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00 S Erm, OK, erm so I ... my mum usually erm ... most of, nowadays she ... she look after
11 my niece and nephews yah, last time ... erm ... she will um babysit for other people, yah when erm ...
20 all of us, as in myself and my sisters and brothers er were studying, yah still studying, so ...
26 she will have additional income by babysitting other people's erm ... children, yup, so erm ...
33 yah, that was like a long way back, when I was in primary school, yah ... so, erm nowadays
40 some of the kids that she have brought up, actually do keep in to- contact with her, yah,
46 and at times they will come and visit her, during Chinese New Year ... mmm ... so nowadays, erm ...
53 she will have to look after ... erm ... my niece and nephews, so usually erm ... my n- ... usually she will erm ...
63 get ready erm the meals for them, send them to school, so with my new nephew now, the baby nephew at home,
71 my dad will have to help up ... by erm bringing my niece to school in the morning and bringing her back,
76 from kindergarten, yah ... then erm ... my dad may help to do, may help in the marketing side, marketing part ...
85 by going to the market to get some ... erm the things that she need lor ... yah, oth- if not erm, she will do
92 fewer trips to the market ... have fewer trips to market lah, every week ... not like last time ... mmm ...
99 while at home, she will look after the baby, basically it's to feed and wash him ... at erm specific times,
106 and then erm ... at night, she will have to feed the baby also, yah, every three-hourly she will have to wake up ...
115 to to feed the baby ... mmm ... erm ... yah ... then erm, other than that ... er
128 I So won't it be very noisy with the baby around? How are you going to study?
131 S Oh ... erm ... OK I guess, I guess I'm used to having children ... at my place, you know, since long time ago,
141 yah, so till now the baby is still not so bad lah, because basically ... he will cry when he he he need food ...
150 or attention, but er he doesn't cry the whole day, mmm ... so not so bad ... but er, yah ... I guess
159 noise is not a problem ... mmm ... er yup ... I guess the problem is when I, I'm too tired to study
168 I'll play with the baby, then (ha) I won't want to study (ha) ... so, that will be the distraction
173 rather than the noise (ha ha) ... yah ... yeah lah ... erm ...
182 I So you said you would like to learn cooking, um you mean you're going to learn it from your mother?
187 S Mmm ... yah, I tried learning from my mother ... yah, a few dishes lah, so far ... mmm ... but erm ...
196 my mum didn't really like me to ... to learn from her I guess it's because she didn't want me
200 to meddle with the kitchen, and then dirty the place ... so erm ... so that's why ... that's also one excuse
208 I have that I I I'm not learning it now (ha ha) ... yah ... but I guess I'll start with my mum
214 if I really want to cook ... yah, and then I mean I w-, I can try out a few recipes ... yah,
220 from those recipe books, mmm ... previously I do bake quite a lot ... with my sisters when we,
227 when um, I mean, many years ago when all of us are still together, mmm ... erm, when erm ...
234 no-one has married off yet ... so, that time we would actually baking ... bake ... cakes ... make cookies ...
243 yah, with the oven at home, but erm ... since the oven is spoilt ... we stopped baking and er ...
250 making cookies, yup ... so, but my sister bought a oven ... when she shifted to the new house,
257 so at times erm she will bake ... er and make cookies ah, erm during Chinese New Year we will
264 gather together and make cookies also at her place, mmm ... yup ... mmm ...
269 I Your sister, you mean the one staying next door?
271 S No, not the one staying next door, but the one erm ... the other one, yah ... the one next door
276 only had a mini, small ... oven, I don't know whether, yah, so cannot, cannot do cooking,
282 I mean cannot really bake cake ah ... yup ... mmm, yah ... so, yeah lah.