EL UNGÜENTO VETERINARIO DE MI TÍA

hi dee hoo little precious creatures of creation (cr*p that's what happens when f***ng abc 1 in freeview doesn't show anything else than Home Improvement)... today we'll talk about an ointment old as life itself used by my parents to give their children (me and my siblings of course) a sense of safety and prompt healing, the miracle performing "ungüento veterinario de la tía" (veterinary ointment of the... aunt?... whose aunt anyway!!!???) created by the world famous "Ordoñez" laboratories in México city. First of all, I have to confess that, although the fact that the name said "veterinary ointment" seemed a little odd, i have never doubted of it's prestige, curative powers and world fame until I came back to Manchester and my really funny former housemates, who by the way had never heard of anything like it, started mocking me for having a veterinary ointment. It never ocurred to me that, the fact that you could only find it in veterinary shops was because it was meant to use it as a VETERINARY OINTMENT!!!!

Anyway, I am writing about it today because while rubbing this curative thing on a bruise that I made myself by skating and trying to stop using the technique of sliding on the floor (which by the way only works on ice) (long sentence now, difficult to follow... I don't care) I read on the label of its very vintage aluminium tin, that it is used as "auxiliary to swelling caused by bruising, in small wounds" and that it is used to avoid "bacterian contamination and to promote cicatrization" (does that word even exist? actually it does according to babylon).

So, all this time, a lot of time to be precise, I have been using an ointment to heal my bruises and other muscular pains which is actually intended to promote cicatrization!!!!

And that my friends, seemed funny enough to write it down in this blog which (now it is official) nobody cares to read but me!!!!

Still I must say that the "ungüento" is either the best placebo ever, or it really works on bruises, because you could never beat the soothing feeling it leaves after having rubbing it. I strongly recommend it!

WANNA GO HOME!!!!

Hum... it's just been 2 weeks since I arrived from beautiful Mexico, yet, I wanna go back! Maybe it's just the gloomy weather, or the fact that PhD is proving to be the best way to lose valuable work experience. I don't know. I just miss the fact of going out to Coyoacan (my-kind-of-town) and having some "papas de carro" (perhaps a filthy version of fried potatoes such as the much processed Walkers). I miss the fact of looking out of the window every now and again and knowing that even if the weather is gloomy, it's not going to stay that way THE WHOLE YEAR (except perhaps for 2 wonderful but not long lasting weeks in the middle of the summer). I miss the fact of eating green salsa whenever you are in the mood of going out and purchasing it from the "tortilla on the bicycle" guy. I miss being able to call my sister "naca" just because she's bugging me to change the channel to see "La fea más bella" (The Mexican version of the Colombian soap that the US guys remade in Ugly Betty).

But anyway, grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence, I would probably be complaining about not having a job if I was there ;) .... or not.... anyway. Hopefully this time it's not going to be a year before I see clearer skies and before I eat tortillas again, even if they are now really expensive because the f******ng gringos decided to use maiz as their new source of fuel and the f******ing government decided to help the f*******ing corporations so that they sell tortillas cheaper than the small "tienditas de la esquina".

MISS HOME!!!!!!

ode to the wonderfully great Marías cookies

Again trying to do my PhD, and of course, again not able to concentrate, as you can witness by this entry. I just wanted to exalt, praise and extol (those where the words I found in babylon for what i wanted to do) the really individual taste of the Marías cookies. People here in Manchester (who of course know the Marías cookies) have told me that the McVitties digestive cookies taste the same.... well, these guys are incredibly W-R-O-N-G!!!!! This evening I had this really uncomfortable hole in my stomach, the kind of hole that you cannot fill with a fruit ('cause of the boring taste) but that you shouldn't fill with a toast (flour products have proven that they make you swell). What could I do? And then it stroke me: I've brought Marias cookies!!!!!!!!! You can't imagine how different from the McVitties they taste!!!! It's just a shame that they don't sell them here... together with all the delicious things you can get in Mexico.


Darn! why do Anglo-saxon people have decided to live with that thing they call food for their whole life!!!!!!