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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 230926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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Speaker 1: Wake up.
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Speaker 1: N
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Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the show in case you just joined us and you
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Speaker 1: just got up, well, one day away from PSLE and
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Speaker 1: of course other examinations as well. We're with you, to
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Speaker 1: give you the energy that you need and the music
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Speaker 1: that you love to hear. Kicking it off with Ariana Grande.
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Speaker 1: Stay with us. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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Speaker 1: And some good news coming from the Asian Games right now.
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Speaker 1: We've been following it very closely and yesterday evening, some
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Speaker 1: extremely fantastic news came about. A Singaporean MMA athlete, Tiffany Teo,
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Speaker 1: has won a gold medal at the Asian Games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah,
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Speaker 1: She is such a boss, and this is such a
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Speaker 1: big huge occasion for her because this was her Asian
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Speaker 1: Games debut. So this was the final just yesterday and
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Speaker 1: um I think she was up against Uzbekistan. So tough competition.
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Speaker 1: I think in traditional MMA each round lasts about 5 minutes,
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Speaker 1: but in the first round, I think both fighters were
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Speaker 1: opening very aggressively, about 15 seconds in and they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, nonstop trading punches, kicks, and
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Speaker 1: And she really maintained her position in the ring. It
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Speaker 1: was a very great strategy. I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 1: much about MMA or any sort of martial arts or
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Speaker 1: fighting at all, but I could see that she was
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Speaker 1: smart about it. She was strategizing. It wasn't like anyhow, right?
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Speaker 1: And um she's doing our millennials proud. She's 36, making
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Speaker 1: her debut, showing you that anything is possible at any
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Speaker 1: time of your life and if you put your mind
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Speaker 1: to it, wow, this is such a massive combination of
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Speaker 1: years and years of practice and work for Tiffany, right?
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Speaker 1: So congratulations, Tiffany and
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Speaker 1: And also not just her, all our other athletes that
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Speaker 1: are flying the flag high that have, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: won their matches, won medals, and really just flown our
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Speaker 1: flag high for that. We're very, very happy and excited
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Speaker 1: and hey, don't underestimate Singapore. We may be small, but
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Speaker 1: we have the skills. Anyway, um, I want to hit
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Speaker 1: to our messages right now. You didn't leave a name.
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Speaker 1: I think you only left, um, you only left your,
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Speaker 1: your initial K.
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Speaker 1: You said, hey, um, hey, Sonia, I'm not in any
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Speaker 1: school right now, but I do have two siblings who
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Speaker 1: are taking exams this year. My sister is in P6
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Speaker 1: and my brother currently is uh in sec 1. So
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Speaker 1: I really want to send them some love and, you know,
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Speaker 1: just let them know that every step of the way,
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Speaker 1: I got you because I know how it feels like
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Speaker 1: to be in school taking major exams, especially PSLE. Well,
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Speaker 1: so are you guys quite close in age then, I
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Speaker 1: would say.
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Speaker 1: Um, or you've long graduated already, maybe, you know, just
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Speaker 1: pasted secondary school or you're in poly or JC right now.
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Speaker 1: And this happens over in the Sengkang area, which honestly,
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Speaker 1: I sometimes I wonder what surprises me on social media
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Speaker 1: anymore and I gotta take a moment to see whether
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Speaker 1: it's a real picture or it's AI or it's fake,
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Speaker 1: you know. So, um, unfortunately for this group of people,
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Speaker 1: they were spotted selling raw meats at a void deck
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Speaker 1: in Sengkang.
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Speaker 1: And apparently this was not the first time.
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Speaker 1: Uh, so a resident, how this all happened was a
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Speaker 1: resident in Sengkang at block 107 of Rivervale Walk was
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Speaker 1: very shocked to see this group of people selling raw meat, and, uh,
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Speaker 1: the resident said that he had actually noticed the group
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Speaker 1: about 3 or more times before. Apparently, he took videos
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Speaker 1: as well. A group of people gathered around a void
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Speaker 1: deck table and a man was chopping meat with a cleaver.
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Speaker 1: And there was also like a weighing scale over there,
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Speaker 1: like as if it was the marketplace, you know, like
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Speaker 1: when you go to the market with your, with your
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Speaker 1: grandma or something like I used to go with my
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Speaker 1: mom when I was a kid, and, you know, I'll
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Speaker 1: see them doing the fish or the meat and then
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Speaker 1: they're weighing it on that old school weighing scale. Yeah, like,
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Speaker 1: so that's exactly what it looks like in that void.
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Speaker 1: Um, and this resident said he was kind of worried
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Speaker 1: about the food safety and safety of residents because the
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Speaker 1: cleaver is also used out in the open and their
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Speaker 1: kids kind of just running about because there's a playground nearby,
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Speaker 1: you know. So I think he actually went up to
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Speaker 1: question them, but he was apparently met with no explanation
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Speaker 1: because they did not speak the same language.
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Speaker 1: So, I, I don't know how this even came about.
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Speaker 1: This is very makeshift. How did these people come up
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Speaker 1: with this idea? Because for selling food, you need a license.
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Speaker 1: You can't just go hawking around in the void deck,
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Speaker 1: you know, although, although I will say, when I looked
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Speaker 1: at it, I was like, OK, maybe this is how
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Speaker 1: it was done in the kampong days in the past, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, my, our grandparents' days and
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Speaker 1: They probably would not be surprised to see this, but now, um,
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Speaker 1: you can't do this, and who's going to be responsible
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Speaker 1: if someone gets sick from, you know, meat that gone
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Speaker 1: bad or something because it's out in the open, right?
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Speaker 1: So anyway, um, if you come across any suspected illegal
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Speaker 1: hawking of goods or selling of food, you're advised not
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Speaker 1: to patronize them according to our, our authorities, and you're
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Speaker 1: also advised to make a report via SFA's online feedback form. So,
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Speaker 1: they're definitely going to do some investigations. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: not that you want to take away anyone's livelihood, but
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 1: It is a question of public hygiene and, and health, right?
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Speaker 1: So that, that's kind of scary that this is even
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Speaker 1: going on. Bruno Mars coming to Singapore in 2027. I
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Speaker 1: wonder whether he'll still bring back some of his classics
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Speaker 1: because I know this tour is meant to focus on
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Speaker 1: his latest album, The Romantics. So I just wonder what,
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Speaker 1: what throwbacks is he going to do because he definitely will, right?
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Speaker 1: He can't do his throwbacks. Um, and it was so
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Speaker 1: funny because when, when I was taking a look at
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Speaker 1: the tickets, I was telling my friends like, hey, should
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Speaker 1: we get standing tickets again? One or two of my
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Speaker 1: friends were like, Hey, you're very brave, you want to
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Speaker 1: stand all the way. I'm like, you know what, it
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Speaker 1: was so much more fun. For me, I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't know about your preference for concerts and experiences, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you're tuning in right now.
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Speaker 1: Um, but for me, I actually like to be in
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Speaker 1: the crowd and I like standing up. So it's, it's
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Speaker 1: funny sometimes when we, we buy seated tickets instead. I'm
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Speaker 1: just like itching to stand up, especially if it's like
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Speaker 1: a Dua Lipa concert or something. It eventually our entire
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Speaker 1: section of um of, of the stadium, we stood up.
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Speaker 1: So it was so much fun. Like, um, I, I
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Speaker 1: always think that I still prefer being right there in
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Speaker 1: the crowd.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, thanks for joining me here this morning. Coming up very,
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Speaker 1: very soon, um, I think a lots happening in the
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Speaker 1: world of sports for Singapore as well. Tomorrow, we've actually
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Speaker 1: got a special guest joining us, not related to sports,
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Speaker 1: but he's quite a, he's quite a regular on our show,
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Speaker 1: I will say. Like I said, he's a regular on
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Speaker 1: our show and we always call him our friend Steve.
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Speaker 1: Steve Chia from CNA, um, Channel News Asia, of course. Now,
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Speaker 1: he actually was telling us about investment scams, right? And
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Speaker 1: I think of late, we've got more and more of
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Speaker 1: these cases and he said not too long ago, he
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Speaker 1: was actually used as part of an investment scam.
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Speaker 1: To lure people into, well, dodgy, sketchy investments. So they're
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Speaker 1: currently doing an episode about this on Talking Points and
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Speaker 1: kind of trying to understand how these people operate, why
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Speaker 1: it's getting harder to filter fact from fiction, you know,
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Speaker 1: and whether or not it could be a generational thing,
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Speaker 1: an age thing, and I really don't think so sometimes
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Speaker 1: because I know.
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Speaker 1: Some younger people who also get tricked into it because
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Speaker 1: you're going through your emails and your messages so quickly now,
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Speaker 1: you may not read it carefully, right? So, I'm, I'm
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Speaker 1: very curious to hear more from Steve. He's done a
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Speaker 1: lot of, um, I guess, investigative journalism in a way
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Speaker 1: and how, you know, we as people sometimes allow ourselves
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Speaker 1: to be scammed almost, right? And yeah, if Joy was here,
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Speaker 1: he'll have plenty to say to me about that because
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Speaker 1: he'll be like, you're the number one person to get scammed.
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Speaker 1: But actually, I try my best to be. There's a
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Speaker 1: difference between getting scammed and just being soft-hearted. Do, do
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Speaker 1: you feel me? Like, I'm soft-hearted when it comes to
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Speaker 1: people asking me for help to donate to certain things
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Speaker 1: or like certain causes and all that, but, you know,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to it being a scam scam, I,
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Speaker 1: I think, I hope that I'm discerning enough, although, like
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Speaker 1: we always say,
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Speaker 1: It can overlap sometimes, right? People prey on other people's
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Speaker 1: kindness or their emotions to try and get certain things.
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Speaker 1: So I can only hope that I've never gotten scammed
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Speaker 1: in my life just yet. Fingers crossed. And it's time
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Speaker 1: for Bodo Crime, Bodori, Botori, Botorime. We're going to Bukit
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Speaker 1: Batok today.
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Speaker 1: And this particular case was just very, very face palm
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Speaker 1: worthy because as you know, with every single shop and
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Speaker 1: even every single vehicle or car, um, the, the CCTV
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Speaker 1: cameras are like 4K now, you know, it's no longer blur,
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Speaker 1: it's no longer bad quality. You can see every pore
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Speaker 1: on your face. And this man allegedly took a speaker.
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Speaker 1: From this tech shop in Bukit Batok. Like it looks
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Speaker 1: like one of those maybe um shops that also sell
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Speaker 1: like phones and other sort of like tech devices and
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Speaker 1: all that. Um, he leaned over in broad daylight at
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Speaker 1: 2 p.m. on the 16th of September, grabbed a speaker
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Speaker 1: that's about the size of my fist, I would say,
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Speaker 1: so it's like a portable speaker. He takes a plastic bag, um,
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Speaker 1: he puts it in the plastic bag and he walks away.
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Speaker 1: And of course, the owner caught this in 4K, like, literally,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this man did not notice that
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Speaker 1: there was a CCTV camera around there. But anyway, um, our, our,
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Speaker 1: our friends from the police force are con have confirmed
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Speaker 1: that the report was lodged and investigations are ongoing, so
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Speaker 1: we don't know what else is there, like any other updates,
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Speaker 1: you know, was he just taking it to resell it
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Speaker 1: or is, is there another side of the story?
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Speaker 1: So, uh, yeah, I, I think he'll be, um, he'll
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Speaker 1: be caught in no time, or he was already caught, rather,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure his face was right there on CCTV. So,
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Speaker 1: that was B crime for you today. Things like that,
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Speaker 1: that just are face palm worthy and should not happen
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Speaker 1: in Singapore because you'll be caught in less than 2
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Speaker 1: hours for sure. Now, like we mentioned earlier, this kind
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Speaker 1: of made rounds online, not in a good way. I think.
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Speaker 1: I understand that when it comes to, you know, competing
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Speaker 1: on a global or international level, and even the Asian Games,
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Speaker 1: it's all eyes on you, right? It's, it's a very,
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Speaker 1: very big deal and losing is not easy, especially when
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Speaker 1: you're 1 v1 and all the pressure is on you.
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Speaker 1: Um, unfortunately for this athlete that lost to our very
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Speaker 1: own Singaporean athlete in an MMA semi-final, refused to concede defeats,
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Speaker 1: refused to, you know, even acknowledge or shake hands with,
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Speaker 1: with their opponent, Tiffany, as we mentioned earlier, congrats again,
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Speaker 1: Tiffany Teo, um, winning Asian Games gold, very, very excited
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Speaker 1: for that MMA. Big things to come for her.
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Speaker 1: But unfortunately for her during the semi-final, it was a
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Speaker 1: lot of attention was on this, on her opponent that
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Speaker 1: refused to concede defeat and just didn't look quite good, right?
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Speaker 1: And it got me thinking of all the times that,
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Speaker 1: you know, we don't always always win in life. There
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Speaker 1: are moments where we will lose and losing can come
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Speaker 1: in many ways. It's not just literal, like in a
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Speaker 1: sport or in a competition or something. It could be
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Speaker 1: Um, losing out on a work opportunity to someone else,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you didn't get the job that you wanted,
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Speaker 1: it went to someone else instead. Um, maybe even in school, uh,
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Speaker 1: the feeling of losing could come in the form of
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Speaker 1: not getting the GPA that you wanted or the score
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Speaker 1: that you wanted on a particular subject or paper. Like
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Speaker 1: losing could come in many, many ways, losing the girl
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Speaker 1: or losing the girl to someone else, or, you know,
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Speaker 1: someone that you, you like.
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Speaker 1: It could come in so many forms. So I wanted
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Speaker 1: to open up phone lines for this. 669-11987 or you
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Speaker 1: can drop me a message, 90050987.
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Speaker 1: How does that make you feel, that feeling of losing?
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Speaker 1: Can you tell me about the time, just one time
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Speaker 1: that you felt like, uh, I'm down in the dumps,
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Speaker 1: I've officially lost, don't know what to do, and what
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Speaker 1: did that incident teach you? If you want to stay anonymous,
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Speaker 1: you can as well. 669-11987 or 90050987. We all love
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Speaker 1: to win, but how do we lose? Do we lose gracefully?
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Speaker 1: How has that impacted you? Let me know. I'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: And um I always appreciate you telling us your stories,
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Speaker 1: opening up to us. The show will not be the
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Speaker 1: same without you. So keep them coming. And we're talking
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Speaker 1: about losing. Um, this comes on the back of, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: an athlete who didn't look too good on international, the
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Speaker 1: international stage and camera when she didn't want to concede
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Speaker 1: defeat to our very own Singaporean athletes. So,
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Speaker 1: She was not very gracious about it, I guess, but
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Speaker 1: I've always heard that for from my friends who grew
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Speaker 1: up with sports, that they always learn about good sportsmanship.
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Speaker 1: It's not always about winning because there's always going to
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Speaker 1: be one winner and the other team or the other
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Speaker 1: party is gonna lose, right? So I feel like that
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Speaker 1: was what I was missing growing up. Like I didn't
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Speaker 1: experience that feeling until later when I was in
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Speaker 1: Secondary school, then I went into like performing arts and,
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Speaker 1: you know, debate team and stuff. So in that sense,
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Speaker 1: there's still a bit of like win and lose kind
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Speaker 1: of thing, because you either get a gold or, you know,
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Speaker 1: silver or bronze, which is not ideal. And then, you know,
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Speaker 1: for debate, it's one team or another, one side will win,
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Speaker 1: one side will lose. So, then I learned about losing, right?
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Speaker 1: I want to say hi to Zay here. You said,
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Speaker 1: good morning.
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Speaker 1: Um, there was one time I actually lost a badminton
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Speaker 1: match while I was about to win. I had so
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Speaker 1: much anger that I wanted to smash my racket on
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Speaker 1: the floor, but sadly, there's nothing we can do. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you lose, you lose, you win, you win.
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Speaker 1: And I replied saying, I know that feeling, right? Um,
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Speaker 1: sometimes I see those pro tennis players or like athletes,
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Speaker 1: they like smash their racket on the ground, like, that's
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Speaker 1: on international TV, by the way. Like youch. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I get the, the pressure is real, so I can
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Speaker 1: understand they need to take it out on something.
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Speaker 1: OK, so more messages coming through, um, saying hi here
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Speaker 1: to Clarence. You said, hey, Sonia, good morning. I remember
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Speaker 1: when I was first in, in my first school teaching,
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Speaker 1: I was nominated for Caring Teachers Award by my colleague
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Speaker 1: almost every year, but I didn't win, not for a
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Speaker 1: single year. I felt quite down thinking of the reason
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Speaker 1: for not winning and how come caring for students, not
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Speaker 1: my caring for students was not being recognized by the school.
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Speaker 1: As teachers, I finally realized that the important thing is
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Speaker 1: not winning the award, but more importantly, to do my
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Speaker 1: very best for my students. That is already a very
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Speaker 1: big win in my career. When I transferred to another school,
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Speaker 1: I was nominated by my students, and I won consecutively
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Speaker 1: for 3 years. I think as long as I do
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Speaker 1: my best, one day it'll be recognized. It is only
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Speaker 1: a matter of time. Oh, thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: sharing that with us. I mean, hey, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: this is just like
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Speaker 1: Some of the celebrities and the big stars who get
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Speaker 1: nominated for, you know, the Oscars or Golden Globes or
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Speaker 1: um the Emmys or the Grammys, some of them never win,
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Speaker 1: you know, till much later in life. So it could
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Speaker 1: happen at any time. Just keep doing what you're doing. OK,
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Speaker 1: plenty of very lengthy messages coming through, then we're gonna
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Speaker 1: hear from Jasmine, who's hanging on the line. Um, see
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Speaker 1: how we're here to be, you said, good morning, Sonia.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to share.
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Speaker 1: A funny story from my secondary school days. I had
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Speaker 1: a crush on a girl in school, you know, like,
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Speaker 1: young boy wanted to impress my favorite girl. So I decided, OK,
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Speaker 1: I must get into the top 5 in the school
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Speaker 1: running competition. Then I can show off a bit in
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Speaker 1: front of her. It sounds a bit like joking.
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Speaker 1: Sadly, he's not here to listen to this text. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: V says, I trained hard and waited for the big day.
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Speaker 1: In the end, I came in 6th. Ah yeah, 1
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Speaker 1: position short. My plan to impress my favorite girl completely failed.
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Speaker 1: No chance to show off at all. Now that failure
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Speaker 1: actually motivated me. I reflected on what went wrong, trained harder,
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Speaker 1: and improved myself. Eventually, I managed to get on the
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Speaker 1: school team to compete cross-country.
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Speaker 1: Looking back now, I find it quite funny. I didn't
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Speaker 1: manage to impress my favorite girl, but because of her,
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Speaker 1: I pushed myself and eventually became good enough to represent
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Speaker 1: my school. So I guess sometimes your first crush may
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Speaker 1: not become your girlfriend, but she can still become your motivation. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I love this text. V, I appreciate this text so much.
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Speaker 1: What a great message behind that. Um, as you know,
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Speaker 1: if Joe were here, he would 100% say,
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Speaker 1: And list the amount of times he was motivated to
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Speaker 1: do something to impress a girl, OK? I'm very sure
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Speaker 1: he's gonna say that. In fact, I'll ask him about
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Speaker 1: it off-air later on. I'll give him a text. Um,
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Speaker 1: message here coming through, please keep me anonymous, Sonia. I recently, um,
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Speaker 1: just started tertiary education, but fun facts, I initially wanted
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Speaker 1: to go to JC because the rest of my friends
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Speaker 1: were heading to the same JC.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I felt like it was a major loss for
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Speaker 1: me because I did not do well enough to get
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Speaker 1: into the same JC. Can you imagine in my group
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Speaker 1: of friends, I'm one of the only ones that did
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Speaker 1: not go to the same school. So I felt super
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Speaker 1: bummed and I was wondering how FOMO I would be
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Speaker 1: because they're going to be living their own life out there,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be in another school, most likely.
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Speaker 1: Not a JC, but now, fast forward some time already,
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Speaker 1: I'm super enjoying myself in polytechnic right now, and no
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Speaker 1: regrets whatsoever. My friends and I still remain close, although
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Speaker 1: I do feel like we are definitely got our own
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Speaker 1: priorities now in different schools. Oh, you know what, that's,
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Speaker 1: that's growing up and that's maturity, right?
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Speaker 1: I felt a similar way too back then, just that
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Speaker 1: most of my friends and I, we ended up scattering around,
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Speaker 1: like there were no, none of us actually ended up
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Speaker 1: in the exact same course and the exact same school.
18:15
Speaker 1: Like we almost all went our separate ways for some
18:18
Speaker 1: interesting reason, and some of us still remain close to
18:21
Speaker 1: this day, although it's a very like low maintenance kind
18:25
Speaker 1: of friendship, you know, we don't need to meet like
18:27
Speaker 1: every month or something. I think we meet less than
18:30
Speaker 1: 5 times a year.
18:31
Speaker 1: But it almost feels like no time is lost. It's,
18:33
Speaker 1: it's that kind of friendship that I treasure a lot,
18:36
Speaker 1: you know.
18:37
Speaker 1: OK, more messages coming through, but first, let's head to
18:40
Speaker 1: the phone lines. Jasmine, what do you think?
18:42
Speaker 2: I think not
18:43
Speaker 2: a lot of people will say this, but when you
18:45
Speaker 2: go through a divorce, you feel like the whole crash,
18:49
Speaker 2: you lose, right? And then when you go and meet
18:51
Speaker 2: your friends, right, they talk about how good a family
18:54
Speaker 2: and husband, you feel really lousy. So that's when you
18:58
Speaker 2: feel like you really lose, right? So that's something out
19:02
Speaker 2: there where I also want to.
19:03
Speaker 2: Encourage everyone who has gone through this or is going
19:06
Speaker 2: through this. Don't worry, better times will come. Yeah, that's
19:09
Speaker 2: not losing, that's more
19:11
Speaker 1: to
19:11
Speaker 2: life.
19:11
Speaker 1: Are you speaking from experience or do you know someone
19:13
Speaker 1: around you that has been through that tough time and
19:16
Speaker 1: you know, you experienced it
19:17
Speaker 2: all? Yeah, of course, been through that, speaking from experience
19:19
Speaker 2: and also I've seen friends, right, fallen friends, but also
19:23
Speaker 2: people have got up back on their feet and back
19:25
Speaker 2: into the journey, be with someone else. So.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I, I, I just want to encourage people not
19:31
Speaker 2: to give up, yeah, and there's more to life.
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Speaker 1: I
19:33
Speaker 1: love that. I love that. Thank you so much, Jasmine,
19:35
Speaker 1: for the wonderful words of encouragement this morning. And the
19:39
Speaker 1: question today inspired by how that viral video of the
19:42
Speaker 1: athlete that didn't want to concede um to our Singaporean
19:45
Speaker 1: athlete in an MMA semi-final, it taught us about winning
19:48
Speaker 1: and losing, right? And I know that a lot of
19:51
Speaker 1: people are leaving quite terrible comments saying like, oh, what
19:53
Speaker 1: poor sportsmanship and all that. But I think it's also
19:56
Speaker 1: impossible to
19:58
Speaker 1: To feel what that athlete is feeling in that moment,
20:01
Speaker 1: you know, it's just maybe it, it, it, it was
20:04
Speaker 1: manifested and it showed up in um not such an
20:07
Speaker 1: ideal way, especially when all the cameras are on you, right?
20:10
Speaker 1: But it taught us a lot about winning and losing.
20:12
Speaker 1: And for someone like myself who's never been in any
20:15
Speaker 1: sort of sports related CCA I have no sports background whatsoever.
20:19
Speaker 1: I felt like what I was missing was that feeling
20:22
Speaker 1: of sportsmanship, you know, the, the ability to lose and
20:26
Speaker 1: still be gracious about it.
20:28
Speaker 1: And I, I want to say that I've learned how
20:30
Speaker 1: to do that in life through other things that were
20:33
Speaker 1: not sports, but, you know, my competitive spirit lives on.
20:37
Speaker 1: That's for sure. So I wanted to ask you a
20:39
Speaker 1: thing or two about your experience with open inverted commas,
20:42
Speaker 1: losing that could come in many different ways. Saying hi
20:45
Speaker 1: to Andy, you say, good morning, Sons. I actually heard
20:48
Speaker 1: this from someone, and it changed my perspective completely. The
20:51
Speaker 1: phrase goes like this, sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
20:56
Speaker 1: I like that.
20:57
Speaker 1: It's a shift in perspective, like you don't say the
20:59
Speaker 1: word lose, like lose has such a negative connotation, right?
21:02
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess. In um, in the situation of
21:06
Speaker 1: like a match, for example, there is going to be
21:08
Speaker 1: a winner and the person that is not a winner,
21:10
Speaker 1: what do you call them?
21:12
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we still call ourselves the loser if we lose
21:15
Speaker 1: a match at the end of the day, but I
21:17
Speaker 1: love that perspective. Thank you so much for sharing. Um, oh,
21:20
Speaker 1: more messages coming through here. Jay says, morning, Sonia. What
21:23
Speaker 1: an appropriate topic today because I unfortunately just lost a
21:27
Speaker 1: team match and I'm a very competitive person too, by
21:31
Speaker 1: the way, we are in netball, and I can never
21:34
Speaker 1: ever deal with it well whenever we lose. It is
21:38
Speaker 1: quite rare because my team is quite strong.
21:40
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I don't know
21:42
Speaker 1: whether it's a combination of pride, ego, and the fact
21:45
Speaker 1: that we are definitely better. It's just that sometimes we
21:48
Speaker 1: just can't seem to get our team communication right. So
21:51
Speaker 1: I think that is the weakness that we have to
21:53
Speaker 1: work on. But on to the next 10, thank you
21:56
Speaker 1: for sharing, Jay. Look, you know, when it comes down
21:59
Speaker 1: to sports and competitive sports where you actually have to
22:03
Speaker 1: compete at that level, right?
22:05
Speaker 1: I always admire each and every one of you. It's,
22:07
Speaker 1: it's insane how you do it. I could never perform
22:10
Speaker 1: under pressure in those moments, even a paddle game that
22:14
Speaker 1: is not even official. Sometimes I, I feel like I
22:18
Speaker 1: get a bit conscious when random strangers stop by to
22:20
Speaker 1: like watch you play, you know. I don't know, it's
22:22
Speaker 1: like performance anxiety or what, like, one thing's for sure,
22:25
Speaker 1: I can never be um
22:27
Speaker 1: A professional peddle or tennis player with the world watching you,
22:32
Speaker 1: so much stress. Uh, we got so many messages coming through, man, like,
22:35
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry if I didn't manage to read yours,
22:37
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to pick the ones that, um, you know, um,
22:41
Speaker 1: very in-depth, very meaningful as well, and that are making
22:43
Speaker 1: an impact on me this morning. So the question today
22:46
Speaker 1: is about losing and you know, we all know that
22:49
Speaker 1: we can't always win in life, although winning is a
22:51
Speaker 1: nice feeling, for sure.
22:53
Speaker 1: But beyond the stage of sports, which we all know
22:56
Speaker 1: what inspired today's topic, um, the athlete that didn't want
22:59
Speaker 1: to concede to our very own Singaporean MMA athletes on
23:02
Speaker 1: a quite an international stage, which, you know, I understand
23:06
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions and feelings, but it got me
23:09
Speaker 1: thinking about the times where I, I thought I lost
23:11
Speaker 1: and I felt like I lost out on something or
23:14
Speaker 1: like an opportunity or I lost out to someone.
23:16
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many times in life where you
23:18
Speaker 1: might feel that way, right? So, saying hi here to Nick,
23:20
Speaker 1: you said, morning, Sonia. Happy Wednesday. Um, this topic actually
23:24
Speaker 1: got me thinking about one particular loss in the past.
23:27
Speaker 1: One thing that came to mind was a pitch for
23:29
Speaker 1: an international brand for their APEC marketing campaign that was
23:33
Speaker 1: worth a few million.
23:35
Speaker 1: Our team put in weeks of preparation, countless nights. We
23:39
Speaker 1: were the last two of the pitch left, but we lost.
23:43
Speaker 1: The whole team was deflated. We could not muscle up
23:45
Speaker 1: any form of comfort at all. My boss gave the
23:48
Speaker 1: team a 3-day break, a 3 day break to rest
23:51
Speaker 1: and recharge. I just slept and didn't look at work
23:54
Speaker 1: for 2 whole days.
23:56
Speaker 1: After which I gathered my team to have a good
23:57
Speaker 1: dinner before heading back to work after the short break.
24:00
Speaker 1: But what I've learned from this incident were 3 things,
24:03
Speaker 1: a good team of colleagues or friends to stand by
24:05
Speaker 1: you during difficult times. Secondly, a good rest to relax
24:09
Speaker 1: and recharge. Third, lift your head up and try again. Oh,
24:13
Speaker 1: I like that, Nick. Thank you so much for sharing
24:15
Speaker 1: what you learned.
24:16
Speaker 1: Um, you know, I, I'm so touched by a lot
24:18
Speaker 1: of these messages. Saying hi also to S. S says,
24:22
Speaker 1: good morning, Sonia. Just want to shout out to everyone
24:25
Speaker 1: out there fighting or going through a hard time. Everyone's
24:28
Speaker 1: pace in life is different. It's just a matter of time.
24:31
Speaker 1: Life will unfold itself, so don't be too harsh. Cheers, everyone.
24:35
Speaker 1: I love that. Thank you so much for all these
24:37
Speaker 1: wonderful messages. I'm.
24:39
Speaker 1: I'm always so appreciative of your stories, you know, your, your,
24:43
Speaker 1: your experiences that you share, like, literally, you don't need to,
24:47
Speaker 1: but you took your time out in the morning to
24:49
Speaker 1: do it, to which I always say the show is
24:51
Speaker 1: not the same without you. Now, yet another huge piece
24:54
Speaker 1: of scam news. At least $4.8 million Singapore dollars have
24:59
Speaker 1: been lost to scams involving the impersonation of
25:03
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you guessed it right. Singapore Harvey
25:06
Speaker 1: Norman employees. Now, as you know, Harvey Norman is one
25:10
Speaker 1: of the places we go to all the time for,
25:12
Speaker 1: you know, your, your tech needs, your housing needs, appliance needs,
25:15
Speaker 1: and so many things, right? They're huge.
25:17
Speaker 1: But an advisory has since been issued by the Singapore
25:20
Speaker 1: Police Force just two days ago actually, warning against this
25:25
Speaker 1: particular impersonation scam. Since January of this year, yeah, only
25:29
Speaker 1: this year, at least 119 cases have been reported, all
25:33
Speaker 1: linked to the same type of impersonation, and I cannot
25:37
Speaker 1: imagine the amount of money that was lost. So, basically,
25:39
Speaker 1: the victims will receive a call from scammers posing as
25:42
Speaker 1: the employees from Harvey Norman.
25:44
Speaker 1: And they will act like they're confirming a recent purchase
25:47
Speaker 1: or like pending delivery on something, then, you know, obviously, the,
25:51
Speaker 1: the recipient is going to be like, no, no, no,
25:53
Speaker 1: I didn't order anything. Then the scammers will claim that, oh,
25:56
Speaker 1: but your personal information has been breached and further investigations
25:59
Speaker 1: are needed. So um we're gonna hand you over to
26:02
Speaker 1: an officer.
26:04
Speaker 1: So then they hand it over to a second scammer
26:06
Speaker 1: impersonating an officer from the MAS, Monetary Authority of Singapore,
26:11
Speaker 1: who will then accuse them of involvement in criminal activities.
26:15
Speaker 1: So then the scammers would be like, OK, you've got
26:16
Speaker 1: to transfer your money to safe accounts um for investigation purposes.
26:21
Speaker 1: And victims, I guess maybe in the panic of it all,
26:24
Speaker 1: or they're not paying attention, you know, they freak out.
26:27
Speaker 1: They only realize they've been scammed when they don't actually
26:30
Speaker 1: receive their refunds after multiple payouts. So please be very careful.
26:34
Speaker 1: The fact that they managed to scam almost $5 million
26:37
Speaker 1: Singapore dollars, that's sophistication, man. I have to say, they're
26:41
Speaker 1: getting better and better at this, so we have to
26:43
Speaker 1: be smarter. Come on, we've got to be smarter.
26:45
Speaker 1: So in response to this, I think our friends at
26:47
Speaker 1: Harvey Norman said, hey, you know what, Staff have been briefed,
26:49
Speaker 1: more guidelines have been put in place, and they're urging
26:52
Speaker 1: all customers to please remain as vigilant and as you can.
26:56
Speaker 1: And they also said, look guys, we will never ask
26:59
Speaker 1: you for your ID and banking details.
27:02
Speaker 1: That is already a massive red flag. Time for some
27:05
Speaker 1: food news. Here we go. I, I said earlier, when
27:08
Speaker 1: I say the word omakase, you immediately think, oh man,
27:11
Speaker 1: I gotta spend quite a bit of money, you know, yeah,
27:14
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, um, a, a big meal and I
27:17
Speaker 1: have to be prepared to eat and finish everything because
27:19
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste. What have I told you?
27:22
Speaker 1: That there is an inexpensive tzita omakasi meal at Fatty
27:27
Speaker 1: Ox Hong Kong Kitchen.
27:29
Speaker 1: Now, this is such a cute concept that I, that
27:32
Speaker 1: I wonder how come it hasn't really been done before,
27:36
Speaker 1: but what you can do is you tell the hawker
27:38
Speaker 1: your budget and he will whip up the tuta omakasi
27:41
Speaker 1: meal for you. Um, so our friends over at Eight
27:44
Speaker 1: Days Eat, they actually went down, they paid $20 per pack.
27:46
Speaker 1: They said, OK, $20 is the, is the budget, and
27:49
Speaker 1: they were trying to see what would he, what would
27:52
Speaker 1: he whip up, right?
27:53
Speaker 1: So this is over at Chinatown Complex Foods Center. Um,
27:57
Speaker 1: you just basically state your group size, you can call
28:00
Speaker 1: ahead as well and how much you're willing to spend. So,
28:03
Speaker 1: I see things like, if I'm not wrong, it looks
28:05
Speaker 1: like Assam fish with um with the lady's fingers that
28:09
Speaker 1: looks really, really yummy. And aside from that as well,
28:13
Speaker 1: you've got your like no hyang, you've got that uh
28:16
Speaker 1: traditional clay pot, clay pot yonung tofu that I'm looking
28:20
Speaker 1: at right now. It looks very good.
28:22
Speaker 1: Um, there's roast duck as well, and the crispy no
28:25
Speaker 1: hyang apparently was quite a hit with everyone, um, and
28:28
Speaker 1: of course served up with some rice, but that was
28:31
Speaker 1: so hearty. It looks so satisfying, to be honest. If
28:34
Speaker 1: everyone just paid $20 and you get this, I'm down.
28:37
Speaker 1: I mean, in total, apparently they spent like 60 bucks, um,
28:41
Speaker 1: very good value, they said for 3 packs, and I
28:43
Speaker 1: don't think they could even finish the food, to be honest.
28:45
Speaker 1: So please call ahead for the hawker Oakasi. I think
28:48
Speaker 1: it's about to pop off and I want to try
28:50
Speaker 1: it before it gets too crowded. Fatty Ox Hong Kong
28:53
Speaker 1: Kitchen at Chinatown Complex Food Center. They're open Wednesdays to Sundays,
28:58
Speaker 1: mainly a daytime thing, so that's 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Speaker 1: Give it a go.