Lepak Time

This week, we resume our discussion on the reasons why parents justify restricting their children's autonomy. We broaden our scope by looking at generation Z in general, using Billie Eilish and Greta Thunberg as examples of society's prejudice against youth.

This episode, we take a look at how children are treated. We discuss ideas raised in the Not Overthinking podcast and Quill Rebecca Kukla's article titled Taking Children's Autonomy Seriously as a Parent. In particular, we talk about the ways children are treated differently and some of the reasons why parents justify limiting their children's autonomy.

This week, Joshua, Elle, Adrian and Rachel talk about mistakes and getting into trouble. We start off by broadly discussing what we mean by mistakes. Then, we delve into how we got into trouble during our childhood and debate when it's appropriate (if ever) to cheat. We end by examining the effectiveness of caning as a method of punishment.

This week Joshua, Adrian, Rachel and Elle chat about languages. We state the different languages we speak and discuss what it means to be bilingual or trilingual. Elle's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmMOx9cxJkzkhOEfIIB_1tA Joshua's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP795mWCiWIJRNieiMp7oQg

This episode, Rachel, Elle, Adrian and Joshua talk about what it means to be happy. We discuss the things that bring us happiness, such as productivity, body positivity, intrinsic value and entertainment. We ponder upon what colour we see happiness as and debate materialistic happiness.

Continuing where we left off last week, Joshua, Rachel, Adrian and Joey delve deeper into the discussion of personality. We chat about traits we like/dislike and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Joshua also presents his Sims theory of personality.

In this week's episode, Joshua, Rachel, Adrian and Elle discuss what personality is. We discuss our individual personalities as indicated by the 16Personalities test. We debate strengths and weaknesses and how much we identify with our given personalities on the test. Finally, we talk about how our personality developed and consider how much of our personality we can actually control.

In this episode, Joshua, Rachel, Elle and Adrian discuss everything related to music! We list out the musical genres, artists and songs we enjoy. We also talk about how music came into our lives and suggest artists worth listening to.

Human beings look towards goals for direction and motivation. We set goals for ourselves and plan to achieve them in the near future. Join us this week as we discuss everything related to goals: effective goal-setting, personal goals, goals as children, goals for the podcast and living life without goals. We eventually come to the conclusion that goals are indeed useful and effective. Tern Ye, Elle, Adrian and Joshua participate in this episode.

We text people on the daily. It's hard to imagine a time where texting and social media didn't exist. In this week's episode, we delve deep into the topic of texting. We discuss how exactly we text, group chats, stickers and emojis, and whether physical or virtual conversations are superior. In this episode: Rachel, Joey & Joshua.

This week, we take a trip down memory lane and talk about the things that made our childhood. We drool over candy, reminisce over the games we played and discuss the cartoons we love, such as Winx Club, Slugterra, Supa Strikas and countless others. In this episode: Elle, Rachel & Adrian.

In this episode, we discuss our love for anime. We take turns introducing how we got into watching anime and our individual favourites. We also discuss some anime such as Darling in the Franxx, Owari no Seraph (Seraph of the End), The Promised Neverland and The Rising of the Shield Hero. We go over anime crushes and suggest some starting points to begin watching anime. In this episode: Adrian, Elle, Joshua & Shakira.

In this episode, Joshua, Adrian and Rachel talk about their pet peeves. We discuss the little things that annoy us, whether that be the people around us, our families or even the minuscule details.

*Note: We understand and respect that the topic for this episode is a sensitive one. We chose to talk about it to raise awareness on racism and mean no harm or insult to any party. In this episode, we discuss the recent outrage in the United States of America regarding the unjust demise of a man named George Floyd. We delve into what happened, the ensuing riots and the media's reaction. We also raise awareness on how you can help. https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ In this episode: Adrian, Joshua, Rachel & Elle.

In this episode, we continue or discussion on friendship, talking about what we like about each other and the stories that bond us as a group. We also play a round of superlatives! Roster: Joshua, Adrian, Rachel, Xiu Xian, Joey, Elle, Daryl, Cherry, Shakira & Tern Ye.

In this episode, the first of a two-part series on friendship, we talk about how we met and our first impressions of each other. With 10 people in this episode, we take a more structured approach to describe the positive and negative things we like about each person in our friend group. Roster: Joshua, Adrian, Rachel, Xiu Xian, Joey, Elle, Daryl, Cherry, Shakira & Tern Ye.

In this episode, we discuss our relationship with our siblings as well as the parental expectations placed upon us. Also, Cherry rants, a lot. Listen to find out what she rants about. Roster: Adrian, Joshua, Rachel, Cherry & Daryl

In this episode, we talk about our experiences with stress! Join us as we discuss what stress means to us and how we deal with stress. We also imagine an ideal day without stress and go through a stress simulation. Roster this episode: Rachel, Joshua, Adrian, Joey & Elle

In this episode, our first after rebranding to 'Lepak Time', Joshua, Rachel, Adrian, Chien Ju and Nadhirah discuss what 'Lepak' means and their collective love of 'Mamak'. Definitions of the Malay words mentioned in this episode: Roti Canai: a type of Indian flatbreadMamak: a type of restaurant in MalaysiaMaggi: a type of instant noodle

In this week's episode, the gang is joined by three former classmates Joey, Xiu Xian and Elle. We talk about the dynamics of college and life after high school: how social media affects the way we meet people, the increased independence in college and more!

In our first episode, we (Joshua, Rachel & Adrian) discuss who we are, what we do and why we started the podcast.