Sunday, November 21, 2004

Once you get hold of that driving license, getting lost takes on a whole new meaning.

Liz bought herself a car and wasted no time in getting lost, she claimed it took her a whole hour to get from Orchard to Marina. These days she's more familiar with Orchard so if she wish to get to anywhere in Singapore, we would see her travelling to Orchard before she can start navigating herself to the desired destination. To me this is an improvement, at least the woman is able to find her bearing once she hit the familar town streets.
Tonight is my virgin experience letting her drive me home. A common friend Wen, who had prior experience warned me "You cant talk to her while she's driving. Just keep very very quiet...I almost fell asleep that time...." she recounted miserably.
I made a mental note: Keep very quiet, Talk only when absolute necessary. e.g: "Watch Out!" or "What did we hit??" finally "Arrrrgh!! We're gonna Die!".


Anyway the Moment arrived. Wen and myself told Liz we're ready to go home. Liz became very quiet then suddenly announced she gotta pee and hurried away. We were all convinced she's damn nervous.

I'm typing this blog on my own PC in my cosy HDB bedroom so hey...it's not that bad afterall. There wasnt a need to utter those lines above, we were even able to hold a decent conversation about the kind of songs she burned on her CD. In fact I think she's a pretty darn steady driver this is besides the fact that she has a scary habit of turning Right from the Left lane.
I had my share of getting lost and I'm most afraid of big towns which distinguishes its roads with numbers: Avenue 1, Avenue 2, bcos numbers dont make much of an impression to me and I get lost easily when surrounded by too many numbers.
Common ones to see are: Avenue (insert numeric) , Lorong (insert numeric), Drive (numeric) and Street (numeric).
Just wondering are there such things like " Ang Mo Kio Avenue 9 Street 65 " ?
How about " Ang Mo Kio Drive 6 Lorong 9 Avenue 2 Street 65?

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