Car-free Day

Sincerely thanks jane for the timely reminder posted on the comment box. I have been taking my job too hard lately that I forgot to enjoy it. For the past month, whenever i reach home esp at nite, the first thing which i wud do is to check my work mail. I dun really call it stress. I duno how to call it. I havent got the time and chance to sort out my own feelings towards it. But i know for sure i have forgotten to enjoy my work/life lately.

I have decided to declare tommorow a 'car-free' day. In other words, I will not be driving tommorow. Firstly becos of the high parking charges in town area (tmr nusbsa agm at raffles place). Secondly due to some internal warnings tat i shldnt drive tmr.

Whenever i was driving and my dad as the passenger, he wud complain abt my slow driving. But on rainy days, it wud be a total contrary, and he wud constantly nag at me to slow down. Reason being : Braking is not effective on wet roads and the car will spin in circles if the gripe is not strong. I always take his words v lightly, as all the prev cars owned by my dad were big cars, with powerful braking systems. But this van obviously doesn belong to that category.

This evening was raining and i was driving towards Chinatown at a moderate speed. The car ahead of me took an abrupt halt at the traffic junction, and i immediately applied my brakes too. My van did slow down significantly but becos the rear wheels were still in spin, in addition to the great reduction of friction due to the wet road surfaces, my vehicle rear began to swerve slightly towards the right behind taking another strong and forceful throw towards the left. I lost control of my vehicle with the front wheels acting jus like the pivot of the spin. Fortunately, i was mindful in time to swerve the steering wheel to keep the vehicle in lane, otherwise, i wud have been hit by the vehicles coming from my rear right.

Besides this freaking incident, I nearly create an accident at a major road junction by the National Library. I was trying to make a right turn at the cross junction when i thot a veh on the opp lane was trying to make a left turn. As such, i proceed to drive across the junction, only to discover tat the veh wanted to go straight! Once again, i was fortunate to brake in time... it was really MY mistake.

My legs became soft after these 2 narrow shaves. I decided to keep my day free of car tmr. And i realise i havent been riding on the MRT since 2005?