old dog, new tricks

So as promised, to revive this blog, here's a summary of one of the drafts that i deemed good enough to share. Some new things about me .... Although of course, the newest would be I will be a mother again, but you already know that :)

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I have learned to be in the front line, Customer Service at its purest form! :) I have been a Sales Associate for 2.5 years. Let's just say that anything that a girl at SM can do, I can do it too.

I am now a proud, legit driver. That makes me feel kind of grown up, don't you think? I don't have to ask J to drive me if I wanted to go somewhere else. I have done whole winter season driving. No accidents, thank, God. Just got caught beating the red light.

I have enrolled in a gym, for 3 months (I know, I know, really not that committed), and went for about 5 times. Fail. I have long accepted that I am not an exercise type of person. Let's not lose hope. Maybe gym is not for me. I can try jogging again. Or swimming.

I have wanted to try Yoga for the longest time. I know, so late, the train has left decades ago. I signed  up and attended to Fall and Winter classes. Don't ask what kind of Yoga. I am just a poser. And breather. Namaste.

Owned a sewing machine and have actually sewn a thing. Or two. I am also doing alterations, of my own clothes. I am not that confident enough to do somebody else's, afraid that I will ruin their clothes.

Set up my own website. Yeah. Website is up for about 3 years but hardly any updates. Let's just leave it at that.

gusto kong matutong magdriveeeeeee ...

well, i've done 5 out of my 7-hour driving lessons, 2 hours of which is a 'matic car. the farthest i've been to is green meadows (from our house). o diba.

i've done parallel parking, maneuver, U turn, left and right turns. shifted gear up to the 4th. car died on me atleat 5 times. hahaha. so far, so good.

i'd like to do the 'hanging'. and practice more on handling the steering wheel. i am having a hard time on that. i suspect, maybe, just maybe, because i am accustomed on viewing the road from inside a vanette. i am driving now a vios. e diba me nguso yun? valid ba?

some comments from my instructors:

teacher: gigil na gigil ka sa manibela.

teacher: para ka namang nagkakambyo ng truck kung mahila mo yang kambyo.

teacher: pag di pa rin bumabagal ang sasakyan kahit inapakan mo na ang brake, ibig sabihin kulang ang apak mo, apakan mo pa.

teacher: magmenor ka naman pag me humps.

teacher: tandaan mo ang clutch.

teacher: wag mong pasingitin yan.
moi: okay, di ko yan papasingitin (sabay sumingit na nga yun isang car)
teacher: akala ko di mo papasingitin.
moi: hehe sumingit pa rin eh.

while trying to change lane
teacher: tignan mo ang side mirror mo kung sasakyan diyan sa kaliwa. meron ba?
moi: wala. and then turned the steering wheel to the left.
teacher: (sabay kabig pakanan) muntik mo ng mabangga yung motor.
moi: wala siya kanina dun eh.

everytime there's some driver/car messing my road:
moi: kuyaaaaaa
teacher: imbes na makuya ka diyan, apakan mo ang break, or mag menor ka or dumiskarte ka. chaka mas matanda ka pa sa akin, kuya ka ng kuya diyan.
moi: what i mean is, kuya ka pagdating sa experience sa pagdadrive.

don't get me wrong, those two instructors i got are all good and courteous. those statements were delivered in a nice manner, sometimes with 'madam' or 'ma'am'.
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