Surreal Moments

A mundane taxi ride turned magically surreal.....
Sitting in the back of a taxi this morning, listeninng to the national broadcaster news service followed by the opening bars of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama'....
The 60+ Indian Sikh driver, turban, jewellery and all, cranks up the volume saying "One of the best songs ever written".
As Skynyrd get well and truly in to the best of it, the driver starts talking about the importance of educating children properly in this world, teaching them to understand differences and to tolerate them all, whilst muttering that every couny in the world is "the bloody same" when it comes to discrimination issues and the unjustness of it all in realtion to simple people just trying to survive.
The irony of this, as we drive past Kuala Lumpur's mosques and western embassies next door to each other, all set to the foot stomping guitars and lyrics of a song about place called Alabama, once the world's focus on basic human rights issues, was not lost on me....
Bloody marvellous moment in life.... Sweet Home Alabama......