The Opera Populaire

Hmm...some of u guys know that I dun drink much, if at all. Bought a bottle of Blueberry Vodka Mix a few days ago to celebrate but only drank it just now. Feeling rather sleepy when I was very alert b4 drinking. Just 4.7% lei!!!

Why dun I drink? Well, back when I was still in the Salvation Army, I took an oath not to drink when I was sworn into soldiership. Salvation Army has such a tradition not becos they think that alcohol is sinful, but becos of our history. When our founder, William Booth first had the revelation from God to start his mission that was to lead to the founding of the Salvation Army, he had to help lots of ppl, including many who were alcoholic. Thus, there was the fear that if the Holy Communion was to hand out alcohol as the blood of Jesus Christ, they might revert back to the bottle. Hmm..maybe they din have grape juice back then?? But the trad continues.

Now that I have left the SA, I'm no longer under this oath anymore. But as a rule I am not that fond of alcohol unless it is Berlin Beer or Bayley's. Heheeh all the B somethings. When my cousin and I went to Jazz at Southbridge, we were at a loss of wat drink to order. So we tried Creme De Cacao, which we had read before in a Judy Blume book hahahaha. I din know that u can't put ice into it and ordered it that way, so it sucked!

Berlin Beer is this beer that u can only find in Berlin. There r a few colors to choose from: green, red and blue. The green one is the best! The alcoholic content is only 2.8% and it was very, very cheap, only about 80 cents. At my cousin's insistence, we bought 10, along with a red and a white wine, stuck it into our luggage that held 4 days' worth of clothes and went back from Berlin to Horsham, where my another cousin stayed. The immigration officers' eyes opened so wide when they scanned into our luggages' contents buahahahah. The sad thing is that, over at UK, the rest of our family din rave abt it like we did! They politely took some sips and left the rest for us and we sure did diaoed them!

In Italy, at the Tuscany region, we went to this beautiful restaurant where they served us a delicious red house wine. While waiting for e food, my guy cousin kept taking glass after glass becos it was nice. At the end of the dancing, singing and dining there, he was flushing like a lobster and needed the toilet and he was oso talking balderdash. I only took less than half a glass hahaha. BUt I was high on the lovely atmosphere. It was a great place for honeymoon, me thinks! Who cares abt getting drunk there!

The night b4 we left Europe, my married cousin let us try this nice fake Bayley's that costed only abt 5 pounds. Nice! I took 2 glasses, till my another cousin wondered,"Ey? thot u dun drink?" Hehe not always, cousin dear. But I'm learning.