#845: $1,800/Month Is 'Affordable' For SG Youth? & Outrage As Foragers Endanger Changi Marine Life

**Terence** (0:00)
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**Haresh** (0:43)
What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Yah Lah But. Your Thrice Weekly Podcast, where we talk about the hottest news with a touch of what, Terence?

**Terence** (0:53)
Good old humor.

**Haresh** (0:55)
Good old humor, man.

**Terence** (0:55)
Yeah.

**Haresh** (0:56)
How's the weekend, man?

**Terence** (0:58)
Yeah, good, good. Last week was a very intense week, man, after all the new cycle and everything.

**Haresh** (1:04)
Yeah.

**Terence** (1:04)
So yeah, just a good time to chill over the weekend.

**Haresh** (1:07)
And how do you chill?

**Terence** (1:09)
Play pickleball.

**Haresh** (1:11)
We play pickleball. Friday night, Friday.

**Terence** (1:12)
Yeah, there's an event going on, I think the PPA, regional pickleball tournament. So yeah, we went, someone invited us for some workshop there, and yeah, played a little bit of pickleball, met some pickleball pros from across the causeway.

**Haresh** (1:29)
Yeah.

**Terence** (1:30)
Anything else interesting happened there? You got screamed at by some people.

**Haresh** (1:35)
I got screamed at by two people.
First was, I mean, some people get really competitive. It was an event that we were invited to, kind of like a drill session with coaches. And at one point the coach said, anyone left-handed, I put up my left hand. He said, later during the drill, make sure you stand on the left of the court so that, I mean, you don't, we were shared splitting the court. So when we split up into the different groups, my group just started on the right. And it wasn't just me. So I was like, okay, I won't intrude on the person next to me. So the ball came, it went towards the center. I tried to hit it and it, it got close to the person next to me who was swung with the right hand. And she said, and I quote, I thought you supposed to play on the left there.
Then after that, I was, oh shit, sorry, sorry. So I cannot scold it.

**Terence** (2:24)
TLDR is you fucked up and then someone screamed at you, basically.

**Haresh** (2:27)
Yeah, it was, it was, it was a nothing burger. Okay.
I was a bit thrown back by that. But then I was like, okay, cool, chill. And the next time was we were playing a fun game. And it's one of those where you take turns to hit. And then if you do something wrong or the person after you misses or there's some confusion, depending on who they get, they have to forfeit, like, and get out.

**Terence** (2:51)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You fucked up and then someone else had to sit there.

**Haresh** (2:54)
Terence, can you reduce the swearing? Terence, please.
There was some confusion and it was debatable who would have to be forfeited, me or the next person. And immediately, the person just shouted at me or shouted, Eh, no lah, it's him lah. Why I don't want to forfeit? So then I volunteered and I forfeited myself.

**Terence** (3:13)
You fucked up.
So it's a big, yeah, both stories. You fucked up and someone, like, lost their cool.

**Haresh** (3:19)
These kind of things happen when you're trying out a new sport, and, you know, it's for fun on a Friday night.
And, you know, when I told you, instead of being empathetic to my plight, you gave the same laugh and smirk now. Just enjoying the me getting scolded.

**Terence** (3:34)
No, I commiserate with you because I feel like, there by the grace of God go I, who have just as easily been me being screamed at. And I think the larger thing that was really stood out with me, like what you said, some people take their hobbies fucking seriously, which is related to what we're talking about later also. But yeah, some people just take it too damn seriously, and even beyond the point of like competition or friendly competition, they don't want to abide by team rules, or they just stick less or like, you know, you got to play it a certain way, right?