Tuesday, February 13, 2007
So I drove, with my sister hitching a ride... We went down to Sim Lim to pick the monitor, and came away with a new monitor, new keyboard and new power supply.. lol... Talk about future proofing... Wahaha...
Traffic there was bad, as usual... Sim Lim's carpark was still FULL, but yet ppl kept wanting to go in and try their luck... I decided to park at Burlington, more ex, but at least I got a space in like 2 mins.. lol...
After getting everything and throwing it in the trunk, we walked to Bugis... and next time, during a weekend, DO NOT use the crossing opposite Bugis Village... It was so damn packed cos some SMART guy decided that there wasn't a need to make the traffic lights on both sides of the road coincide... Like duh~... Such high volume of human traffic and you dun let them cross the road completely, all of them got stuck on the centre divider... Like it was NYE party or something... literally cannot move an inch...
Took 3 changes of the traffic light to cross... and apparently, even the train was bad... Callie told me she had to skip 3 trains to get from the north line to city hall cos they were all packed, and THEN, skip another 2 trains to get to bugis cos it was packed as well... Sheesh... Wat's with bugis ppl???
Ran into Xu zi there too... so I drove 3 of us down to kallang, avoiding the road at bugis, taking beach road instead... Hahaha... but we were still kinda late... slight jam... Hai... if the government is gonna consider having 6.5mil people in Singapore. PLS CONSIDER WIDENING THE ROADS FIRST!!!
Chingay practice was kinda boring... waited quite a while for things to get going... and we ended around 9 plus... Left after everything ended, once Pat said he had nothing for us anymore, I packed up and left... Damn hungry... lol...
I ended up at Prinsep with Nic... cos I told her I'd bring her for seesha... hehe... So we just stoned there watching soccer and talking about general things... Hehe... Oh yeah... I have yet to get pics from her... Nic!! I want the pics!! Lol...
Drove her back to her place, and took a very nice drive all the way home... Why very nice? Cos it was just me, in the car... radio on, clear roads... and a slightly heavy right foot... Ahaha... After all... I had to top up the tank when I got the car... previous owner left only 2 bars in the indicator, way below 3/4 tank... when I went to pump, it was 28l empty!! Luckily the fuel is paid for by the company... Hehe...
Anyway, yeah... had a nice chat and good company on the way to Serangoon to drop Nic off, then took Jln Eunos all the way back to Bedok... Had fun pushing the car a bit too... Hehe... Late at night, it was around 1am by then... Hehe... not many cars on the road... my right foot got a bit heavy... Hee...
But I just love it... The freedom you get from just driving... and nothing else... you're safely coccooned in this metallic shell that prevents everything else from getting at you... When I'm driving alone, all I care about is, me, the car and the road I'm driving on... Everything else just melts away... It also helps me to do some pondering and such... If I had my own car, everytime I felt shitty, or had things mulling in my mind, I'd just take the car, and drive... Don't really need to have any real destination... just the drive is enough...
Some ppl feel that cars sometimes overcompensate for something the person lacks... To me, the car is an extension of myself... Where I want to go, it goes... guess thats why I won't be satisfied with an underpowered car... its has got to go where I want it to, when I want it to, at the speed I want it to go...
I'll never get sick of driving... just that feeling of calm, that freedom you get when you drive... it just can't be described by any one word... Be it 60 on normal roads, or 100+ on expressways... I'll always enjoy it... The whole week I just felt myself waiting for the time when I could drive again... and when my sis and I went to get the car, I could feel myself quicken my pace, widen my strides, just so I could get to the car asap, get behind the wheel and start the engine...
I picked up my sis for supper later that night too... after I dropped off my stuff at home, she changed and we went for supper nearby before returning the car... Although I did feel a pang of disappointment at not being able to drive anymore, I was actually satisfied that I HAD driven... Satisfied that I had managed to experience the freedom and joy of driving...
It's really... The Drive of My Life... =)
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