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28 November 2010

27/11

This morning I woke up and I saw something very shocking. It's my dream phone... Nokia N8. My father bought it yesterday as he returned his blackberry to his company. He said he bought it for only $148 and he can give it to me if I exchange phone with him. After exploring the phone, it was pretty disappointing. It didn't function as well as I expected. The shortcut applications are limited and I would say that overall, Nokia N8 is lousier than my Sony satio. The most heartbroken thing is that even though N8 and satio are both 12MP camera phone, my satio can zoom much more than N8....which puzzled me. Why would N8 be a 12MP camera phone when the maximum zoom quality is only 9MP? There are people who report that their N8 auto shut down and they are unable to on the phone for a period of time. The processor and display is really good.With an internal memory of 16GB, this device is fascinating. But many things are missing... if I am not wrong, I can't even see a calculator.
Sigh... I can't believe I am talking bad about my dream phone.. Nokia has once again, failed to satisfy its customer.

Yay... I resigned today and tomorrow shall be my last day of work. After my exam, I will find a better weekend job. To celebrate my last day of work, my friend said she will buy me a bottle of Chivas liquor. :D
Requested my instructor to buy circuit ticket for me next Wednesday so that I can practice the circuit 2 times before my driving test. Got to buck up... I am losing my confidence.. I suddenly feel that I will fail my driving test again. Luck, please be with me.

26 November 2010

26/11 3rd lesson, 1st circuit

sigh.... I had lots of problem with my driving lesson today. I don't know what's wrong.. I seem to have lost all my judgment and skills. It's damn frustrating and disappointing. Maybe in the past I rely too much on the mini mirror installed on my left wing mirror. The mini mirror allows me to see my rear wheel so I will know how much space is left from my rear wheel to the left kerb. But now that the mini mirror is gone, everything feels so different.

Went to do parallel parking and I got 1 that has a slope too. So it's pretty hard to control the car because it tend to roll back. I strike kerb twice there. Perhaps all I cared about was to straighten my car. I didn't notice how much space I have left.
Went to do vertical parking and it feels so weird... in the past, I always turn too early. But now, I always turn too late.When going out of the lot, I mount kerb. I forgot that I have to wait for the kerb to be parallel to my shoulder before I can turn... sigh... where have all the skills I used to possess gone to?
My crank course seem to have deteriorated too.
There's too many things I got to improve inside the circuit and I only have 1 circuit lesson left.
 My instructor taught me a convenient way to go out of the lot for parallel parking. :D Thanks.

For parallel parking, we know when to stop when we reverse because we can see the kerb through our mirror. But how do you know when to stop when you are driving forward when you can't see the front kerb at all? He asked me to go forward until my front wheel hit the kerb. He then asked me to remember this distance from my door handle to the back kerb. Now I feel so confident when I drive forward to straighten my car. I have kicked the habit of turning wheel whilst vehicle is stationary when I move out of the lot.

I forgot that I have to use the connecting and disconnecting clutch method for S and crank course. No wonder it feels wrong.

Sigh... worst of all, I think I saw Poh ah soon as a tester today. I happen to glance through the name tags of all the tester who pass-by me and I saw one with Poh ah soon. Is he the legendary guy who love to fail students? Even if he pass a student, he will never give someone a single digit demerit points. I heard most of the students passed by him got 18 points which mean just pass only.
But then my friend once told me he is a fat guy.. hmm.. the guy I saw wasn't really that fat. Nvm.. I just hope I don't kena him... he is worse than seek for sure.

I must get back all my skills before my test!!! 3 lessons left.

25 November 2010

25/11 2nd driving lesson

today is my 2nd lesson. Reached there at 2.40pm and knn, just nice I saw Seek Thian Lye. An Indian guy around the age of 20+ came out and god bless him... :D
today's lesson was pretty good. But then I had the same feeling during my driving test too. So I guess feeling good and confident is not sufficient.
Motorcyclist nowadays don't cherish their life. They cut through lanes in front of you as if you don't exist. I almost hit one today... it was damn near. Now I know why they say it's better to check your blind spots in case of motorcyclist.

I am quite forgetful..... I was asked to turn right and I saw the light turn from green to amber. So I stopped my car thinking that I can't cross but I forgot that after the amber light is the green arrow light. haha...

I think I broke my record today... LOL... today is the first time I negotiated a right turn at such a fast speed. I was at gear 3 and I negotiated this turn at the speed of 40 to 50km/h. I totally didn't bother to slow down and change down to gear 2. lol...

Saw a couple of double L cars.... they didn't stop at the exit gate... will they get an immediate failure for that?
4 more lessons left.

17 November 2010

16/11 1st lesson... back to square one

Sigh... I am back to square one. lol... had my driving lesson at 7pm today. Sigh... today is the worst lesson I ever had. It feels like a nightmare. It was raining and there's bus lane at 7pm. The visibility was very poor and I seriously can't see clearly. I can't even tell if I am driving in my lane or between 2 lanes? LOL.
My engine stalled once which I don't know why.... maybe because of insufficient acceleration.. nevermind..
 Drove to a public car park to practice both vertical and parallel parking. As usual, vertical parking is always the easiest. Must remember to confirm safety...
I didn't really park well for the parallel parking cause I tried my best not to look too much at my mirrors.

Hmm... I just found out from my instructor that there are 2 possibilities for 'fail to use engine brake'. The first possibility is that I depressed my clutch unnecessarily when driving on a straight road. I will never do this so I believe I didn't get penalized for doing this. The second possibility is that when I was turning, I did not release my clutch fully. Perhaps I did that... I can't remember. But I will change my habit.

Still left with 5 more lessons before I go for my warm up + practical test again. :D

12 November 2010

12/11 miracles do happen

:D Miracles do happen. Now I strongly agree with that. haha. I have been camping at CDC's website for days just to wait for an earlier test date and finally.... I found it today. :D :D :D Login today and saw that CDC released 28 slots of timing on different day in December. Super excited and I immediately called my instructor to ask him which day is he free. :D Intended to book my driving test date on my birthday but my instructor isn't free. So I booked one day after my birthday which is 8 December at 2.45PM.
Muahahaha.. I can see that luck is smiling at me. :D
Hmm... since there's less than a month left, I got to reschedule my lessons.
I feel super duper lucky today. :P

09 November 2010

8/11

sigh.... time seem to pass so slow. It's only 8 of Nov today. My driving retest is on 13 Jan 2011.

Hmm... maybe I was desperate to drive... I booked lesson with my instructor on next tuesday at 7pm to drive for fun. lol... so I am going to learn 1 lesson per week until 29 nov whereby I have to start studying for my mid sem test. Then when my mid sem test end, I will start learning again on 20 dec. LOL.. I was told to learn driving at night for a reason and I will find out if this reason is true or not.
sigh... I can see my money flying away again.

01 November 2010

Hmm... since there is no title for this post, I believe everyone know that I have failed my practical driving test.. ya.. I don't know how to describe this feeling that I feel now... it's not sad or heartbroken... it's just erm... speechless? Well, I remembered I purposely chose 1st Nov because today is my grandfather's birthday.... yesterday night, I was happily telling him that tomorrow I will be having my test and I will bring back my driving license for him to see.. I am sorry, grandpa... I have failed you.

My warm-up started at 8am. I was extremely nervous and excited. Everything felt so damn bloody good today. I didn't strike kerb, I didn't mount kerb, I didn't roll backwards at the slope.. everything was so perfect... but then I made an error. I forgot that it felt so perfect because of my perception... perception is bias... I have to agree with that. Right here, I must apologise to my instructor... he did a great job after all....
I saw many students with immediate failures today. 2 students mount kerb in front of me and that's not the problem. The problem is when they mount kerb, they depress the accelerator even more which is damn retarded and one car almost hit my car. Both me and my instructor got shocked... what the hell? I saw a car crash inside the circuit... the driver wasn't a student... instead, he is a school instructor... he hit the kerb at the parallel parking... wtf? Then I got scared... but I tried my best to calm down.

From here onwards I am gonna swear so bear with me. I went in the waiting room exactly at 10am and the test examiner started calling names. I waited and waited but... my name wasn't called. I sensed something wrong... because at 10.20am, I was the only one in the waiting room. NO ONE except me. Then finally, a man came in and called my name. I greeted him and he called me to go to my car. So I walked there... start the engine and adjusted everything. My test examiner's name is Seek Thian Lye so let's call him Mr seek.
I went in the circuit and the first thing he called me to do was directional change. I tried my best to check every fucking thing as I reverse. I checked the mirror, my blindspot, the front, the left, the back and the right.
He didn't give me points for my directional change so at first I thought Mr seek is a fair examiner. I can see that Mr seek is a kan chiong person.. meaning someone who can't wait and expect everything to be fast.
So next I went up slope and everything was good too. He didn't deduct me any points so far.
So I stopped at a junction inside the circuit as it was red light. The light soon turned green and I moved off.

Then I heard something.... what's that sound? OH SHIT... it's his stylus... he is tapping his electronic device. Every time your test examiner tap his fucking device which looks like an ipad, it just means that you did something wrong. I was puzzled... did I really do something wrong? I see nothing wrong so I ignored him.
Went to do parallel parking and I admit.... I admit that all the mistakes made at the parallel parking was my fault. I turned the steering wheel while stationary, I fail to confirm safety as I parked in my car into the lot at one go without checking. Maybe I was nervous.. I forgot to check...
I did the same thing for vertical parking... fail to confirm safety. Then I was trying to turn right but there was a car coming. So I stopped and I hear his stylus touching the screen again. wtf?

We all know that there are many stop signs and white lines inside the circuit. Tons of people get immediate failure because they never come to a complete stop at the white line. I was braking where Mr seek asked me to go. Then I was like... shut up... fuck you, you want me to fail.. that's why you ask me to go. I don't care.. I will do it as long as the wrong feels right. So I stopped and ignored him despite the fact that he keep repeating go...go... Then I kena a mistake called delay in moving off. Wondered how long did I delay? I delayed 2 seconds... 2 seconds is what it takes to penalize me 2 points. Not to forget that you have to check right and left and your blindspots.
I know he is pissed off because I refused to move. But I remembered Yuwen told me... don't let the stylus affect you.. just ignore it.. so I did what he said.
I was doing my S course and I turned too late when moving out... Mr seek shaked his head and I know I will get points for wide turning.

The points I get inside the circuit is sufficient to let me pass my test. But the nightmare is here when I exit the circuit. I drive based on the traffic condition... mainly my speed is at 40km/h.... is that too slow? I don't think so.. but Mr seek thought so. I was damn blur too.. he asked me to turn right but I went to U-turn instead. So he pulled my handbrake and he was super pissed off with me. I know from that point onwards, he will purposely fail me. He will add points to ensure that I can't pass. And I already know in my heart that I will fail this test. Well, I tried my best. But I seriously didn't expect this outcome..
There is a construction work near gate 2 so I have to keep right and yet Mr seek scolded me for driving on the double white line. I know I can't cross the double white line but this is a special case. I was afraid that he will give me an immediate failure because I touched the double white line. But luckily, he did not.

I went back to CDC and I know I am gonna fail. I expected my points to be somewhere near the just fail range meaning around 22 points. But looks like I am wrong... he really wanna fail me. I followed him up the room to print my result slip and he started scolding me. He said that my driving skills are horrible and started scolding me for all the mistakes I made. Sigh... I looked at that paper and I was both shocked and surprised. Shocked because there were too many mistakes. Surprised because they were all small little tiny mistakes which contain 2 points each. I didn't make any major mistake at all.

After scolding me, he said "I have to fail you". So he gave me my results slip and I didn't know what to do.... I got 30 points... what the fuck.. I have no major mistake and yet my minor mistakes can add up to 30 points?
I read through all the mistakes and I can't believe what am I seeing... Mr Seek actually gave me a few free counts... free counts are mistakes that you made but they decided to take it as no mistake.

My result:
1) 1x Fail to use engine brake/depress clutch unnecessarily at straight road. Location: junction of Ubi Rd 3 and Ave 2.  2 points awarded but he free count.
2) 2x Fail to use engine brake/depress clutch unnecessarily at straight road. Location: Centre point of Ubi Ave 1. 2 points each so I got 4 points for this.
3) 1x Fail to use appropriate gear. Location: Centre of Ubi ave 1. 2 points.
4) Speed too slow for the road. Location: Junction of Ubi ave 3 and rd 3. 2 points.
5) Speed too slow for the road. Location: Junction of ubi rd 3 and ave 2. 2 points.
6) Speed too slow for the traffic condition. Location: Junction of ubi ave 3 and rd 3. 2 points.
7) Speed too slow for the traffic condition. Location: Centre point of Ubi ave 1. 2 points.
8) Speed too slow for the traffic condition. Location: Ubi rd 3. 2 points.

SONG BO... from my 4th to 8th mistakes, all because of speed too slow... but wait wait wait... if 40km/h is too slow, how fast you want? okay... next time I drive 80km/h for you..but don't say I didn't keep a safe following distance.. don't say I exceed speed limit please... Cause the speed limit for Ubi ave 1,3 and rd is around 50 to 60. I damn song now. All the speed too slow mistakes he can free count me one.. but he don't want. He just want to fail me. And all the time I have been keeping to the left lane. I have been using the bus lane to drive. So even if 40km/h is too slow, I see nothing wrong with that. The extreme left lane is for slow vehicles.

9) Unnecessary stopping. Location: circuit. Free count.
10) Improper turning(wide turning). Location: circuit. Free count.

The 10th mistake he got give me chance. I thank him for that.
11) Insufficient acceleration. Location: junction of Ubi rd 3 and ave 1. Free count.
12) 2x Delay in moving off. Location: circuit. 2 points each so I get 4 points for this.
13) Delay in moving off. Location: Exit gate. 2 points.
14) Fail to confirm safety for parallel parking. 4 points.
15) Turn steering wheel whilst vehicle is stationary for parallel parking. 2 points.
16) Incorrect checking of blind spot/ mirror. Location: Ubi rd 3. 2 points.
17) Fail to confirm safety for vertical parking. 4 points.

Total = 30 points. Total number of immediate failures = 0. Result: FAILED.
Yours sincerely,
SEEK THIAN LYE.

LOL... I can't stop laughing at the 16th mistake. If you say I never check my blind spot, I can accept. But if you say I check incorrectly, I am sorry... I am not a dumb ass. I know which blind spot to check.

Going to book my next test date on 13 Jan 2011. I don't really regret the mistakes that I made. I know millions of drivers out there are even worse than me and yet they passed. As they said, if you pass on your 1st attempt, it depend on your luck and the test examiner. If you pass on your 2nd attempt, it's your skill. :D I won't give up.