2 more days to I Swear By the Pool

Today was the day when we went to collect our rented car to be used as the bridal car. The company had called us earlier to inform us that the Nissan Sunny model we originally chose was not available as the car, in their words, "not suitable to be rented out". Guess the person who rented it previously thrashed the car. And as such, they gave us Toyato Vios at the price of the Nissan Sunny, which was lower and to our benefit. Earlier, I was actually worried that they will force us to pay more for a higher grade car once the Nissan Sunny is unavailable as they only had one Nissan Sunny in their entire fleet, like what some unscrupulous rental companies will do. I guess my fears were unfounded and in fact their service was well above my expectations. I would probably go back to them if I ever needed to rent a car again. This is their link: http://www.expresscar.com.sg/contact-us

For those who wish to try their luck at 4D...

My dear had been looking forward to this day as she highly anticipated sitting in a car that I drove. Of course, that made me nervous as the last time I drove was some years ago. But I guess the experience of only getting the license after the fourth try etched the basics firmly in my mind. After all, the additional money spent should not go to waste. However, there was just this one big problem, which compounded my nervousness. The rented car was an auto car, which I know nuts about, and thus I had to quickly sms some of my friends to ask about the foreign letters and numbers next to the gear stick. They got back to me after a while to induct me in the fastest possible time, which I am really grateful for, and I guess that was what friends are for.

As soon as the procedures were completed, we were on our way to the bridal studio to collect our suits and gowns. The next problem came when we reached the bridal studio, we had to find parking and there were no empty parking lots outside the studio. Even if there were, the lots required parallel parking, which I honestly had zero confidence in, especially since the traffic along the road was quite heavy and can be quite unforgiving. And as such, I stopped by the side of the road, with double yellow lines, which I believed to be alright for waiting (after all, my fourth-try passing experience should be fundamentally correct?).

Then, came the next twist of the story, the traffic police officer came. And he was like looking around before he started to take out a camera and wanted to take a photo of the car. Of course I had to stop him before I got a fine, thus I quickly told him that I will leave after my call ended and naturally I did because I wasn't very sure of the double yellow lines also. Maybe I am new to this, but I found the traffic police super unfriendly. He did not even come over to talk to me before he whipped out his camera. Well, the very least you can do was to just talk to me and let me know that I cannot stop there? (Then again, I waited there for quite a long while also, like close to 10 mins or so but then he was only there like for 1 or 2 mins, so unfriendly). Maybe there were too many unreasonable drivers around that they chose not to waste their breaths any more. And so, I went to find parking at the multi-storey carpark nearby. The evil side of me believed that someone actually tipped off the traffic police, but then again, it could have been my luck. Luckily, there was no fine in the end, though I did incur an additional ERP charges for accidentally leaving the restricted area by turning into the wrong lane and I had to re-enter the zone.

After collecting the gowns, we went to my dear's place as planned to transport her stuffs to our new home, followed by a trip to Giant Tampines to buy the other stuffs which we missed out buying the previous time. It was tiring but fun as I guess I simply like to drive and also because of the interesting events of the day. 1 more day to go.