Chasing Cars

I have been taking my driving lessons for some time now and boy learning how to drive a manual car is one hell of a ride... literally.

In a manual car, you gotta control not just the accelerate and brake pedal, u also must control the clutch pedal and the gears, so basically, you cannot miss any single step, cus if you do, the car either jerks forward or the engine stalls which is disastrous on the road. Then add in the signaling, the steering of the wheel and i start to realize now why a manual car is termed manual....

Then today was the most fun lesson ever, cus today was the first time i drove a car on the road!!!
Gosh, when the instructor told me to drive out of the safe confines of the circuit to the heavyily conjested yet narrow road outside the CDC ubi centre, my hard was like pounding at 1000 revolutions per minute(which btw is a measurement of engine speed) and i was like hanging to the steering wheel with my dear life!!!

Then the instructor guided me to drive from ubi to bedok reservoir(my hse there), then to temasek poly then to tampines and back to ubi and boy i had a first hand experience at experiencing what it was like driving a machine 60 km/h on the road. Just like all road users, io had to obey all the traffic regulations etc and i even got a chance to overtake a car in front of me!!! But, aparently, while 60km/h sound like a crazy speed to a newbie like me, it was not so for the other drivers on the road. Despite cruising at almost 70km/h, my car was repeatly overtaken by drivers who apparently was crusing at 90 to 100 km/h. And all this while the recommended speed limit on normal roads is 60-70 km/h...

Anyway, at the end of today's lesson the instructor told me i was still quite nervous and my turing was a little too swift. He then kindly reminded me that had this been a real test, i would have failed 10 times over and cause the instructor next to me to throw up even before i returned back to the driving centre... Apparently, i am not supposed to be some driver from initial d and engage in heartdropping swift turns that felt more like a drift then a gradual turn... Lol, btw from what my father say, you can actually learn how to to drifting in advanced defensive driving course and police are actually trained to do drifts in thier police cars to assit in chasing criminals. Wow... how cool is tat!!!

Happy Study Break to all !

Goodness... how time flies.

Just cant believe tat term 3 has ended, and now tat the 2 weeks of study break is on us, it also means tat the prelims is just around the corner! Yikes...

My class has been taking lots of pics lately, during the last week of term. There was this be yourself day in school where we all wore different colured tops that represented the colours of the rainbow. Then took lots of pics in it, and i hv to say that the pics were truely stunny. Then the following day, we had staff day celebrations for the J2s and we took pics to. Then the following day, where the colour code was our black class tee, we took even more pics when our dearest PW teacher, Miss Yanti gathered our class after school to take some pics. What a coincendence, my pw group did a project last year on the inventiuon of photography... Lol

Anyway, while i am glad tat we finally had the study break after 8 crazy jam packed weeks tat saw us returing home at 6pm almost every day, i feel kinda sad that term has ended. Actually, the correct word is not sad, rather it is more like an 'emptiness' somewhere in me. Kinda sadf to see that after this all crazy prelims is over, everyone gonna start mugging again. Makes me miss the carefree days in JC1... Oh, the contrast...

Well, i guess i gotta stay focused for this two weeks, aviod the temptations that surrounds me, slog hard, stay strong(Mentally and physically), drink coffee and give my best in the final push for the second last greatest battle of my JC life... Jiayou to all and a happy study break to all! :)

Obama: The Dark Knight ???

Found a really hilarious video on youtube, basically, it is a parody of American politics and the Dark Knight movie.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5S6FyasCbU

For those who have watch the dark knight, c if u can recognize any of the scenes in the video from the movie.... sure will make you laugh want :) And it is the perfect time for you to relax from all the slogging too... :)

Go Team Singapore !!!

Sigh, looks like we did not get the gold medal for Table Tennis, BUT WE STILL GOT SILVER :)

Haha, its like our first medal in 48 long long years... and we finally achieved our dreams after half a century!!!

So so happy for Singapore...and all the athletes, not just the Paddlers who have given their all in this mother of all sports competition!

Hope that this unprecedented achievement will inspire our local athletes to strive for more medals in years to come and prove to our budding local athletes that an Olympic Medal is not as far fetched as they think... :)

So three cheers and three cheers for Singapore and lets hope for more successes in the sporting scene of Singapore in years to come !!! :)

National day post

Finally gt to go out with my frens and enjoy the national day hols... woot

Went to watch the mummy 3 tomb of the dragon emperor yesterday with Mei Yee and Jialing, the show gt loads of action but dun watch if you are the type who likes a good old solid plot cus the show basically jus a whole hell of a roller coaster ride... So overall 3.5 stars... Cus it kinda lost the novelty of the 1st 2 mummy movies in a way...

Then today, went to celebrate Hui Xian's bday with Cheng You, Jialing, Pui Munn, Stephanie and Shu Yao. Went to bugis Junction as CY suggested to avert the crowds who will be swarming downtown Singapore like when they did at the recent Great Sinagpore Sale. But alas, bugis was equally crowded... Haha, shopped around, walk around, eat around, chatted around and waited around for the whole gang to come then went to this Jap restaurant(forgot Name liao) to eat.

Food was ok, cake was better than ok, okie quite nice lah... Haha, then after dinner, walk around bugis junction again. Looked at some reali interesting stuff. Then spent a whole lot today. Bought a goggles to replace my damaged one, bought lots of sweets and biscuits at the Cheap wholesale shop hidden in the midst of bugis street, bought old chang kee food cus they were having this 1 dollar national day promotion for any single item. Haha, but never wear red today... lol so random...

Just realised i always write long post like as if i was writing a GP essay. So decided to change it to a less essayish style and a more casual, non essayish style. Kudos to SPH, theier recent revamp of the new straits time newspaper gave me the inspiration to do so... Lol, i love being random... Btw, collide by Howie Day rocks... Search youtube for ' when 6 songs collide', it rocks even more, not kidding... Ok, now i am reali been random...