So, Adora, what would you say are some of your sort of personal goals that you're hoping
to achieve throughout your 40s?
It's very interesting.
I actually want to retire at 45, 48.
Wow.
You heard it here.
My husband heard it yesterday.
Alright, we're setting sail.
Shall we?
Hello and welcome to the 40s Formula, your go-to place for insightful discussions on
navigating your 40s and thriving in this transformative decade.
We're your hosts, Amanda and Jasmine, two women that are passionate about exploring
the challenges and adventures that come with turning 40 and what lies ahead.
Adora Serra is a dynamic working mum who expertly balances diverse roles as a mother, wife,
daughter, a marketing professional and a showbiz enthusiast.
As the Director of Marketing for Guzmine Gomez Singapore, Adora has honed in on her years
of experience in F&B and hospitality and marketing, branding and revenue management to grow the
brand whilst coaching a young and inspiring team to become the leaders of tomorrow.
In addition to her corporate life, you might have heard Adora on the radio for over a decade.
Currently on Gold 905 in Singapore, she hosts her own weekend radio show.
Her voice has also graced several events and projects as MC, host and voiceover artist.
Ensuring a balance in work, motherhood and self-care, this dynamic working mum takes
time to enjoy nature, jet-set and serve the community in her free time.
With a year and a half to go, she cannot wait to embrace her fabulous 40 and the next decade.
So Amanda and I were looking at the analytics for the 40s Formula and we noticed that although
most of our listeners are in their 40s, we've actually got a growing number of listeners
who are in the soon to be 40s category, including Adora Sarah, who is the director of marketing
at GYG and she is with us here today.
Hi ladies.
Hi, welcome.
Thanks for having me, Jasmine Amanda.
Oh, it's our pleasure.
You are soon to be turning into the 40s category.
What sort of direction have you sort of seen with your personal goals and your perspective
in life?
Right.
Well, to be honest, I don't know what 40 will be like, right?
I think we all don't because you don't know until you're in it.
One thing I do know is that I'm going in fully complete as a mother.
I've got healthy parents, a husband who is my best friend, a beautiful home that's going
to be paid off in a couple of years.
It's always great for St. Corians.
A few good friends who we can actually call if we get into any trouble.
It's going to be really exciting because it's a decade of the unknown.
We're really going in with our eyes wide open.
Sometimes you read more about the 30s, the 50s, but very often you actually don't find
very much about the 40s.
Yeah, because we're all too busy to be writing stuff.
So yeah, I'm just going to go in with my eyes wide open.
Of course, we've got friends who are in their 40s, right?
My bosses are in their 40s.
When I see them write about their everyday life, whether on social media, whether on
LinkedIn, most times it's really about their success.
I've achieved this.
You know, I've bought this.
I'm looking at this timepiece.
I want to travel in a certain class of business or first class to get to this destination.
They are after these types of things as opposed to the meaning of life and what does it mean
to them.
So then I look at it and I ask myself, do they actually have downtime?
You know, is that do they have a break?
Are they just going at their successes every day?
Yeah, it's very interesting when you ask individuals on my radio show.
Sometimes I ask them about what do you define success in your life?
And the younger ones would say, oh, it's really achieving this and achieving that.
The more senior ones, past 50, they would tell you it's really about having that time
with my wife, with my husband, traveling, making memories.
And I resonate with that a lot.
So going into 40s really is that bridge between getting to that next decade after.
And I've got a bit of a mindset on how I want to actually look at that.
I love that.
I think that's such a unique perspective, don't you think?
How do you feel then about turning 40?
Because I know that when I was 37, 38, 39, I was actually quite looking forward to it.
I felt like things were starting to fall into place.
How do you feel about this sort of next phase?
I am excited.
I'm really excited.
You know, I want to make it my own journey.
Now that I've mentioned, we're going in fully complete.
I don't have to worry about am I stable in my relationship?
Do I have a job?
How is my child doing?
You know, because we have all of that, it's really just going into motion and bringing
all of that together.
So excited, really looking forward to everything.
I don't know what's going to happen.
Right.
And I just want to go in and with my eyes wide open to see what exactly is going to
happen at 40.
Let's say we go back to 20.
This is, you know, you're in your early 20s or you've just turned 20.
If you were to put yourself back into that place, do you feel like you are or you're
heading towards where you want it to be?
Or is it completely different for you now?
It's completely different.
100 percent.
In fact, even at 38 now, I still have moments where I'm pinching myself like, is all of
this real?
Is everything that I have real?
I'll tell you why.
I grew up in a very conservative, local Singaporean type of family.
My mom's a lawyer, my dad's a chartered accountant.
My uncles are CEOs, my cousins, they were all very successful, took after their parents.
And then my parents had me.
I was adopted at birth and they had me and I was the black sheep of the family.
I wasn't very strong in my academic performance.
I prioritized my music a lot when I was growing up.
I played in a rock band.
My family didn't appreciate any of that.
So most times when I come back with, let's say, O levels, for instance, when I was 17,
I came back with 32 points.
And that too.
Which is what?
Piss poor?
Piss poor.
Shits to the shits.
I ran away from home for two days.
I grew up on the streets, so I ran away from home for two days.
I couldn't face my mom to tell her I got a D7 in English.
Which also is bad?
You got to change the way for our American listeners.
Piss bad.
D7, guys.
D7.
Well, it's F9.
Disaster.
F9.
Is the worst worst?
Yeah.
And then it's F9, E8, and then D7.
Okay.
Well, they all sound bad.
Is it bad?
Yeah.
So then, you know, but actually now telling you guys that I have 32, I had 32 points,
actually made me, gave me an aha moment to say that that's actually gotten me to where
I am today.
So 32 points, couldn't face the parents.
You know, I had it really bad, but that determined the next step of life.
Right?
And I was, that brought me to my 20s.
I had to go down the private study route.
So I did my diploma and my degree in six years, part-time.
I was working full-time.
I was studying part-time.
I did my radio, I did hosting.
Started working really young just to be able to save money to fund my own education.
And yeah, where I am today, I have no idea at that point in time where I'd be.
Everybody thought I'd be a failure.
I would have started a family that really young, have a baby really young.
So it's amazing.
So if you were to let our listeners know what your life is like right now, I know you said
that, you know, you're married, you've got a child, but how is it different from what
everyone assumed you would?
Yeah.
You would be like, it's a, it's a life filled with love, right?
It's life filled with love.
It's a life filled with a lot more positivity.
It's a life filled less of the darkness.
You know, when you had those dark days and everybody was just putting you down, coming
out of that took a lot of strength, right?
And I was able to actually help a lot of friends along the way.
When we grew up on the streets, you know, we have a lot of friends who are, who are
also in the same kinds of situations.
Some of them didn't have money.
Some of them had a bit more money.
How do we share?
How do we, you know, make ends meet together, buy meals and just, you know, help do all
of that together.
So it fostered a lot of great relationships.
You know, some of my oldest friends came from the streets today.
And what does that mean?
And we're all musicians, whether, whether musicians or not.
And to put our instruments aside, to spend time with the family.
We just had a playdate yesterday with my friend from the streets and our sons are like best
friends.
You know, it means a lot.
And I remember his name is Kenny.
I remember his, his last hug at our wedding, he hugged my husband and that was taken on
a picture.
And he said, we will always be friends for life.
And you know, that child, and he doesn't know Jared from Adams.
He's never met him till the wedding or maybe a couple of days before.
And that kind of relationships actually mean a lot.
You know, it's, it's, you might come by these kinds of things.
Yeah, absolutely.
I must know what, what instrument you play.
The keyboard.
Oh, cool.
So I'm, I'm, I'm behind, I'm not the singer.
I don't, I don't, you know, hold the mic and, and, you know, go all loud and everything.
I'm behind just tying the band together, making sure that everybody sounds great.
Yeah.
Keeping the beat.
My dad's a bassist.
So everyone's like, Oh, he must be a lead guitarist.
I was like, he's actually not.
He's a bassist.
I work best with the bassist.
Yeah.
Because you guys have the vibe.
Correct.
And I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
But Adora, tell me about your current career.
Like you are the marketing director at GYG.
That's right.
So tell me how that came about.
So from obviously your past experience, how did you fall into this role?
So I've been in restaurant marketing for the past 14 years.
You know, I started at one of our competitors and started really young.
And then really having a keen interest in marketing events.
And I've been through various roles regionally, internationally.
And then over COVID, went into a couple of regional roles and realized that regional
roles weren't for me, a hundred percent.
They were really more of just putting notes up on a deck and expecting people to follow.
So I really wanted to, I was brought up, you know, making things happen, wanting to make
things happen.
And there's a strong desire to drive results and just making sure that your efforts actually
come to life.
So then I took a little bit of a break just earlier this year and I said, I resigned from
the regional role and I said, I wanted to spend time with my son.
We were in between helpers at that point in time.
So it was a disaster at home.
I couldn't travel for work.
So I said, let me just spend some time.
And then my boss comes to hear about this.
There is this lady, she does marketing, we need marketing.
And he calls me and he says, let's have a chat.
So here we are today.
So what does it mean?
One thing for sure in the restaurant industry, change is every day.
We need to be highly adaptable.
We're talking about trends, new flavors, social media, guest expectations, and putting things
together on a plate, how all these ideas, they change every day.
So it's really about making sure that we're able to adapt and be highly adaptable.
So I work with a great team.
The brand is super strong.
We're at 20 restaurants.
I was going to say, you guys are blowing up.
One just opened in VivoCity, which for the listeners, this is a big mall in Singapore
and it is my lifeline.
That's great.
We're going to open in Great Wall City coming up in a couple of days.
This week, this Friday.
Amazing.
It's Friday and Saturday.
Will that be 21?
That's 20.
That is 20.
So close the year.
Close the year at 20.
Nice, rocking it.
We've got a pipeline of new restaurants coming out for 25.
We've got to update our show notes.
We're saying 18.
Yes, yes.
That was then.
This is now.
20 now.
Hey Amanda, you know how much I love clean home cooked food?
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Yeah, but let's also be real.
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Now let's get back to the chat.
Twenty now.
Work with a great team.
It's very interesting because the art of it is working with millennials, Gen Zs, how do
we find the balance, how do we find the common ground, how do we speak the same language.
I'm learning that every day.
Can you teach us?
What's something you've learned about Gen Zs, because obviously you're a millennial, right?
You're an elder.
Well no, you're a middle millennial.
We're the elders.
Anywho, what's something that you've learned about communicating with Gen Zs that first
of all you can share with us, but also our listeners?
Yes, of course.
Help us out.
The thing is they don't like to pick up the phone and call.
Okay, to be fair, I don't either.
Oops.
Yeah, okay.
They don't like that.
I've noticed that because anytime I call you, I'm like, oh God, okay, I will have to send
your voice note or text if you actually want to respond.
But yeah, the phone thing, but in business, obviously this is a huge impasse.
Exactly.
And when you waste time on text a lot, you waste time on WhatsApp a lot.
So I always tell them, if you want to clarify something, pick up the phone.
It takes two seconds.
My favorite line to the Gen Zs is, it only takes two seconds.
Get it done.
Yeah, I like that.
Don't do it.
Yeah, just pick up the phone, speak to someone.
And our previous intern, she was 19 when she was working with us.
Real Gen Z.
You know, she didn't understand what that meant.
But after that, she actually was picking up the phone and doing it.
I didn't have to ask her.
She said, oh, I called so and so, this is done.
I called so and so, this is done.
You don't have to worry.
And I said, don't you find that they need to learn?
They really need to lead by example and they need to learn.
I found out over the weekend from a Gen Z that tagging your location, so like say you're
at GYG and you're eating your burrito bowl and you tag GYG in a location sticker versus
like in their actual account is the most millennial thing you can do.
So I am learning that there's like social, even things that are social media norms are
different between them and us.
So like if they were to see that tag, they'd be like, oh, millennial fashion.
What the hell?
But don't you want to know where my bowl is from?
Anyway.
Actually, now, yeah, because I keep correcting it.
Okay, I get it.
Yeah, like the location tag is uncool.
So now I know.
Okay, so no more location tags.
No more location tags.
Let it down.
But can you just like, for example, just type in tag in Singapore?
You know, like they don't do that.
They don't do that.
Yeah.
They basically provide no info.
This is what drives me crazy.
Yeah, they just do a screenshot of their life and then expect everyone to know.
And then everyone has to guess, right?
Fill in the blanks.
Yeah.
Okay.
We are learning.
Absolutely.
So Adora, what would you say are some of your sort of big career moves, personal goals that
you're hoping to achieve, I guess, you know, throughout your 40s over the next 10 years?
It's very interesting.
I actually want to retire at 45, 48.
Wow.
You heard it here.
My husband heard it yesterday.
I'll tell you why.
We're talking about always staging ourselves for success.
Right.
So my son's three years old.
In seven years, he's going to be 10.
He's going to hit his PSLEs at 12.
We're going to face different stresses.
And why do you want to have a crazy job that requires so much of you and have this responsibility
that you know that you are a part in molding someone's life?
How are you going to balance that?
Let's think something's going to give.
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Now back to the chat.
So the joke over the weekend was I aspire to retire at 45, 48 and be a call center manager.
Chill customer service.
I don't know if that would be chill.
I think that would just like really stretch me out.
I mean, if you cared about it, that sounds terrible to say, but you just see it as a
job where you just punch your card.
Not so punch in, punch out people that bother you after six o'clock.
Yeah.
You go home, cook dinner, have time with your son, do all the homework.
There's no outstanding projects.
Yeah.
You know, it's enough money to go buy some shoes.
And the other piece was why, you know, at even, even now in my thirties and pushing
into forties, why do we need so much material?
Fair points.
You know, I always believe in experiences, you know, the, the little money that I make
sometimes back in the day when as soon as I got 500 bucks, I'd buy an air ticket and
I'd be on my way to some Island.
Right.
So I I'm always on a plane.
My friends know that.
Yeah.
Always on a plane.
I'm told myself at this age, I want to save enough money.
I want to try business class, you know, because, and it's not about showing off the boarding
pass, you know, or the, or the, or the Bellini.
It's not about that.
It's really about experiencing.
Yeah.
I've got a, a canvas in the kids play room, which says the only thing you buy that makes
you richer is travel.
And I truly believe that.
I feel like, you know, it, it just makes you, it's the experiences, which, you know, it's
the stuff that money can't buy.
I guess.
I mean, it can, but you know, like, you know, it depends on where you're going.
You do need money to be able to travel.
That's true.
And I love when you said, you know, 500 bucks to fly to an Island.
And I want to clarify for our listeners off of this Island, an Island different from this
Island.
Not to say Tulsa Island.
So much as a different cool Island.
Yes.
So, um, Adoro, looking at your health, what would you say is important to you on sort
of the health and wellness front and have you made any changes over the last few years?
Obviously with, with your sort of lead up into the forties.
Yeah.
Flexibility is the most important thing to me.
Um, I think without being able to be flexible, you know, we, we won't be able to stand up
to simple tasks, do simple chores, um, get around.
You always find yourself in aches and pains.
So flexibility is super important to me.
One painful piece was, um, after postpartum, I realized I had to retrain myself to even
stand up steady.
I was wobbling a lot.
Um, I realized that I was very weak in the legs and one year in what pissed me off even
more was I couldn't do a bridge.
You familiar with that?
Right from the floor?
Yeah.
I couldn't, I couldn't put myself down and I couldn't lift myself because I had no strength
here at all.
So that was when I told myself I've got to make a change.
Um, I went straight back into the studios, did my yoga, did pilates, told my instructors
exactly what I needed to train up on again and, and where I was, where I needed to build
up that confidence again.
And um, a couple of months later I was able to do the bridge.
And so that to me is super important because when you're able to just be flexible, you
stretch, you're able to do something, you know, we're running around toys every day
and the little ones every day.
If you stretch and you twist something and you just stay in that position, that's, that's
going to hurt and that's going to be a prolonged injury.
Right?
So flexibility is super important to me.
Um, I wake up every morning and I stretch, I bug my husband to stretch.
Love that.
You know, daily reminders, daily reminders as a wife.
Um, and I think stretching is super, super important.
You don't have to do too much of it.
You don't have to overdo it.
Um, but just really, really move the body and just make sure that we're all able to
move the various parts.
I feel like I'm not so good at the stretching side.
Like I'll go to the gym and I'll sometimes skip the stretching.
I know, I know, I know.
And I know I've been thinking about it and I'm like, right, I need to incorporate either
some yoga or some Pilates.
So I'm trying to work out what would be more beneficial because there's a yoga studio and
a Pilates studio right by where I live.
And I need to, I need to figure it out because I know that it's a weakness of mine and I
need to do something.
But I know like you do hot yoga.
I, yeah.
The hot yoga studio near us is now closed.
And I was like, damn it, I wanted to get back into that again.
And I need to figure something out.
Yeah.
I am, I am a self-defined Bikram devotee, right?
So I, not himself, by the way, for our listeners, like I absolutely cannot stand the man.
Hate mentioning the name, but it clarifies the style of yoga that I, that I do.
Um, because I have scoliosis and the spine strengthening series in the 26th pose.
Those series is medicinal for me.
And that has made me injury free.
I'm a CrossFitter and I have never had an injury and I've been doing CrossFit since
2009.
And especially through, through three babies, postpartum, all of it, I've CrossFitted through
all of it.
Never had a problem because I'm flexible and I'm mobile.
And I think I absolutely credit hot yoga for that.
Again, many styles of yoga and Pilates that rock.
Um, but if I could answer your question really quickly, you know, it's as we're all sitting
here as three girls.
Uh, I do think that Pilates is essential for understanding how to activate your deep core
muscles.
So for any woman who has had children, if you struggle with that core activation, with
kind of, uh, turning in your corset muscles, if you will, wonderful.
It also teaches you about posture and alignment.
And again, not say yoga doesn't, but I think Pilates is exceptional at that.
And then yoga I think is amazing for kind of the mind body connection.
It teaches you how to use your breath to control.
She does that to an element as well, but different modalities.
And I think yoga is really great for range of motion around the joint.
So I think that's probably more what I need.
I think they're both amazing.
And I think the fact that you're doing both, you're probably unbreakable now.
We have to, we have to do it.
We have to make the effort.
Another thing I would add to that is, um, after COVID especially, and then the baby
came, you have this thing that is not on your neck.
Oh yeah.
I know, I call it the pump pump, right, because I was a pumper, right?
So it's like being in that position.
Right.
Um, how do we get rid of that?
You know, I had to incorporate, so all of it really involved a lot of learning and,
um, yeah, just being on the right track.
Aside from Pilates and yoga, are there any other types of habits or rituals that you've
incorporated?
I mean, this could be anything from just, you know, taking time out in the morning to
have a cup of coffee on your own, which is basically what I do.
Like I'm telling you my ritual, here it is.
My ritual is to book air tickets as often as you need to.
I need to get onto that ritual.
Because traveling, and I've been traveling independently, I don't need a partner to travel
with me.
You know, I've realized and I've mastered how to travel yourself.
You really learn so much about yourself.
You really learn to trust yourself so much more.
You know, your strengths, your weaknesses, um, and how would you actually, how this partner,
whoever he or she might be, would be able to compliment you.
So I learned so much about that, traveling myself from the, you know, whether it was
islands, whether it was cities, and you realize that there are so many places that you want
to explore, cultures, food.
So spontaneous travel is something I advocate strongly.
I need to get on that.
Do you ever spontaneous travel with your three year old?
Planning on that.
Okay.
I'm planning my spontaneity.
It's quite interesting because my husband flies to Singapore Airlines.
So he's, um, he's a cabin crew for 17 years.
And um, so now that Noah's growing up, um, I'm just planning and he's a bit more, you
know, I know how to handle him on a flight.
We're just looking at the rosters and I, where can we fit in?
Where can we jump in?
At what age can they get an upgrade?
Cause I know for Virgin, they have to be 10 to get into their business class.
You can actually upgrade them from as, as long as they have Chris fly account.
So I think that's like two, two years old.
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Is there anything you're planning on prioritizing as you move into your forties that you haven't
done so far?
Yeah.
Spending time with my husband, spending more time with my husband.
It was really, really interesting.
And, and, um, so I did a show over the weekend.
I did my radio show over the weekend and I was covering 30 essential tips for, to, to
have a successful longevity.
Let's say, and this is tips that are refreshed as of September from longevity researchers.
So they said, ask yourself one question.
Who is the one person that you want to spend the last moments of your life with?
Of course, as a wife, it's my husband.
My child would have his own life at the point in time.
Right.
When you identify that person, you start spending time with that person now.
Don't wait till then.
Oh yeah.
I love that.
That's actually giving me goosebumps.
I'm like, God, I need to somehow incorporate that as well.
I think that's so important because you do forget, don't you?
As a mother, you forget because everything's on your kids and you forget, you know, when
you're working, cause you've got to get your work and stuff done.
So I need to get my husband to listen to this bit.
I was listening to a podcast once.
It was a, it was with Arthur.
I know.
Um, I can't remember.
It was a happiness podcast.
Anywho, he was saying that you only experience this painful empty nester syndrome, you know,
when your kids move out of the house, if you don't like the other bird in your nest.
Oh yeah.
Cause your nest is not empty.
Your nest is actually you and your partner.
Right?
And if you get really depressed when your kids go, it's cause you don't really like
that other bird.
So yeah, put in some tweets with the bird before it's too late.
It's interesting because I guess even like when it comes to say traveling, I've got friends
who always say they actually prefer to go on holiday with other groups, other people.
And it's weird because I feel like sometimes with, I feel like the way my husband and I
are and the way we are with our family, sometimes we prefer not to be with other people because
it ruins your way of doing things.
Some kind of that probably indicates that we're quite comfortable with each other.
Um, and I guess maybe some other people are not as comfortable.
Yeah.
That they're like, please come with us.
That'll be our next podcast is relationship experts.
So we'll get onto that.
What would you say you're the most excited about sort of over other than retiring at
45 over the next sort of decade or so, what are you most excited about?
Man retiring at 45.
Yeah, that is a goal.
That is a goal.
Um, you know, and, and it really allows you to plan out how you're going to do that.
It's not about how much you have in your bank.
Really.
You don't need 500 G's to retire.
Um, you know, 500,000, one mil.
You don't need to retiring.
Doesn't mean, or maybe, maybe not retiring, maybe slowing down, right?
Because you still want to work.
You still have to work the right brain just to make sure that we don't fall into potential
cases of stroke and these types of things.
Um, but just really making the time to spend with your family, yourself, and just focusing
on yourself again and making that the successful decade.
And I feel like that is, is ideal.
Like what more to look forward to than, you know, retirement.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So we've got a question that we tend to ask all of our guests and that is what's your
forties formula?
But obviously you haven't quite hit that yet.
So what would you say is your pre forties formula?
If you were to summarize, you know, some points that could help our audience really make the
most of their transition into the forties, what would you say that is?
Wow.
It's a great question.
Um, normal people will say eat well, sleep well, you know, um, eat the right foods.
I'm not going to bore you with that.
I'm going to say open your laptops, book an air ticket as and when you can travel as much
as you can create memories.
Um, because that will help with your wellbeing.
And when you are happy, you will realize that you will love everyone around you a whole
lot better when you make time, when you love yourself first.
So that's number one pre forties formula.
Number two is make sure that you are always learning.
I think we can never stop learning.
Um, always learning, always giving back, um, and just making sure that, you know, you build
healthy relationships.
Easy.
Love it.
Love and learn.
Keep that brain stimulated.
Yeah, exactly.
Amazing.
Thank you so much for joining us on the forties formula today, Adora.
It has been absolutely wonderful and wishing you all the best for the, you know, the upcoming
retirement.
When you're a 46 year old retiree.
Okay.
We will celebrate.
Oh, for sure.
Thank you so much.
Thank you ladies.
Thank you so much for having me.
Our pleasure.
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This morning was raining.
I had to get nowhere in the car to go to school and all that.
So I just made sure I was on time.
I had to be there.
Yeah.
Breakfast later.
So yesterday because of the way that we came in, we've got like a sheltered area where
we normally park the car and then the side bit.
But my husband decided to park on the side because he thought it'd be easier to get his
brother in, in case we need to go to the hospital.
You know, and so this morning when I wake up, obviously it's pissing it down, but there's
no shelter.
Oh God.
And then I've got all this stuff I need to put into the car.
Yes.
Plus I've got some stuff in the car for you from a Kizzee, which I didn't bring up, but
I brought into the car because I can carry it.
And I was just like, oh, it's very difficult.
And then obviously trying to get the kids in and then getting to school.
And then there was, it took half an hour to get from the kids school to like the first
exit on the motorway.
I was like, geez, I'm going to be so late because there was obviously, you know, like
when it's raining, everything's just snail pace.
Should have just gone the other way.
You know, when you make that decision, do I go motorway?
Especially when you're on the KPE, no turning back.
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We liked that because Tyler had to get to Changi for something.
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