Blog Blog Blogging away

I am back for a while, just started a new blog site-away from Friendster because Friendster’s blog site SUX.

Anyways, I found out how ironic my father is.

He refuses to let me drive his car without him because he is always afraid that I might "ruin" his new car. He never lends me his car to work because he "claims" that I’ll be too tired to drive and thus be at more risk to be involved in an accident! <-how encouraging and supportive eh?

Then, I started my night shift.

For 3 days straight, he told me to use his car when I went to work for my night shift!
Mind you, my shifts starts at 9pm and ends at 7am the next morning-making it a full 10 hours or work.

So what did I do?

I blardy hell took his car to work of course! It was a real treat to drive at my own leisure to work and though my eyes could barely open when I am on my way home, I fought the urge to snooze while driving. What’s more, the sun rises in the east and thus as I head home on the ECP towards the east- I am driving directly into the sun’s glare. My eyes practically watered the first morning I was driving home and I narrowly missed slamming into the curb on the ECP. I could hardly see beyond the rear of any car infront of mine.

BEing smarter now, I decided to go home via the geylang route for purely practical reasons - traffic is pretty smooth in the mornings along geylang but a nightmare at night ( I was nearly late for work because of the Thursday night jam). I went to work via ECP because every car would be heading in the opposite direction from me since my day would only be starting at dusk whilst theirs ended.

However, on my last night shift, as I was heading home-I was a witness to an accident at Geylang/Alijunied.  In the space of a few seconds, the sun’s glare was shaded by the trees along the route and when my view was brighten under the sun’s glare it took me a few seconds to slam on my brakes, signal and swerve to the next lane before I slammed into the truck infront of me. The truck practically drove straight into a right-turning lorry. I would have
added on to the collision if not for the fact that I actually practised
safe driving by slowing down at traffic junctions!

Considering all the obstacles and concentration needed for driving after a long night at work, it is really ironic of my father to even suggest that I would be more at risk to be in an accident after a normal morning or afternoon shift compared to a night shift.

Of course, I never told him about any of the above- that would be pretty stupid of me. HOwever, it is such a waste now to everyday go to work during normal shifts and watch my father’s parking space be left empty. Damnit, its free parking too! Imagine, Mdm Wong actually requested for a parking lot at the hospital but was turned down because of the lack of space! Sighs. This would have been the only perk I benefitted from having a father who used to work at the hospital.

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