It’s a Honda!

Finally my own car at last! Don’t get me wrong I have driven before but since moving here, H and I are quite comfortable with just using his car. So I never had any reason to buy a car since I started working. When I started working, I have friends and they will pick me up and I will be the designated driver when they can’t drive due to any reasons or influencesJ Anyway, after getting to know H, I have his car. I have been so used of being chauffeured around and it was a different change and a nerve wrecking one, I tell ya. I wasn’t use to driving around this part of the world. I know Penang roads and drivers so it was different driving here as compared to Penang. But like the old saying goes “if you can drive in Penang, you can drive anywhere”. So after taking a break of 5 years of not driving, I am driving again and it’s mine! And it’s a Honda! Since the last day of February and it’s a leap year, this year… I have reached many milestones with my Honda. From driving for the first time at night and nervously trying to find the light switch (the first few times, I didn’t even on the lights ;), to driving in the rain and panicky trying to reduce the speed of the wipers. I have grown and have acquired or reached more sophisticated milestones. Now I can drive while singing. Yep! And the tunes vary reflecting my eclectic taste in music. So from singing and synchronize dancing with Hannah to Beyonce’s version of ‘one night only’ to the ‘porn-star’ version of Where did your Heart go’ by Wham (you know when you over emphasize the “I love you, I love You part?..Never mind!). No…not crazy yet but I sounded like that, that one night alone in the car. It was weird but thank God no one was around. I have grown from not being able to look anywhere else except the windscreen, to giving the next car ‘the look’ when I am annoyed. I multi-task now. I can do my make up in a jam. I can eat at red lights. I am able to talk and create abbreviation to annoying drivers. No! I don’t swear. I create abbreviations and acronyms such as Mad Ignorant Drivers (MID), MAH (Mad asshole!), Crazy Lunatic Obtuse Ningkamput(CLON). That was what I’ve gotten so far. More will come, I’m sure. The common ones are “you are a guy for god sake!”, ”Move Baby! move!” or “what the f*@#! Are you doing!!!” Hmmm…I love my car but I have scratched it a few times. But I am getting better at driving it every day. I have kissed another car’s ass. Hannah asked me to look at her and I did and I ‘smooched’ the front car’s back. Thank god nobody got hurt and this back door smooching is not my thing anyway! Coincide with the Beijing Olympic now, I can even do acrobatic act while driving. I told myself that I should stop but I didn’t plan it..it just happened. Like the other day, I was talking on the phone while trying to find my hands-free and trying to maneuver my car, all at one go and ended up stopping behind a bus! A juggling act eh? I have a habit of changing the songs on my Ipod(Yes! My Honda plays Ipod!hehe!) while driving and that’s another ‘trying-to-kill’ yourself’ act on itself. It’s all about the 100 things to do before I die! They are other things that I have done in the car which I am going to blimp out from this entry. The only witness is my Honda!Hah! I have also driven my Honday singlehandedly to Penang! That journey was an instrumental journey for me. I get all emotional and sensitive when it involves Penang and everyone and everything in it! I can’t think of anymore bizzzare acts but I am sure I’ll have more to spill soon. Drive like the devil they say. Drive like the cautious wind I say!But most importantly drive a Honda!