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4 Easy Guides on Moderating Your Booze Consumption
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As you age, your tolerance for liquor goes down the drain. However, if you do not have any Indian blood in you, then chances are your tolerance isn’t good in the first place (this is not applicable to East Malaysians who can DRINK like there’s no tomorrow!). As I went to my friend’s birthday party at a chinky joint called Coco Banana in Sunway (YUCK!), I noticed the kids chugging down directly from the bottle like there is no tomorrow. I did experience something like that during my college years, because you want to get your money’s worth of contributing to that bottle. BUT, I didn’t chug down from the bottle. There’s always a mixer in the fold. If you don’t moderate your consumption, be prepared for a date with the toilet bowl, or a quickie with your shoes. There’s also the issue of drunk driving. I mean, why waste bribing our Malaysian police RM50, when you can spend that cash filling up your petrol tank?
FOOD
The most important thing, before you start consuming like Speedy Gonzales, is to EAT a decent meal. Fill up your stomach, because with food, it’ll slow down the alcohol absorption rate. Don’t just eat junk food, eat meat! For vegetarians, you cannot be saved on this one! 
ONE ALCOHOL
Be consistent in the type of alcohol that you consume. Do not mix beer and liquor. If you stick to the same booze, you will be able to hold your tolerance better, less potent. Think “Graveyard”, a deadly cocktail, you know what the repercussions are, it’s the same whether it comes in a glass or gets concocted in your stomach.
VOLUME
This is common sense. Try to time your booze consumption. Progressive drinking. Don’t bottoms up all the time unless you have a liver the size of Singapore. Keep tabs on your booze.
WATER DOWN
In between alcohol, drink a glass of water to dilute the previous consumption, and you might just save the embarrassment of being a buzzkill. What water also does is to fill your bladder really quick. Do NOT consume any carbonated drink because it helps speeds up alcohol absorption.
These steps might just save you from potential shame when you start to wonder why your BMW lacked horsepower on the way home, only to realize it was not even one-horse powered, but donkey-powered. Oink!
great tips man..i’m sure these are the lessons of your life..LOL…i wonder if the vegetarians ever drink at all ?
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I think I’m okay with this one. I drink nothing but Shandy … LOL!
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If all fails, get ready with a bar of butter. Some said it works but I’ve yet to try.
oh graveyard really sent me to hell last time. lol. and they served it with a straw!
hahaha… this is a good guides actually, although i rarely get drunk till i can’t remember anything. Vomiting normally make me ready for another round of drinking session, but too much drinking i.e, 1 go at a time, only get me vomiting much faster… hahahaha…
Well, i love to drink slowly, but some friends like to asked us to bottoms up all the time… i agree. i guess they all have a liver with the size of singapore… wakakakaka… TQ for sharing this guides
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Nice tips..
i’ll try it today..
hehe
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haha…good advice. Anyway, Im not a drinker but to drinkers around, do remember to drink moderately and take a liver tonic like milk thistle to protect the liver.
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This tips are surely helpful for a lousy drinker like me! But I’ve recently discovered more ways to tolerate alcohol more effectively, that is drink coconut water and eat guilingao which is a chinese tortoise jelly. Accidentally discovered this at Jogoya!
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Known all this for years, and as an ex barman from my student days, I’d consider myself expert on the subject.
There are differences however, Malaysians tend to guzzle enormous quantities of spirits on a night out, especially at nightclubs. We’d tend to be more beer drinkers, but beer prices are extortionate at nightclubs, the Jack Daniels bottle is invariably far better value for money.
I’ve always preferred beer anyway, because its easier to drink, the night lasts longer, and when your full, thats it. I might have a glass or two of whiskey after between 6 and 8 glasses of beer, and thats the end of it.
Bottoms up – Yam Seng and drinking contests…..forget it, its no fun feeling woozy afterwards.
Eating beforehand – crucial.
Drinking and driving. Never mind the police, the worry about being caught by the police should not be a primary concern, and its an outdated third world mentality that prevailed in European countries until the mid-late 1990′s. Road accidents are a far more serious concern, granted that 30% of Malaysian road accidents allegedly involve booze. Theres a mentality of “It will not happen to me”, and frankly speaking (for example) a 200 meter walk from Jalan P Ramlee up Sultan Ismail gets you away from the scumbag ripoff taxi touts. Failing that, calling 03.6259.2020 (Public cabs) or 03.90571111 (Sunlight Taxis), gets you home for the price of a drink in the nightclubs.
Well said, Diarmuid. Altho the cops may be one of our concerns, I reckon the BIGGEST concern of it all is getting involved in an accident. And nothing can be worse than surviving the accident to live with the guilt for the rest of one’s life that he/she took a live/lives away. Life will be a living HELL from then on.
|1f34|-|1r3 – Oh yes, I learned the hard way. Still learning, but the process is slowed due to age.
Nick Phillips – I used to have a Shandy fixation a year ago, and got Mel hooked on it too!
Chong – Bar of butter? Hmmm, never heard of that. Sure it’s not a prank to make you look all buttery?
xin – Yes, graveyard does that, a trip to hell. The straw usually resembles a cross, aka tomb. LOL.
markiekadus – Ya man, I just can’t bottoms up like I do before. The last time was at Sunway’s Borneo Rainforest where I met a bunch of Sarawakians who ALWAYS bottoms up beer (by the mug), and forced me to join them. S.C.A.R.Y.
Toiletpaper – Good luck! LOL.
Christopher – Milk thistle? Weed ka? LOL.
foongpc – Interesting. I think the bottomline is to fill your tummy with food to the max, before going on a drinking binge.
Diarmuid – Yeah, Malaysians prefer the old liquor, not beer. Though I think that changes with age. Of course, I’m against drink driving, especially when you think you CAN hold your liquor, and let your ego do the talking. 30% of road accidents involve booze, I find that a little hard to believe, where did you get that info?
Eleen – Agreed. Hence the tips I gave above is an indirect guide on NOT getting drunk.
“this is not applicable to East Malaysians who can DRINK like there’s no tomorrow!”
I don’t know whether to feel proud or feel offended haha
LOL ben – my thoughts exactly… although I am leaning more towards being proud & honored!
ben – It’s a compliment bah! Of course!
charlenediane – Trust me, coming from me, that’s a complement!