01-12 Life Log: Lunch, Coffee, and Future Plans with Noel 2026-01-12T12:18:06Z # — Life Log ## Title Lunch, Coffee, and Future Plans ## Time Context Afternoon ## Life Log Narrative You and Noel spent the afternoon together, starting with a leisurely lunch where you shared dishes and enjoyed a long, reflective conversation. You ordered the truffle smoked duck carbonara, while Noel had the avocado falafel. Sharing an Imperial Caesar salad, you talked about how much you enjoy the simple, significant pleasure of sharing food. After the meal, you looked for a café to relax and work before your flight. You settled on a place called Black Kettle, which had a Melbourne coffee vibe. While Noel went out shopping for souvenirs, you stayed back, ordered a few rounds of coffee, and focused on work. Later, you moved on to another restaurant for a second meal, this time grabbing burgers and pizza. You ordered a soft shell crab burger, and Noel got the chicken chop you had been eyeing. Your conversations throughout the afternoon were deep and varied. You explored ideas for an AcroYoga course for true beginners, discussed the mental and emotional benefits of yoga and meditation, and debated the role of AI in engineering. You also made exciting plans for an upcoming trip, realizing that your friends Gina and Tice would be in Bali at the same time as you. The day was a blend of productivity, connection, good food, and thoughtful planning for the future. ## Places Visited - Gravy Baby (mentioned as a possible place to go) - Blank Kettle / Black Kettle cafe (Malaysia) - A chef supply store / Chef's Station kitchen store (mentioned) - Little Beans (mentioned as where you got something for Jack) - Civic Coffee (the coffee shop you bought beans from) - Bali (mentioned for future travel) - Melbourne, Australia (mentioned, coffee origin) - St. Kilda, Australia (mentioned) - Vietnam (mentioned in past stories) - Netherlands (mentioned in past stories) - Montreal (mentioned in relation to AcroYoga) - Philippines (mentioned in conversation) - Singapore (mentioned in conversation) ## Activities - Eating lunch and dinner - Drinking coffee and juice - Planning the rest of the afternoon - Working on a laptop - Shopping for souvenirs like postcards, stamps, and coffee - Discussing fitness, yoga, and meditation - Brainstorming an idea for an online AcroYoga course - Discussing technology and AI in the workplace - Discussing travel plans for Bali - Planning logistics for your flight ## Key Moments - Deciding on your lunch orders, ending up with carbonara and a falafel dish you shared. - Noel sweetly telling you, "No paying for you," when you were ready to pay for lunch. - Sharing a moment of appreciation for being able to share food with each other. - Reflecting on how a daily yoga practice in the past significantly improved your mood and focus. - Brainstorming a new style of AcroYoga video that focuses on connection and playfulness. - Realizing you and Noel were typing the exact same "thank you" message in a group chat simultaneously. - Having a moment of surprise when you realized your friends Gina and Tice would be in Bali at the same time as you. - Noel returning from shopping with souvenirs, including stickers to customize your luggage. - Reflecting on your first date with Noel and concluding it was "the best date." ## Conversation Topics - What to order for meals, from pasta and salads to burgers and pizza. - Plans for the afternoon before heading to the airport. - Sharing food and different attitudes towards it. - Past and present fitness routines, including yoga and AcroYoga. - The mental and emotional benefits of exercise and meditation. - Ideas for an accessible online AcroYoga course for beginners. - The pros and cons of AI adoption in engineering. - Souvenir shopping, including Malaysian white coffee and civet coffee beans. - Friends (Gina, Tice, and Karim) who will be in Bali. - The nature of first dates versus group outings. - A work-related deployment you needed to finish. - The ongoing trade negotiations between the EU and the UK post-Brexit. ## People - **Noel:** Your partner, present throughout the day. - **Jack:** Your son, for whom you bought coffee beans as a gift. - **Kuya:** Mentioned in the context of his home gym and buying a gift for him. - **Gina:** A friend you realized will be in Bali. - **Tice:** Gina's partner. - **Karim:** A friend of Gina and Tice who will also be in Bali. - **Yammer:** Mentioned in relation to working out in Vietnam. - **Rob:** A former coworker who noticed your improved mood from yoga. - **Your mom:** Mentioned in stories about yoga and a float tank. - **Tita Beng:** Your aunt, who tried a float tank with you. - **Sarabeth Yoga:** A yoga instructor you followed online years ago. - **Jason Namer:** Mentioned as the person who trademarked AcroYoga. - **Marika:** Your AcroYoga teacher. - **Evan:** Mentioned in relation to an "acro with Evan" video. - A colleague (mentioned in the context of AI resistance). ## Follow-Ups - Continue working on the "deployment." - Look up Sarabeth Yoga to see if she is still creating content. - Explore the idea of an AcroYoga online course for beginners further. - Consider buying a coffee siphon online. - Message Gina to coordinate meeting up in Bali. - Figure out how to send the coffee you bought for Jack. - Check your check-in luggage allowance for your Singapore Airlines flight. - Send your boarding pass to Noel. 00:00:01 You can have the beef, or the avocado falafel, or the beef. The pasta was amazing. Yeah, it also looked pretty good. Looking a bit smaller. It's not that big. It's because it has a bowl underneath. And the whole thing is like a puff pastry. It's not like all filling. 00:01:02 Um, I'm thinking of getting a quiche, but if you're getting a quiche, then I'll get a truffle smoked duck carbonara. And what did you get for the, what kind of thing did you get for the pasta last time? Pot pie? Pasta? The pasta? The thing you got last time, was it truffle mushrooms? Oh, it was smoked duck. 00:01:48 If I get a salad, will you share it with me? Yeah? Sure, I'll share all the things with you. No, but like... I'm gonna get the avocado cilantro. Okay. with a milkshake. Avocado falafel. Do you get the quiche or do you get the pasta? 00:02:23 Good. Oh drinks? Strawberry tea. Oh okay, sure. 00:02:59 I would like the truffle smoked duck carbonara and we'll still share the Imperial Caesar salad yeah I'll have the falafel and avocado, with a poached egg. 00:03:43 yes yeah and strawberry tea oh yeah that was really nice last time and white coffee without no sugar hot. Um, I will have, I'm looking for my drink. The smoothie looks good, but really filling. I will try this summer sipper. 00:04:14 Summer sipper, okay. Yes. So one summer sipper and one strawberry tea soda. Yes. And, and then I'll, or no, I'll order a coconut latte, please. Coconut latte, okay. One in hot or cold? Hot. Thank you. 00:04:54 For the silver and white coffee, right? Yes, please. Right. Yeah, hot. Thank you very much. Okay, I was ready to pay. I was ready to pay. No paying for you. Okay, so where can we go? 00:06:50 I mean. shopping stuff here then just go to the airport hang out in the lounge three hours. can't get into the lounge usually yeah there must be somewhere it's okay to stay here and. 00:07:32 work for it too bad both of them are closed yeah yeah i was looking forward to saying goodbye. 00:08:30 Thank you. 00:09:17 I think I looked at that, it didn't look like it was very big. It was very big. Yeah, big enough to work in. 00:09:47 Thank you. 00:10:28 i wonder if we could just like there's a place called gravy baby that's like a restaurant and it's quite big maybe we could just eat there um it's a pub anything particularly you want to do for shopping stuff not really for stuff for home what for stuff for home i wasn't looking for. 00:11:04 something particular we do already have the placemat pillowcase oh yeah oh we didn't get a placemat we got a pillowcase i'm okay with that unless we see something that's like oh that's really pretty thank you. 00:12:11 There's a postcard shop near here. Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, so I have a couple things. this is an option yeah okay i think i found something. 00:12:54 here it's called blank kettle perfect you're going to relax work. 00:13:25 that's what i saw too it seems big enough. The flakiness of their croissants is unmatched. And where is it? Five minutes away. And it looks, it does look quite big. 00:14:05 Hopefully it's actually open. Yeah, it says it's open. Then I will not get a croissant here. I suggest it. 00:14:38 Hi, how are you doing? I'm good, how are you doing? I'm good. Are you rehearsing tomorrow? Yes. Can we have another salad? We're sharing, yeah. It just also felt like something really veggie-y. 00:15:13 And this was like their signature thing. Did you want to get... Oh, civet coffee, right? Oh, this is great. 00:15:47 Yeah. Thank you. Beans if possible. There's a chef station kitchen store. Might also have that coffee maker. Right near here. 00:16:22 How close? Like near here? Yeah. Like right near here. Great. 00:17:02 But all the drinks are for me. Do you want some pizza? Sure. 00:17:42 Actually, I don't need pizza. Thank you. This is great right? The salad is good too. 00:18:56 I'll try some falafel. Sure. Can I have falafel? Thank you. Can I have a knife from there too? Yeah. Oh. Are you giving me those eggs? Mmm. Wow. 00:19:31 Mmm. 00:20:06 That's great. 00:20:48 Pasta. Thank you. 00:21:31 It's more of a sort of sticky stuff on the edge. Mm-hmm. 00:22:03 Yum. Good egg. My favorite. Everything's better with egg. 00:23:17 I like sharing food with you. You know some people don't like to share food. Thank you. 00:24:06 it's hard to find health conscious people that really enjoy life. well maybe health conscious is okay but like health obsessed. 00:24:36 I'd say I'm health conscious. And I think you are too. You're just hard to find. I'm what? You're just hard to find. I'm a health conscious person, that's what I'll say. I actually really enjoyed the weights. 00:25:20 Yeah? Yeah. I'd like to do that more over at Kuya's maybe. Also because his setup is... Something we could replicate, you know, like that's more of like the thing that we could have at home. 00:25:51 How does he train legs? He doesn't have weights for legs. Okay, this is amazing. Do you like it. 00:26:58 This is like real carbonara, made not with cream. Real carbonara made not with cream? Made without cream. Is that what makes real carbonara? What? Is that what makes real carbonara? What do you mean? The classic traditional Italian carbonara was always made just with eggs, with no cream. 00:27:30 at all. Cream is like a shortcut. I mean, it can still be good, but for someone who loves eggy wags like me, it's extra good. It's extra good. Check on it. 00:29:08 When you have like, when you're working out regularly, do you kind of have a handful of, exercises and you just like rotate them or do you like do different ones every time like oh today's leg day but I'll do different ones? It was really nice when Yammer and I were working in Vietnam, we had the YMCA was close to us. So it's often when they do weights, it's usually maybe more or less the full body, legs, back, 00:29:48 core. Sometimes I've wanted to do more home stuff, I would do more hangs and dips. I'd have a project to try to get, try to increase the number of reps I could do with my. And then on other days I would do either cardio stuff, like actually just go for a run around the park, usually like a 10 kilometer run, or swim in the pool, 35, 40 minutes or something like that, swim a kilometer. 00:30:39 Or we'd play squash. Yeah, so it was a really nice balance. Yeah, it was nice. Do the weights to feel more Lessly, and then do the cardio stuff for endurance. Thank you. It wasn't religiously every day or anything like that, it usually ended up about three or four days. 00:31:26 At one point in my life, like just before leaving for the Netherlands, and I was still in Australia, I was doing yoga every day. And some days it was like a longer full hour, more workout-y kind of one, but on the other days sometimes it was also just like a 20-minute sun salutation kind of thing. And I really, it's funny because like I noticed myself getting stronger, 00:31:57 but the people around me noticed the changes in my mood. Like, Rob mentioned it, my co-workers mentioned it, and my mom mentioned it, all independently. Like, they were just like, what are you doing? Like, you just seem much more happy, and like, my co-workers said, focused. Yeah, definitely. It's always like, for a piece of advice, it's always something like that. 00:32:33 Catch the sun. Get out and do something. For a while, like, I was doing both yoga and meditating every day, and I remember I did one of those sensory deprivation things, like what LLM does in a tank, and you're like, floating and stuff. No, not that part, but I remember once I did that and I like I slipped. 00:33:09 I don't know. I slipped right into it. I was already doing meditation quite a bit It was really easy and at the end of it. I like I came to and I was like, oh right. I have a body, Like I forgot all this time You know and it's really, Super relaxing and really just I don't know. I really enjoyed it But I did it another time after that when I wasn't doing, Meditation and yoga anymore, and it was just like, Wonder what I have to do tomorrow. 00:34:09 Do you think any of those things affect your mood more than the others or is it all together? You mean yoga or meditation? If I had to pick one, I'd pick yoga because it basically is a moving meditation. But I thought that you didn't like doing exercising things just by yourself. 00:34:44 I don't. So why did you do that for the first time? I did it with Imi. I started with Imi. as most things that i tried i started with someone and that person stops and i'm like well i really want to finish this thing and it was like a routine like a like a program i can't remember how long it was okay i was like no i started it already like i want to keep going okay but. 00:35:20 she quit after like four four times i did it every day and then when the program was over it was time to go or i just repeated it by then i was already feeling and seeing the benefits. was a program offered by one particular yoga. 00:36:01 Um, she's called Sarabeth Yoga, but this is like seven years ago, well ten years ago, yeah, it was like ten years ago, so I don't know if she's still on, or, she's just... That sounds familiar, I think someone's, sounds very familiar, but then again, there are lots of yoga. Yeah. Um. She did one that was every day, it was starting from January 1st, and it was every day for. 00:36:32 like, I don't know, four months or something like that, and she really varied it up quite a bit, so it wasn't like, two big flexibility ones in a row, it was like, one flexibility one, and one like, more cardio-workout-y one, and then one, you know. I mean, how would you do that in a sensory deprivation? Would you just like go find a place. 00:37:02 and test that for a sensory deprivation, okay? I went to a place. I only did that twice. Okay. It was expensive. It was funny. 00:37:36 I went with my mom, actually, and Tita Beng, who were both visiting. This was in Australia. And Tita Beng always loved like, well, you know, she's the kind of person who's in BC. She's very, she's a little too far down that rabbit hole. So, you know. Believes in healing crystals and eats raw food, no cooking, no sauces, just raw. Like, she's like a rabbit, pretty much. 00:38:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No sauces, no condiments, no boiling, no steaming, just actually raw. Just wash it and that's it. It's really gross. Yeah. Anyway, and she was interested in it, so the three, I did it for the three, I paid for it for the three of us. And I really enjoyed it. And the two of them, they were like, they were saying afterwards, like, did your, you know what, hurt when you got into it too? 00:38:39 And I was like, what, no. And my mom was like, yeah, it really hurt too. I'm like, why? And then Tita Beng said, like, oh well you're younger, you know, yours probably gets more use than ours. I'm like, oh my god, oh, I love this conversation. Like, no, stop. Did not want to talk about this. Ay, what the... 00:39:44 Hmm. A little garbage collecting moment there, thinking about, like, you paid for this course. A one-off thing. Yeah. And I was like, oh, I wonder what it would be like to make it like an acroyoga course. 00:40:14 from the beginning. And then I was like, oh, actually, that would be good for Marika, my teacher, to make one like that. And then I was like, well, actually, I wonder if it would be difficult, because acroyoga is actually like a trademark thing. Oh, really? Yeah. It's one of the reasons it's sort of popular, like Jason Namer trademarked it in the 90s. 00:40:44 or something like that. Then there's also Montreal Acroyoga. It was started by another couple of teachers in parallel around Symbiote. And so, like, AcroYoga is a brand for teacher training and teacher certification. I don't like that it's branded. 00:41:15 It would probably also control whether you can make an online course that's called AcroYoga. But the way to do that would be to work up to it, not to release a course like cold turkey. Yeah. Create a YouTube channel, create a following, and then do it. 00:41:46 And there are already quite a few YouTube channels like that that I learned from. It is pretty cool like I have I have thought like it can be quite daunting. 00:42:23 because every other acro thing, acroyoga thing is like really super fit, super pretty people who are already fit and heavy. You know, like those videos where it's like, ha ha ha, it's my first time to do acro. Oh yeah, the acro with Evan, yeah. And then he's like, oh, you know, just do this. And she's like, oh, like a front handspring. And he's like, yeah, like that. And she's like, yeah. 00:42:54 They are all former cheerleaders. Yeah, yeah. They all have body control. Yeah, and so it's a little like, I think what would be good, like for me, what I would have wanted to see was like acro for real beginners, like people who are like me, who are like not in fantastic shape and like are really a beginning and are interested and are not injured or something. 00:43:25 But like, you know, also kind of like, how do I get up there? How do I stay there? How do I, what do I need to do? Like they never do, they just make it look so easy. And it's not very accessible. Yeah. And also, people don't really... 00:44:00 Just finishing this. It does slightly bug me that like, when servers see that we're speaking or something and they just like, butt in. It's like, lack of training, I know. This is such a simple thing. I like the idea of like, you know, 00:44:32 everything goes wrong after videos. Let's just show how this is gonna go. Or... That's the nice thing about doing it in a course, right, is you do it, you try it, and it's like, oh, it doesn't work. Or also, like, something where the focus is the couple, like, that this is a thing that we're doing together. We're not just, like, like, it's not just a sport. It's also, like, a fun activity that we like to do together. 00:45:03 And you stop and be like, okay, in this position, you can, if you do this, then you can kiss upside down. You know, like, those kinds of videos. Or, like, even more sexy ones. Somewhere in between the, somewhere in between the super fit, just do the trick, ta-da, here you go videos and the married couple tries this at home and fails horribly. Yeah, like, a step above married couple just tries it at home from nothing, you know. 00:45:33 And just, like, tries to copy things from... that they've never done before, never gotten any instruction in. So above that, but also below the, like, we must nail this trick, you know? Or we've already gone through a year of trying to nail this trick. We finally got it. We're going to capture that one perfect moment when we did it. Yeah, yeah. And that's the one that we published. I would like that. And I would like to just make those videos for us. 00:46:04 It's always a good place to start. And I would like the, like, you know, here's what we're doing now. Now let's put a blindfold on one of them. And then, you know, like, it's like, it's not just, like, let's make the prettiest possible shapes. It's like, let's be connected as a couple and, like, enjoy each other's touch. And what is it like to switch roles? And how do I learn to base you and both of us blindfolded? And then, like, okay, now you can do this, but naked. 00:46:34 You know, like, what position, you know? what positions are good for that like how can you have acrobatics oops he fell down again. the base is the first spotter you you had you said something in our in our whatsapp group message, friend really early on you were like you had this idea of like lifting me and then slowly. 00:47:06 taking off my clothes and then impaling me and then i think we actually tried it and it's like, it's not quite the proportions don't quite work that way well you can try yeah but there are ways but someone has to find it and then it's nicer if like you do and you can have a game you know like what that guy did which is basically a striptease but an acrobatic one you can do that but with a couple. 00:47:36 and it can be a game to do that like you get to try to take off what the other person's what one article of clothing from the other person see who he does it first. 00:48:19 I don't get the feeling that they really welcome people who work here and they do get seem to get a steady supply of people so we are holding up a table. can tie this black kettle thing yeah and then you can go off and do some stuff i think i'll just work if you see something that you think you know whatever you can buy whatever you want. 00:48:53 yeah well let's go to the chef's station kitchen store it's like right here oh okay actually okay. we can just check that out and then but how would we how would we pack that how would we actually i don't have space in my bag for something that big do you we could ask them if they'd ship it to. 00:49:34 singapore. I'll just order it and see if I can order it and give it to you. Well, if we're gonna order it, then just order it at home. Yeah. What's it called? A siphon? S-I-F-O-L-I-N-E coffee. Coffee siphon. 00:50:18 That looks very big. Did you just order... I mean, did you just see that, like... Is that from the... Okay. Why is that so hard to ask? and i guess there's nothing really malaysian about it if they were using a belgian siphon. like we got a belgian siphon in malaysia though we saw it in malaysia and then brought it to the. 00:50:54 netherlands what did rn malaysian ringgit ringgit malaysia you know what cool. 00:51:30 up cool zero hero 400. how big is it, Does it also tell time? How big is it? Have you been to the toilet here? You have, haven't you? Oh. You can also use it to make the ice drip coffee, though. I think that is what they used. 00:52:01 Huh? Well, they used this kind of thing. What they had is they had a big bowl of ice, then they had like a spiral thing, and then it dripped. Oh, cool. Yeah, it was a couple of stages. Babe? Uh, I might have used the toilet here, but I can't say that I remember. You'll have to find out for yourself. I'm just being wise, but... I mean, I will. 00:52:34 Do you recon for me? I do. just tell me and if you do recon and i say yeah it's only fine you go in there and you're like, i'll be mad at you and why would i do this it seems like a lose, then if he says it's good and it is good then i'll be happy with you. you're just helping me out yes because i don't want if i go there like definitely giving up on. 00:53:12 my peak family and if by the time i get there like i have to go again because at that point, so i have to decide kind of here. 00:53:48 Cheers. 00:55:51 Oh, okay, thank you. Babe, you're typing in the same thing I am. I already answered. 00:57:03 Just saying thank you. Okay, that's funny. I see the dot, and I'm like, oh, they're turning right now. 00:58:00 Ready, Bella? Okay, you got us nabbing to the next place, or? Yeah. 00:58:31 Can I hold something for you? Oh, thank you. Can I take your bag for you? No, you are the same sort of stuff. Wait, I have it already. Where is it? Okay, that way. Bye-bye. You got your hints? You need them now. I'm just looking. 00:59:04 Don't fight me! 00:59:55 Oh yeah. Wait, didn't you want to go to the other place first? What's that? Shops. No, I'll do that on the... Oh, okay. You know, here. Yeah. 01:00:40 Really? Is it? Oh, how funny. How funny. Really? Wow. Russia. 01:01:15 Do you have car stickers too? Functional ones? No. Yeah. 01:01:50 I just was, I just didn't know. He seemed surprised by the McDonald's thing. Yeah, we're turning left. 01:02:24 Hmm, it's actually on the right side. Maybe we can go through here and then go across. Thank you. Um, yeah, like in the Philippines, every village has a sticker, because they're gated villages, right? 01:02:55 pest capture. That's not the stuff you see in Canada. pest capture? Yeah, the crocodile and python captures. In the Philippines, every village, the gated ones, have stickers. And you have to apply for them. Um, so that you don't have to, like, ask, the guards don't have to ask you for your ID and then ask where you're going. 01:03:27 So you'd normally get one for, like, where you live and then where all of your kids go to school or where you work and stuff. Like, there's a lot of, um, like, business centers and stuff that are also gated. so you have to get a sticker for that as well and then um oh also in the philippines not all cars are. 01:03:60 allowed on the road on all days oh yeah okay we're crossing on the right here yep okay. 01:04:51 Okay, let's cross again. Oh, wait. Ah, there's no... Oh, there you go. Do you have that? The coding for traffic? It's like if your car, if your license plate ends in one or two, you can't drive on Mondays. No, you don't have that at all. 01:05:23 When you buy a car and you get the registration plates for it, you can... Normally, you don't have a say in the license plate, but here you get to say what number you want it to be in case you have another car, and you don't want them both to be undriveable on the same day. 01:05:54 Oh my god, that's so hot already. Change! I used my umbrella yesterday. Really? That bad? Did you feel like a local? There was a guy walking ahead of me with an umbrella and I was like, oh, that's a good idea. You can see it's like when it's like this. You really need it. It's really, yeah, it's not a luxury. 01:06:40 Melbourne coffee. Well, no wonder it's good. kettle we're at the black kettle cafe can i stay on this side yeah absolutely okay. 01:07:33 is it okay to work from here yeah. oh babe actually how about we go to that one that one has an outlet. 01:08:19 it's from melbourne no wonder they should have a good coffee yeah i'm gonna go do my stuff shopping stuff can i pay for it remember for coming. 01:10:32 Thank you. 01:11:49 Hello my love. Do we, did he say, are you going to come in? I don't know. Should we order first? Would you like to order a coffee or something before you go or do that later? Yeah, I'll do what I can. Okay. And we're, our flight is at nine. 01:12:28 So we're going to be there at seven. So we count at six. Lots of time. Lots of time. Excited. St. Kilda! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Iced chicken mocha. Salted caramel frog. Wahaa! 01:12:59 Ooh, bulletproof! Yeah, yeah. Bulletproof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god. Oh my god. So good. There's like four pages of coffee. Yeah, yeah. Ooh, mismounted coffee. Cappuccino brulee. 01:14:31 I'm going to go order. You don't want anything? No, you guys can order. I love looking at you across the room. And watching people look at you and thinking, Can I have a hazelnut latte? Hi. 01:15:13 Order. Where do I order? I'd like the hazelnut cafe latte. Hot, please. Hazelnut cafe latte hot and I'll have the dimatina one yeah this one yeah yeah say. 01:15:57 bye Craig no thank you. hi are you are you here are you listening. 01:16:33 How do you feel about a company who did like a big AI restructure and basically said, two years ago, they were like, you know what, AI is the future of everything and we have to do everything AI and please stop what you're doing on Mondays. One day a week is just AI training, not your work, not whatever. So they took a 20% cut in hidden time. And then they found that a lot of people were just like, no, I'm not going to do it. Their biggest pushback and sabotage was from the engineering teams. It was like, no, we're not going to do this AI. 01:17:25 And so we ended up firing 80, nearly 80% of his staff. And turning them over is just basically if you're not gonna if you're not on board with this then you're gone. Yeah, I mean it's not that extreme but that's like the given that's the culture in Grafana. It's very much like what you're not using AI? Okay well we know who's gonna get the chopping block next. It's really like it's not explicit there's no requirements but it is very much like really are you actually an engineer? 01:18:01 If you're if you're not even looking into AI? Yeah, like one of your colleagues right? Yeah. Like you know I understand the I definitely understand the resistance to it. Yeah. My first experiment with it was like. Yeah. But and it's a difficult one for engineers because there's no there's no sort of soft tolerance or not much soft tolerance in software. 01:18:32 Isn't that lovely? Yes, thank you. Um, you know, like when you have, like, when you're writing technical debt into your stuff, you know what it's like to be hassled by management for why we're reproducing and why is our stuff so buggy and why, you know, why is it so crap and stuff like that. You feel all this pressure, get directly hit with this pressure that it's like, yeah, well, we told you that you should have spent quite a bit of time testing it or you shouldn't have released it at that time. 01:19:03 So I get the anxiety that it's like, oh, it's just going to make my life hell later on. I get the anxiety. But then again, you just have to get over it. It's tough to learn it. Yeah. So yeah, that's a tool, you know, and you could cut your fingers off with this tool. Learn how to not cut your fingers off. I think Grafana's attitude is very healthy because they're like, yeah, we know it's flawed, make it better, you know, do if you want to pitch something, that makes AI better or our use of AI or like whatever, pitch it, that's what the hackathons. 01:19:38 are for and many people have done that and many of those have been implemented, you know, so it's like they're open to changing it, they're open, they're not like you must use AI for everything, they're like you must know what AI can do and see how it can incorporate into your workflows and if you choose not to, that's fine, but teams are doing it and like, you know, all our systems are doing it so you have to at least know how to interface with it. 01:20:08 and i think that that's reasonable like that is how the world is going like it's really silly, to see to see what ai can do and think like oh it's a viable option to just ignore it yeah like no no you can't ignore it not saying adopted really good old punch cards are good enough yeah it's really like no you are that is signing your own career death warrant right like okay, good okay i don't think an hour but just two you're gonna bring your big heavy bag. 01:20:49 why don't you live it here i'm gonna carry stuff around why don't you grab yeah that's that you can't really buy that much stuff anyway because where will you put it. Well, it is Singapore Airlines. We can't check-in luggage. Remember that. Do we have a check-in allowance? Yeah. That's an option. They confirm it. 01:21:22 But yeah, Singapore Airlines often does. I don't think they have a thing where you don't have to. Okay. I am aiming to get stamps and white coffee. And postcard. Yeah. And white coffee beans? Yeah. Is that such a thing? It's like white coffee beans? It is. It is. Or is it always... Okay. I don't know. I won't like it if anyone likes it. And if there's an option, something with hazelnut might be... If there's an option. 01:21:52 Nut. Fine. 01:22:59 Thank you. 01:27:09 No! 01:28:50 Okay. 01:30:01 Thank you. 01:51:21 can i order a hot oh you can go can i order a hot long black please, still the same dimatina beans thank you. 01:53:03 Thank you. Finished. That's a little bit more. It's okay. Really finished now. Alright. 01:59:13 Okay, let's stop. Okay. We're out here. Hey. 02:00:37 Thank you. 02:07:31 You're welcome. 02:09:33 Thank you. 02:10:33 Oh. 02:12:23 I'm meeting my partner. Sorry? I'm meeting my partner. What did you say? Hi baby. I got stuff! I'm meeting my partner. Is that what you told them? Hi. That's me. Hi. What did you get? Did you get your postcard and stamps? I got postcards and stamps, a sip of coffee, and some surprise chocolatey things. 02:12:55 Okay. Did you order at the counter? I ordered at the counter once, and then she came here once. So, I don't know. It's an attractive color. Our dishes and drinks are crafted to the delight of the eyes before they escape. 02:13:29 It's not palate. It's palate. It's palate. Palette. Ah, my gosh. 02:15:30 How's that? Good. Want to try? Yeah. It's long black. It's the matina beans. They might ask you to choose. I don't know about if they ask you to choose. This one's the matina. I paid for one, for the previous one. This one I haven't paid for, so weird. 02:16:51 Thank you. 02:18:06 Oh. 02:18:57 Amen. 02:19:37 I'm so done because of you. 02:20:31 Great! These are for... Oh, nice! You didn't end up getting one getting coffee for Jack. You know your son? The one that you haven't gotten a gift for yet? Yeah, that one. That one? That one. That's a good idea, actually. Civic Coffee. 02:21:01 Well, there are four packs of Civic Coffee in that box. Oh, okay. They're beans. I don't know if Jack has his mind in that. Oh. You're funny. 02:21:35 Hold on, I don't know if you're gonna do a sticker. For what? For the suitcase. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. That's a great idea. You can sticker up our suitcase. Yeah. Yay. Then it's, like, customized. 02:23:35 I didn't get a postcard did you? Nice! Silly! 02:28:30 Thank you. 02:30:03 Do you want your cap? Thank you. Don't tell your mom I said that. I'm gonna tell mom. No, don't. I'll tell her about the beard hair thing. 02:33:30 Thank you. What are you going to do with that? 02:36:45 Thank you. 02:39:08 Blue. 02:41:20 Okay. 02:42:07 Thank you. 02:44:51 Me. 02:46:38 May I try this? 02:48:26 Thank you. 02:54:17 Thank you for thinking of Kuya. What? Together, we are one thoughtful person. What? What ee? 02:54:51 No, you just stopped. You just cut off the sentence. One thoughtful person. Oh, I see. 02:56:13 Hmm, kind of difficult. Can you do mine too, baby? I was going to say, do you want one of yours? Same spot? 02:56:44 Why? You don't think I can be neat? I can be neat. You can be neat. But? It's just still a pain in the ass. Good. 02:57:22 Doing a bunch of videos. She didn't even take a rich shot. Ba-ba. 03:00:55 Rich. 03:01:55 How's work going for your mother? 03:03:55 Do you have the... The what? Wi-Fi? Yeah. 03:04:27 Here, that's the menu. Sorry. Tricked you. It should be Rick Rowling. Should be. Haha. Bye. 03:06:25 Did you send me my boarding pass? 03:07:03 Um, I, maybe I didn't. Light mode! What's that? 03:07:34 So bright! 03:10:05 Thank you. 03:17:45 We'll be right back. 03:19:03 Oh. 03:20:32 This is an interesting article about like an AI power user or ambassador or AI, yeah, AI, just kidding, ambassador going on a rant about people plagiarizing their own prompts. 03:21:03 Like, because you took my prompt and changed a couple words, this is making yours, this prompt was like, it's mine. I made it up myself, it was like, as if you didn't realize like all this AI stuff is made. Made by AI ingesting, like, other people's work with their consent, too. He said that? It's all plagiarism. That's what this article is saying. It's, like, sort of ironic that you're all upset that someone's stealing your intellectual property when you're old. Yeah. Intellectual property is based on retaking other people's intellectual property. 03:21:36 Sorry. Agent ownership is dead. Yeah. And also, like, what's the prompt? I mean, is it, like, a three-page prompt or something? I mean... Prompt leaves in the AI art community. 03:22:14 Mm-hmm. 03:28:48 Thank you. 03:31:24 I'm going to do another shop run. Okay. Are you going to forget your son again? You know what to do if I did get him a sip of coffee? Hmm? What? If I did get him a sip of coffee, you know what to do? 03:31:55 You could, or you could wait until we get there. Um, can I go to the toilet before? Yep. Did you pay for your coffee? Nope. We are together at the table with the lady. With your partner? My partner, the lady. She's not known, she's a known lady, the lady that's my partner. 03:36:47 Yeah. 03:37:60 Like this. 03:38:60 hey you know what on your samsung phone you can get a stranger things themed background, it's a big five on it why would i it's just a five it probably has a ringtone only on samsung yeah apparently some deal with samsung so you control me on my phone. 03:39:34 how does that work. 03:41:52 Do you want it? Nope. When you get back, I'll probably order something if you... I don't know what to order. What would you like? Dang! Where's my kiss? Cut it. 03:42:24 I'm gonna toy you on your own phone. What do you want to do? No, you do it. I'm watching, watching. 03:46:05 Thank you. 04:18:46 Hi Bebe. Hi Bebe. Say hi Bebe. Got some more ice in the car. Did you get some for Luke? Pardon? Did you get some for Jack? For Jack. Did you? I did. Okay so could we get some. 04:19:17 well, did you want to go for durian pizza? For what? Durian pizza. Oh yeah. It's okay let's just get something here Bebe. Okay anything, did you see anything? It kind of depends on what you're getting. 04:19:49 If you're like, I'm not hungry and I just want to get something small, I can do that. I'm not like, I need to eat a full meal now, but I don't know, maybe it's convenient to so that we don't have to do that. I don't know. I'm kind of looking at the four-thing pizza. 04:20:24 Quattro pizza, four toppings include pineapple, chicken, ham, prawn, and mushroom. Mixed cheese, teriyaki sauce, neapolitan sauce. Sounds good. Is it, like, for one person? Yeah. Order it and eat it. I mean, do you want to share or do you want... Yeah, I want to share. You want to share? I want to share. What if I want to table? Pardon? What if I want to table? 04:20:56 Table? Table. You want to table? Yeah, you want to share. Chair, share, if I die. Come on down. There's also a soft shell crab burger. Whoa. Well, that sounds good. Tempura soft shell crab. Wow. With a lot of mayo, lettuce, tomato, french fries. That's pretty good, right? Yeah. The chicken chop looked good, too. 04:21:27 Chicken chop. Chicken chop, too? Chicken chop. It's there somewhere. It's on a page on its own. 04:24:24 I'll ask you the chicken chop. What? Whatever you like. Oh. I've never looked. What do you get him? I really want the chicken chop pizza or the chicken char siu burger. 04:24:55 Those are the things you're thinking of? Yeah. Which one? Chicken, chicken chop? Well, chicken chop is good. Oh. You're looking at that. No, what are you, what are you getting? I'm looking at either the chicken char siu burger or the... 04:25:33 I think I'm gonna have the soft shell crab burger. It looked way too good. Super, super good. 04:28:40 Are you in a special country? Yes. Do you want a drink or something? Yes. 04:29:29 It's dangled a little like that. I know. How could you do this? Well, because I didn't think pawn was a word. What does it mean with an O? P-W-N, sure. But pawn? Like, what is that? Then it happened. I'm like, oh shit. You're welcome. 04:30:01 I'm gonna try a golden kick juice. Golden what? Kick. 04:31:09 Thank you, bye-bye. 04:32:21 Yeah. Mmm. 04:34:18 Beep. 04:34:60 Oh. 04:36:21 Um! 04:38:15 ah. 04:40:01 Let me take this, two please. Thank you. This one in the tea tray? Yeah. Golden kick juice. What, sorry? Golden kick juice. Yes. Hi Bebe. No computer-ing for you? 04:40:32 Uh, maybe after food. Continue on the deployment. On what? On the deployment. Yeah. Then we can test it out. Yeah. 04:41:18 I found out that Gina and Tice will be in Bali by the time they were there. Oh, okay. Do you remember them? Yeah, yeah. Tiny Indian girl and weird sun-worshipping guy. I think they'll be there with their friend from Saudi Arabia. I don't know how they became friends with him. 04:41:53 Oh, what's his name? The guy who also came. I've met him too. He came along for a boat trip. For your farewell. He knew about me. They brought him along with them. He had seen my channel and stuff. Yeah. Oh, great. Do you have any history with... Nope. I was like, nope. 04:42:25 There's no history with June. You were like what? Nervous. I'm like, ah, you track people. It's not, you know, I didn't know how you would react to having more. But they will be busy with their course. And it would be nice to see them. They're doing our course. They're doing that course. That intermediate course that's happening. 04:42:60 to see them for dinner and you're not gonna be like going off to jam with just her or jamming with just iced or jamming with just whatever this is just a troll. 04:43:31 hey I'm on to you do you want to use one use this one no I'm it's all right mine's already at a hundred I would love to. 04:44:06 And I'm suddenly looking forward to food. Thanks for reminding me to get the stuff for Jack at Little Beans. Thanks for remembering to get the stuff for Kuya. I did not get Penang white coffee. Who did you get? Civic Coffee. From the place that we went to. Oh, so they do sell the beens. Yep. Oh, great. Yeah, that was really good. Because we know that it's good. 04:44:37 Yeah, and it's nice that it's from a place that we went to, not just like the airport. Yeah, yeah. Definitely. You didn't think Jack would want that? I didn't cross my mind to mail him coffee. They were kind of like, well, do you want it in beens or grounded up? And I'm like, uh, which one is it? They said, well, beens will keep better. And I'm like, okay. And then when I was thinking of Jack, I was like, oh, shit. Well, shipping it to Jack, they might not survive. It might not last. But hey, the lads did go into her cat's bum, so... 04:45:11 So you did end up getting it? Yeah, grounded for Jack, because I don't think Jack has a grinder. And then you sent it off? No, I didn't have it. I've just got the stuff here. See if I can send it from the team. See? He's trolling us. 04:45:52 What's the other guy's name again? test. That's her boyfriend, but what's the other guy's name? It's not Omar. he's your friend you never had any party friendship with Gina she was going out. 04:46:30 with the Syrian in fact I think they showed up to like one of our Monday night open jams together and I think that was a date might have been their first date or something like that brought him or suggested it to him or something not a good day to go to a group thing no I don't think I like ours. 04:47:07 I like that before our first date was doing it just you and me doing it going to a group thing is kind of like well I was going I was going to go anyway you might as well tag along it's nice and safe you know we get to introduce someone to something that's kind of fun and stuff like that and if the dating doesn't work out then you know you'll get something out of it I like the way you did it and it worked out exactly for them I like the way you did it it's like still public so it's. 04:47:37 still safe but we got to really know each other but like do you think we could have done all of that if there were other people around you know no our date was definitely better and the best date. 04:48:10 How did you know? How did you know that they were going to be there? Oh, I saw her posts on Instagram. Saying? Ooh, lovely Bali. Can't wait to go to Bali. And I'm like, wait a minute. When are you going to Bali? So I messaged her. We're going to be in Bali too. And I saw some more posts from a guy who's not named Ilwarna. 04:48:42 That's my man. That's my man. Oh, you got chicken chop? Yeah, I got chicken chop. Why? They look good. That wasn't one of your things. Right, right. Why not? You didn't share it. That's because I said that I was excited for it. I know. It's really sweet of you. It looks good, right? Yeah. Why don't why do they have and the burger options? I didn't want to be fun. 04:49:23 Good help yourself. I, Think my bag's big enough now that it will not fit for like my bag of presents It's big enough that they will not fit into any of our bags. 04:49:54 So I'll check my bag, today. Is it like Karim or something? 04:50:39 Yes, very good. I had to search my database. I searched my database. Very quickly. Static. I would have never gotten to Karim on you. Took a while. I also didn't remember it right away. 04:51:24 Hmm. How did it work though? Lauren. What we're doing. Same thing, the Pathfinder thing, the tutorial. Just making it sound nicer and explaining a little bit more. Help? 04:51:55 Help yourself. 04:52:38 Do you want to, because I'm going to deconstruct it, before I do, do you want to take a bite with it constructed? Okay. I find burgers hard to eat because they're so big. I have a little bit of lunch. Not just that, you have the rest of it. I'll have more later. But it's good. Okay, maybe I will just leave it constructed and then wash my hands. 04:53:11 Not okay. it's good I think the chicken supposed to go with that. 04:54:24 in general chicken here it seems like it seems like they do crispy things very well. and i wonder what they do it with is it wheat flour just better deep fry techniques i think like these fries they're not soggy at all. 04:55:12 trans fat message. Sounds interesting. I was reading another article about, like, now the EU and the UK are negotiating sort of some sort of a re-undoing of Brexit a little bit. 04:55:51 They want to negotiate some trade, open up some trade areas between them. And the EU wants a no-farage clause, which is, like, we want to negotiate a fixed penalty if the UK pulls out of it again. Like, if Nigel Farage gets elected. That's fair. It's fair, and it's a common part of all sorts of trade deals like that. 04:56:26 but it also highlights that like the cost of brexit for the eu side they had to hire in like a few tens of tens of thousands of inspectors including veterinary inspectors and now that france had to buy a bunch of hire a bunch of inspectors to inspect the horses that are coming across for the for the races and kind of explains it's like oh i see maybe that's why there are all. 04:57:02 these stories of customs inspectors confiscating english ham sandwiches because they're all newbies. newly hired and following the letter of the law or it's being. 04:57:36 I don't know. Mm-hmm. 04:58:12 Want to swap? Yeah, sure. Maybe we can just have a few more bites. 04:59:14 Hmm?