License holder...me???!

Whoopsieee! After all the struggles, it finally paid off! Got my driver's license last week. After being in this country for almost 8years, this is not exactly one would call a big achievement ,though. In fact, quite a few of you must be snickering right this moment. But do I care? No, siree! I dont! It is my moment to shine, bai-bay :).
I got my license the second attempt around. The first time, I would have passed, except for the critical error: "examiner's intervention". So, technically, it was an instant fail, though the examiner made me take the whole test keeping me under the illusion that I might still make it through. When we finally reached the DMV office, she made me park and started assessing my situation. My heart thumping so hard and my stomach feeling like it might come off my butt any minute, I waited with bated breath to hear those golden words..."You pass". But nope. That was not to be. She gave me a long look and started off with my minor mistakes ( I basically made just 9 mistakes out of the allowed 15, goddamit!). I was kinda spacing out by now. Cant help it. The spacing out bit runs in the family. Anyways, the verdict was, I have to retake the test, euphemistically speaking. My two cents on the critical examiner intervention: highly debatable. From the examiner's point of view, it looked like I was driving too close for comfort to the parked cars on the side, but I could bet a hand and a leg (ok, make that just one hand), I was in full control...err....hmm....kinda.
Whatever. My second test went smoothly except that my examiner felt my steering wheel control was not very impressive. Big deal! And I slowed down bit too much at certain places but then that was to avoid another examiner's intervention. Hell! Anything to pass!
All's well that ends well. I just have one complaint though. My picture on the id. I look like a guy with gender complex :(. Ah well, sometimes, you just cant have the cake and eat it too...