Superstar!

For whatever reason, I get a lot of attention when I am in Japan/Asia.  Weird, I know.  I think it has something to do with the fact that I'm an American, but yet I speak Japanese and somehow that makes me intriguing.  I don't know, but it is kind of bizarre.  Here are a few of the odd things that happened to me this week.  Number of times I was told that I look like Val Kilmer: 6.  Okay, this is odd, but not that unusual.  When I'm at work in the US, I get this at least once a day.  No, seriously.  Personally, I don't really see it, but I'll take a compliment anyway I can.  It is a compliment, right?  Number of times I was told that I should be a model: 1.  A Filipino lady told me that I have beautiful hair and beautiful teeth.  Okay, those are nice features...but the rest of me?  C'mon!  Don't expect to see my 5'7" 200lbs frame strutting down the runway or gracing the cover of a magazine anytime soon.  Number of picture requests: 3.  Let's be clear on this.  I was not asked to take the picture...I was asked to be IN the picture.  At the hotel, the beach, on the plane.  Just random people asking me to be in their picture with them.  Number of autograph requests: 6.  Okay, so those were just from Customs Agents, so I guess they don't really count.  Like I said, I get a lot of attention when I'm here and it's not because of anything I'm doing.  I'm just being my normal self and all these people come out of the woodwork.  It does do wonders for my self esteem though.