Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Lost my internet connection since last night, so haven't been able to blog though I so badly wanted to.
I passed my driving test yesterday!!! =DDD
Uber happy! Hahaha. Now I can proudly proclaim that I've completed my record of passing both theory tests and practical test on the 1st try each time! And who says that private candidates have a lower chance of passing. Haha. =)
I think I was pretty lucky really..this is why!
2 points shy of failing...goshh. Haha. That, and the fact that the tester was pretty nice actually, although he seemed so critical and fierce at some points.
Coincidentally, two other students under my instructor who had their test before me yesterday, also got the same test route and tester! And we all passed! Happiness!! =)
I was a bundle of nerves and a total wreck the week leading up to yesterday..I think my previous blog entries sufficiently portrayed that. Lol. Thanks to concerned friends who texted me, wondering if I made it after all. Haha.
But I guess I have to thank my instructor the mostt..if not for what he told me the day before my test, I probably wouldn't have passed. It really helps to stop being so fixated on passing, and just concentrate on driving well and exhibiting road safety. Once I got over my constant worry of failing, it got muchh easier to handle the mental part of the practical test.
And I was so amazingly calm during the test itself, I still can't believe it! I seldom came close to the same degree of steadiness even during lessons. Haha.
While it's nice to finally pass and be a licensed driver, a part of me already misses having lessons and having my trusty and entertaining instructor sitting beside me in a car. And I'm totally unused to driving an auto car!
Had my maiden drive to east coast last night while guided by ling jie jie, and while it wasn't ultra nerve-wrecking, it certainly caused me some tension. And probably her as well. Haha. So different! And I kept forgetting my car doesn't have a clutch. >_<
I think I'd much rather drive a manual car, really.
Ohwells! Time to start getting used to driving so I can do that on my own soon..next up, hitting the highway! I need to psycho myself abit I think. I can even get horned at during lessons on normal roads. Just imagine on the highway. Omgoshh.
Anyways! Just finished reading dan brown's Angels and Demons; I think it's a pretty good book! I'm super intrigued by all the facts written in his books..I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code too!
And coincidentally, I read an online article which I saw headlined on the yahoo homepage.
Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK.
Super in context with the book I just completed! I find it so amazing..the controversial debate between creationsim and evolution, between science and religion. I wonder if these issues will ever have a clear-cut answer to them..but I guess not. And art history is so full of interesting details too!
I'm starting to see an opening to a potential new kind of interest.
Just added the Vatican City to the list of countries I wanna travel to! =)
On a sidenote, was lunching at a hawker centre with mummy this afternoon when I overheard a conversation between 2 women hailing from china. Note: I didn't eavesdrop, cos' they spoke so loudly. Or rather, she. It was pretty much a one-sided conversation.
The chatty lady was manning one of those pushcart stalls selling mahjong sets and gambling-related merchandise. Then she went over to the table behind mine and started conversing with another compatriot.
Their conversation, or rather, her ultra-long and whiny "speech", went something along the lines of this:
"I don't understand why I'm working here for other people in singapore! They keep asking me to go back there, but blah blah....(something about husband not wanting to return back to their happy homeland)..and it's crazy having to work here! I could potentially be my own boss! I shouldn't be having to endure a life here working for others! blah blah...so free that I can just sit there and trim my nails..blah blah...what a hard life...can be a boss back home..wasting my time..blah blah...singapore is a terrible place to stay in...blah blah..."
Of course, she said all of that in chinese. Not exactly the way I've translated, but the main idea is there. And it continued this way, pretty much well after we finished lunch and left I think.
While I have no issues or objections about pple airing their views and opinions, albeit a little tooo loudly in public, I just didn't like the way she kept talking about how she's basically wasting her life and youth here working as an employee when she can actually lead a muchh better life back home.
Then why not just go home? The funniest thing is, I don't think she has a very difficult job in the first place.
If you ignore the fact that the "shop" she was tending to pretty much didn't have customers (and probably seldom has customers too, seeing how she's hardly stationed there), and also the fact that she's so free she can just sit there and trim/beautify her nails, how difficult can working be for her?
If you have time to gossip and whine all day and boss your friend to tend to her food stall, I don't really think you have the right to complain so loudly in public. Especially about a country you happen to be living in, working in, but are not a citizen of.
Maybe I don't have enough info about her, how her life here is like, how life could otherwise be like for her, but I think I heard enough to deduce her unhappiness about staying in singapore. Seriously la, just get a life and air your grouses within the four walls of your own home. If I were her fellow countrymen, and I heard such things spoken so loudly in public in a country not my home, I'd be so ashamed of her behaviour.
That said, I have nothing against anyone from her homeland. Really. In fact, I know some pretty nice pple from there.
Just airing my view I guess. Haha. Ohwells, it's a free country after all.
And it's bedtime! Scared I can't wake up early tmr. Shopping with bern and shan! Wheeee!
My handphone is going abit bonkers I think. Just sidetracking here. Haha.
Nites world!
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