A Day In The Life of a Local in Singapore!
grass hello and good afternoon from the wonderful singapore today is a sunny day and i forgot my sunglasses and did you guys hear something like this obviously so nevertheless i'm gonna squint the whole day we're now in a residential area and we're going towards a hawker center why so we have lunch because this is the best place here you can have food in hawker centers i already told you about them what they are you saw the videos so now let's go to one and have fun so as you can see guys apartments residential complexes are like this big buildings with lots of apartments and lots of space for cars because more or less everybody here has a car getting a car that was a little bit more complicated you need to obtain a permit to get a car and then after you obtain the permit then you can buy a car and the permit is standard price 25 000 and the amount of permits is limited because if everybody would have at least two or three cars here in this small city it would be chaos it will be overpopulated so that's why you have to wait till somebody sells their car or decides to go away out of the country and only then you can auction and bid for your permit for the car these guys they literally thought of everything i mean you have here every building is numbered and as you can see on the side of the building you have place where you can put your clothes and hang them to dry because the apartments are not that big around here well it depends on your budget but as you can see this apartment building is huge going up a lot so yeah uh the whole island basically because singapore is an island is i would say 70 percent uh occupied by housing and by this kind of apartment complexes and you have the important sector in the center the marina bay and the attractions the santos island and everything else also you have a big big huge huge botanical garden and maybe we will go and check that out later and that's it this is an island slash city slash country yes and now we're going to the hawker center of this apartment complex bill yes this apartment building complex to get some food around here because from what we understood from the locals singaporeans never cook at home they always prefer to go to the hawker center to have some food so today we're gonna be just like the locals and go and have some food at the local hawker center for this apartment complex gigi found the cat and the cat is confused look at that face he's like what is happening why is somebody petting me you are hot as i've been told by michael apparently we have arrived in the hawker center and what i can see here a lot of shops veggies fresh veggies and food and plants and like daily things you can buy and like a lot of miscellaneous things you need for day to day life like food of course you need food every day i don't know what these things is like maybe for snacks while watching a movie or something like this uh frozen seafood like if anyone wants to cook they can come here and get their fruit and veggies for the day for example we have this kg is nine bucks nine singaporean box corn 180 100 one dollar for the carrots this is pretty interesting this is like a very local superman yeah in the middle of the city in the middle of the buildings in between the houses and all the apartment complexes they have something like this all of them all of them this is called the hawker center it's a car yeah it's like everything together you have laundry here laundry let me show you the laundry like everything is in one place right because if you cannot go all day like to the city center so that's why they created a mini world here for everyone for the for the residents so this is uh rice this is really cool small supermarket you can find your like again everybody grew up with a small supermarket near their home so instead of going to the big shops and you need something urgently you can come here and do it this is the surgery clinic yes yes they have a dentist here so basically you have everything you ever wanted close to your apartment building so that you don't have to leave unless you actually do want to go to a big mall or to the big center to go and have some fun let me show you some other things hardware store bicycle repair like all the household items like if something's great you can fix it yes get a hammer from here exactly all the way to the shopping centers like the viva one you saw and oh even the ornamental shells paintings cool graffiti on the side of the wall one thing about singapore that i like is the fact that there's a lot of street art around here a lot of cool graffitis and a lot of murals and this i agree with and people don't paint over them they don't vandalize them and they don't tag them like everywhere else okay so for washing your clothes here these are the options you just pay it to yourself it's self-service yeah 11 kilos five bucks yeah i would say decent considering yeah considering the fact that you have a high salary when you live here these prices are quite decent but even if you don't have a high salary come on five dollars for cleaning your undies and your t-shirts and your pants i mean not that much and after seeing like all the facilities this apartment residential complex has it's somewhere near like 20 minutes far away to the city center by bus you can find here a lot of food stalls as well if you're feeling hungry you need something to eat just come here and get something to eat so i don't know if there are a lot of one of these a lot of these things over like there's one over there and there's another one open here so we're gonna try to find something to eat around here before like for the breakfast lunch thingy michael i think we found something this day oh you have also the exotic pets area oh you're so pretty easy because you need birds you're good they're pretty loud should we go get some drinks or something uh i'm gonna go get the drinks you settle down you settle down i'm gonna settle and bring some corn with me so we can settle down here yes thank you very nice people helpful smiling this guy behind me he was like do you need any kind of help for like yeah a little bit with the menu and now we're back and i got some drinks and some other drinks yes one is jelly grass or grass jelly drink yeah and gigi has an oolong tea yes and initially i got my i got the tea for myself but that's how is it like water yeah see so i wanted the tea for myself but gigi didn't like this one because it's a little sweet so i know we switched and i got stuck with this grass jelly drink but i like weird stuff to try so why not grass jelly good jelly and now the food is coming and we have our medium horphon beef thingamajig that looks like this what do you think it looks nice let me arrange here a little bit of the scenery like it push going down the the aspects like its aspect is not that like whoa i mean the color is kind of weird but i think it's gonna taste good let me see looks like this too you'll try it first michael okay and uh the name of this you found it there yes for fun for fun for fun not for fun for fun i don't know meat with gravy and with noodles baby basically one big fat noodle with a lot of gravy and some egg somehow mixed in between piece of beef veggies and lots of spices and it's good so yeah let's dig in i couldn't have imagined trying um i don't know food in between the apartment blocks yeah in a market such a local market this is interesting but this is the people piece of beef i have yes take one of these spoons and you do like the pasta you hold the spoon all the sticks and you drop it on the spoon this is how the locals eat it i saw a lady and now i learned very quick michael is a very good player okay full direction i definitely never tried this before in my life oh there's like the noodles i hope you guys can see the noodles are stick to each other oh wow wow they look good the beast is so extended like they're have a lot of spices inside i think it's a really well boiled kind of fish yeah i don't know how do you normally cook i have no idea oh thank you thank you okay okay we need to pay it now yes so everything was 18 but for the whole food here i'm going to show you in a bit we want to make some room on the table before thank thank you it's interesting and in the meantime the lady came and brought us the soup as well because you love soup but i think it's too much food it is too much food we have soup we have this thing oh my god 18 bucks we're just browsing thank you where did you get there okay no no nothing i already put inside not that much you should taste it let's see your reaction i really like mine oh good better much better i like it mine like this also it tastes like boiled veggies and boiled um i don't know some sort of fish maybe it's like basically a hot stock with veggies inside and salad and the guy was right the chilis are spicy i was not expecting them to hit this past but yeah they are spicy okay this is okay this is good but we have this huge of a portion of a bowl it's it's very big and we have this one as well all of it for 18 dollars yes pretty good daddy i think very good okay i'm gonna let my colleague wipe away his tears man that that pepper is spicy this one is the devil did you try it with um why do you think i was crying did you lot of them inside because normally when i put spicy food i put i dump it first and i taste it later not good don't do like i'm doing mmm ginger ginger yes don't do it like michael guys taste it first a little bit thousands of deals later look gigi this guy has a lot of stuff that's cute that's the most colorful thing i've seen around these buildings i think it's a shop they sell garden opening things because i don't know i don't think he's his house i think it's his house if it's his house and he sure is obsessed with all this stuff yeah i think this is house okay some people have way too much time on their hands and they gather lots of things this is so cool oh look this guy has a chicken oh no yes exactly i think there's a competition this is like a private property yeah not bad interesting and all this around me are apartment buildings and all of them they're having their laundry on top of one of these things outside to hang and to get dried up by the sun smart a few moments later we got inside the house of a local person i wanted to show you some things that just make sense so for example we have this uh kind of door which separates the washroom from the other spaces of in the house which is like it can bend another thing very interesting was the toilet and i'm gonna show you why so there's a button here on the side that you can press it's doing its job and then you can use this side of the toilet to actually like yeah wash your hands or do something and um this side like flows the water into the basin that will help flush the water when you're gonna press this button so this is pretty neat another thing is this for example this thing all of the households here have these bamboo sticks uh and these kind of like appliances which are stuck like uh put on top of the of the ceiling in order for you to dry your clothes because outside is always human and also outside if you can see there's a rack where you can store actually these bamboos you clip your clothes with something like this and yeah you put the sticks outside on one of each these rails it works pretty nice i would say everybody does this you can say this this this is the same principle and also like the mob and everything else the hot air goes up and helps the clothes dry faster so yeah why not the standard department here in singapore looks like this you have a kitchen uh where you have the thing the stove maybe a washing machine here um like some cooking space here a table here a microwave a fridge and the other separate rooms where you can do your stuff a few moments later and also something that is very special for singapore is that every one of these residential complexes has some of these places of worship so there are buddhist temples towers temples churches mosques for all the religions of the people around here they have their own temple in the small residential complexes even hindu worshiping places you find and they look like this not much just a small temple and a church and a mosque which is i think behind over there for all the fates of all the people i mean where can you see something like this ever since the chinese temple is closed we're going inside the church because this one is open apparently and you have this nice white catholic church and the saint theresa's center and behind another oh a different kind of church maybe a methodist church i know because here are not only catholics here are also methodists and other christian branches of religion and the world is actually very small i met some nice guys from bangladesh here working next to church very good guys enjoy and have a wonderful day yeah thank you thank you thank you so guys this was our adventure in the residential complex one of the many of uh singapore just like this one you have them scattered all over the city slash country yes and as i told you they are 70 of the country is residential complexes just like this one so i hope you liked it and let's see you in the next video with more information and more interesting things about singapore right thank you guys yes thank you like share subscribe comment show us some love help us reach all the love a good milestone okay see you in the next one guys you
2022-06-04 23:09
