I'm scared about my international business trip to Asia

[gamepad]

designated driver?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: gamepad
designated driver?

International trip? None of us will be driving because we won't have a car or a license. Taxis everywhere.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you dont have to drink to have fun

but you can be a weird loner drunk or sober

 

[jhbball]

My overly blunt opinion: Grow a pair. Build a taste and tolerance for some alcoholic beverages. Enjoy yourself on the trip and later in life, as an adult.

Cheers.

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: jhbball
My overly blunt opinion: Grow a pair. Build a taste and tolerance for some alcoholic beverages. Enjoy yourself on the trip and later in life, as an adult.

Cheers.

Because drinking is the definition of adulthood.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
well i don't drink either and was part of a similar trip for school.
I was the weird loner that did not drink.
It was pathetic how sh!t--faced all the other people got every night.

I learned to take off on my own and do my own thing.
I enjoyed it that way rather than drinking sake in bars all night and karaoking till 4 am everyday.

Awwww... that's almost exactly my situation. We're going to Japan, and that's probably EXACTLY what's going to happen with my tripmates.

Did you end up making any lasting relationships with anyone on the trip? Did anyone else not drink like you?

There was one other guy. I think total there were like 40 of us. I hung out with the other guy together quite a lot and we went to some of the more local places that the group avoided because they went to the same bar for like 3 days.

I did go out to the bars also a couple of times. The only fun I had was to see people totally out of control because they had had way too much to drink. Its funny when your nerdiest friends grow a pair after drinking sake and ask out random asian girls in the bar.

 

[Zenmervolt]

It's a running joke around the office the everyone wants to see me drunk. I don't drink and some seem to have made me their "project". Still, most aren't too bad about it. I say not to worry and do your own thing.

ZV

 

[EvilYoda]

That does suck...if that's really what they do on a vacation then I feel sorry for them. I would've saved my money and gone another time when I could probably enjoy things with like people.

Good luck...you don't have to drink if you're at the bar, I have a friend who doesn't drink at all and he still comes out with us every now and then.

 

[skyking]

No worries mate. You can be just as goofy and laugh it up, have a good time, all that without the bar bill and the puking/hangover. It sounds to me that you have more than a case of asian flush, you might have a real allergic reaction. My mom can't drink wine at all, and beer is not much better. It really messes her up.
I chose not to drink about 17 years ago, and it has not been a social burden.

 

[Mardeth]

Best trip ever was in high school to eastern europe. Drunk almost every night, crazy guards with MP5s at the 24/7 liquor store, nerds partying with the "popular" kids. Ohh the memories...

 

[IGBT]

..I know many that go on cruises and do nothing but booze till they barf. really got to wonder bout boozy people.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Meh, I feel you... I hate that sort of thing, I say just go around and take the time to photograph the whole place like you know Who cares if youre gonna be the loner, its not your fault most people are so empty

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Grow a pair. You can have fun without drinking, especially when they're all fvcked up the next day and you're feeling fine, retelling everything they did in vivid detail.

 

[dugweb]

some of you talk like not drinking is something you should be ashamed of

drinking =/= having a 'pair'

 

[jpeyton]

Find a group of retirees to travel with instead.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: jhayx7
Take me!

I will hang out with you.

Yay!

I actually prefer to "hang out" with older people. I'm 21, a senior, and everyone else on the trip is like a sophomore and they're still like "Ho Ho Alcohol!" (HO HO MAGIC for the Scrubs fans )

I dunno, older people just live life differently. I don't see many grad students and older going out every night and trying their best to get hammered. I would totally have more fun with people who just have a bit of wine over dinner or something and then go see an acrobat performance or something. Nice, laid back, appreciating the culture and the sights on a trip like this that doesn't come around very often. I find it kind of a waste to only concentrate on the party scene when one is overseas.

I currently live with a grad student, and I gotta say, it's LOADS easier to live with him than with an undergrad.

i am exactly the same, while i dont go all screwy after half a pint... i can get sloshed if i really want to and be fine the next day... but to be honest it almost seems like too much effort, especially when the people your with think they need to be hogwimperingly drunk just to have a cracking night.

when i turned up for uni on day 1 yeah i did the stupid beer bongs, funnels, drinking punch from a big bin etc but as soon as all that brewhaha of being a "dirty fresher" was over i went back to my normal self.....light to no drinking, working, training...all my life i have had better stuff to do on a night than hang on a street corner with a 2 liter bottle of cider like my mates did. i dont mind going out....but i like to go more upmarket...quiet pubs, wine bars, restaurants...more civilised, less loutish.

im 20 and i act like an old man lol.....still my GF seems to like it so i guess im doing something right, infact alot of my engineering buddies are the same, yeah we drink every now and then but really we have more fun doing other thigns than just getting battered for the sake of it.

i think its quite ashame that some of the people on your trip are gonna go to china and get sloshed everyday, its almost kinda rude in a way, you can get battered at home, you cant experience china and japan at home though. its much better if you to these places and join in with the traditions and see the sites worth seeing....you cant do that whilst nuking your brain cells every night

we need like an ATOT mentally old society

 

[frank84]

eh, not a big problem
they will pressure you to drink.. but they will not force you

dont worry too much

 

[jhbball]

Originally posted by: dugweb
some of you talk like not drinking is something you should be ashamed of

drinking =/= having a 'pair'

He doesn't want to be a weird loner. Which means, spend some time with the group at the bar, if they go. Have some drinks, enjoy their company, and be flexible.

The rest of the time, do the photography/site-seeing stuff.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Grow a pair. You can have fun without drinking, especially when they're all fvcked up the next day and you're feeling fine, retelling everything they did in vivid detail.

awww yeah, i remember countless times waking my buddies up for lectures and then telling them all the crazy ****** they did the previous night.

you should see their faces, especially when you semi make it up to make them feel even worse haha, like the time my mate got pumped up on lots of double vodka red bulls and starting charging around the union with a girl under each arm. lol, its like DVRB is to him what spinach is to popeye.

which is the thing about getting ******, they get so tanked they cant actually remember how good a night it was anyway.

 

[FleshLight]

You're doing loveboat?