Prac 1.03 (2nd attempt) - 2/10/14 (Fourth prac lesson)
With much hesitation, I booked my 2nd attempt of 1.03 the night before. Reached BBDC, wanted to print my slip but I couldn't find my IC wtf, found it eventually and made my way to the waiting area quickly. Reached the waiting area and saw my number left on the chair and I thought to myself, "WAH I'M THE ONLY STUDENT?!?" Suddenly one of the instructor told me my class is already outside hahaha, immediately shouted" HUH OMG LAH" and I dashed out of the holding area room. Put on knee and elbow guard and helmet before my instructor said, "1.03 come here" and I saw 6 other students (excluding me)!! So my instructor was saying, "wah full house today" so a second instructor came and helped out. Yeah man total of 7 students taking 1.03 today, a few were like me.. Doing a second attempt for this.
Did warmup at the mini circuit at 1st gear, then 2nd and 3rd gear. Then we lined up and headed out to the main circuit area where we rode many rounds till gear 5 and dropped gear according to traffic conditons (like pedestrian crossing or vehicle infront). The instructor said once we cleared the main circuit he will pull some of us back to the mini circuit for low speed control practice. I was riding around (feels so bloody cool riding at such a fast speed, I can even hear the wind lolool!!) then my instructor signaled for one guy and myself to head to the mini circuit for low speed control practice first.
Deep down I was saying to myself, "DON'T SCREW THIS UP JOYCE, YOU FAILED LAST TUES COS OF THIS STAGE!!!" I tried not to look down at the cones and used alot on my rear brake instead of front (which will make me lose balance). And like 90% of the time I felt like I didn't wobble as much as I did last tues!! Was a little afraid turning on the throttle even more but I know the clutch is what controls the movement and all.
Then the rest of the 5 students came and joined us in the mini circuit for low speed control. Imagine the circuit is really small and we had to quickly cover the gap whenever any of us moved forward hahahah!
At the end of the stage we had a debrief, the instructor asked whether we did well enough to pass the 1.03.. Some said they did okay but the instructor said no and pointed out their mistakes while some admitted they know they didn't do well. When the instructor asked me, I said I did okay today and he replied me with just an "OK" and moved onto the next student and I was thrilled!! It means I passed weeeeeeeee!!! So in the end out of 7 students, only myself and a guy passed today's 1.03 lesson (I think it was the guy's second time taking 1.03 like me).
So thrilled to start my stage 2.01!! Yipeeeeee :D
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Prac 1.01, 1.02, 1.03
Prac 1.01 - 23/09/14 (First prac lesson)
Felt super intimidated cause it was my first time in my entire life I'll be on a bike! Was pretty blur about what to do, where to sit, whether or not to take the number tag outside the classroom or what. Some of the instructors already knew who I was cause my sister took her 2b there a little past 1-1.5 yrs? My sister did socialize with them and since we are twins... We pretty much look alike hahaha.
Took my 1.01 with 4 other guys + me as the only girl. Put on knee and elbow guards + helmets and we got onto our bikes. Was tiptoeing throughout.. I'm standing at 1.6m ± 0.01cm so prolly cos I have short legs or something thats why I had to tiptoe LOL. They said I was "too tall" to take the low cut bike cos its meant for 1.55m people.
First lesson was basically learning how to clutch in and brake properly, all in gear 1. I was pretty buay balance and kept relying on my front brakes (which is really bad cos I'll just fall forward). The rest of the guys were progressing much faster than me so I kinda felt the pressure + being frustrated with myself. There was another instructor who came and helped me by providing a longer route by marking out with cones etc to practice 1/2 clutch, controlling the throttle + braking.. Cause initially we were doing it against a wall which was prolly 1-2 metres distance. Anyway, I failed the lesson in the end, already expected to. But the rest of the 4 guys passed their 1.01 hahaha.
Even though I felt damn embarrassed about my first lesson, my family told me normally first lessons for everything will be damn unstable plus I'm unfamiliar with the bike and how it works. So I decided to go on and book my retake of 1.01.
Pract 1.01 + 1.02 - 25/09/14 (Second prac lesson)
Reached like a few mins late so I was moving damn frantically, tryna put my bag in the locker and quickly going into the classroom to take my number tag and little did I know... I locked my bag without taking out my gloves and hat liner WTF hahahah. Furthermore I only had one 1 dollar coin and I just used it.. Saw the instructor taking me and I shamelessly asked him if he had change for a 1 dollar coin hahaha he did and I quickly went to the locker to grab my stuff.
AND, I was supposed to take my 1.01 with another guy but he didn't turn up so basically I was his only student for that session... Got pros and cons lah I guess. Pro: Instructor can work closely with you regarding your mistakes. Con: He has to basically focus ONLY ON YOU (ok I don't know if thats really a con hahaha)
I used a low cut bike that day. Practiced my 1/2 clutch plus throttle movement and then my instructor asked me to up gear to 3 then kick down to gear 1 when stopping etc. After awhile I got to go out to the main circuit! But only till gear 3 lah. Went round the circuit before stopping and dropping to gear 1 then moving off. There was once after stopping, I think I leaned my bike too much on the left and my left leg cannot tahan the weight so I dropped the bike LOL oopsssss.
Went back and did a debrief. The instructor passed me for both 1.01 and 1.02 and I was really thrilled! 1.02 is about going up to gear 3, drop gear and stopping at gear 1 from 3.
Pract 1.03 - 30/09/14 (Third prac lesson)
Today's lesson was broken up into 2 parts, 1) go up to gear 5, drop to gear 3, then to gear 4, then drop to 3 when going around bends. 2) Maintain low clutch control. Took this lesson with 2 other guys.
First we went to warm up at the mini circuit by going up to gear 3, drop to gear 2 etc. Must remember to close throttle, brake, clutch in, drop gear, release clutch then release brake!!! Afterwards we went to the main circuit where we went up to gear 5! There were areas where we had to go up gear 5, then drop to 3 before entering a bend, then maintain at 4, drop to 3 again before entering a bend, go up to 5 and then drop to 3 again hahahah, I know it sounds very messy when I type it out like that. I think changing gears for me wasn't a big problem but sometimes I don't have time to go up to 5 before having to drop down to gear 3. The instructor didn't have alot to say about my gear shifting.. I probably have to work more on my braking skills :(
Before that, my instructor told us to not change lane if we were to be stuck behind cars unless given a signal cos we weren't taught how to change lanes yet. What happened was.. I was SUAY SUAY stuck behind a private car taking TP. The TP car then braked so I stopped behind and waited, yes I waited. Saw the TP car engine stalled (I know it stalled cos it surged forward plus I kena car stalled before hahah). The car subsequently DID NOT move at all, no signal, no brake lights, never switch on engine again?!?!? Then I saw the TP person (sitting at the passenger seat) kept looking back at me. There was another car taking TP (yah wtf damn suay or what) waiting behind me and the car changed lane. I kept looking around cos I didn't know what to do, no one was nearby so I couldn't ask anyone whether to wait or change lane.... Then I made the move to change lane (yes wtf was I thinking) and suddenly some bike instructor from far shouted "OIIIIII" at me and deep down I was like "shit ffffff bad move". Saw my instructor after and I went to tell him what happened. He said he already knew cos someone went to walkie talkie him... Wah bloody embarrassed lah you can't imagine how paiseh and bad I felt?!?! My instructor said I'm like "sabo-ing the TP car and stuff" but he said it's alright it's okay.... I kept apologizing though?!?! SIGHHHHHH.. I don't know whether I caused that TP person to fail or what lah but I don't understand why after stalling the engine, the car didn't immediately turn on engine again and move off or do something?! Plus the TP tester kept looking back at me so I don't know what that means, felt damn lost..... I still feel damn bad about it idk lahhhh :( :(
Then we went back to the mini circuit where the instructor laid out several cones, around 1-1.5m apart. We had to stop at each individual cone. On a straight lane, we need not place our left leg on the footrest unless doing a turn, and there was a part where we had to go up to gear 2 and then let it engine brake until the next cone. It was really difficult tryna control my low speed!!! Damn frustrating. I kept wobbling and couldn't brake smoothly so at times it was pretty jerky.
During the debrief the instructor gave us his comments.. 2 students failed 1.03, myself and a guy, the other guy passed cause I did saw the way he controlled the bike and it was quite steady hahaha. I don't mind failing my lessons and rather fail to ensure I had grasped my foundation of the bike well enough to proceed to stage 2. Felt damn shagged and tired after the lesson (tiredest day I felt as compared to other 2 lessons I took previously), but I had to go for my riding thory practice after. Immediately knock out upon reaching home.
Felt super intimidated cause it was my first time in my entire life I'll be on a bike! Was pretty blur about what to do, where to sit, whether or not to take the number tag outside the classroom or what. Some of the instructors already knew who I was cause my sister took her 2b there a little past 1-1.5 yrs? My sister did socialize with them and since we are twins... We pretty much look alike hahaha.
Took my 1.01 with 4 other guys + me as the only girl. Put on knee and elbow guards + helmets and we got onto our bikes. Was tiptoeing throughout.. I'm standing at 1.6m ± 0.01cm so prolly cos I have short legs or something thats why I had to tiptoe LOL. They said I was "too tall" to take the low cut bike cos its meant for 1.55m people.
First lesson was basically learning how to clutch in and brake properly, all in gear 1. I was pretty buay balance and kept relying on my front brakes (which is really bad cos I'll just fall forward). The rest of the guys were progressing much faster than me so I kinda felt the pressure + being frustrated with myself. There was another instructor who came and helped me by providing a longer route by marking out with cones etc to practice 1/2 clutch, controlling the throttle + braking.. Cause initially we were doing it against a wall which was prolly 1-2 metres distance. Anyway, I failed the lesson in the end, already expected to. But the rest of the 4 guys passed their 1.01 hahaha.
Even though I felt damn embarrassed about my first lesson, my family told me normally first lessons for everything will be damn unstable plus I'm unfamiliar with the bike and how it works. So I decided to go on and book my retake of 1.01.
Pract 1.01 + 1.02 - 25/09/14 (Second prac lesson)
Reached like a few mins late so I was moving damn frantically, tryna put my bag in the locker and quickly going into the classroom to take my number tag and little did I know... I locked my bag without taking out my gloves and hat liner WTF hahahah. Furthermore I only had one 1 dollar coin and I just used it.. Saw the instructor taking me and I shamelessly asked him if he had change for a 1 dollar coin hahaha he did and I quickly went to the locker to grab my stuff.
AND, I was supposed to take my 1.01 with another guy but he didn't turn up so basically I was his only student for that session... Got pros and cons lah I guess. Pro: Instructor can work closely with you regarding your mistakes. Con: He has to basically focus ONLY ON YOU (ok I don't know if thats really a con hahaha)
I used a low cut bike that day. Practiced my 1/2 clutch plus throttle movement and then my instructor asked me to up gear to 3 then kick down to gear 1 when stopping etc. After awhile I got to go out to the main circuit! But only till gear 3 lah. Went round the circuit before stopping and dropping to gear 1 then moving off. There was once after stopping, I think I leaned my bike too much on the left and my left leg cannot tahan the weight so I dropped the bike LOL oopsssss.
Went back and did a debrief. The instructor passed me for both 1.01 and 1.02 and I was really thrilled! 1.02 is about going up to gear 3, drop gear and stopping at gear 1 from 3.
Pract 1.03 - 30/09/14 (Third prac lesson)
Today's lesson was broken up into 2 parts, 1) go up to gear 5, drop to gear 3, then to gear 4, then drop to 3 when going around bends. 2) Maintain low clutch control. Took this lesson with 2 other guys.
First we went to warm up at the mini circuit by going up to gear 3, drop to gear 2 etc. Must remember to close throttle, brake, clutch in, drop gear, release clutch then release brake!!! Afterwards we went to the main circuit where we went up to gear 5! There were areas where we had to go up gear 5, then drop to 3 before entering a bend, then maintain at 4, drop to 3 again before entering a bend, go up to 5 and then drop to 3 again hahahah, I know it sounds very messy when I type it out like that. I think changing gears for me wasn't a big problem but sometimes I don't have time to go up to 5 before having to drop down to gear 3. The instructor didn't have alot to say about my gear shifting.. I probably have to work more on my braking skills :(
Before that, my instructor told us to not change lane if we were to be stuck behind cars unless given a signal cos we weren't taught how to change lanes yet. What happened was.. I was SUAY SUAY stuck behind a private car taking TP. The TP car then braked so I stopped behind and waited, yes I waited. Saw the TP car engine stalled (I know it stalled cos it surged forward plus I kena car stalled before hahah). The car subsequently DID NOT move at all, no signal, no brake lights, never switch on engine again?!?!? Then I saw the TP person (sitting at the passenger seat) kept looking back at me. There was another car taking TP (yah wtf damn suay or what) waiting behind me and the car changed lane. I kept looking around cos I didn't know what to do, no one was nearby so I couldn't ask anyone whether to wait or change lane.... Then I made the move to change lane (yes wtf was I thinking) and suddenly some bike instructor from far shouted "OIIIIII" at me and deep down I was like "shit ffffff bad move". Saw my instructor after and I went to tell him what happened. He said he already knew cos someone went to walkie talkie him... Wah bloody embarrassed lah you can't imagine how paiseh and bad I felt?!?! My instructor said I'm like "sabo-ing the TP car and stuff" but he said it's alright it's okay.... I kept apologizing though?!?! SIGHHHHHH.. I don't know whether I caused that TP person to fail or what lah but I don't understand why after stalling the engine, the car didn't immediately turn on engine again and move off or do something?! Plus the TP tester kept looking back at me so I don't know what that means, felt damn lost..... I still feel damn bad about it idk lahhhh :( :(
Then we went back to the mini circuit where the instructor laid out several cones, around 1-1.5m apart. We had to stop at each individual cone. On a straight lane, we need not place our left leg on the footrest unless doing a turn, and there was a part where we had to go up to gear 2 and then let it engine brake until the next cone. It was really difficult tryna control my low speed!!! Damn frustrating. I kept wobbling and couldn't brake smoothly so at times it was pretty jerky.
During the debrief the instructor gave us his comments.. 2 students failed 1.03, myself and a guy, the other guy passed cause I did saw the way he controlled the bike and it was quite steady hahaha. I don't mind failing my lessons and rather fail to ensure I had grasped my foundation of the bike well enough to proceed to stage 2. Felt damn shagged and tired after the lesson (tiredest day I felt as compared to other 2 lessons I took previously), but I had to go for my riding thory practice after. Immediately knock out upon reaching home.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Done with theories!
YAY!
Cleared my theory lessons, BTL 1.01 & 1.02, RTL 1.01 & 1.02.
Time spent for all = 400 mins, $$ spent = $68.48
I seem to be chionging through everything (I just did my enrolment a week ago), that because I've already graduated from uni and have nothing to do hahaha. But I still am working part time so my timing can be pretty flexible!
Initially there is a slot for later in the noon but I'm still recovering from a nasty sore throat so I decided to give it a pass. Just booked my orientation 1.01 practical training lesson for tomorrow and I can't wait! But my session will be the "seemingly" hottest time of the day lah so I hope I won't die of heatstroke wearing jeans, long sleeve top, gloves, shoes and helmet ha ha ha ha ha.
Cleared my theory lessons, BTL 1.01 & 1.02, RTL 1.01 & 1.02.
Time spent for all = 400 mins, $$ spent = $68.48
I seem to be chionging through everything (I just did my enrolment a week ago), that because I've already graduated from uni and have nothing to do hahaha. But I still am working part time so my timing can be pretty flexible!
Initially there is a slot for later in the noon but I'm still recovering from a nasty sore throat so I decided to give it a pass. Just booked my orientation 1.01 practical training lesson for tomorrow and I can't wait! But my session will be the "seemingly" hottest time of the day lah so I hope I won't die of heatstroke wearing jeans, long sleeve top, gloves, shoes and helmet ha ha ha ha ha.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Enrolment of Class 2B at BBDC
HEY GUYS!
I know I haven't been using this blog in the longest time, cause I've been blogging (diligently) at my dayre at dayre.me/dearjoyce but recently I did something that I wanna document every single detail down!
So back in 2009, immediately after my 18th birthday on the 27 nov 2009, my parents told my sister and I that we should take our Class 3 licence and we did! Immediately after signing up online we headed down to the centre at night *yes on the same day on my birthday date* I was telling my dad I wanna take up auto motorcar but he said class 3 will make so much more sense cause I can drive both auto and manual so I agreed, even though deep down I was terrified cause I heard some of my friends couldn't cope with manual cars and they failed their TP test a few times as well.
From the period of Dec 2009 to May 2010 when taking my Class 3, those were the best!! I was looking forward to going for practical lessons, I had so much fun talking to the instructors there and it was just plain fun to drive a manual car. I passed my Class 3 (on my first try!) with a total of 10 points on 26 may 2010, not bad for a girl taking manual motorcar hor hahaha.
You can read my post about the day of my Class 3 TP HERE!
Back then when I was still in poly, wanted to take up Class 2B after Class 3 but my parents had some strong views about it, they stopped me from doing so. And I listened to them and not sign up for it, carried on with my daily life but occasionally the thought of getting 2B will still pop up.
Then after graduating poly I went on to university. My uni's timetable was not fixed and normally is in the afternoon so I kept putting the "take-2B-licence" thought off. Seeing people ride makes me feel damn gian to own one myself hahahaha. Guy friends have been telling me that riding is damn fun, a total different experience. After dragging for another 2 years, I've finally finished my final exams in my entire university life in 1st Sept 2014. I can consider this to be the end of my undergraduate life.
I've always been an introvert, I dare not try out new things by myself, I get scared when trying out something new. That's when I decided to take up a new skill and do something for myself, also I would love to have a form of transport for myself. My sister had taken her class 2b secretly prolly just little over a year and half ago and passed on her 2nd try. My parents knew about it but when they knew about it, she was already at her last few stages of riding so... Might as well let her continue. My mom had also given me the green lights and asked me to buy my own bike, THAT'S IF I CAN PASS MY 2B!
So on 14/9/14 (Sunday), I pre-enroled online and the following day, I went down to BBDC in the afternoon (after a sibei tiring work morning) to enrol physically, paid my fees and went for a quick introduction talk.
WHOOP WHOOPPPPPPPPP!!
Feeling so excited to get started man.
I have to attend 4 theory lessons, BTL 1.01 & 1.02 and RTL 1.01 & 1.02! Luckily I'm exempted from BTT cos I passed it years ago.
On 16/9/14, a day after my enrolment, I checked the BBDC website to see what are the available slots for both riding theory lessons. Seeing there's an available class on the exact same day in the evening, I quickly signed up for it. Although it was RTL 1.02, the centre said the lessons' order don't have to follow strictly. So yes, I attended my RTL 1.02 FIRST before my RTL 1.01.
Went for RTL 1.02 that tues, proceeded to level 2 room 2 and outside the classroom at the waiting area I saw ALL GUYS (I was 10 mins early) and felt damn intimidated?!?! Then we entered the classroom and the guys stared at me as if I'm taking the wrong class or something. In the end there were prolly about 20+ guys and 5 girls (including myself). I know that definitely the ratio of guys:girls will not be equal so I prolly have be buay paiseh and thickskin abit ya ahahaha.
Damn, it's a super lengthy post, I'll keep updating on my progress of taking a Class 2B licence!
I know I haven't been using this blog in the longest time, cause I've been blogging (diligently) at my dayre at dayre.me/dearjoyce but recently I did something that I wanna document every single detail down!
So back in 2009, immediately after my 18th birthday on the 27 nov 2009, my parents told my sister and I that we should take our Class 3 licence and we did! Immediately after signing up online we headed down to the centre at night *yes on the same day on my birthday date* I was telling my dad I wanna take up auto motorcar but he said class 3 will make so much more sense cause I can drive both auto and manual so I agreed, even though deep down I was terrified cause I heard some of my friends couldn't cope with manual cars and they failed their TP test a few times as well.
From the period of Dec 2009 to May 2010 when taking my Class 3, those were the best!! I was looking forward to going for practical lessons, I had so much fun talking to the instructors there and it was just plain fun to drive a manual car. I passed my Class 3 (on my first try!) with a total of 10 points on 26 may 2010, not bad for a girl taking manual motorcar hor hahaha.
You can read my post about the day of my Class 3 TP HERE!
Back then when I was still in poly, wanted to take up Class 2B after Class 3 but my parents had some strong views about it, they stopped me from doing so. And I listened to them and not sign up for it, carried on with my daily life but occasionally the thought of getting 2B will still pop up.
Then after graduating poly I went on to university. My uni's timetable was not fixed and normally is in the afternoon so I kept putting the "take-2B-licence" thought off. Seeing people ride makes me feel damn gian to own one myself hahahaha. Guy friends have been telling me that riding is damn fun, a total different experience. After dragging for another 2 years, I've finally finished my final exams in my entire university life in 1st Sept 2014. I can consider this to be the end of my undergraduate life.
I've always been an introvert, I dare not try out new things by myself, I get scared when trying out something new. That's when I decided to take up a new skill and do something for myself, also I would love to have a form of transport for myself. My sister had taken her class 2b secretly prolly just little over a year and half ago and passed on her 2nd try. My parents knew about it but when they knew about it, she was already at her last few stages of riding so... Might as well let her continue. My mom had also given me the green lights and asked me to buy my own bike, THAT'S IF I CAN PASS MY 2B!
So on 14/9/14 (Sunday), I pre-enroled online and the following day, I went down to BBDC in the afternoon (after a sibei tiring work morning) to enrol physically, paid my fees and went for a quick introduction talk.
WHOOP WHOOPPPPPPPPP!!
Feeling so excited to get started man.
I have to attend 4 theory lessons, BTL 1.01 & 1.02 and RTL 1.01 & 1.02! Luckily I'm exempted from BTT cos I passed it years ago.
On 16/9/14, a day after my enrolment, I checked the BBDC website to see what are the available slots for both riding theory lessons. Seeing there's an available class on the exact same day in the evening, I quickly signed up for it. Although it was RTL 1.02, the centre said the lessons' order don't have to follow strictly. So yes, I attended my RTL 1.02 FIRST before my RTL 1.01.
Went for RTL 1.02 that tues, proceeded to level 2 room 2 and outside the classroom at the waiting area I saw ALL GUYS (I was 10 mins early) and felt damn intimidated?!?! Then we entered the classroom and the guys stared at me as if I'm taking the wrong class or something. In the end there were prolly about 20+ guys and 5 girls (including myself). I know that definitely the ratio of guys:girls will not be equal so I prolly have be buay paiseh and thickskin abit ya ahahaha.
Damn, it's a super lengthy post, I'll keep updating on my progress of taking a Class 2B licence!
Sunday, July 6, 2014
NDP 2014 Combined Rehearsal 3 show!
Hello!! Yesterday I attended the NDP combined rehearsal 3 show at the floating platform. Alot of people have been asking where did I get my tickets from. Well I gotten tickets from my mommy who's in the 6th Division and because her division is incharge of this year's NDP, I got tickets!! Yep she's a regular in the SAF :D
Crowd was MASSIVE!!!! Now I know why I rather go to work on weekends than go out. Because there are just too many people in Singapore already. Take train also must squeeze, cross road also must squeeze. Hahahah okaaaaaaaaay.
Was seated at the yellow sector, which had a pretty decent and great view because it was somewheat right smacked in the middle of the floating platform.
Read my dayre for a more detailed post!! Y'all can follow me there as well hehehhe.
http://dayre.me/dearjoyce
Crowd was MASSIVE!!!! Now I know why I rather go to work on weekends than go out. Because there are just too many people in Singapore already. Take train also must squeeze, cross road also must squeeze. Hahahah okaaaaaaaaay.
Was seated at the yellow sector, which had a pretty decent and great view because it was somewheat right smacked in the middle of the floating platform.
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| MY NDP 2014 funpack! But I don't like pink, trades for red, anyone? :p |
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| My brother and I! |
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| Confetti in the sky! |
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| Tryna take a selfie with my momsy!! |
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| My favorite segment of the entire NDP show! |
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