aimless?

uh, well, okae, so i took a spin in the car in the afternoon. i miss driving around aimlessly. i don't know why but i enjoy it. it's been a while since i did that really. here were the "checkpoints"

• home to bedok
• ECP
• flyover at tanjong pagar
• back on ECP
• changi village vicinity
• tampines central
• drive past Temasek Poly
  
• flyover along bedok reservoir
• ubi area
• upper paya lebar
• back home!

uh yeah i like doing that. and because it's long and boring plus the fact that i like to drive anywhere i like, i don't often have passengers on board for these trips.

along the route, i was jus looking at the roads. apparently nothing much had changed since i left singapore. the routes were still roughly the same. probably a few new buildings are up and ready. but it's still good old singapore in the end. of course i'd probably seen a few more ferraris, lotus exige and whatnot around town nowadays, but i'd assume probably more people had gotten rich so far.

i'd recently read some amateur findings online. and i tried out his experiment too! i can't locate the site url now but this is the gist: on the highway, if you drive slower, you can cancel out the effects left behind by an accident or whatnot. there'll always be jams on the highway. it seems to make sense that it might work. what i did was, knowing clearly that the cars in front of me are jammed up and moving slowly, i left a space of 4-5 cars between me and the car in front. as i went along, some cars switched over to my lane as there is a big gap. and i maintained the 4-5 car length spacing. but at that same moment i'm keeping a constant speed somewhat slower than the cars in front, so it seems that although my car and those behind me are travelling slightly slower, everyone can seem to be moving constantly, hence reducing frustration. isn't it amazing!? does it sound logical to you? because it seems plausible to me that, having done this, even if there was an accident or just a jam for whatever reason, i have enough buffer in front of me that can dampen the jamming effects. thus i won't experience excessive stop-and-go situations while on the highway. i just find it fascinating. it sounds counter-intuitive enough that it might just really work!

other than that, i'd gladly announce i'm starting on picking up .net of which i hope will not take up too long to learn. i can be a slow learner at times. dead slow.