.Sunday, May 24, 2009 ' 10:26 PM
I'm One step closer to the lorry's driver seat!
Sorry peeps ... haven been able to blog with all the UTs (Understanding Test) and other things that keeps me busy. One of the thing that keeps me busy is as stated on my post title, my road to getting my QDL(Qualified Driving License).
Not long ago, I went for my 2nd and 3rd practical Lesson within the Driving Centre circuit, so far I am able to make right and left turn from a junctions, it all about steering your wheels fast and bringing back the wheel back straight as fast as possible after making the turn. My Instructor Mr.Zhang told me to get my PDL(Provisional Driving License, not Professional Driving License) so that I can learn the other lesson outside the school circuit which means I am going to drive on the real traffic road in my next lesson OMG!
So I went down last week during the weekends to get my PDL, so lorry-d down to the driving centre's traffic police department before cutting my hair to apply for it. The queue was rather long and I was worried I couldn't get my PDL because I heard traffic police department are strict and I stupidly forgotten to bring along my colour blind cert to state that I have only mild colour blindness. Luckily Buddha was by my side LOL, the lady who was servicing me was nice enough to let to apply for my PDL since I passed their colour blind and eye test. Wooo another step closer to the lorry's driver seat haha.
After getting my PDL, its time to book for more practical lessons, without hesitation...I book 25 lessons which is the maximum number to book at one shot. My dad must be having a headache LOL cox it's $80+per lesson and total would be $2,000+ !!!! This is the proof ... all the circled ones are the day I am going for my practical lessons. Too bad I need to wait for 1 month plus to start my next lesson which is 1st July since there are too many people booking for lessons.
Getting a car license is indeed expensive but thinking that I am able to drive lorry or even a car(my dad say if I get my lesson might consider buying me one), its worth the money because I can drive my family and friends rather then letting Uncle Chong(who is my dad's driver)drive too long as he is not young already. I calculated the days and think that I might finish all my practical lessons by end of August and maybe get my license by latest October!
WooHoo another step closer to the lorry's driver seat muaha !
and and I went for my trial test yesterday, for my driving centre, I need to pass my trial test in order to book for my FTT(final theory test). Played Wii with Ralph and Eddie till late night just before my Trial test and I can't believed I finally passed 45/50 after going through so many trials. I am damn happy and went straight home to book for my FTT which should be one month time from now 24th June. Need to pass so that I can go for my TP(Traffic Police Test) after I finished all my practical lesson to get my QDL !
WOOLALA ! ANOTHER ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO THE LORRY'S DRIVER SEAT AHHHHHHHHHHHHAAHAA!!!!
till then bye peeps !
p/s: i was totally stun...totally speechless...after thinking through, i wish i have the courage to tell you that i am not them and i hope you could give me a chance to show it and proof it to you.
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Happy 1st Birthday Summer !!!!
Summer's 1st Birthday celebration (17th May 2009)
Seeing two of my friends having children already, I felt so old but am really happy for them and hope their children grow up healthy and smart =)
Well to be exact, one is still 7 month unborn in the stomach and the other who is Summer who suddenly becomes 1 year old.
Feel like having one myself but now is not the time and I'm still single haha, still long way to go Danny!!!!
Anyway, met up with WeiHao and lorry-d down to Deon's House with Wii to keep the place alive. The buffet was awesome especially the Laksa LOL !
Made quite a few friends there because of Wii, and WeiHao pang seh me because he need to attend another thing. I stayed and waited for Keith to arrive from work. Too bad both Keith and WeiHao missed the Birthday Celebration.
Now ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you The daughter of Deon and Mat...
SUMMER CHEW !
Isn't she cute? I think she must be thinking why the cake so big haha!
She cried when everyone sang the Happy Birthday song haha...
So her Daddy and Mummy gave her a kiss, so sweet wor!
Then she blew the candle(which is actually Mat who helped her blow it haha).
Cut Cake Cut Cake
After which, me, Deon, Rebbecca and some of their skater friends went to prawning at Neo Tiew on one of their friend's Van. Had lessons the next day but still accompany them for some fun time =)
Apple and Braden in action!
I manage to catch one only which is better than none ok ! Had fun with them even though we just knew each other. After Supper, they are kind enough to drive me home.Bathed and then went to bed.
.Wednesday, May 13, 2009 ' 11:38 PM
My very 1st practical lesson =)
I was half excited half nervous because ...
IT'S MY VERY FIRST PRACTICAL LESSON TODAY !!!!
went straight to SSDC straight after school because lesson starts at 5.55pm
When I reached the driving centre, went to look at the monitor to see which car am I assigned to. Well guess which no. I got ???
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CAR NO.1 !!!!
It was my 1st lesson and I got car no.1, a good sign indeed. =)
Anyway, I took some pigs while waiting for my instructor to come =p
Finally, My instructor came ! His name is Mr.Zhang, appears to be friendly and he looks abit like ZHANG YU(a chinese singer) hahahaha!!!!
After the introduction and stuff, Mr.Zhang went through some theories with me like, how to get in/out of the car, where are the metres & warning indicator, the right position and adjustment to be made, shifting of gears, which leg to use for which pedal, how to hold a steering wheel, how to use the hand brake,etc.
After that, it was show time, Mr.Zhang ask me to switch to the driver seat. So I went to sit on the driver seat, adjust the chair, adjust my rear view mirror, adjust my side mirror( I used buttons inside the car to adjust this, so cool lor), see my hair got messy or not(this is not important), put my hands and legs on the right posture, then fasten my seat belt.
Firstly, Mr.Zhang taught me how to move the car forward and backwards. So I started the engine, push down my hand brake, depress the clutch, shift to gear 1, release the clutch slowly till the biting point where I can feel the car moving and my car was moving forward. When I was about to hit the circuit road, I fully depress my clutch and slowly depress my brake softly to stop the car and prevent the car from jerking.
Remember peeps, if you want to release your clutch, you must first shift your gear to neutral before doing so if not the engine will die and you have to restart it.
Next it was to move backward, so I depress my gear, shift to reverse gear, slowly release my clutch till the biting point and I can feel my car slowly moving backwards. So basically I was moving the car forward and backward for about 20 mins haha.
Now for the next task, Mr.Zhang want me to drive round the circuit which shocked me because I was quite nervous and quite scared that I might cause an accident, but then i decide to give it a try.
So, I turn on the left indicator light, get ready my clutch and slowly release it to the biting point when the path is clear. So I went round the circuit, take left turns and learnt to break smoothly.
Mr. Zhang then taught me how to accelerate and shift to gear 2. After the biting point, I fully release my clutch after 5 seconds and depress my accelerator slightly to accelerate. Then I release my accelerator, depress my clutch, shift to gear to and slowly release the clutch fully then slightly depress the accelerator because gear 2 is quite fast.
So lesson finally ends and Mr.Zhang guided me to the initial parking slot, I depress the clutch, depress brake, shift the gear to neutral, hand brake up, release whatever pedal I was depressing and switch off the engine.
Mr.Zhang said that I was so far so good for a first timer but I must keep to my lane at all time especially if I were to brake, if not I will obstruct the traffic on other lanes. NOTED !
I Thanked Mr.Zhang for his time and headed home with Choon Min.
Last pic I took after lesson hee hee !
My legs were sore and the car was quite small for me, had some difficulties turning because my legs were obstructing me from doing so. Even so, it was a great experience for me and I hope the details I have mentioned above would be helpful for some and also a good reference for me to recap what I have learnt haha.Having another practical lesson tmr and fri !!! Shall work harder to get on to the lorry's driver seat !
.Wednesday, May 6, 2009 ' 1:38 AM
Kawans goes to SG Flyer ! (05 May)
Ho Ho Ho !
Just came back from Singapore flyer BABEH !
It was hell lots of joy and laughter because I finally got to meet some friction of E35C Kawans again !
A handful of Kawans went but few couldn't make it ...
Met up with Angie and Ugine to go school with, when I was boarding the train, my sixth sense tells me someone I know is around and I saw this blond haired little eye girl sitting down, talking on her handphone. IT WAS ANGIE PUAN 小眼!!!! I walked towards her and waited for her to notice me. She starts to kick my leg when she noticed me and was excited about the Guitar Hero Shirt I was wearing haha!!!
Well ... ...Lesson was head banging, macham VB coding and most of my team members when crazy haha but thinking that I will be meeting the Kawans later after school makes me feel so excited :)
Met with the Kawans straight after lesson at library to wait for the others to come, Angie,Ugine,Ynez,Emily,YM,Jeremy and Adam came only for this outing.
We took MRT down to CityHall to meet with Silvia. Ugine,Adam, Jeremy were like sparring with each other, Angie and gang were listening to music,PSP and taking pictures, and I was RJ-ing on my Handphone on the train.
We brought Ice cream and went down to Singapore Flyer, Ynez and gang were like so frighten when they saw how high the Singapore flyer is haha but lucky for me it was my second time going for it.
We brought the tickets and went to board the Singapore Flyer, it's DAMN COOL we got ourselves the whole capsule and we went havoc haha.
We took gazillions of photos, ran around in circles and dancing away with my popping in the groove =p
Im sure most of us had enjoyed ourselves =D
After that we went to the souvenir shop to buy some souvenirs and the group photo we had taken earlier and went down to Popeyes fast food restaurant to have our meals. I think we are the most noisy group haha but we had nice chit chat session filled with joy and laughter.
I dunno why throughout our outing, I noticed that me, Angie, Ugine, Ynez kept singing away any place we went haha... I know you guys wanna go singing haha. Lets go my pa's ktv soon !!!
Thx Kawans for making this Singapore Flyer trips a wonderful and successful outing !
Love you guys !!!!
The waiting ...
On the way to SG Flyer !!!!
The fake capsule
The real capsule
woooooo~ !
Making ourselves home
Kawan :) Kawan :D
Group Photo !
POPEYES !
home sweet home ~
more pictures to be up soon once I get it from Angie and Ynez !
.Sunday, May 3, 2009 ' 10:39 PM
The meet ups
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Been feeling unwell since today ... maybe consume wrong stuff and tmr is temperature check alrdy ! hope I will be ok.
Went straight home after gym today and did not go for my trial test =(
RP student if you are reading this ... pls bring your THERMOMETER TOMORROW !!!!
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Labour Day (1st May)
Friday was Labour day and that means no school !!!! Decide to go gym with my gym partner Raman, his body building competition is coming soon so have to help him =)
We went to try Yishun stadium's gym and the equipments there are limited, not a very god gym to go to i guess.
We manage to finish before gym closes at 5pm since it's public holiday and I need to rush home to shower and prepare for my next meet up.
Meet up with Ralph and Eddie at MRT station and train-d down toOrchad !
Went to get bags and some shirts then we walked around, chilled and have casual chats at shaw house. Intend to watch handsome suit but the cinema doesn't have it anymore ... sian =((
did something sinful too haiss ... dun worry Ralph I dun blame you but no more next time ! =)
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Cypher Retreat 2 (2nd May)
This 2nd Cypher retreat was quite disappointing, very less people turn up for this gathering, tio pang seh again from my campers. Also heard that one bunch of year ones went to Palawan beach themselves and leave out the Seniors who are at Siloso Beach. Since they dun wan to mix it us then forget it ...
Went to meet Syl and Esther at HarbourFront MRT and went to hawker centre for their lunch, reached Sentosa at around 2 plus and meet up with the other Cyphers. there were like not more then 10 year 1s and the other are year 2 and 3.
Brought Frisbee to play and many of us accidentally hit other people while throwing it. I should buy a foam type one i guess =)
We also lent netball from another group of people to play since not much of us brought any things to play.
Played basketball for awhile, team with Jeff, Leon and Kai Le, we won 7-5. It was a good game and I injured Eugene while landing from my jump shot, sorry ! Dunno why every time i play sports will injured one or two people =(
Saw Sharon and her PBT at sentosa, so ciao!
After that went for some sun tanning with Syl and then washed up. Went to eat with the rest at the same hawker centre. Train-d home with Syl, Charis and Esther and saw yp, vivien and zhijun coming out from the train haha, what a small world lor.
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p/s: cant wait for Tuesday to come ! going Singapore flyer with E35C Kawans !!!! woooohooo!
I manage to catch one only which is better than none ok ! Had fun with them even though we just knew each other. After Supper, they are kind enough to drive me home.
My legs were sore and the car was quite small for me, had some difficulties turning because my legs were obstructing me from doing so. Even so, it was a great experience for me and I hope the details I have mentioned above would be helpful for some and also a good reference for me to recap what I have learnt haha.
