spamming mirotic to get my mind of driving.
i shall not lapse into googling stuff about driving because i will just read and start worrying like crap. it is what i did the night before my previous test anyhow. unfortunately i just googled something about s-course. i shall just go really slowly and try not to get an immediate failure. i think its very sad cos testers usually ask you to do s-course first, and if i fail there i not only fail, i also waste the opportunity to practice.
and remember not to turn back too quickly when im exiting crank course.
you know i think my problem is i take it too seriously. must take it with a large pinch of salt. like fail then fail its not like i cannot afford it. hahaha. though i seriously cannot afford the time, emotional baggage and perpetual concern that i may not get the instructor i want every lesson.
truthfully i wonder if i will be able to recover and get back to the standard i was at before my first test by my next test, if there is one. remember my first lesson back after the test? it was with alex tan and i believe after that he probably considered quitting his job.
Full entry here.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
TMD
so while i was happily at my com after i typed the previous entry, watching 老友狗狗, trying to open yoga's album (it is still unopened as i type this) and having my beehoon lunch at 11:56am , it suddenly dawned on me to check bbdc's website to confirm the time for my last driving lesson cos yesterday when i checked my organizer on my phone, the time stated was 2:20pm, which is impossible cos bbdc's timings are like 12:20, 2:10, 4pm. i only take these three slots. so i logged in.
please imagine my shock when i clicked 'booking statement' and saw: 6 Jan 2010 Wednesday 12:20 - 2pm.
I FREAKED OUT OF COURSE and jumped out, changed and went without showering. disgusting but true. booked a cab which sped (i didnt ask him to) all the way to bbdc. cost me $12.50. but i got there like 3min late, which is fantastic considering bbdc is like far side of the world.
everything else that followed however was just a nightmare. shi fu (no this is not the nightmarish part) was terribly disheartened by my poor performance in the circuit. i was striking kerbs turning too quickly driving too fast. s-course was atrocious. i was and am awfully discouraged.
seriously i strongly believe i might still be able to drive decently tomorrow (even if i dont pass) because the past three lessons were genuinely fine. but i dont know about s-course.
SIGH.
trust me i hate being this unprepared. but EITHER WAY i have wasted the $100+ (because theres no refund if you cancel your test) so i might as well just go for it. i just feel awfully bad for my instructors cos they really put a lot of effort into teaching me but im just not there yet.
i have just booked a lesson with hau kw (but it'll probably be someone else) for 1st march. that will be the day i go down to renew my PDL and my first lesson before my next test, whenever that may be. he will have to teach me parallel parking without the poles. if i renew my PDL on first march i will have till sept to pass the stupid test, but i intend to pass by Rafa's birthday (3 june) because thats when the bbdc account expires - I AM NOT PAYING BBDC ANY MORE MONEY.
Full entry here.
please imagine my shock when i clicked 'booking statement' and saw: 6 Jan 2010 Wednesday 12:20 - 2pm.
I FREAKED OUT OF COURSE and jumped out, changed and went without showering. disgusting but true. booked a cab which sped (i didnt ask him to) all the way to bbdc. cost me $12.50. but i got there like 3min late, which is fantastic considering bbdc is like far side of the world.
everything else that followed however was just a nightmare. shi fu (no this is not the nightmarish part) was terribly disheartened by my poor performance in the circuit. i was striking kerbs turning too quickly driving too fast. s-course was atrocious. i was and am awfully discouraged.
seriously i strongly believe i might still be able to drive decently tomorrow (even if i dont pass) because the past three lessons were genuinely fine. but i dont know about s-course.
SIGH.
trust me i hate being this unprepared. but EITHER WAY i have wasted the $100+ (because theres no refund if you cancel your test) so i might as well just go for it. i just feel awfully bad for my instructors cos they really put a lot of effort into teaching me but im just not there yet.
i have just booked a lesson with hau kw (but it'll probably be someone else) for 1st march. that will be the day i go down to renew my PDL and my first lesson before my next test, whenever that may be. he will have to teach me parallel parking without the poles. if i renew my PDL on first march i will have till sept to pass the stupid test, but i intend to pass by Rafa's birthday (3 june) because thats when the bbdc account expires - I AM NOT PAYING BBDC ANY MORE MONEY.
Full entry here.
Again and again
anyway im damn edgy cos its my last driving lesson today but i can still think of a whole list of problems i need to work on:
+ s-course
+ turning back too quickly during crank-course
+ CHECKING THE REAR VIEW MIRROR
+ lane change
+ parallel parking (quite ok but you know, murphy's law)
+ after crank-course come out parallel park
+ ramp
and i just realised theres this ONE parallel parking lot near s-course #4 and i havent tried that before.
yesterday i actually turned the steering in the wrong direction during parallel park.
im so dead seriously. i should just pray very hard i dont get immediate failures and more than 30 points. i hope i fail at like 20 points, so at least its not too bad for the confidence, which is already very low. i really dont know how much effort is going to take for me to even go for lessons if i still fail tomorrow. im going to be damn demoralized cos driving's, really, such a bitch.
still damn edgy about driving.
Original entry here.
+ s-course
+ turning back too quickly during crank-course
+ CHECKING THE REAR VIEW MIRROR
+ lane change
+ parallel parking (quite ok but you know, murphy's law)
+ after crank-course come out parallel park
+ ramp
and i just realised theres this ONE parallel parking lot near s-course #4 and i havent tried that before.
yesterday i actually turned the steering in the wrong direction during parallel park.
im so dead seriously. i should just pray very hard i dont get immediate failures and more than 30 points. i hope i fail at like 20 points, so at least its not too bad for the confidence, which is already very low. i really dont know how much effort is going to take for me to even go for lessons if i still fail tomorrow. im going to be damn demoralized cos driving's, really, such a bitch.
still damn edgy about driving.
Original entry here.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Pre-second-test woes
i was super, super pissed off with bbdc today. so yesterday's lesson was mr chan instead of shi fu and i was ok with it. the first lesson today was supposed to be with hau kw but i got mr chan instead and still i was ok with it. but i started to worry cos i knew sooner or later i would be getting the other instructors from g8033 and TRUE ENOUGH the second lesson, which was supposed to be with mr chan, i got this guy (ong wh). so he was nice but at this stage i would really appreciate an instructor i know. besides, BOTH hau kw and shi fu were teaching during my lesson. the worst thing is that while they refund me the $5 for not getting the instructor i want, they dont refund me the $3 for fixed group.
tomorrow is my last lesson and i am supposed to have it with hau kw. i chose hau kw for my last lesson for a reason, it wasn't random. hes the strictest (that i know of) with safety checks. he is also the least encouraging but i suppose i dont need the encouragement since the last time everyone told me i was going to pass and i failed.
NOW IF I DONT GET HAU KW TOMORROW, or mr chan or shi fu, im going to be very, very upset with bbdc.
anyhow that ong wh guy was really funny he kept asking me about cars, like what car im going to drive, what car my dad drives, and what i did with the result slip of the first test. t'was quite amusing. but he was using his phone during lesson and i didnt quite like that. for the record, i wouldnt like it either if the tester used his phone during the test.
talking about testers, trey was talking about his failed driving tests and apparently the second one he felt the tester was unfair so they gave him *two* testers for his third, which he passed. now thats quite amazing.
Original entry here.
tomorrow is my last lesson and i am supposed to have it with hau kw. i chose hau kw for my last lesson for a reason, it wasn't random. hes the strictest (that i know of) with safety checks. he is also the least encouraging but i suppose i dont need the encouragement since the last time everyone told me i was going to pass and i failed.
NOW IF I DONT GET HAU KW TOMORROW, or mr chan or shi fu, im going to be very, very upset with bbdc.
anyhow that ong wh guy was really funny he kept asking me about cars, like what car im going to drive, what car my dad drives, and what i did with the result slip of the first test. t'was quite amusing. but he was using his phone during lesson and i didnt quite like that. for the record, i wouldnt like it either if the tester used his phone during the test.
talking about testers, trey was talking about his failed driving tests and apparently the second one he felt the tester was unfair so they gave him *two* testers for his third, which he passed. now thats quite amazing.
Original entry here.
Monday, 4 January 2010
before & after
anyway i am scared!! i am going for my first driving lesson in a month in a bit, and i am SCARED!!!
i have decided that after thursday im going to take a long break from driving this whole sem and not renew my PDL until april and hopefully book a test for june, before my bbdc account expires. should the test date be in june, i will go back to driving only after exams end in april. ok that sounds like a big risk again because i'd only have a month to learn the whole parking-without-poles but if i spam lessons in may i suppose it should be fine, right? besides, with 6 modules this sem i dont actually want to waste time travelling to and fro bbdc anymore, and i really want to take a break from driving. i think its plain sad that i didnt pass on my first try cos that was the only time i had confidence for driving. now the thought of driving tests just scares me.
and you realise i am making plans for my next test already... hahaha driving is a joke.
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woohoo!! driving turned out alright. it was quite fun actually cos i had mr chan. yayness. actually i booked shi fu (cos mr chan had no slot available) so imagine my happiness when i saw mr chan's name on the slip. i mean im ok with shi fu but mr chan's still better so. besides, now i should get my $5 refunded.
im just really worried the same thing happens for my next three lessons and i end up getting instructors i didnt book. its ok if i get any of the three (shi fu, mr chan, hau kw) but if i get anyone other than that im going to flip - for obvious reasons.
anyway he was really impressed i could still remember everything after almost a month of not driving. i was really impressed too, but i was more amused cos he told me his story of how he got his class 4 license (apparently theres this school in jurong which teaches that, and its not like the normal driving schools cos the instructors have their legs up on the seat and all that) and also some gossip about the previous g8001 group.
he was saying from the looks of it i clearly didnt like sim kh or ng hl because "otherwise wouldnt have come to this group (g8033)". so true. i admitted i didnt like alex tan as well. i am secretly damn happy alex tan is teaching honda jazz cos no matter what happens i will never get him as my instructor, ever again. GOOD RIDDANCE. he also said a lot of students like shi fu & hau kw very much. i suppose i will never understand how some members of our society function, but it is way more acceptable than if he had told me a lot of students like sim kh, alex tan or ng hl.
by the way, i tried parking without the poles today, just for fun. it felt very different but the theory is the same and, surprise surprise! it still does not aid parking along public roads because they put something else there in place of the poles. -_-"
Original entry here.
i have decided that after thursday im going to take a long break from driving this whole sem and not renew my PDL until april and hopefully book a test for june, before my bbdc account expires. should the test date be in june, i will go back to driving only after exams end in april. ok that sounds like a big risk again because i'd only have a month to learn the whole parking-without-poles but if i spam lessons in may i suppose it should be fine, right? besides, with 6 modules this sem i dont actually want to waste time travelling to and fro bbdc anymore, and i really want to take a break from driving. i think its plain sad that i didnt pass on my first try cos that was the only time i had confidence for driving. now the thought of driving tests just scares me.
and you realise i am making plans for my next test already... hahaha driving is a joke.
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woohoo!! driving turned out alright. it was quite fun actually cos i had mr chan. yayness. actually i booked shi fu (cos mr chan had no slot available) so imagine my happiness when i saw mr chan's name on the slip. i mean im ok with shi fu but mr chan's still better so. besides, now i should get my $5 refunded.
im just really worried the same thing happens for my next three lessons and i end up getting instructors i didnt book. its ok if i get any of the three (shi fu, mr chan, hau kw) but if i get anyone other than that im going to flip - for obvious reasons.
anyway he was really impressed i could still remember everything after almost a month of not driving. i was really impressed too, but i was more amused cos he told me his story of how he got his class 4 license (apparently theres this school in jurong which teaches that, and its not like the normal driving schools cos the instructors have their legs up on the seat and all that) and also some gossip about the previous g8001 group.
he was saying from the looks of it i clearly didnt like sim kh or ng hl because "otherwise wouldnt have come to this group (g8033)". so true. i admitted i didnt like alex tan as well. i am secretly damn happy alex tan is teaching honda jazz cos no matter what happens i will never get him as my instructor, ever again. GOOD RIDDANCE. he also said a lot of students like shi fu & hau kw very much. i suppose i will never understand how some members of our society function, but it is way more acceptable than if he had told me a lot of students like sim kh, alex tan or ng hl.
by the way, i tried parking without the poles today, just for fun. it felt very different but the theory is the same and, surprise surprise! it still does not aid parking along public roads because they put something else there in place of the poles. -_-"
Original entry here.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Hau KW
oh and by the way, bbdc 'settled' my issues and found me a 4th session that is not at night. unfortunately i have two with hau kw - i do not actually want to have any sessions with hau kw at all. but nevermind. and g8033 is a honda city group! which means i am safe even if i fail the test. boo!
Looking back I cannot quite understand why I was trying to avoid Hau KW. But what surprises me is the fact that hes still an instructor today (Jan 2012). Hes so young - or maybe he just looks young - you just wouldn't expect someone of that age to i) stay in a job for long and ii) stay as a driving instructor for long. Maybe he really has a passion for cars, who knows!
Original entry here.
Looking back I cannot quite understand why I was trying to avoid Hau KW. But what surprises me is the fact that hes still an instructor today (Jan 2012). Hes so young - or maybe he just looks young - you just wouldn't expect someone of that age to i) stay in a job for long and ii) stay as a driving instructor for long. Maybe he really has a passion for cars, who knows!
Original entry here.
And again I got pissed off...
have to visit bbdc later but i suppose it is half the battle won cos the three instructors i want are really in g8033. now if they please give me the car i need. thanks.
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ohmygod. i am starting to wonder if it'll be cheaper for me to sue bbdc than pay them so much and still fail my driving tests. then again maybe not.
so the three instructors are in my group, as mentioned above. but i can only find FOUR slots before my test on the 7th. i feel like dying, because not only is four insufficient, one of them is at night, which is costing me $77, and is not a good idea because i have never driven at night and my test is the next day - in the morning! simply means i am going to fail anyway, and if i am going to fail, why am i wasting money on night slots and booking fixed instructor yada yada? besides, the earliest next test date is 10 march! surprise surprise. thats the first date (if i dont remember wrongly) on which traffic police driving tests will be conducted without the poles. i might as well take it easy (since i have to renew my pdl anyway) and start learning parking from scratch.
maybe d_'s idea of having revision lessons with a private instructor is not a bad one! but how am i going to find an instructor (who uses the honda city) at such short notice?!
Original post here.
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ohmygod. i am starting to wonder if it'll be cheaper for me to sue bbdc than pay them so much and still fail my driving tests. then again maybe not.
so the three instructors are in my group, as mentioned above. but i can only find FOUR slots before my test on the 7th. i feel like dying, because not only is four insufficient, one of them is at night, which is costing me $77, and is not a good idea because i have never driven at night and my test is the next day - in the morning! simply means i am going to fail anyway, and if i am going to fail, why am i wasting money on night slots and booking fixed instructor yada yada? besides, the earliest next test date is 10 march! surprise surprise. thats the first date (if i dont remember wrongly) on which traffic police driving tests will be conducted without the poles. i might as well take it easy (since i have to renew my pdl anyway) and start learning parking from scratch.
maybe d_'s idea of having revision lessons with a private instructor is not a bad one! but how am i going to find an instructor (who uses the honda city) at such short notice?!
Original post here.
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