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09/07/2007
Beep Beep!
San Francisco beware! [evil smiley face]
My provisional license has collected 15 years-worth of dust, but the time has come for me to grow up, finally!
The written test was easy. Can't believe I was so anal about getting a perfect score. No touch screen in sight. California DMV is still marking our tests by hand - shocking! So I just picked the most expensive driving school in my area, told them I need to get going in 2 weeks, and things got interesting.
Having been driven around all my life, it showed. On the first day, I made my first critical error within the first second - I got into the *passenger* seat! By the second lesson, my wacky instructor got me onto the highway along the Pacific Ocean doing 65mph. Crazy. Then we ran over some Mexicans aliens in Mission, drove away all the hippies on Haight Street and gave some grannies heart attacks in Chinatown. 10 hours later, we went past Nancy Pelosi's house after going up a 45 degree slope.
Although I still have a tendency of mixing up the pedals, still can't do parallel parking and would still very likely fail my driving test on my last day in San Francisco, I can still feel good. I did Lombard - the crookedest street, according to any SF postcards, without a license!
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01/07/2007
Forever Hong Kong
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever Hong Kong.
(Some like it in blue...)
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