Death. The hardest and trickiest topic to tackle. The inevitable; but something people would avoid.

It's hard to lose your love ones, or to see people you love lose the ones closest to them.

It hasn't been the brightest and the best year with death looming in recent times; and I figured it's time for me to talk about it...

From my first experience with death to date, to how I stopped looking at the faces of the ones who passed because it's too much for me to take.

In this episode of Rye off React, Chilli and I talked about gifts! It may differ in culture, but is it weird to buy something for a neighbour's pet?

I don't want to make my neighbour felt any sort of obligation yet don't want to be weird as well. But wanted to do something for my neighbours cat; so what should I do?

Come find out

Depression is really a strange thing to cope; when your friends ask you to seemingly "undepress" yourself. If only it is as easy as flicking a switch. This Chinese New Year period probably got me shagged out, and here I am... checking in

What if your parents deny you of a certain truth about your family tree and your family origin? Do you continue to find out or... just live with it?

In this casual episode of Rye off React, Chilli and I tried to uncover this with the OP, until...

In this tricky episode, we dived into something that is not much talked about; smell. How do we tell someone if they smell? bad breath, body odour? It was tough to navigate but sometimes it could be something that put us in a very vulnerable state.

So how should/do we go about it?

Come find out!

In this episode of Rye off the Bat, I came back feeling alittle enlightened from my therapy after speaking with my psychologist and psychiatrist.

To be honest, I always thought that medication would do the trick, like I would be okay after some pills; I genuinely felt this way because I felt that other than medication there was nothing else that could help me, not even myself.

But apparently... that's not the case

In my current time, I felt alot of flatness; alot of my emotions felt so fleeting that sometimes I don't feel it and I felt alot of numbness, so... I'd been advised to find meaning in life. So let's see how this goes, shall we?

Have you heard of the orange peel theory? A trending tiktok "relationship litmus test"; which suggests that the small acts of service, and a partner’s willingness to perform them, indicate a healthy relationship (such being helping to peel an orange)

The story happens when one of the partners realizes that she has been on the shorter end of the stick, and it all comes down right after her partner didn't... "pass" the orange peel test when she was asking for small favours and he didn't help her.

Are such tests accurate? or was it just hype? Should one judge their relationship based on something as small as an orange peel theory? Something seemingly trival but what do we unravel underneath? Come find out!

I was on Setraline earlier, and after feeling that it doesn't fits me well, and making me tired; I tried dabbling in Prozac. I tried adjusting the time of medication from morning to night to morning again, and I'd say it's still pretty okay, trying to balance my mental health with it.

But... it felt similar; other than the fatique (it is seemingly less from Setraline), there are 3 side effects that still affects me after going on antidepressant for more than 6 months.

So... I guess I decided to talk about it.

To what extend do we want our partner to change and to what extend that change is too much? In this episde of Rye off Reach, Chilli and I dived into the the story of this couple whereby the husband actually wanted his "wife to be" to go through plastic surgery to be more aesthetically pleasing before he commits to a marraige.