American Pie

Dreams, the American way. All the high aspirations by each citizen to have the opportunity and the freedom to work hard and to achieve their goals in life, regardless of class, gender, race or ethnicity. Can’t blame them, America is a great nation.

The few days I’m here, I do realised my dreams (hence, the motto: life is but a dream). Firstly my business dealings went quite well. More than expected. Secondly, syukur to Almighty, all the careful planning are working ... as per planned.

The last few days, me too is absorbed with what is currently the whole nation engrossed with. Firstly the weather. Syukur, Houston is spared by the recent snow storm that swept the nation. Or else, I might be sketching poetry on ‘di kedinginan begini ...’

Houston in winter is likened Scotland in summer. Dingin dan nyaman dan sunny.

Secondly, the Super Bowl XLII (read 42nd). Being a UK grad, I hate anything American. When previously my US grad house-mate talked about NBA, NFL, Eastern Conference bla, bla ... I don’t really give a damn. But here, now, the Super Bowl is HUGE mannn. I think it is next to Thanksgiving, well except the turkeys are spared. Luckily, during the flight to LA few days ago, I watched The Game Plan movie and have some idea, which is all about American Football, with The Rock as the famous Boston quarterback.

Then, the Super Tuesday. The Democrats, the Republican, Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary ‘I stand by my man’ Clinton. The US Presidential candidates, to my opinion are very outstanding (especially Obama). Only if our present leadership have half of his wit.

So bye-bye, miss American pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry.

Taking about Chevy, I was at Houston Downtown to visit the Auto Show at the huge Reliant Centre. There were a lot of exciting cars. One of them was the 2009 Chevrolet Camaro. You know, the one that transforms to Bumble Bee in the movie Transformers.