i had an enjoyable conversation today

So a lot of Christmas lights.

Christmas lights everywhere.

Christmas is over, time to take the

lights down. Oh, look at this place.

It's so foggy tonight as well.

I don't know how people don't suffocate.

How come they don't drown when you breathe

in the fog? It's like water in the air.

It's really weird.

Ooh, doesn't look like there's

anyone here. No customers,

no customers, just the way I like it.

So foggy.

Hey, so I'm a bit late today because I was

talking to the manager's daughter for

about half an hour about Star Wars. She

made the fatal error in asking me, how was

the Star Wars movie? And I just— I went on

a bit too much. And I was also talking

about this customer. This young girl and

her friends came into the shop about 2 AM.

And I could hear her say to her friends

something like, I'm 18 now. And then she

came to pay for her beer and her alcohol.

And after I finished everything, she said

to me, thanks, young man. She said,

thanks, young man. And I was like, what?

And I said, I'm not that young. I'm 10

years older than you. Because I just heard

that she was 18. And then she said,

there's no way you're 28. And I said,

yeah, I'm 28. No, 28 next

year. And then she just laughed, and then

she walked out, and she didn't really say

anything apart from that. She just

laughed. And her friends weren't really

paying attention, so they didn't really

care. And I was telling the manager's

daughter about that, and then I showed— I

don't know how we got to this

conversation. Oh yeah, I said, I said,

um, I don't have— I don't carry ID on me.

And then I said, oh wait, I do. And then I

showed her my provisional driving license

because it had a photo of me when I was 14

years old. And then she told me that she

was born in 1990, so that means she's

younger than me. The manager's daughter is

younger than me. That's really weird

because she looks young, but she has like

this aura, this mature, responsible person

kind of aura. And I was expecting that

she was younger than me, but at the same

time, in my mind, I felt like She's a lot

older than me, like than the pool guy. I,

I was sure he was older than me, like at

least 30, and then he told me he was 25 or

26. Like, what? You're younger than me as

well? It's like everyone is younger than

me, but everyone thinks I'm a 15-year-old.

It's really weird. I know I've talked

about this a lot, about people saying that

I look young, but I just can't get over

it. It's so shocking, especially when this

young girl who's 10 years younger than me

goes to me Thank you, young man. Young

man? I'm nearly— not twice

your age. Well, I'm 10 years older than

you. You can't call me a young man. I'm

like an old man compared to you. But I

don't even know if she believed me. She

just laughed. She laughed hysterically and

just walked out. Did she not believe me?

A lot of customers do it as well. They

call me young man, especially the

policemen. And if it's really late at

night and it looks like I'm working alone,

the policemen get kind of worried.

They're like, You're not working alone,

are you? And I say, no, there's a guy in

the back. But it's like they look so

worried, like they think they can't

be having this 16-year-old working here

all alone over a night. And they call me

stuff like young man or young fellow. I'm

not that young, I'm nearly 30. I don't

know if I'm starting to feel a bit annoyed

with this. I know it's stupid because so

many people would love to be told that

they look young, but at a certain

point— I've said this before, didn't I? I

said it's only a compliment up to a

certain point when people are telling you

that you look like you're 16 when you're

actually 30. It starts to become a bit—

I feel a bit upset about it,

and I start to worry, what if I reach 50

years old and I still look like this?

Would that be a good thing? What if I

don't get gray hair? What if I don't get

wrinkles? Apart from wrinkles and gray

hair, what else makes you look old? Going

bald? I don't think I'm gonna go bald.

I'm already 27 and I'm showing no signs of

receding hairline or hair loss, which is

great. I was so worried for so many years

that I had inherited my father's male

pattern baldness, but I did read that Male

pattern baldness is, um, if the son's

mother's father is bald, then that

woman's son will also be bald. So my

mum's dad, my grandfather from Malaysia,

wasn't bald. He had hair. So I

was— I, I think it's a safe bet that I

won't go bald. But for my sister,

because my sister's dad, my dad, is bald,

then my sister's son— if my sister has a

boy as a child, if my sister has a son,

then that boy will probably go bald. I'm

sorry to say, but I'm really hoping that

my sister has a baby boy if she— when she

gets married and has kids, just so I can

test out this theory to see if if my

nephew will go bald. So remember, I said

it here on this video, I'm placing bets

that my nephew will be bald, but I might

not live that long because male pattern

baldness doesn't really set in until

you're like 25 or something. If my sister

has a kid when she's 30,

I will be— oh, it's just difficult maths

right here. She's 24 now, so that'd be 6

years' time. In 6 years' time, I will be

34, plus 25 for the kid.

I'd still be alive. I wouldn't— I won't

even be 60 by then. But that's if she has

a kid by 30.

Yeah, we'll check back in,

um, in 40 years' time if you're still

here, if YouTube is still here in 40

years' time. We'll see if my nephew is

bald or not. And I told the Bangladesh guy

about that story about that girl laughing

at me. I said, this girl just came in and

she called me young man, and then I told

her, actually, I'm 10 years older than

you. And then the Bangladesh guy also

laughed, and then he said— he just

randomly said, why don't you ask her to be

your girlfriend? And I was like, no, I

don't want to have a girlfriend who's 10

years younger than me. That would be

weird, wouldn't it? I don't really see

18-year-old girls as very mature.

They all seem like the same. I know it's

generalizing and it's not really good,

but 18-year-olds, they're too young

for me. I want someone on the same level

of maturity. Not that I'm exactly

very mature myself, but I don't want

someone who's so young who doesn't have

life experiences. I want to be in a

relationship with someone where we could

have the same level of intellectual

conversation and who has experienced stuff

in her life already. I don't really feel

like an 18-year-old has really experienced

much. They're still basically kind of like

a kid. I say that, but these 18-year-olds,

they're driving cars, they have friends,

they're going clubbing, they're getting

out there. They— 18-year-olds probably

have more life experience than I do.

Maybe it's because I spent such a long

time studying Japanese and Korean and

living in Japan, but this thing kind of

rubbed off on me where older people

are— it's not superior to younger people,

but have like a— it's like

in Japanese there's a formal way of

speaking and an informal way, like a

polite way. And you would never speak to

someone who's older than you in an

informal way. It would be considered as

really rude. And I feel like,

I feel like these young people talking to

me very informally, and I feel like out of

place. I'm older than you, you shouldn't

be talking to me like I'm younger than you

because it's weird. But we don't really

have that in the UK, do we? There was

this Korean drama that I was watching

years ago. I think it's called something

like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho.

And it's basically this story about this

demon or this monster who was thousands

of years old, but she took the form of a

young Korean lady and she would talk to

old people and everyone in the informal

way. Because if you're old in Japan or

Korea, you can talk to everyone who's

younger than you in an informal way and

it's okay because you're older than them.

And she was talking to everyone in this

informal way because She was thousands of

years old, but her body looks like she was

a young lady, and, and she would get

annoyed because people were talking to her

like she was a young woman when actually

she's thousands of years old.

I feel like that sometimes, like people

treat me like I'm a kid, like I'm just a

teenager, when actually I'm not too far

away from 30 years old. I really enjoyed

talking to the manager's daughter. She's

one of those people that I feel

comfortable speaking to. Number one,

she's English, so I can speak fast and

use slightly complicated words that I

can't use. I have to change the way I

speak when I talk to the Nepal guy or the

Bangladesh guy, because if I speak like

this, they won't understand what I'm

saying. And I have to dumb down my speech

a lot, which I'm kind of used to because

my mum's English is terrible, and I'm— I

have to speak in this funny way when I

talk to my mum. That you'd probably laugh

if you heard it because it's not like what

a real English person sounds like. It's

like this weird, really simplified

English. Maybe it's like Chinese English.

But if you don't speak like that, my mum

just doesn't understand what you're

saying. My dad doesn't understand this.

My dad can't do it. My dad always speaks

in like this really complicated way. He

uses a lot of complex, difficult words,

and it's like he doesn't understand that

my mum doesn't understand what he's saying

a lot of the time. And then they just get

frustrated at each other because my mum's

like, I don't understand what you're

saying. And then my dad doesn't really

understand what my mum's saying because

she uses this weird broken

Chinese-English. And it's really

refreshing to speak to the manager's

daughter after spending all night with

this— with guys that I can't really speak

to properly. And I was talking about Star

Wars for almost half an hour. And I really

enjoyed it. It was strange because I don't

know if she was surprised because everyone

knows me as this really quiet guy who

doesn't really talk much. But if you ask

me about my hobbies or something I'm

interested in, I could talk for ages. I

could just talk and talk and talk. And the

only reason I don't is because I'm scared

that they're thinking, please shut up.

It's kind of funny. I think it's funny

that everyone thinks I'm this really quiet

guy and always like Oh, Daniel's so

boring, he never talks. Wouldn't it be

funny if I just told them one day,

actually, I have a YouTube channel where I

make videos every day where I talk

non-stop about random stuff that interests

me for about 20 minutes to half an hour.

They'd be like, what? You're joking,

right? In real life you're so quiet, how

can you have a YouTube channel? How can

you make videos when you don't even talk

to anyone? It's kind of ironic, isn't it?

I do like the irony in that. It does amuse

me. I just forgot to tell her so many

things about Star Wars I wanted to say.

Like, I wanted to describe the end scene

with Darth Vader in more detail. I told

her about it. I told her how it's like

grown-up Star Wars and it's really

shocking at the end when you see Darth

Vader kill a load of people.

I don't know if she actually cared or she

found it interesting, but she's a very

nice person and she's very convincing when

she makes it seem like she's interested in

what you're saying. I don't know if she's

actually interested, but I feel really

comfortable talking to her because she's

so receptive. She's— it's like she's

actually interested in what you're saying.

I'm very bad at that. When people start

talking to me about things, if I don't

find it interesting, then I find it very

hard to fake being interested. Like, then

the poor guy would talk to me about

motorbikes and cars and racing, and I just

I really couldn't care less, and I find it

really hard to, to make it look like I'm

actually interested. I'm just like, ah,

ah, um, oh, because I can't think of

an interesting reply. I'm not like, wow,

that's amazing, wow. No, I'm not like

that. I'm just like, oh, and then awkward

silence. Yeah, I did feel like I wanted

to talk to her more It felt kind of like

talking to a therapist. I don't know if I

told you earlier, but told you before,

but I actually found her profile on

Facebook and it said she studied

psychology. Maybe that's why. Maybe she

studied how to listen to people. Maybe she

studied how to be a therapist. It's really

nice, actually. Maybe I should go to a

therapist. Nah, I don't need it. But I

decided to, um, just say bye, I'm going

home, because half an hour had gone by and

she had to do work. She had to work, so I

felt like I should stop talking and let

her get on with her work. So I left. I

said bye, see you next time. It was fun.

Yes, it's fun talking to people instead

of, um, talking to a camera, an inanimate

object. Strange, that, isn't it?

Tomorrow's 2017. Isn't that weird? We went

through 2016 just like that. It was so

quick. I can't even remember what I did.

Oh, I do. Bought a load of cameras,

went to Korea for the 4th time, went to

Japan for the 5th time, had an absolute

shit time, went to Taiwan, got my heart

broken and wasted loads of money and sat

around in this girl's house doing

absolutely nothing and it was really

awkward. Then I came back and then got a

job and that was pretty much it. 2016 in

a nutshell. Don't know what's gonna happen

in 2017. I really can't predict

what's gonna happen. I don't feel like I'm

gonna go to Japan. I've been to Japan

every year since 2010.

2010, 2011, 2012,

2013, '14, 2015. I didn't go actually.

2015, I went to Norway, Paris, and yeah,

I went, I went to Stavanger in Norway and,

and, um, not Oslo. I went to Bergen and

I went on a ferry tour in the fjords. It

was quite nice. I also went to Paris. I

didn't really like Paris that much. You

know, beggars everywhere. And I felt

really unsafe. There were beggars

everywhere, and there would be like groups

of black men. It was just— it was black

men all the time, and they look really

intimidating. They're really tall and

really, really black. Not like Obama kind

of brownish black, but like completely

black. I've never seen black people that

black before. It's— I don't know, I don't

want to sound racist, but it felt a bit

intimidating because they're really big

and aggressive, and they hanged around

like groups of 5 or 10. You walk past

them, they They like try and sell you

stuff really aggressively. One of them

actually grabbed my arm and he was trying

to attach this wristband onto my arm that

he was trying to sell. And I was saying,

no thanks, no thanks, trying to put away.

He kept grabbing me and pulling me. I had

to like pull his fingers off my

wrist. It was really scary. I was really

angry about it. You can't just grab

people. And it was in the tourist area.

In like a famous area where there was a

monument, where the police— you couldn't

do that in England. The police would come

and they'd tell you to stop. But there's

like no security anywhere in Paris, which

is weird because they had all those

terrorist attacks. There were hardly any.

It didn't feel like there was any police

presence in the tourist trap areas. And

all these people selling you— trying to

sell you rubbish. They get really

desperate. I didn't like it.

And they're like groups of girls that come

up to you asking for money for charities,

and it just feels like a total scam.

So 100% sure that's a scam. They just walk

up to you and they say, English? They

won't speak in French. It's like they're

targeting the English-speaking tourists

and asking them for money. I really didn't

like France or Paris. I, I just didn't

like it. It wasn't for me. So, um, thanks

for listening. 2016 is— it's actually

over, isn't it? Let me check. Wait, I need

to check my thingy. Oh no, it's still

2017. It's Saturday 31st.

31st. I pronounced that completely

wrongly. 31st. 31st.

Okay, so it's still 2016 for the next 20

hours or so. Tomorrow is the 1st of

January, so— but by the time I make my

next video, it will be 2017, so I guess

I'll see you— see you next year.

Yeah. Have a nice end of 2016,

and bye-bye.