Rye Off The Bat

Have you ever felt like a wallflower? I decided to share about this part of me; the person taking the backseat, observing, a writer, a narrator of sort telling stories, listening. Perhaps it's this persona that opened up difference doors for me, even though I'd never truly ever walked in one, but it'd given me a glimpse or a peak to the different worlds in this universe. And it's perhaps one of my perks of being a wallflower. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

We are back again with Rye off React with Chilli and in this episode, we explored the end of a relationship... what happens if you initiated a breakup and you were just meet with an "okay" before your partner block you? Is this enough for a closure? Or it was so quick that you didn't see it coming --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

Here's an update on life, and also how Rye off the Bat would be taking a slower pace from now. I'd been exhausted with a number of stuff; mostly my lawsuit, work, tackling my anxiety and depression while trying to function. I'd finally took the courage to set a date for my operation; that's probably also another story to tell. On the bright side, we are looking to get Rye off React back, I'll be looking to travel at least once before my op, and hopefully I can set aside more time for my content once my work settled down. * Rye off the Bat would be releasing every other Wednesday for now, until I'm able to do something weekly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

It was a great show; my best medicine to depression and insomnia. I like how the laughing track made me feel less alone, though bittersweet, how each of the characters are charming in their own way. I'd say Howard's arc would be my favourite (might be an unpopular opinion), but being a timid person who was bullied made me felt somewhat relatable; especially being degraded often. It was not just any show, as I'd get to know big bang theory in afew other occasions, but having to really get to know and watch the whole of it... it just made me felt something. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

It was a night of drinking with my buddy on a Monday and I was reminiscing about the old times when these thoughts struck me. Oh, how I missed the old times and how naive we were, the seemingly perfect moment where I'd felt happiness... only at hind sight. But it sure didn't feel it that way then, pain is relative, and every day felt like a chore, being a student, schooling, being graded by your grades. But going to work, seeing the other kids chasing each other, running around the neighbourhood, giving our all in our puppy love... that felt akin to happiness; or was it only a hindsight thing? Do we really know what happiness was? Or it is just all a memory? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

Who would have known this unsuspecting HDB flat would be where I'd feel alive after seeing all the artworks. It kinda felt like a way the universe wake up the artist in me, the one who'd get excited gallery and museum hopping. And it made me want to do this episode, so I won't forget that today... I felt alive. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

Midnight ramblings on why I always blame and hate myself. There are things we can control and there are things that we can’t; is this god complex when I feel I know what’s best? And I didn’t achieve it? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

In this episode Rye off React, we came across this story to discuss. Some friendships are tough, especially when it is at the mercy of both party's mental health. It's hard to balance, but sometimes do we set ourselves on fire to keep others warm? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

In this episode, I'm feeling alittle positive and productive as I'd been trying to switch things up. There's always a pocket of time available; especially timing in between our tasks, appointments or during commutes. Being aware of these times could also give us the chance to come up with mini-tasks that help us take tiny steps towards our goal, and these are 3 steps on how we can get to it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

In this interesting episode of Rye off React; Chilli and I dive into something alittle different. It's common for people to get a tattoo in a foreign language, what if the tattoo isn't what the person thinks it is, or worse, if the tattoo means something offensive? Would you tell your friend the true meaning of their ink? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

It was until my therapist pointed this part out that made me more aware of my nervous laughter tendencies; yes, I laugh at inappropriate times. And it affected me throughout life... I didn't really know or have any explanation (or rather excuse), except to say that I usually use this to cope. It was until I realize it is a thing... and it isn't easy to share/let people around me understand as they find it hard to accept my socially inappropiate behaviour. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

Continuing from the episode from gifts, Chilli and I came across this story whereby the OP's husband didn't allow her to give a gift that to another guy at work. For context it's a gift that they received and they do regift things to others for things that they don't use. We also learnt what's a Keurig today. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

It was 4am in the morning and I was taking a walk out and I decided to go on a rambling… it’s been awhile since I’d recorded an episode so raw (outside). It was one of those days when I felt like everyday starts to feel like clockwork; putting blocks after block… and then what? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryeoffthebat/message