Oh the Smell of Burning Rubber

as u might hv guessed from the title...today i VERY nearly got into an accident again...partly my fault n partly the other party's lah...but unfortunately for u guys, i managed to avert it...so i'll still be around for a while lah :P

anyway...i was driving home after sch n was passing the shang-wu primary sch area hawker centre when i tot i saw my frens walking beside the road...so i turned my head to see (it wasnt them, as it turned out)...n when i turned back again, some crazy van driver had cut into my lane AND slowed almost to a stop cuz he wanted to turn in at a break in the road divider. fortunately i rammed on the brakes (this was the hardest i've ever hit the brakes btw...the few - or more - times i got into an accident, it was either during reversing or someone else hit me; except that time at phor tay when i probably din brake hard enuf n hit YSS's car as a result) n managed to stop in the nick of time...but the incident relly jarred me...not juz the scare but the physical 'stress' of decelerating so fast lah...there was actually a huge SCREEEECH sound as my car came to a halt n the 'smell of burning rubber' reached my nose immediately after that...luckily there wasnt any cars behind me or something REALLY bad mite hv happened...

n besides that, it was embarassing too...cuz a lot of ppl turned their heads especially the pedestrians n motorcyclists...luckily there wasnt anyone i knew...or if there was, then i din c them :P anyway, lesson learned - never turn ur head on a bz street, n look out for crazy van drivers!