Can you drink your shampoo?

I realized the last post was a bit sombre and serious, hence this I hope would lift the mood. Initially I wanted to write chapter for my novel but got distracted by Restaurant Makeover in AFC(asian food channel) which halfway made me sleepy. This post is a write off for the night.

Last year when I came back for holiday, I stayed at my sister's house. During the time there, I noticed my brother-in-law routine of mixing powdered goat's milk with water and drinking it. He did promoted it to me once or twice but I am almost always reluctant, hence decided not to try. This year it seems my mother and my brother have also caught the practice and take one packet daily. During one of my sneeze bout(I sneeze alot), my mother 'suggested' taking the drink for sahur.
"Cuba la minum tengok, orang cakap bukannya pernah nak dengar."

So I picked up a packet of them. First and foremost, alternative healing and additional/traditional supplements always leave me with doubts, and it doesn't help that they have dubious claims. You know, the one that claims it can heal flu, cough, joint pain, chest pain, uneasiness in sstomach, headache AND cancer. If we use our minds just a little bit, we will question how can one tablet/pill/bottle heal all those things altogether. Allah cipta setiap benda ada kegunaan, takkan satu bahan boleh guna untuk ubat semua penyakit. I used to be perplexed by these claims long ago but recently after reading quite a dose of Aidid Muadib's blog which vehemently oppose this type of marketing, it occured to me that these are malpractices which are very dangerous. Moreover the fact that most Malaysians are not inquisitive enough to counter the misinformations.

Nowadays any type of hyperbole marketing, such as detergent that cleans 99.99% bacteria, will cause me to avoid the product. I understand it is the marketing team which produce these hype but if you are willing to let your product be advertised in wrongful manners and dubious claims, than you might as well not need my money.
Lest you forget, I was suggested to drink the milk, so I took a packet of the powdered goat milk to read it labels and fortunately I find there are no outrageous claims. Except maybe for one small thing.

"No goaty taste."

top left : No Goaty Taste!

 I can't imagine the possibility that other milks has the taste of a goatee. An image of a man with a goatee comes in mind...

Anyway I did drank the drink and initial review seems favourable. No side effects though the positive effects are still not clear. I may need to drink it for one week, then stop, to see its effect. Let us see in a week.


On another note, a few weeks ago my mother asked me to buy a shampoo for her. I went to the Giant, where upon the overwhelming choices and types of shampoo, I settled for one that I thought my mother would feel okay with. Later that week, my brother struck up a conversation during sahur.

"Sapa yang beli syampu tu?" he said, smiling.
"Awatnya?" I asked.
"Takdak la, ada gambar muka kat depan tu, nak guna pon rasa tak berani," he said, to which we laughed.

Guess what shampoo I bought?



Guess.



Shampoo...

The goat model on the packaging is now quite famous and about to star in its debut film.

Talk about cross-breeding, eh? Or cross marketing
To my defence, I thought my mom would like the shampoo since she liked the drink. My brother however said a goat-milk shampoo is kinda oxymoron.

oh well. thanks for reading!