Shimmering

After hours of playing badminton last Saturday, I realized it has been years since I last went for a massage or treated myself to treatments like spas and body wraps. I’m kind of missing those luxuries. Especially after feeling stress in my bones and the few calluses on my feet. But as luxuries go, those are a quite at the end of the priority list. Oh, well. BODY WRAPS are a great thing; it can really make you feel relaxed and rejuvenated. It helps a lot, too, if you’re on a warm bed and you can stay there for half an hour or so. Too bad they cost too much. 

Another thing that reminded me about bodywraps is a conversation I had courtside with a fellow badminton player. We were watching this particularly intense women’s doubles match-up and we’re making our own version of game analysis when this person I was having a conversation with suddenly blurted out that it is for certain one of the ladies we were watching is taking glutathione pills. I normally would not put stock on such unwarranted assessment but just because she’s a medical doctor, I was intrigued by that comment. See, the lady she was talking about have such translucent fair complexion. My other friend describes it as “shimmering”. It’s envy-worthy, really. So this doctor related to me how her husband had a glutathione injection for the purpose of having fairer skin and I was compelled to ask her if it is really something that works. She said, yes, especially the injection because the drug goes straight to your bloodstream. Just for the sake of prolonging the conversation while we wait for our game set, I interviewed her about the possible side effects (she said there is none) of taking such supplements. Not that I plan to take them. Besides, I didn’t even argue that although she’s an M.D. and I’m not, I’m pretty sure the girl in question was just born with good genes, if you know what I mean. But people love to speculate and who am I to stop them? A little small talk couldn’t hurt, I guess.