What Did Santa Get You This Christmas?

Now kids, don't believe it when people tell you Santa isn't real. I have proof now.

The Way It Should Have Always Been

After a year driving around with an automatic conditioned licence.



I redid the test, and got my manual licence. Fun times ahead.

I Say, It's About Bloody Time

*poke*
"urgh..."
"Dear, don't you think it's time to get up?"
"..."



"So how are they doing this? Are they looking over the car?"
"Yeah, they just need to see it to verify all the paper work. After that's all settled, I hand quite a bit of money over, then I've got myself rego for the car."



"These are the bolts you want for your plates."
"Mmm, but I'd prefer to have these ones."
"Suit yourself, but these are the ones coppers use. Up to you."
"Thanks."

You Fail At Manual

Last year when I went for my Ps test, I was given no choice but to take it in a car with an automatic transmission, as our household has always owned cars without a stick shift (oh how American of me).



So naturally, when I went I to buy a car it had to be a manual - I'm that kind of guy. Even more naturally, when the moment called for me to move my "new" manual car out of the driveway and into the garage, I couldn't. I count about 3 stalls from my three point turn.



My incompetence to grasp the skill of a manual transmission struck hard in my heart, so much so, that I had to dream about it. Then again, it was a dream, and dreams more often then not, are full of lies and false hope. So in my dream, I was driving around my neighbourhood effortlessly in my "new" old car, and me being me, I couldn't help but hoon a little. As I made a turn, the car choose to spin out of control...and kept spinning, around and around and around and around and around and around...

Then I woke up and I realised, in reality, I still suck.

Can't Wipe The Smile Off His Face

After spending the past weekend using a 350D I was somewhat looking forward to using my D60 again. It's not that the 350D I used was bad, it just wasn't the best shaped body to hold for hours on end.



Having been busy with classes and work over the past few weeks, I haven't really had the chance to go out and take some photos, so it was nice to take some photos over the weekend, however it was even better to use the D60 again. What better excuse, than the arrival of a new toy.



Two ago days I come home, pull out my fake iPod ear buds and hear my mum calling out, "RICHARD!...the car's coming tomorrow." I don't know, everytime my mum calls something out, it's like she's annoyed about it - Asian parents. But that's besides the point, what matters is that the Kluger was coming...the big black Kluger! Okay, that didn't come out right...



The thing is huuuuuuuuuge and actually has some power, unlike the Rav4. I love the new car smell. I think I might just go out to the garage and sit in it for an hour.