Friendzoned

There are people who can break out of the friend zone. Who would not mind dating guys from their circle of friends, or colleagues they'll run into everyday. I couldn't do that. Everyone knows I don't go out with guys I'm friends with.

There have been countless times when I felt like bending the rules a little. Going a little further, see what happens. In most situations I'd let it pass and do nothing. I don't like to take the risk, as my "romantic" relationships won't last. When it's over, there is no going back to friendship without awkwardness. Some of those moments when I could have done something different, I do regret, although I remember why I did what I did.

(Today I'm thinking of blue eyes. Not even my type!) So right now, knowing what I already know, I should just stop right there and not play any risky games that I can't win. It surely doesn't feel good, it won't feel better, but it could feel a lot worse. That's the right thing to do.

[International Break] Friendly Games in October

Okay first of all, congratulations to our team that just made it to the World Cup in Brazil! The qualifying against Sweden in two days has now turned into a friendly game for us. I know that everyone has to deal with their own clubs and leagues, but the last time our national team tied 4-4 after leading 4-0. Not winning again would just be unacceptable now.

There are two more friendlies coming up in November against Italy and England. Coach Löw actually said something which very likely enraged the majority of the fans. He said in an interview that they weren't thinking about getting defeated by Italy in the Euro 2012 anymore. Is he f****** kidding me? I usually don't swear a lot, but what the f***! Maybe we wouldn't have to think about this s***, if we didn't get humiliated once in a while! (Almost) nobody who watched it, could ever forget the last minute defeat during World Cup 2006 in our own country, let alone what happened just a year ago! Coach Löw was surprised at people's intense reactions in Poland & Ukraine. Yeah guess what, he'll be surprised that people are still pissed and will be pissed again if this happens again. Not even an army of a thousand brilliant midfielders will help him then, because heads are going to roll.

[Rant] Need trilingual keyboard app for android smartphones

I didn't like the keyboard app that already came with my android smartphone, so I installed Go Keyboard which had all the languages that I needed (English, German, Chinese, Korean.) It wasn't until I accidently came upon free trial versions of SwiftKey and A.I.type keyboards, when I realized how slow and unhelpful the word predictions of Go Keyboard were. I'd always been a fast typer, now everything was going even faster!

SwiftKey was by far my favorite, you could type English and German simultaneously without switching back and forth. How smart was that!! And they suggested what I should write next, oh my God, aren't we lazy nowadays? I was tempted to spend 4 Euros on a pro version if only it provided Chinese. But it didn't. I couldn't buy a keyboard app without Chinese obviously, no matter how amazing the app was. Otherwise I'd have to switch between several apps again. SwiftKey wrote on their FAQ page that they allegedly were working on their Chinese. We all know what that means! Until they are able to compete against Sougou standards, it will take years! What is this, @SwiftKey? There are millions of Chinese people using smartphones all over the world, and the number is increasing by the minute. Help me out here, please.

Now I'm using Sougou which has excellent Chinese word predictions, but very sh*y English autocorrection (the worst!) and no German at all. Somehow I can live with the English, even though it can be frustrating at times. Sougou autocorrects all my German words to English ones. I mean really?! Can you at least translate accurately? There is just no way to type single-handed in German on a driving subway. I know that voice messengers are on trend right now, but nobody wants to spend all their limited mobile internet data on sending and receiving those things. Besides it's still weird in public, when everybody can listen to your little audio conversation.

Social media kids out of control

I watched a beauty tutorial the other day. The make-up guru used a foundation which was 2 or 3 shades darker than her natural skin tone making her skin appear extremely yellow. At first I wasn't sure if she was actually aiming for a tanned look, but then she said her look was inspired by a quite pale celebrity. So I commented: "Your foundation is too dark." and other viewers agreed. But of course not everyone shared my opinion, there was always someone who screamed "HATER!" Yeah. How did I offend anyone? I don't think there was anything hateful about my remark. In fact, it was rather well-intentioned and not personal, if you know what I mean. If I said "OMG! You look ridiculous!", then people might get offended. I'd probably kill my friends for not telling me the truth before my video got uploaded and clicked by thousands of internet trolls. Maybe this foundation also happened to be part of my daily make-up routine and I'd been going out like this for months. So why didn't anyone close to her warn her?