Give me a good car (preferably with automatic transmission), drop me off at a location and tell me you need to get to a certain spot and I'll drive ya.
Drive around the state of Sabah? Sure.
Tackle the North-South Expressway and to Bangkok? Done.
Drive you from KK all the way south to Kuching? Can.....
Provided you pay for the fuel lah...
Yeah I like driving. On these long-distance road trips, I hardly get tired or sleepy. Touch wood I know but it hasn't happened to me on all those trips for work and holidays.
Here's the strange part.
On shorter distances, I get bored if there's no one to talk to or to listen to.
Do you get sleepy or tired while driving? Of course you do.
Everyone does once in a while. Especially if you drink and drive.
Let's admit it. With the total disregard for laws against driving-under-the-influence of alcohol (on our part) and a similar slack of enforcement (on their part) on this same law, EVERYONE is guilty of drinking and driving at some point of their lives.
So, my question is, what do you do to 'throw away' sleepiness/tiredness/drunkedness before you drive?
In my experience, when you ask this question, it gets people animated and gets them talking.
Why? Cuz it involves things people put in their mouths lah....
And this post was actually inspired by this :
The Caffeine Nap
Sleep researchers at the University of Britain at Loughborough did several tests on fatigued drivers to compare the effects of different methods for a driver can use to stay awake. They put the volunteers in driving simulators while they were sleepy and let them drive. Some of the tests included rolling down windows for cold exposure, blasting the radio and slapping oneself in the face to try to stay awake. But what researchers found worked the best was a Caffeine Nap.
The Caffeine Nap is simple: you drink a cup of coffee and immediately take a 15-20 minute nap. Researchers found coffee helps clear your system of adenosine, a chemical which makes you sleepy. The combination of a cup of coffee with an immediate nap chaser provided the most alertness for the longest period of time in tests. The recommendation was to nap only 15 minutes, no more or less and you must sleep immediately after the coffee.
Most adult Americans drink coffee, and caffeine is possibly the most widely used and longest self-administered drug in mankind. Caffeine is a stimulant and is often used when people want to stay awake. The caffeine nap is an example of the paradoxical effect of many substances in the body.
What other methods have you tried to reduce sleepiness or the effects of alcohol, besides coffee? Do you really wanna drink coffee at night after clubbing? I know I wouldn't be able to sleep at all after a cup of caffeine-flavoured juice.
Believe it or not, I get a lot of veterans of the pint saying, "Sup tulang!"
Whuuuh?? You're asking right?
"Sup tulang" is literally bone soup in Malay. Some kind of broth where various sections of beef have been boiled for several hours. You can usually eat them with noodles of your choice.
Here's a pic:
Here's another pic of something simiar except this one's called "sup gearbox":
Do you really need to ask: Why gearbox?
Shit, I'm just fucking with ya.
It's actually pork rib/bone tea.
I swear it's true.
Your boner, sir. Another favourite after-booze meal for me and my mates is prawn mee:
Prawn + mee. I'll whack you if you need anymore description.
Seeing the recurring theme here, maybe all you really need to freshen up for that drive is this:
All the rest are just cotton-candy fillers.
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