Brian comes from a culture where drinking and other bad behavior tends to be congratulated.  He was a child when he convinced an alcoholic adult to buy him booze by paying him for it.  Brian can remember getting drunk that night with a buddy, staggering around the neighborhood, and then blacking out and coming too in his parents home late at night.  His boozing got him in trouble while in Singapore, where he got arrested for drinking to excess.   His whole life, Brian remembers that everybody from his parents to the judge in Singapore would shrug off his behavior.