Need for Speed

gak! suka suka suka. argh! I can't put off the inevitable.

I had vacation time and i was thinking of whether i should drive 2.5 hours in the freeway and go home to my aunt. Note that i never ever drove in the freeway except for a short mile when i took my driver's license test. And we are talking about 2.5 hours here.

So i woke up and told myself - it's now or never. I woke up at 9 am and prepared breakfast - omelette with mozarella and parmesan cheese. PErfect.

Got some decaffeinated coffee and presto. I was having the perfect meal. Then i talked quite lengthily with Big J and he taught me some stuff i should be dealing with. Then i mustered enough courage to go and pack my bags and prepare to take on another fear - driving in the freeway.

HEck if i could jump off a plane, i could do anything.


I drove downtown to get me some caffeinated coffee. The coffee joint is known for having the best coffee in town, and i have to say it is better than starbucks. So from there i took the long drive towards detroit. When i turned my car to enter the freeway and saw those big trucks coming, i thought, nakupo ito na. Feeling ko, my yellow car was bumble bee and the trucks e si optimus prime.

Transformers! More than meets the eye...


And i went and man those cars are fast, and even though the maximum speed limit was 70 mph, i found myself doing 80 and 94 mph (150 kph) because if i didn't i would fall behind their concept of "70 mph". And i might be more prone to accident if that were so.

IT was scary and okay, quite fun at the same time.

Oh man, i couldn't relax initially - i don't mind the straight drives, it's the looking for exits that was so terrible.


My head still hurts. Like all road trips, i got lost in some town called Livonia. I had to call up Hugh to direct me. He was telling me, okay go to your east.

What east? Left or right?

Tale as old as time... rising in the east... beauty and the beast....

Okay the sun rises in the east... Because it is beauty and the beast and not beauty and the best. That is what eichelle told me years ago. So i located the sun, it was 4 pm so i guess that was the west, and i should head opposite it.

I eventually found the way, thanks to hugh, my red shoes, and eichelle's crazy mnemonic.