Coming out of the closet

I was a closet Slovenia fan.  Watching the two games side by side on a projector screen in a Mongolian bar, I was torn.  After figuring out that Slovenia wouldn't tie the game with England last night, I secretly hoped for a tie in the USA vs. Algeria game so that England and Slovenia would both enter the next round.

Irrational? Probably a bit. Unpatriotic? Absolutely.

But of course Donovan scored in the 91st minute. Definitely a bittersweet moment for me.

I've tried to love the USA team but somehow it's not happening.

So with Slovenia out, I'll just have to find another team to fall in love with.

The reason why Asians are so small

It's because there are so many of them and only so many metro trains during rush hour.

People actually groan when a slightly larger person is trying to cram himself/ herself onto the train. Cruel, but true.

Just when you are pressed up against random strangers and think that there is no possible way that anyone else could fit inside, they surprise you.

Call it the survival of the masses.

Living out of suitcases

I've always been infected with the constant desire to get going. To find stories and live different lives. But now I'm playing around with the idea of staying put. And it is starting to sound delicious. It is, after all, a different adventure altogether.