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hello beautiful people of the internet it's no longer human here today we are going to Heidi Lau

and it's 11 p .m so

when we get there I'll be like 11 30 almost midnight

the reason why I brought my yellow ass Heidi Lau is

because feeling very lonely and you know what I'll talk more

when I am there but let's not get kidnapped

or i don't know pay crimed on the street this is

what flushing looks like after hours um all the supermarkets are closed

so yeah everyone's on their way home

and my ass just got here oh my god my bangs are

so stringy i apologize for my oily looking ass bangs i've been just at home

and you know my ass was bed rotting and sleeping a lot

and I still keep getting like night sweats

and like nightmares um they stopped for a little bit

but then they came back

and it's always about the same traumatic shit I don't know

how my brain does this like I guess it's just

so repressed that it just keeps popping up in my dreams

but yeah um and then when I check my phone there's like no notifications

and i want to talk to my best friend

but she's also having a hard time

so i just don't want to bother anyone so i guess i shall be taking myself outside oh my god

this place is still open they open till pretty late it's a fell place it's pretty good ah

it's trash day

so um there's a lot there's gonna be a lot of

trash on the floor around this area there's still a lot

of people just you know doing their thing i'm gonna clip my bangs

because oh my god oh wait i also look crazy

if i do this you know what i don't want stringy bangs yet

but yeah i've just been at home

and feeling kind of lonely even though i do like i have

so many things to be grateful for i have a good best friend i have someone

that i'm talking to and it's going really well

and i guess i'm doing this youtube thing

but i don't know there's like a big imposter syndrome thing with

that it's just weird i asked people on instagram like oh

um what kind of videos do you guys want to see me make next

but um everyone's like oh you should like try hobby maxing like do something

that you like anything yapping whatever but

when i think about like what kind of hobbies i have

i don't have hobbies i literally do not have hobbies there aren't things

that make me happy and i have like nothing

that i like to do besides eating that's like the only thing i like

that makes me really excited and happy while i'm doing it um other than

that i don't really have anything that kind of sucks

because like everyone has their

that they like doing i just have like no passion even

making videos i just don't feel passion the same way

that i used to like the spontaneous spontanality fuck i can't fucking talk

but yeah um i got easily distracted

so there's a cute dog over there i don't know

if you guys could see it oh yeah good news at

heidi lao um they they close until they close at 4 a .m

which is fucking crazy here

but um they have a thing called meat o 'clock after nine o 'clock

and then it's like unlimited meat and seafood or whatever

so that's what i'm going for and i'm just gonna eat by myself because

no one wants to come with me and i have this food craving

and i haven't taken myself out by myself in a while

so that's what we're doing today yo it's just nice to

be outside the house i like being at like other people's houses because i just hate being at my own house

anyways we're almost there i honestly have no idea what the

fuck i was laughing about they also like revamped this cheese bank like it looks

so much nicer now yeah i feel like in the past i was like more brave

and like oh i'd love to do things alone like now

i'm scared to do things alone even filming by myself it's just i don't really feel the urge to anymore

and that's why i've been slowing down on the videos because like i don't feel passion the same the same

it's like that pink panther song but um yeah that's that's where it's at with me Um,

you know, I've been thinking about going back to school in the wintertime.

I'll sign up for remote classes.

I'll sign up, I think, next month I register, but I just gotta finish some shit up everyone around me

has their shit together i i really need to do something with my life you know

yeah this youtube thing is just for fun thing um i

don't think it will really you know unless i reach like a million subscribers

and become like vanilla base or that's i don't well i love vanilla base

but vanilla base fuck I can't talk

but yeah I don't know I think it's hard to make

it on social media unless you're huge huge this is starting

to look like I'm just like a fucking drunkard on the streets I used to go to

that store a lot the one with the pink there's like a lot of skincare there

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I did now That's the entrance Meat o 'clock,

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I am coming for ya I am so hungry, I can't eat a no longer human Girl,

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I am so hungry, you don't understand Hello!

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Hello!

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Thank you!

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Hello! Can you sit here?

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I'm here!

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We're here.

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I'm setting

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pork, spicy pork soup and water broth

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because I just need one broth I'm gonna try to move seats

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because the music is really loud and I'm gonna get copyrighted if I sit here

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i'm gonna try to make the courage to ask the waiter never mind i cannot change my seat

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because the speaker is everywhere so oh well um

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but they have angus beef fattier cut uh fish okay well i like fish tofu

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so i'm gonna just order fish tofu

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and the meat hey we got we got the spicy pork

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and they just gave me chicken nuggets i don't know why they gave me chicken nuggets

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but they chicken nuggets and they're playing Taylor Swift's shitty new album here boy

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so I know he charmed your family and friends everybody loves him uh -huh birthday stuff

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it's pretty loud holy fuck this makes me look like a

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fucking fat ass bro oh my god i had like questions

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on like my insta stories sometimes people are like oh how do you manage your weight

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and stuff i just like do this like thing called intermittent fasting

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and i've done it since i was like in middle school not

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because like i was intentionally intentionally it was more like a But I hate eating at school,

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school lunch is terrible, so then I go home and I eat a big ass fucking meal.

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So it's kind of like that.

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I don't know how to describe it to you, but I don't really want to talk about these things because it's a very touchy subject.

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Yeah, and I don't want to influence anyone badly, but I'm just telling you that's.. that's what i do

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but honestly guys just if food makes you happy eat um but also don't get diabetes

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yes okay let's chow down i freaking love soup i'm gonna give myself soup

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but before i give myself soup i'm dumping all of this in okay i love fish coffee

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I'm gonna leave it on it's dry for a little later.

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These stick are a little bit to cook.

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I also got noodles.

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It's just like regular egg noodles.

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And I'll put those in.

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Okay, I'm putting in the meat.

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I'm going to look bald guys.

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It's more than 30 seconds, it's more than 30 seconds.

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Earlier I said I was going to talk more when we're eating

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but this happy -go -lucky music is making my brain

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so empty I have like zero thoughts in my brain except wanting to eat.

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But I filmed my soup thing so much that it's like so cold.

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So I'm just going to leave now.

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It's so good to eat it, it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it,

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it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it, it's good to eat it,

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it's good to eat it,

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it's good to eat it alone at Harilau.

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Or do the workers think I'm weird?

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Nah, it's okay.

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Guys, I can't stress how much I love fish tofu.

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Ever since I discovered fish tofu, I cannot go back to anything else.

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I was never even a seafood person, not gonna lie.

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I only started liking sushi two years ago.

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Two, three years ago?

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Like growing up, I hated sushi.

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I almost just dropped my phone into the hot pot oh

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my god hey guys i am sweating i'm taking off my

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shirt i i can't oh shit my noodles are cooked i

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was texting elaine she just woke up it's 12 you know

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my favorite person isn't responding i go to heidi lao by

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myself come in like oh shit I just dipped my finger

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in ketchup hell no hello robot guys literally I swear to

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god no one wants to go eat with me these days everyone's on like some ozempic shit it's the ozempic epidemic

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it's scary guys please just be healthy I think I think that's enough I feel like losing weight,

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like, in an unhealthy way, like, it's just gonna damage your health overall.

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Like, I get it if you're mentally ill and you're like, I don't give a shit about my health.

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Oh yeah, guys.

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Don't do drugs.

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Don't bathe.

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Eat.

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Eat, live lap, enjoy life.

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And eat, hide you out, I guess.

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I paused filming for a little bit, and I was listening to, let me show you guys.

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there's a bad apple jump style it's just called jump apple slow it's

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so good i'm gonna put you guys on

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so good my music taste has been all over the place recently

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so don't ask me for x last time i came here

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and discover me to talk i was with um the person i'm talking to

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and um their friends i don't really know their friends that well

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and like i feel like the boyfriend that's online like they're just like talking about people i don't know

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and i'm just like sitting on the side i'm just like oh

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and i'm just sipping my soup because like the tea is piping hot

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but at the same time i don't know these people so i can't i i'm not gonna shit talk and

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when last time i was here like um i saw the

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girls i saw at the global place um she she was here with her friends

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and i was talking to her and i was like oh hi

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and then we're like oh hi and it was like the most awkward interaction

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but it was funny it was cute very wholesale but

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this is funny

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and now we're instagram mutuals i just hope i could finish

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all the food brown maybe i shouldn't have ordered meet up box this is a lot of food

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So what's been new in y 'all's lives as

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if you guys can respond to me but I guess you could comment below comment below chat Oh,

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yeah, also a lot of people asked me to do makeup tutorial About the passion thing again,

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I just don't got passion for it It's like something I used to like to do, but sometimes like it comes and goes.

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I don't know what's wrong with me.

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I'm a simple person.

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Food makes me happy.

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Everything else, eh.

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What would make me the happiest person in the world is if I get a new face.

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If I go to Korea and get my face done, that would make me the happiest person in the world.

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Half joking, half joking that's a very slippery slope it's a gamble always

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a gamble don't take what i say seriously oh yeah i

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re -watched um the demon slayer movie with the person i'm talking to

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and hey and we're both crying by the end i think the next one is in 2027

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oh i just miss being into shows and animes and stuff having a hyper fixation i have like No hyperfixation recently

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The only thing I've watched was like monster and like I got like

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so bored of it cuz it's just so slow My attention span is so bad

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It's okay guys we still have half the meat left I finished almost all the tofu The noodles are still cooking

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okay i'm getting hiccups i seriously underestimated how much soup there would be i didn't even eat

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that much meat meat o 'clock is not paying off i did a little walk around

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because i got more watermelon but um

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and popping jelly um yeah there's actually a lot of people

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that eat here alone um one girl i saw someone like

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give her like a hidey lao panda right across from her table i'm like oh my god that's

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so cute you have like a little you have like a

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little companion to eat with you maybe like she requested it i don't know how it really works but yeah

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i feel bad at waste food but why did they give me chicken nuggets i did not ask for chicken nuggets

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all right let's finish this up oh my god they're playing eric cho maybe someone's going through a breakup

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guys i can't do it i'm gonna ask

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if i could bring my food home but i don't know

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if that's possible let's hope and pray guys i i really try to finish

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that but my belly is full of soup and

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if i ate any more i think i would have combusted from the inside out

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but they let me bring soup home

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so yay I was hoping I could bring the meat home

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but like you know what I get it business is business

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now let's make our way home I'm taking you guys to

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my house I'm locking you guys in my basement for realsies

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I think I just need to make videos where I don't know whatever I feel like

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and stop overthinking it

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because I'm always overthinking it i am your biggest overthinker on

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the internet you know what it feels nice to walk outside

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i used to like go all the way into like the

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city like manhattan to like just walk the long ass fucking blocks

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because i just like felt so depressed but like walks make me feel better

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and just like i don't know yeah oh my god i'm

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gonna burst oh my god pretty flower wait what the fuck is that?

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y 'all hear that? oh it's the KTV bruh damn you can hear them from the outside

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I'd be embarrassed if I was singing and y 'all can hear me outside

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on our way home I hope I don't get kidnapped

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that's like my mom's worst fear well it's not my worst fear my worst fear is um

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actually i don't know guys do you guys recognize the street

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when i made my introvert cosplays in public video the rika cosplay i was on this exact street

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but that was winter time that was january yeah

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that shit was cold bruh i was like i feel like times are so much simpler back then

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All I did was make videos and that was the only thing that made me happy.

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Now, I just feel, I don't know.

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I guess just societal expectations of where I should be because I'm 21 and no college degree.

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Kind of stopped going to school, but planning on going back.

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But I don't know how well I will do when I go back.

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and yeah i'm just living my simple life oh is that my bus is that my bus is that my bus

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no that's not my bus yeah i still have their hair tie

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but i feel like i look crazy like this i feel

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like all i could really ask for is a simple life

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i'm not i'm not super vicious i'm not wanting to be like a fucking millionaire nothing like

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that i just passed by people talking to myself feel self -conscious

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but you know what who cares i can't even see my eyes are blurred

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guys do you think my bus will even come i might have to wait like 30 minutes

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derp derp derp some other fuck ass bus is at my

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bus stop now oh i have to find my way back

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to my bus stop i'm telling you guys this church is

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like the creepiest shit ever i've never ever seen anyone go in

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or out of here except like homeless people around the corner

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that like sleep on the steps

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but it's just like never ever open ever at least from what i've seen never seen anyone enter here

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and there's like graves in the back of this shit

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fuck ass church bruh creepy ass shit okay where the freak is my bus stop i am getting

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i'm getting scared if i don't catch the one in five minutes i'm stranded i'm stranded

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jaywalking is legal in new york by the way by the way btw

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uh trash day i forgot i need to take out my trash oh shit it's dirty around here

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i need to take out my trash oh damn there's hella people at my bus stop

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okay guys do i end it here or do i do my outro at home

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why am i making flushing look aesthetic bruh kind of funny it's not aesthetic new york is not aesthetic trash can galore

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gg freaking easy i'm playing valorant with elaine and then i'm going to sleep bye vlog

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “going to eat haidilao alone at midnight”. This video has 279 sentences and 3386 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:57. The speaker talks at a steady 147 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
soup noun	/sup/	Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food…
nuggets		Synonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).
tofu noun	/ˈtoʊfu/	A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.
noodle noun	/ˈnu.dəl/	A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and…
hobby noun	/ˈhɑ.bi/	An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
derp noun	/dɝp/	The constant repeating of an opinion after facts have proved it incorrect, especially as a rhetorical tactic.
vanilla noun	/vəˈnɪl.ə/	Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in…
aesthetic adjective	/ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/	Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
broth noun	/bɹɔθ/	Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.
kidnap verb	/ˈkɪdnæp/	To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
olein noun		Any naturally-occurring greasy or oily substance related to fat.
overthink verb		To think or analyze too much.
overwhelm verb	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	To engulf, surge over and submerge.
stringy adjective	/ˈstɹɪŋi/	Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
seafood noun	/ˈsiːfuːd/	Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go back verb	To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
take out verb	To remove.
come back verb	To return to a place.
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
grow up verb	To mature and become an adult.
pay off verb	To bribe, especially to deter oversight.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'll sign up for remote classes.
Can you sit here?
I'm going to look bald guys.
Or do the workers think I'm weird?
I don't know what's wrong with me.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to like · used to go
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	i've been slowing · I've been thinking · you've been putting
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've been · i've just been · haven't taken
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are closed · is sponsored · are cooked

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 151 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, broth /bɹɔθ/, panther /ˈpænθəɹ/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, fixation /fɪksˈeɪʃən/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, introverted /ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like soup, nuggets, tofu.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

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