Please Consume Your Beverage

So today, i met up with a bunch of high school friends. The plan was to meet up with Ks, S, Wl & Jw for dinner at Sunway Giza. Jw was the one who made the suggestion, which was quite surprising since we didn't see him a lot since high school (besides the meetup after the hot dog sales the same week, but that was just a one-time thing).

You would NOT believe how long it took for the waiter to take this picture. Our smiles were frozen onto our faces!

We had dinner at Absolute Thai, which wasn't too bad, considering the price range. Could be better though. Oh yeah, we were wearing semi-formal because Wl & Jw was hosting some event at college before they met up with us; and it was Wl's grand idea for the rest of us to wear semi-formal because, surprise, surprise, they'd look pretty awkward wearing it alone.

So we went along with it and dressed up with them! Heh. I think we look pretty smart.

After dinner, Ks called over another three of our high school friends that we haven't seen in awhile to join us for some drinks and catch up. J, B & Wz. It was quite spontaneous and last minute (usual Malaysian behaviour) but we were quite keen to meet them today because Wz was supposed to go back to UK the very next day for his studies.

After walking around Giza for a little bit, we went to The Beer Factory to have some drinks and play some card games. Speaking of Beer Factory, they recently released this video (which i think they'd hope would go viral) in the hopes that it would promote their brand name, i guess? Hahah. The video was freaking hilarious though! Here it is for reference:

I really thought it was true! But we didn't spend much time discussing it though. It was just something funny for our friends to laugh at. Beer Factory cleared it up by posting this image on Facebook.

Original link here.

Anyway, after we ordered a beer tower, J introduced a drinking game for us to play. Basically, each of us takes a card and holds it on our foreheads. So we can see the cards of others but not ourselves. Then, we decide whether we want to top up the glass in the middle of the table (eventually somebody has to drink it), so we can top up as much as we want. In the end, the person with the smallest card (ascends from Ace to King) has to drink whatever's in the cup.

It was generally an okay game, i guess. Not much thinking in it, just that we had fun targeting our friends to drink more. However, what made it real interesting were the International Drinking Rules that Ks introduced to us. Basically, if you break any of these rules, you have to drink.

International Drinking Rules

1. No saying the word "drink". You would have to say "Consume your beverage" instead.
2. No saying any other player's name, or whatever they are usually known as.
3. No pointing with the finger or thumb. An elbow is permitted.

It sounds quite easy, but we'd slip up pretty easily, especially on the first rule. The idea is that it'd constantly get harder for us to keep our wits, since we'd slowly lose our senses due to consuming alcohol and thus, slip up even more. It was pretty hilarious, because when we got excited catching somebody breaking a rule, we'd often slip up too (since we were caught up in our own excitement).

After a few rounds of J's game, we decided to play another game that Ks introduced to us, called: Ring of Fire. Man, the British are creative.

Here's how the game goes (instructions taken from this site)

Ring of Fire Official Rules:

1. First to set up the game, clear off a table and set a cup in the middle with the deck of cards placed around the cup in a circle.
2. Now get a group of friends to gather around the table, each person having a cup/bottle of alcohol to themselves.
3. Before you start the game you must know what each card stands for:

Picture from Google.

A- Waterfall – Everyone must keep drinking until the person who picked the card stops. So who knows how long you will be going for!
2- is Choose – You can choose someone to drink
3- is Me – You must drink
4- is Whore – All girls drink
5- Thumb Master- When you put your thumb on the table everyone must follow and whomever is last must drink. you are the thumb master till someone else picks a five.
6- is Dicks – All guys drink
7- is Heaven – Point your finger in the sky, whoever is last must drink
8- is Mate – Choose someone to drink with you
9- Rhyme – Pick a word such a dog and the person next to you must rhyme with dog, like log, and it goes to the next person and the next, in a circle, until someone messes up and he or she will have to drink
10- Categories- Pick a category such a football and you go in a circle and everyone has to say a word that fits with football such as: touchdown, field goal, USC. Whoever messes up, drinks.
Jack- Make a Rule – You can make up any rule that everyone has to follow, such as you can only drink with your right hand. Everyone (including you) must follow this rule for the whole entire game and if you disobey you must drink.
Queen- Questions – Go around in a circle and you have to keep asking questions to each other. Doesn’t matter what the question is, as long as its a question. Whoever messes up and does not say a question, drinks.
King- Pour!- You must pour a little of your drink into the cup that is in the middle of the table. Whomever picks up the LAST king must drink the whole cup, which could be filled with different drinks, so who knows how bad it could taste!

We omitted Queen because Ks said it would be quite hard. But we still had so much fun! I think the highlight of the game was how the Jack was used! When B drew a Jack and had to make a rule, he made it that whenever somebody drinks, Ks had to drink. So when Ks drew a Jack, to get back at him, he said that whenever he (Ks) drank, B had to drink! 

But no, it doesn't stop there. Suddenly B draws another Jack, and made the rule that whenever B drinks, Ks has to knock his head on the table! That was the most hilarious part because he has to do it every round! Because the flowchart is like this for each round:

Somebody drinks -> Ks drinks -> B drinks -> Ks knocks his head on the table

It was freaking hilarious. But we left early because Ks & S had to go home, Wl & Jw had to jet off to some other celebration in Subang, i had to go for social dancing and the rest? Well, i guess they had stuff to do as well. Plus we finished the beer tower anyway. 

That's us right before we left! 

Didn't catch up that much, because it was hard to carry a solid conversation inside Beer Factory (without shouting), but it was a pretty fun hangout. I think i'd like to do it again sometime. Probably next year, when the rest of them comes back.

Please consume your beverage (it's stuck in my head) .

Jwen.