Poh Ling Yeow

But it's just such an incredible thing to be able to do that and to walk into a challenge and think that there's no way you can produce anything and come out of it winning it, right, and thinking, oh, my goodness.

There are things in me that I'm capable of doing that I don't even know about.

It's a really incredible feeling and I've never had it replicated again.

So to be able to come back as a judge and see people be able to experience this is

is like so moving.

Like year after year I walk into that room and then on the first day especially, just like the room is just so thick with people's hopes and dreams and it's an incredible feeling, yeah, to be able to be part of that still.

Intoxicating.

Yeah, it's intoxicating.

It really is.

Your final pick as well is a beautiful composition from the late, great composer Johanna Hansen, A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder.

Why did you choose this song?

Oh, my gosh.

Every time I listen to this song, I, like, well up.

It's just so beautiful.

And for some reason, there's just, you know, these types of compositions that are, like, equal parts melancholic and hopeful.

And I think for me it represents this...

era that I'm in in my 50s and I still dream I'm still dreaming for better things and it's not I absolutely love my life but it's for even more creativity you know like I want so many things to happen still more paintings to be painted

um i'd love to be um involved in filmmaking in some way at some point in my life um uh with my ex matt you know i yeah so it's about another chapter and that i'll i'll just never stop doing this i think even when i'm you know an octogenarian i'll still be dreaming i have no doubt

What a joy it's been to swirl in your dreams with you.

Thank you so much for taking five today, Po.