ZEN Bitchin'

Dispatches from a foreign country

Month: November, 2009

Red

My favorite color is blue. I wear a lot of black. Most probably on account that I’m a big guy. I like some shades of green. Gray doesn’t complement my skin tone. I discovered I can get away with orange, a bit of yellow, pink and purple. But not red. My mother, who shopped for [...]

I’m still breathing

I was at my friendly neighborhood (pirated) DVD store last week to purchase my weekly dose of films and TV shows when I spotted this title. The package stood out among the other DVDs in the rack because the cover was in white and dominating the space was a collage/ mosaic of the sun, consisting [...]

Lithium

Nega-star

Wallowing in grief and sadness
I didn’t realize that instead
Of being unhappy I was
Increasingly becoming
Like a pig in a pool of mud:
Oblivious and indifferent
To all the things I thought
Caused my deep misery.

Sure, I still keep my family
At bay, all my friends insist
On frustrating me, my job
Is as un-fulfilling as ever,
And my love-life remains
Bitterly non-existent, while
The [...]