Cameraman: Hello, Tiger Mum! Happy Lunar New Year!
Oh, hello, hello!
Happy New Year, wishing you wealth and prosperity!
Here.
- For you. - Cameraman: Oh, wow. Thank you!
Cameraman: By the way, I really love your shirt.
Oh, thank you! It's a...
TwoSet Apparel Limited Edition.
You like? I like very much.
Cameraman: Nice! Are you excited to start this interview?
Oh, yes! Of course, of course.
Not as excited as if my son
got an interview from Harvard, though!
Cameraman: Is that violin playing I hear?
Oh yes, speaking of my son, he practicing right now.
Practice very hard.
But it's okay, we can keep going.
Cameraman: Wow. So what were you doing before we got here?
I was doing some cleaning.
You know, we have guests coming soon.
Like yourself. So got to keep house clean.
Cameraman: Well, thank you. So may I come in?
Of course, of course! Come, come.
Hey hey, wait wait wait! What you doing lah?!
Tiger Mum: Take off your shoes!!
- Tiger Mum: So dirty! - Cameraman: Oh, s... so sorry, sorry sorry.
- Tiger Mum: So disrespectful! - Cameraman: Sorry, sorry, sorry...
Bad fengshui, ai.
Aiyah. Ai...
Anyway, would you like some tea?
Cameraman: I would love some!
Here.
I don't know why I have to ask that line, you know,
your directors said to ask, but...
Clearly, tea already prepared.
- It's so stupid. - Cameraman: Um...
Cameraman (whispering): You're meant to stick to the script.
- Script? - Cameraman: *coughing*
Cameraman: Anyway, so how do you normally start your day?
Ah, so. To start my day, I usually wake up at 6.
Give me one second.
H e y !
Hey son, what you doing ah?
Why violin practice stop?
I don't hear any violin, ah?
Son: I'm taking a break!
Take a break?!
You already break for 15 seconds, huh?
If you don't start playing now,
I go over there and mapo your tofu, yeah?
Ah, sorry.
As I was saying...
I wake up every morning at 6AM.
I cook the breakfast, and then I wake up my lazy son.
And I watch him study while he eat the breakfast.
Cameraman: Studying while eating? That's intense!
Does he get time to play?
Play?!
Of course he gets time to play!
Every day, after the studying,
he can play...
...the violin.
Cameraman: Finish the sentence. "I wish..."
I wish that my son's income
was as high as the new COVID-19 cases every day.
Cameraman: Okay.
Cameraman: Uh, which is better: piano or violin?
I think you mean to ask,
which is better: doctor or lawyer?
Cameraman: How long does your son usually practice a day?
Ah, not enough!
Never enough.
Cameraman: How long do you want him to practice?
Of course, 40 hours.
Cameraman: A week?
40 h... That's funny joke!
So funny!
Handsome young man, you're very funny, ah?
40 hours a week so little, must be disappointment!
Cameraman: What is your son practicing lately?
Uh, I don't know. Some piece called uh...
Sh, sh, sh, Shostako, ko...
Aiyah, son! Come here, quick, quick!
Come.
Mr. Cameraman have question for you!
Come, come, come.
What piece you playing lately?
Uh... Beethoven Spring Sonata No. 5 in F Major.
Aiyah!
Why again, always in F major?!
F is for failure.
Why you got to be the failure?
Don't you know?
Why you not play the No. 9 Sonata in A Major?
And be A student for once, huh?
Uh, I don't think that's how it works, mum.
You know what, while you're here,
why don't we play for our guest?
- Uh... - Please, quick.
Play, play, you know the... the...
Lunar New Year, "congratulations" piece.
I think you need to practice a bit more,
intonation a little bit funny.
Anyway, enough for now.
Go study your astrophysics!
Or I go kung pao your chicken!
Cameraman: Wow, thank you for the performance!
What's the craziest rumor you've heard?
Craziest rumor.
You know, I heard a really funny rumor recently.
In a... little WhatsApp group.
Someone said that my son
want to be the musician.
What a joke!
Cameraman: You don't want that to happen?
I mean, I give my son lots of freedom already, ah?
He can be the doctor, or the lawyer!
Free to choose!
Cameraman: Then why do you need him to practice so much,
if you don't want him to become a musician?
Ah, stupid question!
Isn't it obvious? So you can get high IQ!
Playing violin means high IQ.
Also, the agility.
Means your fingers are good for doing surgery.
Good for surgery, so he can become better doctor.
Why you ask such stupid question?
Cameraman: Uhh...
Some people say that the tiger mum parenting style
is too strict, and can cause emotional damage to the kid.
What do you think?
Emotional damage??
Me?
No, no, no.
I am very kind, loving parent.
I am kind mum.
Hey! Son, do I give you emotional damage?
Son: Yes? Like, every day?
Aiyah, don't lie lah!
Son: I'm not lying!
Remember the time I got 99 out of 100
for the maths exam, and instead of being happy,
you grounded me for getting 1 wrong?
Aiyah!
Why your memory so bad? You forget!
You have goldfish brain, no wonder your grade so bad!
Let me explain what actually happen, okay?
This is what happen.
Every day, I cook the breakfast, lunch, and dinner for you.
I take you to school.
I take you to maths tuition.
I pay for your violin lessons.
Why you never remember that, huh?
Why you not remember the time
I took you to hospital when you were sick?
- Ai! - *Son crying*
Young people these day,
always take everything for granted.
*Son crying*
Cameraman: Uhh... Is your son okay? I think he's crying.
Ah, he's okay lah.
I also cry every night when I see his bad grades.
Actually, I got a question.
You know, this thing. Ah...
Do you do this for a living? Is this your real job?
Oh, no no no. It's hobby, right? Hobby!
Cameraman: Uh, I don't think this is relevant to the interview.
Hey.
Do you have...
Do you have girlfriend?
- Cameraman: Um... - Do you, do you, uh...
- Are you married? Do you have kids? - Cameraman: That's...
Cameraman: So what's the best part about being a mother?
Uh, every Lunar New Year,
my son get many red envelopes.
Cameraman: And what does a red envelope
have to do with you?