Went to the neighborhood hilot and asked her to come to the house to give me a once-over. At first everything was extremely painful, and then my body went numb, and then it felt great. I had no choice but to let her into my bedroom, though, where she spent the first few minutes looking over my stuff and saying a line I've heard before, "Nasa iyo na lahat". That line never makes sense to me because I always feel that I don't have everything and have a long list of things I still want and need. She brought her own lana but, when I showed her a bottle of my lana from Siquijor, she preferred to use that. Now I feel that there are golden sparks of energy coursing through my veins.

Many people can't tell the difference between a massage and a hilot, but I can.