All in a day's work

Speaking of work, I still don't have a job. :( But I'm thankful that Mum and Dad are willing to send me for driving, because the cost of the whole thing is freaking me out. As in, the cost of two practical lessons is equivalent to the cost of fueling a car for a month. But I enjoy it, and for that, I'm thankful:)
I just had 2 consecutive practical sessions today. The road was quite fun today, but I'm still not confident of stopping at the red light and changing gears. I also tend to use the horn quite a fair bit. Actually, I'm only supposed to use it to warn others of danger, and the reason why I use it is because of the danger that I'm putting them in:P For example, there was a middle-aged malay man who was crossing the road without using a pedestrian crossing, and he was limping; so I suppose he was justified in just crossing the road like that, but then along comes someone like me who is not at all confident an e-brake, and I just had to warn him that a hazard was coming towards him in the form of a learning driver who takes the road like a fish to a desert, but I hope he didn't interpret it the wrong way:P Anyway, I did slow down for him. Safety first! I still have a clean safety record:)
I spent the afternoon reading stuff, and I've just completed the martyr's chapel. And I still haven't read the order of the phoenix yet!!! I want to read it asap.
Next practical is tomorrow at 8, so I better set my alarm clock early.

I dunno

I'm getting really physically unfit now. Just this morning, I ran from gombak mrt to the driving place because I thought that I was late, and I nearly got cramps doing it, and I got all hot and flustered by the time I stepped into the place. I think that the people inside thought I had a car breakdown and had to push the car back:P
I really wish for that special something that I'm waiting for now. As CNY appraoches...

Wondering

The past few days have been ok. I'm can't wait to go out with the BB seniors at cine tonight. This will be the third time in my life that I'm playing LAN. I'm going swimming tomorrow, and then I have to do massive revision for final theory evaluation on friday. I somehow wish I was still in school....

Bad and Good

Let me talk about some bad things and some good things...for me, at least....haha.
Firstly, I hate being unemployed. I know now how sucky it feels to be out of a job, and I am determined to avoid this again in future as far as I can help it. Meanwhile, getting a job now will make me really happy. I wished I had asked to do relief teaching before going on holiday. Now, it looks like everything's taken:(
Now on a brighter note, I finally passed my basic theory evaluation. yay! I know I'm very slow in this compared to you'all, especially since I failed my last evaluation with the 90% passing mark:( but I got a perfect score today:) thanks be to God!
I'm trying to occupy my time by reading, especially under pressure from my parents:P
Oh, and there's this very interesting thing I learnt from the book "In His Image". When there is a situation of massive bleeding during surgery, most newcomers would propose exotic surgical tools to overcome it, but an experienced doctor will simply use his thumb and press until the bleeding stops. Why? Because the thumb is readily available (cos everyone has 2 right?), and its use offers a perfect blend of strong pressure and gentle compliancy. There is great temptation to panic under such a situation, but grabbing at vessels and clamping them off with forceps here and there often makes it worse.
Interesting fact. I'm like less then halfway through the book, but it's one of the more interesting books that I'm reading.

The year ahead

I'm back at last from my first around the world trip with my wonderful family. Yay! There's no place like home. However, I'm home one day late, due to our getting pushed onto the next flight back from Vancouver. Let me explain what happened. In Singapore, just before leaving, the check-in person said that our e-tickets had some problem, and said to go to the british airways counter at heathrow, so there we went, and the guy there said that he would issue us new tickets, so he did, but forgot to include the return flight on it, so as a result, our confirmed status got dropped. Knowing that cx889 is almost always overbooked at christmas since it comes from new york, we got pushed to the next flight. My dad tried to inquire, but by then it was too late, and that was how we found out. I feel like slapping that guy at heathrow for screwing up the bookings:( As a result, I couldn't make it back in time for mel's party and the bb sharing session on ns. I feel really terrible about missing both.
I saw the beginning of 2006 on the plane, and in a really unconventional way over the international date line on the way back from Vancouver. Imagine 2005 on one side of the line, and 2006 on the other, and the plane flies into the new year at 900km/h. How did the other passengers welcome back the new year? By sleeping! And it was daytime!
Ok, so we got put up in Hong Kong since there was no connecting flight to Singapore for CX838. That part was ok. Oh yes, the flight schedule showed that we would get an A340 back to Singapore, which I was looking forward to since it would be the first time for me. That is, until we got to the airport, and saw just another A330 sitting at the boarding gate. boo. Ok, I know I'm being fussy here, because normal people don't mind what plane they get as long as it takes them where they want to go, right? even if it means 2 engines over the pacific in the case of SIA. But well, I'm fussy. That's just me.
And I got to catch Love Actually on the way back to Singapore. Only after that did I really appreciate how censored the Singapore version in the cinemas really was. The foreign media is really much more liberal than i thought.
I hope to see you soon:)