Hey guys! It's Tina and Alfred here!
Alfred does the double point!
That's his signature move XD
Anyways, today we're finally going to answer some of your questions
Over the weekend, I asked you guys on my Instagram
to leave us some questions
Because we're going to film this Q&A
and a lot of you guys left questions.
I have like eight pages of questions here.
A lot of them doubled up
But yeah, I know I love you guys dying to like to know
How we met,
like Our dynamics,
and just all of these stuff about us.
So let's get started.
So at that time, I was obviously single
and I went out with my girlfriend Natalie
and we went out for a friend's birthday
and we ended up at this club, bar thing.
and Alfred was also going out for his friend's birthday
so we didn't know each other then
and we had mutual friends that knew each other
so we were at the bar and we were getting drinks
and then Alfred approached me
and he started speaking to me!
What did you say?
Alfred: What did I say...
XD
I was pretty aggressive
Yeah, Tina mentioned we have some mutual friends
who were talking to each other
so It happened that I guess I was just talking to Tina
and...yeah!
Just asking her...
You know, the normal chitchat
and then I think I just went straight into it, didn't I?
I said "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Tina: It was like straight up! "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Yeah, I was just like.. Wow...
This is how it's done these days?
pretty straight forward!
I just said like "No, I don't. I don't have a boyfriend."
and I just felt obligated to ask him back
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
Alfred: I said "No, I'm separated."
Tina: Yeah, he said he's separated.
and at that point I was like
Huh! ㅇ_ㅇ
A light bulb just went "DDING!"
Because I'm also, I'm divorced.
I was like "Oh, no way! I'm divorced."
and we just like high-five each other
and that's how we met!
and I think that was like our connection point.
Usually I get pretty nervous to tell people that
yeah, I was married before
But in this instance,
There was no awkwardness, no nothing.
It was kind of like something we had in common.
So...yeah!
and I guess it's also overlaps with some other questions
like "How does Tina feel telling me about her being divorced?"
I can understand Why, How It'd be awkward
Because I guess previously, before Tina
I would always have a bit of trouble mentioning that I was separated.
Because people just didn't necessarily understand
and It was bit of a taboo topic I suppose.
I just figured it might as well just drop the bomb.
You know, and if she's intersted then cool,
if not, then we're to move on.
and luckily enough, she was fine with it.
Tina: Yeah!
Oh... That's a sensitive topic!
Since we were already both being married.
First off, my experience of a marriage and
obviously the breakdown of it,
I wouldn't say I'm 100% against the marriage.
I'm actually, I'm not against marriages at all.
It just happened that the two of us didn't work out
But I still do believe in marriage
and that is I believe is the natural progression of a relationship
You know, things are going pretty well so far.
and I'm definitely open for it.
Tina: He's open for it. XD
Tina: Well, it was funny.
Because at that time, when I've met alfred
I was kind of like over having relationships
Because I guess, I don't know.
I guess I just thought like
You know, I should just focus on my career
and that stuff will come later
and I didn't really think too much of it.
and I guess in my previous, you know like relationships
after I got divorce and I dated somepeople,
It was just really like difficult.
Because I didn't want to make the same mistake again
and like commit to something
and then like you know waste my time
and then you know, waste their time
and just end it
So I guess at that time, I wasn't like ready for another relationship.
Because I felt like it was really hard.
But with Alfred, everything was just really easy
bit like, we didn't have to force anything
I was completely who I am
I was really honest in the beginning
I just like pretty much told him everything about my life
and it was really straightforward
and yeah!
I was like I can't even flinch!
It was like fine
and like I guess like with Alfred
Because he like, he was going through like separation and everything
We had that in common
and I knew how he felt
and he would knows how I felt at that time too.
So we had that in common.
and I felt like really like connected and related more or so about that.
and we were at the same stage in life.
If you get what I mean.
Yeah, that was like I guess one of like the big connection points for us
But obviously like
Look, he's just like so damn gorgeous!
and like when I first saw him I was like
Oh damn~
Who is this so tall like I'm Oh My God
and I was like Oh my god, this guy is so hot!
That's what I thought
So I had to have him.
XD
Add him to the shopping basket
XD
Alfred: Why did I want to date.. Tina: Why did you want to date me?
Tina: You know it's funny because we never really like talked about this.
Alfred: Yeah, this is like the first time.. Tina: I feel like blushing... Whoa!
Alfred: Taking aside the first impression with a looks
that everything Tina is absolutely beautiful
Tina: The makeup! :p
Alfred: The stage in life that we were in
and what we've been through
It just shared a bond of that
you know, it's kind of strange
like you bonding over kind of like a really bad event in your life
But
We did. We bonded
and I think the fact that we opened that sort of can of worms straight away
We've always been really open to each other
and that's been working really great.
Tina: I don't know if you guys have heard me say on snapchat
or like on my Instagram
but I call him "Boo"
Tina: My Boo~ Alfred: Yeah, We call each other a "Boo"
Tina: Boo~
Alfred: So that's our nickname.
Tina: I guess the most annoying thing is
When you don't shave and you have stubble
and then you kiss me
and it hurts!
and I actually get annoyed
So I'm like Ow! Can you like go shave
Alfred: What annoys me is..
When Tina is right about stuff
and she has that little sort of smug face
like Mmm-hmm! :p
I told you! yeah~
Like, she's like king of the hill.
Tina: I'm completely guilty of that XD
Cause thten I'm like why I'm like
Uh-huh
You see?
You see who's right?
Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm!
I like to enjoy my moment of glory
From my perspective,
It would be me leaving my job
That's a really big step for me.
Yeah, we actually got a few questions about that
So maybe we just like cover most of it now, but yeah.
So if you guys didn't know like
At the start of this year, Alfred left the corporate world.
He worked in finance as an accountant
For what.. ten years?
More than ten years.
So he was in the corporate world for a long time
and he made the decision to leave his job to come help me with my channel
Because at that time
I kind of needed that extra help of I was doing everything by myself.
From filming, editing, answering all these emails and later like speak to brand
So it was like really hard for me at that point
and so I guess we had that dicussion and yeah
Alfred decided to leave his job
which is like scary, right?
It's like crazy because he doesn't know anything about this YouTube world
It's all new
and everything you have to kind of start from scratch.
But he's been really good.
He's been like learning on his own.
Alfred: So that was the first challenge
I think the second challenge was
in a way
almost like totally Re-skilling myself
Because I had to learn how to edit,
and I had to learn how to film
For someone who did not come from a creative background at all
and doing something creative,
I think that was a massive challenge for me.
Tina: I guess it was like we both live together
and we're dating each other
we work together
we see each other all the time
So I think one of the hardest challenge for me is like
When I'm on WORK MODE
I'm a bit scary
Because I'm like really passionate about my channel
like you know, I really want to create like the best videos as I can for you guys to watch
I really want to connect with you
So I put a lot of pressure on myself
and enhance it kind of rubs off on Alfred
Because I need him to do certain things
So when I'm on Work Mode
I can be a bit harsh
or just really blunt
and make sure like I want to get things done
but when I'm on like in Girlfriend Mode
I'm completely different
Because I'm like totally chillax (Chill+Relax)
and you know,
So I think for us, it's just like finding that balance is a challenge
But we're getting there.
We're like learn to switch off work sometimes
and just like enjoy
yeah!
I definitely do not feel like I'm famous
When I like when people recognize me or they say hi, they watch my video
It's like I feel really lucky
and I feel like oh my god, they actually watch my videos
I feel so like... Oh my god! I'm so happy, because of that.
but I don't feel like
Oh! I'm just like super famous or anything
I still feel like
I am an ordinary girl with like an interesting job
But seriously, I'm pretty normal.
I'm just like you out there.
But yeah.
I like people appreciate my content, my work.
so I'm really happy about that.
When Alfred and I first met,
He didn't really know like
I just said,
I just told him, I just do makeup
and I have like a YouTube channel
That's pretty much all I kind of said about my work.
Alfred: She didn't mention how bit her channel was or whatever
So when we first met she was just like
"Oh, I do makeup and do some videos on YouTube."
So I said. "Well, yeah okay."
Tina: Let's go~
Alfred: and then yeah, the next day
I was telling my friend about it and
they were like what's her name
and he looked it up and he's like
"Do you know like she's got like some videos have 5 million views?"
and I'm thinking what?!
No, I didn't look her up
Not that I wasn't interested
but I just I was busy at that point
and I didn't have a chance to look her up
So it was a bit of a shock to me
and the first time when we were out together
or at like a bar having few drinks,
That's my first experience of like a fan apporaching her
losing her mind
and just wanted to take photos
and I was..
That time, I was kind of blown away
I was just like "What is.. What's going on here?"
Now the reactions are still the same
when we do meet a fan
but I'm used to it now.
It's still quite amusing to me
but you know, I'm not like..
What is it... What is this...
Tina: Well it's kind of fun
because a lot of you guys that bump into us
you would say Hi Tina! Hi Alfred!
So you guys know Alfred as well now.
so He's getting a bit Famo(Famous) out there.
I guess like with our past relationship experience of something that we have in common.
How we feel about like, I guess our priorities and things like values in life are pretty much the same.
We're really family-orientated,
We want to like be the best version of ourselves
Umm.. what else do we have in common?
WE like the same foods
I think that's really important.
Because I love eating
Alfred does too
and we like the same things
Alfred: I guess most majority of the time,
Our energies are more or less the same.
So when we want to go out
and be adventurous and have fun
then we sort of doing that together
But there's a lot of times when we just don't want to do anything
we just want to stay home and chill
and just be really low energy
Tina: Yeah, that's true.
Never have thought of that.
But that's true.
Our energies are pretty much like in sync.
Alfred: The biggest difference was maybe
the Work Ethic
So you are working, doing your own brand
Doing your own thing
Obviously super motivated
I was more like a nine-to-five kind of guy
I'll get in there, do my hours, do my work and then go home
and sort of switch off
and not think about like a normal person.
But Tina, She's always thinking about work
and always trying to improve herself
So that was the biggest difference when we started dating
But now, I feel like I'm getting in now that I've joined Tina
I'm sort of getting to that point
Tina: So it's rubbing off on him.
Tina: Yeah, what do you think?
You met me when I had like normal natural brown like
maybe a bit of light brown and blonde high lights and...
but now,
I have a pink hair!
Well, I loved your hair when you had dark brown hair.
I love that
and I guess for me, I'm fairly conservative.
so I think when you first mentioned that you were going to change your hair color
Tina: Like a crazy color!
Alfred: Yeah, like a crazy out there color
I was just thinking Woah! Okay, that's a bit extreme.
But you get used to iot
and actually as soon as you got the color done
I liked it
It was just more like getting to the idea when you're like
"I think I'm going to get purple unicorn hair!"
then I'd be "Okay...?
But.. just take a step back and think about it!"
and then you got it done
I was like.. that's actually really nice!
and then when you got this peachy-pink hair
You were thinking about doing
I was like 'Okay.. this is...'
Tina: Too much! It's too much! Alfred: It's too extreme!
Again. once you got it, I loved it!
So I odn't mind it at all.
Alfred: This is a bit random.
Tina: You didn't specify the size of the spiders
So I'm going to say spiders
Because I can not handle the snakes
I'm so scared of the snakes.
Alfred: I feel like with spiders, you can just like crush them.
Tina: Yes, snakes. How are you going to kill them?
You're going to be like whacking on them like crazy
Alfred: Not that we want to kill'em.
Tina: No! No! Of course not.
Tina: Ahhhhh
I definitely want to have a baby in the future.
I feel like I'm getting a little bit clucky.
I can see babies everywhere
On my like Instagram and Facebook
A lot of people I know have had kids
onto their second, third and so.
I do feel like you know, I like something in the future
I do wnat to have, I do want to have a family.
It's definitely important to me.
Alfred: I think yes as well.
When I'm from my values
I do see children as the extension of a relationship
and I would love to, you know grow and have children
and watch them go through life
and meet someone
have kids
I think that's beautiful so
Yeah, definitely sometime in future for sure.
Tina: How many?
Alfred: I'd say 2 to 3 max. Tina: Yeah.
Tina: I think that's good.
Because I grow up with two brothers
and there's three of us.
Three kids.
and I think that's like a good mix
Alfred: and yeah.
Anything over three kids,
You're going to upgrade to like a mini van
and I just don't want to be the dad driving a mini van around car in the kids.
Tina: I think you'd look hot!
Tina: If you guys watch our Vlog videos
You know that I'm super short in them
and Alfred is a giant.
and that is because he is a giant
Okay, I feel like I am average high
I'm not super tall like 5`2
So I'm like maybe on like the shorter end
but I'm not a midget
But Alfred makes me look like a midget!
How tall are you?
Alfred: 6 foot 3. About 188cm.
Tina: Yeah, that's really tall.
Alfred: So what's the difference? More than a head.
Tina: Yeah, he's definitely like more than a head taller than me.
Alfred: That's okay. I don't mine the difference.
Tina: You don't mine? I like tall guys and I'm super attracted to tall guys
Alfred: How hard was it...um..
I think the hard part was making the decision.
like definitively say
Yes, I'm going to do this.
Because I've been in this industry for 10 years
and I progressed, I built it up.
like I was making actually pretty decent money to quit
and work with Tina would be, it would have been awesome
but at the same time
It's kind of maybe like an old school mentality
but I feel like I have wasted everything
So that was the hardest.
I was fighting that in my mind for a long time
But once I made the decision to quit
It was pretty easy from then on
it wasn't hard at all
Because in my mind, I already had decided that I was going to quit.
help Tina with her, her career.
and all my energy was just focused on that.
So
and that's why I've heard as well
Usually the process, the thought process leading to the decision is always the hardest.
My parents are Chinese.
But they were born and raised in Vietnam
So I'm kind of Chinese-Vietnamese I guess.
Tina:: But he doesn't really speak much Vietnamese.
Alfred: So I have Vietnamese Surname but I don't speak any Vietnamese.
Alfred: Our first date would have been at a nice little thai-restaurant in the city.
Wasn't super fancy but it wasn't like cheap either.
It was kind of like in between.
Kept it kind of casual
Tina: Really Casual. Yeah
Um.. I think you paid.
Alfred: I paid Tina: Yeah, you paid for that.
Tina: and I'm pretty sure you would have texted me
to see if I got home okay.
Alfred on texts, he would use all the emojis
All that like kissy faces
and love heart eyes
and it was really cute
Alfred: I do like emojis.
Alfred: So I think that's enough questions.
Tina: We covered up a lot of the questions
But if there's anything else you guys want to see like
a part 2
maybe you want to know like specifics about like
How we work
How we deal'em
How do we come up with concepts
or.. I don't know!
Just whatever other questions you thought of
and you want us to film a second part
Just cocmment below
For now, make sure you check outour new Vlog channel
This is something that Alfred and I are working on
Just kind of like I guess for fun and
We hope that it does grow into something else
Because we love connecting with you guys
and in a different environment.
I guess more like a day-to-day things.
So you guys can see what we actually get up to
get to know our personality bit more.
Alfred: So thanks for tuning in guys.
and we'll catch you next time.
Tina: Bye ~ :)