[What's this?] Your life must be boring

I was washing my face yesterday night getting ready to go to bed around 11:45pm when I hear a bunch of people shouting and talking loudly in front of our house's driveway. At first I didn't pay much attention to them, because it was very obvious that they were drunk and I was really focusing on washing my face lol. But then I heard this guy shout out, loudest of all:

Drunk guy: "STACEY!!! I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABY!!!"

I laughed and said out loud "what the hell?!". Then I started remembering and thinking how (mostly) students here seem to only have fun when they're drunk. It's not what I came up with, it's what I've been told. Getting drunk here is like the only way you can have fun...if you don't drink then you are told that "you have a boring life" or "what do you do for fun?"...so on.

I remember back in my first year, where a friend was telling me, that his friends and himself have a special gathering every Friday at a bar where they'd drink so much at 12pm in the afternoon. That's pretty shocking and he was only 18. He used to say, that he didn't understand how 'we' (Muslims) don't drink...how do we have any fun if we don't drink?! I ended up explaining to him that you don't need to be drunk to have fun. There's a million ways of having any sort of fun with the advantage of being fully awake and aware of what you're doing and what's happening around you. At least you won't end up regretting anything the next day when you realize or remember what happened the day before. Here he replies that that's the 'beauty' of being drunk...even if you do something stupid/crazy/messed up, you won't regret it because you were drunk. You had no control over yourself. You basically can do whatever you want and won't even think twice whether to do it or not. You just do it, because you can! Shocking right?! lol. The conversation went on, where I was trying to convince him that what he's saying is stupid (lol) and that you don't need to be drunk to have fun, while in return he tries to convince me that I must go for a drink to really understand what he means. Yup! Over my dead body =)

I remembered another occasion - though I wasn't there, I was told about it by Sarz xD - also in first year of uni, where the Engineering Department had a boat race day for the students that took a certain engineering paper where they had to build mini boats with motors. On that day, each team with their built boats are to race each other and so on. They were having a bbq and stuff so that's normal, but what wasn't is the beer. Students actually ended up getting drunk during the day, where lectures were still being given even after the boat racing had ended. I remember when I met up with Sarz for lunch, she told me that T, a former class mate, just came over to her and H, where out of the blue he says 'ALLAAAAH' and made a toast like gesture at herself and H as if he was saying 'cheers' to them. How retarded is that?! lol.

I truly feel sorry for these people. I can't believe that they rely on getting drunk just to have any sort of fun. How sad is that?! It's the worst, most shocking thing I've ever heard while living here. I guess they only look at the 'good side' (if any) of drinking and ignore the bad side. It's bad enough that most, if not all, end up regretting something that they might have done or gotten into because they were too drunk to control the situation and for the fact that they 'can do whatever we want' idea when they are drunk. Sad!

All I say is...El 7amdulellah wal shukur =D