Surviving on Chicken & Rice

By Christian Sim

Surviving on Chicken & Rice is a testament wrought during my years as a disenfranchised conscript, where my inextricable inscape was pressed into estrangement. In this book, I anatomize the impermanence of national identity and recount the neurobiological impress and psychosomatic sequelae of conscription and how they are caustic to the nature of self; meditating on politics, nationalism, and the anthropology of subjugation, and in the travail turning also to philosophies of mind and ontology while attesting to the immaterial and parapsychological horizons of consciousness and reality.

The leitmotif of this book is trauma and transcendence: katabasis and anabasis. Within the pessimal abyss, I discover an analeptic force; from the inferno, sinewed by privation, I ascend toward a renewal of being. From dolor into determinate becoming, this book is part elegy and part reliquary-I seek not only my own reprieve but also to bequeath to the reader an esperance: that from the maw of banality of surviving on chicken and rice, one may seek their own metaphysical ascension. It is the chronicle of my odyssey, and I hope its fragments will illumine your path, that you may rise ever stronger against misfate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNWWTSXV
• ISBN13: 9798262412211
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"