Do you like art?

That's interesting.

Depends on what.

I like cinema, for instance, movies, music.

But I don't know too much about paintings or modern art.

I'm not too familiar with.

So it depends on what kind of art.

Do you like to take photographs?

Yes.

I wouldn't say the photographs are good, but I do enjoy taking pictures.

Yeah.

Do you prefer to take photos of yourself or other things?

Of other things.

It's kind of hard to take pictures of yourself unless it's a selfie and that's limited.

So pictures of other things mostly.

Now let's talk about animals.

Do you like animals?

I love animals.

Land animals.

Friendly, so to speak, animals, not insects and not anything from the ocean.

What is your favorite animal?

Probably a dog.

Dogs, for obvious reasons, you can keep them as pets in terms of like non domesticated animals, probably jaguars.

Do you have any animals in your home as pets?

Yes, I have two dogs.

They're both from the shelter, the animal shelter, the rescues.

Yeah, I've always had pets.

Our family really likes keeping animals around.

Now let's talk about bags.

What type of bags do you like?

I prefer purses that are a little bit on the larger side, just because I like to put everything of my life in my purse.

So it ends up weighing maybe 20 kilos.

Yeah, larger bags, probably structured, larger bags.

How often do you carry a bag when you go out?

Every day.

I think that's the case for most women.

I think they carry a bag every even if you go down to the grocery or the supermarket, you take your bag with you usually.

Right.

What sort of bags do women like to buy?

It depends.

It depends on your outfit.

It depends on where you're going for the day.

If you're going to the office, you probably want something bigger that can fit your laptop, your phone, paperwork, everything that you might need during the day.

If it's nighttime, you'd want something smaller like a clutch, something more sleek, elegant.

So it depends.

If you're traveling, you'd want a much bigger bag that's able to carry not just you, but all of your family's stuff as well.

So everything.

Women like all kinds of bags.

That's why we have so many of them.

Now, let's talk about birthdays.

What did you usually do on your birthday when you were a child?

So when I was a kid, when I was a child in school, we had a uniform.

Everybody wore a uniform to school.

So when it was your birthday, it was the one day of the year that you were allowed to wear whatever you wanted.

So it was a big deal.

I mean, at least I would pick out my outfit like two months in advance.

It would be like a little dress, like a princessy frock, matching shoes, matching accessories for your hair.

And then you would take some kind of chocolate or candy to school.

And then you could take like a period off and go and give the candy out to other teachers and other kids in the school.

And we looked forward to it every year.

It was the highlight to get to not have to wear the uniform, to wear whatever you wanted and to basically be able to skip class and go out and hand out chocolates because it's your birthday.

How do you normally celebrate your birthday now?

Very differently.

Everyone's allowed to wear whatever they want now.

So it's kind of not the same charm.

It depends.

I like to do a little dinner with my friends, something low key.

I'm not a very big party person.

So dinner is usually good, followed by probably like a games night or a movies movie night at home or at the cinema, something low key.

Do you think it's important to give someone a card on their birthday?

Like a handwritten, like a birthday card?

I think so, yes, because I'm quite sentimental and emotional, so I prefer more emotional, sentimental gifts.

So I think if someone takes the time to write something by hand for you, I think that, I mean, I hold on to stuff like that.

So I think it's a very nice, thoughtful present to give someone on their birthday.

The first time I met a new friend, so I'm going to go way back.

It was my first day of school, kindergarten, and I met a girl named Amanpreet Kaur.

She, we were about, I think we just turned four years old.

We met, obviously, in kindergarten, first day of school.

What I liked about her when I first saw her, I mean, we were sitting together with the teacher made us sit next to each other.

And she had this long hair and it was like sectioned into two parts and it was just braided all the way down.

And she had the cutest face I've ever seen.

She had this little fluffy marshmallow like face.

I guess that's all it takes when you're a kid to want to be friends with somebody.

And then I tried to, so there's like this little thing that kids do where they put their thumb out to show other kids that I want to be your friend.

And then if you don't want to be friends with them, you do this.

It's like a silly little thing.

So I did this to her.

I put my thumb out to say, hey, do you want to be friends?

And she was like this, and I was heartbroken.

I was like, how can she not want to be my friend?

And then I saw her again the next day and the next day after that and the day after that.

And then eventually we ended up becoming best friends.

She did it back to me, obviously, at some point.

She was my first best friend that I ever had in life.

She was from Punjab, which is a part of India.

And her mom used to make the most amazing, it's called paratha.

It's like this stuffed bread.

It's like they put potato and spices into like into a flatbread.

And my mom used to make something called seera, which is sweet semolina situation.

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It depends, I would say.

I would perhaps think that quality is more important than quantity.

So I wouldn't say that the objective should be to make as many friends as you can or to be popular as much as the objective should be to build meaningful friendships with people.

That could be one person.

That could be five people.

That could be 10 people.

Situational, I would say.

Yeah.

So it's not so much how many friends you have as it's not as important to have a lot of friends as it might be to have people that you can trust, that you can kind of take with you in life for a longer term.

Do you think it is wrong for parents to choose which friends their children have?

Again, that's a tricky one.

Now, when I answer these questions, I'm thinking back to real life situations.

And in some cases I have seen parents interfering and trying to make those decisions for their children where they were right to do so because the child was in bad company and they were too naive or too, I mean, I guess they were just too naive to see that that situation was not right for them.

But the parent obviously was able to identify that my child's in bad company.

So in those cases, I would say that your parents are able to read a dangerous situation better.

But there's also the flip side where everybody kind of does make bad decisions.

Your parents made bad decisions.

You made bad decisions.

And the way that you learn from them is to have a negative experience and then find your way out of it.

So I would say that I can see certain situations, whether it's bad relationships, bad friendships when you're younger, not relationships when you're younger, friendships when you're younger.

Sometimes it's necessary to have that experience so that you know firsthand how to deal with that situation.

And you may not be able to get that experience if your parents always shield you from every single thing that can go wrong.

So I can kind of see, depends on the situation, I would say.

Now let's talk about making new friends.

Can you think of any disadvantages of making new friends online?

Disadvantages of making new friends online?

I think there's more disadvantages to making new friends.

I mean, there was a show recently that came out on Netflix called Tinder Swindler.

The thing is, most of what we see online isn't real, whether it's social media or even news for that matter.

Everything is kind of edited and monitored to present a certain kind of image.

So if you meet somebody online and you know nothing about them, they can really present any version of reality or a completely curated, sometimes dishonest form of their reality to you.

So it's a very dangerous game to play.

Friendships or relationships?

Both.

Friendships.

Friendships.

Yeah.

It's somebody you know nothing about is a very, everything can go wrong there, right?

Would you say it is harder for people to make new friends as they get older?

Yes.

I think it becomes harder for people to make friends as they get older.

I think adults are perhaps a little bit more, more structured.

I mean, the older that you get, the more set you get in your ways, your routine, where you work, your family, your gym.

Children, for children it becomes, it's very easy for children to interact with other children.

Like if you put two kids in a room in three seconds, they're talking to each other without any restrictions.

They're talking about all of their family secrets and everything, you know, they're comfortable.

But with adults, obviously people tend to be more filtered when they interact with other adults.

Also, I think if you've been friends from the time that you were a child with somebody, you've lived through so many life events together that that kind of bond is hard to build with someone that you meet in your mid-30s because you've just lost so much time that you're learning something.

You're learning about them from scratch, where they went to school, about their family, about their relationships, about their siblings.

So, yeah, I think it's a, it's not impossible.

You can make a lot of incredible friendships later in life, but it's probably harder to come by than if you were a kid in play school.

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So part one, it's just normal everyday questions and you answered those very, very naturally.

Again, it was like talking to a friend or a colleague and the length of your answers was also quite good.

This is not a criticism and it's just kind of who you are as a person.

You're a very friendly, chatty person who wants the other person to interact.

So you're often like girls like buying bags, right?

That is fine in normal conversation.

If you were to do the test for real, the examiner could be quite stone faced because they're doing their job.

They're not being unfriendly.

They just have a job to do and they're trying to think about your grammar and your vocabulary and your pronunciation and your fluency.

And there's a lot going on there.

Yeah.

And for them, they cannot start to interact with you.

And on test day, you might not get a very friendly examiner like me.

I don't know whether I was friendly or not, but they might be like, you know, don't do that.

Or some of them could, you know, be having a bad day and they're just like, don't ask questions.