So earlier this afternoon I was sitting at my desk typing up some notes for my classes that begin tomorrow. I went and made myself a cup of tea, I added the milk to the tea then took it back to my desk. I then took a couple of mouthfulls and gulped down the tea. I drank some more of the tea, then with about half a cup remaining suddenly felt very sick.

It’s just my luck that I get sick during the holiday!

It was if I was about to explode. I rushed to the bathroom opened up the toilet and vomited like I have never vomited before. It was non-stop for about 30 minutes. I felt as if the inside of me was being turned inside out, my stomach, chest, throat all straining. I then spent the next two hours on the toilet getting rid of anything that would have been in my body.

I’ve had food poisoning before and it’always incredibly nasty, but this took it to another level.
Of course, living here from time to time you get some really bad instances of puking but this has to win the prize for the most awful and painful. It was just so quick and horribly intense. It’s at least 10X worse than what I have expereinced before -even worse than drinking too much baijiu – and that is bad.

The source of this I believe is from the milk I put into my cup of tea. The milk must have been bad, and I am a total fool for not noticing this. I can only guess that it’s because I’ve become so accustomed to drinking the UHT milk (always tastes bad to me) that I didn’t notice it in my tea. I can’t help wondering whether anyone has considered using bad milk as a form of poison, afterall it’s fast acting and highly effective!

Unfortunately I have now been put off anything to do with milk for a long, long time.

A friend told me this proverb and it fits nicely: 一年遭蛇咬，十年怕井绳

yinian zao she yao, shinian pa jing sheng

It’s loosely translated as: Being bitten by a snake makes you afraid of the rope for a very long time.
The best english equivalent I’ve found on the web is: Once bitten, twice shy