A DRINK WITH MERI & MINA: Recent Episodes
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Two Nepalese young women from South East Asian immigrant families boldly share their ongoing personal journey of rebelling against cultural barriers that they don’t agree with.
We also discuss how our thoughts have shaped in what we think of current social issues.
Hello guys! apologies on the late upload, life keeps getting in the way. How much do you know about the Nims dai story? Do you believe in what Michael Kobold has to say? Let us know in the comments if you have further information, we want to keep is juicy and spicy like our pani puri...
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Now that it is summer, there are events every single week!!!
So it's inevitable some of you might be experiencing FOMO.
However, Meri & Mina ramble through their own FOMO's in life. Also is it even a "Drink with Meri & Mina" episode without us rambling? Nope!
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As we both are ready to get on the property ladder, the process of buying a house comes with a few problems of its own.
Most problems can be predicted and researched on but we got blindsided by the vastu shastra involved! If you don't know what that is, come join us!
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We are back!!!
After a little unplanned break, we are back to one of our favourite therapies.
This episode is all about the hiccups that took place in both of our lives over the last couple of months.
Hope you didn't miss us too much!
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We are a product of our conditioning. Growing up, rarely all of us have all of our needs met. Mina tried her absolute best to get all the attention whereas Meri just wanted to get away. Meri and Mina discuss what they lacked and how they are trying to cope / feed the inner child...
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This podcast was inspired by Diya, Mina's second niece who turned 18 recently. This not only made us feel like an aunty but also took us to our nostalgic memories. Where has the time gone? Meri's first phone is in the museum now? Our audience share one few things that made them feel old, give it a listen, I am sure you can relate to it a bit or more....
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Being Gurkha kids, we were practically raised by our mothers on her own. When we finally got to live with our dads during our teenage years, it was fun and games at first which very soon came to an end. Meri & Mina share their hardships, fond memories and how they "idolised" their fathers in this episode. Enjoy the rollercoaster. If you're a Gurkha kid, please leave us a comment :)
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What happens when Meri gets triggered?
We make a 50 min podcast out of it!
Say no more and enjoy!
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We are still fascinated about Japan. Still fascinated about the fact that people in Asia claim one size fits all... Here is a part two of our Culture shock podcast. Apologies on the video quality, we didn't realised it was fogged up whilst filming :(
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Mina in an avid traveller and has been solo travelling on and off for the past decade. Whilst travelling we have experienced fair share of culture shocks. We asked, you answered all the culture shocks you have experienced. Our audience did not disappoint us and were fully engaging ( keep it going guys!). Hence we have a part two coming up.
We do apologise on the late upload. Our files were corrupted and could only retrieve the audio. I hope you didn't miss us and if you did, give us a like so we know. :)
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A day to celebrate love, it's called!
We thought we'd down memory lane and share stories about first or most memorable crushes. We weren't expecting such funny responses but I guess we are all at that age where we are comfortable laughing at our naivety and the innocence of our adolescence.
Happy Valentine's to everyone. It's a day to love yourself and your dear ones.
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Money and problems led by it can be the sole reason in breaking families apart.
How do you say no to requests for help when it's ingrained in the culture that if you are in a better position, you ought to take care of the rest.
Where do you draw the line and stop feeling guilty for their lack of opportunities or sometimes lack of will?
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When they said you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince charming, they didn't specify it would be this MANY!
We asked you for your funny, weird dating stories and you delivered.
Dating wise, Mina and Meri are completely opposite. The differences are pretty clear as we tell our dating stories and trust me, Meri has some interesting ones in the bag for us.
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It's THAT time of the year.
No matter how cliche it sounds, new year comes with reflecting achievements and failures of the year gone and listing goals for the coming one.
In this year end appraisal of ourselves, we share what we want to work towards and how we want to do it.
We hope you also have listed things to look forward to and wish you are blessed with the motivation to make it happen.
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Just like that, another year has gone by.
At the end of last year, we summarised our first year of Sinerji and that year of our life.
We revisited the feelings from that episode and our whole year after that.
Regardless of any setbacks, hope your year went great with lots of personal achievements and even if it didn't, there is always time to set things into motion.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
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After a couple of emotionally charged episodes, we thought we should lighten up the mood a little bit. After all, life is not always heavy.
We had fun answering these silly questions and although our answers had borderline narcissistic vibes, the journey to come up with them was definitely a reflective one.
These answers may not truly describe us but it's how we see or would like to see ourselves and that's our version of the truth.
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We sent out a questionnaire to the public to answer our curiosities. We cannot be the only ones with toxic traits right? As per usual, you guys did not disappoint us. Here we share your toxic traits and mention ours too. <3
All about the healing and having a banter together.
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Good or Bad, every person that has been in your life has probably taught you a lesson.
For this episode, we wrote letters to three people that have had a significant impact on our lives.
Without them, we would have been very different people and would have made very different choices in life.
We hope you also think about and thank the ones that made you who you are.
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We asked what you would or wouldn't pass down to your children on instagram @sinerji.studio
This is part two, we talk about the values YOU WILL NOT PASS DOWN - to the future generations.
Meri & Mina passionately discuss cultural values that does not make sense. Whilst navigating through their thoughts, they realise the level of gender discrimination and favouritism in the culture. They explore all the "ism's" within the Nepalese society.
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Being raised in two different cultures comes with its own set of identity problems and one of the main one is the clash in personality between you and the culture you are supposed to BELONG to.
We learn cultural values that become habits and are rooted so deep that we sometimes barely question them.
Developing your personal values and then unlearning what doesn't align with what you have absorbed growing up, is a very heavy emotional journey.
It is not all negative, so we asked what you would or wouldn't pass down to your children.
In this two part episode, first we talk about the values YOU WILL PASS DOWN.
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Being raised in a culture where leaving home is not common, unless for "valid" reasons like studying or employment, and now living in a country where living with parents can be seen as lack of independence.
We discuss the tiniest inconveniences to major boundary issues of sharing the roof with your Asian parents.
Needless to say, cohabiting with people who have opposing personalities come with many difficulties but do we love or hate living at home?
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Every social media platform is saturated with content full of opinions, whether that's in the form of a meme, a video or a comment.
So here we are, providing you some of our unsolicited and unpopular opinions!
A question for you to take away: apart from the obvious hateful ones, what else makes our opinions unpopular?
We'll go first; saying out loud something that disturbs the status quo.
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Meri & Mina share humongous time on the internet getting entertained by comedians. Mina shares her experience of going to a stand up comedy show & how the comedian's career was almost over. On the other hand, Meri's opinion is that people are getting offended by anything and everything these days.
Can you take a joke? Or are we too sensitive here?
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We discussed on EP 10, about the extravagant asian weddings and how excited we get. Dive into how Mina's thoughts have changed. Now that the summer wedding season is coming to an end, we have some tips for the future bride and groom: we need SNACKS!!!!!
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REST IN PEACE QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The entire world if not the country has been in a huge shock, some of us really thought she was immortal. Here we share our two pence on monarchy. Do we as a country need it? Is our tax money going to waste?
What are the advantages and disadvantages? Please comment below :)
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We all know this year has been filled with disappointing events one after another.
It is especially disheartening as people have been looking forward to any social events for a couple of years now.
This episode is all about providing a summary of complaints going around in the community.
Hope we can attend many quality events in the future.
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One half of our duo, Meri, grew up in a family with strong hindu religious beliefs.
This meant she had to follow specific rules when she first got her first period and subsequently every time of the month.
Without proper education of the rituals, she never understood why she and the females of her family had to go through an experience that made them feel isolated and ashamed of their natural cycle.
Female bodies, physiologically and emotionally, go through enough already, do we really need the society and religion to add more suffering to that?
To this day, Meri continuously stands up for her belief that women shouldn't have to go through a degrading experience and literally be made to feel impure.
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The ups and downs of raising a child is always well discussed but how often is the journey of mothers raising a child with disability spoken about?
Our lovely guest Dharmisha gave birth to gorgeous Sebastian who was diagnosed with SMA Type 1. The most fatal out of all SMA and with a life span of on average two years, Dharmisha was raising a terminal baby until life saving treatment was approved and administered.
Here she shares what the journey has been like for her and the family so far.
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As children of an immigrant, we have all heard of the struggles our parents went through to give us a better life. May be a bit too much sometimes.
The gap in the communication is such that not all parents may understand our struggles too; not the literal "I climbed mountains and crossed rivers to go to school" type of struggle but a mental version of climbing mountains and crossing rivers.
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As we are expressive queens we tend to go off topic a lot. This is another one of those. We mention few of our audience's anonymous answers from the survey, which leads to Nepali parents interfering your private space. Exploring sex and living at home is never easy. Want to know more? STAY TUNED!!!!!
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It took us years to understand our body and then some more experimenting to know ways to achieve orgasms.
In a community where sex education at home is rare or even non existent, we got thrusted into the adult world with unrealistic tips and knowledge taught by good old mainstream porn.
This episode is about our orgasms and how it differs from men's. It just had to be way more complicated for us.
Men, listen in and pick up some honest tricks! Your lady will thank us!
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As the biggest economy in the world is about to take a step backwards in women's rights, we worry about what are they going after next?
Same sex intercourse? Same sex marriage? Right to contraception?
Being women, we have always had to fight for rights and equal seat at the table.
Years of protest, campaigning and fight was reversed just like that.
How can they justify putting one life over another?
More than that, why are we being forced to use our body to keep another life alive when noone else in the world is expected to do the same?
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If you thought we were done ranting about adulting in our 5 mins vlog, well here's an hour long podcast about it.
This is probably more of an analysis on how we are thriving under the pressures of our responsibilities than our failures.
Who knew adulting could be this hard!!
We blame it on the current heat.
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We saw the recent drama about Miruna and Susmita and WE DIDN'T LIKE HOW THEY WERE SCRUTINISED FOR BEING BRAVE!
So here we are, jumping on the bandwagon since everyone seems to be giving opinions nobody asked for.
As raw as we always are!!
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It is times of "making bank" fast, in the world of crypto currencies, influencers, investing, gaming, etc.
We have been doing YouTube for a little while and it takes a lot of effort alongside actually earning money for living.
This episode is all about our personal realities and struggles of making content and even jokingly discussing making content on ONLY FANS!
But seriously though, are Meris's boobs big enough to sell?
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Coming from a conservative community where sex is not a subject of discussion, we had to learn everything we know about sex through trial and error.
That self learning process has the potential to be quite detrimental, for example if certain STDs are left untreated.
So here we are, tackling sexual health and hoping to shine a little light of awareness on this important part of our adult life.
Our guest, Dr. Supriya Rai, spent four months working at a sexual health clinic where she learned a few things not covered in her medical curriculum. We all hope our next generation can be taught in a more open minded and comfortable space.
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In this episode we talk about TRAVELING! Rohit is a full time traveller and it just doesn't stop there, Mina being avid traveller shares her stories too. You get a snippet of their adventurous travel stories, whereas novice Meri shares her comical travelling moments. Although it is a lengthy episode trust us it is a funny one!!!!!
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Recently we attended Sajjan Raj Vaidya's concert at Electric Brixton. We share out shenanigans through the night, hopefully you can relate to some of it. Also SPECIAL THANK YOU to everyone who came to say hello (virtual hugs again). And we explain smear tests...
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SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE!!!
Is the weather changing for the better? or is the heat super annoying for some?
We talk about everything we love and hate about summer in this light hearted comedic episode.
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In this episode we have Dinesh Roka founder of DYG Events, co-founder of Hempnath. He recently had his time with Sadhguru at Isha foundation in India for 7 months. Here he enlightens us with his discoveries and knowledge. We further more discuss the soil movement and how we as an individual can contribute to it. Tune into to find out more.
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School rules? We all had them, but the real question is did you follow it? 👀👀👀
In this episode we have Arati from LYINA, together we talk about the stupid rules and the schooling difference between Nepal (South Asia) and the British school system. For subtitles, tune into our YouTube channel, Sinerji Studio. It will be updated ASAP.
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Mother's day is just around the corner, so we thought we would invite Merisha's mum and talk about her journey as a mother.
In her generation, there was no sex or pregnancy education. People just completely learned as they experienced it.
She shares her part of the struggle but also some hilarious stories of when they messed up.
We also slightly touch on the sad parts of pregnancy like postpartum depression and miscarriage.
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Recently we asked men what they would do if they were a woman for a day.
We then sent out an anonymous survey to women and asked what they would do if they were a man for a day.
THIS IS WHAT WE THINK YOU MEN DO ALL DAY!
Jokes aside, hear what we are actually jealous of in our recent podcast that is in the audio and video format.
LINK IN BIO!!!
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We talk about our mental health and the measures we took in the past to cope with it. Mina is blooming ahead whereas Meri had a relapse and has decided to be on board with therapy. I hope you resonate with us, share it amongst your friends who needs to hear this & it's not too late to have therapy.
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This episode is part two of what was initiated by Samir, our guest, who wanted to talk about the struggles men face due to their gender.
In preparation we created a survey and 23 men from different race and background responded.
The survey included questions about how men feel discriminated against and what kind of pressure men grow up and live under.
This was our attempt to understand the set of struggles men face and situations where reverse gender discrimination exists.
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IT'S SEXUAL ABUSE AND VIOLENCE AWARENESS WEEK!!
"Guilt and shame, despite not being your fault"
We once again dive head first into this topic and share our personal experiences of sexual abuse.
We also conducted a little anonymous survey to hear your stories, in hopes of giving you a warm hug and any form of closure you can get.
It's not okay! NOT AT ALL
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This episode was initiated by Samir, our guest, who wanted to talk about the struggles men face due to their gender.
In preparation we created a survey and 23 men from different race and background responded.
The survey included questions about how men feel discriminated against and what kind of pressure men grow up and live under.
This was our attempt to understand the set of struggles men face and situations where reverse gender discrimination exists.
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If morality was not an issue, how far does your limit take you?
We thought of briefly exploring that ourselves and made up scenarios of what we would be willing or not willing to do for money.
We dove deep into our darkest thoughts and let go of our shame (as if we hadn't let go of it since day one) to answer as honestly as we could.
Enjoy!!
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On this episode of a drink with Meri & Mina, Meri describes her experiencing the paranormal activities whereas Mina shares her detailed dreams that could turn into a film. They share common superstitious encounters from childhood and go through different wavelengths of emotions.
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We tried to wrap up our year but one of us got so wrapped in emotions that this ep became another counselling session.
We share our personal highs and lows of the year. We rate how our year has been and what we would like our next to be like.
Spoiler alert: we reveal exciting plans for the podcasts!
Hope your year was beautiful. If not, wish you a wonderful year ahead full of amazing blessings. Thank you for staying with us so far.
Happy New Year!
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Happy Christmas everyone!
We all have Christmas traditions, especially us non Christians who celebrate it more for fun than for religious reasons.
When we invited two of our dear friends who have been celebrating Christmas all their lives, we were expecting to be educated on some religious reasons and beliefs but instead we learned about CHRISTINGLE!
In this hilarious episode, Emily talks about her British family's tradition whilst Heather dives into how her Christmas changed when she moved from the US.
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Have you planned your funeral yet?
With any death, there's bound to be emotional chaos, which we addressed in our last episode.
In the midst of all that comes the administrative and logistical chaos of registering death, closing down all affairs, planning the funeral and let's not forget the unexpected costs in thousands.
So, let us ask you again, have you planned your funeral yet?
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Have you ever told yourself
"I will tell them tomorrow, they are around anyway."
In one of our most emotional episodes so far, Pushpa describes a range of emotions you feel when you suddenly lose someone close.
She speaks about how the loss highlights all the missed opportunities to know them better, the guilt of leaving things unsaid but also the struggle to utter words to loved ones, who are grieving with you.
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Puking down the toilet, pounding headache and morning after shits!
We have all had one too many that has led to moments with instant regrets but are funny stories for until years later.
We share our funniest drunk memories but also briefly explore how alcohol is so deeply rooted in our culture hiding behind statements like “Jaatai le diyeko”.
We also look at our bitter sweet relationship with alcohol over the years and discuss, at what point, one is one too many!
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Boarding school or staying in hostel is very common for those Nepalese who did some of their schooling in Nepal.
Some stay their whole school life whereas some go in for the last year which is usually compulsory.
A time where we are learning about the world around us and are vulnerable in so many ways, most of our childhood (especially those who stay in for a long time) is spent under supervision of wardens or guardians that are responsible for hundreds of children at a time.
In this episode, we relive how our hostel life was and discuss the type of habits, emotions and bonds we develop in the void of the presence and protection of parents.
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We did not just stop on Dashain, we have also got you another festive treat, Tihar- The festival of lights!
Collectively we share our fond childhood memories and give an insight into ways of celebrating this wonderful festival.
We discuss how it is the same festival but the regional and age gap makes the celebration different.
Meri celebrates it with lots of religious traditions whilst Mina finds joys with big fat income 😜😜
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IT'S OUR BIGGEST FESTIVAL!!
We talk all things about Dashain; the values we hold dear, the ones we want to change, the ones that excite us and the ones that we don't practise anymore.
The way we celebrate Dashain has definitely changed for a lot of us over the years especially after moving abroad. We touch on the values that we want to pass on and also educate ourselves about the ones we are not so familiar with.
This episode, we value all ways of celebrating this festival of good winning over evil.
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We all have had various jobs in our lives, from part-time ones during college to now slaving away full time.
This episode is a journey down memory lane of the funniest and the weirdest stories of our work history.
From perverted to literally shitty, bloody encounters, we shamelessly share and laugh our way through a collection of moments.
Our only aim this time is to make you laugh but if you can relate to us in any, give us a little review, comment, like…..
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We finally jumped on the bandwagon of the infamous 16 personality types test.
Mina & Meri are polar opposites in many ways, yet we discover that our common grounds are more than we had imagined.
This episode is a analysis of who we are, who we were and who we want to be.
Have you given the test a go? Was it accurate?
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A woman's journey of motherhood doesn't start when she's pregnant. It starts way before that with lots of unanswered questions.
Do I want to be a mother? Will I be a good one? Will my child turn out alright?
This episode is less about the rosy and more about the dark side of motherhood. A conversation difficult to be had and even more difficult to speak out loud without judgements.
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When we started this podcast, we wanted to one day win our audience's trust enough for them to share their intimate issues with us and also secretly wished that they would ask for our advice.
We didn't think we would get a request like that this early in our journey but we gladly accepted and here we are, being the agony aunts you asked for but with a slight humour.
Thank you to everyone who sent their questions in. We are super grateful for your love and trust.
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When we found out that a girl who has just got her first period watched our YouTube video in an attempt to understand the less spoken realities of it, we thought we should have an honest discussion about puberty!!
We have all been through this but having a healthy discussion about it was non existent and frankly speaking, a little more guidance from adults about how it really feels, would have helped in dealing with what was going on.
This episode is all about what we went through and felt during the new and strange developments that were taking over in our bodies.
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Any immigrant, bilingual child has faced these problems, the constant tug of war between two languages.
As children of immigrants, we had to learn adaptation skills growing up.
Soaking up new culture and language was part of our education but it comes with a trade off; the struggle to preserve our own.
In this episode, we look at factors beyond lack of practice and exposure to our own language that has led to so many young British Nepalese not being able to speak Nepali properly.
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We had some feedbacks from you all saying our podcast hasn't been juicy in a while.
Juicy details you asked, juicy details you get!
We talk about all our past relationships and share the fun and also the sour parts of it.
Thanks to all the hard lessons we learned has taught and is still teaching us the fine balance of interdependence and compromise.
And as usual, we share them all here.
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Weddings are so important and costly in our culture, even a pandemic couldn’t postpone them.
This episode is all about what we love or hate about asian weddings.
As much as the younger generation are breaking boundaries of how weddings happen and with who, we shouldn’t forget to talk about how it has changed from being a forced to a more subtle, arranged (majority) ones.
We also share our dream wedding ideas and personal values about this important step of life.
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Were you the DUFF, designated ugly fat friend of the group? If not, you may have unintentionally enjoyed some form of "pretty girl" privilege.
People often want the best of everything, be it clothing, fruit or veg in the market. However, it doesn't end there.
In this hilarious podcast, Meri describes the difference in treatment they faced as a DUFF and she is joined by Manaslu, her sister and Ranju, Mina's best friend, who also have had their fair share.
We discuss lack of acknowledgment of an individual beyond their physical appearance.
"Pretty privilege", we've experienced it or more like not experienced it first hand. They say personality is key but do you need a pretty face to notice it too???
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Meri and Mina may be different at many aspects but we are also similar in some levels. One striking similarity is our rocky relationship with one of our parents.
Fun fact: we have both either walked out or been kicked out from the family home.
Growing up, we all have rebelled against our parents in some ways or other, especially in an immigrant family where the values that we are exposed to inside and outside the house constantly clash.
This episode is about our complicated relationship with the parent whose values we rejected and the friction that followed. It’s also about our struggle with mental health as a result of it and how we are still “work in progress” when it comes to forgiving and mending broken bonds.
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Went to Uni to study something you didn't want because it's a respected profession in the society? And then after graduation either struggled to find a job or even when employed, struggled to find interest in your job?
Or may be your interest changed but struggling to follow your heart because so many years and so much money has been invested?
We have all felt the pressures of following the conventional path because it's safe and "normal".
How your life turns out immediately after graduation has been a major factor in triggering depression.
Here we talk about our own journey of depression and how we have been dealing with it.
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In this episode, we discuss yet another trending topic that is not only close to our heart but also directly affects our community.
We discuss :
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Our personal experiences of hate crime and exclusion in the UK,
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The recent government report by the commission on race and ethnic disparities about institutional racism in the UK,
We also invite PC P Sunuwar from Hampshire Police Crime and Commissioner, to share tips on how to safely handle the situation if you experience and witness hate crime.
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What was the rage about? Are men generalised?
Can men unintentionally act in way that makes women feel unsafe?
Hear our personal experience of sexual assaults and our thoughts on radical feminism.
Listen with an open mind to educate yourself and learn simple tips on how you can contribute towards creating a safe society for women of your lives.
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It is a popular topic for numerous podcasts, videos, poems, movies……
The list is long but here’s our take on it. Our body weights have been on the opposite side of the scale all our lives, yet we faced our own fair share of body shaming.
It degrades our self-esteem equally no matter the size, shape or colour.
In this episode, we open up about the type of body shaming we faced growing up and how it affected our behaviour and thoughts.
We also honestly discuss our current body issues and how much we ALLOW it to affect our beautiful lives.
Hope you can relate to those feelings or phases of wanting to change a certain part of you but also laugh at our journey and take away that YOU ARE ALWAYS ENOUGH!
CREDITS: Intro Song: Free Vibes
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As with every global event, there are rumours bound to spread and when rumours spread, the facts can get diluted, twisted and misunderstood.
When the world had little knowledge about who Covid-19 affected and how, there were plenty of guesses made and shared with very little fact checking.
One year down the line, health service and science still continue their research to understand this virus fully but one thing that’s very clear is that it can have detrimental effect on anybody regardless of age, existing health issues, lifestyle and diet.
In this episode we bring you a perfect example of how members of the same family were affected very differently, despite having similar health history, diet and lifestyle.
Credits: Intro/Outro music: Free vibes
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Growing up in a conservative society where sex is a taboo subject, we explored adulthood with little or incorrect knowledge about it. To this day, people are tight lipped about appropriate and necessary sex education.
This episode entails a candid discussion and intimate details about our journey of learning and unlearning everything about sex.
It’s our little effort to bring an uncomfortable topic to the table and talk about it in a way it deserves; normally and casually.
We hope to share our knowledge and want to make our comment section a non judgemental space for discussion.
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Anmol Rai - kineticsteps
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Music: Free Vibes
Sexy Saxophone sound effect - Meme Sound FX
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When the pandemic hit, one of us got thrown right at the frontline whereas the other has had to isolate five times so far.
One's workload doubled overnight but the other lost hers.
The two come together to share their emotional rollercoaster and the life lessons this pandemic has taught.
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