16th session: Sunday
Topic: 'S' course and Crank course
Finally the commencement of my circuit lesson! My first trial was weeks back when Mr Pang first exposed me to this lesson when doing a stage 1 review.
Today I got a new instructor, KS. He told me he is very particular with the trainees' posture inside the car. And it didn't take long for him to correct mine. I am very used to sitting very near and tall. KS says this will inhibit my movement in the car. Thou I was feeling very uncomfortable with the new sitting posture, I convinced myself that he can't be wrong. And surprisingly, it was a better posture.
KS didn't want me to look at the kerb when doing the courses and instead focus on the ground situation. He also corrected my eye line when turning. He is really a very sharp instructor who can easily pick up my mistake.
Circuit was unusually busy today and it was quite difficult to keep practicing for the 2 stipulated courses.
KS also took extra time to teach me on "Directional Changes" before he ended the lesson. As such, we "eat" into his lunch break again!
*Oops*
17th session: Sunday
Topic: Directional change
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
[BBDC] my dRiving expeRience @bbdc (leSson 14 & 15)
14th lesson: Saturday session 2
Topic: Overtaking and Stage 2 Review
Today, zh is busy and so I have to take a cab to bbdc.
I was yet again nearly late!!
*oops*
there must be a time when driving becomes painful for all learners...
and this phrase has been stuck with me for as long as lane change enters my modules...
i m dreadful of scanning my nric and then getting a X instructor..
i am using X because i believe there is no bad or inexperience instructors but merely an issue of how well they are teaching you..like all humans, we also have our bad hair days and bad mood days...the instructors thou predominately are males, i guess they should have their fair share of bad hair days as well...especially since they have to sit inside the car and do the same thing all over again day in and day out...imagine their space is only limited to the seat of the car...and they have to be inside the car for 400 minutes...even thou our desk bound jobs might be boring but at least, we can sometimes surf the web and day dream but they really don't have such fortune...so i perfectly can understand when they sometimes day dream abit but i really pray hard not to get such instructors...
Topic: Overtaking and Stage 2 Review
Today, zh is busy and so I have to take a cab to bbdc.
I was yet again nearly late!!
*oops*
there must be a time when driving becomes painful for all learners...
and this phrase has been stuck with me for as long as lane change enters my modules...
i m dreadful of scanning my nric and then getting a X instructor..
i am using X because i believe there is no bad or inexperience instructors but merely an issue of how well they are teaching you..like all humans, we also have our bad hair days and bad mood days...the instructors thou predominately are males, i guess they should have their fair share of bad hair days as well...especially since they have to sit inside the car and do the same thing all over again day in and day out...imagine their space is only limited to the seat of the car...and they have to be inside the car for 400 minutes...even thou our desk bound jobs might be boring but at least, we can sometimes surf the web and day dream but they really don't have such fortune...so i perfectly can understand when they sometimes day dream abit but i really pray hard not to get such instructors...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
my presentation after so many years!
Today we attended a new product introduction seminar at our client place.
For the first time since graduation (many donkeys years ago), I stand in front of a group of over 50 paxs, trying to make my speech and giving an introduction to our new product. There were literally butterflies in my stomach!
Prior to the presentation, we distributed the buns to the managers and the response were overwhelming! It's pure happiness. It is moment like this that keeps me going in this tough terrain. And this sentiments were shared by zh and me.
After the whole presentation, zh said I did well! *phew*
I hope this good sentiment continues along...
For the first time since graduation (many donkeys years ago), I stand in front of a group of over 50 paxs, trying to make my speech and giving an introduction to our new product. There were literally butterflies in my stomach!
Prior to the presentation, we distributed the buns to the managers and the response were overwhelming! It's pure happiness. It is moment like this that keeps me going in this tough terrain. And this sentiments were shared by zh and me.
After the whole presentation, zh said I did well! *phew*
I hope this good sentiment continues along...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
[BBDC] my dRiving exPerience @bbdC (leSson 12 & 13)
Lesson 12: Saturday
Topic: Road Hazard
I literally have to drag myself to lesson today. And even though i know that time is running tight, i still insisted to go have breakfast at my favourite place just to cheer myself up. And yet again, i arrived just on the dot.
I really don't feel like going for more driving lessons anymore. You know it when you have to drag yourself to lesson every weekend. And it didn't pay that weekend morning are meant for sleeping late.
Today i got a new instructor that wasn't from my group. This is what happened when you don't pay to fix your group.
As i sat into the car, the instructor allows me to make a few rounds inside the circuit before going out. And it didn't help that i was feeling really lousy about my own driving. Soon enough, the instructor could point out my mistake as common as making turns and accelerating. We left the circuit and head off to look for road hazard so that i can practise the drill. The instructor was very sharp and could sense that i was totally in a OFF mode. He stopped me by the roadside and tried to understand my problems. I have to sound like a broken old record repeating the whole story on lane change and my incapability. Immediately, he told me he will solve my problem for me. So we changed seats and he first demonstrated getting across road hazard and then, "with my permission", he took me on a a tour to demonstrate how to lane change.
Topic: Road Hazard
I literally have to drag myself to lesson today. And even though i know that time is running tight, i still insisted to go have breakfast at my favourite place just to cheer myself up. And yet again, i arrived just on the dot.
I really don't feel like going for more driving lessons anymore. You know it when you have to drag yourself to lesson every weekend. And it didn't pay that weekend morning are meant for sleeping late.
Today i got a new instructor that wasn't from my group. This is what happened when you don't pay to fix your group.
As i sat into the car, the instructor allows me to make a few rounds inside the circuit before going out. And it didn't help that i was feeling really lousy about my own driving. Soon enough, the instructor could point out my mistake as common as making turns and accelerating. We left the circuit and head off to look for road hazard so that i can practise the drill. The instructor was very sharp and could sense that i was totally in a OFF mode. He stopped me by the roadside and tried to understand my problems. I have to sound like a broken old record repeating the whole story on lane change and my incapability. Immediately, he told me he will solve my problem for me. So we changed seats and he first demonstrated getting across road hazard and then, "with my permission", he took me on a a tour to demonstrate how to lane change.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
[BBDC] my dRiving exPerience @bbdC (leSson 10 & 11)
10th lesson: Sunday session 2
Topic: U-turn
11th lesson: Sunday session 3
Topic: Slopes
Knowing i am not going to get my favourite instructors today as it is their OFF day, my lesson continues and while scanning my nric, i can only pray for the best.
Honestly, i wonder how many people are actually like me? People who refused to pay to be in fixed group/instructors scheme and therefore has to pray hard that they do not get X instructors.
In the previous 10 lessons, i never had the same instructors for 2 continuous lessons until today.
Hard for me to categorise whether it is my good or bad luck or should i say its the instructor's?
Today lesson are not easy as it continues the bad aftermath of lane change.
After U-turn, you have to lane change...
and the instructor TOTALLY agrees that my lane change is BAD...or otherwise HORRIBLE...
the instructor don't even like my turns...instructor keeps saying i am turning too late and every time i turn, the instructor will be "TURN TURN!!!"
Topic: U-turn
11th lesson: Sunday session 3
Topic: Slopes
Knowing i am not going to get my favourite instructors today as it is their OFF day, my lesson continues and while scanning my nric, i can only pray for the best.
Honestly, i wonder how many people are actually like me? People who refused to pay to be in fixed group/instructors scheme and therefore has to pray hard that they do not get X instructors.
In the previous 10 lessons, i never had the same instructors for 2 continuous lessons until today.
Hard for me to categorise whether it is my good or bad luck or should i say its the instructor's?
Today lesson are not easy as it continues the bad aftermath of lane change.
After U-turn, you have to lane change...
and the instructor TOTALLY agrees that my lane change is BAD...or otherwise HORRIBLE...
the instructor don't even like my turns...instructor keeps saying i am turning too late and every time i turn, the instructor will be "TURN TURN!!!"
Saturday, July 16, 2011
[BBDC] my dRiving exPerience @ bbdc (leSson 8 & 9)
8th lesson: Saturday Session 2
Topic: Lane change in slow traffic
This is a "killer" topic..
Prior to this class, I was mentally rehearsing the "procedures" of lane change..
I THOUGHT I could do it until the lesson commence..
As much as I can have better coordination between my steering and my head turn, I am still extremely fearful of lane change.
Whenever the instructor says lane change, I freaked out mentally and my basic instinct is to release the accelerator pedal and head for the brake!
This is an absolutely wrong procedure and I tried my best to have it corrected in this 100 minutes.
It didn't help when u get Saturday morning traffic and my route hovers around a wet market.
The instructor left me practically alone and when I asked him how can I do better, his reply was AMAZING!
His reply to me was, "you will learn in the time to come. Today is just a basic class and knowing the theory behind lane change is good enough."
I was like #^*^%#!?!????"
I just can't do this topic well and it really didn't help that I was allocated an instructor that wasn't from my fixed group.
As predicated, he passed me for this lane change class.
I TOTALLY cannot figured out WHY!!!
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9th lesson: Saturday session 3
Topic: Right turn
Topic: Lane change in slow traffic
This is a "killer" topic..
Prior to this class, I was mentally rehearsing the "procedures" of lane change..
I THOUGHT I could do it until the lesson commence..
As much as I can have better coordination between my steering and my head turn, I am still extremely fearful of lane change.
Whenever the instructor says lane change, I freaked out mentally and my basic instinct is to release the accelerator pedal and head for the brake!
This is an absolutely wrong procedure and I tried my best to have it corrected in this 100 minutes.
It didn't help when u get Saturday morning traffic and my route hovers around a wet market.
The instructor left me practically alone and when I asked him how can I do better, his reply was AMAZING!
His reply to me was, "you will learn in the time to come. Today is just a basic class and knowing the theory behind lane change is good enough."
I was like #^*^%#!?!????"
I just can't do this topic well and it really didn't help that I was allocated an instructor that wasn't from my fixed group.
As predicated, he passed me for this lane change class.
I TOTALLY cannot figured out WHY!!!
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9th lesson: Saturday session 3
Topic: Right turn
Monday, July 11, 2011
[BBDC] my dRiving exPerience @ bbdC (leSson 1 to 7)
finally my official driving lesson begins...
while most people start learning driving at the age of 18, mine was delayed by more than a decade.. keke...
and instead of manual, i decided that auto would be a wiser choice...
driving was not too bad to begin with...
with the completion of 7 sessions last Sunday, my thoughts as follows:
1st lesson: Saturday session 2
-on the way to bbdc, i was still commenting that how nice would it be if i get a female instructor...and *cling cling* i got it! she is a very nice lady...too nice i guess...she was offering me cough sweets when i cough...*feels weird*...
session 1 concluded with me doing a few rounds inside the circuit... *feeling good*
2nd lesson: Saturday session 1
-i was still hoping for the same female instructor today but it was different...maybe because this slot was bought last minute...this malay male instructor was also friendly and i spend 100 minutes inside the circuit doing rounds again... he told me he is supposedly teaching bike motorists but due to manpower shortage, he is allocated to teaching auto-motorist...lesson 2 concluded with simply feeling good but on hindsight, i don't think i have learned much...
3rd lesson: Saturday session 2
-it all started on a wrong note..first, i woke up late and arrived only at 9.20am...when i stepped foot into the centre, i knew i m in bad shape cos all the cars have left the circuit...i was allocated to area "A" to get my car and it involved a bit of running for me...i apologised for being late and the instructor face was black...
inside the car,
while most people start learning driving at the age of 18, mine was delayed by more than a decade.. keke...
and instead of manual, i decided that auto would be a wiser choice...
driving was not too bad to begin with...
with the completion of 7 sessions last Sunday, my thoughts as follows:
1st lesson: Saturday session 2
-on the way to bbdc, i was still commenting that how nice would it be if i get a female instructor...and *cling cling* i got it! she is a very nice lady...too nice i guess...she was offering me cough sweets when i cough...*feels weird*...
session 1 concluded with me doing a few rounds inside the circuit... *feeling good*
2nd lesson: Saturday session 1
-i was still hoping for the same female instructor today but it was different...maybe because this slot was bought last minute...this malay male instructor was also friendly and i spend 100 minutes inside the circuit doing rounds again... he told me he is supposedly teaching bike motorists but due to manpower shortage, he is allocated to teaching auto-motorist...lesson 2 concluded with simply feeling good but on hindsight, i don't think i have learned much...
3rd lesson: Saturday session 2
-it all started on a wrong note..first, i woke up late and arrived only at 9.20am...when i stepped foot into the centre, i knew i m in bad shape cos all the cars have left the circuit...i was allocated to area "A" to get my car and it involved a bit of running for me...i apologised for being late and the instructor face was black...
inside the car,
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