First time driving to the town...

Today's such a cooling day....what a contrast with yesterday's hot day. The office was so cold today and I was already wearing three layers.

Yesterday, I tried to drive alone to City Hall for the very first time. I exited too early on the expressway and ended up at somewhere near Shenton Way...I got a bit scared as I didn't find the buildings familiar and the road names sounded foreign...I also found out that my phone GPS service is chargeable and it was really distracting to look at the phone while driving. The sunlight was really glaring to my eyes, even though I was wearing my sunglasses. I managed to drive to Marina Square with the help of the road signs and had a really scary experience at the carpark entrance of Marina Square. My car almost skidded when I made a sudden right turn into the carpark entrance from two lanes away. I didn't know that the entrance was there until I almost drove past it, thus I didn't really slow down and there goes my tyres screeching sound again. When returning to Jurong, I took the wrong lane and instead of going to the CTE, I u-turned back to City Hall in heavy traffic. Luckily, I spotted the S'pore Flyer and managed to go into ECP via a familiar road. It took me an hour to get home, haiz. I found a weak point of my Picanto - its ability to pickup speed isn't very good, even though the car is not fully loaded. I tried to pickup speed to join the expressway and it took quite some time to speed up.

I found many scratches on my car's tyre rims during my first car wash on Sat...Waxing didn't really help much. I guess they were scratched when I accidentally drove near the kerb on that night of returning from Beauty World Plaza. I had thought that the scratching sound was from the tyres rubbing against the kerb, not the rims. It was really tiring to wash and wax the car, and I haven't even done a complete job. I only carried a one-fifth filled pail of water to wipe my car, as it was too troublesome to drive down to the ground level to wash it. Waxing was a bit messy and tiring, so I only did it for the scratched areas...I really hope there would be no more scratches.