MAID ABUSE

PETALING JAYA - After hearing terrible shrieks in a suburban home in Taman X today, concerned neighbours made a call to the local police force reporting the situation. Upon investigation, police stumbled upon this abused soul.

me with my hands on me head

Hahaha, ok, storytime:

A'HAN Nyonya Kuih Shop

Today I went to get my retainers fixed because they were broken (don't ask me how). Since we were in the area, after my retainers got fixed, we went over to this Nyonya Kuih shop. And then again, since we were in the area, I decided to go to Erik, to check out my shoulder.

that's the signboard

Erik is a wu shu master and a very sucessful one at that. He and his kung-fu family are often in articles in newspapers. Anyway, Erik runs Oriental Medicines & Therapies.

Erik is basically one of those modern day chinese chiropractors. Remember those old chinese kung-fu movies like Once Upon A Time In China where these chinese masters quickly fixed dislocated bones by snapping them back into place rather than the slow Western method of splints and bandages? Well meet modern day Wong Fei Hong living in Selangor, Mr. Erik Leong.

framed newspaper clipping about the Nyonya shop in the Nyonya shop

and yea, the kuihs were really good

I get sudden aches every once in a while ever since trials. I reckon this is due to sitting at my cramped desk in cramped corner whilst my right arm and hand tires itself writing answers to questions for hours on end. So I told this to one of Erik's subordinates. The subordinate then led me to a massage bed that had curtains surrounding it. He then put oil on my shoulder blade and took what looked like a smooth stone and scraped my back.

Yes, it hurt really hurt.

After about 5 minutes of this, he stopped and left the curtained 'room'. There's a huge mirror which covers one of the walls entirely, so I turned over to see:


Shortly after, Erik himself came in and checked me out. He did lots of cracks around my body which felt really really good. One of the most satisfying cracks is one of the scariest - the neck crack. I'm sure anyone who's been to a normal chiropractor would know what a neck crack looks and feels like. It kinda looks like what you see in the blockbuster movies where the protagonist grabs the head of the antagnoist and kills him with a swift twist of the antagonist's neck. Why I say it's scary is because Erik is a martial arts exponent, he probably knows how to do the neck crack that would kill me as well.

newly renovated
by the way, for my non-chinese friends and bananas,
the 2 chinese characters in the "yin-yang" logo is 'tie' and 'da'
which means 'metal' and 'hit'

Erik says the redness is caused my capilaries which burst in my back. If I had good blood circulation, none of these capilaries would show even after the rubbing of that stone. He says the red dots will stay there for a few days and later turn yellow and black. Eventually, it will all disappear.

close up

So the big question you all must be asking now is: Do you feel better?
Well yeah, I guess I kinda do, my shoulder definitely seems less tense than before and all the cracking really felt good, and I feel much more relaxed. Erik is a professional. He has a degree from RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. He's been doing this for years and he's very successful at it, so much so that he recently renovated his clinic and is going to have a grand opening on the 7th of October.

'Panda' coloured Smart car I saw parked when I was going to our local Pasar Malam

Oriental Medicines & Therapy
26 & 28, Jalan 21/11B,
Seapark,
463000 Petaling Jaya.

A'HAN Nyonya Kuih Shop
I don't have the address, but if you go to Oriental Medicines & Therapy, there is a Sports Toto directly opposite it. Behind Sports Toto is the Nynoya Kuih Shop.