Driving tuition

had lunch, rushed to driving. the cab driver was amusing & very nice. on the PIE he suddenly said to me, "did you see that?"


me (listening to jay chou on my ipod): huh?
driver: lorry cannot keep right lane!
me (thinking: uhhh okayyy???): oh
driver: lorry is considered slow-moving vehicle. if he gets caught sure got points.
me: haha okay.

after a long time, nearer bbdc, he continued:

driver: see some drivers drive slowly but like to keep right lane. road hogging! very dangerous you know.
me: yeah
driver: and then some drivers not very experienced they dont look far. must look far otherwise got obstruction you dont know.
me (thinking about myself not looking far whenever i drive): hahaha yeah.
driver: all this instructor got teach lah hor?

driving tuition.

i was terribly annoyed during driving lesson though. i just felt damn irritated with hau kw (and you know i am ok with hau kw). i hate the way he counts points. i rather instructors teach me with the hope of making me a safe and competent driver not just so i can pass my test, perhaps? i dont know. its not the first time he was counting points (and his best friend alex tan also counts points cos thats the only thing he can do) but today it just annoyed me. also, i think he was falling asleep during my parallel park. i couldnt be sure cos he had his sunglasses on (thats the reason why he wears sunglasses when theres no sun). i was very pissed off when i saw that he was nodding off. i am sorry if he wasnt, but hes not the nodding-in-recognition-of-having-done-the-right-steps type. if i was sure he was nodding off i'd have complained already. but for now, there are bigger/more important things to complain about.

i walked to the counter, nicely and calmly and talked to the guy about the whole changing instructor nonsense. he assured me and said they'll get the lessons for me before the test. then he passed me the list of new groupings for me to look for the instructors i am comfortable with and i found out good & bad news. ronald siew, chan hy & hau kw are in the same group. thats the good news. the bad news is that their new group is a honda jazz group which means if i fix them as my instructors i will have three days to get used to the honda jazz.

the honda jazz is significantly different in terms of size and height from the honda city if you're wondering. its a different car altogether.

by this time i was super pissed off. there is no way i am going to use another type of car for practice three days before my driving test, and i am already making a compromise by paying to fix a group. i got annoyed and asked to speak to the helpdesk guy's boss but he told me "i will forward it to her" and promised me he'll try his best to get me that car and those instructors. he better, otherwise i will find a way to talk to his boss.

(on a very random side note i think ronald siew, chan hy and hau kw must be very glad to no longer be under sim kh's leadership.) poor ronald siew cos i am still avoiding him. saw him again today but he was in the car and thankfully i wasnt using g118. i am sorry, i am just too embarrassed for having failed my traffic police driving test.

WHICH D_____ ALSO FAILED. she took the test today and messaged me some questions about driving while i was driving. when she replied after her warm-up i talked to her a bit and thought she was going to pass but she got something like 48 points and needed five attempts to do parallel park. i was damn amused when she told me, i couldnt stop laughing as i walked into vivo city. thankfully she wasnt offended cos shes amused too.


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