ok so it's yesterday and i'm having the 2nd driving lesson of my entire life, when it starts to rain pretty heavily and my driving instructor casually tells me to DRIVE HOME. at this point my hands start to get really cold and i think hello i just learnt how to shift gears and use a steering wheel! and i don't even know how to control the brake! omg the last time i've been so scared was when i couldn't figure out the 8 mark trigo question during the As, and that was when i knew i was screwed to high hell. so this was pretty major, yes.

i think probably the scariest part was getting on the main road, which meant all these extra cars popping out from nowhere. and TRAFFIC LIGHTS omg i dread traffic lights! because i'm learning on a manual car (my dad says sports cars don't run auto) there's this added problem of the clutch pedal, which is is Not Easy to control the first time you step on it. and then when you brake at red lights you have to remember to release the clutch really slowly when you want to start moving again, if not the car will stall right in the middle of a friggin T junction. which was what happened to me twice yesterday. and then when we were nearing my house i remembered that my parents always have to make a U-turn to enter the slip road and i immediately panicked because hey i'm new and i don't do U-turns!!! lucky my instructor, who is, in case you haven't guessed, private, was on the alert and quickly took hold of the wheel before i rammed the car right up the divider. this was a very harrowing experience and i could have died. so i guess good things do happen.

today i went out with josie and walker for lunch at j8, and it was like reliving all the old times when we'd pon physics prac on wednesday afternoons. actually, come to think of it, i don't remember anyone else ponning except for mark and fishie. but whatever, time blurs memories. and everywhere we looked there were like these bubbly j1s and j2s going about in their sprightly ways and suddenly, i just felt so old. i mean, i even have to pay adult fare on my EZ-link now, how fair is that???

and now, movie review!

in her shoes- i really love cameron diaz! i mean look at her LEGS. they deserve to be in a leg museum or something. and whatsherface who acts as her sister is really unfortunate because who would look good next to miss diaz?? anyway my new Plan For The Future is to collect shoes when i'm rich. if i buy a pair of shoes everytime i'm depressed, i figure it'll save me a lot of pimples and a lot of time that would otherwise be spent on what my mom calls Wallowing In Self Pity. and then i'll build a special wardrobe thingy with glass doors and a dehumidifier where all my shoes would be colour coded and displayed nicely so that everytime i'm feeling down i can just look at them and i'll be happy. so yes, this would be money well indulged.

i have a thing for colour coding stuff. it makes me unbelievably happy.

football hooligans- ELIJAH WOOD IS SUCH A WUSS! he's like all skinny and untoned and he has a horrible gay voice. it's kinda like the david beckham curse except that he doesn't even have the face going for him. plus the movie revolves around a bunch of thugs inventing new ways to beat each other up, and whoever spills the most blood, wins. by the end of the movie i had seen so many heads being smashed that i didn't feel too well, and it wasn't just the tom yam soup that was setting my stomach on friggin fire. i hate fighting movies and this was no exception.

oh and good news- american idol is back on TV and we all know what that means- MORE RYAN SEACREST!! i swear, he gets better with every season =D