Mythbusting - Coin in Egg

My workmate Peter was going on and on about a home remedy his family uses to treat flu and fever. 

He says its 100% effective.

What you do, he says, is boil an egg. Once hard-boiled, peel it.  Then put a coin in the egg (yes, you read right, put a coin in the egg).  Wrap the coin-in-egg in a handkerchief or towel then rub the wrapped egg all over your body.

The coin, he says, absorbs all the bad energy from the body and will in fact turn black from it.

Peter reckons his mom could tell if they were lying about being sick because the coin wouldn't turn black if they were faking it.

So when the girlfriend got sick, I took the oppurtunity to give the coin-in-egg remedy a go.

Hahaha. You should have seen how weird my girlfriend looked rubbing a warm egg on her neck and chest.

Suffice to say, it didn't work.  

My girlfriend didn't get better, nor did the coin turn black.

I couldn't get myself to eat the egg afterwards though.  

I was worried it DID absorb some sickly energy.

Update 30/4/09 - Peter told me that I can't use normal 20 cent coins! I need to get a silver coin.  And that I shouldn't have the yold in the egg.  I guess this mythbusting experiment is not over yet!!

Sick

I've been sick the past three days.

Like, really sick. 

Sneezing and coughing and all things yucky.

During this time, I've locked myself in my room watching episode after episode of Jumong (this korean drama is almost the bomb.  The problem is the subtitles changing names.  One time its Jumong, then its Zhumond, then its Chumong, then is Dyumo. Very confusing!).

But you know one thing that's always bothered me is my boss NEVER ever getting sick.  

Here I am, supposedly at the prime of any man's age, yet I keep on getting the flu and migraines. 

Not once in my three or so years working with him, have I seen him take some time-off sick.

Maybe all the time clubbing and staying up late is making me sick.

Or possibly, he synchronises sick days with me, that way I don't see him being sick!  Yes, that's probably it!