I Passed!!! :)

Thank You Lord. Thank You for constantly showering the blessings of my life upon me when i don't deserve it.
Lord, i thank you for giving me this chance to drive and with this license, may i bring more joy and help to your community. May i use the gift that you have given to me to be a blessing to others. Lord, thank You for being with me throughout the whole test, giving me peace and assurance.

Thank You for letting me pass my driving test. All honour and glory belongs to You.



The day started out scary. Sky loomed grey and it actually started to rain when i was driving my warm up. Circuit warming up was not bad except for directional change. Instructor said to pay more attention to it coz today i seemed to be turning the wheel more frantically. so go slower and pay attention to the unconscious signs and signals i'm giving while driving.
After i got my tester and route, i got in the car and the circuit went flawlessly. Thank God coz the 'starting on a hill' [which is my most unconfident part] was the first... that went well, didn't roll back at all, jus went straight up, controlled and calm. The rest of the circuit went according to plan, no glitches whatsoever. Once i got onto the road, i was already really happy inside coz i cleared the circuit.

The road section was interesting. There was a point in time jus after coming out of the circuit where i wondered whether i was on the right lane... coz he said go forward at the traffic light... and i was on the left lane [slow cars wad]... then i was like.. OH CRAP. wait a minute, the lane i'm on now... can go forward or not? or issit a left turn lane? then i was like... man man man!!!!.. then the cars in front of me started driving off... forward! YAY. aha.. so there was no mistake there.

I came to a hump at the later part of the day and i slowed down but apparently not enuf coz when we went over it, the tester leaned forward and backwards like some rocking chair [so spastik lor]... and i knew i'd get points deducted for that... no matter. To cut it all short, when i went back to the test circuit, i parked and followed the tester up but i managed to give a thumbs up to my instructor before i disappeared into the building. After he sat me down and showed me all the mistakes i made [3]... he ticked passed. WAH! i tell you, the feeling was like a volcano erupting inside... i was so happy. :) relieved la. coz i got points deducted for 3 things.

1. Early Clutching [apparently when i E braked, i stepped on the clutch first instead of the brake] i think that's nonsense coz my technique was correct. whatever!
2. Never slow down enuf at the hump.
3. Turn into wrong lane. [which is true too la. i was turning right and went to lane 2 [left lane] so i'll admit, that was wrong. i should have turned to the right lane then filtered left]

yeh so all in all, 12 points. :) great la! i was so happy. got out and called my instructor straight away. He said after he heard who i got as a tester, he knew i'd pass coz my tester wasn't so ngiao... jus make sure i did the normal stuff like check blind spots and all. :) so yayz. haha made my license and then headed to camp.

yarh.. then to cut a long day short, i graduated today from Driving School AND Section Commander Course. so effectively today, i am a driver and a section commander. wowz. big day huh? hahah... sad thing is, course is over... so tml must go back to unit. sighz. haha. and i heard we're going to OT on wednesday. yayz. what a start.

heh. so great day. and it's not over yet. going to meet some YAFers outside for prata in... half an hour's time. haha. yup. great feeling now! :) heh

11hours

11 hours till i have my driving test.

it's funny. it's only now that i'm really thinking of it and getting a bit scared. here i was saying it's not a problem. i have full confidence and telling people that the more you think about it, the more stressed up you'll be.

and yet, i can't seem to follow my advice. scary la.. but i am fighting internally to turn my thots somewhere else... jus so i won't think of it and get stressed. it's jus another driving lesson. jus another time on the road. no biggie. test or no test... no biggie. come on Rui... it's not a big deal.

so the next post you'll get from me will be either titled I PASSED!!!! or I FAILED! :(
heh... catch you then. Pray for me, those who see this post before 9.15am 24th Sept. thank you so very much. i appreciate it tremendously.

To God be the Glory!

One more lesson till TP test

Wow... i had my driving lesson last nite and it was one of the best lessons ever. Didn't make any mistakes in the circuit. actually, it was really almost faultless. I'm not trying to make it sound good, but you must know i haven't had a faultless lesson in circuit before so this is a big thing. :)

anyways, the road was good too. made a mistake though... turned a bit too early and had to stop for a pedestrian in the middle of the road. but i learn from that. :) i met an amber light but managed to stop nicely too... so that lesson really was an encouragement to me.

As i was telling jodi online... i just really really want to pass. I really don't wanna fail. but i know that if it's in His plans for me to fail or pass, it'll come to pass and i'll have to not only learn to accept it but to praise God in it. :)

but yeh, i wanna pass. hahaha.

Then i can drive people around, drive the wonderful honda fit and maybe let my parents get off the wheel a bit more.. driving is stressful and it's not good for them to be so stressed up. :)
Whatever it is, 3 more days to next driving lesson and 5 MORE DAYS till TP test.

One week till endofcourse and tptest

I've got a week left of my course. A week till my course ends and gives me rank and pay. A week till i have to go back to my unit and expect to be able to lead well as a 2ic for my section. A week till people start to look up to me for decisions and for guidance.

A week is too fast to be true. I dun really want the course to end neither do i want the bonds to disappear. I pray that in a week's time, everything will have run it's course and that it'll all work out. That things will fall into place and that these 5 weeks on course were good, useful and beneficial.

The course was great. so fun and so memorable. I just came back from an exercise in Tekong that made me do foot topo-ing for about 15-20km. :) shag like shit. haha... but it was great. an experience i'll never be able to have again [or i hope so at least]

A week till i take my driving license traffic police test. A week left to stuff all the lessons i can. A week till my instructor knows whether he has another first time pass or a repeat student.

anyhows, i pray that whatever happens, that i'll be safe and that i'll learn from it. whether i pass or fail right now isn't impt. more so whether i take it seriously and whether it's in God's good timing coz frankly, i'd rather fail and obey Him than to pass and face His wrath later.

This week isn't small, it's quite big actually.

On Exercise

Hi guys, booking in now. However, this weekend, i'm only booking out on sunday afternoon and booking back in on monday afternoon so prob no time to blog and stuff. so i'll see you guys whenever la yeh? :) Take care of yourselves!

10th Sept - Monday [book in]
16th Sept - Sunday afternoon [book out]
17th Sept - Monday afternoon [book in]

Bad start of the day

Oh man, i'm having a real bad day... started out bad i guess. I woke up, [early.. thankfully] but woke up quite tired... then my network was down... so had to fix it, my mouse spoiled too and then get ready for driving. Goodness. It was raining... so i ran a bit in the rain.
Met him outside my guardhouse and took over from there. drove to eunos area and i was feeling quite good about it all... driving was smooth, felt quite comfortable and not tense or anything... felt almost second nature.

Then we got into the circuit and my first mistake was the slope [as always]... couldn't really get the correct biting point... ended up having the car slide back a bit.. which isn't an immediate failure.. but minus points la.. so i have to watch out for that one on my test date...
Anyways, to wrap the whole lesson up [coz i really dun wanna think about it again], i drove quite badly today. stalled SO MANY times la. i normally dun stall la. so dunno why today so jia lat. then there was a point in time that i had to E-brake [or well, my instructor did] coz i was almost gonna turn a junction and there was this dumb cyclist who was crossing really slowly. I couldn't jus turn coz then i'll get stuck in the center of a junction while i wait for him to cycle across. so
i had to stop at the turn to wait for him. But i wasn't prepared to stop, so when he braked for me i was like, oh man! haha.. sighz...

yeh.. anyways, after that, went to my aunt's house to fix her com. ended up fixing it really easily but then she said that since i was there to look at her printer. dunno why cannot print. spend like 1 and a half hours or 1 hour trying to figure out how come the printer doesn't communicate with the laptop. installed drivers and uninstalled them... did everything i thot possible. but in the end, i had to leave and tell her i couldn't. haiz that was frustrating and discouraging. an addition to my already bad day.

yeh so here i am. blogging bout it before i leave for yf. and it's like my day jus started. sigh... it jus means it can turn out worse... we'll see.

good news though. i'm working on a song i wrote last nite out of inspiration due to a friend... i've got the whole song out liao [lyrics took a bit longer to write then my tune]... but it was all done in maybe 2 hours max? aha so cool la. recorded my bridge and chorus liao. so will work on a tune for the verse... when it's all done.. i might jus post it up. see how. :) hehe.. cool stuff. writing songs are cool.

p.s. hope your day is better than mine.

Bored and Empty

I think i'm going thru PMS again... OH OH I MEAN UMMM... :) haha. dunno la. the past week i've been feeling quite down and empty. the thing is, there's nothing specific bugging me. jus this omnious cloud floating above me head. couldn't really get very joyful the past weekend for some unknown reason. thot it'll be over once i book back into camp... but i realized that it's kinda still having a toil on me.

Today, kept fighting to stay awake in class... dunno why i'm tired coz i slept relatively early last nite and stuff. dunno la. i think i'll jus tuck in early for the night and hope tomolo's not as tiring. :) My mind's been kinda playin with me again. hoping for things that aren't there and getting disappointed when things really aren't there. :S I just sumtimes wish i could either speed up time or jus not feel at all. helps in so many ways. :S

Yeh, so i'm sitting here in the lab, trying to unload into this blog but yet i've got nothing much to say. just need to be content in the position God has placed me, try not to seek for personal gains and stop desiring for things that i'm not ready for.

I gotta keep telling myself... Singlehood's not that bad and I don't need a GF to worship and love God. :) Told that to myself a while back, guess i just gotta keep saying it till it's part of me.

"All of me, why not take all of me. can't you see, i'm no good without you." From the song "All of Me by John Stevens. Don't ask why, it was running in my head since i started this entry.

Honda Fit

It finally came. after waiting for wad? 6 plus months? since feb or march... :) so yayz. haha it's my main motivation now to pass. :) i've got 2 reasons why i wanna pass my driving test and this is one of them. look at the beauty of it all. Pearl White. Even the number plate is nice. :) anyhows, it's a normal honda fit but with Mugen body kit. you should see the back of the car, it's beautiful. The bottom part of car is the best. The spoiler isn't too big to be obnoxious... it's jus nice. and there's a nice sticker on the spoiler that says 'MUGEN POWER'... fwah le mah! HAHA. :) anyways, i love it and it loves me. :) 3 more weeks till my TP test day... let's pray i pass. heh