FRUSTRATED about US IMMIGRATION

Taking BruDog Haven's Citizen Test, I was reminded of today's US illegal immigration problem and how it really frustrates me!
Call me what you will, but I am all for deporting illegal immigrants out of the US and back to their country.
If my wife, Beng and her parents can go through the proper channels in coming to the US and becoming a US citizen, why can't every immigrant do the same?
Another thing that frustrates me is the process of the citizen test itself. They now ask you, "Are you going to use an interpretor to take your test?" Meaning...if you don't speak, read or write English, you may use your own interpretor. HUH????
How the heck does one get around on his/her own in the US without speaking English?
Look, I am all for the US being multi-cultural, but COME ON!!!!! Every country has one universal language that people communicate with. In Central and South American countries, it's Spanish. Fine!
But in the US, the one universal language is English.
And to be a citizen of the US, one should speak, read and write in English. I am not saying to rid of one's native language in their own home. At home, We speak in our native language to each other. But in public, we all speak in English. Even my own wife, Beng finds it rude to speak in our native language in front of others in public in the US. It looks like useless gossip about those around you who don't speak your native language!

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

Of course being a father of a Pre-Teen, I went to go see High School Musical 3 on opening day.

I purchased our tickets one week in advance (as I do with the "Harry Potter Movies"), got the theatre an hour in advance and stood in line in hope for a good seat.

BUT during big blockbuster movies such as this, I always pull my "handicap card" to get ushered into the theatre first or bring my wheelchair and have an usher kick someone out from "accessible seating" who is not disabled.

The movie was...good...it was fun....very much like the first High School Musical....BUT it's senior year.

I didn't like the second one because they tried to make it sound more like MTV-ish and their voices sounded too electronic which clashed with the whole look of the movie and made the lip syncing look like a bad dubbing job.

HSM3 went back to the roots of the first. Cute, gooyey, bright and highly entertaining. I loved alot of the numbers staged very well by Kenny Ortega.

My daughter's personal awkwardness was when Zak Efron took off his shirt in the gym locker room and the girl's in the theatre went crazy. She started to blush, smile and cover her eyes.

My personal awkwardness in watching HSM3 was watching Vanessa Hudgens and only thinking of....uh...um...Oh...forget...it!

Near the end of the movie, the kids in the theatre of all ages got up to the familer tune, "We'll Always be Together" from the first High School Musical Movie, clapped their hands and raced down to the screen and started to dance like crazy.
Beng and I looked at Aria and asked if she would like to join them. I think she would have if a friend was with her. BUT unfortunately...her present company was "Mom & Dad" and we felt like idiots asking if she wanted to join them. Ughhhhhh..How uncool was THAT!

MCCAIN on LETTERMAN

Last night, I waited tiredly for the much anticipated John McCain appearance on "Late Night" with David Letterman.

For you who don't know, McCain cancelled out of an appearance a few weeks ago on "Late Night" with David Letterman. McCain claimed that he had to rush to Washington, DC due to the economic crisis. But actually, he stayed in NYC and opted "Late Night" with David Letterman for an interview with Katie Couric instead.

The show began with Paul Schaeffer and the band playing, "I Can't Explain" by the "Who" as McCain walked on.

David Letterman started the evening with the question, "Can you stay?" To me,it was the only joke of the evening.

At times, McCain appeared to have been placed on a hot seat. In several questions, David Letterman pressed him about his choice of running mate.

In a non-joking matter, David Letterman asks, "In your guts, in your stomach...if I were to run upstairs and wake you in the middle of the night and say, 'John, is Sarah Palin really the woman to lead us through the next four, eight years – through the next 9/11 attack?' "

McCain replied: "Absolutely. She has inspired Americans. That's the thing we need."

Then David Letterman asked if he backs Palin's claim on "Barack Obama hangs out with Terrorist".

McCain said his rival needs to better explain his relationship with former Weather Underground activist William Ayers.

"Did you not have a relationship with Gordon Liddy?" David Letterman inquired.

McCain acknowledged knowing the Watergate burglar.

Following the commercial break, McCain further said, "I know Gordon Liddy. He paid his debt, he went to prison ... I'm not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy."

"You understand the same case could be made of your relationship with him as is being made with William Ayers?" Letterman said.

McCain responded that he has been completely open about his relationship with Liddy.

In conclusion, even though I am a democrat and voting for Obama, I was expecting a fun evening of lighthearted banter and laughs on this show. At least, that's what David Letterman hyped it up to be. Instead, I felt like it was a continuation of Wednesday's debate. What do you ya'll think?

CUSTOMER SERVICE????

Since Sunday, We have lost our connection to our Comcast Internet Service. Poor Beng had been on the phone with Comcast Customer Service so long (3 hours), that the cordless phone ran out of batteries. Then she called again killing her Verizon minutes talking to them on her cellphone. Beng called AGAIN on Columbus Day for a technician to come and fix it on Tuesday. The technician arrived at 2:30pm with nothing in his hands. Just himself. he then proceeds to bounced back and forth from the modem to the router. Unplugging it and plugging it again over and over. Then he asked Beng if he could borrow our phone. According to Beng, the technician used up all the batteries on our home phone to go through exactly what Beng went through. I come home around 5pm and he is still at our home. This time calling on his cellphone doing the exact routine we have been through. he says there is nothing he can do. He doesn't have the equipment (Hmmmm...Isn't this...a technical call?) He then says, "You need to call1-800-Comcast. the problem is on there end".
Frustrated, Beng calls and ends up on the home phone killing all the recharge of the batteries for the phone being with customer service.
I get home from dropping Aria off at her rehearsal and I get on the phone with Comcast.
I stay on the phone from 7:30pm to 10:15pm. I give up after going from one supervisor to another supervisor yelling my head off. In short, No internet....No service...
So, I am picking up home emails from work as well as everything else. I hate Comcast! Hopefully we can go Verizon if it's available in our area.

BAD KITTY!!!! OFF the TABLE!!!!

Our new kitty, Harmony had been driving me nuts while I was at home recovering from my surgery.

Does anyone have a "sure-fix" remedy on how to keep a cat off the kitchen table?

I tried squirt guns, but she loves water. She loves taking a bath.

I tried hitting her on the nose, but she thinks I am playing, She likes to wrestling with my hand and fingers.

I am at a lost!

MORE UPDATE on ARIA and "LITTLE WOMEN"

Still not knowing much of "Little Women" the musical, Beng and I went to accompany Aria to the director's house last night to find out what role Aria will be bestowed in.
There was 5 young girls there including Aria (2 African-Americans, 2 Caucasians and of course, Aria an Asian-American) and they were tested for their ability to harmonize together.
Then we were told that in this production, they are going to cast a young March Family (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) in the beginning of Act I and then an older March family later. We already saw and heard the "Older" Jo who is African American Woman and I guess they are trying to match one of the younger African-Americans to her. As we were coming in, we saw an Asian-American Women just leaving the director's house. Beng and I are guessing who ever she's playing, Aria will play her. Again, this is all speculation. We will find out very soon what the director wants.