Wednesday, March 18, 2009
HAHA. The last post was such a shabby one. I just got home from driving then, and was recovering from the shock on the roads.
Let's do the post all over again. :) (This post was supposed to be up last night but my internet connection screwed up and I lost my whole post somehow.)
I didn't sleep well last night, though I went to bed at 11pm. I put on some chanting music and finally managed to calm myself and drift off to dreamland. But I kept waking up, like maybe 5 times that night. When it was finally 8 am, I was reluctant to get out of bed so I napped till 8.25 am, and got out of bed to shower. After my shower, I lit the oil lamps, offered incense and made some milk for myself so I wouldn't be hungry.
I left home in a hurry, forgetting that I have only drank half a cup of the milk, cos' I remembered that I had forgotten to withdraw money to pay my instructor. So I cut across the park to the ATM and then to the bus stop. Luckily I wasn't late for my warm-ups.
Started driving from 10 am all the way till 11 am, and went for my circuit till 11.40 am. After which I rushed off to the room to wait for my name to be called by the tester. I swear that I was crossing my fingers and hoping that CKC won't call my name.
Then was my nightmare. The door swung open and a familiar face appeared. "CKC!!!" I screamed in my head. "OH PLEASE DON'T CALL MY NAME!", I heard myself repeat that mentally. Thankfully, he called someone else. (But it was really unlucky for the person. I saw his gloomy face in the office later on.)
And my tester came. It was an Indian man. He's really good! Really patient when I was sooooo slow, and he was so encouraging. He kept saying "Mm, good." which makes me feel more confident and less nervous. Halfway through the circuit I practically stopped being nervous. :D
Then it was out on the roads, something I was really confident about. Lucky for me, the route was a short one. Out to the main roads and back to CDC. Then I parked the car under the shade, Mr Ooi came to collect the car as I walked upstairs with my tester.
When I was sitting in the room as the tester was printing my results, I chatted with the guy beside me. I asked him how it went and he told me that he had mounted a kerb. Sigh. I could totally understand how it felt, cos' I felt it my first time round. The OMG sadness.
Then I got my results! :D 4 points in the circuit and 8 on road. So a total of 12 points. :D I called Mr Ooi, let him know that I had passed and he came to collect the car "rental" fees and lesson fees and said "OK. Thank you, bye bye." and walked off. I was told to go to counter 1 to apply for my photocard license and I super blur-ly walked to the counter 1 downstairs. -_- Made a fool out of myself but I was too happy to care anyway. Finally found the counter, got a queue number and sat down to wait. The queue was really long so I went to watch the video while waiting. It all took about an hour.
Then I made my way to my boyfriend's house. Went to OG Orchard with Zoey and Auntie Linda, had Mushroom Pot for lunch. I wouldn't say that the food was good.. But at least my soup was. :D
Then we went to Centrepoint, met Selynn, went Cold Storage, and went back to my boyfriend's house. While waiting for my boyfriend to come back, I drove Zoey around the estate. A taxi driver zoomed past me in front of me without looking. Luckily I didn't speed out. He was too engrossed in digging his nose to care. So I turned right, followed behind him. He stopped to let the passenger alight, then drove ahead and continued with his nose digging. -_-" Drove back and parked back into the same lot. :P
Later on after dinner, went to Beach Road to fetch my mum. Drove past Geylang. Waa, crowded and people dash out from nowhere. So freaking scary. And it was my first time driving at night. Wooh~ So stressed.
Drove back from Beach Road. Such a long journey home. Drove past many buses, cars, jams. So stressed out. But gained quite alot of experience. :D Phew! I'm a licensed driver!! :D:D
I miss your beautiful smile.. 10:10 PM