vineagar - the beverage

it's amazing how much bullshit comes out of chinese peoples mouths in the form of easy conversation and dinner talk...specifically what's amazing to me is the uncanny ability to always bring up the same subject - the newest fad in self healing....one person finds a new ridiculous method of curing the world "i pat my head 50x before i sleep, i pinch the cartilage in my ears with tweezers 6x/day, cures cancer, cures diabetes, cures world hunger" and the audience never fails to, maybe partly out of confuscious courtesy,  "ooh and ahh". I, on the other hand, am the next kevin arnold, ..."am i the only person who thinks this is ridiculous?" ....

did i mention dad is in taiwan?  grandma's out of the hospital and recruited uncle ni bing as a godson so we all went out to dinner (really not too tasty)...uncle ni bing brings along special guest from taichung- the vineager afficionado of the world.....actually...the holistic vineagar healer....wait...he kind of reminds me of....you guys ever play zelda?? and you walk into those trees with black doors to find a scary wizard selling potions?  that's him....but with the mouth of a used car salesman....and i'm thinking of matilda's dad.....(the book, not danny devito)...so this vineagar comes out of a box packaged better than fine wine and more so like high quality caviar, in a frosted "ice wine" type bottle...and of course motor mouth can't stop while diluting then pouring the vineagar beverage........

"OH YES>...you can drink this directly....the mayor of taichung is on the cover of the brochure....and he uses it....it's the best...it's the bomb.....oh you already have plum juice in your cup?...oh it's ok..add some of this vineagar...it will taste better.....YES...and grandma....you drink this...it cures cancer.....yes.....it cures..this..and it cures that....."

kevin arnold just sat and ate....

and so....after such a stressful dinner....janies aunt treated us to foot massages...i'd like to add that the mentality here is if it's not PAINFUL...it's not a good massage...i think it goes with the "more bang for your buck" mentality, that the masseuse isn't putting enough effort in.....or it's the personna of thinking "i have a problem" to go along with the paying for a massage that needs to hurt...cuz if it didn't and it should've..."i got jipped"....

for the record: i hate the painful massages....it does NOT make me feel better....