My driving classes have been suspended till next Monday. The plan is to take the remaining 7 sessions on consecutive days and wind up with a Driving License test at the RTO.
Looks crisp. Hope I gain more confidence in myself, by next Saturday.
So having loads of time, I recently finished reading a Perry Mason mystery book.
So thought of starting with a new one. This time it is Ayn Rand - We The Living.
Hoping to finish it soooon..
Cheers.
Watching ad's on the television
Today, the whole day, I was at home. I watched a whole lot of stuffs on the television. Watched an advertisement on the television, which showcased, a boy and a guy, who had not taken any sick leave over the past year and have won accolades in their school and workplace respectively.
I was wondering whether, have I ever been through such a year, and yes, to be frank and honest, in my 8th standard, I had not taken a single sick leave. Not that I was not all that fit and healthy, but somehow too much of luck was on my side.
But what I feel is, it a waste trying to attend school/ office all the days.. Sometimes we need time all for ourselves. Weekends are perfectly alright. What I have figured out is a leave on a weekday is equal to nothing else. I feel its the best way to recharge.
And yes, during my 10th standard, the leaves which I took went, up to 15, for the whole year, and that is another kind of a feat in itself.
Cheers,
I was wondering whether, have I ever been through such a year, and yes, to be frank and honest, in my 8th standard, I had not taken a single sick leave. Not that I was not all that fit and healthy, but somehow too much of luck was on my side.
But what I feel is, it a waste trying to attend school/ office all the days.. Sometimes we need time all for ourselves. Weekends are perfectly alright. What I have figured out is a leave on a weekday is equal to nothing else. I feel its the best way to recharge.
And yes, during my 10th standard, the leaves which I took went, up to 15, for the whole year, and that is another kind of a feat in itself.
Cheers,
Driving classes - Session # 11.
Yup, my 11th session, 7 more, and its all over..
Today I drove on steep roads. Engine did stall 2 times, but that should be fine.
Cheers,
Today I drove on steep roads. Engine did stall 2 times, but that should be fine.
Cheers,
Driving classes - Session # 10.
Not much progress when it comes to driving. I am getting bored day by day driving a petrol vehicle. Seems like I will complete my remainder of the classes on a Santro itself.
I need to gear up for driving a petrol vehicle, mentally. Driving seems to be so boring these days, I want a diesel vehicle.!!!!
I need to gear up for driving a petrol vehicle, mentally. Driving seems to be so boring these days, I want a diesel vehicle.!!!!
Get over it.. !!!!!!
I am listening to this super song by Eagles, " Get over it ". I just remembered something to blog about. After working for 4 years in Indian IT industry, I just found out, there seems to be a single career band when it comes to software. Thats the managerial band.
I somehow feel, as we put in more and more years in the Indian IT Industry, there seems to be a technical stream which tends to vanish. I feel we all end up on the same boat, being a manager, booking conference rooms, attending meetings, approving timesheets.
Its not just the recession which is playing a hard ball. But even the thought of career growth seems to be making some people sick. Don't want to mention who though..
This scenario ideally happens since there are no new development projects which are being undertaken, be it recession or not. But there seems to be whole new technologies coming out.
Enthusiasts are waiting to rope in new technology. But there seems to be a lack of projects where we can make use of this technology.
This definitely tends to frustration. So just wanna say... Get over it.. :)
PS: I had recieved a mail about an article written by an ex IT Company employee which clearly mentions about the kind of projects being undertaken in many companies.
I somehow feel, as we put in more and more years in the Indian IT Industry, there seems to be a technical stream which tends to vanish. I feel we all end up on the same boat, being a manager, booking conference rooms, attending meetings, approving timesheets.
Its not just the recession which is playing a hard ball. But even the thought of career growth seems to be making some people sick. Don't want to mention who though..
This scenario ideally happens since there are no new development projects which are being undertaken, be it recession or not. But there seems to be whole new technologies coming out.
Enthusiasts are waiting to rope in new technology. But there seems to be a lack of projects where we can make use of this technology.
This definitely tends to frustration. So just wanna say... Get over it.. :)
PS: I had recieved a mail about an article written by an ex IT Company employee which clearly mentions about the kind of projects being undertaken in many companies.
Driving classes - Session # 9.
Saturday, I drove a Santro for the third time. Frankly speaking I am beginning to hate petrol cars. They seem to be bit boring to drive. I do not know why, but I loved driving the Indica.
The same feeling I am not getting while driving a Santro. I am easily getting bored while driving a Santro. I do not know why. Its got good horse power, good torque, does a good speed within the city, is quite zippy too.
But my heart and mind both prefer a diesel I feel.
Let me see , whether tomorrow I get to drive the Indica or not.
The same feeling I am not getting while driving a Santro. I am easily getting bored while driving a Santro. I do not know why. Its got good horse power, good torque, does a good speed within the city, is quite zippy too.
But my heart and mind both prefer a diesel I feel.
Let me see , whether tomorrow I get to drive the Indica or not.
Driving classes - Session # 8.
Session #8, drove the Santro only, still the problem of engine stalling while trying to move in the firs gear remains. I am beginning to hate myself. This used to happen rarely in an Indica. Why the hell, Santro engine stall so many times.
Secondly drove with a little more confidence in traffic, with plenty of buses coming in opp direction.
But my interest still seems to be lacking when it comes to driving, I somehow want to get a licence and stop this gimmick called learning to drive.
Secondly drove with a little more confidence in traffic, with plenty of buses coming in opp direction.
But my interest still seems to be lacking when it comes to driving, I somehow want to get a licence and stop this gimmick called learning to drive.
Driving classes - Session # 7.
After a week's break, here I was about to drive a Santro. Firstly I had lost all my interest, which I had to drive in a week's time (after the break). Secondly, I preferred a diesel vehicle not a petrol vehicle. So was somewhat tentative to start with.
I observed a whole lot of difference between a Santro and an Indica. Finally after driving Santro for one day, you would expect me to say, I fell love with it ??, not really, I proudly say, I prefer a diesel. I am the one who hates the zippy factor.
Santro was quite quick and responsive, it was generating high torque at a very low rpm, which according to me was quite non-essential. It had loads of horse power, lot more than Indica.
But with Indica, the vehicle was quite slow in reaching the same speed, less on horse power, but was more of a beauty to drive.
And believe it or not, the engine stalled 2 times on the first day I drove it. I was quite unhappy with this whole incident.
So at the end of class #7, I can manage driving in morning traffic, but in peak traffic,i am still unsure.
I observed a whole lot of difference between a Santro and an Indica. Finally after driving Santro for one day, you would expect me to say, I fell love with it ??, not really, I proudly say, I prefer a diesel. I am the one who hates the zippy factor.
Santro was quite quick and responsive, it was generating high torque at a very low rpm, which according to me was quite non-essential. It had loads of horse power, lot more than Indica.
But with Indica, the vehicle was quite slow in reaching the same speed, less on horse power, but was more of a beauty to drive.
And believe it or not, the engine stalled 2 times on the first day I drove it. I was quite unhappy with this whole incident.
So at the end of class #7, I can manage driving in morning traffic, but in peak traffic,i am still unsure.
Back with driving classes
Finally somehow, I managed myself to go back to the driving school after a week's time to resume my driving classes. It was certainly a difficult task to do, since I had lost all my interest and enthusiasm for learning how to drive. I could have learnt driving 2 years back and brought a car quite earlier, but I did not. The reason being I am very moody. My mood swings quite frequently and somehow I lose interest in many stuffs quite quickly.
One such thing was learning how to drive, second thing is buying a car. Yes its true, my enthusiasm to buy a car has halved. As I find no real reason to buy a car.
But I made up my mind to resume driving classes, since:
> I had paid money while enrolling and my parents were now making fun of me, saying I am fit for nothing. ( Well they never understand how quickly my mood swings, how can I tell them that I have no more interest left in driving a vehicle.)
Finally when I went to drive, I ended up driving a petrol vehicle, what happened next, well , its up in the next post.
Cheers
One such thing was learning how to drive, second thing is buying a car. Yes its true, my enthusiasm to buy a car has halved. As I find no real reason to buy a car.
But I made up my mind to resume driving classes, since:
> I had paid money while enrolling and my parents were now making fun of me, saying I am fit for nothing. ( Well they never understand how quickly my mood swings, how can I tell them that I have no more interest left in driving a vehicle.)
Finally when I went to drive, I ended up driving a petrol vehicle, what happened next, well , its up in the next post.
Cheers
Stuck in the middle
I have not blogged anything for the last few days. The reason being nothing going as per plan. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. My decisions, my timing, my schedule, everything is just stuck or thrown out of gear.
Firstly its almost a week since I last went to my driving classes. The instructor seems to have disappeared. Hopefully not with the money I have given. I am at the recieving end of lots of criticism from my parents with things related to my driving classes.
Secondly I am not able to go to a Tata showroom and decide on what car am I gonna buy, what is the EMI, what is the downpayment. Fuck man. I have never been so much out of sorts in the last one year.
Moreover, work related stuffs, nothing interesting happening at workplace. I have loads of things to be sorted out before I actually " be my normal self". Not sure when's that gonna happen.
And my PC at home seems to be having some kind of problem. It keeps on rebooting all the time, testing my patience, time and again.
I can only pray to God and keep my fingers crossed, hoping for the best. Let me see.
But one thing is for sure, I can thank God for whatever he has given me, for what situation I am currently into. No more complaints, now its time for me to work a bit harder and stop making noises like this on the blog.
Cheers.
Firstly its almost a week since I last went to my driving classes. The instructor seems to have disappeared. Hopefully not with the money I have given. I am at the recieving end of lots of criticism from my parents with things related to my driving classes.
Secondly I am not able to go to a Tata showroom and decide on what car am I gonna buy, what is the EMI, what is the downpayment. Fuck man. I have never been so much out of sorts in the last one year.
Moreover, work related stuffs, nothing interesting happening at workplace. I have loads of things to be sorted out before I actually " be my normal self". Not sure when's that gonna happen.
And my PC at home seems to be having some kind of problem. It keeps on rebooting all the time, testing my patience, time and again.
I can only pray to God and keep my fingers crossed, hoping for the best. Let me see.
But one thing is for sure, I can thank God for whatever he has given me, for what situation I am currently into. No more complaints, now its time for me to work a bit harder and stop making noises like this on the blog.
Cheers.
Prime Circle - 'She always Gets What She Wants'
Just listened to this song on the radio.
Fell in love with this band from South Africa
Driving classes - Session # 6.
Call it luck, call it co-incidence, call it by God's grace, I do not know how to explain it. It was just 2 driving sessions before, I was unable to shift to second gear, instead I was applying fourth gear.
I got sound thrashings that day. The very next day, I managed to apply second gear, but I was still at the recieving end of some scolding because of engine stalling.
Now today being the 6th session, I countered most of the stuffs. I drove with all my vengeance. I thought let me drive as if there is no tomorrow. It worked. The engine stalled 2 times, well, my inexperience in traffic, but rest of the places, I was shifting gears at very ease.
I drove quite well today, pat on my back, which left even my instructor surprised. I mean, not a huge achievement, but this is my 6th session and I am comfortably driving in 4th gear. Wow, must be God's grace.
Let me see how do I drive tomorrow.
Cheers.
I got sound thrashings that day. The very next day, I managed to apply second gear, but I was still at the recieving end of some scolding because of engine stalling.
Now today being the 6th session, I countered most of the stuffs. I drove with all my vengeance. I thought let me drive as if there is no tomorrow. It worked. The engine stalled 2 times, well, my inexperience in traffic, but rest of the places, I was shifting gears at very ease.
I drove quite well today, pat on my back, which left even my instructor surprised. I mean, not a huge achievement, but this is my 6th session and I am comfortably driving in 4th gear. Wow, must be God's grace.
Let me see how do I drive tomorrow.
Cheers.
Driving classes - Session # 5.
Yesterday was my fifth session. It went partly well and rest of the part went horribly wrong. I had problem in shifting gears the previous session. This time around I was quite confident on them, 1st 2nd, 3rd 4th, I did it all. I was so happy I could do it with ease. But my happiness did not last long.
I faced huge problem while downshifting. I could not shift the gears down as easily I did it the other way round. The car felt like it was over sensitive. It refused to pickup speed in second gear and hence stalled 3 times. (my bad, I had to press the gas pedal hard on an ascent or I had to downshift.)
Never did I feel scared, but my instructor told me "Its not the correct way to drive. You are not following my instructions." And yes he was visibly upset, very upset.
When I thought about what had happened when I came home, I quickly realised what had gone wrong.
1. The car did not have power steering, I was nervous while downshifting on curves and turnings, waiting for them to pass before I actually shifted the gear down. In order to shift gears while making a turn I needed to control the car single handedly. I was quite held back with this approach. (the width of the car seems to be bothering me.)
2. 80% of the time I was trying to steer the car amidst traffic people that I hardly noticed the drop in speed, which made the car to stall. I do not even look at the odometer. I keep looking straight on to the road. I mean, the car looks huge, maneuvering needs to be precise else there will be a scratch. I keep on concentrating on this forgetting about gear shifting.
I am hoping I will drive more confidently tomorrow. Lets see..
Cheers.
I faced huge problem while downshifting. I could not shift the gears down as easily I did it the other way round. The car felt like it was over sensitive. It refused to pickup speed in second gear and hence stalled 3 times. (my bad, I had to press the gas pedal hard on an ascent or I had to downshift.)
Never did I feel scared, but my instructor told me "Its not the correct way to drive. You are not following my instructions." And yes he was visibly upset, very upset.
When I thought about what had happened when I came home, I quickly realised what had gone wrong.
1. The car did not have power steering, I was nervous while downshifting on curves and turnings, waiting for them to pass before I actually shifted the gear down. In order to shift gears while making a turn I needed to control the car single handedly. I was quite held back with this approach. (the width of the car seems to be bothering me.)
2. 80% of the time I was trying to steer the car amidst traffic people that I hardly noticed the drop in speed, which made the car to stall. I do not even look at the odometer. I keep looking straight on to the road. I mean, the car looks huge, maneuvering needs to be precise else there will be a scratch. I keep on concentrating on this forgetting about gear shifting.
I am hoping I will drive more confidently tomorrow. Lets see..
Cheers.
Driving classes - Session # 4.
Somehow I was ridiculed about, for blogging about these driving classes. For a moment I was all set to delete the posts, since there was no hide option available.
It may look silly to an onlooker, but somehow I feel the enthu, hovering around me which makes me to type these posts.
So, today was my fourth day. I am driving with more confidence also applying brakes. I still sometimes make a huge left turn, which really pisses off my instructor. I need to look into that as well.
Today I tried applying 1st and 2nd gears. First gear did work quite well, the engine dint stall, while letting the clutch off. But somehow I was unable to apply the second gear itself. It used to land up in 4th instead of 2nd. I need to work on it too.
One more thing was applying clutch as soon as I braked. This is not happening and engine is stalling. I mean I need to apply clutch more harder. So let me do with more power tomorrow and see. I need to get less curses from my instructor. That is my aim.
Still lots to be learnt before I actually drive properly.
Cheers.
It may look silly to an onlooker, but somehow I feel the enthu, hovering around me which makes me to type these posts.
So, today was my fourth day. I am driving with more confidence also applying brakes. I still sometimes make a huge left turn, which really pisses off my instructor. I need to look into that as well.
Today I tried applying 1st and 2nd gears. First gear did work quite well, the engine dint stall, while letting the clutch off. But somehow I was unable to apply the second gear itself. It used to land up in 4th instead of 2nd. I need to work on it too.
One more thing was applying clutch as soon as I braked. This is not happening and engine is stalling. I mean I need to apply clutch more harder. So let me do with more power tomorrow and see. I need to get less curses from my instructor. That is my aim.
Still lots to be learnt before I actually drive properly.
Cheers.
Driving classes - Session # 3.
Today was my third session. I felt a little bit more confident. I was driving after a gap of a day. But none the less, I was raring to go. Drove a good distance covering lot of humps and sharp curves.
I was much much more confident on braking today. I did apply brakes quite well infact.
I drove the car single handedly while I was trying to give signals using my right hand. Well rare feat for me, a first time driver and that too driving without power steering amidst quite a traffic.
I was driving a diesel vehicle, tata indica to be more precise, which has run for almost 70K kms. Not even a single moment did I feel any vibration nor sound.
I still cannot feel the so called vibrations what people are talking about when it comes to a diesel vehicle.
As of now looking forward to drive more confidently. Let me see.
Cheers.
I was much much more confident on braking today. I did apply brakes quite well infact.
I drove the car single handedly while I was trying to give signals using my right hand. Well rare feat for me, a first time driver and that too driving without power steering amidst quite a traffic.
I was driving a diesel vehicle, tata indica to be more precise, which has run for almost 70K kms. Not even a single moment did I feel any vibration nor sound.
I still cannot feel the so called vibrations what people are talking about when it comes to a diesel vehicle.
As of now looking forward to drive more confidently. Let me see.
Cheers.
Driving classes - Session # 2.
Today was my second day at the driving school. Everything started off quite well. I was hoping and praying not do repeat the same mistakes of day 1.
Infact I did not. The problem of oversteering and understeering almost disappeared. I now tried to focus on the braking part. But sadly, I am still not confident on braking. My instructor told me to apply clutch whenever I apply brake. It did not work out on the second day. I felt little uneasy in doing so.
One more problem which I noticed was while taking left and right turns. Left turn has to be taken quite crisply. Right turn has to be taken with a little bit more curve.
I did it the exact opposite. My left turn was way too much curvy. I was always focussed on the rear wheel on the left side.. Let me see, I need to pick up quickly.
Cheers
Infact I did not. The problem of oversteering and understeering almost disappeared. I now tried to focus on the braking part. But sadly, I am still not confident on braking. My instructor told me to apply clutch whenever I apply brake. It did not work out on the second day. I felt little uneasy in doing so.
One more problem which I noticed was while taking left and right turns. Left turn has to be taken quite crisply. Right turn has to be taken with a little bit more curve.
I did it the exact opposite. My left turn was way too much curvy. I was always focussed on the rear wheel on the left side.. Let me see, I need to pick up quickly.
Cheers
Driving classes - Session # 1.
I planned to take driving lessons from morning 6 30 till 7 am.
So first day, I was wondering, whether I will start in an empty stretch of road or a play ground.
But to my surprise, I started off in a main road, with full control except gear shifts. I did not expect that.
I have never driven a car before, but somehow drove it without getting scared. There were lots of trucks, buses coming in the opposite direction, I drove it all along with few mistakes.
The instructor told me the car did not have power steering, but I ended up driving with almost single hand. May be its a power steering, need to cross check.
I was very poor in braking, almost ignoring the brakes.
It was day #1, and my right leg was quite reluctant to let off the gas pedal and move to brakes. My left leg was itching to move to do the braking. But somehow I controlled myself from not using the left leg. There were 2 occasions when I almost hit the gas pedal thinking it to be brakes (my bad, need to improve), and 2 more occasions when I ended up getting zapped while making a turn. (I regret, hope not to do it again).
All in all I drove on wide roads and some very very narrow roads. I did not get excited nor scared. But I was low on confidence. Thats for sure. Need to check how do I drive tomorrow. Till then.. Cheers
So first day, I was wondering, whether I will start in an empty stretch of road or a play ground.
But to my surprise, I started off in a main road, with full control except gear shifts. I did not expect that.
I have never driven a car before, but somehow drove it without getting scared. There were lots of trucks, buses coming in the opposite direction, I drove it all along with few mistakes.
The instructor told me the car did not have power steering, but I ended up driving with almost single hand. May be its a power steering, need to cross check.
I was very poor in braking, almost ignoring the brakes.
It was day #1, and my right leg was quite reluctant to let off the gas pedal and move to brakes. My left leg was itching to move to do the braking. But somehow I controlled myself from not using the left leg. There were 2 occasions when I almost hit the gas pedal thinking it to be brakes (my bad, need to improve), and 2 more occasions when I ended up getting zapped while making a turn. (I regret, hope not to do it again).
All in all I drove on wide roads and some very very narrow roads. I did not get excited nor scared. But I was low on confidence. Thats for sure. Need to check how do I drive tomorrow. Till then.. Cheers
Started with driving classes
Recently, all of a sudden, I had sudden interest in learning car driving. I do have plans of buying a car in near future, but not that concrete plan. But somehow lumbered out some courage to go and join a driving school.
I enrolled over the past weekend, in a driving school, which is not so close to my house. You may be wondering, why join a driving school not so close to my house??
Well, I wanted to learn how to drive a Tata Indica, found this driving school near Uttarahalli, having one, so went and joined.
My driving sessions are to be covered over a period of 18 classes each of 30 mins.
I would love to post all in all 18 entries over here. Let me see how do I do that..
Cheers.
I enrolled over the past weekend, in a driving school, which is not so close to my house. You may be wondering, why join a driving school not so close to my house??
Well, I wanted to learn how to drive a Tata Indica, found this driving school near Uttarahalli, having one, so went and joined.
My driving sessions are to be covered over a period of 18 classes each of 30 mins.
I would love to post all in all 18 entries over here. Let me see how do I do that..
Cheers.
On the way to Kodai
We left Bangalore on 17 evening at 11pm and were struck at Hosur RTO. It took an hour from there and drove all the way to Kodaikanal. Some of the pics on the way are here..
Trip to Kodai
Back to blogging after long time. What made me blog this time was my trip to Kodaikanal over the last weekend, with my cousins.
The trip was unsure till the very last day, with people joining in, people dropping out. I thought I would never make it to Kodai on 18 and 19th July 2009. Even if I could make it, I felt it would be heavily pouring @ Kodaikanal.
Now that the trip has been realized, I have had the time of my life, and I am back, here to blog about those wonderful memories which still remain with me.
I had been to loads of places, some of them whose name I remember, I would love to post some of the pictures of them as well.
Let me post it as a part of different series of pics..
The trip was unsure till the very last day, with people joining in, people dropping out. I thought I would never make it to Kodai on 18 and 19th July 2009. Even if I could make it, I felt it would be heavily pouring @ Kodaikanal.
Now that the trip has been realized, I have had the time of my life, and I am back, here to blog about those wonderful memories which still remain with me.
I had been to loads of places, some of them whose name I remember, I would love to post some of the pictures of them as well.
Let me post it as a part of different series of pics..
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