Hi, hello, guten Tag, it's been a long time. Here's a special episode of me recollecting and reflecting on a very eventful year and a half. Got hitched, broke down half the closet door, and birthed a PhD thesis, all in 2023.

Photo description: The husband and I walking down the stairs while being greeted by some stray, aesthetic bubbles.

In the back of my head, there is this looming fear that I'd end up ordinary, because I thought that I should strive to be extraordinary. Dreading the very real fact that I might brand my own self as a failure, I've used the image of an ordinary person as a negative example to push me forward in life. Using fear as motivation is never a great choice, so I talked about it this episode.

Photo description: Me in my school uniform, proudly posing with two trophies I had snagged earlier that day.

Thousands of languages in the world, yet not enough time to learn them all. This episode, I'm joined by my favorite polyglot, Ramil, to talk about languages, slang, and accents among other things.

Photo description: 8-year-old me at my first speech competition.

Just because women can wear jeans now, doesn't mean that the story of feminism is over. In fact, it is far away from it. In this rather dense episode, Swati is back again to talk about the image, alongside our perception and views, on feminism.

Photo description: A photograph of a random girl with a NERF gun, not a TERF gun.

Is talking about poop unhinged? Maybe. What about butt-stuff? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we're just a little bit more honest, deranged, and poop-tolerant? Kevin is back to have a chat with me about poop and but-stuff.

Photo description: It was the year of my poop incident and I was sitting in front of the infamous desktop computer.

Blue for boys and pink for girls? Pfft. That's not just outdated, that's lazy and tired. Here, we talked about gender identity, pronouns, and, just generally speaking, being people who are just a tad more mindful.

Photo description: Indonesian is a genderless language, the word for he/she/it/they (singular) is "dia".

Sometimes, the hardest thing for us to do is to admit the things that we do alone behind closed doors, when the only witness that we have to the things we do alone is ourself. Let's reflect upon that. This episode, a confession of the things that I do alone.

Photo description: Me digitally attempting to perform a Chidori in secrecy.

I used to be addicted to not just the gaming aspect of World of Warcraft but also its sense of community. Some may even say that I was not a player, I was played. I invited Damiano this time around to talk about the seen and unseen layers of (mostly video) games.

Photo description: Tyrande (top) and Sylvanas (bottom), Damiano's and my favorite WoW characters respectively.

I've always thought being anti-religion is edgy, but the more I think about it, it's not edgy at all. If anything, rejecting religion is sane and it makes sense. Mike is here with me again to discuss/bash religion.

Photo description: Little Andy during a bible-reading competition.

There's always this great divide, at least in my mind, when thinking about straight boys. So I challenged myself to talk to presumably the only straight boy who'll ever appear on this podcast about masculinity and straight sex. It's gonna be so fetch, bro.

Photo description: I love swords since they're so cool and manly.