Did I mention that I love driving?

I drive everywhere I go. Other people will always try taking public transport when they are too tired to drive. For these people driving is a chore. It is a necessary activity to engage in when one wants to travel from place A to place B, if they do not want to squeeze with the crowds taking public transport or having to entertain the taxi driver when taking taxis. Not me. Driving is a passion. A hobby. A major outlet to relieve stress. I will never give up a chance to practice driving if I have one. I really really love driving.

As a relatively new driver (only into my second year of driving), I take pride in the fact that I am able to masterly control my car to achieve the smoothest drive possible from my 17-year-old Suzuki Swift. Every day I try to find new ways of better controlling my steering, my gear changes, my braking, without losing speed. (Note. My Suzuki Swift is not capable of dangerous speeds)

I am still far from being able to call myself a good driver, but I believe that I am a decent (and safe) one. That said, I consider 95% of the drivers in Singapore to be “Rubbish Drivers” or “Crap Drivers”, and from these 95%, 99.99999999999999% of the females should never have gotten their licenses in the first place. It is high time that the Traffic Police assign some female testers instead of those old sukebe-uncles who smile widely every time they have a female candidate, but become grumpy when they have male ones. All my near-accidents so far have always been caused by female drivers who do stuff like try to lane-change without checking (anything at all, not the mirror, not their blind spot, they just signal and expect no cars to be in the lane they want to enter), or suddenly deciding that they need to stop the car in the middle of the expressway because their phone rang, etc.

Enough of the ranting. I mentioned in first paragraph that driving is one way I relieve stress. The best way of doing that is to go out driving late at night, when most roads are no longer filled with cars. It is then that I take on a different character, and drive differently from how I normally do. (Note. I still drive safely, and observe all traffic rules even when I am driving at night). I will try to do stuff that are probably too hard for my not-so-swift Swift to bear, like braking sequences, braking patterns, harder acceleration control, tackling corners at higher speeds (safely!!!), etc. Sometimes I feel bad for my car after such stress-relieving sessions that I will usually treat my car a lot more gentler for the following few days. Of course, due to the fact that I am still driving on public roads, I still observe all the safely regulations, watch out for jaywalkers, and not trying dangerous stuff. Why is it that the government has still yet to build a track for people like me? They have to realise that not all car lovers/driving fanatics are crazy law-breaking morons.

Driving is really fun. Will someone buy me a 350Z?