USA --- diary

This is a very rough diary i wrote during my journey on bus. I will try to upload if possible ! Photos .. hmm .. wait bah .

11th May

What an amazing race ! It has been 5 months since we last decided to come to WaT USA and now we are really in the land of dreams itself. I am typing this on a bus to a small town named flagstaff ,about 2 am in the morning. Although I think I am already in USA for more than 10 hours now, I still got the feeling of" OMG am i In US ?" ...
What a day and what an experience ... We flied from singapore since 1 oclock afternoon in 11th may to Taipei ,reach Taipei at night , walked a very brief 10 minutes for our transit flight , and then continue our journey to LA. We again flying from night to morning across Pacific Ocean and go back in time to 11th May's morning.To me now taking plane really doesnt differs much from taking bus anymore.
Good thing to note though , EVA airline's services far surpassed my expectation. I got good food served , good entertainment and good air stewardess to service for me. The food was so much better than those I ate on FInair last time round , we were occasionally served Taiwan's delicacies like taiwan MuaChi and Taiwan's yogurt. The entertainment was good enough to keep us occupied during the 15 hours journey... We had each one LCD touchscreen infront of our seat and we get to choose wide array of entertainments. We can watch movies (chinese movies like super dunk from jay chou , warlords ,hollywood blockbusters like jumpers , bucket list and rambo.) , Taiwan variety shows (kang xi lai le ,super IDol) and other travel shows by nationalgeographic channel. Apart from that , we have access to thousands of songs from taiwan artist and world artists . To top these all up ,the taiwaniese air stewardess are really cute and pretty , i admit some already got some ages but others really looks fabulous . Omg i cant forget her angelic smile !
Its not a good thing being a Malaysian for at least this once. Me and my friends were stucked at LA's custom for more than 3 hours.Other friends from singapore and Taiwan who came with us got their cleareance in blinks of eye but we were leaded to another waiting area for additional interviews and registration. We were placed in a holding area with some other people like indonesians and i think ( all other islamic countries) to wait for individual interview. We were shocked to know that most of them already waited inside the holding area for more than 4 hours already. Some looked pissed off and some looked sad. Its not a very good news for us since we got a plane to catch in 4 hours time by the time we landed at LA. Well , i never been treated like a criminal before , untill today. We were so anxious and hopeless , my friend and I went up to the officer and asked him for fast interview or perhaps let us re-schedule our flight so that we wont waste too much money. We were clearly denied any connection to the outside ,no phone calls and cannot move away from the holding area. Somemore , there's one police came and shouted at the crowd in the holding area with very bad manner ... he said " Sit down ! I am asking you nicely . My name is blah , you can complain me if you want !" Wow . Luckily our turn of interview came earlier than people who waited inside the holding area. The process took about 30 minutes , all our personal details taken , photos , fingerprints , background , everything. I think they really cautious on people from islamic countries.
It was half and hour before our flight from LA to Phoenix depart after we got thru the custom. We got the taste of playing amazing race game as we did so many things at once in that period. We took our luggages , ask officers around for directions , ran from terminal 1 to terminal 3 (imagine running from SMKTTA to plaza tasek in 5 minutes with all the luggages and 17C.) , foung ticketing counter , check-in our luggages , and board the plane. SOmemore in the process of claiming our ticket, my airticket was not registered in their machine. End up they let me sit in an empty seat that's very far away from my friends.
We flied for another 2 hours before we reach beautiful phoneix city. The night city as seen from the plane was astoudingly beautiful. We booked vans to bus stations and boarded the bus that will bring us to Flagstaff city.
Tomorrow morning, we will have to settle our social security card and catch another bus to grand canyon. Hope everything is okay !!
What a long day... I think today lasted more than 24 hours for us.