Rye Off The Bat

In the part 2 of our Rye off React for Ghost stories; we read one that is much more relatable to Singaporean Males all around... Army. Nothing send more chills down my spine for Army Ghost Stories as I too have my own fair share and experience of it. So this one talks about the infamous Bouncy Betty, a myth that might have been around for awhile but comes with an unexpected twist.

In this episode, I decided to talk about the oblivion I have "made" for people whom I'd crossed paths with sometimes. The unforgettable ones, but also unloveable and unhateable. Perhaps they are a distant memory now and remembering them makes me feel... sad and hurt? But then again for them to exist seeming frozen in time also felt like a reminder of what I'd lost.

For those who'd seen Bojack Horsemen, it's like how he and Diane... have nothing left to talk about after; just that.

It's 7th month in the time of our recording and we decided to try reading some horror stories instead! In this spine-chilling story we explore the horror of taking the last bus! Last bus usually runs close into midnight, with some running way pass it by the time you reach the other end of the route at the interchange. What happens if... for some last buses there are certain "special" stops specifically to ferry supernatural entities?

In this episode of Rye off the Bat I talked about how I make sense of things... of why we met the same kind of lovers who treat us badly, why we meet the friends who don't appreciate us. Our lack of self-love is a hard thing to fix but stoicism always tells us about how we should focus on the locus of control; how we feel and sometimes you hurt them back, and sometimes they make you become a worse version of yourself.

So perhaps we should focus on healing, and getting up whenever we fall, instead of never loving again.

In this episode with Chilli, we dive into daddy issues where the bride actually felt that her step-dad is more of a dad to her than her real dad. So what makes a parent a "parent figure"? And how do one deal when their child pick someone else to "recognize" as their parent figure instead?

Semi-fuzzy podcast talking about how I feel that we would always be loved whether we know it or not. Sometimes it's not up to us to pick who love us; or who do we love. But the only thing we can control is if we keep loving ourselves.

Love ourselves not too much but enough to forgive ourselves, to understand our flaws, and know that we would always grow and become better.

In this hilarious episode of Rye of React, Chilli and I dive deep into.... something interesting as the Girlfriend of a 4 year relationship found out that her boyfriend has been freezing and collecting their pet dog's poop and may even have been racing her to clear the poop because of his collection habit. So what's this strange reason behind erratic behaviour?

Let's find out

In this episode, we dive alittle deeper into my pretravel anxiety and why do I feel that way. Despite being a wanderlust, I hate "pre-travelling", from committing a period to travel and to doing several miscellaneous travel stuff. It could be as simple as planning, packing. Perhaps it is change that made me feel anxious, and it is a weird way; be it for better or worse; change always makes me feel anxious.

Perhaps it is the issue of my anxiety disorder that is making me feel this way but once I'm in the plane and it takes off, it felt like I'm a whole new different person altogether.

For this episode of Rye off React, we kick start into this situationship of an interracial BGR where the girlfriend didn't know that the family members of her boyfriend are seemingly racists. Being a woman of colour, and hearing them referring to her with the N word could not only be a shock, but also make her feel helpless. It was a tough topic to navigate.

Its a topic that is very much relevant in Singapore as we are a multicultural nation and society, and it is not uncommon for us to have friendships/relationships with people of different nationalities and races. So how do we ensure that our family members are on the same page as us regarding this?

By the time this podcast is out, I'm already at Hong Kong. This is a open letter to the traveller in me, from the first time to Hong Kong in 2015, and now 8 years later I'm back again. I wonder if the Hong Kong I knew was still the same, if the place that I hold so close to my heart, the language that pulled my heart strings (Cantonese), would always sooth the traveller's anxiety in me.

So... Hong Kong, here we are, again.