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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 030926 · 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 and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show. We're almost arriving to the weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: today is the day the Cheers Breakfast Club bundle becomes available.
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  Speaker 1: 12,000 bundles island-wide. Wow, that's incredible. Stay tuned for more
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  Speaker 1: great music. Joakim's disappeared to the restroom for like the
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: past 10 minutes, so I'm going to drop him a
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  Speaker 1: text to ask him if he's OK.
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  Speaker 1: This happens every once in a while, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: beauty and the joy of live radio, right? Anyway, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Thursday, the 3rd of September. Tomorrow is Teachers' Day.
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  Speaker 1: Have you planned anything just yet? Drop me a message, 90050987.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know, like, have you bought your teacher a
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Teacher's Day present? I mean, that's still a thing, right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you write letters, you give them little gifts,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the one time a year teachers feel extremely,
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  Speaker 1: extremely loved, despite whatever has happened throughout the year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you've had to have difficult conversations with
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  Speaker 1: your students or
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  Speaker 1: You know, unfortunately give a bad grade, maybe. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy to be a teacher at all. So,
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  Speaker 1: school has planned for Teacher's Day. I would love to know. You,
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: you disappeared for like 15 minutes. Are you OK, bro?
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: I apologize. Are you OK? Just morning digestive. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much. You're most welcome. All good. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the, that's the beauty of life radio.
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  Speaker 1: Um, most things can't be, can't be escaped or missed,
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's, it's life. a.m. to 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, 100%. We keep secrets. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: funny thing is because
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  Speaker 1: We, we're, we're on 6 to 10 every day, right?
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  Speaker 1: But it's not every day that our friends and family
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  Speaker 1: or like even my partner can listen to us on,
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  Speaker 1: on air. So sometimes he will get people texting him
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  Speaker 1: saying like, hey, bro, this happened to you. And then he,
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: he'll be like, let me guess, you heard it on radio,
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: is it? Jeremy is all around us. Nothing is really
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  Speaker 1: a secret when it comes to our show in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, right?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, stick about. It's closing in on 6:30. Earlier on,
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  Speaker 1: I asked if you're doing anything special for Teachers' Day
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  Speaker 1: that's happening tomorrow. Oh, celebrations. So it's a long weekend
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  Speaker 1: here in Singapore. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Um, we have
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  Speaker 1: one coming in and just say hi over here to,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't leave a name.
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  Speaker 1: But you said, hey, um, we are pretty excited. My
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  Speaker 1: favorite teacher, I wanna give a big shout out to
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  Speaker 1: my English teacher. Thank you so much for um just
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  Speaker 1: giving me all the care and attention in class. So,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just googling PSLE written examination schedule. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: begins 15th of September. Oh, OK. We start with mother tongue. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: usually that's the case. So all the best to you. Alright.
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  Speaker 1: Well, whatever it is that you are strong in in
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  Speaker 1: terms of your subjects, keep working on that and don't
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  Speaker 1: give up hope with your weaker ones. I meant to say. Oh, OK, OK. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about PSLE PSLE. Well, I guess oral examinations
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  Speaker 1: have been cleared for PSLE already. And now it's listening. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Keep right here on 987, Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: Son and Jokim with you. Thank you so much for
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: joining us. It's a bit of an early days to
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  Speaker 1: do crime news here in Singapore. That's. Is it crime
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  Speaker 1: or real crime? Not crime, Oh no, but a follow
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  Speaker 1: up to what I was very excited about when I
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  Speaker 1: shared it with you on Tuesday, uh, that $3 billion
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  Speaker 1: money laundering case. How did it become $1 billion to
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: $3 billion all of a sudden? Like, so I guess
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  Speaker 1: in total it's the $3 billion. There you go. They, they,
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  Speaker 1: they managed.
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  Speaker 1: To get the value of everything. Perhaps. So apparently we
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  Speaker 1: know that the luxury items are being auctioned very soon. OK.
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  Speaker 1: How about the apartments? 00, wow, apartments can be auctioned.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew that. I think they have the River
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  Speaker 1: Valley and Tanjong Pagar apartments that will go under the
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  Speaker 1: auction guide prices between 2.238 million and 6.78 million. How?
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  Speaker 1: Why look at me. Do you have a 6.78 million
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  Speaker 1: lying somewhere in the bank, Sonia? I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when is the next total draw? Let's hope for the best.
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  Speaker 1: And then they got 4 apartments over at the Wali
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  Speaker 1: residence that will go on sale from 4.42 million to
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  Speaker 1: 6.78 million. I'm curious to know how that matches up
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  Speaker 1: or measures up with like what is, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: price on the market. I think that that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they probably went to people when they go down
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  Speaker 1: and to really look and value the house and prices.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it comes with like furniture and art and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. There's also one at the Tower area
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  Speaker 1: and Martin River Valley. Oh, that's a nice place. Yeah. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, all very great locations.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sure that a lot of people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: go and um bid for it. The price tag 2.3
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  Speaker 1: million square footage so there's 23 and 4 bedrooms. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, ranging from 764 square feet to 1,733 square feet. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're really paying for the area for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The location is good. You're right.
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  Speaker 1: OK, well, Joakim, time to raise some funds. So let
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  Speaker 1: me know when you have your 6 million. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: can't even make the starting bid. I'm ready. I'll just
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  Speaker 1: go there as a spectator. Starting bid for the bottle
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: of wine, right? Remember how the SG Culture pass was,
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: was introduced about almost a year ago already. Around this
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  Speaker 1: time last year, I remember this one. And we were
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  Speaker 1: quite excited about that because it shows strong support for
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  Speaker 1: our local scene, you know, arts and, and other types of.
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  Speaker 1: Performances and experiences. I remember being on stage with then
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  Speaker 1: Minister of Culture, Community and Youth Minister Edwin Tong. So
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  Speaker 1: I actually cracked the door. So, for example, if Beyonce
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  Speaker 1: comes to Singapore, can use the culture cannot cannot only
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  Speaker 1: for local acts and local activities. Yes, exactly. So if it's,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Beyonce from Ang Mo Kio, you know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you can use. Do you think on that note,
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  Speaker 1: there's like a Beyonce Tan or a Beyonce.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't put it past people to name their
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  Speaker 1: kids after famous. I know I've I've met someone who's
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  Speaker 1: called Rihanna before, but it's not spelled like the same.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. But still, Rihanna, you immediately think the singer, right? Anyway, um,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of the SG Culture Pass, it was about um
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  Speaker 1: 300 million allocated to this. Can you guess the percentage
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  Speaker 1: of Culture pass that has been used so far? I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with maybe 50 or 60% or 60, right, at
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  Speaker 1: the one year mark.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, a bit far off, it's only been 10%. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was quite shocked to read that. 10% of 300
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  Speaker 1: million worth of SG Culture Pass funds have been spent
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  Speaker 1: in the first year. OK, um, there's, it's not entirely
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  Speaker 1: bad because it shows you that people are interested, but,
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  Speaker 1: but I think, um,
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  Speaker 1: Our friends from Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth are
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  Speaker 1: just taking the time to, um, taking the chance to
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  Speaker 1: review it as well and maybe revise the way that
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  Speaker 1: it's being used or what you can use it on. So,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a way of um determining whether or not
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  Speaker 1: people are interested in the things that are allocated. I
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  Speaker 1: have a question. Do you think the SG right?
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  Speaker 1: It's also doubling up as a small study to see
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  Speaker 1: how interested Singaporeans are in our very own arts and
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  Speaker 1: culture scene. Yeah, like what are they interested in because
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: I think you can see what they used it. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe they see like, oh, perhaps more people are using
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  Speaker 1: it to watch local plays or pantomimes or whatever, then
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  Speaker 1: maybe they'll ramp up the amount of plays that are
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  Speaker 1: being screened, perhaps, I don't know. I used to.
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  Speaker 1: Secondary the musical, yes, I remember that in the year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, if you can do support the local theaters.
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  Speaker 1: When I say theaters, I don't mean Golden Village or Share,
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  Speaker 1: I mean your Wild Rices, your SRTs, so many other
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  Speaker 1: theater companies now staging plays. So, um, well, if you
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: want a breakdown, I would say, uh, MCCY actually showed
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  Speaker 1: what it has supported the most. 10.
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  Speaker 1: 400 cultural programs, over 3000 books, and 23 films have
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  Speaker 1: been supported ever since the launch of this, and it
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  Speaker 1: includes over like 900 arts and heritage partners. Um, 76
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  Speaker 1: publishers and 17 bookstores have benefited from this. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a good start. It's a good start because
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: when you introduce something new, people are still unsure of
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  Speaker 1: how to use it. And I think they brought up
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  Speaker 1: a very good point.
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  Speaker 1: How can we help the seniors gain more accessibility to
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  Speaker 1: it because they may not even know like what to
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  Speaker 1: do or how to use this. And with the rise
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  Speaker 1: of more dialect-related films being introduced, maybe they should ramp
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  Speaker 1: that up, I think. Maybe make a, yeah, dialect and
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  Speaker 1: let them use it in the cinemas to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: So you know what that means? Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Next year are Boys to Firemen. You can use your
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  Speaker 1: SG Culture pass to watch it in cinemas because it's local.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: It is local. I mean, it is, yeah, it is
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  Speaker 1: a local film. You're right. You're not wrong. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see where it goes. Hopefully more people will utilize it
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  Speaker 1: very soon and just make a day out of it,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: you know. Beautiful. Yeah. That's all I know. I don't
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: know the next line actually. What is the next line?
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: But it's a classic Thai song.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna Google it right now? I assuming it's
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  Speaker 1: safe for airing on, that's a song. I know I know.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, OK, it's, sorry, it says, uh, I can't provide
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  Speaker 1: the full copyrighted lyrics.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: OK, boo. GBT has failed me this morning. Anyway, when
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: it comes to Thailand and our visa-free stays, it used
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  Speaker 1: to be 60 days. It used to be. So that's
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: about like 2 months. But come September 15th, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to halve it to 30 days, not just to us.
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  Speaker 1: But loads of other countries as well in a way
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  Speaker 1: to limit foreigners doing dodgy and naughty things in Thailand
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  Speaker 1: like in terms of crime and all that, and they
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: don't want people to misuse the visa-free stay. However, if
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: you're thinking, hey, but I go to Thailand often for
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: work or for business, what, what, what do I do?
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: You can extend your stay at least once, depending on
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: the immigration officer if he grants it or not. So
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: that kicks in September 15th, but if you're from Peru, Brazil,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: or South Korea, your 60 days will be extended visa-free
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: to 90 days. Oh, interesting. So I googled.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: What is the flight time from Brazil to Thailand? It's
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: about 27, 27 hours. I said 36 with a few
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: layovers and all that. Yeah, I think you have to
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: switch flights at minimally twice. Yeah, at least twice. So
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering why the special love to Peru, Brazil, and
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: South Korea. Maybe it's just oh, South Korea as well.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: I don't have any Thai friends in high places to
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: ask this question. I don't think. You don't know. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: So please take note again, September 15th, that's when the
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  Speaker 1: new rulings for Thai immigration take place, take place. I mean,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: I actually thought that, you know, Singaporeans will not have
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: a problem staying for longer, I guess. I think most
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: of us Singaporeans, we do it for like 4 days,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: 3 nights or 5 days.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I know any Singaporeans that do like
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: long stays unless I've got a couple of friends who
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: have moved there for like work and stuff, so unless
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you're not just going there to Bangkok, you're going to
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: the countryside or other regions of Thailand. Yes. Yeah. Um,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: speaking of which, have you been to other places of Thailand? Phuket.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Only Phuket. Bangkok, Speaking of Pattaya, um, the USS Abraham.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Ham Lincoln is officially docked. The sailors were, were on sea,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: were at this word at sea rather for 270++ days.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: It's like opening the gates of Troy. Yeah, I, you
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: know what, they deserve some R&R, some food. I want
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: some some drinks, live life, you know, live life. I
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: got a question for you, Joe, that might wake you
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  Speaker 1: up this morning, OK. You know we've been working for
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: over 10 years now, right?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what if one day I told you, like, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: I want to become a nun? Like what would you?
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  Speaker 1: What would you do? What was your reaction? Is that
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  Speaker 1: your reaction? The fall of the Catholic Church has begun.
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  Speaker 1: It's so bad. What do you mean? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, the funny thing is, for legal reasons,
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  Speaker 1: I meant that as a joke just in case we're joking. Um,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: but my, my parents had a similar reaction to you
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  Speaker 1: because
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: So, hold on, I'm sorry. This, this is worse than
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act, OK? This is worse than
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: a throwback, um, no, because over, over the weekend, right, I,
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  Speaker 1: why are you laughing? Very rude. This is an image
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  Speaker 1: of you in the habit habit and the nun outfit, right,
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  Speaker 1: with your hands clasped together looking very holy. Wow, so
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  Speaker 1: bad you don't have faith in me.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it was so funny because over the weekend, I
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  Speaker 1: was in, we were in church as family, and um
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: it's something we do every Sunday and I think the,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: during the er like the homily, which is when, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they share certain things, the priest will share some stories
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: and stuff, right? Just to put it very plainly.
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  Speaker 1: Um, he did bring this up. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some people get their calling at any time of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be like you're born and you know
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  Speaker 1: that you want to be a priest or a monk
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  Speaker 1: or a nun or whatever. Sometimes it comes to you
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  Speaker 1: like in the middle of your life, right? And all
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: of a sudden I saw this story that was posted
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  Speaker 1: just last night actually, that got me thinking like, what
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  Speaker 1: if one day either one of us got a calling,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't think, I think the church will reject
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: us lah. OK, let's just say for yourself, OK. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on, joking. So to be fair to you, to
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: be fair to you, you wanted to be a priest
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  Speaker 1: last time. What if one day I tell you sons,
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  Speaker 1: stop it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Just sent Joakim into a burst of laughter early on
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  Speaker 1: when I asked him a question he did not expect.
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  Speaker 1: When I asked him, what if one day I come
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  Speaker 1: to work after, you know, over 10 years of working,
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  Speaker 1: I say, Joakim, I want to become a nun, and
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: he just cackled so hard. I think I saw tears
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  Speaker 1: in his eyes. I mean for Halloween? No, like for real.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: The reason why I'm saying this is because an extraordinary
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: story coming in from Thailand right now, OK. Sister Mary Sonia, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Chu, do I have to change my name? You
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  Speaker 1: must always put Mary before your, your, your nun name. Really?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. As an homage to Mary, Sister Mary.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of guessing am I? OK.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, I really didn't know that because I was
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: in school, in a convent school and there were nuns
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  Speaker 1: there and we called them by their names, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Angela or sister or something. OK, so they just
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: cut it out, I could be wrong. Oh, now you
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: say you could be wrong. OK, anyway, um, take you
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: to Thailand right now, where this ice cream founder and
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: businessman who's actually really successful, like he's built a brand
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  Speaker 1: for himself in Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, he has a wife and daughter.
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  Speaker 1: He's decided to sell his business for over $6 million
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  Speaker 1: Singapore dollars, OK? And he wants to be a monk.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to cut off all contact with his, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like with his worldly life, as we call it, and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to fully dedicate the rest of his life
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  Speaker 1: to meditating and to to monkhood, which I thought was, wow,
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  Speaker 1: an incredible story, but at the same time, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: Then his wife and his daughter, how? Like, I, I,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, maybe they will live off
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the sale of his business. rulings. I, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: So this one, I really don't know, but he, he
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: has given quite a bit of like um interviews in
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: regards to this because I think people have found it
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  Speaker 1: quite fascinating, um, you know, that he's got a family,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: he's got everything going for him, like why, right? Now,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: he's searching for a successor at this point in time.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and he feels like he has about maybe 2
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: more years in his worldly life with, you know, material
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  Speaker 1: items and all that before he wants to renounce that completely.
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  Speaker 1: In those 2 years, he wants to find land for
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a retreat where he can meditate before ordaining himself as
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  Speaker 1: a monk and devoting entirely to spiritual solitude. That is,
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  Speaker 1: that is next level, you know, so I don't, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this story will continue to develop and fascinate the world,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very sure. But as you know, in Thailand,
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  Speaker 1: Um, the whole concept of becoming a monk is, is
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  Speaker 1: a very big deal for them. Some people actually do
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  Speaker 1: it for a short period of time where you can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go into solitude and meditate for like, I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: don't know, a week or a month or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Both men and women have done this before, I feel.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So I don't know how legit or this is, but
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: when I Google Thai monks, men.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I get loads of articles saying that Thai men are
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: expected to become a short-term ordained monk at some point
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: in their life. Yeah, yeah, I've seen articles as well,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and you know, some people have made comments about how
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: handsome blah blah blah. Then you realize, oh, he's not
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a full-time monk.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: For like a month or a few months. So they
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: are expected to do their stay at a monastery after
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the age of 20 once they have the maturity needed
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to endure the strict guidelines of a monastic life. Yeah,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I like that about Thailand, to be honest. Maybe that's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: why they're so happy and peaceful and loving and spiritual. Yeah, yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I loved it. Anyway, all the best to this guy
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and um.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't, don't laugh at me if I ever, if
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I ever have a calling, OK. This one really is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a divine intervention sort of situation. You know, it's. You
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: will know that it's real. You know that it's real.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You won't burst out laughing. But for now, because you
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: know it's not real. OK, so, um, this happened just
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: yesterday and if my friends that I was with are
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: tuning in now, I just want to reassure you that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not annoyed or mad or anything, OK? It's just funny.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It's just funny.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And um when I tell you the story, you understand why.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And this is, this is by no means meant to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: make them feel bad at all. OK? So, as you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Joim and I, I would say I go to Hai
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: T Lao the most with you and two of our
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: other friends whom you know. Um, so you would kind
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of know what I might order at Hai T Lao.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: All the vegetables, true, no meat. Let's start with the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: soup base. Like what would I usually, what would we order?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Tomato and.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, OK. And then, as you rightfully said, yeah, I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: love all kinds of vegetables. Maybe just half, half beef
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for me is enough. No, no, no, and your crab stick.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: What a waste of money. But, excuse, are you my
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: mom or what? She always tells me that why I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: always buy the cheap stuff and overpay for it. I mean,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I'd rather you get proper, like, you know, fish. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: do get proper fish. I get the fish slices. OK,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: never mind, moving on. OK, this one for another day. OK,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: we fight another day.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So I was coming from a work thing yesterday and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna be behind time already. So
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I texted them and I said like, hey guys, you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: like please go ahead, start first. I'll, I'll be there
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: in like 20 minutes or so. So they said, yeah, OK, sure, like,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll start.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: And I didn't think to communicate with them like what
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I usually would order at Hai Tilao because for this
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: group of friends, we've never eaten at Hai Tilao together before.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: This was like the first time ever, OK, so I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: don't know why. I kind of just thought a standard lah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: They confirm order mala, you know, confirm order these things, right?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So I arrived, lo and behold, there's no mala soup.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So what was the soup? It's basically things I've never ordered. It's, um,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it was the collagen soup.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And a chicken soup. So, OK, they explained that um
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I think one of them was recovering from like a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: cough or something. So she said she didn't think to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: order and I think their spice tolerance is not so high.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So then, you know, we didn't communicate these things and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: we didn't even realize that about each other, right, at
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: hotpot restaurant. Can I ask, did none of them even
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: ask you what soup base you want? No way.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That's strange because if I, if you told me to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: go ahead first, right, I'll say, hey, what soup base
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you want? Tell me now. So that's the thing. So
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I went, please start first. Just go ahead and order. I,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I wrote that in the chat, so maybe I sounded
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: very chin shy about it or I sounded very easy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And OK, you, you've known me long enough to know
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that I can be quite particular with the way I
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: enjoy my food. Like I need to enjoy it in
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a specific way, right, OK, but hai Tauo and, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: hot pot still not so bad because I still love
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: soup and you know, when it comes down to like
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: making your own sauce, you can still spice it up
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: or like add as much chili as you want. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: that's fine. I can still tweak it and like I said,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: If they're tuning in now, it's not to make them
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: feel bad at all, but I just chuckled and found
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it hilarious because why didn't I just say something when
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I texted them? Maybe I was in a rush or
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a hurry and it didn't occur to me, but I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: should have just said it if I'm so particular, you know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: My next question, did they order half and half or
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: quarter pots? Half and half. Yeah, exactly. So I was
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: gonna save money.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yo, you know what, I think they don't really
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: go hot pot very often as well. So this is,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that's why I said this is our first time going
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: for like a hot pot meal together, which then got
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: me thinking, are you very particular about what you order
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: at a restaurant? So for example, if you're going to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: hang out with your friends and all that, will you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: trust them to order for you, or would you specifically
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: give them some instructions or guidance? Nothing against my friends,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: but I'm the kind of person where if I'm gonna
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: be late.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You tell me which restaurant we're going to. I will Google.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I will search the menu tell them what you want,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and then I'll say, Hey, help me order this pizza
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: or that pasta or that piece of meat. Yeah, OK, OK.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: So you can be quite particular. I mean, I guess
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: for you it's more of like just in case they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: order things that you don't eat, like different types of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: seafood that you're not so comfortable with or what. For example,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: at a restaurant, they ordered a steamed fish which I don't. Yeah,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, can you just order the sweet and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: sour pork for me, please? Basic, basic. Hey, hello, it's delicious.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I love it but good pepper beef, sweet and sour pork, kangkong,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: hot plate tofu. I'm done. Oh no, OK, hot plate tofu. Um, well,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: give us a call 669-11987. Are you the sort that
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: would trust your friends or family to order for you,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: or are you too particular and you want to be
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in control of the ordering? OK, let us know, OK? 669-11987.
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• 23:28
  Speaker 1: us at 90050987. Are you the kind that's very particular
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: with ordering your food or you don't mind entrusting it
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to your family and friends? Let us know. Talking about
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: my experience yesterday where, um, admittedly, I didn't give any
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: directions when it came to ordering food over at the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: hotpot restaurant.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Only to arrive because I, I was running late due
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to work. I arrived there and realized that my friends
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: didn't order mala soup, to which I said I, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: should have told them beforehand. Yeah, no, it's quite interesting
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: because again, if I were one of those friends you yesterday,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I would have texted you, Hey, what do you want? Why, why,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: why didn't they do that? Because I, I said, um,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: just go ahead and order and start without me. Even then,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I would say, hey, what soup you want?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it just didn't occur. Look, like
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I said, we've never had hot pot together before. So I,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want him to feel bad about it too,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: because honestly, I still had a good time and I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: still had a good meal, so it's all good. I,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I topped it up with my own chili.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: But different, right? No kick, right? I need to go
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: back again soon. Yeah, there you go. Anyway, we wanted
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to pose this question to you. Would you trust your
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: family and friends to order food for you, or are
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you really particular and you want to order the way
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: that you want? We got a text coming in from Selena. Morning,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim. I'm very particular in ordering my food.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I have gastric and my stomach is very tight.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: OK, mess with that one. I get you. Um, Charlotte says,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: hi here. If you want something, must say, cannot complain after.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: There's also something to be said about hot pot etiquettes. Um,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: are your friends the kind that put all the ingredients
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in and it's free for everyone to take, or what
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you put in is what you take out? And if
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: someone takes like your beef, for example, will you go, hey,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: who took my beef?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I'm that guy. Actually, I think for most part, um,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: most of the time we will put in what we
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: want to take out, yeah, typically I feel like that's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the way we do it. Again, having with you is
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: easy because you know you eat all the vegetables, I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: eat all the meat, that's true. But with groups of friends, right,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, who took my beef? That's my beef
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: because the size of beef got your name on it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I put it in there. I'm cooking it escape,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, yes, yes.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Keep the calls coming in over at 669-119-87 or WhatsApp
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: us at 90050987. Yeah, we got Kai who's hanging on
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the line in just a little bit, but of course,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: still time for your calls, 669-11987. Let us know, are
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you very particular about the way you order your food
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: or can you trust your family and friends to order
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for you? We're talking about whether or not you are
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: very particular about the way you order.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Your food or can you entrust it to your friends
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and family members to order for you? OK, I got
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: one coming in from Herman. Hey, Sonia and Joakim, I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: think I qualify as very particular with food. I'm the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: kind of person who can reject a restaurant because the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: menu has nothing I feel like eating, then spend another
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: 40 minutes scrolling for food, only to end up ordering
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the same thing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I always eat and if my food arrives looking different
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: from the photo, my mood immediately affected ha ha ha
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: ha ha. Fries must be crispy, eggs cannot be too cooked,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: drinks cannot be too sweet, and if I'm craving something,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: no substitute will do. Actually, to some extent, I think
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I am very similar to him, you know, by the way,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: our texter earlier, because I, I personally feel that if
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I have one bad meal, it ruins.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: My mood for the day. Like it needs to be
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: satisfying to me because food to me is life and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it's really important. Yeah, I remember going to some restaurants
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: around the Tanjung Pagar area, right? I won't say which one,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: but there was one that was quite famous for its
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: chicken cutlet, some Shanghai style chicken cutlet or something like that.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It looked great in the picture when it arrived. Whoa, catfish,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: catfish is absolutely correct. catfish. There you go. One more coming.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: In from Johannes, who says morning guys. Of course, one
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: of the best parts going out with a group of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: friends or doing trips overseas is that I don't need
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to order, especially Hai Tauo. They know what I don't
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like and will always make sure we will all eat well.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: It gives you the chance to try new things and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: have the best time over makan without having to worry
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: about the menu or deal with QR code ordering. Can't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: ask for a better time than that. That's sweet. Yeah, hey, um, Jonas,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for that text. We also realized.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: That you might be texting us from elsewhere. Like, are
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you tuned in from Singapore? Are are you based overseas
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: or overseas number? Yes, overseas number. So thank you for
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: tuning in regardless from where, where you are. Kai is
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on the line right now. OK, Kai, tell us which, which, uh,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: which category do you fall in?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: For me, I have this rule in life if there's chili,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I'm fine. So, uh, if you go to like I
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: had the same scenario that what you guys talk about
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: in the morning, right? You just spend.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: The chili sauce, get your garlic, your chili, and everything
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: goes down, even if there's no mala, you can't sort
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of like make your own mala, even if like your
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: friends order like meatball stuff, you know, then you just
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: go to the store and like, I'm gonna jiala jiao lima,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: then everything goes down.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think joki and I are exactly like you.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's like chili is life for us, but the hai
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: tila experience, right, no mala, no cake. I know. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't even order the, you know, the kung fu noodles.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't order it because it's no cake without the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: mala soup.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's OK. Thank you so much, Kai, for your call.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Take care. We're still down to more of your messages.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Based on my experience yesterday where I mentioned that um
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't have control over what was ordered for dinner, admittedly,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: because I said, you know, hey, I'm easy, just start first,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: order without me, go ahead, you know, um, only to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: get there and realize that at Hai Til Lao, they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: didn't order malatang for me. To which, you know what,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I don't blame them because we, this group of friends,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: we've never had Hai Tillao together before.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And they had their reasons for why they didn't want
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to order spice. OK, so I said, OK, never mind,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it's fine. Like I'll just add spice to my own sauce.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Can I counter the argument? Because let's just say for example,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: if it's my first time having tila or anything with you, right,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and I know you're gonna be late.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And for example, I want to time it as such
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: as when you get there, the food arrives at the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: same time. You can start, right? I would actually send
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you a picture of the menu. No, really, I would.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, OK, I already know what I would typically, right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: but because I was in such a rush, I didn't
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: think to.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't think to direct them, you know. OK, yeah,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: by the way, we have a text coming in and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: this person can join the club, same as you. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: want to say good morning to VC. I'm not picky
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: with food. I can eat almost anything, but I have
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a preference in the way I eat them. So I did,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: so I do rather be in control of the ordering,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: ha ha, because food affects my mood.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Hot pot preferences are the same as Sonia. Vegetable, crab stick, tofu, fish, mala, cheese, tofu,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: cheese tofu. Exactly. There you go. I love it. I mean, it's, yeah, but,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: but now I need to go back again soon just
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to enjoy it in the mala soup. I need to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: understand this obsession with crab stick really. I mean, it's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: just tasty. You don't find it tasty.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: OK, Jeremy would tell me that it tastes like nothing.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: He calls it a non-event. A man with good sense.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: There you go. Love that man. Hey, once again, you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: are my friend. You're supposed to support me. You understand?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I support you with honesty, lah. I mean, you want
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to go be his friend, go be his friend. He
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: lied to you or not? No, right? This is a,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: this is an argument we cannot win. OK. Let's just
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: agree to disagree. OK, well, last few messages here, just
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: having a good laugh right now because I really think
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it shows a lot about your personality, the way that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you order food, OK? And based on my own experience
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: yesterday where I wasn't exactly in control of what was
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: ordered for dinner, admittedly, because I also didn't give them
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: any direction I was rushing.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And um I asked you this question here today. Are
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you the sort that's very particular about what kind of
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: food and how it's eaten and ordered, or are you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: OK to trust your friends and family to handle it?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Want to say good morning to Naomi. Morning, Sonia and Joakim.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I'm usually the kind of person who says, you guys
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: order for me, I trust you. So when I was
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: running late one day, I left my friends in charge
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of my food. Big mistake. When I finally arrived, they
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: proudly told me they had
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Ordered me pasta. I was so excited until I saw
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the plate covered in a beautiful creamy sauce. I just
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: stared and asked, you guys, this is cream sauce, right?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: The table went silent. Then someone slowly said, Oh, you
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: can't take milk. Lactose intolerant. Oh no. I couldn't stop
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: laughing because they had somehow forgotten the one thing I've
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: told them countless times. I ended up eating the safest
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: thing on the table.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: While they enjoyed the creamy pasta. So yeah, I trust
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: my friends to order for me. Just maybe remind them
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: about the milk thing before I take the first bite. yeah, true, true.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Naomi, so no, no carbonara for you. I mean, OK,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: so that's the thing. I have a preference for tomato-based
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: pastas as well. Um, yeah, if we're doing a sharing situation,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you know, there can be one cream-based one, but I,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I will probably eat more of the tomato-based one.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So when it comes down to that, I feel like
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I also don't want to come across like fussy. Like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: if I'm not allergic or I'm not lactose intolerant, for example,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: will I still just eat it? I might, you know,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was at Casa Vostra last night, the sausage pepper, very good,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and the broccolini. Oh, OK, so this one has nothing
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to do with you as well. I will, I will.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I love my vegetables, OK, um.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: That's it for now. We, uh, that's all the time
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: we have for your stories and your messages. When we
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: come back, one person walks away with this treat worth
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: almost $200 all thanks to One How Restaurant. Joakim just
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: run on out to, what is he doing actually? I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: think he went to get some breakfast or something from
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the vending machine, if I'm not wrong. I was leaning
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: out to see if he's still around, but anyway, I'll
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: do this one without him. So,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Just um on social media this morning, when I saw this,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I burst out laughing, absolutely burst out laughing. So you know,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it's F1 season and it's coming to Singapore very, very soon.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: We're so excited because, you know, all your favorite drivers
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: are going to be here. There's going to be tons
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of parties, activations, events. Um, drivers may just make their
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: appearances at some of these events too, if you're lucky
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: enough to catch them.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And um there was a clip here from an interaction
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: between Peggy Goo, the DJ whom you, you know, Peggy Go,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's like a world-famous DJ at this point,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: and uh the Ferrari team. So you've got Lewis Hamilton
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and you've got Charles Leclerc behind the decks with Peggy Goo, OK?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: And they're over at this event, the crowd is screaming
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Um, they're just chilling out and supposedly Charles Leclerc is
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: like looking at the DJ deck being very curious, you know, and, uh,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Peggy Goo is like just showing them the ropes a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. Oh, Joakim's back, by the way. She's showing
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: them the ropes and showing, uh, Charles Leclerc and Lewis
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Hamilton how to press certain things or like this button
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: does what on the DJ set and all that, OK,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: on the console. Very much a reminder for us to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: just stick to our day jobs, yeah, and just don't
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: touch things, you know. Yeah. What's the Singaporean?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Uh, a phrase, see no touch, touch, no see, right.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: So here's what happened. I'm just gonna play a clip
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: OK, what happened was that blasted off really loudly, by
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the way, I already lowered the volume. All three of them, Peggy, Louis,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and Charles Leclerc got so shocked they immediately closed, uh,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: shut their ears, right, because it blasted out really loudly.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And it was because Charles Leclerc go and press one button.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: That's a 5 2nd penalty there for Charles Leclerc. That's
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: in the comment section as well, and he fired off
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the hook of one of her songs, to which I
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: think they just burst out laughing and Lewis Hamilton laughs
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and looks at the crowd and just goes like, sorry, sorry.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It's like Peggy Guo and Luo are like mom and dad. No,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Charles Leclerc is the guy that's like the kid pressing everything.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Charles Leclerc let his intrusive thoughts win that moment, you
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: know what, a relatable moment that we all laughed at,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and it just shows us that no matter who you are,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: like you might still make some of these mistakes. Now
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what song was it from Peggy Goo
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that he fired off. Could be Starry Night. It sounds
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: like doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: because the starting part is the clapping, yeah, OK.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: There we go. Yeah, I think whatever we just did
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: does not sound at all like the actual song. I'm
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: taking you to, well, not exactly my hood directly, but very,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: very nearby to the Joo Chit area right now. You're
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: familiar with Free Day, right? Once in a while it
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: takes place over at the CBD area. If I'm not wrong,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, the Padang stretch around the Supreme
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Court area. They usually close it off to cars and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: let pedestrians just go and walk and enjoy themselves. I think.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: This year for the very first time outside the main
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: area of Singapore, it's going to be taking place at
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Joo Chiang. Welcome to East Coast. So it's along Dunman
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Road and East Coast Road. It will be closed to
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: traffic from 3:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on October 3rd.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: You've been warned a month ahead of time. Actually, you know, it's,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: it's the perfect place to do something like that because
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the whole East Coast area, right? Yeah, and I would
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: say specifically.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: It has so much to experience and to offer. You know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you've got your cafes, you've got your local food, you've
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: got restaurants, you've got um shops and a lot of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: good Vietnamese food around there as well.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I, I've always wondered why they haven't done this sooner,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: because you see plenty of people making the trek to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: our East Coast area to walk around and experience the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: whole place. So you can actually walk around or cycle,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: but make sure you cycle safely, and I wonder whether
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: some of these stores are set up small stands like
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: giving you lemonade or like cool from the heat here
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: in Singapore, like a little taste test kind of thing,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: or you know they say, hey, you get this, you
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: come in and you shop at our store, we give
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you more discounts, right? Yeah, maybe, maybe I mean.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how it goes because it could
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: really help with, uh, you know, footfall there, although it's
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: already really pretty popular place. I mean, you got loads
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of very good again people who live in Jet who
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: are still in shape. How do you do it? Uh,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: because you got two man bagel, you got all sorts
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of puppies tacos, you got, uh, what, yeah, Italian Little greens,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: it's called Little Farms, Little Farms Little greens.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, you come to, yeah, and there's this very nice
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: English Bakute an English pub that has good Sunday roast.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: It's quite near, um, awfully chocolate and that yoga studio.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It's the Ali Alibaba corner, right? Alibaba.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Correct. Is it Alibaba or Barba? Are you talking about
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the same thing? It's about a 3 minute walk away
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: from the 5 chicken rice place. OK, I think we,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I think I know where you're talking about. Guinness pause
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: as well. Oh, nice. OK, well, hey, plenty to look
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: forward to. Not that I'm the official ambassador for East Coast,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: but come, you will love it, and then you want
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to stay there. Go, come on, you should be the
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: poster girl fort. I mean, I'm not exactly living in.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: It's like maybe 8 minutes away from me because I'm
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: in like more Siglap area, but we are familiar with
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the whole stretch because you know East Coast is pretty
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: big lah. So yeah, you've experienced it before. East Coast
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: after all that's right. So given how it's Teachers' Day
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and most schools today might be having their Teachers'
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Day celebrations and perhaps early dismissal, yeah, perhaps, and tomorrow
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you mentioned is a public holiday for them, not public holidays.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: School holiday sorry, sorry, school holiday. That's what I meant. Yeah,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: but others still come to work like us, you know
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Yes, yes. So teacher from Saint Anthony's,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: do you want to give a shout out to anyone? Um, OK,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I would say several teachers, but one of the teachers
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that actually was so kind to me, um, in a
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: subject that was terrible at math, OK, Mrs. Heng, I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: just want to say hi to her. I don't know
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: if she's still there. Yeah, I don't know if she's
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: still there.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: But she never quite gave up on us, even though
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a math was really difficult and I almost wanted to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: give up and drop the subject, honestly, yeah, so shout
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: shout out to her. So that said, aside from teachers
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: in schools, maybe your favorite yoga teacher, teacher, your gym trainer,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: it counts as them teaching you something and making sure
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: you have good discipline to stay fit and active. So
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: everyone on leave tomorrow.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, if your parents are your life teachers,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: then they should also get a day off. I mean,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I've thanked my favorite teachers from Choon Secondary School many times.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: So I think for today I want to thank my
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: gym trainer, whose name is Jim. Yeah, I know. I
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: always find that hilarious, by the way. I go to
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Jim's gym. There you go. OK, who's now become a
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: very good friend of mine. Never gets old. On that note,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna hand you over to.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Nicole, and we'll catch you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Yeah,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: so if anyone's awake, we're here with you tomorrow. Uh,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: speaking of which, we are considering moving our little Cheers
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club bundle giveaway to slightly later so that we'll
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: get more of you, you know, up and awake first
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: so you get a chance to call in and win.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And speaking of that, if you're in primary 6 and
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: coming down to Ang Mo Kio Hub in a bit,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I'll see you there. Yeah, I will catch you tomorrow
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: at 6:00 a.m.