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home because it's up to the children,

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the family and the farms only the

2:06

men to send nd ended up saying

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to dismiss and month so bad law

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know whether or not so poorly in

2:12

china and so it it it was

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a as it up marrying the local

2:17

all money will end naughty boy ah

2:19

so this article just bought a new

2:21

the men to from china the woman

2:23

was closed on mondays and because to

2:25

be were a british colony other the

2:27

embrace very strong. Utopians culture. that

2:30

is us typical. Was nervous enough

2:32

for a lot of but it's

2:34

not read you know, There

2:36

were also Indian parana so this Indian

2:38

men team for three days and the

2:40

also wanted to listen so what did

2:43

he do They ended up marrying the

2:45

local city team here because he was

2:47

for essential of us as lies cydia

2:49

their families, yard and businesses here and

2:51

suppressing such a success with a mix

2:53

of Chinese military sees some this Indian

2:55

culture wilde to the squad a bit

2:57

of a hybrid as a was only

2:59

do so I your descendant of this

3:02

point zero I and for neck and

3:04

my parents up or I like and.

3:06

As a young boy I was clueless

3:08

about my own culture unlike in India.

3:10

Me: your thoughts, your code surge ah

3:13

sorry this no political party and your

3:15

religion. So I grew up not knowing

3:17

Asian woman own culture and did gotten

3:19

on his journey of self reflection and

3:22

wanting to know who I was. And

3:24

what does I do I ran around to

3:27

like being are not done in two of

3:29

you know they don't see what we didn't

3:31

see but every inch is a or but

3:33

I'm I couldn't and it so he was

3:35

never meant of the museum. Sarah's was my

3:38

premises yeah my one hundred people so that

3:40

when the visit me he likes you and

3:42

many others and individually says okay already become

3:44

a museum out so that was how he

3:46

became a museum. To ten years

3:48

since of live under such just a good feeling to

3:51

things from different places is as on wasn't gonna find

3:53

his own identity and because you're saying i mean nobody

3:55

said you bro what are you doing What to do

3:57

Not go the gym that the Us so you are

3:59

almost. I ran around collecting for

4:01

and can increase in almost every sending them

4:03

up and people as the B B money

4:06

Singapore oh yes as I do have a

4:08

hold off by the only thing is somebody

4:10

to me was a somebody since is a

4:12

governmental Singapore that and minister that is what

4:14

did not do my toys it or is

4:16

he got so many visitors from all around

4:18

the world What is is because Museum Woods

4:20

is it was a good knock that's a

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good not in our part of the would

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have omitted look into those notable often zip

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on employees is. So

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Della. so he became abusive. India three

4:30

didn't. Was. A Fantastic stories

4:33

as often as a complete accident

4:35

story accidentally or himself for me as

4:37

accidental museum because as never. Meant.

4:40

To be a museum or less than one I

4:42

was some form of with since my oh avoid

4:44

or nice is written since you are the disease

4:46

the right fit for this sold from Flying In

4:49

Solving and Singapore National Video Day or two thousand

4:51

people in your home museums. What made you change

4:53

your career? Best political back in time This was

4:55

your actual job and as belittle know the high

4:57

paying job. So. We want to be

5:00

failings in the was so into think you

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miss my Swiss employee Singapore Airlines is no

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I wasn't policies and manager do you know

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what is this amended us I absolutely do

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but they don't So very good illness and

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that we we all understand what they do

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rather my bosoms on adding index I know

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I know I'm in my to bring your

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flight is delayed real betis what's missing same

5:19

thing you can. I emphasise that slowdowns is

5:21

on my phone. yeah that's what I was

5:23

going to say and and useful. Five thousand

5:25

and I was stationed in San Francisco. Com

5:27

die in a city? Not enough. Enough

5:29

of American soldier Say me

5:31

somewhere more exciting and honesty.

5:34

I just India. Swear God

5:36

a choice India I whether they voted

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for data oh and this is the

5:40

city to.com ugliness and they said wins.among

5:42

the this is an easy and obvious

5:45

i miss him on the desk. I

5:47

need a see I laugh in today's

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i Sleep On. And

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good times. Criminal. How

5:53

many of them and put out the for not

5:55

than people in abundance? Zero know anyone? Into

5:59

adults only. In the an undergraduate

6:01

at all is why disagree then from somebody

6:03

success of video and used for many years

6:05

they'll see him as a buddy I have.

6:08

why would you then come back and do

6:10

this is opposed him back into what did

6:12

you leave so I did not need for

6:14

the museum actually joined my father's dismissed on

6:17

is an assembly the says I'm in the

6:19

printing business allow I was success on buses,

6:21

axes and princess sauce and stick I'm in.

6:23

Okay so my dad is it is a

6:26

big turned a business or I was I

6:28

was inclined to join the family business and

6:30

so I resign and I consider my passion

6:32

is see what is broken off the twenty

6:35

one years Never the I realize I have

6:37

somebody as wonderful as you sitting in my

6:39

friend I am the most famous ended. Censor.

6:43

Odi called some little brother first who

6:45

conquered various parts of Asia. Also offer

6:47

that disputed minute and unless I saw

6:49

all day a minimum of him during

6:52

your i don't understand we're just being

6:54

demoted to sort of big so then

6:56

blame us some and ignored for job

6:58

Let's say out of the ordinary so

7:01

everything is seen this house museum when

7:03

his whole museum is collected by. Nothing

7:06

is on the sending us for

7:08

everything hit them says for me

7:10

but I guess for me on

7:12

the most interesting stories will be

7:14

this Lucky Parents as behind us

7:17

because of this came from a

7:19

phase two seventy friends and d

7:21

are related to one of expresses

7:23

his Singapore love as he would

7:25

sit to be my ideal says

7:27

every do and then we're suing

7:29

you Visit the in time of

7:31

Death suit says year this a

7:34

fifty percent signs yes sitting on.

7:36

The server. The. Singapore precedence the

7:38

since which means is a fifty percent

7:40

chance and blondie you could become the

7:42

President or Singapore break. Through

7:45

a smoker month the same thing Rights

7:47

Movement doing more than our current President's

7:49

dinner. or you

7:51

that i'm sure i did my eldest of

7:53

a plane wanted to any sovereigns in a

7:56

bar exam wanted so the gods i do

7:58

my own was delivered idea about how to

8:00

the house, what are the things you can

8:02

get to see. So I visited like this,

8:04

we start from the front hall, we're gonna

8:06

go around the house, we're gonna go upstairs

8:08

and then we're gonna end with some lovely

8:10

traditional oranacan seats.

8:14

Before we go into this quick break, there's one last

8:16

thing you need to tell everyone. At some point he's

8:18

gonna perform. You're also a pretty good singer I heard

8:22

and be honest. I will try. You

8:24

are? I try. Okay so you just be modest, you

8:26

better be because I got no talent on this show.

8:28

All I can see is Baba

8:30

Cyrus, magic happens at

8:33

the intern. Magic happens at

8:35

the intern. But for now we're gonna

8:37

go and check out this wonderful culture on a

8:39

street called, what's the street called? Juche Terrace. Let

8:42

me say it correctly, I gotta get these names

8:44

right. Katong. Juche. Balu. Not

8:46

bad. Not bad. Okay stop changing

8:48

languages, I'm an idiot. I'm struggling

8:52

with one. All right we'll take a quick break. He's

8:54

been lovely, I'll win Yap and when we come back

8:56

a little bit more. Thank you, thank you, thank you

8:58

very much Aunty. I'm

9:10

here. Juche has rode very famous for

9:13

the Peranakan shop houses. They ordinate tiling,

9:15

unique styling, craftsmanship, colors. Outstanding, just take

9:17

a look. It's like a breeze of

9:19

different colors. It's fabulous on the senses

9:21

and also this is famous for lots

9:23

of influencers and instagrammers to come and

9:25

do their little reels and things like

9:28

that and become superbly famous. They guarantee

9:30

you 50% upgrade in followership immediately. Okay

9:32

the truth is, Juche act, the road

9:34

inspires artists and art. So if you

9:36

look around there's a lady there in

9:38

the background. I want to point because it's

9:41

impolite. So I won't point and

9:44

she's getting ready to do her painting and

9:47

I'm distracted by a lovely doggy. Hello Babu, how are

9:49

you? Can I touch? Okay.

9:51

Babu's gone away to do a susu. Oh

9:54

Appa's susu, that's fantastic. Excellent

9:57

and this gentleman here also an artist. I

10:01

presume to paint or sketch. So as

10:04

the day gets longer, more and more people come here

10:06

to paint and sketch. I think I should also do

10:08

some painting. Let me see where.

10:11

I've got my pencil ready. Here we go. The

10:14

art form of Cyrus says, Hey, how are you doing?

10:22

This is all my houses, as you can see. Early

10:24

investments in Singapore back in the 80s. My

10:27

financial decisions, my grandfathers were made. Thank you

10:29

grandfather. And all this is ours.

10:31

Everything is ours. Not the people.

10:34

The people are not technically ours, but

10:36

everything else is ours. Off

10:38

we go. Still,

10:41

work in progress, just like my marriage. I'm

10:43

trying to figure things out. You'll see this here

10:45

and there. But for most of it, 90%,

10:47

it's poetry in motion. Yo,

10:51

chat road. Okay, I've reached. It's called, just

10:53

take a look, Kim Choo Changed. Or known

10:55

as Kim Choo, in short. Very famous for

10:58

the sweets and artifacts. We'll go and check

11:00

it out. I brought my

11:02

own cycle because I want to walk

11:04

the talk. I want to be the

11:07

sustainability that I talk about. So, no

11:09

more petrol, diesel, even EVMs. Just the

11:11

cycle for me. Check

11:13

out the board saying, welcome Cyrus sales

11:15

to Kimi Choo. Don't

11:18

read it now. Just take my word for it.

11:20

Come on, come on. Oh, brown

11:22

chilli. I think this is a char basically. Some

11:24

sort of, pumpkin, cheese, almond crisps. There are

11:27

all kinds of savory items as well. There's

11:30

namkeen stuff and non-namkeen stuff. Everything is here.

11:32

Hello. Hi. Can

11:34

you give us something sweet to taste?

11:37

We can like many. Something

11:39

smaller? This is a smaller sweet

11:41

to taste. Okay, okay.

11:45

The Nyonya Changed Chicken. Which

11:47

is a winter melon and

11:49

shredded chicken meat. Have

11:54

you heard of Cyrus Brocha? Very

11:57

famous actor. Huge

11:59

success. You know Johnny

12:01

Depp? No Johnny Depp?

12:03

Decaprio? Leonardo Decaprio? I

12:06

know Agnusia. No? Yeah. Okay, these are

12:08

three biggest names in the world of

12:10

entertainment. Johnny Depp, Leonardo Decaprio,

12:12

Cyrus Brocha. Yeah. I

12:15

was just checking. Sorry. Let's

12:17

have one. I can't

12:19

believe she has no Cyrus Brocha. This

12:22

is how the dumpling looks like. Oh! You

12:24

figure Samosa? Yeah, it's kind of a Samosa.

12:26

Half Samosa, half dumpling. He's out of rice

12:29

and I think inside there is a king of chicken.

12:32

Yeah, yeah. Ankita eats it. Ankita pays for

12:35

it. She'll pay for it. No worries. Let's

12:39

check out the upstairs quickly. Of course,

12:41

there's lots more. You can buy all. If you're a

12:43

tourist, obviously there are clothes. There's

12:45

stuff, linen stuff and silk stuff and everything

12:48

at the back there. And there's all these

12:50

things you can buy. Small trinkets and posters

12:52

and postcards and cards that you

12:54

can send home all here. Oh

13:00

my God. There's

13:02

a rooster. A

13:06

live rooster lying in a bed. It's

13:08

almost like a Mughal painting for me.

13:10

But it's actually more Chinese. Iranic

13:13

cafe, same marbles, same kind

13:15

of chairs. See how the cultures are closer

13:17

than they think? Humanity is closer than you

13:19

think. They're all the same. Hello.

13:22

Hello, check. Cyrus says in

13:24

Singapore. Showing now.

13:26

Cyrus says. Super

13:32

sound here. Ma'am,

13:38

are you sure you haven't heard of Cyrus Brocha? Please.

13:43

It's a sad day for me. I'm just kidding. Nice

13:45

to meet you. And

13:49

with that, ladies and gentlemen, we conclude a little trip inside here.

13:51

I had this idea, a taste of the panakan way of life.

13:55

And off we go to mainstream Singapore for

13:57

me to rest my very legs on somebody's

13:59

head. Production day.

14:03

Or I saw noted get back to the bra

14:05

stags of question that we have not asked and

14:07

your the off when you start collecting the unique

14:10

as he did mention by accident you picked up

14:12

the in a fine you wanted I didn't win

14:14

and what he was that existed at the age

14:16

of seventeen eighteen and I have my sister a

14:18

driving licence and I to my desk saw and

14:21

I went out what we call garage at their

14:23

mercy of the India Good as anyone the celtics

14:25

gala into people's houses the sell to the damn

14:27

it off in a nice i found on the

14:29

this a post there was an ad and I

14:32

when i found something. So you didn't

14:34

assemblies picked up stuff the disease looking at

14:36

it and he brought it home. So I've

14:38

been around looking for things that I got

14:40

a number of my of the posting law

14:43

is this sucks Interesting. He. Is ready.

14:45

didn't work. Is applied.

14:47

This is. Oh. Is there were

14:49

times when to us it's a bad bad

14:51

is upstairs which. Is. Secrets: What is

14:53

blonder so I don't really know would you didn't?

14:57

Put him under Someone resurfaces respond to

15:00

say bless this, say I saw you

15:02

And I say say say say or.

15:05

Do real books as a long does? It

15:08

mean to be there as his exit node. Other

15:10

job done for the says you know. What

15:13

to do? I announced that I know there

15:15

were is moussaoui a picture of died because

15:17

it'll take time and an over the weekend

15:19

it's try our best. It is one those

15:21

days are you put the thing out of

15:24

the legs spread among that skill set it

15:26

as far as I pointed me. supposed to

15:28

be mounted don't I don't. You

15:31

can disable it isn't my gonna be Notes: don't

15:33

want to do this was appointed would agree to

15:35

manage everything he does. your your your represent a

15:37

whole bunch your your your that him I was

15:40

that any source of it in diapers and one

15:42

man has by accident. Didn't even planted snakes new

15:44

was always you're a we don't want his younger

15:46

in terms of com in your one of the

15:48

one what job do they do have even alone

15:50

to be guides on hogan know. this

15:53

is runaways wonder what we do

15:55

is is that is administered decisions

15:57

the school side so every year

16:00

support some of these kids who want

16:02

to learn about culture and maybe one

16:04

day they can become our sponsor

16:06

for Culture

16:08

and heritage one day they become a

16:10

museum creative Do they have

16:13

panakan roots? Are they also not? No,

16:15

all they have is an interest in

16:17

culture and heritage. Okay, and

16:19

that's where we see them in Okay,

16:21

so tell us some nice anecdotes from

16:23

this place like various

16:25

people's reactions and things like that. Yeah, so people are

16:28

wondering whether is it a home is it a museum?

16:30

So I always keep it sometimes to settle down and

16:32

then they ask strange questions, you know They ask

16:35

questions like how do you clean your house? Good

16:38

question. And my answer is how do you? The

16:41

easiest answer is are you a business? So you

16:43

asked me how do you clean your house? Are

16:45

you free tomorrow? We have a volunteer program. Oh

16:47

nice. Nice Well played but I think one thing

16:49

it's extremely clean. Thank you. Has anyone tried to

16:52

take anything? No, I know of No,

16:54

no, but to be true to be fair, uh, somebody

16:56

did take something what? It

16:59

was a hand cream for my restroom Why

17:02

how I know it's time before we wrap up to

17:04

promise them something we promised them in the beginning Which

17:06

is you're a performer as well. But before we do

17:08

that first, I have one request from you

17:12

I have no money. I will that I know.

17:14

Ah good. Go ahead. What is

17:16

the One thing you would

17:18

like to know Either about the

17:20

museum or me as a museum owner. So I

17:22

will have to ask charges for

17:24

a quick load Yes So if you go

17:26

online you'll see we have different experiences from

17:28

tea to lunch and dinner experiences They

17:31

start at about 60 singapore dollars all the way to

17:33

it depends what you want to okay So tea is

17:35

less and lunch will be more of course. Okay. I

17:37

think is there a dinner of course The

17:40

in turn is a one man show I

17:42

run i'm the Host

17:44

i'm the collector and the cleaner. Uh, i'm

17:47

the entertainer Accountant show

17:49

everything. No. Yeah. So if I say, okay

17:51

miss, okay So if you are if

17:54

you arrive in singapore early and your hotel is

17:56

not ready for you Come

17:58

for breakfast. Oh great idea You are

18:00

here, you are so busy exploring all

18:02

the wonderful attractions to Singapore on the

18:05

way back. Come here for

18:07

supper. We are always open. We have

18:09

to wind up getting behaviour

18:11

which is not mentionable to young children, the

18:13

way this man is jumping up and down

18:15

and screaming and shouting. But I have a

18:17

line for you. How about the interns at

18:20

Intan? Because you got these interns. Oh nice,

18:22

I love that. Intern at Intan. I

18:24

love that. I love that. I was listening to Hindi music

18:26

in the background, but I have some more instruments. You sing?

18:30

Intern you sing? Intern

18:32

at Intan. Intern at

18:34

Intan. You like it? I

18:37

am opening a whole new market for you with my talent. Thank

18:39

you. Speaking of talent, as we say bye, and by the way

18:41

guys, he has been very sporting. It's a wonderful place. Please come

18:44

and check it out. You can see what a

18:46

gracious man he is and he is full of positive energy. He will

18:48

have a great time. So we are going to end with the song.

18:50

So what are you going to play for us? What are you going

18:52

to sing? I wrote this song. In

18:55

the song, please. Happy birthday. Happy

18:57

birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.

19:00

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. This

19:02

is one of my favorite piranha songs.

19:04

She is an Indonesian song. And

19:07

it's about an old cockatoo. And I am going

19:09

to teach you the song. There will be a

19:11

verse I will sing and the chorus, all you

19:13

need to do is u lala. I can do

19:15

u lala. I will practice

19:17

right now. One, two, three. U

19:20

lala. Okay. U

19:52

lala. Someone

20:02

talking merrily Welcome

20:26

to the internet, this is

20:29

my home, this is

20:32

your museum, I'd love to show

20:34

you around. Come

20:51

on in. So can we start here?

20:54

Of course. So this is what we call

20:56

a ancestral altar. The pranakans

20:58

were very Chinese and what's important was, hey,

21:00

can we have a pranakans.

21:18

This is my home. But it

21:20

turns into a museum when a visitor

21:22

like you walks in. So

21:25

the questions you ask, the things that you see with

21:27

your eyes makes it a

21:29

museum. So the pranakans would have such Chinese

21:31

advantages, so the visitors like you

21:33

would know we are Chinese. This was

21:35

very important. I like it. What

21:38

do you think, I mean, is it fair to ask, what

21:41

would this be worth for a collector? So

21:43

in a world of anti-collecting, the value of

21:45

an object is just dependent on 2%.

21:49

You and me. It might worth a million

21:51

dollars to me but if it's only worth

21:53

10 rupees to you, the only

21:55

time will be. A lesson in marketing, one

21:58

wonderful lesson. you

22:00

and how much we value the piece.

22:02

Everything is hand-picked piece by piece by

22:04

piece which means everything here

22:06

has a story which essentially means that we

22:08

are now going back in time. This is

22:10

how the prana can just live. These pieces

22:12

existed about 200 years ago. You know everything

22:14

you see here is collected. But I want

22:17

to show you something about the rest. These

22:19

are what we call spit-tons. So

22:22

listen carefully. This is a very interesting story with

22:24

an Indian connection which I'm sure now that you

22:26

know. A woman who says spit-tons is an Indian

22:28

connection. So these are spit-tons

22:32

because the prana can ladies

22:35

love to chew beethal or better leaf.

22:37

Very much like Indian culture though. But

22:39

only the ladies chew. Well why not

22:41

the men? It's a dead one. Something

22:45

she don't know. Anyway then no one asked for

22:47

what because the prana can woman would chew bitter

22:49

leaf and he would spit them into this beautiful

22:51

container. Now question number

22:53

one. Where do you

22:55

think these beautiful pieces came from? India.

22:59

This came from Czechoslovakia. The

23:01

product was so wealthy they were commissioning

23:04

enamel vests. For the spitting they would

23:06

get stuff from Prague. They were so

23:08

wealthy. These enamel vests you see on

23:11

my table and on the steps. In

23:14

99% of them were sourced from

23:18

India. I

23:20

have an Indian runner that scouts

23:22

the whole of India especially

23:25

in the homes of

23:27

the parties. But an anti-collector cannot pay

23:29

enough entities to collect. We collect other

23:31

things. Here is

23:33

a collection of Catholic icons in

23:36

different Asian identities. Many pranakas are

23:38

Catholic including my family and myself.

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And so here you have the

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Virgin Mary and Nativity Clearly,

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this is proof. You don't want

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to start any controversy, but this is proof. We're

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onto something. I'm not going to say any more.

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In my country, everybody takes offense, so I have

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to be very careful. But yes, there is something

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in this. My favourite... Sorry, Riz. My favourite has

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to be Jesus, Mary, Joseph. From

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a football team, we're a Madrid. Wow! Can

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we pick that up? For the football

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lovers. If you love your

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spirituality and you love your football, sometimes you can say the

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same thing. There you go. I've

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got tears in my eyes. I'm crying. I'll tell you why. My

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pants are very tight. That's one reason. The other... Singapore.

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What a beautiful place. Tears of joy. What

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an experience. The sounds, the songs, the love.

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Lovely people. Nobody gets angry. It's great. And everybody's on time.

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I'm so happy I can't tell you. I've

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eaten Singapore, drunk Singapore, fell Singapore,

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sang Singapore. And now, it's time for

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me to tell you, in the words of the

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greatest poet of the 21st century, Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'll

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be back. Until then, I leave

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you with this lovely song and dance.