Went to see my TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) physician today for acupuncture...got a frozen shoulder from too much of household chores especially having to wrestle with the wok, the mop. the iron (hey...iron clothes lah!), the dog and etc...etc...etc...everyday.
Interestingly the discussion went into the topics of cholesterol and hypertension...2 very common diseases in all of us gluttons and kan cheong people (aiyah rushing from food court to foodcourt when there is so much publicity on what and where to eat... and kiasu mentality..everything much try and then must give expert comments to friends...shows one upmanship mah..pressure lah).
Cholesterol is very natural in all of us who live to eat and not eat to live and the gluttony in us does not believe in the word "dieting"....sinful lah. Take medication? Got side effects mah....not healthy. What to do?....die, die much eat what....favourites like bak kut teh, rendang, pork knuckles, spare parts, soup kambing (mutton lah not goat!), nasi byrani are yummy, yummy.
Hypertension (high blood pressure) results...surprisingly...more from our lack of sleep! Yah what...nowadays got to check very frequently e-mails (can't do without the blackberry..why black huh?), facebooks...many friends..don't know how come (must kay poh to see what your friends are doing and the photos they post for you to see especially the travel ones, so that you also say...I want to go there...pok kai like that and so blood pressure goes up and up...! money not enough), and like me also do blogging...which means my novels that I have bought to read for relaxation are now neglected....also starring too much on the PC screen can result in eye tension (starting from strain...don't buy notebooks)...so hypertension results when all are added up. But for some, I learnt from my TCM physician is worst, especially the ladies who are hopelessly hooked on watching non-stop their Korean dramas (very in-thing now...no more the HK ones..passe already, the aunties must be super fluent in Korean...which language school huh?) on VCD...wah auntie ah...want to dream about the Korean hunks ah? (in fact one auntie came for acupunture because she got a partial frozen face (minor stroke)...reason? sleeps about 2 hours nightly as she spent her time on Korean dramas....more thrilling and exciting.....uncle where were you and what happened???....uncle must be computering huh?? Ahah! Uncle also got hypertension, says he has giddy spells...hmmm....too much computering...sure or not?
So TCM physician says we must have at least 7 hours of sleep nightly and on weekends go for total chill-out.... how to in this hot and humid weather????...and now with this bad economic situation, every night also see your boss's face in your dreams....nightmare man....so how to have a restful sleep?
TCM physician says....don't play, play..cholesterol plus hypertension equals...STROKE!
So what to do?? go dieting and be goodie, goodie..sleep early....early to bed, early to rise..makes a healthy man???...I think he is also trying to help increase world population!
OK got to go for early sleep...7 hours at least....hope don't meet my ex-boss half way during my sleep!!