vrooom

i can pretty much drive around on my own now. not that i reali did. i'm still holding on to my L. so it's illegal to do solo drive still.

so far, i've been driving around canberra under the supervision of my frens. and i think i'm doing pretty well, with their guidance and my intelligence ^_^

i can drive... get to where i want to be... without causing any trouble to any other road users... i'm a pretty careful driver.

basically, i'm only left with the final test which i have to do it with a qualified assesor.

i dont think i'm gonna pass though... i still donno some of the 'standard procedures' that will be required...

like cannot cross-hand when turning the steering wheel... damn leh-chey siah

probably i'll take one test before i leave here, and see where am i standing.

if lucky, i'll pass (and beat jikok's record!).

if fail, at least i know where i'm weak in.

a milestone

100 km/h. They said it's a milestone of my life. Hmmm... and so i asked, what's next? 150? 200?

Anyway, i did a fair bit of driving (3pm - 9pm) to familiarise myself with some places within and just outside canberra.

Wet market isnt a common thingy here as most of the our needs can be bought from the local supermarts and they are everywhere. I visited one of the 2 wet markets around, and indeed it was an interesting experience. It's like bugis junction, but with single storey shops, all enclosed and air-conditioned. Surprisingly, the place didnt smell too bad as what we would expect in a normal 巴刹. It felt just like doing shopping, not for clothes this time, but for fresh poultry, seafoods, vegi, etc.. There isnt much room for price comparison or bargaining. From memory, i think there's onli 2 butchers and 1 fish-seller. Heaps of fruits, vegi, flowers and other groceries though.

Also in our visit list was a new shopping centre, 20min-drive from the wetmarket. Land spaces here are like 免费. Although the centre is onli 2 stories high, but it's very spacious within. Imagine a 2 stories jurong point with those '杂货店' in the middle all gone and of course with less people. Also, twiced the height of each storey! That's gonna be super spacious. White marbles flooring and sun-roof. The whole feeling was pretty relax. A wonderful place for shopping.

Tourist centre. Spend quite a fair bit of time collecting more info for our next trip probably next week or the week after.

Our last stop after a quick dinner was a book sale. It was a good sale, and we were told there's more to come. I bought 2 book which wld normally cost more than a hundred, but bcos of the sale, the damage is onlin 30 bucks.

头七

Seven days into my driving. I reckon i'll soon be able to take on the highway.

Driving in canberra is a diiferent story from singapore.

In singapore, 3 words summarise it all: "Who Dares Win".

Canberra drivers are more pilote (i'm not sure about the other states. my mates reckon they differ from state to state). Probably bcos it's the capital city, the drivers here are apparently more patient, especially to those holding their Learners.

The only thing that make driving hard here is most likely the roundabout. Canberra is a state of roundabouts. For some reasons, the city planners dont seem to like traffic light. Roundabouts are everywhere. Below is a portion of the ACT. Notice the number of roundabouts, big and small.

Within the academy itself, there's already 2. On my way to the nearest town, i wld have gone through 4. Even the new Parliament House (situated on top of capital hill) is enclosed by 2 huge roundabouts.

sigh... at the end of the day, the most shiong one is still my pocket. For only seven days, i've already consumed 30 bucks worth of petrol.

爱 还是 被爱？

都没我的份...

wat have we done...

on a weekday morning, and in the eyes of the public...

one of those crazy ideas...







what a fabulous way to kill time and enjoy life. too bad it's not legal in s'pore.

work hard play hard

After the maths paper last Thursday, I'm onli left with 2 to go, one tmr and the last one on friday. They weren't supposed to be too difficult so I thought it's time to give myself a little reward for the effort so far.

And so I was up till wee hours for the next few days, playing MJ and computer games, learnt driving plus watching 我的野蛮奶奶. I didn't catch a wink friday night just to finish the whole HK series. I ended up sleeping at 6am on saturday and didn't wake up till noon.

Didn't sleep much on saturday night as well bcos of the Liverpool vs A.Villa match at midnight.

by then, my bio clock was terribly screwed up. I thot I'll be able to make up for it by waking up early sunday morning, study whole day, and then sleep early for my paper on monday. I was wrong...

I was feeling terrible when I woke up this morning with a running nose and with the feeling you'll normally get when you have hay fever. It's most probably due to the lack of sleep, 火气上身.

I didn't manage to do much study in the end. Went for a rest after lunch and woke up for dinner, still feeling terrible and sneezy. I've got no choice but to force myself to start doing some revision, if not I'll definitely fail even though the paper isn't hard.

Sigh... stupid me. I will not screw myself this way again.

phew...

the bulk of the exam are finally over, leavin' me with onli three more papers to go. they should be pretty easy paper, if not i wont be doing any updating now.

the last few days have been a struggle, especially so when trying to read the lecture notes for the first time.

out of the 6 subjects, i was onli worried about 2. both them seemed so stranger to me. sometimes i can spend hours sitting in the library pondering over the same problems over and over again... scratch leg... pull hair... walk a round (sometimes a few rounds)... all sorts of weird techniques come out but still clueless. at times like these, only friendship can save me from fallin' further...

now, finally can relax a bit. at least dont hafta carry a book everywhere i go.