Yeah,Tibet here i come !!

First circuit driving practical

Today we were introduced to the circuit. As stated by the training programme, we have to complete 100mins of driving on the circuit per day. For today, we had to negotiate turns along gentle and sharper bends, changing gear from 1->2->3 and 3->2->1, turn while changing gears, observing basic traffic rules (highway codes), applying of brakes and lastly, to keep ourselves relax while driving. When i first mounted the jeep today, i was not with a relax mind. As expected, i screwed up for the first 15mins or so (instructor lectured me abit). I did not release the clutch, change gear, stop and move off at the appropriate time :( Luckily after calming myself down and forcing myself to get familiarised to those movements, my driving finally got smoother. I was able to perform those techniques at ease albeit a few minor mistakes here and there. I gained confidence and felt better. I have greater faith in myself !

Before circuit driving, we were to familiarise ourselves with the reverse gear. We were made to drive the jeep forward and backward for a short distance. Throughout our pratice, the instructor was not seated in the jeep, he just sat at the training shed and 'rot' his time away. Haha ! No one to guide and correct our mistakes!

Tomorrow, we will be driving using the simulator at Kaki Bukit Camp. We were told not to expect anything fun as most of us will definately suffer from motion sickness inflicted from the simulated drive. Apart from simulator lesson, boring theory lessons ON as usual. Sigh!

posted by Weizhen @ 5:49 PM 0 comments

Jeep course 2nd day

Basically we had highway code and theory lessons for the whole day. The whole day of sleepy lessons was spent inside the freezing classroom. Although the instructor tried to make his lessons more lively by cracking jokes, i still managed to fall asleep a couple of times. Anyway i still want to applaud him for his 'lame-ness'. Towards the end of the day, everyone started to be more restless and rowdy (typical of a normal classroom). Finally at 5pm sharp, we booked out.

The bus ride home was 'awesome'. I was forced into a conversation which i never thought would have happened. An ah-pek who sat beside me initiated a 'lecture'. Throughout my journey home, he taught me about the meaning of life, money and evil, contrasting between Man and dog and etc... Although i didn't really wanted to talk to him, i still replied to his questions and made him feel that i'm interested. I gave him the due respect of an elderly as i didn't want him to feel bad that i didn't want to talk to him. Nevertheless after he got off the bus, i kind of respect him for his experiences and knowledge. Quite an interesting senior citizen i should say. Anyway, this isn't my first time being initiated a conversation by an elderly on a public transport. This is the kind of luck that i have.

Jeep course day 3 will be our highway code test, the passing mark is 45/50. I hope that i'll be able to pass on the 1st try as most of the other people in previous batches. Good luck and stay alert to me ! As for now, at this very moment, i'll have to continue doing the dreadfull NDP'05 posters assigned to me by my department.

posted by Weizhen @ 9:07 PM 0 comments