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!!!