7th August 2008 – Boss spend the whole group for an appreciation dinner for everyone hard work through this period. The location was just some where close to where I stayed. At first I do not have any intention to join the dinner, reason begin I have enough of them every day in office and I do not want some one else still ‘haunting’ me at night for sake of peacefulness. After all, may be think to going else you may label as ‘not supportive’ or sort of label around your neck but actually I do not care those of label, sometime I may have to thank them if they fired me. Nothing special and I do not think there will be any surprise going to happen, as usual the boss will give a speech and blah blah blah…….(sigh boring …) then some of them invite for karaoke here and there. In total there is 3 group which is seated together; the boss, local and foreigners (haha…this is what they call team work!!!).
I was totally drunk and vomit from the restaurant till back home, I don’t even remember what time about I get drunk!!! Wake up about 2 AM at friend house and walk and still feeling drowsy. Sort of habit, if I need to went to bed, first thing brush up my teeth and clean up myself as I can’t really sleep. Get my spec and gradually walk home, after clean up everything is about 230AM.
The next day I red through an article about effect of alcohol, I think I must and have to quit from it. Subsequently, I think will replace it with orange juice and maintain a healthy life style.
Article from Ezine:
Most of us like an alcoholic drink now and then. You may enjoy wine with a lovely meal or a drink when you go out with friends. Alcohol is simply an enjoyable and harmless part of your normal life.
One of the changes we all notice as we get older - if we drink at all - is that we can't drink as much or as frequently as we did in our youth. If you don't want to age prematurely - you need to find out just how alcohol affects your body. Here's a quick list of seven things you might want to bear in mind next time you pop that cork:
1. Alcohol causes liver damage
Most of us already know that this is one of the worst aspects of excessive drinking and can ultimately in extreme cases cause liver failure and death. Bear in mind that to your liver alcohol is a poison - the more you take in the harder it works to eliminate it.
2. Drinking alcohol makes you more likely to develop osteoporosis
This is one effect of alcohol not many people are aware of and it matters quite a lot - especially to women. Osteoporosis is one of the most aging conditions you can have and is most likely to affect women. Alcohol interferes with the absorption of calcium in your body and the more alcohol you drink now the more chance there is of developing brittle bones later in life.
3. Alcohol ages your skin
Not to be taken lightly this one. You may be prepared to cope with the health risks of alcohol but what about the aging effects of alcohol on your skin. Alcohol causes the small blood vessels to widen, producing flushed skin and often broken veins. And what's more, because alcohol is dehydrating, your skin will also be more prone to premature wrinkling.
4. Alcohol will pile on the pounds.
The problem is that drink you love is just calories - completely empty of any nutritional value whatsoever. To get rid of the extra calories from one drink you need to walk a mile – consider that over your next glass of wine. In fact if you drink alcohol you're likely to eat much more than you really need since alcohol stimulates your appetite.
5. Alcohol affects your brain
In the short term that means all the symptoms of intoxication – how bad it gets depends on how much you drink and other factors like your size, how tired you are, when you drink and whether you eat as well. In the long term alcohol destroys brain cells contributing to memory problems and dementia.
6. Alcohol affects women more than men
The less you weigh the more likely you are to become drunk because heavier people have more blood and water in the body to dilute the alcohol. Also as alcohol is stored in fat and women tend to have more fat than men - it takes us much longer to eliminate the alcohol from our bodies.
7. The effects of alcohol worsen with age
From the age of 40 onwards we tend to store more fat so the time the body takes to process and eliminate alcohol increases. So if you feel that you can't drink as much as you used to without feeling the effects – you're right.
If that all sounds like bad news on the alcohol front - consider the experience of the French. French people eat a diet that contains one of the highest levels of fat in the world and despite this they have a 42% less heart disease than Americans.
They owe their increased resistance to heart disease largely due to wine consumption - although it is probably true that the healthier French diet has something to do with it.
Scientists have linked the protective effects of wine to an organic compound known as 'resveratrol' that's found in red wine. Not all wines have the same amount of resveratrol and Californian wine has one of the highest resveratrol counts in the world.
So consumption of a very moderate amount of the right kind of alcohol - plus a healthy diet - is the way to go. Drink wisely and the effects of alcohol on the body can be positive. Drink unwisely and not only will your health suffer but you'll see the results in the mirror and on the scales!
