Wake up everyday before the day dawns
Ride like the wind just to make it on time
Only it’s not some hellcat that I get to ride
It is a filthy green slug trailing on slime
For it’s a long way to where I have to be
My private little prison where I punch in
A diesel goliath I board to […]

I am a sucker – for I had the chance to see AC/DC perform live in Boston – and I missed it. I somehow rationalize by saying that circumstances that prevented me from attending the show were too strong, but I know in the back of my head that I could have overcome them if […]

You’re at home honey when you’re doing your thing
As you blow on your horn you make my thoughts ring
A shot of Jack and jazz from your lips any day
One look at you, sax girl, and I’ll be on my way
Saw you last night at Wally’s blowing, blowing away
Wandered the streets thinking of you or of […]

Road Rage @ aashishkoirala.wordpress.com
As the poor soul that is our subject maneuvers his motorcycle through the ruthless streets of Kathmandu, there is no rest to the thoughts that race through his mind:
What the hell is up with this stupid car? Get out of the way, you nitwit! The road is wide open… either speed up […]

Revisiting the attic @ aashishkoirala.wordpress.com
Well, Nepal has been a republic for a little while now. We don’t have a government yet — but who notices the difference anyway? At least we have a President — and a Vice President, also, for that matter — one who does not care much for our language, but a […]

Lord, I am down, I am down as a soul can be
I’m stuck in a limbo, and stewing in misery
I could be out there riding, riding to infinity
But got no fuel to feed my ride, lord have mercy
Well the station got hold of some last week
Like bloodhounds we all rushed to the scene
Waited my turn […]

Inspired in part by the 1976 Rainbow song, “Stargazer”.
It is a sad, sad little story of mankind
Masses driven by a single twisted mind
Peasants we become to the will of madmen
Drowning our lives for their demented gain
Is it power, is it charm, is it the bloodline
That overrides our divine text and makes us blind?
We flock like […]

The White Russian is my favorite cocktail. To me, it represents grace and simplicity. It seems like an extremely easy cocktail to make, but making a perfect White Russian takes skill — a fact I have been testament to from trying really, really badly made White Russians all over Kathmandu. Some simply don’t have the […]

Plainly put, I love whiskey. I love the fact that it has served, along with its other alcoholic cousins, to bring me closer to the large and disorienting party that is society. Whiskey holds a special place in my heart for it represents honor to me. It takes you on up front and head on. […]

The ballad of Nagarjuna
Pitch black the worm above his lips
For he was born out of Satan’s hips
His horse he will tie anywhere he may
Powerless are you, is it not clear as day?
Cross his path and your life will pass sooner
And he shall not care because he’s Nagarjuna
A thousand concupines he has around all the time
They […]

I should really make more of the early mornings. I am generally a late riser (and a late sleeper as well, for that matter), owing mostly to my “laid-back” nature (that is what lazy people refer to themselves as nowadays). Let us just call me an “evening person” and leave it at that. Anyway, there […]

Let us do a “guesstimate” sort of count. Let us factor in all classes and categories – from your average, wholesome types to the more, should we say, “niche”, “Gongabu” types. Leave the country alone, how many do you think are scattered across Kathmandu? A thousand, perhaps? Take a rough average of a head count […]

Pictures of you
Time it seemed had healed all my wounds
And the corpse that was my heart saw light again
One fateful day and a chance glimpse of you
Back was I shoved into this twister of pain
On the eve that you left I died a million times
With time however like the Phoenix I was reborn
Another shot at […]

Base Camp Chronicles: My Night in Hell — Where the Crow Came to Die
I was running as fast as I could, but the yak kept gaining on me. All of a sudden, I found myself in my lodge room. I jumped on the bed, only to discover to my horror that the yak had made […]

Gone
Pestilence plagues the realm of man
Disease spreads wings across the land
Famine rides wild, extinction is at hand
The hand of doom on our graves pours sand
None of this matters to me
All that matters is that she’s gone
Spring arrives in the grandest fashion
Young hearts rustle with temptation
With petals that bloom love comes around
Birds of heaven of delight […]