A kick or two apart

Just a couple of penalty kicks seperated Germany and Argentina in their Football World Cup Quarter Final battle last night, yet it was precisely this seperation that didn’t seperate.. but welded together a houseful of friends (a few old, a few new, some previously lost but recovered) in an old tin mining town at the heart of Perak, Malaysia last night. A retrospective roll call would summon ‘here’s from; A Frenchman, An Englishman, Four German’s, A Chinese, A Philippina, three Japanese and two Malay. We ate, we drank, we laughed, we cheered, we scorned and finally celebrated. My heartfelt thanks to the hosts for their efforts in feeding us and making us all welcome. How phenomenal to think that we were just a kick or two apart!!