Christmas eve, a day that marks the day before Christmas day, a day that marks and honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. An occasion celebrated by christians with the exchanging of gifts, church celebrations, get-together, caroling and the setting up of decorations around the neighborhood.
For many like us non-christians, it is another opportunity to celebrate and feel festive. Usually this includes the gathering of close friends and drinks, lots of drinks. Food at this juncture becomes a formality, and a BBQ party merely signifies to invited guests the barrage of alcohol to be consumed afterwards.
Alcohol, the greatest invention followed closely only by the television and air-conditioner. It has been used by people around the world in their standard diet, for hygienic/medical reasons, for its relaxant and euphoric effects, for artistic inspiration, as an aphrodisiac and many other reasons. Some drinks have been invested with religious and symbolic significance. But all these reasons do not seem to be in the mind of young revelers indulging in the modern sport of binge drinking.
Binge drinking has often been associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated. It is more of a kind of purposeful drinking style popular among the younger crowds in several countries. This is often the case when we go out drinking, especially Kurt and me, most times we meet up earlier at his place to get smashed and often bring along a bottle of concoction to be consumed during the cab ride.
Anyway back to our Christmas Eve festivities. The plan this year was a "BBQ Party" over at my GF's place, it was more of a joint party with her inviting her friends and her brother inviting his mates, this combination brings the total attendance to just over 15 people. No party would be complete without alcohol, and for the night we had a stash of Absolut Vodka, 2 bottles of White Wine, a bottle of Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut, a bottle of Shoju and 24 cans of beer. A generous amount considering the amount of people that actually drink to be around 7 or 8.
The going was pretty slow and relaxed initially before I, tired of the snail like approach to intoxication, decided to introduce a game to the guys. The girls, knowing what i'm obviously up to rejected the idea of taking part in any drinking game proposed by The Man. Let me take a few moments to explain the game which i had in turn learnt from other drinking buddies (Justin) and decided to name "Drunk Roulette", for reasons that will soon become obvious.
My iPhone has a number of programmes for entertainment purposes, of which "MotionX Dice" has been of reasonable popularity recently. The program allows you to preset your desired amount and type of dice from a myriad of available designs all of which can be shaken and disturbed by the motion of the iPhone itself. This makes the program a pretty entertaining accompaniment to binge drinking.
So the game works like this, we will first lay out on the table 6 empty glasses and label them from 1 to 6, the number of the glasses correspond directly with the numbers on the dice. The first person to roll will obviously encounter empty glasses, so if he rolls a 3 he will be able to top the empty glass up with his choice of alcohol.
Now if the 2nd person were to roll a 4, he too would encounter an empty glass so he is free to top it up as well. The 3rd person may roll a 4 which has just been filled by the 2nd guy, so he has to finish up the glass before rolling "Again", now if he rolls a 3 he will have to finish that glass up as well before rolling again.
In this sense, each person will continue rolling and drinking until he encounters an empty glass for which he can top up and pass the phone to the next lucky bastard. It may sound easy until it is your turn and all the glasses are filled with different types of alcohol, that is when the fun begins.
With the introduction of this crazy game, the 24 cans were finished in merely 30 minutes. While the guys were crazily yelling at each other for mercy the girls were congratulating themselves for not participating. After the Beer, wine, champagne, shoju and the vodka (halved) finished the guys were finding it hard to pronounce elementary words while their faces flushed blood red from the speed and intensity of the game.
The fun really began when someone decided vodka green tea wasn't gonna do it no more and proceeded to top up his glass with a mixture of Coke, Green Tea, Vodka, Wine, abit of beer and Yakult. Naturally everyone reeled from the sight and smell of the disgusting mixture on the table while the evil guy stood grinning at his invention.
It was then decided that the "Disgusting Drink" should be the only one on the table while keeping all the other glasses empty. This was met with approval from everyone thinking they would be the unlucky one who would roll the pre-defined number. Because this game only involves one glass it was decided that the girls should participate, this proposal was met with roaring approval from the guys while the girls began to think up 101 ways to inflict pain on our genitals.
At the height of the game, everyone was fighting to include their choice of "liquid" into the deadly cocktail. One particularly vile concoction saw the inclusion of chili sauce and a touch a soy sauce, the game escalated further to include the addition of sliced chili padis before settling at the loser chomping down on a single chili padi.
The ensuing peace was only achievable because most of the guys were in no state to think clearly and the girls had to carry their guys to the designated rest area. At this point, it was only smart to adjourn the party for everyone to retreat home for a rest before the arrival of New Year's Eve. Now that is more reason to party no matter which Religion you worship.
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