You're a heavy drinker. That's what they said.

If I will going to rate myself if how hard drinker I am from one to ten and ten is the highest , I must say that I fall from seven to eight. I rate this in myself because I really know my capacity when in comes to drinking alcohol and I must say that I can be a " pandayo ". That's the term that Filipino used when you are a hard drinker and can drink to a different place and can go home normally. My friends also knows I have a high tolerance in terms of alcohol because they witnessed it. For me , you can control being drunk. It's mind over matter and if you knew that you will hit the state of being black out , you can rest a bit and drunk again. That's what I did.

I started to taste an alcohol when I was in High School. We are legal to drink alcohol as my father told us to drink but in moderation especially when there's an occasion but never ever tried to smoke cigarettes. As I grew older I keep that in my mind that's why drinking alcohol is not a big thing to me and my father said theres a healthy benefits when you drink alcohol occasionally. So back to the topic.

I remember when I was in fourth year High School when me and my classmates decided to have a cutting classes on the afternoon because we don't like our teacher that time. Because of our power trip we decided to buy one bottle of Matador and drink it on my classmates house. That one bottle became more often as the time passes by until we always set a date for a drinking session. We have lot of memories about alcohol , I remember that time we need to share 20 pesos each for us to buy one bottle because we are only a high school students.

When I was in College , my exposure on alcoholic beverages became worst as I meet a set of friends who were a heavy drinkers too. We drink an alcohol after school because there's an eatery near our school who sell and allowed students to drink. I also experienced to enter the school with the influence of alcohol and also bring tanduay ice inside. We put the tanduay ice in a softdrink plastic and when you will see it , it's like a Sprite. There's also an incident on my college days when our classmates invites us because it's fiesta in thier place and then we drink there and because I am living in my Aunt when I was in college and I don't want my Aunt to make a sermon with me I pretended that I am normal when I go home and still manage to clean the house because I go to sleep.

And the most memorable drinking experience when I was in college is that a night before our midterm exam was my sister's birthday and as usual we drink , not just a normal drinking but a lot to the point that I got black out. They said it's not true that you didn't remember what happened when you're drunk? It's true because I experienced it. I wake up early in the morning with a headache but good thing I still remember all what I reviewed before I drink an alcohol. I took the midterm exam with a hang over.

When I went to Manila and got a job I experienced to go on a different bars together with my officemates. I worked in Makati and there's a lot of bars near our office. I remember the time that our supervisor got mad to us because she knows that everyday after shift we are just drinking alcohol and then stay at the bar for a long time and then my other officemate will be absent the next shift because of hang over.

I also experienced to drink after shift and then our drinking session became overnight and we need to go on our work and you know what happened? We still go to work with the same outfit we wear on yesterday. How about putting Empirador lights on our tumbler during our graveyard shift? My goodness , we also did it. And many more experienced about my drinking session with my colleagues. If I going to share it all it will this article so long because there's a lot.

The last time I drink alcohol was way back April 2017. We are on the shift that time and then an earthquake happened and our admin decided to stop the operation and we went to our officemates house in Malibay and drink. Then that's the last time. I decided to quit drinking alcohol when I turned back to Christ and started a new life. I am now four years alcohol free and to be honest I hate the smell of alcoholic beverage now. I remember when I try to drink wine on the birthday of my friend and after one shot I can feel my head aches. I enjoyed those moments in the past together with my friends and I think it's enough.

Can I named the alcoholic beverages that I tried? Let's start with Matador , Empirador , Generoso , Gin with Juice , Gin Kapitan , The bar , Red horse , Colt45 , San Miguel Beer , Tanduay , Tanduay Ice , Sanmig Light , Fundador , Alfonso light , JW Black Label , JDaniels , GSMBlue Mojito , Soju and those wine that I didn't know the name. I also tried mix of red horse and Empirador light haha.

These are just a few photos of us during happy time. It was all happened during my Manila Days been when I was in College and High School taking some pictures is not possible because our mobile phones was all keypad hehe.

PS: I just want to said that I am not alcohol free anymore because I drink an alcohol beverage yesterday because it's my husband's birthday. I wrote this article a day before his birthday and dont have an idea that we will going to drink on his birthday. It was an unplanned one and we only thought of it when my cousin came. We both some GSM blue Mojito and mix it with Dutch Mill and Sprite. It's just a light drink while talking about life. A bonding with my cousin. So yeah. That's all.