梳化同學會 | The Podcasting Couch

Ming shares his life under lock-down, while Gtai updates his journey to becoming the very best guitar player like no one ever was. Jay then ruins a classical Cantonese song by weird reinterpretations. Nic and Jay also shares their office stories from this week, discovering a weird resemblance between homework and working overtime. The couch finally dives into the main topic of the week, and attempts to draw a line between persistence and stubbornness. 

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Life in lockdown, here we go again...  (Pre-topic)

00:19:00 II.   We ruin a great song:  盧冠廷 - 陪著你走 (Pre-topic)

00:32:00 III.  Jay & Nic's Office Stories (Pre-topic)

00:56:00 IV.  How Persistent / Stubborn are the Couch Hosts?

Hong Kong continues to suffer from the Wuhan virus, leading to intensifying quarantine exhaustion. Gtai decides to pick up the guitar to everyone's surprise. Pong returns and finally repays his debt for the time skip episode, revealing his opinion on highschool vs. university life. Moving on to a lighter note, Jay finds a weird article about a Japanese toilet unit, which leads to the couch designing the perfect (and unrealistic) Couch Toilet Unit. The episode ends with the couch diving into coping with the impending end/changes of relationships, revealing what we consider the foreseeable perfect evolution of our friendship. 

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Pong

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Thanks! Wuhan Corona! (Pre-topic discussion)

00:27:00 II.   Does Pong Enjoys his Highschool vs. University life more? (Pre-topic discussion)

00:43:00 III.  Weird Japanese Toilet! (Pre-topic discussion)

01:14:00 IV.    Coping with the inevitable impending end of all relationships and events.

Pong final returns for a new episode of Single Guys Give Dating Advice! Before the main topic, Gtai shares his kayaking experience. Jay then attempts to promote his guest appearance on Chajik Podcast, ending the segment with the boys judging his first time frying sunshine eggs for breakfast. The crew then moves on to discuss whether the spark of love/attraction is an instant reaction or a slow build up like in dramas, while sharing some of our friend's love stories. Then we dive deeper into discussing differentiating one's true-self from the idea of that person, and whether changing your partner "for the better" is actually "the better". 

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Pong

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Gtai Goes Kayaking~ (Pre-topic)

00:32:00 II.  Jay Guested on Chajik Podcast! (Pre-topic)

00:43:00 III. Jay tried to fry sunshine eggs for breakfast (Pre-topic)

01:03:00 IV.  Is Love an Instant Reaction or a Slow Build-up? By your experience, which is more common?

01:37:00 V.   How do we make sure we're falling in love with the actual person instead of our idea of that person?

The Couch sits down and talk about life during the 3rd wave of the corona virus. To steer the convo towards a more lighthearted direction, we moved on by ranking the 4 seasons, revealing one of us REALLY hates summers (the season, not the person). This episode ends with a deeper chat about whether we fear not achieving career success or dying alone more. Enjoy! ~Jay

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai

Topics:

00:00:00 I.  Wuhan Corona Virus Strikes Again (Pre-topic discussion)

00:30:00 II.  We Rank the 4 Seasons (Pre-topic discussion)

01:10:00 III. Which Do You Fear More? Not Achieving Success in Your Career or Dying Alone?

Jay voices his appreciation for his new boss, while Ming reveals he recently bought a yoyo (Please pressure him to release videos~). Gtai shares a friend's house party failure story, prompting us to discuss university society committees in general. We then move on to the main topic of Open Exams, where we talked about the emptiness we felt after taking our IB exams; sharing our highschool predicted grade stories. We end the episode by creating a time capsule with memories of our post-IB chill times~

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   University Society Committee Memories (Pre-topic discussion)

01:07:00 II.   Why did We Feel Empty After The IB Exams?

01:26:00 III. Highschool Predicted Grade: Stressed or Blessed (Stories)

01:45:00 IV. Post-IB Results Chill Time~ (Fong Bong Memories)

Our new season kicks off with Jay and 3 amazing guest hosts! Chester enlightens the host cast with film industry insights and a fun fact about Avengers End Game that you might've missed... The boys then talk about Chester's title as "Dailo (Boss)" and other weird high school stories, revealing the anti-climatic backstory of Chester's nickname. We then each present our influential movie(s), served together with Chester's unique commentary!

This Episode's Hosts: Jay

Guest: Chester; Donald; Lukas

Topics:

00:00:00 I.  The Los Angeles Film industry (Pre-topic discussion)

00:40:00 II.  High School Memories! (Pre-topic discussion)

01:24:00 III. Show and Tell: An Influential Movie w/ Chester Commentary

(The Intouchables -> Lion King -> Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse -> The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the season one finale of the show~ In this episode we open with talking about online dating scams. The crew then moves on to comparing our expected vs. actual university experience, revealing some of us regret their university choice... For our final topic, we assess our own growths within this 4 year gap from high school to university grad, apparently there are some similarities...

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Beware! Facial Scams! (Pre-topic discussion)

00:40:00 II.  Graduating from Highschool, How have you envisioned your university life to be like? How does it compare to  your actual experience?

01:50:00 III. The 4 year Timeskip, what are some clear Improvements/ Growths that you have?

This week Joey joins the crew as we talk about Jay's crazy encounter and discuss Nic's summer job. Then we compete against each other in a 7 question Ming Trivia, where we ask weird questions like "If Ming is a transformer, what vehicle would he be?". Then we end the episode by releasing an old recording (2018) of Pong and Jay's conversation, talking about their childhood and reminiscing about their track records as trouble makers back in school...

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Nic; Pong

Guest: Joey Eazy

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Summer Summer Summertime~ (Pre-topic discussion)

00:52:00 II.  We Challenge Each Other to a Game of Ming Trivia

01:58:00 III. Pong and Jay:  Childhood of Two trouble makers (March 2018)

We finally got Chester and JChow on the show for the promised tinder episode! We catch up by reminiscing about our high school days as Alumni members. Then diving into the main topics, we expose our tinder profiles, share our tinder stories and discuss the general online dating experience. Moving forward, we talk about red and green flags on people's profiles. Finally, we round up the episode by talking about our preference of traditional vs online dating, where Jchow reveals difficulties he experience in his dating life.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Gtai; Pong

Guest: Chester; JChow

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Sharing our Tinder profiles (Pre-topic discussion)

00:47:00 II.   The Dating App Experience & Stories

01:54:30 III.   Profile Red & Green Flags (Things that make us instantly swipe)

02:32:00 IV.  Traditional Vs. Online Dating

A hating session takes a surprising turn into becoming a discussion on the HK entertainment industry. Then we attempt to convince you that Jay is a great guy, while simultaneously inflating his massive ego, enjoy~

This Episode's Hosts: Ming; Gtai; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I.   Sounding dead inside (Pre-topic discussion)

00:09:00 II.   Mickey Tsang: The Dark Side of the Entertainment Industry 

                       (Any Resemblance to Actual Events or Persons are Entirely Coincidental)

00:58:30 III. Our Jay: The Good, The Bad, The Captain