Questions Answered

For 21 years 2 months and 8 days, I've always wondered.

Why are people willing to stand in a long queue and pay so much to enter a place at 12am?

What was so fun being in a super packed area with cigarette smoke as your oxygen and music loud enough to regulate your heartbeat and deafen your eardrums?

Why are people willing to pay so much for large amounts of alcohol only to feel the hangover the next morning?

What was so fun about dancing feverishly for 3 hours plus non-stop with a bunch of (hot) strangers?

How does feel like to have a female bar dancer performing a teasing erotic dance barely millimeters away from your face?

Why are Tan Boon Heong's performances in recent badminton tournaments declining so rapidly?

How does it feel like to sleep in the car at 6am, half dead, parked under the tree?

Can 2 glasses of tequila, whisky, some vodka and Jack Daniels really make you that high?

Where do all the hot chicks go?

The first thing my dad said when I reached home the next morning was "Did you smoke???"And my mom asked "Did you get sunburned??" Apparently the alcohol allergy I have isn't really an allergy after all. It's an enzyme deficiency. Almost 50% of all Chinese lack Aldehyde Dehydrogenase. It's an enzyme that helps break down alcohol after it is consumed. A deficiency of this enzyme can result in flushing reactions after consuming alcohol. This may include nausea and rapid heart rate. Such reactions can be confused for an allergic reaction.

And apparently the only way to avoid this is, stop consuming alcohol. Ever.