Singapore Drivers(Majority)...%#$%&*%@#$%
I have 3 cars in my house, my dad's, my bro's & my sis's. My sis does not drive to work so I use hers during office hours. Referring to the draft, I tried to move my sis's car out to the gate. The driving logic is to reverse to the right(step 1) and move forward to the back of my bro's car(step 2). My rusty logic wanted to move forward to the right(step 3) and reverse the car(step 4) out to the gate. That is totally impossible!!! I realized my illogical approach while I was attempting step 4. How embrassing...all the car owners came and laughed at me.
In the process of re-learning the skill, the style tends to change. That is what happened to me. In the past, I was always rushing, seldom used indicator lights, braked at the last moments...etc. Simply put that, I did not drive that safely especially when I was alone. Now, I am not rushing anymore. I notice that I am more relax while driving. When that happens, there are more time to think of using the indicator lights and brakes early.
On 2nd thought, this could also due to the influence of Aussie lifestyle or just plain simple 'aging'. Further thinking, this could be due to the lack of confidence in my skill. I wonder if I would switch back to my old self after I honed my skill back to where it was.
Here comes the reason of this post's title. I have been searching for any websites that list down all the shopping centres' parking rates in SG as I heard that the rates are getting higher(eg. per 1/2 hour) and there are lesser and lesser flat rates(per entry). During my search, I came across an 'Xpat Xperience' website. It is a website about living in SG wrote by 'Xpat'. The page I found is about SG traffic, I could not help but laugh out loud after reading it. Quote 'Indicators are virtually never used in Singapore'. I totally agreed as I was in that catergory in the past and you will be able to observe more when you are driving slower than others.
posted by Estan @ 3:37:00 PM (GMT+08:00).
