https://alexagain.com/tags/personal/ Recent content in Personal on Alex Again Hugo en-us Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://alexagain.com/posts/encounter_at_a_hostel_in_tokyo/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://alexagain.com/posts/encounter_at_a_hostel_in_tokyo/ <p><strong>This is the story of how I met my husband.</strong></p> <p><em>tl;dr: It was my first day at a hostel, and it was his last. We went out for beer, played Mariokart, and he left. All within 12 hours. We got married later.</em></p> <p>———</p> <p>Sleep deprived, hungry, and strapped for cash, I stood over the stove of the hostel kitchen burning some potatoes in a pan.</p> <p>I had missed my connecting flight from Singapore to Japan, so I had been up for over 36 hours figuring out how to get where I wanted to go: Tokyo. Now I was there, semi-delirious and seriously greasy.</p>