Eve of April Fool's

Just one more day. One more day to the 1st anniversary of the moment Mr. Formerly Traffic Policemen Now Officer Driving License hands over a sheet of white paper to a tremulous Brainjuice, half afraid of a bad April Fool's joke ("You passed... just kidding!"). A quick check over the white piece of paper speckled with many little squares and circles on them confirmed her joy - it said "Passed" on it.

Just one more day before she rips off with with relish the ugly orange triangle that has given other road users the license to honk liberally and swerve dangerously into her lane.

Never mind the fact that Brainjuice put her first dent on the Skoda within weeks of passing while executing a practiced 3-point turn. That can easily be chalked up to experience - these damned kerbs - who put them there?

Bar the horror that within months, she did the entire bonnet of the Skoda in and smashed both headlights in the butt of a Nissan pick-up truck that looked completely unscathed at the end of it. I thought continental cars were harder than Japanese makes? I want my money back!

What matters now is that in just a few hours time, she would have had a year to prove her worth as a true Singaporean lady driver. And her Skoda Fabia will be, in just a few hours time, as non-descript as the next car on the road.

=)