Arm Candy

When you go to silat class, sometimes you bang away hard enough to raise bruises.


Actually, pretty much every time you go that happens, not just "sometimes." And the one on my knee is just as pretty ...


Fortunately, we have balur, the Indonesian-style coconut-oil-based liniment for such contusions. Of course, application of such is more painful than the impact that caused the injury in the first place, but, hey, man up or step off ...


I'm working on the last of the two bottles of balur I got from Mushtaq Ali, with a new bottle from Todd and Tiel's pharmacy standing by once the other is empty ...