See la, take free things, never work la.
Hi everyone, welcome to a really special episode of Coffee Break.
We will be discussing trending news of 2018.
The clue is "yellow logo", "technology" and "delivery".
DHL!
DHL is more likely... Because the logo is yellow.
The... the salted egg chips.
Maybe it's Honestbee. Could it be Honestbee?
You guys can't see, but there's an Honestbee bag behind the camera.
It is Honestbee!
My eyes are small but sharp.
Habitat by Honestbee.
Have you guys been?
No. I haven't. It's a place in Queensway.
Apparently it's a super high-tech place (supermarket).
There's nobody operating the place, right?
Yeah, not much. There's a food court there too.
The place is nice.
So that's an updated version of a self-checkout?
Yeah, but better.
Do you pay in honey?
The company created this is called Honestbee, so the people that visit must be honest.
Think about it - they scan their stuff themselves and they must be honest.
Nobody thinks that's the reason... but ok.
You must be honest!
I didn't know about this place.
A lot of my friends went there for an outing.
Yeah, I saw a lot of Instastories.
I saw this automated belt.
So you put your things inside and the machine will just carry it all the way to your door?
That's like the hospital's automated system that delivers your medicine.
I can see why people would want to Google about this; Singaporeans are always curious about new stuff that are coming up.
It's also for lazy people.
It looks quite aesthetically pleasing; I can foresee Instagrammers taking pictures there.
But I think that I'd want to try the services.
That's why people go there - to really see what this self-service checkout is all about.
Fountain of Youth! Fountain of Wealth! IT Fair!
Is there some summit going on?
Ok, let's reveal. I have no idea.
ASEAN Summit! I was right!
For those of you who didn't know, this was the 33rd ASEAN Summit hosted by Singapore.
It was attended by leaders from 10 Southeast Asian countries
and their counterparts from Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.
I was wondering how he knew.
He's reading from the screen!
No, I was doing some casual reading just now.
I can see why the ASEAN Summit would be important to Singaporeans.
We are part of ASEAN and with our passport, we don't need a visa to visit many places.
That's because we are part of ASEAN? Yeah.
But when did this happen?
We have the ASEAN lane (at airports). For citizens of ASEAN countries, we don't need visas.
I think people searched for this because Singaporeans always want to know what's happening.
I still don't know what happened there.
Maybe Singaporeans are excited when foreign dignitaries come to Singapore.
Or are you talking about Super Junior... Big Bang...
Both, both. Or are you talking about Super Junior... Big Bang...
Both, both.
What's his name? Do you know?
Nobody knows his name.
It's the Fulham guy.
Throwback to the Fulham episode.
Ben Davis!
Actually, I can see why Singaporeans Googled this.
They want to know what happened after that.
They said that he might be the first Singaporean to play in the EPL.
But I can guarantee 90% that Fulham is going to get relegated.
What's relegated? Means they are going to drop from the EPL.
Is it the GST thing?
Insurance? CPF? Flexi Cash? Return our CPF!
GST voucher? SG Bonus?
Singapore Budget 2018.
It's not just the GST voucher - it's everything.
SG Budget was announced in Budget 2018 to share the fruits of Singapore's development with Singaporeans.
SG Bonus la.
That's as detailed as an IMDB film description.
It would be good if they could give me the full lump sum of my SG Bonus from my entire life.
So that I can be irresponsible at one go! So that we can BTO!
Daryl Aiden!
Oh, my God. That was my first thought as well.
Daryl Aiden Yow!
Well done!
Did you know that he came back recently and he Photoshopped himself into Ben Kheng's photos?
I thought he Photoshopped Ben Kheng into his photo.
I thought it was quite funny.
Why? It was a marketing campaign.
Now he kind of bounced back and he's laughing at himself.
It's smart - it's the way to do it.
I'm quite surprised he managed to bounce back...
But I think that's what happens when you have influencer friends on your side too.
Yeah... They don't mind working with him, like Ben Kheng.
Brands also don't mind working with him.
That's because numbers are numbers.
Because all his influencer friends were like "Forgive him..." that kind of thing.
They really got influence.
I liked the challenge - they had a funny thing where it became a meme -
they Photoshopped themselves into pictures and #darylaidenyow.
Scoot got that real quick. That was so funny.
That was so quick, I remember that when the Mothership article came out, Scoot came out with a promo within 24 hours.
If you could Photoshop yourself well, you could win discounts and stuff.
They had some EDM that was like, 'you don't have to Photoshop yourself into photos because you can just fly there'.
I loved it.
Actually, we've never discussed this in an episode.
But there are two arguments about this -
one is that it's unethical, another is that Photoshopping is also a skill.
I think it's the fact that he lied about going to all these places.
He lied to multiple people about it, rather than the Photoshopping thing.
The worst part is that the Photoshopping is one thing. You can try to say that it's your work,
but Sony was one of his clients and he uses their cameras,
so he was promoting their cameras and he was also saying that the photos were taken with their cameras.
But it wasn't.
No, it was a Shutterstock image.
So obviously, how do you spin a story out of that?
This wouldn't have made it to #6 if Singaporeans were not so ready to hate influencers.
I feel that that's a very large contributor for it to become a current affairs (issue).
Recently there was this website... Zula?
I was going to say something! You should go read the Zula article that Chevonne Cheng wrote.
An influencer writing an article about why people hate influencers so much.
Oh, damn. Chevonne Cheng, shoutout.
When shit like this happens, and the subject is an influencer, it's very hard for people to be objective.
The first thing they want to do is say, "See lah! Take free things lah! Never work lah!"
It's just the mentality...
Number 5!
SG Bonus!
Topic #5 has the same clue as topic #7 so I'm guessing it's Budget 2019.
Maybe? I shall do the opening.
SG Bonus!
So just now was Budget 2018, then we suddenly had a Daryl Aiden inside.
Then we've come back to SG Bonus again.
Why? Because Singaporeans searched twice because... money faced.
We just want money.
I believed we talked about the SG Bonus already.
Yeah, I'm glad we all get free money, so let's move on to #4.
Frozen?
Oh no...
The polar bear! I'm glad we didn't joke about this.
It's because it was born in the tropics - the only polar bear born in the tropics.
It was really highly searched on the 2018 list.
The news coverage was quite intense.
Even on mainstream media - lesser read sites like Channel NewsAsia and The Straits Times - were covering it.
I mean, together with the more popular sites like MustShareNews.
So I'm not surprised it ranked quite highly because the media generated interest among the public.
I think that a lot of Singaporeans only discovered that we had a polar bear called Inuka after it died.
Because we are Singaporeans...
He really looked quite jialat (in a bad shape) towards the end.
His fur had algae...
Is it because they questioned whether (a polar bear) should be living in the tropics in the first place?
Maybe... The living conditions were not that good, so people were debating about it.
Honestly, I think this gained some international traction too.
I'm glad this shed some light on wildlife.
God bless Inuka.
What is number 3? SingPass!
Let's bet! Who says SingPass? Why would it be SingPass, though?
Er... SG Bonus PayNow.
No, I say it's some GST... I say GST voucher.
Just to prove that government websites are difficult to navigate...
We have... GST voucher!
Knew it. Knew it. Because I'm one of those people.
Testament to this again - firstly, Singaporeans are money-faced.
Secondly, Singaporean government websites need to up their game.
No, the term is different - you didn't even know it was called Singapore Bonus.
Actually, I didn't know that these three things were related.
I thought they were three mutually exclusive things.
Crazy Rich Asians!
I feel glorious~ Glorious~
So did you guys watch the movie? Yes, I liked it.
We watched it together.
I'm glad that this sort of put us in the international spotlight.
People will be like, "Oh, my God! Singapore!"
They won't be like, "Singapore? That place in China?"
That's true.
They'll now say, "Singapore? That place in that Hollywood movie?"
"Newton Food Centre?" Newton Food Circus?"
Ok! Let's move on to #1.
Can I say that this can go both ways?
Either it's the Trump-Kim summit or Miss Singapore's costume.
Number one... Trump-Kim summit!
I'm surprised by one important fact - the fact that Singaporeans put the dash between.
I was about to say that.
Oh, yeah. There was no dash?
They met here, and Vivian Balakrishnan got a selfie.
My favorite part was when they were at the table, and Donald Trump was shaking hands.
He said, "Are you getting nice pictures of us? Making us look slim and skinny?"
Kim Jong-Un's face was like...
I'm just glad that something has put Singapore on a world map for being a place for a summit.
Usually, they'll try to chose a country or place that's known for neutrality.
But we are quite neutral and fair.
People always thought that all we had were paddy fields and stuff like that.
Coming to see the two big leaders coming to our country - that's pretty cool.
Because they want some place that's stable, and I think that by the looks of the top ten current affairs...
we are pretty damn stable.
For other countries like Indonesia, it'll be a tsunami or the Lombok earthquake.
Meanwhile, we have Crazy Rich Asians...
We worried about money three times.
We are so concerned about money. The biggest crisis here was the polar bear dying.
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