Btw, this is a very long post. You have been warned!

Before i go on jabbering about the end of this chapter, i just have a few updates:)

1. I got my driving license with a whooping 8 points! could have gotten four but i forgot to down gear on the slope coming back to BBDC.
2. I got 5 A’s and a B+ this semester
3. Made it into Roll of honors with is always a good thing.
4. This brings my total up to 12 A’s which means that i will be graduating with a diploma with distinction. WooHoo!!

Somewhere after my birthday last year i went to enroll at BBDC to take my driving license. I was somewhat scared and very much nervous that i would be the kind of person who was excellent at theoretical stuff but cannot make it at practical’s. Guess what? I was right! I started driving exactly 6 month ago. My PDL expires today, and that how i know it was exactly 6 months ago. I don’t really remember most of my instructors. But Somewhere in June, thank god for the early booking’s i made, I started to get my group instructors. If my memory doesn’t fail me, it was Kunalan who i got first. The moment i saw an Indian name there i was like ‘aiyooo’.  Contrary to what i believed, that was the start of having awesome instructors for the next 3 months. At that point my driving was still, no other words to describe, SHITE! I had a few instructors whose teaching ill never forget.

Akbar Ali, Kunalan, Eusoff and Nazeer.

Raja and Raj i didn’t have too often. And nothing thattttt eventful happen. Hahaha. They were really great too either way.

Nazeer was a really really awesome instructor. I tell you, listening to his comments, even i felt my driving improve! He’s really motivating, and i can definitely say he’s a very skilled instructor. But i only had most of his lessons towards the end. Which is actually good because i basically did a lot of fine tuning with his help. I think he was the only instructor i still have manam’s with. Hopefully. Except for the point when he told me about lateral and vertical lane change. And i was like ‘huh? got two type of lane change?’ Two days before my test. sigh.

Eusoff. Haiz. I got no manams left.( like no more face left la). He was a combination instructor! HAHA! ok, i mean like he’s a really good instructor whose strict , focus and yet funny also. I’ll never forget him because he was the first every instructor i cried with! yes people, like i said, no face left. (it gets worse btw). Well What happen was that i kept forgetting to change gear. So he kept pushing it to neutral. At one point , the car made a such loud grinding sound that i panicked! So i changed gear and thenn i started tearing. Then by the time he realized and asked, i started sobbing. a lot. I tried laughing but that came out a sob too! And I think he panicked too! haha. I mean how often do you come across a girl who at that point seems like she’s sobbing for no apparent reason. But yeah. He was nice about it. That wasn’t the reason my manam’s flew away. It was because dear Eusoff, went and told the other instructors about it. It took forever for them to stop making fun of that la. But for one thing, if i ever drive a manual car again, I swear I’ll never forget to change gear:P.

Kunalan was one of my fav instructors too! He was one of the instructors i got rather often. He didd scold me a lot because i didd do a lot of stupid things. haha. But he has a nice system. He’ll scold, then he’d say something nice so that you don’t feel too bad. In a way his way of teaching helped. I mean I didn’t do any of those mistakes during the test at all. Which is awesome. He was one of the instructors i could talk non stop to! You could complain about anything to him and he’d say something to cheer you up and not make the whole thing seem so bad. I think my last lesson with Kunalan, I was making a lot of silly mistakes! Like i just had no control over what i was doing. I think it was the panic that the test was so near! But I got really sad and then i got scared then I'd fail. And then what do you think Hema did. Yes. she started crying. again. Its painful you know. I just want to roll my eyes at myself. :/

Akbar Ali was like my own personal instructor! I don’t know why, but i almost always got his lessons! Which is actually very good also because he was an awesome instructor. He would always start the lesson very seriously, then after explaining to me what we’re supposed to do, then he’ll start crapping. HAHA. He was funny. The stories he would share would keep me laughing till my rib cage hurt. I could ask him extremely random questions and he wouldn’t laugh and he would actually answer them. Okay maybe sometimes he might give a lame answer but he’d almost always tell the truth after that. Like for example, did you know that motorbikes had horns? i didn’t. Till he answered my question that is. He never scolded me. But i know he was probably doing mental eye rolls at all my stupid things. He likes to think that I cried in his lessons cause he thinks ‘I look at you, already you start crying’ . NOT TRUE OKAY! Just happens, that I was stressed in those lessons.

Basic point is that these people may have just been the instructors who taught me driving. But they were also people who shared experiences, gave me knowledge and molded me in some form or another. They may have only been in my life to teach me how to work a car but I’ve learnt from them how to talk and not to be afraid of how i feel.( i mean come on! I cried like 4 times la). They gave me confidence and have taught me that although there is a line between people, we don’t have to be rigid about it!

As i close this 6 month long chapter, I close it with lots of love, gratitude, skill(they definitely will be glad to hear it) and memories. loads and loads of it. =)

p.s, I did warn you’ll that this would be long long post:P.