No, no, no. It's more of a meeting
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  Speaker 1: between them and the ministers saying, OK, your company has
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  Speaker 1: been named. We expect full cooperation for investigation.
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  Speaker 1: To take place of what really happened. If there's no wrongdoing,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: we'll move on. Yeah. If we find something, we hope
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  Speaker 1: to have your full cooperation on answering our questions. And
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: then the camera pans to everybody in the room, and
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  Speaker 1: who's there? Mr. Davinder Singh. You know it's real. I mean,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: you know it is hitting the fan. I would be quaking, yes, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: like I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I will literally sit there and say nothing at this point,
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  Speaker 1: it's so scary. So I think there were loads of
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  Speaker 1: doorstop interviews done by, of course, coordinating Minister Shanmugam, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: also shout out to Balakrishnan, who actually flew down to
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Indonesia to go and meet his counterpart and I think
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  Speaker 1: President Prabowo himself. Yeah, I saw some pictures of him
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  Speaker 1: shaking hands and smiling when asked by the media, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not at liberty to discuss whatever took place with
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: President Prabowo, but talks are in place for this joint
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: task force task force. Yes. We love our task force.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Like we, we honestly love that term as well. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Gan Kim Yong be in charge because he's the task
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  Speaker 1: force man? Right. Perhaps we'll see where it goes, but
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you know, I am very proud of Singapore for doing
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  Speaker 1: all this, you know, it's like we've come out somehow
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  Speaker 1: from this situation.
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  Speaker 1: Being the sensible ones and being the people that we
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: want to strike a peaceful conclusion with everyone around us.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: we live in a bilateral relations with our neighbors are
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  Speaker 1: very important. So yeah, there you go, we take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it's a developing story, I'm sure. So we'll, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what the updates are over the next few weeks.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: He's a busy man, very busy man. Just a question
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  Speaker 1: for you, when was the last time you went overseas
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: and you did a little bit of shopping? Do I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: look like a shopper to you? No, but when you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: travel with your mom, you, you guys, right? You bought
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: some stuff, no, no, no, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: OK, just her and who was the one paying? Me, OK,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: because you brought her for the holidays. That's the kind
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: of shopping. So when we were in Milan after seeing
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the Duomo, we went, Oh, OK, let's go to the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: shopping district area for a nice walk. Jalan Jalan has
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: some lunch. The lunch was going to the Prada store,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: and my mom just spending time inside the first Prada
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  Speaker 1: store ever. Wow, so nice. Hi, I wish I can
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: buy a bag here. How I wish, right?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: In other words, she's hoping that you get her something.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say that. Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Anyway, um, yeah, when it comes down to
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: buying things overseas, when you come back to Singapore or
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: maybe even when you're overseas, they do give you like, um,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: like a slip or
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I think they call it like Global Blue or something.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That that's the company that runs it in some countries, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: But um, you know, there there are many rules about
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: buying a lot of luxury items and coming back here
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to Singapore. So, so if you
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Actually do end up buying, like the right thing to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: do is to declare what you've bought. If not, you
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: may get a fine that could be deemed not worth
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it for you to be buying this overseas anymore, right?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: But for this particular guy, um, unfortunately, a very interesting case, uh,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it's a Singaporean man, by the way, he claims, he claims, OK,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I think it's still being investigated right now. He claims
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that he was stopped at the JB checkpoint.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And had to pay $18.40 in Singapore dollars um of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: duties on a speaker that he bought two years ago.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this $18.40 works out to be about 10%
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of the speaker's retail price. So he allegedly was made
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to pay the tax on it, and he decided to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: take his woes to TikTok to say and explain what happened.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: He said, I claim that I bought this 2 years ago,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: but they're telling me that I have to pay the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: taxes on this speaker, which they're saying like, no, it
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: looks new, like you should, you should be paying taxes
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: on this speaker.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Um, however, um, according to his TikTok video, when he
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was asked if he had the receipt, he said, I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: don't because it was bought in 2024. The officers allegedly,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I'm saying allegedly, then searched the price of the speaker online.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to let him go. They search for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the price and then they said.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: OK, um, it's this amount, and it stated the speaker
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: is $185. This is what it is in Ringgit, so
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you have to pay 10% of it. I don't know why,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: but I feel like there's something fishy going on here. Yeah,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: so he agreed to pay the tax anyway because I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: guess he just wanted to like get out of the situation.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Um, the officers then asked him, do you want to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: pay by cash or visa? And he said he did
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: not really have cash, so he paid by visa. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: apparently the officers even asked to check his wallet to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: ensure that he was telling the truth that he didn't
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: have cash. What? Yeah, so I don't know, man, a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: lot of fishy things. There's a lot more details that
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: are revealed in his video and the article, but um,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I think many netizen.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: are reacting with confusion and saying like how can a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: 2 year old item be still taxable? Something weird is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: going on. What I want to know is how did
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the officer know that the speaker looked? I don't know
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: how interesting. That's why I think it's still being hopefully
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: being investigated right now. Look, at least it was only
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: $18 and not like $180 or $1000 or whatever, right?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But still, um.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Something doesn't strike me as it being
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a right situation here. Do you think this is why
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: sometimes people turn these cases to social media? Yeah, because
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: they feel like they have no choice, maybe. Because, for example,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: if I were to make a legitimate report, it might
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: be ignored and not many people might know about it. Yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: but if I go to social media, they can't ignore
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it anymore.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: So I wonder what happens. Maybe they have different types
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of rules there. I don't know, but just be very careful.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Read up on each country's laws as you come in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and out, I guess. I'm just being a capo. What
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was this? Was this JBL or? Let me see if
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the brand is or what's the, what's the luxury brand, uh, Diale? No, no.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It is not very obvious. Yeah, because I don't see any,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I don't see any like to, to go through logo
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: on it, to go through all that trouble for a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: speaker that might go the Bluetooth device is ready to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: be connected. I'll be very, I'll be very angry like wow,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: this cheap speaker causing me so much problem.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, but I don't think
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: it's a very expensive speaker. I mean, like I said,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it's about 180+ speaker, so it's not like your luxury brands.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: In fact, I don't recognize the logo, so I, I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: could not tell you what it is. Yeah. OK, so
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: got some tea for you, OK.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Not gonna name names, once again, everything is always anonymous,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: but more often than not inspired by real-life stories and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: people around us or even ourselves. At this point, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: are like a Reddit comment section. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of info, lots of info. So, um, I had, I
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: caught up with a friend recently, um, and my, this friend.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: A mine has been seeing this girl for some time, OK?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: They've been on and off. They've been on and off.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And apparently this year they tried to like make things
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: work for real, so they're in like a relationship now. Oh,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that's nice. Yeah, and um I was like, OK, I mean,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I've had my reservations about this um partner, this girl,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: simply because it was based off what my friend was
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: telling me, OK, and I felt like, bro, I don't know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: is she compatible? Like, are you guys compatible?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Just based off what you're telling me it doesn't sound
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like it, you know. Sonia red flag, it's serious.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: It is serious. No, because, OK, typically I'm the kind
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of person in my, in my dating life, if I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: look back at my history of dating, right, I'm the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: kind that like, I may hear things about this person
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: or like bad things, but I just want to find
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: out myself, you know, if I'm, if I'm really attracted
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to this person or I find this person interesting or intriguing,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: then it's up to me to figure out the red flags.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But if my friends are asking me for my opinion,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: That would mean maybe they're getting a bit more serious
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and they just want to know whether the friends around
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: them approve because you are a very open person, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: if you see the red flags despite being a very
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: open person, then yeah, something is wrong something is there, yeah.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: So what happened was, um, he was saying, yeah, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: after all this on and off, like, uh, seems to
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: be going a bit more stable, then his birthday came about, OK,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: birthday came about.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And this friend of mine is a simple guy, like quite,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: quite similar to you in a way that like doesn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: covet over like branded stuff or like, you know, you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: don't need to buy any like high-end things. I'm guessing
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the most expensive thing that me and maybe your friend
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: is like a piece of tech.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or maybe a watch. I think, I think you have, you,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you did, you do have like one or two luxury watches. Yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and very similar. So, you know, just a dude that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: likes to do sports and like do boy things or
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like men things, you know. So on his birthday,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: This, this girl who um I've gotten the impression that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: she can be quite materialistic, which was the first red
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: flag for me because like what I mentioned, my friend
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: is a simple guy, right? Um, she bought him a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: branded item, OK? And it's, it's, it's kind of like
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a bag of some sort, like a branded bag. It's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: so not him.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It is a bit gaudy, to be honest, like, a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: bit loud, and the brand, the brand name is like
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: everywhere kind of situation.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It's like you want people to know that you're carrying
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a branded item, you know, buying a backpack. Yeah, like
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: those anti-theft bag or like a, you know, camping bag
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. So now I have my question,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: how come the girl do? That's the thing. So my
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: theory is that she maybe she had good intentions. Maybe
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: she's like, oh, I want to buy him something branded,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: or it could also be the kind of situation where
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: she expects him to buy her branded things as well.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That could be one of the reasons. Or could I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: give you scenario C? What this expensive bag that she
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: bought for your friend, is the, the, the seal the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: deal or the leash? The leash being that, OK, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: bought the expensive thing, you better carry for me. No,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you better carry and show to the world that I
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: am your girlfriend. That's why I bought this for you. Well,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know, if you know him well enough, if you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: see him carrying this, you definitely think it's out of
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: place for sure.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So he was kind of confiding in me about this story,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: saying like, dude, when I received the gift, I didn't
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: know how to react because I hated it. He was like,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I hated it. Um, she clearly doesn't know me like well,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: do you even know me after all this time? Like,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the fact that you would even buy this, firstly, is
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not cheap. Secondly, it's so not my style, and now
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I have to wear it and pretend that I like it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But can I guess when he received it, his words were.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you all very sweet. He can't really vocalize his
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: initial reaction was like, huh, why did you buy this?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was just like a knee-jerk reaction. After
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: which I think he recovered and you know, he goes, Oh,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much. And I, I guess
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: she was a bit affected, but she's like, you mean
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you don't like it, like, you know, and after, after
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: like a week or two, he wasn't really seen carrying
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it that much. She questioned him again. Why are you
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: not carrying, why are you not carrying the bag?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: So then he was just like going on about this
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: with me and he said, what should I do? And
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I said, bro, you know what, like if you really,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: really like this girl, even though I don't quite understand
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: because clearly she doesn't really get you, then this is
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a small battle that just don't fight lah. tough. You
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Just, do you want to get
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: into a fight about this? I don't know, man. I mean,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: germs in the initial stage has bought me like one
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: or two things that I didn't quite wear.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But he kind of learned from that and I didn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: say that I didn't, it's not really my style and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't say, but he did get the hint because
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: he realized I wasn't really wearing it. So then he said,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: why don't you tell me what you prefer for your
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: next like birthday and I'll get it for you. To
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: my bros who are tuned in to this set right
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: now safest option, food.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Honestly, safest option is food. Like if it's your birthday, come, Oaka.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, but also like you still have to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: get your partner a gift, right? Then you must do
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the research correctly. Either that or how about this? If
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: we're adults, just be direct. Just be like, hey, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I need some help thinking about a gift. Maybe you
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: can list me three things that you want. List me
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: 3 things that you want. And for me, I'm not
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: really that big on like gifts. I don't really, it's,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it's more of like time spent for me. I'm not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: big on like.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Realistic things. See, at least you're patient about it because
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the pressure that us men face, right, is, for example,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: if we have a partner who's the kind of partner
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that might have a Sunday brunch with the girlies, right,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and say, I am, my husband useless. I have to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: tell him what I want. He couldn't guess. You know what,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for me, I'm like, forget the guessing game. If I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: really want something and if my partner or my husband
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: or boyfriend is asking me what I want, I will
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: just bring you to the shop and say this is
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: what I want.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: OK, boom, done. Thank you. Easy. Then we all win.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I get the thing I like and he doesn't have
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a headache. But you are such a rare. OK. Everyone
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: else guessing game compared to those who expect us to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: know what you want, you know, like who think that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: we are psychics. It's a problem. It's a big problem. Let's, um,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: open up the phone lines 669-11987 or drop us a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: message 90050987.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Have you ever received a gift before that you did
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: not like? But you pretend to like.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: You have no choice. You have to pretend to like it. Just,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you know, act blur, live longer kind of situation. Give
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: us a call and let us know. Let's have a
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: good laugh about it. You can remain anonymous if you want,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: if it's sensitive for you. Why not? Uh, please spill
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: some tea. I would love to hear in exchange, a
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: wonderful experience to little farms could be coming your way.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm quite confused about this one. I want to say
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: good morning to username. My name is Jeff on WhatsApp,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: who goes, Hey, Sonia and Joakim, I have given someone
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a gift, and they pretended to like it. It is
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: actually Mount Fuji Air in a can. What? My friend
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: was like, How do I know?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Whether is it real? Is it the real thing? Yeah,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: it could be from Toa Payoh. So Jeff actually sends
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: us a picture of the Mount Fuji air. I'm, I'm
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: very confused because you're paying a few 100 yen per can. Wait,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: could it have been a gag gift, like a funny gift, but,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: but it says Fuji Fuji.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: And you can see it right there. Yeah. How do
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: they even bottle this? They just walk to the base
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of the mountain and scoop the air in a can.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We can actually import air now from
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji. It's like.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It's a souvenir, is it? It's just a souvenir. Perhaps, perhaps,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: but I think it's a gag gift. It's meant to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: be a joke. It's the kind of thing where if
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I receive it, I'm not going to open it just
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to keep it in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One more
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: coming in from Katie. Hello, Katie. Katie, you said I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: have received a gift from my cousin before, and you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know what he gave me? A math exam paper from China.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I was frustrated, but I pretended to like it as
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a gift, and he told me to do it in
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: front of him. What? It could be for revision or
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: something like that, poor thing. That's so strange. Like I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: guess at the end of the day what people think,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe you have a different sense of humor.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Like what I think is funny is not what you
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: think is funny. I mean, if a family member buys
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: me an exam paper, you're officially estranged from me because
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna do it. Why would you do that?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, you clearly don't know me at all. Exactly.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: But you know, you see, that's the thing.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Like just for laughs, I might get you like an
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: art-related set, for example, you know, you forgot. I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: it was 2 years ago just for laughs for a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Christmas present you bought me astrology cards. Oh yeah, that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: was hilarious. It's still sealed in the pack, by the way.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I've not opened it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: That was so funny. When I, when I, can I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: re-gift it to someone? No, when I saw it in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the store, I was, I laughed to myself and I
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm just going to give this to Jogan
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to trigger him. And by the way, there was no
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: pretense on whether they like the gift or not. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: clearly should have said, What the hell do you buy me?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: What is this? Just the reaction I wanted. The moment
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I saw it, yep, let's trigger Joakim nonsense. Anyway, when
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: we come back, some of your calls and more of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: your messages. Still time for you to get those in.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Have you ever received a gift that you did not like,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but you just pretended to like it, you know, just
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a self-preservation at this point. Talking about the times where
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you might have received a gift that you did not like,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: but you had no choice but to pretend to like
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: it anyways. Got one.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Will. Will says, morning Sojo. I once received a gift
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: from a close client. He gifted me a hamper containing
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Martel and bird's nest. While I appreciated the gift and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the act, I actually don't drink and I'm allergic to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: bird's nest. The worst part is that he continued to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: send it to me for the next 3 years on
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: my birthday. So all these years I've been re-gifting those gifts.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It only stopped because he migrated. I felt bad, but
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I couldn't bring myself to tell him.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a tough one. I mean, these are
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: nice gifts. Like he must really like you as a person.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: At this point, the rabbit hole to stop it from happening. Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Once you pass the first gift and you didn't give
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: any feedback that you're allergic to, it's too late.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: From Bintu Hisham, Morning Sojo. Loving this topic. My first
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: gift from my husband was a gaudy orange watch, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I straight up told him, I'm really sorry, but can
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: we please return and exchange it for something else? For
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the following birthdays, he said, I just give you money, lah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You choose what you want.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: That's also the safest option. Very safe, honestly, as we've gotten,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you know, older and we start working more in life, right, like, um,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I tend to also like give my parents like ang
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: pao instead because at this point I don't really know
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: what they want or need anymore. And sometimes my mom
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and dad would say like they would rather use the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: money for like useful stuff and don't, they, they always
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: like don't go and waste money, buy like brand.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Don't buy us branded things. We don't mind. We don't
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: mind the NTUC vouchers or the grocery vouchers. Just give us,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I guess it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: changes along the way also for both ways. Yeah. Keep
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it coming over at 669-11987. We do have anonymous on
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the line in just a while, but Jeff is on
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the line right now in the midst of telling us
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: about a hair tonic that his friend got for him
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of all things, a hair tonic.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: OK, Jeff, what happened and did you use it to,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to grow your hair la to, to, to make sure
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: you have a better something else I was like I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: have hair, why did you give me this? I have
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a hair. I'm like 15 years old. I was like,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: why did you give me this? And he was like, uh,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: for your future use. I was like, what? What a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: weird gift. I'm not sure about that, but it's like
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: equivalent to, to like buying.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Perfume or deodorant for someone, a deodorant for someone, it
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: like almost implies like, is it I got BO? That's
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: why you're, you know what I mean? It's like when
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you buy something that seems to help a problem, you
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: start to second guess yourself. So this reminds me of
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: some time ago, a girl actually bought me cologne. It's
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: not the one I use. Oh, she bought me what
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: she wants me to smell like.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: For her, did you like it? No, you didn't like it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't like it. I forgot what it was. And how?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: How did, did you just wear it anyway just to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: make her happy? When I'm going out with her, I
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: wear it. Oh my gosh, I'm going out on my own,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I'll wear something else. Even my mom recognized the smell going,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this is not your smell. Yeah, that's the thing, cologne
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and any personal scent or like lotions that you put
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: on yourself, it's very personal. It's really hard to force
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: me to change to something that you like, but I
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: may not like it because I find that smell.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sticking to it forever. Agree, agree. I mean, I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: do have like a common rotation of perfumes and lotions
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I think Joe will mention like, oh yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I smelled you in the lift. I'm like, yes, I
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: can also smell Joakim from the lift. Some of your
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: sprays and perfumes you can smell a mile away signature. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about whether you've received a gift that you
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: didn't quite like, but you just pretended to like it anyway.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Just for self-preservation. Got one hilarious one coming in from Bone.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm on WhatsApp. Let's go. Morning, Sonia and Joakim. For
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: my housewarming two years ago, one of my aunties gave
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: me a housewarming gift. She said it was an exclusive
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: from Germany. So it was something like a statue and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: it's something decorative, and we're not big on art pieces
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: because our house has a specific theme, so we just
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: pretended that it was so beautiful that's because our relative.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: was um the one that bought it for us. We
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: didn't think too much of it, you know, just because
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: we kept it in the storeroom. And then one day
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: when our auntie came to visit again casually, she asked,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Where is the art piece that I got you? My
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: partner and I looked at each other and gave an
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: excuse that it was stored in our master bedroom. Thank
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: God she didn't ask to see or go in. Oh
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: my God. Can you imagine? Very lucky. If she was like, Hey,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: let me see where you put it. Oh no.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Bro, I would not know how to get my way
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: out of that, man. That one is quite scary. I'll
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: just be like, um, I don't think that you should
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: walk into our master bedroom. We have like other things
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't pack my room. I didn't pack my room.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: That's the best, it's very messy. I really rather not
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: use it. Yeah. One coming in from anonymous texter, Sonia.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: My husband and I used to give my parents-in-law money
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: for their birthday, but we stopped after we found out
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: that they're always giving it to their youngest child who is.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Jobless. So we will now make a point to give
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: them gifts that they can use instead. Oh. OK. I mean,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: maybe they're just doing it out of the goodness of
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: their hearts because they're like, we don't need this money
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: right now. But there's a lot going on here that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: we don't know for sure, for sure. And if I'm
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the person giving the money and I find out that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you're actually gifting it to someone else, yeah, yeah, I
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: may feel a certain way about it. Keep the calls
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: coming in at 669-11.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: 987 or you can WhatsApp us at 90050987. We do
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: have an anonymous caller hanging on the line. Had a
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: hilarious past um 45 minutes or so just laughing at
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: some of these stories here. I'm inspired by a real-life
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: one of my friend receiving a gift from a girl
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that he's been going out with, and, uh, you know,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: he told me, yeah, things are getting a little bit
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: more serious and his birthday came about, she bought him
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: a gift that he hated.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: And it made him question like, oh my God, does
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: this girl know me at all because I would never
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: wear this. And uh, you know, she then, no, I
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: think there's a lot more at play here. She's a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: little bit materialistic and I think she expects the same
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: kind of like branded stuff from him, but he's not
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that kind of guy. So, at the end of the day, look,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: like gifts can be very subjective and very personal. He
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: had no choice.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But to pretend like he liked it. I got one
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah. I had to pretend that I liked
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the meal that was cooked by someone I was seeing
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: at that point in time. Oh no, that's the worst.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Was it? How bad was it? Like, OK, and by
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the way, if you're tuning in now, Kim's like food standards.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not that kind of guy that's like, oh,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: we must always eat at like.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Places or whatever, not at all, not at all like that.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're very picky, to be honest. Like
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you just eat whatever. Again, we can have McDonald's at
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: East Coast Park, and that's like a date. If the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: convo is going well and the company is great, it's fantastic, dude.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I'd rather do that than go to some Michelin restaurant
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and I got nothing to talk to the person. What
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: can you tell that to my 21 year old self
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and I asked you out? We didn't go to Michelin restaurant. What?
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And also we, we had things to talk about, you know,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: back then carnivore expensive. Oh, that's true. That's true. OK, no,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: but I was going to say, so imagine this for
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: this girl that I was seeing her birthday. I saved
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: up whatever little money I had back then, brought her
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: for a nice meal, good steak and all that. When
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: my birthday came around, she prepared this really terrible tasting pasta.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: It's like sausage and very watery tomato gravy. Oh no,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: that's horrible bolognese, right? It was bad and I had
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to pretend that I liked it because she's a bit
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: of a short fuse, sensitive. Yeah. OK, give me your
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: pretend face. 00, no, I asked for more.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: It's so good.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Can I have one more bowl, please?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my Lord, help me. One and done. OK. That's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: funny though. Now I need to recreate this pasta.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Please don't.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Don't waste good pasta. We have an anonymous on the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: line right now. Anonymous. Tell us what happened.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Well, mine is um my mother-in-law.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: And basically she's, for the goodness of her heart, she
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: loves getting us presents during Christmas and one thing, you know,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: for the presents to be something useful or nice, but
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of times this ends up being novelty gifts. Um,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: and she would give us the presents on Christmas Day
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and would ask us to open it and literally sit
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: there and watch our reaction to it. Oh God.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: And so my husband and I will always have to,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: you know, open the presents and sometimes, well, most times
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: it's gifts that we don't know how to react to it,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: so we, oh, thank you, thank you, very, very nice,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: very useful, um.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: And there was this like one year that she got
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: us this phone magnifying screen thing, so it's like a
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: big magnifying glass thing and then you put your phone
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: at the back and it would um basically magnify the words,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: enlarge your screen um for us to watch shows, but
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: it didn't um
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: It didn't work out as well as it would, uh,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: she thought, um, it was very blurry and stuff like that,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: so she was like, useful, right? And the two of
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: us were sitting there like, yes, very useful, thank you.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I, I feel like my heart aches for these like,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: you know, aunties and uncles, right? I mean, and our
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: parents and
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: You know, in-laws and all that because they, they have
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: good intentions. And they genuinely think that it's something useful
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: for us, so I don't want to break their heart also.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Is she still buying gifts for you then Anonymous?
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: He is, um, but in recent years, I think he
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: realized we are not quite using the gifts. Um, so,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: so she's been asking like my husband during Christmas, oh,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: what do you guys want? And then
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she has learned her lesson. That's always safe. Always
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the safest question to ask. Thank you so much for
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sharing Anonymous and making us laugh this morning. You have
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a great day, OK? Take care. Thank you. Don't forget
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: to use your magnifying sheet on your phone later. OK, bye.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: We had such a good laugh this morning. I mean, look,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: this is extremely relatable when you receive gifts that it's
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: not exactly your style or you don't really like it,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: but
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: You just pretend to like it so that you just
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: don't get into any situation or argument or nobody's unhappy,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you know. It's a safety mode. Yes, you know what
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, yeah. Better save yourself. But I think
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: for today I want to give it to an anonymous
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: caller who called us earlier. Thank you very much for
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that call. Yeah, you told us about your mother-in-law buying
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: you gifts and for the longest time you guys just
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: pretend like you like it. Yeah, I mean, that's cute.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Your mother-in-law had good intentions. You know what, bring your
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: mother-in-law for a very nice shopping experience.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Thanks to our friends over at Little Farms. We're giving
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: you a $100 voucher. Yeah, why not, right? Just give
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: it a shot and you know, if you want to
• 42:29
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• 42:31
  Speaker 1: a taste of Italy at Little Farms from now to
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the 18th of November. Um, it's in partnership with the
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Italian trade agency, by the way, so they've got really
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: authentic Italian produce and culinary traditions brought to Singapore thanks
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to Little Farms. So if you're curious, please visit their
• 42:47
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• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Taste of Italy, right? Yeah, I miss paninis. Oh, I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: hope they bring in the proper meats for that and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: they can serve it to you over there. Yeah, well,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: there's plenty to explore, you know, including cheeses, wines, charcuterie.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: So lots to, lots to try. I hope you enjoy yourself. Um,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: we've got a little something for you right now. So,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Maju Forest and Gilman Barracks, we promised you the moment
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: we hear updates, we'll let you know here on 987.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: And I would say this is considered good news. Yes, yeah.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: So your voices have been heard.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: So what happened is, according to our friends over at CNA,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: housing plans for Maju Forest and Gilman Barracks have been
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: revised to cut about 1200 homes and retain more greenery
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: following public feedback. HDB announced yesterday, Wednesday.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: So it's about maybe say 11,000 homes across both sites
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: over the next decade, 4000 public housing units at Maju Forest,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and 7000 homes at Gilman Barracks, of which 5500 will
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: be public housing. So now the Maju Forest, the amount
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: of it that will be retained, it will be about
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: 10 hectares, 10 HA, yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's very good news because, OK, one thing
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: that I really like about our country is the greenery, honestly,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: like the fact that we were able to merge greenery
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: with modern architecture is, is, is amazing. And other countries
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: actually use us as a blueprint, you know. So if
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: you want the graphics and the map on exactly where
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: it's being retained, you can log on to our friends
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: over at CNA. I think they will show you the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: one over at Sunset Way area and they will show
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: you the one over at Gilman Barrack.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Which is bordering on Telok Blanga Hill Park and Hot
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Park as well. And with the fact that they're going
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: to retain more greenery, I think this area is going
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to be even hotter than before. Oh yeah, I mean
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: hotter meaning like more popular than before. And given how
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: they are reducing the amount of houses constructed, yeah, maybe
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the pricing might go up slightly up. This one we
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: need to consult our friends who are in real estate. Yes,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: we do, who by the way, are all upping their
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: social media game, man. I'm getting so.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: So many videos. I mean, now Thomson Reserve that's happening. So, um,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: interesting food news here today, not exactly announcing any new
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: opening or closures or anything at all, but a worrying
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: pattern here in Singapore and our hawkers are speaking out.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Here we go. 123, food news, news. Sonia with worrying
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: food news. Because you mentioned earlier about our sugar and
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: then now it's now down to our salt and sodium, yeah.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, uh, we tackled the whole sugar-related problem by,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: you know, really encouraging all Singaporeans to consume less sugar,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and I think that's pretty much under control, it seems,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you know, most drinks now have like the healthier options
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: as well. Um, however, our hawkers have spoken out because
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: a survey recently and recent findings have showed and revealed
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: that about 95% of Singapore residents consume way too much sodium.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised because when we eat out, and for
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you and I, I think we eat out a lot.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: We either eat out or we order food in quite often, right?
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: It's just got no time to cook and the chances
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: are you can't control the amount of sodium or salt
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: that's being put in there.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: So hawkers have decided they try to reduce the salt
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: on their end. So they maybe they use um less salt,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: soy sauce or like, you know, just put less salt
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: in general. Customers are complaining. They're not used to the taste.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: They say, why is it so tasteless? It's where's the flavor?
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: It's so bland. It's very tough. And, and one of
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: these wonton mee sellers, um, his name is Mr. Yen.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: He actually noticed people adding a scary amount of soy
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: sauce into the wanton noodles because they say it's not
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: salty enough. And to quote, he said, it's so scary
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the way they pour the soy sauce into their food.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Um, he runs this place called Xiangqi Wanan Me at
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Bedok Food Center, by the way, it's pretty good for
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: about 50 years take us away from sugar, but you
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: cannot take us away from our salt. I know. So
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: that's the thing, as Singaporeans, we still like the familiar
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: stronger flavors. I admit I'm like that too. I'm the kind,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I love to put extra sauce, extra chili, like extra
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: everything into my meals.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: For sure. So your home cooked meals, right? Do you
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: find yourself using less salt or do you still the same? No, OK, interestingly,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I'm quite healthy when I cook my meals at home,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: which I wish I had the time to do more often.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: It's just very hard because, you know, you do that,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: then you got the cleaning up to do the prep
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and everything. It's just like we don't have the time. Um,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: also want to take you over to this tall.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: So if you eat your, you know, nasi parada, ayam paneer,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: all these kind of stuff, you know that it's very
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: flavorful as well, right? Um, so this lady, um, who's
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: the owner, uh, of, I think, No India Kitchen, her
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: name is Madam Haja, um, it's a popular nasi ayam
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: panett also at the Bedok area.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: She said that they attempted to do a healthier ayam pane.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So you know, yon panet is like, I would say fried, right?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: So she recalled trying to bake it instead of fry
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: it because baking generally is the healthier option.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Apparently got rejected by the customers. Yeah, because if you're
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: going for, the last thing you want is a healthier.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: You know it's. Literally, like it was, you know, I
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: think some of the baked versions went unsold and the
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: diners will say, Hey, this one is not authentic la, cannot.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Oh no. So what to do, you know, these hawkers
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: are trying. The progress is slow despite the efforts to
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: cut out sodium and reduce sodium. So I don't really
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: know where this is going to go because the hawkers
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: themselves can cut.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Down, but as consumers, you might just top up the
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: salt and the soy sauce instead. I mean, even your
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: favorite soups, right, if you order a bowl of soup,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the amount of sodium in there is going to be
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: very high. Yeah, and if they reduce it and cut it,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: then you have the problem, you face the problem of
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: them just topping it up with the condiment section. There
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you go, unless, and I hope this doesn't happen, they
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: start charging a lot for the condiments. They might like
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: if they really want to try and help you, I
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I start charging a lot for condiments. I think some
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: places already are doing that. When you ask for extra
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: chili packets, they will charge me, you know. These are
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: times where I wish I was a culinary expert so
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I can tell you what to do. But in the meantime,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: just tahan and watch your sodium intake. It's always good
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: to monitor these things just in case. How do you
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: monitor your sodium intake? I mean, just know what you're
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: having per meal. Check your meals, have, have a good count,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: for example, if you're having your ba chomi in the afternoon,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: what do you have at night? Do you have bacho
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: me again tomorrow?
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Are you targeting me because I love eating? No, no,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just giving you like the saltiest dish I can
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: think of for now. True, true, or even chicken rice
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: with your sodium intake. I mean, the truth of the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: matter is, as Singaporeans, especially in Southeast Asia, we love
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: our strong bold flavors. Yes, we do. That's it. We'll,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: we'll see how this works out and how our hawkers
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: are dealing with it. OK, so when it comes to
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the Sunday.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Lane, it's something that our friends over at Seletar Aerospace
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Park that they have for now. It's a 4.6 km
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: stretch at the West Chem Road area. So once you
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: cross Yishun Dam on a Sunday morning from 5 a.m. to,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: I think, was it 10:00 a.m. or 11 a.m. you
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: have the cycling lane to yourself. Our friends over at LTA,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: they realize that and say, hey, let's extend it for you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: So they're going to extend it.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Seletar Aerospace Drive and Punggol Barra Drive. So we're looking
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: at a total of 11.2 km worth of cycling lane
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: for you on Sundays between 5 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Well,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that's interesting and with every piece of news, unfortunately, I
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: have to throw in a bad piece of news. What
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: happened here? I mean, look, that, that's very good for
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: the cycling community and people who are into fitness and
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: everything and always, you know, new venues to
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: To do these activities are always welcome, especially since Singapore
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: is such a small country, right? Um, I saw this
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: just posted last night, OK. You know Tanjong Pagar District Park, right?
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: They are, they were quite well known for doing a
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: lot of like cool events and like music-related events. In fact,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I've attended quite a number of like outdoor raves at Tanjong,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Tanjong Pagar District Park, not just music-related raves, but also
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: other types of like fashion or arts-related events.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: And for the past 3 years, I think it's been
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: a signature venue for some of these parties. Um, unfortunately, apparently, OK,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: this is what I just read. Due to an anonymous
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: complaint making some false claims about certain music events, Tanjung Paga.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: District Park will not be hosting any more outdoor music events. Yeah,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and it's stated, at least not for the foreseeable future,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and apparently there's going to be very heavy restrictions. So,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: in other words, it seems like it's not going to
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: be happening there.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Anytime soon. It is not so residential areas. I know.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: So now I want to find out who are the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: ones making these claims because it's not disturbing anybody. Whoever
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: lodged the complaint, right? I think you have to step
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: up now and say that you're an actual person and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: you have proof of why you are aggrieved about this
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, because I'm telling you this was posted
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: like 15 hours ago. It's got over 1000 shares right
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: now and I think people are going to go on
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: a witch hunt for the people who did that. How
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: can you shut down another venue like.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Paker District Park is one of those like grungy venues
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: that I'm proud to bring my friends who visit Singapore,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: bring them there for a party, you know, like it's
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: so cool. We already have very limited spaces, and I
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: really hope the authorities and the powers that be actually
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: investigate these complaints to make sure that it has some
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: grounds and not some random rumored complaints or someone that's
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: like jealous of the event and trying to sabotage, you know,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: we want to get down to the bottom of this.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Let this be known, OK? Let this be very angry.