I went to Taiwan with JM and John from 14th May to 24th May. We took Scoot which cost about $360 per person to and fro from Singapore to Taiwan. I'll post a more detailed itinerary... Probably.
After Taiwan, I had non-stop driving lessons. I completed 6 lessons in 4 days. Crazy right. I'm learning to drive manual cars, meaning I have to manually shift gears and what not. I can't coordinate so many things at the same time. Really isn't easy. @_@
Plus, I have never driven a car before in my entire life, and suddenly I'm having 2 lessons per day. My left leg was shaking by the end of the week from constantly depressing the clutch haha... I'm not an exercise person. I improved a lot though! I went from can't even start the car nor steer to driving on the road and everything. So nervous to drive on the road, especially when there're a lot of gigantic trucks. I'm really short. I can't even see beyond regular cars.
I signed up for ComfortDelGro school lessons. You have to pay ~ 100 bucks to start an account where you get a number of e-trials for your Basic Theory Test and Final Theory Test. The waiting time to book these tests is about 2 months. You can only book your FTT after you passed your BTT. Then you can only book your driving test to get your license after you pass your FTT. So in total from signing up to getting your actual license is at least 6 months, and you have to squeeze about 24 driving lessons in between (varies for each person), and each lesson costs $65 for weekday lessons and $75 for weekend lessons. Driving is not cheap.
Another option is to get a private driving instructor instead (which is arguably cheaper), but I opted for the school because of the 'free' e-trials and their pool of instructors. If you hired a completely incompatible private instructor, you are screwed.
I'm currently learning from CDC's 'common pool' of instructors. There are some good ones, some awesome ones, and of course there are some that just waste your time (and 70 bucks!!). Really depends on luck in the end.
You can also opt for 'one team' instructors so you just stick to those few instructors throughout. The good side is that they know you better and can better monitor your progress. Bad part is that it costs 'a bit' more $$$. You can assign a team, but I don't think it's useful because I don't know the instructors and with my luck, I might've ended up with a COMPLETELY incompatible team.
Ok, so right now I'm currently working at a 4-day event at Marina Bay Sands with Dog, Ger, Val and Pig.Today was the first day and we (dog, ger, me) didn't have ANYTHING to do because we are part timers and only had to deal with event stuff. Pig and Val are full timers and they had a lot of things to do haha~
So we just surfed the internet the entire day and get paid to do so. BEST JOB EVER.
We were so bored that we started chatting on facebook and we came up with the following story.
Presenting... Untitled.
A story of true love, betrayal, determination, extraterrestrials, coloured skin, cannibalism, metamorphosis, freedom, comedy and nonsense. Written on Facebook messages. The masterpiece of 31th May 2014, presented in its raw, unedited form. *Every line is a different author*
*the ( ) is us chatting*
Once upon, a time there was a girl called yj
and a boy named K
they were childhood sweethearts
And they lived happily ever after
or so everyone around them said
The end
(YOU SPOIL SPORT
not the end yet
-continue-)
*Sequel*
but one day, something terrible happened that tore them apart
She found a new love called L
yj was so sad tat she cried all day long
Her tears turned into a magical fountain
She felt bad for betraying K, but couldnt' tell anyone. One fine day when yj and L were frolicking in a flower field
the magical fountain flooded the areas ard it
forming an impenetrable moat
(Walao so chim)
Yj and L were stuck on the flower island!
(Awesome)
yj and L had no choice but to eat flowers for the rest of their lives
(Whut)
At first, YJ was really happy because she could stay with L for as long as she wanted without feeling guilty over K (HAHAHA WHAT)
But yj couldn't take eating no meat
and when they drank from the water from the magical fountain, they turned into magical, neon green cows
(omg i laughing to myself now)
and lived happily ever after
(later ppl tink i siao)
eating flowers. Yj couldn't stand not eating meat so she decided her stomach was more important than love, so she ate L. One cow ate the other cow. WHAT A SIGHT! And when K came looking for her a few weeks later, she was so hungry she tried to eat him too
(and she ate him too? Hahahaha.)
but alas, he escaped after being bitten by her
and found a new love
thus started the mad Cow Disease
which spread to all parts of the world. haiz
(hahahaha
interesting story. potential story writers)
But he kissed her accidentally. By true loves kiss she turned back into human
but her skin remained neon green so she walked around, glowing green for the rest f her life. All alone, because she tried to eat her true love
like a green alien
the US government had to lock her up in Area 51 to prevent any conspiracies
But there was this one man who finds her very interesting
(ARE WE STILL CONTINUING
Ok
story so long ah haha)
So he visited her almost everyday
He was brightly coloured, just like her
but in the end he got caught too
His skin was a striking hot pink (hahaha what)
Their cell was next to each other
And they had to be locked up in very separate cells. She missed him, because he made her feel less abnormal. He made her feel like she belonged. The wall between their cells was so thick, they didn't know they were right beside each other.
But somehow she knew the man was near her. So she tried many futile ways to check where he was.
She pounded and pounded on the thick wall
and kicked and kicked
She almost broke down
when suddenly, the wall cracked
Yj:" what what happen?"
Hot pink colour shined through the crack and she knew, he was near
(i can't continue hahahaha.i will laugh out loud n madly)
Suddenly this power inside her surged up. She banged her weak fist on the wall. The wall cracked even more
(hahaha -colleague- alrd thinks im crazy)
n the whole prison collapsed (hahaha i tink the girl beside me tinks im mad too)
She thought to herself omg this building must be so old. Yucks
The two lovers ran into each other's arms while thick rubble fell on their heads, but they refused to be daunted by serious head injuries. So when they left the prison, they each had half a brain left. But they thought, it's alright, two halves make a whole.
(what hahaha) however they became stupider due to half a brain left.
-the abrupt end-
*Thank you for reading this ridiculously long story*
