"Zhin! From TSL!" And she squatted. She just melted on the floor...
(PD) Hi guys. - Hello. - Hi.
(PD) Do you know what you're gonna do today?
I thought we were gonna cry or something today, because it looks a bit emo and then
Sew asked me a few sensitive questions recently.
(PD) So we asked some of your colleagues to send their first impressions of you anonymously,
And you'll be reading it.
Oh my God, this is judgment day.
You expect yours to be all bad?
Unapproachable... Scary... Cold...
- Eh? - Sounds very familiar.
Like we played it before in the 50 Questions video...
Before I joined TSL, I already watched the YouTube videos. Then I felt that Zhin was very handsome.
Stop it!
Actually, my first impression of Chiara, I thought she was a mom...
No, wait. She came in with Katie, who has a very beautiful son, Ezra. Both of them came together.
But then I thought (Chiara) was the mother.
I said this to her before.
I came in alone, like a small little intern and then I was told to sit at this specific spot
next to this guy called Gordon.
The next day, this girl with long hair,
the cap and the hoodie came to the table and was like...
I did not say - I -
- I- I don't think I said that. - You did.
Then I'm like, *gasp*
I feel that it's being exaggerated. Because he's a new face, I wouldn't be so rude.
But if I was then sorry...
Zhin's first impression was handsome, but unapproachable.
This one is medium sized but harmless.
Like a fly. Harmless. But irritating.
So when I first came in,
I sat next to Jes. I felt like she was a bit scary and cold right, but then I was like, okay...
Let's just try and say good morning to her.
Good morning, Jes! Let me make sure I make eye contact and smile.
You were shocked by how I behaved, and you can tell she was a bit uncomfortable.
First impression. I really cannot remember my first impression of y'all.
Thank you for watching this episode of TSL's First Impressions :(
Sorry... I cannot.
(PD) She's trying to perform service recovery.
I'm a very awkward person if I just get to know someone, because I don't know how to even start conversations.
When I first saw her right, we were literally going for the same shoot,
and she was just sitting there right in front of me, but I refused to make eye contact...
Like no... Look away, look away...
And then she's like, "Hi! I'm Chow!"
I still remember that day... I still remember that day, seriously. I was stunned, because...
I don't like confrontations.
I try to think hard...
Rai, my first impression of you was when I haven't came into TSL yet. You were on talent search.
I didn't like you at first.
Remember the culture clash thing? I hate people who have fake accents...
What's up guys? It's your homeboy Rairai and welcome to the first episode of Culture Clash!
After I got to know you, I liked you a lot more, because you are not that culture clash guy
we all used to know. Thank god for that.
Yes. Okay for Sew...
Honestly, I don't remember. I don't even remember you saying good morning to me...
Freaking noisy? I agree because I always shriek...
Unnecessarily playful? I disagree. I think it's very necessary.
Have fun while you're at work, but I might take it up a bit too much sometimes.
I like to play pranks on people. I put salt water in people's water, put vinegar in people's water...
Bolin left his sauce bottle in the office.
Let's do something to it.
Be careful,Sew, you're drinking something right? It might have something inside...
There was one period, she pranked us so much.
Everything that she did nicely to us...
Endless energy? I agree, because I like having fun.
So even if I have a pounding headache, I'll pop a Panadol and still go out with my friends.
She has the most energy.
Five year old child with endless energy. Amen. Yes. That's the my age.
Yeah, forever 21.
Until now, the TSL viewers don't know what's my age.
- I'm very shy to say this so can I just don't say? - Confirm he saw something nice.
"Zhin very handsome." "Zhin is so handsome."
I mean...
- I don't know. - What's that laughter?
- I don't know how to respond to this. Now, I'm curious to know who this is... - Can we have clues?
But thank you, I mean, for crushing on me...
He sounds so awkward it kills me.
- Okay, next. Chow... - Your face is red.
It was a sports shoot or something like that, so I had a shower...
It was in a pile of clothes that I was bringing back to my table
- But I guess the underwear fell. - I'm actually surprised that you have underwear in that pile...
Then somebody texted in the whole TSL chat: Whose underwear is this?
It was on a chair, and I wouldn't put underwear on someone else's chair.
I think the cleaner auntie put it there, thinking that that was the person's.
Yeah, that was a girl's chair.
Then I checked my bag. Oh my God, I have no underwear...
- Can I just ask if the underwear looked good or not? - It was clean. It was just sweaty.
I was walking across the office and everyone turned. "Is it you?" Then I'm like: "Own it."
The walk of shame.
'Dao' is like you ignore people and you're very cold...
Oh, not so 'dao'.
Her accent is so westernized.
When I just met you I was also like... Oh my God.
- Huh really? - It's like, your English very good.
- After a while, I got used to it because that's how you talked. - Yeah, that is how I talked.
I feel like not a lot of Singaporeans can enunciate words as well as you.
That's why when people hear you talk, they will feel like... "Oh, this girl is so hao lian (proud)."
I try and code switch.
So for example, if I'm speaking to aunties at a kopitiam (coffee shop)
I will also speak in half Mandarin, half English. Singlish too.
It depends on the setting. I've worked in MNCs where the majority (of staff) are expats. If I were to speak
in a Singlish accent, nobody will understand me at all
Ya lah, Jack Neo, see...
It was the last episode of Pretty Smart and then the girls were all emotional. Thank you for this...
Thank you for that...
I wish you the best for this and then I will always remember... Then they were crying in the video...
When I was editing and watching... That was so sweet and so sad.
so I started crying.
Most of the time would start the ball rolling in terms of crying, but she is also the chain crier.
So if people cry...
I watch AB (Alternate Beginnings), I also cry.... The song for this year's National Day, I also cry...
For The Quarantine you were only the editor... But for the last episode...
I'm a very emotional person. Nowadays, I can cry very easily. So Jack Neo, if you need to cast anybody who can cry easily,
Just give me a call. I get into the role very fast.
If you cast me for Ah Boys to Men, I might really cry because of all the plants and insects...
Yeah, I think I'm more chor lor (rough) in real life. Compared to in front of the camera.
- But today, you look exceptionally nice... - Stop it!
I wonder why. Check out Zula First Dates.
Yeah, I'm in love.
- I'm dating someone now. - Oh my God. WHO?
- Just one line? - (PD) Yeah.
Hello, this face where got RBF?
Everybody look clearly.
If I see you and I don't know you, I will not smile... If not I'll walk around the office like:
I'll go to the toilet like this.
- Cannot be right? So I just don't smile. - I don't think Brenda has an RBF
I think she does... Mainly because I sit right opposite her,
There are times when she is very stressed with work and I want to cheer her up. I'll be like: "Brenda..."
But I don't think it's that intense until it's unapproachable.
I also agree.
- Let's pretend we are editing. - Uh, Jes, can you QC this one, you see if you are ok.
- Fake, fake- - Okay, that's false... I won't f*** you up if you don't listen to me.
I'll make sure your life in TSL will be miserable.
Just kidding.
As long as you don;t f*** up your work and bring other people down, it's ok.
Oh, it's only one line.
All the time! Whether or not you are at work, whether or not you're out for lunch, whether or not you're out for drinks...
He's always 24/7 on his phone. Sometimes I want to talk to you, then you're staring at your phone...
How am I supposed to talk to you?
- Ok. This... I have to address. My phone is my shield. - Ok. Go.
So whenever I feel very awkward in a situation, I'd be like...
Because I just don't know how to be in a social setting without making myself feel awkward.
Once, I was at East Coast Park.
There was this girl. She screamed, "Zhin, from TSL!" and squatted on the floor.
I'm like, "Oh, oh... Hi..." I used my phone... I was so damn awkward.
You never talk to her...
I said, "Hi!" she went "Ah!!" and melted on the floor...
My friends said, "Zhin! Zhin!" and I was like...
"Phone... Phone..." I put on my earpiece and all. I was so embarrassed.
It's not like I wanted to be extra. I was so embarrassed.
She was really melting.
I think it's fun.
It brings you back to when you guys first met.
The reason why I love doing first impressions and last impressions is because I feel like first impressions are usually not very accurate
It's very surface-level.
It brings attention to things that we do not notice about ourselves
but also it's good that
The receiving end - the people who see us - for the first time understands that it might not be who we actually are.
So it tells me that I'm too loud and too motherly. So time to turn volume down a bit and time to uh,
I don't know. Unmother myself. No, I mean not unmother myself. I still want my mother.
Turn down the old person vibes.
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