My best buddy Darius whom I’ve not seen for a year and a half was finally going to visit me in Singapore after a long LONG wait (I thought I was gonna start getting grey before we meet again).
He’s still studying while I’ve already been working for two years which means he has a long vacation while I have next to none!
Therefore, this was the only time I actually took time off work just to travel with him. However, he was arriving on the 12th of May and the weeks leading up to that was a major headache.
I had to deal with the Singapore Beer Festival, Audi Singapore Fashion Festival and then the Tax Free World Asia trade fair.
Let’s start with the Singapore Beer Festival which started on 29th April and ran until the 3rd of May.
I was helping run the outdoor smoking bar with a team of awesome bartenders and servers. It was a fun filled week with Hell’s Belles performing on Wednesday and Friday, B-yond VIP Party on Thursday and Vertical Horizon on Saturday! We worked from 12 noon all the way till 4 or 5am every single day.
The great part about my job is I get to drink while I’m on the job and my friends all showed up to accompany me for a drink or two…. but then again, there is also a downside to it. At the end of the night, I had to exchange all the drink coupons for cash so I could pay the staff on a nightly basis. Could you imagine how many coupons there are in denominations of $1, $5 and $10??? I had to count them up every single night and this happens everytime when I’m on the brink of getting drunk and then because of these stupid coupons I begin to sober up again! What a waste of alcohol!
On Sunday, the last day of Beerfest, we ended at around 11pm. This called for a celebration so all those involved stayed back for some drinks and drunken dancing. This time, I took it upon myself to actually get wasted for once since I’d been way too sober thanks to those silly coupons.
I was helping run the outdoor smoking bar with a team of awesome bartenders and servers. It was a fun filled week with Hell’s Belles performing on Wednesday and Friday, B-yond VIP Party on Thursday and Vertical Horizon on Saturday! We worked from 12 noon all the way till 4 or 5am every single day.
The great part about my job is I get to drink while I’m on the job and my friends all showed up to accompany me for a drink or two…. but then again, there is also a downside to it. At the end of the night, I had to exchange all the drink coupons for cash so I could pay the staff on a nightly basis. Could you imagine how many coupons there are in denominations of $1, $5 and $10??? I had to count them up every single night and this happens everytime when I’m on the brink of getting drunk and then because of these stupid coupons I begin to sober up again! What a waste of alcohol!
On Sunday, the last day of Beerfest, we ended at around 11pm. This called for a celebration so all those involved stayed back for some drinks and drunken dancing. This time, I took it upon myself to actually get wasted for once since I’d been way too sober thanks to those silly coupons.
My saviour came in the form of Mark Mandemaker…my little brother who would not pass up a chance to drink till he drops!
First, we started off with some beer bongs with EFES beer, then double beer bongs (where the pipe branches out into two so the both of us could do it at once) then more beer bongs when we went back to the smoking bar as Harry brought the bong over! We ended it with a double beer bong with 4 cans of beer between the two of us. That I think was the final straw for me… Can’t remember anything after and when I woke up, I was at the Police Station!!!
Apparently I passed out on the way home and the cab driver was afraid that I won’t wake up.
First, we started off with some beer bongs with EFES beer, then double beer bongs (where the pipe branches out into two so the both of us could do it at once) then more beer bongs when we went back to the smoking bar as Harry brought the bong over! We ended it with a double beer bong with 4 cans of beer between the two of us. That I think was the final straw for me… Can’t remember anything after and when I woke up, I was at the Police Station!!!
Apparently I passed out on the way home and the cab driver was afraid that I won’t wake up.
He said he didn't dare to wake me up in case I sued for molest or rape...
Huh??? Has that happened in Singapore before to contribute to the kiasu-ness of these cabbies? The most horrendous thing is, my cell went flat and the only number I could remember was Karen’s so I gave her a call and she came over to get me out of it. I can’t write anything about what happened in there as there were a lot of offensive vocabulary coming from my end (just in case they find me here and I really get into trouble this time).
I'll tell you this much though: at the end of the day, I got out unscathed ;) I WIN!! ahahah
-Caryn
