Way2Top

“Easy on your break..Easy on your pedal..Go to 4th gear now..Look over your shoulders…Don’t ride on your pedals…Watch for pedestrians from your right..”. Typical instructions that any instructor from driving school would give. When I went back to start off my remaining lessons, I found that the previous instructor has left his job (received a better offer from rival school!) and a new instructor has been assigned to me. The new one was from Scotland who has settled in Belgium, so English was in his genes. But the teaching styles are so different, that I felt like starting from scratch. To add salt to the wound, the vehicle that I practiced 6 months before is not available anymore. The new car has totally different layout in terms of gear shifting, indicators, lights etc., At the end of 2 hours, I find myself wanting in practice. Actually, I don’t have problems in driving as such..But the problem lies in interacting with real world, remembering the rules, doing many things at a time ‘fluently’ and ofcourse in finding the correct ‘biting’ point of clutch..I have left my hopes..Will just take up the remaining classes for fun!

Couple of interesting things happened during the lesson. He was telling me, “Use indicators when going to the road from parking or overtaking”. Immediately a person from behind me overtook without using his indicators! Instructor handled that by saying “He is flunked” . On another occasion, he was telling me to keep on the right and not to cross the middle line. Immeidately, a car came from the 90 degree turn on the wrong side. Again his comment was “He should have been flunked”. 5 such similar contradictions happened. It was fun..

I couldn’t make it to the office by 6:30 a.m. By the time, I reached the office it was almost 8:00 a.m. Just told my boss that I will compensate by working extra hours this week..

On the ISB front, I received an email from Admission committee urging students to apply for loans by March 5th. They also provided contact information for each banks. But I am planning to fill the initial installment from my savings. I will take the loan only for the second installment, in September.

I also received my membership for the “The Colloborative blog of ISB” (Thanks Sumit). You can expect my scribblings soon in the quasi-official blog of ISB.

I remembered that today was Valentine’s day only after seeing couple of forwards from my friends. Incidentally, I went to office in a green shirt and laughed to myself

Just noticed that I have been blogging almost for every single day since January 24th. Let’s see how far I can go….