all i need is the air i breathe




the word on Saturday, January 07, 2006 is:


whee so yesterday i passed my basic theory test and am pleased to announce that i now have a provisional driving license! which means blind people and elderly beware =D ahem. actually, the test was really easy and has a lot of retarded things like:

When do you sound your horn?

1. To express annoyance
2. To greet other road users
3. As a warning

hurrhurr. basically the only tricky bits are the videos where you have to tell them which car should give way to which but as long as you remember to give way to everyone when you turn right and always keep left, you can't go wrong. oh and if you're thinking of cheating - i mean, checking your answers with the person next to you - you can't because they arrange it such that adjacent people never get the same questions. i know because i kept waiting for the guy next to me to get the question about bald tyres, but he never did. but hey i knew everything else, okay!

oh and the shitty thing about driving is that nobody believes that i'm 18 because i look like such a kid :( even yesterday when i made a supreme effort to stuff my contacts on (at 8 in the morning!) and wear a black shirt and act all confident and everything, i STILL got this very dirty look when i gave the tester my IC. for everyone else she just checked the names against the list and let them pass, but for ME, she made this exaggerated gesture of looking at my IC photo and then looking back at me and THEN raising her eyebrow. WHY???? maybe the huge bright pink plastic hoop earrings were a giveaway, hmm. but then again i thought they looked quite cute with my outfit so whatever. when i'm 50 and everybody else looks wrinkley and old, we'll see who's having the last laugh, hah.

incidentally, after i finally survived the queue and registered for final theory and the woman told me that the earliest date i could get was 1 feb because it was all - insert fake smile - "fully booked", i commented, rather loudly, to my mom that "i'll die before i get my license". at which point my mom burst into this uncontrollabe fit of laughter which made the whole room turn and look at us. and i was like just kill me now please, ugh.

anyway, that's what one hour of waiting does to a person, plus i was already in a grouchy mood because i had to get dressed at an ungodly hour of 8 in the morning. which wouldn't have been so bad had i actually got some sleep the night before, but this was not the case thanks to some very classic stupidity during the day. actually it was more like i thought i'd dilly dally and need to cram the handbook at night, so in between watching TV during day, i drank cup after cup of tea to prepare myself for the ardous task ahead. i mean, we have to remember that i haven't done any actual reading since the As ended, so my brain has been in unused state for a very long period of time already. anyway, going through the book took like less than 2 hours and i was all done by midnight and ready to go to sleep. but, as luck would have it, that's when the caffeine started kicking in. so i spent 2 hours counting the glow stars on my bedroom ceiling before i got so bored that i got up to drink milk and eat cookies. and then when that didn't do the trick, i resorted to rewatching the first 3 episodes of the OC season 2, which is how i ended up sleeping at like 5 in the morning. and to make things worse my mom barged in around 7 because she "knows very well" that i like to leave things to the last minute and i should "start studying" or i would be "an embarrassment to the family" if i failed the BTT. so that's how i became grouchy yesterday.