First driving lesson today!

Was pretty nervous of course, but when I put my foot to the pedal, it wasn't exactly the first time I did it. I had a realistic dream about driving on tuesday night and driving today was... not so much stepping into an unknown world, it was rediscovering a place I left long ago :)

Don't know what affinity I have with driving, but it felt good to be in the driving seat, again.

I went with private lessons and the thought of driving on the open road right away brought a certain level of apprehension of course. But the uncle had his hand on the wheel when I was making turns and bends, so my main worry of under/over turning wasn't a problem. I'm definitely quite blur and stoned, looking at the mirrors kinda messes up my mind haha.. and once I forgot to turn when the green arrow came up. Lucky my driving uncle is patient and nice :) Everything was spoonfed to me nicely and I really enjoyed it :)

He speaks chinese though! Urgh and sometimes I appear to be really stupid when he asks me some questions and I can't answer cos I don't know the chinese words for it. I told him at the end of the lesson that my chinese is really bad (in an attempt to salvage my intelligence), and he said that his students' chinese surely improve after the lessons, haha.

He comes with tons of analogies to describe stuff like obedience, teachability and foresight. The thing to remember when learning from him is he doesn't want students to ask ahead, just listen to what he says now, and follow, step by step. For this, he told me a story about this teacher calling in to the radio station and asked 'which of these 4 students do teachers like to teach the most?'

smart and creative
smart and uncreative
not smart and creative
not smart and not creative

The teacher said he likes to teach smart and uncreative students, presumably because they can understand easily yet are easier to handle? (no cheem questions that you can't answer) If I were a teacher, I beg to differ, would still prefer the smart and creative student... But in this case his intention was to tell me to be smart in understanding instructions, but not to be smart-alecky and ask ahead. Which I did abit at first, thus the need for all these long-winded stories haha.

For the purpose of driving, I shall be an obedient and step-by-step person, cos according to him, that's the best way to learn it :)

And good thing it was a bright sunny day today! I wouldn't have fancied driving in the rain. The sun shone on and on all afternoon, it was too good not to go for a swim. I did 30 laps! Broken into 4 times... still find swimming on and on a little boring, so I needed to stop after every 7-8 laps to look at all the eye candy around me.. lol. The sky was so blue today, I stared at it till I saw stars. Sky so blue, and clouds so white, absolutely beautiful..

Oh well but I must have eaten more than any exercise can burn off today though, let's not go into details. I think I have a psychological eating disorder, even borrowed a book from the library that could help. We'll see.

A happy day :)

Plans or possibilities for next week... cycling at pasir ris park, blading at east coast park, swimming, driving lesson, trip to library, go to bukit timah nature reserve/labrador park...