1. It's 12.13am now and I'm baking a tray of chocolate chip cookies. This is because
a. I have frozen cookie dough in the fridge from a few days ago. I was running low on the cookies and decided to bake more but after making the dough I realised that I have enough cookies to last 1 or 2 more groups of guests so I put the dough in the freezer.
b. I just bought a new circular baking tray that fits perfectly into my convectional microwave oven.
2. I have started Attempt #3 in getting my driver's license. A quick recap:
i. I failed my driving test (manual - oh what was I thinking?) in January '08.
ii. I shelved all thoughts of getting a license til May (thereabouts) last year when my sister was about to get hers. I decided to go for classes at BBDC to get my license (manual, again - my brain cells must have been fried when I gave birth to Farah). BUT, I went for all of one lesson. When I was supposed to go for the next lesson, Farah fell ill and I only stepped into BBDC again last month to cancel my account with them.
iii. And here I am, Round 3. This time round, I'm going for auto. I don't foresee myself ever having to operate a truck or any other big vehicles that function on a manual transmission. So, auto's good, yes? I'm learning from a private instructor. Not going to learn from the schools because they require you to sit through the basic and final theory lessons even if you've passed the tests. I do not have that kind of time to waste. My poor mother would have to babysit my screaming daughter and I try to minimise my imposing on her (for now). When I start working again, that's another story.
And auto - oh my goodness! - auto cars are a dream! I don't have to think about half clutches and my feet don't have to perform a dance revolving around the three pedals. I don't have to worry about the car stalling in the middle of the road if I don't get my half clutch correct. I don't have to worry about slow gear changes. I don't even have to care about changing the gear!
With an auto car, I may actually pass my driving test. Hur hur hur! Okay okay. I'm counting my chickens way before the mother chicken even lays her eggs. :P This is only the first lesson and I haven't even done parking with an auto car, without poles.
For those who got their license in the days when policemen wore shorts, now, learner drivers are expected to park without poles. During the test, there'll be no poles. I was completely dependent on the poles to park the car perfectly the last time. (Just for recap purposes also, I failed the last time because I accumulated a lot of points in the not-checking-blind-spots category and other similar categories. In other words, I'm haolianing about how great my parking with poles is and my s-curve and crank course thingamajigs are. but actually not worth haolianing also because fail is fail.) I dunno how I'll park without poles but the instructor told me it's all quite easy. 1 and half turns of the steering wheel and such and a bit of agak-agak. Errrr, sure. It took me about 7 years of failed agak-agak cooking before I can come up with something edible using the agak-agak cooking method.
3. Talking about cooking, the chocolate chip cookies turned out good!
If you noticed that half the tray is empty, errrrrrmmmmmm, I had to test the cookies (again. and again. and again again again) to make sure that they are really nice. If you are interested, I got the recipe from here. I'm not sure if the cookies can last til tomorrow morning, though. I think I have no choice but to finish everything up. After all, there's more cookie dough in the fridge.
