.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 !
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.
