My Blog - Judy Wong

I thought I could make it. I was riding down the Clear Water Bay Road at 70 kph the weekend before. My worry was the figure-8 on slope, but I freakly practiced for ten odd hours just within the weekend before the test. For that, I felt the 80% chance of passing.

In the morning I went to the driving school with a Smiling Face stuck on my tummy. At least I won’t get menstruation pain after a full breakfast. The rest of the guys have already left to the “water bar” – the secret figure-8 practicing area. A senior brought me there a few days before. I took my joy ride with a new bike to the “water bar”, curiously found no one there, did my figure-8 with a crash, broke the side mirror, and came back to the test centre 1 hr before the test after fixing the mirror in driving school.

And for the test, yep I flew out of the bike again doing the figure-8. I raced back to the test centre overtaking 2-3 testing vehicle. Nah, there was only 1 major mistake – losing balance in figure-8 balancing. Nothing else was serious and I did it within the speed limit.

Coach comforted me saying that I was only nervous. I was a good driver anyway. But well who cares now, I can still buy a bike to ride on the road now saves the points that I need to pay a higher insurance, no driving a peak hour and no going up to the highway.

At 12pm I realized that the "water bar" I went was not the actual place. The senior got it wrong, and I was practicing at at time-restricted learner-prohibited area.

Yep it has been some time since I last wrote here. The “lastest” update was that I got a “proper” job at a “proper” company, happy with it (then), and was busy involving in the job adaptation and house-moving. Oh ya, boxes of my stuff are still in a corner of my 200-sq-ft apartment since I’ve unpacked them to living essentials. The “new” job at the French company was enthralling for the first month or two, where it was the norm for arriving the office at 930, eating breakfast at 10, going off at 6 sharp and having a 2 hr lunch. Plus, the “random” attendance on Saturdays. Hmm, more bits and pieces should come, for life has been “back to normal” again.