Poke, poke, more pokes!

I woke this morning with a strain on my left shoulder. Must have been doing some acrobatics in my sleep again… oh, dear…

Told my parents about it and they decided to bring me see this guy who lives in a temple near their place. My mum brought my sister there earlier during the week to help with her sinus and acne problems. According to them, he gave her two bottles of something something to apply on her face. Must be some traditional Chinese herbs. My sister told he does acupuncture too, and she’d like to try that out if that can help cure the pimples faster. Even more so if that can help her get slim!

So this afternoon, after failing to convince my parents to NOT bring me there, I went along… had to go along with them. Got to that place, saw 4 dogs! Shit! Don’t they know I’m terrified of dogs… do I have to remind them of the incident where a dog chased and almost bit my leg???? Gessh…

Lucky for us the guy was at home, so my mum told me about my shoulder pain. He brought us inside this room and asked my to lie facedown. There, on the floor, no mats, no pillows. “God, what have I gotten myself into?” But since both my parents were there, and the guy already brought this bottle of his ‘magic oil’ (ok, I made this name up… didn’t even know what’s inside the bottle), I lay down next to my mum.

Next he started to roll my pants up…. And poked at behind my knee. Ouch! That hurts, old man! “Adoooiiiiii!!!!” was all I could say. I’m pretty sure I screamed a loudly as I could – it hurt too much! It was shockingly unbearable!

Know what, that was just the first poke. He did some more pokings onto my left calf… a lot more! I didn’t even bother to count how many, all I could think of is to forget the pain. After all, it’s all in the mind, right? WRONG! Then he did on my right calf. MAAAAAKKKKKK OOIIIIIII!!! SAKIT NYAAAA! That was one of the most agonizing moments for me. My t-shirt was soaked with sweat, and I bet so was my pants – no time to check.

But I guess that was not enough, he grabbed my left leg again. At this point, I was already cursing him! Silently, of course, there’s no way I’m cursing an old guy in his face! Before I could finish my cursing, I felt a funny kind of pain – like I was jabbed! Haaa, I know… now he’s doing acupuncture… not so painful compared to the poking earlier. He jabbed at a few places on my calves, then that was it.

Or so I thought. He asked me to lie face up. Remembering the pain from before, I immediately told him I give up. It’s ok, I’ll do this another time. But this guy didn’t care! He asked me to do as he told, and what’s worse, my parents were on his side too. I really thought I was going to get tortured til I’m dead! Haaaaha!

Luckily this time he only asked me to do some stretching. And luckily I do yoga, so stretching isn’t much of a problem for me. Then he wiped his magic oil onto my entire body. Yeah, he really didn’t care about staining my clothes… dang it, I have to do my laundry by hand now. =(
But what I can’t stand is the smell of that potion. When I asked what it is, he simply said “samsu”. Great! Now I’m smelling like samsu! And I’m fasting!

Before we left, he told me to not eat anything fried. “Eat veggies, soup”. Wonderful, just wonderful. I wouldn’t have minded if I cook. I mean how hard is it to make veggie soup for one person. The thing is, I don’t have a kitchen at home. I guess I’m going to make soup at my parents and have it frozen. Should be enough until next weekend though, or I’m going to starve!

And I’d better start now!

Oh, by the way, it’s less than an hour after the ‘torture’ and my legs are starting to feel weird. My body and shoulder pain are better, but my calves feel like I have needles all over them. And my fore arms are starting to feel numb. I just wish they won’t get any worse than this… oh well, we’ll what’s going to happen in the next few days.