DRIVING LESSON????????????

[kalbiex]

Hello everybody,
It seems like this forum is not moving at all.
Is there anybody from Phils ever taken driving lessons here? I'm interested to learn but no confidence yet. Nakakatakot yata eh. Please share your experience.

[Admin]

I take it you mean the UK!! ::)

The goverment seem to keep having these bright ideas to keep changing the tests to try and make us all better drivers. It won't work though as more and more are now driving without a license or insurance, which of course is illegal.

Before you even start these day get a copy of the highway code, and read it at least twice (you will have to learn it all before your test, but most is common sense).

Also get hold of some of the driving test PC software, it's cheap (£9.99), and very good.

Once you've done all that, you'll know more about driving than the majority of beginners before you even sit behind the wheel, and when you do, you'll know what to expect and what the instructor is talking about.

Concerning the lack of input to the site, I've just finsihed the code for the dating database, and I'll be advertising using leywords shortly, so hopefully more people will start to interact.

I also have a few more information pages to add.

[kalbiex]

Salamat.
My hubby tried to teach me to drive using his car but almost ended up on arguement....he was grumpy like old men....... then he ask, "why is it that some filipinas has no sense of direction?"

[Admin]

Strange, my wife has no sense of direction either ::)

When at a junction, left means right, and go means stop!!! :o

Although after driving through the traffic in Davao I understand that things like brakes, traffic lights, junctions, may as well not exist. :)

For anyone who is considering taking a driving test, our wonderful goverment keeps adding more requirements to it. It should be the bloody 1 Million unlicenced drivers that they should be dealing with, as usual it the innocent that get done. >:(

[ginapeterb]

hahahah you have to laugh dont you........why is that filipina's do not have any sense of direction, thats because in the Philippines, no one bothers which side of road they are on, and also, turn signals are an irrelevance.........driving in downtown Bacalod City is a death trap, its like the INDY 500 Or a free for all..... things are a little different here in UK, we do actually dirve on one side of the road...............filipina's please note..................good tip for any filipina wanting to learn to drive......dont ask your husband.........get a driving instructor............less trouble............no Tampo !!!

[Admin]

I've discovered why Filipino's are catholics.....

....they always seem to cross themselves before starting out across the road * :blink:

[gmanalo]

Very funny, Keith :lol:

I see what you mean about drivers in Phil. You think you are on the fast lane on the right side of the road and suddenly someone decided your fast lane is their fast lane!!! :o

[Admin]

I thought the pavement was the 'fast lane' :unsure:

[ginapeterb]

Originally posted by admin@Apr 22 2005, 08:47 PM
I thought the pavement was the 'fast lane' :unsure:
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I was driving in downtown Bacolod City, people just decide to do a U turn in the middle of the road, and force themselves in, seems normal to me, everyone wants to do their own thing, there is no courtesy whatsoever, once you become like that, its no good trying it back in blighty, it doesnt go down to well.

As for husband teaching Filipina wife, not good idea, she make tampo when shouted at, oh geeeeeze I have my wife coming soon, she will want to drive, oh geeeeeze, that should be fun, she is not driving my new car, I was hoping to k eep it for a year or so.

Pete

[ant131970]

With regards to driving lessons, I have just comeback to the UK from the far East where I meet my lovely partner and I am currently re-training to be a driving instructor(makes a change from getting wet as a diver). I live in the plymouth area and was wondering if there is a need for a driving instructor who speaks a small amount of tagalog and knows what balot is!!
Please let me know if this is required by filipinos in the West Country area. Salamat Ant

[Pauldo]

Originally posted by kalbiex@Nov 29 2003, 04:04 PM
It seems like this forum is not moving at all.

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Where do you want it to move to?? :Doh:

[walesrob]

...and Elsa wants to learn to drive :yikes: :bigcry:

[Pauldo]

Originally posted by ant131970@Jan 19 2006, 12:00 PM
With regards to driving lessons, I have just comeback to the UK from the far East where I meet my lovely partner and I am currently re-training to be a driving instructor(makes a change from getting wet as a diver). I live in the plymouth area and was wondering if there is a need for a driving instructor who speaks a small amount of tagalog and knows what balot is!!
Please let me know if this is required by filipinos in the West Country area. Salamat Ant
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I can see your motive there. I'd rather be tutoring idiots to maneouver round wet and crowded English roads than be diving in warmy and tropical oceans, surrounded by beautiful fish and coral :Hellooo: :cwm24:

It sure gets old having to endure sunshine 350 days a year :laugher:

:peepwall:

I was just talking to the wife last night, about how I always missed 'the change of seasons' when we lived in the Philippines. What a fool! Now we live back in the UK I can enjoy it going from cold to wet, from wet to cold, and from cold to cold and wet all year round :laugher:

[Admin]

I see Paul has found a use for the new smilies :action-smiley-075: :Cuckoo: