Passed my driving test yesterday! I’m super happy because this means that I won’t need to go to Ubi again for driving lessons!
And I’ll get to drive my dad’s car around Singapore rather than just around Ubi (and all the test routes).
Actually, I was so nervous about the test that I couldn’t get enough sleep the night before. I went to bed at around 11.45 and finally fell asleep at around 3? D: Then, on the way to Ubi for my warm-up drive, I got stuck in a traffic jam. -.- So I was late for my warm-up, but my instructor didn’t complain since I’d informed him beforehand and it’s my money, anyway. Sigh. It was raining as well, which made me feel even more nervous…
Before the test, all the people taking the test (Class 3/3A) had to assemble in a room to wait for the examiner to call our names. And I met Lydia and Sin Hui there! O_O 3 Dunmanians taking the test in the same timeslot! I can only say that we had good chemistry to choose the same day and time for the test. XD
It took me only a little while in the circuit, and I was there thinking, “Eh? We completed the circuit already?! That’s fast…” But that was probably because I usually repeat the different portions of the circuit? After the circuit, I drove to somewhere near Eunos station (the part where there was a U-turn) and did a U-turn there. On the way there, I was thinking that I was going on another road trip. XD Because I usually go on long drives with my instructor… All the way to Tampines and sometimes close to Kovan. Hehheh. After that, I drove past the place where I’d usually turn right to go back to the driving centre… I thought I’d be going to some other place, but the examiner told me to do a right turn at the next junction, and we went back to the driving centre.
During the entire drive, I didn’t dare to look at the examiner who kept tapping away at his tablet. >< Anyway, I was led to the second floor and told to wait there (he was printing the results). When he told me to enter the room, he scolded me for following behind the bus when I wasn’t even driving the bus (failure to change lane when necessary?) and for checking my blind spot wrongly. Yes, he was really scolding me. -.- But what I was actually thinking was, “So did I pass?”, because I’d gotten a glimpse of the paper and it seemed like I only had a few 4s and 2s (points deducted, I mean). Anyway, he grudgingly told me that I’d passed after he’d scolded me thoroughly.
In any case, I still passed! A pass is still a pass even if it’s a perfect score or one that’s a borderline pass. Muahahahahaha~ And so, it’s a PASS!!!!!!
When I was waiting for my turn to apply for the license, I saw Lydia, who went for her test later than me and came back earlier than me. -.- It seemed like she’d only gone one round around the school! No wonder she was so fast. Sigh. And Sin Hui went all the way to Paya Lebar Road. XD
We waited around for Sin Hui, who took a long time to come back from her test and then to apply for her license, and then headed down to the video room to view the video about road safety, which included rather gruesome pictures of road accident victims. That really freaked me out. D:
Anyway, I smsed Yufen (who was wishing me luck for the test) and my family that I passed. Everyone congratulated me except my father, who replied with a “Good”. Yeah, without the full-stop. XD I was rather shocked at the response. XDDD Because he’ll usually say “Ok”… Haha. I guess he was just too lazy to type in Chinese?
My instructor came back to meet me after I told him that I’d passed to collect his payment, and he told me to introduce students to him. Haha~ So if anyone needs a private driving instructor, you can ask me and I’ll give you his contact details.
And then, Nicole told me that she was taught by my instructor yesterday! Haha~ I wonder how she knew that he was my instructor? But I suppose he was probably happy that I’d passed and told his students that day that I’d passed and showed them a copy of my results or something? XD That’s the only explanation I can come up with…
After that, I was supposed to meet XH at Pasir Ris and set off to Plaza Singapura from there, but I decided to invite Sin Hui along at the last minute and we ended up going straight there. Hehheh. As usual, XH was late… But I’d already expected it, so it was a good thing that Sin Hui was with me. We decided to look for a place to eat first and ended up at Hot Tomato. XH joined us a while later. The food there was pretty nice~ And the service was fast too! Hehheh. And I was super hungry since I ate breakfast at around 8 am and my test was at 10.15 am. (Lydia and Sin Hui were rather amused that I kept telling them I was hungry even before the test started.)
The three of us walked around the place, and we went into Daiso since XH needed to buy some things from there. Sin Hui was rather amazed at how knowledgeable XH was about household chores. X’D We walked to this shop on the top floor where space (in boxes) was rented out to people who wanted to sell their things without opening a shop. Sin Hui was so facinated by this moss ball thing (I can’t remember the actual name, but it was a Japanese one and had three syllables) that she decided to buy a bottle home! :O We also walked down to the fish shop (aquarium shop?) where fishes were sold to let Sin Hui have an idea of what kind of fish she wanted to buy.
At the end of the trip, my feet were really aching (and I nearly fell asleep at Starbucks where we rested for a while). Haha. So XH and I decided to return home and rest.
Hmm. Nothing much happened after that, so I shall conclude my post here and go eat my dinner~ ^^