Ok, I've calmed down a bit, so I can try and do a decent recap of our trip to NYC. Here goes...

We left the burgh around 6:00 PM, just blazed our way through the highway onto 76, 81, then 78 zomming through to NY with just a little bit of unexpected delay along the way ;) . Got to Flushing around 1:00 AM, but the place we were going to cheer at was already jam-packed with over 1000 people. The cops were routing the crowd away to other locations since it was a fire hazard to let more people in the building. So the spill-over crowd started walking up and down the street to find a spot to settle, and we ended up at a Corean bar called H₂O. I think there were around 200 people in there all pumped up and ready to chant our way through the game. Needless to say, the game itself was off the hook... nothing to nothing all the way through both over times and ending in our win over penalty kick... That one save by our awesome goalee just saved the entire friggin nation.... When that goalee blocked the shot I think the crowd forgot that we still had to score the next penalty to really win... Everybody in the room was already climaxing... I swear.. the rush... it was just simply unbelievable... Then when we made the next penalty shot the entire bar shook with everybody jumping up and down in sheer joy!!!!! WOOOOO-HOOO!!!!!! GO~~~~ Corea!!!! We got out the bar after a long while of insanity and the street was already jam-packed with people in their cars honking, shouting, with their bodies flinging out the window.... We just screamed "Deh~~~ Han Min Guk!!!" to every single car that we saw... (which explains why my voice is gone)... Great feeling to say the very least. I have never felt such a rush.... Coreans!!!!! Unite!!!!!

Streets of Flushing filled with Corean people in their cars going crazy right after the game. (this pix really doesn't do justice, though... it was really much more insane)

We posed in front of the bar that we were cheering at. (We borrowed that flag from a passerby for the pix. yeah, passerbys carry around big-ass flags, seriously. kee hee)

We went to Blue on Corean street the next night to just chill for a bit and celebrate.

Photo courtsey of Darren Chan