Monday, March 12, 2007: on a lighter note..
had driving lessons today. i think i have a serious problem: i cant tell my left from my right! these are some occasions where i forgot which was which -
senario 1i was still a distance from the traffic light, but it is ideal to step lightly on the brakes so that the halting of the car would be smoother. however, what i always forget, is to press the brakes first and wait for the car to slow down first before stepping fully on the clutch. so what happens is:
me " ahh ahhh ahhhhh, red light red light!!!!!"
ah long "slowly press your right pedal... stop..."
me "ahhhh!" presses clutch instead with
left leg (with right leg still on accelerator) car jerks forward almost banging the car in front before i suddenly remember about my right leg and jam breaks the car.
ah long at this point in time is very freaked out and wants to "jump out of the car" (he ALWAYS says that, at least 10 times in my driving lesson. my driving isnt as bad as he claims it is though. he really exxagerates too much. seriously.)
note: jam breaking happens at least 10 times today because we went through alot of traffic lights and stop signs and road junctions. haha.
senario 2
today we were practicing round about turns because i really abhore roundabouts because there's so many things to concentrate on, like turn on left/right signal, pausing at the white line, change to gear 2, looking right, lift up clutch without stalling, remembering not to touch the accelerator at all, turn driving wheel quickly, signal left (if right at first) when going out of the round about, speed up, change to a higher gear, move on. yes so many things to remember right! thats why i HATE roundabouts.
so what happened today was, i kinda forgot about signalling because i almost stalled the car and the car behind was following so closely and i got scared, so when ah long reminded me to signal right, i signalled left instead and i was going to go left when ah long continued to hold my steering wheel in the right direction and i almost got knocked down by a 4 wheel drive because i couldnt tell my left from my right.
oh man. i think i'm a road hazard. haha.
bends are the funniest though. :D i keep forgetting to slow down so i just swivel around the bend (not to mention sometimes forgetting to look in the direction of the left/right) and i get scolded by ah long again. thankfully ah long thinks i've had some slight improvement since the last time and he let me off practising turning. thank God. haha, we did that last week and boy was i atrocious.
at least this round i did like 5 times of parking (although it was really more than that because i keep overshooting) and 3 3-point turns (yay, amazingly i was pretty good at that (: )
yepp, so that was the more interesting bits about today (:
hurrah for kristi <3
a shout of praise.
4:54 PM
