ZEN Bitchin'

Dispatches from a foreign country

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Back to black

Whenever I get the blues, the most effective coping mechanism I have is to keep myself busy. This meant immersing myself in household chores (which further meant driving my housekeeper crazy as I gave her directions she must follow to the letter), undertaking creative projects like writing poems, stories, and/or drawing/painting, or accepting an extraordinary [...]

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 [...]

You rock my world

Whenever I travel outside of Cambodia, one of the first things that I do is satisfy my cineaste heart. There are no cinemas in Cambodia that show English films. I have to make do with DVDs that I regularly buy from my friendly neighborhood (pirated) DVD shop. So soon after arriving here in Kuala Lumpur [...]

I wanna do bad things with you

I read in an interview that Allan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under) first read ‘Dead Until Dark’ at the airport, liked the book so much, found out that it was the first of a series of books (what would came to be called the Sookie Stackhouse novels), and read the series before phoning author [...]