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Last year I wrote about Medicine That Makes You Fly ! I suggest you have a quick look at that post to keep up with this one :)

After all these years – I have come across the Thai Red Bull bottle again .. I had thought of its existence as a fleeting memory from a distant time (i.e university days seem like a lifetime ago)

But I did find it …  In Thailand of course :) I spent the last week over there celebrating one of my closest girlfriends’ 30th birthday. (check out the swanky leather stud cover for the bottle – Absolut Rocks)

This medicinal bottle of Red Bull is just as I remember it from my university days … sickeningly sweet and really quite like cough syrup !  Pattaya and Bangkok have NO Red Bull CANS at all ! I found some ‘Shark’ energy drink cans but absolutely nada luck on the Red Bull.

However once we drowned the Red Bull with Absolut – there was no reason to complain =)  Vodka Red Bull has been my drink of choice for almost a decade now .. unless a better mix comes about – I’m sticking with it .. can or medicine bottle style !

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I couldn’t help but mention this .. it brought back a jolt of memories .. a blast from the past …

I went to university in Montreal; and I quite recently also discovered Red Bull before leaving Dubai; and one fine day.. I think it was around the time of semester exams that I felt that I need a boost of energy and a Red Bull would suffice.

We’d been studying quite late into the night; our nerves were on tethers; we couldn’t remember the last meal we’d eaten; and there were no munchies left to provide any brain food ! Since we technically couldn’t eat in the library

My friends and I must have gone to every 24 hour shop within a 3 block radius and finally hit the jackpot when one of the shop attendants’ claimed to have just received a stock of Red Bull. He disappears into the back of the shop, and comes out carrying – get this - an almost medicinal looking bottles (think cough syrup) bearing the label Red Bull !!

I haven’t seen this bottle any where else other than in Montreal – and after a while I couldn’t seem to find it anymore. The taste of the drink was almost like the Red Bull as we know it – however it seemed somehow sweeter – in a cough syrup kind of way !!

And it most definitely had us friends wide awake and cracking away at our books till the wee hours of dawn ! Medicinal bottle will make you fly !!

Last night as I was passing by my neighbours in Blogsville – I came across a new neighbour (but I seemed to have lost the address for now); who had been talking about various Communities; and in the Thai community – he’d come across the Thai Red Bull =) and that’s how this post came about .. Once I come across the address again, I shall give you all directions.